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The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsyluania

THE WHITE TOWERS OF BLOOMSBURG
I

saw the towers

The white towers

The

Bloomsburg

of

of

lies just

was passing

them across the purple

below them with

The towers shine white
Looking

I

by,

Bloomsburg against the autumn

river flowed beneath

The town

as

at

at the clock there,

all its

stores

Boomsburg above

sky.

hills,

and

mills.

the mountains grand,

no matter where you stand.

There’s a tower on old Carver and on sprawling Waller, too.

This

first

one

is

the larger that shines against the blue.

Those who come

Bloomsburg and see September’s haze

to

Are reminded always

Up

of their

the street to Carver with

happy college days.

its

ever-welcoming door.

They’ve climbed with eager footsteps for four-score years or more.

So we

set

That they

up our signposts for those who follow here.

may

see the towers that

Our towers may not
But looking always

point

at

upward

we have

like fingers to the sky,

them we cannot

To serve our Alma Mater and

to

it

tried to rear.

e’er

fail to

try

be true.

For the years look down upon us and others that we knew.

HARVEY

A.

ANDRUSS

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LV,

No.

March, 1954

I

f

MID-YEAR

COMME NCEMENT

democracy is in grave
today— not from tlie threat of
military force from another country, but from moral, spiritual, economic, and political disintegration
from within,” the Rev. Dr. Peter K.
Emmons, pastor, Westminster Pres“.Ajiierican

peril

Church, Scranton, told
of the mid-January graduating class at the Teachers College
Tuesday, January 19. Speaking on
h\ terian

members

Published quarterly

by the Alumni
Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8, 1941, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly Subscription, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

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

the subject,

“Self-Discipline
for
Democracy,” Dr. Emmons, one of
the country’s outstanding
clergymen, said that moral and spiritual

degeneracy
our liberty.

will lead to the loss of

The degree

of Bachelor of Sci-

ence in Education was

awarded

including Mrs.
Marjorie S. Kline, of Orangeville,
the first graduate in the field
of
Nursing Education.
to si.\teen persons,

President Harvey
A.
Andruss
conferred degrees on the following graduates: Robert J.
Castle,
Kingston; Fred B. Del
Monte,
Shamokin; Russel Dinger, Bloomsburg (formerly of
Shamokin);
Harry G. Gray, Bloomsburg; Joan
M. Harvard, Mahanoy Gity; Joseph
D. lies, Hazleton; Mrs. V’eroniea D.
Kane, Sunbury; Mrs. Marjorie S.
Kline,
Orangeville;
Alfred
G.
Knecht, R. D. 1, Northumberland;
Howard J. Marr, Shamokin; Kenneth McAnall, Bloomsburg; Jevita

McGauley,

Shenandoah;

Donald

Peterson, Berwick; Keith A. Smith,
Pittston; Thomas Stefanik,
Freeland and Kenneth D. Wagner, of

Bloomsburg.

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

a
President Andruss presented
serviee key, given by the Gollege

ON THE COVER

.

.

in recognition of

outstanding con-

tributions in the field
of
extracurricular activities, to Keith
D.
Smith.
Certificate in recognition
of election to membership in the

Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universities” was given to Fred B. Del
‘

Monte. Earl A. Gehrig, advisor to
(he class, presented the seniors to

be honored.
Candidates for the

degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education
were presented by Dr. Thomas P.
North, Dean of Instruction, and Dr.
Andruss conferred the degrees.
Music was provided by Howard
1'.
Fenstemaker at the console.
Nelson A. Miller was director of

music.
In his remarks.
Dr.
Emmons
pointed out that the term “American democracy” has been used so
glibly that it has become a cliche.
He defined it as “a way of life—
condition of life” or the “aims, ob-

hopes
and ideals for
our foundine fathers lived
and died.” In it, he said, could be

jectives,

\ihieh

found liberty, equality of rights,
and collective security under law.
Dr. Emmons pointed out
that
increasing restraints from without
the individual relieve one of exerN'ising restraints from within.
In
other words, repsonsibilities of the
individual for self-control decrease
with the imposition of restraints
and regulations from without.
Three areas in which the individual must learn to diseipline himmental capacities— said
self are:
Dr. Emmons. “You’ve got to learn
to think for yourself, or you’ll be
(Continued on Page 2)

.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith

Dean Emeritus William Boyd Sutliff and President Harvey A. Andruss
examine the original minutes of the Board of Trustees, dating from 1866,
when the charter of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute was renewed.

Elizabeth H. Hubler

March, 1954

1

AUDIO VISUAL AID

PRESENT DAY
TEACHING TREND
A recent issue of

CONFERENCE COMING
ON APRIL 2 AND 3

American

PLACEMENT BROCHURE
FOR 1954 SENT TO
SCHOOL OFFICIALS

The Pennsylvania Audio-Visual

Business Education, a joint publi-

Association of Teachers of Educa-

cation of the Eastern Business Tea-

Approximately 900 copies of tire
1954 Placement Brochure ha\e

at

chers Association and the National

been sent

This
group meets twice a year and con-

Business Teachers Association con-

Pennsylvania

tion will

E.S.T.C.

hold

its

conference

on April 2 and

3.

about forty men from
thirty Pennsylvania Colleges
and

sists

of

Universities. The President of the
organization is Dr. Blair E. Danials, Director of Audio-Visual Education for Temple University. The
Secretaiy is V. A. Champa, Director of the Film Library of Millersville State Teachers College.

There

will

be a session on Friday
dinner meeting and

at 3:00 p.m., a

an evening session.

morning there

On

Saturday

be a session,
closing with a luncheon at 1:00 p.
will

m., in die college dining room. All
other meetings will be held in tlie

Audio-Visual Aids room.

The meetings will be held in the
nature of a round table discussion
on the techniques of teaching, testand
ing metliods, new materials
equipment.
Committee reports
will be given and also reports by
graduate students of the Univerof
of Pittsburgh, University
University
F'ennsylvania, Temple
and Penn State University.
sity

On Wednesday evening, January 27, 1954, Carver Auditorium
was the scene of a production of
Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of
Barter
\’’erona,” presented by the
Theatre of Virginia, a repertory
company on national tour, with
Virgheadquarters in Abington,
inia.

Good

and inbackgrounds
and well-turned dialogue all worked together to make a fine performance.
characterization

terpretation, effective

MID-YEAR COMMENCEMENT
(Continued from Page 1)
victimized by prejudices; physical-

ly— what one does with his body
will determine his future; “avoid
excesses,” he advised; spiritually—
“You need God in your lives as an
help
ever-present companion
to
keep you and be yourself as your
very best.”
2

an article by President Harvey A. Andruss of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers Gollege on “Present
Day Trends in Teaching Bookkeeping and Accounting.”
tains

This magazine is published four
times a year and is distributed to
the United States, where probably
teachers in over half the States of
three-fourths of the total
enrollment of students in Business Education are located.

Doctor Andruss

upon

thirty

both America and England, to determine whether bookkeeping instruction is in a period of stagnation or change that is so slow to be
hardly distinguishable.
of time

given

to

bookkeeping instruction in high
schools has decreased from three
to two years and to one year
in
most high schools. Textbook materials have always been rich
in
script illustrations, therefore, bookkeeping has led the other fields of
instruction in the matter of visual
Personal record keeping progress has been made in develop-

aids.

ing a dictionary of accounting
terms and the formulation of tests
which employers may give to pros])ective

bookkeeping

article

was

made

as

originally

a

paper which was the basis of an
address given by Dr. Andruss to
tlie Eastern Business Teachers Association, Statler Hotel, New York
C ity,

officials

in

neighboring

kind,

sixth such publication

pictures

tlie

and

qualifications of
all
It also contains

graduating seniors.

message on past placement recby President Andruss arid a
summary and explanation of tlie
Brochure by Director of Placement
Dr. Ernest H. Englehardt.
The book has an attractive green
a

ords

cover containing the

“Teach-

title

from

Bloomsburg
Our
Graduates today
Your Teachers Tomorrow.” It is printed in a
.

new photo

.

.

.

.

offset process, enabling

double page picture to be used
for a cover background, and allowing senior pictures to be angled
a

with identifying names beneatli.
The greater portion of the brochure is lifted from the senior
section of the 1954 Obiter, and is
prepared by the Yearbook
staff
under the editorship of A1 Ghiscon.
The book is prepared before completion of tlie first semester in order
to better place January graduates.

Ruth Hutton

Aiicker,

Berkeley

Heights, N. J., formerly of Bloomsburg, received honorable mention
for her sculpture, “Portrait of Gurnace,” at the annual New Jersey
State Exhibition at tlie Montclair
.\rt Museum.
Mrs Ancker’s entry
was chosen with 173 other oils and
sculptures from 443 entries to be
displayed in the exhibition.

employees

before final decisions are
to hiring new nersonnel.

This

and

.

years of experience in teaching
and supervision of Bookkeeping
and Accounting instruction in high
schools, business colleges, teachers
colleges, and colleges of business
administration, and universities in

The amount

school

brochure contains
about twenty-five pages featuring
its

ers

calls

The

states.

of

to

in April, 1953.

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

— REPAIRS

C. Strausser, ’27, Propr.

122 East

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Papania, of
Bloomsburg, are parents of a
daughter born recently at Bloomsburg Hospital.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE FACULTY
OLLEGE WELCOMES
i\EM MATH TEACHER

C

Faculty changes took place

at

the hegiiming of the second semester with one professor being added and one instructor resigning.

Miss Ranson, dean of the

day

women and

assistant professor
of
college mathematics resigned her
duties at the close of the January
session.
.Miss Waldron was
apjiointed to the position of dean of
ilay women to fill that \ acancy.

Dr. Joseph A. .McCurdy was employed to take o\er the matliematic classes at R.S.T.C. He is now
teaching College .\lgebra, .\nalytic

Geometry and Teaching

of Second-

ary Mathematics.
Professor .McCurd\' did his un-

dergraduate work at Lafayette
College and received his .Masters
Degree at Pennsylvania State College. He obtained his Doctors Degree from
burgh.

tlie

Unnersity of

Pitts-

completing his etlucation
Mr. McCurdy
traveled to ALx-en-Provence,
in
France, where he taught Physics
.\fter

at tliese institutions,

He has also instrucWashted at Mt. Mercy College
ington and Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh. Aside from his teacliing
career Dr. .McCurdy has worked in
electronics for the
Westinghouse
Corporation.
and English.

m

Clayton H. Hinkel, of the business education facult)', was awarded a fellowship in the College-

-\t the time of the retirement of
Dr. .Marguerite W. Kehr last spring,
a resolution commending Dr. Kehr’s
ser\ ice at R.S.T.C. was adopted by
the Roard of Trustees. The following is an extract of the minutes:

Upon motion

made by Mr.
seconded by Judge Kreischer, and unanimously carried, it
was
RESOLVED that in view of the
long and iaithful service of
Dr.
.Marguerite W. Kehr as Dean
of
Women at the Rloomsburg State
Teachers College, where she has
I’ernsler,

made many

contributions far beof duty,
including
unusual interest in student affairs,
which has been successful in no
small measure as Senior Faculty
Ad\ iser of the College Council, as
\\ ell as her remarkable ability
to
make the field of Philosophy, particularly Ethics, both practical and
the
pointed in ever)’ day living,
I^oard of Trustees have
RESOL\^ED that a testimonial of
appreciation of the
Rloomsburg
State Teachers College be spread
upon its -Minutes, and further
RESOL\'ED that the President of
the College shall transmit a copy
oi these
Resolutions to Doctor
Kehr and make tliem available to
the Editor of the Alumni Quarterly so that all may read of this acknowledgement of sendee so that
(he example of a great educator
and friend of youth may become a
mark of achievement to be emulated by students and faculty alike.

\ond the

call

tor of

nomic Education,

S.T.C., has

The

objective of this

program is
compre-

to give college teachers a

hensive picture of the operation of
a large business finn.
Begiiming July 20, Mr Hinkel
spent three weeks at the Chicago
headquarters of Sears, Roebuck.
This was followed by three weeks
with tire same finn in Philadelphia.

Dr. Ernest E. Englehardt, Direc-

Secondary Education at R.
been named northeast-

ern district director for the 195354 program of the University of
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Forensic
and Music League. He will help
conduct the speech and music acti\’ities which the league carries on
in the Pennsylvania high schools.

March, 1954

service, effective at tlie

end

of the

semester of the present college
year, was announced by President
llarvy A. Audruss of the State Teafirst

chers College.

Ranson was for six years a
and for the remaining period was assistant professor
ol mathematics and assistant dean
of women.
She holds the Degree
of bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois, and was granted
the Master of Arts Degree in 1922
from Columbia University, where
.Miss

critic teacher,

she also received a special certificate as a Supervisor of Secondary
School .Mathematics.

Her public school experience of
eight years prior
coming to
to
Rloomsburg was as teacher and
principal in three high schools in
In 1950 she
the State of Illinois.
was President of the College PSEA
unit.

In her almost a third of a century at the local institution she
became one of the most popular
and efficient of the teaching staff.
She also made a number of close
contacts in the community which
has become her home.

Edwin M.

Barton, of the College
attended the three-day
joint meeting of the National Council of Social Studies and the National Council of Geography Teachers at Hotel Statler, Buffalo, N. Y.

He

participated in discussions on

subjects

Dorothy

Miss

Stolp,

former

of the faculty, in the Department of Speech, is serving this
year as a member of the staff of
the Oregon State College of Education,

Oregon.

dealing

witli

preparing

young Americans for military
vice and academic freedom.

W.

ser-

S. Rygiel of the R.S.T.C.
co-author with Dr. Charthe
les G. Reigner, president of
H. M. Rowe Co. of a typewriting
third
textbook, ^‘Rowe Typing,”
edition, which is published by the
Rowe Co. The book was copyrighted in January.

Prof.

faculty

member

Ralph Fisher Smith, teacher of
music at R.S.T.C. from 1951-1953,
is teaching this year at tlie Tilton
School, Tilton, New Hampshire.

The retirement of Miss Ethel A.
Ranson, assistant dean of women,
Irom the faculty of the Rloomsburg State Teachers College, after
approximately thirty-two years of

faculty,

business Exchange Program sponsored by tlie Foundation for EcoInc.

RANSON RETIRES AT
CLOSE OF 32-YEAR SERVICE
MISS

is

COLLEGE OPERATES

owned and

AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS LIBRARY
One

most outstanding feais its AudioVisual Aids Library.
Located in
of the

tures of tlie college

the rear of Room K, Noetling Hall,
the library has been operating a
number of years under the capable
direction of Mr. Charles
Henrie.
Because of the great demand for
audio-visual education,
B.S.T.C.
has bought a supply of films which

may be used on campus and by
student teachers off campus.

The

library

is

actually

divided

two sections— A State-Owned
Section and a College Section.
Beginning in November, 1950,
into

the state placed a large number of
vocational
education films and
film strips on loan in this
library.
Certain projectors and other equip-

ment were also loaned to tlie
lege, which are then sent from

are not on loan from
the state. These are films which
the faculty members request and
feel they will use over a period of
years.
These films are available
\\'ithout charge to die faculty members and student teachers on or off

campus.
This list includes films
which
deal with subject material taught
at the college in the
elementary,
secondary, and business fields. Students enrolled in the Audio-Visual
Course operate the projectors.
After passing a prescribed
test,
tiiese students are registered with
the state and are then allowed to
project in the classrooms
around
the college, and receive extra crethis
extra
dit in the course for
service.

col-

Room K has been outfitted as a
projection room, but many times
during the day it is necessary to

this

have more than one room

avail-

region to other Visual Education
Libraries. In other words, tlie various State Teachers Colleges, together with several Pennsylvania
colleges and universities, are seizing as distributing centers. Public
schools of Pennsylvania may secure
this equipment from the
regional
A
library which serves the area.
small service fee is charged to the
school district for the use of these
films along with the necessary posThe charge of a motion pictage.
ture for use is one dollar per week
which pays for inspection, labor,
and otlier incidental expenses.

room J in Noetling
Hall, and rooms 8 and 22 in Science
Hall have been equipped with dark
for
blinds, making them useable
projection purposes. The collegeowned section of the library con-

Films listed in the state catalogagricultural,
ue are
vocational,

rooms on campus.

able; therefore,

and 134 film strips,
numerous slides and records.
During a typical month, over 150
films will be shown on this camof 184 films

sists

plus

This year

jjus.

six

new

college

have been received, and fourteen more will be available next
month. This is part of the program

films

to increase the number of films the
college owns and uses in the class-

homemaking, trade aiad industrial
management, and vocational guidance. The clerks working in the
prepare
library keep the records,
the films for shipment each week,
take the films to the post office, reweek’s
last
ceive the films from
shipment, inspect incoming films,
and make necessary repairs to
The state-loaned
these films.
ecpiipmcnt and films may be used
on campus without charge, but
student teachers off campus would
have to pay the usual service fee
There
for the use of these films.
are 337 state-owned films and 779
film strips.

Each year the college purchases
which are, of course, college-

films
4

COLLEGE PARTICIPATES
IN TEST PROGRAM
The Bloomsburg
is

State Teachers
cooperating with the University

of

Chicago in the validation of two

new forms

of college level tests of

General Educational Development
for use in tlie armed forces education program. As one of the steps
in the
program,
sixty
Science
majors at
Bloomsburg recently
completed a battery of tests in the
interpretation of reading material
in the Natural Sciences under tlie
direction of Dr. E. Paul Wagner,
Professor of Psychology.
The constmetion of the tests is
a service rendered in the interest
of expanding educational
opportunities for both men in the seiwice
and veterans. The tests are being
tried out and standardized on students in cooperating institutions
all over the country from Febmary
1

until

March

15,

1954.

In order to complete the
test
given to sixty Bloomsburg Science
majors, six testing sessions of two
hours each were required. When
the results of tlie local tests
are
compared with tlie national norms,
a steady educational and intellectual growth in the Natural Sciences is indicated from the Freshman
year to the Senior year. Bloonisburg sophomores rank above the
national average.

Dr. Wagner said tliat the College next plans to give tests in the
field of English, testing primarily
effectiveness
the correctness and
(jf expression.

Miss Doris Marie Iv’crson, of
Bloomsburg, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack C.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50 Wesit

Iverson,

Sagatuck,

became the bride

of RayE. Hendershot, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Hendershot, of
Bloomsburg, in a recent ceremony
Bloomsat the Church of Christ,
CJonn.,

mond

biirg.

pastor,

The Rev. Kenneth

Gould,

doublethe
The bride and

officiated at

ring ceremony.

from
graduated
both
groom
Bloomsburg High School. Mr. Hend('ishot attended B.S.T.C. and is
now serving with the U. S. Army.
Mrs. Hendershot is an operator for
the local Bell Telephone Co.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARi:>ED
Scliolarsliips

ami grants totalling

m'arly SloOO woro awarded
dents at the Hlooinsbnrg

Teaehers
held

es

to stu-

State

(.'ollege in speeial exercis-

December

Anditorinin.

10

in

C-arver

'I'wenty-seN en

stud-

awards which
were made possible by tunds pro\ itled
by tlie Ciollege retail book
store. General Alumni Association,
recent graduating classes and the
Bloomsbnrg chapter oi the Amerients reeei\ed the

can
\\

Association

of

University

omen.

The Bruce Albert Memorial
Scholarship of $120 was presentCHl
of
to Doris kryzwicki, daughter
Mrs. Irene J. Kryzwicki, East .Main
Dr. E. II. Nelstreet, Plymouth.
son, president of the General Alumni Association, made the awaril as
.Association
well as three Alumni
grants to Stanley Kurtz, South Williamsport; Helen Kutkoski, Wilke.sBarre and Edward O Brien, Ashland.

A.
Andmss
President Harvey
the awards, pro\ ided by tlie
classes of 1950, 1951 and 1952, to

made

Marilyn Ritter, Fort)’ Fort; MargarYohn, Selinsgrove and Sally StalDr. Andruss also
lone, Reading.
presented tlie President’s Scholarship to June Reese, Millville.
et

Grants,
Community
possible tlirough an allocarion of a portion of tlie profits of
the retail book store, went to tlie
following: Judith Bolling, Scranton;
Marilvii
Nanticoke;
Sclirader,

College

made

Terry Zachowski, Reading;

Jac-

queline Albert, Lebanon; Richard
Williamsport;
Robert
Bitner,
Evans, Coal Towaiship; Louis Ann
Gear)’, Cresona; Cora Gill, WilkesBarre; Ella Jolmson, Athens; Kerniit

McMeans, Johnstown;

Con-

stance Ozalas, Palmerton; Charlotle Rummage, Milton; Mary
Jane
Trefsgar, Watsontowii; Janice TrusVanAuken,
cott, Scranton; Enola
Walburn, Coal
Mill Git)’; Allen

Townsliip and Keith Weiser, Kane.
Dr. Kiinber C. Kuster, chairman
of the faculty

committee on schol-

arships and grants made the presentation of the college community
grants.

Two

scliolarsliips,

March, 1954

made

annual-

by the Bloomsbnrg chapter of
American Association of University Women, were presented by
Mrs. I.eon Maneval to Glenna Gebhard, Hazleton and Bev erly Hough,

1)'

tile

Berwick.
President Harvey
A.
Andruss
presided over tiie assembly and the
brief devotional exercises
preceding the program.

and Mrs. Clayton Krum of
announced
5,
tlie engagement of their daughter,
Shirley Ann to Yeoman second
class William E. Thomas, son of
Mrs. James Richeldifler, Bloomsburg R. D. 5. The double ring
ceremony was perfonued January
-Mr.

P.loomsburg R. D.

iS, at tlie

Bomboy.

home of tlie Rev. D. L.
The bride wore a white

afternoon dress, with black accessories.
Her corsage was red roses.
Mrs. Thomas graduated from Scott
Township High School in 1951, and
The
is now a student at B.S.T.C.

groom graduated from Scott Township High School in 1950, and is
now serving in the U. S. Navy,
aboard the submarine Sablefish, at
New London, Conn.

MEMORIAL FOR
EUGENE RYGIEL
An annual award

in memory of
A. Rygiel, son of Mr. and
-Mrs. Walter Rygiel of town, whose
death occurred during the holidays,
lias been established for the University of Pennsylvania’s “outstanding coach of the year.”
The award was established by
the undergraduate
managers of
the university in memory of the
local man who was associate manager of the 1954 Red and Blue
crew and active in numerous other

Eugene

campus

activities.

made

by

the

The award was
undergraduate

Athletic Managerial Board on February 8 at a dinner in the Mask
and Wig Club. The basis for the
award was the coach’s record,

improvement of his team over
the record of the previous year and
the
of
the inspirational cpiality
llie

man.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

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

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College Celebrates Annluersary; Dedicates Beacon
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Friday evening, February 19,

particularly with regard to dedication of the memorial beacon, came

vocal solo, “Bless This House,” by
Miss Diann Jones and a quartet

dedicated a memorial beacon on
Carver Hall to tlie students of the
institution — twenty-seven in number — who made the Supreme Sac-

appropriately between the birthday anniversaries of Washington
and Lincoln. He deplored the fact
that
in
some commimities the

selection,

World War II.
Reg. S. Hemingway, president

rifice in

of
the Board of Trustees, in tire presentation expressed the hope that
“this perpetual memorial may be a
constant reminder
that
eternal
vigilance is the price of
liberty
and of the incomputable price we
have paid for freedom.”
In his acceptance. Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the alumni, told
the large assemblage
in
Carver

Hall auditorium, “you and I live
safely tonight because these young
people gave their lives. They gave
up what they held dear and did
it courageously.
The alumni accept this memorial as a symbol of
loyalty

and

seiwice.

May

God

Honor

Rolls of tliose

who

served

have become faded. “All of these should be in permanent form and I am hopeful that
in time of crisis

this

may

soon become a state-wide

project.

“The Teachers College

is

related

to the perpetuation of the nation
in

our form of government.
“Our political philosophy

is

de-

dicated to the belief that all of
our citizens have a developmental
opportunity.
This institution has
a definite place in the the achievement of that aim. A great institution is a community organized for
learning.
This we call the spirit
that

is

Bloomsburg.”
William Boyd
beloved member of the

Dean Emeritus

grant us the grace to honor their

Sutliff,

memory.”

“Old Guard” of the

Dr. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
and former president of Bloomsburg, in speaking upon the eightyfifth anniversary of the granting of
the institution a charter to train
tliat “basically
teachers, declared
and fundamentally an educational
institution is the teacher.”

interestingly of the early development of the institution.

He

said that

the

observance.

institution, told

presiDr. Harvey A. Andruss,
dent of tlie College, presided and
extended greetings. Fle said those
to whom tribute was being paid at
served and
the ceremonies had
as
sacrificed in the same spirit

those

who founded

Musical

the institution.

features

included

a

“Where’er You Walk,”
Handel, by a quartet composed of
Richard Williams, Robert Ebner,
William Phillips and Samuel Hall.
Following the invocation by
Fred W. Diehl of Danville, vice
president of the board of trustees,
the salute to tlie flag was led by
Paul R. Selecky, Glen Lyon, commander of the American Legion,
Department for Pennsylvania.
After the presentation of the
memorial beacon the honor roll

was read and “Taps” sounded.
Those on the honor roll are: Kenneth Morse Allen, 1944; John Lee
Atkinson, 1943; Lamar K.
Blass,
1937; Leonard M. Bowers,
1941;
John R. Carr, 1934; Robert W.
Cresswell, 1945; Joseph J. Evancho, 1937; John
Hancock, 1940;
James Harman, 1942; Earl J. Harris, 1942; Leo J. Hoffman, Jr., 1946;
John L. Hower, 1945; Woodrow
W. Hummel, 1933; Donald Jenkins,
1943; Walter J. Kania, 1944.
Clyde C. Kitch, 1935; Allen A.
McCracken, 1945; Paul J. McHale,
1940; Thomas W. Reagan, 1937;
Walter H. Reed, 1941; CyrU J.
Rowland, 1938; Albert E. Rudy,
Schuyler,
1948; Mary Freas
Jr.,
1933; Michael Soback, 1944; Victor R. Turini, 1941; Chalmers
S.
Wenrich, 1939; Anthony C. Yenalavage, 1943.

SUPPORT THE ALUMNI

r>

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THEIR LIGHT SHIN

ON

E S

Class

Kenneth Morse
Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Allen,

1943

Blass. Lamar K
Aristes. Pennsylvania

1937

Bowers, Leonard M
Mt. Carmel. Pennsylvania

1941

(^arr,

John

Pennsylvania

E’orty Fort,

Atkinson, John Lee
Hatboro, Pennsylvania

Class
1943

Jenkins, Donald

1T)44

Kania, Walter J

1944

Dickson City. Pennsylvania

C

Kitch, Clyde

1935

Columbia, Pennsylvania

R

McCracken, Allen A
Riverside. Pennsylvania

1945

McHale, Paul J

1940

1934

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Luzerne, Pennsylvania

W

Cresswell, Robert \V

1945

Forty Fort, Pennsylvania

Evancho, Joseph J
Ebervale, Pennsylvania

1937

Hancock, John
Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania

1940

Harman, James

1942

Reagan, Thomas
Lost Creek, Pennsylvania

1937

Reed, Walter

1949

II

Shillington, Pennsylvania

Rowland, Cyril J
Connerton, Pennsylvania

1938

Rudy, Albert E
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

1948

Mary F

1933

Schuyler,

Catawissa, Pennsylvania

Bloomsburg. Pennsylvania
Harris, Earl J

1942

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Hoffman, Leo J., Jr
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

1946

Turini, Victor
.

Hower, John L
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

1945

.

dedicated to the Students of

.

who made

the

Supreme Sac-

1933

Rupert, Pennsylvania

You and

rifice in

I

live safely tonight

World War

II.

1941

Wenrich, Chalmers S
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

1939

Yenalavage, Anthony C
Kingston, Pennsylvania

1943

because these fine boys and that fine

girl

remember them w ith a

Families, loved ones, teachers and classmates

R

1944

Wyoming, Pennsylvania

Bloomsburg State Teachers College

W

Hummel, Woodrow

Soback, Michael
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

THE BLOOMSBURG BEACON

have

died.

feeling of pride

and reverence.
With the keenness of youth they enjoyed life, but gave up everything that
we might carry on in traditional American living.

life

holds

dear that

Their courage and

When

spirit live

on forever

to challenge

and

faced with the stark realities of death in closing

inspire.

life’s

game

not one flinched, but rather prayed. “If the hurt of it sweeps my
God that he let me play.” They were that kind of college citizens.

No

finer student than Earl Harris ever

The gracious courtesy

of

walked

Woodrow Hummel

life

it

is

my

away,

belief that
still

I

thank

in these halls.

in business life

was

reflected in his quick

rise in military circles.

Outstanding as an all-around athlete Lamar Blass

and

still

holds some of the school’s track

field records.

Mary Freas Schuyler typifies the true American girl in responding to the
The force of their memory sharply points to one choice — CAJIRY ON.

call of duty.

Their lives

purchased for us that privilege.

As

this

dome

is

be worthy of their

lighted,

when darkness

falls,

as an after

glow

of their living,

may we

sacrifice.

Living alumni of Bloomsburg everywhere accept this symbol as a challenge to loyalty

and

service.

God

grant us grace to honor their sacrifice.

—DR.

March, 1954

E. H.

NELSON

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OVER

COED OF THE YEAR
Miss Joan Christie, popular B.S.
business student fro7U Shenandoah, was named “Coed of the
Year” at the annual Freshman Hop
held in Centennial Gym.

T.(i.

She was crowned by Mrs. Judith
Fry McCarthy, Rloomsburg, who
was last year’s winning “coed.” She
received an engraved loving cup
from the college yearbook, “The
Obiter,” and a bracelet from Logan’s Jewelry store. A full page picture of her will appear in the 1954
“Obiter.”

The

contest was sponsored
by
college yearbook which is edit-

tlie

ed by Alfred Chiscon. Thomas
Higgins was in charge of the contest.

Miss Christie is well-known for
her appearances in
the
annual
Spring Fashion Show and as a
member of the College Council.
She is also a class officer and feature editor of the school
paper,
“The Maroon and Gold.” Earlier
in the year. Miss Ghristie was named by the Varsity Club as (^ueen
for their November dance.

The winning coed was chosen by
vote of the entire student body.
Eight contestants, two representing each class, were entered in the
competition.
They were Bobbi
Roadside, Frankford; Sally Stallone, Reading; Judy Stephens, Low-

McCormick,
Merion;
Joanne
Sunbury; Hope Horne, Numidia;
Olive Jean Fedrigon, Nuremberg;
Louise Schullery, Delano.
er

Lee Vincent’s orchestra provid(;d

music for the dance.

The gym

was transformed into an undersea
wonderland for the event which
was a special feature of the eightyfifth

anniversary celebration of the

college.

The Lutheran Student Associahonored alumni members at a
supper at St. Matthew Lutheran
Those
Church, on Alumni Day.
lionored were Mrs. Ruth Trimpey
tion

Whitcnight, class of 1949; Mrs. Pat
Kistlcr Diseroad and Miss Eleanor
Eugene
Johnson, Class of 1952;
Hummel, Class of 1953 (January);
and Donald Diseroad and Robert
Logan, who attended Bloomsburg.
8

PERCENT COLLEGE
CLASS ’53 EMPLOYED
95

Over

ninety-five per eent of the
1953 graduates of the Bloomsburg

State Teachers College, who
are
available for employment, are now
employed. Fifty of the total number of 188 graduates are in the
armed forces and five are in graduate school, leaving 133
persons
actually available for employment.
Of the 122 men in the 1953 class,
forty-one per cent were called into
the armed forces.
This is about
twice the number of men called
in the service the preceding year
of 1952.
Thus the armed services
are reducing the number of teachers
available for Pennsylvania
Schools.
Of the 133 graduates actually
available for employment, eightyfour per cent are teaching and
over twelve per cent are employed in other occupations. Of this
number three are married women.
President Harv'ey A. Andruss announces that a decreasing number
the
of teachers graduating from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College are going outside the state of

Pennsylvania to teach.
An over-all study of about 2,000
persons graduating between the
years 1941 and 1952, inclusive, is
questionnaire
iDcing made by the
method. Previous questionnaires
the number of
actually
graduates
teaching is growing. The first study
n'ported in 1941 showed seventyLater
seven per cent teaching.
studies have showed eighty and
eighty-three respectively. This survey of graduates is intended not
only to find out the employment
status of alumni, but also to find
out the number who have pursued
graduate work and those who have
received graduate degrees, and offers them an opportunity to make
suggestions for improvement in
the teacher education curriculum

have shown
Bloomsburg

of the

tliat

Bloomsburg State Teachers

College.

IHE

CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

Orangeville R. D.

’15,

2,

Propr.

Penna.

SALES RALLY
One

of the top

training

sales

personalities in the United

States

brought twenty years of selling experience to the eighth annual sales
rally at the State

Teachers College

Thursday evening, March 4, when
Les Gilbin, of Ridgewood, N. J.,
adchessed a large crowd in Cartier
Gilbin,
author of
Auditorium.
“Clerk Craft,” is the originator and
conductor of the famous Les Gilbin Clinic, one of the really good
methods of teaching Sales Know-

How.
The

sales rally annually attracts

hundreds of business men, store
salesmen and
managers, clerks,
teachers of high school sales classwhich
but tliis year’s event,
featured Gilbin and Jennings Randolph, assistant to the president of
Capital Airlines, was one of the
es,

finest in

the series.

who has received acclaim
every city where he has spoken,
has the ability to pass knowledge
Gilbin,

in

and know-how

to other people. In
addition to his work with the sales
clinic, Gilbin has served as general sales manager of a large textile
company, as field representative for
the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company,
and as a training officer for tire U.
The sales rally began
S. Air Force.
6:30
while at
at eight o’clock,

o’clock area Rotary Clubs and invited guests were entertained at

dinner in the College dining room.

Mr. and Mrs. John Scrimgeour,
West Pittston, have announced
the engagement of their daughter,
Virginia,

of

to

Stanley Aagaard, son

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley

Aagaard,

Raubs\ille, at a buffet supper at
Both are students at
their home.
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Baer, of
Shickshinny R. D. 2 announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Betsy, to Thomas Schukis, son of
Mrs.

Anna

Schukis,

Mahanoy

Both arc graduates of B.

and are teaching

in

schools of Clayton, N.

the

S.

City.

T. C.
public

J.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERI.Y

NAMED MANAGER
inanagiT of the

c-(l

otliee

Neiu Business Office

DoRose has been

IVtor

The

ot

nain-

Williamsport

Company,

(his

it

was aimoimeecl hy C. 1. Carlson,
manager of the Susquehanna gas
tlivision of Seranton-Spring Brook
Water Ser\iee (-ompany. Mr. 13eRose, after attending State Teach(iollege,

ers

enrolled in the Uni-

versity of Scranton

graduated

from where he

1947 with a haehelor
science degree
philosophy
in

()l

in

and business

administration.

entered the employ of

I'he

'ompany as manager of
Bloomshnrg office of the
(annpany in 1952.
(

He
Gas
the

Gas

Before his transfer to Williamsport, Mr.

the firm’s

DeKose was manager of
office. Between

Sunbnry

19.36 and 1941 he was employed
by the Magee Carpet Company in
Bloomsburg, which he left to enter
the United States Army Air Force,

being attached for the duration to
the Air Force headijiiarters in its
administration, personnel and payroll departments.

A

native of Peck\

ille,

Lackawan-

na County, Mr. DeRose graduated
from the Blakely Borough grammar and high schools. He is a
member of tlie Sunbury Post of the
American Legion and the Bloomsburg Lodge of tlie Benevolent and
Protective Order of
Elks.
Mrs.
DeRose is tlie former Clara Cicilioni of Peckville.

They have

one

(Jhristmas— blew out the front, rear
and side walls of the Sponseller
home, a twin dwelling.
Bricks, plaster, household furniture and other debris littered the

RECEIVES CITATION

area after the explosion.
The other half of the

tion of the

building
A neigh-

was

badly damaged.
boring home also was damaged.
Mrs. Sponseller was treated for

shock, cuts and bruises at Abington Memorial Hospital.

•Mrs. Rutli Sponseller, a fonner
resident of Mainville and wife of
Dr. A. Ne\in Sponseller,
science
teacher in Hatboro High School,

was trapped beneatli

as secretary at Sutliff

David

Peter.

plaster, brok-

en lath and the kitchen refrigera-

Wednesday, December 23,
wrecked and tvvo other homes
when a two-story brick house was
damaged by an explosion. She was
tor

trapped for about fifteen
but not seriously injured.
Dr.

and Mrs.

minutes

Sponseller was supervising
principal of the Main schools. He
is a graduate of Bloomsburg
State
Teachers College.
The blast— two days
before
March, 1954

Chevrolet,

Benton. Mr. Sibly graduated from
Benton High School with the class
of 1951 and is now a junior at B.
S.T.C. He is also employed part
time in the maintenance accounting department of the Magee Carpet Co., Bloomsburg.

S.

Eisenhower, pre-

Pennsylvania

State

University, received the 1954 cita-

Alumni Associations

of

Pennsylvania Colleges at Washington, D. C.
The dinner was held
at

the

Shoreham and Dr. Harvey

A. Andruss, president of the local
i’eachers College, responded for
the
Bloomsburg contingent of

Fifty-seven of

the

hundred five Pennsylvania colleges
and universities attended, and
ten Teachers Colleges were represented.

Earlier recipients of the

award were Dr. Francis B. Plaas,
former Bloomsburg president and

now
lic

State Superintendent of PubInstruction;
Dr.
Spencer of

Bucknell and Felix Morley.
Miss Harriet Kocher of Washington, D. C., daughter of Dr.
and
Mrs. Frank Kocher of Espy, is the
recording secretary of the organization.

Sponseller were

residents of this county for some
years and for much of tliat time

Mr.

-Milton

twenty-seven.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kline,
Benton R. D. 1, announced the engagement of their daughter, Patty
to John Silby, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Silby, Benton
R. D. 2.
Miss Kline is a senior at Benton
High School and works part time

son,

Dr.

sident of the

MOYER BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Jury, Fort
W'ayne, Ind., former Bloomsburg
residents, are parents of a son born

October 24 at Lutheran Hospital,
in Fort Wayne.
Paternal
parents are Mr. and Mrs.

grand-

Ben W.

Jury, Bloomsburg.
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Pennsylvania. Included in the
are Paul Slobozien, Garfield
Junior High School,
Johnstown;
Wayne Von Stetten and George
Johns, Coatesville; James
Reedy,
Highspire; Billy Dugan, Montgomin

SPORTS

list

AWARDS PRESENTED
lO HUSKY GRIDDERS
IN RECENT ASSEMBLY
The Bloomsburg State Teachers
College football team was honored
in assembly on February 2 when
many

of

its

members were

pre-

sented with various awards.
In lieu of the fourth varsity letgold “B” keys were awarded
to Joseph Glosek, Merlyn
Jones,

Bernard Mont, John Nemetz, Floyd
Williams, and Barney Osavala.
Gold footballs in lieu of a third
varsity letter were
presented to
John Angus, Ed Connolley, John
Panichello, Charles Pope and Don-

Thomas.

The

varsity

Sam

sweater, an

award

“B’s” for

the

first

time:

Harry Hughes, Charles
Charles
Dipipi,
Casper, Robert
Kwiatkoski, Robert Stroup, Les
Richard
Shuda, John McCarthy,
Strine, Stanley Kurtz, Joseph Albano, Joseph Kwak, Frank KaminJohn
ski, Harvey Boughner and
Koch. Joseph “Bells” Colone was
Belle,

presented with a varsity sweater in
a
recognition of his services as
student coach in both football and
basketball.

The

ranks of schoolboy coaches

Pennsylvania and neighboring
states have been increased in recent years by a number of former
in

athletes who won the plaudits of
area fans while wearing the Maroon and Gold of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College athletic teams.
Although the list of Bloomsburg
alumni, who are now coaching, is
by no means complete, there is an
indication that the College is makto
ing a substantial contribution
the coaching profession.

A number
stars

are

of former Ilirsky grid
now teaching football

fundamentals to high school .squads
10

David

Babb,

John

Evans,

Hughesville;
Sinking Springs;

Daniel Parrell and Larry MussoHazleton;
Mario Berlanda,
Upper Moreland Twp.; Charles
Kazmerovicz,
West
Pottsgrove
Twp.; John Czeniiakowski, Doylestown; Frank Luchnick, Palmerton;
Joseph Apichella, Mt. Carmel Catholic H. S.; and Ardell
Zigenfuse,
Huntington.
Several one-time
Bloomsburg
gridders are
coaching in other

Thomas

Schukis, Clayton, N.
J.; Angelo Albano, Burlington, N.
J.; Louis Gabriel, Woodbridge, N.
J.; Willis Swales, Hillside, N.
J.;
(Jeorge Paternoster, Pittman, N. J.;
states:

given in place of a second letter,
was given to James Browning,
Piobert Cumens, Michael LashenThomas Persing, Robert
dock,
Croover, Arnie Garinger, and Thomas Higgins.
Fifteen men were awarded their
v^arsity

Pi'ep;

line,

ter,

ald

Thomas Donan, Columbia;
Rodney Morgan, South Williamsport;
George Peck, Perkiomen
ery;

Matthew Maley,

Pleasantville, N.
Joseph Zahora, Cape May, N. J.
and George Menarick, Kinard, Fla.

J.;

Former Husky basketball standouts are teaching shooting, dribbling and other cage techniques to
eager pupils in Pennsylvania high
schools. The list includes Robert
Andrews, Bedford; Elmer Kreiser,
Columbia; Michael Evans, StroudsDugan,

burg; Billy

Montgomery;

William Byham, Downingtown;
Hughesville;
John Mincemoyer,
Joseph Chesney, Nether-Province
and Thomas Reed, Kingston.
High School baseball coaches,
who played the diamond sport at
Bloomsburg, are Plenry Brunn,
Heilwood; William Byham, Downingtown; Richard Hummel, Selinsof
grove and John Mincemoyer,
Hughesville.

An outstanding record has been
written by intercollegiate athletic
teams at Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the past seven
comby President Harvey A. An-

years, according to statistics

piled
druss.

sports

comprehensive
Since
a
program was resumed fol-

lowing World
in football,

War

11,

basketball,

Ihusky teams
and baseball

have won 72 percent of
Icsts.

The

their coti-

actual log shows 147

wins, 59 losses, and 2
Football leads the

ties.

way

witli 49
nine defeats, and one tie.
The powerful Huskies turned in
their first undefeated season in history in 1946 when they steamrolled
nine rwals and tied California Teachers for the unofficial championship of the State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania.
In 1951, another Husky grid machine rolled

victories,

eight straight \ ictories and won the
first official grid title of the Pennsylvania State Teachers
College

Conference.
Otlier

Maroon and Gold

football

teams were runners-up for tlie mythical conference crown in
1947
and 1950, while the 1953 eleven
ranked third in the state-wide tutor
loop.

Varsity basketball, which show-

ed a record of 25 wins in 52 games
during the seasons of 1947, 1948,
and 1949, has improv'ed its record
during the past four seasons,
Husky cage combinations winning
44 of 68 tilts. The 1952-53 Husky
dribblers won
the
Pennsylvania
State Teachers College Conference
championship with a 10-2 slate in
circuit competition.

Husky baseball teams have also
had considerable success, winning
54 of 79 games during the past
sev'en seasons.

An unusual

record

was achieved in 1949 when the
Maroon and Gold diamond crew
turned in twelve straight victories
the first
undefeated season
since the 1939 campaign.

for

Seven years of achievement

in

intercollegiate athletics is the result of the policies developed
by

the Faculty Committee on Athletics, of which John A. Hoch is the

Sound coaching, good
and support from alumni
and friends of the College have
also been instrumental in
aiding
the Huskies write one of the State’s
chairman.
material,

outstanding records in the

field of

intercollegiate athletics.

Annual
The Twenty-Seventh
High School Invitation Basketball
Tournament vv^as held at Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the first three weeks in March.
Oualifying round games for Class
(,' schools were played
Friday and
Saturday, March 5 and 6, while
TIIF

ALUMNI QUAUTERLY

preliminary round

tilts

for Classes

and C" were plaved March
12, and 13.

A, B,
10,

Mr.

Hoch

stated that
gether likely that Class

it

is

9.

The '53

-

minutes of the fourth period and
then moved away.

'54

Millersville S. T. C.

Basketball Season

A

preliminaries would not be scheduled until March 12 and 13 in order that
teams that have been eliminated
from 1M.A..\. district playoffs may
enter the tournament if they
so
desire.
Semifinal games
were
scheduled March 17 and 18, while
the “Night of Champions” was
Saturday, March 20.

Last year’s tourney was one of
the most successful e\ er held at the
('ollege, and thirty-one teams \ied
lor championship awards.
Weatherly High School is the defending
champion in Class A, while Miners\'ille won the Class B crown. Scott
Township’s amazing Blue Jays upset highly-favored Rock Glen
to
cop the Class C championship.
the
Mr. Hoch also said
that
cheerleading s(}uads, adjudged best
in their respecti\ e class, would be
awarded large trophies. This competition proved to be one of
the

most popular innovations in tourAwards were also
ney history.
made to the All-Tourney team and
the Outstanding Player of the meet.
Inasmuch as The Quarterly went
to press while the tournament was

Labatch,

B.S.T.C. 65

WILKES

Bloomsburg
put

55

Teachers

College

195.3-54 basketball

its

ation on

display

combin-

Centennial

in

gymnasium
Saturday
evening,
December 5 and it was an entirely
successful inauguration. A starting
combination that included only one
first stringer from last year— Fred
Betz, a junior from
Allentown—
and a whole host of replacements
took the measure of the Wilkes
Colonels, 65-55, before a
fairly
gootl opening niglit throng.

Wilkes

(55)
fg. pts.
9-12' 23

g.

Batroney, f
Milliamon,
Sikora,

f

1-2
3-3
0-0
1-1

c

Atherton, g
Davis, e
Hetzel
Jablowski

.... 0

Troutman

.... 0

Petrilak

Ennis
Kopicki
Ferris

VanDyke

...

Totals

Belle,

pear in the next issue.

Betz,

g
Kopec, g
Weiser

Morson
Shustack

Evans

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

.... 7
.... 0

Boughner
Raker
Zachowski
Totals

....27

7

2-2
0-0
3-5
0-0
0-0
3-4
0-0
0-0
2-8

10
8
11
8

04)
0-1

0

BSTC 65 MILLERSVILLE 77
It may have been lost to most

CREASY & WELLS
Mai'tha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

March, 1954

4
3

0
0
16

gloom

of

of dis-

appointment which enveloped Centennial gymnasium Saturday, December 12 as the Huskies were turned back, 77-65 by Millersville, but
the visiting Marauders in that achievement may have established a

modern scoring

who

feat.

The

visitors,

did an exceptionally accurate
job from the court and caged 32
of 83 shots during the night, apparently had the game by the early

1-1

7

0-0
8-9

20

...

6

.

Bloomsburg

.31

.

S. T. C.

Koziak,
Bush, f

(65)
fg.

pts.

1-1

f

Morson, c
Raker, g
Betz, g
Ondrula

...

5

...

1

...

0

Stanek
Weiser

Kopec
Evans
Zachowski
30
20

16
13

3-3
1-4
0-0

5
13
13
4

3-3

9

3-3
5
2-4
8
0-0
0
0-0
0
2-4
6
0-0
0
2-2
2
17-24 65

Belle

22—77
11—65

9

21

LOCK HAVEN

B.S.T.C. 71
•

2

4-8
18
2-2
4
0-0
2
0-2 12
0-3
0
0-0
0
16-26 ,'77

g.

Bloomsburg

0

3

Wentzel

1

0-0
0-0

12

...

F.risman

4
0
0

0-1

7

Totalis

pts.

6

....

Weining
Parker

0-0
0-0
0-0
1-1

f

g

7

’42

the spectators in the

'.Verkhiser,

1-1

2
0-0
0
0-0
0
11-23 65

.... 0
0

Stanek

fg.

...

Ortlip

69

Joe Ondrula sank a lay-up with
three seconds remaining to give

the Teachers College

Huskies a
71 to 69 triumph at Lock
Thursday, January 7.
Bloomsburg (71)

thrilling

Haven

f

Kozick

Fitzgibbons,
Evans, c
Podlesny, g

£g. pts.
1-3
3

£

Ondrulla,
Bush, c

f

Totals
Millersville

(65)
g.

in progress, the final results will ap*

3
9
0

0
1-1
1
0-0
0
17-21 55

0

Popple

Bloomsburg

(77)
g.

alto-

fg.

g.

Bush, f
Ondrula, f
Morson, c
Betz, g
Kopec, g
Kozick, f
Weiser, g

....

12
5-11 25
1-1
3
4-8 14
1-4
3
4-7 14
0-2
0
15-33 71

10
....

1

5
.

.

.

1

.

.... 5
.... 0

Totals

..

.

Lock Haven

.28

(69)
fg.

g.

Meacham,
Kearney,

f

.

.

....3

.

.... 3
.... 8

f

Yelovich, c
Lafferty, g
Bizzaro, g

...

....

...

Bloomsburg
Lock Haven

1

.... 3

Sauder, g
Shearer, g
Laird, g
Totals

4

4
.... 0

.

B.S.T.C. 64

.

....

15
15

pts.

0-0

6

....26
21 24
17 20

KUTZTOWN

pts.

2-2
4-5
2-2
1-4
3-6
3-4
2-3
0-0
17-26

8
10
18
3
9
11

10
0
69

11--71

17—69

54

Delayed by ice-covered roads
over most of the route and especially

for the

last ten

Bloomsburg College
team did not arrive in

the
basketball

miles,

Kutztown

until nine-thirty Saturday,

11 but the Huskies

had

January

enough
11

stamina to come through,
for their third

win

Bloomsburg
Ondrula,
Bush, f
Morson, c
Betz, g
Kopec, g
Kozick, f
Keiser, g
Evans, c
Stanek, g

64-54,

games.

in four

f

(64)
.

..

....

18

1

4

1-2

9

....2

,

Belle, f

.

.

.

1

.

.

.

0

.

.

.

0
6
.25

.

Kutztown

.

.

(54)
fg.

g.

Cocivera,
Diehl,

10-10
0
0-0
.... 3
0-0
0

f

...

f

Grimm,

c

,

Stazinger, g
Karo, g
Bernhardt, g
Moore, g

Loose,

,

.

.

.

.

.

3
2
0
0
0

....
...

...

f

...

Kohler,

g
Sehenck, g

,.

Totals

.

Bloomsburg
Kutztown

0
... 0
.17

...

.

15
9

.

9

SCRANTON

B.S.T.C. 83

26
6
0
7
10

15--64
24—54

20

14
12

pts.

5-6
4-6
0-0
4
0-0
0
1-4
1
0-0
0
0-0
0
0-0
0
20-26 54

1

...

Brown, g

A

.

77

89 to 74 and enrolled
in six games.
Mansfield

in

(74)
1-1

f

Merritt,

7
2

Swimley, g
Orse, g

0

1-1
1-1

3
0

Dell, f

Hough t, g

3
0

Totals

25

Bloomsburg

7
1

0-0
0
0-0
0
5-5
11
0-0
0
24-35 74

(89)
fg.

g.

Ondrula,
Kozick, f

9

4-4 16
10-18 24
2-5
6

6

f

Linkoski, c
Williams, g
Witowski, g
Knight, g

O

pts.

pts.

3-3 19
6-10 18

f

Belle, c
Bush, c

1-2
0-0
2-4
0-4
0-0
7-9
0-0

1

3
8

Kopec, g
Weiser, g
Betz, g
Morson, c
Boughner, g
Stanek, g
Evans, g
Totals
Mansfield

0

4
5
0

21
23

0

0
0

20--74
21--89

18

24

couple of push shots by Larry

Bush and a pair of hook shots by
Morson in the final period gave
the Bloomsburg Huskies a real lift
in their 83-77 victory over Scranton University Royals in a splendid
basketball game in Centennial gym

Wednesday, January
Scranton

13.

(77)
£g.

g.

Fitt, f

Morris, f
Bessoir, c
Vasili,

...
.

.

g

Licata, g
.

3-4

0
6
0
2

0-0

.

1

.

6

29

Bloomsburg

fg. pts.

11

.

9

10-14

32

4
3

.

.

.

.

Bloomsburg

.

.

B.S.T.C. 89

2-3
12
4-6 12
1-2
7
0-0
5
3
1-5
5
2
32 19-31 83
16--77
14 29
21
20 22--83
5

Totals

Scranton

1-1

4

f

Ondrula, f
Kozick, c ...
Kopec, g ...
Betz, g
Bush, g
Morson, g

15
0
17
0

(83)
g.

Belle,

pts.

5-8
0-0
2-2
6
5-7 21
2-2
4
2-3
14
19-26 77

8

Gallagher, g
Curtis, g
LaSpina, g
Totals
.

6

18
20

MANSFIELD

74

A good beginning certainly helps
toward a good ending. That was
Centennial
the
the situation in
gymnasium on Saturday, January
BloomsJ6, when the Huskies of
burg Teachers College, defending

Husky cage team

Ondrula,

£

Ffozick,

f

Morson,

c

.

.

Belle, c
F'ush, c
Betz, g

.

Kopec, g
Zachkowski, g
Evans, g

.

LOCK HAVEN

fg.

g.

f

Bell, f

....

Shearer, c
Yelovich, g
Kearney, g

.... 6
.... 3

Bizzaro,

.... 0

Carmer,
Paciga,

.... 2

f

.... 3
.... 2

f

c

Meacham, g

1

Totals

.

Bloomsburg

..

1-1

.26

....

....
....
....
....

fg.

2
6
9
0
0

1-1

2-5

20

B.S.T.C. 101

CHEYNEY

Shelly’s

new BSTC

single

.

6
8

.

1

Cheyney
f
f

....

fg.

.

.

1

.

Wharton, g
Robinson, g

8
3

.

.

26

..13

pts.

19
12
12
4
18
9
5
11

2-4
3-3
1-3
2
1-3
5
14-26 78
.32
27 21 27--101
19— 78
19
27
.

Bowman, g

5-8
0-3
0-3
2-2

7
6
6

.

Gerald, f
Gerald, f
Parker, c

B.S.T.C. 72

17

22
2

(78)

.

Lonesome,

5-6

6-7
0-0
0-0

W. CHESTER

80

West Chester Teachers staked a
claim for state honors in the professors’ conference
and at the
same time dimmed Bloomsburg’s
honors for retaining tlie crown as
Centennial
they won, 80-72, in
gym Saturday, February 6. The
Golden Rams, who presented a
club that had speed and resourcefulness, led continually after

the

Huskies deadlocked the score at
nine in the first period and won
more decisively than the score in-

game

Huskies, rebuilt
Bloomsburg’s
year and doing a much better

this

6

13
19
2

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

78

Huskies

record as they trounced

3
0

17

.

Lock Haven
Bloomsburg

Harold

6-9
3-7
2-2
1-2

1
7

pts.

1-2
1
....
1-2
1
.... 0
1-1
3
.... 1
19 33 93
.. .37
20--70
13
19
18
21
26 15 31--93

Totals

3

dicates.

(93)
g-

Ondrula, f
Kozick, f
Bush, c
Kopec, g
Betz, g
Belle, g
Morson, c
Evans, c
Zachowski, g

5

2-2
2
0-0
2
18-28 70

0

....

McKinley, g

pts.

2-2 16
3-3
7
2-2
6
5-10 17
0-0
6
0-4
0
3-4
9

7
2

8-9 30
7-12 13
5-6 11
0-0
0
0-0
4

1

Bloomsburg
Cheyney

70

The Bloomsburg Huskies enrolled their sixth victory in seven
starts as they swept
past
Lock
Haven Teachers, 93 to 70, before
about 50 Ofans at Centennial Gymnasium Friday, January 28.
Lock Haven (70)
Sawder,

fg-

2
.35 31-40 101

Totals

Bates,

pts.

g.
11

?,
.

Totals

B.S.T.C. 93

go over

to

g.

8
17

loser’s
3.

the 100-mark in the point column.
The former record was established
only last year when the local collegians hammered West
Chester,
99-96.
Bloomsburg- (101)

0

0-0
19-32 89

35
15
21

6
18

0-0

0
0

.

3

Wednesday, February

In snaring their seventh victory
eight starts, they became
the

first
fg.

g.

Marvin,

Teachers, 101 to 78, on the
floor

their

win

Bloomsburg

Mo

12

fifth

2

5
3-5 9
0-0
2
0-0
0
0-0
0
1-4
13
14-29 64

...

Totals

6

1-2

1

.

in the professors’ basketball conference, topped Mansfield

6-12
2-4
0-0

6

.

....2

,

champions

set

a

scoring

Cheyney

THE ALUMNI QUARTERL'

tlie court than liacl been anticipated, put on a rally late in the
time
lourth period which at one
closed the gap to six points.
West Chester (80)

on

fg.

g.

Miller, f
Saffern.

4
3

f

Reideman,

f

0
6

.

Beck, c

Edelman,

c

0
3

.

.

Rich, g
Shaffer, g
Totals

.

.

.

.

.

1

.

.

....26
23
15

....

.

.

19
17

1

8
13
18
2

1-1

1

Totals

West Chester
Bloomsburg

15
10
5

6-6

6

...
.

pts.

3-3
4-4
3-5
1-2
2-2

.... 0
.... 3
.... 6

Belle, c
Bush, c
Betz, g
.

2

fg.

6
.... 3

.

.

Kopec, g
Robinson, g

2-2

(72)
g.

Ondrula, f
Kozick, f
Morson, c

0
18

8
6

14-15 20
6-8 26
28-33 80

....10
26

Bloomsburg

pts.

0-0
0-0
0-2
6-6

which ended

with the teams tied at 49.

was a
With Lycoming

third quarter

differ-

ent story.
pressing a little tighter, the Shellymen
could pick up only a dozen points
while the hosts were adding 27 to
their tally.
Lycoming grabbed the
lead early in the session and was

never headed from then on.
Bloomsburg (67)
fg.

g.

Ondrula.
Kozick.

2-6
2-2
4-4
3-5
2-2
0-0
3-3

f

Belle, f

1

4

c

Betz, g

8

Kopec, g
Morson, g
Bush, g
Evans, g
Robinson, g
Boughner, g

3
1

2
2
.

.

.

0

.

.

.

0

Totals

fg.

Wilson, c

8

Kawkins, g
Duriston, g
Meconi, g
Nevins, g
Knowland, g

3

.

Bloomsburg
Lycoming
March, 1954

27

1

12
15

pts.

22
19

7

2-2

2

0

1-1

1

:

12
27

Blootnsburg:

(77)
fg.

g.

Ondrula,

.

.

.

.

.

.

3
4

..

.

3

...

0

1-1

0

.

1

0-0
0-0
3-3
1-2

2
4

.

BZelle, f
Kozick, c
Betz, g

.

6

.

3

...

Kopec, g
Evans, g
Morson, f
Weiser, g
Bush, c
Boughner, g

.

...

2
2

.

0

.

f

f

c

...

7

...

3

.

1

.

fg.

.

6-8
2-4
2-2
0-3

4
... 6

Breshahan, g
Davis, g
Heltzel, g
Van Dyke, g

.

.

Totals

8
4
8
13

4
4

7-8
4-4

6
15
12

0
.331

1-2

1

.

..

.

.

20

4-7

.

.

pts.

1

...
.

1-1

.

.

27-39 89

Bloomsburg

18

20

25

Wilkes

20

19

19

KUTZTOWN

The Bloomsburg Huskies

14—77
31--89

Kutztown
f

f

Cocivera, c
Karo, g
Fatzinger, g
Shellenberger, g
Wolfe, g
Totals

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

2
4

.... 7
.... 3

.

.

.

.

2
4

.

1

....23

Bloomsburg

Belle,

f

f

Bush, c
Morson,
Betz, g
Kopec,
Weiser,
Stanek,

pts.

0-3
4
0-0
8
5-5
19
2-4
8
0-0
4
3-4 11
0-0
2
10-16 56
fg.

pts.

4-5
3-6
0-0

18
18
6

1-1

3

0-4

....4

1-1

5
6
9

.

c

fg.

7
.... 8
.... 3
2
...

f

.

.

.

....

3-4
9
.... 3
2-3
2
.... 0
0-0
2
.... 1
11
24 17--56
... 4
17
14 20 25—76

g

g
g

Totals

Bloomsburg

0-2
0
28-40 84

16—67
18—84

Ondrula.
Kozick, f
Belle,

f

1

9
2

f

Bush, f
Skiptunas,

1

f

1

Morson, c
Betz, g

1

1

Evans, c
Betz, g
Kopec, g
Weiser, g
Robinson, g
Boughner, g
Stanek, g
Totals

1

1

0

0
0
1

0
18

g.

snap-

(76)
g.

Ondrula,
Knozick,

Going into the last period, the
Huskies were on the losing end of
a 61-64 margin as they headed toward their fifth defeat in 12 games.
Bloomsburg (60)
fg.

pts.

3-4
5
10-11 28
1-2
5
0-0
2
1-2
3
3-4
5
1-0
2
0-1
2
0-1
2
3-3
3
1-2
1-2
0-1
1-2

1
1

2
1

24-3E 60
i

Millersville (97)

(56)
g.

Diehl,

to 13 points.

56

ned a three-game losing streak by
whipping Kutztown Teachers, 7656, at Centennial gymnasium Wednesday, February 17.

Moore,

Trailing 27-9 at tbe end of one
period of play,
Harold Shelly’s
charges came back strong in the
second quarter and narrowed the
spread to eight points with the
freshman-sophomore group leading
(he way. But the fast-moving Marauders seized the initiative late in
the session and widened the gap

g.

.

B.S.T.C. 76

1

floor Saturday, Febru-

ary 20.

(89)
g.

Petrilak.

7

19 30 77

.29

.

.

Wilkes

.

...
.

Totals

pts.

2-3
14
2-2
8
8-14 24
1-3
9
1-2
7

f

.

19
14

1-1

28

...24

6

3
0
0

.

...

7

8-12
5-6
3-5
8-11

7
7

f

Tofjals

1

(84)

f

Zaremba,

12
19
8

0-2
0
19-30 67

g.

Leta,

8

4

2-4
1-2

24

Lycoming

pts.

the fourth

lead in

1.3.

Jablonski,
Sikora, c
Ennis, c

The Bloomshurg Huskies ran out
power in the second half as they
bowed to Lycoming College, 84 to
67, on the winner’s floor Wednesday, Fehniary 10.
The local collegians gave Lycoming
a tough

The

ar\-

23—80
24—72

of

battle the first half

in eight-point

blew

period to lose to Wilkes College,
89-77, before about 2,500 fans at
the Wilkes gym Saturday, Febru-

Batroney,

LYCOMING 84

B.S.T.C. 67

Maurauder

89

The Hloomsburg Huskies

0-0
20-23 72

16

15

WILKES

B.S.T.C. 77

Labatch,

5

f

Fitzgibbons,

f

Evans, f
Parker, c
Werkheiser, g
Podlesny, g
Ortlip, g
Frisman, g
entzel, g
Totals

5
2

....

8
13

...

4
0

0

W

pts.

5-5
1-3

15

2-3
5-6

6
21

3-4
3-3

29

1-1
1-2

1

11

11
1

0-0
2
38 21-27 97
14—60
17
20
15 29 26--97
1

Bloomsburg

.

Millersville

.

B.S.T.C. 67

fg.

.

9
27

LYCOMING

69

Abie Zaremba sank a jump shot
with about two seconds to go to
give Lycoming College a 69-67 victory over the Bloomsburg Huskies
Gymnasium
Centennial
at
the

Wednesday, February 24.
The game was nip and tuck from

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46

B.S.T.C. 60

MILLERSVILLE

97

The Bloomsburg Huskies

got off

and went on

to take

to a

poor

start

Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

a 97-60 licking at the hands of league-leading
Millersville
on the
13

start to finish although the Huskies
held the lead most of the way.

rhey were in front, 22-21, at the
end of tlie first period; 38-32, at
halftime and 53-52 going into the
final session.

Lycoming

(69)

Leta.f

Zaremba,
Wilson, c

.

Nolan, g
Nevin, g
Totals

.

.

3

.

1

0
23

...
.

.

.

B.S.T.C.

Ondrula, f
Kozick, f
Morson, c
Kopec, g
Belle, g
Betz, g
.

Totals

9-11
3-3
3-3
5-5
2-4

5

.

.

.

fg. pts.

3

8

f

Hawkins, g
Meconi, g

g-

.

.

1

fg. pts.

9

4

8-8
4-5

6

1-1

2-4
1-2

12
13
10
3

1-1

3

.

.

4

.

.

1

.

.

.

25

1

.

2

23-27 69

g.

.

Lycoming
Bloomsburg

8

(67)

.

.

0-0
1-1

15
19
13
11

21

11

22

16

26

17-21 67
20
15

17--69
14--67

Miss Peggy Ann Audet, daughter
and Mrs. Vincent H. Audet,
Bloomsburg, became the bride of
Second Lieutenant Edward Wayme
Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
S. Johnson, Bloomsburg R. D. 3, in
a recent ceremony at St. Columba’s
Catholic Rectory. The Very Rev.
William J. Burke officiated at the
double-ring ceremony.
of Mr.

Both graduated from
Bloomsburg High School. Before entering
the Air
Force, the bridegroom
graduated from B.S.T.C. The bride
has been employed by George E.
Failing,

Inc.,

in

Enid, Okla.

Lt.

Johnson has graduated from the
Vance Air Force Base as a pilot
and commissioned officer. After
couple
a short wedding trip, the
spent the holidays with their parents and then returned to Enid,
Okla.

Luther P. Creasy
Luther P. Creasy, 62, one of the
county’s best known fruit growers
and nurserymen and prominent in

many

died at oneFriday, March 5
1954, at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Youngest son of the late Congressman William T. and Sarah
jane Weaver Creasy, he was. a naci\ ic activities,

fifteen

o’clock

tive of Catawissa township and resident there through most of his life.
He was a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. For years
he grew many kinds of fruit and
had large peach and apple orch-

ards.

In recent years he had turned
attention from fruit growing

j

his

and devoted most of
B.S.T.C. 89

CHEYNEY

64

Sparked by sharpshooting Joe
Ondrula, the Bloomsburg Huskies
closed the cage campaign with an
89-64 triumph over Cheyney Teachers at the

Gymnasium

Centennial

Wednesday, March

3.

Ondrula, playing his last college
basketball game, chalked up 34
points as the Shellymen rolled to
their ninth victory in 16 contests.
He banged in 14 field goals and
six of seven foul shots for what is
believed to be a B.S.T.C. scoring
record.

Miss Vanice Buck, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Buck, Millville, became the bride of Robert
G. Purvis, son of Mrs. A. C. Purvis, Lucedale, Miss., in a ceremony
in October at the home of her parents.
The Rev. G. Lee Lunger,
Williamsport, officiated. The bride
High
Millville
a graduate of
School and attended B.S.T.C. before enlisting in the Air Force. She
is engaged in airborne communications work at Andrews Air Force
They will reside at 3.307
Base.
Atwood street, District Heights,
is

Maryland.

seeing action for the last
time was Jerry Kopec who helped
the Huskies with seven points.
Fred Betz, a junior, contributed 19

Bates,

...

f

Lonesome,

f

.

.

.

.

4
8

Parker, c

Bowman, g
Lofton, g

..

Brown, g

.

0
.26

.

.14

.

Totals

7
0

fg. pts.

2-4

0-0
5-8
3-4
1-2
1-1

.

10
16
19
17

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

1

Belle,

fg. pts.

34

2-4

2-3
3-4

12
6
9

..

2

Morson, c

..

Evans, c
Kopec, g
V/eiser, g

..

3
0

..

3

1-1
1-1

7

..

0

1-2

1

f

Totals

Cheyney
Bloomsburg
14

.

19
19

1

21-27 89

.34

14

15

24

20

member

of the MethBloomsburg, and
served on its official board and
also member of the Men’s Bible
odist

a

Church

of

Class. He was a member of Catawissa Lodge F. and A. M., of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg and
Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre.

Mrs. Phoebe

S.

Creasy

Mis. Phoebe Shew Creasy, 86,
died suddenly of a heart attack in

in

Largo

some time, she was a
former member of the Light Street
Methodist Church and later joined
the Bloomsburg Methodist Church.
Her hu.sband, the former Prof.
Mark Creasy, died 24 years ago.
Street for

1

6-7

in Cat-

A graduate of Bloomsburg Normal School and a teacher at Light

12-19 64

g.
f

He was

homes

burg.
They had been
since January.

NOTARY PUBLIC

B.S.T.C. (89)

Ondrula,
Kozick, f

ted a dozen or more
awissa township.

2,

J.
g.

He

ex ergreens.

his energies
specializing in
had also construc-

work,

Olkawaak,

counters.
(64)

mrrsery

Fla., Tuesday, March
while enroute home from a \ acation at Largo, Florida, with her
niece and the latter’s husband, Mr.
and Mrs. James Ferguson, Blooms-

.Ylso

Cheyney

to

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 22,
.

.

.

1954

16—64
26—89

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

i

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THE ALUMNI
LUZERNE COUNTY

COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock, PA.

PRESIDENT

Benton, Pa.

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
'33

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward D.

PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre Area
’46

Donald Rabb,

Lois Lawson.

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

Sharretts,

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

'41

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

RECORDING SECRETARY

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Betty Hensley

’52

Milford, Pa.

’19

Mehoopany. Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

’14

42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

SECRETARY

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

TREASURER
Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary A. Meehan. T8
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

B. Hazleton

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, T3
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Harold

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs.

Baum,

St.,

’27

Hazleton, Pa.

WASHINGTON,

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille
127

McHose Ecker,

’32

David W. Foust,

Main Ave., Scranton, 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.

312

Church

St.,

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Miss Susan Sidler,

’21

615

Bloom

St.,

WEST BRANCH AREA

’30

Danville, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian Hortman
732 Washington St„ Camden, N. J.
Irish. ’06

’49

Michael Prokopchak,

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

’35

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

March, 1954

’18

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER
J.

VICE PRESIDENT
Lynn Danowsky

Mrs.
R. D.

3,

Lewisburg, Pa.

SECRETARY

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Harold Danowsky
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA
PRESIDENT

’16

’05

Miss Alice Smull,

’31

’41

TREASURER
Mrs. Harriet McAndrew Murphy,
6000 Nevada Ave., N. W.
Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY

PRESIDENT
’22

Pauline L. Douden, ’92
1840 Biltmore St, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Virginia L. Rosser, ’30
Washington, D. C.

MONTOUR COUNTY

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
•

Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

Richard C. Stout,

AREA

SECRETARY
Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

NEW YORK AREA

C.,

PRESIDENT

1821

Miss Lydia Bohn,
227 Stephen Ave., Scranton, Pa.

D.

Walter Lewis, ’42
1736 “G” St, N. W., Washington, D. C.

TREASURER

427 Washington Ave._ Jermyn, Pa.

Hartley, ’14
Milford, Pa.

147 East Chestnut St., Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

Miss Florence Dunn,

Olwen Argust

New

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

Miss Pearl L. Baer_ ’32
21 South Union St., Harrisburg. Pa.

2217 North

J.

40 South Pine

’ll

TREASURER

Area

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Eva Morgan,

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35, Pa.

Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Clarence Crow
Lewisburg, Pa.
13

work

1881
Tribute was paid Dr. H. V.

How-

er on that well known Berwick
physician’s 90th birthday anniver-

sary

and

as

Berwick medical doctors

dentists held a dinner in his

lionor.

The enjoyed

affair

was

held Wednesday, October 28, in
Hotel Berwick.
A three tier cake that had 90
lighted candles was one of the features of the unusually attractive
decorations for the dinner.
Dr. Hower, following his introduction by Dr. E. A. Glenn, who
presided as master of ceremonies,
compared this stage of his long and
active life to Autumn. He said that
a “country doctor” of the old days
always like Autumn better than any
other time of the year for in the
Spring there were muddy roads, in
the Summer there was the heat and
But, he
in the Winter the cold.
commented, Autumn was the finest time of the year for the country
doctor and it is the finest time of
life for him.

The Berwickian impressed

his

with his recitation of one
t;f his favorite poems, “When the
Frost is on the Pumpkin,” and of
other poems.
listeners

late

ida.

Research

left to

alumni holding a graduate degree
in geography.
Dr. Warman will
\4sit Venezuela, Golombia, Ecuador, Panama, Gosta Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Guba.
His research
will cover the physical factors of
the Latin
ticularly

American countries, parclimate,
and regional

economies.

(j.g.)

served at the naval station at Sampson, N. Y., and three years aboard

West

a navy
senior watch
division off icier on the West
U.S.S.

transport.

Lt.

Marion Groff Spangler lives at
1048 North Fourth Street, Beading, Pa.

Point,

He was

Williams

is

married and

the father of a two-year-old daughHe is a member of tire faculty
ter.
of the Bloomsburg High School and
is also manager of Radio Station

The January

issue of

“The Gol-

published monthly for all
full-time employees of the Penn-

1932

America begun

last

Summer with

a field trip to the Garibbean.

His

sylvania State University, had the
following feature story about a
member of the class of 1940:

Although he

an accomplished
pianist and, although he does teach,
Frank T. Kocher long ago decided
that combining the two was not

meant

is

for him.

Instructor in mathematics and
supervisor of mathematics in the
General Extension Division of the
University, Mr. Kocher obser\'es:

“Piano teaching can be so painIf a student makes a mistake
in mathematics, I can laugh it off.
Not so in music.”
Frank’s most recent recitals were
ful!

I

i

ber.
I

Mr. Kocher

joined the staff
of the University at the DuBois
C’enter and while there (1946-50)
he made many public appearances
first

and

I

There he
with the
encouragement of Merle Campbell,
as pianist

gave

his

now

organist.

first

recital

administrative

member

He

head at the
appeared

also

of a trio (piano, violin

cello) in

company with Lowell

now

assistant professor of

Boorse,

music at Ogontz Center, and James
Canning, retired businessman from
Brookville.

Perhaps Frank’s greatest musical
was the spur-of-the-moment
invitation to play a number on the
great Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia during a daily noon recital
thrill

by the regular organist

No

there.

stranger to Philadelphia area,

he was accompanist and soloist for
the Valley Forge Song Men of Norristown on many occasions during
the war.

Audiences do take the trouble to
compliment recital artists, and
r'rank has had his share of kind
words. But he is a little perplexed
by the oft-repeated statement, “I
just love to

1940
lege,”

Dr. Henry J. Warman, associate
professor of geography at Glark
University, Worcester, Mass., has
been granted sabbatical leave of
absence.
A native of Scranton, Pa., Dr.
Warman holds the degrees of bachelor of science in education from
Bloomsburg State Teachers GolIcge, master of science in education
from Temple University and docHe
tor of philosophy from Glark.
joined the Glark faculty in 1943.
During his leave Dr. Warman
will comidete his research on Latin

al

also pian-

Bach ChorSociety presentation in Decem-

for the State Gollege

and

Robert R. Williams, of
Bloomsburg, recently received the
Naval Reserve medal for ten years
of faithful service. Lt. Williams is
a member on tire staff of the Or4-59
Division
ganized
Surface
which trains at the Williamsport
center every Thursday night. During World War II, Lt. Williams

the

He was

and the public.
ist

as

1938
Lt.

given at the Erie Behrend and Altoona Genters, where he played
the works of Mozart, Schumann,
Brahms, Ghopin, and DeBussy for
appreciative audiences of students

Hazleton Center.

WHLM.

1906

16

Atwood

Dr.

Point.

Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller, of
Orangeville, have been spending
the winter in St. Petersburg, Flor-

W.

the university by the
Atwood, former Glark
president, for the promotion of field
studies in geography by any member of the Graduate School of Geography staff or any one of the

F’und

and
1902

supported, in part, by the

is

Wallace

hear a

man

play the

piano— there’s sometliing different
about it!”
“The fact is,” Frank laughed, “all
1 know about the piano I learned
from three women.”
Two of these were teachers at
Bloomsburg (Mrs. William B. Sutliff and Mrs. J. K. Miller— Editor)
where Mr. Kocher was graduated
from the State Teachers College.
r>ne, whom he considers the most
able teacher he ever met, was in
His most recent
her seventies.
teacher was Irene Osborne Grant,
who taught at Penn State when
Frank was working for his master’s
degree in the early
There’s

little

in

I

forties.

Frank’s

ances-

he has learned, to suggest the musical talent he has deN’cloped.
Genealogy is his hobby,

try, as far as

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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searching has uncovered
Iiis
ancestry thirteen generations back,
aiul

blit

people

who came

tlic

here from Con-

necticut. Libraries in various parts

i'

of the State

I

'

pianists.

traveling around

State
lor the University has been helpful in the hobby. Most of my early
ancestors were rennsylvanians or
i;

I

no famous

“My

have been

ijuite pro-

ductive.”
In common with others

who have

up genealogy, Frank finds
some branches of the family

that
are easily traced, while others are
so obscure that it appears unlikely
that he will find them all. To date,
he estimates, o\er 230 ancestors
have been uneartlied.
If there are no musically inclined ancestors, there are enough in

own

His
wife, Sara, is
an accomplished
musician, but limited in time by
a

family to compensate.

growing family.

Six-year-old Annelle, however,
the e.xception to daddy’s
nile about not wanting to teach
piano.
Without formal instruction she has already learned several exercises on her ovvai and delights in playing a duet with her

may prove

I

father.

was practicing for my
it was
understood
that I had first call on the piano,”
Frank related. “But Annelle would
flurry in after dinner to wash her
hands and be first to play while I
was still getting ready.
“1 tliink I will be able to bear
up under Annelle’s mistakes when

“When

I

recent recital,

she starts to take fonnal lessons.”

1948
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Keenan,
Jr., of Reinerton, Pa., announce the
arrival of a son, John III, on Saturday, Januar>' 9, 1954, at the Good
Samaritan Hospital, PottsviUe. Mrs.
Keenan is the former Peggy Ann
Lewis, of Phoenixville, Pa.

1950
Miss Jane Louise Kenvin, daughter of Mrs. John Kenvin, Hazleton,
and the late Mr. Kenvin, became
(he bride of George Edward Widger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D.
Widger, Catawissa, on Saturday,
February 20, in a ceremony at the
home of the bride
Hazleton.
The Re\^ Frederick B. Grane,

m

March, 1954

the

of

First

Presbyterian

double-ring ceremony before members of the immediate families.
The bride graduated from Hazleton High School in 1946 and from
B. S. T. C. in 1950.
She is teacher
of the fifth grade at the Catawissa

Borough School.

The bridegroom, a graduate
High School in 1946,

(.Catawissa

taken

his

pastor

Church, Hazleton, pcrformeil the

of
re-

ceived his degree from B.S.T.C. in
1950.
He is a laboratory chemist
at the U. S. Radium Cor^xiration,
Ahnedia.

The marriage of Miss June
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Boyd Smith, Berwick, to Ben Duke,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Duke,
Berwick, was solemnized Saturday,
January 9 in the Bethany E. U. B.
Church by the Rev. II. H. Jacobs.
The l)ride graduated ifrom Berwick High School in 1949 and from
B.S.T.C.
She is employed at
Smith’s Grocery Store. Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High
School in 1949, received his degree
from B.S.T.G. and is now serving
with the U. S. Army. A reception
was held in the church social hall
after which the couple left on a
trip to

New

Miss Helen B. John ’89

Miss Helen Barton John, eightythree, College Hill, Bloomsburg,
died Saturday, February 6, at the
Bloomsburg Hospital. Miss John
was born on November 29, 1870,
the daughter of the late Jefferson
M. John of Mt. Carmel and Mrs.
Alary Alice John.

Her

father had been a major in
Union Army in the Civil War.
On her mother’s side she was descended from pioneer families of
( Columbia
County, who were acihe

195.3

wedding

Ngrrologii

York Gity.

Miss Nancy Lou Rhoads, daughMr. and Mrs. Leroy Rhoads,
L'atawissa, is teaching in Southampton, Pa. A graduate last Spring
of B.S.T.G. in elementary education and speech correction. Miss
ter of

Rhoads was an active member of
the Maroon and Gold Band and
Sigma Alpha Eta. She is a graduate of Gatawissa High School.
In a pretty candlelight service
recently in Bower Memorial E.U.B.

Church, Berwdek, Miss Beverly
Naugle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Sitler, Berwick, became the
bride of James E. Doty, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Doty, Sr., Bloomsbury.

The bride graduated from Berwick High School in 1950. Her
husband graduated from Bloomsburg High School in 1949 and
from B.S.T.G. in 1953.
He has
just completed basic training at
Aberdeen Proving Grounds and has
been assigned to Fort Dix, N. J.

tive in establishing its early indus-

the county seat to
establishing
the
Bloomsburg Literary Institute— the
forerunner of the Teachers College
—and aiding its religious life, especially that of St. Paul’s Protestant

bring
illoomsburg,

tries,

Episcopal Church.
Miss John was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School
in 1889 and taught a number of
years in Mt. Carmel and schools

Bloomsburg.
She was active in the work of
tlie Episcopal Church, teaching in
its Sunday School for many years.
She was a member of the Church
Altar Guild, and of the Auxiliary.
Miss John was also a leader of
the former Girls’ Friendly Society
and especially active in carrying
(>n
a project of correspondence

in the vicinity of

with service

War

men

during die World

She was a charter member of both the Bloomsburg Hospital Auxiliary and of the Ivy Glub
and was one of the first group of
women to serve as jurors in Columbia County when jury service was
opened to women.
II.

Survivors includes these cousins:

John Bird of Shamokin, Mrs. Edward Krebs of Mt. Carmel, William Hill Barton of White Plains,
N. Y., Edwin M. Barton of Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Robert Gibson, Mt.
Carmel.
Burton L. Williams
Burton L. Williams,
liis

’93

who

entire lifetime in the

spent

Mehoop-

any area, was graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Normal School m
17

LS93.

He

taught school in Mehoop-

any for several years then went in
the coal business there and served
as tax collector for nine years, and
was also justice of the peace for
many years. He and Mrs. Williams
celebrated their golden wedding
several years ago.

Williams passed away at
home, February 5, 1954, after a
Mr.

past high priest of Shekinah Royal
Arch Chapter 182, past thrice il-

master of Mt. Horeb
Council 34, past commander and
lustrious

trustee of

Dieu

le

Veut Comman-

dery 45, Kinghts Templar; Council
of Annointed Kings, Penn Priory
?4o. 6, Harrisburg; York Cross of
Honor and Irem Temple. He also
served as advisor in organizing the

lingering illness.
Surving are his widow, two sons,

Order of DeMolay and was a past

daughter; two sisters, nine
grandchildren and eleven greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the

As a former eminent commander
of Knights Templar 25 years ago

one

Mehoopany

Church
Methodist
with the pastor. Rev. Kenneth
O’Neil, officating.
Interment was
in Vaughn Cemeterv, Mehoopany,
Pa.

officer of 1.0. 0.F.

he originated the annual breakfast
held for State officers of that organization at Irem Temple Country Club.

Mr. and Mrs. Hart, the former

Lovida

Craver, celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on April
27, 1949.

’93

John C. Hart
John C. Hart,
teacher,

81, retired school

active

December

churchman

Mason,

prominent

6,

and

In addition to his widow, Mr.
is survived by six children and
eight grandchildren.

Hart

Sunday,
home, 538

died

1953, at his

Carey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. Hart had been active in education fields in Parsons Section and

Blanche Davenport

’94

Miss Blanche Davenport, retired

School prior to his retirement in

school teacher who formerly resided in Plymouth, died Monday,
December 7, 1953, at Burlingame,
California, where she had made
her home the past two years with a
niece, Dorothy Davenport Feld-

1940.

man.

Wilkes-Barre 50 years, serving as
teacher, principal and, finally, as
an instructor at Meyers High

A member of Firwood Methodist
Church, Mr. Hart was instrumental
He served
in its founding in 1912.
as

its

Sunday

School’s first superin-

tendent and teacher of the Men’s
Bible Class. In June 1951 he was
made an honorary trustee of the
church. Last year he was selected
by officials of the church to write
its first complete history.
As the first lay leader serving
Wyoming Conference, Mr. Hart received the honor of representing
the Conference at the General Conference at Kansas City in 1944.
Mr. Hart was born in Hobbie,
April 17, 1872, a descendant of
early Colonial residents. His mother was the former Boseanna Drum,
after whose family the community
of

Drums was named.

He was
burg

.State

attend('d
vania.

Mr.

graduated from BloomsTeachers (College and

University

Hart was

Landmark Lodge
IS

pa.st

442,

Pennsyl-

of

master of
& A.M.;

I'”.

Miss Davenport was a daughter
and the last survivor of the late
Samuel M. and Harriet Gould
Davenport, and lived in Plymouth
until moving to California.
A graduate of the Plymouth
school and Bloomsburg State Normal School, she taught in Edwardsville and Plymouth more than fifty
year, being principal of the Willow
Street School in Plymouth when
she retired four years ago.
Several other nieces and neph-

ews

she married Mr. Reuter.

any.

Mrs. Julia Mershon ’06
Mrs. Julia Mershon, a fonner Mt.

Carmel resident who was stricken
in August while visiting her sis-

ill

ter,

Mrs. William Reuter '98
N. Easton Reuter, 1415
Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.,
passed away in the Jefferson HosPhiladelphia, October 24,
pital,
19.53.
Mrs. Reuter was born in Mehoopany, Pa., graduated from the
Bitiier

Bloomsl)urg State Normal School
1898 and taught in the Scranton
city schools until her retirement,
when she went to Philadelphia to
It was there
ilo government work.

Miss

Sarah

North Oak

Street,

December

7,

Buddinger, 17
Shamokin, died

195.3,

in

Shamokin

State Hospital.
First stricken shortly after her
arrival there August 15, then more
seriously on November 17, she remained constantly bedfast at the
Buddinger home from the latter
date until she was taken to the
hospital.
Death was attributed to
a heart condition.
Mrs. Mershon, the former Julia
Buddinger, was born in the same
North Oak Street home where she
had spent the past few months. She
was a daughter of the late Joseph

and Mary (Grigbaum) Buddinger.
Following her graduation from
Mt. Carmel High School, she was
graduated from Bloomsburg State
Normal School in 1906 and then
taught in various schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey until her

marriage to
Netcong, N.

Robert Mershon, of
J.,

December

17, 1913.

During the past five years she was
employed at the Home for Incurables in Philadelphia.
A brother. Dr. A. L. Buddinger,
who was once a Mt. Carmel dentist, died in February, 1949, while

on a visit here from his home in
Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y.
Florence Bailey Hicks ’18

survive.

Bessie

Funeral

were conducted by tlie
Rev. David S. Kain, of the First
Presbyterian Church, at Dunlap
Funeral Home, Mehoopany, Wednesday, October 28, and interment
was in Vaughn Cemetery, Mehoop-

services

Mrs. Florence Bailey Hicks, 57,
Wilson, N. Y., died very suddenly
in September, 1953, of a heart attack.

Mrs. Hicks was born in Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1896. She was
a member of the First E.U.B.
(diurch, Tonawanda, N. Y.; the
Phistern Star, North Tonawanda, N.

in

The deceas('d was a graduate of
Berwick High School in the class
of 1916, and was a daughter of the
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late Rev. E. R. Railey,

and reached the rank

tor of the

ant.

former pasRerwick Rower Memorial
E.U.lk Church.
Suvixing is her husband. Reach
Hicks and the following children:
Lockard, Springfield,

Ma.ss.;

Mrs.

Lorena Duftman, Memphis, Tenn.;
Mrs. Shirley Runpf, Seneca Falls,
(

;

N. Y.; Mrs. Doris Post, NorthumNine grandchildren also
herland.
surxive as does her mother, Mrs.
E.

York; brothers and
surviving are: Rev. C. CarRailey, Raltimore, Md.; William
Railey,

R.

sisters
roll

New

L. Railey,

York City; R. Loree
Mrs. Lorena Smyser,

Railey and
York.

Sally

Harlem

’29

Miss Sally Harlem, of Columbia,
Pennsx’Kania, passed away Friday,

September

4,

Columbia

1953, at the

W. Fowler

Fred

town.

’.33

Fowler, forty-three. Mill
died Sunday, Jan-

street, Danville,

uary 3, 1954, when his car smashed
through a section of guard railing

and plunged down a steep embankment after skidding on a road
slicked by ice.
The accident occurred on the
Dan\ille-Washington\ ille highway,
three and one-half miles north of
Danville.

Fowler,

a

superxdsor

the
Riserside, died of multiple fractures of
the skull, according to John G.
Smith, acting coroner for Montour
County. Smith ruled that the death
was accidental.
The six were returning from the
Turbotxille \’eterans of Foreign

& Company

at

plant,

Wars home where they had spent
the evening.
Rounding a curve
on a downgrade, Fowler

lost conthe car after hitting a patch
of ice.
It was raining at the time.
Milton State Police said the car
slid across the highway and plowtrol of

ed into

down

tlie

guard

five posts.

Fowler

is

rails,

It

is

knocking
then that

believed to have met his

death.

A

home; two brothers, Herman,

Mcchanicsburg, and Mark, Middle-

Fred

Merck

\ native of Espy, Fowler resided there until moving to Danville
about two >ears ago. He was a
graduate of Scott Township High
School and the Rloomsburg State
Teachers College, class of 1933.
He was a member of the Rloomsburg posts of the American Legion
and \'eterans of Foreign Wars, the
Espy Fire (’ompany, the Liberty
Fire C'ompany, Rloomsburg; the
Danville Elks, Rloomsburg NIoose,
the Espy Lutheran Church, the
Pennsylvania Society of Engineers
and Firemen’s Relief Association.
Surviving are his wife, the former Frances Zeilsdorff, of Danville; his mother, Mrs. Emma Fowler, Espy; two sisters, Mrs. George
Renshoff, Espy, and Verissa Fowler, at

Hospital.

of staff serge-

veteran

of

World War

II,

Fowler served as a radar operator
with the U. S. Air Force in tlie China-India-Burma Theater and had

number of missions to his credit.
He was overseas eighteen months
a

March, 1954

Mrs. Annie

S.

Mausteller

Mrs. Annie S. Mausteller, eightyseven, East Street, one of Rloomsburg’s most beloved residents, died
at four thirty-five Thursday mornFebruary II, 1954, at the
ing,
Rloomsburg Hospital, where she
was admitted Saturday, January 30.
A retired elementary school
teacher, Mrs. Mausteller had been
ill for some time and was a patient
at the hospital for six weeks in
1953.

She was born

in

Rloomsburg,

same home most of
She was a daugliter of
her life.
the late John and Mary Snyder and
a widow of Elmer Mausteller. Mrs.
Mausteller was a member of St.
living in tlie

Matthew’s Lutheran Ghurch.
Surviving are a brother, W. G.
Snyder, Rloomsburg, and a nephew, R. F. Snyder, Allentown.

Elizabeth Dreibelbis

Omer

Mrs. Lawrence T. Orner, sixtysix, the fonner Elizabeth Dreibelbis, East Third Street, Rloomsburg,
died Saturday, January 30, at her
home. She had been a bed patient
since

December

6.

She was a graduate of R.S.T.G.
iind taught in this county for r^e
years.
She was a member of the
Rloomsburg Methodist Church.
Surviving are her husband, two

daughters, Anna, of York; Miriam,
at home; one son, William, PottsV illc;
three sisters, Mrs. Clark Art-

man,

Center

Sr.,

township

and

Florida; Misses Esther and Ruth
Dreibelbis, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; two
brothers, Arthur Dreibelbis, Green-

wood

township; one grandson,
William David Orner, Pottsville;
several nieces and nephews.

William E. Zecher
William E. Zecher, husband of
Ethel Titus

’06,

retired secretary-

treasurer of the

Lebanon County

Trust Company and long associated
with community projects, died recently in the Good Samaritan Hos-

Lebanon.
Death was attributed
cations in an illness

pital,

months.
Zecher,

to compli-

of

several

who was prominent

in

active years in the work of the
Chamber of Commerce, Roy Scouts
and Community Concert Association, retired in 1949 after a long
association
with
the
Lebanon
liis

C.'ounty Trust

Company.

Mr. Zecher retired October 26,
1949, on his 65th birthday. He had
been with the local bank for twenty-three years

and was honored by

profession at a
special gathering on the occasion
of his retirement.
A native of Lancaster, he entered tlie banking field in 1098 witli
the Franklin National Rank, Philadelphia.
He was cashier of the
associates

in

tlie

Marcus Hook National Rank from
when he was named

1919 to 1923,

the RethleTrust Company, Rethlehem,

secretary-treasurer of

hem
Pa.

He became
officer

of

the

and trust
Lebanon Count)'

treasurer

Trust Company in 1926, succeeding
Charles F. Zimmerman in those
posts. In 1945, the position of secretary was added to his duties with
the death of E. W. Miller. He relinquished the position of trust officer a year before his retirement.
Throughout his career in banking, he was held in high esteem

by members of his profession.
Then in 1930 he was elected
president of the Chamber and served

in that office for

He was

one year.

also intensely interested

in the youtli of the

community and
19

served as treasurer of the Lebanon
County Council of Boy Scouts for
a

number

of years.
also treasurer for the
community library from 1927 to
1938, a period of eleven years.
He was treasurer until his death
of the Community Concert Association since its inception in 1934,
and continued a lifelong interest

He was

several years. Daughter of the late
Theodore and Ann Mouser Gromley, she was born August 17, 1898,
in
Liberty
township,
Montour
county, she was a school teacher
for several years
Montour
in
county, teaching at Kaseville and
Elees schools. She was a member
of the Washingtonville Lutheran

Church.

Zecher was also

affiliated

with

Lebanon Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, and during
his career in Lebanon was a member of the Lebanon Rotary Club,
having served as treasurer.
Mrs. Harold H. Bulla
Mrs. Harold H. Bulla, the former Helen E. Lord, fifty-six, Berwick Road, Bloomsburg, died in a
violent two-car crash on Route 11
eleven miles south of Selinsgrove,
at ten-thirty

Sunday morning, Jan-

uary 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Bulla, who maintained homes in both Bloomsburg
and Washington, D. C., were on

way

the nation's capitol
where Bulla is employed as a printer in the Government Printing Ofto

fice.

The tragedy ended many months
anxious planning towards

day when Bulla would

the

and
the couple would return permanretire

ently to Bloomsburg.
Bulla, who
had been a prisoner of the Germans
during the First World War, was

scheduled to complete his ser\ ice
with the Government within a year.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg
High School and the Bloomsburg
Normal School, Mrs. Bulla taught
school
in
Mifflinville,
Gentre
township and Snydertown
for
many years. She would have observed her fifty-seventh
birthday

She was a member of
the American Legion Auxiliary,
the Eastern Star and the Methodist

January

18.

Ghurch.

Norman Foust
Mrs. Norman Foust,
fifty-five,
Milton R. 14. 2, died in November
Mrs.

Evan Thomas
The death of Evan Thomas,

a

graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and a resident of
Hanover Township, occurred Tuesmoming, October 6 at the Veterans Hospital, Wilkes-Barre.
He
had been in ill health the past
year and underwent an operation
at the Robert Packer
Hospital in
Sayre.

he was
awarded State Senatorial Scholar-

ian of his class in 1950,

,

ship.

high school career his
included membership in
the National Thespians
and the
advisory board, the National Quill
and Scroll, tlie National Honor
Society, student
commencement
speaker, editor of tlie high school
his

,

One
ising

most promyoung scholars

of Bloomsburg’s

and

brilliant

died Sunday, January 3 at Geisinger Hospital.

Eugene Albert Rygiel, twentyone, son of Prof. Walter S. Rygiel,
business education department faculty member of the
Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, and
Mrs.
Florence L. Rygiel, of 519 East
Third Street, died in the Danville
institution from complications of a
streptococcic throat infection.
He had become ill while studying at the University of Pennsylvania and was admitted to that institution’s dispensary.
With the
approach of the holidays, he was
returned home and then to the Geisinger where he was hospitalized
for

about two weeks.

The youth,

a native of

Wilkes-

had spent most of his life
in Bloomsburg where an outstanding high school career was followed by an equally distinguished colBarre,

lege record.

He had been

being proposed

o

r

local service club. His fur-

!

j

man.”
In college, where he majored in
history with view of entering
a
legal career, he was a member of
the Junior Varsity Debate panel,
the Varsity Debate Council, staff
member of the campus radio station,

Freshman Mask and Wig

cast,

the Dean’s Advisory Council, editor-in-chief of the College Yearbook which was cited as one of the
top three annuals in the nation,
Delta Sigma Rho national forensic
honor society, the Franklin Society
for meritorious work in journalism
and the Sphinx Senior Honor Society.

He was

also

vice

president of

(

Kappa Sigma, assistant crew
manager and member of the VarPhi

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Boat Club and the All University Managerial Board. He served as the Campus Chest Drive
chairman. Junior Chapel chairman,
and Freshman dormitory advisor.

In addition to his parents, he is
survived by one brother, Walter

this district,

:

“The Man Who Came To
Dinner” and “Mother Was a Freshtions of

from

Township,

f

student
council, and was active in the Drajnatic Club for three years, participating in many workshop plays and
taking lead roles in the presen ta-

sity

ther studies at English or Scotch
Universities was virtually assured.
Ill Bloomsburg High School, he
had distinguished himself by twice

Northumberland

or-

ganized the high school

selected at a representative of his university as
a
candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship and also was a nominee for
the Rotary Foundation Fellowship

by the

the Geisinger Memorial
Hospital, Danville.
She had been a
patient there for twenty days.
She was a resident of Turbot

paper. Red and MTiite, editor of
the Student Handbook,
associate
editor of the high school yearbook,
president of the Town Meeting League, class
historian,
master of
ceremonies a the annual gym circus and recipient
of
Scouting’s

“God and Country” award. He

Eugene A. Rygiel

at

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activities

the local Mt.

of

'

contest in the latter year. Salutator-

During

in music.

their

winning the annual Junior ChamCommerce “I Speak for
Democracy” contest in 1948 and
1949, going on to win the
state

ber of

V’incent Rygiel, chief bacteriologist

the Winthrop-Stearu pharmaMyerstown,
ceutical company at
for

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Sprin <4 pa\ es
ing

up

NELSON,

It’s

’ll

and reunions. One t^roup buildgroup returning to revive the high-

for coninienccMiients

for a dignilied departure; another

lights of student

point.

way

tlie

II.

filcuuLed'

days more, hovvexer, from a social than an academic stand-

more tun

how you outwitted the night watchman than to
you were an
student!! As the years pile up the

to recall

remind your classmates

that

”

more meauingful those memories become.

F'ellowship

of hearts and not necessarily a meeting of minds.

Alma Mater were academic

We need to feel with

ratings, then a reunion

Solomon

that

wisdom

is

is

of the spirit

If all

we

carrietl

woidd be a

—

a union

from our

useless gesture.

the principal thing but that under-

standing merits careful consideration.

Mdio can define understanding? Maybe understanding was the thought
mind when he said goodl)ye to his classes at the term’s
end. Dr. Waller fostered this ideal in his assembly talks. Dr. Haas and Mr.
Fenstemaker ga\ e impetus to understanding when they collaborated to produce
“OLD BLOOMSbUHG” and “MAROON AND GOLD.” In the early days of
electric lights. Professor Dennis placed 8 bulbs around tbe cupola on Noetling
Hall and then remarked with pride when the current was switched on in the
dark of the night, “Normal wears her Crown tonight.” General Idwal Edwards
made leadership a part of understanding. A Bakeless father and son have
gi\ en new horizons to thinking in terms of “ideas and objects.” Countless graduates through good teaching and good communit\ living ha\ e reflected “wisdom with understanding” at home and abroad. Just last week a letter came
from a girl in England who is teaching within ten miles of famous Oxford. It
is possible that her influence may transcend some highly publicized political
in Professor W’ilbur’s

conferences.

For a closing paragraph may I cite a pearl of real understanding. It is
found in the heart of a girl who was graduated in 1944 and since that time has
given to a first grade in her communitv' a ser\ ice that cannot be measured in
dollars and cents. Her understanding has been transferred to the hearts of the
youngsters and their parents. The records of her achie\ ements do not appear
in print but li\ e on fore\ er in the li\ es of those who have been foidunale enough
to feel the influence of her personalitv'.

“There’s a Spirit that sends a Cali.”

Saturday,

May

22,

1954

REUNION CLASSES
ALL CLASSES TO

1904

1909

1934

1914

1939

1919

1944

1924

1949

1929

Pe*utia*t J^aw!

Pla4i.yUn<^

CLASS LISTS MAY BE SECURED
i'ROM DR.

E. H.

NELSON

The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsyluania

Vol.

LV

June, 1954

No.

2

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SodAXiened cutd
E. H.

/^lo4AAe,d'

NELSON

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Some fews weeks ago President Andruss stated he was mailing a follow up letter to
the “Will You Help Bloomsburg?’’ (questionnaire). We asked and received permission to
include the following statement as a part of the communication:
“If your Alumni Association is to continue as an active, aggressive force in the life of
the College Community, it must have a lift in the way of financial assistance. Publication
Won’t you send a contribution in the enclosed
costs are up; scholarships are needed.
envelope by return mail? You and you and you have given the prestige to Bloomsburg
that it enjoys today. With your help the coming year will be the best ever.’’

So far response
most grateful.

to that

appeal has been received from the following persons.

We

are

Margaret L. Burdette
Ray Haring
Stephen Holtz
David M. Jones
Irene Diehl

Kannand

Winton Laubach
Frances Linskill
Robert E. Martini
Mrs. Lorraine Moyer
Olive M. Moyer
William H. Selden
Louise C. Sharpless
Ralph Tremato
Mildred R. Washvilla
Mildred J. Wrzesniewski
George D. Willard
K. Wilson
Mrs. Josephine Yocum

Without help

of this

kind your association could not function as a worthwhile organiza-

tion in the life of the college.

Alumni Day brought with
1899
1904
1914
1924
1934
1954

it

the following contributions from classes in reunion:

$ 17.00
204.00
27.00
128.75
51.75
500.00

This money will be used in the Scholarship and Loan Fund as indicated by the donors,
and again your officers extend sincere thanks. We wish the contributors might experience
Oft times it spells
first hand the appreciation expressed by the recipients of this help.
the difference between slaying in college or dropping out to earn money for possible continuance in school

at a later date.

Following the General Alumni meeting Saturday. May
with this statement printed thereon in an appeal for funds;

22,

we

passed out envelopes

.’’
This quotation reminds us again
“They opened paths for us and our posterity
both of our debt to the great Bloomsburg leaders and teachers of the past and our duty
Our secular world bids high for the services of college
to the young scholars of today.
youth, but the world of scholarship depends on them no less than it always did. More
scholarships than those presently available are urgently needed for worthy Bloomsburg
students.
We hope contributions will continue to come in freely from this statement of
need. Contributors will be named in the next “Quarterly.”
.

.

This page has been devoted largely to a statement of need and frank requests for conWhen such procedure ceases, then your Association ceases to function also.
Singing the Alma Mater isn’t enough in the way of loyalty and devotion to be “true to
Bloomsburg still.’’ Maybe this paragraph will be enough to make you angry enough to
arouse sentiment enough to decide you have had enough of the writer of this article as
President of the Association. Why not then elect a new President, raise a few thousand
dollars for him to work with and watch yours truly grin from the side lines.
tributions.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LV,

No. 2

June, 1954

COMMENCEMENT

Ac-

“The greatness of

who

people

follow the challenge in the crisis

moment cannot touch those
who have the courage to follow
the commonplace,” Dr. Paul Wea-

of the

ver, president of

told thhe 148

Lake Erie College

members

of the class
1954 at the eighty-eighth commencement of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
of

Published quarterly by the Alumni
Association of the State Teachers ColEntered as Seclege, Bloomsburg, Pa.
ond-Class Matter, August

1941, at the

8,

Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under

March

the Act of
scription,

1879.

3,

Yearly Sub-

$2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, '12

BUSINESS
E.

MANAGER

H. Nelson, T1

Speaking on “Our Age and the

Commonplace” before the first
overflow attendance at a graduation exercise here in eight years,
the educator said people generally
manage the dramatic moments of
their li\ es well but there is a challenge to meet
the need
in the

common, everyday

“How

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

life.

far

you

will

go

in

life

techni(jues

by which people may

find this challenge.

One

is

seek significant

stantly

to “con-

detail

in

you think you
know perfectly” and the other is to
“act the way you would act if you
in
felt the way you don’t feel”
tliose

situations

many

trying situations of

life.

“Here is where one finds the
courage that matches the need of
the commonplace,” he said.
The degrees were conferred by
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president

is

of the college, after the candidates

pretty well known but where you
are going is locked up in the mysteries of life.

were presented by Dr. Thomas P.
The
North, dean of instruction.

command

a person’s best
performance.
You will take in
stride great moments, danger, tenIf circumstances
sion and crises.
command your capacity you’ll
But this is not the kind
give it.
“Crises

THE ALUMNI

things of

Dr. W'eaver told the graduates,

you are commencing. The
kind of things you will find difficulty with is the commonplace, the
haunting little stuff that occupies
us during our lives; the quiet living
unnoticed reality, day after day,
locked in the commonplace.
The educator suggested two
of life

Rev. Elmer A. Keiser,
pastor of
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, gave
the invocation. Howard F. Fenstemaker was at the console for the
processional. Nelson A. Miller directed the music. The program
closed with the Alma Mater.

PRESIDENT
E. H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT

BACCALAUREATE SERVICES
“There are three secrets of sucand security— the way, the
truth and the life,” the Rev. James
M. Singer, pastor of St. Matthew
Lutheran Church, told members
State
of the class of 1954 of the
Teachers College at baccalaureate
services held in Carver Hall audicess

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER

torium.
Harriet F. Carpenter

Hervey B. Smith

“Is the way the way of a lifthe
subjection?”
ing love or of
asked the class. “Is the truth the
Is
power of force or of faith?
and
the life the life of comfort
pleasure or the way of sacrifice
Your life shall be
and service?

Elizabeth H. Hubler

blessed, your life shall succeed as

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

June, 1954

you hand down day by day your
personal judgment of these everlasting questions.

In his introduction the minister
observed, “Like a spring that is
unsprung, like a runner ready to
dash into the race at the sound of
the starting gun, you young people
are poised here today ready to lean
into life to discover what this graduation has done for you.”

He
saith

spoke from the text, “Jesus
unto him, “I am the way,

the truth and the life’,” John 14:6,
and on the theme, “Three Secrets.”
“There is no smooth super high(Continued on Page 2)
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ALUMNI MEETING
Bernard

J.

Kelley, Philadelphia

and a
and
of
the
class
of
1913,
member
were
educator,
Jesse Y. Shambach,
honored by fellow graduates of

attorney and civie leader

tliey
the Teachers College when
were presented with the Distin-

the
of
guished Service Awards
graduate body. The presentations
were the highlight of the general
meeting.
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, a classmate of Mr. Kelley at Bloomsburg
and a member of the college fac-

made the presentatiou to him.
Fred W. Diehl, superintendent of

ulty,

Montour county schools, a trustee
College and a director of the
Alumni Association, made the presentation to Mr. Shambach.
at the

Both of the recipients in

their

response told of what inspiration
they had gained from their attendance at “Old Normal.”

A new

dining hall, probably to
be located on the site of the tennis
courts immediately back of Waller
Hall, and with the present dining
room space to be used for the library are regarded as probable improvements in the near future. Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, president of
the Teachers College, told grad-

Also on the program is a men’s
dormitory, he said, and some day
there will probably be a first floor
auditorium. This latter project has
been recommended in reports for

It

that

years.

however,
is highly unlikely,
Carver Hall will ever be razed

for so

much

institution

is

Bloomsburg.

Members

of the class of

1904,

honored class of the reunion,
were seated on the stage for the
two-hour program.
Class reports
were a feature. Lindley H. Dennis, who returned from the Middle
East to be in reunion with the class
the

of

1899,

made

the report of the

nominating committee.
Miss Dorothy L. Schmidt, a missionary in Japan and a prisoner of
the Japanese government through
much of World War II, was back
for a reunion of the class of 1929.
She returns to the United States
once in six years.
She has been stationed but three
luiles from the Russian border, but
is being transferred to Tokyo. Miss
Schmidt spoke of her work recently
at the First Presbyterian church in
Bloomsburg.

FOUR SUMMER
A

B.S.T.C.

rearrangement of the summer

session calendar of the

Bloomsburg

State Teachers College will result
in four three-weeks sessions being
offered.
In former years, a pre-session of
three weeks was followed by a reg-

of the history of

the

jdar session of six weeks, and a post
session of three weeks in length

associated with

this

will

building.

The College

wmdd

of

ler,

SESSIONS AT

uates at the general meeting.

many

other sections being represented.
A plea for more finances so that
the alumni can
be increasingly
active was voiced by Dr. E. H.
Nelson, president of the graduates,
and Edward F. Schuyler.
Reelected to the board of directors for three year terms were Fred
W. Diehl of Danville and Mrs. C.
C. Housenick and Edward Schuy-

he
demolishing

president said

be opposed

to

building and is (juite sure if
any such project is ever contemplated the alumni will rise enmasse
and voice opposition.
this

Bloomsburg Teachers College is
good students but needs

conclude the summer program.
The first three-weeks session began Monday, June seventh; the
second three weeks on Monday,
[line 28; the third— Monday, July
19, and the final three weeks on

Monday, August

9.

A wide

vari-

ety of courses will be offered during the sessions.

2

(Continued from Page 1)
stretching out before you on
which you may speed to success

way
by

throwing your life into high
gear and racing on into the future.
There is no pathway leading out
into life on which there are strewn
countless opportunities so that all
you need is step out into life and
pick them up.
“But there is a life out there for
each of you— a wonderful life, filled
with blessings, privileges and opportunities for you who have the
heart and soul and
spiritual inknow the secrets which
shall win for you success
and
everlasting security.”
The Rev. Mr. Singer said there
are those who cry “Succeed
by
subjecting men to
make them
slaves of the great empires.”
He
continued, “their cries ring down
the long, hollow hallways of hissight to

tory

and we

listen as if

they were

truth.

but

“Quietly
Jesus: this

is

speaks
strongly
the way. Follow me!

am the way of lifting men and
To the words of
loving them.
Jesus there is added the chorus of
the Schweitzers, the Livingstones
and the Lincolns— of the Clara
Bartons and the Florence Nightingales who cry ‘Life and love, this
is the way.’
“What is truth— is it force or
Are the crowds right
is it faith?
or is Christ? The life! The world
says ‘Live it up. Get out of it all
you can get,’ is a modern slogan.
But Jesus says, ‘I am the life.’ Live
quietly, happily.
Be helpful. Give
I

much as you can
and serve and you
wonderfid life.”
us

The College

giv'e, sacrifice

shall

have a

quartet composed

of Joyce Lundy, Bloomsburg; Beverly Bryan, Montoursville; Russell

Bubbenmoyer, Hamburg and RobEbner, Muncy, with Mary Jo
accompanWilliams, Trucksville,
Presiist, sang “A Hope Carol.”
dent Harvey A. Andruss read the
ert

Scripture.

getting

more. The educator said that the
important problem today is to obHe spoke of
tain good students.
the majority of the students comimmediate service
ing from the
area of the college, but of many

BACCALAUREATE SERVICES

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
50 Wesrt

Main

Street

Bloomsburg 356-R

Steve F. Kriss, of Berwick, has

been promoted to the rank of CapHe is
tain in the Marine Coiqis.
stationed at the Marine Corps
School at Quantico, Virginia.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HONORED
Bernard

J.

Kelley

Mr. Kelley, a native of Exeter
borough, graduated from the Norlie taught
mal School in 1913.
Exeter
ill
the grammar grades of
until his appointment as midship-

man

to the U. S.

Naval Academy

as the result of a competitive ex-

amination.
I le
graduated from
the academy on June 6, 1919, being commissioned as ensign in the
U. S. Na\y and assigned to duty
to tlie U. S. S. New Mexico, flagship of the Pacific fleet.
Two years later, when the Commander of the Fleet transferred
his Hag to the newly commissioned
U. S. S. California, Mr.
Kelley,
then a lieutenant,
junior grade,
was assigned to that ship where he
lemained for more tlian two years
and then resigned to enter the law
school of the Unis ersity of PennsyKania.
While with the Pacific
fleet, he was singled out by
the
Secretary of the Navy for excellence in engineering efficiency for
which he recei\ ed a letter of com-

mendation.
He graduated from the Law
School of the University of Pennsyhania in 1926 with the degree
of Bachelor of Laws and served as
president of his class.
He has

been a member of the Philadelphia Bar since that time and has
offices in Philadelphia.

For

five

years he

served as a

Deputy Attorney General
of Pennsyhania and for over
ten
years was a member of the Board
Special

Law Examiners of Philadelphia
County by appointment of the
Board of Judges.
During World War II, he was
of

personnel officer, tlien

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

BY

industrial

officer,
with rank of
captain. United States Naval Reserve, at the Philadelphia
Naval

relations

Ship Yard where he was charged
with the resporrsibility of handling
the civilian personnel, there being
more than 42,000 employees of tlie
yard at that time.
For meritorious ser\ice during

World W'ar H, he received

a cita-

from the Secretary of the
Na\y and was authorized to wear
tile Commendation Ribbon.
tion

•After the war, the
prev ailed upon him to

government

become the
Philadelphia
agency of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, serving most of
Peuiisylvaiiia and New jersey and
all of Delaware,
and there he
served lor five years during which
time the President of the United
manager

of

the

J. Y. Shambach
Shambach was graduated
with honors from the State Normal

-Mr.

School, Bloomsburg

and the UiriMichigan (Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi). He also studied
versity of

at the

Pennsylvania

University of

and Columbia University.
Before

going to Harrisburg he
ed as teacher in a rural school,
a grade school, and a high school,
principal of a high school, superserv

vising

principal,

and

superinten-

him to Washington
and offered him the post of Director ol the R.F.C., which Mr. Kelley

dent of schools.
Since accepting the invitation of
the Superintendent of Public In-

humbly

struction to
ber in the

States called

declined.

On January 1, 1952, a new mayor
took ollice in Philadelphia and a
new city charter which had been
passed by the voters the preceding
y ear became effective. The chartercalled for
a
managing director
under the new city management
lorm

of

government

and

Mr.

became the first deputy
managing director of the City of
Philadelphia.
At about the same
Kelley

time, the City Council of Philadelphia elected him as one of the city
representatives on the Board of the
Philadelphia Transportation Co.

In

November, 1953, he became

first time in his career, a
candidate for office, that of judge
of the Municipal Court of
Philadelphia and while, as a Democratic
candidate he polled more than
285,000 votes, he failed of election
by less than two per cent of the

for

the

total vote.

As a captain in the U. S. Naval
Reserv e he is the commanding ofthe
Industrial
Relations
Unit of the Fourth Naval District.

ficer of

He is a member of numerous business and social organizations, and
in the Philadelphia Bar Association
is active as a member of the Committee on Municipal Administration. He is a fonner vice-president
Bar
of the Philadelphia Federal
Association. He is married and has
five children.

served as

become

a staff

mem-

department he has
bureau director, division

and secretary of the Public
School
Employes’
Retirement
Board. Some of his activities since
entering the department follow:
Directed research work for various divisions of the
department
and one study of the Federal Oftice of Education; developed
and
chief,

edited a number of
department
reports and publieations including
bidletins dealing with educational
administration; prepared
articles
for various magazines;
conducted
a course on some phases of school
administration at the Pennsylvania
State College.
Discussed educational problems
in a number of colleges, universities, and conventions
various
in
states of the United States and in

Canada; served as parliamentarian
annual convention of the

for the

School DirecPennsylvania State Education Association;
cooperated with a number of graduate students preparing theses and
dissertations for masters’ and doctors’ degrees; served as a member
Pennsylvania State
tors Association

and the

and

nat-

organized

to

of various state, interstate

ional

committees

survey school systems, dev'elop and
review
legislation,
Department
policies and edircational procedures; served as president of National
Council on Retirement.

Support the Alumni Association of B.S.T.C.
June, 1954

3

DR.

NORTH SERVES

and graduate
Bloomsburg State Teachers

both enter

FOR QUARTER-CENTURY
Dean

Thomas

P. North,

of Instruction at

popular

Bloomsburg

State Teachers College, this year
celebrated his twenty-fifth year at

Bloomsburg.
Born in 1893 in

Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania, Dr. North received
Pennliis bachelors degree from
sylvania State University in 1917,
and his master’s degree from the
During
same institution in 1927.
this intervening period. Dr. North
began his teaching career as a
science teacher and was one of the
commonwealth’s first teachers of
vocational agriculture under the
Smith-Hughes
the
provision of
Act. In 1919 he became the supervising principal of a consolidated
school in Jefferson County.
In his desire for further

educa-

tion, he wasted no time in obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University in
1929. Immediately after his graduOscar
ation, he replaced
Prof.
Hugh Bakeless on the B.S.T.C.
the
celebrating
faculty and
is
twenty-fifth anniversary of his arrival at the “friendly college” this

year.
skills
North’s
Until 1941, Dr.
utilized in the teaching field,
particularly in the course in Introduction to Education, now designated as Professional Orientation

were

on the 1954 schedule cards.
Since 1941 Dr. North has devoted his time and efforts to improvof
ing the standards and ideals
B.S.T.C. as its Dean of Instruction.
In Dr. North’s twenty-five enjoyable and profitable years on the
B.S.T.C. faculty, he places high on
his list of “greats” his small part
students’
in the development of

responsibility

and

their

IS

With the

centralization

of

the

administration offices on the first
floor of Carver Hall, Dr.
North
believes we will be able to increase
our service to the students
and
alumni of B.S.T.C.

Matters pertaining to instruction
are
expedited
through progressive methods
of
organization in Dean North’s new

and accreditation

offices.

Higher

Education,
Executive Council,
of the

various
in
student participation
committees and organizations on

campus.
Another of the most notable improvements on our campus during
the past quarter century, to Dean
North, has been the progressively
who
students
higher (piality of

W.

Dr. Marguerite

dean of

women

Kehr, former

at the

Teachers

College, has been elected a

mem-

ber of the National Advisory Board
of the United States National Stu-

dents Association.
James M. Edwards, president of the association,
extended the invitation to Dean
Kehr to serve as a member of tlie
board following the unanimous
vote of the
National
Executive

Committee.

Members

Dr. North has devoted himself
to the cause of teacher education
and teaching as a profession.
He
has been an indefatigable worker
in both the
Pennsylvania
State
Education Association and the
National Education
Association,
has held membership on the following committees of the Pennsylvania State Education Association:
Vice President and President of

Commission

member

of

chairman
on Teacher

first

Education and Professional StandAt present he is member of
ards.
the advisory committee
the
to
State Council of Education
and
acts in all advisory capacity to tlie

National Commission on Teacher
Education. Dr. North has served
as a consultant on teacher education on the national level from U.
of New Hampshire to Stanford U.
and had the honor to represent
Pennsylvania at the Clinic on education for the State of Michigan.

of the Board receive
materials prepared by the association and meet on occasion to
review the programs and policies
of the group.
The board also
serves as an advisory group in
all

helping to plan the activities of the
association.

Dr. Kehr,

who

retired in June,

1953, after serving as a member of
the faculty and dean of women at

Bloomsburg

for a period of twenty-

five years, is living in

D. C.
street.

Washington,

Her address is 1423 Allison
Northwest, Washington 11,

D. C.

COTILLION AT

B.S.T.C.

Centennial
gymnasium
was
transformed into a Christmas fairyland Friday, December, for the
annual Sophomore Cotillion. Mel
Alter and his orheestra provided
music for dancing. “Christmas
Sleighride” was the theme.
Committees were as follows: tickets
Bill Bitner, Bernadine Butz, Judy Stephen, Pat O’Brien, Joan Christie, Bob
Groover, Eiderson Dean and Paul Peiffer;

souvenir

programs

—Doris Kryz—

wicki. Curt English; invitations Muriel
Neilson, Nancy Homsher and Alta Her-

many.
Hoy,

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

—Harrison

Morson, Nanette
Evans;
arrangements
Mary Hoffecker, Bob Huntz, Bob
Brush, Warren Kline, Don Carey; decorations Vivian Scott, Ed Chase, Ann
Vermilya, Barbara Bennett, Marion
Walsh, Rutsy Miller, Ronnie Krafjack,
Jim Nicholas, Charles Skiptunas and
Pat Giangiulio.
Refreshments Bertie Knouse, Jim
Harris, Shirley Redline, John Watts and
Ronnie Girton; cleanup Walter Kozloski,
Joan Rabb, Peggy Duttinger,
Margie Felton, Hubert Smoezynski, Joe
Keefer; entertainment Ed Siscoe, Bob
Evans. Muriel Neilson, Ed Chase.
Publicity

more

mature mental outlook. This innot
creased interest is apparent
Governonly in the Community
ment Association, but also in the

4

DR.

Col“This

In his own
words,
higher standard is especially gratifying to the administration.”
lege.

Dr.

MARGARITE KEHR
ON NATIONAL BOARD

from

Byron

—

—

—

—

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HONOR ASSEMBLY

Ixuul keys to Betty Yeager,

Sixteen members of the graduating class of the Teachers College
were presented service keys at the

wissa; Gloria Benner,

annual Honor Assembly held Wednesday, May 19, in Carver auditorium. Each year keys are awarded
the college to ten
percent of the Senior Class who
have accnmnlated a minimum of
for

service

to

twenty points.
President Harvey A. Andrnss
presented keys to
the
following
persons: Alfred Chiscon, Kingston;
Harriet Williams, Old P'orge; Michael Crisci, West Pittston; Charles Andrews, West Pittston; Elaine
Cimther Yeager, Berwick; Cerald

Honseknecht,

Bloomshurg;

Mary

Patricia
Jo Williams, Trucksville;
Boyle, Hazleton; Myra Albertson,

Watsontown; Louise Schullery, Delano; William Jacobs, .Manchester;
.Albert
.McManus, Mt. Carmel;
Robert

\’onDrach,
Pottstown;
Phyllis .McLaren, Orlando, Florida
and Merlyn Jones, Wilkes-Barre.
Prior to the presentation of the
ser\ice keys, the highest award,
Dr. Andrnss presented Who’s

Who

the college

makes

to

its

students,

eleven seniors. Nomthe group entitles the
name and college career of the selectee to he printed in the annual
publication. Who’s Wdio
Among
Students in .American Colleges and
certificates to

ination

to

Universities.

Those receiving certificates included Charles
Andrews, West
Pittston; Mary
Ruth Dreibelbis,
Bloomshurg; Gerald Honseknecht,
Bloomshurg; William Jacobs, Manchester; Phyllis McLaren, Orlando,

D.

2.

Miller directed
the
singing of the Alma Mater. Honor

sional.

Assembly chairman were Patricia
Edwards, Kingston and Alfred
Chiscon, Kingston.

EDUCATION

athletics,

son, president of the Alumni Association to Barney Osevala, Shamo-

Merlyn Jones, Wilkes-Barre;
Joseph Glosek, Coal Township;
Bernard Mont, Lehman; Franklin
Ed Jones, Alilton and Ronald
Steinbach, Freemansburg.
kin;

Nelson A. Miller, director of the

Maroon and Gold Band, presented
June, 1954

IN

BETTER LIFE

“The goal of national betterment can only be attained through
a sound educational system,”
Ed-

mund Longo,

qualified for
for the first semes-

list

ter, 195.3-54, have been announced
by Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of

These students have a

Kelayres, a

member

quality

average of 2.5 or better and
an accumulative average of at least
2.0 while in attendance at the col[)oint

lege.

They

are:

Freshmen
Dorothy

Muncy

R. D. 1;
Koch, Hazleton; Susanne Osborne,
Springfield; Constance Ozalas,
Palmerton; Corrine Pentecost, Honesdale;
Marilyn Ritter, Forty Fort; Catherine Shook, Muncy; Martha Starvatow, Berwick; Anne
Swortwood,

Howard

Diltz,

Hall,

Mary

J.

Ashley.
.Mrs.

Sophomores
Samina Cole, Bloomshurg;

Bloomshurg State Teachers ColWednesday, May 19
in an Ivy Day oration.
Speaking
t)ii
the subject, “The Challenge of
Preparing Youth to Live in the
World of Tomorrow,” Longo said.

Alarion Duricko, Scranton; Elaine
Fowler, Berwick; Patricia
Hartman, R. D. 5, Bloomshurg; Joanne
Haster,
Watsontown;
Bertha
Knouse, Bloomsburg R. D. 2; Doris
Krzywicki, Plymouth; Joyce Lundy
and Patricia O’Brien, Bloomsburg;
Edward Siscoe, Forest City.

It is our responsibility to see to it
that our system of education con-

Oren Baker, Bloomsburg; Lynda

ot the

1954 graduating class of the

lege, declared

and
which a free and demo-

tinues to provide the fertile
lich soil

cratic

society

needs for

susten-

ance.”

Ivy Day exercises,
oldest traditions
at

were held

in

one of tlae
Bloomshurg,
the Waller Court im-

mediately following tlie Honor Assembly. William Jacobs, Manchester, president of the class, presided
over the ceremonies.
Mr. Jacobs
also planted the ivy and presented
the spade to Arnold Garinger, Harvey’s Lake, president of the Class

bertson,

in varsity

the Dean’s

.Mr.

of 1955.

were presented by Dr. E. H. Nel-

DEAN’S LIST
Students who have

Instruction at B.S.T.C.

William Jacobs, president of the
Senior Cdass, presided over the asse.nhly.
Howard F. Fenstemaker
was at the organ during the processional, Alma Mater and reces-

Lifetime passes to college athletic events, given for four years of
participation

and

Nancy Tovey, Danville. A band
award jacket was presented to
Shirley Walters, Hunlock Creek R.

Louise
Schullery,
Delano;
Da\ id Superdock, Freeland; Harriet Williams, Old
Forge; Elaine
Gunther Yeager, Berwick.
Fla.;

Cata-

Litiz;

During the program, Myra AlWatsontown, and Mary

Juniors

Berwick;
Alice
Fisher,
R. D. 2; Gloria
Harris,
Hickory Corners; Ronald Kanaskie, Shamokin R. D. 1; Sally Morgan, Edwardsville; Donald Smith,
Dallas; Malcolm Smith, Hazleton;
Allen Walburn, Shamokin; Nancy
Bogart,

Sunbury

Williams, Clark’s Summit.

Anna

Seniors
Millroy; Leonard

Bittner,

Mt. Carmel; Fred
DelMonte, Shamokin; Sharon Dotter,

Carson,

Wilkes-Barre;

Mary Ruth Dreibel-

Bloomsburg; Patricia Edwards,
Kingston; Faith Eunson,
Bloomsbis,

burg; Joseph Froncek,

W. Wyom-

the Iv y Day Exercises Committee
were Patricia Boyle, Hazleton and
Mr.
Edmund Longo, Kelayres.
Earl A. Gehrig is the faculty advis-

Gerald Houseknecht, Bloomsburg;
ing; Rose Marie Grant, Bethlehem;
Rose
Korba,
Pleasant
Mount;
James Luchs, Bloomsburg; Phyllis
McLaren, Orlando, Fla.; Mae Neugard, Hegins;
Louise Schullery,
Delano; David Superdock, Freeland; Mrs. Mary Walker, Bloomsburg; Harriet Williams, Old Forge;
Mrs. Betty H. Wolfe, Halifax, R.
D. 2; Mrs. Elaine G. Yeager, Ber-

or to the Class of 1954.

wick.

Jo Williams, Trucksville, presented
a piano duet, “Dance Ukraine,” by
Kirchner.
The class sang, “Halls

and the Alma Mater. Mr.
Nelson A. Miller was the director
for group singing. Co-chairmen of
of Ivy”

5

SALES RALLY
“Handle yourself and what you
with a great deal of respect,”
Les Giblin, advised an overflow
audience attending the
Teachers
College
Sales
Rally
Thursday
evening, March 4.
sell

Over 1,000

sales persons, service

members of chamcommerce and others

club members,
bers

of

crowded into Carver Hall auditorium for the eighth annual and best
rally staged by the institution.
Jennings Randolph, former West
Virginia congressman and one of
two featured speakers, gave an in-

governor of Rotary and president
of Lock Haven State Teachers College, spoke briefly following the
dinner.

Among the honored guests introduced were members of the board
Hemingway, Earl
Wise, Berwick; Fred
O.
Diehl,
Danville and C. William Kreisher,
Catawissa.
Grahammer was introduced as
were presidents of area Rotary
clubs, Clayton Carroll,
Berwick;
Steve Bergstresser, Catawissa and
L. V. Collen, Bloomsburg. Memof trustees, Reg.

bers of the B.S.T.C. administrative
staff were also introduced.

teresting address following the talk

by Giblin, director of the famous
Les Giblin Clinic, national sales
training center.

Giblin cited “The most important
thing in selling is the art of handling people.” In this regard he advised as most important:

Recognize peoi)le for what

tliey

are.

Handle yourself and what
sell

you

with a great deal of respect.

And

Smile!
Giblin interspersed his talk with
humorous anecdotes and timely
stories illustrating the know-hows
of successful salesmanship.
Randolph, now assistant to the
president of Capitol Airlines, pointed out that no matter what your
endeavor, “Selling is everybody’s

He

business.”

must learn

to

know how

stressed that

appreciate

people,

to fail intelligently,

look to the future.
The speakers were

by Ed Garhammer,

you

and

introduced

president
of the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton National Sales Executives.
Student
first

chairman was Richard Hurtt of
Forty Fort. John A. Hoch, college
director

of

public

tended welcome

relations,

ex-

absence of
Harvey A. Andruss, college

Dr.
president,

in the

Danville High School won the
annual
business
twenty-second
education contest of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
Saturday, May 8 as students from
forty-one schools competed.
There were 179 students and
teachers registered for the contest
which was one of the finest ever
staged.
The area schools ran away with
team honors. Under a scoring

which low designated tlie
winner, Danville had 19, Berwick
22 and Bloomsburg 23. Parkland in
fourth had 48.
Then came Millersburg,
51;
Kingston and Wellsboro-Charleston Joint, 59 each; Forty Fort, 63;
M. S. Hershey, 69; Trevorton, 83;
Sayre Joint 90; Selinsgrove Joint,
Harter-Plymouth
91; Bangor, 96;
111
and Towanda Valley Joint,
each; Troy, 117; Lewisburg Joint,
Pen Argyl Joint,
119; Scott, 120;
basis in

Tunkhannock,
Canton, 136;
155;
Jenkins-Yatesville Joint,
165;
South Williamsport Joint,
1.34;
1.39;

Snow

Shoe, 194; Wyalusing Valley

195; Clark’s
ton Joint, 205.

Joint,

MOYER

office

machines

and

Modern

office machines and ofequipment attracted the attention of several hundred visitors to
the campus as well as hundreds of
local residents and
businessmen.

fice

Included in the textbook display
were the latest editions and publications in the field of business edu-

by leaders in the
display was education-

cation, written

The

field.

al

and

instructive.

Exhibitors include Friden
Calculating Machine Agency,
Kingston; Underwood Corporation, Wilkes-Barre;
Tamblyn
Company,
Wilkes-Barre; Soundscriber— dictating

and sound equipment

com-

pany,
Kingston;
International
Machines
Corporation,
Business
Scranton; Kurtz Brothers,
Clearfield; Ritter’s Office Supplies and

Equipment Company, Bloomsburg;
Monroe Calculating Company, Inc.
of Wilkes-Barre; Addressograph—
Multigraph Corporation, Scranton;
Miller Office Supply and
Equipment Company, Bloomsburg; Burroughs
Corporation,
Scranton;
Lyone and Company, Wilkes-Barre;

II.

M. Rowe Company,

Balti-

more; American Book Company,
New York; Sonth-Western Publishing Company, Williamsport; Gregg
Publishing Company, New York
and Prenticc-Hall, Inc., New York.

Weaver,
Mr. and Mrs. O. R.
Muncy, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Evelyn .Mae Weaver, student at B.S.

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

Eighteen

textbook companies had displays
of the latest in business office
equipment and supplies at the
business machines show and textbook exhibit, which was held Saturday, May 8 in the Navy Hall
auditorium at the Teachers College. The annual show and exhibit
was one of the features of the
annual High School Business Education Contest weekend.

Summit-Abing-

who was

attending a
convention in Chicago.
A dinner which preceded the
memrally was attended by 110
Berwick
bers of the Bloomsbnrg,
and Gatawlssa Rotary Clubs and
their guests. Charles Henrie, director of the Sales Rally, presided
and the Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay Myers
offered prayer.
Dr. Richard T. Barsons, district
6

COMMERCIAL CONTEST

OFFICE SHOW

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 240

T.C. to Louis John Evanosky, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ijouis J. Evanosky,
Kingston. Miss Weaver is a graduate of Muncy-Muncy Creek High
School. Mr. Evanosky, a graduate
of Pringle High School and a Navy
\eteran, plans to enter college in

September.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FASHION SHOW

H.S.T.C.

liillowing skirts, aided
of crinoline

standing
Friday,

by

layers

made outfashion news on
at the annual show

petticoats,

summer

May

7,

presented at h.S.T.C^’s Carver Hall.
The theme was “Fashions ’Hound
the Clock.”

Only a few slim-skirted models
were shown while the bouffant
style repeated itself in cool cottons

glamorous
and even in the
crisp frocks worn by the toddlers.
Other style notes were the predominant use of pink, the popularafternoon

for

gowns

wear,

for evening

the rose motif, both in materdesign and in decoration and
the introduction of the
hloomert> pe bathing suit.
ity of

ial

New popidar shades are lettuce
green, hiege, burnt orange and a
bright coral. Plaids appear in bathing suits along with small patterned materials,
hlverglaze
cottons
ha\e the appearance of satin in
some of the lovely afternoon dresses.

Hats ran the gamut from
pill
bo.\ to large eye-shading st>les of

Lee Knorr; Linda Haney, daughter
Mr. and Mrs.
Fred
Haney;
.\rdcn Polk, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C'layton Polk, Bloomsburg.
Jeanne Fau.\, daughter of Mr.
and .Mrs. Larue Faux, was the

of

mannecpiin

poised

for

pre-teen

added feature

this year was
worth of
$4,000
jewelry and watches.
Items were
coordinated to the costumes of the
\arions models and lent a sparkling note to the show.

.\n

displa)' of

Phyllis

McLaren, Orlando,

Fla.,

a rose-splashed

print
cotton
frock, was the fashion coordinator
and described the clothing which
in

was modeled. Organ music for tlie
show was provided by Mary Jane
Miller, Williamsport.

College girl models were ShirEveland, Joanne Heisley, Patricia Boyle, Dolores Doyle, Margaret Shultz, 01i\ e Jean Fedrigon,
Sara Jane Hoffman, Relda Rohrbach, Grace Histed, Janet Ference,
Judith Stephens, Barbara Bennett,
Doris Kryzwicki, Joan Christie,
\ irginia Scrimgeour, Alice
Eyer,
Bobbi Roadside, Joan Rieder.
ley

Stealing

tlie

spotlight

were

Kathy and Kay Hummel, tiny twin
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Nevin
Hummel, Bloomsburg, who modeled toddler styles. Other children in
the show were
Mary Elizabeth
Knorr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
June, 1954

cipal

merchants
were
.\rcns, Deisrotlis, Dixie Shop, W.
T. (want, Dorothy Kashner Millinery, Harry Logan, jeweler, J. C.
Penney Co., Ruth Corset and Lingerie

Shop and Snyder’s

Millinery.

designs of time symbols and a
jet-black
backdrop
formed the unicpie stage setting executed by Daniel Kressler.
Mrs.
Charles Beeman was adviser and
Edward Chase was member of the
stage committee.
Charles II. Henrie of the BSTC
facult)- was producer of the annual
•Abstract

show.

man

E\elyn Weaver was chairof

the

store

coordinators

which included Bertie Knouse,
Marian Durico, Ann Ryan, Jean
Naughton, Joanne Hester, Sally
Stallone, Eileen Gerocky, Marlene
Gobster, Mary Faith Fawcett, Judy’
L liner and .Mary Hoffecker.

LARGE FLAG PRESENTED
A large .\merican flag which has
flown o\er the United States Capitol has
been presented to the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Johnson, Catherine Street, Bloomsburg.
The flag, secured through the efforts of
Congressman Alvin R.
Bush, of Muncy, will be used on
holidays to commemorate the great
and continuing debt owed those
who made the supreme sacrifice
in W'^orld War II.
It is an addition
to the Bloomsburg
Beacon, the
beautifully-lighted clock tower of

Carver Hall, dedicated to former

Bloomsburg students who fell in
world war.

battle during the recent

of

the

Clairton,

Pa.,

High

School.
-Mr.

Cooperating

PRINCIPAL

Bruce C. Birch, a native of
Bloomsburg, a graduate of the local High School, and a former
teacher here, has been named pri-

lashions.

horsehair.
the

NAMED

Birch, son

of

Mrs.

T.

11.

and a brother
of Epsy, was

Bircii of .Mifflinburg

Richard

Birch
the Walnut Avenue
School at Clairton.
He has been
in the Clairton school thirty years
and successds Dr. E. F. Stable, who
resigned the principalship.
The Clairton Citizen in its account of the naming of the new
high school head reported:
“Birch, a native of Bloomsburg,
Pa., came to Clairton in 1924 as
head of the social studies department at the high .school. He became principal at Walnut School
in 19'34 and has held this post since

of

principal

of

then.

“He has been treasurer of the
Junior WPIAL for four years and
the Junior High School Principals
-Association

of

Allegheny

County

for three years.

“He served two terms as president of the Clairton Education Asand is also a member of
the Pennsylvania State Education
Association and the National Education Association.
sociation

“He and his wife live at 152 Carnegie Avenue. Their son, Robert,
is a graduate of Carnegie Tech and
is employed at the Union Bag and
Paper Corp. in Savannah, Georgia.
Their daughter, Mary, is a sophomore in music education at Carnegie Tech.”
In a ceremony held recently in

Nescopeck E.U.B. Church,
Miss
Sondra
Gaye DeHaven,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack M.
DeHaven, Nescopeck, became the
bride of Elmer Pursel, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pursel, Almedia. The Rev. Mr. Shaeffer ofthe

ficiated.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

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

’34

The

bride

High School.

attended Nescopeck
Her husband gradu-

ated from Scott Township High
School and attended B.S.T.C. He
served in the U. S. Army. At pres-

he is employed at the Kennedy Van Saun Co., Danville.

ent,

7

1

1954

OBITER

IS

HIGHLIGHTED IN SHOW
The annual Obiter Show was
held in assembly Thursday, February 11, its purpose being to acquaint the student body with the
candidates for the year-book-sponsored Coed of the Year contest.
Directed by

Tom

Rowley, and

written by himself and Alfred
Chiscon, the show was a parody on
four Shakespearean tragedies. The
case of Hamlet which introduced
freshman candidates, Bobbi Roadincluded
side and Sally Stalone,
starring
Arnie Garinger in
the
role, and the dance team of Mary
Hoffecker and Bill Ottaviani. Laertes was played by Tom Higgins.

Joan Christie and Judy Stevens
were introduced in the second
Shakespearean conversion, Mac-

The

beth.

cast of this playlet in-

Francis
cluded Ed Longo, and
Gavio as the two male leads. The

male quartet consisted of Rudy
Bill
Pope,
Holtzman, Charles
Their
Smith.
Phillips and Mai
porfeminine counterparts were
trayed by Marion Duricko, Lorand
O’Brien
raine Deibert, Pat
Bernadine Butz.
The third tragedy, Romeo and
Juliet, brought coeds Hope Horne
and Joanne McCormick to the
stage.
Romeo was portrayed by
Allen Kleinschrodt and Juliet by
Muriel Neilson.

SENIOR BALL

MISS WEIR SPEAKS AT

B.S.T.C. seniors and their guests
enjoyed the annual Senior Ball and
Banquet Thursday evening, May

MEETING ASSOCIATION

Irem Temple Country Club.
Approximately 225 attended.
Music for dancing was provided
by Lee Vincent’s orchestra.
The program included the singing of an original class song by
Dolores Doyle and Mike Crisci and
group singing led by Mike Crisci.
20, at

Charles Andrews acted as toastmaster.
Short talks were presented by President Harvey A. Andruss and Dr. Thomas P. North.
Tables were decorated with red
carnations. Favors were miniature
mortar boards and diplomas with
maroon and gold ribbons.
Guests were President and Mrs.
Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. North, Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Hoch, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, Miss Honora Noyes,
Mrs. Charles Beeman and Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Gehrig.

Robert Evans, son of Mrs. Lewis
Evans, Shamokin, was elected president of the Junior class of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Evans, a varsity basketball
player, is an honor student and
very active in campus activities.
He is a graduate of Coal Township
•

Raymond Edwards, West
will

HUTCHISON, 16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-

Kenneth Weir, son of Mr, and
R. Leon Weir, of Hatboro,
was elected president of the Sophomore class of the Bloomsburg
Alan
College.
State
Teachers
Kleinschrodt, Scranton, was elecMrs.

favorable

comment

was

ional speech

and hearing

fraternity.

Lucy Bert
M.
Bloom.sburg, was solof Mrs.

of Perry to Chester

emnized on .April 15 at the EpiscoChurch of The Epiphany,

pal

Ifittsburgh.

The Very Rev. Kenneth R. Waldren officiated.
Mrs. McCandless, widow of Ross
Erwin McCandless, is a teacher in
Perry Senior High School.
Mr. Hausknecht served for many
years as Business Manager of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

They

will reside in

Bloomsburg.

ted vice president.

Other officers elected include
Barbara Lentz, Williamsport, secretary; Corinne Pentecost, Honestreasurer;

dalc,

the
lone,

representative

to

J.

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131 -M

252

College Council— Sally StalReading, and Edward Shu-

stack,

8

Much

attracted by her talk and by the
work of several of her students,
members of Sigma Alpha Eta, nat-

il.uisknecht,

Bridgeport, is the new treasurer.
the College
Representatives
to
Council will be Joan Christie,
Shenandoah, and Robert Groover,
Watsontown R. D. Faculty advisor will be Dr. Cecil G. Seronsy.

S.

Miss Clara B. Weir, director of
speech and hearing at BSTC, gave
an impressive talk at the session,
which was held in BSTC’s Noetling
Hall.
She spoke of the patience
and understanding that are needed
both at home and in school in aiding the retarded. She told of improvement made to speech through
work on muscular co-ordination.

be the vice president;

eds Olive Jean Fedrigon and Louise Schullery in a version of Julius
Caesar with Alfred Chiscon as
Caesar, and Margaret Ann Duck as
Mrs. Caesar. The concluding role
of Mark Anthony was portrayed

FRANK

ren.

McCandless

fourth farce introduced co-

by Tom Rowley.
Costumes for the show were assembled and created by Jan Ference and Sherrill Hiller.

and children who, within
hearing difference of the retarded,
speak of the “differences” between
retarded and entirely normal child-

adults

Pitts-

Joyce Kline, Orefield, was chosen
Gianguilio,
Pasquale
secretary;

The

morale was stressed. The film also
dealt with the
cruelty
of
both

The marriage

High School.
ton,

Need of retarded children having a place in the community was
stressed in an interesting moving
picture entitled “Search,” during
a recent meeting of the Columbia
county chapter of the Association
for Retarded Children. The wonderful part of the special education program takes in aiding their

Shenandoah.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ELLA KLINE RETIRES
"Hiya, hou!”

Every

student

H.S.T.C.

from

1904 to 1954 has heard tliis cheery
greeting from one of the most wellliked and indispensable persons at
Ella Kline
tlie college on the hill.
is leaving after fifty years of faithful ser\ ice, and witli her will go a
hit

of

“spirit

tlie

that

is

Blooms-

hurg.”

Returning
graduates
always
found Ella as friendly and smiling
as the day they wandered through
Waller or North Hall seeking— and
finding in her— a companion who
was willing to listen to all their
problems. To many students, Ella
was their introduction to Blooinsburg dorm life when they saw her
scurr)ing through empty halls in
September. And what B.S.T.C.
shining face peeking in the door
doim-dweller could forget her
each W’ednesday morning to ask
for the sheets?
To Ella, the high spots of tire
college year ha\e been Homecoming and Commencement, because
on these occasions she welcomed
l)ack her countless friends and recalls with them their experiences

Bloomsburg.
No matter how
hard she must work on extra room
preparations, she looked forward

at

with eager anticipation to tliese occasions each Fall and Spring.
In Ella’s opinion, B.S.T.C. students have changed very little in
her half-century of meeting new
people.
They are all “her children” and she loves to hear from
them at Christmas and on her

birthday— December 23.
Born in 1887 in Rohrsburg, Pa.,

came

Ella Kline

to

“help out” in 1904.
later,

for

Bloomsburg to
She left a year

but returned in 1913 to stay
years.
1918 saw her

several

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

June, 1954

final return to B.S.T.C. and Ella
has been a part of Bloomsburg life
ever since.

Ella admits that when she first
to B.S.T.C. she had no intention of staying fifty years, but

came

came merely

temporarily help
in t!u' liousekeeping department.
She recalls such students as Dr.
Kimber C. Kuster and Mr. Howard
I’enstemaker, and has seen the
terms of six college presidents.
to

The modern fire towers and entrances are among the biggest impro\'cments, in

Ella’s

opinion,

to

She clearly recalls
the inside winding stairways that
were the only means of entering or
tiie

college.

Also, the
new pressrooms and bathrooms are
a
\ast
improvement over the
crowded facilities that existed before their installation. She remembers plainly the dark room beneath the present lounge in which
tlie coeds ironed their clothes in

leaving the dormitories.

by-gone years.
Embroidering and raising African violets are Ella’s chief hobbies,
as evidenced by her window full
of beautiful plants and the numerous delicately embroidered cloths
in her two-room apartment in Waller Hall.

A

special tea honoring her fifty
years of work at B.S.T.C. and the

Waller Hall gifts of an autograph
book and a china wedgwood colare the highlights of
year at Bloomsburg. One
of her most treasured possessions
now is the 1954 edition of the
OBITER, which was also presented to her at the courtyard tea
held on Monday, May 17, 1954.
lege

plate

Ella’s last

Ella has never begrudged a moment of her time on the campus
for her life at B.S.T.C. has been
more fun than work. Her greatest
wish is that all ‘Tier children” realize how much she appreciates the
kindness and love everyone has
Algi\en her in her life here.
though she will be lonesome upon
first leaving Bloomsburg, the very
best way to show appreciation for

half-century of outstanding
service would be to remember Ella
with a Christmas or birthday card
sent to her address— Orangeville R.
D. 1, Pennsylvania.

her

PRESENTED PLAY
On Tuesday

evening, April 16,

Car\er Hall Auditorium was the
scene of one of B.S.T.C.’s most untorgettable and enjoyable entertainments of the college year.
To a large and highly appreciative audience, the cast of “Blithe
Spirit” presented an entertaining
and memorable version of Noel
C.’oward’s hit play.

Superb acting on the part of
William Ottaviani as Charles Condomine, Joan Curilla as his second
wife Ruth, Avery Williams as his
lirst wife Elvira, Jean Robison as
Madame Arcati, Joanne Graeber as

maid Edith, and James Luehs
and \Vylla Bowman as Dr. and
Mrs. Bradman made the play one
of the most successful ever.
Mr. Boyd Buckingham, B.S.T.C.
speech faculty member, directed
tnis improbable farce, with Dick
the

W’illiams

assisting

as student

di-

Manager

Gerald
Houseknecht and prompters Glenna Cebhard and Donna Wilcox
aided in the smoothness and efficiency back stage.
Stage

rector.

