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DECEMBER, 1929
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

FRANCIS

H.

JENKINS

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMHI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
DECEMBER, 1929

Vol. 31

No.

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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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FRANCIS

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HOWE

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Editor-in-Chief

Business

Manager

JENKINS

The Quarterly aims to publish from time to time sketches
and workers of the school during the
years of its existence, as a matter of record and historic interest.
In this article it is my purpose to sketch briefly the life and
work of Francis Howe Jenkins who retired from his duties in
of the earnest teachers

connection with

this

school in

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925.

Since his retirement Professor Jenkins has been giving his

and out of season, to the general interests
Alumni of the school, through the management of the
school Quarterly, which has been revived and given a new lease
of life by his energy and enterprise.
The result of his work is
shown in the fact that the Alumni are today a solid unit behind
every movement that aims to forward the interests of the college, with pride and satisfaction in the fact that they belong to
“Bloomsburg.”
Francis Howe Jenkins was born in Chettenango, Madison
County, N. Y., March 15, 1855.
His mother, Francies Ridle,

best efforts in season
of the

a

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dawned; they understood, and reverenced
er —-incidentally

their patient teach-

believing the "keys” the cause of their grand

intellectual opening.

895 he became registrar and business manager of the
which position he filled with marked success until his
resignation in 1925.
His office force was always well organized, efficient and devoted to their chief, due to his organizing
power, and his ability to bring the best out of his co-workers.
The loyalty of his office force was always a marked feature in
his department, a direct result of his continuous courtesy, and
uniform consideration of others.
No tasks he asked of them
were ever too great. In the rush of school opening, school reports, or unexpected duties thrust suddenly upon his office, none
ever failed him, because he always thought of them first he always took the hardest tasks and the greatest responsibilities
upon his own ample shoulders. Again in his business relations
In

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school,

;

with the students, his sympathetic understanding of their needs,
his

constant courtesy and kindness enshrined him in their hearts

Among the Alumni
None of the old students returning on a'
visit, depart quite happy and satisfied with the results of their
visits, unless they have seen and conversed with “Prof. Jenkins.”
Through all these years he kept the finances of the school above
and won for him

their lasting friendship.

his friends are legions.

criticism.

quaint humor,

His affable disposition, his

his genius

for

making and keeping friends, enabled him to make collections
under the most trying conditions
hold the patronage of the
school and win new patronage.
He met the many ordeals of
;

the position, pouring

ageing

mark

in

out his unflagging

the work, but keeping

of the real teacher

the kindly

down

sentiment and romance lurking

Not
man!
and had his

so!

He

spirit

unstintingly,

of youth

—

and educator.

Think not, gentle readers, that while
teacher was so seriously

energies

this staid

to business,
in the

student and

he escaped

odd nooks

all

of the soul

the
of

too found the ‘‘Normal girls” attractive,

“tete-a-tete” on the front steps of old

“CARVER”

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His father, Benjamin Jenkins, of
was a native of Chettenango.
Barre, Mass., was a general merchant, and, for many years,
Francis received his early
cashier of the bank at Chettenango.
education first in a private school and later in the public schools
of his native town.

1873 he came

Bloomsburg State Normal School to
movement was suggested to him by
teacher. Professor H. E. Barrett, who at that time was elected
In

prepare for college.
his

to a position

to

This

on the faculty of the school.

In

those days

the

was greatly stressing the purpose for which it was originnamely preparation for college.
Its function as
ally founded
teacher training as yet was only secondary.
The citizens of
Bloomsburg believed in secondary and higher education, and in
founding the Literary Institute had planned wisely and well for
school

—

After three years of study Francis grad-

their children’s future.

uated

in

the preparatory course.

This

was

the Centennial year

1876.

The

college of the boy’s choice

tered in September.

A

interferred with his work,

He

later

en-

and interrupted

his studies

somewhat.

took his A. M. degree at Gettysburg, Pa.

He began

his

teaching career in

of the public schools in Eaton, N. Y.,

880, becoming principal
and continued in this po1

884, when he was elected as teacher of English in
Bloomsburg State Normal School.
In this position he con-

sition until

the

was Amherst, which he

severe attack of typhoid fever in 1878

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tinued until 1893.

As a teacher and in all his school contacts, his willingness
to serve and to help those who were in need, made him a much
loved and respected instructor.
His more serious pupils tell
with much gusto, of his persistent effort to enhance their
knowledge of English construction, his right hand often toying
with a bunch of keys, talismanic, as it seemed to them, a symbol
of his cheerful efforts to unlock their dark and doubly locked
mental chambers.
The keys seemed to soothe him into patience
with their stupidity, as he slowly but surely “put across” ideas
rather large

for their untrained

minds.

Gradually

the

ideas

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while incidentally watching the glorious sunsets, or, perchance,

supporting the old time “turnstile” by the hour.
stile”

is

modem

an old land mark the

The strenuous

That “turn-

student can not apprec-

had some unique features too.
Well, to be brief, the subject of this sketch became enamored,
desperate, engaged, married
and lived happy ever after. All
this too at the “Normal” and in the gold old “Victorian days” of
standards, grace and goodness.
ihe cause of all this fine flowery romance was Miss Anna
M. Bittenbender, daughter of Conrad Bittenbender, one of the
original trustees and founders of the school, a most faithful seriate.

seventies

—

vant of the cause of Christian education.
Professor Jenkins was married to Miss Bittenbender on
December 22, 1880. They made their home in Bloomsburg,
where they have lived ever since. They had one child, Margaret,

now

Mrs. R. A. McCachran,

who

resides in

also

Blooms-

burg.

Since his retirement Professor Jenkins continues his interin the

est

school and

publication, he has

its

doings.

done much

school has yet published.
ing

It is

makes him happier than

his pet effort

—

to

to

As manager of the Alumni

make

it

the best periodical the

the pride of his heart,

and noth-

hear a word of commendation for

the Quarterly.

Professor Jenkins has served the institution long and well.

He has

impress on

left his

many

of the

organizations,

customs,

and policies of the school. Much of the routine of the office
work owes its inception to his active and orderly mind. He lived in and for his work.
Those who best know his sincere life,

how

understand

every plan for the betterment of the school

grew stronger and more sure of success as it was further elaborin his suggestive and logical mind.
His courteous, unsel-

ated

fish attitude

institution,

is

greatly responsible for

and

its

of his connection with

enjoy the
pupils

it.

fruits of his labor,

and

friends.

much

of the success of the

gradual substantial growth during the years

We

wish him many years of life to
and the reverence and respect of his
0. H.

BAKELESS.

.

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RALPH

DR.

E.

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MILLER

The death of Dr. Ralph E. Miller, a member of the Board
of Trustees, came as a great shock to the people of Bloomsburg,
and to all those connected with the College. Dr. Miller died
suddenly at the Craftsman Club rooms at Caldwell Cathedral, on

Wednesday afternoon, December
Dr. Miller

was born

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Grove, Schuylkill County, Octo-

at Pine

ber 29, 875. After attending the public schools at Pine Grove,
he secured his B. S. degree at Gettysburg College and his M. D.
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He was on the staff
degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
of the City Hospital at Wilkes-Barre for a year and from there

moved to Bloomsburg, where he established himself in practice
24 years ago. He has been a resident of Bloomsburg ever since
and during those years, both
ous civic activities,

one can

manded

He had an

fill.

the

made

full

in his

profession and in his numer-

a place in the community

iife

that

exceptionally fine practice, and he

no

com-

confidence and admiration of his patients.

Dr. Miller’s life in

Bloomsburg had been closely related

with the Bloomsburg Hospital.

upon

He became

a

member

of

the

Bloomsburg and had been a
member of the staff ever since. His interest and devotion to
the institution played no small part in its success.
He was a
Corporation,
Hospital
the
Board
of Managers, a
member of the
member of the executive committee and a member of the building committee which directed the building of the new hospital.

hospital staff

his arrival in

was a man of intense patriotism, although it was
upon which he seldom touched.
He saw service in the
Philippines in the Spanish-American War, and when the World
War broke out, even though he was far beyond the age when
many men felt it their duty to enlist, he abandoned his large
Dr. Miller

a subject

practice

when

the United States entered the

medical branch of the service,
thrope,

war,

where he was on duty when the

entered the

Camp Oglewar ended. He was a

and reported

at

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member

of

the Valley

of

Bloomsburg Post of the American

Legion.

He was
ciety, the

affiliated

with the Columbia County Medical So-

Pennsylvania Medical Association and the American

Medical Association.

Ever since the residence of the family in Bloomsburg, Dr.
been active in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of which
he had long been a member and of which he had been a vestryman for many years.
He was the second president of the Bloomsburg Rotary
Club as well as a charter member.
During all the years of Rotary’s history in Bloomsburg he had been one of its strongest
Miller has

supporters in

all its activities.

had been a trustee of the Teachers’ College for
about 9 years, having been appointed to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Charles W. Miller.
Masonically, he was a member of Caldwell Consistory, of
Dr. Miller

Templar and of the Shrine.
He was also a member
Bloomsburg Lodge of Elks.
Dr. Miller had been for years a member of the Board of
Directors of the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company,
and of the Bloomsburg National Bank preceding the consolidathe Knights
of the

tion.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bloomsburg Country Club.
All his life he had been an outstanding
athlete, and at the time of his death held the golf championship
of the club.
Dr. Miller

is

survived by his mother, Mrs.

Levi Miller,

of

Pine Grove; by his wife and by two children: Ralph E. Miller,
Jr.,

a Senior at Hamilton College,

and Miss Mary Ruth

Miller, a

Senior in Miss Illman’s School, Philadelphia.

Funeral services were held at his late

morning, December 21

.

Burial

was made

home on Saturday
at Pine Grove.

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STATE BUYS DILLON PROPERTY TO

PROVIDE ROOM FOR EXPANSION

The

and one of the most important, steps in the exBloomsburg State Teachers’ College
was completed October 25 when slightly over eighteen and a
half acres of land from Charles H. Dillon et. al. for $75,000 was
first,

tensive enlargement of the

transferred to the

Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania.

The property purchased from Mr. Dillon lies between the
main school property and the land on which the residence of the
president. Dr. Francis B. Haas, stands, just east of the

home

of

Mr. Dillon.

With the acquiring of this property the college now owns
Penn Street to the residence of game warden
Harry Miller near the town line and from Light Street Road to
Second Street, except the home of Mr. Dillon and the few homes
erected just back of the present college buildings.
all

the land from

When

the budget for the present biennium

was being pre-

pared, Dr. Haas said, Arthur Townsend, secretary of the budget,

and Dr. John A. H. Keith, superintendent of the State Department of Public Instruction, visited Bloomsburg and looked over
They recommended
the property which the college desired.
its purchase to Governor John H. Fisher and the transaction was
completed and the deed transferred.
While no definite plans have been made for the use of the

new

land in the immediate future. Dr. Haas said, the land will

eventually be used for

new

buildings as the institution grows.

The old property line of the institution ended in the road
which ran back of the new training school building and the athletic field.
Ihe State also owned property from just beyond
Mr. Dillon’s home to Mr. Miller’s property line.
The newly acquired property links these two plots.

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The

site of

the

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College has

long been considered one of the finest in the State.

Now

that

have been secured another dream in the
progressive building plan of the institution has been realized.
the additional acres

While the plot may not be used for new buildings in the immediate future it is available whenever wanted and the acquiring of land will not be one of the problems when more money is
appropriated by the State for additional buildings.

MANY ATTEND TEACHERS’ COLLEGE CONFERENCE

The eighth annual conference

of the faculties of the State

Teachers’ Colleges of Pennsylvania was held at Bloomsburg on

November 25 and 26. The general theme of the conference
was “The Improvement of Instruction Through Evaluation of
Conference Reports and Final Recommendations For Curriculum
Syllabi.”

The members of the conference began arriving in BloomsThose arriving by train were met at
burg Sunday afternoon.
the various stations by members of the Bloomsburg faculty, who
Most of the members stayoffered their cars for the purpose.
ed

in

the College dormitory.

A

large corps of students volun-

teered to give up two days of their vacation to remain in Blooms-

burg and render whatever service was needed to take care of the
The students were used as ushers and
guests of the College.
dining room and kitchen help, and many aided in providing enThe College Orchestra
tertainment at the group assemblies.
played in the dining room for the dinner Monday evening, and

Monday and Tuesday

The
North Hall Dance Orchestra played in the dining room Tuesday
evening, and provided music for the dancing Monday and Tuesday evenings, following the general sessions.
for the general assemblies

evenings.

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The conference opened Monday morning with a Visual
Education Program, with Dr. Ralph A. Waldron, of Slippery

The conference met in the newly decorated
Rock, presiding.
auditorium Monday afternoon, at which time general announceFollowing this the various
ments of the conference were given.
groups met and discussed their common problems.
At the general session

D.

J.

Monday

Waller,

evening, the invocation

The speakers

Jr.

was offered by Dr.
were Dr. D. B.

of the evening

Waldo, President of the Western State Teachers’ College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Dr. J. A. H. Keith, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania.
At the close of the session, Dr.
Haas,
ter,

who was

presiding, called to the platform Dr.

C. R. Fos-

President of the State Teachers College at Indiana, and also

President of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Foster spoke of the

work

of educators of other days,

and

Dr.
their

education in Pennsylvania.
He then paid a
glowing tribute to Dr. Waller, who gave the greater part of his
life to education in Pennsylvania as Principal of the Bloomsburg

contribution to

State

Normal School,

School, and as

as Principal of the Indiana

Superintendent of

close of his remarks,

Public

he presented to Dr.

State

Instruction.

Normal
At the

Waller a beautiful

basket of roses, and the members of the audience rose ot their
feet to

do honor

serving of

all

to the

man whom

the praise that

they recognized as well de-

had been given him.

Tuesday morning and Tuesday afternoon were devoted to
group conferences, the time being devoted to a final revision of
the course of study for the Teachers’ Colleges of Pennsylvania, a
task which has occupied the attention of the conferences for the

past four years.

on
Brown, Super-

Dr. Foster, of Indiana, presided at the general session

Tuesday evening.

The speakers were

Dr.

J.

intendent of Schools at Pelham, N. Y., and Dr.
Director of Instruction at George
Nashville, Tennessee.

C.

Shelton Phelps,

Peabody College

for Teachers,

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In addition to the musical

Miss

Alma

numbers previously mentioned.

Caldwell, of the Bloomsburg faculty, sang a group of

Monday evening meeting, and on Tuesday evening,
two numbers were given by the College Glee Cub, followed by
two solos by Robert C. Clark, Instructor in Voice at Bloomsburg.
songs at the

A new

feature of the conference

was

Student representatives from

Conference.

the

Student Forum

all

of the Teachers’

Colleges of the State were present, and discussed problems

mutual

interest.

At the close of

their

resolutions requesting that the Student

of

they drew up

sessions,

Forum be continued

as a

feature of conferences to be held in the future.

Bloomsburg was well represented
ferences,

many members

in the

various group con-

of the faculty presided over

spective groups, or presented papers.

their re-

The general opinion

of

members of the conference was that the conferences this
year was one of the best, both as to the hospitality extended
them in Bloomsburg, and as to the amount of constructive work
the

accomplished.

1928 LOBBY FUND

Prof. E. R. Gager, ’99, of the International Correspondence

most telling
Alumni move-

School, President of his class, has just sent out a
circular to his classmates, in the interest of the

commencement. He also sent a personal
check for the fund, which was gladly received and deposited.
We like his spirit, loyalty and energy, and thank him for his effort in the good cause.
ment launched

last

The outstanding
are coming

in.

subscriptions to the

their subscriptions in that

Lobby Fund

of

1928

who have delayed paying kindly get
we may close out the fund and use it

Will those

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purpose.

We

acknowledge payment of the following subscriptions:

Ebbie M. Carlson, Mary Dushanko, Dorothy McCollum, Edna
Kulick and Margaret L. Lewis.
Their receipts are issued and
ready for them.
0. H.

BAKELESS.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY

Miss Ethel E. Shaw, of the English Department,
of absence without

pay during the

first

is

on leave

semester and her place

be taken by Miss Florentine Leweke, of Napoleon, Mo.
Miss Leweke for the past two years has been head of the English
Department of Ellsworth College, Iowa Falls, Iowa, and has nine
She has a master’s degree from the Univeryears’ experience.
will

sity of Missouri.

Miss Lillian Schmehl, of Reading, will
Miss

Mary

teacher.

E.

A. Merritt,

resigned,

as

take the

place of

kindergarten training

Miss Schmehl has had ten years’ experience and has a

bachelor’s degree from Teachers’ College, Columbia University.

For one year she was an assistant

in

the Horace

Mann

Teachers’ College, and previous to that time was engaged

dergarten work

in the

School,
in kin-

Reading schools.

Miss Ermine C. Stanton, of Winder, Georgia, will take
place of Miss Ruth Beery, training teacher of the
resigned.

first

grade,

the

who

Miss Stanton has had seven years’ experience and

is

a graduate of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, where she
holds a bachelor’s degree.

During the past year she took work

and before that time was employed
vate nursery school in New York City.
at that institution

at a pri-

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Thomas

P. North, of Rochester, N. Y., will teach education,

who

succeeding Prof. 0. H. Bakeless

retired

and Miss Helen M.

Richards will teach penmanship and English, succeeding Miss
Miss Richards is a member of
Christie Jefferies who resigned.
the

1923

class of the Teachers’ College.

Dr. North

is

a

graduate of Pennsylvania State

College,

where he also secured the degree of master of sciences. His
He had had
doctor’s degree was secured at Cornell University.
For five years of that time he was diten years’ of experience.
and supervising principal of Corborough and Union Township Schools, Jefferson County.
For one year he was assistant in rural education at State College.
rector of vocational education
sica

Miss Richards graduated from Bloomsburg in 1923 and
from Pennsylvania State College in 928 with the B. S. degree
She is a member of the Kappa Delta Pi, the Natin education.
She has had five years’
ional honorary education fraternity.
teaching experience in both public and private schools.
1

Miss

Maude Kavanaugh has been appointed

jects of education

and juvenile supervision

to teach sub-

at the

Bloomsburg

State Teachers’ College this year.

Miss

degree at

Kavanaugh received both her bachelor’s and master's
the Teachers’ College of Columbia University and for

the past four years has taught at the State Teachers’ College

at

Minona, Miss.

During the summer months of her vacation she went
abroad, and she has recently written a South Dakota supplement
to the

McMurray-Perkins Geography.

Miss Ida Gray, of Madison, Wisconsin, has been selected as
art instructor.

She has taken the position vacated recently by

Miss Esther Williams,

who

has become a

member

of the faculty

at the University of Pittsburgh.

Miss Gray received her B.

S.

from the University of Wis-

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She has been assistant

consin.

to the

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Director of Art

York, Pa., school system and Director of Art

in the

schools of

in the

Uniontown, Pa.

Two
burg

last

the

first
is

members

of the faculty

who came

Blooms-

to

year are Mrs. Margaret B. Squires and Miss Edna
Mrs. Squires

Barnes.

who

other

is

taking the place

semester,

J.

substituting in the fourth grade during

of Miss

studying at Columbia University.

Helen Carpenter,

Mrs. Squires will also

Mrs. Etta H. Keller, sixth grade training
be absent for study during the second
semester.
Mrs. Squires has the degrees of B. S. and M. A. from
the University of Missouri.
She has served as County Superintendent of Schools in Carroll County, Missouri, and as rural Supervisor and Instructor in Education in Jefferson City and Spring-

act as substitute for

teacher,

who

will

-

field,

Missouri.

one of the Supervisors of Teacher Training
She has the degree of Bachelor of
Education from the Western Illinois State College, and the degree of Master cf Arts from Columbia University.
She has servMiss Barnes

in

is

the Bloomsburg schools.

ed as teacher

in the

schools of Rushville and Dundee,

Illinois.

ATHLETICS

The college has had a most

successful football season.

schedule called for hard football

in

The

every contest and the boys

responded well.
Meeting seven State leachers’ College teams
and taking five of the games is no mean accomplishment. Homecoming Day the team played a brilliant game and won 3-0 from
East Stroudsburg.
Those who witnessed the game are unanimous in the opinion that the Bloomsburg team played a wonderVictory came because of real football, not because
ful game.
of “breaks.”
At Kingston the following week the team met
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account of themselves.
A
on one occasion, and a fall on the frozen ground
another time were the only things that prevented touchdowns
This statement is not intended to discredit
for Bloomsburg.
It was a strong, well balanced,
the Wyoming Seminary team.
But
hard hitting aggregation and they deserved the victory.
we are proud of the team that represented the college this year.
strong opposition but gave a real

dropped

ball

The schedule

Coach Booth had

that

through was as follows

:

—

to plan

for

and play

—

October 5, at Bloomsburg -Kutztown State Teachers’ ColBloomsburg State ieachers College, 6.

lege, 0;

—

October 12, at West Chester West Chester State Teach25; Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, 0.

erss’ College,

—

ers’

October 19, at Shippensburg Shippensburg State TeachCollege, 7 Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, 0.
;

—

October 26, at Bloomsburg
California State Teachers’
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, 6.

College, 0;

—

November
College, 0;

Lock Haven State Teachers’
2, at Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, 6.

November
lege, 0;

9, at Mansfield

—

Mansfield State Teachers’ Col-

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,

November

16,

at

Bloomsburg

—

East

7.

Stroudsburg State

Teachers’ College, 0; Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, 13.

November 23,

at

Kingston

—Wyoming

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,

Seminary,

7.

E. H.

NELSON.

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HOME-COMING DAY

More than ,000 alumni and hundreds of guests on Saturday, November 23, enjoyed the Home-coming Day program of
the Teachers’ College and all were delighted with the exceptionStudents
ally fine program arranged for their entertainment.
and members of the faculty were busy throughout the day in
welcoming the guests and doing everything possible for their
convenience and entertainment.
The clean cut 3 to 0 victory over East Stroudsburg on the
football field was the feature of the program and enough in itself
for a successful Home-coming Day.
However, it was only one of the features. The day saw
the inauguration of a new sport at the College, cross country
Shippensburg defeated Bloomsburg 15 to 23 in the
running.
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boys finishing on the north side of the athletic field a
few minutes after the football game started.
Hundreds were at the get-together tea in the gaily decorated gymnasium after the football game and almost ,000, including about 500 guests, were served at dinner.
Dr. D. J. Waller,
Jr., gave the invocation and the College Symphony Orchestra
run, the

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furnished a program of dinner music.

The dining hall was decorated in the Maroon and Gold of
Bloomsburg and the Maroon and Black of East Stroudsburg.
Streamers in those colors adorned the walls and the backs of the
chairs.

The dance was the feature of the evening and was attended by hundreds.
Sherman’s orchestra, of Berwick, furnished
the music and punch was served.
A very attractive decorative
scheme was worked out in the College colors.
The buildings, campus and business section of the town
were well decorated.
Boulevard light standards and poles held
the colors of the rival schools in the business section and the
color were used extensively in the exterior and interior of the
buildings on the campus.
Large welcome signs were displayed

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at

prominent points.

The

Elks’

the afternoon’s

Band and the High School Band added much to
program and took part in the victory celebration

at the close of the football
It

was one

years.

Few

evening and

game.

of the greatest week-ends on the

of the guests left until after

many

of

them remained

hill

the dance

in

many

Saturday

at the institution until the

following evening.

ALUMNI NEWS

1874
James

S.

Wilson, formerly of Bloomsburg, died recently

in

Scranton, and was buried in Old Rosemont Cemetery, Blooms-

For a number of years Mr. Wilson operated a foundry in
Bloomsburg.
We regret that we are unable to furnish further

burg.

details.

1875
Mrs. Carrie

Roswell,

New

Thompson Snyder died

Mexico, February

1

1,

in St.

Mary’s Hospital,

1929.

1879
Ira D. Filson died recently at his

home

in

Ohio.

1883
Attorney D. M. Hobbes, of Kingston, died suddenly Satur-

November 30. His death was caused by a heart attack.
Mr. Hobbes was born January 1, 1838.
He attended a rural
school and later came to Bloomsburg, from which institution he
was later graduated.
For a time he served as principal of
day,

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Academy, and

Pleasant Hill

later held similar

17

positions

at

Lu-

and Kingston.
About thirty years ago, he took up the study of law. He
spent the rest of his life practicing in the Luzerne County Courts,
and also in the higher courts of the state and nation.
Mr.
Hobbes was a member of the P. 0. S. of A. and the Odd Fellows.
He was a devoted member of the Kingston Methodist Episcopal
Church, and was active in the alfairs of that congregation.
He is survived by his wife, by two daughters. His daughter, Marie, is a teacher in Kingston, and his other daughter, Mrs.
He is also survived by
Joseph Pooley, lives in Madison, N. J.
four brothers.
He was a brother-in-law of Dean W. B. Sutliff.
Funeral services were held at his late home Tuesday,
December 3, with burial at Nanticoke.
zerne, Dallas, Dorranceton, Ashley,

who

served from 1890 to 1897 as Princiand Conyngham Schools, Wilkes-Barre,
died Tuesday, September 24, at his home at Lake Winola.
He
is survived by his wife, two daughters, a sister and four brothThe funeral was held at his home at Lake Winola, Friday,
ers.
September 27, and the body was interred in t' e Pittston Ceme-

James

G. Secor,

pal of the Parrish Street

tery.

1884
Bird

I.

Bertels

is

teaching in Wilkes-Barre.

Her address

is

22 Carey Avenue.
Jean T. MacCullough Dunwell
Irvin H.
is

Winter

lives at

1

lives in

0 Regent

Monrovia, Cal.

Street, Wilkes-Barre

and

teaching in the schools of that city.

1885
C. Ernest
lotte, N. C.

Dechant

lives at

2016

East Ninth Street,

Char-

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1888
Frank Myers, president of the Class of 1888, and a
prominent attorney in Wilkes-Barre, died September 15, at his
summer home at Glen Summit. Mr. Myers was Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, and had served
He also served
since 1910 as Grand Recorder of that order.
two terms as State Councillor of the Junior Order United AmerMr. Myers was born in Sylvis, Clearfield
ican Mechanics.
B.

County, April 26, 1863.
He served for a time as Assistant District Attorney of Luzerne County.
He is survived by his widow.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Clapham (Ada Yetter)

New York September

15, after a trip ofnearly

arrived

two years

Mr. Clapham travels

West Indies and South America.

in

in the

in the in-

The countries
visited during the recent trip of Mr. and Mrs. Clapham included
Jamaica, Haiti, San Domingo, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela,
Mergenthaler Linotype Company.

terests of the

Trinidad, Barbados, Brazil,

The return
to

New

trip

Uruguay, Argentina,

was made by way of

the

Chile,

Peru.

Panama Canal and Cuba

York.

1889
Malena

Mahanoy

C.

Rhoads Gabbert

lives at

1

1

5 South Main Street,

City, Pa.

Adelaide

McKown Hawke

is

teaching

in

the schools

of

Tunkhannock, Pa.
Bess Wintersteen (Mrs. R.

Avenue, Passaic, N.

W.

Shelly) lives at

22 Pleasant

J.

1890
Mrs. Jennie

Kingston.

She

Ransom Lowe died November 6

is

survived by her husband.

at her

home

in

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19

1892

who is engaged in community settleChurch at Higgins, North Carolina,
recently visited her mother in Bloomsburg.
Through the efforts
of Miss Robinson, a new church has recently been built to house
The church is built of
the congregation which she is working.
native stone, gathered by the men of the community, and is declared to be one of the finest churches in that section of the
State.
It provides for the social and recreational as well as the
religious activities of the community.
During the time the
church was in course of construction the membership of the congregation doubled.
This, of course, reflects the widespread interest in the building project and the zeal and enthusiasm, which
Miss Robison puts into her work.
Miss Martha Robison,

ment

for the Presbyterian

1894
Mr. L. P. Sterner, who retired a year ago, after serving for
many years as Superintendent of the schools of Bloomsburg, is
now living at 9 Ryers Avenue, Cheltenham, Pa.

1895
M.

L.

Laubach

head of the Department of Industrial Ai^s
Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana.
0. Box 254, Terre Haute.
is

at the Indiana State

His address

is

P.

1897
Margaret Andreas

lives at

342 West

First Street, Hazleton,

Pa.

Helen Elizabeth Lawall (Mrs.
terson Heights, Beaver Falls, Pa.
at Point

Chataqua, N. Y.

L. L. Bentley) lives on PatDuring the summer she lives

Mrs. Bentley has six children: Eliza-

beth, a graduate of Allegheny College; Alan Louis, a graduate

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20

now

of Cornell University; Jeanne,

David, a student

at

a student at

Hood

College;

Mercersburg Academy, and Richard,

at

home.

1899
Roberts

Ira A.
J.,

where he

is

lives at Undercliff

engaged

in

Avenue, Edgewater, N.

the insurance business.

nected with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Mr. Roberts’ second wife died of pneumonia,

Emma

in

He

is

con-

Company.

March, 1928.

Waverly, N. Y., where
Her son, Alvin 0. Severance, was graduated from the Medical School of Johns Hopkins
University in June.
He is now serving as interne in the Church
Home and Infirmary in Baltimore, Md.
Roberts Severance

lives in

her husband has a department store.

F.

Herman

Fritz has recently

of Schools in Pottstown, Pa.

been elected Superintendent
is 509 North Carolina

His address

Street.

Emma
land,

Ellsw-orth (Mrs. D. C. Smith) lives in Centermore-

J.

Wyoming County,

Pa.

1902
Evan

Williams was elected

J.

Mayor

of

Nanticoke at the

recent elections.

1904
Mrs. Bessie Reichart Corse lives at

Boonton, N.

306 Harrison Avenue,

J.

W. Ray

employed by the Chicago, Milwaukee
Paul Railroad, and travels over the line constantly.
His address is 3709 Pillsburg Avenue, Mineapolis, Minn.
and

St.

Helw'ig

is

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DeWitt (Mrs. Charles G. McBride)
Her husband
State
University.
faculty of Ohio
Lois

ford Road, Columbus, Ohio.

21

lives at
is

a

1644

member

Guil-

of the

Guy H. Rentschler resides at 837 Dixie Lane, Plainfield, N.
He is connected with the Remington-Rand Business Service,

J.

Inc.

Clark E. Kitchen and wife (Mabel H. Parker) are living at
Lancaster, California, with their four children, one of

whom

is

a

student at the University of California.

Ann

Challis

(Mrs. F.

W. Thompson)

is

a

teacher in the

Washington Irving High School, New York City.
Her husband
She and her nine year old son David, live
died two years ago.
at 480 Carroll Place, Pelham Manor, New York.
Elizabeth Albertson

mother of seven children.
Her eldest son is a student

Harvey Hess) is the happy
Her home is in Morrill, Nebraska.-

(Mrs.

at the University of California.

McMurray)

Harriet Hitchcock (Mrs. Frederick
in

is

teaching

Milroy, Pa.

Mabel
Mead, N. J.

E.

Mertz (Mrs. Thomas

C.

Dixon)

lives in

Belle

Allen B. Eister is employed as signal and telegraph foreman
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and lives at 114 South Liberty
Street,

Plymouth, Indiana.

Kimber H. Knorr

lives at

339 North Lewis

Street, Staunton,

Va.

dress

Margaret Flaherty is teaching
is 30 South Fallon Street.

in

Philadelphia.

Her ad-

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1905
Carrie E. Clark (Mrs. Garry
Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

C.

Myers)

lives at

1000 Elbon

1906
The husband and two daughters

of Mrs.

J.

