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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
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DECEMBER, 1930
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol. 31
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Bloomsburg, Pa., December, 1930
No.
£
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
FENSTEMAKER,
H. F.
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F. H. JENKINS, ’76
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Editor-in-Chief
Business
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Manager
THE PURPOSE OF THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
IN
THE
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF THE COMMONWEALTH
(Address Delivered at the Dedication of the
DR.
JAMES
N.
New
Training School)
RULE
Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction
“This rapid sketch of the State’s program for securing and
preparing competent teachers for the public schools is of value
as indicating three major trends that we do well to note as we
project plans for the future development of our teachers colleges
:
“1.
of misfits
That teaching is no longer the last resort and refuge
and failures in other lines of work, as was apparently
so frequently the case in early days but
is
a profession that pre-
sents a high challenge of service to the best minds, requiring for
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successful pursuit a prolonged period of technical prepara-
tion.
That the preparation of teachers is a State function
only to its own institutions and those willing
delegated
to be
accept
the standard which the State sets up for the
and able to
“2.
adequate preparation of teachers.
“3.
That as the child is the growing point of society, so
our teachers colleges are the growing point of our State system
and must, therefore, be progressively developed along lines that will enable them to meet effectively the
development needs of our public schools.
of public schools
What
of the Future?
“In the light of these trends, which are peculiar not to
Pennsylvania alone but are general, what of the future of our
state teachers colleges ?
“1.
Studies in the field of the nature and
needs of the
child point clearly to the requirement of as scientific and as pro-
longed a program for the preparation of
elementary schools as
secondary
field.
The
is
now
single
teachers in
required of those
salary schedule,
pay for equivalent professional
qualifications
entering
our
the
granting equal
whether
in
the
elementary or secondary field, is indicative of the growing conviction that in the education process the period of childhood s
fully as important as adolescence and must receive the most
:
highly skilled care and attention
if
maturity
is
to
bear
its
full
and the ideal perhave the term American
fruitage in terms of a competent citizenship
which we should like to
stand.
The best thought and practice now indicate that four
years of post high school work should be the minimum requirement for teaching in the elementary field. Our own Board of
State Teachers College Presidents at its last meeting petitioned
the State Council of Education to set up a requirement, effective
in
933, of four years of post high school professional preparation for elementary school teachers.
In my judgment it is
sonality for
1
a
question
of
but a comparatively short time
until
such a
:
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requirement
will
be
set as the
minimum
teaching profession in this State.
basis for entering the
Until such a requirement
exacted, teaching cannot properly be called a profession.
L
In
no shorter time can the techniques and knowledge requisite to
teaching be secured.
As society
more
of
its
schools
much
in
an
demands
age in which it takes
but fifteen minutes to raise a bushel of wheat than it did in an
successful preparation for
age when
it
required three hours, so
and when the increased requirement
more
correspondingly
required of those entering the teaching
profession
today.
is
If
for the elementary teacher
goes into effect, the two-year curriculums leading to the normal
certificate will automatically
be discontinued and there
but one standard for graduation, namely, the
pletion of a four-year degree curriculum.
surplus of certificated teachers which,
measure be due
to the current
be
com-
will
successful
The present indicated
may in some
however,
depression,
cutting
down
the
annual turn-over and driving back into teaching as a means of
earning a livelihood many former teachers who had gone into
wisdom and the possibility of
minimum four-year post high school
other lines of work, suggests the
placing teaching on the
any early date.
A second development which I foresee in order that
the public schools may be more efficient and useful is an extension of the helpful relationship that now exists between the
several teachers colleges and their respective service areas.
This development will probably proceed along three lines, all
of which are now being followed to a greater or less degree
Acceptance by the college of a larger degree of
“a.
level at
“2.
responsibility for the success of
its
graduates
during
the
first
year of their teaching through a plan of cooperative, follow-up,
relationship developed with local school districts.
“b.
in service
“c.
ments
use.
in
Provision of extension, in service training for teachers
below new State minimums.
knowledge of new developeducation and of instruction and demonstration in its
whose
qualifications are
Distribution of detailed
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“The development
of these relationships within the areas
served by the several teachers colleges not only will advance the
educational efficiency of the school districts concerned but also
keep the work of the college dynamic and
character.
“3.
A
truly
functional
in
development that I foresee is one on which
there may very properly be a difference of opinion and which I
advanced therefore somewhat cautiously. The existing surplus
of certified teachers and the indicated decreasing annual turnover of teachers suggests the wisdom of an early adjustment ot
the quality and quantity of our teacher preparation facilities to
the requirements of fewer but better prospective teachers.
Some surplus of teachers over and beyond actual needs is not tc
be viewed with alarm but rather as a healthful sign, permitting
third
the elimination of
the relatively
less
fit.
A
concentration of
our resources, however, upon fewer candidates would appear to
be not only distinctly helpful in view of the demand for a progressively better product, but also inevitable
are to be maintained on levels
if
teachers’ salaries
commensurate with
their
ad-
vancing qualifications.
“Many other lines of progress might be prophesied if time
permitted but the three indicated immediately above seem to be
those of immediate importance and incidence, as affecting the
State Teachers Colleges, namely:
“1.
A uniform four-year requirement for graduation, regardless of the
field.
“2.
Acceptance by the teachers colleges as the legal
a large degree of
responsibility for the continuous professional stimulation and
growth of the public schools included therein.
service centers of their respective areas of
“3.
Concentration upon a smaller but more competent
product.
A Program
“With these heavy
of
Development
responsibilities resting
upon our system
of state teachers colleges as the growing point of our system of
:
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what measures should be taken by the State
to insure the continuous and effective adjustment of their facilities to meet these ever increasing responsibilities?
“Time permits but a brief reference to only the more imThere are three major factors
portant and pressing measures.
involved in a good teachers college
“
A professional program to meet the developing needs
public education,
1
.
of our public schools on the side of the best educational theory
and
practice.
“2.
A
staff of
teachers
competent
in
personality,
and
professional preparation to carry out such a program effectively.
“3.
Physical plant
and equipment that provide the
necessary tools.
“The question
make
the
teachers
as to the measures the State should take
colleges
progressively
more
useful
to
and
meeting their obligations to the public schools finds
answer in terms of adequate provision for the progressive
development of the three factors just mentioned.
First, a proprogram
to
meet
the
developing
needs
fessional
of the public
schools can be formulated only upon the basis of accurate and
comprehensive data gathered continuously, relative to the
specific needs of the public schools for teachers and supervisors
These
in each and all of the several state teachers colleges.
needs must be expressed in terms not only of the number of
new teachers and supervisions required in each separate field
Only on the
but in terms also of their specific qualifications.
basis of known State needs can a progressive and differentiated
program for the preparation, guidance, and placement of teachAcers be developed for the several state teachers colleges.
cordingly a highly efficient, technical fact finding unit should be
developed in the Department of Public Instruction for the State
as a whole and in each teachers college for its separate area, in
order to provide dependable data upon which to base a professional program that will adequately and continuously meet
Second,
the changing and growing needs of the public schools.
personality
secured
competent
in
teachers
is
to
be
of
if a staff
efficient in
its
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and preparation to carry out such professional program effectively, the most capable teachers in the profession must be
attracted
to our teachers
colleges.
Exceptional
preparation
and service must be adequately recognized in salary and tenure
Teaching programs must be arranged to permit
provisions.
thorough preparation for the teaching job and continuous proThird, the physical plant and equipment
fessional growth.
must be brought into line with the best educational thought and
The modern educational log on which sits the teachpractice.
er and his pupils is not and cannot be the simple affair it was in
the days of
Mark Hopkir.'.
new type teacher
“Placing a
in the schools of
today which
safeguard individuality and at the same time develop a competent, cooperative type of citizenship
a complex and,
is
let
it
Yet in terms of blighted,
be said, not an inexpensive job.
undeveloped lives, nothing is so expensive to the State as an
incompetent teacher.
We cannot afford not to have good
teachers.
this new unit in this college to be
Benjamin Franklin Training School, the State
recognizes its obligation to make this and all the other state
teachers colleges increasingly more useful and efficient in their
service to the public schools of this Commonwealth.
“Finally, it is generally recognized that government by
discretion rather than by regulations is rapidly becoming a
distinct trend in democracy.
Government by discretion rather
than by regulations requires a definite outlining of the functions
of each separate officer and agencies, but gives such officers and
“In the dedication of
known
as the
agencies within the
field of their
authority to develop their
own
assigned
and
responsibilities
full
be held accountable
Under the leadership of so distinguished an
only for results.
able educator as your president the future of your College is
assured, particularly with full discretionary powers granted him
within a clearly defined area.
Under such a policy and such
ideas
to
leadership this College will inevitably rise
largest level of achievement.”
to ever
higher and
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NEW TRAINING SCHOOL DEDICATED
“The
first
dream come true” was
the
manner
which Dr.
in
Francis B. Haas, college president, referred to the dedication of
Benjamin Franklin Training School of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College as one of the features of the greatest Home
the
Coming Day in the history of the institution.
Dr. James N. Rule, Deputy Superintendent
of the State
partment of Public Instruction, taking the place of
Dr. J. A. Keith, who is recovering from a serious
De
his superior,
illness,
de-
livered the dedicatory address.
The presentation
and trophy room,
was
The presentation was made
another feature of the program.
by R. Bruce Albert, president of the association, and both acceptances were by A. Z. Schoch, president of the Board of
Trustees and for 39 years one of its members.
of the alumni memorial
furnished by graduates of the school at a cost of $4,000,
Educators from throughout this section joined w'ith alumni
and friends of the institution for the dedication exercises which
were held in the college auditorium in Carver Hall.
Children
of the training school participated by singing a number of songs
under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Before the dedication and throughout the day except during the football
game thousands
were delighted with the
visited the
new
building
and
structure.
While the audience was assembling in the auditorium in
Carver Hall the College Symphony Orchestra under the direction
of Howard F. Fenstemaker furnished a program of music.
A number
of
the visiting
educators were
platform with the participants of the exercises.
sided,
and
in
on the
Haas pre-
seated
Dr.
opening the program expressed the belief that
present were taking part
Babcock, pastor of the
in a historic
First
occasion.
Dr.
Harry
all
F.
Methodist Church, read the Scrip-
tures, selecting a portion of the sixth chapter of Chronicles
and
:
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a part of the
New
Testament.
Dr.
David
Waller,
J.
Jr., Presi-
dent Emeritus of the institution, gave the invocation.
The children of the Training School then added a delightful
touch to the program
when
they sang,
“Who Knows?” by John
West.
Dr. Rule followed with his fine address on the purpose
program
Commonwealth.
the state teachers college in the educational
he spoke of
its
vast importance to the
in
of
which
Mr. Schoch’s Acceptance
Mr. Schoch
in his
acceptance of the building on behalf of
the trustees spoke as follows
“It
is
a matter of especial satisfaction to me, that brings us
here today, to take a part
new
in the
Dedication Exercises of
this
Training School Building.
“For a long time I have watched with great interest the
steady growth of this school serving as occasion arose, its practical needs and encouraging its speculative intentions.
“I have had too, the rare privilege of seeing three generations of my family, a daughter, a grand daughter and a great
grand daughter, enrolled with the student body.
“But in the 39 years of my Trusteeship, no addition to the
equipment of the College has held for me the importance of this
latest development.
;
“Just as perfection in
its
foundation
sary to the strength of a great building, so
paramount importance
child’s education of
absolutely neces-
is
is
the beginning of a
to the life
and char-
acter he or she forms.
“Therefore,
it
with
is
accept the trusteeship of
name
this
exceptional
gratification
Training School
Building
that
I
in the
of the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teach-
ers College for the
Commonwealth
How
Dr.
Haas said
the School
of Pennsylvania.”
Was Named
that, in searching for a
building, suggestions
name
for
the
new
had been asked from the faculty and other
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He
was made to select a name keepThey had desired a name
not only identified with childhood but one that would strike the
imagination in every field of learning.
The name of Franklin,
most generally suggested, was a name of that kind for Franklin
sources.
ing in
said an attempt
mind primarily the
has contributed so
much
children.
to so
many
phases of
human endeavor.
Haas called attention to the inscription over one of the doors
of the new building which is Franklin’s “Education is the foun-
Dr.
dation of happiness.”
ALUMNI MEMORIAL ROOM
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, in
making the presentation of that room to the institution, said that
two years ago the graduates had outlined a program of three
projects.
One was the enlarging of the number of the subHe reported this had been
scribers to the Alumni Quarterly.
tripled and the publication made self supporting.
The second project was the creating of an alumni memorial
and trophy room with one aim the preservation of trophies
many of which have been lost in the past. Another object was
to have a place where alumni could mingle in fellowship when
they return, and a place that could be used by the college
—
—
faculty.
“The success of this project is due,” Mr. Albert
and tireless effort of Prof. 0. H. Bakeless.”
the courage
said, “to
He
also
spoke of the cooperation of Dr. Haas, N. T. Englehart and Miss
Gray, of the College Art Department, all of whom ably assisted.
The
third project, the enlarging of the student loan fund,
is
yet
be taken up, a considerable amount remaining to be paid on
the alumni room, furnished at a cost of $4,000.
Mr. Schoch in his acceptance on behalf of the institution,
declared that the room was an evidence of the love and devotion
to
of the graduates to their
Alma Mater.
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Guests Introduced
Haas then introduced a number of the guests at the
many of whom were seated on the platform. They
included: County Superintendent of Schools, W. W. Evans; J.
1. Townsend, Secretary of the Board of Trustees; Paul E. Wirt,
Dr.
exercises,
board of
oi the
of the faculty
;
1
rustees
;
Prof. C. H. Albert, a retired
member
Ricnie Laurie, of the architectural firm of Laurie
and Ureen, Harrisburg, designers of the building; C. H. Dillon,
President of the bloomsburg School Board; William V. Moyer,
President of the Bloomsburg Council; David L. Glover, of Miftlinburg, a member of the board of 1 rustees; Dr. C. H. Garwood, Superintendent of the Bloomsburg Schools and Superintendent bred W. Diehl, of the Montour County schools and also
a member of the Board of Trustees.
Parent-Teachers Association
Haas on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the faculty
paid tribute to the fine work being carried on by the ParentHe spoke of the piano which has been
Teacher Association.
Mrs. Haas is
presented to the school and is already installed.
Dr.
president of the organization.
He
briefly described the
lieves has
make
some new features
new
Training School which he be-
that will enable the institution
contributions to teacher training.
to
All of the building has
been completed except the cellar where an indoor playground
be placed.
The program came to an end with the singing of the “Alma
Mater,” led by Miss Harriet M. Moore.
will
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
who
this
year
is
President of the North-
eastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State Education
Association, is now at work planning the program for the district
convention to be held
March.
in
Wilkes-Barre on the 6th and
7th
of
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HUNDREDS BACK FOR HOME COMING DAY
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was the centre of
when the institution was host to hundreds of graduates
activities
and
friends
at the
annual
Home Coming
Day,
School and the opening of the
this
year with
new Training
Alumni Memorial Room.
special features including the dedication of
the
The campus buildings and the business section of the town
were in gala dress for the day with the Maroon and Gold of
Bloomsburg and the Red and Blue of the visiting athletic rivals,
Shippensburg,
much
in
evidence.
Boulevard light standards on Main Street and trees on East
Street were used to place the decorations in the business section.
There was a large welcome sign at the entrance to the college
and signs with the message “Welcome Parents- Alumni” were
on Waller Hall.
The program throughout was one to delight alumni, with
Bloomsburg winning the football game from Shippensburg 3
to 0 and the cross country run by the decisive score of
6 to
39, Bloomsburg having five runners in the first six to finish.
The dedication of the new Training School, to be known
as the Benjamin Franklin Training School, opened the day’s pro-
—
1
1
gram with the dedicatory address by
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Dr.
James
N. Rule,
Deputy
Practically every visitor
went through the new building during the day and was delighted
with the plant, the first of a proposed series of new buildings.
T he Alumni Memorial and Trophy Room was another place
that secured much attention and favorable comment.
This
room was beautifuly furnished by alumni at a cost of $4,000.
It is located on the first floor of Waller Hall and is an achievement in which graduates of the school can be justly proud.
It is doubtful if a Home Coming Day ever attracted a larger
crowd and certainly there was never a better program offered.
Students and faculty worked tirelessly to entertain the guests
and they were quite successful.
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program were an informal get-together in the gymnasium following the game and a dance in the
Ihe gymnasium was beautifully decorated for the
evening.
day in Maroon and Gold and Red and Blue. The railing around
the orchestra pit was a scene of players benches, some of the
players in the Maroon and Gold of Bloomsburg and others in the
Red and Blue of Shippensburg, with the scores also announced.
Crepe paper festooning and red, gold and blue balloons
added to the attractiveness of the decorative scheme. The
Maroon and Gold Orchestra played for the dance and they were
Punch was served.
at their best.
Day students and members of the faculty, Shippensburg
athletics and faculty members and hundreds of alumni enjoyed
both lunch and dinner at the school.
Ail in all, the day was the greatest of the Fall and one of
the greatest Home Coming Days Bloomsburg has ever had.
Social events on the
On Tuesday evening, October 28, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.
Haas delightfully entertained at a reception at the President’s
house on Light Street Road.
Educators from throughout this
vicinity were in attendance at this event, which is an annual one.
The home was beautifully decorated with chrysanthemums and
roses, and during the evening the Alexander Trio provided a
charming program of music.
The guests included the trustees of the Teachers College,
the members of the college faculty, the Bloomsburg School
Board and faculty, the Berwick School Board and faculty, and
other prominent educators from Bloomsburg’s service area.
William John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Eduwas the speaker at the chapel exercises Monday, October
cation,
25.
Mr. Cooper delivered a very
a Profession.”
fine
address on “Teaching as
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MARK CREASY
TEACHER, EDUCATOR, FRIEND OF YOUTH
The passing of Mark Creasy, January
noted
in the
Quarterly at the time.
to give later a
It
12, 1930,
was the
more nearly adequate account
was
briefly
intention then,
of his character
and work.
No educator or teacher ever received a finer, more tender,
and more deserved tribute than did Mr. Creasy in the Chestertown (Md.) High School Reflector of January, 1930.
Excerpts
from this series of tributes, in brief, are quoted as part of this
article.
Mark Creasy was
a Columbia County product, born in
His father was Philip Creasy.
Township, in 866.
His
mother was Sarah Good.
Mr. Rush Creasy, a teacher for many
Mifflin
1
years in this county, was his brother.
He
received his early education in the public schools of the
county.
He taught
county.
In
several years in the public schools of the
1890 he entered
the
Bloomsburg State Normal
School as a student and graduated therefrom with the Class of
1891.
He was always a forceful outstanding member of his class,
In the classroom, and outside
though quiet and unobtrusive.
of it, his clear-thinking, and independent, but cooperative
He
action, when things were right, had to be reckoned with.
was always a
favorite in his
helper to every one.
to participate in the
class
—
kind,
jolly,
a
friend
and
His studiousness, earnestness, readiness
work
of the classroom
made him
a favorite
of his teachers.
ley,
After his graduation he was elected to a position at HawCounty, Pa., where he followed Mr. Kimber Cleaver
Wayne
(Class of ’81
)
as Principal
and labored joyously and with rare
Here he did for a community
success for twenty-two years.
and
its
doing.
schools,
what few educational leaders are capable of
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He was elected to the superindency of the Chestertown,
Md., High School about 1913, where he contineud his work
until the close of his life, dying in the harness, January 12,
193°.
In
all
work,
wavered.
his
these years his love for his profession, his interest in
in child-life
and youth,
in the
cause of education, neve;
His co-workers, his fellow teachers, his pupils,
his
directors, his patrons, believed in him, trusted him, relied on his
more experienced judgment, took their standards, ideals and
Mark Creasy was
educational vision from his helpful teaching.
always the seer, the leader, the inspiration of his community.
His leadHis devotion to child-life and youth was Pestalozzian.
His eagerness
ership and vision akin to that of Horace Mann.
and enthusiasm to understand the needs and growth of youth
His deep seated love for
were born of Francis W. Parker.
rational teaching, where not distinctively innate, was the direct
influence of his contacts with two great teachers whose lives enProf. John G.
riched all youth who sat in their class rooms
Cope and Prof. William Noetting of blessed memory.
He was married to Miss Phoebe Shew, of Light Street, Pa.,
in 1895.
She also was a very live member of the Class of
1891.
It was a marriage of kindred souls, and only Mark knew
—
—
how
the willing sacrifice of her pedagogical career
his support,
co-worker and guide
in his career,
a
to become
home-maker
and leader for him, made greater his success and the cause of
education wherever they worked together
and they worked
—
together.
Beautiful are the tales of their united efforts for the
young people with
whom
they worked; the friendships made;
and encouragement given and followed to successful careers.
The Alumni of the B. S. T. C. and the Class of 1891 are
justly proud of the career of Mark Creasy and his wife Phoebe
Shew Creasy. Their old pupils will deepen their breathing and
gird their loins for finer effort always at the mention of their
names.
Unseen to mortal eye, he will live in minds and hearts
of those who knew him best, only to urge them on to keener
the standards set
;
the advice
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effort, to clearer heights of labor.
was the privilege
have Mark in his summer
It
of the writer a
few summers ago
class, as a student, old in
perience, wise in a continued practice that
to
years of ex-
had made
his
mind
keen, his expression clear, his apprehension quick, he was the
humblest, most simple, most helpful pupil
so
much
to give, so kindly a
vious of his
power
He had
all
way
in the class.
of giving
it,
so
He had
utterly obli-
that he inspired the recitation.
much and loved much in his profession and
word as he modestly gave his best in the daily
lived
hung upon
his
discussion.
We
wish that Pennsylvania had
—
Mark Creasy
many
great
spirits
like
and friend of youth and hu-
teacher, educator
manity.
Excerpts from the Chestertown, Md., High School Reflector
of January, 1930, Memorial edition
MARK
CREASY,
—
in loving
memory
of R.
Principal of Chestertown High School.
The Chestertown High School has lost her most valuable treaMr. Creasy was
sure, her best friend, the spirit of all her enterprise.
He was
a man of unusual ability, friendliness, and quiet enthusiasm.
always ready to help the struggling with his abundant store of experience, to urge the struggling on to endeavor, and to cheer the
downcast with a good story; keeping at the same time a steady balance with his wholesome common sense and enlivening all with his unfailing sense of humor.
His friendship was extended to every one, from the smallest and
most frightened Freshman to the most prominent Senior; from the
school’s “bad boy” to the most studious and well-behaved scholar.
When a person needed a friend, he always found one, ready to symMany a time he has pleaded that
pathize or correct, in Mr. Creasy.
another chance be given to some wayward boy, and when an evil-doer
confessed his guilt like a man, he never failed to honor the courage
required for such confession.
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Their (Mr. and Mrs. Creasy’s)
His hospitality was a proverb.
friends are legions, and those who have not experienced their friendship have missed something sweet, strong and beautiful.
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Mr. Creasy’s ideas of sportmanship meant everything to the
school.
He could not endure cheap flimsy excuses for failure to win
games. He taught the school to admit that the better team won the
game and, if its team lost, to grin and bear the defeat. When visiting teams came to the school, he encouraged the boys, and girls to
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be courteous to their visitors.
when
it
was cleanly and
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loved to win a game, but only
fairly played.
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There were always plans in his mind for the betterment of the
school conditions.
He bought more ground for the soccer field, of
which he was very proud.
There was no department in which he
was not profoundly interested.
There is no activity in the school
that will not suffer from his lose, and he will be remembered as a
helpful generous and sympathetic influence.
Our eyes may at length persuade us that he is not here, but our
hearts will never admit that he is dead, for he will in them, go on
with us in our struggles, giving us in spirit the same wise counsel and
friendliness, and helping us to fight for all that is good and worthy in
life.
So great was his personality, and such was our love for him,
that he will not and cannot die so long as we live and labor.
MARION D. BRYON For His Teachers.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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The real measure of the man is to be found in those qualities of
mind, heart and character which he manifested to every one who was
associated with him.
He believed in the idealism of youth. He labored heroically for
the enlightenment and encouragement of the young men and women
who came under his supervision and instruction. He believed in the
ultimate triumph of right over wrong; worked faithfully in the light
of this ideal in education, civics and religious endeavor; sought first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and died fighting the good
fight of faith.
He takes with him into the unseen world, as every man must do,
the record of his life lived among his fellows.
Mark Creasy has left
with us, however, the memory of his unselfish devotion to his duty.
Truly he was a man who at all times and everywhere gave his
strength to the weak, shared his experience gladly with the young,
gave his sympathy to the needy, and unfortunate, gave his substance
to worthy causes and gave his heart to God.
Surely his labor of
love and his life among us shall not have been in vain, for we who
follow on shall take renewed devotion from the example which this
good man has given us. We shall miss him from our friendly circles,
but we shall cherish the rich heritage and precious memories he has
left.
And we shall carry on, following the gleam of truth, love, and
goodness, which shone so beautifully from the life of our good leader of young people in this community.
J.
WRIGHT, Pastor.
HARRY
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*
The Alumni of the Chestertown High School offer their respect,
admiration and gratitude for Mr. Creasy’s long and untiring service
A truer friend and more efficient leader could
to the High School.
not have been found.
To his wise guidance, nnusual ability, and untiring efforts can be traced the success of many, many high school
undertakings.
Giving most of his time and energy to his work in the Chestertown High School his unselfish and kindly help has gained for him the
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undying gratitude of us
—the Alumni.
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*
ANNA BONWELL,
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Now that he is with us only in spirit, we shall try to keep up the
To have known him and to have been
standards he bequeathed us.
in daily contact with him has enriched all our lives.
NANCY JEAN USILTON,
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’30.
*
passing of Mark Creasy the world is poorer in
man, a gentleman, a teacher and an educator,
a rare and beautiful character whose
a friend of the children
In these
influence we fain would not have lost to the world.
days of superficial hurry, we need his life and his work to ponder on and grow wise in our work as teachers.
Truiy
that
has
it
in the
lost a
—
Mrs. Chester P. Martindale (Bertha M. Foulke), a
member
of
Normal School during the
administration of Dr. J. P. Welsh, died at her home in West
She is survived by her husChester Thursday, November 27.
band and one daughter, a Senior at Swarthmore College. Mrs.
Martindale was a graduate of the West Chester State Normal
School, in the Class of 1890, and came to Bloomsburg at the
same time that Dr. Welsh left West Chester to take up his duties
the faculty of the Bloomsburg State
as Principal at Bloomsburg.
Dr. Charles H. Fisher, former Principal of the
State
Bloomsburg
Normal School, and now President of the State Teachers
College at Bellingham, Washington, was in Bloomsburg renewing
acquaintances on Thursday, October 30.
Child Welfare Commission
named by
of the Teacher Training Division and
ington
in
Dr. Fisher
is
on the
Head
Wash-
President Hoover, as
was on
his
way
connection with the work of the commission.
to
ATHLETICS
team has closed the 930 season
two defeats, and one tie.
The first game, played at Kutztown, September 27, resulted
in a 19-14 victory for Bloomsburg, which was followed two
weeks later by a 19-0 victory over Millersville, at Bloomsburg.
The battle with Mansfield State Teachers College, fought on Mt.
Olympus field, resulted in a tie, with the score 6-6.
Bloomsburg’s prospects were then darkened by the fact
that a considerable number of her first line men were more or
less seriously injured; another player was declared ineligible
because he played last year on the team of another teachers
college, and several others were lost because of low scholarship.
The first defeat came when Bloomsburg came out with the
small end of a 13-0 score at California State Teachers College,
The Bloomsburg
football
with a record of four victories,
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The week following. Lock Haven,
on Saturday, October 25.
Bloomsburg has defeated with ease for the past several
years, turned the tables with a vengeance, and won, with the
whom
In this game ten of the regular men were absent
from the line-up, while Lock Haven was represented by the best
team she has had for many years.
In the last two games, the Maroon and Gold team came
The Home Coming Day proback with two brilliant victories.
gram on Saturday, November 8, was made a complete success
by the victory over Shippensburg. The score was 13-0.
Bloomsburg had the upper hand throughout the game, with
score 20-0.
first downs to three for Shippensburg.
The season came to a climax with a 13-6 victory over East
Stroudsburg Teachers College, the game being the principal feature of East Stroudsburg’s Home Coming Day, on Saturday,
November 15. The outstanding feature of this game was the
aerial attack launched by Bloomsburg, in which nineteen out of
thirty forward passes were successful, and gained a total of one
hundred fifty-four yards.
In the same game East Stroudsburg
sixteen
forward passes, completed two, with a gain of twentytwo yards, had two passes intercepted, and grounded six.
There is no doubt that, had it not been for the fact that so
many men were injured, the 930 season would have been the
Under the circumstances,
most successful one in many years.
the supporters of Bloomsburg feel that the team gave a splendid
tried ten
1
account of
itself.
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*
Another group of athletes that brought glory to Blooms-
The season was
burg this fall was the cross-country team.
opened at California State Teachers College, when the team
went there with the football team. Allen Parr, captain of the
team, came in an easy first in the six-mile race, with other
Bloomsburg runners taking third, fourth, seventh and eighth
places.
The second race was with Shippensburg, over a five-mile
In this race Bloomsburg took first, sec-
course at Bloomsburg.
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and sixth places. The following week
Bloomsburg again met Shippensburg at the latter institution, and
again won, taking first, second, third, fourth and seventh places.
Captain Parr added further glory to the Maroon and Gold
by taking sixth place in the Berwick Marathon on Thanksgiving
Day, coming in ahead of some of the best runners in the country.
ond,
third,
fourth,
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The basketball schedule includes
1
9 games, of which all
Of those four two
but four are with State Teachers Colleges.
are with the leading rival of Bloomsburg,
the opening
game
is
Wyoming Seminary,
with the fast veteran combination of
the
one game with college alumni.
State Teachers College in Pennsylvania
Danville Y. M. C. A., and there
is
There are 12 rival
and every one of them will be met in basketball with two exceptions, Clarion and Edinboro, two western schools.
If Bloomsburg can go through this schedule without a defeat there will be no question but that they can be undisputed
champions of the State in the Teachers College ranks.
The schedule follows
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Saturday, December 6
Danville Y. M. C. A.
Home.
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December
Saturday,
Alumni.
Home.
Friday, December 19
Indiana S. T. C.
Away.
Saturday, December 20
California S. T. C.
Away.
Saturday, January 10
Shippensburg S. T. C.
Away.
Friday, January 16
East Stroudsburg S. T. C.
Away.
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Saturday, January
Wyoming Seminary. Away.
Friday, January 23
Shippensburg S. T. C.
Home.
Kutztown S. T. C. (4:00 P. M.)
Saturday, January 24
Home.
Friday, January 30
Lock Haven S. T. C.
Home.
Saturday, January 31
Mansfield S. T. C.
Home.
Tuesday, February 3
Slippery Rock (4:00 P. M.)
Home.
Friday, February 6
East Stroudsburg.