Top honors

of the men’s senior

class at the University of Pennsyl-

vania went to four seniors— with
one principal award conferred
posthumously on Eugene A. Rygiel, son of Prof, and Mrs. Walter
Rygiel, Bloomsburg, whose death
occurred in January.
This was the Class of 1946 award
religious,

for

and

The

class

book

also

to Rygiel,

athletic

scholastic,

curricular

extra

leadership.

dedicated

who was

year

its

editor-in-

chief.

The awards were made

as

male

undergradates held their traditional

hey day exercises

at the univer-

sity.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb,

’42

9

MORE IMPROVEMENTS
PLANNED
Another step in the modernizaprogram of the Administrative
Offices’ area of the Teachers Colof

is

the painting of the exterior

Carver Hall.

The main

part of this building
the oldest structure on the campus (erected in 1867), and additions have been made over a period
of almost ninety years.
There are
four different colors of brick, the
original building being constructed
of brick burned from Bloomsburg
is

and manufactured locally.
Smith, Lippi and Jones, architects from Wilkes-Barre, have been
appointed by the Department of
Property and Supplies to draw
plans for a contract which will proshale,

vide for a new entrance to Carver
Hall, the completion of the Waller
Hall project, and the modernization of the first floor of Waller
Hall, running along the entire first
floor corridor.

The

total cost of

SCORES OF SENIORS

1954

Two new opponents— Kings

tioi

lege

FOOTBALL -

all

these pro-

along with the recent refurnishing of the Administrative Offices in Carver Hall, is expected to
cost approximately $100,000.
jects,

Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Gilbert,
R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Katherine, to Russel C. Davis, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Russel C.
Davis, Luzerne.
An August wedding is planned. Miss Gilbert attended B.S.T.C. and is now a
senior student at Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia.
Mr. Davis, a
graduate of B.S.T.C., is now a
member of the faculty at Jamesburg High School in New Jersey.

Col-

and Cortland, N. Y., State
Teachers College— appear on the
1954 football schedule of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, according to information released by
John A. Hoch, director of athletics.
Kings College Monarchs will face

lege

the Huskies for the first time since

were discontinued in
1949 in a night game at WilkesBarre, while the Cortland Red
Dragons, annually the best tutor
eleven in the Empire State, will
play here on Saturday, October
relations

Trenton State Teachers College
and the University of Scranton
Royals will not be met in 1954 and
1955.

The Huskies
rivals

in

Teachers

will again play four

Pennsylvania State
College Conference —

the

Mansfield, Lock Haven, California
and West Chester— and in non-conference ranks they will tangle with
the Wilkes College Colonels and
powerful New Haven, Conn., State
Teachers College.
The complete schedule follows:
Mansfield, October 2; Cortland,
N. Y., October 9; Wilkes College,

Homecoming,

October
at
16;
Kings, Wilkes-Barre, October 23;
New Haven, Conn., October 30; at

November 6; at West
November 12, and at Lock
Haven, November 20.

LEATHER GOODS

— REPAIRS

M. C. Strausser, ’27, Propr.
122 Bast Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

The

F.T.A. played host on SatMay 1, to high school seniors at the annual Visitation Day
which was held on the campus of
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. The invitations were sent
to all high school seniors who expressed an interest in attending
this college through
the recruit-

ment program conducted by Mr.
John A. Hoch.
Invitations were
also sent to those prospective stu-

dents who have corresponded with
Dr. North.

The

program was conducted
morning and afterIt began with registration

through the

noon.
at nine o’clock.
Following registration there was a general meeting, variety

show, luncheon in

tlie

dining room, and track meet. One
of the most interesting events sche-

duled was a film on campus life.
All visitors were taken on a complete guided tour of the buildings,
dormitories,
interest

and

all

other points of

on the campus. The F.T.A.

members acted

as guides for these

tours.

The marriage

of Miss

Mary Mar-

garet Scheno, daughter
of
Mrs.
.Madeline Pasco, Berwick, and the
late Peter Scheno, to Albert Belin-

California,

sky, son of Mrs.

Chester,

Berwick, was solemnized at ten
o’clock Saturday morning, February 27, at St.
Catholic
Joseph’s
Church, Berwick. The double-

In a recent ceremony in Zion Lutheran Church, Turbotville, Miss
Shirley Irene McCormick, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCormick, Danville R. D. 3, became the
bride of Terrence E. Anspach, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Anspach,
Turbotville R. D.
The ceremony took place just
one day before tlie bridegroom left

The

bride,

who

is

ring

Martha Belinsky,

ceremony was performed by
Rev.

the

Francis

Mongelluzzi.

White flowers were used in the
altar vases.
After a wedding trip,
Mr. and Mrs. Belinsky will reside
the

home
The

of the bridegroom’s
bride is employed at
the Bloomsburg court house and
the bridegroom is a junior at B. S.
T. C.
at

mother.

a graduate of

North-Mont High School

at Turbotville in 1952, will continue to reside with her parents.
She is em-

ployed by the Weldon
turing Co.,

Manufac-

Muncy.

husband, a graduate of the
same .school in 1950, was graduated
in
1953 from Bloom.sburg State
Teachers College.
I

lU

CAMPUS

urday,

ninth.

for military service.

THE WOLF SHOP

VISIT B.S.T.C.

ler

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, '44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, '46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

THE AI.UMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

A. Wilkes-Barre Area

’46

Benton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Elfed Vid Jones

Lois I^avvson.

‘33

PRESIDENT
Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock, PA.

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

’41

D. Sharretts,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

RECORDING SECRETARY

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Betty Hensley

’52

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

42 Slocum, Ave.,

’14

Tunkhannock, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA
Miss

Mary

A. Meehan, ’18
St.,

Harold

George

St.,

Harrisburg, Pa.

Baum,

St.,

147 East Chestnut

TREASURER

WASHINGTON,

St.,

D.

C.,

AREA

PRESIDENT

Hazleton, Pa.

Walter Lewis, ’42
1736 “G” St., N. W., Washington, D.

C.

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER

Pauline L. Douden, ’92
St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

1840 Biltmore

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

Mrs. Lucille
127

’14

’27

Miss Elizabeth Prober t, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg. Pa.

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

Miss Pearl L. Baer ’32
South Union St., Harrisburg. Pa.

Olwen Argust

New

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

’07

SECRETARY
21

J.

40 South Pine

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart,

Mrs.

PRESIDENT

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’ll

TREASURER

Area

B. Hazleton

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

2921

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

PRESIDENT
2632 Lexington

SECRETARY

TREASURER

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

Virginia L. Rosser, ’30
Washington, D. C.

MONTOUR COUNTY
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

David W. Foust,

Miss Eva Morgan, ’22
2217 North Main Ave., Scranton, Pa.

R. D.

RECORDING SECRETARY
’35

Mrs. Catherine Oplinger Reiminger,
1728 N. Rhodes St., Apt. 278,
Arlington, 'Va.

Danville, Pa.

2,

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, ’31
427 Washington Ave._ Jermyn, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,
312 Church

St.,

’05

Miss Susan Sidler,
615

Bloom

St.,

WEST BRANCH AREA

’30

Danville, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Harold Danowsky
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

NEW YORK AREA

732 Washington

’49

Camden, N.

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

’35

SECRETARY-TREASURER
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.
June, 1954

St.,

Mrs.
R. D.

’06

Lewisburg, Pa.

SECRETARY
’18

SECRETARY-TREASURER
J.

3,

J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Michael Prokopchak,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lyim Danowsky

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish,

PRESIDENT
Richard C. Stout,

’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.
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Davenport,

Alvirda

Class Reunions
Class reunions, as always, stole
the show at the College Alumni

Day

festivities.

The ideal weatlier “flooded” the
campus with graduates and friends
for what Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the Alumni Association,
and Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, declared one
the finest

of

and

Day programs

Two
Annie
Jones,

largest

Alumni

in history.

of tlie class of 1888, Mrs.

Nuss and Mrs. John T.
were present. Mrs. J. S.

S.

John represented the

class of 1895.

Class of 1894
Oldest class in reunion was the
class of 1894 with four back for a
delightful day. They were Willets
K. Beagle, Williamsport; Minnie

Buck, Bloomsburg; Mary
Frymire Kirk, Watsontown, and
Lula Appleman Brunstetter, Wil-

Hehl

liamsport.

Class of 1899

The

class of

1899 had an excep-

Emma

Roberts Saverance, Los AnCalif.; Edna
Welliver Fortner,
Bloomsburg; B. F. Burns, Northumberland; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pace, Forty

ton;
geles,

Fort.

Mrs. Griselda Davis Jacobus, WilkesBarre, Pa.
Mrs. Bessie Derr Sked,
N.

reunion of the class
of 1904 was attended by the followfiftieth

ing:

Matilda Black,

Williamsport, retired

Pennington,

J.

Mrs. Nellie Fetherolf Lesher, Lewisburg, Pa.
Mrs. Minnie Fineran McDonough,
Carbondale, Pa.
Mrs. Bessie Goodale Thielman,, Tenafly, N. J.
Mrs. Emma Hinkley Saylor, Tamaqua,
Pa.
Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock McMurry, Atlantic City, N. J.

Mrs. Irene Ikeler Sloan, Muncy, Pa.
Kliminiski, Mt. Carmel, Pa.,
retired after 47 years of teaching.
Mrs. Leona Kester Lawton, Millville,

Emma

Pa.

Aaron Killmer, President of Class,
Stouchsburg, Pa.
James Malone, Shenandoah and Atlantic City.

Mrs. Mabel Mertz Dixon, Belle Mead,
N. J.
Mrs. Mary Robbins Bower, Berwick,
Pa.
Margaret Seely, Berwick R. D., Pa.
Mrs. Elizabeth Specht Martin, Hazleton, Pa.
Robert Eugene Stead, Plymouth, Pa.
Harry G. Trathen, retired postal employee, Ashland, Pa.
Dr. A. K. Aldinger, Milwaukee, Wis.
Herbert E. Rawlinson, California

The
in

and guests assembled
the lobby and enjoyed visiting
class

together until we entered the dining room, to be served a delicious
turkey dinner, given by the Alumni
Dr. Nelson, Alumni
Association.
president, introduced every one
present, including those of older
Afclasses, who were also guests.
ter the banquet we retired to the
faculty room. Aaron Kilmer, 1904
jiresident, conducted tlie meeting.

We

sang “We’re here for fun” and

“So say
Class of 1904

The

Pa.,

ing.

tionally fine turnout.

Members registering were Carrie
Flick Redline, John C. Redline, R. D.
5, Sarasota, Fla.; Lillian Hidlay Scott,
Bloomsburg; Cunia Hollopatar Persing,
Morris,
Philadelphia;
Gertrude
E.
Scranton; Rush Shaffer, Danville; Gertrude Rinker, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene K. Richard, Elysburg; Bessie Creveling, Bloomsburg; L. H. Dennis, Chevy Chase, Md.; Eloise E. Hicks,
Espy; Mae Hankee Brandon, West Pitts-

Plymouth,

retired after forty-eight years of teach-

we

all

which
with each one

of us,” after

he called the roll
responding with greetings.

Busi-

ness followed.

The class voted to give college
permission to move the fountain to

teacher.

campus

Mrs. Jessie Boyer Howell, wife of
Dr. G. L. Howell, deceased, also of 1904,
Trucksvillc, Pa.
Pearl E. Brandon, Pottsville, retired

Some were very much opposed to its removal. The class sentiment was that money could do

teacher.
Mrs. Lillian Buckalew Rider, wife of
Harry E. Rider, deceased, also of 1904.
Sara E. Buddinger, Mt. Carmel, retired teacher.
Thomas Carl, Trucksville, Pa., retired teacher.
Irvin Cogsweil, Montrose, Pa.
Harold C. Cryder, Dentist, Strouds-

more good

burg, Pa.

12

at

their

expense

if

tliey

wished.

if put into scholarship
A collection amounting to
fund.
$210.00 was received. It was presented to Dr. Nelson Saturday
morning in the auditorium by Harry Trathen, to be added to the

able to attend.

President Kilmer
gave an invitation to members to
contribute to program.
Harry Tratlien, poet and lover
of poetry, read some beautiful
poems. Herbert Rawlinson entertained with a series of jokes and
told

of his

life

since graduation.

Harold Cryder recited a humorous
lioem.

Saturday morning we assembled
tlie platform in the auditorium.
President Kilmer spoke in behalf
of the class.
He gave the highlights of our class activities 50 years
ago, praising our teachers and recognizing Dr. Sutliff, our only living teacher. He asked Dr. Aldinger how he already had doctor before his name when he graduated
in 1904. Dr. Aldinger gave events
leading up to that time.

on

After luncheon ui dinhig room,
again went to the faculty room
for more reminiscing.
As President Kilmer had to leave he turned the meeting over to Harry Trathen.
spent time trying to get
names and addresses corrected of

we

We

living

members, and complete

list

of deceased.

In closing Mr. Tratlien had us
form a friendship circle and each
repeated “God be witli you until
we meet again” followed by prayer by Mr. Tratlien. We wore white
cards with ’04 in red.
We were
easily identified.

from Theresa
St.

We

had

Hammond

Petersburg, Fla.;

letters

Dinnen,

Anna Goyit-

uey Canfield, Albuquerque, N. M.;
Henrietta Hinkel Howell, Hanover,
Pa.

We

were given miniature copies
the teaching certificate wliich
was issued in those days. Our
guests were Mrs. Trathen, Mrs.
Cogswell, Mr. Thielman, Mr. Saylor and daughter Elizabeth, Mr.
Lawton, two sisters of Mrs. Howell,
Mabel Mertz Dixon’s sister, Mr. J.
R. Bower and Mrs. Rawlinson.

of

HIE
CIIAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch, T5, Propr.

Orangeville R. D.

2,

Penna.

It is hoped tlie
scholarship fund.
sum may be increased by tliose not

THE ALITMNI QUARTERLY

FIFTIETH YEAR REUNION, CLASS

Class of 1909

Another of the classes with an
exceptionally busy and enjoyed

program was that of 1909. The
forty-five year class had an excellent turnout and opened festivities
with a dinner at the
copal parish house.

St.

George A. Shuman, Mary E. Shuman, Kingston; Anna Kuschke, Scranton: Elizabeth Fagan, Hazleton; Norah
D. Carr, West Hazleton.

Mary

E.

Brown, Wilkes-Barre, and
Catawissa, were

P. L. Brunstetter,

appointed co-chairmen to lay plans

111.;

Paul’s Epis-

Wright,
Creasy
Attending:
Ethel
Lavino,
Bloomsburg:
Nora
Clancy
Washington D. C.; Emma Eaton Perrego,
Dallas: Florence
Priest Cook, Lake
Ariel R. D. 2; Geraldine Hess Follmer,
Benton R. D. 2; Harriet Kass Poland,
Verna Keller Beyer, Danville; Harold
L. Moyer, Bloomsburg; Irma Heller Abbott, Espy; H. R. Barrow, Dayton, Ohio;
J. E. Klingerman, Bloomsburg R. D. 3;
D. J. Mahoney, Wilkes-Barre; Fred W.
Hobbes
Diehl,
Danville;
Gertrude
Major
Pooley,
Kathleen
Kingston;
Brown, Lehman.
Bess Hinckley, Danville; Jessie FleckJune, 1934

enstine Herring, Bertha Welsh Conner,
Orangeville; Mary Hughes, Lake Carbondale; Nora Woodring Kenney, Philadelphia; Martha H. Black, Waukegan,

OF 1904

Class of 1914

The

Class of 1914, back for

its

40th year reunion, met in the Men’s
Lounge, Noetling Hall, at 2:00 P.
M., following the morning meeting
in the auditorium and luncheon in
the College dining hall.
The time was spent largely in
reminiscing of “Normal” days and
the events of the intervening 40
t

ears.

over

many

The

class list

was checked

correct addresses in as
Mrs.
instances as possible.

to

for the 4.5th year reunion to

be held

in 19.59.

The reunion group decided to
make a contribution to the Alumni
Fund,

the

collection

would be made

at the

of
which
group din-

ner.

The meeting adjourned and

at

5:00 P. M. met in the College dining room for a class dinner where
a very excellent meal was served.
The time was spent in group singing and further reminiscing. A
group picture was taken. The contribution to the Alumni Fund was
$27.00.

This

amount

was

later
13

turned over to Dr. E. H. Nelson.

Those participating

the class

in

dinner were:

Law-

Adah Weyhenmeyer, Mary

Ash-

L.

Christine Martin Krushi, Edith
Jamison Zarr, Osborne C. Dodson, K.
Merle Erdman, K. L. Cain, Sara Elliott
Cain, Catharine Glass Koehler, Elsie
Morgan Swank, Bertelle Laubach La-

mont.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Gorham, Catherine
H. Bone, Mrs. Bess Winter aMddy, StelDreisback.
la Buckley, Mary Strange
Marguerite Tonrey Ruane, Mrs. H. V.

Salome Hill
Long, Mary Emanuel Brown, P. L.
Brunstetter, Mrs. Martha Mras KabesH.

Hartley,

V.

Hartley,

chat.

Class of 1919
Starting with a dinner on Friday

evening

the Elks, the class of

at

1919 kept going until well into Saturday night for an outstanding reunion weekend. Members of the
thirty-five year class attending:
M. Helen Hill Davis, Berwick; Falla

Shuman, Catawissa; Catharine
Fagley Wilkinson, Mt. Carmel; Mollie
Jeremiah Payne; Claire Hedden, Ardmore; Mildred Stover, Scranton; Mary
Hancock Boyer, Reading; Anna M. Conboy, Scranton; Grace K. Miller, Spring
City;
Mary Blecher Barklow, DanLinville

ville

R

.D.

4;

Agnes

Shuman

Eves,

Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Claire Dice, Camden, N. J.; Margaret J. Dyer, Scranton;
Helen Egge Kunkel, Lewisburg; Laura
Breisch
Rentschler,
Ringtown; Dari
Ikeler Myers, Benton; Margaret Summers Brock, Rosenhayn, N. J.; Frances
E. Kinner, Great Bend, Pa.; Wesley E.
Davies, Trucksville R. D.

Shuman,

home

available to the

class.

Dean Emeritus William Boyd

Ethel Ravert Keck, Leah Bogart
ton,
ton,

floor of the

Bloomsburg;

1;

Patterson

Marguerite

Sutliff,

lone survivor of the College

“Old Guard,” was the guest of honor at the luncheon and the class
contributed $128.50 to the Alumni
Scholarship Fund as a testimonial
to this outstanding educator.
His
brief talk was one of the highlights
of the program.

At the Friday evening program
Marion T. Adams was the capable
song leader and master of ceremonies with the pianist Mrs. David L .Cooke, Detroit, a guest of
the class.
The attendance for the
I'riday night function was by far
the best in the history of the class.

There were more than 125 who
participated in various features of
the reunion.
Many states were
represented, with two members of
the class, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Schwall,
coming from Detroit,

Mich.

Schwall

made

the response

for the 124 in the general meeting.

Frank (Ace) Buss of WilkesBarre was the master of ceremonies
for the luncheon and did a splendid job. The class stood in tribute
to the memory of thirty-three classmates who have died. Favors at
the dinner were roses provided by
Dorothy John Dillon of the class
and her husband, Harold P. Dillon.

The
tions

class

a

included in

funcgeneral

its

parade into the

Easton; Esther Reichart
Schaffer,
Hazleton;
Pauline Mauser
Martin, Danville R. D. 4; Mary Diemer

meeting of the association. Gordon
Laubach of Fullerton was the mar-

Myers, Bloomsburg; Helen C. Hill, Hazleton; Hurley Ottis Patterson, Easton
R. D. 1; Alma L. Bachman, Wilkes-

shal.
Ten high .school musicians
provided the music and tlie entire
class provided plenty of merriment.

Ziendt

Itter,

Barre.

Margaret T. Reynolds, Wilkes-Barre;
Helen Meixell Brown, Marion Brennar
Bredbenner, Berwick; Lillian Fisher
Long, Wayne, Pa.; Mabel G. Decker,
Mehoopany R. D. 1; Margaret Sutton
Snyder,

Wyoming

R. D.

1.

Class of 1924

The class of 1924 had the busiest
program and the largest turnout of
any of the cla.sses in reunion. There
were seventy-one at the smorgasbord on Friday evening and ninetyseven at the reunion luncheon Saturday noon.
Bloomsburg Lodge of Moose

made
14

the facilities of the second

Members and
one or

all

guests

attending

of the functions includ-

ed:
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hess, WinMax E. Long, Chester; H. R. Miller, Bloomsburg; Eleanor Derr Gilbert,
Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Mrs. Mary E. Lauver and daughter, Philadelphia; Ruth
Jenkins Harris, Sam Harris, WilkesBarre; Helen Leutholt Noakes, Lawrence Noakes, Taylor; Charlotte Ferguson Ford, Hatboro; Mary Joseph
Evans, her husband, Arthur, and daughter,
Wilkes-Barre; Frances Williams,
Williams, George P. Williams, Kingston; Isabelle Ferguson Lettinger, Huntington Valley.
Laura Kahler Wendel, Forty Fort;
Helen Gensemer Kennedy, Kingston;
Mildred Fornwald Amey, Sunbury; Milfield;

dred Andres Beagle, Danville; Mary
Amesbury, Wilkes-Barre; Ruth Morris
Miles, Luzerne; Gordon Laubach, Fullerton.

Anna Bertelle Yeager Richards, Berwick; Margaret Keefer Brumbach, Bangor;
Catherine
Creasy
Huttenstine,
Consuelo
Fenstermaker
Berwick; Eva Watters, Mifflinville; Dorothy John Dillon, Harold P.
Dillon, Bloomsburg; Helen Zydanowicz
Schwall, Joseph J. Schwall, Detroit,
Mich.; Editha Ent Adams, Marion T.
Adams, Bloomsburg; Tina Gable Jacobs,
Robert Jacobs, Kutztown.
Frances Carr Blizard, Charles A.
Blizard, Dallas R. D. 1, son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Layaon;
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lerda and daughter,
Cranford, N. J.; Ruth Reynolds
Stevenson, Factoryville; Alice Williams
Keller and daughter, Bloomsburg; Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph P. Siesko, Nanticoke;
Katherine King Roat, Kingston; Mary
Ruth Eisenhower Brown, Kingston;
Alice Mulhern Davis and daughter,
Philadelphia; Anne Nordstorm, WilkesBarre; Leona E. Mailey, Kingston; Gertrude M. Roberts, Nanticoke; Edna Williams Williams, Ebenezer D. Williams,
Kingston; Mary R. Crumb and sister.
Washington, D. C.; Dora Wilson Risley,
Mifflinville;

Noz,

Vaughn

Woodbury, N. J.
McDermott Meagher, husband, L. T. Meagher and their daughter, Rahway, N. J.; Agnes M. Fahey,
Pittston Mary Riley, Wilkes-Barre; ViJ.

Risley,

Dorothy

Kline Bruch, husband Homer G.
and daughter, Catawissa R. D. 3; Maud
Mensch Ridall, Berwick; Miriam R.
Lawson, Bloomsburg; Bessie Singer
Shaffer, Williamsport; Kathryn Schuyola

Dari D. Blose,
Frances Hahn Blose, Bethlehem; Anna
Singleman Barnes, West Pittston; Lydia
Pollock Mahoney, Wyoming; Jeanne
ler Gaston, WilliamspKjrt;

Fox Daveler, Catawissa.
Cathran J. Fear, West

Pittston;

Mar-

garet S. Berlew, Kingston; Adda Lizdas
Salsburg, Plymouth; Eva Thomas McGuire, Vincent McGuire, Trucksville;
Laura Hile Eberhard, William Q. Eberhard, Mays Landing, N. J.

Peter

J.

Sincavage,

Sugar

Notch;

James W. Reynolds,; Ashley Kathryn
Dechant, Renovo; Sarah Jones Jones,
Old Forge; Margaret Evans Lewis, Carbondale; Ruth Shelbert Osborn, Ross
Osborn, Springfield; Helen E. Barrow,
Sunbury; Marion Andrews Laise, Long
Island, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Edward
F.
Schuyler, Bloomsburg; Frank L.
Buss, Wilkes-Barre; F. H. Shaughnessy,
Tunkhannock.
Dr. Ralph Herre, faculty host; Dean
William B. Sutliff; Elizabeth A. Corrigan, Hazleton; Mildred Gallagher Verchusky and daughter, Freeland; Margaret Hart Mingos, H. E. Mingos, two
guests, Towanda;
Leona Hart Bees,
Wilkes-Barre; Grace Ellis; Clara Vanderslice Thomas, Bloomsburg R. D. 5;
Pearl Radel Bickel, L. A. Bickel, Edith
Behr, Shuman, Lopez; Clyde Cotner,
Williamsport; Berdella Paul Honeywell,
Plymouth.
E.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

fer Rarick, Rington; Alice

Class of 1929

ser.

The

Factoryville

R.

D.

Veety Smal1;

Elizabeth

one of
the finest turnouts of the day, had
a splendid time and highlighted
the weekend with a luncheon Saturday noon at the Klks. They had
around a hundred present. Attend-

featured its delitflitfid weekend with a luncheon
at tlie Elks attended by more than

ing:

eighty.

Stephan Dombroski Zimolzak, Glen
Lyon; Lenore W. Kocher, Wilkes-Barre:

dean at Lebanon \htlley College
and president of the cla.ss, presided.
Dinner music was by H. F.
Fenstemaker.
He and Dr. fl. A.

class

of

1929, with

Kathryn Bingaman Reese, Philadelphia;
Anna Jones Todd, Plymouth; Grace E.
Shade Young, Nescopeck; Mary L.
Becker, Scranton: Antoinette Carman
Decker, Philadelphia; Sara Ermish AdBerwick;
Elizabeth
Laubach
ams,
Schechterly, Berwick; Doris Johnson,
Ethel Moore, Berwick; Kathryn Wilson,
£k;ranton:
Marian
Hoegg, Hazleton;
Myrtle Hoegg Hayes. Weatherly; Lucile
Beier, Hazleton; Mary Carr Rozelle,
Peckville; Mary Hays Harry, Nescopeck;
Thelma Bommer, Drums R. D. 1; Elsie
Lebo Stauffer, Kingston; Arline Frantz
Covert. Dallas; Betty Miller Morrall,
Riverside: Elizabeth R. Halupka Charnetski, Dushore; Elizabeth Blackburn
Richards, Nanticoke.

Mary Mattavi Long. Freeland; Mary
garet

Plymouth; Stella
Gap; Mar-

Dula,

Claire

McAndrews

O'Neill, Locust

Poploski Federo, Wilkes-Barre; Alberta
Williams Green, Liverpoll, N. Y.; Evelyn Avery, Williamsport; Dorothy L.
Schmidt, Hokusei Gakuen, Sappora, Japan.

Scranton; Anna
Strong; Mary M. Kerstetter,
Sliamokin; Margaret Ajistett Heltzel.
Agnes Burns Wilson, Kingston; Lenora
Austin Reese, Forty Fort; Wilbur G.

Cavanaugh,

Claire
Hollister

f ischer,

Glen

Lyon;

Florence

Drum-

mond

Wolfe, Painted Post, N. Y.; Charles E. Poole, Chalfont.

Dawe Welker, Asher WelkBloomsburg; Ruth Rarig Bruch,
Montoursville; Mildred Matthews Parr,
Bloomsburg R. D. 3; Alda Cotner Arner,
Washingtonville; Erma Gold Shearer,
Ambler; Cora Rabuck Smith, Pemberton, N. J.; Ida Hensley Wallace, Don
Wallace, Wilkes-Barre; Peg Bower Bacon, Frank Bacon, Syracuse, N. Y.
Doris Jones
Blaum, Philadelphia;
Florence Jones Swallow, DuBois; Alburta Andre Wootton, Montrose; Lila
Barber Thomas, Waverly; Erma M. Hefferan, Montrose; Isabel Chelosky Tester,
Wilkes-Barre; Jean Bittenbender
Sitler, Nescopeck; Eleanor Zydanowicz
Virginia

er,

Cooke, Detroit, Mich.
Lucille Martz DeVoe, Edward T. DeVoe, Bloomsburg; Hortense Evans Hagenbuch, Berwick; Ida Gitlovitz Platsky,
Wilkes-Barre; Anna Troutman, Selinsgrove; Caroline E. Petrullo, Northumberland; Lena Serafine Catell, Wyoming; Marian E. Young. Trucksville; Ruth
Titman Deitrick, Bloomsburg; Esther
Harter Bittner, Slatington; Claire Brandon, Annapolis, Md.; Laura Benfield,

Bethlehem; Roy
A. Leslie
B. Evans,
June, 1954

J.

The

Pittston;

Vera Stauf-

cla.ss ol 19.'34

Howard M.

Kreitzer,

now

president of the college,

.-\ndruss,

were the class advisers and both
spoke during the luncheon.
Attending:

Thelma

Knauss. Reading; Nora B.
Northumberland: Mrs. Edward Graham, Bloomsburg; M. A. Engle. Nuremburg: Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Fisher. Northumberland; Mary Humphrey, Mt. Carmel; Mary T. Persing,
Matawan. N. J.; James A. Boylan, Locust Dale; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cobleigh. Binghamton, N. Y.; Mr .and Mrs.
Alfred Adey, Hazleton; Mr. and Mrs.
F. A. Schenk. Noxen; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dymond. Pittston; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Richards, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. Arden H. Blain, Woodbine; Frank

Markunas.

enjoyed day on the hill. Attending:
Letha
Hummel, Sara E. Tubbs,
Bloomsburg; Ruth Dugan Smeal, Danville R. D. 4; Miriam Utt Frank, York;
Alex

Cla.ss of 19.34

L.
.

Chudzinki, Utica, N. Y.
P. Plowright, Scranton; Rachel
B. Malick. Sunbury; Blanche K. Millington. Millville; Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Flesher, Nescopeck; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Reifsnyder,
Reading; Margaret B.
Cooper, Turbotville; Sarah E. Mack,
Pottsgrove; Woodrow W. Aten, Bloomsburg: Lawrence Evangelista, Mr. and
Mrs. Rocco Turse, Hazleton; Gladys Davis, Washington, D. C.; Helen Sutliff,
Harrisburg; Sarah Lentz Eynon, Clarks
Summit; Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Elder,
Williamsport; Mr. and Mrs. John Troy,
Scranton.
Esther Dagnell, Sprin City; Esther E.
McFadden. Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Van Sickle, Catawissa; Mr. and
Mrs. Howard M. Kreitzer, Annville; Alfred H. Miller, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. John Krepich, Middletown, N. Y.;
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCracken, Riverside; Mr. and Mrs. Mac I. Johnson,
Light Street; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Laubach, Elysburg;
Alice K. Bowman,
Grace Foote
Conner,
Bloomsburg;
Blanche Garrison, Berwick; Mr. and
Mrs. J. Wesley Knorr, Bloomsburg.
Kathryn W.
Waltz,
Watsontown;
James A .Gennaria, Wilmington, Del.;
Paul Mundrick, Bradley Beach, N. J.;
Mildred Quick, Verona, N. J.; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Bingenheimer, Atlantic City,
N. J.; Florence A. Hartline, Bloomsburg;
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fenstemaker and
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss.

J.

McKechnie,

Jr.,

Camp

Hill;

Ro-

bert J. Reimard, Espy; Ruth Huffman
Ensinger, York;
Mary Boyle Curry,
Wantagh, N. Y.; Margaret Deppen,

Trevorton; Martha Wright Moe, Silver Spring, Md.; Edith M. Eade, Nesquehoning.

Class of 1944
.\inoiig those

from 1944 back for

the day were:
Nelena Pope Swank, Danville; Hazel
Enama, Hazel E. Carter, Allentown; Mr.
and Mrs. Salvatore Mazzeo, Easton:
Marjorie Sharretts Grant, Baltimore,
Md.; Sara Edwards Dockey, Berwick:
Samuel Trapani. Easton; Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Thomas, Susan and Jane Thomas, Hamburg.

Class of 1949

Among

those back for 1949 were:
Frank Radice, Bloomsburg; William
Selden. Berwick; Wilmer F. Nester, Pen
Argyl; John J. O’Donnell, Coaldale;
Sara Graham, Bloomsburg; Richard E.
Grimes, Harrisburg; Barbara McNinch
Hummel, Bloomsburg; Jean Hooper Killian, Berwick R. D. 1.

J.

Jean

Support

The

Alumni

Class of 1939

The

Haring, Nescopeck;

Zimmerman, Berwick; Jane
West

Archibald John, Scranton.

a

fifteen year class, 1939, held
dinner on Saturday evening at

the Legion following a busy

and
15

Members
A.

Stanley

Box

Aagaard,

106,

Main

Albertson,

E.

Street,

Street, Berwick.

Dewart.

John

Frank S. Gurzynski, 57 Italy
Mocanaqua.
Anthony W. Hantjis, 204 E. Third

Street,

Raubsville.

Myra

of the Class of

A

.Anderson, 200

Hand

Street,

Margaret R. Haupt, Goodyear Terrace, Austin.

Jessup.

Eleanor B. Balent, 113 McLean
Street, Dupont.
Gloria E. Benner, 38 Main Street,

Helen W. Hayhurst, 118 Fairmount
Avenue, Sunbury.
Joanne K. Heisley, 35 E. Main
Street, Bloomsburg.
Thelma A. Hendershot, 278 Char-

Lititz.

les Street,

Charles

more

R.

Street,

Edgar

Andrews, 299
West Pittston.

F. Berry, 258

Montoursville.
Anna K. Bittner,
nue, Milroy.

Balti-

Broad

Street,

Luzerne.

Patricia A. Hess, R. D.

Orange-

2,

ville.

Woodlawn Ave-

Marion E. Bogardus, 203 W. Third
Bloomsburg.
Barbara Bucher, 303 Pine Street,

Carl K. Hinger, 330 Winters Street,

West Hazleton.
Sara J. Hoffman, 611 West Main

1954
Moyer, Millerstown.
Neugard, Hegins.
Jean
Newhart, Tannersville.
Margaret L. Noll, 220 Center
Arlene

Mae

E.

P.
E.

Street, Milton.
William E. Nunn, 454
Street, Wyoming.

West Eighth

Patricia A. O’Loughlin,

1314 But-

ler Street, Easton.
Joseph E. Ondrula,

315 ChestnuS
Johnstown.
Robert C. Oney, W. Center Street,
Shavertown.
Phyllis E. Paige, Park Manor, Watsontown.
William Ottaviani, Main Street,
Street,

Mildred.

Marie A. Parrish, 543 Northampton Street, Kingston.
Russell H. Rhodes, R. D. 3, Cata-

William L. Carson, 246 W. Third
Carmel.
John R. Cherrington, 416 Center
Street, Bloomsburg.
J. Alfred Chiscon, 45 N. Goodwin
Avenue, Kingston.
Delcey S. Collins, Route 1, Sun-

Street, Annville.
Gerald E. Houseknecht, 435 West
First Street, Bloomsburg.
William J. Jacobs, 19 Harding
Street, Manchester.
John C. Johnson, 430 E. Main
Street, Plymouth.
Thomas J. Johnson, 17 W. Hollenback Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Blandford B. Jones, Baber Street,

bury.

Pottsville.

ampton

Street,

Catawissa.
Street, Mt.

Joseph F. Colone,
Street, Berwick.
Michael R. Crisci,
Street,

West

712

LaSalle

608

Jenkins

Street, Milton.

Pittston.

Antoinette M. Czerwinski, 124 S.
Maple Street, Mt. Carmel.
James G. Davenport, 14 Ransom
Street, Pljonouth.

John Emery Dennen, R. D.

3,

Dan-

ville.

DePaul, 617 Mulberry
Street, Berwick.
Lucille M. DeVoe, 204 Penn Street,
Bloomsburg.

Mary

A.

Sharon L. Dotter,
Street, Wilkes-Barre.

168

Madison

Street, Kingston.

Sheldon Erwine, 29 N. Main Street,
Shickshinny.
E. Faith Eunson, 596 E. Second
Bloomsburg.

Shirley E. Eveland, 1843 Heights
Road, Berwick.
Olive Jean Fedrigon, Box 3, Nur-

emberg.
Joseph R. Froncek,
Street,

Ann

Fry,

Street, Berwick.
Frank B. Gallo,

Morea.
Robert

436

Sperling

East

Fifth

Main

Street,

Grant
Garrison, 79
Street, Shickshinny.
Francis P. Gavio, 905 Alter Street,
Hazleton.

Ann

J.

«

Edna R. Keim, 124 N. Rock Street,
Shamokin.
Joan M. Kelshaw, 38 Franklin
Street, Weatherly.
James L. Kessler,
Street, Danville.

Mulberry

104

Kenneth G. Kirk, 317 Tripp
West Wyoming.
501

Kissinger,

Street,

Market

E.

Shamokin.
Joseph D. Kissinger,

770

Union

Street, Millersburg.

Jerome

S.

Kopec,

15

Murray

Street,

Forty Fort.

Rose Mary Korba, Pleasant Mount.
Anna Mae Kornfield, 1043 First
Croyden.
Stanley L. Ksanznak, 343 West
Green Street, West Hazleton.
John S. Laidacker, 3330 Maple

Street,

Avenue, West Bristol.
Edmund M. Longo, Fourth

Street,

Kelayres.

L.

Gengenbach, Brownsville

Road, Trevose.
Richard Grabowski, 368 Ridge
Street, Nanticoke.
Rose Marie Grant, 539 Broadway,
Bethlehem.
Nancy L. Gunton, R. D. 1, Noxen.

Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Charles B. Shamp, 343 East Second

Sunbury.
Jean B. Shamro, 225 Vine

18 West Third
Bloomsburg.
Phyllis P. Makowski, 342 Melrose

Forest City.
Carol V. Shuman, R. D.
burg.

3,

hannock.
Daniel B. Trocki, 3 Roosevelt
Street, Edwardsville.
Sarae M. Uhrich, 344 S. Second
Street, Lebanon.
Betty Jean Vanderslice, 360 Wes1>
Fifth Street, Bloomsburg.
Mary Ledyard Walker, South Gib-

Street, Keiser.

Margaret E. Walters, S.
Street, Catawissa.
Shirley M. Walters, R. D.

Martz,

513

Edwards

Pottsville.
Judith E. McCarthy, 136 Main
Street, Bloomsburg.
Phyllis E. McLaren, 2220 E. Fourth

locks Creek.

Street, Orlando, Florida.
Albert J. McManus, 41 N.
Street, Mt. Carmel.

Trucksville.

Walnut

Bernard J. Mont, Tilbury Terrace,
West Nanticoke.
Ruth A. Montague, 209 East Front
Street, Danville.

Margaret J. Morgan, 1025 Snyder
Avenue, Scranton.

Blooms-

Street, Freeland.
Janice P. Taylor, 54 Manhattan
Street, Ashley.
Nancy E. Tovey, R. D. 1, Danville.
Jeannette E. Traver, R. D. 5, Tunk-

son.

Avenue,

Street,

David J. Skammer, R. 236 Zerby
Avenue, Kingston.
Rosemary T. Snierski, 176 Reynolds Street, Plymouth.
Feme A. Soberick, 204 Front
Street, Berwick.
Ronald P. Steinbach, 456 New
Street, Freemansburg.
Charlotte
Stoehr,
35 Cambria
Street, Plymouth.
David A. Superdock, 425 Green

Street,

Mary Ann
101

Shartles-

ville.

James K. Luchs,
531

West Wyoming.

Ruth

Wyoming

123

Street, Wilkes-Barre.
George E. Kallenbach,

Flora

Donald A. Richardson, R. D. 2,
Hunlocks Creek.
Shirley J. Rineheimer, R. D. 1,
Wapwallopen.
Charles J. Ruffing, Locust Gap.
Helen C. Rutkoski, 667 E. North-

Street,

Merlyn W. Jones,

Street,

Dolores A. Doyle, 31 N. Vine
Street, Mt. Carmel.
Mary Ruth Dreibilbis, 439 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg.
Patricia L. Edwards, 120 E. Walnut

Street,

Franklin Edward Jones, 215 Vine

wissa.

Harriet

S.

Williams,

Second
2,

1024

HunMain

Old Forge.
Mary Joan Williams, Chase Road,

Street,

Stephen L. Wolfe, 1809V<! N. Fifth
Street, Harrisburg.
Betty L. Yeager, 520 Mill Street,
Catawissa.
Elaine
Gunther

Yeager, 1408
Spring Garden Street, Berwick.
Shirley E. Yencha, 11 W. North
Street, Wilkes-Barre.

war interrupted her work almost
as soon as she started, and she

CANDinATKS FOR THK BACCALAUREATE DEGREE
DURING THE 1954 SUMMER SESSION
Joseph A. Albano, 458

Poplar

S.

Street, Hazleton.

Constance

Church
Paul
Street,

M.

Bauer,

W.

677

Street, Slatington.
L.

Bennett,

Main

W.

380

Plymouth.

Patricia E. Boyle,
Street, Hazleton.

Benjamin

A.

63

S.

Burness,

Laurel
533

Evans,

Box

356,

EJd-

dington.

Richard R. Forschner, R. D. 1,
White Haven.
Joseph Glosek, 1500 Nelson Street,
Shamokin.
Paul D. Harding, R. D. 1, Muncy.

Kenneth

H.

Hidlay,

242

Bloomsburg.
A. Hughes. 120 S.
Street. Bangor.
Jean M. Levan, 324 W.
Street, Mt. Carmel.

Reed

Miller,
Street, Mifflinville.
Nancy L. Noz, 224

Penn

as several

Boone

.Third Street,

S.

Rock

burg.

Thomas J. Rowley, 143 Second
Street, Coaldale.
Margaret E. Schultz, 315 Water
Street, Danville.
Douglas Stauffer, 148 E. Main
Street, Ringtown.
Catherine
S.
Teter.
Residence
Park, Palmerton.

Robert R. VonDrach,
Street, Pottstown.
Marjorie

Walter,

A.

Fourth

ville.

60

518

King
Center

Sarah A. Watts, State Street, Mill-

1915

Eulah

Fifth

Charles J. Yesson, Edwardsville.
Robert B. Plafcan, R. D. 3, Blooms-

Street, Milton.

Class of 1915 will hold their
40th reunion on Alumni Day, 1955.
.Any member of the class reading
this please get in contact, during
the coining year, with the Acting
Esp>',

E

Barney J. Osevala, 405
Shamokin.

Second

The

SecretaiA’,

W.

145

Street,

Street,

Janet

Q.

Berwick.
Rachel C. Williams, Nescopeck.

E.

Fourth Street, Bloomsburg.
Joan A. Curilla, 8 E. Independence
Street, Shamokin.
Harold M. Danowsky, R. D. 3,
Lewisburg.

Jeannanne

John A. Long. Baylor Heights,
Watsontown.
George Masanovich, 130 E. Green
Street, West Hazleton.

Spiegel,

Betty M. Wolfe, Halifax.

nection with Divine Worship.
Miss Schmidt is a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Her home is in Scranton.

For a number of years. Miss
Schmidt has been a commissioned
missionary

of

the

Presbyterian

address are

C.'hurch in the U.S.A., serving un-

not known.
Information about the program
tor the reunion will then be mailed

der the Board of Foreign Missions.

to

Pa.,

each member.

1928
Mrs.
Miltona Bolen Klinetob
was elected President of the Department of Classroom Teachers of
the Pennsylvania State Education
Association at the state convention
held in Harrisburg in December,

She

is

religious

head of the English and
departments of Hokusei

Gakuin,

a Presbyterian Mission
school for girls in Sapporo on tlie
island of Hokkaido, most northern
of the Japanese group of islands.
This is a five year high school and
junior college with an enrollment

Mrs. Klinetob is teacher of sixth
grade in the Central School, Plym-

hundred girls.
In addition to her work in the
school Miss Schmidt teaches a
Bible class at home, works among
alumnae and does extensive evangelistic work in the churches of

outh, Pa.

the area.

1953.

of o\ er twelve

Miss Schmidt
1929
Miss Dorothy L. Schmidt, Presmissionary on furlough
from Japan, attended her class reunion and also spoke in the First
Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg on Sunday, May 23, in conbyterian

June, 1954

first

went

to

Japan

the beginning of
the Sino-Japanese war.
By September, 1941, the political situation
made it necessary for Americans to
leave Japan, and Miss Schmidt was
transferred to Silliman University
Here, too, the
in the Philippines.
in

1937, just at

spent the next three years in Japanese interment camps.
.As soon as possible after the war
she returned to Japan, and again
took up her work at Hokusei Ga-

She found many changes in
of the school, and in the
attitude of the students, and many
kuin.

the

life

new demands made upon

her time
by groups outside the school.
Postwar Japan, slie says, is keen-

ly

American ideas of

interested in

democracy, education, and women’s place in modern society, and
on many occasions missionaries
have the opportunity to give a
Christian

interpretation

(jnestions.

Miss

these

to

Schmidt

upon

fre-

is

meetings, conduct forums or direct conlerence programs.
After completing work at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Miss Schmidt studied at Biblical Theological Seminary in New
York City. Before she became a
missionary to Japan, she taught for
live years at Hatboro, Pennsyl(piently called

to lead

vania.

Beginning

in

Miss
be

1955,

Schmidt’s work in Japan

will

supported by contribufrom the Bloomsburg Presbyterian Church.
She expects to
sail for Japan late in July of this
partially
tions

year.

1930
-Miss

Thursabert Schuyler, Latin

teacher
at
Bloomsburg
High
School, presented a paper on the
topic, “Sell Your Subject with a

Roman Banquet,” during sessions
of the seventh University of Kentucky
ence,

Foreign Language Conferwhich opened April 22 at

Lexington.

Although sponsored by the
university, the conference

is

state
inter-

national in scope, last year drawing 610 persons from forty states
and seven foreign countries.

This year’s conference theme
was “The Seven Ages of Man in
Lanuage Education.” In addition
to the general sessions, there were
sections for various languages, for

comparative literature, linguistics,
high school teaching of classical

and

modern

languages,

folklore
17

and international

relations.

Miss Schuyler has featured the
in her teaching
program for a number of years
and it has always proved popular
with her Latin students. The food,
customs and national dress of the
Romans are copied authentically
in the project which is carried out

Roman banquet

by the students themselves.
Miss Schuyler is secretary of the
Pennsylvania State Association of
Classical Teachers.

1936

Frank

Warren (Wojcik)

P.

lives

Fred Johnson, of 125 East Fifth

Township

Berwick, Pa.
Miss Johnson, who has been a
5th grade teacher at the Orchard
Street School for the past three
years, is a graduate of Berwick
High School Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. She has not
been informed as to the exact destination of her Far East assignment. Her location will be determined by the need for teachers in
designated Army camp dependents
schools as indicated by the Overseas Affairs Division of the Depart-

B.S.T.C.

Street,

ment

of the

Army.

191 Hillcrest Drive, Packanack
Lake, New Jersey.

at

1944

The February

issue of

“The

In-

contains a contribution
by Miss Lois C. Bryner, who was
graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 1944.
Miss Bryner, who is teacher of
grade five in Second Ward School,
Danville, described a valentine project which appears under the title,
“Paper Cutout Valentines.” Miss
Bryner lives at 38 Ash Street in
Danville.

1945
Betty

A.

Burnham,

Street,

Miss Ruth Ellen Dent, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Dent, R. D.
2, became the bride of Douglas
Ivey Hayhurst, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Q. M. Hayhurst, R. D. 5, in a cereof

structor”

Wakeling

1953

of

1319

Philadelphia, a

graduate of Frankford High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers
Master
received
her
College,
of Science degree at the University of Pennsylvania graduation
on February 13, 1954. She is also
a member of Pi Lambda Theta, an
honorary sorority in the Department of Education.

money

at

ten-thirty

morning, February 25, at
horn Lutheran Church.
The Rev. D. L. Bomboy, pastor,
performed the double-ring cere-

mony.

A

reception followed at the
of the bride.
The couple
left later for Fort Sill, Okla., where
the bridegroom is stationed with
the armed forces.
The
bride
from
graduated
Bloomsburg High School in 1951
and completed her training in radiology at the Geisinger Hospital
in 1953.
She has been employed
there as an X-ray technician.

home

The bridegroom graduated from
Township High School and

Scott

received his degree from B.S.T.C.
in 1953.

and Beth

Hartman Garner

’45 are teaching
Mr.
northwestern Montana.
Gardner is teaching in a rural
school at Trego, and Mrs. Gardner
is teaching in the high school at
Eureka.
in

1951
Miss Barbara A. Johnson, Berwick teacher, has accepted a teaching position in tlie American dependents schools with the armed
forces overseas and will leave for

Japan on or about August 1. She
is the (kuighter of Mr. and Mrs.
18

is

and

School

now

serving in

tlie

forces.

1953

Mr. and Mrs. M. Kenneth Heckman, of East Stroudsburg, an-

nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Joanne Elaine, to Lt.
Donald N. Blyler, USMCR, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Blyler, of
Bloomsburg.
Miss Heckman

is a graduate of
Ursinus College and is at present
studying at Yale University for a
Masters Degree in Nursing.
Lieutenant Blyler is a graduate
of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is now serving with the
U. S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejenue, N. C.

1954
In a lovely candlelight ceremony
at seven o’clock Saturday evening.

May

22,

in

St.

Lutheran

John’s

Sarah
Catawissa, Miss
Alice Watts, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Watts, Millville, became the bride of Thomas Andrew
Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James H. Roberts, Catawissa.
The bride graduated from Millville Joint High School and received her B.S. degree in elementary
education this year at B.S.T.C. She
will teach at South Williamsport
next fall.
The bridegroom is a graduate of
Catawissa High School and East
Stroudsburg State Teachers College where he received a B.S. degree in physical education. He is
stationed with the U. S. Army at
Fort Knox, Ky.

Church,

1953

1950
Jack E. Gardner ’50

Thursday
tlie Buck-

armed

High

He

Miss Nancy Jane Brink, daughter
of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Brink,

Bloomsburg, became the bride of
Richard William Evans, son of
Mrs. Louis Evans, Shamokin, and
the late Mr. Evans, in a ceremony
Saturday evening, February 20, in
the Bloomsburg Reformed Church.
Tlie

Rev.

M. Edward Schnorr,

1954
Plarold Danowski, of Lewisburg
R. D. 3, is interested in education
from just about every angle. He

was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College this
year with the Degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education.

member

He

is

a

Lewisburg area
sehool board and principal
of

tlie

performed the double-ring
ceremony.
iVIrs.
from
Evans
gradated
Bloomsburg High School and is

joint

now employed

was busy teaching on Commencement Day. That evening he attended a school board meeting.

pastor,

in the office of the

Milco Undergarment Co., Inc
Mr. Evans graduated from Coal
.

of

tlie

Buffalo

joint

elementary

Danowschool, near Lewisburg.
sky got his degree in absentia. He

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

^

ing,
am sure that your B.S.T.C”.
has done a great deal for mankind.
Mother was a wonderful teacher at
home and in the classroom.”
1

Npmtlngit
Abraham
The following

is

quoted from

George Landis

’ll

the

Accepted
Scottish
Rite,
Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, the
United States of America:

cient

was

It

a shock to learn of the

1, 1954 — of
Rarich, 33°, who recently retired as as Secretary of the
Scottish Rite bodies of Scranton,
Pennsylvania.
The Grand Secretary General, 111. F. Elmer Raschig, 33°, had just written an appre-

—

death
111.

on February

old,

since

16, 1914, had rendered
and competent service.

doubtful,” said 111. Bro. Rasany other member of the
Rite in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction had served, in that capacity,
continuously
for
forty
years — an amazing record for any
organization.”
“It is

Rarich, born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on October
1S81,
a
graduate of
5,
Bloomsburg State Normal School,
was a school teacher and later entered the field of insurance.
He
was raised a Master Mason in Union Lodge No. 291 on June 4, 1909,
and received the degrees of the
Scottish
Rite
in
March, 1910.
Steadfast loyalty, efficiency and a
thorough mastery of detail marked
his secretarial career.

friends

All his

many

wished for him a happy

retirement — but seriously impaired health intervened.

-\lma Wallace Scholl ’09
Mrs. Alma Wallace Scholl, Ajo,
Arizona, passed away December
21,

1953.

She taught her school

through the week of December 18,
took sick Friday evening and died
three days later.

Her daughter wrote the follow“Bloomsburg was always one

ing:

of Mother’s favorite topics of conversation.
If Mother’s work was

an example of Bloomsburg trainJune, 1954

of

class

Teachers

State

1911, died of a

heart condition at his home in Sugarloaf, Luzerne county, Thursday,
.March 11.
He was sixty-four.

Operator of a greenhouse near

Rock Glen, Landis had been in
ill health for one year.
He was a
.son of
David and Sara Bechtel
Lanilis and resided in Sugarloaf

He was
League

member

a

of

the

of the

Men’s

Pre.sbyterian

First

Hazleton,

Cduirch,

and

the

of

Black Greek M. E. Ghurch.
Surv

ing are his wife, the for-

iv

mer Orna Yost; a daughter, Mrs.
Marion Hoffman, Washington, D.
G.; three sons, Samuel E., Washington, D. G.; Thomas N. and DaV

id

Sugarloaf;

II.,

Edith Martin Gineiner ’12
Mrs. M. D. Gineiner, the former
M. Martin, native of Hazleton,
died
suddenly Thursday,
.March 18, of a heart attack while
vacationing in Florida.

Etlith

Mrs. Gineiner had been a resident of Denver, Colorado, the past
thirty-one years

all his life.

chig, “if

Abraham

Bloomsburg

the

(.’ollege,

who,

March

faithful

Rohrsburg.

Cieorge B. Landis, a graduate of

Abraham

ciative tribute to this v'eteran

Bogert was a son of the late

-Mr.

Frank and Ella Morris Bogert and
was born in Williamsport. Surviving are his wife and a brother, Har-

Raricli ’03

"News-Letter” issued by the
Supreme Council 33rd degree, An-

ed on the Jonestown Mountain. It
l)elieved this might have aggravated liis heart condition.

is

and

leton every year.

mer Hazleton

Haz-

visited in

She was a

for-

school teacher
and is survived by her husband,
M. D. Gineiner, who at one time
conducted the Hazleton Business
ollege.
Her parents were the
late Christian and Margaret (Mans)
Martin.
city

grandchil-

six

Elizabeth

dren and three brothers, Samuel B.
Landis, Philadelphia;
David B.
Landis, Govington, V’a., and William B. Landis, Scranton.

The death

McCollum

’12

of Miss Elizabeth

Mc-

Colum, former Bloomsburg resident, occured in Peru, Nebraska,
Saturday, March 13, at 11:45 A. M.
following a stroke.

Harry M. Bogert
Harry M. Bogert,
in his

home

May

31,

was

stricken

’ll

sixty-five,

in Stillwater

one half hour

died

Monday,
after

he

by a heart attack

while watching the Stillwater-Millertown baseball game at the Stillwater field.

A

former school teacher, Bogert

was a graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal School, class of 1911, and
had taught at Berwick, Martzville
and Ebenezer before retiring ten
years ago. He was secretary-treasurer of the Stillwater baseball club
and president of the Men’s Bible
Class, secretary of the Church
Board and deacon at the Stillwater
Christian Church.

Mr. Bogert and his wife, the former Florence Hartman, whom he
had married ten years ago, were

May

when

the car in
which they were passengers crashinjured

3

She was the daughter of the late
and Mrs. A. F. McColumn,
who resided on West Fifth street,
and graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School.
Mr.

Miss

McCollum moved

to

Neb-

raska about thirty years ago and
taught in the Nebraska Normal
School. She sustained a broken hip

some months ago and then

suffer-

ed a stroke.
Surviving are two sisters. Miss
Martha McCollum, Peru, Nebraska, and Mrs. Mike Gallaghern,
Lansdown, Pa., and three nieces
and nephews.
Services were held at Peru Tuesday,

March

16,

Myron
Myron

P.

with burial there.

P. Rishton ’13

Rishton,

fifty-seven,

formerly of Bloomsburg, was found
dead at his home at 227 Soutli 45th
19

street, Philadelphia,

20

Tuesday, April

ous community bands throughout

and was a member of
the Lime Ridge Band at the time
of his death.
He was a member
of the Methodist Church, here, and
the Men’s Bible Class and for forty
years was a member of the Church

his lifetime

.

Mr. Rishton, who operated a
drug store in Philadelphia, entered
the business here with his father,
William S. Rishton, of Bloomsburg,
who survives him. The deceased

had resided in Philadelphia for the
past twenty-five years.
He was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy and was a Naval veteran of World War I. A brother

Thomas, of Bloomsburg,

is

among

his survivors.

Bertha Seely
Miss Bertha Viola Seely, aged
Berwick R. D. 1, died in her

75, of

sleep at 4:30 A.

She had been

11.

M. Friday, June
in

ill

health for

School Orchestra of that congrega-

He was also a member of
Bloomsburg Lodge of Elks, 436;
Columbia County Fair Association
and Espy Fire Company.
tion.

tended greetings.
Ray M. Cole and Mrs. Ellis
Turner appeared on an afternoon
panel discussing the topie, “What

vives.

Schools.”

the past four years but death was
One of her sisters,
upon arising, discovered the death.

of B.S.T.C.

Surviving are the following bro-

and sisters: Thomas Seely,
Margaret
Philadelphia;
Mrs.
S.
Seely, Mrs. Leah S. Scott, Phillip
Howard Seely and Mrs. Emory
Kisner, all of Berwick R. D. 1, and
Mrs. Harold Hersliberger, Sharon
thers

Hill.

U. H. Hile

J.

Benton, former Benton Township school director, died Friday,
April 9, in Geisinger Hospital, Danof

ville,

of

complieations.

He had

been in good health until being
suddenly strieken while visiting a
daughter in South Williamsport.
Born May 9, 1875, in Benton, he
was the son of the late Dr. I. L.
and Sarah Patterson Edwards. He
spent his whole life in Benton and
Benton Township. He attended
the Bloomsburg Normal School and
taught several years in Benton
township.
For several years he
operated a grist mill in the township.
The rest of the time he followed the occupation of farming.
About ten years ago he retired
from farming and moved to Ben-

20

was on the panel which discussed
“What P.T.A. Can Do to Help the

Community

Appreciate

Better

Mr. Edwards was a member of
Benton Methodist Church and the
Benton Grange.
1934
Mrs. Alfred Snyder (Thalia Barba) lives at 1515 Marion Street,
Scranton, Pa. Mrs. Snyder has served as Senior Visitor, Pennsylvania

Department

Miller took part in the panel discussion on “What P.T.A. Can Do

Help Form Advisory Groups
Work with the Sehool Board.”

to

of

Public A.ssistance,

L. Dillon, Inc.

He was

dale, Pa.

as Inspector or

to

Ten members of tlie Future
Teachers of America group at the
college participated in the panel
workshops under the direction of
Dr. Ernest Engelhardt.
1934
Walter S. Chesney lives at 130
West Avenue, Mt. Carmel. He has
been teaching in Mt. Carmel sinee
graduation, serving as classroom
teacher and department head. He
has also served in the Pennsylvania
State Extension Departmen t for
eight years in the Adult Education

Program, teaching Elementary Accounting at Mt. Carmel, Shenan-

doah and

Mary

Engineering Material (U. S. Navy), and as Inspector
in Charge, U. S. Navy, at Carbon-

associated with numer-

Can P.T.A. Do to Attract and Keep
Good Teachers?” William A. Lank

Herbert Cobley and Mrs. Joseph

Myrom Edwards
Myrom Edwards, seventy-eight,

ton.

U. H. Hile, seventy-four, E.spy,
widely known musician, died at
Berwick Hospital on Sunday, June
He
6, from a coronary occlusion.
had been admitted to the institution twenty-four hours after he
suffered the heart attack.
Born and reared in Franklin
township, he attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, then
the Normal School. His death
severed a marital union of fifty
Mr. Hile was employed by
years.

Several local residents took part
the program of the Distriet 2
meeting of the Pennsylvania Congress of Parents
and Teachers
which took place Saturday, April
25, at B.S.T.C. Nearly 200 attended the all-day event.
The Rev. Elmer A. Keiser of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church gave the
invocation and Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of B.S.T.C., ex-

in

Surviving are his wife, the forand four
children: Mrs. William Eberhard,
Mays Landing, N. J.; Eldrige, Berwick; Mrs. Leonard Olson, home,
and Blair W., Forks, and a sister,
Mrs. Rebecca Shultz, Catawissa R.
D. One granddaughter, Marion
Jean Hile, Bloomsburg, also sur-

mer Harriet Watkins;

unexpected.

Miss Seely was born in Beach
Haven, December 10, 1878, and
had spent her entire life in that
section.
She was a member of St.
Lutheran
Paul’s
Evangelical
Church, of Beach Haven, and of
She was
the Ladies Aid Society.
also a member of Salem Grange.
She was a former teacher in the
public schools and was a graduate

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Pottsville.

1934
Beierschmitt

Persing is
teaching in Matawan, New Jersey.
She previously has held teaching
positions

in

Kulpmont, Pa., and
She has a son

Fort Benning, Ga.
and a daughter.

Her address

is

Highland Avenue, Matawan, N.

J.

1934
Elbert W. Ashworth lives at 414
37th Street, Canton, Ohio, where
he is District Manager of the NashKelvinator Sales Corporation. Mrs.
Ashworth was formerly Miss Hazel
Keefer, also a graduate of B.S.T.C.
4’hey have one daughter.

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College Calendar
1954

-

1955

SUMMER
First session begins

Monday, June

Second session begins

Monday, June 28

7

Monday, July 19

Third session begins

Monday, August 19

Fourth session begins

FIRST SEMESTER
Registration of

Freshmen

Tuesday, September 7

Wednesday, September 8

Registration of Upper-Classmen

Thursday, September 9

Classes Begin

HOME-COMING DAY

Saturday, October 16

_

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Tuesday, November 23

Thanksgiving Recess Ends

Monday, November 29

Christmas Recess Begins

Wednesday, December 15

Christmas Recess Ends

_

First

Semester Ends

_

_

Monday, Januarv

3

__ Thursday, lanuary 20

The A;|umni Quarterly
1

State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsyluama

t

VoL LV

October, 1954

No. 3

r

The following

editorial

appeared in Tne Morning Press. Bloomsburg, Saturday, July

24,

1954:

I

GOOD NEWS
Announceinent that the Teachers College e.xpects a larger freshman class
than a year ago is certainly good news, not only to the town but to the

tills fall

entire area.

The

the advance registration at the present is running twenty percent ahead
the result of hvo things, a splendid product in education to offer and
a good recruiting program.
of 1953

is

It will

riculum

is

be noted, too, that the number entering the business education curthe largest since immediately following World War II.

One of the greatest advancements our College ever made was to secure that
business course, although there were some disappointed at the time that we did
not get physical education course or a program in a couple of other fields.
has worked out Bloomsburg has profited greatly by its business school.
a good one from the start and has long been rated one of the best in
the country.

As

It

it

made

The

present president of the institution. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, was the
It has spread the fame of the school and of the

head of the department.
community.
first

One

we remember from

of the things

the days of

World War

II is

that

many

from all parts of the nation to state they had met strangwho knew about Bloomsburg because of its business school.

of the local boys wrote
ers

There was

male enrollment of all schools at the close of
hundreds of thousands of GI’s going back to school.
Our male enroiiment was up substantially. But that it has stayed up is largely
due to the business department.
a natural rise in the

that conflict because of the

We

don’t have the largest Teachers College in the commonwealth.
It is
and probably never will get higher ranking for West Chester and Indiana,

third

both close to

cities,

are twice as large as the local school.

But Blooir.sburg has been holding its own in enrollment exceptionally well
and most years has done better in that regard than the other teacher institutions.
That’s a tribute to the job that

There’s a

lot of

is

competition

being done.
in

the field of higher education, particularly
a great deal of work for it can

around here, and to keep advancing takes
be accomplished on merit alone.
right

There have always been several institutions of higher learning in our service
area or close by and since the close of World War II three such institutions have
come into being. Bucknell Junior College at Wilkes-Barre became Wilkes, with
Kings was establislu'd in the same city. Lycoming College
a four-year course.
rose from Dickinson junior Ciollege.
These

were added to Bucknell, Sus(juehanna and the University
But even so the Teachers (,’ollege here is forging ahead. We cerproud ol that achievement.

institutions

of Scranton.
tainly can b(>

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LV,

No. 3

October, 1954

Doctor Andruss Completes Fifteen
Years As President of College
Dr. Harvey A. Aiitlriiss completed lilteen years as president of tlie
Hloomshurg State Teachers College and is beginning his t\vent\lilth

year of service.

Coming

Published quarterly

by the Alumni

Association of the State Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Entered as Sec-

ond-Class Matter, August

1941, at the

8,

Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of
scription,

March
$2.00;

1879.

3.

Yearly Sub-

Single Copy, 50 cents.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, '12

BUSINESS

MANAGER

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

to Bloomsburg from the
Indiana State Teachers College in
1930, Doctor .\ndruss organized
and headed the Department of
Business for seven years and then
ser\ed two years as Dean of In-

struction.

His period of service was interrupted in 1945, when the board of
trustees, of which Reg. S. Hemingway is president, granted him a
leas e of absence of six months to
help in the organization of the

American Army University
located at Oxford, England, where
he headed the Department of Accounting in the Division of Business Administration.
The college year 1954-55 has
First

opened with an expected enrollment which is in excess of that of
last year, and a freshman enrollment which is twenty per cent
larger than last year.

PRESIDENT
E.

H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Along with the expenditure, or
approval expenditure, of more
than $1,000,000 in the last two
years for additions to or renovations
of the college plant, the fol1941—

lowing developments may be noted during the last decade and a
half.

1939— Beginning of an aviation
1942—
program in cooperation with the
Bloomsburg Airport, which resulted in the training of more than
1,000 civilian, Anny, and Navy

burg Hospital

in

the

training of

nurses.

1943— Inauguration of the only
\’-5 (Deck Officer) training
program in a Pennsylvania Teach-

Navy

ers College.

1947— Freshman liberal arts program in cooperation with Pennsylvania State College.
195
Proposals are now being
made for the offering of graduate
courses in certain fields.
Since World War II the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has
not only continued to be approved
by the Pennsylvania State Council
•of Education, but has been acredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools and revisited by a committee of the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education.
College athletics as well as college academic work have been acknowledged on a state-wide basis.
Two championship football teams,
one championship basketball team,
and two all-victorious baseball
teams puts Bloomsburg in the first
ranks of intercollegiate competition
of the State Teachers Colleges.
One-fifth of the faculty now hold
the earned Doctor’s Degree. Over
ninety per cent of the graduates
liave been placed.
These facts are to be noted as
a recognition of the farsightedness
of the Board of Trustees, and an
evidence of the quality of service
of the President of the College
during the last fifteen years.

Pilots.

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
October, 1954

Beginning of the provision
more than 1500 stu-

HOMECOMING DAY

dents enrolled in engineering, management, and science war training

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

of facilities for

16

courses.

Cooperation with Blooins1

STUDIES TEACHING

U^niversity, Professor Chatterjee

METHODS AT

a

B.S.T.C.

dra Chatterjee, a professor of education at Visva-Bharai University
in Santiniketan, India. A Fulbright
Scholar on a six months’ visit to the

United States, Mr. Chatterjee was
making a first hand study of teachtraining

of the university’s

is

Board

of Studies for Education, English,

Bloomsburg State Teachers College was extremely fortunate to
have on campus Mr. Nirmal Chan-

er

member

methods practiced

and Modern Indian Languages.
Special interests of Mr. Chatterjee include literature

and

art.

He

very well-known in the literary
world of Bengal both as a scholar
of merit and as a writer of distincis

tion.
He has to his credit considerable research in Bengali literature and had helped to edit Tag-

in

ore’s writings. His artistic special-

country. He studied the new
teaching techniques adopted in
American secondary schools, and
observed especially the classes of
teachers-in-service
and B.S.T.C.
students in theh practice teaching.
He was also interested in the metliods used in the Special Education
class at the Benjamin Franklin
Laboratory School and in the

the use of water colors
and in decorative designing.
The university to which Professor Chatterjee belongs was founded by Dr. Rabindranath Tagore,
the world renowned poet of India
who was awarded the Nobel Prize
The Unifor Literature in 1913.
versity of Visva-Bharati is non-sectarian, co-educational and international in its character and outlook.
Mahatma Gandhi frequently visited her and called it his “second

this

Speech and Hearing

Clinic.

Mr. Chatterjee arrived at B.S.
T.C. on Sunday, March 8, and remained here for two weeks. He
had previously spent two weeks on
the campus of East Stroudsburg
State Teachers College, and upon
lea\ing Bloomsburg, he went to
Kansas.
Mr. Chatterjee’s agenda included the special education class, various college classes. College Council,

and Sigma Alpha Eta.

The
terjee

first

had

impression Mr. Chatof B.S.T.C. after arriv-

ing from Stroudsburg was that we
have such a beautiful campus location.
He was very much impressed

with our community life in general,
and he found the student and faculty relationship to be very favor-

ties

lie in

home.”
Marines in
the field are properly paid is the
job of Marine S-Sgt. Robert C.
Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Helping

to to see that

Monroe Williams,
R. D.

5.

He

is

of

Bloomsburg

a clerk with the

Disbursing Section, Headquarters
and Service Company, 1st Marine
Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
He handles the bookkeeping
and accounting required to mainpay
tain the individual Vlarines’

He attended B.S.T.C. berecord.
fore entering the Marine Corps in
February, 1951.

Professor Chatterjee received his
formal education in Santiniketan
before going to Calcutta University to earn his VI. A. in English. He
then attended a course at David
Hare Training College and received his degree as a trained teacher
in I'hrst Class. Ills practical experi-

on

as a teacher includes service

the

staff

of

Scindia

Public

Schools at Gwalior where he worked under the well-known educationist, Mr. F. G. Pearce, and at
Santiniketan where he has worked
since 1938. Besides his job as lecturer in the Teacher’s Training
College attached to Visva-Bliarati
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]
Students at B.S.T.C. who quali- I
fied for the Dean’s List for the second semester of 1953-54 have been
|
announced by Dr. Thomas P.
North, Dean of Instruction. These
students have a quality point average of 2.5 or better for the second
semester and an accumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance at B.S.T.C.
Freshmen— Earle Fetterolf, of
Bloomsburg; Donald R. Hare, Sunbury; Mary Jane Koch, Hazleton;
Constance G. Ozalas, Palmerton;
j

j

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Corinne Penetcost, Honesdale; EdSetar, Nesquehoning; Robert E. Smitli, Berwick; Jean StavSwartisky, Old Forge; Ann E.
wood, Ashley; Barbara B. Thomas,
Forty P’ort;
Sherwood Yergey,

V
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j

ward M.

I
!

|‘

Pottstown.
J

Sophomores—Wylla M. Bowman,
Cole,
Mrs.
Samina
Berwick;
Bloomsburg; Joan M. DeOrio, Ber-

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j

wick; Patricia Hartman, R. D. 5;
Joanne M. Hester, Watson town;
Bertha Knouse, R. D. 2; Edward
Z.

Siscoe, Forest

\’erona.

J

,|

Rosalyn

City;

Pen Argyl; Jean Zhniner-

i

man, Berwick.
Juniors— Lynda M. Bogart, BerBower, Clark’s
wick; Janice B.
Green; Eileen H. Gerosky, Pittston;
Joyce M. Lundy, Bloomsburg;

p

Sal'

Morgan, Edwards\ ille; Malcolm
Smith, Hazleton; Allen B. Walburn,
Williams,
Shamokin; Nancy Sue
Clark’s Summit.
Andrews,
Seniors— Charles R.
West Pittston; Anna R. Bittner,
ly

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Milroy; Barbara Bucher, CatawisVV. Leonard Carson, Mt. Carmel; J. Alfred Chiscon, Kingston;
Mary Ruth Dreibelbis, BloomsFroncek, West
burg; Joseph R.
Grant,
Wyoming; Rose Marie

.

sa;

able.

(‘iice

STUDENTS NAMED TO
THE DEAiN’S LIST

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, '46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

I

Bethlehem; Gerald Houseknecht,
Bloomsburg; William J. Jacobs,
Manchester; John A. Long, Watsontown; Phyllis Makowski, Keiser;
.Mae Neugard, Hegins; Jean Newhart,

Tannersville;

Charlotte
SuperMMlfe,

Plymouth; David
Stephen
dock, Pheeland;

Stoehr,

Harrisburg.

1894
Beagle lives at 118
Seminary Street, Williamsport, Pa.
Willets

K.

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NKW MEMBERS

W'orld War 11 he was a draftsman
with the C.'orps of Engineers
in
\lbu([uei(iue. New Mexico.

OE THE EACIULTY
MidMiss Mary E. Kramer, ot
E.
dletown, and Mrs. Margaret
MeCJern, of Benton, lia\e Been apthe
of
faculty
the
pointed to
Blooinshnrg State Teachers (’olMiss Kramer, who comes to
Icge.
Bloomslnng from the Erie Ihdilic
Schools, w’ill hold the rank of Assistant Professor of Special

Educa-

while Mrs. McOrn, a memher of the Catawissa High School
tion,

faculty since 1947, will

he Assistant

Professor of Business Education.

Miss Kramer is a graduate of the
Kut/town State Teachers Ca)llege,
and she holds a Master of Arts
degree from Lehigh University.
She has completed additional grad-

Pennsylvania
the
uate study at
She is certified
State University.
to teach the mentally retarded and
the orthopedically handicapped.

M iss Kramer lias taught in the
Eranklin Township Schools, Lehighton; the Tredyffrin Township
Schools, Berwyn; the Bethany Or-

phans

Home

at

W'omelsdorf, and

the Public Schools of City of Erie.

Mrs. McCern, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
w’ith the Class of 1940, has had extensive experience in the business
teaching
Held in addition to her
experience. She served as a secretary with B. C. Richie Company,

and Hat Corporation of America, all of New York
Before coming to Catawissa
Cit\-.
High School in 1947, she was Administrative As.sistant to the Board
of Economic Warfare in Washing\^^

ton,

and

J.

Sloan,

D. C.

Donald \V. Herberholz, of Jackson, Michigan has been named Assistant Professor of Art, and Claude
L. Bordner, of State

College, has
been appointed Assistant Professor
of Mathematics.

Both men began

their duties

with the

college year,

September

Mr. Herbholtz,

Bloomsburg

who

from

start

of the

7.

comes

to

public
schools of Jackson, Michigan, is a
graduate of Michigan State College. He holds the degree of Master of Arts from the University of
New Mexico, w^here he served as a
member of the faculty.
During
October, 1954

the

teaching experience includes
tt'imre in the public schools of All)u((nci(pie. Cold Water, Michigan;
and
Colorado Springs, C'olorado
U’aync, Michigan.
11 is

Bordner, who has been a
member of the faculty of the Pennsyl\ ania State University, is a graduate ot Eranklin and Marshall C.'ollege at Lancaster.
He holds the

Mr.

Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, and he has completed additional graduate study at the

PennsyKania State University. He
has taught at the Greene-Dreher
School,
t.ommimity N'ocational
Kutztown High School, Kutztown
State Teachers College and the
Pennsylvania Military College.

The appointment of Miss Gwendolyn Reams as assistant librarian
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College was announced by President
Harvey A. .\ndruss. Nliss Reams, a
native of Decatur, Alabama, replaces Miss Elsie Bower, of Berwick, who has resigned.

The new

assistant librarian,

who

begin her duties with the opening of college, is a graduate of Decatur High School.
She holds the
degree of Bachelor of Arts from
the University of Alabama and tlie
Master of Arts degree from George
will

Peabody College

for

Teachers

at

Nashville, Tennessee.
fler public school experience includes service at the Eva, Alabama
High School, secondary schools of
Abbeville, Alabama, and the Pickend County High School in Alabama. Miss Reams also served on
the staff of the Virguna Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Virginia, for

COLLEGE APPROVED FOR
AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colhas been approved to offer
courses of instruction for Air Force
lege

Reserve Personnel of

this area.

A

contract has recently been submitt( d which
involv ed a minimum of
thirty-two Air Force students who
will meet for forty-eight hours of
instruction under the direction of
a.ssistant professor W. B. Sterling.

While

have not been
represents the revival ol a type of instruction in
which the college was a pioneer in
19.39 when they began to offer civil
pilot training courses to ten students who received primary instruction in flying at the local
Bloomsburg Airport.
Following this small beginning
the College taught and the airport
all details

completed,

this

cooperated in a series of programs
in which 1,000 civilian, naval or
army personnel either learned to
fly or pursued advanced courses in
av iation.

Betty J. Hoffman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hoffman,
Annville, was elected president of
the “B” Club of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College at a recent
meeting of the organization. The
club is an athletic organization for
women, and it has as its purpose
the creating of an interest in sports
and sportsmanship.
Ruth Paul, Plymouth, was elected vice-president,
while Gloria
Harris, Hickory Corners, was chosen secretary. The new treasurer of
the club is Anna Dresse, Beavertown.
Miss Lucy McCammon is
faculty advisor of the group.

one year.

ATTENTION!
CLASS OF 1920

THE WOLF SHOP

Anyone having the address of
members including your own,

LEATHER GOODS

please send to the undersigned at
once. Be sure to be on hand for
the reunion in May, 1955.

122 East

M.

— REPAIRS

C. Strausser, ’27, Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg. Pa.

Grace Gotschall Pannebaker
931 East Third Street
Williamsport, Pa.
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work

Mrs. Edith Mae LaBarr Tormay
oi Hazleton, Pa. (579 Emerald St.)
who receiv'ed her master’s degree
in education from Boston University summer school at the August
21 Commencement in Boston Uni\ ersity Field, believes that it really
should be awarded to her 13-yearold daughter Jane Louise who during the past four years has attended most of the classes with her.

“We both love it because so
much is happening here all the
time, and there are so many things
that we can do at very slight ex-

Jane Louise had not been so
patient and so good, it would not
have been possible for me to have
reached this level,” Mrs. Tormay
pointed out. This past summer was
the first one in which Jane did not
sit through all the lectures.
“If

The reason was

that they

have a

line television set

in their
apartthat kept Jane Louise entertained during many of her mother’s

ment

University lecture periods.

Although she has received

her

master’s degree, Mrs. Tormay feels
that she may add to her education
next summer by taking Boston Uni-

advanced course in mental
testing.
She is a graduate of the
Bloom.sburg State Teachers Col\

ersity’s

at

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unexpected times.”

pense, such as enjoying the Esplanade concerts, and the trips arranged by the University to a wide
veriety of historic, literary
dustrial centers,”
Mrs.

and

in-

Tormay

Boston and
Boston University also provide a
wonderful opportunity for higher
education,” she concluded.
said enthusiastically.

Tormay has made her life
the teaching of retarded
children. She teaches in the Arthur
St. School in Hazleton.
During tlie
past four years under the instruction of Boston
University’s great
specialists in her field she has majored in remedial reading.
Mrs.

Her husband, who

is

employed

the electric light company
in
Hazleton, feels proud that his wife
has made such a solid contribution
to the educational life of their community, and, in turn, his wife appreciates the help and cooperation
which has made possible four sum-

in

mers of study.
Both mother and daughter feel
that Boston is the finest city in the
country.
Sitting through summer
college classes for six weeks each
season from the year she was nine
years old to her present 13 years
apparently was no chore for this
sweet and serious daughter of a
charming mother. “I really re-

membered

4

A. Keiser, of

St.

Church, gave the
invocation and Dr. Harvey A. Anpresident

druss,

of

B.S.T.C.,

ex-

tended greetings.

Miss Graee Ott, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Ott, Lebanon, became the bride of Eugene H. Vanson of Mrs. Josephine
Vanderslice, Bloomsburg, in a double-ring ceremony performed in the
derslice,

Zion Lutheran Church, Enola, Pa.,
on Sunday afternoon, July 11.
The Rev. Franklin Patschke,
cousin of the groom, officiated at
the

ceremony

in the church.

The bride is a graduate of the
Lebanon High School and is a senBloomsburg State Teachers
The groom is employed
Vlagee Carpet Company.

ior at

College.
at

“What Can
and Keep
Cood Teachers?” William A. Lank
was on the panel which discussed
“What P.T.A. Can Do to Help the
Community
Appreciate
Better
discussing the topic,
P.T.A. Do to Attract

el

Schools.”

Herbert Cobley and Mrs. Joseph
Miller took part in the panel discussion on “What P.T.A. Can Do
to

Help Form Advisory Croups

to

Work

with the School Board.”
Ten members of the Future
Teachers of America group at the
college participated in the panel

workshops under the direction

of

Dr. Ernest Engelhardt.

work

what

The Rev. Elmer
Paul’s Episcopal

Ray M. Cole and Mrs. Ellis Turner appeared on an afternoon pan-

lege.

it

Several local residents took part
the program of tlie District 2
meeting of the Pennsylvania Congress of Parents
and Teachers
which took place Saturday, April
25, at B.S.T.C. Nearly 200 attended the all-day event.
in

a surprising

amount

Howard

Klein, nationally-known

hypnotist and lecturer,
was the
guest speaker at the weekly asseml)ly program at
Blomsburg State
Teachers College on August 18. Dr.
Kline,

whose work with

patients in

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.

U. S. Army hospitals was recently
described in Reader’s Digest, told
of his work in the field of hypnotic
therapy and demonstrated various
technic}ue in hypnotism.

Bloomsburg, Pa,
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner.

’34

HOMECOMING DAY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER

1

B.S.T.C.

vs.

16,

1954

OOTBALL
WILKES COLLEGE

of

heard,” she said shyly, “and
has helped me in
my school
I

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

CARDS HOLD TRYOUTS
Bloonisburg was

tlie

scene of

in-

tense baseball activity this summer
when the St. Louis Cardinals conducted a two-day tryout camp at
the State Teachers College Field.
Red Bird seouts, in quest of potential future major league talent,
super\ised workouts at the beginning at 10 A. M. The sessions were
open to all young players between
the ages of seventeen and twenty-

three.

“Our scouts are always

come

to

to

an.xious

Bloonisburg because

they consider the amateur talent in
that area very high,” Joe Mathes,
cliief Red Bird scout, said.
“W'e feel confident tliat our
scouts will be able to discover
>’oung players in this

Frank C. Kostos, former assistant football and basketball coach
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, has been appointed administrative head of the Penn State
Uni\ersity Center at Hazleton.

He succeeds Merle E. Campbell,
recently placed in charge of extension administration throughout the
state.

Mr. Kostos has been with the
Hazleton center since February,
1946, and has been the assistant
administrath e head for the past
s('ven years.

After attending public .schools at
Carmel, Kostos was graduated
from Bucknell University in 19.30,
playing \'arsity football and bas.\It.

ketiiall.

camp who

can be developed into a future St.
Louis Cardinal through training
and experience in our minor league

Miss Margaret Shultz, daugliter
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Shultz,
Danville, became the bride of
Earle Bittner, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Earle Bittner, Sr., Sunbury,

of

system,” Mathes related.
“We’re looking for a large turnout of players from in and around

in a

Bloomsburg.”

at the First Baptist

The Red

Birds, with an eye to-

ward youth, operate tlie largest,
finest and best staffed minor league

system

in

existence

today.

\\hth 22 clubs in 15 states and two
foreign countries, young players in

the Cardinal organization are assured an opportunity to play regularly in every classification ranging from Class
to AAA and the
St. Louis Cardinals.
Largely responsible for the outstanding success of the Red Birds’
minor league system has been the
Cardinal formula of plenty personal
instruction
and a generous
amount of individual attention for

\

PLANS COMPLETED
Final plans have
by architects for the
the College Lounge,
gymnasium, and the

been drawn
completion of

located in old
renovation of
the first floor corridor of
Waller
Hall.
When completed this area

have expanded lobby

will

faculty lounge,

new

facilities,

offices for soc-

ial deans and a larger
suite
of
rooms for college guests. This project will cost approximately $100,000 when completed.
Initial studies are being made by
John Schell, architect, for the recently approved College Commons
(dining room, kitchen and storage
building) to cost, when equipped,

$.500,000.

Interior renovations will begin in
October, while ground breaking for
new construction will probably
take place in the early spring of
19.55.

ceremony Wednesday, June 9,
Church, Danille.
The Rev. Byrd E. Spring,

MOYER BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS

pastor, officiated.

was Donald Newcome,
Sunbur\’, and organist was Mrs.
Ruth Garrow Weller, Harrisburg.
The bride is a graduate of Dan\ille
High School and of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

SINCE

Soloist

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

lege.

D

all

players.

Kenneth M. Camp, who received
his commission as second lieutenant in the Air Force recently, received his
Observer Wings in
graduating exercises at James Connally Air Force Base, Waco, Texas.
The ceremonies climaxed a year of
training in the Observer Program.

Camp, a 1950 graduate of Catawissa High School, attended B.S.T.
C., where he was active in basket-

19.54

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Oct.

2— Mansfield STC

Oct.

9— Cortland STC

Oct.
"Oct.

Home
Home

16— Wilkes College H’coming

23— Kings College

Oct. .30— New

W-Barre

Haven STC

Home

6— California STC

Away

“Nov. 12— West Chester

Away

Nov.

No\’.

20— Lock Haven STC

Away

Lt.

ball

and

soccer.

He

Mr. and Mrs. Mervin

is

“Night

Game

the son of

Camp, Cata-

wissa.
October, 1954

5

RECEIVE DEGREES AT
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
Five students from the Bloomsburg area were awarded degrees
at the animal Summer Commencement at Bucknell University Saturday, August 21.
Candidates for degrees from
Bloomsburg were Francis R. Mc-

and Maynard
Bennington, Locust street; from
[.
Catawissa, Aerio M. Fetterman, R.
D. 3; and George J. Henry, South
Third street and from Millville,
Vlillard C. Ludwig, Center street.
Henry was awarded the degree

Namee, Center

street

of bachelor of science, having spe-

cialized in biology.

The remaming

four received the degree of master
of science in education. They hold
the degree of bachelor of science
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College,
where McNamee was

graduated in 1951, Pennington in
1931, Fetterman in 1938 and Lud-

wig

in 1948.

Ruth Margaret Grove,
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Grove, Flemington, became the
bride of John Stiner Fetterolf, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Fetterolf,
Bloomsburg, in a ceremony at seven-thiry Friday evening, June 11,
Methodist
Pdemington
at
the
Church.

The Rev.

J.

Earl Bassler, pastor,

performed the ceremony before an
altar decorated with

summer

flow-

ers.

The bride graduated from Lock
Haven High School and Geisinger
School of Nursing. The bridegroom, a graduate of Bloomsburg
High School, attended B.S.T.C. for
one semester. He served two years
in the U. S. Army and is employed
by the Hess Farm Ef(uipment C]o.,
Bloomsburg.

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

(•

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

Miss Patricia Kline, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kline, Benton R. D. 1, became the bride of
John Sibly, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Sibly, Benton R. D. 2, in
a pretty ceremony, June 21,
at
Corinth, Miss. The double-ring
ceremony was solemnized by the
Rev. Mr. Humphries, pastor of the
First
Methodist Church.
The
newly-weds then made a trip
through the South. The bride graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School this spring and is employed
by the Regal Shirt Co., Catawissa.

Her husband is employed at the
Magee Mill and is also taking a
course at B.S.T.C. He just completed a five-week period of duty at
Camp Lavigne where he served on
the Boy Scout staff.

Seeond Lieutenant, Field

Artillery,

Armored Reserve.
Lieutenant Andruss was an economics major, a member of Calhoun

member

College, and a
itical

of the Pol-

Union and the Spanish Club

while at Yale. He expects to go into business following active duty
as a Second Lieutenant in the

Army.
In the column “Who’s Who in
Pittsburgh Music Circles” in one of
Pittsburgh’s newspapers appeared
the following concerning the husband of a B.S.T.C. graduate:

Zehnder Dean Whitenight—This
basso

is

a

mmeber

of

the Pitts-

burgh Steelers Quartet, one of the
foremost barber shop quartets in
the district.

In a quiet ceremony on Friday
evening, June 4, in the Zion Lutheran Church, Turbotville, Miss
Jean D. Robeuolt, daughter of Mr,
and iVlrs. Guy Robenolt, Turbotville, became the bride of Lake L.
Hartman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin C.

Hartman, Lewisburg R. D.

3.

The Rev.
tor

Russell A. Fowler, pasperformed the

of the church,

traditional rites.

The bride, who graduated from
North-Mont High School in 1950,
is
employed at American Home
Foods,

Inc., Milton.

The bridegroom, who was

dis-

charged in January after one and
one half years’ service with the U.
S. Army, graduated from Milton
High School in 1950 and is a student at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

Mr. Whitenight was born in Berwick, Pa., and attended University
of Rochester.
His regular activity
a draftsman with Westinghouse
Airbrake Co.

is

Mr.

Wliitenight

voice

Clarence Herr.
Mr. Whitenight played in the
Berwick Band five years and with
several bands locally.
He sang in the American Car
and Foundry Company Glee Club,
and was bass soloist with the Grotto Chanters of Rochester, N. Y. He
was with that group when it won
the 1946-47 state and national
championships. He has also sung
in several church choirs.
Mr. Whitenight is Elder in First
Presbyterian

Harvey A. Andruss, Jr., son of
President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, B.S.T.C., received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Yale University eommencement, along with
2,000 other candidates.
He was prepared at the Bloomsburg High School, Mercersburg
Academy and attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, 194849, where he was a member of the
Freshman soccer team.
The following year he was in
the U. S. Army as an enlisted man,
and ill 1952 was commissioned a

studied

two years with D. H. Lewis, one
year with Boyd Eckroat of WilkesBarre and cornet two years with

Church

of

Castle

Shannon, and past Master of East
Rochester Masonic Lodge, N. Y.
His two hobbies are singing and
growing flowers.
Mrs. Whitenight is the former
Mae Clara Bonham of Berwick. She
is a graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and president of

Shannon Garden Club.
The couple has one daughter,
Nancy Jane, who is a secretary,

the Castle

plays piano and on occasion takes
part in barber shop (juartet singing.

The family

lives at

4129 Willow

Avenue.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1954

ceremony

seven o’clock
Sunday morning, June 27, at the
First Presbyterian Church, Miss
Bogardus,
Elizabeth
Marion
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bogardus, Bloomsburg, was
united in marriage to Telly J. Lawhorne, son of Mrs. Betty Lawhorne,
Roseland, V'a.
The Rev. V'arre A. Cummins,
pastor, performed the double-ring
ceremony by candlelight. Gerald
Hartman, organist, provided bridal
In a

at

selections.

The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School in 1951
and from B.S.T.C. this spring. The
bridegroom, a graduate of Fleet-

wood High

School,

\’irginia,

in

1950, has ser\ ed in the U. S. Air
l'\)rce for lour years.

In

a

prett)'

ceremony

at

four-

Saturday afternoon, June 19,
in the Nescopeek E.U.B. Church,
Miss Nancy Rose Smitli, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Helms F. Seybert,
thirty

Berwick,

became the bride

of Pat-

H. Bredbenner, Newark, Del.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bredbenner, Berwick.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by tlie Rev. Sterlen S.
Sheaffer.
Lighted candles, palms
and bouquets of pink and w'hite
flowers decorated the church.
The bride graduated from Berwick High School in 1951 and has
been employed in Berwick engineering department of tlie A.C.F.
Her husband graduated from Berwick High School in 1949 and attended B.S.T.C.
A U. S. Army
veteran, he is now employed as an
inspector at Chrysler Tank Plant,
Newark, Del.
rick

pretty ceremony at twoSaturday afternoon, June 12,
at Hidlay Lutheran Church, Miss
.\nn Margaret Harris, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harris, R. D.
5, and Pvt. James Philip Brandt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brandt,
Mifflinville, were united in marriIn

Bloomsburg High School in 1953
and has been employed at the Bell
Telephone Company, Bloomsburg.

The bridegroom, a graduate
Township Iligh School,

Mifflin

tended B.S.T.C. and is now serving
with the U. S. Army at Aberdeen,

Md.
St. Columba’s Catholic Church,
Bloomsburg, was the setting at one
o'clock Saturday afternoon. May 1,
for the marriage of Miss Margaret
Elizabeth McCreary, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kent McCreary, Light Street Road, to Joseph Louis Mazzitti, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carmine Mazzitti, Berwick.
The \*er>' Rev. William J. Burke

officiatetl at the

double-ring cere-

officiated

at

a

pas-

double-ring

ceremony.

The

bride graduated from

October, 1954

the

in a candlelight service.

McClintock

Mrs.

is

ers College this Spring.
She will
leach the second grade in the Muncy Elementary School next Fall.
Mr. McClintock, a graduate of

the

Watsontown High School in
is
employed by the Mar-

The couple are living at 125 Park
Place Blvd., Berwick.
The bride was graduated from
Bloomsburg High School and is
employed at Letterman’s Sweet
Shop. Her husband, a graduate of
Berwick High School, attended
B.S.T.C. and the Bowman Institute
of Technology, Lancaster. He is a
jeweler in Berwick. He served with
the U. S. Navy during World War

cpiette Utility Co. near

II.

a graduate

Watsontown High School in
1951 and Bloomsburg State Teach-

of

1948,

Dewart.

1954

The Church of Our Lady, Mt.
Carmel, was the setting in June for
the marriage of
Miss Dolores
Doyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Doyle, Mt. Carmel, and Lt.
.Charles M. Brennan, U. S. Air
Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Brennan, Towanda.
The Right
Rev. Msgr. Lawrence F. Schott,
V.F., officiated.

The

reception was held at tlie
Mt. Carmel, after
which the couple left on a wedding
trip to Virginia Beach. Upon their
return, they will reside at 36 Marshall Road, Yonkers, N. Y.
The bride graduated from B.S.
T.C. this Spring. Her husband, a
1953 graduate of B.S.T.C., where
he starred in football, is studying
meteorology at New York Univer-

Elks

THE
CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch, ’15, Propr.
Orangeville R. D. 2, Penna.

Home,

sity.

1955
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Bangs,
Millville, announce the recent marriage of their daughter, Nancy Mato Rudolph V. Holtzman, son

a

The Rev. Walter Brandau,
tor,

mony

mony.

thirty

age.

of
at-

1954
Miss Phyllis E. Paige, niece of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dieffenderfer,
Watsontown, became the bride of
Wayne L. McClintock, son of Mr.
ami Mrs. LaRue McClintock, Dewart, Saturday, June 12, at St. Peter’s
Evangelical
United
Brethren
Church, Milton.
Rev. Charles Bomboy, pastor,
performed the double-ring cere-

rie,

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holtzman,
Dickson City.

of

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

The ceremony took place in
Raleigh, N. C., on Friday, April 30.
The couple toured the coast and
Washington, D. C., before returning home.
Both the bride and groom are
seniors at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
They are residing at
405 Iron Street, Bloomsburg.
7

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

A. Wilkes-Barre

PRESIDENT

Area

’46

Benton, Pa.

Francis Shaughnessy,

PRESIDENT

63

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

‘33

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

’41

Mrs. Betty Hensley

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, ’14
42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

TREASURER

SECRETARY

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

PRESIDENT
B. Hazleton

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

Area

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley,

New

’14

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

VICE PRESIDENT

147 East Chestnut St., Hazleton, Pa.

Paul Englehart, ’07
George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

WASHINGTON,

SECRETARY
Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer ’32
South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

AREA

D. C.,

PRESIDENT
Genevieve G. Morgis, ’34
3700 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.
Washington 16„ D. C.

Mrs. Lucille

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

127

VICE PRESIDENT
’49

Joseph A. Kulich,

MONTOUR COUNTY

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Sadie Crumb,

PRESIDENT

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

David W. Foust,

PRESIDENT

R. D.

2,

’35

’15

RECORDING SECRETARY

Danville, Pa.

Harriet Kocher,

’29

'39

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Henrietta Cabo McCann,
1315 Prospect Ave., Scranton, Pa.
’30

38

Adda Mae Myers,

Church

St.,

’05

Danville, Pa.

WEST BRANCH AREA

TREASURER

TREASURER

Miss Susan Sidler,

Miss Lydia Bohn, ’21
Stephen Ave., Scranton, Pa.

615

Bloom

St.,

’30

PRESIDENT

Danville, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

NEW YORK AREA

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish, ’06
732 Washington St., Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT
’49

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Michael Prokopchak,

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
’35

’18

Mrs. Harold Danowsky
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Lynn Danowsky

Mrs.
R. D.

3,

Lewisburg, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg. Pa.

Falrview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

’49

SECRETARY
312

Miss Margaret Lewis

TREASURER

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
Ash St., Danville, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,

SECRETARY

8

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

Miss Mary A. Meehan, ’18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Richard C. Stout,

Miss Mabel Dexter,

FINANCIAL. SECRETARY

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

227

’52

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

William B. Jones,

’24

Tunkhannock, PA.

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

New

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

21

St.,

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Edward D.

2921

West Harrison

J,

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Elrdrick St., Philadelphia 35, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Clarence

Crow

Lewisburg. Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1904

M.

Jessie

Hoyer

G. L.
Garverton

(Mrs.

Howell) lives at 32
Hoad, Tnieks\ ille. Pa.

friends:

clined.

Then we went by

train to Stras-

burg, France, where

we were met

who had

their car over

b\’

friends

We

tluMC.

toured W'estern Ger-

many, Ln.xembourg, and

May
a

a (juarter of a century
has ice steps which one

It

descends to the ball room, where
one may rent skates if he is so in-

1908

jnst

1

little

take iny classmates

journey with

was the dream (come

me?

lifetime.

We left Philadelphia .\irport on
TW.\, with Paris as onr destination hy way of New York, Gander
and Shanson Island. Three days
.\ir
Paris,
then
in
Then on to
France to Madrid.
Granada, in the southern part of
of
Spain, for the prime purpose
Hack to
seeing the .\lhambra.
Madrid, and then hy TW'A across
Home.
the .Mediterranean Sea to

sightseeing

Belgium

lor sex eral days.

It

of a

tine)

.\lter

returning to Paris,

we

flew

London.
W'e had three days
there and were fortunate in seeing
the Parliament buildings, where we
went through the House of Lords
and the House of Commons. We
had a trip to Buckingham Palace
and Windsor Castle, not to mento

tion all of the other

London high-

lights.
-\11 through Italy, Germany, Belgium, France and England, we saw

the results of the terrific

bombing

We

saw

W’orld W'ar 11. Many places are
unrepaired and stand as skeletons

that

we

of fine buildings.

all the historical
places
studied in history in High
School and B.S.N.S., such as the
Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Catacombs, -\ppian Way, the \’atican

of

W'e
at

left

9:(K)

P.

London .Airport Sunday
.M. and arrived in the

and several famous cathedrals.
Then we went on to Naples hy
train, and hy steamer to Sorrento
and the Isle of Capri and its famous Blue Grotto. This was the most
beautiful part of the trip.
Back
to Rome and on to \Tnice by train.

Philadelphia Airport Monday at 1
P. .M.
Add four hours for difference in time and take off threefourths of an hour
at
Shannon,
three quarters of an hour at Gander, and one and one-half hours at
Idlewild Airport, and you have the
actual flying time.
It is a small

The

world after

city of \"enice

(]ue as

it

song and

has been

is

really as uni-

described

From there we went to Milan to
see the famous La Scala
Opera

Wag-

nerian opera (five hours, since nothing is deleted). W^e saw the world
famous cathedral, with 148 spires
and more than a thousand gargoyles.
The front door is made of

bronze and weighs twenty

We

also

tons.

saw the famous painting

of

the Lord’s Supper.

We

left

Italy

in St.

Augus-

1909
PSchool days, school days, dear old
old golden rule days
Headin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmetic
but we are rudely awakened from
onr dream, for this is not 1909.
lime and tide wait for no man.
I'orty-five years have passed and
this is 1954; changes have taken
place. Letters flew back and forth,
some flew east and some flew west
and some flew into the cuckoo’s
nest
,or
thereabouts) and “the
chain of friendship stretching far,
links days that were with days that
are.”

Our plans fell into place and our
baiKiuet at the Episcopal Church
at 6;.30, thanks to Bertha and Jes.sie,
was a grand success from juice to
nuts and mints and the alternating
litle plants of adjuratum and fuscia, which we might keep, was a
lovely touch of color.
Our meal
was prefaced with a beautiful
poem blessing composed and offer’ed by Bess Hinckley.
Fifty-eight
classmates, wives, husbands and
guests were present and enjoyed
a delicious dinner.
Dean Sutliff,
one of the Old Guards, ate with us
and made us happy with his presence and the words he spoke to us.
Other guests were Mrs. Foote, Miss
Mary Good, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Shambach, Mrs. Bruce Albert, her
sister, Mrs. Kyte, and Miss Mabel
Moyer.
“Oh! would some power the

Thomas

Francis retired July 5,
after twenty-five years of service
as
the
Superintendent of the
schools of Lackawanna county.
He has had forty-six years of school
ser\'ice since his graduation
from

an all-day trip to the top of Jungfrau Mountain.
Here is the most
beautiful mountain scenery
anywhere in the world. We visited the
Ice Palace near the top. The ele-

gif-

us to see ourselves as ithers
see us.” Well, we had the chance,
tie gi’e

for a

photographer appeared and

Bloomsburg.
1908

Martha James

retired this

year-

after forty-seven years of service as

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT

a teacher.

and went north-

ward by train through Switzerland
and Interlaken. Our tour included

October, 1954

all.

1908

a real old

home

tine, Florida.

in

stor)'.

House and hear

tober to their

more than
ago.

Willie Morgan Stein lives at 128
South 36th Street, .\partinent .\-l,
Philadelphia 4, Pa. The lollowing
letter Iroin Mrs. Stein will he ot inand
classmates
to
her
terest

on

\ation is over ll,d()0 feet.
The
Palace was car\ed out of a glacier

1908
Carol Krum Buck retired from
teaching several years ago,
and
her husband, who had a govern-

Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, '42
R. J.

Webb,

’42

ment
They

position, retired this
year.
are spending some time in
California, and will return in Oc9

lined up those of tlie class of 1909
presen* ^28 of us) and insisted that
those standing in line, behind the
lucky ones seated, should stand on
an angle and close to each other, A
few of us who knew tliat our pro-

were not “superb” turned

full

lace on him and tlie next day
saw the result of the “shot.”

we

files

Of

course we blush to say it (and yet
who has better right) “would you
have thought one class could have
had brains and looks both? Well,
1909 has.” Enough of merrimentlet’s

get

Church
to

down to business. The
alloted us a room upstairs

hold our meeting

ident,

in.

Our

Pres-

Dan Mahoney^ and Fred

Diehl presided. Dr. and Mrs. Andruss and Dr. and Mrs. Nelson joined our group. Dr. and Mrs. Andruss were introduced and Dr. Andruss spoke splendidly to us. The
Nelsons were introduced and Jack
gave us a good response (and something to think about and try to respond to at our 50tli reunion).
Letters were read from many of
our classmates who could not be
with us. Fred read a telegram from
Bob Wilner from the Philippines.

Our

guests were introduced and
for the most part responded with
short speeches. To me, one of the
most outstanding things of tlie
whole evening was the beautiful
iioems that fell so easily and beautifully from the lips of our classmates, most of tlie time their genius
held me sjpellbound and I know I
.speak for the group.
No wonder
some of us are bald and some white

—with ability like that. Bess Hmckley composed and gave us a beautiful
“special” poem.
Different
class members spoke of themselves,
their families and what the years
had held for them. After a most
delightful time

we

said goodnight.

Forty-six members of 1909 met
the next morning and sat in a group
in the auditorium for the Alumni

meeting.

Harold Moyer answered

our class when 1909 was called
on, and very ably represented us.
The group enjoyed luncheon in the
for

(iollege cafeteria.

At two o’clock a goodly number
and those who accompanied them, met in the Day Women’s Lounge in Noetling Hallof our class

10

the room allotted to us for our
Our President,
business meeting.
Dan Mahoney, and Fred Diehl preDan suggested tliat the
sided.
of our members who have
died be read and we stand for a
few minutes in silent recognition.
Fred read the names— 18 of them.
The secretary read the minutes and
the treasurer gave her report. Our

names

treasurer’s report

showed aU

bills

paid and a wee bit left but that
was quickly augmented by some
money rolling in. The President
appointed a committee, Harold
Moyer, Chairman; Ethel Creasy
Wright, Irma Welliver Abbott, Bertha Welsh Conner, George Shuman and Walter Welliver. This

committee to act on the financial
end for our SOtli or Golden reunion. We want to do something
for the School, probably in the way
of scholarship or scholarships, and
for this end this committee will
work in advance of that year.
Dan also appointed as a committee to plan for our SOtli Reunion the same persons who served in
a similar manner this year, namely:
Fried Diehl, Ethel Creasy Wright,
Irma Heller Abbott, Harold Moyer

around

the

what

years

make

it

is

a

corner for after 45
a short 5 years? Let’s
TIME IN-

GOLDEN

DEED.
Ethel Creasy Wright, Secretary.
S.—We apologize for this delayed report, but trust tliat it will be
none the less interesting.
are
greatly indebted to Ethel for this
account of our 45th reunion. The
enclosed list of names and addresses of our class is revised, as per
information gathered at the reunion.
Perhaps it will revive old
friendships and renew correspondence with old friends.
It is with regret diat we note tlie
passing of Eura Kester and Alma
Wallace, since we last met.
In
telling us of her mother’s death, on
December 21, 1953, her daughter
wrote, “If mother’s work was an

P.

We

example of

Bloomsburg

Sincerely,

class

Julia

members

Emma

spoke: Nora Clancy Lavins,
Eaton, Florence Priest Cook, Elizabeth Fagin, Norah D. Carr and
Fred Diehl. Thurman Krum read
a telegram from a 1908-er, Bill
Hobbes
Gertrude
Watkins!
Pooley’s husband gave us a splendid poem of his own.

Then the peak and grand

finale

fonn of the Lavins who
brought their recording machine
and Mr. Lavins very kindly re-ran
in

Fred Diehl

1910

and John Klingerman.

The following

training,

sure tliat your B.S.T.C. has
done a great deal for mankind.
Mother was a wonderful teacher—
at home and in the classroom.”
Plan now for 1959.
As Ethel
says, Let’s make it a Golden Time
Indeed.”

I’m

the

the wire with our 1949 tape witli
our voices ringing back to us and
we heard again what we had said
It was a splendid treat
and much enjoyed and appreciated by all of us. Thank you so
much “The Lavins” and Norah for
your class poem which you re-gave
us earlier and which we all re-likeed.
Our deep appreciation.
The curtain drops— our 45th re-

Gregg

Brill,

professor

of

English composition at the Pennsylvania University since 1924, retired with emerita rank on June 30.
Born in Tyrone, Miss Brill taught
in the public schools
of Luzerne
county and was an instructor in
history and Latin in Bloomsburg
high school prior to entering Penn
State.

After receiving her bachelor
arts

degree

in

1921.

Miss

of

Brill

taught European history in Allentown high school before rehirning

that day.

union
ly

is

.

J.

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg ISl-M

252

a thing of the past, a lovea great success,

memory and

thanks to everyone.

Our

GOLDEN TIME

lies

just

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

University as a graduate asin elassieal languages. She
was appointed instruetor in English
composition in 1924 and in 1927
to the

sistant

degree

master of arts

i(‘eei\ed a

from Penn State.
In addition to teaching English
composition, Miss Prill has ser\ed
as a \ ocational counselor to women
students in the College of the LibShe has also been active
eral -\rts.
in the Penn State .Mumni Association, ha\ing served on the Alumni
(,’onneil since it was organized in
She also served for many
1930.
Alumni E.\ecuti\e
years on the
Board and ser\ed se\eral terms as
first \ ice-president of the .\lunmi

.\ssociation.

She was active

ganizing the Penn State

in or-

.Mumnae

Cdub of Centre County.
During the past year she served
as ehairman of the speaker’s bureau of the C^entennial Committee
the University.
Phi
Brill is a member of
Kappa Phi, national scholastic
honor society; the American Association of Lhii\ ersity \Vomen; American Association
of
University
Professors; the National \’ocational
Guidance Association and the College English Association.
at

-Miss

\ native of Pennsylvania, being
born in 1908, he received an A. B.
degree from Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, in 1929, and LL. B.
degree from Columbia Law Sehool,

thirtv-eight

New

.Avenue, Berwick, received the degree of Master of Education from
the Pennsylvania State University
at the
commencement exercises
held Monday, June 7.

York, in 1932.
three years with the law

.\fter

firm

Cravath,

of

& Wood

Swaine

class of 1915 will

ilepartment until 1945

Pa.,

Eulah Boone Spiegel, Espy,
as

se^eral

addresses are not

known.

appointed assistant to the president
The Solvay Process Division. On
January 1, 1950, he became a vice
president of SoK ay and on November 11 of the same year executive
of

\

ice president.

When

Allied formed the Nitro-

gen Division on June 1, 1952, to
take over the manufacturing and
related acti\ities of the Nitrogen
and Organic Sections of Solvay and
the sales of the products involved,
Riemer was appointed president of
.\llied’s divisions.

During his days at Bloomsburg
High School he was a varsity lineman on the 1923 football team and
active

in

also played

He
school dramatics.
on the Teachers Col-

lege eleven.

the
the

Bloomsburg High School graduating class
is

here Monday evening,
president of Nitrogen

Division, Allied Chemical and Dye
Corporation, and a graduate of the
local institution, class of

Lanterman,

fessor of Physical Sciences at tlie

Science from Temple University.
This year he will be Assistant Principal of the Red Lion High School
and will also serve as Elementary
(Coordinator.

1934
Margaret Blaine (Mrs. Donald
Cooper) lives at Turbotville, Pa.
She taught for eight years in the
schools of Delaware Township,
Northumberland County. She has
a son and two daughters.
1934

James A. Boylan lives at 31 Main
Street, Locust Gap, Pa.
He is employed as a mine foreman. He is
married and has one son.

Bloomsburg State Teachers Colbeen awarded the degree
of Doctor of Education by the

1924.

Woodrow

G. Brewington lives in
Benton, Pa.
He is Chief Deputy

Columbia County.

Sheriff of

lege, has

Pennsylvania State University. His
dissertation

was written on the subChemistry

in the

of Science.”

Dr. Lanterman was graduated
from the Berwick High School in
1924, attended Bloomsburg State
Normal School and Pennsylvania
State College, and received his
Bachelor of Science degree and
Teacher Certification from tlie
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1931.
New York University awarded him the degree of
Master of Arts in 1947.

Mr. Riemer, tlie son of the late
Dr. and Mrs. G. C. L. Riemer, with
the father head of the local Teachers College at time it advanced
from a normal school to collegiate
rating, now heads the organization
that introduced the first large-scale
production of nitrogen products in

For twelve years he taught Science and Mathematics in the Berwick High School before joining the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

the United States.

lege faculty in 1946 after serving

October. 1954

1934
.Arden Blain lives at Woodbine,
Pa., where he has been principal
of the Lower Chanceford Schools.
He has the degree of Master of

1934
Pro-

Training of High School Teachers

1924

7,

Harold Hunt

ject of “Analytical

Hugo Riemer, who delivered
commencement address to

June

when he was

World War

1932

1931

hold their

40th reunion next year, 1955. Any
member of the class reading this
please get in contact, during the
coming year, with the acting secretary,

DeCersdorff,
York, he

New

in

Theron D. Rhinard, 211 Central

joined the legal department of Allied in 19.35, and continned in that

1915

The

of

moiPhs

II.

1934

Anna Breya

(Mrs. Michael Rinko) lives at R. D. 2, Seneca TurnShe
pike, Syracuse, New York.
taught for ten and one-half years
in the Junior High School at Wyoming, Pa. She has a son and a

daughter.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

’16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg

777-

11

1941

1934

Frank

Shaw

J.

Chudzinski

lives at 11

New York. He

Street, Utica,

married and has two daughters
sons. He is Chief of Purchasing and Contracting at tlie
Criffiss Air Base, Rome, N. Y. This
is the Air Force Center for research
is

and two

and development

in the electronics

He is in charge of the operation of a purchasing and contracting office for the Air Force, with
field.

complete responsibility for expenditures as high as thirty million dollars a year, with supervision of expenditures of twenty million dolyear subordinate bases.

lars a

1934
Jietty
at

New

lives

Jersey.

1934

May

Engle received the
degree of Master of Education at
the commencement exercises held
at Pennsylvania State University
June 4, 1953.

Marion

1934

years,

1934
Bellamy (Mrs. Elbert
Tice) lives at 258 Handy Street,
New Brunswick, New Jersey. She
is teaching second grade in the La

Marion

School,

at

Worman has guided tlie steady
progress of the organization since
beginning his tenure at Milton in
1947.
The school is near Pensacola.
A graduate of B.S.T.C. in
1941, Worman recently returned to
Florida after a visit with his parLast spring the band qualified at
the Sixth District Band Festival in
Tallahassee for the state contest
also held in Tallahassee. Competing in class B division, the band
received superior in concert, excellent in marching, superior in inspection.
The French horn quartet,

brass sextet, clarinet quartet,

trombone and piano

clarinet,

and

solo-

twirlers received superior

ratings.

has been married eleven
and has two daughters.

Monte

at

festival sent the

ists,
\

Genevieve Bach (Mrs. John Kopcha) lives at 24 Mulberry Street,
Atlas, Pa.
She taught for nine
years,

the district musical
band to the Florida state contest and a final “excellent” rating there.

ior ratings

ents.

Hake Birgenheimer

219 North Dudley Avenue, Vent-

nor.

Bandmaster S. Frederick Worman, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. K.
Worman, Danville, has developed
an outstanding musical organization in the band of
the Milton,
Florida, High School. Nine super-

Bound Brook,

In the state contest, the Milton
group, participating for the
first
time, won excellent ratings in concert, sight-reading and marching.
In ensemble and solo competition,
four superior and four
excellent
ratings

were

also

awarded.

1942

George

Griffith

engineer in the textile fibers
DuPont Co. in Kinston, N. C.
ical

division of the

1949

Helen Romanezyk, whose home
address is 814 Delaware Street,
will teach this
Marcellus, New
York. Her position will be in conjunction with training students at
General Electric, Crause-Hinds, the

Forest

City,

coming

Pa.,

year at

Smith-Corona Typewriter Company, and other industries in Syracuse. Part of her teaching will be
done at the school, and the remainder of lier time will be spent in the
offices

his master’s

ment.
is

degree at

working for
Lehigh Uni-

A

1939
Elbert W. Ashworth lives at 414
37th Street, Canton, Ohio, where
he is District Manager of the NashKelvinator Sales Corporation. Mrs.
Ashworth was formerly Miss Hazel
Keefer, also a graduate of B.S.T.C.
They have one daughter.

Miss Dawn Forrester Eshleman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Lafayette Eshleman, of Berwick,
became the bride of Eugene Viscoe
McCord, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mar-

Jersey.

ed her bachelor of science degree
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, and her master of science
degree from Pennsylvania State
University.
For the past three
years she has been employed as a
pyschologist by the Wilmington
Board of Education.
The bridegroom received his
bachelor of engineering degree at
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., and his master of science degree from Massachusetts InHe is a
stitute of Technology.
member of Tau Beta Pi, Omieron
Delta Kappa, and Sigma Xi fraterernities. He is employed as a chem-

the

of

industrial

plants,

working with the personnel depart-

minister of the Christion Church, he is ser\ ing as pastor
of a church in the Allentown area.

New

ceremony and played the traditional wedding marches.
The bride was graduated from
Berwick High School. She receiv-

versity.

Miss Romanezyk taught for
Norwich, New York.

five years at

1949
Charles G. Gillow, 209 Dickson
Street, Duryea, received the degree

Master of Education from the
Pennsylvania State University at
the commencement exercises held
of

1947

shall

7.

Hampton McCord, Towson,

1940

Md., in a recent ceremony in the

Ciwladys Jones Miller lives at 12
Soward Street, Hopedale, Mass.
She has a son and two daughters.

Chapel of the Christ Child, Christ
Cihurch, Christina Hundred, Greenville,

Monday, June

Del.

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

The Rev.
1940
Stella

Herman McCleary

rector,
lives at

575 Kiclfer Street, Wooster, Ohio.
12

Dr. William C. Munds,
officiated at the double-

ring ceremony.
organist,

gave a

Firmin Swinnen,
before the

recital

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1950
Ann Jeanette llenrie,
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arden
llenrie, Blooinsburg, was united
J.
Hartman,
in marriage to Dayne
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hartman,
Menton R. D. 3, in a ceremony at
two o’clock Saturday afternoon,
June 19, in Trinity Evangelical and

Reformed Church, Mloomsburg.
The Rev. M. Edward Schnori^
officiated

pastor,

at

the

double-

reception was held in the sothe church after which
the couple left on a short wedding
trip.
They will reside in Renton.

cial hall of

The

graduated
from
School
and
Thompson Musiness College. She
is

bride

High

secretary to Dr.

Menton High

id T.

armed

Wednesday, September 1.
Since graduation from
Mloomsburg, .Mr. North has been
doing graduate work at the Penn-

1952
P\ t. David L. Heckman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Heckman,
East Third Street, has been assigned to the 9524 TSU White
House Signal Agency, Washington,
D. C’. He graduated from M.S.T.C.

Menton High

school at Ft. Mommouth, N. J.
a ten-day furlough before taking up his new assignment.

the

1950
Mensinger,

ics

He was on

well

known

has been
elected to fill a vacancy at the Mifflin Township School.
The \acancy was created by the resignation
of Robert E. De\’ore, who has accepted a teaching position at Men•Mifflinville sports figure,

ton.

.Mensinger, a M.S.T.C. graduate,
will teach mathematics, health and
physical education beginning Sep-

tember 20.
He is currently employed by the Magee Carpet Company, Mloomsburg.

The

1952
Methodist

Church,
Berwick, was the setting on Saturday, April 17, for the marriage of
Miss Helyu Burlingame, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burlingame,
Berwick, to William J. Pague, Almedia, son of Mrs. Elizabeth
Pague, Almedia, and the late Jesse
O. Pague.
The Rev. Aurance F. Shank, pastor,

First

officiated

at

ceermony using

the candlelight
the double-ring

service.

A

1951
son was born on Monday, June
14, at St. Mary’s Hospital, Madison,
M’is., to Mr. and Mrs. Richard M.
Genke, Marshall, Wis. Mrs. Genke
is the former Mary Jane Dorsey, of
Mloomsburg.

\

1951
Miss Natalie Laubach, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Laubach,
Menton R. D. 3, and Merle Starr,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L.
Starr, Benton R. D. 3, were married recently by tlie Rev. Charles
H. Frick, pastor of the Hunts\ ille
Christian Church.
Mrs.
Starr,
a
graduate
of
B.S.T.C., is teaching in Williamsport.

Her husband, now stationed

October, 1954

CJyganowski, son of Mrs. Alice Cyganowski, Nanticoke, were married
at ten o’clock Saturday monhng,
June 12, at Ct. Columba’s Catholic
(duirch, Mloomsburg.
The Very Rev. William Burke
officiated at the double-ring cere-

mony.

forces

and has taken advanced work at
Pennsyhania State University. He
graduated from the radio electron-

a teacher in
School.

C.’lair

1952
North, ot Mloomsburg,
reported tor induction into
the

Da\

Peoples.
a graduate of
School and B.S.T.C.,
S. S.

The bridegroom,
is

.November.

s>l\ania Slate University.

ring ceremony.

Mloomsburg

Sampson Air Force Rase, New
\ork, will complete his four years
of service with the Air Force in
at

reception was held at Hotel
Berwick after which the couple left
on a wedding trip to the southern
states.
They are now living in Allentown.
The bride graduated from Berwick High School and M.S.T.C. and
is a teacher in the Berwick schools.
Her husband graduated from Scott
Township High School and attended B.S.T.C.
He is employed by
Standard Oil Co., Allentown. He
served in the U. S. Marines during
World War II and plans to continue his studies at Lehigh University in the near future.

1953
Miss Mary Ruth Steiner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Steiner,
Mloomsburg, and Alfred Joseph

The

bride

Mloomsburg

graduated
from
School
and
Hospital School of

High

Presbyterian
Nursing.
She is employed at the
Mloomsburg Hospital. Her hus-

band graduated from Nanticoke
High School and M.S.T.C. He has
ser\ed

three

years

in

the

U.

S.

Navy.
1953

Catherine Dorothy Sanders,
daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Sanders, Shamokin, became the
bride of Lt. Jimmie Dale Johnson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson, Menton R. D. 1, in a ceremony
Saturday morning, June 19, at St.
Stephen’s Catholic Church, Sham•Miss

okin.

The bride was graduated from
Coal Township High School in
1952 and attended M.S.T.C. She is
employed as a clerk by the Pennsybania Railroad Co., Philadell^hia.

The bridegroom graduated from
Menton Joint High School in 1949
and M.S.T.C. in 1953. He is serving as a second lieutenant in the
U.

Air Force.

S.

A wedding

dinner was held in

Penn-Lee

Hotel, Shamokin,
and the reception was held at the
the

Hotel
li\’ing

Sanders.
The couple are
Philadelphia and New

in

York.

1954
Marjorie

Ann Walter,

of Milton,

and P.F.C. Alex Paul Koharski,
’53, were married Saturday, July
24, at a nuptial mass celebrated in
Joseph’s Catholic Church, MilThe best man was Thomas
Tomaskovic, a 1954 graduate of the
Pennsylvania State University, and
the maid of honor was Miss Dorothy Walter, a sister of the bride
and a sophomore at the West Chester State Teachers College.
Mr. Koharski is stationed at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New MexiSt.

ton.

co.,

as

a

member

of the Military
13

-VI ns. Koharski is teaching
grade in the elementary
address is 710 Broadway S.E., Alschools of Albuquerque.

1954

Police.

of

Blooms-

burg, reported for induction into
the armed forces Wednesday, Sep-

tember

1st.

1954

Gerald

Houseknecht,

Fall.

1954
In a lovely

mony August

late

summer

cere-

Berwick BapAdele
Feme
tist Church, Miss
Mr. and
Soberick, daughter of
28, at

the
Mrs. Jack Soberick, became
brade of Dale A. Krothe, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Krothe, Shickshinny.

The Rev. Ferdinand Derk,

pas-

double-ring
the
performed
ceremony before two hundred
tor,

wedding guests. White gladioU,
pompons and carnations decorated
the candlelighted church.

Howard

1954

Blooms-

hurg, has been ser\ ing on the staff
of the Lutheran camp. Camp Navvakiva, Arendtsville, during the
past summer. He is entering Gettysburg Theological Seminary this

Fenstemaker, Espy,
was organist and Nick DiMauro,
Berwick, was soloist.
F.

A

ceremony recently at
Bloomsburg Baptist Church,

In a pretty

the

Miss Joanne Kay Heisley, Bloomsburg, became the bride of Paul
Leland Benentt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leland M. Bennett, Plymouth.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
John Whitney, before an altar decorated with pink and while flowers.
Nuptial selections were provided by Howard Fenstemaker, organist.

The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg Higli School and
B.S.T.C.
She is employed at the
Bell Telephone Co., Bloomsburg,
She plans to
at the present time.
teach in California in September.
The bridegroom is a graduate of

He

B.S.T.C.

months
to

and
School
eighteen
served

High

Plymouth

in the U. S.

Army and plans

teach in California in Septem-

ber.

1954
Of the 104 graduates of the
Teachers College last spring who
have reported their employment

The bride graduated from Berwick High School and from B.S.T.
(.'. this spring.
She is employed as
an English teacher. Her husband,
a graduate of
Shickshinny High
School, is serving with the U. S.
Navy on the U.S.S. Mindao.

status

ceremony performed at Holy
I’rinity Lutheran Church, Berwick,
on Saturday, June 5, Miss Nancy
Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
In a

Whlliam V. Wright, Berwick, be-

came

the bride of Pvt. David Alley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Saide Alley,
Berwick. The Rev. A. W. Lawver
officiated at the double-ring cere-

mony.

The bride, a graduate of Berwick
High School, has been attending
B.S.T.Ci.
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School, attended Fordham University, before
(Milisting in the U. S. Army.
t

As long

as the surrounding states
York, New Jersey and
Maryland continue to pay higher
salaries, Pennsylvania-trained teachers will go to these states for
their initial experience. If they are
to return to the state where they
received their teacher education,
greater inducements will need to
be offered, local educators point

New

of

out.

1954

Reformed Church, of
Bloomsburg, was the setting at 2:30
Trinity

o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 5,
for the nuptials uniting Miss Mary

Ruth Dreibelbis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. E. Dreibelbis, Bloomsburg, and Walter Jack Lewis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Lewis,
bloomsburg.

reception was held at Berwick
Country Club with 150 attending.
The couple left later on a wedding
trip to Split Rock in the Poconos.

1954

In determining the number of positions to be filled in tlie
public schools
Pennsylvania
of
each year by comparing demand
with the total number of Seniors
being graduated and certified, we
must not overlook the important
fact that many of the Seniors do
not go into the field of teaching
the year following their
graduation, Dr. Englehardt said.
college.

Kenneth H. Hidlay,

second

up

one half of that
Pennsylvania. Twenty-six are teaching
about an
in other states while
called
ecpial number have been

number,

to July 1,

52, are teaching in

Armed Forces

or expect to
Only
enroll in graduating school.
four have found employment in
fields other than teaching, accordinto the

ing to Dr. Ernest H. Englehardt,
Director of Placement.
With one-fourth of the Blooms-

burg graduates being absorbed by
graduate
Services,
the Armed
schools, and employmient in other
another
Helds than teaching and
one-fourtli leaving Pennsylvania to
go to other states for higher salaries, it is evident that only half of
the graduates placed to date are
going to teach in Pennsylvania.
This trend may be revised by tlie
remaining
final statistics after the
forty-p(*rcent of the graduates rej)ort their

employment

status to the

The Rev. M. Edward

Schnprr,

performed the double-ring
Mock orange and Amernuptials.
ican Beauty roses decorated the

pastor,

church.

The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School and from
She will
B.S.T.C. this Spring.
the
local
teach
in
school this Fall.

The bridegroom,

elementary

a graduate of

and
School
Fennsylvania State University, is
serving in the U. S. Army.

Bloomsburg

High

1954

Lutheran Church, Lititz, was the setting at two o’clock
Saturday afternoon, June 5, for the
marriage of Miss Gloria Fllaine
Benner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde (). Benner, Lititz, to Paul
Robert Peifer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
St.

(].

Paid’s

Russell Peiffer, Lititz.

The
Bell,
ler,

pastor,

the

Rev.

Francis

and the Rev. Edgar D. ZiegHanover, formerly of Blooms-

burg, officiated at the double-ring

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ct'it'mony uniting

tlic

H.S.T.C^ stu-

the

The

bride graduated from B.S.

She was a member of the dramatie elub, the band
.uul Sigma Alpiia Eta fraternity.
Her husband, who served two years
r.t;.

NprrploflH

this Spring.

U. S. .\rmy,
ilent at IbS.T.C^
witli the

is

now

a stu-

and called

crash

iiupiiring

dents.

home

if

yet.

Informed that he was

waiting for her, they drove to

still

the .scene of
Ira C. Cherrington, ’98
Ira C.

Cherrington, seventy-sev-

en, died at the

Home, near

Char-.Mund Nursing

Orangeville, Saturday,

Keller,

iMr.

Mrs. Keller had arrived

They

the accident.

were shocked to open the door of
the car and see their relative lying
the floor, dead.

oil

Bloomsburg

State

Police,

still

continuing investigation, were informed by the injured, that Mrs.
Ivaup had halted for the “stop”

eent graduates of B.S.T.C., ha\e
seeured teaching positions tor the

September 4.
He was a former resident of
Roaringcreek \'alley where he had
been engaged in farming for many
years, but in recent years he had
resided in .\llentovvn and fllooms-

eoming

burg.

unaware

1954
Misses
Buelier

Yeager,

Betty

and Margaret

year.

.Miss

Barbara

\\ alters,

Yeager

re-

will

teach in the high school at South

W

illiamsport; Miss

Bucher

in

New

Jersey and Miss Walters in .Muncy.

1954
.\lfred

(Jhiscou,

Kingston,

has

been awarded a teaching fellowship at Purdue University.
.Mr. Chiscon will assume part
time teaching duties at the Indiana
University in September.
.\t the college, Chiscon was editor-in-chief of the yearbook and an
officer of Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Sigma Pi, and the senior class. He edited the college nevv'spaper for two
years.
Earlier this year he was
also assistant director of the high
school senior plav, “1 Love Lucy.”

Bloomsburg .Methodist Church
was the setting at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, August 28, for the
ceremony uniting in marriage .Miss
Joan Elaine Laubach, daughter of
.Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Laubach,
R. D. 2, and Rodney Clair Kelchner, son of Mrs.

Clarence

enderfer, Bloomsburg.
Dr. Elvin Clay
Myers,

F. Rich-

pastor,

church social rooms with more than
200 attending. For a wedding trip
to Niagara Falls and New'
Jersey,
the bride chose a pink linen suit
with white accessories and a pink
rosebud corsage.
Upon their return, they will reside at 224 West
Third street, Bloomsburg. Both the
bride and groom are graduates of
Bloomsburg High School.
Mrs.
Kelchner is a nurse’s aide at Geisinger Memorial Hospital. Her hus
band will enter his junior year at
.

B.S.T.C. this
October. 1954

fall.

Iroin the

School

in

Bloomsburg State Normal
1898 and began a teach-

ing career in Fernville.
He later
taught at Roaringcreek township
ami sev eral sessions of the old Benton I'eachers Summer School, in
Columbia county, and for a number of years at Elizabethville, Turbotville and schools in Lehigh
county.
He was also associated for some
years with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Bureau of
Plant Industry.
Fraternally he was a member of
C.'atavvissa Lodge No. 349, F. and
.\.
-M., and the various bodies of
Caldwell Consistory.
He is surv ived by two sons, Paul
L., of .Yllentovvn, and Lawrence R.
Cherrington, of Bloomsburg; five
grandchildren
and three great
grandchildren.

Mrs. Etta Hirlinger Keller ’02
.Mrs.

three,

pel-formed the double-ring
ceremony. A reception was held at the

Cherrington was graduated

.Mr.

dent,

July

Etta H. Keller, seventyprominent Orangeville resi-

vv'as

5,

instantly killed

Monday,

at eleven-fortv -five in the

morning, in a two-car crash that
sent four others to the Geisinger
tiospital.

The tragedy occurred

at the ”Y”
the Williamsport
and Benton routes to Wilkes-Barre.
.Mrs. Keller, driving alone, was
returning to Orangeville after visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Edith Bonham, who resides about
two miles north of tlie scene.

intersection

of

The Bonhams, although not far
from the scene of the crash, were
not aware that Mrs. Keller had
They had heard of
been killed.

sign

at

the

.Mrs.

There

intersection.

was no stop sign for

Raup pulled

Keller.

.Mrs.

out, apparently

that Mrs. Keller

was ap-

proaching.

The

front of .Mrs. Keller’s 1952
left front and side
of the Raup car were apparently
points of impact.
Both vehicles

setlan

and the

were demolished with
parts of both

wide

cars

shorn off
strewn over a

area.

Mrs. Keller’s sedan was spun at
right angles to the road, while the
other machine remained headed in
the

same

direction in

been traveling.

which

it

had

None were thrown

those early on the scene reported.

out,

.Mrs. Keller’s car

blem

carried an em-

for sixteen years of safe driv-

There were no eye witnesses.
of Harvey’s Lake, had been seated outside of the old dance hall, now tlie
Red Rock Gospel Hall. The minister, and possibly fourteen other
persons who were working at the
ing.

The Rev. James Payne,

hall preparing for fall usage, rushed to the scene to aid. They dispatched a passing motorist to the
nearest telephone to call for the
Benton Community Ambulance.
Dr. J. W. Bredbenner, Benton
veterinarian, was on the scene

shortly after the accident, and by
means of his two-way radio, con-

tacted authorities through his wife,
and otherwise aided in the case.
County Coroner S. Earl McHenry directed the removal of the
body to the Holcombe Funeral

Home, Benton. He ruled death
accidental and due to a badly fractured skull. She also suffered compound fracture of the right leg
above the knee, a fractured left
leg and a fractured left arm.
.Mrs. Keller was bom August 30,
15

1880, in Huntington township, Luzerne county, the daughter of the

M. and Hulda Steele
She had made her home

John

late

Hirlinger.

Orangeville since 1889.

in

A

graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal in 1902, Mrs. Keller was
also a graduate of Pennsylvania
State College and Columbia University.
She held a masters degree in education.
Early in her teaching career, she
taught at the White’s Hill and McHenry school, Orangeville R. D.,
and at the Dimmock school, Luzerne county.

For twenty-one years, she taught
sixth grade at the Benjamin Franklin Training School of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
and her husband, Alfred N. Keller,
operated the Orangeville Water

Company.

An

active

member

of the

Orange-

Reformed Church, she taught

ville

Class there for
ten years. She was president of the
board of Directors of the OrangePublic Library, an active
ville
member of the Orangeville Civic
the

VIen’s

Bible

1902 and only two years prior to
her retirement had declined appointment to the position of principal of Danville High School.
Active in church and civic affairs, Miss Guest was a member
of St. Paul’s Methodist Church and
served as organist for the church
for twenty-eight years.
She also
held the position of secretary of
the

Montour County

Historical So-

ciety for several years.
ris

Surviving are one brother, MorGuest, Anderson, Indiana, and

several nieces.

Anstock, sixty-seven,
5, died at the
Bath, N. Y. Veterans Hospital at
six-forty A. M., Monday, June 28,
following a lingering illness.
He
was a patient there for some time.
A veteran of World War I, Anstock served overseas with the U.
He
S. Army for eighteen months.
was born in Mahangy City and was
a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School and the New England
Conservatory.
S.

.Miss

1880.

Guest was born June 19,
She served faithfully in the

teaching

profession

for

years, retiring in 1946.

forty-six

She held

the post of assistant principal of
the junior high school at the time
ol

her retirement.

She was a graduate of Danville
High School and received her degree from Bloomsburg State Teachers (k)llege, later taking graduate
studies at Bucknell University.
al

IG

Miss Guest began her professioncareer at the Styer School in

Wednesday, August 11,
and had been unconscious from the
hospital on

Township

Conrad Walters, prominent Hazresident, who was a candi-

leton

by Barrett, Haentjens & Co.
and was a member of Christ Lutheran Church, the church brotherhood and superintendent of the
Sunday School for 17 years.
He was born in Sheppton, but
had resided in Hazleton since an
early age.
His parents were the
late George and Mary (Damstetter)
chinist

Walters.
Surviving are his wife, Florence
(nee Altmiller) Walters; a daughter, .VIrs. Clarence J. Meiss, of Denton, Md.; two sisters, Miss Alice
Walters, R.N., of New York, Mrs.
Earl Armour, of South Amboy, N.
J., and two brothers, John, of Hazleton, and Benjamin, of Philadelphia.

Mrs.

from

Walters

was

graduated
and her

B.S.T.C. in 1918,
daughter, Mrs. Mei.ss, is a
of tlu' class of 1951.

Mount

and

Carmel

Borough. He entered the Bloomsburg State Normal School, now
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where he graduated.
Then
he became a public school teacher
in Mount Carmel, a position he
held for several years and then
entered the Dickinson School of

Law

at Carlisle, where he was
graduated with a degree of Bachek)r of Laws.

After

from Dickinlaw offices in

graduation

opened

he

practicing his pro-

fession until the time of his death.

May 1, 1954, at his home.
He had been employed as a ma-

Miss Alice Guest, retired DanSchool teacher, died at the
age of seventy-four Tuesday, September 7, at Geisinger Plospital
where she had been a patient for
Death came to the
several days.
well-known Danville woman after
an illness of one week, and was
dne to complications of diseases.

er, and a former Congj-essman,
died Aug. 27 in Geisinger Hospital.
Death was caused by complications resulting from a serious operation he had undergone four
years ago. He was removed to the

Mount Carmel,

Conrad Walters

date for City Council in 1947, died

ville

501

oldest practicing member of the
profession in Mount Carmel, bank-

son

suddenly
Alice Guest, ’02

of

Avenue, Mount Carmel,
prominently known lawyer and

West

His preliminary education was in
schools
of
Mount Carmel

Bloomsburg R. D.

Historical Society.

’90

the

Club and the Columbia County
Surviving in addition to her husband and her sister, is a brother,
(ieorge E. Hirlinger, of Benton.

Frederick

W. Magrady,
W. Magrady,

time of his admittance.

Warren Anstock
Warren

Frederick

member

Mr. Magrady was elected to the
Congress, representing
the old Seventeenth Congressional
District of Pennsylvania comprising the counties of Columbia,
Northumberland
Montour,
and

sixty-ninth

He was

Sullivan.

times, serving in

reelected three
four terms in

all,

Congress.

He was

a

member

of

Northum-

berland County Bar, Pennsylvania
Bar Association, and the American

Academy

of

Science.

He was

President

of

and Social
a former State

Political

the

Patriotic

Order

Sons of America, of Pennsylvania,
grand master of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Pennsylvania, past master of Mount Carmel Lodge No. 378, F. & A. M.;
past high priest, Griscom Chapter
219, R. A. M.; past eminent commander, Prince of Peace Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar; vice
president of the Shamokin and

Mount Carmel

Transit

Company;

and solicitor for the First
National Bank of Mount Carmel.

director

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

^£cu4ce^Led
K.

Sixty years ago
Primary Reading.

tlie

li.

and

.\KI,S()\,

‘\)iiarterly

”

[li<uuexi^
’ll

ga\ e considerable space to “Metliods ot

one issue “Tlie .\lpliabetie Method” and “The World
Method” were gi\en generous treatment; and in the next number came “The
Phonic Method and “The Sentence .Method.” Still following came “The Burnz
Phonetic Method” and “'rhe Phonic Word Method.” Miss Fnndenberg’s Phonic
W'ord Method seems to have won ont. The concluding commentary says her
method was in principle the associati\e or eclectic and a decided improvement
am at loss to know which one was tried
on the method as generally employed.
belonged to the .school where if one
ont on me. .Maybe all ot them, .\nyhow
were asked whether or not he eonld read writing was likely to get the reply, “1
can't even read leadin’.”
In

1

1

There was another statement in a “(,)narterly of 60 years ago of real interest.
was as follows: “.\ teacher cannot possibly cause to pass into a child’s fullest
comprehension any experience which he has himself not first experienced.”
have tried to anahze that one. .\s
see it now, my teachers should have been
along with Columbus, and with Cirant at \bcksbnrg. .Maybe if my Latin teacher
wouldn’t have needed my
had been in tlie Forum when Cicero was talking
interlinear.
.\nd it would ha\e been nice if some of those teachers had taken
”

It

1

1

1

time to attend a sports e\ent — baseball preferred — or even try a waltz with
My education was spoiled because my teachers lacked
of the opposite sex.
ha\e often wondered wherein the difficulty lurked.
first hand experience.

one

1

why
who

The years are passing by. It is pleasing to list the names
continue to support the .school and its programs through interest
and financial contribution.
young married couple out in California, but three
years out of college, sent oack SIO.OO. Their names appear below. Fine young
like that keep this old heart a pumpin’. We are happy to add in this number the
names of those who ha\ e sent in contributions since the last issue.
But

of those

linger?

Jean C. Conner
Arlene Frantz Co\

ert

Dormer
Albert W. Duy
Ruth Hope Handy
Clement Koch
Anna R. Kischke
James

J.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laubscher
Elsie

Lebo

Stauffer

The list should be longer — much longer. Alumni of a neighbor institution
ga\ e S42,00{).0() to support its 1953-54 program and will come right back and do
the same thing again in 1954-55.
e try all the means at our command to seek
your support. Once again, “How about some dollars for your Alma Mater.” A
few can gi\ e $1,000.00. More can gi\ e $500.00. Many can give $100.00, and the
$50.00, $25.00, SIO.OO and $5.00 will be as much appreciated because you haven’t
forgotten and are giving as liberally as those who can afford more.
Will I be
hearing from you?

College Calendar
1954-1955

1954

Freshmen

September

7

September

8

Registration of Upperclassmen

September

9

Classes Begin

Registration of

HOMECOMING DAY

October 16

November 23

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

November 29

Thanksgiving Recess Ends

December

Christmas Recess Begins

15

1955

January

Christmas Recess Ends

3

January 20
January 24
April

First

Semester Ends

Registration— Second Semester
Easter Recess Begins

5

April 12

roaster

Recess Ends

May

17

Classes

May

18

Senior Honor Assembly

May

19

May

21

ALUMNI DAY

May

22

Baccalaureate Ser\ ices

May

23

(iommencement

Classes

End

for

End

for Seniors

Underclassmen

BLOOMSBURG BUILDING PROGRAM
An allocation of $460,000 has been granted by the
General State Authority for the erection of a building
to be located on the old tennis courts between Waller
Hall and the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School to
provide space for a dining room, kitchen, and general

give the casual visitor to the college a different impression of the main floor corridors. This is especially
true, since the administrative office of the President,
Business Manager, Dean of Instruction, and Director
of Placement have been moved to the first floor of

storage.

Carver Hall.

Tentative plans have already been drawn by John
A. Schell. Registered Architect, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, who designed the new brick porch for Waller

Waller Hall corridors
supposed to be completed during
the summer of 1955 and ready for use by the opening
of the Fall Semester in September.

which runs along Second

Hall,

Street.

This new building, which will probably be called
“College Commons,” will be connected to the
Waer Hall dormitory by an underground passage leading to the main dining room from a new lounge, space
formerly occupied by the Business Office. A combination brick and glass facade will look out over Second
Street to the scenic valley of the Susquehanna.
The normal seating capacity will be 650, with a banquet seating maximum of 800, which may be further
augmented by the use of a terrace running along the
front of the building.
the

Two

complete cafeteria counters will be constructhe service of luncheon in particular
will enable 500 students to be served during the noon
hour. Four separate walk-in refrigerators, to provide
variations in temperatures for milk, vegetables, meat,
and deep freeze items, will be a part of this equipment.
The dietitian's office will be located in the kitchen
area so that there will be a free and unobstructed view
of the operations necessary for the delivery of raw
food and its preparation and service.

ted

so

The

face-lifting contract for

and adjacent areas

is

While the final plans for the Dining Hall project
will not be approved until January, 1955, if construction begins in the early Spring, it may be possible to
occupy the new Dining
vacation of 1955.

Room

following the Christmas

As soon as the old dining room space is available
and sufficient funds can be accumlated, the library,
located for many years on the second floor of what is
now the men’s section of the Waller Hall dormitory,
will be moved to the first floor of Waller Hall, adjacent to which will be the offices of the Dean of Men
and Dean of Women.

that

A

lounge will also be provided for those students
not live in the dormitory or cannot reach it
by using the underground passage from Waller Hall.

With present library space vacated, it
rooms for men will be constructed
dormitory capacity can be increased by at
that

is

expected

so that the
least twen-

ty-five persons.

Although it will take approximately three years to
provide adequate dining room and kitchen space, relocate the library, and increase the dormitory space,
I am sure the Alumni will be interested in knowing
the future building plans of the College.

who may

Once the dining room

constructed and adequate
our greatest need is that
of a modern dormitory to house at least two hundred
men. This means that North Hall, which was never
meant to be used as a dormitory for students, lacking
bathroom facilities on the third floor, and having an
outstide fire escape, will not continue to be used as a
dormitory. Since sixty to seventy-five men continue
to live in the Town of Bloomsburg, some at such distances as to make it impossible for them to eat in the
college dining room, it seems logical that since we
will have a dining room that is large enough to provide meals for all students who wish to have them at
the College, that our dormitory facilities should be

space

library
a second major repair and renovation
have been received, and it is proposed to
spend $152,000 in renovating the first floor of Waller
Hall and completing the Student Lounge in the space
formerly occupied by the Old Gymnasium. This means
the construction of an elevated lounge on the West
side, a new entrance to the lounge which will match
the knotty-pine paneling used around the fireplace
areaa; relocating college canteen and Book Store. The
first floor corridor of Waller Hall from Noetling Hall
to the Long Porch will have all the wainscoting removed and replaced by modern plastics; floors, walls, ceilings, and lighting will be replaced; the Business Manager's office, business office, bookkeeper’s office, and

Bids for

contract

store room for the Book Store will become a part of
the Lobby at the entrance to the present Dining Room.
The Book Store will become a part of the College Post
Office, which will have twice as many lockboxes as in
former years. The Faculty Lounge adjacent to the
Alumni Room will have a combination cooking and
dishwashing apartment unit and more light will be
admitted by means of glass doors opening on the hall.
A new limestone entrance to Carver Hall, providing
parking space for eight cars, will be constructed.
Georgian porch will be constructed on Waller Hall at
the Main Lobby entrance, all of which will tend to

A

is

is

available,

increased.

modern building have spiraled to a point
dorimtory for two hundred men will cost,

Costs of

where

when

a

furnished, in excess of $1,000,000.

At the last meeting of our Board of Trustees,
serious consideration was given to the future building
needs of the college, and it is hoped that after reading
this message you, as an Alumnus of Bloomsburg, will
any way
use your influence in
be willing
to
that may be necessary to improve our plant to the
point that Bloomsburg will become Bigger and Better.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LV,

December, 1954

No. 4

JOHN BAKELESS HONORED
“This is tlie town which gave me
everything 1 needed and if I had
to grow up again I would want to
do it in Bloomsburg,” Dr. John

J.

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
scription,

March
$2.00;

Yearly SubSingle Copy, 50 cents.
3,

1879.

platpie

Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, of the College faculty and a classmate of Dr.
Bakeless, told of their days togeth-

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

“Old Normal.”

Paul R. Eyerly, representing The
Press, spoke of Bakeless
having his first job on this newspaper and presented the plaque.
Robert G. Beers, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, spoke of

Morning

the manner in which the Chamber
worked to secure the naming of

Dr.

Bakeless

the place the

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl
F. Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

as

a

Pennsylvania

Ambassador and touched

Chamber

briefly

on

plays in the

much

interesting response to Dr.
devoted principally

to

“what Bloomsburg has meant
He paid glowing tribute

me.”

many

of the faculty of the

to

to

Normal

School and to Paul R. Eyerly, one
of the founders and long editor of
Press.
He also declared that “the woods, hills and
creek provided the richest life for

The Morning

Cham-

spoke of the early days of the guest
of honor and of the rich heritage
he received from his parents, the
late Prof, and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless.

er at

PRESIDENT

The

Around one hundred fifty attended the dinner which was under

B. Sutliff

Entertainers

Bakeless was

a certificate of the occasion.

Dean Emeritus William

Magee

at their best with three

enjoyed numbers.

was
and

in various salutes to Dr. Bakeless.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

December, 1954

soldier,

MANAGER

THE ALUMNI

Edward

and

handsome

Glowing tributes to the guest of
honor and to his family were paid

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

E. H.

a

’12

H. F. Fenstemaker,

were

dent of
achieved distinction as an author,
teacher, editor

The

piano.

now a resiConnecticut and who has

awarded

led

by John Lyle, with John Morris
and Howard Fenstemaker at the

is

the sponsorship of the local
ber of Commerce.

EDITOR

BUSINESS

who

Group singing was

Church.

Bakeless, one of the commonwealth’s
Pennsylvania Ambassadors for state week, declared recently in his response at a dinner
at the Elks in his honor.

Dr. Bakeless,

Hopkins, pastor of the Methodist

a

growing

child.”

