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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
DECEMBER, 1928
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
of the
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
December, 1928
Vol. 30
No.
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Entered as Second*c)as« Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsbury, Pa.,
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published March, June, September and December.
H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
F. H.
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THE COLLEGE TOWER CLOCK
Common
conveniences and equipment of a College
are ordinarily taken as matters of course. Little thought
is
given to
how they came
to be at
back of most such things there
hand
is
for our use. But
a story
of
human
endeavor.
The college clock faces us at every point of the comIts warning voice or must hands direct our steps to
meet important engagements. How did it happen to be
there? Well, it did not happen. Back of that is an interpass.
esting story.
Among
other improvements in the late ’90’s the trus-
remodel the front of Carver Hall. The
present imposing front facing the town, including the
tees decided to
clock tower,
was
erected. But no clock
was available
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other words, there was no cash on hand to provide the
windows were boarded up, blind eyes
a beautiful tower. By the way, did you ever notice its
clock.
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The
circular
suggestion of Independence Hall
—not a
duplicate, but a
similarity of outline?
At that time William Housel was the efficient steward at the Normal School. He saw the need of a clock and
made
the proposition to the trustees to secure
cost to the institution.
it
without
His plan was briefly this:
The
large eating stand at the Fair Grounds could be rented
and dinner served
crowds at a fair profit. He decidbuilding and serving a turkey dinner
to the
ed to try renting this
each day during the Fair.
The students and faculty
in
of the school
were
the project. Volunteer waiters were secured.
enlisted
Some
do-
made by dealers from whom regular supplies
were purchased and the plan went forward with great
enthusiasm. Good weather prevailed and large crowds
were in attendance. It was a successful project from
nations were
every standpoint.
Mr. Housel then went to
New York and
with about
seven hundred dollars as his assets from the plan, bought
the clock and
had
it
installed without cost to the school.
Later someone conceived the idea that a small clock
face looking toward Waller Hall would be a convenience
about thirty feet
An
was run up
above the clock and the proper mechan-
to those .living in the dormitory.
ism installed to connect the hands
the rest of the clock. This
according to Mr. Housel’s
extension
in this
was paid
letter.
smaller face with
for by the trustees,
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There is one strange feature about this whole affair.
Although there are many who remember how the clock
was obtained, no one can tell when it was placed in the
tower. Records and Board Minutes have been searched,
but no mention of it can be found. It all took place during the administration of Dr.
J. P.
Welsh
— 1890
to 1906,
but the exact date has not been determined. The cut
in
the 1898-99 catalogue shows the picture of Institute Hall
before the tower was remodeled. About 1900-01 the
tower was
built,
but no clock face shows. The cut in the
1902-03 catalogue shows the clock in place and
we have
evidence
This
is
new
of the date of
its
is
the best
appearance.
a belated thank you to Mr. Housel,
now
resid-
ing in Philadelphia, and a reminder to those students and
others
its
who
trust
helped, that the good old clock
and
is still
is
faithful to
keeping watch over each successive
generation of students with as fine a tone and as accurate
in
schedule as
it
did in
its
youth.
Here’s hoping that someone will remember the date
and place a little marker upon the clock to give a few
details of its origin and credit to whom credit is due.
ATHLETICS
Bloomsburg’s football team
this season
gave a good
itself. The season opened with Kutztown at
Kutztown and the boys brought back the bacon. West
account of
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Chester climbed Mt- Olympus the following week and
got so wrought up over Greek Mythology that they took
away
Shippensburg, already flushed with
a 13-0 victory.
came
victory over East Stroudsburg,
Bloomsburg the
to
next Saturday but had to leave with the short end of a
13-7 score. For the
the succeeding
met
coal
is
week
time
to the
in history,
our team traveled
western end of the
soft coal at California, Pa.
smudge on
their noses.
Hard
state.
All that can be said
that our boys were royally treated but
a 6-0
a
first
came back with
Another week end brought
Lock Haven invasion and a 12-0 victory.
IMansfield visited us for the next
game, and Blooms-
burg amply revenged a 1927 defeat of 40-7 by worsting
the mountain boys by a couple of touchdowns.
Wyoming Seminary. Everything was
except the score.
Then came
splendid that day
was “home coming” day, and hun-
It
dreds of Bloomsburg’s loyal sons and daughters were
They saw the defeat
here.
had high hopes of
may
be said that there hangs
ture of the last
is
victory.
of a
Bloomsburg team that
For general information
in
the athletic offices a pic-
team that beat Wyoming
at Kingston.
covered with dust and shows signs of age.
allowed to dust
oming
say
it
it
until a
at Kingston.
No
one
It
is
Bloomsburg team can beat Wy-
With considerable emphasis the boys
can be done next year.
We
The Wyoming game took
leader, Capt.
it
Kraynack
nut for the season, as
shall wait
its toll.
of Plymouth,
was
and
see.
The
inspirational
was
injured,
and
also Kirker, another important
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first
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string
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squad and
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backfield man.
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game
final
so the season
weakened condi-
—the
boys met East
of the year.
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ended with four
12-0 defeat
victories
and
four defeats.
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ATTEND CONFERENCE
A number
of the
members
of the faculty
of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College took part in the seventh annual conference of the Teachers of the State Normal Schools and State Teachers’ Colleges held at West
Chester State Teachers’ College Thanksgiving week.
members
In order that all
of the faculty
might
at-
tend the sessions the College closed for the Thanksgiving
recess on Saturday noon
and sessions resumed Monday
noon, December third.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal at Bloomsburg, pre-
sided at the general session Tuesday evening.
M. Hausknecht, local bursar, presided at the conference of that group during Tuesday afternoon while
John C. Koch, Bloomsburg, dean of men, presided at the
morning conference of the deans of men.
C.
Miss Marguerite Kehr, of Bloomsburg, spoke
“How May
the
Dean
of
Women
on
Best Enlarge the Social
Experience of the Students’’? at the conference of the
deans of women.
Miss Irma
tians.
Ward
presided at the conference of
dieti-
H. F. Fenstemaker spoke at the conference of
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“Rearrangement and
Modification of Content of Foreign Language Courses in
the Pennsylvania State Teachers’ Colleges”.
During the meeting of the geography group H. Harrison Russell gave the report of the syllabi committee. E.
H. Nelson presided at the conference on physical education
and Miss Pearl Mason spoke
at the librarians’ con-
ference on “Report on Uniform Syllabi in the General
Ifibrary Course”.
“Physical examinations and
What They Reveal” was
Maude Kline delivered
the subject of the talk which Miss
to
the nurses, while Miss Alice Johnston spoke to the oral
English group on “Language of the Body”.
At the
Reams spoke
Based Upon State and
social studies conference E. A.
on the subject “Some
Map
Studies
National Elections” and at the conference of the teacher
training faculties Miss
Edna
J.
Hazen spoke on “Student
Teaching and Conferences”.
At the round table conferences on Wednesday afternoon Profe.ssor John Fisher represented Bloomsburg.
DR.
AND
MRS.
HAAS ENTERTAIN AT DELIGHTFUL
SOCIAL EVENT
Haas delightfully enterhome on Light Street Road
Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.
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The guests were the
of the board
of trustees of the State Teachers’
members
of the college faculty, the school
College, the
boards of Bloomsburg and Berwick and the teachers in
those towns engaged in teacher training work, and their
husbands and wives.
There were about two hundred who enjoyed the eve-
The home was beautifully decorated with cut flowand Alexander’s orchestra furnished music. Delicious
ning.
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refreshments were served consisting of chicken a
mushrooms, buttered
rolls, coffee,
la king,
nuts and mints.
NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
new members of the
work at the beginning of
Several
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tehir
QUARTERLY
of the
is
faculty andved to take
the
first
The
the members
semester.
pleased to present them to
Alumni Association.
Miss Alma Caldwell replaces Miss Harriet Moore,
who was granted a year’s leave of absence for study at
New York
University.
Miss Caldwell did her undergrad-
uate work at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
She studied music for one year at the University of California, and received the degree of Master of Arts at Columbia University. She has taught in the schools of Nogales, Arizona, Holtcille, California, Oakland, California,
and Los Angeles.
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Supervisor of Teacher
Training in the primary grades in the Berwick Schools.
She received the degree of Bachelor of Science at Colum-
She has served as teacher and principal
bia University.
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tle
in
the schools of Grand Haven, Manistique, Holland, Bat-
Creek and Mt. Clemens,
all of
the above
cities
being
IMichigan.
Robert E. Clark
Music.
He
is
teacher of Voice
in
the School of
who
succeeds Miss Eleanor P. Sands,
teaching at Northfield, Mass. Mr. Clark
is
is
now
also Director of
the Bloomsburg Civic Chorus, and the Men’s Glee Club in
Berwick.
Mr. Clark has studied at the University of
Iowa, and Chicago Musical College, and has also studied
with Victor Herbert.
He was
Wanamaker Church
Philadelphia, and was Director of
in
Director of Music at the
the Training School for Music Leaders at Columbia Uni-
San
PT’ancisco where he was Director of the School for Song
Leaders, which was conducted by the Y. M. C. A.
versity during the war.
After the war, he located
in
Marjory McHenry is teacher of Piano in the School
of IMusic. She was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1924,
and later studied at Columbia University. She received
her Diploma from the Institute of Musical Art, New York
City, in 1927. She also took the teacher’s coui’se- conducted by John M. Williams, nationally known authority on
child methods. She gave private lessons in New York for
one year.
Miss
Mary
garten, which
E. A. Merritt has charge of the Kinder-
was reopened
last year.
She
of the high school at Hollywood, California.
is
a graduate
She received
the Kindergarten and First Grade Certificate at the University of California in 1919.
She received the degree of
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at the same institution. She taught in the Kindergarten
at Long Beach, California, from 1917 to 1927.
Miss Ruth Beery is the training teacher of first grade
in the College Training School. She received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in Primary Education at the Western
State Teachers College, Gunnison, California. She has
taught in Bui’lington, Colorado, Las Animas, Colorado,
B.S. at
Dillon,
Montana and Gunnison, Colorado.
All subscriptions expiring August, 1928, have been
March, 1929. All Alumni that have sent in
their renewal in response to the notice of expiration have
been credited with payment of 1928 dues and the subs- iiption extended to May 31, 1930.
extended
to
COLLEGE ENTERTAINS COLUMBIA COUNTY
TEACHERS
The
finest social
event ever held
in
connection with
was the College reception to the teachers in the College gymnasium Tuesday evening, December 4, when three hundred fifty teachers in the county
and town schools and at the college were present.
a county institute
E. H. Nelson
iirogram and
it
that every one
and
S.
I.
Shortess had charge of the
v^as not long after the reception
was acquainted and having a
opened
fine time.
The gymnasium was beautifully decorated
in blue.
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orange and white and Alexander’s orchestra furnished a
line program of music. Novelty dances were a feature.
Many who did not care to dance enjoyed cards in room
K near the gymnasium. Punch was served during the
evening.
and lecture course of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College opened Nov. 21 at 8:15
o’clock when Dr. George Earl Raiguel, in the College
auditorium gave the first of a series of five lectures and
spoke on ‘.A Political Survey in the United States”.
This year’s
artists’
About 30 enrolled Nov. 6 in the Scout training course
is being given by the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College. The course is directed by Earl N. Rhodes.
which
Hundreds of Bloomsburg Teachers’ College alumni,
many of them returning for the first time in several years,
spent Nov. 17, 1928 in Bloomsburg for the annual Home
Coming Day and although many were keenly disappointed at the football game all were pleased with the fine program that had been worked out by the faculty and l?tudents for their entertainment.
Some
Bloomsburg Friday night
but the majority reached here during the morning or early
of the alumni reached
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witnessed by more graduates than was the game Sat-
afternoon.
urday.
An
game was enjoyed by many while
ing the
dinner
informal get-together in the gymnasium follow-
Hundreds
in
the
gymnasium
Sat-
The gymnasium was
beautifully decor-
the College colors and music
was furnished by
urday evening.
in
number had
and guests had a merry
of alumni, students
time at the dqnce which was held
ated
a
the College dining hall at six o’clock.
in
Alexander’s Orchestra.
The Bloomsburg
audiences
cotte’’,
13, in
Civic
Chorus delighted two large
the comic opera “La Mas-
when they presented
by Audran, on the evenings of December 12 and
the High School Auditorium. The Director of the
member of
another member
opera was Prof. Robert F. Clark, a
faculty.
Prof. S.
I.
Shortess,
ulty,
played one of the leading
roles
were played by Harold Moyer,
’06;
Rowland Hemingway,
’09
’05; Elizabeth Kessler Kashner, ’23;
’21.
;
R. Bruce Albert,
Milleisen Elwell,
and Maree Pensyl,
The male chorus was made up largely
of the College, find
it is
of the fac-
Other principal
roles.
’05; Sara
the college
of students
needless to state that the Alumni
Normal were well represented in both the men’s
Mr. Clark and his Civic Chorus are
greatly to be complimented for the contribution they are
making to the cause of good music in Bloomsburg.
of Old
and
ladies’ choruses.
The Music Department of the College is sponsoring a
series of “Good Music’’ hours during the winter. The
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was given in the College Auditorium,
Sunday, November 18 at 2 :30 p. m. All lovers of music
are welcome. The program was as follows:
first
of the series
Aria from
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Trovatore. Verdi; Hindu Chant,
berg; Ave Maria, Gounod, Miss
Alma
Rem-
Caldwell.
Schumann; Romance F Major, Schumann; Souffrance, Sievesking, Miss Marjory McHenry.
Noveletten,
By the Bend of the River, Edwards; Do Not Go, My
Love, Hageman, Miss Alma Caldwell.
Ballade
A
Major, Chopin, Etude C Minor, Chopin,
Etude E Major, Chopin, Miss Marjory McHenry.
I’ll
sing
Thee Songs
Woolforde-Finden
Bells,
of Araby, Clay;
;
Kaskmiri
Song,
The Temple
Woolforde-
Finden. Miss Caldwell.
As the second number of the College Entertainment
Course, a delightful program was presented by the Boston
fifty
Women’s Symphony
Orchestra, an organization of
talented musicians.
Miss Ethel Leginska, internat-
known artist, is conductor of the orchestra. The
program opened with the overture, “Russian and Ludmilla’’, by Glinka. Following this the orchestra played
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, always a favorite with music lovers.
Miss Leginska then played and conducted
Liszt’s “Hungarian Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra’’.
Following this the orchestra played the Dance of the
Clowns, from the opera “The Snow Maiden’’ by RimskyKorsakoff. The program closed with the Overture “Rienzi’’, by Wagner. This was one of the finest and most expensive attractions ever brought to Bloomsburg, and it
ionally
delighted a capacity audience.
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1874
Samuel Lloyd Sheep, a former resident of Derry town4:28 Monday, October 30 at his home in
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, at the age of 72 years.
He was the son of the late Matthew Sheep, He was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School class of
74 and taught in the schools of Montour and Northumship, died at
berland counties for several years, later going to Elizabeth City w'here he had been superintendent of the schools
of that place for 50 years.
He
is
survived by three sons
and three daughters.
The Elizabeth
City “Independent” printed the fol-
lowing editorial at the time of Mr. Sheep’s death
If
riches
a good
name
is
rather to be chosen than great
Samuel Lloyd Sheep has
left his
children a greater
heritage than silver or gold.
If
kind hearts are more than coronets and simple
faith than
Norman
blood, in the passing of S. L. Sheep,
Elizabeth City has lost a regal citizen.
His interest
in
people, particularly in children, of whom he knew by
name more perhaps than any other man in Elizabeth City,
was one
of his
most pronounced
traits, as
was
ene faith and quiet courage, neither of which,
also a serin
the face
of disappointment or trial, ever faltered.
If a
man’s success
in life is to
be measured
in
terms
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who
is
servant of
all,
if
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he really
is
greatest
among us
surely hardly has Elizabeth City
ever honored a greater soul than Samuel Lloyd Sheep.
Thus it is that today not only his children
call him blessed but also a great host of those
has taught and who have taught under him.
To
us
from
failing
up
to
whom
he
rise
hands he threw the torch that
years ago he lighted in the Albemarle. Be ours to hold
it
high
J.
K. Bittenbender lives on Route No.
1,
Upper Marl-
boro, Marfland.
1889
Benjamin Apple, of Sunbury, Pa., has been elected
Northumberland County.
State Senator from
1890
Onandaga Street, SyraSurgeon-in-Chief of the new Onandaga
Dr. T. L. Deaver lives at 677
cuse, N. Y.
He
is
General Hospital which has just been completed.
Dr.
Deaver has the following to say about the hospital “It
is one of the most efficient institutions of its kind in the
United States. It has every modern facility, and is beautiful throughout. I extend to you all a very cordial invitation to come and see it. Do not wait until you are sick.
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Come and
see,
Shamokin, Pa., has been
Congress as Representative from the Sev-
Frederick
re-elected to
and be kept well.”
W. Magrady,
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enteenth District.
Rev. Foster U, Gift
tion
in
Superintendent of Instruc-
Motherhouse Training
Baltimore, Md., has recently written another
book. The
new book
Lutherans as Keybooks.
title
is
of the Lutheran Deaconess
School
new
who
of this
new
book. In
one
is
in a series
“The Ministry
it
known among
of
Love”
is
the
Dr. Gift treats of such things
Work, Ministerial Pensions, National Lutheran Council and June Missions. We rejoice that Dr. Gift
was selected for this fine work. This is his third book. His
others are “A Compendium of Christian Doctrine”, and
as Deaconess
“Week Day
Religious Education”.
1898
R. Daisy Klutz (Mrs. L.
H. Brown)
lives at
619 East
Washington, D. C. She is Secretary of the
Stanton Park Citizens’ Association, and is also Historian
of the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher
Capitol Street,
Associations.
Her husband
is
Assistant Paymaster at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D. C. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown have two children, a daughter who is a
student at George Washington University, and a son who
is
high school.
in the
1885
Fred Holmes, (Edith Ent) of West street,
Bloomsburg, has rounded out 45 years of service as organist of the Fii-st Methodist Church and her faithful services over that long period of years were recognized at
Mrs,
ye.sterday morning’s service at the church.
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There M'as a large bouquet of roses placed on the
organ and a letter thanking her for her
fine services v^’as
given her by the official board of the church. Rev. H. F.
Babcock, the pastor, spoke of this exceptional service during the morning services.
1886
Jeremiah Reeder is still teaching Garfield School,
Shamokin. He has been Principal and teacher there since
1897. He is living at 909 East Sunbury Street, Shamokin,
Pa.
1889
Miss Lulu C. Briggs and James P. Grimes, well
known
were quietly married Aug. 15 at
of the bride, corner of Third and
Jefferson streets, by Rev. Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. J. K. Adams, of
town. The wedding was witnessed by a few friends.
Bloomsburg
residents,
9 :30 o’clock at the
They
home
will reside in
Bloomsburg. Mr. Grimes
is
em-
ployed at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
both he and the bride have
many
friends in this section.
1895
Mr.
W.
A. Shuping visited the school on Sept. 26,
1928, and called on some of the teachers
school at that time.
He had
here thirty years ago.
great changes.
It is
who were
in the
not been back since he
needless to
left
say that he saw
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Danville, Sept. 16.
— Danville Rotary Club paid hon-
or to Professor D. N. Dieffenbacher, retired supervising
weekly meeting this
evening. He was the guest of honor at the dinner at
Round Top Inn, near Muncy.
principal of the public schools, at
D. E.
its
Edmondson, president, was chairman and Prof.
DeWitt Jobborn, secretary of the club, spoke
work of Prof. Dieffenbacher during his long term.
J.
of the
Prof. Jobborn eloquently detailed his connection with
the
work
of the retired official
with the schools.
and traced
He dwelt upon
his connection
the ideals which the
guest of honor had set up for the children of the com-
munity, and told of his interest in civic affairs. Prof. Job-
born remarked that the influence set up was an everlasting
monument which would be remembered by gener-
ations.
1901
The following from the Public Ledger concerning
Nevin Elwell Funk, son of N. U. Funk, of Espy Road, who
has been named assistant general manager of the Philadelphia Electric Company, will be of interest to his classmates
:
The appointments
of Nevin Elwell
Busell Bryans as assistant general
Funk and Henry
managers
of the Phila-
delphia Suburban Counties Gas and Electric Company,
have been announced by William H. Taylor, president.
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and a
graduate of Lehigh University, began his career with the
Philadelphia Electric
man
Company
in
1907 as assistant fore-
in the station electrical construction division. In
1915
he became assistant operating engineer and two years
lat-
was made operating engineer. In 1926 he became assistant chief engineer and on the death of William C. L.
Eglin last February he was named as his successor as
er
chief engineer.
He
is
a
member
of the
American Society
of Mechanical
Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
National Electric Light Association, American Society for
Testing Materials and the American Mathematical Society.
Louise Larabee
is
now
living at the Hotel Grenville,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
1905
Ida Sitler
is
teaching
in Hollins College, Hollins, Vir-
ginia.
1906
Norma
L.
Hamlin
lives at Falls, Pa.
She
is
postmis-
tress at that place.
1909
Robert Wilner was ordained into the ministry in St.
Stephens Church, Plymouth, Pa., in June, 1928. He and
Mrs. Wilner
ila in
who was Alfa Stark
(1912), sailed for
September, 1928. Their address
Perah, Manila, P.
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is
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We
are indebted to Mrs. V. C. Stein, of Philadelphia,
for the following item
Krum
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(Mrs. Frank Buck.)
The following
was received from St. Augustine, Fla., since the hurricane: “We were hit by the storm but nothing like they
were at Palm Beach and Belle Glade. Belle Glade is the
place where the Florida East Coast R. R. had begun buildletter
ing a
new
railroad to reach the sugar plantations and
some celotex
home
is
Everything was wiped out.
factory.
very near the water and
we
Our
got the full force of
The wind
blew up the shingles until the whole east side of the house
leaked. The water just bubbled up inside the screens and
simply flowed in and down the walls. We were mostly
afraid of the trees, for they kept falling all around us. It
the seventy-five mile gale for thirty-six hours.
was
to
as hard a storm as
know
ever care to see.”
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are glad
that our friend and classmate survived that ter-
rible hurricane
without any more serious damage.
1911
Edna Lewis (Mrs.
E. J. Robinson) lives at 1547 Far-
well Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
she states: “I
am
always so glad
In a recent letter
to receive
my
Quarterly.
Being out here among strangers, I look forward
ing, as it is like a breath from home.”
Lottie Spangler,
California.
California.
now
Her address
is
Mrs. M. A. Loose,
to its
is
com-
living in
Verduga Rock, La Crescenta,
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Mabel Smith is married and lives at 64 West Street,
Tunkhannock, Pa. Her married name is Mrs. R. B. Ward.
1911
George D. Wilner
ita,
is
Kansas. His address
Professor of Dramatics in Wichis
1526 North Holyoke Avenue,
Wichita, Kansas.
1913
Dr. C. J. Bennett has charge of a hospital in
Oak
Creek, Colorado. Dr. and Mrs. Bennett have one child, a
little girl.
In a quiet
ents,
ceremony
at the
home
of the bride’s par-
Mr. and Mrs. William Wolfe, of East
street, their
daughter. Miss Letha M., became the bride of Orval Bennett, son of P.
Y. Bennett, of tov^m. Dr.
Norman
S.
Wolf,
Matthew Lutheran Church, officiated at the
ceremony which was witnessed by members of the immediate families and a few close friends.
pastor of St.
The bride and groom are among Bloomsburg’s most
esteemed residents and they have the best wishes of a
host of friends. They were attended by Miss Esther Ke.ster and Guy McBride, of Bloomsburg.
Following the wedding, breakfast was served at the
Wolfe home with the table decorations yellow and white.
The bride and groom then left for Hamilton, N. Y., where
they will reside at 47 Main street.
The groom
is
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State
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He received his
member of the
faculty of Colgate University, at Hamilton. Mrs. Bennett
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High Shcool and for sev-
eral years has
business office
been a most efficient worker in the local
of the Bell Telephone Company.
George Yerg, principal of the Lewistown Junior high
i^chool, died November 2 in the Geisinger Hospital where
he had been a patient for two weeks suffering with ulcers
of the stomach, for v. hich he underwent two operations.
He was
a graduate of the Turbotville high school
and
Bloomsburg Normal, and taught at Yeagertown before
becoming principal at Lewistown ten years ago. He is
rairvived by his wife and two sons, Bindley, aged nine, and
Donald, aged 3, and by five brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 7, at
of
one o’clock at his late home with burial
Mary
Laris,
E. Heacock’s
new address
in
is
Lewistown.
2879 Catawaba
Chickasau Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.
1914
Beulah Fowler (Mrs. R. B. Thomas)
1027A
Her husband
holds a responsible position with the S. S. Kresge Company. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have one son, aged two years.
Commodore Avenue,
St.
lives at
Louis, Missouri.
1915
Mis? Marion Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Miller, of Iron street,
Bloomsburg, lectured
in
Williams-
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port recently and spent Thanksgiving at the
D. C. Black, of that city.
home
of Mrs.
The Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin published the following concerning her lecture
to the College
Club
:
Miss Marion Miller, one of the lecturers from the
.Metropolitan
Women’s
Museum
of Art, spoke last evening at the
club house to the
members
of the College club
and their guests on “The Homes and Furnishings of the
Colonial Period”. Miss Miller spoke entirely of the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum and her lecture
was accompanied by a complete set of beautiful slides
showing the interiors of American homes beginning with
the early 17th century and carrying on to the Constitutional or Federal period.
Furniture arrangement; the textiles, some imported
from India and others made by the colonists; the ceramies; silverware and china were all clearly shown in the
slides and were commented upon by the speaker.
Miss Miller was a delightful speaker and her descrip-
and explanations of the various types of period furwere distinctly interesting. Some of the rooms
shown in the slides w'ere taken from the Hewitt house on
Long Island, others from the Powell house in Philadelphia, and still others from the Beekman house in New
York city.
tions
niture
Miss Miller’s address
Street,
Apartment
6-8,
is
325 East Seventy-Second
New York
City,
New
York.
1917
Mrs. Horton Bell (Mabel
Dymond) has moved from
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3,
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Dallas, Pa.
Mrs. Davis T. Smales, whose
Avas
Mary Agnes
Route No.
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name while
at school
Warner, lives at Laceyville, Pa., Rural
2,
1918
David B. Miller
is
now
living at
3400 Franklin Ave.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Clyde A. Miller
is
building this year a combination
Business and Apartment Building at Danville, Pa.
also an operator
and repairman
He
is
of electric pianos in this
part of the state. In a year or so he
the business of handling and selling
is
all
planning to enter
kinds of store
fix-
tures.
1919
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Birch, of Bloomsburg, an-
nounce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Elizabeth, to Floyd Leon Cole, of Lewisburg, Pa., Monday, July
30, 1928, at Edinboro, Pa.,
tist
by the pastor of the
Fir.st
Bap-
church. Rev. Ivan M. Sherve.
The bride Avas a student of the Bloomsburg High
School, and of the Bloomsburg Teachers’ College. Mrs.
Cole has been teaching History in the Pennsauken Junior
High School, of Merchantville, NeAv Jersey, and returned
there September the fifth.
1920
&
’25
Miss Jane Meenahan, daughter of Attorney and Mrs.
John Meenehan and a teacher in the Kulpmont schools,
died at her home here from pneumonia. She was a grad-
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1924
Miss Pearl Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Pollock, of Bloomsburg,
became the bride
of Clifford
Snook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Snook, of Hopewell,
New
Jersey, in a quiet
evening,
November
Milford,
New
ceremony performed Wednesday
7, at the Presbyterian
parsonage at
Jersey.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg
High
School, class of 1922, and of the Teachers’ College, class
of 1924.
For the past three years she has been teaching
at Pennington,
New
as a surprise to
many
Jersey.
News
of the
wedding came
friends in town.
Five years ago a group of young men, then
in their
Senior year at the Teachers’ College, had a banquet and
pledged to meet in five years on the evening
Wyoming-Bloom.sburg game.
at that time
of the
On Saturday
that group were back and of the
not attend most of
was
Magee most of
small number who could
night, Nov. 17, at Hotel
them had
sent messages of regret. For
Bloomsburg since graduation, and to all, guests of the class included, it was a
night that will be long remembered for it was made vivid
with reminiscences of school days and with happenings
a
in
few
it
their first visit to
the lives of each of the class.
The majority
of those at the banquet
were members
were attending College
part of the time that the members of the class were there.
of the class of 1924 while others
Practically every
member
as he told briefly of his life
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during the past years spoke of never having forgotten the
pledge made to meet
in reunion-
All declared that
was
meet
it
great to be back with the gang and the motion to
here again on the evening of the home-coming day of 1930
met with unanimous approval and every one
at the ban-
quet signed the pledge.
Frank L. “Ace” Buss, of Wilkes-Barre, and F. H.
“Shack” Shaughnessy, of Manheim, both prominent members of the class of 1924 were the two men responsible
for arranging the dinner and they were given a hearty
cheer. Mr. Buss happily presided as toastmaster.
The program opened with the singing of “Alma
Mater” with “Normal” used in the song in place of “College” for it was Normal when the fellows were here.
Manager Johnston served an
waffle dinner
in
the private dining
excellent chicken and
room
at the hotel
and
the time went swdftly by as the fellows told of their lives
since leaving Bloomsburg.
Some
had not seen each other since
happy reunions. Many
a laugh climaxed the telling of a story of school day
pranks and few remained in their chairs when the pre.slding officer called for all who had been on “campus”
of the fellows
leaving school and there were some
part of the time to stand up.
them also graduates, entered into
the meeting and the program was made even
Guests, several of
the spirit of
more delightful by
their contributions.
The group was delighted with the
tendered to
all
cordial reception
of the alumni by the faculty
and student
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fine spirit
displayed by
the undergraduates, even in the face of defeat.
Every fellow pledged
come
to
do his best to aid
in getting
and declared they were
back of the team. “BiH” Partridge, who played on
the Maroon and Gold team two years, told the group he
had made a resolution to see every Bloomsburg-Wyoming
game until Bloomsburg won and that thus far he has seen
athletes to
to the College
solidly
every contest.
fine spirit
Many
of the fellows fell in line with the
displayed by “Bill” and promised to see every
now on
one of the games from
efforts of
A
until victory
crowns the
Bloomsburg.
plea for every fellow to put his shoulder to the
wheel and aid Bloomsburg athletics
celebrate a
Wyoming
victory
so that they could
when they meet
in
1930
brought a ringing cheer.
Most of the fellows who are back have been
in
the
teaching profession since graduation. Several are heads
of their departments in special fields while one
and another a school
cipal
In planning for the
open
it
is
a prin-
director.
1930 dinner the crowd voted
to
not only to those at the dinner Saturday night and
others who had been at the first dinner but to all men who
were members of the class of 1924. The committee in
charge of the 1930 dinner is composed of William Partridge, of Trevorton; Harold Llewellyn, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Edward Schuyler, of Bloomsburg.
Those attending were: F. H. Shaughnessy, Manheim John Kanyuck, Nanticoke F. J. Matos, Forest City
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Everett N. Jameison, Scranton; James
W.
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Gordon Llewellyn,
Parsons; Thomas R. Rowland, Scranton; Arthur M. Abbott, Catawissa George Sack, Catawissa Frank L. Buss,
ton; Walter P. Benninyer, St. Johns;
;
;
Wilkes-Barre; Patrick
J.
Kane, Forest City; William
J.
Joseph M. Gallagher, Tresckow
Edward F. Schuyler, Bloomsburg; F. R. Geiegle, W. H.
Partridge, Trevorton; James W. Reynolds, Ashley; Peter
Jones, Edwardsville
Sincavage,
Sugar
;
Notch;
Roy
C.
Bennett,
Scranton,
Harold Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre, and Charles Shipturas,
Sugar Notch.
ley,
On Tuesday morning, November 20, Miss Ella Freiddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Freidley, of Benton,
became the bride
of Clayton C. Robbins, son of Mrs.
Eva
Robbins, of Orangeville.
The wedding was performed by the Rev. James V.
Lewis, of Pittston. The couple was unattended.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Benton Vocational
School, class of 1924, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class of
1926.
She
is
also
an accomplished
pianist.
The groom attended the Benton Vocational School
and for the past six years has been employed as a painter
by the Orangeville Manufacturing Co.
The romance started when the young people attended high school. The couple are two of the up-creek’s most
popular young people. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins are on an
extended weddings trip.
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At a dinner and bridge given by Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Aul at their home in Espy Friday evening, November 30,
they announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Geraldine K. Aul, to Carl M. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Davis, of Espy. The young couple is among the most
esteemed in this section.
Both Miss Aul and Mr. Davis were members of the
class of
The
1924 of the Scott Township High School.
bride-to.-be
also a graduate of the
is
Teachers’ College and
is
now
Hershey schools. Mr. Davis
is
Bloomsburg State
a successful teacher in the
a graduate of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, class of 1928, and during his college
career was a
member
of the State track team.
He
is
now
vocational supervisor in the high school at Bellville.
Clara D. Abbett of Rupert, Pa.,
governess
in a private family.
is
now engaged
Her address
is
as a
Elkins Court
F-3, Elkins Park, Pa.
1925
Miss Gladys A. Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry
S.
Richards, of West street, and one of Bloom.s-
burg’s best
known young women, and Willard Kleckner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of Shickshinny, and
one of that town’s most popular young men, were married
December
1 at
the First Methodist Church of Blooms-
burg by the pastor, Rev. H. F. Babcock.
They were attended by the brother-in-law and
of the bride, Mr.
chantville, N.
ceremony.
J..
sister
and Mrs. H. Stanley Kleckner, of Meiand parents of the couple witnessed the
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during the morning on a
York
and Boston and will
Philadelphia, New
Mr. and Mrs. Kleckner
motor
o
left
Seigfried, near
Northampton,
Pa., af-
The bride is a graduate of the Hazleton High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, and has been
a successful teacher in the Hazleton schools.
Mr. Kleck-
ner is a graduate of Shickshinny High School and State
College and for the past two years has been assistant superintendent of transmission for the Pennsylvania
and Light Company
at Hazleton.
He was
Power
recently trans-
ferred to Seigfried.
1926
—
As a surprise to their many
came the announcement Nov. 18 at a dinner party
at the Kitchen home, 209 Main street, of the engagement
of Miss Thalia Kitchen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Kitchen, one of Catawissa’s best "known and most esCatawissa, Nov. 18.
friends
teemed girls, to Gilbert Cooper, of Coatesville, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Cooper, Glen Lyon, who was prominently identified with athletics and other college activities when he attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
Both the bride-to-be and Mr. Cooper are members of
the class of 1926 of the State Teachers’ College and have
a number of friends throughout this section. Miss Kitchen for the past three years had been a successful teacher
in
the Catawissa schools and Mr. Cooper
visor of the public schools at Coatesville.
is
now
aid super-
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ceremony in the First Methodist Church
August 16, two of Bloomsburg’s best known
and esteemed young people were united in marriage by
Rev. Harry F. Babcock, the pastor, when Miss Mary Elizabeth Bomboy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Ellsworth
Bomboy, of c96 West Main street, became the bride of
In a pretty
at six o’clock
Hei-bert E. Ralston, of Hazleton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy
Ralston, of 415 Fair street.
They were attended by Miss Evelyn Bomboy, a sister of the bride Roy Ralston, Jr., a brother of the groom
Miss Editha W. Ent and Marion T. Adams. The ceremony
was witnessed by members of the immediate families and
a few close friends.
;
Following the ceremony the bride and groom
a trip through
will
be at home
The bride
New York
at 121
State.
Putman
left
on
Upon their return they
West Hazleton.
street.
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
is
School, class of 1923, and of the Bloomsburg Teachers’
College, class of 1926. For the past
two years she was a
successful teacher in the Sunbury schools.
Mr. Ralston
a graduate of the
is
Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1922, and holds a responsible position with
the
West Hazleton
Floral
of friends in this section
Company, Both have
who wish them much
a legion
happiness.
1928
Dorothy V. Jones
Her home address
is
is
substitute in Pittston
High School.
16 Charles Street, Pittston, Pa.
Claude Miller of Pond
shinny Junior High School.
Hill, is
teaching in the Shick-
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Granville Township schools.
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teaching the fourth grade in
Her address
is 1
Shaw Ave-
nue, Lewistown, Pa.
teaching in the third grade, Ber1132 Orange Street, Berwick, Pa.
Phyllis Callender
wick.
Her
addre.ss
Irene Ellis
is
is
is
is
teaching in Edwardsville. Her address
96 Short Street, Edwardsville, Pa.
VOL.
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NO.
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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SCHOOL
TRAINING
PROPOSED
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMM ASSOCIATION
of the
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Entered as Second-class Matter, July I, 1909, at the Post Office
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
Jenkins,
F. H.
’76
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Editor -in-Chief
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Business Manager
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THE NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
Plans for the
new
training school building of the Teachers’
College provide for an unusually complete plant for the grades
which are used as a laboratory for student teachers.
expected that bids on the construction of the building,
It is
which
is
two
stories high
feet in size, will
A
pupils
is
large
be asked
tion teacher
suites of
about 60x160
month.
can there teach a
College observing
will
accommodate 80
lesson with
the
work.
80
A
demonstra-
students of the
Several classes
thus
repetition of the lesson eliminated.
rooms are provided
suite including a session
an
is
real features of the building.
may be grouped and
Seven
this
demonstration room that
one of the
Teachers’
with basement and
in the
building, each
room, group room and cloak room and
office for the training teacher.
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be the kindergarten and grades one
first floor will
and two, the demonstration room and a health room
vided with
all
facilities for
of the
basement
In the
children, a storage
arts’
is
is
needed for such work.
facilities
both boys and
that
girls
pro-
Toilet
are provided on both floors.
a large play
room or gymnasium
room and provision
made
is
for
for the
industrial,
rooms.
On
suites,
the second floor are a teachers’ rest room, others of the
two extra
class
rooms that can be used for the college
classes or for expansion of the training school.
The group rooms are
Instance
accessible to
and may be used from
Work
either
two
room
has almost been completed on the
emergency lighting system
rooms
class
in
every
as desired.
placing of
an
in the college auditorium, the corri-
dors in Waller and Noetling halls and the
fire
towers.
REUNION CLASSES
The following
1874
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Class officers should begin
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was the best Alumni meeting
staff will
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to get ready to
year’s meeting even better than the one held last
The Quarterly
June
classes will hold their reunions next
.
make
this
May, and that
in the history of the school.
be glad to furnish mailing
lists.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
To
All
Bloomsburg Alumni:
Another school year
of our annual
is
in its closing quarter,
Alumni gathering
of our meetings of the past
the present,
—
and the
;
is
and the day
The successes
drawing near.
the achievements of our school
prompt
possibilities of the future,
this
at
mes-
sage to you.
No
small
endeavoring
amount of the pleasure
to fulfill the
honor and
been realized
in
has been mine
in
that has
trust that
serving as your President, has been found in the Annual Alumni
meetings of the past two years.
the large attendance,
and the
The response of our alumni,
interest
and enthusiasm which has
been manifested on these occasions, have been of
the pleasure which has been felt
inspiration
which
surance which
it
it
has given the student body, and
in
in the
the as-
and confidence
in
of
our school, and those
are directly connected therewith.
Two
years ago, in our message,
we
prophesied that under
was
as-
many
vis-
the leadership of President Haas, Bloomsburg’s future
sured.
ible
;
has manifested to the trustees and faculty
the College, of our faith
who
real value in
by those who attended
Now we
urge you to come back and see the
evidences of the truth of our prophecy.
maintenance of the standard of
has always stood, you will see
efficiency, for
In addition to the
which our school
many marked improvements
the physical equipment, buildings, etc., of the College.
probability,
In
in
all
by Alumni Day, the construction of the new $125,-
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building
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The money
be under way.
for this
and the plans are already prepared.
available,
will
endeavor to have a pleasing program, and a good
We
especially urge the
members
of the classes which
are scheduled for reunions this year, to plan
per cent, attendance.
This will require
the part of class officers, but
this year’s
it
some
can be done.
for one
hundred
special
work on
Let us again
make
meeting “the Best Ever.”
With sincere appreciation of the loyal support and co-operation of the past
Bloomsburg and
;
with best wishes for the future success of
all
her Alumni, and with an earnest hope that
you may meet with us on Saturday, May 25th,
Very
I
am
truly.
FRED W. DIEHL,
President Alumni Association.
THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE ART LEAGUE
AND ITS WORK
The Art League
burg
is
composed of
to year.
ty years.
It
of the State Teachers College at Blooms-
the Faculty
has been at work
It
really
the Class of 1903.
began
It
its
and the Senior Class from year
in the
school for
work with
upward
of twen-
the efforts and gift of
has functioned continuously since about
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Each year the Senior
faculty, sponsors
an
Class,
art exhibit
guided by some members of the
by which
it
raises funds to pur-
chase pictures and other objects of art to enrich the school and
enhance
its
environment.
Its
purpose
is
expressed by the
fol-
lowing membership card
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ART LEAGUE BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
is
a
member
of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Art League.
The purpose
of the league
is
—^To adorn our walls with the best procurable copies
of
the masterpieces of the ages.
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To develop
interest in art, a discriminating
and appreciation
best in
3
To
in
our students for the
judgment,
finest
and best
all fields.
give the out-going teachers a knowledge of the cor-
rect principles of
schoolroom decoration, and to edu-
cate them in methods of advancing the cause of school-
room adornment.
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To
unite in the enjoyment of every beautiful thing.
The work
of the league during the last twelve
been very gratifying indeed.
number
of beautiful pictures,
From year
to
It
months has
has added to the collection a
some
year the exhibit
of
is
them very
rare treasures.
usually based on the Elson
Collection which has been furnished to the public for
many
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by the Elson Art Publishing Company of Belmont, Massachusetts.
The funds
raised in this
way
are spent for copies of their photo-
graphic reproductions of the masterpieces of the world suitable
for
Some
schoolroom decoration.
dition to these the exhibit
prints
from other
is
in
touch with a veritable local art
about 400 masterpieces and learn to
art
and something of the schools of
ities
how
to secure
and what
The
know
museum
of
names
in
the great
and love the best
art
in pic-
give.
The prospective teachers, too,
and handle an exhibit in their own commun-
world has to
tures the
learn
by beautiful color
Thus each year our school
art establishments.
and town can come
In ad-
of these are in color.
usually enhanced
is
suitable for schoolroom decoration.
class of
1
928 through
their exhibit
purchased a large
photographic copy of the Milan Cathedral and of Burnes-Jones’
Golden
Stairs.
The
class of
1
929, as a
The Pioneers by Robert W. Amick
in
Blue by Whistler for the
of
result
its
purchased
exhibits,
for fifth grade, the Nocturne
office of the
Dean of
Women
and sev-
eral others.
In addition to these
ed
its
pledge to raise
new
$150
ings purchased last spring.
raise this
to
pictures the Class of
pay
929
fulfill-
work was due
greatly
the play “Applesauce.”
They
This piece of
money they presented
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for the framing of the etch-
to the effort of their class president, Mr.
Theodore Davis.
To
were trained by the able and always self-denying head of the
Department of Dramatic Expression, Miss Alice Johnston.
Last
of $241
,
March the members of the
faculty subscribed the
for the purchase of nine very fine etchings,
presented to the school.
It
was
this
sum
which were
group of pictures that were
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were
as
follows:
Rose Bonheur’s “The King Watches,” etched by Dickree; “InMilan Cathedral,” by R. C. Brewer; “Ratisbon Cathe-
terior of
dral,”
by A. Brewer; “Rouen Cathedral,” by L’Hermit; the
St.
Michel Cathedral, by Delanney; “Willows Whiten and Aspens
Quiver,” by Debarner; “Out of the Mist and the Rain,” by Herbert Fedeola;
ing,”
“The Wood Gatherer,” and “The Shepherd Rest-
by Thomas
G.
Appleman.
two
corridor of Waller Hall;
The
stairway of Carver Hall.
Of these
in
portraits of the
and State Superintendents were
in
five
hang
in the
main
Noetling Hall, and two on main
also
former principals
framed uniformly and hung
the auditorium.
The
Class of
to use their
1918
at their tenth reunion
(1928) decided
fund for pictures, and purchased beautiful copies of
Rembrant’s Old Man, etched by Waltner, and Night Watch, etched by Koeffing, for the stairway of Carver Hall.
unusual etchings, valued at
The
a very
Class of
$200
1930 decided
These are both
each.
to purchase another picture of
remarkable copy of VanDyke’s Children of Charles
We
ed by Laguillmir.
place in the
Two
New
Training School
W. Funston,
corridor of the second
etch-
may eventually find its
Building now being planned.
this
engravings presented to the school
fine old steel
Mrs. Charles
riage of
hope that
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of the Class of
1887 now hang
story of Noetling
Hall.
Titles:
by
in the
“Mar-
Pocohontus” and “Christ Rejected.”
The Art League of the school during these years
functioned
— from
work was done by
1909
gifts
to
1929
— (though
from the classes of
1
it
has
really the pioneer
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Mary
early as 1901 Mrs.
partment, did the
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Croswell, then in charge of the Art De-
work by placing
terpieces of art on the walls
several copies of mas-
of the schoolrooms
four art
in
works of
windows through
Literary Societies
and
Y.
They have
art.
C. A.
and
W.
Y.
to
commemorate
50th
schools’
class of
memorial tablets
ter of a
J.
the
;
anniversary
one to Prof.
Wm.
its
contribuin
1920,
graduation of the
They have
teachers.
“Philo”
Alma Mater
the
of
li-
The alumni
C. A.
gave the Tiffany Memorial “Truth and Virtue” as
tion to the enrichment of the life of their
the
placed
also
“Callie” and
the aid of the
M.
in
many hundreds
brary) have earned for the school’s adornment
of dollars, invested
and
Noetling,
also
added three
who gave
a quar-
century of superb service to the school; one to Dr. D.
Waller,
Jr.,
who
served as principal of the institution for a
period of twenty-nine years, and one to the Founders and Trustees of the school
who
for
many
made
years
success of the school their chief concern.
stermaker
fulness
is
now chairman
and enthusiasm has
and more worthwhile cause of
own
There are many phases of
not yet been touched, so
that will enrich
many
the institution
and we hope
petty
this art
F.
Fen-
its
use-
interests in the
their institution
pect bigness of soul, unity of work, and
tion.
Howard
Only as faculty and
begun.
student body forget for a time their
larger
Prof.
of the League,
just
the interests and
growth
in
may we
any
ex-
institu-
development that have
growth and development
lines of
and enhance
its
work.
should be formulated wisely and pursued persistently
These
through
In this way only may we hope for the lives
and pupils to be enriched and the work of the institution enhanced and the community in which our college lives,
be made an ideal college town, a cultured, intelligent, growing
the years to come.
of teachers
people.
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P'or several
years a strenuous effort has been put forth by
the school authorities to modernize
home
a
for
young women
and improve Waller
The
students.
old dangerous stair-
ways were removed some time ago and four
with stairways substituted
Hall, as
fire-proof
towers
A commodious
in strategic locations.
and beautifully furnished lobby now occupies the space of the
old stairway and hallway and business offices.
The plans of renovation provide
three upper stories
ing the rooms
and hallway,
feature, however,
the space
;
is
to
of the stairway, a
room
or reception
The aim
is
to
floors, in
lobby or
students of
floor
and
is
most
that
sat-
have each of these rooms models of
The idea was conceived and
commencement
920
m
for the
small
and comfort.
taste
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The one unique
have on each of the three upper
The work has been begun on fourth
floor.
isfactory.
remodeling of the
now under way.
is
made by removal
general gathering
for a
putting in concrete flooring and redecorat-
to
the
unite in raising a fund to decorate
so far as
movement
started
last
have the classes which have graduated since
no provision
is
made
and furnish these rooms
for this purpose in the general
funds.
We
are glad to say the project was received kindly and re-
sponses have been coming
ating.
From time
in.
The fund
to time a report will
is
gradually accumul-
be given
in the
Quarter-
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Thus far about $414 have been pledged or paid
treasury on the lobby fund.
lars.
Any
We
want about two thousand
Art League, and
it
will
treasurer of the fund.
“What we
give
much more
we
to us as
Howard
Fenstemaker, President of
F.
be acknowledged, and turned
We
urge
we
will
who have
N. Polaneczky
Atilla
Walter Krolekowski
Edith Davis
Hummel
Teloiv R.
Wagner
Hilda Robinson
Helen Welliver
Helen Ceppa
Mary
Gamble
L. Fruit
Mary
Flick
Clara E. Fisher
Ada
Mowrey
P. Morgan
L.
Minnie Peter
Elias
Doris Moses
Viola M. Kline
Oda H. Baer
A. L. Lenahan
Hannah Golightly
Dorothy V. Jones
Anna Albert
Lois Pfahler
Gertrude Flowers
Marjorie Davrs
John B. Timco
Bronwen
F.
Rees
T. A. Wakefield
Margaret
Jean E. Young
Hazel M. Zigler
Kate D. Becker
Viola V. Clark
Thomas Welsko
Maude Fenstermaker
Olive Scott
Lois Dodson
Clare
Lowenberg
mean
given either
Schoen
Edith M. Behr
Stephen A. Lerda
the
so
sacrifice for her betterment.
cash or pledge
Mildred M.
in to
to contribute to the fund.
all
have,” and our Alma Mater
Following are the names of those
I.
dol-
pledges or cash can be sent to Mr. C. M. Hauseknecht,
Business Manager, or Mr.
Marjorie
into the
J.
Jones
Jean C. Conner
Sylvia
Cimmet
Lydia Bohn
Katherine E. Ball
Helen Bonet Baer
Delma
Ruth A. Baines
E.
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Anna Krauser
Marian K. Andrews
Frances Pensyl
Arline Hettler
Gertrude A. Ruoff
Marian A. Dennis
Orice Dodge
Fannie R. Kaswitz
Lillian Ottaviani
Laura Zielenski
Margaret Sumner
W. H. Kashner
Mildred Phillips
Ruth Klingerman
Dorothy Goss
B.
M. Robbins
L.
Crouse
Ruth A. Weber
Mary Youtz
Catherine
Margaret
Mildred Taylor
Fear
J.
Jennie Whitenight
Estella Goldsmith
Celia M. Krzyzanski
Mildred Hankee
Mrs. Herbert
Ruth Beaver
Verna Fetterman
Lugg
Mordan
Elva L. Ruckle
Bessie
Arlene Johnson
Beatrice Englehart
Pearl Poust
R.
Carl D. Blose
F. Beatrice
Williams
Pengo Bolles
Henry F. Rohde
Helen R. Kellam
Dorothy Gilmore
Elizabeth Maroney
Mary M. Polya
M. Edna Girton
Margaret Berlew
M. Gerald Sheridan
Sister
Donahoe
Margaret Krapp
Joseph
Elizabeth Rhoades
Richard D. Lowell
Erodue M. Ruggles
Lillian
J.
Wagner Chamberlai
Bessie A. Singer
Mary
James H. Sterner
Virginia Gallen
L.
Healy
Helen Stangert
Hugh VanAernam
Helen Kramer
Helen Jenkes
Ira C.
Markley
Anna W. Pursel
Anna Nancy Zorskas
Christine Smith
Carolyn Ciampi
Bettie
J.
Roberts
Dorothy E. McCollum
Elizabeth Davis
Grace Welter
Eva
L.
Lloyd
Virginia M. Lewis
Ida Steinert
Beatrice Sanford
Doris Palsgrove
Dorothea Geiss
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Mildred Bohn
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Margaret Lewis
Adelaide Bahr
Marjorie A. Orr
Alice M.
Ellen Rupert
Betty McNanimin
Katherine Smith
Jaenette Lesser
Helen Spare
Mary
M. Agnes Sweeney
Kathryn Foye
Edna A. Kulick
.Arthur Jenkins
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Mary Dushanko
Ebba Carlson
Allinda B. Krause
Gladys
Margaret Shepherd
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Marcella Lipsky
Hirsch
Margaret Keller
Helen Owens
Margaretta Bone
Ethel Roberts
Alice Shields
Marjorie M. Hofmeistcr
Josephine M. Mozukewicz
Dora Wilson Risley
Gladys
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New York
State Education” for November,
following concerning a former
member
Normal School
at
928, has the
of the faculty:
Doctor Howard G. Burdge has resigned
cipal of the State
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his position as prin-
Fredoma where he has
serv-
ed for the past five years.
Doctor Burdge received
his early
education in Ohio
normal school training at Bloomsburg, Pa.
Allegheny College and received
umbia.
His early
professional
his
He
—
his
a graduate of
is
M. A. and Ph. D. from Col-
experience
was
school principal and superintendent of schools.
that
of high
From 1918
to
1921 he was director of research and vocational training in the
New York State Military Training Commission. In 1922-23 he
was assistant director of the Educational Finance Inquiry under
the
American Council of Education.
He is the author of ‘‘Our
a statistical study of boys in industry in New York State,
and he has collaborated on several other books.
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ATHLETICS
The college boosts
the championship of the eastern district
for the basket ball season just closed.
This district includes 8
Normal Schools and Teachers Colleges.
Every one of the
was met by Bloomsburg.
schools in the district
East Strouds-
burg was the only school to boost of as much as an even break
with our squad.
In this case each
team won one game, but
in
other respects East Stroudsburg had to surrender any claims to
Bloomsburg.
Our old
rival,
Wyoming Seminary, was
also a
worthy foe during the season and each school has one victory
to
Academy won
a
its
credit.
game
By a two
point margin Bucknell
This was the only gam.e in which the col-
Bloomsburg.
at
lege
was beaten on the home
that
was
A
floor,
with the exception of a
game
forfeited because of ineligibility of a visiting player.
team that can turn
in a season’s
record of 10 victories
and 3 defeats against such teams as Shippensburg, West Chester,
Wyowing and
East Stroudsburg,
others of
equal caliber
is
well worthy of note.
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—At Home—Alumi 32;
—At Home—Kutztown
The season’s schedule:
W'ednesday, Dec. 12
Saturday, Dec.
1
5
S.
T. C. 60.
S. T. C.
33
S.
;
T. C. 58.
Saturday, Jan. 5
Saturday, Jan.
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—Away— Lock Haven
2 —Away — Shippensburg 32
12;
S. T. C.
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48.
S. T. C.
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—At Home—Wyoming Seminary
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28;
S.
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Saturday, Jan. 19
—At Home—
Bucknell Freshman 41
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S.
T. C. 39.
Friday, Jan. 25
S. T. C.
—At
Saturday, Feb. 2
S.
Home
—Shippensburg
T. C.
32;
S. T. C,
37;
S.
50.
—Away—
East Stroudsburg
T. C. 36.
Saturday, Feb. 9
S. T. C.
—At Home—West
Chester
S. T.
C.
39;
40.
Friday, Feb. '15
—At Home—
Mansfield
S.
T. C.-S.
T. C.,
Forfeited.
Saturday, Feb. 16
—At Home—Lock Haven
S. T. C.
25;
S.
T. C. 57.
Saturday, Feb. 23
—Away—
Mansfield
S. T.
C.-S. T.
C.
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For-
feited.
Friday,
37;
S. T. C.
March
1
—At Home—
East Stroudsburg
S. T.
C.
44.
Saturday, March 2
—Away—Wyoming
Seminary 31
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S.
T. C. 28.
Saturday, March 9
—At Home—
Millersville S. T. C.
34;
S.
T. C. 38.
Friday March 15; Saturday, March 16; Friday, March 22;
Saturday, March 23
by Mahanoy
City.
—High School Tournament which was won
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As indicated by the above schedule, the basket
ball activi-
the school closed with the 8th annual High School Tourn-
ties at
Teams
ament.
good showing
hoped
that
districts
The
A. A.
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tries in
college acts as hosts to the vis-
way
every
Changes
and worth while.
much more
own
in their
teams and
who have made a
and who have the official
are invited for competition
sanction of the P.
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to
in the
make
gymnasium have made
from the spectators point of view and
suitable
by next season proposed projects
thereby adding
stay pleasant
their
much
will
it
it
is
be completed,
to the success of the annual spring tourna-
ment.
The tournament
list:
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March 15th.
Friday,
9 00 A. M.
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Twmp.
vs.
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Larksville vs. Mainville
Luzerne:
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—Coal
0 00 A. M.:
—Mahanoy
City vs. Dickson
—Wyoming Newport Twp. 2:00
M. — Hershey
Duryea; 3:00
Hazleton
00
Twp.
4:00
M. — Bloomsburg
City;
12 M.
vs.
;
vs.
vs. Plains
P.
ville vs.
P.
;
5
:
—West
M. —Dan-
M.
Freeland;
vs.
P.
P.
Hanover.
Saturday, March 16th.
2:30
hanoy City
land;
vs.
9:00
—
M. — Bloomsburg
M.
P.
P.
Larksville vs. Coal
Newport Tw'p; 8:00
Friday,
8:00
Duryea
vs.
P.
M.
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M.
P.
M.
—Duryea
—Ma-
vs. Free-
Hanover.
March 22nd.
Coal Twp.
Hanover.
vs.
Twp; 3:30
P.
vs.