R. Terwilliger

(Helen DeWitt) were badly injured in an automobile accident
last August.
Mr. Terwilliger had taken Mrs. Terwilliger to
Philadelphia, and he and his two daughters were on their way

Bioomsburg when their car collided with another car
near Hamburg, Pa.
After being treated at the Hamburg Hospital, they came to Bioomsburg by train.
The Misses Terback

to

williger,

former students at the Teachers’ College, returned
Pennsylvania State College.

this

Fall to continue their studies at

1907
Mrs. Helen Mauser Roat
Bioomsburg.

Eva

T.

lives

at

Schwartman (Mrs. Lloyd

339 West Main

Street,

D. Smith) lives at

2617

Dillard Street, Shreveport, Louisiana.

William V. Moyer was the successful candidate for the
fice

of-

of President of Council in Bioomsburg at the recent election.

1908

member of the faculty of the Bioomsburg
High School, received the degree of Bachelor of Science in EduIrene Kahler, a

cation at Bucknell University, at the annual

commencement

last

June.

Alberta Handley (Mrs. John F.
Foster Avenue, Chicago,

Illinois.

McGowan,,

lives at

949

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23

Classmates and friends of Willie Morgan (Mrs. V. G. Stein)
will

to learn that she has

be glad

recovered from her

entirely

Her address

serious accident of last October.

is

3816 Locust

Street, Philadelphia.

in the High School in Philadelphia.
Apartments,
the Lancaster
Ardmore, Pa.

Florence Bedall teaches

Her address

is

Thomas H. Plank died

at his

home June

5,

1927.

We

are

unable to state where he was living at the time of his death.

The death

of Mrs.

occurred September
lingering illness

Kimber Hartman

home

(Ellie R. Deighmiller)

Bloomsburg, following a
dunng which she had endured suffering with
1

7 at her

in

fortitude.

from Bloomsburg, she served one

After her graduation

year as assistant to Prof. Hartline, and for three years taught
various high schools in Columbia County.

in

She also taught one

year at Elder’s Ridge, Indiana County.

For six years she was matron of the
at

I.

0. 0. F.

Orphanage

Sunbury, of which institution her husband was superintendent.

Because of Mrs. Hartman’s

ill

health, she

and Mr. Hartman were
moved to Blooms-

obliged to give up their posiitons, and they

burg two years ago.

Mr. Hartman

is

now

receiving clerk at the

College.

She

is

survived by her husband, a son, Henry,

dent at the Teachers’ College, by her

and

also

by

five sisters

father

now

a stu-

and step-mother,

and three brothers.

Funeral services were held at her late

tember 19, with burial at

New

home Thursday,

Sep-

Columbia.

Burke (Mrs. James Kinney) lives at 336 CumberLebanon, Pa.
Her husband, a graduate from
Bloomsburg in the Class of 1906, and also of Pennsylvania

Agnes

J.

land Street,

State College,

is

assistant General

Manager

of the

Lebanon plant

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of the Bethlehem Steel

Company.

Mr. and Mrs. Kinney have

one son.

Tom

Mabel Wilkinson (Mrs.

Walton)

lives at

1

North Wal-

nut Street, Mt. Carmel, Pa.

John

E. Piatt

is

Superintendent of the schools of Wyoming,

Pa.

May Southwood

lives at

34 North Walnut

Street, Mt. Car-

mel, Pa.

who

Mrs. Stein

resides in Philadelphia,

QUARTERLY among
many have

is

a booster for the

her classmates, and through

sent in their subscriptions.

great assistance to the editorial staff

members

We
who

of the Alumni Association

ciently interested to give a

little

of their

time

in

Mrs. Stein

members

is

are look-

are

order

more subscribers and more news of the Alumni.
lives at 381 6 Locust Street, Philadelphia.

ing

efforts

by her frequent contribu-

tions of personal items regarding her classmates.

ing for other

her

She has also rendered

Mrs.

suffi-

to get

Stein

asking for the correct addresses of the follow-

of her class:

—

Mertie Cool, Nell Cox, James E. Cummings, Harriet Miller,

Eleanor Piekarski, Merrill N. Smith, Margaret Woods, Charlotta
Geisdorf, Stella

(Mrs. George

S.

Churm

(Mrs.

S. C.

Wright), and Adda Brandon

Westfield).

She will be very grateful
communicate with her.

if

anyone knowing these address-

es will

Watkins

is President and Treasurer of the ContinCompany, and his home is in Wheeling, West
His classmates and friends will be interested in the

\Villiam

ental Publishing
Virginia.

following extracts from a letter received recently:

“We

left

home

July

26 on

—

a motor trip to the Pacific Coast,

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visiting the different offices of

Mayo

the

our firm, and spending a

Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota,

September

25

week

at

and arriving home on

15.

“I am very much better than I have been, and the Mayos
on my second trip there, announced that I had a good chance of
complete recovery.

“Incidentally,
tinental Publishing

as

I

established

we established three new offices, so
Company now stretches from coast

offices at

Portland,

San

Francisco

the Conto coast,

and Des

Moines.

“Somehow

I must say that I hold Bloomsburg much dearer
and closer than I could ever hold my college.
Bloomsburg has
done much for me.”

1909

On St. James’ Day (July 25, 1929) in the Cathedral of St.
Mary and St. John, Manila, the Rt. Rev. Gouverneur Frank
Mosher, D. D., Bishop of the Philippine Islands, advanced to the
Priesthood the Rev. Robert F. Wilner, Deacon.
Mr. Wilner was
presented by the Rev. F. C. Benson Beiliss, Rector of the Cathe-

and the Litany was
The Rev. William L.

dral Parish, the Bishop preached the sermon,

read by the Rev.

Crispino Salustiano.

Ziadie, of St. Luke’s Church, assisted the Bishop in the celebration of the

Holy Communion.

During

his

diaconate Mr. Wilner has been assisting

Stephen’s Mission to Chinese, Manila, but on

in

St.

September
he
moved to Baguio, Mountain Province, where he will be in charge
of Easter School for Igorot boys and girls, assisted by Mrs. Wilner (Alfa Stark 12) a trained and experienced teacher.
He
will also act as Chaplain of Brent School for American boys and
girls, and assist the Rev. George C. Bartter in the outstation work
New address: Easter School, Baguio,
of the Baguio Mission.
Mountain Province, P. I.
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Fred W. Diehl, Superintendent of the schools of Montour
County, member of the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College and former President of the Alumni As-

been elected Vice-President of the Eastern Synod
Mr. Diehl has also been elected as a
Mr. Diehl has
Trustee of Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa.
long been active in the work of the church, and his election
comes as a recognition of his untiring service.
sociation, has

of the

Reformed Church.

Madeline V. Bishop (Mrs. Rollin

Charles) lives

L.

in

Beth-

lehem, Pa.

At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fisher, of Rupert, on
Thanksgiving Day, there was solemnized the wedding of Dr.
Scott Romain Fisher, of Syracuse, New York, and Miss Margaret

The ring ceremony was
noon by Rev. W. H. Hartman, of Bloomsburg.

Synthia Mathews, also of Syracuse.

performed

at high

Rebecca

E. Stroh (Mrs. L. E. Williams) lives in Aledrson,

Pa.

1911
Grace Hartman (Mrs.

F. L.

tor of Christ’s Presbyterian

Merle

S.

Wilkes-Barre.

Gulliver

His

is

880 Hudson
Her husband is pas-

Artlev) lives at

Boulevard, Apartment 202, Bayonne, N.

Church

in

J.

that city.

teaching in the G. A. R. High School,

home address

is

1

7 Carey Avenue, Wilkes-

Barre.

1912
C. Fisk Brill and Miss Elizabeth K. Scholle, of New York,
They are now
were marritd Saturday, September 4, 929.
living at 333 East 68th Street, New York.
1

1

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Harold N. Cool operates a drug store in Los Angeles, CaliHe lives at 4115 Irving Place, Culver City, and is i
member of the Board of Education of the latter city. Mr. Cool
was graduated from the Columbia School of Pl armacy in 1917,
spent a year in the service during the war, and went to California
fornia.

in

1921.

Mr. and Mrs. Cool have three children.

1913
Albert Demaree
His address

is

is

4 School

Mabel Shuman

is

teaching History at Dartmouth College.
Street,

Hanover,

teaching

in the

New

Hampshire.

second grade

in

the

schools of Culver City, California.

1914
Vera Colvin (Mrs. C. B. Gorham) has moved from Clark’s
Summit to Harrisburg, Pa., where her husband is employed by
the Bell Telephone Company.

1915
Pearl Kleckner Piageman lives at R. D. No.

Lucretia
Hill,

S.

Lewis (Mrs. V. A. Martin)

is

1

,

Sewell, N.

living

in

J.

Camp

Pa.

1916
Death came suddenly and unexpectedly to Mrs. William H.
Lauver, nee Mary Seiler, at the Focht Private Hospital at Shamokin, Pa., Saturday, August 10.
She had been a patient at the hospital for two weeks and
was apparently on the road to recovery when she was stricken
with a heart attack and lapsed into unconsciousness, death ensuing almost immediately.

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graduate of Shamokin High School,
For a
1914, and of Bloomsburg State Teacher’s College, 1916.
period of four years she taught school at Paxinos, Jeanette and
Mrs. Lauver was a

At the

McAllisterville.

latter

School and was very active
also contributed as a

place she

taught

in

the

High

community and church work. She
writer on cooking subjects to a number of
in

magazines and periodicals.
William H. Lauver,
In April, 1920, she was married t
prominent business man of McAllisterville, at which place she
made her home. Her fine womanly character and superior
mental traits won her a place in the esteem and love of all who

knew

her.

Surviving are her husband, and

Dorothy,

six years old,

and three

parents,

sisters.

one

Burial

daughter,

was made

at

McAllisterville.

1918

Edward Yost and Miss Margaret Girton, of Bloomsburg,
two of the town’s most esteemed young people, were married in
Scranton

in

October, friends of the couple learned.

Following

wedding they spent some time in New York. The groom is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg Teachers’ College and took a
special course in textile work at Paterson, N. J.
He holds a responsible position at the local plant of the Bloomsburg Silk Mill.
The bride has been employed by that concern.
the

Margaret

L.

Brown

lives at

1331

K. Street,

Washington,

She is secretary to the Secretary of the American
Economics Association.
D. C.

Pa.

Helen Stroh (Mrs. Harry K. Mayhew)
She has one son.

Harold

J.

Pegg

is

School at Altoona, Pa.

teacher of History

Mr. Pegg

is

Home

lives in Harrisburg,

in

the Senior

High

a graduate of Gettysburg

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College,

29

and received the degree of Master of Arts
Washington,

versity of

Washington.

Seattle,

at the Uni-

His address

is

1819 Sixth Avenue, Altoona, Pa.

1919
Burrell J.

Swortwood

is

teaching at the

Industrial

School

Boys at Kis Lyn, Pa.
Mrs. Swortwood, who was Miss Eva
Weaver, of the Class of 1912, is also teaching at the same institution.
Their home is in Mountain Top, Pa.
for

Margaret Heiss (Mrs. Chester E. Vastine) is stenographer
Magee Carpet Company, Bloomsburg. Her home is in

for the

Mifflinville, Pa.

Mrs.
1

929,

at

Raymond Lauer (Bess
home in Ashland, Pa.

Miller)

died

November

6,

her

1929
Keffer Hartline has completed his post-graduate course

Physics and

Mathematics

August, Mr. Hartline

work

in

German

left for

was

Germany

Hopkins

University.

in

In

to continue his research

from the Unibe in Germany for at least a
During the past summer, he

Universities under a fellowship

He

versity of Pennsylvania.

year,

Johns

at

will

and possibly for two years.
Marine Biological laboratory

at the

the largest laboratory of

its

kind

Louise Stearns lives at 91

at

Woods

Hole, Mass.,

in the world.

1

East

Commonwealth Avenue,

Fullerton, California.

Jeanne Stroh
Whitehall Street,
years.

(Mrs. James

Harrisburg, Pa.

Walsh) lives at 1837-A
She has a son, aged three

S.

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Evelyn Wagner (Mrs.

West

L.

R. Groves)

lives in

Moorefield,

Virginia.

Alice P. Sterner lives at 341 Franklin Avenue, Nutley, N.

Mrs. Evelyn
ginia.

She

is

Wagner Grover

lives in Mooresfield,

West

J.

Vir-

the editor of a newspaper published in that town,

and known as “The Hardy County News.” Mrs. Grover’s mother will be remembered by older graduates as Miss Gertrude
LaSchelle, a former member of the Bloomsburg faculty.

1921
Miss Evelyn Z. Smith, of Berwick, and Lyman E. Cunningham, of Cleveland, Ohio, were married Tuesday evening, September 7, at Brownhelm, Ohio, by the Rev. Ellsworth Scott,
pastor of the Congregational Church of Brownhelm.
Mrs. Cunningham has been teaching for several years in the schools of
Berwick, Pa.
The present address of Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham
is
0202 Wilbur Avenue, Cleveland.
1

1

Mrs. Paul A. White (Christina Nagle) of Berwick, died at

her

home Monday

evening, September

two months duration.

5, following an illness of
Following her graduation she had taught

for several years in the Children’s
is

1

Home

in

Wilkes-Barre.

She

survived by her husband and her father, Fred Nagle, of Milton.

1923
Miss Annabelle Sober
at East Stroudsburg, Pa.,

is

teaching in the Junior High School

and serving

with the State Teachers’ College

as

co-operative

Miss Pearl Robbins, of Shickshinny, Pa., and Alfred
ton, of Pittsburgh,

tember 23, 1929.

teacher

in that city.

were married
Mrs. Burton,

at the

who

home

S.

Bur-

of the bride Sep-

recently returned from

a

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trip to

Europe, taught for several years at Pond

taught

last

now

year at Irvington, N.

Mr.

J.

Hill, Pa., and
and Mrs. Burton are

living in Pittsburgh.

Emmett M. Hoyt and Alice J. Taylor, of Hammond,
were married Thursday, August 8, 929.

N. Y.,

1

Mildred Arms
risville.

Myra Arms
ville.

is

Principal of the Park

Manor

School, Mor-

Pa.

Principal of the

is

Wm.

E. Carl School, Morris-

Pa.

1924
Miss Stella Malley died

in

August

at the

Mercy

Hospital,

Wilkes-Barre, following an operation for appendicitis.

The addresses of Anna M. Booth (Mrs. Archie Winans)
Broadway, Pa., Star Route.

Edna

D. Williams (Mrs. Ebenezer D. Williams) lives at

Florence Avenue, Irvington, N.

After a long
at her

home

in

illness,

is

136

J.

June Post (Mrs. Herman Wolfe) died
Wednesday morning, September

Nanticoke, Pa.,

25, 1929.

Helen A. Lentholt

lives at

250 North Main

Street, Taylor,

Pa.

Elizabeth Mathias

Edith M. Behr

is

is

teaching

in

Northumberland, Pa.

teaching sixth grade at Lopez, Pa.

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32

Mary
bridge, N.

E. Barrett

at

teaching

in the

primary grades

at

Wood-

J.

Koch

Elizabeth

grade

is

West

is

teaching Reading and History in the sixth

Pittston.

At 5:30 Tuesday evening, September 3, Miss Christine
Holmes, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Alton Taylor, also
The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
of Bloomsburg.

Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the First Methodist Church of
Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Taylor has been teaching for several years
at the Third Street School, in Bloomsburg.
Mr. Taylor is employed by the United States Rubber Company, at Cleveland,
Ohio, where he and Mrs. Taylor are now living.

1925
Elizabeth Marvin lives at
ton, N. J.

She

and

a

is

also

1

304

Springfield Avenue, Irving

-

teaching third grade in the schools of that city

is

training

teacher for the

Newark

State

Normal

School.

Miss C. Ellen Andes and Russell Howard, of Nanticoke,
were married June 24, 929, by the Rev. Mr. Conway, of Nanticoke.
Mrs. Howard has been a teacher in Nanticoke for four
years.
Her husband has a position as electrician for the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co. Mr. and Mrs. Howard are now living at 52 West Washington Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
1

Alma Evans

is

teaching

James H. Sterner
vard Medical School

in

West Orange,

finished his

last year.

N. J.

Freshman year

He stood

received a scholarship of five hundred dollars.
1

33 Vanderbilt

Hall,

nue, Boston, Mass.

at

the Har-

first in his class,

and

His address

is

Harvard Medical School, Longwood Ave-

4

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33

1926
Miss Marion Booth, of Broadway, Pa., died
evening, July

1,

1929, following a brief

Wednesday

illness.

Isabel Ward, of Bloomsburg, and Ralph Hummel, of Creswere married Friday, October 4, by the Rev. I. N. Blair, of
Mrs. Hummel has been teaching for the past two years
Espy.
co,

at Vintondale.

High School
summer.

Jessie Hastie, teacher of Latin in the Junior

Avoca, Pa., studied

at

Columbia University

Laura Mann, who is teaching
vard University last summer.
Arlene Johnson

Margaret Isaacs

is

is

in

last

ai

Hazleton, studied at Har-

teaching fourth grade at Hallstead, Pa.
teaching

in

Hazleton,

and

lives at

3

1

East Juniper Street.

1927
Fred Kistler
ville,

is

teaching in the Vocational School at Orange-

Pa.

Verna 0. Medley, of Nanticoke, and Ralph G. Davenport,
For two years
were married June 20, 1929.

of Plymouth,

after her graduation, the bride taught in

Davenport

is

The couple spent

now

living in their

Street,

Lewisburg, Pa.

Mr.

associated in business with his father in Plymouth.

wedding trip touring in Canada, and are
newly furnished apartment at 578 West Main

their

Plymouth, Pa.

made of the marriage of Mary
Harold
Rudy, of Berwick.
The
J.
ceremony took place March 2, 1929. Mrs. Rudy has, for the
Announcement was

L. Crist,

recently

of Wilkes-Barre, and

1

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past two years, been teaching in the schools of Bristol, Pa.

Mr.

Bloomsburg and a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, took up his duties this Fall as instructor
of music in the schools at Uniontown, Pa., where he and Mrs.

Rudy, a former student

Rudy

are

now

Lena

at

living.

Van Horn, who has been teaching

E.

in the schools at

Hershey, Pa., entered Johns Hopkins University
Fall to

Hospital

this

begin training as a nurse.

Helen Andrews, of Allentown, was a student

Columbia

at

University last summer.

is employed in the Technical Service Departand Howell Company, Chicago, manufacturers
of motion picture cameras and equipment.
His address is 425

Paul C. Foote

ment of the

Bell

North Paulina Street, Chicago.

Mary

E.

Her address
Lillian

at

is

Jones

Robertson

527 South Main
Lottie

is

I.

more Avenue,

teaching

in the

second grade

in

Scranton.

632 North Main Avenue.
is

teaching in Jenkins Township, and lives

Street, Pittston, Pa.

Ross (Mrs. George W. Frey)
Philadelphia.

Her husband

lives at
is

a

4721

railway

Balti-

mail

clerk.

1928

On Thursday morning, August 2, Miss Helen Moss, of Plymouth, became the bride of Doyle W. Ivy, of Bloomsburg.
The
ceremony was performed by the bride’s pastor, the Rev. Mr.
Lankley.
Since graduation, Mrs. Ivey has been teaching

in

Mr. Ivey received the degree of Bachelor of Science

Plymouth.
in

Educa-

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35

928.
Bloomsburg, in
Since that time, he has been
teaching Mathematics in the Edwardsville High School, and has
coached various athletic teams in that institution.
Mr. and Mrs
tion at

1

Ivey are

now

Miss

living with the bride’s

Myrna Kashner

Caroline E. Spotts

Union County, and

is

is

in

Plymouth.

teaching in Philipsburg, N.

J.

teaching at Oakland, Kelly Township,

lives at R. 4,

Mildred Sechak

mother

lives at

Lewisburg, Pa.

87 Coal

Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.

Catherine B. Johnson lives at 7 95 Lehigh Street, WilkesBarre, Pa.

Clelia

Masucci

is

now

a student at Beaver College, Jenkin-

town. Pa.
Ellen A. Schlier
city

is

is

teaching

319 West Green

in

Hazleton.

Her address

in that

Street.

1929
Miss Beatrice Hartman

is

teaching in the schools of Clear-

held, Pa.

Elizabeth

Munson

Fannie E.

Hill

Joy Munson

is

is

is

teaching at Leach

teaching

in

Hill,

Pa.

Hatboro, Pa.

teaching near Scranton.

Charlotte Mears

Helen Wolfe

is

is

teaching in the schools at Dimock, Pa

teaching near Turbotville, Pa.

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Sarah Krauss

teaching near Hazleton, Pa.

is

Robert Wilson, baseball captain in 928, and Miss Harriet
were married Wednesday, October 9, at
Cumberland, Md.
Mr. Wilson is athletic coach and a member
1

Ivey, of Bloomsburg,

of the faculty in the schools of Peninsula, Ohio.

Doris Johnson, Lenore Thomas, Lucille Martz and

Moore are teaching

in

On Monday, September

30, Miss Catherine Jackson, of Ber-

became the bride of George H. Ludwig,
ceremony being performed by the Rev. J. C.

wick,

the First Presbyterian Church of Berwick,

Ludwig are now

Audrey

Berwick.

of Catawissa, the
Stuart,

Pa.

pastor of

Mr. and Mrs.

where the former

living in Catawissa,

is

em-

ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
President

—

R. Bruce Albert, ’06, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Vice-Presidents

—

Dr. D.

Waller,

J.

Jr.,

’69,

Bloomsburg;

0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg.

Secretary

—Edward
—

Treasurer

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg.

F. H. Jenkins, ’76,

Executive Committee

Bloomsburg.

— Fred W.

Diehl, ’09,

Danville, Pa.,

Chairman; Mrs. C. W.
Bloomsburg; Maurice E.
Houck, 10, Berwick; Harriet Carpenter, ’96, Bloomsburg; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg; Daniel J. Mahoney, ’09, WilkesFunston, ’85,

Barre, Pa.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1930. Reunion
Classes:— 1870, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905,
We had a great meeting last
1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1928.
year.

Plan

NOW

to

make

the

1

930

reunion the best ever.

”

.

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37

ARTISTS’ COURSE
Five numbers are on the Artists’ Course of the Bloomsburg

opened Friby Godfrey Ludlow,

State Teachers’ Coilege for this winter, the course

day evening, October

1

1

,

with a

recital

violinist.

Other numbers on the
Friday,

course are

“Tales

of

Hoffman,

November 22 Mora, the Magician and Company,
December 20; Sprague Players in “Back Home,” Friday,

opera, Friday,

February

7,

;

and two piano

recitals, Carl

and Dorothy Parrish,

Friday, April 4.

who

de-

lighted large audiences last winter with lectures on national

and

Dr.

George Earl Raguiel, Philadelphia

international matters, will

come

to

publicist,

Bloomsburg during the pres-

ent term along with other noted lecturers but will speak to the

students during the assembly periods.

Godfrey Ludlow, who opened the course, is well known to
is one of the artists of the National Broadcasting
Company. He is an Austrian but has been on a concert tour of
America for some time.
radio fans and

Dr. Francis B. Haas has accepted the invitation of Martin
Brumbaugh, former governor of Pennsylvania, to become a
member of the Christmas Seal Committee for Pennsylvania, sponDr. Brumsored by the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society.
baugh is chairman of the State Committee.
G.

George Earl Raiguel, of Philadelphia, who gave a serof lectures on current events last year in connection with the
Dr.

ies

Artists’ Course,

is

giving a similar series this year at the regular

His first lecture, dealing with “The ProgOur Government Under President Hoover,” was given on
Friday morning, November

assembly exercises.
ress of

1

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Plans are

changes

now

in

to the electrical

for a new power house and
and heating systems of the Bloomsburg

progress

State Teachers’ College that will require an

estimated

expndi-

$139,000.
The work will include new steam mains, the rewiring of
Waller Hall, Carver Hall and Noetling Hall in conduit, and the
capacity of the power house will be increased by the erection of
an additional one story brick power building 50x30 feet and 26
feet high and carrying a brick stack 100 feet high and 5/i feet
in diameter.
It will provide an additional 200 h. p.
The work
also calls for underground power lines.
ture of approximately

Miss Anna McBride, for many years Dean of Women at
Bloomsburg during the administration of Dr. Waller, died Wednesday, September 8, at the home of her sister in Genessee,
New York. Word of Miss McBride’s passing will be received
with regret by her former students.
Previous to her coming to
Bloomsburg, Miss McBride was for eight years principal of the
training school at the Shippensburg State Normal School.
1

At the annual meeting held

in

Harrisburg

on September

20, Mr. A. Z. Schoch, President of the Board of Trustees of the
State Teachers’ College at Bloomsburg,

was elected Vice-Presi-

dent of the State Association of Normal School Trustees.

ggTIpr^

Sr

Po/. 31

No. 2

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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

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MARCH, 1930
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

HOWARD

F.

FENSTEMAKER

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
MARCH, 1930

Vol. 31

No. 2

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
-

-

Editor-in-Chief

-

-

Business

-

Manager

MEET THE EDITOR!
This section of the

QUARTERLY

is

entirely

out

of the

We have decided that the ALUMNI
hands of the big chief.
should know something of this gentleman’s looks and history.
Hence

this special section.

Howard Fowler Fenstemaker

is

a native of Berwick.

He

1910 and from
His first teaching experience was in the
the NORMAL in 1912.
Dallas Township Consolidated school where he served as PrinThe next two years he served as Principal of
cipal one year.
the Chestnut Street Building, Berwick.
The summer of 1915
he headed for the University of Michigan and prolonged his residence on the campus until he was granted an A. B. degree in
1918 with a Phi Beta Kappa key thrown in. From 1918 until
1926 he taught Modern Languages in the Highland Park High
was graduated from

the Berwick High School in

School, Highland Park, Mich., with the exception of one year’s

leave of absence for

army

service.

During most of that year

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he was in the Foreign Language Department of the Office of the
Base Censor, Paris. In 1919 he was united in marriage with

They have two children, Howard Jr., and
926 he came to Bloomsburg to take charge
of the Modern Language Department, and almost immediately
was handed the job of editing the rejuvenated QUARTERLY.
Ruth Nuss,

Mary

’12.

Louise.

In

1

depends on the cooperation of the
him our support.

His success in this project

ALUMNI.

Let’s give

E. H.

NELSON,

’11.

THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Dr.

John A. H. Keith

Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Extracts from an address delivered at the Conference of the Facul-

Normal Schools and Teachers’
Bloomsburg, November, 1929).

ties of the State

“Pennsylvania has been called
State.

As a matter of

Colleges, held at

a local

self-government

fact Pennsylvania has

never had local

self-government in regard to education.
The arm of the Commonwealth has been back of every educational movement. We
know the difficulties there have been in this State to secure positive action of law leading to better schools.
Those who come
from out of the State can scarcely understand the social attitudes
that develop in this Commonwealth and the relation of those attitudes toward the development of public education.
“We have with us Dr. Waller, who started this Normal
School, was State Superintendent, went to Indiana and then
came back to Bloomsburg. In looking back over the years he
knows how the thing called progress has come about in Pennsylvania.
He knows that while Pennsylvania may have been

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slow

taking advanced steps

in

it

has not taken backward steps.

“This matter of equalization

We

sylvania.
first

3

have 2582 school

is

a

complex thing

districts.

When

in

Penn-

the

State

created the boards of school directors the certification

teachers

was given

into the

hands of the school

of

When

districts.

that system did not work it was given into the hands of the
County Superintendents.
It was then taken over and put in the
hands of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
When it
fails there a place will be found one way or another.

“The Commission on Equalization made a report last year.
may be secured from the Department.
That Commission being unsuccessful, another was appointed to
Copies of that report
study

the State

plan of

s

public

financing

education.

Who

and what creates the school districts? The General AsThe General Assembly states how many directors
sembly.
there must be, what they shall do, what they shall not do, etc.
The law says what must be taught, sets up qualifications of
teachers, fixes the minimum salaries, and in all except fourth
creates

class districts provides for increments.

was a State system of public education in a
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for years.
Today there is no tendency whatsoever toward backward steps in education in the Commonwealth.
“If there ever

Commonwealth

There

is

it

has existed

a feeling that the appropriations for education are

too

revenue of the
Commonwealth. In this biennium $87,000,000 has been apportioned.
Is it possible so to arrange the State’s plan of finanlarge, that they are taking too large a part of the

Perhaps more money
should be spent instead of less; perhaps it should be spent in
different ways so as to bring about better equalization of educing public education to lessen the drain

?

cational opportunity.

“Out of the many things
this

to

be done

in life the

members

audience have chosen as their business teaching.

vocation.
teachers.

We have chosen to serve
We belong to the guild of

It is

of

our

society through serving as

teachers of teachers.

We

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4

are not simply passing on a bit of what has been accumulated

and

is

who

regarded as worth while, but are passing it on to those
again pass it on, and that gives us our status as teach-

will

ers of teachers.

As

back a step further, as

is

the teacher,

is

the teacher of teachers, so

so

is

the

school.
is

To go

the school.

“The future of the school rooms
rectly but nevertheless largely in the

here.

We

er of those

are going to determine

who go

in

of Pennsylvania lies indihands of those assembled
large measure the charact-

into teaching in this

Commonwealth

in

the

and the stamp they give to the present
Perhaps
youth will depend upon the stamp we place on them.
it can better be said that our spirit and attitude towards life, its
responsibilities, its duties and requirements will be passed on by
them to the boys and girls in our public schools. Therefore our
years that

lie

responsibility

ahead,

is

not simply that of teachers but of teachers

of

teachers.

“Where comes this thing called preparation of teachers?
Out of what does it grow?
It does not grow out of anything
Wherever there
except the attitude of the free public school.
system for the
is a system of public education there
is also a
preparation of teachers.

In the

United States the responsibility

rests upon the individual State.
We have no system of National education and it is not likely that we will have in this country.
The power to control education rests with the State. Out of
that all of our laws of education come.
The sovereign power
is, however, the choice and decision of the majority of our people.
We have had in this country from the very first the idea of
progress.
We have had progress and development of our public school system.
The industrial revolution changed ideas; it
broadened the field of education.
Compare a college catalog
of fifty years ago with one of today and see the difference of
courses.
We have had a renaissance of education with the last
seventy-five years.
It has been forced by the modified econo-

mic relations of people, the social relations, the mutual obligations of people.
We have been solidified as a people as we

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5

Our public school system is not static but
and economic condi-

never were before.

progressive, changing to meet the social
tions of

life.

“If the State

to control education

is

it

the curriculum qualifications of teachers,

must not only prescribe
it must follow through

and connect, and it does.
You are teachers of teachers. What
is it you want of all the boys and girls whom you teach?
In the
words of John Dewey education is the “reconstruction of experience.”
Is not this what you want?
You want them to learn
to reconstruct their experiences of life in the schoolroom.

“Education is not isolated.
We are tying it up with the
economic life, of our day and generation.
We
bring into the schoolroom a phase or an aspect of this life of
social life, the

The value

of what the child learns can be estimated by
which he can adjust himself to life outside the school
room.
We want to prepare a generation of teachers who can
make Pennsylvania public schools better than they have ever
ours.

the

way

been.

in

What

is

the thing

we

call

culture?

It

sense of values which one has or comes to have.
tured person the one
the dross

and

who

takes

retains only

all

experience of

the deepest

and thus comes

human

is

that

Is

refined

not the cul-

life,

weeds out

significance of

have the understanding
of the value and significance of the beautiful works of art, prose,
etc.
Each individual must work out for himself in his refinements of his experiences all the culture that he ever comes to
possess.
It can never be passed readymade, each must reconthese experiences,

to

struct for himself.