He

.

said recognition
appreciated as when it

is
is

never so
given “by

home folks.”
Some of the accomplishments

the

of

Dr. Bakeless are interestingly dealt
with in a short biography which
has been prepared by Robert A.
Baylor under the title of “John

Bakeless— An Outstanding Alumnus.” The biography follows:

John Bakeless

is

an

alert,

rapidly

moving person with thick hair, a
clipped-bristly mustache and a penchant for digging up long buried
facts— whether they concern Elizabethian

playwright

Ghristopher

Marlowe,
frontiersman
Daniel
Boone, or an odd occurence in the
Balkans. A noted journalist, author
and scholar. Bakeless is also a former resident of Bloomsburg, an
alumnus of the Normal School, and
an ex-staff

member

of

The Morn-

community.

ing Press.”

He presented Dr. Harvey A. Andruss who presented the certificate
to Dr. Bakeless with the expression
that it gave him great pleasure to
make the presentation “to a distinguished son of a great father.”

Bakeless has put in years of unuusual and exhaustive preparation
for the several and varied careers
which he has followed at one time
At various times and
or another.
often simultaneously, for he is a
man who can do many things at
one time and do them all well, he
has been a reporter, lecturer, sold-

William Strang provided dinner
music on the Hammond organ. The
invocation was by the Rev. Thomas

1

college professor, polprognosticator and author.
Since 1947, Bakeless has served
as lecturer at the School of Journalism, New York University. He has
also been engaged in writing a new
book which will describe the continent of North America as it appeared to the first white explorers.
At the moment he is writing that
section of the book which deals
with the Susquehanna Valley.
editor,

ier,

itical

Born

came

became
at

Pa.,

Bloomsburg

father,

his

Carlisle,

in

to

a

when

Oscar Hugh Bakeless,
member of the faculty

Normal School.

the

Bakeless

in 1903,

Like

all

men who

lead busy, active lives he
looks enviously back on his boyhood days and the long leisurely

summers spent

in “reading and in
rambles along Fishing Creek, in
Dillon’s Hollow, and up Catawissa
Mountain.” He recalls that the
college library, containing thousands of well selected books to
tempt any sort of reader, had a
conveniently
located,
un-locked
window which could be used to
gain entrance when the library was
closed.
He was quick to discover
and make use of this private en-

trance.
“I

suppose I learned my trade
he says, “mainly in the

as a writer,”

and The Morning Press

library
fice.

I

of-

practically questioned the

editorial, business,
staffs of the Press

and mechanical
to

death

when

joined up as a ‘cub” in 1911; but
I came out with a knowledge of all
sides of newspaper production that
couldn’t possibly have been gotten
in a large metropolitan office.”
I

Many

years later he was to write
that every professor and every research worker in the world ought
to have at least a year under a
really hard-boiled city editor. Here,
too,

perhaps he was speaking out

of his experience with the Press!

Bakeless is remembered by his
fellow students and friends here as
a quiet, unassuming chap who
seemed able to hold his own in any
conversation regardless of the subject under discussion.
In addition
to hiking and reading, he claimed
botany as a hobby and was for a
number of years a “tagger-on”
when science professor Ilartline

conducted
2

field trips.

He was

also

seemingly were

as

all

Bloomsburg

natives in their youth, a member
of Professor Hartline’s butterflycatching brigade.

Like

many

before and
was enchanted by
his first contact with the works of
Shakespeare.
While a student at
the Normal School he took to learning complete passages from Shakespeare’s plays by heart.
His interest in Shakespeare led him on to
other

since. Bakeless

an examination of other Elizabethian playwrights— and to his first
reading of the works of Christopher
Marlowe.
For Bakeless, a mystery story
fan and an avid seeker after facts,
the enigmatic figure of Marlowe
loomed out of the pages of his
plays as a gigantic question mark.
Who was this Marlowe, whose
plays in some cases were the equal
of Shakespeare’s?
What were the
facts concerning his murder in a
pub at the age of 29? Had he collaborated on any of Shakespeare’s
plays? The answers to these and
hundreds of other questions pertaining to Marlowe were shrouded
in a veil of mystery.

For almost a quarter of a century Bakeless devoted every possible spare moment to thinldng,
reading, and seeking more knowledge about Marlowe. In 1936, he
was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for research about Marlowe.
He spent seven months in
England, reading original manuscripts, talking with other Elizabethans scholars, and snooping
about in old attics. As a result of
his snooping the literary world is
possessed of seven hitherto
unknown documents pertaining to

Marlowe and
Finally,
his

first

while he
Bakeless

Marlowe.
in

1937.

critics as

his family.

twenty-two years after
contact with Marlowe
was still in Bloomsburg,
published “Christopher
The Man in His Time,”
It has been hailed by
a full blooded book, use-

and important; the definite biography of its subject.
At the age of twelve Bakelcss,

ful

the urging of his father, beinterested in woodwork. The
late Professor J. C. Foote, who
worked with wood as a hobby,
agreed to teach young Bakeless
at

came

the use of tools.
Professor Foote
had a workshop in the basement
of his home and John spent many
hours there sawing, chiseling, drilling-working with his hands.
He
is still interested in woodwork but
lacks the time and equipment to
be able to do much about it. While
living in

New

he did build

York
his

City,

however-

own book

cases.

He

confesses somewhat ruefully
that
they
are
not
too
good,
perhaps because he used a copy
of Chopin’s etudes in lieu of a carpenter’s square.

Upon finishing at the Normal
School, Bakeless took his B.A. at
Williams College, graduating cum
laude and carrying off many prizes
including the prize for prizes. Just
about this time the United States
entered the first World War and
John promptly

enlisted.

He com-

pleted Officer’s Candidate School
and was commissioned a Second
Lieutenant, but much to his chagrin, never reached the front.

In

1920,

work on

his

completed
Harvard and

Bakeless

M.A.

at

Katherine
Little,
of
married
Bloomsburg. (He was awarded his
Ph.D. in 1937.) Mrs. Bakeless is an
accomplished teacher, author, and
pianist, having studied music under many of the outstanding present day instructors both here and
abroad.

Her books, “Story Lives

Great Composers” for instance,
deal primarily with the field of
She also lends her husmusic.
band a hand in time of need, working on notes, criticizing scripts,
typing them and helping with

of

proof and index.

Drawing on his wartime experience and study. Bakeless wrote his
first book, “Economic Causes of

Modern War,” in 1921. It was
promptly put on the reading list

Army War College, making
Bakeless, the only second lieutenant in history whose ideas were
used to train generals.
Five years later he wrote his second and final, to date, war book.
It was aptly titled, ‘The Origin of
the Next War.” In it he made many
startling predictions which have
Probably
since become realities.
the most far-sighted and amazing
predictions of all concerned the
Danzig Corridor, which he likened
at the

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powder magazine
any time set off
both France and the

to the fuse of a

which might

I

I

I

^

at

explosions in
Thirteen years later, in
Balkans.
1939, Italy moved into the Balkans just after the Germans raised
the issue of Danzig.

In addition to writing his two
“war” books. Bakeless made two
“flying trips” to the Balkans dnring the 1920’s. Since 1922, he has
been a steady contributor to such
magazines as ‘The Atlantic Monthly,” “Saturday Review of Literature,” “American Mercury,” “Outlook” and more than 40 others. In
all, he has published more than 100
magazine articles, including fiction,

essays

and reviews.

Emerson!

A man

of multifarious interests
and abilities. Bakeless is the tx'pe
of person who never does things

Generally when he
something he
doesn’t let it go until he has become an expert in die field, whatOften one interest
e\ er it may be.
will lead to another and before he
knows it he has the material for
another book or a subject for a lechalves.

takes an interest in

ture tour.

For instance, he

first

became

in-

Balkans while
studying the Slavic languages at
Harvard.
This led to a trip to
Europe and tour of the Balkan
terested

in

countries,

the

and resulted

ing several

magazme

what he had observed.

in his writarticle

A few

on

years

when things again grew
warm in the Balkan hotbed he
made another trip which he also

later

wrote up for various magazines. In
addition, he toured the United
States lecturing on the Balkan situation.

Thus

his initial interest as

languages
on and on until he

a student in the Slavic

led Bakeless
is

today one of the leading experts

December, 1954

three
taking

men

him
Communist
ades.
again.

who were
a

to

CMiieftian

He was

otensibly

meeting with a

Markos Vafi-

never seen

alive

In his article, which was published in 19.30, Bakeless tells of a
similar rendez\ous he made in
1929, to interview Ivan Michailoff.

that time Michaeloff was, as is
Tito of Yugoslavia today, the mystery man of the Balkans.
Head
of the “Imro”— short for Inner Mac.\t

In 1922-1923, Bakeless performed
a feat of scholarship which had
100
o\er
not been achieved in
years. He took the graduate Bowdoin Prize two years in succession
—in literature in 1922, and in biology in 1923. The joker in the successive years feat is that the prize
awarded one year in the huis
manities and the next year in science.
The last man before Bakeless to achie\ e it was Ralph Waldo

by

on the Balkans.
In reading one of Bakeless’ Balkan articles, “Apples from Mr.
Michailoff” one discovers a deadly
present day parallel between the
incidents he recounts and the facts
surrounding the recent murder of
GBS correspondent George Polk in
Greece.
Polk left his hotel with

edonian Revolutionary Organization— .Michailoff directed his army
of guerrillas while keeping constantly on the mo\’e, never sleeping
more than two nights at one place.
.\fter weeks of waiting in Sophia

and

several

close

scrutinies

by

“Imro” agents. Bakeless was picked

up

at

dawm one morning and

trans-

ported 150 miles by car to an obscure farm house near the Yugoslavian border.
There, standing
quietly beneath an apple tree, was
Michailoff.

For three hours he questioned
the “Imro” chieftain.
Then, with
three shiny apples— a gift from
Michailoff— in his pocket. Bakeless
was safely returned to Sophia.
published
In
Bakeless
1937,
“Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness,” his first “best seller.”
“We haxe had to wait a long
time,” said the reviewer for the
‘New York Times,’ “for this ex-

documented biography
a national hero.
It was well

citing fully
of

worth waiting

for.”

Grove at the Normal School
grew in a tree-shaded environment similar to that in his courtyard.
In answer to Bakeless’ urgent request, Fred Lord, of Espy,
sent him a barrel of peat earth
and Professor Hartline sent along
sc\’cral different types of ferns and
v\’ild flowers.
In no time Bakeless
had a thriving wild flower and fern
garden right in the middle of ManHe also had the
hattan Island.
last laugh on his big city friends.
In 1940, the Bakelesses bought a
the

in Gonnecticult. They named
“Elbow Room”— “because that’s
what Daniel Boone wanted and
what we wanted and the Boone
book had more or less paid for the

farm
it

farm.”

They spent the latter part of the
summer of 1940, motoring about
the United States gathering mate“double-header” biofor his
In
graphy of Lewis and Glark.
commenting on the three exten-

rial

field trips and the research
went into Lewis and Glark,
which was published in 1947, Bakeless had this to say:
“It was a little like the Mar-

sive

that

(When

lowe”

speaking

of

his

books. Bakeless invariably refers to
them as “the Marlowe,” “the
Boone,” etc.) “Marlowe lived only
29 years and it took me 22 years
to write him up, which looks like

slow going until you reflect that
Marlowe didn’t have to read all
the German dissertations about
himself.

“\Ye actually rolled up more
mileage than the explorers themselves, because of course they did
not have to dodge back and forth
looking for historical society libraries.”

Work on the Lewis and Clark
book was temporarily halted when
Bakeless, who was and still is a

were living in
Manhattan at about that time and
John decided to plant a flower garden in his court yard. It soon be-

member

came apparent, however, that garden flowers were too fragile to grow

Washington he was orderEurope and his old stamping
ground— the Balkans.
Having risen to the rank of
Colonel, he was at times assistant
chief, acting chief, and chief. Intelligence Bureau in the Balkans.
While stationed at Smyrna, now

The

Bakeless’

in the sunless, skyscraper surroun-

ded courtyard.

After suffering the
gentle taunts of his big city friends
at the failure of his “garden,” Bakeless had a “brain wave.” He recalled that ferns and wild flowers in

of the Officers’ Reserve
Corps, was ordered back to active
duty in November, 1940. After a
tour of duty in tlie War Depart-

ment

ed

in

to

3

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Izmir, about

which he had written

several articles in 1923, he had
quite a time letting his wife know
where he was located. There was

not the least secrecy about it but
the Turkish telegraph refused to
transmit the word Smyrna, and
Izmir in those days wasn’t on most
maps.

Though most
was

of

his

war work
and is

of a confidential nature

better not discussed, he did have
several amusing experiences of a
non-military nature. While living
surrounded by Germans on top of
Mt. Pelion, he was handed an English review of one of his books
(the Marlowe) by Sir John Squire,
“And believe it or not,” he said,
It was a queer
“it was favorable.
place to find it.”

One can imagine the thoughts
of a Greek officer who found Bakereading Plato’s Republic in the
midst of the Bulgarian border flareup which followed the Second
World War. I imagine he thought
it was “a queer place” indeed to
find an American reading Plato!
less

After

much

service

secret

“ho-

tapped
phones, diplomatic incidents, and
various shenanigans behind the

cuspocus”— false

German

arrests,

Greece— Bakeless
was ordered home and demobilized
lines

in

1946.

in

While still in uniform he picked
up where he had left off on the
Lewis and Clark book. When tliat
was on the presses he turned immediately to the new work on
North America. It is now nearing
completion and is projected for the
publication either this

fall

or the

of 1950.
After that? Bakeless has no
plans — as yet.
Perhaps another
book will be waiting to be written
or maybe the Balkans will pull him
fall

back for another look-see.

What-

DR.

NORTH RETIRES
Thomas

North, dean of
instruction at the Teachers College
since 1941, will retire at the end of
the current semester. Dean North’s
Dr.

P.

retirement will terminate more
than twenty-five years of service to
the local institution and bring to an
end an education career of more
than thirty-seven years.
Dean North, a native of Punsxutawney. Pa., and a descendant of
one of southern Jefferson county’s
pioneer Scotch-Irish families, came
to Bloomsburg in 1929 to fill
the
vacancy created by the retirement
of Professor Oscar Hugh Bakeless.
He taught courses in the philosophy of education, school law and
administration,
orientation
and
guidance,
and educational and
vocational guidance prior to being

named dean of instruction in 1941.
During World War II, Dean
North served as acting president of
the college from July 1 to December 31, 1945, while President Harvey A. Andruss was on leave of
absence, serving as head
of the
department of accounting, American Army University, Shrivenham,
England. Dr. North also served as
coordinator of the Navy V-12 offithe
cer training program during

war

years.

A

graduate of the Punxsutawney High School, Dr. North holds
the Bachelor of Science and the
Master of Science degrees from
the Pennsylvania State College and
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from Cornell University. He taught
the science department of the
one
for
Brookville High School
year before becoming supervisor of
vocational education at the Beechwoods Vocational School. One year
later, he was asked to establish the
Union Vocational School at Corsica, Pa. Dr. North served as direcin

ever the project we may be certain that Bakeless will pitch into
it

in his

own capable

before he

fashion.

And

through the world will
know a little more about some long
lorgotten episode in the history of
mankind.
is

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

C. Strausser,

122 East

Miss C’atlierine Zealburg,

Carlisle, was a weekend guest of Miss
bcatrice
Mettler and
attended
B.S.T.C.
4

homecoming.

— REPAIRS

’27,

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

tor of that school and supervising
principal of the Union-Corsica Consolidated Schools from
1919
to
1926.

He was a member of the staff of
the rural education department of
the Pennsylvania State College for
one year before accepting a position on the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Dean North has had a wide and
varied experience in
professional
activities during
his
tenure at
Bloomsburg. He served as president of the Department of Higher
Education of the Pennsylvania
State
Education Association in
1946, and he was a member of the
Executive Council of that associaDean North was a delegate
tion.
to the

conventions of the National
in 1946 and

Education Association
1947.

As chairman of the Pennsyh'ania
Commission on teacher education
and professional standards of the
teachstate-wide organization of
ers, he represented Pennsylvania at
many national conventions including those held at Miami University,
New Plampshire University, Bowling Green University, Leland Stan-

ford University and Western Michigan University. He has attended
regional conferences in WashingYork City.
ton, D. C. and New
Dean North has also participated
on
in the Second National Clinic

Teacher Education

conducted

in

the state of Michigan.
He was largely responsible for
the establishing of the Pennsylvan-

Commission on Teacher Educaand Professional Standards.
As chairman of that group for six
years, he has been called the “fathia

tion

professional

er of the

standards

movement in Pennsylvania.”
Dean North has sened as

man

chair-

committee on professional improvement of the AssociTeachers College
ation of State
Faculties, and he has represented
Pennsylvania on the board of conof the

trol of

the Eastern States Associa-

Schools
of Professional
Teachers for two >ears.
tion

lor

At the local college, he was
largely responsible for the inaugucalendar, a
ration of the college
program for the professional orientation of new students, the class

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I

dues program, an improved system

NAMED DEAN OF

of selection of candidates for ad-

INSTRUCTION

mission to college and to the teaching profession, and the snper\ ision

Me

of instruction.

also instituted a

plan for the inspection of all instructional facilities, leading to recommendations for improvement
of those facilities.

twenty-five
been a
years. Dean North has
member of the Hloomshnrg Board

During

past

the

Chamber

of Trade,

of

Commerce,

and the Bloomshnrg Hospital Cor-

He

poration.

past

is

president of

Bloomshnrg Kiwanis Club; has
served as chairman of the board of
review for the Boy Scouts; and is a
the

ruling elder of the First PresbyterChurch and a member of its
board of trustees. He has been a
member of the board of directors
ian

of the AA.\.

Dr. North holds membership in
Education Associathe National
tion, Pennsyb ania Education AssoPhi
Kappa,
Delta
ciation, Phi

Sigma

Pi

and

Gamma

Sigma Delta,
in

rural

member

of the

honorary national society
education.

He

is

a

Blue Lodge and Caldwell Consistory.

retirement
in
January,
North plans to move to his

After

Dean
home

in Brookville, Pa.,

where he

devote his time to his business

will

and

interests

help to

will

to

activities

which

make teaching one

of

the great professions.

former
Dean of Women at Bloomsburg,
and now li\ ing in Washington, D.
C., was a \ isitor on the campus on
Home-Coming Day. She is chairman of the Committee on Education of the Washington Branch,
American Association of University
\\ omen.
She is also a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Student Association.
She
attended the annual Congress of
Marguerite

Dr.

the Association at
lege,

Ames, Iowa,

Prof,

Kehr,

Iowa State Colin August.

and Mrs. E. A. Reams,

Whittier, California, spent a week
visiting
friends
in
Bloomsburg.
They arrived on Friday, October
15,

and enjoyed the homecoming

festivities.

December, 1954

has served as assistant coach

John A. I loch, dean of men at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has been named dean of instruction to succeed Dr.

Thomas

P.

North, whose retirement at the end
of the first semester of the college
year was announced by President
Har\ey A. Andruss. Dean Hoch,
who has been assistant football
coach, director of public relations,
and chairman of the athletic committee since 1946, will assume his
new duties with the beginning of
the second semester on Januarv 25,
1955.

The new dean of instruction is a
native of Milton, Pa., where he attended the pnblic schools and graduated
from
the
Milton
High
School.
He holds the Bachelor of
.Arts degree from the Pennsylvania
State University and the degree of
Master of Arts from Bucknell University.
He has done additional
graduate work at the Pennsylvania
State University.
Following

Penn State

his

graduation

in 1933,

Dean

Following the sudden death of
in

September

Hoch took charge

of the

1946,

Husky

varsity football team and piloted
the team to a record of four wins,
three losses and tie. Since 1946, he

MOYER BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

He

succeeded William Landis as
dean of men in 1947.
Dean Hoch was one of the pioneers in the founding of the Pennsylvania State Teachers
College
Athletic Conference in 1950, and
he has served as secretary-treasurer of the state-wide
organization
since its beginning.
He is a member of the Bloomsburg Junior Chamber of Commerce, the American Association
of University Professors, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, and the following
honorary
fraternities;

Kappa

Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi

Phi, Phi

Gamma

Mu.

Sigma

He

Pi,

and

also holds

Pi

mem-

bership in the Milton Lodge B. P.
O. Elks and the Milton Lodge L.
O. O. Moose.

from

Hoch

taught in the Milton Junior High
School for eleven years and in the
Milton Senior High School for one
year before accepting a position on
the faculty of the Teachers College
in 1946.
During his tenure at Milton, he served as assistant football
coach under the late
Alden J.
“Lefty” Danks and junior varsity
basketball coach.

Coach Danks

to

Coach Robert B. Redman, now
head coach at East Orange, N. J.,
High School, and Jack W. Yohe,
present Husky grid tutor. During
this period the Bloomsburg
football teams show an overall record
of 54 wins, nine losses and one tie.

HOMECOMING DAY
Hundreds

of

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College’s sons and daughters returned to the campus on the
hill

for

the

institution’s

Twenty-

seventh Annual Homecoming Day,
Saturday, October 16.
Opening the day’s program was
a concert by the Maroon and Gold

Band under

the direction of Nelson
A cafeteria luncheon
was served in the college dining

A.

Miller.

room beginning

at

eleven-thirty,

while dormitory students had open
house for guests and parents at
twelve-thirty.

Big feature of the day was the
Mt. Olympus football game when
the unbeaten Huskies tangled with
the previously unbeaten Wilkes
College Colonels.
Following the
grid contest, the Alumni Get-Together was held in Navy Hall and
refreshments were served.
Cafeteria dinner was served in
the dining room at five-thirty and
the day’s activities concluded with
the

Homecoming Day dance

in

Centennial Gymnasium.
A1 Anderson and his orchestra played for
dancing from eighty-thirty to eleven-thirty.

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head football
Jack W. Yohe,
coach at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has been named dean
of men and chairman of the athletic committee, succeeding John A.
Hoch.

Dean Yohe, who has been

assis-

dean of men since coming to
Bloomsburg from West Chester in
1952, will assume his new duties
with the beginning of the second
semester on January 25, 1955. He
will continue
as
head football
tant

coach.

Yohe is a graduate of the Jersey
Shore, Pa., High School where he
was an all-around performer in
He received
scholastic athletics.
the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education from the Lock Haven
State Teachers College, where he
won varsity letters in football, basHe holds the
ketball and track.
Master of Education degree from
Temple University, and he has
completed all the academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education at Temple.

He began his teaching and
coaching career at Biglerville High
School. World War II interrupted
that career in 1942, and he served
with the United States Navy for a
period of 46 months, being separated in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant.
Following his separation

he taught for one year
at Upper Merion High School before accepting an assignment at
West Chester State Teachers Colfrom

service,

lege.

Yohe taught

in

the health and

physical education department

West Chester and served
field

coach for

five years

at

as back-

under the

astute Clenn Killinger.
He also
coached the junior varsity basketball team at the Philadelphia area
college.

sylvania State Education Association and Phi Delta Kappa, national

honorary graduate society. He also
holds membership in the
Jersey
Shore Lodge, B. P. O. Elks.

DENTAL SURGEON
IS GRADUATED

is

a

member

of the National

Education Association, the
6

Penn-

State Teachers
forty-

over-all enrollment figures

of ap-

William Balsley Wilson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wilson, East
Second Street, received the degree
of Doctor of Dental Surgery at the

proximately 800 students in 1954

commencement

noted.

exercises of Temple University School of Dentistry

on Thursday, June

member

of

17.

He was

a

the Junior American

about equal

is

ever,

some

to that of 1952;

significant

how-

changes are

There are twenty

less stu-

dents from Columbia County

1954
less

in

while Luzerne shows forty
and Northumberland, ten less.

Dental Association, the Psi Omega
Fraternity and the John A. Kolmer Honorary Medical Society.
Dr. Wilson was graduated from
the Bloomsburg High School and
served three years in the Submarine Division of the United States
Navy.
He attended the State
Teachers College here and received his A.B. degree from Gettysburg
College, where he was a member
of Beta Beta Beta, national honor-

In spite of these losses in counties
immediate seiA'ice area of
the college, the largest relati\ e increase is in Lackawanna County
students from twenty-eight to forty-seven and Lycoming from twenty-nine to thirty-eight.

ary biological fraternity.
Beginning July 1, Dr. Wilson will
assume his duties as an instructor
in the Prosthetic Department at
the
Temple University Dental
Clinic.
After September 1 he began also to engage in private prac-

crease over 1953 while there is a
slight decrease in eight counties. It
is evident that the college is drawing students from a larger geogra-

tice at

Broomall, Pa.

Dr. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and
former president of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, was among
eight men and a woman honored
at the Pennsylvania Industrial and
Construction Exposition, Harrisburg, held September 20-25, at the
Farm Show Building, Harrisburg.
Dr. Haas has been head of the
schools of the commonwealth longer than

any other man.

in the

Schuylkill County provided fiftythree students which is about tbe

same number

T hir ty
in the

as in previous years.
of the forty-seven counties

1954 enrollment show an

in-

phical area.

The

greatest significant decrease
number of day women

in the

is

although
students which is forty
there has been an increase in dormitory women of twenty-four. The
of
enrollment
variation in the
women has undoubtedly been restudents
flected in a decrease in
expecting to be elementary teachtwenty-two.
ers to the extent of
There is an over-all increase of
eighty-nine men which is reflected
in the increased enrollment of secondary students of thirty-eight and
business students of fifty-nine.

The Freshman

class

shows an

increase of fifty-five over last year,
nineteen
the Sophomore class is
larger, and the junior class is 14
larger while the Senior class shows

resigned from the West Chester faculty in 1952 in order to accept the head coaching assignment
at Bloomsburg.
Since coming to

He

The Bloomsburg

College has students from

seven of the sixty-seven counties of
Pennsylvania.
The analysis of

He

Bloomsburg, his grid teams have
had success.
Mr.
Yohe also
tutored
the
Bloomsburg
varsity baseball team for the past two
seasons, and this winter he
will
coach the Husky wrestling team.

DRAWS STUDENTS FROM
MANY COUNTIES

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

a net decrease of ten.

The residence enrollment

is

one

of the largest in the history of the

more than fifty men
town of Bloomsburg.
number twenty-five or more

college with

living in the

Of

this

are eating meals in the college dining room.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

i

I

I

NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
JOIN

COLLEGE STAFF

the 300 Freshmen in
year at H.S.T.C. this
semester are several new faculty
members from widely-scattered
sections of the United States.

Joining

their

initial

Dr. Thomas B. Martin, who replaces Dr. Richard Hallisy as head
of the Business Education Depart-

ment, comes to Bloomsburg from
the Delta State Teachers College
in Cleveland, Mississippi. Dr. Martin receix’ed his B.S. degree from
the Kirksville, Missouri, S.T.C. and
M.S. degree from the Univer-

his

Tennessee.

sity of

his

Continuing

in

education, he obtained his Doc-

Education degree from In-

tor of

diana University.

new Navy Hall resiMrs. Margaret McCern,
whose last post was at the nearby
Catawissa High School. The first
Another

dent

is

day of

classes

was

McCem

a

homecoming

graduated
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College before obtaining her MasEducation degree from
of
ter
Pennsylvania State University. The
for Mrs.

as she

University of Maryland

is

the des-

Miss Honora Noyes,
whose position Mrs. McCern fills.
tination

of

Miss Gwendolyn Reams replaces
Miss Elsie G. Bower as assistant
Miss Reams comes to
librarian.
the “college on the hill” from the
N’irginia Polviechnic Institute in
Blacksburg, Virginia. The University of Albama is her original alma
mater, and the George Peabody
College for Teachers, the college
from which Miss Reams received
her M.A. degree.
vacant
Filling the position left
on the Special Education staff is
Mary E. Kramer, who gained her
B.S. degree from the Kutztown
State Teachers College and her
M.A. degree from Lehigh University.
Miss Kramer’s predecessor.
Miss Marjorie Stover, is on the faculty of the Jefferson Junior High
School in Williamsport.
Mr. Donald W. Herberholz, who
replaces Mrs. Warren Johnson in
tlie Art Department of B. S.T.C.
has travelled from the Jackson Public School System of Jackson, Michigan, to join our faculty. Mr. Herberholz received his B.A. degree
December, 1954

from Michigan State and his M.A.
degree at the University of New
M exico, where he served as a member of the faculty.
With an A.B. degree from Franklin and Marshall College and an
M..\. degree from Columbia University, Mr. Claude L. Bordncr
completes the new faculty list as
Mathematics instructor. Mr. Bordner comes to B. S.T.C. from the
Pennsylvania
State
University,
where he has completed additional
graduate study.

EDUCATORS MEET
annual conference for elementary,
secondary, and business education
teachers
and administrators on
Saturday, November 6, 1954.
Registration was from 9:00 to
9:.30 in Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School for Elementary Education,

Navy

Hall for Business Edu-

and

Bloomsburg

High

School at Center Street for Secondary Education.
Lectures and
demonstration lessons were given
on all grade levels for each specific
division in the respective registration buildings from 9:.30 to 10:50.

The theme of the 1954 Conference was “Growth Through Reading.” Demonstration lessons in the
Elementary Curriculum were presented by the teaching of the training school and leaned towards developing the theme of the conferFollowing the activity of
ence.
each room, a discussion for the
group present was led by prominent persons in the field of education from the college ser\dce area.
Miss Edna J. Hazen was the director for this group.

Modern languages,

social

stud-

THE
CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

Orangeville R. D.

operating teachers of the College
presented the lessons, and the discussions were led by college staff
members. Dr. Ernest H. Engelhardt is the director for the Secondary Education section of the
Conference.
the Business Education Dethe program included
the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Business
In

partment,

at Bloomsburg.
This
C’onference presented a pre-celebration feature in the persons of
Miss Madeline Strony who spoke

Education

Bloomsburg State Teachers College was the host for the eighth

cation,

English, mathematics, biology,
and geography were the fields
chosen for demonstration lessons in
Cothe Secondary Curriculum.
ies,

'15,

2,

Propr.

Penna.

on “Teaching of Secretarial Subjects,” and John A. Pendery, who
discussed “The Teaching of Tax
Record Keeping.” Dr. Thomas B.
Martin, the new director of Business Department, was the director
of this phase of the Conference.

From

11:15 to 12:45, a general
for all teachers
and administrators in Carver Hall
Auditorium.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss. President of B. S.T.C., presided over this part of the program.
The Girls Ensemble of the Teachers College, under the direction of
Mrs. Dorothy J. Evans, presented
a musical program. After this musical introduction. Dr. Andruss greeted the Conference group, and introduced the speaker for the ocsession

was held

casion.

Dr. Leland B. Jacobs, Professor
Education at the Teachers College of Columbia University, spoke
on “Man and His World of Books.”
Following the General Session,
a luncheon was served in the WalDurler Hall Dinig Room at 1:00.
ing the luncheon hour, the Brahms
Trio of Williamsport entertained.
of

The Hedgerow Theatre gave an
of Eugene
O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” in
excellent performance

Carver Auditorium Tuesday evening, October 5. The two leading
roles were played by Jasper Deeter
and Stanley Greene. Mr. Deeter
played the part of Smithers, the
white trader, and Mr. Greene gave
an outstanding interpretation of the
part of Brutus Jones.
7

COLLEGE FEATURES

WEEK

REGION-IN-LIFE

first

time, Re-

Week was

observed

This year, for the
ligion-in-Life

on the campus of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. This event
was suggested and planned by a
representative group of students of
the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish faiths under the guidance of
Clayton H. Hinkel, sponsor of the
local college Student Christian Association, and other members of
fhe faculty.

The theme

“We
lege

Seek

for the program was
prayer, in col-

God— in

in our home, in our voand among our fellowmen.”

life,

cation,

On

Tuesday, November 16, at 10
The Rev. Raymond Shaheen,
Evangelical
pastor of Messiah’s
Lutheran Church, South Williamsport, addressed the student body.
At 7 p. m. there was an informal
discussion on “How Can We Deal
with the Social Problems of the
a.

m..

Campus?”
Rabbi Isaac Vander Walde, Congregation Bethel, Sunbury, spoke
Vesper Service in Carver Auditorium on Wednesday, November
Another informal
17, at 7 p. m.
discussion followed at 8 p. m. The
subject was “What Should the BoyGirl Relationship be During Courtship?”

at a

Thursday, November 18, at 10
m.. The Right Rev. Monsignor
George D. Mulcahy, V. F., Pastor,
St. Edward Church, Shamokin, was
a.

the speaker.

The

burg, at Laurelton State Village,
and at the Danville State Hospital.
He is counsellor for Hillel, the Jewish student group at Bucknell.

Monsignor

Mulcahy

attended
College and
Seminary, Emmittsburg, Maryland,
and he was ordained to the holy
He was Diopriesthood in 1934.
cesan Director of Scouting and
Youth Activities from 1939 to 1944,

Mount

Saint Mary’s

and was named Domestic Prelate
to His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, in
1945.
He has been pastor of St.
Edward Church, Shamokin, since

In collecting the figures for
a
professional bulletin to be issued
by the President of the College
under the title “Development of a
Decade and a Half (1938-1954),”
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss reports that
the year after graduation eightythree per cent of
the
students
available for
employment were
teaching in the
public
schools
while thirteen per cent were employed in other occupations. Thus
tlie

1953.

The

informal discussion
groups met in the social room of
Science Hall.
The topics were
suggested by students, Bloomsburg
ministers and members of the faculty led the discussions.
tliree

The marriage of Miss Gloria DeCeasare, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph DeCeasare Mahanoy City,
to E. Wilson Hagenbuch, son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Hagenbuch,
Berwick, is announced. The couple
was married April 19 at Walter
Reed Army Chapel, Washington,
D. C.
They are residing at 818 Sheridan Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.
C. Mrs. Hagenbuch, a graduate of

Mahanoy

City High School,

is

em-

ployed in Washington. Her husband was graduated from Berwick

High School, B.S.T.C. and Valley
Forge Military Academy.

third discussion

m. The sub“What are the Problems of
Mixed Marriages?”

group was

EMPLOYMENT GRADUATES
AT COLLEGE IS HIGH

at 3:30 p.

total

exceeds

Of a total 2,185 graduates, 219
went into the Armed Services following graduation and eighty-two
pursued graduate studies so that
301 were not available for employment the year after graduation. Of
those available

for

employment

than five per cent are accounted for in the category of married
women, who either did not desire
to teach or could not secure a position near their homes.
This record, while unusually
high, is being resurveyed and the
results are
being compiled by
Dean John A. Hoch, Director of
Public Relations of the 1,800 graduates from the years 1941 to 1953,
inclusive.
Replies ha\e been received from 1,250 students. When
a similar study was made for the
10-year period from 1931 to 1940,
that seventy-seven
it was found
per cent were employed in teaching and fifteen per cent in other
occupations. This was approximately ten per cent higher than the
less

employment

ject,

employment

ninety-five per cent.

figures

compiled

a

Rabbi Vander Welde was born
Germany, and he received his
Ph.D. degree from the University
and was graduated from a Rabbin-

year after the graduation of each
It is not expected that the
class.
eighty-three per cent in teaching
will be ten per cent higher. It can
hardly be expected that more than
90 per cent can be employed in
teaching due to a choice of occuteaching by
pations other than
men who return from the Armed
who pursue
Forces and others
graduate work and enter other occupations.
However the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has
one of the best pictures of what
happens to its graduates and one of

ical school in Hamburg.
He is
chaplain for the Jewish inmates at
the Federal Penitentiary at Lewis-.

the best demonstrated placement
the
college
in
records of any
country.

Rev. Shaheen is a graduate of
Susquehanna University and the
Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Gettysburg.
He has participated
in various Religion-in-Life Week
conferences on college campuses.
He has been serving in South Williamsport since 1940.
He is the
writer of a weekly column, “Musings of a Minister.”
in

8

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

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B.S.T.C. HONORS HER
NUMEROUS AUTHORS

.Marginalia by Coleridge in Three
of His Published Works. Several

BY LIBRARY DISPLAY
Bloonisburg took the opportuniIloinecoming Day to lionor the many authors among her
ty of this

colorful display featuring many of
A
faculty, alumni and students.
colorful display featuring many of

these authors was set up in the
college library, and some of each
writer’s work was included in the

and Homemight see the
materials and varied

faculty members have written in
the educational field, for example.
Dr. Hallisy, Mr. Gehrig Budget

Procedures for

Extra Curricular
Organizations, Mr.
Hinkel, Mr.
Henrie
Techniques of Staging
School Fashion Shows, Mr. Schleicher, and Mr. Ralph Fisher Smith.
Mr. DeVoe and Dr. Russel have
each published articles of general
interest on varied subjects.

display so that students

coming Day

visitors

fascinating
content of the publications.

Included in the library display

were the publications of many of
our current faculty and administration heads. For e.xample, BurPresident
gess Business Law by
Growing in Citizenship
.\ndruss.
by Mr. Barton, and Rowe Typing
by Mr. Rygiel, were included in
the display.

displayed were What Happens Is by Mrs. Marie Colt Reese,
who is a B.S.T.C. graduate and has
-\lso

written this amusing book about
Hummel, another
Mrs.
Clarice
B.S.T.C.
graduate, and alumna
Eleanor Sands Smith’s book of
A
poetry, St. Martin’s Summer.

famous B.S.T.C. writing team is
Mr. and Mrs. John Bakeless. Our
library contains fi\e books by Mr.
Bakeless, including books about
Daniel Boone
and Christopher
Marlowe. Mrs. Bakeless (nee Little) has written several books such
as Story Lives of Great Composers,
and Birtli of a Nation’s Song.

Two members

of

the

class

In a pretty autumn ceremony at
Bloomsburg Methodist Church recently, Miss Emily Barbara Bethel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Maitland Bethel, Miami, Florida,
became the bride of Harry Jay
Ceorge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry

George, Bloomsburg.
The Rev. Thomas Hopkins, pastor,
perfonned the double-ring
nuptials.

Miami
High School and

'The bride graduated from

Edison

Senior

Florida State University, Tallahas-

She is a member of
.Alpha Chi, honorary ad-

see, Florida.

Gamma

vertising sorority.
editor of Tropical

She

is

assistant

Homes and Gar-

dens Magazine.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School, attended
B.S.T.C. and is a graduate of Florida State University. He is a member of Delta Sigma Pi, professional
business fraternity. A former sergeant in the U. S. Marine Corps,

the bridegroom is now employed
by Francis Scott Key Hotel, Frederick, Md.

of

had magazine articles published: David Newbury breaking
into ‘The Commonwealth” with
Danville’s Iron Past, and A1 Chis1954

con appearing in “School Science
and Mathematics” with Skullduggerv’.
Both of these articles are
illustrated with snapshots taken by
the authors.

Many
intended

of the other articles

were
mag-

professional
to be of a technial nature, such as Dr. Kuster’s A
Study of the General Biology, Morazines,

for

and tend

phology of Respiratory System and
Respiration
of Certain
Aquatic
Stratiomyia and Odontomyia Larvae (Dystera), and Dr. Seronsy’s
December, 1954

MORE THAN

400

ATTEND

PARENTS DAY FOR NEW
STUDENTS AT B.S.T.C.
More than four hundred persons
participated in the first annual
Parents’ Day for new students at
the Teachers College Sunday, September

19.

Parents of Freshmen students
were guests of the college at dinner in the College Dining Room
following which a convocation was
held in the Carver Auditorium.

Problems and phases of college
which directly affect new students were discussed by a panel
life

members

of the administrative
including Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president;
Mrs. Elizabeth
.Miller, dean of women; John A.
I loch,
dean of men; Miss Mary
of

staff

Macdonald, director of guidance
and coordinator of personnel services; Dr. Thomas P. North, dean
of instruction;

Dr. Ernest Engel-

hardt, director of secondary education; Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education; and

Dr. Thomas Martin, director of
business education.
Dr. Andruss welcomed the parents and guests and explained the
purpose of the activities of the day.
V^arious subjects such as costs, payment of fees, college citizenship;
grades and evaluation of class
work, choice of curriculum placement and the college testing program were discussed. Dean Hoch
served as moderator.
Following the convocation, tea
was served in Waller Hall lounge.
Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Mrs. Thomas P. North, Mrs. John A. Hoch
and Mrs. Jack Yohe poured. Miss

Margaret Waldron, assistant dean

women, was in charge, assisted
by members of the Waller Hall association and the Day Women’s

of

J.

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

Association.

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

1920

Anyone knowing the addresses
of any members of the class is requested to inform the undersigned

Be sure to be on hand
the reunion on Alumni Day,
Saturday, May 21, 1955.
Grace Gotshall Pannebaker,
at once.

for

931 East Third Street,
Williamsport, Pa.
9

SURVEY SHOWS NEED OF

GRADUATE STUDIES
A growing need for the addition
of a program of graduate studies
to the curricular offerings of the
Teachers College is indicated by
the results of a study which is now
being made of the 1845 graduates
of the college from 1941 to 1953.
Only eighteen per cent of the more
than 1250 alumni who answered
the questionnaire mailed to them
have completed the requirements
the

degree, leaving
more than a thousand graduates
of the college who would likely be
interested in course work at the
graduate level, if and when it is
offered at Bloomsburg.
for

A

total of 229 Bloomsburg alumreported that they have been
awarded graduate degrees since
their graduation. Of that number,
186 are men and forty-three are

Those who have earned
advanced degrees represent rough-

women.

one-half those who said that
they began graduate work.

ly

The

Class of 1947 holds the dishaving the largest percentage of its members in the master’s degree class— forty-three percent but all six male graduates of
the Class of 1944, who returned
their questionnaires, hold graduate degrees— a record 100 percent.
tinction of

Bucknell University leads the list
of institutions which granted master’s degrees to Bloomsburg’s gradthe

Lewisburg

institution

having conferred graduate degrees
on seventy-six B.S.T.C. alumni.
Teachers College, Columbia University, is second with twenty-seven, while New York University
trails
with twenty-five and the
Pennsylvania State University is
fourth with twenty. In all, thirty
American universities and colleges
are represented on the list of in-

which Bloomsburg graduates have reported as having conferred master’s degrees on them.
stitutions

College authorities have been
studying the possibility of establishing a graduate program on a parttime and summer basis. A faculty
committee headed by Clayton II.
Hinkcl is developing certain items
of information concerning the demand for graduate work, and a
10

in

order to determine

how many

would be

interested in work at the
graduate level on a part-time and
summer basis. Approval by the
State Council of
Education is
necessary, however, before any
graduate courses can be offered.

AIR FORCE

TRAINING PROGRAM

master’s

ni

uates,

postal card survey of the graduates of the institution as well as
public school teachers in the college’s service area will be made

Approximately
twenty-six
Air
Force Reserve officers from Central Pennsylvania have completed
the first

month

of instruction in a

new paid training proflying officers who are
of the Air Force Reserve.
The classes, held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, are
the first paid instructional program
offered to air reservists since the
end of World War II.
All officers receive one day’s
completely

gram for
members

base pay for each class they attend, and it is expected that sevadditional classes will be established in the near future for aireral

men and

class in air opera-

one on weathcrew members. Air Force
manuals, films, maps and other instructional aids are used by the instructor,
Brad Sterling, of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Coltions

is

a specialized

er for air

lege faculty.
The twenty-six flying reservists
are preparing themselves for any

emergency

which

may

arise

to

threaten the security of the United
States.
The course they are now
taking is designed to bring them
iip to date on the latest air operational techniques and methods.
The training flight is commanded by Lt. Col. Neil M. Richie of

Light Street, who urged all Air
Foree reservists and all former Air
Force officers and airmen to investigate

the
paid training. A class in administration for non-flying officers will
start soon, and classes for airmen
are being organized. Full information may be obtained by writing
to 9548 Air Reserve S(juadron, First
National Bank Building, Bloomsburg.
their

Bids have been solicited for maimprovements to Waller Hall
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, with proposals opened on
October 20 at the Harrisburg office of the State Department of
Property and Supplies.

jor

In addition to extensive Waller
Hall changes, the projects include
the removal of a town landmark.
The present brick wall and fountain in front of Carver Hall at the
top of College Hill, is to be re-

moved to make way for an attraetive new entrance that will provide for additional parking space
in front of the main administration
building.
In W'aller Hall, the former office
of the president will become the
office of the Dean of Men. Offices
vacated by the Dean of Instruction
will be converted into office space
for the Dean of Women, the assistant dean of women and the dean’s
secretary. The present offiee of the
Dean of Women will become the
living room of a guest suite now
eonfined to a single room and
bath.

The whole

officers.

The present

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

eligibility

for

floor.

Waller
floor

area will have

new

and vinyl tile
The present main lobby of

acoustical

ceiling

Hall

and

have

terrazzo

lighting

fixtures.

will

new

Space formerly occupied by the
business office will be converted
into a lounge connecting with the
present main lobby and will continue the theme of large arches.
Recessed lighting will be included.
The area on the outside of the
Waller Hall Lounge will be torn
out to provide a new entrance to
the lounge and on either side will
be offices for the Community Government Association, the Obiter
and the Maroon and Gold. New

and floor will be provided
and the faculty lounge, which is
in the same area, will have a new
ceiling

glass wall.

In the Waller Hall Lounge, the
remaining bleachers on the west
side will be removed and an ele\ ated floor will be built in providing
for the new book store and college
canteen. The balance of the interior will be finished in knotty pine
to match the recently-remodeled
north area of the Lounge.

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in

Football

1954

-

Hlooinsl)urg, with a record of
seven victories and two defeats,
shares first place in the Teachers
College Conference with West
Chester and East Stroudsburg.
The record for the season fol-

lows:

October 2
Blooinsburg 28, Mansfield 0
First

Yards Rushing
Yards Lost Rush

.

.

68
26

12
3

.

.

.

Penalties

.

0
... 12-179

Alert defensive football
three touchdowns in the

Own

first 9
minutes and 43 seconds of the
opening clash of the 1954 football
season for Blooinsburg Teachers
College Huskies and iced the way
for a decisive 28 to 0 triumph for
the Maroon and Gold over the
Mansfield Mountaineers.
The only sustained drive of the
afternoon came the first time the
Huskies had the ball in the last
half.
Bobby Dipipi, the sophomore T-attack general from Old
Forge, took a punt on his 14 and
returned to the 34. Then the running attack started to roll. Bough-

ner.

Browning and Boychuck carrunning up five consecutive
dowms and Boychuck took it

ried in
first

over.

0

Mansfield

Bloomsburg

0
0

21

0
7

0-

0

0-28

October 9
Bloomsburg 26, Cortland 13
First

downs

Yards running
Yds. lost rush
Net yds. rush
Passes attempted
Passes completed

.

.

.

.

..
.

.

.

.

412
26
386

15
6
73
3
.
.2-38
3

..

Yds. gained passes
Pass intercepts by

.

.

.

Punts

.

Fumbles

Own fumbles recov.
Penalties
Kick-offs
Kick-off ret. yds

Bio.
21

.

.

.

0
.8-100
4
51

..

.

.

.

.

Cort.
6

74
29
45
25
8
177
2
4-29
3

2

5-55
2
84

Once the Bloomsburg Huskies
recalled to mind that you have to
retain possession to get anywhere
December, 1954

Bio. Wilkes
First downs
First downs, rush
First downs, pass
First downs, pen

14

7

11

5

3

1

0
346
8

83
8
5
0
8-45
4-33

Punts, avg.

to

0—13
0—26

October 16
Bloomsburg 44, Wilkes 0

Fumbles

7-75

led

0
6

by
Kick-offs, avg

0
5
3

1

Bloomsburg

Intercepted

159

2

.

6 0
7 13

Cortland

Completed

9

43

.

in gaining a decision over Gortland, N. Y., Teachers here, 26-13.

Yards, rushing
Lost rushing
Yards passing
Passes tried

10
93

242
32

.

Passes
Passes Completed
Yds. Gained Pass
Intercepted by

Fumbles
Own Recovered

Mans.

Bio.
15

Downs

Maroon and Gold
machine had no great trouble

football, the

grid

1-42

7-32
1

2-20

Huskies, taking
left off,

splattered a highly-touted Wilkes
College eleven, 44-0, before 3,000
Homecoming Day fans on Mt.

Olympus.
Led by the whippet-like running
of halfback Jimmy Browning and
the pin-point passing of

back

.

quarter-

Lashendock, Coach
Yohe’s charges completely

Mike

Jack
outclassed the Colonels who had
dreams of extending their winning
streak to three games.
Browning gained 180 yards in
nine carries and ripped off two
touchdow'ns on sensational sprints
measuring 53 and 68 yards. Lash-

endock fired for two six-pointers
and scored the third TD himself
after setting it up with two long
passes.

Bloomsburg’s big, bruising forward wall had Wilkes’ running attack back-pedalling all afternoon,
stopping cold such heralded balltoters as Ronnie Rescigno, Andy
Brezney and A1 Nicholas. Rescigno

0

Boychuck,
Lashendock,
Groover.
PAT— Gumens, Alexander (placements).
ezyk,

October 23
Bloomsburg 49, Kings 0
Bio.
First

downs

Yards rushing

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb.

’42

7

330

Yds. lost rush

21

Net yds. rush

309

-16

10
8

29

157
5
5

118

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yds. gained pass
Pass intercepts by

Fumbles

11

0
3
2

Ball Lost Fumbles
Penalties

3-12

1-5

Punts

1-31

2-43

3

Taking keen delight in their role
and playing it to the
hilt, Bloomsburg Teachers Gollege
Huskies tumbled King’s Gollege
from the unbeaten ranks at Memof spoilers

Stadium, Wilkes-Barre, by the
decisive margin of 49-0.
It was the second week in a row
that the Maroon and Gold had
placed the first blemish on the
1954 mark of a Wilkes-Barre collegiate football
team, and the
charges of Jack Yohe looked even
sharper against King’s than they
had seven days earlier in blasting
orial

Wilkes, 44-0, before a

day throng, here.
Sharpening up
sterner

made

tests

homecoming

their

ahead,

game

for

Huskies

the

maneuvers click
any previous time
in this football season and sent
blockers down field to tumble
King’s defenders in a manner reminiscent of Hazel’s effort on trees
their aerial

as they hadn’t at

Bloomsburg
Danville, Pa.

Kings

13

22
38

during her recent

MONTOUR HOTEL

0-0

0

0

13 12 19 0—44
Bloomsburg
TouchBloomsburg
scoring:
downs— Browning 2, Stroup, Mal-

3

0

0
5-35

up where Hurricane Hazle

team
Wilkes

11

2

Penalties

net gain of eleven yards but could
until the fourth quarter when Yohe used an all-Frosh

do nothing

80
105
43

1

recovered

The Bloomsburg

1

and Nicholas ended up with minus
yardage while Brezney managed a

visit.

14 14 21
0 0 0

Kings

0—49

0-0

Touchdowns: Boughner, Brown3, Boychuck, Gumens, Strine.

ing

PAT— Gumens

6,

Gasper

ments).
Officials— Mickey

Dinny

Penn

Williams,

Merle Shaffer,

Noonan,

Wooman,

eree;

1 (place-

head

ref-

umpire;
linesman;

field judge.
11

November

October 30

New Haven

Bloomsburg 14

26,

N.H.

downs

First

Yards rushing
Yds. lost rush
Net yards rush
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Passes inter, by
Yds. gained inter

Punts

9

117
67
50
31
13
98
2
63
8-20

110
31
79
18

Own

A

7

127
2
13

4-16
6

1

fumbles recov

Penalties

stalwart

1

0

7-45

5-40

New Haven Owl

line

completely

the
throttled
Bloomsburg Husky attack until the
issue was decided, was the big factor as the New England Teachers
that

College tumbled our Maroon and
Gold footballers from the undefeated ranks, 26-14, before a small
gathering on the windswept sports
plateau of the “friendly college on
the

hill.”

was the last home appearance
of the ’54 campaign for the Huskies and the two things that will
stay long in the memories of our
local knights of the moleskin and
It

their following are these:

They

down

didn’t register a first

13:26

until

of

the

third

period

when New Haven had the ball
game wrapped up and sealed for
special delivery.

They fumbled six times, losing
the ball on each occasion. In addition, they suffered a blocked
punt early in the game to provide
a seeming psychological handicap
from which they never recovered.

The

was another evidence
potent attack weapon a

result

what a
good defense can

of

when

be,

especially

seasoned with loose ball

it is

handling by the opposition.
Bloomsburg was completely outplayed through the first half and
the major portion of the third period and what happened after that,
while a balm to the Husky faithdidn’t matter.
Haven
0 19

ful, really

New

Bloomsburg

FRANK

S.

0

0

7 0—26
0 14—14

HUTCHISON,
Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

First

Yds. gained rush
Yds. lost rush
Net gain rush
Passes tried
Passes completed
Yds. gained pass
Intercepted by
.

16

13

Bio.
12
230

.

.

.

Cal.
11

142
40
102
28
10
181
2

11

.

219
9
3

.

71
2
4-31.2 4 -31.5
5
3

.

.

Punts

Fumbles by
Fumbles lost
Penalties

3

2

6-80

3-40

Taking command with a 73-yard
march for a touchdown in the second period, Bloomsburg Teachers
went on to a 21-13 triumph over
California Teachers on the latter

The

victory

was the second con-

ference triumph for the Huskies
and kept them in the forefront of
the loop standings.

A California team that played
rugged football and filled the air
with passes constantly challenged
the Husky lead but was never able
to draw on even terms with the
invaders.

A varied attack with the principal factory in the Husky triumph.
Two of the touchdowns were made
through the air and the third scoring opportunity was established
through a pass interception and a
14-yard roughness penalty on California on that play.
Bloomsburg

7
0

0
0

California

7
7

7—21
6-13

November 12
West Chester 41, Bloomsburg 0
w.c.

Bio.
First

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed ....
Pass, intercept, by
.

.

.

.

Yds. gained pass ....

Punts

Ball lost on

5

186
35
151
15
2
0

206
22
184

17
.6-35.3

163
3-44
5-35
5
2

..

.

...

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

..

.

.

..

.

.

...
.

.

fum

9

.

.

Penalties

.

.

.

0
9
6

14
6
3

West Chester Rams outclassed
Bloomsburg College Huskies, 41-0,
before about 4,000 fans at West
Chester. It was the largest score
ever run up in the series.
The Rams scored early and kept
going all evening. In the first half
Bloomsburg fumbles aided the Kil-

men

they

on the

operated

same plan.
Bloomsburg
West Chester

0
14

0
6

0 0-0
7 14—41

November 13
40, Lock Haven

Bloomsburg

Bio.
First

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net gain rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Intercepted by
Yards gained passes
Punts

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Penalties

.

.

17

9

400
49
351

60

8
3
2

66

,

4.35.5

.

.

Fumbles by
Fumbles lost

13
L.H.

6-60

21

39
25
8
0
148
4-32.1

4-30

2

1

2

0

Bloomsburg College Huskies

school’s gridiron.

linger
12

afterpiece

downs

Fumbles

INSURANCE
First National

6

21, California

Bio.

11

Fumbles

Bloomsburg

materially and in

the

a piece of the state gridiron

got
title

in the teachers college

conference
with a decisive 40-13 victory over
the Lock Haven Bald Eagles before an assemblage of over 2,000 on
the Lock Haven High School Field.

The Huskies took

the opening
back for a score, moving
65 yards in seven plays, all on the
ground. Bob Dippi went over
from the one on a sneak.
From that time on the Maroon
and Gold gained almost at will and
was never threatened.
7 7 14 12—40
Bloomsburg
kick-offs

Lock Haven

0

0 13

0—13

BASEBALL COACH
Dr. E. Paul Wagner, professor
of psychology, has been named
Bloomsburg
coach at
baseball
State Teachers College according
to an announcement made by PresAndruss. Dr.
ident Harvey A.

Wagner succeeds Jack W. Yohe,
who was named coach of wrestling.
Yohe tutored the Husky diamond
crew for the past two years.
The new Husky baseball coach
hold the degrees of Bachelor of
Science, Master of Education, and
of
Education from the
Pennsylvania State University. His
teaching and coaching experience
includes one year at the Stony

Doctor

Creek
Township Junior - Senior
High School, eight years at Donora
High School, and two years at

Mohawk

College

in

New

York

At Donora High School, he
coached such standout performers
state.

as Stan Musial, the hard-hitting St.
Louis Cardinals’ outfielder; Bimbo

THE ALUMNI QUAllTERLY

Cecconi, one-time University of
Pittsburgh grid star, and Arnold
Galiffa, West Point quarterback
and All-American.
During W'orld War II, Dr. Wagner served as an officer in the
United States Navy, including a
hitch as a V-5 instructor at the
University of Georgia.
Coach Yohe will take charge of
the varsity wrestling s(|uad immediately following the close of the
Until that time, the
grid season.
Maroon and Gold grapplers are
working out under the direction of
Tom Welliver, one-time state
schoolboy champion from Shamokin.

The Husky matmen

will

eight intercollegiate rivals

meet

during

the 1955 campaign.

DANNY S GLOVE
Danny

Litwhiler,

IN

MUSEUM

whose major

league career was highlighted by
a 187-game errorless record as an
outfielder with the Phillies and
Cardinals, recently received official
notification that the glove with
which he set the record has been
received for display in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown,
New York.
Sid Keener, director of the Hall
Fame and its museum, paid additional tribute to Danny in the
following letter:
of

Dear Danny:
Your errorless glove that

shattered a record for outfielders has
arrived.
I want you to know that
I consider it one of the prize me-

mentoes for display in the Baseball Hall of

Fame.

The unique angle which impresses

me

is

the fact that you held the

National League record for errors
among outfielders in 1941, fifteen
to be e.xact, and the following year
you participated in the 151 games
without a single miscue.
This ex-outfielder of semi-pro
days in St. Louis, 1906 era, marvels
at tliat errorless performance.
1
played rightfield and at tliis late
date 1 will make this confession—
I was the worst in any baseball uniform to the extent that 1 know 1
muffed at least one fly in every
game. On one particular occasion,

dropped two as early as the fifth
inning, was yanked by the manI

December, 1954

ager,

and

if

memory

serves,

was

on the spot.
Thus, you will note, Danny, that
I
cherish your glove with deep
personal pride.
I
looked at it,
wrapped it around my left hand,
fired right

and said

How

to myself:

could he do

know

Please

that

it?
I

will find

a

prominent spot in the Hall of Fame
for your glove, .^mong others with
a background similar to to yours is
Neal Ball, who turned the first un-

Carrie Lloyd Gellott ’97
Mrs. George Gellott, the former
Carrie B. Lloyd, Thompson, Pa.,
died suddenly Tuesday, September 7, 1954, at her home. Born in
Starucca, Pa., she was graduated
from the Bloomsburg State Normal
Schol in 1897 and taught in Scran-

assisted triple play in 1909; Bucky
Harris, who established records at

ton.

second base in the 1924 World SerW’ashiugton vs. New York;
ies,
Frankie Frisch, with a high total
of putouts and assists at second
base for the Cardinals in 1927.
Bloomsburg, Pa., is not too far
from Cooperstown, N. Y. This is
my way of extending a personal

(.Mrs.

With warmest
and again thanking you.

invitation to’ you.

wishes,

Sincerely,
Sid C. Keener.

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

Surviving is a sister, Verna ’93
Dr. Santee) of Wapwallopen,

and brother, Justin Lloyd ’07,
Tacoma, Wash. Both are grad-

Pa.,
of

uates of B.S.N.S.

Earl N. Rliodes
Earl N. Rhodes, director of teacher training at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College from 1923 to
1943, died Saturday, October 30, at
St. Petersburg, Fla., where he had
been a winter and later a full-time
resident since his retirement.

State

Professor Rhodes was a graduate
Normal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan, and held a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from the
University of Chicago and a Master of Arts degree from Teachers
College, Columbia University.

members and guests attending.
Dr. Harvey A. .Andruss, College

Prior to coming to Bloomsburg,
he had had twenty years experience as elementary and junior high

The West Branch Area Alumni
•Association

the

of

Bloomsburg

Teachers College Alumni
.Association held its annual dinner
meeting at the Susquehanna Restaurant, Shamokin Dam, on October 8, 1954, at 6:30 p. m. with 66

President,
and the

brought the invocation

at
address,
“Progress
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

lege.”

Members introduced by our
Alumni

Association President, Dr. E. H. Nelson, made remarks concerning their teaching,
jovial

of the State

school teacher and principal in the

high schools of Michigan and
nois

and

also

was director

Illi-

of stu-

dent teaching at the State Teachers
College, Salem, Mass.
He was a member of the Legislative

Committee and chairman

of

business, families, etc.
College guests (Joanne Dauber,
Yvonne Kistler, Alary Miller, and

various sub-committees of the Association of Teachers College Fac-

Erla Myers) entertained with vocal
and musical selections and the
whole group sang old songs. After
a short business meeting, in charge
of President Mrs .Harold Danowsk\', the group concluded the evening with reminiscences about former teachers and college days.

as

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

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

’34

of Pennsylvania and served
president of the Pennsylvania

ulties

Institutional
Association.

Teacher

Placement

He was author of several articles
which appeared in education journals of national circulation and
contributed a chapter to a book
entitled, “Better Business Education,” which apepared in 1942. He
was a member of the Caldwell
Consistory, Bloomsburg.
Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Louise Rhodes, 310 Thirteenth Avenue,
Northeast,

St.

Petersburg.
13

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT

A. WUkes-Barre Area

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Timkhannock, PA.

’46

PRESIDENT

Benton, Pa.

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

'33

Bloomsburg, Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward D.

Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

’41

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, ’14
42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

Mrs. Betty Hensley

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Chester Wojcik

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

TREASURER

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley,

Miss Mary A. Meehan,
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

New

’18

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Miss Genevieve G. Morgis ’34
3700 Massachusetts Ave., N. W.
Washington 16, D. C.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

147 East Chestnut

SECRETARY

St.,

VICE PRESIDENT

Hazleton, Pa.

1542 N. Danville Street
Arlington, Virginia

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs.

TREASURER
W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

TREASURER

Edward

C.

Barrett, Jr.

(Adda Mae Myers

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton,

’49)

1232 Blair Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland

Mrs. Lucille
127

’49

Mr. Joseph A. Kulich

SECRETARY

Miss Pearl L. Baer_ ’32
South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’14

Milford, Pa.

W ASHINGTON ALUMNI

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

21

Area

B. Hazleton

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

’19

Mehoopany. Pa.

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

’52

Milford, Pa.

Pa.

RECORDING SECRETARY

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH
PRESIDENT
William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

PRESIDENT

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

R. D.

2,

’35

Miss Sadie

Danville, Pa.

1232

VICE PRESIDENT

Minooka Avenue

Dr. M.

Miss Alice Smull,

Miss Margaret Lewis
11051/2 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

’28

312 Church

St.,

Miss Martha Y. Jones

615

’22

Bloom

St.,

(Union County)
’30

Mrs. Linn Danowsky ’38
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

Danville. Pa.

(Northumberland County)

PHILADELPHIA AREA

Miss Caroline E. Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT

NEW YORK AREA

Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish.

PRESIDENT

732 Washington

St.,

J.

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Falrview Village. Pa.

’35

14

’18

SECRETARY -TREASURER

SECRET ARY -TREASURER
J.

(Snyder County)
Robert J. Webb ’42

Shamokin Dam, Pa.

PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT

'29

VICE PRESIDENT

’06

Camden, N.

’49

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

the Advisor of the group

VICE PRESIDENT

Scranton, Pa.

Michael Prokopchak,

.E.

D. C.

VICE PRESIDENT

North Main Avenue

Richard C. Stout,

S

PRESIDENT

Danville, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler,

is

20,

Charles I. Boyer ’96
Lewisburg, Pa.

’05

TREASURER

TREASURER

Kehr

Crumb

Street,

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

U

Washington

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.

’23

Moosic, Pa.

632

Miss Harriet Kocher
Skylark Hotel
P. O. Springfield, Virginia

David W. Foust,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Marion George Evans
520

MONTOUR COUNTY

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg, Pa.

’35

TREASURER
Mrs. Clarence Crow
Lewisburg, Pa.

’40

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1911
Nelson, secretary of
Caldwell Consistory, and long active in the ci\’ic life of the community, has been named to the
board of directors of the First NaDr.

E.

11.

Bank

tional

Bloomsburg.

of

Dr. Nelson has been a resident

Bloomsburg

of

for

years.

thirty

1945 he was director
of health education at State TeachHe taught hyers College, here.

From 1924

to

giene, biology, and sociology, and
was director of the summer sessions of the College Junior High

School Training School.

He was

baseball coach through the years
During the war years.
of 1934-45.
Dr. Nelson was director of Militar\' training and physical fitness
for C-5, A \' (P), and V-12 programs. He was a lieutenant in the
Civil Air Patrol.

From 1945-47 Dr. Nelson was
sical

Health and PhyEducation, Bureau of Instruc-

tion,

Department

chief. Division of

tion,

of Public Instruc-

Commonwealth

vania, Harrisburg.

of

Pennsyl-

He was

an

in-

structor at Pennsylvania State University

summer

sessions in 1946

and

1947.

Since 1947 Dr. Nelson has been
the able secretary of Caldwell Consistory. He is a thirty-third Degree

Mason.

He is past president and past
lieutenant governor of Bloomsburg
Kiwanis Club, past chairman of the
Bloomsburg Chapter, American
Red Cross, member of ColumbiaMontour Council, Boy Scouts of
America, Presbyterian
Church,
Iota Chapter 236 (Harvard) Phi
Dela Kappa, and Pennsylvania
State Association for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation.
He is president of the board of directors of tlie General Alumni Association of the State Teachers
College, and business manager of
The Alumni Quarterly.
Dr. Nelson is a popular speaker
and has written important articles
educational journals, the Kiwanis magazine, tlie Pennsylvania
cancer digest, the Pennsylvania

please get in contact, during the
coming year, with the acting secretary, Eulah Boone Spiegel, Espy,
Pa., as several addresses are not

known.
1933
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lovell and
their sons, Richard and George,
visited recently at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. L. P. Gilmore, Danville
R. D. 4. Mrs. Lovell is the former
Dorothy Gilmore and formerly

worked in the library at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Her husband is one of the
power house operators at the McNary Dam, McNary, Oregon.
1934
Roberta Conrad (Mrs. Charles
Fisher) lives at 638 Queen Street,
Northumberland, Pa.
She has
taught for fourteen years in the
schools of Northumberland, and is
now teaching in the fourth grade.

1934
Ella Crispell (Mrs. Edward Cobleigh) lives at 22V2 Floral Avenue,
Binghamton, New York. She was
a teacher for two years in Lake

Township, Luzerne County, and
was married June 6, 1936. At present she combines her work as
housewife with that of substitute
teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Cobleigh
ha\ e one son.
1934

Letha

Crispell
(Mrs.
Francis
Schenck) lives in Noxen, Pa. She
taught for five years in the schools
of Monroe Township, Wyoming

County.
Mr. and Mrs. Schenck
have tliree sons.
1934
Esther Dagnell lives at 215 Yost
Avenue, Spring City, Pa. She is
teaching mathematics in the high
school.

1934
Cuthbert (Mrs. Clyde
Eifert) lives at 420 Bloom Street,
Danville, Pa.
After graduating
from B.S.T.C. she did graduate
work at Duke University. She
taught for ten years in the elemenBernice

for

Grange News and many others.
1915

The Class

of 1915

52

wiU hold

their

40th reunion next year, 1955. Any
of the class reading this

member

December, 1954

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

tary grades at Riverside, Pa., and
has served as Social Editor on the
staff
of
the Danville Morning

News. Mr. and Mrs. Eifert have
one daughter.
1934

Mercedes Deane (Mrs. William
McDermott) lives at 5423 Merion
Avenue, Philadelphia 31, Pa. Mrs.
McDermott, who has a degree in
Library Science from Drexel Inhas served as Librarian in
the Chester County Library, West
Chester, and also as Librarian at
Ellis
College, Newtown Square,
Pa. Mr. and Mrs. McDermott have
a son and a daughter.
stitute,

1934

Longina Dutchak (Mrs. John
Wargo) lives at 3480 Gray Avenue,
Detroit 15, Michigan. Mr. and
Mrs. Wargo have one daughter.
1935
Rostand D. Kelly, former B.H.S.
and B.S.T.C. football star, has been
appointed assistant professor of art
at Rollins College, Winter Park,
Fla.
A graduate of B.S.T.C., he
received his M.S. degree from Col-

umbia University
dustrial

arts.

He

in

fine

served

and

in-

seven

years in the U. S. Navy, leaving
the service as lieutenant commander.
Last winter he spent ten

months in an arts field course touring Europe. This past summer, he
studied toward his doctor of education degree at Columbia.
1940
Robert C. Lewis, native of Montour County and long identified
with the civic and church life of
the community, was presented a
plaque as Danville’s Man of the
Year at a joint dinner meeting of
the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions
Clubs recently.

Over a hundred members of the
three service groups attended the
affair, held in tlie Montour Hotel,
and

heard Chief Burgess John
Bausch, who is also the Rotary
Club president, laud Lewis for his
many contributions of time and
energy to various phases of community betterment.
The selection, the second annual
award of this type to be made by
the service clubs,
joint
til

was made by a

committee and kept secret un-

the moment of presentation.
Dr. James Gathings, head of the
15

Science Department of
Bucknell University, who spoke
following the presentation declared
that it was one of the most worthwhile actions that the service clubs
could have taken.
He expressed
the wish that thousands of other
Political

American communities would make
similar awards, declaring that the

idea behind the plaque is important to preservation of the American way of life.

Lewis, who with his wife and
two children, resides at 310 East
Market Street, Danville, is associated with William L. Kindt Chevrolet, and is also a partner in the
ownership of Sunnybrook Park.
He graduated from the Danville
High School in 1925, was employed
by the Danville National Bank, later graduated from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and subsequently joined the fondt organization.
During World War II, he
served in the armed forces with
the rank of sergeant.

The honor recipient has been a
member of the Danville Municipal
Authority since its inception, serving as secretary of that body. Recently

had

it

was announced that he
accepted appoinment to

also
the Danville Joint School Authority
which will undertake the development of new school facilities there.

He

has also been an active lead-

er in the Danville Fire Police and
was particularly helpful in the mul-

titudinous details connected with
the establishing of the Ambulance

League with

its

Selinsgrove, Pa.

A

1944
group of members of

small

the class of 1944,

who met

in re-

union last May, were so disappointed with the small attendance that
they are planning another reunion
in 1955.
The group is headed by
Salvatore Mazzeo, assisted by Mrs.
Sara Dockey Edwards. They hope
to be able to cooperate with the

whose members will
reunion next Alumni Day.

class of 1945,

meet
Since

in

many

the class of 1943

of

same classes with them,
the members of the class of 1944
invite them to attend the ’44 reunion.
Those interested are requested to write to Salvatore Mazzeo, 1330 Lehigh Street, Easton,

were

in the

Pa.

1949

Eugene Snyder, Danville High
and Bloomsburg State
School
Teachers College Alumnus, has
been named varsity track and field
coach and assistant football and
basketball coach at Danville High
School, succeeding Joseph Datko
who resigned several weeks ago for
a similar postion in the Johnstown
schools.

Snyder will teach social studies

community ambu-

lance service. He is also a former
president of the Montour Historical
Society, and a member of the
Masonic Lodge and of the Friendship Fire Company.
Lewis’ church record was also a
strong factor in his selection by the
committee. Long active in the St.
John’s Evangelical and Reformed
Church, Mausdale, he has served
as Superintendent of the Sunday
School continuously since he was
15 years of age excepting during
his military tour of duty.
He is
an elder of the church, teaches a
Sunday School class and sings in
the choir.
Bausch in citing this
record added that Lewis has missed
attending Sunday School only 10
times since he was 6 months of age.
16

1942
Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Matthes, whose address is 1370 Beverly
Road, Union, New Jersey, are the
parents of Johanna Elizabeth, who
was born May 9, 1954.
Other
children are Richard, nine, Linda,
six, and Frederick, two.
Mrs. Matthes is the former Ann Boyer, of

at

the school in

addition to

his

coaching duties.
1950
Cpl. John E. White, previously
Education Specialist at the Camp
Drew Army Education Center,
U.

S.

Forces, Japan,

was discharg-

ed from the Army to accept an appointment with the Department of
the Army as an education assistant
White,
at Camp Sendai, Japan.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman N.

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, '46

Manager
Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

Assistant
142 East

White, East Fifth Street,

is

a grad-

uate of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
Mr. White has been in the serice for two years and during that
time saw duty with the 24th Infantry Division in Korea before
going to Japan.

1950
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laubscher
are living in Palo Alto, California.
Mr. Laubscher is teaching in the
Campus Elementary School at
Stanford University and also working on his Ph.D. in admiiiistration.
Mrs. Laubscher, the former Lucy
Jane Baker, is teaching in the Ventura School.

1953

Benn Linn has accepted a
ing position in the Lebanon

A

schools.

teach-

public

graduate of Catawissa

High School
Linn taught

and
last

B.S.T.C.,

year at

Mr.

Millville.

1953
Miss Joan Wersinger, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Wersinger,
of 171 South Pine Street, Buckhom,
Alaska, recently received a Master
of Arts degree in Psychology from

Columbia

University,

New

York

City.

She was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
1953 with a Bachelor of Science
degree, having majored in French,
Spanish and English. She received the Fileston Scholarship and
the President’s Scholarship at Col-

umbia.
1953

The marriage

of

Miss

Nancy

Dawn

Swartz, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Emerson W. Swartz, Forty
Fort, to John A. Lychos, son of
Mr. and Kirs. A. Lychos, Bloomsburg, was solemnized at four
o’clock Saturday afternoon, October 30, in the Forty Fort Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Weisley.
Mrs. Lychos was graduated fron
Forty Fort High School and B.S
T. C. She is associated with Gen
eral Motors Acceptance Corpora
tion in Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. Lychos served with the U
S. Marine Corps during World Wai
He wai
II and the Korean War.

graduated from Bloomsburg Iligl
School and is attending Wilke;
College at present.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLl

‘SAUCERED AND BLOWED’
E. H. Nelson (’ll)

FROM THE “(QUARTERLIES”
June 1895

An

interesting article on “Cycling” stated there were at least 35
bicycles on the campus.
teachers’ contest, conducted by the Harrisburg “Patriot,” in
which the first prize was a scholarship for one year at B.S.N.S.,

1.

2.

was won by Miss Clara Lavina Lynch, a popular graduate of the
Harrisburg High School.
large Chinese gong was installed to rouse students in the morning, and to call them to meals.

3.

June 1900
1.

2.

Baseball
9
Syracuse 9, Normal 10
-\pril 28
Susciuehanna University 6, Normal 22
.May
2
Rucknell Lhiiversity 3, Normal 4
The only reason the Faculty did not defeat the Seniors more decisively in baseball was that they failed to make the necessary
April

runs!
3.

May

Professor William Noetling, often called the Nestor of our Faculty, has announced his decision to retire from' active teaching at
the close of the present school year.

1905
1.

Professor Cattell of Columbia University says that the usual ex-

2.

amination as a test is worse than useless.
Ground will be broken for the New Science Building shortly after
the close of school.

July 1910
1.

E\ery student recommended by the Faculty to the State Board
made good, so everyone enjoyed the festivities of the commence-

ment
2.

season.

This little note (omitted) will be a stimulus to more Normal girls
to go west to teach Indians, with the hope of finding a husband!

April 1915
1.

2.

The Class of 1915 has decided to devote its Memorial Fund toward the preparation of a new school infirmary.
The school wireless station is being overhauled and refitted with
modern and more efficient equipment.

April 1920
1.

The Memorial Fund,

momentum and
2.

size

like a

snow

ball

with every move.

on a side

The

half

hill is

gaining
of the

way mark

$4500 asked for has been passed.
There has been a big demand for teachers of Commercial
branches for high school work, and the difficulty of securing such
teachers seems to be increasing rather than diminshing.

Gollecf^ Cale4^da^

Semester Ends

January 20

First

January 24

Registration,

January 25

Second Semester Classes Begin

January 29

Registration, Teachers-in-Service

March

Sales Rally

April

3

5

Second Semester

Easter Recess Begins

April 12

Easter Recess Ends

May

6

Fashion

May

17

Classes for Seniors

May

18

Senior

May

19

Senior Banquet and Ball

May

19

Classes

May

21

ALUMNI DAY

May

22

Baccalaureate Services

May

23

Commencement

Show

End

Honor Assembly

End

The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

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Vol.

LVI

MARCH,

1955

No. 1

Have Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges Come of Age?
by

HARVEY

A.

ANDRUSS,

President

State Teachers College

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Individuals and Institutions

Coming
while

it

of

age means one thing

may mean something

to individuals,
Inelse to institutions.

graduating from a Teachers College have
probably come of age in the legal sense and also in an
academic sense, but they have still to demonstrate their
dividuals

professional responsibility.

Age As A Measure

of Maturity
While individuals may get married at eighteen,
vote at twenty-one, and make legal contracts according
to the law of the particular State in which they live,
there is no such measure for the maturity of colleges.
If so, we could say that in 1955 our college has been on

a four-year basis since 1934, at which time only students for the Bachelor’s Degree were admitted, thus
marking the passage of twenty-one years.
Institutions mature, or come of age, not on the
basis of the passage of an interval of time. They cannot be viewed in the same way as individuals. Generations are sometimes required for institutions to

the State, Regional and National Accrediting Associations.
In terms of professional responsibility, we can
say that Pensylvania State Teachers Colleges are on
the road to coming of age or maturity.

The Heritage

Wickersham was

a meticulous record keeper,
us in his diary the notes which he took
over a century ago. Here are five examples.

schols.

and he has
1.

2.

of collegiate status

has been too pretentious.
When the Goths overcome the Romans, we are
told, these conquerors arrayed themselves in togas
and strutted about the Forum spouting orations in
ornate Latin style with greater aplomb than any of
the Roman Senators. Young colleges sometimes fall
In achieving academic respectability,
into this error.
the Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges have been
slow to follow the outward show of traditions and
trappings whose sources have long since been lost in
the light of the Middle Ages.
Being a part of the public school system, our college calendar is the nine month 180 day 36 week
calendar of the public school rather than the two semesters of 15 or 16 weeks comprising the traditional

—

3.

schedule

following

the

other

Professional Responsibility

However, if we do not view coming of age in
terms of the passage of years or achievement of academic respectability but in terms of being professionally responsible for the education of teachers, it is
All Pennsylvania Teachers Colleges
another story.
are now accredited by the Pennsylvania Council of
Education, the Middle States Association, and the
American Association of Colleges for Teacher EducaThis means that they have been recognized by
tion.

—

—

this

—

— Inexperienced— pronounces English
—has some idea that there a better
of teaching — with a good deal more
is

knowledge and influence may make
but is a poor one now,

a teach-

er,
5.

—

—

Teacher Old, and very old-fashioned sits
with his hat on seems feeble I doubt
whether anybody can teach worse no energy no life no improvement poor beyond
hope of amendment amputation is neces-

—

If

of the

—A

—

Teacher

way

pattern of the public

many

—

female, the only female teacher
country industrious speaks too
low teachers reading well, by exampleasks miscellaneous questions in Grammar and
Geography has improved methods of teaching is an excellent teacher.

Teacher-

badly

schools.

perish, do research or resign, or
current traditional practices.

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—

—

4.

—

Teacher Dull, slow, and ignorant writes
miserably teaching, reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic equally bad is unfit to
teach and yet is wanted by the neighborhood.

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academic respectability, i.e., the conformation
to academic traditions, were the measure of maturity,
or coming of age, then the Pennsylvania Teachers
Colleges may not qualify by the mere length of academic processions headed by marshalls with maces, or
rigid plans of organization, such as department heads,
professorial rank, adherence to a policy of publish or

—

Teacher Can scarcely understand English
speaks to the pupils altogether in German
teaches in the old way knows nothing about
the improved modes of teaching may do his
best but is unfit without more knowledge to
teach either English or German.

in all

academic college.
I acuity ranking has only recently been established
in State leachers Colleges as a part of a mandatory
salary

left

—

achieve

Academic Respectability
Sometimes the outward display

of History

Those graduating in 1955 commemorate a century
of Teacher Education in Pennsylvania.
They are the
inheritors of history which began in a very modest
way in Lancaster County for the first time in 1855,
when James P. Wickersham discovered a need for
separate institutions for teachers.
This need grew
out of his observation of teachers in one-room rural

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—

sary.

The law providing for County Superintendents was
enacted in 1854, It is interesting to note that James
P, Wickersham, of Lancaster County, had his salary
fixed at $1,500 per year, the highest in the State, and
Joel Bradley, of Columbia County, received only $300
per year.
Under the 1854 law. County Superintendents conducted examinations, issued teaching certificates, inspected schools, kept public attention focused on educational problems, and encouraged teachers to remedy
their deficiency on a voluntary basis by attending
teachers institutes which were organized to increase
their proficiency

Wickersham put

in
it,

common school subjects and, as
learn something about the “busi-

ness of teaching.’’

The Lancaster County Normal Institute opened
17, 1855, for a three month period in the buildtContinued on Page 19)

April

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No.

Vol. LVI,

March, 1955

I

r

M/d- Year Commencement

Published quarterly

by

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Entered as Sec-

ond-Class Matter, August

1941, at the

8,

Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the

Act of March

scription,

3,

Yearly Sub-

1879.

Single Copy, 50 cents.

$2.00;

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, '12

Pennsylvania’s fourteen teachereducation institutions have probably come of age in a legal sense
and an academic sense, but they
still
must demonstrate their professional responsibility, Dr. flarvey A. .\ndruss, president of the
I’eachers College, declared at the
mid-year commencement, in Carver Hall auditorium.
Speaking on “Have Pennsylvania
Teachers College Come of Age?”,
the educator declared that this is
so “to the e.xtent that the college
their graduates will do more
than is required of tliem by the
school laws of the commonwealth.”
President Andruss conferred the
degree of bachelor of Science in

and

Education on fifteen members of
the class.

BUSINESS
E.

MANAGER

H. Nelson,

’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Seniors

E.

H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Rutii Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

Thomas

P.

North,

In

service

to

the

college,

personal

practical qualities, potential

usefulness, actual ability, past record,

and scholastic

achievement—

upon these qualifications rest the
selection of B. S. T. C.’s representatives in the

1955 edition of “Who’s
Students in American

Who Among
Universities

and Colleges.”

Thirteen deserving persons were
chosen from this year’s Senior class

Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

March, 1955

Dean

—

Dorothy Barnes,

Anne Rutter Lee,

Starrucca; Mrs.

Northumberland; Dolores Miles,
.\lt.
Carmel; Theodore Thomas,
.Nanticoke;
Constance
Wallace,
Wilkes-Barre.

Secondary — Ronald Couch,
Tama(|ua; G. Richard Dietz, Mark
Morris, Bloomsburg; John Nemetz,
Shamokin; Jacob Slembarski, Mocanaqua.

The members of the class were
presented for their degrees by Dr.
Ernest H. Englehardt, director, secondary education; Miss Edna J.
Hazen, director, elementary education, and Dr. Thomas B. Martin,
director, business education.

1954 'Who’s Who’

by a committee composed of

TREASURER

Sunbury.
Elementary

der,

Lynda Bogart

Professional promise, leadership,

traits,

PRESIDENT

Dr.

dean of instruction, who retired
at the end of the present semester,
presented diplomas to the follow-

ing degree candidates:
Business — Mrs. Olive Hunter
Buynak, Taylor; G. William Creasy,
James Roberts, Mifflinville;
.\nn Snyder, Elysburg; Robert Sny-

of Instruction, Dr.

the

Thomas

North; the Dean of Women, Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller; the Dean of Men,
John Hoch; Director of the BusiDr.
ness Education Department,
Thomas Martin; Director of the

Elementary Education Department,
Miss Edna Hazen and the Director
Departof Secondary Education
ment, Dr. Ernest Engelhardt.

A

resident of Berwick and a graduate of Berwick High School, Lynda’s
early college activities included WomAthanaeum Club, and
en’s Chorus.
Poetry Club. As an upperclassman, this
secondary student has been a member
of F. T. A., “B” Club, Kappa Delta Pi,
and president of the Poetry Club during her Junior and Senior years.

Janice

Bower

Miss Bower is perhaps best known
for her four years of oustanding serAssociation
vice on the Waller Hall
Governing Board. While holding this
important and distinctive position, she
has been busy with Women’s Chorus,
Athanaeum Club, “B” Club, F. T. A.,
and Kappa Delta Pi. An elementary
student from Clarks Green, Miss Bower graduated from the Clarks Summit-

Abington High School.

Edward

J.

Connolley

Mr. Connolley will be long-remembered by the class of '55 as their Junior Class President, and by the entire
college as an outstanding holder of the
school’s highest office, that of President of the Community
Government

1

SENIORS IN
His other numerous and
Association.
varied collegiate activities are as folyears,
three
lows; Science Club for
serving as both President and vice-president in his Junior term; Sophomore
Class Treasurer; varsity football four
years, with membership in the Varsity
Club his Junior and Senior semesters;
Newman Club for two years; Phi Sigma
Pi during his last three years, and the
office of historian his Junior year; F.
Committee; and a
T. A.; Furniture
member of College Council for two
years.
Hailing from Danville, he is a
secondary major with the emphasis on
science and mathematics.

Jean Griffiths
At present. Miss Griffith

1954

WHO’S WHO-

holding the office of
vice-president while a Sophomore. She
also is or has been a
Commencement
usher. Maroon and Gold
newswriter,
representative on the
Day Women’s
Association official board, and member
of Kappa Del. a Pi, F. T. A., Pep Committee, Athanseum Club, Mixed Chorus, Women’s Chorus, Science Club. She
is enrolled in the elementary curriculthis position after

Chorus during her busy life at Bloomsburg since graduation from Scranton
Central High School. Miss Griffith is
enrolled in the elementary curriculum
at B. S. T. C.

Miss Mincer’s varied college activities
College have included membership in Pi Omega Pi, Kappa Delta Pi,
“B’’ Club, Business Education Club, F.
at the

Dramatic Club, Women’s Chorus
and numerous committees such as Calendar, Dining Room, Hospitality, Social-Recreation, Customs, Freshman and
Sophomore Dancers and Co-Chairman
of the Senior Name Card and
Invitation,
Hailing from Jersey Shore, Miss
Mincer is a Business Education resident of

Navy

Hall,

S. T, C,

ele-

mentary department has been June
Lukac, whose college activities include
F. T. A.,

Kappa Delta

Waller Hall Governing Board and
the Kids Christmas project.
However,
she has centered her interest in the S.
C. A. of which she was president in her
Junior year, and the Athanaeum Club,
where she also presided her third year
at Bloomsburg.

Joyce Lundy
Another outstanding day
student
comes in the person of Joyce Lundy

who

at present secretary of Mixed
secretary of Dramatic Club,
Co-chairman of the C. G, A, Library
Committee, and member of F. T. A.,
is

Hope Horne
From Numidia High School comes
day student Hope Horne with a variety
of college activities to highlight an active college career.
As President of
the Day Women’s Association in her

Junior year. Miss Horne was a member
of College Council.
She advanced to

such as Women’s Chorus, Pi
Pi, Kappa Delta Pi,
C. G. A.
Hospitality Chairman, C, G, A. Dining
Room Chairman, Business Education
Club, F, T, A,, and Secretary of the
Waller Hall Governing Board, Among
her countless offices have been those of
tivities

Omega

Women’s Chorus treasurer and
dent. Pi

Presi-

Omega

Pi secretary and corresponding secretary of Kappa Delta Pi.
Miss Morgan proudly claims Edwardsville High School as her alma mater.

Relda Rohrbach
Fashion Show model
for
four
years. Chairman of the C.G.A. Furni-

A

ture Committee and membership in
Maroon and Gold Band, “B” Club,

the

S

C. A., Obiter staff, F. T. A., and Wesley
Fellowship have filled Miss Rohrbach’s
four years at B. S. T. C. Coming from

Sunbury,

she

is

another

elementary

student.

Nancy Sue Williams
Miss Williams

is noted for her variety of activities that range from Associate Editor of the 1955 Obiter to Treasurer of Kappa Delta Pi. Included be-

has also participated in the Freshman
Talent Show, Women’s
Chorus and
been both representative and vice-president of the Day Women’s Association

tween these two are C. G. A. Furniture Chairman, C. G. A. Awards Chairman and
membership in
Women’s
Chorus, Maroon and Gold, F. T. A., and
various Waller Hall Association committees.
An elementary major from
Clarks Summit she has served on the
Editorial Board of the college newspaper for two years and is at present

official board.

Program Chairman

Chorus,

student.

Morgan

With a major in Accounting and a
minor in Mathematics, Miss Morgan is
busy with her numerous collegiate ac-

June Lukac
Freeland’s gift to the B.

Pi,

Senior Women Representative on
College Council, Miss Histed
also
is
combining Fashion
Show modeling,
F. T. A., Kappa Delta Pi, and “B” Club
during her Senior year at Bloomsburg.
Underclassman activities included Athanaeum Club, Women’s Chorus, Mixed
Chorus, Waller Hall Governing Board
and membership in
activities
those
earlier
mentioned.
Honesdale
High
School claims this Senior elementary

Chorus, Phi Sigma Pi, Newman Club,
Freshman Talent Show and the C,G.A.
Assembly Committee.
Sally

Jeanetta Mincer

Women’s Chorus,

Grace Histed

a list of college activities that includes
class vice-president.
Chairman of the Social-Recreation Committee, Dramatic Club, F. T. A.,
Men’s

Freshman

um.

T. A.,

secretary
of the Senior Class, a position she also
held her Sophomore year at B. S. T. C.
She has been President of the Athanaeum Club, General Co-Chairman of the
Junior Prom, Social Chairman of Waller Hall and a member of
the “B”
Club, F. T. A., S. C. A., and Women’s
is

Michael Moran
School comes
elementary student Michael Moran with

From Hazleton High

Kappa Delta
tion

Pi,

Day Women’s

Associa-

and Alpha Psi Omega, Miss Lundy

of F. T. A.

COLLEGE SECOND SEMESTER TOTAL SETS A NEW RECORD
With

American colleges and
accommodating more
students than ever before, Bloomsburg State Teachers College re-

dents to enter college for the second semester since January, 1946,

ports the largest second

man

universities

enrollment in

its

history.

semester

With

a

817 students, the
college enrollment figure exceeds
the former high of 778 students
registered in February, 1950, following World War II.
Included in the second semester
figures are 116 Fre.shman students,
the largest group of first-year sturegistration

2

of

when World War

II

GIs were

re-

The Freshnumbered 270 in Sep-

turning from overseas.
class

tember, 1954.

A breakdown of the 1955 enrollment figures indicates that the
Department of Business Education
has become the largest division of
the college with an enrollment of
289, as compared with 284 in the
secondary curriculum and 244 in
the elementary curriculum.

Men outnumber women

on the

Bloomsburg campus, 498 to 319—
unique situation in American

a

teacher

-

education

institutions.

However, in the Department of
Elementary Education, there are
only sixty men, with a ratio of
three
rolled.

women

for every man enThe secondary curriculum

has a seven to one male ratio, while
there arc two male students for
every woman studying in the Department of Business Education.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FROM 'DOWN

.IMPRESSIONS

.

.

By .\nne Nortlmip Greene

When

acquired iny husband

I

through “lend-lease,”

(1

always say

as

we rounded
Our

boys married Australian
girls dining the war and I evened
things up a bit by marrying an

to the

that time),

at

‘.A.ussie”

1

naturally

became interested in my husband’s
home country and looked forwanl
seeing the place of his birth.
This opportunity presented itself
to

last

February when

and

1

made

my

husband

a trip to the South

Pacific.

Our first stop
place I’d always

was Honolulu, a
dreamed of vis-

and which, to me, will always
be the loveliest kind of a dream!
From the time one steps from tiie
plane and is greeted with a pertume-scented flower-lei and a welcoming kiss, one li\ es in a dream
iting

world. The island is beauty itself
with its lush growth of tropical
flowers and fruits and its happy
people.
Nowhere have I encountered more friendly and hospitable
people! Notliing is too much for

them

to

do

if it

adds to the pleasure

of visitors to their island paradise

and e\eryone smiles. The air is
balmy and pleasant and the blue,
blue water which washes the love1>'
white sand beaches seems to
caress the shore with its white-tipped vva\es giving one a feeling of
quiet relaxation
and unhurried
pleasure.

In

Hawaii there

delightful marriage

that

is

of tropical

is-

land chairn coupled with the cleanliness and comfort of the mainland.
Reluctantly leaving Hawaii after
four days, we flew 5,000 miles on
our next hop which brought us to
Auckland, New Zealand.
At the
airport

we were met by

who were

to

drive

us

friends

by easy

to their home 400 miles
south in Wellington, the capital of
New Zealand. After an overnight
stop in Auckland, a city which re-

stages

sembles the
started

cities of

England,

toward Wellington.

we

New

much rolling sheep
and we traveled over wind-

Zealand has

country
ing hilly roads, from time to time
encountering groups of wild horses
March, 1955

a curve in the high-

first day’s drive brought us
thermal region and a resort

called

Here

“Rotorua.’

geysers
shoot steam from breaks in the
rocky ground and spray the sur-

rounding foliage witn a sediment
which turns everything into a petrified forest.
Rink terraces are
formed on the rocks and, as one
walks, one feels the warmth beneath the earth through the soles
of the shoes.
There are hot bubbling mud pools and deep boiling
springs, while nearby will be found
cool running streams and calm
pools of cold water.
In this area of

New

Zeland, the

.Maori people (the real native New
Zealandersj
have a settlement.

These people are brown-skinned
with dark fiair and eyes but with
quite tine features.
They have a
highly developed culture and consider it a disgrace to marry into the
white race. They have beautiful
\oices and lovely folk-music. The
popular song “Now Is the Hour”
was written to the tune of one of
their loveliest folk-songs.

The Maoris

live in a

community

own, using the warm pools
for bathing and the boiling springs
Within a
for cooking their food.
stockade in this village they have
of their

built

some

of their earlier types of

grass-roofed houses and ceremonial
the latter being of carved
wood set with mother-of-pearl and
painted with ocher.
In this thermal area the Maoris
are forced to bury their dead above
ground as one might uncover a new
geyser or steaming pool if he attempted to dig into the earth.
Many new springs break out conhuts,

and the visitor has an uneasy feeling as he walks about on
the warm rocks for who knows
what is under the next step?
Leaving Rotorua we drove south
through the lake region into a desert covered with scrubby growth
but sprinkled with buttercups.
From here we could look up to tlie
stantly

huge

snow

-

covered

.

.

’34

wa\'.

was lend-lease as so many Am-

it

erican

UNDER'.

mountain

“Ruapehu” next to which stands
“Ngauruho” an active volcano a
mere 20 miles away.
Wellington is a modern city built
around a lovely harbor, and as one
first sees it he is struck by the contrast of colors.
Yellow gorse-covered mountains slope down to the
deep bine harbor around the edge
of
which cluster hundreds of
brightly-colored tile-roofed houses.
Inside the city I was again startled by the similarity of this New
Zealand metropolis to those of
England and many say the New
Zealander himself is more “English” than the English as he has retained many of the old customs of
England and the patriarchal family
system.

From our friends’ home we
many points of interest in

ited

the

on an
the South Is-

North Island and then
overnight boat for
laiid.

vis-

left

Here we drove again

tlirough

rolling country first but this sharp-

ened and soon we were winding
through, around and over rocky,
brown mountain-land with the valley between scrubby and barren.
Toward the end of tlie day we
started
liairpin

enough
led to

down

a narrow, winding,

which was wide
one car and which
a fertile plain and a few
trail

for only

farm houses, the

we had

first

seen for hours!

habitation

This plain

led us to Queenstown, a lovely little settlement surroundmg “Lake
Wakatipu” called “the lake that
breatlies.” It is fed by springs and

and falls sevfew minutes. The
water is ice cold and few fish can
live in it, but is very clear and
beautiful and reflects the green
trees on its shores and the snowcapped mountains which surround
the water level rises

eral inches every

it.

After two days rest we drove to
Christchurch, known as “the city
Flowers are grown in
of flowers.”
Homes,
every available space.
streets and different sections of the
city compete for prizes for the best
presentations each year.
3

From Christchurch we flew

to

Melbourne, Australia, and here I
had my first look at “the wide

brown land"
Australia’s

so

lack

landscape

the

named because
of

-

tinged

one

the old gold mining eities to
whieh many of our unsuccessful
“Forty-niners” went and made their
fortunes in the fifties.
destination, Sydney,

Our next

to our
husband’s
were greeted by

flight took us

We

my

“hometown.”

a delegation of friends and relatives and given a royal weleome
and there began seven weeks of

slim

until

my husband and

made

a seat of

their

raised

me

tire

above

host

hands and
crowd where

could look down into the limousine and view the “Fairy Queen”
in her white ermine and jewels,
seated beside the handsome blond

I

We had made plans

to fly to Tas-

mania for tlie week-end so left next
morning for tliis green island state
south of Australia’s mainland. It
is a fertile black-soiled area surrounded by a rocky coastline and
produces Australia’s finest crops of
It is much
potatoes and apples.
cooler than the rest of Australia.
Here in its fern-edged streams is
found one of the most peculiar animals in the world, the platypus.
He is a shy four-footed creature,
half animal and half bird. He has
a duek’s

bill

and webbed

feet,

is

covered with beaver-like fur and
has a tail resembling that of a beaver, lays eggs,

is

as

much

at

home

water as on land and seems to
be a hold-over from prehistoric
Australia being one of the
times.
oldest continents, believed to have
been a part of Asia in ages past,
lias many strange animals similar

in

mammals.
Melbourne we

to those of prehistorical

Heturning

made
4

and exploring.
Sydney is a large modern city
built around a harbor which is said
to be one of the two most beautiful harbors in the world, (Rio de
Janeiro being its only rival and I
should not want to have to choose
between them for each has its own
sightseeing, visiting

to

excursions to outlying spots

official buildings.

al

wandered through narrow city
and enjoyed the shops and

streets,

parks.

Outside

the

city

we

explored

mountain trails, hunted wild flowers with camera lens, and watched
the sheep-dog trials, a competition
in dog disciplining and handling of
sheep.

One

of the greatest tlirdls of tlie

The basin

was seeing the adorable koala
bears of which I’d heard and read
so much.
This little fellow is the

with

original

is an
wonderful
blue Pacific water, miles of golden
sanded beaches and full of maneating sharks! The city has a population of over 1,500,000 people
and has its beautiful suburbs, slum
areas and all tire characteristics,
good and bad, of most modern
cities.
In tire harbor stands the
famous “coat-hanger” bridge which
missed being the loirgest single
span in the world wherr San Fran-

special appeal).
extinct volcano

trip

brown

“teddy-bear”

with

gray-

fur, a flat leatliery nose, de-

oid of tail and defense and one of
the most lovable little animals I’ve
\

e\ er seen!

He

is

affectionate and

a baby, drmks
no water and eats the leaves of

cuddly, cries

like

only six of the wide varieties of

lers,”

These leaves condrug which makes the little
bears sleepy and they crawl into a
fork of the tree and there sleep,
being detected by only tlie keenest
eye. This little animal is one inch
long at birth and lives in its mother’s pouch until six months old.
When fully furred and six inches
long, he emerges and is carried
pick-a-back until an adult one year

in

ol age.

cisco

coirrpleted

longer just

Duke.

and well

streets

In Sydney we attended the RoyEaster Show, a glorified fair of
outstanding proportions, witnessed
a surf carnival where we saw tlie
famous Australian life guards drill,

Melbourne was gaily decorated,
for this was the occasion of Queen
Elizabeth’s tour of Australia and
we had arrived on her last day in
Melbourne.
Everytliuig was a
Everywhere
fever of excitement!
were crowds of people lining the
streets and the builduigs were a
mass of colored lights, flags, bunting and lighted crowns. (Jur host
drove us into town to see the festivities as tliis was the night of the
couple
and everyone hoped to catch a
glimpse of the Queen. Being short
and unable to see anything in a
crowd, my hopes for seeing even
the royal standard on tlie car were

tree-lined

planned

throughout the year.

final reception for tire royal

with

of

keeps

rainfall

brown

of interest ineluding “Ballarat,”

three

feet

Sydrrey’s

was

buildirrgs

and

orre

before

opened to travel.
There are tall

apartment houses but, as the people do not like to be “cliff dwel-

and there is pleirty of room
Australia for expairsion, most
families live in red-tile-roofed onestory houses with small flower
gardens in tire front and vegetable
gardens in the rear of the buildings.

With Sydney

made many

our base,

as

we

the Blue
Mountains, to the seaside spots,
and to various cities, including
Canberra, the nation’s capital. Here
I first heard the laugh of the kookaburra, a short fat bird (about the
size of a small owl) found only in
Australia, whose laugh so reseminto

trips

bles that of a

human

that even Aus-

tralians are fooled at times

they hear

when

it.

Canberra

is

built in a saucer of

land, a former sheep station, surrounded by mountains and pattern-

ed after our

own

nation’s capital,

eucalj'ptus trees.
tain a

Another curious animal native to
Australia is the kangaroo whose
smaller relative is the wallaby, also
a pouched animal, and these produc e a third \ ariety called the
“wallaroo.” All these animals use
their strong tails as a

springboard

and can be \ery swift moving in
flight, although they appear to be
\ ery clumsy creatures.
Australian life is a cross between
our own and that of England. Bedescent, the Ausalways speak of England as
“home.” They, like the New Zealanders, ha\ e a patriarchal form of
society and children are strictly
disciplined and educated in the
educated in the English tradition.

ing of English
tralians

The
ted

teen-agers are less sophisticathan .American adolescents.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Mother tends to make her home
and family her chief interests leav-

The people “Down Under”
among the most hospitable in

ing the worries of politics, government and international affairs to
The Austhe man of tlie family.
tralian housewives ha\ e less of the

vvorlil

modern coiu eniences and lu.xuries
than oiir American women and
their work fills longer hours and is
harder because the average home
cannot afford the labor-saving deBut
vices we acquire so cheaply.
food, clothing, recreation and fun
are plentiful

and

easily accessible

and the Australians are a healthy,
happy people.
The country has a socialistic
form of government. The laboring
class is protected by all sorts of
laws governing hours and wages,
insuring the worker a living wage,
childiens allowance and medical
care, and allowing him ample leisure time to enjoy swimming at the
beaches and the other sports of
which Australians are so fond. But
these laws tend to forget tire laborer

is

also a

consumer and work

to

antage at times. When a
worker wants to go on a trip at
die week-end, he must be sure to
buy his “petrol” before tlie station
closes at noon on Saturday when
all
service is discontinued until
.Monday. He must reach the hotel
at set meal hours as food is not
serv ed outside of hours scheduled
and diere are few restaurants available.
No one works in shifts to
give round-the-clock goods and
services and the grocer, baker and
other tradesmen must close tlieir
shops at stated times and not sell
his disadv

outside

government dictated hours.

are heavily taxed
tends to stifle initiative.
The av erage worker does not strive
to work longer and make more profit because all income beyond a
certain level is so heavily taxed
tliat tliere is no incentive to accumulate weath. Most Australians
have the attitude, “why try to get
more when what we have is adequate for our needs.” This point
of view, in my opinion, will retard
Australia’s progress and continue
to keep it a country of the future
until tins type of government is replaced by one less restricting to
competition and initiative.

Excess

and

profits

diis

March, 1955

are

SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS

the

County County Alumni of the
Bloomsburg Slate Teachers College will be asked to share in a

and are keenly interested in
America and Americans. They all
liope to visit “The States” and love
our baseball.
derstand my

and

They could not unlack

knowledge

of

interest in this sport as they

think all Americans who are not
baseball players are naturally basel)all

fans!

When one enters an Australian
home, the kettle is immediately put
on to boil and one isn’t invited to
have a cup of tea; he is served it
automatically with an array of
homemade scones and cakes that
would make an American housewile blush; lor the measure of a
housewife’s hospitality there is tlie
of cakes and cookies she
can produce at a moment’s notice
lor the une.\pected caller.

number

On

April 24th there was a large
group ot well-wishers at tiie airport as we took off from Sydney.
.\lready it was Autumn in Australia
in Washington seemed
welcome prospect as there is no

and Spring
a

central

heating in the Australian

home. Twenty-four hours in flight
brought us again to Honolulu
where we basked in the warm sunshine tour days before flying to
San Francisco and on May 3 we

were

safely

Our
and we

trip

home.
days

took eighty-two

ti'aveled 25,000 miles, a dis-

drive for scholarship funds during
the month of .March, it was announced by Paul C. Martin, business manager of the college and
treasurer ot the B.S.T.C. Columbia
(bounty Alumni Association. Plans
for the solicitation were made at
a recent meeting of officers of the
group held at the college.

Mr. .Martin said that the town of
Bloomsburg has been divided into
sections for solicitation by committee members.
Similar groups will
canvass alumni in Berwick, Benton,
.Millville,
Catawissa
and Scott
Township. Letters will be mailed
to alumni, asking their help in raising funds to help educate worthy
students for the teaching profes-

sion,

made

although every effort will be
to contact individual alumni

personally.

A

complete report is to be made
annual dinner meeting of the
county Alumni group Saturday
evening, April 16, at the Bloomsburg Elks Club. The dinner will
be held at 6:30 o’clock, EST.
Mr. Martin has asked that interested Alumni contact him at once
if
they would like to help solicit
Those who wish to give
funds.
their contribution now can do so
b) mailing it in care of Mr. Martin
at the

at the college.

tance equiv alent to a trip around

We reached Washingmore than 400 Kodachrome slides; we were tired and
the globe.

ton

with

NEW YORK ALUMNI MEET
The Bloomsburg

“Down Under.”

State Teachers
Greater
Association
of
New York held its fifth annual dinner at the Friar Tuck Inn, Cedar
Grove, N. J., Saturday night, Oct-

Each time I leave my country
and travel beyond its borders, 1

and friends

ov’erweight,

but

full

pleasant

of

memories of the wonderful experiwe’d shared with friends

ences

come home with increased

respect

and love

and

for our great land

system of government.

I

its

am made

more and more aware of the fact
that nowhere in the world do so

many people

enjoy so

much

of the

good things that make life comfortable, happy and worthwhile
than in the good old U.S.A. When
I see “Old Glory” waving from the
top of a building as
port,” I experience

I fly

into

anew

“home

the

thrill

.\lumni

ober 30, 1954 with 38
present.

members
Honored

guests were: Dr. and Mrs. Andruss
and Dr. and Mrs. Nelson, from

Bloomsburg.
Officers for 1955 are as follows:
Prokopchak
President, Michael
’35; vice-president, P. Clive
Potts
’ll and secretary and treasurer, A.

K. Naugle

’ll.

of pride

and pleasure

myself:
“This

my own, my

is

as

I

say to

native land!”
5

Bloomsburg Writers

ciated with well-known musicians
and music lovers. Instead of continuing with piano, she felt that she

Series:

KATHERINE LITTLE
BAKELESS
Connecticut
Waterbury,
The
Sunday Republican commented on
Katherine Little Bakeless’ newest
book entitled “In the Big Time”
silverthat, “you can’t brush the
grey dust from the blue jacket of
It’s pure star dust.”
this book.
Star dust, as everybody knows,
the stuff that gets into the mind’s
eye of nearly all young aspirants
the entertainment
for success in
world.
Mrs. Bakeless’ In the Big
Time unfolds the vivid star dust
stories of fourteen of the
biggest
“big time” entertainers, including
is

such famous personages as Fred
Astaire, Burl Ives, Hildegarde and
Marian Anderson.
Early in her own life Katherine
Bakeless felt the magic of
the star dust for, at six, she was already on her way to a long and
talented career as a pianist. Bloomsburg is proud to acclaim that it was
here where she was
born and
began to study piano. She was the
daughter of the late President
Mrs.
Little,
Judge Robert and
whose Mayflower ancestry traced
back through the famous John Alden-Priscilla
Midlens
marriage.
She received her diploma and
music certificate from the BloomsLittle

burg State Normal School, where
she met her future husband. Colonel John Bakeless, soldier, scholar, and writer.
After graduation,

she

entered

Peabody Conservatory, in Baltimore where she studied under Immanuel Wad, a pupil of the Vien-

could do more to encourage appreciation of music, so she turned to
writing about musicians and other

Her

entertainers.

efforts resulted

in the publication of five highly en-

and informative books.
Her first book, published in 1940,
was Story-Lives of Great ComposIn this book she included
ers.
tertaining

of
biographical sketches
nineteen composers from the modern Stravinsky back to Scarlotti.
This, like her succeeding books,
was written in an easy conversational style
and provides good
background material for the music

lively

lover.

Her other books. The Birth of
The Battle Hymn of
and Storythe Republic Story,
Lives of Great American Composers, have become exceedingly popular and are found in most librarthe Nations,

over the United States.
In fact, on one of their many
trips to various parts of the United
Mr.
States, the talented couple,
and Mrs. Bakeless, made a game of
ies

many towns to
two had the more

checking libraries in
see

which

books
ually

of tlie

in each.

won

Mrs. Bakeless us-

in public libraries,

Mr. Bakeless

but

won hands down

in

university libraries, mainly because
of his scholarly articles.

Colonel and Mrs. Bakeless now
reside on a farm near New Haven,
Connecticut, where the talented
authoress devotes her time to gardening, writing, music and the raising of Kerry Blue dogs.

moved

to Cambridge, Massachuswhere she studied under
Heinrich Cebhard, at the same
Belmont
time teaching music at
Hill School.

she studied in
New York City under Bruce Simonds, now Dean of the Yale School
of Music. Mrs. Bakeless spent several summers in Europe, where she
studied under the great teachers,
Berte Jahn-Beer and Tobias Mathley.
During these years, she assoSix

6

years

later,

Miss Barbara Bailey, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Bailey, Albuquerque, N. M., became the bride
of

Donald W.

Herberholtz,

of

Bloomsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs.

M.
a

J.

Herberholz, Detroit, Mich.,

ceremony

at

five-thirty

in

o’clock

on Christmas day in the Monte Vista Christian Church, Albuquerque.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Roy W.
Ford, pastor, in candlefight.

Mr.

and Mrs. Herholtz will reside iu
Bloomsburg where the bridegroom
is

assistant professor of art at B.S.

T. C.

The bride received her
and M.A. degrees

New

B.F.A.

at University

Me.xico in art education.

of

She

was a member of Chi Omega social
and Mortar Board, honorary senior society. She was formerly on tire art staff of Union High

sorority

|

School in Phoenix, Ariz.
The bridegroom received his B.
State
Micliigan
A. degree from
College and his M.A. degree in art
education from the University of
New Mexico.

Miss Bonnie Schmidt, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Schmidt, Nescopeck, and Herbert R.
Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
W. Snyder, Berwick, were married
evening,
at six o’clock Saturday
of

November 13, at tlie home of tire
The double-ring ceremony
bride.
was

performed

Wood,

by

Robert

Justice of the Peace.

V.

The

bride graduated from high school
at St. Charles, Mo., in 1951 and attended Lindenwood College in St.
She was
Charles for two years.
at
clerk
as an office
General Laboratories of the ACF.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Berwick High School in 1949, served four years in the U. S. Navy
and at present is a student at B.S.
T.C. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are now
Street,
fixing at 500 West Front

employed

teacher Leschetizsky, who
had taught Paderewski. In 1920
she married Colonel Bakeless and

nese

etts,

FACULTY MEMBER WEDS

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb,

’42

Berwick.
Patricia Jean Taylor, of Dushore,

was married Saturday, December
18, to

Mr. H. Montgomery Snyder.

The ceremony was performed

in

the Church of the Annunciation
Havertown, Brookline, Pa.

at

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

I

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|

SCHOLARSHIPS

AWARDED

was awarded the

Selinsgrove,

R.

.Memorial ScholarMiss Miriam
ship of $120, while
Mrs.
Miller, daughter of Mr. and
Leroy A. Miller, 43 North Front
Street, St. Clair, was presented the
President’s
Scholarship of $1(K).
These were the two top awards
made during the special exercises
held in Carver Auditorium.

Bruce .\lbert

Harvey

President

who made

Andruss,

the presentation of the

President’s Scholarship to Miss .Milalso presented the

following
scholarships: Class of 1950 Scholarship— Edward Shustack, Shenandoah; Class of 1951 Scholarship—
.\nnette
Williams,
Buttonwood,
W ilkes-Barre; Class of 1952 Scholarship— Rita Kryzwicki, Plymouth,
and the Class of 1954 Scholarship—
Robert Boyle, Scranton.
ler,

Dr. E. II. Nelson, president of
the General Alumni
Association,
made the presentation of the R.
Bruce Albert Scholarship to Miss
Yohn and three Alumni Association
Scholarships to Evelyn
Gilchrist,
Pottsville; Harriet Link, Coopers-

burg (Lehigh County); and Peggy
Bartges, Dan\ille.
Miss
Bartges
was the recipient of the scholarship

made

possible

County Alumni

by

Montour

the

.Association.

The annual scholarship

of

Ruth Maurer, Shamokin; Joy .Metzger, Selinsgrove;
Ruth Paisley, R. D. 1, Whipwallopen; Rose Pa\ lick, Dallas;
Connie
Schraeder, .Alden (Luzerne County); William Troiani, Ashley; Margaret Wilkinson, .Mt. Carmel; Gerald
Wood,
.Mechanicsburg;
Terry
Zachowski, Reading.
Julio, Scranton;

Twenty-nine students at Bloomsbnrg State Teachers College were
awarded scholarships and grants
Miss Margaret
totalling
$1575.
.Mrs.
lohn, daughter of Mr. and
Glen L. Yohn, 717 Eighth street,

KEIXER FEATURED IN
SATURDAY EVENING POST
recent issue of The Saturday
Evening Post featured the story of
George J. Keller, the Bloomsburg
ex-professor wlio gave up teaching
.A

tlie local Teachers
College to
devote full-time to wild animal

at

training.

In an article entitled “I’m Scared
the Time,”
.Murray
Morgan
tells that until 1942 Keller regarded
his work with jungle beasts as a

Bloomsburg branch of the A.A.U.
was given to Marjorie Myers,
Lansdale, by Mrs. Leon Maneval,

The author

ten
professional

relates that for

years after turning
Keller remained a summertime
trouper, spending his winters teaching the techniques of art instruction.

Then, in the summer of 1952, he
wired his resignation to the college
from Chicago, immediately after
his first appearance on a televised
circus show.
The message read,
the article relates: “When the public appreciates from a
dollar-andthe teacher of
beings as much as it does
the teacher of wild animals, then I

human

Morgan that man>people thought he was crazy to
quit the college, giving up a full

.Middletown;

George

Chaump,

Barbara Creamer,
Langhorne; James Gustave, Plains;
Weaker Hutz, R. D. 2, Wilkes-Barre; Ella Johnson,
Athens; Teresa
Pittston;

March, 1955

with

ninety-five

guests

present.

There were ten members of the
faculty
of
Bloomsburg College
present including Dean-Elect John

Charles Derr of the Class

floch.

and Rush Shaffer of the
1899
were recognized

of 1894
class

of

along with Robert Lewis, Class of
19-40, who was designated “man of
tne ) ear this year in Danville. The
imited guests also included Edward Connolley and Guy Long
both of this year’s senior class at
”

Freshmen at the college.
Croup singing with P'lorence Markley leading and Mrs. Sarah Free
as pianist was enjoyed. It was de-

president of the local branch.
W'arren I. Johnson, president of
the College
Faculty Association,
presented a scholarship to Marilyn
Friedman, Clarks Summit,
while
Dr. Thomas P. North, dean of in-

West

Evangelical

Reformed Church on November 22

hobby. Then he was booked into Atlantic City’s Million Dollar Pier at $400 a week.

sort of

go back
room.”

presented
Community
Store Grants to the following persons: Charles
Abenmoha, Forty
Fort; Robert Asby, South Williamsport; Robert Biemesderfer, R. D. 1,

quet at the .Mausdale

the college.

\\\

struction,

The .Montour county branch of
Bloomsburg Teachers College Alumni enjoyed their meeting and ban-

.All

cents standpoint

the

AIONTOUR BSTC ALUMNI

will

to the college class-

Keller told

professorship and the security of
an eventual pension, but he says
his only regret is that he didn’t do
it sooner.

CREASY & WELLS
Maltha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

Entertainment was provided by
a sextet of

cided that the group sponsor a
scholarship
for
wortliy
some
county student. E. H. Nelson, President of
Bloomsburg Teachers
Alumni Association, delivered the
address.

In a pretty ceremony at the First
Baptist Church, Bloomsburg, Sat-

urday, November 27, Miss Sally
Derr, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur M. Derr, Iron street,
was united in marriage to Isaiah
Leroy .McCloskey, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Isaiah L. McClockey, Sr.,

Ann

East Eleventh

street.

The double ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
John E. Whitney, before an altar
decorated with fern and bouquets
ol fall

flowers.

ed from
School in

The

bride graduat-

Bloomsburg High
1951 and the Geisinger
the

Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1954.
She is now a staff
nurse at the Bloomsburg Hospital.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School in 1950,
served in the U. S. Navy for three

BUILDING MATERIALS

years and

Bloomsburg 520

B. S. T. C.

the J. C.
burg.

is

now

He

a freshman at the

is

Penney

also

employed

Store,

at

Blooms-

7

DR. HAAS RESIGNS
Dr. Francis B. Haas, former
President of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, and Superintendent of Public Instruction more
than fifteen years, resigned Monday, January 17, his resignation
takmg effect the following day.
Dr. Haas’ resignation placed that
$15,000 cabinet post at tire disposal
of Democratic Gov.-elect
George
M. Leader, one of tlie most important positions in the state government, since tire instruction department spends 500 million dollars a
biennium, hah of the state’s general budget.

Dr. Haas’ term, without the resignation,

would

have

extended

Harrisburg. He is a native of Philadelphia and served in the school

system there.
In 1920 he joined the department
as assistant director of
the
Teachers’ Bureau. He was deputy
superintendent for a year before
taking charge in 1925.
Between
1927 and 1939 he was president of
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

staff

lege.

In his letter of resignation

Haas

Dr.

said:

has been a privilege and a
great opportunity to
cooperate
with you in advancing tlie cause of
education in tlie commonwealtli.
Every phase of our program has
received the benefit of your interest and your active support.”
“It

until August.

He

has held the post continuously since 1939 through administrations ol Republican Governors Arthur H. James,
Edward Martin,

James H. Duff and John S. Fine.
Dr. Haas said his resignation was
“for purely personal reasons.”

He

added that lie does not have any
immediate plans for the futme
other than to “take a

little

vaca-

tion.”

“Pennsylvania will feel deeply
with your departure from active administration
after many magnificent contributhis great loss

In a lovely home wedding performed on Christmas night. Miss

Ruth Emma Singley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Singley, Zion
Grove, was united in marriage to
Meade Wilbur Shuman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur W. Shuman, of
Bloomsburg R. D. 3.

The Rev. C. E. Keafer, Mifflinburg, performed the double-ring
ceremony of the E. U. B. Church at
the home of the bride’s parents.
Both

graduated

from

Beaver

youtli,”

Township High School. Mrs. Shuman attended the Shamokin School
of Beauty Arts and Sciences and is

Gov. Fine said in disclosing an exchange of letters between Haas

a beautician in the Mary Parish
Shop, Bloomsburg. Mr. Shuman is

and hiinseh.

employed at Bloomsburg Mills,
Inc., and is attending B. S. T. C.

tions to

schools

its

and

The Public Instruction Department supervises Pennsylvania’s educational

which
biennium-

establishment

spends $500 million a

budget.
Governor Fine described tire department’s success as a monument
to “your prudent guidance and intelligent direction ... to no small
measure.”
“The commonwealth has been
served well by your several admin-

You

effectively articul-

essential
needs of the
schools and supported well the administrative directors. You have
always promoted the best interests
of our teachers for greater educational progress,” Fine wrote Haas.
Dr. Haas, a teacher and principal
before becoming associated with
the department, makes his home in

ated the

8

Daniel W. (Danny) Litwhiler, a
ten-year veteran of the National
Professional Baseball League, has
been named baseball coach and uistructor at the Florida State University.

Arrangements have

made by hun

to continue

been
stud-

liis

the institution, working

ies at

ward

to-

degree and a

botli a master’s

doctorate.

Litwhiler succeeds Ralph Matli-

Matherly went to
1950 and had considerable
success with the team. He is leav-

erly as coach.

FSU in

uig to chrect his energies in other
There are a number of returning varsity players.
The local resident, who is widely known tliroughout this section,

fields.

had been managing

in tire

minor

leagues for the past tliree seasons.
He completed his big league career
witli Cmcmnati as a coach, being
put back on tlie player roster in late
season for pinch hitting.
During liis major league career
he played with Philadelpliia, St.
Louis, Boston and Cincinnati. He
was on the St. Louis Cardinal
orld’s Champions of 1944 and in
one of those games hit a home run.
Litwhiler has retained residence in
Bloomsburg for several years and
owns a home just off tlie Teachers
College campus. It is tlie former
residence of Prof, and Mrs. E. A.
Reams. Mrs. Litwhiler and the
children are still in Bloomsburg.
1 lorida has an enrollment of about

W

six

thousand students.

BASKETBALL
’54-’55

half of the state’s general

istrations.

NAMED COACH

SEASON

—Kings
— Wilkes
—Millersville
8 — Cheyney
12 — L. Haven

Dec. 1
Dec. 4
Dec. 11

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
Weat Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

Jan.
Jan.
Jan. 14 Mansfield
Jan. 28 L. Haven
Jan. 29— Cheyney

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— Kings
— Lycoming
12— Wilkes
16 — Kutztown
19 — Millersville
23 — Mansfield
26 — Lycoming
Mar. 2—W. Chester
Mar. 5 — Kutztown
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.

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102
59
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72
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62
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87
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BSTC
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ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

21

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ALUMNI

T H E
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT

Area

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock,

’46

Donald Rabb,

PRESIDENT

Benton, Pa.

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

‘33

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Edward D.

Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

'41

New

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

Mrs. Betty Hensley

SECRETARY

Chester Wojcik

Miss Mary
2632 Lexington

St.,

Mrs.

Harold

Baum,

St.,

147 East

Miss Pearl L. Baer. ’32
South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Chestnut

St.,

PRESIDENT
Miss Genevieve G. Morgis ’34
3700 Massachusetts Ave., N. W.

Washington

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Mr. Joseph A. Kulich ’49
1542 N. Danville Street

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

Arlington, Virginia

TREASURER

David W. Foust,

’23

’49)

1232 Blair Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland

P.

’35

O. Springfield, Virginia

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Danville, Pa.

Miss Sadie

U

Crumb

S .E.
Washington 20, D. C.
Dr. M. Kehr is the Advisor of the group
1232

Street,

SECRETARY
Miss Alice SmuU,

Moosic, Pa.

312

SECRETARY

Church

St.,

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

’05

Danville, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Charles I. Boyer ’96
Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASURER

Miss Margaret Lewis ’28
1105% W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler,
615

Bloom

St.,

’30

VICE PRESIDENT

Danville, Pa.

(Union County)

TREASURER

Mrs. Linn Danowsky ’38
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA
HONORARY PRESIDENT

’22

Main Avenue

Scranton, Pa.
732

NEW YORK AREA

Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish ’06
Washington Street, Camden, N.

VICE PRESIDENT
(Northumberland County)
Miss Caroline E. Petrullo
J.

’49

’18

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston ’23
693 Arch Street, Spring City, Pa.

’35

SECRETARY-TREASURER

TREASURER
J.

’29

Northumberland, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Miss Kathryn M. Spencer
Fairview Village, Pa.

PRESIDENT

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., RoseUe Park, N.

Barrett, Jr.

Miss Harriet Kocher
Skylark Hotel

VICE PRESIDENT

Minooka Avenue

Michael Prokopchak,

2,

C.

RECORDING SECRETARY

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Martha Y. Jones

Pa.

PRESIDENT
R. D.

Edward

(Adda Mae Myers

MONTOUR COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Marion George Evans

Mrs.

McHose Ecker. ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton,

LACKAVVANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH
William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

D. C.

SECRETARY

Mrs. Lucille
127

16,

VICE PRESIDENT

Hazleton. Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Hartley, ’14
Milford, Pa.

WASHINGTON ALUMNI

’27

Hazleton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, '17

SECRETARY

March, 1955

J.

40 South Pine

VICE PRESIDENT

Richard C. Stout,

New

PRESIDENT

Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

632 North

Olwen Argust

Area

B. Hazleton

VICE PRESIDENT

520

TREASURER

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

Harrisburg, Pa.

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

A. Meehan. *18

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, '13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

21

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

’14

42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

RECORDING SECRETARY

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

’52

Milford, Pa.

Miss Mabel Dexter,

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

PA

Miss Esther E. Dagnell ’34
215 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.

(Snyder County)
Robert J. Webb ’42

Shamokin Dam, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg, Pa.

’35

TREASURER
Mrs. Clarence Crow
Lewisburg, Pa.

’40

9

1897

lives at

Miss Mabel Moyer, teaeher of
the Pal’s Class of the Methodist

Church since 1940, was honored at
a “This is Your Life” presentation
recently at the meeting held at the
church.

Wesley Knorr acted as master
and J. Stanley Hummer showed pictures slides from
J.

of ceremonies

Miss Moyer’s

life.

Guests were Mrs. Florine Kline
Robbins, Mrs. Loretta Askew, Mrs.

Minnie Ruckle Reese and James
Miller, pupils of Miss

Moyer when

she taught at the Ikeler school in
1896; Mrs. Jason Whitmoyer, a
puj)il in the Model School in 1919;
Mrs. Charles Crim, student teacher under Miss Moyer at R.S.T.C. in
1936; Mrs. Harold Downs, a pupil
in 1938, and Miss Janice Welker, a
pupil ill 1945, the year Miss Moyer
Miss Moyretired from teaching.
er’s sister. Miss Edith Moyer, was
also a guest.
The class presented Miss Moyer
with an orchid. Hazel Bishop products and a guest book containing

names

of

the

guests.

J.

Wesley

Knorr presented her with a rug by

Magee.
Mrs. Joseph Hartman read a letfrom Mrs. Myra Snyder, former
teacher of the class, and Mrs. Alice
Guthrie, former pupil. Mrs. Lester
Hock read a letter from Dr. and
Mrs. J. E. Skillington.
ter

1904

Matilda M. Black lives at 527
West Fourth Street, Williamsport,
Pa.

28 River Street, Garbon-

Alvirda Davenport lives at 280
East Main Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Gogswell live
at R. D. 3, Montrose, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Trathen
live at 11 Ghestnut Street, Ashland,
Pa.

1907
Mrs. William J. Burke, 150 37th
Street, Union Gity, and Stanley J.
Gonner, 105 Renfrew Avenue,
Trenton, New Jersey, were united
in marriage December 3, 1954, in
the Bethany Presbyterian Ghurch.

The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Russell Annich.

Gonner taught

Mrs.
Gity,

ment

President of the Gonner Millwork
Company, Trenton, New Jersey.
They are now living at 105 Renfrew Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey.

1909

Martha H. Black

North Church

Bower)

lives at

R.

1215 Market Street,

Berwick.

Mabel M. Mertz (Mrs. Theodore
C. J9ixon) lives in Belle Mead, New
J erscy.

Minnie
10

Fiimeran

McDonough

Wau-

at

lives

602

Street, Hazleton, Pa.

Nancy Hughes

Lake

lives

in

Carbondale, Pa.
Norah D. Garr lives at 12 Jackson Avenue, West Hazleton, Pa.

Class of 1915 will hold their
40th reunion this year and all members are requested to attend if at
all possible. After the main Alumni
meeting at the College, a class dinner and a get-together will be held
at 1:00 P. M. at the Bloomsburg
Elks Club. For further information
contact the Secretary, Eulah Boone
Spiegel, Espy, Pa.

1917

Fred H. Shaffer, son of Mrs. J.
Wesley Shaffer of Glen .avenue,
and the late J. Wesley Shaffer, has
resigned his position as
YMCA
Boys’ Work Secretary in WilkesBarre to accept a position at Shenndehowa Central School in Elnora, N. Y.
Mr. Shaffer has been
on the
staff for the past ten
years and directed the work of the
Boys’ Division.
He has
also served as camp director
at
Camp Pocohanna and Camp Kresge.
Prior to his being on the YM

YMCA

YMCA

CA

Elsie

Morgan Swank

4925 Saul

Street,

lives

at

38,

Philadelphia 24, Pa.
Edith Jameson Zarr lives at 199
Dupont Street, Ridley Park, Pa.
Catherine Glass Taylor lives at
544 North Vine Street, Hazleton,

Sarah Elliott Gain
Grace Avenue, Akron
Bertelle

Lamont)

lives

lives

at

in

346

20, Ohio.

Laubach

lives

at

(Mrs. Bruce
544 North Vine

Street, Hazleton, Pa.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

he was an instructor

of

one years.
Mr. Shaffer

is

a graduate of

tlie

Bloomsburg State Teachers College and received his B.S. degree
from Albright College and a Masdegree in ornamental

horti-

culture from

Apartment

Olwen August Hartley

staff,

natural science at Coughlin High
School, Wilkes-Barre, for twenty-

ter’s

1914

Lenoxville, Pa.

J.

lives in

kegan, Illinois.
Elizabeth Fagan

Lewisburg, Pa.
Besse E. Goodale (Mrs. Gharles
225 HickJ. Thielemann) lives at
ory Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey.
S. Margaret Seely lives at R. D.
1, Berwick, Pa.
Griselda Davis (Mrs. William L.
Jacobus) lives at 110 West Ross
Alice Robbins (Mrs.

Union

Jersey, until her retirelast year.
Mr. Gonner is

Pa.

Mary

m

New

Gurtis
Fetherolf
(Mrs.
Nelle
Lesher) lives at 116 Market Street,

Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

1915

The

dale. Pa.

Cornell University.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer have resided
in Forty Fort for more than thirty
years and have a daughter, Mrs.

Edwin Rohrbeck who
ton,

Pa.,

where her

minister of the

lives in Pat-

husband

Patton

is

Methodist

Church.
1918
Dr. Helen R. Becker, 705 West
Market Street, Akron 3, Ohio, is
Associate Professor of Primary Education in the University of Akron.
Her pre\’ious e.\perience included
thirteen years as a Primary Teacher in the schools of Kingston, Pa.,
two years as Supervising Teacher
in the Elementary School at Antioch College, and one year as SupeiN’ising Teacher in the Ilorac'C
.Mann School at Winnetka, Illinois.
She ser\ed from 1941 to 1949 as
Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Schools at the
Michigan State Normal College at

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Ypsilanti, Michigan,

during which

time she was visiting professor at
Hillsdale College, and the Northern Michigan College of Education
at Marcpiette, Michigan, and as
Director of the Off-Campus Workshop on Reading at Port Huron,
Michigan.
She has been at the
University of Akron since 1949.
Dr. Becker was graduated from
Bloomshurg in 1918, attended the
1922 and 1923 summer sessions at
the Pennsylvania State University,
and received her Bachelor’s degree
at Columbia University in 1937,

Curriculum and
Teaching (Early Childhood Education).
She received her .Master’s
degree at Columbia in 1940, after
a period of advanced study, research and clinical practice in the
Teaching of Reading. In 1941 she
was awarded the Professional Diploma as Supervisor of Student
Teaching at Columbia, lu the
specializing

summer

in

of 1941 she took

work

in

Elementary School Administration
and Current Problems in Philosophy at Lehigh University. In 1949,
she received the degree of Doctor
of Education at Columbia University.
The title of her doctoral dissertation was “A Study of Significant Factors Involved in Helping
Student Teachers Understand Children in Order that they may Plan,
Select and Organize E.xperiences
which will meet the Developmental

Needs

of Children.”

Dr. Becker
articles

author of

six

which ha\e appeared

in

is

tlie

“School and Society,” six

articles

which have appeared in “The Educational Forum” and an article
which appeared in the June, 1953,
issue of “Education.”

She
Pi,

is

ciety for

member of Kappa Delta
Kappa Gamma, the Sothe Advancement of Ed-

a

Delta

ucation,

the Association for Student teaching, the Association for

Childhood Education International,

the Association for Supervision

and Curriculum Development, the
Ohio Education Association, tlie
National
Education
Association
and the American Association of
University W^omen.

March. 1955

Lawrence C. Evangelista

lives at

Wyoming Street,
He has a .Master’s

Hazledegree

596 North
lon. Pa.

Irom

New

York University, and is
mathematics

serv ing as teacher of

the Senior High School
at
Hazleton. Mr. Evangelista is married and has two children.

in

employe

-\n

of

the

company

tliroughout the thirty-four years
since her graduation from Blooms-

burg Normal School
Trembley has gone

1920, Mrs.
to St. Petersshe and her husin

burg, Fla., where
band will operate a convalescent

home.

The former Myrtle
Scott Township, .Mrs.
been active in the

B. Dent of
Trembley has
Bloomshurg
.Mr. Trembley

Methodist Church.
also been active

has

in

19.34

Esther Evans -McFadden lives at

West Fifth Street, Bloomshurg.
She has taught in the schools at
.Vimv ille and Catawissa and is now
teaching in Bloomsburg. Her husband was the late Joseph McFadden, also a graduate of Bloomsburg. Mrs. McFadden has two chil-

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dren.

church

work and president of the Columbia County Sabbath School Association for a number of years.
He
has been employed in the cost de-

1934
Jean Eyer (Mrs. William Bredbenner) lives at 2.32 East Eighth
Street, Berwick.
She has two chil-

partment

dren.

A

at the Berwick A.C.F.
gold watch was presented to

Trembley by J. Weber, president of the company.
She also
received a $1,990 bond from the
company and a set of matched lugguage from employes attending the
-Mrs.

1934

Chester
Mary
Fagley (Mrs.
Humphrey) lives at .38 South Hickory Street, Mt. Carmel. She is an
.elementary teacher in the Mt. Carmel schools. She has one son.

dinner.

-\mong the

1934

attending
vv ere representatives of the Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and Dallas divisions of the company.
fifty-one

1927
Joseph Bradshaw

is teaching at
Fletcher Brown Vocational
School in W’ilmington, Delaware.

the

1934
Dominick Delliquanti lives at 49
Christopher Street, Lodi, New JerA graduate in Engineering
sey.
from the Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Delliquanti worked
as Educational Adviser with the
Civilian Conservation Coi-ps from
1935 to 1942, and is now serving
the Government as a U.S.A.F. InHe is married and has
spector.
two children.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

INSURANCE
Bank Building

Bloomshurg 777-

21

1934

who

Legion Home.

First National

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

1920
Paul M. Trembley,

has
retired as chief cost clerk of the
Bloomshurg .Mills ,lnc., was honored at a dinner of office and supervisory employes at the American
.Mrs.

16

Grace Feather (Mrs. Daniel Reifsnyder) lives at 2125 Fernwood
She
Street, R. D. 1, Temple, Pa.
has a Master’s degree from the UnPennsylvania.
She
iversity
of
taught in the schools at Lancaster,

and Pennsburg. She
engaged in office work.

Lititz

is

now

1938

Bloomsburg Methodist Church
was the scene on Saturday, February 12, for the marriage of Miss
Letha E. Hummel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. N. R. Hummel, Bloomsburg, to Elliott L. Kinley, son of
Mrs. Mary Kinley, Williamsport,

and the

late

William Kinley.

The Rev. Thomas Hopkins,

pas-

performed the double-ring
ceremony. Mrs. Edward Deily was
tor,

organist.

A graduate of Bloomsburg High
School and B.S.T.C., Mrs. Kinley
now a teacher in the Daniel
is
Webster Elementary School, Williamsport. Mr. Kinley, a graduate
of the Williamsport High School,
is employed at Radiant Steel Corp.,
Williamsport.
11

1939
(Mrs. Albert W.
Smeal) lives at 144 Jefferson Avenue, York, Pa.
Ruth Kleffman (Mrs. Raymond
H. Ensinger) lives at 409 West Market Street, York, Pa.
Mary Boyle (Mrs. Thomas J.

Miriam

Utt

Road

Curry) lives at 2973 Kent

Wantagh, New York.
Martha Wright (Mrs. Lueas H.
Moe) lives at 614 Mississippi AveEast,

nue, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Doctor of Philosophy from the UnFebruary 4.
Doctor Maietta is employed by
the Pennsylvania Department of

iversity of Pittsburgh,

Public
Instruction,
Division of
Special Education, and assigned to
the Allegheny County schools as
the hearing and speech consultant.
He is a member of the American

Speech and Hearing Association;
Pennsylvania Speech Association;
Pittsburgh Hearing Council; and
the Docoral Association of Educators at the University of Pittsburgh.

1940
Sanger,

Raymond

Manor

906

Road, Alexandria, Virginia, is Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools in Alexandria,
and is acting temporarily as Principal of the Ficklin School.
His
wife was the former Lillian Yeager, of the class of 1940.
1944
Salvatore

Mazzeo

A.

lives

at

1330 Lehigh Street, Easton, Pa.
Hazel Enama Carter lives at
2017 Washington Street, Allentown, Pa.

Dr. Maietta received the degree
of Bachelor of Science in education
at Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

ing test of hearing to various tones
of
sound at various sensation

years of Navy service as a petty
officer, receiving an honorable discharge. He served aboard the USS
Furse and made three Mediterran-

levels.

ean
1952

Pvt.

David T. North, son

1946
Church,
St. Matthew Lutheran
Bloomsburg, was the setting recently for the marriage of
Miss
Marian Jean Creveling, daughter of
of
Mrs. Marjorie E.
Creveling,
Bloomsburg, to Walter H. Zeiders,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Zeid-

ville

trip

to

New

York

City,

1905
Green street, Harrisburg. The bride
is a graduate of B.S.T.C. and Pennthe couple

will

reside

at

P.

of Dr.
North, Mill-

Road, Bloomsburg,

is

at

at Fort Dix,

N. J.
earned a bachelor of science
degree in biology in 1952 at
B.S.T.C. and a master of education
degree in genetic biology ta Penn-

He

sylvania State University in 1952.
Before entering the Army in
September, he was employed as a
research radiation genetist with the

Atomic Energy Commission, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton,
L.

1.,

CJo.,

Harrisburg.

N. Y.

McClintock,
peck,
12

formerly

was awarded

of

Nesco-

the degree of

California.

Mr. Wagner has completed four

cruises.

He

attended Bucknell

University before going into the
service and plans to enter Whittier
College, a branch school of UCLA,
Whittier, California.

1954
in a quiet ceremony performed
in the Methodist Church at East
Stroudsburg, Miss Joan Rinker,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zehnder

Low,

S.

of

Bloomsburg, became

the bride of John Samuel Laidacker, of Bristol.
The bride is a graduate of the

Bloomsburg High School and is
employed by Jay C. Derr, special
agent for Northwestern Mutual
The
Life Insurance Company.
bridegroom

is

a graduate of Bris-

High School and Bloomsburg

He has
State Teachers College.
been in the Marine Corps Reserve
since April 24, 1951, and is now
on active duty at Quantico, V^a.

THE
CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Orangeville R. D.

Donald E. Maietta, of Pittsburgh, husband of Eleanor Alice

tier,

tol

Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

1950

Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is now teaching in Whit-

station-

Camp Detrick, Frederick,
Md. He completed basic training

ed

sylvania State University. She is a
teacher in Harrisburg. The bride-

groom graduated from Lower Paxton High School of Harrisburg and
is employed by Roberts and Meek

Church at Watsontown.
The bride is a graduate of the
Watsontown High School and the

he did pioneering work in the development of an eyelid condition-

and Mrs. Thomas

wedding

Gerald G. Heilman, pastor of the
Evangelical
Brethren
United
Church, Carlisle, formerly pastor
of the Dewart church, officiated at
the double-ring service assisted by
the Rev. Victor A. Rutli, past of
Trinity

Street, Danville, Pa.

Harrisburg.
The Rev. James M. Singer, pasdouble-ring
tor, officiated at the
ceremony. A reception was held
in the church social rooms. After a

and Win. F. Watson, Watsontown.
The ceremony took place in the
Trinity Evangelical and Reformed
Church, Watsontown.
The Rev.

lege in 1950. The degree of Master of Science in speech and hearing disorders was conferred upon
him in 1951 at the University of
Pittsburgh.
For his lesearch work in partial
fulfillment of his doctorate degree,

Nelena P. Pope (Mrs. Donald
Swank) lives at 811 East Market

ers,

1954
Miss Myra Albertson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Alberson. Dewart, chose a holiday theme
for her marriage Monday, December 27, to Jay Harvey Wagner HI,
son of Mrs. Katherine E. Wagner

’15,
2.

Propr.

Penna.

1954

Kenneth H. Hidlay, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Hidlay,
Bloomsburg, has been assigned to
Pvt.

G, 273 Inf. Div., of the 69th
Infantry Division at Fort Dix, N.
weeks basic training.
J., for eight
Before entering service, he graduated from B.S.T.C.
C'o.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

—CLASS OF 1954—
H-home address
Aagard. Stanley A.,

H-Box

II

Haubsville, Pa.
T-19-23 Prospect St., Fairlawn, N.
196,

J.

Albano, Joseph A.
H-458 S. Poplar St„ Hazleton, Pa.

T-2nd

St.,

Albertson,

H-Main

Pike, Southampton, Pa.

Dewart, Pa.

T-54G A East Phila., Whittier,
Anderson, John A.

Calif.

11-200 Hand St., Jessup. Pa.
T-12 Argyle Place, Cortland, N. Y.

Andrews, Charles Holland
140 N. Clinton St., Doylestown, Pa.
Balent, Eleanor B.
H-113 McLean St., DuPont, Pa.

T-Box

116,

Richland. Pa.

Bauer, Constance
H-677 W. Church
T-338 W. Church
Bauer, Judith

St.,

St.,

Slatington, Pa.

Lock Haven, Pa.

H-R. D. 2, Sunbury, Pa.
T-109 E. Market St., Danville, Pa.
Bennett, Paul
H-380 W. Main St., Plymouth, Pa.
T-501 El Rancho Dr., Whittier, Calif.
Berry, Edgar
H-258 Broad St., Montoursville, Pa.

Anna E.
H-Woodlawn Ave.,

Bittner,

Milroy, Pa.

T-Burnham, Pa.
Lawhorne tBogardus). Marion
H-203 W. Third St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-315 Market St., S. Williamsport, Pa.
Boyle, Patricia E.

H-63 S. Laurel St., Hazleton, Pa.
T-156 Cedar Ave., Hershey, Pa.
Bucher, Barbara A.
H-303 Pine St., Catawissa. Pa.
T-72 Lake Ave., Metuchen, N. J.
Burness. Benjamin A.

H-25 N. Vermont Ave., Atlantic City
T-211 Robertson, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Carson, W. Leonard

H-246 W. Third St., Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Robert James
H-80 N. Landon Ave., Kingston, Pa.
T-7009 N. Dunmanway, Baltimore 22
Cherrington, John Robert
H-416 Center St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Chiscon, J. Alfred
H-45 N. Goodwin Ave., Kingston, Pa.

Castle,

T-419

Brown

St.,

Lafayette, Ind.

Collins, Mrs.

Delsey Sharrets
Sunbury, Pa.
Colone, Joseph Frank
H-712 LaSalle St., Berwick, Pa.
T-140 Franklin St., Woodbury, N. J.
Crisci, Michael Raymond
H-608 Jenkins St., W. Pittston, Pa.
T-309 W. Second St., Birdsboro, Pa.
Curilla, Joan A.
H-8 E. Independence St., Shamokin
T-358 E. Main St., Lock Haven, Pa.
Czerwinski, Antoinette M.
H-124 S. Maple St., Mt. Carmel. Pa.
T-133 E. Main St., Tuckerton, N. J.
Danowsky, Harold M.
H-R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

H-Route

1,

Davenport, James G.
H-14 Ransom St., Plymouth, Pa.
DelMonte, Fred B. (Deceased)
H-14 N. Cherry St., Shamokin, Pa.

March, 1955

or business address

Dennen, John Emery
H-R. D. 3, Danville, Pa.
DePaul, Mary Ann
H-617 Mulberry St., Berwick, Pa.
DeVoe, Mrs. Lucille Martz
H-204 Penn St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Grant. Rose Marie
H-539 Broadway, Bethlehem, Pa.

T-Southampton
Phila.

H-19 Oak St.. Woodbury, N. J.
Dotter, Sharon Lynn
H-168 Madison St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
T-68 Franklin St., Tunkhannock, Pa.
Doyle, Dolores A. (Mrs. Brennan)
H-31 N. Vine St.. Mt. Carmel, Pa.
T-Roosevelt Jr. H. S., Williamsport
Dreibelbis, Mary Ruth (Mrs. Lewis)
H-439 Jefferson St., Bloomsburg. Pa.

T-Army
Harding, Paul Donald

H-R. D. 1, Muncy, Pa.
T-12 Tioga St., Canton, Pa.
Haupt, Margaret Ruth

T-Same

T-Same
H-Box

3,

Frank B.

H-938 Centre St., Ashland, Pa.
T-Shore Hills Estate, Landing, N.
Garrison, Robert Lee
H-220 Alter St., Hazleton, Pa.

J.

T-163 Page St., Kingston, Pa.
Gavio. Francis Paul
H-905 Alter St., Hazleton, Pa.

Gengenbach, Ann J.
H-Brownsville Rd., Trevose, Pa.
T-Bristol, Pa.

Glosek, Joseph Stanley A.

H-1500 Nelson
T-314 Melrose

St.,

St.,

Keiser, Pa.

(Army now)

don, Ga.

WESLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

H-118 Fairmount

Sunbury, Pa.
Sunbury, Pa.
Heisley, Joanne Kay (Mrs. Bennett)
H-35 E. Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-417 Walnut

St.,

St.,

T-501 El Rancho Dr., Whittier, Calif.

Hendershot, Thelma Arline
H-278 Charles St., Luzerne, Pa.

T-546A E. Phila. St., Whittier, Calif.
Hess, Patricia Ann
H-R. D. 2, Orangeville, Pa.
T-1029 Kerlin St., Chester, Pa.
Hidlay, Kenneth Hope
H-245 Penn St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-Pvt. Kenneth H. Hidlay, US52375229
Co. G, 273rd Inf. Reg. 2nd Plat.
69th Inf. Div.. Fort Dix, N. J.

Hinger, Carl Kenneth
H-330 Winters Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.
T-Class 34-54, U.S. Naval School
Pre-Flight, N.A.S., Pensacola, Fla.
Hoffman, Sara Jane
H-611 Main St., Annville, Pa.
T-101 Myrtle Ave., Stony Creek Mills,
Reading, Pa.

Houseknecht, Gerald Eugene
H-435 W. First St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

T-Apartment Dorm, Luth. Theol.

Shamokin, Pa.

Grabowski, Richard Raymond John
H-368 Ridge St., Nanticoke. Pa.
T-Pvt. R. R. Grabowski, US52357837
Student Co. 12, TSFSS, Camp Gor-

J.

H-Goodyear Terrac, Austin, Pa.
T-141 E, Main St., Middleburg, Pa.
Havard, Joan M. (Mrs. Thomas Kilroy)
H-616 E. Center St., Mahanoy City
T-231 E. 7th St., Plainfield, N. J.
Hayhurst, Mrs. Helen Welliver

.

Nuremberg, Pa.

T-P. O. Box 235, Schwenksville, Pa.
Forschner, Richard R.
H-R. D. 1, White Haven, Pa.
Froncek, Joseph Raymond
H-531 Sperling St., W. Wyoming, Pa.
T-714 W. Southern Ave., S, W’port
Gallo,

Pa.

H-R. D. 1, Noxen, Pa.
T-Tunkhannock, Pa.
Gurzynski, Frank Stanley
H-57 Italy St., Mocanaqua, Pa.
Hantjis. Anthony William
H-204 W. Third St., Berwick, Pa.

T-Same

Fedrigon. Olive Jean

Bloomsburg, Pa.