Home.
Saturday, February 7
Kutztown S. T. C.
Away.
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—
February
—West
February 27 —Wyoming
Open.
February
March —
Friday, February 13
Friday, February
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Saturday,
Friday,
Indiana
Away.
Home.
Chester S. T. C.
Home.
Seminary.
Home.
S. T. C.
S. T. C.
28.
Saturday,
7
Saturday,
Home.
Millersville S. T. C.
NEW COMMERCIAL COURSE OPENS
With the opening of the
first
semester
in
September was
in-
augurated the department for the training and preparation of
Authorizateachers of Commercial Subjects at Bloomsburg.
tion for the opening of this course was given
Department of Public Instruction.
The object of the course
is
to
last
spring by the
prepare commercial teachers
for the public schools of Pennsylvania.
In
accordance with the
regulations of the State Council of Education approved
Decem-
1928, students graduating from a high school in 1930
cannot prepare for teaching commercial subjects by taking less
ber
7,
than a four-year course (or the equivalent) approved by
Department of Public
The course
offered at Bloomsburg
is
therefore a four-year
course and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science
The purpose
cation.
in
is
is
in
Edu-
not to compete with business colleges
preparing students for
above,
the
Instruction.
the business
world,
but, as
intended specifically to prepare them to
stated
teach com-
mercial subjects in high schools.
About
thirty-five students enrolled in the first
year of the
The enrollment is destined to attain large proportions in the next four years, by which time there will be students doing work in all four years of the curriculum.
course
this fall.
The curriculum offered
is
as follows
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First
23
Semester
Cr.
Hrs
Elementary and Intermediate Bookkeeping
Commercial Geography I
CM
English
CM
I
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>
Business Writing i}/2 hour)
Rapid Calculations (j/4 hour)
Introduction to Teaching
—
K>
CM
‘
Typewriting Theory
Physical Education
—
I
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—
(
1
Second Semester
Advanced Bookkeeping
Commercial Geography II
CM
English
do
II
Business Mathematics
CM
CM
I
Shorthand Theory I
Typewriting Theory II
Physicial Education (2)
CM
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Third Semester
Elementary Accounting
Business Organization
VjO
Business Correspondence
CM
Business Mathematics
OJ
II
Shorthand Theory II
Typewriting Theory III
Physicial Education (3)
ixj
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—
Fourth Semester
Cost Accounting and Machine Bookkeeping
Business
Law
U)
I
Educational Biology
Economic History of the U. S.
Shorthand Theory and Practice III
Typewriting, Theory and Practice IV
Physicial Education (4)
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Fifth Semester
Advanced Accounting with Banking and Finance
American Government
2
3
3
3
Dictation, Office Practice, Typewriting Practice
3
Salesmanship and Advertising
3
Business
Law
II
Educational Psychology
Sixth Semester
Tests and Measurements
—
Teaching of Technique:
Methods in Bookkeeping
Methods in Shorthand
Methods in Typewriting
Purpose and Organization
Secondary Education
—
Economics
I
Secretarial Office Practice
Store Practice and Merchandising
Seventh Semester
Educational Administration and School
Law
Junior High School-Exploratory Courses
__
Educational Sociology
Economics
II
Clerical Business Practice
Professional Readings
Eighth Semester
12
Student Teaching and Conference
Extracurricular Activities
3
Professional Readings
2
Total Credit For Graduation and the Degree
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who has been selected as
new Department of Commercial Teacher
Professor Harvey A. Andruss,
the Director of our
Training, comes to us from the State Teachers College, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, where through his experience in the training and
supervision of commercial teachers he has gained accurate first-
hand information
as to the
secondary school demand for prop-
erly trained commercial teachers.
Before coming to the Department at Indiana, Professor
Andruss had a wide range of experience as Principal of High
Schools at Gotebo, Maramee, and Tipton, Oklahoma; as Head
of the Commerce Department of Ponca City High School, Ponca
City, Oklahoma and as an Instructor and Lecturer in the North;
western University School of Commerce, Chicago, 111.
Professor Andruss received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
and a Certificate in Public and Private Business from the University of
Oklahoma
in
1
924.
Prior to that time he
had graduated
from the Draughon’s Practical Business College, Dallas, Texas.
He also holds the degree of Business Administration from the
Northwestern University School of Commerce, and, in addition,
has one year’s work toward the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The quality of his academic preparation is evidenced by his
membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary scholastic fraternity; the Kappa Delta Pi-Honorary educational fraternity;
Honorary commerce fraternity
the Beta Gamma Sigma
the
Gamma Rho Tau Honorary and professional business educa-
—
—
—
tion fraternity;
the
Pi
;
Omega
Pi
—
Professional
Teacher fraternity; and the Beta Alpha Psi
—
Commercial
Professional
ac-
counting fraternity.
Professor Andruss has contributed to
educational magazines and periodicals.
many
business
and
His most recent con-
a series of three articles dealing with
methods of
appeared
in The Balance Sheet, a magazine for commercial teachers.
As
the result of the demand for these articles, they are combined in
an educational monograph “How to Use Practice Sets in the
Teaching of Bookkeeping.”
tribution
is
teaching bookkeeping.
The
first
article of this series
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The Business Problems Committee of the Investment BankAndruss in 1927 to investigate cost accounting practices among its members.
For a period of a year he visited a large number of the leading investment banking concerns in the United States studying business
conditions and accounting practices.
The results of this iners Association selected Professor
vestigation will be used in formulating a uniform
ing system to be used
cost account-
A
by the members of the Association.
private accounting practice dealing with the Pennsylvania Se-
Commission has acquainted Professor Andruss with z
knowledge of corporate business practices in this State.
This combination of teaching and business experience
coupled with adequate academic preparation fits Professor Andruss to head our new Department for training Commercial
curities
Teachers.
NEW HEATING SYSTEM INSTALLED
Work on
exception of the
the past
new heating system, a project that, with the
new Training School building, is the largest in
the
two years,
is
rapidly nearing completion.
When
it
is
completed, every building on the campus, with the exception oi
the laundry, will be heated from the one plant.
The power house has been enlarged to make room for adand new machinery, including a boiler feed
A new stack, 125
water heater and pumps, has been installed.
ditional boilers,
feet in height, has
been erected
to provide additional
draught
for the furnaces.
up with trenches since August,
that it made one think of the Western Front. The trenches were
dug to make possible the installation of new underground heat
Concrete floors were laid in the
transmission service lines.
The mains have
trenches before the mains were put in place.
been thoroughly insulated and covered with steel sheeting and
This work has just been completed and, in the words
concrete.
The campus has been
so cut
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Henry Ford, “we hope to have the boys out of the trenches
by Christmas.”
Other projects have been the constructioin of a paved road
from the upper end of the porch on East Second Street to a
point beyond North Hall.
The bank along East Second Street, south of the tennis
courts, has been cut back eight feet, and a concrete walk laid
from the new paved road up to Spruce Street, thus making the
new Training School of more easy access. Another walk has
been laid to the west entrance of the Training School from the
paved road, passing between North Hall and the tennis courts.
A new playground for the Training School children has
Considerable
been laid out just south of the Athletic Field.
grading has also been done at various points on the campus, the
grading having been made necessary by the various projects
above mentioned.
of
THE ALUMNI ROOM
At the
was made
posal was
1
929 meeting
to furnish
of the
an Alumni
Alumni Association, a proposal
Room
enthusiastically passed,
at the College.
This pro-
and Prof. Bakeless was made
chairman of a committee to take charge of the furnishing of the
room.
The classes in reunion that year all made pledges
amounting to over $800.
The classes in reunion in 1930
were also called upon, and pledged their support.
The room, formerly Room K, has been beautifully furnished, and was dedicated on Home Coming Day, November 8.
Professor Bakeless, with the assistance of Miss Gray, of the Art
Department, has been working hard for over a year, planning
room and selecting the furnishings.
room were profuse in their admiration of
the
that has
A
done.
All
who
visited
the fine piece of
the
work
been done.
very important piece of work, however, remains to be
The
total cost of
furnishing the
room
will
amount
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amount, about one-fourth has been paid
still remains to
be
collected.
It is hoped, first of all, that all classes which have
made pledges to the project will take immediate steps to make
good their pledges. It is further hoped that the classes meeting
in 1931
1932, and 1933, will immediately begin to plan to assume their share in the successful completion of the project.
The purpose of this beautifully furnished room is three-
Of
about $4000.
A
in.
this
considerable amount on the pledges
,
fold:
First.
of the
To provide comfortable
Alumni upon returning
To make
Second.
quarters for the fellowship
to their
Alma Mater.
possible the preservation
exhibit of various trophies,
and
and proper
treasures, thus maintaining the
cherished traditions of the institution.
Third.
To provide
a pleasant and comfortable
room
for
the use of the Faculty of the College.
Show your
Alumni!
Bakeless and his committee.
loyalty!
If
Get
behind
Professor
you have seen the room,
tell
you have not seen it, ask those who have;
Send your gift
they will tell you what a fine contribution it is.
to Professor Bakeless, and appoint yourself a committee of one
to stir up enthusiasm among the Alumni of your locality.
others about
it.
If
Haas has accepted the invitation of Henry P.
of the Christmas Seal sale in Pennsylvania,
chairman
Fletcher,
to serve on the Seal Committee again this year.
Dr. Francis B.
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1876
and Mrs.
Prof,
F. H.
Jenkins are looking forward to cele-
brating the Fiftieth Anniversary of their wedding at their home,
216 West
Fifth Street,
December 22,
at
8:00
Bloomsburg, Pa., on Monday evening,
o’clock.
1877
1
Margaret N. Richards (Mrs. F. D. Lamb) died January 27,
929.
It was only a short time ago that news of her death was
sent to the
QUARTERLY
by her
son, Frederick D.
Lamb, Secre-
tary of the Railroad Branch of the Y. M. C. A. at Rochester, N.
Y.
Mr. Lamb also states that his mother had the distinction of
being the
State
first
woman
Normal School.
to
be valedictorian
at
the
Bloomsburg
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1892
The home
of Miss
Martha Robinson, who for many years
work at Higgins, N. C.,
was completely destroyed by fire at 3:00 o’clock Wednesday
morning, October 22.
The fire, of unknown origin, had made
considerable headway when discovered, and Miss Robison,
and a little boy whom she had taken to rear after his parents
died, were forced to flee in their night clothing.
In addition to
Sunshine Cottage,” where Miss Robinson lived, all of the furnishings, including books and clothing, were destroyed.
Miss
Robinson had a fine library, and an appeal has been sent out to
her friends to send her any books which might help her in h
work.
Miss Robinson has been carrying on her work under the
Presbyterian Board of Missions.
has been doing a fine piece of missionary
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1893
Alice Fenner
is
2029 Highland
is
now
living in Allentown, Pa.
Her address
Street.
1899
Charles E. Keefer lives at 5
1
7
Washington Avenue, Walla
Walla, Washington.
1900
Jean A. Beagle (Mrs. W. C. Leach) has moved from California and is now living at 432 South McArthur Street, Macomb,
Illinois.
Harry D. Keefer
lives at
361 Light Street Road, Blooms-
burg.
1901
Miss
Mary
member of the Bloomsburg High
member of the class of three hundred
G. Beiig, a
School faculty, was a
which graduated August 5 from Rider College, Trenton, N. J.
Miss Beiig completed a four-year course, and received the baccalaureate degree in commercial education.
1
1905
Inez Robbins Wilson
is
living
on a farm near
Millville, Pa.
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1907
E. Louise Jolly
Jose, California.
is
now
living at
Miss Jolly
is
1248 Lincoln Avenue, San
in the Alameda High
nineteen hundred students,
a teacher
School, which has an enrollment of
and a faculty of one hundred.
Artemesia Bush is teaching
in Patterson, N. J.
1908
Ida M. Dreibelbis (Mrs. William DeLong) lives at 1201
Her husband, a member of the
West Front Street, Berwick.
They have one
Class of 1903, is in the insurance business.
now
daughter,
in the
eighth grade.
Nellie Deighmiller (Mrs. C. R. Stecker) lives at
Fourth Street, Bloomsburg.
of 1893,
ter,
who
is
is
Carol
St.
Mr. Stecker, a
member
223 West
of the Class
They have one daugh-
a merchant in Bloomsburg.
member of the Class of 1925.
Krum (Mrs. Frank Buck) lives at 50 Macaris
a
Augustine, Florida.
Mr. Buck
is
a
civil
engineer,
Street,
and
is
connected with the Florida East Coast Railroad.
She writes
“The weather here is delightful, and I shall be glad to see any
classmates coming to Florida this winter.”
Mr. and Mrs. Buck
have two sons, one in sixth grade, and one in the eighth grade.
Class letters sent to Francesco C. L. Petrilli and J. Wesley
have been returned to the committee marked “Moved, no
This adds two more “lost” classmates to our list.
address.”
Sitler
Anyone
learning the address of either of these will please
municate with any
member
com-
of the committee, or with Mr. Jen-
kins.
Lucretia Christian (Mrs.
W.
T.
Wooters)
lives at
601 North
Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Joanna Beddall Watkins
lives at
1110 Michigan Avenue,
Pasadena, California.
1909
George I. Williams has been connected with the Justin
Leather Goods Company, of Nocony, Texas, for the past eight
years.
His travels take him through all the states of the Middle
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His address
West.
is
Box 1205, Omaha, Nebraska.
Mr. Wil-
liams would be glad to get in touch with any of his Bloomsburg
friends
who
live in that part of the country.
M. Reinee Potts (Mrs. 0.
B.
Jacob)
lives in
Folsom, Dele-
lives at
1547 Farwell
ware County, Pa.
1911
Edna Lewis (Mrs. E. J. Robinson)
Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A clinic for crippled children, sponsored by the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Ciub, was held in July at the Bloomsburg Hospital.
The work was in charge of Dr. Harry Alexander Smith, of
Wilkes-Barre, a noted orthopedic specialist.
Dr. Smith studied
abroad for four years under Sir Robert Jones, of London, at the
London Orthopedic Hospital, and is now orthopedist at the
General Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, where he holds weekly clinics.
He also has charge of the Kiwanis Club Clinic at Nanticoke.
The Rev.
service which
C. Carroll Bailey was the principal speaker at a
was the climax of a rally week program, held at
the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church, Bloomsburg, during the
month of October. Mr. Bailey is pastor of the Faith Evangelical
Church, at Baltimore, Md.
1912
A
daughter was born in September to Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Mrs. Bachinger, before her marBachinger, of Bloomsburg.
riage,
was Miss Teresa
Daily.
P. Clive Potts, Principal of the
Maryland State School
for
the Blind, Overlea, Maryland, received the degree of Ph. D. at
John Hopkins University last June.
Laura Houghton (Mrs. W. E. Peacock) lives in East
Stroudsburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Peacock have three children,
one of whom is in the Senior High School, and two in the Junior
High.
1913
A
son was born
in
September
to Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Barnett,
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S}3s^'2ia3®^&^®^SiSas§5&aagiS©SSs®ig!Si§i§S§^r2j§®r^.^aSi§ia§l§!Sitaaa
of San
Mazie
Diego,
Mrs.
California.
Barnett
was formerly Miss
Bloomsburg.
Phillips, of
1916
The engagement of Miss Martha V. Yetter and Harry E.
Miss Yetter is a member
Rider, ’04, was announced recently.
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg Junior High School, and Mr.
Rider
is
Principal of the Fifth Street School, Bloomsburg.
Anna A.
F.
Rusk (Mrs. Paul
J.
Fitzpatrick) of 41 19 13th
from
Her husband
Place, N. E., Brookland, D. C., received her A. B. degree
the Catholic University of Washington in June.
is
a professor in the same institution.
Mildred Helen Williams (Mrs. Willis Pettibone) died unexpectedly Sunday,
November
Avenue, Forty Fort.
Mrs. Pettibone
2, at
was employed
School, Kingston.
her home,
1127 Wyoming
After her graduation from Bloomsburg,
She
is
Maple Street
by her husband and two
as a teacher at the
survived
daughters.
Hilda
Clark (Mrs.
Elmer Fairchild)
lives at
333 Front
Street, Milton, Pa.
1918
Jane Williams
(Mrs. Charles Perry)
lives at
729 Main
Street, Edwardsville, Pa.
1919
wedding ceremony performed at the home of the bride
Wednesday morning, October 29, Miss Helen Meixell, of Beach
Haven, became the bride of James D. Bower, of Berwick.
The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. L. Hemmig, pastor of
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Berwick.
Mrs. Bower has for a
number of years been a teacher in the Berwick schools. Mr.
Bower is employed in the engineering department of the American Car and Foundry Company, at Berwick.
In a
1920
Miss Myrtle Dent and Paul M. Trembly, both of Espy, Pa.,
were married Saturday, September 20, at Williamsport.
Since
her graduation, the bride has been employed in the office of the
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g^aS^®g®&§iSiSi^giSife&Si&§SSi§sgSia8s5i§®^rS{§}&§ig}&a3s5sg!5s&3}§}3s§j^
Bloomsburg
office of the
Mr. Trembley is employed in the general
American Car and Foundry Company, at Berwick.
Silk Mill.
Lawrence V. Keefer, of Catawissa, and Miss Edith L.
Lemon, of Uniontown, were married Monday, June 23, in the
Central Christian Church at Uniontown, by the pastor, the Rev.
W. H. McKinney. The bride is a graduate of North Union High
School, and of the State Teachers College at California, Pa.
She has been teaching in the schools of Redstone Township.
Mr. Keefer received his M. A. degree at the University of Michigan in 929, after having previously received the A. B. degree
i
1
at the University of Utah.
versity of Michigan,
This
where he
fall
will
he
will return
to the Uni-
study for his Ph. D. degree
I
in
English.
In a very pretty wedding solemnized in the Espy Methodist
Church Wednesday, June 18, Miss Grace Gotshall became the
For the
bride of the Rev. Foster Pannebaker, of Lewistown.
past three years the bride has been a teacher in the Morrisdale
school.
Mr. Pannebaker is a graduate of Dickinson Seminary
He is pastor of the Maderaand is a Senior at Juniata College.
I
Glen Hope Charge.
Ruth
E.
Titman, of Bloomsburg, and Rollin E. Deitrich, of
home of the bride Wednesday evenThe Rev. Harry F. Babcock, of Bloomsburg,
assisted by Dr. E. A. Martin, of Tunkhannock, performed the
ceremony in the presence of the members of the two families
and a few relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Deitrich are now
living at 140 Market Street, Bloomsburg.
Espy, were married at the
ing,
I
October 29.
1921
Miss Helen Welliver is now a member of the faculty of the
She received the degree of Bachelor of
Berwick High School.
Science in Education at Bucknell University last June.
1923
Miss Helen
I.
Harmon and Maurice
wick, were married June 25, by the Rev.
E.
Bowes, both of BerJ. Cambpell, pastor
W.
I
\
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g!§iSiaaaSja^^?§!S^^^25&Si^®®rSigiSs®Sg!Si§Sj®®rS^Ss§s3J&i§!aaS@3gi
of the North Berwick United Evangelical Church.
is
Mr. Bowes
Wyoming Seminary, and
employed in the
is
American Car and Foundry Company,
Mr. and Mrs. Bowes are now living in their newly
a graduate of
audit department of the
at Berwick.
furnished
home
in Fifteenth Street,
Berwick.
Miss Vera Parker and Relbert Shultz,
both
of
Berwick,
Mrs. Shultz
were married September 20, at Sonestown, Pa.
has been teaching in the Berwick schools since her graduation
at
Bloormburg.
1924
At 3 00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, July 30, in the Reformed Church of Bloomsburg, Pa., Miss Margaret E. Keefer, of
Bloomsburg, Pa., became the bride of the Rev. John C. BrumThe cerebach, pastor of the Bloomsburg Reformed Church.
mony was performed by the Rev. John K. Adams. Mrs. Brum:
bach taught for several years
Rev. Brumbach
at
Central
Park,
Long
Island.
graduate of the Reading High School,
Franklin and Marshall College, and the Theological Seminary of
He has been pastor of
the Reformed Church, at Lancaster, Pa.
is
a
Reformed Church since December, 1927. Mr.
and Mrs. Brumbach are now living at the parsonage on East
the Bloomsburg
Third Street.
Miss Virginia Gallen, of Bloomsburg, and Alan T. Knight,
were married Saturday, August 6 in St.
by the Rev. J. Thomas
Heistand.
Mrs. Knight has been teaching in the Marcus Hook
schools.
Mr. Knight is a graduate of Drexel Institute and is a
construction engineer in the employ of the Sun Oil Company.
of Clayton, Delaware,
1
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg,
He is at present in charge of construction of the new plant of the
company at Marcus Hook. Mr. and Mrs. Knight are now living
at
Palace and Brookview Avenues, Claymont, Delaware.
Ruth Tempest and R. Wayne McLaughlin, of Oakland,
Iowa, were married at the Valley Forge Memorial Chapel last
Mrs. McLaughlin, before her marriage, was a member
June.
Lower Merion Township, Merion, Pa.
The year following her graduation from Bloomsburg, she served
of the teaching staff of
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Primary Supervisor in the Training School.
Mr.
McLaughlin is a graduate of Iowa State University, and is now
a mechanical engineer at the General Electric Company, Scheas Assistant
nectady, N. Y.
Sara E. Smull (Mrs. Eugene E. Free)
Pa.,
where her husband
is
is
living in Danville,
employed by the Penna. Power and
Light Co.
1925
Miss
Maryan
Hart, of Berwick, and
James W.
were
by
Mrs. Miller has been
Miller,
married June 25, in the First Methodist Church, of Berwick,
Dr. R. Skyles Oyler, pastor of the church.
Berwick since her graduation.
Mr. Miiller, a gradis employed by the American Car
and Foundry Company at Cleveland as sales engineer. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller are now living at 2225 Clifton Boulevard, Lakewood, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sabilla Schobert (Mrs. Earl Campbell) is now living at
310-A “The Manor,” Alden Park, Germantown, Pa.
Miss Margaret Eyerly and Ralph B. Aul, both of Espy, Pa.,
were married Monday, June 30, by the Rev. John J. Weikel,
pastor of the Espy Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Aul has been a successful teacher in the schools of Scott Township, Columbia
County.
Mr. Aul is a traveling salesman.
They will make
teaching
in
uate of Penn State College,
1
their
home
is
Espy.
Miss Marie Karns, of Benton, and Stanley Wright, formerly
of Benton, and now of Windsor, Vermont, were married at
The bride has been teaching
Windsor, Wednesday, June 25.
while
Wright
Mr.
is at present manager of the
since graduation,
Newberry
store at Windsor.
1926
Saturday morning, October 18, at
St.
Gabriel’s
Church,
Hazleton, Miss Margaret M. McLaughlin, of Hazleton, and Ray-
mond W.
George, of Scranton, were married by the Rev. Father
Leo Gilroy.
staff of the
Mrs. George has been a
Kline Township schools.
member
of.
Mr. George
is
the teaching
manager of
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the Scranton office of the Fisk Tire
37
Company.
Miss Geraldine Aul and Carl M. Davis, both of Espy, were
married Wednesday, June 25,
John’s Lutheran Church,
in St.
The ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev. J.
Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Davis left on
Weikel.
Espy.
J.
a tour of the
eral years in
New England
Mr. Davis, a graduate of State Col-
Hershey, Pa.
lege, has served during the past
ervisor,
and
is
now
Orangeville, Pa.,
Mrs. Davis taught for sev-
States.
two years
as agricultural sup-
Principal of the Vocational High School
where he and Mrs. Davis now
Miss Viola Quick, of Fairmount Springs, and Harland
Franklin, of
Harwood, were united
Rev. Robert
S.
dale.
in
at
reside.
J.
marriage, July 15, by the
Boyce, pastor of the Methodist Church of Hones-
The bride has been teaching
Mossville school.
for several years
in the
Mr. Frankiin holds a position with the
J. J.
Linebach Construction Company, at Hazleton.
1927
The Stevens Memorial Church at New Columbus was the
scene of a pretty wedding at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening,
October 20, when Miss Esther Chaplin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Ward Chaplin, of New Columbus, became the bride of
Edward C. Laubach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Laubach,
of Benton.
Rev.
J.
R. Stoudt, pastor of the church, officiated,
using the ring ceremony.
The bride was
a successful teacher
Benton schools.
The groom is a
graduate of the Benton Vocational High School and Pennsylvania State College and is assistant head of the sales personnel department of the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Laubach will make their home in Philafor the past three years in the
home after December first at their newly
home on Arbor Street, Yeagon, a Philadelphia suburb.
delphia and will be at
furnished
1928
Marjorie Vanderslice
is
Marjorie Ellen Wallize
teaching in the Lewisburg schools.
and Mr. Francis Paul Prettyleaf
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SiSiSSiSSSiSiSSiSSSSi^rSSSiSrSiSfSiSi^^SsSSSSSSiSSSSi^SSiSSSStSiSSi
were married October 22, 1930, in New York City. Mrs. Prettyleaf, before her marriage, was a teacher in the Granville
Township schools, Mifflin County. Mr. Prettyleaf is a graduate
of the Pennsylvania State College, Class of 1927, and is manager of the Lewistown Wholesale Grocery Company.
Mr. and
make
Mrs. Prettyleaf will
their
home with
the bride’s parents
until the first of the year.
Kathryn M. Abbett is a teacher in the Center Township
Her home address is Rupert,
High School, Columbia County.
Pa.
1929
Moore
Ethel
teaching seventh
is
grade
in the
schools
at
Nescopeck, Pa.
Lester Devine
Ruth
P.
is
Gardner
teaching
in
Berwick.
a teacher in the schools at Dalton.
is
1930
J.
Fred Berger
is
Principal of the
fine
new DeLong Me-
morial School at Washingtonville, Pa., dedicated
Friday,
No-
The new school, modern in every detail, is the gift
of Frank E. DeLong, and replaces seven one-room schools that
were formerly in use in Washingtonville and Derry Township.
vember 28.
Thursabert Schuyler
is
teaching in
the
high
school
at
Damascus, Pa.
Winifred Follmer
is
teaching at Brooklyn, Pa.
Haven Fortner and Jasper
grade, while Mr. Fritz
athletics.
Fritz are teaching in the schools
Mr. Fortner
of Osceola Mills, Pa.
is
is
teaching
in
the seventh
teacher in the high school and coach of
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Baker,
Captain
Shepella,
TEAM
Wanbaugh,
Golder,
BASKETBALL
Wilson,
Booth,
Warman,
Coach
CHAMPION
—
—
Right:
Right:
Liptzer.
to
to
Ysrctski
Left
Left
BLOOMSBURG’S
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—
Rudowiski,
ROW
ROW
Yocabonis
Carr,
SECOND
FRONT
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
MARCH, 1931
Vol. 32
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
BLOOMSBURG WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Statistics
show
clearly the great
power of the Bloomsburg
this year won,
State Teachers College basketball team which
Keydecade
clean-cut, the championship of the teachers colleges in the
stone State.
Bloomsburg teams four times
in the past
have had leading claims to the honors but never has a Maroon
and Gold team so cleverly dominated the field as the 1930-31
combination.
Bloomsburg compiled
This gave the local
a total of 81 0 points to 3 3 for opponents.
boys an average of 45 points per game, 6 points more than
Their average was 29 points
opponents were able to gather.
per game.
The teams met during the season included every state
teachers college in the state except Edinboro and Clarion in the
West Chester defeated by
west and West Chester in the east.
both Mansfield and Kutztown, was on the original schedule, but
Winners
in
1
7 of their
1
8
contests,
1
1
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2
when Bloomsburg was unable to argame at West Chester as that institu-
cancelled during the season
range a suitable date for a
tion requested.
There was no outstanding star for Bloomsburg.
man was
Every
was the great passing attack
that carried the team through.
Opposing clubs had some outstanding long shots, but that kind of a game was not good
enough to offset the machine-like passing attack of Bloomsburg.
Captain Wanbaugh, Columbia boy, and the lanky youngster around whom the Bloomsburg offense was started, was high
He had 228 points. These were made up
scorer of the team.
of 97 field goals and 34 foul goals.
In foul shooting Wanbaugh proved the most accurate on the club, making 34 of 59
a star in his position.
It
attempts.
Mahanoy City, rounding out four years of
varsity play at the College, was second in line, with 224 points.
Then came Kirker, also of Columbia, with 54 points. Kirker
Yocabonis, of
1
was not
who so well handforward during Kirker’s absence, had 57
Rudowski, of Newport, who played at both forward
in five of
led the duties
points.
games played.
the
Wilson,
at
and guard, collected 40 points.
Shepella, of Newport township, with 33 points was next
in scoring and then came Golder, of town, back guard, with 32.
Others who have contributed to the 810 points were Warman,
of Scranton, with 7 Baker, of Columbia, with 0 and Yaretski,
Carr, Luzerne, a Freshman, was the
of Glen Lyon, with 15.
1
eleventh
The
member
1
;
of the sqaud.
starting combination in the majority of the
games was
Yocabonis and Kirker at forward, Wanbaugh at center and
Golder and Shepella at guards.
This was a brilliant team and
was the stronger because there was
excellent material for re'
serve duties.
Of the eighteen games, seven of them were away from
home and five of these were played early in the season and
The fourth of these games, that
were consecutive contests.
:
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with East Stroudsburg, was the only one
lost
3
but
when
the
team
returned from the road trip with four decisive victories against
the lone setback,
it
had already established for
itself
a place
with the greatest basketball teams Bloomsburg has ever pro-
duced.
Of eleven varsity men, coach
T.
W. Booth, coaching
his
by graduation in June.
They are Kirker, Colder, Yocabonis, Baker and
Wilson.
Wanbaugh, of the first stringers, has one more year
as does Rudowski while Alex Shepella has two more years
ahead.
With the six members of the varsity squad remaining
together with some fine material from the Junior Varsity, undefeated in 12 games, Bloomsburg appears to have material for
second championship
five in three years, will lose five
another great team.
and
The team in making the 810 points made 318 field goals
74 of 344 fouls. The foul shooting average was just
1
over the .50 mark.
The individual scoring af each member of the team, as
compiled by Morris Liptzer, of Catawissa, the student manager,
follows
G.
F. G.
Pts.
34-59
40-73
44-80
3-12
16-29
228
224
13
7-21
14-32
9-17
33
32
Warman
9
4
Yareski
5
5-13
2-8
Wanbaugh
Yocabonis
Kirker
97
92
55
27
_
_
.
Wilson
Rudowski
_
Shepella
Golder
Baker
Carr
Total
_
_
12
4
0
318
0-0
1
74-344
154
57
40
17
15
10
0
810
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The team record follows:
M. C. A. 21 at Bloomsburg.
Alumni 34, at Bloomsburg.
B. S. T. C. 38, Danville Y.
B. S. T. C. 70,
,
B. S. T. C. 24, Indiana S. T. C. 23, at Indiana.
B. S. T. C. 42, California S. T. C. 30, at California.
B. S. T. C. 49,
Shippensburg
East Stroudsburg
S. T. C.
S. T. C.
42, B.