“The State is willing to pay for fourteen Teachers Colleges
devote themselves to the task of preparing a generation of
teachers that shall insure through the administration of the pubto

lic

schools of this

the years that

lie

Commonwealth

ahead.”

a

greater

Pennsylvania for

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LAY CORNER STONE OF TRAINING SCHOOL

In taking part in the corner stone laying exercises of the

new modern
officials

Training School Building, held Friday, January 31,

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College referred to
and

of the

the recent acquisition of land adjoining the school property

spoke of the training school building as the
of

new

hope

structures they

program of the

Members

first

link in a chain

to see erected in the

development

institution.

and trainand a number of residents of the town were in the
audience for the main part of the exercises which were held in
the auditorium in Carver Hall.
Almost a score of guests were
seated on the auditorium platform.
It was an important day in the life of the institution.
The
training school building is the first new structure added to the
physical equipment in almost a quarter century, and its significance is greater because the building is looked upon as the first
of the faculty, students of the college

ing school

of several

new

structures in connection with the enlargement of

the institution.

37 years a member

A. Z. Schoch, for

many

of the Board

of

he now
holds; Fred W. Diehl, Superintendent of the Montour County
Schools, a member of the Board of Trustees and a former President of the Alumni Association, and Dr. Francis B. Haas, PresTrustees, and for

years

its

President, an

office

were the speakers at the exercises.
Also take part in the program were Dr. D. J. Waller,

ident of the College,

President emeritus; Rev.

byterian Church, and

S.

Earl

Jr.,

A. Harker, pastor of the First PresN.

Rhodes,

Director

of

Teacher

Training at the College.
All of the speakers

spoke of the importance of the training

school in an institution which has for
teachers.
tion

They spoke of

its

business the training of

the past achievements of the institu-

and expressed the opinion

that the future

would be a bright

one, especially as the enlargement of facilities

will

enable the

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institution to

7

do a greater work.

Immediately after the close of the exercises in the auditorium the officials went to the new building and placed the strong
Takbox, containing a number of records, in the cornerstone.
ing part in the placing of the cornerstone were Mr. Rhodes, Dr.
Haas and Mr. Schoch.

who

program those
were Joseph L.
Townsend, Paul E. Wirt and Mrs. May Harman, members of the
Board of Trustees; Dean of Instruction, W. B. Sutliff; Supt. M.
E. Houck of the Berwick schools and Eckley Hoyt, of the BerIn addition to those

seated on the platform

took part

during

the

in

the exercises

wick School Board; Charles H. Dillon, President of the Bloomsburg School Board; Mrs. Haas, wife of the College President,
and President of the Parent-Teachers’ Association; William V.
Moyer, President of Council, and R. Bruce Albert, President of
the College Alumni Association.

The program in the auditorium opened with the singing of
America, under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, and prayer
by Dr. Waller.
There are

in the lives of institutions,

the president of

the

College stated in the opening of his address, as in the lives of individuals, special events

worthy of special note.
He expressed
had arrived at such an event.

the thought that the institution

He spoke

new

of the long period since the last

building

was erected and declared it was fitting that the new building
was a training school, for it is generally recognized that the
training school in the educational institution
is

to the scientific school

and the hospital

is

as the laboratory

to the medical college.

Haas spoke of the significant part the institution has
the life of the community and said that guests of the
college at the exercises included several who were graduates of
the institution, referring to William V. Moyer, president of CounDr.

played

cil;

in

Charles H. Dillon, president of the School Board; Mr. Diehl,

the Superintendent of Schools in

Montour County

;

the Superintendent of Schools in Columbia County

W. W. Evans,
and R. Bruce

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8

Alumni Association.
The president spoke of the changing of styles and

Albert, president of the College

now known

the cornerstone laying exercises are

exercises. but he preferred the former term.

struction

it is

no longer necessary

to

in

to

steel con-

underway.

He spoke

of

in the cornerstone to the gener-

ations yet unborn, declaring that while the

young

With

hold such exercises shortly

after the erection of the building gets

the value of the records placed

said that

as date stone

country

is

yet

too

have such exercises bear the significance they would

older nations, yet in time they bear

fruit.

He referred to the three inscriptions on the stone “Thought
The Grandeur of Man,” “Wisdom Is The Fruit of Reflection”
and “Education Is The Foundation of Happiness.”
In closing. Dr. Haas spoke of dreams which come true and

Is

new

which is the fulfillment of a dream.
would be for a building for Junior
High School work, a companion building to the new edifice.
Ships only return bearing fruit, he reminded his hearers, if they
of the

training school

The next dream, he

are out

in

search of

said,

it.

it gave him to take
37 years he had been

Mr. Schoch spoke of the great pleasure
part in the exercises.

He spoke

of the

In looking back
connected with the institution as a trustee.
over conditions at the start of that period and then viewing them
as they are today, he said there is reason to be satisfied.

There were only two buildings at that time, and in the almost two score years which have followed, eight pieces of land
have been acquired and added to the campus. The last tract
purchase he spoke of as being of considerable size so that there
With the accomplishment of the
could be much expansion.
past and the prospects of the future and with the institution having as its head an able and esteemed man in Dr. Haas, Mr.
Schoch declared that we can look forward to a time when the
institution will

Dr.

be outstanding

in

the field of education.

At the request of Mr. Schoch, Dr. Haas read a letter from
John A. H. Keith in which the Superintendent of Public In-

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9

hope that the message might be placed
He spoke of the value
of the training school in a Teachers’ College and congratulated
struction expressed the

among

the records in the corner stone.

the institution.

Mr. E. N. Rhodes, Director of the Training School,

placed the following articles

in

A

the strong box:

then

copy of the

program of the day’s exercises, signatures of the officials, faculty members and students of the college and training school, college catalog, college hand book, latest edition of the Maroon and
Gold, College publication, latest edition of The Morning Press,
list

of the school

of the directors

districts

cooperating

teacher training program; an American Flag,

the gift

Bloomsburg Post of the American Legion; a Holy

in

the

of the

Bible, the gift

of the Parent-Teacher Association, a college pennant, the gift of
the
tin

Community Government Association, a summer school
and a copy of the county institute program of 929.
Mr. Diehl spoke of entering the institution

“We

Science Hall was being completed.
the

bulle-

1

new

training school

ings.”

He spoke

and of the

The

is

but the

first

trust,’’

in

1

he

of a series of

906 when
said, “that

new

build-

of the wonderfully fine service of Mr. Schoch

responsibilities of the trusteeship of state institutions.

trustees,

he said,

feel that the faculty

has a decided

responsibility in the business of training teachers

and

that the

students have a great responsibility in preparing themselves for
the work.

The

institution,

he told the students, “has been plac-

ed for your benefit in order that you may secure training so that
you can in turn go out and train the boys and girls of Pennsylvania.”

He spoke
State last year

of

teaching as big

was 194

millions.

business.

The

cost in

the

There were 60,787 teachers

,950,000 children.
He declared that
they can for the institution and that they
like to follow graduates’ work as they go out into the world and
that the trustees feel deeply gratified when graduates do fine
work which is a credit to the institution.

employed

to teach

trustees stand to

do

1

all

'

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With the help of

all

interested,

he said

in conclusion,

“there

no reason why the Bloomsburg of the future should not be a
institution and we in turn will do our part to keep
Bloomsburg the outstanding teachers’ college.”
is

greater

CONVENTION HELD

The Northeastern

IN

BLOOMSBURG

District of the

Pennsylvania State Educa-

tion Association returned to the scene of

hold the
ers’

fifth

its first

convention to

annual convention at the Bloomsburg State Teach-

College Friday and Saturday,

March 7 and

8.

teachers from the district attended the sessions, and

Hundreds of
some of the

leading educators of the country appeared on the program.

Hosts for the convention were the teachers of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Bloomsburg and Columbia County
and Montour County rural
rural schools, and the Danville
schools.

The convention opened with group programs Friday
noon.

Immediately after the

first

after-

address at each group con-

was held and organization was effectThe general business meeting was held at 4:30, follow-

ference, a business session
ed.

ing the group conferences.
Dr. Francis B.

Haas extended greetings and welcomed the

guests at the opening of the

session held

Friday evening,

at

which time Mr. Wood and Dr. Keith were the speakers.
At the close of the session, the newly-elected president. Dr.
Francis B. Haas,

Among

was introduced.

the speakers

who addressed

the department

section meetings were: Fred D. Slutz, Dayton,

Ohio;

and

Earl D.

Bruner, Superintendent of the George Junior Republic of Western Pennsylvania; Henry Klonower, Director of the Teachers’
Bureau and Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction;
Charles D. Koch, Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruc-

;

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tion W. H. Bristow, Assistant Director of Secondary Education,
Department of Public Instruction; Dr. H. V. Pike, Director of
Clinical Psychiatry, Danville State Hospital for Mental Diseases
Hollis Dann, Director of the Department of Music Education,
New York University; Carl L. Schrader, State House, Boston, and
;

others.

THE ALUMNI MEMORIAL TROPHY ROOM

—
—

The movement started last commencement that of foundAlumni headquarters and “Trophy Room” is well under
way.
We are assured that a room will be assigned us before
Commencement of 930. The matter of planning the decoration and furnishing of it will not be begun until more classes
have been heard from.
The success of the plan, however, is
assured, and the response from those classes consulted has been
generous.
A little more time and planning will make possible
a very worth while piece of work that will unite more closely
than ever the old “College” and the Alumni.
We have the
hearty support and encouragement of our ever courteous and
ing

1

who assures us that an
be made by commencement

generous President, Dr. Francis B. Haas,
assignment of a room or rooms

will

1930.

Of the fund subscribed for

this

purpose by the classes

in

commencement $323 is already in bank in a savings
fund ready to begin the work as soon as the assignment of room
is made and plans matured.
The work will be under the im-

reunion

last

mediate supervision of Dr. Haas and the alumni committee.
The Classes not yet consulted will be approached as soon as convenient, according to plan.
Watch the “Quarterly” for further
information.

No one

will

be slighted and

all will

be happy to

:

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push the movement

good old “Bloomsburg

in

style.

Respectfully,
0. H.

BAKELESS.

(Treasurer of the Alumni

Memorial Fund)

The following
buted

1

1

879.
884.

Class of

Class of

1889

Class of
for

classes are at

work

or have already contri-

:

—

James

Mrs.

P.

Grimes,

Treas.

Check

$115.
Class of 1894.
Class of

1

The following have

899.

thus far contributed

E. P. Gager, H. F. Yearick, L. H. Dennis, Miss
ris,

Gertrude E. Mor-

Dr. J. P. Echternach, Miss Bessie Creveling.

Class

of

$33.00.
Class of

—
1909 —
1904

Gideon

Dr.

L.

Howell,

Daniel Mahoney, Treas.

Treas.

Cash $30.00.

Contributions received from the following were

Bloomsburg;
Wright, Bloomsburg; Dr.
C. Welliver,

Wheeler, Shickshinny; A.

Bess Hinkley, Danville;
J.

L.

Cash

—Walter

Mrs. D. D.

W. Cressler, Wilkes-Barre; Lillian
Rummer, Wilkes-Barre; Jennie

Nescopeck; Mrs. M. W. Cook, Cortez; Dr. J. C. Kochczynski, Hazleton; Mrs. C. F. Abbott, Bloomsburg; Anna Kuschke,
Scranton; Mrs. G. E. Follmer, Benton; Fred W. Diehl, Danville:
Gertrude M. Meneeley, Peckville; D. J. Mahoney, Wilkes-Barre.
Birth,

Class of
Class of
Class of

Class of

1914— Cash
1919 Wm.

—
—
1881 —
1880

$25.00.
Hoffman, Treas.
Check $100.00.
Ernest W. Young.
Contributed.

Miss Dora Marr.

Contributed.

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ROTARY AND KIWANIS OBSERVE
ANNUAL COLLEGE NIGHT
Kiwanis, Rotanans, trustees and faculty members of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and members of the Bloomsburg and Berwick School Boards, accompanied by their ladies,
to the number of almost 500, joined Tuesday evening, January
14, in the annual college evening at the State Teachers’ College.

The dining

hall of the college

was

artistically

with the college colors, surmounted by a “B” used

in

decorated,
the decora-

tion of the columns.

Following the singing of “America” the program was opened with the invocation by the Rev. Samuel A. Harker.

During the serving of the menu a delightful musical program was rendered by the college orchestra, which also played,
as the guests assembled in the auditorium for the second part of

the program.

During the serving of the menu the Men’s Glee Club, under

by ColeridgeBoth numbers were well
received by the large gathering.
Another delightful feature
was the singing of the Kiwanis double quartet.
the direction of Prof. Clark, sang “Viking Song,”

Taylor and “Santa,” by Ghck-Burton.

William J. Brennan, president of the Kiwanis Club, presided over the gathering in opening and carrying the dinner
through to its closing moments.
H.

Mont Smith,

vice president of the

Bloomsburg Rotary

Club, then most happily expressed the appreciation of the

mem-

bers of the clubs, as well as that of the other guests of the evening, for the delightful

entertainment they had enjoyed and the

cordial hospitality of Dr. Haas, president of the college,

who

had made these gatherings possible and who had done so
cement the friendship of the community and the college.
Upon behalf of the clubs, he presented Mrs. Haas with a beauti-

much

to

ful

basket of flowers.

The program

in

the dining

room closed with

the pledge of

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allegiance to the Flag and the singing of one verse of the “Star
Spangled Banner.”
From there adjournment was taken to the auditorium
where Col. Philip A. Moore, of the Bureau of Commercial Economics, gave an illustrated lecture on “Teepee Fires and Northern
Lights.”

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
President

—

06, Bloomsburg, Pa.

R. Bruce Albert,

Vice-Presidents

—

Dr. D.

Waller,

J.

69, Bloomsburg;

Jr.,

0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg.

Secretary

—Edward
—

Treasurer

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg.

F. H. Jenkins,

Executive Committee

Bloomsburg.

— Fred W.

Diehl,

09, Danville, Pa.,

Chairman; Mrs. C. W. Funston, ’85, Bloomsburg; Maurice F.
Houck, ’10, Berwick; Harriet Carpenter, ’96, Bloomsburg;
Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg; Daniel J. Mahoney, ’09,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, MAY
Classes:

24,

Reunion
1905,

1930.

— 1870, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900,

1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1928.
greatest Alumni

Day

in

Plan

NOW

the history of the

to

make

this the

A

special

College.

supplement to the QUARTERLY will soon be mailed to
Bloomsburg graduates.
Watch for it.
f

/

V
4

&fo

J

all

—

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ALUMNI NEWS

1880.

A CALL TO THE

’80’s

Come and be boys and girls again for one day.
Come from the North, South, East and West, and meet
at

“Old Normal” on

MAY
for a

24th

day of reminiscing.

Let nothing detain you.

COME.

CELESTE KITCHEN PRUTZMAN,
Secretary.

1881
Miss

Mary A.

of injuries suffered

Lafferty died Friday afternoon, January 24,

when

a waterback exploded in her home.

The Shenandoah Herald had the following account
dent

of the acci-

:

“Miss Mary A. Lafferty, the well-known school

who was

injured on Thursday evening

the kitchen of her
at

when

teacher,

the waterback in

home, 313 West Centre Street, exploded, died
afternoon, at Locust Mountain State Hospi-

3:30 yesterday

from shock, following the accident.
“Miss Lafferty’s injuries were most severe.
Her right
hand was crushed so badly that it was believed amputation
would have been necessary had she survived the shock.
Her
face and head were badly torn by the force of the explosion and
she suffered a deep gash in her right leg.
tal

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“Everything possible was done to stay the hand of death,
it was impossible to withstand

but her wounds were such that
the awful shock she sustained.

“Miss Lafferty was born in Minersville, but came to Shenandoah when a little girl. She attended the public schools and
was graduated from the High School. She then entered the
Bloomsburg Normal School, from where she graduated and then
She taught at Nuremburg for two years and
took up teaching.
then came to Shenandoah, having secured a school here.
almost every grade and for a number of
Advanced Grammar School. At the opening
of the present term a Junior High School was established and she
was promoted to the faculty of this school, where she taught up

“She taught

years taught

to the

in

the

in

day of the accident.

“Miss Lafferty was a conscientious teacher.
her

work and

also her pupils

She

loved

and nothing was more pleasing
She

than to see her students show aptness and advancement.

had a pleasant manner and soon won the heart of her students.
She loved her profession and put her whole life into it.
She
was not only loved by her pupils, but co-workers. She was held
in high esteem by the School Board and there were few in

Shenandoah who did not know Miss Lafferty. Expressions of
regret were heard on all sides as news of the sad accident which
terminated with fatal

results.

“The deceased was a member of

the Church of the

An-

Mary and the Sacred
Heart Society.
She took an active part in church work and always stood ready to aid in any movement for the church. She
was charitable and kind.
nunciation, Sodality of the Blessed Virgin

“Miss Lafferty

223 West Cherry
town.
Miss
ing,

She

Mary
is

is

survived by one

sister, Mrs. John Bresjin,
and one brother, Daniel Lafferty, of
survived by a number of nieces and nephews.
is

Street

also

Breslin, a teacher in the Jardin Street School Build-

a niece.”

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Enola B. Guie has retired from teaching, and
at 61

1

Swede

Street, Norristown, Pa.

of the Class of ’81,

is

Her

sister,

is

now

living

Claudia, also

teaching English in the Norristown

High

School.

Annie Weir

is

living in

Plymouth, Pa., after having retired

from teaching.
1882.
Rev. E.

J.

Moore, D.

Saloon League of Ohio.

D.,

Superintendent of

is

He was

the Anti-

a speaker on the program of

the 24th national convention of the Anti-Saloon League of
America, which was held in Detroit January 15 to 19.

1884.
B. Isabel Bertels lives at

1

7

West Rose

Street,

Cumber-

land Apartments, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

S. Ella

Young

Maggie

lives in Millville, Pa.

Rogan (Mrs.

J. F. Scanlon) is Matron of the
Laurytown, Pa., and her husband is the Steward
Mr. and Mrs. Scanlon have ten childof the same institution.
ren: Marcella, a teacher; Arthur, Civil Engineer at Bryn Mawr
College; Mary, a nurse; Clare, a nurse; Jack, a pharmacist;
Frances, a teacher; Alice, a nurse; Joe, a law student at Fordham College; Margaret, a teacher; and Ruth, also a teacher.

District

Home

E.

at

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1890.

ATTENTION, CLASS OF

We
of

1

of the

every other

Keep

member

of the class, as well as the under-

you

at the Class

Reunion

Commencement festivities this year.
matter in mind, make your preparations ac-

the

the

cordingly,

make

of the Class

Bloomsburg State Normal School that

signed, will be looking for

during

member

desire to remind each

890

’90

and do not

fail

to

be present

;

help to

the occasion an outstanding one.

JOHN

ADAMS,

K.

President.

4

Fred W. Magrady, of Mount Carmel, has announced his
candidacy for re-election as Representative to Congress from the
1

Mr. Magrady has already servHouse of Representatives.

7th District of Pennsylvania.

ed three terms

in the

Rev. Foster U. Gift
of Instruction

at the

Training School,

in

is

now

Pastor as well as Superintendent

Deaconess

Lutheran

Baltimore,

Md.

His

Motherhouse

address

is

and

2500 W.

North Avenue.

1891.

Mark Creasy, principal of the High School at Chestertown,
Maryland, died suddenly at his home on Sunday, January
2.
Mr. Creasy was born in Mifflin Township, Columbia County.
He taught for twenty-two years and for the past fifteen years
1

has been connected with the institution
ing at the time of his death.

brother, and five sisters.

He

is

in

which he was serv-

survived by his wife, one

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1895.
Harriet G. Smink died

December 3 at her home in Shamoin the Schomakin schools for the
1

,

She had been a teacher

kin.

past thirty-four years.

1899.
Gertrude Hewitt Hopkins
Somerville, N.

J.

130 West

lives at

Cliff

Street,

Mrs. Hopkins has just renewed her subscrip-

tion to the Quarterly for another five years.

lives at 149 St. James
J. N. Hake)
Mrs. Hake has for
Apartment 26, Atlantic City, N. J.
the past five years been teaching in the sixth grade in the Atlan-

Anna Sandoe (Mrs.

Place,

City schools.

tic

1900.

D. L.

Bloomsburg

Isaiah

Krum,

&

Railroad, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital Saturday

W.

ticket agent at the

Death was due

morning, January 18.
seases.

He had been

ill

since the

first

office of the

to a complication of di-

of December.

Mr.

Krum

employ of the D. L. & W. Railroad for twentysurvived by his wife and four children.
Funeral services were held at his late home Tuesday, January
2
with burial at the New Rosemont Cemetery.
had been

in

four years.

1

the

He was

,

Prof. Ziba R. Howell, Supervising Principal of the Schools

of Kingston Township, Luzerne County,

the
ell

7,

February 15, at

died

Mary Packer Hospital, Sunbury, of pneumonia. Mr. Howwas severely injured in an auto accident Tuesday, February

while he and a party of others were on their

School Directors’ Convention at Harrisburg.
tained fractures of both

legs,

nose

fracture,

way

to the State

Mr. Howell sus-

and lacerations

about the head and face.
Mr. Howell was

Township schools

Supervising

Principal

of

the

for three years previous to his death.

Kingston

He was

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born

at Harris Hill, Trucksville, in

He

1881.

taught for a few

years after graduation from Bloomsburg, and in 1907 was grad-

uated from Lafayette College.

He

held teaching positions in

He was

Syracuse, N. Y., Perrytown, N. Y., and Orbesoma, Pa.

an active candidate for the
Schools in Luzerne County.

member

Mr. Howell was a
Grangers, the

Odd

County Superintendent of

of the Dallas Rotary Club,

Fellows, and the various bodies

He

sonic fraternity.

office of

of the

the

Ma-

survived by his wife and two children.

is

was held from his late home on Febwas attended by prominent educators from North-

His funeral, which

ruary

1

8,

eastern Pennsylvania.

1902.
Bessie

Yetter (Mrs. H. B. Eckrot'n), of Danville, died

the Bloomsburg Hospital Sunday, February 2,

in

where she had

Death was due to a complication of
been a patient for a week.
diseases.
Mrs. Eckroth had been in ill health for two months
prior to her death.

She was a member of St. Paul’s M. E. Church, at Danville,
and of the Eastern Star Chapter at Danville. She is survived by
her husband and one son.
1904.

W. Ray Helwig

is

living in Millbank,

Bessie Derr (Mrs. N.

S.

Sked)

South Dakota.

lives at

21

East

Franklin

Street, Pennington, N. J.

Ruth T. Turner (Mrs. David G. Martin) lives at 1925 PaAvenue, San Francisco, Cal.
Her husband is General Auditor of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Harry G. Trathen has been serving as letter carrier in Ashland, Pa., for the past twenty-two years.
Sara E. Buddinger is doing secretarial work in Mt. Carmel,
Pa.
She spent some time in Europe during the summer of
cific

1928.

Harold

C.

Cryder

is

a

member

of the

dental, profession,

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and

practicing at 5 North

is

Lillian B.

Buckalew

is

Main

21

Street, Pittston, Pa.

teaching in the Bloomsburg schools.

She has attended several summer sessions at the University of
California and at Columbia University.
Bessie Goodale (Mrs. Charles Thielmann) lives at

429 31st

Street, Woodcliffe-on-the-Hudson, N. J.

Emma

Hinkley

John Saylor)

(Mrs.

lives

310 Pine

at

Tamaqua, Pa.

Street,

Elizabeth Specht

is

always glad to hear from any of her
North Vine Street, Hazleton,
is 541

Her address

classmates.

Pa.

1905.

1000 Elbon Road,
chairman of the Child
Training Committee of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, and
is a member
of the faculty of Cleveland College.
She has
recently been awarded a nine-month national scholarship in parent education upon recommendation of the National Council of
Parent Education of New York.
Mrs. Myers will study at the
Carrie Clark (Mrs. G. C. Myers) lives at

Mrs. Myers

Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

is

University of Cincinnati, the Merrill-Palmer School

in

Detroit,

and the University of Minnesota. The
was awarded under a grant of the Spelman Fund for

the University of Iowa,

scholarship

specially qualified

leaders

in the

field

of parental

education

throughout the country.

1908.
A. Louise Slocum (Mrs. H. G. Williams) lives at 1024 Main
Street,

J.

Rendham,

Pa.

Harold Grimes

is

ing in Danville, Indiana.
still

loyal to

a physician

and surgeon and

In a recent letter,

Bloomsburg and

Carrie M. Gray-Hurley

to the Class of

is

1

is

practic-

he states that he
908.

is

another of the loyal daughters of

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Bloomsburg who have given material evidence of their loyalty
by sending in their Alumni Dues for another five years. Mrs.
Hurley is doing special work in classes for sub-normal children
Her address is 420 Line Street,
in the schools of Camden, N. J.

Hammonton,

N. J.

1909.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fisher, of Rupert,
Thanksgiving Day, there was solemnized the wedding of Dr.
Scott Romain Fisher, of Syracuse, New York, and Miss Margaret
The ring ceremony was
Synthia Mathews, also of Syracuse.
performed at high noon by Rev. W. H. Hartman, of Bloomsburg.
Harold L. Moyer, Past Commander of Valley of Bloomsburg Post, American Legion, was recently appointed District
Deputy, by the Department Commander.

1911.
Ellis Stimpson) lives at 1537 West
She has two children, aged nine and five,

Pauline Coleman (Mrs.
Street, Honesdale, Pa.

respectively.

Pearle Greene (Brome) lives at

Brunswick,

A

New

Jersey.

son was born

White, of Bloomsburg.
J.

309 Harrison Avenue, New

She has one

November 29,

child, a

to Mr.

boy, aged nine.

and Mrs. Herman

Mrs. White was formerly Miss Matilda

Bush.

1912.
Florence Lowrey (Mrs. George Pizer)

She has two daughters, and

Pa.

she

is

in

is

living in

addition to her

Jermyn,

home

duties,

serving as substitute teacher in the Jermyn schools.

Frances Westgate (Sheffel)

lives in

Binghamton, N. Y.

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Earl Laubach, for several years Principal of the Orangeville

Vocational School, has purchased a farm near Benton.

expects, for

some time

He

at least, to continue in his present posi-

tion.

1913.

John Bakeless, Editor of the Living Age, was a recent
He gave an intensely
interesting account of his visit to the Balkan States last summer,
at which time he had an interview with the leader of the revolutionary forces which are trying to secure independence for
Mr. Bakeless has the distinction of being the only
Macedonia.
American journalist who has ever been able to secure an interMichailoff
view with Ivan Michailoff, the revolutionary leader.
is the leader of the I. M. R. 0., which letters stand for the “Inner
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization,” which was founded
fifty years ago to fight the Turks, in an effort to free Macedonia
It has since then continued to fight the
from their despotism.
Yugoslav governments which at present control and oppress the
same territory.
speaker at the assembly of the College.

1915.

John H. Shuman, of Bloomsburg, has made formal announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for
Member of the General Assembly. Mr. Shuman was for several
years Principal of the Third Street School, in Bloomsburg, but
left the teaching profession to enter the real estate and insur-

He was elected
Bloomsburg Town Council.
ance business.

last fall as

a

member

of

the

1916.
Francs G. Scanlon (Mrs. F.

J.

Gleason)

lives at

Greenwood Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa. Her husband
cal, and is practicing in the above-named city.

274 West
is

a physi-

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Helen

I.

Darrahon

ton Junction, N.
is

teaching

in

is

Principal of the Fisk School at Tren-

In addition to her duties as

J.

Her address

the eighth grade.

over Street, Trenton, N.

is

Principal, she

229

J.

1919

.

November

Elizabeth Miller Lauer died

6, at her

Ashland, death being due to an acute heart attack.

vived by her husband,

East Han-

Raymond

home

She

California.

Torts in the

1

202 Broadway Arcade

He

is

Law

Margaret

J.

G.

Building, Los

also giving courses in Constitutional

is

lo-

Angeles,

Law and

School at Los Angeles.

Dyer

is

teaching in Scranton, Pa.

1921
Ralph

sur-

Lauer, and a one-year-old son.

Gerald Marks, of the law firm of Marks and Lenker,
cated at Suite

is

in

Shuman

is

Dean

.

of

Men

at the

Thomas Ranken

Patton Masonic Institution for Boys at Elizabethtown, Pa.

1923

.

Kathryn Gamble and Marjorie Gamble are studying

at

Bucknell University.
Ernestine Hackenberg
Institute,

is

now

attending the

Moody

Bible

Chicago.

Mrs. Allan 0. Hansen (Madeline Monroe) has resigned her
position as instructor in English at the University of Colorado, in

order to continue her writing.

Mrs. Hansen

is

living with Mrs.

Marjorie Wilner, formerly associated with the Educational Research Bureau at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

A

daughter was born October 29,

1

929, to Mr. and Mrs.

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Manley

J.

25

Mrs. Robbins was formerly

Robbins, of Danville.

Miss Adeline Rogers.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert West are both
City,

A

teaching in

Panama

Mrs. West was formerly Miss Helen Ike.

Panama.

daughter was born February 5 to Dr. and Mrs. Roy Nic-

odemus

of Danville.

Dr.

and Mrs. Nicodemus recently return-

ed to Danville, where Dr. Nicodemus resumed his practice, after
having spent several months studying in New York City.
Mrs.
Nicodemus was formerly Miss Kathryn Townsend, of Bloomsburg.

Leah Caswell, of Rummerield,
were married
bride Saturday evening, October 26, 929.
Miss

Pratt, of Morrisville, N. Y.,

1

teaching in Harrisburg

since her

now

living in Morrisville, N. Y.,

home

Leon
the

of

The bride has been
Mr. Pratt

graduation.

graduate of the Pennsylvania State College.
are

and Mr.

Pa.,
at the

is

a

Mr. and Mrs. Pratt

where Mr. Pratt

is

the

4-H

Club leader.
Miss Adelia Jones (Mrs.

Windham,

Pa.

Her husband

Franklin
is

manager

Penelton)

is

living at

of a creamery at that

place.

1924.
Doris M. Morse

is

teaching

schools in White Plains, N. Y.

in

grade

Her address

1

is

-B in one of

the

48 Park Avenue,

White Plains.

Frank V. Birch, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Vivian Marie
of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, were married at the home of
the bride’s parents on Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. Birch is a member of the Junior Class at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio.

Howey,

Patrick

Kane has returned

to

studies for the Bachelor’s Degree.

Bloomsburg

to

complete

his

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A

very

morning,

came

pretty

wedding was

in Saint Cecilia’s

solemnized

Church, Exeter,

Thanksgiving

when Mary

the bride of Michael Hastings, also of Exeter.

has for several years been teacher of mathematics

Kelley be-

The bride

in the

Exeter

Junior High School.

Thomas Roland

is

Principal

Waashington Irving

of the

School, Scranton, Pa.

Grayce Woodring
Drums, Pa.

Ruth D. Jenkins

teaching in the Intermediate Grades in

is

teaching in the Primary Grades in the

is

schools of Taylor, Pa.

Eva Watters is teaching in Miff linville. Pa.
Matilda Mensch is teacher of English in the High School

at

Espy, Pa.

Mildred M. Faatz

is

Margaret B. Mensch
Sara E. Smull

is

teaching at Forest City, Pa.
teaching in Millheim, Pa.

is

teaching

in Danville, Pa.

Her address

is

3 0 Church Street.
1

Katahryn

C.

Schuyler

Viola M. Kline

Pa.,

is

is

teaching

teaching

in

in Turbotville,

Pa.

a rural school near Catawissa,

Marion D. Thomas lives at 424 Fourth Avenue, Bethlehem,
and is teaching in the schools of that city.
Miss Marjorie Sick, of Mehoopany, and Mr. Harry Fasset

were married
Fasset are

at Philadelphia

now

living in

November

8,

1

929.

Mr. and Mrs.