St.,

H&T-239 W. Main St., Bloomsburg,
Gunton, Nancy Luella

Edwards, Patricia Lou
H-120 E. Walnut St., Kingston, Pa.
Erwine, Sheldon (2nd Lt. )
H-29 N. Main St., Shickshinny, Pa.
T-2nd Pit.. 1st Trng. Bn.. 3rd B.C.,
M.C.S., Quantico. Virgina
Eunson, E. Faith
H-596 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-Mount Pleasant Mills, Pa.
Evans, Jeananne
H-Box 356, Eddington, Pa.
Eveland, Shirley Elsie
H-1843 Hights Road. Berwick, Pa.

Somerton,

Rd.,

Pa.

16,

Gray. Harry C.
H-262 E. Ninth

Dinger. Russell F.

Myra
St.,

— T-teaching address

’34

Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa.
Hughes, Janet Amy
H-120 S. Second St., Bangor, Pa.
T-Southampton Rd., Somerton,
Phila. 16, Pa.

Joseph D., Jr.
H-37 W. Ninth St., Hazleton, Pa.
Jacobs, William J.
H-19 Harding St., Manchester, Pa.
lies,

T-U.S. Army
Johnson, John Carl
H-430 E. Main St., Plymouth, Pa.
Johnson, Thomas James
H-17 W. Hollenback Ave., W.-Barre
T-U.S. Army
Jones, Blandford B.

H-Baber

St.,

Jones, Franklin

H-215 Vine
Jones,

Pottsville, Pa.

Edward

St.,

Milton, Pa.

Merlyn William

H-123

Wyoming

T-YMCA

Park

St.,

St.,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Montclair, N.

J.

13

Montague, Ruth A.
H-209 E. Front St., Danville, Pa.

Kallenbach, George Ernest
H-Sharlesville, Pa.

Kane, Mrs. Veronica Dwyer
H-83 Susquehanna Ave., Sunbury, Pa.

Keim, Edna Rae
H-124 N. Rock St., Shamokin, Pa.
T-Marley Park Elem. School,
Glen Burnie, Md.
Keishaw, Joan Mary
H-38 Franklin St., Weatherly, Pa.
Kessler, James Lewis
H-104 Upper Mulberry St., Danville
Kirk, Kenneth George
H-317 Tripp St., W. Wyoming, Pa.

T-Siegel, Pa.

Morgan, Margaret Jeane
H-1025 Snyder St., Scranton, Pa.
T-1838 Briggs

Harrisburg. Pa.

St.,

Moyer, Arlene Evelyn
H-Millerstown, Pa.
T-Linglestown, Pa.
Neugard, Mae Pauline
H-Hegins, Pa.
T-600 Broadway St., Milton, Pa.
Newhart, Jean Elizabeth
H-Tannersville, Pa.
T-1544 Elm St., Bethlehem. Pa.
Noll, Margaret Louise
H-220 Center St., Milton, Pa.
T-Lewisburg, Pa.
Noz, Nancy Louise
H-224 E. Third St., Berwick, Pa.

T-541 Shuman St., Catawissa, Pa.
Kissinger, Flora Jean

H-501 S. Market St., Shamokin. Pa.
Kissinger, Joseph David, Jr.
H-770 Union St., Millersburg, Pa.
Kline, Mrs. Marjorie S.
H-Orangeville, Pa.
Knecht, Alfred C.
H-R. D. 1, Northumberland, Pa.
T-411 North St., Millersburg. Pa.

T-Same
Nunn, William Edgar
H-454 W. Eighth St., Wyoming. Pa.

Kopec, Jerome Stanley
H-15 Murray St., Forty Fort, Pa.
T-Box 131, Sonestown, Pa.
Korba, Rose Mary (Mrs. Kennedy)
H-Pleasant Mount, Pa.
T-Hancock, N. Y.
Kornfeld, Anna Mae
H-1043 First St., Croydon, Pa.
Ksanznak, Stanley Louis
H-343 W. Green St., W. Hazleton, Pa.
T-319 Furnald Hall, Columbia Univ.,
New York 27, N. Y.
Laidacker, John Samuel
H-3330 Maple Ave., W. Bristol, Pa.
T-U.S. Marine Corps
Levan, Mrs. Jean Yodzis
H-324 W. Fourth St., Mt. Carmel, Pa.
T-2608 Liberty Pky., Dundalk, Md.
Long, John A., Jr.
H-Baylor Heights, Watsontown, Pa.
Longo, Edmund Michael

H-Fourth St., Kelayres, Pa.
Luchs, James K.
H-18 W. Third St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-Student Co. No. 24 TSESS, Camp
Gordon, Ga.

T-2 Friendship Circle, Dundalk, Md..
O’Loughlin, Patricia Ann
H-1314 Butler St., Easton, Pa.

T-Bethlehem, Pa.
Ondrula, Joseph Edward
H-315 Chestnut St., Johnstown, Pa.
T-Box 104, Savage Guilford R.,
R. D., Jessup,

Md.

Oney, Robert Curtis
H-W. Center St., Shavertown, Pa.
T-Pvt. Robert C. Oney, US 52375126,
3rd Plat., Btry. C, 880th FA Bn.
Fort Dix, New Jersey
Osevala, Barney J.
H-405 S. Rock St., Shamokin, Pa.
T-11 Gay St., Christiana, Pa.
Ottaviani, William E.

H-Main
T-Main

Mildred, Pa.
LeRoysville, Pa.
Paige, Phyllis Eloise
St.,

St.,

H-Park Manor, Watsontown, Pa.
Parrish, Marie Alice

H-543 Northampton St., Kingston, Pa.
T-44 Twin Leaf Lane, Levittown, Pa.
Peterson, Donald Dean
H1215 Spring Garden Ave., Berwick
T-Berwick Senior High School
Plafcan, Robert B.
H-R. D. 3, Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-Shoemakersville, Pa.
Rhodes, Russell Harding
H-R. D. 3, Catawissa, Pa.

Makowski, Phyllis Patricia
H-342 Melrose St., Keiser, Pa.
T-1014 Parker St., Chester, Pa.
Marr, Howard Joseph
H-807 Center St., Shamokin, Pa.

T-927 S. Main St., Towanda, Pa.
Richardson, Donald Andrew
HR. D. 2, Hunlock Creek, Pa.
Rineheimer, Shirley Joan

Mary Ann
H-513 Edwards

Martz,

Ave., Pottsville, Pa.
T-Training School. Vineland, N. J.

Masanovich, George
H-130 E. Green St., W. Hazleton, Pa.
McAnall, Kenneth H.
H-403 E. 10th St., Chester, Pa.

H-R. D.

1,

Wapwallopen, Pa.

St.,

T-Army

H-R. D.

1,

Selinsgrove, Pa.

T-Same
Schullery, Louise Marie

H-16 Walnut St., Delano, Pa.
T-44 Twin Leaf Lane, Levittown, Pa.
Shamp, Charles B.
H-343 S. Second St., Sunbury, Pa.
Shamro, Jean Barbara
H-225 Vine St., Forest City, Pa.
Shultz, Margaret
H-315 Water St., Danville, Pa.
Shuman, Mrs. Carol Vought
H-R. D. 2, Orangeville, Pa.
Skammer, David J.
H-236 Zerbey Ave., Kingston, Pa.
Smith, Kreith Austin
H-R. D. 1, Pittston, Pa.

Rosemary

Snierski,

T.

Plymouth, Pa.
T-307 W. Main St., Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Soberick, Feme Adele
H&T-204 Front St., Berwick, Pa.
H-176 Reynolds

St.,

Andrew

Stauffer, Douglas

H-148 W. Main St., Ringtown. Pa.
T-215 S. Richmond St., Fleetwood, Pa.
Stefanik,

Thomas

J.

H-962 Chestnut St., Freeland, Pa.
T-108 Prospect St., Washington, N.
Steinbach, Ronald Paul
H-456 New St., Freemansburg, Pa.

J.

T-Army
Stoehr, Charlotte

H-35 Cambria St., Plymouth, Pa.
T-West Pittston, Pa.
Superdock, David Andrew
H-425 Green St., Freeland, Pa.
Taylor, Mrs. Janice L.

H-54 Manhattan St., Ashley, Pa.
New River Dr., Jacksonville,
North Carolina
Teter, Catherine Sarah
H-Residence Park, Palmerton, Pa.
T-141 E. Main St., Middleburg, Pa.
Timko, John B.
H-756 Arthur St., Freeland, Pa.
Tovey, Nancy Elizabeth
H-R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.
Traver, Jeanette Evelyn
H-R. D. 5. Tunkhannock, Pa.
T-246

T-Same

Coaldale, Pa.

H-3 Roosevelt St., Edwardsville, Pa.
Uhrich. Sarae Marcella
H-344

McCarthy, Mrs. Judith Fry
H-136 E. Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-351 E. Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
McCauley, Jevita C.
H-1248 W. Coal St., Shenandoah, Pa.
McLaren, Phyllis Elizabeth
H-220 E. South St., Orlando. Fla.
McManus, Albert Joseph
H-41 N. Walnut St., Mt. Carmel, Pa.
T-106 Louis St., New Brunswick, N. J.
Miller, Reed Q.
H-145 W. Fifth St., Mifflinville, Pa.
T-Bloomsburg Bank-Col. Trust Co.
Mont, Bernard Joseph
H-Tilbury Terrace, W. Nanticoke, Pa.
T-Chester St. School, Kingston, Pa.

S.

Second

St.,

Lebanon, Pa.

T-307 W. Main St., Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Vanderslice, Betty Jean

H-360 W. Fifth
T-1014 Parker

•

14

T-US52283622, Student Co. 1 TSESS,
Camp Gordon, Ga.
Rutkoski, Helen Claire
H-667 E. Northampton St., W.-Barre
T-320 S. Harrison St., E. Orange, N.J.
Schaeffer, Jason

Trocki, Daniel B.

T-Same
Rowley, Thomas Joseph
H-143 Second

Ruffing, Charles Joseph
H-Locust Gap, Pa.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

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

’34

St.,
St.,

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Chester, Pa.

VonDrach, Robert Borkert
H-60 King St., Pottstown, Pa.
T-Speech & Hearing Clinic,
Temple, Univ., Phila. 22, Pa.
Wagner, Kenneth D.
H-R. D. 5, Bloomsburg. Pa.
Walker, Mrs. Mary Ledyard

H&T-South Gibson, Pa.
Walter, Marjorie A.
(Mrs. Alex Paul Koharski)
H-170 Broadway,

S.E.,

Albuquerque,

New Mexico

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Walters, Margaret Elizabeth

H-S. Second St., Catawissa, Pa.
T-201 Market St., Muncy, Pa.
Walters, Shirley M.
H-R. D. 2, Hunlock Creek, Pa.
T-195 Hillside Ave., Glenridge, N. J.
Roberts, Sarah Watts (Mrs.)
H-State St., Millville, Pa.
T-718 S. Yakima Ave., Tacoma, Wash.
Williams, Harriet Stewart
(Mrs. Charles Andrews)
H-1024 Main St., Old Forge, Pa.
T-140 N. Clinton St., Doylestown, Pa.
Williams, Mary Joan
H-Chase Road, Trucksville, Pa.

T-Forty Fort, Pa.
Williams, Rachel Catherine
H-408 W. Third St., Nescopeck, Pa.
T-109 Glen Mawr Dr., Ambler, Pa.
Wolfe, Mrs. Betty M.
H-1890V^ N. Fifth St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Wolfe, Stephen Landis
H-1890Vi N. Fifth St., Harrisburg. Pa.
Yeager, Betty Louise
H-500 Mill St., Catawissa, Pa.
T-338 Lowe St., S. Williamsport. Pa.
Yeager, Mrs. Elaine Gunther
H-1408 Spring Garden Ave., Berwick
T-250'”2 W. Hadley, Las Cruces, N. M.
Yencha, Shirley Ella
H-11
.North St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
T-Kingston, Pa.
Yesson, Charles J.
H-55 Bellas St., Edwardsville, Pa.
T-U.S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va.

W

NpfrolD flH
Annie Potter Trescott
-Mrs.

Boyd

’85

Trescott, eighty-eight,

Bloomslnirg and resident of Columbia county most of
her life, died this past winter at the
home of her son and daughter-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Paul 11. Trescott, Bichboro, near Philadelphia.
a native of

Death came from complications.
Trescott had been in ill health
lor a number of months and critical
-Mrs.

since last October.

During

her

residence

in

the

county she was identilied with numerous civic endea\ors and for

many

years her interest was centered in the Berwick public library,
fn that time she did virtually all of
the book buying.

Exceptionally interested in all
current affairs and a keen student
of
history, Mrs.
Trescott loved
books.

The daughter

the late C. A.

of

There were twenty-one

and Catherine Potter, she resided
in Bloomsburg during the early
part of her life, and was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teach-

ance.

ers College, class of 1885.

in attendOfficers for the coming year
were elected. The annual dinner
of the Philadelphia Branch will be
held March 26.
For further in-

She removed to Millville in 1887
where she taught school. Her marriage to

ho died

the

late

in 1948,

formation, write to one of the of-

v\

ficers.

in Millville

Boyd Trescott,
was solemnized

on Christmas day 1887.
time had two one-

.Millville at that

THE WOLF SHOP

— REPAIRS

LEATHER GOODS
M. C. Strausser,
122 East

’27,

Propr.

Main

Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

March. 1955

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

member
Ihe

of the editorial

Evening

Bulletin,

An expert needle worker, Mrs.
Trescott spent hours almost daily
in that sort of work until the past
summer. Some of her creations
were ol exceptional beauty.
Ti)c surxivors include the son,
I'aul, and two grandsons, Paul Barton and Alfred P. Trescott.
She was a member of Holy TrinLutheran Church, Berwick, and

it>'

Evan Owen Chapter, DaughAmerican Revolution,
She was long a member
the Order of Eastern Star.

ters

ol

the

Berwick.
ol

Maude Smith Fausel ’87
Mrs. K. Maude Smith P^ausel,
former member of the faculty at
.

Mrs. K.

Bloomsburg, passed away in No\ ember in a nursing home in Concord, Nortli Carolina.

Mrs. Fausel was born in Massaand was a graduate of
Holyoke College. She taught in the
schools of Mahanoy City and later
came to Bloomsburg to accept a
chussetts

teacher schools.
Mrs. Trescott
taught one and Mr. Trescott tlie

position as critic teacher.

other.

marle,
music.

Her

father,

who was

through most of his

a publisher

life,

published

and edited the Millville Tablet.
During the trials of the infamous
Mollie Maguires he established, on
a temporary basis, the first daily
newspaper in Bloomsburg’s history.
During that period his daughter,
then a child of about twelve years,
handset type for tlie publication.
When Hester, Kelly and McHugh were hanged some time later
in the Columbia county jailyard,
then located at the site of what is
now the high school playground,
she was one of the few of her sex
to witness the execution.
She assisted her father with the

board of
PhiladeT

pliia.

the

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
The Philadelphia Alumni had a
tea on Saturday, December 11, at
the Gimbel Club Women’s Center.

publishing of the Tablet until his
death in 1911 and then was publisher and editor of the paper unlil it ceased publication in 1918.
Mr. and Mrs. Trescott at that
time removed to Berwick where
they resided until Mr. Trescott, a
civil engineer and for many years
county surveyor, retired in 1942.
Tlien they went to the Philadelphia
aiea to reside with their son, a

Her

made

was spent in AlbeCarolina, teaching
After her retirement she
her home at the Maralise
later life

North

Hotel.

Funeral

services

Wednesday,

were held on
and
10,
Albemarle. She

November

burial took place in

survived by a cousin in Lowell,
Massachussetts.

is

Sarah Ellen

Doney

’92

Miss Sarah Ellen Doney, 82, of
121 South Market street, former
Shamokin school teacher, died Sunday, January 7, in the home of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Doney, 127
South Market street, Shamokin, Pa.
Miss Doney was seized with a
stroke last May and sustained a
15

Inicture of the hip in a fall one
year ago.
Born October 12, 1872, Miss Sarah Ellen Doney was a daughter of
the late John and Wilhelmina (Latsha) Doney.
She was graduated
from Shamokm High School in

1891
and Blooms Durg Normal
School in 1892.
Miss Doney was a Shamokm
teacher for 51 years.
She taught
in the Academy, Grant and Stevens
schools.
The late teacher was a

member

of

St.

Church and

tire

John Beformed
church woman’s

club.

Survivors include the sister-inlaw, Mrs. Kate Doney, and several
nieces and nephews.

Miss Margaret Bogenrief

’93

Miss Margaret M. Bogenrief, 83,
died Friday morning, September 3,
at tire Phoebe Home, Allentown.

She had been in ill health a number of months and death was due
to complications.
Miss Bogenrief was born in Mifflinburg August 28, 1871, the
daughter of the late Thomas Oliver
and Mary Elizabeth Bogenrief.
She was a retired scnool teacher, having served as assistant pruicipal of Mitflinburg High bchool
for a number of years, and for a
number of years taught at the National Cathedral (Episcopal) School
for Girls in Washington, D. G. She
also taught school
tne state of
Wisconsin for several years.
Miss Bogenrief was a graduate
of Mitflinburg High School class
of 1890 and Bloomsburg State Normal School
1893. She did graduate work at Columbia University
and Harvard University Summer
School.
After her retirement from teaching, she took a keen interest in the
Herr Memorial Library and did all
the accessing and catloguing of
books for the library. She had been
a guest of the Phoebe Home for

m

m

two years.
She was a member and past president o fthe Mitflinburg Athenaeum Club; an active and faithful

member
and

of St. John’s Evangelical
Reformed Church, Mifflin-

burg, and for
counselor
for
16

many

years

different

was a
youth

groups of the church, and a member of the Women’s Guild of the

Nora A. Drum ’96
Miss Nora A. Drum, well-known

church.
Surviving are three sisters. Miss
Sue C. Bogenrief, also a guest at
the Phoebe Home; Mrs. John Prettyleaf, of Lewistown ,and Mrs. Leslie B. Seely, Germantown.
A brother, Henry S. Bogenrief, preceded
her in death.

Drums resident, died at the State
Hospital Saturday, December 18,.
She had been admitted to the mstitution October 10 following an
accident in which she sustained a

Charles W. Derr ’95
Charles W. Derr, eighty-four,
well-known resident of 205 Sunday, December 19, at the Geisinger
bury street. Riverside, died SunHospital.
He had been a patient

December

since

broken leg.
She was the daughter of the

late

Nathan S. and Elizabedi S. Drum,
and matriculated at Bloomsburg
State Normal School and was graduated from there in 1896. Following her graduation she taught at
the Butler Township public schools
for 12 years.
Miss Drum was an aetive church

6.

worker and had assisted in com-

Born November 12, 1870, in
Madison township, Columbia count)’, he was the son of the late Thomas and Sarah Derr. He attended
the Millville Academy and was
graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Normal School in 1895.
Mr. Derr taught school for several years and then served as coun-

pleting a pamphlet on the early
history of Butler Township and
pioneering families of that region.
She is survived by a sister, Lottie E. Drum, of Drums, and a brother, Attorney Philip L. Drum, of
Kingston. A nieee, Mrs. Elizabetli

ty

superintendent

of

schools

in

Montour county from 1902 to 1918.
Since 1921 he had been co-owner
of the

Drum

Moore, wife Gen. John B.
Moore, USA, of Wilmington, Del.,
a grand-niece, Barbara Lee Moore,
and several cousins also survive,

South Danville Planing Mill

Company, retiring in 1952.
He was a member and elder of
Mahoning Presbyterian Church,
Danville; the Men’s Bible Class of
the Sunday School of that church;
Mahoning Lodge No. 516, F. and
A. M., Danville; the Acacia Club,
Danville; and the Caldwell Con-

O. Zerbin
O.

Zerbin

Low

Low,

’97

seventy-four,

prominent county merchant and
ihghly esteemed resident of Main
street, Orangeville, died Sunday,
January 23, m the Bloomsburg
Hospital.

Death was sudden and due

to

since November
been hospitalized about

sistory,

a heart attack.

of fifty-two years.

a

Surviving are his wife, Mary
Jane Derr; one sister, Mrs. William
Gauger, Danville; and a number of

ing condition until he suffered the

Bloomsburg.
His death ended a marital span

and nephews.
Funeral services was held from
the late home. Riverside, with the

nieces

Rev.

W.

A. Gilleland, pastor of the

Mahoning Presbyterian Church,
ficiating.

of-

1,

he had
month.

Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

He had been

in improv-

fatal attack.

A native of Orangeville, he had
For
resided there all of his life.
many years, he and his father, the
late H. B. Low, were partners in
the business of selling farm equipment. He continued the enterprise
under the name of H. B. Low and
Son, Inc., following his fatlier’s
death, and in a partnership widi
his sons.

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS

Ill

Barton and Zehnder,

who

The firm now

sells

survive him.

farm equipment and electrical apand
Orangeville
in
pliances
Bloomsburg.
An active member of the Orangeville Methodist Church, he

was

also a

board of

member

trustees.

of the church’s
He was also a

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

member

of Oriental

and A. M.,

F.

tlie

Lodge No.460,
and the

I.O.O.F.,

Grange, Orangeville, and Caldwell
Consistory, Bloomsbnrg. He was a
past master of Oriental Lodge and
had been its treasurer many years.

.Miss

Martha Dodson ’99
-Martha Dodson, a former

resident of Berwick, passed away
Iriday, January 14, in the Geisinger

Hospital, after

a

long

illness.

years as President of his class
in the years that followed his grad-

Dodson was born in F'airmount Springs and was the daughter of the late Bo> d Headley Dodson ami the late Sarah Hess Dodson.
She was one of the section’s
best known women and was a former managing editor of Harper’s
Bazaar and an e.xecutive of the

uation.

Ladies’

Survi\ing are his wife, the former Lyle Sloan; two sons, Barton,

Ot pioneer stock. Miss Dodson
was descended from John Dodson,
a Quaker, of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, who fled to this

Low had

Mr.

member

also ser\ed as a
Orangexille borough

of

council and had been a director of
the Farmers National Bank of Or-

Mr.

ange\ille.

Low

served

for

many

Bloomsbnrg R. D. 2, and Zehnder,
Bloomsbnrg; two daughters, Mrs.
Joseph Parks, Bethany, Pa., and
Miss Julia, Spring City, Pa.; one
step-daughter, Miss Thomasa J.
Gilmore, Orangeville; his step-mother, Mrs. Irene M. Low, Orange-

one sister, Mrs. Zora Gemmill, Monessen, Pa.; a step-brother,
Edward Unangst, Catawissa; and
one step-sister, Mrs. Willis Snow,
ville;

Long

Island, N. Y.

Funeral services were held from
Eyer Funeral Home, Millville,
with the Rev. Russell M. Naylor,
pastor of the Orangeville Methodist
Church, officiating. Interment was
in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Orthe

angeville.

-Miss

Home

Journal.

country to escape religious persecution in 1677, and settled in what
is now Burlington, N. J. Her mother’s tamily settled nearby, at about
the

same

Miss

time.

Dodson

attended public
school in Berwick, prepared for college in the Bloomsburg State Nor-

mal School and W yoming Seminary
and was graduated from the Cornell University in 1907 where she
was a member of the Junior and
Senior Class Society, Kappa Kappa
Gamma and president ot the Un-

dergraduate
Body of Women.
Upon graduation she took charge
ot a survey of various emigrant aid
societies in the principal ports of

Dr. Leslie B. Seely 97
Dr. Leslie B. Seely, retired principal of Germantown High School,
died Monday, December 6, at his

home, 5918 Pulaski avenue, Germantown. He was 77.
A native of Luzerne county. Dr.

Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and was graduSeely attended
ated

from Haverford College in

He

served as principal of
High School from
1924 until retirement in 1943.
Since that time. Dr. Seely had
conducted classes at the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry.
He was an elder of the First Pres1905.

Gennantown

byterian

Church

in

Germantown

and a member of the Franklin Inthe Classical Club and Retired Teachers Association.

this

country for the U.

Commission.

S.

Emigra-

Her

report led
to closing of some of the societies
because of their abuses and to the
reorganization ot others.
tion

In 1911, Miss

magazine work,
torial staff of

Dodson turned

Housekeeper, a Collier-Nast publication. She was later associate editor of Harper’s Bazaar and then

became managing editor of that
magazine.
Her work was recognized by her inclusion in “Who’s
W’ho in .\merica.” In 1920 she joined the

editorial staff of the Ladies’

Home

Journal,

where she was one
whose names
appeared on the masthead of the
of the four executives

magazine.

Surviving are his wife, Mary
Louise; a son. Dr. Leslie B., Jr., of
Los Alamos, N. M., and two grand-

In the late 1920’s she became an
executive in Pacific Mills. Her
work included textile research, both
in this country and Europe and the
initiation of fabrics, colors and de-

March. 1955

War

retired

during World

11.

Miss Dodson was a member of
New York Women’s University
Club and a former president. She
was a past member ot the Author’s League of America, the Pen
and Brush Club, the Academy of
the

Political and Social Science, the
English Speaking Union, the American Association of University Women, the Metropolitan and American Natural History Museum and
the Cornell Women’s Club of New
York, of which she was a former

She was a member of
Church of Ber-

president.

the First Methodist

wick.

Dr. Gerdon E. Baker ’01

Funeral services for Dr. Gerdon
E. Baker, well-known Forty Fort
physician, were held in January at
his home with interment at Woodlawn cemetery, Dallas.
He died suddenly on January 10
of a heart attack.
He graduated
from B.S.T.C. in 1901 and taught
four

years

in

the

Orangeville,

Jonestown and Benton schools. He
practiced medicine in Forty Fort
for thirty-nine years following his

graduation from medical school in
Philadelphia.
He was a member of several
Masonic organizations and had a
reputation as an expert hunter.
Survivors include his widow, the
former Atta Kunkle; two brothers,
Charles, Montrose, and George,

Morristown, N. J.; and a sister, Mrs.
.\lvin Anthony, Kingston.

to

on the edi\’ogue, then on the
first

stitute,

sons.

She

sign.

Fred DelMonte ’54
Fred DelMonte, thirty-nine,

Mahanoy

City, teacher in the

of

Ma-

hanoy Township schools, died

re-

home

ill-

cently in his

after a brief

ness.

A

son of the late Clarence and

Rose
born

He

Guido

May

18,

attended

DelMonte, he was
1915, in Shamokin.
St.

Edwards Schools

and was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
McCann’s Business College, Mahanoy City.
During World War II, Mr. Del-

Monte served four years in tlie
United States Army, having been
honorably discharged in 1946. He
17

was elected a member of the teaching staff in Mahanoy Township
Schools last September.

for

many

years employed

by the

late P. K. Vannatta.

Dr. Earl Wright

Benjamin Bamdt
Benjamin Bamdt, seventy-six,
East Fourth street, Bloomsburg,
died

Saturday,

November

13,

at

Bloomsburg Hospital where he had
been a patient for ten weeks.
He was born in Catawissa. His
death severed a marital relationship of forty-six years. For seventeen years he was employed on the
maintenance staff at B.S.T.C. and
for the past three years he had been
a ticket taker at the Columbia The-

He was

at one time deputy
Columbia county.
He was a member of Masonic
Lodge of Catawissa No. 349, and of
Bloomsburg Caldwell Consistory.
He was also a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
ater.

treasurer of

Surviving are his wife, tlie forMatilda Shuman; one son,
Leon, and one grandson, Felix, all

mer
at

home.

Dr. Earl Wright, fifty-four, dean
instruction
Shippensburg
at
State Teachers College, died suddenly of a heart attack November

of

25 while visiting at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss.
A family spokesman said tliat he
had not previously been ill and
that he collapsed suddenly while
conversing with other members of
the family.

The

Wrights had come
to
to spend Thanksgiving
with Mrs. Wright’s mother, Mrs.
John P. Archibald.
Dr. and Mrs. Andruss were away
at the time, attending an educators’ meeting in Atlantic City.
A summoned physician pronounced the death and tiie remains were
released to Baker Funeral Home.
Dr. Wright, a well-known educa-

Bloomsburg

tor,

was the author of several arand books. He had been a

ticles

member
C.

Ray Henrie

C. Ray Henrie, sixty-five.
East
Eighth Street, Bloomsburg, died
Tuesday, February 8, at his home
from complications.
He was employed at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College fifteen

and worked until last NoHe had been in ill health
since September and bedfast four
years

vember.

weeks.

A

painter

all

of his

life,

of the Shippensburg facul-

ty for twenty-six years.

he was

The

funeral

services

of

Dr.

Wright were held in the Memorial
Auditorium of the Shippensburg

hun a doctor of
education degree in 1935, and he
received an honoray degree of doctor of science from Gettsysburg in

versity conferred

1943.

The educator also did special
work at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Cincinnati
and Johns Hopkins University.

During World War 11, both DocWright and Doctor Andruss
were selected by the United States
War Department to serve on the
faculty of the
First
American
Army University near Oxford, England.
During this time Doctor
Wright was on the staff of the
tor

Psychology Division.
Mrs. Wright is a twin sister of
Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, and was
married to Doctor Wright June 12,
1929.

The activity of Dean Wright in
community life of Shippensburg and Cumberland Valley, as a
member of Memorial Lutheran
the

Church, past president of Rotary
Club, member of Free and Accepted Masons, Shippensburg Scottish
Rite Club and Harrisburg Consistory, all speak of his deep devotion
and duty as an educator and lover
ol

American youth.

State Teachers College.
Dr. Wright, a brotlier-in-law of

President Andruss, was graduated
from Harrisburg Central High
School in 1920. Attending Gettysburg College, he received his B.S.
degree there in 1923 and his M.S.
in 1928.
George Washington Uni-

Miss Marguerite

Murphy

Word has been received of the
death of Miss Marguerite Murphy,
former member of the college faculty.
Death occurred August 29
in a hospital in Texas.

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday,
18

May

21
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HAVE PENNSYLVANIA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES COME OF

AGE?-

fContinued from inside front cover)
ings of the Millersville Academy
At
147 teachers in attendance.

with
that

time the average male teacher received
a yearly salary of $118.88, and the average female teacher $79.02, while the cost

You can
of this institute was $37. ,W.
understand the sacrifice that was necesattend these institutes, when
sary
women were willing to pay half and
men one-third their salary for bettering their preparation for teaching.
to

Undoubtedly, the County Superintendents had a great deal to do with the
development of these short term institutes, housed in rented quarters, into
separate schools for the preparation of
teachers.

The Lancaster County Normal School
was founded and finally became, after
the passage of the Normal School Act
of 1857, the first of the State Normal
Schools in 1859. This same James P.
Wickersham became State Superintendent, and in 1867, on a trip through the
of
Pennsylvania,
Northeastern
part
passed through Bloomsburg on the railroad in the evening, saw the lights from
the student lamps in the newly erected
building of the then Bloomsburg Literary Institute, and the thought occurred
to him that this would be good location
for a State Normal School. Later he delivered an address in Bloomsburg advocating a conversion of the Literary In-

stitute into a State Normal School,
you will recall that on February
1869.

our institution was chartered

19,

as

Normal School.

a State

This

and

your historical heritage.

is

Giants of the Profession

As we look back to find out where
we have been in order to find out where
we are in relation to where we want
to go, we recall the biblical quotation
dwelt therein in old time.”
Giants dwelt here in those days.
that “Giants

James

Wickersham, the most promthe early County Superintend-

P.

inent of
ents in Pennsylvania, organizer of the
Lancaster County Institute for Teachers and the Lancaster County Normal
School, Principal of the First Pennsyl-

vania Normal School, State Superintendent, one of the leading spirits
among the organizers of what is now
the Pennsylvania State Education Association, Editor for many years of the

Pennsylvania School Journal, and one
of a very small group of men to meet
in Harrisburg to organize the National
Education Association all these things
along with his part in the organization

—

of the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
justify his designation as a giant of the

profession.

Lancaster County also claims a part
of Thomas H. Burrows,
Secretary of the Commonwealth and
Superintendent of the Common Schools,
President of the struggling institution
which now has become the flourishing
Pennsylvania State University; and Dr.
E. E. Higbee.
President of Marshall

in the careers

College,

now Mercersburg Academy

March. 1955

member of the faculty of Franklin and
Marshall, was later State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
But Bloomsburg has also made its
contribution to this galaxy of giants.
Two of the Heads of Bloomsburg have
been State Superintendents, one. Dr.
David Jewett Waller, was Principal of
the Bloomsburg State Normal School
for two terms of office aggregating
twenty-seven years, was State Superintendent for four years, and Principal
of Indiana State Normal School for
twelve years, making a total of fortythree years of service in teacher education, probably the longest Pennsylvania
career in teacher education on record.
The other. Dr. Francis B. Haas, who
was State Superintendent of Public Instruction before becoming President of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
in 1927. and after a term of twelve
years is now completing his sixteenth
year as State Superintendent, having
served under four Governors.
It is also interesting to note that both
Doctor Waller and Doctor Haas have
been Presidents of the Pennsylvania
State Education Association, along with
Mr. W. W. Evans, who served as Superintendent of Columbia County Schools

for

many

years,

and who was

years Vice-President of the
our Trustees.

for four
of

Board

of a sentiment given by a
young lady whose name it is interesting
to note was Miss Rose E. Budd, who
addressed him thus
"Thomas H. Burrowes, the stead-

recipient

friend of public schools
old Lancaster wished the
plow of progress to turn the deepest furrows, she turned and gave
with one acclaim the handle up
fast

When

Burrowes.”

to

will contrast this demonstration of interest in public education with
our observance of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary. you will have to admit that
the
Millersville
Educational Harvest
If

you

Home had
was

a

It
a wider public appeal.
combination Camp Meeting. Re-

vival Meeting. Political Rally, and Militia Parade all rolled into one.
Over
1500 people came in a holiday spirit and
filled the seats provided, with more
than 500 finding only standing room.
Some of the people came with the same
spirit with which they went to the
County Fair, or saw the butchering of
a 795 pound pig at a local tavern.
The Governor was there, great
throngs were there, and for many it
was an exciting day aside from any
thought of advancing the cause of public schools.

Student IJfe Then and
Students have always
.

Commemorations

On February

of Historical

19, 1954,

Events

we commemor-

ated the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the
chartering of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School. The Bloomsburg Beacon was lighted and dedicated to those
of our graduates and former students
who made the supreme sacrifice in

World War

as follows:

Rooms

or Parlors, unless by spepermission. Neither are they
permitted to walk, ride or correcial

ating the hope that Millersville would
be the first State Normal School. Beginning at nine o’clock in the morning
with the distinguished guests assembling in Lancaster and parading to
Millersville over a recently constructed
turnpike, escorted by a local militia

spond with each other.
In the time intervening bethe
close
of afternoon
study hours and the supper hour,
the boarding students have the
privilege of leaving the grounds
and walking in the neighborhood
of the School.
“5.

tween

company (Fencibles) and their band in
Conestoga wagons. The procession was
over a mile in length and included Governor Pollock, who spoke, along with

“6.

to their rooms for
study; the study hour ending only
with the ringing of the first retiring bell, at quarter before ten

immediately

tions in elocution, phonetic spelling,
dialogues, and music in the small school
chapel and with sentiments from the
pupils appropriate to the occasion. Of
the sentiments addressed to the County

bloom upon

State

During this time no visrooms or loud talking is
allowed, and no student is per-

p.

their brows.”

Superintendent

was

mitted to leave his floor without
permission from the teacher in
charge.”

Sometimes the student reaction

ville,

An

to

over into
Evidently Millersand I doubt not Bloomsburg, had
rules which chafed both sexes.

regulations
Alumni Meetings.
these

strict

the

m.

iting of

typical:

—

After evening Chapel exerthe students are to repair

cises,

the several County Superintendents.
Newspaper reports indicate that the
guests were entertained with exhibi-

The

ladies and gentleare not allowed to pause and

loiter for intercommunication in
the Halls, Society Rooms, Dining

’

of

The young

“1.

Following the passage of the Normal
School Act in 1857, an “Educational
Harvest Home
was held in Millersville.
This was an event commemor-

“The Superintendents of the three
counties May the White Rose of
York, the Red Rose of Lancaster,
and the Cedars of Lebanon, be
twined in a never-fading wreath

there

of students.
The regulations in the
Bloomsburg Catalog at that time read

men

is

felt that

were top many rules and regulations.
In one of the early Bloomsburg Catalogs can be found the following statements for the guidance and edification

II.

Superintendent, this one

Now

article

by

carried

J.

W. Coates,

titled

19

of Millersville” will be
a case in point (or in print). This was
an address delivered at a well attended
meeting of the annual Junior reunion

“The Autocracy

on June 4, 1881.
to be based on

The speech appeared
At that time it

facts.

was considered to be quite inflammatory. Here is a paragraph or two.
“And mark you the consistency: A

man may not speak to his wife on these
grounds, a lady to her brother, a gentleman to two ladies old enough to be
grandmother; but any insignificant

his

member
do not

of the faculty

whom

strangers

know from Adam, upon whose

brow no look

of superior intelligence
distinguish him from the common herd, can sit for hours talking to
any lady students. Certainly, if a
member of the faculty can do this and
the school not fall into disrepute, why
shall not a man walk with his own sister on these grounds?
“The author writes not as one desirous of spending his time with the
ladies on these grounds.
He has no
sets to

fond dove with whom he wishes to coo
on this yard; but he desires to see common sense and common decency exercised at this school; he wishes to see an
institution fostered and supported by
the public conducted in the interest of
the teachers whose welfare it pretends
to seek; and he desires to see men and
women treated as such and not as chil-

1920 marked the completion of the
period of purchase of thirteen of the
State Normal Schools.
1927 was the year when State Normal
Schools became State Teachers Colleges
in name, since they continued to offer
two-year curricula.
1934 was the year that the issuance
of the two-year Normal Certificate was
discontinued and these institutions became State Teachers Colleges in fact.
1941 was the year of the outbreak of

World War

II, and a section was inserted in the School Code so that over
2,500 students were housed, fed, and
instructed in State Teachers Colleges at
one time to become Army Aviators,
Army Postal Clerks, Navy Deck Officers, Naval Flight Officers, Nurses, etc.
1948 found the State Teachers Colleges cooperating with Pennsylvania
State College in accepting Freshmen
students. World War II Veterans were
accepted in large numbers with their
tuition being paid directly to the college by the Federal Government.
1955 is the year in which consideration is being given to the applications
of State Teachers Colleges by the State
Council of Education to offer graduate
courses leading to the Masters Degree.

Have

Stages of Development
1955 marks the end of a century
Teacher Education, it also may mark
the crucial year in the development of
State Teachers Colleges. Again we must
If

of

look backward for certain significant
dates which may help us to determine
the time of change even though its nature may not be discernable in the immediate past or the forseeable future.
1907 was the year in which Dr.
George M. Phillips of the West Chester
State Teachers College first made a formal plea for the purchase of the then
private Normal Schools by the State.
This was repeated in 1909 and incorporated in the School Code in 1911.
1913 was the year of the purchase of
the first State Normal School, West
Chester, by the State.

We

of age is not calculated by
of years that State Teachers Colleges have been four-year colleges, or by their conformations to college traditions, but by their professional responsibility of educating teachers for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we are still left with the question of coming of age unanswered.
Even though we seem to discern a
pattern, or a rhythm, in the dates of
1907, 1913, 1920, 1927, 1934, 1941, 1948,
and 1955, we are dealing with quantity
rather than quality, the time of change
rather than the nature of change, and
If

“And whosoever

shall

compel thee

go a mile, go with him twain.” The
challenge of the Second Mile is the
challenge of coming of age, but never
to

becoming aged.

He

tells

all

about the work he did

for a publishing house, work for which
he was not paid, working longer than
the eight hours put in by the rest of
the staff. He tells of drawing $10.00 a
week of a $40.00 a week salary because
the business in which he was employed
was in financial difficulties. And finally he tells of an Irish lad who came
to the publishing house for a summer
job and stayed on as office boy and
mail clerk. One morning he came and

“Mr. Barton, what books should I
be reading?” Thus Duffy, the Irish of-

said,

boy, became, in time, one of the
valuable men in the concern.
When Bruce Barton retired as President, and the company faced the choosing a young successor, even though
there were one-hundred college men in
the company, Duffy, the ex-mail boy,
who never finished high school, but
who was willing to go the second mile,
was made President of the company.
If you, the members of this graduating class, wish to exemplify the institution which is about to confer the
Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education upon you, if you would come of
age, then you too must be willing to go
the second mile.
So I say that, whether Teachers Colleges come of age as collegiate institutions is not so important as the continuance of their willingness to do more
fice

Achieved

Professional Responsibility?
the

dren.’’

such a place continue the same practices that many other colleges have
continued long beyond the time when
they have ceased to meet the need of
the public schools.
If this development of over 100 years
is to continue, then it must be in the
spirit of Bruce Barton writing in the
current January, 1955, Reader’s Digest,
under the title of “The Best Advice I
Ever Had.” He takes the text from one
of his father’s sermons, which was

coming

number

may be that we are confusing change
with progress.
It is evident that Pennsylvania State
Teachers Colleges are still developing,
and I trust that they will never come
of age in the sense that they will find
a place in the system of higher education of Pennsylvania, and having found

it

most

than is expected of them in terms of
the School Laws of Pennsylvania. Our
college will come of age in time, and
to the extent that its graduates are willing to go the Second Mile.

SUPPORT THE

ALUMNI
20

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

‘SAUCERED AND BLOWED’
NELSON

H.

E.

’ll

You may recall that in the issue of December 1954 there appeared
column the following statement under “P'rom the Quarterlies, IJuly 1910.”
“This

little

note (omitted) will he a stiimdes to more Normal
hope of finding a husband!”

girls to

in this

go west

to teach Indians, with the

The writer of “this little note,” now living in Montana, saw the statement and
came back with a two-page letter, beautifully written in a vertical hand that
belies the years since 1903.

flere

the letter;

is

Mrs.

J.

E.

St. .Xavier,

Keough
Montana
February

10,

1955

Mr. E. H. Nelson
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear “Saucered and Slowed'

’

Seeing your reference to a

hope of finding a husband.’’
from this now old girl.

who went “West to teach Indians with the
wondered if “this little note’’ July 1910 was

girl
I

—

Good Professor Bakeless told me when he learned
Government Indian School in 1903, to
Service needed trained Normal teachers.

a position in a

of

my

appointment

to

accept, as the Indian

whom

Sent to a newly opened school of 60 pupils all ages from 6 to 16, of
4 teen-agers had been in school about one year in other places, you may
able to understand
dismay.

be

my

First lessons were to learn names, a friendly ex-Carlisle pupil told me
the Indian sign for “I” forefinger of right hand on tip of nose proceeding
from that (“I am Frank Strikes 'On the Head,’’ “He is Peter Paul Top Notch,’’
“She is Mary Old Crane,” “We are Crow Indians,” “They are 'White Ladies,”
“Our Teacher is Miss Quinn”), we started our language lessons. My own
methods; no course of Study available, but we had results. If sometimes “he”
was used for “she" (or either pronoun for “it”) a word or a little laugh corrected the mistake.

—

For %V2 years I staid with
hurry to acquire a husband.

—

my

Crows, so you see

I

wasn’t in too big a

It was a thrill to find in an Indian employee’s quarters a picture of a
Carlisle football team with Profs. Sutliff and Hartline among them.
I met former Carlisle students who had kindly memories
and Mrs. Bakeless during their stay at that famous school for
Which brings me to their son, John Bakeless and the books of which

Several times
of Professor

Indians.

he

is

the author.

Having lived for 52 years in a part of the Lewis and Clark country I was
interested in what was said about his book in the December quarterly, and
also in “Daniel Boone, Master of the Wilderness.’’

As I met some years ago. a woman who claimed to be a descendant of
Daniel Boone and know her grandson, it seemed they were two of the many
coincidences I’ve met during my long years in the West.

You

did not mention the publisher of these books. Please let me know
I can obtain copies of them which the author may autograph
because I knew his father and mother at “Old Normal” in 1893-94.

and perhaps

Sincerely yours
Bridget Quinn Keough
.Xrui as a heartening close may I say that the Montour County Alumni group
turned over a $50.00 scholarship at their fall dinner meeting, and that Kathryn
Spencer, president of the Philadelphia group gave me her personal check for

$25.00.

Thanks Sincerely.

See you

all

May

21st.

QolUcfe, Qcd^ndoA.

April

5

Easter Recess Begins

April 12

Easter Recess Ends

May

6

Fashion

iVIay

17

Classes for Seniors

May

18

Senior

May

19

Senior Banquet and Ball

May

19

Classes

May

21

ALUMNI DAY

May

22

Baccalaureate Services

May

23

Commencement

June

6

June 27

July

Aug.

18

8

First

Show

End

Honor Assembly

End

Three Week Session Begins

Second Three

Third Three

Week

Week

Fourth Three

Session Begins

Week

Session Begins

Session Begins

The Altimni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsyluania

Vol.

LVI

JUNE, 1955

No. 2

BLOOMSBURG - BIGGER? BETTER? OR BOTH?
by
Harvey A. Andruss, President
State Teachers College

Blooinsburg, PennsyK^ania

For more than ten years our college has
been recjnesting additional plant facilities from
the General State Authority through the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
During this period twenty million dollars
has been allocated to the fourteen State Teachers Colleges.
If divided equally, each college
would have received more than one million
four-hundred thousand dollars. With the reconstruction of our heating plant, costing less than
four-hundred thousand dollars, and the allocation of four-hundred sixty thousand dollars for
the building of a new dining room and kitchen,
Blooinsburg will have received about eight-hundred fifty thousand dollars.
We have been told that our physical plant
is in better condition than that of other colleges.
Only two State Teachers Colleges have received
less for construction than Blooinsburg.
The present allocation of $450,000 for the
construction of a new dining room, kitchen and
storage building on the site of the old tennis
courts, with an additional $10,000 for equipment,
Plans have been drawn to coirne
is inadecjuate.
within this amount. They do not provide for a
terrazzo floor in the dining room, and complete
modern kitchen equipment. Our Board of Trustees has passed a resolution which has been sent
to the proper state authorities requesting that
the $450,000 allocation be raised to $530,000,
which, we understand, was the original figure
fixed by the General State Authority at the time
this project was first proposed.
With the expenditure of twenty million dollars in the fourteen State Teachers Colleges, we
find that the capacities of these institutions have
not been increased apprecialfiy. New buildings
have been built to replace structures varying in
age from fifty to almost one-hundred years. We
hav(‘ now come to the place where Pennsylvania
must decide whether or not it is going to increase
the capacity of the State Teachers Colleges so
that they may serve more students who want to

become teachers in the public schools of the
Commonwc'alth
The enrollment situation as of June 15, 1955,
while diiplicat('d in some other State Teachers
Collegers, is very acute at Blooinsburg, as shown
by the following figures: With the year just closed .May 31, 1955, w(> find we have had 900 fulltime students during two semesters, divided as

follows: 535

men, 365 women.

The Freshman

Class of 1954 numijered 409 including 177 entering the second semester.
now lace the reduction of the class of Freshmen and entering
students for September, 1955, to 270, whieh with
664 returning students will give an enrollnlent
in excess of 925.
have had 235 applicants up to June 15, which we will not be able
to admit.
In former years, over half of our
admissions were made after June 1, therefore
we anticipate 200 or 3(K) applications which we
can only file, since we do not have available
faculty or facilities. This means that we shall
admit one out of every three students that apply.
If graduation and student dropouts permit,
we may admit 345 new students if space is a\^ailable tor seventy-five Freshmen students in Janu-

We

We

ary,
1 , 000

1956,

making our

total

enrollment about

.

Last year we had the largest enrollment in
the histor)' of the institution, and when we increase it by ten per cent we will have reached a
point above which any additional number will
lower the quality of instruction and our ability
to treat

students as individuals in a small college

atmosphere.
Since our dormitory capacity is slightl)'
more than 400, our dining room eapacity 500,
and our auditorium capacity 867, we will have
200 students (mostly men) living in the town of
Blooinsburg next year.
The Superintendent of Public Instruction,

Budget Secretary, Department of Propert)' and
Supplies, General State Authority, along with all
the members of the Legislature in the counties
surrounding Blooinsburg have been advised that
immediate plans should be made for:
(1)— A new dormitory to accomodate 250 men to
cost at least $1,125,600; (2)— Replacement of the

1875 barn with a new storage building to cost
$100,000; (3)— An Auditorium to seat not less
than 1200 to cost $700,(KK); (4)— A Classroom
Building to include .science laboratories to cost
$750,(M)0.
Ill addition, the following expenditures arc
necessary:— (a)— Renovation of the present dining room spaee to prov ide for Library space for
the next five years— $50,(KM); (b)— Renovation of
j)resent second floor library space for dormitory
purpose's— $50, (K)().

(Continued on inside of back cover)

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 2

Vol. LVI,

June, 1955

COMMENCEMENT

Ar-

arc

“Idt'al.s
art'

within us

.

.

.

fliey

given their meaning and drive
we experienee the

hy the way

how

things,” declared

(

cation.

uf

that

and

Dr.
Martin P.
.'hworowsky Monday, May 23 to
an ()\ erllow audience at the annual
commencement exercises at the
Bloomshnrg State Teachers ColPublished quarteily

by

Alumni

the

Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8. 19‘!1, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg. Pa
under
the Act of March 3. 1871).
Yearly Sub••fcription, $2.00; Single Copy, 30 cents.
lege,

.

EDITOR

BUSINESS
E.

T2

MANAGER

H. Nelson,

lege.

Chworowsky.

director of

GreenBeld

'll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

Human

The degree of Bachelor of Science in Education was conferred
hy Dr. IIar\ey A. Andruss on one
Imiulred thirty-eight seniors
who
were presented by John A. Iloch,
of Instruction.

Howard

F.

Fenstemaker

at the console for the proces-

Alma Mater, and

the

recessional. Nelson A. Miller

was

the

sional,

the director of music.

The

graduates:

John D. Angus, Mt. Pleasant R.
D. 1; Robert L. Aurand, Danville;
Oren A. Baker, Bloomsburg; Albert T. Belinsky, Berwick; Michalene L. Belock, Scranton; Carolyn
Berdy, Dallas R. D. 1; Michael R.
Bernot, Mt. Carmel; Frederic J.
Betz, Lemoyne; Byron P. Bishop,
Blyler,
Honesdale;
Robert
P.
Bloomsburg R. D. 2.
Lynda M. Bogart, Berwick; Judith

M.

Bolling, Scranton; Janice B.

Bower, Clarks

Creen;

Ethel

M.

Dr. Andruss explained to parents
and friends of the graduates why

Brace, Hunlock Creek R. D. 2;
\’incent Buckwash, Keiser; Allene

he could not endorse some of the
hills currently being considered by

Ronald

the state legislature to alleviate the
shortage of teachers in our Commonwealth. At the same time, he
suggested a number of other proposals to deal with the problem,
namely, raising teachers’ salaries
and changing certification procedures.
In addition. Dr. Andruss repeated the need for expanded facilities

the college so that young peowho are interested in preparing for teaching, would not have
at

ple,

TREASURER

was

Center

Relations at the Unisersity ot
Pennsylvania, pointed
out that "ideals represent something we desire and can lose their
attraction tor us if we feel our etlorts to achie\e them are
of no
tor

Dean

E.

Dr.

the -Vlhert .M.

a\'ail.”

H. F. Fenstemaker,

hurg.

The Rev. Thomas j. Hopkins,
minister of the Bloomsburg Methodist Church, pronounced the invo-

inllnence ns and
in turn deal with people

tilings

Association of the State Teachers Col-

to be denied the opportunity for
securing their training at Blooms-

R. Burlingame,

J.

Joan M.

L. Cole, Berwick;

Chapin,

Edward

Connolley, Danville; Robert

Cumens,

E.

Coatsville.

Thomas
R. D. 1;

S. Davis, Harveys Lake
Ceorge W. Derk, Montan-

don; Anna L. Dreese, Beavertown;
William B. Ellinger, Shickshinny;
Rebecca A. Ellis, Milton R. D. 1;
Janet R. Ference, Pittsburgh; Alice
I. Fisher, Sunbury R. D. 2; Loretta
N. Frey, Muncy R. D. 4; Philip W.
Cergen, Mt. Carmel.

Cuy Cermana,

Jr.,

Eileen H. Cerosky,

Bloomsburg;

West

Pittston;

Earl A. Gehrig

THE

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Recipients of the Alumni Distinguished

Schuyler

left to right: Dr. E.

H. F.

Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith

COVER

J.

E.

Awards and their sponsors,
Alumni Association; Rev.

H. Nelson, President of the

Klingaman, Miles Kilmer, E. Joe Albertson, Jesse Y. Shambach.
C. Fetterolf, and Fred W. Diehl.

Howard

Elizabeth H. Hubler
June,

195.5

1

Buttonwood, WilkesRuth E. Gillman, Mountain
Top; Rae B. Girdauskas, Forest
City; Marlene P. Gobster, Shenan-

Cora

Gill,

Barre;

doah; Jean E. Grilfitsh, Scranton;
Archie F. Gurzynski, Mocanaqua;
John M.
Rita Gydosh, Duryea;
Halcovich, Shamoldn.
Gloria M, Harris, Hickory Corners; Mollie H. Harter, Bloomsburg;
Harry J. Heiser, Nescopeck R. D.
Strouds1; Mary Ellen Henning,
burg; Sherrill V. Hiller, Jersey
Shore; Grace F. Histed, Honesdale;

Hoffman, Annville; Nancy
J.
Millville R. D.; RudHoltzman,
B.
olph V. Holtzman, Dickson City;
Hope H. Horne, Catawissa R. D. 3.
Virginia G. Horne, Bloomsburg
R. D. 3; Richard G. Hurtt, Forty
Fort; Ronald B. Kanaskie, Shamokin R. D. 1; Joan Kanyok, Moosic;
Florence A. Keiper, Noxen; Joseph
Betty

Eugene J.
St. Clair;
E.
Klimovich, Mocanaqua; John
E. Kinder,

Kosoloski, Jr., Mt. Carmel;
lvia Krapf, Holidaysburg.

J.

Sy-

Mary Louise Kubic, Mountain
Top; M. Louise LaSorsa, Falls R.
D.

1;

Donald D. Levan, Catawissa

R. D. 1; Johanna A. Lipko, Freeland; Joanne M. McCormick, Sunbury__ Keith D. McKay^ Harrisburg; Mary Miller, Jersey Shore;

Sally F.

Morgan, Edwardsville;

Eleanor M. Novick,

Wilkes-Barre;

Mary E. O’Braitis,
Edward P. Palushock, Fern Glen;

Edwardsville;

John G. Panichello, Glenside; Ruth
E. Paul, Plymouth; Thomas E. Persing, Shamokin; Patricia I. Phillips,
Pope,
G.
Williamsport; Charles

Conyngham;

Virginia

M.

Price,

essential in success

Sunday,

May

22 in delivering

the

baccalaureate sermon to one hundred thirty-eight seniors at the
State Teachers College.

Speaking on the theme, “Humility before God,” Rev. Keiser pointed out to all members of the audience, “If you desiije riches, honor,
and a more abundant life, you
must be humble before God. If
you go after the things that are
right— not for the aggrandizement
of self, but for the glory of Godthen you will be humble, and God
will lift you up.”
Rev. Keiser, pastor of
2

St.

Paul’s

are:

Robert

W.

Carey,

Forest City;

Edwin

H.

Chase,

Bloomsburg;

Elinor

E.

Evans,

sessions

M.

R. D. 2; Maizie

Freas,

Eyers

Lundy,

Evelyn

M.

Muncy;

Weaver,

Thomas

also

Church, Bloomsburg,
pronounced the invocation

and the benediction during the exercises. President Harvey A. Andruss read the Scripture, and the
College quartette sang “How GenNelson A.
tle God’s Commands.”
Miller was director of music, and
Howard F. Fenstemaker was at
Immediately after
the console.
the baccalaureate service,

was held

a

tea

Waller court for students, faculty members, and guests
of the graduating class.
in

^

Laceyville; Ida V. Fisher, Sunbury

Dallas.

Holley R. Smith, LaAnna; Malcolm PI. Smith, Nancy M. Snyder,
Walter Stanek, Hazleton; James P.
SzerSteiner, Bloomsburg; Lura
afinski, Dalton R. D. 2; Donald W.
Thomas, Shamokin; Grace O. Vanderslice, Berwick; Ralph C. Verano, Shamokin; Janet R. Wagner,
Allen B. Walburn, Shamokin.

t'

summer

veys

Episcopal

Think not more highthan you should,” deyourself
ly of
clared the Rev. Elmer A. Keiser on

1955

Barbara M. Reitmeyer, Oneida;
Rhelda M. Rochbach, Sunbury;
Thomas E. Sanders, Shamokin;
George A. Schell, Bloomsburg; Alton W. Schmidt, Bloomsburg; Alberta J. Semanski, Duryea; Joseph
Shemanski, Glen Lyon; Carol L.
J.
Shupp, Plymouth; John B. Sibly,
Bloomsburg; Donald E. Smith,

BACCALAUREATE
is

tlie

Glenolden.

Michael Moran, Hazleton; Nancy
A. Moran, Scranton.

“Humility

Candidates for the baccalaureate
degree during

Grove; R. Arnold Garinger, Har-

J. Welliver, Shamokin R.
D. 1; Glenn L. Wiik, Allentown;
Nancy Sue Williams, Clarks SumNorthumbermit; Jay S. Wirth,
land; Carolyn A. Yost, Orangeville;

of all kinds.

Janice A. Yozviak, Wilkes-Barre.

Lake; Gilmore G. Graybill,
Nina E. Hepner, Northumberland.

i

Richfield;

|

•
|

Mollie

J.

Hippensteel,

Espy;

Beverly Hough, Berwick R. D. 1;
Nanette L. Hoy, Snydertown; MarMifflinburg;
F.
guerite
Jewett,
Lingousky, Sheppton;
\Iary A.
Guy A. Long, Danville; Joyce M.

Bloomsburg; Joseph J.
Matikiewicz, Thompson; John PI.
McCarthy, Bloomsburg; Jacqueline

M. McCauley, Shenandoah.
Gordon;
Lewis R. Mervine,

Mary

B. Miles, Laurel, Maryland;

Leo A. Paulsan, Burlington, N.

J.;

Caroline E. Petrullo, Northumberland; Shirley B. Redline, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Paul H. Rhodes,
Catawissa R. D. 2; Marilyn M.
Ruth, Berwick; Helen C. Sheary,
Seaford, Del.; Mary Jane Trefsger,

Watsontown

R. D. 1; George Viti,
Shickshinny; Shirley S. Williams,
Berwick.

A

former

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College student, Sheldon
Erwine,
graduated on DecemOfficers
tlie
ber 15, 1954 from
Basic Course at the Marine Corps
School in Quantico, Virginia. Sec.
ond Lieutenant Erwine was commissioned in the Marine Corps last

summer and began the intensive
five-month indoctrination course in
Upon completion of the
July.
duty
to
course, he was ordered
with the Fleet Marine Force, or to

i

1

advanced specialty schools.
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142 East Main Street

Bloomsburg 529

Miss

Mgr

Clarabelle
R. D. 2,

Davis,

Clarks

and Clarence Wal-

Troutman, Lieutenant in the
U.S. Air P’orce, were married Saturday, April 30, in the Milwaukee
M.E. Church in Clarks Summit.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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ALUMNI MEETING
Bloomsburg State Teachers College,

it

grow

to

provided the facilities, can
an institution ot fifteen

Inindred students within five years,
Ur. Harvey A. Andniss, president
of the college, told ahiinni at their

general meeting.

Speaking of the introduced legland

islation to acrpiire additional

said
adjacent to the College, he
there must be room to put buildprovided
ings wlien the money is
for them. He added it was not the

anyone out of their
homes but it was simply the neces“We have
sity of looking ahead.
hail tins proposal in our budget
desire to put

We

twenty years.

for

the ear before

of

never got

someone

who

would introduce the legislation.”
He was referring to the bill
which provides for the purchase of

would appro-

seven properties anil

purpose.
the fact
that the bill would be worthless if
the right ot emiueut domain is not
priate $175, 0(H) for

Heference was

this

made

to

included.

.\ndruss said he

13r.

regretted

had been presented
reprein this Legislature by tlie
Columbia county
sentative from
that

two

bills

(.\lbert E. Strausser.j

He

predict-

ed neither would get out of committee and would not pass if they
did.

One

bill,

having for

its

the keeping of teachers
in

teaching

Pennsylvania

schools

of

the

state

for

purpose
educated
the

in

at

least

would require students
$500
in teachers colleges to pay
This would be
tuition per year.
returned to them at the rate of

four years,

$500 per year as they taught

commonwealth

head
would be

(.’ollege

in

schools.

ft

told the alumni.

who

demand that all
take agriculture
courses at
Peimsylvania State University

ed out, to

farm

reipiired to
tiu)sc

who

colleges.

he point-

just as fair,

the

be

in Pennsylvania;

graduate

in

law

at

Penn-

sylvauia or Pittsburgh practice the
profession here; those
who get
ilegrtes in medicine at Jefferson or

Hannemann remain here
ister to

the

to

admin-

II, he continued, it was
deemed
wise to hold teachers in Pennsylvania, then all that needed be done
would be to hold tramscript of credits until they teach a certain number ot years or until it is established there are no teaching positions
in Pennsylvania for them. Andruss

reminded

The

some educated
come here to teach.

that

other

would

bill

rate teach-

teachers and pupils

at

four year

ii'.tervals.

of the bill

cut from the ranks

would be to
those
under

tenure who are not
satisfactory,
but the College head was doubtful
tliat this metliod would work and
he was sure it would be costly.

everyone
“I don’t pretend that
under tenure is a capable teacher.
W e need methods to get rid of the
lazy and incompetent, but it would
be ilifficult to cover that situation
in a law.
It is an administrative
problem. Those bills are ill advised and would serve no good purpose.
They were not introduced
at the instance of any in Columbia
county.”

By September this College will
to turn down two of every

have

three
tiie

seeking

situation in

admission.

This

fifty,

sixty to seventy

“How many

of you could
have paid $500 tuition a year when
you came here ? I could not have
paid that much when I went to
college,” the educator asserted.
“Some who graduate from our
teachers college go to odier states
and the proposer of the legislation
does not seem willing to remedy
this by
increasing salaries,” the

percent.

June,

igs.”!

FRANK

is

most Pennsylvania

He believed such legislation
would cut die enrollment in teachers colleges

in

by examination of

ers nniler tenure

The aim

be unable

to

in-

crease capacity more than fifteen
percent. So those who wish to go
the
at
to college are clamoring
doors of public institutions.
As of May 7 there were 706 students who had paid advanced registration fees for the year begin-

ning in September. The freshmen
enrollment had to be closed as ot
.May
The College is now striving to bring the numbers of old
and new students within the 9(H)
.

ill.

other states

Private institutions hav'e

stated they will

limit.

The enrollment

next

fall, if

fac-

were available, would be 1,It has been suggested to the

ilities

100.

state authorities that

Bloomsburg’s

future capacity be raised from 1 ,()()() to not less than 1,200.
Dr. -Andruss said that with an
enrollment of at least 9(H) next

men will have to live in
town where a hundred resided
during the past year and the Colyear, 2(H)

the

a
to
lege will refuse admission
large number of women since dor-

mitory accomodations have already
reached their limit.
•Buildings necessary, he said, are

250 men to
replacement
a
with
of the old storage barn
a

new dormitory

for

cost over $1,250,()0();

new

storage

building,

$1(H),(H)();

auditorium to seat not less than 1,building
200, $700, ()()(); classroom
include science laboratories,
to
$750,000.

Also required are renovation of
room space to
library,
Hoor
$5(),(H)0, and renovation of second
dormitory
floor library space for
purposes, $50,0(H). Dr. Andruss observed that the latter program assumes we will not need a new library until a later date and it also
assumes that $175,000 shall be
made available for the purchase of
land as provided in the House Bill
703 and Senate Bill 380.
have made progress in the
past, he said, but today the instigreater challenge
tution faces a
“If we are to
than ever before.
meet the needs of those we serve,
the present dining
provide for a first

We

S.

HUTCHISON,

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IiVSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

this

program cannot go on

has been.
are going to

Our

sister

as

it

institutions

expand and we must

too.”
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AWARDED

ed for her outstanding sersice. She

world recognized authority on

declined reelection.
Dr. E. H. Nelson presided at tire
general meeting and the class of
1955 attended in a body, sang the

CITATIONS

A

the construction of tunnels, an educator and editor and a man who
has devoted forty-five years of his
life to building up the
vocational
education program of the
youth
of the commonwealth were recognized for their achievements recently in one of the highlights of

Day

an outstanding Alumni

at the

College.

Recipients of the Distinguished
Service Awards were:

Miles

I.

Kilmer,

New

York, class

of 1900, in charge of construction
of the Holland and Lincoln Tun-

New

nels,

York, and

many

other

major projects.
E. Joe Albertson, editor and copublisher of the Peekskill, N. Y.,
Evening Star, class of 1901, and a
leader in the building of the educational programs of the Philippines and Peru.

Howard

C.

Mifflin
township, a member of the class
of 1910, chief, vocational
education in the State Department of
Public Instruction forty years and
a consultant and trainer of teachers in agriculture programs in both
Fetterolf,

Germany and Korea.
Mr. Kilmer was presented by
Rev. J. E. Klingaman, Winchester, Va.; Mr. Albertson by J. E.
Shambach, Camp Hill, and Mr.
Fetterolf by Fred W. Diehl, Danthe

ville.

The

latter,

class of 1909,

a graduate

of

was making

his first

the

appearance before the alumni body
since his recent elevation to
the
presidency of the College board of
trustees.

He was named

to suc-

ceed the late Reg. S. Hemingway.
Mr. Diehl has served on the board
for over twenty-two years and was
long the vice president.
He has
been superintendent of the schools
of
Montour county thirty-seven
years.

Named

to the

three

year terms

ceeds Miss Harriet M. Carpenter,
long treasurer, who was recogniz4

to

principal for five years, chief of the
bureau of vocational education in
the state for forty years, state director of food production in World

of the class of 1905,
honor class of reunion, were seated

of 625 agriculture teachers in Korea
in 1948, consultant of tire U. S.

on the platfoim. Reports of the

Army

Alma Mater and were admitted
membership in the association.

War

Members

sociation’s student loan fund,

as-

now

helping a large number of students,
was presented by Mr. Gehrig. Mrs.
Charles C. Housenick gave the

1,

in charge of tire

fourteen years.

The award was made
an “educational
citizen

who had devoted

represented was 1888 which had
Mrs. Annie Nuss, town, and Mrs.
Mary E. Jones, Scranton, present.
Mr. Shambach in his presentation of Albertson told of his going
the Philippines
to
immediately
after graduation here and of his
becoming principal of the high
school in Manila where
he in-

of service to the

The

citation

was made

to

him

pioneer teacher^ school administrator, educational counselor,

as “a

trade administrator,
and publisher.”

U.

S.

editor

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg. Pa.
Telephone 8G7
Mrs. J. C. Conner,

in

member of the
Show Commission

1949,

of the reunion classes. Oldest class

structed many who are now key
men in the government of that nation. He spoke of his serv ice in the
islands as teacher, superintendent
of schools and later as a member
of the provincial board before he
took over the principalship of the
high school.
In 1918 he was appointed trade
advisor in the Bureau of Exports
of the War Trade Board
this
of
government, a bureau that had
control of the issuing of licenses
for exportation of restricted strategic materials. In 1921 he was appointed by the U. S. State Department as a member of a commission
to go to Peru, at the request of the
president of that nation, and modernize its school system. Since 1924
he has been editor and co-publisher with Donald F. Ikeler
of the
Peekskill Evening Star.

tra inin g

in agriculture education

Germany in
State
Farm

Concluding feature of the meeting was the report

secretary’s report.

board of directors

were Earl
Gehrig and Howard F. Fenstemaker, town, and Mrs. Ruth S. Griffith, Wilkes-Barre.
Gehrig sucfor

Mr. Diehl in presenting Mr. Fetspoke of his as a teacher and

terolf

and Christian

him

to

leader,

as

patriotic

gentleman”

“forty-five

years

youth of the

state

and nation.”

The Rev. Mr. Klingerman spoke
work of Air.

of tire outstanding

Kilmer

in his

chosen

field

and

of

the fact that in 1946 he received
the outstanding construction award
in the

United

States.

His citation was to a “school
teacher, farmer and civil engineer”
and listed some of his top achievements.
Mr. Kilmer referred to himself
as “sand hog” and stated simply “I
owe to this Normal School everything that I have.” He paid tribute
to the faculty of his day,

pecially to

and

es-

Dean Emeritus William

B. Sutliff and to the late Prof. John
G. Cope. He referred to his days
on the hill and mentioned some of
the major construction jobs
with

which he was associated.

He

was

charge of construction of Holland Tunnel and has been prominently identified with all
major
projects of that type since. During
the war he was in charge of one
project that involved thirty-five milin

lion dollars.

Mr. Fetterolf said tliat the most
he ever had to do in
life was to turn down invitations
to return to Korea and to Germany
difficult thing

those
goveraat the request of
ments.
He said tliat the Koreans
have nothing and need everything
and are appreciative of anything
done for them. The German government asked him “come back and

what was started.”
The wives of the recipients

finish
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of

the awards received orchid corsages.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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SALES RALLY
persons, most of them
one form or anotlier of
merchandising, were literally “sold

Some SOO

engaged

in

on selling” Friday evening, March
2 as Bloomsburg
C

College staged

Harold Grossman, Mt. Car-

rally.

its

State
ninth

Teachers

and most

successful sales rally.

Featured speakers were Eugene
Barh. Mapel, vice president of
rington Associates, who gave tlie
six fundamentals for master salesmanship, and Jim Watson, president of James W^atson Associates,
who delighted the audience in a
theatrical presentation of do’s

and

don’ts in retail selling.

Watson, for almost an hour and
squirmed, mimicked, pantomimed, shouted and whispered
through the roles of customer and

a half,

mel

executive,
introduced
the speakers.
Prior to the rally, a dinner was
held in the college dining hall for
guests who included members of
the Bei"wick, Benton, Bloomsburg
textile

and Danville Kiwanis Clubs. John
lloch, dean of instmction,
introduced Fred Diehl, Reg. S. Hemingway, mombers of
tlie
college
I)oard of trustees;
I'rank
Croop,
former member; Dr. Paul Moser,
Robert .Newman,
Edgar Baker,
Ted Glenn, officers of the Kiwanis

West

Simmons,

W'illiam

clubs;

Hazleton, Kiwanis Lt.
Governor,
and Keith C. Schuyler, secretary
of the Iferwick chamber of commerce.

Watson cited the importance of first impressions, emphaHe
sizing personal appearance.
deplored the sales person who is
careless from a hygenic standpoint,
pointing out that the
“Customer
gets the best
e\ en a dog isn’t
expected to smell anymore.” His
training,

.

.

.

gnm chewing

sales

personnel drew a round of
plause from the audience.

ap-

castigation of

He urged the use of
“crowning glory of a smile”

the

and

ad\ ised that not the manager nor
stockholder but the “customer is
boss.” Watson admonished against
prejudging a customer but give
him a warm greeting and “don’t
kill

with (piestions. Give him some-

and

declared that every
salesman should have some “ham” in
him and that the only difference

thing to play with.”
Add to the
customer’s preference and use your
imagination.
“Love your custom-

personnel and chambers of commerce of a wide area were represented at the rally.

between the legitimate theatre and

er, and if you can’t, act as though
yon do.” A warm approach and
the customer will open up with his

Watson said that “nobody really
knows what retail selling is all
about and cited that over 59,000
books had been written on the

pocket book.”
your jiroduct.

clerk,

the “retail theatre”

is

that in

the

former ’’You pay before the show”
while in the latter, if the show’s no
good, “no pay.”
.Mapel, with the illustration of a

Hannel board, cited attributes
of
preparedness,
the good salesman;
presentation of product to show
the benefits to the buyer, stimulation of desire, tell the facts elii^iinate retarding factory that influence
the buyer and “ring up sales.” In
presentation, tlie key
words
spelled out the word “Master” in
his

keeping witli

liis

message.

The auditorium

was

filled

to

capacity for the e\ ent which marks
one of tire highlights of the college’s observance of
its
busmess
education department’s silver anniversary.
Dr. Harvey
Andruss,
president
of
tlie
college,
and

founder of the department thaf
has given tlie local institution high
educational regard in the east, extended welcome to the record assemblage.
He stated that it was
fitting that the
college
present
such a program as a “community
service to the business people of
the area.”

Dr.

Thomas

of the business

B. Martin, director

department, credit-

ed Charles Henrie, member of the
faculty, with the success
of
the
June, 1955

Members

of the service

merchandising

clubs,

associations

”

subject.

He

declared that tliere

is

no such thing as a “non-sellmg”
employe, that the elevator operathe

tor,

stock
sales

boy

interviewer,

creilit
all

had direct or indirect

He

influences.

criticized

the

the

especially

manner

in

which

most of us answer phones.
“Nothing happens till a sale is
made,” Watson said, adding “You
can be proud that America is the
sellingest nation in the world toSpeaking from more than
day.”
thirty years’ experience
sales
in

IHE

CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

Orangeville R.

D

Propr.
Penna.

’15,

2,

Have knowledge
“It’s

of
better to admit

yon don’t know than lie about it.”
Watson urged that the salesman
makes some store official’s life
ihiserable by asking questions so
you can “stop being stupid
stop
murdering the American sale.” Hit
as being missed because of sheer
laziness were “suggested” sales.
In the earlier talk by Mapel, he
credited the salesman with making
.

.

economy tick.”
He
was an element of
“fear” between the buyer and the
salesman but that there was “no
psychology, no trick, no magic, no
the “national

said

there

gimmicks, no cheating to make a
master salesman” as compared to
an inept salesman.
Going on to list his six fundamentals, he said all marketing programs are based on “pride, profit
and convenience,” and that there

were three ways to stimulate de;
sire on the part of the buyer, “demonstrate
demonstrate
de.

.

.

.

,

.

monstrate.”
.Mapel urged “looking behind
objections” to selling and find the
solutions for the three sales retardents: price, prejudice and procras“A salesman,” he declartination.
ed, “is always in a foreign country and has to speak the other fellow’s language.”

COLLEGE FOURTH
IN ENROLLMENT

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI

the

GIVE

struction.

Enrollment figures released by
the Rureau ot Ueacher Education

Columbia county alumni of the
Teachers College announced at

progress

and

their meeting at the Elks that tliey
have raised $351 thus far in a drive

It

Certification, Harrisburg, as of

ebruary 15, snow tne total adjusted enrollment of the Teachers Col-

fi

leges give

Rloomsburg tbe fourth

piace in rank witli an enrollment of
6z7, with tlie Rloomsburg enrollment exceeded only by W est Chester 1744, Indiana ib55, and MiliersUtner Teacners Collegville bob.
comparable enrollments
es with
Kutzare East Stroudsburg
town 7yU and Slippery Rock VbC).

Blooms burg has the largest business educauon enroliiuent among
State leacners Colleges with iiSo
and
students, Indiana having
Sinppensburg only 191.

The total enrollment in the four11,492
teen Teachers Colleges is
persons, ot which ll,z,oO are tullnumber
this
time students. Ut
more than naif are men, Bloomsburg has the hignest ratio ot men
to women ot any ot tlie State Teachers i^oiieges, with approximately

5UU men and slightly
300 women.

While additional

more

than

dining

room

at
being provided
are
Blooms burg, additional dormitory
facilities will also have to be provided if the enrollment increases
more than ten per cent above the

present figure. In view of the increased demand tor teachers, a
men's dormitory to accommodate
200 students, and an autditorium to
accomodate 1,000 or more, are necessary if enrollment increases are
Present applicants for
expected.
the Freshman class entering in September, 1955, indicate that twofreshmen
of
thirds of the quota
which can be admitted have
jnade application before the Easter
vacation.

Undoubtedly, some worthy students wil lhave to be denied admisSeptember, 1955, at the
sion in
ColBloomsI)urg State Teachers

SCHOLARSHIPS

provide scholarships for the inwith much more to come
in.
It was decided to give $350 in
scholarships during tne 1955-56
to

term.

Don Rabb,
moving

Benton,

spirit in the

who was a
graduates of

active,
the area becoming more
was renamed president. Other officers reelected were Miss Lois Law-

Edward

son, vice president;

secretary

rets,

and Paul

SharMartin,

treasurer.

The program, arranged by Max
Arcus, was a most enjoyable one
and attended by around seventy.

Dinner music

was

by

William

Strang, at the Hammond organ. A
delightful feature was provided by
the talented Magee Entertainers,

John Morris, Jack Eble, John Lyle,
Joe Dunkelberger, Harold Albertson and Jack Peifer. One of the
bouquets of flowers was sent to

Hemingway, president
the board of trustees, who was
in the Bloomsburg Hospital.
S.

number

enrollment next

He

to

name

to

work with other

a committee of the branch
authorities in
any way possible for the advance,ment of the institution.
Fred W. Diehl, superintendent
of the schools of Montour county
and a member of the College board
of trustees for more than a score
of years and the present president
told of the organization in Montour
county where there are one hundred fifty graduates and where annual branch dinners generally at-

Columbia
county has a potential membership
of 1,200 and those present will seek
to build up the annual dinner.
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, head of
the College committee on scholarship, said that there will be $2,400
in scholarship awards this year but
tract ninety or

of

Rutli

(Mrs. Albert W. Smeal)
Danville, Pa.
G

is

Dugan
R. D. 4,

more.

much more money

that

While the

is

total available

of applications for

—

will like

>

i

invocation

and Charles H. Henrie led
group singing.

in the
,

SUPERINTENDENT COLLEGE
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
The appointment

feels sure that the graduates

i

needed.
grow-

cants.

Dr. Kuster gave the

i

is

ill

of

J.

B.

Knoej

superintendent
the
of grounds and buildings at
Teachers College, effective June 1,
has been announced by tlie board

bel,

Elysburg,

as

i

(

i

I

of trustees.
|

At present employed in a supervisory capacity by the S. H. Evert
Co., Inc., Knoebel holds a Degree

MOYER

BROS.

PREScnirxiON driiggists
SINCE

I86.S

William V. Moyer, '07. Prp<;idciil
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

;

i

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of Bachelor of Science in Architec-

Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He has had
experience as a lumber dealer, concontractor, sales engineer, and
struction engineer for the United
tural

New

1939
addre.ss

body, told of the
the
graduate

made by

body and of the great tasks ahead.
was decided during the meeting

Navy

in Virginia,

Philippine
York City area.

Islands,

Tlie

Nelson, active head

of the general

States

lege.

con-

ing it is still not large enough to
take care of all tire wortliy appli-

fall.

and townspeople generally

now under

of

John A. Hoch, dean of instruction, spoke briefly of the coming
events at the College and noted
that never before in the history of
the institution has there been such
a large

entrance

Dr. E. H.

stitution

Reg.

facilities

$350

new

Hawaiian
and

Islands

Mr. Knoebel succeeds Edward
D. Sharretts, who has accepted a
position with the S. H. Evert Co.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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HELPING HAND
PLAYS A PART
“E\ ery person who has achieved
any degree of success in life has
someliad a helping hand from
one,” (.leclared George Derk, Montandon, a member of the 1955
graduating class at the State TeachDerk, elected by his
ers College.
annual
classmates to deliver the
1\\ Day oration, went on to add:
"W’e cannot possibly get along
ill
life without some dependence
Therefore,
upon other people.
the

of

abilitx

along with

li\ing

people

is

and getting
one of the

greatest single factors in success.”

The l\y Day

I

w'ere

held

one of
Bloomsat
Waller
the

exercises,

the oldest traditions

Imrg,

in

Court immediately following the
Honor Assembly. Arnold Garinger,
Har\ey’s Lake, president of
the
class, presided during
the
ceremony. Garinger also planted the
l\y, and presented the spade
to
W'illiam bitner, Harrisburg, president of the class of 1956.

During the program, June Lukac,
Freeland, presented a piano solo.
The class sang “Halls of Ivy” and
the Alma Mater.
Nelson Miller
was the director of the group singing.
Co-chairmen of the Ivy Day
committee were Joanne
McCormick, Sunbnry, and George
Deek, Montandon.
Mrs. Olive P.

exercises

beeman

is

the faculty advisor to

the class of 1955.

Mr. Derk’s l\y Oration follows:
Tradition brings us here today to
ol)ser\e a ceremony that has become as much a part of Bloomsburg as the Carver Hall Tower—
the planting of the ivy. This ceremony indicates the beginning of
new life.
plant ivy that it may
symbolize by
growth and
its
spreading upward, our own growtli
and dispersion into the world that
awaits us upon graduation. As the
ivy draws nurture from the soil
in which it is rooted, so are we and
all people feeding on the cultural

We

which we grow and
think.
Thus, within a few days,
we too, will start a new life and our
prayers go to God that it might be
a life filled with service and a life
blessed with world peace.
enx ironment in

June, 1955

we
new

•\s

this

stand on the threshold of
life, let us think of
the

people and incidents that
have
lielped us attain our present standing.
E\ ery person who has achieved any degree of success or position in life has had a helping hand
from someone. We cannot possibly
get along in life without some depeiulence upon other people. There-

Most of us will agree
the educational
values;
that is,
book learning, here for us to receive is ecpial to any university or
college in the country. The amount
Bloomsburg.

book learning you received
Bloomsburg depended largely
upon you. But, will you also agree
that the education for living
you
of that
at

received here

\ recent article by Dr. William
G. Meuninger, one of the nation’s

is as important
to
your classroom learning.
Bloomsburg’s emphasis on the living phase of education shows foresight and initiative on the part of
our faculty and administration.

most respected psychiatrists,

Through these

and

fore, the ability of living

ting along with people

is

get-

the great-

est single factor in success.

states

between success
depends on knowing

that the difference

and

failure

how

to get

along with other people.

About 80 per cent

We

will all

as

experiences

we

learn that living together is also an
important part of the educative
process.

who

of those

.\s

we

look at the world today

beto get

we

whom

fear of the power of the Atomic
and Hydrogen bombs. We live in
constant dread of international

lose their jobs are dismissed

cause they don’t know how
along with the people for
or with whom they work.

you

be a success— some of

reach a higher degree of
success than others.
But,
the
degree of success we attain will
be dependent largely upon
our
willingness to help others.
In order to get along with your
lellowmen you must, first, be willing to gi\ c more than you receive
—and enjoy doing it. You must
eliminate that “what’s in it for me”
attitude.
Second, we must try to
understand the other fellow— try to
see his point of view and not be
blinded by our own selfish whims.
Third, we must be willing to give
recognition to others for their achievements.
And fourth, we must
be flexible.
must be willing
us will

We

change our habits and attitudes
to fit any situation.
As teachers we have a tremento

dous opportunity to aid others in
achiexing this basic principle of
success— the ability to get along
with others and do it well. We will
be working with young people who
are at the stage of life when they
must learn to make important decisions. Here is our chance to help
young people to make an excellent

toward a better position in
the world by teaching this
basic
factor through our love and guid-

what some

people might
term as mass confusion. We live in
see

communism, but the conclusions
drawn from these or any situations
depend largely upon one’s inteqjretation of those problems.
Anyone

who

takes a fair appraisal of

the

world an specifically the American situation today can easily see
that good far outweighs the bad.
For instance, the recent develop-

ment

of polio vaccine by Dr. Salk
a great stride toward
national
and international health. Our nation has just completed the most

is

prosperous and successful business
quarter year in our history.
The
experts who formally predicted
“depression for the United States
by March 1955” have changed their
song to “the most prosperous business year in all our history.” Al-

though the communist threat to
world peace seems to be increaspersonally believe that, withitself, the
communist
movement is largely under coning,

I

America

in

trol.
I

do not intend

to give

you au

entirely optimistic viewpoint.

are

still

peace but

far

we

from

We

international

are taking

some

defi-

start

nite strides in that direction.

ance.

What does all this have to do
with your future? Whetlier you
plan to teach or enter some otlier
profession, you will contact many
new faces along the way. You will

Look

at yourself

four years

and your

experience

here

past
at

7

BUSINESS EDUCATION CLUB
OBSERVES 25TH YEAR

RESOLUTION

The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Business Education Club
of
BSTC was observed at a dinner at
the Moose Home which was
at-

Board of Trustees
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

tended by one hundred members

WHEREAS,

the recent retirement of Dr. Francis B. Haas, at
the end of a second term of sixteen years as State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, which was preceded by his being President
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College from 1927 to 1939,
ended one of the longest terms of service in the Department of

and

Public Instruction, dating from 1920 to 1955, and

WHEREAS,

guests.

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, college
president and organizer of the
Business
Education Department
and the Business Education Club,
cut the anniversary cake and also
extended greetings. Others who
spoke briefly were Dr. Thomas B.
Martin, Director of Business Education and William C. Forney, supervisor of student teaching.

Bloomsburg served to lay the
foundation and set the pattern for the institution which only
shortly before had been designated as the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, the Board of Trustees, representing the student-body, alumni, faculty, and friends of the College, wish to
his administration at

this Resolution their appreciation for the professional
contributions made by Dr. Francis B. Haas to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the field of Public Education, and
more particularly with regard to the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.

record

Karol Rupple, Shillington, was
Curtis R.
master of ceremonies.
English, retiring president, offered
the invocation and Donald Carey,
Bloomsburg, gave a toast to senEdward Garhamiors of the club.
mer of the National Cash Register
Company was guest speaker.

RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be sent to DocHaas, the Alumni Quarterly, Maroon and Gold (College
newspaper), and that
It is

tor

The club

BE

FURTHER RESOLVED

have this Resolution spread
upon its Minutes so that a permanent record may be preserved
by the College which was served so efficiently and humanely
by Dr. Francis Buchman Haas, one of the great Pennsylvania
Educators of our time.
IT

to

people

themselves

and

other people around them.

This,

to

understand

eventually, will lead to a better,

“This

more congenial

community

and

world. The ability to get along
with others and to do it well is so
important to our future and to the
futures of your people we will soon
be instructing that, until we get to
the heart of this fact, we can never
hope for a better world.

As teachers we must not be promoters of education merely for our
own community betterment; we
must direct our educational endeavors toward the goal of international betterment.
World peace will
never become a reality until we
have individual
understanding,
for us can never achieve interna-

we
understanding
until
understand ourselves. We must
guide young people so that they
might understand others.
tional

8

We

should not strive or even
hope for a perfect world, but we
can take definite steps toward a

The

children you
instructing
during the rest of your life are the
Your influleaders of tomorrow.
ence on them will be carried
through every endeavor of their
life.
They are the clay— you are
the potter.
Upon you rests the
better world.

will

be guiding

and

mold
young

responsibility to

respectable

them
citizens

into
in

whom you will not be afraid to
place your trust and your children’s
future.
With the help and guid-

Is

of

the club’s

NOTARY prnLir
252 West Fifth Street

Bloomsburg

131

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'

Your

Life.”

officers installed

by Walter
i

torian.

Robert Abraczinskas, Catawissa,
was general chairmen; Muriel Neilson and Pasquale Giangiullo, program chairmen; Bernadine Butz,
song leader; Robert Brush, tickets;
Nancy Hyde, programs; Shirley
KashAndre, decorations; James
Rosalyn Verona, inBeniadine Butz, invita-

ner, publicity;
stallation;
tions.

1945
Flora

WESLEY KNORR,

i

'

activities

Rygiel, club sponsor, are Elmer
Constance
Robinson, president;
Ozalas, vice president; Mary Jane
Miriam Miller,
Miller, secretary;
treasurer; Rosemarie Coulter, his-

ance of God, we hope and pray
niay reach this goal.

J.

i

Marion Durgave an interesting

S.

to help

j

|

during the past year. It was presented in the form of a take-off of

New
have an opportunity

i

historian,

icko, Scranton,

summary

i

Guama

Crocker

reports

the arrival of a son, Albert Jr., bom
Mr. and Mrs.
January 29, 1955.
Crocker also have a son, Lee, who

three years old. They have recently bought a home in Rutledge,
Pa.
is

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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ANDRUSS
RECED ES PLAQUE
DR.

Dr.

Harvey A. Andruss,

structure of hand-finger skills.”
presi-

dent of Hlooinshurg State Teacli(>rs College and who earlier directed the destiny of its Business Edpassed on
ucation Department,
innch of the credit for that department to his co-workers and Dr.
I'rancis B. Haas, as he received a
plaque in recognition for outstanding ser\ ice.
In accepting the plaque at the
noon luncheon that concluded the
annual conference of the Eastern
Division of the Pennsylvania BusiDr.
Association.
ness Educators
Andruss remarked, “1 am deeply
grateful and most appreciative of
award.
But 1 think that
this
in gi\ ing this award you are honoi

ing a lot of people.

Haas
Dr.
(former president of the local institutii)!!
and recently resigned
state superintendent of public instruction) who made the decision
and application for a business edu"You are

cation

honoring

department here.
him because he

grateful to

ed

me

oring

I

am

select-

come here. You are honthe people he helped me
to

Today

honoring Dr.
Haas, you are also honoring these
faculty members.”
Touching on problems of the in-

select.

in

including too many students for next year, and of the
business education profession. Dr.
•Andruss pointed out tliat school
stitution,

department heads in tlie state
ha\ e less time to supervise and improve instruction and
predicted
The one-teacher business education department is going tlie same
way of the one-room school house
with these jointures.”
Referring to a study which
showed that Michigan schools were
failing to add to the business vocabulary of their junior business students, Dr.
Andruss commented,
“We are no longer teaching some
things that need to be taught, x x x
We do not have enough business in
business education.
need busiJiess teachers who have had more
formal economics, business law,

We

consumer management, credits and
and applied psychology.

collections
June, 1955

cannot build, we cannot grow,
cannot continue on a super

we

Citing that bookkeeping is rapbecoming a one-year course,
he warned the educators, “You will
have proportionately less of tlie
liigh school student’s time
unless
idly

you can demonstrate certain

facts,

namely that there are values in
consumer economics.
“If you can’t make Engle’s law
ite
up with the family budget
(hen yon ilon’t have education.
“1

we

think

we

will

will eventually

grow.

lor teacher training.
\()iir

problems

I

have

think

twenty-

He

advised

working with people, encouraging
jieople to talk about
themselves,
learn to agree with the other fel-

and smiling.

Miss Joan Bucher, daughter of
and Mrs. Edward Bucher, of
Bloomsburg, was united in marriage to Richard B. Keyser, son of
-\Ir.
and Mrs. Leslie Keyster, of
Bloomsburg, in a ceremony at five
o’clock March 7 in the Methodist
Ghurch, of Winchester, Va.
.Mr.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Aliller

nearly

$1000

Thomas O’Toole,

Garbon; Rose Soulter,
Groydon;
Arlene Rando, Shamokiii; Kenneth
Miller, Plymouth; Gharles Abenmolia, Forty Fort; Roberta Bowen,

Presentation of the award was
E. Foose, president of the PBEA division. The
session opened in the morning with
sectional meetings and a general
session in Carser Auditorium preceding the luncheon. The general
session speaker was Les Giblin, originator of the Les
Giblin Sales
C.’linic, who pointed out the needs

low,

totalling

Scranton;

in the next

relations.

Awards

were presented to students at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Gollege in a weekly assembly program
ill
Garver Auditorium. Twentythree men and women were awarded scholarships and grants from
the Gommunity book store fund by
President Harvey A. Andruss and
of
Dr. Kimber Kuster, chairman
the faculty committee on scholarships and grants.
Grants were made to Jacqueline
Albert, Lebanon;
Robert
Boyle,

Those are

made by Morgan

human

GIVEN TO STUDENTS

five years

five years.”

of

$U)()0

Lewis.

Port

George Ghaump, West Pittston;
Athens; .Marian Walsh, Archbald;

Mary Joan Koch, Hazleton;

Ray

Hargreaves, Scranton; Teresa Julio,
Scranton; Edward Watts, Jenkintown; Nancy Homsher, Philadelphia; Garol Hetherington,
Selinsgrove; Mary Galatha, Hazle Township; Irene Zielinski, Duryea; Eug-

Onacko, Hanover Township
and James Brunn, Nanticoke.
The Lutheran Student Association Scholarship was presented to
John Sandler, Sunbury, and Leonard Kapochus, Larksville, received
an award presented by the Day
Men’s Association. Joan Yohn,
Selinsgrove, was the recipient of
an award made by an anonymous
j;ne

friend.

In addition

to

Dr.

Kuster,

tlie

committee includes John
Hoch, dean of instruction; Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, dean of women;
Miss Mary Macdonald, assistant
dean of women; Jack Yohe, dean
of men.
faculty

After spending several days in
Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. Keyser are
now residing at their new apartment at 111 East Fifth street, town.

Both graduated
burg High School.

from

Blooms-

Mrs. Keyser is
employed in the offices of the Magee Garpet Go. Her husband, a
veteran of two and one-half years
in the U.S. Navy, received his degree from B.S.T.G. and is now employed as an assistant to the paymaster of the Magee Garpet Go.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

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9

NEW MEMBERS OF
THE FACULTY
Dr. John j. Serff, of State College, has been appointed professor

Bloomsburg
state leacners College, it was announced by Fresident Harvey A.
ot social studies

at

Andruss.

His appointment is the second
faculty addition to tbe institution
in recent weeKs. Walter R. Blair,
head tootball coach at Cliainbersburg liigxi school, had earher been
announced as assistant tootball

coach and assistant dean ot men.
He will noid tne rauK ot assistant
professor ot science.

Dr. Sertt comes to

Bloomsburg

after twenty-seven years ot teach-

ing in tne public scnools ot btate
College,

wnere he

is

currently ser-

ving as head ot the social studies
depcutmeut. tie is a graduate ot
tne bnippeusburg btate
leacners
College ciud iias oeen awarded the
degree ot Master ot Education and

Eoctor ot Fimosopny by tne rennsyivania State University. In addition to his public school service, he
has taugiK intermittently at Fenn
State and tne uaiitornia State Teachers Uollege.
Along with his teaching duties
and graduate work, the new faculty member has served on tne state
committee tor the revision ot the
social studies curriculum, and has
collaborated in writing a textbook

“American Covernment tor Fennand
a
workbook
“Learning for Living.” Dr. Sertf’s

sylvanians"

protessioual

membersnip

attihadons
include
Fennsylvania

in tne

State Education Association,

tiie

National Education
Association,
the Fennsylvania Council tor the
Social Studies, the National Council for the Social Studies and the
Fennsylvania Historical Association.
Dr. Serff is married and has
two children. He will begin his
duties at Bloomsburg during tlie

summer
Mr.

session.

Blair,

who

will begin

duties during the latter

his

part of
August, is a native of Philadelphia
where he excelled in high school
athletics. After graduation, he attended Temple University for several months before entering and
10

serving in the Armed Forces for
three years during World War II.
In the fall of 1946 Mr. Blair entered West Chester State Teachers
College.
He won varsity letters
in wrestling, baseball

and

football,

was in gridiron competition
he enjoyed an enviable and
unusual career, playing in both
line and backfield. Mr. Bair’s performance and versatility drew the
attention of Jack Yohe, who was
then serving as backfield coach at
but

it

that

West Chester.
Mr. Blair received the Bachelor
of Science degree in January, 1950,
and started his teaching and coaching career
at
Neshaminy high
school in Langhorne. Two years

he became head football and
baseball coach at Jenkintown high
school.
In the fall of 1954, Blair
joined the faculty of tlie Chambersburg Area high school as head
football coach and director of physical education.
later,

Along

teaching
and
coaching duties, the new faculty
member has been pursuing gradUniversity.
uate work at Temple
Mr. Blair with his wife and two
children will reside in an apartment in the men’s dormitory.
witli

his

COLLEGE HOST
TO STUDENTS
Bloomsburg State Teachers College played host to over ibO high
school seniors from central and
Eastern Fennsylvania secondary
schools on April 25 in tlie largest
“High School Visitation Day’ yet
conaucted at the local college. The
event was sponsored by the r'uture
Teachers ot America.
In the

mornmg,

the guests at-

tended a program in Carver Hall
auditorium where they were extended welcome by the president. Dr.
A group of
Flarvey A. Andruss.
freshmen presented a panel discnssion on various phases of college
life.
Kenneth Weir, Hatboro, a
sophomore, was moderator.
Following luncheon in the college dining room, a program of en-

RANK OF CAPTAIN
Buddy M. Hartman was
ly

promoted

to the

in the Air Reserve.
ficer

of

recent-

rank of Captain

He

is

an

of-

9548th Air Reserve

die

Squadron, Bloomsburg.
Capt. Hartman is a native of
Columbia County and a graduate
of Benton High School where he
stared in baseball and soccer. He

continued his studies at Bloomsburg State Teachers College where
he earned his degree in secondary
education and has further pursued
his education at Pennsylvania State
University.

He

is

now

serving

and coach at Scott
Township High School. Since assuming his coaching studies Capt.
Hartman has had four county and
district four championship soccer
teams in as many years.
These
as

teacher

teams have compiled a record of
diirty-seven wins, two ties and one
In basketball, Capt. Harthas had two county and two
district four championship teams.
defeat.

man

Capt. Hartman was commissioned upon graduation from Cadet
Pilot Training School.
He later
served as a B-24 Pilot in the European Theater. He is the holder of
the Distinguished Flying Cross,
the Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf
Clusters, the European Theater
Ribbon with four Battle Stars, and
a
Special
Commendation from
Gen. Twinning. He has been acti\e in the 9548th Air Reserve
S(|uadron since 1949 and has held
several duty assignments in the
unit.

He

is

presently assigned with

the Flight Operations flight train-

ing at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. He is active in numerous
civic and charitable organizations.
Capt. Harbnan is married to the
former Shirley Hetter of Espy and
they are the parents of two children.

ies.

Sight-seeing tours of the cam-

pus were conducted by
mittees.

The

ETA

visitors also

com-

enjoyed

was presented in the auditorium with Arnold Gearinger, Har-

the baseball game between Lock
the Huskies. A number
took the opportunity to take entrance examinations while on the

veys Lake, as master of ceremon-

campus.

tertainment, including

a

variety

sliow,

Haven and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FASHION SHOW ON
ENJOYED BY MANY
Periwinkle blue and

two new colors

the

MOON
avocado—
and

for spring

the
1955-highlighted
summer
many delightful fashions presented

BSTC Friday, May 6,
ninth annual fashion show,
at Carver Hall auditorium.
by coeds of

in their

Capacity crowds attended botli
the afternoon and evening presentations of “Fashions Out of This
World.” The unusual and effective
the
setting was a space port on
moon which was designed by DanBeeman
iel Kressler, Olive Payne
and Donald Herberholz. The show
opened with a realistic rocket trip

moon.

to die

Joan Christie, Shenandoah, was
charming fashion coordinator
who narrated the show. Barbara
Tuckwood, Springfield, presented

Roadside, Joan
Rieder,
Mary
Grace, Barbara Creamer, Marta
Dimon, Bette Gibson, Carol Ely
and Mary Heatley.
The store coordinators were Bertie Kuause, Marion Duricko, Irene
Zielinski, Jean
Naughton, Mary
Hoffecker, Mary Cuber, Sally Stallone, Janet Plummer, Mary Faith
Fawcett, Joanne Hester, Delores
Stanton, Mary Jane Miller of Williamsport was organist for
the
show.
The local stores which cooperated with Charles H. Henrie, faculty
ad\ iser, and his staff were VV’. T.

Grant Co., J. C. Penney Co., The
Dixie Shop, Arcus’, Ruth
Corset
and Lingerie Shop, Deisrotli’s,
Snyder’s Millinery
and Logan’s
Jewelry Store.

the

the millinery styles,

juditli

Ulmer,

Williamsport, was chairman of the
store coordinators.
An outstanding feature was the
presentation of children’s fashions
by a group of pupils from Benjamin Franklin Training School.
They were Melissa Frey, Debbie
Welliver, Douglas Hock, Jan Wil-

Tony Frazier, Jimmy Abbott,
Willard Archbald, Barbara Katerman, Jane Hartman, Stephen Tinsley, Anne Baker, Jeanne Faux and
son,

Kathy and Kay Hummel.
Billowing skirts supported by
crispy petticoats in horsehair, nylon
and starched cotton were seen in
fashions for every hour of the day
and night.
The princess style was seen in
several junior
cottons— one outstanding style
light

in

monochromatic

shades
ranging from
lavender to deep bluish pur-

stripes

in

ple.

The long

was evident
even in fashions for the very young
miss.
Nylons, nylon mixtures and
polished cottons were often used.
Included in the show were styles in
torso look

bathing suits, sports clothafternoon dresses, hats and

lingerie,
es,

frothy formals.

The models included Grace Misted,

Relda Rohrbach, Janet

Ter-

ence, Doris Krzywicki, Judith Stephens, Barbara
Bennett,
Barbara
June, 1955

Earl S. Fetterolf, Bloomsburg, a
student at BSTC, was recently promoted to the rank of Captain in
the Air Reserve.
He is an officer
of the y548th Air Reserve Squadron,

Bloomsburg.

Capt. Fetterolf

a native
of
a graduate of
the Germantown High School. At
the present time he is pursuing a
course of studies in business administration and is a member
of
the senior class at
the Teachers
College.
Capt. Fetterolf has had
Pliiladelphia

and

is

is

SEVENTEEN STUDENTS AT
SPEECH, HEARING MEETING
Seventeen students of tlie TeachCollege attended a speech and
hearing conference held at tlie
Pennsylvania
State
University.
More tlian a hundred graduate and
undergraduate students attended,
ers

representing California and Indiana State 't eachers Colleges, Bucknell University, Mt. Mercy College
and the University of Pittsburgn.
According to Miss Clara B. Weir,
director ot the speech and hearing
clinic of Bloomsburg, the students

were much impressed by
strations using tne

demon-

psychogalvano-

meter tor testing the tlnesliold of
tiearing, the

pneumograph, the de-

layed teed back, the sound spectograph, the nasalometer and other
equipment used in rehabilitating
people with speech and hearing
ditticulties.

The group witnessed

a

number

of demonstrations of

speech therapy and heard Dr. Robert T. Oliver, chainnan of the department of
speech,
discuss “Communication;
Our Common Problem.” Dr. Oliver pointed out that teachers in the
field seek to promote better communication both with those who
are fluent and with those who are
speech handicapped.

the unusual distinction of having
been on the dean’s honor roll every

semester of his college career. He
received his commission as a second lieutenant upon graduation

from Cadet Bombardiering School.
Following his graduation he was
inretained at the school as an
structor.
At that time he had
Chinese students who were taught
the U. S. methods and techniques
of bombing used in World War II.
Capt. Fetterolf was relieved from
active duty after the cessation of
but
hostilities in World War II,
ecalled into active service during
the Korean conflict when he was
among the first of the U. S. troops
North African
to arrive at the

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He served as officer in
bases.
charge of shipping and receiving
Base, in
at Nouasseur Air Force
French Morocco. Capt. Fetterolf
is married to the former Jean Hassel of

Mahanoy

City.
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BUSINESS EDUCATORS

300

AT COLLEGE
More than 300

business educat-

WINS PRIZE

SECONDARY PRINCIPALS

Ruth Hutton Ancker, a native of
Bloomsburg, has received first

MEET AT

ors attended the annual conference
Division of the
of the Eastern

prize for portraiture in the fiftyfourth Annual National Exhibition

Business Education
ColAssociation at the Teachers
lege, Saturday, April 30. Members
of the Association and guests turned their attention to the theme,
“The Next Twenty-five Years of
PennsylBusiness Education in
vania.” During the noon luncheon
Dr.
in the College dining room.
Harvey A. Andruss, President of
the College, was given an award
for outstanding service in business
education.

of

Pennsylvania

panel discussions began
Navy Hall. Serving
the panels
as co-ordinators
for
were Cortez Fisk, State Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg; Albert L. Gray, Jr., head of

The

six

tion,

Wilkes-Barre.

Serving as leaders on the various
panels were Robert Lewis, Kindt
Chevrolet Company, Danville; Elizabeth Schwalm, business instructor, Lower Merion
High School;
Mary Stella, business education inUnistructor, Pennsylvania State
versity; F. Howard Strouse, superPhilvisor of business education,
adelphia; J. Wesley Knorr, public

Magee

Carpet
William
educaSeldon, chief of business

relations director,

Company,
tion,

Bloomsburg;

Department of Public Instruc-

tion.

served as members of the panels.
Teh group included Earl E. Davis,
Espy; Cylde Klinger, Harrisburg;
Peggy Sahlaney, Bellefonte; Robert Lambert, Berwick; Joanne R.

Mary EE. Bowersox, Middleburg; Elizabeth M.
Davenport, Kingston; Lawrence H.

Cuff, Doylestown;

Klotz, Allentown; Patricia
12

Houtz,

Haven, Conn., Paint

work, titled

“Man

Mrs.
of

Ancker’s

God,”

is

a

life-

head of Rt. Rev. Benjamin M. Washburn, Episcopal Bishop of Newark, N. J. It was executed in clay in 1953, and cast in
plaster. The jury that awarded first
prize to “Man of God” was
composed of Henry Kreis, Richard
Crandall,
Rathbone,
Bradshaw
Clarence Brodeur and Madeleine
Sharrer.
The exhibit was held
in the New Haven Free Public Libsize portrait

The

Pennsylvania Branch of
School Principals of
Northeastern Pennsylvania held a
spring conference at the Teachers
College on April 1 and 2.

Secondard

This was the first time tire conference has been held at this time
Generally it has been in
of year.
early summer. The area served by
region
the association includes a
bordered by Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Pottsville

and Bloomsburg.

Herbert F. Cobley, associate superintendent of tire local schools,
was chairman and Dr. Ernest H.
Engeliiardt, Teachers College, was
coordinator.

rary.

Mrs. Ancker
the late Mr.

is

the daughter of

and Mrs. William Hut-

ton and a sister of Robert Hutton,
teacher in the Bloomsburg High
School.
After a career as a fashion artist,

New York City and Paris,
France,
she
sculpture
studied
under the celebrated Oronzio Maldarelli in New York. She has herself taught art at Cooper Union,
New York, the University of Alabama and the University of Cincinnati, O.
In recent years, her sculpture
has been in exhibitions in
eight
eastern cities, and has won awards
in the National Gallery, Washington, D. C., as well as in the twentythird annual New
Jersey Artists
Exhibition.
Since 1952, Mrs. AncBerkeley
resided
in
ker has
Heights, N. J.
She is the wife of
VV. Mason Ancker, New York adin

Sunbury; Evelyn R. Kulp, Ambler;
Robert Saylor, Bloomsburg; John J.

Kushma, Clifton Heights; Norman
Maza, Harford; Frank M. Tay-

J.

Berwick.

Leo

Giblin, originator of the nationally-known Sales Clinic, addressed the general session in Carver Auditorium at 11:00 a. m.

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

BARTON,

—

The program opened with regtrom nine to 9:30 o’clock
Friday morning in the lobby of
Carver Hall. 'Ihe first general session was at 9:30 in the Carver HaU
auditorium. Welcome was extended by John A. Hoch, College dean
of instruction, and Dr. Harvey A.

istration

Andiuss, president of tlie College.
Croup meetings were in session
from iU:io to noon. Those devoting then- attention to problem 1,
“A re-examination and evaluation
of the state requirements for high
school graduation,” met in tlie socroom of Science Hall. George E.

ial

Hazleton High
was discussion leader.
Dr. Harold Martin and Dr. H. L.
Snader, State Department of Public Instruction, were consultants.
Group No. 2, convening in the
day men’s room, had as its assignment, “A critical examination of
Shano, principal,

School,

matliematics with the view of improving the contents and methods

vertising executive.

lor,

Both businessmen and educators

New

Club.

at 9:45 a.m. in

the Department of Business, Elizabethtown College; James Gemmell,
Chairman of the Department of
Business Education at Pennsylvania State University; the Reverend
Mr. Elmer Keiser, pastor, St. Paul
Episcopal
Church, Bloomsburg;
John M. Aichele, Milton Hershey
High School; Alfred B. Schimmel,
supervisor of commercial educa-

tlie

and Clay

B. S. T. C.

'96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

of

teaching.”

Bloomsburg

High

School mathematics teachers parDiscussion leader was
ticipated.
George Dzurica, mathematics instructor, Nanticoke High School,
and consultants Dr. James Nancarrow, principal Upper Darby High
School, and Claude L. Bordner,
State
mathematics department,
Teachers College.
The Saturday program opened
with breakfast at 7:45 o’clock, followed by group meetings from
nine to noon. There was luncheon
at 12:30.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

CLASS OF

Reunion

classes

had good

at-

tendance and gala occasions without exception here over the weekend upon the staging of one of
the most outstanding Alumni Day
programs in the history of tlie
Teachers College.
1895
Oldest class in reunion was that
They met in the school
of 1895.
dining hall on Friday evening and
joined in

all

the festivities on Sat-

Members back were Mrs. J. S. John,
town: Mrs. P. M. Ikeler, Danville R.
D. 2: Mrs. Martha Romberger Fickinger,
Orange. N. J.; Mrs. William Mundy,
Pittston; Mrs. Joseph Lindsay, Hazleton; Fred E. Fassett, Wyalusing.
of the members of the class of

Two

1894
joined with them, Minnie G. Hehl and
Mrs. Jonathan W. Buck, Bloomsburg.

1900

By Michael

D. Costello

As guests of the 1955
appreciate

their

class,

in

our two ses-

I'Tank

C’.

Harris, an active

mem-

ber of the .Alumni, spoke briefly on
the

importance of encouraging
of onr families to matric-

members

ulate in the college of their

Alma

thoughtfulness,

nually.

the class of 1955,

wish you success in

we
all

sincere-

your en-

deavors.

The 1900 class in reunion held
two successful meetings. Enthusiasm for tlie success of our Alma
June, 1955

1905

classmate and a friend of all, presented the citation in the award
which is given to a graduate for
pre-eminence in his or her particular field by the authorized admin'istrators of his Alma Mater.

Last but not

least,

your humble

Mater.

Clyde Confer spoke also.
Immediately after tlie banquet,
elexen members of our class had

servant, Michael D. Costello,
active in all our sessions.

their pictures taken.

the following:

The -Alumni Day, Saturday, May
few more classmates were

on hand, and how glad we were
to meet them.
At the moment I
recall Joseph H. Oliver, an outstanding student and an eminent
lawyer of Scranton, Pa.
Miles Kilhner, in the opinion of
the members in attendance at our
class reunions, was declared the
outstanding member of the class of
1900.

we

something we will remember for
the remaining years of our life, and
God grant our class the opportunity to return to our Alma Mater an-

To

Mater was evident
sions.

21st, a

urday.

ly

CLASS OF

1900

On

the stage with the honored
1905 were a few outstanding graduates of former years who
received awards for achievements
worthy of recognition.
Among
them was none other than Miles
Killmer, who as a civil engineer,
and graduate of Pennsylvania State
University, achieved greatness in
this field, and he said he owes it
all to his start in the Old Normal
on the Hill.
Rev. J. Edward Klingaman, a
class of

Particular mention

Husky

1.

Plaque

was

was made

of

was

fund

raised.
2.

-Active

membership

in

the

.Alumni.
3.

Stress

members
Among

was

laid to contact all

of our class.

those attending were Glenmore Snyder, Wilkes-Barre; J. H. Oliv’er. Scranton; Frank C. Harris, Orangeville; Lottie Burgess Maue, Hazleton;
Edna Bontz Hassler, Pittsburgh; Clyde
Confer, Watsontown R. D. 1; Michael
Costello, Shamokin; Leona Seesholtz,
Orangeville;

Adams

Mary

Yetter,

Bloomsburg: Anna Soloman; Miles Killmer, New York; the Rev. J. E. Klingaman, Winchester. Va.

1905

The members

of

the

class

of

1905, celebrating their Golden Anniversary, were guests of the Col-

lege Friday evening. May 20, in
the college dining room. After the
dinner, the class gathered in the

Alumni Room and recalled pleasant memories, told of their present
13

activities,

and

discussed

future

plans.

Saturday morning, the members
of the class were platform guests
at the Alumni Meeting. G. Edward
Elwell, Jr., spoke tor tire class and
presented a class contribution to
tne Scholarship Fund.

Barre; Claire E. Schovlin, Northumberland.
Jesse

Y. Shambach, Camp Hill; Ida
Lehighton; Anna E. Smith, Summithill; Ida Smith (Mrs. H. S. Conrey),

Sitler,

Bloomsburg; Ann Thomas
Thomas), Edwardsville;
(Mrs. Edward Campbell);
liams Hughes. Belvidere,
Winter Eroh, Hazleton.

One member

of tlie class, BeaLarrabee Albertson, received
an orchid at the tune her husband,
E. Joe Albertson, reecived a Districe

tinguished Service Award.

Social

Booms

of Science Hall

and

enjoyed a very pleasant inlormal

meeimg.
The committee on arrangements
consisted ot tne tollowmg: G. Edward Elwell, Jr., Sara Milleisen
Elwell, Vera Hemingway HousenicK, Ida Smith V>onrey, Dora Leidy h leckenstine, Edna Grouse Harrison and Grace Boberts Miller.
G. Edward Elwell, Jr., was elected

(Mrs. Lewis

Ora

White

Maude
N.

J.;

Wil-

Laura

1910

Members

of the class of 1910 asaround their banner for

sembled
the Alumni meeting

ium

f ollowing the Alumni Luncheon
in the coiiege dining room, the
members ot tne class met in the

of Carver Hall.

terolf,

a

member

Howard

of the class

Fet-

was

to receive

citations for distinguished service.

After the meeting tne class went
Magee Hotel and had a delightful reunion luncheon. Profesto the

and Miss Mary Good
were honor guests, and each spoke
briefly.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of the Alumni Association,
dropped in and circulated among
tiie

Sutliff

guests.

The committee on arrangements,

Housenick was chosen as acting

Grace Gilner Zane, Bertha Brobst,
Florence Huebner Buckalew and
Maurice Houck, were given a vote

secretary.

of thanks.

acting president, Vera

Memoers

Hemingway

of the class of 1905 present

were: Carrie Clark iMrs. Gary Myers),
Honesaale; Emma Coriright (Mrs. E.
A. Sneily), Wasningion, D. C.; Bessie
Cougniin, tony iort; Edna Crouse
(Mrs. JNeil S. Harrison), i'orks; Mary
B. Dailey, Wilkes-narre; Anna A. Ditzler (Mrs. William T. Brunoick), Woodstock, Va.; G. Edward Elwell, Bloomsburg.

Marguerite Eshleman (Mrs. Irvine C.
Sweeten), Merchantsville, N. J.; Ezra
Gruver, Lewisburg; Gertrude Hartman
(Mrs. Paul Dilaine), Orangeville; trances L. Heacock (Mrs. George Davis),
R. D. 3; Vera Hemingway (Mrs. Charles C. Housenick), Bloomsburg; Ray-

mond

Jolly, Philadelphia;

Mary

E. Kar-

kendall
(Mrs.
Pierce
Hagenbuch),
PoUsiown; Beatrice Larrabee (Mrs. E.
J. Albertson), Peekskill,
N. Y.; Dora
Leidy (Mrs. Carl Fleckensiine), Orangeville;
Margaret Howell (Mrs. Lester
Rickart).
Ethel MacAlpine (Mrs. William C.
Spargo), Dover R. D., N. J.; M. Elizabeth Mertz (Mrs. Harold V. Lesher),
Northumberland R. D. 1; Sara B. Milleisen (Mrs. G. Edward Elwell), Bloomsburg; Blanche F. Miller (Mrs. Carl
Grimes), Harrisburg; Mary A. Mitchell
(Mrs. (jharles K. Vermorel), Holly-

wood, Fla.; Charles L. Mowrer, Hagerstown, Md.; Irma G. Myers (Mrs. Chamberlin), Washington, D. C.
Paul Pooley, Danville; Howard R.
Rarig, Berwick; Myrtle M. Robbins
(Mrs. Norman Wood), Nescopeck R. D.
(Mrs. S. L. Miller),
1; Grace Roberts
Bloomsburg; Gertrude Rowe, Wilkes14

1915

in the auditor-

one of the three alumni

sor

Morris S. Evans, Rockville Center, N.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Reiser, Collingswood, N. J.; Robert Metz, Ashley;
Margaret Oliver (Mrs. Fred Walton),
Berwick; Charles N. Potter, Jersey
Shore; Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Roberts,
Clark’s Green; John Skweir, McAdoo;
Burton Shuman, Tyler Hill; Ida Smith
(Mrs. H. S. Conrey), Bloomsburg; Enola
Snyder (Mrs. Morris Evans), Rockville
Center, N. Y.; Helen Thompson, Pittston; Frank White, Bloomsburg; W. B.
Sutliff; Mary Good.

Y.;

Robert Metz was elected chairof a committee to plan the
fifty year reunion, with Mrs. Ida
Smith Conrey as secretary.
Messages about absent members
were given, and some unknown adchecked.
Twenty-eight
dresses
members of the class and eleven

man

guests were present at the lunch-

eon meeting. Every effort will be
made to have an even better and
bigger reunion in 1960.
Members and guests present: Lester
Bloomsburg; Julia Brill,
State College; Bertha Brobst, Berwick;
Blanche Brown (Mrs. Brian Tents),
Hummels Wharf; LaRue Brown, LewisBurlingame,

burg; Effie Edwards (Mrs. Charles Potter), Jersey Shore; Agnes Freas (Mrs.
Thomas Reiser), Collingswood, New
Jersey; Nora Geise, Northumberland;
Grace Gillner (Mrs. Fred Zane), Sterling:
Florence Heitsman (Mrs. John
Hughes), Kingston; Helen Hess (Mrs.
Gilbert Terhune), Newfoundland, New
Jersey; Maurice Houck, Berwick; Florence Huebner (Mrs. Raymond Buckalew), Bloomsburg: Mr. and Mrs. Warren Klopp, Stouchsburg; Mary Lowry
(Mrs. J. Y. Shambach), Clamp Hill; Emma MacFarlane, Hazleton; Georgena
McHenry (Mrs. A. J. Sharadin), Middleburg; Mr. and Mrs. J. V. D. Bergem
(Blanche Mertz), Belle Mead, New Jersey; Mr. and Mrs. I. Burton Shuman,
Honesdale; Ida M. Carter, Hazleton;

The

1915 opened its acwith a dinner at the Hotel
Magee on Friday evening at 6:30
o’clock, with John Shuman presiding. Dr. E. H. Nelson spoke to tlie
group.
Members gave reports on
class of

tiivties

their

ber

The

activities.

by Marion

written

the

of

class

song,

Miller, a

mem-

class

formerly

of

Bloomsburg and now of Denver,
Col., was sung.
Table decorations
were in the class colors of purple
and gold. Forty-one members and
friends were present.
Saturday morning saw the class
in attendance at the general AlumThe
ni meeting at the Gollege.
concluding feature was a dinner
at 12:30 P. M. at the Elks Club.
In the

named

business

meeting, officers

were
Bloomsburg,

for the 1960 reunion

H.

John

'

Shuman,

president; Catherine

Leighow

ij
{

Bit-

tenbender. Lime Ridge, vice president; Lois McCloughan Snyder,
Satawissa, secretary-treasurer. Fifty dollars was subscribed to the

\

Husky Fund.
There was an individual report
from each member and tlie class
prophecy was delivered by Elsie
Thomas Berger, Danville R. D.,
Pa., who had given it at commencement forty years earlier. The class
poem was given by its author, Eulah Boone Spiegel, Espy, Pa.
Letters were read from members

i

i

i

unable to attend. A local committee comprised of Mrs. Spiegel, secretary-treasurer;
Mrs.
Josephine
Duy Hutchison, Mrs. Snyder and
Miss
Rebecca Ikeler were in
charge.
- two
members
were in attendance

and

Seventy
friends

meeting.
list

Following

of class

is

{

at this

a complete

members whose

f

'

(

ad-

dresses have been checked as corTIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

I

I

rect to date.

T\vent>'-two are de-

ceased.
Attending: John H. Shuman, Kimber
Kuster, Bloomsburg: Eulah Boone
Spiegel, Harriet Spiegel Hock. Espy;
Angeline Marchetti Michelini, Clifton,
N. J.; Warren A. Dollman, Eyers Grove;
Sadie M. Crumb. Washington, D. C.;
Martha Baum Moore. Pottstown; Helen
Mitchell Weaver, New Holland; Frank
Bloomsburg; Katherine
S. Hutchison,
Little Bakeless, Seymour, Conn.; Dr. A.
Bruce Whitesell, Forty Fort; Joseph
Duy Hutchison, Bloomsburg; Ethel Watkins Weber. Scranton; Esther C. HelFrances Smith
Wilkes-Barre;
frich,
Lewis. Dalton; Ruth Koehler Hayes,
Scranton.
Elsie Thomas Burger, Danville R. D.
4; Shirley James Robbins, Dobbs Ferry. N. Y.: Sally Brace, Tunkhannock R.
D. 2; Etta Buss Evans, West Pittston;
Elizabeth Welsh Miller, Orangeville R.
D. 1; Joseph Cherrie, Nanticoke; Fred
Ikeler.
Rebecca
Shamokin;
Faux,
Bloomsburg; Ruth Albert Baer, Norwood; Marion Hutchins Stumpf, Wilkes-Barre; Miriam LaWall Heller, WapEllsworth,
Laura
Carey
wallopen;
Kingston; Martha Andres Holmes, Harrisburg; Adona R. Sick, Endicott, N. Y.
Edna Speary Rickert, Glennis H.
Rickert. Kane; Edith Martin Larsen,
Laurel Springs. N. J.; Ruth E. Pooley,
Bloomsburg; Lillian Zimmerman, Mifflinville; Millard Cryden, M.D., Cape
May, N. J.; Catherine Leighow Bittenbender, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Lois McMary
Catawissa;
Cloughan Snyder,
C.

Gundry

Prizer.

Drexel

Hill;

Dorothy

Rice Williams. Fannie Leggoe Wandel,
Martha Yeager Ringleben. Hazleton;
Tom E. Williams, Wilkes-Barre; Beatrice Burke Jeffrey, Scranton; Helen
Harris Aleton, Port Jervis, N. Y.; Beatrice Roth Reeves, Palmerton; Grace
Neifert Giles, Marion, 111.; Mr. and Mrs.
Ray C. Kindig.

1920

Main feature
the

thirty-five

breakfast at the

of the reunion of
year class was a

Magee on

Satur-

day morning with LeRoy W.
Creasy as master of ceremonies.
Mrs. Grace E. Gotshall Pannebaker gave the invocation. Numerous prizes were awarded by Mrs.
William V. Moyer. Officers named were Greasy, president; Mrs.
Moyer, vice president; Mrs. Anna
Da\is Barrow, secretary; Mrs. Pennebaker, treasurer.
Tables were
decorated with
spring flowers and favors were table decorations in the class colors
of red and black and carrying the
numeral “35.” They were prepared by Mrs. Moyer. A vote of thanks
was extended Mrs. Barrow and
Mrs. Moyer for their fine work.
Attending: Mrs. Wilhelmina White
June, 1955

Moyer, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Florence Beyer Lewis. Lewisburg; Mrs. Grace Gotshall Pannebaker, Mifflinville; Mrs. Ella Sweppenheiser Kennedy, Miss Eleanor Kennedy, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Mrs.
Jeanne Stroh Walsh, Bendersville; Mrs.
Katherine Gearinger Cohen, E. J. Cohen, Bloomsburg; Benjamin L. Eshleman,
Mrs. Fern T. Eshleman, Berwick; Mrs.
Laura Shaffer Peters, Berwick.
Mrs. Edna Taylor Baileys, Ben Baileys .Kingston; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Barrow, Ringtown; Margaret Ferree,
Oak Hall Station; Miriam Nolan Williams. White Plains, N. Y.; Valara Fox
Steinmayer. Forty Fort; Ruth Johnson
Garney, Lansdowne; Clara N. Santee,
Edna Santee Huntzinger
Sugarloaf;
(class of ’93). Philadelphia; Isabel Moyer Snyder. Arthur H. Snyder. Danville;
Hulh Titman Deitrick. Bloomsburg; Al-

Moss Powell, Elmer Powell, WilkesMrs. Grayce Mausteller Newhart, Bloomsburg R. D. 1; Mr. and Mrs.
LeRoy W. Creasy, Bloomsburg.
ice

Barre;

bury; Maryan Hart Miller, Berwick;
Frances Davenport Pennington, BloomsWatkins Isham, Clarks
Lily
burg;
Griffith,
Williams
Green;
Debbie
Bloomsburg; Jason S. Patterson, Easton
R. D. 1: Mrs. Helen Welliver Hayhurst.
Bloomsburg; Margaret E. Price, Ashland; Martha Lousen Goff. Shenandoah;
Ellen Andres Russell, Hunlock Creek
R. D. 1; Jessie Keen Deeter, Nanticoke;
Mrs. Helen Hayhurst, Sunbury.

1930
Largest and one of the most active classes in reunion was that of
1930.
Tlie twenty-five year class
staged a parade in the general
meeting, headed by an accordionist, and topped off the observance
It
with a luncheon at the Elks.
contributed $106.75 to the Husky

Fund.
Ghester H. Harris, wife of
Rev. G. H. Harris, Galvary
Episcopal Ghurch, Wilkes-Barre,
gave the invocation at the dinner.
She has been back every Alumni
Day except two since graduating.
the group
J. Fred Berger directed
singing with H. F. Fenstemaker of
Mrs.
the faculty, at the organ.
William C. Hawk, Lawrence, N. J.,
was the capable toastmistress.
Faculty guests
and husbands or
wives who were guests were Miss
Maude Kavanaugh, Miss Ethel Ransom,
Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Hoffman, Mr.
and Mrs. S. I. Shortess, Bloomsburg;
-Mrs.

1925

the

The class of 1925 in thirty-year
reunion had a grand turnout and
a delightful time. There were fifty-eight present at the luncheon at
C'aldwell Gonsistory and forty dollars was given to the Husky Fund.
The dining hall was beautifuly dec-

orated with flowers.

were Pearl RaMaryan Hart
secretary; Frances Daven-

Officers chosen

del Bickel, president;
Miller,

port Pennington, treasurer.
Attending the luncheon; Orpha Hutchings Perry, Towanda; Lillian Vetale
Henderson, Dallas R. D. 3; Reva Walker Buck. Stannucca: Emily Lawrence.
Wilkes-Barre; Martha Lingertot. Wilkes-Barre; Martha Roushey Miers, Plarford; Frances Ruggles Trumbower, Williamsport; Harriet Welliver, Unityville;

Marie Karns Wright, Bloomsburg; Ruth
Dyer Rudy. Danville; Helen Fairclough
Stockton, Pittston; Margaret Price Mill-

McAdoo.
Samuel A.

er,

Oliver, Ashley; Mary Levan O'Connell, Harvey Lake; Marian
Hess Carmick. Wynnewood; Margaret
Jones Bennett, Plainsville; Bronwen
Reese Boone, Pittsburgh; Margaret Fay
Welsh, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs. Arch
Turner, Nanticoke; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Y. Lewis. Pittston R. D. 1; Gretchen
Culver Miller. Richmond, Va.; Mary
Breslin Reichert, Allentown; Elsie J.
Voigt, West Pittston.

Arlie

Goodman,

Leister

Millville;

Myrtle Wharmby, Margaret Griffiths,
Plymouth; Mrs. Wilhelmina Sponenberg Lesaius. Scranton; Laura A. Davis,

Helen

Barrett Lechleitner,
Mrs. Winfred Flaherty Kraus. Kenilworth, N. J.; Mrs. Margaret Eyerly Aul, Espy; Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Zimolzak, Glen Lyon; Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore Keen. Wyoming; Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Traugh, Berwick.

Scranton;

Stillwater R. D.

1;

Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Bickel, Sun-

Dr.

Marguerite Kehr,

Washington, D.

and Mrs. Thomas P. North.
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Armond Keller, Adams, Mass.; Miss Mabel Moyer, Mrs.
Lucille J .Baker, Miss Edna J. Barnes,
Miss Lucy McCammon, Bloomsburg.
Communications were read from
these faculty members: Prof. W. B.
Sutliff,
Mrs. Kathryn Loose Sutliff,
C.;

Dr.

Miss Rachel Turner, Camp Hill; Miss
Harriet M. Moore, Phoenix, Ariz.; Mrs.
Maude Kline Steiner, Ocean City, N.
J.; Miss Bertha Rich, Tujiunga, Calif.;
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Koch, Harrisburg; Miss Alice Johnston, Albuquerque, N. M.; Miss Ethel Shaw, Weathersfield, Conn.; Miss Ermine Stanton, Athens, Ga.; Dr. and Mrs. H. Harrison Russell, Normal, 111.; Miss Jessie A. Patterson, Farmville, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. John
J.
Fisher, Harrisburg; Miss May T.
Haydn, Lewiston, Idaho; Dr. Frances
B. Haas, Harrisburg; and Prof. E. A.

Reams, Whittier, Calif.
The class, which managed to find
time for a group photo and also some
TV shots, showed motion pictures of its
commencement a quarter century earlier and took some movies of this silver anniversary reunion.
Harold H. Hidlay was in charge of
the impressive memorial service for
departed classmates. Clarence Ruch
presented the cause of the Husky Fund.
Attending; John Mergo, Ann Sklad15

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any Mergo, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs.
W. Hoffman, Bloomsburg;

Norman

Myrtle Klischer, Wilburton; Catherine
E. Payne, Shamokin; Virginia Cruikshank, Sunbury; Miriam Edwards, Williamsport:
Sally
Welliver Edwards,
Oaks; Isabel H. Miller, Catawissa R. D.
Mrs. Hazel Sanders Glancy, Phila1;
delphia: C. W. Stiner, Ramsey, N. J.;
O. C. Palsgrove, Prospect Park; Edgar
E. Richards, Norwood; Dorothy Foote
Philblad, Bemus Point, N. Y.; Lorene
Feister Whitmire, Bloomsburg R. D. 5;

Mrs. Marian Slack Knauer, Scranton;
Jane Williams Perry, Edwardsville;
Jeanette Robert Williams, Kingston.

Myra
W.

Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Luther

Bitler,

Margaret Swartz

Bitler,

Wil-

Madrue O’Connell Heppe,
Sheppton; Elfed Vid Jones, WilkesBarre; Loretta Fleming, Exeter; Kathryn Fleming Perry, Wyoming; Regina
Williams Walker, White Plains, N. Y.;
Gladys Clark Rubright, Detroit, Mich.;
Minnie Howeth Cullen, Dorothy Harris
Horn, Baltimore, Md.
liamsport;

Leona
Sterling
Brunges,
Willow
Grove; Helen E. Snyder, Sunbury; Ann
H. Morgis, Washington, D. C.; Stacia
Audelewicz Bukowski, Plymouth; Joseph Gavey Swithers, Glen Lyon; Gertrude Gavey Hutchings, Don J. Hutchings,
Dearborn, Mich.; Helen Gavey
Barbour, William C. Barbour, Silver
Springs, Md.
Harold Hidlay, Harold H. Lanterman,
Bloomsburg; Dorothy Keith Harris,
Wilkes-Barre:
Thursabert
Schuyler,
Bloomsburg: Josephine Holuba Hawk,
Lawrenceville, N. J.; Alex Kraynack,
Plymouth; Clarence Ruch, Berwick; H.
F. Fenstemaker, Espy; J. Fred Berger,
Richard D. Frymire, Bloomsburg; Cora
M. Foust, Danville; Maude Kavanaugh,
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. North, Blooms-

burg; Mary Reagan Coxe, Harrisburg;
Mary Gallagher Whalen, Shenandoah;

Gilbert Morgan, Old Forge.
Janetta
York Coleman, Peckville;
Elizabeth Myrick Jones, Peckville; Elizabeth Williams Grimes, Sharpsville;
Ethel A. Ranson, Mr. and Mrs. S. Irvine
Shortess,
Bloomsburg; Pearl Mason
Keller, Armond G. Keller, Cheshire
Harbor, Adams, Mass.; Raymond Hodges,
Richmond, Va.; Mabel Moyer,
Bloomsburg;
Dr.
Marguerite
Kehr,
Washington, D. C.; Jacqueline Farnham
Hodges, Richmond, Va.; W. Brooke

Yeager, Jane D. Yeager, Wilkes-Barre;
Dorothy Wilson Kroh, Bolivar, N. J.;
Ruth Vandermark May, Pottsville; Margaret Davis Yenchar, Vincent G. Yenchar, Kingston.

Kathryn Hause Everitt, Lewisburg R.
2; Helen Morgan Daubert, Lewisburg; Laverne A. Dieffenbach Hoyt,
D.

Shickshinny R. D. 2; Mary Frances
Morton, Rachel Bowen Hughes, Mildred
Hoover Morgan, Old Forge; J. Clyde
Foose, Augusta Schnure Foose, Pottsgrove; Jennie Reitz Mattern, West
Lawn; Myrtle Richard Kerr, Catawissa
R. D. 2; John D. Taylor, Alice James
Taylor, Elberon, N. J.; Ruth Yeager
Reinhart, Weatherly; Congetti Pecora
Kotch, West Hazleton; Mabel Gearhart
Miller, Sunbury R. D. 2; Grayce Rita
Carr, West Hazleton; Laura Shultz Magazzu, Hazleton.

1935

There were twenty-six back
twenty-year

the

class of 1935.

reunion

of

Luncheon was

for

the
en-

joyed at Fest’s with ten guests joining the class for that event and for
an afternoon of reminiscing which
followed at Science Hall. The class
contributed over thirty dollars to

Husky Fund.

the

Members

of the class attending: Thel-

ma Bredbenner

Menges,

Hannah

S.

Steinhart, Harriet Styer Coop, Bloomsburg; Anne Quigley Green, Rosebud

Golder Ungemach,

Berwick; Pearl L.

Baer, Middletown; Catherine Mensch,
Catawissa; Velma Mordan Kerstetter,
Selinsgrove; Helen Frey Markley, Palmyra, N. J.; Howard E. Fauth, Lewistown; Mr. and Mrs. William I. Reed,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Charlotte Hochberg

McKechnie, Berwick.
John S. Deppen, Trevorton; L. Irene
Frederick, Milton; E. J. McKechnie,
Berwick, Euphemia Gilmore Yeager,
John H. Yeager, Hazleton; John J. Butler, Scranton; Helen Culp Keiner, Wil-

while others accelerated and
finished in three.
Sam Mazzeo of the class of 1944
was master of ceremonies, and
guests who spoke to the group
were Dr. Nell Maupin, Howard

riod,

Fenstemaker, Dr. Marguerite Kehr,
and Dr. E. H. Nelson. Miss Joyce
Hay, ’44, and Miss Arlene Super-

Enama

Attending: Hazel

Carter and

Wyalusing; Wanda Farnswortli Langdon and Robert Langdon, Boundbrook,
N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel ’Trapani,
Easton; Lois C. Bryner, Danville; Ginger Roberts Griswold, Grady ville; Joyce
E. Hay, Easton, class of 1944.
Harriet Sterling Brendle, Middletown; Jeanne Keller Epley and C. W.
Epley, Jr., Gettysburg; Mary Lou Fenstemaker John and Harry G. John, Jr.,

Bloomsburg; Ruth Kester Novy, Shavertown; Marjorie Downing, Shickshinny; Arlene N. Superko, Auburn, N. Y.;
Carol McCloughan Hilkert and Archie
Hilkert, Danville, Betty Zehner Dietrich, Philadelphia: Lois L. Wintersteen,
Danville; Eudora Berlew Lyhne and
Borge Lyhne, Avon, Conn.; Elsie Flail
Kiell and Bob Kiell, Schuylkill Haven;
Laura Schoener Taylor, Claymont, Del.,

Others attending were Marion Wal-

and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tremato, Easton, class of 1946; Mrs. E. H. Nelson
and Mrs. Howard Fenstemaker, Blooms-

N.

J.;

J.

Kashuba, North
Richard Wagner,

Nescopeck.

Clayton H. Hinkel, Bloomsburg.

1944-1945

Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth. ’42

R

J

Webb,

’42

es

Dining Room Saturday
evening.
Because of tlie accelerated program at the college during the war, these two classes felt
closely identified witli each otlier,
College

CREASY & WELLS
Martha

Creasj’, '04. Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIA L.S
Bloomsburg 520

some students finished the
course in the regular four- year pesince

16

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1950

Registering for the class of 1940 during the day were Lora M. Snyder, Danville R. D. 3; Margaret E. McCern, Ben-

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT

j

burg.

Plainfield,

combined reunion of the classof 1944 and 1945 was held in the

‘

lace Corley, Odessa, N. Y.. class of 1943,

Kearkuff

A

,

class of 1945.

Margaret

Danville, Pa.

1

Leo Carter, Allentown; Joanne Spaid
Simington and Paul Simington, Sunbury; Marjorie Sharretts Grant and
Leon Grant, Baltimore, Md.; Nelena
Pope Swank, Danville; Betsy Smith.

Bloomsburg.

MONTOUR HOTEL

i

members.

kes-Barre; Lauretta Foust Baker, Lock
Haven; Naomi Myers, Red Lion; Unora
Mendenhall, Benton; Gerald C. Harter,
Holmes; Mildred Hollenibaugh Thompson,
Girard;
Fae Meixell Diseroad,

ton;

|

ko, president of the class of 1945,
presented clever prizes to class

Registering for the class of 1950 were
M. K. Kashuba, North Plainfield, N. J.;
Nerine Middlesworth, Trovelville; Helen Hoffman Gerringer. Danville; H.
Edward Brunn, Nanticoke; L. E. Grant,
Baltimore, Md.; Jean E. Stein, Troy;

1940

i

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THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT

Area

A. Wilkes-Barre

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St„ Tunkhannock,

’46

Donald Rabb,

PRESroENT

Benton, Pa.

Elfed Vld Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlow'ski,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

'33

Bloomsburg, Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward D.

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

Mrs. Betty Hensley

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

42 Slocum, Ave.,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

Mrs Ruth

PRESIDENT

TREASURER

Griffiths

Mrs.

Olwen Argust

New

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON ALUMNI

Miss Nellie M. Seidel. '13
1618 State St., Harrisburg. Pa

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton. Pa

VICE PRESIDENT
'07

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

Harrisburg, Pa.

147 East Chestnut St., Hazleton. Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Paul Englehart,
2921

George

St.,

PRESIDENT
Miss Genevieve G. Morgis ’34
3700 Massachusetts Ave., N. W.
Washington 16, D. C.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Mr. Joseph A. Kulich ’49
1542 N. Danville Street

Miss Pearl L. Baer, ’32
21 South Union St., Harrisburg. Pa.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa

Arlington, Virginia

TREASURER

TREASURER

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg. Pa.

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton,

David W. Foust,

PRESIDENT

R. D.

SECRETARY
615

’22

North Main Avenue
Scranton, Pa.

St.,

NEW YORK AREA

Pa

PRESIDENT
Charles I. Boyer ’96
Lewisburg, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler, ’30
Bloom St., Danville Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
(Union County)

PHILADELPHIA AREA

Mrs. Linn Danowsky ’38
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT

(Northumberland County)

Hortman Irish ’06
Washington Street, Camden, N.

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Caroline E. Petrullo
J.

’49

’18

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston ’23
693 Arch Street, Spring City, Pa.

’35

SECRETARY-TREASURER
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., RoseUe Park. N.

’TREASURER
J.

’29

Northumberland, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Miss Kathryn M. Spencer
Fairview Village, Pa.

PRESIDENT

Crumb

Street,

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

’05

Danville,

Mrs. Lillian
732

June, 1955

Church

U

S .E.
Washington 20, D. C.
Dr. M. Kehr is the Advisor of the group
1232

TREASURER

TREASURER

Michael Prokopchak,

O. Springfield, Virginia

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Margaret Lew’is ’28
1105% W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

Richard C. Stout,

P.

’35

Danville, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,

’49)

Miss Harriet Kocher
Skylark Hotel

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.
’23

Barrett, Jr.

1232 Blair Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland

Miss Sadie

312

632

2,

C.

RECORDING SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Martha Y. Jones

Pa.

PRESIDENT

William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

Edward

(Adda Mae Myers

MONTOUR COUNTY

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH

Mrs. Marion George Evans
520 Minooka Avenue
Moosic, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs.

Mrs. Lucille
127

’14

Hazleton Area

B.

VICE PRESIDENT

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

TREASURER

Miss Mary A. Meehan. '18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa

’14

Tunkhannock, Pa.

SECRETARY

Chester Wojclk

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

’19

Mehoopany_ Pa.

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

’52

Milford, Pa.

Miss Mabel Dexter,

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

'41

Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

PA

Miss Esther E. Dagnell ’34
215 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.

(Snyder County)
Robert J. Webb ’42

Shamokin Dam, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg, Pa.

’35

TREASURER
Mrs. Clarence Crow
Lewisburg, Pa.

’40

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1905

Up

their roost.

in the litde hut

republic in which

in that

several

E. Joe Albertson, a native of
Benton and a brother of Miss Atta
Albertson, town, was one of three

was kept a supply of large stones
which, in an attack, were dropped
upon their warlike neighbors, the

hundred students from every corner of the department participated

Teachers College
who were honored this year by
alumni for distinguished service.

Mohamedan Moros.

over a period of

“After spending sixteen years in
the Philippmes, diere was an inter-

chartered a special train of ten
cars to transport those who lived
near the railroad. Competition in
the various athletic events was terrific, as was also that in the literIll feeling between
ary program.

graduates of

tlie

Immediately after graduation in
1901 he went to the Philippines
where he had a major part to play
in the setting up of the educational
system there. Later he was one of
a commission sent to Peru, as that
nation’s request, to reorganize tlie
educational program of tliat nation.
He has served on government
boards and is now editor and copublisher of the Peekskill, N. Y.,

Evening

Star.

Mr. Albertson spoke mterestingly
in his response before the alumni.

Here

it is:

“1 feel

and your

thorities of

which
ever

tliis

and

to the au-

line institution, to

owe so much for
may have achieved

what-

1

1

you

deeply grateful to
associates,

in

tlie

Jialf-century that has passed since
left here as a graduate.
I feel
grateful to this institution because
it was instrumental in no small way
in determining my future.
1 had
not yet reached twenty-one. Little
did 1 realize that in accepting an
oppointment to teach school in tlie
Philippines
then scarcely known
was to have a major effect upon
1

my entire future. In
received from the States in

the course of
letters 1

those early days, I was frequendy
asked what kind of people ‘those
Philippines’

were— diese

episdes

from my correspondents, of course,
had nothing to do with die Epistle
from the Bible.
“1

did not

when

know

left

1

Bloomsburg, a quiet, peaceful community, what unusual and at dines
breath-taking events 1 was to run
up against in connection with
school work— such as typhoons,
volcano eruptions,
earthquakes,
epidemics ol Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague and smallpox.
“I

had been

in

only a short time
visit

a

mountain

the Philippines

when

1

tribe

of

was

to

tree-

dwellers whose ‘stairs’ consisted of
a nolehed pole which they climbed
like eliiekens do in gelling up to
IR

lude of about two years when I
served as trade adviser in die Bureau of Exports of the War Trade
Board in Washington, D. C.
“I scarcely got setded at home

when

me

the

Government

called

upon

go to Peru, South America,
with an educational mission. My
to

work was supervising and

m

m

the

air,

their

broad

factions

I

i

and

developed

when we were homeward bound

1

at

i

night stones were thrown through
windows of the train at one station,
and shots also were fired.
•

reor-

ganizing the public school system
in an area several hundred miles
in length in the high Andes, two
and a half to three miles above sea
level.
Prunitive condidons prevailed in most parts. School houses,
in the rural districts were of abode
construction, widi one
door, no
windows whatever and a ground
floor.
Teacher was often absent—
canteen
sometimes
a nearby
drinking chick, a native alcohohe
beverage.
“One experience I had
Peru,
I
1 am sure 1 shall never forget.
long had wanted to see and follow
a section of the famed Inca trail
which reached from Quito, Equador to Cuzo, Peru, die ancient
capital city of the Inca Empire.
Eventually I found it and followed
horseback from 4:30 a. m.
it on
until about three o’clock the following morning. It was easy to
keep on the trail during the day
for there were large boulders at
regular intervals on both sides of
the road which was about 150 feet
wide.
“On the way I spotted two dark
the
objects huddled together on
horizon ahead of me.
I thought
they were Indians— I already had
passed two drunken Indians on
horseback. When I approached the
strange objects they suddenly took
to

certain

four days.

wings

spread out like those of an airplane.
I’hey were a pair of condors; the
siglit of whicli one seldom ever lias
the good fortune to see.
“Anotlier unforgettable episode
in connection with my
work in
kern was the holding of the first
so-called Olympic games ever held

“In spite of

all

the difficulties

I

I

met up with in the Philippines and
Pern, I must have made some impression on the young people with

,

whom

worked, for when

I

1

re-

turned to the Philippines a few
years ago, I found many of my former students occupying responsithe government
ble positions in
and the professional and commerTwo of them had becial fields.

>

internationally known— exwho
Quirino,

come

President Elpidio

was one

of

my

clerks in his student

'

i

days, and Carlos Romolo, now a
brigadier general and ambassador
and representative in the United

Upon this visit to Manwas royally entertained in

Nations.
ila

1

Malacayan, the presidential palace.
“When I went back to Peru last
received the same warm
greetings from former associates
tliere as I had received in the Philippines. None, perhaps, so humble
and touching as when I finally
located the old college in the city
where 1 had lived, completely
transformed from what it had been
When I set out
in the early days.
stopped in
to find the college, 1
Fall,

1

>

'

t

'

what appeared to be—
from noises heard inside the walls

front of

—a

school.

entered the patio, and inquired for the principal. Soon she apcustomary
peared, and with the
courteous formality so characteristic of the Latin American, she in“1

ti

herself.

By

that time

teachers

had

gathered

oduced

several

around

us.

I

didn’t disclose

my

i

id-

instead I pulled from my
pocket a small picture which had
been taken thirty-two years before,
entity,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

t

•

I

t

which

in

sat in the center of a

I

group of students.
"The lady principal took a (juick
look at the picture,

and

pointed to where

sat

somewhat
AMiy,
soy

el.’

(1

and

in

said,

also

am

To

Spanish,

in

he).

another (luick glance to
reassure herself, she
threw her
arms around me, and ga\ e me the
"W’ith

hug

had had since I left
Old liloomsburg Normal, a halfcentury before. She had been one
biggest

I

of Mrs. Albertson’s students in the

Normal School which Beahad directed when we lived

Girls
trice

there.

when

was
the hugging
were
over, and some moist eyes
dried, that was the beginning of a
week of parties, receptions and a
general warming up of old friend“M’ell,

ships.

“You young gentlemen here

to-

day, just forget that piece of advice given years ago by Horace

Greeley

when he

young man!’
“Don’t you do

said:

1913

Spanish,

Mr. Albertson!’

this is

replied,

“I

I

e.vcitedly

instantly

dent of the association.
He is
married to the former Agnes Beatrice Callahan, Swoyersville,
who
taught in schools of that borough.

‘Go

West,

Miss Nelle Seidel, who has retired after
teaching school for
more than forty-one years, was
honored at a dinner given at the
Harrisburg Hotel by teachers of
the

Shimmel School.

Educated

were teachers who have worked
with Miss Seidel tlrrougli

it!

Go

in

Lancaster public schools, she was
graduated from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1913 and has
taken credits from Lebanon Valley
College, University of California,
PeimsyKania State University and
Bucknell University. Her teaching
career began in West Fairview
School where she spent one year
before going to New Jersey where
she remained twelve years. Returning to Harrisburg in 1926, she continued to teach some twenty-eight
ye:urs, spending a majority of tliat
time at
the
Shimmel
School.
.\mong those attending tlie dinner
tlie

1909
Leslie R.
Street,

Stowell

Knapp

(Mrs.