1
6, at Shippensburg.
T.
S.
C.
29, at East
Stroudsburg.
B. S. T. C. 44,
Wyoming Seminary
B. S. T. C. 60,
Shippensburg
B. S. T. C. 38,
Kutztown S.
Lock Haven
B. S. T. C. 47,
S.
21
at Kingston.
,
T. C. 34, at Bloomsburg.
T. C. 34, at Bloomsburg.
S. T. C.
27, at Lock Haven.
B. S. T. C. 53, Mansfield S. T. C. 37, at
B. S. T. C. 55, Slippery
B. S. T. C. 64, East
Rock
S. T. C.
Stroudsburg
Bloomsburg.
40, at Bloomsburg.
S. T. C.
41,
at
Blooms-
burg.
B. S. T. C. 27,
B. S. T. C. 42,
Kutztown S. T. C. 26, at Kutztown.
Lock Haven S. T. C. 20, at Lock Haven.
B. S. T. C. 42, Indiana S. T. C. 22, at
B. S. T. C. 47,
Wyoming Seminary
Bloomsburg.
24, at Bloomsburg.
B. S. T. C. 29, Millersville S. T. C. 23, at
Totals:
—
B. S. T. C.,
Bloomsburg.
810; Opponents, 515.
Harvey A. Andruss, head of the Commercial Department,
at the meeting of the commercial department of the secondary schools at the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, held at Williamsport, December 31,1 930.
At
the same meeting. Prof. Andruss was elected vice-president of
spoke
the commercial section in the state.
Dr. Nell Maupin, of the
dressed the
meeting held
Turbotville
Department of Social Studies, ad-
Parent-Teacher Association at
Wednesday evening February 25.
their
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many
the
force-
connected
personalities
ful
with
Bloomsburg State
the
Normal
School
fifty-five
years of existence,
is
of
that
Imrie,
the
M. IMRIE
Teacher and Social Worker.
Artist,
Among
5
during
Marion M.
charge of
Miss
who was
its
in
Department during
She was a
Art
the year 1878-9.
socially
strong teacher;
charming;
and
a
cultured
woman.
At
this
time the vivid
lessons of the Centennial Ex-
position at Philadelphia,
still
were
disturbing the American
who was only too
aware of the smugness
ind complacency of the masseducator,
well
es of
our people
in their isolation
exposition had given the nation a
leaders
many
needs,
many
mart could be assured.
from world movements.
jolt.
It had suggested
changes, ere our place
The older and
Asia and Europe, as manifested
in this
in the
The
to
our
world’s
richer civilizations of
great exposition, reveal-
ed also our crudeness, our slight development artistically. Their
treasures in art, their products in every field of industry, their
superior
To many
skill,
all
tended
to give us vision
of our workers for the
first
time
and new standards.
came
the possibilities
of form, color, design, in manufactured
Our eyes were opened
to
and industrial products.
the great domain of beauty; new
needs appeared; necessities for training,
skill,
growth, develop-
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ment, became apparent,
our commerce might hope to com-
if
pete successfully with older nations.
textiles and other products, saw defects in
had been overlooked before. Museums and
new schools of design were founded in many cities. Art classes
grew.
The few art schools in the country caught a new vision
and enlarged their fields. Public schools, in the more intelligent centers began to modernize and extend their courses.
The
truth dawned upon many that art was an every-day subject,
Manufacturers of
their
work
that
touching our
common
life in
intimate relations
;
ed commerce, industry and manufacture; that
that
it
it
enchanc-
was a part
of
even the poor man’s daily existence, in his dress, his furnishings,
and home life that with knowledge, right ideals and standards,
;
good
taste
is
as easily cultivated as
power
anter to dwell with; that
taste, and much pleasenchance the quality of a
bad
to
product need not militate against the quantity produced, and
would gain a more ready market for that product.
was
Bloomsburg State Normal
management, (D. J. Waller had become the young and enthusiastic principal of the budding institution), decided that art courses in the Normal Schools of the
State ought to be live, practical courses, so equipping the teachers of the State that they might carry the new message to the
It
just at this time that the
School, under a change of
children of the masses
whether
in
in the training
penmanship.
—
vision,
taste,
appreciation of beauty
The length of the course then offered
schools was only sixteen weeks of drawing and
The teacher in charge of the work tried in that
nature or
art.
time to give the candidate for the teacher’s profession something
and taste, if not skill, in drawing and writThe crude pupils were earnest and receptive; and more
was done in the brief time than instructors and school authoriThe leven planted silently stirred the mass to life.
ties knew.
of ideals, standards
ing.
We
have gone far
great laps to go
;
in this
field for
our children;
we
still
have
but our children are slowing coming into their
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aesthetic inheritence, because of this small
this
at hand.
and faraway begin-
wisdom of discerning educators.
ning, through the
At
7
opportune time a
woman
work was
unknown, stepped
qualified for this
Somehow, somewhere, out
of the
Miss Marion M. Imrie, a refined and intelligent
an, blue-eyed, auburn-haired,
awake, active;
little
trained and ready for the task school had set in
tips;
departure for
its
in the fall of
1878.
department.
art
wom-
Scotch
artist to the finger
Her early training she had gained
native Scotland, ere she cast her lot
among
new
its
Miss Imrie assumed her
work
in
her
us about 1870, in
her fifteenth year.
She sketched from naShe was a very versatile teacher.
She understood
She instructed in oil and water color.
She made it a means
designing, and was creative in that field.
of opening the eyes of her pupils to the wonders of form and
color; of line and surface; of light and shade. She taught them
She apto see, and interpret what they saw in various media.
preciated good line and arrangement in architecture, and helped
ture.
She knew the history of art,
But most of all did she
and opened that field to her classes.
know and understand the principles of design, and how to make
this field interesting to her classes, and a never-failing source of
pleasure to them in their daily life.
her pupils to see and enjoy them.
She was one of those rare teachers who believed in the inexpected results creditall her students
herent artistic ability of
able from
time,
all
;
and secured them.
and her pupils
ability,
or lack of
to do, to enjoy their surroundings,
a
skill
as a teacher,
and her
She made the most of her
it.
All learned to see,
because of her charm and
faith in their inherent ability.
The
world to every one of them became a richer place to live in;
and their usefulness as teachers was enhanced because of her
faith in their power to do, and her enthusiasm for this great field
she
knew
so well
;
loved so wisely.
Her pupils reverenced
her.
Their best efforts, however poor, were accepted by her with
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8
dignified constructive criticism,
and a
sincerity that enriched
their next effort.
Miss Imrie was born at Colmonell, Ayer, Scotland, about
known
and education. She
we have already
said.
An "In Memoriam” card which fell into the hands of
the writer, gave the fact that her mother, Marion Jameison, widow of John Barton Imrie, who died at Royal Bank House, Ayer,
on the 21st of May 1892, in her sixty-eighth year, was interred
1855.
Little
is
of her early
to
in the
church-yard at Colmonell.
America
in
life
her early womanhood, as
came
In the old family Bible, brought
Psalms
in
from Scotland, are the
metric form as sung in the Presbyterian service of the
Scottish church.
Some remnants
of poetry, written
by her
fath-
er remain, and suggest where her poetic and artistic tempera-
ment
is
derived.
Her family was a
for beauty, for poetry, for
all
religious one.
Her love
things that stir ones finer nature,
no doubt influenced her choice of a profession and her subselife work.
quent training and
After leaving Bloomsburg, Miss Imrie took up her residence and work in Ohio where she married Mr. Vernon C. Ward.
She lived for sometime in Columbus. Her family later moved to
Chicago, where she died August, 1906, leaving a son Vernon
C. Jr.,
and a daughter Elizabeth H. Ward.
Those who knew of her work say that she spent some time
this study was a beautiful head of
Christ.
She was represented at the Paris Exposition by two
panels, "The Trossachs,” and two other small paintings of
Her work was also represented at the ColumScottish scenery.
in
study abroad. The result of
bia Exposition in
Chicago,
in
1893.
One
of her paintings
"Oranges and Lemons” was a prize-winner at the San Francisco
She had a collection of hand painted china at the
Atlanta Exposition that attracted attention, and received compliShe had an
mentary notice in the southern papers at the time.
exposition.
exhibition also at the St. Louis Exposition.
a
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Mrs.
9
Ward sponsored the movement for the single moral
when such ideas were not considered
standard for both sexes
She was the founder of an organization,
Order of the Four P’s,” (Patience, Perseverance,
Purity, Prayer), January 1896 at Columbus, Ohio, which was
the outgrowth of a religious awakening there among the young
with popular favor.
called the
people
in
‘
1895.
The object
among
was
of the order
whom we
to raise the standard of morals
There
were sixteen character members “Patriots of Purity,” all memThe movement had quite a
bers of her Sunday School Class.
those with
associate, especially youth.
following jn other churches at the time.
was always inspiring and uplifting,
young people among whom she worked. She was a
woman of high ideals, and forceful character; in vision far
ahead of her times. She believed in and advocated prohibition,
when as yet is was only a name. She wore among the first, the
Mrs. Ward’s influence
with
all
white ribbon of the
W.
C. T. U.
—
She was preeminently an artist and a teacher of art,
worthy FIRST among the many excellent art teachers who have
served “Bioomsburg ” during its work in this field for sixty years.
She
left
her impress on our institution.
Her memory
is
a bene-
diction to her pupils as they in their teaching labor on in the
cause of truth and beauty.
among
Pennsylvania
is
better for her
work
us.
0.
H.
BAKELESS.
Dr. C. F. Hoban, Director of Visual Education in the Department of Public Instruction, spoke at the College Assembly
Friday morning, January 23.
Dr.
Hoban
greater use of visual aids to education.
trations
from
his recent trip to
stressed the need for
He drew many
illus-
Europe, and from the point
of
view of visual education, discussed the technique of teaching
in the schools of Europe as compared with those in America.
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10
IRENE GEORGIA KAHLER
Teacher and Inspirer of Youth.
Irene Georgia Kahler, teacher of mathematics in the
Bloomsburg High School, for sixteen years, died December 26,
She was a
930, after a lingering illness of many months.
member of the class of 908, of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, a very superior student, graduating with honorable mention in both scholarship and teaching ability, in the old days
when the dagger stood for superior ability as a teacher on the
commencement program, and the star for excellence in scholarship.
Miss Kahler always led her group in whatever she did.
1
1
Miss Kahler was born September 8, 1890, and was a
life
She was graduated from the local High School with high honors with the class of 906 and was
She entered the Normal School in the
historian of her class.
long resident of Bloomsburg.
1
autumn of
that year.
After finishing her course
in training,
she was elected to
the North Berwick High School, as assistant principal, and taught
there two years.
in the
She was then elected
to a position as teacher
public schools of Bloomsburg, teaching in fifth and sixth
She joined the high school faculty in 1916 as teacher
She was elected to this position because of
grades.
of mathematics.
her superior ability as a teacher, and her tact
in
dealing with
young people.
She was a very excellent teacher, clear
in
presentation,
and tactful in control; always winsome
and kindly in manner. She loved her work, knew her subject
matter, and was in thoro rapport with young life.
forceful in instruction
Two
volume
in
conversations
pedagogy
come
to the writer
in their brief
sentences.
that
comprise
To an
a
indifferent,
not over brilliant student in her class the question was asked:
“Who
is
your algebra teacher?”
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11
“Miss Kahler.”
“How
are you getting along with the subject?”
“Very
well.
She
is
so earnest
and so kind that you learn
her subject whether you have brains or not.” (The pupil had
them on general
brains but avoided using
principles).
This later with Miss Kahler:
“Miss K.,
Her face
How
does
X
get along in your algebra class?”
up with a gleam of pleasure
lit
that
was assuring
as she answered:
“One
of the very best boys
of apprehension; but he
do
his best for
me
is
that he
I
He
have!
is
not so quick
so attentive, so willing, so eager to
is
an inspiration
to
me
every recita-
was a heavy weight in other classes,
and a failure in some. The difference was in the personality
of the teacher, the personal touch of one who knew youth and
tion.”
This of a boy that
cared to inspire
And
so
we
effort.
say rightfully that pupils loved her, and took
pains to have her
know
worked
were orderly, kind
They mourn her
going; they miss her presence; her spirit.
A great and beThey loved to cheer
nign influence has gone out of their lives.
her last days with flowers and appreciative messages, because
her earnest, beautiful life, her untiring effort had enlarged their
vision and they had grasped something of her spirit.
In touch
with her, inspired by her earnestness, they ceased to trifle in the
adolescent way, in the spirit of mere play, and began the search
courteous
in
it;
for her;
her presence and in her classes.
for deeper things.
and sacrifice
be a part of their standards, and all of us
teachers will be measured by the standards she all unwittingly
set in their young souls.
Her
spirit of gentleness, earnestness, solicitude
will live in their lives,
She was popular
in the true
sense of the term, in that she
sought ever to be useful and helpful, often to her
venience and detriment.
In
own
incon-
always putting forward the good
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12
of others, she enhanced her power, and influence
and become
among
her
an object of affection
among all who knew her, and worked with her.
‘‘Irene” will be missed when her classmates gather.
She
pupils,
all
unconsciously
will
be missed among her fellow-teachers.
pils
miss her guiding steady hand, her encouraging winsome
spirit.
She
who knew
will
continue to live
in the
Most of
all
minds and hearts of those
her best, as an inspiring and uplifting force.
more teachers with
her pu-
0, for
the intelligence, the wisdom, the tact, the
patience, the sympathy, the vision, and the character of Irene
Georgia Kahler!
0.
H.
BAKELESS.
THE ALUMNI RECEPTION ROOM
“Trophy Room”
The Alumni Reception Room, (‘‘Trophy Room”), is now a
It
was permanently opened November 8, 1931,
(Home Coming Day), and sufficiently equipped to be used with
comfort, pride, and satisfaction by any alumni who return to
reality.
the college on a
visit.
made and the
need
the
money
to settle our
amounts still
obligations, and save interest charges.
We hope the members
of the various classes, who have endorsed the movement, will
note the figures, and respond at once with their quota.
Send your check to the treasurer of the fund and he will
acknowledge it by receipt. Whether your class has been soliFollowing
is
a statement of the subscriptions
outstanding.
cited or not,
up to
this time,
We
anything contributed to the project
be credited to the person and class from which it comes.
Send
let your dilatory good intentions delay the work.
your check now.
Yours for service and growth,
will
Do
in
not
0. H.
BAKELESS,
Treasurer.
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13
STATEMENT OF “TROPHY ROOM” FUND
(Only classes who held reunions in 1929 and 1930
made pledges
Pledge
Class
Class of ’75
Class of
79
_$
_
.
Class of ’80
12.50
16.00
14.00
50.00
51.00
2.00
2.00
Class of '84
Class of ’85
115.00
60.00
5.00
108.00
Class of ’90
Class of ’93
Class of ’94
Class of ’97
Class of ’99
50.00
Class of ’01
Class of ’04
Class of ’05
33.00
100.00
Class of ’06
Class of ’09
__
Class of ’10
_
Class of ’14
Class of ’15
Class of ’19
Class of ’20
Class of ’24
Class of ’25
Class of ’27
Class of ’30
Subscribed
100.00
150.00
25.00
70.00
100.00
100.00
Amt. Unpaid
Paid
12.50
Class of ’81
Class of ’89
as yet).
15.00
115.00
85.00
—
2.00
...
61.50
2.50
40.00
5.00
33.00
27.00
.
13.00
30.00
250.00
250.00
21.50
26.00
25.00
250.00
$1624.50
$1068.00
5.00
46.50
10.00
73.00
5.00
71.00
25.00
66.00
100.00
$
29.00
150.00
_
4.00
87.00
4.00
225.00
$635.50
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A.
Death
at
5:00
BRUCE BLACK
o’clock,
Monday morning, March
denly ended the career of A. Bruce Black, for
1
6, sud-
5 years head of
the penmanship department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
1
College and nationally recognized as a Shakespearean author-
The end came at his home on East Street about two hours
was stricken with an attack of indigestion, and was due
principally to heart disease.
He was aged 57 years.
ity.
after he
Mr. Black at the time of his death was court crier of Col-
umbia County
courts, to
Throughout
his life
which he was appointed May
3, 1930.
he was a keen student of Shakespeare
His collection of books was one of the
and a lover of books.
finest to be found in this section of the country, and his library
included copies of books which were most rare.
Many of these
were disposed of only a few years ago.
He had
written a
Shakespeare, and
lusions
and
number
his latest
parallels,
of books, most of
them based on
work, a pamphlet containing 60 alin collaboration with Dr. Robert
compiled
M. Smith, professor of English
only a few weeks ago.
at
Concerning the pamphlet the
Lehigh University, came out
New York Times
carried the
following dispatch under a Bethlehem date line:
“An original collection of sixty allusions and parallels has
been compiled in a publication of the Institute of Research of
Lehigh University largely as the result of exhaustive study for
thirty-five years of an invalid in his home at Bloomsburg, Pa.
The man is A. Bruce Black who is co-author with Dr. Robert M.
Smith, Professor of English at Lehigh.
“The pamphlet, covering a period from 1599 to 1701 and
which Shakespeare has upon the literature of the seventeenth century, is composed of allusions and
parallels selected from almost 600 passages submitted by Mr.
illustrating the influence
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They are
Black.
and research
the fruit of intensive reading
and were discovered largely as a
sociate
15
result of his
remarkable as-
memory.”
His
work
An
evidence of
attracted w'ide interest in literary circles.
this
was
that only last Friday, Mr. Black
received a letter from the president of the Encyclopedia Brit-
from London congratulating him on his work and asking
him a copy of his drama “William Shakespeare,
Gentleman,” which Mr. Black wrote some years ago but never
tanica
that he send
published.
Word
of his death came as a profound shock to his legion
He had
and acquaintances throughout this section.
been in failing health for some years and about five years ago
He
had to undergo operations for the amputation of both legs.
showed remarkable grit in rallying from this misfortune and in
Throughout this lliness
learning to walk with artificial limbs.
he continued his work and studies.
of friends
The son of the fate Sheriff and Mrs. William W. Black, Mr.
Black was born September 20, 1873, at Rohrsburg, Greenwood
Township.
As a youth he attended school in that locality and
at Dickinson Seminary and in the high school at York, Pa.
He
continued
his studies at
Michael University,
graduating from that institution
he took a special course
lege,
in
Logansport, Ind.,
in the spring of
penmanship
Columbus, Ohio, graduating
1
896, and then
at the Zanerian Art Col-
in the fall of that year.
Returning to Bloomsburg, he became deputy
sheriff
under
1897 and served during the three years of his term,
continuing as deputy under Sheriff Knorr and then remaining as
his father in
deputy through
years he
was
his father’s
clerk to
second term.
the county
For the next three
commissioners,
twelve years of service in the court house
when he
completing
left that
po-
sition.
For a short time he taught
and then
in
1
909 he accepted
in the
summer
school at Benton
the position of instructor in pen-
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manship at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, at that time
the Bloomsburg Normal School.
He continued a valued member of that faculty for about
During
5 years.
1
his service at that institution
ope, once in 1911 and again in 1914.
much
spent
time in the British
peare and continuing
back
some hours
to
Isles, visiting
the
home
visits
he
of Shakes-
He was in Europe at the time
World War and had a thrilling experience
his studies.
of the outbreak of the
in getting
he twice visited EurDuring these
America, being forced to stand
in water for
which he was a passenger had
stop so that it could be searched for
after the vessel in
been shelled for refusal
draft evaders.
Some
to
years later Mr. Black continued his tra-
vels with a trip to the Pacific coast.
His
first
published literary work was
“Like Expressions.”
titled
This
was
in
1
900 and was
en-
and enlargThe work was in-
later revised
ed and printed in two good sized volumes.
tended to do away with parallelism arguments, especially in the
Bacon-Shakespearean controversy.
He also published a novel,
“A Random
Shaft.”
For some years Mr. Black was also
interested in
writing
the words of songs, a number of which were published.
He
was always a lover of fine books and during the past summer
was congratulated by Senators and Congressmen for his part in
securing for the United States from Germany a number of val-
uable books which are a real addition to the Library of Congress at Washington.
His last literary efforts were devoted to working with Prof.
in the publishing of the allusions and parallels to the
words of Shakespeare and at the time of his death was continuing work in this field.
Only a few weeks before his death, he
stated that Lehigh University was anxious that he complete this
work and he said he was eager to do it but was doubtful whether his life would be prolonged over the necessary period.
Mr. Black was nationally recognized as an authority on
Smith
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Shakespeare and frequently addressed clubs on that subject in
New York and Philadelphia. Only a few months ago he delivered a lecture on
Shakespeare at the Ben Franklin Hotel
in
Philadelphia and he appeared several times before the Yale Club
of
New York
City.
Through
erary
field,
his
work
at the
Teachers College and
Mr. Black was widely
known and had
a
in the lit-
legion
of
friends throughout the country.
On February
liams, of
About
23, 1907, Mr. Black married Miss Helen Wil-
Bloomsburg,
who passed away August
30,
1910.
2 years ago he married Miss Lois Brunstetter, of Orangewho survives him, as does one son by the first marriage,
ville,
1
Lessing Black, a chemist working
home
to visit his father only a
New
in
week
York.
three nephews, Bruce Mather, of Benton;
The son was
Also surviving are
ago.
Ray Mather,
of Bos-
ton University, and Dr. Clayton Mather, of Strausburg.
Mr. Black was a
member
of the Methodist Church and of
the Sons of Veterans while that organization
was
active.
In
he was a Democrat and in 928 was the Democratic
nominee for member of the General Assembly.
politics
1
WILLIAM
William H. Housel, for
H.
many
HOUSEL
years steward at the Blooms-
burg State Normal School, died in Philadelphia Friday, February
He was found dead in his bed. News of his death came
20.
as a shock to his relatives and friends, as he had visited Bloomsburg two weeks before his death, and at that time was apparAt the time of his death, Mr. Housel
ently in the best of health.
was
sixty-nine years of age.
A
was born in 1861.
Bloomsburg and resided here for
native of Lock Haven, Mr. Housel
As a young man he came
to
:
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many
years.
For about twenty years he was steward at the
Later he held a similar poBloomsburg State Normal School.
At another time he had a music store
sition at the Elks’ Club.
For the past five years he had lived in Philain Bloomsburg.
delphia, where he was employed as night watchman for the
Market Street Title and Trust Company.
Although not many are aware of the fact, Mr. Housel left
behind him a monument that people look at many times a day.
We refer to the clock on the tower of Carver Hall. In the December,
1
by Dean
Sutliff, relative to
928, issue of the
take the liberty to quote
“Among
QUARTERLY, we
this artcle in
We
part
other improvements in the late 90’s, the trustees
decided to remodel the front of Carver Hall.
posing front facing the town,
erected.
printed an article
placing the clock in the tower.
including the
But no clock was available
—
or, in
Ihe present imclock
tower, was
other words, there
was no cash on hand to provide the clock. The circular windows were boarded up, blind eyes to a beautful tower.
the
“At that time William Housel was the efficient steward at
Normal School. He saw the need of a clock and made the
proposition to the trustees to secure
stitution.
at the Fair
it
without cost to the
in-
The large eating stand
Grounds could be rented and dinner served to the
His plan
was
briefly this:
He decided to try renting this building
crowds at a fair profit.
and serving a turkey dinner each day during the Fair.
“The students and
the
project.
nations were
faculty of the school
Volunteer
made by
waiters were
dealers from
whom
were
secured.
enlisted
Some
in
do-
regular supplies were
purchased, and the plan went forward with great
enthusiasm.
Good weather prevailed and large crowds were in attendance.
It was a successful project from every standpoint.
“Mr. Housel then went to New York, and with about seven
hunderd dollars as his assets from the plan, bought the clock
and had it installed without cost to the school.”
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Dean
Sutliff
closed his article with the following: “Here’s
hoping that someone
will
remember the date and place
marker upon the clock and give a few
credit to
whom
19
credit
is
due.”
We
details of
wonder
time for the suggestion to be carried out.
It
if
its
a
origin,
this is
little
and
not the
would be a worthy
project for the Alumni Association.
ANNUAL COLLEGE NIGHT A SUCCESS
The annual
—
college night of the service clubs of Blooms-
burg
one of the outstanding events of each year’s program
provided a treat Thursday evening, January 8, in the appearance of Dr. John L. Davis, of New York, a humorist extraordinary, and one who declared his mission of the evening was to
drive
away depression.
From the march
more than 400
guests entered the college hall to the close of the good night
dance in the auditorium, the program of the evening was one
that held the closest attention of every guest, and every part
of it was unqualifiedly good.
President R. G. Buckalew, of the Kiwanis Club, and president H. Mont. Smith of the Rotary Club, jointly presided and
Miss Harriet Moore led in spirited singing.
The college orchestra
of the orchestra as the
under the direction of Howard Fenstermaker, provided a
delightful
program of music.
At the close of the program in the dining room, students
of the college and others presented music and one act plays in
the auditorium
follows:
Mireille, Overture,
Gounod
College Orchestra
Direction H. F. Fenstemaker.
Maroon and Gold, H.
F.
and
F.
H.
Direction Miss Harriet M. Moore.
College Chorus
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Oley Speaks
Morning
When
the Roses
Bloom
Richardt-Roepper
Edmund Parlow
Amaryllis
An
Arab’s Song
Girls’
H. M. Higgs
Glee Club, direction Miss Jessie A. Patterson.
Flow Gently Deva
Mrs. Dorothy
J.
Everitt,
Robert
E. Clark, Mrs.
Parry
Eza
Feldman, accompanist.
Stars of the
Summer
Woodbury
Night
Cooke
01’ Car’lina
College Chorus
One Act
Scene:
New
Henry Arthur Jones
Play, Dolly’s Little Bills
Living
Room
in
London,
the Telfer apartment,
Year’s Day.
Players
—Harry
Telfer,
Henry Warman;
Dolly
Telfer,
Frances Evans; Dolly’s Father, Aldwin Jones.
Curtain closed for a few minutes to indicate passing of a
year.
Presented by Alpha Psi
Omega
Fraternity, direction Miss
Alice Johnston.
Bohm
Cavatina
College Orchestra
Ma
Dichmont
Little Banjo
Double Quartet
Men’s Glee Club
Miss Frances Evans, accompanist.
Hunter’s Loud Hallo
Suabian Folk Song
O’Hara
Arr. by Brahms
Arr. by Bartholomew
Battle of Jericho (Spiritual)
Direction Miss Harriet M. Moore
Men’s Glee Club
Bronson
Violin solo, Gipsy Legend
Karl Getz
Mrs. John Ketner Miller, accompanist
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Gounod
Send Out Thy Light
College Chorus
Bennett
Military Escort
KAPPA DELTA
PI
ORGANIZED AT BLOOMSBURG
Dr. Alfred L. Hall-Quest, educator, author,
the Kadelphian Review, installed the
Kappa Delta
2
1
Gamma
and editor of
Beta Chapter of
Pi at the College Saturday afternoon, February
Alumni, juniors, and seniors were initiated as charter
.
members
The
at that time.
were followed by a banquet in
and special guests.
national
honorary
Kappa Delta Pi is a
educational fraternity.
Its purpose is to foster high professional and scholarship
standards during the period of preparation for teaching, and
exercises
initiation
the college dining
room
for the fraternity
to recognize outstanding service in the field of education.
this
it
maintains the highest educational ideals and fosters
To
fel-
lowship, scholarship, and achievement in educational work.
Membership consists of juniors and seniors, both men and
women, with general scholarship requirements of a grade in
the upper quarter of the enrollment, and the completion of at
least six hours in education for juniors and twelve for seniors.
It is both a graduate and an undergraduate fraternity and has
the unique distinction of a Laureate Chapter composed of out-
standing educators throughout the world, the intention being
to make this
Academy of
number
in
essence an
Academy of Education similar to
Academy of Letters. To date
Science or the
of laureates
is
the
the
nearly twenty-five, and there are seven-
ty-four active chapters.
A
convocation
quarterly,
of
the
fraternity
the Kadelphian Review,
is
meets
biennially.
A
published at Menasha,
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The key is a scroll and stylus.
Kappa Delta Pi grew out of a local
Wisconsin.
society, the Illinois
Education Club, founded at the University of
Later, June 8, 191
1
,
it
was incorporated under
the laws of the
State of Illinois as the honorary educational fraternity
Delta
1909.
Illinois in
Kappa
Pi.
There are chapters throughout the East and West. Some
where chapters have been established are: State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa., State
of the colleges in this section
Teachers College, Mansfield, Pa., William and Mary College,
Teachers College, Columbia University, University of Cincinnati,
and West Virginia University.
The organization of the chapter
interest to
of
Kappa Delta
requirements
high
of
scholarship
at
Pi
is
of
shows that the
Bloomsburg compare
every student of the College, for
it
favorably with other colleges and universities.
The faculty committee on fraternities and sororities which
has been instrumental in securing a chapter of Kappa Delta Pi
is
of interest to every student of the College, for
it
shows that
the requirements of high scholarship at Bloomsburg
compare
favorably with other colleges and universities.
The
faculty committee on fraternities
and
has been instrumental in securing a chapter of
at
Bloomsburg
composed
is
sororities
which
Kappa Delta
Pi
of Prof. S. L. Wilson, Dr. H. H.
Russell, Miss Ethel A. Ranson, Miss
Edna
J.
Hazen, and Dr.
Nell Maupin, Chairman.
In the business
lowing
officers
meeting following the
were elected and
installed:
installation, the fol-
President, Chester
Zimolzack; Vice President, Martin Sekulski; Recording Secretary, Miss
beth
Lorna Gillow; Corresponding Secretary, Miss ElizaTreasurer, Frank Perch; Historian, Laura
Bowman;
Shultz.
The members
Graduates:
of the
Bloomsburg Chapter are:
Margaretta Bone, Llewellyn Edmunds, Anna
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Edward Jacob Ferber, Gilbert Gould, Karleen
Hoffman, Josephine Holuba, Charles John, Norma Knoll, Edgar
Richards, Thursabert Schuyler, Nevin Sponseller, Blanche Fahringer, Leroy Baer, Earl Farley, Margaret Swartz, Luther Bitler,
Elizabeth Erwin,
Lawrence Creasy, Roy Haring, Mary A. Laird,
Alice Pennington, Thomas Welsko, Francis McHugh, Martha
Myra
Sharpless,
A. Laird, Marjorie Orr, Nicholas Polaneczky, Helen Stackhouse,
Arthur Jenkins, Dorothy Schmidt.
Seniors:
Edward Devoe, Esther Yeager, Emily A. Park,
Bowman, Thomas Henry, Helen
Clarence Wolever, Elizabeth
Maynard, Marian Meixwe.l, Martin Sekulski, William Weaver,
Chester Zimolzack, and Dorothy Kisner.
Demott, Lorna Gillow,
Juniors: Grace Callendar, Lois
Ezra Harris, Gerald Hartman, James J. Johns, Frank Perch, Ivor
Robbins, Laura Shultz, Lottie Zebrowski, and Frank Dushanko.