Albany, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Horace Sick are living

in

Tunkhannock, Pa.

Before her marriage, Mrs. Sick was Miss Ella Otten, of Mehoopany.

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27

1926.
Margaret H. Scanlon

is

a teacher in Sidwell’s Friends Pri-

Her address

vate School at Washington, D. C.

den

Street, Northwest,

Lois Sechrist

is

was married Saturday, December

Chester Weaver, of Reedsville, at the parsonage of

Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg.
at the

Fessen-

Bloomsburg

St.

W.

7, to

Matthew’s

Weaver

Since graduation, Mrs.

Mr. Weaver

taught for two years at Spring Glen, Pa.

ployed

4529

Washington.

is

em-

Silk Mill.

M. Eleanor Butler is teaching second grade
Her home is in Northumberland, Pa.

in the

Sunbury

schools.

Ruth

Gill is

teaching

in

Blakely, Pa.

Her address

is

302

First Street.

Leora Souder

is

teacher of

fifth

grade

in

Nescopeck, Pa.

1927.
Particularly sad

occurred at the

which
Wednesday,
Hazleton

was the death of Miss Evelyn

home

of her parents in

Harris,

Following her
January 22, death being due to tuberculosis.
graduation at Bloomsburg, Miss Harris taught for a time in the
Junior High School at York, Pa., but was obliged to give up her
work because of ill health. The following year she felt sufficiently recovered to resume teaching, and was elected to a position in the Berwick schools.
Again she was obliged to give up
her work, and, for a time, was a patient at the sanatarium at
Her condition became worse and she was reWLite Haven.
moved to her home. Miss Harris had the distinction of being
the first girl to be selected as Ivy Day Orator at Bloomsburg.

Miss

Announcement was recently made of the engagement of
Hope Schalles, of Berwick, and Robert Rosser, of Hicks’

Ferry.

Miss Schalles has been teaching in the Berwick schools.

Mr. Rosser, a son of Luzerne County Commissioner and Mrs. D.

M. Rosser,

is

a graduate of Cornell University.

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28

Nicholas F. Polaneczky

address

is

2324

N.

Mascher

is

teaching

in

Philadelphia.

His

Street.

Verna Medley (Mrs. Ralph Davenport) of 578 West Main
Plymouth, proved herself to be a mighty daughter of
Diana during the hunting season last fall, when she brought
down a ten-point buck. It was her first experience at deerhunting, and the first time she had ever handled a rifle.
Street,

Miss Helen Evangeline Lanning, of Bloomsburg, and Earl
M. Deibert, of Riverside, were married at the home of the bride
on Saturday, February 15, by the Rev. Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Deibert
has been teaching in the schools of Bristol, Pa.
Mr. Deibert attended school in Chicago, and a decorating school in New York.
He now has a successful decorating and wall paper business in
Riverside.
Mr. and Mrs. Deibert are now living in their newlybuilt home at 9 Gearhart Street, Riverside.
Esther Welker

las

is

teaching her third year at Hershey, Pa.

Hilda Ruggles is teaching third grade
Township, Luzerne County, Pa.

Rachel

j. E.

Wolfe

is

teacher of

School at Trenton Junction, N.
field

Avenue, Trenton, N.

J.

in the schools of Dal-

first

grade

Her address

is

in

the

Fisk

32 North East-

J.

1928.
Irene Kornell and Harold Davis, both of Scranton,
were recently married, and are living in Scranton.

Mary Dushanko is teaching in Hazleton.
Edna A. Kulick is teaching in Kelayres, Pa.
Ebbie M. Carlton is teaching in Courtdale, Pa.
Margaret Lewis is teaching in Scranton.

‘Pa.,

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29

at
is teaching in the Primary Grades
Her home is in Northumberland.
Leona C. Reichenbach is teaching in Northumberland.
Louise Baker lives at 222 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.,
and is teaching at the Beach Grove School, near Berwick.

Geraldine E. Diehl

Spruce Hollow, Pa.

1929.

Mary Carr

is

a student at Pennsylvania State College.

Elizabeth H. Williams

is

a librarian in the Scranton Public

Library.

Margaret Unbewust

is

teaching in a rural school at Waller,

Pa.
Claire

Brandon

is

teaching at the

Kapp Heights School

in

Point Township, Northumberland County.

Ruth A. Scanlon
dress

is

is

teaching at Laurytown, Pa.

Her ad-

Weatherly, R. D. 2.

Mrs. Warren

H. Detwhiler,

of

Philadelphia,

widow

of a

former member of the Normal School faculty, died at her home,
Monday, December 9, 1929, after having been ill with pneumonia for a week.
Her husband was for many years in charge
of the History Department at Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Detwhiler is
survived by two children, Stanley and Helen.
Funeral services
at the home, 634
were held Thursday afternoon, December
Magnolia Avenue, Germantown.
1

T'e
in Prof.

1

,

editor wishes to express his apologies for the fact that

Bakeless’s interest ng article on Professor Jenkins which

appeared

in the

December number, pages 2 and 3 were

revers-

ed.

Anna Kingman, former Dean of Women at Bloomsnow doing library work in the Massachussetts Institute

Miss
burg,

is

of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussetts.

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A.

W. Duy,

of Bloomsburg,

was appointed a member

of

the Board of Trustees of the State Teachers’ College at Blooms-

burg, to fill the vacanacy left by the death of Dr. R. E. Miller.
The appointment was announced December 24, by Governor
Fisher.

George

Dr.

during the 80’s,

months

in

P. Ferree,
is

who was

111.,

and spends the winter

Chelsea, Oklahoma.

His brother, Simpson Ferree,

located in Artesia,

New

is

an attorney-at-law, and

is

Mexico.

Their father. Prof.

member

a student at Bloomsburg

located in Urbana,

J.

W.

Ferree,

was

for

many

years

a

of the faculty at Bloomsburg.

SENIORS PRESENT OPERA

One
lege years

of the most delightful presentations of the present col-

was

the opera

“Chimes of Normandy,” by Planquette,

given under the auspices of the Senior Class, Thursday evening,

Leading parts were
January 16, in the College Auditorium.
taken by Helen McCormack, Dorothy Harris, Frona Bingman,
Regina Williams, Congetta Pecora, Gertrude Schraeder, Gertrude
Furman, Henry Warman, Armand Keller, Fred Berger, Haven
Fortner, and Jack Hall.
Members of the chorus were the MissBowen,
Novak,
Shultz,
Mary
Yetter, Frances Yetter, Decosmo,
es
Bennage, Riley and Spalone, and Messrs. Richards, MacKenzie,
Yost, Roddy, Beagle, Witheridge, Thomas, Edwards and Ferber.
The faculty directors were Miss Alma Caldwell, who had
charge of the music; Miss Ida Gray, art director; Mrs. Katherine Loose Sutliff, in charge of the dances; Miss Alice Johnston,
who directed the dramatics, and E. A. Reams, business manager.
:

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FACULTY DINNER
Members of the College Faculty, their wives and husbands,
members of the Board of Trustees and their wives, and a number of guests, enjoyed a fine dinner at the College Friday evening,

December 20.

Guests included Prof, and Mrs. 0.

FI.

Bake-

John Bakeless, Prof, and Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, and Prof, and
Dr. Haas showed motion pictures of College
activities, which were much enjoyed.
less,

Mrs. C. H. Albert.

NINETEEN COMPLETE
Three men and sixteen

girls, all

WORK

students in the two-year

work at the close of the first semester.
No mid-year commencement was held; the graduates will,
courses, completed their

therefore, return to take part in the
in

Commencement

Exercises

May.

The graduates

in the

course are

intermediate

:

Clare T.

Cavanaugh, of Scranton; Marjorie Hemingway, of Scranton;
Philip deKarcher, of Bloomsburg; Thelma Kelder, of New Albany; Dorothy M. Keith, of Scranton; Margaret Lavelle, of
Scranton; Daniel D. Minor, of Kelayres; Mary Frances Morton,
of Berwick; Leo Polniaszek, of Nanticoke; Marion Slack, of
Scranton; Marion J. Thomas, of Scranton; Violet Vezo, of Shamokin; and Isabel C. Witkowski, of Scranton.
The graduates in the primary course are: Jennie Contoni, of
Freeland; Helen McCormac, of Archbald; Mildred Manbeck, of
Bloomsburg; Margaret Sredenschek, and Marion G. Young, of
Scranton.

1928 LOBBY FUND

We

further acknowledge

payment

scriptions since the last issue of the

of

the

following sub-

QUARTERLY

32

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Mildred Bohn, Margaret D. Keller, Helen Space, Dora Wil-

son Risley, Gladys

Ammerman,

ford, Nicholas Polanesczky.

that

we may push forward

Edith R. Davis,

Beatrice San-

Please continue the

good work,

the project.

0. H.

BAKELESS.

Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas attended the sessions of the
American Association of Teachers’ Colleges and the Department

of Superintendence of the National Education Association, held
at Atlantic City during the

week beginning February 23.

Vol. 31

No. 3

THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

JUNE,

1930

BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JUNE, 1930

Vol. 31

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

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FENSTEMAKER,

H. F.
F.

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H. JENKINS, ’76

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Editor-in-Chief

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Business

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NEW COLLEGE GYM HOPE OF

DR.

HAAS

IN

Manager

NEXT BIENNIUM

The addition of a building to the college plant each Legislative biennium, is the hope of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, Dr. Francis B.
i

over

600 graduates

Haas, president of the institution, told

alumni meeting.
ihe building needed next, Dr. Haas said, is a gymnasium
with a swTmming pool.
This he hopes to see started within the
next two years and spoke of the plateau above the new training
at the general

school building as an ideal place for such a building.

The alumni endorsed three projects started last year.
They are: The furnishing of an Alumni Trophy room, work on
which has already started under the efficient directorship of
Prof. 0. H. Bakeless

dent;
ly

;

increasing the scholarship fund to aid stu-

and the 100 per

with

ail

The graduating
in history,

cent,

endorsement of the alumni quarter-

alumni as subscribers to the publication.
class, of

242 members,

for the

first

time

joined the association 100 per cent., President Charles

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John of the

class,

presenting a check for the memberships to the

treasurer, F. H. Jenkins.

The meeting opened about 11:15 o’clock with R. Bruce
presiding.
Former memThey
bers of the college faculty were called to the platform.
included Prof. 0. H. Bakeless, Prof. F. H. Jenkins, G. Edward

Albert, president of the association,

Elwell, Jr., Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Prof. Charles H. Albert, Jesse
Shambaugh, and E. Joe Albertson.
Fred W. Diehl, former

Y.

president of the association, a
tee

and of the board of

member

trustees,

of

its

executive commit-

and Dr. Haas were

also on the

platform during the meeting.
Prof.

W.

B. Sutliff,

who

with E. H.

Nelson,

audited the

books of the treasurer. Prof. F. H. Jenkins, reported a balance
He also presented the auditors’ report of
on hand of $479.23.
the scholarship fund of which D. D. Wright is treasurer.
The
total amount of the fund is $2,775.26 and 23 students are being
given assistance.
Prof. Sutliff spoke of the worthiness of the
fund and urged contributions so that more students might be
aided.
Mr. Albert reported that owing to a change in the State
law the scholarship fund had been turned over to the Alumni

He told of the fine piece of work D. D. Wright,
had done concerning the fund, which he declared was

Association.
treasurer,
in better

shape than ever before.

Alumni Trophy
Room, speaking of the furniture now installed in the room which
for the comis located in Waller Hall, and outlining the plans
pletion of the room to be used by members and the faculty and
alumni.
He said $800 had been pledged for the room with
$340 paid in. The under-graduate class had purchased picThe lobby fund of
tures to the amount of $250 in addition.
some years ago, put on to furnish the lobbies in the girls’ dormitory, amounted to $486, with some of the pledges yet to be
Prof. 0. H. Bakeless

gave a

fine report of the

paid.

R. Bruce Albert, class of 1906,

when

was

re-elected

president

chairman of the nominating committee, recommended on behalf of the committee the re-election
Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,

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of

all

The other

the officers.

Presidents, Dr. D.

J.

Waller,

officers

re-elected

Class of

Jr.,

3

1867 and

were: ViceProf. 0. H.

Bakeless, Class of 1879; Treasurer, Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Class
of

1876; Secretary, Edward

F.

Danville, Class of

1909; Mrs.

mem-

Schuyler, Class of 1924;

bers of the Executive Committee:

i

C.

Chairman,

W. Funston,

Fred W. Diehl,

1885;

Class of

Miss Harriet Carpenter, Class of 1896; Maurice E. Houck, Berwick, Class of 1910; Daniel

1909 and D.

Members
institution

J.

Mahoney, Wilkes-Barre,

Class of

D. Wright, Class of 1911.

and not graduates of the
honorary membership in the associa-

of the college faculty

were elected

to

tion.

upon to speak and was given a standit was most gratifying to look upon
the largest assemblage he had ever seen and said it was a token
of the splendid spirit of the institution.
It was his opinion that
every one connected with the institution must be very happy.
Dr. Waller’s class of 1867 had a 100 per cent, attendance
and the members Dr. Waller and George E. Elwell, of Bloomsburg, were asked to stand and were given an ovation.
Dr. Waller

ing ovation.

I

!

1

I

I

was

called

Dr. Waller said

Dr.

Introduced as the

Haas Speaks.

man who was always

striving

make

to

alumni welcome, Dr. Haas was greeted with a standing ovation

by alumni.
Dr. Haas said he knew he was facing an audience friendly
to the institution and said that by and large an educational institution is merely its graduates.
From that point of view an
institution guages its success by its graduates.
He spoke of his
friendships

with

many

of the

members

of

the faculty

before

coming to Bloomsburg and of the fine cooperation faculty members have given him while president of the local college.
He spoke of the purchase within the past two years of a
tract of land which gives the institution the finest site of any
teachers’ college in the state.
He spoke of the state now having 55 acres of land, of which from 25 to 30 acres are now in

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active campus.

He spoke

of the

new

training school building

and hoped that the graduates would inspect it.
Dr. Haas spoke of the desire to add one building each legislative biennium and said that it was his opinion that the institution due to its co-educational program, needed next a gymnasium with a swimming pool. Work on the building he hopes to
see started within two years and spoke of the plateau above the

He spoke of
which graduates

training school as a fine site for such a building.

the gratitude the institution has for the

way

in

send associates and friends to the local college.
The trphy room. Dr. Haas said, is a fine project. He said
that while we do not worship our ancestors it is a fine thing to

have them.
To his mind the institution has been lacking in
memorabilia and a trophy room will perpetuate worthwhile associations and achievements of the past.

The alumni loan fund, the
in

many ways

college president thought,

was

the most splendid thing in a direct practical

way

that the alumni can

do

for the students.

Mr. Albert introduced
then the

roll call

those seated on

the platform,

and

of classes opened.

The Classes Report.

was 1874, J. K. Bittenbender,
was wonderful to be back.
Miss Lorena G. Evans, of New York City, reported for the
There were 23 in the class, seven
oldest class in reunion, 875.
boys and 6 girls.
All of the men are dead and of the seven
women still in this life four were at the reunion. She spoke of
the warm regard the class had for its teachers and of the strong
The class subscribed
friendships formed while at the school.
$1 2.50 to the trophy room fund.

The

oldest class reporting

of Washington, D. C., stating

it

1

1

Mrs. Celeste K. Prutzman, of Trucksville, reported for the

880.
There were 32 in the class, 6 of whom are still
Of those she referred to four as “bachelor girls.” One
of the class is still teaching and another, who is instructing men-

class of

1

1

living.

tally

abnormal, she spoke of as “teacher of a nut class.”

She

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5

spoke of the various occupations of members and said that one
man in the class was the rarest of mortals, being an honest real
estate

$29.00

Lewis

l

The

Nine were back for the reunion.

man.

scribed

to the trophy

class sub-

room fund.

P. Bierly, of Pittston,

reported three members back.

He had taught
The class of 58 has become widely scattered.
member
of
the
class
was
a teacher 43
44 years and another
years.
He pledged his class to do its full share to the trophy
room fund.
Rev. J. K. Adams, of Bloomsburg, reported 22 members
present of the class of 890.
There were 77 in the class and
have passed away.
There were four ministers in the class,
Some are still teaching. Action on the trophy room fund was
pledged for later in the day.
Mrs. Clementine Herman, a former member of the faculty, was introduced.
William E. James, of Mahanoy City, reported 9 members
of the class of
895 back. There were 45 members of the
class.
Some are still in the teaching profession and he pledged
1

1

j

1

1

give

his class to

1

its full

share to the trophy fund.

Edward Klingaman, of Dover, reported 34 of his
class of 1900 back.
There have been 34 deaths in the class
and 81 of the 203 members have married.
He claimed its girls
Rev.

I

were

still

J.

the best looking without cosmetics of any class

ever graduated and said

members

of the class

He promised
trophy room fund.

every occupation except bootlegging.
-

would hear from them on the

that

were engaged

in

the college

Ezra B. Gruver, of Lewistown, reported that there were 37
of the class

of

1905 present and they pledged $100

trophy room fund.

to

the

Mr. Skwier reported for the class of 1910

40 members back. He reported $40.00 in cash for the
fund and said the class hoped to give $150 more.
with

Cape May Court House, N. J., said
were 31 of the class of 1915 back and said that a morning huddle had produced $50.00 for the trophy room fund and
that more was expected during the afternoon.
Dr. Millard Cryder, of

there

Mrs.

L. R.

Gruver, of the class of 1920, reported

20 mem-

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bers back and a pledge of $100.

wick, reported

$26.00

in

30

of the class of

Miss
1

Maryan

925 back.

of Ber-

Those back gave

cash to the trophy fund and pledged $4.00.
said

100 members

They pledged

their share to-

Nicholas Polaneczky, of Philadelphia,
of the class of

ward

Hart,

1

928 were

back.

the trophy fund.

President Albert spoke of the class of 1930 joining the association
five

100 per

members

cent, for the

of the class

first

time in history.

were present.

Twenty-

President Charles John

pledged his class to support all alumni projects and presented
a check for the membership dues of his class to the treasurer.
Howard F. Fenstemaker, editor of the Quarterly, asked
in the publishing of the book and asked that changnames and addresses be promptly reported. Mrs. F. H.
Jenkins urged that members continue as subscribers from year

cooperation
es of

to year.

R. Bruce Albert spoke of the projects that the alumni association

was continuing and the meeting then adjourned

for

the luncheon.

AMPLIFIERS FOR DINING HALL
Almost ,000 persons, including this year’s class of 242
members, attended the Alumni Day luncheon in the college dining hall, the number being the largest in the history of this rapidly growing Commencement event.
Ernest W. Young, of St. Paul, Minn., a member of the class
of 1880, and for over 30 years a pension lawyer in the employ
of the Federal government, was the speaker and stressed the im1

portant part each individual plays in

life.

The necessity of shifting chairs in order that all could hear
the program was responsible for the development of a fourth
It was suggested that amplifiers be placed in
alumni project.
It is not believed the cost, would be prothe large dining hall.
Estimates will be secured by the college and the inhibitive.

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formation will be turned over to the alumni association.

A

was
marched
vice

i

was served by the college and the serThe classes formed on the campus and

delicious luncheon
excellent.

into the dining hall, the college orchestra furnishing the

music while the graduates were assembling.
of the luncheon, there

i

1

P

During the serving

was group singing under

Miss Harriet M. Moore, with

the direction of

Howard Fenstemaker

at the piano.

team had completed an undefeated season by defeating Wyoming Seminary
during the morning was greeted with prolonged cheering.
5 to
Mr. Young, whose class was in fiftieth year reunion, was introduced by Prof. 0. H. Bakeless and spoke briefly on the

Announcement

that Bloomsburg’s tennis

1

changes of

He

fifty

years.

tremendous power in the
world and declared but for the people of the stamp of those
seated in the banquet hall, the world would not be worth living
That statement, Mr. Young declared, was not in any sense
in.
said that the people exert a

blarney.

The problems

of dealing with children

was taken up by the

who said that present Americanization is what we are
making it.
He said we profit largely by mistakes and spoke of

attorney

You help your community by
what you are, whether you will or not, he told them.
Every one is an engineer in life and he said the teacher
worthwhile was the one who made the pupils think.
In closing
mistakes as part of experience.

he paid a glowing tribute to Dr. D.

J.

Waller,

Jr.

THE 1930 COMMENCEMENT
Cheeseman Herrick, President of Girard

was
commencement exercises held Tuesday
morning, May 27.
His subject was “The Education of Abraham
Lincoln.”
He analyzed the various factors which worked together to make Abraham Lincoln the great American that he
was.
He pointed out that Lincoln’s ancestry was of old New
Dr.

the speaker at the annual

College,

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England stock, extending back eight generations.
The history
of the family shows that they all possessed the pioneer spirit,
and the migration of the family from generation to generation,
from New England south to Virginia and Kentucky, and then to
Indiana and Illinois, gave Lincoln a background which made it
possible for him to understand the South better than any other

man

of his time.

The speaker

further stated that the environ-

which Lincoln grew up helped to make his great.
Another factor in Lincoln s education was that, though he had little
schooling, he had a great education, which grew out of the fact
that he did not try to learn too many things, but mastered what
he did learn.
The exercises began at ten o’clock. The class and faculty,
speakers, and trustees, attired in academic costume made an

ment

in

came out of the gymnasium entrance,
campus and entered the south entrance of
Carver Hall.
To the strains of a march played by Alexander’s
orchestra, the class entered the auditorium and took the seats
assigned to them.
They were followed by the faculty, speaker,
and trustees, who took seats on the platform.
The invocation was offered by Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr. PresAfter
ident Haas then introduced the speaker of the morning.
Dr. Herrick’s address. Miss Harriet Moore sang “The Spring Song
Mrs. J.
of the Robin Woman,’’ by Charles Wakefield Cadman.
K. Miller was at the piano.
impressive picture as they

marched down

W.
ident

the

B. Sutliff,

Haas the

Dean

last of

of Instruction, then presented to Pres-

candidates for the degree of Bachelor of

The candidates were called to the platin Education.
The lists of those
form one at a time to receive their degrees.
who have completed the various two-year courses were then
read, and as each graduate’s name was called, he rose from his
seat and remained standing until the entire list had been read.
Prof. Nelson, of the Department of Health Education, then
handed to Dr. Haas the names of those entitled to athletic
The award consists of a gold key and a certificate inawards.
dicating the branches of athletics in which the various members
Science

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had participated.

The audience remained standing

until the class

had march-

ed out of the auditorium.

The following are the 242 students graduated from
College at the

1

FOUR YEAR COURSE
(Secondary Field)
Bitler, Luther W., Mainville.
Dew, Robert S., Nanticoke.

Edmunds, Llewellyn, Nanticoke.
Erwin, Anna E., Bloomsburg.
Fleming, Kathryn L., Pittston.
Fleming, Loretta A., Pittston.
Follmer, Winifred, Bloomsburg.

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the

930 Commencement
Taylor, Lydia M., Dushore.
Wadas, Charles J., Alden Station.
Yeager, Hazel V., Catawissa.

Yeager, William

B., Jr.,

Dallas.

(Elementary Field)
Bone, Margaretta M., Kingston.
Hoffman, Karleen M., Bloomsburg.
Oswald, Margaret L., Scranton.

TWO YEAR COURSE

Foote, Dorothy M., Bloomsburg.
Fortner, Haven W., Bloomsburg.
Fritz, Jasper M., Catawissa.

Group

Ruch, Clarence A., Berwick.
Sanders, Hazel M., Benton.
Schuyler, Thursabert, Bloomsburg.
Sharpless, Myra S., Bloomsburg.
Smith, Delmar, Berwick.
Stiner, Cyril W., Orangeville.
Swartz, Margaret I., Millville.

Feister,

(Primary Grades 1, 2, 3)
I
Astleford, Katie F., Hazleton.
Audelevicz, Stacia P., Plymouth.
Frymire, Richard D., Bloomsburg. Baker, Florence E., Tunkhannock.
Beach, Helen M., Shamokin.
Gould, Gilbert, Alden Station.
Bennage, Ruth L., Milton.
Hidlay, Harold H., Espy.
Bernatonis, Anna E., Shenandoah.
Hodges, Raymond T., Scranton.
Bingman, Ferona H., Beavertown.
Holuba, Josephine M., Berwick.
Bowen, Rachael M., Taylor.
John, Charles A., Catawissa.
Boyle, Aurelia C., Freeland.
Jones, Elfred H., Nanticoke.
Branigan, Catherine A., Ebervale.
Kalweit, Albert C., Nanticoke.
Brobst, Dorothy G., Berwick.
Keller, Armond G., Bloomsburg.
Brunner, Edith M., Harrisburg.
Knoll, Norma J., Nanticoke.
Bubb, Frances H., Berwick.
Krafchik, Joseph T., Glen Lyon.
Carpenter, Mary E., Hazleton.
Kraynack, Alex. J., Plymouth.
Ceppa, Amelia L., Nanticoke.
Michael, Arthur L., Berwick.
Conahan, Margaret R., Beaver
Miller, Earle R., Bloomsburg.
Brook.
Nelson, Marie F., Catawissa.
Contini, Jennie A., Freeland.
O’Connell, Maudrue, Ashley.
Pennington, Warren E., Blooms- Cook, Jessie E., Hazleton.
Cott, Helen C., Old Forge.
burg.
Davis, Margaret E., Kingston.
Reese, Lillian N. F., Freeland.
Richards, Edgar E., Alden Station. Dwyer, Eleanor M., Hazleton.

Lorene C., Berwick.
Fenwick, Estella B., Scranton.
Foust, Cora M., Danville.
Fowler, Phyllis M., Berwick.
Gallagher, Mary L., Lost Creek.
Gavey, Gertrude R., Glen Lyon.
Girton, Beatrice E., Bloomsburg.

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Gorrey, Dorothy M., Bloomsburg.
Harris, Dorothy M., Old Forge.
Hileman, Dorothy E., Bloomsburg.
Hull, Margaret M., Smethport.
Isenberg, Anna E., Sunbury.
Jenkins, Evelyn, Scranton.
Johnson, Mary D., Freeland.
Jones, Florence M., Milton.
Jones, Gladys E., Scranton.
Jones, Kathryn R., Moosic.
Keating, Bessie, Edwardsville.
Lewis, Ruth M., Kingston.

Lindeman, Mary A,, Milnesville.
McCormac, Helen F., Archbald.
MacKinder, Adeline R., Nanticoke.
Mackie, Helen E., Scranton.
Manbeck, Mildred R., Bloomsburg.
Matelski, Florence T., Plymouth.
Miller, Louisa A., Jermyn.
Morgan, Sara R., Nanticoke.
Morgis, Anna H., Glen Lyon.

(Group II Int. Grades 4, 5, 6)
Albright, Sarah R., Newberry.
Baskin, Vivian M., Drifton.
Beishline, Florence I., Bloomsburg.
Bogle, Florence I., Milton.
Bond, Helen D., Sunbury.
Boylan, Mary M., Locust Gap.
Bradley,

Mary

E., Centralia.

Brehm, Lucile J., Scranton.
Carr, Grayce R., W. Hazleton.
Cavanaugh, Clare T., Scranton.
Chehansky, Anna, Peckville.
Chudzinski, Helen W., Forest City.
Clark, Gladys L., Tunkhannock.
Cruickshank,
mokin.

Virginia

E.,

Sha-

Culp, Alda E., Mifflinburg.
DeCosmo, Margaret L., Hazleton.
DeFort, Teresa M., Pittston.
DeKarcher, Phillip C., Starrucca.
Deising, Dorothy K., Scranton.
Donahoe, Sarah M., Lost Creek.
Dushanko, Frank Jr., Jeddo.

Morris, Elma L., Edwardsville.
O’Donnell, Clare M., McAdoo.
Dymond, Vivian J., Dallas.
Phillips, Olive N. Forty Fort.
Edwards, Elizabeth M., EdwardsReagan, Mary R., Lost Creek.
ville.
Reichard, Grace E., Milton.
Robbins, Catherine, Edwardsville. Edwards, Miriam, Benton.
Erwin, Dorothy H., Bloomsburg.
Rood, Myrtilla E., Laketon.
Farrow, Elvira B., Peckville.
Rowe, Minnie J., Nanticoke.
Fetterman, Alva J. Tamaqua.
Samuels, Betty M., Kingston.
Forsythe, Miriam R., Lewistown.
Schild, Magdalene, Taylor.
Foulds, Alice B., Trevorton.
Sharpless, Mary A., Catawissa.
Smith, Mary M., Lattimer Mines. Furman, Gertrude G., Scranton.
Gearhart, Mabel R., Sunbury.
Snyder, Helen E., Sunbury.
Sredenschek, Margaret J., Forest Gentile, Antoinette J., Pittston.

Gibbons,

City.

Stanton,

Mae

E., Nicholson.

Starick, Ruth I., Sunbury.
Vandermark, Ruth, Nanticoke.

Vollrath, Catherine E.,
coke.

Mary

Northumber-

C.,

land.
Grow, Belle F., Montrose.

Haen, Dorothy

W. Nanti- Haynes, Nancy

I.,

W. Hazleton.

R.,

Wilkes-Barre.
T.,
Scran-

Hemingway, Marjorie

ton.
Williams, Jane R., Edwardsville.
Wilson, Dorothy P., Bolivar, N. Y. Houser, Jennie T., Ringtown.
Witkowski, Elizabeth E., Nanti- Kapp, Irma C., Bloomsburg.
Keeler, Lucy M., Bloomsburg.
coke.
Keith, Dorothy M.,. Scranton.
Wolf, Hilda R., Shamokin.
Kelder, Thelma C., New Albany.
Young, Marion G., Scranton.

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Klischer, Myrtle E. A., Wilburton.

Thomas, Marion

Krebs, Ruth J., Northumberland.
Kupstas, Veronica, Wilkes-Barre.
Lavelle, Margaret P., Scranton.
Lavelle, Sally M., Centralia.
Lord, Grace A., Wilkes-Barre.

Welker, Dorothy

Macur, Eugene

J.,

Glen Lyon.

Miller, Isabella H., Catawissa.

Minor, Daniel D., Kelayres.
Morgan, Geraldine F., Trevorton.

Morgan, Helen M., Danville.
Morton, Mary F., Berwick.

J., Scranton.
Vezo, Violet V., Shamokin.
Wagner, Mildred A., Selinsgrove.
Weidner, Georgiena L., Trucks-

ville.

C., Milton.
Welliver, Dorothy V., Milton.
Welliver, Sara A., Bloomsburg.

White, Mary E., Berwick.
Williams, Elizabeth M., Peckville.
Williams, Mary E., Kingston.
Williams,
Regina
M.,
Wilkes-

Barre.
Witkoski, Isabelle C., Scranton.
Wojcik, Eva J., Forest City.
Yeager, Ruth A., Hazleton.
Yetter,
Frances,
Phillipsburg,
N. J.
ton.
Yetter, Mary, Phillipsburg, N. J.
Petroff, Julia, Berwick.
York, Janette M., Peckville.
Phillips, Mary L., Chinchilla.
Young, Ethelda C., Berwick.
Polnasik, Leo A., Sheatown.
Ransavage, Genevieve M., King- Zebrowski, Lottie M., Kingston.
Zehner, Mary A., Sugarloaf.
ston.
Zimmerman, Katherine M., NurRees, Edith L., Peckville.
emberg.
Reese, Muriel E., Audenried.
Reilly, Catherine D., Plymouth.
Group III (Rural Grades 1-8)
Richards, Gladys, Shamokin.
Biggar, Mabel C., Unityville.
Rishel, Mary M., Danville.
Davis, Rebecca C., Shumans.
Roberts, Charles W., Hazleton.
Derr, Wallace, Jerseytown.
Roller, Caroline E., Picture Rocks. Dieffenbach, Lavere A., OrangeSchraeder, Gertrude R., W. Hazleville.