Ames) lives at 1923 Reid
Hayes Barton, Raleigh,

North Carolina.
1910

Anna Sachs

(Mrs.

W. M.

Allen)

at
214 Highland Avenue,
Darby, Pa.
She has been teach-

lives

tlie Darby schools for the
seventeen years.
Mrs. Allen
had a \ ery enjoyable trip to Europe during the summer of 1954.

ing in
pixst

1913
Attorney Bernard J. Kelley, native of E.xeter, has been named by
Go\ George M. Leader as Deputy
Insurance Commissioner in charge
of the
Bureau of Examinations
with headquarters in Philadelphia.
Deput\' Commissioner Kelley
is
.

commanding officer of Industrial
Relations Company, United States
Naval Reserve of 4th Naval
trict.

He

is

a

member

of the

Dis-

Com-

mittee of Municipal Administration
of Philadelphia Federal Bar Association

and

June, 1955

is

the

member

a former vice presi-

schools.

and administers

supervises

It

both

boys’

and

programs. Such activities as
the annual state basketball tournament, track meet, girls’ volleyball

girls’

and similar state-wide

activities are

administered by this association.
The newly elected president

is

Hampstead School.
He has been Chairman of District
2, a member of tlie State Board of
Control for the past five years, and
lias been Chairman of District No.
3 Basketball Tournament Commitprincipal of the

tee for

Lerda

is

the past three years. Mr.
a graduate of Bloomsburg

and
Peimsyhania State University.

State Teachers College

actively participated

in

tlie

He

football

and basketball at Bloomsburg and
was a member of the National Basketball Officials

Association

for

fifteen years.

1932

Clarence L. Hunsicker is Director of Elementary Education at tlie
Mansfield State Teachers College.

years.

1934

South!”

1923
Jeannie

governed by representatives of

is

At the annual meeting of the
Maryland
Public
Secondary
Schools Atliletic Association held
at University of Maryland, College
Park on Saturday, March 19, Mr.
Stephen A. Lerda, Principal of the
Hampstead High School, was elected president of this organization.
Representatives from all the
counties in the state participated in
the meeting.
The MPSSAA is an
organization which is intended to
promote the healthful living, character building and good citizenship
of boys and girls tlirough united
and cooperative efforts of the public schools of Maryland. This association is established to suggest the
basic principles and procedures in
the conduct of competitive athletic
programs by the schools. It regulates and administers
all
athletic
programs involving competition
between high schools of Maryland.
The organization is set-up with
representatives from each of tlie
twenty-three counties and the city
of Baltimore as a State Board
of
Control. All action of this body

Agatlia Ficca (Mrs. Walter Stashinski) lives at 243
West Saylor
Street, Atlas, Pa.
She taught for
nine years after graduation.

1934

Grace Foote (Mrs. Joseph Conner)

lives

at

Bloomsburg.

102

West

Street,

She has one daugh-

and three sons. Mrs. Conner
taught French, Latin and English
for three years at the Hop Bottom
High School.
She has served as
substitute teacher in the Catawissa High School, the Scott Townsfiip
High School and the Bloomsburg
ter

High School.
1934

Mary

Freas lives at 111-B
New Castle Street,
Reheboth
Beach, Delaware. She received her
Master’s degree at Temple University, and studied also
at
Brenau
College, Gainesville, Georgia, and
at
Alderson-Broaddus
College,
Philippi, West Virginia.
She has
taught for twenty-one years, and
is now teacher of Social Studies at
S.

the Reheboth

Beach High School.
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1934

He received
New York

degree at

his Master’s

He

University.

Lime Ridge,
Newtown High School.
taught at

Pa.,

He

has

and

at

Director of Guidance at the Mt. Pleasant High School, Wilmington, Delis

Mr. Gennaria is married
aware.
and has one son and one daughter.
1934
Irene Giger (Mrs. James Milroy)

527 Glement Avenue, CharNorth Carolina. She taught
for eighteen years in the Bloomsburg schools, and is now a substi-

lives at
lotte,

tute teacher in Charlotte.

1934
Joseph Gribbin lives at 2019
Huntington Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
He is married and has two sons
and two daugliters. He received
his Master’s degree from New York
University and is teaching in tlie
Liberty High School at Bethlehem.
He also teaches classes in Accounting in the Bethlehem Business College.

1938
Miss Eleanor Apichell has joined
tlie staff of Congressman Ivor
D.
Fenton, Mahanoy City Republican.
Eleanor, tlie daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Apichell, Sr., is starting her first tour of duty as a congressional secretary after

several
years of top secretarial work. She
was personal secretary to Gen. J.
E. Moore at the Army War Col-

and also at Fort
Meade, Maryland, as an Army secretary.
Later she worked in New
York at the Swedish legation and
lege, Carlisle,

government.

for the Netherlands

Kulpmont High
School and Bloomsburg State TeaShe’s a graduate of

chers College.
In New York she
followed her hobbies with infonnal
studies and music and ballet.

1938

The appointment

of Charles H.
Henrie as area representative of

&

Company,
Sunbury
lias been announced.
The firm is
an associate member of the American Stock Exchange and member

Theron D. Conrad
I

lie.,

20

security dealer

the Philadelphia-Baltimore
Stock Exchange. Mr. Henrie is a

of

James Gennaria lives at 28 Hillside Road, Claymont, Delaware.

of

member

of the business

depart-

ment, Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and has sponsored the Annual Sales Rally and Annual Fashion Show for the past nine years.
A graduate of the local college and
Temple University, Mr. Henrie has
also done graduate work at
the
University of Pittsburgh and New
York University. Last June, the
New York Stock Exchange granted
Mr. Henrie a fellowship to study
in the New York City financial district.
The National Association of
Manufacturers also invited Mr.
Henrie to be an educator guest at
its annual convention in New York
City, and the National Sales Executives invited him to attend their
annual convention in Chicago last
year.

Joy,

a

native

Bloomsburg and son of Mr.

of

and

Mrs. Robert H. Joy, West Main
street, has been appointed state supervisor of distributive and business education Division of Vocational Education in the State of
New Jersey. His appointment by
Dr. F. M. Raubinger, commissioner of education, was confirmed recently by the New Jersey
State
Board of Education.

Joy received his B.S. degree from
the Bloomsburg Teachers College,

and

his Master’s

Degree from

He

presently a candidate for the doctorate degree at
Rutgers University.
He has had
teaching experience in the field of
distributive and business
education in Virginia and New
Jersey.
is

Before coming to

New

was an

professor at the

assistant

an infantry company and

staff
tlie

ran kof captain. Mr. Joy’s wife is
the former Helen M. Wirt, daughter of Mrs. W. O. Wirt and the
late William O. Wirt of 495 West

Main

street,
Bloomsburg.
have two children, Cynthia
and David.

They
Anne

1940

Gwladys Jones (Mrs. Ernest F.
Miller) lives at 12 So ward Street,
Mr. and Mi's.
Hopedale, Mass.
Miller have one son and two dau-

1940
Robert Limi, Bloomsburg, has
accepted a position witli Boyd H.
Kline, contiactor and builder. For
the past nine years he has been employed by tlie S. H. Evert Co. Mr.
Liim, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, received his master’s degree at Buck-

and served in
during World
remains a captain in

nell University

armed
11.

forces

He

Jersey, Jay

College of William and Mary and
has been the supervising teacher-coordinator of distributive education, Camden, N. J.
Mr. Joy has also studied at the
Research Bureau, University of
Pittsburgh and last year
was a
scholarship student at the economic
education workshop held at Rutgers University.

Mr. Joy is a membor of the Phi
Delta Kappa, National Education

the

War
the

active reserve.

1941

tlie

School of Education, University of
Virginia.

as

officer being discharged with

ghters.

1940

Robert D.

American

Vocational
Education
Business
Association, Vice President of New
Jersey Vocational Association, B.
P. O. Elks, Loyal Order of Moose,
American Legion, Eagle Scout
and Scouting Fraternity, WWAV,
Thirty-Second Degree Mason and
during Second World War served
Association,
Association,

Edward D.

Sharretts,

superin-

tendent of buildings and grounds
tlie
for
at the Teachers College
past seven years, has recently resigned his post in order to accept
Evert
S. H.
a position with the
Construction Company, effective
June 1. Mr. Sharretts, a graduate
School and a
of Berwick High
member of the Class of 1941 at tlie
Teachers College, succeeded tlie
late Nevin T. Englehart, when tlie
Since comlatter retired in 1949.
ing to Bloomsburg from Berwick,
Mr. Sharretts has been active in
civic affairs in the community and

on the state

member

level.

of St.

He

is

an active

Matthew Lutheran

Church, a member of the Caldwell
Consistory, Secretary of the Columbia County Alumni A.ssociation of

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the college, secretary of the Pennsylvania Institutional Engineering
Association, president of the local

Junior Chamber of Commerce, and
Air
is actively affiliated with an

Assignment
Mobilization
Force
with the Selective Service system,
holding the rank of major. Employees of the non-instructional staff of
the college met in honor of Shar-

him with a
Mr. Sharretts is
married to the former Winifred
McBride, of Berwick. They have
two children, Ann and Cindy.
retts

and

to present

beautiful watch.

1948
Harry G. John, Jr., has been

se-

lected as assistant cashier of The
Farmers National Bank of Blooms-

burg.

Mr. John
ha\’ing

ty,

is

a native of the coun-

been

born

in

Main

township. He has been in the employ of the bank since June, 1948.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
G. John, Sr., Bloomsburg R. D. 3,
he served three years in the United
States Air Force doing a tour of

duty in England and Italy during
World War II. He is a graduate
of the Bloomsburg High School
and the Teachers College, being a
member of the class of 1948 at the
latter institution.
He is married to
the former Mary Louise Fenstemaker, ’45, and they have one son,
Frank Edward John.
He has been active in athletics
for many years, playing both basketball and baseball in school and
for some years has been an infielder with the Mainville club of the
Tri-County League.
1949
Robert T. Millard, (B.S., Bloomsburg, ’49; M.A. State University of
Iowa, ’50) presented to the April
Speech Association of Eastern States Con\ention, Hotel Statler, New
York City, a film entitled “The Application of Cinefluorography with

Image Intensification to
Surgery, Dentistry, and
Pathology.”
Cinefluorography
research

was

that until

is

a

Plastic

Speech

medium

of

very recently

considered impractical for
popular use as a diagnostic tool because of prohibitive costs and inadequate equipment. The LancasJune, 1955

Palate Clinic, where RobMillard has been Director of
Speech since 1950, has pioneered
in basic techniques of x-ray motion
ter C]left

ert

pictures.

The work

of the principal invesDr. Paul E. Wallin, and
Robert Millard, has contributed
immensely to the field of cinefluorography. By employing the image
intensifier which brightens the image 1000 times, a patient can be
exposed to X-radiation and photographed for 2'2 minutes before actigators,

cumulating as many “r” units as
one recei\es from one dental x-ray
of 4 seconds duration. An enlargement techni(j[ue of the exposed
area has been developed and will
soon be published in the appropriate scientific journals for any interested person to copy.
Mr. Millard’s greatest contribution has been to add sound to the
motion pictures produced at the
Clinic. The first 16 mm. cineflourographic flim ever produced witli
synchronized speech of the abnor-

mal and normal patient is available
to students of speech pathology,
dentists and plastic surgeons by
writing to the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic for information.

During the

weeks program of
and industrial
plant \ isitations. Fellows will have
an opportunity to live and work
and exchange ideas with each other and with college teachers of mathematics and science.
In addition to the academic program on
tlie Case campus, visits
will be
made to industrial plants and to
go\ernmeut laboratories in the
Greater Cleveland area, where excourses,

Notice has been received by J.
Richard Wagner, mathematics instructor
at
Nortli-Mont
High
School, of his selection as one of
the Mathematics Fellows at Case
Institute of Technology, Cleveland,
Ohio. The Fellowships are sponsored by the E. I. Du Pont de
Nemours and Company, Inc., for
the summer of 1955. Thirty teachers have been selected to participate in this program, whch is designed especially for high school

and preparatory school mathema-

tensive computional activities

are

under way. In this way, the Fellows will see mathematics in action.

The college courses are to be
given by the faculty of the Case
Institute

during the

od from June 19

six

weeks

peri-

to July 29, 1955.

1950
Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Albano announce the arrival of a daughter,
Mary Kay, born April 8, 1955. Mr.
and Mrs. Albano live at 26B Clover Hill Garden, Mt. Holly, New

1950
Jean Taylor and H.
Montgomery Snyder were married
Patricia

playing an in-

creasingly important role in business, industry, and throughout our
At present, the dedaily lives.
man for higlily trained matliematicians
far exceeds the supply.
High school teachers of mathematics have a great opportunity to
stimulate the student’s interest in
mathematics as a career. To aid
secondary school teachers in this

December 18, 1954, at
Church of tlie Annunciation,

Saturday,
the

Havertown, Brookline, Pa.
1953
Miss Joanne Elaine Heckman,
daughter of Mr .and Mrs. M. Kenneth Heckman, East Stroudsburg,
became the bride of Donald Norman Blyler, son of Mr. and Mrs.

George R.

Bloomsburg, in
at the East
Stroudsburg Methodist Church.
The Rev. Harold C. Eaton and
the bride’s brotlier, the Rev. Kenneth Heckman, officiated.
Music
was provided by Miss Jean Maxa

tics instructors.
is

six

lectures,

Jersey.

1950

Mathematics

important work. Case Institute
with the financial aid of the E. I.
Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., is offering a special sixweek summer program emphasizing basic mathematics and modern computing methods.

recent

Blyler,

ceremony

well.

The bride is a graduate of Ursinus College and received a Master
of Nursing Degree from Yale Univ^ersity

on June

13.

Her husband,

a

graduate

of
21

served as an officer in
Marine Corps and will resume
his studies this summer toward his
Master’s Degree at Harvard UniB.S.T.C.,

the

versity.

1953
The marriage of Mrs. Margery
Hosier, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas P. North, Bloomsburg, to
Raymond St. Clair Lynch, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lynch,
Mountsville, was solemnized on
Saturday, May 7, at Bethany Pres-

Church in Lancaster.
The ceremony was conducted by
the Rev. Varre Cummins, pastor of
Bloomsbnrg Presbyterian Church.
Attending the couple were Mrs.
Lloyd Sandt and David Lynch, sister and brother of the bridegroom.

and was recently transferred to
Fort Hood, Tex.
The bride graduated from Nescopeck High School in 1952 and
has been receptionist at Vaughn’s
Sanitary Bakery, Berwick. She is
president of Berwick Chapter of

Nu

Phi Mu.
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School in 1949, received
his degree in business education at
B.S.T.C:. in 1953.

1955

byterian

Mona

daughter of the
bride, acted as flower girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynch will reside
at 2415 Lititz Pike, Lancaster. The
bride has been teaching at Neffsville.
The bridegroom is employed
by the Hamilton Watch Co.
Hosier,

1954
H. Hidlay, US
552375229, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold H. Hidlay, Penir street, and
a graduate of the Teachers College
last spring, is now based at Peramisens, Germany. Another Bloomsburg soldier, David Auten, is also
based there and quartered in tlie
same barracks. Hidlay’s address is
MSG GEN. Opr. Go., 17tli Sig. Op-

Kenneth

Pvt.

eration Bn.,

Postmaster,

APO 189,
New York,

in care of
N. Y.

In a

ceremony Saturday, June

4,

Methodist Ghurch,
Berwick, Miss Joan Marie Chapin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
K. Chapin, Berwick, became the
bride of Harry Arnold Mishler,
Berwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Mishler, Sr., Johnstown.
The Rev. Samuel W. Strain officiated before an altar arranged
with white and pink carnations.
Traditional wedding music was
furnished by Richard Wagner, organist, and Patricia Bredbenner,
the

in

First

soloist.

Following the ceremony, a reception was held in the church social rooms. Upon their return from
a wedding trip to Canada, the couple will reside in Philadelphia.
The bride graduated from B.S.

T.G. in 1955 and her husband was
just discharged from the U.S. Navy
He
after a four-year enlistment.
plans to enter 13rexel Institute in
the fall.

NprrnlogH
Dr. Ambrose Shuman, ’88
Dr. Ambrose Shuman, eighty-six,
practicing physician for three
score years and honored some time
ago by the Pennsylvania Medical
Association upon completion of a
half century of service, died at
seven-twenty-five o’clock Saturday,
April 23, in the Bloomsburg Hospital.
He had been a patient there
four days.
a

He

maintained an active practice

few years when failing health forced his retirement.

until the past

A native of Catawissa, he was
widely known throughout the area
as a family doctor,

and he

also took

an active part in the civic

home community,

of

affairs

serving on the

Catawissa school board for about
thirty years.

Dr.

Shuman was born

Marcli

10,

1869, son of the late John T. and

Catherine Breisch Shuman. He attended the Catawissa school and
graduated from the Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1888. He then
taught school for several years prior to matriculating at the Pennsylvania University School of Medicine from which he was graduated
in 1894.

The

physician practiced his proand Gilberton
for several years before opening an
fession in Mainville

office in Catawissa in 1900.

Shuman was a member of
John’s Lutheran Church and a
past member of the church counDr.

1954
In

a pretty

ceremony

at

three

Saturday afternoon, April
3, at the Nescopeck E.U.B. Ghurch
Miss
Shirley
Waltman,
Jayne
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Waltman, Nescopeck, became the bride of Pfc. John Warren Soberick, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Soberick, Berwick.
The double-ring ceremony was
piTforined by the Rev. Sterlen
o’clock

Sheaffer, irastor.
The bride will remain with her

parents in Berwick while the bridegroom goes to Austria to serve with
the U. S. Army.
He has been attending Adjutant General School
at I’ort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.,
22

FRESHMEN SPONSOR
FARMERS’ WEEKEND’

St.

cil;

A

“Farmers’ Weekend” was enjoyed by students of BSTG under
the sponsorship of the Freshman
class. The weekend program opened with a movie, “April in Paris,”
C^arver

at

scpiare

Hall.

An

dance followed

all-college
in the

Hall student lounge.
On the Saturday schedule

Wal-

ler

baseball

game with Lock

was a

Haven

followed by a hay ride to the Lesher farm twelve miles from Bloomsbnrg where a wiener roast was enjoyed.
The hayride and wiener
Hawkins style
roast were Sadie
with the girls inviting the boys.

Catawissa Lodge 349 F.

M. and was

its

&

A.
oldest living past

master;
Catawissa
Royal
Arch
C'hapter and a past high priest of
this York Rite body; Caldwell Consistory of Bloom.sburg; Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre; Catawissa Aerie 804, Fraternal Order of
Eagles;
Bloomsburg Lodge No.
4.36, B. P. O. Elks; Columbia County Medical Society; Pennsylvania

Medical A.ssociation and American
Medical Association. He was long
a

member

of

the

staff

of

Bloomsbnrg Hospital.
1 le was one of the original

the

stock

holders of the Catawissa National

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Bank and was serving

as president
time of his death.
Tire wife, a daughter, Mrs. Jennie Shuman, Catawissa, and two
at tire

grandcliildren survive.

Mrs. Bertlia Burrows Martin, ’92
Mrs. Bertha Burrows Martin, 82,
of 3527 Rutherford Street, Harrisburg, died at her home Sunday,
April 17.

She is survived by two cousins,
j. Elmer Decker, Johnstown, and
Harry F. Decker, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Martin was a lifelong member of Market Square Presbyterian
Church, of

tlie

Temperance

Women’s

Union,
Paxtang Civic Club.

Christian
and of the

Mary McCarvel Yetter, ’96
High Mass of Requiem was celebrated at 9 A. M., Saturday, March
Mrs. Mary E. “Marne” Yetter, of 118 Horner Street, Harrisburg, who died after a long illness.
A retired city school teacher, she
the
was employed as a clerk
19, for

m

records section of the State Revenue Department for the past 16
years.

a widow, was a
member of St. Francis of Assisi
Catholic Church, tlie Altar and
Rosary Society and tire National
Council of Catholic Women.

Mrs.

Yetter,

superintendent at Ashley and at
Pottstown, Pa., before coming to
Chester in 1934.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Marjorie Ladd Fritz, and two
sons, F. 11. Ladd, Jr., Akron, Ohio,
and Charles L. Fritz, Springfield,
Pa.

Raymond
Raymond Blain

Blain Tobias, ’00

Tobias, of Mt.
Carmel, died suddenly on Sunday,

March

20, as the result of a heart

Following graduation from
Bloomsburg, Mr. Tobias attended
and was graduated from tlie University
of
Pennsylvania
Law
School, where he was a member
of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. For
many years he practiced law and
was active in civic affairs in Mt.
Carmel.
attack.

White Armstrong, ’01
Estelle White Armstrong,

Estelle

Mrs.
wife of Rev. William L. Armstrong,
D.D., retired minister of the Methodist Church and a former pastor
of Espy Charge, died at her home,
429 West Green Street, Hazleton,
at 12:15 p. m. Sunday, April 10.
Twice hospitalized in tlie past year,
she had made a good recovery and
had assumed teaching in a special
course in the Hazleton school sys-

tem

until recently.

Bom

Herman Fritz, ’99
Herman Fritz, 71, who
F.

F.

retired

1950 after 16 years as superintendent of Chester schools, died
Thursday, June 9, at Iris home following an illness of several months.
A native of Bloomsburg, Pa., he
in

was graduated from Bloomsburg
High School, Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and Bucknell
University, and was a teacher and
school administrator for nearly a
half century.

He

taught first in the public
schools of Berwick, Pa., then went
to Wilkes-Barre where he was a
grade school principal for five
years and later served nine years
as head of the English department
at Springfield, Mass., High School.
He also was for a time dean of
Pennington School for Boys, Pennington, N. J., and returned to
Pennsylvania to serve four years as
June, 1955

in Hazleton, she was a
daughter of Jesse and Sarah Hughes White who came here from

Scotland.
One of the best-liked and most
popular instructors in the Hazleton
public schools, she began teaching
in the elementary grades in 1903
and, until she left teaching to get
married in 1932, taught at various
times in the old Church street
school. Green street school and D.
A. Harman Junior High School.
Her first assignment was to the

Poplar street school, Hazleton.
Until she became ill, she continued to teach the Music Appreciation class of the Adult Education
program sponsored by the Hazleton school district.
She was graduated from Hazleton High School in 1900 and from
Bloomsburg Normal School in

Audenried.

David Meisberger, ’06
David T. Meisberger, 67, superintendent
Goal
Township
of
School for 21 years, died suddenly
Friday, May 27, at 8 A. M. at his
home, 502 Main street, Brady.
With the close of the present
school term, Mr. Meisberger completed 49 years in the field of education.

Born

in

Goal Township on July

was a son of the late
and Mary Strausser
Meisberger. He attended St. Ed-

7,

1887, he

Theobald

elementary

wards’s

school.

Goal

Township High School, and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, from where he was graduated
in 1906.

He began

his teaching career in

1906, immediately upon his graduation from college, and later com-

pleted

work

at

Susquehanna and

Bucknell Universities, winning his
master’s degree from the latter
school.

In

1924 he was elected super-

vising principal of Coal

Township

Schools.
In 1930 he was named
instructor of mathematics and science in the school district and in
1940 was elected to the superin-

tendency which he held until his
death.

He was renamed

to a four-

year term in 1954.

Helen Seesholtz Burroughs, ’08
Mrs. Helen Seasholtz Burroughs
died January

Mead, New
ed by her
Morris

5,

1955,

Jersey.
sister,

at

Belle

She is surMv'Kate Seasholtz

’09.

Mrs. Margaret Ciurry Miller
Mrs. Margaret Curry Miller, fifDanville R. D. 1, died
Tuesday, March 1, while being taken to Geisinger Hospital by Ambulance.
She was born in Valley township, Montour county, daughter of
the late Stewart and Laura Curry.
ty-nine,

She was principal of Second Ward
School, Danville, having been a
school teacher for the past thirty-

1901.

On

Rev. Dr. Armstrong who later was
pastor of the Metlrodist Ghurch at

July 27, 1932, she

was wed

to

five years.

23

Foster L.

Richards, sixty-

nee Bertha I. Sterner, 1123
Baldwin street, Williamsport, died
at Williamsport Hospital recently.
She was born in Bloomsburg and
resided here twenty-two years. She
was a graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal School. She had resided
in Williamsport for the past twensix,

ty-six years.

Lewin,
16,

87,

died

a stroke
of a cousin.

after

suffered at the home
Miss Nellie Sutliff, of Nanticoke,
where she had made her home
since April 25, 1955.
Mrs. Lewin, a former teacher,

was a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
Alice

Mrs. Dari I. Mather Myers,, 57,
wife of Reeder E. Myers, one of
Benton’s most prominent women,
took her own life by firing a bullet
through her heart early Tuesday,
March 29, as she sat in the back
seat of her automobile as it was
parked in Benton cemetery. The
body was found by her son, John
Mather.
Mrs. Myers, a graduate of the

Mrs, Emily Lewin
Mrs. Emily
Monday, May

Holcombe McCarthy

Mrs. Alice McCarthy, forty-nine,
Dushore, died in Robert Packer
Hospital, Sayre, recently. A native
of Dushore, she was born April 18,
1905, the daughter of the late Veil
B.
Holcombe and Jennie Cook

Holcombe.
She was a graduate of Dushore
High School and Bloomsburg State
I'eachers College.

Normal School, had enrolled last
fall at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and had attended classes
there until becoming ill with the
flu.

Reginald
Reginald

er Hospital, less than six hours af-

she and four other persons were
injured in a two-car crash, two
miles south of Riverside.
Mrs. P. Richard Farn.sworth, 25,
the former Naomi Clark, Danville
H. D., succumbed to extensive injuries of the head and body.
The injured include her two
ter

one of them critically
and her husband, a teacher
Ralpho Township High School,

children,
hurt,

Elysburg.

Only

last July, the Farnsworths
son, Ricky, two, when the
youngster was struck down by a

lost

a

S.

Hemingway

Stanley

Hemingway,

President of tire Board of Trustees
of B.S.T.C. and one of the state’s
leading attorneys and prominent in

19,

1897,

when

his

accepted the pastorate of
First Presbjderian Church.

father

He graduated from the Bloomsburg High School, class of 1902,
and in school was active in athletics and a member of the same
football team as the late George
(Stoney) McLinn, later a prominent
newspaper columnist and radio
commenator

in Philadelphia.

He

entered Lafayette College in
the fall of 1903 and was graduated
Following his graduation
in 1907.
he became an instructor of mathematics at the present Pennsylvania
and remained
University
State
there until 1909 at which time he
entered the Law School of the University of Peimsylvania, graduating with the degree of LL.B. in
1912.

During his law school course he
was instructor in mathematics in

He was
Bloomsburg Hospital.
aged seventy years.
Highly regarded in his profession, he was at tlie time of his
death serving on the un-American
activities committee of the American Bar Association of which U. S.
Attorney General Herbert Brown-

the Brown Preparatory School,
Philadelphia, and supervisor of

He visited
the chairman.
parts of the nation partici-

is

many

pating in the work of this

com-

mittee.
Ill

for the past three months,

was hospitalized

he

briefly at the Jef-

ferson Hospital, Philadelphia,

and

then for three weeks in Bloomsburg Hospital. Death was due to
complications.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. G. G.
Housenick, Bloomsburg; two brothers, Roland F. Hemingway, Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and H. Gladstone

Hemingway, Bloomsburg, and

five

nieces and nephews.
An active practicioner of the law
for more than two score years, he
appeared in many of the lower

car near Washingtonville.
Mr. Farn.sworth, a graduate of
Blomsburg State Teachers College,

courts of the commonwealth as
well as before the appellate courts
He was also adof Pennsylvania.
mitted to practice before the Unit-

has been on the faculty of Ralpho
1'ownship High School for about
five years and formerly coached
the soccer and baseball teams.

ed States Supreme Court.
A native of Beloit, Kansas, he
was born July 8, 1884, the son of
tlu! late Dr. and Mrs. G. II. Hem-

24

on February

of Bloomsburg’s civic activdied Wednesday, April 27, in

many
ities,

ell

Naomi Clark Farnsworth
An Elysburg R. D. 1 woman died
Tuesday, March 22, at the Geising-

at

ingway, and came to Bloomsburg

Dari Ikeler Myers

Bertha Sterner Richards
Mrs.

playgrounds in Camden, N. J. He
continued in these endeavors until

May, 1913.
Following graduation from law
school he returned to Bloomsburg
and entered the law office of the
He was admitlate Fred Ikeler.
ted to practice in the court of common pleas in Philadelphia March
7, 1913, and to the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania the following day.

On

June 13 he was admitted

practice

in

to

the several courts of

Ciolumbia and Montour counties.

He was

president of the board

of trustees of the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College, active

in

First

Presbyterian Church and president
of the board of trustees for twenty
\ears, and member of the Men’s
Brotherhood of that congregation.
He was a director of the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Tnist Com-

pany.
Mr.

Hemingway was a member
Washington Lodge F. and A.
M., Caldwell Consistory, Mt. Moriah Ciouncil No. 10, Royal Arch
Chapter No. 218, Crusade Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar,

of

the C'raftsman Club, Bloomsburg,
and Irem Temple Shrine, WilkesBarre.

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HLOOMSHUHC -

HICCKll?

(Continued from inside front cover)

This is Imsi'tl on the assumption that vve can
deter tlie heginning ot eonstnietion ol a new
la'hrary ($050, ()()())

and Women’s Dormitory

($1,-

500, ()()()) tor tour years.

he prothe purchase of all pri\ ate residenet's
and land within the present honndaries ol the
eollege campus.
also assnnu's that $17.5,000 will

It

\

idt'd lor

Needless to say, a largt'r enrollment will
an increase in the nnmher ot facnity.
riiese proposals do not inclnde, howev er, more
taenltv and tacilities tor the ottering of graduate
work tor teachers, or tor tlie inaugurating of college cnrrieidnms in Helds other than teacher
iiK'an

education.

and

In this time of ehallenge

are those

who propose

there

crisis,

to tix the tintion of State

Teachers

C.'ollege students at •$.5()() a year to he
repaid at the same rate each vear as onr graduates teach in the pnhlic schools of I’ennsvlvania, and there are various proposals pretending to improve the tenure status of teacliers. All
tlu'se things tend to discourage young people
trom entering the teaching profession.
There are those who challenge the growth
ot Pennsylvania Teachers C'olleges
hy asking
such (piestions as: (1) How manv' graduates
actually teach, and; (2) do thev' teach in Pennsv

BETTIHV?

OR

ROTIP?

teaching, immediately the (piestion was raised of
why does the State educate young people and
then not receive teaching service in return. An
analysis of the group who did not go into teaching shows that 406 men went directly into the

.Vrmed Services, 43 went to graduate schools,
and .55 women were married, thus .504 were not

Only 129 were available
In
and did not enter the teaching profession.
fact 9.3'^''' of those available did go into teaching
and only 227 went out of Pennsylvania to teach
in other states, while in the same
year 820
teachers from other states came to Pennsylvania.
av ailable for teaching.

The outflow
('rs

will

of Pennsylvania trained teach-

be checked when Pennsylvania

salaries

are raised so as to more nearly ecpial those of
the snrroimding States.
In view of all these facts, the Bloomsbnrg
.\lmnni can help their .\lma Mater by first
nnderslanding onr limited capacity, and if they

know of good students who want to be teachers,
have them file their applications as early as
possible, and second, those interested in building a Bigger and Better Bloomsbnrg should
write to their Senators and Representatives setting forth their opinions in light of this message
trom

Ivania?

We

find that 1744 of the

State Teachers Clolleges

Since

ing.

6.3.3

m

2377 graduates of

went into teachdid not go into the profession of
19.54

IN
WHEREA5?.

Ihe passing cf Reg. S.

State Teachers College

WHEREAS,

which

Hemingway.

will be difficult,

MEMORIAM

Esq., leav'es a

vacancy on the Board of Trustees
fill, and

of the

Bloomsburg

not impossible, to

if

cur late lamented colleague has discharged his duties with painstaking care and administrative foremore than fourteen years, which is the longest unbroken span of service as President of the

sight fer a period of

Beard

cf Trustees since this institution

WHEREAS.

became

a

Teachers College, and

Hemingway brought to the deliberations of this policy making body the qualities of a scholar,
and unselfish servant, coupled with his experience as a teacher in preparatory school and college,
lawyer, and a public spirited citizen, and
Mr.

legal adviser,
as a

WHEREAS, he at all times was able to envision the best interests of the College as a whole, treating his fellow
Board Members, the President, the Faculty, the Alumni. Students, and non-instructional employees with equal
patience and understanding,
BE

RESOLVED that, in order that a record of his service be preserved for the future, a copy of this resolution
be spread upon the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, and that they also appear in College and Alumni pub-

IT

shall

lications.

BE

IT

and

FURTHER RESOLVED

that copies shall also be sent to the

members

of the family of Mr.

Excerpt from Minutes of Meeting of Board of Trustees held

May

18,

1955

Hemingway.

'SAUCERED AND SLOWED’
E. H.

NELSON,

’ll

Through the courtesy and help of Hervey B. Smith. ’22, attorney-at-law and member
Alumni Board of Directors, we published in this column, about two years ago, some
rather detailed forms that could be used as will patterns in setting up bequests. Several
times of late requests have come to this office for this type of information, so we are
publishing the forms again and will have extra copies for distribution to those interested.
We quote from the September 1953 “Quarterly.”
of the

BEQUEST

TRUST TO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOR A SPECIFIED PURPOSE:

IN

give and bequeath to the Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Bloom9burg, Pennsylvania, a corporation, the sum of
dollars ($
),
in trust, nevertheless, for the following uses and purposes:
I

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 of the principal as the Board of Directors shall, in

its

sole discretion,

deem advisable

tor

worthy students who are active

in college athletics.

(Husky Fund)
To use the income and
3.
its

sole discretion,

so much of the principal as the Board of Directors shall,
deem advisable as a prize for students showing outstanding ability

—

in
in

(dramatics, chemistry, business education, teaching, matnematics. etc.). OPTIONAL Said
prize to be known as the “John Smith Prize in (dramatics, chemistry, business education,
teaching, mathematics, etc.)”

or Professor of
4.
As a memorial to the late John Smith (Class 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.).
In memory of John Smith, formerly Professor of Mathematics to be held as a sep5.
arate and permanent fund to be known as the “John Smith Memorial Fund.” The annual
income thereof to be used for prizes for proficiency in mathematical study and research.

OUTRKjHT bequest or devise TO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TO BE USED BY
IT FOR ANY PURPOSE THAT IT MAY CONSIDER DESIRABLE.
give and bequeath to the Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Coldollars ($
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, a corporation, the sum of
).
to be administered by its Board of Directors in any manner that it may see fit.
Market Street, Bloomsburg.
I give and devise my house and lot located at No.
Pennsylvania, which was conveyed to me by Deed from John Jones and Mary Jones, his
recoraed at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book
195
wife, dated September
Page
to the Alumni Association ol the Bloomsburg State Teachers
Volume
College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, a Corporation, to be administered by its Board of
Directors in any manner that it may see fit.
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
195
day of
be a Codicil to my Last Will and Testament, bearing date the
(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
195
day of
Will and Testament, this
I

lege,

.

,

,

,

-

,

-

,

.

.

,

(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 ether, have hereunto subscribed our names as Attesting Witnesses:

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Vol.

LVI

September, 1955

No. 3

I

PROSPECTS FOR 1955
You will be interested to know that of the approximately 240 Freshman
students accepted for September, 127 are in the upper fifth of their classes. Of
this number, nine were Valedictorians and nine were Salutatorians.
Only
thirty-nine of the total number were admitted after an entrance examination
from the lower half of their class.
not to be assumed that

we

intend to accept only those in the upper
The present situation
was
1— not developed as a policy, but from the approximately SOO that applied
before May, 195.5, we selected the present Freshman Class.
It may be that
VVe do not know. After counting
better applicants applied after May, 19.55.
2—
over .500 applicants, admission blanks were not sent out to others who requested
them. Since admission blanks were not sent out during the months of June,
July, and August, it is estimated that we had three times as many applicants
as we could accept.
It is

20%

of the high school graduating classes in the future.

These statements are made so that Alumni

of

Blcomsturg

will understand:

An

enrollment of 935 students taxes the present college facilities and threatens
the cjuality of college instruction and lessens the amount of attention which
students have received in the past, and
a new dining room is constructed and the Library is moved to
another location, our total capacity will not be increased appreciably.

Even though

Therefore,

be well

if

students expect to enroll at Blcomsburg in the future,

to advise

it

would

them

they should file their apirlications and come to the campus for a
personal interview as early in the year as possible, and

a—That

the Legislature is holding the colleges accountable for the number of teachers who actually teach, only those applicants who are interested in teaching should apply.

b— Since

Alumni may also be helpful in
Senators to favor Appropriation Rills
Colleges to the encl that they may
students so that more teachers may
Pennsylvania.

urging their State Representatives and
for new construction at State Teachers
accommodate an increasing number of
be educated for the public schools of

President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVI,

September, 1955

No. 3

'

929 COLLEGE STUDENTS
LAST TERM.SETS RECORD
liloomshiirg State Teachers Colduring the year 1954-1955
reports there were 929 full-time

hanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties accounting for ten or more stu-

stutlents, the largest in the institu-

er a

Trevious high was
post World War 11 period of
1949-50 when enrollment of veter-

ced
from forty-five counties in PennsyK aiiia. There were five students
from outside the state of Penn-

lege

tion’s

liistory.

in the

ans was at
by the Alumni
Association of the State Teachers ColEntered as Seclege, Bloomsburg, Pa.
ond-Class Matter. August 8, 1941. at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Yearly Sub.scription, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
Published quarterly

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, '12

BUSINESS

MANAGER

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E.

H. Nelson

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER

peak.

During the past

That term

e\ ery

woman,

a ratio

were

which existed

live years ago.

The Department of Business Education had the largest enrollment
with 315 students registered. The
Secondary Education Department
was a close second with 312 students, while the Elementary Education Department had 255 students.

The Freshman enrollment for
September, 1955, has been completed, and for the first time since tlie
end

of

World War

11 the

exceeds the number of
men. It is expected that the elementary enrollment will increase,
particularly in view of the great
demand for elementary teachers.
The Freshman Class of 1954
shows about the same relative diswitli

business

no long-

Over 3,800 students were
in

the

utilized

campus, laboratory school

and other public schools

for stu-

dent-teaching purposes.
expenditures
have
Although
been made to repair and renovate
present plant, even the addition of
new dining room building, which is
still on drawing boards of the General State Authority, will not increase the total enrollment materially.
With the relocation of the
library in the space now occupied
by the dining room, the dining
room, the present library space can
provide living quarters for only
twenty-five or thirty men of the
group of 200 who will be forced
to

live

the

in

Town

of

Blooms-

burg.

number

women

tribution

is

regional instiution is evidenby the presence of students

sylvania.

year, there

882 full-time students and fortyseven part-time students, making a
total ot 929 students, of whom appro.ximately 505 were resident students.
There were 564 men and
365 women, which does not quite
equal the ratio of two men for

of

VICE-PRESIDENT

tlie

8S4 w ere accommodated.

That Bloomsburg

dents.

163,

sec-

ondary 156, elementary 90.
On a county basis, Luzerne
county contributed 181 students,
with Columbia county a close secNorthumberland
ond with 175.

ELECTED OFFICERS
FOR THIS YEAR
Members
ation

of

of the Faculty Associ-

the

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College have elected the
following officers for the coming
year:

Boyd Buckingham,

president;

Hervey B. Smith

Lackawanna 47,
Lycoming 41, Montour 25, Montgomery 21, Bradford, Dauphin,

Elizabeth Miller, vice-president; Mrs. Margaret McCern, secretary-treasurer; Miss Elinor Keefer
and Charles Henrie, executive committee for a two year term; and
Dr. E. Paul Wagner and Mrs. Lucille Baker, representatives to the
Faculty Council for a one year

Elizabeth H. Hubler

Delaware, Lehigh, Snyder, Susque-

term.

Earl A. Gehrig

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

September, 1955

128, Schuylkill 64,

Mrs.

1

NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
George G. Stradtman

Dr. Donald F. Maietta
Dr. Donald F. Maietta, Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed to
tlie faculty of the Teachers College as assistant professor of speech
corection.

The new faculty member, a former resident of Williamsport, received the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education from Bloomsburg in 1950. Following his graduation, he was a graduate assistant
to the University of Pittsburgh, a
member of the faculty of West Liberty State College,

W.

West

Liberty,

and a speech pathologist

Va.,

the National Crippled Children’s Society at Washington, Pa.
Since 1953, Dr. Maietta has been
a hearing and speech therapist of
the Department of Public Instruc-

for

tion.

A

graduate of Williamsport

High School, Doctor Maietta
native

of

Sullivan

county.

is

a

His

McClinNescopeck, graduated from
Bloomsburg widi the class of 1949.
They have one child.
Doctor Maietta holds the Degress of Master of Science and
Doctor of Philosophy from tlie Unwife, the former Eleanor
tock,

iversity

member

of

He

Pittsburgh.

DR.

is

a

George G. Stradtman, Wyomisbeen appointed associate
professor of mathematics and scising, has
at the

A mem-

Teachers College.

ber of the Wyomissing High School
faculty since 1946, Mr. Stradtman
is

a native of Lancaster.

He

graduated from Millersville
Teachers College with the
degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education, and holds tire Master of
Education degree from Temple
University, where he completed all
the requirements for the doctorate
in Education except the thesis. Additional graduate work was taken
at the Pennsylvania State University and Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.
Mr. Stradtman has taught in tire
Standard Evening High School in
Reading,
the
West Lampeter
Township High School, Lampeter,
Pa., and the Perkiomen School at
Pennsburg. His industrial experience includes research engineering
assignmeirts
with the PYrestone
Rubber Company and the HamilState

ton

Watch Company.

Mr. Stradtman began his teaching duties with the beginning of

American Speech
and Hearing Association and the
Pennsylvania Speech Association.
He has been invited to deliver a

semester, September 12.
teaching classes in basic physical science and mathematics.

research paper before the American Speech Association in Los Angeles, California, at their annual
meeting in November 1955.

Miss Dolores Faith Ivey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Ivey,
Bloomsburg, and Russell Gerald
Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Pope, Bloomsburg, were
S.
married Saturday, June 25, at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Blooms-

of

the

1953

Cene Morrison, son

Mr. and
Mrs. John Morrison, R. D. 5, has
l)een separated from the armed
services.
He was graduated from
the Teachers College in 1953 where
he was on the football varsity and
busy in other campus activities. He
served in an ordnance company
and for seventeen months was in
the European Theatre. During his
leaves he did considerable traveling and thoroughly enjoyed Ins visits to England and
Italy.
He is
now preparing to enter the teaching profession.
2

of

the

He

fall

is

burg.

The

Rev.

William

J.

Watts,

Stoiiington, Conn., officiated at the

tloublc-ring ceremony, assisted

the Rev.

Elmer A.

by

Keiser.

The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School in 1951
and attended Indiana State Teachers College.
She is employed at
Timbrell’s Tots and Teens.
Her
husband, a graduate of Bloomsburg
High School in 1950, attended
B.S.T.C. and is now employed at
Sears Roebuck & Co.

NORTH HONORED

On Tuesday evening. May 3, the
Faculty Association held their annual dinner at the Elks in Bloomsburg. The Association honored Dr.
Thomas P. North, who retired from
the position

of

Dean

of Instruc-

January of this year. Mr.
Howard Fenstemaker presented
Dr. North with a lovely clock, a
gift from the faculty.
tioir

in

Seated at tlie head table were
President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P.
North, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Buckingham, Mr. and Mrs. Scott and
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fenstemaker.

Mr. Warren Johnson, president
of the Association, served as mas-

ceremonies. A high point in
evening was an address by
President Andruss.
After the dinner, entertainment
was ably provided by the Girls’
Ensemble, under the direction of
Mrs. Dorothy Evans. Deanna Morgan and Danny Dietterick also
sang solos.
A comedy skit was
presented by the two comedians
and
of
B.S.T.C.— Charlie Pope
Arnie Garinger. Kaki Crew performed her ever-popular Rag Doll
Dance and following Kaki’s dance
the College Men’s uartet, composed of Charlie Pope, John Seamon,
Allen Nuss and Sam Hall, sang
several numbers.
ter of

the

On

decoration committee
were Miss Marcella
Stickler, Mr. Harold Shelly and
Mrs.
Mr. Donald Herberholz.
Elizabeth Miller headed the invitation committee. The entertainthe

for the dinner

ment was arranged by Dean John
Hoch and Dr. Thomas Martin. Miss
Gwendolyn Reams officiated as
chairman of the resen'ation committee.
On the committee selecting the clock for Dr. North were
Miss Edna Hazen, Miss Marcella
Stickler and Mrs. Elizabeth Miller.

CREASY & WELT.S
Miu tha Creasy.

'04,

Vice Pres.

Bmi.DING M.ATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

IMiAISE
IN AIR

COLLEGE FOR All)
RESERVE PROGRAM

A. Aiidmss, PresiBloomsbiirg State Teaclifis C College, ha.s received a letter
llur\t‘y

Dr.

(k'lit

ot

commendation trom Major General Roger J. Brown, commander
of the First Air Force, coiumend()1

ing the College for its splendid
contribution to the Reserve Spe-

Program. A copy
of General Brown’s letter to Dr.
Andrnss is herewith (pioted as released by Major Daniel Rohrbaugh
of Snnbury, C.'ommander of the
9548th Air Reserxe Squadron oi
cialized Training

Bloomsbiirg:

Tabasco,
Colonel
‘‘Lieutenant
('ommandant of the Wilkes-Barre
Reserxe Center, informs me
.\ir
that reser\ ists in his area have recently completed a year of training
in Flight Operations at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
largely through the splencooperation from institutions

“It is

did

such as yours that the Air Force
is able to perform the monumental

keeping its reservists,
of
throughout the United States, cur-

task

rent in their specialized skills.

a

“Even though the Air Force is
comparati\ ely young service, we

have already identified ourselves
with the American tradition that
education is the cornerstone of proA major part of our effort
gress.

education and trainonly through these
means that we can remain a strong
and effective arm in the nation’s

is

devoted

ing because

to

it is

defense.
“^^’e are

proud

to

have been

in-

cluded in your academic program
during the past year. I would like
to offer my thanks for a job well
done and e.xpress the hope that
the Mhlkes-Barre Air Reserve Center may continue to be associated
with you in the future.”
A course in Flight Operation has
recently been completed by twenty-six officers of the 9548th Squadron.

The group

nated as Flight

of officers desig-

F was under

the
command of Lt. Col. Neil M. Richie, Bloomsbiirg R. D. 2.
The instructional program was carried out
by Mr. Sterling of the College
September, 1955

'rhrough this instruction the
were brought up to date on
the latest methods and procedures
as practiced by the Air Force iu
l'’light Operations.

Staff,

officers

Men

in

Bloomsbiirg include: Lt.

Col. Neil .M. Richie, R. D. 2;

Ma-

John II. Fox, Danville; Capt.
Harold 1’. Beck, Berwick; Capt.
Bruce M. tirawford, Benton; Capt.

jor

Bloomsbiirg;

I'etterolf,

1-kirle

S.

Caiit.

Buddy M. Hartman, Espy;

C. Klinger, Danville;
Robert A. Linn, Bloomsbiirg;
Ckipt. C.'larence R. Remley, DanRobbins,
(.’harles
ville; Capt.
Hlcomsburg; 1st Lt. .Anthony Kulingoskey, (iatawissa; 1st Lt. Robert
('.
Bobbins, Bloomsburg.

tiapt. Richaril

Cajit.

In

a

lovely

late

summer

cere-

monv performed Saturday, August
the Presbyterian Church,
at
Kennet Square, Miss Catharine E.
Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Kennett
Williams,
R.
Herbert
20.

Square, became the bride of Richuril II. Whitner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Whitner, Bloomsburg.
The Rev. Herbert Landis, pasperformed the double-ring
tor,
ceremony before the candle-lighted altar which was banked with
palms and urns of white flowers.
Tl'.e bride graduated from Unionv ille High School and Mansfield
She vv’ill
State Teachers College.
teach home economics at Bloomsburg High School this fall.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School and a
former student at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, seiwed two
years in the Lb S. Army and is now
e:nployed at the Farmers National
Bank, Bloomsburg.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville. Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbiiry-Selinsffrove

W.

Highway

E. Booth. ’42

R. J

Webb,

DOCTOR RUSSELL
WRITES ARTICLE
Almus Russell, professor of
J.
English at the Teachers College,
is tlie author of “Nineteenth Century School Readers Influence the
Nation’s English,” published in the
January, March, April and May,
issue of The Progressive
1955,
Teacher, Morristown, Tenn.
In this

comprehensive

article, of

significance to students of elementary and secondary ixlucation. Dr.
Russell has made a detailed and
careful study of the readers used
in the American public .schools of

nineteenth century. This surstarts with Noah Webster’s—
“.An .American Selection in Reading, 1758,” and concludes with Rotlie

vey

bert

McL. Cumnock’s

—

“Choice

Readings, 1878.”
Professor Russell, in preparation
this essay, made a study of

for

the collection of nineteenth century
school readers found in the library
of the Friends of the Aliddle Border located at Mitchell, S. D. In
he consulted volumes
addition,
found in other libraries as well as
in his own collection, paying especial

attention

to

the famed

Mc-

Guffey Eclectic Readers, unabated
in their popularity from their inception in 1836 to their discontinuance about 1910, and “ ... in

which were combined literary lessons, obvious moral lessons, and
carefully selected abstracts from
great English and American writTheir estimated sales, running through numerous editions,
Contotalled 122,000,000 copies.
se({uently, their constant use in the
mid-nineteenth century schools had
a profound effect upon the cultural
and moral shaping of the American
mind. During the Civil War, they
were published independently in
the South, a tribute to their broad
point of view.”
Each chapter of this article is
illustrated by the author with picreproduced from
school
tures
ers.

readers of the period.

’42

HOMECOMING
OCTOBER

DAY:
22

3

SENIORS

AWARDED

Olympian
rector

SERVICE KEYS

Obiter.

Thirteen members of the graduating class were presented Service
Keys at the annual Honor Assembly
Each year
held in Carver Hall.
keys are awarded for service rendered the college to ten per cent
of the Senior Class who have accumulated a minimum of twenty
points through various extra-curj

icular activities.

Presentation of tlie seniors to
reecive the Service Keys was made
by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, with
Arnold Garinger making the actual

Those who

presentations.

re-

ceived the coveted keys were: Oren Baker, Edward Connolley, Jan
Ference, George Derk, Alice FishGaringer, Gora Gill,
er, Arnold
Sherrill Hiller,

Hope Horne,

Keitli

McKay, Relda Rohrbach, Evelyn
Weaver and Nancy Sue Williams.
A Science and Mathematics major, Oren Baker has been active in
l^ay

Club,

Men’s

Association,

Customs

Science
Phi

Committee,

Pi, Kappa
Delta Pi, and
College Council.
He served as
president of Kappa Delta Pi during his senior year, and vice-president of the Day Men’s Association

Sigma

ill

his junior year.

G.G.A. President

Ed Connolley

also served as president of his Junior Class, vice-president of the Sci-

ence Club while a sophomore and
president of the Sophomore Class,
historian of Phi Sigma Pi, and
member of the Basketball Tourna-

ment Committee. Ed is also a
ence and Mathematics major.

A

Sci-

General

Business
student,
(George Derk has held membersliip
in Varsity Club, Mixed Chorus,
F.T.A., Business Education Club,
Baseball Team and Dorm Men’s
Association.
He has been vicepresident of the Busine.ss Ed Club,
Business Manager of the Maroon
and Gold and Advertising Manager
of the Obiter.

Jan Ference, Elementary Educabeen kept busy at
B.S.T.Ck with Fashion Show, Publicity Ciommittee, Art Committee,
Bloomsburg Players, Waller Hall
Handbook, Obiter Editorial Board,

tion major, has

4

Editorial Board, and Diof Senior Pictures for the

Coed-of-the-Year Director, PublicDirector,

ity

and member

of the

Board.
A Biology and
Social Studies major, Keith was
president of his freshman class and
man representative to College
Council
the
following
year.

Editorial

Another
Alice Fisher
president of

Elementary
is

tlie

student,
as the
Waller Hall Asso-

best

known

having also served as vicepresident and on the Governing
Board of the same organization.
Kappa Delta Pi, Maroon and Gold,
Athenaeum Club, F.T.A., “B” Club,
and College Council have also
claimed Alice’s time at Bloomsciation,

burg.

Witty Arnie Garinger will long
be remembered as the Senior Class
President, Football Manager, Maroon and Gold columnist, and

member

of Science Club, Varsity
Club, Bloomsburg Players, F.T.A.,

Pep Committee, Assembly Committee, and Olympian and Obiter
Arnie is a Secondary major
with the emphasis on Science and

stafs.

Social Studies.

Waller Hall Governing Board,
and Women’s
Chorus claimed the attention of
Cora Gill, another Elementary major.
Cora acted as secretary for
the Science Club in both her sophomore and junior years and secretary for F.T.A. while a senior.
As treasurer of the Bloomsburg
Players while a sophomore and
secretary of during her junior year,
secretary of Business Education
Club, president of Alpha Psi Omega, and treasurer of F.T.A. Sherrill Hiller won recognition and a
Service Key Award.
Sherrill is a
Business Education student and also was Freshman Cla.ss Adviser in
F.T.A., Science Club,

,

Bloomsburg Players, Men’s Glee
Club, F.T.A., Phi Sigma Pi, Kappa
Delta Pi and numerous C.G.A.
committees are also included on
his list of activities that gained him
a Service Key Award.

An Elementary student,. Relda
Rohrbach has been active in Flashion Show, Band, “B” Club, F.T.A.,
S.C.A., C.G.A. Furniture Committee, Obiter, and the Waller Hall
Governing Board.
General Business major Evelyn
Weaver was a Fashion Show Coordinator for three years and headed the group during her junior
Evelyn has been a member
year.
of the Maroon and Gold Staff, “B”
Club, Mixed Chorus, Band, Business Education Club and served as
state secretary of F.T.A. and treasurer of the Waller Hall Governing
Board.
Included on the lengthy

list

of

won Nancy Sue WilService Key are Women’s

activities tliat

liams a
C.horus,

C.G.A. Awards

Commit-

Chairman, F.T.A., Kappa Delta
Pi Treasurer, Maroon and Gold
Editorial Board, and Associate Edtee

the Obiter in her senior
major, Nancy
Sue also served as program chairman of F.T.A. during her final year
at B.S.T.C.
itor

of

year.

An Elementary

her junior year.

Hope

Horne

represented

the

Women

on College Council
during her junior year, served on
the Day Women’s Official Board
while a freshman and senior, and
acted as vice-president as a sophomore. An Elementary major, Ilope
has also been active in Science
Club, Women’s Chorus, Mixed
C'horus, Kappa Delta Pi, F.T.A.,
and Maroon and Gold.
13ay

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODf?
M. C. Strausser,
122 East

— REPAIRS

’27,

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg. Pa.

Editor-in-Chief of the 1955 ObiKeith McKay edited tlie Olympian during his junior year, headed
the Maroon and Gold photography
ter,

staff for

two

years, serv'ed as Obiter

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

PENNSYIA ANIA STATE TEACHEKS C:OLLECES ATHLETIC

CONFERENCE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE St*pteinl)or

16—

West

(.’Iiester (n)

September 17—

Kings

September 23—

Monmouth

at

W.

Chester

(n)

September 24—

Haven

xt.'larion at

E. Stroudsburg

at

x.\lillers\ille

.\Loek

at

Ship])ensbnrg

Indiana at Ball State

(n)

1—

Bloomsburg

New Haven

at

Blummer,
Barnes,

4—
St. \

(n)

incent (n)

5—

Edinboro

at

at

Youngstown

(n)

Haven

xE. Stroudsburg at Shippensburg

Kutztown
Edinboro

x.Millersville at

Montclair at Cheyney
Bloomsburg at Cortland
Mansfield at Kings
Brockport at Clarion
Asliland at Slippery Rock

October 15—
xShippensburg at California
xE. Stroudsburg at Mansfield
xWest Chester at Lock Haven
xSlippery Rock at Indiana

Case
Stroudsburg

xW est Chester at Bloomsburg
xClaiion at Shippensburg
xMansfield at Millersville
\E. Stroudsburg at Cheyney
Slippery Rock at Westiniiister
Edinboro
Kutztown

at

Grove City

October 22—
xWest Chester at E. Stroudsburg

Lock Haven

xindiana at Clarion
xCalifornia at Slippery Rock
xKutztown at Mansfield
Nat. Ag. at Millersville

PalmerNe.squehoning; Jean Stavisky, Old Forge; EnField;

ton;

Cionstance

Edward

Bald-W'allace at Culilornia

Lycoming

at

Nanticoke;

Augustine,

Donald Hare, Sunbury; Mary J.
Hazleton; Miriam Miller,
K(K'h,
St. Clair; Suzanne Osborn, SpringOzalas,

Setar,

ola \'anAii ken. Mill City.

at Montclair

Lock Haven

November 19—
xEdinboro at California
xLock Haven at Bloomsburg

X— Denotes conference

game.>
(n)— Denotes night games

Juniors

Bertha Knouse, Bloom.sburg

J.

WTSLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBLIC
252 West Fifth Street

Bloomsburg 131-M

’34

R.

D. 2; Wylla Mae Bowman, Martha
Theophele
Berwick;
Staivatow,
Jones, Slatington; Doris Krzywicki
Plymouth; Nancy Renn, Shamokin;
Eileen Watson, Old Fodge.
Seniors
Baker,
Joyce
Shirley
Bloomsburg;

Oren

Waynesburg

Trenton at Kutztown
Edinboro at Brockport
Bloomsburg at Wilkes

at

Sophomores

Edward

at Millersville

Clarion at

1; Mary Gala.Mary
Grace,
Hazleton;
xtroudsburg; Raymond Hargraves,
Scranton; Richard Mease, Milton;
John .Moss, New Milford; Sandra
Raker, East Smithfieid; .Mae Rom.Middlecreek; C. J. Spentzas,
ig,
Towanda; James Ulmer, Rottsville
R. D. 1.

tha,

C Portland at E.

8—

xCalifornia at Ia>ek

Bloomsburg;
James
Shamokin; Hazel Cole-

man, Friedens R. D.

West Chester

No\ember 12—

Chester

September, 1955

FVeshmen
Mrs. Bettie Cobley, Mrs. Dolores

xCalifornia at Bloomsburg
xSlippery Rock at Clarion

7—

xCheyney

Stroudsburg
Shippensburg

at E.

xMansfiehl at Lock Haven
xSliippensburg at Kutztown

\'incent at Clarion

xCheyney

Indiana

at

X Millersville at

November

Shippensburg at New Haven
Ithaca at E. Stroudsburg

X Indiana at

C.'hesler (n)

x.Mansfield at Edinboro
xCdarion at California

Indiana at

xLoek Haven at Millersville
xSlippery Rock at Edinboro
xBloomsburg at Mansfield
xKutztown at Cbe>iiey

Oetober

October 29—
xLock Haven

x.Millersx ille at

xCalifornia at Indiana

\\'e.st

Dean’s List
second semester of 1954-55.
These students have a quality
point average of 2.5 or better for
the second semester and an aceumlative average of at least 2.0
while in attendance at the college.
On the Dean’s list arc:
(jualified for the

lor the

West

at

.November

Drexel at W’est C'hester

October

at B.S.T.C., has released the
following names of students who

tion

'rrenton at C’heyiu')
(ieneva at Slippery Rock

September 30—

St.

John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruc-

John Carroll

have

xKutztown

Edinboro

Nat. .Aggies at Kutztovvn
(dieyney at Delaware State

Oetober

at

Montclair at Shippensburg
Kings at Bloomsburg

Oetober 28-

Cleneva at Indiana

Ft.

1955

Edinboro

E. (.'aroliiia at

STUDENTS ON DEAN’S
IJST FOR SECOND SEMESTER

LIST

Lundy,

Redline,
Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Lynda Bogart,
Berwick; Eileen Gerosky, West
Gloria Harris, Hickory
Pittston;
Corners; Lewis Mervine, Gordon;
Sally Morgan; Edwardsville; Malcolm Smith, Nancy Snyder, Hazleton; Ann Swortwood, Ashley, and
Nancy S. Williams, Clarks Summit.

HOMECOMING
OCTOBER

DAY:

22

5

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre Area

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock, PA.

'46

PRESIDENT

Eenton, Pa.

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

'33

New

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Edward

’41

D. Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Betty Hensley

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Susan Jennings Stunnan,

’14

Tunkhannock,

Pa.

42 Slocum, Ave.,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Chester Wojcik

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

TREASURER

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

’07

147 East

SECRETARY

St.,

Mrs. Lucille
127

TREASURER

David W. Foust,
R. D.

2,

P.

’35

U

Street,

Washington
Ur. M.

Kehr

is

Miss Alice Smull,

Moosic, Pa.

312

SECRETARY

Church

St.,

S

.E.

D. C.

the Advisor of the group

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

’05

Danville, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Charles I. Boyer '96
Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASUREIi

Miss Margaret Lewis
1105V,i W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

”28

Miss Susan Sidler,
615

Bloom

St.,

’30

VICE PRESIDENT

Danville, Pa.

(Union County)
Mrs. Linn

TREASURER

PHILADELPHIA AREA

’22

632 North Main Avenue
Scranton, Pa.

R. D.

NEW YORK AREA

J.

PRESIDENT
’35

’18

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston ’23
693 Arch Street, Spring City, Pa.

'12

Miss Esther E. Dagnell

’ll

’29

Northumberland, Pa.
(Snyder County)
Robert J. Webb ’42

SECRETARY
Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg, Pa.

'35

|

^

TREASURER

TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Miss Caroline E. Petrullo

Shamokin Dam, Pa.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

’38

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Miss Kathryn M. Spencer
Fairview Village, Pa.

Danowsky

Lewisburg, Pa.

(Northumberland County)

’06

Camden, N.

3,

VICE PRESIDENT

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish
732 Washington Street,

Michael Prokopchak,

20,

SECRETARY

Minooka Avenue

Miss Martha Y. Jones

Crumb

Miss Sadie
1232

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.
’23

O. Springfield, Virginia

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Danville, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Marion George Evans

Miss Harriet Kocher
Skylark Hotel

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Barrett, Jr.

C.

RECORDING SECRETARY

MONTOUR COUNTY

William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

Edward

(Adda Mae Myers ’49)
1232 Blair Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland

’32

Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

LACKAWANNA-VVAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH

'I

Arlington, Virginia

Mrs.

McHose Ecker_

D. C.

16,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Joseph A. Kulich ’49
1542 N. Danville Street

TREASURER

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

A. K. Naugle,

Washington

Hazleton, Pa.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

TREASURER

P. Clive Potts,

PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Miss Pearl L. Baer ’32
21 South Union St, Harrisburg, Pa.

520

Chestnut

’14

Miss Genevieve G. Morgis ’34
3700 Massachusetts Ave., N. W.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

George St, Harrisburg, Pa.

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

WASHINGTON ALUMNI

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart,

New

Area

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St, Harrisburg, Pa.

2921

Olwen Argust

Mrs.
B. Hazleton

’ll

TREASURER

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary A. Meehan. ’18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

Jerry Russin

TREASURER

’52

Milford, Pa.

’34

Mrs. Clarence

Crow

'40
j

119 Dalton St, Roselle Park, N.

G

J.

215 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.

Lewisburg, Pa.
j

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY h

L

1883

John G. Conner, who several
years ago recei\ecl the Alumni Distinguished Service Award, lives at
227 (Greenwood Drive, West Palm
Beach, Florida. In an article “Bowling on the Green,” appearing in the

Palm Beach
ture
his

Post, Mr. Conner’s picdisplayed as one who “holds

is

own

in

tournaments against far

\{)nnger players.”

1888
S. Nicss, West Third
Bloomsburg, reached her
ninetieth birthday on Monday, August 15. An open house was held
that evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry John, Jr., 425 Iron

Mrs. Annie

street,

street.

She was born, August

15,

1865,

Jerseytown, and was the former Annie Supplee, daughter of
George W'. and Sarah Supplee. She
graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School in 1888.
She was married to Jere B. Nuss in 1891 and
they had two children, Preston S.
Nuss, Wayne, Mich., and Ruth
Nuss Fenstemaker, who died in
1945. Mr. Nuss died in 1918.
Mrs. Nuss has two grandchilin

Howard F. Fenstemaker, Jr.,
Muskegon, Mich., and Mrs. Harry
There are
John, Jr., Bloomsburg.
three great grandchildren, Ruth
Emma and Amy Fenstemaker and
dren,

Edward

Frank
Mrs.

and

is

First

Nuss

John.
enjoys

a faithful

Baptist

good health

member

Church

of the

of Blooms-

work under the Episcopal Board of
Missions. Bishop and Mrs. Wilner
have been in the mission service

1916
Elizabeth Wilson
C. Williams) lives

the past 40 years, serving first in

Bucks (County, Pa.

and later in the Philippine Islands.
During World War 11 they were
interned in the Santa
Manila.

plans to fly in September from the Philippines to Hawaii, where they will attend a
Bishops’ (Conference before returning to the States.

Mrs. Wilner (Alfaretta Stark) is
a member of the Cla.ss of 1912.
Enroute to Timkhaimock, they
will stop in Wichita, Kan., to visit
their .son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Wilner and family,
and the Bi.shop’s brother,
George Wilner.

Following their arrival

hannock

late

in

Tunk-

in

September they

will \isit Mrs. Wilner’s brother-in-

law and

sister, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Baker, at Baker’s Acres, Lemon,
before going to housekeeping in

(C.

home.

1909
Harrison R. Barrow lives at 1612
Bartley Road, Dayton, Ohio.
1910

Kresge (Mrs. Jared D.
Montanye) lives at 23 West Hollenback .Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Olive

Her hu.sband passed awav April
1955.

Salome

1904

Tamaqua,

Hill

Billings lives at R.

lives

at

54

New

Jersey.

Leah Bogart Lawton lives at 140
Orchard Street, Berwick, Pa.
1914
Miss Mary Aston was

1908

M.

Long

1914

Pa.

cipal of

D.

Meade

made

Prin-

September, 1955

25, the members of the
Hallstead Board of the Blue Ridge

Joint

Schools,

lac-i.;lty

of

the

together with the
Hallstead School,

held their annual social meeting
The principal
in the auditorium.
purpose of the event this year was
to pay tribute to Miss Frances
Limier, who is retiring alter thirty-six years in the teaching profession.

Miss Kinner came to the then
Hallstead Higlr School, now a part
of the Blue Ridge Joint Schools, in
1928.
Previous to that time she
had taught in the schools at Meh(>opar.y and Falls Overlie Id. She
C\as placed in charge of tlie English and Latin depaitmeuts of the
High School, a position which she
has fulfilled with outstanding abilAside from her
iiity and success.
.regular teaching duties. Miss Kinner acted as Senior Class adviser
for several years.

ted

many

She also direc-

of the class plays,

whose

repeated successes were indicative
of her exceptional ability in this

During the course of the eveGeorge Schmick, Principal of the High Schools, on behalf
of the faculty and himself, presented Miss Kinner a wrist watch as
a token of the esteem in which she
The people of the comis held.
munity join with the members of
the faculty in wishing Miss Kinner
licr

pleasant years in

retirement.

MOYER BROS.
1914

Miss Adah Weyhenmeyer is recovering from a severe heart attack.

1919

On May

Street School, Wil-

kes-Barre, Pa.

at

Mercy

Wilkes-Barre, for

many

She was a patient

Hospital,

Island.

many happy and

Nicholson, Pennsylvania.

1909
Bishop and Mrs. Robert F. Wilner expect to arrive at Tunkhannock in the fall to make their home
following retirement from their

1919
Lucia E. Hammond (Mrs. Robert
1.. Wheeler) lives at 269 Washington Avene, Providence 5, Rhode

ning, Mr.

Beh'idere Road, Glen Rock,

Vine Street, Hazleton.

1904
Emma S. Hinkley (Mrs. John P.
Saylor) lives at 313 Pine Street,

Harold

Rushland,

particular field.

1914

Elizageth E. Specht (Mrs. William H. Marten) lives at 541 North

Ella

prison

The couple

burg.

1,

Toma

in

17,

in

where they were married,

C.'hina,

their

(Mrs.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE 1868
William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

weeks.
7

1920
Jane E. Park (Mrs. Grant Ashburner), R. D., Dallas, received
her A.B. degree from Susquehanna University in 1929, and her M.A.
degree from Columbia in 1935.

lege and New York University, continuing her education at Montclair
State Teachers College and Newark State Teachers College, botli

At present, Mrs. Smitli resides
in Benton with her husband and

Shelley.

1925

three children. In addition to her
duties as housewife and mother,

1930
following members of tlie
Class of 1930 are listed as deceas-

Helen Welliver Hayhurst

Mrs.

in

New

she

turn in a year.

House, in which capacity she reads
manuscripts and acts both as poe-

Her temporary address

will

be

Personnel Mail,
503, In Care of Postmaster,

Casual

APO

Civilian

San J'rancisco, Calif.
Mrs Hayhurst, a foimer teacher
in the Scott Schools, has been instructor

two

in

Sunbury lor the past

years.

1928
(Reprinted from
“The Maroon and Gold”)
Poetry, the embodiment of beautiful
emotion, imagination, and
thought witliin a jeweled framework, is the concentrated treasure
in the communication of feelings

is

editor of “Poetry Corner” in

The Morning
She

is

also

for

tive

Press of Blomsburg.
an editorial representa-

the

Falmouth Publishing

tiy adviser for the staff

and

as a

talent scout.

Mrs. Smith’s favorite poets are
Elinor Wylie, Emily Dickinson, W.
B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, and the
great romantic poet, John Keats.
Her writing has been further inspired by tales of the Bronte sisters, and by The Golden Bough,
which she considers as “an eternal
source.” Her interests range from
philosophy and ancient religions to
astronomy and science.

The

Eleanor Sands Smidi has been
the worthy recipient of a steady
stieam of critical acclaim for her
rhapsodic poetry.
She has been
called, “a mature poet writing with
a deeper understanding of nature

poetess says that in the beginning she was interested in writing as a means of expression only.
Soon she was very gratfied to discover that her poetry had a strong
communicative value as well. She
began to write with additional purpose at age eleven, although she
had her first article in Etude, the

and

music magazine,

and

ideas.

life.”

Martin’s Summer, a deluxe
containing some of Mrs.
Smith’s most lyric poems, was published by the Falmouth Publishing
St.

edition

House

Manchester, Maine, in
of poetry is representative of only a fraction of
the hundreds of verses written by
Mrs. Smith from her early school
days until 1952.
Eleanor Sands Smith was born
in an anticpie house in Benton,
Pennsylvania, in 1908. Except for
a few years of teaching near New
York City, she has always resided
of

The book

1952.

in the country.

She attended the Benton public
schools
where she found the
teachers interested in her writing.
Soon

graduating from high
entered Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
She later
slndicd at Pennsylvania State Col8

she

at

age

schemes which arc

\'itally alive in

their effectiveness.

In an age
of

a

deem

transcend the

ized word in order to lead us back
to the beautiful world of nature so

when we

mechanical

are captives

civilization,

pleasure

The

ed:
Albright, Sarah R.
Brobst, Dorothy G.

Chehansky, Anna
Edwards, Elizabeth M.
(Mrs. Charles Snyder)
Fetterman, Alva Jane
(Mrs. Robert Fehr)
Rees. Edith Louise

Anna C.
Mary C.

Strausner,

Gibbons,

MacKinder, Adeline
Manbeck, Mildred
(Mrs. Robert Houseknecht)
Matelski, Florence T.
Merrell, Nola
Ruch, Clarence A.
Wolfe, Genevieve
(Mrs. Burton King)

1930

Helen
Berk)

Bond

D.

(Mrs.

Leslie

4435 North

at

lives

32nd

Street, Phoenix, Arizona.

1930
Gladys T. Clark (Mrs. Harry Rubright) gives her address as

Wayne

University, 10054 Balfour
Detroit 24, Michigan.

Road,

1930
Alice B. Fould lives at 315 East

ten.

Mrs. Smith’s book, St. Martin’s
Summer, has drawings by Ruth
of
Hutton
Ancker,
formerly
Bloomsburg. The volume is divided
into several sections, each developing a facet of her personal philosoThe poems read very well
phy.
and lend themselves to a rich understanding of man and nature.
Her works show many romantic
elements, such as the countryside
with children of long ago. She captures in her landscape a certain
medieval tone; yet, the reader
finds himself in harmony with it.
Her couplets are particularly fine,
and she frequently uses varied rime

after

school,

to

beloved by Wordsworth, Keats and

Jersey.

accepted a teaching position
with the U. S. Army in Japan. She
will teach the children of the military personnel and expects to re-

lias

managed

she has

jiuperficiality of today’s industrial-

we

Jefferson Avenue, Detroit 7, Mich.

1930

Nancy
Brown)

R.

Haynes

(Mrs.

Ray

401 Carter Boulevard, Elizabethtown, Tennessee.
lives at

1930
Charles A. John lives at 629
South Summit, Bowling Green,
Ohio.
1930
Lillian

Mann

Indepedent

lives at

1410 North
North

Street, Kingston,

(Carolina.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

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

’34

read the
works of Eleanor Sands Smith, for
it

a

to

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Boy Scout Troop

1930
(Jenc'N ievi'

ley

Hansavage (Mrs. Stan19408 I’airpart
Michigan.

laike) li\es at

.\\enue, Detroit 5,

1930

51, Wilkes-Barre;

mcml)cr of W'ilkes-Barre Citizens

Committee

Schools,
Better
member of Chamber of Commerce,
captain. Bed Cross Drive and captain, (iommnnity Welfare Drive.
for

Hilda H. W'olt (Mrs. Uussell Brining) lives at
l

663 llawthorne Street,

1935

Edwin

acoina, Washington.

R. Creasy, since 1953 As-

Mathematics

sistant Professor of

1930
Elted 11. Jones, for the past ten
years supervising principal of tlie
Bo)d Dodson School, WilkesBarre, lias accepted the position of
supervising principal of the Scott
f ownship Schools, succeeding tlie
late Earl E. Davis, who lost his

by drowning June 19.
Mr. Jones began his teaching ca-

lile

the Junior High

1930 in
Nanticoke.
From 1932
until 1937 he taught in tlie Senior
High School of Nanticoke; from
1937 to 1945 at the J. M. Coughlin
High School, Wilkes-Barre, and
from 1945 untl the present tune
has been supervising principal of
the Boyd Dodson School, WilkesBarre.
From 1946 until 1951 he
also taught e.vtensioii work at the
State Teachers College, Bloomsreer

in

Schol

at

and

burg,

Fennsyh aiiia State

at

University.

He

minster Fresbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre.

He

is

(Teasy,

Row

graduate of State Teachers
t>ollege, Blomsburg, he received
his -\laster of Arts degree in Administration and Supervision from
New York University ui 1937 and
has completed all requirements for
his doctorate except tlie thesis. He
is co-autlior of tlie State Department of Education boolket “Selfin

tlie

Elementary

Schools of Pennsylvania” and has
contributed to tlie New Elementary

Curriculum in Pennsylvania and
twenty-eighth Yearbook of
the National Elementary Principals

to the

the

son of

C.'reasy,

\'t.,

is

a

of

Jr.,

is

of Burlington,

and Mrs. MarNoroton Heights,

and baseball, and was

member

\'a.,

1940, at Winches-

he married

Dix of Nicholson,

Pa.,

and Mrs. R. C. Dix of Nicholson, and they have two sons: Larry,
13, and Richard, 10.
.Mr.

1939
of Miss Anna L.
Orner, daughter of Lawrence T.
Orner, Bloomsburg, and the late
Mrs. Elizabeth Orner, to Roland
R. Guttendorf, son of Mrs. Katliryn Guttendorf, Pittsburgh, and the
late Charles M. Guttendorf, Jr.,
has been announced by the bride’s
father.

the Rev. Dr.

Lodge No.

former Bloomsburg pastor.
After a wedding luncheon with

of

of

Board

Good

Will,

trustee

of

442,

Free and Accepted Masons, Wilkes-Barre;
Caldwell
Consistory,
Bloomsburg; committee member,
September, 1955

Albert

W.

1939

Miriam Utt (Mrs. Samuel Frank,
Ir.) lives at 144 Jefferson Avenue,
York, Pa.

1940
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Moore are

now

living

101 North Church

at

Street, .Vlolmton, Pennsylvania.

Mr.

Moore is a teacher in the Reading
High School. Mrs. Moore, formerly Ethel Ruth, is a former student at Bloomsburg.

1944

Mary

DeWald

(Mrs. John L.
Letteer( lives at 236 Harrison Avenue, Lewisburg, Pa.
F.

1944

Leo Carter

lives at

2017 Wash-

ington Street, Allentown, Pa.

1946

Edwin Deleski

teaching busiHigh School
York. He is maris

ness subjects in the

Laurens, New
and has five children, including twin girls and three boys.

at

ried

The marriage

of Directors of

Men

are:

(Mrs.

Sineal) lives at R. D. 4, Danville,
Pa.

Miss Anita
daughter of

member

affiliations

1939

Dngan

Ruth

fraternity.

Westminster Presbyterian Church,

His

groom is a member of the firm of
The Guttendorf Press, Pittsburgh.

a

The ceremony was performed on
June 17 in the Bedford Forge
Methodist Church, Loysburg, by

Association.

The bride is a former member of
the faculty of the business education department of the West York
High School, York, Pa. The bride-

of the glee club also of

Kappa Delta Pi
In December,

through the

They

tieth street.

a sister.

He attended grade school at
Bloomsburg, and in 1931 was gradBloomsburg High
from
uated
School.
In 1935 he received his
B.S. degree from the Pennsylvania
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, and in 1946 he received a
degree of Master of Science in
Mathematics from BuckneU University, Lewisburg, Pa. At Bloomsburg he was active in football and

trip

are now
residing in Pittsburgh at 459 For-

Clarence

brother,

garet C. Lind, of

Conn.,

J.

and .Mrs. Hazel
Bloomsburg, Pa.

retired,

John C. Creasy,

ter,

A

E\aluatioii

Pennsylvania Military College in
Chester, was born Nxvember 12,
1914, in Columbia County, Pa. His
home is on Huntsville Road, T)allas, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

tennis

Sunday school superintendent and teacher at tlie Westis

at

left on a wedding
Great Lakes area.

J.

Edgar

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46

Manager
Main S-treet
Bloomsburg 529

Assistant
142 East

Skillington,

Dr. and Mrs. Skillington at their
home, Mr. and Mrs. Guttendorf
9

1946

Henry

Gatski,

J.

a

teacher in the Danville Junior High
and assistant varsity football coach,
has been elected principal of the
Middle Township High School,
Ciape May Court House, N. J.
Mr. Gatski has been a member
of the faculty at Danville for the
past seven years and in that time
in addition to his work in varsity
football has been head football and
basketball coach in the Junior
High School.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, he started
his teaching career in Scott Township.
He holds a Master in Education Degree from Bucknell and
is

certified in Pennsylvania

a high school principal

both as

and super-

vising principal.

His Junior High School football
teams lost but one game in three
years, that to Bloomsburg. In basketball his teams won two successive titles, both with undefeated
league seasons.
Mrs. Gatski is the former Mary
Catherine Snyder. There are two
children. Beryl Ann and Peter.

1948
(Jlement G.

now

Koch and family

are

living in Caracas, Venezuela.

His address

is

care Creole Petro-

leum Corporation, Apartado 889,
(Caracas, Venezuela.

1949
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer T. Nester
live at 22 Arcli Street, Pen Argyle,
Pa.

Mary Helen Morrow, of Towanda, and John W. Waverka were
Saturday,

1955, in St. Joan of
Hersliey, Pa.

February 19,
Arc CJhurch,

1949
Cdarcncc C. Rowlands rtceived
his Master’s degree at Bucknell
University at the close

mer

the bride of
son of Mr.

Schueler, of
The bride

Bloomsburg State
lege and for the past three years
has taught in the Matamoras High
School.
The groom is a Korean
war veteran and at present is an
apprentice in the Erie Car Department at Cleveland, Ohio.

Upon
side

at

their return, they will re-

Garfield

o)

the

beautiful

June wedding was

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John

1950
Jay R. Stout, Berwick resident
until a number of years ago, has

been promoted

1950
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Laubscher, of Palo Alto, California, are
the parents of a son, Lane Baker
Laubscher, born on June 22, 1955.
Mrs. Laubscher is the former
f.ucy Jane Baker, of Bloomsburg.

to the position of

Supervisor

District

of

Accounts,

District 6-15, Postal Transportation

Service,

Harrisburg, Pa., effective

June 1.
Mr. Stout has served in the Postal Transportation Service for seven years, and for the past year in

the post of District Supervisor of
Air Service.

Cleve-

He

received

his

education

at

Berwick High School, Rider Business College, Trenton, N. J., and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Before his transfer to Harrisburg,
Mr. Stout held postal assignments
at various installations in Philadel-

phia.

side at

He and his family now
Camp Hill, Pa.

re-

1950

John W. Williams, Bloomsburg,
received his Master’s degree at
Bucknell University at the close of
the

summer

session.

1952

Harold V. Hartley, Jr., has been
hired as Speech Therapist of the
Sharon City Schools for the year
1955-1956.

1950
The marriage of Miss Anne Pejakovich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Pejakovich, West Hazleton, to
Ukasin S. Vukcevich, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Vukcevich, West
Hazleton, took place recently. The
Very Rev. Peter Hydukovich officiated at the ceremony in St. Nicholas
Serbian
Orthodox Church,
Steelton.

The newlyweds left on a honeymoon at Wildwood, N. J., and will
take us residence at 204 East Oak
West Hazleton.
Mrs. Vukcevich was graduated
from West Hazleton High School
with the Class of 1947. She is employed at Shirtcraft, Inc. Her husband, a 1946 graduate of the same
liigh school and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, is now on
the faculty at Minersville High
School.

1952

Raymond Kozlowski
\

S.

BARTON,

RFAL ESTATE
52

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
BloomsLiurg 850

is

working

Master’s degree at the Uniersity of Pennsylvania.

for

Iiis

1953
Mrs. Robert Hileman, daughter
of Mrs. Mervin Mericle and the
late Mr. Mericle, old Berwick Road,
was one of three teachers chosen
from the faculty of the New Brunswick, N. J., Public Schools to teacli
in the Rutgers University demonstration school which was in session July 5-29.

This school was conducted for
graduates of liberal arts colleges
who are interested in teaching as
a career. It is a new plan to help
alleviate the teacher shortage and
will eventuallly lead to a Master’s
Degree in Education.
Mrs. Hileman has taught in the
schools of
years and

sum-

.solemnized recently at Hope E.U.
B. (Jhurch when Pauline L. Koko-

10

Heights,

land.

HARRY

Jias,

graduate of
Teachers Col-

a

session.

1949

A

is

Street,

1949

married

Matamoras, became
Donald F. Schueler,
and Mrs. Clarence
Youngstown, Ohio.

P. Kokolias, of

Fernville,

New
is

Brunswick for two

a graduate of Scott

Township High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColShe is the
class of 1953.
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.
C. Edwards, of West Fourth street,
Bloomsburg.
lege,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ser\ed four years with the U. S.
Naiy.
He is employed at Fern-

shared with him our service keys.
Who’s Who nominations, and diplomas was an honor completely

brook

ours.

1954
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bennett, formerly of Blooinsburg, are parents
of a daughter born recently at La
Mrs. Bennett
Mirada, California.
the former Joanne Heisley,
js
Blooinsburg. Their address is 14322
.\Iicante Road, La Mirada, Calif.

from Monroe Township School and

1954
Miss Shirley Yencha, of WilkesBarre, and Ylalcolm H. Smitli, of
Hazleton, were married Saturday,
August 6, at the Memorial PresbyThe
tc=^rian Church, Wilkes-Barre.

was written by Alfred Chiscon to President Andruss shortly after the death

Mills.

The couple
mont.

1954
Note: The following

(Editor's

ceremony was performed by

tlie

Robert H. Phillips. Mrs.
been teaching in Kingston Borough.

Rev.

Smitli has

1954
The marriage of xMiss Betsy
Baer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl E. Baer, of Shickshiuny R. D.
2, to Thomas E. Schukis, sou of
Mrs.
City,

Anna

Schukis, of

and the

late

Mahanoy

Joseph Schukis,

took place on June 18 in St. Joseph’s Church, Mahanoy City. Rev.
P. C.

Chesna

officiated.

A

reception was held at Newhard’s Hall, after which the couple
went to the Poconos. They will
reside in Stratford, N.

J.

The bride is a graduate of tlie
Shickshiuny High School and tlie
Blooinsburg State Teachers College.
She is a member of the faculty of

Clementon Schools, Clem-

enton, N.

J.

The bridegroom is a graduate of
Mahanoy City High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColHe is on the faculty of Low-

lege.

er

Camden Regional High

Clementon, N.

School,

letter

Fred Del Monte.)

Dear Dr. Andruss:
1 was deeply shocked to hear of
the death of Fred Del Monte. The
fact that

All

men

he died
do,

is

and they gradually
That he died when

Now the world must
add one more check mark to the
things it has missed and cannot
li\e again.

regain.

There are many who leave teaching and seek other fields. The profession is better without them.
What set Fred apart from the rest
was his choice of leaving a prosperously budding job to— of all
things— learn to teach. He packed
into a few short montlis what all
too many at B.S.T.C. after four
long years have not even begun
to assemble.

He was a student to his classmates, an intelligent adult to the
and an unrecognizable
combination when the two were
brought together.
College Council was the best illustration of this.
He brought to it a smooth, experienced know-how that made all arguments seem rather pointless and
faculty,

left all

leave Bloomsburg forever really
remain. They are just a little
further up on the hill.
And “far
above the river winding” Fred is
looking down— hoping that others
will teach as he so much desired
to.

Sincerely,

really nothing.

prepare for it.
he did is the sad, remorseful thing
—for Fred was just preparing to

on his

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
She is a teacher at the
Tunkhannock Joint School.
Mr. Denmon was
graduated
September, 1955

of

I wrote in the Maroon and Gold
once upon a time that those who

still

further discussion hinging
final obsers^ation.

J.

1954
Miss Nancy L. Gunton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gunton,
of Noxen, became the bride of
Kenneth D. Denmon, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Denmon, of
Beaumont,
recently
in
Noxen
Methodist Ghurch.
Mrs. Denmon is a graduate of
the Monroe Township High School

and

are residing at Beau-

Fred was one of those day students that everyone is always complaining can’t exist at Bloom. He
had a wife, car, long commuting

J.

Alfred Chiscon

1954
Barbara Bucher is teaching in
the fourth grade at Catawissa. She
taught last year in New Bnmswick,

New

Jersey.

1954
Mrs. Mary Ruth Tyson Lauck
is teaching this year in the Catawissa High School.
She is teaching English in the Junior High
School and Latin in the Senior
High School.
1954

The marriage

of Miss Charlotte
Stoehr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

William L. Stoesh, Plymouth, to
J .Reed, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Reed, Plymouth,

Thomas

took place recently in the
Presbyterian Church.

Welsh

The ceremony was performed by

W.

Rev.

They
street,

Straw,

Russell

will

be

at

home

at

pastor.

67 Price

Kingston.

The bride is a graduate of Plymouth High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Plymouth High Schol and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is
principal of Rutter
Kingston.

Avenue School,

three
presidencies
of
large student organizations, innumerable committee chairs, plus a
distance,

near three point average based on
an overloaded schedule. Yet there
was always time for a long discussion on any chosen subject or problem.
The Class of ’54 was a superla-

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

’16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 111-3

tive one.
That we inherited Fred
through his own acceleration and
11

1955

John L. Trimble, Jersey Shore,
Bloomsburg College senior, received a medal and watch, along with
a check for a hundred dollars, from
Freedom Foundation during ceremonies at Valley Forge. He was
one of the writers of prize-winning
letters from Armed Forces person-

The passage

nel.

wliich

won

for

him was: “VVe have but one goal—
the shackles of bondage
the world over and so bear ourselves that all men look to America

College, Allentown, where she majored in elementary education. She
served as supervisor of the sum-

tlie arsenal of
freedom.”
rimble served for a year in World
War II. He completed three years
work at the local College and reentered tire Air Force in 1949. He
was separated from the service in
.

.

.

I

December after five years service
in Cermauy and resumed his studies at the

Teachers College in Jan-

While in service he was of
the Cermany-Austria Umpire’s Association in Germany.
uary.

1955
Fisher, Sunbury R.
and Thomas J. Higgins, Sunbury, were married recently at St.

Miss Alice

D.

I.

2,

Mattlrew’s Episcopal Church, Sunbury, by the pastor, the Rev. E. E.
Fhilipson.

Mrs. Higgins was graduated recently

from

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College and served as an
instructor

at

Sun

V^alley

Play-

ground at Cliftmont this summer.
Mr. Higgins is a junior at B.S.T.C.

a graduate of

and B.S.T.C.,
at the Dan-

the class of 1951, and B.S.T.C.,
where she received a B.S. degree

ceremony performed
in the parsonage of the Grace
Lutheran Church, Benvick, by the
Rev. H. R. Shipe, D.D., Miss Lyuda M. Bogart became the bride of

elementary education this spring.
will teach first grade in the
Pine Street School, Langhorne.
Her husband graduated in 1949
from Slatington High School and
in 1953 from B.S.T.C. where he
majored in business education. He
is studying for a master’s degree

This
grade

in

Dan-

she is teaching
the Third Ward
School in Danville.
ville.

third

fall

at

The bridegroom,

Millville Higli School
is

physical

ville

director

in

Y.M.C.A.

She

1955
In a recent

Dean W. Maurer.
The bride is the daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bogart,

ville, in

a lovely

ceremony

at sev-

en Saturday, May 29, at Shiloh
Evangelical and Reformed Church.

The Rev. Alton

Barley, pastor,
performed the double-ring ceremony before 200 friends and relatives of the couple.
A reception followed in the social hall of the church.
The cou,ple left later on a wedding trip to
New England. They are residing
at 520 Bloom street, Danville.
'I’lie bride graduated from Danville

12

High

Scliol

and Cedar Creek

She

dlervick.
Bei-wick

is

a

graduate

of
of

the commercial department of the

of

Neshaming

High School in the Class
1951 and of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in the Class of
1955.
She will begm graduate
study in the field of Romance languages this fall at the University
of Rochester.

The groom, son

of Mr.

and Mrs.

William J. Maurer, Berwick, is a
graduate of Berwick High School
in the Class of 1950 and the Carnegie Institute of Technology in
the Class of 1954.
He will continue graduate study in the field of
nuclear chemistry at University of
Rochester in the fall.

The couple

resided at

Hudson

where the groom was
employed for the summer by the
N.

business administration at Temple University. He is a teacher in
in

of

Falls,

1955
Casner,
Miss Joanne Louise
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy L.
Casner, Danville, became the bride
of Robert L. Aurand, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Aurand, Dan-

Sigler, pastor.

After Labor Day the couple wiU
be at home in their newly-furnished apartment at 208 N. Belle\oie
Ax'enue, Langhorne.
The bride is an alumna of Locust Township High School with

mer playground program

to loose

as

performed by the Rev. Charles W.

Y.,

General Electric Co.
1955
Mrs. Grace Vanderslice is teaching commercial subjects in the Catawissa High School.
1955
an impressive ceremony perlormed Saturday, August 27, in
Grace E\angelical and Reformed
tihurch. Mill Grove, Miss Hope H.
Horne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry L. Horne, Catawissa R. D.

High

School,

Lang-

horne.

Both the bride and groom are

members

of

Kappa Delta

Pi,

na-

honor society in education,
and Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.
tional

1955
Miss Joyce Lundy, daughter of
Rev. and \Irs. R. L. Lundy, of East
Fourth street, Bloomsburg, has accepted a teaching position in White
Plains, New York.
She will be
teaching kindergarten in the Roch-

ambeau building of that city.
Miss Lundy graduated from
Bloomsburg High Schol with
class of 1952.

the
the
She completed her

work for a B.S. degree at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College this summer. She was a member of Alpha Psi C4mega, Kappa
Delta Pi, and Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities
and Colleges.
college

In

.3,

became

C.’unfer,

Mary

A.

the bride of

Edwin W.

THE
CH \U-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch.

Oiangeville R. D.

'15,
2,

Propr.

Penna.

Langhonic, son

of Mrs.
Cunfer, Slatington, and

the late (diaries (innfer.

The double-ring ceremony was
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1955
In Cnmrc-li of the Annunciation,

August 20,
Phillips, daughter

W'illianisport, Saturday,

Miss Patricia
of Mr.

and

I.

.Mrs.

Earle \V.

Pliillips,

became the bride of
Joseph P. Eeifer, of Mount Carmel.
The Kev. Bernard L. Grogan
Williamsport,

solemnized

double-ring

the

ser\-

ice.

Both Mr. and Mrs. I'cifer were
graduated from Bloom.sburg State
Teachers College. She will teach
in the Jefferson school this autumn.
Mr. Feifer is now serving in the
Following his separation,
army.
he e.\pects to do graduate work at
Bucknell University.
.\fter

September

make

Feifer will

Cherry

street,

9,

their

Mr. and Mrs.
home at 645

Whlliamsport.

1955

Burlingame,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J.
Burlingame, Berwick, and George
Richard Dietz, son of Richard
Dietz, Bloomsburg, were married
Saturday afternoon, August 13, at
First Methodist Church, Berwick,
by the Re\ Samuel W. Strain, pasMiss

Allene

R.

.

tor.

reception followed in the social room of the church.
After a
wedding trip to New England, the
couple will reside at 47 Rear Main

Muncy.
The bride graduated from Berwick High School in 1951 and B.S.

street,

T.(;.

in

1955.

She

fourth grade in the

will teach the

Muncy

1955
Miss Rebecca Ann Ellis, daughMr. and Mrs. L. Glenn Ellis,
Milton R. D. S, became the bride
of George Alfred Schell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy I. Schell, Fair
street, Bloomsburg, in an impresat St.

Matthew Lu-

at 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon, July 2. The Rev.
James M. Singer, pastor, officiated
at the double-ring ceermony.
The bride is a graduate of the

September, 1955

is

Bloomsburg

a graduate of

1955
In a recent

ceremony

He

ated

7.

1955
Miss .\nne E. Snyder, daughter
of Mr. anti Mrs. F. L. Snyder, Elysburg, was married July 9 to Ardel
E. Zeigenfuse, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Ziegenfuse, Mowery.
Rev. Laure G. Bender, former
Elysburg pastor, performed the
double-ring ceremony in the Grace
-Methodist Church, Altoona.
-Mrs. Zeigenfuse was graduated
trom the Ralpho Township High
School in 1951 and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in January
ol

She

year.

this

is

employed

teacher at Captain Jack
High School, Mount Union.

a

as

Joint

The bridegroom was graduated
from .\shland High School in 1946
and Bloomsburg State Teachers
College in 1953. He served three
\ears in the armed forces before
entering College.
He is now a
teacher and coach at William
Smith School, Huntingdon.

OFFICERS NORTHU.MBERLAND
COLNTY .YLUMM BRANCH

PRESIDENT
123 E.

Frank Van Devender
Church St., Shamokin, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
8

E.

Joseph Curilla
Independence St., Shamokin, Pa.

Olive

Hunlock

William Williams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis D. Williams, also of

Hunlock Creek.

entered military service July

at

Church, Miss
Metliodist
Ethel M. Brace, daughter of Mr.
and .Mrs. Sheldon O. Brace, Hunlock Creek, became the bride of

Creek

iligh School and B.S.T.C., with a
degree in elementary education.

SECRETARY -TREASURER

ter of

ceermony
theran Church

groom

schools.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
Bloomsburg High Schol and B.S.
T.C., served twenty-one months in
the U. S. Air Force, and is now
head of the science department at
Muncy Creek High School.

sive

W'est
Chillisquaque
Township
School, Montandon, and of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher in the elementary school of Kennett S(juare.
She is a member of B.S.T.C. Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi.
The bride-

The Rev. Oscar W. Saxe

offici-

ceremony and Miss
Lukac provided wedding
the

at

June
music.

The bride is a graduate of the
Shickshimiy High School and B.S.
T. C. The bridegroom, also a graduate of Shickshimiy High School,
was graduated from Pennsylvania
State University and is teaching at
West Sunbury.

Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sharpless,
Catawissa, have announced the
marriage of their daughter, Louise,
to Robert Erksine HI, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Erskine, Jr., Wallingford, Pa.

The wedding took place on Friday, August 12, at the Reformation
Lutheran Church, Media, with the
Rev. Mr. Anderson, pastor of the
church, officiating.
After

a

wedding

trip

of

two

New

England, Mr. and
-Mrs. Erskine will reside in Media.
The bride graduated from Catawissa High School and B.S.T.C.
and took graduate work at Pennsylvania State University, University of Pennsylvania and Temple
University. She has been teaching
first
grade at the Middletown
School, near Media.

weeks

in

The bridegroom, a graduate of
Gettysburg Gollege, served in the
U. S. Army and is employed by a
roofing firm in Ardmore.

Maurey Green

136 S. Poplar

St..

Shamokin, Pa.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP

HOMECOMING
OCTOBER

DAY:

22

“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

13

Ngrrnlogg

of his country’s leading educators.

two

He

thers.

graduated from Pennsylvania

Normal School, now

State

State

Teachers College, in 1899. He also
attended Cornell University, Columbia, Pennsylvania State Univer-

Ida M. Walter ’92

sity,

ter.

Agricultural Education, state

She was a graduate of Catawissa
High School and the State Normal
School, Bloomsburg.
She taught
school in Catawissa for a number
of years and was the first assistant
county superintendent of schools
under the late W. W. Evans.

She was a lifelong member of
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church,
Catawissa, and for the past thirteen years had been servuig as financial secretary.
She was a charter member of Catawese Chapter
No. 265, O.E.S., and a Past Matron
of that chapter.
is

David A. Cotner

ington University.

He

served as teacher and super-

visor of the Pennsylvania

from

1899

specialist

1909;

to

schools

partment

of

from 1912

to 1915; director of

Public

in

De-

Instruction

AgEducation

Vocational

ricultural

from

1915 to 1920; director of
State Vocational Education from
1920 to 1933; deputy state superintendent from 1925 to 1933; Assistant
State
Superintendent of
Schools in charge of secondary education and supervision of teacher
training and vocational education
for the state of Michigan from 1933
to 19.'34; executive secretary of the
American Vocational Association

member

of the

committee on
tion

elementary educafor Near East Relief, and a

member

of

many

and national

state

committees for the promotion of
Matilda

Shuman Barndt

’99

Mrs. Matilda Irene Barndt, sevEast
Eourdi street,
Bloomsburg, died Monday, June
20, at Bloomsburg Hospital where
slie had been a patient for two
weeks.
Her husband, Benjamin
Barndt, died last November.
enty-four,

Mrs. Barndt was born in

Main

township and graduated from B.S.
She was a member
of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.

T.C. in 1899.

Surving are
one son, Leon
Barndt, with who she resided; one
brother, Harry Shuman, Bloomsbnrg, and one grandson, Felix.

education.

Dr. Dennis was a pioneer in Ag-

'99

Dennis

Western States prior

August
Born
ber
14

12,

5, of a

at

11.

heart attack.

He

was honored by many national

or-

ganizations for his service in education.

He was

serving as

Advisor in

\h)cation Education to the Federal

Government and only recently

where

Baghdad, Iraq,
on American edunder way on the Point
from

returned

a project

ucation

is

Four Plan.

was

a charter

member and

master of the West Shore
Lodge No. 681, F. and A. M. He

a charter member of Camj)
Bresbyterian Church and served as an elder until he moved to
Tacoma Park, Washington, D. C.
lie is survived by his wife, Dorothy and by his son, Lindley II.

Decem-

D(Miuis,

Jr., \

tiiKMital

Air

11.,

short time after she heard

tlie fatal

shot.

Mr. Cotner has been in failing
He had been employed as
an accountant for the du Pont de
Neumours N: Co. for 22 years behealth.

fore he retired.

Mr. Cotner was born in GroColumbia County. He was
a son of the late John and Elizabeth Cotner.
He had resided in
Scranton the past 45 years.
He was a graduate of tire former Scranton Business College and
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colvania,

lege.
He was a member of Green
Ridge Presbyterian Chmch and
the Union Lodge of Masons.

Mary Smoezinksi

’03

Miss Mary Smoezinski, seventyD. 2, died Sat-

three, Catawissa R.

urday, June 18, in the Bloomsburg
Hospital.
A native of Germany, she came
to the United States about seventy
years ago.
Miss Smoezinski had
been ill but a few days and was admitted to the hospital a few days
before her death. She was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, class of 1903,
aud retired from teaching about
twenty years ago, residing at Catawissa R. D. 2 since that time.

Hill

Dennis was one

Dover, N.

1880, Dr.

Ciotner, his wife, at 10:30 a. m., a

to instituting

similar systems in Pennsylvania.

was

Dennis, former
Suijcrintendent of
Ihiblie
Instruetion,
died at his
(dievy C.'hase, Md., home Friday,
Dr. Lindley
Deputy State

Despondent over extended ill
David A. Cotner, 72, 222
New York street, Scranton, ended
his life by gunfire Wednesday,
June 29.
The Pine Brook man was found
in an exterior cellarway by Mary
health,

education in this state,
being sent to study the work of

lie

II.

’02

ricidtural

past

Dr. Liiullcy

Northumberland County, Tuesday,
August 9, 19.55.

tion’s

for several years; a

survived by one sister.
Miss Bertha Walter, Catawissa.

She

Services were conducted from
funeral home at Trevorton,

the

American University in the nacapitol and George Wash-

Miss Ida M. Walter, 473 Mill
Catavvissa, died this past
spring at Blooinsburg Hospital of
complications.
She was born in
Catawissa, daugliter of tlie late
Daniel and Matilda Strieker Walstreet,

grandchildren and two bro-

ice president of

Lines,

of

Con-

(Colorado;

Mary Wilson
Mary
llilbnrt)
19.55.

128

Ililburt ’03

Wilson (Mrs. Arthur
died Thursday, June 9,
Mrs. Ililburt had lived at
S.

North Main

Street, Plains, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Helen

Seaslioltz

’08

Burroughs

The Quarterly has been infonndeath of Helen Seaslioltz
Burroughs, Belle Meail, New Jer-\Irs. Burroughs passed away
sey.
Weilnesday, January 5, 1955.
ot the

ecl

Kathleen R. Dorsey ’IG
funeral of Miss Kathleen K.
Dorsey, of 27 Looker Street, Hill'I'he

side,

N.

J.,

who

died Wednesday,

July

6,

in

East

Orange General

llospital after a long illness, took

Saturday morning, Jidy 9,
from her home. A high mass of
requiem was offered at St. Catherine’s Church.
Interment was in
Cate of Heaven Cemetery, Han-

place

oi er.

Born in White Haven, Pa., Miss
Dorsey had resided in Hillside 29
>ears.
She was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa., and New
She had been
York University.
employed by the American Transit
Association of New York City over
She was a member of
20 >ears.
St. Catherine’s Rosary Society.

She
lohn

is
I.

survived by two brotliers,
and James A. Dorsey, of

Church,

Blooms-

burg, where she was organist and
assistant organist for thirty years
and also teacher of a Sunday

School class.
For a long period
she was pianist and leader of the
Sunday School orchestra and ad\ isor to the Pollyanna class of the
congregation.
She was affiliated
with the Women’s Guild and the
Mission Study Circle of the Guild
of the church.
Mrs. Shuman was a member of
Soroptimist
Club of Columbia
Counts, the Fort McClure Chapter,
Daughters of the American
Resolution, Daughters of the American C'olonists, the Child Study
(iroup and the C'ounty Homemakers.

Surviving are her husband; tsvo
daughters, Mrs. Clair C. Hock,
Bloomsburg R. D., and Mrs. Robert Middleton, DesMoines, Iowa,
and a son, John H. Shuman, Jr., at
home; three grandchildren, Susan

and Clair Hock,
Middleton;

Jr.,

and Leigh Ann

and

Carrie
bro-

tss'O

Clayton Patterson, Blooms-

thers,

burg

Mrs.

sister,

Shipe, Wilkes-Barre,
R. D.,

and Walter Patterson,

Kingston.

Funeral
the

Hillside.

Reformed

ical

Trinity

Patterson

Shuman

’19

H. Shuman, aged
former Rowena Patterson, one of Bloomsburg’s most
esteemed w'omen, died Sunday,
August 14, at her East Main street
home. Death followed a lengthy
Mrs.

svere

Evangelical

held

at

and Re-

Church, and
svere
in
charge of the pastor, the Rev. R.
H. Aulenbach. Burial took place
in Nesv Rosemont cemetery.

John

fifty-eight, the

illness.

A native of Nescopeck, she was
bom August 28, 1896, and had resided in Bloomsburg since 1921.
Mrs. Shuman was a graduate of
Palmer College of New York City
in 1915 and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers
She
College,
1919.
taught instmmental music in Berwick and Bloomsburg for many
years. She also taught china painting and conducted private classes
in painting and firing china and
glassware, operating her
for

many

She

own

kiln

years.

was a devout and active

member

of

the

September, 1955

Trinity

Evangel-

Clarence A. Ruch

Clarence A. Ruch, forty-eight, of
one of this section’s most
prominent and public-spirited men,
died suddenly Tuesday, July 5.
Death, caused by a heart attack,
occurred svhile he was on a business trip and svhile he svas cons ersing on insurance matters in the
of Sprout-Waldron Co., at

Muncy.
Mr. Ruch had for

many

years

been one of the most active residents of the community. He had
been president of Berwick Hospisince June 20, 1949, and had
previously been secretary of that
board, had been a director of the
Community Chest, director of the
Chamber of Commerce, director of
tal

the

Methodist Sunday School Young
Adult Class.
S.

Mr. Ruch had enlisted in the U.
Navy in 1942 and had served as

a lieutenant in the

atre until after the
ties.

He was

the

Knapp Lodge

a

European Theend of hostil-

member
of

of the Elks,

Masons, the

Royal Arch Chapter, the Commandery of the Knights Templar and
of the Berwick Golf Club.
Mr. Ruch was a native of Berwick and was a graduate of B.H.S.

and B.S.T.C.

He was

athletics at both schools

ed varsity football

at

active

in

and play-

each place.

becoming a teacher of social
studies at Berwick he became as.sistant coach to both Junie Bream
and later to Joe Coviello, in football and basketball.
He was also
.\fter

On

return from the Navy,
left the teaching
profession to become a representative of Connecticut Mutual Inhis

Mr. Ruch had

surance Co. He had been markedly successful in that field of
work.

Mr. Ruch was the son of the late
Gilroy and Elizabeth Crouse Ruch.

’30

Bens'ick,

offices

an active worker in
recent hospital fund drive, a
director of The Berwick Bank, a
past president and one of the organizers of the Berwick Lions
Club, a lieutenant commander in
the Inactive Reserve of the U. S.
Navy, and a teacher of the First

Committee;

an able tennis player.
services

formed

Rowena

the Bcrsvick Industrial Plan, chairman of the C. of C. Industrial

Surviving are his wife, the for-

mer Geraldine Hess, and two brothers, Paul R. Ruch, Pittsburgh,
and Glenn Ruch, Port Chester, N.
Y.

The following tribute to Mr.
Ruch as an athlete and citizen appeared in ‘The Fanning Column”
of The Morning Press:
It wasn’t surprising that Clarence Ruch, Berwick civic leader
wohse untimely death occurred
this week, was active in things that

would benefit his community.
He was that kind of a fellow
throughout his life. A graduate of
the Teachers College, we last talked with him in May when he was
atending the twenty-fifth year re15

union of his class.
Clarence was a fellow who kept
in pretty close touch with the

and he was one of the men
was responsible for moving
one of the Husky football games
to Berwick each fall over a period
of many years. He was anxious to

town when there
up front and
Thornley Booth, the coach, had no
were some

injuries

school,
that

have the series revived, firmly
convinced it was mutually beneficial, and was talking about it in
oiir last get together.

Buch was one of those fellows
who, if there was a job to be done,
was right on hand to help. He
played football throughout his
four years on the hill and played
well.
That was back in the time
when the Huskies had a good sized scpiad if they had as many as
thirty out for the team and they
were well fortified in material if
they had two reasonably well qualified for one position.
He was a fullback. He made the
team at that position and was just

Mrs. Marian H. Miller

starting to go to

center.

Ruch
ter
to

neved played cenbut the coach wanted Imu
He developed
give it a try.
said he

into a fine pivot.

His eagerness

got him into some trouble in the
early games but he didn’t make the
same mistake twice and before he
had his diploma he was one of the
best centers of that era on the hill.
Certainly none played harder or
did more for team morale than the
always willing Ruch.

There are going

to

be many who

him. Fellows of his type
are always too few in any community.
He was one who didn’t
lose his enthusiasm. If he said he
would do a job you didn’t have to
worry.
It got done, whether it
will miss

was

football

or

heading a

civic

project.

Mrs.
nine,

Mirian H. Miller, eightyof John K. Miller,

widow

died recently at the Masonic Home
at Elizabethtown, where she had
resided since her retirement as

head of the Department of Music
at B.S.T.C. in 1941.

Until her recent illness, she had
been organist and in charge of all
music at the home. She also gave
lessons to children in the Masonic
orphanage. She became ill about
two montlis ago.

Mrs. Miller came to the local
college in 1904 as instructor of violin and was a member of the facidty under Dr. Waller. She served
for many years as teacher of piano,
violin, organ and theory. Her hus-

band, now deceased, was county
superintendent for two terms.
Funeral services were held at
the Miller Funeral Home, Elizabethtown, with interment at the

Masonic

Home

cemetery there.

SUPPORT THE

ALUMNI

IG

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

and

^<Bai4cen>ed
E.

A
tliis

quiet,

II.

NELSOX

unassuming alumna sent

f^lo4Md^
”11

a elieck tor $500.00 the other

day with

notation:

“The enclosed check is tor those needy students ot
whom Bloomsburg must have many. Please permit
me to remain an anonymous donor.”

One
\

reads a message like that, gives the check a friendly pat, and firmly resol-

cs to

keep active

in the

Alumni Association forever and

ever.

is almost beyond conprehenrevered
Mater
known
and
throughout the world
sion.
It can make its Alma
and keep students knocking at her doors, anxious to be a part of the living force
that projects itself into a p.ittern of worthy living. To honor those who have

The

potential of an erganized alumni group

made Blccmshurg
ideals

great,

we

sheuld be dexising ways and means to keep their

and standards a part of teacher

training.

Such names

as

Waller— Bakeless

—Milner— Haas— Dennis— Aldingcr—Sutliff—Litwhiler and many others came
quickly to mind when reviewing Bloomsburg ar.d her accomplishments. Many
who read this will say “Why didn’t you mention— and—and— .” My answer is,
why don't \eu m.uUion them to me in a way that will necessitate attention to
their eontrihutiens?

from the

But

I

hasten to add this statement:— One

halls of the Xorrnal Schcel or College

and achieved

in

who has gone
good works, for-

getting entirely one source of his or her strength, can hardly expect loyal sons

and draighters

to enthuse

when

Teacher Training Colleges
enrollments.

This

is

the mother

in

is

Pennsylvania

forgotten.

start tiie

1955-56 year with record

not time for complacent inaction, but rather for a constant

improvement and the promoticn of better understanding between undergraduates and alumni. Ncthing can he more detrimental to any form or presentation
of school loyalty than a graduate

who

neglects to credit an institution that hon-

and foremost is continued ACTIVE membership in the Alumni Association and then follows missionary effort to have others
join with you.
If a teacher makes a school, it is the Alumni who refleot its
strength and worth.
ored him with a diploma.

First

GMecf^e Ccdenda/i
f955-f956

HOMECOMING DAY

October 22

Football: B.S.T.C.

vs.

King’s College

November 22

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Noveml^er 28

Thanksgiving Recess Ends

December

Christmas Recess Begins

jaimary

15

3

Christmas Recess Ends

Semester Ends

jaimary 25

First

jaimary 30

Registration

Jaimary 31

Classes Begin

March

Basketball

3-10

Marcli 27
April

3

—

Second Semester

Tonrnament

Easier Recess Begins

Easter Recess Ends

May

22

(Masses

End

lor Seniors

May

24

Classes

End

lor

May

26

ALUMNI DAY

May

27

May

28

1

(

1

Underclassmen

acca a n r ea t e S e r\' ict's
1

iommencc'inent Exc'icises

J.

^loomsburg, pa.

E
Copynfeht

Main

Street, looking Mr'est Jront

Normal

School.

Roy^

by

1905

1955

Vol.

V

December, 1955

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA

No.

4

FIFTEEN YEARS ARE FINISHED - 1940-1955
BUILDING PROGRAM (OVER

$2,000,000)

In 1940 the first General State Authority Building
Program was not completed. It is true, we had a new
Gymnasium, Junior High School, and Maintenance and
Heating Plant Buildings, but they were neither usable nor completely equipped.
For instance, the Heating Plant had three boilers
dating back to World War I, one unit dating back to
1930. and one new unit which was operable less than
one month each year of the following decade.
During the war period, the college was able to put
over $300,000 into plant repairs in an attempt to make
women’s dormitory space available for men, and
change from dining to cafeteria service. Most of these

funds were drawn from Federal Contracts in connection with the training of Army and Navy Flyers and

Navy Deck

Officers.
In the last five years
on the college plant,
been provided by the
construct the Heating

over $1,000,000 have been spent
over 80 percent of which has
General State Authority to rePlant, and to construct a proposed College Dining Room Building to cost in excess
of $450,000.
Some of the

internal changes have been brought
about by the renovation of the Waller Hall (Old)
Gymnasium to be used as a Lounge for students and
house a College Book Store and Snack Bar. The first
floor corridor of Waller Hall has been changed from
office space to lounge space for bot'n students and fac-

and administiative offices for the social deans.
These plant changes are of the type that can be
noted by the returning alumni or the college visitor.
Other unseen improvements which have resulted in
eccnomies of operation and renovation of space for
modern instructional uses should be noted even
though not easily discernable.
Underground electrical lines and transformers now
ulty,

the college the lowest relative electric co-t
Rewiring of the
the State Teachers Colleges.
Waller Hall Dormitory not only removes a lire hazard, but provides conoucticn for electric current nece.sary to operate modern electric appliances, and provides more light for study.
Although few see it, we have one of the most modern and economical heating plants in this sec, ion of

give

among

Pennsylvania, and of sufficient size to provide for
future growth.
Practically all buildings have been rerocfed and the
interiors repainted.
of our grass plots and plantfavorable comments from casual

The general impression
ings

causes

many

visitor.
If we look at the fifteen year period, we can, in
addition to the million dollars spent on construction,
discover that expenditures for major repairs have
been about three-fourths of a million, and the pur-

chase of equipment and machinery one-fourth of a
million, so that the grand total for building construction. contracted repairs, and equipment and machinery
will exceed $2,000,000.

ENROLLMENT TRENDS
For those who are interested in figures, college e.'.rcllments are significant, first, the number of graduTwo thousand one-hundred eighty-five degreas
ates.
have been granted in the fifteen year period from
the college year 1939-1910 to an including t-ne college year 19,')3-1954, the largest number of graduates
being two-hundred sixty-three in 1950 and the smallest
being fifty-nine in the year 1945.
It w'ill be remembered that 1945 was in the trough
of the er.rollment during World War II and prior to
the return cf any veterans in 1946, and that 1950 was
the high tide of G. I. enrollment.
While a restudy of this group is being made, if we

take the placement report of the graduates available
for employment (taking the total number of graduates
and subtracting the number of people who went
into the Armed Forces or enrolled in graduate schools
directly after graduation) we find that 83 percent
taught the year after graduation and 13 percent were
employed in gainful occupations, making the total
employment 96 percent of those available. The remaining 4 percent includes married women who did
not teach, graduates w'ho could not be reac'ned, and
the unemployed.
During the post war period the teacher education
students numbered only 178 in 1945 and reached 894
However, during the war period from 1943
in 1950.
to 1946, the figures in full-time teacher education students was offset in a large measure by War Program
students. For instance, in 1944 we had a total enrollment of 1,140 students during the year, of which only
313 were teacher education students.
During the tour-year period of War Programs we
taught 1,000 to fly, had 500 Navy Officer Candidates,
housed 2,000 students for Engineering Science, and
Management War Trainees, and offered courses to
This enabled us
nurses from Bloomsburg Hospital.
to offer employment to our faculty, maintain our college plant in times when material was available only
on priority, make a substantial contribu.ion to t.re

and develop our Aviation Program.
colleges were at their
low point in enrollment, at the height cf World War
II we had an enrollment of 1.000 students in 1944.
During the last five years, the enrollment of the
college has averaged somewhere between 800 and 900
students, being limited by cur dormitory capacity
and seating in the dining rocm and auditorum.
For seven years, from 1946 to 1951, we operated extension classes in as many as five or six towns located
within a forty mile radius of Bloomsburg.
For three years, 1947 to 1949. we accepted two sec-

war

effort,

In the

war time when other

Liberal Arts Freshmen
Pennsylvania State University, and after completing one year at Bloomsburg became Sophomores on the Penn State Campus.

tions

of

about

seventy-five

who had matriculated

at

In 1955 there are more than 900 full-time teacher
education students cn campus, with a Freshman Clazs
cf over three-hundred fifty.
Over this period of time the Bu iness Department
has in some years had the largest enrollment of any
one of the three divisions, and this seems to depend
The ratio of
cn the proporation of men students.
to women after World War II was two
and after the Korean Conllict is now about

men

one.
five to

to

three.

INSTRUCTIONAL GROWTH
With an enrollment range

of from 800 to 900, the
full-time faculty nas varied between 45
and 50. Part-time instructors have been employed to
leach extension and classes for part-time student;,
and the number of co-operating teachers off-campus
has waxed and waned with the number of Seniors in
the practice teacb.ii.g field.
Since 1950 the college has been visited by committees representing the Middle States Associa.ion of Colleges and Secondary Schools (a regional accrediting
association) and the American Association cf Colleges
for Teacher Education (until recently a Na.ior.al accrediting association lor teacher education), and has

number

of

received a superior rating.
Faculty giowlh is evidenced by the improvement in
the degree holding status, namely, over twenty percent
have corned the Doctor's Degree, and a sizeable percent cf the faculty have continued to pursue gradua e
courses.
Present faculty ranKing shows 10 Profes(Ccr.tinued cn Inside Back Cover)

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVI,

No. 4

December, 1955

f

ENROLLMENT SHOWS
INCREASE OF THREE HUNDRED
B.S.J.C.

B.S.T.C. enrollment shows an increase of over 300 students with
the newly enrolled Freshman class,

number

dents, the largest

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 Sub.^cription, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

T2

MANAGER

BUSINESS

E. H. Nelson,

T1

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

body

in

away, not because they failed to
but because they apiolied

However, the overall
too late.
college figures are slightly in favor of male enrollment for all the

the his-

college.

Because of the increase in the

In addition to the 638 returning

students, the college will educate
and train for the teaching profes-

new freshmen, 38 former
students who have recently returned from military service, and
21 transfers and others. The last,
group includes school nurses and
dental hygienists.
As a result of the large enrollment, the Freshman class will be
divided into six sections in which
they will take courses basic in
teacher training. Later, they will
specialize, with an estimated 107
students majoring in Business Education, as compared with 75 and
61 in Secondary and Elementary
education, respectively.
sion 243

\

number

E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER

college admittance this year
that the office of the Dean of Instruction was compelled to close

for

enrollment in mid-April. Mr. Hoch
estimates that over 500 prospective
students had to be turned away because of lack of facilities to accommoate them. As it stands now,
college facilities will be used to
their maximum in order to house
and train the present influx of stu-

dormitory

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

December, 1955

women

at

this institu-

spaces in Waller Hall
normally reserved for

be occupied by women
Over 150 men, both freshmen and seniors, have taken rooms
in private homes in Bloomsburg.
Incoming freshmen can antici-

men

will

instead.

pate

work

stiff

competition in classroom

since the greatest

number

of

freshmen have unusually good
high school academic records. As
a matter of fact, only 31 persons
were admitted on the basis of en-

trance examinations. The remainder fulfilled the qualification of
being in the upper half of their
high school classes.

Another interesting fact comes
to light

when we

note that more

students seem to be entering the
Business Education field than either

Elementary or Secondary

fields.

The

college is considering quotas
to correct this because of the possibility of a serious placement and

student teaching problem in tlie
future, should this business trend
continue.

World War II, women outnumber men in an incoming class.
The Freshman class, this year, in-

What can the college expect in
the near future as far as enrollment is concerned? Already, the
enrollment for January, 1956, is so
great that it too has been closed.
The office of the Dean of Instruction also has on hand numerous
applications for September, 1956.

cludes 142 women and 101 men.
The reason for the upswing in the

Mr. Hoch reports that, as a result
of this steady stream of applicants.

dents.
Earl A. Gehrig

of

tion, tliirty

There were so many applicants

PRESIDENT

admitted is the
applied
turned

(jualify,

tory of the college.
'

women

women
Many men were

earlier.

according to figures made available by Mr. Hoch, Dean of Instruction.
This brings the total college
enrollment to an excess of 925 stuPublished quarterly

of

simple fact that

Several interesting facts have
been made available by Mr. Hoch.
For example, for the first time
since

1

RELIGION-IN-LIFE-WEEK
Religion-in-Life-Week was held
during the week of No-

at B.S.T.C.

Tuesday, November 15, at 10 a. m. The Right Reverend Monseigneur Robert J. Maher, Superintendent of Schools, Diocese of Harrisburg, spoke to the
student body.
Monseigneur Maher was born in
Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and edu-

vember

On

cated

14.

in

the

schools
the deArts and

parochial

He was awarded

there.

of Bachelor of
Master of Arts in the philosophy
of liistory at St. Vincent College.
His post-graduate studies in Education were pursued at the University of Chicago.
The Reverend G. Blair Heinans,

grees

pastor of the Emmanuel
Baptist Church, Williamsport, was
the speaker at the Vesper Service

who

is

on Wednesday evening, November
He has had pastorates in
16.
Brockenridge, Jeannetta, HarrisAt the
burg, and Williamsport.
present time he is lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve, and
he also instructs a course in Air

discussed were the following three
in the order given: “What part
does God play in your life as an
individual, as a student, as a citizen?”
At the Tuesday assembly, Victor Michael, the chairman of Religion-in-Life-Week, presided. The
Vesper Service on Wednesday eve-

ning had as

Homsher.

its

chairman, Nancy

Mary Jane

Miller

was

Douglas Boden,
the console.
President of the Student Christian
the
at
presided
Assocication,
at

Thursday assembly which had
Rabbi Koslowe as its speaker.
Students of the Catholic, Proand Jewish faiths helped
plan these programs to stimulate
testant,

a greater interest in religion.

Those

working in connection
with Douglas Boden, president of
S.C.A., and Mr. Clayton Hinkel,
Faculty Advisor. For the committees in Religion-in-Life-Week were
Victor Michael, General Chairman; Mary Faith Fawcett, Refreshments; Joanne Specht, Publicity, and Peggy Gearhardt, Hospi-

actively

tality.

Force administration for officers.

During the regular assembly
period on Thursday, November 17,
Rabbi Irving Koslowe delivered a
keynote address to the student
body. Within the walls of the Sing
Sing prison Rabbi Koslowe ministers to the needs of men waiting
for execution in the death house.
He has learned something about
how the criminal mind works. He
is also Rabbi at the West Chester
Jewish Center at Mamaroneck,
New York, which is one of the
most outstanding congregations in
the New York Metrolpolitan area.
An informal discussion period
was held each of these evenings
at 7:00 o’clock in the Navy Hall
Auditorium. The main questions

KNOEBEL IS
NEW SUPERINTENDENT

J.

B.

J.

B.

Knoebel was recently ap-

pointed superintendent of grounds
and buildings, replacing Edward
Mr. Knoebel holds
D. Sharretts.
the Degree of Bachelor of Science
in Architectural Engineering from
Pennsylvania State University. He
has had experience as a lumber
dealer, contractor, sales engineer
and construction engineer for the
United tSates Navy in Virginia,
Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands and New York City area.

February 1 of that year. The
problem, once again, is not so
as

much

available

living

conditions,

and
meet the need of

as lack of suflicient classrooms

laboratories

to

anything but a
enrollment.
2

sharply curtailed

AND QUEENS

PRESENT SPECTACLE
The annual parade held on the
eve of the Bloomsburg-West Chester game, got imderway in full
swing to the music of the Bloomsburg High School Band. Directly
following the band canie the Business Education Club float with its
theme, “Slam the Rams.” Waller
Hall’s Third Floor Women entered
their float as, “Open Season on the
The girls sported their
Rams.”
hunting outfits, and aimed at the
Ram on top of the float.
The Phi Sigma Pi cars were next
They brought along their
in line.
“sweetheart,”

Ishie

Deibert,

to

push our team on to a victory.
The Dramatic Club float, “We
the Plain and Fancy Folk,” cerTheir Amishtainly was original.
type carriage portrayed the plain
while Alysia Racht showed how
the fancy live.
Varsity Club cars
proudly showed off their nominees
for Varsity Queen. The girls were
Tina Valente, Sally Stallone, Dolores Stanton, Mary Jane Barnisky,
and Jan McLin. The Danville High
School Band then added a bit of
marching music as they passed the
judges’ stand.

Bloomsburg’s
tered into the

Day Women
spirit

en-

of the

evelarge signs

ning as they carried
encouraging members of the football team.
North Hall’s Third Floor men
were very well regimented as they

marched

The

in the parade.

“Penthouse

Rowdies”

of

Waller Hall’s fomth floor presented “Scalp the Rams.” The entire
football squad was represented—
Indian
style,
by the squaws
of Waller Hall. The idea was very

and made a good impreson the judges, as it took first

clever
sion

inize.

ENROLLMENT

(Continued)
enrollment for the
September,
1956, class will be closed as early

FLOATS, BANDS

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

Part of the wrestling squad appeared in full dress and encouraged our team to “Strangle ’Em.”
Tlie first floor of North Hall
brought along their “Queens.” The
l)oys certainly couldn’t Ijave selec-

better queens than Mr. and
Mrs. Blair’s sweet little daughters.
Last, came our own Bloomsburg
band.
ted

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

TWELVE SENIORS REPRESENT
Twelve deserving Seniors were
B.S.T.C.

in

to represent
1955 edition of “Who’s Who
Among Students in American Uni-

selected

of

Kappa Delta

of the

the

versities

and

These

Colleges.”

persons were chosen by a faculty

committee composed of Dean of
Instruction, Mr. John I loch; Dean

Women,

of

.Assistant

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller;
of W’omen, Miss

Dean

Mary MacDonald; Dean

of

Men,

Mr. Jack Yohe; Director of Business Education Department, Dr.
Thomas Martin; Director of Ele-

mentary
Miss

Education

Department,

Edna Hazen; Director

A

The

qualifications

rest the selection of these Seniors

professional promise, leaderservice to the college, personal traits, practical qualities, potential usefulness, actual abilitv',
past record and scholastic achievements.
This
representation
includes
three from the elementary department, four from the business department, and five from the sec-

are

ship,

ondary department.

A

senior in the secondary curriculum, Mr. Bitner will be remembered as president of the senclass,

member

of the College

Council in his senior year. State
Editor of F.T.A. Newsletter, State
vice president of F.T.A., National
Treasurer of F.T.A., Sports Editor for the

Maroon and Gold

staff.

and minoring

Joan

Christie

has

Doris Krczywicki

Miss Krczywicki is perhaps best
for her Fashion Show
Modeling. Doris’s other activities
include Art Co-Chairman of Waller Hall, Art Editor of the Waller
Hall Handbook, member of Kappa
Delta Pi, Sigma Alpha Eta, and

remembered

the Dining

Bowman

Miss Bowman, an Elementary
student is best known as the president of the Waller Hall Association, a member of College Council
in her sophomore year, secretary of

Alpha Psi Omega, vice president

also ser\

ior class,

part in

sentative to
three years.

College Council for

Robert Evans
C.G.A. President, Robert Evans,

ed as president of his junand vice president of the
sophomore clall. He held membership in Phi Sigma Pi, F.T.A. in

Kappa Delta

the Johnson

Pi.

Harrison Morson

,

addition to playing basketball for
the Huskies tor four years.

Hartman
Day Women’s
Hartman also
Treasurer of Kappa Del-

Patricia

Harrison Morson served as as-

four

served as
ta Pi, Secretary of the Science
Club, President of “B” Club, and
has been a member of F.T.A.

also

ma

and football

years

He

years.

Pi

is

and

a

Pi

president

Her other
include vice present of
U’aller Hall, Historian of Kappa
Delta Pi, Fashion Show Co-ordinator, and membership in Pi Omega
Gold and the Obiter.
activities

for

two

member

of Phi Sig-

Omega

Pi.

of

the

He

is

College

Choir.

Edward

Miss Hester, Business student,
has been kept very busy at B.S.
T.C. with editing the Maroon and

of

C.G.A. while he was an upperclassman.
He played basketball

President of the
Association, Patricia

Pi

and treasurer

treasurer

sistant

Siscoe

Mr. Siscoe, a valuable
of the Senior Class,

is

in

member
General

Business Education.
He is President of Kappa Delta Pi, and a
member of Pi Omega Pi and Phi
Sigma Pi. He served as President
of his Sophomore Glass and was
editor of the “54” Pilot.
He also
serves on three other publications:
Obiter, Olympian, and Maroon and

and Alpha Psi Omega.

Thomas Higgins
Mr. Higgins, a Secondary student, serv ed as President of F.T.A.,
\’ice President of the Science Club,
Assistant Secretary of Varsity Club,
Chairman of the Pep Committee,
and President of Phi Sigma Pi.
During the winter, he served as
co-ordinator of the annual high
school basketball tournament.

Gold.

Bertha Knouse
Miss Knouse, a secondary stu-

membership in Alpha
Omega, Kappa Delta Pi, F.T.A.
and Women’s Chorus. She also

dent, claims
Psi

served as Historian of the Assembly Committee and Treasurer of
the Dramatic Club.

1937

Karl L. Getz, Supervisor of
in

Committee.

Martha Starvatow

1933

sic

Room

In addition to being editor of
the Maroon and Gold, Associate
Editor of the Pilot and Editor of
the Co-Pilot, Miss Starvatow also
finds time to serve on College
Council, Waller Hall Governing
Board, and also to take an active

for

three years, and Sports Editor of
the Obiter for two years.

Wylla Mae

member

Joanne Hester

William Bitner

ior

a

in Engmodeled
and also been Commentator for
Fashion Show, held membership in
Pi Oinego Pi, Business Education
She
C.'lub, and Women’s Chorus.
was chosen class secretary in her
freslunan year and woman repre-

of Sec-

upon which

and

Joan Christie
a business student majoring in

lish,

ondary Education Department, Dr.
Ernest Englehardt.

Pi,

Waller Hall Handbook

secretarial

'WHO’S WHO’

B.S.T.C. IN 1955

Mu-

City Schools,

J.

WESLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

’34

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davison
live

at

2029 Canosa, Las Vegas,

252

67 Chestnut Street, Binghamton, New York.
lives at

December, 1955

Nevada.
erly Miss

Mrs. Davison was formMarie Davis.
3

GRANDMA’S DAZE

would determine and administer

AT OLD

punishment.

B.S.T.C.

As seen by
student.

present-day

a

From

the

B.S.T.C.

“Maroon and

Gold.’’)

Ever wonder what Bloomsburg
Teachers College was like
when grandmother or auntie came
here? If she were a student durState

ing the 1880’s or 1890’s, she had
social

an entirely different
from today’s coeds.
present and prompt

was

to

to

all

be

meals

had been
Of course,
obtained beforehand.
as it is today, table etiquette was
unless special permission

practiced.

With school beginning at 8:30
m., she was required to be present at the morning devotional exAll classes had to be atcises.
was
permission
tended unless
a.

granted from the teacher before
the hour of recitation or sickness
was reported to someone of au-

Friday afternoon Rhetorical

These
Exercises were held.
ercises consisted of composition,
declamations (making speeches),
and recitations interspersed with
music provided by the pupils. As
usual she was not excused from
ex-

participating.

be made

way from Waller Hall from where
the dining room is now located,

study hours at 4:30 p. m. and the
dinner hour. Grandma enjoyed
walking in the neignborhood of
However, permission
the school.
was not given to walk, ride, or

correspond with the gentlemen of
the cohege.
Alter tne required evening Chapel exercises,

all

students retired

rooms tor
The study hour ended with

immediately

to

study.
the ringing

ot

their

the

tirst

retiring

During tnis
9:45 p. m.
study time, visiting of rooms and
loud talking were torbidden; students were not allowed to leave
bell

at

their floors

of

rooms

is

to

spected.”

was $450,000.

College life was quite different
in grandma’s time, but it kept her
in a daze and she was just as
proud of her alma mater as we

000 appropriation for loose equipment with bids for this to be secured later.

are today.
Bloomsburg began as
the “friendly college on the hill”
and it remains the same today.

ANDRUSS SPEAKS TO
BUSINESS TEACHERS
DR.

The Delaware Business Teachmeeting in Wilmington, Delaware for its annual
ers

Association,

convention, was addressed by Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, president of

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, on the subject of “Vocational, Economic, and Social Comthe

petencies in Business Education.”
close of afternoon

Between the

without permission of

The theme

taken from Chapter I of the Business Education
Manual of Pennsylvania, and from
a chapter in a book known as
“Better Business Education,” both
of which were written by Doctor
Andruss.

During

is

past decade tlie state
business teachers of
Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Illinois, as well as
Pennsylvania, have invited Doctor
Andruss to give similar addresses.
That the student must be train-

jneetings

ed

to

at

the

tlie

of

be an efficient employee and
same time have some un-

the teacher in charge.

derstanding of the responsibility of
the employer, and that the busi-

Tobaeco in any lorm was not
allowed in the buildings or anywhere on the school premises. Violators of this law or any of the
other rules were subject to appear
before the Student Senate who

ness that employs him must add
something to the sum total of human welfcxre and benefit society,
has been the general theme of
these messages of the President of
the local Teachers College.

4

bids for the new dining hall
at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, opened at
Harrisburg, are about $11,000 under the estimate and have been
accepted.

without permission of the principal.
Rooms will be frequently in-

No change

thority.

On

Low

and kitchen

The total is $437,947. The appropriation for the new structure
to be erected at the site of the old
tennis courts and across the high-

without permission of the steward.

with, she

To begin

life

Several rules do stand today almost as they did when Grandmother or auntie came to Bloomsburg State Normal School. “Nothing should be thrown from the
windows. Students will be held
responsible for any damage to
No nails
their rooms or furniture.
are to be driven into the walls

WORK BEGUN ON
NEW DINING HALL

Work
to

There

has started.

have

tlie

is

also a $10,-

It is

possible

work completed by

homecoming of next fall.
The S. H. Evert Company,
Bloomsburg, submitted the low bid
for the general contract at $257,400 and Edwards Electric Company, Bloomsburg, was low for the
electric

work

at $40,866.

Other low bids were John Miles,
Kulpmont, heating, $43,900 and
plumbing, $27,500; Grindell Company,

Scranton,

elevator,

$6,981,

and Mervin and Kretchmer, Mountainside, N.

J.,

kitchen eqnipment,

$63,200.

This will be the first new conat the local institution
since 1939 and is under the present
General State Authority.
Under
an earher and similar authority
there was added to the plant of
the local institution the Centennial
Gymnasium, Navy Hall, the maintenance building and the new

struction

power

plant.

There was

spirited bidding on
the dining hall contract.
Twelve
submitted bids for the general contractor, seven for heating, six for
plumbing, seven for
electrical
work, four for the elevator and a
dozen for kitchen equipment.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Name

Three members of the Teachers
College faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor

by action

of the

board of

trus-

according to an announcement made by President Harvey
They are Miss Mary
A. Andruss.
E. Macdonald, Mrs. Margaret E.
tees,

McCern and W.

B. Sterling.

Miss Macdonald, who has been
coordinator of guidance services
and assistant dean of women since
1949, is a native of Berwick and
a former teacher in Berwick High
School. She is a graduate of the
University of Michigan and holds
the master of Arts degree from
I'eachers College, Columbia UniAdditional graduate study
versity.
has been completed at Columbia.

Miss Macdonald taught in Plymout Township High School prior
She has
to her tenure at Berwick.
been a member of the faculty of
Wintlirop College, Rock Hill, S.
C., and Barnard College in New
York City, where she was director
of residence halls.
Miss Macdonald holds the rank
lieutenant commander in the
United States Naval Reserve, having served as battalion commander in the \\'ave Training School
during World War II.
She has
attended the U. S. Navy Classification School, Philadelphia, and the
U. S. Naval School of Justice, Newof

port, R.

Mrs.

FRESHMAN PARENTS’ DAY

Three Associate Professors At College

I.

McCern, associate profes-

sor of business education, former-

LECTURER REPORTS ON
GROWTH OF INDIA
On

Thursday, October 16, J. V.
Bahmbal, a native of India, spoke
the student body and faculty
assembly. Mr. Balunbal obtained his baccalaureate degree in India and then did graduate work at
Hai-vard University.
to

in

Recently Mr. Bahmbal decided
he would tour the United States
to let the American people know
wha was happening in the new
Republic of India.
His message
included the results of American
December, 1955

ly w’as a

member

of the faculty at

Catawissa High School, has been
a

member

of the college staff since

September, 1954. She is a graduate of the Teachers College and
the Pennsylvania State University,
where she received the degree of
Master of Education. She has completed most of the academic re(luirements

tor

the

doctorate

at

The second aimual Freshman
Day held at B.S.T.C. SunOctober
day,
12, was a big success
with more than 250 parents attendMore than 450, including
ing.

Parents’

freshmen and faculty members, enjoyed dinner at the college dining
room following attendance at

church services.
At a convocation
auditorium,

at

members

Carver Hall
of

the

ad-

Penn State.
While -Mrs. Mc'Cern was teach-

ministrative staff

ing at Catawissa, she taught business subjects in an adult education
program sponsored by the Benton
She taught in the
stjiool district.
e\ euing school of Drake College,

extended greetings.
A panel discussion on general
college problems was presented
with John Hoch, Dean of InstrucOn the panel
tion, as moderator.
were Dr. Andruss, Miss Mary Macdonald, coordinator of guidance
Miss Beatrice Mettler,
services;
college nurse; Paul G. Martin, business manager, and Dr. Ernest Engelhardt, placement director.
Parents of dormitory men and
women held a meeting with Mrs.

New

York City. Mrs. McCern has
had extensive business experience.

W.

B. Sterling, associate profes-

sor of earth
is

native

a

where

and aviation sciences,
of Antwerp, N. Y.,

attended the public
received the Bachelor
of Science degree from the University of Buffalo and the degree of
Master of Education from Syracuse
Unixersity.
He is studying for a
doctorate at the Pennsylvania State

schools.

he

He

University.

Mr. Sterling held the position of
supervisor of business education in
high scliools in Middleport, N. Y.,
and Dunkirk, N. Y., prior to World
W’ar II. During the war, he was
a cix ilian instructor for the U. S.
Navy and the U. S. at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, the University of Tennessee, and Ohio State
University.
He holds a commercial pilot’s license.

aid to India,

and

India’s attitude

toward appreciation of this aid.
Mr. Bahmbal has lectured in
most of the forty eight states, although he concentrated his work
in the east.
Upon completing his
American lecture tour, he will return to his homeland to help educate his people with the aid of his
knowledge and experience.

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

were introduced
and President Harvey A. Andruss

Elizabeth Miller,
and jack Yohe,

Dean of Women,
Dean of Men.

Topic for discussion was “Problems Incident to Campus Life.”
A reception and tea in the newly-renovated Waller Lounge concluded the day’s activities.
Acting as hosts for the event
were Miss Margaret Waldron and
Dr. Ralph Herre, assistant deans
of women and men, respectively.

HAVE YOU PUBLISHED
ANY ARTICLES?

”

The 1956 OLYMPIAN, the College literary magazine, is publishing a bibliography of articles and
books written by the alumni and
If you have
faculty of B.S.T.C.
had anything published since graduation, we would appreciate your
mailing your name, the name of
the book, the publishing company,
and the date of publication to Evelyn Gilchrist, Editor of the OLYMPIAN,

Box

College,
deadline

112, State Teachers
The
Bloomsburg, Pa.
is January 22, 1956.”

1930

West Main Street
BloomsL/urg 850

Lottie Zebrowski lives at 85
North London Street, Kingston, Pa.
5

OSCAR

E.

WHITESELL

Floyd Tubbs, T2

Can you remember what happened

torty-iive years

ago?

I

can.

can remember what happened
about 10:00 a. m. on October iOth,
1

1910.

1

was

in Fsyciiology Class

Bloomsburg, Pa., State Normal
School (now Bloomsburg State
Teachers Collegej when a knock
come on the classroom door. When
at

opened the
Bakeless
Protessor
door, there stood a clerK trom the
school otlice who said, “Mr. Tubbs
is wanted in tne otlice.”
accompanied Nevin Engelhart
to the oliice and when we entered
there was Brot. JeiiKuis, the regis1

my

trar; also

great-uncle, Cnaries

and

Whitesell,

his

son,

Oscar

WhiteseU.
Alter the usual greetings. Prof.
Jenkins said, “Oscar is coming to
school here.” 1 assure you anyone
could have “knocked me over”
with my Englisn grandmother’s
proverbial leatner because, you
see, Oscar Whitesell is blind.
Duruig the next two years 1 was
to see and learn many things that
even to me, as 1 think about it
now, seemed next to unpossible.
Oscacr Whitesell was born in
the year lb9Z and is just tliree
months older than 1.
As a cliild it was quite apparent
there was something wrong with
his eyes, and then at tne age of
eleven he met with an accident
while at play near his father’s
home. As a result of tlie accident

play, he can get more from the
radio description of a game than
most people get from watching a
game.
And don’t question any
statement he makes about batting
averages, home runs, etc., of major league teams or you will find
out what a wonderful memory he

he

has.

younger brother had a
bicycle and I have seen Oscar get
on this bicycle at his father’s house
and ride it down the hill to a stone
arch bridge, go between the stone
“wingwalls” of the bridge, and
then up the hill on the other side.
Later they had a tandem bicycle
and many were the rides Oscar and
I had around the town of Bloomsburg.
Oscar’s

Oscacr Whitesell graduated from
Overbrook School for the Blind
near Philadelphia in June, 1910,
and then returned in September
for a post-graduate course; and
that is when the heads of the
school advised him to go to a “seeing” school.
During the next two years, everyone at B.S.N.S. became accustomed to Oscar’s and my going
about the campus, into the dining

once, and then gradually the sight
of the other eye weakened until,
despite the eilorts of the best doctors in tlie best hospitals, he be-

room, and to and from classes
with his books under his arm. I
should say book not books because one book made an armful
since they were in Braille and
were about 16” x 16” by 2” thick.
Oscacr roomed alone tlie first
year and with his brotlier the second year but all his studying was
done with me and my roommate
in our room.
One of the things that impressed me most was the way all tlie
pupils, boys and girls alike, accepted Oscar as one of them.
The

came

professors

he

lost

tlie

sight of

at

entirely blind.

As one

oi a big family of cous-

ins (mostly boys)
all

one eye

1

learned to play

the rough boy games — and I
rougli
and 1 assme you

—

mean

and readiest was Oscar. There was one game hi which
he could not take i>art and tliat
was his greatest love — baseball.
He was the very successful manager of his home baseball team for
the roughest

Since the only way he can
“see” a bascliall game is to have
years.

someone
6

explain

to

him

every

and others in authority
did everything possible to help us
through some most difficult situa-

we were allowed to eat at
same table just inside the dinroom door for two years; all
examinations were taken on his
typewriter and special examinations were given at siiecial times.
At Overbrook School for the
Blind, Oscar had been an out.s'tanding athlete and at Bloomsburg his record was continued. In
the interclass track meet he always
tions;

the
ing

took
shot

or second place in the

first

and

put

jump.

In

gym

broad
he al-

standing
exhibitions

ways performed on the

parallel

bars.

One

when we were

night,

sup-

was working off some surplus energy by
putting the palm of my hands on
tlie foot board of our bed and
jumping up with my feet between
posed

to

be studying,

I

my

hands without raising the
palms of my hands. The next
morning Oscar said to me, “Floyd,
do you know what you were doing
last night?

Well,

when

I

got to

my

room, I tried it and I jumped
clear over on the bed; the springs

went down on the

way

to sleep that

floor

and

I

had

all night.”

One

night in the fall of tlie year
left the dining room after
the evening meal, the lights went
out and I said to Oscar, “We had
He answered,
better stay here.”

we

as

“Come

I’ll take you up to your
As we reached the fourth
and started down the long

on;

room.”
floor

I
could see a faint light
dirough the window at the end of
the hall, but before we reached
this Oscar made a sharp tuni to

hall,

the left and started down the connecting hall. I said to him, “How
did you know when to make that

He

turn?”

A

me,

to
I

said, “I

don’t know.”
tliiat he said

couple of days after

been wondering how

“I’ve

knew when

to

make

the hall, and today

There
just

is

I

that turn in

found

out.

a slight rise in the floor

before you reach the tuni.”

One day
Main

while walking

down

Bloomsburg Oscar
said, ‘The other day \ou asked me
how I knew what kind of store we
were passing. Well, I am sure you
Street in

can recognize this odor.” I certainly could since we were piissing
a wholesale candy store.
After
leaving
school
Oscar
Whitesell for a time operated his
father’s general store where he
had the price of all articles marked in Braille.
Since he studied piano tuning
the Overbrook School, he now
makes a living tuning pianos. He
and his wife drive as far as Binghamton, New York, where he has
at

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

pianos to tune.
One clay before he was married,
he was telling me an experience
he had. He would go down to the

miniher

a

ol'

barn, hitch the horse to the buggy,
and drive a number of miles to see
his friend

(now

He

his wife).

said.

was coming
The other night
been out
had
since
and
home
ijnite late for a number of nights,
don’t know how
went to sleep.
1

1

1

1

long 1 slept but when the horse
stopped, 1 awoke and 1 didn t
know where 1 was. 1 got out and
walked up to the horse’s head and
I
ran into a pile of lumber.
1

once where I was because
the horse had turned into a side
road leading to an old sawmill. I
took the horse by the head, turned
liim around and came on home.

knew

at

Oscar’s parents would
house to visit he
our
come
would say to m\' grandmother.
Aunt Lib, is the organ in the
same place?” He likt'd to play our

When
to

would
the room where
so he

and

old reed organ

make his way to
it was and go straight to the place
vc'here the organ happened to be.

asked to read from one
of his Braille books and the room
was rather dark, m>’ grandmother
said, “Wait Oscar, 1 will get yon

When

a

liglit.

He

”

need any

“Oh

is^iid,

don

1

t

light.”

