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Student Affairs
Student Albums and Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks, 1916-1949
Box 1:
Grace Kathryn Cleaver (Hartman), 1919
1919 graduate from Elysburg, PA, 9/5/1899 - 7/10/1987
She taught school for many years in Elysburg, PA.
Scrapbook includes images from school publications and photographs of students,
athletic teams, campus buildings and grounds, the countryside around Bloomsburg,
family members, World War I soldiers and the mobilization camp at Sea Girt, New
Jersey.
Valeria Sypniewski, 1922
1922 graduate from Nanticoke, PA, 10/19/1901 - 2/27/1982
She taught school for 45 years in Nanticoke, PA
Included in the scrapbook are mainly photographs, consisting of images from
Bloomsburg State Normal School buildings and grounds, friends, the town of
Bloomsburg, nature photographs of the surrounding areas, and also a few images from
Nanticoke. Along with the photographs, there is also a substantial amount of text on the
pages. Not only are the pictures identified, but there are witty comments about the
professors, football "yells," and also B.S.N.S. alma mater songs. Also included are
personal papers: letters, concert and play programs, and various types of invitations.
Margaret Eidam (Taylor), 1923
1923 graduate from Hazleton, PA, 12/27/1903 - 5/26/1963
She taught school for 15 years at Waynesburg Elementary School
Scrapbook includes photographs, sheet music, sports programs, tickets, recital programs,
train tickets, and news clippings. Photographs are of the Town of Bloomsburg, campus
buildings, students, the countryside around Bloomsburg, Hazleton, athletics, ceremonies,
and senior portraits.
Anna W. Miller (Freyermuth), 1923
1923 graduate from Pittston, PA, 5/3/1904 - 10/4/1986
She taught school for 10 years in the Wyoming School District

Scrapbook includes photographs, programs, grades, schedules, certificates, and mail
clippings. Photographs are of campus buildings and grounds, students, and the
countryside around Bloomsburg.
Box 2:
Pearl E. Long, 1927
1927 graduate from Bloomsburg, 3/10/1906 - 5/7/1986
She worked for 30 years as a government stenographer in Washington D.C.
Scrapbook includes photographs, images from school publications, and news clippings.
Photographs are of students, faculty, campus buildings and grounds, the countryside
around Bloomsburg, family members, trips to Brandywine and the beach, casual poses
and senior portraits of Bloomsburg High School (BHS) classmates, BHS Junior Class of
1922 and 40th reunion of BHS Class of 1923 (1963), and the high school building after
the October 1923 fire which destroyed it.
Oce Beryl Williams (Austin), 1927
1927 graduate from Kingston, PA, 11/18/1907 - 07/15/1999
Scrapbook includes tickets, postcards, receipts, clippings, programs, and greeting cards.
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Hilda Clark (Fairchild), 1916
1916 graduate from Mooresburg, PA, 7/8/1895 - 12/10/1989
Scrapbook includes photographs; images from school publications; color and black and
white postcards of Bloomsburg and the normal school; Songs and Yells of B.S.N.S.; and
commencement, Ivy Day, May Day, contest, music, literary society reunion and theater
programs. Photographs are of students and geology class trips to Lime Ridge and iron
mines.
Marion Smith Brown (Evans), 1915-1917
1917 graduate from Forest City, PA, 6/17/1897 - 7/15/1974
Scrapbook includes photographs; images of campus buildings and grounds, students,
dorms, casual and posed photos of friends, classmates in the countryside, school portraits of
classmates, Lake Louise in Canada, sports game, friends, cast of school production “The Taming
of the Shrew”, the country club, May Day, and sports teams; clippings of football season tickets,
a playbill, program sheet (1917), 48th Commencement pamphlet, signatures of classmates, menu
at a play production, dance card from the senior dance, and a missionary pledge card to
Y.W.C.A.

Mary Betterly (Maiers), 1933
1933 graduate from Bloomsburg, 11/11/1911 - 8/26/2007
Scrapbook includes Program of Baccalaureate Day Exercises; 64th annual Graduation
Commencement invitation and program; list of graduates; note written out to Mary; pamphlet of
what every senior should know about commencement; Senior Banquet Menu and newspaper
clippings; newspaper clippings about seniors/graduation; newspaper clippings about the
Fraternity Ball; dance cards from Senior Ball and Fraternity Ball; Walter Hampden performance
newspaper clipping that she went to see with friends; pamphlet of presentation of portrait of her
English professor- “A Master Mentor”; speech or letter written by Mary about teaching;
Newsletter named Mary Betterly as Most Athletic Girl; play programs she acted in; Annual
Athletic Dinner program; Mary’s report card; Newspaper clipping naming her as Most
Outstanding Girl in her senior class for dramatic and athletic reasons
Doris Keller, 1939-1941
Scrapbook includes photographs; images of classmates and friends, May Day 1941
(court, May Queen, and decorations), couples, May Day 1942 (May Queen, friends, and court),
“Gang at B.S.T.C.”, friend catching fish, and crowning of May Queen
Althea Parsell (Gunnison), 1945
1945 graduate from Orangeville, PA, 7/22/1924 - 10/17/2016
Scrapbook includes clippings from the local newspaper the “Morning Press”, the school
newspaper “Maroon and Gold”, and the newspaper “The Philadelphia Inquirer”; clippings are of
Althea Parsell performing locally in numerous concerts, her, alongside Estelle Harrop, winning
the title The Voice of Tomorrow, her singing in honor of her title at the Philadelphia Music
Festival and multiple pictures of the festival itself.
Joseph Curilla, 1948-1949
1950 graduate from Shamokin, PA, 11/24/1926 - 2/6/2000
Scrapbook includes clippings from the local newspaper the “Morning Press”; clippings
are of football team undefeated (1948), football team beating Kutztown (Homecoming game),
article on Frank Perry (football star), football team only untied-unbeaten team in state, football
team post season bowl games, 3 players make it on the All-State College team, Basketball game
against Millersville, Lockhaven beats Bloomsburg in basketball game, 1949 basketball season
losses and wins, JV 1949 basketball season, Stan Pawloski gets most outstanding player and
Trudnak makes all-star team, football training/preseason (1949), football team first win of
season, Bloomsburg beats Lockhaven in football (1949)