Myrick, A. Elizabeth, Peckville.

Noel, Margaret E., Natalie.
Norbert, Genevieve M., Kingston.
Novak, Edna E., Scranton.
Pecora, Congetta M., W. Hazle-

ton.

Shenoski, Clara J., Wilkes-Barre.
Shultz, Laura M., Kingston.

Richard T., Benton.
Skladany, Anna E., Larksville.
Sibly,

Marion E., Scranton.
Smith, Sara E., Vicksburg.
Snyder, Shirley E., Dallas.
Spalone, Margaret R., Hazleton.
Stiasny, Mildred M., Scranton.
Strausner, Anna C., Danville.
Stroud, Mildred W., Sweet Valley.
Struck, Margaret F., Larksville.
Talbot, Elizabeth L., Shickshinny.
Taylor, John D., Wilkes-Barre.
Tedesco, Virginia M., Peckville.
Slack,

Furman, Andrew

0.,

Northumber-

land.

Hause, Kathryn V., Lewisburg.
Litwhiler, Truman M., Ringtown.
McMichael, Hazel R., Stillwater.
Mericle, Leatha A., Bloomsburg.
Reinbold, Grace V., Nuremberg.
Reitz, Jennie L., Leek Hill.
Richard, Myrtle L., Elysburg.
Schnure, Mary A., Milton.
Schooley, Kathryn I., Allenwood.

Leona M., Catawissa.
Kathryn B., Paxinos.
Swank, Orva A., Ringtown.
Weaver, Ruth A., Watsontown.
Sterling,
Stine,

Welsh, Myron

R., Orangeville.

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A

study of the Class of

same

these

families there

1

930

reveals

the fact

were eleven mothers, one

that

from

father, thir-

and nine brothers who graduated previously from
this institution.
Which goes to show that they must have been
pleased with the work done here.
This is true, not only of this
class, but all other classes that have gone out from the State
ty-three sisters

Teachers’ College.

MUST BE SERVANT TO BE A LEADER
He who

cares not to climb the pinnacle of the servant, shall

never enjoy the glory of leadership, Dr. Norman
of

S.

Wolf, pastor

Matthew Lutheran Church, declared when he delivered

St.

baccalaureate sermon to the graduating

The

class

and several hundred

ed the services which was held

members
were led
the class
sional

the

class.

and friends enjoyauditorium.
The
black caps and gowns,

relatives

in the college

of the class of 242, attired in

by their officers, while members of
and the audience joined in singing the college proces-

into the auditorium

hymn “Ancient

of Days.”

Participants in the service, members of the Board of Trusand members of the faculty followed the class and were
seated on the platform during the services as was Dr. D. J. Waltees

ler, Jr.,

president emeritus.

Wolf gave the invocation and the assemblage, under
Moore, sang the hymn, “His
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the
Majesty and Greatness.”
Dr.

the direction of Miss Harriet M.

college, chose for the Scripture lesson the story

reading from

St.

Matthew 23

The minister

in

opening

:

1

of the

talents,

4-46.

his

sermon said

that in looking

at

youth from the viewpoint of middle age, there was sympathy
particularly strong because of the understanding of the require-

ments of
It

life.

was the

mount of

life

minister’s desire that the class look out

from the

during the sermon and endeavor to direct the eye

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He spoke of his aim as bewidening curves of life.
ing to discuss whither the pathways of life were leading.
He asked that the mount be considered that of the servant,

to see the

who cares not to climb the pinnacle of the servant,
know the glory of leadership. Dr. Wolf made reference to the Scripture quoting, “If any man will serve me let him
take up his cross and follow me” and “Where I am there also
declaring he
shall

never

shall

my

challenge be.”

The important questions, the speaker stated, were “Do I
know Him? Do I want to know Him? Am I fitted and prepared for the fulfillment of the program which is His?”
“Unless we reach the crowning we had better never been
He spoke of the Lord as being
born,” Dr. Wolf told the class.
the greatest firm in the world, one that

is

never bankrupt, ever

powerful.

The task
tinued.

It is

of living required the spirit of the servant, he conall that religion is not working but the
on us for not making it work, he told the
Religion does work when men work and when

admitted by

burden of proof
assemblage.
they do not

it is

lies

the deadest thing in the world, Dr.

Today we are looking
goes unchallenged.

at things

theoretically

In the appeal for

service

Wolf said.
and service

there are

men

and women who are afraid to get under the harness.
He said
he was an enemy of Socialism because Socialists are afraid of
service.

In closing the minister told the class “If you want to be
crowned you have to take care of every detail of your life.
Death is not gloomy to those who walk in the path of the Master.”

A

quartet from the Bloomsburg Civic Chorus sang

“Come

To My Heart,” Ambrose.

The quartet was composed of Miss
Mane Pensyl, Miss Geraldine Waters, Ercil Bidleman and L. P.
Gilmore.
Dr.
ediction.

Wolf led in the Lord’s Prayer and pronounced the benThe audience remained standing during the re-

cessional of the class.

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IVY DAY
Chilly, biting winds,

more suggestive

crowd

of a colorful

game than of the spectacle of a late May day’s
mar Monday evening. May 26 the most
picturesque of the events of a college commencement
Ivy Day.
at a football

pageantry, failed to

—

The wind-swept grove where spectators shivered and graduates were thankful for the extra though slight, protection afforded by cap and gown, was again the setting for the program,
and its enjoyment was not affected by the untimely collapse of
bleachers on which the graduates were seated.
Folk dancing provided the color for the evening’s pro-

gram, and there were presented the class song and poem, and

Day

the Ivy

oration as well.

Leading the march into the grove were the

class

officers,

and 18 girls in white, carrying a chain of evergreens, followed by the long, winding line of gowned figures who received
diplomas at the completion of their courses.
Dr. Haas, president of the college, read

lege catalog

—

that of

1

869

—some

from the first coldeportment of

rules for the

students of that day, rules that provoked the laughter of another generation

60

years

later.

friends and relatives of the graduates,
them in top coats, braved the evening chill for the program and heard Miss Josephine Holuba, of Berwick, present the

Several hundred

many
Ivy

of

Day

oration.

Edgar Richards, of Alden Station, read the class poem,
The class song
written by Miss Marie Nelson, of Catawissa.
concluded that portion of the program.
A number of folk dances, in costume, were presented on
the pergola, under the direction of Miss Lucy McCammon, by a

number

of the girls of the graduating class.

Their colorful cos-

tumes gave a touch of warmth.
The Alma Mater followed and the long line of graduates
re-formed, marching to the new training school building where
the ivy

was planted.

President John of the

Senior class

then

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presented the spade to Arthur McKenzie, president of the Junior class,

who responded

That concluded the exercises.

briefly.

Following are the members of the cast
the folk dances:

who

took

part in

—

“Sweet Kate,” English dance Misses Miriam Edwards,
Lucy Keeler, Mary White, Sally Smith, Vera Baker, Mary Zaner.
“Picadilly,” English dance
Misses Edith Bruner, Mary
Conahan, Eleanor Dwyer, Mary Wojcik, Mary Gallagher, Bessie
Keatmg, Mary E. Williams, Helen Chudzinski, Margaret Noel,

—

Mary

Phillips.

“New
en, Jessie

Cook,

May

—

Misses Ruth Sterrick, Mary
Mary Lindeman, Helen Cox, Rachel Bow-

Castle,” English dance

Smith, Dorothy Harris,

Stanton.

“Firtur,” Danish dance

—

Misses

Anna Chehansky,

Eliza-

beth Edwards, Elvira Farrell, Elizabeth Williams, Margaret Spalone, Myrtilla

Rood, Dorothy Wilson, Anna Eisenberg.

is the class poem, entitled “Hail
Spirit of the
Tower,” which was written by Miss Marie Nelson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nelson, of Catawissa, and read during the
exercises by Edgar E. Richards, of Alden Station, president of

Following

the College Student Council

“White and stately stands the tower
Guardian of the green,

campus
and serene.
From your noble height
You have daily watched
Brave young hearts

Spirit of the

All seeing

In their Essay

To find Truth’s Way
Amid the tumult.

We
In

have looked

to

you

darker hours

When

despair and doubt

Raised a presence ’round about.

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We found in you
A ray of hope.
Your spirit, Noble Tower,
Has led us since
That first fateful hour
We stepped beneath
Your glooming portals.
We go, on life’s Great Quest,
And from its dawn
To sunset will be guarded
By your sustaining presence.”

The

Class Song.

is the class song which was sung during the exand which was written by Miss Elizabeth M. Williams, of

Following
ercises

Peckville

“Goodbye we must be saying

We

say

That

we

it

with regret.

should leave old Bloomsburg,

Our Alma Mater

true.

You’ll ever haunt our memories.

No matter where we

be.

Our fondest tributes paying.
Oh, Bloomsburg State, to you.
“You’ve always guided and helped us
In all bygone days.
Now we’ll revere and defend you
And boast of your deeds.
We’ll ever stand united
In truth and loyalty,
Our fondest tributes paying
Oh, Bloomsburg State, to you.”
In her Ivy

Day

oration, in connection with the Ivy

ercises Miss Josephine Holuba, of Berwick,

Day

spoke as follows:

ex-

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Day

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Oration.

“Classmates, Faculty, Alumni and Friends:

we plant the ivy as a symbol of our
growing love for our Alma Mater marks another milestone
reached in the life of every Senior present.
We are standing at
As we look
the dividing point between two eras in our lives.
back over our college life, with its buoyancy, its pleasures, its
rivalries and ambitions, its duties and generous friendships, we
“This day on which

cannot avoid a feeling of sadness, sadness that comes with the
thought of parting.

“To

the outsider, college

may mean

these walls of brick

and stone, these hills and trees, but to us, college embodies
Our lives must tell the story.
more- an unconscious influence.
It is a great debt that we owe our Alma Mater.
She has molded our characters and shaped our destinies and only a life of the
highest endeavor can repay that debt in full.
Without the incollege,
fluence of
our future growth would be stunted.
Just
as the beautiful ivy which we plant today needs the sun and
rain no matter how rich the soil beneath it, so we need the influence of college, no matter what our heritage.

—

“This ivy

is

our

May we

symbol.

in

future

years

say

with the poet

Then

we’ll return, and, seeing

it

on high,

Shall read of life a living history.

Strong tendrils and bright foliage above,

Below, torn branches and the fading
shall

We

the

—

leaf.

we do. Thus conquer. Thus fail.
common branches of one vine arise

Thus

Sprung from

“What

is

this hill

it

and nurtured ’neath these

that college has given us that

skies!

will

help us to

grow with the ivy, to develop ‘strong tendrils and bright foliage
above, and leave the torn branches and fading leaves behind?’
“First of all, college has developed in us the power of or-

—

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Those in our profession are continually in conminds that are young and plastic; therefore, if we are
to be a guiding influence in their lives, we must have the ability
to think, to reason, to decide, and to act
and to do it with an
open mind.
The greatest mark of an educated man is an open
mind, the willingness' to accept new truth, no matter from what
quarter it may come or how badly it may batter the prejudices
of yesterday; the determination to keep growing in tolerance,
in wisdom, in patience, in usefulness, up to the very end.
It is
the ignorant man who knows that he is right he wants by law
or force, to punish those who differ with him, and compel all to
The educated man knows that progress is
accept his views.
possible because men do not all think alike; therefore, it is up
to the educated man to teach the others what college has taught
him tolerance.
derly thinking.
tact with

—

;

—

‘Then

too, college has given us a love of books, but

our duty to keep that love alive.

many and

they are great, but

The

gifts of

this gift is

it

is

education are

outstanding.

Litera-

and of the moral

ture reflects the beauty of the objective world

world, and this leads to the highest function of literature; the
setting

and

if

ly in

up of

Our ideals should change with our growth
change for the better, we should be constantour libraries
we should buy good books and we

ideals.

they are to

debt to

—

should read them.

“And, most of

all,

college has

given

us

friendships

friendships that will endure throughout our entire lives, for the
ties

are so strong that they will never be broken.

ing these friendships,

we have developed

our

In develop-

own

characters.

We
We

have learned that ‘to have a friend, you must be a
have learned that true friendship cannot be forced

not

come when we

friend.’

—

whistle or stay

when we

it

will

entreat but has cer-

tain natural channels.

“And

college has brought us into

contact

and women who hold fast to the truth that
They have found happiness in
to success.’

‘service

last,

but for others.

with
is

men

the key

labor, not for self,

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You
You

will

never get

will get

it

19

‘Do you want

has said:

Do you want honor?

by serving yourself.

Let your slogan

only as a servant of mankind.’

it

be ‘One for all’ rather than
the key to success.”

‘All for

distinction?

one’ and

you too

will

have

CLASS NIGHT

A few

of the happenings of college

remain vivid

in

the memories of the

which will always
and become more

life

class

cherished with the passing of years, were dramatized

Monday

!

May 26, as Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class
930, climaxed Senior Day with a Class Night program in the

evening,
of

1

college auditorium.

Scenes that every student knows so well were staged by a
couple of score of the class as they

“Cases” came

in for their

made merry

last

night.

usual scoring and the pet hobbies

of

classmates were also brought into the limelight to the discomfort of the individual

And

and the delight of the

rest.

then at the close of the program the class presented

to the institution

an exceptionally

president, Dr. Francis B. Haas.

fine

portrait of

the

college

was presented by Clarence
the institution by Prof. E. H.

It

Ruch and accepted on behalf of
who said that he was sure the picture of the respected
college present would ever be an inspiration to those at the institution and to others who would come.
Nelson

Staged as a class reunion ten years hence, the Class Night

program was a rapid moving affair that had many delightful
Four students, meeting in the lobby of the institution,
features.
after an absence of ten years, gave the class prophecy and recalled

many

of the happenings of college days.

During the evening there was a college pep meeting, with
in charge, a realistic scene of the girls’ lobby at 10:15 o’clock at night, a page from the kid party of
Freshman year and another from the Junior Prom.
“Shorty” Edmunds

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There was a sketch concerning rehearsal for the Junior
play “Three Wise Fools” in which members of the cast took part
and Seniors provided another fine bit of entertainment with
parts of the last college opera “Chimes of Normandy” with solo
parts by Miss Dorothy Harris and Armond Keller.
Freshman
customs were also recalled by a clever sketch and the last of the
lighter features of

commencement

closed with the

Alma Mater.

SENIOR DANCE
members

Scores of

many

of the Senior class of the college

of their friends Friday evening.

dance which brought
mencement program.

May

and

23, enjoyed the class

to a close the social functions of the

com-

The gymnasium was tastefully decorated in the class coland white and Zimmerman’s Penn-Eastern Orchestra furnished a fine program of music.
“Sonny” Parker, an
-year-old lad with the orchestra, added a fine feature by singing a number of selections.
The patrons and patronesses were President and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Miss Marguerite Kehr, Dean and Mrs. J. C. Koch,
Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, Prof, and Mrs. E. H. Nelson and
Prof, and Mrs. E. A. Reams.
The committee in charge of the successful affair was composed of Elfed Jones, Miss Maudrue O’Connell, Armond J. Keller
and Robert Dew.
ors of green

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President Haas was elected President of the Northeastern
District of the

meeting held

Pennsylvania State Education Association, at the
in

Bloomsburg in March. A full account of
in the March issue of the QUARTERLY.

this

meeting was given

MAY DAY PROGRAM
Students of the Training School of the

Bloomsburg State

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3:00

Teachers’ College on the college campus at

o’clock

Wed-

nesday afternoon, May 21, presented a May Day program.
“Snow White and Rose Red” which was written by the pupils
of the sixth grade with the assistance of Miss Haynes and with
the cooperation of Mrs. Squires.

May

Other
poles were used in the entertainment.
program were: Minuet, kindergarten; grandmother’s dance, sixth grade; “Oxdansen,” fourth grade; “Liza
Jane,” fifth grade; “Sailors’ Hornpipe,” Senior group; “Seven
Jumps,” intermediate training school and “Dutch Dance,”
“Gathering Peascods,” “Sweet Kate,” “Four Dance,” “Newcastle,” “Old Man” and “Piccadilla,” by the Senior group.
Sixteen

features of the

PROF. HARTLINE HEADS SCIENTISTS
Prof. D. S. Hartline, of the Teachers College,

president of the Pennsylvania

Academy

was elected

of Science at the clos-

ing session of the annual meeting held in Bloomsburg in April.
It is

a signal honor for the instructor,

known among

who

has for years been

Other officers elected were:
M. Gress, Harrisburg, vice president; Dr. T. L. Guyton,
Harrisburg, secretary; Vernon Haber, State College, assistant
secretary; H. W. Thurston, State College, treasurer, and R. W.

widely

scientists.

Dr. E.

Stone,

Harrisburg,

elected

and Harrisburg was chosen for the

editor.

Sixty-eight

new members were
1

93

1

meeting.

NEWS OF THE ALUMNI

We
large

we

are greatly indebted to

number

members

of the Alumni for a
owing to lack of space,
These items will appear in

of personal items which,

are unable to print in this issue.

September number of the QUARTERLY.
There are no doubt a great number of omissions in the lists
of those who attended their class reunion.
The names are
printed as they appeared in the Bloomsburg “Morning Press,”
these lists having been obtained in the various rooms where the
the

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Many

reunions were held.
lists

If

had been

your name

this as

collected,
is

not listed as

an apology

arrived later in the day,

and therefore the

among

after the

are not complete.

lists

those present, please accept

the omission has been unavoidable.

;

1875.

members of the class of 1875, the oldest in reunion, four of them were back for the 55th year reunion
and they had a wonderful day. Members here were Miss LoOf the seven

living

:

rena Evans,
Miss

New York

City; Miss

Sade

Mary Thomas, Nanticoke; Mrs.

F.

Bloomsburg;
H. Jenkins, Bloomsburg.

T. Vanatta,

1878.

Nora Hankee (Mrs. John A. MacGuffie)

lives in

West

Pitts-

ton. Pa.

1880.
There were nine members of the class of 880 back for the
year reunion and they had a fine time renewing acquaintOnly 6 of the class of 32 members are
ances of school days.
still living and the return of more than half of those for the reThose back for the day were Michael
union was remarkable.
M. Hastie, Nescopeck; Norman N. Smith, Williamsport; Charles
A. Ritter, Auburn; Alice H. Fisher, Pottsville; Celeste K. Prutzman, Truckville; Mrs. Ellen Lally, Shenandoah; Bridget A.
1

fifitieth

1

Burns, Shenandoah

W. Young,

St.

;

Horace G. Supplee, Chicago,

Ellie T. Golden (Lally)
Shenandoah, Pa.

C. A. Ritter

Company,
York City.

111.

;

Earnest

Paul, Minn.

is

is

an Americanization teacher

a representative

of the

publishers of school and college

His

home

Merrill

text-books.

is Auburn, Pa.
from the ministry and

New

address

N. H. Smith has retired

932 Park Avenue,

Charles E.

in

is

living

at

Williamsport, Pa.

1882.

in

Mary A. Brugler (Mrs. James H. Mercer) died at her home
On March 25,
Bloomsburg, Saturday morning, March 29.

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she suffered a paralytic stroke, from which she

never

rallied.

Mrs. Mercer was born in Frosty Valley January 18, 1862.

She

Bloomsburg, and was a member of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
She is survivved by her
mother, a brother, a sister, two sons, a daughter, and five grandresided most of her

life in

children.

1885.
Three of the members of the class of

885 were back
They reported that some of the class of 58 members was still
Members back were Anna M. Fox, Millville, N. J.;
teaching.
Mrs. Boyd lrescott, Berwick, and Louis P. Bierly, of Pittston.
Florence J. Cawley is teaching English and Arithmetic in
1

the Junior High School at Elizabethtown, Pa.

Anna M. Fox, who retired last year,
is now living at 413 West Main

one years,

Annie Miller Melick

lives in

after teaching fortyStreet, Millville, N. J.

Media, Pa.

leader in the activities in her community, as

Mrs. Melick

may be

is

a

seen by the

following list’ of offices which she holds: President of the Delaware County Federation of Women’s Clubs, President of the

Women’s Club

of Media,

Member

of the State

Tuberculosis

Christmas Seal Committee, Vice-Chairman of Press and Publicity of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women, and ViceRegent of the Delaware County Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Mrs. Melick has three children.
She
expects to sail for Europe June 20, where she will spend the
summer.

1886.
Nolan H. Sanner is a clergyman, and lives at 1250 Peermont Avenue, Donnart, Pittsburgh, Pa. He expects to receive
the degree of Doctor of Divinity at Grove City College this year.

1888.

Ada

Thomas W. Evans) died at her home in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 12.
She was attending a meeting
of her chapter of the Eastern Star when the end came.
Mrs.
Ringler (Mrs.

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Evans retained

her sunny disposition, which so
aad endeared her to her friends and
classmates.
She was very loyal to her Alma Mater, and rarely
was absent from a reunion of her class. Her pastor, in speaking of her, said that he had lost a very dear friend as well as a
very efficient co-worker in the church.
She will be greatly missall

through

characterized her early

ed

life

life,

at the next reunion of her class.

Harriet Richardson (Mrs. John Gordon) lives in Norwalk,
California.

1889.
Mattie Harding has retired from teaching, and
ing house for her father

and

sister in Duluth,

is

now keep-

Minnesota.

Miss

Harding served as Assistant Principal of the White Haven High
School for nine years, and taught in Kingston for eight years.
She then went to Duluth, where she taught for ten years, and
w as recently retired on a pension. Her sister, Nellie, of the
r

class of

1

896,

is

now

teaching

in

Duluth.

1890.

The class of 890, with one-third of the living membership
back after 40 years, had a real day and had their pictures taken to better preserve memories of the day.
The class had 22
1

members

present.

Jennie D. Kline

High School

at

is

head of the English Department

Mahanoy

in

the

City, Pa.

1892.
Katie Dougher (Mrs.

T. E. Fleming) lives in Exeter, Pa.

Her twin daughters, Kathryn and Loretta, received
Bloomsburg this year.

their

degrees

at

1894.
J.
is

Howard

Patterson

is

located in Philadelphia, where he

practicing law, and serving as U. S. Commissioner.

dress

is

32 South Broad

William Buckwalter
ton, Pa.

His

ad-

Street.
is

foreman

in

the Post Office at Scran-

i

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1895.
For some
was the first trip back to the Alma Mater in over a score of
years and they were much pleased at the many improvements
Those here were: William E.
and enlargements they saw.
Nine members of the class of 1895 were back.

it

James, Mahanoy City; Mrs.

W. A.

E. Brader, Phoenixville

F.

Schillingman, Turbotville; Mrs. R.

Mrs. Benjamin

Van

;

Mrs.

W. Bray, Wilkes- Bar-

Joseph Lindsay,
Helen F. Carpenter,
Bloomsburg; Katherine Cadow, Bloomsburg; Mrs. W. H. Brower, Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Charles S. Kline, Catawissa.
Mary Pendergast is teaching in the Camp Curtin Junior
re;

Freeland; William

Sant, f reeland; Mrs.

R. Bray,

High School, Harrisburg, Pa.

Freeland;

Her address

is

918 North

Sixth

Street.

Nina G. Tague (Mrs. H. A. Frantz)

Moorestown,
She will sail June 28 for a vacation in Europe, and will
spend most of the time at Interlaken, Switzerland.
Mrs. Frantz
is chairman of the Burlington County Student Loan Fund.
lives in

N. J.

1896.

W. Killam (Etta Thielge)

Mrs. L.
First Street,

E.

lives at

1077 Seventy-

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Gertrude Garrison

the Kingston High

School.

is

head of the French Department in
She lives at 108 North Vaughn

Street, Kingston, Pa.

James E. Teple is Special Representative of the Continental
Casualty Company, with offices at 277 Broadway, New York.
His home address is 22 Sylvan Street, Rutherford, N. J.
1898.
Sarah H. Russell
grade school

in

is

Principal

and Primary teacher

in the

Watsontown, Pa.
1899.

John A. MacGuffie took office January first as Chief Burgess of West Pittston.
We are informed that he received the
largest

number

of votes ever given a candidate for that office.

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1900.

The class of 1900, a class of 203 members of whom 34
have since passed away, had 23 members back for the 25th year
reunion which was held in Noetling Hall.
Friendships were renewed and happenings of life at Normal were talked over.
Members present were: Rev. J. Edward Klingerman, Dover,
Pa.; Mrs. Walter S. Carman, West Pittston, Pa.; Mrs. W. L. Andreas, Kingston; Verda H. Correll, Bath, N. Y.
Mrs. William
Zimmerman, Hazleton; Mrs. Robert Hartman, Hazleton; Walter
H. Jones, Scranton; Frank C. Harris, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3 Carolyn Harman, Hazleton; Mrs. Walter Andrews, Slating; Mrs.
M. D. Custer, Hazleton; Mrs. Miles Killmer, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. E. F. Cowell, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. William C. Wenner, Still;

;

water; Mary

F. Yetter, Phillipsburg;

Winifred Evans, Danville;

Bertha Halderman, Shenandoah; Mrs. A. Frank John, Mount
Carmel; C. Idella Deitrick, Mount Carmel; Mrs. James Hile, of
Catawissa;

Raymond

B. Tobias,

Ludwig, Bloomsburg;

Mowery,

W.

Mount Carmel; Mrs. William
Bloomsburg, and Guy A.

S. L. Miller,

Danville, R. D. 5.
C.

O’Donnell

is

an accountant and

lives at

2323 North

Seventeenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mary

F.

Adams

Yetter

is

teacher of English and History

the Junior High School at Phillipsburg, N.
ters,

Mary and Frances,

class at

are

members

J.

in

Her twin daugh-

of this year’s graduating

Bloomsburg.

Elizabeth B. Clarke is an instructor in the International
Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa.
Her address is 1519
Gibson Street.

1902.
S.

Gertrude Rawson

Her address

ton, Pa.

is

is

Principal of the

Louise Larabee has been

June

2,

Rush School, Scran-

31715 Birney Avenue.
teaching at

Honolulu,

Hawaii.

1930, she received her M. A. degree from the University

of Hawaii.

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1903.
Edith Patterson

teaching

is

Junior High School, Newark, N.

English in the

Robert Treat

J.

1904.
Alvirda Davenport

is

teaching

in the

Junior High School in

Plymouth, Pa.
Blanche J. Morris (Mrs. Elmer Mast) lives at 211 East
North Street, Bethlehem, Pa., and finds her time well occupied
with the care of

six children.

Margaret Seely is teaching in the New York City schools,
and lives at 4 Lehigh Street, Hackensack, N. J.
Irene Ikeler (Mrs. Donald Sloan) lives at 821 High Street,
Mr. and Mrs. Sloan have two children.
Williamsport, Pa.
1

Irvin Cogswell

is

a machinist, employed by the Heath

He has

pany, Montrose, Pa.
fourteen and

five, respectively.

Daniel L. O’Donnell
Bissel

Com-

three children, aged seventeen,

is

Company, Trenton,

production manager of the MitchelHis address in that city

N. J.

is

24

Columbia Avenue.

John

B. Boyer, of

Herndon, Pa., has been Assistant County

Superintendent of the schools of Northumberland County, Pa.,
since 1922,

and has taught

in

the

summer

school of Susquehan-

na University since 1925.

Womeldorf (Mrs. Abner D. Bentz) lives in York, Pa.,
where her husband is representative of the International CorMr. and Mrs. Bentz have a son, aged
respondence Schools.
Effie

eleven years.

Mrs. Bentz

Junior High School

in

is

a

member

of the

faculty

of

the

York.

H. MacBean) lives at 159 Balmoral
where any member of the class of
1904 will be welcome when visiting in Canada. Mr. and Mrs.
MacBean have a daughter, aged eleven.

Daisy Andres (Mrs.

J.

Street, Hamilton, Ontario,

1905.
There were 37 members of the

class of

1905 back

after

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a quarter of a century and those 25 years that have passed since

enough news of classmates to keep all of
exchanging information.
Those attending
were: William J. Farnsworth, Milton, Pa.; Ezra B. Gruver, Lewistown; Sara Milleisen Elwell, Bloomsburg; Gertrude Rowe,
Wilkes-Barre; Mary B. Dailey, Wilkes-Barre; Vera Hemingway
Housemck, of Bloomsburg; Eshleman Sweeten, of Merchantville, New jersey
Katherine Krumm Twogood, of Upper Darby, Pa.; Beatrice Albertson, of Peekskill, New York; Dora
Fleckenstine, of Bloomsburg; Elizabeth Mertz Lesher, H. V.
Lesher, Claire E. Scholvin, Northumberland; Adelia Mertz BerMary Kirkendall Hagenbuch, Bloomsgen, Harlingen, N. J.
Blanche Hartman
burg; C. L. Mowrer, Hagerstown, Md.
graduation held

back busy

those

;

;

;

Steinle, Scranton; E. C. Steinle, Scranton; Mrs. Charles L.
rer,

Janet Mowrer, Hagerstown, Md.

;

Mow-

Clara Bergstresser Fox,

Norristown; Grace Roberts Miller, Roberta Miller, Sarah Harris

Mary Ormsly, Mary MitAnna Thomas, Edwardsville G. Edward
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Norman Wood, Nescopeck; Mrs.

Stubbs, Betty M. Stubbs, Wilkes-Barre;
chell, N. T. Englehart,

Elwell, Jr.,

Mont. Wilson,

;

Millville;

Mrs.

Paul

H.

Dildine,

Orangeville;

Laura Winter Eroh, Hazleton; Bessie K. Grimes, Catawissa; Mr.
and Mrs. J. Y. Snambaugh, Harold, Arthur, Walter and Lawrence Shambaugh, of Harrisburg.
Jesse Y. Shambach is a member of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Shambach
was Miss Mary Lowry, of the class of 1910, and a former member of the faculty at Bloomsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Shambach

have four boys, aged
Street,

Camp

Gertrude
Wilkes-Barre.
.

Hill,

five to fifteen.

They

live at

2315 Page

Pa.

Rowe
She

is

Principal of the Franklin Street School,

lives at

212 Academy

Street.

William Jay Farnsworth lives at 552 Cleveland Avenue,
He is connected with the Prudential Insurance

Milton, Pa.

Company.

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1906
John E. Shambach has been elected Superintendent
He will enter on his duties in
of the Sunbury City schools.
Prof.

Shambach

Prof.

July.

is

a graduate of the local Teachers’ Col-

and was a Principal some years ago of the Millville schools.
He is a brother of Jesse Y. Shambach, formerly Superintendent
in Berwick, and Miss Mary Shambaugh, formerly an instructor
He is the son of Rev. Mr. Shambach, and
in the town schools.
for two years was instructor in mathematics at the Bloomsburg
Normal School.
Later he was undergraduate assistant of the
Department of Zoology at the University of Michigan for one
year; Supervising Principal ofthe high school and grades at
Wiconisco for four years teacher of Science in the Moorestown
High School, Moorestown, N. J., for three years; elementary
school Principal, Scranton, for one year, and Supervising Principal of the Westmont-Upper Loder, joint high school and grade
schools at Westmont Borough and Upper Yoder Township for
eight years.
He comes to Sunbury from Westmont.
lege

.

;

1907.
Helen H. Conner (Mrs. E. R. Victor) lives at 89 Jackson
She has three children: Eleanor, who
Avenue, Plainfield, N. J.
is

finishing her Junior year at college;

Billy,

aged

Mildred, aged ten, and

six.

1908.
J. P. Weinman) states in a renew country agriculturally. All
south central part of Idaho, where we live, was irrigated for
ago.
The Mormons
first time less than twenty-five years

Stella

cent letter:
the

the

Kostenbauder (Mrs.