Faculty Members: Nell Maupin, Edna J. Hazen, Ethel A.
Ranson, H. H. Russel, S. L. Wilson, and Rachel Turner.
Honorary Members: President Emeritus David J. Waller,
Jr. and President Francis B. Haas.
PROF. AND MRS. JENKINS CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING
Fifty years of married
life,
most of
it
intimately connected
with the educational institution where they met as pupils, were
rounded out Monday, December 22, by Prof, and Mrs. F. H.
Jenkins, of West Fifth Street, and that evening at their home
they were hosts to a number of friends.
In addition there were many telegrams and letters of conThe home was
gratulation from friends who could not attend.
a bower of flowers sent by friends, and the couple also re-
many handsome gifts.
Few Bloomsburg residents
ceived
Prof. Jenkins
came
in
are better
known than
contact with thousands
of
they.
students dur-
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more than forty years of service at the Normal School,
and Mrs. Jenkins has for many years been one of the most active members of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
ing his
Mrs. Jenkins was formerly
Miss
Anna
Bittenbender,
of
town, and Prof. Jenkins came here as a student from Chittenango, N. Y.
During the observance that evening at the home, Mrs. W.
played the “Venetian Love Song,” by Ethelbert Nevin.
B. Sutliff
Miss Harriet Moore sang delightfully, “When You and i
Were Young, Maggie,” and also sang an original song for which
Prof. W. B. Sutliff had written the words and music.
Mrs. William Fortner
read “The Golden
Milestone”
by
Longfellow, and Mr. Fenstemaker played a medley of songs
that
were popular a half century ago.
Prof. Jenkins came to the Normal
prepare for college and graduated in
still
was
from
1
He
in its infancy.
880
to
1
884 was
in
1
the
fall
1873
of
876 when
the
to
school
then entered Amherst college and
principal of the public schools at Eaton,
N. Y.
He returned
to
Bloomsburg
in
August,
1
884, to be teacher
of English at the Normal School, continuing in that position until
1
895 when he was made
registrar
and business manager of the
school, a position he filled capably for thirty years
tirement in August, 1925.
with
all
In that capacity
until his re-
he came
contact
in
of the thousands of students during those three decades.
Altogether he was at the school for forty-one years
in
addition
to the years spent there as student.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins were married in St. Matthew Lutheran Church by Rev. 0. D. S. Marclay, who was the pastor at that
One of the guests at the wedding, Mrs. Dora Fritz, of
time.
Pottstown, was able to attend the golden wedding.
They have one daughter, Mrs. R. A. McCachran, and two
grandsons, Robert and Russell McCachran.
:
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25
HAAS WRITES NEW COLLEGE SONG
Teachers
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the
College,
has entered the ranks of the composers.
At the college night of
the service
clubs
evening, January 8, there was sung for the
first
on Thursday
time “The Ma-
roon and Gold,” which was written by Dr. Haas recently.
Inquiry as to the writing of the words and melody brought
the information that Dr.
Haas had the tune
in
mind
for
some
when he hummed it. Prof. Howard Fenstemaker
college faculty, set down the words.
time and
the
The words
of
of the song follows
In the
And
To
A
days to come when others boast
College tales are told
the glad refrain
add a joyful
strain
cheer for Maroon and Gold
And be
not
weak
in praise
nor slow to honor.
Refrain
Keep
the colors proudly flying
Raise them high. Maroon and Gold
Colors royal for the loyal
And
a cheer for the brave
and bold
Fling a challenge to the honest foe
And
the colors bravely hold
Sound the noble cry with courage high
Hurrah! Hurrah! Maroon and Gold!
Bloomsburg and vicinity who are patients
at the Clinic for Crippled Children, conducted by Dr. Merrill at
the Geisinger Hospital, in Danville, were the guests of the girls
The children
of Waller Hall
of
at a Christmas
party held in the college
nasium Saturday afternoon, December
1
4.
gym-
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THE 1930-31 ARTIST’S COURSE
The
Artist’s
Course, as outlined for
this year, has been
and has been well received. The
7, with “The Violin Maker of Cre-
attracting large audiencas,
course opened October
mona.”
pianist,
Friday
!
evening,
who played
November
engagement, and again delighted
ing,
December
19,
Charles
Naegele,
the attraction
his
hearers.
Friday even-
was John Bockewitz, Dra-
Mr. Bockewitz also presented his program
matic Cartoonist.
in the
21,
here several years ago, played a return
afternoon to
all
the children
who
are part of the train-
A
program of high artistic quality was
presented Friday evening, January 30 by the Durrell String
Quartette, assisted by Reginald Boardman, pianist, and John
The program given March 6, was prePercival, baritone.
This was the third engagesented by the Boston Male Choir.
ment of the Choir in Bloomsburg, and their popularity was well
The last number of
indicated by the applause they received.
the course was the drama “Old Nobody,” presented by the
This was also a return
Matheson, Kennedy, Gage Players.
engagement, as this party played “The Chastening” here two
Charles Rann Kennedy, a member of this comyears ago.
pany, won fame as the author of “The Servant in the House.”
If the increase in attendance is any indication, the Artist’s
Course is growing more popular every year.
ing school system.
The
faculty of the
another of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College held
night” parties Tuesday
much enjoyed “family
evening, February 24, the affair opening with a dinner
dining room
of the First Methodist Church,
with cards at the
home
at the
and being, concluded
of Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas.
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TWELVE STUDENTS COMPLETE WORK
With the close of the
first
semester at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College Saturday noon, twelve girl students,
all of them working in the primary and intermediate fields,
completed their college work.
They will return at the end of
the second semester to take part in the commencement exer-
cises.
Students
who have completed
Intermediate
Duryea.
Intermediate
Jermyn.
Intermediate
Barre.
Rural
—
—Dobrowolski,
— Dunn,
Dora,
—
Stella
Florence
Ada
F.,
—Kasaczun,
are:
821
F.,
Main
78, R. D.
Huntington
Alice
Foot
427
Louise,
Box
Gitlovitz,
Harrison,
Intermediate
work
their
H.,
1
Ave.,
St.,
Wilkes-
,
Mills.
609
Cherry
St.,
Scranton.
—Kazunas, Milda 38
535
Mildred
Primary—
Coxton
—Mann,
3505
Primary —
920
Helen
—
729 Poplar
Anna
Primary—
Primary
doah.
Liddell,
City.
Intermediate
ton.
R.,
S.
Jardin
E.,
E.
Center
Y.
Lillian E.,
Rosser,
Solonski,
Intermediate
St.,
M.
Shenan-
Mahanoy
C. A., Pitts-
Odell Ave., Scranton.
Roberts, Jeanette,
Intermediate
St.,
Pine
C.,
A.,
—Wolfe, Genevieve
G., R. D.
Francis T. Brown, of Wilkes-Barre,
St.,
St.,
was the
1,
Scranton.
Bloomsburg.
Alderson.
successful bid-
der for the installation of a clock and bell system to be installed
in the
Benjamin Franklin Training School
at the College.
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ATTENTION, PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
The Philadelphia Alumni are planning a dinner, to be held
The date has not yet been definitely fixed.
Members of the old Faculty will be invited, and
a cordial invitation is extended to all Alumni living in and
Those interested should communicate with
near Philadelphia.
2 North 50th Street, West PhilaMrs. Florence Hess Cool,
during the latter part of April.
1
1
delphia.
ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 23
The following
classes will
hold reunions:
1876,
1871,
1881, 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1921,
Plan now to make this the greatest Alumni
1926, and 1929.
Day
in
the history of the College.
A
special supplement to the
QUARTERLY
It
Bloomsburg graduates.
plete announcement of the day’s program.
mailed to
all
will
will
soon be
contain a com-
Watch
for
it.
SOUND PICTURE DEMONSTRATION
Students of the College were given a fine demonstration
of the possibilities of the sound picture as an aid to teaching
by a program presented Monday, February
9,
through the
courtesy of the Electrical Research Products, Incorporated, a
The program began with the
branch of the Western Electric.
regular chapel exercises at
10 A. M., and ran continuously
The following films were shown: “The Play of
until 4:30.
Imagination in Geometry,” by Eugene Smith, Professor Erne-
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ritus of Mathematics, Teachers College Columbia University;
“Fundamentals of Football” The Symphony Orchestra Series;
“Woodwind Choir,” “Brass Choir,” “Percussion Group,” and
“String Choir”; “Acoustic Principles,” by Dr. Harvey Fletcher,
of the Bell Telephone Laboratories; “Finding His Voice,” an
animated cartoon explaining “What Makes the Movies Talk”;
“Our Government at Work,” “The Testing of Child Intelligence,” as demonstrated by Mrs. Ina C. Sartorius, Assistant
Principal of the Horace Mann Elementary School; “The Study
of Infant Behavior,” by Dr. Arnold Gesell, Director of the Yale
Psycho Clinic; “The Creative Approach to Education,” by.
Hughes Mearns, Professor of Education at New York University; and “Accomplishment Tests for Babies,” by Dr. Charlotte
Buhler, of the Psychology Institute of Vienna.
;
ADD TEACHER
Miss Marguerite
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
IN
Murphy has been added
to the faculty of
head of this
The department has
the commercial department to assist H. A. Andruss,
department, which was opened
last Fall.
proved very popular with the students with over forty having
taken the work during the past semester.
in this field a
The
college offers
four year course leading to a bachelor’s degree in
commercial education.
Miss
Murphy
is
University, Normal,
a graduate of the
111.,
Illinois
attended the Gregg
State
Normal
School, Chicago,
and Teachers College, Columbia University, receiving her
S. degree in February, 1929, and her M. A. degree in Decem-
111.,
B.
ber of that year at Columbia.
Miss Murphy has taught at Granville and Chillicothe, 111.,
and since October, 1929, has been principal of the Sherman’s
Business School, Mount Vernon, New York.
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LEGISLATORS OF DISTRICT GUESTS
Members of the legislature from the area served by the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College were guests at the institution on Monday, December 22nd, as the board of trustees held
and the students enjoyed their annual
its regular meeting,
Christmas dinner party.
and representatives from throughout the serhad been invited to the school for the day and during
the afternoon they were shown the college as it was at work by
the members of the board of trustees and the president. Dr.
Senators
vice area
Francis B. Haas.
Mrs. Haas served tea to the ladies in the new alumni room
and dinner was enjoyed in the dining room where the students
During the dinner there was spiritenjoyed a turkey dinner.
ed group singing and a number of selections by the double
quartet and the boys’ glee club of the college.
A
Christmas dance was enjoyed
in the
gymnasium
follow-
ing dinner.
The guests were Senator and Mrs. Benjamin Apple, of
Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. Frank McArran, of Danville; Sterling
Post, of Northumberland; Benjamin Jones and son, of WilkesBarre; W. W. Shutt, of Bloomsburg; Mrs. John G. Harman, of Bloomsburg; the Misses Llewellyn, of Elysburg; Miss
Elizabeth Waller, Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
L. Townsend, Mrs. A. W. Duy, Jr., A. W. Duy, Paul E. Wirt,
Miss Sara Wirt, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl,
of Danville, and Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas.
E.
A.
Reams
of the
Department of Social Studies, spoke
Wednesday, January 14 to the Garden Club of
Reams spoke on
terest.
Millville.
Mr.
current events of national and international in-
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COLLEGE BAND ORGANIZED
One
of the most active of the under graduate organizations
formed band of the Bloomsburg State
This band made its first public appearance
at the Rotary-Kiwanis College Night early in the year and has
been a success from the start.
Howard Fenstemaker, of the department of modern languages, is the director of the band which has 30 men in its personnel.
The institution has equipped the organization with
white duck trousers and black sweaters and they make a natty
on the
hill is
the newly
Teachers College.
appearance.
They have been playing for basketball games recently and
have added much to the enjoyment of the spectators.
Of the present members only about five will be lost through
graduation.
This number should be recruited from the incomIn addition there are several students at the school
ing class.
who
will
probably be recruited for the band next year.
The need
of a
band has been long
recent years attempts have been
made
Now
have met with little success.
to have a band and a good one.
it
the school and in
form one but they
felt at
to
appears that the college
During the holidays, Bloomsburg attracted many
who came
to see the beautiful Christmas illumination.
the features of the holiday decoration
Carver Hall.
The
electrically
was
lighted
that of the
dome was
is
visitors
One
dome
visible
of
of
for
huge bell, worked out in red lights.
Below it, and facing College Hill, the letters “B. S. T. C.” were
worked out in brilliant colors, while a panel of colored lights
Still lower, the front
surrounded the entire base of the dome.
of the building was outlined in red lights, and the entrance in
At the front of the building the fountain and its
green lights.
The
base were beautifully decorated with Christmas greens.
miles, giving the effect of a
credit for the
whole project goes
to
Nevin B. Englehart, Super-
intendent of Buildings and Grounds, and his corps of assistants.
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Prof. C. H. Albert, spoke three times during the two day
program of the Monroe County School Directors’ Association
which was held at Stroudsburg Wednesday and Thursday,
January 14 and 15.
Speaking before the directors Wednesday morning, Mr. Albert delivered an address on “Some Rightful Demands of Parents, Pupils and Teachers.’’
His subject
that afternoon was “The Three Fold Nature of the Child.”
Thursday morning he spoke on “Some Real Tasks for School
Directors.”
Miss Ethel A. Ranson, of the College
home
faculty
is
having a
on East Second Street, above the college property.
built
Miss Ranson will be the latest addition to the “faculty colony”
which
is
growing up
by
built there
in that locality,
homes having already been
Manager C. M. Haus-
Prof. S. L. Wilson, Business
knecht, Prof. F. A. Reams, and Prof. E. H. Nelson.
An audience
that almost completely filled the college audi-
torium Friday evening, December 12, was carried back to the
Civil War and lived with the characters of the tragedy “The Copperhead” the many trials and tribulations of the
days of the
war time spy.
Members
of the Alpha Psi
Omega Dramatic
Fraternity pre-
sented the play under the auspices of the Senior class and
no
college production in recent years has been any better handled.
An
exceptionally strong cast under the capable direction
had undivided attention throughout the
The character roles were enacted in such a way that
of Miss Alice Johnston
evening.
was nothing left to be desired.
The cast of characters for the first epoch follows: Joey
Shanks, Nicholas Jaffin; Grandma Perley, Luella Krug; Mrs.
there
Shanks, Miss Elizabeth VanBusKirk; Captain Hardy, John Hall;
Milt Shanks,
Maynard
J.
Pennington; Mrs. Bates, Miss Dorothy
Levere; Sue Perley, Miss Mary Davies;
Kirker;
Newt
Gillespie,
Robert G.
Lem
Sutliff;
Tollard,
Thomas
Andrews, George
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Miss Ruth
Elsie,
Emma
Fortner.
33
Additional char-
acters playing in the second epoch were: Madeline King, Miss
Millie
Rabb;
Dr.
Philip
Bowman;
Elizabeth
Manning, Arthur McKenzie; Mrs. Manning,
Dr. Randall, David Baker.
Haas was one of the speakers on the eighteenth annual
Week program, held at Philadelphia from March
Schoolmen’s
18 to 21, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
who is a member of the General Committee of School-
Dr. Haas,
men’s Week, spoke on “Financing a Teacher-Training Program
for the State of Pennsylvania,” at the session held Friday morning,
March 20,
in
Houston
Hall,
on the University Campus.
Faculty and Alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College played a prominent part in the sixth annual convention of
the Northeastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State
Education Association, held
in the
Wilkes-Barre, March 6 and
7.
Elmer
L.
Meyers High School,
was presi-
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
and presided
John
Committee on
Resolutions, while George J. Keller, of the Art Department, was
Ear! N. Rhodes, Dia member of the Legislative Committee.
rector of Teacher Training, presided at the meeting of the Department of College and Teacher Training.
Dr. Nell Maupin,
of the Department of Social Studies, spoke at the Social Science
Section, her subject being “Development of Attitudes and Abilities in Social Studies.”
H. F. Fenstemaker, of the Department
of Foreign Languages, spoke at the Latin Section on “Vergil and
the Modern Reader.”
May T. Haden, Director of Primary
Education, led a discussion at the meeting of the primary teachers.
Dr. Thomas P. North, of the Department of Education,
spoke at the Agriculture Section of the Anthracite Arts Association; his subject was “Social Problems of the Supervisor of
Agriculture.”
Many alumni also had prominent parts on the
dent of the
C.
district,
Koch, Dean of Men, was a
program.
at the general sessions.
member
of the
1886
OF
CLASS
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THE ALUMNI
1872
Mrs. Emma Harman, wife of the late Prof. David A. Harman, formerly Superintendent of the Hazleton schools, died on
November 9, 930, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert
Funeral services were held Friday, NoBazley, in Pottsville.
vember 2
in the Lutheran Church at Hazleton.
1
1
1
,
1875
Ernest
W. Young,
’80, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, send us the
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following tribute to Lorena G. Evans, for
editorial
The
Harrisburg, Pa.
in the schools of
many
article
years a teacher
appeared on the
page of the Harrisburg Telegraph, of Saturday, Jan-
uary 10, 1931.
An
A
little
note
in
Able Teacher.
the Telegraph
birthday of Miss Lorena G. Evans.
tells
of the
80th
Miss Evans writes
from her New York home that she has received many
cards and other tokens of remembrance from those
who recall her teaching days in the Harrisburg High
Which is at it should be, for the city never
had a better or more devoted teacher than Miss
Evans.
Of stern demeanor she was yet kind of heart
and considerate of those of her pupils who really
There are many men and women once under
tried.
School.
her tuition
who
will readily
they received at her hands
admit
in
that the
logical
training
deduction and
mind and conduct on which she inoutstanding factors in whatever dehave
been
sisted
It
has been
gree of success they have enjoyed.
many years since Miss Evans presided over classes
That she is still so well and affectionately
here.
the discipline of
remembered is a tribute to the quality of her teaching and her personal influence for good.
1883
Samuel Henderson, one of Montgomery’s most prominent
He
1930.
citizens, died at his home Monday, November 24,
his
to
confined
had been in ill health for several years, but was
the
He was president of
bed only a few days before his death.
Lycoming Upholstery Company, and was very prominent in
He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Jean
Freemasonry.
Wells, of Bloomsburg, and
by three sons and a daughter.
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1885
After years of
exacting
toil
from abbreviated
wresting
Latin the meanings in the philosophy of a
man dead
nearly
600
years, T. Bruce Birch, Ph. D., D. D., professor of philosophy at
Wittenberg College,
begins
enjoy the pleasant
to
fruits
of
scholarly authoriship.
His new book is a translation of William of Ockham’s “De
Sacramento Altaris,” and has been immediately accepted by
critics in universities, seminaries and colleges as a monumental
contribution to knowledge.
Having been available for purchase only a short time ago,
book has been placed in
0 American universities and colleges and seminaries, and in three European universities, acthis
1
cording to the publishers,
1
who
regard these orders as only the
beginning of a demand.
Even from the County of Surrey, England, where Ockham
was born, comes a letter from Mary, Countess of Lovelace, who
lives in
Ockham
making a
Park, Surrey, in
translation so that
gratitude to
many may enjoy
the
author for
the philosophical,
psychological and theological teachings of “our famous inhabitant.”
based upon manuscripts now treasured in Balliol college and Merton College and at the University
of Rouen, and modern photography made it possible for Dr.
Birch to get copies of the pages so that he could complete his
Dr. Birch’s
new
text
is
work without leaving American soil and his classes
berg College where he has taught since 908.
at
Witten-
1
Dr. Birch
began
this
work more than 20 years ago,
as
a
graduate student at Pennsylvania University, and since then, in
person or through agents has searched libraries of two continents for original or manuscripts.
able an authoritiative Latin text,
As a
and
result
he has made avail-
his translation has
the writing immediately accessible to those
made
who, unlike a few
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scattered scholars, have found abbreviated Latin too
difficult.
Because “De Sacramento Altaris” is one of those of Ockham’s writings which exercised great influence upon Martin
Luther, the translation will be of much use to students of theology.
In this connection the Rev. Prof. M. Reu, D. D., Lit. D.,
of Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, la., editor of Kirchliche Zeitschrift, writes:
may be
This
is
justly proud.
a book of which our
It is,
Lutheran Church
indeed, no easy task to publish a
text of the fourteenth century.”
The following
Alumni News Notes
is
quoted from the Gettysburg College
“In person or through agents he has searched
the libraries of two continents for original editions
and manuscripts. As a result he has made available an authoritative Latin text and at the same time
has given it to those hampered by classical limitations.
By this book Professor Birch has written his name
permanently in the annals of scholarly endeavor.”
Dr. Birch is also president of the City Zoning Board in
The Board was recently apSpringfield, Ohio, his home city.
pointed by the mayor of that city to adjust matters arising from
the enforcement of the city’s
new zoning
ordinance.
1891
crat,
The following is clipped from the Johnstown, Pa., Demoof Monday, March 2, 1931
Mrs. Mary Kintner Harris, twin sister of Attorney
Kintner, of 203 Fayette Street, Westmont, and
J.
J.
widow of Charles S. Harris, died at 6 40 o’clock Saturday evening at the Kintner hom,e where she had
She was born in
been bedfast since Christmas Eve.
of the late Col.
daughter
Wyoming County and was a
Ann Jennings Kintner.
J. C. Kintner and Mary
Mrs. Harris was a graduate of the Bloomsburg
:
:
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State Teachers College and taught school for a
ber of years before her marriage to Charles
in
Renovo
Harris
numHarris
From Renovo Mr. and Mrs.
1898.
in
moved
S.
to Oil City
and
later to Chicago,
Mr. Harris’ death occurred seven
years
where
Last
ago.
came to reside with the Kintner
She was a
family and became ill Christmas Eve.
woman of exceptional ability and was known for her
fall
Mrs.
Harris
kind and generous acts
in
behalf of
less
fortunate
persons.
Mrs. Harris
is
survived by one daughter, Ruth Cecelia
Harris, of Chicago, at present with the Kintner
ily;
a
sister,
Mrs. Ruth C. Parrack,
Pittsburgh,
famand
one brother. Attorney Kintner.
1892
Concerning the death of one of Bloomsburg’s most diswe quote the following from the Syracuse,
tinguished alumni,
N. Y., “Post-Standard” of January 2:
Dr.
Tennyson
L.
Deavor, 61, founder of Onon-
daga General Hospital and nationally known goiter
expert, died last night at his home, 677 West OnonHe had been ill for six weeks.
daga Street.
Dr. Deavor founded Onandaga General Hospital
in 1918 and fostered its growth until a new and comHe
pletely equipped building was erected in 1928.
was chief of staff, surgeon in chief and a member of
the Board of Directors of the institution.
His fame as a goiter expert was national, and
While he
leading surgeons recognized his ability.
practiced general surgery he specialized in goiter and
sufferers came to Syracuse for treatment by him from
all
sections of the country.
Born January 10, 1869,
in Dublin, Pa., a
son of
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the late Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deavor, he graduated
from McConnelsburg Preparatory School, Bloomsburg
State Normal, Carlisle College and the College of Med-
Syracuse University.
icine,
After his graduation at Syracuse University
1898 he began
his practice in
remained here.
eral Hospital
Before founding
he was a
Good Shepherd
member
in
Syracuse and always
Onondaga
Gen-
of the Hospital of the
staff.
Deavor was a feilow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Syracuse
Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association,
New York State Medical Association, and the Onondaga Medical Association.
Dr.
He was
32nd Degree Mason, a member of
Command-
a
Zyra Temple Shrine, Utica; Central City
ery, Knights
fraternity
Templar, Phi Beta
Pi,
national medical
and the Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace
Deavor,
L.
whom
he married in Berwick, Pa., in 1898; a
brother, j. D. W. Deavor, of Harrisburg, Pa., and a
sister,
Mrs. William McClain, of Robertsdale, Pa.
Funeral services will take place at
tomorrow evening
undertakers,
where
will
burial will
at the
home.
8:30
o’clock
&
Meech,
Fairchild
body to Berwick,
Monday.
conducted
be
send
the
Pa.,
1894
The sympathy
of
all
friends
and classmates of William W.
Evans, Superintendent of the Schools of Columbia
extended to Mr. Evans for the death of Mrs. Evans,
County,
is
who passed
Bloomsburg, November 6, 930, followMrs. Evans was one- of the most
ing a stroke of apoplexy.
esteemed women in Bloomsburg, and news of her death came
away
at her
home
in
1
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as a shock to the entire
First
41
She was a member of the
community.
Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg, and was very active
Order of Eastern Star and the Bloomsburg Chapter of
Mrs. Evans was fifty-five years of age, and was a
native of Dickson City.
She spent most of her girlhood in Taylor, and for ten years was one of Lackawanna County’s most
efficient teachers.
She is survived by her husband, four daughters, one grand-daughter, and one sister.
in the
Delphians.
1895
Nathan W. Bloss, principal of the
Conyngham Township Schools in Luzerne County, has not missed a day because of illness, and in addition, never missed a day
from that cause while he attended the public schools, and later,
Since his graduation,
the Bloomsburg State Normal School.
Mr. Bloss has taught in Hollenback Slocum, and Conyngham
For
twenty years,
Townships.
1896
The classmates and
friends of Mrs.
Edward
Purcell (Tillie
Casey) extend to her their sympathy for the recent death of her
husband.
The Morning Press of December 29, 1930, had the
following concerning Mr. Purcell’s death:
A telegram received yesterday by Henry
Casey of town announced the sudden death of
brother-in-law,
at his
home
in
Edward
J.
his
Purcell, a native of Centraha,
Bartow, Florida.
Death was due
to a
heart attack.
Mr. Purcell, who was very well known in
Bloomsburg, where he resided during the time he was
engaged in building the Susquehanna, Bloomsburg
& Berwick Railroad, had a career in which adventure
played a real part.
He was
sent to China a
few years ago by the
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42
W.
Carey Company of
F.
New
York, with
whom
he
was associated for years, to build a railroad.
He had work well underway when he and a
companion were taken captives by Chinese bandits
and held for ransom.
Their capture attracted worldwide attention for a time because the Boxer uprising
had a part in it.
They were separated and kept captive for
weeks.
Mr. Purcell was kept on the march for
weeks and a new pair of high top boots which he had
started to wear just before his capture was in shreds
by the time he had made his escape.
Once before he had attempted an escape during
was at once covered with
a half dozen guns.
He realized then he had small
the dead of the night, but
chance
to escape.
During the course of their wanderings and when
bandits and prisoners alike were nearly dead for lack
of water, the party
came upon a pool of water covOne of the bandits who
ered with a green scum.
could
make
himself understood
in English,
Mr. Purcell not to drink the water;
who drank
that
it
cautioned
killed all
it.
in it a chance to escape.
He
hands and knees, pretended to take
All his
great swallows of the water, and to like it.
captors left him with the exception of the one who
could speak English.
They figured that he would
soon be dead, and their chance of securing ransom
money had passed. But, Mr. Purcell had drunk none
He bribed the lone Chinaman and set
of the water.
The prisoner saw
got
down on
his
him up in a store business, the latter aiding him to
get back to country with which he was familiar.
Ransom money was paid for the release of his companion.
!
!
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and
In recent years, Mr. Purcell
W.
resided in Florida, where the
had extensive
F.
43
have
his family
Carey Company
Christmas greetings to the
interests.
he
relatives here indicated that
was then
good
in
health.
He was
by
his wife,
well along in his
formerly Miss
when he was
fifties
Tillie
and
Casey,
is
survived
whom
located in Bloomsburg on the
he met
S. B.
&
B.
by three children, Edward, married and living in Bartow, and Margaret and Jack, at home.
Two sisters, Mary and Catherine, reside in Philacontract
;
delphia.
1901
Miss Louise Larrabee,
who
has been
teaching
in
Hawaii,
received her Master’s Degree at the University of Hawaii, at the
Commencement
held June 2, 1930.
1904
Emma
Berry Motter
lives at
1
56 South Third
Street,
Ham-
Her husband, who had been Treasurer of the Hamburg Savings and Trust Company, died suddenly, August 20,
Mrs. Motter has one daughter, who
1930, of a heart attack.
was graduated last June from Coughlin High School, Wilkesburg, Pa.
Barre.
1906
Bean Soup
Kertoffel
Ach du
!
Bean Soup
!
Schnitz
lieber!
Naughty Six!
R. Bruce Albert,
president of the class,
will
soon send
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notices to
all
members
pep and
them of their comgood crowd, lots of
of the class, advising
ing twenty-fifth reunion.
He expects
a
interest in the meeting.
1908
We
are indebted to Laura
Morgan (Mrs. V.
3816
C. Stein)
Locust Street, Philadelphia, for the following items
Joseph Shovlin’s address is Kulpmont,
County Superintendent’s office.
Wesley
Sitler’s
address
Los Angeles, California.
is
We
Pa., in care of the
1915 North Catalina Avenue,
thank Arvilla Kitchen
’07, for locating this lost classmate for us,
Eunson,
and sending
in
his
address.
Martha James had a very interesting trip to Europe this
She says “I never enjoyed anything quite so much,
summer.
and have enough to think about for the rest of my life. There
were forty-six in our party, and they were all very congenial.
Both conductors were Frenchmen, and I think it would have
been hard to find better ones.”
William Watkins was in St. Augustine, Florida, in January
and did not know where Carol Krum lived. A letter from Bill
it was
I thought
states
“I wish I had had Carol’s address.
Jacksonville, but I see from the last Quarterly that it is St.
We paid no attention to looking up “Crummy”
Augustine.
:
there.
We
are just as sorry about
Keep your class list
you make a trip.
in a
it
as
we can
Moral:
be.”
place where you can refer to
it
Mrs. Ethel Henrie Stevens lives at 733 Broadway,
Rocks, Pa.
respectively.
Mrs. Stevens has two sons, ages
fifteen
in
case
McKees
and
five,
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1909
Charles L. Maurer, clean of the college department of the
Law
South Jersey
Camden High
School, and a
member
School, has received
the
He
Education at Temple University.
of the faculty of the
degree
of
Doctor of
holds degrees of
B. Pd.
from Bloomsburg State Teachers College; A. B. from Ursinus
College, and A. M. from University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Maurer’s thesis was
eran Church
in
Pennsylvania
tors’ dissertations
‘
Week-day Schools
in the
of the Luth-
Doc-
Eighteenth Century.’
are published at the expense of the recipients
However, the Pennsylvania German Society
heard of Maurer’s thesis and asked to be permitted to publish
His thesis was deit in their journal without any cost to him.
It will be
clared by Dean Walk to be a ‘notably fine thesis.”
published in book form next December.
It will be illustrated
with cuts and plates of old schoolhouses, a few of which are
still standing; name plates of books and catechisms, specimens
of penmanship by the schoolmasters, and other material.
He
obtained much of the material for his thesis by translating the
original church records which are in German.
of the degree.