Mahanoy
City;
9:00
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Saturday, March 23rd.
9:00
lianoy City.
P.
P.
M.
—Mahanoy
City vs.
Duryea.
Winner
:
00
M.
Previous tournament winners have been:
922
Newport.
1923
Newport.
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924
Wilkes-Barre.
1
925
Taylor.
1
926
Newport.
1
927
Nanticoke.
1
928
Nanticoke.
too early to say
mind the Alumni of the
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we would re
928 Alumni Day game which saw Wymuch about
oming Seminary humbled 3-2.
baseball, but
The same
attraction will be here
(May 25). Come and
Bloomsburg team make Wyoming bite the dust.
for
—Ma-
Lossers play for 3rd and 4th places Saturday 8
Alumni Day
this spring
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3 —Wyoming Seminary —
20—Shippenburg
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26—Shippensburg
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The schedule:
April
April
April
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S.
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May 3 —
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May 4 — Kutztown
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May 8—
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May
—Lock Haven
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May
— Stroudsburg
May 8—
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May 25 —Wyoming Seminary —
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April
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S. T. C.
Mansfield
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S. T. C.
There.
S. T. C.
Here.
Here.
S. T. C.
E.
Mansfield
S. T. C.
There.
There.
S. T. C.
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Here.
S. T. C.
East
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There.
Here.
E. H. Nelson, ’ll.
NAMED TO BOARD TRUSTEES
William
S.
Johnson, of
Berwick,
district
manager
of the
American Car and Foundry Company, has been named a member of the board of trustees of the Teachers’ College here, suc-
ceeding William
of business
filled
and
L.
ill
Groce, of Selinsgrove,
who
The appointment
health.
resigned because
of Mr. Johnson has
the only vacancy which Existed on the board.
A
daughter, Jane Louise, was born October 5 to Prof, and
Mrs. George
J. Keller.
Mrs. Keller was formerly Miss Eleanor
Evans, daughter of County
Evans.
Superintendent and
Mrs.
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LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI HOLD BANQUET
A
very successful banquet of the Luzerne County Alumni
was held
ing
Mr. D. T. Mah-
Wilkes-Barre, February 6, 1929,
in
oney, ’09,
who was
in
charge of the
sends us the follow-
affair,
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communication regarding the banquet:
Dear Alumi:
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That the Bloomsburg Alumni Banquet held
ington, February 6, 1929,
which
want
hear expressed by
I
was a
those
all
to state also that our records
success for the
sum
of one
I
attended the
that
affair.
was a
it
opinion
the
is
and the net proceeds
deficit
(Banquet held
I
financial
in
is
al-
1920)
hundred dollars ($100.00).
want
purchased
in
who
show
of the donations
most enough to clear up the old
success
social
Red-
at Hotel
to thank all those
tickets,
who made
and especially
all
donations,
those
who
all
those
who
so loyally aided
the sale of tickets.
The group was highly pleased with the speakers and
tainers:
Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. Henshall, Mr.
Zeiser,
Mr.
enterSutliff,
Mr. Bakeless and Dr. Haas.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the State Teachers’ College
has been invited by the
New
Jersey Educational Commission to
join with six other distinguished educators in
the
New
making a survey
of
Jersey school system.
Four of these experts have been selected from
sey and the other three are from out of the state.
of the survey
school system
is
to provide a plan
may be improved.
New
Jer-
The purpose
whereby the New Jersey
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TEACHER TRAINING AGREEMENT APPROVED
The teacher
1929-1930
training
as submitted
agreement for the
by
term of
school
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, has been accepted by the
Bloomsburg school board and passed with the recommendation
and the college allow the contract
that the district
to
remain
in
force from school year to school year unless either party wishes
to terminate
Such action must be taken before April
it.
first
preceding the next school term.
The contract
school district
there
is
as submitted
by
substantially the
is
Dr.
Haas and accepted by the
same
although
as last year,
a slight change in the wording.
The terms
of the contract follow
“The Board
of Directors authorize the Teachers’ College to
use the schools of the district for teacher training subject to such
regulations as
may be made by
the superintendent
of the
dis-
trict.
“Each
class
room used
for teacher training shall
approximately 50 per cent, of the time by the teacher
employed by the
“It
is
be taught
in
charge
district.
specifically
understood that the college
from the school immediately any student teacher
will
withdraw
at the request
of the superintendent.
“The
college will use only such teachers
teacher training
work and only such teachers
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as desire
as are
to
do
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“The
legal salary schedule for cooperative teacher training
approved by the State Council of Education of Pennsylvania gov-
who
erns the additional salary for teachers
are designated for
teacher training work.”
Never before has the agreement between the
district
and
the college been entered into so far in advance of the opening
of the school year which
affects
it
and never has there been as
opposition to the agreement on the part of
little
The board expressed the opinion
board.
the present school year
was working out
members
of the
that the agreement of
to the
mutual benefit
of both parties.
The Berwick school
approved a
board has also
similar
agreement for next year.
Bids are being asked by the Teachers’ College for the erection of
an entrance
into Waller Hall at the northeast corner
just opposite the post office
which
located in
is
Such an entrance and outside stairway
for the
men
make
that building.
it
much
residing in North Hall to get to the dining
A way
Waller Hall.
also
will
for
men
and
easier
room
in
to reach the college infirmary will
be provided.
It is
now
necessary for the
men
to
and enter by the way of the gymnasium
south to get into Waller Hall.
start just as
soon as the contract
go around the building
or go around toward the
Work on
is
the improvement will
awarded and the work
is
ex-
pected to be completed long before the close of the present
term.
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TEACHERS’ COLLEGE CONFERENCE
TO BRING 700 HERE
Seven hundred educators, members of the
IN
FALL
the
faculties of
State Teachers’ Colleges of Pennsylvania, will be guests here for
two days during the Thanksgiving season
nual conference, which
Announcement
ers’
College for the
to
is
be held
this
of the selection of the
1
year for the an-
at the Teachers’ College.
Bloomsburg Teach-
929 meeting was made
recently
by Dr.
Francis B. Haas, principal of the local college.
The conferences have been held annually
during the Thanksgiving vacation
The conference
some years
teachers colleges and in
in the
by about seven hun-
the past several years have been attended
dred each year.
for
lasts for
two days.
The Senior Play was presented Thursday evening, December 20.
The play chosen
for this year’s
plesauce,” by Barry Connors.
the cast: Jack Fortner, Grace Kivler,
Scanlon, William
performance was “Ap-
The following were members of
Swinehart, Arthur
Charlotte Mears,
MacKenzie and
Ruth
Wilbur
Fischer.
Prof. Charles H. Albert has
er
W. Tope
the
work
in the
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton
because of the
Prof. Albert has
years.
been authorized by Rev. Hom-
League
of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon
recent
death of Rev.
to look after
districts temporarily,
J.
Mitchell
Bennetts.
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The budget submitted
Fisher gives
some
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BUDGET
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to the state legislature
interesting figures
by Governor
on the operations of the
Teachers’ College here.
Total expenditures of the institution for this biennium are
estimated at $1,026,927, of which more than $450,000
and wages of employes.
salaries
$235,238
000
for buildings
Included
in
another item of
is
and construction and more than $103,-
for food.
Receipts are estimated as equal to
expenditures
and
clude $345,000 for maintenance, $12,900 for repairs and
ations,
$197,000
for
students for board,
new
construction,
$64,085 from students
in
alter-
for instruction.
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1925-26, $475,000
in-
$348,000 income from
These figures compared with $347, 86
in
is
total expenditures
1926-27, or $822,186
in the
1925-27
biennium.
tees,
Mrs. Paul E. Wirt, wife of a
member
died December 29, 1928,
at her
after a week’s
illness
with pneumonia.
of the Board of Trus-
home
She
is
in
Bloomsburg,
survived by her
husband and a daughter, Pauline.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev.
Heistand, rector of
made
in
St.
J.
Thomas
Paul’s Episcopal Church and burial
Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg.
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the
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their first presentation in the college
ing,
March
crowd
19, a
young men under the capable
recently
hundred thoroughly en-
was well
presented by the
direction of Prof. Robert E. Clark.
Considering the fact that
of
auditorium Tuesday even-
of about four
joying the two part program which
in
it
was the
first
program of
this
formed organization, the work of the more than a score
members was remarkable, both
the presentation of the
Men
took
all
first
in the
group numbers and
act of the opera,
of the roles in the opera
in
“La Mascotte.’’
and
their
impersona-
were one of the features of the snappy and entertaining
tions
program.
The club made a
they wore for the
ber,
first
fine
appearance
in
part of the program.
evening dress, which
The opening num-
“Old Friends Together,” was sung before the curtain was
drawn and
this
nade.”
“Little
lowed.
The
was followed by “Sarita” from “Spanish SereGreen Winding Lane” and “Torch Dance”
first
part of the
fol-
program closed with the singing of
“Alma Mater.”
Principals in the presentation of the opera were: Bettina,
Armond
erick,
Keller; Princess Fiametta,
Haven Fortner; Prince Fred-
Jack Fortner; Farmer Rocco, Arthur McKenzie; Pippo,
Henry Warman and Prince Lorenzo, Samuel Kurtz.
The college orchestra under the
maker, furnished a program of music
gram.
direction of H. F. Fenstein
connection with the pro-
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Mr. Marion A. Kline from Cheyenne, Wyoming, called on
friends in
He came
Bloomsburg December 8th.
East to appear
before the Supreme Court of the United State at Washington, D.
Wyoming.
C. to represent the State of
The death
of Rev. Harry
Moyer, Third and Railroad
C.
streets,
Moyer, son of Mrs, Albert
Bloomsburg, occurred
the
in
Martinsburg, West Virginia, hospital, at seven o’clock Saturday
morning, January
by a cerebral
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Death was due
2.
Mr. Moyer
became
fell
about two weeks preceding
Thursday he grew much
his
of
Mary A. and
his family
make
their
recovery seemed probable, but
at the time of his
He was born
ton county.
age
to the hospital last Tues-
death was serving a
came
to
at Selinsgrove
and was the
the late Albert Moyer.
home. Mr. Moypr was educated
the latter institution
in
1
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taught in Bloomsburg and at
this
work
oldest
At an early
Bloomsburg, the father’s native town,
Following
He graduated
other points
to enter the ministry,
his
in
to
public schools
in the
Bloomsburg and the State Normal School.
gave up
on
Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisonville, Ful-
in the
child of Mrs.
his condi-
worse.
The Rev. Mr. Moyer
charge
Ap-
his death.
But a week later
and he was taken
serious
For several days
day.
brought on
lesion.
parently he was not severely hurt.
tion
to paralysis
at
graduation he
the
county.
and continued
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Benezette,
in
Breeze-
wood, Washingtonville, Cogan Valley, Cherry Tree, Farragut
and
at
Jonestown, Columbia county.
For the
last
two years he
has been at Harrisonville.
He
is
survived by his wife, formerly Elizabeth Adams,
Roaringcreek and three daughters
ton
Mrs. Bertram
;
His mother,
:
Mrs.
Andrew
Boyd and Miss Olive Moyer,
Moyer and
Mrs. Albert
brother also survive:
the
Slavin, of Eas-
of Williamsport.
following sisters and
Mrs. Lucetta White, Misses
Mabel Moyer and Albert Moyer,
all
of
and
Edith
of Bloomsburg.
Services were conducted in the Mulberry Street Methodist
church
in
uary 15.
trict,
was
Williamsport at
2:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Jan-
Dr. J. H. Ake, superintendent of the Harrisburg disin
He was
charge.
assisted
by
W. Long,
Dr. J.
pres-
ident of Dickinson Seminary.
1889
Edward
many
home in
E. Caldwell, for
burg resident, died
at his
known Blooms-
years a well
Detroit, Michigan, at
2:30
o’clock Saturday morning, following a lingering illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, the latter formerly Miss Esther Geddis,
have resided
in Detroit for the last
ten years
greater part of that time Mr. Caldwell has been in
unedrwent a very serious operation and
last July,
however,
with
ill
health.
his condition
what improved following the operation.
ill
and during the
was some-
He became
a complication
He
of heart
seriously
trouble,
asthma and dropsy.
Mr. Caldwell was one of Bloomsburg’s
riers,
the others being
Edwin H. Ent and H.
first
S.
three letter car-
Pohe.
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ser-
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896.
for
two years
when he
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He served
ser-
then
resigned from the ser-
and took a position during the war with the Berwick plant
of the American Car
Caldwell and he
He was
&
moved
there, Mrs.
to Detroit.
the son of a Presbyterian clergym.an
number
the congregation at Elysburg for a
sister.
From
Foundry Company.
Miss Martha Caldwell,
who
who
served
With
of years.
died about six years ago and
his uncle, Ezekiel Caldwell, he resided in Bloomsburg for
years.
In his
his
many
younger days he was a member of the Blooms-
burg baseball team
—back
in
the Hayes
and Shaffer battery
days.
1894
David Wiant, aged 55, prominent Huntington Township
farmer, died from injuries received
when
his truck
was struck
by a Jersey Central engine on a grade crossing near Mocanaqua.
A
fifteen
year old niece,
who was
with him on the seat of the
truck at the time of the crash, escaped without injury.
Mr. Wiant was on his
way
“back road” from Mocanaqua
of the Jersey Central on
its
to
market and had taken the
to Glen Lyon.
At the crossing
spur back of the mountain into Moc-
anaqua, at a point known as Green Creek, the truck was
down by an
run
engine running light toward Mocanaqua to pick up
a train of cars.
The truck was almost completely demolished and
occupants were hurled a considerable distance.
the two
Mr. Wiant was
hurriedly taken to the Nanticoke Hospital suffering with a frac-
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lured skull, broken leg and other injuries.
at
10 o’clock and his death occurred at 10:35.
Mr. Wiant was born
life there.
He was
in
Huntington township and spent
active in township affairs
his
and had served
several terms as a school director.
Surviving are his wife and four children, Emerson, George,
Herman,
in
the West; Anna, a trained nurse.
1896
Captain Charles M. Oman, native of Light Street,
who
suc-
ceeded Read Admiral Cary T. Grayson as the head of the Naval
dispensary, has had a varied career in the navy, in which he has
served with distinction for the past twenty-six years.
Captain
Oman
is
one of the most prominent members
navy and has had a wide experience
the medical corps of the
all
of
in
parts of the world.
Born
in
Light Street in 1878, he graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in
Naval Medical corps
in
1901 and
in
1902 entered the U.
February and has served
in the
S.
various
grades and on various ships and shore stations.
He served on
on gunboats, on
the China station on three different occasions,
five battleships, as fleet
surgeon, as executive
surgeon of hospitals, as surgeon at the American
Legation
Peking, China, as operating surgeon in hospitals, as
ing officer of the U. S. Naval Medical School
and
in
in
command-
other capaci-
ties.
In
1908 he made the
United States battleships.
cruise
around the world with the
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During the world war he saw service
pital, in
command
of the hospital ship
of Base Hospital No.
Navy Cross
in Brest,
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He was awarded
France.
the
for distinguished service during that conflict.
Captain
Oman
has been awarded the navy cross, the medal
for service in the Philippine
in the
in the
Cuban
Oman
and a Red Cross
star,
government for service
Italian
sina earthquake disaster in
Captain
medal with
pacification, a
medal issued by the
campaign, medal for participation
in
the Mes-
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a m.ember of the Xi honorary fraternity,
is
of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, member of
the Society of Foreign Wars, Caraboa Association
and member
of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, of the Army
and Navy Club, of the Army-Navy and Marine Country Club and
of the
Chevy Chase Club
at
Washington, D. C.
1898
Mrs. L. H. Brown, of
619
East Capitol Street, Washington,
who was formerly R. Daisy Klutz, North Carolina, recently
visited her Alma Mater. She had seen but two of the teachers or
D. C.,
students in thirty years.
Her husband
is
now
Assistant
Pay-
master at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington,
D. C.
They have two
children, a daughter
George Washington University and a son who
Mrs.
school.
sociation
;
Brown
is
who
is
is
a student at
a student in high
Secretary of Stanton Park Citizens’ As-
also Historian of the District of
Columbia Congress of
Parent-Teacher Association, Washington, D. C.
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Announcement
as
been made of the engagement of Miss
Grace Leaw, of Langhorne, Pa., to Charles W. Miller, of Pasa-
The
dena, California.
latter
the brother of
is
Frank
Mrs.
P.
Pursel, of town.
Leaw and Mr.
Miss
Miller
were classmates
The marriage
burg State Normal School.
will
at the
Blooms-
take place
in
the
Spring.
1899
The Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph had the following
recently regarding Miss Elsie Hicks, a former
dent
Bloomsburg
resi-
:
Miss Elsie Hicks, organist of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist,
was born
Bloomsburg, Pa., of American parentage,
in
On
though of English, French, German and Welsh ancestry.
parental side she
is
the
a descendent of Elias Hicks, founder of the
Hicksite Quakers.
Miss Hicks began her musical education at 8 years of age
with Prof.
W.
I.
appearance
Niles,
and
her school class, playing
time, too, she
in
at
9 years she made her
From
in concert.
all
this
the
first
public
on she was the musician of
songs and marches.
was doing much accompanying
for violin
At
this
and voice
her home.
Her next piano instructor was Charles Elwell, a graduate of
the
New England
conservatory.
At the age of
1
5
years. Miss Elsie
graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Normal School and the following year she took
postgraduate work studying piano and voice with Signorina Ru-
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becoming Mrs.
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Maude Runyan
bina Ravi of Florence, Italy, and organ with Mrs.
Colley, later
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Colley’s assistant at the First Pres-
byterian Church.
At
this time, thru interested
teachers and friends, a benefit
concert was given Miss Hicks, to enable her to further study at
the
New England
conservatory, Boston, Mass.
In this latter institution, she took a soloist course, studying
piano with Carl Stansny, a pupil of Liszt
;
organ with Henry Dun-
ham, a noted organist and composer, theory, with Louis
and harmony with Benjamin
C. Elson,
Cutter.
After graduation, from the conservatory. Miss Hicks ap-
peared
tists
as
in
concert in various eastern
Madam
Lillian Blauvelt,
garian virtuoso,
who
Her
was
first
This
and he
she could arrange to live in
she
and the
late
playing for such ar-
Rafael Joseffy, Hun-
presented her with his book,
Advanced Piano Playing.”
the artist to compile
cities,
work required
also offered her instruction gratis
New York
if
City.
church position was held at the age of 19 when
and choir director of the Mahoning Presbyter-
organist
From
ian Church, of Danville, Pa.
Presbyterian Church
in
her
home
Several years ago Miss
there she played in the First
town.
Hicks came to
this
played professionally ever since, both here and
pearing
“School of
eight years for
in theatre
and
in
city
and has
Denver, ap-
in hotel orchestras.
She was pianist with the Sunday afternoon orchestra concerts held in Stratin
the Musical Club
Park for a number of seasons and
Symphony
later
with
orchestra.
She has held positions as organist of the
First Presbyterian
Church, First Baptist Church, Unitarian, First Methodist Episco-
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tion.
Miss Hicks
sicians
and was
is
a
member
American Federation of Mu-
of the
for four years one of the examining boards for
the local Musicians Union, No. 154.
1900
Prof. G. Elmer Wilbur, a native of
Florida’s
most prominent educators, died
Hospital, Baltimore, Md.,
A
Bloomsburg and one of
Johns Hopkins
in the
August 28, 1928.
brain tumor, similar to that from which he recovered in
September, 1927, and pneumonia, which developed about two
weeks before, caused
In
his death.
He was aged 44
years.
September, 1927, Prof. Wilbur became seriously
was removed
to the
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
where some of the leading physicians studied the case.
tracted nation wide interest
and
ill
Md.,
It
at-
and was broadcast nation wide by
news gathering agencies.
After considerable work physicians finally discovered that
a tumor on the brain
E.
was
the cause of the illness
and Dr. Walter
Dandy, noted brain surgeon, performed an operation, which
was one of the most outstanding
moved
in
medical history
when he
Prof. Wilbur’.s recovery, following the operation,
id.
his
re-
the tumor.
He returned
work
as
Florida city
to his
home
in
head of the schools
is
was
rap-
Jacksonville and soon resumed
in
Duval county
in
which the
located.
In July the other
tumor on the brain had developed and on
August 3rd Dr. Dandy again performed an operation and remov-
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developed and
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which
is
later
pneumonia
thought to have caus-
his death.
Born
Prof,
in
Bloomsburg, Prof. Wilbur was the son of the
and Mrs. George
He was
E. Wilbur.
a graduate of
late
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and had a legion of friends
m
Bloomsburg and
vicinity.
He was
also a graduate of Dickin-
son College.
Soon after he
in
educational
left
work
college he went to Florida
until his death.
and was active
For the past several years
he was superintendent of the schools of Duval county and was
re-elected in June to serve another term in that position.
He
was a 33rd degree Mason.
He
bur, Jr.,
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survived by his wife and one son, George Elmer Wil-
and a brother, Harry Curran, of Chicago.
was taken
to Jacksonville
where funeral
services
The body
were held on
August 30.
Miles Killmer, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,
a brother-in-law of Mrs.
W.
B. Sutliff,
was one
of
men who February 22 spoke over the radio from underneath East River, New York, when a test was made to determine
the
if it
was
possible to broadcast from under water.
who graduated from
Mr. Killmer,
the completion of his course here,
construction of the
New
was
State College following
chief engineer during the
Holland tube and
is
now
superintendent
of the operations during te placing of the tube which connects
Brookly and
New
York.
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Miss Nelle L. Imboden, a resident of town for
years and
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widely known, died Saturday morning, February 11,
o’clock at the
home
of her sister, Mrs. Charles
Fourth Street, after a long
J.
at
five
Keller, of
West
illness.
Miss Imboden was stricken with congestion of the lungs
July and an abscess formed.
last
failed to
improve her
illness
when her
Later,
was diagnosed
condition
as tuberculosis
she was confined to her bed most of the time since
last
summer.
Miss Imboden was a native of Luthersburg, but had
home with
her
her sister since she was
1
6
years of age.
was a graduate of the music department of the Teacher’s
lege
and taught music for several years.
uate
in
ed
the commercial course and for
in the
and
in
made
She
Col-
She was also a grad-
some years was employ-
court house, serving as deputy register and recorder
as commissioners’ clerk.
ployed
and
Lancaster.
For about two years she was em-
For about
six years she
had been employ-
ed by the Columbia County Trust Company and after
its
merger
with the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company.
Miss Imboden was 42 years of age and was a
the Presbyterian Church.
member
of
She held the highest esteem of a wide
circle of friends.
Surviving are her
Imboden, of
St.
sister,
Mrs. Keller and one brother,
J.
A.
Mary’s.
1905
Mrs. Samuel
D.
Mock
(Lillie M. Peiffer) lives on Wilson Street,
Her post office is Sinking Spring, Penna., R.
Their son Donald is a Sophomore in Muhlenberg College,
Springmont, R. D.
Allentown.
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Dr.
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New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospi-
staff of the
tal,
as Instructor in the
Dr. Creasy
is
Department of Laryngology.
also practicing as specialist in the diseases of
the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Street,
New
His address
is
30
East 40th
\ ork City.
Mrs. David I. Spangler (Marion M. Groff)
North Fourth Street, Reading, Pa.
lives at
1048
1907
The death of Mrs. Hazel Kocher Rider, wife of Harry E.
Rider, ’04, and one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteemed w’omen, occurred at her home in Bloomsburg, Saturday, February
2 from a complication of diseases w'ith which she had suffered
for
some months.
A
Bloomsburg resident, she had been active in the
Methodist Church until the past year and was formerly a teacher
lifelong
in the Fifth Street school.
A
the
graduate of the Bloomsburg high school
Normal
Sc’nool in
1
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four years in a rural school and five years in town.
member
1
904, and of
907, she taught for nine years following,
She was a
of the Methodist church from childhood and
active in the
had been
Sunday School and the Ladies’ Aid Society
about a year ago.
until
She was also a member of the Eastern Star
and of the Missionary Society.
Mrs. Rider was aged 41 years last September and
is
ed by her mother, Mrs. Geraldine Kocher, her husband,
surviv-
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and one daughter, Geraldine,
five.
1908
Morgan
Mrs. Laura
Philadelphia,
she
was
Stein,
who
3816 Locust
lives at
the victim of a serious accident last
was struck by a
truck.
Her
left
arm and
Street,
fall,
when
were broken,
leg
We
and she also suffered of concussion of the brain.
were
in-
formed of thee accident by Jennie Yoder Foley, 8134 Henning
Street,
Stein
Fox Chase, Philadelphia.
was well on
Mrs. Foley
stated that
Mrs.
the road to recovery.
1909
We
are pleased
to print the following
—
—
message from the
president of the class:
My
Dear Classmates;
The
urday,
est
Class of
1
909
will
May 25 and we hope
attendance of any which
have been
old class
it
will
we have had
year on Sat-
have the
larg-
since graduation.
I
communication with various members of our dear
The
be
farther
for
ours and yours.
Come and
this
that this reunion will
and many are looking forward
this year.
ficult
in
hold their reunion
you
to our
“Home-coming”
away you have wandered,
the
more
dif-
to attend, but the greater pleasure will
be
Write to your friends and urge them to attend.
let’s live
over again,
in
memory, the happy days we
spent together at “Old Normal.”
Sincerely yours.
D.
J.
MAHONEY.
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to Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Laubach, of
Orangeville.
1912
A
son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bachinger, BloomsMrs. Bachinger was formerly Miss
burg, on Christmas morning.
Teresa Dailey.
1913
Announcement has been made
that
John Bakeless, son of
made
Prof, and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless of town, has been
The Living Age, of which he was formerly
Coincident with that announcement comes The Living
entirely
ment
sold
new form and
dress,
editor.
Age
in
J
^
an
and the added announceof world affairs has been
by the Atlantic Monthly Company and beginning with the
September
at
modern
a
known magazine
that this well
editor of
associate
issue will
be published by The Living Age Company,
280 Broadway, New York
The announcement
torship of this well
many Bloomsburg
City.
of Mr. Bakeless’s promotion to the edi-
known magazine
friends.
is
of especial interest to his
He gained
his first
experience as a
reporter in Bloomsburg.
This
was followed by some outstanding work
Springfield Republican
and a number of the
New York
during the years he spent at Williams college.
were followed by further years
at
for
the
papers
Those years
Harvard, where he did
his post
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graduate work.
work,
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each position with the brilliance
filling
was marked even
had the urge
to write,
in his early
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and earnestness
days as a young reporter
and who made
it
who
his business to see that
he had the opportunity to satisfy that urge.
Mr. Bakeless
the subject of
is
the author of two books which have been
much comment.
His
first
book, “The Economic
Causes of War,” was awarded the Wells Prize of
liams College, in
Sir Philip Gibbs,
1
920.
$500 by
Concerning Mr. Bakeless’ second book.
noted British author, says
have read “The Origin of the Next War,”
“I
Wil-
Bakeless and regard
it
as the
most masterly analysis of the un-
derlying dangers in Europe and the rest of the world.
by getting such ruthless and
by John
It is
only
scientific revelation of fact that
we
can hope to escape or at least postpone another conflict between
nations.”
Ex-1913
At
red, at
home on Chestnut Street, Berwick, there occur5:30 o’clock Monday morning, March 4, the death of
his late
Arthur Brecht Lesher, son of the late Prof. A. N. Lesher and of
Martha A. Lesher.
While Mr. Lesher has been practically an invalid for nearly
ten years
it
was not
until the last
showed a marked change.
Six
few months
that his condition
weeks ago he suffered a severe
heart attack from which he never fully recovered.
was summoned
the family no
to his bedside
hope beyond the
the optimism, faith
His sister
and the attending physician gave
possibility of a
few hours.
But
and gallant courage which had played such
an important part thru years of patient suffering, came again to
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charm
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life
of personality
whose admiration
weeks when
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won
for
I*
him a wide
circle of sincere friends
solitude always
The kind
friends
who came
went away with a smile on
in
their lips
to share his
and a more
general for he was
to point out the finest qualities of his fellows
consequence
his daily life
Mr. Lesher was born
He was educated
and
life.
enforced solitude he was a constant
his
sympathetic attitude toward mankind
in the
was an
Lancaster, Pa., January
in
al-
and
in
inspiration.
8th,
1
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893.
elementary schools of Berwick and was
graduated from the Berwick high school
completed a course
later
humor and
His keen sense of
he was fighting such a valiant battle for
and consistent student.
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During the years of
ways eager
A
at the
in the
class of
1911.
Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
In
years
1
920 he married
Miss Iva M. Gearhart,
was night supervisor
Besides his wife he
Brecht Lesher,
Jr., his
is
for several
survived by one small son,
mother Martha A. Lesher and one
Helen Lesher Adams, of Pottstown.
at his late
who
of the Berwick Hospital.
home Thursday
Funeral services
afternoon, March
Arthur
sister,
were held
7.
1914
Silas S. Riddle,
head of the bureau of
State Department of Labor
dle,
formerly of town and
now
of
New
Sunbury.
An appraisement
who
filed in
died some time ago
the
Northumberland
county court shows the estate to be worth $ 02, 708. 3.
Sara Elliott is teaching in Akron, Ohio.
Her address
1
Grace Avenue.
the
Jersey, will share equally
the estate of their aunt, Julia K. Riddle,
at
rehabilitation in
and Industry, and Miss Margaret Rid-
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and Mrs. H. Bierman received a telegram announcing
Dr.
the birth of a daughter to their son-in-law
tain
and daughter. Cap-
and Mrs. Idwal Edwards, (Katherine Bierman),
Announcements have been received of the
birth of a son,
Paul Alexander, to Mr. and Mrs, E. Llerena, of Rio de Janiero,
on October
1
Mrs. Llerena was formerly Miss
6.
Alma M.
Baer,
of Shickshinny.
1916
Benjamin
B.
Baer was graduated from the Pennsylvania
State College at the sixteenth annual mid-year
He was one
which took place February 13.
the graduating class
awarded
Degree
first
who ranked
Mr, Baer
honors.
commencement,
of six
members
of
highest in scholarship and were
is
now working
for his Master’s
at the University of Pennsylvania.
1917
Dorothy Miller (Mrs. W. R. Brower)
Pa.
A
son, Richard Alan,
October 13, 1928.
was born
to Mr.
lives in
Lehighton,
and Mrs, Brower on
Mr. and Mrs. Brower now have three
sons.
1918
Percy W.
at
Griffith
has been elected head coach of football
Dickinson College, over a large
past
lege.
two years he has been
line
field
of applicants.
For the
coach at Pennsylvania State Col-
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Birch, of town, announce the mariage of their daughter, Martha Elizabeth, to Floyd Leon Cole, of
Lewisburg, Pa., Monday, July 30, 1928, at Edinboro, Pa., by
the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Rev. Ivan M. Sherve.
The bride was a student of the Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg Teachers’ College.
of the
Pennsauken Junior High School, of Merchant-
ing History in the
ville.
New
Mrs. Cole has been teach-
Jersey.
Lawrence Keefer
University
of
is
working for
his doctor’s
He has been very
Michigan.
degree at the
successful
teacher of English and will probably continue in that
Gerald Marks
lives in
Los
Angeles.
as a
field.
He was graduated
last
August from the Law School of the University of Colorado,
and
is
Suite
now
member of the law firm of Marks and
903, Law Building, Los Angeles, California.
a
Klenke,
1921
Miss Eleanor C. Shannon, of Berwick and
J.
Allen Kaiser,
of Pottsville, Pa., w'ere married Saturday, September 19, at 3
P.
M.
in Trinity
Lutheran Church, Reading, Pa., by Rev. Herman
Miller.
Mrs. Kaiser
non, of
is
the daughter of Mr.
422 East Fourth
and Mrs. Leopold Shan-
Street, Berwick.
teacher in Wilkes-Barre and
is
a
She was a former
graduate of the Bloomsburg
Teachers’ College.
Mr. Kaiser
is
the district agent of the real
ment of the Reading Company
at Pottsville.
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depart-
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wedding of Miss
Jos-
ephine Pursel Allison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Allison,
town’s most popular and
of Catawissa, one of that
young women,
to
Raymond Moyer,
esteemed
Lexington,
of Line
near
Philadelphia.
The wedding was solemnized
at St. Augustine, Florida,
Camden,
N.
noon on Thanksgiving
The couple spent
the chapel at Valley Forge.
Street,
at
and are now
their
living at
at
honeymoon
313 Linden
J.
1922
The Wilkes-Barre Record
had the following
of August 21
regarding the wedding of Frank B. Shapela,
a graduate of the
1922 of the Teachers’ College and a
class of
football star here
during his entire course
A
pretty
wedding was solemnized
Nanticoke at 10:00 o’clock
ter of Mrs.
when
at St. Stanislaus’
Church,
Miss Helen M. Sawicki, daugh-
Witold Sawicki, 127 West Main Street, Nanticoke,
became the bride of Frank
B. Shepela of
Alden.
Rev. V.
L.
Biczypski, pastor, officiated.
The bride was attended by Miss Jennie Banashek
of honor,
as
maid
and Miss Helen M. Sawicki of Sugar Notch. The bride-
groom was attended by
his
brother Alex Shepela as best
man and
Joseph Sawicki, brother of the bride, as usher.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Shepela are well knov/n
ive communities.
Mrs. Shepela
is
in their respect-
a graduate of Nanticoke high
school and for the past two years has been employed in the office
of the C.
member
I.
T. Corp., at Wilkes-Barre.
Mr.
Shepela
is
a
Newport Township high school. After
a reception at the bride’s home the young couple left for a motor
tour of Philaelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
of the faculty of
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Announcement has been made
of the marriage in June of
Miss Mildred M. Hess, daughter of Mrs.
fred R. Harrington, son of Mr.
News
of Benton.
of the
Elizabeth
and Mrs. H.
wedding came
Hess to Al-
T. Harrington, both
as a surprise to friends
of the couple.
The wedding took place
is
a graduate of the
been teaching
is
in
in
New York
in
June.
The bride
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and has
the public schools of Newark, N.
manager of the Harrington foundry
in
J.
The groom
Sugarloaf township.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Harder have announced the
gagement of
their daughter,
land, Ohio, son of Mr.
Miss Harder
and
is
Mr. Klarr
Kathryn, to John A. Klarr, of Cleve-
and Mrs. A.
Klarr, of Vermilion, Ohio.
a graduate of Bloomsburg Teachers’ College
for several years has
wissa.
en-
is
been teaching
employed
as
in the schools of
Cata-
an auditor for the Glidden
Paint Co., of Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs.
ment of
A
.1.
Robbins have announced the engage-
their daughter. Pearl, to Alfred S. Burton, of Pittsburgh.
Miss Robbins
is
a graduate of Shickshinny High School and of the
Teachers’ College here and
Mr. Burton
is
an architect
place next Fall.
is
now
teaching
in Pittsburgh.
in Irvington, N. J,
The wedding
will
take
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Miss Elizabeth H.
Drumm,
Drumm, daughter
became
of Bloomsburg, R. D.,
of Mr.
and Mrs.
the bride of
John Em-
and Mrs. Frank Emmitt, of Danville, R.
mitt, son of Mr.
C. E.
D., in a
ceremony performed September 25 by Rev. John Weikel
in the
Lutheran Church at Espy.
After the ceremony the bride and groom
Washington, D.
C.,
and other places of
interest.
left
by auto
The bride
for
is
a
graduate of Centre High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, class of
1924 and has been teaching
Mr. Emmitt
years.
College, class of
is
for the last four
a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers’
1919 and
at present
is
one of Hemlock town-
ship’s best farmers.
In the
Packer Memorial Chapel of Lehigh University
at
Bethlehem, there was solemnized at 12:30 o’clock on the after-
noon of December 26, the wedding of Miss Helen Kathryn Jury,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Nicholls, of
Woodbury,
Nicholls, of Bethlehem.
N.
J.,
C.
Jury of town and Edward
son of Mr. and Mrs.
The Rev.
S.
D.
Wilmot Gateson, of Bethle-
The
hem, performed the ceremony.
Edward
S.
bride’s attendant
was Miss
Mildred Bartean, of Portland, Pa., and the groom was attended
by
his brother,
Vern
Nicolls.
The marriage was solemnized
the presence of only the immediate
money
the bride
and groom
Woodbury,
The bride
is
N.
on a wedding
They are now
interest in the South.
Street,
left
living at
in
trip to points of
60 West Chester
J.
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College and at the time of her marriage
year
in
After the cere-
families.
was teaching her fourth
the Nischman building, Bethlehem.
The groom grad-
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ed
degree
his master’s
burgh.
He
is
in
science from the University of Pitts-
Vacuum
associated with the
facturers of Mobiloil, at their Paulsboro,
Miss Lena
Oman, daughter
Oil
New
Company, manu-
Jersey, plant.
of Mr. and Mrs. T. N.
Orangeville and George Buckman, of Media, a
now honeymooning
builder, are
ding
in the
in the
Oman,
of
contractor and
South following their wed-
parsonage of the Media Presbyterian Church.
Rev.
Leader performed the ceremony.
The bride
is
an esteemed Orangeville
She
friends in this section.
cational School, class of
Teachers’ College, class of
is
of
the
For four years she was a suc-
924.
Mr. and Mrs.
Vo-
Bloomsburg State
cessful teacher in the schools of Oakland, Md.,
Doylestown, Pa.
and has many
a graduate of the Orangeville
1919 and
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Buckman
and Elwin and
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the third grade in
the
are living
Spring Avenue, Llanerch, Pa.
Miss Frances Pensyl
schools of Westfield, N.
is
teaching
in
J.
1925
William Coffman, a well
completed
his
close of the
gone
work
first
to larger.
known Bloomsburg young man,
for a degree at Bucknell University with the
semester of the present college term and has
West
Virginia,
where he has accepted a
position
as principal of the high school.
Mr. Coffman
ers’
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teach-
College and before entering Bucknell
er in the Mifflinburg schools.
local post of the
He
American Legion.
is
was a
a past
successful teach-
commander
of the
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Since graduation, Lucy H. Evans has been employed in the
office of the
Elmira Star-Gazette, one of the leading newspapers
of the southern tier of
celebrated
New York
The paper
State.
recently
one hundredth anniversary.
its
1926
Irene Besteder
Pa.
is
teaching in the
Her home address
is
first
grade at Shavertown.
Trucksville, Pa.
John Opiary, graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, class of
now
1926 and a well known Freeland young man,
Young Men
teaching at the Kyle School for
the-Hudson,
New
is
at Irvington-on-
York.
Miss Isabel Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L.
A. Ward, of
town and Russell Hummel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hummel,
of Cresco
and formerly of town, were united
afternoon, October 5, 1928, by Rev.
is
employed
marriage Friday
N. Bair at the parsonage
I.
The couple were unattended.
of the Espy Evangelical Church.
The groom
in
at Cresco
teaching for two years at Vintondale.
and the bride has been
Each enjoys a wide
circle
of friends.
1927
Miss Leila Watters, of Mifflinville, and Kenneth Fulkersin,
were united
of East Eighth Street,
in
marriage at Wilkes-Barre on
February 9th, friends of the couple have learned.
a daughter of Mr.
She
Mifflinville.
Berwick High
in
and Mrs. Byron Watters and
is
employed
at
known
in
a graduate of the Mifflinville high school,
in the
At the present time she
Nuremberg
schools.
the machine shop of the A.
plant in Berwick.
well
is
1925 and the State Teachers’ College, Blooms-
burg, in the class of 1927.
ed as a teacher
is
The bride
is
employ-
The groom has been
C.
and
F.
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Two
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in
of Bloomsburg’s best
marriage
at
known young people were
Wilkes-Barre Friday afternoon, January
:30 o’clock, when Miss Kathryn
Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Werkheiser,
C.
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unit1
,
at
Werkheiser, daughter
of
became
the
of East Fourth Street,
bride of Oran F. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Baker, of West
The ceremony was performed by Rev. James Lewis,
Street.
a
Baptist minister at Wilkes-Barre.
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College while the groom
graduate
They
will
of the local
make
their
High School and attended Drexel
home
in
is
also
a
Institute.
Bloomsburg.
1928
Anna
C.
Curry
lives at
660 South Tamaqua
Street,
McAdoo,
Pa.
Grace Frantz
Sunbury, Pa.
is
teacher of second grade
Her home address
is
in the schools
of
Picture Rocks, Pa.
At 10:30 o’clock Saturday morning, December
8, in
the
Methodist Church at Orangeville, Miss Helen R. Kline, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs.
of
Warren
Kline, of Rohrsburg,
became
the bride
Edgar R. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Baker, of Unity-
ville.
Rev. Gilbert
L.
Bennett, pastor of the church officiated,
uning the beautiful double ring ceremony.
They were attend-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Kline, parents of the bride and Mrs. Ernest
Baker, mother of the groom.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Millville High School of the
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of Miss Kathryn Loose, of
Waukesha, Wis.,
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ Col-
Leo
December 21
E. Sutliff,
Benton lumber dealer, was announced
a formal
at
friends of the couple at the
The announcement
home
The bride
of Mr.
and Mrs.
of the wedding,
came
which the couple enjoys
circle of friends
attended by
dinner party
Frederick, Md., on September 7,
in
at the
Mr. and Mrs. Baker will reside at Unityville.
The marriage
member
is
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He has taken work
burg State Teachers College and
county schools.
lege, to
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school in the class of 1927.
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members
been an
known
county.
in that section of the
Mr.
of the faculty.
Sutliff,
The second annual college
in
wide
in this section.
the physical education department of the college
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo E.
Reams.
which took place
for the past three years has
of the most popular
intimate
and
of Benton
night, sponsored
instructress
and
is
Sutliff is
is
one
the
very well
by the Rotary
and Kiwanis Clubs of Bloomsburg, was held Thursday evening,
January 24.
dress
A
fine
menu,
spirited singing,
an outstanding ad-
by Dr. Henry H. Crane, of Scranton, and the comedy “Ap-
plesauce,” presented by the College
Dramatic Club, were the
high lights of the night’s enjoyable program.
During the din-
ner the College orchestra furnished a musical program.
Mr.
Reams spoke before
afternoon on the topic of
the history
“Map
division
Studies In Teaching
Thursday
Political
Campaigns.”
Dr. Haas spoke to the teacher training division on “Teacher Training
ident.”
From
the Point of
View
of a Teachers’ College Pres-
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The winter meeting
their assistants
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A H T K KL Y
of the superintendents of schools
and
from fourteen counties of northeastern Pennsyl-
vania was held at Teachers’ College on Tuesday, December
Meetings of the superintendents and assistants of
this
part
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of
the state are held quarterly.
Among
other subjects brought up for discussion
tenure of teachers and the P.
Prof.
teachers.
John
J.
S. E.
A.
home
was
the
for superannuated
Fisher gave a report of a study of the
standing of college freshmen
in
Eighth Grade English and Arith-
metic.
Superintendent
W. W. Evans,
of
Columbia
county, was
chairman of the meeting.
The Third Annual Play Tournament of the College Dramatic
Club was held
March
in
the college auditorium Thursday evening,
The following one-act plays were presented: “Jazz
7.
and Minuet,” by Ruth
Giorloff
Norman McKimel; and
:
“The Bishop’s Candlesticks,” by
:The Wonder Hat,” by Kenneth Good-
man and Benjamin
Hecht.
awarded
named
to the last
;
The
play.
decision
judges was
of the
The following players
ed honorable mention for the excellent manner
in
receiv-
which
they
played their roles: Florence Fest, Charlotte Lord, Dorothy Foote,
John Taylor and Maynard Pennington.
Prof.
the
Edwin A. Reams, of the
social studies
department of
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and Dr. Francis
principal of the college, took part in the Schoolmen’s
gram which was held
13, 14,
15 and
16.
Week
at the University of Pennsylvania,
pro-
March
This event annually attracts thousands of
educators and some of the most
field in the
B. Haas,
prominent
county are on the program.
in the
educational
r
Dr.
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MX
and Mrs. Francis
December
Haas,
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who
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has
the
B.
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Haas were called
sudden death of
frequently
li
visited
K L Y
to Philadelphia
Miss
his sister.
here and
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who
has
Lillian
many
friends in Bloomsburg.
Miss Haas was apparently
in the
best of health
and had
eat-
en a hearty dinner just before she was stricken with an attack
of acute indigestion.
Her death quickly followed.
Miss Haas was a teacher
in
the Philadelphia schools
survived by three brothers and three
We
t'.e
and
is
sisters.
are indebted to the Bloomsburg “Morning Press”
use of the cut showing the proposed Training School.
for
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Vol.
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No. 3
THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
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PROF.
O. H.
BAKELESS
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol.30
JUNE, 1929
No. 3
Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa„ under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F.
FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.
JENKINS, ’76
’12
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Editor-in-Chief
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Business
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Manager
PROFESSOR BAKELESS RETIRES
After having
years as a
member
served faithfully and
devotedly for
thirty
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Nor-
mal School, Professor 0. H. Bakeless retired June first, with the
knowledge that his has been a piece of work that was well done.
Professor Bakeless first took up his work in Bloomsburg in
893 to become
890, and after three years here resigned in
principal of the United States Industrial School for Indians at
Carlisle.
This position he held for nine years.
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In
1902 he returned
Bloomsburg, and has been a memHe is loved and honored by
under his instruction, and occupies a
to
ber of the faculty since that date.
the hundreds
who
has sat
place in their hearts that
is
equal to that held by the late Pro-
fessor Noetling in the hearts of those
Even though Professor Bakeless
who worked under
is
lege work, his influence in the school and
him.
from active colcommunity will be felt.
retired
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and no one can say how great
is
the influence that he
through the great number of alumni,
out
all
who
is
exerting,
are scattered through-
the states of the Union.
About one hundred persons who are active or who have
been active in the work of Old Normal paid tribute to Professor
Bakeless at a dinner held in his honor on Monday evening, April
29, in the Wimodausis Club rooms.
Dr.
Haas presided
at the dinner,
and introduced Mr. A.
Schoch, President of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. D.
J.
Z.
Waller,
Both of these men paid tribute to the work of Professor
Bakeless during the years they have worked together.
A letter
of congratulation from M. E. Glover, of Mifllinburg, a member
of the Board of Trustees, was read, as was also a telegram of
praise for Brofessor Bakeless from Mrs. John G. Harman, anJr.
other
member
of the Board.
The musical part of the program consisted of group
sing-
Alma
Cald-
ing led by Miss Jessie Patterson, vocal solo by Miss
well,
and piano
solos
by Miss Marjory McHenry.
At the close of the program. Dr. Waller,
in
behalf of the
Faculty and Board of Trustees, presented Prof. Bakeless with a
and chain, as a token of the love and
which they hold him.
In responding. Professor Bakeless spoke of the loyalty of his fellow teachers to him, and of the
earnestness of the boys and girls who worked with him.
He
I
do not deserv'e it
closed by saying, “I appreciate this gift.
beautiful white gold watch
esteem
but
I
in
will
take
it.”
At the Alumni meeting. Professor Bakeless was called to
the platform by R. Bruce Albert, ’06, newly elected president of
the Alumni Association, and was greeted with a standing ovation
Mr. Albert then informed
by the members of the Association.
Professor Bakeless that he had been made sole administrator of
a fund of over $1200, to carry on the art projects in which he
He is also to
has been so deeply interested for so many years.
have charge of the Alumni Memorial Trophy Room, which the
Board of Trustees will be asked to provide.
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The various reunion
classes
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had been canvassed before the
announce their subscripThe notice sent to
of classes.
general meeting, and were ready to
tions at the time of the roll call
each class by the executive committee bore
Professor Bakeless:
“We,
as fellow
members
Association believe this will be the finest
Prof. Bakeless.
We
this fitting tribute to
thing
of the
Alumni
we can do
also feel confident that the
Alumni, as
for
a
whole, will endorse the plan with enthusiasm, and that the funds
will
come
to Prof.
Bakeless’s hands to
days of leisure to crown a most useful
enable him in his
life
new
with a characteristic
achievement.”
In the course of the next four years, all of the other classes
will
less
be given the opportunity to pay tribute to Professor Bakeby contributing their share to this most worthy project.
ALUMNI DAY
Ideal weather and one of the best rounded programs that
had ever been arranged for the affair, brought back to Bloomsburg hundreds of graduates for the Alumni Day exercises, one of
the principal events of the
Commencement
season.
In addition to the classes in reunion there
were additional
hundreds of other class members who came back for the day.
Graduates arrived early in the morning, some of them having
arrived in Bloomsburg Friday evening.
were well attended during the morning with
friends.
There were a
number of matters of interest to the individual classes which
were also up for action.
Class reunions
graduates busy
greeting college day
one smiling face was missing, that of Prof.
years a popular member of the College
faculty, Mr. Cope having passed away during the year.
Alumni
expressed regret over the passing of this man who had done
much in moulding the lives of hundreds of students.
In each reunion
J.
G. Cope,
for
many
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One matter which came before each
class
was
that of con-
fund of which Prof. 0. H. Bakeless is to be
the sole administrator.
Each class was enthusiastic over the
plan and subscribed varying amounts for the project.
Prof.
tributions for an art
Bakeless has for years worked tirelessly
in
beautifying the cor-
and rooms of the buildings with good works of art. The
matter will be placed before each of the classes in reunion for
ridors
the next five years.
Dr. Waller presided at the meeting in the absence of the
who was attending the National Synod of
Reformed Church. The main floor auditorium was well filled and there were many in the balcony when the session opened.
president, Mr. Diehl,
the
R. Bruce Albert read the minutes of the last meeting and the College Glee Club,
under the direction of Prof. Clark, sang two
selections.
Prof. S.
and
I.
Shortess told of the organization of the Glee Club
said that an active
Any who would
program would be carried out next year.
were asked
care to secure the club for a concert
to submit the requests for dates.
R. Bruce Albert, a member of the class of 906, was elected president of the Alumni Association, succeeding Fred W.
Diehl, superintendent of the Montour County schools, who was
The report of the
chosen chairman of the executive committee.
nominating committee, Mrs. C. W. Funston, D. D. Wright and E.
H. Nelson, was accepted as presented by Mrs. Funston.
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The
officers are:
President, R. Bruce Albert; Vice-Presi-
dents, Dr. D. J. Waller, class of 867, and 0. H. Bakeless, class
of 1879; Treasurer, F. H. Jenkins, class of 1876; Secretary,
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Edward
W.
W. Funston,
Schuyler, class of 1924; Executive Committee, Fred
Diehl, Danville, class of 1909, chairman;
Mrs. C.
1885 Maurice Houck, class of 1910; Miss
Harriet Carpenter, Bloomsburg, class of 1896; D. D. Wright,
Bloomsburg, class of 1911 and Dan Mahoney, class of 1909.
Bloomsburg,
class of
;
Miss Catherine Johnson, a
member
of the
class of
1928,
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sang a solo and Dennis Wright submitted the report of the Treasurer, Prof. Jenkins.
A rising vote of thanks was given to Prof,
and Mrs. Jenkins for
their untiring efforts in the publication of
the Quarterly, supported
by the alumni.
The report of the scholarship fund, prepared by C. M.
Hauseknecht and presented by Mr. Wright, was that $2,751.79
was in the fund with $1,933.50 now outstanding in loans to
students and graduates.
H. F. Fenstemaker, a
member
of the College faculty
and
the Alumni and editor of the Quarterly, asked that each class
have a member write up its reunion and send it in for pubblication.
Mrs. Funston gave the report of the Nominating Committee.
The class of 1867 was the oldest
members present, George E. Elwell and
in
reunion and had two
Dr. D. J. Waller.
879 with a record of having had its 22 mem624 years, had six members present. Prof.
C. H. Albert, for many years a member of the faculty of the College, made the report.
He said that four of the members had
taught 50 years, three 49 years, one 45 years and two 30 years.
The
class of
1
bers teach a total of
Kennedy reported for the class of 884 which had
members present. Mr. Kennedy spoke of the institution
the days he was a student there.
Charles
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four
in
The class of 889 had 25 in reunion. State Senator Benjamin Apple, of Sunbury, responded for the class and spoke of
the delight of the members in seeing Dr. Waller at the reunion.
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Of the
class of
59
there are
43
living
and $115 was subscribed
to the art fund.
Mr. Lewis responded for the class of
members
in
1
894 which had 25
reunion and he urged that the graduates return as
often as possible for the reunions.
The
class
pledged $108 for
the art project.
Mr. Gager, of Scranton,
reported for
the class of
1899
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9 attending.
He spoke of the fine features of the
and declared that one year while his class was at the
school they did not lose any football or basket ball games and
lost only two of
baseball games.
which had
1
institution
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John McGuffy, a member of the class, was introduced as
one of the greatest athletes in the history of the institution. The
class pledged a minimum of one hundred dollars to the art fund.
G. L. Howell reported 29 of the 2 members of the class
904 back and said $34 had been subscribed for the fund.
Dan Mahoney reported 23 of the class of 909 in reunion with
$1000 subscribed to the fund. The class of 1914 had 20 in reunion with one member having come from St. Louis, Mo.
Mrs.
Roy Cook reported for the class which subscribed $25 for the
1
of
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fund.
Mrs. Mary Woolcox reported for the class of 1919 which
had 55 back and pledged $100 to the fund.
The class of 924 had the largest number in reunion, 47
The class had not determined on
back out of a class of 330.
the amount it would give to the fund but pledged its share.
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Edward Schuyler reported
The
class of
for the class.
1927, the youngest class in reunion, claimed
it the first graduate to have obtained a de-
the honor of having in
gree at the institution,
$900
Arthur Jenkins.
The class has given
and pledged $250 for the art
for furnishing of the lobby
project.
Miss Verna Medley reported for the class.
meeting had been
upon to stand. There were
The meeting then adjournabout 50 members in attendance.
ed and the members went to the dining hall for the banquet.
The
class of
1
929, which
elected to membership,
was
earlier in the
called
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
“Be such teachers that your pupils will speak not only of
you gave by the lessons you taught but by the light of
the aid
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character that shines
in
in
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your eyes, and that character is created
creator,” Rev. J. Thomas Heistand,
communion with God our
rector of St. Foul’s Episcopal Church, told the
members
of the
graduating class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
in
delivering an impressive sermon at the baccalaureate services in
the College auditorium
Sunday afternoon. May 26.
Dealing separately with the physical, intellectual and moral
phases of
life
the minister in his brief address held the closest at-
tention of the class as he spoke of their responsibilities as teachers.
The
services
opened with the processional at 2 30 o’clock,
gowns singing the processional hymn
:
the class in black caps and
of the institution, “Ancient of Days.”
The
class
was headed by
its
who were
officers
followed by
those taking part in the service.
Seated on the stage during the
exercises were Rev. Heistand, A. Z. Schoch, J. T. Townsend,
members
of the Board of Trustees; Dr. D.
principal; Dr. Francis B. Hass, principal,
well
and H.
sang,
F.
Jr., former
and Miss Alma CaldJ.
Waller,
Fenstemaker, of the College faculty.
Rev. Heistand offered the invocation and the congregation
0 Master Let Me Walk With Thee.” Dr. Haas read the
Scripture.
Following the sermon by the Rev. Mr. Heistand, Miss
Caldwell, of the College faculty, sang,
by Gounod, with
violin obligato
“0
Alma
Divine Redeemer,”
by Gerald Harter, of Blooms-
burg.
850 ALUMNI AT
ANNUAL BANQUET
There were 850 members of the Alumni Association of the
at the banquet served in the College
auditorium at 12:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. May 25, and
the banqueters enjoyed an excellent address by one of their
members, John Bakeless, editor of the Living Age, and were
State Teachers’ College
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heartily greeted
by
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the College.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni, presided and the
under the direction of H.
College orchestra,
F.
Fenstemaker,
furnished a program of music during the serving of the dinner.
Mr. Albert,
in
introducing Dr. Haas,
said that
looking
in
over the records of the association for the past eight years
it
was
found that the number of graduates returning during the past
two years numbered many more than in preceding years. He
declared that the warm reception given them by Dr. Haas and
the school authorities was what he believed to be the reason for
the steadily mounting attendance.
Dr. Haas welcomed the
graduates, expressed the hope that they would enjoy themselves
and extended a hearty invitation for them to return.
Just at the close of the meeting, the entire assemblage rose
in tribute to Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., a
for
many
ed a prominent part
uates,
member
many
of
in
whom
work
1
grad-
were among the Alumni present.
rise,
paid a
867,
has play-
Mr.
fitting tribute
of Dr. Waller.
Mr. Bakeless,
tion of the
man who
building the lives of hundreds of
Albert, in calling for the assemblarge to
to the
of the class of
years principal of the school, and a
in
a fine address which held the closest atten-
gathering,
told of the
powerful influence that the
United States had at the present time and declared that whether
that
power was wisely used depended
to a large extent
upon the
teachers of the nation.
Mr. Bakeless said:
claim; but
I
think
I
may
“It
may be
egotistical to
make
the
assert with reasonable confidence that
—
have been a part of the Normal School or the Teachers’ Colwe must now call it at least as long as any one in this
For eleven years I
room, except the veterans of the faculty.
was part of the body, entering the model school in the second
grade in 1902 and finishing at last in 1913.