“We

are living

in

a

are working hard to win people for their church.

Gooding Col-

the youngest Methodist college in this section.

lege

is

ally,

we

are doing

all

we can

to help this school,

forward to the day when our daughter
er education.”

will

Mrs. Weinman’s address

is

Natur-

and are looking

be ready for a highR. F. D. No. 2, Filer,

Idaho.

Thomas

Francis has been re-elected

for another

term of

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as Superintendent

four years

schools

of the

$1000

of

Lackawanna

At the Northeastern
Convention of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, Mr.
Francis was elected President of the Department of County SupCounty, at an increase of

a year.

erintendents.

Martha James and a party of friends
the Tuscania for an extended
relatives in Wales,

tour of

and expects

June 13 on
She will visit
York about the

will leave

Europe.

to return to

New

end of August.
Stella

Churm

(Mrs.

S. C.

Wright)

lives at

913 South Pop-

Allentown, Pa.

lar Street,

Nellie

Bogart

lives at Riverside, Pa.

Laura Boone spent the summer of 1929 in California.
Wesley Sitler lives at 117 North Alexander Street, Los
Angeles, California.
Mrs. Sitler was Jennie Kline, of the class
of 1907.

Adda Brandon

(Mrs. George

S.

Westfield) lives

at

130

North Dorrance Street, Kingston, Pa.

Fred Turek

now

lives at

3925

Northfield Avenue, Detroit,

Mich.

Towanaway on Wednesday, May 14, 1930. Mrs.
Swartz was formerly Helen Ramsey Hill, daughter of the late
William and Catherine Ramsey Hill, of Hazleton.
She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mary Jane and four
Mrs. Philip H. Swartz, wife of Dr. P. H. Swartz, of

da. Pa., passed

brothers, William

John
ters,

E. Hill

Mrs.

Anna

and Chester

L. E. Hill, of

J. Hill,

of Hazleton; Rev.

Philadelphia; and

Mary Clark and Mrs.
Funeral and interment was held

of Hazleton.

Saturday,

J. Hill

and Dr.

May

Hill,

1

Mrs.

three

sis-

H. A. Nettstine,
at

Towanda on

7.

1909.

Joseph

C.

Kochczynski

is

practicing medicine in Hazleton,

Pa.

Fred W. Diehl has been re-elected Superintendent of the
schools of Montour County for the fourth consecutive time with-

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out opposition.

Mr. Diehl was

first

31

elected Superintendent

of

1918, succeeding Charles W. Derr.

Under
in
the supervision of Mr. Diehl the number of teachers who have
permanent certificates has increased from 17 per cent, in 1918
Nineteen one room
to 90.6 per cent, at the present time.
schools have been closed and the work consolidated in Valley
and Mahoning Townships. All the rural schools have been improved both in the work being done and also in the buildings,
and the work in general throughout the county has been put on
the county schools

a higher standard.

1910.
There were 40 members of the
reunion, the class reporting

44 per

class of

1910 back

cent, present.

Some

for the

of

them

did not reach the college until time for the general meeting but
there were a

number on hand

for the class reunion which openThose present were: Mrs. Thomas H. Keiser, Mildred Snell Boston, Vivian Laubach, Leila C. Lehman, Berwick Emma M. MacFarlane, Hilda Altmiller Taylor, Cora Frances Lewis, Louella Burdick Smquett, Florence Huebner Buckalew, Annabel Dunkelberger Hilbush, Nora E. Geise, Mrs. Morris
Evans, Berwick; Blanche Mertz Bergen, Belle Mead, N. J. Bertha Polley Oakes, Union, R. D. 2, N. Y.
Grace Krum Savidge,
Turbotviile; Olive Kresge Montanye, Wilkes-Barre; Ida Smith
Conrey, Chestnut Hill; Sara Mitterhng, Holidaysburg
Kimber
A. Hartman, Robert Metz, Harold C. Box, South Canaan and
Ralph Wertman, Quakake.

ed at nine o’clock.

;

;

;

;

M. E. Houck has been re-elected Superintendent of the Berwick public schools for the third successive term.
Mr. Houck’c
election and the fixing of the salary were by the unanimous vote
of the board.

A

son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Rice of Bay-

onne, N.

J.

Mrs. Rice was formerly Miss Mildred Deaner,

of

Mainville.

1912.
Harriet

Hartman

(Mrs. Harold

Kline) has,

for the

past

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year, been teaching in the Senior High School in Bloomsburg.

W.

Louise

Vetterlein

giving private lessons in English to

is

New York City.
left May 23 for a

Miss Vetterlein, accompanied by

foreigners in

her mother,

sixty-day tour of Europe.

1913.

Donald Baldy, one of Catawissa’s leading business men,
died in the Bloomsburg Hospital March 14, 1930.
Mr. Baldys’ death came as a great shock to all who knew
him and especially so in Catawissa, where he was a prominent
figure and active in civic projects.
He was born during a leap
year, on February 29, and was 34 years of age.
He was born and raised in Catawissa, and spent his entire
Following his graduation from the Bloomsburg State
life there.
Normal School in 1913 he entered the mercantile business with
his father when the store was located at the corner of Main and
Second Streets, Catawissa.
He waas then seventeen years of
age, and has continued in the business ever since.
He was a
store,
now
the
R.
Baldy
Sons’
located
at
the corner
partner in
H.
of Main and Third Streets, Catawissa.
Mr. Baldy is survived by his wife, Mrs. Christine Baldy, and
one daughter, Elizabeth Anne, residing on South Third Street,
Catawissa his father, Stephen Baldy, residing on North Third
Street, Catawissa, and the following sisters and brother: Mrs. W.
A. Bachman, of Frankfort, New York; Mrs. G. A. Roddy, of
Sharon Hill, and Mrs. Warren S. Sharpless and P. Rupert Baldy,
The funeral services were held at his late
both of Catawissa.
Rev. H. J. Billow, pastor of St.
South
Third
Street.
home on
Burial was made in the
John’s Lutheran Church, officiated.
Hillside Cemetery.
Margaret Crossley (Mrs. F. Earle Gooding) lives at 334
North Winsor Street, Bound Brook, N. J.
Bernard J. Kelley is practicing law in Philadelphia, with
offices at
303 Spruce Street.
;

1

1914.

Kathryn Merle Erdman

is

clerk in the

Income Tax

Unit, at

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Washington, D. C.
Sara Elliott (Mrs. Kenneth

and

is

teaching

in

L.

33

Cain) lives

in

Akron, Ohio,

the schools of that city.

1915.
1

here were 3

1

members

of the class of 1913 back.

Mem-

bers were on the scene early and remained at the college until

when they were undergradThose attending were: Joseph Cherrie, Alde.i
Station; Elsie E. Thomas, Mountain Top; Edith M. Saricks, Freeland; Eulah Boone Spiegel, West Pittston; Catherine L. Bitten
bender, Lime Ridge; Frances Smith Lewis, Factoryville; Sarah
Lischler Menaker, Wilkes-Barre; Helen M. Parks Hutchinson,
Tuskegee, Ala.; Esther C. Helfrich, Wilkes-Barre; Martha E
Yeager, Hazleton; Dorothy Rice Williams, Hazleton; Lillian
Zimmerman, Washington, D. C. Mrs. J. A. Luxtor, Minersvilh;;
Martha Baum Moore, Nescopeck; Etta J. Buss Evans, West Nan
ticoke; Carolyn E. Klinger, Zechman, Catawissa, R. D. 3; Lois
McCloughan Snyder, Catawissa; Ruth E. Pooley, Bloomsburg;
Elizabeth Richards, Freeland; Dr. Millard Cryder, Cape Mav
late

afternoon talking about days

uates on the

hill.

;

Court House, N.

J.

;

Edith Martin Larson, Laurel Springs, N.

J.

Ruth L. Koehler, Ethel Watkins Weher, Scranton Ruth Thomas
Wanich, Bloomsburg; Kataherine Little Bakeless, New York
City; Josephine Duy Hutchison, Bloomsburg; Frances Zarr Post,
Forty Fort; Hilda Davis Morgan, Forty Fort; Laura Carey, Ells;

worth, Kingston;

Adona

Piageman, Sewell, R.

Pearl Kleckner
Miriam LaWall Heller, Wapwal-

Sick, Endicott, N. Y.

D., N. J.

;

;

lopen.
Lillian

Zimmerman

is

serving as a

Government clerk

in

Washington, D. C.
Her address is 104 M Street, N. W.
Sadie M. Crumb was one of the girls selected to attend the
London Arms Conference, for secretarial work. The honor was
1

accorded to her for faithful service and efficiency.
Miss Crumb
served as a yoemanette in the Navy during the war, giving up
She is at present attached to the- Burher teaching to enlist.
eau of Engineering

in

Washington, D.

C.

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W. Peageman) can be reached

Pearl Kleckner (Mrs. F.

Sewell, N. J„ R. F. D. No. 1.
Adona Ruth Sick is Librarian in the Union Endicott

Her address

School, Endicott, N. Y.

1916
Charles F. Schoffstall

Street,

degree of Master of

fall.

1917
Cedar

High

Lincoln Avenue.

1216 West Laurel

to receivve the

Arts at Lehigh University this

Mrs. Dorothy Miller

212

.

lives at

He expects

Pottsville, Pa.

is

at

.

Brower

is

now

living at

1801

East

Street, Allentown, Pa.

Mary

F.

McManus

is

teaching third grade in the schools of

Her address is 712 East 6th Street.
W. Weaver, of Mountain Top, formerly Elsie
Dunlap, has returned to the teaching profession.
Mr. Weaver,
who was yardmaster of the Jersey Central yards at Penobscot,
went to his Eternal Rest August 15, 1929.
Mrs. Weaver has
Erie, Pa.

Mrs. George

enrolled in the

summer

sessions at Pennsylvania State College.

Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Swartwood,
teaching

in

(Eva

J.

Weaver)

are

the Industrial School For Boys at Kis-Lyn, Pa.

1920

.

There were a score of the members of the class of 920
Most of them had been back
back for the tenth year reunion.
but few times since graduation and they had plenty of interest
Those attending were Ruth E. Titman, Bloomsto talk over.
burg; Alice Moss, Plymouth; Wilhelmine White Moyer, Bloomsburg; Laura C. Shaffer, Bloomsburg; Alice F. Cocklin, Shickshinny; Fern E. Traugh, Eshleman, Berwick; Grayce Maustellar,
Bloomsburg; Margaret Ferree, Oak Hall Station; Marjorie M.
Rose, Harrisburg; Lena Kline, Berwick; Ethel Ketrick, M. Elizabeth Petty, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Anna Barrow, Catherine Bitting, Ringtown; Evelyn Wagner, Moonfield, W. Va.; Eleanor
Clara
Griffith, Shamokin; Mrs. James B. Pugh, Edwardsviile
C. Montgomery, Hazleton.
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1922.

A

Mary Carolyn, was born

to Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Beckenbaugh, of Philadelphia, on April fourth.
Mrs.
Beckenbaugh will be remembered by her classmates as Esther
I

daughter,

Welliver.
Lillian

I

[

I

:

[

Arnold,

who

has been teaching in Korea, will have

June, and will return home.

She will
and expects to stop on the way to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau.
The Rev. and Mrs. Perry L. Smith will take up their residence at Southwest Harbor, Maine, where Mr. Smith has been
elected pastor and staff director of a larger parish.
Mrs. Smith,
before her marriage, was Marion Hart.
fulfilled

come

her contract

in

via Europe,

1924.

Ruth D. Jenkins
lor,

is

a primary teacher

in the

schools of Tay-

Pa.

Miss Helen Leutholt and Mr. Lawrence Noakes, of Taylor,

were married December
North Main Street, Taylor.

1

,

1

928.

They are

living

at

250

Mary Kelley (Mrs. Michael J. Hastings) secretary of the
1924, died March 20, after an illness lasting only a few
hours.
Mrs. Hastings was married only four months previous
class of

to her death.

1925.

The five year reunion of the class of 1925 was one of much
enjoyment to the 32 members who were back.
The majority
brought news of others and they had a busy time exchanging
notes.
Attending were: Betty Davison, Scranton; Mrs. Arlie
Goodman, Sunbury; Myrtle Wharmly, Plymouth; Elsie Jones,
Plymouth; Florence Ryan, Wilkes-Barre; Laura Davis, Scranton; Helen Barrett Baer, Cambra; Gretchen V. Culver, WilkesBarre; Martha Lawson, Shenandoah; Katherine Sieger, Hazleton; Margaret E. Price, Ashland; Mane C. McDonnell, CentralEsther M. Grim, Tower
ia; Juel M. Gaughan, Brooklyn, N. Y.
City; Ellen Phebey, Wilkes-Barre; Pauline Hassler, Wilkes;

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Barre; Edith C. Harris, Wilkes-Barre; Pearl

Rachel A. Perigo Bolles, Scranton.
Juel M. Gaughan is teaching
dress

in

955 73rd Street, Brooklyn,
Marian A. Gower is teaching
is

Sunbury;

Radel,

New York

Her ad-

City.

N. Y.
first

grade

the

in

public

Her address is 8 De Windt Street.
Miss Gower’s home address is 60 Manhattan Street, Ashley, Pa.
Gladys R. Stecker has been teaching in the schools of Carschools of Beacon, N. Y.

ney’s Point, N.

J.,

since her graduation.

1926.
odist

May

On Saturday

evening.

parsonage

Orangeville, Pa., Miss Beryl A. Ikeler

in

the bride of Paul L. Bangs, of

County.

Miss Ikeler has

1

0, at

10 o’clock,

in

the Meth-

became
Greenwood Township, Columbia

been a teacher

in the

Mt.

schools and Mr. Bangs has been a successful farmer.

Pleasant

They

will

with the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Ikeler, of Mt.

live

Pleasant Township.

Announcement

is

made

of the marriage of Miss Arlene E.

Sweet and Mr. George H. Mennig, which took place June 15,
The couple were attended by
1929, at East Stroudsburg, Pa.
The cereMr. and Mrs. James Colman, of East Stroudsburg.
mony was performed by the Rev. Alfred Stokes of the First BapAfter June 4, Mr. and Mrs. Mennig will be at home
tist Church.
at 1715 Sanderson Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
During the last four
years Miss Sweet had been a teacher in the Lewisburg schools.
Mr. Mennig is an engineer for the Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. Everett Besteder, of Trucksville, have announced the marriage of their daughter, Irene, to William White,
The ceremony was performed on March 8,
of Whites’ Ferry.
They will make
1930, in Towanda by Rev. William W. Lane.
their

home

at Whites’ Ferry.

1927.

Announcement has been made
ber

7, of last year, at

of the

wedding on Decem-

Orrstown, Pa., of Miss Florence B. Shultz,

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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Shultz, of Millville and Mark I.
Fowler, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Fowler, of Espy.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. William J. Schultz, of Orrstown,

and former pastor of the Espy Lutheran Church.
The couple
reside at 600 Valley Street, Lewistown.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, 1923, and the Teachers’
College, 1927.
She taught for two years at Plymouth and during the past year taught in Millville.
Mr. Fowler is a graduate
of the Scott Township High School, 1924, and of the local college, 1929, where he received the B. S. degree in education.
He is now teaching in Derry Township, Miffin County and at the
opening of the Fall term will take up his work as teacher of
mathematics and athletic coach at the Yeagertown High School,
Mifflin

County.

Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Shafer are the proud parents of a son,

born April 20, 1930.
Mrs. Shafer is a member of the class of
927, and her husband was President of the class of 1921. Mr.
1

and Mrs. Shafer’s address

A
pital,
1

1,

is

Box 122, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

daughter, Shirley Ruth, was born at the Geisinger Hos-

and Mrs. Harry Lindauer, on October
Mrs. Lindauer was Miss Sara Seitz.

Danville, Pa., to Mr.

1929.

1928

.

The class of 928, the youngest class in reunion, had 00
members present and many of these reached the college in time
1

to

1

enjoy the morning reunion held

in the

gymnasium.

Those

meeting were: Dorothy H. Gresh, Milton; Mary Blackwell,
Scranton; Ebba M. Carlson, Margaret D. Keller, Luzerne; Margaret Lewis, Scranton; Lydia Taylor, Dushore; Nelle L. Daley,
Forty Fort; Adelaide Bahr, Scranton; Geraldine E. Diehl, Northumberland; Mrs. Rachel Long Saners, Penn’s Creek; Mrs.
Elona Richenbach Epler, Hazel J. Epler, Northumberland; N. F.

at the

Polaneczky, Freeland;
Laird, Mainville;

Anna

Light Street; Hester L.

Mary

Alice Laird, Fleetville; Martha H.

L. Berninger,

Bowman,

Dimock; Fay Appleman,
Lawrence Creasy.

Miff linville

Catawissa; Dorothy V. Jones, Pittston;

;

Mary

N.

Williamson,

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West Pittston; Edith P. Davis, Pittston; Charlotte E. Mears,
Bloomsburg; F. A. McHugh, Hazleton; Gladys Dildine, Orangeville; Margaret McComb, Sunbury; Jeanette Hastie, Avoca;

Mary Heintzelman, Sunbury.
1929.

Martha Laird, who during the past year has been teachin OQ
in Vocational High Svhool at Mainville, Pa., was elected President of the Columbia County Young Peoples’ Conference at the
meeting held recently in Bloomsburg.
'

The fourteenth volume

of

The

Obiter, the annual publica-

Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, attracted much favorable comment.
The book is easily one of the best that has ever been published and is dedicated to Prof. D. S. Harthne, Supervisor of the
Science Department and for 35 years one of the outstanding
members of the faculty of the institution. The dedication is to
“one who has proved himself a worthy educator, counsellor and
tion of the graduating class of the

friend.”

Clarence R. Ruch, of Berwick, was the

and Jack
The asBloomsburg;

editor

Taylor, of Hanover Township, the business manager.
sociate editors

were Miss Thursabert Schuyler,

Miss Grace Lord, Wilkes-Barre; Eifed Jones, Nanticoke;

Miss

Ruth Sonner, Honesdale; Miss Sarah Albright, Williamsport;
Miss Kathryn Fleming, Exeter; Miss Dorothy Foote, Bloomsburg; Miss Laura Shultz, Kingston and Miss Gertrude Furman,
Scranton.

The
members

publication contains photographs of each of the

of the class and a

list

of the

activities in

242

which each

took part, together with a verse or prose describing them.

campus scenes provide one of the
book which covers all phases of college life

Pencil sketches of
tures of the

capable and interesting manner.

and snap shots of campus

activities

feain a

Photographs of organizations

add much

to the publication.

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Francis B. Haas, President of the State Teachers’ College
Bloomsburg, and Edward A. Reams, also of the State Teachers’ College, participated in the program at the seventeenth an-

at

nual Schoolmen’s

Week

held

in

Philadelphia from April 2 to 5

under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Haas presided at a group conference which was con-

Houston Hall on the Pennsylvania campus at 1:30
April 2, when “Sources and the
Distribution of Revenues For Education” were discussed by Dr.

ducted

in

o’clock

Wednesday afternoon,

John A. H. Keith, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in
Pennsylvania, and by faculty members from Leland Stanford
and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reams was a member of the Advisory Committee for
Schoolmen’s Week and presided at a group conference in the
Christian Association Auditorium Thursday afternoon, April 3,
This conference was devoted to the discusat 4:00 o’clock.
sion of “History.”

A. Bruce Black, for

ment of Penmanship

many

years the head of the Depart-

at the State Teachers’ College

and unsuc-

Democratic candidate for Representative in the General
Assembly from Columbia County in 928, has been appointed
court crier by Judge Evans to succeed the late John W. Shuman.
Mr. Black took up his duties at the opening of Criminal
Court session May 6 and was congratulated by a number of atcessful

1

torneys and others in the court room.

Mr. Black was forced to give up his work at the college

some years ago because of a gangernous condition which later
resulted in the amputation of both of his legs.
By grit and determination, he has learned to walk very well on two artificial
limbs, using two canes.

SUMMER SCHOOL PLANS
The annual summer session opens on June 6th, two weeks
commencement, and concludes Saturday,
1

following the Spring

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The

July 26th.

The

fall

term opens on Tuesday, September

period basis.

One period per day with

stitute a three

semester hour

course.

Six

the normal load for a

summer

student.

credit

is

seven semester hours

a six-day

2.

and a halt

daily schedule will be organized on an hour

week

semester

will

con-

hours of

A maximum

of

will

be permitted with the special consent

will

be on collegiate

of the president.
All of the

service

may

elementary

The

work

basis.

Teachers

in

continue earning credits for the renewal of a partial
certificate, or credits for the

standard

certificate.

issuing of initial partial elementary certificates ceased Sep-

tember 1, 1927.
This is the twelfth annual summer session to
Students not living in their homes
be held at the institution.
live
college dormitories.
required
to
in
the
will be

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SEPTEMBER, 1930
BLOOMSBLJRG, PENNSYLVANIA

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JOHN WESLEY FERREE

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SEPTEMBER, 1930

Vol. 31

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.

FENSTEMAKER,

F. H. JENKINS, ’76

’12

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Editor-in-Chief

Business

-

Manager

JOHN WESLEY FERREE

John Wesley Ferree became a member of the faculty of the
Bloomsburg Literary Institute in 868.
Henry Carver, its first
The institution became the
Principal, was then in charge.
Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1869.
Professor Ferree remained an honored and revered member of the faculty for
twenty years until age necessitated his retirement from active
1

888.
No teacher in the history of the school,
more thoroughly identified himself with its scholastic interests
and the character development of its pupils than did Professor
J. W. Ferree.
He was born in Clinton County, Pa., in a little log cabin

teaching in

1

about a mile west of Salona, February 2, 1814.
His father,
George Ferree, of Huguenot stock, had removed from Lancaster
County, Pa., early in his life, about 786.
His mother’s fam1

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2

ily

was

of British origin, Hazlett

settled in

New

Jersey about

1

by name, who had migrated and
(John Hazlett

700.

From here he removed

near Sunbury, Pa.

Lock Haven, Pa., about 770.
Mary Hazdaughter of John, became the wife of George Ferree).

Valley, northwest of
lett,

later settled

his family to Nittany
1

Shortly after the birth of John (1814), his father removed

where he built and operated a
These were the days of no railroads, and flour had
to be packed in barrels and transported in flat boats down the
Susquehanna river to the markets of the larger centers. This
was usually done during the time of the spring floods.
to a location south of Mill Hall,
flour mill.

John’s education began

neighborhood of

his

home.

in

a

little

log school-house, in

Opportunity for

school

the

going

in

those days, before the founding of the public schools (1835),

was very meager.

Often for several years at a time, there was

And when

no teacher available, hence no school.

teacher, too frequently the quality of the teaching

deed.

The

schools were supported

by

there was a
was poor in-

subscription, the par-

paying a set price, or fee, as tuition per quarter, or term of twelve weeks, amounting to two or three dollars.
Each school was a “law unto itself” no supervision; no regular
time for beginning or ending the school term; no system of
ents, or patrons,

—

books; no

set

requirements

Whoever
came master of
“The scholars,”

offered to teach
the

field,

as to

qualifications

of

teachers.

was usually gladly accepted and beoften to the

detriment of his pupils.

says Prof. Ferree, in an autobiography written

and amusement of his immediate family,
“were never surprised if a teacher quenched his thirst from a
bottle of whiskey, which he kept by him, or that he took a nap
during the school session, because he had too frequently quenchNor were they much disturbed if the teacher took
ed his thirst.
the whole school, as a precaution, (possibthrashed
and
rod
his
much
by his potion), lest some pupil might,
over
ly stimulated
as ‘master’
Any location was
authority
forsooth, question his
good enough for a school site; any room or building, good
enough for school purposes, whether a log building, used as a
for the information

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sheep fold out of school hours, or perhaps an unoccupied room
over a blacksmith shop.”

When John was
in

operating the grist
In

pair

1829

fourteen years of age, he helped his father
mill,

his father

and operate a

flour

and

wheel wright.

as a

removed to Bellefonte, in order to
mill for James Harris, who had been

re-

the

chief engineer in the construction of the Pennsylvania Canal.
Although the lad was now only fifteen years old, during the busy
season, when the mill was operated day and night, John took
His work consistentire charge of the mill for half the night.
ed, not only in grinding wheat into flour, but also in preparing
and packing the flour for shipment to the city market.

1830, the father returned to Nittany Valley,
The folin the neighborhood.

In the fall of

and his son hired out to a farmer

lowing winter, 1831, he had the opportunity of working for his
This school, the best in the valley,
board and going to school.

was taught by

New

a Mr. French,

who was

a native

of the

state

of

pronounced this the first real
school he had ever attended, under a teacher who really underThe boy was now sixteen years of
stood and loved teaching.
York.

Professor Ferree

age.

Under

this

teacher he completed

Grammar.

studied Kirkham’s

His

Pike’s Arithmetic,

ability

and

interest in

and
his

work, awakened in the teacher, a deep and sympathetic understanding and interest in this studious and earnest boy.
He offered to give the lad extra lessons at night

come

to the teacher’s

although

it

home

for instruction.

meant an extra walk

if

he were willing to
This he did gladly,

of four miles each evening.

One evening after a protracted session of earnest work, Mr.
French gave his student quite a shock by saying, “You ought to
It seemed, to the inexperienced,
prepare for teaching, John.”
almost unlettered youth, an impossible goal. How could he, with
his

meager attainments and opportunities, ever reach a

position

so exalted as the profession of teaching?

Nevertheless,

ment of a church

in

1834, he taught

in Mill Hall.

It

his first school in the base-

was

a “subscription” school.

:

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as the public school system did not begin to function as such until

1835.

It

was a three month’s (12 weeks) term, which was

the usual length of term for these neighborhood schools.

Between terms the

persistent youth followed his trade, that

somehow and somewhere he had complet-

of plasterer, which

ed, during the preceding years.

During a part of his first vacahe attended the academy at Bellefonte.
Here he studied
algebra
the first algebra he had ever seen.
tion,

—

autumn

833, he taught his first public school,
the township of Lamar, Clinton County, Pa.
In the

We
fathers

of

1

here get a glimpse of the

had

to

meet

in

difficulties

establishing the

our

in

educational

public school

system.

memoirs: “I was assigned to the MackOn the morning that the school was to open, I
eyville school.
found the windows of the school house strongly bolted by the
owner of the building and grounds, who declared that no public school teacher should have access to the school house.
He
said that he did not believe in public schools, and if things went
The
on in this way, we would soon have a king in America!
directors then assigned me to another school in the same district.
In many other places in the State, the public school system met
Prof. Ferree says in his

with violent opposition.”
take the liberty of quoting further from his

I

“In 1836,

I

began

to realize that

although at that time
life

I

my

own

sketch

education was too limited,

had not yet decided

to

make

teaching

my

work.
“It

was my

desire for

cide to go to Allegheny

my knowledge

College.

This

that caused

college

is

me

to de-

located

Meadville, Pa., near the northwestern corner of the state.

at

As
by

was compelled to travel
I was poorly equipped for
At
that
time
the teachers were receivcourse.
college
a
taking
per
month,
for a three month
dollars
twenty-five
ing about
source
were not very
Hence my earnings from that
term.
Although I was a plasterer by trade, in those days a
large.
Providence, however, was
plasterer’s wages were also small.
there

stage.

were

as yet

From

no

railroad,

I

a financial standpoint,

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kind to me, and found outside work that enabled

my

me

to continue

course.”

After leaving college,

he continued

teaching

he was married to Miss Frances

Ann

Not

Herr.

Clinton

in

county, and working at his trade during vacations.
until

In

1843,

1846 did

he finally and permanently abandon his trade, and decide to
devote his life entirely to teaching.
He was then thirty-two
years of age.
In

1844, thinking that there were better opportunities for

teachers in the South, he, in

company with

another

teacher,

journeyed by canal to Pittsburgh, Pa., and from there by steam
boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, to Memphis, Tenn.
The change was a disappointment, and, after teaching one term
there, he returned to Clinton county.

Pa.,

and taught

at

Mill

Hall.

The following year, he decided to go to Portsmouth, Va.,
and test out professionally another part of the South.
Here he
remained four years, meeting with delightful and encouraging

Toward

success.

the close of his last term,

he was,

without

knowledge or consent, elected principal of Yates Academy,
located about five miles distant from where he was teaching,
and at an advance of $400 dollars in salary.
He decided not
to accept the position owing to his attachment to his school and
the community in which he was teaching.
The Yates Board of
give
him up.
Trustees was reluctant to
He finally consented
He taught at Yates two years, which were,
to make the change.
he says, among the brightest and happiest years of his profes“As money seemed to be no object to that institusional life.
tion,” he says, “I was given full power to equip the school to
This treatment of me was such, that I felt
any extent I saw fit.
To me was not only the
like a king with unlimited power.
school itself a delight, but in the community, I could always feel
the glow of the real southern heart.”
his

853, he was elected to the position of Higher Methein Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport,
These two departments he raised, by earnest work, to the

In

1

matics and Natural Science
Pa.

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6

He was also made vice-principal
was of necessity absent from

standards of a college course.

of the school, and as the principal

the school for a large part of the time, thus throwing the responsibilities

of administration on Prof. Ferrerr’s shoulders, the

became too heavy

for one

He

man.

therefore

work

retained

the

Higher Mathematics and discontinued teaching the Sciences.
During the summer of 1885, while on a short vacation trip
to the West, his wife was suddenly taken ill, and died after a

woman of rare Christian character,
who knew her, devoted to her ome and an

She was a

brief illness.

much beloved by

all

inspiration to her

husband

In

1

860 he married

in his

Miss Diana

From

dent at Dickinson Seminary.

who

work.
Elliott,

this

who ad been

union

resulted

a stuthree

an attorney-at-law, practicing in Artesia, N. M.; George, a physician at Urbana, 111., and Charles,
who died in 899.
After teaching fourteen years at the Seminary, he resignchildren, Simpson,

is

1

ed

his position, in

classical

and

1867, with the view of founding a private

scientific school in Williamsport.

868, he received a call to the
He decided to accept this positeacher
of Higher Mathematics, at a
and
tion as vice-principal
Later he resumed the teaching of
salary of $1200 per year.
In the following year,

1

Bloomsburg Literary Institute.

He

the Natural Sciences.
after

it

became

retained his position in this institution

the Bloomsburg State Normal School,

and con-

888, thus rounding out fifty-five years in
He removed, on his retirement, to Minneapolis,
his profession.
Minn., to give his boys the benefit of the training at the UniverLater he settled at Payneville, Minn., where
sity of Minnesota.
tinued to teach until

he died

in

1

1896.

His wife survived him until 1918.

years of her
eighty-six.

life at Urbana, 111.,
She was also buried

at Payneville,

Professor Ferree was absolute

room.

While

held him very

his pupils

much

in

She spent the closing
at the age of

and died there
master

Minn.

in his

own

class-

respected and honored him, they also

awe.