Before coming to
Camden
in
1915, Mr. Maurer taught
the public schools of Pennsylvania.
cipal of
Plymouth Township schools,
vice-head-master of
Conway
Camden, he has been active
Hall,
in
in
He was supervising prinMontgomery County, and
Carlisle.
Since
coming
to
educational affairs, having been
chairman of the Camden Teachers’ Council, and president of the
Teachers’ Association.
Topics,” and edited
it
He was chairman
He
originated ‘‘Teachers’ Association
for three years.
of the American history section
State Department of Education to prepare a
syllabus
of the
for
the
He served on the Collingswood Board of EduHe has also been active in Y. M. C. A.
one term.
social studies.
cation
church and Sunday school work, being assistant superintendent of the Collingswood Presbyterian Sunday school,
activities,
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one of the largest Sunday schools in South Jersey.
Mr. Maurer helped to organize the college department of
the South Jersey Law School, and has served as dean and professor of economics since its inception.
Miss
Mary Bevan and Benjamin Souders, of Hazleton, were
in the Diamond M. E. Church, of that city.
married recently
1912
Charlotte Peacock Holmes and son Billy left
for California,
where they are now
living with
in
Mrs.
January
Holmes’
sister.
1918
was that of Miss Mary Powell and
Dr. J. Stewart Wiant, which was solemnized in Forty Fort June
Mrs. Wiant, prior to her marriage, was a teacher in
28, 1930.
the Junior High School in Forty Fort.
Dr. Wiant graduated
from Bloomsburg and is also a graduate of Penn State.
He
received his doctor’s degree at Cornell University. Mr. and Mrs.
Wiant are living at 3 5 Lewis Street, Laramie, Wyoming, where
Dr. Wiant is employed as plant pathologist at the University of
Wyoming.
A
wedding
of interest
1
1921
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Weigand, of
406 North Fourth
Street,
Sunbury, Pa., have announced the engagement of their daughter,
Kathleen, to Ralph G. Shuman, son of Samuel T. Shuman,
of Mainville.
Weigand is one of Sunbury’s most esteemed young
and a graduate of Sunbury High School in the class of
Miss
ladies
1927.
Mr. Shuman graduated from Main Township High School,
Bloomsburg Teachers College, class of 1921 and also the PennHe has been principal of the
sylvania State College in 1926.
Mifflinville High School for three years, also the principal of the
,
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At
Spring Garden Junior High School, of York, for two years.
present he is engaged in teaching mathematics and serving as
Dean of Boys
for
Boys
in the
Thomas Ranken Patton Masonic
Institution
at Elizabethtown, Pa.
The announcement
been elected
a member of the British Astronomical Association has just been
received by his father, D. S. Hartline of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, through Credentials and Association publicathat Dr. H. K. Hartline has
tions.
Dr. Hartline will
be remembered by the Bloomsburg
stu-
Boy Scout in the days
county institution was struggling for re-
dents of the early twenties as an ardent
when
that
now
organization
S.
;
;
thriving
as president of his class of 1921
in the B. S. N.
as a graduate of Lafayette College, class of 1923, Phi Beta
Kappa honors
;
as a student going through a four year course at
Johns Hopkins Medical School for
his
medical
degree,
which
was awarded as were also election to the Sigma Chi Honorary
fraternity and the prize for his paper in medical research.
Since that time he has been doing two years of research
work
in
Johns Hopkins University under a National Research
Council Fellowship and taking post-graduate courses in physics
and mathematics. Along with Biological Research he gave
laboratory and lecture courses during Summer Sessions as inHe was
structor in the Woods Hall Biological Laboratory.
awarded a fellowship in Medical Research by the Johnson
Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania which gave him
opportunity to carry his studies forward in the Universities of
Leipzig, and Munch, Germany, where he is now.
Among
sity
the
many happy
contacts of the
German Univer-
student during his Wanderjahr, he had invitation as a
mem-
ber of the Physikalisches Institut die Universitat zu Leipzig
to
where he
met Einstein under these favorable auspices.
His return from Germany is due in April, 1931, when he
attend the Einstein lecture at the University of Berlin
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48
School of Medical Research of the
will join the faculty of the
University of Pennsylvania as Fellow
In his
in
Medical Research.
became
Johns Hopkins post-graduate years he
work
as-
Department of Physics with a
member of the Medical School Faculty, who previously had
been an Astronomer in the Greenwich Observatory, and with
him made some interesting original observations on Mars.
This led to an invitation to join an Eclipse Expedition to the
Philippine Islands which he could not accept.
This association,
however, resulted in visits to the Greenwich and Heidelberg
astronomical observatories and attendance at the meeting of the
British Astronomical Association and his election to membership of which announcement has just been received.
sociated through his
in the
1924
Miss Bessie Singer and John Shaffer,
were married August 20, 1930,
Mrs.
bride’s parents, 714 Locust Street.
sport,
prior to her marriage, taught in
Williamsport.
Mr. Shaffer
is
the
home
of
the
two years
the Curtin Junior High School,
assistant
Trojan Composition Corporation,
and Mrs. Shaffer are now
both of William-
Jr.,
at
Shaffer, for
superintendent
Trenton, N.
in
J.,
of the
where he
living.
Anna Ingleman Barnes
lives at
206 Fox
Hill
West
Place,
Pittston, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hollingshead, of Catawissa, have
announced the engagement of their daughter, Florence, to Ed-
ward Schuyler,
of Bloomsburg.
Catawissa’s most esteemed young
the Catawissa High School.
Miss Hollingshead
women, and
is
is
one of
a graduate of
Mr. Schuyler has for the past six
years been employed as reporter for the Morning Press.
also the very efficient secretary of the
He
is
Alumni Association.
1927
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Lillian
Wagner Chamberlain, of Bloomsburg, and John Vought, of
The marriage took place Thursday, February 26.
Berwick.
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Mrs. Vought
is
49
a former teacher in the Nescopeck schools.
ceremony performed
In a quiet
at the
parsonage of
the
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, Wednesday, February
First
25, Miss Pearl E. Long, of Bloomsburg, became the bride
The
Dr. Elvin Axt, prominent dentist of Millburn, N. J.
mony was performed by
Kathryn
Fritz,
of
Rev. Harry
the
Max
couple was attended by
F.
Members
Bloomsburg.
of
The
Babcock.
and Miss
immediate
Long, of Chester,
E.
of
cere-
the
family witnessed the ceremony.
Since her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. Axt has been
secretary to Prof. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training
at the
College.
Pennsylvania.
Axt
Dr.
Mountain Road, Millburn,
Doris Palsgrove
is
1
1
is
graduate of the
a
Mr. and Mrs. Axt are
New
University
living at
1
of
5 South
Jersey.
teaching
is
now
Her address
in Frackville, Pa.
7 North Lehigh Avenue.
1930
In a pretty
at
9:00
wedding
in St.
John’s Lutheran Church of Espy
o’clock on Christmas morning, Miss Glovene Fausey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phineas Fausey, became the bride of
Harold Hidlay, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hidlay, also of Espy.
Both bride and groom are highly esteemed Espy young
people.
The groom
Teachers College and
is
is
a graduate
now
of
teaching
the
in
Bloomsburg State
the
high
school
at
Espy.
Esther Wright, of Berwick,
who
is
teaching
this
year
in
the
Mayberry Township, Montour County, was severely
injured Sunday evening, December 7, when she was struck by a
car as she stepped from a bus near her boarding house near
Elysburg.
She was returning to Elysburg after spending the
week-end with her mother.
schools of
;
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TRAINING SCHOOL CHILDREN PRESENT OPERETTA
On Wednesday, March
1
1
,
children
of the
intermediate
grades of the Benjamin Franklin Training School of the College
delighted two audiences in the College auditorium with the pre-
and Gretel.” The production
was simplified from Humperdinck’s opera by the same name
and the children did splendid work.
It was given in the morning before college students and in the afternoon before intermediate students of the town school.
Those heading the cast were Sara Hemingway as Gretel
Billy Hagenbuch as Hansel; Leo Conner as the father; Marjory
Dillon as the mother and Martha Force as the head witch.
Girls of the fourth grade gave the angel pantomime during
which a dull blue light was thrown on the stage and this was
one of the most beautiful numbers of the operetta.
A colorful
was
feature
the number put on by the “cookie” chorus.
Children of the training school not in the cast were grouped around the front of the auditorium as an orchestra would be
grouped and they were a singing orchestra for the production.
Their work added much to the entertainment.
A large number of the members of the college faculty and
student teachers assisted in the production and even mothers
assisted in the making of costumes.
This effort was reflected
in the fine way in which the children gave the operetta.
Miss Edna Hazen supervised the work and Miss Elizabeth
VanBusKirk was the stage manager.
Miss Lucy McCammon
had charge of the dances and Miss Harriet M. Moore directed
Gerald Hartman was the accompanist.
the singing.
The stage settings were worked out under the direction of
Children
George J. Keller, of the college Art Department.
worked out the stage setting plans according to their own ideas
and these were developed under the direction of Mr. Keller.
sentation of the operetta “Hansel
Vol.
No. 3
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JUNE,
1931
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JUNE, 1931
Vol. 32
No. 3
Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F.
FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.
JENKINS, ’76
’12
-
-
Editor-in-Chief
-
-
Business
-
Manager
ALUMNI MEETING
If
was one thing needed Saturday to make this year’s
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College the finhistory of the institution, it was provided at the open-
there
Alumni Day
est in the
at the
ing of the general meeting
tired in caps
when
the entire graduating class, at-
and gowns, marched
into
the
auditorium
$218 for
one for $300
formally presented three checks, one
of
class
and
sub-
Alumni Quarterly,
as a Class
Memorial to the Alumni Trophy Room Fund and $150 as a
Class Memorial to the Worthy Student Fund.
The day had opened at 9:00 o’clock with record breaking
attendances at all class reunions and with an exceptionally fine
spirit, but it was the new feature and wonderful spirit provided
by the graduating class which assured a record breaking day.
As the classes assembled for the meeting, and they were
in such large number that they filled the main floor of the audiscriptions to the
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torium and overflowed to the balcony,
Alexander’s
Orchestra
Association,
presided,
furnished a fine program of music.
A. Bruce Albert, President
of the
and Rev. C. C. Bailey, of Baltimore, Md., gave the invocation.
Then the graduating class marched in and massed at the front of
the auditorium, alumni standing
addition to
the graduating
alumni were
in the
class
during the
it
processional.
was estimated
that
In
800
auditorium.
The president remarked that it was the first time in history
had attended the meeting. He welcomed them into the association and was sure that they would
help to maintain the ideals and standards of the association and
The class was unanimously admitted to memthe institution.
that the graduating class
bership.
James Davis, of Ringtown, president of the class, presented the check for dues in the Alumni Association, a check for
Edward Devoe, of Berwick, editor-in-chief of the
$218.
Obiter, presented the $300 for the Alumni Room Fund, and
Thomas Kirker, of Columbia, treasurer
the $150 for the Worthy Student Fund.
not see
how
of loyalty.
advisor, led in singing the
Miss
and
come through with
Harriet
Alma Mater and
of the auditorium
presented
Mr. Albert said he did
the graduating class could have
a finer expression
marched out
the class,
of
M. Moore,
the
class
graduates then
to the dining hall
where they
enjoyed an early dinner.
The report of F. H. Jenkins, treasurer, submitted by D. D.
Wright, showed almost 1200 subscribers to The Quarterly and a
balance on hand of $775.11, $400.00 of which is invested.
Mr. Wright then reported as treasurer of the Student Loan Fund
which totalled $2881 .82, but which later in the day was conMr. Albert told of the splendid piece of
doing.
P. L. Drum, Esq., of Wilkeswas
Wright
Mr.
w ork
to
the
alumni $100.00 given the fund
Barre, formally presented
siderably increased.
r
Drum. The response was by 0. H. Bakeless,
rapidly recovering from a serious illness, and who was given a
by the
late E. J.
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warm
reception by alumni during the day.
editor of the Quarterly, told of the
be continued from year
0. H. Bakeless, the man who,
scriptions
did 99.98 per cent, of the
made
work
3
H. F. Fenstemaker,
work and urged
sub-
that
to year.
to
in
the words of the president,
make
the alumni
room pos-
showing liabilities of $2122.
This was
considerably reduced by subscriptions during the day, many of
them cash.
sible,
H.
his report
Mont Smith,
Esq.,
who
volunteered his
services
as at-
torney for the incorporation of the association, told of the work
and a resolution was passed giving the execupower to incorporate.
The officers were re-nominated by a committee composed
of W. B. Sutliff, D. S. Hartline and H. F. Fenstemaker and were
The officers are: President, R. Bruce
unanimously elected.
of the committee
tive officers
Albert, class 1906; Vice-President, Dr. D.
1867,
1876;
Secretary, Edward F. Schuyler, 1924; Executive Committee
Fred W. Diehl, 1909, chairman; Mrs. C. W. Funston, 1885;
Harriet Carpenter, 1896; Maurice Houck, 1910; Daniel J.
Mahoney, 1909 and D. D. Wright, 1911.
and 0. H. Bakeless, 1879;
Waller,
J.
Treasurer, F. H.
Mrs. Florence Cool, of Philadelphia,
Jr.,
Jenkins,
woman
the
at
the
head of the recent organization of the Bloomsburg Alumni of
Philadelphia area, which opened its program with a banquet
attended by over 200, was introduced and responded briefly.
The president then introduced the Trustees and former
faculty members seated on the platform.
They were Prof. F.
:
George E. Elweli, for 18 years
a member of the Board of Trustees and for
years president
of the Alumni Association; Mrs. Philip Drum, a former teacher
in the music school; Miss Margaret Bogenrief, former teacher
in the Physical Education Department
Miss Enola Guie, Mrs. W.
B. Sutliff and Mrs. Myrtle Swartz VanWie, former faculty members; Fred W. Diehl, trustee and former alumni president; David
L. Glover, trustee; Miss Bess Hinckley, former teacher and Dr.
H. Jenkins, Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,
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;
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4
Each was given
acknowledged the introduction.
Francis B. Haas, president of the institution.
a
warm welcome
as he or she
Roll Call of Classes.
F. H. Jenkins,
that of
responding for the class of
27 graduates
1
1
1
876, reported
and three were present.
the Trophy Room and expected to
were
living
They had subscribed $10 to
do better.
Dr. H. V. Hower, of Berwick, responded for the class of
1881 with $120 cash contributions to the Trophy Room Fund.
The class had 41 members, of whom 14 are dead and
were
1
1
present.
Mr. Sanner, of Pittsburgh, reported for the class of 1886
More
which after 45 years had 30 of the 64 members back.
than 50 are living.
Members came from Wyoming, Washington and Kansas for the reunion, the speaker declaring the school
was very dear to the entire class.
James Costello, Hazleton attorney, reported for 1891
W. H. Jones, of Scranwhich had 7 of its 87 members back.
Mrs.
ton, reported for the 4 members back of the 896 class.
1
1
Arthur Lowry, Port Washington,
members
of the class of 1901.
L.
I.,
N. Y., reported for the 15
Elwell Dietrick, of
Scranton,
00 pledge of the class of 1906 with 31 members
back.
Of the class of 40, 2 have passed away.
Donald Ikeler, Peekskill, N. Y., reported for the 41 memtold of a $1
1
bers of the class of 1911.
There were 156 members of the
Counting wives, husbands and children there were 65
back for the reunion and $120 had been subscribed in cash
Seven states were
with the amount expected to reach $200.
class.
represented by returning
members, one
traveling
from
Mil-
waukee.
F. J. Meehan reported for the class of 1916 which had 40
members back. There were 189 in the class and $25.00 was
subscribed.
M. T. Shaffer, Wilkes-Barre, reported for 1921 which had
They gave their treasury balance of $122 to the
50 back.
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5
Worthy Student Fund and $30 to the Alumni Room Fund. The
63 of whom two have passed away.
class totalled
Theodore Keen, Wilkes-Barre, reported 55 of the 1926
class back and Theodore Davis, Englewood, N. J., reported 60
of the 929 class back, with $35 cash given to the Alumni Room
1
1
Fund.
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ALUMNI BANQUET
More than 700 Bloomsburg Alumni, not including the 235
members of the graduating class, packed the large College dining hall for the Alumni Day luncheon, always a feature of the
day’s program, and heard John Shambach, Superintendent of
the Sunbury schools
short address
among
tell
of
and a member of the
the fine
spirit
such
class of
events
1906,
are
in
a
creating
the alumni.
Amplifiers, recently installed as the Memorial of
the class
added immeasurably to the success of the dinner, for
no longer were guests forced to leave their tables and crowd forward to hear the program.
of 1925,
The College
orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenste-
maker, furnished a program of music while the classes were
marching
into the
room and
also
during
the
serving
of
a
delicious dinner.
Each
class in reunion
the class numerals.
the dining hall
was supplied with a banner bearing
marched from the auditorium to
Classes
and the banners aided greatly
in
keeping the
classes together.
C. Bailey, of Baltimore, was in charge of the
and there was something doing every minute.
R. Bruce
Rev. Carroll
singing
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6
Albert, president of the Association, presided.
During the dinner he announced that contributions to the
Worthy Student Fund by the late E. J. Drum, of town, by the
class of 1931 and of the graduating class, had increased that
fund to $3,153.
He also announced that Northumberland
County Alumni were getting ready to follow in the footsteps of
Philadelphia Alumni.
They have already appointed members
of a committee to arrange a banquet with the committee head-
ed by John Shambach, Sunbury.
Dr. D. J. Waller
class of
and George
E.
Elwell,
members
of
the
1867, were introduced as the entire class of that year
and v/ere given a big hand. Dr. Waller is president emeritus
of the institution and Mr. Elwell has served along periods as a
member of the Board of Trustees and as president of the
Alumni Association.
Fred W. Diehl, a member of the Board of Trustees, former
president of the Alumni Association, and a
member
of the class
909, spoke a word of greeting on behalf of the trustees,
declaring that he knew that such interest and enthusiasm as
displayed by the Alumni make Bloomsburg shine in the future
of
1
as in the past.
Prof. C. H. Albert, long a valued
member
of the faculty,
and not present at the general meeting, was introduced and
given a warm welcome.
Dr. Waller declared
drawing
that
the
meeting of the graduates
was the largest in the
that was highly gratifying
to a conclusion
history
of
the
was the
highest guarantee of the condition of the institution and he congratulated all who were responsible for such a happy state of
institution.
He
said
for
it
affairs.
Mr. Shambach Speaks.
Mr. Shambach spoke of the paramount things
in the
minds
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of
Alumni of
and referred to the class just
They are now on the starting line and
different periods
leaving the institution.
they are going out to spread ideas that
give a
new
he
era,
He paid
7
when they mature
will
said.
on behalf of the Alumni, to Dr. Haas, the
and student body for the splendid arrangethe graduates and for the outstanding work of
tribute,
faculty, trustees
ments made for
the institution.
He
ities
some of the
them the qual-
said the class of 1931, sharing advantages
previous classes had not, should have instilled
which
will
make them
in
fine representatives of the
spirit of
the age.
He declared all graduates proud of Bloomsburg and its
work and he was confident that with the support of the Alumni
by talking up the institution and contributing to financial proHe urged that each graduate
jects, the institution could go far.
make some contribution to his or her Alma Mater, for that tie-up
with the school will be of much value to the graduate, and will
create a real feeling in the heart for the old school.
Dr.
Haas Introduced.
Introduced by President Albert as the
about the
spirit of
unity
and good
will
man who brought
between Alumni and
school and also as giving such fine service that under his direction the institution
can go only one
president
B. Haas,
of
the
way
institution,
— forward,
was given
Dr. Francis
a
standing
ovation.
It
was
on Alumni Day it was the duty of the
He spoke to
produce the goods and not to talk.
his opinion that
institution to
Alumni and told of securing amplifiers
class of
1
923 voting
organ fund for
this
to use the
purpose.
$600
for the auditorium,
originally
placed
in
the
an
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8
Dr. Haas spoke of the first banquet held by Philadelphia
Alumni and of the fine work of the Alumni president, R. Bruce
Albert, of the treasurer of the Student Loan Fund, D. D. Wright,
and other Alumni officials.
He spoke of the fine piece of work
carried on by the Worthy Student Fund and mentioned the fact
that a penny had never been lost during the years the fund has
loaned money to students.
In closing he said the institution was
happy to have the assistance of its graduates and hoped that it
would continue to merit the confidence of the graduates.
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PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ORGANIZE
The
iation of
Room
at
first annual banquet of the Philadelphia Alumni AssocBloomsburg State Teachers College held in the Gold
Adams, 3th and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia,
1
on the night of
May
9th, with
J.
Howard
Patterson
acting
as
Bloomsburg gathering.
ever
held by any group
It was one of the most successful affairs
of the Alumni Association, and numbered close to 200.
Men and women, prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia
today, laid aside the cares of the day and became boys and girls
Indeed there were no old people in the gathagain that night.
every heart of the
ering
age records did not mean a thing
’31
’71
thoughts
reverted to
young.
Their
or
was
of
vintage
or dear old Northeir school days at the College on the hill
mal
as you will.
Mr. J. Edward Durham, ’74, the records say, is the oldest
Philadelphia Alumnus, a man active as the head of one of the
largest Insurance Companies in the city, was with us and gave a
with us,
It was a real joy to have him
very interesting talk.
toast-master,
—
—
was
truly a representative
—
—
and hear the voice of our beloved Dr. Waller.
How much we
!
;
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9
and the message he brought us
did appreciate his coming,
His tribute to the ability and
character
of Bruce
President of the Parent Association, found a
warm
Albert,
the
response
in
our hearts.
Dr. Haas, the capable, efficient,
and much-loved head of
now Teachers College, gave a very able and enlightening
address.
Our Alma Mater is in most excellent hands under Dr.
the
Haas’ leadership, with his
Dean
Sutliff
efficient
corps of teachers.
gave a most interesting
and we were im-
talk,
pressed with the real interest those wonderful teachers have
in
the great student body.
Mrs.
Mintie
Sharpless
Wilson,
’67,
so
well
known
in
Bloomsburg, gave a short but interesting talk of the school when
it
was known
C.
ment
at
as the Literary Institute.
Edward Houseknecht,
’00, head of the Music DepartWest Chester State Teachers College, led the group sing-
ing in his inimitable style.
Maxwell Noack,
’16, sang his class song,
which he com-
posed.
Elsie Hess Pulker (sister of Florence Hess Cool) ’88, rendered two delightful soprano solos.
She was accompanied on
the piano by Katherine O’Boyle, daughter of Hannah Reese
O’Boyle, ’88.
Lack of time prevented our
ers
us,
calling
upon a number of oth-
who no doubt would have had something of interest to tell
as we had with us Dr. George Pfahler, ’94, noted Philadel-
phia
X-Ray surgeon;
Barnard,
sicians;
Dr. Fred
Dr.
Dr.
J.
F.
Sutliff, ’94,
McDonnell,
’94,
Dr.
Everett
prominent Philadelphia
phy-
James Maurer, ’86, Dr.
J. P. Echternach, ’99, Dr.
Dentists; Dr. Leslie B. Seeley, ’02,
Ralph Hart, ’18, well-known
a very well-known educator in the Philadelphia Public Schools
F. Herman Fritz, ’99, Superintendent of Pottstown Schools;
Anna E. Roxby, ’79, Supervising Principal of the Linwood PubSchools; Thomas Francis,
08, County Superintendent of
Lackawanna; Judge William Broughall, of Wilmington, Del.,
lic
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son of Adele Shafer, ’86; Annie Miller Melick,
womens’ club work, both
W.
Frantz, ’95, President of
Morgan
political
and
C. T. U. of
outstanding
New
in
Nina Tague
social;
Jersey.
and Jennie Yoder Foley, 06, gave
valuable
very
assistance in arranging for the banquet and in
bringing out the largest representation of any class.
Willie
Stein
Mary Detwiler Bader,
’95,
brought out a
fine representa-
tion of the Class of ’95.
We
could go on
how each one
down the list of those present and tell
her way contributed much to the success
in his or
of this gathering but space limits our mentioning
We
all.
regretted the enforced absence of Professors Albert,
We would have loved to have
them with us at this time, the initial banquet.
permanent organization was effected by the election of
Bakeless, Jenkins and Hartline.
had
all
A
of
the following officers:
Florence Hess Cool, ’88
Willie Morgan Stein, ’08
President
Vice-President
Jennie Yoder Foley,
Secretary
08
Julia Sharpless Fagely, ’95
Treasurer
The Secretary would appreciate the name and address of
any Alumnus or students living in Philadelphia or near by.
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BACCALAUREATE SERMON
The greatest thing
in the
world
is
love.
the graduating class of the
Edward
members
Rev.
Radcliffe, pastor of the First Baptist Church, told
J.
of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
in delivering the baccalaureate sermon in the College auditorium
and impressive service Sunday afternoon, May 24.
Basing his remarks on the words of St. Paul, “The Great-
at a short
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These is Love,” the minister said the policy of building a
on love is not just idealistic but workable, and declared that
with love in international relations things could be accomplished
which force can never hope to do.
The minister said the present age could be characterized as one of many noises and one
must be careful in selecting the right sound to follow.
est of
life
The class, numbering 235, and
gowns, marched into the auditorium
vice to occupy a reserved
attired in
at the
section in the
black caps and
opening of the serMarching at
front.
were members of the Board of Trustees
and of the faculty, the latter attired also in caps and gowns.
Trustees and faculty members were seated on the platform.
As usual the class entered singing the processional hymn,
the head of the class
“Ancient of Days.”
Rev. Radcliffe was introduced by Dr. Francis B. Haas and
gave the invocation.
The audience sang “From All That Dwell
Below the Skies,” and Dr. Haas read the Scripture lesson taken
from the 13th Chapter of I Corinthians.
Following the sermon a double quartet of Senior men, accompanied by Miss Emily Park, sang “Peace I Leave With You,”
by Robert. The impressive service, lasting only about 45 minutes, concluded with the Benediction by Rev. Radcliffe and the
recessional of the graduates.
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IVY
DAY
Black skies and frequent showers dampened
the
sylvan
made Ivy Day at the State Teachers College
most picturesque of commencement week events, but did
scenes that have
prevent the presentation of an interesting program
torium at 6
A
:
00
o’clock
fair-sized
when
the
in
campus was bathed
crowd attended the
exercises.
the
not
the audiin rain.
Folk dances.
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in the grove, were given
somewhat cramped space of the stage, which prevented
freedom of action permitted in the open.
As the program opened. Miss Esther Bower, presiding,
arranged for a feature at the pergola
in the
the
called on Dr. Haas, president of the school, at the request of the
class, for a brief address.
is traditionally a memory day
memories of departing classes.
A recent survey had shown that 4 of the 35 ivy plants set out
in exercises of the classes had ceased to exist, but the school
had arranged to replace all of them and would replace those in
the future which fail to grow.
In closing he told the class that in their class night program
they should feel free to go as far as they liked in their comments on the faculty, as he believed that at least once in their
school careers they should have the freedom of saying what
Dr.
program
Haas said
that Ivy
Day
as the ivy perptuates
1
they thought.
by Lydia Smith with music by Samwas sung by the class.
Arthur C. McKenzie presented the Ivy Day oration, speakTire class song, written
uel
W.
Kurtz,
ing as follows:
“Once more we are gathered
who
here, a group of
neophites,
are about to be initiated into the great fraternity of char-
whom we know
formers
acter
professionally
as
teachers.
Through a varied period of years we have toiled, played, laughed and sorrowed together as we learned the art of teaching
children.
“By our very presence here we denote a response
calling
which
medium
is
second to none, that of guiding
of our instruction
—
the future destiny
to the
— through
of our
the
nation,
whose fate rests in the hands of the generation we will be called
upon to teach.
“A few more precious hours and we will begin a journey
As for our preparation
that will lead us, we know not where.
for that journey, the opportunity
is
past.
How
well
we have
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individually attuned ourselves to the
ing,
13
melody of successful teach-
remains to be seen.
“But there
is
something far more important to each one of
It is the attitude which we have assum-
us than any of these.
ed toward our
life’s activity.
“God has provided
for each one of us a niche
which He
There remains for us the work of using the
in such a way that the most good will be
realized both to ourselves and to society in general.
expects us to
talents
we
fill.
possess
“As we leave these surroundings tonight, let us remember
no matter what else may intervene, we can always strive
do our best in whatever we undertake.
that
to
“In closing,
let us, like
the ivy, ever strive to climb higher
and reach for larger things in life.
It is an ambition worthy of
the noblest, one which, if always carried out, will cause us to
reap rich harvests and achieve great reward.
“A few years ago we made a decision which has led us
here tonight.
Tonight let us make a decision which will lead
us to paths of success and happiness in years to come.
The
power is in your hands. Time only can tell how, through each
of us, it will be used.
Therefore, let us make an individual
resolve that when there comes a time for accounting, it can be
said of us, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant,’ enter
into joy and reward.”
Miss Miriam Hartt read the class poem, which she had written, and girls of the class presented the folk dances which had
been arranged as the artistic feature of the outdoor program.
Officers and a committee handled the planting of the ivy
at Science Hall between showers.
The spade, in school colors,
was presented to Henry Warman, the Junior President, and the
program closed with the Alma Mater.
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14
CLASS NIGHT
Opportunity was offered
Monday
evening.
crystallizing of those things in college life
the passing of each year,
College
made
May
25, for the
which mean more with
and the Seniors of the State Teachers
the most of
it
at their class night exercises in the
College auditorium.
Several hundred relatives and
friends of
the
graduates
joined the class to enjoy the evening, but the program was principally for the class and, of course, they
it
as the forerunners of the
all
reaped the most from
commencement program
closed and
was made ready for the graduating.
The exercises were much on the order of those
managed to get a realism
made them more effective. By a
years, but the class
into the
scenes that
series
changing scenes, with attention to the
such a prominent place
ed
its
in
memory’s
little
details
in
past
familiar
of rapidly
that
have
treasures, the class review-
College career for registration to Alumni
Day some time
in the future.
Then
in
climaxing the program, James Davis, the President,
presented to Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the
$25.00
as a class
memorial
to the College
Community
institution,
Chest, this
Alumni Trophy Room Fund, $150 to
the Worthy Student Fund and $218 for dues of the class in the
Alumni Association, which were presented at the alumni meetaddition to
$300
for the
ing.
Dr. Haas, in his acceptance, thanked the class for the gifts
and spoke of the class night program as both interesting and
The program closed with the Alma Mater.
instructive.
The class introduced a new feature, that of singing popIncluded in
ular numbers between the scenes of the program.
these songs was “The Maroon and Gold,’’ a most popular number on the hill and one written during the College year by Dr.
Haas.
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About two score of the
class
everything was worked out even
This
love interest.