I have never yet
been quite clear whether the faculty felt that after eleven years
there was nothing left to do for me, or whether they adopted the
I
lege, as
—
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more
ed
was about
cynical view that eleven years
stand.
At any
rate, the school
and
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all
they could
parted company
—
or seem-
to.
whether any one can ever quite part
Not all of you,
with his school.
probably, entered the school, as it was then, at so early an age
And
as seven.
But we all came here in our formative years.
no influence, exerted in youth when the strongest character is
still pliable and forming can hope ever in the future to throw off
that influence.
Of course, we don’t hope to throw it off. We
don’t even throw it off.
We want to keep it. For the influence
to use an old,
of old Normal
if you will permit an old-timer
familiar name
is one of the best influences any of us can ever
hope to have in our lives.
“For
I
seriously doubt
company with
his college or
—
—
“Of course, any school can claim
to exercise
some such
in-
Every school can
make the claim because, by and by, every school does just that.
But no educational institution can make quite so large a claim to
exerting a wide-spread influence, as one that specializes in the
training of teachers.
A teachers’ college might be described as
a kind of intellectual grandfather.
It is accomplishing a double
task.
It is exerting an influence
on its generation not only
through its own alumni, but through the teaching that those
alumni are themselves doing.
fluence over the future lives of
“I
remember
what
plexity as to
its
alumni.
several years ago
future course
I
when
I
was
in
some per-
should pursue, going for ad-
vice to Dr. Talcott Williams, formerly editor of the Philadelphia
Press, later the
first
director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism.
“
‘Well,’ said he, ‘you
must choose between two courses.
You must decide what kind of influence you want to exert. Do
you want to exert an influence over your own time and your own
generation?
Or do you want to exert an influence over the generation that
is
to come.’
“In the mind of this veteran journalist, the two were not to
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be combined.
But it is by no means certain that he was right,
even so far as individuals are concerned.
And certainly he was
not right as far as institutions are concerned.
obviously exercising influence over
fluences
the
its
“Now what
Surely
is
it
We
civilization.
ought to be, here
since
it
it
in
in-
influences
indirectly through them.
the influence that
is
of ours to exert?
vilization
For a school
time,
students directly, and equally obviously
coming generation
American
own
its
we may
expect
this college
ought to be a formative influence in
are not yet so great a country as we
There is no denying that our cicrude and unfinished and raw.
We have yet to proAmerica.
in
duce a distinctively American culture.
So far we are borrowers and merely imitative borrowers from Europe.
There is, to
be sure, nothing disgraceful in being borrowers of another people’s culture.
All races everywhere have always borrowed.
But they have also added something of their own to what they
have borrowed, and that is what we here in America have yet
to do.
“Moreover, we are living in an age which faces tremendous
problems, and it is our nation which exercises the greatest power
We have come a long distance in this
in the modern world.
At the turn of the century we
country in the last thirty years.
were still a small and relatively unimportant power. Today we
are the greatest single influence in the
to
determine the use that
Surely
we
are to
ourselves, as citizens.
mestic policy
we
we
is
weak
If
America’s foreign
or unworthy, then
For
are to blame.
modern world. Who is
of this power of ours ?
make
it
we
or do-
are unworthy and
has been well said
that ‘the
trouble
If
with representative government is that it does represent.’
America has not wholly lived up to her opportunities, then we
are to blame.
“And
is
there a
next generation.
remedy?
And
Yes,
it
the training of the next generation
the hands of the teachers of the country.
carefully trained to
the training of the
lies in
honest and
We
impartial
is
in
need clear minds,
scientific
thinking.
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That
is
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the greatest gift that our schools can give to the nation
And
or to the world.
training institutions.
it
is
peculiarly the
And we,
as alumni,
work
of
the
teacher
have special duty
to
The work of the school is properly under the direcBut we have a share
tion of its administration and its faculty.
The
in it as well.
For it is our college and we are its alumni.
college has a right to expect our loyalty and our practical cooperation in every way, and I know that it is sure to find it in the
perform.
future as
it
always has
in the past.”
IVY DAY
PROGRAM
While thunder rumbled far away and lightning flashes were
reduced by distance to a mere dull glow. Seniors of the Teachers’
Ivy Day program in
commencement features.
College presented their annual
grove, the most picturesque of the
the
“Robin Hood” was the presentation this year, and in setting
and costume the presentation lacked nothing. The program
came after the planting of the ivy and the Ivy Day oration by
Miss Charlotte Lord,
base of the
new
fire
An audience
this part of the exercises being given at the
tower on the south side of Carver Hall.
of several hundred witnessed the presentation,
braving the premature dusk and distant rumble heralding the ap-
proach of storm, to say nothing of the splattering rain drops that
fell during the last half of the program.
The march from Carver
Hall to the grove was an impresscap and gown clad members of the
Senior Class entered the grove to form a semi circle on the
ground in front of the crowd of other spectators who filled the
ive sight as the scores of
bleachers to overflowing.
At the head of the procession were a dozen or more of the
girls
of the class, clad in white, carrying the ivy chain.
Some
of the spectators
were driven out when the
rain be-
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gan to pelt the crowd as the program was half concluded, but
most of the audience remained to the end.
Miss Alice Pennington was in the role of Robin Hood, Miss
John and Miss Florence Fest in the role
All were in costume as were the other participants.
As Robin Hood and his men made merry in Sherwood forest there were enacted a half dozen episodes. These
opened with Robin Hood meeting Little John and Maid Marian
coming to the forest.
Isabel Chelosky as Little
of Maid Marian.
The second scene was
at
Nottingham
with dances by
fair,
the villagers in their vari-colored costumes that stood out against
the green background of the grove.
Robin Hood’s victory
in the
The archery contest with
shooting match followed.
The program concluded with Robin Hood and Marian planning their wedding and the
visit
of King Richard in disguise to
the forest to grant a pardon to Robin Hood.
Miss
Anna Taby was
in the role of
King Richard.
tendants were Misses Sarah Pierce and Agnes Bieler.
Her
at-
Miss Flor-
ence Jones was the nurse, and Robin Hood’s men were Misses
Helen Seely, Mary Becker and Verna Valence, with Miss Mary
Carr as the sheriff, and Miss Rachel Pratt as Ellen.
In charge of the production
were Miss
McCammon and
Miss Johnston, of the College faculty.
CLASS NIGHT
The lighter side of College life, trivial happenings of today
become the cherished memories of tomorrow, formed the
basis of the Class Night program of the Class of 929 which was
that
1
given before a large audience in the College auditorium Tues-
day evening. May 28.
the
Built around a “Misrepresentation of Assembly Exercises”
program was a delightful and amusing cross section of the
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good times of school days
class
when
the
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ended for the majority of the
that
exercises brought another Col-
Commencement
lege year to a close.
The program was climaxed by the presentation of the meform of a check, which was in addition to the proof framing pictures that now adorn college walls and which
morial, in the
ject
will for
years perpetuate the
name
of the Class of
1
929.
The presentation was made by Theodore Davis,
of Nanti-
coke, and accepted on behalf of the institution by Prof. W. B.
Mr. Sutliff, in accepting the gift
Sutliff, dean of instruction.
and that each
form of a
memorial.
Mr. Sutliff spoke of the many memorials that had
been left in the past and of the part that they have played in
The probinding closer together the school and its graduates.
Song.
gram was concluded with the singing of the Class
said each year a large group leaves the institution
class leaves
some evidence
of
its
College
life in
the
opening the program Mr. Davis presided at the “chapel
There was no responsive reading because “every
one had been too busy during the past two weeks.”
There was
no singing because the “books could not be found.”
There
were no faculty members to make reports, class members exIn
exercises.”
plaining that the faculty
ground by the
came a complaint
every
Waller Hall
graduating
into
class.
of the conduct of the locker
shift:ng of the scenes to
realistic in
was probably forced
brilliance of the
room
back-
the
And
then
and a
the “locker room,” a sketch that was
girls
detail.
girls
followed with a dramatization of
life
and then students who had done their practice teaching
wick gave a glimpse of student life there.
in
there
Ber-
George “Ex” Mathews, president of the Student Council,
and a group of Seniors then provided a training school scene that
was anything but realistic but certainly provided a lot of laughs.
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16
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
An
audience of relatives and friends of the class that
filled
the auditorium enjoyed the impressive exercises that brought to
a close another College
Commencement and sent
300 qualified teachers.
out into
the
great field of service almost
Of the class, one of the largest in the history of the institu23 received degrees in bachelor of science of education, 22
of them earning the degrees in Junior High School work and one
tion,
obtaining a degree in the elementary
field.
The class, in black gowns and caps, entered the auditorium
from the rear as Alexander’s orchestra played the processional.
Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., for years principal of the College and
intimately concerned with the progress of the institution throughout his
life,
offered the invocation.
Seated on the platform for the exercises were those who
in the program, members of the Board of Trustees and
took part
the
members
of the faculty.
the faculty were
in
Participants in the
program and
the class procession, following the officers of
the class.
The Commencement Address was given by
Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of Education
New
York.
Introduced by Dr. Haas as the
friend, teacher
and
inspiration. Dr.
Graves
Dr.
Frank
of the State
of
man who was
his
in
opening
his
ad-
dress spoke of the principal of the local institution as one of the
leaders in the educational system of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Graves also paid tribute to Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,
who
retired at the close of the College year after years of invaluable
service
and
to Dr. D. J. Waller
one of the founders of the
He spoke
and
to the latter’s father,
who was
institution.
of the changes in the institution since its foundachanges that are those of progress, but declared that the
ideals of the founders remain unchanged.
tion,
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There is no more worthy objective than that of creating
There are many ordinary individuals who can follow
but the world must look to certain individuals for leadership to
keep the human race from stagnation.
leaders.
He spoke
and environment play in the
two factors by English and American leaders.
Dr. Graves was inclined
to accept the American theory that environment played the most
life
of the part heredity
of the individual
important
of the importance placed in these
role.
He spoke
down
;
have been handed
through training and environ-
of the contributions which
to the present generations
ment and not through heredity, and prophesied
in
the future will be largely as in the past
that the
—through
advance
the class
room.
Speaking of the part heredity plays. Dr. Graves admitted
had not been given a fair trial that as yet we do not give
the attention to human mating that we do to the breeding of the
lower animals.
He deplored the fact that hardly an effort is
being made to prevent the mating of those who are physically
and mentally unfit.
that
it
If
thought
;
knowledge were applied. Dr. Graves
would take a comparatively short time to improve the
the accumulated
it
race and raise the level of
It is
human
standards.
the popular creed that one man’s opinion
is
as
good
as
would be paid to the
If we have hope
of raising the intellectual standard we must realize that the plan
now used must be corrected and that it must be corrected
another’s.
Certainly today no attention
advice of an expert
in the
choice of mating.
through education, he declared.
He spoke
American point of view of giving educahe called attention to the limited
He spoke of the attempt now being made
of the
tional opportunities to all but
ability of
through
man.
tests to select
only those for higher education
who can
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18
take advantage of the opportunities.
Thus
the
far
tests are
crude, but he believed that they are bound to help to form
the
groundwork of the
He deplored
final solution.
the abuses of educational opportunity and de-
clared that any faculty or trustee
is
proving unworthy to a
vidual through education
trust.
is
who
If
used
He
tolerating a lazy student
power given
to the indi-
selfishly or criminally
ing could be so detrimental to the
tunities
is
the
human welfare
then noth-
as college.
closed with the plea that the class, realizing the oppor-
which had been
should go out and
theirs,
assist
in the
giving of opportunities to others.
Dr. Graves in his address to the class said that a most
worthy objective of an institution was that of turning out leaders.
He declared that through the ages there had been very little change in man but that those of today are enjoying the contributions handed down through the training and environment
of the past.
The speaker said that heredity had a less important
part in progress but deplored the fact that less attention
en to the mating of the
The point
dual as
human
giv-
race than to the lower animals.
America today
is
to give each indivi-
as the individual
is
capable of consum-
of view in
much education
was
The welfare of the race demands it and we Americans
ing.
have seen the demand and are endeavoring to supply it. Dr.
Graves pointed out, however, that all are not created alike and
that the sooner that
realized the better off
is
we
will be.
Shall
we
never learn, the speaker asked, that all Americans cannot do
everything and that there is honorable work outside of educa-
tion?
Moral qualities are bound to play an important part
in the
success of the individual, perhaps even a greater part that
stract intelligence.
each individual to do
He
his
ab-
was a challenge on the part of
utmost to remove the abuses to the
said
it
privileges of education.
After Dr. Graves delivered his address, Robert E. Clark, a
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member
19
of the College faculty, sang Tschaikowski’s
“Don Juan’s
Serenade.”
Dr. Haas then
made
the awards of the certificates
plomas, each graduate standing as his or her
Prof.
W.
B. Sutliff,
dean of
instruction, presented the
successful candidates to Dr. Haas.
letic
and
name was
The presentation
lists
di-
read.
of the
of the ath-
awards was then made.
As the names of those receiving degrees were
called,
the
students went to the platform and received their diplomas, each
being personally congratulated by Dr. Haas.
Miss Genevieve Meixell, of Espy, secured her degree in the
Those who secured them in the Junior High
were: Lawrence H. Creasy, Catawissa; Ralph W.
Davies, Theodore S. Davis, Nanticoke; Florence J. Fest, Jack B.
Fortner, Bloomsburg; Mark I. Fowler, Espy; Cora Frank, Mahanoy City; Bernard Gallager, Parsons; Ray J. Haring, Nescopeck; Martha A. Laird, Mary A. Laird, Hughesville; Miriam R.
Lawson, Bloomsburg; George A. Mathews, Sugar Notch; Charlotte Mears, Bloomsburg; Marjorie A. Orr, Shickshinny; Alice B.
Pennington, Millville; Mildred J. Rehm, Bloomsburg; Charles
H. Surfield, Shenandoah; Ruth E. Titman, Bloomsburg; Theodore Vital, Glen Lyon; Kenneth E. Yocum, and Minnie Melick,
Bloomsburg.
elementary
School
field.
field
In his parting
claring that
whether
it
rests
his life
is
words
to the class Dr.
Haas spoke
briefly de-
with each one as he goes from the institution
to
be one of enslavement or freedom and ex-
pressed the hope that each one had secured that which would
enable him to secure freedom.
At the exercises the institution continued a custom inauguryear and which promises to be a feature at Commencements in the future, that of presenting to each man of the graduating class who earned letters in varsity athletics a gold key and
ated
last
a certificate.
Those who received the awards were
George Mathews,
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Wilbur J. Fisher, W. Archibald Reese, Robert Davis and Henry
Morgan.
The assemblage stood
for the singing of
Alma Mater and
the audience remained standing while the class left the auditor-
ium
for the last time in their College careers.
Alexander’s or-
chestra played the recessional.
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ATHLETICS
The Spring season has been successful in sport activities at
The inter-collegiate sports have been baseball,
track and field, and tennis.
There has been also a splendid program for girls of which we shall speak later.
the College.
The baseball team won five of its eight games. The vicwere as follows: Wyoming Seminary (2), East Stroudsburg ( ) Kutztown ( ) Mansfield ( )
Defeats Shippensburg (2), Mansfield (1 ). The team reached its greatest heights
on Alumni Day. Those who saw the game were delighted to
see the splendid performance of a good team.
tories
1
,
Track
1
,
activities started
val sponsored
1
.
on February 20
:
at a
Relay Carni-
by the Scranton Technical High School.
Allen-
.
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town Prep., Bloomsburg and Keystone Academy were classed to
run in competition and finished in the order named.
The College sponsored a triangular track and field meet on May
Shippensburg, East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg had an inter1
esting
Price,
with an
Shippensburg,
day.
won
the meet.
burg’s third place was brightened
ance of Rinker, a Freshman,
May
run.
in
Blooms-
somewhat by the perform-
winning
place in
first
the mile
and Field Meet for
18th, the Eastern District Track
Normal Schools and State Teachers’ Colleges
Bloomsburg took fourth
the eight
area was held at Shippensburg.
The
times.
in the
place.
team met Mansfield twice and took defeat both
was the only inter-school competition scheduled.
tennis
This
The
named
outstanding star
East Stroudsburg was second.
1
program
based on a point system
and chevrons.
Keen
interest in shown in achievement in the wide variety of activities
offered for credit.
To win numerals, 300 points must be earnAbout 150 girls met the requirements. Nearly 125 more
ed.
won the coveted “B” by scoring 600 points. Thirty secured
One four year student, Dorothy
chevrons with 900 points.
Foote, a Senior, has to her credit 3 chevrons with a grand total
of 500 points earned during her four year course.
girls’
reward
for
in the
way
in the
school
is
of numerals, letters
1
To
all
men
who have earned
recognition is made
graduates
ing their course, suitable
varsity “B’s” durin the
ment program by the presentation of Athletic
gold keys.
Five Seniors received
Commence-
Certificates
these
rewards
Alumni
interest
the
at
and
last
Commencement.
We
in
sign off
now
until Fall.
is
welcomed
keeping our athletic standards worthy of Bloomsburg.
E. H.
NELSON,
’ll.
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NEV/S OF
We
ALUF/INI
acknowledge with thanks the receipt of many
Owing
ing personal items.
print
THE
23
them
all in this issue,
to lack of space,
but will print them
It is
now
not too early to begin
should begin
now
to
make
interest-
are unable to
in later issues.
^
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reunion the greatest ever.
we
to plan to
Officers of
make
the
following
the
1
930
classes
1870, 1875, 1880,
preparations:
1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925,
staff will be glad to furnish lists of
Please note the action taken regarding
1885, 1890, 1895, 1900,
1928.
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names and addresses.
the Bakeless Art Fund, mention of which
Remember
this issue.
the date
:
is
made elsewhere
Alumni Day, May 24,
1
in
930.
1876
Quietly at the
Judge Charles
C.
home
of the bride’s sister October 24,
Evans, of the Columbia-Montour
Mrs. Elizabeth Milnes Mears, of West Second
were united
in
928,
and
Berwick,
1
district,
Street,
marriage.
Only the immediate families of the prominent couple witnessed the ceremony, which was performed at
the
home
2:30
o’clock at
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. White in Briar Creek.
hom.e was beautifully decorated with a profusion
chrysanthemums, yellow roses and
The
of yellow
ferns.
Rev. Joseph C. Stuart, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Berwick, performed the ring ceremony as the couple
met before a bank of flowers, the bride being given in marriage
by her brother, John Milnes, of Kenwood, N.
orchid chiffon velvet and carried violets and
Y.
The bride wore
orchids.
There were no attendants at the ceremony and following a
wedding dinner the couple departed on a honeymoon to a number of
cities in the East.
The bride
is
one of Berwick’s most highly esteemed
women
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and the many friends of the couple
will join in
extending hear-
congratulations.
tiest
Mrs. Evans has been
coming
sided.
a resident of Berwick since 1922,
Berwick from Scranton, where she had formerly reShe is, however, a native of Espy.
Since coming to
to
Berwick she has been particularly active in the Women’s Department of the Y. M. C. A. and the work of the Girl Reserves and
for several years has been an officer of the Advisory Board of
the women’s department, a position that drew her into active service in the growing work of that organization.
During the past
year she has been president of the Council Cup Chapter of the
Delphian Society.
Guests at the wedding were
:
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Milnes, Mr.
and Mrs. John Milnes, Kenwood, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Ives, of Clark Summit; Robert Mears, of New York City; Miss
Marion Mears, of Franklin; Mr. and Mrs. Clark Evans of New
York City; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Evans and son Charles, Miss
Elizabeth Milnes and Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. White.
;
1879
There were
who
six of the Class of
returned for their
fiftieth
22 which graduated
year reunion and
bers of the class have taught a total of
had a
fine
624
all
in
of the
years.
1879
mem-
This class
time throughout the day telling of their work during
the half century since graduating and also telling of absent class-
mates.
1882
Stricken suddenly with heart disease at Nutley, N.
her daughter
is
a teacher, Mrs. L. P.
Sterner,
J.,
where
one of Blooms-
known and most prominent women, died at 5:30
Monday morning, June 4, after a few minutes’ illness.
burg’s best
o’clock
Prof. Sterner
was
visiting his son. Dr.
delphia, at the time,
the 3
Robert Sterner,
in Phila-
and was overcome with shock.
The body of Mrs. Sterner was brought to Bloomsburg on
50 D. L. & W. train and was removed to the family home
:
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on Third
relatives,
25
where funeral services, which were private for
was held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon, June 7. Rev.
Street,
A. Marker, of the Presbyterian Church, officiated.
S.
Mrs. Sterner
ed
was one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteem-
women and had
long resided in Bloomsburg.
About two weeks before Mrs.
sudden death. Prof,
and Mrs. Sterner left for Philadelphia to visit their son. Dr. Robert Sterner.
Mrs. Sterner had gone to Nutley to spend the weekHer daughend with her daughter and was stricken suddenly.
ter and her son, James, were at her bedside when the end came.
Prof. Sterner and Robert were immediately notified and went to
Nutley at once.
adelphia, but
it
Sterner’s
The body of Mrs. Sterner was removed to Philwas impossible to continue the journey to
Bloomsburg because of Prof. Sterner’s condition.
Mrs. Sterner
last
Spring underwent a very serious operation
for the removal of a goitre at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia.
Her condition then was such that she was a patient at
weeks before it was doomed wise to opHer condition since had shown an improvement and she
the hospital for several
erate.
has
made
a satisfactory recovery.
Mrs. Sterner was a descendant of Robert Fulton, inventor
of the steamboat,
New York upon
and some years ago was an honored guest
in
the occasion of the celebration of the invention
of the steamboat.
Her maiden name was Miss Nora Finney, and she was for
of years a very successful and much loved teacher in
it was while she was a teacher
the Bloomsburg High School,
and Prof. Sterner the principal that their marriage took place.
a
number
Mrs. Sterner
fall
after
is
survived by her husband,
a long period of
service
as
who
retired last
superintendent of the
Bloomsburg schools and three children: Dr. Robert, of PhilaJ., and James, a student at
delphia; Miss Alice, of Nutley, N.
Harvard.
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Mrs. Sterner had expected to go from Nutley to
City with Prof.
University,
New York
commencement at Columbia
daughter was to receive a degree.
Sterner for the
where
their
Mrs. Sterner was active in the W. C. T. U., the Fort McClure
Chapter of the D. A. R., the Century Club and the Presbyterian
Church.
1883
passed away at the hospital at 5 20 A. M.
October 29, 928, after having been in a very critical condition
and at the point of death for the two days.
Ira C. Dietterick
:
1
Suffering for weeks with a stomach ailment, he underwent
an x-ray examination that revealed ulcers that necessitated a serious operation.
It was performed and a condition developed
which gave few hopes for his recovery.
Mr. Dietterick was born in Berwick on December 3, 1863,
and was accordingly aged sixty-four years, seven months and
twenty-six days.
His early life was spent in Berwick where he
served an apprenticeship in the Reagan Drug Store and became
He went to Nebraska to locate and
a registered pharmacist.
established a drug store at Crawford that he conducted for many
years.
Some twenty-five years ago he returned to Berwick and
his home with Dr. G. L. Reagan, and Mrs. Reagan, his sisHe
ter, and was employed at Clewell and Currin’s Drug Store.
the
Mocanaqua
Store
of
Drug
was for several years in charge of
S. J. Bannan, of Shickshinny, and returned to Berwick when the
store was sold.
He has since been employed with local drug
A man with a never
stores and at the Berwick Store Company.
failing disposition of friendliness and cheerfulness, he was a man
He was a member of Christ Episcopal
with many warm friends.
made
Church and of Berwick Tent, Knights of the Maccabees.
There are surviving two children, Elwell, of Scranton and
New York City. Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt,
Mrs. Harriet Catasus, of
of Berwick,
is
a niece.
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1884
There were four members of the Class of 1884 present at
and they had an excellent time during the day.
Charles Kennedy, of Hazleton, who
The members were
taught until 1919; Miss S. Ella Young, of Millville; Mrs. John
C. Scanlon, of Laurytown, and Miss Mae Sharpless, of Bloomsthe reunion
:
burg.
1885
Miss
Anne Fox, a
successful
teacher
in
the
schools
of
Bloomsburg for 41 years and one of the town’s most esteemed
women, who retired at the close of the present school year, was
guest of honor at a banquet Monday evening. May 13, at the
Elks’ Club of the teachers of the Bloomsburg public schools, a
group which has in it six of Miss Fox’s former pupils.
During the evening Miss Fox was presented with a handsome wrist watch by the teachers, the presentation being made
by Superintendent W. W. Raker. An excellent chicken dinner
was served.
1889
The
Class of
1
889 had one
of the best records of attend-
Of a class of 59, of whom
were 25 back for a delightful re-
ance of any of the classes in reunion.
only 43 are
now
living, there
union.
Among
James
the
members
P. Grimes, Mrs.
of the class attending were:
Mrs.
Fannie E. Tressler, Mrs. A. B. Longshore,
Malena Gabbert, Mrs. Frank
Benjamin Apple, Mrs. John W. Kirkley.
R. D. Renn, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Irvin,
B.
1892
Caroline H. Black
ville.
is
Principal of the schools at
Newport-
Pa.
^
Word reached Columbia County
New York
death at the Clifton Springs,
ner, ^on of Mrs. S. J. Conner, of
relatives
May
3
1
of
the
sanitarium of Pierce Con-
Willow Springs, and a prominent
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28
figure in the business life of Trenton,
New
Jersey,
where he has
resided for the last twenty-five years.
Before going to Trenton Mr. Conner was a foreman
&
American Car
Foundry Company plant
in the
Upon
at Berwick.
going to Trenton he associated himself with
his
brother
in
the
Conner mil! enterprise of that city.
He becam.e a bank director, was interested in a large department store in Trenton and
had varied other interests there.
Mr. Conner was the son of the late Samuel
He was
Elmira Conner.
J.
Conner and
a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School and married Miss Letta Schnerr, of Hobbie.
They have two sons and a daughter, Maurice F. Conner, Scott
Conner, of Trenton and Mrs. Archibald Updike, of Sebring, Fla.
He was associated with his two brothers, John G. Conner
and Stanley J. Conner, in the Conner Millwork Co., of Trenton,
N. J.
He was a director of the Prospect National Bank, a Past
Master of Trenton Lodge No. 5, F. & A. Fd. and an elder of the
Bethany Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
He
is
survived
mother, Mrs.
addition to his wife and children by
in
Conner, of Willow Springs; his
S. J.
Charles M. Petty, of Madera, Cal.
of East Orange, N.
J.
;
Conner, Madera,
Cal.,
his
Mrs.
Mrs. George A. Whittemore,
;
Miss Martha Conner, of Pittsburgh and
brothers John G. Conner and Stanley
S.
sisters,
and Ray
S.
J.
Conner, of Trenton;
W.
Conner, Schenectady.
1894
Members
of the Class of
1894 from
all
parts of the State
gathered at their Alma Mater to spend a day they
will
remember
the rest of their lives.
Among
those back for the reunion were Mrs. F. C. Stehie,
Towanda; Mrs. Hannah
Dalton, Shenandoah;
Margaret W. Palmer, Shenandoah; Mary G. Monaghan, Shenandoah; Mrs. Teressa G. CosSarah J.
tello, Hazleton; Mrs. Catherine Albertson, Sunbury;
Miss Bertha Espy,
Mrs. Oscar C. Kunze, Newark, N.
J.
;
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Catherine Hardcastle Albertson, Sunbury;
Hughes, Scranton;
Mary
C. Rassier
29
and Mrs. Hannah Dalton, Elizabeth
Shen-
Beilis,
andoah; Mrs. Mary Frimire Kick.
* ^ * V
William Buckwalter
ton, Pa.
His address
is
employed
is
622 North
^
Nellie
ham
Coffman (Mrs.
Street, Carlisle, Pa.
in the
Post Office at Scran-
Lincoln Avenue.
If-
C. H.
She
is
McDermott),
lives at
235 Gra-
teaching in the Carlisle public
Her daughter, Sara, is teaching in the High School at
Gloucester, N. J.
Another daughter, Mary, is a member of the
Her son, William,
faculty of the High School at Ardmore, Pa.
schools.
a graduate of Dickinson College in the
Class of
1928,
is
now
studying at Johns Hopkins University.
V-
H-
Bessie G. Lynch (Mrs.
James
Street, Kingston, Pa.
Edith M. Nesbit
is
John A. Redington),
She has five children.
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living
lives at
73
on a farm near Milton, Pa.
1899
About one-fifth of the members of the Class of 899 were
back for an enjoyed reunion and they entered into the spirit of
the day along with the youngest members of the association in
1
reunion.
Among
Scott, Mrs.
those at the reunion were:
Emma
Mrs. Lillian
Hidlay
Severann, Mrs. Mabel Heist Clayberger, Mrs.
Richard Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Fortner, Mrs. Carrie Flick
Redline and Henry Clayberger.
1904
There were 22 members of the Class of
The
1
904 back
for the
numbered 121. Most of those
in reunion arrived early in the morning and exchanged experiences and news of other members in the morning and following
25 th year reunion.
class
the banquet in the afternoon.
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30
1908
Flora M. Miller (Mrs. C. E. Anderson) lives in Camden, N.
J.,
is
where her husband is in the hardware
129 South 27th Street.
* V ^
business.
Her address
^(1
William Rarich
N.
J.
Mr. Rarich
is
lives at
250 Wyoming Avenue, Audubon,
Treasurer of Harris
J. Latta, Inc.,
of Phila-
delphia.
¥ ¥
Mrs.
Bank
Anna M.
*
Shiffer Peters
is
Her home
of Wilkes-Barre.
a stenographer in the Miners
is
Hudson, Pa.
in
1909
There were 23 members of the Class of
1
909 back
after
years and they had some enjoyed experiences to relate.
those at the College were:
Bess
Hinckley,
20
Among
Geraldine
Hess
Follmer, Kate Seesholtz Morris, Irma L. Heller Abbott, Carrie E.
VanCampen, Rebecca Stroh Williams, Mary F. Bevan, Gertrude
Hobbes Pooley, Julia Simpler Aurand, L. T. Heran, Dr. John W.
Grassier, A. L.
Rummer;
Dr. Scott Fisher, Syracuse, N. Y.
;
Lydia
J. Mahoney, Kathleen Major Brown, Elizabeth Fagan, Mary Edwards Shuman; Joseph E. Pooley, Madison, N. J,;
S. A. Shuman; J. E. Klingerman, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Gilgallon
Rockefeller, West Pittston; Gertrude M. Menuley, Peckville;
Mrs. D. J. Mahoning.
Williams, D.
V-
Bess Hinckley,
a former
>{
member
of the
faculty,
is
now
Personnel Welfare Worker and Librarian at the Danville State
Hospital.
^
Samuel J. Steiner is head of the Spanish Department in
Temple University, Philadelphia. His address is Box 205, Tem-
ple University.
* * ¥
Dr. Scott R. Fisher
tal,
Syracuse, N. Y.
cuse.
is
surgeon at the Crouse-Irving Hospi-
His address
is
5
1
1
Keith Building, Syra-
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31
1910
Reay W. Milnes
Oneida Community,
is
Assistant General
Works Manager
of the
Ltd., at Oneida, N. Y.
* ¥ ¥
John Skweir
is
practicing law in
McAdoo,
Edith C. Corse (Mrs. R. C. Tringley),
is
Pa.
teaching in the Vo-
cational High School at Harford, Pa.
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>(
v-
Grace A. Gillner (Mrs. Fred W. Zane), lives in Sterling,
Pa.
She writes that her time is very much occupied in taking
care of her twins (age and sex of same not stated).
¥ ¥ ¥ ¥
Helen
E. Trescott (Mrs.
Lee A. Perry),
lives in
New Lyme,
Ohio.
Julia G. Brill
at the
is
1
is
Assistant Professor of English Composition
Pennsylvania State College.
Her address
in
State College
28 East Nittany Avenue.
1914
There were 20 members of the Class of 1914 back for the
reunion and although no men in the class were back the women
had a great time. Those attending were Cora Severance Pinnock, Forty Fort; Pearl Hughes Gunther, Bloomsburg; Beulah
Fowler Thomas, St. Louis, Mo. Ethel Ravert Keck, Berwick;
Leah Bogart Lawton, Millville; Flora Fritz Henderson, Benton;
Sabilla Schobert Campbell, Kathryn Merle Erdman, Washington,
D. C. Vera Colvin Gorham, Clark’s Summit; Pauline F. Fennelly, Frackville; Martha F. Rosenstock, Ruth Hidlay, Bloomsburg;
Hester Eisenhauer Kerst, Lancaster; Oliver Miller Cook, Sunbury; Margaret Foust Beaver, Danville; Stella Buckley, Bessie
Winter, Nanticoke; Adelia Fagan, Hazleton; Susan Jennings
Sturman, Tunkhannock; Irene Fulmer; Pauline Lloyd, William:
;
;
sport.
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32
Flora L. Fritz and
Bellefonte, Pa., July
1
Edward
7,
B.
Henderson were married
at
1928, by Rev. Thompson, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Henderson has for several years
been teaching Music, English and Dramatics at the Benton Consolidated School.
After June 0 she will make her home in
1
Indiana, Pa.
1919
The
had one of the
There were 55 members back.
Class of 1919, in tenth year reunion,
best turn-outs of the day.
Those attending were:
Martha
Hagemeyer, Scranton;
Anne Cummings Loftus, Moosic; Meta Kistler, Hazleton; Veronica Kennedy Muldowney, Claire E. Keating, Philadelphia Mary
H. Flynn, Centraha; Mary Durkin Ryan, Alma L. Bachman,
Wilkes-Barre Grace B. McCoy, Lewistown Mary Grover Powell, Mildred E. Stover, Anna M. Conboy, Scranton; R. U. Nyhart,
Wyoming; Margaret J. Dyer, Scranton, Marie Colt Reece, Mill;
;
;
ville;
Elizabeth Muir Stelle, Shamokin; Falla Linville Shuman,
Catawissa; Mildred E. Grifhth, Kingston; Mollie Jeremiah, Mildred E. Evans, Shamokin; Mrs. C. L. Heist, Berwick; Mabel G.
Beck, Factoryville; Lillian C. Fisher, Mt. Carmel; Miss Marion
Carmel; Mrs.
Laura Breisch, Ringtown Helen MeixRhoda Crouse, Berwick Dari Heeler Mathell, Berwick, R. D.
Stillwater; Margaret
er, Benton; Mary Harrington McHenry,
Heiss Vastine, Mifflinville Helen Howell Fieury, Espy; Olive M.
Burns, Oneida; Elizabeth E. Fessler, Shamokin; Marjorie A.
Crook, Minersville; Marian Troutman, Shamokin; Ruth Doyle
Agnes ShuMoore, Bayonne, N. J. Edwina Evans, Scranton
man Eves, Almedia; Ruth Maust Drumm, Bloomsburg; Marie
Ouikavan Turnbach, Hazleton; Arthur E. Hoffman, Newport;
Mary Williams Breisch, Ringtown Mary Diemer Myers, Bloomsburg; Bertha V. Baker, Espy; Anna Cole Stevens, Harrisburg;
Mary Belefski, Glen Lyon; Bee Evans Woolcock, Shamokin;
Irene Cabo, Wilkes-Barre.
C. Kilcoyne, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. S. Wilkinson, Mt.
Stanley Davis, Berwick
;
;
;
;
;
;
;
;
¥ ^
A
daughter was born Monday, April 22, to Mr. and Mrs.
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Clair Monroe, of Bloomsburg.
Agnes Smith.
Mrs.
33
Monroe was formerly Mary
1920
(Mrs. William 0. Seitzinger, Jr.), lives
City, where her husband is proprietor of a drug store.
Rachel
in
Tower
E. Patrick
1923
Anna W.
New York
Pursel
is
now
located at
49 West Ninth
Street,
City.
1924
The
which ever
from
institution,
reported
47
of
members
graduated
the
its
back for the fifth year reunion and they had a great time. A
telegram of greeting was received from Mary Crum.
Class of 1924, one of the largest classes
1
Among
those attending
were:
Mary Amesbury, Ruth
Jones; Sara E. Smull, Danville; Eva Watters, Mifflinville
ty E. Smoczynski, Catawissa
;
Mary Dowd
;
Het-
Deiterich, Harold Mil-
Bloomsburg Adda M. LizLake Silkworth; Emily Linskill Roberts, Fanwood, N. J.;
Margaret Smith Morris, Forty Fort; Ruth Morris, Luzerne; Frances Morris Williams, Edwardsville
Ruth D. Jenkins, Taylor;
Rose Connor, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Gribben, Dunmore; Mary
Wilkes-Barre;
Lois
Remley, Bloomsburg;
Riley,
Matilda
Mensch, Bloomsburg! Christine Gable, Tower City; Helen Barrow, Sunbury Gertrude M. Roberts, Nanticoke Leona E. MailEdith
ler,
W.
Ent, Christine Holmes,
;
das.
;
;
;
ey, Kingston; Lucille Groff, Wilkes-Barre;
Mary
Barret,
Wood-
Theresa Lyons, Wilkes-Barre; Margaret Berlew,
Kingston; Lydia A. Pollock, Mildred Ridgley, Anna Singleman
Barnes, West Pittston; Sarah Dymond Whitlock, Wyoming; Marridge, N. J.
;
garet B. Mensch, Millheim;
sie
A. Singer, Williamsport
;
Maude
R. Stover, Rebersburg; Bes-
Esther M.
Sitler,
Berwick
;
Elizabeth
Corrigan, Hazleton; Cathrine F. Fear, West Pittston; Ruth Win-
Nanticoke; Ruth
Tempest, Marion K. Andrews,
Bloomsburg; Arminta Howell
Jones, Alice Williams Keller, Aletha Bullock Allan, Beulah Deming, Arlene Johnston, Helen Leuthalt, Mildred Heiss, Elizabeth
ter Pratt,
Philadelphia; Mrs.
Ted
L.
P. Smith,
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Drumm
Emmitt,
Ruth Dunly, Consuelo
Fenstermaker,
Anna
Wright, Katherine Ball, Edith Brace, Aldona Baldowski, Kathryn Deckant, Miriam R.
Lawson, Viola M. Kline, Kathryn C.
Wanamie; Helen Krolikowski,
Helen Novak, Martha Stapinsky, Emma Burkett, Glen Lyon;
Grace Kleckner, Hazleton; Grace Woodring, St. Johns; Mildred
Houser, Eckley; Ella J. Aurand, Globe Mills; Elizabeth J. Mathias, Sorthumberland
Ruth Reynolds Stevenson, Factoryville;
Arlene Johnson, Hallstead; Frances M. Hahn, Edith E. Brace, Aldona Baldowski, Elizabeth Koch, Mrs. Catherine Creasy, Mrs.
Catherine Huttenstine, Mifflinville Mr. and Mrs. William Mess,
Frank Buss, Harold Llewellyn, Gordon Llewellyn, James ReySchuyler, Elizabeth Kruskinski,
;
;
nolds.
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Maude
grades
in
R. Stover
is
ff-
teacher of the fourth,
Her home address
Millheim, Pa.
is
fifth
and
sixth
Rebersburg, Pa.
^ ^ ^ ^
Ruth
Reynolds (Mrs. William M. Stevenson), lives at
Her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born on
928.
E.
Factoryville, Pa.
October 3,
1
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is
Helen Novak is
219 Ridge Street.
Katherine Ball lives
!{
Her address
V-
V-
in Factoryville,
She
Pa.
is
a teacher
the Little Exeter School.
>{
Paul Burdella
is
A. Mildred Heiss lives
in Mifflin
Plymouth, Pa.
>(
!{
in Mifflinville,
She
Pa.
is
teaching
Township, Columbia County.
if.
Frances M. Hahn
the schools of
Street.
V-
if-
teaching in
if-
in
if-
teaching in Glen Lyon, Pa.
^
in
ff-
West
is
if.
ff.
if.
Art Teacher
Pittston.
in the
intermediate grades
Her address
is
1
1
2 Washington
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Doris Morse
dress
is
is
35
teaching in White Plains, N.
Y.
Her ad-
48 Park Avenue.
1925
The engagement of Miss Gladys A. Richards, well known
Bloomsburg girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Richards, of
West Street, to Willard Kleckner, popular Shickshinny young
man and son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of that place, was
announced October 22, 928, at a party held at the Hotel Ber1
wick.
Miss Richards
is
very popular
in
Bloomsburg.
She
is
a
graduate of the Hazleton High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College and
ton schools.
is
now
Mr. Kleckner
a successful teacher in the Hazle-
is
a graduate of Penn State and
is
employed in the transmission department of the Pennsylvania
Power and Light Company and
is
located at Hazleton.
1926
Miss Thalia Eleanor Kitchen, one of Catawissa’s most esteemed and popular girls, became the bride of Gilbert Smith
Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper, of Glen Lyon, in a
quiet ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Warner Kitchen, of Main Street, Catawissa, at 6:00 o’clock
Friday morning, March 29.
The ceremony was performed by Rev H.
J.
Billow, pastor
of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Catawissa, in the
presence of members of the immediate family.
Breakfast was served following the wedding and the couple then left on a
Mrs. Cooper
wedding
trip to Atlantic City.
is a graduate of the
Catawissa High School,
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
since her graduation has been a successful teacher in the Catawissa schools.
Mr. Cooper is a graduate of the Newport Township High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Class of
926, and is now art supervisor in the Coatesville public schools.
Class of 1924,
1
;
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Both were very popular while students at the College and were
prominent in College activities.
They have also attended State
College.
>{
Frances Fisher
ship,
is
teaching
if-
in the schools of Dallas
Town-
Luzerne County, Pa.
if
if
if
if
Fae Womelsdorf and Bernard Tubick, of Wilkes-Barre,
were married March 23, 1926. They are now living at 245
Centre Street, Wanamie, Pa.
if
Margaret
married March
Phillips
1
2,
1
if
if
if
and Fred Walker, of Glen Lyon, were
926.
Their address
is
now
Spring Street,
Glen Lyon.
Laura
E.
Mann
625 North Church
is
teaching in
Her address
Hazleton.
is
Street.
1927
The Class of 1927, in reunion for the first time, had 50
back and the day was one of much enjoyment for them. Among
those attending were:
Wilma Dietterick, Beatrice Renn, Berwick; Ruth Manta, Nora Tucker, Edwardsville Marion Thomas,
Bethlehem Ruth Oswald, Hattie Everett, Mahanoy City Adella
Chapley, Shenandoah; Edith Sweetman, Martha Tasker, Shamokin; Mary E. Jones, Scranton; Hilda Ruggles, Hunlock Creek,
;
;
;
Emily Goldsmith, Demunds Helen Adrews, Miriam Eves
Margaret Caswell, Camptown; Ruth Rockwell, Wyalusing Verna Medley, Pauline Vastine, Stella Murray, Scranton; Isabel
R. D.
;
;
;
O’Donnell, Ellen Smith, Ebervale;
Anna
E. Gerringer, Danville;
Mrs. Harry Lindauer, Danville; Eldora B. Robbins, Orangeville;
Myra
L.
Thomas, Bethlehem; Doris Palsgrove, Frackville; Mild-
red R. Lowry, Forest City; Esther M. Welker, Bloomsburg; Lena
VanHorn, Hershey; Blanche Fahringer, Catawissa; Irene HilHelen Shaeffer,
Jessie M. Hastie, Avoca;
Mary Ryan, Helen Penman; Marion Marshal, Kingston; Edith
Sweetman, Taylor; Helen Andrews, Slatington; Mildred F.
Adams and Dorcas M. Epler.
E.
gert, Factoryville;
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Miss Bessie
6:00
Mae
37
Leech, of Muncy, was married
May
3
1
,
at
o’clock in the morning, to Fred White Kistler, of Blooms-
burg, at the
home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Leech, on
North Washington Street, Muncy.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
J.
W.
Gentzler, pas-
presence of a few friends and
tor of the
Lutheran Church,
members
of the immediate families.
in the
Following a v/edding breakfast, they took a motor
Beaver
Pittsburgh and Uniontown.
Falls,
They
to
trip
will reside in
Wilkes-Barre.
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Muncy High School and
Nurses’ Training School at the Geisinger Hospital, Danville.
Kistler,
who
teacher
in
is
a graduate of
the Mountain
the
Mr.
Bloomsburg Normal School,
is
a
Top High School near Wilkes-Barre.
^ ^ ^ ^
Doris G. Palsgrove
dress
is
1
1
is
teaching in Frackville, Pa.
Her ad-
7 North Lehigh Avenue.
V-
Rachel
J. E.
Wolfe
is
!{
f{-
teaching
in
Lewisburg, Pa.
¥ y
Blanche Y. Fahringer
Her home
midia. Pa.
is
in
is
ff-
Edith E.
Pa.
She
is
Sweetman
teaching
in
teaching
ff-
is
High School
at
Nu-
ff-
lives at 5
1
9 West Taylor
Street, Taylor,
the Taylor public schools.
i{-
Emily Goldsmith
in the
Catawissa, Pa.
if-
teaching
ff-
if-
in Dallas, Pa.
f{-
V-
Florence M. Gamber is teacher of grades 4 and 5B at
Coxestown, Pa.
Her home address is 35 Ann Street, Duncannon.
1
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1928
Marguerite Catherine Minnich
trict office
of the
Hazleton, Pa.
'
is
a billing clerk
in
the dis-
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, at
Her address
is
322
East Broad Street.
>{
Marguerite M. Dermody
is
V-
teacher of seventh grade
Junior High School at Scranton, Pa.
She
lives at
in the
1711 Roselyn
Avenue.
^
^ ^
Mary Youtz is a substitute teacher in the Northumberland
County schools.
Her address is R. D. 4, Sunbury, Pa.
Dorothy E. McCollum
is
schools of Shamokin, Pa.
teaching in the second grade in the
Her address
is
210 North Rock
Street.
1929
Alice Pennington has been elected teacher of English and
Dramatics at the Benton Vocation School.
>(
ff-
f{-
if-
Lawrence Creasy and Margaret Orr have been elected
the faculty of the Shickshinny High School.
if-
if-
if-
to
if-
Martha Laird has been elected teacher of English and Latin
Main Township Consolidated School at Mainville, Pa.
in the
if-
if
if-
if-
Charles H. Surfield has been elected to the faculty of the
Shickshinny High School.
JUNIOR PLAY
Juniors in the four year course at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College Wednesday evening, March 27, delighted a
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large audience in the College auditorium with the presentation of
Austin Strong’s
comedy drama, “Three Wise
The members of
the cast
were
Mr.
:
Fools.”
Theodore Findley,
Clarence Ruch; Dr. Richard Gaunist, Fred Berger; Hon. James
Raymond Hodges;
Maudrue
O’Connell; Mrs. Saunders, Miss TKursabert Schuyler; Gordon
Sc’’uyler, Haven Fortner; Benjamin Suratt, Llewellyn Edmunds;
Trumbull,
Miss
Fairchild,
M:ss
John Crawshay, Armond Keller; Poole, Alex Kraynack; Gray,
Charles John; Clancy, Charles Wadas; Douglas, Elfred Jones,
and a policeman, Richard Frymire.
1929 OBITER DEDICATED TO DR. HAAS
The Obiter
1929 of the Bloomsburg State
one of the finest a graduating class of the inhas ever published, both as to content and appearance.
of the Class of
Teachers’ College
stitution
is
Handsomely bound in a leather cover, the volume of almost 350 pages is devoted entirely to the class and to College
activities and life during the period the graduating class spent on
the hill.
The cover is one of the finest creations that has ever
been placed on an Obiter.
The volume
of the College.
who was
is
dedicated to Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal
was edited by Ralph Davies, of Nanticoke,
by the following staff:
Business manager,
It
assisted
Anna Ziemba; associate
Lawrence Creasy, Miss Marguerite Keithline, Miss Muriel Jones: stenographers. Miss Margaret Bower, Miss Dorothy
Schmidt; art editor. Miss Eleanor Amos; athletic editor, RobCharles Poole; secretary to the editor,
editors,
ert Davis
calendar editor. Miss Grace Kivler assistant business
managers, Isabel Chelosky, Elizabeth L. Williams.
;
A number of
campus are in the
;
fine
photographs of the College buildings and
front of the
volume and are followed by a
«
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group picture of the faculty and individual cuts of some of the
members, including that of Miss Jessie Patterson, the class advisor.
There are individual write-ups on each member of the
class,
the write-up being under the cut of the individual.
Space
in the
volume
is
also given to the other classes, school
organization and activities.
as well as
many snap
In this department, the
work
is
ex-
Pictures of organizations and individuals
ceptionally complete.
shots
add considerable
to this
department.
One department is devoted to organizations, another to
drama and music and a third to athletics. The College calendar
is
given
in the rear of the
book.
SET DATES FOR
SUMMER
SESSION
The summer session at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ ColMonday, June 24, and will continue over a period
The dates were
of six weeks, closing on Saturday, August 3.
session
bulletin which was issued at the
announced in a summer
A catalogue for the coming College year of
College recently.
929-30 has also been issued. This catalogue is very complete
and contains a number of pictures of the school plant and school
The Fall term will open Tuesday, September 0.
organizations.
lege will open
1
1
E. H.
Some
SOTHERN RECITAL
of the greatest stage characters
were brought
to
an
appreciative audience in the College auditorium Friday evening,
April 12,
by Edward H. Sothern, one of America’s foremost
who appeared here in a recital and dramatic
stage personages,
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lecture in bringing to a close one of the finest artists’
41
and lecture
courses that the College has ever had.
Recognized as one of the leading exponents of romantic,
and Shakespearean productions and one of the greatest of Shakespearean actors, Mr. Sothern, in his recital, gave
some of the principal scenes from two of Shakespeare’s most
popular plays, “Macbeth” and the “Merchant of Venice.”
legitimate
He
“Lord Dundreary,” one of
“Cur American Cousin” and gave
poems from “If I Were King.”
also delighted with
cipal characters in
the
Because he was forced
in his recital to
the prinparts of
go from one char-
acter to another he did not appear in costume but his character
portrayals were so fine that his audience
that he
was not
One
in
soon forgot the fact
costume.
of the most enjoyed parts of his
program were
his re-
minisences and the telling of several incidents linked with the
stage career of his father and himself.
FRESHMAN HOP
gymnasium, beautifully decorated in t he
and white, the Freshman Class of the
Teachers’ College held their dance Saturday evening. May
1.
Alexander’s Orchestra furnished a fine program of music.
In the College
class colors
of purple
1
Hoops were placed under the rafters and from them were
suspended purple and white streamers.
The basketball banking boards were decorated in those colors and paper along the
walls was in an attractive design.
Paper over the windows gave
the effect of curtains.
A
occupied by the orchestra.
and were
fence was placed
around the space
The programs were very clever
tied with cord in the class colors.
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The patrons and patronesses were
er,
:
Miss Kehr, Miss Turn-
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson and
Mr. and Mrs.
S.
I.
Shortess.
SENIOR BANQUET
The Commencement program
Bloomsburg State
May 16 with the
Senior banquet held in the College dining hall and attended by
The affair proved
about 300 members of the class and guests.
to be a most delightful one.
of the
Teachers’ College opened Thursday evening.
and Prof. W.
Prof. E. H. Nelson presided
dean of
and Theodore
presided.
Dr. Haas
B. Sutliff,
instruction; Miss Jessie Patterson, class advisor,
Davis, of Nanticoke, president of the class,
the principal,
was unable
to attend
owing
to business in Harris-
burg.
Prof. E. A.
Reams
led in group singing
orchestra furnished music during the
and the North Hall
dinner later for
dancing
gymnasium.
Armond Keller and Henry Warman sang
three numbers which were well received and Miss Alma CaldThe banquet was in charge of a
well sang a beautiful solo.
committee headed by Miss Marjorie Orr, of Shickshinny.
in the
Russel McHenry, a well-known
member
of the
force, recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday.
helped
know
in the
janitorial
Mr. McHenry
construction of Carver Hall, or as most graduates
has been practically
be seen on the campus during these summer days, pushing his lawn mower and doing his
it,
the chapel building,
continuous ever since.
and
He can
his service
still
share with the rest of them.
At a dinner held
in his
honor by the members of the Church
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of Christ of Bloomsburg, Dr. Haas spoke of Mr. McHenry’s faith-
Words
fulness.
of greeting
were also spoken by N.
and Grounds; Prof.
hart. Superintendent of Buildings
kins,
former Bursar;
C.
T. EngleF. H.
Jen-
M. Hausknecht, present Business Mana-
ger and by Dr. Waller.
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS BEGUN
The Berwick Lumber and Supply Company was awarded
the general contracts for both the
new
training school building
and the new laundry building of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
Work on the buildings has been begun and both buildings are expected to be completed by late Fall of this year.
Both contracts have been approved by Dr. John A. H. Keith,
superintendent of public instruction.
The
total bid for the training school
was $105,900 and
for
the laundry building, $22,700.
C. H. Sherry, of Hazleton, at a bid of $15,01
was awarded the heating and ventilating contract for the training school
while Herre Brothers, of Harrisburg, received both plumbing
contracts, the one for the training school at a bid of $6,428 and
the one for the laundry at a bid of $2,747. A. Rockafeller Company, of Mt. Carmel, received both electric wiring contracts at
bids of $4,816 for the training school and $3,300 for the launIhe heating and ventilating contract for the laundry went
dry.
1
to the
Chambersburg Construction Company
The
total bids for the
at a bid of
$3,987.
two buildings amount to $164,889,
$132,155 and that for
the bids for the training school totaling
the laundry $32,734.
The
training school building will be erected
the south of North Hall, the men’s dormitory.
ing will be in front of the tennis courts.
back of and
to
Part of the build-
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The laundry
at the
will be erected on the land between the bank
west end of the athletic field and the beginning of the Col-
lege grove.
The
tennis courts will be
tion plan of the College,
as a
campus.
and
The new
moved, according
to the construc-
that part of the grounds will
be used
tennis courts will probably be placed
east of the training school.
The part of the grounds to the north of the new building
and back of North Hall and the old barn will be graded and a
play ground for the training school children will be provided.
It is the ultimate hope of the College to erect a junior high school
at the location of the present athletic field.
The work of the summer
ment
also includes
nineteen
improve-
which include the completion of the painting,
plastering and flooring of the dormitory and the completion reprojects,
novation of the auditorium.
SISTER OF
FORMER PRINCIPAL
DIES
Miss Mira V. Welsh, of Orangeville and one of the most
highly esteemed residents of that section of the county, died on
Tuesday morning, April 16
at the
home
of Philip L.
Drum,
Esq.,
of Kingston ,where she spent the Winter.
Miss Welsh was the daughter of Abner F. and Mary Welsh
and was born about 79 years ago at Orangeville, where she resided in the old homestead all her life excepting the last two
Winters which she spent with her niece, Mrs. Drum, of Kingston.
She was a
faithful
member
of the
Ladies’
Missionary So-
Church of Orangeville, and frequently
miles
from
her home to Orangeville to attend the
walked the two
ciety of the Presbyterian
meetings of the society.
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She leaves to survive her one brother. Dr. J. P. Welsh, of
former principal of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School.
Pleasantville, N. Y.,
Her
“I
am
life
was
filled
has to her credit the
them
many kindly deeds, her motto being
She was a very devout Presbyterian and
with
here to servve.”
training of
young men
several
—among
Dr. J. J. Ossuna of the University of Porto Rico.
MAY DAY PROGRAM
The campus
of the Teachers’ College presented a colorful
Thursday afternoon. May 23, when more than two hundred
pupils of the training school and a number of members of the
sight
College Senior Class participated in the annual
ance of the school.
The campus
All the participants
itself
has
were
May Day
in
observ-
costume.
never looked prettier and as
the
groups of dances, including a number of folk dances were given
by the youngsters of the
training school, the
many
tumess presented a constantly shifting scene of
colored cos-
brilliant colors
against the green background.
McCammon arranged and directed the presentaprogram and the accompanying music was arranged
and directed by Miss Alma Caldwell.
Miss Lucy
tion of the
Parents of
many
a considerable
Hall
were presand formed
of the training school children
ent for the exercises, which began at three o’clock
crowd about the campus.
The program was presented on the campus between Science
and the main building.
The beautiful afternoon gave opportunity for enjoyment
program to the fullest extent and there were fourteen May
of the
poles used during the program, there being one for the smallest
tots as well as others for the
ing school.
more advanced
pupils of the train-
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION
Edgar
of
1
930
E. Richards, of
in the four
Alden Station, a member of the Class
year course leading to a degree, was elected
of the Community Government Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College for the year of 1929-30,
the completion of the count from the recent election shows.
A
president
number
of county residents are officers in the organization.
who
government are;
Warman, Scranton; treasurer. Miss Dorothy Foote, Bloomsburg.
Other
officers
will lead the student
Vice-president, Nicholas Jaffin, Berwick; secretary, Henry
Members
of the students council are:
— Charles
Seniors-
Wadas, Alden Station; and Miss Maudrue O’Connell, Ashley;
Chester Hess, Trevorton and Miss Beatrice Bowman,
Juniors
Orangeville; Miss Lois DeMott and Seymour Stere, both of Millville
Seniors in the two year course
Miss Gertrude R. Schraeder, of West Hazleton and Jack Taylor, of Wilkes-Barre; girl day
students
Miss Josephine Holuba, Berwick, and day boy stud-
—
—
;
ents
—
— Harold
Hidlay, Espy.