He

sat at his table in the north-

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west room of Carver Hall,

now room

a veritable Jove himself, a

combed “a

head, hair abundant,
ly

open with teeth

—

class filed in

called

by

light,

like

massive

with

Pompadour,” mouth slightdrawn to

and the suggestion of a smile lingering

perhaps a

at times

and found

last

la

and imposing,

figure,

just visible, eyes small, gray, slightly

exclude the glare of

about them

E, erect

rather portly

7

names,

little

quizzical,

their seats in silence.

true

it is

Then the

—

as his

roll

was

manner, as though
be wasted in that fashion.
The class as a whole went to

in a hurried, rapid-fire

the minutes were too

precious to

Then the work began in earnest.
None were left idle.
the board.
All were assigned work.
One of his former algebra pupils still tells, with a thrill of awe
in her tone, of being sent to the board, and in rapid artillery
fashion, having the following problem shot at her: “write a-x
ax (spelled out and pronounced axe), plus 2ab-ab, etc.
SimAll with an incisiveness of tone, and rapplify and explain.”
idity that

made

it

student could not be slow or day-dreaming

must be on the
to the

work

feel that

in

A

almost impossible to follow the dictation.

alert,

and highly

hand.

classes but

attentive, giving his best effort

Were he otherwise he soon was made

he was out of place

two pupils were called upon
the teaching standing

in

his

Often

in that class.

to

demonstrate

with every

sense

in

at the

alert,

what’s that!” as some dunce blundered, or some

to

goemetry,

same tim

“What’s

wag

,

that,

attempt-

(No time then for nonsense).
“Miss H.
may leave (pronounced as though spelled live) the room,” uttered in no lamb like tone, and the unfortunate young woman
left the room, with the energy that St. Paul evidently had in

ed

facetiousness.

mind, when he said. “This one thing I do.”
And the culprit returned not again, until with protestation and even tears, she
gave assurance of better things.

Sometimes between recitations, for a change and a breath of
fresh air, he would walk up and down the hall as classes changed from one room to another, waving his handkerchief from
shoulder to shoulder, to remove the chalk dust from his coat,
that the too vigorous class work had scattered.
Always the

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poise and dignified presence

of a

‘god’’

with a

swing, and a vigor which one had to admire.
that took in the entire field without an effort,

—

passing student that failed to

“pass

in line,

He seemed

talking.’’

and a

remember

and a lack

for the

the set discipline of the

eyes before you, erect, and in step

—

no
hewing to the
yet always kind, and disposed to

to see every thing, firmly

enforcing discipline,

line, in

stride

fine figure, ex-

unique and clear cut as a cameo, eyes

cellent carriage, a face

period

A

mercy.

He had a keen sense of humor, as has every successful
He could be witty, ironic, or gently sarcastic as ocMany the students who
casion required, and yet without hurt.
remember the deserved pointed rebuke, the sting of which lastteacher.

ed and cured.

The special private pet name for the Professor among the
boys was “Spookie,” because, forsooth, he had the rather
eerie power of seeming very abstract and far away, with eyes
almost closed, and yet was very much awake to, and cognisant
of, the

unobtrusive

little

fun-loving boys and

by-play going on always

in

a class

This quality of the teacher was

girls.

of
in-

deed very uncanny and inconvenient to the jolly idler, for, no
matter how adroit he aimed to be in putting across his “bright
ideas,” or how well he planned his little schemes, he was likely
to be exposed at any moment to the vast amusement of his classThis teacher always

mates.
the

trifler.

That was

all.

“How?”

lived

them.

signs.

He had
He read the

knew

How

too

much

for the comfort of

Echo answers

did he do it?

with the kind too long.

He

silently

He knew

enjoyed the fun.

him as a teacher: “The chief cause
was not his knowledge, though that
was profound, nor his long years of teaching higher mathematbut his sterling character as a man, his knowics and science
ledge of human nature, and student psychology his deep symHis character rested upon a broad, deep repathetic nature.
His study of the stars and heavenly bodligious foundation.
His daily
ies, revealed to him with intensity, an infinite God.
His son George says of

of his success as a teacher

;

;

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reading of the Bible
the

Man

filled

9

him with the teaching and

of

ideals

of Galilee.”

Dr. J.

J.

Brown, of Bloomsburg, Pa., a student at the Sem1864—7, says: “Professor Ferree was

inary during the years of

a good teacher, a

haps a

little

warm

friend, sympathetic, kind-hearted; per-

severe on occasion, as was the manner of schools

in

But the students respected him, were always loyal

those days.

with a wholesome awe.
They always found him fair,
and gracious.
He was full of humor, and could be facetious, and even ironic and sarcastic when need arose, among his
unruly boys.
We liked him; respected him -yes, loved him.
We could not help it. He was so sincere and earnest as a teacher; a Christian gentleman always.”
to him,

kind,

—

His devoute nature, his familiarity with the English Bible,

made
al

it

a rare privelege to hear him lead the evening devotion-

service for the students of the dormitory.

“Pass

me

not

0

Gentle Savior” was

sung with vigor and enjoyment.
reverence and fervor that drove

and hearts of

He read
its

hymn

His favorite

and

frequently assigned

the Scripture with

truths

his thoughtless yet sincere

home

to the

a

heads

and reverent auditors.
and language

His prayers, too, filled with the very fervor

made one reverent in spite of the frivoland buoyancy of youth.
One of the old students recalls yet
with a thrill, and with uplift, a figure he frequently used in inof the Jewish prophets,
ity

troducing his prayer, “0 Thou God, Whose center
where, and whose circumference is nowhere.”
As

we

those hours today, and ponder

them,

a part of his daily experience.

To many

every-

is

we

recall

he had
made the language and imagery of Ezekiel and Isaiah his own,
find these

were moments

of exaltation

memories, stimulating even
ies

yet.

realize

that

of his old students,

and

uplift,

Incidents, anecdotes,

multiply, of these delightful school days, as

we

I

treasured

memor-

interview the

There is danger of becoming proboys and girls of the period.
lix.
So the memories must be lost to the traditions of the
school.

John Wesley Ferree was a rare and exceptional teacher

for

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day and generation, and for any day and generation.
He
impression upon the lives of his boys and girls, and upon
his institution.
He builded well perhaps better than he knew,
because he was a self made man, in the days when opportunity
was not waiting on every corner to jostle genius into line, and
his

left his

;

trifle

with mediocrity unblushingly.
0. H.

BAKELESS.

ALUMNI HOME-COMING DAY
November

A new

feature in the

life

8.

of the college, inaugurated

two

Home-Coming Day, usually held
on the date of the last big home game of the foot-ball season.
The letThis will be held this year on Saturday, November 8.
the annual Alumni

years ago,

is

ter printed

below

will

Dear Alumni:

be self-explanatory:

—

The Trustees,

Faculty, and Student

State Teachers College, Bloomsburg,

Body

of the

Pennsylvania,

you to attend and participate in the
Annual Home-Coming Day festivities on Saturday,
November 8, 1930.

cordially invites

An

program is being arranged for
10:30
A. M. the new Training School
At
the day.
The
dedicatory address will be
will be dedicated.

made by
tion, Dr.

interesting

the State Superintendent of Public Instruc-

John A. H. Keith.

At 2:00 P. M. on Mount Olympus there jwill be
one of the best football games of the season when
Bloomsburg will meet the strong Shippensburg Teach-

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11

Bloomsburg has the best football
team that it has had in recent years, so come prepared to see a good game.
ers College team.

Immediately after the game the gymnasium

*

will

be open for an informal reception and get-to-gether
for alumni, parents,

and friends of the College, an opand to visit with

portunity to see old acquaintances
old friends.

Dinner

6:00

be served

will

lobby of Waller Hall.

in the

we know
number who desire
sary that

room

at

is

absolutely neces:

00

o’clock

the

to take dinner at the College.

evening an informal dance for Alumni and

In the

10:00

P.

M.

sion to

all

college dances.

Men

gymnasium from 7:00

to

Guest cards are required for admis-

card from the

Dean

It

not later than 2

guests will be held in the

of

dining

in the

Tickets for the dinner will be on sale

o’clock.

Please secure your guest

offices of the

Dean

Women

of

or

the

before the dance.

Kindly pass

this invitation

along to any of your

who may be graduates of Bloomsburg and
them to Come Home for the day.

friends

urge

Remember

the date,

and do

not miss

Home-

Coming Day.
Cordially yours,

A.

Z.

Schoch, President, Board of Trustees.

Francis B. Haas, President of the College.
R. Bruce Albert, President of Alumni Association.

Thomas Henry,
September

President of Student Council.

12, 1930.

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12

SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES
One

of the features of the

summer

session

was a

series of

four educational conferences conducted by prominent educators
in this

part of the state.

During the

first

half of the hour,

the

speaker presented an important educational problem, and the
period was devoted to a round table
The following was the program of the series:

latter half of the
sion.

discus-

—

Tuesday, July
M. E. Houck, superintendent of the Berwick schools, “The Teaching of Generalized Controls.”
1

.

Tuesday, July 8.
W. W. Evans, county superintendent of
schools, Columbia County, “The One Thing We Teachers Lack.”
Tuesday, July
of schools,
N. E. A.

8.

Fred W. Diehl, county superintendent

Montour County, “Important Contributions of the

Meeting

at

Columbus, Ohio.”

Tuesday, July

15.

C.

H.

Garwood, superintendent of
Reading While in Service.”

schools, Bloomsburg, “Professional

* * * *

The Training School had a very successful summer
The number of pupils in attendance was the largest that

session.

the col-

lege has ever had.

* * * *
Dr.

Haas was

a

member

of the faculty at the

He gave two

sion of the University of Michigan.
in

summer

courses, one

State Administration, and one in City Administration.

ing his absence,

W.

B. Sutliff

,

Dean

ses-

Dur-

of Instruction, served as Act-

ing President of the College.

Prof.

E

H. Nelson, Director of Health Education, will have

a year’s leave of absence this year,

studying for his doctor’s degree at

and

will

New York

spend the winter
University.

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13

IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM NOW UNDER WAY

Numerous projects of improvements and enlargement of
have been going on all summer, and are now
nearing completion.
The main project is the enlargement of
the heating system.
The power house is being enlarged by the

the physical plant

new

addition of one

boiler, additional

machinery, a new stack,

Outside underground steam lines, from the
and coal bunkers.
power house to all buildings on the campus, are being laid.
In Carver Hall, the

The

duit.

first

electric lighting

floor

was

entirely

rewired

forming a border to the sky

the auditorium has been recircuited to

make

in

con-

light in

a better distribu-

tion of the lighting.

Noetling

Hall,

where the old

training

school

was

locat-

been entirely rewired.
Part of this building is dethe new commercial course, which opened this year.

ed, has also

voted to

The program of replastenng the dormitory rooms and corbegun several years ago, has been carried forward during the summer to the extent that all corridors are now replaslered, and all rooms on third and fourth floors have been comThe plastering in the rooms is a smooth white finish,
pleted.
and the corridors are finished in white sand.
ridors,

The Alumni Trophy Room, formerly room K, is undergoing
It has been rewired and replastered, and
complete renovation.
This room will be redecthe steam lines have been regraded.
orated, and will be complete in time for Alumni Home-Coming
Day in November.
The placing of

all

high tension wires underground has been

completed from the edge
vault, thus eliminating

A paved

all

of the

campus

to the

transformer

poles from the campus.

road, constructed

ment, has been built from

by the State Highway Depart-

East Second

Street to

the

rear of

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North Hail, and the driveway, leading from East Second Street
to the side door of Carver Hall, has been paved.

A

concrete curb has been placed

in front of the

new

train-

and the space in the center has
been filled with broken stone, which will be covered with chipped stone and oil.
ing school in semi-circular form,

DR.

WALLER NAMED PRESIDENT EMERITUS

At a meeting of the board of trustees held

ment Week,

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,

was

last

Commence-

officially elected

President

Emeritus of the College.

For several years, Dr. Waller has always been introduced
at the College as President Emeritus,

worthily bestowed the

title

and the board has very

upon him.

was Dr. Waller who took hold of the institution in 1877,
was young and struggling, and left it in 890 to become
By that time, the
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
school had become one of the leading normal schools of the
state.
He returned to Bloomsburg as Principal in 1906, and
It

when

it

1

920.
in that office until his retirement in
His is the
one personality that has been identified with the institution from
its early day to the present, and his participation in Commencement events is always a happy incident for returning Alumni
members, especially those who were students here during his

continued

two terms

1

of office.

1

Paul E. Wirt, of Bloomsburg; Fred W. Diehl, of Danville,
and William S. Johnson, of Berwick, have been reappointed
trustees of the Teachers College

by Governor

Fisher.

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TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE QUARTERLY

The QUARTERLY has been self-supporting ever since pubwas resumed in 926, but it has been published on a
modest scale because the subscription list would not permit anything more pretentious.
We now have eleven hundred and
forty subscribers, but we should have at least two thousand to
lication

make

it

We
we

ers;

to those

1

a publication of which
solicit

we

shall all

the cooperation of these

be proud.

who

are

ask you to help increase the subscription

who know

many members

now
list

subscrib-

by talking

QUARTERLY. There are
Alumni Association who do not know that

nothing about the

of the

QUARTERLY

is being published.
There are also many who have been subscribers, who have
allowed their subscription to lapse.
Help us to get them inter-

the

ested again.

Please notify us promptly of any change of address,

any

deaths, marriages or any other items that graduates of Blooms-

burg would

like to

know.

The year begins with the June number. We still have on
hand quite a few copies of the June issue, that we can send to

who

subscription now.
be sent to F. H. Jenkins, 216 West
Be sure to give your full address
5th Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
and state the class in which you were graduated.
Notify us if
you do not receive your copies of the QUARTERLY.

those

will

send

in their

All remittances should

F.

H. JENKINS,
Business Manager.

The marriage of Miss Beatrice Fletcher, a former memb- r
and Robert F. Ensminger, of Wilkes-Barre, was
Miss Fletcher was training teacher in
announced recently.
fourth grade in 1925 and 1926.
Mr. and Mrs. Ensminger are
of the faculty,

now

living in Wilkes-Barre.

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THE 1930 ENROLLMENT

lhe outstanding feature of the enrollment
increased

number

of

men

—

number

the largest

this

of

year

men

is

the

enrolled

the institution since the war.
There are this year a total of
75 men, 95 of whom are boarding students and 80 are day
North Hall, the men’s dormitory, is no longer large
students.
enough to accommodate all the men, and consequently a large
number are living in homes in the town.
in
1

There are 458

women

enrolled, which number includes
55 day students.
The total number of boarding students, men and women, is 398; the total
number of day students is 235. The total enrollment is 633.

303 boarding

students and

1

This does not include the pupils

in the training school, the

School

of Music, nor the students enrolled in the Saturday classes for

teachers in service, figures for which are not yet available.

NEW TRAINING SCHOOL NOW
The new

training school building

IN

USE

was placed

in

use for the

The building
time with the opening of the first semester.
will be formally dedicated in connection with Alumni Homefirst

Coming Day, November 15.
The new buiiding, the first of what is expected to be an extensive building program, is modern in every detail, and is an
imposing structure standing on an elevation above the tennis
court.

The
ial

first

events, the

week
first

was marked by two socwhich was the reception given by the trus-

of the College year

of

and faculty to the teachers of Columbia County,
Saturday evening, the trustees,
evening, September 5.
tees

Friday
faculty.

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and College Community Government Association,
formal reception and dance for the student body.

held an

As

is

in-

the cus-

tom each year, Freshmen were presented by upperclass sponsors
to members of the Board of Trustees and members of the Faculty.
A short program preceded the dancing. A short program was arranged by the committee in charge. This consisted of two selections by the College Glee Club, and short addresses by President Haas, and Fred W. Diehl, of the Board of Trustees.

1930 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

— Kutztown, Kutztown.
Bloomsburg.
—
18—
Bloomsburg.
25 —
Nov. — Lock Haven,
Lock Haven.
Nov. 8— Shippensburg,
Bloomsburg.
Nov.
—
27

Sept.

Oct.

1

1

at

Millersville, at

Mansfield, at

Oct.

Oct.

California, at California.
at

1

at

15

East Stroudsburg, at East Stroudsburg.

THE ALUMNI TROPHY ROOM

Will be

ber 8.

opened

for use

on

“Home Coming Day,” Novem-

Watch announcement.

Letters are

now being

buting to the fund.

sent out to classes that

All subscriptions

fund should be in by November
mittee be not hindered for funds.

are

and contributions

contrito the

commust pay as we go; and
we want things right on the grand opening day. Let us hear
from you at once.
Whatever contributions come in will be
credited to the classes to which the contributor belongs, and individual receipts sent as acknowledgment of the funds having
been received.
1

0. H.

st,

that the plans of the

We

BAKELESS,

Custodian.

:

THE ALUMNI
I

1879

Anna

E.

Her address

is

Roxby
1

1

1880

Como

in

Swarthmore, Pa.

2 Cornell Avenue.

The present address
Street,

.

Superivsing Principal

is

.

of Ernest

W. Young

is

2302 Alden

Station, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Bridget A. Burns

is

teaching

in

the

J.

W. Cooper High

School, Shenandoah, Pa.

1882
2531 West 4th Street, Williamsport, Pa., has
his home by illness for the past two years.
.

Frank

E. Hill,

been confined

to

Martha Burnette Stiles (Mrs. William H. Brooke)
180 Meigs Street, Rochester, N. Y.

lives

at

1883
John G. Conner lives at 8 Belmont Circle, Trenton, N. J.
He is President of the Conner Millwork Company, of that city.
.

1884
428 Walnut
.

Laura M. Helman

lives at

Street, Catasaqua,

Pa.

1885
Sally

Watson

is

living in

Louis B. Bierly lives at

Mary

C. Sites lives at

.

Keyport,

New

Jersey.

925 Exeter Avenue,
1428 North 6th

Pittston, Pa.

Street, Harrisburg,

Pa.

Harry 0. Hine

is

Secretary of the

the District of Columbia.
states

Board of Education of

In a recent letter to Mr. Jenkins

he

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will reach you shortly a copy of “CompilLaws Affecting the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, 1804-1929.”
The book is marked for the library of the college in the hope that it
may have some value to students as it outlines the

“There

ation of

evolution of the public schools of the nation
so far as statutes

may do

The

so.

s

capital,

financing of the

public schools here by lotteries, in the early days,

is

of interest.
“I

admit a personal pride

in this

contribution to

book represents the outcome of
many pleasant hours of study and research covering
the college, for the

a period of three years, in a task that almost wholly

devolved on me.
“This

is

sent to

you on the assumption that you
up on the hill and can give

closely identified

are

still

the

book such

hospitality as

it

deserves.

My

visits

to Pennsylvania almost invariably include a glimpse at

the stately buildings

where memories of my assocrun back many

iations with stimulating instructors

years.”

1886.

Pa.,

Grace A. Leacock lives at 282 N. Maple Avenue, Kingston,
is keeping house for her cousins.

where she

After a period of fifty-two years,
spent

in actual

all

but

five of

which were

teaching Jere Reeder, Principal of the Garfield

School, Shamokin, retired at the close

of the term last June.
reached
his
seventieth
birthday
in August, and his
Reeder
Mr.
compulsory,
therefore
in
accordance
with the
retirement was
Mr. Reeder has been principal of
Pennsylvania School Code.
the Garfield Sohcol for the past thirty-three years.
Ellen L. Geiser (Seip) lives at

Pa.

824

Meixell Street, Easton,

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N. G. Cool lives at

1

1

2 North 50th Street, West Philadel-

phia, Pa.

Brown has

E. Claire

1887.
from teaching, and

retired

is

now

liv-

ing on Lehigh Street, Truckville, Pa.

1888.
William

F.

Magee

is

President of the Bethlehem Business

College, Wilbur Trust Building, Bethlehem, Pa.

After spending two years

Adah M.

Yetter

Clapham

is

South and Central America,
266 Washington Ave-

in

now

living at

nue, Apartment D, Brooklyn, N. Y.

1889.
Adelaide
ior

McKown Hawke

High School

Marne

at

is

Albertson (Mrs.

E.

Her address

Berwick, Pa.

a teacher in the Junior-Sen-

Tunkhannock, Pa.

Fannie E. Kennard

is

Elliott

Adams)

137 East Sixth

lives in

is

teaching

in

Street.

Meshoppen, Pa.

Margaret Stephens Taylor lives at 59 State Street, New
Her daughter, Lorena Taylor Perry, is
London, Connecticut.
a graduate of Connecticut College for Women, and has a young
son, Edson Clifton Perry.
1

1890.

Mary

E.

Roberts Wagner

is

in the

dairy business at Shen-

andoah, Pa.
Susie Mentzer (Mrs.

J.

Edward Beck)

lives in

Waynesboro,

Pa.

ton,

Rev. Clark Callendar died June 20, at his home in Scranfor the past eight years he had been pastor of the

where

He served for thirty-eight
Myrtle Street Methodist Church.
years in the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

He

are ministers.

is

survived by his wife and five sons,

all

of

whom

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Mary

H. Stover,

who

21

has retired from teaching, lives

in

Waynesboro, Pa.
Annie M.

Elliott lives at

535 Arbutus

Street,

Germantown,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Bess

J.

Holmes (Mrs. A.

N. Yost)

is

living in

Bloomsburg.

1891.

Annie J. Evans (Mrs. J. William Wall)
Carey Street, Plains, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

lives at

M6

East

Phoebe Shew (Mrs. Mark Creasy) has moved from ChesFourth and Iron Streets, Bloomsburg.

tertown, Maryland, to

The death of Mr. Creasy, who served for fifteen years as teacher and principal of the Chestertown High School, was noted m
the March issue of the QUARTERLY.
1892.
Caroline H. Black lives in Newportville, Pa., where she

is

Principal of the Newportville School.
Dr. T. L. Deaver, of
Y.,

677 Onandaga

Street,

Syracuse,

N.

Surgeon-in-Chief at the Onandaga General Hospital.

is

Ida M. Walter
bia County Schools.

is

Assistant Superintendent of the Colum-

Her home

is

in

Catawissa, Pa.

1893.

Hervey Smith and Paul Smith, sons of H. Mont Smith, of
Bloomsburg, have successfully passed the state bar examinations, which they took last June in Philadelphia.
It is probably the first time since the uniform bar examinations have been
required in Pennsylvania that brothers have been successful at
the

same time, and the first time they have taken the examinaThe entrance of these two young men into practice will

tions.

make

the fourth generation of the family to

follow the

legal

profession.

May Learn

(Mrs. Frank R. Buckalew) has been in Athens,

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22

Greece, since September, 1929, with her son

Robert,

who

is

Business Secretary of the Near East Relief.

She has traveled
extensively in Europe, and several years ago, accompanied her
husband to Hawaii, when he was an executive with the Near
East Relief.
Mrs. Buckalew’s home address is 912 Fulare
Avenue, Berkeley, California.
Miss Minnie Penman, a teacher in the Bloomsburg schools,
was severely injured by a fall downstairs at her home during
She has recovered to the extent that she will be
the summer.
able to resume her duties at the opening of the school term.

Bridget Flynn died at her home,

3617 Hamilton

Street,

The body was brought to MaPhiladelphia, on March
hanoy City, where interment was made in the Annunciation CeMiss Flynn taught in Mahanoy City until the World
metery.
She was an able teacher, conscientious and painstaking,
War.
and was considered one of the most competent teachers in the
When the World War
history of the schools of Mahanoy City.
broke out, she volunteered her services to the government, and
was assigned to a responsible position at League Island. After
the close of the war, when she was honorably discharged, Miss
Flynn was elected a teacher in the Philadelphia schools, and fill27.

ed that position with credit
Alice Fenner,

who

until

2029 Highland Street, AllenEurope during the summer.

lives at

town, Pa., spent two months

Minnie Gibbons (Mrs.
1

her death.

in

W.

F.

Hosie)

lives at

1

382 East

4th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Martha Powell
Bloomsburg, Pa.

is

Secretary of the White Milling Company,
*

Laura A. Romberger (Mrs. John

L.

Brower)

lives in

Hern-

don, Pa.

1894.

Mary

L.

Frymire (Mrs. Frank

E. Kirk)

is

a teacher in

the

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Junior High School at Milton, Pa.

23

Mrs. Kirk lives

in

Watson-

town. Pa.

160

Louis L. Ansart, Patent Attorney, can be reached at

Broadway, New York.
Martha Conner

is

Librarian at the

Carnegie

Institute

of

Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Euphemia M. Green has retired from teaching, and now
owns a gift shop at Englewood, Florida.
Nellie

ham

McDermott) lives at 235 GraHer youngest child, William C. McMaster’s degree from Johns Hopkins Uni-

Coffman (Mrs.

C. H.

Street, Carlisle, Pa.

Dermott, received his

and

versity this year,

will

teach

Allegheny

Latin at

College,

Meadville, Pa., this year.

C.

Raymond

Stecker

is

1895.
a merchant

in

Bloomsburg.

fore going into business, he taught six terms in

Columbia County.

M.

L.

schools

of

was formerly Nellie M. DeighMr. and Mrs. Stecker have a

Mrs. Stecker

miller, of the class of

daughter Gladys,

the

Be-

1

908.

who was graduated from Bloomsburg

Laubach

is

Head

in

1925.

of the Department of Industrial Arts

at Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute, Indiana, a posi-

tion

which he has held for the past twenty-five years.

Anna

Sidler (Mrs. P.

M. Ikeler)

lives in

Moselle, Missis-

sippi.

1896.

W. Arndt) lives at 202 Madison
Haven,
Pa.
After
Avenue, Lock
the death of her husband four
years ago, Mrs. Arndt again entered the teaching profession,
and is now teacher of English in grades four, five and six, at the
Robb School, in Lock Haven.
Florence A. Lins (Mrs. D.

Harriet F. Carpenter has resumed her duties at the Bloomsburg High School after a serious illness last spring.

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24

Millie Seely

208

Thomas

is

teaching

in

She

Berwick.

lives

at

East Seventh Street.

1899.
Joseph

P.

Echternach, M. D., has

offices

at

1207-1208

Medical Arts Building, Walnut Street, at Sitxeenth, Philadelphia,
Pa.

Warren W. Preston, M.

D.,

is

located

32 South Main

at

Street, Montrose, Pa.

1900
Blanche Letson (Mrs. H. C. MacAmis)

is

assisting her hus-

band, who is Assistant Treasurer and Purchasing Agent at Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee.
Mr. and Mrs. MacAmis
have one son, who was six years old in July.
Josephine M. Cummings

is

teacher of

Edison Junior High School, Harrisburg.
is 3632 Brisbane Street, Paxtang.
B.

Branson Kuhns

is

Geography

in

the

Her Harrisburg address

Secretary of the Milton Trust and Safe

Deposit Company, and lives

in

West Milton, Pa.

1901.

Pa.

Freda S. Cook is a grade teacher in the schools of Arnold,
She lives at 723 Leishman Avenue.
1

Mary

G. Belig has charge of

Mathematics

in the

Bookkeeping and Business

Senior High School, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Edith E. Keller (Mrs. Verus T. Ritter) lives at

356 North

Latches Lane, Merion, Pa.

1902.

Genevieve L. Buss is teacher of Art in the Thaddeus StevHer address in Wilens Junior High School, Williamsport, Pa.
Boulevard.
liamsport is 81 Washington

Mary

Francis Gendall lives at

Rockville Centre, N. Y.

333 North

Forest

Avenue,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1903
William C. DeLong
Pa.

in the

.

insurance business in Berwick,

Mr. DeLong taught for seventeen years after graduation,

and then was engaged
His wife
ter,

is

25

is

Anna

live at

Americanization work

in

Ida Dreibelbis, of the class of

Louise,

is

in the

1

for six

DeLong

Mr. and Mrs.

eighth grade.

years.

Their daugh-

908.

1201 West Front Street, Berwick.

1904

.

Leona Kester (Mrs. Roland Lawton)
Theresa M.
Cleveland, Ohio.

lives in Millville, Pa.

Hammond lives at 2076 East 88th
Miss Hammond retired from teaching

Street,

sixteen

years ago.
R. L. Jordan,

mantown,

Pa.,

is

who

lives at

engaged

56 West Chelton Avenue, Ger-

in the optical business.

He practices mediX-Ray director at the Nesbitt Memorial
Mrs. Howell, who was formerly Jessie M. Boyer, also
Hospital.
Their two
of the class of 904, assists him in his X-Ray work.
G. L. Howell lives at Trucksville, Pa.

cine at Kingston,

and

is

1

children are students at

Emma

Kelminski

is

Wyoming Seminary.
teaching

in the

schools of Mt. Carmel,

Pa.

Matilda Black

is

teaching

first

grade

in the

schools of Wil-

liamsport, Pa.
Nellie Fetherolf (Mrs. C. C. Lesher)

lives at

112 North

Third Street, Lewisburg, Pa.

Minnie V. Fineran (Mrs. P.

J.

McDonough)

lives

at

1

78

Pike Street, Carbondale.

Blanche Hartzell (Mrs. Harlan Barton)

lives at

2 3 West
1

Fourth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

W. R. Helwig is Assistant Engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, and lives at 709 Pillsbury Ave1

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

26

nue, Minneapolis, Minn.

Elizabeth Specht (Mrs. William H. Martin) lives at 541
North Vine Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin were
married September 28, 1929.

Emma

Hinkley (Mrs.

J. P.

Saylor) lives in Tamaqua, Pa.

1905

Anna M. Fagan
She

School.
Dr.

is

lives at

.

Vice-Principal of

27 East South

George Harris Webber,

Education and Psychology

at the

the

High

Larksville

Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Head

Department of

of the

Georgia State College for

Wo-

men, Milledgeville, Georgia, has recently been commissioned by
President Leroy Allen, as Chancellor of the Southeast Region
of Pi Gamma Mu, National Social Science Honor Society.
This
great scholarship society has over a hundred chapters in the various colleges and universities of the country.
In addition to its
chapter members, there are hundreds of alumni and membersat-Iarge, who include leaders in every important department of
Pi Gamma Mu occupies the position in
public and private life.
field of social science comparable to that of Phi Beta Kappa in
the field of literary studies and that of Sigma XI in natural
science.
Dr. Webber also holds and has held many important
positions in church, fraternal, civic and educational organizations.

Alice L. Smull

Central

Grammar

is

teacher of English and Geography

in the

School, Danville, Pa.

Ezra B. Gruver

is

in the

mercantile business in Lewistown,

Pa.

Ida Sitler has for ten years been

holding the

position

Professor of Zoology at Hollins College, Hollins, Virginia.
the past three years she has been secretary

Section of the Virginia
years, she has

worked

Academy
in the

Entrance Examination Board

of

Biological

For the past two

of Science.

Biology Division
in the State of

the

of

For

of

New

the

York.

College

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Mary
grade

E. Colvin (Mrs.

in Clark’s

Weldon Systroth)

27

is

teaching second

Her husband died two years ago.

Summit, Pa.

Mrs. Systroth has a son, Robert, eleven years of age.

1906.

Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon)

lives at

901

169th

1

Street, Jamaica, N. Y.

Rosa Vollrath (Mrs.

E. C.

Buckheit)

teaches

music

in

Indiana, Pa.

Main

her

Abbie Cantlin (Mrs. Albin Meluskey)
Street, Shenandoah, Pa.

lives at

206 North

Katherine Scanlan (Mrs. John Cummings) died recently at
in Detroit.
She is survived by her husband and four

home

children.

Marion M. Groff (Mrs. David

I.

Spangler)

lives at

1048

North 4th Street, Reading, Pa.

1907.

Mary

E.

Lillian

Weaver (Mrs.

Bakeless

degeville, Georgia,

Wendt

who

D. F. Evans) lives in Buffalo, N. Y.

(Mrs. George H.

Webber)

of Mill-

has finished her term as Worthy Matron

of Milledgeville Chapter, No. 272, Order of the Eastern Star,

was presented with a handsome Past Worthy Matron’s jewel ai
Mrs. Webber has also been
a recent meeting of the Chapter.
elected
a
member
honored by being
of Beta Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, National Social Science Honor Society, at the Georgia
State College for

Women.

Reba Quick (Mrs.
Monroe, Louisiana.
Esther A.

Wolke

is

F.

H. Lerch) lives at

teaching

303 Park Avenue,

in Dallas, Pa.

Blanche Johns (Mrs. R. Burchard Laurence)
Carlton Avenue, Port Washington, N. Y.
S.

lives at

23

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

28

A daughter was born May 9, to Mr. and Mrs. William V.
Moyer, of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Moyer, before her marriage, was
Miss Wilhelmma White, of Bloomsburg.
1908

Adda Rhodes

(Mrs. Arthur

.