The most important thing about
incidents I have
is not the almost
uncanny things that Oscar could
do, but tlie natural, unassuming
way in which he did them so that

most of

these

tried to describe

people like

my grandmother were

apt to forget he

And now

I

was

have

last tlie telling

of

blind.

sa\

ed until the

what

the culmination of our

together at B.S.N.S.

me was
two years

to

Many

honors

received at schools and colis .that given
by the Faculty. So the Class of
1912 at B.S.N.S., of which Oscar

are

leges but the greatest

WTiitesell

and

1

were members,

always be proud of the fact
that Oscar Whitesell who is blind
will

was the Valedictorian.

in

December, 1955

Graduates of the Teachers College really go into the teaching
Ninety-two percent of

profession.

the class of 1955, who were available for teaching positions, began
their duties with the opening of

schools in September.

The annual

follow-up siuvey of graduates has

been completed by the placement service of the institution. Ac-

just

Ernest H. Engelhardt, director of placement, all
members of the class of 1955 have
replied to the annual followup letter.

Last year’s class numbered 154.
these, two are in graduate
schools and twenty-one are in the
armed ser\ices. Of the remaining
131 available for employment, 120,
or ninety-two percent, are teaching school.

Of

Only

five

members

of the entire

chose to go into gainful octeaching.
cupations other than
Five women graduates are married and busy at homemaking. One
graduate is unemployed at the
present time.
class

The class of 1955 has also lowered the trend to out-of-state
placement.
Of 108 beginning
teachers, eighty-five are teaching
in Pennsylvania and twenty-three
out-of-state.
Percentages figure
seventy-nine percent in Pennsylvania and twenty-one percent outof-state.
In 1954, the percentage
for Pennsylvania was sixty-six percent, and in 1953, it was seventythree percent. The improved holding jx)wer of Pennsylvania is probably due to a slight increase in salaries paid

beginning teachers.

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, in commenting on the placement report,

observed that pending legislation
providing for regular increments
of S200 and additional increments
of S150, totalling $350 per year,
will
undoubtedly help to hold
presently

as long as
lives

in Pennsylvania, and the school
populations in the anthracite coal
regions continue to decline, young
graduates of State Teachers Col-

leges coming from
Lu/cerne, Schuylkill,

Lackawanna,
and Northum-

berland Counties will,

if

they can-

return to their home communities, tend to be attracted to out of

jiot

state positions,

he added.

MISS HARRIET LINK

AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP

cording to Dr.

employed and recently

graduated teachers in their home
State of Pennsylvania.
However,

1930

Ethelda Young Marshall
Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

PERCENT OF ’55 CLASS
NOW TEACHING

92

sey offer

Delaware and New Jer$500 more per year to

the beginning teacher than

is

Miss Harriet Link, a junior from
Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, was

awarded a three hundred dollar
scholarship by the Columbia County Chapter for the Mentally Retarded. The award was made on
the basis of her interest, work, and
academic achievement in the field

Mr. Frank
special education.
Whitmire, vice president of the lo-

of

cal unit of the organization,

sented the award

November

its

pre-

assembly on

8.

“Pennsylvania
ing

in

is

not

responsibilities

youth— either

shoulder-

toward

school buildings
or teacher training,” Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss, president of B.S.T.C., told
those attending the father’s night
meeting of the Benjamin Franklin
in

P.T.A.
Ninety-six parents and teachers
heard Dr. Andruss expressed his
belief that it was the responsibility
the school
cf P.T.A. units and
boards to protect the future of education in this state. He also stated that he felt that there should be
non-partisan balloting for school
directors and that the job of state
superintendent of schools should
not be political.
A covered dish supper was enjoyed preceding the meeting. Husbands of the P.T.A. officers were
in charge of the business session.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE 1868
William V. Moyer, '07, President
Harold L. Moyer. '09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

paid
7

-

Football

urday tlie one thing that would
have made the folks happy was a

1955

x'ictory.

closed
their 1955 football season with a
record of five victories, two de-

The Bloomsburg Huskies

feats,

and one

tie.

Four'

games

were placed with teams outside
of the conference, with a record
of two games won and two games
In the Teachers’ College
lost.
Conference, the Huskies defeated
Mansfield, California, and West
Chester, and played a scoreless tie
with Lock Haven, thus achieving
a record of three victories, no defeats, and one tie, and winning
the Conference Championship
.

The following summary

of the

past ten seasons is quoted from
the “Fanning” column of The

Morning

Press;

(When the

referee

ball into the air
to

the

tossed

on College field

signify that the “battle of the

bhzzard” was over and Lock Haven and Bloomsburg had battled

most of the some
500 partisan fans assembled were
disappointed. None made any attempt at a demonstration.
One reason, of oomse, was that
many of the Bloomsburg fans believed that we had to have a win
It was someto take the title.
time later that it was learned this
was not so. We were the kingto a scoreless tie,

pins.

Bloomsburg had won the State
Conference football crown by

The final
twelve points.
Bloomsburg 237,5;
was:
Chester 225.5.
But

rating

West

we wonder how many

of

the fans, festooned in snowflakes
and with ice cold foundations,

despite overshoes or galoshes, realized that the Huskies had completed a decade of football without a losing season.
That was something that most
of the more optimistic folks who
follow the Huskies didn’t think
was possible when the College revived the sport back in ’46.
But

has happened.
It’s
just another of those instances, though, that when you get
it

something you aren’t satisfied.
You want something more. Sat8

And we

didn’t get

to

it.

Yet after the New Haven game,
the Huskies stood at three
wins and two losses, most of the
folks would have settled for two
wins in the remaining three games.

when

There were some who figured we
wouldn’t win any of them. After
defeat in the three
the heights against
Chester, we got all gloomy

we escaped
and rose

West

to

because of a

tie.

The

only worthy aim, of course,
Disappointed
is to play to win.
as were the fans, the team felt the
sting of the tie more than the
And we aren’t amiss when
fans.

we give Lock Haven some credit.
The Bald Eagles played a superb
game.
But now that we have had a
little time for sober reflection we
certainly can see that this campaign of ’55 was a success — one
well above what was contemplated
at the start.

Teachers College Conference for five years. In
that time we have had the undisputed title for two seasons and a
piece of it a third. No other Teachers College has had it more. West
Chester alone has done as well.
Further,

|a

we have

to realize that

stay

our

aren’t going to

No

in

win

all

class

we

the time.

And

while some of
not believe it, a
team that wins all the time also
the

club does.
folks

When we gave up football prior
World War II things were i:ab.

We

didn’t have much manpower
and what we had couldn’t handle
things.

The

administration brought the
’46.
The late “Lefty”
Danks was brought over from Milton to coach. He suffered a heart
attack and died before the season
opened. The present dean of instruction at the College, John A.
Hoch, was Danks’ assistant. After
sport back in

“Lefty’s” untimely death

made head coach

Hoch was

for die year.

The

squad unanimously requested this.
Every school was loaded with
returning GI’s. We opened with
a tie with Mansfield and then
dropped three. The scores were
close but defeat was our lot. Then

we won

the next four, including
an upset at East Stroudsburg, and
turned in a winning season of 4
wins, 3 losses and a

tie.

We

were

on our way.

Bob Redman came here

They have had

when we

preceding weekend.

may

loses fans.

This Husky team of ’55 was
drawing its best crowds after it
had a couple of close shaves. It
attracted two near record throngs
for the West Chester and King’s
games and we’re sure it would
have set a new high mark had the
weather been as fine as it was the

in the
a higlily successful five-year regime.
He lost the
fall of ’47 to start

one at Kingston to Mansfield
Teachers, 7-6, and tlien his club
rolled along. Shippensburg upset
us in a homecoming game at Athletic Park, 19-12, after we got a
12-0 lead, but that was the only
other black mark. The season finished with a 6 won, 2 lost record.
Then came 1948 and tlie Huskies turned in an undefeated season. Wilkes upset us in the opener of ’49 but then the boys got going again and shortly thereafter
Redman brought out another undefeated team.
Bob’s now turning out winners
at East Orange. Jack Yohe, a Lock
first

Haven alumnus who was
hand man
VV’est

came

to

right

Glenn Killinger

at

Chester, for many years,
here four years ago to take

over.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth. ’42

R.

J,

Webb,

'42

He hasn’t had any undefeated
teams but he has had all winning
combinations. In the worst under
him we won

five

and

Somewhere along

lost tliree.

present
college year the Alumni and students should get togetlier and commemorate an achievement of a
decade of winnmg football teams.
in the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

October 1
Bloomshurg 27 — Mansfield 6
BSTC MSTC
First
First

downs, rushing
downs, passing

1

218

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Passes intercept, by
Yards gained intercept
Kick-offs
Kick-off

ret.

6
0
113

12

4
13
4

22

40

3

4

1

13
1

39
23
6-50 1-30
137
23
6-27 6-28
10
0

yds

Punts

Punt ret. yards
Fumbles
Fumbles lost

3

1

4-40 2-10

Bloomsburg

0
0

14
0

Mansfield

— 27
—6

7

6

6

0

Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdowns
Browning (8, pass from Lashendock);
Morson (15, pass from Lashendock);
Rainey

(6,

tackle);

left

Kren

<6,

right

PAT—

Rainey 3 (placements).
guard);
Mansfield scoring: Touchdown—Linker (1, center).

Teachers unveiled
model before
their
Mansfield on
some
Saturday afternoon, October 1, and
performed satisfactorily for an
opener, winning 27-6.
The Huskies weren’t extended.
They scored each of the first two
times they gained possession of
moved ineptly
tlie pigskin, then
about until jarred out of their lethargy by a Mansfield touchdown at
the start of the second half. After
that they settled down to put togetlier touchdowm drives of 67 and
70 yards for touchdowns and held

Bloomsburg

1955 football
500 fans at

firm control of the game until the
final whistle.
Jack Yohe started an all veteran team but used a nmnber of

replacements as
the game progressed and some of
the
replacements did effective

sophomores

work.

In

as

all

thirt>'-seven

Maroon and Gold saw

of the

battle.

First
First
First

—

Bloomsburg 6
BSTC CSTC

downs

downs, rush
downs, pass
Yards gained rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained passes
Fumbles
Fumbles lost
.

10
8
2
155
14

.

December, 1955

6

3

1

2-20 1-5
7-35 5-30

Punts
Cortland

1

153
15
4
72

47
2

.

Penalties

Bloomsburg

9
8

4

0
0

0
7

6
0

0

—

—Radzvicz

(28,

—

Defeat atme early to the Huskies in the 1955 football campaign.
Cortlland, N. Y., Teachers, an inthat has increased its
enrollment from 500 to 1,800 in
less than a decade, turned the trick
on their home field Saturday idternoon, October 8, 13-6.
stitution

won it in the second
on an 83-yard drive culminating in a neat 28-yard end run
by Johnny Radzavicz, a freshman
haltback from Horseheads, N. Y.,
and a placement boot by Clarence
Powell, a senior from Yonkers.
Their second score was the
product ol the situation. Bloomsburg, which scored in the third
period on a 4-yard drive after
Harry Hughes, a junior, Williamsport, reco\ered a fumbled punt,
luid failed to tie the count when
a placement boot by Bob Rainey,
a
sophomore from Johnstown,
went to tire left of the uprights.
They

Still

6

6—13

striving to

game

the

pull

out of the fire Mike Lashendock,
a senior from Keiser, went to a
It wasn’t clicking
passing game.
because of the rushing tactics of
the Cortland line but he gambled
on a fourth down long one that
failed and Cortland took over on
the

Husky

had been

attack

home

the

early

se<x)nd half, once

tire

on the Husky

club got

first

down

3.

Kiwanians.
The weather was a
definite disappointment to them
a crowd of 10,000 had been
the goal. While only five percent
of that number turned out the

for

total

good

BSTC
downs

Yards lost rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net gain rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards passing

308

.

9

299
10
2
15
5

Pass intercept, by

Punts

10
10
22
4
58
3

2

2

100

15

lost

Penalties, yards

Bloomsburg

0

6

Wilkes

0
2

0

—Rainey

2
20

3-33 6-33
2
2

.

Touchdowns

Wilkes
12

first period; 3,

hand

at

was

(1,

6
0

0 —12
0
0
tackle.

—

end run).

Bloomsburg State Teachers College gained possession of the an-

surprisingly

for conditions.

October 22
Bloomsburg 20 — Kings 19
BSTC Kings
downs

Lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained passing
Passes intercepts by
Penalties

Fumbles
Fumbles

October 15
Bloomsburg 12 — Wilkes 0

Fumbles
Fumbles

program of the up-river

children’s

Yards rushing

stymied after

minutes of
after the

thracite football trophy of the
Kiwanians
Fort
Kingston-Forty
when they swam to a 12-0 victory
over Wilkes in Kinj^ston High stadium Saturday night, October 15.
The football of hard coal may
only be retained by a team until
it is beaten by its opponent in the
series, but the Huskies must have
been sorely tempited to use it for
fuel in an attempt to chase tlie
cold after they had bathed in
muddy water for more than two
hours while five hundred of tire
dyed-in-wool fans watched and
also got drenched.
Conditions were no reflecjtion
on the field. No turf cxmld take
a drenching such as the Kingston
gridiron experienced and not have
some water on it. And then it
rained through much of tire game
and poured during the first half.
The game had been staged for
Ihe benefit of the underprivileged

First

16.

The Cortland
entirely

First

October 8
Cortland 13

Touchdowns

scoring:

end); Powell (16, pass from DeRonda).
PAT Powell (placement).

pericxl

^

Penalties

Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdown
Cortland
Lashendock (6. end run).

13

10

225
14
211

121

7

17
104
27

15
177
4
0
7-45 3-15
7

14

lost

2

3

1

1

Punts
3-20 3-27
Kings scoring: Touchdowns Alansky
(10, pass from Koval); Began (16, pass
from Koval); Smith (8, pass from Koval).
PAT Alansky (placement).
Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdowns
Boughner (30, end run, and 6 end run);
Wascacage (30, pass interception). PAT
Johnston, Rainey (placements).
Just when it appeared that the

—

—

•

—

Bloomsburg Huskies might drop
their first

football
in

’46,

Homecoming game

since

was revived on the hill
a couple of boys on the

forward wall. Mo Morson, an end,
and Joe Wascavage, a guard, cx)mbined to score a touchdown on a
pass interceptti'on and

Bob Rainey,
9

a halfback, used his educated toe
for the important point that gave

his targets, his aerial exhibition
•being one of the finest ever seen

the Huskies a 20-19 decision over
Kings in a thriller.

on Mount Olympus.
This Kings team was a top unit
and while the Huskies played well
they had a mighty job on their

The

tide changed at 5:30 of the
last period and after Kings trailing 13-0 at the end of the first
period, had come back to take a
1913 lead as a result of the brilliant passing of Bemie Koval, a
155-pound sophomore from Kingston.

defense against passes
much of the afternoon and found
many holes in the umbrella,
switched to a six-man line in
place of a four in the final stanza
and it paid off.

umbrella

Koval, who was threading a
needle much of the afternoon, had
He was
possession in midfield.
passing deep, often 20 yards back
of the scrimmage line.

This time it looked as though
he was attempting a screen pass.
As the ball left his hands as he
was hit simultaneously from different directions and at different
parts of his body by Husky forwards, Morson reached up and deflected the ball, it was snatched
by the charging joe Wascavage
from Old forge and, after he was
sprung tree by a timely block by

busy

Morson, he outlegged

the frantic Kingsmen to tlie goal
30 yards away. Then Kainey
got the all important extra point
and the largest gathering of
alumni for a Homecoming in recent years if not in history was
left in a happy mood.
line

A

crowd estimated

at

between

3,000 and 3,500 massed under perfect football weather to watch a

game
as

in

which the

tide

changed

the contest progressed.

watched the Huskies move

They
to

two

quick scores in the first period
and then saw a plucky band of
Monarchs come back under the
talented pitching Koval to dominate play for much of the afternoon and throw a scare into the
ranks of the Huskies tliat will not
be soon forgotten.
Koval, who was injured in the
play that led to the Husky triumph, did a superb job in hitting
10

October 29
25 — Bloomsbvng 21
,

New Haven

BSTC NH
First

The Huskies, who had used an

tlie

hands.

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards passing
Punts
Penalties

0
13

New Haven

9

119
31
88

207,

5

1

102

14;

1

1

6-35 3-40
7-85 6-80
2
2
2
2
21
7
0 14
0
25
0 12

—
——

Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdowns
Morson (12, pass from Lasnendock):
Rainey (4, oil tackle; 23, pass from

PAT—Rainey

Oustrich).

2

(place-

ments); Stroup (pass from Rainey).

New Haven
Hardvall

scoring:

—

Touchaowns
Sacramone

run; 32, run);
(5, run); Henry (27, run).
ramone (placement).
(7,

PAT—Sac-

Bloomsburg Huskies got their
offensive rolling too late at New
Haven, so that two touchdowns in
the last period were not sufficient
to turn tne tide and the undefeated Badgers won, 25-21.
A Husky team in which there
were many replacements operating, scored two touchdowns in tlie
last six minutes but by that tim«
the New Haven club had sufficient cushion to withstand the late

California 6

BSTC
First

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Intercepts by

Fumbles
Fumbles

lost

Penalties,

Cal.
10
105
2
18
87
158
12
5
4
1
20
6
1
2
2
3
0
2
40
60
6-35 3-43
0 0 6
0 7 0
10
160

yards

Punts
0

—
—

Bloomsburg
0
Bloomsburg scoring: Groover' (4,
run); PAT Rainey (placement). California scoring: Touchdown Wiika (2,

—

—

run).

But for the educated toe of
Johnstown’s “Bo” Rainey the Vulcan spoilers from California State
Teachers College would have done
some more spoiling here Saturday,

November

5.

Because of

“Bo’s” place kicking ability the Huskies eked out
a 7-6 decision to remain undefeated in Teachers College conference
play and stiU in the running for
state honors.
It was one of those tight ball
games where if it had not
been for any one of a series of
things the tide of battle would
have turned the other way.
Among the more noticeable contributions to the Husky victory
was a determined goal line stand
by the Maroon and Gold line in
the second period and ‘Truck”
Malczyk’s blocking of Byron Bake-

attempted placement boot
dying minutes of the contest.
Had Blakewell gotten the
kick off it probably would have
knotted the count for it had plenwell’s

rally.
It was a surprising game inasmuch as the New Haven boys,
who in three previous meetings,

had been

—

California
7,

200
8

12

Intercepts by

Fumbles
Fumbles lost
Bloomsburg

9

November 5
Bloomsburg 7

definitely

air

minded,

did all their damage with a running game and tlie Huskies, previously
weak in the overhead
game, made it click for more yardage than their running game.

THE
CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch, T5, Propr.
Orangeville R. D. 2, Penna.

in the

ty of carry

and was headed

right direction

from

in the
the fullback

Township came
and used his
more ways than one to

Newport

barreling

head

when

in

through

thwart the attempt.
It was hard football all the way.
Eacli club scored a most deserved
touchdown, tlie results of a 72yard march by tlie Huskies in the
third period, with the hard run-

ning Bob Groover from Watsontown scoring from 4 yards out, and
a 48-yard attack by California in
the last period.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

November 12
Bloomsbury' 17 <— West Chester

7'

BSTC \VC
downs

First

6

14
281
21

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained passes
Pass intercepts by
Punts

3

87
55
22
23
10

84

138

3

1

260
8

6-30 8-35
4-40 2-10
0
4

Penalties

Fumbles
0
3
Fumbles lost
7
0 0 7 0
West Chester
17
0 7 0 10
Bloomsburg
West Chester scoring: Touchdown
Kormarnicki (20, pass from HaringPAT— McLaughlin (placement).
lon);
Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdowns—Lashendock (1 foot, neak); Browning (10,

—
—

PAT—

end run); field goal— Rainey;
Rainey 2 (placements).

Bloomsburg Huskies on Saturday afternoon, November 12, played to perfection the role of a gridiron David to West Chester s Go-

The

local collegians

won,

17-7,

before some 3,000 fans and moved
within one \ictory of a clear-cut
Pennsylvania State Teachers College gridiron crown.

A Bloomsburg team
tlireatened since

tlie

tliat

start

of

has
the

season to put on a great performance did so against the Rams, outplaying the Kilhnger crew most of

way and never

purpose

It

Browning did

Bloomsburg’s

the question

line,

although

faltering

there

were

a

occasions when their own
shortcomings again created greater
havoc to the Husky cause than
did the opposition.
The Huskies moved to a quick
and clean-cut 68-yard five-play
score in the second period. Mike
Lashendock sneaked the final inscintillating
ches
after
Jimmy
Browning had done a twinkle-toes
dash to the threshold of the goal.
“Bo” Rainey, the old reliable with
the educated toe, converted.
A fumble by Lashendock early
in the third period was grabbed
by Ray Kanter, Ram guard, 20
yards away from paydirt.
Johnny Harrington, West (ilhester quar-

knew what

chucked to

to

do with it. He
Jim Kormar-

this end,

on the first play for a score.
McLaughlin booted the placement that tied it up.
All that did, however, was make

nicki,

Eli

December, 1955

crowd would probably have
been a record breaker.
Those who turned out watched
two teams put up good games under conditions but found the weather too much of a handicap for
the

when

the gridders

it

came

to of-

fense.

Miss

Edna

Barnes, a

J.

member

Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, left San Francisco on June 24 to participate in
of the faculty of

mark at the start of the season,
was superb. Always good on de-

sponsored

fense, it turned in a top offensive
job against the Rams. West Ches-

State College. Miss Barnes teaches college geography and super-

running game was held to

ter’s

a net of 22 yards. The
n’t make a first down

Rams

could-

by any me-

the

first

round-the-world

Western

by

tour
Illinois

vises student teachers at the training school. Thirty-six teachers from
six states participated in the tour.

thod until five minutes of the second period had ticked away. And

when

it

came

to

attack the

for-

stalwarts in maroon and gold
a line
tore holes in tlie Ram line
that is rated as one of the best in
some years at West Chester.

ward

The Husky

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, '44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46

tipe of cooperation

getting this

up

front, rip-

142 East

Bloomsburg STerling 4-3969

ped and tore all afternoon. They
were halted at times when scores
seemed certain but rolled with relentless purpose on enough occasions to win and to clearly establish

their superiority in so doing.

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

November 21
Bloomsburg 0 — Lock Haven 0
BSTC LH
First

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Pass attempt
Pass completed
Yards gain pass
Intercepts by

Punts

Fumbles
Fumbles
Penalties

lost

Manager
Main Street

Assistant

backs,

in

few

ter,

took nine plays.
a masterful piece
of tip-toeing through the West
Chester tulip patch for the final
He went over standing up.
10.
“Bo” Rainey did his specialty and
tlien a few minutes later stood
back on the 18 and calmly split
the uprights with a field goal that
made it sure for Bloomsburg.
clincher.

—

liath.

tlie

the final quarter more dramatic.
Bloomsburg went 76 yards for the

10
120

122 East

— REPAIRS

’27,

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

9

108

87
22
65

16

11

12

C. Strausser,

4
41
41
2
2
6-33 9-27
4
6
3
4
4-30 3-25
3

Bloomsburg State Teachers College won the 1955 Pennsylvania
State Teachers College Conference
Football title in the “battle of the
blizzard” Saturday, November 21,
but it couldn’t defeat the Lock Haven Bald Eagles. The teams battled to a scoreless tie.
Weather conditions held attendance to an estimated 500 or so
whereas, had the conditions been
as ideal as the previous Saturday,

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee
Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

11

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre Area
’46

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock, PA.

PRESIDENT

Benton, Pa.

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT

D. Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Lois Lawson. '33
Bloonisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

’41

Miss Mabel Dexter,

Jerry Russin

RECORDING SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Mrs. Betty Hensley

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

SECRETARY

TREASURER

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

TREASURER
Mrs.

Olwen Argust

Harold

J.

40 South Fdne

Baum,

St.,

Harrisburg, Pa.

147 East Chestnut

’27

St.,

WASHINGTON ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

Hazleton. Pa.

Miss Genevieve G. Morgis ’34
3700 Massachusetts Ave., N. W.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

Miss Pearl L. Baer_ ’32
21 South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Washington

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs. Lucille
127

16,

D. C.

VICE PRESIDENT

'TREASURER

TREASURER

'14

Hazleton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

VICE PRESIDENT

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

New

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

St.,

Area

B. Hazleton

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

George

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary A. Meehan. ’18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’07

'14

42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

2921

’19

Mehoopany_ Pa.

TREASURER

Paul Englehart,

’52

Milford, Pa.

Mr. Joseph A. Kulich

McHose Ecker

’32

’49

1542 N. Danville Street

Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

Arlington, Virginia

TREASURER

MONTOUR COUNTY

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH
PRESIDENT

Lois C. Bryner,
Street,

’44

Danville, Pa.

400

Miss Alice Smull,

Moosic, Pa.
312

SECRETARY

Church

St.,

P.

Miss Sadie
1232

Danville, Pa.

Dr. M.

Miss Susan Sidler, ’30
615 Bloom St., Danville Pa.

NEW YORK AREA

VICE PRESIDENT
’12

SECRETARY-TREASURER
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park. N.
12

J.

S

.E.

D. C.

the Advisor of the group

PRESIDE2IT
J.

’03

Mifflinburg. Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
’35

20,

Robert V. Glover,

’06

Camden, N.

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer
Fairview Village, Pa.

PRESIDENT

P. Clive Potts,

is

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish
732 Washington Street,

Michael Prokopchak.

Kehr

Crumb

Street,

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

PHILADELPHIA AREA

'22

632 North Main Avenue
Scranton, Pa.

U

Washington

TREASURER
Miss Martha Y. Jones

O. Springfield, Virginia

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
’05

TREASURER

Miss Margaret Lewis ’28
llOSVz W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

’49)

Miss Harriet Kocher
Skylark Hotel

SECRETARY

Minooka Avenue

Barrett, Jr.

RECORDING SECRETARY

Edwin M. Vastine, 43
Bloom Street, Danville, Pa.

’23

C.

1232 Blair Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
520

Ash

38

Edward

(Adda Mae Myers

PRESIDENT

William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.
Mrs. Marion George Evans

Mrs.

Jason Schaffer

’18

R. D.

1,

Selinsgrove, Pa.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston ’23
693 Arch Street, Spring City, Pa.

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Miss Esther E. Dagnell ’34
215 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.

Helen Crow
Lewisburg, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

WASHINGTON
ALUMNI NOTES
George Gera, 1949, is instructor
with Department of Office Techniques and Management, College
of Business Administration, University of Maryland, College Park,
Md. Miss Ilonora Noyes, formerly

of the B.S.T.C. faculty, reports
he is doing a fine job.

that

Charles F. Scott, 1950, is serving
his second term as President of
Eastpines, Md., Citizens Association.

Marion Metcalfe, 1940,

is

Su-

pervising Principal of O. W. Phair
The school
School, Laurel, Md.
has eleven teachers.
Daniel H. Bonham, 1941, Lieut.

Commander, USN,
1941,

works

Personnel.

at

He

in Navy since
the Pentagon in
has a girl aged 12,

and a boy aged 7.
John Burns, 1952, is in the Personnel Administration of the Department of Defense.
Robert Burns, 1952, is now
studying law at Catholic University.

Eleanor Johnson, 1953,
Assistant,

at

is

Parish

Augustana Lutheran

Church.
Milda Kazunas, 1931, (Mrs. Milda K. Krawzel) is in the Publication Sales

He also spoke of tlie recent impro\ements to the physical plant,
die improvements soon to be started, and the necessity of further

The enjoyed meeting was arranged by Charles Boyer, Lewis-

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

He urged
tain

those present to main-

their support of the

Alumni

order that it may
worthy
students
help
more
through the granting of scholarAssociation, in

addition to the representatives of the College, die following
In

were present:
Erma Moyer Angstadt

Boyer 96
Dorothy Criswell Johnson
Charles

I.

Orin

Kreisher

E.

’33

’98

Grace M. Kunkel
Larue E. Brown ’10
Harold Danowsky '33
Marian D. Danowsky '33
Kathryn Hause Everett '30

spoke of the high enrollment, the
nmnber who could not be
admitted because of lack of facil-

large

December, 1955

the

West

Louis A. Pursel ’23
Sara H. Reigle ’29
Matilda Kos'.enbauder Tiley
Robert V. Glover ’03
Myrtle I. Swartz ’32
Ruth Nicely Sterner ’13
Grace Baylor Auten
L. Irene Frederick ’35
Anna Price Snyder ’23
Lois Laubach Webster ’33

Montour

The

Association

of

County Alumni
Bloomsburg State

Teachers College voted

Joseph Curilla
Lauretta Faust Baker
Janet Price

Also repreactivities.
senting the college were Miss Edna J. Hazen, Dr. Nell Maupin and
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president
Dr. Ajidruss
institution.
of- the
spoke on a new publication, “Years
of Progress at Bloomsburg State

Teachers College.” Montour county students at the college, Jeanette
Deibert and Robert Dalton, were
also guests at the meeting.
Musical entertainment was provided by Carmine Pennella, accordianist;
Joan Baer, vocalist;
Shirley Lubold, accompanist; and

’35

Northumberland county alumni
of the Teachers College reorganized at a meeting at the Auman’s
restaurant, Paxinos, Thursday eve8,

that

was

at-

and Mrs. Oliver Mourey

Green, Sunbury, 1952,

Howard Fenstemaker spoke

on alumni

NORTHUMBERLAND
COUNTY ALUMNI

September

Monday

21, to continue

evening,
counits scholarship to a Montour
ty student to attend the local in-

Prof.

'23

James C. Webster
Thelma Erb Boyer ’32
Frank M. tTan Devender

ning,

MONTOUR COUNTY BRANCH

ges of Danville.
Dr. Kimber Kuster spoke on
scholarships and grants-in-aid and

president,

Fenstemaker
brought
from the College, and

of

Branch Alumni.

Decision was made at the annual dinner held at tlie Mausdale
Church with 100 attending.
Present holder of the scholarship of fifty dollars is Peggy Bar-

Mazeppa, Pa.
Those present from the College
were Dr. Nell Maupin, Miss Edna
Hazen, Dr. Ralph Herre, Warren
Johnson and Howard F. Fenste-

greetings

in

stitution.
’35

Forty-one members and guests
attended the annual dinner of the
W'est Branch Alumni, held Friday
evening, October 7, at the Church

macker.
Mr.

president

burg,

November

ships.

tended by fifty-nine graduates.
Frank \AiiDevender, Shamokin,
class of 1939, was chosen president; Joseph Curilla, 1946, 'vice

Hall,

to

attendance.

expansion.

Department of the NEA.
is Head-

sistant Principal, Bethesda-Chevy
Chase Higli School, Bethesda, Md.

be

Andniss

Walter R. Lewis, 1942,

master of the Woodward School,
Washington.
Ray O. Zimmerman, 1939, is As-

who was unable

ities, and the high caliber of the
present Freshman class.

secretary-

treasurer.

John Carter, assistant county
in
Northumbersuperintendent
land, gave the address of the evening on “Our Pennsylvania Heritage.”
Dr. Nelson introduced all
of the graduates present.
Dean
John A. Hoch spoke on behalf of
the College, representing President

Filomena Crocomo, pianist. Richard Bittner was master of ceremonies.
Fifty per cent of the college’s
Montour County Alumni attended
the meeting during which current
Lois Bryofficers were reelected.
ner is president of the organization.

The

progressiveattributed to the
efforts of Fred W. Diehl, Montour
county superintendent of schools
and president of the B.S.T.C.
board of directors. The event is
traditionally held the first day of
Teachers Institute and teachers attending that function are invited
to the alumni gathering whether
they are alumni or not. Many attended.
ness

is

association’s

largely

13

NEW YORK ALUMNI

’35,

The

sixth

annual meeting and

dinner of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Alumni Association of Greater New York was held
at “Zig’s” Restaurant, 589 Central
Avenue, Newark, N. J., Saturday
Dinnight, November 5th, 1955.
ner was served to thirty-one
bers and guests.

mem-

Vice President Clive Potts, T2,
gave the invocation.
President Michael Prokopchak,
’35, introduced the honored guests.
and Mrs. E. H. Nelson.
Dr.
He then asked those present to introduce themselves, give their class
and something they had done
since graduation.

.Nelson, guest speaker, gave
and figures of things being done on the campus.

Dr

us facts

The question was asked about
the removal of the fountain at the
entrance at the campus, it being
replaced by a parking area. This

shocked and and displeased many
of us who had looked upon the
“fountain” as much a part of B.S.
N.S. and B.S.T.C. as the “tower.”
just can’t see the removing of
one of Bloomsburg’s “land marks”
as progress.

We

Dr. Nelson assisted by George
Kepping, ’50, showed us some very
interesting colored films of scenes
and events on the campus. These

were enjoyed by

all

N.

Mr .and Mrs. A. K. Naugle, ’ll, 119
Dalton Street, Roselle Park. N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Krumm, ’09,
160 Gordonhurst Avenue, Upper Montclair,

N.

J.

them down

Mrs. Clyde Kern,

A

short business meeting follow-

ed at which time officers were
chosen for 1956. They are:
Michael Prokopchak,
Passaic Avenue,
Bloomfield, N. J.
President,

’35,

233

West

President, P.

V’ice

24

Wellesley
Montclair, N. J.

’12,

The

last

who

passed away in Januare indebted to A.
K. Naugle, ’ll, Roselle Park, N. J.,
Secretary-Treasurer of the New
York Alumni, for sending us the
booklet. We are pleased to print
in full the tribute to Miss Burke.

We

78 Washington

Street, Roselle, N. J.

Mr. Paul Mudrick, ’34, 39 5th Avenue,
Neptune, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Duma, ’26,
83 Hillside Terrace, Irvington, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Thomas, ’42,
1983 Eirett Street, Valley Stream, N. Y.

Mrs. Edwin Kraus,

’25,

25

North 18th

Street, Kenilworth, N. J.

Mrs. Edith Jacobson, ’27, 262 Mt. Avenue, Springfield, N. J.
Miss Edna Pursel, ’27, Springfield.
N. J.
Miss Betty Gilligan, ’38, 355 Crooks
Avenue, Paterson, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kepping, ’50,
135 Chilton Hall Apts., Elizabeth, N. J.
Mr. P. Clive Potts, 12, 24 Wellesley
Road, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Mrs. Florence L. Price, ’18, 31 Washington Street, East Orange, N. J.

The meeting ended with a happy talk-fest of classmates and

We

hope

again with many,

you

all

many more

in

to see

1956.

A. K. Naugle, Secretary

MEMORIAM
MARGARET E. BURKE
IN

The members of the Vocational
High School Principals’ Associaof the City of New York
deeply mourn the loss of their beloved
colleague,
Margaret
E.
Burke, and wish to pay tribute to
the memory of her warm friend-

tion

ship.

She was a full-fledged elemen-

when she left
her
home town, Shenandoah,
Pennsylvania, in 1913, to answer
tary school teacher

the lure of greater opportunities in
the big city of New York.
Nor
was she disappointed.

Never counting the cost, but
with sincere dedication, for over
50 years, as Classroom Teacher,
High School Sewing Supervisor,
Teacher in Charge and Principal,
Margaret E. Burke gave of her
unusual and boundless intellectual, spiritual, and physical energies
that the education of youth
should reach a high state of development.

so

Miss

S.

teacher
recently
birthday
T. Alva

in

1884
Ella Young,

former

Columbia county,

re-

observed her ninety-first

home

nephew,
Potts, Quakertown R. D.
She sustained two strokes the
1.
latter part of May and is now a
at the

of a

Teacher

in

charge of the Bronx

Industrial

High School

Principal

in

1931,

Burke was a pioneer

its

E.

in the field

education for

of vocational

Pioneer

in 1929,

Margaret

girls.

liatient at the

escent

visioned, planned

Upper

She

Road,

Saturday of October,
for our next

was selected

Those present were:
and Mrs. E. H.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael

to

Burke,

Clive Potts,

meeting.
Dr.

273

J.

a beau-

memorial booklet dedicated
the memory of Margaret E.

tiful

curriculum analysis
and programming. Miss Burke en-

Secretary-Treasurer, A. K. Naugle, ’ll, 119 Dalton Street, Roselle
Park, N. J.
1956,

’22,

’23,

Mrs. John P. McGovern, ’46, 212
Kingland Terrace, South Orange, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Evans, ’16, 82
Ampere Parkway, East Orange, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walton, ’37, 86
Edgemont Road, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Konieczny, ’33, 613

and we wish

to us.

Coughlin,
Dunellen, N.

J.

Street, Harrison, N. J.

friends.

The Editor has received

ary, 1955.

Mr .and Mrs. J.
New Market Road,

Elm

1898

J.

thank Dr. Nelson for bringing

to

14

West Passaic Avenue, Bloom-

233

field,

Nelson,

’ll.

Prokopchak,

Mary Ellen ConvalHome, Hellertown R. D. 1.

is

the daughter of the late

and Rachel Wilson Young,
and graduated from the
Bloomsburg Normal School in
1884. She taught in Columbia and
Chester counties and for eighteen
years
was superintendent and
teacher in the Greenwood Methodist Sunday School. She was also
active in The Valley Grange and
the W.C.T.U.
She has resided

ses

in

of study

for

and
girls

set

up

cour-

which are

Philip

still

Millville,

Pioneer

with her

recruited and screened hundreds
of able applicants from industry
to enter the
Industrial Teacher
Training Courses, and examined
them for licenses to teach. Pioneer in training women teachers
for higher responsibility, she selected, counselled and inspired many
members of her faculty to advance

nephew

since 1942.

the

for today’s work.
personnel. Miss Burke

basis
in

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

to

adniinistrati \'0

and supervisory

The years passed and

a

new and

bigger vocational high school for
girls was recpiired in the Bronx.
With great and enduring enthusi-

Burke

N'ocational

High

under her aegis.

School

She

vv'as

opened
an able

executive whose leadership was
nev er obtrustive but yet it so permeated the school that during her
one prolonged absence, in 1942,
;dl activ ities continued to function

Her
efficiently.
and respected her,
and everyone was loyal to her

effortlessly

but

students loved
training.

Margaret Burke possessed a
warm, radiant, beautiful personalDuring all her years at Jane
ity.
.\ddams, she was alert, reasonable,
calm and humanly interested in
people, youngster and adult alike.
Miss Burke was a constant reminder to us all, by living example, that responsibilities always accompany rights and privileges.
relished her sense of

humor

and her delightful gift of story
telling.
We found her serenity a
pervasive influence on many an
occasion.
W'ell might these fellovving lines
have been penned to express our
sentiments
about
our beloved
friend, Margaret E. Burke:

The reason firm, the temperate
will,

Endurance, foresight, strength, and
skill;

A

to

perfect

and

members
to

to the

woman, nobly planned,

To warn, to comfort, and
command.
— William Wordsworth

her

of

Miss Burke’s

fellow

members

Principals,

of the

Mary

L.

Franklin

Edward

Drew
J.

Keller

Phillips

1912

There were a few things marking the opening of another school
year in Bloomsburg High School
adjusted to and one of these
was not to see Mrs. Harriet Hartman Kline on duty instructing in
senior English.
to get

Mrs. Kline retired at the close
the last school term after an
outstanding career of many years
imagine that
on the faculty.
it was rather difficult for her, too,
to not answer the call of the school
of

We

bell.

An

excellent teacher, she at one
time was instructor in biology but
for most of her term of service in

the local schools she concentrated

on English.
A capable teacher, she was also
a keen judge of the capabilities of
her pupils and worked tirelessly
with the individual to bring out
Her aim was
all the latent talent.
to have the best tlie particular student was capable of doing and no

tribute

ed in the minutes of the Association.
It was further ordered to
be read at the Jane Addams Vocational High School Alumnae Meeting to be held at the school in the
Spring of 1955, and to be forwardDecember, 1955

The

held the belief that all
young people should leave high
school with a thorough knowledge
of English fundamentals and the
rules of correct sentence structure.
She taught outlining, paragraph
writing and correct letter writing;
dev eloped creativ e writing on the
e.xperiences of the young people;
taught how to set up a research
j)roject correctly and present it into

and worked constantly
have young people interpret

to

remembers

Shakespearan drama, and also

the many delightful class night
productions which were built by
her.
For many years she also
coached the student commencement speakers.

She long taught demonstration
lessons before visiting teachers at-

tending secondary conferences at
the Teachers College. The recognized value of those demonstrations was shown by the number of
teachers who returned for these
demonstrations over long periods.

1915

Nora Aubrey Aberfell lives
3020 Ashby Avenue, Berkley

at
5,

California.

1915
Juanita Branning Seesholtz lives
at 128 West Philadelphia Avenue,
Youngstown, Ohio.

1915
Anita Clark Cotner’s address

Montana

State College,

is

Bozeman,

Montana.
1915
Lois

Freas

Stahl

lives

Tenterden Driver, R. D.
cuse

4,

New

at
4,

106
Syra-

York.

1915

Maude Pannebaker

Butterfield

Ihes at 822 North June Street, Hol-

lywood

38, California.

1928
Lydia Taylor (Mrs. Melvin S.
Martin) lives at 58 Park Street,
Warsaw, N. Y.
1929

and evaluate the printed page.
Mrs. Kline helped many youngsters to appreciate the great heritage of literature and to evaluate
the person responsible for the
work and recognize the philosophy of the age in which he wrote.
One of the keystones of her
course was to do all possible to
see that pupils learned how to act
and what to say in the various

life.

entire area well

the school productions which she
directed for many years and which
ran the gamut from farce comedy

less.

She

which they would be

placed through

that arc going to take a little time

terestingly,

was unanimously
adopted at the monthly meeting of
tlie Vocational High School Principals Association held on March
Third, Nineteen Hundred FiftyFive. It was ordered to be enterThis

situations in

Board

of Superintendents.

planned,

asm, Margaret
eipiipped and staffed this school.
In 1937 the new Jane Addanis

We

ed

family,

posts.

Mrs.

Edward

T.

DeVoe

(Lucille

been
has
named a part-time reading instructor in the Bloomsburg schools for
the 1955-56 term or until a fulltime reading specialist is secured.

Martz),

Bloomsburg,

1930

M. York (Mrs. Eugene
Coleman) lives at 416 Hickory

Janetta
J.

Street, Peckville, Pa.
15

1930

Marion G. Young lives at 213
North Bromley Avenue, Scranton,
Pa.

1930

Mary

Alice Zehner (Mrs. Morgan h oose) lives at Koseville Road,
Lancaster, Pa.

1933

John Simpson Sandel, son of Mr.
and Mrs. VV. E. Sandel, of Wintield, was granted tlie advanced
degree ot Doctor of Education at
Pennsylvania State Lniversity at
the
Uentennial
Commencement
held Saturday, June 11.
Dr. Sandel is currently serving
as Supervisor ot Elementary Education
ot
tne litusvilie Area
Scliools and since 19oU has been
devoting liis summer vacations to
graduate study, llie past winter
tie was able to complete his dissertation along witn liis regular
work.
The subject ot his diesis
was “An Administrative Design tor
the Development ot the Elementary School Reading Program.”
His co-chairmen were Dr. Paul W.
Bixby and Dry Lyman C. Hunt,
Jr., both ot the College ot Education at the university.

He

is

active in educational cir-

cles, especially in die

ot that group.

Sandel holds memberships
Education Association, Pennsylvania State Education
Association, Phi Delta Kappa, and
the Nortliwestern Council lor the
Dr.

in tlie National

Social Studies.

IG

served as the first president of the
Erie Presbytery Council of Presbyterian Men and is now chairman
ot tlie men’s work committee of
the Presbytery of Erie.
In both
capacities, he has addressed several church groups throughout the
Presbytery.

A graduate of Sunbury High
School in 1931, Dr. Sandel is a
two-year graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. He holds
the B.A. and M.Ed. degrees from
Penn State. Previous to this threeyear tenure at Titusville, he taught
in elementary schools at Mitllinburg R. D. and McClure, and at
Mansfield State Teachers College

ruling elder of

tlie

First

1943

The return

of Carl E. Diltz to

the faculty at Clarkson College of
as assistant professor
of
business
administration
has
(been announced by Lowell W.

Technology

Herron, dean of the School of Arts,
Science and Business Administration.

Mr. Diltz, who first came to
Clarkson as an instructor in 1947,
left in July, 1954, to teach and do
graduate work at Pennsylvania
State University.
He was promoted to assistant professor in 1949.
A native of Benton, Pa., he was

where he was a laboratory school
supervisor in the campus junior
high school. He was faculty ad-

graduated from Pennsylvania State
Teachers College at Bloomsburg,
Pa., in 1943 with the degree of
bachelor of science and from the
Teachers College at Columbia University in 1947 with a master of
arts degree. Mr. Diltz also attended Bucknell Unwersity in the sum-

viser for the college class of

mer

and taught

1952

science in several summer sessions.
In World
War 11 he was a field artillery batsocial

commander with the rank

tery

of

captain in the Eiuopean Theatre.

1933

Melba Beck

(Mrs. Harold

Hyde)
lives at 38 Runnemede Avenue,
Lansdowne, Pa.
1933

Anna Mildred Busch

(Mrs.

How-

ard A. Linse) lives at 4617 Allendale,

Oakland

19, California.

1934

Florence
the

S.

Memorial

Hartline, teacher in
Elementary School,

Bloomsburg, lives at 319 East
Street,
Bloomsburg.
Since her
graduation from Bloomsburg she
has received the Degree of Master
of Science at Bucknell University.

1934
Margaret Hawk Carlo lives at
R. D. 1, Wysox, Pa. She has two
sons.
She has been serving as
sixth grade teacher, Wysox-Aslyuin

of 1949.

Before joining the Clarkson faculty in 1947, he taught commercial
subjects at

Colmnbia High School,

Columbia,

Pa.,
for four years.
Since 1950, Mr. Diltz has also been
employed in public accounting. He

was awarded honors in accounting
seminars at Pennsylvania State
University eai^Iier this year.

He is a member of Phi Sigma
Phi, the National Education Association, the National Association of
Cost Accountants and the American Accounting Assocication. From
1944 to 1946 he was president of
the Columbia, Pa., branch of tlie
Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Active in civic
assistant

Bonds Campaign

He

Oman is serving
the Air Force.
His address is
Hdq. 4th Maintenance and Supply
in

Croup,

APO

California.

181,

San Francisco,

War

Columbia,

Pa.,

is

social fraternity;

and the Artisans.
Diltz maiTied Miss Marushia T. Monica of Malone, N. Y.,
Mr.

on June 21, 1950. They
one daughter, Lou Ann.

have

1946

Dora Brown

1942

at

he was

the

of

a member of the
Cross, the Elks, Theta Chi,

in 1945.

Red

affairs,

director

Joint School District.

Major Nelson

Very active in community affairs, Dr. Samuel is a member of
the Masons and the American Le-

A

During 1954, he

church school.

Pennsylvania

Elementary Principals’ Association,
to which group he presented an
outline ot Ihs proposed study at
the 1953 convention at Becltord
Springs. In March ot diis year he
conducted a workship on reading
lor the elementary teacliers ot Oil
City, and addressed the Warren
County Principals’ Association. He
is also active in the elementary
principals’ section ot the Northwestern Convention District ot tlie
P.S.E.A. and is scheduled as the
main speaker at next tail’s meeting

gion.

Presbyterian Church, Titusville, he
is active in men’s work and the

7th, Apt. 3,

lives at

1730 East

Long Beach,

Calif.

1947
In a pretty autumn ceremony at
nine o’clock Monday, October 31,
at St. Mary’s Visitation Church,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Dickson City, Miss Helen Wright,
D.
Dennis
Mrs.
of
late
the
and
Hlooinsburg,
Wright,
Mr. Wright, became the bride of
loseph Richard Kula, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael L. Knla, of Dick.laughter

son City.

immediate families.

apartment

furnished

6.

a gradate of R.S.

is

has been

and

in

November

after

The bride

employed

in

Dean of Instruccollege.
Her husband,

the office of the
tion at the

veteran of three years service with
the Air Force in the European

Theatre during World

now employed
tor at

New

Eugene Morrison, previously an
instructor at Dallas, has been elec-

1950
-Millard G. Fisher,

Jr.,

who

will

shortly receive his doctor’s degree,
has been named head psychologist

the 1,0(K) bed Holidaysburg
The Berwickian,
State Hospital.
husband of the former Kay Chapin, Berwick,

and son

ol

Mr. and

Millard F. Fisher, Sr., receivBachelor’s degree at Susquehanna University and his Master’s at Penn State University. He
has had a three year internship,
one year at Kankakee State Hospital, Illinois, and two years at
Lebanon \'alley Hospital. He has
also been taking additional classes
at Penn State for his Doctor’s degree.
His disertation deals with
tests that he has made up and
which he has been using in detecting assaultive tendencies in pa-

War

II,

is

as a flight instruc-

Scranton Municipal Airport,

Clark Summit.

ed

his

tients.

1948

James

J.

Donner

is

Commander

of the 1611th Field Maintenance
Squadron,
McGuire Air Force
Base, New Jersey.
He returned

the United States in May, 19.54,
after serving
two years in the

1951
Cordelia Taylor (Mrs. Wm. J.
Sammon) lives at 4 Strathmore

Road, Havertown, Pa.

to

He received the degree of Master of Business Administration at the Ohio State University in June, 1955.
He is married
and has one son, James W\ Dormer, born September 8, 1954.
Philippines.

1950
Mrs.

Donald Gerringer (Helen

now resides at 715 East
-Market Street, Danville.
Mr. and
Mrs.
Gerringer
purchased
a

Hoffman)

home

in June.
They have a oneyear-old daughter Janet Lee.
Mr.

Gerringer is employed as a laboratory technician at Merck & Go.,
Inc.

Helen

teaching

list

is

on the substitute

in Danville.

1950
Frank Bertollo, Berwick, has
been elected to fill the vacancy of
Field Executive of the ColumbiaMontour Boy Scout Gouncil. A
^aduate of B.S.T.G., he will work
in connection with Scouting in the
Green Brier District.
He will attend the National
Scout Executive Training School
December, 1955

1952

The address

of Rita Dixon is:
Service Club No. 21, Gamp Tokyo,
-\PO 613, San Francisco, Calif.

1952
Miss Dorothy Jane Borneman,
daughter of Harry C. Borneman,
Syracuse, N. Y., and Clyde Howard
Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
B. Bell, Freeland, were married
at Plymouth CongregaChurch, Syracuse, by the
Rev. John Huber.
Mr. Bell, a graduate of B.S.T.C.
and Bucknell University, is on the

recently
tional

of Fort Washington Elementary School, Fort Washington,
Pa., and is owner and director of
Pinelodge Camp for Boys at Hob-

faculty

bie.

The

bride, a graduate of Syra-

former executhe Anthracite
Council of Girl Scouts, Hazleton.
Following a reception, the couple left on a wedding trip by way
of Skyline Drive to Williamsburg,
cuse University,
tive

director

V’a.

They

1953

Jer-

-Mrs.

newlyFactory-

will reside in their

ville. Pa.,

T.C.

School in

of

doid)le-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Henry
Korpuscik before members of the

The

They

Mendham

at

sey.

is

of

will reside at

ted to the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School. He is teaching
general science and mathematics

will

tind

also

in

assist

football

coaching.

1953
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Schilling,
Forty Fort, announce the birth of
a daughter, Marie-ellen, born AuMrs. Schilling, the
gust 21, 1955.
lormer Bessmarie Williams, was
B.S.T.C.’s 1953 May Queen, and
received her degree in elementary
-Mr. Schilling, a gradeducation.
uate of Millersville S.T.C., is stationed with the 536th Military In-

telligence in

Germany.
1955

Nancy

Sue Williams, Clarks
Summit, and Fredericc J. Betz, Lemoyne, were married Saturday August 20, in the First Presbyterian
Church, Clarks Summit, Pa. Mr.
and Mrs. Betz are both teaching
in the
Southern Lehigh School
District, Coopersburg, Pa.
Their
address is 307 East Union Street,
Allentown, Pa.

1955

The marriage

of

Miss

Janice

Bower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Bower, Clarks Green, and
N. Douglas Erickson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Erickson, Ludlow,
took

place

in

the

Clarks

Green

Methodist Church recently witli
the Rev. J. Harold Davies, pastor
of tliat church officiating.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
The bride is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher in the
isburg elementary schools.

Lew-

The groom is also a graduate of
B.S.T.C. and served two years in
the army. He served 16 months in
Germany. He is a teacher in the
Milton schools.

They are residing at 200 North
Third Street, Lewisburg.

SUPPORT THE ALUMNI

2485 Av-

ondale Avenue, Roslyn, Pa.
17

Dean William

^pfrologK

teacher

in

the

a re-

Harrisburg

Wednesday, Septemher home at 918 North

schools, died

ber

at

7,

Sixth

Miss

Harrisburg.

Street,

Pendergast retired after teaching

number

for a

Camp

the heritage of
knowledge and training gained by
individual effort and to do so
without reproach is indeed a great

pass

Mary H. Pendergast,

Miss
tired

ity

’95

Mary H. Pendergast,

of years at the old

She was a lifelong member of
the First Presbyterian Church and
long active in many phases of its

She was also a member

activity.

woman’s

the

of

She was
Bloomsburg
lege Alumni Association and

St.

Church.

Surviving are three sister, the
Misses Katherine and Rose Pendergast, both at home, and Mrs.
Paul A. Bream, Washington, D.
C.; two brothers, John, at home,
and Frank Pendergast, WilkesBarre; and several nieces and nep-

organization

of

Carpenter was

Miss

charter

a

Bloomsburg Hospital Auxiliary and the Bloomsburg
Chapter, American Association of
University Women, and also a
member of the Fort McClure, D.
A.R., and the Columbia County
of the

Historical Society.

Surviving are a sister. Miss HarF. Caipenter, Center Street,

Bloomsburg, and a brother, Eugene F. Carpenter, Lansdowne.
Funeral services were held at
Carpenter
home.
Center
Street, in charge of the Rev. Varre

Cummins, pastor of First Presbyterian Church.

A.

Helen F. Carpenter,

’96

Miss Helen Fellows Carpenter,
esteemed retired teacher and for
twenty-eight years a member of
the faculty of the Teachers College, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital at four-thirty o’clock Sun-

She had been
day, October 23.
ill since 1947 and hospitalized six
weeks.

The daughter
R.

and

of the late

Frank

Isabell Fellows Carpenter,

she was

born

in

Scranton April

27, 1873.

A

graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Normal School in 1896, she
also graduated from the Northern
Illinois State College, DeKalb, III.,
and received her Bachelor’s and
Master’s degrees from Columbia

Early in her career
she taught in Carbon county and
at Royersford, Lehighton and in
the town schools before joining
the College faculty as a training
University.

teacher in 1907.

At the time she was honored by
the College faeulty upon the occasion of her retirement in 1935
IS

she

retired

because of

ill

J

During this period she produced
and managed “High Lights,” a
mimeographed school newspaper
which received a medal at the
Columbia Press Association in
New York for a number of years.
She was the president of the
New Jersey Elementary Press Association and received a key in
1937 at the Columbia Press Asso-

^
I*'

J'

^

.

‘

-

ciation convention for outstanding
in the

elementary

field.

She lived forty-four years in Atlantic City and was active as a
teacher, a school paper reporter
and a devoted church member.

She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hake Burgenheimer, B.S.T.C. ’34, and two granddaughters,
Burgenheimer
Joan

Rugaber and Sue Burgenheimer.

l

®
|

|

~
|
*

_

5

'

'

riet

the

hews.

when
health.

work

that congregation.

member
member of the
a
State Teachers Col-

Patrick’s

others

to

accomplishment.”

Curtin Junior High School

building.

B. Sutliff told her

spend one’s life in a communand in the honest endeavor to

“to

Daisy F, Eggleston,

’01

Rev. Daisy Eggleston, 74, was
found dead Saturday, October 8,
A.
at her home at Tunkhannock.
neighbor who investigated when
her presence was missed discov-

'

Fr

ered the body.

Anna Sandoe Hake,
Mrs.

Hake died

in the

’99

Memorial

New

Hospital, Sauers Point,
sey, May 10, 1955.

Jer-

After Anna Sandoe was graduNormal
State
the
ated
from
School, Bloomsburg, Pa., in 1899,
elementary
she taught in the
school of Harrisburg, Pa., her na-

Rev. Mrs. Eggleston was a local
preacher of the Wilkes-Barre District, Wyoming Conference of the
Methodist Church. She was borr>
at White Haven, daughter of Wil-

Ruey

liam and

Steele Eggleston,

and lived in the Tunkhannock area
the last few years.
Surviving

nephews and

are several
cousins.

nieces,

tive city.

Later she went to the UniverChicago to further her edWhile studying in that
ucation.
city, she had the privilege of working with Miss Jane Addams at
Hull House. Upon her return to
Harrisburg, she was made princi-

sity of

pal of one of the

grammar

schools

there.

In 1911 Anna married Jacob G.
Hake and went to Atlantic City
to live.

was given a

In 192.5, she
tion

in

one

of

the

seliools in Atlantic' City.

tinued teaching

there

posi-

elementary

She eonuntil

1950

Marie Bailey

Smitli, ’08

Mrs. Marie Bailey Smith, 79,
died at her home at Red Rock,
Thursday, September 8. She had
Leen in poor health two and a

and had been bedridden the last month.
She was born September 26,
1875, at Red Rock, daughter of
the late Casper and Susan Harrison Bailey. She spent many years
teacher and taught high
as a
school in Philadelphia two years
and at Red Rock for ten years and
also in Cambra and Millville and
half years

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

#

Township High School.
She was a member of North
Her
»loimtain Hible Tabernacle.
Smith,
\V.
Thomas
Rev.
lusbancl,
She is sur\ived by
lied in 1953.
wo stepsons, David D. Smith and
D. Smith, both of Orange,
:onn.; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Ma)el Smith Corson, Bloomfield, N.
\llison

1951

1948

lugarloaf

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brown of
W’est Hazleton, announce the en-

gagement of their daughter, Helene to Mr. Robert Yetter, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church,
Hazleton. Miss Brown is a kindergarten teacher in the West Hazleton.

and a number of nieces and
lephews.

1950

Nerine Middlesworth

is

training

Church.

teacher in the second grade of the
Training School at State Teachers
College, -Mansfield. Kathryn Graham is similarly engaged as teacher of the fourth grade of the Training School of State Teachers Col-

after

lege,

Tlie Rev. C. )C. Bailey,

T1

C. C. Bailey died re-

The Rev.

cently in Baltimore where
Emmanuel
of
pastor

he was
E.U.B.

Death occurred shortly
he delivered the morning

sermon.
Pastor for thirty-seven years in
Pennsylvania, he also was associate pastor to Rev. Dan Poling at
Marble Collegiate Church, New
York City. Surviving are his wife
and three daughters.
The Rev. Mr. Bailey was a gradthe Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, class of 1911,
and was here for the reunion of
uate

his

of

1951.

in

class

He was

also

graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1917. His father was
at one time pastor of the Berwick
and Bloomsburg E.U.B. Churches.

Laura Brockway Brown
formerly
of
native
Broclcway,
Laura
Bloomsburg, died Friday, September 9, in Passaic, N. J.
She is sim ived by her husband,
Ira S. Brown, ’90; two daughters
and one son; also two sisters, Mrs.
C. F. Baker, Albany, N. Y., and
Mrs. Alice B. Kashner, BloomsMrs.

Ira

S.

Brown,

burg.
in RutherInterment was in Old
ford, N. J.
Rosemont cemetery, Bloomsburg.

Services

were held

1950
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wagner
and son, David, have moved from
Town Hill to Wilmington, Delaware, where Mr. Wagner is working for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Mrs. Wagner is the former Betty
Riddall.

December, 1955

New

Jersey.

1950

Miss Ruth Shupp, daughter of
Shupp,
Mrs. and the late Floyd
Plymouth, was married to Mr.
Richard Guy Beadle on July 2,
Lutheran
1955
in
St.
John’s
Church, Wilkes-Barre. The couple
were attended by the bride’s sister,
Carol (class of ’55) and the groom’s
brother. Jack.
Mr. and Mrs. Beadle are living in Portsmouth, Ohio
where both are teaching.

A

daughter was born on July

was formerly Nancy Morgan.
1955

Miss Mary Ellen Henning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor H.
Henning of 19 North Tenth St.,
Stroudsburg, became the bride of
Dale Thomas Poe, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Poe of 359 North Seventh St., Lehighton, in one of the
season’s biggest weddings on Saturday, May 28 at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stroudsburg.

A graduate of Stroudsburg High
School in 1951, the bride was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teaa
1953 with
chers College in
degree in business education. The
bridegroom was graduated from
Lehighton High School in 1949,
and from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1954 and majored in
business administration. He is now
serving in the U. S. Armed Forces.

1956

White
ated

gladioli

the

Lutheran
1950

Foust.

1950
son w'as born to Mr. and Mrs.
C. Rice Williams of Hazleton. Mrs.
M’illiams w^as formerly Madelyn
Schalles.
(Mrs. Kelshaw and Mrs.
Williams were formerly roommates
at B. S. T. C. and their sons, both
second children, were born within

few weeks

of

and ferns decorMatthew’s
St.

of

Church,

Williamsport,

the September wedding of
Miss Lois Arlene Hinkal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hinkal, Williamsport, and Richard Atwood Bittner, son of Mrs. Ruth
Bittner, and the late George Bittner.

A

a

altar

for

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Kelshaw of Weatherly.
Mrs. Kelshaw is the former Sarah
Maude

10,

1955 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert EngMrs. Engler
ler of Sybertsville.

each other.)
1950

A

son was born early in November to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
Straw of Drums. Mrs. Straw was
formerly Genevieve Kryzwicki.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Bittner are
of Williamsport High
Mrs. Bittner, who also
attended Mansfield State Teachers
College, now is a junior at Lycoming College. She is a member of Omicron Gamma Pi, home
economics and Kappa Phi sorority.
Mr. Bittner is a senior at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where he belongs to the Lutheran Student Association.
The couple will reside at the

graduates
School.

bride’s

home.

1950

Jane Kenvin (Mrs. George Widger) lives at 706

Shuman

Street,

Catawissa. Mr. and Mrs. Widger
have a son aged ten months.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

B.S.T.C.

19

^Scuucened

and

/ilcMed'

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

In a few days
in

it

be

will

my

pleasure to represent the Alumni Association

making some scholarship awards to worthy students at the College. This is
It makes one feel that it is an honor to be actively

always a happy occasion.
interested in student

life in

a definite, concrete way.

graduated want
life

which we
This

is

to

have

know

And

1

believe too that

who have been
promoting that facet of school
Bloomsburg.”

the undergraduates get a feeling of pride to

that those

at least a small part in

call the “Spirit

That

is

the feeling that prompted a friend of the College through

many

Bloomsburg State Teachbe expended at the descretion

years to say in his will, “1 give

dollars to

Alumni Association. These funds to
Governing Body of the Association for such puiposes as it may see fit.”
This means help and cooperation in building a bigger and better Bloomsburg.
Bigger in the sense that her influence may be ever increasing in training teachers to promote good citizenship and understanding in this State, Nation, and
World. For Bloomsburg graduates are everywhere. AustraHa, South America,
The Philippines, Japan, Germany, and other distant areas have all been repreers College

of the

sented in mail that came to
is

interest in their

desk during the

this

Alma Mater, —

something that makes

it

last six

months.

And

the reason

interest that serves as a bit of that undefinable

easier to

meet the problems

of living in this

changing

world.

There stands

and a little to
Washington Sentinel Tree. It
is a very large tree and has a life expectancy of many more score years.
Waterford peo^rle preserve the tradition that Washington once climbed the tree to
get a look over into the palisaded French Fort where the Flag of France waved
for six years.
This was a significant opening gesture that precipitated the
French and Indian War. If Washington’s vision had ended in dismay, there
probably would not have been a United States of America.
a short distance south of Waterford, Penna.,

the west, off the highway,

Hundreds

of students

what

is

known

as the

have climbed College

Hill in quest of a vision.

From

Long

Porch, from dormitory rooms, from Mt. Olympus, and many other vantage points, — along with inspirational and devoted teaching and teachers, —
these hundreds have caught the vision of service and loyalty so that today we
boast of Bloomsburg’s proud heritage and enxiable position in teacher education.

Sincere best wishes for a pleasant holiday season.

20

Happy New

Year!

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FIFTEEN YEARS ARE FINISHED - 1940-1955
(Continued from Inside Front Cover)
(Doctors Degree), 9 Associate Professors (two
years of graduate work including Master’s Degree),
2.5 Assistant Professors (at least Master’s Degree), and
sors

3

Instructors.

The number

of Associate Professors indicates those

who have gone beyond

the Master’s Degree
toward the Doctor’s Degree, and represents in many
cases additional education planned to relate direct’.y

people

the instructional responsibilities of the particular
faculty member taking it.
The quality point system was inaugurated in the
early part of this fifteen year period, and along with
the appointment of a Coordinator of Guidance Services, the continuance of the giving of Placement Tests
to
all
Freshmen, with the social and economic
questionnaire, and the increasing use of the trait
sheet for all students formerly applied only to Seniors, are some of the devices oy which improvement
in faculty-student rclaticnships is sought.
Admission procedures have been revised to include
an interview by two college officers. With the larger
number of applicants and larger number of students
seeking admission who graduated in the lower half
of their high school class, a correspondingly larger
number have been refused admission.
Continuing
guidance and counseling have been made available
through the Directors of th Curriculums in Business,
Elemeretary, and Secondary education, along with the
Social Deans and their assistants.
to

SOCI.AL ACTIVITIES
With the construction

of the Junior High School
use as a classroom building for the Department of Business Education and certain science classes,
it has been possible to make classroom space in older
buildinrs avaiLble for social and lounge purposes

and

its

for students.

The large classroom on

the second floor of Noetling
formerly used for the Sixth Grade when this
building was a Model School, and afterwards used for
an Accounting Classroom in Business Education, was
made available to Day Men. with much the same
facilities as have been available for Day Women on
the first floor of the same building ever a period of
twenty-five years.
The putting of the Centennial Gymnasium into use,
allowe(J the conversion of the Old Waller Gymnasium
in'^o a general student recreation center
on one side
a balcony lounge was located in the bleacher space,
and on the other the bleacher space was leveled eff
as a Iccaticn for a student bock store.
At one end a fireplace and lounge space was made
available, and with the removal of the balcony at the
other end. once a part of the circular running track,
the main floor once a basketball court is used for
weekly student dancing, card playing, and the like.
The classroom adjacent to the Alumni Room, formerly used as offices for the Physical Education Staff,
Hall,

—

now a faculty lounge, and by removing the overhead
stairway to the Old Library, we now have space in
what was formerly a hall for three student offees.
With the increase in the size of the lobby entrance
to the dining rcom to include the space formerly occupied by the Business Office, we would now seem
to have more than adequate lounge, lobby, and waiting
space for students and college visitors for the studentbody of the present size.
is

PUBLIC RELATIONS
Changes
World War

habits of the Am.erican people since
have caused us to change the kind and
number of cur contacts with our surrounding communities and service area. Some of the older events
have been continued, such as Homecoming for the
in

II

younger alumni, and Alumni Day for the Reunion
Classes, the Basketball Tournament, and the continuation of the Spring Contest for Business Students.
now invite service club representatives from
three or foui surrounding communities to a dinner
preceding our Annual Sales Rally.
The dinner is
served to from 100 to 200, and the Sales Rally attendance varies from 700 to 800.

We

A

shew precedes the Business Contest and
Teachers of America invite interested
high school students to come to the college for a day
fashion

Future

the

in the Spring.

Our most

effective channel for contacting prcspecthrough the services of twenty or more
interested members of cur faculty who have in some
lecent years visited as many as 175 high schools. This
vi itatitn is many times preceded by an invitation to
the high school principal to give the names of high
school students who may be likely prospects for the
t.ve students is

teaching
Hiring

field.

officials receive an annual placement brochure which erntains the pictures and description of
the teaching fields cf each graduating Senior.
With the publication of the catalog every two years,
a larger amount of supplementary picture material
is placed in the h:nds of prospective students.

ATHI ETICS
While “wins’’ and “Icsses" are not necessarily a
good criteria to apply to the success or failure of an
interccllegiate athletic program, since many times
sacrifices have had to be made in academic standards
and administrative favoritism has to be shown to ce-tain groups who parlicipate on teams, it is, however,
the most objective measuremem of team prowess.
The period from 1939 to 1945 was, of course, one in
which interccllegiate athletics was curtailed or terminated, and finally revived on a limi'.ed basis using

war program students
Cf.icers Candidates).

(N.avy Flight

Instructors and

year period beginning in 1930 it would
be fair to say that our track and baseball
teams were cutstanding. basketball was above average,
and fcct’oall teams were below average. In fact, in
some years cur record was poor.
With the turn in the balance of enrollment in 1938

For

seem

a fifteen

to

in the direction cf a large number of male students,
and with the two to cne ratio of men to women following World War II. it seem.ed desirable to reorgane our staff cf Coaches.
This was done on the basis
i

that
1.

2.

Physical Education instructors could not be expected to coach all college sports in that

No Coach can be an expert

in

more than two

sports, so that

The coaching

duties were assigned on a broader
basis to a larger number of faculty members, many
cf whom were not a part of the Physical Education
instructional staff.
The results speak for themselves as we summarize
the following intercollegiate sports.
Beginning in 1946 the Husky Gridders compiled an
excsllent record of 61 victories. 16 losses, 2 ties. The
1948 Club was the cnly undefeated and untied college
football team in Pennsylvania, and our team was declared one of the co-champions of the Teachers Col3.

lege Conference.
This Football achievement was repeated in 1949
when the Huskies lost only one game in nine starts.
Whereas, in 1951 with the organization of the Pennsylvania Stats Teachers College Athletic Conference,

Eloemsburg Huskies were victorious, winning all
their games, and in 1952 finished second.
This
(Continued on Back Cover)

of
is

FIFTEEN YEARS ARE FINISHED - 1940-1955
(Continued from Inside Back Cover)

from the

list of activities.
After a lapse Wrestling
as a varsity sport was begun in 1955.

the greatest football record in the history of the college.

Intramurals for men have been popular, particularly
the Spring program in which from 20 percent to 30
percent of the college men participate.

The high point in basketball was reached in 1953
when Bloomsiburg won the conference championship
with ten wins and two losses. The record for the tenyear period

is

95

wins and 71

Intramurals for women have attracted a relatively
smaller proportion of women in activities that center
around a weekly open-house program in the Gymnasium.

losses.

One undefeated Baseball Season in 1949 represents
the first undefeated season since the days of Danny
Litwhiler in 1935. Our record is 70 wins and 33 losses 1 tie (weather).
Track, once
ate

our

athletic effort,

most

This fifteen-year period covers the administration of

outstanding

has not been

intercollegias successful as in

former years.
Early in the post-war period Soccer was a part of
the college athletic program and was finally deleted

PRESIDENT

GoUec^e Qalenda/i

-

f956

Semester Ends

January 25

First

January 30

Registration

January 31

Classes Begin

March 3-10

Basketball

March 27

Easter Recess Begins

April 3

Easter Recess Ends

May

22

Classes

End

for Seniors

May

24

Classes

End

for

May

26

ALUMNI DAY

May

27

Baccalaureate Services (Morning)

May

27

Commencement

—

Second Semester

Tournament

Underclassmen

Exercises (Afternoon)

Vol. LVIl

April,

1956

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA

No.

I

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVII,

No.

April,

I

1956

f

0. H. BAKELESS, 1858-1933
Protessor O. IT. Bakeless, reinenibered by older graduates as
one of the most distinguished and
beloved members of the Faculty of
the
Bloomsburg
Schol, was born at

State
Normal
Shamokin Dam
1858.
He was the

September 6,
son of John C. Bakeless, a contractor and builder. The family is
of
French extraction, and his
Published quarterly

by the Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

Bloomsburg, Pa. Elntered as Second-Class Matter, August 8, 1941. at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of March 3. 1879. Yearly Sub.scription, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
lege,

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

great-grandfather,

Philippe BeanFrench refugee.
Professor Bakeless was educated in the schools of Shamokin
Dam and at Professor Noetling’s
cleric,

was

Normal

a

Institute

at Selinsgrove.
he
graduation,
taught for several years before entering Bloomsburg State Normal
School, from which he was grad-

Following

his

uated in 1879.
His first teaching position was
at Laurelton.
Later he taught in
Catawissa, and then entered Lafayette College, from which he
was graduated in 1890.

He

became a teacher at
where he met Sara May
Har\ey.
They were married in
1892.
In that same year. Professor Bakeless went to the Carlisle
Indian School to become Head of
the Academic Department.
He
directed the work of the academic
faculty and traveled extensively
later

Milroy,

throughout the United States to
see that Indian young people in
white homes were accorded

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER

fair-

treatment.
In 1902 he returned to Bloomsburg as Head of the Department
of

Pedagogy, and continued as a
of the faculty until he re-

member

tired in 1929.

Always a firm believer in Latin
and Greek as fundamentals for an
education, he taught classics in the

Normal School during the

first as-

sociation with the institution, and
maintained
a
keen
interest

throughout his

life in

that phase of

education.
Although he kept
abreast of educational developments, he never wavered in his
belief that classical education

was

the only proper foundation.
Following his
in
retirement
1929, Professor Bakeless continued
to be very active in the affairs of
the Alumni Association, of his community, and of his church.
He

passed away in September, 1933,
in the First Methodist

Church

of

Bloomsburg, where he was suddenly stricken while conducting
the mid-week prayer service.

One

of Protessor Bakeless’ pet

was the Alumni Room. He
treasurer of the fund
that was raised to furnish the
room, and was active in the selection and purchase of the furnish-

projects

served as

ings of the room.

After Prof. Bakelss’ death. Dr.
Francis B. Hass, then President of
the College, suggested that the
Alumni Room project be carried
to completion, and that it be named the Bakeless Memorial Room.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustee, by unanimous action, expressed its deep sense of loss in the
death of Professor Bakeless, and
\oiced its sincere approval of the
effort to
complete the Alumni
Room, and to dedicate it as “The

Earl A. Gehrig

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith

ON THE COVER
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College, and Dr. E. H. Nelson,
President of the Alumni Association, reminisce as they look at the portrait
of the late Professor Oscar Hugh Bakeless.
The portrait hangs in the
Bakeless Memorial Room.

Elizabeth H. Hubler
April. 1956

1

0. H.

BAKELESS

Bakeless Boom.”

This suggestion

was adopted by the Alumni Association, and the room was dedicaThe
ted on Alumni Day, 1934.
dedicatory address was made by
Prof. Charles H. Albert, who had
worked on the faculty with Prof.
Bakeless for many years.
In his address Professor Albert
said:

“We have met

do
honor and to pay tribute to one
of
our beloved Alumni: Oscar
Hugh Bakeless, a Christian Gentleman.

One

at this

of

the

hour

to

ladies

of

Bloomsburg, on hearing of his sudden death while conducting a midweek prayer service in the Meth‘Professor
odist
Church,
said:
Bakeless went from that prayer
meeting straight to Heaven!' Some
will call that a

bit of sentiment,

the esteem in
which he was held by the good
citizens of Bloomsburg.
“It was my good fortune to be
associated with him from my ear-

but

it

from among us are

(Conti nuedj

illustrates

childhood until the time of his
death.
For four years we were
close friends in the splendid Sumly

mer Nonnal School conducted by
Professor William Noetling in Selinsgrove, prior to his coming in
1877 to the faculty of the BloomsOn
burg State Normal School.
the same morning that Dr. Waller,
in 1877, came as Principal of the
School, there came also, as members of the faculty. Prof. Noetling,
Prof. Wilbur, and Prof. Curran.
Oscar Bakeless and I came to the
school as students on that same
day.

“We were chums throughout all
our Normal School life. At different times we taught the same
schools in (iolumbia and Union

and tlien, after several
years of separation, we came together again as members of the
taculty ot our Ahna Mater.
counties,

“He was a good classroom teachlogical, concise, and definite.

to be faithfully kept until such beneficiaries
of his kindness have completed

their work.

“Again I say he was a Christian
gentleman. John Buskin said: The
treasuries

of

ti’ue

kmgs

are

the

and the gold

er,

streets of their cities

In ah his pedagogical interpretations, he was sane, sound, and sensible.
He had the wisdom and the
rare good judgment to retain all
there was of good in the old and
to accept only what was good in
the new. Every student who came

they gather, which for others is as
the mire of the streets, and changes itself for them and their people

under his tuition, and ready wanted to learn, was inspired by his
simple honesty of purpose and his
enthusiasm for, and mtense interest in, all that looked toward higher

and better

“He had the

things.

rare ability to

know

what to teach and how to teach
it,
and the still rarer ability to
induce his students to make mental contact with the mind of the
teacher, and so step by step, direct
the growing minds of his students
into an appreeiative comprehension of the problems under discussion, and how to apply their
final

solution

everyday

to

the

affairs

of

life.

“He spent nine

pavements forevermore.’ And so Professor Bakeless
was ever hoping, aiming, and stri\ ing to make better and more beau-

into crystalline

tiful every environment by whieh
he found himself surrounded.

“Practically aU the pictures and
works of art that now grace the
walls and corridors of our buildings, together with the beautiful
glass windows, are the result of his
endeavors. He had a hunger for
things beautiful, and his ambition
was that every student who came
to the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College should be greatly influenced in his mental and moral development by surroundings that
were at once clean and wholesome
and beautiful.
‘The idea of the Alumni Mem-

intendent of the academic work at
the Carlisle Indian School.
Colonel Pratt, who was then in charge
of that great school, said that Professor Bakeless had done more for
the real uplift on Indian youth
than any other teacher in any of
the Indian schools.
“He was always doing something
for somebody.
Scores of worthy

young men and women have been
helped financially by his generosity, and, as I happen to know, even

now after his death, agreements
made by him prior to his passing

Boom came

to him years ago.
Dr. Haas came as
our President, did this take defmorial

years as Super-

But not
ite

until

shape and go forward to a

fin-

completion.
He gave of his
time and money without stint, and
his ambition and hope were that
he might live to see the room free
al

from

encumbrance, and be realcontrolled by our
Alumni Association. This he was

ly

all

owned and

not permitted fully to realize, but
today we are met to dedicate this
beautiful room as a memorial to
the memory and life work of our
friend and fellow alumnus, Oscar

Hugh

Bakeless.”

SUPPORT THE ALUMNI
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AI.inVlNI

QUARTERI-Y

1

BUSINESS EDUCATION

M/D-VEAR COMMENCEMENT
‘Teaching

is

an unlimited ceiling.
sense, a good teacher
time,

many

with

a profession
a

In
is,

at

true

Bloomsburg;

one

Mitflinvillc;

things to his students.

Teaching is the profession that encompasses all
of
the
interests
human beings,” declared Dr. Eugene P. Hertin on \\'ednc.sda\
January 24 in an address at the
mid-year graduating exercises in
Carxer Auditorium at the Hloomshurg State Teachers College. Dr.
Bertin, who has serxed etlucation
for more than 30 years, is at present Assistant Executixe Secretary
of the Pennsylxania State Education Association.

The xvell-knoxvn educator also
pointed to specific remarks made
in the past and present by our nation’s leaders emphasizing the im|X>rtance of education in preserxing a free and prosperous democratic societx’.

commencement

Gehrig, class
adxisor, presented Carl Meyer and
Joseph Kxvak to Dr. Andruss, xvho
axvarded them a serx ice key and a
gold football, respectix ely.
The
key xvas rexvarded for meritorious
serxice to the college community,
and the football represented three
varsity axvards in that sport.

John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction, presented the class
24
of

members

to President Harvey A.
Andruss, xvho conferred upon them
the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education.

xvho

received

degrees

Shirley
Andre, Westfield;
Chruney,
John
Wilkes-Barre;
Harry Coleman, Bloomsburg; Robert Dalton, Danx ille; Earle Fetterolf, Bloomsburg; Barbara Laubach,
Berwick; Karol Ruppel, Reading;
Clement West, Berwick.
Elementary— Mrs. Laura Graham, Bloomsburg; Carl Meyer, Plymouth; Margaret Miller, McAdoo;
xvere:

Mrs.

Shirley

Thomas,

Berxxock;

Edward White, Wilkes-Barre.
Secondary— David

Benscoter,
Alxdn Davis,

Bloomfield, N. J.;
Wilkes-Barre; Hoxvard Hall, Hazleton; Joseph Kxvak, Wilkes-Barre;
Robert Lyon, Riverside;
Gilbert
April. 1956

Milford

Anne

Shelhamer,

Sxxortxvood, Ash-

ley; Jack Thomas, R. D., Bloomsburg; John Trimble, Jersey Shore.

Ernest Engelhardt, Profesand Director of
Teacher Placement, presented the
speaker to the audience and outlined briefly his distinguished career in education.
Dr. Englehardt
began his teaching career under
the superx ision of Dr. Bertin.
Dr.

sor of Education

Dr. Bertin, a member of the P.
E. A. Headrpiarters Staff since
1947, has a record of more
than
thirty years of distinguished serxice to education.
A native of
Lycoming County, Dr. Bertin was
educated in the rural and city public schools of the Commonwealth.
He completed the undergraduate
recpiirements for law at Bucknell
S.

Universit)’,

Folloxving the
address, Mr. Earl

Those

N'eibauer, Shamokin; Jean Robison,

and

later

degree

received

a

Comparative
Literature and the English Language from Harvard University.
master’s

in

He

continued his graduate work,
earning the Doctor of Philosophy
degree in Educational Administration at the University of Chicago.

The well-knoxxm educator served
teacher and administrator in
public schools, teachers’ colleges,
and the Department of Public Instruction before joining the P. S.
E. A. staff eight years ago. During
that time he has xx^itten hundreds
as

of articles,

many

of

which

have

been published by education jourand medical and
historical publications. In one year.
Dr. Bertin spoke at 268 meetings,
travelled 50,000 miles by car, and
visited 87 toxvns and cities, a testimony to his statement that he likes
to travel, and enjoys meeting and
nals, nexvspapers,

talking xvith people.

hobbies,
in

He

has

many

CONTEST
The Twenty-Third Annual

Busi-

be
ness Education Contest
will
held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Saturday, May 5,
according to an announcement b^
Dr. Thomas B. Martin, Director of
the Department of Business Education. The annual event, temporwhen
arily interrupted last year
the College served as host to the
.\nnual Conference of the Pennsylvania Business Educators Association, xvill include competitive examinations in bookkeeping, business arithmetic, Gregg Shoi'thand,
typexvriting, and business law.

competitive
In addition to the
phases of the event, several other

have been planned

for

those xvho visit the campus.
Friday, May 4 at 8:15 p. m.,

On

activities

the

Tenth Annual Fashion Show will
be presented in honor of the visiting teachers and contestants. An
annual activity of the Business
Education Department, the Show,
directed by Mr. Charles Henrie,
Assistant
Professor of Business
Education, features as models,
student.s- from all departments on
the campus.
In other years, both contestants
and teachers have shoxvn considerable interest in the Office MachShow and the Textbook ExHall Auditorium.
hibit in Navy
This Show and Exhibit, scheduled
ines

for Satururday morning.
will include displays of

May

fifth,

business

demonnumerous business
machines commonly found in offices and schools.
education textbooks and
strations

of

Enrollments in previous contests
have sometimes exceeded two hundred students representing more
high
Pennsylvania
thirty
than
schools.

and holds membership

more than

tions,

thirty-five organizarepresenting a wide variety

of civic, military

and fraternal

in-

terests.

The TEXAS
FOB TOUR BEFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, '44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46

Bronwen

Reese (Mrs. Leslie
J. Boone) lives at 2718 Blackridge
Avenue, Gaywood Manor, Pittsburgh 35, Pa.
F.

Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg STerling 4-3969

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COMPLETION OF SNACK BAR

SECOND SEMESTER
ENROLLMENT

In 1939, B.

Second semester classes at the
Rloomsburg State Teachers College began with an enrollment of

new
who

910, including forty
and eighteen others

students
are re-

turning servicemen
transfer
or
students from other colleges.

The

forty

new freshmen

students

represent a reduction of about
seventy-fi\e under the number of
new entrants admitted in January,
1955, according to John A. Hoch,
dean of instruction. The decrease
reflects the college’s lack of class
room, dormitory, and laboratory
facilities,

and

keeping with

in

is

the general trend

of last year in

Dean Hoch

reducing enrollment.

was forced to
turn away about two out of every

said the institution

who

three students
petition of the

applied, a retrend of Septem-

ber, 1955.

The new enrollment figure sends
number of Korean veterans,
studying on Mt. Olympus, beyond
the 225 mark.
The total enrollment of 910 is a slight decrease

the

from the 936
September.

who

registered last

Women’s and men’s dormitories
on the campus are filled to capacity and about 150 male students
are being accomodated in private
lodgings in town because of the
lack of housing on the campus.

The college has employed
new faculty members for the

one

S.

T. C. celebrated
anniversary.

hundredth

its

At

time they had $5.52 in their
bank account and still owed several hundred dollars on the organ
in Carver Hall.
The book store
profits were used to pay the balance owed on the organ and also
as a reserve for shortages in
the
budgets or athletic injuries not recovered by insurance. All of the
unused balances were put into a
this

reserve fund.

Through planning and

careful

husbanding of resources derived
chiefly from the profits of the Retail Book Store and the surpluses
which have accumulated over the
past fifteen years for the enlargement of the college book store and
the inauguration of a snack bar.
The expenditure of these student
funds is governed by the College
Council and the Board of Trustees
upon recommendation of the President.
The whole unit will be
known as the Husky Lounge.

The complete

installation of this

project will probably cost in the
neighborhood of $30,000. Included
in this is $3,000 worth of bootlis.
It will provide lounge recreation

and
of

light lunches for all students

B.S.T.C.

The

State contract

provided room for this installation,
but did not provide for any of the
equipment necessary for the operation.

cur-

The bookstore profits were also
used to purchase the station wag-

Mrs. Janet W. Engelhardt will leach classes in English and general literature, and Mr.

ons. The future earpings from tliis
operation will be used, as in times
of past, to
replace
the
station

Edwin M.

wagon,

two

rent semester.

classes in

Barton

European

will

instruct

history.

fund

be distributed
and
to students in
scholarsliips
grants, to match funds given
by
classes, individuals, or groups, and
for any other worthy purpose the
C’ollege Council and
Board of
as a

to

Any

Trustees agrees upon.

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOOHS
M. C. Strausser,
122 East

—

’27,

REPAIRS
Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

maining
l)uild

up

profits

will

a reserve to

:

KREAMER
Former pupils, fellow teachers
and other triends gathered at the
Madison Township school to pay
tribute to Mrs. Ralph Kreamer—

known to hundreds
former pupils as Miss Helen—
who retired last spring after an
outstanding teaching career of
forty-two years.
All but one of
affectionately

under the
of Mr. HorBeatrice
ace Williams; and Miss
Eyerly will continue as Manager
is

those years

was spent

in

Columbia

county schools.

She was presented with a beauchair by pupils, former pupils,
teaching associates and friends.

tiful

Walter J. Lewis, Bloomsburg,
was the able toastmaster. The invocation was by T. A. Williammee,
supervising principal of the Millville Area Joint
Schools.
John
Watts, principal at Madison, pretoastmaster.
Mrs.
sented
the
Thomas McGonigal led the singing.
During the program there
was a poem of tribute to Mrs.
Kreamer that was written by Miss
Bessie Mordan.
Colored slides of past years at
the school were shown by Lewis.
John Watts made the presentation
of the gift. Joining in the tribute to
Mrs. Kreamer were Mr. Williammee, Mr. Watts; County Supt. Ray
M. Cole, Asst. Supt. Paul L. BrunEdwin
stetter. County Treasurer

M. Kreamer and William

Diehl,

one of the six original bus drivers
at Madison. Four are still operating Madison buses. Mrs. Kreamer
happily responded.

Mary Joline in the Snack Bar to
supervise those students who are
employed in these operations.

IHE

CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

Orangeville R. D.

'15,

2,

Propr.

Penna.

of the Store, with the addition of
Mrs.
such regular employees as
4

^

I

of

re-

be used
to
start another

project.

The Husky Lounge
capable management

TRIBUTE PAID MRS.

THE ALUMNI QU.VRTERLY

,

SALES RALLY
The

more

Annual Sales Rally
was held Thursday, March 8 at the
Teachers

CJol-

ol the nation’s outstanding

headlined the
auditorium. ‘Wally’
Rowell, Director ot Merchandisiug
tor the lloo\ er Company of Canton, Ohio, and Steve Conroy, Rresident of E. Stephen Conroy Associates, Inc., of Detroit, Michigan,
continued the pattern of demonstrating dynamic sales techniques
sales personalities

program

in the

which ha\e been so effective

in

Rowell, who recently wrote an article explaining the
retail selling.

secret

of

his

selling

claims that enthusiasm
effective selling.

to

successes,
is

The

the key
article

“Get Excited About It,” was publi.shed in the January, 1956 issue
of Specialty Salesman, the maga-

modern direct selling.
Elmer Robinson, president of the
Business Education Club at the

zine of

extended greetings to the
audience, and Mr. Earl V. Wise,
Sr., president of Wise Potato Chip
Co., Inc., and a member of
the
college board of trustees, introduced the two speakers.
college,

Area Rotarians met

the cola pre-Rally
in

dining hall for
dinner at 6:30 p. m. Mr. Fred W.
Diehl, Superintendent of Montour
Comity Schools, President of the
College Board of Trustees, and
Past District Governor of Rotar\'
International, presided. The invocation was offered by
the Rev.
Samuel W. Strain, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of
Berwick, and President Andruss welcomed the group to the college.
lege

District
ei,

at

the

annual
re-

lationship to the national economy
and one reason we are prosi^erous
that we have many good salesmen both here and abroad, deis

lege.

Two

I,UU()

Salesmen have an important

Tentli

Hlooinshurg State

than

Sales Rally.

Governor Arthur Henningbrought greetings

of Pottsville,

from Rotary International.

The facilities of the new Husky
Lounge and Snack Bar were made
available to the audience after the
rally.

“Generate a sincere and genuine
enthusiasm for the product
you
are selling or get out of tlie business,” “Wally” Powell, director of
merchandising for the Hoover
Company, Canton, Ohio, advised
April. 1956

clared Steve Conroy, president of
E. Stephen
Conroy Associates,
Inc., Detroit, Mich.

These two personalities of salesmenship were the featured speakers at the highly succe.ssful spring-

time event.
Elmer. Robinson, president of
the College
Education
Business
Club, tolct of the his-tory of the
II.
rallies, directed by
Charles
Henrie. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the College, extended
greetings and introduced Earl V.
W ise, president of Wise Potato
Chip Co., Inc., Berwick, and a

member of the board
who in turn presented

is

mind and being in a good frame of
mind yourself. He considers first
impressions important
and that
demonstrations are also of value
Powell plug-

as a sales approach.

ged

for creative selling, asserting
it

but don’t can

it.”

All people are not salesmen, said
Conrey. Salesmanship requires a

number
tion,

of things including educa-

training,

knowledge and ap-

The

best salesman is
has trained himself or is
trained by an organized training
Trained salesmen, he
program.
continued, are a necessity for customers today are smarter than ever
prenticeship.

one

who

before.
He believes high pressure is important because the American peo-

ple expect
if it is

it

tests

at

In comparisons with 151 other
colleges and universities the freshman students ranked above the
upper third in the psychological

and English examinations, in the
upper 24 [x*rcent in social studies,
and in the upper fifteen percent
in natural science and mathematics, while the knowledge of contemporary affairs was significantly
outstanding in that they ranked
in the upper seven percent of the
L52 colleges making reports for
This progress represents what
the students bring to college, and

and better calls, having better
prospects in a better
frame of

“plan

the freshman
the Teachers
College show that the 19.56 efiitering class was the most academically superior class that has been admitted to the college up to the
present time.
of

results

F’reshmen.

necessary to
be enthusiastic about the product
if you are going to do a good job
selling. In order to improve salesmanship he advised making more
it

The

placement

the speak-

Powell spoke on “Let’s Get Ex-

and said

HIGHEST IN HISTORY

of trustees

ers.

cited,”

FRESHMAN GLASS RANKS

and are disappointed

they continue to achieve at the
rate, four years hence the
teaching profession will be received into it better trained minds
then ever before from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
In the last ten years approximately 1,.3()0 students have been
given entrance examinations.
Of
this number 198 have not been accepted.
During the last half of
this five-year period from 1951 to
1955, inclusive, 178 have not been
accepted.
Until the State provides more
money for more buildings and
more instructors, the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College will not be
able to admit more students than
its present capacity, which is approximately 1,000, even though
the number of applicants for admission is two or three times greater than the size of the freshman
class which can be admitted.
it

same

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Danville, Pa.

not used.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
ALUMNI DAY

— MAY

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26

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J.

Webb,

’42

5

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

Miss Margaret F. Waldron, As-

Fifteen students of the Teachers

College were awarded scholar-

and

ships

grants, Thursday,

Dec-

ember 15, totalling more than eight
hundred dollars, during the assembly program in Carver audiDr. Kimber C. Kuster,
torium.
chairman of the faculty committee
on scholarships and grants, e.xplained the nature and source of the
funds and introduced the individuals

who made

the awards.

President Haivey

A.

Andruss

presented the President’s Scholarship to Sandra Raker, East Smith-

and a gift of the class
Miriam Miller, St. Clair.

field,

to

of 1951

Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of
the Alumni Association, made the
R.
following presentations:
the
Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship to Marjorie Myers, Lansdale;
general Alumni Association scholand
arships to Joseph Johnston,

Oscar Snyder, both of Sunbury;
gifts from the elasses of
1950,
1952 and 1954 to Annette Williams,
Hanover Townsliip, and Donna
Mattocks, Troy, respectively, and
the Montour County Alumni Association

award

to Patricia Pollock,

Danville.

Jane Anne Smith, Wilkes-Barre,
was given a grant by Boyd Buckingham on behalf of the College
Ruth
Faculty Association, and
Maurer, Shamokin, received an
award from Donald Beck, president of the Day Men’s Association.

The Columbia County

Alumni

to
grants
Association presented
Mary Galatha, Hazle Township,
Walter Hutz, Jenkins Township,
Carmel
.Margaret Wilkinson, Mt.
and Mary Ann Wahl, Milton.
In addition

to

Dr. Kuster,

the

facidty committee includes
John
Mrs.
Iloch, Dean of Instruction;
Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;
Miss Mary Macdonald, Assistant

Dean

of

Women; and

Yohe, Dean of Men.

were made

Jack

W.

The awards

the last session of
the
the student body
prior
to
Christmas vacation.
C

at

sistant Professor of

Mathematics

and Assistant Dean of
the Bloomsburg
State

Women

C. Zinn as

Teachers

women and

College, retired at the end of the
semester.
Miss Waldron’s retirement terminated more than
three decades of teaching in Pennsyh ania and Rhode Island schools
and colleges, including ten years
of service to the local institution.

Muncy,

Miss
Waldron was a graduate of Wellesley College. She earned a Master
of Arts degree at Columbia University and did additional graduate work at Harvard, Brown and
Bucknell Universities, and the Uni\ ersity of Southern California. Her
teaching career included service
in the high schools of Lock Haven
and Williamsport, the Rhode Island College of Edueation,
and
Lock Haven State Teachers College prior to her tenure at Bloomsnative of

Pa.,

burg.
In addition to active participation in the American Association
of University Women, Miss Walthe
dron traveled
throughout

world.
On many occasions she
has given illustrated lectures
to
groups, describing her visits to varStates,
ious parts of the United
Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Bermuda,
Europe, Egypt, British East Afriea

and Kenya.
Although she plans to move to
her residence in .Muncy to devote
some time to gardening and community activities. Miss Waldron
has indicated that she may continue to do some traveling in this
country and in foreign lands.

M

Myers,
iss
Thurlie
Judith
daughter of T. Justin Myers, Hughesville,

tor

The appointment

at

first

A

MISS ZINN JOINS FACULTY

became the bride

of Vic-

August Michael, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Victor J. Michael, Milton,
in a ceremony performed recently at Trinity Lutheran Church in

of Miss Editli

dean
of
assistant professor of
assistant

English was announced by Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, president of
the Bloomsburg
State
Teaehers
College.
Miss Zinn has assumed
the duties of Miss Mary Macdonaid who has become dean of day

women, succeeding Miss Margaret
of the first

A

retired
semester.

the end

at

Pa.,

Miss Zinn was graduated from
Juniata high school and
earned
both the bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees at Pennsylvania
State University.
Her graduate
work also includes study at Columbia and Syracuse universities.

new

assistant

dean

of

women

has completed more than
two decades of teaching and personnel work in public schools. She
has held teaching positions in Altoona and Sunbuiy and has served
as residence hall director or assistant dean of women at
Syracuse
University, Penn State, East Carolina College at CreenviUe, N. C.,
and Meredith College at Raleigh,
N. C.

During her teaching career.
Miss Zinn has travelled in Mexico,
the British West Indies, and Eastern and Southern Europe. She is
a member of the National Association of

Deans

of

Women

and the

Pennsylvania Association of Deans
of Women, and she holds honorary

membership in Alpha Lambda
Delta and Chimes. She served as
national advisor to the latter orMiss
ganization from 1947-1948.
Zinn taught and continued graduate work in art for a number of
years before starting her personnel
work. Her skill and her continued
interest in art have made it her
chief a\’ocation pursuit.
will

make her residence

Miss Zinn
in Waller

dormitory.

Ilughesville.

Mr. Michael

is

a student

min-

Presbyterian
Church, Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Michael is a student at B.S.T.C.
ister

of

the

First

Mr. and Mrs. Michael will reside at 72 Iron Street, Bloomsburg.

HARRY

S.

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C;iVK

FASHION ADVICE
Internationally-known
authority, Louise

fashion

Adams

Trescott,

feminine

discusses the perennial

To Wear” on
Woman’s page of The Morn-

problem
the

of ‘A\ hat

A

ing Press.

former resident

Berwick, Mrs. Trescott
of Paul

news
ial

Trescott, at one time a

II.

member

of

the wife

is

of

The iMorning

Press

and now on the editor-

staff

board of The Bulletin, Phila-

delphia.

Mrs. Trescott interprets
good
dress in terms any woman can understand and apply. Not only does
she offer ad\'ice on the selection
of new clothing, but she presents
many interesting suggestions for
the remodeling of old clothes as
well.

Designed to help all women
with their wardrobe problems, the
column is aimed primarily at the
follower of fashion
who
trends
often finds

it

difficult to

make

ap-

parel decisions.

Mrs.

background,

Tr.escott’s

)

ears of ex-

perience in fashion art and design,
qualifies
her
to
counsel
any

woman on how to dress.
A B.S.T.C. and art school

grad-

had extensive training in dressmaking and has
instructed in that field. Her teachuate, she has

ing career also included a course
in the “History of Costumes.” She
was later employed by a major department store, where
inshe
structed salespeople in
fashions.
Add to this, fifteen years in retail
fashion consultant field, a period
during which Mrs. Trescott was
associated with buyers
and designers from Paris,
York.

Rome and New

These are the credentials of an
authority in the analyzing and remedying of women’s costume difMrs.

To Wear”
column

is

Trescott’s

“What

the only newspaper

that gives qualified atten-

So there you are, and here we
go into the life of the president of
the .Ambler Junior
C-'ommerce, Charles

Chamber
Kenneth

of

keen interest

Mr. Jacobs is a member of the
The Blue Lodge, and Con-

Ja-

Mr. Jacaabs, who is assistant pur-,
chasing agent at the National
.Aeronautical Corporation, Ambler,

sistory.

was

and raised in Bloomswhere his family still

borii
Pa.,

He

took advantage of the.
tine educational system in Pennsylvania, for he graduated not only
li\es.

from Bloomsburg Elementary and
High Schools, but also from
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

also has IkuI
organizational

The aim of the Jaycees is to
help build the leaders of tomorrow. Unlike other civic organizations whose members
may not
have time for such activities, the
Junior Chamber of Commerce sets'
their sight on a project and gets
it done themselves.
The best example of this being, of course, the
Pickering field building.
Elks,

burg,

He
in

problems.

cobs.

During the war he was a radio
operator and gunner, and helped
train other men.
ly

His work at Narco consists mainin making purchases for the

Company.
With his wife and

family,

when

ever they get a chance, Mr. Jacobs likes to play golf.

lege.
hile

married

in

the

College Mr. Jacobs
former June Keller.

They ha\e

three children, Paula
Charles Jeffery, 2, and Allen Randall, 10 months. They live
at 330 Highland Avenue, Ambler.
,

While

at

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College Mr. Jacobs studied courses in retailing, social
studies and business, which have
stood him in good stead in his
at Narco.
Mr. Jacobs also went to Temple
University where he studied Business education for a period.
Before working at Narco Mr.
Jacobs taught school in the small
south Jersey town of Millville.
There he taught courses in distributive education, a plan whereby the students study their lessons in the morning, and go out
into the city to work for the \'arious merchants in the afternoon.
Jacobs was the charter secretary for the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and was elected last
year to his post of president. His
term expires in April of this year.
The Junior Chamber of Com-

work

merce started

inquiries.

has

1956

a

“Citizen of the Week” at Ambler
and was given the following writeup, with photograph, in The Am-,
bier Chizettc:

tion to the apparel problems of
individual readers. She answers all

.\pril.

Bickering Field.

Week'

C.'harles K. Jacobs, sou of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul D. Jacobs, of Old
Berwick Road, and a native of
Bloomsburg, recently was named

D., 5

which includes many

ficulties.

'Citizen of the

One

in

December

Bethany EUB Church, Berwick,
•was the setting at seven Saturday
evening, December 31, for the
candlelight ceremony uniting Miss
Jayne Holloway, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenroy Holloway, Berwick, to Donald D. Peterson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peterson,
Berwick.
Both the bride and groom graduated from Berwick High School.
Mrs. Peterson is employed in the
office of the ACF.
Her husband,
a graduate of B.S.T.C., is teaching
at

Berwick High School.

They

are residing in their

new-

ly-purchased home at 140 Park
Boulevard, Park Place Village.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

19.53.

Mr. Jacobs’ pet projects
been the new building on
of

7

DELAWARE VALLEY
ALUMNI ORGANIZE

HUSKIES LIST
7

GRID GAMES

Bloomsburg State Teachers Coladded Delaware State to
1956 football schedule which
its
now lists seven games and Jack
Yohe, head football coach and director of athletics, is still on the
look-out for one more contest that
can be staged either September 22
lege has

or

November

17.

After the Delaware game was
listed the Great Lakes, 111., Naval
Training Base offered the September 29 date to the Huskies on either a one or two-year arrangement
but had no other dates open that

Bloomsburg could work

into

its

program.

Ihere

dinner meeting of the B.S.T.C.
in the Delaware
held December 10,
Dr. E. H. Nelson, President

Alumni
Valley
1955.

living

was

the Alumni Association, was
present and assisted the group in
of

forming a permanent organization,
to be known as the Delaware Valley Branch, B.S.T.C. Alumni. The
following officers were elected:
President, Frank J. Furgele.
Vice-President, Henry Morgan.
Secretary, Edwin Cunfer.
Treasurer, Francis G. Galenski.

Another meeting
Spring. Those

this

is

in

planned for
attendance

were:
is

one other opponent for

1956 that was not on the slate during the past season when Bloomsburg won the State Teachers College crown. Shippensburg is back.
The Cumberland \'alley School
had agreed to play here in 1956
but efforts will be made now to
shift the game to Shippensburg on
October 20 and thus have the
Raiders here for a Homecoming

Day

A

tree Lane, Levittown.
Janice Johnson, 140

attraction in 1957.

Not on the schedule this year
are Lock Haven and Wilkes, which
withdrew, and New Haven, Conn.,
Teachers who were eliminated because of the distance between the
two institutions.
Returning to the schedule are
Cortland, N. Y. Teachers, Mansfield, Kings, California and West
Chester. Mansfield, which has provided an early season game mose
of the time since the sport was revided an early season game most
on October 13 in the Homecoming

Day Game.
As the schedule now stands Delaware State, Cortland and Mansfield will be met here at the start
of the season and the Huskies will

Dr. E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg.
G. Jacobs, son-in-law of

Paul

Mrs. Martha E. Rider, Millville,
has announced the engagement of
her daughter, Marian Janice Rider, to Ray Foster Tyler, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William L. Tyler, Hummels Wharf.

Raimpart East, Media 26.
and Mrs. Donald Butcofsky,
Bridgetown Pike, Langhorne.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Balent, 24
Honeysuckle Lane, Levittown.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ben, 187 Diane
Avenue, Hatboro.
Jeanne Wallace, Centennial School,

Miss Rider was graduated from
High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
is
now a teacher of the fourth
grade at the Edwin F. Terry
School in Coatesville.

170

Mr.

Johnsville.

Mr. Lou Church, Philadelphia.
Mr. Donald Baker, 328 West Maple
Avenue, Langhorne.
Jeanne Krzywicki, 70 West College
Avenue, Yardley.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Von Drach, 232
Chancellor Street, Newtown.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Schmidt, Apt.
29-A, Clover Hill Gardens. Mt. Holly,
N.

J.

Mr. John B. Rittenmyer, 7237 Erduck
Philadelphia.
Sherrill Hiller, Wm. Tennent
High School, Johnsville.
Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Albano, Burlington High School, Burlington, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Albano, 758
2nd Street Pike, Southampton.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cunfer, 208 N.
.Street,

Avenue, Langhorne
Rose Marie Grant. Street Road,
Southampton.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Herr, 28 Beech-

tober 20;

Mr. Tyler was graduated from
University in 1951
with a B.S. degree in music education. He is now comxdeting the
final year of his work towards a
B.S. degree in business adminis-

Susquehanna

tration at

Susquehanna University.

He

served two years with the U.S.
Army, eighteen months of which
were spent in Ja^^an.

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

October 6; Mansfield,
Shippensburg, Oc-

13; at

at

October 27;
8

Millville

Miss

West Che.ster away in that order.
The schedule as it now stands:
Delaware State, September 29;
October

Mr. and Mrs. H. Kershner, 291 West
Essex Avenue, Lansdowne.
Mr. John Deitz. care Mrs. Ammons.
Orchard Street, Hatboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Furgele, 25
East Moreland Avenue, Hatboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Martin, 15
Jadewood Drive, Levittown.

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Ritter, 2203
Airacobra Street, Bristol.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Auerwick, Brownsville Road, Trevose.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Galinski,
183 Drane Avenue, Hatboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Stoutenburg,

then take the road for the balance
the campaigns, meeting Shippensbnrg. Kings, California and

Cortland,

Joanne Cuff, 51 West Oakland Avenue, Doylestown.
Mr. Daniel FitzPatrick.

Dr.

Nelson.

Bellevue Avenue, Langhorne.
Louise Schullery, 18 Overbrook Lane,
Levittown.
Marie Parish. 18 Overbrook Lane,
Levittown.
Mary O’Braitis, 127 North Bellevue

o(

East Montgomery Avenue. Hatboro.
Rosella Danilo, 140 East Montgomery
Avenue. Hatboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Boychuck, 235
South York Road, Hatboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgan, 207 Jefferson Avenue, Bristol.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kilroy, 34 Jollybrook Road. Levittown.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Hassell, Kennsbury
School District, Pennsbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Durak, Levittown.

Kings, Wilkes-Barre,
at California,

Novem-

ber 3, and at West Chester, Noveml)er 10.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERJ.Y

Day,

'rliauksgiving

1955,

is

a

never to be forgotten clay for the
family of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Chalieh of 157.35 Foothill Blvd.,
Fontana, California.

A company

ot

19,

Thanksgiving dinner

gathered

at

home,

at their

celehratc'd the birthday of
Mrs. Cdialich, welcomed Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Masano\ich i>f Ilazh*alsxi

ton.

and heard
the engagement

Cialifornia,

to

Pa.,

announcement

ot

Miss Georgia Cihalich to Milo

of

Mananovich.

The

bride-elect, a

sophomore

at

San Jose State C]ollege, entered
Fontana junior High School after
coming here from Cdiicago and
was graduated from Chatfey High.
Her major in college is seamstress
designer and interior decorator,
and her minor is in physical education.

of
graduate
Teachers
College, taught for a year in Baltimore, Md., and a year in Los
.\ngeles. At present he is foreman
on pipe construction at Norton Air
Force Base.

Her

a

fiance,

Bloomsburg,

Pa.,

State

Miss Barbara M. Beitmeyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Reitmoyer, Oneida, was married
of
to Harold P. Zimmerman, son
Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Zimmer-

man,

Sr.,

Ringtown, recently

Joseph’s

St.

Roman

at

Catholic

Church, Sheppton. Rev. Michael
Severchak officiated. The bride, a
graduate of B.S.T.C., is a member
of
the
School, Plainsfield, N. J.

of the faculty

band

Emerson
Her hus-

General
employed by
Linden, N. J. The cerewas followed by a wedding

is

Motors

mony

at

the
of
breakfast at the home
The couple will
bride’s parents.
reside in Plainfield, N. J.

FRANK

S.

HUTCmSON,

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee
Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

April. 1956

16

EX-BERWICK TEACHER
DIES IN HARRISBURG

'Coed of the Year*
Miss Annette Williams, sophoin the secondary curriculum
from
Hanover Township, was
crownetl “(u)ed of the Year” at the
Freshman Hop Friday evening,
February 17, at Centennial gymnasium.

Mrs.

more

who was

Philadelphia,
last

junior,

Shambach, who recently was retired after many years of work

Year.”

Runners-up to Miss Williams
were Miss Nancy Herman, freshman, Williamsport; Sandy Lewis,
freshman, Huntington Mills; Bobbi
Creamer, sophomore, Langliorne; Kaki Crew, junior, Wil-

in

1942
(Mrs. Robert I'lewella) lives at 138 Booream Avenue, Milltown, New Jersey.
Mr.

liamsport; Barbara Tuckwood, junSpringfield; Jackie Albert, sen-

and Mrs. Trewella have

senior,

lanterns

First

Methodist

the

floor

were used

and

Chinese

in the decora-

in the lobby, the theme
was carried out in the decorations
and the use of incense burners.
tions.

Music for dancing was provided
by Herbie Green and his orchestra.

Tom Higgins, Sunbury senior,
was coordinator this year of tlie
“Coed of the Year” contest.
Mrs. Ruth Dreese, Beavertown,
announced the engagement of her
daughter, Anna Louise, graduate
of B.S.T.C. to Don Yetter, son of
Air. and Mrs. Lloyd Yetter, Beavertown.
Miss Dreese is a graduate of Beaver Vocational High
School and B.S.T.C. and is employed as a teacher at Lower PaxHarrisSchool,
ton Elementary
burg. Mr. Getter, also a graduate
of the Beaver school, served two
years in the U. S. Army, including
sixteen months in Korea. He is employed at Yetter’s Garage, Beavertown.

Church,

Bloomsburg was the setting
o’clock Saturday,

the marriage

Centennial gym was transforminto an “Oriental Fantasy” for
the dance.
A Chinese wall sur-

son,

1955

The

recently.

ed

a

Jeffrey, age 3.

The eight finalists were chosen
by a committee of seventeen campus leaders. The final choice was
made in an all-school election held

rounded

education.

Dawn Osman

ior,

Lebanon; Joan Raab,
Columbia.

Winey,

cipal.

year’s “Cioetl of the

ior,

Shambach

her brother was supervising prinSurviving are her husband,
a daughter, and her brother. Prof.

She was crowned by Miss Bobbi
Roadside,

Mary

former Berwick High School teacher, died on December 19 at Harrisburg.
She had resided in that
city since leaving Berwick. While
she was on the Berwick faculty

•

December

of

Miss

at

two

24, for

Virginia

Grace Horne, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Horne, Bloomsburg
R. D. 3, to John D. Autotore, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Autotore,
Berwick.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Thomas J. Hopkins. Sixty-five attended a reception held in the
church social rooms. The couple
left later for Elyria, Ohio, where
the bridegroom is attending Elyria
Business College. The bride graduated from the Bloomsburg Higli
School and B.S.T.C. and is teaching in Montrose Consolidated High
School.
Her husband attended
Berwick High School and served
in the U. S. Navy for four years.
He is employed by the Ford Motor

Company.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

9

ALUMNI

T H E
COLUMBIA COUNTY

DELAWARE VALLEY BRANCH

PRESroENT

PRESIDENT

Donald Rabb,

’46

Benton, Pa.

25

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street, Danville, Pa.

Hatboro, Pa.

’33

VICE PRESIDENT
Edwin M. Vastine, 43
Bloom Street, Danville, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

400

Henry Morgan
Avenue

SECRETARY
Edward D.

PRESIDENT

Frank J. Furgele
E. Moreland Avenue

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

207 Jefferson

Sharretts,

SECRETARY

Bristol, Pa.

’41

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,

TREASURER

Avenue

208 North Bellevue

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Church

312

SECRETARY

St.,

’05

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER

Langhorne, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler,

Bloom

615

TREASURER

St.,

’30

Danville, Pa.

Francis B. Galinski
183

Diane Avenue
Hatboro, Pa.

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH

PHILADELPHIA AREA

William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Miss Mary A. Meehan, ’18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish
732

Washington

2921

George

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer
Fairview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

SECRETARY
Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston ’23
693 Arch Street, Spring City, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Miss Esther E. Dagnell
215 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.

1900

That
ates.

1954,
friend about a
rence Cortright.
1,

learned from a

1

Lawcommunicated

classmate,
I

him by mail. I received a brief
but newsy letter from L. C. He
said, “he was glad to hear from
me.” No more replies to my letters from L. C.
to

His address at the time follows:

“Sharon Hill Management,
35 North Fortieth Street,
Philadelphia

4,

Lawrence stated

Inc.,

—

“1

have been

here about 3 years now. I was operated on for varicose veins. I now
walk about fairly well.
only remember a few of my old school
I

mates.”
Note:
10

1

can

understand

that.

TREASURER
Miss Martha Y. Jones

is

so true of so many graduforget the school that

They

did so much for them. That would
not happen if he kept in touch
with the Alumni of B.S.T.C., like
my good friend Rev. J. Edward

’22

632 North Main Avenue
Scranton, Pa.

1910

H. C. Fetterolf presented a eertificate of merit to Clarence C.
Smith,

executive

editor

Farm Bureau Mirror

of

the

for the pub-

to promotFarmers of America

contribution

lication’s

Khngaman.

ing

L.
C.
taught two years at
Shickshinny, then he came to Philadelphia and entered the Post Office, retiring on a pension after
forty years of service.
About a year later, that is early
in 1955,
enclosed a copy of L.
C.’s letter to Rev. J. E. Klingaman.
Sometime later he wrote to L. C.
and received a reply from the

work in the state. Mr. Fetterolf,
chief of agriculture education for
the State Department of Public

1

Pa.”

Miss Margaret Lewis ’26
1105% W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

’34

COMMUNICATED

’23

Minooka Avenue
Moosic, Pa.

’18

Miss Pearl L. Baer_ j|J2
21 South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

June

Mrs. Marion George Evans

J.

PRESIDENT

’07

Harrisburg, Pa.

St.,

VICE PRESIDENT

’06

Camden, N.

520

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart,

Street,

home

stating: “1

am

sorry to

Future

Instruction, said the Mirror was
the first statewide farm newspaper
ever to receive the honor.
Pre-

was made at the 1956
Farm Show. The Mirror is pub-

sentation

by the PennsyKania Farm Bureau.
lished in Harrisburg

tell

you Larry died June 22, 1955.”
Michael D. Costello, Acting
Secretary of the class of 1900,
1428 Arch Street, Shamokin, Pa.

1913
Fighting Frontiersman:
of ]3aniel
le.ss, is

Ifoone,

The

Life

by John Bake-

the January selection of the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
NEW YORK AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

WUkes-Barre Area

A.

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

Michael Prokopchak,

PRESIDED

’35

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St.. Tunkhannock,

VICE PRESIDENT

Elfed Vld Jones

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

’12

P. Clive Potts,

New

SECRETARY-’TREASURER

Miss Betty Roberts

A. K. Naugle,

’52

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

’ll

110 Dalton St., Roselle Park. N. J.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

PA

Miss Mabel Dexter,

’19

Mehoopany_ Pa.

Jerry Russin

SECRETARY

WASHINGTON ALUMNI

RECORDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Betty Hensley

42 Slocum, Ave.,

PRESIDENT
Miss Genevieve G. Morgis ’34
3700 Massachusetts Ave., N. W.
Washington 16, D. C.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Chester Wojclk

TREASURER

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

SECRETARY
Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

’14

Tunkhannock, Pa.
’ll

TREASURER

Mr. Joseph A. Kulich ’49
1542 N. Danville Street

Mrs.

Olwen Argust

New

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

’14

Arlington, Virginia

Area

B. Haileton

TREASURER
Mrs.

PRESIDENT
Harold
40 South Pine

J.

Baum,

St.,

St.,

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI

C. Barrett, Jr.

(Adda Mae Myers

’27

PRESIDENT

’49)

Robert V. Glover,

1232 Blair Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland

Hazleton. Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17
147 East Chestnut

Edward

RECORDING SECRETARY

SECRETARY
Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

Jason Schaffer
R. D.

1232

U

Street,

S

.E.

D. C.

TREASURER

the Advisor of the group

Lewisburg, Pa.

Washington

20,

Helen Crow

Mrs. Lucille
127

Pa.

Magazine Book Club for
Published by William
Children.
Morrow and Company, New York,
in 1948, with illustrations by the
distinguished American artist, Edward Shenton, it has become one
the most popular books on Boone
for teen-agers. It is based on Dr.

Dr. M.

Kehr

is

1928

Parents’

Bakeless’ equally popular adult
biography, Daniel Boone; Master
of the Wilderness, published by
Morrow in 1939. This volume was
unavailable for some years, but
was reissued, with great success, in
1955.
Morrow’s first printing of
the reissue was snapj>ed up within a

month

of publication,

and a

second printing (twice as large as
the first) had to be rushed through
the presses.
April. 1956

Selinsgrove, Pa.

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

Crumb

Miss Sadie

1,

SECRETARY

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

TREASURER
McHose Ecker, ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton,

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Harriet Kocher
Skylark Hotel
P. O. Springfield, Virginia

Hazleton, Pa.

Mrs. Miltona Bolen Klinetob,
elementary teacher in Plymouth

Borough Schools, was invited to
White House Conference on
Education, at Washington.
Mrs. Klinetob attended as one
of 86 delegates from Pennsylvania.
There were 238 delegates from the
the

entire country, Pennsylvania’s dele-

gation being surpassed only by
those of California and New York.
Altogether
approximately
1,400
persons from the States and territories participated in the conference to discuss such subjects as
What Should Our Schools AccomGet the School
plish, How Can
Buildings and Equipment Needed,
How Can
Recruit and Retain
Enough Good Teachers, How Can

We

We

’03

Mifflinburg, Pa.

We

Organize Our Schools More
and Economically, How
Can We Pay For Our Schools, and
How Can We Obtain a Continuing
Awareness and Support of Educa-

Efficiently

tion?

Mrs. Klinetob recently spoke at
the Little White House Conference on Education held at Wilkes
College, and attended the Pennsylvania Conference on Education
held last spring at Harrisburg.
She is immediate past president
of

Department

of

Classroom

Teachers, Pennsylvania State Education Association, and was a
candidate for the presidency of the
State organization.

1930

Walter H. R. Mohr, Dallas, a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State
11

Teachers College, has been named assistant director of Greater
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com-

I.C.S.C.

PRESIDENT

1934
In a simple ceremony performed
Saturday, December 24, at Bow-

merce and assumed these duties
February 1.
lie has been director of guidance and a teacher at Westmoreland High School.
1930
xMildred A.

Wagner

lives at

925

Lomita Boad, San Bernadmo, California.
She is teaching second
and third grade in the schools of
Colton, four miles from her home.
In a recent letter she says “If any
teacher

is

interested in teaching in

California,

1

will

be glad

to

fur-

nish needed information not available \’ia official channels, but helpful, nevertheless.”
Miss Wagner

returned to Bloomsburg and received her Bachelor’s degree in

GLENN

1950.

A.

OMAN

1932

Clenn A. Oman, Bloomsburg native and vice-president and general manager of International Corrorespondence Schools Canadian,
Limited, Montreal, Canada, has
been elected president of the Canadian company by the board of
directors of the International Text-

book Company at a regular meeting in the company’s offices, Scranton.

Lawrence W. Tice, ITC

presi-

dent and chairman of the board,
presided at the session and anthat Oman will assume
duties January 1, 1956. ICS
Canadian Ltd. is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the ITC, parent concern also of the world-famed InCorrespondence
t e r n a ti o n a 1
Schools and The Iladdon Crafts-

nounced
his

new

men,

Inc.,

Traffic Division as assistant manager, and in 1940 became traffic

Oman was
1949,
transferred to the Montreal headquarters of ICS Canadian Ltd. as
manager.

In

general manager. His duties were
expanded with his election in September, 1953, as vice-president of
the Canadian Branch of ICS. With
these new duties camie the added
responsibility of furnishing the edCanadians
of
ucational
needs
throughout the entire Dominion.
The new ICS Canadian Ltd.
president resides at 5007 CoronaStreet, Montreal, with his
tion
wife, the fonner Sarah Dutrow,
and their two daughters.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
E.

M. Oman, East Third

Street,

Bloomsburg.

where he was awarded

a B.S.

Education in 1932. He
also an ahunuus of New York
in

University.

Oman’s election marks a high
point in an ICS career that began
in 1937 when he joined the company as a technical editor in the
educational department. Two years
later, he was transferred to the
12

at the University of

Wyoming

in

In 1955 she took a trip up
the Alcan H^hway to Fairbanks,
Alaska.
From there she flew to
Point
Barrow
returned
and
through the Inside Passage to
1954.

Vancouver.
1937

1927 graduate of Bloomsburg
High School, Oman attended the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

is

1935

Mae

Berger lives at 112 North
Harrisburg Street, Steelton, Pa.
Miss Berger reecived her Master’s
degree in Elementary Education
E.

William E. Zeiss

A

lege

MA

University in 1954.
A resident
master of Cleveland’s University
School for the past seven years,
Mr. Brack is now a teacher in the
IDublic schools of Shaker Heights,
Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

leading book manufac-

turers.

degree

Memorial Church, Berwick,
Miss Blanche Garrison, daughter
of Mrs. Harry Garrison, Berwick
and the late Mr. Garrison, became
the bride of Kenneth Brack, Cleveland, Ohio, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Brack, Ginghma, Me.
The
Rev. A. C. Ruth, pastor, officiated
at the double-ring ceremony.
The bride graduated from B.S.
T.C.
and received a master’.';
degree from Columbia University.
She has done further graduate
work at Columbia and New York
University.
She is a teacher in
the Berwick Junior High School
and is also associated with the firm
of H. L. Garrison Brothers.
Her husband attended State Teachers College, Farmington,
Md.,
and Boston University. He is also
a graduate of the Bryant and Stratton Schools, Boston, and received
his
degree from Columbia
er

is

teacher of

Social Studies in the Newton-Ransom High School, Clarks Summit.
He is married, and has three

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer. ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

He is a member of
daughters.
the Retirement Problems Committee for the Northeast District of
the Pennsylvania State Education
Association.

1941
Fisher

was elected
cashier of The Farmers National
Bank of Bloomsburg at the organReber

R.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ization

meeting

ot

the

bank’s

board of directors.
risber was born in Catawissa.
He is a graduate of the Catawissa
Higli School, and of B.S.T.C'., class
Before coining to The
of 1941.
Fanners National Bank be was
First National
Bank, Catawissa. Fisher is active
in the First Methodist Chinch. He

employed by the

a

is

member

ot

F.

1944

A

daughter, Lisa .•\ll>n, wa.S'
born to Mr. and Mrs. Reed Buckingham, Whittier, Calif., recently.
Mrs. Buckingham is the former
Lenore Seybert. The baby weighed eight pounds.

1948

Miss Helene Brown, of West
Hazleton, became the bride of Robert Yetter in a

ceremony at the
Church of Haz-

First Presbyterian

leton on December 31, 1955. Mrs.
Yetter was formerly a kindergarten teacher in the West Hazleton
Her husband was the
Schools.

pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Hazleton. Since February, they have been located in Susquehanna, Pa., where Mr. Yetter

has assumed a

new

Mr. Nester
is a business teacher at Pen Argyl
Area Joint High School where he
is
Faculty Manager of Athletics.
Both received their M.A. degrees
from N.Y.U. since their graduation
from Bloomsburg.
School for

charge.

1949

Dale Mantz, business teacher at
Parkland High School, near Allentown, lives at 218 Union Street,
Since his graduaSlatington, Pa.
tion from Blooinsburg, he has received his M.A. from Columbia
University.

1949
Ernest Olson lives at 1633 Amberwood Drive, South Pasadena,
California. He is the buyer of furniture and bedding for the Broadway Stores in Los Angeles. He
received his M.A. in Retail Selling
from N.Y.U. since his graduation
from Bloomsburg.

1949
Nicholas Panzetta lives at 14
Rolling Road, Claymont, Del. He
is a business teacher at the High
School there and is also a D.E. Coordinator for his sales students

who work in Wilmington stores.
He received his M..\. from N.Y.U.
1950
Marjorie Smith (Mrs. Roderick
Reber) lives at 922 East Stafford
Mr. and
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Reber have a son aged 22
rs.
months. Mr. Reber is Operations

M

Manager

1949

Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Nester, of
22 Arch Street, Pen Argyl, Pa., are
the proud parents of a son born
Mrs. Nester is the forlast June.

for

Gimbel

son,

Mark

.Allen,

to

1950

of

daughter.

their

Mary McCommons, to David
Heckman, Lansdowne, son of

Miss
L.

Mr. and Mrs. William K.
man, Bloomsburg.

M iss McCommons

is

Heck-

a graduate

of the Pennsylvania State Univer-

where she also attended the
Mr. Heckman
graduate school.
and
B.S.T.C.
from
graduated
Pennsylvania State University.

sity

Both are now engaged
Miss

ing.

McCommons

in teachis

instruc-

and Mr. Heckman,
Lansdowne.

tor of English

science, at

of Danville.

1952

The engagement of Miss Barbara Ann Bundens, daughter of
Mrs. Edward M. Bundens, Jr.,
Light Street Road, and the late
Mr. Bundens, to David Taylor
North, son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. North, Brookville, formerly
of Bloomsburg,

was announced

re-

cently.

Miss Bundens graduated from
Bloomsburg High School in 1952
and will graduate with a B.S. degree

home economics in June
Hood College, Frederick,

in

from

He

received his B.S. degree in education from B.S.T.C. in 1952 and
his M.S. degree from Pennsylvania
State University. He is now serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.

1953
Koharski lives at 223
Wisconsin Avenne, Nortli Massapequa. Long Island. After his
graduation from Bloomsburg he
was inducted into the Army. After
completing Military Police School
and receiving a Complete Background Investigation by the FBI,
he was awarded a Top Secret
Clearance and ordered to Sandia
Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
eighteen
where
remained
he
months. After his discharge from
.Alex

Mr. and Mrs. B. Wilbur McCommons, Springfield, announce the

engagement

A daughter, Sandra Lynne, was
born on December 23, 1955, to Mr.
and Mrs. Laurence C. Glass, 75
Dawson
Round meadow
Lane,
Manor, Hatboro, Pa. Mrs. Glass
is the former Lola Jean Deibert,

-Mr.
from
North
graduated
Bloomsburg High School in 1949.

was born on
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wagner, 319 Lorewood Avenue, Richardson Park, Wilmington
Mrs. Wagner is the for4, Del.
mer Betty Ridall. This is the couple’s second son.

A

February 16

1952

,Md.

Bros.

1950

the

P.

Army

he and his
Margery Walter,
Long Island, where

in June, 1955,

wife, the former
’54,

moved

the latter

to

is

teaching

first

grade.

1953

Announcement has been made of
the engagement of Miss Marian L.
J.

April, 1956

years.

six

Whi.shington

&

A.M. and of CaldHe is married
well Consistory.
to the former Clara Rambo and
has one child, Kay.
Lodge,

mer Lois Datesman and was a
business teacher at Bangor High

WESLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBUC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131 -M

252

'34

Neyhard, daughter of Mrs. Harry
Neyhard and the late Mr. Harry
Neyhard, Orangeville, to Ellis S.
Kocher, son of Dr. and Mrs. F. T.
Kocher, Espy.
Miss Neyhard, a graduate of
13

Scott Township High School and
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, is a teacher of the East

Lycoming School

District,

Hughes-

ville.

Mr. Kocher, also a graduate of
Scott Township High School, and
the Pennsylvania State University,
is teaching in Gollegeville.

No wedding

and

is

employed

ing office of the

He

is

now

1954

Mr. and Mrs.
Scranton,

W. Hummel, Bloomsburg, were

Wythe

T. Bolling,

aimounce the

engage-

of their daughter, Judith, to
John L. Shirey, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John K. Shirey, Lewistown.

A

graduate of Central High
School and B.S.T.C., Miss Bolling
is

employed

as a

teaclier in

the

united in marriage Saturday afternoon, December 31, at the Tabor

Allentown public schools.
Mr. Shirey, a graduate of Lew-

Lutheran Church

istown High School, is studying
special education at B.S.T.C.

The

Kane.

graduated
from
and has been employed
as a parish worker at Augustana
Lutheran Church, Washington, D.
bride

B. S.T.C.

Pier husband, also a graduate

C.
of

B.S.T.C.,

a teacher at the
Junior High School,

is

Edward Hand
Lancaster.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunnnel will reat 438 East King Street in

side

Lancaster.

1954

Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Kline,
Old Berwick Road, announce the

engagement of their daughter,
Evelyn, to Arthur C. Riegel, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Riegel,
Catawissa.
Miss Kline

is

a graduate of the

Township Consolidated High
School and is employed as a secretary at Bloomsburg Mills, Inc. Her
Scott

a graduate of Catawissa
School
and Bloomsbinrg
He is a
State Teachers College.
teacher in the Catawissa High

fiance

is

High

School.

A summer wedding

is

planned.

1954
Mr. and .Mrs. Glcnroy Holloway, Berwick, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Sally Jayne,
to
Donald D. Peterson, son of
Chief of Police and Mrs. Harry
Peterson, Berwick.

Miss Holloway was graduated
from Berwick High School in 1954
14

They

will reside in

1954

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Morgan,
Edwardsville, announce the marriage of their daughter, Sally Ford
Morgan, to John M. DiRico, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. DiRico,
Wayne.
Both are graduates of
B.S.T.C.
The wedding took place on Saturday, March 24, at noon at Edwards Memorial Congregational
Church, Edwardsville.
Mrs. DiRico was a member of
the Waller Hall governing board
and president of the girls’ glee club
while at B.S.T.C. She is now on
the teaching staff of Ridlay Park
High School.
Her husband served two years
with the U.S. Army overseas where
he was engaged as a teacher in
Chinon, P'rance. He now teaches
at Darby Junior Pligh School.

Dun-

cannon.
1955

The engagement of Miss Evelyn
M. Weaver to Thomas W. Yeagle,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Yeagle, Montgomer\', is announeed by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. R.

Weaver, Muncy.

ment

Miss Eleanor Marie Johnson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B.
Johnson, Kane, and Russel Eugene
Hummel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rus-

at

Schools.

Bucknell University.
at Susquentia

at

a teacher at the

School.

lected.

sel

Both are teachers

Berwick Area Joint Senior High

date has been se-

1953

ate

Her fiance, a graduate of Berwick High School and B.S.T.C.,
served with the U.S. Army for two
years.

work

in the timekeep-

ACF.

The
from

was graduated
School and

bride-to-be

Muncy High

She is a commercial
teacher in the senior high school
of the Phoenixville School District.
B. S.T.C.

A graduate of MontgomeryClinton High School, Mr. Yeagle
employed by

is

at the

port.

J.

C.

Hackenburg

Williamsport Municipal AirHe previously ser\ ed with

the Air Force.

1955

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McAnall,
the latter the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William B. Edgar, Fourth
Street, have left for Los Angeles,
Calif.
Mr. McAnall, a graduate
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College served two years with the
United States Army part of which
was spent in Germany. He will
enter U.C.L.A.
1955
Lincoln Street Methodist Church,

Shamokin, was the setting recently for the marriage of Miss Martha Ann Molchan, daughter of
John Molchan, Pljmiouth, to Thomas Earl Persing, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Persing, Shamokin.

The bride

is

a senior

and the

bridegroom, a graduate of B.S.T.C.

The Rev. D. Owen Brubaker,

1955

performed the double-ring
ceremony.

Miss Jean IHorence Wallace,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
N. Wallace, Lewisburg R. D. 3,

pastor,

and Duncannon, and Edward P.
Weaver, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Weaver, Bethlehem, were
married reeently at Beaver Mem-

engaged in student teaching in
Bloomsburg Elementary School.
Her husband, a graduate of B.S.T.

Methodist Church, Lewisburg, by the Rev. Frank W. Ake.
The bride graduated from West
Chester State Teachers C^ollege
and the bridegroom graduated
from B.S.T.C. He is taking gradu-

in

orial

The

bride, a senior at B.S.T.C.,

is

is seiwing as second lieutenant
the U.S. Marine Corps. He expects to serve in Hawaii in the

C.

,

near future.
The couple
trip to

New

left on a wedding
York City and will re-

side in Hawaii.

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and

1955

vows were excliaiiged
recently by Miss Sherrill Verna
Hiller, (laughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Nuptial

Herbert Hiller, Jersey Shore,
and John H. Rittcnmeyer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ritteiimeyer, Philadelphia, in Grace Lutheran Church, jersey Shore. The Rev.
Ralph Meckley officiated.
Miss Janet Ference, Whittier,
California, was maid of honor and
Mrs. Jack Derr and Mrs. Richard
j.

Kymble were bridesmaids.
Lee Rittcnmeyer was best man
Ushers were AlMuncy, Plymouth, and .\rlan

for his brother.

lred

Hiller, brother of the bride.

Mr. and .Mrs. Rittcnmeyer are
both graduates of B.S.T.C. and are
teaching at William Tennent High
School at Southampton.
1956
-Miss Jean Robison, daughter of
Mrs. Esther Robison, West Eighth
Street, has accepted a position as
English teacher in the Morrisville
High School. A graduate of B.S.
T.C. in January, she was also on
the staff of Station
while
a student here.

WHLM

1956
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar W. Coleman, Friednes, Pa., have announced the engagement of their
daughter, Hazle M. Coleman, to
David Hines Benscoter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roscoe H. Benscoter,
West Atlantic City, N. J.
Miss Coleman, a graduate of
Jenner-Boswell High School in

will graduate in June with a
degree in business.

School of Nursing and is now
on the hospital staff. Mr. Kocher,
a \ eteran of two years service with
pital

1956

the U.

Miss Dorothy Louise .McCreary,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Kent McCreary, Berwick, became

City, Fla.

bride-to-be

will

1956

On

Thanksgiving afternoon

two. Miss Eleanor

Dawn

at

Broadt,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
C. Broadt, Bloomsburg, was unit-

a senior at B.S.T.C.
at

The

ness College, Jacksonville, Fla. He
recently completed a
three-year
enlistment in the U. S. Army.

Her husband, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School in 1952,
reside

a sen-

graduate from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College this spring. Mr.
Kimbel is attending Massy Busi-

attorney.

will

now

and Mrs. Louis E. Hester,
Watsontown, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Joanne .Marie, to Robert Kimbel, .son
ol Mrs. Eugene Conner,
Haines

.

They

is

.Mr.

eran Church.
The Re\ D. L. Bomboy, jxistor,
performed the double-ring ceremony before the newly-constructed
church altar which was decorated
with white flowers.
The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School in 1954
and employed by Howard R. Ber-

is

Air Force,

1956

the bride of Ronald Cene Girton,
sou of .Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Girtoii, R. D. 1, in a ceremony at two
o’clock Saturday afternoon, December 31, at the Buckhorn Luth-

ninger,

S.

ior at B. S. T. C.

818 West

ed

Front Street, Berwick.

marriage to John E. Shaffer,
son of .Mr. ancl Mrs. John E.
Shaffer, Sr., of Bloomsburg.
The
double-ring ceremony was perin

Jr.,

1956

Announcement has been made
of the engagement of Miss
Joan
Ann Rossell, Bryn Mawr, to George Edwin Kocher, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Frank T. Kocher, Espy. Miss
Mrs.
Rossell is the daughter of
Mary B. Rossell, Mt. Holly, N. J.,
and the late Rev. William R. Rossell, whose death occurred while
he was pastor of the Bloomsburg
Baptist Church. Miss Rossell is a
graduate of the Bryn Mawr Hos-

-

formed by William Hyde, pastor,
at the
Reorganized Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter
The bride graduated

Day

Saints.

from

the

BlcK)msburg High School in 1951
and is a bookkeeper for S. H. Evert Co., Inc.
Her husband, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School
in 1950,

is

a senior at B.S.T.C.

He

served two years in the U. S. Arniy
with eighteen months in Germany.

Friednes, is a junior at B.S.T.C.
Her fiance graduated from the

Shickshinny High School and B.
S.T.C.

He

is

a

member

facult\’ of the Pleasantville,

of

N.

tlie
J.,

Senior High School.

1956
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Ancke,
Westfield, announce the engagement of their daughter, Shirley
Virginia, to Donald Carey, son of
Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Carey,
Bloomsburg.
Miss Andre has accepted a position as commercial teacher in the
Bald Eagle-Nittany High School at

MiU

ALUMNI DAY:

MAY

26

Hall.

Mr. Carey
April. 1956

is

a senior at B.S.T.C.
15

cial courses to teach

many

of the

subjects.

^grrologii
Hammond O’Brien, ’99
Elizabeth Hammond O’-

Elizabeth
Mrs.

Brien, a teacher tor thirty-two
years, and an instructor ot retarded pupils in the Hamilton School,
JNew
Haven,
Comiecticut, for

twenty-three years, died December li at her home in New Haven.
She is survived by her husband,
two sons, two daughters, two sisters, and eight grandchildren.
Mrs. O’Brien, born and reared
in Wilkes-Barre, Ba., taught tor
two years in Kingston iownsnip,
Ba., and six in hort Wayne, ina.,
belore going to New Haven, hirst

employed

a suDstitute there,
she nuerested herseit in the problem ot Slow learners, and spoKe
as

principals

to

and teachers anout

them.

‘The opening of a room for slow
learning cmluren at Hamilton St.
School was tne opportunity 1 had
long wanted, Mrs. U hrien recallea some years afterwards. "Most
ot the chiluren tound reading and
writing hard. Otten tliey had an
apticuue tor manual training."
The first classroom had children ot all ages, and Mrs. O’Brien
found that the most important
patience.
factor in teaching was
“Some children run fast, but that
t mean that the slow runners
couldn't run,” she explained. “The
sympathy.
slow learners needed
They were the ones who couldn’t
keep up with standards of an average elementary class and requir-

didn

ed special help.

The

to
teacher visited homes
co-operation irom jiarents,
helped organize a BTA, and served as its president for three years.
The idea behind her teaching
to

fit

had in regular
classrooms. Though none of them
became geniuses, they had good
service records, got
good jobs,
married and raised families.
of competition tney

Mrs. O'Brien retired from the
Blaven scliool system in 1950,
but tlirougli all her years
as a
teacher, and afterwards until her
deatli, iormer pupils continued to
call on her to aiscuss personal affairs, and to invite her to wedaings, sdowers and anniversary

New

ceieorations.

“They come to discuss their personal attahs, a habit formed some
years ago,' Mrs. O'Brien said at
tlie time ot her retirement.
“Now
1 hnd myselt in tne role of adviser
about suen tlhngs as business, romance, weddings, automobiles and
lite in

general.

Exen

alter her retirement, she

found she wanted
munity witn tne

comhad
skills she
learned over so many years, and

some time
taught Americanization and adult

so

jVlrs.

education to the

Mr.

D. C.

Mr.

He

was

lived

Montana avenue N.
ton,

16

tire

We

Cummings

NCWC

weaving, rug weaving, shoe repairwashing, ironing, knitting and
needlepoint. She had to take spe-

as-

National
Conference’s
Catholic
Welfare
dcqjartment of education, died on
December 20, 1955 at Sibley Mem-

and the

she
other
academic
subjects,
taught music, domestic science,
raffia
woodwork, chair-caning,

’08

James E. Cummings, retired

in addi-

of the child,

fessional journals.

Mr. Cummings also served

67.

at

1431

Washingretired from the
E.,

in 1953.

Cummings

as

manager of the NCWC
and in 1941 was named vice chairman ot the National Committee
on Education by radio.
Mr. Cummings was born in
Shenandoali, Ba., and taught hi the
exhibit

public schools there following his
graduation from the Bloomsburg
btate Teachers College.
He was
principal of Clifton Heights (Ba.)
hublic School from 1914 to 1917.
h’rom 1917 until 19z8, Mr. Cum-

was

mings

affiliated

witli

tlie

Columbus.
During
World War 1, he was director of
tlie K. of C. welfare program in

Kniglits

of

40 military installations throughout the South.
Mr. Cummings married the for-

mer Mary

Alice

GallagEiier,

of

Shenandoah, in 1922. Besides liis
wife, he leaves four children. They
are Sister M. Alice V'eronica, of
the Academy of Holy Names, of
Rome, N. Y.; Mrs. Carl Herberg,
Mr. Rainer, Md., and Joseph and

Noreen Cummuigs, boUi

home

tlie
of
addiess. Five grandchildren

also survive.

C. Carroll Bailey, ’ll

James E. Cummings,

orial Hosihtal.

Re-

He compiled a “Directory of
Catholic Colleges and Schools,”
and was the author of textbool^
on English and arithmetic.
He
was a trequent contributor to pro-

“Delayed Bilgrims.”

and so

ing,

tor

education classes three nights a
week at Wilbur Cross Hign. Many
ot her pupils were DB’s somewhat
slow in learning tlie American way
Mrs. UBrien referred to
of lite.
her Americanization students as

tion to reading, arithmetic

needs

OBrien

to help tne

sistant director of

get

was always

Mrs. O’Brien felt that the slowlearners should be taught in special rooms, since the cliiidren lost
the feeling of insecurity and fear

of the Catholic Educational
view for 20 years.

joined the

or-

ganization in 1928. For six years
he was a statisticaan before being
appointed to the post which he
occupied until his retirement. In
addition, he served as copy editor

The Rev. C. C. Bailey, former
pastor of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Ghurcli from 1939 to
1943, died November 6, 1955 in
Baltimore, where he was pastor

EUB

Church. He
church parsonage
shortly after delivering the morning sermon.
of

Eimnanuel

died in

the

He had directed the Ministers’
Chorus of the Central Bennsylvania Conference 25 years, and
during his 37 years in the ministry
They were
served six charges.

York Christ, York

St.

Baul, Milton,

Lemoyne Grace, Baltimore Faith
and Baltimore Emmanuel EUB
In addition, he
associate pastor to the Rev.

Ghurches.

was

Dan

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Poling

of

Church,

New

C.'ollegiate
Marble
York Citv, from 1927

to 1929.

Sur\iving are his

Mrs.

wile,

Margaret bailey ami three daughters, Mrs. Gleuu Grove and Mrs.
Dominic .\rgeuto, both of York,
and Miss Mary .Alice bailey, at
home.

Helen Riegel Hin t,
.Mrs.

Herbert H.

dent

at

Mrs. R. Bruce .Albert

’2.‘1

.Mrs.

former

Hart,

Nescopeck school teacher, died at
She had undergone
another major operation on Deccnnber 1 and had recently underoperation.
major
gone another
Death occurred in the Germantown Hospital.
Mrs. Riegel was a graduate of
Nescopeck High School, in 1921,
and was later graduated from the
BSTC. She taught four years in
Nescopeck schools before her marPhiladelphia.

R.

Bruce Albert,

most

bloomsbnrg’s

one of
esteemed

women, died suddenly at 7:35
o’clock Wednesday evening, December 22, at her home from a
heart attack.

While

and under the care
.Mrs. Albert
was
able to be about daily and her
death came as a profound shock
t(/
her family and a
legion
of
ailing

a physician,

ol

friends.

riage.
The couple then moved to
Germantown and she taught nine

She was the widow of R. Bruce
Albert, long prominent in town affairs and whose death occurred

years there.

ten years ago.

Hart was a member of the
Methodist Church.
Surxiving are her husband; two
Klinger,
daughters, Mrs. Merlin
Easton and .Mrs. Lester Carpen-

Mrs. .Albert was born in Scran.April 20, 1887, and was the
former Blanche Tripp. She was a
graduate of the Scranton Technical High School and
a secretary
for Scranton Pump Company until
she married Mr.
Since
Albert.
that time she made her home in

.Mrs.

Germantown

Germantown; her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Riegel, Nescopeck; a brother, James Riegel,
Allentown and a sister, Mrs. Ralph
Bond, Temberton, N. J.
ter,

ton

bloomsburg.

She was a

member
Robert Rosengrant,

Robert Rosengrant, 31, husband
of the former Margery Brace, ’48,
died as a result of a tragic hunting
accident.
The accident occurred
when one of his companions trip-

ped and the rifle he carried disscharged.
Taken to the Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital, Kingston on
Saturday, December 10, 1955, he
lived until the following Monday.
a

new

R. D.

2.

.Anna Casimere Austra

Funeral services for Mrs.
Tustra, Shenandoah, former
April. 1956

devout

and active

Matthew Lutheran

church and of the Belle Straub
Missionary Society of that congre-

’48

The Rosengrants lived in
home on Hunlock’s Creek,

of St.

Anna
stu-

gation.

Surviving are a

sister, Mrs. Gertresided with her;
a brother, Holden I. Tripp, Camp
HilL_ a nephew, Donald T. Kyte,

rude Kv

te,

who

AA’ashington, D. C.;

two

nieces,

Mary Annabell

Baer, Norwood; Mrs. Ruth Baer Herbert,
suberban Philadelphia, and two
brothers-in-law, Keller Albert, of
Reading and Charles Albert, Dal-

Miss

Funeral services were held at
the Dyke Funeral home. Market
street and were in charge of the
Rev. James M. Singer, pastor of
St. Matthew Lutheran church. Burlas.

ial

was

tery.

in

John K. Adams

Normal

bloomsburg

tlie

School, were held from the Oravitz
funeral home, Shenandoah. Burial
was made in the Sky View cemetery.
She was the former Anna
C^asimere and for a
number of
years taught school. Survivors include her husband, Joseph, and
three children.

New Rosemont

ceme-

The Rev. John K. Adams, West
Third street, Bloomsburg, ninetyone last November 10 and one of
the most widely known men in
the area, died at the Ipher Nursing Home, Orangeville on .Vlonday, January 10, 1956.
The Rev. Mr. Adams, a retired
Reformed pastor, resided in this
area most of his life and was always active in the religious program. In later years in the ministry he started the Berwick Reformed church. He was a teacher in
the Bloomsburg
High
School
through the years of World War I.

Throughout

his

life

he was

terested in many civic affairs
active in their promotion.

in-

and

At the time of his death the
“Passing Throng” column of Ine
Morning Press had the following

comment:
Death claimed

the ripe age
and ten one of
the most remarkable men who has
at

ol four score years

ever resided in our midst.
The Rev. John K. Adams, who
died Tuesday, would protest such
a statement with a quiet smile but
a firm voice. But those who took
the trouble to know the man and
to enjoy his company are convinc-

ed that

it

is

true.

A

professed Christian, he also
practiced his faith.
He operated
on the Biblical premise that it is
more blessed to give than to receive; that the only way we can
obtain is to give, and that every
man should use the talents God
gave him.
first met the Rev. Mr. Adams during the years of World
War 1. There was a shortage of
male teachers in that period of
crisis and he joined the local high
school faculty.
Prior to that time he had been
active for some years in the ministry and was the inspirational lead-

We

denomination in Berwick
and a few other places in the area.
He had been away from teaching for some time. It was quite an
adjustment to make and we hellions of that day didn’t make it any
er in his

easier for him.