The president of the Waller Hall Association in Waller Hall
Margaret Swartz, of Millville, and the president of the North
Hall Association men, Gilbert Gould, of Nanticoke, are also members of the council.
The organization of the Women’s
is;
association in Waller Hall
President, Miss Margaret Swartz, Millville;
Norma
vice president,
The secretary and treasurer will be
The members of
elected from the governing board next term.
vice
president
as ex-officio
the board, with the president and
members, are: Senior in the four year course. Miss Margaretta
Bone, Kingston; Seniors in the two years course. Miss Virginia
Cruickshank, of Shamokin; Miss Ethleda Young, Berwick; Miss
Elizabeth Talbot, Shickshinny and Miss Ruth Starick, Sunbury;
Junior in four year course. Miss Dorothy Voigt, Hawley; Sophomore in the four year course. Miss Lorna Gillow, Lakewood.
Two Freshmen members of the board will be chosen next Fall.
Knoll, Nanticoke.
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The men’s student government
association has the follow-
President, Gilbert Gould, Nanticoke; vice presi-
ing officers:
dent, Joseph
47
Wadas, Alden Station; secretary, Brooke Yeager,
Wilkes-Barre and treasurer, Nicholas
Jaffin,
Berwick.
Haas was the Commencement speaker at the
Benton, June 6; Shickshinny, June
4 and Carbondale, June 20,
Dr. Francis B.
following places this year:
7
;
Espy, June
We
1
from the Pennsylvania School Jour1929: “Principals of our State Teachers’ Colleges
are now Presidents.
This appropriate change in title was made
by the 929 Legislature by enacting H. B. 2099 by Thomas B.
Wilson, chairman of the House Committee on Education.”
It
will therefore in the future be proper to say “President” Haas.
print the following
nal of June,
1
Day students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
were guests of the boarding students at dinner in the school dining room Tuesday evening, April 9, and it was an enjoyed affair.
Members
which met
in
propriately decorated.
ter
and there was some
licious
ham
and Bloomsburg debating teams
same evening, sat at tables apKoch, dean of men, was toastmas-
of the Mansfield
the auditorium the
J. C.
fine singing
during the serving of the de-
dinner.
Miss Caldwell sang a solo and Henry
Warman and Armond
Both selections were enthusiastically reAnother enjoyed number was a ukelele selection by
ceived.
Misses Hortense Evans and Dorothy Lord.
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
Keller sang a duet.
principal of the College, spoke.
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BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SEPTEMBER, 1929
Vol. 30
No. 4
Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F.
F.
FENSTEMAKER,
H. JENKINS, ’76
’12
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Editor-in-Chief
-
Business
_
Manager
SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES
The summer
session of the college
opened Monday, June
The enrollment this year
24, and closed Saturday, August 3.
was 325 the enrollment last year was 385. The estimate of
;
the State Department
was 300.
due to the fact that
the function
The decrease in enrollment is
of the summer session has
changed since 1927. Previous to that date, the main purpose
was to bring teachers with insufficient preparation up to the
At the present time, most of
standards required by the State.
the attention is directed to students who are working for their
degrees.
Several
members
of absence for the
of the regular faculty
summer.
Prof.
John
J.
were granted leaves
Fisher, Prof. Earl N.
Rhodes, and Miss Anna Garrison studied at Columbia University; Prof. E. H. Nelson took work at the University of Michigan; H. F. Fenstemaker attended the summer session of the University of Pennsylvania; Prof. S. L. Wilson studied at Harvard,
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and Miss Irma Ward took additional work.
W. Wilbur
Miller, of
College, Indiana,
who
Columbia, Ohio, a graduate of Goshen
obtained his Master’s Degree at Ohio State
University, took the place of Prof.
John J. Fisher as instructor
Psychology and Educational Measurements.
L. P.
Gilmore, a
member
of the faculty of the
Junior High School, and one of the
members
of
in
Bloomsburg
the
summer
school faculty last year, taught courses in the History and Principles of Education.
The
first
social event of the
summer
session took place Fri-
day evening, July 5, when the school gave a reception to the
The affair was held in the gymnasium,
students and faculty.
with dancing as the principal feature.
Thursday evening, July
1, Strickland Gillilan, noted humorist, spoke in the college gynasium, in a feature number of
1
summer entertainment course. All of the entertainment
were held in the gymnasium because of the alterations
that were being made in the auditorium.
the
features
Baseball furnished a major attraction, the interest centering
around the annual championship contest between “Turner’s
Toads’’ and “Vital’s Vipers’’ the championship went to the
team winning the most out of fifteen contests.
;
Friday, July 19, the day students and
ulty
were the guests
of the dormitory
college dining room.
Toads renewed
members
of the fac-
students at dinner in the
Following the dinner the Vipers and the
their feud
on the baseball
field,
and
at 7 :30, the
talent of North Hall put on a vaudeville program in the gymFrom 9:00 to 11 :30, Alexander’s Orchestra furnishnasium.
ed music for dancing.
Wednesday evening, July 24, a recital was given by FranMrs. J. K. Miller was at the
ceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano.
piano.
At the regular convocations, several interesting features
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3
Wednesday, July 7, visual education was
were presented.
The speaker was Dr. H. H. Russell, of the Department
stressed.
of Geography, and Director of Visual Education at Bloomsburg.
Prof. Shortess showed the films taken here on May Day and during Commencement Week.
July 30, the speaker was Mrs. Edgar A. Weimer, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Congress of
Parents and Teachers.
1
The swimming pool
the
life
of the
summer
at
Columbia Park added something to
Swimming classes were
school students.
held regularly during the entire session.
At the close of the session, thirty-one students completed
work in the two year course. Roy Haring and Theodore
Vital completed their work for the degree of Bachelor of Science
their
Education.
No commencement exercises were held, as the
above students participated in the regular commencement activities at the close of the second semester.
in
PROGRESS BEING MADE ON CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
At the time of going
new
is
to press, the construction
work on
training school building has reached the second story.
expected that
ready late
in
the
The most
this building, as well as
the
new
the
It
laundry, will be
fall.
change awaiting the students at the bethis fall was the Auditorium in CarDuring the summer, all of the old plaster was removver Hall.
ed, the lath replaced by metal lath, and new plaster applied.
The walls and ceiling have been painted with well-blended tints
of cream and light green, and the wood work has been stained
The front of the stage has been remodeled, with
mahogany.
ginning of the
striking
first
semester
disappearing footlights
installed.
The
entire
auditorium has
been rewired, a new switchboard placed back of the stage, and
modern
will
lighting fixtures
placed
in the
auditorium.
be covered with cork linoleum, and new seats
will
The
be
floor
install-
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Members
ed.
of the
meeting next year
them.
Alumni Association who attend the Alumni
have a delightful surprise in store for
will
Several improvements have added to the beauty of the
campus.
The outside steps leading from the bridge have been
removed, and the bank graded.
A new walk has been laid,
leading from a point just above the 1912 Memorial Steps, going
under the bridge, and reaching a large octagon, west of the gymnasium.
From this octagon, a new walk leads to Science Hall,
another one to North Hall, another one to the fire tower between
Noetling Hall and the gymnasium, and another one to the north
porch of Carver Hall.
The walk leading to Science Hall is higher than the old one, and the campus has been graded up to it on
each side.
This makes better provision for surface drainage it
will no longer be necessary to wade in several inches of water
after a heavy rain, in order to reach Science Hall.
;
The improvement program
much
is
moving
steadily
forward.
be done, but enough has been done already
to make any Bloomsburg Alumnus feel proud of his Alma Mater,
when he sees for himself what a beautiful place the State Teachers College of Bloomsburg really is.
There
is still
Moral
:
to
Plan to come to Bloomsburg Alumni Day,
May
24, 1929.
Mary Moyer, mother of Miss Mabel Moyer, of the
Monday, August 12, at her home
Mrs.
Moyer
was
eighty-six years of age. SurBloomsburg.
in
children,
Mrs.
Lucetta
Moyer White, ’86; Miss
viving are four
Mrs.
Training School faculty, died
Miss Mabel Moyer,
and Albert Moyer, at
The death of another son, the Rev. Harry Moyer, ’86,
home.
was noted in the April issue of the QUARTERLY.
Edith Moyer,
’97,
ALUMNI DAY, MAY
24, 1930
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OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
President
—
R. Bruce Albert, ’06, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Vice-Presidents
—
Jr., ’67,
Dr. D. J. Waller,
Bloomsburg,
Pa.; 0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg, Pa.
—Edward
—
Committee — Fred
Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Secretary
Treasurer
Executive
Chairman; Mrs.
F.
H. Jenkins, ’76, Bloomsburg, Pa.
W. Funston,
W.
Diehl,
’09,
Danville,
Pa.,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Maurice
Harriet Carpenter, ’96, BloomsE. Flouck,
0, Berwick, Pa.
burg, Pa.; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Daniel J.
C.
’85,
’
1
Mahoney,
;
’09, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
ALUMNI OBJECTIVES FOR 1929-1930
Every Graduate should join the Alumni Association
and support the publication of the Quarterly.
Send your dollar
to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Treas., Bloomsburg, Pa.
DO IT TODAY.
Also send to the Editor, Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg,
Pa., interesting news items regarding Alumni.
1
.
The County Alumni Associations need
2.
many
ized in
Elect live
cases.
We
3.
of
all
in
classes
to
to be reorganhave a pep ban-
will cooperate.
have the Alumni Memorial and Trophy
This will become the Headquarters
operation shortly.
Alumni
todian.
hope
officers,
The College
quet and get on the job.
Room
wire
He
and
Activity.
will
Prof. 0. H. Bakeless
receive
suggestions
is
the capable cus-
and contributions from
individuals, regarding the completion of the various
Art Projects.
4.
The Alumni Scholarship Fund has done a splendid serand is still providing help to the worthy student.
Send the
names of deserving students to the College Authorities. The
vice
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Committee
will gladly aid
them.
We
need the support and earnest cooperation of every
member of the Alumni Association. WILL YOU HELP?
Respectfully yours,
R.
BRUCE ALBERT.
ALUMNI NEWS
Members
Alumni Association are urged
of the
send
to
in
news of themselves and of other Bloomsburg graduates.
dress
all
communications
We
ger.
are especially desirous of
dresses of
all
Several have already responded
class secretaries.
The cooperation of
to a previous appeal.
the
AdManaobtaining the names and ad-
to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Business
Alumni Association
is
necessary, to
all
make
adequately functioning organization, and to
TERLY all that it should be.
the
members
of
the Association an
make
the
QUAR-
ALUMNI DAY. SATURon your calendar:
Reunion classes
1870, 1875, 1880,
1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925,
Begin your plans NOW to make the above date a red
1927.
Do not fail to read
letter day in the history of Bloomsburg.
printed
elsewhere
message,
in this issue.
Albert’s
President
Mark
DAY,
MAY
this
24, 1930.
:
¥ ¥ * ^
1879
Anna
Pa.
She
is
E.
Roxby
lives at
1
1
2 Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore.
Principal of the schools at Linwood, Pa.
1880
Lina E. Faulds, who has retired from teaching, lives at
Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
West North
39
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1881
We
lives at
were recently informed by Miss Margaret Fee, who
5929 West
Jefferson Street, Philadelphia, that her sister,
Mary, died March 22, 1925.
1882
Helen
L.
Gossler lives at the Presbyterian
Home,
Newville,
Pa.
Mary Reagan, (Mrs.
Good) lives at 2608 Jackson
Her husband died in 1921.
E. C.
Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa.
1883
Mrs. Samuel Daniels (Sarah E. Richards) lives at
1
50th
Street,
Harvey,
Illinois.
1
76 East
Mrs. Daniels recently resigned
her position as librarian of the Harvey Public Library, after ten
years of service.
The
City Council
sent flowers
and a
letter
signed by the Mayor, expressing their appreciation of her work.
1884
Laura M. Helman lives at Catasaqua, Pa.
She has compiled the genealogies of the Dreisbach and Drum families, and is
the author of a book of research work on Allentown and vicinity,
a work prepared for the Daughters of the American Revolution.
1885
Word has been
in a New York
death
received,
by Bloomsburg
friends,
of the
hospital of Charles B. Noetling, formerly of
Beaver Valley, and son of the late Prof. William Noetling, for
many years Head of the Department of Pedagogy at BloomsMr. Noetling is survived by his wife and two children.
burg.
Louis P. Bierly
ed
in the
D. C.
is
living in Pittston, Pa.,
where he
is
engag-
insurance business.
Harry 0. Hine lives at 3204 Highland Place, Washington,
Mr. Hine is Secretary of the Board of Education of the
District of
Columbia.
He
writes that the Congress of the United
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
8
States,
which
is
the governing
body
of the District of Columbia,
has recently enacted a law whereby the two normal schools, one
and one for negroes, shall have their courses of study
become teachers’ colleges with authority to grant
appropriate degrees.
This statute is to take effect so that by
933 the first classes will be graduated.
for whites
extended
to
1
Sally
C.
Watson
is
teaching in the eighth grade in the
schools of Keyport, N. Y.
1886
Grace A. Leacock
lives at
282 North Maple Avenue, King-
ston, Pa.
1887
Margaret Lewis died of pneumonia in a Scranton hospital
Sunday, August 25, and was buried at Montrose Wednesday,
Miss Lewis had been teaching in Scranton until her
August 28.
retirement a few years ago.
W.
E.
Wagner
lives
in
Gordon, Pa., where he
the pro-
is
prietor of a store.
1889
George T. Brown lives
ment 3B, New York City.
at
256 Wadsworth Avenue, Apart-
Cassie Furey (Mrs. L. A. Willard)
lives
in
Tofrencedale,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Margaret Stephens (Mrs. John
New London, Connecticut.
C.
Taylor) lives at
1
59
State
Street,
Mattie Harding is keeping house for her father at 5135
Camden Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. Previous to her retire-
ment from the teaching profession, she had taught
in
for ten years
the schools of Duluth, Minn.
Clara E.
Cummings (Mrs. F. B. Irvin)
Hill, Long Island, N. Y.
lives at
1
0458 90th
Avenue, Richmond
Mrs. Bruce F. Evans (Sue Reay) lives at 2201 South CenTerre Haute, Indiana.
ter Street,
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1890
Frederick W. Magrady,
the
1
Representative
in
Congress from
7th District of Pennsylvania, recently received a letter from
Majority Leader John Q. Tilson, praising him for his service and
support during the extra session.
1893
Martha Powell
Bloomsburg, Pa.
is
secretary of the White Milling
Company,
1894
Esther Corrigan (Mrs. E. F. Barrett) lives in Buffalo, N. Y.
Her oldest son
is
an instructor
Bridgett C. Quinn (Mrs.
Montana.
She
is
Field
in St.
Conius College
J. E.
Keough)
Matron
in that city.
lives in St. Xavier,
the U. S. Indian Service.
in
1895
Harry H. Davenport died recently at his home in Wilkesmonths.
Mr. Davenport was
born in Plymouth, November 9, 868.
He attended the public schools, and was a member of the first class to be graduated
from Plymouth High School.
After a term at Wyoming Seminary he spent several years in his father’s mercantile business.
After his graduation from the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
he taught for several years as principal of Vine Street School.
While serving as a teacher he studied law and was admitted
to the Luzerne County bar on September 28, 907.
In the same
year he and Cordie A. Smith, of Plymouth, were married.
Mr. Davenport was an active member of the Christian
Church of Plymouth and was superintendent of the Sunday
School for several years.
He was one of the organizers of the
Hanover Bank and Trust Company, and served on the first board
At the time of his death he was
of directors of that institution.
secretary of the board of managers of the Wyoming Camp MeetBarre, after an illness of several
1
1
1
ing Association.
In his extensive practice of
affiliations,
law and
his
church and business
Mr. Davenport endeared himself to a host of friends,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
10
who
mourning the
join with the family in
loss of a true Christian
character.
He
is
survived by his wife and three children, and by three
brothers and two
sisters.
1896
An
of
1
member
envelope containing the dues of a
896 bears
address.
We
a
name which cannot be
of the Class
deciphered, and has no
should appreciate any information which
able us to give credit to the person to
whom
it is
may
en-
due.
1896
Etta M. Thielke (Mrs. Lafayette
W. Killam)
lives at
1077
71st Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
James
J.
E. Teple
His address
is
is
an insurance salesman
22 Sylvan
in
Rutherford, N.
Street.
1897
Mary A. Good
School at
New
teacher of Chemistry in the Senior High
is
Pa.
Castle,
Her address
is
227 East
Lincoln
Avenue.
Broadbent (Mrs. John A.
West Madison Avenue, New Castle, Pa.
Millicent L.
Sitler) lives
at
624
1898
Harlan R. Snyder has been reelected as supervising princiMr. Snyder has alpal of the Catawissa schools for three years.
ready served in this capacity for the past ten years.
1899
H. F. Yearick
1914 Park
is
in the
Railway Mail Service and
lives at
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Harriet Buckalew
Hagenbuch
is
a teacher in the Consolidat-
ed School at Benton, Pa.
Anna Sandoe
(Mrs.
grade at Atlantic City, N.
J.
J.
F. Hake) is teaching in the sixth
Her address is 49 St. James Place.
1
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Katherine Shepperon (Mrs. M.
J.
Buck)
11
lives at
705 Front
Street, Danville, Pa.
E. F. Brent
Maude
Postmaster at Lewistown, Pa.
F. Giles
tion Club, at the
Emory
is
I.
is
Executive Secretary of the
Duplan
Girls’
Recrea-
Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pa.
Bowman
is
with Mayer and Company, dealers
furniture, Washington, D. C.
His address
Mary W. Schmidt (Mrs. Charles
L.
is
1
1
Knapp)
in
Seventh Street,
lives in
Shenan-
doah, Pa.
George W. Carl
and
lives in
is
principal of the Fountain Springs School,
Ashland, Pa.
Jennie A. Beagle (Mrs.
W.
C.
Leach)
lives in
Engelmine,
California.
Josephine M. Cummings
is
teacher of Geography
son Junior High School at Harrisburg, Pa.
in
Her address
the Ediis
3652
Brisbane Street, Paxtang, Harrisburg, Pa.
Elizabeth Evans
Range, Wisconsin.
in the
Arthur H. Eves) lives in South
She has two sons, one of whom is a Junior
(Mrs.
University of Wisconsin, and another will
university this
enter the
same
fall.
1901
and Mrs. Frank Laubach and son Robert, of Benton,
have returned to the Philippine Islands, where they will spend
five more years in missionary work.
Dr.
Mary Albert (Mrs.
nue, Bloomfield, N.
Regina
Pittston, Pa.
Collier
Jesse Y. Glenn) lives at
55 Park Ave-
J.
is
Principal
Her address
Mary M. McFarlane
is
is
of the Senior
82 Butler
High School
at
Street.
teacher of fourth grade in the Bach-
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12
man Annex,
Hazleton, Pa.
1902
Robert B. Leighow is Professor of Chemistry, Head of the
Department of Industrial Science, and Associate Director of
Summer and Night Courses at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Edith C. Appenzeller
Mauch Chunk,
is
teaching in the grades in East
Her address
Pa.
is
8 West Front
Street.
Louise M. Larrabee lives at the Granville, Honolulu, Hawaii,
She has been teaching in the McKinley High School in that city,
1903
Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T, Lowry) lives at 10
Madison Avenue, Port Washington, N. Y. After having served
as President of the Music Study Club and of the Village Welfare
Society of Port Washington, she has just been elected as Nassau
County Executive in the Long Island Federation of Women’s
Clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowry have two sons and three daughters.
1904
Irwin Cogswell
is
employed
as machinist
by the Heath Ma-
chine Company, at Montrose, Pa.
2527 West Fourth
Matilda M. Black lives at
She
liamsport, Pa.
is
teaching
in the first
grade
Street,
Wil-
William-
in the
sport schools.
Alvirda Davenport
is
teacher of History and Civics in the
She
Junior High School at Plymouth, Pa.
lives at
143 Church
Street.
Blanche
J.
Morris (Mrs. Elmer
S.
Mast)
lives at
21
1
East
North Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
Elizabeth Specht teaches Civics
at Hazleton, Pa.
y'
Her address
Adele Meade (Mrs.
L. T.
is
in
the Junior High School
541 North Vine
Kendrick)
lives at
Street.
638
S.
W, 15th
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She invites any of her classmates
Avenue, Miami, Florida.
touring in the South to look her up.
Louise Rogers
(Mrs.
E.
J.
Warren)
teaching in the
is
Her
Indian Service at the Fort Peck Agency, Poplar, Montana.
oldest daughter
luth,
is
a student at the State Teachers College, Du-
Minnesota.
1905
Superintendent
Nevin T. Englehart,
and
Buildings
of
Grounds, and President of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club, attend-
ed the convention of Kiwanis International, held at Milwaukee
in
June.
Krumm
Katherine
(Mrs. A. F.
Twogood)
lives
118
at
Stonehurst Court, Upper Darby, Pa.
Eleanor Witman (Mrs.
J.
M. Reiley)
801 Lexing-
lives at
ton Avenue, Altoona, Pa.
Sarah Mae Laubach (Mrs. Chauncey I. Albertson) died on
Wednesday, July 3 at her home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
1
,
George H. Webber
edgeville, Georgia.
Dr.
507 West Hancock Street, MillWebber is Professor of Education and
lives at
Psychology and Head of the Department
Women
College for
South Carolina
ship
in
Science
in
1
Gamma Mu
Academy
American
the
928.
of Science,
and was elected
Association
is
This
—
B.
Dean
of the
in
for
the
memberAdvancement of
to
Secretary of the Beta Chapter of the Pi
National Social Science Honor Society.
following degrees:
Sc. D.
He
acting
1927, and was made Dean of
He was recently made a Fellow in the
College of Arts and Sciences
Students the same year.
Georgia State
in the
He was
at Milledgeville.
Pd., A. B.,
A. M., M.
S.,
summer he was named a delegate from
He
holds the
Ph. D.,
and
the National
Education Association to the World Conference held at Geneva,
Switzerland, July 26th to August 3rd.
1906
Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon)
Street, Jamaica, N. Y.
lives at
901
1
169th
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1907
Florence Whitebread
Hoover
(Mrs. C.
E.
1 ,
135
Stillwater, Pa.
Sadie R. Moyer
Main
at
lives
Hayman) may be reached
Edith A. Doty (Mrs. Harold H.
at R.
Lyons)
Street, Sayre, Pa.
Street, Lodi,
(Mrs. John R. MacCulloch) lives at
New
1
78
Jersey.
1909
Miss Eura Kester has been teaching
Mary
in
Anaconda, Colorado.
Gilgallon (Mrs. J. H. Rockefeller, Jr.) lives in West
Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller have three children.
Pittston, Pa.
Rebecca
E. Stroh (Mrs. L. E. Williams) lives in Alderson,
Pa.
Jennie Birth
School.
She
is
lives in
teacher of Biology in the Berwick High
Nescopeck, Pa.
«
Gertrude M. Meneeley is Principal of Number One School
Pa.
Her address is 745 River Street.
in Peckville,
1910
Mabel Smith (Mrs. R.
Tunkhannock, Pa.
S.
in the
Tracy Roberts
B.
Ward)
lives in Clarks
Technical High School
in
lives at
64 West
Green, Pa.
He
is
Street,
teaching
Scranton.
Helen M. Hess (Mrs. Gilbert V. P. Terhune) lives in NewShe states “We have a large apple orchard up
foundland, N. J.
here in Northern Jersey, four miles from the New York State line,
and forty miles from New York City. I should be glad to have
My teleany friends coming to New York to stop and see us.
phone number is West Milford 77F15.” She further states the
wish that the class of 1910 would send in more news items.
We second the motion, and extend its application to all of the
classes.
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1911
After serving
for
two years
assistant to Dr.
as
Poling, of the Marble Collegiate Church,
C. Carroll Bailey
is
now
located
Grace Evangelical Church.
Daniel A.
City, the
Rev.
Baltimore as pastor of the
in
His
New
York
address
is
928
East
Preston
Street.
Tuscan Road, Maplewood, New
Ruth Ruhl lives at
Miss Ruhl is a first grade teacher in Irvington, N. J.
1
1
1
Jersey.
Elizabeth K. Scharf
is
teacher of
fifth
grade
in the schools
of Selinsgrove, Pa.
Frank Dennis
J.
is
Director of Manual Arts in the Wilkes-
His address
Barre schools.
is
576 North Warren Avenue, King-
ston, Pa.
Mae Chamberlain
V
(Mrs.
Sherman)
is
Associate Pastor
teaching in the
Commercial De-
J. J.
of the Bethany Baptist Church in Scranton.
Edward
E. Hippensteel
is
partment of the Senior High School
address is 3939 Ventor Avenue.
A.
J.
Sharadin
is
His oldest son
Pa.
School
His
at Atlantic City, N. J.
Director of Health Education at Ford City,
was graduated from the Ford
City
High
this year.
1912
P. Clive Potts
is
the Blind, Baltimore,
Charlotte A.
Her address
Mary
is
Principal of the
Maryland State School
for
Md.
Koehler
is
teaching in White Plains, N. Y.
204 Martine Avenue.
N. Eckert (Mrs. Earle
Bennett Street, Kingston, Pa.
Andrews)
lives at
123 South
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have two
children.
Roxie H. Smith
partmental work
town.
in
lives in Truckville, Pa.
the
She
is
seventh and eighth grades
doing dein
Shaver-
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Ruth Monahan is a first grade teacher
Her address is 440 Carey Avenue.
in
Wilkes-Barre.
1913
Elizabeth
Sturges lives
articles that
at
2956
Miss Sturges
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hills,
have been printed
is
Belrose
Avenue, South
the author of a
number
of
Normal Instructor and Primary
in
Plans.
(Mrs. C. W. Hoover) lives at 315
Lemoyne, Pa. Her husband is Supervising Prinof the West Shore Schools.
Jessie R. Dersheimer
Market
cipal
in
Street,
Juan Selles Gonzalez is a Pharmaceutical Chemist and
San Lorenzo, Porto Rico.
Nellie
M. Seidel
Nellie Gleason
Olyphant, Pa.
is
lives
teaching in Harrisburg, Pa.
lives at R. D.
J. White)
communication, she states “I have
(Mrs. Martin
In a recent
a family of four boys.
1
:
Last winter
I
taught
my home
Lackawanna County, a one-room school
and expect to do the same next term.”
Justus,
Marion Roat (Mrs.
Ira
Hartman)
lives at
school in
of eight grades,
282 North
Col-
lege Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Merle Goodenough (Mrs.
her home, at R. D.
I
,
E.
W. Stookey)
is
teaching near
Pleasant Mt., Pa.
Honoring Miss Natalie Green, who was married in June,
two showers and a dinner were held, the guests, who were all
classmates at Bloomsburg, being: Miss Elizabeth Pugh, Miss
Marie Collins, Miss Ethel Altmiller, Mrs. Ruth Altmiller Jones,
Mrs. Lillian Fisher Moore, Mrs. Edna Runyan Cherry, and Mrs.
Marion Roat Hartman.
1914
Pauline Lloyd
at Williamsport.
is
Director of Music in the Junior High School
Her address
is
81 5 Nichols Place.
Susan Jennings (Mrs. A. W. Sturman)
lives at
42 Slocum
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Mr. and Mrs.
Tunkhannock, Pa.
17
Sturman have a two
year old daughter.
A. Joyce
J.
is
in
the
Government
service,
and
lives in
Wash-
ington, D. C.
Mabel
Hawk
is
teacher of Public Speaking in the High
School at Monessen, Pa.
Pauline R. Fennelly
teaching
is
in Frackville, Pa.
1915
Ruth M. Albert (Mrs. Dallas
25th
C.
Baer)
lives at
1
754 North
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
1916
Emma
G. Harrison
schools of Bridgeton,
Myers
is
Supervisor of Writing
Her address
N. J.
is
237 North
in the
Pearl
Street.
326 South 43rd
Claire E. Keating lives at
She
phia.
is
teaching English
in
Street, Philadel-
one of the Continuation Schools
in that city.
Cora G. Hill lives at 253 West 4th Street, Williamsport,
She is a departmental teacher in the schools of that city.
1
Pa.
Mabel M. Anthony (Mrs. George L. Parsels) is teaching
Her address is 5 West Wabash Avenue.
sixth grade in Pleasantville, N. J.
Frank S. Hutchison
Bloomsburg, Pa.
is
1
in the Life
Insurance business
in
1917
Lucy Padagomas is teaching
Her address is 56 Main
Lyon, Pa.
^
in the
first
grade
in
Glen
Street.
D., lives at 3632 Rutherford AveFor the past two years he has been Chief
Resident of the Harrisburg Hospital, but left this summer to take
charge of the Boy Scout Camp for the city of Harrisburg as their
J.
Loomis Christian, M.
nue, Harrisburg, Pa.
camp
doctor for the months of July and August.
After a
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month’s
he expects to start in private practice, and
one of the surgeons in Harrisburg.
rest,
be assistant
will also
to
Blanche Caswell
lives at
402
East Main Street, Plymouth.
She informs us that she has been promoted to the position of
Principal of the Penn Street School in Plymouth, as the result of
her early training at Bloomsburg.
Harriet
J.
Shuman
(Mrs. Reuel
chester Road, Merion Station, Pa.
S.
Burr) lives at
1
12 Win-
Mr. and Mrs. Burr have a
daughter, Ellen, aged two years.
Mary
F.
Her address
is
McManus
is
teaching
grade at Erie, Pa.
in third
7 2 East 6th Street.
1
1918
David
Company.
B. Miller
is
Graybar Electric
Des Moines, Iowa.
Sales Engineer for the
His address
is
Mr. Miller was graduated
635 49th
in
1923,
Street,
in
Electro-Chemical
Engin-
from the Pennsylvania State College.
He held a position
with the National Carbon Company, of Ohio, for four years, being located in Lakewood, near Chicago, and in New York City.
In April, 1927, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Edith Keene, of
Waymart. Mrs. Miller is also a graduate of Penn State.
eering,
Anna
Costello
(Mrs.
928, of pneumonia.
daughter, aged three.
1
A
J.
She
is
McGeehan) died September 21,
survived by her husband and one
very pretty church wedding took place Thursday after-
noon, June 6, at 2 00 o’clock, when Miss Lora M. Wallace,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Wallace, of Laurel, Pa., and
:
Harold J. Pegg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Pegg, of
Bloomsburg, Pa., were united in marriage by the bride’s pastor.
Stewartstown Presbyterian
Rev. T. Edwin Redding, in the
Church.
The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Gettysburg College and M.
A. degree from Washington University, Seattle, Washington. He
has been a member of the History Department of the Altoona
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High School for the past four years.
Roads High School,
Millersville State Teachers’ College and did graduate work at
Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, and American Academy of
Dramatic Arts, New York City.
She has been director of Dramatics at Roosevelt High School, Altoona, for the past five years.
They left on an extended honeymoon to the Pacific Coast
and Alaska. They will reside in Altoona where the groom has
a position in the High School.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Cross
1919
A.
\V. Kirkhulf,
who
took the special course
lives at
in football
845 Quincy Avenue, Scranton,
coaching given at the summer
session of the Pennsylvania State College this year.
huff,
Mr. Kirk-
formerly coach at the Ashley High School, has been elected
Northumberland High School. He coached at Oxford High School, Pennington Seminary, and Mauch
Chunk High School, before he took up his work at Ashley.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, Mr. Kirkhuff attended the
athletic director at the
Springfield Y.
for
two
M.
Coaching School
C. A.
Veronica Muldowney Kennedy
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
sixth,
at Springfield, Mass.,
years.
She
is
seventh and eighth grades
lives
at
5524
Litchfield
teaching Health in the
in
fifth,
the Philadelphia schools.
Arthur E. Steward is a clerk in the Magee Carpet Company,
Bloomsburg.
His address is R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Ruth F. Doyle (Mrs. John W. Moore) lives at 25 West 34th
Bayonne, N. J.
She has two daughters, Jean, aged four,
and Marion, who is two years old. She invites all of her friends
who come near Bayonne, New Jersey, or New York to come to
see her, or call her at Bayonne 2276-J.
Street,
Mildred E. Stover
lives at
1
020 Grandview
Street, Scran-
ton, Pa.
Marie Gucjavan Turnbach
husband
is
a funeral director.
lives in Hazleton, Pa.,
where her
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Gertrude Meenan (Mrs. Harold Reif)
lives
on Cedar Ave-
nue, Scranton, Pa.
A
son was born
Mr. Niesley
May 9
and Mrs. Paul G. Niesley, of
Martha Knorr.
County Farm Agent in Columbia County.
1
to Mr.
Mrs. Niesley was
Bloomsburg.
is
formerly Miss
1920
Florence Beyers, of Lewisburg, Pa., and
y
Thomas
Lewis, of
New
Jersey, were married June 12, 1928, by the
Rev. Mr. Welliver, at the M. E. Parsonage, Lewisburg, Pa.
At
the time of her marriage, Mrs. Lewis was a teacher in the Lewisburg schools.
Mr. Lewis, a graduate of Bucknell University, is
employed by the Beyers-Fortner Gas and Oil Company, of Lewis-
Vineland,
burg.
A
very pretty wedding was solemnized at high noon Satur-
day, June 8,
when
of Nordmont, Pa.,
Miss Marie Snider, daughter of
became
the bride of S.
W.
B. Snider,
Lee Menges, son of
The wedding took place
Williamsport.
The Rev. L.
Mrs. Myrtle E. Menges, of Turbotville.
at the
home
of the bride’s sister, in
E. Kline, pastor of the First Evangelical Church,
officiated, the
of
Sonestown,
double ring ceremony being used.
The bride is a
of 1919, and also
graduate of the Sonestown High School, Class
She has been a very
The groom is a graduate of
successful teacher for seven years.
of the Mansfield State Teachers’ College.
the Turbotville High School, Class of 1920,
gree
He
this
summer from
and received
his de-
the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College.
has taught school for six successful terms.
Following
the
wedding ceremony, a reception was held after which Mr. and
Mrs. Menges left for an extended trip to Philadelphia, Atlantic
City, Washington and Pittsburgh.
Dorcas Patrick (Mrs. Roscoe Wagner)
Clara E. Fisher
City, Pa.
is
lives in
Supervisor of Penmanship
Tower
in
City,
Mahanoy
.
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Elizabeth E. Fetherolf (Mrs. Daniel P. Fister) lives at
Cleveland Avenue, Intervilla, Pa.
stitute
2442
She has been acting as sub-
teacher at Berkshire Heights.
Ralph G. Shuman, a graduate of the Bloomsburg Teachers’
College, has accepted a position as dean of boys and instructor
in mathematics in the Thomas Ranken Patton Masonic Institution
for boys at Elizabethtown, Pa., and will take up his position on
September
Following his graduation here he served as Principal of the Mifflin High School for three years and in 926 received his degree of Bachelor of Arts at Pennsylvania State College, and since then he has been Principal of the Mt. Rose Junior High School at York, Pa.
1
.
1
1922
A
daughter, Patricia Louise, was born to Rev. and Mrs. Perry
Conyngham, Pa., on October
was formerly Marion Hart.
L. Smith, of
1
1,
1928.
Mrs. Smith
1923
At 6:30 A. M., Saturday, June 22, at the Presbyterian
Church of Bloomsburg, there was solemnized the marriage of
Mary C. McNinch, of Berwick, and Keith E. Davis, of Jamestown,
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. S. Harker,
N. Y.
pastor of the church.
Mrs. Davis has been teaching in Berwick
for the past six years.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis are now living in
Jamestown, where the former is employed.
•
Miss Mildred Edwards, esteemed Bloomsburg girl and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brockway Edwards, of 330
East Eighth Street, became the bride of Rev. John Frederick Williams Howell, of Columbia, Conn., son of Rev. and Mrs. Frederick W. Howell, of Mansfield Depot, Conn., in a pretty wedding
performed by Rev. Raymond H. Edwards ’23, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., brother of the bride and
Rev. E.
J.
Bloomsburg,
Radcliffe,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
in the Baptist
afternoon, July 3
1
Church
at
4:00
o’clock
Wednesday
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The wedding was solemnized in the presence of a number
and friends of the couple and the church was beautifully decorated in Queen Anne’s Lace, phlox and ferns.
The maid of honor was Miss Helen Edwards, of Milton,
Mass., sister of the bride and the groom’s man was Rev. M. Eugene Levy, of Baldwinsville, Mass.
Howard Hileman and Beecher Hileman, of Bloomsburg, were ushers.
The music was by Mrs. Alice Shipman Edwards, ’23, of
of relatives
Plattsburgh,
at
A
N. Y.
home
reception followed at the
Rev. and Mrs. Howell
bride’s parents.
of
will reside in the
the
manse
Columbia, Conn.
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Class of 1921, the Teachers’
Newton Theological
Bloomsburg High School,
Class of 1923, and the
College,
Institution,
Newton
Centre,
Mass.,
of this
year.
Ella E. Luring,
became
pretty ceremony
of Espy,
daughter of the Rev. A.
S.
Luring, formerly
the bride of Paul Stokes, of Shamokin,
in
a
at the Dillsburg Methodist Church, the father of
the bride officiating.
Miss Kathryn Fox Harder, of Catawissa, and John A. Klarr,
of Cleveland, Ohio, were married at the
home
of the bride Tues-
day morning, June 18, by the Rev. Murray Young, pastor of the
Mrs. Klarr has been
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Catawissa.
teaching
in the schools of
Catawissa
for
several
Mr.
years.
Klarr holds a responsible position with a large firm in Cleveland.
Walter A. Krolikowski lives in Glen Lyon, Pa.
grade school in Newport Township.
He
is
Prin-
cipal of a
S. Gamble is a teacher
Her address is Sugar Run, Pa.
Marjorie
schools.
in the
Steelton
public
Raymond H. Edwards, who was graduated this spring from
Theological Seminary, is now pastor of the BapRochester
the
New York.
Plattsburg,
tist Church at
1924
After an
illness
of several years, Florence Caswell (Mrs. 0.
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at her home in Bloomsburg, Sunday mornSeveral times during her illness her condition had
June 23.
been such that it was feared that she could not survive, but each
time she rallied, and when she was fatally stricken, she appearShe was a member of the First
ed to be in her usual health.
Presbyterian Church, and of Fort McClure Chapter, D. A. R.
She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Mary Edith.
Evans Shipman) died
ing,
Jeanne Fox, of Catawissa, and Edwin W. Daveler, of
at Dover, Pa., on Monday, July 23,
The wedding was announced by the parents of the bride
928.
\/ at a bridge luncheon on Wednesday, June 19, 1929. Mrs.
Daveler has been teaching in Wilkes-Barre for several years.
Mr. Daveler holds a responsible position with his uncle in KingKingston, were married
1
ston.
Miss Frances Pensyl
is
teaching in Westfield, N.
J.
Miss Pearl Scott, of Bloomsburg, was married Wednesday,
7, 1928, to Clifford Snook, of Hopewell, New Jersey.
For the past three years Mrs. Snook has been teaching in Pen-
November
nington,
New
Jersey.
Esther Dildine
Oman
is
teaching
in
the
first
grade at
Hall-
stead, Pa.
Ruth T. Lehman (Mrs. Kenneth Conway) lives at 41 Florence Avenue, Irvington, New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Conway
have one son, Warren Kenneth.
Mildred Ridgley
Y
is
teacher of
West Pittston, Pa.
ing Avenue, Wyoming, Pa.
Street Building,
first
grade
Her address
in
is
the
Linden
597 Wyom-
Announcement was made July 29
1
9,
1
of the marriage, on May
928, of Maude C. Mensch, of Bloomsburg, and Morris
Ridall, of Shickshinny, R. D., at Port Jervis, N. Y.
has been
Mrs. Ridall
charge of the smallest children at the I. 0. 0. F. Orphanage at Sunbury for the past two summers. During the winter
in
she has been teaching in
County.
the
rural schools
of
Columbia
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1925
and Joseph R. Kleckner,
have announced their marriage, which took
place last winter.
The bride has been teaching in Coatesville,
and the groom has been completing his work for a degree at the
State Teachers’ College at West Chester.
Mr. and Mrs. KleckMiss Lyle Mather, of Berwick,
also of Berwick,
ner will
make
their
home
Announcement has
in Coatesville.
recently been
made
of the marriage of
Leona Reichenbach, of Point Township, to J. Gordon Epler, of
Wilkes-Barre.
Before coming to Bloomsburg, Mrs. Epler attended the Northumberland High School.
Miss Gladys A. Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
S.
Richards, of Bloomsburg, and Willard Kleckner,
son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of Shickshinny, were married Thursday morning, November 29, 1928, at 7:00 o’clock, at the First
Methodist Church, of Bloomsburg, by the pastor. Rev. H. F.
Babcock.
The bride
is
ful
High School and
and has been a success-
a graduate of the Hazleton
the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,
teacher in the Hazleton schools.
of Shickshinny High School
Mr. Kleckner
is
and State College and
a graduate
for
the past
two years has been assistant superintendent of transmission for
He
the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company at Hazleton.
was recently transferred to Seigfried, Pa.
On
became
Saturday, June 22, Miss
Grace
Miller, of
Mifflinville,
the bride of George E. Creasy, of Philadelphia.
past four years Mrs. Creasy has been
Mr. Creasy
is
teaching
in
For the
Mifflinville.
a graduate of the Berwick High School,
Class of
1922, and of the Philadelphia Schools of Industrial Arts, Class
At the latter institution he won a scholarship in furniof 1927.
ture designing as a result of which he was sent to Grand Rapids,
Mich., to study the manufacture of furniture in the large factor-
He now holds a responsible position
DeLong Furniture Company, of Philadelphia.
ies there.
the
as designer for
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Watkins has been teaching
Lily
ton,
New
Pa.
is
in Irving-
is
teaching
in Register, Pa.
Her home
Cambra, Pa.
Martha A. Fisher lives at 310 South Front Street, Sunbury,
She is teaching in the grades in the Sunbury schools.
Ann
ley,
grade
Jersey.
Helen Barrett Baer
address
in the fifth
25
Liydas was married June 30, 1928, to Freeman Ting-
a graduate of Bucknell University.
Beryl Ikeler, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 6, has been elected for
the fourth term to teach in the rural
schools of Mt. Pleasant
Township, Columbia County.
1926
Elizabeth Keller, of Orangeville, Pa., and Leon B. Epler, of
Northumberland, were married Saturday, March 2, at Freeburg,
by the Rev. William S. Gerhard, a cousin of the bride. Mrs. Epler has been teaching in the Orangeville schools.
Mr. Epler is a
graduate of the Northumberland High School, Class of 1917,
and of Pennsylvania State College, Class of 1925, and is now a
farmer in Point Township.
Miss Grace Robbins, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. D. H. Rob-
degree of B. S. this year at New York Univerhas been named teacher of Social Studies in
Robbins
sity.
Miss
the new Junior High School in Darien, Connecticut.
bins, received the
Emily Davies
is
a
member
Avenue Junior High School,
Arlene E. Sweet
lives
of the
in Irvington,
at
1
faculty
New
of the Madison
Jersey.
15 East Market Street,
Lewis-
burg, Pa.
1927
Pa.
Myra L. Thomas is teacher of Art and Music
Her address is 527 Prospect Avenue.
Hannah Barry
zerne, Pa.
is
at
Bethlehem,
teaching in the elementary schools of Lu-
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26
Marion Marshall lives at 845 Anthracite Avenue, Kingston.
She is teacher of fifth grade in the Kingston schools.
Pa.
Helen Ceppa
West Grand
Emma
teaching
Her address
is
3
Jermyn and Vivian M. Jermyn are teaching
in
is
in
Nanticoke.
Street.
J.
Junedale, Pa.
Delma
E.
Myers was married Wednesday, November 28,
Mr. and Mrs. Husband live at 78
1928, to Arthur Husband.
Church
at
Street, Pittston, Pa.
Arthur C. Jenkins, the first recipient of the degree of B. S.
Bloomsburg, and now coach of the Newport Township High
School,
was one
course
in football
lege at the
of the
men who were
enrolled in the special
coaching given at the Pennsylvania State Col-
summer
session this year.
Miss Pauline Vastine, of Danville, R. D., and James E. Sugden, of Wilkes-Barre, were married in the Westminster Presbyterian
Church
at Wilkes-Barre,
Tuesday morning, June
the Rev. William H. Sugden, brother of the groom.
18,
by
Mrs. Sug-
The groom is a
1927, and is
employed by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, at
den has been teaching
in
the Danville schools.
graduate of Bucknell University, in the
Class of
Allentown.
Verna M. Keller and Richard Hill, both of Berwick, were
married Saturday, June 23, in the parsonage of the Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church of Berwick, by the pastor. Rev. C. S. Bottiger.
Since her graduation, Mrs. Hill has been teaching in Salem
Township and Nescopeck Township. Mr. Hill is employed by
Power and Light Company
in
Berwick.
At seven o’clock, Saturday morning, July
6, in St.
the Pennsylvania
Paul’s
Protestant Episcopal Church, Miss E. Victoria Smith, of Blooms-
burg,
J.
was married
to Edw^ard
Mr. and Mrs. Bundens are
Miss Pauline Ranck,
teacher of second grade
in
M. Bundens,
now
Jr.,
of Paulsboro, N.
living in Paulsboro.
Bloomsburg, has been elected
Bloomsburg for the coming term.
of
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Ranck has been teaching
Miss
New
boro.
for the
27
past two years
in
Pauls-
Jersey.
Miss Beatrice Englehart has been elected teacher of second
grade
Bloomsburg.
in
the past
She has been teaching
in
New
Jersey for
two years.
1928
Dorothy V. Jones lives at 16 Charles Street, Pittston, Pa.
She has been acting as substitute teacher in the Pittston schools.
Callendar
Phyllis
Her address
schools.
Mary
R. Cahalan
teaching third
is
1132 Orange
is
is
grade
in
the
Berwick
Street, Berwick, Pa.
a substitute teacher in the schools of
Kingston, Pa.
Anne Yuran
is
a fourth grade teacher in the Pringle school,
Luzerne, Pa.
Miss Minnie Mellick,
who was graduated from
the two-year
1923, and received the degree of B. S. in Education
this year, has been elected as teacher of third grade in Bloomsburg.
Miss Mellick taught three years at Light Street and one
course
year
in
in
New
Jersey.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
—
—
_
—
—
—
November 9 —Shippensburg
Stroudsburg
November 16—
23
—
Wyoming
Seminary
November
_ At Home
At West Chester
At Mansfield
At Home
At Home
At Shippensburg
At Home
At Kingston
Kutztown
October 5
West Chester
October 2
Mansfield
October 9
California
October 26
November 2 Lock Haven
1
1
East
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24,
1930
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ADDRESSES UNKNOWN
The
QUARTERLY
will appreciate any information regardAlumni whose addresses are unknown. Please
communications to F. H. Jenkins, 216 West 5th Street.
ing the following
send
all
Bloomsburg, Pa.
1879
Hess, Floyd L.
Johnson, B. R.
Cullen, William F.
Filson, Ira D.
Fisher, William I.
Keiter, George H.
Lewis, Charles L.
Moore, Arthur
1884
Albright, Ella M.
(Mrs.
E.
M.
Baxter).
Bertels, Bird I.
Charles, Robert
Eckbert, Lottie D.
(Mrs. Alex.
M. Lupfer)
1899
Albertson, Hattie
(Mrs.
David
Evans)
(Dun-
well)
McDonough, Margaret (Mrs.
Frank Dodson)
Mansell, Mary J. (McKee)
Winter, Irvin H.
1889
Dunsmore, Mary A.
J. J.
O’Hearn)
Williams, Ethel
Higgins, Kate E. (Divers)
Hoban, Alice I.
Hoban, Annie E.
Hunt, M. Louis
Kolb, Nellie M. (Smith)
Lawlor, Margaret L.
MacCullough, Jean T.
J.
Patterson, J. Howard
Paul, J. Frank
Robison, J. Boyd, Jr.
Rosser, Bessie
Whalen, Mary E. (Mrs.
(Mrs. Rob-
ert Kelley)
Irvin, Florence G. (Fields)
Ream, Frederick (State Certifi-
cate)
1894
Beardsley, Charlotte
Carpenter, Perry A.
Church, Lillian (Mrs.
Sydney
Dearborn)
Connole,
Mary
Coyle, Philip
Curtis, Edith
Davis, Arthur
Deitrick, Edna
Ellsworth, Emma
J.
(Mrs. D. C.
Smith)
Fowler, Lillian (Mrs. George W.
Wright)
Fowler, Lottie (Mrs. Percy F.
Best)
Frederickson, Elam A.
Gill, D. Eleanor
Griffith, Essie
Abbott, Florence
Acherly, Mae (Alexander)
Belles, Nellie D. (Mrs. W. H.
Griffith, Nellie
Heddin)
Corgan, Genevieve (Baratt)
E. O’Brien)
Hammond, Josie
Darlington, W. Ramsay
Dechant, Harrj’ G.
Fisher, Corinda S. (Mayer)
Haggerty, Mary (Mrs. James
Tigue)
Higgins,
Hammond,
Elizabeth (Mrs.
W.
'
Belinda
(Mrs.
M.
J.
Murphy)
Hines, Lillian
Hollopeter, Cunia (Mrs.
Persing)
H. M.
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Jackson, John S.
Lake, Gertrude E. (Mrs.
Robbins,
J.
E.
Mary A.
Gertrude
Golen-
(Mrs.
(Mrs. John R.
Bower)
Rooke, William
Fidler)
Miller,
29
Seesholtz,
J.
Hervey W.
Sholenberger, Wells A.
clay)
Moore, Lawrence C.
More, Fred C.
Morton, William
Mulliner, Beulah A.
Oler, A. Esther
Olver, E. Grace (Mrs.
Hagers ville)
Price, J. Herbert
Quick, William J.
Stead,
George
Eugene
R.
Thomas, Margaret (Mrs. John
Edwards)
Tibbets, Luzenia (Mrs. William
G. Isham)
Wagner, Virginia (Mrs. William
A. Powers)
Wolfe,
Raymond
Roberts, Ira
Rohr, Myra
1909
Barrow, Harrison R.
Scull, Mary N.
Stackhouse, Bertha (Mrs. Chas.
L. Lewis)
Stewart, Bertha (Mrs. William
Betts, Bessie B.
Bishop, Madeleine V. (Mrs. Rollin L. Charles)
Bryant, Leon D.
Garrison, Florence W. (Mrs. C.
H. Danforth)
Gleason, Ruth E.
S.
DeCoursey)
Wallace, Margaret
Waltz, Pierce
Williams, Irene (Mrs.
A. Evans)
Williams, Mabel A.
Williams, Richard M.
Williams, Sarah D.
William
1904
Lucy
Rody)
C.
Anna
E.
Baldy,
Challis,
(Mrs.
(Mrs.
Gary
F.
W.
Thompson)
Clair,
Corssley, Pearl A. (Mrs. W. J.
Pickett)
Fletcher, Esther R. (Armitage)
Helwig, W. Ray
Henrie, H. Clare
Keely, N. C.
(Mrs.
Charles
Regan,
May
C.
(Mrs.
Louis F.
Bumei
Tobin, Teresa
White, Agnes (Lamon)
Williams, George
1914
Kelley, Martin
Krommas, Lulu M. (Mrs. H.
J.
G.
W.
Bonham)
Mertz, Mabel I.
Messersmith, Palace E.
Gertrude M.
Moses, William E.
Putman, Stewart L.
Rawlinson, Herbert E.
Bessie
Richart,
(Mrs.
Corse)
Cook)
Reese, Marjory
Penman)
Margaret V.
Lesser)
Lanning, Hattie L. (Mrs.
Johnson, Robert L.
Kase, Harriet (Foland)
Kintner, Sadie
Marcy, Eva L. (Mrs. J. G. Pace)
Noble, Laverne R.
O’Neill, Frances H. (Donovan)
Potts, M. Reinee
Priest, Florence A. (Mrs. M. W.
Bone, Catherine Hasty
Corrigan, Mary J. (Mrs.
O’Brien)
Edwards, Idwal H.
Elliott, Sara Elizabeth
Evans, Margaret Hill
Hendershott, Charles N.
Hill, Isabel
Miller,
Wm.
Salome (Mrs. A. F.
Long)
Hummel, Daisy
(Mrs.
Evans)
C.
J.
Keller, Russell
Laub, Henry Rupert
Ray M.
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30
Martin, C. Christine
Mensch, Harriet 0.
Miller,
Patterson, H. Ottis
Perkins, Elsie R.
Eda
Renner, Grace Vincent
Rosell, Victor Julio
Summers, Margaret Ruth
Pegg, Nola C.
Riddle, Margaret Isabel
Ryman, Lawrence Brown
Sweetwood, Ida J.
Walton, Helen Gould
Smith, Charles Karl
Wardlaw, Edith May
Williams, Gertrude Louise
1924
1919
Anna M.
Curtis, Mary M.
Derrick, J. Raymond
Dunn, Mary I.
Gallagher, Raymond
Blecher, Mary Celesta
Clark, Maude M.
Dreibelbis, Francis Ralph
Epler, Frances C.
Erwin, Mae E.
Eshleman, Fay E.
Ferguson, Eva H. (Mrs. Edward
Booth,
Jones, Anne Z.
Keefer, Margaret E.
Bowder)
Griffith,
McGovern, Vera
Mildred Elizabeth (Mrs.
Bruce Shearer)
Heimbach, Ruth Elizabeth
Veda Lois (Veda
Hess,
Lewis)
Hoffman, Arthur E.
Johnson, Marion F.
Kester, Zoe (Mrs. Miller)
Kirkhuff,
Marshall, Margaret P.
Norton, Mervym
Ostrander, Ida M.
Price, Ethel M.
Rees, Ruth Irene
Schultz, M. Roselda
Shook, Agnes
Williams, Edna D. (Mrs. Ebenezer D. Williams)
H.
Asa W.
Marks, Gerald Ellsworth
WIDOW OF PROF.
Mrs.
for
l.er
many
Lillie
Gregg
Brill,
E.
Hortman, Irene
widow
BRILL DIES
of the late William
years a resident of Bloomsburg, died at the
son, Francis A. Brill, of
46
S.
Brill,
and
home
of
Fourth Street, Sunbury, Satur-
day evening, June 29, from a complication of ailments.
She had been in failing health for about a year but her conShe had
dition did not become critical until Mother’s Day.
been
living
with her daughter. Miss Julia G.
Brill,
of State Col-
and when her condition became serious she was taken to
home in Sunbury. She remained bedfast for the sucson’s
her
Her condition gradceeding weeks, showing no improvement.
quietly
away.
finally
passed
and
she
weaker
ually became
in
Milton,
the daughMrs. Brill was born January 10, 1855,
lege,
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ter of the
Rev. and Mrs. Jacob
S.
McMurray.
31
Her father was a
minister and presiding elder in the Central Pennsylvania Confer-
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She was married on September
liam
Brill,
a minister
of the
1
,
1
886, to the Rev. Wil-
With him she
same conference.
served as pastorates at Port Matilda, Pine Grove
Mills,
Birming-
ham, Tyrone, Mount Union, Burnham, Altoona, Williamsport,
Shickshinny, Sunbury and Danville.
For sixteen years she resided at Bloomsburg, where her
husband v/as a member of the High School faculty for several
years and then of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Normal
At the time of her husband’s death in 1925, she reSchool.
moved
to State College to
make
her
home with
her daughter.
There she remained until taken ill early in May.
She is survived by three sons, Francis A. Brill, Sunbury
business man; Clinton B. Fisk Brill, of New York City and William Gregg Brill, an official of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
and by one daughter, Julia Brill, of State College.
One son, Jacob McMurray Brill, of Sunbury, was killed in a
World War while serving with the American
Argonne forest, against the Germans.
Her family has been connected with state and national affairs since the Revolutionary War.
She was a direct descendant
of Major James Potter and of United States Senator Andrew
She was a cousin of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin
Gregg.
battle during the
army
who
in the
served as chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania dur-
ing the Civil
War and whose home was
at Bellefonte.
Three of the trustees of the College were reappointed June
Fisher.
They were Mrs. John G. Harman and
Dr. R. E. Miller, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Effie Llewellyn, of
28 by Governor
Elysburg.
ALUMNIDAY, MAY
24,
1930
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Frank R. Carpenter, of Bloomsburg, father of Miss Helen
home on
Tuesday morning, June 25. At the time of his death he was in
his eighty-second year.
He had been in failing health for some
months, but his condition had been serious only a short time before his death.
For fifty-three years an employe of the Reading Railroad, and for many years station agent in Bloomsburg,
he had retired from active service twelve years ago.
He is survived by one brother, G. D. Carpenter, of Bradford, and four
children, Harriet and Helen, of Bloomsburg, Eugene F., of
Philadelphia, and Ben F., of Washington.