Mildred
to,
were
program and
the
it,
was handled by Misses Dolores Keating and
Rabb and David Baker.
nified Seniors
book which most
dig-
choose to forget, when they emphasized “Frosh
day scene, the first of the evening.
room scene in which Chester Zimolzack
clever piece of work in impersonating a number of the
greenness”
in the registration
Then came
a class
College professors.
body
the
in
as the movies term
Seniors tore a page from memory’s
did a
15
told just
Then came
from the student
Roars of appreciation
how good
those impersonations were.
and following
that a pep meeting
which Sam Kurtz was the leader with William Weaver impersonating Coach Booth and Bob Sutliff imitating Zimolzack, as-
the kid party
in
sistant coach.
“Cases” were scored
in the characteristic
night programs in the Waller Hall scene which
Then came scenes from
not realistic.
manner of class
was nothing if
the Junior
Prom,
one
during play rehearsal and one of alumni day.
The committee
in
charge of the program were:
Chester
Maynard Pennington, Doris Sechrist,
Elizabeth Bowman, Arthur McKenzie and Dorothy Levers.
Zimolzack,
chairman;
o
——
COMMENCEMENT
“Much
we
of
what we are and are going
to be, will
be what
write deep into the souls of the boys and girls,” Dr. John
W.
Withers, dean of the School of Education of the University of
New
York, told 235 graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teach-
ers College at the
62nd annual commencement
of the institution
in the College auditorium.
Talking to the class on the profession of their choice and
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making no attempt
at oratory. Dr.
Withers held
their
closest
attention as he told of the public school as an institution which
must cope with the problems of the day and therefore must be
from what it was 25 or 30 years ago.
Forty-six of the class completed the four year course for
the degree of bachelor of science in education, and in the two
years course, 83 completed work in the intermediate field, 69
in the primary course and 37 in the rural course.
Of those receiving degrees, two completed the elementary course and the
different
others the junior high school course.
Members
of the class stood as their
names were read by
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the institution,
who
received
from Dean of Instruction W. B. Sutliff. When the
names of the candidates for degrees were read Mr. Sutliff preOne of the successful
sented each with his or her diploma.
candidates was his son, Robert Sutliff.
The College orchestra furnished a fine program of music
for the exercises and played as the processional, “War March
The procession
of the Priests from ‘Athalia’,” Mendelssohn.
was headed by the speaker of the day. Dr. Haas, members of
They occupied chairs on
the Board of Trustees and faculty.
the
lists
the platform with the class in a reserved section in the front of
All but the trustees
the auditorium.
were
attired in caps
and
gowns.
Dr.
David
J.
Waller,
Jr.,
President emeritus of the College
gave the invocation and Dr. Withers then delivered his address.
Robert E. Clark, of the College faculty, accompanied by H. F.
Fenstemaker, sang most beautifully, “De Glory Road,” by Jacques Wolfe.
Then came the conferring
The
parting by Doctor Haas.
of degrees
and a
president, on
trustees, faculty, the parents of the class
and
brief
behalf
word
of
of
the
their friends, con-
gratulated them and wished them success.
He
said that he
upon which
hoped they had secured a
solid
background
to earn a livelihood in the profession of their choos-
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had learned that in this world we
no such thing as the individual.
hoped that they knew spiritual values and the value of
There is no substitute for hard work and common sense.
He
ing.
also
hoped
that they
must work together, for there
He
also
work.
The
individual
fool the
God
17
may
work.
is
he will never
he wished the class good luck and
fool himself regarding that but
In closing,
speed.
Dr. Withers’ Address.
Dr. Withers, in opening
class
his address,
on past achievements and present
He
on the outlook for the future.
congratulated
the
accomplishments and
told the class that they
were
entering the greatest enterprise in the world today and spoke of
the two billions spent annually on elementary education, an
amount so vast that if the entire wealth of the German nation
were invested at five per cent, it would be just great enough to
allow the expenditure of that
sum each
year.
He spoke of the huge cost of education in Pennsylvania,
which he termed a progressive state and he spoke of death removing each year an educational investment of around
$45,000,000, so that part of the money allotted to education
each year is to replace that civilization which is lost through
death and to keep the standard of civilized life on the basis to
which it has been brought.
He spoke
amount w'hich is used in replacements
buildings and then of the fitting of teachers of
of the
and expansion of
whom 7,500 leave the ranks
in the State
represent a State investment of
He spoke
their school
It is
each year.
Teachers
millions.
of the necessity of re-education of adults
days have
necessary that
want a high type of
Education
50
is
failed to get that
this
work be done
civilization
may
which they need
in
continue to have
who
feel that
it
in
in life.
order that those
looked upon differently than
there are some today
who
who
it.
used to be, but
education should be the same
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18
was 25 or 30 years ago when the three R’s formed the
The teacher today needs to know life and
education and its relation to the people of today and the part it
should play.
Education today is not just teaching.
“You are
students of modern life in all its phases and it is your business to
find what part the elementary and high school should play in the
life of the state and what interest it should hold,” he told the
class.
How shall the school take its place and play its part in
as
it
basis of schooling.
the
life
of people as a whole,
is
a problem for the teachers.
Dr.
Withers continued.
He spoke of the characteristics of the western civilization.
There is a tendency to emphasize research and to use scientific
methods in the investigations.
One man in a book on achievements said that there were 5 prior to the 9th century and 24
Certainly the 20th century is doing even
during that century.
1
1
greater things and excelling past achievements.
eristic
has a great influence on education
if
the
This charact-
people are to
keep up with the present movement.
There is a tendency for education to move up and it must
There is a tenextend to cope with present day problems.
dency to apply knowledge as quickly and fully as possible for
human advancement and this means that if we are to apply
what we know we must have education to do it.
Professions
There is emphasis placed on specialization.
Medicine which used to have but two
are being diversified.
classes now has 25 or 30 distinct ones and each required much
We are building up skilled trades to put them on
preparation.
More and more emphasis is being
a semi-professional basis.
placed on high grade preparation for the problems of life.
Great importance is being placed on elementary and high school
education.
There
is
a tendency to
enlarge and
expand the funda-
This was first extended when
was freed and was further extended when the adult
women were given the right to franchise. Now we are coming
mental principles of democracy.
the negro
:
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to recognize that the adolescent
boy and
girl
19
has a right to
expression within the limits of his or her ability.
self
They make
in a while but so do adults.
The young people in the public schools are being recognizThe
ed as persons and that makes for different school life.
mistakes once
way
be a democrat in a demorcracy is to learn it in the
life.
The problems of importance are those which
have factors that cannot be worked out with education alone.
He urged that no time be wasted in friction and declared what
we must learn how to live in a democracy by early teaching.
The lesson of how to work with others is more and more that of
only
to
early days of
the school.
He
likened the individual unto an iceberg which has four-
fifths of its
body submerged.
going to be, will be what
boys and
girls,
he
we
Much
of
what we are and are
write deep into the
souls
of
the
said.
There is something more to education than the solving of
In closing, he asked the class to
problems through education.
The progress
treat the achievement just as Commencement.
American nation and its fate rests largely in the hands of
the teachers, and there is great need for the progressive teachHe wished them God speed and congratulated the class.
er.
of the
The members
GROUP
I
of the class are
—PRIMARY
Josephine M. Baas, Wilkes-Barre.
Helen A. Banta, Luzerne.
Beatrice Beale, Duncannon.
Florence Bettens, Riverside.
Florence E. Blythe, Nanticoke.
Louise H. Bombe, Nanticoke.
Fannie M. Bonham, Berwick.
Lulu Boyer, Lewistown.
Theresa D. Carpenter, Hazleton.
H. Jayne Cease, Alden Station.
Nicia M. Chiavacci, Pittston.
Miriam Aileene Cole, Millville.
Mary
J.
Concannon, Shamokin.
Phyllis Coopey, Nanticoke.
Mary F. Davis, Nanticoke.
Naomi
C. Davis, Peckville.
Rose E. Delliquanti, Pittston.
Kathryn M. Dougherty, Tuscarora.
Louise T. Downin, Harrisburg.
Catherine J. Dugan, Shamokin.
Naomi M. Edmunds, Nanticoke.
Isabel Eshleman, Berwick.
Jane L. Fahringer, Berwick.
Ruth E. Fairchild, Lewisburg.
Mary
Freeburg.
Forgeng, Scranton.
C. Fisher,
Dorothy
J.
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Lydia R. Fortner, Bloomsburg.
Rose A. Frank, Gordon.
Anna E. Frew, Olyphant.
Helen C. Galazin, Nanticoke.
Evelyn E. Gilbert, Shenandoah.
Mary E. Gorham, Scranton.
Miriam F. Hartt, Bloomsburg.
Ellen M. Hegarty, Tamaqua.
Rosa D. Hill, Jerseytown.
Lois C. Hirleman, Almedia.
Julia M. Hopkins, Shenandoah.
Catherine R. Ingram, Nanticoke.
Bessie A. Jenkins, Nanticoke.
Anna
A. Solonski, Wilkes-Bai're.
Helen G. Stryjak, Nanticoke.
Ruth E. Sutter, Glen Lyon.
Dawn E. Townsend, Bloomsburg.
Helen M. Walborn, Selinsgrove.
F. Beatrice Waples, Espy.
Leona M. Werchok, Plymouth.
Anna
Williams, Scranton.
Catherine Williams, Nanticoke.
M. Violette Williams, Luzerne.
Mary G. Yabroski, Ashley.
Albina M. Zadra, Freeland.
GROUP
II
— INTERMEDIATE
Dorothy Katherine Jones, Scranton. Myfanwy M. Beynon, Scranton.
Esther C. Jones, Edwardsville.
Esther A. Bower, Chinchilla.
Hilda R. Kazunas, Shenandoah.
Edith E. Boyer, Selinsgrove.
Dolores E. Keating, Nanticoke.
Hazel F. Keefer, Bloomsburg.
Mabel M. Kehler, Locust Dale.
Marie W. Kelly, Bloomsburg.
Eva C. Krauss, Bloomsburg.
Charleen B. Kreigh, Bloomsburg.
Luella F. Krug, Berwick.
Mildred E. Liddell, Mahanoy City.
Grace G. Linskill, Pottsgrove.
Ruth A. McDonald, Dunmore.
Margaret L. McNealis, Nanticoke.
Margaret M. Maddox, Nanticoke.
Mary
C. Miles, Shenandoah.
Mildred R. Miller, Nescopeck.
Marjorie R. Mills, Nanticoke.
Anne C. Murtha, Scranton.
Retha M. Noble, Montrose.
Pearl M. Quoos, Nanticoke.
Anna Mildred Rabb, Danville.
Mary E. Raiewski, Glen Lyon.
Eleanor R. Rhoades, Wyoming.
Marjory Roachford, Wilkes-Barre.
Harriet Roan, Bloomsburg.
Jeanette Roberts, Scranton.
Alice K. Roush, Selinsgrove.
Mary S. Rozanski, Plymouth.
Grace L. Shear, Coudersport.
Gladys M. Shotsberger, Freeburg.
Ruth Naomi Snyder, Pillow.
Mary P. Boyle, Hazleton.
Mae R. Cavanaugh, Coaldale.
Elizabeth M. Challenger, Scranton.
Elizabeth M. Cochran, Berwick.
Helen C. Cunningham, Kingston.
Mary E. Davis, Edwardsville.
Edna M. Derrick, Sunbury.
Florence Louise Dunn, Jermyn.
Margaret D. Eck, Allentown.
Elva M. Edwards, Edwardsville.
Doris E. Empett, New Milford.
Florence E. Fawcett, Berwick.
Dorothy M. Foust, Watsontown.
Anna L. Fowler, Berwick.
Kathryn H. Fowler, Berwick.
Beatrice Francis, Peckville.
Gladys M. Frantz, Danville.
Harold J. Freeman, Wilkes-Barre.
Dorothy J. Frick, West Pittston.
Dorothy Gitlovitz, Wilkes-Barre.
Margie P. Harrison, Hunlock Creek.
Romaine E. Henrie, Berwick.
Florence C. Hochberg, Philadelphia.
Elizabeth H. Hubler, Gordon.
Mary Eliz. Johnstone, Wilkes-Barre.
Dorothy Jean Jones, Berwick.
Alice A. Kasaczun, Scranton.
Grace R. Kauffman, Milton.
Winifred Keen, Glen Lyon.
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Erma
Mary
V. Kelchner, Shickshinny.
Eliz. Kelly, Edwardsville.
Sue 0. Kepner, Berwick.
Harriet B. Klingerman, Sunbury.
John F. Klotz, Wanamie
Dorothy R. Levers, Milton. '
Charlotte Mack, Forty Fort.
Dorothy E. Maines, Peckville.
Lillian E. Mann, Pittston.
Nellie D. Masluski, Edwardsville.
Maude
A. Michael, Berwick.
Jean M. Mileskay, Forest City.
Rachael E Miller, Berwick.
Annie T. Morgan, Nanticoke.
Elizabeth M. Morgan, Plymouth.
Sara D. Morgan, Edwardsville.
Leonore R. Murko, Berwick.
Anna
K. Ollendick, Chinchilla.
Agnes D. Ondovchak, Plymouth.
William T. Pelak, Edwardsville.
Helen C Rosser, Scranton.
Eleanor C. Sheridan, Nanticoke.
Marion L. Shook, Pittston.
Emilie L. Sides, Berwick.
Estelle F. Simonovitz, Plymouth.
Ruth E. Sonner, Honesdale.
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Creta M. Davis, Zion Grove.
C. Derr, Jerseytown.
Peter Evancho, Eckley.
Clara E. Fahringer, Catawissa.
Mildred E. Ferry, McAdoo.
Marie A. Foust, Washingtonville.
Kathryn A. Graybill, Paxtonville.
Regina B Haggerty, Mary D.
Irene Harris, Hickory Corners.
Ada F. Harrison, Huntington Mills.
Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek.
Corinne A. Hess, Bloomsburg.
Esther A. Hutchings, Uniondale.
Lois M. Ivey, Rupert.
Esther L. Kile, Rohrsburg
Ethel E. Jacoby, Barnesville.
LaRue
Marion E. Klinger, Nuremberg.
Theodore Laskowski, Trucksville.
Kaom Mae Lewis, Drumns.
Minnie B. Olschefsky, Catawissa.
Eva W. Robbins, Millville.
Frank J. Roman, Wilkes-Barre.
Winifred Shultz, Berwick.
Lydia A. Smith, Dallas.
Catharine H Stackhouse,
Hunting-
ton Mills.
Margaret P. Stewart, Catawissa.
Anne B. Urban, Pittston.
Elizabeth M. Van Buskirk, Kingston .Earl H. VanDine, Montoursville.
Aria P. Weikel, Shamokin.
Cora Mae Wagner, Shamokin
Raymond W. Willard, Trevorton.
John J. Wilkes, Alden Station.
Geo. Keith Witheridge, Wyoming.
Reba E. Williams, Scranton.
Ruth M. Williams, Peckville.
SECONDARY FIELD
Genevieve G. Wolfe, Alderson.
Degree
of Bachelor of Science in
Pauline Womer, Sunbury.
Education.
John G. Wood, Dickson City.
David H. Baker, Columbia.
Lois M. Wyandt, Scranton.
Beatrice Bowman, Orangeville
Hilda D. Yocum, Milton
Elizabeth C. Bowman, Bloomsburg.
GROUP III RURAL
Lewis L. Creveling, Orangeville.
—
Helen M. Appleman, Danville.
Fred T. Aten, Catawissa.
Helen E. Bangs, Rohrsburg.
James
Mae
John W. Dyer, Bloomsburg.
Elouise J. Evans, Bloomsburg.
Frank V Faus, Bloomsburg.
Helen S. Gibbons, Benton.
Amy
E. Bitler, Millville.
E. Bittner, Catawissa.
Barbara M. Booth, Eagles Mere.
Minnie S. Clark, Dornsife
B. Davis, Ringtown.
T. DeVoe, Berwick.
Gladys J. Dildine, Orangeville.
Edward
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Rebecca Gilmore, Bloomsburg.
Frank J. Golder, Bloomsburg.
John E. Morris, Forty Fort.
Theodore Morrissey, Wanamie.
Catherine F. Hayes, Berwick.
L. Henry, Wilkes-Barre.
Ila A. Ivey, Bloomsburg.
Nicholas Jaffin, Berwick.
Orval C. Palsgrove, Frackville.
Maynard J. Pennington, Bloomsburg.
Wm. Bernard Roan, Espy.
Winifred Robbins, Orangeville
Doris S. Sechrist, Bloomsburg.
Martin A. Sekulski, Glen Lyon.
Robert G. Sutliff, Bloomsburg.
Wm. H. Weaver, Bloomsburg.
Robert C. Wilson, Bloomsburg.
Clarence R. Wolever, Nanticoke.
Esther R. Yeager, Holmesburg
Joseph J. Yocabonis, Mahanoy City.
Chester Zimolzak, Glen Lyon.
Thomas
Muncy Valley.
Kirker, Columbia.
Dorothy B. Kisner, Muncy.
Robert F. Knierim, Scranton.
Eugene Krolikoski, Glen Lyon.
Samuel W. Kurtz, Milton.
Harold H. Lanterman, Berwick.
Elsie V. Keller,
Thomas
J
Arthur C. McKenzie, Bloomsburg.
Helen L. Maynard, Chinchilla.
Marion R. Meixell, Espy
Harold R. Miller, Bloomsburg.
Norman G. Morgan, Lock Haven.
ELEMENTARY
Mary M.
FIELD.
Bloomsburg.
Emily A. Park, Berwick.
Flick,
O
CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
Work
campaign
add much
is
rapidly nearing completion on an
at the
active
Spring
Bloomsburg State Teachers College which
will
N. T. Englehart,
beauty of the school plant.
superintendent of buildings, has had the regular force of the
College and 7 additional men at work on a number of projects,
to the
1
many
of
them now complete.
The projects have been underway for the past month or
two and the additional help required has meant much to the emWork was rushed so that the Colployment situation in town.
lege plant would look its best for the Commencement season.
The dome and tower of Carver Hall and
wood work on the building have been painted.
all
A
the
exterior
considerable
amount of shrubbery and trees have been planted
Benjamin Franklin Training School.
at the
new
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23
have been erected at four sets of concrete steps
Underground drains have been
last year.
a number of points on the campus.
rails
which were erected
placed at
Concrete walks have been placed from the gymnasium to
North Hall, from Waller Hall to North Hall and from Waller Hall
to the Training School.
Parking space with a curb has been
created at the rear of Waller Hall and re-grading and re-sodding
of
some
parts of the
campus are under way.
Paths on the campus affected by the installation of the
new
heating system have been re-graded by the Coxe Stoker Engineering
Company.
campus adjacent to the boiler house has been
damper regulators have been
Both of these jobs were done by the heating con-
Part of the
resurfaced and automatic stack
placed.
tracting firm, Herre Brothers.
A
very noticeable improvement
is
that on the lower side
A
of the tennis courts which face East Second Street.
wall has been erected and a rock garden on
nearing completion.
It is
now being
top of
limestone
the wall
is
planted with several kinds
being planted with several kinds of suitable shrubbery.
The
field
house on the athletic
field
has been
moved
to the
rear of the back stop, greatly improving the appearance of the
field
and the
training school play grounds.
Flower beds have been made at the fountain
in front of
Carver Hall and at various places on the campus.
geraniums, alyssum and colia have been used to good
Petunias,
effect.
The electric clock and bell system together with telephone
system for the new training school have been completed by
Francis T. Brown, of Wilkes-Barre, the contractor.
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ATHLETIC BANQUET
A
standard for athletic dinners was set at the State Teach-
ers College Friday evening.
May
15,
when
the
annual affair
first
was held and when more than 700 guests enjoyed a
marvelous program and heard Dr. Wallace G. Petty, a Baptist
clergyman from Pittsburgh, who was introduced as “a preacher, teacher and counsellor of youth” and who proved himself as
well a humorist and philosopher ranking with the best on the
of the kind
platform today.
It
is
seldom
—very
seldom
—
that
one hears
his equal.
The program from
first
to last held the close interest of the
wide participation of the student body
in sports as well as the increasing part which they are to play in
life of the student body in the years to come.
guests.
It
reflected the
Dr. Petty spoke on ‘’The Straight Shooter” and he used
Knute Rockne, a personal friend, to illustrate the point. Dr.
Petty could talk in the language of the athlete, for he was one
It
a football player for years and a football coach for years.
paid
Rockne,
who
to
him
typified
the
was a beautiful tribute he
drama of America the America of opportunity. The finest
compliment the speaker paid him was that he was a gentleman,
In America, he said,
and one who had sense of direction.
—
“there
is
too
much going but never
They are made
who see through things and who see
Touchdowns are not made by
by those who see
things through.
things,
getting there.”
That’s the
way
it
accident.
is
with those
who make
a
success of their lives.
—
There must be a sense of direction; there must be a sense
“and it is harder to be decent today than at any
of decency
time since the
He urged
Roman
the
era.”
young people before him not
to
be cheap and
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He would
tawdry, but to be “loyal to the royal in yourself.”
have them keep their sense of direction, their decency and have
a destiny.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the
Alumni Association, pre-
sided most happily as toastmaster.
The invocation was offered by
Dr.
David
J.
Waller,
Jr.,
president emeritus.
During the serving of the delicious menu, the College Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker, ren-
dered a musical program.
There were a number of guests at the dinner, including
and members of the faculty and their wives, college
day students and many former college and varsity athletes.
trustees
Former lettermen of the school attending were: Herman
Fowler, Robert Dew, Ray Hawkins, William Swinehart, Leslie
Zimmerman, Gerald Fitzpatrick, William Partridge, Veryl Mowrer, Harold Hidlay, J. W. Jones, George Mathews, Nicholas VanBuskirk, Arch Austin, William Felcamp.
ing
One of the spirited renditions of the evening was the singof “Maroon and Gold,” composed by Dr. Haas, under the
direction of Miss Harriet Moore.
Keys and Chevrons Presented.
Under the
rules of the athletic
department,
300 points are eligible to wear numerals.
600 points are required and for each 300
girl
a letter
tional
chevrons are
awarded.
fourth chevrons: Miss Beatrice
Miss
first
Ila
Ivey with
1
847
points.
students
To
receiving
receive
points addi-
Two students received their
Bowman with 1910 points and
Miss Ruth Sonner received her
and second chevrons.
The presentation
of
chevrons to these
girls
and
to a
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number
of others
keys to
men
who
received their
of varsity athletic teams
first
chevron and of the
was by
Dr. Haas.
Varsity certificate and charms were presented
to the fol-
lowing men:
David G. Baker,
Creveling, baseball;
basketball, tennis manager;
Frank V. Faus, tennis; Frank
Lewis
J.
L.
Golder,
basketball and baseball; Nicholas E. Jaffin, football, wrestling
and track; Thomas J. Kirker, football, basketball, baseball and
track; Arthur C. McKenzie, football, wrestling and baseball
manager; Maynard J. Pennington, football; Martin Sekulski,
baseball; Robert G. Sutliff football and tennis; Earl H. VanDine, baseball manager; Robert C. Wilson, basketball and baseball; Joseph J. Yockabonis, football, basketball, baseball and
track; and Chester Zimolzak, football and basketball.
,
Presentation of the 1925 class memorial by Miss Emily
Park followed and the orchestra played “Rakoczy March,” Beriioz-Liszt.
Dr. Petty’s address was followed by group singing
led
by the College Chorus.
Sutliff and Miss Lucy McCammon presentand numerals, respectively, to the girls.
Mrs. Kathryn L.
ed the
letters
The orchestra delighted with “Czardas,” Gungl, and Coach
the football and basketball awards.
School cheers were directed by Daniel Thomas, and dean of men
John C. Koch, also coach of the tennis team, presented the baseball, track and tennis awards.
T.
W. Booth presented
S.
letics,
I.
Shortess, chairman of the faculty committee on ath-
made
the
announcement of the captains and told of the
The program closed with the Alma
school’s athletic policy.
Mater.
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MAY DAY
No May Day
in
recent
years,
if
ever, has
surpassed
in
beauty that was staged by over 500 children of the training
school and College Seniors on the College athletic field
May
18, to the
more than
filled
Monday,
enjoyment of an audience of townspeople that
the bleachers especially placed for the program.
From the time the program opened with the processional,
headed by Miss Sara Hemingway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
F. Hemingway, of West Fourth Street, as Queen of the May,
until the climax, two hours later, when
6 vari-colored May
poles were simultaneously wound by the children and College
1
students, the entertainment provided feature after feature
of
outstanding beauty.
With the Queen
at the
head of the procession, were Jack
Shortess as Prince Charming; Virginia Reams, Marjory Dillon,
June Nicewinter and Clara Fausey, as ladies in waiting; Frank
Haas, Jr., and Douglas Dillon, as pages; Patsy Moyer, as flower
girl and Thomas North and Howard Fenstemaker, Jr., as attendants to the Prince.
On
the throne covered with leaves, the
processional of
all
Queen reviewed
the
the participants.
Then followed dances by children and students. Each
was very well given and showed very careful training. Children as butterflies, flowers and bees, all in costume, gave a number of
much enjoyed
features.
All of the children of the train-
and sixth grade boys,
dances and those boys joined with the other students
ing school, with the exception of the fifth
were
in the
singing a number of songs under the direction of Miss Harriet
M. Moore.
These songs interspersed the program of dances
and added much to the program.
in
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The splendid work was under the
McCammon,
direction of Miss
Lucy
of the physical education department, with Mrs.
Kathryn Sutliff, also of that department, giving splendid
ance in preparing the dances.
assist-
The College Orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker, played for the processional and for the winding of the
May pole. The accompanist for many of the dances was Gerald Hartman.
Properties were supplied by a force of
N. T. Englehart
men
and they certainly furnished a
in
charge of
fine setting for
the pageantry.
worked out their own dances and for the
own costumes which added greatly to the
Over 300 College girls particidances.
College students
most part made
their
effectiveness of the
pated.
The
opened their program with
The costumes were yellow with black
black band around the skirts.
training school teachers
“Portland Fancy.”
bodice and a
Then followed the English dance “Bocastle” with the parwearing white dresses, pink sashes and hair ribbons
ticipants
and those taking the part of boys wearing pink
The
girls’
overalls.
costumes for “Gathering Peascods” were on the
The boys wore blue costumes with
Then came the farmer dance “Strawtassels on their hats.
The participants ended
foot” and that provided some comedy.
their number with a clog dance.
order of those of Bo-Peep.
A
French number, the “Vineyard Dance,” found those taksmocks and tarns, with white
ing part attired in blue trousers,
collars.
Knickers, dark coats and tarns for one group and var-
ied-colored attire for the other group were the costumes used
by them
in the
number “Bean
Setting.”
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Another farmer dance, “Dancing On The Green,” had the
girls in farmer costume with sunbonnets and aprons and the
Boys wore overalls, and small aprons added
boys in overalls.
a touch to the girls’ costumes in “Green Mountain Volunteers.”
For “Firetur” the girls wore costumes with black bodice
and varied-colored skirts and the boys wore tan caps with red
Then came the always popular sailor
tassels and black suits.
number “Horn Pipe” with the costumes appropriate.
“Fandango,” a Spanish number, was next. The boys wore
suits with sashes and large Spanish hats.
Girls wore crepe
shaded
from
dresses
which
a
light
yellow
paper
to a
deep
Shawls were used to set off the dresses.
orange.
black
“Pirates” found the participants dressing the part and carThis was a popular number as was “French
which the girls wore tight waists and full skirts with
The boys’
high collars and red ribbons around their heads.
costumes were light blue trousers, blouses and tarns.
rying daggers.
Reel”
in
Old fashioned Colonial costumes were used in that age old
“The Minuet” with the girls doing a fine piece of work.
Nine clowns ended the dancing with “Grotesque.”
favorite
The winding
of the
May
poles brought the colorful spec-
tacle to a fitting close.
o
April
29 was
the
92nd birthday
he spent the day as usual
—
McHenry and
mower over the Col-
of Russell
pushing a lawn
lege campus.
decked out with a new lawn mower in honor
of the occasion, and the day was marked by nothing more un-
He was
all
usual than a nine-hour day’s work.
The
elderly
man
is
enjoying good health and he expects to
.
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in the summer working on
many summers previously.
put
The number
tion
is
as he
has put
of years he has been working at the
not definitely known.
of buildings
the campus,
and grounds,
in
institu-
Nevin Englehart, superintendent
asserts that
it
is
so
long
“that
the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary.”
McHenry tells of aiding in the excavating for some of the
buildings that now comprise the college plant— and they were
buildings erected when the college was a young institution.
He
hasn’t been
employed without interruption
at the
school,
but
has returned after brief intervals.
o
PLAY TOURNAMENT
“The Stoker,” by Harold Brighouse, was awarded
first
place in the fifth annual play tourney of the College Dramatic
Club which was held in the College auditorium before a goodsized crowd Friday evening, May
The play, built around the conflicting viewpoints of natives
1
of the East
students
and West, was expertly presented by the College
directed by Miss Elizabeth Bowman, also a
who were
student.
The other plays given were “Cooks and Cardinals,” by
Winifred Hawkbridge, and “Thursday Evening,” by Christopher
Miss Doris Sechrist, of town, directed “Cooks and
Morley.
Cardinals” and Miss Harriet
Sutliff
directed the other play.
All
town students, while a large number
Bloomsburg
students.
part
were
taking
of those
connected
with the tourney was
every
one
The work of
In
exceptionally fine and the task of the judges was difficult.
making the first award to the cast of “The Stoker,” the judges
gave honorable mention to Miss Mildred Rabb, of Danville, in
three student directors are
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“Cooks and Cardinals” and to Miss Grace Foote, of
in “Thursday Evening.”
The judges were Mrs.
Hidlay and Mrs. Allen Rarig, of town, and Miss Rachel
the cast of
town, playing
W.
Clair
Turner of the College faculty.
“Cooks and Cardinals,” a comedy, was presented
the
members
first
of the cast as follows: Katie, Miss Mildred
with
Rabb;
Teddy, Lee Hippensteel; Mrs. Connelly, Miss Mary Betterly;
Father Anslem, Thomas Coursen; Monsieur Le Beau, Thomas
Kirker; Cardinal Wheeler, William Thompson.
Those in the cast of “Thursday Evening” were: Gordon
Miss Grace
Johns, David Baker; Laura, Mrs. Gordon Johns;
Foote; Mrs. Sheffield, Laura’s Mother, Miss Elizabeth Cochrane;
Mrs. Johns, Gordan’s Mother, Miss Elizabeth VanBuskirk.
The prize winning cast of “The Stoker” was: Peter HowAldwin Jones; the captain, Robert Sutlirf; Mrs. Leighton,
Miss Dorothy Faust, and the stoker, Maynard Pennington.
The Dramatic Club is known as the Bloomsburg Players
and the officers are: President, Arthur McKenzie; Vice-President, Miss Esther Jones; Treasurer, James Davis; Director, Miss
ard,
Alice Johnston.
Members
sie Laird,
er
ris
of the Tournament Committee were: Misses JesLorna Billow, Helen Keller, Alma White, Grace Feath-
and Ida Arcus and John Shellenberger, Nick Jafhn and MorDeHaven.
o
SENIOR BANQUET
Another Commencement program opened at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday evening. May 21, when
Every member of the
the annual Senior Banquet was held.
class of 235 members was present at the affair which is the only
Commencement program
in
which only the
class
and faculty
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members who have been
in close
contact with them during their
college courses, are in attendance.