L.

Johnson)

lives at

724 Wesr

Fourth Street, Hazleton, Pa.

ior

Olive A. Major is teacher of English in the Sulzberger JunHigh School, Philadelphia.
She lives at 520 Rogers Avenue,

Merchantville, N.

J.

Mary Southwood

is

teaching

in

the schools of Mt. Carmel,

Pa.

Jennie Yoder (Mrs.
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

School and a daughter

Her husband
mobile Club

Pa.

is

in

Edward Foley) lives
She has a son who is

who

is

in the

at

8134 Hennig

a Senior in High

second year of Junior High.

Director of Publications for the Keystone AutoPhiladelphia.

Joseph Shovlin lives at 3731 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
He has two sons and a daughter, now in high school.

Joanna Reddall (Mrs.

J.

M. Watkins) has moved to 1110
Cal.
She states that she

North Michigan Avenue, Pasadena,

would be glad

to see

any of her classmates who come

Pasa-

to

dena.

Rebecca Appleman
at the

1

is

teaching

in Danville, Pa.

She

lives

Blecher Apartments, Danville.

Nellie

Bogart

Sadie

L.

7th and

Mae
She has

K

lives in Riverside, Pa.

Hartman

Streets, N.

is

Industrial Secretary at the Y.

W., Washington, D.

W.

C. A.,

C.

Callender (Mrs. Lloyd Wilson) lives at Kis-Lyn, Pa.

five children

—one

attending high school

with the

in-

coming to Bloomsburg; two attending grade school,
and two who have not yet begun to attend school.
tention of

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Helen Seasholtz
Miss Seasholtz

is

is

now

living at

1

A

5

29

Street, Danville, Pa.

a teacher in the Danville schools.

Mabel Wilkinson (Mrs. Thomas Walton)
Walnut Street, Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Florence G. Beddall

lives at the

lives at

Lancaster

1

North

Apartments,

Ardmore, Pa.

250 Wyoming Avenue, Audubon,

William Rarich lives at
N.

He

J.

J.

is

treasurer of Harris

H. Grimes, M. D., lives

Latta, Inc., Insurance.

J.

in Danville,

1909

.

member

Bess Hinckley, a former
ty, is

Worker

Librarian and Personnel

Indiana.

of the

Bloomsburg

facul-

at the State Hospital for

the Insane, Danville, Pa.

Irma

Jennie Birth
School.

(Mrs. C. F. Abbott) lives in Espy, Pa.

F. Heller

is

Biology

teacher of

Miss Birth lives

in

Scott K. Fisher, M. D.,

Berwick

High

510-512 Keith

Build-

in the

Nescopeck, Pa.
is

located at

ing, Syracuse, N. Y.

Carrie E.

Van Campen

is

Supervising Principal of the grade

schools at Chinchilla, Pa.

Cora M. Major
delphia schools.

is

Supervisor of Handwriting

Her address

is

in the Phila-

6520 Rogers Avenue, Mer-

chantville, N. J.

1910
Julia G. Brill
at State College.

is

.

Assistant Professor of English Composition

Her address

is

128 East Nittany Avenue,

State College, Pa.
S.

Tracy Roberts

Scranton, Pa.

is

a teacher

in

the Technical High School,

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30

Bertha Brobst

Her address

Pa.

is

is

teaching

primary grades

in the

301 East Fourth

Ralph Wertman

is

in

farming near Quakake, Pa.

Marie Beach Marr is Manager of the Metaline
and Water Company, at Metaiine Falls, Washington.

Nora

E. Geise

is

Berwick,

Street.

teaching

Falls Light

Junior High School at Nor-

in the

thumberland, Pa.

A
B.

daughter was born August

Sluman, of Smith

Hill,

6,

1930, to Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. and Mrs. SiUman

Pa.

I.

now have

seven daughters.

1911
J.

Frank Dennis

is

.

Director of Manual Arts in the Wilkes-

Barre Schools.

Mae Chamberlain

(Mrs.

J. J.

Sherman)

is

Associate Pastor

of the Bethany Baptist Church, Scranton, Pa.

Mrs. Jennie Tucker Williams

is

teaching

in

Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.
Elsie

nock, Pa.

Winter (Mrs. Nat. D. Stevens) is living in TunkhanMr. and Mrs. Stevens have a family of five children,

the youngest being twins
L.

May

—

a

boy and a

girl,

four years old.

Steiner (Mrs. George E. Gamble, Jr.) lives at 281

1

North 12th Street, Philadelphia.

Ranck) lives at 60 North
Ranck
Mr.
is one of the officials

Irene Snyder (Mrs. Dayton L.

Front Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
of Bucknell University.

1912
Roxie H. Smith

and eighth grades
in Trucksville.

is

.

doing departmental work

in the schools at

in the

Shavertown, Pa.

seventh

She

lives

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Mary M. Watts

teacher

is

of

the

Literature in

Her address

School, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

31

Guthrie

901 South Franklin

is

Street.

Bertha Harner (Mrs. Ercell D. Bidleman) lives at 321
Mr. Bidleman, also of the class of
Bloomsburg.

First Street,

1912,

a salesman for Jacob Keller, wholesaler, Bloomsburg.

is

Lena

G. Leitzel (Mrs. C. H. A. Streamer) lives at

and W. Knight Avenues, Collinswood,
erates the Streamer

Pharmacy

Ethel McGirk (Mrs.

Florence R.
ols,

May

S. E.

in

Haddon

Her husband op-

N. J.

Collingswood.

Eby)

(Mrs. Leon

S.

lives in

Ridley Park, Pa.

Reynolds)

lives in

Nich-

N. Y.

Alfa Stark (Mrs. Robert F. Wilner) is located at Baguio,
Mountain Province, Philippine Islands, where she and her husband, the Rev. Robert F. Wilner, 09, are principals of the EasProfessor Jenkins has reter School for Igorot boys and girls.
interesting
photograph
of the school, and the
a
very
ceived
ample
evidence
the
fact that Mr. and Mrs.
photograph gives
of
Wilner are doing a fine piece of work.
Iris

in

Ikeler (Mrs. Herbert L.

McCord) may be heard

her radio extension teaching from Station

sponsored by the

Moody

work has been so
room work to an

successful that she

dress

is

WMBI,

daily

Chicago,

Her radio
was transferred from classschedule this year.
Her home ad-

Bible Institute, of that city.

all-radio

1451 Baltimore Avenue, Chicago.

1913.
Elizabeth Sturges

is

teacher of mathematics in the Thurs-

ton Preparatory School, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Belrose Avenue, South

Luther Hess
Espy, Pa.

is

Hills,

engaged

Her address

is

2956

Pittsburgh.
in

the coal

dredging business at

.

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32

Mary
schools.

E. Collins

Marie Snyder

is

teacher of

is

Her address

is

grade

fifth

in the

Shamokin

2 4 East Sunbury Street.
1

employed by the

state of

New

Jersey

teach and supervise music in the schools of Ocean County.

to

She

was the first one appointed to this position three years ago, when
Miss Snyder lives at 26 Water Street, Toms
it was created.
River.
Her sister Shirley, was a member of the class of 1930,
the fourth in the family to be graduated from Bloomsburg since
1913.

Mary

E.

Heacock, a teacher

in

the city schools of Memphis,

Tenn., took a two months’ trip to Europe

Memphis address

is

Mae M. Byington

is

teacher of Social Science

Junior High School, Binghamton, N.
Avenue, Binghamton.

in

the

New York

She

Y.

Natalie M. Green (Mrs. Arthur

Home Making

summer.

this

Her

2879 Catawba Avenue.

J.

schools.

in the

lives at

East

2 Curran

Keach) is teacher of
Her address is 63 7

East 21st Street, Brooklyn.

Catherine A. Malloy
in

is

the Philadelphia schools.

nue,

teaching

in the

Her address

is

elementary grades

3632 Whitby Ave-

West Philadelphia.
Ruth

F.

Nicely (Mrs. H. B. Sterner) lives in Dewart, Pa.

Nellie P. Gleason (Mrs. Martin J.

and teaching

at Clark’s

Summit, R. D.

Idwal H. Edwards, Captain

in

White)

is

keeping house

1

the U. S. Air

Service,

has

been transferred from March Field, California, to Langley Field,
With Mrs. Edwards (Katherine Bierman, ’13) and his
Virginia.
two daughters, he came East on a transport by way of the Panama Canal. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards spent some time in Bloomsburg this summer with Mrs. Bierman’s parents, Dr. and Mrs.

Henry Bierman.

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33

1914.
Sabiila Schobert (Mrs. Earl

den Park Manor, Washington, D.

Campbell)

310-A

Al-

Summit

Hill

lives at

C.

1915.

Norma Hoag

W.

(Mrs.

R.

McCready)

lives in

Pa.

Thomas

Elsie E.

a

is

primary teacher at Mountain Top, Pa.

Margaret B. Zearfoss (Mrs.
Mountain Top, Pa.

Crumb

Sadie M.

Washington, D.
William

J.

is

a

clerk in

Her address

C.

Richards)

Earl F.

is

the

323 G

Cress, M. D., lives at 21

lives

in

Navy Department

at

Street, S. E.

1

North 20th Street,

Pottsville, Pa.

and Dr. Elmer A. Harringwere married June 29, 1929, at the
home of the bride’s parents. Mrs. Harrington, before her marriage, was employed in the Radio Department of the Bureau of

Mary Brower,

ton, of

of Herndon, Pa.,

Washington, D.

C.,

Standards, at Washington.

Dr. Harrington

is

a scientist at the

Mr. and Mrs. Harrington are now
Bureau of Standards.
in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

living

1916.

at

1

Florence E. Wenner is teaching
50 South Washington Street.

Norma

L.

Hamlin

is

Lorena E. Thomas
Mountain Top, Pa.

Emma

J.

Wilkes-Barre.

She

lives

Postmistress at Falls, Pa.
is

a primary teacher in the schools

Myers is Supervisor of Handwriting
Her address is 284 Atlantic Street.

G. Harrison

Bridgeton, N.

in

of

in

3

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34

Hilda Clark, of Danville, Pa., and Elmer E.

of

Fairchild,

were married December 31, 929. Announcement of
the marriage was made May 24, 1930.
The ceremony was
performed in the historic Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg.
It was in this church that President Lincoln worshipped at services held after he delivered his famous Gettysburg address.
Milton,

1

Mrs. Fairchild
R. D. 2.

is

the daughter of Mrs. Luella Clark, of Danville,

After graduating from

Bloomsburg,

taught

she

in

Danville and vicinity, and for three years previous to her mar-

Northumberland, where she was a popular and
Mr. Fairchild is a graduate of Bucknell
University, and is a well-known electrical contractor in Milton,
riage, taught in

successful teacher.

where Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild now are

living.

Kathryn E. Gabbert (Mrs. Charles A. Thomas)
South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.

lives at

1

1

Earl Tubbs is Division Engineer for the West Penn Powand may be reached at P. 0. Box 499, Greensburg, Pa.
1928.
He
He has been located in Greensburg since January
is married, and has a daughter three years old.

W.

er Co.,

1

Cora G.
sport schools.

Hill

is

doing departmental work

Her address

is

in the

2331 West Fourth

Mabel M. Anthony (Mrs. George

,

L. Parsels)

William-

Street.
is

teacher of

sixth grade in Pleasantville, N. J.

R. D. Leidich,
Pa.,

is

a

member

who

lives at

33 Crescent

president of his class, he has this message to

“Be

Street,

his

sure to arrange to be back next year for the

1917
Clarence T. Hodgson

York, Pa.

His address

Earl E. Richards

Top, Pa.

Tremont,
As

of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

is

is

is

1

classmates:

5th reunion.”

.

Principal of one of the schools

472

in

Atlantic Avenue.

clerk in a railroad office at Mountain

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Freda

E. Jones, teacher of

School, lives at

Biology

35

Kingston

in the

372 Schuyler Avenue, Kingston,

Anna M. Richards (Mrs. W.

High

Pa.

448 Grove

C. Carter) lives at

Street, Peckville, Pa.

Mary Agnes Warner (Mrs. Davis Smales)

lives at R. D. 2,

Laceyville, Pa.

Her home

Margaret Seach is teaching in Toledo, Ohio.
is 262 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

address

Mary

C. C.

Kahny (Mrs.

C. L.

Arnold)

may be

reached at

the Kiski School, Saltsburg, Pa.

Erma Porteus, of Berwick, and Paul Brock, of Honesat the home of the bride’s parents,
were married July
by the Rev. J. H. Ake, Superintendent of the Harrisburg District
For the past two years,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Brock was employed as teacher of English in the Berwick
Mr. Brock is in the contracting business with his
High School.
father in Honesdale, where he and Mrs. Brock are now living.
Miss

dale,

1

1

1918.
M. Irene Kerstetter

Her address

Maine
oy

is

E.

237 West

is
1

Richardson

teacher of Biology

in

New York

City.

1th Street.
is

teacher of second grade

in

Mahan

City, Pa.

A

daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. David

April 28, 1930.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller are

now

B. Miller,

living at

on

2125

North Pierce Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Roy

Ida Wilson (Mrs.

Snyder)

D.

lives in

where Mr. Snyder operates a large milk business.
is

Bloomsburg,

Her address

18 West Fifth Street.

Mary A. Meehan
burg, Pa.

lives at

2121 North Third

Street, Harris-

In June, 1930, she received the degree of Bachelor

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36

Lebanon Valleye

of Science in Education at

han

is

now

Miss Mee-

College.

teaching in the Harrisburg schools.

1919

Rhoda Crouse
Arthur

E.

is

teaching

Steward

Co., Bloomsburg.

is

in

.

the schools at Berwick, Pa.

Magee Carpet

billing clerk for the

His address

is

Bloomsburg, R. D.

5.

Announcement was made June 29, of the marriage of
C. Shoemaker and Miss Hazel B. Wayne, both of Bloomsburg.
The marriage was performed by the Rev. Harry F. BabGrover
cock

at the

Methodist parsonage, Bloomsburg, on June
the couple had sailed from
1

was not announced until after
York on their honeymoon trip

1

,

but

New

The bride
Bloomsburg
schools.
Mr. Shoemaker has been the proprietor of the Aqueduct Mills, Bloomsburg.
has been teaching for the

Helen

E. Schools

to the British Isles.

years

past six

(Mrs. Adolph F.

liamstown, N. Y., where her husband

Mr. and Mrs.

churches of the town.

1920
Grace 0. Mausteller

is

the

Knapp)

lives in

of one

pastor

Knapp have two

of

Wilthe

children.

.

bookkeeper

is

in

for the

Hagenbuch Mot-

or Co., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Elizabeth Marchetti

is

teaching

in

Nurem-

the schools at

berg, Pa.

Marporie M. Rose is with the Pennsylvania Threshermen
and Farmers’ Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, of HarrisMiss Rose lives at 3409 Rutherford Street, Harrisburg.
burg.

Mary
lin

G.

McBride

is

teacher of seventh grade

in the

Frank-

Street School, Wilkes-Barre.

Florence Berninger

is

teaching

M. Elizabeth Petty

is

teacher of 8th grade

in Miff linville.

Pa.

in the

Franklin

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Street School, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Her

37

address

93

is

Hanover

Street.

Catherine Bitting

is

bookkeeper

in a

bank

Ringtown, Pa.

at

Rachel Patrick (Mrs. William Seitzinger)

Tower

lives in

City, Pa.

Alice F. Cocklin

is

teaching

in

Shickshinny, Pa.

Last Jan-

uary, she underwent an operation for goitre, at the Nanticoke

She was able to resume her duties before the

State Hospital.

end of the term.
1921.

Emma

C. Seltzer (Mrs.

Herbert E. Ratsburg)

lives in

Ring-

town, Pa.

Mary Brower,

of Bloomsburg,

who

has been taking a post

graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania, received her
Master’s degree at that institution last June.

teach

this

coming year

in

She

expects

a private school at Stamford,

to

Conn-

ecticut.

Clara E. Fisher
of

Mahanoy

Supervisor of Handwriting

is

in the

schools

City, Pa.

1922.

in

Kathryn Gamble was graduated from Bucknell University
She has been elected Supervisor of Penmanship in

June.

Collingswood,

New

Jersey, for the

Olwen M. Lewis
C. Adelle

Pa.

Cryder

is

teaching

lives at 71

Miss Cryder teaches

first

in

coming term.
Scranton, Pa.

South 3th Avenue, Coatesville,

grade

in the Coatesville schools,

and supervises two student teachers from the Teachers College
at West Chester.
1923.
At the

First

Presbyterian Church of Camden, N.

J.,

on Sat-

urday, June 28, was solemnized the marriage of Miss Josephine
Colley, of Bloomsburg,

and Edwin

E.

Howard, of

Clearfield.

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The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. G. H. Hemingway, former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg.
Mr. Howard is a graduate of Penn State in the class of
1927, and for the past three years has been the librarian at
the Bloomsburg High School.
Mr. Howard is also a member of
the class of 1927 at Penn State and is a member of Theta Zi
fraternity, of Kappa Gamma Psi and Phi Mu Alpha, honorary

Lambda Sigma, honorary educationand of the Scabbard and Blade, military fraternity.
He has been the head of the shop department of the Bloomsburg
High School for the past three years, and is now director of in-

musical fraternities, of Iota
al fraternity,

Teachers College at

dustrial arts at the State

and Mrs. Howard are now

A wedding

Millersville.

Mr.

living in Millersville.

and simple beauty was
Church of Berwick Wed-

of exceptional interest

that solemnized at the First Methodist

nesday, August 20, khen Miss Edna Blaine became the bride of
Mrs. Major taught for several
Harold W. Major, of Lehman.
years in Berwick, acting also as a co-operative training teacher

During the period in
for Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
which she was teaching, she also did advance work at Columbia
Mr. Major is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary
University.
He is now acting as field engineer for
and Lehigh University.
Mr. and Mrs. Major are
the Kooper Company, of Pittsburgh.

now

living in Kingston.

Marjorie

S.

Gamble was graduated

this

year

from Buck-

nell University.

Sister

Mary Anselm Kane

is

teaching at

St.

Mary’s Convent,

161 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Helen M. Keller

is

teaching

in

Kingston, Pa., and lives at

30 North Welles Avenue.
Dodson is teaching in the Franklin
Her address is 122 Dana Street.
Barre, Pa.
Lois

Ira C.

Markley

is

school,

Wilkes-

Principal of the Milford High School.

He

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lives in

39

Beaver Springs, Pa.

Jean

E.

Young

teaching

is

in

Upper Darby, and

lives

in

Philadelphia.

Helen M. Richards, a member of the Bloomsburg faculty,
toured Europe

this

summer.
1924.

Marian K. Andrews is teacher of Art in the
Miss Andrews lives
school, Ardmore, Pa.
Washington Street Slatington, Pa.

Road

Wynnewood
at

431 East

Catherine M. Partridge lives at 1106 Court Street, Honesdale, Pa.

She

is

a grade teacher in the Honesdale schools.

Edith M. Behr

is

teaching seventh grade

in the

schools of

Lopez, Pa.

Grayce Woodring and

F.

Indian Lake, N. Y., August 3,

Harold Thomas were married at
1929.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

are living in Saltsburg, Pa.

Eva Watters

is

teaching

Margaret B. Mensch

is

in Mifflinville,

Pa.

a primary teacher at Millheim, Pa.

Jane I. Creasy is Home Economics Extension RepresentaHer address is 43 Mamilton Street,
Lehigh County, Pa.

tive in

1

Allentown, Pa.
Clara D. Abbett

is

employed

as a governess at Elkins Park,

Pa.

Ruth Beaver (Mrs. Ralph Lindenmuth)

lives in

Numidia,

Pa.

Alma Thomas

is

teaching music

in

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Beulah M. Deming is teaching in the Burns school, Susquehanna County. She lives in Uniondale, Pa.

Anna Singleman (Mrs.

Willis Curtis

Barnes)

is

living at

206

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Fox Hill Place, West Pittston, Pa. Mrs. Barnes taught in the
Hughestown Borough schools for four years, and since her marriage, which took place August 18, 1928, she has been doing
substitute work in the same district.
Mr. Barnes conducts a
meat market on South Main Street, Pittston.
Doris M. Morse

White

Plains, N. Y.

is

teaching

grade I-B

in

Her address

is

in the schools of

48 Park Avenue, White

Plains.

Irma Stephens and W. B. Mensch, both of Bloomsburg,
were married April 5, 1930. They are now living with Mrs.
Mr. Mensch is a
Mensch’s parents, at 143 East Sixth Street.
graduate of Gettysburg College and is employed by the Arrow
Silk Corporation.

1925.
Miss Grace Fite, of Benton, and Harold White, of Berwick,
were married June 7, 1929. Announcement of the marriage
was not made until June of this year. Mrs. White has been

teaching

in

employed
Miss
Jr.,

the schools of Columbia County, while Mr. White

as

an electrician

at the A. C. F.

is

Company, Berwick.

Seybert, of Light Street, and Frank H. Wilson,

Alma

of Bloomsburg,

were married Friday, August 22, by the

Rev. Robert R. Morgan, former pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal
The ceremony was performed at the
Church, of Bloomsburg.
summer home of the Rev. Mr. Morgan, at Cogan Station, Pa.

The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and atMrs.
tended Susquehanna University and Lafayette College.
the
Light
Street
school.
Mr.
and
teaching
in
been
has
Wilson
Mrs. Wilson are

now

living in their

newly furnished apartment

at Light Street.

Pauline Hossler

Her address

dress

is

is

1

is

teaching

in

the Wilkes-Barre

schools.

6 Mallery Place.

Bronwen F. Rees is teaching
45 S. Thomas Avenue.

in

Kingston, Pa.

Her ad-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Helen Barret Baer
Pearl Poust

is

is

41

teaching in Cambra, Pa.

teacher of the upper grades at Orangeville,

Pa.

Martha A. Fisher
Her address

Alice E. Stead

teaching

310 South Front

teaching

is

Minnie Gregart

Camden,

in

teaching

is

She

N. J.

the grades in the Sunbury

is

is

schools.

in

Street.

Dickson City, Pa.

Pensauken Township, near

in

1426 North 16th

lives at

Street, Philadel-

phia, Pa.

Rachel A. Perigo Bolles
six

and seven,

in

a departmental teacher in grades

is

the Scranton

schools.

Her address

is

528

Electric Street.

Martha Lawson

is

teaching

Elizabeth Stroh lives at

Miss Stroh

ston, Pa.

Mary

C.

Marie
ia,

Pa.

C.

She

Lannon

teaching

Miriam McCullough
is

409 West Seventh
Lillian

Burgess

89 North Dorrance

teacher of fourth grade

McDonnell
is

Shenandoah, Pa.
Street, King-

a teacher in the Kingston schools.

is

is

in

in

Hazleton.

300 East Park Street,
Conyngham Township.

lives at
in
is

teaching

in

Central

Her address

Hazleton.

Street.
lives in

Wyoming,

Pa.,

and

is

teaching

in

the schools of that city.

1926

.

Miss Margaret Emmitt ,of Danville, R. D. 4, and Allan A.

Wednesday, June 25, in the
Buckhorn Lutheran Church, by the pastor, the Rev. D. Lloyd
Bomboy. The bride has the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education from Bloomsburg, and has been teaching for the past
Mr. Rarig is a gradfour years in the Catawissa High School.
uate of Bucknell University, Class of 929, and is a member of

Rarig, of Bloomsburg, were married

1

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Phi Lambda Theta Fraternity.
During the past year he has
been commercial representative of the Bell Telephone Company
in the Bloomsburg district.
Mr. and Mrs. Rarig are now living
in Bloomsburg.
A. Helen Goulden

is

teaching at Mountain Top, Pa.

Sue Ethel School is teacher of Commercial subjects
High School at Halifax, Pa.

in

the

Helen L. Daniels is teaching in the schools of Taylor, Pa.
7 East Atherton Street.
Her address is
1

Vera

L.

1

Baer (Steeley)

lives at

227

East

Avenue,

East

Rochester, N. Y.
Alice Budd is teaching first and second grades in Upper
Gwynnedd Township, and lives at 131 South Cannon Avenue,

Lansdale, Pa.

Mary

G. Martin

and Grace

Jermyn,

E. Vail are teaching in

Pa.

Maude Fenstermacher

is

teaching

fifth

grade

in

Catawissa,

Pa.

Kathryn E. Boyer
127 Faust Street.

is

teaching in Danville, Pa., and lives at

Fae Womelsdorf (Mrs. Bernard Tubick) lives at 245 CenWanamie, Pa. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Tu-

tre Street,

bick

November

4,

1929.

Margaret R. Isaacs

is

teaching

in

Hazleton, Pa.

1927.

The

First

Methodist Church of Berwick was the scene of a

wedding Wednesday, June 18, when Hope E.
Schalles became the bride of Robert C. Rosser, son of County
very

pretty

Commissioner D. M.

Rosser, of

Luzerne

County.

Since

her

graduation, Mrs. Rosser has been a successful teacher in Ber-

wick.

Mr. Rosser

is

employed

as superintendent of the

Wyom-

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43

Ready-Mix Concrete Company, located

ing Valley

in

Wilkes-

Barre.

Delma

E.

Myers (Mrs. Arthur Husband)

lives at

78 Church

Street, Pittston, Pa.

Iloff,

Mirola, of Wilkes-Barre,

Miss Elizabeth

J.

of Honesdale,

were united

March

1,

in

She

is

Gamber

is

lives

has been teaching

at

1

35 Ann

Street,

Duncannon,

Adams

F.

siteaching near Danville, Pa.

Her ad-

Danville, Pa., R. D. 6.

Mary Elliott Jones
632 North Main

lives at

Lillian

She

Pa.

Iloff

a primary teacher in Coxestown, Pa.

Mildred
dress

Mrs.

Honesdale schools.

Florence
Pa.

marriage Saturday morning,
of St. Matthew’s

1930, by the Rev. Stephen Tuny,

Lutheran Church, Wilkes-Barre.
in the

and Joseph H.

is

Robertson

is

teaching grade two

in

Scranton.

She

Street.

lives at

527 South Main

teaching in the Fort Jenkins

Announcement has been made

Street, Pittston,

Township

of the

schools.

engagement of Miss

Pearl Long, of Bloomsburg, to Dr. Elvin F. Axt, of Millville, N.

Miss Long

J.

is

at present

employed

as secretary in the office

of the Teacher Training Department at the College.
is

Dr.

Axt

a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Dental School.

He

is

now

Maplewood, N.

practicing in

M. Alma Corman

is

J.

teacher of grades one and two in Co-

burn, Pa.

Nora Tucker, Manta Ruth and Oce Williams are teaching
in

Edwardsville.
Edith

Sweetman

Dorothy Connor

is

is

teaching at Taylor, Pa.
teaching at Lake Ariel.

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44

Inez Husted

is

secretary to Superintendent

Cope,

of Lu-

zerne County.

Ruth Rockwell

is

teaching in the schools of Wyalusing, Pa.

1928.
Miss Ruth Beaver, of Catawissa, and Elwin E. Brooks, of
Danville,
odist

were united

parsonage

in

marriage, Sunday, June

in

1

,

Mrs. Brooks taught for two years in

ray Young.

MethW. Murthe Roaring

at the

Catawissa, by the pastor, the Rev.

Creek Valley schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are now living in
where the former is in the employ of the State Highway Department.
Danville,

Marjorie Wallize taught
Granville

Township

last

year

fourth grade of the

in the

schools, Mifflin County.

Her home

is

in

Lewistown.

Anna Mary Hess

teaching

is

in the

primary

grades

at

Boalsburg, Pa.

Ruth M. Budd is teaching in grades three and four in the
Upper Gwynedd Township, Lansdale, Pa. Her home
address is Beach Lake, Pa.
schools of

Adelaide Bahr

Anna

L.

is

teaching in Scranton.

Benninger

is

teacher of grades three or four

at

Dimock, Pa.
Rachel

L.

Long and James

married November 28,
Penn’s Creek, Pa.

Benjamin

1

Y. Miller

929.

is

were
Box 39,

B. Sauers, of Mifflinburg,

Their present address

is

a student at Pennsylvania State Col-

lege, specializing in Agricultural Education.

Esther Lloyd

is

teaching

in

Oneonta, N. Y.

50 Spruce Street.
Jeanette B. Hastie

is

teaching

in

Duryea, Pa.

Her address

is

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Margaret D. Keller

Ebba M. Carlson

is

teaching

in

a primary

is

45

Luzerne Pa.

teacher

schools

in the

of

Courtdale, Pa.
Ellen A. Schlier lives at

She

Pa.

319 West Green

teaching second grade

is

Claude

E. Miller

teaching

is

in the

Street, Hazleton,

Hazleton schools.
Junior High School

in the

at

Shickshinny, Pa.
Harriet E.
issing.

Young

Her address

is

teacher of

407

is

1929

Mary A. Ross

fifth

grade

at

West Wyom-

Seibert Court.

.

lives at R. D. 2,

Sunbury, Pa., and

is

teach-

ing near Klingerstown.

Pearl M. Schell

teaching

is

in

a rural school near Nurem-

berg, Pa.
Elsie
in

Anna
She

lives at

Mary

lives in Shaft, Pa., and is teaching
West Mahanoy Township.

M. Lebo

the schools of

Hollister

teaching

is

32 Middle
K. Shultz

in the

schools

first

grade

of Strong,

Pa.

Street.

is

teaching near Bloomsburg.

Esther Wruble lives at 1227 Main Street, Swoyerville, Pa.,

and

is

teaching the Swoyervifle schools.

Louise Hewitt

is

teaching

Charlotte E. Mears
at

is

in

Luzerne, Pa.

Supervisor of Music

in the

high school

Dimock, Pa.
Marian

E.

Young

is

teacher of fourth grade

in

West Wyom-

ing.

Mary
leton, Pa.

T. O’Donnell

Her address

is

is

teaching second grade

123 East Oak

Street.

in

West Haz-

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Eleanor
re, Pa.,

and

L.

is

Hughes

lives at

1

3 Loomis Street, Wilkes-Bar-

1

teaching at Pike’s Creek.

Caroline E. Petrullo

is

teacher of English

in

the Junior High

School at Northumberland, Pa.

Kathryn

E.

Morton taught

last

grade in the
During the summer
Lloyd School for Feeble-

year

in the first

Jefferson High School Building, Ariel, Pa.

Miss Morton taught

Minded Children,

in

the Marta

J.

at Troy, Pa.

Eleanor Lapinski

is

teaching second grade

in

the schools of

West Hazjeton.
1930.

The marriage of Miss Florence I. Beishline, of Bloomsburg,
and Enos E. Barto, of Palmyra, took place Saturday evening,
August 30, in the parsonage of the First Methodist Church, at
The groom is a graduate of the Hershey High
Bloomsburg.
School, and has been affiliated with the Hershey Chocolate Company for ten years.
Mr. and Mrs. Barto will live in Palmyra
until next spring, after which they expect to move into a newly
erected bungalow at Hershey.
Kathryn

B. Stine

and Walter

Creek, Pa., were married June 22

F.

Hufnagle, both of Roaring

in the

chapel at Valley Forge,

The bride will teach
by the Rector, the Rev. W. Herbert Buck.
this winter at the Oakdale school, while the groom, a graduate
of Bucknell University, will resume his duties as Principal of the
Roaringcreek Township High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Hufnagle
are, for the present, living with the former’s parents.

Announcement has

recently been

made

of the marriage of

Miss Ruth A. Weaver, and C. Jay Muffly, both of Watsontown.
The marriage took place December 24, 1929.

L