Carpenter, of the Training School faculty, died at his
Normal
Normal School at Bellingham,
Bloomsburg during the summer, and was
Dr. Charles H. Fisher, former principal of the State
School,
now
principal of the State
Washington, visited
in
warmly greeted by
his
many
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,
friends.
and Miss Elizabeth Waller have been
spending the summer at their cottage at Windemere, Canada.
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24,
1930
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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
DECEMBER, 1928
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
of the
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
December, 1928
Vol. 30
No.
1
Entered as Second*c)as« Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsbury, Pa.,
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published March, June, September and December.
H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
F. H.
’76
Jenkins,
-
-
Editor-in-Chief
-
Business Manager
-
THE COLLEGE TOWER CLOCK
Common
conveniences and equipment of a College
are ordinarily taken as matters of course. Little thought
is
given to
how they came
to be at
back of most such things there
hand
is
for our use. But
a story
of
human
endeavor.
The college clock faces us at every point of the comIts warning voice or must hands direct our steps to
meet important engagements. How did it happen to be
there? Well, it did not happen. Back of that is an interpass.
esting story.
Among
other improvements in the late ’90’s the trus-
remodel the front of Carver Hall. The
present imposing front facing the town, including the
tees decided to
clock tower,
was
erected. But no clock
was available
—
or
THE
in
I
O
IT
A
It
T E KLY
other words, there was no cash on hand to provide the
windows were boarded up, blind eyes
a beautiful tower. By the way, did you ever notice its
clock.
to
MN
AL
The
circular
suggestion of Independence Hall
—not a
duplicate, but a
similarity of outline?
At that time William Housel was the efficient steward at the Normal School. He saw the need of a clock and
made
the proposition to the trustees to secure
cost to the institution.
it
without
His plan was briefly this:
The
large eating stand at the Fair Grounds could be rented
and dinner served
crowds at a fair profit. He decidbuilding and serving a turkey dinner
to the
ed to try renting this
each day during the Fair.
The students and faculty
in
of the school
were
the project. Volunteer waiters were secured.
enlisted
Some
do-
made by dealers from whom regular supplies
were purchased and the plan went forward with great
enthusiasm. Good weather prevailed and large crowds
were in attendance. It was a successful project from
nations were
every standpoint.
Mr. Housel then went to
New York and
with about
seven hundred dollars as his assets from the plan, bought
the clock and
had
it
installed without cost to the school.
Later someone conceived the idea that a small clock
face looking toward Waller Hall would be a convenience
about thirty feet
An
was run up
above the clock and the proper mechan-
to those .living in the dormitory.
ism installed to connect the hands
the rest of the clock. This
according to Mr. Housel’s
extension
in this
was paid
letter.
smaller face with
for by the trustees,
T
II
K
A L
I’
M>
I
or
A
It
T K
li
L Y
ti
There is one strange feature about this whole affair.
Although there are many who remember how the clock
was obtained, no one can tell when it was placed in the
tower. Records and Board Minutes have been searched,
but no mention of it can be found. It all took place during the administration of Dr.
J. P.
Welsh
— 1890
to 1906,
but the exact date has not been determined. The cut
in
the 1898-99 catalogue shows the picture of Institute Hall
before the tower was remodeled. About 1900-01 the
tower was
built,
but no clock face shows. The cut in the
1902-03 catalogue shows the clock in place and
we have
evidence
This
is
new
of the date of
its
is
the best
appearance.
a belated thank you to Mr. Housel,
now
resid-
ing in Philadelphia, and a reminder to those students and
others
its
who
trust
helped, that the good old clock
and
is still
is
faithful to
keeping watch over each successive
generation of students with as fine a tone and as accurate
in
schedule as
it
did in
its
youth.
Here’s hoping that someone will remember the date
and place a little marker upon the clock to give a few
details of its origin and credit to whom credit is due.
ATHLETICS
Bloomsburg’s football team
this season
gave a good
itself. The season opened with Kutztown at
Kutztown and the boys brought back the bacon. West
account of
T H K
4
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M N
O
I
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AKTK KLY
Chester climbed Mt- Olympus the following week and
got so wrought up over Greek Mythology that they took
away
Shippensburg, already flushed with
a 13-0 victory.
came
victory over East Stroudsburg,
Bloomsburg the
to
next Saturday but had to leave with the short end of a
13-7 score. For the
the succeeding
met
coal
is
week
time
to the
in history,
our team traveled
western end of the
soft coal at California, Pa.
smudge on
their noses.
Hard
state.
All that can be said
that our boys were royally treated but
a 6-0
a
first
came back with
Another week end brought
Lock Haven invasion and a 12-0 victory.
IMansfield visited us for the next
game, and Blooms-
burg amply revenged a 1927 defeat of 40-7 by worsting
the mountain boys by a couple of touchdowns.
Wyoming Seminary. Everything was
except the score.
Then came
splendid that day
was “home coming” day, and hun-
It
dreds of Bloomsburg’s loyal sons and daughters were
They saw the defeat
here.
had high hopes of
may
be said that there hangs
ture of the last
is
victory.
of a
Bloomsburg team that
For general information
in
the athletic offices a pic-
team that beat Wyoming
at Kingston.
covered with dust and shows signs of age.
allowed to dust
oming
say
it
it
until a
at Kingston.
No
one
It
is
Bloomsburg team can beat Wy-
With considerable emphasis the boys
can be done next year.
We
The Wyoming game took
leader, Capt.
it
Kraynack
nut for the season, as
shall wait
its toll.
of Plymouth,
was
and
see.
The
inspirational
was
injured,
and
also Kirker, another important
T
tion
first
—four
string
And
squad and
A
11
T K H L Y
in this
players out
string
first
Stroudsburg for the
resulted.
or
>• I
Mid semester grades cut two more men
backfield man.
from the
M
A L r
II 1C
game
final
so the season
weakened condi-
—the
boys met East
of the year.
A
ended with four
12-0 defeat
victories
and
four defeats.
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ATTEND CONFERENCE
A number
of the
members
of the faculty
of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College took part in the seventh annual conference of the Teachers of the State Normal Schools and State Teachers’ Colleges held at West
Chester State Teachers’ College Thanksgiving week.
members
In order that all
of the faculty
might
at-
tend the sessions the College closed for the Thanksgiving
recess on Saturday noon
and sessions resumed Monday
noon, December third.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal at Bloomsburg, pre-
sided at the general session Tuesday evening.
M. Hausknecht, local bursar, presided at the conference of that group during Tuesday afternoon while
John C. Koch, Bloomsburg, dean of men, presided at the
morning conference of the deans of men.
C.
Miss Marguerite Kehr, of Bloomsburg, spoke
“How May
the
Dean
of
Women
on
Best Enlarge the Social
Experience of the Students’’? at the conference of the
deans of women.
Miss Irma
tians.
Ward
presided at the conference of
dieti-
H. F. Fenstemaker spoke at the conference of
in-
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During the meeting of the geography group H. Harrison Russell gave the report of the syllabi committee. E.
H. Nelson presided at the conference on physical education
and Miss Pearl Mason spoke
at the librarians’ con-
ference on “Report on Uniform Syllabi in the General
Ifibrary Course”.
“Physical examinations and
What They Reveal” was
Maude Kline delivered
the subject of the talk which Miss
to
the nurses, while Miss Alice Johnston spoke to the oral
English group on “Language of the Body”.
At the
Reams spoke
Based Upon State and
social studies conference E. A.
on the subject “Some
Map
Studies
National Elections” and at the conference of the teacher
training faculties Miss
Edna
J.
Hazen spoke on “Student
Teaching and Conferences”.
At the round table conferences on Wednesday afternoon Profe.ssor John Fisher represented Bloomsburg.
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Haas delightfully enterhome on Light Street Road
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The guests were the
of the board
of trustees of the State Teachers’
members
of the college faculty, the school
College, the
boards of Bloomsburg and Berwick and the teachers in
those towns engaged in teacher training work, and their
husbands and wives.
There were about two hundred who enjoyed the eve-
The home was beautifully decorated with cut flowand Alexander’s orchestra furnished music. Delicious
ning.
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refreshments were served consisting of chicken a
mushrooms, buttered
rolls, coffee,
la king,
nuts and mints.
NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
new members of the
work at the beginning of
Several
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tehir
QUARTERLY
of the
is
faculty andved to take
the
first
The
the members
semester.
pleased to present them to
Alumni Association.
Miss Alma Caldwell replaces Miss Harriet Moore,
who was granted a year’s leave of absence for study at
New York
University.
Miss Caldwell did her undergrad-
uate work at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
She studied music for one year at the University of California, and received the degree of Master of Arts at Columbia University. She has taught in the schools of Nogales, Arizona, Holtcille, California, Oakland, California,
and Los Angeles.
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She received the degree of Bachelor of Science at Colum-
She has served as teacher and principal
bia University.
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tle
in
the schools of Grand Haven, Manistique, Holland, Bat-
Creek and Mt. Clemens,
all of
the above
cities
being
IMichigan.
Robert E. Clark
Music.
He
is
teacher of Voice
in
the School of
who
succeeds Miss Eleanor P. Sands,
teaching at Northfield, Mass. Mr. Clark
is
is
now
also Director of
the Bloomsburg Civic Chorus, and the Men’s Glee Club in
Berwick.
Mr. Clark has studied at the University of
Iowa, and Chicago Musical College, and has also studied
with Victor Herbert.
He was
Wanamaker Church
Philadelphia, and was Director of
in
Director of Music at the
the Training School for Music Leaders at Columbia Uni-
San
PT’ancisco where he was Director of the School for Song
Leaders, which was conducted by the Y. M. C. A.
versity during the war.
After the war, he located
in
Marjory McHenry is teacher of Piano in the School
of IMusic. She was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1924,
and later studied at Columbia University. She received
her Diploma from the Institute of Musical Art, New York
City, in 1927. She also took the teacher’s coui’se- conducted by John M. Williams, nationally known authority on
child methods. She gave private lessons in New York for
one year.
Miss
Mary
garten, which
E. A. Merritt has charge of the Kinder-
was reopened
last year.
She
of the high school at Hollywood, California.
is
a graduate
She received
the Kindergarten and First Grade Certificate at the University of California in 1919.
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at Long Beach, California, from 1917 to 1927.
Miss Ruth Beery is the training teacher of first grade
in the College Training School. She received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in Primary Education at the Western
State Teachers College, Gunnison, California. She has
taught in Bui’lington, Colorado, Las Animas, Colorado,
B.S. at
Dillon,
Montana and Gunnison, Colorado.
All subscriptions expiring August, 1928, have been
March, 1929. All Alumni that have sent in
their renewal in response to the notice of expiration have
been credited with payment of 1928 dues and the subs- iiption extended to May 31, 1930.
extended
to
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TEACHERS
The
finest social
event ever held
in
connection with
was the College reception to the teachers in the College gymnasium Tuesday evening, December 4, when three hundred fifty teachers in the county
and town schools and at the college were present.
a county institute
E. H. Nelson
iirogram and
it
that every one
and
S.
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Shortess had charge of the
v^as not long after the reception
was acquainted and having a
opened
fine time.
The gymnasium was beautifully decorated
in blue.
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orange and white and Alexander’s orchestra furnished a
line program of music. Novelty dances were a feature.
Many who did not care to dance enjoyed cards in room
K near the gymnasium. Punch was served during the
evening.
and lecture course of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College opened Nov. 21 at 8:15
o’clock when Dr. George Earl Raiguel, in the College
auditorium gave the first of a series of five lectures and
spoke on ‘.A Political Survey in the United States”.
This year’s
artists’
About 30 enrolled Nov. 6 in the Scout training course
is being given by the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College. The course is directed by Earl N. Rhodes.
which
Hundreds of Bloomsburg Teachers’ College alumni,
many of them returning for the first time in several years,
spent Nov. 17, 1928 in Bloomsburg for the annual Home
Coming Day and although many were keenly disappointed at the football game all were pleased with the fine program that had been worked out by the faculty and l?tudents for their entertainment.
Some
Bloomsburg Friday night
but the majority reached here during the morning or early
of the alumni reached
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witnessed by more graduates than was the game Sat-
afternoon.
urday.
An
game was enjoyed by many while
ing the
dinner
informal get-together in the gymnasium follow-
Hundreds
in
the
gymnasium
Sat-
The gymnasium was
beautifully decor-
the College colors and music
was furnished by
urday evening.
in
number had
and guests had a merry
of alumni, students
time at the dqnce which was held
ated
a
the College dining hall at six o’clock.
in
Alexander’s Orchestra.
The Bloomsburg
audiences
cotte’’,
13, in
Civic
Chorus delighted two large
the comic opera “La Mas-
when they presented
by Audran, on the evenings of December 12 and
the High School Auditorium. The Director of the
member of
another member
opera was Prof. Robert F. Clark, a
faculty.
Prof. S.
I.
Shortess,
ulty,
played one of the leading
roles
were played by Harold Moyer,
’06;
Rowland Hemingway,
’09
’05; Elizabeth Kessler Kashner, ’23;
’21.
;
R. Bruce Albert,
Milleisen Elwell,
and Maree Pensyl,
The male chorus was made up largely
of the College, find
it is
of the fac-
Other principal
roles.
’05; Sara
the college
of students
needless to state that the Alumni
Normal were well represented in both the men’s
Mr. Clark and his Civic Chorus are
greatly to be complimented for the contribution they are
making to the cause of good music in Bloomsburg.
of Old
and
ladies’ choruses.
The Music Department of the College is sponsoring a
series of “Good Music’’ hours during the winter. The
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Sunday, November 18 at 2 :30 p. m. All lovers of music
are welcome. The program was as follows:
first
of the series
Aria from
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Trovatore. Verdi; Hindu Chant,
berg; Ave Maria, Gounod, Miss
Alma
Rem-
Caldwell.
Schumann; Romance F Major, Schumann; Souffrance, Sievesking, Miss Marjory McHenry.
Noveletten,
By the Bend of the River, Edwards; Do Not Go, My
Love, Hageman, Miss Alma Caldwell.
Ballade
A
Major, Chopin, Etude C Minor, Chopin,
Etude E Major, Chopin, Miss Marjory McHenry.
I’ll
sing
Thee Songs
Woolforde-Finden
Bells,
of Araby, Clay;
;
Kaskmiri
Song,
The Temple
Woolforde-
Finden. Miss Caldwell.
As the second number of the College Entertainment
Course, a delightful program was presented by the Boston
fifty
Women’s Symphony
Orchestra, an organization of
talented musicians.
Miss Ethel Leginska, internat-
known artist, is conductor of the orchestra. The
program opened with the overture, “Russian and Ludmilla’’, by Glinka. Following this the orchestra played
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, always a favorite with music lovers.
Miss Leginska then played and conducted
Liszt’s “Hungarian Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra’’.
Following this the orchestra played the Dance of the
Clowns, from the opera “The Snow Maiden’’ by RimskyKorsakoff. The program closed with the Overture “Rienzi’’, by Wagner. This was one of the finest and most expensive attractions ever brought to Bloomsburg, and it
ionally
delighted a capacity audience.
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Samuel Lloyd Sheep, a former resident of Derry town4:28 Monday, October 30 at his home in
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, at the age of 72 years.
He was the son of the late Matthew Sheep, He was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School class of
74 and taught in the schools of Montour and Northumship, died at
berland counties for several years, later going to Elizabeth City w'here he had been superintendent of the schools
of that place for 50 years.
He
is
survived by three sons
and three daughters.
The Elizabeth
City “Independent” printed the fol-
lowing editorial at the time of Mr. Sheep’s death
If
riches
a good
name
is
rather to be chosen than great
Samuel Lloyd Sheep has
left his
children a greater
heritage than silver or gold.
If
kind hearts are more than coronets and simple
faith than
Norman
blood, in the passing of S. L. Sheep,
Elizabeth City has lost a regal citizen.
His interest
in
people, particularly in children, of whom he knew by
name more perhaps than any other man in Elizabeth City,
was one
of his
most pronounced
traits, as
was
ene faith and quiet courage, neither of which,
also a serin
the face
of disappointment or trial, ever faltered.
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man’s success
in life is to
be measured
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if
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is
greatest
among us
surely hardly has Elizabeth City
ever honored a greater soul than Samuel Lloyd Sheep.
Thus it is that today not only his children
call him blessed but also a great host of those
has taught and who have taught under him.
To
us
from
failing
up
to
whom
he
rise
hands he threw the torch that
years ago he lighted in the Albemarle. Be ours to hold
it
high
J.
K. Bittenbender lives on Route No.
1,
Upper Marl-
boro, Marfland.
1889
Benjamin Apple, of Sunbury, Pa., has been elected
Northumberland County.
State Senator from
1890
Onandaga Street, SyraSurgeon-in-Chief of the new Onandaga
Dr. T. L. Deaver lives at 677
cuse, N. Y.
He
is
General Hospital which has just been completed.
Dr.
Deaver has the following to say about the hospital “It
is one of the most efficient institutions of its kind in the
United States. It has every modern facility, and is beautiful throughout. I extend to you all a very cordial invitation to come and see it. Do not wait until you are sick.
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Come and
see,
Shamokin, Pa., has been
Congress as Representative from the Sev-
Frederick
re-elected to
and be kept well.”
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Rev. Foster U, Gift
tion
in
Superintendent of Instruc-
Motherhouse Training
Baltimore, Md., has recently written another
book. The
new book
Lutherans as Keybooks.
title
is
of the Lutheran Deaconess
School
new
who
of this
new
book. In
one
is
in a series
“The Ministry
it
known among
of
Love”
is
the
Dr. Gift treats of such things
Work, Ministerial Pensions, National Lutheran Council and June Missions. We rejoice that Dr. Gift
was selected for this fine work. This is his third book. His
others are “A Compendium of Christian Doctrine”, and
as Deaconess
“Week Day
Religious Education”.
1898
R. Daisy Klutz (Mrs. L.
H. Brown)
lives at
619 East
Washington, D. C. She is Secretary of the
Stanton Park Citizens’ Association, and is also Historian
of the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher
Capitol Street,
Associations.
Her husband
is
Assistant Paymaster at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D. C. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown have two children, a daughter who is a
student at George Washington University, and a son who
is
high school.
in the
1885
Fred Holmes, (Edith Ent) of West street,
Bloomsburg, has rounded out 45 years of service as organist of the Fii-st Methodist Church and her faithful services over that long period of years were recognized at
Mrs,
ye.sterday morning’s service at the church.
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organ and a letter thanking her for her
fine services v^’as
given her by the official board of the church. Rev. H. F.
Babcock, the pastor, spoke of this exceptional service during the morning services.
1886
Jeremiah Reeder is still teaching Garfield School,
Shamokin. He has been Principal and teacher there since
1897. He is living at 909 East Sunbury Street, Shamokin,
Pa.
1889
Miss Lulu C. Briggs and James P. Grimes, well
known
were quietly married Aug. 15 at
of the bride, corner of Third and
Jefferson streets, by Rev. Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. J. K. Adams, of
town. The wedding was witnessed by a few friends.
Bloomsburg
residents,
9 :30 o’clock at the
They
home
will reside in
Bloomsburg. Mr. Grimes
is
em-
ployed at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
both he and the bride have
many
friends in this section.
1895
Mr.
W.
A. Shuping visited the school on Sept. 26,
1928, and called on some of the teachers
school at that time.
He had
here thirty years ago.
great changes.
It is
who were
in the
not been back since he
needless to
left
say that he saw
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Danville, Sept. 16.
— Danville Rotary Club paid hon-
or to Professor D. N. Dieffenbacher, retired supervising
weekly meeting this
evening. He was the guest of honor at the dinner at
Round Top Inn, near Muncy.
principal of the public schools, at
D. E.
its
Edmondson, president, was chairman and Prof.
DeWitt Jobborn, secretary of the club, spoke
work of Prof. Dieffenbacher during his long term.
J.
of the
Prof. Jobborn eloquently detailed his connection with
the
work
of the retired official
with the schools.
and traced
He dwelt upon
his connection
the ideals which the
guest of honor had set up for the children of the com-
munity, and told of his interest in civic affairs. Prof. Job-
born remarked that the influence set up was an everlasting
monument which would be remembered by gener-
ations.
1901
The following from the Public Ledger concerning
Nevin Elwell Funk, son of N. U. Funk, of Espy Road, who
has been named assistant general manager of the Philadelphia Electric Company, will be of interest to his classmates
:
The appointments
of Nevin Elwell
Busell Bryans as assistant general
Funk and Henry
managers
of the Phila-
delphia Suburban Counties Gas and Electric Company,
have been announced by William H. Taylor, president.
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and a
graduate of Lehigh University, began his career with the
Philadelphia Electric
man
Company
in
1907 as assistant fore-
in the station electrical construction division. In
1915
he became assistant operating engineer and two years
lat-
was made operating engineer. In 1926 he became assistant chief engineer and on the death of William C. L.
Eglin last February he was named as his successor as
er
chief engineer.
He
is
a
member
of the
American Society
of Mechanical
Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
National Electric Light Association, American Society for
Testing Materials and the American Mathematical Society.
Louise Larabee
is
now
living at the Hotel Grenville,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
1905
Ida Sitler
is
teaching
in Hollins College, Hollins, Vir-
ginia.
1906
Norma
L.
Hamlin
lives at Falls, Pa.
She
is
postmis-
tress at that place.
1909
Robert Wilner was ordained into the ministry in St.
Stephens Church, Plymouth, Pa., in June, 1928. He and
Mrs. Wilner
ila in
who was Alfa Stark
(1912), sailed for
September, 1928. Their address
Perah, Manila, P.
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We
are indebted to Mrs. V. C. Stein, of Philadelphia,
for the following item
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(Mrs. Frank Buck.)
The following
was received from St. Augustine, Fla., since the hurricane: “We were hit by the storm but nothing like they
were at Palm Beach and Belle Glade. Belle Glade is the
place where the Florida East Coast R. R. had begun buildletter
ing a
new
railroad to reach the sugar plantations and
some celotex
home
is
Everything was wiped out.
factory.
very near the water and
we
Our
got the full force of
The wind
blew up the shingles until the whole east side of the house
leaked. The water just bubbled up inside the screens and
simply flowed in and down the walls. We were mostly
afraid of the trees, for they kept falling all around us. It
the seventy-five mile gale for thirty-six hours.
was
to
as hard a storm as
know
ever care to see.”
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are glad
that our friend and classmate survived that ter-
rible hurricane
without any more serious damage.
1911
Edna Lewis (Mrs.
E. J. Robinson) lives at 1547 Far-
well Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
she states: “I
am
always so glad
In a recent letter
to receive
my
Quarterly.
Being out here among strangers, I look forward
ing, as it is like a breath from home.”
Lottie Spangler,
California.
California.
now
Her address
is
Mrs. M. A. Loose,
to its
is
com-
living in
Verduga Rock, La Crescenta,
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Mabel Smith is married and lives at 64 West Street,
Tunkhannock, Pa. Her married name is Mrs. R. B. Ward.
1911
George D. Wilner
ita,
is
Kansas. His address
Professor of Dramatics in Wichis
1526 North Holyoke Avenue,
Wichita, Kansas.
1913
Dr. C. J. Bennett has charge of a hospital in
Oak
Creek, Colorado. Dr. and Mrs. Bennett have one child, a
little girl.
In a quiet
ents,
ceremony
at the
home
of the bride’s par-
Mr. and Mrs. William Wolfe, of East
street, their
daughter. Miss Letha M., became the bride of Orval Bennett, son of P.
Y. Bennett, of tov^m. Dr.
Norman
S.
Wolf,
Matthew Lutheran Church, officiated at the
ceremony which was witnessed by members of the immediate families and a few close friends.
pastor of St.
The bride and groom are among Bloomsburg’s most
esteemed residents and they have the best wishes of a
host of friends. They were attended by Miss Esther Ke.ster and Guy McBride, of Bloomsburg.
Following the wedding, breakfast was served at the
Wolfe home with the table decorations yellow and white.
The bride and groom then left for Hamilton, N. Y., where
they will reside at 47 Main street.
The groom
is
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State
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He received his
member of the
faculty of Colgate University, at Hamilton. Mrs. Bennett
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High Shcool and for sev-
eral years has
business office
been a most efficient worker in the local
of the Bell Telephone Company.
George Yerg, principal of the Lewistown Junior high
i^chool, died November 2 in the Geisinger Hospital where
he had been a patient for two weeks suffering with ulcers
of the stomach, for v. hich he underwent two operations.
He was
a graduate of the Turbotville high school
and
Bloomsburg Normal, and taught at Yeagertown before
becoming principal at Lewistown ten years ago. He is
rairvived by his wife and two sons, Bindley, aged nine, and
Donald, aged 3, and by five brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 7, at
of
one o’clock at his late home with burial
Mary
Laris,
E. Heacock’s
new address
in
is
Lewistown.
2879 Catawaba
Chickasau Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.
1914
Beulah Fowler (Mrs. R. B. Thomas)
1027A
Her husband
holds a responsible position with the S. S. Kresge Company. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have one son, aged two years.
Commodore Avenue,
St.
lives at
Louis, Missouri.
1915
Mis? Marion Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Miller, of Iron street,
Bloomsburg, lectured
in
Williams-
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The Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin published the following concerning her lecture
to the College
Club
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Miss Marion Miller, one of the lecturers from the
.Metropolitan
Women’s
Museum
of Art, spoke last evening at the
club house to the
members
of the College club
and their guests on “The Homes and Furnishings of the
Colonial Period”. Miss Miller spoke entirely of the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum and her lecture
was accompanied by a complete set of beautiful slides
showing the interiors of American homes beginning with
the early 17th century and carrying on to the Constitutional or Federal period.
Furniture arrangement; the textiles, some imported
from India and others made by the colonists; the ceramies; silverware and china were all clearly shown in the
slides and were commented upon by the speaker.
Miss Miller was a delightful speaker and her descrip-
and explanations of the various types of period furwere distinctly interesting. Some of the rooms
shown in the slides w'ere taken from the Hewitt house on
Long Island, others from the Powell house in Philadelphia, and still others from the Beekman house in New
York city.
tions
niture
Miss Miller’s address
Street,
Apartment
6-8,
is
325 East Seventy-Second
New York
City,
New
York.
1917
Mrs. Horton Bell (Mabel
Dymond) has moved from
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Mrs. Davis T. Smales, whose
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name while
at school
Warner, lives at Laceyville, Pa., Rural
2,
1918
David B. Miller
is
now
living at
3400 Franklin Ave.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Clyde A. Miller
is
building this year a combination
Business and Apartment Building at Danville, Pa.
also an operator
and repairman
He
is
of electric pianos in this
part of the state. In a year or so he
the business of handling and selling
is
all
planning to enter
kinds of store
fix-
tures.
1919
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Birch, of Bloomsburg, an-
nounce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Elizabeth, to Floyd Leon Cole, of Lewisburg, Pa., Monday, July
30, 1928, at Edinboro, Pa.,
tist
by the pastor of the
Fir.st
Bap-
church. Rev. Ivan M. Sherve.
The bride Avas a student of the Bloomsburg High
School, and of the Bloomsburg Teachers’ College. Mrs.
Cole has been teaching History in the Pennsauken Junior
High School, of Merchantville, NeAv Jersey, and returned
there September the fifth.
1920
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Miss Jane Meenahan, daughter of Attorney and Mrs.
John Meenehan and a teacher in the Kulpmont schools,
died at her home here from pneumonia. She was a grad-
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uate of Bloomsburg State Normal School.
1924
Miss Pearl Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Pollock, of Bloomsburg,
became the bride
of Clifford
Snook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Snook, of Hopewell,
New
Jersey, in a quiet
evening,
November
Milford,
New
ceremony performed Wednesday
7, at the Presbyterian
parsonage at
Jersey.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg
High
School, class of 1922, and of the Teachers’ College, class
of 1924.
For the past three years she has been teaching
at Pennington,
New
as a surprise to
many
Jersey.
News
of the
wedding came
friends in town.
Five years ago a group of young men, then
in their
Senior year at the Teachers’ College, had a banquet and
pledged to meet in five years on the evening
Wyoming-Bloom.sburg game.
at that time
of the
On Saturday
that group were back and of the
not attend most of
was
Magee most of
small number who could
night, Nov. 17, at Hotel
them had
sent messages of regret. For
Bloomsburg since graduation, and to all, guests of the class included, it was a
night that will be long remembered for it was made vivid
with reminiscences of school days and with happenings
a
in
few
it
their first visit to
the lives of each of the class.
The majority
of those at the banquet
were members
were attending College
part of the time that the members of the class were there.
of the class of 1924 while others
Practically every
member
as he told briefly of his life
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during the past years spoke of never having forgotten the
pledge made to meet
in reunion-
All declared that
was
meet
it
great to be back with the gang and the motion to
here again on the evening of the home-coming day of 1930
met with unanimous approval and every one
at the ban-
quet signed the pledge.
Frank L. “Ace” Buss, of Wilkes-Barre, and F. H.
“Shack” Shaughnessy, of Manheim, both prominent members of the class of 1924 were the two men responsible
for arranging the dinner and they were given a hearty
cheer. Mr. Buss happily presided as toastmaster.
The program opened with the singing of “Alma
Mater” with “Normal” used in the song in place of “College” for it was Normal when the fellows were here.
Manager Johnston served an
waffle dinner
in
the private dining
excellent chicken and
room
at the hotel
and
the time went swdftly by as the fellows told of their lives
since leaving Bloomsburg.
Some
had not seen each other since
happy reunions. Many
a laugh climaxed the telling of a story of school day
pranks and few remained in their chairs when the pre.slding officer called for all who had been on “campus”
of the fellows
leaving school and there were some
part of the time to stand up.
them also graduates, entered into
the meeting and the program was made even
Guests, several of
the spirit of
more delightful by
their contributions.
The group was delighted with the
tendered to
all
cordial reception
of the alumni by the faculty
and student
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fine spirit
displayed by
the undergraduates, even in the face of defeat.
Every fellow pledged
come
to
do his best to aid
in getting
and declared they were
back of the team. “BiH” Partridge, who played on
the Maroon and Gold team two years, told the group he
had made a resolution to see every Bloomsburg-Wyoming
game until Bloomsburg won and that thus far he has seen
athletes to
to the College
solidly
every contest.
fine spirit
Many
of the fellows fell in line with the
displayed by “Bill” and promised to see every
now on
one of the games from
efforts of
A
until victory
crowns the
Bloomsburg.
plea for every fellow to put his shoulder to the
wheel and aid Bloomsburg athletics
celebrate a
Wyoming
victory
so that they could
when they meet
in
1930
brought a ringing cheer.
Most of the fellows who are back have been
in
the
teaching profession since graduation. Several are heads
of their departments in special fields while one
and another a school
cipal
In planning for the
open
it
is
a prin-
director.
1930 dinner the crowd voted
to
not only to those at the dinner Saturday night and
others who had been at the first dinner but to all men who
were members of the class of 1924. The committee in
charge of the 1930 dinner is composed of William Partridge, of Trevorton; Harold Llewellyn, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Edward Schuyler, of Bloomsburg.
Those attending were: F. H. Shaughnessy, Manheim John Kanyuck, Nanticoke F. J. Matos, Forest City
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Everett N. Jameison, Scranton; James
W.
Jones, Kings-
Gordon Llewellyn,
Parsons; Thomas R. Rowland, Scranton; Arthur M. Abbott, Catawissa George Sack, Catawissa Frank L. Buss,
ton; Walter P. Benninyer, St. Johns;
;
;
Wilkes-Barre; Patrick
J.
Kane, Forest City; William
J.
Joseph M. Gallagher, Tresckow
Edward F. Schuyler, Bloomsburg; F. R. Geiegle, W. H.
Partridge, Trevorton; James W. Reynolds, Ashley; Peter
Jones, Edwardsville
Sincavage,
Sugar
;
Notch;
Roy
C.
Bennett,
Scranton,
Harold Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre, and Charles Shipturas,
Sugar Notch.
ley,
On Tuesday morning, November 20, Miss Ella Freiddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Freidley, of Benton,
became the bride
of Clayton C. Robbins, son of Mrs.
Eva
Robbins, of Orangeville.
The wedding was performed by the Rev. James V.
Lewis, of Pittston. The couple was unattended.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Benton Vocational
School, class of 1924, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class of
1926.
She
is
also
an accomplished
pianist.
The groom attended the Benton Vocational School
and for the past six years has been employed as a painter
by the Orangeville Manufacturing Co.
The romance started when the young people attended high school. The couple are two of the up-creek’s most
popular young people. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins are on an
extended weddings trip.
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At a dinner and bridge given by Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Aul at their home in Espy Friday evening, November 30,
they announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Geraldine K. Aul, to Carl M. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Davis, of Espy. The young couple is among the most
esteemed in this section.
Both Miss Aul and Mr. Davis were members of the
class of
The
1924 of the Scott Township High School.
bride-to.-be
also a graduate of the
is
Teachers’ College and
is
now
Hershey schools. Mr. Davis
is
Bloomsburg State
a successful teacher in the
a graduate of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, class of 1928, and during his college
career was a
member
of the State track team.
He
is
now
vocational supervisor in the high school at Bellville.
Clara D. Abbett of Rupert, Pa.,
governess
in a private family.
is
now engaged
Her address
is
as a
Elkins Court
F-3, Elkins Park, Pa.
1925
Miss Gladys A. Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry
S.
Richards, of West street, and one of Bloom.s-
burg’s best
known young women, and Willard Kleckner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of Shickshinny, and
one of that town’s most popular young men, were married
December
1 at
the First Methodist Church of Blooms-
burg by the pastor, Rev. H. F. Babcock.
They were attended by the brother-in-law and
of the bride, Mr.
chantville, N.
ceremony.
J..
sister
and Mrs. H. Stanley Kleckner, of Meiand parents of the couple witnessed the
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home in
December fifth.
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during the morning on a
York
and Boston and will
Philadelphia, New
Mr. and Mrs. Kleckner
motor
o
left
Seigfried, near
Northampton,
Pa., af-
The bride is a graduate of the Hazleton High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, and has been
a successful teacher in the Hazleton schools.
Mr. Kleck-
ner is a graduate of Shickshinny High School and State
College and for the past two years has been assistant superintendent of transmission for the Pennsylvania
and Light Company
at Hazleton.
He was
Power
recently trans-
ferred to Seigfried.
1926
—
As a surprise to their many
came the announcement Nov. 18 at a dinner party
at the Kitchen home, 209 Main street, of the engagement
of Miss Thalia Kitchen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Kitchen, one of Catawissa’s best "known and most esCatawissa, Nov. 18.
friends
teemed girls, to Gilbert Cooper, of Coatesville, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Cooper, Glen Lyon, who was prominently identified with athletics and other college activities when he attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
Both the bride-to-be and Mr. Cooper are members of
the class of 1926 of the State Teachers’ College and have
a number of friends throughout this section. Miss Kitchen for the past three years had been a successful teacher
in
the Catawissa schools and Mr. Cooper
visor of the public schools at Coatesville.
is
now
aid super-
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ceremony in the First Methodist Church
August 16, two of Bloomsburg’s best known
and esteemed young people were united in marriage by
Rev. Harry F. Babcock, the pastor, when Miss Mary Elizabeth Bomboy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Ellsworth
Bomboy, of c96 West Main street, became the bride of
In a pretty
at six o’clock
Hei-bert E. Ralston, of Hazleton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy
Ralston, of 415 Fair street.
They were attended by Miss Evelyn Bomboy, a sister of the bride Roy Ralston, Jr., a brother of the groom
Miss Editha W. Ent and Marion T. Adams. The ceremony
was witnessed by members of the immediate families and
a few close friends.
;
Following the ceremony the bride and groom
a trip through
will
be at home
The bride
New York
at 121
State.
Putman
left
on
Upon their return they
West Hazleton.
street.
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
is
School, class of 1923, and of the Bloomsburg Teachers’
College, class of 1926. For the past
two years she was a
successful teacher in the Sunbury schools.
Mr. Ralston
a graduate of the
is
Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1922, and holds a responsible position with
the
West Hazleton
Floral
of friends in this section
Company, Both have
who wish them much
a legion
happiness.
1928
Dorothy V. Jones
Her home address
is
is
substitute in Pittston
High School.
16 Charles Street, Pittston, Pa.
Claude Miller of Pond
shinny Junior High School.
Hill, is
teaching in the Shick-
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Marjorie E. Wallize
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Granville Township schools.
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teaching the fourth grade in
Her address
is 1
Shaw Ave-
nue, Lewistown, Pa.
teaching in the third grade, Ber1132 Orange Street, Berwick, Pa.
Phyllis Callender
wick.
Her
addre.ss
Irene Ellis
is
is
is
is
teaching in Edwardsville. Her address
96 Short Street, Edwardsville, Pa.
VOL.
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NO.
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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SCHOOL
TRAINING
PROPOSED
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMM ASSOCIATION
of the
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Entered as Second-class Matter, July I, 1909, at the Post Office
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
Jenkins,
F. H.
’76
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Editor -in-Chief
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at
Business Manager
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THE NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
Plans for the
new
training school building of the Teachers’
College provide for an unusually complete plant for the grades
which are used as a laboratory for student teachers.
expected that bids on the construction of the building,
It is
which
is
two
stories high
feet in size, will
A
pupils
is
large
be asked
tion teacher
suites of
about 60x160
month.
can there teach a
College observing
will
accommodate 80
lesson with
the
work.
80
A
demonstra-
students of the
Several classes
thus
repetition of the lesson eliminated.
rooms are provided
suite including a session
an
is
real features of the building.
may be grouped and
Seven
this
demonstration room that
one of the
Teachers’
with basement and
in the
building, each
room, group room and cloak room and
office for the training teacher.
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be the kindergarten and grades one
first floor will
and two, the demonstration room and a health room
vided with
all
facilities for
of the
basement
In the
children, a storage
arts’
is
is
needed for such work.
facilities
both boys and
that
girls
pro-
Toilet
are provided on both floors.
a large play
room or gymnasium
room and provision
made
is
for
for the
industrial,
rooms.
On
suites,
the second floor are a teachers’ rest room, others of the
two extra
class
rooms that can be used for the college
classes or for expansion of the training school.
The group rooms are
Instance
accessible to
and may be used from
Work
either
two
room
has almost been completed on the
emergency lighting system
rooms
class
in
every
as desired.
placing of
an
in the college auditorium, the corri-
dors in Waller and Noetling halls and the
fire
towers.
REUNION CLASSES
The following
1874
,
79
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84
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89
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94
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09
Class officers should begin
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now
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19
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24
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was the best Alumni meeting
staff will
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to get ready to
year’s meeting even better than the one held last
The Quarterly
June
classes will hold their reunions next
.
make
this
May, and that
in the history of the school.
be glad to furnish mailing
lists.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
To
All
Bloomsburg Alumni:
Another school year
of our annual
is
in its closing quarter,
Alumni gathering
of our meetings of the past
the present,
—
and the
;
is
and the day
The successes
drawing near.
the achievements of our school
prompt
possibilities of the future,
this
at
mes-
sage to you.
No
small
endeavoring
amount of the pleasure
to fulfill the
honor and
been realized
in
has been mine
in
that has
trust that
serving as your President, has been found in the Annual Alumni
meetings of the past two years.
the large attendance,
and the
The response of our alumni,
interest
and enthusiasm which has
been manifested on these occasions, have been of
the pleasure which has been felt
inspiration
which
surance which
it
it
has given the student body, and
in
in the
the as-
and confidence
in
of
our school, and those
are directly connected therewith.
Two
years ago, in our message,
we
prophesied that under
was
as-
many
vis-
the leadership of President Haas, Bloomsburg’s future
sured.
ible
;
has manifested to the trustees and faculty
the College, of our faith
who
real value in
by those who attended
Now we
urge you to come back and see the
evidences of the truth of our prophecy.
maintenance of the standard of
has always stood, you will see
efficiency, for
In addition to the
which our school
many marked improvements
the physical equipment, buildings, etc., of the College.
probability,
In
in
all
by Alumni Day, the construction of the new $125,-
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building
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dinner.
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will
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The money
be under way.
for this
and the plans are already prepared.
available,
will
endeavor to have a pleasing program, and a good
We
especially urge the
members
of the classes which
are scheduled for reunions this year, to plan
per cent, attendance.
This will require
the part of class officers, but
this year’s
it
some
can be done.
for one
hundred
special
work on
Let us again
make
meeting “the Best Ever.”
With sincere appreciation of the loyal support and co-operation of the past
Bloomsburg and
;
with best wishes for the future success of
all
her Alumni, and with an earnest hope that
you may meet with us on Saturday, May 25th,
Very
I
am
truly.
FRED W. DIEHL,
President Alumni Association.
THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE ART LEAGUE
AND ITS WORK
The Art League
burg
is
composed of
to year.
ty years.
It
of the State Teachers College at Blooms-
the Faculty
has been at work
It
really
the Class of 1903.
began
It
its
and the Senior Class from year
in the
school for
work with
upward
of twen-
the efforts and gift of
has functioned continuously since about
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1909, holding an art exhibit each year except 1922-23.
Each year the Senior
faculty, sponsors
an
Class,
art exhibit
guided by some members of the
by which
it
raises funds to pur-
chase pictures and other objects of art to enrich the school and
enhance
its
environment.
Its
purpose
is
expressed by the
fol-
lowing membership card
1—
ART LEAGUE BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
is
a
member
of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Art League.
The purpose
of the league
is
—^To adorn our walls with the best procurable copies
of
the masterpieces of the ages.
2
To develop
interest in art, a discriminating
and appreciation
best in
3
To
in
our students for the
judgment,
finest
and best
all fields.
give the out-going teachers a knowledge of the cor-
rect principles of
schoolroom decoration, and to edu-
cate them in methods of advancing the cause of school-
room adornment.
4
To
unite in the enjoyment of every beautiful thing.
The work
of the league during the last twelve
been very gratifying indeed.
number
of beautiful pictures,
From year
to
It
months has
has added to the collection a
some
year the exhibit
of
is
them very
rare treasures.
usually based on the Elson
Collection which has been furnished to the public for
many
years
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by the Elson Art Publishing Company of Belmont, Massachusetts.
The funds
raised in this
way
are spent for copies of their photo-
graphic reproductions of the masterpieces of the world suitable
for
Some
schoolroom decoration.
dition to these the exhibit
prints
from other
is
in
touch with a veritable local art
about 400 masterpieces and learn to
art
and something of the schools of
ities
how
to secure
and what
The
know
museum
of
names
in
the great
and love the best
art
in pic-
give.
The prospective teachers, too,
and handle an exhibit in their own commun-
world has to
tures the
learn
by beautiful color
Thus each year our school
art establishments.
and town can come
In ad-
of these are in color.
usually enhanced
is
suitable for schoolroom decoration.
class of
1
928 through
their exhibit
purchased a large
photographic copy of the Milan Cathedral and of Burnes-Jones’
Golden
Stairs.
The
class of
1
929, as a
The Pioneers by Robert W. Amick
in
Blue by Whistler for the
of
result
its
purchased
exhibits,
for fifth grade, the Nocturne
office of the
Dean of
Women
and sev-
eral others.
In addition to these
ed
its
pledge to raise
new
$150
ings purchased last spring.
raise this
to
pictures the Class of
pay
929
fulfill-
work was due
greatly
the play “Applesauce.”
They
This piece of
money they presented
1
for the framing of the etch-
to the effort of their class president, Mr.
Theodore Davis.
To
were trained by the able and always self-denying head of the
Department of Dramatic Expression, Miss Alice Johnston.
Last
of $241
,
March the members of the
faculty subscribed the
for the purchase of nine very fine etchings,
presented to the school.
It
was
this
sum
which were
group of pictures that were
H
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framed by the
agement of
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The
President.
their
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1929 under the able manetchings
were
as
follows:
Rose Bonheur’s “The King Watches,” etched by Dickree; “InMilan Cathedral,” by R. C. Brewer; “Ratisbon Cathe-
terior of
dral,”
by A. Brewer; “Rouen Cathedral,” by L’Hermit; the
St.
Michel Cathedral, by Delanney; “Willows Whiten and Aspens
Quiver,” by Debarner; “Out of the Mist and the Rain,” by Herbert Fedeola;
ing,”
“The Wood Gatherer,” and “The Shepherd Rest-
by Thomas
G.
Appleman.
two
corridor of Waller Hall;
The
stairway of Carver Hall.
Of these
in
portraits of the
and State Superintendents were
in
five
hang
in the
main
Noetling Hall, and two on main
also
former principals
framed uniformly and hung
the auditorium.
The
Class of
to use their
1918
at their tenth reunion
(1928) decided
fund for pictures, and purchased beautiful copies of
Rembrant’s Old Man, etched by Waltner, and Night Watch, etched by Koeffing, for the stairway of Carver Hall.
unusual etchings, valued at
The
a very
Class of
$200
1930 decided
These are both
each.
to purchase another picture of
remarkable copy of VanDyke’s Children of Charles
We
ed by Laguillmir.
place in the
Two
New
Training School
W. Funston,
corridor of the second
etch-
may eventually find its
Building now being planned.
this
engravings presented to the school
fine old steel
Mrs. Charles
riage of
hope that
I
of the Class of
1887 now hang
story of Noetling
Hall.
Titles:
by
in the
“Mar-
Pocohontus” and “Christ Rejected.”
The Art League of the school during these years
functioned
— from
work was done by
1909
gifts
to
1929
— (though
from the classes of
1
it
has
really the pioneer
903 and
1
906.
As
1
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A L V M N
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Mary
early as 1901 Mrs.
partment, did the
initial
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Croswell, then in charge of the Art De-
work by placing
terpieces of art on the walls
several copies of mas-
of the schoolrooms
four art
in
works of
windows through
Literary Societies
and
Y.
They have
art.
C. A.
and
W.
Y.
to
commemorate
50th
schools’
class of
memorial tablets
ter of a
J.
the
;
anniversary
one to Prof.
Wm.
its
contribuin
1920,
graduation of the
They have
teachers.
“Philo”
Alma Mater
the
of
li-
The alumni
C. A.
gave the Tiffany Memorial “Truth and Virtue” as
tion to the enrichment of the life of their
the
placed
also
“Callie” and
the aid of the
M.
in
many hundreds
brary) have earned for the school’s adornment
of dollars, invested
and
Noetling,
also
added three
who gave
a quar-
century of superb service to the school; one to Dr. D.
Waller,
Jr.,
who
served as principal of the institution for a
period of twenty-nine years, and one to the Founders and Trustees of the school
who
for
many
made
years
success of the school their chief concern.
stermaker
fulness
is
now chairman
and enthusiasm has
and more worthwhile cause of
own
There are many phases of
not yet been touched, so
that will enrich
many
the institution
and we hope
petty
this art
F.
Fen-
its
use-
interests in the
their institution
pect bigness of soul, unity of work, and
tion.
Howard
Only as faculty and
begun.
student body forget for a time their
larger
Prof.
of the League,
just
the interests and
growth
in
may we
any
ex-
institu-
development that have
growth and development
lines of
and enhance
its
work.
should be formulated wisely and pursued persistently
These
through
In this way only may we hope for the lives
and pupils to be enriched and the work of the institution enhanced and the community in which our college lives,
be made an ideal college town, a cultured, intelligent, growing
the years to come.
of teachers
people.
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P'or several
years a strenuous effort has been put forth by
the school authorities to modernize
home
a
for
young women
and improve Waller
The
students.
old dangerous stair-
ways were removed some time ago and four
with stairways substituted
Hall, as
fire-proof
towers
A commodious
in strategic locations.
and beautifully furnished lobby now occupies the space of the
old stairway and hallway and business offices.
The plans of renovation provide
three upper stories
ing the rooms
and hallway,
feature, however,
the space
;
is
to
of the stairway, a
room
or reception
The aim
is
to
floors, in
lobby or
students of
floor
and
is
most
that
sat-
have each of these rooms models of
The idea was conceived and
commencement
920
m
for the
small
and comfort.
taste
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have on each of the three upper
The work has been begun on fourth
floor.
isfactory.
remodeling of the
now under way.
is
made by removal
general gathering
for a
putting in concrete flooring and redecorat-
to
the
unite in raising a fund to decorate
so far as
movement
started
last
have the classes which have graduated since
no provision
is
made
and furnish these rooms
for this purpose in the general
funds.
We
are glad to say the project was received kindly and re-
sponses have been coming
ating.
From time
in.
The fund
to time a report will
is
gradually accumul-
be given
in the
Quarter-
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Thus far about $414 have been pledged or paid
treasury on the lobby fund.
lars.
Any
We
want about two thousand
Art League, and
it
will
treasurer of the fund.
“What we
give
much more
we
to us as
Howard
Fenstemaker, President of
F.
be acknowledged, and turned
We
urge
we
will
who have
N. Polaneczky
Atilla
Walter Krolekowski
Edith Davis
Hummel
Teloiv R.
Wagner
Hilda Robinson
Helen Welliver
Helen Ceppa
Mary
Gamble
L. Fruit
Mary
Flick
Clara E. Fisher
Ada
Mowrey
P. Morgan
L.
Minnie Peter
Elias
Doris Moses
Viola M. Kline
Oda H. Baer
A. L. Lenahan
Hannah Golightly
Dorothy V. Jones
Anna Albert
Lois Pfahler
Gertrude Flowers
Marjorie Davrs
John B. Timco
Bronwen
F.
Rees
T. A. Wakefield
Margaret
Jean E. Young
Hazel M. Zigler
Kate D. Becker
Viola V. Clark
Thomas Welsko
Maude Fenstermaker
Olive Scott
Lois Dodson
Clare
Lowenberg
mean
given either
Schoen
Edith M. Behr
Stephen A. Lerda
the
so
sacrifice for her betterment.
cash or pledge
Mildred M.
in to
to contribute to the fund.
all
have,” and our Alma Mater
Following are the names of those
I.
dol-
pledges or cash can be sent to Mr. C. M. Hauseknecht,
Business Manager, or Mr.
Marjorie
into the
J.
Jones
Jean C. Conner
Sylvia
Cimmet
Lydia Bohn
Katherine E. Ball
Helen Bonet Baer
Delma
Ruth A. Baines
E.
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Marian K. Andrews
Frances Pensyl
Arline Hettler
Gertrude A. Ruoff
Marian A. Dennis
Orice Dodge
Fannie R. Kaswitz
Lillian Ottaviani
Laura Zielenski
Margaret Sumner
W. H. Kashner
Mildred Phillips
Ruth Klingerman
Dorothy Goss
B.
M. Robbins
L.
Crouse
Ruth A. Weber
Mary Youtz
Catherine
Margaret
Mildred Taylor
Fear
J.
Jennie Whitenight
Estella Goldsmith
Celia M. Krzyzanski
Mildred Hankee
Mrs. Herbert
Ruth Beaver
Verna Fetterman
Lugg
Mordan
Elva L. Ruckle
Bessie
Arlene Johnson
Beatrice Englehart
Pearl Poust
R.
Carl D. Blose
F. Beatrice
Williams
Pengo Bolles
Henry F. Rohde
Helen R. Kellam
Dorothy Gilmore
Elizabeth Maroney
Mary M. Polya
M. Edna Girton
Margaret Berlew
M. Gerald Sheridan
Sister
Donahoe
Margaret Krapp
Joseph
Elizabeth Rhoades
Richard D. Lowell
Erodue M. Ruggles
Lillian
J.
Wagner Chamberlai
Bessie A. Singer
Mary
James H. Sterner
Virginia Gallen
L.
Healy
Helen Stangert
Hugh VanAernam
Helen Kramer
Helen Jenkes
Ira C.
Markley
Anna W. Pursel
Anna Nancy Zorskas
Christine Smith
Carolyn Ciampi
Bettie
J.
Roberts
Dorothy E. McCollum
Elizabeth Davis
Grace Welter
Eva
L.
Lloyd
Virginia M. Lewis
Ida Steinert
Beatrice Sanford
Doris Palsgrove
Dorothea Geiss
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Mildred Bohn
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Margaret Lewis
Adelaide Bahr
Marjorie A. Orr
Alice M.
Ellen Rupert
Betty McNanimin
Katherine Smith
Jaenette Lesser
Helen Spare
Mary
M. Agnes Sweeney
Kathryn Foye
Edna A. Kulick
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Mary Dushanko
Ebba Carlson
Allinda B. Krause
Gladys
Margaret Shepherd
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Marcella Lipsky
Hirsch
Margaret Keller
Helen Owens
Margaretta Bone
Ethel Roberts
Alice Shields
Marjorie M. Hofmeistcr
Josephine M. Mozukewicz
Dora Wilson Risley
Gladys
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State Education” for November,
following concerning a former
member
Normal School
at
928, has the
of the faculty:
Doctor Howard G. Burdge has resigned
cipal of the State
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his position as prin-
Fredoma where he has
serv-
ed for the past five years.
Doctor Burdge received
his early
education in Ohio
normal school training at Bloomsburg, Pa.
Allegheny College and received
umbia.
His early
professional
his
He
—
his
a graduate of
is
M. A. and Ph. D. from Col-
experience
was
school principal and superintendent of schools.
that
of high
From 1918
to
1921 he was director of research and vocational training in the
New York State Military Training Commission. In 1922-23 he
was assistant director of the Educational Finance Inquiry under
the
American Council of Education.
He is the author of ‘‘Our
a statistical study of boys in industry in New York State,
and he has collaborated on several other books.
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ATHLETICS
The college boosts
the championship of the eastern district
for the basket ball season just closed.
This district includes 8
Normal Schools and Teachers Colleges.
Every one of the
was met by Bloomsburg.
schools in the district
East Strouds-
burg was the only school to boost of as much as an even break
with our squad.
In this case each
team won one game, but
in
other respects East Stroudsburg had to surrender any claims to
Bloomsburg.
Our old
rival,
Wyoming Seminary, was
also a
worthy foe during the season and each school has one victory
to
Academy won
a
its
credit.
game
By a two
point margin Bucknell
This was the only gam.e in which the col-
Bloomsburg.
at
lege
was beaten on the home
that
was
A
floor,
with the exception of a
game
forfeited because of ineligibility of a visiting player.
team that can turn
in a season’s
record of 10 victories
and 3 defeats against such teams as Shippensburg, West Chester,
Wyowing and
East Stroudsburg,
others of
equal caliber
is
well worthy of note.
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—At Home—Alumi 32;
—At Home—Kutztown
The season’s schedule:
W'ednesday, Dec. 12
Saturday, Dec.
1
5
S.
T. C. 60.
S. T. C.
33
S.
;
T. C. 58.
Saturday, Jan. 5
Saturday, Jan.
1
—Away— Lock Haven
2 —Away — Shippensburg 32
12;
S. T. C.
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48.
S. T. C.
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S.
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Saturday, Jan. 19
—At Home—
Bucknell Freshman 41
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S.
T. C. 39.
Friday, Jan. 25
S. T. C.
—At
Saturday, Feb. 2
S.
Home
—Shippensburg
T. C.
32;
S. T. C,
37;
S.
50.
—Away—
East Stroudsburg
T. C. 36.
Saturday, Feb. 9
S. T. C.
—At Home—West
Chester
S. T.
C.
39;
40.
Friday, Feb. '15
—At Home—
Mansfield
S.
T. C.-S.
T. C.,
Forfeited.
Saturday, Feb. 16
—At Home—Lock Haven
S. T. C.
25;
S.
T. C. 57.
Saturday, Feb. 23
—Away—
Mansfield
S. T.
C.-S. T.
C.
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For-
feited.
Friday,
37;
S. T. C.
March
1
—At Home—
East Stroudsburg
S. T.
C.
44.
Saturday, March 2
—Away—Wyoming
Seminary 31
;
S.
T. C. 28.
Saturday, March 9
—At Home—
Millersville S. T. C.
34;
S.
T. C. 38.
Friday March 15; Saturday, March 16; Friday, March 22;
Saturday, March 23
by Mahanoy
City.
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As indicated by the above schedule, the basket
ball activi-
the school closed with the 8th annual High School Tourn-
ties at
Teams
ament.
good showing
hoped
that
districts
The
A. A.
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tries in
college acts as hosts to the vis-
way
every
Changes
and worth while.
much more
own
in their
teams and
who have made a
and who have the official
are invited for competition
sanction of the P.
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to
in the
make
gymnasium have made
from the spectators point of view and
suitable
by next season proposed projects
thereby adding
stay pleasant
their
much
will
it
it
is
be completed,
to the success of the annual spring tourna-
ment.
The tournament
list:
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March 15th.
Friday,
9 00 A. M.
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Twmp.
vs.
—
Larksville vs. Mainville
Luzerne:
1
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—Coal
0 00 A. M.:
—Mahanoy
City vs. Dickson
—Wyoming Newport Twp. 2:00
M. — Hershey
Duryea; 3:00
Hazleton
00
Twp.
4:00
M. — Bloomsburg
City;
12 M.
vs.
;
vs.
vs. Plains
P.
ville vs.
P.
;
5
:
—West
M. —Dan-
M.
Freeland;
vs.
P.
P.
Hanover.
Saturday, March 16th.
2:30
hanoy City
land;
vs.
9:00
—
M. — Bloomsburg
M.
P.
P.