James Davis, of Ringtown, class president, happily presided as toastmaster and a splendid program of music was furnished by the College orchestra under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker.
The
memories
was one which
affair
in
years to come.
will
A
bring
back many happy
large basket of flowers adorned
and decorations at all tables were sweet
and
yellow
candles.
peas
A committee composed of Thomas L. Henry, Miss Cora
Wagner, Miss Edna Mae Derrick, William Weaver and Keith
Witheridge was in charge of the successful affair.
During the evening among those responding to toasts were
Miss Jessie Patterson, Freshman advisor; H. F. Fenstemaker,
Sophomore and Junior advisor; Miss Harriet Moore, Senior advisor; Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the College, and Dean of
There were some much enjoyed
Instruction William B. Sutliff.
selections by the Senior Girls’ Chorus and the Senior Male Chorus
and the program closed with the Alma Mater.
the speakers’ table
o
The
Girls’
Glee Club of the College under the direction of
Miss Jessie Patterson,
Music
made
Week program, on
a real contribution to Bloomsburg’s
Friday evening,
very ably presented the cantata '‘Pan on a
May 8, when
Summer Day”
they
to a
and appreciative audience in the College auditorium.
The chorus of 50 voices showed careful training and the
was
It
chorus and solo work was exceptionally well given.
one of the finest pieces of work of that type that the College has
Mrs. J. K. Miller, of the Music School, was the
ever presented.
large
accompanist.
Another feature which added
to the
program was provided
by the College Symphony Orchestra under the
F.
Fenstemaker.
direction of
H.
;
;
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COLLEGE SONG
class
The words of the Class Song of the College graduating
were written by Miss Lydia Smith and the music by Sam-
uel Kurtz, of Milton.
The song follows:
Hail to our college dear, our
Whose ivy-covered
alma mater
walls enclose so
fair,
much
that
we
hold dear!
Let every heart and voice unite to sing her praise.
With one accord
to chant of our College days.
day
onward as our College points the way.
Yet through the years to come our thoughts will oft be here
For time cannot destroy the memories of Bloomsburg dear.
The past so full
The future calls
of glory joins with present
us
o
The Junior
Friday evening,
Class of the State Teachers College
May
“Skidding,” by Aurania Rouverol
ed the play, and each
delighted
7 with their presentation of the
1
member
comedy
Miss Alice Johnston direct-
of the cast gave fine interpreta-
tions of their parts.
The
around the election of Judge Hardy, a
by Henry Warman, to the bench. In securing reelection he is aided by his daughter who herself is nominated
The daughter was played by Miss Ruth
for the Legislature.
With both father and daughter in public
Wagner, of town.
life complications came thick and fast but the usual happy endplot centered
part played
ing closed the play.
in the cast were: Wayne Trent, Jack Hall;
Andy,
Thomas; Grandpa Hardy, Seymour Stere; Mrs. Hardy,
Laura Shultz Aunt Milly, Lois Demitt Estelle, Minnie Howeth
Stubbins, James Johns.
Others
Daniel
;
;
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1931 OBITER
The 1931 Obiter of which Edward DeVoe, of Berwick, was
was dedicated to Prof. S. L. Wilson, head of the
English Department of the institution, and one who is always
willing to assist in student activities.
Ever since he became aseditor-in-chief,
sociated with the faculty eight years ago, Mr. Wilson has been
particularly active in assisting with student publications
acted as faculty advisor of most of them and edited
Maroon and Gold and year book copy during
and has
much
of the
that period.
He
one of the most popular of the faculty members.
The book is outstanding in content and workmanship. It
“The Gleeman’’
is handsomely bound in a blue leather cover.
is the theme of the book and is carried throughout in arrangement and illustrations. Anglo-Saxon terms of the Medieval peris
iod are used in department headings.
Among
the outstanding features of the
volume are pencil
sketches by Katherine Hayes Baum, of Berwick, of Dr. Francis
and of members of the
The books contains photographs of the 233 members of
the class but instead of the write-ups which were used in past
years the book lists only activities, a form used by the majority
B. Haas, president of the institution,
staff.
of the colleges.
The members
of the capable staff are:
Berwick, editor-in-chief;
business manager;
Miss Elizabeth
associates
—
Catherine
H.
Edward
T.
Huber,
Hayes
DeVoe,
Gordon,
Baum,
Ber-
wick; Miss Alice MacMullen, Shenandoah; Miss Emily Park,
Berwick; Miss Dorothy Frick, West Pittston; Miss Esther YeagDavid Baker,
er, Philadelphia; Miss Helen Gibbons, Benton;
Columbia; Beatrice Bowman, Orangeville; Miss Helen CunningArthur McKenzie and Miss Miriam Hartt,
ham, Kingston
Bloomsburg.
;
CLASS
OF
1886—
ALUMNI
DAY,
1931
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THE ALUMNI
1871
Dr. A.
W. Sheiley
lives at Port
Royal, Pa.
1876
March 30 was the 25th anniversary of Judge Charles
Evans’ appointment to the
Common
C.
Pleas bench of Columbia
and Montour Counties.
The Judge, still hale and hearty, has been four times commissioned as president judge of the 26th district, twice following appointment and twice following election.
The first commission was issued in April, 906, by Governor Pennypacker, after appointment following the death of
He was again commissioned by the
Hon. Robert R. Little.
same governor following his election in November of the same
1
year.
was issued by Governor Pinchot,
John G. Harman, and the commission was issued early in the Fall of 1925.
His third commission
after appointment, following the death of Hon.
His latest commission, following
his election
was issued by Governor John
term,
election in
F.
for the
Fisher,
current
following
his
1927.
Judge Evans has presided over
7 years and three months.
Then he was electHis first appointment was for nine months.
years, the length of term being changed at
ed for a term of
His second appointment was for two years and
that time.
three months and he has served three years and three months
of the ten year term for which he was elected in November,
In the past quarter century
the courts of the judicial district
1
1927.
1
1
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Of the
kins
1
1876, oldest in reunion, Prof. F. H. JenEvans and George Tustin were three of the
class of
Judge
living
1
37
C. C.
members
attending.
1879
Anna
E.
Roxby
is
Her address
schools.
supervising principal of the Swarthmore
is
1
1
2 Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore.
1880
Alice H. Fisher,
Cadbury
missionary
to
who
has retired from teaching, lives at
in
South America from 1893
1927, she was
50
Miss Fisher served as a foreign
Street, Pottsville, Pa.
to
1919.
From 1921
charge of the Art Department of Genesee
in
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima,
New
York.
1881
A
was pushed aside Friday evening.
and
temporarily
forgotten
by eight members of the
May 22,
class of 1881 of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, as
eight members of that class, their wives and husbands and some
half century of time
guests, gathered at the
home
of Mrs.
May
Wells
Creasy,
of
East Fifth Street, for a delicious dinner and a memorable evening.
A
feature of the night that
presence of Dr. D.
J.
Waller,
Jr.,
made
it
all
the finer
was the
president emeritus of the
in-
and principal of the school when the class of 1881
completed its work.
Those of the class present were: Myron E. Simons, of
Honesdale; Dr. H. V. Hower and James L. Evans, Esq., of Berwick; the Misses Enola and Claudia Guie, of Catawissa; Miss
Dora Marr, Mrs. Abigail Robbins Hartman and the hostess, Mrs.
They were joined later by T. B. Harrison, of
Creasy, of town.
Town Line; Henry L. Morgan, of Scranton, and Mrs. Lizzie
stitution,
Laudig, also of that
city.
The
class
numbered 41.
and wonderful improve-
Dr. Waller spoke of the changes
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ments that have marked the past 50 years.
In the years when
the class of 1881 was at the institution funds were very scarce
and even the purchase of so small an article as a map had to be
He spoke
carefully considered.
of the changed conditions as
they regarded support to Normal School, now Teachers College,
which came about in 1920 when Dr. Finnegan headed the State
Department of Public Instruction. Since that time the necessary amount for the operations of the colleges has been forthcoming.
He spoke very highly of the members of the 50 year
class.
The class is interested in doing its part toward the College
Memorial Fund and they received a letter from Miss Anna Wier,
Plymouth, with a $10 check enclosed.
Since the graduation of the class,
away, seven members of the
1
5
members have passed
be located and an-
class could not
other has not replied to letters sent out by
took the initiative
Mrs.
who
Creasy,
planning the reunion.
in
During the evening the family of Mrs. Creasy was introduced and Mrs. Earl John, a daughter, accompanied another
daughter, Miss Martha Creasy, while she
beautiful solos.
delighted
two
with
Miss Jean Creasy, a third daughter, pleased
with two piano solos.
Guests at the dinner
were: Mrs. Myron
Hower and Mrs. James
class
in
addition
E. Simons, of
L.
to the
members
Honesdale;
Mrs.
of
the
H. V.
Evans, of Berwick, and Mrs. Jenny
Wells Flenderson, of Montgomery, and Rev.
W. H. Hartman,
of
town.
Dr. Heister V.
Hower
lives in
Berwick, Pa., where he has
a very successful practice.
Anna Weir
Myron
E.
lives in
Simons
is
Plymouth, Pa.
a lawyer, located at Honesdale, Pa.
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Claudia B. Guie has retired from teaching, and
is
living in
Catawissa, Pa.
1882
1514 Sevmourning the
loss of her husband, who died suddenly January 21,
1931.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmateer had gone south for the winter, when
the former s death occurred in Raleigh, N. C.
Emilie Ayres (Mrs. Charles Palmateer) lives at
enth Avenue, Neptune, N.
Mrs. Palmateer
J.
Carrie C. Rogers (Mrs. D.
Susquehanna,
Pa.,
on February
J.
5,
is
home
in
1931, after a few days’
ill-
Peck) died
at
her
ness.
1885
Annie Miller (Mrs. Elmer E. Melick) is President of the
This organDelaware County Federation of Women’s Clubs.
ization consists of thirty-two clubs in the county, and has a total
membership of over three thousand. Mrs. Melick’s address is
South Haven Inn, Swarthmore, Pa.
1886
On Alumni Day
the class of ’86 held one of
its most sucwhich is saying much.
Their festivities have
This year they began on Friday
always covered two days.
home
of Elizabeth Low, Lime Ridge,
afternoon with a tea at the
who is one of the members of the class. Among those present
in addition to the members, many of whom had their wives or
husbands, were: Dr. and Miss Waller, Mrs. Frank Cully, Mrs. W.
B. Sutliffe, Mrs. F. P. Purcell, Mrs. Harry Barton, Prof, and Mrs.
Albert, Mrs. Nuss, Mrs. Dr. Haas, Miss Martha Connelly, and
Miss Low is an ideal entertainer, and spared
Mr. A. Z. Schock.
no pains to make the occasion the great success it proved to be.
After greetings and refreshments the party was taken in
automobiles to the home of William Snyder, on East Fifth Street,
where it was entertained by another member of the class, Mrs.
Anna Snyder Mausteller. Prof, and Mrs. Jenkins, among oth-
cessful reunions,
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ers,
At
joined the party here, where a delightful evening
time twenty-six
this
members
of the
class
was spent.
were reported
present.
Saturday morning the class met
in
its
appointed place,
where two more members were announced as present. After
the transaction of some business the class adjourned to meet at
the close of the Alumni Dinner, at which time reports were had
from those present and letters read from the absent ones.
Ida
Bell Preston was reported in a letter from her husband to be
helpless and unconscious from a stroke she suffered sixteen
months ago.
The class adjourned at 5:30 to the home of Melle Long
Dickson, in Berwick, where the hostess served an elaborate buffet luncheon, and the evening was spent in reminiscing and
singing.
This was not an unusual reunion, for a similar program had
been carried out each time the class met in the past. A wonderful class spirit prevails and a corresponding loyalty to the
old school.
The success of the reunions has been due largely
to the interest and enthusiasm of a group of Bloomsburg girls,
members of the class, aided and abetted by Miss Low and Mrs.
Dickson.
The members
of the class
who were
present were
:
D. L.
Glover, Mifflinburg; James Maurer, N. G. Cool and Belle Monic
Marne Schoch McKelvy, Ida BernMoyer White, and Anna Snyder Mausteller, all of Bloomsburg; Elfreda Barnes Gottschall,
and Emma Fisher Thomas, both of Harrisburg; Maggie Brennan, Shenandoah; Nan Silvia Coughlin, and Grace A. Leacock,
Jones,
all
of Philadelphia;
hard, Stella Lowenburg, Lucetta
both of Kingston; Alice Donley, Wilkes-Barre; J. 0. Felker, of
Lewistown; Ellen Geiser Seip, Easton; Hattie Hoffa Ruhl, Lewisburg; Flora Jones Fetterolf, Pottsville; M. A. Kline, Cheyenne,
Wyoming; William
R. Lewis, Scranton; Melle
Long Dickson, of
Berwick Elizabeth A. Low, Lime Ridge Emma Patton Connelly, Spokane, Washington; Jeremiah Reeder, Shamokin; N. H.
;
;
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Sanner, Pittsburgh; Adelle Shaffer Broughal!, Reading; George
Emma
A. Spangler, Milroy;
Donley
Allie
address
is
Felty, Abilene, Kansas.
Her
a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools.
187 Stanton
is
Witmer
Street.
Jere Reeder has retired, and
now
is
living in
Elfreda Barnes (Mrs. Edwin H. Gottschall)
Shamokin, Pa.
lives
at
647
South 29th Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas
B.
Main
(Emma W. Murphy), whose
home is in Tryon, North Carolina, expects to spend
summer in California and some of the National Parks.
winter
W.
L.
Williams
is still
capably
0. Felker
J.
Emma
address
is
is
M.
Sites
720 North
in
in the real estate
His address
is
is
position as County
Madera, California.
filling his
Superintendent of Schools, and lives
Lewistown, Pa.
the
and insurance business
Room
a grade teacher
9,
in
Houck
in
Building.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Her
Sixth Street.
Flora B. Jones (Mrs. L. M. Fetterolf) lives at 903 West
Market Street, Pottsville, Pa.
Mrs. Fetterolf’s husband is Pastor of one of the Reformed churches in that city.
Mrs. Isabella Monie Jones lives at 733 Concord
Drexel
Hill,
Avenue,
Pa.
1888
Margaret Petty (Mrs. Herbery D. Beatty)
ettstown,
New
Harvey
at
I.
lives
in
Hack-
Jersey.
Crow
Bethlehem, Pa.
is
Pastor of the Bethany Reformed Church
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1890
Jennie D. Kline
high school at
is
head of the English Department
City, Pa.
Her address is 301
Mahanoy
in
the
West
Mahanoy Avenue.
Hayman is Librarian and teacher of Latin, French,
and English History in the Turbotville Vocational
School.
She has returned four times to Bloomsburg for postgraduate work, and has also taken courses at Penn State, Susquehanna University, and Cornell University.
Miss Hayman’s
Eleanor
Biology
address
is
Box 169,
Turbotville, Pa.
1891
The class of 1891 had seven of its members back in reMembers were Edward
union and they had a splendid time.
:
J.
Gormley, Hazleton; Frank A. McGuigan, Wilkes-Barre; J. P.
Dimmich, Mt. Carmel; W. B. Sut-
Costello, Hazleton; Elizabeth
liff,
Jennie M. Sheep, Bloomsburg; Margaret Sullivan Meyers,
Lewistown.
Frank A. McGuigan
is
practicing law in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
1893
Miss Alice Fenner,
who
lives at
2029 Highland Street,
home after spending
Allentown, Pa., has just returned to her
the winter in Florida.
Martha Powell
is
secretary of the White Milling
Company,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
1894
J.
Howard
His address
is
Patterson
is
practicing law in Philadelphia, Pa.
the Real Estate Building in that city.
Louis L. Ansart, Counselor at Law, specializing
in
patent
announces the removal of his offices to
the Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
and trade-mark
cases,
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Mildred D. Birton (Mrs. John Vought)
primary grades
43
is
teacher of
the
at Mainville, Pa.
Harry G. Dechant passed away February 9, 1931, after an
operation.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, he attended
Princeton University, and was graduated from that institution.
became Vice-President of the Monroe Calculating MaCompany. About ten years ago, he left that company,
and was very successful in building up the Health Production
Corporation.
He was a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey, at
Later he
chine
the time of his death.
1895
Nina Tague (Mrs. H. A. Frantz)
J.
Mrs. Frantz
is
Temperance Union
E. P.
of
State President
of the State of
lives in
of the
New
Moorestown, N.
Woman’s
Christian
Jersey.
Heckert has been Supervising Principal of the schools
Mauch Chunk
for the past sixteen years.
Mauch Chunk
that the following teachers in
Mr. Heckert writes
are
Bloomsburg
graduates and that they are giving excellent service: Mary F.
Bevan, ’09; Laura Smith, 00; Charles W. Keller,
10, and
Elizabeth Ransom, ’23.
1896
The class of 1896, holding its 35th year reunion, had 14
members back and they renewed school day acquaintances
and told of members unable to return to the reunion.
Present
were: G. J. Thomas, Clark’s Green, Pa.; Gertrude Morse, Mary
of
its
Coxe, Mt. Carmel; Jennie Rossar, East Orange, N. J.
Myrtle
Swartz VanWie, Burdett, N. Y. Millie Seely Thomas, Berwick;
;
;
Mabel Yost Hall, Pittston; Elizabeth McKane Campbell, Wyoming; Vida Bowman Drum, Kingston; Harriet F. Carpenter and
Helen F. Carpenter, Bloomsburg; Bertha Kelly, Scranton.
Eleanor
L.
Quick (Mrs. H. A. Walters)
lives
in
Gallup,
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New
Mexico.
son, near her
Mrs. Walters
is
principal of the school at Gib-
home.
Florence A. Lins (Mrs D. W. Ardt) lives at 202 Madison
Avenue, Lock Haven, Pa.
Mrs. Arndt states: “Memories of
the days spent at B. S. N. S. back in 1895-1896 are some of
my most pleasant ones.”
Dr.
J.
Warren Shuman
is
a successful physician at Jersey
Shore, Pa.
1899
A. R.
McHenry holds
address
is
295 Voorhees Avenue,
Anna Sandoe Hake
schools of Atlantic City.
Edward
F.
Brent
is
is
as General
employed.
His
a responsible position
whom
Purchasing Agent for the firm by
he
is
Buffalo, N. Y.
a teacher in the sixth grade in the
Her address
is
1
49
St.
James Place.
Postmaster at Lewistown, Pa.
1900
Blanche Letson (Mrs. H.
of the
Mrs.
of
Bloomsburg
MacAmis
faculty,
assists
C.
MacAmis), a former member
lives
her husband,
Tusculum College, located
in
Greeneville,
who
is
Tennessee.
Assistant Treasurer
in Greeneville.
Kuhns is Secretary of the Milton Trust and Safe DeCompany. He lives in West Milton, Pa.
B. B.
posit
1901
There were 5 members of the class of 1901 back for their
30th year reunion and they had a great time throughout the day,
many of the members being on hand for the opening of the pro1
gram
at
9:00
o’clock.
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Those attending were: Miss Augusta B. Henkelman, Mount
Md. Miss Harriet A. Bittenbender, Berwick; Adele Alt-
Rainier,
miller,
;
Burkhardt, Hazleton; Mrs.
R. Kohr, Richland;
J.
Thomas Joseph, Wilkes-Barre; Miss Hadassa
F.
liamsport; Mrs. Alice Roderick, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.
Mary
Balliet, Wil-
Mary Shoe-
maker Valentine, Wilkes-Barre; Adele
G. Altmiller, Hazleton;
Arthur Lowry, Port Washington,
H. Maust, Bloomsburg;
L.
I.
;
J.
Miss Genevieve L. Bubb, Williamsport; Lela
field,
liamsport; Mrs. M.
J.
Miles, Kingston; Mrs.
Madsen, Plain-
Reddington, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. John M.
Joseph V. Donnelly, Wilkes-Barre.
Harriet A. Bittenbender
Her address
wick.
dress
S.
N. J.; Dr. A. E. Fagan, Hazleton; Blanche P. Balliet, Wil-
is
1
is
teacher of
308 Market
Mary M. MacFarlane is teaching
is 37 South Laurel Street.
Lela M. Shultz (Mrs. Ingfred T.
Hillside
Avenue,
first
grade
in
Ber-
Street.
in
Hazleton, Pa.
Madsen)
Her ad-
lives at
1046
Plainfield, N. J.
Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T. Lowry) lives at 10
Madison Avenue, Port Washington, Long Island, New York.
Mrs. Lowry sends us the following item, which shows how
Bloomsburg alumni keep old friendships alive: “Mrs. Jesse Y.
Glenn (Mary Albert), of 55 Park Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J.,
entertained at luncheon and bridge April 18, 1931: Miss Edith
Curtis, ’99, Westfield, N. J.
Miss Ada Harrison, ’02, Newark,
N. J.; Lela Shultz (Mrs. I. T. Madsen), ’01, Plainfield, N. J.,
and Gertrude Follmer (Mrs. A. T. Lowry), 01 and 03, Port
Washington, Long Island.
These five loyal alumnae meet several times during the year, usually for luncheon and a show in
New York.”
;
1902
Genevieve
L.
Bubb
is
teacher of Art
in the
Stevens Junior
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
46
High School, Williamsport, Pa.
Alice Melvin (Mrs. B. Eichholzer) lives in Forest City, Pa.
Mary
E. Francis (Mrs. G. H. Gendall)
lives
at
Rockville
Center, N. Y.
1903
M.
H. Walter Riland
is
Executive Secretary of the Bedford Y.
His address
is
1280
C. A.
Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1904
Dr. A. K. Aldinger
schools
Street.
of
New York
Dr. Aldinger
is
Director of Health Education in
City.
is
address
His
recalled
the
157 East 67th
the coach of many
is
by many as
by him during the
successful athletic teams developed
thirteen
years that he spent at Bloomsburg.
W. Ray Helwig
eapolis, Minn.
lives
at
3709
Pillsbury
Mr. Helwig writes: “If any of
Avenue, Minn-
my
old friends
happen through Minneapolis, I wish they would call Colfax
6171.
While I am away from home a big part of the time, it
might be possible that
H. E. Rawlinson
I
is
could get
touch with them.”
in
President
of the
Institute
Education, with headquarters at 715 South Park
Los Angeles, California.
This information
has,
of
Musical
View
Street,
besides
the
main conservatory, thirty-two branches in Los Angeles, a hundred in other cities and towns in California, one branch in
Alaska, five in Arizona, one in Colorado, five in Oregon, six in
Mr. Rawlinson
Washington, one in Hawaii, and two in Japan.
Alumni
California,
you
know
of
any
we might
writes: “If
in
Inasmuch as the successful meeting in
have a reunion here.”
Philadelphia has already furnished the inspiration for the forma-
would be a good time for
any knowing of any other
tion of other local organizations, this
any Alumni
living in California, or
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Alumni
living in that state, to
47
communicate with Mr. Rawlinson.
1906
The
class of
1906, holding
its
bers back for a wonderful day.
class
meeting
in
silver reunion,
As
in all class
has 41
mem-
reunions,
the
which members told of what they had been
was an outstanding feature. Among those attending
Anne L. Evans, Maude Evans, Adeline Williams, Nora Gaffney, Mary Mitchel Beau, Lu Breddinger Mershon, R. Bruce Albert, Grace Bonham, Aleta Bom'boy Englehart,
John E. Shambach, W. R. Girton, Anna Barr Schuioll, Laura
Weiser, Cottie Meiser, Laura Aurand Witmer, Clara Coughlin
doing,
were:
Eliie Dietrick,
Roselle,
Amy
Levan, Ethel
Groff Spangler, John
Maxwell, Hazel
B.
Marion
Allen,
Shambach and Myrtle Longenberger Mes-
sersmith.
Myrtle Longenberger (Mrs. C. P. Messersmith)
1813 Pennsylvania Street, Allentown, Pa.
Laura Aurand (Mrs. M. W. Witmer)
Street,
lives at
1
at
lives
78 Main
Trappe, Pa.
Honora M. Gaffney
where she
lives in Steelton, Pa.,
is
em-
ployed as a supervising clerk.
Elwell P. Dietrick
gineering
is
Secretary of the Penn
Electrical
En-
Company, Scranton, Pa.
Maude Evans is teaching
109 West Taylor Street.
Her address
in Taylor, Pa.
W. Raymond Girton is Assistant Superintendent of
Company, and is located at
East Fall
ternational Salt
Ithaca, N. Y.
1
1
1
is
the InStreet,
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48
Adeline Williams
is
teacher of eighth grade in Scranton, Pa.
1907
Blanche Westbrook (Mrs. Newton C. Fetter) lives at 335
Her husband, a Baptist
Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Minister,
is
charged with the welfare of the Baptist students in
Mr. and Mrs. Fetter have two children: Emily,
Greater Boston.
a Junior
W.,
in
in
the
Cambridge High and Latin School and Edmund
the seventh grade.
Sadie Rush Moyer (Mrs. John R. MacCulloch) lives at
Main
following,
now
New Jersey.
which we pass on to
Street, Lodi,
to plan for our reunion next year.
Let us
1
78
MacCulloch writes the
her classmates: “Let us start
Mrs.
show our Alma Mater some
Where
of the
is
our secretary?
loyalty
we
tried
to
show years ago.”
E. Louise Jolly
is
a teacher in the high school at Alameda,
California.
Helen Wardell
Street,
(Mrs. A. B.
Eister)
lives at
409 Union
Warsaw, Indiana.
1908
The class of 1908 was well represented at the Philadelphia Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni meeting, by the
following members, some of whom hadn’t seen each other for
23 years, thus making it a very real reunion to them: Dariom
Maurer, Charles Maurer, Tom Francis, Carrie Gray Hurley, Flora
Miller Anderson, Bill Rarich, Martha Herring Bragg, Olive
Major, Willie Morgan Stein, Agnes Burke Kinney, Jennie Yoder
Foley.
Tom Francis helped wonderfully by having all the letters
and songs mimeographed for us, which was a big undertaking
and the Philadelphia organization feels deeply grateful to him
for this service.
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Every member of the 08
Beddall,
attended the
Florence would have liked to have been with us but
banquet.
it
and around Phila-
class living in
delphia with the exception of Florence
49
was impossible
However, we are hoping she can
this year.
be with us next year.
Class songs written in 1908 by Agnes Burke Kinney and
James Cummings were on the song sheet. Mrs. Foley wrote
and revised several of the other songs.
Willie
ganization.
Morgan
Stein
Following
is
an excerpt from a
letter
news of interest about
Wessley Sitler, 1908:
Sitler,
of 1907, with
band,
J.
“Mr.
He
was e'ected Vice-President
of the
or-
Jennie Yoder Foley was elected Secretary.
Sitler
graduated
practiced forestry until
from Jennie Klein
and her hus-
herself
at the University of
1
He
920.
Michigan, 1914.
then returned to teaching
Yuma, Arizona, three years at Flagstaff,
Hollywood for six years.
He is following the line you would expect
Biology.
He likes his work
here very much.
Los Angeles schools are very progressive and
Hollywood is a most ideal location.
The school has an enrollment of about 2000 at present I think. He still loves all the
out-door sports and goes hunting and camping quite often.
The high school boys are just crazy to go out with him.
and taught two years
at
Arizona and has been
I
in
—
finished a degree (A. B.) at the University of Southern
California
and
am
Fve been teach-
about to complete a M. A.
ing Social Science in the Junior High School in Los Angeles for
seven years.”
Mr. and Mrs.
Sitler’s
address
is
1915 Catalina
Street, Los
Angeles, California.
Mary Louise Moore
Mary’s address
is
1
am always
my dues.”
says, “I
Quarterly and wish to keep up
glad to receive the
029 Munroe Avenue,
Scranton, Pa.
:
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50
A
letter
“I
from James
do not deserve
persistent in learning
forts should
E.
to
my
Cummings
states:
be discovered,’ but you have been so
whereabouts that I believe your ef-
be rewarded, so here
I
am
James E. Cummings,
Department of Education
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Washington, D. C.
I
should like very
may have
much
any information you
to receive
about former classmates and especially those
living in or near
Washington.
hope
I
be able
to
who
are
to attend our
next class reunion.
Thanking you for discovering me,
I
am.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES
E.
CUMMINGS,
Statistician.
Three members of the
908
1
twenty-fifth anniversary of their
have sons who
will finish their
Row
Hazel
Creasy, a
1
this
own
who
high
are celebrating the
school
high school courses
906 graduate
High School, has a son Edwin
same school
class
Row
graduation
this
of the
month.
Bloomsburg
Creasy graduating from the
June.
Jennie Yoder Foley, a 1906 graduate of Mt. Carmel High
School, has a son,
Edward
L. Foley,
graduating from the Frank-
ford High School, Philadelphia, on June 23rd.
Willie
School
in
Morgan
Stein
who graduated from Bloomsburg High
Jr., who finishes his
1906, has a son Vincil G. Stein,
high school course at the West Philadelphia High School
month
this
also.
Mrs. Willie
Morgan
Stein,
Chairman Reunion Committee.
Per Jennie Yoder Foley.
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In the
March
issue of the
QUARTERLY, we had
who was
an item
awarded the degree
Temple University. It was stated
regarding Charles Maurer,
of Doctor of Education at
that Mr.
51
recently
Maurer was a member of the
We
1909.
class of
mediately received protests from members of the class of
saying that he was a
we
member
On
of their class.
1
im-
908,
consulting the
Maurer was graduated from the Regular Normal Course in 908, and from the College Preparatory
It therefore seems that both classes share in
Course in 1909.
records,
find that Mr.
1
the honors.
1909
Geraldine Hess (Mrs. George E.
grades one and two
umbia County.
in the
Her address
Dr. Scott R. Fisher
is
Follmer)
teacher
is
of
Sugarloaf Consolidated School, Colis
Benton, Pa., R. D. 4.
Assistant Surgeon in the Crouse Irv-
ing Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y.
In a recent issue of the
QUARTERLY we
an an-
printed
nouncement of the marriage of Mary F. Bevan. We have been
informed by a friend of Miss Sevan’s that this event did not take
we
place;
name
is
therefore apologize
mentioned elsewhere
teacher in the schools of
for the
Mauch Chunk,
Bevan’s
Miss
error.
in this issue as
being a successful
Pa.
1910
John Sweir, Attorney-at-Law,
Louella
S.
Burdick
Crown Point Road,
subscription to the
(Mrs.
is
L.
located at McAidoo, Pa.
H.
Sinquett)
lowing comment: “What has happened to the class of
mentioned
cause they havn’t made good
that they are rarely
208
lives at
New Jersey. In renewing
QUARTERLY, Mrs. Sinquett makes the
Westville,
in
the
their
QUARTERLY ?
pledges
for
the
her
fol-
1910,
Is it
be-
Trophy
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52
Room?