The reason was

that in the face
17

great provocation

of

never

lost

Mr.

Adams

him temper; never

for-

got the admonition of the Scripcheek.”
tures to “turn the other
Some of us who gave him the most
trouble at the start were beneficiaries of his kindness and his consideration.
You can’t act up in a
fellow’s class witli

a clear consci-

ous if, the same day, the teacher
goes out of his way to do you a
favor.
That’s what Mr. Adams

tails

and

to carefully arrange

them

in the report.

No one

got more enjoyment out
of the Sesqui than the Rev. Mr.
Adams. He was so early in starting a beard that there were some
who figiued he had reached a point

where he needed

care. The Reverend got quite a chuckle out of

We

don’t know of any fellow
got more out of living than
the Reverend. He didn’t ask much
materially. He never got discouraged.
never heard him com-

who

plain.

We
We

tained

some

do know that he

sus-

adversities tliat would
caused many of us to lament

and quite a few to quit.
right on plugging.

He

kept

His church was his life and included in the program of the
church are humans.
He found

much

enjoyment in associating
with people in all walks of life.
And he always made you feel right
at home.

He

out of helping
recall well that this

got a joy

others.

We

inspiration to many
during the drive for funds that
built the present Bloomsbiurg Hos-

quality

was an

Well along in the eighties, he
had some trouble with the sewer
line at hi

shome.

Some

was needed. He

excava-

he could
do it; that the exercise would do
him good. And he did, too.
A
frail appearing fellow who probably never went over 125, the Rev.
Mr. Adams was all man.
tion

Teachers College, Class of 1896,
Mrs. Archibald also attended the

Mount

said

Pleasant

Academy

chers College.
Prior to her marriage, she
vice-principal of the

Union

School, Johnstown, Pa.

Mrs. John Patterson Archibald,
eighty-one, the mother of Mrs.
Harvey A. Andruss, died Saturday
evening, February
in
the
25,

Bloomsburg Hospital of complications.
She had made her home
with the Teachers College President and Mrs. Andruss since 1954.

A

graduate of the Indiana State

was

Street

The

Pitts-

burgh Branch of the Indiana State
Teachers College Alumni Associaber.

made her an honorary memShe was also a member of

the

Pittsburgh

Cliapter

of

tlie

Daughters of the American Revolution, by reason of being a descendant of John Hart, a signer of
the Declaration of Independence;
the Dolly Madison Chapter of the
Daughters of 1812; and tlie East
ibLerty Presbyterian Church.
Her late husband, John Patterson Archibald, was a

Mrs. John Patterson Archibald

for Girls

and the Slippery Rock State Tea-

tion

that.

did.

have

student or son or daughter of a
past student or parishioner.
He
was always careful to get the de-

member

of

Indiana
of
trustees,
the board
College, and a
State Teachers
school superintendent for many
years in Western Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Archibald is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Bloomsburg and Mrs. Earl
Wright, Harrisburg; a son, William
F. Archibald, hCicago, 111., and a
grandson, Harvey A. Andruss, Jr.,
Sious Falls,

S.

D.

pital.

Mr. Adams at that time was
clerking in a store at Lime Ridge.
He was traveling to and from his
home by trolley.
He didn’t get
back into Bloomsburg until early
evening.
Because he was of retiring nature he was not known to
many around here. But that didn’t
make any difference to Mr. Adams.

He wanted to help and he did. He
would start out about mid-evening
and he would keep going for hours.
And he did well, too, because people appreciated bis sincerity.
In recent years the County SabAssociation sessions
haven’t been quite the same for

B. S. T. C.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
NEEDS YOUR

bath School

us for Mr. Adams wasn’t in physical condition to attend and bring
in the resolutions which he always
drafted. And we have missed, too
his visits to the office through the
years to bring in the wedding of

some youngster, generally
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SUPPORT

a past

THE ALUMNI QU.ARTERLY

PROSPECTS FOR 1956-1957
While the plant and instructional personnel of our office is geared to an enrollment
we shall have had over 1,000 students attend on a full-time basis during the
It does not seem that we shall be able to increase this
current college year 1955-1956.
number greatly, even though the applications for admission at the time of this writing are
twice the number that we can accept in the Freshman Class of September, 1956.

of 700 or 800.

Those who have not visited the campus recently may immediately have this question
"Why hasn't all this building, renovation, and improvement had
raised in their minds.
any seeming affect on the size of the enrollment?” The answer to this question can be
broken down as follows:

2—

1

The construction

new dining room, located on the site of the old tennis
make its appearance above the ground level and will seat

of the

courts,
800 to
Food service in a double cafeteria line will reduce the length of the
900 students.
luncheon period so that students will have less difficulty in getting to one o’clock
classes on time certain days.
is

now beginning

The

old dining

to

room

space,

book stacks being located
3

when

vacated, will be used for Library purposes, with the
and food preparation area.

in the kitchen

The present Library space on

the second floor of Waller Hall will be used for dormitory
space, but will increase the capacity by not more than 35 or 40 students.

The General State Authority Building Program includes as first on our list of needs
Men's Dormitory to be located between the Centennial Gymnasium and the private
residences along Second Street. This building will accommodate approximately 200 men,
whereas we have 125 men now living in the Town of Bloomsburg, and the transformation
of North Hall into a central campus storage and garage center would cause the transfer
of all 70 students to the new men’s dormitory. In other words, we have more than enough
men now living in the Town of Bloomsburg and in North Hall 'to fill the 200 student
capacity of the new men’s dormitory without taking into account the 100 odd men who
are now living in Waller Hall in space which we shall need for the increasing enrollment
a

of college

women.

Without increasing the enrollment, we still have a continued need for an Auditorium
We should be able to seat our entire student-body, including the
to seat at least 1,500.
Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School pupils, faculty, and a reasonable number of Town
people or parents. Otherwise, we shall eventually have to give up the assemblies which
have been so characteristic of life in small colleges.
Increasing enrollment without considering

its effect

on our ability

to secure

adequate

instructional personnel is a process of going from one building bottle neck to another.
First feeding, then housing, and finally assembly space.

Up to the present time, we have had an adequate number of classrooms^ although
they are not well located nor fully equipped, but undoubtedly this will become a fourth
bottle neck, and for that reason a classroom building, including Science Laboratories, and
Library building, have been included in our list of plant needs for the next five years.
In view of the growing pressure for admission to college, which will continue for the
next generation, will you please understand some of the problems which admission officers
have to face and be a little patient with your Alma Mater, if you find it cannot accept

someone

On
known

whom you

have recommended?

we shall welcome your continued support
members of the House of Representatives and

the other hand,

your

in

making our needs

the Senate at Harrisburg for 1956-1957 and the following years which are bright, so far as enrollment are
to

local

concerned.

There are some problems which you can help
welcomed by your college and its President

April, 1956

to

solve,

and your support will be

19

GoUe(^ GaieMdaA

J956

May

22

Classes

End

for Seniors

May

24

Classes

End

for

May

26

ALUMNI DAY

May

27

Baccalaureate Services (Morning)

May

27

Commencement

SUMMER

20

-

Underclassmen

Exercises (Afternoon)

SESSIONS
June 22

First Session

June

Second Session

June 25

Third Session

July 16 to August

F'onrth Session

August

4 to

to July 13

3

6 to August 24

THE ALUMNI QUARTERI-V

04^

fiio4jued^

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

iny proud privilege to tell you that aii anonymous donor has sent a
to start the O. H. and S. II. Hakeless Memorial Loan hund
to aid worthy students. To the many hundreds who knew and loved those inspirational teachers, this will be good news, 1 am sure.
Early in her career
Sarah Harvey left her position in tlie model school to assume the I'ole of wife
and mother in the newly created Bakeless household, but her influence througn
the years was reflected in the devoted leadership Hrofessor Bakeless gave so
generously in the field of teacher training.
It is

oheck for -^zhuO.OO

“Ideas or objects that have been before consciousness at the same time, and
in the same mental state, tend afterwards to suggest each
other.” Kemember that? Or perhaps— “Consciousness is that indefinable charFor further
acteristic of mental states which causes us to be aware of them.
consideration, “Consciousness is incapable of definition.” Be that as it may, we
are all aware that the Bakeless era was one of untold v alue in the development
of the teacher training program and character building at our Alma Mater.

hence apperceived

’

As stated above, one has already expressed appreciation with a generou.s
We think this fund should develop cpiickly to a .$I(),()()().(K) status.
All that is needed is your reflection of value received in the form of dollars.
Send your contribution to the
contribution.

O. H. and

S. II.

Bakeless .Memorial Loan

Fund

State Teachers College

Bloomsburg, Penna.

A

Credit
list of contributors will be published in future “(Quarterly” issues.
be given by classes also. Be a booster. The class of 1911 will start with
Editor Eenstemaker re$50.00. Top that and you will hear from 1911 again.
marks that 1912 is yet to be heard from. So is the 1911 rebound. What will
your class do? Select a class chairman and away we go. “.\ttention is the
mother of Memory, and Interest is the mother of .\ttention.” Your interest is
your appreciation in the form of a contribution.

will

Com(“ back for Ahmmi Day .May 20. .Mrc'ady we have rc'smv alions from
and California. Tlu' Wilners will be lu'ic' Irom the Philippines. Come
and find, “a likeness betwc'en new ideas and old om\s." I'heix'in lies the hap]*'lorida

l^iness of

joyous living.

Vol. LVIl

July,

1956

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA

No. 2

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Our enrollment was over 1,000 last year. There
a time when this was a mystic number.
A goal
be attained. A signal that we had arrived at some

was
to

Along with the pros-

notable level of achievement.

come problems. How many students are we
to accommodate next year?

pects
ing

go-

clude Science Laboratories.

Tentative plans have been

made looking toward

the selection of an Architect for
the classroom building of fourteen rooms, of which

be Science Laboratories on the second floor
and eight classrooms on the first floor.

six will

The planning and construction
Yearly enrollments are larger than the maximum
enrollment at any one time. While 1,033 different students attended Bloomsburg, some of them on a part-

we

time basis,

find that

when

the total

insufficient funds to build structures of sufficient size
to

meet current needs.

numbers are

adjusted to a full-time basis that the total enrollment
is the equivalent of 1,003.

Faculty salaries have been increased under the
provisions of Act 485 so that the salary of Professors
will range

In order

accommodate 1,050 students in Sepwhich over 300 will be entering col-

to

tember, 1956, of

lege for the first time,

it

will be necessary for us to

crowd dormitories, require students from Columbia
and Montour Counties to live in their own homes, and
house over 200 men and 30 women, who are doing stu-

Town

dent teaching, in the

of

fiom

$5,000

it

Commons (new Dining Room,
is

completed early in

be impossible lo provide dining service

will

for those students

who room

off

campus

have not admitted a section

dents in the i9o6

rreshman

section

summer
will

in the

Town.

sessions.

of

Freshmen

It is

not be admitted

stu-

likely that a

in

present college year.

What

made

With the completion of
Waller
Hall and the Old Oymnasium as the Husky Lounge,
(Biiack Bar and College Book Store), we are continuare the prospects?

ing the reiurbishing of the exterior of the old part of

plant by painting oricic as well as the

on tne siae

oi

An

compus.

wood trim

Noetling and Waller Halls facing front

Architect will soon be appointed to draw

plans lor the renovation of the present dining room
space lor Hibrary purposes, tne present Library space
lor Dormitory purposes, anu will explore the possibilities

of providing

ment area

more classroom

.space in the

base-

of Noetling Hall.

Bill # 1077, increasing the borrowing capaGeneral State Autnority provides that $25,shall be spent on the State Teachers Colleges,

Senate
c.ty of the
UU(),000

with the

list

Bloom.sburg State TeachMen’s Dormitory for 200, Audiand a classroom building to in-

of buildings at

ers College to include

torium

to

seat

1200,

Provisions

pay Deans, Directors, and Department
Heads additional amounts not to exceed $500 a year
under certain conditions.

are also

to

experience

Teachers College
and other
academic requirements and experience qualifications
are set forth in the Act, which is a result of the cooperative effort of the Teachers College Faculty Associ-

faculties

lic

school

for

has been reduced to two years,

Board

Instruction,

of Presidents, the Department of Puband the Pennsylvania State Education

Association.

The greatest

instructional need of the College

is

more equipment in
this space to shelve more books, with adequate room
for students to sit down and read the books and magazines which the College will provide when space is
the provision of Library space and

the renovation of the first floor corridor of

me

and Assistant Professors from
mandatory increases of $2(K).

January,

beginning of the second semester of the

1957, at the

$5,500 to $7,500; Associate Professors
$7,000,

after a probationary period of three years.

ation, the

We

to

Bloomsburg.

Kitchen, and Storage Building)
1957.

from

$4,500 to $6,500, with ten

Public

Until the College

of the other build-

ings are delayed on account of local requirements and

available.

The greatest housing need of the College is a
Men’s Dormitory for not less than 200 men, so that
they will have the opportunity for campus life at
lower housing rates than exist in the town of Bloomsburg.

These are the immediate objectives for the next
biennium as seen by the Board of Trustees and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVII,

No. 2

July,

COMMENCEMENT,
A

class of 148 received Bachelor
Science Degrees at the Coininenceinent E.xercises in Carver
Aiulitoriinn
Sunday
afternoon,

of

May

28, 1956.

They were
nienceinent

have
mass

told

in

e.xercises

the

coin-

that

“You

your hands the means for
destruction; but you have
also in your hands the power to
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 Sub.<cription, $2.00; Single Copy. 50 cents.
Published quarterly

in

bring

all

mankind

to a bettef liv-

ing.”

And

in

the morning baccalaur-

eate the graduates w'ere admonished, “The only experience
which
will give real meaning to all our

work and study

is

our relationship

with God.”

H. F. Fenstemaker. ’12

BUSINESS
E. H.

MANAGER

Nelson,

’ll

address was
delivered by Dr. Calvert N. Ellis,
president of Juniata College, and
the sermon was delivered by Earl
-\I. Honaman, Bishop Suffragan of
the Diocese of Harrisburg of the
Episcopal Church, and former min-

Bloomsburg.
Dr. Ellis took for his theme,
‘Noblesse
Oblige”
and Bishop
Honaman’s message was
‘The
Foolishness of God.”
There was a good attendance at
the baccalaureate and an overflow
audience at the commencement
exercises.
Both were held in Carister at St. Paul’s,

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

1956

there

is

only one experience in

that can give

do and

that

meaning

is

to

life

what you

your religious

faith.

He

said Christian faith is not a
system of ethics or a moral code.
“It is the assertion of
what we

know Almighty God has done for
us.
The only experience which
give real meaning to all our
work and study is our relationship
with God.
will

“.Man cannot save himself from
own evil and from the results

his

of his own sin.
the world can’t

The problems of
be solved by hu-

mans.
The Christian faith is in
the realm of the spirit rather than
in material things.

The commencement

EDITOR

1956

ver Hall auditorium.
At noon there was a luncheon
for the class and parents in the
College dining hall.
During the commencement one
of the class, Daniel Thomas, was

presented with his commission as
second lieutenant in the Marine
Corps, with the presentation by
Capt. Utley.
Bishop Honaman told the class

“Through the truth that comes
God mankind shall be free.
Man is free if he surrenders completely to God.”

•from

Dr. Ellis said nobililty of learning carries responsibility for com-

munity
self

living. Whoever calls himnoble should conduct himself

nobly.

He

pointed out what is owed to
and then told the class how
they can repay that indebtedness.
The educator said that it is in
others

moments

of insight that

we

are

conscious of our indebtedness

to

others.

we

are to repay our debt, we
to give
as
much as we receive.
No student
can pay for what he gets in any
“If

must exert ourselves

dedicated institution of higher
learning, but every graduate can
pay his debt in service to God and

humanity.

“No one has

a larger opportunthan a teacher to invest what
he receives.
‘Noblesse oblige’
ity

Fred W. Diehl
Eldward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey

B. Smith

ON THE COVER
Bishop and Mrs. Rabert Wilner, who were awarded the Citation of
Merit on Alumni Day. Fred W. Diehl ’09 (right). President of the Board
of Trustees, presented them to Dr. E. H. Nelson, who presented the citations.

Elizabeth H. Hubler

JULY,

19.56

1

COMMENCEMENT,

1956 (ContinuedJ

means living by the standards that
you know. One becomes noble by
the nobility of the soul. This cannot be bought. It is a life achievement.
“The most important single thing
a
a college can do is to expose
student to human excellence. The
challenge before you is: Will you
make this your code of life, will
and
the best be your standard,
will your soul grow in nobility?
“In college you have caught a
vision of the best, and with less
than that you will never be satisfied.
Our institutions are being
copied all over the world; it is our
obligation to serve, with the best
we have, the people all over the
world.
You have in your hands the
means for mass destruction, but
you have also in your hands the
power to bring all mankind to a
better living.”
Class of 1956
Elisabeth
Abraczinskas,
Adams, Anthony Aiello, Jacqueline Albert, *Frank Andrews, Peggy Bartges,
Ann Beaton, Donald Beck, Barbara
Bennett, Barbara Berry, William Bit-

Robert

Harvey Boughner,
Wylla Mae Bowman, *James Browning,
Robert Brush, Beverly Bryan, Joyce
Buck, Bernadine Butz, Donald Carey,
Betty Carvolth, *Richard Caton, Joan.
Cole,
Christie, Helene Clark, David
Harry Conner, Carmel Crapara, Milton
Croop, Joanne Dauber, Lorraine Deibert, Joann DeOrio, Helen Diehl, Doro-.
thy Diltz, Marion Duricko,
Margaret
Duttinger, Alan Eardley, Nancy Eber-.
sole, Curtis English, Milared
Ertel,

ner, Richard Bittner,

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI
Donald Rabb, Renton, has been
reelected president of the Columbia County Branch of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association,

when

the organiza-

was held in the College dining
hall.
Other officers renamed were
Miss Lois Lawson, Bloomsburg,
vice-president; Mrs. Margaret MeCem, Benton, secretary and Raul
Martin, Bloomsburg, treasurer.
tion

Martin reported that $156

been received thus

tions to the scholarship

more

is

expected.

has

far in contribu-

The

fund and
association

gave the officers the authority to
determine how much is to be giv2

Robert Evans, Patricia Eyer, Marjorie
*Larry
Felton, Glen Fenstermacher,
Fiber, Ida V. Fisher, Ann Fisher, Leonard Gabriel, Peggy Gearhart, Glenna
Gebart, Robert George, Pasquale J.
Ronald Girton, Patricia
Giangiulio,
Good, Robert Groover, *Lake Hartman,
Patricia Hartman, Jack Healy, Walter
Heller, Mary J. Hergert, Joanne Hester,

erg,
ick,

Thomas Higgins, *Catherine HobMary Hotfecker, Michael HomNancy Homsher, ^Robert Hughes,

Robert Huntz, John

Diann
James Kashner,
Rodney Kelchner,
E. Johnston,

Jones, Theophele Jones,

Joseph

Keefer,

Kershner,
Kelemen,
Gerald
Knouse,
John
Bertha
Joyce Kline,
Koch, George Kocher, Walter Kozloski,
Krzywicki,
Ronald
Krafjack,
Doris
Elvin
LaCoe,
Kwiatkoski,
Charles
Michael Lashendock, *Lavell Lindemuth, H. Grant Lunger, Doyle Lynn,
*Ned McClintock, John McElhoe, Oliver McHenry, William Mielke, Emma
Miller, George Montz, Flarrison Mor^
son, Earla Myers, Betsy Neidig, Muriel
Neilson, James Nicholas, Eleanor Nich*Louis

Nancy Oberdorf, Patricia O’Brien,
Thomas O'Toole, Donald Paralis, Lloyd
Persing,
Peak, Paul Peiffer, Martha
William H. Phillips, Joan Raab, June
Reese, Nancy Renn, *Oharles Rhoads,
Carl W. Richie, Roy Rosenberger, Charlotte Rummage, Harold Sachs, John W.
ols,

Marilyn
Schmidt,
Sandler, *Roland
Vivian
Schraeder, Eugene Schultheis,
Shuman,
Scott, John Shaffer, Meade
Edward Sisco, Charles Skiptunas, HubRobert
ert Smoezynski, Irene Sones,
Start, James Starr, Martha Starvatow,
Judith Stephens, Alice Swartz, Daniel
Thomas
Alfred Tucker, Tina Valente,
Rosalyn Verona, *Paul Volkman,
Keith
Maria Walsh, Eileen Watson,
Weiser, *Harry Weist, Nancy Wetzel,
Wintersteen,
Avery Williams, Janet
Donald Wise, *John Wool, *Sherwood
Yergey, Jean Zimmerman.
*Will complete Degree Requirements
during 1956 Summer Session.

eu to the College for scholarships
during the coming term and in
what catagory these scholarships
are to be.

At the close

of

the
the

dinner and business session
group joined the College committo
tee in Carver Hall auditorium
witness the presentation by a professional

cast

of

“The

Corn

Green.”

Is

COLLEGE ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTE TO BAKELESS
MEMORIAL LOAN FUND
In a recent meeting of the Board
of
the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, President
Hart'Cy A. Andruss recommended
that the Florence Cawley
Fund,
represented by a $1,000 interest
bearing bond, be transferred to the
Board of Directors of the Alumni
Association as a contribution
of
the Board of Trusfees to tlie Bake-

of Trustees

Memorial Loan Fimd.
The College Council, composed

less

and faculty

members,
fund
out of any surplus which may remain in the bank account of the
Community Government Association at the end of the present Colof students

have

set aside

$500 for

this

lege year.
The Senior Class of
1956 contributed $200 and tlie Faculty of the Bloomsbrug State Teachers College has pledged $500 to
be paid over a two-year period.
In addition to the $2,200 either
paid or pledged to date, the Oscar
Hugh Bakeless Chapter of fhe

Future Teachers of America will
canvass all college organizations
beginning in September, 1956, to
raise additional funds.

The amount

by an
and
Memorial Loan

of the initial gift of $2500

anonymous donor
S.

Bakeless

PI.

to the

O.

Fund will be doubled.
With more than $5,000
it

is

II.

in sight,

e.xpected that individual Al-

umni and Alumni Branches will
be in\ited to contribute to the
Loan Fund, so as to double its
present size, which is approximaThis loan fund is
tely $15,000.
bearing until after
employgraduates have secured
ment, and in past years has been
then to
limited first to Seniors,
Juniors and Seniors, and now with
an increase in size may be extended to members of the Sophomore
non-interest

Class.
It

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46

Manager
Main Street

Assistant
142 East

Bloomsburg STerling 4-3969

has been almost twenty years
Alumni have had an op-

since the

portunity to aid them Alma Mater
by contributing to the Loan Fund.
The last drive was made around
19;35 by the late Bruce Albert, who
was then President of the Alumni

Association.

THE AI.UMNI quarterly

ALUMNI DAY
Hlooinsburg State Teacliers C]o]now has 995 listed lor enrollment next fall, with a little room
left for former students who will
he returning from the ser\ ice, Dr.
Harvey A. Andrnss, president of
the College, told alumni at the animal session ot the graduates here.
The limit in enrollment for the
19.56-57 term will he 1,()()(), the
lege

largest

in

the history of the eol-

lege.

The new dining
stitution
tor use

hall

at

the in-

expected to he ready
is
hy the Christmas holiday,

the educator said.

The College hopes

to share in
$25.5 million dollar huilding
program for the Teachers Colleges.

the

The

first

amount presented was
was slashed.

$29.4 hut this

Bloomshurg’s
figure

larger

share

was

to

under
include

the
a

men’s dormitory, a elassr(M)in huilding with a new science lahoratory
and an auditorium to seat 1,200.

The Carver Hall auditorium

is

so limited in size that seniors cannot he accommodated for the as-

semhly

sessions.

college will need a library and
than a new women’s dormitory.
Dr. Andruss declared that the

Colleges must he expanded in size “if we are to have
enough teachers for babies who

Teachers

are already born.”
He asserted some of the graduates are going to other states to
teach and gave two reasons. One
is that many come from
the an-

where the populadecreasing and where the

thracite regions
is

demand for teachers, therefore, is
less.
The other is that when people have to leave their

home com-

munities they go to the place
where the salaries are highest and
many times the best salaries are
offered outside of the state. Pennsylvania, he added, is doing better
with regard to the salary scale.

JULY,

1956

said he

is

not interested in

size of institution, hut

he

is

inter-

ested in seeing that in the enlargement of the college “we do not
lose the spirit that is Bloomshnrg.”

He told the graduates this is the
challenge of the next decade.
Mention was made of the changes through the year and he said it
definite that the institution “is

is

now in a period of change
er we realize it or not.”

whetli-

Dr. K. H. Nelson, president, presided at the meeting and the graduating class, marching into the
session at its start, was received
into

membership.

Directors re-elected for three
years terms were Miss Elizabeth
Huhler, Gordon; and Hervey B.

Smith and Dr. E.

II.

Nelson, town.

Ihe hoard reorganized at a
luncheon later, re-elected Nelson
president; Mrs. Buth Speary GrifWilkes-Barre, vice president;
Mrs. Vera II. Housenick, secretary,
and Earl A. Gehrig, treasurer.
fith,

Gehrig reported that the alumni
loan fund stands at $14,623 and the
total in all

The library is to he removed
from its present (luarters on the
second floor of Waller Hall to the
area now occupied hy the dining
hall
hut in
five
years
the

tion

He

ACTIVITIES, 1956

funds

is $18,.3.35.67.

BISHOP

AND

MRS.

WIENER

RECEIVE CITATION
Bishop Robert

member

F.

Wilner,

of the class of 1909,

his wife, Alfaretta Start

member

a

and

Wilner, a

were
awarded the Meditorious Service
Award of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Alumni Associaof the class of 1912,

tion.

They were the first husband and
wife team honored since the award
was instituted nine years ago.
Since then twenty-three have received the award, with no more
than three in any one year.
Life memberships in the alumni
certificates of honor.

go with the

Fred W. Diehl, a director of the
.'Mumni Association, president
of
the board of trustees of the College and superintendent of schools
in Montour county, made the presentation, referring to the long and
fruitful service
of
the
retired
bishop and his wife in China and
the Philippines.

The award

to

Bishop Wilner was

“an outstanding educator, missionary and churchman” and
to
Mrs. Wilner as a “faitlifnl wife,
to

Alumni were urged to support
Husky Fund and also to con-

the

fund in memory of
and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless.
The latter, which will he added to
the loan fund, was started hy a
$2,5{)0 anonymous gift.
The graduates and College plans to build
tribute to the

understanding mother and devoted

Prof,

Christian missionary.”

this to $1(),()()0.

Howard

F.

Fenstemaker, editor
rounded out

of the Quarterly, has

thirty years of service in this post

Both
delightfully
responded,
speaking of some of their experiences in the mission field.
Referred to by Mr. Diehl in the
presentation was an article which
appeared earlier this year in the
Scranton Times. It was written by
Stanley A. Caughey of the Times

and was given an ovation for his
services which he declared “entailed considerable work but was

staff,

fun, too.”

foreign climes often are
the
portion of the globetrotting soldier
of fortune. These same things may
mark the career of a devoted
clergyman in foreign missionary

Dean Emeritus William
liff

and follows:

Adventure, danger, war, imprisonment, excitement and romance
in

B.

Sut-

was introduced on the floor of
and escorted to the

the auditorium

stage to join the honor class, that
of 1906.
All of the classes in reunion re-

ported and then the alumni luncheon was held in the College dining
Many of the reunion classes
hall.
met off the campus.

work.

One man

of the cloth who found
be true is Suffragan Bishop
Robert F. Wilner of the Anglican
Episcopal Church, now enjoying
retirement with his wife, Alfaretta,
this to

3

at their home, 32 Wyoming Ave.,
Tunkhannock.
For 38 of the 40 years between
Bishop Wilner
1916 and 1955,
served his church and its people
Isin China and the Philippine
Through most of these
lands.
his
years Mrs. Wilner served at
side.

by

Internment

the

Japanese

Army during World War

II,

ob-

servance of the establishment of
the Republic of the Philippines,
marriage in Shanghai, rearing a
family in strange lands, education
these
natives— all
primitive
of
and many other things helped
fashion the kaliedoscopic career of
Bishop and Mrs. Wilner.
A native of Forty Fort, Robert
Wilner moved with his family to

an early age. He left
1916, for Shanghai,
China, where he was employed as
a lay clerical worker in the Epis-

Plymouth

at

there Jan.

1,

the

Stark,

again.

After a year at Manila, Deacon
Wilner was ordained a priest and
educational
work
assigned
to
among the natives of Mountain
Province.
These simple people,
known as Igorots (mountairr dwell-

were illiterate and backward,
but welcomed a chance to learn.

ers),

Igorot children came to Easter
School near the town of Baguio,
where Father Wilner was headmaster and Mrs. Wilner principal.
Operation of a kindergarten and
seven elementary grades posed
knotty problems for Father and
Mrs. Wilner, but with the aid of
kindly native teachers they served
successfully for nine years.
Consecrated a suffragan bishop
by Episcopal Bishop Gouverneur
Frank Mosher at Manila Cathedral Jan. 25, 1938, and assigned to
traveling mission
duties.
Bishop
Wilner moved his family to Manila

copal mission.
Alfaretta

work

again.

En

young

route by car to

woman he had met while both
were attending Bloomsburg Normal School, left her native Tunkhannock the following year to
marry her college sweetheart. Episcopal Bishop Frederick R. Graves
officiated at the wedding in Shang-

Province

hai, April 10, 1917.

later

Two

money

Mountain

Dec. 21, 1941, with
for several missions. Bishop

Wilner was taken prisoner at the
town of Bontoc by the Japanese
Army which had invaded Luzon a

few days
at

earlier.

He was

interned

Bontac mission compound and

Camp Holmes

at

prison

in

the liberation of Santo Tomas by
the U. S. Anuy February 3, 1945.
Bishop Wilner, weakened by mal-

had been

nutrition,

ill

for

many

months, but a return to a well balanced diet soon restored him to
good health. The Wilners sailed
for home on an Army transport
soon after, staying in Tunkhannock
lor several months. Bishop Wilner
returned alone to Manila in November, 1945, to resume his duties.
July

was a day of great
the Republic of the

1946,

4,

rejoicing,

as

Philippines

was

Bish-

established.

op Wilner was among the

many

dignitaries present, giving the in-

vocation at the historic program.

Mrs. Wilner rejoined her husin October, 1946, and
the
Bontoc.
couple was assigned to
There Bishop Wilner served as
pastor of All Saints Church and
the
he and his wife operated

band

church school.
The Wilners

wound

up

their

mission work last August. Enroute
home they attended the general
convention of the Church in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Reaching Tunkhannock
tober, the Wilners settled

last

live a quiet,

normal American

for the

time in

first

Oc-

down

many

to

life

years.

For a while Mrs. Wilner found

it

sons and a daughter were
the
born to the Wilners during
early years in China.

Baguio
with other clergymen.
Back in Manila, Mrs. Wilner was

strange to use
appliances and

unaware

William
Isabell, a graduate of
Smith College, Geneva, N. Y., is
now a childrens’ librarian at Maryland State Teachers College, Tow-

In early December of 1943, a
prisoner exchange sent Bishop Wilner to the infamous Santo Tomas
prison in Manila. In the exchange
the Rev. Robert Sheridan of Chicago, a Catholic Priest, was sent
Father Sheridan today
to Baguio.
brothers
is novice master of the
iiovitate at the Maryknoll Fathers
Home in Brookline, Mass.
Under severe Japanese restrictions in Manila, Mrs. Wilner saw
her husband for the first time in
more than two years dining a briel

most of which she never had
during the long years of mission

son.

Robert graduated from Wichita
(Kan.) University after serving in
aircraft
the Army and now is an
technician in Wichita.
George, called to service in the
Army while attending collegCj was

killed in action in

World War

After 10 years
later

in

Belgium during

II.

in

Shanghai ami

Hankow, Mr. and

Mrs.

United
Wilner returned to the
States and Mr. Wilner enrolled at
the Episcopal Divinity School

in

He was

ordained a
Church,
Peter’s
deacon at St.
Plymouth, in 1928 and left immethe
lor
diately with his family
Philadelphia.

Philippine Islands to enter mission
4

of her husband’s plight.

Santo Tomas Dec.
After being interned at
31, 1943.
Banos prison for several
Lo.s
months, Mrs. Wilner was transferred to Santo 4’omas and reunited
ol
with the bishop in October

one-hour

visit to

electrical

labor-saving

de-

vices,

work.
In the home where Mrs. Wilner
lived as a girl, the couple now resides with memories of the career

The house
they ha\e shared.
abounds with colorfid mementoes
lands.
foreign
in
of the years
Paintings, metal-work, wood car\ings,

handwoven

domestic utensils

made by

articles,

and

weapons,
costumes

Philippine natives

make

the house a showplace.

Bishop Wilner’s retirement beeffective January 1, just 40
years from the day he left his Plymouth home for China.
The rewards of such a career of
devotion and service to others?

came

not financial gain, but
in another sense.
Says Bi.shop Wilner: “We take
deep personal satisfaction in havCertainly

immeasurable

1944.

and Mrs. Wihu'r were
the thousands who hailed

Bishoji

among

modern

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ing beon able to give many young
people the education and oppormight
they
otherwise
tunities
never ha\ e had. Our reward has
been watching those with whom
we have worked grow up to be-

eome
ian

taithlid

intelligent,

Cdirist-

men and women.”

Those who have been active
.\hnnni

.\ssociation

“O.H.”, as he was referred to by
students— although never to his
face— was a kindly soul but one

who had
in

graduates interested
the alumni activities until they
have been out ten years or more.

sible, to get
in

That has been
at the functions
Ciall

a noticeable fact

through the years.

names of fifty and the
and the thirty year classes

the

forty

and there

a great response. Hut
when the numerals designating the
classes of one through ten years
are announced there isn’t too much
of a roar in answer.
At times
there isn’t a whisper. Or at least
is

been the case.
was not different the last
weekend in May.
The general
that has
It

alumni organization is now operating the most active branch pro-

gram

in years.
In some areas it
the best ever.
And the big reason for this pickup has been the participation of
recent graduates. They had a meeting in Luzerne county not long ago
is

and half of the assembled were
youngsters who had been out less
than five years. And tliey were not
only present but taking an active
part. Just about the same thing is
happening in Washington, D. C.,
and in a number of other spots.
Dr. E. H. Nelson has worked
long and tirelessly in building the
graduate body into a do
something organization.
It was under
his leadership and that of the late
Bruce Albert that the graduate
body got clicking and that activity
has increased. Now if the youngsters start falling into line and doing things Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association
will be ready to stand up and go
places.

The memory
JULY,

1956

of

Prof.

O.

II.

his convictions.

And he

stood scpiarely on them.

We

tor years

you that it is pretty diffiand at times almost impos-

will tell
cult,

There has been $2,500
given toward a Bakeless Memorial
to the loan fund and considerable
ground work has already
been
ilone in an effort to build that up

session.

to $10,000.

ALUMNI DAY AS SEKN BY A
UKTUHNINC ALUMNUS
tile

Bakeless, one of the beloved “Old
Cuard,” was honored at the 1956

ll

wager

that the

first

thing

pops into the minds of most
of his former students when his
name is mentioned are three
words, “Introduction To
Teachthat

ing.”

Professor Bakele.ss figured there
was no calling on earth that was
higher than that of the teacher. He

operated on that premise and his
dedication to the field won other
converts.

We

were on the

when

We

We

Maybe we should do that
sometime. And maybe many other
tors.

Prof.
grads should do the same.
Bakeless certainly did a great deal
for all of us,

although in most

in-

stances this wasn’t recognized until some years after we had traveled down diploma lane and been
into
cast out
the hurry-scurry

Ilomick, Ilud-son, a member of the
1955 graduating
class
at
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Ilomick, elected by his cla.ssmates to deliver the annual ivy

Day
The

had said previously.
and knowledge we have
accpiired here in Bloomsburg must
oration,
skills

not be allowed to be dormant. A
failure to put to use what we have

gained is to admit that we are incompetent to meet our obligations.
W’e are not incompetent.
We
shall attack
our
responsibilities
with the utmost of confidence.”

The

ivy Day exercises, one of
oldest traditions at
Bloomsburg, were held in Carver Audi-

torium due to inclement weather.
William Bitner, Lemoyne, class
president,
presided during the
ceremony.
Bitner presented
the
.spade, used in the planting of the
ivy, to
William Pohutsky, Old
Forge, president

of

the Cdass

of

1957.

During the program, Elisabeth
Adams, Selinsgrove, and Joanne
Dauber,
Berwick,
a
presented
piano duet. The class sang “Halls
of Ivy” and the Alma Mater. Nelson Miller directed the group singing.

Co-chairman of the Ivy Day

ex-

were Edward Siscoe, Forest
City and Robert Groover, Watsonercises

town.
Mr. Earl Gehrig is faculty advisor for the Class of 1956.

But all that is changed
There are more worthy requests than can be taken care of
from cash at hand.
We’re sure it would please the
professor to know something more
is to be done to aid those who want
to teach to prepare to do so. We’re
frequent.

world.

The money which

being raised as the memorial to both the
professor and his wife will be added to the alumni administered student loan fund. This is now around
$15,000. A successful completion of
the Bakeless project will send it
is

over $25,000. The money is soreneeded. There was a period immediately after World War II
to

ly

when

DAY

“With the guidance we have
received ami with the help of
God, we shall not only be staunch
supporters of education and a free
world, but we shall be constructive participants iir
those
most
worthy causes,” declared Michael

the

hill in the i>erthe multiple choice tests
were just getting steam ahead. In
that freshmen course on “Introduction to Teaching” there was
considerable reading to be done. And
the reports had to be handed in.
never fell in love with John
Dewey and some of the others and
we never did much of the assigned reading.
did get lucky in
the tests and passed the course but
it always
disturbed the Professor
tliat we had missed consulting the
words of wisdom of great educa-

iod

IVY

recpiests for loans

were

in-

now.

pretty sure we’ll take a big step
in that project this coming Alumni Day.

forward

(E. F. S.)
5

were the

festivities

Many

of the classes

programs
opened on Friday evening and continued through Saturday night.
There was a splendid turnout of
in reunion.

members
Heading

of the

older
classes.
contingent were Mrs.
Annie S. Nuss, Bloomsburg and
Mrs. John J. Jones, Scranton, class
of the

Dean Emeritus William
Mrs.

B. Sut-

John, 1895,
and Miss Gertrude Rinker, 1899,
were also among those on the
campus and recognized at the general alumni meeting.
Harry S. Barton headed a conthe
tingent of six
representing
class of 1896 who were in sixtietli
year reunion, and sang the song
of the school when he was there.
That noted the colors of the institution as “the lemon and maroon.” Now they are maroon and
gold and Major Barton demanded,
“Who changed those colors?”
There were four back from 1898,
1891;

from

five

from
from

’02,

Mrs. Anderson taught 12 years
Pennsylvania before marriage
and 2 years in Oregon. Her hus-

Dr. Homer Snyder has been a
practicing physician in Scranton
forty years.
Mrs. Grace
Frantz

band was

had the

J.

S.

’99, six from ’00,
two
one from ’04 and three

in

in

New

in

a real estate

man and

orchardist in
Medford, Oregon.
After her husband died in 1951,
she came east to live with her sis-

Miss Ruth Lamareaux (1906),
at Shaverton.
ter,

the
class of 1896 were present for the
Friday,
60th reunion dinner on
evening. May 25th:
Bertha Lamareaux, (Mrs. Anderson),
Elizabeth Miller (Mrs. Eyer), Bessie
Vance (Mrs. DeMott) and Charles I.
Boyer.
All of the members except
Mrs. DeMott were joined on Saturday
morning by Florence Lins (Mrs. Arndt)
and Harry Barton at the general alumAfter the alumni lunchni meeting.
Arndt and
eon Mrs. DeMott, Mrs.
Charles I. Boyer met in room F, in
Noetling Hall for a short time.

Mrs. Arndt taught for 31 years
She has 3
and retired in 1950.
children, two .sons and a daughter,
5 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.

Her daughter
in

for

is

Belief route.

the

Corp. and

married and lives
One son works

American
the

news agency

in

other

Anilin

one

Dye
has

a

West Con.shock-

Mrs. Arndt reported that .she
had learned that Jane Rosser had

en.

0

Camden, N.

in

read from members unable to be
present.
Among those was one
from Susie Rayos Mar'mon, Lagunas, N. M.
The class, having the best attendance of any golden reunion
class in many years,
the
spent
weekend in reminisences of the
old days at “Old Normal.”
The
members were seated on the platfrom for the general ceremonies.
Members contributd $116 as an
addition to the R. Bruce Albert

World War began. During the war
S. Housing Gorp.

he served with U.

as field engineer on the Erie, Pa.,
housing project, and after the war
he served for seven years as Borough Engineer and Supt. of water
works at Ridgway. He resigned
his position at Ridgway
in
1927
and went mto business. He has a
son and daughter. The daughter

head of tire Home Economics
department in the Milton Joint
high school and he and his son are
partners in the Western Auto Associate store at Lewisburg. He has
one grandson and three grandis

daughters.

The

of

was

thirty-six as principal of a school
there.
She has not been out of

profession.
He was engaged in private prac^
tice in Atlanta, Ga., when the first

University in
the civil engineering

Class of 1901

The following members

that forty-five
J.,

school any one year since she was
a child of six.

1.

years, graduated

’05.

Class of 1896

distinction of the longest
teaching career of any of the class
in attendance, fifty-two year's.
Of

Boyer taught for 8
from Bucknell
and entered
1902,

Charles

this

of 1888.

liff,

branch of the Alumni Association
for twelve years.

home

Big feature of Alumni Day at
the College, as is always the case,

away

a
convalescent
Jersey in 1945.

liassed

c/ass Reunions

1901 in fifty-fifth
year reunion had ten back for a
class ot

busy weekend which started witlr
dnmer in the College dining hall
on Friday evening.
a

Attending: William R. Lams, Allentown; Freua S. Cook, Renovo; Mrs.
Gertrude Northy, Akron, Ohio; Helen
Lesher Frederick, Pottsgrove; Harriet
A. Bittenbender, Berwick; Ida B. Gilbert, Hazleion; Virginia Vought, Elysburg; Mrs. George Kline, Dallas; Thomas F.

Downing, Philadelphia.

Many

Memorial Fund

class of

1906,

the

had

honor

members

were

of the College. Al-

1906, was long president of the
general alumni and did much to
unite the graduates of the institution into a going organization.
Fenstermaker
Attending;
Grace
Frantz, Merchantville, N. J.; Marion
Groff Spangler, Reading; Ethel Henry
Natress, Sunbury; Lillie Hortman Irish,
Camden, N. J.; Helen DeWitt Terwilliger, Bloomsburg; Nellie Durbin Batey,

Shuman Grimes, CataMesserMyrtle Longenberger

Kingston: Edith
wissa;
smith,

Boca

Florida;
Aleta
Raton,
H.
Englehardt, Dr. Homer
Snyder, Dr. O. A. Allen, Elizabeth Ste-

Bomboy

iner

Mitteldorf,

Hazel

Owen

Schuch-

W. Raymond Girton, Nellie Evans,
Florence M.
Erdley,
Maude Boust

art,

Shawfield,

Maude

Evans, Adeline Wil-

liams, Margaret Russel
MacWilliams,
Lottie Conrad Ridall, Clara Coughlin
Roselle, Ethel Titus Zecher, Helen Hering Griffen, Laura Aurand
Witmer,

CoughBlanche M.
Grimes. Mary Butt Klase, Amy Levan,
Clyde S. Shuman.

lin,

The

.

bert, first president of the class of

Gladys Ruhl

Class of 1906
class of the reunion,

communications

Robbins,

Edna A.

Bessie

Opperman.

back from California, fidorida. New
Maine and all parts of

Jersey,

MONTOUR HOTEL

Pennsylvania.

Coming

were Helen
Herring Grillitli and Myrtle Longenberger Messersmith and husband
Lillian
Mrs.
Irish,
Chauncey.
the farthest

teaching in

Camden, N.

been president

J.,

has

Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb.

'42

of the Philadelphia

Tin: AI.IIMNI

QUARTERLY

Cliiss of

1911

members

Forty-seven

with
thirty-one
1911,
enjoyed their forty-li\'e year
reunion dinner at
the Caldwell
C.'onsistory.
Table decorations of
white chrysanthemums with blue
class

of

jiiiests,

libbons, carried out the class colors

and white as did corsages
lor the ladies
and boutonnieres
for the men.
The flowers were
furnished by Harry Harper, Stuart,
Fla., whose mother, Mrs.
Pauline
of blue

S.

Harper,

is

a

member

the

of

They were arranged and
made up by Mrs. Fred Deihl, also

class.

a class

member.

Elna H. Nelson, class i)resident,
presided at the dinner and at the
informal get-together
afterward.
the
Greetings were brought
to
class from Dr. H. A. Andruss, president of the College and by Prof.
Sutliff, Miss Mary Cood, Maurice
Hauck and Prof, and Mrs. Jessie
Y.

Shambaugh, members
at “Old Nornud”

faculty

of

the

at

the

time the 1911 class attended.

Following

the

dinner

Prof.

Shambaugh called the class roll,
with each member present responding and bringing word of those
who are deceased. The class parthe full program of
activities on the campus Saturday.
PhilaAttending: Elmira G. Linne,
delphia; Irene Campbell Getty, Riverside; Anna Kline Kocher, Espy; Grace
F. Johnson, Northumberland; Elisabeth
A. White, Bloomsburg; Irene S. Ranck,
Lewisburg; Ethel Hower Fairchild, Elticipated

in

Louisa Hartman
CortRobright, Shickhinnyi Edna Lewi
inon, Underhill. R. D., Vermont; A. K.
Naugle, Roselle Park, N. J.; W. Homer
Englehart, Harrisburg;
Mrs. Howard
Frantz, Luzerne; Mrs. Franklin Brenner, Dallas; Mrs. Irma Naugle, Roselle
Park, N. J.; Mrs. R. S. Small, Drums;
George Ferris, Jr., Stratford, Conn.;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dornsife, Cressona; Pauline Coleman Stimpson, Honesdale; Mrs. Glenn Hasbrouck,
Clifford; Mrs. Jennie Tucke Williams, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Jennie Whitmire Helt,
Miss Ruth Harris, Berwick; Mrs. J. F.
Dennis. Kingston; Mrs. Fred
Diehl,
Danville; Pauline S. Harper, E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg; Elsie Winter Herrick,
Tunkhannoch; Mrs. Florence H. McLenan, Binghamton, N. Y.
mira,

N.

Y.;

The Secretary was authorized

195G

The afternoon meeting of the
was held in the Day Wdmen’s
Lounge at the College.
The Treasurer, Mrs. Pauline
Harper, read a number of letters
iccei\eil from
classmates when
class

they sent their contribution
for
Picunion expenses.
Among those
sending greetings were George F.
\\ ilner, Fudora W'alton
W'omelsdort, C.'lyde .Myers (now in Indonesia), Ruth Buhl, .May Gamble, Dr.
M. L. Hartman, Elvereta Miller,
Iris A\ery .\rmitage, Jacob Becker,
Lottie Spangler Loose and
Lillie
Sheard.
Dr. Nelson announced that he
had pledged for the Class of 1911,
the sum of
$50.(K)
toward the
Bakeless Fund.

The Secretary was authorized to
send a letter of appreciation
to
Harry Haiper for the beautiful
flowers he sent for our reunion
baiupiet.

The

following officers were rePresident, Dr. Elna
II.
Nelson; Treasurer, Pauline Sharpless
Harper;
Secretary,
Pearle
Fitch Diehl.
elected:

Envelopes were distributed

to

those present for contributions to
the Bakeless Fund and the Husky

Fund.
Contributions to the amount of
S104.00 were recei\ ed and divided
follows:

as

Husky

Fund, $32.50;

Bakeless Fund, $71.50.

The meeting adjourned
M.

to

meet

at

4

in 1961.

Respectfully submitted,
Pearle Fitch Diehl, Secretary

Class of 1916

P.

The 40th year reunion of the
Class of 1916 was held on Saturday, May 26, 1956, with 40 members present.
The alumni meeta
ing was attended and
later
luncheon
was held at Hotel

Magee.
The following were present: William
Thomas. Catherine M. Hagenbuch,
Pauline K. Williams, Helen S. Henrie,
Ray W. Leidick, Clara H. Hopkins. ElA.

sie

Kalerman, Eslie H. Roibison,
H. Myers, Nina Z. Frey, Blanche

B.

Emma
R.

Damon, Hazle W. Moore, Ruth

Marion
Dew, Marion W.
Gregory,

F.
L. Dobbs, Irene H.
Ball. Rachel C. Cap-

Ethel Searles, Margaret H.
Bernice B. Robbins, Cora G.
Hill,
Hilda W. Welliver, Victoria S.
O'Connel, Dr. V. J. Baluta, Margaret
B. Gaffney, Maxwell R. Noack, Mabel
Anthony Parsels, Z. Esther Bone, Sara
C. Young, Mary Siegel Tyson, Joanne
P. Lorenz, Jessie N. Jones, Valetta
K. Robinson.
H.

pello,

Potter,

Class of 1921
M., Saturday, May 26,
1956, the “thirty-fivers” or
those

At 10

P.

having graduated thirty-five years
ago from Bloomsburg Normal, revived old memories at a dinner
"held in the Moose home on West
Main street. Strange to say there

were exactly thirty-five in attendMyrlynn T. Shaffer, class

ance.

president, presided. The class roll
was called and each one present

responded with a brief resume of
achievements.
It
was
noted that nine of the large class
of one hundred
and fifty-eight
members, were deceased.
The committee planning the
successful reunion was made up of
Chloe McKinstry Cole, chairman;

his past

Mrylynn T. Shaffer, Mae MeShea
Kester, Hazle Ziegler, Edison T.
Fischer, Warren L. Fisher, Maree
E. Pensyl and Anna Garrison Scott.
Plans were made for a similar
reunion five years hence.
The following attended: Edith Blossom Hoffman, Hazleton; Mary Gilroy
Corgan,
Kingston;
Marion
Hobbes

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, '41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

to

send a letter of appreciation to Mr.
William Shellenberger for the delicious meal served. After a delightful evening, the group adjourned.
JULY,

meet at the General Alumni
meeting in the Ciollege
auditorium Saturday morning at 10 A. M.
and at 2 P. M. following the Alumni luncheon at B. S. T. C.
to

the

of

Rheinhart, Kingston;
Helen Phillips
White, Bloomsburg; Kline S. Wernert.
Lansford; Helen Welliver Girton, Sunbury; Helen Weiss Latowski, Nanticoke;
Catherine Gronko Wilski, Glen Lyon;
Ruth Koch, Hazleton; Ralph G. Shuman, Elizabethtown; Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Fisher, Bloomsburg; Anna Gar-

Harry W. Scott, BloomsMyrlynn T. Shaffex,
WilkesOda Behr, Lopez; Hazle Ziegler,
Bloomsburg; Maree E. Pensyl, Bloomsrison

Scott,

burg;
Barre;

burg; Pauline M. Johnson, York; Bertha
7

Billmeyer Zong, Milton; Mary E. Brower, Bloomsburg; Grace Griffiths, Plymouth; Lillian Nelson Yerkes, Honesdale; Angeline Evans Beavers, Scranton; Anna Swanberry, Alden
Station;

ton; Clarence R. Wolever, Mary G.
Wolever, Clarks Green; Helen M. Lake,
Clarks Summit; Mr. and Mrs. Orval
C. Palsgrove, Prospect Park; Dr. Har-

Mae McShea

B.

Kester, Danville; Lucille
Shaffer
Kile,
Orangeville;
Beatrice
Williams Eichner, Philadelphia; Edith
O'Neil Klinger, Stroudsburg;
Mildred
Downing Major, Trucksville; Mr. and
Mrs. T. Edison Fisher, Glen Lyon; Margaret Hines, Berwick; Ruth Kline Utt,
Millville.

Anna

Class of 1931
class of 1931 reported fifty

attendance
responding for
eral meeting.
eon at Hud’s

with James

Davis

the class at the genThere was a lunch-

Restaurant at noon
on Saturday. Guests of the class
were Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Washington, D. C., former
Dean of
Women, Dean Emeritus William
R. Sutliff, Prof, and Mrs. S. 1. Shortess and Mr. and Mrs. li. F. Fenstemaker.
The following were present at
the reunion:
Mrs. Paul Witheridge, Wyoming; Mrs.
Edgar Yale, Uniondale; Mrs. Jack Eble,
Jr., Bloomsburg; Mrs. Edward Smith,
Scranton; Mrs. Cyril P. Lewis, Scranton; Mrs. Alvin Fox, Berwick R. D. 1;
Miss Erma Kelchner, Shickshinny; Mrs.

Marcus Quick (Lois Hileman), Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. L.
A.
Paulson,
Glen Rock, N. J.; Mrs. LeRoy Creasy,
Bloomsburg;
Mrs.
Gerald
Gregory,
Binghamton, N. Y.; Elizabeth H. Hubler, Gordon, Pa.; Mrs. Tracy Van Buskirk, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. Kenneth
Edwards (Esther Kile),
Bloomsburg;
Earl H. VanDine, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Donald
E.
Bennett,
Millville;

Clara E. Fahringer, Williamsport; Mrs.
Harold
Swan,
Wilkes-Barre;
Mrs.
Howard Hartman, Catawissa; Minnie
Olschefsky, R. D. 1, Catawissa;
Miss
Emily A. Parks, Endicott, N. Y.; Mrs,

Sheldon A. MacDougall, R. D.
8

1,

Blythe

Kitchen,

Bloomsburg.

Class of 1936

The

of
1936 reported
twenty back for an enjoyed day.
class

Morith, Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J.;
Mrs. Mildred A. Ferry, Danville; Mrs.
alos,

There were around thirty back
for the reunion of the class of 1926.
Attending: Mrs. Louis Bernarde, Pittston; Marjorie L. Davey, Honesdale;
Mabel Davies Turner, Sheatown; Dorothy Friedman Rand, Luzerne;
Mrs.
Josephine Gavey Swithers, Glen Lyon;
Mrs. Pearle McCollum, Danville; Mrs.
Grace Harolos Carr, Kingston; Mrs.
Raymond Garinger, Harvey’s Lake;
Mrs. Lucille Henry Taylor, Dushore;
Mrs. Fannie Hilbert Roberts,
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. K. McHugh Nojaka,
Nanticoke; Mrs. Claude Miller, Shickshinny; Mrs. Alice Morgan Yaple, Dallas; Mrs. Donald J. Bennett. Shamokin;
Mrs. S. Rasmus Butka,
Glen Lyon;
Jessica C. Trimble, Jermyn, R. D.; Mrs.
Sophia Kozlowski, Glen Lyon.

The

Highspire; Florence

Attending: Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Karshner, Stroudsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Nich-

G. Scott, Secretary

Class of 1926

in

old H. Lanterman, Bloomsburg; James
Davis, Mechanicsburg; LaRue Derr,

Ben-

W.

Elmira Shaffer,

R.

D.,

Bloomsburg;

Frank A. Rompalo, Cumbola; Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel J. Jones, Millville, N. J.;
Mrs. Nora Bayliff Markunas, 1934; Elizabeth
Chalfoant
Patton,
Florence
Pratowski Timmes, Mt. Top; Mae Willis
Deitrich, Mechanicsburg;
land, Philadelphia; Mr.

R.

J.

Row-

and Mrs.

A.

David Mayer, Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Haasel, Morrisville; Robert
A. Welliver, Allentown.

Class of 1941
The class of 1941 had a number
back for the day, participating in
the festivities on the campus and
then concluding with a dinner at
the Legion on Saturday evening.
Attending: Isabelle
Olah Horwath,
Harrisburg; Ruth H. Schield, Taylor;
Florence
Traub
Matijas,
Hanover
Green; Howard Tomlinson, Sara Masteller Tomlinson, Westfield, N. J.; John
Lavelle, Ashland; Herbert E. Schneider, Florabelle S. Schnieder, Apollo;

E.

Mildred Johnson Karshner,
Stroudsburg; Reber R. Fisher,
Bloomsburg;
Lois
Fullmer Metzger,
Allentown;
Helen Johnson
Scammell,
Yardley;
Clark R. Renninger, Catherine Oplinger
Renninger, Arlington, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Miller, Williamsport; Clark Renninger, Arlington, Va.;
Mr. and Mrs. Max Arcus, Bloomsburg;
Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Warhurst, Bloomsburg; C. F. Metzger, Allentown; George
Horvath, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mtrs.
James H. Deily, Jr., Millersville; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Robbins, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Leo J.
Lehman,
Baltimore, Md.; Howard Tomlinson,
Westfield. N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Taylor, Mifflinville; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sharretts, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Dobb, Milton; Julia
C.
Hagenbuch, Danville R. D. 1; Mr. and
Mrs. G. Lawrence Brown, Apollo; Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Chismar, Mrs. Reber
R. Fisher, Bloomsburg; Jerry
Russin,

Class of 1946

There were around a dozen back
for the reunion of the

ten-years

class.

Attending: Mrs. Violet Weller Owens,
Turbotville R. D. 1; Miss Mary Schroeder, Easton; Frank Applegate, Marilyn
and Michael Applegate, Manasquan, N.
J.; Mrs. Eltheda Klingerman, Bloomsburg.

Class of 1951

The

of 1951, youngest in
reunion, reported ten back
and
confined its program to the camDaniel Kressler Jr. respondpus.
ed for the call at the general meetclass

ing.

ALUMNI FUND
CONTRIBUTION SINCE

MAY

20, 1956
Class of 1896

Fund

Bakeless

— Charles

I.

Boyer.

Class of 1905
Albert Fund Blanche Miller Grimes.

—

Class of 1906

Albert
join.

Fund

Class

—Anna

Owens

Brimi-

Grace

Frantz,

Collection,

Mary Butt
Lillian Hortman Irish],
C.
Klase, Edna O. Opperman, Clara
Roselle.
$19.00 designated for Husky Fund.
This is the class of which Bruce Albert was President.
Class of 1907

Bakeless Fund

—Pearl

Anstock Holt.

Class of 1910

Bakeless Fund

—Bertha

M. Brobst.

Class of 1911

—Clara

Bakeless Fund

Warden Bren-

ner, Pearl Fitch Diehl, Mae Chamberlain Dornsife, Homer Englehart, Ethel
Hower Fairchild. George Ferrio, Jr.,

Annette Osborne Frantz, Irene Campbell Getty, Pauline Sharpless Harper,
Ruth Harris, Ruth Reynolds Hasbrook,
Winter
Jennie Whitmire Helt, Elsie
Herrick, Grace Johnson, Hazel D. Kester, Anna Kline Kocher, Florence Morgan McLenan, A. K. Naugle, Erma
Miller Naugle, E. H. Nelson, Irene Snyder Ranck, Irene Heinbach Reinhart,
Jennie Barklie Small, Pauline Coleman
Jennie
White,
Elisabeth
Stimpson,
Tucker Williams, Margaret Simmons
Yost.
$32.50 designated for

Husky Fund.

Class of 1915

Plains.

Fund— Josephine Duy

Bakeless

Hut-

chison.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE 1868
William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

Class of 1916

—

Fund Rachel
Bakeless
Frank S. Hutchison.

Capello,

Class of 1929

Bakcless

Fund— Elsie Lebo

Stauffer.

Class of 1931
Bakcless Fund Mrs. Esther H. Yale.

—

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

CHILLING BREEZKS GREET
BSTC MAY DAY REVIVAL
In spite of cliilling breezes

a

temperamental

a

sim,

ami

record

crowd turned out on Wednesday,

May 9, for the Teachers College
May Day festival, revived after a
Close to
lapse of several years.
300 BSTC students and children

Benjamin Franklin School
participated in the coloHnl affair
on the college campus.
of the

Miss Joan Christie,

ix'tite

t'ol-

Shenandoah,
from
senior
lege
Miss
reigned over the festivities.
Patricia O’Brien, Bloomshurg, and
Bowman, Berwick,
Miss Wylla
were among her attendants. Other
coed members of the court were
Judy Stephens, Barbara Bennett,
Valente,
Dorie Krzywicki, Tina
Joanne Hester and Jean Zimmerman.

As a prelude to the coronation,
the college band directed by Nelson Miller, presented a concert

which included 'The Golden Eagle
March;” three sketches, "Hayride,”
“Spiritual”
and “Barn Dance,”
Morrissey; 'Trumpet Tune,” PurBeautiful
Day,” Hilcel; “One
dreth; “Skyline,”

the

Morrissey,

and

Alma Mater.

Ann Graham, Susan
Housenick, Susan Powlus, Suzanne

nie Wolf,

Sandy Parks,

Peters,

Sally

DeWaid and Ann

Klein,
Hinkel.

Crown bearers were John Martin
and Edward John. Carrying the
queen’s train were Edward Diehl,
Tommy Warr, Larry Miller, Billy
Tony

Miller,

“Yankee
fifth
and
si.xth grade students sang ‘The Ash
Grove,” “The
Night
Herding
Song” and “Swing Low Sweet
presented

a

Doodle” number and

College

women

took

part

in

"Snow Storm,” a special costume<l
dance number, which was followed by a hilarious barefoot Ozark
dance routine by college men to
“The .\rkansas Traveler.”
dance presentaperformed
the “Farandole” and an old French
number; the third grade took part
ill
"The Lady .Anne,” a Spanish.\merican dance routine, and the
second grade, in costume, presented a square dance to “Old Snzana

In

series

tions, fourth

Frazier,

Close, Larry Danner,

Tommy

Roddy Sch-

of

graders

na.”

student council.
A kaleidoscope of scenes typical
of summer which were staged by
college students were well done
and occasioned much laughter

from the audience.
JULY,

1956

MEET AT

B.S.T.C.

More than 160 college
who will enter classrooms

seniors,
as tea-

Future Teacher Conference at tlie
Bloomsburg State Teachers (College on Thursday, April 26. The
conference, sponsored by the Department of Classroom Teachers of
the Pennsylvania State Education
Association,
emphasized
“Yonr
Future in Teaching.” Student and
acuity representatives from Wil1

kes College, King’s College, Misericordia College and East Strou-

dsburg

State Teachers
College
joined the 1956 graduating class to

hear and discuss various

aspects

of teaching.

To the tune of “Greensleeves,”
200 college women perfoimed an
original dance created and taught
by Linda Firmstone and Sue OsThe

born.
of the
of the

finale

and

highlight

May fete was the winding
May pole by both the child-

and coeds.
Lucy McCammon, who directed the show, was assisted by
faculty members.
Mrs. Dorothy
Evans provided piano accompaniren

-Miss

Dr. Thomas B. Martin, Director
Business
Education at
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers GolIcge, was one
of
the featured
speakers at the amiual convention
of the Eastern Div'ision
the
of
Pennsylvania Business Education
Association on Saturday, April 28.
Dr. Martin spoke to the section on
General Business. His topic was
“Basic Business— Business
Education’s Contribution to General Edof

ucation.”

The conference was held in the
Central Bucks High School in Doylestown, Pa.

leicher.

Presiding at the coronation was
Robert Evans, president of the

FUTURE TEACHERS

chers in September, 1956, attended the annual Classroom Teacher

C.'hariot.”

ment.

Senior women carrying the ivy
chain and a procession of training
the
preceded
school
children
queen and her attendants who
were beautifully attired in pastel
gowns and carried arm boiu[uets
of spring flowers.
Acting as flower girls were Con-

Sally

children

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

INSURANCE

16

A

general session began at 9:45
Hall Auditorium.
Platform guests were John A.
Hoch, Dean of Instruction at the
college; Kathryn W. Tyson, Jersey
Shore, President of the State Department of Classroom Teachers,
and T. Stuart Williams, Luzerne,
President of the Northeastern Convention District of the P. S. E. A.
Herbert P. Lauterbach, Assistant
Executive Secretary, P. S. F. A.,
Harrisburg, addressed the
group
on the conference theme, “Your
Future in Teaching.”
During the remainder of the
general session. Max G.
Cooley,
Sayre, President of the Classroom
Teachers Department in the N. E.
district, acted as moderator for a
panel discussion of the Function
of P. S. E. A. committees.
Panel
members included: Dr. Eugene
Hammer, Professor of Education,
College;
Miltona
Wilkes
Mrs.
and
Klinetob, Plymouth, teacher
former president of the
group;
Harold Koch, Hazleton; PI. Claude
Readly, Shamokin; Robert A. Rosenkrance. West Reading; H. AusSayre and Thomas
tin Snyder,
Both Mr.
Watkins, Coopersburg.
Cooley and Mrs. Klinetob have
been instrumental in planning and
arranging the conference.

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KEYS GO TO 15 OF COLLEGE
CLASS OF 1956

Sunbury; Charles Kwiatkoski, Plymouth; Michael Lashendock, KaisCharles Skiptunas, Kingston
and Keith Weiser, Kane.
Three seniors received awards
for four or more semesters of service to the Maroon and Gold Band.
Dr. Andruss presented the awards
to Joan Raab,
Columbia; Larry
Fiber, Sayreville, N. J., and Eleanor Nichols, Philadelphia.
A special award was given by
Dr. Andruss to Bill Bitner in recognition of his efforts in keeping
and compiling statistics and doing
er;

Fifteen members of the class of
1956 of the Teachers College were
presented service keys at the an-

Honor Assembly held in CarThe keys are
awarded each year “for service to
nual

ver Auditorium.

the college” to the ten percent of
the Senior Class who have accum-

ulated

a

minimum

of

twenty

points.

Andruss
A.
President Harvey
presented keys to the followmg
persons: William Bitner, Lemoyne;
Wylla Mae Bowman, Berwick;
Joan Christie, Shenandoah; Marion
Duricko, Scranton;
Robert
Evans, Shamokin; Joanne Hester,
Higgins,
Watsontown;
Thomas
Sunbury; Mary Hoffecker, Yeadon;
Bertha Knouse, Bloomsburg; Joseph Harrison Morson, Jr., Bryn
Mawr; Muriel Neilson, Shavertown; James Nicholas, Edwardsville; Charlotte Rummage, Milton;
Edward Riscoe, Forest City and
Martha Starvatow, Berwick.
Preceding the presentation
of
servxice keys, the highest awards
made by the college to its students.
Dr.
Andruss presented “Who’s
Who” certificates to twelve seniors.
Nomination to this group entitles
the name and college activities of
the
the student to be printed in
annual publication “Who’s Who
Among Students in American Col-

and Universities.”
Those receiving certificates were
William Bitner, Lemoyne; Wylla
Mae Bowman, Berwick; Joan
Shenandoah;
Robert
Christie,
Evans, Shamokin; Patricia Hartman Eyer, Bloomsburg; Joanne
Hester, Watsontown; Thomas Hig-

leges

Bertha
Knouse,
Sunbury;
Kr/ywicki,
Bloomsburg;
Doris
Morson,
Plymouth; J.
Harrison
Siscoe,
Jr., Bryn Mawr; Edward
gins,

Forest City and Martha Starvatow,
Berwick.
Lifetime passes to college athletic events, given for four years of
participation

in

a

varsity

sport,

were presented by Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of the Alumni AsBrowning, ol
sociation to James
Mechanicsburg; Robert Groover,
I'homas Higgins,
Watsontown;
10

publicity
teams.

work

Husky

for

athletic

William Bitner, Lemoyne, president of the Senior Class, presided
at the assembly.
Howard Fenstemaker was at the console during

Alma Mater and
Nelson Miller directed

the processional,
recessional.

the singing of the

Alma Mater.

Bloomsburg State Teachers ColWilliam Kautz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank J. Kautz, 2512 Jefferson St., Harrisburg, was elected
president of the Community Government Association. Kautz, who
will be a senior in September, is
lege,

enrolled in the secondary educaAs president of
the C. G. A., Kautz will provide
leadership and representation for
more than a thousand students
and faculty members at the colfor
lege, and will be responsible
pre.siding at meetings of the College Council.
Elected to serve with Kautz
were: vice president, Luther NatPhoenixville;
St.,
ter, 136 Main

tion curriculum.

Nancy

Suwal.ski,

The “Plain and Fancy” m new
summer fashions was the theme of
Tenth Annual Fashion Show'
by students of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Friday, May 4.
Charles
the

presented

H. Henrie, faculty advisor for the
annual event, had extended an invitation to the public
to
attend
either the matinee or evening performances to be held in Car\er
Auditorium.
Fashions were highlighted. by a
unique setting w'hich contrasted
the sleek simplicity of modern li\ ing with the regal orateness of the
Vietorian era.
Fourteen students were selected

Freshmen
women, who were appearing in

as models, including six

the popular affair for

This group w'as

time.

the

first

selected

recess.

In a recent election held at the

529

Wilkes-Barre;
Avenue,
treasurer, Paul Anderson, 323 Myrtle Ave., Cheltenham, and a.ssistant
treasurer, James Long, 104 Bready
Road, Hatboro.

Fellows

FASHION SHOW

from a large number of candidates
Easter
several weeks before the

ELECTION HELD

secretary,

1956

The following

participated

as

Joan Rieder, Scranton;
Philadelphia;
Bobbi
Roadside,
Marta Dimon, Hatboro; Carol Ely,
Hughesville; Bette Gibson, Shenandoah; Mary Grace, Stroudsburg;
and Mary Heatley, Shamokin.
Those appearing for the first time
were Mary Jane Barnisky, Tamaejua; Joan Dalton, Danville; Nancy
Sandra
Herman, Williamsport;
Pe^gg>’
Lewis, Huntington Mills;
Marcia
Pahnerton;
Markovci,
Suzanne Young,
Storm, Easton;
Sunbury.
Joan Christie, Shenandoah and
Judy Ulmer, Williamsport, sened
as Fashion Coordinators. Joan was
repeating iir this importairt capacity w'hile Judy handled an assignment as chairman of the Store Comodels:

oi'dinators last year.

The

latter job

was taken care of this year
Marion Duricko, Scranton.

JOSEPH

C.

by

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.

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ASSOCIATION

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone STerling 4-1677
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J.

C. Conner, '34

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Faculty

Members

Mrs. Lucille J. Baker, Mrs. Anna
G. Scott ami Miss Grace Woolworth
who retired from the
State
faculty of the Blooinshnrg
Teachers Gollege at the end of the
current semester and Miss Margaret Waldron who retired in JanuBSTCJ
ary were honored By the
faculty Association at a dinner
held Thursday evening, April 26,
at the Elks.
Prof.

Howard

F.

Fenstemaker on

behalf of the association presentml
gifts to each of the guests of honor.
Mrs. Scott, -Mrs. Baker and
iss Woolworth are assistant professors in education and members
of the Benjamin Franklin
laboratory school and ha\ e ser\ ed twenty-five years or
more in that

M

school.

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller has been
chosen president of the association; Dr. John Serff, vice president;
Miss
Mary Kramer, secretarytreasurer and Dr. llalph S. Herre
and Dr. E. Paul W'agner members
committee for
of the executive
the

coming

year,

it

was announced

during the session.

MISS

GRACE WOOLWORTH

Miss Grace H. W'oolworth, Assistant Professor of

and

state.

A

keen interest

in learn-

kindergarten
ing
more
about
teaching earned her a Kindergarten-Primary Supervisor’s Certificate and a Ph.B. degree at the University of Chicago; she completed

JULY,

1956

Retire
her undergraduate work
University of California at
Berkeley. During her teaching career, she c'ontimux.l her professional training at Columbia University,
and was awarded the Master of
of

part

at the

.Arts

degree from that

-Miss

institution.

Woolworth began her work

as a kindergarten teacher in

Min-

den, Nebraska, teaching at the University of Omaha, Nelnaska, she
joined the faculty of the State
Teachers
College
at
Bowling
Cireen, Ohio, as a college teacher
and kindergarten-training teacher.

Her

service

versity.

For several years, prior

the

to

time she joined the college faculty, Mrs. Scott taught in the public
.schools
of
both
Berwick and

A

Bloomsburg.
the Business

member

past

of

and Professional Wo-

men’s

Organization,

tained

membership

she

has rethe American Association of University Women and in national, state, and loin

education associations.

cal

.Mrs.

Scott

specific plans

announced no

has

for the future, but

{'ducation at the
College, Ypsilanti,
Michigan, preceded a summer position at the College for Women,

she has indicated there are many
activities in
which she is inter-

Greensboro, North Carolina. During the fall of that year, she joined
the staff at Bloomsburg.

MRS. LUCILLE

State

to

Normal

For a number of summers. Miss

Woolworth has managed a camp
in the Rocky Mountains at Estes
Park, Colorado. Her current plans
indicate that she will continue this
work when she leaves Bloomsburg.
In past years, she has traveled to
various parts of the United States

and Canada, and
on her current

travel ranks high

list

of plans for the

future.

Education and

kindergarten teacher in the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, retired at the end of the
current
semester.
Miss Woolworth’s
retirement
terminated
more than three decades
of
teaching in public schools and colleges in various parts of the nation,
including twenty-five years of service to the local institution.
In addition to serving as Kindegarten
teacher. Miss Woolworth has been
teaching classes in the College.
A native of Kearney, Nebraska,
Miss Woolworth began her education in the public schools and State
Normal School in that community

and Master of Arts degrees in Education and a diploma
in
elementary
supervision
at
Teachers College, Columbia Uniof Science

MRS.

ANNA

G.

SCOTT

A

teaching career of more than
thirty years was climaxed in May
with the retirement of Mrs. Anna
G. Scott, Assistant Professor of Education and fourth grade in the
Benjamin
Franklin
Laboratory
School at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Mrs. Scott has
served for three decades as a member of the college laboratory school
staff.

A

native of the local communMrs. Scott was educated in
Bloomsburg’s public schools, and
began her preparation for teaching
at the State Nonnal School.
Mrs.
Scott spent several summers at
Columbia University, majoring in
history, before she decided to mold
her career in elementary education.
As a result of her labors in
that field, she earned the Bachelor
ity,

ested.

The
Lucille

J.

retirement, in

Johnstone

BAKER
May,

of Mrs.

Baker,

Assist-

ant

Professor of Education and
Grade I teacher in the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College,
has
been announced.
During her thirty years on the
campus, Mrs. Baker taught children in grades I, II, and HI, demonstrated class-room procedures,
supervised student teachers, and
taught college classes which were
part of the summer work-shop.
Prior to her service at the local
Baker spent a number of years as a kindergarten
teachers in Telluride, Colorado;
critic teacher at the Tri-State College in Angola, Indiana; and Grade
college, Mrs.

V

supervisor at the Dillon Exten-

sion of the University of

Montana.

Although she has spent the past
thirty years in the Keystone State,
Mrs. Baker was born in Colorado
and attended elementary and secondary schools in Telluride, Colorado.
Western State College at
Gunnison, Colorado, awarded her
the Bachelor of Education degree;
in addition, she received a Bachelor of Music degree from Tri-State
College, and a Master of Education degree from Teachers College,
Columbia University.
Mrs.
friends

Baker,

like

many

of

and colleagues, enjoy

her
trav11

BEGINS NEW DUTIES
H. Edmond Smith, Bloomsburg

AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS

native and son of Mrs. T. L. Smith,

Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwere awarded scholarships
and grants during a weekly assembly program in Carver Audi-

of Light Street

Road, superintend-

ent of schools at Palmyra, N.

has been elected

new

J.,

associate su-

jjerintendent for Parkland School

Allentown.
begin his duties August 1.

District, near

He

will

Smith is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and has a bachelor of science degree in education
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, and a master’s degree
from Temple University. He has
10 hours of work toward his doctorate at

Columbia University.
the Bucks county

He was was
schools before

gomg

Palmyra.

to

He

started his teaching career at
Higli
Falls
Townsliip
School,
Bucks county, became principal of

Twenty-four students

of

Pottstown; John Rogus, Hazleton;
the

lege

torium held in April.
A total of
twelve hundred fifty dollars was
presented to tlie students, the largest group to receive
the awards
since the funds were made available a number of years ago. Dr.

Kimber

C. Kuster, chairman of the
Faculty Committee on Scholarships and Grairts, briefly described
the nature and source of the funds,
and introduced the individuals
who made the awards.
The
awards, when added to the eight
hundred dollars presented to fifteeir students in December, 1955,
brings this year’s total to
more

than two tliousand dollars.

Wood, Mechanicsburg;
Mary Joan Koch, West Hazleton.

Kenneth

the
In addition to Dr. Kuster,
Faculty Committee includes John
A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction; Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;
Jack W. Yohe, Dean of Men; Miss

Mary Macdonald, Dean

of

Day

Women.

COMMERCIAL CONTEST
The Twenty-Third Annual

Busi-

ness Education Contest was held
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College on Saturday, May 5. Dr.
Thomas B. Martin, Director of
Contest
Business Education and
Manager, announced that the 224
high
students, representing 49
schools, was the largest number
ever involved in the event. Students

competed

Bookkeeping,

in

School District, Bucks county, and
left that post to be supervising
principal of the Pfigli Bridge, N. J.,
schols.
He has been at Palmyra

Saundra McBride,
Williamsport,
and the Rev. James M. Singer, pastor of the Bloomsburg
Lutheran
Church,
presented
F.
Charles
Dye, Turbotville, the Lutheran

Business Arithmetic, Business Law,
Shorthand and Typewriting, with
the largest number of entrants registered in the latter two subjects.
Sixteen companies had book and
machine exhibits in Navy Hall Auditorium, and high school and college students and their instructors
were invited to see the latest materials available for use in this kind

since 1952.

Student

of

the high school, then supervising
principal of the district.

Mrs. Cecil Seronsy, president of
the American Association of Uni-

He left Falls township to be administrative assistant to the supervising
principal
of
Pennsbury

versity Women, presented that organization’s Scholarship Award to

Parkland School Board selected
Smith from 23 candidates. Memboard, after initial
screening on the basis of education, experience and recommendations, cut the number of applicants
six
who were interviewed.
to
bers

of

the

Smith was chosen because of his
background, both education-wise
and from the standiDoint of experience and general knowledge. Besides teaching school and acting as
has
a school administrator, he
worked in both business and industry.
.sports,

His

interests

include

vocational training and oth-

er phases of

community

life.

Scholarship.
Association
Carl Shively, Sunbury, was the recipient of the Day Men’s Association Scholarship, which was presented by Donald Beck, Berwick.

Edward

Bloomsburg
Sharretts, a
alumnus and president of the
Bloomsburg Jaycees, gave the Jay-

Woodrow

to
cee Scholarship
Rhoads, Boyertown.

Mr. Horace Williams, manager
the College Community Store,
rc'-presenting
awards,
presented
profits from the Community Store,
Boyer,
to the following: Willard
of

Chaump,

Hughe.sville;

George

West

Larry Fisher, Trev-

Pittston;

orton; John Oustrich, Taylor;
1'ier,

Croydon; Paul

Irzinski,

Mary
Wil-

kes-Barre; Leonard Kozick, Dallas;

and new experiences. She
has toured parts of Europe, and
plans to move west this summer to
accept another tcacliiug position
and live near her daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laubscher and son who reside at 1256
cling

East High Street, Wliittier, Calif.
I2

Roberta Bowen, Athens; Bernice
Dietz, Klingerstown; Ronald Fox,
Sunbury; I^uil Spahr, Collingdale;
Frances
Joan Yohu, Seliusgrove;
Kermit McMyers, Nicholson;
Means, Johnstown; Joseph (aiwihern, Shamokin; Rose Marie CoulCroydon; Earl Levengood,
ter,

work and

study.

Miss Laureen A. Rees, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rees,
of
Nanticoke, became the bride
Murray D. Watts, Berwick, in a
of

ceremony peiformed recently

in

Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Harrisburg, by the Rev. Joseph G.
Kane, minister. The bride graduated from Nanticoke High School

and BSTC and

is

a teacher in the

elementary deparhnent of the Berwick schools. Her husband was
Canton High
from
graduated
School,

Temple

and

University

Pennsylvania State University.
is

a

member

of the

Benvick

He

High

He served with
School faculty.
World War
during
Army
S.
the U.
II.

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

MSITATION DAY
More than 220 high school
iors

accepted an invitation

sen-

to

Hlooinshurg State
College on Saturday,
The Oscar Hugh HakeApril 21.
less C'hapter ot the Future Teachers

at the

America

of

at

the

F.T..\.

ficiers of the

president.

()f-

at

anniversary of

McAllister’s Restaurant.

During

the

years

txventy-five

many graduates have been members. The late Mrs. Norman Cool
was the organizer
president.

organization arrang-

ed a program which began with

txventy-fifth

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Alumni of the Philadelphia
Area xvas obserxed at a Silver jidjilee Dinner Meeting on April 28th
die

Teaclu'rs

College sponsored the program
and acted as hosts to the visiting
Thomas J. Higgins, Snnseniors.
hury, was

The

at-

tend the anmial (aiinpns \’isitation

Day held
Teachers

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF PIIILADELPIA
B.S.T.C.

Miss

Kathryn

and dexoted

first

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
A combination dinner and reorganization meeting of the Luzerne
County Chapter of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association was held Saturday,
April 7 at the Kingston House. Officers elected were: President, Tom
Jenkins,
Shavertoxvii;
first
vice
president, Jerry
Russin,
Plains;
second vice president, Mrs. Agnes
Silvauy, Wilkes-Barre; recording
Ken

secretary,

Kirk,

West Wyom-

ing; treasurer, Mrs. Betty Hensley,

Spencer,

’18,

of

Norristoxvn, president, xvelcomed
the group and introduced O. C.

Wilkes-Barre.

Waller Hall Lounge. At 9:45 .\. M.
group went to Carxer Hall
.\uditorium to hear Dr. Harvey .\.
Andruss, president of the college,

Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Andruss
and Dr. E. H. Nelson from the Col-

and

Mrs. Schilling, chairman of the
introduced
Madge
Miss
Felker of Forty Fort who offered
the invocation. Dr. E. H. Nelson,
president of the alumni board of
directors,
welcomed the grouj)

lege, xvere present for the celebra-

xvhich

legistration

at

9:00 A.

M.

in

the

the

to see a film depicting scenes

of the college
actixities.

in.struction,

campus and college

John .\. Hoch, dean of
gave a commentary

during the shoxving oi the film. A
panel of five students discussed
various aspects of college

cluding

e.xtra-curricular

life,

in-

activities

men and xvomen and xarious
items of clothing and equipment
that college freshmen xvoidd need
The
to begin their college career.
panel consisted of Mary Grace,
Beeson,
\’aletta
Stroudsburg;
Glenside; Marcia Storm, Easton;
Allen Nuss, Fottsville; Philip Waldron, Upper Darby.
for

Members xvho participated in a
recent all-college talent shoxv presented a half-honr x ariety shoxv at
11:00 A. M., and this program xvas
folloxved by a sight-seeing tour of
the campus and dormitories. The
group had lunch in the college dining room at 12:15 P. M., and toured the speech and hearing clinic
at Noetling Hall at 1:(K) P. M. The
visiting seniors concluded their x isit to the campus as guests of the
at the baseball game on
Olympus betxveen the Blooms-

college

Mt.

burg Huskies and the Bald Eagles
of Lock Haven State Teachers College at 2:00 P.

M.

The annual Visitation Day began some years ago in response to
requests by high school students,
parents, and teachers, who
felt that a preview of college life
and activities would be helpful to
their

JULY,

1956

Palsgroxe

,’31,

xxho

presided

as

toastmaster.

tion.

Dr. Andruss and Dr. Nelson
brought greetings and spoke of
('ollege

news and

activities.

Esther Dagnell, ’34, treasurer, read several communications
from persons xvho xvere not able to
be present but sent greetings and
-Miss

best

xx’ishes.

Among members

attending xvere

Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish, of Camden, N. ]., Honorary President and
enthusiastic and faithful xvorker,
xvho planned to attend her fiftieth
reunion this year.

The association presented a gift
money to the Student Loan
Fund in loxdng memory of Mrs.
Mary A. Taubel, for many years

of

an interested and loyal member.
The exening xvas an enjoyable

one xvith renewing friendships or
making nexv ones.

The

Philadelphia

Association

resume regular monthly luncheon meetings in October. These
catherings are held the second Saturday of each month, beginning at
12:30 at Gimbel’s Store Club Woxvill

men’s Center, sixth floor. Any
terested persons are invited to

in-

alfair,

numhered approximately 40
and urged them to make this “an
active, growing organization once
again.”

The retiring president, Elfed
y. Jones, of Espy,
formerly of
Wilkes-Barre, introduced
guests
•from the college; John Hoch, dean
of Instruction and H. F. Fensteinaker, faculty member who has
completed

his 30th year of teaching at B.S.T.C.
It was reported
enrollment for the coming term is
already closed with 1,050 accepted.
There is a waiting list of 200.

George McCutchen of Truckswas chairman of the nomin-

x'ille,

ating committee.

The following alumni were elected to the executive board: Tom
Reed, Kingston; Edison Fisher,
Glen Lyon; Charles Hensley, Wilkes-Barre; Willard Davies,

Forty

Ada Wehenmeyer, Elizabeth
Pugh and Edna Aurand, WilkesI’ort;

Barre.

Assisting the chairman on
Madge Felker,

arrangements were:

Ken

Kirk,

George McCutchen and

Mrs. Ruth Griffith, Wilkes-Barre;
Ruth Gillman, Mountain Top and
Russel Hons, Shavertown.

at-

tend.
J.

prospective college entrants. The
program has met with an enthusiastic reception by those who have
visited the campus in the past

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg ISl-M

252

years.
l.S

Parsed, Orangeville, Charles CasFleming, and Bob Boyle,
Scranton, put games “on ice” for
the Huskies.

ATHLETICS
BASEBALL

per,

1956

An undefeated

record of baseball activity in State Teaehers College Conference eoinxretition was
completed May 17 when the
Blootnsburg State Teaehers College Huskies defeated the Bald
Eagles of Lock Haven. The charges of Coaeh E. Paul Wagner have
an over-all season tally of eight
wins and one defeat, and a conference record of six wins and no loss-

Their closest rival

es.

is

Indiana

State Teachers which has a 4-2 log
in conference competition.

Wagner predicted early in the
season that his mound staff would
make a good showing, barring injuries or poor support at the plate,
and those predietions have stodd
the test.
Sophomore John Huda,
Factoryville,
heads the mound
crew with an impressive 4-0 total;
Huda racked up an enviable number of strike-outs, and posted a nohitter in winning the four games
against Lock Haven, Millersville,
West Chester, and Kutztown. Jim
Starr, Williamsport, defeated Ly-

coming College and Lock Haven,
while Charles

Kwiatkoski, senior
from Plymouth, compiled a 1-1
record.
Carroll Beichart, Light
Street freshman, beat Wilkes College for the other victory. Bill
Freed, sophomore from Pottsville,

Bob

from Old
junior
and Jim Joy, sophomore
from Bloomsburg, provided some
fine relief hurling to wrap up vicStarr
tories on several occasions.
and Kwiatkoski were the only seniors on the team.
DiPipi,

P'orge,

Team

statistics reveal that

Wag-

were not idle at the
plate.
While the Maroon and
Cold pitehers were limiting the opner’s charges

position to twenty nnis, the
lers

for

sixty-five

runs.

Spear-

was Joe PenBeaver Meadows, who batted

I’.eading the
dal,

Husky

was battering enemy hnr-

line-up

b(“tter

attack

than .500 most of the seafirst
with the Huskies.

John Koeh, Harrisburg, and Paul
Lititz, both seniors, served as student managers for the

Peiffer,

team.

by i^at Denoy, Mocaiuuina, Jonah Coobic, Hudson,
Ed Shnstack, Shenandoah, Ceorge
14

hitting

—

S.

S.

S.

BASKETBALL
1956

Saturday, December

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

The

Pluskies

of

Bloomsburg

Teaehers
College,
1955
Teaehers College Conference gridiron champs, will open the 1956
campaign with games on three
consecutive weekends on colorful
Mt. Olympus, it was announced by
Jack W. Yohe, Director of Ath-

Yohe added

letics.

that the

re-

maining four contests of tlie seven
game schedule will be played on
fields designated by the opponents.
Mansfield’s
Mountaineers
will
climax the Huskies’ home
stand at the annual Homecoming
Day on Saturday, October 13.
Three clianges were made for the
coming season: Delaware State has
been added for the next two yars,
Shippensburg State Teachers College has resumed gridiron meetings with the Huskies, and Lock
Plaven has been dropped this year
because of scheduling difficulties.
The Bald Eagles, however, have
already been added to the Bloomsburg schedule for the opening
game of tlie 1957 season, which
means that the Huskies will return to an eight-game setup in
1957, with four games at home

and an
In

Yohe

game

eipial

addition

munber away.
to

the

fall

sport,

announced a seventeen
lineup for Coach Harold

also

The
basketball charges.
only change in the court setui) is
the substitution of Shippensburg
for Wilkes College on the Husky
Coach Walter Blair’s
calendar.
grapples face eight opponents in
their next campaign, with Lycoming College replacing Wilkes College on the mat schedule.
Listed below are the schedules
lor the 1956-57 eollege year.

Shelly’s

FOOTBALL
Saturday, September 29
State College (Dover, Del.)

Saturday, October

C.

— Home.

6

—

—Shippensburg
S.

S.

S.

S.

S.

S.

S.

1

—Away.
Conference Games.

WRESTLING
Saturday, January 12
Military College— Away.

Wednesday. January

—

College Home.
Saturday, January 19

Delaware

—^Home.

—Pennsylvania

16

— Lycoming

—Millersville

S.

—Home.
Wednesday, January 31 —Lock Haven
S.T.C. — Away.
Wednesday, February 6 — E. Stroudsburg S.T.C. —Away.
Saturday, February 9— Indiana S.T.C.
—Home.
—

T. C.

Wednesday,

—

February

University ^Home.
Saturday, February 16
S.T.C.

—Away.

13

— West

Lincoln

Chester

23— S.T.C.

Saturday, February 22
Wrestling Champion-

HARRY

S.

Friday

and

and

ships.

REAL ESTATE
52

— Cortland

1

—Away.
Wednesday, December 5—King’s College —Away.
Saturday, December 8—Kutztown
T. C. —Home.
Wednesday, December 12 — Cheyney
T.C. — Away.
Wednesday, January 9—Cheyney S.T.
C. —^Home.
Wednesday, January 16—Kutztown
T. C. —Away.
Saturday, January 19 — Mansfield S.T.
C. — Away.
Wednesday, January 30 — Millersville
S.T.C.—Home.
Saturday, February 2 — Lycoming College—Home.
Wednesday, February 6 — Shippensburg S.T.C. —Home.
Saturday, February 9 — Lycoming College—'Away.
Thursday, February 14 — Lock Haven
T.C. —Home.
Saturday, February 16 — King’s College— Home.
Friday, February 22 —Millersville
T. C. —^Away.
Saturday, February 23 —Mansfield
T.C. — Home.
Monday, February 25 —Lock Haven
T.C. — Away.
Friday, March — West Chester S.T.C.
S. T.C.

State

son— his
Timely

—
—
T.C. — Away.
Saturday, October 27 —King’s College
—^Away (Night).
Saturday, November 3 —California
T. C. —Away.
Friday, November 9—West Chester
T.C. — Away (Night).
Saturday, October 13 Mansfield S.T.
^Home (Homecoming).
Saturday, October 20 Shippensburg

C.

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

S. T.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FOOTBALL SQUAD

1955

BECE1\'E

Michael Lashendock, Keiser.

James Browning, Mechanicaburg.

AWARDS

Robert Groover, Watsontown.
Senior Manager

Thomas Higgins

Members

1955 football
of the HloomsI)urg State
s(iuacl
Teachers College received awards
and special recognition in an as-

sembly

ol

the

Ciarver

in

Anditoriinn.

Coach Jack W. Yohe praised team
members for the fine cooperati\e
and competitive spirit demonstra-

—

Siinbury.

GOLD FOOTBALL
Harry Hughes. Williamsport.
Frank Kaminski, Johnson City, N. Y.
Joseph Kwak, Wilkes-Barre.
Harvey Boughner, Trevorton.
Robert Stroup, Johnstown.
Dick Strine, Milton.
Robert Rainey. Tohnstown.

ted in their successful bid for the

SWEATER

Teachers
College
Conference
Championsdiip, and presented them

Carl DeFebo, Berwick.

with appropriate tokens for \arions years of \arsity participation.
Fi\e members received gold keys
for

winning four

letters in gridiron

while seven of the scpiad
were the recipients of gold footactivities,

indicati\e of three years of
varsity play. Sweaters, designating

George Chaump, West Pittston.
Robert Asby, South Williamsport.
Edwards Watts, Jenkintown.
Joseph Malczyk, Newport Township.
Robert Biemesderfer Manager, Mid-

—

dletown.

two )’ears of ser\ ice, were awarded to nine of the Huskies, and
twenty-nine of the scpiad earned
their first varsity letter.

An
phy

anthracite coal football trowas received by the team from

the

Forty Fort-Kingston Kiwanis

Club

in recognition of their victory over Wilkes College last fall.

•

ACTIVITIES OF

Walter Zegarski, Plains.

D. C.

James Brokenshire, Kingston.
Bernard Zaborowski, Wanamie.
Thomas Vaxmonsky, Jenkins Town-

cal chapter

ship.

John Oustrich, Taylor.
Gerald Wood, Mechanicsburg.
Donald Holmes, Glenside.
John Rogus, Hazleton.
Kenneth Wood, Mechanicsburg.

Barre area.

Ronald Romig. Boyertown.
Joseph Butz, Glen Lyon.
Louis Marsilio, Hazleton.
Paul Spahr. Collingsdale.
Larry Fisher, Trevorton.
Frank SuntheLmer, Hatboro.
Frank Kren, Forty Fort.
Daniel Fritz, Oscela Mills.
Edward Brower, Feasterville.
Lamar Freelan. Newport.
Robert Corrigan, Hatboro.
James Garman. Sunbury.
Charles Riegel, Sunbury.

president of the college.

The

spe-

Oscar Snyder. Sunbury.
Stanley Covington, Langhorne.

PRINCIPAL

lege Council, representatives of the
college community.

Robert
B.
Redman,
Husky coach, has been

The Huskies compiled
of five wins,

two

losses,

a record

and a

tie

during the 1955 season, while winning three and tying one in league
competition.
The following members of the
1955 Football Squad were presented the following awards:

GOLD KEY
Charles Skiptunas
tain, Kingston.

JULY,

1956

—

Honorary Cap-

Redman
came

will

former
elected
J.,

resignation

be-

effective at the close of the

past school term. In assuming
the duties of principal, Redman
will retire as head football coach,
a post he has held for the past

four years.

Redman moved

to

Saturday, February 4, the loattended the All Pennsylvania College Alumni Associa-

Approximately twenty members
the group attended and were
honored by the presence of Dr.

succeed Lewis H.

whose

On

of

principal of the East Orange, N.
Senior High School.

Knight,

CHAPTER

,

REDMAN ELECTED

awards to team members and
coaches were provided by the Col-

THE

tion Luncheon honoring a distinguished Pennsylvanian, Miss Mary
B.
McAndrews, former Superintendent of Schools of Carbondale,
Pa. A delicious luncheon was ser\ed in the Terrace Room of the
Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.
C. and entertainment was provided by the Soldier’s Chorus, a wellknown choral group of the Military District of Washington.

Joseph Johnston, Sunbury.

James Long, Hatboro.

cial

coach.

Jonah
Frank Prusch, Duryea.

Kiwanians for the benefit of underprivileged children in the Wilke.s-

and his assistants, Whilter Blair and
Harold Shelly, were presented a
gift by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,

of the
Jersey state championship in

1953.
Redman’s 1953 team was
picked by sports scribes as the
outstanding high school team in

lastic

B’ LETTER
Goobic, Plains.

Woodrow Rhoads, Boyertown.

ing the college seal, in recognition
of his efforts in winning the conference championship.
Coach Yohe

West Orange high schools

New

V.ARSITY

The game was sponsored by the

John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction and former member of the
coaching staff, presented each
team member with a blazer, bear-

produced two undefeated teams in
1948 and 1951 when the Huskies
were declared champions of the
S.T.C. conference.
During the
five-year span Redman’s teams lost
four games in forty-two starts.
His East Orange teams have
won a total of twenty-nine games,
lost eight and tied three, and were
co-holders
with Montclair and

the state and Redman was selected as the state’s outstanding scho-

Irvin Alexander, Mechanicsiburg.
Joseph Wascavage, Old Forge.
Harrison Morson. Bryn Mawr.

balls,

after a successful five-year tenure
at the local college in which he

East Orange

Andruss, President of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, and Dr.
Nelson of the Alumni Association.
Included in the group again was
“our youngest member,” Dr. Harry O. Hine, Class of ’85. Dr. Hine
was recognized as the oldest graduate of any Pennsylvania college to
be present at the Luncheon.
Serving on the Executive Committee for this affair was Harriet
L. Kocher in the capacity of Recording Secretary.
A Spring Tea social was held on
Sunday, March 11, at the Washington
Home for Foundlings,
Washington, D. C. Approximately
twenty-five members and guests
attended and an enjoyable after-

noon was had by

all.

15

ALUM N

T H E

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Rabb, ’46
Benton, Pa.

Doi'.ald

25

'33

Lois C. Bryner,

Frank J. Furgele
E. Moreland Avenue

38

Ash

VICE PRESIDENT
Edwin M. Vastine, 43
Bloom Street, Danville.

400

Henry Morgan
Avenue

207 Jefferson

D. Sharretts,

Miss Alice Smull. ’05
312 Church St., Danville, Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Avenue

208 North Bellevue

Langhorne, Pa.

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Pa.

SECRETARY

Bristol, Pa.

’41

Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER

’44

Danville, Pa.

Hatboro, Pa.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

SECRETARY

Street,

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Edward

MONTOUR COUNTY

DELAWARE VALLEY BRANCH

COLUMBIA COUNTY

Lois Lawson.

I

Miss Susan Sidler, ’30
615 Bloom St., Danville Pa.

TREASURER
Francis B. Galinski
183

Diane Avenue

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH

Hatboro, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBEKLAND AREA
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Miss Mary A. Meehan. ’18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

HONORARY PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Nellie M. Seidel, ’13
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa

Mrs. Lillian

Hortman Irish ’06
Camden. N.

732 Washington Street,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Marion George Evans

J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
2921

George

St.,

Harrisburg, Pa.

was

recent-

from G. E. Pfahler, M.
D., (B.S.T.C. Meritorious Award),
1930 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
ly received

Pennsylvania:
3,

1956

Dear Mr. Nelson;
This morning 1 have received
the “Alumni Quarterly,” for April,
1956. 1 have had the privilege of

ciation of Professor Bakeless with
Phance comes to my mind particularly this

1

had

graduatetl,

was thinking

and when

I

of preparing to enter

College to obtain the degree of
B.A. 1 later switched to the study
However, tlie assoof medicine.
IG

morning and

1

am

with the following inscription engraved on it:

espe-

impressed because last night
the French Society of Philadelphia
lionored me at their annual dinner
meeting, at which they presented
(

“PRESENTED TO
E. PFAHLER,
BY

ially

lo

me

a

beautiful

silver

GEORGE

M. D.

THE MEMBERS OF THE
FRENGH SOGIETY OF

platter

PHILADELPHIA

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS

reading the very fine tribute to
Professor O. H. Bakeless.
1 take
it that he was of French descent.
1
was a great admirer of him
though I only took a short course
instruction under him in Latin after

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Professor Charles II. Albert, who
I think took a special interest in
me, is quoted in reference to Professor Bakeless. I have always admired Professor Albert, and I
would like to write him a letter if
he is still alive. Since I am 82 1/4,
1
am assuming that Professor Albert is not living, but I do not re-

member any record
he
know.
If

is

still

of his passing.

alive, please

let

me

In connection with the compli-

ment paid
very

to

me

last night,

much impressed by
from

I

am

the com-

France
where the Antoine Beclere Centre
has been organized in honor of
Professor Antoine Beclere, whom
I first met in 1905, and who has
been a great teacher of radiology.
pliment

JULY,

1956

directly

TREASURER

’32

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor.

Lewisburg, Pa.

and has always been helpful to
those who had tire honor of visiting him.

home

He

invited

me

to

his

dinner in 1905.
He could speak no English, I could
speak no French, but his chamiing
daughter. Mile Antoinette Beclere,
spoke both English and French
and acted as our interpreter. The
Antoine Beclere Centre has been
organized by his son, Claude, and
he is one of the leading radiologists
at a family

of Paris,
toinette.

and

his sister. Mile.

They did me the

An-

great

honor of awarding me the First
Gold Medal from this organization
It was not practical for
go over and receive this
medal at that time, but it was presented to me by Mile Antoinette
Beclere in April, 1955, at the meet-

in 1952.

me

to

of the Fifth Inter-American
Congress of Radiology, held in
Washington, D. C.
She brought with her the photograph of the office of this Centre
with the names of the pioneers
from all the various countries,
showing clearly on the walls of
this office.
I am the only one of

ing

these pioneers that is still livIn this I am very fortunate.
I treasure very highly and most
sincerely
the
fine
opportunity
all

ing.

which

I

receiving

had when attending and
instructions

at

the

Bloomsburg State Nonnal School.
I had received many honors and
appreciate them all very much.
I am sending herewith a reprint
containing a most flattering account, prepared by one of my very

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good

Professor James A.

friends,

1907

Case.

With best wishes,

I

am

Yours very sincerely,

George E.

Pfahler.

1906

The following was

recently received from Nellie Sherrif DLxon,
314 14th Street, N.E., Washington,

D.

C.:

so much for your
kind invitation to be a guest oi the
School Alumni on May 25tli.
1 fear 1 shall not be there.
It
seems that the only asset, or qualification or requirement 1 possess
to rank such an invitation is by
great age and 1 just don’t feel that
old.
1 have a full time job with
the Maritmie Administration which
1 have held for fourteen years.
I
also direct the Maritime Bridge

Department Convention of Maryland and a week later the Virginia
State Department Convention at
Staunton, Virginia.
And the organization is not sending me because of my age.
During the year 1 have given
eleven book reviews at various
Washington, D. C., and Alexandria, Virginia, churches, Y.W.C.A.’s
and other places. 1 have appeared
belore the House Armed Eorces
Conunittee at the request of our
parent organization and have been
received by The President on a
committee.
Incidentally 1 have been received at the Wliite House by all the
Presidents since being in Wash-

By

ington.

iVlrs.

Eisenhower and

Mrs. Nixon six days after the inauguration.
At no time was 1 selected because of my extreme age.
Please excuse me this time.
Wait a few more years and maybe
1 sliall leel old enough to accept.
Or invite me sometime during tlie

might have something
worthwhile to tell the students.
If 1 might send a message to the
students it would be this: “1 was,
perhaps, when J graduated from
Bloomsburg one of the least promyear.

1

ising of all

my

promising of

would

like

IK

say they can do a
tlic next 55 years.

to

great deal in

class, so to the least
the class of ’56 I

recently re-

ceived from J. A. E. Rodriguez,
C.P.A., P.O. Box 708, San Juan 4,
Puerto Rico:

wish to congratulate you for

I

>our
1

article

on Professor Bakeless.

remember very

how

distinctly

Professor Bakeless used to take
time out during his free evenings,
in

Thank )ou

daughter

The following was

Carlisle

help

to

me with my
He certain-

English lessons.
was a wonderful cliaracter and
lie together with Professors Hartline and Albert have been an inspiration to me during tlie last 50

first

ly

years.

am

beginning to save my
nies to see it I can attend my
year reunion at Bloomsburg
year,
i am looking forward
i

penoOth
next
with

a great deal of pleasui'e to see you
and at least some of my classmates
at that time.

1910

Margaret Mary R.S.M.,
whose name was Eleanor Ryan of
Sister

the class of 1910

had the misfor-

tune of falling hr St. Gabriel’s Parochial School, Hazleton, during the

month

of January.
She has been
a patient in the Mercy Hospital,
Wilkes-Barre, with a compound
fracture of the hip and right arm.

Her address
vent.

South

is:

St.

Gabriel’s

Wyoming

Street,

GonHaz-

leton, Pennsylvania.

1911

Hazel Kester attended

this

year

s

reunion.
This is the first
lime in forty years. Her early
teaching was in Columbia County.
She has retired after teaching
twenty-seven years at Hicksville,
Long Island, and is residing at
Millville, Pa.
class

1911
the Class of 1911: Greetings
and salutations from the bottom
of the world.

We

are almost opposite you on
the other side of the earth.
are IHA hours from New York, if

We

we go

East from here and 12V-s
we go West. We came
through Europe and expect to relimi by the Pacific and visit our
if

Ten

who

We

is

with the Army in
south of the

are 5°

years ago,

1

took

my

doc-

torate at Goruell after starting to

do so twice before.
educating
handicaps.

omore

am

Raising and

children

presents
a sophat Syracuse University.
I
six

The

last

one

is

about through working for
and can now begin

children

my
to

work for myself.
worked in the Research DiviI
sion of New York State Department of Education for hvo years.
1 taught school administration and
supervision at Cornell University,
Alfred University and Albany State
Teachers College.
S.

Three years ago 1 joined the U.
Foreign Aid Program and was

assigned to Iran (Persia) as Pro\incial Chief of Education for the
two southernmost pro\ inces on the
Indian Ocean— an area three times
as big as New York State without
a mile of raihoads or a single mile
lived
of hard surfaced road.
on a plateau over a mile high. It
was quite pleasant. It is a desert
area as barren as Sahara except
for the oases that spot the areaunending miles of sand, rock and
barren but rugged mountains. On
the low lands the temperature in
the early afternoon would go to
-fll0° to 120° on the desert and
drops at night to -f60° toward
morning. You traveled by night
mostly on the desert under the

We

brilliant canopy of stars you
could imagine. It is seldom very
dark at night on the desert and
when the moon shines you can almost read by it. You naturally
study the stars on the desert. Onct'
in a while it would cloud o\’er and
it would be dark and in a sandstorm it was pitch black. You had

most

to

To

hours,

Japan.
Equator.

stop and find shelter until

blew

itself out.

It

it

can be fright-

ening.

There was a so called road in
each province miming north and
south to the Indian Ocean and one
cast and west road running from
the Persian Gulf to the Pakistan
border.

On

the best parts of

it

you could not drive over 30 miles
an liour but you would have to
TIIK AI.IIMNI (iU.ARTKRI.Y

drop down 5 to 10 miles for lioiirs
on end.
Trucks can only negotiate these
three main roads and some lew
short spur deatl ends.
The rest
ot the trail ie is as it always has
heen by camel eara\ an— ranging

trom a half dozen

to himdretls. h’or
short haul where eases are
close together the patient donkey
is the best friend of man 1 ha\e
ever seen.
It can
carry its own

the

weight and more.
would say the
camel and the donkey are 60 per
cent to 70 per cent of the transport
1

the area. I served, .\grieulture
and trading is carried on as it was
in the time of Christ.
in

We
tion

did a

program

of educafrom elementary through senlull

high school in both general education and all the general branches of vocational education.
Senior
high schools are only found in the
cities, junior high schools in the
largest
\ illages
and elemental)'
schools only in the great mass of
\ illages.
About halt of the \ illages
had no school at all. The people
are pitifully poor and starvation
rather prevalent. The tillable land
nearly all belongs to a few very
ior

wealthy families

who

live in rela-

These are well eduhighly culturetl and most

tive hi.xury.

cated,

hospitable.
Many hold degrees
fiom European universities.
In the small villages literacy

about 15 per cent but
in

many

in

which

I

I

had

is

have been
to search

diligently to find a single person

who could

read and write. In the
cities, and there are a few, literacy
would reach 30 per cent.
It was an interesting experience
to match our wits and our program
against the communists who were
well organized and well directed
from across the border in Russia.

W'hen
found

the

revolution

we had won

but

came we

we were

anything but sure for four days
after

it

started.

Mhld mobs

in

can change their
moods quickly and without much
reason. You keep behind the walls
of your home until the situation
becomes clear. It is very satisfying to know you have come out on
top in such a struggle. Communists are on the run in Iran now.
their destruction

JULY,

1956

was rough but rich experience.
change from Provincial
Chief of Education in Iran to AsIt

The

Education Officer in
the national headquarters iu Dja-

sistant C.'hiel

karta, Indonesia,

is

cpiite a radical

change. It is a change from primitive conditions to living in a relatively

24

modern

million,

city.

In this city of
of the

we have many

conveniences and attractions of
any progressive city. Indonesia is
probably the most advanced of any
ol the South East Asian countries.
It is a change from the desert to
lush vegetation.
From a land of
little or no rain to areas where 100

200 inches of rainfall is usual.
A change from a dry comfortable
climate to a continuously hot and
humid one. We have no seasons
and daylight hours are always the
same. I don’t like sticky heat. But
most important of all it is a change
from the front lines of operations
where you are close to the people
to a heacUpiarters planning operation where you deal always with
politicians and high government
officials.
It is
paper work, red
tape, and sensitive political negotiations.
It can be frustrating at
times.
Often you wonder if you
arc accomplishing anything.
In
the East, time stands still.
It alwav's has and it still does.
That
can drive an active American wild.
Von simply have to reason yourself into the pattern of an entirely

In Iran
donesia,

we reached them. In Inwe haven’t reached tliem

yet.

preach

Far be it from me to say our
pattern of life of endless activity,
of haste of rushing after material
gains which we call progress is
better than the easy going, slow
rather
dreamy
contemplative
scheme of living these people follow.
They seem to be enjoying
life more than we.
all know
that all the great religious came
out of this part of the world. Maybe it takes this way of life to produce clear concepts of religion.
It is a thrill for the first few
times to deal with a cabinet officer and be introduced to the Prime
Minister. But I am convinced our
aid program must reach the people
in the little villages who are the
forgotten folk or we are not accomplishing what we set out to do.

We

this

gospel to any

it

all

but the political atmosphere

is

In the meantime it is
hot.
There are bundles of paper
work. There are yards of red tape.
are slowly getting into step.

sensitive.

We

There are satisfactions in
Clyde B. Myers
U.S.O.M. Indonesia
Department of State
Washington, D. C.

this

work.

Shuman Luccareni

lives

1913
.Mabel

to

different culture.

I

who will listen to me. I
am hoping we shall soon realize
and

at

Chariton Street, Los An-

20.50

geles 4, California.

1918
Claire Patterson has been
ected the administrative head
J.

Bloomsburg School

el-

of

Mr.
Patterson
will fill
the vacancy
created by the resignation of Herbert Cobley from the post of associate

District.

superintendent.

The

1918
with

work

handicapped
by Mrs.
Miriam Welliver Funk, formerly
of Bloomsburg, is told interestingly
and at length in the Roswell, N.
M., newspaper, with the article
carrying four illustrations, one a
closeup of Mrs. Funk.
An appended article alongside
the main feature attracts the most
children that

local interest.

“Exceptional
Early Start

carried on

is

Under
Class

the caption

Teacher Had

Toward Job”

is

set

forth:

“Just

fifty-six

years

ago

Mrs.

Miriam Welliver Funk, then only
two, started on the road to Roswell as the teacher of exceptional
children.

“Polio struck her then and left
her lame of limb, but possibility
inspired in her the strong spirit
shown daily in her work with Roswell’s Exceptional Child’s School.
“From Bloomsburg, Pa., she
moved on after experience teaching grades one through twelve and
the acquiring of three bachelor’s
degrees,
to
special
education
work.
“Asking no special favors and
19

teaching her handicapped
to accept their problems
with them, she taught 14
special education schools.
taught 35 years in the
Pennsylvania when she

students

and

live

years in

She had
state

of

was

re-

tired.

“A tour

of the west
Mexico, home of
husband Jay Lee P’unk,
her that the west is for

New

to

re-visit

her artist
convinced
her.

The

climate and wide-open spaces lur-

and tlie beauty of Roswell
brought her services to the children now enrolled in her special
education classes here.
“The P’unks live at 507 South
Richardson Avenue, where Jay
holds art classes, but by day Mrs.
P^unk can be found at ‘The lattle
ed,

“The Roswell community has
helped greatly with the program,
Mrs. P’unk reports.
The Roswell
Assistance League, the Reaureant,
Sheriff’s Posse Auxiliary, and the
American Legion Auxiliary have
served. The latter group adopted
a national piogram of aid to handicapped children.
“Many individuals have donated
time, money and equipment to the
school. A piano and plastic bells
childreji

well as money ‘to be spent
where needed’.
“
‘If tlie parents of one of these
children were to hire a physical
therapist,’ said
Mrs. Funk, ‘for
their child, the money spent would
not buy the services donated by
the warm hearted organization and
individuals of Roswell.’
“Learning reading, writing, arithmetic and the other hundred or
more skills and particular facts
needed by today’s citizens are not
forgotten at ‘The Little House’.
“Rut the approacli must be tailored carefully to the abilities of
each child, says Mrs. I'Tink.”
The main article tells ol the
children in the work and the program that operates to aid them.
Frank Taylor who wrote the piece,
sets forth: “Ideas and methods of
how and where to help the handicapped have passed the experimental stages in which Mrs. Funk
helped during her early training

as

in this field.

so

and

to go forward in improving
the child’s lot at home, in school,
on the job, anywhere. They are
learning, along with the general
public, that these children are

stay— as are all of us— and
they are helped to overcome
their handicaps can become productive members of societ)'.
“To leave them hidden ‘in the
closet’ or to place drem in an institution seems the kindest thing
thing to do in the eyes of some.

here
that

to

honored.

we now know

businessmen and j)arents of Oyster Ray youth joined in a testimonial to the Rloomsburg College
alumnus and on the dinner program was Mrs. Richard Derby,
daughter of the late President

Rut

that ‘the least

of these’ has a place in our

—and we

are
ing him find

moving toward

world
help-

it.”

each of you will go out into
this new life and say to each person you meet, ‘1 can be your
friend,’ ‘I enjoy working by your
side,’ or ‘I can accept your orders
and your discipline in good grace,’
then you need never fear for your
future and you need never worry
about what people wil Ithink of
you. The world will be a better
place because of the contribution
you are making.”

That was the message

of

Glenn

Oman to the graduating class of
109 at the sixty-fifth annual comA.

mencement of the Rloomsburg
High School.
Oman, president.

Interna tional

Sixty-seven organizations, clergy,

Theodore Roosevelt.
Ruckel was honored for
work with youth and certainly
record

“If

Correspondence

Schools, Canadian Rranch, Montreal, Canada, was a member of the
class of 1927 at the local school.

His theme was “Living With People.”

former

Rloomsburg

Husky

basketball star, received his diploma from the “friendly C^ollege on
the liiir ’and start out in a tipsytiirvy workl.
Rack in ’38, you’ll recall, the

clouds that were to unlos'e a second world war upon us were gathIt
was the
ering over Europe.
depression was still
time, when
'rhiiigs didn’t look too
witli us.

is

his
his

evidence that the honors

now being accorded him

are rich-

ly deserved.

We

he
So did the College. The
local institution liad been holding,
for want of a fonvarding address,
lost sight of “Junie” after

left here.

a lifetime pass to all

Husky home

That’s an award which
games.
goes to all Rloomsburg four-letter
men. “Junie” made his four years
He
running in basketball here.
was one of the last to play for

Rloomsburg

in the old

gym— now

Husky lounge. The present
Centennial gym was under conthe

when “Junie” travelled
the diploma route and departed.
Jack O'Keefe, editor of the Oys-

struction

ter

Bay, N.

ter to Dr.

Y.,

Guardian,

in a let-

Harvy A. Andruss,

pres-

ident of the College, observes that
in Oyster Ray are extremely
proud that one of your graduates

‘

We

has

1938
(From the "Fanning” Column, The
Bloomsburg Morning Press)
It has been almost a score of
years now since Irving (Junie)
Ruckel, Newport Township native

and

bright for college graduates.
Rut Ruckel got busy early and
he’s still busy. Fact is he’s getting
busier all the time and probably
the most difficult job Oyster Ray,
N. Y., had for the evening of Monday, April 9, was to get “Junie” to
the banquet at which he was to be

if

1931

House.’

have been given to these

“Parents of the handicapped are
learning to accept the handicap

done a tremendous
community for fiv'e

In our

job.

years,

has definitely established himas the most popular man in
Oyster Ray, and that goes for Len
Hall, National Republican chair-

lie

self

as this is also his home tovvm.”
In the .shindig of April 9 Ruckel

man,

reeeived the “Outstanding Achieve-

ment Award” of the community.

And

in

the citation prepared these

facts are noted:

In his five years at Oyster Ray
there has been considerable reduction of juvenile deliiupiency and
today it is lower there than any

place on the island, being practiHe heads' the Oyster

tully zero.

TIIK

ALUMNI QI'ARTKKLY

Hay Teen-Age Cliih, 400 strong
and drawn from two high schools,
that has

won

national citizenship

awards the past two

years.

He is creator ol “C'ominunit)’
Christinas Decorating hy TeenAgers.” Four hundred youngsters,
working on 34 coininitees, do for
$7(K) a job that

formerly cost $2,5(K).
The program has attracted
interest all over the nation and is
responsible for Oyster Hay being
known as “('hristmastown. Long
Island.
It
has stimulated busine.ss there during the holiday season.

Huckel has led a
to establish a

drive
center at

.$11(),(KX)

community

Oyster Hay and has set up many
other notable civil projects such as
dt'corating in the
selling

flags

community

through

anil

teen-agers

when President Eisenhower \isited Sagamore Hill. He established
at Christmas the teen-age project
of
“Santa
Claus
North
Pole
Line,” operated all over Long Is-

National
Recreation
Magazine,
Chief Justice Ashton Williams,
North Carolina, the late Chief Justice \ inson, .\merica City Magazine, National Scholastic Magazine

Science degree

and Youth Magazine.

in

He

Foundation of Infantile Paralysis.
study is now being made of
Pink and Hlue ^^'inter Diaper
Derbies for the foundation.
He
has a uniipie summer program and
has established a Community Recreation Council with 1(X) per cent

membership of all organizations
and groups.
He has been a recreation director for 16 years at Middletown,
Lindenhurst and Oyster Bay, N. Y.
He was a successful basketball
coach at Middletowm but gave up
coaching after lea\ing the U. S.
Na\y so he could devote more
time to recreation.
He holds the Outstanding
Achievement Award of the Phoenix Fire Company, Middletown, N.
Y.
He has been cited by the Oys-

Bay Chamber

of Commerce.
the first and only Protestant to receive the National Cathoter

He

is

Magazine Aw'ard for outstanding and unselfish help to parochial
schools while working for a public
lic

school system.
Catholic War

He

also holds the

\’eterans

Achieve-

ment Award and the Community
Service Award, Lindenhurst, N. Y.,
and has received citations from
JULY,

1956

member

of Lions Club,

Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 4,
and Chamber of Commerce, Oyster Ha)',

nix

Y., lile member PhoeCompany and honorary

N.

Fire

member

Italian-American
Club, .Middletown, N. Y., honorary
member ol Lindenhurst War Veterans, former president of the
Long Island Recreation .Association and \ ice president of the .Middle .Atlantic Community Organizaof

the

“Junie” could mo\'e pretty fast
ill
his basketball days on the hill.
It is apparent that he has speeded
up since he left. .And he’s still adding to that pace. The school and
the community are mighty proud

him and join Oyster Hay in say“Cood work. Keep it up.”

ol

ing

1942
M’illiam Booth,

who

has

owned

and operated the .Montour Hotel

Dam

ille for several years, has
sold the hotel and gone into the
real estate and insurance business.

in

1943

Lee Roy H. Beaumont received
the degree of M.Ed. at the University of Pittsburgh

at

the 19.56

Commencement.
1944
Miss Louneta Lorah, 511 Dela-

ware .Avenue, West

Pittston,

was

among 57

persons commissioned
missionaries and deaconnesses
of
the

Methodist Church

Buck

at

a

Hill Falls,

who

dedicated their

home and

foreign service.

those

uoka Girls School on the southern
Japanese island of Kyushu, and returned to teach in West Pittston.
She left at the end of the first
semester to attend
the
Scarritt
School for Christian workers
at
Nashville, Tenn., until May, when
she was scheduled to go to Japan

language study.
Lorah is an active worker in W'est Pittston Church, having
given freely of her time and tal-Miss

ents for several years as a

School teacher and

Sunday

member

of the

Board of Education and Board of
Missions.
She was in charge ot
the Children’s Society of Christian
Service of the church 10 years.
Miss Lorah has served as student secretary of Wyoming Conference of .Methodist
Churches.
She and her sister. Miss
Mabel
Lorah, who has served as a missionary in Lima, Peru, since 1952,
helped during the
summers at
W^yogimica, now the World Outreach camp.
Miss Lorah has also
attended
the school of missions, teaching at
Jumonsburg, the Pittsburgh conference school of missions;
and
serving as resource
last
person
summer at Goucher school of missions.

1953

David L. Heckman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William K. Heckman,
Bloomsburg, took as his bride on
Saturday, June 16, Miss Mary McCommons, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs.
B.
Wilbur McCommons,
Springfield, Pa.

The marriage was solemnized

lives to

Miss Lorah was born in West
graduated from West
Pittston High School and has lived in the borough. She attended
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and received her Bachelor of
Pittston,

the
West Pittston schools,
where she has majoreil in geography in the elementary grades. In
1953, .Miss Lorah took a sabbatical
lea\e and taught one year in Fuk-

ser-

As a foreign missionary, serving under the
W’oman’s Di\ision
Christian
of
Service of the Board of Missions,
Miss Lorah will do
educational
work in Japan. Bishop Arthur J.
Moore of .Atlanta, commissioned
\ice at

.Miss Lorah taught one year in
Dennison Township schools and is
completing 28 1-2 years as teacher

lor

tion Association.

land by teenagers, and the Long
Island Diaper Derby for National
•A

a

is

elementary edu-

in

cation in 1944.

at

three in the Church of St. Francis
in Springfield.
The Rev. George

Field officiated at the doublering ceremony before 400 wedding

J.

guests.

The
bride’s

reception

home,

followed at the
which the cou-

after

21

pie flew to

Miami Beach

for their

Mr. and Mrs. Heckman will make their home at 317
Davie Avenue, Clifton Heights,

honeymoon.

Pa.

Mrs. Heckman, a graduate of tlie
Pennsylvania State University, has
been teaching English and social
studies at the Clifton Heiglits Higli

School for two years.
Mr. Heckman graduated from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and received his master’s degiee from Pennsylvania State University. In the fall he will be teaching mathematics in the Haverford
Junior High School.

1953
Episcopal

Church,
St.
Paul’s
Bloomsburg, formed a lovely setting tor the nuptials uniting Miss
Barbara Ann Bundens, daughter of
Mrs. Edward M. Bundens, Jr., to
David Taylor North, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Thomas P. North, for-

mer Bloomsburg

residents,

now

of

Brookville.

The double-ring ceremony,

per-

lormed Saturday, June 16, by the
Rev. Elmer A. Keiser, rector, was
witnessed by 1.00 wedding guests.
Mrs.
North graduated from
Bloomsburg Higti School and
Hood College, Frederick, Md. She
has a research assistanship at the
University of Minnesota where she
will continue work lor an MS degree.

Her

husband,

a

graduate

of

Bloomsburg High School and of
B.S.T.C., received his Master’s Degree from Pennsylvania State UnHe was recently separiversity.
ated from the U. S. Army and has
a research assistantship at the University of Minnesota where he will
work toward his Doctor’s Degree.
1954
In a candlelight ceremony performed at two-thirty Saturday,

June 23, in the Millville Methodist
Church, Miss Marian Janice Rider,
daughter of Mrs. Martha E. Rider,
Millville,
P. Rider,

and the late Lawrence
became the bride of Ray

Foster Tyler, sou of Mr. and Mrs.
William L. Tyler, Hummels Wharl.
Officiating at the double-ring
ceremony were the Rev. Earl 1C.
Kerstetter and the Rev. David
22

Kemberling.
ding guests.

There were 250 wed-

The bride graduated from MillHigh School and B.S.T.C. and
did graduate work at Pennsylvania

ville

State University. A former teacher in Coatesville, she has accepted
a position in the Altoona elementary schools.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Selinsgrove High School, received
a BS degree in music education in
1951 and a BS degree in business
administration in 1956 from Sus([uehanna University, Selinsgrove.
He has accepted a managerial position with Sears, Roebuck Co.,
Altoona. He served two years in

Army

with eighteen
months in Hokkaido, Japan, as a
member of the First Cavalry Division Band.
the

U.

S.

1954
In a pretty ceremony performed
Saturday, June 16, at Bloomsburg
Church of Christ, Miss Edna Faith
Eunson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W’illiam Eunson, Bloomsburg, became the bride of Paul Melvin

Long, Bloomsburg R. D.

4.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed

by

Rev. Wesley
by the Rev. Ken-

the

Phillips, assisted

neth Gould.
A reception was held in the
church social rooms with 175 attending. For a short wedding trip,
the bride wore a light blue flocked nylon dress with navy blue acUpon their return, Mr.
cessories.

and Mrs. Long will reside on
Bloomsburg R. D. 4.
Both the bride and groom gradBloomsburg High
from
uated
Mrs. Long, also a graduSchool.
ate of B.S.T.C.,

is

a teacher in the

Ilemlock-Montour Joint School.
Her Imsband, who served in the
U. S. Navy during World War 11,
is

a earpenter.

1954

were the Rev. Kenneth
Gould, pastor of the church, and
the Rev. Reginald Alford, Catawdssa Methodist pastor.
One hundred attended the reception which was held at tire social hall.
For a wedding trip to
New England, the bride wore a
gown of beige silk with black accessories.
Upon their return, they
will reside at 236 Main Street, Catnuptials

awissa.

The bride graduated from Scott
Township High School and is employed as secretary at Bloomsburg
Mills, Inc.
Her husband, a graduate of Catawissa High School and
B.S.T.C., served in the U. S. Army
in the Catawissa

and is a teacher
borough schools.

1955

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gill, Buttonwood, announce the recent marriage of their daughter, Cora Rebecca, to Edward L. White, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L.
White, Wilkes-Barre, in St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, WilkesBarre.

Rev. Fred W. Trumbore performed the ceremony.
The bride was graduated from
Hanover Township High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.

The bridegroom was graduated
from Kingston High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Both are members of the faculty of Manor Elementary School,
Levittown.

1955
Schell,
son of
P\'t. George A.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy 1. Schell, Fair
street, Bloomsburg, arrived with
an advance detachment in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 3, to be-

gin duties as chief teletype operaComtor with the 143rd Signal
pany, 3rd Armored Division. P\ t.

Bloomsburg was the setting Saturday,
June 9, for the marriage of Miss
Evelyn Mae Kline, daughter of Mr.
ami Mrs. Donald R. Kline, Old
Berwick Road, Bloomsburg, to
Arthur Riegel, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Schell enlisted last July 7 and attended teletype school at Camp

Alfred L. Riegel, Catawissa.
the double-ring
Offiealing at

tion

The Church

of Christ in

Gordon, Ga., following his graduation last spring from Bloomsburg
His wile
State Teachers Gollege.
is the former Rebecca Ellis of Milton R. D. 2. His address, in addito the military unit, is AW)
39, care of postniiuster. New York.
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1955
111

al

a lovely caiulleliglit

Wednesday even-

seven-thirty,

ing,

May

ceremony

the

30, at

Espy

EUB

Church, Miss Shirley B. Redline,
daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. Richard
A. Redline, Old Berwick Road, became the Bride of C. Thomas Eenstermacher, son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. T. Eenstermacher, Light Street.
The Bride graduated from Scott
Township High School and BSTC

and is now a teacher at the Scott
Elementary School. Her hushaml,
a graduate of Scott High School,
ser\ed two V’ears with the U. S.
Army and is now a student at
Lock Ha\en State Teachers college.

1955
.Memorial
Methodist
Derr
Church, Wilkes-Barre, was the setting on Saturday, June 16, for the
marriage of Nliss Sharon l^yini
Dotter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbur N. Dotter, Wilkes-Barre, to
Raymond L. Trump, son of Mrs.
Emma S. Trump, Bloomsburg, and
the late William E. Trump.
Mrs. Trump was graduated from
Coughlin High School and BloomsCollege,
Teachers
hurg
State
where she was a member of Sigma
Alpha Eta and Kappa Delta Pi.

She

is

a

member

Tunkhannock

of the faculty at

Joint Schools.

Mr. Trump was graduated from
Bloomsburg Pligh School and ser\ -

ed with the U. S. Army 22 months,
most of which time was spent in

He

Korea.

a

is

member

rolled

Mr.

in

ma Theta

of

the science curriculum.

Trump

is

a

member

of

decorated with palms and
bouquets of white carnations and
snapdragons.
I'he bride graduated from Berwick High School and is a stenographer for the General Laboratories,
A.CJ.E.
Her husband, a
graduate of Catawissa High School
and B.S.T.C., is stationed at Fort

Lutheran Church, Ringtown, Miss
Lovell A. Lindenmuth, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood H. Lindemnuth, Ringtown, became the
bride of Reed S. Kahler, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Amandus Kahler, Zion
Grove.
Mrs. Kahley is a graduate of
Ringtown High School in 1953 and

Holabird, Baltimore, Md.

was

1956
In a pretty candlelight

Miss Wylla
ter ot

.\Ir.

ceremony

Mae Bowman, daugh-

and Mrs. Willard Leroy

Bowman, Berwick,

became the
bride of William Lawrence Bitner,
Jr., Lemoyne, Saturday, June 9, in
the First Evangelical and Reformed Cdmrch, Berwick.
The double ring ceremony was
pertormed by the Rev. Wayne A.
Lutz.
The bride was graduated
from Berwick High School
and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in May with a bachelor
of
science degree in elementary education. She will teach in the fifth
grade in Scotch Plains, N. j., in
the

fall.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
William Penn High School, Harand

risburg,

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College with a bachelor
of science degree
in
secondary
education, majoring in
English
and social studies, served in the
U. S. Marine
Corps for three
years.
He will teach English in
the fall in the Scotch Plains High
School, Scotch Plains, N. J.

of the

Bloomsburg State
Teachers College where is is en-

junior class

was

Gam-

Upsilon fraternity.

1956

M iss

Martha Ann Molchan, of

Plymouth, became the bride of
Thomas Earl Persing, during a 2:00
in Lincoln Street MethoChurch. Mrs. Persing, daughter of John Molchan, Plymouth, is
a member of the class of 1956 at
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColThe bridegroom, a son of
lege.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Persing, also
last
of Plymouth, was graduated
year from Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is now serving
as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.

ceremony
dist

1955
In a lovely candlelight

ceremony

seven Saturday evening, May
19, at Cabary Methodist Church,
Berwick, Miss Rosemary Barbara
Farver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Chauncey William Farver, Berwick, became the bride of Paul
Harold Rhodes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Luther Washington Rhodes,
Catawissa R. D. 2, Pa.
The Rev. McKinley Kepler, pastor, officiated at the double-ring
ceremony before the altar which
at

JULY,

195G

1956
In a pretty ceremony performed
St.
John’s
Saturday, June 2, at

a member of this year’s graduating class at BSTC.
She will
teach at Pottsville schools this fall.
Her husband, a graduate of Conyngham-Centralia High School
in
19.52, operates a dairy farm at Zion
Grove where they are residing.

1956
Miss Irene Lois Sones, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sones, Millville R. D. 2, and William
Guy
Hunstman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William M. Hunstman, Bedford R.
D. 1, were united in marriage Saturday, June 16, in a pretty ceremony at the Pentacostal Church,
Bloomsburg.
The bride graduated from Millville High School in 19.52 and received her Bachelor of Science

Degree from BSTC this spring.
She will teach the first and second
grade at Millville Area Joint
School in September. The bridegroom, a graduate of Bedford
High School in 19.50, served three
years in the U. S. Army, spending
two years in Germany.
1956
Miss Joan Garol Christie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ziegfried
Christie, Shenandoah and Ensign
Edward J. Connlley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James P. Connolley, of
Danv'ille, were married in June at
St. Stephen’s Church, Shenandoah.
The Rev. Francis L. Conrad, Danville, officiated with Rev. Stephen
Baslovsky, Shenandoah, in attendance. The bride graduated from
Shenandoah High School and was
May Queen this spring at BSTC
where she was a member of the
She was also
graduating class.
honored by being chosen “Co-ed
of the Year” during her Sophomore
year.

graduated
Connolley
Ensign
from Danville High School and
BSTC and was commissioned in
the

Navy following graduation.
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Dr. H. V.

Hower

’81

Dr. Heister Vanderslice Hower,

prominent county physician and
surgeon and former President of
the Board of
Trustees
the
of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died April 16 at his

339 East Front

He was aged

fifteen days.

He

continued active in his prac-

receiving office
about two years ago.

calls,

tice,

tlie

at

street,
Berwick.
ninety-two years,

months and

ten
liad

home

until

Death was

result of infirmities of his ad-

vanced age.

home

He had been

bedfast

two weeks.
Born near Bloomsburg on October 31, 1863, he was the son of the
late Jackson and Rebecca Vanderslice Hower. His grandfather, John
Hower, of German ancestry, was
one of the earlier residents of Columbia county.
Dr. Hower was
educated in
Bloomsburg high school and graduated from the Normal School in
1881.
For four years, he taught
Conyngham, Luzerne
school at
at his

for

county.
He then enrolled at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Baltimore, graduating in
He studied internal medi1887.
at
cine in post graduate courses
John Hoi>kins University, Baltimore. lor over twenty-five years
he conducted a general practice at
Mifflinville.
He served as superintendent of a private hospital at
of
Scranton until the outbreak
World War 1 when he was the
first physician in that city to enlist.
He served until the conclusion of
that conllict, returning to Berwick
to

resume

his practice.

Dr. Hower was a member of the
National and State Medical Associations and had served as president of the Columbia County Medical Society several times. He was
a member of the staff of Berwick
Hospital.

An

active

Democrat, he was a

delegate to the national convention
tliat nominated the late Franklin

D. Roosevelt to
24

his

third term in

Also active
in
during his period of

the Presidency.

St. Clair, Pa.,

civic affairs,

from

service in Mifflinville, he is credited with obtaining the construction
of the bridge across the Susquehanna to that community.
Dr. Hower was a member
of
Masonic orders and the Caldwell
Consistory.
He had served as
treasurer of the P. O. S. of A. at
Mifflinville for fifteen years.
His wife, the former Dora Drum,
in
of Conyngham, preceded him
death in March of 1945. Surviving
are nephews
and nieces: Mrs.

Hugh Woodward,

Albuquerque,
Florence Corning,
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Harold
Fassick, Kingham, Mass.; Carl McClure, Berwick; A. C.
Fairchild,
Washington, D. C.; Dr. C. M.
Hower, Elmira, N. Y.; and H. V.
Hower, Kingston, Pa.
N. M.; Mrs.

Bertlia Kelly ’97

Miss Bertha Kelly, 911 West
Friday,
St., Scranton, died
February 17 at Daytona Beach,
Fla., after a six-week illness.
Born in Scranton, Miss Kelly
was the daughter of the late John
Her
II. and Jane Evans Kelly.
father was a former letter carrier.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, she was a member of the faculty of West Side
High School prior to her retirement in 1942. Miss Kelly was a
member of the First Welsh Baptist
Church, West Scranton, and served as its financial secretary for
o\ er 35 years.

school at
and then

E.

Cumming

’08

has been notified
of the passing of James E. Cummings, class of 1908, in March of

Mr. Cummings had at
one time taken an active part in
this year.

the District of Columbia chapter,
holding the office of president.

J.

Walter Tucker,

Cihestnut

street,

’1

sixty-five,

Berwick,

graduated

He taught
Nescopeck for fom years

1

|

!

'

past thirty-two years.
His wife,
the former Ruth A. Hess, died in

He was

1948.

a

member

of

,

the

}

Methodist Church, Berwick;
Lodge No. 632, Sunbiiry;
Caldwell Consistory,
of
Bloomsburg; the Berwick Acacia
Cdub and was a former member of
the American Legion.
He was a
First

1

and

AM

World War I.
He was
Boy Scout work.

veteran of

also active in

Gladys Beddall Saul

’21

Gladys

Beddall Saul
passed
Hazleton.
2, 1956 in
She is survived by her father, her
husband, a daughter and a son.

away June

Robert L. Lang

’52

Robert L. (Witchaboo) Lang, 26,
former Bloomsburg State Teachers
College halfback and a resident of
Milton, died June 12 at the UniN'ersity of Pennsylvania
Hospital.
Lang, four years a half back star
for the Huskies of Bob
Redman
and a member of the undefeated
Bloomsburg football teams of 1948
and 1951, died some hours after

;

|
I

surgery.
An all-around star in
sports at the Milton High School,

fiom which he was graduated in
1947, he was selected all-Susquehanna conference and all-state in

>

i

football his senior year.

The Quarterly

Walter Tucker

and was

in 1911.

went to the ACF where
he worked in the time office. He
had been employed as a teller at
the Berwick National Bank for the

Fdm

J.

BSTC

of

died

Tuesday, March 13. He had been
ill
for two months and had been
weeks.
for
three
hospitalized

Death was due to pulmonary emMr. Tucker was l)orn in
bolism.

After he left the local institution
he played two years of professional
f()otball with the Ashland Miners

and

for the past several years

active in

gue.

He

was

the Milton softball leawas a native of Harris-

burg and was born January 13,
1930, in Harrisburg and was born
January 13, 1930, in Harrisburg,
the son of William Lang, Greensburg and the late Mrs. Ethel Johnson.

i

!

He was

a

member

of the
Paul’s

board of stewards at St.
A ME Church and of Sylvania Masonic Lodge 139, Milton, and served as secretary of the lodge for
the past two years.
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i

and

^^Sci44joeA^d

lilamued''

Eliui II. Nelson, ’ll
C. lasses eom ene and disperse. The youngbaek with wives, nushands and ehilclren— and hopes. The older
elasses eoine baek with pietures ot tneir graiulehiiaren— and memories. Ohaiiges

Reunions eoine and reunions go.

er elasses eoine

ot eourse, in

lege.

appearanee and outlook,

The long

tdianges

tables in the dining

short time the dining

room

itseit will

students will "go to the library

room

plant of the eol-

in the piiysieal

round ones. In a

liave ehangecl to

mo\e up on

and the

the old tennis eourts,

where onee you gave attention

to

the chef’s

specials.

exactly,

ponder the (piestions "W hat lias Bloomshiirg DONE for me?
“What
\V h)' clo
eontinue to the INTERdoes Hloomsburg ME.\N to me?

ESTED

in

We

For

”

'

1

my Alma

just a

Mater?”

minute, think about the interests you gained while you were at

Rlooinsburg.

Remember

helped you

cope with problems.

to

the many,

business or social situations

Measured

Rlooinsburg.

many

times your eollege background has

Think about the innumerable instances

when you have proudly

also in dollars

and

in

identified yourself with

cents, your Rlooinsburg education

has probably boosted what you have earned, are earning, and are capable of

These are some

earning.

We

of the things Rlooinsburg has

continue to have a proud interest

in

done

for

YOU.

our Alma Mater because

it

contin-

ues to contribute to society, through education and service, in a manner to justify

our deepest pride.

We

in the satisfaction of

are hoping that you are proud

keeping Rlooinsburg the

There are scholarships

to

enough

fine school that

be awarded, the Loan Funds

to

it

to

want

be enlarged. You

How

about

elsewhere in

it

—

won’t you become an Alumni Fund member?

this issue

are the

names

is.

hel^D

when you write a check to “Alumni Funds” to be used
— Bakeless Fund — Albert Fund — Husky Fund. etc.

with these projects

you designate

to share

has been and

as

Published

who contributed Alumni Day and
your name written there? Don’t you want
of those

Is
Is your class represented?
be a factor in keeping Rlooinsburg abreast with the best in these changing
and challenging days ? Think it through AND THEN DECIDE.

since.
to

Faithfully yours,
E. H.

NELSON

President of Alumni Association

Q&Uecj.e Gcdendan.

4th

Summer

-

f956

August 6

Session

to

August 24

FIRST SEMESTER

Registration

— Freshmen

Monday, September 10

Registration

— Upper

Tuesday, September 11

Cilasses

Classmen

Wednesday, September 12

Begin

Home-Coming Day
Football

Saturday, October 13

—

B.S.T.C. vs. Mansfield

Vol. LVIl

October, 1956

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA

No. 3

SIGN POSTS OF PROGRESS -

1956

ENROLLMENT
Buildings are bulging with students at Bloomsburg. Dormitories and classrooms are
overcrowded, as you can well imagine, with a full-time ennrollment of 1,080 students. Of
this number, about 230 are living in homes in the Town ot Bloomsburg and over 350 com-

mute

daily from their homes to their classrooms.
The accommodation of an enrollment which has increased two-thirds over

figure has created certain problems

whose solutions

lie

the pre-war

in the foreseeable future.

Applications for admission number more than twice as many as can be accepted, and
expected to continue at an accelerated rate. Larger high school classes are being
graduated and a greater proportion of these graduates are applying lor college admission.
this is

Plantwise the College has two programs, one, the modernization of existing buildings
and; two, the construction of new buildings.

Present enrollment figures cannot be greatly increased until additional building facilare available. Next year we may be able to accommodate 1.200, and the following
year about 1,400, but further expansion will depend on additional facilities and faculty.
This means increased State appropriations.

ities

MODERNIZING OLD BUILDINGS
During the summer months eighty dormitory rooms were repainted, chiefly in the
men’s section, and the exterior brick walls of Waller and Noetling Halls, facing the front
campus, have been repointed and painted. This project will continue until all brick
surfaces on the older buildings are of a uniform color.
Preliminary sketches have been developed by Schmitt and Lippi, Architects, WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, to convert the present dining room space for Library purposes, and
the present Library space on the second floor of the Waller Hall Annex into dormitory
space for men. This is expected to cost approximately $200,000.
If the new College Commons (Dining Room, Kitchen and Storage Building) is completed to the extent that meals can be served to students in January, 1957, then demolition
can begin in the old dining room space and floors laid so that the Library can be moved
to its new location in May, 1957, leaving the summer for the renovation of the second
floor area so as to provide space for 30 men.

PLANS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
With the appointment of John A. Schell, Architect, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, to
a comprehensive campus plan for all buildings necessary to house an institution of
least 2,000 students, the first step is taken toward a long term building program.

draw
at

This campus plan will locate all future buildings before a final decision
new Classroom Building and the Men's Dormitory.

is

made

as to

the site of the

Since there are less than 900 seats in the present second floor Auditorium in Carver
it is no longer possible to seat Seniors at regular weekly assemblies, and the original
plans for an Auditorium to seat 1,200 will have to be reviewed so as to provide for future
growth.
Hall,

ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
Along with plant expansion, the quality of instruction has been recognized by the
lowing accreditation agencies:
Pennsylvania Council of Education

t

State)

Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (Regional)
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (National)

President.

fol-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVIl,

No. 3

October, 1956

NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY

f

JOHN

O’DONNELL

K.

The appointment

^

I

Published quarterly

by

the

Alumni

tessional

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 Sub.-jcription. $2.00; Single Copy. 50 cents.

clude

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

BUSINESS
E. H.

T2

MANAGER

Nelson, T1

THE ALUMNI
PRESIDENT
E.

H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

R.

responsibilities

will

in-

the

supervision of college
seniors who are doing practiceteaching in elementary education.

A native of Altoona and a graduate of the public schools of that
communit)', Mr. O'Domiell served
for three years with the United
Navy during World War If.
Following his military service, he
began his teacher-training at Lock
Haven State Teachers College,
transferred to Pennsylvania State
University, and received the Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the latter institution in
States

1950.

he beteaching career in the
State College schools, and started
his graduate work at Penn State.
In 1952, he was awarded the Master of Education degree in Elementary Education, and, the following year, received an appointment as principal in the State College Schools.
During this period
In the

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John

O’Donnell of State College as associate professor of elementary ediication at the Teachers College
has been announced by President
Harvey A. Andruss. He began his
duties in September in tlie fifth
grade of the Benjamin Franklin
Laboratory School on the college
campus. In that capacity, his pro-

Association of the State Teachers College.

of

ucation degree at his alma mater.

gan

fall of that year,

his

busy academic activity, he served on the University’s education
workshop as a consultant in camping methods and curriculum. He
graduate
is currently engaged in
work leading to the Doctor of Edof

Mr. O’Donnell’s professional

af-

membership

in

filiations

include

the Pennsylvania Education Association, the National Education Association, the Elementary Princi-

Association, and Phi
Kappa, honorary education

pals’

Delta
frater-

His interest in gridiron activresulted in his becoming a
(jualified P.I.A.A. football official.

nity.
ities

Mrs. O’Donnell is the former
Malissa Ann White, of Altoona.
The O’Donnellsi have one child, a

nine-month-old son.

NORMAN
Norman

L.
L.

HILGAR
Hilgar,

Pittsburgh,

has been appointed Assistant Prolessor of Business Education at the

Boomsburg

State Teachers Colaccording to an announcement released by President Harvey
A. Andruss.
A native of Grove City, Mr. Hilgar was graduated from Grove
City High School in 1942, and, a
short time later, began three years
of service in the Army Air Force
as a radio operator and gunner.
Upon the completion of his undergraduate studies at Grove City
College in 1949, he received the
Bachelor of Arts in Commerce degree, and, in the fall of that year,
accepted a teaching position at the
lege,

Plum Township High

School. During his tenure there, he served for
two years as assistant basketball
coach, and was head coach during
the 1955-1956 season.
Mr. Hilgar, who was awarded
the Master’s Degree in Commercial Education at the University

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

ON THE COVER

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

The Snack
a popular
Students.

is

Hervey B. Smith

Bar, located in the Husky Lounge, formerly the “Old Gym,”
meeting place for the Bloomsburg State Teachers College

Elizabeth H. Rubier

OCTOBER,

1956

1

of Pittsburgli in

1953,

began

his

teaching duties at the college in

September.

ROBERT

P.

Ulmer

as

Robert

P.

Professor

of

of

Assistant

Art Education at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College has been
announced by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College.

A

graduate
of
VVilliamspoit
Higli School, Mr. Ulmer also attended the Williamsport Technical
Institute, completing a course in
tool designing in three months. In
the year that folowed, he worked
as a draftsman witli the CurtisWright Aircraft Corporation in
Jiuftalo, New York, and then enterS. Army Air Force for
three years, serving in the contintental area, the South Pacific, tlie

ed the U.

Phili]>pines

Upon

and Japan.

termination of his milMr. Ulmer entered
the Kutztown State Teachers College, and earned the Bachelor of
Science degree in Education. In

itary

tlie

service,

September,

member

1950,

he

became

a

of the faculty of the Mt.

Carmel joint Schools.

During

this

he

continued his graduate
studies at the Pennsylvania State
University, receiving the Master of
Education degree in Art Education
in August, 2^51. For tlie past two
years he has taught in the BloomsImrg Public Schools, and has been
admitted to Penn State as a Doclime

toral candidate.

During the past six years, Mr.
Ulmer has been active in civic and

He is
professional organizations.
a member of the Pennsyvania Art
Education Association, the Eastern
Arts Association, the National Art
Education Association, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Kappa Delta Pi. He has served on the conference planning
committees of Eastern Arts Association and the Pcamsylvania Art
Education Association for the past

year.

Mr. Ulmer is married to the former Sarah Ann Sleepy, of Reading,
They have one
Pennsylvania.
child,

2

Debra Ann.