Larksville vs. Coal
Newport Tw'p; 8:00
Friday,
8:00
Duryea
vs.
P.
M.
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M.
P.
M.
—Duryea
—Ma-
vs. Free-
Hanover.
March 22nd.
Coal Twp.
Hanover.
vs.
Twp; 3:30
P.
vs.
Mahanoy
City;
9:00
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9:00
lianoy City.
P.
P.
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City vs.
Duryea.
Winner
:
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Previous tournament winners have been:
922
Newport.
1923
Newport.
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924
Wilkes-Barre.
1
925
Taylor.
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926
Newport.
1
927
Nanticoke.
1
928
Nanticoke.
too early to say
mind the Alumni of the
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we would re
928 Alumni Day game which saw Wymuch about
oming Seminary humbled 3-2.
baseball, but
The same
attraction will be here
(May 25). Come and
Bloomsburg team make Wyoming bite the dust.
for
—Ma-
Lossers play for 3rd and 4th places Saturday 8
Alumni Day
this spring
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3 —Wyoming Seminary —
20—Shippenburg
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26—Shippensburg
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The schedule:
April
April
April
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S.
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Here.
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May 3 —
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May 4 — Kutztown
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May 8—
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May
—Lock Haven
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May
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May 8—
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May 25 —Wyoming Seminary —
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S. T. C.
Mansfield
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S. T. C.
There.
S. T. C.
Here.
Here.
S. T. C.
E.
Mansfield
S. T. C.
There.
There.
S. T. C.
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S. T. C.
East
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There.
Here.
E. H. Nelson, ’ll.
NAMED TO BOARD TRUSTEES
William
S.
Johnson, of
Berwick,
district
manager
of the
American Car and Foundry Company, has been named a member of the board of trustees of the Teachers’ College here, suc-
ceeding William
of business
filled
and
L.
ill
Groce, of Selinsgrove,
who
The appointment
health.
resigned because
of Mr. Johnson has
the only vacancy which Existed on the board.
A
daughter, Jane Louise, was born October 5 to Prof, and
Mrs. George
J. Keller.
Mrs. Keller was formerly Miss Eleanor
Evans, daughter of County
Evans.
Superintendent and
Mrs.
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A
very successful banquet of the Luzerne County Alumni
was held
ing
Mr. D. T. Mah-
Wilkes-Barre, February 6, 1929,
in
oney, ’09,
who was
in
charge of the
sends us the follow-
affair,
—
communication regarding the banquet:
Dear Alumi:
—
That the Bloomsburg Alumni Banquet held
ington, February 6, 1929,
which
want
hear expressed by
I
was a
those
all
to state also that our records
success for the
sum
of one
I
attended the
that
affair.
was a
it
opinion
the
is
and the net proceeds
deficit
(Banquet held
I
financial
in
is
al-
1920)
hundred dollars ($100.00).
want
purchased
in
who
show
of the donations
most enough to clear up the old
success
social
Red-
at Hotel
to thank all those
tickets,
who made
and especially
all
donations,
those
who
all
those
who
so loyally aided
the sale of tickets.
The group was highly pleased with the speakers and
tainers:
Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. Henshall, Mr.
Zeiser,
Mr.
enterSutliff,
Mr. Bakeless and Dr. Haas.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the State Teachers’ College
has been invited by the
New
Jersey Educational Commission to
join with six other distinguished educators in
the
New
making a survey
of
Jersey school system.
Four of these experts have been selected from
sey and the other three are from out of the state.
of the survey
school system
is
to provide a plan
may be improved.
New
Jer-
The purpose
whereby the New Jersey
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TEACHER TRAINING AGREEMENT APPROVED
The teacher
1929-1930
training
as submitted
agreement for the
by
term of
school
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, has been accepted by the
Bloomsburg school board and passed with the recommendation
and the college allow the contract
that the district
to
remain
in
force from school year to school year unless either party wishes
to terminate
Such action must be taken before April
it.
first
preceding the next school term.
The contract
school district
there
is
as submitted
by
substantially the
is
Dr.
Haas and accepted by the
same
although
as last year,
a slight change in the wording.
The terms
of the contract follow
“The Board
of Directors authorize the Teachers’ College to
use the schools of the district for teacher training subject to such
regulations as
may be made by
the superintendent
of the
dis-
trict.
“Each
class
room used
for teacher training shall
approximately 50 per cent, of the time by the teacher
employed by the
“It
is
be taught
in
charge
district.
specifically
understood that the college
from the school immediately any student teacher
will
withdraw
at the request
of the superintendent.
“The
college will use only such teachers
teacher training
work and only such teachers
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as are
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“The
legal salary schedule for cooperative teacher training
approved by the State Council of Education of Pennsylvania gov-
who
erns the additional salary for teachers
are designated for
teacher training work.”
Never before has the agreement between the
district
and
the college been entered into so far in advance of the opening
of the school year which
affects
it
and never has there been as
opposition to the agreement on the part of
little
The board expressed the opinion
board.
the present school year
was working out
members
of the
that the agreement of
to the
mutual benefit
of both parties.
The Berwick school
approved a
board has also
similar
agreement for next year.
Bids are being asked by the Teachers’ College for the erection of
an entrance
into Waller Hall at the northeast corner
just opposite the post office
which
located in
is
Such an entrance and outside stairway
for the
men
make
that building.
it
much
residing in North Hall to get to the dining
A way
Waller Hall.
also
will
for
men
and
easier
room
in
to reach the college infirmary will
be provided.
It is
now
necessary for the
men
to
and enter by the way of the gymnasium
south to get into Waller Hall.
start just as
soon as the contract
go around the building
or go around toward the
Work on
is
the improvement will
awarded and the work
is
ex-
pected to be completed long before the close of the present
term.
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TEACHERS’ COLLEGE CONFERENCE
TO BRING 700 HERE
Seven hundred educators, members of the
IN
FALL
the
faculties of
State Teachers’ Colleges of Pennsylvania, will be guests here for
two days during the Thanksgiving season
nual conference, which
Announcement
ers’
College for the
to
is
be held
this
of the selection of the
1
year for the an-
at the Teachers’ College.
Bloomsburg Teach-
929 meeting was made
recently
by Dr.
Francis B. Haas, principal of the local college.
The conferences have been held annually
during the Thanksgiving vacation
The conference
some years
teachers colleges and in
in the
by about seven hun-
the past several years have been attended
dred each year.
for
lasts for
two days.
The Senior Play was presented Thursday evening, December 20.
The play chosen
for this year’s
plesauce,” by Barry Connors.
the cast: Jack Fortner, Grace Kivler,
Scanlon, William
performance was “Ap-
The following were members of
Swinehart, Arthur
Charlotte Mears,
MacKenzie and
Ruth
Wilbur
Fischer.
Prof. Charles H. Albert has
er
W. Tope
the
work
in the
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton
because of the
Prof. Albert has
years.
been authorized by Rev. Hom-
League
of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon
recent
death of Rev.
to look after
districts temporarily,
J.
Mitchell
Bennetts.
been speaking for the League for a number of
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The budget submitted
Fisher gives
some
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to the state legislature
interesting figures
by Governor
on the operations of the
Teachers’ College here.
Total expenditures of the institution for this biennium are
estimated at $1,026,927, of which more than $450,000
and wages of employes.
salaries
$235,238
000
for buildings
Included
in
another item of
is
and construction and more than $103,-
for food.
Receipts are estimated as equal to
expenditures
and
clude $345,000 for maintenance, $12,900 for repairs and
ations,
$197,000
for
students for board,
new
construction,
$64,085 from students
in
alter-
for instruction.
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1925-26, $475,000
in-
$348,000 income from
These figures compared with $347, 86
in
is
total expenditures
1926-27, or $822,186
in the
1925-27
biennium.
tees,
Mrs. Paul E. Wirt, wife of a
member
died December 29, 1928,
at her
after a week’s
illness
with pneumonia.
of the Board of Trus-
home
She
is
in
Bloomsburg,
survived by her
husband and a daughter, Pauline.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev.
Heistand, rector of
made
in
St.
J.
Thomas
Paul’s Episcopal Church and burial
Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg.
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Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, scored a great success
their first presentation in the college
ing,
March
crowd
19, a
young men under the capable
recently
hundred thoroughly en-
was well
presented by the
direction of Prof. Robert E. Clark.
Considering the fact that
of
auditorium Tuesday even-
of about four
joying the two part program which
in
it
was the
first
program of
this
formed organization, the work of the more than a score
members was remarkable, both
the presentation of the
Men
took
all
first
in the
group numbers and
act of the opera,
of the roles in the opera
in
“La Mascotte.’’
and
their
impersona-
were one of the features of the snappy and entertaining
tions
program.
The club made a
they wore for the
ber,
first
fine
appearance
in
part of the program.
evening dress, which
The opening num-
“Old Friends Together,” was sung before the curtain was
drawn and
this
nade.”
“Little
lowed.
The
was followed by “Sarita” from “Spanish SereGreen Winding Lane” and “Torch Dance”
first
part of the
fol-
program closed with the singing of
“Alma Mater.”
Principals in the presentation of the opera were: Bettina,
Armond
erick,
Keller; Princess Fiametta,
Haven Fortner; Prince Fred-
Jack Fortner; Farmer Rocco, Arthur McKenzie; Pippo,
Henry Warman and Prince Lorenzo, Samuel Kurtz.
The college orchestra under the
maker, furnished a program of music
gram.
direction of H. F. Fenstein
connection with the pro-
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Mr. Marion A. Kline from Cheyenne, Wyoming, called on
friends in
He came
Bloomsburg December 8th.
East to appear
before the Supreme Court of the United State at Washington, D.
Wyoming.
C. to represent the State of
The death
of Rev. Harry
Moyer, Third and Railroad
C.
streets,
Moyer, son of Mrs, Albert
Bloomsburg, occurred
the
in
Martinsburg, West Virginia, hospital, at seven o’clock Saturday
morning, January
by a cerebral
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2.
Mr. Moyer
became
fell
about two weeks preceding
Thursday he grew much
his
of
Mary A. and
his family
make
their
recovery seemed probable, but
at the time of his
He was born
ton county.
age
to the hospital last Tues-
death was serving a
came
to
at Selinsgrove
and was the
the late Albert Moyer.
home. Mr. Moypr was educated
the latter institution
in
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taught in Bloomsburg and at
this
work
oldest
At an early
Bloomsburg, the father’s native town,
Following
He graduated
other points
to enter the ministry,
his
in
to
public schools
in the
Bloomsburg and the State Normal School.
gave up
on
Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisonville, Ful-
in the
child of Mrs.
his condi-
worse.
The Rev. Mr. Moyer
charge
Ap-
his death.
But a week later
and he was taken
serious
For several days
day.
brought on
lesion.
parently he was not severely hurt.
tion
to paralysis
at
graduation he
the
county.
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Benezette,
in
Breeze-
wood, Washingtonville, Cogan Valley, Cherry Tree, Farragut
and
at
Jonestown, Columbia county.
For the
last
two years he
has been at Harrisonville.
He
is
survived by his wife, formerly Elizabeth Adams,
Roaringcreek and three daughters
ton
Mrs. Bertram
;
His mother,
:
Mrs.
Andrew
Boyd and Miss Olive Moyer,
Moyer and
Mrs. Albert
brother also survive:
the
Slavin, of Eas-
of Williamsport.
following sisters and
Mrs. Lucetta White, Misses
Mabel Moyer and Albert Moyer,
all
of
and
Edith
of Bloomsburg.
Services were conducted in the Mulberry Street Methodist
church
in
uary 15.
trict,
was
Williamsport at
2:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Jan-
Dr. J. H. Ake, superintendent of the Harrisburg disin
He was
charge.
assisted
by
W. Long,
Dr. J.
pres-
ident of Dickinson Seminary.
1889
Edward
many
home in
E. Caldwell, for
burg resident, died
at his
known Blooms-
years a well
Detroit, Michigan, at
2:30
o’clock Saturday morning, following a lingering illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, the latter formerly Miss Esther Geddis,
have resided
in Detroit for the last
ten years
greater part of that time Mr. Caldwell has been in
unedrwent a very serious operation and
last July,
however,
with
ill
health.
his condition
what improved following the operation.
ill
and during the
was some-
He became
a complication
He
of heart
seriously
trouble,
asthma and dropsy.
Mr. Caldwell was one of Bloomsburg’s
riers,
the others being
Edwin H. Ent and H.
first
S.
three letter car-
Pohe.
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ser-
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896.
for
two years
when he
as a rural carrier
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as a carrier in
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He served
ser-
then
resigned from the ser-
and took a position during the war with the Berwick plant
of the American Car
Caldwell and he
He was
&
moved
there, Mrs.
to Detroit.
the son of a Presbyterian clergym.an
number
the congregation at Elysburg for a
sister.
From
Foundry Company.
Miss Martha Caldwell,
who
who
served
With
of years.
died about six years ago and
his uncle, Ezekiel Caldwell, he resided in Bloomsburg for
years.
In his
his
many
younger days he was a member of the Blooms-
burg baseball team
—back
in
the Hayes
and Shaffer battery
days.
1894
David Wiant, aged 55, prominent Huntington Township
farmer, died from injuries received
when
his truck
was struck
by a Jersey Central engine on a grade crossing near Mocanaqua.
A
fifteen
year old niece,
who was
with him on the seat of the
truck at the time of the crash, escaped without injury.
Mr. Wiant was on his
way
“back road” from Mocanaqua
of the Jersey Central on
its
to
market and had taken the
to Glen Lyon.
At the crossing
spur back of the mountain into Moc-
anaqua, at a point known as Green Creek, the truck was
down by an
run
engine running light toward Mocanaqua to pick up
a train of cars.
The truck was almost completely demolished and
occupants were hurled a considerable distance.
the two
Mr. Wiant was
hurriedly taken to the Nanticoke Hospital suffering with a frac-
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lured skull, broken leg and other injuries.
at
10 o’clock and his death occurred at 10:35.
Mr. Wiant was born
life there.
He was
in
Huntington township and spent
active in township affairs
his
and had served
several terms as a school director.
Surviving are his wife and four children, Emerson, George,
Herman,
in
the West; Anna, a trained nurse.
1896
Captain Charles M. Oman, native of Light Street,
who
suc-
ceeded Read Admiral Cary T. Grayson as the head of the Naval
dispensary, has had a varied career in the navy, in which he has
served with distinction for the past twenty-six years.
Captain
Oman
is
one of the most prominent members
navy and has had a wide experience
the medical corps of the
all
of
in
parts of the world.
Born
in
Light Street in 1878, he graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in
Naval Medical corps
in
1901 and
in
1902 entered the U.
February and has served
in the
S.
various
grades and on various ships and shore stations.
He served on
on gunboats, on
the China station on three different occasions,
five battleships, as fleet
surgeon, as executive
surgeon of hospitals, as surgeon at the American
Legation
Peking, China, as operating surgeon in hospitals, as
ing officer of the U. S. Naval Medical School
and
in
in
command-
other capaci-
ties.
In
1908 he made the
United States battleships.
cruise
around the world with the
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During the world war he saw service
pital, in
command
of the hospital ship
of Base Hospital No.
Navy Cross
in Brest,
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He was awarded
France.
the
for distinguished service during that conflict.
Captain
Oman
has been awarded the navy cross, the medal
for service in the Philippine
in the
in the
Cuban
Oman
and a Red Cross
star,
government for service
Italian
sina earthquake disaster in
Captain
medal with
pacification, a
medal issued by the
campaign, medal for participation
in
the Mes-
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a m.ember of the Xi honorary fraternity,
is
of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, member of
the Society of Foreign Wars, Caraboa Association
and member
of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, of the Army
and Navy Club, of the Army-Navy and Marine Country Club and
of the
Chevy Chase Club
at
Washington, D. C.
1898
Mrs. L. H. Brown, of
619
East Capitol Street, Washington,
who was formerly R. Daisy Klutz, North Carolina, recently
visited her Alma Mater. She had seen but two of the teachers or
D. C.,
students in thirty years.
Her husband
is
now
Assistant
Pay-
master at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington,
D. C.
They have two
children, a daughter
George Washington University and a son who
Mrs.
school.
sociation
;
Brown
is
who
is
is
a student at
a student in high
Secretary of Stanton Park Citizens’ As-
also Historian of the District of
Columbia Congress of
Parent-Teacher Association, Washington, D. C.
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Announcement
as
been made of the engagement of Miss
Grace Leaw, of Langhorne, Pa., to Charles W. Miller, of Pasa-
The
dena, California.
latter
the brother of
is
Frank
Mrs.
P.
Pursel, of town.
Leaw and Mr.
Miss
Miller
were classmates
The marriage
burg State Normal School.
will
at the
Blooms-
take place
in
the
Spring.
1899
The Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph had the following
recently regarding Miss Elsie Hicks, a former
dent
Bloomsburg
resi-
:
Miss Elsie Hicks, organist of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist,
was born
Bloomsburg, Pa., of American parentage,
in
On
though of English, French, German and Welsh ancestry.
parental side she
is
the
a descendent of Elias Hicks, founder of the
Hicksite Quakers.
Miss Hicks began her musical education at 8 years of age
with Prof.
W.
I.
appearance
Niles,
and
her school class, playing
time, too, she
in
at
9 years she made her
From
in concert.
all
this
the
first
public
on she was the musician of
songs and marches.
was doing much accompanying
for violin
At
this
and voice
her home.
Her next piano instructor was Charles Elwell, a graduate of
the
New England
conservatory.
At the age of
1
5
years. Miss Elsie
graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Normal School and the following year she took
postgraduate work studying piano and voice with Signorina Ru-
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becoming Mrs.
Y
Maude Runyan
bina Ravi of Florence, Italy, and organ with Mrs.
Colley, later
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Colley’s assistant at the First Pres-
byterian Church.
At
this time, thru interested
teachers and friends, a benefit
concert was given Miss Hicks, to enable her to further study at
the
New England
conservatory, Boston, Mass.
In this latter institution, she took a soloist course, studying
piano with Carl Stansny, a pupil of Liszt
;
organ with Henry Dun-
ham, a noted organist and composer, theory, with Louis
and harmony with Benjamin
C. Elson,
Cutter.
After graduation, from the conservatory. Miss Hicks ap-
peared
tists
as
in
concert in various eastern
Madam
Lillian Blauvelt,
garian virtuoso,
who
Her
was
first
This
and he
she could arrange to live in
she
and the
late
playing for such ar-
Rafael Joseffy, Hun-
presented her with his book,
Advanced Piano Playing.”
the artist to compile
cities,
work required
also offered her instruction gratis
New York
if
City.
church position was held at the age of 19 when
and choir director of the Mahoning Presbyter-
organist
From
ian Church, of Danville, Pa.
Presbyterian Church
in
her
home
Several years ago Miss
there she played in the First
town.
Hicks came to
this
played professionally ever since, both here and
pearing
“School of
eight years for
in theatre
and
in
city
and has
Denver, ap-
in hotel orchestras.
She was pianist with the Sunday afternoon orchestra concerts held in Stratin
the Musical Club
Park for a number of seasons and
Symphony
later
with
orchestra.
She has held positions as organist of the
First Presbyterian
Church, First Baptist Church, Unitarian, First Methodist Episco-
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tion.
Miss Hicks
sicians
and was
is
a
member
American Federation of Mu-
of the
for four years one of the examining boards for
the local Musicians Union, No. 154.
1900
Prof. G. Elmer Wilbur, a native of
Florida’s
most prominent educators, died
Hospital, Baltimore, Md.,
A
Bloomsburg and one of
Johns Hopkins
in the
August 28, 1928.
brain tumor, similar to that from which he recovered in
September, 1927, and pneumonia, which developed about two
weeks before, caused
In
his death.
He was aged 44
years.
September, 1927, Prof. Wilbur became seriously
was removed
to the
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
where some of the leading physicians studied the case.
tracted nation wide interest
and
ill
Md.,
It
at-
and was broadcast nation wide by
news gathering agencies.
After considerable work physicians finally discovered that
a tumor on the brain
E.
was
the cause of the illness
and Dr. Walter
Dandy, noted brain surgeon, performed an operation, which
was one of the most outstanding
moved
in
medical history
when he
Prof. Wilbur’.s recovery, following the operation,
id.
his
re-
the tumor.
He returned
work
as
Florida city
to his
home
in
head of the schools
is
was
rap-
Jacksonville and soon resumed
in
Duval county
in
which the
located.
In July the other
tumor on the brain had developed and on
August 3rd Dr. Dandy again performed an operation and remov-
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it
at the
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was
that disease
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developed and
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which
is
later
pneumonia
thought to have caus-
his death.
Born
Prof,
in
Bloomsburg, Prof. Wilbur was the son of the
and Mrs. George
He was
E. Wilbur.
a graduate of
late
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and had a legion of friends
m
Bloomsburg and
vicinity.
He was
also a graduate of Dickin-
son College.
Soon after he
in
educational
left
work
college he went to Florida
until his death.
and was active
For the past several years
he was superintendent of the schools of Duval county and was
re-elected in June to serve another term in that position.
He
was a 33rd degree Mason.
He
bur, Jr.,
IS
survived by his wife and one son, George Elmer Wil-
and a brother, Harry Curran, of Chicago.
was taken
to Jacksonville
where funeral
services
The body
were held on
August 30.
Miles Killmer, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,
a brother-in-law of Mrs.
W.
B. Sutliff,
was one
of
men who February 22 spoke over the radio from underneath East River, New York, when a test was made to determine
the
if it
was
possible to broadcast from under water.
who graduated from
Mr. Killmer,
the completion of his course here,
construction of the
New
was
State College following
chief engineer during the
Holland tube and
is
now
superintendent
of the operations during te placing of the tube which connects
Brookly and
New
York.
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Miss Nelle L. Imboden, a resident of town for
years and
26
widely known, died Saturday morning, February 11,
o’clock at the
home
of her sister, Mrs. Charles
Fourth Street, after a long
J.
at
five
Keller, of
West
illness.
Miss Imboden was stricken with congestion of the lungs
July and an abscess formed.
last
failed to
improve her
illness
when her
Later,
was diagnosed
condition
as tuberculosis
she was confined to her bed most of the time since
last
summer.
Miss Imboden was a native of Luthersburg, but had
home with
her
her sister since she was
1
6
years of age.
was a graduate of the music department of the Teacher’s
lege
and taught music for several years.
uate
in
ed
the commercial course and for
in the
and
in
made
She
Col-
She was also a grad-
some years was employ-
court house, serving as deputy register and recorder
as commissioners’ clerk.
ployed
and
Lancaster.
For about two years she was em-
For about
six years she
had been employ-
ed by the Columbia County Trust Company and after
its
merger
with the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company.
Miss Imboden was 42 years of age and was a
the Presbyterian Church.
member
of
She held the highest esteem of a wide
circle of friends.
Surviving are her
Imboden, of
St.
sister,
Mrs. Keller and one brother,
J.
A.
Mary’s.
1905
Mrs. Samuel
D.
Mock
(Lillie M. Peiffer) lives on Wilson Street,
Her post office is Sinking Spring, Penna., R.
Their son Donald is a Sophomore in Muhlenberg College,
Springmont, R. D.
Allentown.
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Dr.
Raymond C. Creasy has been promoted to the teaching
New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospi-
staff of the
tal,
as Instructor in the
Dr. Creasy
is
Department of Laryngology.
also practicing as specialist in the diseases of
the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Street,
New
His address
is
30
East 40th
\ ork City.
Mrs. David I. Spangler (Marion M. Groff)
North Fourth Street, Reading, Pa.
lives at
1048
1907
The death of Mrs. Hazel Kocher Rider, wife of Harry E.
Rider, ’04, and one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteemed w’omen, occurred at her home in Bloomsburg, Saturday, February
2 from a complication of diseases w'ith which she had suffered
for
some months.
A
Bloomsburg resident, she had been active in the
Methodist Church until the past year and was formerly a teacher
lifelong
in the Fifth Street school.
A
the
graduate of the Bloomsburg high school
Normal
Sc’nool in
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four years in a rural school and five years in town.
member
1
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907, she taught for nine years following,
She was a
of the Methodist church from childhood and
active in the
had been
Sunday School and the Ladies’ Aid Society
about a year ago.
until
She was also a member of the Eastern Star
and of the Missionary Society.
Mrs. Rider was aged 41 years last September and
is
ed by her mother, Mrs. Geraldine Kocher, her husband,
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five.
1908
Morgan
Mrs. Laura
Philadelphia,
she
was
Stein,
who
3816 Locust
lives at
the victim of a serious accident last
was struck by a
truck.
Her
left
arm and
Street,
fall,
when
were broken,
leg
We
and she also suffered of concussion of the brain.
were
in-
formed of thee accident by Jennie Yoder Foley, 8134 Henning
Street,
Stein
Fox Chase, Philadelphia.
was well on
Mrs. Foley
stated that
Mrs.
the road to recovery.
1909
We
are pleased
to print the following
—
—
message from the
president of the class:
My
Dear Classmates;
The
urday,
est
Class of
1
909
will
May 25 and we hope
attendance of any which
have been
old class
it
will
we have had
year on Sat-
have the
larg-
since graduation.
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communication with various members of our dear
The
be
farther
for
ours and yours.
Come and
this
that this reunion will
and many are looking forward
this year.
ficult
in
hold their reunion
you
to our
“Home-coming”
away you have wandered,
the
more
dif-
to attend, but the greater pleasure will
be
Write to your friends and urge them to attend.
let’s live
over again,
in
memory, the happy days we
spent together at “Old Normal.”
Sincerely yours.
D.
J.
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son was born March
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to Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Laubach, of
Orangeville.
1912
A
son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bachinger, BloomsMrs. Bachinger was formerly Miss
burg, on Christmas morning.
Teresa Dailey.
1913
Announcement has been made
that
John Bakeless, son of
made
Prof, and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless of town, has been
The Living Age, of which he was formerly
Coincident with that announcement comes The Living
entirely
ment
sold
new form and
dress,
editor.
Age
in
J
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an
and the added announceof world affairs has been
by the Atlantic Monthly Company and beginning with the
September
at
modern
a
known magazine
that this well
editor of
associate
issue will
be published by The Living Age Company,
280 Broadway, New York
The announcement
torship of this well
many Bloomsburg
City.
of Mr. Bakeless’s promotion to the edi-
known magazine
friends.
is
of especial interest to his
He gained
his first
experience as a
reporter in Bloomsburg.
This
was followed by some outstanding work
Springfield Republican
and a number of the
New York
during the years he spent at Williams college.
were followed by further years
at
for
the
papers
Those years
Harvard, where he did
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graduate work.
work,
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each position with the brilliance
filling
was marked even
had the urge
to write,
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and earnestness
days as a young reporter
and who made
it
who
his business to see that
he had the opportunity to satisfy that urge.
Mr. Bakeless
the subject of
is
the author of two books which have been
much comment.
His
first
book, “The Economic
Causes of War,” was awarded the Wells Prize of
liams College, in
Sir Philip Gibbs,
1
920.
$500 by
Concerning Mr. Bakeless’ second book.
noted British author, says
have read “The Origin of the Next War,”
“I
Wil-
Bakeless and regard
it
as the
most masterly analysis of the un-
derlying dangers in Europe and the rest of the world.
by getting such ruthless and
by John
It is
only
scientific revelation of fact that
we
can hope to escape or at least postpone another conflict between
nations.”
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At
red, at
home on Chestnut Street, Berwick, there occur5:30 o’clock Monday morning, March 4, the death of
his late
Arthur Brecht Lesher, son of the late Prof. A. N. Lesher and of
Martha A. Lesher.
While Mr. Lesher has been practically an invalid for nearly
ten years
it
was not
until the last
showed a marked change.
Six
few months
that his condition
weeks ago he suffered a severe
heart attack from which he never fully recovered.
was summoned
the family no
to his bedside
hope beyond the
the optimism, faith
His sister
and the attending physician gave
possibility of a
few hours.
But
and gallant courage which had played such
an important part thru years of patient suffering, came again to
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of personality
whose admiration
weeks when
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for
I*
him a wide
circle of sincere friends
solitude always
The kind
friends
who came
went away with a smile on
in
their lips
to share his
and a more
general for he was
to point out the finest qualities of his fellows
consequence
his daily life
Mr. Lesher was born
He was educated
and
life.
enforced solitude he was a constant
his
sympathetic attitude toward mankind
in the
was an
Lancaster, Pa., January
in
al-
and
in
inspiration.
8th,
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elementary schools of Berwick and was
graduated from the Berwick high school
completed a course
later
humor and
His keen sense of
he was fighting such a valiant battle for
and consistent student.
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During the years of
ways eager
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in the
class of
1911.
Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
In
years
1
920 he married
Miss Iva M. Gearhart,
was night supervisor
Besides his wife he
Brecht Lesher,
Jr., his
is
for several
survived by one small son,
mother Martha A. Lesher and one
Helen Lesher Adams, of Pottstown.
at his late
who
of the Berwick Hospital.
home Thursday
Funeral services
afternoon, March
Arthur
sister,
were held
7.
1914
Silas S. Riddle,
head of the bureau of
State Department of Labor
dle,
formerly of town and
now
of
New
Sunbury.
An appraisement
who
filed in
died some time ago
the
Northumberland
county court shows the estate to be worth $ 02, 708. 3.
Sara Elliott is teaching in Akron, Ohio.
Her address
1
Grace Avenue.
the
Jersey, will share equally
the estate of their aunt, Julia K. Riddle,
at
rehabilitation in
and Industry, and Miss Margaret Rid-
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and Mrs. H. Bierman received a telegram announcing
Dr.
the birth of a daughter to their son-in-law
tain
and daughter. Cap-
and Mrs. Idwal Edwards, (Katherine Bierman),
Announcements have been received of the
birth of a son,
Paul Alexander, to Mr. and Mrs, E. Llerena, of Rio de Janiero,
on October
1
Mrs. Llerena was formerly Miss
6.
Alma M.
Baer,
of Shickshinny.
1916
Benjamin
B.
Baer was graduated from the Pennsylvania
State College at the sixteenth annual mid-year
He was one
which took place February 13.
the graduating class
awarded
Degree
first
who ranked
Mr, Baer
honors.
commencement,
of six
members
of
highest in scholarship and were
is
now working
for his Master’s
at the University of Pennsylvania.
1917
Dorothy Miller (Mrs. W. R. Brower)
Pa.
A
son, Richard Alan,
October 13, 1928.
was born
to Mr.
lives in
Lehighton,
and Mrs, Brower on
Mr. and Mrs. Brower now have three
sons.
1918
Percy W.
at
Griffith
has been elected head coach of football
Dickinson College, over a large
past
lege.
two years he has been
line
field
of applicants.
For the
coach at Pennsylvania State Col-
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Birch, of town, announce the mariage of their daughter, Martha Elizabeth, to Floyd Leon Cole, of
Lewisburg, Pa., Monday, July 30, 1928, at Edinboro, Pa., by
the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Rev. Ivan M. Sherve.
The bride was a student of the Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg Teachers’ College.
of the
Pennsauken Junior High School, of Merchant-
ing History in the
ville.
New
Mrs. Cole has been teach-
Jersey.
Lawrence Keefer
University
of
is
working for
his doctor’s
He has been very
Michigan.
degree at the
successful
teacher of English and will probably continue in that
Gerald Marks
lives in
Los
Angeles.
as a
field.
He was graduated
last
August from the Law School of the University of Colorado,
and
is
Suite
now
member of the law firm of Marks and
903, Law Building, Los Angeles, California.
a
Klenke,
1921
Miss Eleanor C. Shannon, of Berwick and
J.
Allen Kaiser,
of Pottsville, Pa., w'ere married Saturday, September 19, at 3
P.
M.
in Trinity
Lutheran Church, Reading, Pa., by Rev. Herman
Miller.
Mrs. Kaiser
non, of
is
the daughter of Mr.
422 East Fourth
and Mrs. Leopold Shan-
Street, Berwick.
teacher in Wilkes-Barre and
is
a
She was a former
graduate of the Bloomsburg
Teachers’ College.
Mr. Kaiser
is
the district agent of the real
ment of the Reading Company
at Pottsville.
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depart-
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wedding of Miss
Jos-
ephine Pursel Allison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Allison,
town’s most popular and
of Catawissa, one of that
young women,
to
Raymond Moyer,
esteemed
Lexington,
of Line
near
Philadelphia.
The wedding was solemnized
at St. Augustine, Florida,
Camden,
N.
noon on Thanksgiving
The couple spent
the chapel at Valley Forge.
Street,
at
and are now
their
living at
at
honeymoon
313 Linden
J.
1922
The Wilkes-Barre Record
had the following
of August 21
regarding the wedding of Frank B. Shapela,
a graduate of the
1922 of the Teachers’ College and a
class of
football star here
during his entire course
A
pretty
wedding was solemnized
Nanticoke at 10:00 o’clock
ter of Mrs.
when
at St. Stanislaus’
Church,
Miss Helen M. Sawicki, daugh-
Witold Sawicki, 127 West Main Street, Nanticoke,
became the bride of Frank
B. Shepela of
Alden.
Rev. V.
L.
Biczypski, pastor, officiated.
The bride was attended by Miss Jennie Banashek
of honor,
as
maid
and Miss Helen M. Sawicki of Sugar Notch. The bride-
groom was attended by
his
brother Alex Shepela as best
man and
Joseph Sawicki, brother of the bride, as usher.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Shepela are well knov/n
ive communities.
Mrs. Shepela
is
in their respect-
a graduate of Nanticoke high
school and for the past two years has been employed in the office
of the C.
member
I.
T. Corp., at Wilkes-Barre.
Mr.
Shepela
is
a
Newport Township high school. After
a reception at the bride’s home the young couple left for a motor
tour of Philaelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
of the faculty of
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Announcement has been made
of the marriage in June of
Miss Mildred M. Hess, daughter of Mrs.
fred R. Harrington, son of Mr.
News
of Benton.
of the
Elizabeth
and Mrs. H.
wedding came
Hess to Al-
T. Harrington, both
as a surprise to friends
of the couple.
The wedding took place
is
a graduate of the
been teaching
is
in
in
New York
in
June.
The bride
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and has
the public schools of Newark, N.
manager of the Harrington foundry
in
J.
The groom
Sugarloaf township.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Harder have announced the
gagement of
their daughter,
land, Ohio, son of Mr.
Miss Harder
and
is
Mr. Klarr
Kathryn, to John A. Klarr, of Cleve-
and Mrs. A.
Klarr, of Vermilion, Ohio.
a graduate of Bloomsburg Teachers’ College
for several years has
wissa.
en-
is
been teaching
employed
as
in the schools of
Cata-
an auditor for the Glidden
Paint Co., of Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs.
ment of
A
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Robbins have announced the engage-
their daughter. Pearl, to Alfred S. Burton, of Pittsburgh.
Miss Robbins
is
a graduate of Shickshinny High School and of the
Teachers’ College here and
Mr. Burton
is
an architect
place next Fall.
is
now
teaching
in Pittsburgh.
in Irvington, N. J,
The wedding
will
take
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Miss Elizabeth H.
Drumm,
Drumm, daughter
became
of Bloomsburg, R. D.,
of Mr.
and Mrs.
the bride of
John Em-
and Mrs. Frank Emmitt, of Danville, R.
mitt, son of Mr.
C. E.
D., in a
ceremony performed September 25 by Rev. John Weikel
in the
Lutheran Church at Espy.
After the ceremony the bride and groom
Washington, D.
C.,
and other places of
interest.
left
by auto
The bride
for
is
a
graduate of Centre High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, class of
1924 and has been teaching
Mr. Emmitt
years.
College, class of
is
for the last four
a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers’
1919 and
at present
is
one of Hemlock town-
ship’s best farmers.
In the
Packer Memorial Chapel of Lehigh University
at
Bethlehem, there was solemnized at 12:30 o’clock on the after-
noon of December 26, the wedding of Miss Helen Kathryn Jury,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Nicholls, of
Woodbury,
Nicholls, of Bethlehem.
N.
J.,
C.
Jury of town and Edward
son of Mr. and Mrs.
The Rev.
S.
D.
Wilmot Gateson, of Bethle-
The
hem, performed the ceremony.
Edward
S.
bride’s attendant
was Miss
Mildred Bartean, of Portland, Pa., and the groom was attended
by
his brother,
Vern
Nicolls.
The marriage was solemnized
the presence of only the immediate
money
the bride
and groom
Woodbury,
The bride
is
N.
on a wedding
They are now
interest in the South.
Street,
left
living at
in
trip to points of
60 West Chester
J.
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College and at the time of her marriage
year
in
After the cere-
families.
was teaching her fourth
the Nischman building, Bethlehem.
The groom grad-
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ed
degree
his master’s
burgh.
He
is
in
science from the University of Pitts-
Vacuum
associated with the
facturers of Mobiloil, at their Paulsboro,
Miss Lena
Oman, daughter
Oil
New
Company, manu-
Jersey, plant.
of Mr. and Mrs. T. N.
Orangeville and George Buckman, of Media, a
now honeymooning
builder, are
ding
in the
in the
Oman,
of
contractor and
South following their wed-
parsonage of the Media Presbyterian Church.
Rev.
Leader performed the ceremony.
The bride
is
an esteemed Orangeville
She
friends in this section.
cational School, class of
Teachers’ College, class of
is
of
the
For four years she was a suc-
924.
Mr. and Mrs.
Vo-
Bloomsburg State
cessful teacher in the schools of Oakland, Md.,
Doylestown, Pa.
and has many
a graduate of the Orangeville
1919 and
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Buckman
and Elwin and
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the third grade in
the
are living
Spring Avenue, Llanerch, Pa.
Miss Frances Pensyl
schools of Westfield, N.
is
teaching
in
J.
1925
William Coffman, a well
completed
his
close of the
gone
work
first
to larger.
known Bloomsburg young man,
for a degree at Bucknell University with the
semester of the present college term and has
West
Virginia,
where he has accepted a
position
as principal of the high school.
Mr. Coffman
ers’
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teach-
College and before entering Bucknell
er in the Mifflinburg schools.
local post of the
He
American Legion.
is
was a
a past
successful teach-
commander
of the
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Since graduation, Lucy H. Evans has been employed in the
office of the
Elmira Star-Gazette, one of the leading newspapers
of the southern tier of
celebrated
New York
The paper
State.
recently
one hundredth anniversary.
its
1926
Irene Besteder
Pa.
is
teaching in the
Her home address
is
first
grade at Shavertown.
Trucksville, Pa.
John Opiary, graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, class of
now
1926 and a well known Freeland young man,
Young Men
teaching at the Kyle School for
the-Hudson,
New
is
at Irvington-on-
York.
Miss Isabel Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L.
A. Ward, of
town and Russell Hummel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hummel,
of Cresco
and formerly of town, were united
afternoon, October 5, 1928, by Rev.
is
employed
marriage Friday
N. Bair at the parsonage
I.
The couple were unattended.
of the Espy Evangelical Church.
The groom
in
at Cresco
teaching for two years at Vintondale.
and the bride has been
Each enjoys a wide
circle
of friends.
1927
Miss Leila Watters, of Mifflinville, and Kenneth Fulkersin,
were united
of East Eighth Street,
in
marriage at Wilkes-Barre on
February 9th, friends of the couple have learned.
a daughter of Mr.
She
Mifflinville.
Berwick High
in
and Mrs. Byron Watters and
is
employed
at
known
in
a graduate of the Mifflinville high school,
in the
At the present time she
Nuremberg
schools.
the machine shop of the A.
plant in Berwick.
well
is
1925 and the State Teachers’ College, Blooms-
burg, in the class of 1927.
ed as a teacher
is
The bride
is
employ-
The groom has been
C.
and
F.
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Two
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of Bloomsburg’s best
marriage
at
known young people were
Wilkes-Barre Friday afternoon, January
:30 o’clock, when Miss Kathryn
Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Werkheiser,
C.
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unit1
,
at
Werkheiser, daughter
of
became
the
of East Fourth Street,
bride of Oran F. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Baker, of West
The ceremony was performed by Rev. James Lewis,
Street.
a
Baptist minister at Wilkes-Barre.
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College while the groom
graduate
They
will
of the local
make
their
High School and attended Drexel
home
in
is
also
a
Institute.
Bloomsburg.
1928
Anna
C.
Curry
lives at
660 South Tamaqua
Street,
McAdoo,
Pa.
Grace Frantz
Sunbury, Pa.
is
teacher of second grade
Her home address
is
in the schools
of
Picture Rocks, Pa.
At 10:30 o’clock Saturday morning, December
8, in
the
Methodist Church at Orangeville, Miss Helen R. Kline, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs.
of
Warren
Kline, of Rohrsburg,
became
the bride
Edgar R. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Baker, of Unity-
ville.
Rev. Gilbert
L.
Bennett, pastor of the church officiated,
uning the beautiful double ring ceremony.
They were attend-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Kline, parents of the bride and Mrs. Ernest
Baker, mother of the groom.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Millville High School of the
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Waukesha, Wis.,
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ Col-
Leo
December 21
E. Sutliff,
Benton lumber dealer, was announced
a formal
at
friends of the couple at the
The announcement
home
The bride
of Mr.
and Mrs.
of the wedding,
came
which the couple enjoys
circle of friends
attended by
dinner party
Frederick, Md., on September 7,
in
at the
Mr. and Mrs. Baker will reside at Unityville.
The marriage
member
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He has taken work
burg State Teachers College and
county schools.
lege, to
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school in the class of 1927.
a
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as a surprise to a
members
been an
known
county.
in that section of the
Mr.
of the faculty.
Sutliff,
The second annual college
in
wide
in this section.
the physical education department of the college
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo E.
Reams.
which took place
for the past three years has
of the most popular
intimate
and
of Benton
night, sponsored
instructress
and
is
Sutliff is
is
one
the
very well
by the Rotary
and Kiwanis Clubs of Bloomsburg, was held Thursday evening,
January 24.
dress
A
fine
menu,
spirited singing,
an outstanding ad-
by Dr. Henry H. Crane, of Scranton, and the comedy “Ap-
plesauce,” presented by the College
Dramatic Club, were the
high lights of the night’s enjoyable program.
During the din-
ner the College orchestra furnished a musical program.
Mr.
Reams spoke before
afternoon on the topic of
the history
“Map
division
Studies In Teaching
Thursday
Political
Campaigns.”
Dr. Haas spoke to the teacher training division on “Teacher Training
ident.”
From
the Point of
View
of a Teachers’ College Pres-
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their assistants
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of the superintendents of schools
and
from fourteen counties of northeastern Pennsyl-
vania was held at Teachers’ College on Tuesday, December
Meetings of the superintendents and assistants of
this
part
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of
the state are held quarterly.
Among
other subjects brought up for discussion
tenure of teachers and the P.
Prof.
teachers.
John
J.
S. E.
A.
home
was
the
for superannuated
Fisher gave a report of a study of the
standing of college freshmen
in
Eighth Grade English and Arith-
metic.
Superintendent
W. W. Evans,
of
Columbia
county, was
chairman of the meeting.
The Third Annual Play Tournament of the College Dramatic
Club was held
March
in
the college auditorium Thursday evening,
The following one-act plays were presented: “Jazz
7.
and Minuet,” by Ruth
Giorloff
Norman McKimel; and
:
“The Bishop’s Candlesticks,” by
:The Wonder Hat,” by Kenneth Good-
man and Benjamin
Hecht.
awarded
named
to the last
;
The
play.
decision
judges was
of the
The following players
ed honorable mention for the excellent manner
in
receiv-
which
they
played their roles: Florence Fest, Charlotte Lord, Dorothy Foote,
John Taylor and Maynard Pennington.
Prof.
the
Edwin A. Reams, of the
social studies
department of
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and Dr. Francis
principal of the college, took part in the Schoolmen’s
gram which was held
13, 14,
15 and
16.
Week
at the University of Pennsylvania,
pro-
March
This event annually attracts thousands of
educators and some of the most
field in the
B. Haas,
prominent
county are on the program.
in the
educational
r
Dr.
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and Mrs. Francis
December
Haas,
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who
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has
the
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sudden death of
frequently
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visited
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to Philadelphia
Miss
his sister.
here and
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who
has
Lillian
many
friends in Bloomsburg.
Miss Haas was apparently
in the
best of health
and had
eat-
en a hearty dinner just before she was stricken with an attack
of acute indigestion.
Her death quickly followed.
Miss Haas was a teacher
in
the Philadelphia schools
survived by three brothers and three
We
t'.e
and
is
sisters.
are indebted to the Bloomsburg “Morning Press”
use of the cut showing the proposed Training School.
for
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No. 3
THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol.30
JUNE, 1929
No. 3
Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa„ under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F.
FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.
JENKINS, ’76
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Editor-in-Chief
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PROFESSOR BAKELESS RETIRES
After having
years as a
member
served faithfully and
devotedly for
thirty
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Nor-
mal School, Professor 0. H. Bakeless retired June first, with the
knowledge that his has been a piece of work that was well done.
Professor Bakeless first took up his work in Bloomsburg in
893 to become
890, and after three years here resigned in
principal of the United States Industrial School for Indians at
Carlisle.
This position he held for nine years.
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In
1902 he returned
Bloomsburg, and has been a memHe is loved and honored by
under his instruction, and occupies a
to
ber of the faculty since that date.
the hundreds
who
has sat
place in their hearts that
is
equal to that held by the late Pro-
fessor Noetling in the hearts of those
Even though Professor Bakeless
who worked under
is
lege work, his influence in the school and
him.
from active colcommunity will be felt.
retired
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and no one can say how great
is
the influence that he
through the great number of alumni,
out
all
who
is
exerting,
are scattered through-
the states of the Union.
About one hundred persons who are active or who have
been active in the work of Old Normal paid tribute to Professor
Bakeless at a dinner held in his honor on Monday evening, April
29, in the Wimodausis Club rooms.
Dr.
Haas presided
at the dinner,
and introduced Mr. A.
Schoch, President of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. D.
J.
Z.
Waller,
Both of these men paid tribute to the work of Professor
Bakeless during the years they have worked together.
A letter
of congratulation from M. E. Glover, of Mifllinburg, a member
of the Board of Trustees, was read, as was also a telegram of
praise for Brofessor Bakeless from Mrs. John G. Harman, anJr.
other
member
of the Board.
The musical part of the program consisted of group
sing-
Alma
Cald-
ing led by Miss Jessie Patterson, vocal solo by Miss
well,
and piano
solos
by Miss Marjory McHenry.
At the close of the program. Dr. Waller,
in
behalf of the
Faculty and Board of Trustees, presented Prof. Bakeless with a
and chain, as a token of the love and
which they hold him.
In responding. Professor Bakeless spoke of the loyalty of his fellow teachers to him, and of the
earnestness of the boys and girls who worked with him.
He
I
do not deserv'e it
closed by saying, “I appreciate this gift.
beautiful white gold watch
esteem
but
I
in
will
take
it.”
At the Alumni meeting. Professor Bakeless was called to
the platform by R. Bruce Albert, ’06, newly elected president of
the Alumni Association, and was greeted with a standing ovation
Mr. Albert then informed
by the members of the Association.
Professor Bakeless that he had been made sole administrator of
a fund of over $1200, to carry on the art projects in which he
He is also to
has been so deeply interested for so many years.
have charge of the Alumni Memorial Trophy Room, which the
Board of Trustees will be asked to provide.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
The various reunion
classes
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had been canvassed before the
announce their subscripThe notice sent to
of classes.
general meeting, and were ready to
tions at the time of the roll call
each class by the executive committee bore
Professor Bakeless:
“We,
as fellow
members
Association believe this will be the finest
Prof. Bakeless.
We
this fitting tribute to
thing
of the
Alumni
we can do
also feel confident that the
Alumni, as
for
a
whole, will endorse the plan with enthusiasm, and that the funds
will
come
to Prof.
Bakeless’s hands to
days of leisure to crown a most useful
enable him in his
life
new
with a characteristic
achievement.”
In the course of the next four years, all of the other classes
will
less
be given the opportunity to pay tribute to Professor Bakeby contributing their share to this most worthy project.
ALUMNI DAY
Ideal weather and one of the best rounded programs that
had ever been arranged for the affair, brought back to Bloomsburg hundreds of graduates for the Alumni Day exercises, one of
the principal events of the
Commencement
season.
In addition to the classes in reunion there
were additional
hundreds of other class members who came back for the day.
Graduates arrived early in the morning, some of them having
arrived in Bloomsburg Friday evening.
were well attended during the morning with
friends.
There were a
number of matters of interest to the individual classes which
were also up for action.
Class reunions
graduates busy
greeting college day
one smiling face was missing, that of Prof.
years a popular member of the College
faculty, Mr. Cope having passed away during the year.
Alumni
expressed regret over the passing of this man who had done
much in moulding the lives of hundreds of students.
In each reunion
J.
G. Cope,
for
many
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One matter which came before each
class
was
that of con-
fund of which Prof. 0. H. Bakeless is to be
the sole administrator.
Each class was enthusiastic over the
plan and subscribed varying amounts for the project.
Prof.
tributions for an art
Bakeless has for years worked tirelessly
in
beautifying the cor-
and rooms of the buildings with good works of art. The
matter will be placed before each of the classes in reunion for
ridors
the next five years.
Dr. Waller presided at the meeting in the absence of the
who was attending the National Synod of
Reformed Church. The main floor auditorium was well filled and there were many in the balcony when the session opened.
president, Mr. Diehl,
the
R. Bruce Albert read the minutes of the last meeting and the College Glee Club,
under the direction of Prof. Clark, sang two
selections.
Prof. S.
and
I.
Shortess told of the organization of the Glee Club
said that an active
Any who would
program would be carried out next year.
were asked
care to secure the club for a concert
to submit the requests for dates.
R. Bruce Albert, a member of the class of 906, was elected president of the Alumni Association, succeeding Fred W.
Diehl, superintendent of the Montour County schools, who was
The report of the
chosen chairman of the executive committee.
nominating committee, Mrs. C. W. Funston, D. D. Wright and E.
H. Nelson, was accepted as presented by Mrs. Funston.
1
The
officers are:
President, R. Bruce Albert; Vice-Presi-
dents, Dr. D. J. Waller, class of 867, and 0. H. Bakeless, class
of 1879; Treasurer, F. H. Jenkins, class of 1876; Secretary,
1
Edward
W.
W. Funston,
Schuyler, class of 1924; Executive Committee, Fred
Diehl, Danville, class of 1909, chairman;
Mrs. C.
1885 Maurice Houck, class of 1910; Miss
Harriet Carpenter, Bloomsburg, class of 1896; D. D. Wright,
Bloomsburg, class of 1911 and Dan Mahoney, class of 1909.
Bloomsburg,
class of
;
Miss Catherine Johnson, a
member
of the
class of
1928,
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sang a solo and Dennis Wright submitted the report of the Treasurer, Prof. Jenkins.
A rising vote of thanks was given to Prof,
and Mrs. Jenkins for
their untiring efforts in the publication of
the Quarterly, supported
by the alumni.
The report of the scholarship fund, prepared by C. M.
Hauseknecht and presented by Mr. Wright, was that $2,751.79
was in the fund with $1,933.50 now outstanding in loans to
students and graduates.
H. F. Fenstemaker, a
member
of the College faculty
and
the Alumni and editor of the Quarterly, asked that each class
have a member write up its reunion and send it in for pubblication.
Mrs. Funston gave the report of the Nominating Committee.
The class of 1867 was the oldest
members present, George E. Elwell and
in
reunion and had two
Dr. D. J. Waller.
879 with a record of having had its 22 mem624 years, had six members present. Prof.
C. H. Albert, for many years a member of the faculty of the College, made the report.
He said that four of the members had
taught 50 years, three 49 years, one 45 years and two 30 years.
The
class of
1
bers teach a total of
Kennedy reported for the class of 884 which had
members present. Mr. Kennedy spoke of the institution
the days he was a student there.
Charles
1
four
in
The class of 889 had 25 in reunion. State Senator Benjamin Apple, of Sunbury, responded for the class and spoke of
the delight of the members in seeing Dr. Waller at the reunion.
1
Of the
class of
59
there are
43
living
and $115 was subscribed
to the art fund.
Mr. Lewis responded for the class of
members
in
1
894 which had 25
reunion and he urged that the graduates return as
often as possible for the reunions.
The
class
pledged $108 for
the art project.
Mr. Gager, of Scranton,
reported for
the class of
1899
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9 attending.
He spoke of the fine features of the
and declared that one year while his class was at the
school they did not lose any football or basket ball games and
lost only two of
baseball games.
which had
1
institution
1
1
John McGuffy, a member of the class, was introduced as
one of the greatest athletes in the history of the institution. The
class pledged a minimum of one hundred dollars to the art fund.
G. L. Howell reported 29 of the 2 members of the class
904 back and said $34 had been subscribed for the fund.
Dan Mahoney reported 23 of the class of 909 in reunion with
$1000 subscribed to the fund. The class of 1914 had 20 in reunion with one member having come from St. Louis, Mo.
Mrs.
Roy Cook reported for the class which subscribed $25 for the
1
of
1
1
1
fund.
Mrs. Mary Woolcox reported for the class of 1919 which
had 55 back and pledged $100 to the fund.
The class of 924 had the largest number in reunion, 47
The class had not determined on
back out of a class of 330.
the amount it would give to the fund but pledged its share.
1
1
Edward Schuyler reported
The
class of
for the class.
1927, the youngest class in reunion, claimed
it the first graduate to have obtained a de-
the honor of having in
gree at the institution,
$900
Arthur Jenkins.
The class has given
and pledged $250 for the art
for furnishing of the lobby
project.
Miss Verna Medley reported for the class.
meeting had been
upon to stand. There were
The meeting then adjournabout 50 members in attendance.
ed and the members went to the dining hall for the banquet.
The
class of
1
929, which
elected to membership,
was
earlier in the
called
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
“Be such teachers that your pupils will speak not only of
you gave by the lessons you taught but by the light of
the aid
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character that shines
in
in
9
your eyes, and that character is created
creator,” Rev. J. Thomas Heistand,
communion with God our
rector of St. Foul’s Episcopal Church, told the
members
of the
graduating class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
in
delivering an impressive sermon at the baccalaureate services in
the College auditorium
Sunday afternoon. May 26.
Dealing separately with the physical, intellectual and moral
phases of
life
the minister in his brief address held the closest at-
tention of the class as he spoke of their responsibilities as teachers.
The
services
opened with the processional at 2 30 o’clock,
gowns singing the processional hymn
:
the class in black caps and
of the institution, “Ancient of Days.”
The
class
was headed by
its
who were
officers
followed by
those taking part in the service.
Seated on the stage during the
exercises were Rev. Heistand, A. Z. Schoch, J. T. Townsend,
members
of the Board of Trustees; Dr. D.
principal; Dr. Francis B. Hass, principal,
well
and H.
sang,
F.
Jr., former
and Miss Alma CaldJ.
Waller,
Fenstemaker, of the College faculty.
Rev. Heistand offered the invocation and the congregation
0 Master Let Me Walk With Thee.” Dr. Haas read the
Scripture.
Following the sermon by the Rev. Mr. Heistand, Miss
Caldwell, of the College faculty, sang,
by Gounod, with
violin obligato
“0
Alma
Divine Redeemer,”
by Gerald Harter, of Blooms-
burg.
850 ALUMNI AT
ANNUAL BANQUET
There were 850 members of the Alumni Association of the
at the banquet served in the College
auditorium at 12:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. May 25, and
the banqueters enjoyed an excellent address by one of their
members, John Bakeless, editor of the Living Age, and were
State Teachers’ College
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heartily greeted
by
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the College.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni, presided and the
under the direction of H.
College orchestra,
F.
Fenstemaker,
furnished a program of music during the serving of the dinner.
Mr. Albert,
in
introducing Dr. Haas,
said that
looking
in
over the records of the association for the past eight years
it
was
found that the number of graduates returning during the past
two years numbered many more than in preceding years. He
declared that the warm reception given them by Dr. Haas and
the school authorities was what he believed to be the reason for
the steadily mounting attendance.
Dr. Haas welcomed the
graduates, expressed the hope that they would enjoy themselves
and extended a hearty invitation for them to return.
Just at the close of the meeting, the entire assemblage rose
in tribute to Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., a
for
many
ed a prominent part
uates,
member
many
of
in
whom
work
1
grad-
were among the Alumni present.
rise,
paid a
867,
has play-
Mr.
fitting tribute
of Dr. Waller.
Mr. Bakeless,
tion of the
man who
building the lives of hundreds of
Albert, in calling for the assemblarge to
to the
of the class of
years principal of the school, and a
in
a fine address which held the closest atten-
gathering,
told of the
powerful influence that the
United States had at the present time and declared that whether
that
power was wisely used depended
to a large extent
upon the
teachers of the nation.
Mr. Bakeless said:
claim; but
I
think
I
may
“It
may be
egotistical to
make
the
assert with reasonable confidence that
—
have been a part of the Normal School or the Teachers’ Colwe must now call it at least as long as any one in this
For eleven years I
room, except the veterans of the faculty.
was part of the body, entering the model school in the second
grade in 1902 and finishing at last in 1913.
I have never yet
been quite clear whether the faculty felt that after eleven years
there was nothing left to do for me, or whether they adopted the
I
lege, as
—
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more
ed
was about
cynical view that eleven years
stand.
At any
rate, the school
and
I
11
all
they could
parted company
—
or seem-
to.
whether any one can ever quite part
Not all of you,
with his school.
probably, entered the school, as it was then, at so early an age
And
as seven.
But we all came here in our formative years.
no influence, exerted in youth when the strongest character is
still pliable and forming can hope ever in the future to throw off
that influence.
Of course, we don’t hope to throw it off. We
don’t even throw it off.
We want to keep it. For the influence
to use an old,
of old Normal
if you will permit an old-timer
familiar name
is one of the best influences any of us can ever
hope to have in our lives.
“For
I
seriously doubt
company with
his college or
—
—
“Of course, any school can claim
to exercise
some such
in-
Every school can
make the claim because, by and by, every school does just that.
But no educational institution can make quite so large a claim to
exerting a wide-spread influence, as one that specializes in the
training of teachers.
A teachers’ college might be described as
a kind of intellectual grandfather.
It is accomplishing a double
task.
It is exerting an influence
on its generation not only
through its own alumni, but through the teaching that those
alumni are themselves doing.
fluence over the future lives of
“I
remember
what
plexity as to
its
alumni.
several years ago
future course
I
when
I
was
in
some per-
should pursue, going for ad-
vice to Dr. Talcott Williams, formerly editor of the Philadelphia
Press, later the
first
director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism.
“
‘Well,’ said he, ‘you
must choose between two courses.
You must decide what kind of influence you want to exert. Do
you want to exert an influence over your own time and your own
generation?
Or do you want to exert an influence over the generation that
is
to come.’
“In the mind of this veteran journalist, the two were not to
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be combined.
But it is by no means certain that he was right,
even so far as individuals are concerned.
And certainly he was
not right as far as institutions are concerned.
obviously exercising influence over
fluences
the
its
“Now what
Surely
is
it
We
civilization.
ought to be, here
since
it
it
in
in-
influences
indirectly through them.
the influence that
is
of ours to exert?
vilization
For a school
time,
students directly, and equally obviously
coming generation
American
own
its
we may
expect
this college
ought to be a formative influence in
are not yet so great a country as we
There is no denying that our cicrude and unfinished and raw.
We have yet to proAmerica.
in
duce a distinctively American culture.
So far we are borrowers and merely imitative borrowers from Europe.
There is, to
be sure, nothing disgraceful in being borrowers of another people’s culture.
All races everywhere have always borrowed.
But they have also added something of their own to what they
have borrowed, and that is what we here in America have yet
to do.
“Moreover, we are living in an age which faces tremendous
problems, and it is our nation which exercises the greatest power
We have come a long distance in this
in the modern world.
At the turn of the century we
country in the last thirty years.
were still a small and relatively unimportant power. Today we
are the greatest single influence in the
to
determine the use that
Surely
we
are to
ourselves, as citizens.
mestic policy
we
we
is
weak
If
America’s foreign
or unworthy, then
For
are to blame.
modern world. Who is
of this power of ours ?
make
it
we
or do-
are unworthy and
has been well said
that ‘the
trouble
If
with representative government is that it does represent.’
America has not wholly lived up to her opportunities, then we
are to blame.
“And
is
there a
next generation.
remedy?
And
Yes,
it
the training of the next generation
the hands of the teachers of the country.
carefully trained to
the training of the
lies in
honest and
We
impartial
is
in
need clear minds,
scientific
thinking.
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That
is
13
the greatest gift that our schools can give to the nation
And
or to the world.
training institutions.
it
is
peculiarly the
And we,
as alumni,
work
of
the
teacher
have special duty
to
The work of the school is properly under the direcBut we have a share
tion of its administration and its faculty.
The
in it as well.
For it is our college and we are its alumni.
college has a right to expect our loyalty and our practical cooperation in every way, and I know that it is sure to find it in the
perform.
future as
it
always has
in the past.”
IVY DAY
PROGRAM
While thunder rumbled far away and lightning flashes were
reduced by distance to a mere dull glow. Seniors of the Teachers’
Ivy Day program in
commencement features.
College presented their annual
grove, the most picturesque of the
the
“Robin Hood” was the presentation this year, and in setting
and costume the presentation lacked nothing. The program
came after the planting of the ivy and the Ivy Day oration by
Miss Charlotte Lord,
base of the
new
fire
An audience
this part of the exercises being given at the
tower on the south side of Carver Hall.
of several hundred witnessed the presentation,
braving the premature dusk and distant rumble heralding the ap-
proach of storm, to say nothing of the splattering rain drops that
fell during the last half of the program.
The march from Carver
Hall to the grove was an impresscap and gown clad members of the
Senior Class entered the grove to form a semi circle on the
ground in front of the crowd of other spectators who filled the
ive sight as the scores of
bleachers to overflowing.
At the head of the procession were a dozen or more of the
girls
of the class, clad in white, carrying the ivy chain.
Some
of the spectators
were driven out when the
rain be-
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gan to pelt the crowd as the program was half concluded, but
most of the audience remained to the end.
Miss Alice Pennington was in the role of Robin Hood, Miss
John and Miss Florence Fest in the role
All were in costume as were the other participants.
As Robin Hood and his men made merry in Sherwood forest there were enacted a half dozen episodes. These
opened with Robin Hood meeting Little John and Maid Marian
coming to the forest.
Isabel Chelosky as Little
of Maid Marian.
The second scene was
at
Nottingham
with dances by
fair,
the villagers in their vari-colored costumes that stood out against
the green background of the grove.
Robin Hood’s victory
in the
The archery contest with
shooting match followed.
The program concluded with Robin Hood and Marian planning their wedding and the
visit
of King Richard in disguise to
the forest to grant a pardon to Robin Hood.
Miss
Anna Taby was
in the role of
King Richard.
tendants were Misses Sarah Pierce and Agnes Bieler.
Her
at-
Miss Flor-
ence Jones was the nurse, and Robin Hood’s men were Misses
Helen Seely, Mary Becker and Verna Valence, with Miss Mary
Carr as the sheriff, and Miss Rachel Pratt as Ellen.
In charge of the production
were Miss
McCammon and
Miss Johnston, of the College faculty.
CLASS NIGHT
The lighter side of College life, trivial happenings of today
become the cherished memories of tomorrow, formed the
basis of the Class Night program of the Class of 929 which was
that
1
given before a large audience in the College auditorium Tues-
day evening. May 28.
the
Built around a “Misrepresentation of Assembly Exercises”
program was a delightful and amusing cross section of the
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good times of school days
class
when
the
15
ended for the majority of the
that
exercises brought another Col-
Commencement
lege year to a close.
The program was climaxed by the presentation of the meform of a check, which was in addition to the proof framing pictures that now adorn college walls and which
morial, in the
ject
will for
years perpetuate the
name
of the Class of
1
929.
The presentation was made by Theodore Davis,
of Nanti-
coke, and accepted on behalf of the institution by Prof. W. B.
Mr. Sutliff, in accepting the gift
Sutliff, dean of instruction.
and that each
form of a
memorial.
Mr. Sutliff spoke of the many memorials that had
been left in the past and of the part that they have played in
The probinding closer together the school and its graduates.
Song.
gram was concluded with the singing of the Class
said each year a large group leaves the institution
class leaves
some evidence
of
its
College
life in
the
opening the program Mr. Davis presided at the “chapel
There was no responsive reading because “every
one had been too busy during the past two weeks.”
There was
no singing because the “books could not be found.”
There
were no faculty members to make reports, class members exIn
exercises.”
plaining that the faculty
ground by the
came a complaint
every
Waller Hall
graduating
into
class.
of the conduct of the locker
shift:ng of the scenes to
realistic in
was probably forced
brilliance of the
room
back-
the
And
then
and a
the “locker room,” a sketch that was
girls
detail.
girls
followed with a dramatization of
life
and then students who had done their practice teaching
wick gave a glimpse of student life there.
in
there
Ber-
George “Ex” Mathews, president of the Student Council,
and a group of Seniors then provided a training school scene that
was anything but realistic but certainly provided a lot of laughs.
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16
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
An
audience of relatives and friends of the class that
filled
the auditorium enjoyed the impressive exercises that brought to
a close another College
Commencement and sent
300 qualified teachers.
out into
the
great field of service almost
Of the class, one of the largest in the history of the institu23 received degrees in bachelor of science of education, 22
of them earning the degrees in Junior High School work and one
tion,
obtaining a degree in the elementary
field.
The class, in black gowns and caps, entered the auditorium
from the rear as Alexander’s orchestra played the processional.
Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., for years principal of the College and
intimately concerned with the progress of the institution throughout his
life,
offered the invocation.
Seated on the platform for the exercises were those who
in the program, members of the Board of Trustees and
took part
the
members
of the faculty.
the faculty were
in
Participants in the
program and
the class procession, following the officers of
the class.
The Commencement Address was given by
Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of Education
New
York.
Introduced by Dr. Haas as the
friend, teacher
and
inspiration. Dr.
Graves
Dr.
Frank
of the State
of
man who was
his
in
opening
his
ad-
dress spoke of the principal of the local institution as one of the
leaders in the educational system of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Graves also paid tribute to Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,
who
retired at the close of the College year after years of invaluable
service
and
to Dr. D. J. Waller
one of the founders of the
He spoke
and
to the latter’s father,
who was
institution.
of the changes in the institution since its foundachanges that are those of progress, but declared that the
ideals of the founders remain unchanged.
tion,
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There is no more worthy objective than that of creating
There are many ordinary individuals who can follow
but the world must look to certain individuals for leadership to
keep the human race from stagnation.
leaders.
He spoke
and environment play in the
two factors by English and American leaders.
Dr. Graves was inclined
to accept the American theory that environment played the most
life
of the part heredity
of the individual
important
of the importance placed in these
role.
He spoke
down
;
have been handed
through training and environ-
of the contributions which
to the present generations
ment and not through heredity, and prophesied
in
the future will be largely as in the past
that the
—through
advance
the class
room.
Speaking of the part heredity plays. Dr. Graves admitted
had not been given a fair trial that as yet we do not give
the attention to human mating that we do to the breeding of the
lower animals.
He deplored the fact that hardly an effort is
being made to prevent the mating of those who are physically
and mentally unfit.
that
it
If
thought
;
knowledge were applied. Dr. Graves
would take a comparatively short time to improve the
the accumulated
it
race and raise the level of
It is
human
standards.
the popular creed that one man’s opinion
is
as
good
as
would be paid to the
If we have hope
of raising the intellectual standard we must realize that the plan
now used must be corrected and that it must be corrected
another’s.
Certainly today no attention
advice of an expert
in the
choice of mating.
through education, he declared.
He spoke
American point of view of giving educahe called attention to the limited
He spoke of the attempt now being made
of the
tional opportunities to all but
ability of
through
man.
tests to select
only those for higher education
who can
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take advantage of the opportunities.
Thus
the
far
tests are
crude, but he believed that they are bound to help to form
the
groundwork of the
He deplored
final solution.
the abuses of educational opportunity and de-
clared that any faculty or trustee
is
proving unworthy to a
vidual through education
trust.
is
who
If
used
He
tolerating a lazy student
power given
to the indi-
selfishly or criminally
ing could be so detrimental to the
tunities
is
the
human welfare
then noth-
as college.
closed with the plea that the class, realizing the oppor-
which had been
should go out and
theirs,
assist
in the
giving of opportunities to others.
Dr. Graves in his address to the class said that a most
worthy objective of an institution was that of turning out leaders.
He declared that through the ages there had been very little change in man but that those of today are enjoying the contributions handed down through the training and environment
of the past.
The speaker said that heredity had a less important
part in progress but deplored the fact that less attention
en to the mating of the
The point
dual as
human
giv-
race than to the lower animals.
America today
is
to give each indivi-
as the individual
is
capable of consum-
of view in
much education
was
The welfare of the race demands it and we Americans
ing.
have seen the demand and are endeavoring to supply it. Dr.
Graves pointed out, however, that all are not created alike and
that the sooner that
realized the better off
is
we
will be.
Shall
we
never learn, the speaker asked, that all Americans cannot do
everything and that there is honorable work outside of educa-
tion?
Moral qualities are bound to play an important part
in the
success of the individual, perhaps even a greater part that
stract intelligence.
each individual to do
He
his
ab-
was a challenge on the part of
utmost to remove the abuses to the
said
it
privileges of education.
After Dr. Graves delivered his address, Robert E. Clark, a
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19
of the College faculty, sang Tschaikowski’s
“Don Juan’s
Serenade.”
Dr. Haas then
made
the awards of the certificates
plomas, each graduate standing as his or her
Prof.
W.
B. Sutliff,
dean of
instruction, presented the
successful candidates to Dr. Haas.
letic
and
name was
The presentation
lists
di-
read.
of the
of the ath-
awards was then made.
As the names of those receiving degrees were
called,
the
students went to the platform and received their diplomas, each
being personally congratulated by Dr. Haas.
Miss Genevieve Meixell, of Espy, secured her degree in the
Those who secured them in the Junior High
were: Lawrence H. Creasy, Catawissa; Ralph W.
Davies, Theodore S. Davis, Nanticoke; Florence J. Fest, Jack B.
Fortner, Bloomsburg; Mark I. Fowler, Espy; Cora Frank, Mahanoy City; Bernard Gallager, Parsons; Ray J. Haring, Nescopeck; Martha A. Laird, Mary A. Laird, Hughesville; Miriam R.
Lawson, Bloomsburg; George A. Mathews, Sugar Notch; Charlotte Mears, Bloomsburg; Marjorie A. Orr, Shickshinny; Alice B.
Pennington, Millville; Mildred J. Rehm, Bloomsburg; Charles
H. Surfield, Shenandoah; Ruth E. Titman, Bloomsburg; Theodore Vital, Glen Lyon; Kenneth E. Yocum, and Minnie Melick,
Bloomsburg.
elementary
School
field.
field
In his parting
claring that
whether
it
rests
his life
is
words
to the class Dr.
Haas spoke
briefly de-
with each one as he goes from the institution
to
be one of enslavement or freedom and ex-
pressed the hope that each one had secured that which would
enable him to secure freedom.
At the exercises the institution continued a custom inauguryear and which promises to be a feature at Commencements in the future, that of presenting to each man of the graduating class who earned letters in varsity athletics a gold key and
ated
last
a certificate.
Those who received the awards were
George Mathews,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
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Wilbur J. Fisher, W. Archibald Reese, Robert Davis and Henry
Morgan.
The assemblage stood
for the singing of
Alma Mater and
the audience remained standing while the class left the auditor-
ium
for the last time in their College careers.
Alexander’s or-
chestra played the recessional.
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kick.’’
ATHLETICS
The Spring season has been successful in sport activities at
The inter-collegiate sports have been baseball,
track and field, and tennis.
There has been also a splendid program for girls of which we shall speak later.
the College.
The baseball team won five of its eight games. The vicwere as follows: Wyoming Seminary (2), East Stroudsburg ( ) Kutztown ( ) Mansfield ( )
Defeats Shippensburg (2), Mansfield (1 ). The team reached its greatest heights
on Alumni Day. Those who saw the game were delighted to
see the splendid performance of a good team.
tories
1
,
Track
1
,
activities started
val sponsored
1
.
on February 20
:
at a
Relay Carni-
by the Scranton Technical High School.
Allen-
.
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town Prep., Bloomsburg and Keystone Academy were classed to
run in competition and finished in the order named.
The College sponsored a triangular track and field meet on May
Shippensburg, East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg had an inter1
esting
Price,
with an
Shippensburg,
day.
won
the meet.
burg’s third place was brightened
ance of Rinker, a Freshman,
May
run.
in
Blooms-
somewhat by the perform-
winning
place in
first
the mile
and Field Meet for
18th, the Eastern District Track
Normal Schools and State Teachers’ Colleges
Bloomsburg took fourth
the eight
area was held at Shippensburg.
The
times.
in the
place.
team met Mansfield twice and took defeat both
was the only inter-school competition scheduled.
tennis
This
The
named
outstanding star
East Stroudsburg was second.
1
program
based on a point system
and chevrons.
Keen
interest in shown in achievement in the wide variety of activities
offered for credit.
To win numerals, 300 points must be earnAbout 150 girls met the requirements. Nearly 125 more
ed.
won the coveted “B” by scoring 600 points. Thirty secured
One four year student, Dorothy
chevrons with 900 points.
Foote, a Senior, has to her credit 3 chevrons with a grand total
of 500 points earned during her four year course.
girls’
reward
for
in the
way
in the
school
is
of numerals, letters
1
To
all
men
who have earned
recognition is made
graduates
ing their course, suitable
varsity “B’s” durin the
ment program by the presentation of Athletic
gold keys.
Five Seniors received
Commence-
Certificates
these
rewards
Alumni
interest
the
at
and
last
Commencement.
We
in
sign off
now
until Fall.
is
welcomed
keeping our athletic standards worthy of Bloomsburg.
E. H.
NELSON,
’ll.
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NEV/S OF
We
ALUF/INI
acknowledge with thanks the receipt of many
Owing
ing personal items.
THE
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them
all in this issue,
to lack of space,
but will print them
It is
now
not too early to begin
should begin
now
to
make
interest-
are unable to
in later issues.
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reunion the greatest ever.
we
to plan to
Officers of
make
the
following
the
1
930
classes
1870, 1875, 1880,
preparations:
1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925,
staff will be glad to furnish lists of
Please note the action taken regarding
1885, 1890, 1895, 1900,
1928.
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names and addresses.
the Bakeless Art Fund, mention of which
Remember
this issue.
the date
:
is
made elsewhere
Alumni Day, May 24,
1
in
930.
1876
Quietly at the
Judge Charles
C.
home
of the bride’s sister October 24,
Evans, of the Columbia-Montour
Mrs. Elizabeth Milnes Mears, of West Second
were united
in
928,
and
Berwick,
1
district,
Street,
marriage.
Only the immediate families of the prominent couple witnessed the ceremony, which was performed at
the
home
2:30
o’clock at
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. White in Briar Creek.
hom.e was beautifully decorated with a profusion
chrysanthemums, yellow roses and
The
of yellow
ferns.
Rev. Joseph C. Stuart, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Berwick, performed the ring ceremony as the couple
met before a bank of flowers, the bride being given in marriage
by her brother, John Milnes, of Kenwood, N.
orchid chiffon velvet and carried violets and
Y.
The bride wore
orchids.
There were no attendants at the ceremony and following a
wedding dinner the couple departed on a honeymoon to a number of
cities in the East.
The bride
is
one of Berwick’s most highly esteemed
women
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and the many friends of the couple
will join in
extending hear-
congratulations.
tiest
Mrs. Evans has been
coming
sided.
a resident of Berwick since 1922,
Berwick from Scranton, where she had formerly reShe is, however, a native of Espy.
Since coming to
to
Berwick she has been particularly active in the Women’s Department of the Y. M. C. A. and the work of the Girl Reserves and
for several years has been an officer of the Advisory Board of
the women’s department, a position that drew her into active service in the growing work of that organization.
During the past
year she has been president of the Council Cup Chapter of the
Delphian Society.
Guests at the wedding were
:
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Milnes, Mr.
and Mrs. John Milnes, Kenwood, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Ives, of Clark Summit; Robert Mears, of New York City; Miss
Marion Mears, of Franklin; Mr. and Mrs. Clark Evans of New
York City; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Evans and son Charles, Miss
Elizabeth Milnes and Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. White.
;
1879
There were
who
six of the Class of
returned for their
fiftieth
22 which graduated
year reunion and
bers of the class have taught a total of
had a
fine
624
all
in
of the
years.
1879
mem-
This class
time throughout the day telling of their work during
the half century since graduating and also telling of absent class-
mates.
1882
Stricken suddenly with heart disease at Nutley, N.
her daughter
is
a teacher, Mrs. L. P.
Sterner,
J.,
where
one of Blooms-
known and most prominent women, died at 5:30
Monday morning, June 4, after a few minutes’ illness.
burg’s best
o’clock
Prof. Sterner
was
visiting his son. Dr.
delphia, at the time,
the 3
Robert Sterner,
in Phila-
and was overcome with shock.
The body of Mrs. Sterner was brought to Bloomsburg on
50 D. L. & W. train and was removed to the family home
:
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on Third
relatives,
25
where funeral services, which were private for
was held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon, June 7. Rev.
Street,
A. Marker, of the Presbyterian Church, officiated.
S.
Mrs. Sterner
ed
was one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteem-
women and had
long resided in Bloomsburg.
About two weeks before Mrs.
sudden death. Prof,
and Mrs. Sterner left for Philadelphia to visit their son. Dr. Robert Sterner.
Mrs. Sterner had gone to Nutley to spend the weekHer daughend with her daughter and was stricken suddenly.
ter and her son, James, were at her bedside when the end came.
Prof. Sterner and Robert were immediately notified and went to
Nutley at once.
adelphia, but
it
Sterner’s
The body of Mrs. Sterner was removed to Philwas impossible to continue the journey to
Bloomsburg because of Prof. Sterner’s condition.
Mrs. Sterner
last
Spring underwent a very serious operation
for the removal of a goitre at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia.
Her condition then was such that she was a patient at
weeks before it was doomed wise to opHer condition since had shown an improvement and she
the hospital for several
erate.
has
made
a satisfactory recovery.
Mrs. Sterner was a descendant of Robert Fulton, inventor
of the steamboat,
New York upon
and some years ago was an honored guest
in
the occasion of the celebration of the invention
of the steamboat.
Her maiden name was Miss Nora Finney, and she was for
of years a very successful and much loved teacher in
it was while she was a teacher
the Bloomsburg High School,
and Prof. Sterner the principal that their marriage took place.
a
number
Mrs. Sterner
fall
after
is
survived by her husband,
a long period of
service
as
who
retired last
superintendent of the
Bloomsburg schools and three children: Dr. Robert, of PhilaJ., and James, a student at
delphia; Miss Alice, of Nutley, N.
Harvard.
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Mrs. Sterner had expected to go from Nutley to
City with Prof.
University,
New York
commencement at Columbia
daughter was to receive a degree.
Sterner for the
where
their
Mrs. Sterner was active in the W. C. T. U., the Fort McClure
Chapter of the D. A. R., the Century Club and the Presbyterian
Church.
1883
passed away at the hospital at 5 20 A. M.
October 29, 928, after having been in a very critical condition
and at the point of death for the two days.
Ira C. Dietterick
:
1
Suffering for weeks with a stomach ailment, he underwent
an x-ray examination that revealed ulcers that necessitated a serious operation.
It was performed and a condition developed
which gave few hopes for his recovery.
Mr. Dietterick was born in Berwick on December 3, 1863,
and was accordingly aged sixty-four years, seven months and
twenty-six days.
His early life was spent in Berwick where he
served an apprenticeship in the Reagan Drug Store and became
He went to Nebraska to locate and
a registered pharmacist.
established a drug store at Crawford that he conducted for many
years.
Some twenty-five years ago he returned to Berwick and
his home with Dr. G. L. Reagan, and Mrs. Reagan, his sisHe
ter, and was employed at Clewell and Currin’s Drug Store.
the
Mocanaqua
Store
of
Drug
was for several years in charge of
S. J. Bannan, of Shickshinny, and returned to Berwick when the
store was sold.
He has since been employed with local drug
A man with a never
stores and at the Berwick Store Company.
failing disposition of friendliness and cheerfulness, he was a man
He was a member of Christ Episcopal
with many warm friends.
made
Church and of Berwick Tent, Knights of the Maccabees.
There are surviving two children, Elwell, of Scranton and
New York City. Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt,
Mrs. Harriet Catasus, of
of Berwick,
is
a niece.
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1884
There were four members of the Class of 1884 present at
and they had an excellent time during the day.
Charles Kennedy, of Hazleton, who
The members were
taught until 1919; Miss S. Ella Young, of Millville; Mrs. John
C. Scanlon, of Laurytown, and Miss Mae Sharpless, of Bloomsthe reunion
:
burg.
1885
Miss
Anne Fox, a
successful
teacher
in
the
schools
of
Bloomsburg for 41 years and one of the town’s most esteemed
women, who retired at the close of the present school year, was
guest of honor at a banquet Monday evening. May 13, at the
Elks’ Club of the teachers of the Bloomsburg public schools, a
group which has in it six of Miss Fox’s former pupils.
During the evening Miss Fox was presented with a handsome wrist watch by the teachers, the presentation being made
by Superintendent W. W. Raker. An excellent chicken dinner
was served.
1889
The
Class of
1
889 had one
of the best records of attend-
Of a class of 59, of whom
were 25 back for a delightful re-
ance of any of the classes in reunion.
only 43 are
now
living, there
union.
Among
James
the
members
P. Grimes, Mrs.
of the class attending were:
Mrs.
Fannie E. Tressler, Mrs. A. B. Longshore,
Malena Gabbert, Mrs. Frank
Benjamin Apple, Mrs. John W. Kirkley.
R. D. Renn, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Irvin,
B.
1892
Caroline H. Black
ville.
is
Principal of the schools at
Newport-
Pa.
^
Word reached Columbia County
New York
death at the Clifton Springs,
ner, ^on of Mrs. S. J. Conner, of
relatives
May
3
1
of
the
sanitarium of Pierce Con-
Willow Springs, and a prominent
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28
figure in the business life of Trenton,
New
Jersey,
where he has
resided for the last twenty-five years.
Before going to Trenton Mr. Conner was a foreman
&
American Car
Foundry Company plant
in the
Upon
at Berwick.
going to Trenton he associated himself with
his
brother
in
the
Conner mil! enterprise of that city.
He becam.e a bank director, was interested in a large department store in Trenton and
had varied other interests there.
Mr. Conner was the son of the late Samuel
He was
Elmira Conner.
J.
Conner and
a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School and married Miss Letta Schnerr, of Hobbie.
They have two sons and a daughter, Maurice F. Conner, Scott
Conner, of Trenton and Mrs. Archibald Updike, of Sebring, Fla.
He was associated with his two brothers, John G. Conner
and Stanley J. Conner, in the Conner Millwork Co., of Trenton,
N. J.
He was a director of the Prospect National Bank, a Past
Master of Trenton Lodge No. 5, F. & A. Fd. and an elder of the
Bethany Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
He
is
survived
mother, Mrs.
addition to his wife and children by
in
Conner, of Willow Springs; his
S. J.
Charles M. Petty, of Madera, Cal.
of East Orange, N.
J.
;
Conner, Madera,
Cal.,
his
Mrs.
Mrs. George A. Whittemore,
;
Miss Martha Conner, of Pittsburgh and
brothers John G. Conner and Stanley
S.
sisters,
and Ray
S.
J.
Conner, of Trenton;
W.
Conner, Schenectady.
1894
Members
of the Class of
1894 from
all
parts of the State
gathered at their Alma Mater to spend a day they
will
remember
the rest of their lives.
Among
those back for the reunion were Mrs. F. C. Stehie,
Towanda; Mrs. Hannah
Dalton, Shenandoah;
Margaret W. Palmer, Shenandoah; Mary G. Monaghan, Shenandoah; Mrs. Teressa G. CosSarah J.
tello, Hazleton; Mrs. Catherine Albertson, Sunbury;
Miss Bertha Espy,
Mrs. Oscar C. Kunze, Newark, N.
J.
;
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Catherine Hardcastle Albertson, Sunbury;
Hughes, Scranton;
Mary
C. Rassier
29
and Mrs. Hannah Dalton, Elizabeth
Shen-
Beilis,
andoah; Mrs. Mary Frimire Kick.
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William Buckwalter
ton, Pa.
His address
is
employed
is
622 North
^
Nellie
ham
Coffman (Mrs.
Street, Carlisle, Pa.
in the
Post Office at Scran-
Lincoln Avenue.
If-
C. H.
She
is
McDermott),
lives at
235 Gra-
teaching in the Carlisle public
Her daughter, Sara, is teaching in the High School at
Gloucester, N. J.
Another daughter, Mary, is a member of the
Her son, William,
faculty of the High School at Ardmore, Pa.
schools.
a graduate of Dickinson College in the
Class of
1928,
is
now
studying at Johns Hopkins University.
V-
H-
Bessie G. Lynch (Mrs.
James
Street, Kingston, Pa.
Edith M. Nesbit
is
John A. Redington),
She has five children.
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living
lives at
73
on a farm near Milton, Pa.
1899
About one-fifth of the members of the Class of 899 were
back for an enjoyed reunion and they entered into the spirit of
the day along with the youngest members of the association in
1
reunion.
Among
Scott, Mrs.
those at the reunion were:
Emma
Mrs. Lillian
Hidlay
Severann, Mrs. Mabel Heist Clayberger, Mrs.
Richard Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Fortner, Mrs. Carrie Flick
Redline and Henry Clayberger.
1904
There were 22 members of the Class of
The
1
904 back
for the
numbered 121. Most of those
in reunion arrived early in the morning and exchanged experiences and news of other members in the morning and following
25 th year reunion.
class
the banquet in the afternoon.
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1908
Flora M. Miller (Mrs. C. E. Anderson) lives in Camden, N.
J.,
is
where her husband is in the hardware
129 South 27th Street.
* V ^
business.
Her address
^(1
William Rarich
N.
J.
Mr. Rarich
is
lives at
250 Wyoming Avenue, Audubon,
Treasurer of Harris
J. Latta, Inc.,
of Phila-
delphia.
¥ ¥
Mrs.
Bank
Anna M.
*
Shiffer Peters
is
Her home
of Wilkes-Barre.
a stenographer in the Miners
is
Hudson, Pa.
in
1909
There were 23 members of the Class of
1
909 back
after
years and they had some enjoyed experiences to relate.
those at the College were:
Bess
Hinckley,
20
Among
Geraldine
Hess
Follmer, Kate Seesholtz Morris, Irma L. Heller Abbott, Carrie E.
VanCampen, Rebecca Stroh Williams, Mary F. Bevan, Gertrude
Hobbes Pooley, Julia Simpler Aurand, L. T. Heran, Dr. John W.
Grassier, A. L.
Rummer;
Dr. Scott Fisher, Syracuse, N. Y.
;
Lydia
J. Mahoney, Kathleen Major Brown, Elizabeth Fagan, Mary Edwards Shuman; Joseph E. Pooley, Madison, N. J,;
S. A. Shuman; J. E. Klingerman, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Gilgallon
Rockefeller, West Pittston; Gertrude M. Menuley, Peckville;
Mrs. D. J. Mahoning.
Williams, D.
V-
Bess Hinckley,
a former
>{
member
of the
faculty,
is
now
Personnel Welfare Worker and Librarian at the Danville State
Hospital.
^
Samuel J. Steiner is head of the Spanish Department in
Temple University, Philadelphia. His address is Box 205, Tem-
ple University.
* * ¥
Dr. Scott R. Fisher
tal,
Syracuse, N. Y.
cuse.
is
surgeon at the Crouse-Irving Hospi-
His address
is
5
1
1
Keith Building, Syra-
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31
1910
Reay W. Milnes
Oneida Community,
is
Assistant General
Works Manager
of the
Ltd., at Oneida, N. Y.
* ¥ ¥
John Skweir
is
practicing law in
McAdoo,
Edith C. Corse (Mrs. R. C. Tringley),
is
Pa.
teaching in the Vo-
cational High School at Harford, Pa.
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v-
Grace A. Gillner (Mrs. Fred W. Zane), lives in Sterling,
Pa.
She writes that her time is very much occupied in taking
care of her twins (age and sex of same not stated).
¥ ¥ ¥ ¥
Helen
E. Trescott (Mrs.
Lee A. Perry),
lives in
New Lyme,
Ohio.
Julia G. Brill
at the
is
1
is
Assistant Professor of English Composition
Pennsylvania State College.
Her address
in
State College
28 East Nittany Avenue.
1914
There were 20 members of the Class of 1914 back for the
reunion and although no men in the class were back the women
had a great time. Those attending were Cora Severance Pinnock, Forty Fort; Pearl Hughes Gunther, Bloomsburg; Beulah
Fowler Thomas, St. Louis, Mo. Ethel Ravert Keck, Berwick;
Leah Bogart Lawton, Millville; Flora Fritz Henderson, Benton;
Sabilla Schobert Campbell, Kathryn Merle Erdman, Washington,
D. C. Vera Colvin Gorham, Clark’s Summit; Pauline F. Fennelly, Frackville; Martha F. Rosenstock, Ruth Hidlay, Bloomsburg;
Hester Eisenhauer Kerst, Lancaster; Oliver Miller Cook, Sunbury; Margaret Foust Beaver, Danville; Stella Buckley, Bessie
Winter, Nanticoke; Adelia Fagan, Hazleton; Susan Jennings
Sturman, Tunkhannock; Irene Fulmer; Pauline Lloyd, William:
;
;
sport.
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32
Flora L. Fritz and
Bellefonte, Pa., July
1
Edward
7,
B.
Henderson were married
at
1928, by Rev. Thompson, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Henderson has for several years
been teaching Music, English and Dramatics at the Benton Consolidated School.
After June 0 she will make her home in
1
Indiana, Pa.
1919
The
had one of the
There were 55 members back.
Class of 1919, in tenth year reunion,
best turn-outs of the day.
Those attending were:
Martha
Hagemeyer, Scranton;
Anne Cummings Loftus, Moosic; Meta Kistler, Hazleton; Veronica Kennedy Muldowney, Claire E. Keating, Philadelphia Mary
H. Flynn, Centraha; Mary Durkin Ryan, Alma L. Bachman,
Wilkes-Barre Grace B. McCoy, Lewistown Mary Grover Powell, Mildred E. Stover, Anna M. Conboy, Scranton; R. U. Nyhart,
Wyoming; Margaret J. Dyer, Scranton, Marie Colt Reece, Mill;
;
;
ville;
Elizabeth Muir Stelle, Shamokin; Falla Linville Shuman,
Catawissa; Mildred E. Grifhth, Kingston; Mollie Jeremiah, Mildred E. Evans, Shamokin; Mrs. C. L. Heist, Berwick; Mabel G.
Beck, Factoryville; Lillian C. Fisher, Mt. Carmel; Miss Marion
Carmel; Mrs.
Laura Breisch, Ringtown Helen MeixRhoda Crouse, Berwick Dari Heeler Mathell, Berwick, R. D.
Stillwater; Margaret
er, Benton; Mary Harrington McHenry,
Heiss Vastine, Mifflinville Helen Howell Fieury, Espy; Olive M.
Burns, Oneida; Elizabeth E. Fessler, Shamokin; Marjorie A.
Crook, Minersville; Marian Troutman, Shamokin; Ruth Doyle
Agnes ShuMoore, Bayonne, N. J. Edwina Evans, Scranton
man Eves, Almedia; Ruth Maust Drumm, Bloomsburg; Marie
Ouikavan Turnbach, Hazleton; Arthur E. Hoffman, Newport;
Mary Williams Breisch, Ringtown Mary Diemer Myers, Bloomsburg; Bertha V. Baker, Espy; Anna Cole Stevens, Harrisburg;
Mary Belefski, Glen Lyon; Bee Evans Woolcock, Shamokin;
Irene Cabo, Wilkes-Barre.
C. Kilcoyne, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. S. Wilkinson, Mt.
Stanley Davis, Berwick
;
;
;
;
;
;
;
;
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A
daughter was born Monday, April 22, to Mr. and Mrs.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Clair Monroe, of Bloomsburg.
Agnes Smith.
Mrs.
33
Monroe was formerly Mary
1920
(Mrs. William 0. Seitzinger, Jr.), lives
City, where her husband is proprietor of a drug store.
Rachel
in
Tower
E. Patrick
1923
Anna W.
New York
Pursel
is
now
located at
49 West Ninth
Street,
City.
1924
The
which ever
from
institution,
reported
47
of
members
graduated
the
its
back for the fifth year reunion and they had a great time. A
telegram of greeting was received from Mary Crum.
Class of 1924, one of the largest classes
1
Among
those attending
were:
Mary Amesbury, Ruth
Jones; Sara E. Smull, Danville; Eva Watters, Mifflinville
ty E. Smoczynski, Catawissa
;
Mary Dowd
;
Het-
Deiterich, Harold Mil-
Bloomsburg Adda M. LizLake Silkworth; Emily Linskill Roberts, Fanwood, N. J.;
Margaret Smith Morris, Forty Fort; Ruth Morris, Luzerne; Frances Morris Williams, Edwardsville
Ruth D. Jenkins, Taylor;
Rose Connor, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Gribben, Dunmore; Mary
Wilkes-Barre;
Lois
Remley, Bloomsburg;
Riley,
Matilda
Mensch, Bloomsburg! Christine Gable, Tower City; Helen Barrow, Sunbury Gertrude M. Roberts, Nanticoke Leona E. MailEdith
ler,
W.
Ent, Christine Holmes,
;
das.
;
;
;
ey, Kingston; Lucille Groff, Wilkes-Barre;
Mary
Barret,
Wood-
Theresa Lyons, Wilkes-Barre; Margaret Berlew,
Kingston; Lydia A. Pollock, Mildred Ridgley, Anna Singleman
Barnes, West Pittston; Sarah Dymond Whitlock, Wyoming; Marridge, N. J.
;
garet B. Mensch, Millheim;
sie
A. Singer, Williamsport
;
Maude
R. Stover, Rebersburg; Bes-
Esther M.
Sitler,
Berwick
;
Elizabeth
Corrigan, Hazleton; Cathrine F. Fear, West Pittston; Ruth Win-
Nanticoke; Ruth
Tempest, Marion K. Andrews,
Bloomsburg; Arminta Howell
Jones, Alice Williams Keller, Aletha Bullock Allan, Beulah Deming, Arlene Johnston, Helen Leuthalt, Mildred Heiss, Elizabeth
ter Pratt,
Philadelphia; Mrs.
Ted
L.
P. Smith,
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Drumm
Emmitt,
Ruth Dunly, Consuelo
Fenstermaker,
Anna
Wright, Katherine Ball, Edith Brace, Aldona Baldowski, Kathryn Deckant, Miriam R.
Lawson, Viola M. Kline, Kathryn C.
Wanamie; Helen Krolikowski,
Helen Novak, Martha Stapinsky, Emma Burkett, Glen Lyon;
Grace Kleckner, Hazleton; Grace Woodring, St. Johns; Mildred
Houser, Eckley; Ella J. Aurand, Globe Mills; Elizabeth J. Mathias, Sorthumberland
Ruth Reynolds Stevenson, Factoryville;
Arlene Johnson, Hallstead; Frances M. Hahn, Edith E. Brace, Aldona Baldowski, Elizabeth Koch, Mrs. Catherine Creasy, Mrs.
Catherine Huttenstine, Mifflinville Mr. and Mrs. William Mess,
Frank Buss, Harold Llewellyn, Gordon Llewellyn, James ReySchuyler, Elizabeth Kruskinski,
;
;
nolds.
>{
Maude
grades
in
R. Stover
is
ff-
teacher of the fourth,
Her home address
Millheim, Pa.
is
fifth
and
sixth
Rebersburg, Pa.
^ ^ ^ ^
Ruth
Reynolds (Mrs. William M. Stevenson), lives at
Her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born on
928.
E.
Factoryville, Pa.
October 3,
1
>{
is
Helen Novak is
219 Ridge Street.
Katherine Ball lives
!{
Her address
V-
V-
in Factoryville,
She
Pa.
is
a teacher
the Little Exeter School.
>{
Paul Burdella
is
A. Mildred Heiss lives
in Mifflin
Plymouth, Pa.
>(
!{
in Mifflinville,
She
Pa.
is
teaching
Township, Columbia County.
if.
Frances M. Hahn
the schools of
Street.
V-
if-
teaching in
if-
in
if-
teaching in Glen Lyon, Pa.
^
in
ff-
West
is
if.
ff.
if.
Art Teacher
Pittston.
in the
intermediate grades
Her address
is
1
1
2 Washington
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Doris Morse
dress
is
is
35
teaching in White Plains, N.
Y.
Her ad-
48 Park Avenue.
1925
The engagement of Miss Gladys A. Richards, well known
Bloomsburg girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Richards, of
West Street, to Willard Kleckner, popular Shickshinny young
man and son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of that place, was
announced October 22, 928, at a party held at the Hotel Ber1
wick.
Miss Richards
is
very popular
in
Bloomsburg.
She
is
a
graduate of the Hazleton High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College and
ton schools.
is
now
Mr. Kleckner
a successful teacher in the Hazle-
is
a graduate of Penn State and
is
employed in the transmission department of the Pennsylvania
Power and Light Company and
is
located at Hazleton.
1926
Miss Thalia Eleanor Kitchen, one of Catawissa’s most esteemed and popular girls, became the bride of Gilbert Smith
Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper, of Glen Lyon, in a
quiet ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Warner Kitchen, of Main Street, Catawissa, at 6:00 o’clock
Friday morning, March 29.
The ceremony was performed by Rev H.
J.
Billow, pastor
of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Catawissa, in the
presence of members of the immediate family.
Breakfast was served following the wedding and the couple then left on a
Mrs. Cooper
wedding
trip to Atlantic City.
is a graduate of the
Catawissa High School,
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
since her graduation has been a successful teacher in the Catawissa schools.
Mr. Cooper is a graduate of the Newport Township High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Class of
926, and is now art supervisor in the Coatesville public schools.
Class of 1924,
1
;
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Both were very popular while students at the College and were
prominent in College activities.
They have also attended State
College.
>{
Frances Fisher
ship,
is
teaching
if-
in the schools of Dallas
Town-
Luzerne County, Pa.
if
if
if
if
Fae Womelsdorf and Bernard Tubick, of Wilkes-Barre,
were married March 23, 1926. They are now living at 245
Centre Street, Wanamie, Pa.
if
Margaret
married March
Phillips
1
2,
1
if
if
if
and Fred Walker, of Glen Lyon, were
926.
Their address
is
now
Spring Street,
Glen Lyon.
Laura
E.
Mann
625 North Church
is
teaching in
Her address
Hazleton.
is
Street.
1927
The Class of 1927, in reunion for the first time, had 50
back and the day was one of much enjoyment for them. Among
those attending were:
Wilma Dietterick, Beatrice Renn, Berwick; Ruth Manta, Nora Tucker, Edwardsville Marion Thomas,
Bethlehem Ruth Oswald, Hattie Everett, Mahanoy City Adella
Chapley, Shenandoah; Edith Sweetman, Martha Tasker, Shamokin; Mary E. Jones, Scranton; Hilda Ruggles, Hunlock Creek,
;
;
;
Emily Goldsmith, Demunds Helen Adrews, Miriam Eves
Margaret Caswell, Camptown; Ruth Rockwell, Wyalusing Verna Medley, Pauline Vastine, Stella Murray, Scranton; Isabel
R. D.
;
;
;
O’Donnell, Ellen Smith, Ebervale;
Anna
E. Gerringer, Danville;
Mrs. Harry Lindauer, Danville; Eldora B. Robbins, Orangeville;
Myra
L.
Thomas, Bethlehem; Doris Palsgrove, Frackville; Mild-
red R. Lowry, Forest City; Esther M. Welker, Bloomsburg; Lena
VanHorn, Hershey; Blanche Fahringer, Catawissa; Irene HilHelen Shaeffer,
Jessie M. Hastie, Avoca;
Mary Ryan, Helen Penman; Marion Marshal, Kingston; Edith
Sweetman, Taylor; Helen Andrews, Slatington; Mildred F.
Adams and Dorcas M. Epler.
E.
gert, Factoryville;
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Miss Bessie
6:00
Mae
37
Leech, of Muncy, was married
May
3
1
,
at
o’clock in the morning, to Fred White Kistler, of Blooms-
burg, at the
home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Leech, on
North Washington Street, Muncy.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
J.
W.
Gentzler, pas-
presence of a few friends and
tor of the
Lutheran Church,
members
of the immediate families.
in the
Following a v/edding breakfast, they took a motor
Beaver
Pittsburgh and Uniontown.
Falls,
They
to
trip
will reside in
Wilkes-Barre.
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Muncy High School and
Nurses’ Training School at the Geisinger Hospital, Danville.
Kistler,
who
teacher
in
is
a graduate of
the Mountain
the
Mr.
Bloomsburg Normal School,
is
a
Top High School near Wilkes-Barre.
^ ^ ^ ^
Doris G. Palsgrove
dress
is
1
1
is
teaching in Frackville, Pa.
Her ad-
7 North Lehigh Avenue.
V-
Rachel
J. E.
Wolfe
is
!{
f{-
teaching
in
Lewisburg, Pa.
¥ y
Blanche Y. Fahringer
Her home
midia. Pa.
is
in
is
ff-
Edith E.
Pa.
She
is
Sweetman
teaching
in
teaching
ff-
is
High School
at
Nu-
ff-
lives at 5
1
9 West Taylor
Street, Taylor,
the Taylor public schools.
i{-
Emily Goldsmith
in the
Catawissa, Pa.
if-
teaching
ff-
if-
in Dallas, Pa.
f{-
V-
Florence M. Gamber is teacher of grades 4 and 5B at
Coxestown, Pa.
Her home address is 35 Ann Street, Duncannon.
1
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1928
Marguerite Catherine Minnich
trict office
of the
Hazleton, Pa.
'
is
a billing clerk
in
the dis-
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, at
Her address
is
322
East Broad Street.
>{
Marguerite M. Dermody
is
V-
teacher of seventh grade
Junior High School at Scranton, Pa.
She
lives at
in the
1711 Roselyn
Avenue.
^
^ ^
Mary Youtz is a substitute teacher in the Northumberland
County schools.
Her address is R. D. 4, Sunbury, Pa.
Dorothy E. McCollum
is
schools of Shamokin, Pa.
teaching in the second grade in the
Her address
is
210 North Rock
Street.
1929
Alice Pennington has been elected teacher of English and
Dramatics at the Benton Vocation School.
>(
ff-
f{-
if-
Lawrence Creasy and Margaret Orr have been elected
the faculty of the Shickshinny High School.
if-
if-
if-
to
if-
Martha Laird has been elected teacher of English and Latin
Main Township Consolidated School at Mainville, Pa.
in the
if-
if
if-
if-
Charles H. Surfield has been elected to the faculty of the
Shickshinny High School.
JUNIOR PLAY
Juniors in the four year course at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College Wednesday evening, March 27, delighted a
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large audience in the College auditorium with the presentation of
Austin Strong’s
comedy drama, “Three Wise
The members of
the cast
were
Mr.
:
Fools.”
Theodore Findley,
Clarence Ruch; Dr. Richard Gaunist, Fred Berger; Hon. James
Raymond Hodges;
Maudrue
O’Connell; Mrs. Saunders, Miss TKursabert Schuyler; Gordon
Sc’’uyler, Haven Fortner; Benjamin Suratt, Llewellyn Edmunds;
Trumbull,
Miss
Fairchild,
M:ss
John Crawshay, Armond Keller; Poole, Alex Kraynack; Gray,
Charles John; Clancy, Charles Wadas; Douglas, Elfred Jones,
and a policeman, Richard Frymire.
1929 OBITER DEDICATED TO DR. HAAS
The Obiter
1929 of the Bloomsburg State
one of the finest a graduating class of the inhas ever published, both as to content and appearance.
of the Class of
Teachers’ College
stitution
is
Handsomely bound in a leather cover, the volume of almost 350 pages is devoted entirely to the class and to College
activities and life during the period the graduating class spent on
the hill.
The cover is one of the finest creations that has ever
been placed on an Obiter.
The volume
of the College.
who was
is
dedicated to Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal
was edited by Ralph Davies, of Nanticoke,
by the following staff:
Business manager,
It
assisted
Anna Ziemba; associate
Lawrence Creasy, Miss Marguerite Keithline, Miss Muriel Jones: stenographers. Miss Margaret Bower, Miss Dorothy
Schmidt; art editor. Miss Eleanor Amos; athletic editor, RobCharles Poole; secretary to the editor,
editors,
ert Davis
calendar editor. Miss Grace Kivler assistant business
managers, Isabel Chelosky, Elizabeth L. Williams.
;
A number of
campus are in the
;
fine
photographs of the College buildings and
front of the
volume and are followed by a
«
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group picture of the faculty and individual cuts of some of the
members, including that of Miss Jessie Patterson, the class advisor.
There are individual write-ups on each member of the
class,
the write-up being under the cut of the individual.
Space
in the
volume
is
also given to the other classes, school
organization and activities.
as well as
many snap
In this department, the
work
is
ex-
Pictures of organizations and individuals
ceptionally complete.
shots
add considerable
to this
department.
One department is devoted to organizations, another to
drama and music and a third to athletics. The College calendar
is
given
in the rear of the
book.
SET DATES FOR
SUMMER
SESSION
The summer session at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ ColMonday, June 24, and will continue over a period
The dates were
of six weeks, closing on Saturday, August 3.
session
bulletin which was issued at the
announced in a summer
A catalogue for the coming College year of
College recently.
929-30 has also been issued. This catalogue is very complete
and contains a number of pictures of the school plant and school
The Fall term will open Tuesday, September 0.
organizations.
lege will open
1
1
E. H.
Some
SOTHERN RECITAL
of the greatest stage characters
were brought
to
an
appreciative audience in the College auditorium Friday evening,
April 12,
by Edward H. Sothern, one of America’s foremost
who appeared here in a recital and dramatic
stage personages,
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lecture in bringing to a close one of the finest artists’
41
and lecture
courses that the College has ever had.
Recognized as one of the leading exponents of romantic,
and Shakespearean productions and one of the greatest of Shakespearean actors, Mr. Sothern, in his recital, gave
some of the principal scenes from two of Shakespeare’s most
popular plays, “Macbeth” and the “Merchant of Venice.”
legitimate
He
“Lord Dundreary,” one of
“Cur American Cousin” and gave
poems from “If I Were King.”
also delighted with
cipal characters in
the
Because he was forced
in his recital to
the prinparts of
go from one char-
acter to another he did not appear in costume but his character
portrayals were so fine that his audience
that he
was not
One
in
soon forgot the fact
costume.
of the most enjoyed parts of his
program were
his re-
minisences and the telling of several incidents linked with the
stage career of his father and himself.
FRESHMAN HOP
gymnasium, beautifully decorated in t he
and white, the Freshman Class of the
Teachers’ College held their dance Saturday evening. May
1.
Alexander’s Orchestra furnished a fine program of music.
In the College
class colors
of purple
1
Hoops were placed under the rafters and from them were
suspended purple and white streamers.
The basketball banking boards were decorated in those colors and paper along the
walls was in an attractive design.
Paper over the windows gave
the effect of curtains.
A
occupied by the orchestra.
and were
fence was placed
around the space
The programs were very clever
tied with cord in the class colors.
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The patrons and patronesses were
er,
:
Miss Kehr, Miss Turn-
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson and
Mr. and Mrs.
S.
I.
Shortess.
SENIOR BANQUET
The Commencement program
Bloomsburg State
May 16 with the
Senior banquet held in the College dining hall and attended by
The affair proved
about 300 members of the class and guests.
to be a most delightful one.
of the
Teachers’ College opened Thursday evening.
and Prof. W.
Prof. E. H. Nelson presided
dean of
and Theodore
presided.
Dr. Haas
B. Sutliff,
instruction; Miss Jessie Patterson, class advisor,
Davis, of Nanticoke, president of the class,
the principal,
was unable
to attend
owing
to business in Harris-
burg.
Prof. E. A.
Reams
led in group singing
orchestra furnished music during the
and the North Hall
dinner later for
dancing
gymnasium.
Armond Keller and Henry Warman sang
three numbers which were well received and Miss Alma CaldThe banquet was in charge of a
well sang a beautiful solo.
committee headed by Miss Marjorie Orr, of Shickshinny.
in the
Russel McHenry, a well-known
member
of the
force, recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday.
helped
know
in the
janitorial
Mr. McHenry
construction of Carver Hall, or as most graduates
has been practically
be seen on the campus during these summer days, pushing his lawn mower and doing his
it,
the chapel building,
continuous ever since.
and
He can
his service
still
share with the rest of them.
At a dinner held
in his
honor by the members of the Church
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of Christ of Bloomsburg, Dr. Haas spoke of Mr. McHenry’s faith-
Words
fulness.
of greeting
were also spoken by N.
and Grounds; Prof.
hart. Superintendent of Buildings
kins,
former Bursar;
C.
T. EngleF. H.
Jen-
M. Hausknecht, present Business Mana-
ger and by Dr. Waller.
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS BEGUN
The Berwick Lumber and Supply Company was awarded
the general contracts for both the
new
training school building
and the new laundry building of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
Work on the buildings has been begun and both buildings are expected to be completed by late Fall of this year.
Both contracts have been approved by Dr. John A. H. Keith,
superintendent of public instruction.
The
total bid for the training school
was $105,900 and
for
the laundry building, $22,700.
C. H. Sherry, of Hazleton, at a bid of $15,01
was awarded the heating and ventilating contract for the training school
while Herre Brothers, of Harrisburg, received both plumbing
contracts, the one for the training school at a bid of $6,428 and
the one for the laundry at a bid of $2,747. A. Rockafeller Company, of Mt. Carmel, received both electric wiring contracts at
bids of $4,816 for the training school and $3,300 for the launIhe heating and ventilating contract for the laundry went
dry.
1
to the
Chambersburg Construction Company
The
total bids for the
at a bid of
$3,987.
two buildings amount to $164,889,
$132,155 and that for
the bids for the training school totaling
the laundry $32,734.
The
training school building will be erected
the south of North Hall, the men’s dormitory.
ing will be in front of the tennis courts.
back of and
to
Part of the build-
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The laundry
at the
will be erected on the land between the bank
west end of the athletic field and the beginning of the Col-
lege grove.
The
tennis courts will be
tion plan of the College,
as a
campus.
and
The new
moved, according
to the construc-
that part of the grounds will
be used
tennis courts will probably be placed
east of the training school.
The part of the grounds to the north of the new building
and back of North Hall and the old barn will be graded and a
play ground for the training school children will be provided.
It is the ultimate hope of the College to erect a junior high school
at the location of the present athletic field.
The work of the summer
ment
also includes
nineteen
improve-
which include the completion of the painting,
plastering and flooring of the dormitory and the completion reprojects,
novation of the auditorium.
SISTER OF
FORMER PRINCIPAL
DIES
Miss Mira V. Welsh, of Orangeville and one of the most
highly esteemed residents of that section of the county, died on
Tuesday morning, April 16
at the
home
of Philip L.
Drum,
Esq.,
of Kingston ,where she spent the Winter.
Miss Welsh was the daughter of Abner F. and Mary Welsh
and was born about 79 years ago at Orangeville, where she resided in the old homestead all her life excepting the last two
Winters which she spent with her niece, Mrs. Drum, of Kingston.
She was a
faithful
member
of the
Ladies’
Missionary So-
Church of Orangeville, and frequently
miles
from
her home to Orangeville to attend the
walked the two
ciety of the Presbyterian
meetings of the society.
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She leaves to survive her one brother. Dr. J. P. Welsh, of
former principal of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School.
Pleasantville, N. Y.,
Her
“I
am
life
was
filled
has to her credit the
them
many kindly deeds, her motto being
She was a very devout Presbyterian and
with
here to servve.”
training of
young men
several
—among
Dr. J. J. Ossuna of the University of Porto Rico.
MAY DAY PROGRAM
The campus
of the Teachers’ College presented a colorful
Thursday afternoon. May 23, when more than two hundred
pupils of the training school and a number of members of the
sight
College Senior Class participated in the annual
ance of the school.
The campus
All the participants
itself
has
were
May Day
in
observ-
costume.
never looked prettier and as
the
groups of dances, including a number of folk dances were given
by the youngsters of the
training school, the
many
tumess presented a constantly shifting scene of
colored cos-
brilliant colors
against the green background.
McCammon arranged and directed the presentaprogram and the accompanying music was arranged
and directed by Miss Alma Caldwell.
Miss Lucy
tion of the
Parents of
many
a considerable
Hall
were presand formed
of the training school children
ent for the exercises, which began at three o’clock
crowd about the campus.
The program was presented on the campus between Science
and the main building.
The beautiful afternoon gave opportunity for enjoyment
program to the fullest extent and there were fourteen May
of the
poles used during the program, there being one for the smallest
tots as well as others for the
ing school.
more advanced
pupils of the train-
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION
Edgar
of
1
930
E. Richards, of
in the four
Alden Station, a member of the Class
year course leading to a degree, was elected
of the Community Government Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College for the year of 1929-30,
the completion of the count from the recent election shows.
A
president
number
of county residents are officers in the organization.
who
government are;
Warman, Scranton; treasurer. Miss Dorothy Foote, Bloomsburg.
Other
officers
will lead the student
Vice-president, Nicholas Jaffin, Berwick; secretary, Henry
Members
of the students council are:
— Charles
Seniors-
Wadas, Alden Station; and Miss Maudrue O’Connell, Ashley;
Chester Hess, Trevorton and Miss Beatrice Bowman,
Juniors
Orangeville; Miss Lois DeMott and Seymour Stere, both of Millville
Seniors in the two year course
Miss Gertrude R. Schraeder, of West Hazleton and Jack Taylor, of Wilkes-Barre; girl day
students
Miss Josephine Holuba, Berwick, and day boy stud-
—
—
;
ents
—
— Harold
Hidlay, Espy.