Earth Science at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, according
to an announcement made by President

A
of

Harvey A. Andruss.

graduate of the public schools

Lock Haven, Mr. Adams,

at-

tended the State Teachers College
there, receiving the Bachelor of
Science degree in Education in
1941.
During World War II, he
seiwed four years in the Army
Force, spending three years in tlie
European Theater, and attaining
the rank of Lieutenant as a photointelligence officer with the Eighth
Air Force.
For the past seven years, Mr.
Adams has been teaching at the
Roosevelt Junior High School in
Williamsport. Prior to that service,
he was a member of the Canton
High School faculty for five years.
He has reecived the Master of
Education degree from Pennsylvania State University, and is completing the field work on a doctoral
dissertation in geography.
Mr. Adams is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Delta Kappa,
both honorary professional fraterAir

nities.

MISS

ELEANOR JEAN McCUE

Miss Eleanor Jean McCue, a native of Windber, Pennsylvania, has
been appointed Assistant Professor
and
Elementary Education
of
Training Teacher, Grade One, in
the Benjamin P'ranklin Laboratoiy
School at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers Gollege. She began her
duties at the college in September.
A graduate of Gurwensville
High School, Miss McCue attended Maryville College, Maryville,
Tennessee, for a year, prior to enrolling at Clarion State Teachers
College.

The

latter

of service at Warren as a teacher in grades one and
two, and completed the requirements for the Master of Education
degree at Pennsylvania State University.
During the past year, she
held the rank of Assistant Professor

began hvo years

Bruce

E. Adams, has been appointed Associate Professor of Geogiaphy and

ULMER

The appointment

BRUCE E. ADAMS
A native of Lock Haven,

institution

granted her the Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1951,
with a major area of study in Elementary Education. At the beginning of the fall tenn, she accepted
a position as kindergarten teacher
the public schools of DuBois.
ill
In September of 1953^ Miss McCue

and Demonstration Teacher, Grade
Two, at the State University

New

Teachers College, Fredonia,

Her professional duties at
Bloomsburg will be similar in nature to her work at Fredonia.
York.

Miss

New

McCue

is

member

a

of the

York State Education Associ-

ation, the Civil Service

Employees

Association for
Cliildhood Education, the Susquehanna Grange, and Pi Lambda
Theta, honorary educational fraHer hobbies include fishternity.
ing, swimming, skating, bowling,
hiking, and acting in the capacity
of camp counsellor for children
during the summer.
Association,

DR.

the

HAROLD

O.

BAHLKE

The appointment

of Dr. Harold
O. Bahlke, St. Paul, Minnesota, as
professor of English and social
studies has been approved by the

board of trustees, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Gollege.
Born in Eau Glaire, Wisconsin,
Dr. Bahlke was graduated from
the public schools of that communand received the bachelor of

ity,

education degree from Wisconsin
State College at Eau Clare in 1937.
After attending the University of
Wisconsin in 1940 and 1941, he
entered the Army Air Force as an
aviation c“adet, serx'ing in the Chi-

na-Burma-India

Theater for

two

years and in China with the Twejity-third Fighter Group.

He left the service in 1946 witli
the rank of major, and taught for
several years in the Maiden Rock
High Schol, Wisconsin, before entering the graduate school of the
Minnesota, from
of
University
which he received the master of
arts degree, in .\merican studies in
1947.

During the next four years, Dr.
Bahlke was a member of the staff

Wayne

University in Detroit.
re-entered the University of
Minnesota graduate school in 1951,
at

He

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

and taught

in

the department of

rhetoric and the

program

in

Amer-

ican studies until he fulfilled the
rwpiirement for the Doctor of

Philosophy degree several months
ago.
Dr. Bahlke married the former

Marie Helmers, of Duluth, MinneThey have two daughteirs,
Susan Marie and Sarah Elizabeth
and one son, Stephen Scott.
sota.

MISS BEATRICE ENGLEIIART
Miss Beatrice Englehart, former
teacher in Bloomsburg’s elemeaitary schools, and for the past two
years a teacher in the Primary DeIjartment of the Abington Township Schools in Montgomery County, has been appouited Assistant
Professor of Elementary Education
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College by the Board of Trustees
of the College.
Miss Englehart

began her duties

September in
Benjamin
Frankin Labortory School on tlie
college campus.
Her professional
in

the kindergarten of

tlie

include tlae super\ision of college seniors who are
doing practice-teaching in elementary education.
activities

will

Miss Englehart began her teaching career in May’s Landing, New
Jersey, after completing her teacher-certification at the

Bloomsburg

Teachers College.
Several
years later, she returned to Bloomsburg, and taught in the elementary
schools here for a number of years.
State

In 1953, Miss Englehart fulfilled
requirements for the Master

the
of

Education degree at Bucknell

University and qualified for

mentary

ele-

and princiDuring the same
year, she accepted an appointment
supervisor’s

pal’s certificates.

clude membership in the PennsylV ania
State Education Association,
National Education Association,
•Association for Childhood Education International, Association for
Student Teaching, and Delta Kappa Gamma fraternity.

TRUSTEES APPOINTED

President Harvey A. Andruss of
College,
the
State
Teachers
Bloomsburg,
and
Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Andruss announce the marriage of her sister, Mrs. Mary Archibald to Mr. Sidney Morris Bober,
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Bober is the widow of Dr.
Earl \V. Wright, Dean for twen-

Teacliers College.

ty-five

>

ears of the State Teachers

Shippensburg,

College,

Peimsyl-

\ania.

The wedding took place
o’clock

Saturday,

OrangeDennen, Turbotvill B. D. 1, Northumberland
county, and Harld L. Paul, Port
Carbon, Schuylkill county, have
been appointed membership on the
vile R.

H.
D.

board

of

Carl

Fleckenstine,

2;

Leo

S.

trustees

at

the

State

The announcement was made by
Governor George M. Leader’s office at Harri.sburg.

Mr. Fleckenstine, a formed Uniand long active

ted States Marshal

in Democratic politics, fills a vacancy occasioned by the death,

more than a year ago, of Reg. S.
Hemingway, Bloomsburg attorney.
Mr. Hemiingway was serving as
president at the time of his death.

at

October

four

6,

at

Buckalew Place, the residence of
Dr. and Mrs. Andruss.
Suffragan Bishop Earl M. Honaman, of the Harrisburg Diocese
of the Episocpal Church officiated.
Mrs. Bober attended Lutlierville

Dennen succeeds W.

Mr.

L.

Weer, Kingston, and Mr. Paul takes

Howard
The terms

the place of
Pottsville.

S. Fernsler,
of both Mr.

Weer and Mr. Fernsler expired.
The appointment of Mr. Fleckand reGolumbia county and

enstine, a former register

Seminary and was graduated from

•corder

Chatham

long interested in the local institu-

College,
Pennsylvania.
-Mr.

Luke’s

Pittsburgh,

tion,

Boher graduated from
Preparatory

Haverford

College,
Pennsylvania.

Mr. Boiler’s

first

School

St.

and

Philadelphia,

had been anticipated.

Mr. Weer and Mr. Fernsler both
served for some years on the
board. Mr. Fernsler is well known
in this

wife died sev-

in

community

activities in

as a result of his

Caldwell Consistory.

eral years ago.

A\’illiam Hahn and Anne Louise
Neserxes were married in July in
the First Methodist Church, Nanticoke. Mrs. Hahn has been teach-

ing in Somerville, New Jersey, and
Mr. Hahn is a laboratory techniThey are
cian at U. S. Radium.
living in Plymouth.

Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church, Watsontown, was the
recent setting for die marriage of
Miss Marguerite J. Bitler, daughter of Mrs. Kathryn H. Bitler and
the late Dr. Sherman E. Bitler, to
B. Wright, son of Mr. and

Harold

Mrs. C. L. Wright,
town.

all of

Watson-

as Instructor in the Early Childhood, Elementary Education De-

After a wedding trip to Canada,
the couple will reside at 222 Main

partment at Temple University,
and devoted part of her time to

street,

the supervision of student teachers in the public schools of Philadelphia
.

Before beginning her duties at
Abington Township in 1954, Miss
Englehart taught in the sununer

workshop

in

Elementary Educa-

tion at Bucknell University.

Her

professional affiliations in-

OCTOBER,

1956

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44. Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg STerling 4-3969

Watsontown.
Wright graduated from
Watsontown High School and attended B.S.T.C. She graduated
from Williamsport Hospital School
Mrs.

Her husband, also a
of Nursing.
graduate of Watsontown High
Scihool, served in the U. S. Army
two years and
Millen’s

is

employed

at

Mc-

Clothing Store, Watson-

town.
3

BUILDING APPROPRIATIONS
CUT AT B.S.T.C.

now

the seniors do not attend. In
fact enrollment at the present is
limited to underclassmen of a num-

CONTRIBUTE TO
BAKELESS LOAN FUND

Decision by authorities that operational expenses such as architectual tees must come out ot tlie

ber who can be accommodated at
assembly sessions, plus seniors.
The request for sufficient funds
for an auditorium has been in
Harrisbiug for some time and it
is believed that tlris request will
get favorable consideration at the
next session of the Legislature.
The College this fall has a recIf
ord enrollment of over 1,075.

At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees ot tire college. President
Harvey A. Andruss recommended
that the Florence Cawley Fund,
represented by a $1,000 interest
bearing bond, be trairsferred to the
Board of Directors of the Alumni
Association as a contribution of the
Board of Trustees to the Bakeless

grant tor construction, lias cut the
amount available lor new buildings at the State Teachers College,
here, troin !})2.5 to $2 million dollars and has delayed tor the present plans tor the construction of
a new auditorium.

Previously the GSA took care ot
the operational expenses.
There
were
million made available to
tlie State Department ot
Public
Instruction hi May and $2.5 millions ot this were allocated for

were

there

accommodations it
be 1,500. There were

Memorial Loan Fund.

The College Council, composed
and faculty members,
have set aside $500 for this loan
fund out of any surplus which may
remain in the bank account of the

could easily
250 applications for enrollment
from persons who could easily
qualify that had to be turned
dowir. Probably as many more applied who could also have met the

of students

As things stand now tliere are
indications that a classroom building, witli eiglit cassrooms on the

standards.

and fom- laboratories on
the second floor, may be ready by

tive

The 1956 Senior Class
contributed $200 and the CoTlege
Faculty has pledged $500 to be
paid over a two-year period.
In addition to the $2,2000 either
l^aid or pledged to date, the Oscar
Hugh Bakeless Chapter of the Future Teachers of America will con\ass all college organizations beginning this month, to raise addi-

Bloomsburg.

first floor

1957-58 college
cost is a half
billion dollars, with equipment additional, and the probable sfle is
the iDiesent location of a battery
of tennis courts near the varsity
the

the

ot

start

The estimated

year.

atlrletic field.

A men’s dormitory widi accommodations for two hundred will
also be provided for under the
grant. Just when this will be constructed remahis uncertam due to
the fact that a law was passed at
the last session of Legislature
standarizing dormitories contstrucThis law will
ted by the state.
have to be studied to ascertain if
dormitories for Teachers Co'llege
If this is so, then the
is covered.

have to be
drawing tlie plans.

restrictions

lowed

in

will

folIt is

believed construction will cost one
jnillion dollars and can start within a year.

One

of at least 1,200

is

need-

the College enrollment
increases as anticipated it will not
be many years until one of that

ed and

if

inadequate.
I’he auditorium in Caiwer Hall,
first building on the campus, acAt assemblies
commodates 857.

size

4

is

ac-

giving what assistance it
can to the institution to increase
in size so that it can meet the stu-

dent demand.

now ready

for action a

$100,000 project for the remodeling of the present dining hall into
a library and the converting of tire
present library space into donnitory quarters. Funds for this have
been taken from the operational
budget of the institution.

The new dining hall is now under construction and it is hoped it
will be ready for use by the first
of next year or at least by spring.
The objective is to have the plans
ready for the new library quarters
dormitory
additional
tire
and
rooms so that there will be no delay in this work once the new dining hall is put into use. The dinThere
ing hall cost is $450,(X)0.
was $10,()(K) allocated for equipment but much more will be lifcd-

From

the

two million
been al-

present

grant, $5,000 has

dollar

located for a campus survey for
(he selection of sites for buildings
to be erected in the immediate future and for others' needed.

The

be surveyed.

utility lines will also

Also taken from the recent grant
will be $.30,000 for utility connection to

Once
ing

end

Associa-

of tire present Col-

The initial gift of
funds.
$2,500 by an anonymous donor to
the O. 11. and S. H. Bakeless Memorial Loan Fund will be doubled.
With more than $5,000 in sight,
expected that individual
it
is
Alumni Branches will be invited to
tional

contribute to the Loan Fund, so as
to dordde its present size, which
This
approximately $15,000.
is
loan fund is non-interest bearing
until after graduates have secured
employment. In past years it has
I)een limited first to Seniors, then
Juniors and Seniors, and

to

now

with an increase in size may be extended to members of the Sopho-

more

class.

has been almost twenty years
since the Amni have had an opiX)rtunity to aid their Alma Mater by
contributing to the Loan Fund.
The last drive was made in 1938
and 1939 by the late R. Bruce Albert, who was then President of
It

cd.

With the reduction in the overBloomsburg the
for
all
grant
amount remaining available for an
auditorium would limit the size to
8(K).

of

in

is

tion at the

lege year.

The Bloomsburg Chamber
Commerce has been especially

There

Community Government

is

new
the

buildings.

new classroom

completed and

all

buildlaborator-

the

Alumni Association.

ies located there, the space now
devoted to two laboratories in Science Hall can be converted into

four classrooms.

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HARVEY A. ANDRUSS AT
U YOMING CONFERENCE

MORE RENOV ATIONS PLANNED

Harvey A. Audrujjs, president of
the Hlooinsburg State Teachers
College, participated during the
past suininer in the school for executives of the

American AssociaTeacher Edu-

tion of Colleges for

cation meeting at
of

the

University

Wyoming, Laramie.
The eighth biennial school

With the appointment of Schmitt and Lippi, Architects of Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, to draw plans for a new renovation contract to cover the changing
of the present Dining Room into a Library and the present Library into additional dormitory rooms, the expenditure in excess of $150,000 is expected at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
In the report to the Board of Trustees, President Harvey A. Andruss gives
the following details regarding the expenditure of over $2,000,000 which has or
the following details regarding the expenditure of over $2,000,000 which has taken
place or will take place over a live-year period ending in 1958:

of

the Teacher Education Association
brouglit 337 registrants from 104
colleges and universities to Lara-

mie to discuss ways of producing
more and better teadiers for the

GENERAL STA

I

E

AUTHORITY PROGRAMS
$385,000 (Completed)

Renovation of Heating Plant
Construction of Dining Room, Kitchen
and Storage Building

490,000 (Proposed)

ing

public schools.

460,000 (In process)

new Classroom Build-

Construction of

$1,335,000

Harvey A. Andruss, Jr., son of
President and Mrs. Harvey A.
Andruss, and Miss Mary Ann
Polomny, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Polomny, of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, were married Saturday,

May

12, in

the Westminster Pres-

byterian
Church,
Minneapolis.
The Rev. Dr. Arnold Love, pastor
of the church, officiated at the
double-ring ceremony performed
in the presence of two hundred
fifty guests.

The bride is a graduate of the
School of Business of the University of Minnesota, and has been
serving as secretary to the VicePresident of Multi-Clean Products,
Inc., of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mr. Andruss is a graduated of
Mercersburg Academy, attended
B.S.T.C., and received his Bachelor’s degree at Yale University. He
is a First Lieutenant in tlie Field
Artillery Reserve,

and

is

employed

as Factory Representative of the

Add 20%
tect's

to

cover Elquipment, Archi-

Fees, Inspection,

Financing,

Expense of
267,000

etc.

PROPERTY .AND SUPPLIES PROJECTS
(Paid for out of College Budget)

Renovation of Carver Hall for Adminincluding
istrative
Offices,
roof, renovation of Infirmary,

new
and

Old Gymnasium

75,000

Renovation of Waller Hall, first floor
completion
Husky
of
corridor,
Lounge project. New Entrance to
Carver Hall and Waller Hall, Sun
Porch at residence

152,000

Proposed project being surveyed by
Schmitt and Lippi to cover change
of present Dining Room to Library
to
space, present Library space
Dormitory space, and possible class-

room space

in Noetling Hall

150,000

377,000

Payment

of College s pro rata share of
the construction cost of the Bloomsburg Sewer Disposal Plant

35,000

Activities and Book Store
Social and Recreational Fa-

Community
Funds
cilities

and

Equipment,

Husky Lounge

including
30,000

Armstrong Cork Company, Lan$2,044,000

caster, Pennsylvania.

The General

State Authority will be requested to increase the allowance
for the dining room project, so this may be expected to be
increased to $475,000 from $460,000, either from General State Authority or College somces.

made

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

for

equipment

The proposed construction cost for the Classroom Building of $450,000 will
porbably have to be augmented by at least $40,000 to equip Science Laboratories
and Business Education Classrooms.
While the 20% overhead item on General State Authority contracts may
sound high, we must remember that Architects are paid 8% to 10% and that an
additional amount is necessary to carry the overhead of the General State Authority organization,

and equipment.

including resident inspectors of contracts, financing of bonds,
Therefore, the $2,000,000 figure would seem to be on the con-

servative side.

OCTOBER,

1956

5

EDDIE REMINISCES
(From the “Passing Throng” column
of The Morning Press.)

Bloomsburg State Teachers College has launched its one hundred
institution

that

started

in

1839 as the Bloomsburg Literary

and marked the centen-

Institute

nial in ’39

with the dedication of
the Centennial Gymnasium and an
address by then Governor ArthmH. James, is opening this year with
the largest enrollment in its history.
It is over 1,100 and there
IS no question but that the enroll-

ment would be
had the room.
There were

1,500 or

more

if

we

hundreds turned
and more hun-

aside a year ago

dreds

A

conservative
figure is that 200 more students
would have been accepted in the
institution in both the fall of ’55
and this autumn had there been
this

year.

facilities.

The

institution,

recognized

Uirougliout the area for its splendid work and with a national reputation for its business course, has
come a long way since it was started as a local educational venture.

Through that period, then
Normal School and,

State

as a
since

1927, as a Teachers Gollege, it has
been fortunate in its leadership

and

in

We

dedicated faculty.

its

don’t

know

whetlier

Dean

Emeritus William B. Sutliff, last
of the beloved “Old Guard” strolled on the campus during the
opening days of the tenn but we’ll
venture he did if he was able to
do so. The institution is part of
him as it has been of countless others from Dr. Garver, the first head
of the institution on through Noctling Waller, Brill, Jenkins, Albert,
Ilartline and many more.
It’s

considerably different now.

Times change and certainly the educational pattern has to be changed to keep uj;> with this high powered age of the atom and power
politics and all the rest of the
things which go to make up the
period in which wo live.

Many
twenties

of

us

when

went through
6

they had to get an emergency cerand they had a certain
period in which to get the two year
tificate

seventeenth year.

The

schools of the Gommonwealth a
teacher had to, by a certain date,
have a Normal School diploma. If
they didn’t have one at that time

can recall in the
the requirement

that to teach in the

normal course.
It

was

teachers

in that period

who had gone

that the
into that

from high school came here
in the summer and worked on
credits.
As we recall the summer
school at that time had an enroll-

field

ment of some 800.
They were working then
years’ education

above

tliat

for

two

of high

school just as the teacher today is
working for the degree of master
and for doctorates.

There

will

Through the years there have
been few periods when there were
enough teachers to meet the demand and never have there been
enough good teachers.
We’re
turning out more educators now
than ever but we are’nt keeping
up with the demand and sometimes we get the thouglit that we
will.

in that field

oustanding
go on to other

professions and vocations that are
more lucrative.
Many others
could but teaching is their love
and in that we are most fortunate.
It doesn’t seem so long ago that
Art Jenkins, Newport Township,
complete'd a degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education. He was the
first student ever to receive a degree here. His thirtieth anniversary will be coming along next
May and certainly the Alumni Asshould do something
sociation

about
In

of us

outlined on a

were a

little chabusiness education as the feature in our secondary field rather than physical education. But we have lived to see
the day when we can term that
circumstance a most fortunate one

grined

lor

when we

Bloomsburg.

Of

all that was said last Alumni
the thing we liked best was
this comment by President Andruss: “VVe need more room to
serve our area and to do fine work
but we never intend to grow or
expand to such an extent that we
will ever lose the spirit that is

Day

Bloomsburg.”
(E.F.S.)

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Gatawissa, was the recent setting for
the marriage of Miss Barbara Ann

Bucher, Catawissa, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ghester Bucher,
Metuchen, N. J., and Benjamin W.
Lewis, Metuchen, N. J., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Lewis, Paxinos.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Paul Trump.

The bride graduated from Catawissa High School and B.S.T.C.
and is second grade teacher in Catawissa.
Her husband graduated
from Shamokin High School and

Williamsport Technical
He served four years
with the Air Force and is employed by Ford Motor Company, Mercury Division, Metuchen, N. J.
attended

Institute.

Many who would do
work

Some

all

be some, of course,

who will say there were some
splendid teachers in that age of
the past although formal education
stopped with high school, and they
are right. But it is also true that
those same teachers would have
been better teachers with additional preparation.

never

tire courses are
four-year basis.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION URCOGISTS
SINCF, 18G8
William V. Moyer, '07, President
Harold L, Moyer OD. Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

that.

the

fir.st

years,

when

the

Teachers Gollege had the right to
grant degrees they also continued
to have two- and three-year courFor some time now, however,.
ses.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE DEAN’S
The Dean

Springer, Dale, Lopez
ship-Mildred.

LIST

of Instruction of the

College, Mr. John A. lloch, has
released the following names of
students who have qualified for
the Dean’s List for the second semester, 1955-1956.
These students
have a quality point average of
2.5 or better for the second semester, 1955-1956, and an accumula-

average ot at least 2.0 while
attendance at this college.

tive
in

Freshmen
Bandes, Jeanne, 503

Seniors

Beck,

Donald, 301East 11th Street.
Berwick Berwick.
DeOrio, Joan, 448 Warsaw, Keiser

—

Kulpmont.
Eyer, Patricia, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg
Scott Township.
Knouse, Bertha, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg

— Bloomsburg.
Krzywicki,

3rd Street,

Elast

—Scott-Coatesville.
Bigart, Betty, 55 East 4th
Bloomsburg— Waymart.
Clark, Carol, 542 Wilshire Road, Upper Darby — Upper Darby.
Eunson, Dorothy, 596 East 2nd Street,
Bloomsburg—Bloomsburg.
Ferdock, Ronald, 614 North Locust
Avenue, Centralia —Mt. Carmel Cath-

Doris,

West

32

Main

—Plymouth.
O'Brien,
Patricia,
354
Catherine
Street, Bloomsburg— Bloomsburg.
Street,

Plymouth

Siscoe,

Edward, 627
Simpson.

Forest City

Blcwmsburg

—Cherry Town-

Susquehanna,

—

Zimmerman,

Fiorenza, John, 366 Vine Street, Ber^Berwick.
Janetka, Carl. 224 Garden Avenue,

wick

—

—

Horsham Upper

Moreland,

Willow

Grove.
Pileski,

West 3rd Street,
Cyril Academy, Dan-

Mary, 591

Bloomsburg

—

St.

ville.

—

Raker, Lynne, Numidia
Creek Valley Joint.

Roaring

Washington
Sprout,
Elizabeth,
63
illiamsport.
illiamsport
Boulevard,
Swatt, Kenneth, 13 South 7th Street,

—W

W

Shamokin
Tier,

—

Shamokin.
Mary, 2326 Prospect, Croydon

Delhaas-Bristol.

Wahl, Mary, 205 Park Avenue, MilMilton Area Joint.

ton

—

Sophomores
Braynock, Edward, 39 Stanley, Askam Hanover Township.

—

Cobley, Bettie, 360 East 3rd Street,
Bloomsburg Catasauqua.
Ford, John, 79 East Sunbury Street,

—
Shamokin— Kulpmont.
Galatha, Mary, Hazle Village, Hazleton — Hazle Township.
Hoftoer, Betta, 408 Parker, Clarks
Summit—Abington-Clarks Summit.
Mahoning, MilMease, Richard, 44
ton—Milton.
ToSpentzas, Constantine, 3
wanda—Towanda Valley.
Suwalski, Nancy, 529 Fellows Avenue,
Wilkes-Barre —Hanover-Wilkes-Barre.
Williams, Annette, 86 Cist, WilkesBarre—Hanover Township.
I

2

Jeanie, 728

Berwick— Berwick.

Green

Street,

2,

Shamokin

Juniors

Samina, 310 East 5th Street,
Bloomsburg Bloomsburg.
Creasy, James, 612 West 3rd Street,
Bloomsburg Bloomsburg.
Koch, Mary, 121 North Broad Street,
West Hazleton ^Hazleton.

—
—

—

Ozalas, Constance, 749 Lafayette, Pal-

merton—S.

S.

OCTOBER,

1956

Palmer.

The

Business Education Division
the largest of the three divisions
of the college with 365 students.
a total of 420

Louise
Yocum,
Joyce
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Atwood
Yocum, Elyshurg, and Richard
Farnsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Farnsworth, Dam ille, were
united in marriage recently in tire
Reformed Cliurch of Wapwallopen.
The pastor, the Rev. Mr.
Mi.ss

Heller, officiated.

The bride, a graduate of Ralpho
Township High School, is employed in the Registrar’s office

at the

Geisinger Hospital.

Mr. Farnsworth is a teacher of
mathematics in Elysburg High
School. He is a graduate of Danville High School and holds de-

from
Bloomsburg State
grees
Teachers College and Bucknell
University.

The bride grom is a graduate of
B.S.T.C. and is employed by Electric Auto-Lite.

Freshmen.

When

the total enrollment of
different persons was adjusted in
terms of full-time students, the enrollment of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College for the first time
in its history reached 1,003.

Columbia County, with an enrollment of 190 students, was only
slightly larger than Luzerne County with 188 students, closely fol-

lowed by Northumberland County,
with 155 students.
Counties having more

tlian

25

students are Schuylkill, Lackawan-

Lycoming, Montour, Montgomery, while those having ten or
more are as follows: Berks, Bradford,
Bucks, Carbon, Dauphin,
Delaware, Lehigh, Northampton,
Snyder, and Union. Forty-five of
na,

the

Miss Ann B. Vito, daughter of
Fred Vito, Hazleton, and Francis
P. Gavio, son of Joseph Gavio,
Hazeton, were married recently at
Most Precious Blood Church in
Hazleton.

sixty-seven

counties

of the
Pennsylvania
are represented in the enrollment
of tlie Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, with only four students
enrolled from outside the State of
Pennsylvania.

Commonwealth

of

Richard Salatine, a former student of Bloomsburg, has been
awarded a commission as Ensign
in the U. S. Navy, upon completion of Pre-Flight training at tlie

MONTOUR

HOTEI.

Danville. Pa.

Ralpho Township.
Cole,

dents.

This Department also had 176 of

Elliott,

Wynn, George, R. D.

ENROLLMENT

Final reports for the overall enrollment of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College for the year ending June 1, 1956, have been filed
with the Department of Public Instruction showing the total of 1,033 different people, of which 988
were full-time regular students
and 45 were part-time day stu-

is

Street,,

olic.

1955-56

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth. ’42

R. J

Webb.

’42

Naval Air Station, at Pensacola,
Florida.
Captain M. W. White,
U.S.N., commanding officer of the
Barin Field Auxiliary Air Station,
Foley, Alabama, made the presentation.
Ensign Salatine is now assigned
to the Whiting Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Miton, Florida,

where he

is

undergoing primary

flight training.

7

COLLEGE COMPLETES
PAYMENT ON
SEWAGE PROJECT
A

check for

$15,000

sented recently by
State

Teachers

tlie

was pre-

JBloomsburg

College

to

the

Municipal Authority of the Town
of Blooinsburg in final payment of
$35,000,

the

cost

of

construction

assumed by the Commonwealith

of

Pennsylvania when the Municipal
Sewage Disposal Plant was' constructed.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
President of the College, announced that the $15,000, plus a payment made in September, 1954,
completes the total payment. The
college will continue to pay, according to the agreement, an annual rental to cover the expense of
sewage treatment at the rate of
$1,320.

The cooperative aspect

of

tlie

building and operation of the disl^osal plant received its impetus a
decade ago when die Department
of Property and Supplies, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, engaged the services' of the George
B. Mebus Co., Glenside engineering firm, to determine the sanitary
sewage needs of the college. On
the basis of survey findings of sew-

age volume and full-time and parttime college personnel, it was rec-

ommended

According to the agreement, this
charge may be adjusted annually
by the agreement of both parties
to a formula which indicates that
the per capita charge should be
increased or decreased.

The

entire

agreement between both parties
was made for a period of thirty
years.

ALUMNUS NAMED
TO LUZERNE POSITION
B.S.T.C.

zerne County Schools.

Franklin E.U.B. Church, Unitywas the setting Saturday,
September 8, 1956, for the marriage of Miss Ruth E. Peterman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Lawrence PeteiTnan, Unityville R. D.,
to Robert Otto Diltz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Diltz, Stillwater.
ville,

The bride graduated from Sullivan Highland High School and has

clean streams and improved
health conditions. In keeping with
this, town authorities made plans
for plant construction, and the
Commonwealth, agreed to the
$.3.5,0(M) figure, on behalf of the
eoll(!go, to allow for increases in
the eost of eonstruction since the

husband graduated from
Benton High School and B.S.T.C.

final

payment

of the

however, the annual rentand charges, paid by the college,
will be reduced by $800 a year.
$.35,{){)(),

al

8

American Guild

of

Organ-

.

will replace the

Hammond

or-

gan which was purchased in 1936,
largely from profits of the student
book store. The late Dr. H. V.
Hower, then president of the board
of trustees, gave $500 toward the

book store
Robert Sides, Williamsport, is
the contractor. The organ is of the
type which can be moved to the
new auditorimn when one is constructed on the campus.
Inasmuch as it has a full pipe
organ keboard, students who had
jiipe organ instniction before matriculating on the hill will be able

guests.

With the

of the
ists

sylvania State University in that
field, has acted for the past five
years in the capacity of speech
therapist in the Bradford City
School System. While holding that
position he initiated a speech correction program for the eight
Bradford City Schools.

the meantime, state legislation made it mandatory for towns
and cities to provide for sewage
treatment as a part of a program

J94fl survey.

The organ is electrically operated but has a full pipe organ keyboard and carries the endorsement

instrument.

lature.

for

weeks.

Mr. Jewell, who took his undergraduate
work in speech at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and graduate work at Penn-

The Rev. Warren A. Baker performed the donble-ring ceremony
by candlelight before 2(K) wedding

In

A new Baldwin organ has been
X)urchased for the Teachers College and will be installed in a few

It

Robert Jewell, Dallas, has been
appointed by the Luzerne County
Board of School Directors to serve
as speech therapist for the Lu-

that
the
Commoncontribute approximately
$20,000 toward construction of a
disposal plant.
An appropriation,
not to exceed this amount, was
provided later by the .state legis-

wealth

ORGAN
FOR COLLEGE
$6,000

been employed by Sylvania Electric

Products, Inc., Montoursville.

Her

He

received

liis

elementary

certi-

from
Kutztown State
Teachers College and his Master
of Arts degree from Teachers Col-

fication

Columbia University, New
York. He was a member of Alpha
Omicron fraternity. The groom, a

The Baldwin, which

will

cost

$6,000, is to be paid over a period
of three years from profits of the
.

to play the instrument without adjustment, such as was required
when the Hammond was in use.
A large sound chamber is now
being constructed over the auditorium to house the sound units of
the organ.

Army Reserve Maj. Anthony J.
Verhovshek, now residing at 1935
Derry Street, Harrisburg, recently
received two weeks of active duty
training at Fort Lee, Va.
The
firing
latest

training includes weapons
and familiarization with the
developments in Anny Quar-

lerma.ster procedures.

Major Verhavshek, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gregory Verhavshek, 718
Hudson street. Forest City. He is
an office manager for H. B. Dissinger, Incoi-porahxl.

lege,

veteran of Word War II witli service in Europe, is now on the faculty of the Carson Long Institute,
New Bloomfield, Pa.

J.

WESLEY KNORR,

’.34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

TIIK

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

RECEI\

ED DEGREES AT

ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
The following
ates

is

a

BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
COLLEGE YEAR 1956-1957

of graduState Teach-

list

from Bloomsburg

who received advanced degrees diirignng the 88th University Day exercises of Lehigh
University held Monday, June 18,
1956, in Grace Hall on the Lehigh
University campus.
Frank Hudock (R.S), Master of

FOOTi^.ALL
Delaware State College (Dover) Home

ers College

Saturday,
Saturday,
‘Saturday,
‘Saturday,
Saturday,
‘Saturday,
‘P'riday,

September
October 6

29

October 13
October 20
October 27

November
November 9

Home

.

Cortland S.T.C
Mansfield S.T.C.

.

Shippensburg S.T.C

(Homecoming) Home

King’s College (Night)
California S.T.C
West Chester S.T.C. (Night) ....

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Arts (Education).

Genevieve F. Scheetz (R.S.),
Master of Arts (Education).
George j. Griffith (B.S.), Master
of .Arts (English).

‘Saturday, December

Wednesday, December
‘Saturday. December

5

8

.

‘Wednesday, December 12
‘Wednesday, January 9
‘Wednesday, January 16
‘Saturday, January 19 ...
'Wednesday. January 30
Saturday, February 6
‘Wednesday. February 6
Saturday, February 9
'Thursday, February 14
Saturday. February 16
‘Friday. February 22 ....
‘Saturday. February 23
‘Monday, February 25

.

.

The marriage of Miss Patricia
Ann Hess, daughter of Mr. and
-Mrs. Carl W. Hess, Orangeville
R. D. 2, to John B.
of .Mr. and .Mrs. .A.

Wiliman, son
Baron VVilli-

man. Charleston,

C.,

S.

was per-

formed! recently in the rectory chapel of the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist.
The Rev. Louis F.
Streker officiated.

The bridegroom was graduated
from Bishop England Higli School,
Charleston, and attended the Colleeg of Charleston. He is serving
with the U. S. Navy and has received orders for duty at Kodiak,
Alaska.

The bride was graduated from
Benton High Schol and B.S.T.C.

.

.

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‘Friday,

March

.

1

WRESTLING
Saturday, January 12
*

&

23

.

.

.

Lycoming College

BASEBALL
Stroudsburg S.T.C
Lock Haven S.T.C
East Stroudsburg S.T.C
E.

.

May 1
‘Saturday, May 4
‘Tuesday, May 7 ....
Friday. May 10
Saturday, May 11 ..
‘Tuesday, May 14
‘Friday, May 17 ....
‘Saturday, May 18
‘Tuesday, May 21
.

.

.

Millersville S.T.C
Mansfield S.T.C
Scranton University
Lycoming College
Kutztown S.T.C

.

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Lock Haven S.T.C
Shippensburg S.T.C
Mansfield S.T.C

.

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Lycoming College

Saturday, April 6
‘Wednesday, April 10
‘Saturday, April 27

‘Wednesday,

Chester, Pa.

Away
Home
Home
Millersville S.T.C
Lock Haven S.T.C
Away
East Stroudsburg S.T.C
Away
Indiana S.T.C
Home
Lincoln University
Home
West Chester S.T.C
Home
S.T.C. Wrestling Championships Away
Pennsylvania Military College

Wednesday, January 16
Saturday, January 19
Thursday, January 31
Wednesday, February 6
Saturday, February 9
Wednesday. February 13
Saturday, February 16
Friday & Saturday, February 22

.

At present she is teaching in the
Penn-Delco School System near

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Shippensburg S.T.C
King’s College
Kutztown S.T.C
Cheyney S.T.C
Cheyney S.T.C
Kutztown S.T.C
Mansfield S.T.C
Millersville S.T.C
Lycoming College
Shippensburg S.T.C
Lycoming College
Lock Haven S.T.C
King’s College
Millersville S.T.C
Mansfield S.T.C
Lock Haven S.T.C
West Chester S.T.C

1

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TRACK

CREASY & WELLS
Martha Crsaiy,

'04,

Vice Pres.

BUILDING 3IATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

Penn Relays
Penn Relays
Cheyney S.T.C

Friday, April 26
Saturday, April 27

May 2
May 4
Wednesday, May 8
Saturday, May 11
Wednesday, May 15
Friday. May 17

Thursday,
Saturday,

Shippensburg S.T.C
State Meet (S.T.C.
Millersville S.T.C

Champion)

East Stroudsburg S.T.C

Lock Haven S.T.C

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‘Conference Games

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Football Coach Jack W. Yohe
Basketball and Track Coach ^Harold S. Shelly
Wrestling Coach ^Watler R. Blair
Baseball Coach Dr. E. Paul Wagner
Athletic Director Jack W. Yohe
Publicity Director ^Boyd F. Buckingham
Telephone STerling 4-4660, Extension 15

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OCTOBER,

1956

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9

THE ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Frank J. Furgele
25 E. Moreland Avenue

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street, Danville, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

'46

Benton, Pa.

Hatboro, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Edwin M. Vastine, 43
Bloom Street, Danville,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

DELAWARE VALLEY BRANCH

COLUMBIA COUNTY

’33

Bloomsburg, Pa.

400

Henry Morgan
207 Jefferson Avenue

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Bristol, Pa.

Edward D.

Sharretts, ’41
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Miss Alice SmuU,

TREASURER

208 North Bellevue

Church

312

SECRETARY

’05

Danville, Pa.

St.,

TREASURER

Avenue

Miss Susan Sidler,

Langhorne, Pa.

Paul Martin, 38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Pa,

Bloom

615

TREASURER

St.,

’30

Danville^ Pa.

Francis B. Galin&ki

Diane Avenue

183

Hatboro, Pa.

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
ALUMNI BRANCH

PHILADELPHIA AREA

William B. Jones ’29
1131 W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBEBLAND AREA
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Miss Mary A. Meehan, ’18
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Nellie M. Seidel,
1618 State

St.,

’13

Mrs. Lillian

VICE PRESIDENT

J.

PRESIDENT

Miss Pearl L. Baer_ ^2
South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Ml'S.

693

Moosic,

Charlotte Fetter Coulston '23
Street, Spring City, Pa.

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Miss Esther E. Dagnell ’34
215 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.

at

lives

137 East Sixth Street, Berwick, Ba.
Her daugliter, Louise Adams
Trescott, was giaduated iu 1916

graduate of the Berwick High
School and attended at school in
Ithaca,

New

1894

Art

Enclosed is a check for $12 to
my dues for one year, and a
contribution of $10 for the BakeIt is a
less Memorial Loan Fund.
wonderful plan, as it honors devoted teachers and will benefit fu-

industrial

was grad-

institute

He

of

Technology

m

1923.

Vice-President in charge of
Marketing Research, of MasseyHarris-Ferguson, Inc.
Her younger son. Garret, is an
in
announcer at Station
is

WNFB

Binghamton,
10

New

York.

He

is

a

ture teachers.

Personally

1

Crow

Indians

lisle”

and

who were

remember
as

at ’’Car-

“Professor”

being “good”
be glad to

will

about them.

letter

cover

uated from Berwick High School
attended Mercersburg
in
1918,
Academy for one year, and was
graduated from the Massachusetts

’22

North Main Avenue
Scranton, Pa.

“talk”

was received from Bridgett Quinn Keogh, St.
Xavier, Montana:

in 1923.
Her elder son, Elliott,

632

and Mrs. Bakeless
to them, and they

York.

The following

TREASURER
Miss Martha Y. Jones

Iroin the Berwick High Schol, from
Bloomsburg State Normal
the
Schol in 1918, and from tlie Phila-

School oi

Miss Margaret Lewis ’28
1105Vi W. Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

Arch

TREASURER

1889

P*a.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Mary Albertson Adanis

’23

Minooka Avenue

’18

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

delpliia

Mrs. Marion George Evans
520

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer
Fairview Village, Pa.

Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

21

VICE PRESIDENT

Hortman Irish ’06
Camden, N.

732 Washington Street,

Harrisburg, Pa.

have grateful mem-

ories of a kind teacher,

and

also

the sound and helpful advise he
gave one when 1 informed liim 1
had received an appointment as
teacher in tlie Indian service. In
this connection f plan to contact 5

1899

Some
form

a

of these days they should

branch of the Bloomsburg

State Teachers College Alumni Association in Whittier, California,
and name it the Ada Shuman Nel-

son Branch.
Mrs. Nelson, who is now in tliis
section with her husband, George,
visiting

relatives

and

friends,

re-

cently retired after forty-four years
of outstanding service in the Los
Nietos schols, being superintend-

ent since 1921.

She was showered with honors
at the

time of her retirement but

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
NEW YORK AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY
Wilkes-Barre Area

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Michael Prokopchak,

PRESIDENT
Thomas H. Jenkins ’40
Terrace Drive, Shavertown

91

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
EYancis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St, Tunkhannock, PA.

’35

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

P. Clive Potts, ’12

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Jerry Y. Russin ’41
136 Maffett St., Plains

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

119 Dalton St., Roselle Park. N. J.

A. K. Naugle,

New

VICE PRESIDENT

’ll

Mehoopany. Pa.

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY
Besamarie Williams Schilling
51 W. Pettebone St., Forty Fort

Joseph A. Kulick

Kenneith Kirk ’54
317 Tripp St., West Wyoming

1542

1,

’14

Tunkhannock, Pa.

SECRETARY

’49

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
CUfford, Pa.

North Danville Street

Arlington

’ll

Virginia

TREASURER

TREASURER
St.,

42 Slocum, Ave.,

PRESIDENT

FINANCIAE SECRETARY

Madison

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

WASHINGTON ALUMNI

'53

146

’19

Miss Mabel Dexter,

Ajgnes Anthony Silvany ’20
83 N. River St., Wilkes-Barre

Betty K. Hensley

’52

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. George Murphy ’16

’34

Wilkes-Barre

Mrs.

New

nee Harriet MoAuidrew
Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

’14

Olwen Argust Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

GOOO

Hazleton Area

PRESIDENT

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

Miss Mary R. Crumb ’24
1232 U St., S. E., Washington, D. C.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

RECORDING SECRETARY

Robert V. Glover,

VICE PRESIDENT
Jason Schaffer

Mrs. J. Chevalier II ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak

147 East Chestnut St., Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

R. D.

1,

Selinsgrove, Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

’03

Miifflinburg, Pa.

.

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

Miss Saida Hartman ’08
Brandywine St., N. W.

4215

TREASURER

Washin^on

McHose Elcker, ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton,

16,

TREASURER

D. C.

Helen Crow

Mrs. Lucille
127

also

honored during her period of

When

they erected a
large elementary school in the
Whittier area district in 1951 it

service.

was

named

the

Ada

S.

Nelson

school.

But let’s touch a moment on that
mentioned possibility of a B.S.T.C.
alumni branch at Whittier. There
are 103 teachers in the system.
Thirty-two of them are from Penn-

sylvania and of the Keystone State
delegation twenty are B.S.T.C.
graduates.
Mrs. Nelson has certainly sold the system out in California
on
Bloomsburg trained
teachers.

a native of the
Ridge section and a sister of

Mrs. Nelson

Lime

is

Mrs. Jane Baker, Espy, and Myron Shuman, Lime Ridge. A grad-

OCTOBER,

1956

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor.

Pa.

Lewisburg, Pa.

uate of the local Teachers College,
she also took extensive work in

west coast

the occasion of one of the
dinners at which she was honored
a telegram was received from Vice

President Richard Nixon, a resident of Whittier in which he stated, “Of all those who have made
friendsand influenced people, it
er

is

me

that the school teach-

easily the

most

influential.

A

spent
as teacher and school superintendent has enabled Mrs. Nelson to
make her influence felt— sometimes
crucially— in the lives of thousands
Something she has
of persons.
lifetime of forty-four years

moulded in each of them will live
on in them and their children’s
children. Mrs. Nelson should be a
\

very rich in memories and

in realization of a life well spent.”

institutions.

Upon

seems to

woman

a

At the same dinner she received
certificate of merit from the

supervisors of Los Angeles county.
It was the only time in history
this

honor was conferred on one
not served on the county

who had
staff.

It

set

forth

Mrs.

Nel<son

“was instrumental in the organization and conduct of many civic
and humanitarian activies in the
Los Nietos district, including the
Americanization program and the
work of the Community Coordinating Council.”

The Whittier and Los Angeles
devoted considerable space
Mrs. Nelson’s work. One article
gave this background of a remark-

press
to

11

preparations which are offered for
the assistance of those who are
contemplating or actually engaged
in telecasting geographic material.
In a recent note. Dr. Warman
says “I am trying to spread the
‘good words’ drilled into me by
Dr. H. H. Russell.”

able career:

“Known

method
handling mixed groups and her

of

for her skillful

pioneering devotion, Ada Nelson
guided her district from an enrolment of eighty pupils to its present 2300. Built originally on a site
now occupied by Fluid Pump Pack
Company, the Los Nietos school
was rebuilt in 1924 at its present
The first school district
location.
in this area, Los Nietos school
Bestarted with three teachers.
cause Ada Nelson never harbored
the word ‘impossible’ in her vocabularly the school will expand to
100 teachers this fall.

“The

district

now

boasts of tliree

Ada Nelson,
Santa Gertrudes and Frank Wiggins, with a fifth slated for con-

additional

schools,

truction this

fall.

remarkable Mrs. Nelson
started the first organized P.T.A.
The formin Los Nietos in 1941.
ing of the needlework guild was
also one of her valuable contributions to the community.

“The

“A crusader for what is right,
Mrs. Nelson spent many hours aiding Mexican residents to secure
their citizenship; requesting aid for
minors; bailing unfortunates out of
jail and fighting their court battles.
During the depression years she
established soup kitchens, created
jobs and secured clothing requisifrom local service clubs.
“Always with her well loved

tions

school district in mind, Mrs. Nelson traveled eastward regularly to
lecruit teachers, the majority comWith her
ing from Pennsylvania.
dedication so pronounced, no wonder so many prominent people
dubbed her ‘Mrs. Elementary Education,’ a title she well earned.”

1932
Dr. Henry J. Warman, of Clark
University, Worcester, Massachussetts, is the author of a very interesting
in

article

The Journal

May,

The

Falls,

N. Y.

employed

as

Mr. Gebensleben is
a chemist in the

works laboratory.
Mr. Gebensleben, of McClew
Road, Newfane, N. Y., was graduState
Bloomsburg
ated
from
Teachers College in 1938 with a
bachelor of science degree. During 1941 he studied physical testing at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Before coming to

Hoker he was assistant manager of
Lockport Felt Co., at their plant
in

Starkville, Miss.

He

started as

Bethlehem
Steel Company, Lackawanna, N.
Y., and has also been an inspector
lor McKaig-Hatch and U. S. Army
Ordnance, both located in Buffalo,
and owner of Beverage Service in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During
World War II, Mr. Gebensleben
was a naval aviator.
an analytical chemist

at

1946

Henry

J.

Gatski, has

been

elec-

ted principal of Bloomsburg Junior-Senior High School.
Mr. Gatski, a former resident
Fernville,
had taught and
of
coached at Danville. He had also
been an instructor at Scott townHe is married to the formship.
er

the

title

1950

The appointment

of Leon T.
Grant, Dundalk, to the position of
Director of purchasing has been
announced by Baltimore county
school authorities.
Grant, who has been associated
with the Baltimore county public
school system for the past six
years, had previously served as' assistant in purchasing.
A native of Patten, Me., Grant
taught at the Patapsco Neck Elementary School from 1950-1952.
He was appointed assistant in purchasing in 1952 and served in that
capacity until his present appointment.
A graduate of Patten Academy,
Me., he matriculated at Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
Pennsylvania
from whence he

graduated in 1950.
He is an active member of the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
Grant
resides with his wife, the former
Marjorie
Sharretts,
Bloomsburg,
and son at 2816 Yorkway, Dundalk.

1952
Russell Looker, former B.S.T.C.
gridiron athlete and student council president,
delivered his first
sermon since receiving license to
preach Sunday, July 22, at the

Presbyterian

Looker

was

ton.

He

He

is

Cummins

a graduate of West Hazleton
and Bloomsburg
School
Teachers College. He holds a
ter’s degree from Bucknell

High
State

MasUni-

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

granted

here.
license

Mr.
to

also led devotions at tlie

meeting

the father of two children.

Church

preach at the meeting of the Northumberland Presbytery at Gale-

is

HARRY
bearing

working for his dochas been principal of
Middle Township High School,
Cape May Court House, N. J.
is

He

torate.

Mary Catherine Snyder and

which appeared
Geography in

“Telecasting Techniques in Geography” grew out of a College Credit I’.V. Course “Why the Weather?” conducted by Dr. Wannan. It
contains some of the more sj)ecific
12

1938
R. Gebensleben has
joined the technical staff of Hooker Electrochemical Co., Niagara

Thornton

of

1956.
article,

^

and

versity

which the Rev. Varre
participated as vice moderator.
He will shortly complete
his studies at Bloomfield, N. J.,
at

Seminary and is expected to be ordained a minister at the local
church early iu 1957.
1952
Creasy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Cherl B. Creasy, Bloomsburg, was recently appointed manager of the Midway Office of the
Delaware Valley Bank and Trust
Creasy joined
Clo., Levittown, Pa.
the bank three years ago as note
C.

Wayne

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Yardley branch, and
year had been named assistant
manager of the Levittown branch.
teller of the

last

1953

from

Joyce Quick, of 310
Chanmont Drive, Endwell, New
W'ork, is an English teacher on the
Na\aho Heser\ation, when she
has began work at (ianada Mis•Miss

.Ylice

Canado, Arizona.
Quick, who taught French
and English from 19.53 to 1956 in
Athens, Pennsylvania, will also be
senior girls’ hoi*>emother at the
mission school.
sion Iligli Schol,

Miss

One

more than .3,6(K) projects
operated by the board of National

of

Missions

of

the

Presbyterian

Church, U.S.A. the Ganado School
is fully accredited by the State of
.\rizona.
During the school year
about 175 boys and girls, from primarily the Hopi and Navaho tribboard at Canada Mission,
es,
which has, in addition to it school,
medical, community, and religions
programs.

M iss

Quick was reared in WyaPennsylvania,
was
lusing,
and
graduated from Wyalusing \"alley
High School. In 1953 she received her bachelor of science degree
from the State Teachers College in
bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. In college she was active in campus organizations and served as president
of Knox Fellowship and the Poetry
Club, on the editorial board of the
school paper and as news reporter
for the

Student Christian Associ-

ation.

A member

of the First Presby-

Church

Miss
Quick has taught a Sunday School
class of junior boys, was an advisor
of the Westminster Fellowship,
terian

and chairman

Athens,

in

of a

women’s

associ-

ation circle.

1954

The marriage

Miss Shirley
Joan Rinehimer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clark E. Rinehimer,
Dorrance, to Robert A. Leitner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Leitner,
West Hazleton, was performed recently by the Rev. Charles F. Wil-

OCTOBER,

1956

New'i^ort

Township

High

Schol and H.S.T.C. She has been
teaching first grade for the past
two years at the Dorrance Township Elementary School.
Her husband, a graduate of
West Hazleton High School, is a
driver-salesman for Farmer’s Cooperati\e Dairy.

1954
In a pretty

summer wedding

at

two o’clock Saturday, July 2, in the
First Presbyterian Church,
berwick. Miss lluth .Ann Fry, daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. William H.
Fry, berwick, became the bride off
W’ilson James Sclunnacker, son of

Mrs.

Kenneth MacDougall, Syra-

cuse, N. Y.

The Rev. C.
performed
mony.

the

Cooley, pastor,
double-ring cere-

P.

The bride graduated from berwick High School and b.S.T.C. and
is a teacher in South Williamsport.
Her husband, a graduate of Syracuse University, served two years
in the U. S. .Army and is supervisor at Atlas Plywod Corp. ,Williamsport.

Mr. and Mrs. Frye are now living at 1700 Riverside Drive, South
Williamsport.

pastor, the Rev.

The

bride graduated from Scott

vania State University,
teacher at the East
School District.

Santee Kocher, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Frank T. Kocher, Espy.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed in candlelight by the

also

is

a

Lycoming

1954
Miss Nancy Lou Echenhofer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
b. Echenhofer, Jr., Drexel Hill, be-

came

the bride of James

Kenneth

Luchs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
R. Luchs, bloomsburg, in a ceremony at two o’clock Saturday,
July 28, at Holy Comforter Church,
Drexel Hill.
The Rev. John J. Evans, pastor,
performed the double-ring ceremony before 200 wedding guests.
The couple will reside in Ithaca,
N. Y., where the bridegroom will
leach in Virgil Central School.
The bride graduated from Upper Darby High School and Harcum Junior College. She has been
employed as a Pniladelphia newspaper stenographer.
The bridegroom graduated from
bloomsburg
High
School and
b.S.T.C. where he was a member

Alpha

of

Delta

Pi.

the U.

months

Orangeville Evangelical and Reformed Church was the setting at
se\en-thirty Saturday, September
1, for the marriage of Miss Miriam
Leona Neyhard, daugliter of Mrs.
Harry D. Neyhard, Orangeville,
and the late Mr. Neyhard, to Ellis

Henry C. Meiss,

and
Township
High
School
b.S.T.C. and is teaching at East
Lycoming School District, Hughes\ ille.
Her husband, a graduate of
Scott High School and Pennsyl-

in

1954

in

Psi

Omega and Kappa

He

served for two years
Army with thirteen

S.

Germany.
1955

Navy Ensign George W. Derk,
a former graduate of bloomsburg,
has made his first solo flight at the
Whiting Field Naval Auxiliary Air
Station, Milton, Florida.

Ensign Derk graduated from
bloomsburg in May, 1955, and entered
sity

Pennsylvania State Univercomplete graduate study

to

before entering the service.
In addition
regular
solo
to
flights. Ensign Derk will receive

of

Wapwallopen Evangelical Reformed Church.
After a wedding trip to Wild-

liams in the

wood, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Leitner are residing at 45 West Diamond avenue, Hazleton.
.Mrs.
Leitner
was graduated

instruction in

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee
Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

16

precision

air

work

before more advanced training

is

given.

1955

The marriage

of Miss Nancy
Elizabeth Tovey, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Tovey, Danville
13

R. D. 1, to James Marvin Phillips,
son of Mrs. Willie Phillips, Miami,
Florida, was solemnized Saturday,

Reformed

August 18, at Shiloh
Church, Danville.

The Rev. Thomas
performed
ceremony.

A

Jones, pas-

J.

trip

Denver,

to

speech therapist for the Northampton county schools. He served three years in the Army.
is

1955

was held at the
Mausdale Reformed Church after
which the couple left on a wedreception

ding

Inc.

double-ring

the

tor,

employed by Merck and Co.,
Her husband, a graduate of
Danville High School and B.S.T.C.,
ly

Colorado,

Bloomsburg Methodist Church
was the setting Wednesday, August
ly

2, at

seven-thirty for the love-

midsummer wedding which un-

will reside.

ited in marriage Miss Gloria Elaine

The bride graduated from Danville High School and B.S.T.C. and
was employed as a fifth grade
teacher in Middleburg. Her hus-

Hummel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton C. Hummel, Bloomsburg,
and Charles Richard Gearhart, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Gearhart,

band, a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, was formerly
employed as a chemical engineer
by Merck and Co. and is now serving in the U. S. Army.

Bloomsburg.

where they

1955

The marriage

of Miss

Rae

Gir-

dauskas, daughter of Alexander
Girdauskas, 142 Dundaff Street,
Forest City, to Andrew John Svec,

Uniondale,

of

was

solemnized
Anthony’s

July 14, at 9 a. m., in St.

Church.

The
Forest

bride
City

a graduate of the
and
School,
State Teachers Colis

High

Rloomsburg
lege. She is on the teaching
Pennsville

of

New

is a graduate of
Herrick Center High School and
CorresponNational
California

dence

Schools.

He

is

affiliated

with the Valley Radio and T.V.
1955
Kathryn Anne Beagle,
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
R. Beagle, Danville R. D. 5, became the bride of Robert T. Lyon,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Theodore

Lyon, Riverside, in a ceremony at
two Saturday, August 11, at Jacoba’s Lutheran Church.
The Rev. Earl K. Dyer, pastor,
performed the double-ring cerebefore the altar which was
decorated with j)alms and gladioli.
A reception was held in the

mony

Church

social hall after

whiph the

on a tour of the West.
The bride graduated from Danville High School and was former-

couple

14

left

1955
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Yeager, Cat-

announce the engagement

of their daughter, Shirley, to Sec-

perfonued the double-ring
ceremony before the altar which
was decorated with white and orchid asters and white and yellow

ond Lt. Robert Blyler, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Blyler, R. D. 2.
Miss Yeager is a graduate of
Gatawissa High School and is em-

carnations.

ployed as a secretary for the Hamlin Insurance Agency, Gatawissa.
Mr. Blyler is a graduate of the
School
and
Bloomsburg High
B.S.T.C. and is now serving with
the U. S. Marines.

pastor,

from
graduated
Bloomsburg High with the class
of 1956 and has been employed at
Al’s Men‘s Shop. The bridegroom,
a graduate of Gatawissa High
School and B.S.T.G., is a teacher
in the Gatawissa High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Gearhart will re-

The

side

bride

Fifth

at

and West

streets,

1955
former B.S.T.C. student is
credited with aiding in saving the

A

N.

City,

watched

1955

mony

lovely late summer cereperformed Saturday, June

Orangeville Methodist
at
Church, Miss Carolyn Ann Yost,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C.

30,

Orangeville,

Yost,

became

the
Karas,

bride of Vincent William
son of Mrs. Monica Karas, Shen-

andoah.

White

gladioli, olirysantliemums,

palms and ferns decorated the

al-

tar for the double-ring ceremony
performed by the Rev. Fred Stiner, Hanover, assisted by the Rev.

Rayvon

The

graduated

from

THE
CHAR-MUND CONVALESCENT
AND NURSING HOME
Mr.s.

Charlotte Hoch,

Orangeville R. D.

'15,
2,

Propr.

Penna.

as

Guy Gennana,

a life-

guard at the resort and a 1955
graduate of B.S.T.G., put out in a
boat with another guard to catch
up with Mrs. Peggy Yankee, 31,
of Berlin,

who was

carried

beyond

the breakwaters.

Before they could help her, a
wave capsized the boat.
They used balsa wood buoys to
keep themselves and Mrs. Yankee
afloat until other guards rescued
Germana won letters in
them.

heavy

track

and football at the local inwhere he received a de-

stitution

gree

Hilliard.

bride

a Berlin woman at Atlantic
Hundreds
recently.
J.,

life of

Bloomsburg.

In a

Jersey.

of the Columbia and Montour Boy
Scout Council.
Mr. and Mrs. Karas are living at
109 Mill .street, Danville.

awissa,

Dr.

staff

The bridegroom

grade at Millville Joint School.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Shenandoah
High School and
B.S.T.C., took graduate work at
Temple University. He served two
and one-half years with the Air
Force incuding six months overseas.
He is field Scout Executive

Thomas Hopkins,

The Rev.

Pennsville,

School,

Bloomsburg High School and
B.S.T.C. and is a teacher of third

in

secondary education.

1956
Robert Evans, former Bloomsburg State Teachers Gollege and
Coal Township High School athlete, has been named as assistant
basketball coach at Shamokin High
School. Evans will fill the teadiing position of Howard Landa,
who lias been called into the Navy
for

two

years.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Nrmilngii
Miiry Ellen Ryan, '90

Miss Mary Ellen Ryan, 205 State
Harrisburg, retired Harrisburg school teacher, died Saturday,
August 11. She was 90 years old.
-Miss Ryan served the Harrisburg school system tor 45 years before retiring in 1936, but is best reStreet,

membered

as director of music at
Edison Junior High School, a position she held from 1919 to 19.36.

In recent years, she hal
a

dents
tell

Woman’s Society of Christian Service.
Her husband, a prominent
Tunkhannock funeral director, has

C'ounty.

represented Wyoming county
in
the State Legislature the past 16
years and vv'ill retire at the end of
the current term.

Miss Marian V. Brown, director
of dramatics at Hazleton High
School and well known throughout the region for her readings and

become

whose

ping band leader who never missed a football game and whose musical organizations at Edison were
outstanding as marching units.
Harrisburg’s leading
business and professional men and
women were pupils of Miss Ryan’s
of

and many of them played in her
musical organizations.
Familiarly known as “Maggie
Ryan,’’ a name which she never
approved of, .Miss Ryan was one
of the most widely known and re-

membered

teachers

to

serve

the

Harrisburg system.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, she took exten-

work at Columbia University.
She was a member of St. Patrick’s Cathedral where she and a

sion

sang in its choir for many
years.
She was president of the
Harrisburg Deanery of the National
Council of Catholic Women.
sister

Prior to joining the faculty at Edishe taught at the Verbeck
School for Girls.

son,

of

Josephine Holland Greenwood

Mrs. Josephine Holland Greenwood, wife of State Representativ'e
Ray W. Greenwood, of Wyoming
avenue, Tunkhannock, died Thursday, May 17, 1956, at the Robert
Packer Hospital, in Sayre, where
she had been a patient a week.
A daughter of the late Daniel and
Eva Stmdevant Holland, she was
born March 26, 1888, in Laceyville.
She was graduated from the Laceyvdlle High School and Blooms-

OCTOBER.

1956

Brill, ’16

Services for Wiliam G. Brill, son
the Rev. William Brill, late

member

of

the

B.S.T.C.

faculty,

were held recently at West Hartford, Conn.
He died at the U. S.
\

eterans

Administration

Hospital

in N'ewlington, Conn., after a thir-

teen-year

Interment was
National Cemetery.

illness.

at -Arlington

He

graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1916. He
enlisted in tne Bloomsburg unit
and served in the 28th Division of
the U. S. Army during World War
I.
He was discharged with the

State

rank of second lieutenant.
He entered Trinity College

where he was captain
ball

team,

member

of the foot-

of

Delta Psi

and Medusa, senior honorary society, and was active in school
publications.
He was reporter on
The Courant covering the state
capital for two years. He received
his master’s degree from Trinity
and was manager of athletics and
alumni

secretary

for

five

years

there.

He

joined the Air Force in 1933

and served
’10

30,

1955.

She received her teacher training at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. She was married to Charles Love in 1920 and lived one
year in Cialifornia. She taught for
19 years after her return to the
East

the schools of

in

Marian V. Brown,

Wyoming
’21

of the local Thespian
troupe, died Thursday, August 9,
A lifeat the St. Joseph Hospital.
long resident of Hazleton, she re-

tlirection

William G.

junior high stufathers and mothers

of the smartly clad, high-step-

Many

in

among

legend

Mehoopany on December

burg State Teachers College and
taught school in Auburn Township.
After her marriage to Mr. Greenwood, she was also graduated
from the Renaurd College of Embalming in New York City and was
a licensed mortician. Mrs. Greenwood was a member of the Tunkhanock Methodist Church and its

duty until
1943 when he was retired under
total disibility with the rank of
in

active

lieutenant colonel.
Surviving are a son, Anthony
Gregg Brill; a brother, Glinton B.
F. Brill, New York City, and a
sister. Miss Julia G. Brill, State
College.

Mildred Avery, ’17
Mildred Avery (Mrs. Charles
Love), teacher of Mehoopany Elementary School, died at her home

West Broad street.
She was a daughter of the late
Thomas and -Mary Barrett Brown.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, she received a
bachelor of arts degree from Marywood College and her masters
from New York University.
sided at 505

-Miss

Brown taught English

the H. F.

at

Grebey Memorial Junior

High School before being transferred to Hazleton High School
about 19.35. She was named director of dramatics and public
speaking instructor at H.H.S. about
19.39.
For the past two years she
also taught Latin. She has always
taken charge of the high school’s
commencement activities, play and

program

and directed

numerous

faculty plays.

She was sponsor of National
Thespian Troupe No. 257 at H.H.S.
and this past June chaperoned a
group from the local troupe at Indiana University in Bloomington,
Indiana.
For the past several years, she
aided the scholarship fund of Hazleton branch, American Association of University Women, by pro-

ducing a benefit play. Last year
the branch named its scholarship

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
"FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41. Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 35G-R

50

15

Marian V. Brown Scholarship.
She was a member of St. Gabriel’s Church and of tlie Altar and
Bosary Society of that parish. Other memberships included the Hazleton Teachers Association, Pennsylvania State Education Association and die National Education
tlie

Association.

Fannie Hilbert Roberts, ’26
Mrs. Fannie Hilbert Roberts,
wife of the Rev. George A. Roberts, Baltimore, Maryland, passed

away Monday,

July 23, 1956.

Erma Moyer Angstadt, ’35
Mrs. Erma Angstadt, of 517 McClay Street, Lewisburg, died Wednesday morning, July

4,

in

the

DAR.

A DAR member
Douden was

since 1919, Mrs.
an active member of

Constitution Chapter until she beill.
She served the chapter
as historian, chaplain and chairman of various committees.
Among her prizes possessions
were a golden brown silk cape
and bonnet made by Mary Ralston, daughter of John Ralston, a
delegate to the Continental Convention in 1776 and worn at her
wedding reception in 1787 to Revolutionary War General William
Lattimore.

came

A native of Mifflinburg, she was
born December 21, 1913, the
daughter of the late Ralph and Effie Feaster Moyer.
She was a
graduate of the Lewisburg High
School in the class of 1931 and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1935. Following her graduation she tauglit school at Troy
for seven years. She was a member of St. Paul’s Evangelical United Bredrren Church, Lewisburg.
Douden

Mrs. Wililam Douden, 84, widow of an architect and engineer
and an active member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, died Monday, August 20, in
Garfield Hospital after a brief illness.
She lived at 1840 Biltmore
street N.W., Washington, D. C.
The former Pauline Lattimore,
Mrs. Douden was born in New
Boston, Pa.
She attended Stewart Academy and was graduated
from Bloomsburg Normal School.
She taught in Pennsylvania public schools until her marriage in

had been active in religious, civic
and patriotic activities. She was
a member of Washington Heights
16

member

of St.

an church of
church council on which he served
for almost fifty years. He also was
church treasurer for years.
For
much of his life he was teacher of
the Bible class
School.

in

the

Sunday

Mr. Mensch was admitted
practice

to

law in Columbia
1901 and continued ac-

of

county in

tive in practice almost to the time

As a young man he

of his death.

attended Bloomsburg State Normal
Scliool and Northern Indiana Law
School, Valpariso, Ind., graduating

from

tlie latter school in 1900.
Fraternally he was a member of

Elizabeth Williams Greish

Catawissa Lodge No. 349, F. and
A. M., and was a past master of
the lodge. Other Masonic affiliations were Royal Arch
Chapter,
Catawissa and Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg. He was a charter member of the Catawissa Rotary Club.
For three decades he
served on the Catawissa borough
school board, being secretary much
of that time.
He aho served as
president of the Columbia County
School Directors Association.
He was vice-president of the
Catawissa Valley National Bank,

Sheatown for a number of years,
and also taught in the Kingston
schools. She was born in Carbondale, a daughter of the late William and Gwen Williams and resided in Sheatown 20 years before
moving to Kingston 30 years ago.
She was a member of Kingston
Methodist Church and Irem Temin
ple Auxiliary and was active
church and civic affairs until her
illness.

Catawissa Muniand from the time
die Selective Service Board was
created in Bloomsburg he served
as appeal agent. He was Catawissolicitor for

tlie

cipal Authority,

sa postmaster in the thirties.

Mr. Mensch was long active in
the Catawissa
Water Company
and served as secretary for many
years prior to the purchase of the
utility by the
borough.

Lewis C. Mensch
Mensch, prominent
Catawissa attorney and one of the
veteran members of the Columbia
county bar, died Wednesday, June
Bloomsburg Hospital,
13 in the
with death due to cerebral hemorrhage. He was aged seventy-eight
Mr. Mensch was born in
years.
Franklin township on August 9,
1877, son of the late Thomas and

wood, of Springfield, announce tlie
engagement of their daughter,
Barbara Jean, to Second Lieutenant Daniel H. Thomas, Jr., USMC,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H.
Thomas, F’orty F'ort.

THE WOLF SHOP

Miss Tuckwood, a graduate of
Springfield High School, has entered her senior year at B.S.T.C.

Lewis C.

1897.

Mrs. Douden and her husband,
who died in 1946, came to Washington in 1922.
Since tlien, she

He was
Matthew LutherCatawissa and the

Sarah Lawrence Mensch.
a

Mrs. Elizabeth Greish, of 112
Poplar street, Kingston, died suddenly of a heart attack on Monday,
March 12 at her home. She had
been in ill health four years. She
was the wife of Howard Greish,
sales representative for the H. J.
Heinz Company. Mrs. Greish, a
State
graduate of Bloomsburg
Teachers College, taught school at

the

Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danvill, where she had been admitted
Tuesday, July 3. She had been in
ill health for some time.

Pauline Lattimore

Presbyterian Church, the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union and

LEATHER GOODS
M.

C. Strausser,

122 East

— REPAIRS

’27.

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1956
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Tuck-

Lt.

F’orty

Thomas was graduated from
F’ort

B. S.T.C.

He

High
is

School

stationed at

and
Quan-

tico, Virginia.

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GoiUcj£^ Qalendan.

195G

November 20

Thanksgiving Recess l?egins

November 26

Thanksgiving Recess Ends

December

Christmas Recess begins

15

1957

January

3

Christmas Recess Ends

Semester Ends

January 23

First

January 28

Second Semester Registration

January 29

Classes Begin

April 16

Easter Recess Begins

April 23

Easter Recess Ends

May

Senior

22

Ivy

May

23

Honor Assembly

Day Ceremonies

Classes

End

May

2.5

Alumni Day

May

26

Baccalaureate Services

Commencement

Exercises

^Scuuce^ued cuud
'

E. H. Nelson,

11

liomeconiing jJay iyo6 was silenuid in all of its appointment, including
Aiansiiela was beaten, aougnnuts were eaten and folks were a

the weather.
meetin’.

The Class of 19.’i6 convened for a 6:30 P. iVl. dinner at the Elks Club as an
alterinath ot a reunion lesoiution in Aiay.
it was a most enjoyable atfair to
which Nlrs. Nelson anu i were inviteu. iviention is maae ot it Here because
something that developed at tne meeting. Han jones oxtered the lollowing
a

“why

of
as

not.”

Schedule the leunion classes aie now done i.e.
190/— 1912— 1917, etc.
Schedule however ib06 and loOS along with IbO/; loll and 1913 along with
1912 and 1916 and 1918 along with 19i/, etc., maKing the three classes a unit
lor tlie general meeting, with 1907— lbl2— 1917, etc., tne host classes.
Separate
Ihis would mean that once in
class meeting to be scheouied in the atternoon.
5 years your class would be host to the class just Ixelore and just after you. Twice
in 5 years you would be entertained, once by tne class just before you and once
by the class just after you. Not so much entertained as a chance to fellowship
with the people who were in school when you were. This plan works out to
a result that you would return to the campus three times in 5 years, once as a
host class. How about it. Let us hear from you. In other words, you have your
5 year reunion as usual, but also join with the class immediately before you and
alter you for tall story telling of days gone by.

saw big changes at the Normal, as returning Alumni xxote
going on. Dr. Aldinger had left to go to New York City. The
Athletic Field was taken over for the erection of Science Hall and a new Athletic
Field (Mt. Olympus) was in, the xxrocess of development, which later was to give
way to the present Navy Hall and another move made necessary to the present
The “Quarterly” of March, 1906, says “Profs.
location for Athletic contests.
Albert, Cope and Hartline and the Music teachers are no longer living in the
present. Everything now dates from the time when their departments shall have
ticcommodations in the new Science building.” Dr. Welsh, the Principal was
leaving to go to State College as its Vice President, which carried with it the
minor offices of registrar, business manager, and director of the Summer
Dr. Waller was to return to Hloomsburg for his second tenure as
Schools”!
Principal having served 13 years previously. A training sehool youngster being
asked the proper time for little boys and girls to elean their teeth responded
“In the Spring” and Dean Sutliff was worried, for in spite of the very considerable relief afforded by the occupancy of the New Science Hall, the thronging
No wonder prospective
students and teachers were demanding more room!
U'ach(‘rs take “Ih-oblein” eours/'s in almost every pliase of training and we have
a distinctive eharaeter known as tlie problem child.
Fifty years ago

changes

now

MFUHY ClimSTMAS
C.

NeXi.04^,

'//

A

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QUARTERLY

Vol. LVIl

December, 1956

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No.

4

STUDENT ASSISTANCE
Every year we have worthy students who need money to begin or continue

college.

College costs and enrollments have doubled in the last twenty years. Assuming that
of worthy students needing assistance, there is an evident
need for a combined loan fund of not less than $30,000. Increased costs of printing the
Alumni Quarterly and other expenses of the Alumni Association now make it impossible
for the Association to use one-half of the $2.00 Alumni Dues for student assistance, either
in the form of scholarships or grants.

we have the same proportion

An increase
maximum

in the Loan Fund will enable not only Juniors and Seniors to borrow up
of $200, but will enable worthy Sophomores to borrow from this fund,
repayable after graduation without interest. With a $30,000 Loan Fund, the maximum
amount loaned to any one student may be increased to $300. The Scholarship and Grant
Committee has been making awards to Freshmen and Sophomores who are not eligible to
to a

borrow from the Loan Fund.

The

present sources of student assistance are:
1

Employment by the

college, chiefly in the dining

room and Snack Bar, ap-

proaches $30,000 yearly.
2

Scholarships and Grants varying in the neighborhood of $30000 depend upon
the profits from the Husky Lounge, which amount to $2,000, the remainder
made up by the Scholarships granted by the Alumni Association, Classes, and
other interested organizations.

3

Loan Funds:
1

The Kehr-Ward Temporary Loan Fund

of $500, repayable at the

end of

each semester.
2

Alumni Loan Fund consisting
a

—Less

b

—The

of

than $15,000 which has been accumulated over a long period of
time and was brought to its present level in 1939.
Bakeless Memorial Loan Fund initiated by an original anonymous
which has been matched by an equal amount from the
following College Groups:

gift of $2,500,

of Trustees (Florence Cawley Loan Bond)
Faculty Pledges ($285 paid)

Board

Class of 1956

—

Community Activities (Surplus 1956)
College Organizations (Collected to date)

.

.

$1,000

500
200
500
370
$2,570

It

would seem that the General Alumni should be able to raise at least $10,000 in
Bakeless, making the total of the Bakeless Memorial

memory of Sarah H. and Oscar Hugh
Fund not less than $15,000.
The

basic assumption in the present policy

is

that a student should be encouraged

employment and borrow from the Loan Fund rather than expect
finance a substantial part of their college expenses from nonrepayable scholarships.
to aceept college

to

For the first time in more than a decade and a half your Alma Mater needs your help.
Individual Alumni, State, and County Area Branches, and former students are invited to
send their checks to Mr. Earl A. Gehrig, 224 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
This is an opportunity of expressing your appT-eciation, or merely the repayment in part
of the help you may have received while you were a student at the College on the Hill.

President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVIl,

December, 1956

No. 4
t

FOOTBALL
The

team

football

19.56

1956

-

of

B.S.T.C. ended its season with a
record of three \ictories and four

ment for the extra point was wide
and the Huskies led 13 to 0.

The record of games in
the Teachers C'ollege Conference
shows one victory and three de-

tlefeats.

brief

feats.
tics of

summaries and

games played are

statis-

as follows:

October 6
Cortland 0-B.S.T.C. 3
B.S.T.C. Cort.

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
First

September 29
b.S.T.C. 13— Delaware State 0
Published quarterly by the Alumni
Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8, 1941, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly Subscription, $2.00;

Single Copy, 50 cents.

’12

BUSINESS MANAGER
’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C, Housenick

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F. Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

DECEMBER,

1956

.

.

.

...
...
.

.

.

.

.

...

Intercepted by
Kickoffs

...

Punts
Fumbles
recovered
Penalties

H. F. Fenstemaker,

H. Nelson,

downs
Yards rushing
Yards passing
Passes attempted
Passes completed

First

Own

EDITOR

E.

B.S.T.C. Del.
6

Kickoffs

75
157
157

Punts
Fumbles
Fumbles

3
3

8

2-48
4-39

.

2-35

.

.6-44
1

1

0

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

3

1-50
4-39

3-45
5-91

3

2

lost

Penalties

1

3

1

1-15

2-10

1

0
.4-20

.

1

downs

11

.

133
3
6
10
5

Yards passing
Pass attempts
Passes completed
Intercepted by

187
27
27

.

175
33
13
30
17
2

4-30

B.S.T.C.

0
0

Cortland
B.S.T.C.

scoring:

3
0

0
6

0-3
0—6

Rainey, field

goal; Cortland scoring:

touchdown,

0 0 6-13
Delaware
__ _
0 0 0- 0
Bloomsburg Teachers College
Huskies put on a good opening
show on Mt. Olympus as they scored a 13 to 0 triumph over a tough
Delaware State eleven before a
good opening day crowd.
The Huskies did their scoring
in the first and fourth quarters.
Bob Rainey smashed over for the
first tally on a slant from 3 yards
out to end a drive that started on
Delawre’s 46. He added the extra point by placement.
Midway through the final period
the Huskies were stymied on the

Guido.

Asby went into deep
punt formation and his magic toe
sent the ball through the air and
out of bounds on the 4-yard line.
On the first play Matthews was
stopped. Then on a quick handoff
the ball was snatched from the
arms of the Delaware ball carrier
and downed by a host of onrushing Husky linemen.
Malczyk carried on the first play

John Oustrich’s third down pass
fell incomplete Bob Rainey stepped back to the 12 where, with
Oustrich holding, he booted a

7
0

B.S.T.C.

Delaware

34.

take the ball within inches of
the double stripe and on the next

to

play

quarterback

Oustrich

went

across for the tally. Casper’s place-

Cortland, N. Y., Red Dragons
eleven dealt the first defeat of the
>'ear
to
Jack Yohe’s defending
S.T.C. champions here in a 6 to 3

on Mount Olympus.
The Husky offense appeared as
hough it would carry them to vic-

thriller

I

tory in the first half of the contest.
In the opening quarter the
local eleven started a drive that
carried to the Cortland 9-yard line
before the Dragons took over on

downs.
Again in the second period the
Huskies started a march that went
inside

the

Red Dragon

ihree-pointer squarely

7.

After

between the

uprights.

In the latter part of the third
quarter the Cortland Dragons climaxed a drive that started back on
the Bloomsburg 49 as Don Guido,
fullback, crashed over from the 2
to score what turned out to be the
winning tally.
The extra point
kick was blocked by a host of
Husky defenders.
1

October 13

the
the

B.S.T.C. 38--Mansfield 6
B.S.T.C. Mans.
330
83
15
14
121
100
14
8
10
20

Yards rushing ....
Yards lost rushing
Yards passing ....
First

down

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Intercepted by ....
Kickoffs
.

5
2

.

7-43
2-33
5-24

Punts
Kick returns
Fumbles

Own

recovered
Penalties

B.S.T.C.

.

_

.

_

2
2-47
6-36
6-19

3

2

2
6-50

1

1-5

7 12 7 12-38
- 0
0 0 6-6

B.S.T.C. Ship.

downs

down rushing
down passing

Yards gained rushing
Yards lost rushing
Yards gained passing
Passes attempted
Passes completed

....

....

Pass interprets by
Intercepts return yards
Kickoffs
Kickoff return yards
Punts
Punt return yards

Fumbles
Fumbles

.

.

15
13
2
191
15
38
14
5
0
0

2-50
78
5-26
29
1

lost

1

Penalties, yards

50

14
12
2

218
6

67
6
3

2

28
4-47
25
4-33
25
3
2

B.S.T.C. Calf.
First

45

October 27
B.S.T.C. 25-Kings 7
B.S.T.C. Kings
304
100
13
32

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing

downs

First

16

Yards passing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Intercepted by

11

1

91
18
4
0

2-33
5-49
6-14

4-38
2-33
7-12

53
7
3

Punts
Kickoffs
Kick returns

Fumbles

3

1

Own

2

0

7-55

5-35

recovered
Penalties

6 13
0 7

B.S.T.C.

Kings

0
0

6-25

0-7

Touch(1 on pass from
Rainey; 2 runs), Malczyk (run);
PAT— Rainey 1 (placement). King’s
scoring:
Touchdown— Charnichko
(run).

scoring:

PAT— Gorman

1 (placement).

scoring:

Touchdowns— Conner

and

1

run;

PAT— Breski

(35

yard runs). Grimes (5 yard
2 (placements).
Bloomsburg Huskies got faked
out of a football game at Shippensburg on Saturday afternoon, Octo-

The score
3’he faking was

ber 20.

was

20-3.

season, racked up a decisive 25 to
7 victory Saturday night, October
29, over a top

notch King’s College
eleven at Wilkes-Barre Memorial
Stadium.

There was never a doubt
the

Huskies’

as to

you see me and now you don’t —
was Jack Connor, a senior out of
Aliquippa.

Bloomsburg’s play was best in
2

the
be-

The

gridders reeled
off 300 yards rushing and pushed
across tallies in every period but
the third.

.

2

1

...

lost

Penalties

.

B.S.T.C.
California

.

.

Bloomsburg

1

1

.6-74

2-20

.

.

0 0 6- 6
7 12 12-31

0
0

:

Touchdown

scoring:

—Sweet (run, 2). California scoring: Touchdowns— Wiita 3 (2 runs
of 1 each, one of 14); DiNardo (run
1); Mendola (pass from DiNardo,

PAT— Panich (placement).
California Teachers College used the overhead game to eliminate
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Huskies from title contention
the TC conference, winning 31
to 6 before a Dad’s Day crowd at
California on Saturday afternoon,
1);

m

November

3.

It

tests.

November 10
West Chester 27-B.S.T.C.

7

B.S.T.C. W.C.

downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Yards passing
Passes attempted
First

Passes completed
Intercepts by
Kickoffs

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

...

Punts
Kick retunrs average
Fumbles

Fumbles

.

.

.

.

,

.

.

.

.

.

.

11

153
39
74
12

14
303
14
91

24
6

7
1

1

.3-45

4-50
3-34
7-11

8-37
6-12

3
2

3

...

lost

1

The Monarch were able to score
only once, that coming in the sec-

Penalties, yards

ond

7-27
West Chester
Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdown
— G. Wood, (run, 16); PAT— Rainey
(placement).
West Chester scor-

on a smash from the
by fullback Nick Char-

(quarter

2 yard line
nichko, climaxing

a drive that
started on their own 33. The big
1 actor
in the march was a 65-yard

Gorman.

The fellow who did the gridiron
version of the shell game — now

.

.

victory for California in six con-

who
tion.

.

64
2-47

The Bloomsburg Huskies in their
most sparkling perfonnance of the

jiass

view fine play execu-

.3-40

10
179
6-46
5-47

7
...

Kickoffs

Punts
Fumbles
Own fumbles

11

117
20

Officials— M. Noonan, D. Noonan,
Williams, Romanowski.

legitmate.
In
fact, it was a beautiful thing to
watch if you were a Shippensburg
fan or just a follower of football
likes to

.

.

14
203
14

was the second defeat in three
conference games for the defending Husky champions and tlie first

Maroon and Gold

Shippensburg

...

.

—Rainey

yards).

...

.

mastery over
Monarch, who were playing
fore a homecoming crowd.

(6

downs

Yards rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass

3 0 0-3
Shippensburg
0 7 13—20
Bloomsburg scoring: Field goal
0
0

B.S.T.C.

California 31, B.S.T.C. 6

pensburg.

Bloomsburg
downs- Watts 3

October 20
Shippensburg 20— B.S.T.C. 3

November 3

After intermission,
Ship-

half.

12

Mansfield
Scoring — Bloomsburg: Touchdowns— Rainey, Watts, G. Wood,
Ashy, Sweet, Chidester. PAT—
Rainey 2.
Mansfield scoring: TouchdownWhite.

First
First
First

first

game was dominated by

play from

Dan

Distasio to Jim

King’s had to play without their
passing ace Bernie Koval who was
sidelined by a knee injury.
This
didn’t stop the Monarch from passing, however. They went to air 18
times with Dan Distasio and Don
Zlotek doing the pitching.

.

ing:

from
run);

.

0
6

B.S.T.C.

6-60

.

0 0
0 14

Touchdowns- Motta

2
from Harrington);
3 (placements).

7

(11,

pass

Mosteller

(68,

Harrington);

Wendland

3-25

7-

(1

run; 25, pass

PAT— Mosteller

Chester Teachers Rams
Teachers College
the
Conference football crown Friday
evening, November 10, clinching
the title on their own field and
\\'^est

regained

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

before a crowd of 3,500 as they
bested the Blooinsburg Huskies,
ilefending champions, 27-7.
It was the first losing season for
Blooinsburg in football since the
sport was reestablished on the hill
in 1946. The local record this year
was three wins and four defeats.

The Rams won on

a ground attack despite the fact they went into
the air frequently and scored twice
on passes.
They opened their scoring in the
first period but it was a ball game
until the third quarter when Pete
Mosteller started off right end and
then cut back to go 68 yards for a
on the first play from scrimmage following the intermission.
His path was cleared by good
blocking. That was the ball game.
AW ot the Ram scoring came belore the Huskies were able to dent
the West Chester goal line. In that
drive Blooinsburg moved 90 yards.

TD

They combined a ground and
attack and Gerry Wood made

air
tlie

16 in drives through the middle.
Bo Rainey added the extra
point by placement. Only 1:30 of
playing time remained.
last

Rita

Dixon

is

one

students— graduates

of forty-four
of 28 differ-

colleges and universities—who
have enrolled
the University of
Pittsburgh School of Retailing, a

ent

m

one year graduate course.
The students come from 7 states,
Canada and the Philippine Islands.
All are planning to enter the field
following graduation
next June, when they will receive
the master of retailing degree.
The School of Retailing offers
a course of study that includes
both classroom work and actual on
the job training in Pittsburgh department stores.
Each student
spends about 12 weeks working in
various departments of one of the
Pittsburgh stores.
of

retailing

.\NNUAL CONFERENCE
The Tenth Annual Conference
Teachers and Administrators
was held on the campus of the

lor

Blooinsburg State Teachers College on Saturday, November 3. In
the past decade, attendance has

grown
sions

steadily, and last year’s seswere crowded to capacity,

conference planners considered it
the most successful meeting in the

and plans were completed to
inclnde those features which were
most outstanding. The conference
leatured demonstration lessons in
the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory
School, tlie Blooinsburg JuniorSenior High School, and a lecture
and demonstration lesson on the
teaching of typewriting at the secondary school level. An address
by Dr. T. M. Stinnett, Executive
Secretary, National Commission on
Teacher Education and Professional Standards, highlighted the gen-

series,

session

eral

11:15

a.

m.

ot
in

Carver Auditorium.

“Providing

Opportunities

Following the general session on
Carver Auditorium, a conference luncheon was held in the college dining room. Music was provided by the Brahms Trio of Wilthe

liamsport.

NEW TRUSTEES
Three new members of the
Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College attended their first meeting on Wednesday, September 19, 1956. They
are the Hon. Carl E. Fleckenstine,

Those

R. D. 2, Orangeville, Pennsylvania;
Hon. Harold L. Paul, Masonic

an opportunity to

Building, Pottsville, Pennsylvania;

for Teacher-Pupil Planning.”

attending had

Business Education teachers and
administrators registeretl at Navy
Hall at nine o’clock. .Mr. Jerry W.
Robinson, Associate Editor, SouthWestern Publishing Company, discussed up-to-date methods and
techniques used in the teaching of
typewriting, and then presented
a demonstration lesson involving
the use of methods and techniques
discussed during the lecture.

the conference at

Registration of elementary teachers and administrators began at
nine oclock in the Laboratoiy
School, followed by a number of
demonstration lessons taught by
the school faculty at 9:30. The lessons were built around the general

theme,

ern languages, social studies, mathematics, biology, and geography
were taught by Blooinsburg High
School teachers at 9:30 a. m., following registration at the high
school on Center Street.
Discussion leaders were selected from the
faculty of the Teachers College.

participate in the ensuing group
discussions, which were led by:

Miss Terry Schwarz, Pennsylvania
University; Miss Grace S.
Beck, Sunbury; Miss H. Grace
M’orrall, Shamokin; Mr. Kenneth
Roberts, Columbia County; Mr.
Richard C. Williams, West PittsRowlands,
ton;
Mr. Clarence
Blooinsburg; Mrs. Augusta Foose,
Milton; Mr. Lewis R. Stauffer,
Danville; and Mr. Boyd F. Buckingham, Blooinsburg State Teach-

State

Mr. Leo

S.

Dennen,

DECEMBER,

1956

1,

Tur-

In addition to the new members,
the Board of Trustees includes the

following officers and members:
Mr. Fred W. Diehl, President,
Danville; Judge C. William Kreisher,
Vice-President,
Catawissa;
Mrs. Elsie Yorks, Jones, SecretaryTreasurer, Bloomsburg; Mr. Earl
V. Wise, Berwick; Mr. Victor C.
Diehl, Hazleton; Mr. Charles D.
Steiner,

Shamokin.

ers College.

Demonstration lessons in mod-

The

annual

All

Alumni luncheon

A son was born Tuesday, October 16, at St. Francis Hospital in
Miami Beach, Florida, to Mr. and
Mrs. BoyMrs. Alex Boychuck.
chuck is the former Shirley Hyde,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Hyde, Blooinsburg.

R. D.

botville, Pennsylvania.

ALUMNI DAY:
25, 1957

Pennsylvania
be held in

Washington, D. C., on the last Saturday in January. B.S.T.C. Alumni

who

SATURDAY, MAY

-

will

may secure furinformation by getting in
touch with Saida L. Hartman, 4215
are interested

ther

Brandywine

Street,

N.W., Wash-

ington, D. C.
3

I

GREATER NEW YORK AREA

(1),

The Seventh Annual Meetmg of
the B.S.N.S. and B.S.T.C. Alumni
Association of Greater New York
was held Saturday, October 27th,
1956, at the Allerton Hotel, Lexington Avenue and 57th Street,
New York City, with President Michael Prokopchak, ’35, presiding.
Mr. P. Clive Potts, ’12, gave the invocation.

Luncheon was served to twenmembers and friends.
The honored guests. Dr. and
Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss and Dr.
E. H. Nelson, were introduced by
Mr. Prokopchak, after which he
asked each one to stand and mtroduce himself or herself and give
the class with which he graduated.
Among those present were Ira S.
Brown, yO, who founded tlie “Education Group of Connecticut.”
Miles Kilmer, 1900, who has had a
ty-two

part in the construction of every
major tunnel in New York City,
and Mrs. A. L. Johnson, ’17, wife
of the late Dr. A. L. Johnson, one
of New Jersey’s leading educators,
who was Superintendent of Schools

Union

of

County from 1914

to

1955.

Dr. Andruss spoke on the proof the building program at
the
College, student enrollment
and brought us up to date on Campus activities,
lie then showed
some very interesting pictures of
campus scenes inclucling the football
game with the Mansfield
team.
Dr. Nelson spoke on loyalty to
the College and to the Alumni Association.
He asked for the support of the Bakeless Fund and that
the members pay their Alumni
dues.
At a short business meeting the
following officers were chosen for
next year: President, Francis P.
Thomas, ’42; Vice President, Mrs.
Francis P. Thomas, ’42; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. K. Naugle, ’ll.
It was decided that we meet the
last Saturday in October as a permanent date, the place and other
arrangements to be left to the ofgress

(1),

1917
1942

(1),

1923

(2)

and 1944

(1),

1935

(1),

19.38

(1).

After a session of friendly conversations, we adjourned about 5
P. M., hoping to meet again in ’57.
Respectfully submitted,
A. K. Naugle, Secretary
P.S.
to

.300

not very encouraging
send out 250 or

It is

say the

least, to

letters

and have such a few

respond.
It is, however, gratifying and heart warming to know
that men, as busy as are Dr. Andruss and Dr. Nelson, give of their
time and energy to be with us. To
know this, makes it worth the time
and effort. We thank you.
A.K.N., Secy.

CLASS WINS TROPHY
During the regular assembly
held Tuesday, October 2, at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, a gold trophy, symbolic of
the national shorthand championship, was presented by Dr. Thomas
Martin, Director of Business Education, to Associate Professor Walter S. Rygiel, a

member

of the col-

lege faculty.
The inscription on the trophy,
awarded by the Esterbrook Pen
Co., is “Class Championship, Ester-

brook National Gregg ShorAand
Contest, Collegate Class A. Awarded to Walter S. Rygiel, State
Teachers
College,
Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania, 1955-1956.”

The trophy has been put on
play

dis-

Education
Department Office.
Mr. Rygiel
presented Esterbrook fountain pens
and eertificates of merit to each
in

the

Business

HOMECOMING DAY
College Homecoming on Saturday, October 13, was one of the
largest and most enjoyed in the
twenty-nine year history of this
popular fall event.

Graduates and friends of the inwere back in number and
there were around 3,000 at the
football game, big feature of the
day, in which the Huskies won

stitution

over Mansfield, 38-6.

Many of the alumni returned on
Friday evening and a number of
the classes that will be in reunion
had large enough delegaluncheon and dinner
meetings at which reunion plans
were advanced.
Especially well represented were
members of the classes of the past
next

fall

tions to hold

five or six years.

Most of the visitors spent the enday on the campus. They
were present for the band concert
of the morning, had luncheon in
tire

attended the game
and then finished off a busy day
at the Homeeoming dinner and
dance.
The new building and the various improvements to old buildings
the

were

of

much

interest to the grad-

uates.

The College was

in

gala attire

day and the administrators,
faculty and student body were all
out to see the graduated and
friends had a splendid time.
The
weatherman
cooperated
fully.
No Homecoming has been
staged in more delightful condifor the

tions.

eighteen members of liis
shorthand championship class. The
pens and certificates, inscribed
of

the

with each individual’s name, were
given by the Esterbrook Pen Co.
The group won the first i^lace
honors in the face of formidable
competition from schools throughout the nation.

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

ficers.

The following
(1),

4

classes

were

re^i-

1890 (1), 1900 (1), 1907
1909 (2), 1911 (4), 1912 (1), 1916.

resented:

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner,

I

cafeteria,

’34

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

II

POWEH PLANT
RECE1\ ES AWARD
Tlie

Power Plant

ot the Blooins-

Teachers College has
Been awarded, tor the tliird consecutive year, a Certiticate of Meritorious Achie\cinent for its operation and efticiency with fuel utilization. This Award, made by the
Department of Engineering Research of Pennsylvania State University, is
made in competition
with sixty or more State institul)urg State

that employees’ salaries will not be
decreased.
In order to insure no curtailment
in services now being rendered, it
is
anticipated that five full-time
employees will be added to the
non-instructional staff.
During the past six years, the
number of all personnel employed
by the college has risen approximately from 125 to 150. The increase reflects both the pattern of
growth in enrollment and the reduction in working hours.

dhese include the power

tions.

plants ot mental institutions,
tormatories,
penitentiaries,
hospitals,

as well as State

re-

and

Teach-

ers Colleges.

The College personnel

directly

responsible for the earning of tliis
Certificate of Meritorious Achievement is as follows: Dewey Campbell,
Chief Stationary Engineer,
who supervises Bowman Roadarmal, Harry Fisher, William Hartzell, and Harry Smith, Stationary

RELICION-IN-LIFE

WEEK

For the third consecutive year,
the Student Christian Association
seenred the services of outstanding religious leaders and speakers
the
annual Religion-in-Life

lor

Week

Firemen.

which were held
on the campus of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College on November 6, 7 and S. The theme for the
sessions was: “One Nation — One
W’orld — One God.”

The Power Plant is under tlie
general super\ ision of Mr. Jennings

World Student Christian Federa-

B.

Knoebel,

Superintendent

of

Grounds and Buildings, and the
steam lines are the responsibility
of Maynard Brown.
This Award means that the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College is one of the institutions being recognized for saving the tax
payers ot Pennsylvania money in
the field of economical operation

and

fuel utilization.

A forty-hour work week, for all
non-iustructional
employees, became

effective on October first at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. The current reduction in
the work-week, announced recently by President Harvey A. Andruss,
adjustment
follows
a
previous

made on March
llects

the results

1

,1954, and reof planning by

during the past
two and a half years. Due to the
cost of initiating the forty hour
week, it was necessary to plan for
a gradual change, in line with
available funds and current opercollege

officials

ating budgets. Although the number of hours has been reduced,
hourly rates have been adjusted so

DECEMBER,

1956

activities

Dr. T. Z. Koo, Secretary of the

fourteen years, represenProtestant denomination;
Re\erend Martin N. Lohmuller,
J.C.D., pastor Our Lady of Good
Counsel Parish in Marysville, represented the Catholic faith; and
Dr. Philip B. Bookstaber, wellknown rabbi and author from Harrisburg, represented Jewish faith.
Each of the three speakers addressed the college community on
separate days at 10:00 o’clock in
the college auditorium.
Discussions were held on Tuesday at 7:00
p. m., Wednesday at 4:00 p. m.,
and Thursday at 4:00 p. m. Local
ministers and members of the faculty were invited to act as consultants at the informal group meettion

for

led

the

ings.

Following a pattern established
three years ago, a student committee of the association planned the
entire

series

of

lectures

and

dis-

Because of the widespread student interest in the past

cussions.

two years

campus organizations,
and the facul-

the administration,
ty

made every

effort to cooperate

with the Student Christian Association in making this one of the
highlights on the college calendar.

LACKAWANNAWAYNE BRANCH
The Lackawanna-Wayne County
Branch of the B.S.T.C. Alumni Asheld a very successful
dinner meeting Thursday, November first, in the Europa Lounge,
Scranton. About 150 people were
sociation

present.

The invocation was offered by
Thomas Francis, former superintendent of the Lackawanna CounSchools.
Several times during
the evening, the guests joined in
group singing, led by Miss Eva
\lorgan, with Mrs. Florence Sittler
ty

at the piano.

After the dinner William B.
Jones, president of the Lackawanna-Wayne Branch, presented the

Master of Ceremonies, Laurence
Savige, prominent Scranton

D.

attorney,

who

ual capable

presided in his us-

manner.

Mr. Savige presented a group of
students from the College, who
sang several selections. A motion
picture showing scenes of the
campus was presented, with a com-

mentary

member

Boyd

by

Buckingham,

of the College faculty.

Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of
the General Alumni Association,
spoke of Alumni activities, with
particular reference to the Bakeless
F’und.
Mr. Savige then called upon
President Harvey A. Andruss, who
spoke of past accomplishments,
present activities, and future needs
of the College.
He stressed the
problems that the College is facing, because of the increase in the
number of young people going to
college.

President Jones then conducted
a business meeting, and officers
for the next year were elected.

Those who were present from
President and Mrs.

Campus were

H. A. Andruss, Dr. E. H. Nelson,

Howard

F. Fenstemaker and Boyd
Buckingham.

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668
52

ENROLLMENT
PRESENTS PROBLEM
While

the

living

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College admitted 335
Freshmen, 35 transfer students,
and 25 former students, making a
total of 395, which is expected to
produce a total enrollment figure
well between 1000 and 1100, the
number of students who could not
be admitted because of lack of
space is being studied.
In

1955,

students applied
and .376 were admitted, leaving 297
who either had to file applications
with other colleges or forego the
opportunity of a college education.
67.3

This year 553 students filed apbefore newspaper an-

together

in

a

campus

at-

mosphere.
Witli an enrollment of over 1050,
Seniors no longer have a place to
sit in the weekly assemblies held
in the College Auditorium, which
accomodates only 857. Nearly 200
students have to live in the Town
of Bloomsburg, since the dormitories accommodate less than 500.
Senior women who are doing
student teaching will live in ap-

proved homes in the Town of
Blomsburg. To accommodate more
than 500 students

in

tlie

dining

room would mean that all meals
would have to be served on a cafeteria basis, and students would not
have an opportunity

to sit

down

at

plications

the table for a served meal.

nouncements were made that capacities had been exceeded, so that

are to expanded to meet a doubled demand, according to President Harvey A. Andruss, there is pressing
need for a new Auditorium to seat
not less tlian 1200, a Men’s Dormitory to accommodate not less
than 200, along with a new Classrom Building which has already
been approved but will not be
available for use until January,

many

others did not make formal
application.
With the admission
of only .395, there were 168 who
applied but could not be accom-

modated.
In

previous

beginning

years,

with 1950, 10% to 20% of those
applying could not be admitted.
The problem of having two or
three times as

many

applications

can be admitted not only places
the College in a position of refusing admission to many worthy students, but also denies to the sons
and daughters of the tax payers of
Pennsylvania an opportunity for
higher education from which many
of them could surely benefit.
The enrollment of the College
as

prior to World War II, between
the years of 1927 and 1940, did
not at any time reach 700. With

an
enrollment
of
over
1050,
approximately
the
fasame
cilities are being used for 50%
more students. To go beyond this
figure would mean that the Col-

would merely become a colwhich students wmdd go and recite, and
there would be no opportunity for
lege

lection of classrooms to

GIVE TO THE

BAKELESS FUND

G

If

College

facilities

1958.

While the new Dining Room to
seat 800 or 900 will probably be
occupied early in 1957, the completion of this building will not in
itself enable
the college to increase its over-all enrollment without additional dormitories, classrooms, and a auditorium space.
The graduation of a Senior Class
in May, 1957, of about one-half the
size of the
entering Freshman
Class does not provide space for
the admission of any larger class in
1957 than the class which entered
on September 10, 1956.
Unless Teachers Colleges increase their enrollments, there will
be more classrooms in Pennsylvania with undertrained teachers,
and many more schools will have
to operate for half day sessions.
Even if the enrollment of tlie
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colleg were increased to 1500 this
year, witli the admission of all
qualifed applications, it would be
1960 before an entering I'Teshman
Class would be ready to teach in
the public scliools of Pennsylvania.

SAFETY CONFERENCE
More than

seventy'

and high school

teen-agers

from 14
high schools in a four-county area
attended the Third Amnual Penninstructors

sylvania Teen-Age Traffic Safety
Conference held Friday, November 9, at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Warren 1. Johnson, Associate Professor of Elementary Education at the College,
presided as area chairman and was

charge of conference arrangements. The group discussed “What
Effective Traffic Safety Programs
Can Be Organized in Pennsylvania
High Schools?”
During the afternoon session,
delegates
elected
co-teen-age

in

chairmen and committee members
for the 1957 conference.

Co-chair-

men

are

leton

High School; Clio Mowery,
High School; Gerald

“Sandy” Baird, Dallas
Area High School and Marleen
Ritchie,
Millville
Area
High
School; committee members include: William Kubilus, West Haz-

Berwick

Reese, Warrior Run Area Joint
High School; Wayne Long, Dallas
Area Joint High School; James
Scouton, Lake Noxen High School;
Priscilla Salvanoiich, West Hazleton High School.

Johnson stated that many adults
were impressed with the serious attitude shown by the students in
attempting to suggest a constructive

program

of traffic safety. Stu-

dent delegates will return to their
respective schools with a model
program and suggestions which
could be modified to solve many
of the safety problems existing in

communities

today.

of the discussions

be sent

to

all

A summary

and findings

participating

will

high

schools in the four-county area.
Additional copies will be available
on request.
Instructors met in a separate session to make additional recommendations for next year’s session. Mr.
George E. McCutcheon, Dallas,
ser\ed as chairman and Mr. Claire
Latell Lias, Millville, served as secretary.

SUPPORT THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
TIIK

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SENIORS IN 'WHO’S WHO’
Sixteen seniors from the Bloomshnrg State Teacliers College have
been selected for inclusion in the
1956-1957 edition of “Who’s Who
A.mang Students in American UniNominaversities and Colleges.’’
tions for membership were made
by a faculty committee on the basis
of scholarship, participation in extra-curricular

and

ty traits,
'I'he

personaliprofessional promise.
activities,

19.56-19.57

selections,

an-

nounced by John A. Hoch, Dean
of Instruction, includes: James B.
(heasy, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Oeasy, 612 West Third street,
Bloomshurg— Business Education;
Kathryn Ann Crew, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. F. Stanley Crew,
1327 VV'ahuit street, WilliamsportElementary Education; John J.
Ford, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Ford, 79 Sunhury street, Shamokin
—Business Education; Evelyn J.
Gilchrist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Gilchrist, 246 Pierce street,

— Business Education;
William D. Kautz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank J. Kautz, 2512 Jefferson street, Harrisburg— Secondarv’
Education;
Barbara
Lentz,
J.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Lentz, 1515 Sheridan street, Williamsport-Elementary Education;
Miriam E. Miller, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. LeRoy Miller, 43 North
Front street, St. Clair— Business
Education;
Suzanne
Osborne,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Osborne, 17 Fairview Road, Springfield-Elementary Education; Marilyn J. Ritter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Ritter, 25 Crisman
street, Forty Fort—Elementary EdPottsville

ucation; Elmer D. Robinson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer L. Robinson, 116 Church street, Upland-

Business Education; Edward M.
Setar, son of Mrs. M. Setar, 45

West Rhume

street,

Nesquehoning

—Business Education; Sterling S.
Smith, son of Mrs. Martha L.
Smith, 117 South Vine street, Berwick-Secondary Education; Dick
C. Strine, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Strine, 616 Lincoln street,
Milton— Secondary Education; Judith Anne Ulmer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Ulmer, 334 Jerome avenue, Williamsport— Elementary Education; Enola F. VanAuken, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph VanAuken, Mill City— Elementary Education; Margaret E.
Yohn,

717

Eightli

street,

Selins-

The
tions as there may be need.
maximum annual grant for single
Fellows is $1800; for married Fellows, $2400 with an additional
Students
stipend for children.
with or without financial need are
invited to apply. A Danforth Fel-

low

allowed to carry other scholas
appointments,
such
Rhodes, Fulbright, Woodrow Wilis

arship

Marshall, etc., concurrently
with his Danforth Fellowship, and
applicants for these appointments
are cordially invited to apply at the
same time for a Danforth Fellowson,

ship.

If

a

man

receives the

Dan-

Appointment, together with
a Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright
Scholarship, or Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship, he becomes a Danforth
Fellow without stipend, until these
(orth

grove— Elementary Eklucation.
This group of sixteen students

other other relationships are com-

different coun-

Danforth Fellows will parin the annual Danforth
Foundation Conference on Teaching, to be held at Camp Miniwanca in Michigan next September.

represents
ties in the
sylvania.

twelve

Commonwealth
Robinson,

of

Setar

Penn-

and

Bachelor of
Science degree in Education in
January, 1957, and the remaining
thirteen students will be graduated

Smith

in

will receive the

May, 1957.

FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED
The Danfordi Foundation, an
educational trust fund in St. Louis,
Missouri, invites applications for
the sixth class (1957) of Danforth
Fellows from college

Graduate

senior men and recent graduates
who are preparing themselves for
a career of college teaching, and
are planning to enter graduate
school in September, 1957, for their
The
first year of graduate study.
Foundation welcomes applicants
from the areas of Natural and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences,
Humanities and all fields of spe-

be found in the undergraduate college.
President Andruss has named
Mr. Clayton H. Hinkel as the Liaison Officer to nominate to the
Danforth Foundation two or not
exceed three candidates for
to

pleted.
All

ticipate

The qualifications of the candidates as listed in the announcement from the Foundation are:

men

of outstanding

academic

abil-

personality congenial to the
classroom, and integrity and character,
including serious inquiry
within the Christian tradition.
ity,

All

applications,

including

the

recommendations, must be completed by January 31, 1957. Any
student wishing further information should get in touch with our
Liaison Officer.

cialization to

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

'09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

’42

these fellowships. These appointments are fundamentally “a relaof
encouragement”
tionship
throughout the years of graduate
study, carrying a promise of financial aid within prescribed condi-

DECEMBER,

1956

7

NAMED DELEGATE

Bakeless Memorial Loan Fund

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, Dean of
and President of the Faculty Association at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, was recently named a delegate to the

Women
The O. H. and
$5, 028. .54.

S.

Bakeless Memorial

II.

Contributions since the

list

Loan Fund now

totals

published in the June, 1956,

“Quarterly” are as follows:

Ninth
Annual Conference on
Teacher Education and Professional Standards held in the Nittany
Lion Inn at State College on November 30 and December 1. Dean
Miller’s appointment was made by

Class of 1894—

Bridget Quinn Keough.
Class of 1917VVilliam C. Levan.

T.

Stuart Williams, President of
the Northeastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Class of 1911F. Baker, M. D.
Florenee Coolbaugh Warner.
Pauline Coleman Stimpson.

Harold

The conference featured the
general theme “Looking Ahead,”
and delegates were addressed by
prominent state educators, inclucling Dr. Ralph Rackley, Dean of
the College Education, Pennsylvania State University.

Class of 1913Nellie Denison, Major U. S. A. Retired.

Class of 1918-

During the morning and afternoon sessions, the delegates turned their attention to various pro-

Kathryn Bakeless Nason.
Class of 1953—

blems confronting both educators
and education today and in the fu-

Richard Evans.

Specific

ture.

Class of 1956-

Donation from Class Fund

$ 200.00

Class of 1959-

1000.00
25.00
285.00

Donation from Class Fund

Cowley Fund Transfer

($1,000.00

topics

included:

“How We May Improve Teacher
Competence”; “What Can We Do
To Obtain and Hold an Adequate
Supply of Good Teachers”; “How
Can Public Understanding of
Good Schools and Good Teachers
Be Brought About?”

Covernment Bond)

Cowley Fund Transfer (Government Bond)
5.00
10.00

B.S.T.C. Faculty Association

Olney Baptist Church in Philawas the setting at five
o’clock Wednesday, November 21,
delphia

for the marriage of Jane Fahringer

Pi

Omega

25 00

Pi

Kappa Delta

Pi

Business Education Club

Athenaeum Club
M. & G. Instrumental Music Association
“B” Club
Day Women’s Association
B.S.T.C. Players

Waller Hall Association
Class of 19,59
Student Christian Association
Phi Sigma Pi
Aviation Club

50.00
5.00
5.00
10.00
5100
5.00
10.00

25.00
25.00
25.00
12.04
15.00
25.00

Wesley College Fellowship
College Choraliers
Science Club
Varsity Club

Alpha
8

Psi

Omega

Berwick, to
brewington, Benton.
Smith,

Student Organizations—

5.(X)

12.50

W. Haydn Rees

bev.
ficiated

at

Woodrow

the

G.
of-

double-ring cere-

’"O'W-

After

a

wedding

trip

to

New

York City, Mr. and Mrs. Brewington will reside at 517 East Fiftli
street,

Berwick.

who is the daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Fahringer, graduated from Berwick High School and B.S.T.C. and
is teacher of fourth grade in the
Berwick schools.
Mr. Brewington, son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Brewington, is
a graduate of Benton High School
The

of

the

bride,
late

and B.S.T.C.

THE ALUMNI qUARTEKLY

YESTERDAY
(From The Morning

So

Press, 1938)

have had

tliey

term opening

another

around the Philologians
These, yon

and the

to learn,

were

ri\ al

and flourished in
the days when there was a program every Saturday evening.
They ha\e long since disappeared
from the picture, hut they helped
any mnnher of people to have conliterary societies

fidence on their feet in pnhlic. The
is one of the founders of the

fact

IMiilologians happened to he our
Originally, there was hut
father.
the one society hnt strife arose

group

within its memhership and a
holted to organized the Callipian

Gny Jacohy was one

society.

ot

those and he frecpiently told ns of
those days.

Mr. Jacohy, as the

older

resi-

of Bloomshnrg will recall,
was a member of the Columbia

dents

county bar, hut his largest business
came through his justice of the
peace office. He filled that office
In his day lawyear after year.
yers with any important case nia^e
certain the hearing was held beThere was ne\er any
fore him.
slip-up in

He knew

the return of the case.
more law than many of

the lawyers— certainly far more law
as it pertained to the justice of the

peace

office.

For years

we

called at his office
search of news.
When we had time we usually discussed many things together.

almost

daily

in

Wdien he was on his deathbed
he sent for us, with the information that he had some very important information to pass on and he
wanted us to be its custodian.

We

went

to his

rector with him.
become a very

with him in his

He

home

to find his

His religion had
personal matter
last days.

declared to us he was happier than he had ever been in his

DECEMBER,

1956

“I’ve talked

and he crowled under a porch with

Would you mind
see me tomorrow?

hand to dispatch the
some manner the rifle was
accidentally discharged and the

tired.

today.
to

feel better then.’’

I'll

Of course we

He

accpiiesced.

a rifle in his
cat.

tion

he wanted to pass on died

with him.

we

but

are getting

away from

term openings on the

lall

\\ e have seen those openings
from the early days of Dr. Waller’s
first

principalship there; after his

and during the
days of Dr. Welsh; again through
the second long term of Dr. Walresignation,

first

that of Dr. Charles H. Fisher;
Dr. George L. Reimer; Dr. Haas
and Dr. Andruss.

ler;

Rack
didn’t

in

those early days

have such a

facility

they
as

the early nineties

and Dr. Aldinger

Detwhiler led a procession of
youths down to Athletic Park
from the hill for their first football practice. There was one football uniform in the crowd and
Prof. Detwhiler, who had learned
at Haverford, possessed that. There
wasn’t a semblance of padding in
it— merely a canvas packet and
canvas knee pants. Uniforms came
in

due course, and Normal began

turning out some real football
teams. Bill W’orthington and Bray,
the former a linesman and the latter a back, were to later be mentioned for All-American honors
when they played with Lafayette.
Bill

at

sylvania.

Harvard

a tackle who later
the University of Pennsaw him help defeat

We

in their last

game before

Many other brilliant
break.
pigskin toters were to come along
in later years, but this picture goes
back to around 1890. Prof. Detwhiler, who later left Bloomsburg,
was to a tragic death. A cat had
been giving the family trouble,
the

&

added extra coaches on the
coming. A bus was
the only means of transportation
in those days, and few gave themR.

day of

their

selves such a luxury. They “hoofed” from the station, and carried
plenty of baggage as well. It was
a great day for the town boys who
always made it a point to give the
incoming contingent the “once
over.”
Many a matrimonial venture
started
in
such
innocent

fashion.

Back

in

those days the boys and

didn’t

girls

many

have

liberties.

Of course, the boys never smoked.
The girls? That was never
even dreamed of. The dormitories
were patrolled and close check was
had upon all concerned. Privileges
of being outside the school at
night? No, indeed.
They stayed
there when they once entered the
walls.

Of course, there was infractions
There, by way of illustration, was the time some of
of the rules.

the boys staged a dance in Dent-

and had everything moving along nicely until faculty members got to hear of it, and raided
the place. All this necessitated letting the girls down the outstide
by means of ladders from the third
floor while a sufficient number
held back ithe raiders-' until the
girls had made their escape.
ler’s hall

Then,

Ruch was

shone

days the boys and

didn’t

field.

came here as physical director.
Our first recollection of a Normal football team was when Prof.

in those

come by automobile.
They practically all came by train,
and both the D., L. & W. and the

an

The fact is, they
didn’t go in much for athletics until the gymnasium was erected in
athletic

Back
girls

P.
hill.

In

bullet killed him.

died that night and the informa-

C'alliepians.

may he amazed

much

coo

coming np

at the College.

What a mnnher ot them we have
seen eome in onr time!
How well we recall the days
when much ol the school rivalry
centered

but he was

life,

tall

when
in

too,

there

a student,

Bloomsburg

was the time

now
life,

well

known

“borrowed”

Dr. Welsh’s horse to take the girl
dreams out for a ride. Everything was going nicely until they
almost ran into Dr. Welsh at the
foot of the hill. That youth never
did graduate.
of his

But

all

that belongs to the dis-

tant past.
9

THE ALUMNI
rOLlJMBIA COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

PRESIDENT

’46

Benton, Pa.

25

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Henry Morgan
207 Jefferson Avenue

SECRETARY
Sharretts,

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Hatboro, Pa.

’33

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Edward D.

PRESIDENT

Frank J. Furgele
East Moreland Avenue

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

Edwin M. Vastine,

Bristol, Pa.

’41

Bloomsburg, Pa.

SECRETARY
Miss Alice Smull,

TREASURER

TREASURER

183

’05

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

Francis B. Galinski

Paul Martin, ’38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

’43

Danville, Pa.

Diane Avenue
Hatboro, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

DAUPIIIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary A. Meehan, ’18
2632 Lexington Street

PRESIDENT

Harrisburg, Pa.

William Zeiss
Route No. 2

VICE PRESIDENT

Clarks Summit, Pa.

Miss Nellie M. Seidel,

1105V2

L. Lewis, ’28
4,

PRESIDENT

Pa.

South Union Street

Scranton

Harrisburg, Pa.

TREASURER

4,

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street

Pa.

Market Street

TREASURER
Mi.ss

Harrisburg, Pa.

The Kev.
of

1921

years were served as supervising

W.

principal.

husband
Sarah Garrison, has retired from
II.

Miller,

the ministry after serving thirtyfour years as Pastor of St. Luke’s

Lutheran Church, Williamsport.
1926
John T. Rowlands, a former resident of Plains, has been appointed
a.ssistant

County

superintendent of Potter
schools.

The appointment was announII. Conner, superintendent of Potter County schools.
Mr. Rowlands has been supervising principal of the 0.swayo Valley
joint Schools in Shinglehouse.
Mr. Rowlands has licen in public school work for 30 years and 21

ced by Paul

10

Previous to going to

Oswayo Valley he was
principal of the

tlie

supervising

Susquehanna-Wy-

oming Joint Schools in Wyoming
and Susquehanna Counties.
Mr. Rowlands recently was appointed by Dr. Ralph Swan from
the Department of Public Instruction in Harrisburg to a State committee composed of leading educathroughout Pennsylvania to
serve in an advisory capacity to revise the elementary curriculum of
Pennsylvania schools.
Mr. Rowtors

lands last year

also

’23

Spring City, Pa.

BE LOYAL TO YOUR
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

’ll

’18

SECRETARY

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue

L. Baer, ’32

Irish, ’06

Miss Kathi-yn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

TREASURER

SECRETARY

Hortman

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

732

West Locust Street

Scranton

Harrisburg, Pa.

1821

Mrs. Lillian

SECRETARY
Margaret

Paul Englehart, 07
2921 George Street

W. Homer Englehart,

HONORARY PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rodgers Lloyd

VICE PRESIDENT

21

PHILADELPHIA AREA

’13

1618 State Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

Miss Pearl

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

received the

He

Ether E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

’34

has had a variety of experi-

ences in education, having taught

elementary and high school in
addition to serving as an elementary and high school principal.

in

days he was
and in his senior
year at Rloomsburg State Teachers
College was captain of the football

During

his collegiate

active in athletics

team.

He received an AH degree from
the University of Scranton, a Master of Arts degree in administration
and supervision from Bucknell University and has additional advanced work from Pennsylvania State

honorary Keystone Degree for his
interest and service in the FFA

University.

lirogram.

a

He

is married to Edith Morris,
former teacher. They have a

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
LI ZEKN’E

NEW YORK AREA

COENTY

PRESIDENT

H’ilkes-Barre Area

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Francis P. Thomas, ’42
19S3 Everett Street
Valley Stream, L. I.. N. Y.

Thomas

H. Jenkins, ’40

Terrace Drive
Shavertown, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison Street

Tunkhannock, Pa.

91

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Ruble James Thomas.

’42

1983 Everett Street
Valley Stream, L. I.. N. Y.

Jerry Y. Russin,’41
136 Maffet Street
Plains. Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Afrnes Anthony Silvany, ’20
83 North River Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, 11
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

’14

Slocum Avenue
Tunkhannock, Pa.

42

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

Be.ssniarie Williams Schilling, ’53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

PRESIDENT

’54

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

TREASURER

Miss Grace Beck
1014 Chestnut Street
Sunbury, Pa.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Kenneth Kirk,

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski, ’52
New Milford, Pa.

Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley,

New

’14

Milford, Pa.

317 Tripp Street

West Wyoming, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick
1017 East Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

Betty K. Hensley,

’34

Madison Street

146

WASHINGTON AREA
PRESIDENT
Joseph A. Kulick, ’49
1542 North Danville Street

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Wilkes-Barre. Pa.

119

Hazleton Area

James E. Doty
South Fourth Street
Sunbury, Pa.

Arlington

PRESIDENT

6000

WEST BRANCH AREA

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

Mifflinburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

Jason Schaffer

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
Washington, D. C.

R. D.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 North LocustStreet

Selinsgrove, Pa.

daughter, Mrs. Donald Moses, who
is a music supervisor in the Union
Endicott School District in New
York.

1934
the South Carolina Department of
the American Legion has honored
a former Montour County resident.

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

serving with the U. S. Army
Recruiting Service, for outstanding
service in operation and promotion

ing servdee in operation and promotion of Palmeto to Boy’s State,
sponsored annually by the South

now

of a boys

program

in that State.
P. Shellen-

a native of Strawberry
Ridge and former teacher at DeLong Memorial School, Washingtonville, was awarded a gold watch
by the committee for his outstand-

Carolina Department of the American Legion.
Sgt. Shellenberger

berger,
of

Brandywine
Washington

Lewisburg, Pa.

Master Sergeant John

The Americanism Committee

4215

Helen Crow

Washington Avenue
West Hazleton, Pa.

1956

TREASURER
Miss Saida Hartman,

TREASURER

’32

127

DECEMBER,

1232

SECRETARY

TREASURER
Ecker,

1,

’03

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

’24

U

Street, S. E.
Washington, D. C.

Chestnut Street

McHose

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

Robert V. Glover,

Hazleton, Pa.

Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

Mrs. Lucille

Virginia

Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew

Harold J. Baum, ’27
20 South Pine Street

147 East

1,

VICE PRESIDENT

of

Turbotville

is

a graduate

High School and

Bloomsburg State Teachers

Col-

lege.

He

is

serving as a public inform11

ation specialist with the U. S. Army
Recruiting Service, promoting the

Army’s volnntary enlistment program.

The Army “loaned” him
American Legion

to the

a member of the Berwick
Senior High School faculty in 1937
and has remained there since in his
capacity as English teacher.
He
served as B.H.S. faculty manager

came

1950
William C. Davis, formerly of
Berwick, has recently been pro-

moted

to the position of Assistant

Traffic

District

Superintendent,

of atliletics for thirteen years.

Harrisburg

with the program which is designed to instill
in selected high school senior boys
the basic fundamentals of our
form of government. It stresses an
awareness of the forces that seek
to undermine our freedoms and
points out that constant vigilance

During World War II, Mr. McKechnie served with the United

Telephone Company

nececsary.
As Public Relations Director for
the Palmeto Boys’ State, Shellenberger is credited by the Americanism Committee with contributing greatly to the success of the
program by enthusiastically bringing its activities to the attention of
the public.
Atter leaving the faculty at the
Washingtonville school, he joined
the Army in 1942.
After a tour of duty in Korea,
he resumed duties with the Army
Recruiting Service in 1953 and was
assigned to Columbia, S. C.
Sgt. Shellenberger is married to
the former Louise Boyer, of Mt.
Carmel, a graduate nurse of the
Geisinger
Memorial
Hospital
School of Nursing. They have two
daughters, Roma, 11, and Roxy,

morial E.U.B. Church, as well as
the following fraternal organiza-

eral years

to

for the past sev-

assist

is

eight.

1935

Elmer

J.

McKechnie has been

elected the superintendent of the
Berwick Aera Joint School System,
succeeding the late Kenneth L.
Terry.

McKechnie, a member of
the B.H.S. faculty and secretary of
Berwick School Authority, was
elected to fill the unexpired term
of Mr. Terry, which will end in
Mr.

States
ior

Navy

He worked as communand educational adminis-

trator for a destroyer division
in the Atlantic

He

a

is

and

member

Bucknell University.
His first teaching assignment
was in the Shickshinny Junior and
Senior High Schools where he
taught from 1935 to 1937. He be12

both

Pacific.

Bower Me-

of

Knapp Lodge No. 462

tions:

A.M.,

F.

&

Irem
Temple
AAONMS,
Columbia
County Shrine Club, Acacia Club
and American Legion. He also
holds membership in Gamma Theta Upsilon and Kappa Phi Kappa,
Caldwell

education

member

Consistory,

fraternities.

He

is

a

of the Pennsylvania State

Educational Association and the
National Council of English Instructors.

Mr. McKechnie has been serving
of the Berwick Area
Joint School Board Authority.
A son, Elmer, Jr., is a student at
Gettysburg College where he is
as secretary

enrolled
course.

the

in

pre-dentistry

1936
Robert J. Rowlands lives at 603
Vernon Road, Philadelphia 19, Pa.
He is chairman of the Education
Department at Chestnut Hill Col-

and is
Department
Department

lege,

College.

the

Bell

Pennsyl-

of

vania.

1950

Grade.

ications

of

as a Lieutenant, Sen-

also a

member

of Education
of English at

He

is

of tlie

and the

La

Salle

married and has a

family of five children.

July, 1958.

Mr. McKechnie was graduated
from Berwick High School in 1931.
He earned his Bachelor of Science
Degree in Education at Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
his Masters Degree in Education,
majoring in
administration,
at

Traffic,

and Mrs. David Wentzel,
of Collingdale, announce the birth
of a daughter, Carolyn Louise, on
September 18, 1956. Mrs. Wentzel
is the former Louise Lohr, and had
been teaching English and direcMr.

ting

dramatics

for

years at Collingdale

the

past five

High School.

1952
son has been born to Lt. and
Mrs. R. L. German, Fort Benning,
Georgia. Mrs. German is the former Beverly Cole, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry E. Cole, Leonard

A

street,

Bloomsburg.

1953
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Albano, of
Southampton, Pa., announce the
birth of their daughter, Diane
Elaine, on May 26, 1956.
Mrs. Albano is the former Elaine

Ohhnan,

of Wilkes-Barre, and of
the class of 1953.
Mr. Albano, a
member of the class of 1954, is on
the faculty of Centennial Joint

School, Johnsville, Pa.

1955
Miss Alice Marie Eyer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley B. Eyer,
Light Street, and Ronald L. Cole,
Berwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Cole, St. Louis, Mo., were
united in marriage at two-thirty
Saturday afternoon, October 20,
in Light Street Methodist Church.
White fall flowers decorated the
altar for the double-ring ceremony
performed by the Rev. Van R.

Beeman.

The bride graduated from Scott
Township High School and at pres-

ARCUS’
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

—Berwick

Bloomsburg

Max

Arcus,

’41

ent

is

a senior at B.S.T.C.

The bridegroom graduated from
Millville High Schol and B.S.T.C.
and attended Bucknell University.
He was a member of Gamma TheMr. Cole taught one
ta Uplison.

year

and

Milton School District
serving with the U. S.
at Fort Knox, Ky.

in the
is

Army

now

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employed

1955

Marine Second L. Robert P. Rlyler, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Hlyler, R. D. 2, was graduated recently from the U. S. \a\al PreFlight School at Pensacola, Fla. He
graduated from If.S.T.C. before entering the ser\ ice.

He

Milton,

Fla.,

for

primary

flight

training.

Mary Jane

Trefsger, daughter of .Allen If. Trefsger, Watsontown R. D. 1, became the bride of
.Miles Warren Heisler, son of .Mr.
and Mrs. Warren j. Heisler, Tamacpia R. D. 1, recently in the Zion

Lutheran Church.

room

groom, Lemoyne, performed

the ceremony.

The bride graduated from M'atsontown High School, class of
1952, and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She is an employe of
W’hite Deer Township Elementary
School in New Columbia.

The groom is a graduate of Tamacpia High School in 1952 and
the Bloomsburg and Stroudsburg
State Teachers Colleges.
He is a
member of the staff of the U. S.
Naval Hospital in Philadelphia.

a

pretty

wedding trip to the Pocono mountains and Mokoma Lake.
They will reside at Morristown.
1956

ceremony held SunOctober 28, at Rohrsburg

In a lovely

day,

Church, .Aliss June Elaine
Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy B. Reese, Millville R. D. 2, be-

C-hristian

the

candlelight

cere-

arranged with assorted white

flowers.

The bride was graduated from
Berwick High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
is employed as a teacher in the
elementary grades in Audubon.
The groom, a graduate of Berwick High School, is a veteran of
the Korean AA^ar. He is currently

DECEMBER,

1956

bride of George Alvin

Lynn, son of Mr. and .Airs. Alfred
Lynn, Orangeville R. D. 1.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Jack Cooper,
pastor
of Jackson
Baptist
Churcli.
They will reside in Or-

.ingeville.

Lynn graduated from MillHigh School and B.S.T.C. and
has been employed as secretary at
Nescopeck High School. Her husband, a graduate of Benton High
School
and Pennsylvania State
ville

University, is teacher of agriculture at Benton High School.

1956

Harold Sachs has been elected
teacher in the elementary grades
of the Bloomsburg schools.

church

vacation

school,

"youth work, and parish visitation.
This pattern of work has been developed
day.

in

many

congregations

to-

affords lay people a greater opportunity for service and is
designed to meet the needs of the
Christian church.
It

Mrs. Diehl was born in Lewisburg, her family moving soon to

Sunbury where she received her
early Christian training in Trinity

Lutheran Church.

Later her famDanville and there
she was a member of Pine Street

moved

ily

to

Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Diehl received her education in the elementary schools of
Sunbury, Danville High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Among her activities, she
has been a teacher in the Sunday

School and an advisor to the Luther Leagues.

1956
Miss Myra Joan Snyder, daughter of .Air. and .Airs. Homer E. Snyder, Danville, and Karol Elery Ruppel, son of Air. and Airs. Raymond
C. Ruppel, Kenhorst, were married recently in First Baptist Church,
Danville. The Rev. Byrd C. Springer, pastor, officiated.

A

reception followed in the sorooms of the church. The
newly-weds will reside in Syracuse.
cial

Helen
called by St.
Mrs.

to

Christian

mony, Miss Marcella Ann Cedor
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Cedor, of East Second street, Berwick, became the bride of David
G. Belles, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Belles, of East Eleventh
street, Berwick, in the First Methodist Church tliere.
The Rev. Samuel W. Strain officiated at the ceremony before an
altar

a reception in the so-

of the church, the couple

lelt oil a

Church
1955
In

school,

Mrs.

Rev. Curtis D. Heisler, brother
of the

Following
cial

came

1935

M iss

Corporation
*

17, 1955.

now

assigned to the Whiting
Field Na\al .Auxiliary Air Station,
is

Ra>tor

at

Lansdale.

received his

commission on December

He

in

1956
Diehl has been

P.

Matthew Lutheran

serve

as

education

director of
parish

and

work.

The

responsibilities

to

which

Mrs. Diehl has been called include
supervision and direction of the
Sunday School, weekday church

Ruppel, a graduate of DanHigh School, attended B.S.T.
C.
Her husband graduated from
Shilington High School and B.S.T.
C. and has enrolled at Syracuse
Airs.

ville

University to study for a master’s
in
radio and television
broadcasting.

degree

1956

IS

YOUR CLASS LISTED IN
TABLE OF BAKELESS
MEMORIAL FUND?
See Page 8

In a pretty ceremony recently at
the Russian
Orthodox Church,
Berckick, Miss Alartha Starvatow,
daughter of Air. and Mrs. Fred
Starvatow, Berwick, became the
bride of Drew Canouse, son of
Mr. and Airs. Doyle Canouse, Berwick.

The

Rev. Michael B. Ugrin,
performed the double-ring
ceremony.
A reception was held at the
Maria Assunta Hall with 150 attending. The couple left later on
a
trip
through
the
southern

pastor,

13

The bride wore a pink cotton suit with white accessories and
a white corsage. They will reside

states.

at

620 Southard Street, Key West,

Florida.

The bride graduated from Berwick High School in 1953 and
B.S.T.C. in 1956. She has accepted
a position as second grade teacher
in the Poinciana School of Key
West, Florida
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School in 1950, served
in the U. S. Navy for four years.
He is an agent for New York Life

Avenue, Pitman, New Jersey.
The bride graduated from Berwick High School in 1952 and has
been employed at a secretary at
the ACF.
Her husband graduated from Berwick High School in
1952 and B.S.T.C. in 1956. He will
teach this fall in the
N. J., schools.

1956
Miss Janet Lee Wintersteen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling
M. Wintersteen, Bloomsburg R. D.
5, became the bride of Richard W.
Kocher, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kocher, Light Street, in a
ceremony
performed
Saturday,
July 21, in the St. Luke’s Lutheran
Church, Liglit Street.
The Rev. D. L. Bomboy, pastor,
officiated at the double-ring cere-

mony.

The bride was graduated from
Township High School and

Scott

Anna Richard

Anna

the Orangeville
mentary School.
at

Lutheran Church, Millvile, Miss
Joanne Louise Gordner, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Raph Gordner,
Millville, became the bride of Robert Glenn Mosteller, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Mosteller, Berwick.

The Rev.

R.

Eugene Smith,

pas-

performed the double-ring
ceremony before the altar wihch
was decorated with baskets of
white snapdragons, pompoms and
tor,

carnations.

The bride graduated from MillHigh School and is a senior
Her husband, a gradat B.S.T.C.
uate of Berwick High School, is
serving with the U. S. Navy aboard
ville

the

USS

Mrs. Emily M. Landis,

Mrs. Emily M. Landis, widow of
B. Landis, of 401 South Market street, Mechanicsburg, died

Thursday, November 1, 1956, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth L. Orris, 206 East Simpson street, Mechanicsburg, with
wrom she has been living the past
several weeks during an illness.
Mrs. Landis was a member of
Luke’s Episcopal Church, Mechanicsburg.
Surviving in addition to her daughter are another
daughter, Mrs. Emily Sopensky,
also of Mechanicsburg; a sister,
Mrs. Albert G. Morrish, WilkesBarre, and four grandchildren.
St.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

’97

Dr. Hess was born in Benton
township and spent his early life
there.
He was the son of the late
George Alexander and Priscilla
Brink Hess.
a graduate of the Wil-

Commercial
College,
and Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1897. He was
liamsport

In a lovely ceremony performed
recently at Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

May

Church, Berwick, Miss Marjorie
Ann Bower, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Bower, Berwick, became the bride of Richard Gilmore Catou, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Caton, Staunton, Va.

Roanoke,

After a reception at the American Legion Home, the couide left
on a wedding trip to Atlantic City.

14

M. Hess,

Dr. D. M. Hess, Water street,
Washingtonville,
died
Monday,
July 16, in the Geisinger Hospital
of carcinoma. Dr. Hess had been
ill for seven weeks and a patient in
the hospital for two weeks.

He was

reside

’97

John

Dr. D.

1956

will

Fri-

Coral Sea.

Scott

They

home

In a pretty ceremony performed
Wednesday, July 18, in St. Paul’s

The groom was graduated from

ance department of the Magee
Carpet Company.
The couple left for a weddmg
trip to Williamsburg, Virghiia.
After the completion of tlreii
new home, the couple will reside
at Bloomsburg R. D. 5.

Clarks Summit,

day, October 19, 1956.

Ele-

Township High School and is
employed in the cost and mainten-

3,

passed away at her

Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has accepted a teaching
position

Isaacs, ’95

C. Richards (Mrs. Albert

G. Isaacs), R.
Pa.,

1957

.

Insurance Company.

Woodbury,

^prrologu

at

407

Touhy

1890,

15,

secretary

SUBSCRIBE TO

school

$2.00

PER YEAR

in

a

Va.,

railroad

and

Sullivan

office

later

in

tauglit

county for a

He

then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at
Baltimore, Md., in 1898 and graduated in 1902. Dr. Hess then practiced at Summer Hill, near Johnstown for one year coming to
Rohrsburg where he practiced for
In July, 1917, he went
14 years.
year.

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in

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

where

W'ashingtonville

to

lie

re-

Dr. Hess was president ot the
Caihnnhia C.'onnty Medical Society
several

times,

Washingtom
lor

se\eral

member

a

illcj

borongii

and

years

dent ot that body.

member

the

ot

He

He had

.Alice

also

presi-

also

was

a

Hall
W'ashington-

becoming

in

his

ill.

Williams Tucker,

'09

.Mrs. -Alice W. Tucker, 325 West
College street, Canonsbnrg, Pa.,
died in the Thomas Convalescent
Home on October 10, 19.56, at 4:.30
p. m. tollowing an illness ot se\eral years.

She was the widow ot Hiram D.
Tucker who died September 1,
1942. She was born in Plains, Pa.,
on October 22, 1SS8, and was the
daughter ot the late John and Sally
Wintersteen Wilson. -Mrs. Tucker
was a member ot the Canonsbnrg
U.P. Church.
Snr\ iving are the tollowing children: -Mrs. Sarah Simms, wite ot
Thomas Simms, Etna, Pa.; Janie
Weston, wite ot Charles Toth,
Puerto Rico; Dr. Wilson D. Tucker, Newport, R. I.; Phillip F. Tucker, San Fernando, Calit; Hiram N.
Tucker, Fairlawn, N. J., and 10
grandchildren. She also leaves one
brother, John Wilson, Plains, Pa.;
and three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Williams, Rushland, Pa.; Mrs. Isadora Dean, Akron, Ohio, and Miss
Wihelmina Wilson, Plains, Pa.

Hartman

Kline, ’12

Mrs. Harold J. Kline, nee HarH. Hartman, sixty-three, long
a member of the Bloomsburg High
School faculty and one of the best
known women in the community,
died Sunday, No\ ember 4, 1956, at
her home on West street, Bloomsbnrg.
Mrs. Kline was apparently on
her way to reco\ ery from a recent
serious illness, during which s.iie
was a patient in the Bloomsburg
Hospital for two weeks, when she
riet

DECEMBER,

1956

and the Bloomsburg State Normal

ill.

English and produced numerous school plays during her long
ser\ice on the local High School
faculty prior to her retirement at
the close ot the 1954-55 term.

School.
Mrs. Crimes was a member of
the Assembly of God Church.

ior

The daughter

ot the late Mr.
lied Hartman, she was
i graduate ot the Bloomsburg High
School and the Bloomsburg State
iXormal School, now the Teachers
Ciollege, and received her Master’s
Degree from New York University.
She later worked on her doctorate
-Mrs.

at that institution.

-Mrs. Kline began her teaching
career in Benton. During her years
ot instructing here she was especially active in the field of dramatics ami organized and acted as
adxisor ot the Thespians.
Many
ot her dramatic presentations won
wide acclaim.
She was a member of the Methodi.st Church, and long a member
ot the church choir, and of Miss
Pooley’s Sunday school class.
-Mrs. Kline was also a member
ot the American Association ot
University Women and of the Order ot Eastern Star, being a past
matron ot that organization.
Survi\ing are her husband; a
daughter, Mrs. Merle Wingate, Livonia, N. Y.; a brother, Clifton
Hartman, Falls Church, Va.; and
a sister, Mrs. John Bradford, Ar-

’32

John Morris,

48, of 46 SloForty Fort, member of
the Forty Fort High School faculty, passed away Sunday, November 18, at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient
two weeks.
He had been in ill

John E. Morris,

cum

Street,

health since 1952.

Born in Parsons, Mr. Morris was
the son of the late John and Rachel
Pugh Morris. He had been a resident of Forty Fort 31 years.

He

Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 19.32 and
was graduated from
received

New

his

master’s

York University

degree

in 1951.

at

He

taught in Forty Fort High School
25 years.

Mr. Morris served in the Navy
during World War II aboard the

He
Carrier Core in the Atlantic.
was a member of Forty Fort Methodist

Post

Church and Black Diamond
American Legion, Kings-

.395,

ton.

Surviving are his wife, the for-

mer Erma Thompson of Kingston;
two sons, Todd T. and Rand T.,
both at home; two sisters, Mrs.
Thomas Lovett of Forty Fort, and
Mrs. Fred Berry of Endwell, N. Y.

lington, A’a.

William Sloan Rishton

Ruth Mensinger Grimes,
Mrs.

Harriet

critically

nati\e of Bloomsburg and a
community
resident
ot
this
ihrougliont her life, she taught sen-

and

continued active

practice until

the
council
ot

Community

Association and the
\ille Fire Company.

became

A

inaineil until his death.

Joseph

Crimes,

’25

fifty-two,

widely-known Bloomsburg woman,
died suddenly recently at her
home of a heart condition. She
had been ill about twenty years.
She was found dead by her husband about an hour after death
occurred.

The fonner Ruth Mensinger,
daughter of the late Frank and
Margaret Mensinger, she had formerly taught school in Berwick
and Lime Ridge.
She was a native of Miffllinville,
but had resided in Bloomsburg for
She was a
over twenty years.
graduate of Berwick High School

William

S.

Rishton, eighty-nine,

Bloomsburg businessman for fifty-seven years and one of the most
a

widely known men in the area,
died Thursday, September 27, in
the
Bloomsburg Hospital from
complications due to the infirmities
of age.

He had been ill for four months
and hospitalized five weeks.
A native of Washington, D. C.,
he resided in Liverpool, England,
until he came to Bloomsburg at
the age of nine.
He was a graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal School and a
graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

He was

the proprietor of a drug
15

store for ten years at a site

now

occupied by the Farmers National
Bank and then for forty-seven
years operated a similar store on
Market Square. Later he was for
three years an assistant manager

Rea and Derick.

for

His

wife died twenty-six years

ago.

Through much of his life he was
active in various phases of the civic
life of the community.

He was

a

member

of the execu-

committee for the Bloomsburg
Centennial in 1902 and was the
only survivor of that committee to
tive

participate in the Sesquicentennial
here four years ago.
He was always active in sports.
For years he had a team in the
local City League. He was a member of the board of directors of

Susquehanna
Bloomsburg
the
League team when professional
baseball was in the area early in
the centry, and through many
years was an outstanding bowler
and headed a team in the Crafts-

ting a public

showing

of posses-

Born and reared in Mifflinville,
he was a graduate of B.S.T.C. and
National University of Washington, D. C., where he received a
degree in law. He was a United
States Government attorney with
forty years of service.
He retired
on June 1 of this year when he

moved to Sherwood Village.
Upon graduation from National
University he took a position with
the Internal Revenue Department
and was stationed in Washington
for a number of years.
Later he
was stationed in Baltimore, Md.,
for twenty-seven years, and for
two years in Cincinnati. He came
to Bloomsburg from that city.
Mr. Keller was a member of the
North Hyde Methodist Church of
Cincinnati.
Surviving are his wife, Mabel
Lee Keller; one son, Russell Lee
Keller, Bloomsburg; and one brother,

Floyd D., of Berwick.

man League.

A few years ago he was honored for his participation in sports
by the Bloomsburg Athletic Boosters

Association

who

presented

him with a Meritorious Service
Award.
He was the oldest member of
Washington Lodge, No. 25, F. &
A.M.,

b^eing

affiliated

with that

body for well over a half century.
He was also a member of the various bodies of Caldwell Consistory.
Long a Rotarian, he was a charter member of the Bloomsburg
unit of that service club. He was
also a member of the Bloomsburg

Lodge
a

of Elks.

member

Mr. Rishton was

of St. Paul’s Episcopal

Church.
Surviving are a son, Thomas P.
Rishton, Bloomsburg; two grandchildren, Mrs. David Cole, Bloomsburg, and Miss Jo Ann Rishton,
I.ong Beach, Calif.

Jacob

sions of his late aunt.

Mrs.

Edna D.

O’Rielly

Mrs. Edna D. O’Rielly, sixtynine, wife of A. V. O’Rielly, 2833
Greenleaf street, Allentown, died
at the Allentown Hospital on Sunday, October 21, after a ten-day
illness.

She was born in Briggsville, Pa.,
on March 6, 1887, daughter of the
Richard and Cora Raber
late
Briggs. She had resided in Allentown since 1924. She was a graduate of B.S.T.C. and was a memMethodist
ber of the Asbury
Church, Allentown.
Other survivors are an aunt, Mrs.
George Mensch, Jersey Shore;
three cousins, Mrs. Ruth Travis
and Mrs. Alvin Glance, Allentown;
Mrs. Joseph G. Luccarenin, Los

W.

Mifflin

Jacob Warner Mifflin, Trevorton

Road, Shamokin R. D.

Bloomsburg

1,

former

died Tuesday, July 31, at the age of eightyresident,

five.

He was

born February 28, 1871,
Bear Gap, son of the late George
W. and Mary Leisenring Mifflin.
He attended Elysburg Academy,
Shamokin Business College and
Bloomsburg Normal School.
in

He resided in Bloomsburg for
nineteen years and in 1907 went to
Paxinos where he resided until
1950.
He was married in 1896 to
Miss Mary Moore, Bloomsburg,
who died in 1950.

He was employed

as salesman
Shelby Hardware Co., Allentown, until 1918 and later was emplayed by Loose-Wiles Biscuit

for

Company until
was a member

his retirement.

He

of St. Peter’s Luth-

Church, Ralpho Township,
and the Bloomsburg B.P.O.E.
Surviving are a son, John W.
Mifflin, Trevorton Road, Shamoeran

1; a daughter. Miss Elizabeth Mifflin, Shamokin; and two
grandchildren.

kin R. D.

Betsey Moss Seward
Mrs. Betsey Alzona Seward, 60,
R. D. 1, Shickshinny, died Thursday, November 22, in Nanticoke
She was admitted
State Hospital.
on November 19, after suffering a
heart attack.

Born June 11, 1896, in Broadway, Ross Township, Mrs. Seward
was a daughter of the late Warner
She
and Sarah Benscoter Moss.
laiight school for ten years in
Shickshinny, and was graduated

from

Bloomsburg State Teachers

College.

Angeles, Calif.

Mrs. Seward was a member of
Koonsville Protestant Church. Her
husband, Carl, died May 7.

Village,

Surviving are a son, Leo, of
Manville, N. J.; two sisters, Mrs.
Dewey Nartz, Harveyville, and
Mrs. Silas Gregory, Bloomingdale;
a step-sister, Mrs. Nina Birth, of
Broadway; a brother, Myron Moss,

eral

of

Russell D. Keller
Russell Deible Keller, sixty-one,
of 121

Sherwood Drive, Sherwood

Bloomsburg, a retired fedattorney, died suddenly of a

heart attack recently while conduc16

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I.OAN

FUND

IS

GROWING

Broadway; one granddaughter.
Sherry Lynn Seward.

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^^Scuice^ied

and Hlawed^'

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

is a time tor remembering.
It is a time when the spirit
genuinely arousetl, and a time when man forgets self and
strives to he considerate toward all mankind. The spirit of (diristmas
is the preserver of all that is good in the world.

Christinas

ot love

is

we find woven into the fabric of onr
••\s we ponder onr lives
beings the influences that came from onr student days. If they are
and were worth while to ns why not plan definitely to aid in extending that influence to others. ,\s the first step, active membership in
the Alumni Association is essential. The next step is to decide in what
field and to what extent we want to extend onr interests.
What phases of student
Would yon like to strengthen

life

were particularly helpful

to

you?

the facet of college. living that was of
special worth to yon, — scholarships in any field, loan fund, memorials? A very definite way to promote your interest is to become active
in the Alumni Organization in your area and thereby keep in close
contact with what is going on in the College today. It is surprising
how much good can come to yon and to the school through your continued attention with a sense of concern. Are you aware of improvements in the physical plant; do you keep posted on athletic records
and achievements, and see the various teams in action whenever possible; do yon note with pride the accomplishments of Bloomsburg
graduates in all fields of endeavor; and do yon interest worthy high
school graduates in what your Alma Mater has to offer? All these
things are the Spirit that is Bloomsburg and a reflection of what the
holiday season has to offer in promoting better understanding among
all

peoples.

in my obligations as President of the Alumni
did not bring to your attention the fact that long after
have “finished the course,” “ever upward, stri\ing, climbing, onI

would be remiss

Association

we

if I

ward Bloomsburg goes.” Remember Bloomsburg
member Bloomsburg in your will.
Best wishes for a bright and happy

ELNA

New
H.

in

your

living: re-

Year.

NELSON

President of the Alumni Association

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