The president of the Waller Hall Association in Waller Hall
Margaret Swartz, of Millville, and the president of the North
Hall Association men, Gilbert Gould, of Nanticoke, are also members of the council.
The organization of the Women’s
is;
association in Waller Hall
President, Miss Margaret Swartz, Millville;
Norma
vice president,
The secretary and treasurer will be
The members of
elected from the governing board next term.
vice
president
as ex-officio
the board, with the president and
members, are: Senior in the four year course. Miss Margaretta
Bone, Kingston; Seniors in the two years course. Miss Virginia
Cruickshank, of Shamokin; Miss Ethleda Young, Berwick; Miss
Elizabeth Talbot, Shickshinny and Miss Ruth Starick, Sunbury;
Junior in four year course. Miss Dorothy Voigt, Hawley; Sophomore in the four year course. Miss Lorna Gillow, Lakewood.
Two Freshmen members of the board will be chosen next Fall.
Knoll, Nanticoke.
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The men’s student government
association has the follow-
President, Gilbert Gould, Nanticoke; vice presi-
ing officers:
dent, Joseph
47
Wadas, Alden Station; secretary, Brooke Yeager,
Wilkes-Barre and treasurer, Nicholas
Jaffin,
Berwick.
Haas was the Commencement speaker at the
Benton, June 6; Shickshinny, June
4 and Carbondale, June 20,
Dr. Francis B.
following places this year:
7
;
Espy, June
We
1
from the Pennsylvania School Jour1929: “Principals of our State Teachers’ Colleges
are now Presidents.
This appropriate change in title was made
by the 929 Legislature by enacting H. B. 2099 by Thomas B.
Wilson, chairman of the House Committee on Education.”
It
will therefore in the future be proper to say “President” Haas.
print the following
nal of June,
1
Day students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
were guests of the boarding students at dinner in the school dining room Tuesday evening, April 9, and it was an enjoyed affair.
Members
which met
in
propriately decorated.
ter
and there was some
licious
ham
and Bloomsburg debating teams
same evening, sat at tables apKoch, dean of men, was toastmas-
of the Mansfield
the auditorium the
J. C.
fine singing
during the serving of the de-
dinner.
Miss Caldwell sang a solo and Henry
Warman and Armond
Both selections were enthusiastically reAnother enjoyed number was a ukelele selection by
ceived.
Misses Hortense Evans and Dorothy Lord.
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
Keller sang a duet.
principal of the College, spoke.
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BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SEPTEMBER, 1929
Vol. 30
No. 4
Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F.
F.
FENSTEMAKER,
H. JENKINS, ’76
’12
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Editor-in-Chief
-
Business
_
Manager
SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES
The summer
session of the college
opened Monday, June
The enrollment this year
24, and closed Saturday, August 3.
was 325 the enrollment last year was 385. The estimate of
;
the State Department
was 300.
due to the fact that
the function
The decrease in enrollment is
of the summer session has
changed since 1927. Previous to that date, the main purpose
was to bring teachers with insufficient preparation up to the
At the present time, most of
standards required by the State.
the attention is directed to students who are working for their
degrees.
Several
members
of absence for the
of the regular faculty
summer.
Prof.
John
J.
were granted leaves
Fisher, Prof. Earl N.
Rhodes, and Miss Anna Garrison studied at Columbia University; Prof. E. H. Nelson took work at the University of Michigan; H. F. Fenstemaker attended the summer session of the University of Pennsylvania; Prof. S. L. Wilson studied at Harvard,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
2
and Miss Irma Ward took additional work.
W. Wilbur
Miller, of
College, Indiana,
who
Columbia, Ohio, a graduate of Goshen
obtained his Master’s Degree at Ohio State
University, took the place of Prof.
John J. Fisher as instructor
Psychology and Educational Measurements.
L. P.
Gilmore, a
member
of the faculty of the
Junior High School, and one of the
members
of
in
Bloomsburg
the
summer
school faculty last year, taught courses in the History and Principles of Education.
The
first
social event of the
summer
session took place Fri-
day evening, July 5, when the school gave a reception to the
The affair was held in the gymnasium,
students and faculty.
with dancing as the principal feature.
Thursday evening, July
1, Strickland Gillilan, noted humorist, spoke in the college gynasium, in a feature number of
1
summer entertainment course. All of the entertainment
were held in the gymnasium because of the alterations
that were being made in the auditorium.
the
features
Baseball furnished a major attraction, the interest centering
around the annual championship contest between “Turner’s
Toads’’ and “Vital’s Vipers’’ the championship went to the
team winning the most out of fifteen contests.
;
Friday, July 19, the day students and
ulty
were the guests
of the dormitory
college dining room.
Toads renewed
members
of the fac-
students at dinner in the
Following the dinner the Vipers and the
their feud
on the baseball
field,
and
at 7 :30, the
talent of North Hall put on a vaudeville program in the gymFrom 9:00 to 11 :30, Alexander’s Orchestra furnishnasium.
ed music for dancing.
Wednesday evening, July 24, a recital was given by FranMrs. J. K. Miller was at the
ceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano.
piano.
At the regular convocations, several interesting features
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
3
Wednesday, July 7, visual education was
were presented.
The speaker was Dr. H. H. Russell, of the Department
stressed.
of Geography, and Director of Visual Education at Bloomsburg.
Prof. Shortess showed the films taken here on May Day and during Commencement Week.
July 30, the speaker was Mrs. Edgar A. Weimer, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Congress of
Parents and Teachers.
1
The swimming pool
the
life
of the
summer
at
Columbia Park added something to
Swimming classes were
school students.
held regularly during the entire session.
At the close of the session, thirty-one students completed
work in the two year course. Roy Haring and Theodore
Vital completed their work for the degree of Bachelor of Science
their
Education.
No commencement exercises were held, as the
above students participated in the regular commencement activities at the close of the second semester.
in
PROGRESS BEING MADE ON CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
At the time of going
new
is
to press, the construction
work on
training school building has reached the second story.
expected that
ready late
in
the
The most
this building, as well as
the
new
the
It
laundry, will be
fall.
change awaiting the students at the bethis fall was the Auditorium in CarDuring the summer, all of the old plaster was removver Hall.
ed, the lath replaced by metal lath, and new plaster applied.
The walls and ceiling have been painted with well-blended tints
of cream and light green, and the wood work has been stained
The front of the stage has been remodeled, with
mahogany.
ginning of the
striking
first
semester
disappearing footlights
installed.
The
entire
auditorium has
been rewired, a new switchboard placed back of the stage, and
modern
will
lighting fixtures
placed
in the
auditorium.
be covered with cork linoleum, and new seats
will
The
be
floor
install-
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Members
ed.
of the
meeting next year
them.
Alumni Association who attend the Alumni
have a delightful surprise in store for
will
Several improvements have added to the beauty of the
campus.
The outside steps leading from the bridge have been
removed, and the bank graded.
A new walk has been laid,
leading from a point just above the 1912 Memorial Steps, going
under the bridge, and reaching a large octagon, west of the gymnasium.
From this octagon, a new walk leads to Science Hall,
another one to North Hall, another one to the fire tower between
Noetling Hall and the gymnasium, and another one to the north
porch of Carver Hall.
The walk leading to Science Hall is higher than the old one, and the campus has been graded up to it on
each side.
This makes better provision for surface drainage it
will no longer be necessary to wade in several inches of water
after a heavy rain, in order to reach Science Hall.
;
The improvement program
much
is
moving
steadily
forward.
be done, but enough has been done already
to make any Bloomsburg Alumnus feel proud of his Alma Mater,
when he sees for himself what a beautiful place the State Teachers College of Bloomsburg really is.
There
is still
Moral
:
to
Plan to come to Bloomsburg Alumni Day,
May
24, 1929.
Mary Moyer, mother of Miss Mabel Moyer, of the
Monday, August 12, at her home
Mrs.
Moyer
was
eighty-six years of age. SurBloomsburg.
in
children,
Mrs.
Lucetta
Moyer White, ’86; Miss
viving are four
Mrs.
Training School faculty, died
Miss Mabel Moyer,
and Albert Moyer, at
The death of another son, the Rev. Harry Moyer, ’86,
home.
was noted in the April issue of the QUARTERLY.
Edith Moyer,
’97,
ALUMNI DAY, MAY
24, 1930
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5
OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
President
—
R. Bruce Albert, ’06, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Vice-Presidents
—
Jr., ’67,
Dr. D. J. Waller,
Bloomsburg,
Pa.; 0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg, Pa.
—Edward
—
Committee — Fred
Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Secretary
Treasurer
Executive
Chairman; Mrs.
F.
H. Jenkins, ’76, Bloomsburg, Pa.
W. Funston,
W.
Diehl,
’09,
Danville,
Pa.,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Maurice
Harriet Carpenter, ’96, BloomsE. Flouck,
0, Berwick, Pa.
burg, Pa.; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Daniel J.
C.
’85,
’
1
Mahoney,
;
’09, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
ALUMNI OBJECTIVES FOR 1929-1930
Every Graduate should join the Alumni Association
and support the publication of the Quarterly.
Send your dollar
to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Treas., Bloomsburg, Pa.
DO IT TODAY.
Also send to the Editor, Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg,
Pa., interesting news items regarding Alumni.
1
.
The County Alumni Associations need
2.
many
ized in
Elect live
cases.
We
3.
of
all
in
classes
to
to be reorganhave a pep ban-
will cooperate.
have the Alumni Memorial and Trophy
This will become the Headquarters
operation shortly.
Alumni
todian.
hope
officers,
The College
quet and get on the job.
Room
wire
He
and
Activity.
will
Prof. 0. H. Bakeless
receive
suggestions
is
the capable cus-
and contributions from
individuals, regarding the completion of the various
Art Projects.
4.
The Alumni Scholarship Fund has done a splendid serand is still providing help to the worthy student.
Send the
names of deserving students to the College Authorities. The
vice
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6
Committee
will gladly aid
them.
We
need the support and earnest cooperation of every
member of the Alumni Association. WILL YOU HELP?
Respectfully yours,
R.
BRUCE ALBERT.
ALUMNI NEWS
Members
Alumni Association are urged
of the
send
to
in
news of themselves and of other Bloomsburg graduates.
dress
all
communications
We
ger.
are especially desirous of
dresses of
all
Several have already responded
class secretaries.
The cooperation of
to a previous appeal.
the
AdManaobtaining the names and ad-
to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Business
Alumni Association
is
necessary, to
all
make
adequately functioning organization, and to
TERLY all that it should be.
the
members
of
the Association an
make
the
QUAR-
ALUMNI DAY. SATURon your calendar:
Reunion classes
1870, 1875, 1880,
1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925,
Begin your plans NOW to make the above date a red
1927.
Do not fail to read
letter day in the history of Bloomsburg.
printed
elsewhere
message,
in this issue.
Albert’s
President
Mark
DAY,
MAY
this
24, 1930.
:
¥ ¥ * ^
1879
Anna
Pa.
She
is
E.
Roxby
lives at
1
1
2 Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore.
Principal of the schools at Linwood, Pa.
1880
Lina E. Faulds, who has retired from teaching, lives at
Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
West North
39
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1881
We
lives at
were recently informed by Miss Margaret Fee, who
5929 West
Jefferson Street, Philadelphia, that her sister,
Mary, died March 22, 1925.
1882
Helen
L.
Gossler lives at the Presbyterian
Home,
Newville,
Pa.
Mary Reagan, (Mrs.
Good) lives at 2608 Jackson
Her husband died in 1921.
E. C.
Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa.
1883
Mrs. Samuel Daniels (Sarah E. Richards) lives at
1
50th
Street,
Harvey,
Illinois.
1
76 East
Mrs. Daniels recently resigned
her position as librarian of the Harvey Public Library, after ten
years of service.
The
City Council
sent flowers
and a
letter
signed by the Mayor, expressing their appreciation of her work.
1884
Laura M. Helman lives at Catasaqua, Pa.
She has compiled the genealogies of the Dreisbach and Drum families, and is
the author of a book of research work on Allentown and vicinity,
a work prepared for the Daughters of the American Revolution.
1885
Word has been
in a New York
death
received,
by Bloomsburg
friends,
of the
hospital of Charles B. Noetling, formerly of
Beaver Valley, and son of the late Prof. William Noetling, for
many years Head of the Department of Pedagogy at BloomsMr. Noetling is survived by his wife and two children.
burg.
Louis P. Bierly
ed
in the
D. C.
is
living in Pittston, Pa.,
where he
is
engag-
insurance business.
Harry 0. Hine lives at 3204 Highland Place, Washington,
Mr. Hine is Secretary of the Board of Education of the
District of
Columbia.
He
writes that the Congress of the United
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
8
States,
which
is
the governing
body
of the District of Columbia,
has recently enacted a law whereby the two normal schools, one
and one for negroes, shall have their courses of study
become teachers’ colleges with authority to grant
appropriate degrees.
This statute is to take effect so that by
933 the first classes will be graduated.
for whites
extended
to
1
Sally
C.
Watson
is
teaching in the eighth grade in the
schools of Keyport, N. Y.
1886
Grace A. Leacock
lives at
282 North Maple Avenue, King-
ston, Pa.
1887
Margaret Lewis died of pneumonia in a Scranton hospital
Sunday, August 25, and was buried at Montrose Wednesday,
Miss Lewis had been teaching in Scranton until her
August 28.
retirement a few years ago.
W.
E.
Wagner
lives
in
Gordon, Pa., where he
the pro-
is
prietor of a store.
1889
George T. Brown lives
ment 3B, New York City.
at
256 Wadsworth Avenue, Apart-
Cassie Furey (Mrs. L. A. Willard)
lives
in
Tofrencedale,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Margaret Stephens (Mrs. John
New London, Connecticut.
C.
Taylor) lives at
1
59
State
Street,
Mattie Harding is keeping house for her father at 5135
Camden Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. Previous to her retire-
ment from the teaching profession, she had taught
in
for ten years
the schools of Duluth, Minn.
Clara E.
Cummings (Mrs. F. B. Irvin)
Hill, Long Island, N. Y.
lives at
1
0458 90th
Avenue, Richmond
Mrs. Bruce F. Evans (Sue Reay) lives at 2201 South CenTerre Haute, Indiana.
ter Street,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
9
1890
Frederick W. Magrady,
the
1
Representative
in
Congress from
7th District of Pennsylvania, recently received a letter from
Majority Leader John Q. Tilson, praising him for his service and
support during the extra session.
1893
Martha Powell
Bloomsburg, Pa.
is
secretary of the White Milling
Company,
1894
Esther Corrigan (Mrs. E. F. Barrett) lives in Buffalo, N. Y.
Her oldest son
is
an instructor
Bridgett C. Quinn (Mrs.
Montana.
She
is
Field
in St.
Conius College
J. E.
Keough)
Matron
in that city.
lives in St. Xavier,
the U. S. Indian Service.
in
1895
Harry H. Davenport died recently at his home in Wilkesmonths.
Mr. Davenport was
born in Plymouth, November 9, 868.
He attended the public schools, and was a member of the first class to be graduated
from Plymouth High School.
After a term at Wyoming Seminary he spent several years in his father’s mercantile business.
After his graduation from the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
he taught for several years as principal of Vine Street School.
While serving as a teacher he studied law and was admitted
to the Luzerne County bar on September 28, 907.
In the same
year he and Cordie A. Smith, of Plymouth, were married.
Mr. Davenport was an active member of the Christian
Church of Plymouth and was superintendent of the Sunday
School for several years.
He was one of the organizers of the
Hanover Bank and Trust Company, and served on the first board
At the time of his death he was
of directors of that institution.
secretary of the board of managers of the Wyoming Camp MeetBarre, after an illness of several
1
1
1
ing Association.
In his extensive practice of
affiliations,
law and
his
church and business
Mr. Davenport endeared himself to a host of friends,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
10
who
mourning the
join with the family in
loss of a true Christian
character.
He
is
survived by his wife and three children, and by three
brothers and two
sisters.
1896
An
of
1
member
envelope containing the dues of a
896 bears
address.
We
a
name which cannot be
of the Class
deciphered, and has no
should appreciate any information which
able us to give credit to the person to
whom
it is
may
en-
due.
1896
Etta M. Thielke (Mrs. Lafayette
W. Killam)
lives at
1077
71st Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
James
J.
E. Teple
His address
is
is
an insurance salesman
22 Sylvan
in
Rutherford, N.
Street.
1897
Mary A. Good
School at
New
teacher of Chemistry in the Senior High
is
Pa.
Castle,
Her address
is
227 East
Lincoln
Avenue.
Broadbent (Mrs. John A.
West Madison Avenue, New Castle, Pa.
Millicent L.
Sitler) lives
at
624
1898
Harlan R. Snyder has been reelected as supervising princiMr. Snyder has alpal of the Catawissa schools for three years.
ready served in this capacity for the past ten years.
1899
H. F. Yearick
1914 Park
is
in the
Railway Mail Service and
lives at
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Harriet Buckalew
Hagenbuch
is
a teacher in the Consolidat-
ed School at Benton, Pa.
Anna Sandoe
(Mrs.
grade at Atlantic City, N.
J.
J.
F. Hake) is teaching in the sixth
Her address is 49 St. James Place.
1
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Katherine Shepperon (Mrs. M.
J.
Buck)
11
lives at
705 Front
Street, Danville, Pa.
E. F. Brent
Maude
Postmaster at Lewistown, Pa.
F. Giles
tion Club, at the
Emory
is
I.
is
Executive Secretary of the
Duplan
Girls’
Recrea-
Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pa.
Bowman
is
with Mayer and Company, dealers
furniture, Washington, D. C.
His address
Mary W. Schmidt (Mrs. Charles
L.
is
1
1
Knapp)
in
Seventh Street,
lives in
Shenan-
doah, Pa.
George W. Carl
and
lives in
is
principal of the Fountain Springs School,
Ashland, Pa.
Jennie A. Beagle (Mrs.
W.
C.
Leach)
lives in
Engelmine,
California.
Josephine M. Cummings
is
teacher of Geography
son Junior High School at Harrisburg, Pa.
in
Her address
the Ediis
3652
Brisbane Street, Paxtang, Harrisburg, Pa.
Elizabeth Evans
Range, Wisconsin.
in the
Arthur H. Eves) lives in South
She has two sons, one of whom is a Junior
(Mrs.
University of Wisconsin, and another will
university this
enter the
same
fall.
1901
and Mrs. Frank Laubach and son Robert, of Benton,
have returned to the Philippine Islands, where they will spend
five more years in missionary work.
Dr.
Mary Albert (Mrs.
nue, Bloomfield, N.
Regina
Pittston, Pa.
Collier
Jesse Y. Glenn) lives at
55 Park Ave-
J.
is
Principal
Her address
Mary M. McFarlane
is
is
of the Senior
82 Butler
High School
at
Street.
teacher of fourth grade in the Bach-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
12
man Annex,
Hazleton, Pa.
1902
Robert B. Leighow is Professor of Chemistry, Head of the
Department of Industrial Science, and Associate Director of
Summer and Night Courses at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Edith C. Appenzeller
Mauch Chunk,
is
teaching in the grades in East
Her address
Pa.
is
8 West Front
Street.
Louise M. Larrabee lives at the Granville, Honolulu, Hawaii,
She has been teaching in the McKinley High School in that city,
1903
Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T, Lowry) lives at 10
Madison Avenue, Port Washington, N. Y. After having served
as President of the Music Study Club and of the Village Welfare
Society of Port Washington, she has just been elected as Nassau
County Executive in the Long Island Federation of Women’s
Clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowry have two sons and three daughters.
1904
Irwin Cogswell
is
employed
as machinist
by the Heath Ma-
chine Company, at Montrose, Pa.
2527 West Fourth
Matilda M. Black lives at
She
liamsport, Pa.
is
teaching
in the first
grade
Street,
Wil-
William-
in the
sport schools.
Alvirda Davenport
is
teacher of History and Civics in the
She
Junior High School at Plymouth, Pa.
lives at
143 Church
Street.
Blanche
J.
Morris (Mrs. Elmer
S.
Mast)
lives at
21
1
East
North Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
Elizabeth Specht teaches Civics
at Hazleton, Pa.
y'
Her address
Adele Meade (Mrs.
L. T.
is
in
the Junior High School
541 North Vine
Kendrick)
lives at
Street.
638
S.
W, 15th
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
13
She invites any of her classmates
Avenue, Miami, Florida.
touring in the South to look her up.
Louise Rogers
(Mrs.
E.
J.
Warren)
teaching in the
is
Her
Indian Service at the Fort Peck Agency, Poplar, Montana.
oldest daughter
luth,
is
a student at the State Teachers College, Du-
Minnesota.
1905
Superintendent
Nevin T. Englehart,
and
Buildings
of
Grounds, and President of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club, attend-
ed the convention of Kiwanis International, held at Milwaukee
in
June.
Krumm
Katherine
(Mrs. A. F.
Twogood)
lives
118
at
Stonehurst Court, Upper Darby, Pa.
Eleanor Witman (Mrs.
J.
M. Reiley)
801 Lexing-
lives at
ton Avenue, Altoona, Pa.
Sarah Mae Laubach (Mrs. Chauncey I. Albertson) died on
Wednesday, July 3 at her home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
1
,
George H. Webber
edgeville, Georgia.
Dr.
507 West Hancock Street, MillWebber is Professor of Education and
lives at
Psychology and Head of the Department
Women
College for
South Carolina
ship
in
Science
in
1
Gamma Mu
Academy
American
the
928.
of Science,
and was elected
Association
is
This
—
B.
Dean
of the
in
for
the
memberAdvancement of
to
Secretary of the Beta Chapter of the Pi
National Social Science Honor Society.
following degrees:
Sc. D.
He
acting
1927, and was made Dean of
He was recently made a Fellow in the
College of Arts and Sciences
Students the same year.
Georgia State
in the
He was
at Milledgeville.
Pd., A. B.,
A. M., M.
S.,
summer he was named a delegate from
He
holds the
Ph. D.,
and
the National
Education Association to the World Conference held at Geneva,
Switzerland, July 26th to August 3rd.
1906
Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon)
Street, Jamaica, N. Y.
lives at
901
1
169th
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1907
Florence Whitebread
Hoover
(Mrs. C.
E.
1 ,
135
Stillwater, Pa.
Sadie R. Moyer
Main
at
lives
Hayman) may be reached
Edith A. Doty (Mrs. Harold H.
at R.
Lyons)
Street, Sayre, Pa.
Street, Lodi,
(Mrs. John R. MacCulloch) lives at
New
1
78
Jersey.
1909
Miss Eura Kester has been teaching
Mary
in
Anaconda, Colorado.
Gilgallon (Mrs. J. H. Rockefeller, Jr.) lives in West
Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller have three children.
Pittston, Pa.
Rebecca
E. Stroh (Mrs. L. E. Williams) lives in Alderson,
Pa.
Jennie Birth
School.
She
is
lives in
teacher of Biology in the Berwick High
Nescopeck, Pa.
«
Gertrude M. Meneeley is Principal of Number One School
Pa.
Her address is 745 River Street.
in Peckville,
1910
Mabel Smith (Mrs. R.
Tunkhannock, Pa.
S.
in the
Tracy Roberts
B.
Ward)
lives in Clarks
Technical High School
in
lives at
64 West
Green, Pa.
He
is
Street,
teaching
Scranton.
Helen M. Hess (Mrs. Gilbert V. P. Terhune) lives in NewShe states “We have a large apple orchard up
foundland, N. J.
here in Northern Jersey, four miles from the New York State line,
and forty miles from New York City. I should be glad to have
My teleany friends coming to New York to stop and see us.
phone number is West Milford 77F15.” She further states the
wish that the class of 1910 would send in more news items.
We second the motion, and extend its application to all of the
classes.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
15
1911
After serving
for
two years
assistant to Dr.
as
Poling, of the Marble Collegiate Church,
C. Carroll Bailey
is
now
located
Grace Evangelical Church.
Daniel A.
City, the
Rev.
Baltimore as pastor of the
in
His
New
York
address
is
928
East
Preston
Street.
Tuscan Road, Maplewood, New
Ruth Ruhl lives at
Miss Ruhl is a first grade teacher in Irvington, N. J.
1
1
1
Jersey.
Elizabeth K. Scharf
is
teacher of
fifth
grade
in the schools
of Selinsgrove, Pa.
Frank Dennis
J.
is
Director of Manual Arts in the Wilkes-
His address
Barre schools.
is
576 North Warren Avenue, King-
ston, Pa.
Mae Chamberlain
V
(Mrs.
Sherman)
is
Associate Pastor
teaching in the
Commercial De-
J. J.
of the Bethany Baptist Church in Scranton.
Edward
E. Hippensteel
is
partment of the Senior High School
address is 3939 Ventor Avenue.
A.
J.
Sharadin
is
His oldest son
Pa.
School
His
at Atlantic City, N. J.
Director of Health Education at Ford City,
was graduated from the Ford
City
High
this year.
1912
P. Clive Potts
is
the Blind, Baltimore,
Charlotte A.
Her address
Mary
is
Principal of the
Maryland State School
for
Md.
Koehler
is
teaching in White Plains, N. Y.
204 Martine Avenue.
N. Eckert (Mrs. Earle
Bennett Street, Kingston, Pa.
Andrews)
lives at
123 South
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have two
children.
Roxie H. Smith
partmental work
town.
in
lives in Truckville, Pa.
the
She
is
seventh and eighth grades
doing dein
Shaver-
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Ruth Monahan is a first grade teacher
Her address is 440 Carey Avenue.
in
Wilkes-Barre.
1913
Elizabeth
Sturges lives
articles that
at
2956
Miss Sturges
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hills,
have been printed
is
Belrose
Avenue, South
the author of a
number
of
Normal Instructor and Primary
in
Plans.
(Mrs. C. W. Hoover) lives at 315
Lemoyne, Pa. Her husband is Supervising Prinof the West Shore Schools.
Jessie R. Dersheimer
Market
cipal
in
Street,
Juan Selles Gonzalez is a Pharmaceutical Chemist and
San Lorenzo, Porto Rico.
Nellie
M. Seidel
Nellie Gleason
Olyphant, Pa.
is
lives
teaching in Harrisburg, Pa.
lives at R. D.
J. White)
communication, she states “I have
(Mrs. Martin
In a recent
a family of four boys.
1
:
Last winter
I
taught
my home
Lackawanna County, a one-room school
and expect to do the same next term.”
Justus,
Marion Roat (Mrs.
Ira
Hartman)
lives at
school in
of eight grades,
282 North
Col-
lege Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Merle Goodenough (Mrs.
her home, at R. D.
I
,
E.
W. Stookey)
is
teaching near
Pleasant Mt., Pa.
Honoring Miss Natalie Green, who was married in June,
two showers and a dinner were held, the guests, who were all
classmates at Bloomsburg, being: Miss Elizabeth Pugh, Miss
Marie Collins, Miss Ethel Altmiller, Mrs. Ruth Altmiller Jones,
Mrs. Lillian Fisher Moore, Mrs. Edna Runyan Cherry, and Mrs.
Marion Roat Hartman.
1914
Pauline Lloyd
at Williamsport.
is
Director of Music in the Junior High School
Her address
is
81 5 Nichols Place.
Susan Jennings (Mrs. A. W. Sturman)
lives at
42 Slocum
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Mr. and Mrs.
Tunkhannock, Pa.
17
Sturman have a two
year old daughter.
A. Joyce
J.
is
in
the
Government
service,
and
lives in
Wash-
ington, D. C.
Mabel
Hawk
is
teacher of Public Speaking in the High
School at Monessen, Pa.
Pauline R. Fennelly
teaching
is
in Frackville, Pa.
1915
Ruth M. Albert (Mrs. Dallas
25th
C.
Baer)
lives at
1
754 North
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
1916
Emma
G. Harrison
schools of Bridgeton,
Myers
is
Supervisor of Writing
Her address
N. J.
is
237 North
in the
Pearl
Street.
326 South 43rd
Claire E. Keating lives at
She
phia.
is
teaching English
in
Street, Philadel-
one of the Continuation Schools
in that city.
Cora G. Hill lives at 253 West 4th Street, Williamsport,
She is a departmental teacher in the schools of that city.
1
Pa.
Mabel M. Anthony (Mrs. George L. Parsels) is teaching
Her address is 5 West Wabash Avenue.
sixth grade in Pleasantville, N. J.
Frank S. Hutchison
Bloomsburg, Pa.
is
1
in the Life
Insurance business
in
1917
Lucy Padagomas is teaching
Her address is 56 Main
Lyon, Pa.
^
in the
first
grade
in
Glen
Street.
D., lives at 3632 Rutherford AveFor the past two years he has been Chief
Resident of the Harrisburg Hospital, but left this summer to take
charge of the Boy Scout Camp for the city of Harrisburg as their
J.
Loomis Christian, M.
nue, Harrisburg, Pa.
camp
doctor for the months of July and August.
After a
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month’s
he expects to start in private practice, and
one of the surgeons in Harrisburg.
rest,
be assistant
will also
to
Blanche Caswell
lives at
402
East Main Street, Plymouth.
She informs us that she has been promoted to the position of
Principal of the Penn Street School in Plymouth, as the result of
her early training at Bloomsburg.
Harriet
J.
Shuman
(Mrs. Reuel
chester Road, Merion Station, Pa.
S.
Burr) lives at
1
12 Win-
Mr. and Mrs. Burr have a
daughter, Ellen, aged two years.
Mary
F.
Her address
is
McManus
is
teaching
grade at Erie, Pa.
in third
7 2 East 6th Street.
1
1918
David
Company.
B. Miller
is
Graybar Electric
Des Moines, Iowa.
Sales Engineer for the
His address
is
Mr. Miller was graduated
635 49th
in
1923,
Street,
in
Electro-Chemical
Engin-
from the Pennsylvania State College.
He held a position
with the National Carbon Company, of Ohio, for four years, being located in Lakewood, near Chicago, and in New York City.
In April, 1927, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Edith Keene, of
Waymart. Mrs. Miller is also a graduate of Penn State.
eering,
Anna
Costello
(Mrs.
928, of pneumonia.
daughter, aged three.
1
A
J.
She
is
McGeehan) died September 21,
survived by her husband and one
very pretty church wedding took place Thursday after-
noon, June 6, at 2 00 o’clock, when Miss Lora M. Wallace,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Wallace, of Laurel, Pa., and
:
Harold J. Pegg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Pegg, of
Bloomsburg, Pa., were united in marriage by the bride’s pastor.
Stewartstown Presbyterian
Rev. T. Edwin Redding, in the
Church.
The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Gettysburg College and M.
A. degree from Washington University, Seattle, Washington. He
has been a member of the History Department of the Altoona
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High School for the past four years.
Roads High School,
Millersville State Teachers’ College and did graduate work at
Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, and American Academy of
Dramatic Arts, New York City.
She has been director of Dramatics at Roosevelt High School, Altoona, for the past five years.
They left on an extended honeymoon to the Pacific Coast
and Alaska. They will reside in Altoona where the groom has
a position in the High School.
The bride
is
a graduate of the Cross
1919
A.
\V. Kirkhulf,
who
took the special course
lives at
in football
845 Quincy Avenue, Scranton,
coaching given at the summer
session of the Pennsylvania State College this year.
huff,
Mr. Kirk-
formerly coach at the Ashley High School, has been elected
Northumberland High School. He coached at Oxford High School, Pennington Seminary, and Mauch
Chunk High School, before he took up his work at Ashley.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, Mr. Kirkhuff attended the
athletic director at the
Springfield Y.
for
two
M.
Coaching School
C. A.
Veronica Muldowney Kennedy
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
sixth,
at Springfield, Mass.,
years.
She
is
seventh and eighth grades
lives
at
5524
Litchfield
teaching Health in the
in
fifth,
the Philadelphia schools.
Arthur E. Steward is a clerk in the Magee Carpet Company,
Bloomsburg.
His address is R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Ruth F. Doyle (Mrs. John W. Moore) lives at 25 West 34th
Bayonne, N. J.
She has two daughters, Jean, aged four,
and Marion, who is two years old. She invites all of her friends
who come near Bayonne, New Jersey, or New York to come to
see her, or call her at Bayonne 2276-J.
Street,
Mildred E. Stover
lives at
1
020 Grandview
Street, Scran-
ton, Pa.
Marie Gucjavan Turnbach
husband
is
a funeral director.
lives in Hazleton, Pa.,
where her
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Gertrude Meenan (Mrs. Harold Reif)
lives
on Cedar Ave-
nue, Scranton, Pa.
A
son was born
Mr. Niesley
May 9
and Mrs. Paul G. Niesley, of
Martha Knorr.
County Farm Agent in Columbia County.
1
to Mr.
Mrs. Niesley was
Bloomsburg.
is
formerly Miss
1920
Florence Beyers, of Lewisburg, Pa., and
y
Thomas
Lewis, of
New
Jersey, were married June 12, 1928, by the
Rev. Mr. Welliver, at the M. E. Parsonage, Lewisburg, Pa.
At
the time of her marriage, Mrs. Lewis was a teacher in the Lewisburg schools.
Mr. Lewis, a graduate of Bucknell University, is
employed by the Beyers-Fortner Gas and Oil Company, of Lewis-
Vineland,
burg.
A
very pretty wedding was solemnized at high noon Satur-
day, June 8,
when
of Nordmont, Pa.,
Miss Marie Snider, daughter of
became
the bride of S.
W.
B. Snider,
Lee Menges, son of
The wedding took place
Williamsport.
The Rev. L.
Mrs. Myrtle E. Menges, of Turbotville.
at the
home
of the bride’s sister, in
E. Kline, pastor of the First Evangelical Church,
officiated, the
of
Sonestown,
double ring ceremony being used.
The bride is a
of 1919, and also
graduate of the Sonestown High School, Class
She has been a very
The groom is a graduate of
successful teacher for seven years.
of the Mansfield State Teachers’ College.
the Turbotville High School, Class of 1920,
gree
He
this
summer from
and received
his de-
the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College.
has taught school for six successful terms.
Following
the
wedding ceremony, a reception was held after which Mr. and
Mrs. Menges left for an extended trip to Philadelphia, Atlantic
City, Washington and Pittsburgh.
Dorcas Patrick (Mrs. Roscoe Wagner)
Clara E. Fisher
City, Pa.
is
lives in
Supervisor of Penmanship
Tower
in
City,
Mahanoy
.
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Elizabeth E. Fetherolf (Mrs. Daniel P. Fister) lives at
Cleveland Avenue, Intervilla, Pa.
stitute
2442
She has been acting as sub-
teacher at Berkshire Heights.
Ralph G. Shuman, a graduate of the Bloomsburg Teachers’
College, has accepted a position as dean of boys and instructor
in mathematics in the Thomas Ranken Patton Masonic Institution
for boys at Elizabethtown, Pa., and will take up his position on
September
Following his graduation here he served as Principal of the Mifflin High School for three years and in 926 received his degree of Bachelor of Arts at Pennsylvania State College, and since then he has been Principal of the Mt. Rose Junior High School at York, Pa.
1
.
1
1922
A
daughter, Patricia Louise, was born to Rev. and Mrs. Perry
Conyngham, Pa., on October
was formerly Marion Hart.
L. Smith, of
1
1,
1928.
Mrs. Smith
1923
At 6:30 A. M., Saturday, June 22, at the Presbyterian
Church of Bloomsburg, there was solemnized the marriage of
Mary C. McNinch, of Berwick, and Keith E. Davis, of Jamestown,
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. S. Harker,
N. Y.
pastor of the church.
Mrs. Davis has been teaching in Berwick
for the past six years.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis are now living in
Jamestown, where the former is employed.
•
Miss Mildred Edwards, esteemed Bloomsburg girl and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brockway Edwards, of 330
East Eighth Street, became the bride of Rev. John Frederick Williams Howell, of Columbia, Conn., son of Rev. and Mrs. Frederick W. Howell, of Mansfield Depot, Conn., in a pretty wedding
performed by Rev. Raymond H. Edwards ’23, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., brother of the bride and
Rev. E.
J.
Bloomsburg,
Radcliffe,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
in the Baptist
afternoon, July 3
1
Church
at
4:00
o’clock
Wednesday
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The wedding was solemnized in the presence of a number
and friends of the couple and the church was beautifully decorated in Queen Anne’s Lace, phlox and ferns.
The maid of honor was Miss Helen Edwards, of Milton,
Mass., sister of the bride and the groom’s man was Rev. M. Eugene Levy, of Baldwinsville, Mass.
Howard Hileman and Beecher Hileman, of Bloomsburg, were ushers.
The music was by Mrs. Alice Shipman Edwards, ’23, of
of relatives
Plattsburgh,
at
A
N. Y.
home
reception followed at the
Rev. and Mrs. Howell
bride’s parents.
of
will reside in the
the
manse
Columbia, Conn.
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Class of 1921, the Teachers’
Newton Theological
Bloomsburg High School,
Class of 1923, and the
College,
Institution,
Newton
Centre,
Mass.,
of this
year.
Ella E. Luring,
became
pretty ceremony
of Espy,
daughter of the Rev. A.
S.
Luring, formerly
the bride of Paul Stokes, of Shamokin,
in
a
at the Dillsburg Methodist Church, the father of
the bride officiating.
Miss Kathryn Fox Harder, of Catawissa, and John A. Klarr,
of Cleveland, Ohio, were married at the
home
of the bride Tues-
day morning, June 18, by the Rev. Murray Young, pastor of the
Mrs. Klarr has been
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Catawissa.
teaching
in the schools of
Catawissa
for
several
Mr.
years.
Klarr holds a responsible position with a large firm in Cleveland.
Walter A. Krolikowski lives in Glen Lyon, Pa.
grade school in Newport Township.
He
is
Prin-
cipal of a
S. Gamble is a teacher
Her address is Sugar Run, Pa.
Marjorie
schools.
in the
Steelton
public
Raymond H. Edwards, who was graduated this spring from
Theological Seminary, is now pastor of the BapRochester
the
New York.
Plattsburg,
tist Church at
1924
After an
illness
of several years, Florence Caswell (Mrs. 0.
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at her home in Bloomsburg, Sunday mornSeveral times during her illness her condition had
June 23.
been such that it was feared that she could not survive, but each
time she rallied, and when she was fatally stricken, she appearShe was a member of the First
ed to be in her usual health.
Presbyterian Church, and of Fort McClure Chapter, D. A. R.
She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Mary Edith.
Evans Shipman) died
ing,
Jeanne Fox, of Catawissa, and Edwin W. Daveler, of
at Dover, Pa., on Monday, July 23,
The wedding was announced by the parents of the bride
928.
\/ at a bridge luncheon on Wednesday, June 19, 1929. Mrs.
Daveler has been teaching in Wilkes-Barre for several years.
Mr. Daveler holds a responsible position with his uncle in KingKingston, were married
1
ston.
Miss Frances Pensyl
is
teaching in Westfield, N.
J.
Miss Pearl Scott, of Bloomsburg, was married Wednesday,
7, 1928, to Clifford Snook, of Hopewell, New Jersey.
For the past three years Mrs. Snook has been teaching in Pen-
November
nington,
New
Jersey.
Esther Dildine
Oman
is
teaching
in
the
first
grade at
Hall-
stead, Pa.
Ruth T. Lehman (Mrs. Kenneth Conway) lives at 41 Florence Avenue, Irvington, New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Conway
have one son, Warren Kenneth.
Mildred Ridgley
Y
is
teacher of
West Pittston, Pa.
ing Avenue, Wyoming, Pa.
Street Building,
first
grade
Her address
in
is
the
Linden
597 Wyom-
Announcement was made July 29
1
9,
1
of the marriage, on May
928, of Maude C. Mensch, of Bloomsburg, and Morris
Ridall, of Shickshinny, R. D., at Port Jervis, N. Y.
has been
Mrs. Ridall
charge of the smallest children at the I. 0. 0. F. Orphanage at Sunbury for the past two summers. During the winter
in
she has been teaching in
County.
the
rural schools
of
Columbia
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1925
and Joseph R. Kleckner,
have announced their marriage, which took
place last winter.
The bride has been teaching in Coatesville,
and the groom has been completing his work for a degree at the
State Teachers’ College at West Chester.
Mr. and Mrs. KleckMiss Lyle Mather, of Berwick,
also of Berwick,
ner will
make
their
home
Announcement has
in Coatesville.
recently been
made
of the marriage of
Leona Reichenbach, of Point Township, to J. Gordon Epler, of
Wilkes-Barre.
Before coming to Bloomsburg, Mrs. Epler attended the Northumberland High School.
Miss Gladys A. Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
S.
Richards, of Bloomsburg, and Willard Kleckner,
son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of Shickshinny, were married Thursday morning, November 29, 1928, at 7:00 o’clock, at the First
Methodist Church, of Bloomsburg, by the pastor. Rev. H. F.
Babcock.
The bride
is
ful
High School and
and has been a success-
a graduate of the Hazleton
the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,
teacher in the Hazleton schools.
of Shickshinny High School
Mr. Kleckner
is
and State College and
a graduate
for
the past
two years has been assistant superintendent of transmission for
He
the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company at Hazleton.
was recently transferred to Seigfried, Pa.
On
became
Saturday, June 22, Miss
Grace
Miller, of
Mifflinville,
the bride of George E. Creasy, of Philadelphia.
past four years Mrs. Creasy has been
Mr. Creasy
is
teaching
in
For the
Mifflinville.
a graduate of the Berwick High School,
Class of
1922, and of the Philadelphia Schools of Industrial Arts, Class
At the latter institution he won a scholarship in furniof 1927.
ture designing as a result of which he was sent to Grand Rapids,
Mich., to study the manufacture of furniture in the large factor-
He now holds a responsible position
DeLong Furniture Company, of Philadelphia.
ies there.
the
as designer for
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Watkins has been teaching
Lily
ton,
New
Pa.
is
in Irving-
is
teaching
in Register, Pa.
Her home
Cambra, Pa.
Martha A. Fisher lives at 310 South Front Street, Sunbury,
She is teaching in the grades in the Sunbury schools.
Ann
ley,
grade
Jersey.
Helen Barrett Baer
address
in the fifth
25
Liydas was married June 30, 1928, to Freeman Ting-
a graduate of Bucknell University.
Beryl Ikeler, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 6, has been elected for
the fourth term to teach in the rural
schools of Mt. Pleasant
Township, Columbia County.
1926
Elizabeth Keller, of Orangeville, Pa., and Leon B. Epler, of
Northumberland, were married Saturday, March 2, at Freeburg,
by the Rev. William S. Gerhard, a cousin of the bride. Mrs. Epler has been teaching in the Orangeville schools.
Mr. Epler is a
graduate of the Northumberland High School, Class of 1917,
and of Pennsylvania State College, Class of 1925, and is now a
farmer in Point Township.
Miss Grace Robbins, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. D. H. Rob-
degree of B. S. this year at New York Univerhas been named teacher of Social Studies in
Robbins
sity.
Miss
the new Junior High School in Darien, Connecticut.
bins, received the
Emily Davies
is
a
member
Avenue Junior High School,
Arlene E. Sweet
lives
of the
in Irvington,
at
1
faculty
New
of the Madison
Jersey.
15 East Market Street,
Lewis-
burg, Pa.
1927
Pa.
Myra L. Thomas is teacher of Art and Music
Her address is 527 Prospect Avenue.
Hannah Barry
zerne, Pa.
is
at
Bethlehem,
teaching in the elementary schools of Lu-
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Marion Marshall lives at 845 Anthracite Avenue, Kingston.
She is teacher of fifth grade in the Kingston schools.
Pa.
Helen Ceppa
West Grand
Emma
teaching
Her address
is
3
Jermyn and Vivian M. Jermyn are teaching
in
is
in
Nanticoke.
Street.
J.
Junedale, Pa.
Delma
E.
Myers was married Wednesday, November 28,
Mr. and Mrs. Husband live at 78
1928, to Arthur Husband.
Church
at
Street, Pittston, Pa.
Arthur C. Jenkins, the first recipient of the degree of B. S.
Bloomsburg, and now coach of the Newport Township High
School,
was one
course
in football
lege at the
of the
men who were
enrolled in the special
coaching given at the Pennsylvania State Col-
summer
session this year.
Miss Pauline Vastine, of Danville, R. D., and James E. Sugden, of Wilkes-Barre, were married in the Westminster Presbyterian
Church
at Wilkes-Barre,
Tuesday morning, June
the Rev. William H. Sugden, brother of the groom.
18,
by
Mrs. Sug-
The groom is a
1927, and is
employed by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, at
den has been teaching
in
the Danville schools.
graduate of Bucknell University, in the
Class of
Allentown.
Verna M. Keller and Richard Hill, both of Berwick, were
married Saturday, June 23, in the parsonage of the Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church of Berwick, by the pastor. Rev. C. S. Bottiger.
Since her graduation, Mrs. Hill has been teaching in Salem
Township and Nescopeck Township. Mr. Hill is employed by
Power and Light Company
in
Berwick.
At seven o’clock, Saturday morning, July
6, in St.
the Pennsylvania
Paul’s
Protestant Episcopal Church, Miss E. Victoria Smith, of Blooms-
burg,
J.
was married
to Edw^ard
Mr. and Mrs. Bundens are
Miss Pauline Ranck,
teacher of second grade
in
M. Bundens,
now
Jr.,
of Paulsboro, N.
living in Paulsboro.
Bloomsburg, has been elected
Bloomsburg for the coming term.
of
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Ranck has been teaching
Miss
New
boro.
for the
27
past two years
in
Pauls-
Jersey.
Miss Beatrice Englehart has been elected teacher of second
grade
Bloomsburg.
in
the past
She has been teaching
in
New
Jersey for
two years.
1928
Dorothy V. Jones lives at 16 Charles Street, Pittston, Pa.
She has been acting as substitute teacher in the Pittston schools.
Callendar
Phyllis
Her address
schools.
Mary
R. Cahalan
teaching third
is
1132 Orange
is
is
grade
in
the
Berwick
Street, Berwick, Pa.
a substitute teacher in the schools of
Kingston, Pa.
Anne Yuran
is
a fourth grade teacher in the Pringle school,
Luzerne, Pa.
Miss Minnie Mellick,
who was graduated from
the two-year
1923, and received the degree of B. S. in Education
this year, has been elected as teacher of third grade in Bloomsburg.
Miss Mellick taught three years at Light Street and one
course
year
in
in
New
Jersey.
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24,
1930
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ADDRESSES UNKNOWN
The
QUARTERLY
will appreciate any information regardAlumni whose addresses are unknown. Please
communications to F. H. Jenkins, 216 West 5th Street.
ing the following
send
all
Bloomsburg, Pa.
1879
Hess, Floyd L.
Johnson, B. R.
Cullen, William F.
Filson, Ira D.
Fisher, William I.
Keiter, George H.
Lewis, Charles L.
Moore, Arthur
1884
Albright, Ella M.
(Mrs.
E.
M.
Baxter).
Bertels, Bird I.
Charles, Robert
Eckbert, Lottie D.
(Mrs. Alex.
M. Lupfer)
1899
Albertson, Hattie
(Mrs.
David
Evans)
(Dun-
well)
McDonough, Margaret (Mrs.
Frank Dodson)
Mansell, Mary J. (McKee)
Winter, Irvin H.
1889
Dunsmore, Mary A.
J. J.
O’Hearn)
Williams, Ethel
Higgins, Kate E. (Divers)
Hoban, Alice I.
Hoban, Annie E.
Hunt, M. Louis
Kolb, Nellie M. (Smith)
Lawlor, Margaret L.
MacCullough, Jean T.
J.
Patterson, J. Howard
Paul, J. Frank
Robison, J. Boyd, Jr.
Rosser, Bessie
Whalen, Mary E. (Mrs.
(Mrs. Rob-
ert Kelley)
Irvin, Florence G. (Fields)
Ream, Frederick (State Certifi-
cate)
1894
Beardsley, Charlotte
Carpenter, Perry A.
Church, Lillian (Mrs.
Sydney
Dearborn)
Connole,
Mary
Coyle, Philip
Curtis, Edith
Davis, Arthur
Deitrick, Edna
Ellsworth, Emma
J.
(Mrs. D. C.
Smith)
Fowler, Lillian (Mrs. George W.
Wright)
Fowler, Lottie (Mrs. Percy F.
Best)
Frederickson, Elam A.
Gill, D. Eleanor
Griffith, Essie
Abbott, Florence
Acherly, Mae (Alexander)
Belles, Nellie D. (Mrs. W. H.
Griffith, Nellie
Heddin)
Corgan, Genevieve (Baratt)
E. O’Brien)
Hammond, Josie
Darlington, W. Ramsay
Dechant, Harrj’ G.
Fisher, Corinda S. (Mayer)
Haggerty, Mary (Mrs. James
Tigue)
Higgins,
Hammond,
Elizabeth (Mrs.
W.
'
Belinda
(Mrs.
M.
J.
Murphy)
Hines, Lillian
Hollopeter, Cunia (Mrs.
Persing)
H. M.
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Jackson, John S.
Lake, Gertrude E. (Mrs.
Robbins,
J.
E.
Mary A.
Gertrude
Golen-
(Mrs.
(Mrs. John R.
Bower)
Rooke, William
Fidler)
Miller,
29
Seesholtz,
J.
Hervey W.
Sholenberger, Wells A.
clay)
Moore, Lawrence C.
More, Fred C.
Morton, William
Mulliner, Beulah A.
Oler, A. Esther
Olver, E. Grace (Mrs.
Hagers ville)
Price, J. Herbert
Quick, William J.
Stead,
George
Eugene
R.
Thomas, Margaret (Mrs. John
Edwards)
Tibbets, Luzenia (Mrs. William
G. Isham)
Wagner, Virginia (Mrs. William
A. Powers)
Wolfe,
Raymond
Roberts, Ira
Rohr, Myra
1909
Barrow, Harrison R.
Scull, Mary N.
Stackhouse, Bertha (Mrs. Chas.
L. Lewis)
Stewart, Bertha (Mrs. William
Betts, Bessie B.
Bishop, Madeleine V. (Mrs. Rollin L. Charles)
Bryant, Leon D.
Garrison, Florence W. (Mrs. C.
H. Danforth)
Gleason, Ruth E.
S.
DeCoursey)
Wallace, Margaret
Waltz, Pierce
Williams, Irene (Mrs.
A. Evans)
Williams, Mabel A.
Williams, Richard M.
Williams, Sarah D.
William
1904
Lucy
Rody)
C.
Anna
E.
Baldy,
Challis,
(Mrs.
(Mrs.
Gary
F.
W.
Thompson)
Clair,
Corssley, Pearl A. (Mrs. W. J.
Pickett)
Fletcher, Esther R. (Armitage)
Helwig, W. Ray
Henrie, H. Clare
Keely, N. C.
(Mrs.
Charles
Regan,
May
C.
(Mrs.
Louis F.
Bumei
Tobin, Teresa
White, Agnes (Lamon)
Williams, George
1914
Kelley, Martin
Krommas, Lulu M. (Mrs. H.
J.
G.
W.
Bonham)
Mertz, Mabel I.
Messersmith, Palace E.
Gertrude M.
Moses, William E.
Putman, Stewart L.
Rawlinson, Herbert E.
Bessie
Richart,
(Mrs.
Corse)
Cook)
Reese, Marjory
Penman)
Margaret V.
Lesser)
Lanning, Hattie L. (Mrs.
Johnson, Robert L.
Kase, Harriet (Foland)
Kintner, Sadie
Marcy, Eva L. (Mrs. J. G. Pace)
Noble, Laverne R.
O’Neill, Frances H. (Donovan)
Potts, M. Reinee
Priest, Florence A. (Mrs. M. W.
Bone, Catherine Hasty
Corrigan, Mary J. (Mrs.
O’Brien)
Edwards, Idwal H.
Elliott, Sara Elizabeth
Evans, Margaret Hill
Hendershott, Charles N.
Hill, Isabel
Miller,
Wm.
Salome (Mrs. A. F.
Long)
Hummel, Daisy
(Mrs.
Evans)
C.
J.
Keller, Russell
Laub, Henry Rupert
Ray M.
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30
Martin, C. Christine
Mensch, Harriet 0.
Miller,
Patterson, H. Ottis
Perkins, Elsie R.
Eda
Renner, Grace Vincent
Rosell, Victor Julio
Summers, Margaret Ruth
Pegg, Nola C.
Riddle, Margaret Isabel
Ryman, Lawrence Brown
Sweetwood, Ida J.
Walton, Helen Gould
Smith, Charles Karl
Wardlaw, Edith May
Williams, Gertrude Louise
1924
1919
Anna M.
Curtis, Mary M.
Derrick, J. Raymond
Dunn, Mary I.
Gallagher, Raymond
Blecher, Mary Celesta
Clark, Maude M.
Dreibelbis, Francis Ralph
Epler, Frances C.
Erwin, Mae E.
Eshleman, Fay E.
Ferguson, Eva H. (Mrs. Edward
Booth,
Jones, Anne Z.
Keefer, Margaret E.
Bowder)
Griffith,
McGovern, Vera
Mildred Elizabeth (Mrs.
Bruce Shearer)
Heimbach, Ruth Elizabeth
Veda Lois (Veda
Hess,
Lewis)
Hoffman, Arthur E.
Johnson, Marion F.
Kester, Zoe (Mrs. Miller)
Kirkhuff,
Marshall, Margaret P.
Norton, Mervym
Ostrander, Ida M.
Price, Ethel M.
Rees, Ruth Irene
Schultz, M. Roselda
Shook, Agnes
Williams, Edna D. (Mrs. Ebenezer D. Williams)
H.
Asa W.
Marks, Gerald Ellsworth
WIDOW OF PROF.
Mrs.
for
l.er
many
Lillie
Gregg
Brill,
E.
Hortman, Irene
widow
BRILL DIES
of the late William
years a resident of Bloomsburg, died at the
son, Francis A. Brill, of
46
S.
Brill,
and
home
of
Fourth Street, Sunbury, Satur-
day evening, June 29, from a complication of ailments.
She had been in failing health for about a year but her conShe had
dition did not become critical until Mother’s Day.
been
living
with her daughter. Miss Julia G.
Brill,
of State Col-
and when her condition became serious she was taken to
home in Sunbury. She remained bedfast for the sucson’s
her
Her condition gradceeding weeks, showing no improvement.
quietly
away.
finally
passed
and
she
weaker
ually became
in
Milton,
the daughMrs. Brill was born January 10, 1855,
lege,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
ter of the
Rev. and Mrs. Jacob
S.
McMurray.
31
Her father was a
minister and presiding elder in the Central Pennsylvania Confer-
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She was married on September
liam
Brill,
a minister
of the
1
,
1
886, to the Rev. Wil-
With him she
same conference.
served as pastorates at Port Matilda, Pine Grove
Mills,
Birming-
ham, Tyrone, Mount Union, Burnham, Altoona, Williamsport,
Shickshinny, Sunbury and Danville.
For sixteen years she resided at Bloomsburg, where her
husband v/as a member of the High School faculty for several
years and then of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Normal
At the time of her husband’s death in 1925, she reSchool.
moved
to State College to
make
her
home with
her daughter.
There she remained until taken ill early in May.
She is survived by three sons, Francis A. Brill, Sunbury
business man; Clinton B. Fisk Brill, of New York City and William Gregg Brill, an official of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
and by one daughter, Julia Brill, of State College.
One son, Jacob McMurray Brill, of Sunbury, was killed in a
World War while serving with the American
Argonne forest, against the Germans.
Her family has been connected with state and national affairs since the Revolutionary War.
She was a direct descendant
of Major James Potter and of United States Senator Andrew
She was a cousin of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin
Gregg.
battle during the
army
who
in the
served as chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania dur-
ing the Civil
War and whose home was
at Bellefonte.
Three of the trustees of the College were reappointed June
Fisher.
They were Mrs. John G. Harman and
Dr. R. E. Miller, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Effie Llewellyn, of
28 by Governor
Elysburg.
ALUMNIDAY, MAY
24,
1930
.
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32
Frank R. Carpenter, of Bloomsburg, father of Miss Helen
home on
Tuesday morning, June 25. At the time of his death he was in
his eighty-second year.
He had been in failing health for some
months, but his condition had been serious only a short time before his death.
For fifty-three years an employe of the Reading Railroad, and for many years station agent in Bloomsburg,
he had retired from active service twelve years ago.
He is survived by one brother, G. D. Carpenter, of Bradford, and four
children, Harriet and Helen, of Bloomsburg, Eugene F., of
Philadelphia, and Ben F., of Washington.
Carpenter, of the Training School faculty, died at his
Normal
Normal School at Bellingham,
Bloomsburg during the summer, and was
Dr. Charles H. Fisher, former principal of the State
School,
now
principal of the State
Washington, visited
in
warmly greeted by
his
many
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,
friends.
and Miss Elizabeth Waller have been
spending the summer at their cottage at Windemere, Canada.
ALUMNI DAY, MAY
24,
1930
Media of