Come
on, classmates
H. C. Fetterolf
in the
is
Sara
40 North 27th
is
Lewis
F.
Her address
in
is
go!”
first
Public
Hill,
grade
in
26 East Pettebone
1911
is
members
Camp
Street,
teacher of
Forty Fort
Thirty-three
Let’s
State Department of
Pennsylvania
His address
—
State Director of Agricultural Education
Instruction.
Pa.
Forty Fort,
Pa.
Street.
of the class of 1911 of the Blooms-
burg State Teachers College, many of them accompanied by
wives or husbands not members of the class so that the group
totalled 50,
licious
It
met
in
reunion at the Wimodausis Club where a de-
dinner was served.
was the second time
met in reunion the
They met for the first at
that the class has
night before College Alumni Day.
such a dinner five years ago.
One member
New
of the class, Mrs. Ethel Fairchild, of Elmira,
York, had her daughter as a guest and 16 members were
Two other classes
accompanied by their husbands or wives.
Fred W. Diehl, of 1909,
were represented at the reunion.
whose wife was formerly Miss Pearl Fitch, of 11; the former
Miss Ethel Creasy, of 09, whose husband, D. D. Wright, is a
member of the reunion class and the former Miss Georgia McHenry, 10, whose husband, Abe Sharadin, of Ford City, is a
member
of the 1911 class.
One member
of the class,
Jennie
Harrison
Keefer,
Wilkes-Barre, reported that her father, T. B. Harrison of
Hall,
of
Town
would attend the 50th reunion.
The invocation was given by Mrs. May Chamberlain Sher-
man, an ordained minister of the gospel who conducted an evMrs. Sherman resides
angelist campaign in Berwick last year.
in
Scranton.
The evening was spent
of his or her
life
in brief talks,
ported the number of children,
each
member
telling
Each married member rewith honors in that department
since graduating.
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going to Sharadin
who
is
The following men
class,
responded:
Earl
the father of eight.
the
attendance, not
in
Arthur
Cortright,
Ranck, Fred W. Diehl, Karl
ich.
53
Twenty members of
Alumni Room Fund.
E. Keefer,
John
members
Fairchild,
S.
of
the
Dayton
Helt and Mr. Rar-
the class have already contributed to
and a firm
and extended a hearty welcome.
Those attending the dinner were Mrs. Anna Kline Kocher. Espy; Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Keefer, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson Lanterman, Mrs. Mathilda Bush White, Bioomsburg; Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Baker, Muncy; Mr. and Mrs. George
B. Landis, Rock Glen; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Dr. and Mrs.
D. B. McHenry, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Foust, Sunbury;
Mrs. Irene Campbell Getty, Muncy; Mrs. Mae Chamberlain
Sherman, Scranton Miss Elizabeth A. White, Bloomsburg Mrs.
Edna Lewis Robinson, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cortright,
Shickshinny; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Helt, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Ferris, Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Myrtle Rice Singley,
Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Ranck, Mrs. Anette Osborn Frantz, Luzerne; Mr. and Mrs. Rarich, Miss Jennie Barklie, Ashley; Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Sharadin, Ford City; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fairchild and daughter, Elmira, New York; Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McDonald, Mrs. Pauline Harper, Bloomsburg; Miss Lydia Koehler,
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the College
friend of Alumni,
dropped
in
:
;
;
;
Scranton; Mrs. Margaret Yost, Hazleton;
Miss Ethel
Paisley,
Treweek Watkins, Nesquehoning; Ralph H. Smoyer, Bloomsburg; Miss Ruth Harris, Berwick; Mrs. Elsie Winter
Stevens, Tunkhannock; Donald Ikeler, Peekskill, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Laura
Eighteen hours after death claimed Joseph H. Fitch, father
of Mrs. Fred
Diehl, passed
W.
Diehl, of Danville, Mr. Diehl’s
and both made
and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl.
71
father,
Alfred
Mr. Diehl was aged 80 years, Mr. Fitch
their home with Superintendent of Schools
away.
;
:
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
54
The
class of
1911, opening with a dinner, had their num-
ber augmented some and
in all
41
members of the class were
was one of the first to hold a
back for the reunion.
This class
dinner on the night preceding Alumni Day, adding that feature
to their reunion in 926.
Those attending were
Bessie Ashe Naunas, Matilda Bush White, Bloomsburg;
Harold F. Baker, M. D., Muncy; C. Merrill Boust, Sunbury; Jennie Barklie, Ashley; Rev. C. Carroll Bailey, Baltimore, Md.
Rev. Mae Chamberlain Sherman, Scranton; Irene Campbell
1
Getty,
Muncy;
Dr. Carlton Creasy, Wilkes-Barre; Edith
DeLong
Frank Dennis, Kingston; Elizabeth Ferguson Lanterman, Miriam Hess McDonald, Bloomsburg; Pearl
Fitch Diehl, Danville; Mary Ferris, Dickson City; George H.
Tyson, Millersburg;
J.
Ferris, Jr., Bridgeport,
Barre;
Conn.; Jennie Harrison Keefer, Wilkes-
Louisa Hartman Cortright, Shickshinny;
Fairchilds, Elmira, N. Y.
Peekskill, N. Y.
Anna
;
;
Ruth
Harris,
Kline Kocher,
Berwick
Espy;
;
Hower
Ethel
Donald
Lydia
Ikeler,
Koehler,
Scranton; George B. Landis, Rock Glen; Edna Lewis Robinson,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Miller,
Niagara
;
D. B.
McHenry, M.
Falls, N. Y.
;
D., Danville;
Bruce Mather,
Benton;
Elverta
I.
Annette
Osborn Frantz, Luzerne; Ethel Paisley, Nesquehoning; Myrtle
Rice Singley, Irene Snyder Rauch, Lewisburg; Katherine Stunz
Rarich, Berwick; A. J. Sharadin, Ford City; Margaret Simmons
Yost, Hazleton; Pauline Sharpless Harper, Bloomsburg; Blair
Shaffer, Gravity; Laura Trench Watkins, Nesquehoning; Elizabeth A. White, Bloomsburg; Jennie Whitmire Helt, Berwick;
Elsie Winter Stevens, Tunkhannock; D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg.
Two men attended the reunion who had been members of
the class during the first two years but who did not graduate
with them, namely, Ralph H. Smoyer and Charles K. McDonald,
Bloomsburg.
Also the following husbands and wives of members of the
Muncy; Mrs. C. M. Boust, of
Sunbury; Mrs. Carlton Creasy, Wilkes-Barre; Ralph Tyson,
Millersburg; Mrs. J. Frank Dennis, Kingston; Fred W. Diehl,
class attended: Mrs. H. F. Baker,
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55
Mrs. George H. Ferris, Bridgeport,
Danville;
Conn.; Karl
Arthur
Earl Cortright, Shickshinny;
Keefer, Wilkes-Barre;
Fairchilds, Elmira, N. Y.
;
E.
C.
Rock Glen;
Mrs. George B. Landis,
Mrs. D. B. McHenry, Danville; Mrs. Bruce Mather, Benton; Dayton Ranck, Lewisburg
Sheldon
;
Rarich, Berwick
J.
;
Mrs. A.
Sharadin, Ford City; James Watkins, Nesquehoning;
Helt,
John
J.
S.
Berwick; Mrs. D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg.
Members of
The total number
the class brought with
them
thirteen children.
of persons attending the reunion
Pauline Snarpless Harper
is
teaching
in
the
was 76.
schools,
of
Bloomsburg, Pa.
dress
Ruth Harris is teaching
is
324 Market Street.
grades
in
Margaret R. Gaffney (Mrs. William
J.
in the
Berwick.
Her ad-
1
March 24, 1931. She
and three daughters.
Paul
Z.
Hess
is
George Ferrio,
Mary
is
survived by her
Reagan) died on
husband, two
sons
a clerk in the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa.
Jr., is
practicing law in Bridgeport, Conn.
G. Ferrio lives at
643 Main
Street,
Dickson City, Pa.
1912
Laura Williams is teaching in the Roosevelt School, Detroit,
She is living at the Savarine Hotel, 13115 East
Michigan.
Jefferson Avenue.
Louise
New York
W.
City.
Vetterlein
is
Frankie Elizabeth Davis
School at
teaching English to foreigners
Her home address
Red Bank,
N.
J.
is
is
in
Paupack, Pa.
a teacher
Her address
is
in the
1
3
1
Junior
High
Hundson Avenue.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
56
1913
John Bakeless, son of Prof, and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless of
Its title is “Magazine Making.”
town, has just had his third book published.
The book deals with the whole process
ing as the author has seen
it
of magazine
mak-
through ten years of experience on
and monthlies, especially the Living Age,
was successively literary editor, managing editor,
”
and editor; the Independent, for which he was literary “scout;
and the Forum, of which he was managing editor.
It is based
on lectures dealing with magazine making, which he began in
1928, at the request of the late James Melvin Lee, Director of
the Department of Journalism at New York University.
It describes the work of the editor, the relation of editor and author,
the economics and finances of magazine making, the problems
the leading weeklies
of which he
of the publisher, the problems of the printer as the editor must
know them, methods
of promoting magazine circulation,
and the
is based
magazine
This last
on the author’s own newspaper Aperience and his experience
in directing the publicity campaigns of the Forum magazine for
two years. There are many amusing anedotes.
editor’s dealing with
newspapers.
The book has some 300 pages, including
grams, type tables and an appendix.
Viking Press,
Next War,”
in
New
York,
1926.
who
The
It
is
also published
price
is
illustrations, dia-
by the
“The Origin of the
published
$3.00.
The writer has had the collaboration of many distinguished
and famous publications, including Professor H. B.
authorities
Rathbone, chairman of the Department of Journalism, New
York University, and members of the staffs of the Atlantic
Monthly, Forum, Conde Nast publications. Outlook, New Republic, Harper’s, the Curtis publications, the London Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the
New York Nation, the Ullstein Verlag, of Berlin, Germany and
the Quinzaine Critique, of Paris.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
57
It
is
dedicated to Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs, of Har-
It
is
the author’s third
vard.
Causes of Modern
War was
book.
His
Economic
the
first,
1921, under the auspices of the Department of Political Science, Williams College,
where
ing
published
in
was awarded the $500 David A. Wells
it
prize.
“The Origin of the Next War’’ was published by the VikPress, New York and Jonathan Cape, London, in 1926.
The book
is
not written in a technical style.
It is
design-
ed to interest the general reader, the high school or college student, the high school or college teacher in charge of amateur
publications, as well as the professional journalist.
It is
the
first
book ever written on magazine production.
Catharine Richardson (Mrs. L. Boor) lives at
Fourth Avenue, Roselle,
New
313 West
Jersey.
1915
A
daughter was born April 23
Danville, to Mr.
and Mrs. Frank
S.
at the Geisinger Hospital,
Hutchison, of
Mrs. Hutchison was formerly Josephine
Esther C. Helfrich
Her address
is
Bloomsburg.
Duy, of Bloomsburg.
a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools.
is
239 Dana
I.
Street.
1916
who almost
auditorium
of
the
Methodist
the large
First
Church to ca-
Before a large number of relatives and friends
filled
pacity Sunday, April 6, at
became
8:00
Martha V. Yetter
F. Babcock,
and the double ceremony was
o’clock. Miss
the bride of Harry E. Rider.
pastor of the church, officiated
Rev. Harry
used.
After receiving the best wishes and congratulations of their
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
58
motor trip into the South.
Both the bride and groom are graduates of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and are successful teachers in the local
schools, the bride being a member of the Junior High School
faculty and the groom being principal of the Fifth Street School.
friends they left on a
The 15 year
class,
1916, had 40 members back
the
for
reunion and they had a fine time, spending several hours telling
of
what happened
in their lives since
graduation.
Hilda G. Wosnock is teaching Mathematics and Art in the
Green Vine Junior High School, Hazleton, Pa.
Her address is
565 Lincoln Street. Miss Wosnock received the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education at New York University, in
October, 1930.
C. F. Schoffstall lives at
ville.
Pa.
1216 West Laurel
Street, Potts-
Mr. Schoffstall received the degree of Master of Arts
from Lehigh University, October
930, and expects
for his doctor’s degree at New York University.
1
,
1
to take
work
Dorothy M.
Fritz lives at
1718 Westmoreland
Street, Phil-
adelphia, Pa.
Helen M. Shaffer (Mrs.
er in the
Bloomsburg
S. C.
Henrie)
is
a substitute teach-
schools.
Ruth N. Fuller (Mrs. Wade W. Gregory)
lives in
Weath-
erly, Pa.
Annie M. Schweppenheiser
413 Walnut Street.
is
a teacher in
Berwick.
She
lives at
Olive Marie Aucker (Mrs. 0. Hoyt Glaze)
Watsontown, Pa.
is
teaching
in
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1917
An
unusual tribute to a well liked teacher was expressed
Friday evening, April 24th, by the pupils of Lime Ridge schools
and the people of the town when a fare-well party was given
Mrs. Bulla has been
to Mrs. Harold Bulla, (Helen E. Lord).
teacher in the grade school at Lime Ridge for ten years and has
She will leave after this term.
been efficient and well liked.
The party was marked by many verbal expressions of appreciation for her services during the ten years and she was presented with a chest of silver.
1918
Miriam
grades
Pa.
in
E. Welliver
the
Mahoning Consolidated School, Montour County,
home
Miss Welliver’s
Jennie
Ralph
phia, Pa.
surgeon
W. Longshore
L.
He
teacher of the seventh and eighth
is
Hart
is
address
is
lives at
is
Catawissa, Pa.
teacheing
in
Shamokin, Pa.
5442 Woodland Avenue,
Philadel-
conducting a successful practice as a dental
in that city.
1919
Kathryn Walborn
(Mrs.
J.
Forrester
Labagh)
lives
in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Rhoda Crouse is a teacher
is 1318 Orange Street.
in the
Berwick schools.
Her
address
1920
Elizabeth Marchetti
is
teacher of the primary grades
in
Nuremberg, Pa.
Evelyn Wagner (Mrs. L. R. Grover) is editor of the Hardy
County News, a weekly newspaper published in Hardy County,
West Virginia.
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Jeanne Stroh (Mrs. James Walsh)
Ronald Kehler
Miriam Kehler
is
is
lives in Harrisburg, Pa.
Principal of schools in Lavelle, Pa.
Supervisor of Penmanship
in
Butler
Town-
ship, Pa.
LeRoy W. Creasy
is
private secretary of A.
torney-at-Law, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mr. Creasy lives
W. Duy,
in
At-
Espy, Pa.
1921
The class of 1921 made contributions to both the Worthy
Student Fund and the Alumni Room Fund, had 50 members
Those attending were: Emma Saltzer Ratzburg, Ringtown; Mrs. Samilla Herman Garey, Scranton; Marion Hobbes
Rheinhart, Wilkes-Barre; Mary R. Gilroy, Wilkes-Barre; M. T.
Shaffer, Wilkes-Barre; Angeline Evans Beaver, Scranton; Lillian Nelson Yerkes, Honesdale; Lucille Shaffer Kile, Rohrsburg;
back.
Chloe McKinstry Cole, Bloomsburg;
Olive
Scott,
Kingston;
Hester E. Henrie, Mifflinville; Helen Eisenhauer Kocher, Mifflinville;
Lillie
Breisch Moser, Margaret Manhart, Berwick;
Ada
Margaret Hines, Berwick; Alice M. McDonnell,
West Collingswood, N. J.; Mickey McShea Kester, Danville;
Mildred Trevorton Zeigler, Hazleton; Clara E. Fisher, Mahanoy
City; Ruth Koch, Hazleton; Lillie Breisch Moser, Ringtown;
Behr, Lopez;
Eleanora Shannon Kaiser, Pottsville; Anna Swanberry, Alden
Station; Margaret Baldouski,
Wyoming;
Mrs. Cecil A. O’Rourke
of Hazleton.
Helen M. Welliver is teacher of Social Studies in the BerHer address is 235 West Second Street.
wick High School.
Miss Welliver was graduated from Bucknell University, with the
degree of Bachelor of Science
Anna Swanberry
is
in
Education,
in
June, 1930.
teaching in Wanamie, Pa.
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is
Ruth I. Gerhard
79 Norman Place.
is
teaching
in
Tenafly, N.
61
Her address
J.
Lucille Shaffer (Mrs. Willard Kile) lives in Rohrsburg, Pa.
Emma
Seltzer (Mrs. Herbert E. Ratzburg) lives in Ring-
town, Pa.
Miss Elenora Shanno was married three years
ago
to j.
703 West Market
Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser live at
Allen Kaiser.
Street, Pottsville, Pa.
Camilla
Herman
(Mrs. Cecil Sharp
Garey)
lives at
810
Madison Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
demy
Mabel Kraft (Mrs. Manuel Peniche) lives at 30-93 AcaStreet, Astoria, Long Island City, New York.
Lawrence R. Cherrington
tate business in
Lillian
is
in the
Insurance and Real Es-
Bloomsburg.
M. Nelson (Mrs. Carl
J.
Yerkes)
lives in
Honesdale,
Pa.
Mae
D.
McShea (Mrs. Ray Kester)
is
living in
Danville,
Mr. and Mrs. Kester have a daughter, born February 15,
Pa.
1931.
1924
Mr. and Mrs. Rutter
L. Keller (Alice
Williams) entertain-
ed at a dinner and musical Wednesday evening. May 6, at their
home on Pine Street. The event marked the observance of
their fifth anniversary.
Miss Clair Lowenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Lowenberg, of Fourth Street, chemist at the Post Graduate Hos-
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New
pital.
York, for the past four years, has been awarded a
scholarship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
*
Miss Lowenberg is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and State College. The
scholarship was awarded on recommendation of the head of the
laboratory of the hospital and is in connection with a student
exchange between the two countries.
The academic year at the University of Zurich begins in
the middle of October and Miss Lowenberg will go to Europe
several weeks before that time.
She plans to specialize in
chemistry.
Lawson
Miss Miriam
schools of Bloomsburg, Pa.
the class of
1
is
teacher
of
Miss Lawson
grade
sixth
is
also a
in
member
929, having received her Bachelor’s degree
the
of
in that
year.
A
daughter, Sylvia Anne, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Willis
C. Barnes, of
1930.
206 Fox
West Pittston, Pa., on May 24,
remembered by her classmates as
Hill Place,
Mrs. Barnes will be
Anna Singleman.
Ruth Morris
and eighth grades
is
in
teacher of English and Art
in the
seventh
the schools of Luzerne, Pa.
1925
Laura G. Dietrick
N. J.
Her home
is
address
a teacher
is
in
the schools of
Camden,
Espy, Pa.
Helen Barret Baer has been teaching
home in Cambra, Pa.
in
the
Register
School, near her
Martha A. Fisher
is
310 South Front
is
teaching in Sunbury, Pa.
Street.
Her address
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Pearl Poust
is
63
teacher of the upper grades in Orangeville,
Pa.
Esther M. Grim
Tower
City, Pa.
is
teacher of fourth grade in the schools of
Her address
is
341 Wiconisco Avenue.
1926
There were 55 members of the class of 926 back for their
Members were: Theodore Keen, WilkesBarre; Jack Rowlands, Plains; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cooper,
1
five
year reunion.
Coatesville; Mrs. F. E. Mensinger, Orangeville;
Miss Eva Bur-
lingame, Almedia; Irene Rhinard, Orangeville, R. D. 2; Martha
B. Harris, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3
Mabel Davies Turner, Margaret
;
Walker, Glen Lyon; Edith Morris Rowland, Plains; Geraldine Aul Davis, Orangeville; Miriam E. Straub, Espy; La Verne
Phillips
Reese, Nanticoke; Margaret Emmitt Rarig, Bloomsburg; Han-
nah M. Lutz, Sunbury; M. Alma Corman, Rebersburg; Mildred
A. Deitrick, Williamsport; Helen M. Spare, Wilkes-Barre; Grace
E. Vail,
Jermyn;
Henry, Wilkes-Barre; Beryl Ikeler
Lucille P.
Bangs, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Friedman, Luzerne; Elgie Proutz-
man, Shavertown.
Mildred K. Higgins Weidner has been teaching
the
in
schools of Delaware County, Pa.
Miriam R. Straub
is
teaching in the Scott Township
High
School, Espy, Pa.
Irene Rhinard
dress
is
is
teaching near Orangeville, Pa.
Her ad-
Orangeville, R. D. 2.
Margaret R. Isaac
is
teaching in Hazleton, Pa.
Maude Fenstermacher
schools of Catawissa, Pa.
is
teacher of the
fifth
grade
in
the
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Alice M. Budd, of
Pa., sailed
on
May
Budd has taught
1
3
1
South Cannon Avenue,
Lansdale,
30, for a two months’ trip to Europe.
for five years in the
Primary grades
Miss
at Lans-
dale, Pa.
Marjorie Davey, of Honesdale, Pa., has been teaching
the schools at
dress
in
Waymart.
Dorothy E. Newman is teaching
is 201 East Mahoning Street.
in Danville, Pa.
Helen Louise Dunn and Allen
Earnhart were married on
L.
Her ad-
Mrs.
1931, and are now living in White Haven, Pa.
Earnhart informs us that she has not yet severed her connec-
January
1
,
tions with the teaching profession.
Mary
K. Leiby (Mrs. Russell A. Fagley) lives in Elysburg,
Pa.
Martha
B. Harris
teaching
is
Her address
bia County.
is
in
Center Township, Colum-
R. D. 3, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Beryl Ikeler (Mrs. Paul L. Bangs) lives on a farm at R. D.
6, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helen R. Kellam
New
is
teaching
in
Oaklyn,
Camden County,
Jersey.
1927
Eleanor A. Henry
is
Marian A. Marshall
ston.
teaching at Summit
is
a teacher of the
Her Kingston address
Mary
E. Jones
Her address
is
is
is
teacher
Hill,
fifth
Pa.
grade
in
King-
845 Anthracite Avenue.
of
second grade
632 North Main Avenue.
in
Scranton.
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Esther M. Welker
is
65
teaching in Hershey, Pa.
Lena Van Horn has entered John Hopkins Hospital
to pre-
pare herself to become a nurse.
Doris Palsgrove lives at
ville, Pa.,
1
1
and has been teaching
Cathryn Gruber
Keansburg.
teaching
is
Her home
Martha Tasker
is 221 Vine
address
is
in
is
7 North Lehigh Avenue, Frackin the Frackville schools.
first
Mahanoy
and second grades
in
Mc-
City.
teaching third grade in Shamokin.
Her
Street.
1928
Ruth M. Budd of Beach Lake, Pa., and Ralph Schweigho1930.
fer, of Honesdale, were married October 4,
Mrs.
Schweighofer taught for two years in the graded school at Lans-
They are now
dale. Pa.
living in Honesdale.
G. Beatrice Killian has taught for the past three
years in
Union Township, Luzerne County, Pa., and has been elected to
the
same
position for next year.
Miss Killian lives
in
Shick-
shinny, Pa.
Florence Berninger
is
teaching in Mifflinville, Pa.
Marjorie Wallize (Mrs. Francis P.
Shaw Avenue, Lewistown,
Prettyleaf)
Marjorie Vanderslice has been teaching
in
lives at
1
Pa.
in the fifth
grade
Lewisburg, Pa.
The
largest number
class of
1
929, the
1929
baby class
in
reunion, reported the
of any class in reunion, 60.
Among
the
mem-
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bers back were: Agnes Burns, Kingston; Myrtle Hoegg, Hazle-
Mabel Penman, Grace Munrow, Hazleton; Marjorie A.
Hoegg, Hazleton; Robert Davis, Nanticoke; Kenneth E. Yocum, Orangeville; Minnie M. Melick,
Bloomsburg; Elizabeth Archibald, Scranton; Jane B. Evans,
West Pittston; Sara Skidmore, Dubois; Florence Jones, DuBois;
ton;
Eley, Scranton; Marion
Muriel Jones, Eleanor L. Hughes, Wilkes-Barre; Elsie M. Lebo,
Mary
Shaft; Arline Frantz, Trucks ville; Alice Rabuck, Sunbury;
Ross, Sunbury;
Mary Hays, Nescopeck;
Laubach,
Elizabeth
Doris Johnson, Berwick; Alda Cotner, Washingtonville;
Gold, McEwensville
;
Ruth Gardner, Dalton
;
Louise Black,
Erma
Map-
plewood; Lavina K. Crowell, Nanticoke.
Anna Mary Wasley, who has been teaching
37 North Jardin Street, in that city.
in
Shenandoah,
lives at
Ruth
home
Pa.
P.
address
Gardner has been teaching
is
Jane B. Evans is teacher of fourth grade in West
Her address is 460 Tunkhannock Avenue.
Mary A. Hayes
Grace
dress
at Glenburn, Pa.
L.
is
Mumaw
Pittston,
a teacher in the Nescopeck schools.
is
teaching in Hazleton, Pa.
M. Elizabeth Laubach is teaching
is 341 East 10th Street.
Mary
Her
Dalton, Pa.
in
Berwick, Pa.
Alice Ross lives at R. D. 2, Sunbury, Pa.
Her ad-
Miss Ross
has been teaching near Klingerstown, and will teach next year
at Hile’s School, in
Helen Ash
Stillwater.
is
Rush Township.
teaching at Forks, Pa.
Her home address
is
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Lena Serafine
Anna Jones
teaching in Mocanaqua, Pa.
is
is
teaching in Plymouth, Pa.
Cora A. Rabuck
Pearl M. Schell
teaching in Sunbury, Pa.
is
is
Budd
Edith Fay
67
teaching at Nuremberg, Pa.
Northumberland, Pa., and
is
teach-
teacher of third grade in Berwick.
Her
lives in
ing in the Northumberland schools.
Doris Johnson
address
is
is
337 Mulberry
William B. Jones
and
is
Street.
lives at
822 Archbald
teaching in the schools of that
Margaret
Alice
I.
Ethel L.
E.
Wickizer
is
is
Scranton,
teaching at Sterling, Pa.
Veety has been teaching
Moore
Street,
city.
at Mill City, Pa.
teacher of seventh grade
in
the
Nesco-
peck schools.
Gladys Richards
a teacher in the
lives at
Shamokin
1
30 Elm
Street,
Shamokin, and
is
schools.
1930
Mabel Gearhart has been teaching in a rural school near
Her address is Sunbury, Pa., R. D. 3.
Sunbury, Pa.
Alda Kulp
Pa.
is
Her address
teaching in a rural school
in Mifflinburg is
near Mifflinburg,
100 Market
Street.
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Lillian
Reese
is
teacher of French and Mathematics in the
high school at Weatherly, Pa.
Belle Foulds has
home
been teaching a
rural
school
near her
at Trevorton, Pa.
Helen M. Morgan
is
teaching
Karleen M. Hoffman
Montandon, Pa.
is
in Danville,
Pa.
teacher of the primary
grades
at
Florence E. Baker has been teaching in the Tunkhannock
Township
schools.
Virginia Cruikshank
grades
in the
is
teacher of
Mt. Union School.
the
third
Her address
is
and fourth
120 North
Franklin Street, Shamokin, Pa.
1931
Robert
C. Wilson, of
Bloomsburg, has been elected teacher
of social studies in the Bloomsburg High School.
A
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SEPTEMBER,
1931
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
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ROOM
TROPHY
ALUMNI
THE
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SEPTEMBER, 1931
Vol.32
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
-
-
Editor-in-Chief
-
-
Business
-
Manager
NEW CURRICULA ADOPTED
New
Normal Schools and Teachers’
recommended by the Board
of Presidents, and will go into effect September 1, 1931.
The
new curricula are four years in length, and will eventually reThe revision of the
place all of the former two-year curricula.
curricula for the State
Colleges of Pennsylvania have been
curricula of the teacher-training institutions of Pennsylvania,
a part of a
movement going on
all
over the country, resulting
is
in
a lengthening of the period of teacher preparation.
Several years ago, four-year curricula were adopted as the
standard of preparation for teachers in secondary schools, and
teachers of special subjects, such as Commercial subjects. Health
Education, Public School Music, and
this time,
the curricula
schools have been
more years
Home
Economics.
preparing for teachers
two years
to these curricula
in
is
length.
in
Up
to
elementary
The addition of two
a recognition of the fact that the
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preparation cf teachers
good
in the
elementary grades should be as
as that of high school teachers.
The
certification requirements in Pennsylvania, for teachers
of elementary schools
demand two
still
years of post-high-school
preparation, and therefore, for the time being, adjustments will
be made, whereby
will
it
be possible for students
two years, and be
attend a
to
allowed to
teacher-training institution for
teach.
The present policy will be to encourage students to take
work before they begin their teaching, and to provide the facilities whereby the four years of preparation may be
four years of
obtained.
The present
surplus of teachers in Pennsylvania
is
a factor
which will encourage many students to remain at the institution
for two more years, thus giving them a better chance to secure
a position after they have graduated.
All of the curricula will
Bachelor of Science
in
carry with them
degree of
the
Education, which the student will receive
at the successful completion of the four-year course.
All students must be graduates of an approved four-year
high school before they will be admitted to begin their college
work.
All of the
provision
in
is
work
made by
is
entirely
on the college
the institution for
making up of
level.
No
deficiencies
These deficiencies must be
the student’s high school course.
made
up before the student will be admitted.
The
raising of
standards of
teacher-preparation will un-
doubtedly result in better public schools,
and
it
will aid greatly
teaching profession, so that it may take its
place by the side of other recognized professions, such as law
in elevating the
and medicine.
Some minor
fall.
When
revisions in the
new
curricula will be
made
this
the curricula have arrived at their permanent form,
they will be published
in the Quarterly.
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SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES
One of the most successful summer sessions in several years
came to a close Friday, July 31. The enrollment for the summer was 401, which number was 84 more than the enrollment
last year.
The increase in enrollment, which came as a surprise
to the authorities at the institution, was paralleled in most of the
other summer schools in the state.
Department of Public Instruction
-all teachers employed
in the public schools of the Commonwealth were enrolled in summer courses at accredited colleges, universities and State Teacher Training institutions in the Commonwealth.
The enrollment of 8,367 teachers in these courses indiReports received
show
in the
that approximately 3
per cent, of
1
1
cates that
3300 more
preparation.
In
teachers than last year sought additional
view of the
industrial depression, State Super-
intendent James N. Rule said that this manifestation
sional zeal
on the part of the teachers was the
of profes-
finest display
of
loyalty to public education in the history of Pennsylvania.
The demand
for better
prepared teachers and the desire on
the part of the teachers to secure higher forms of licenses have
brought about
this large
After September
1,
enrollment,
1932,
all
it is
new
believed.
entrants into the teach-
have four
ing service in the secondary field will be required to
While
years of post high school preparation.
is
not retroactive and does not affect teachers
many
of the teachers
now
in service
who have
this
now
requirement
in
service,
not reached this
making every attempt to meet the new
be required of beginning teachers.
level of preparation are
level
which
will
While the State does not require four years of professional
elementary field, hundreds of
preparation for teachers in the
teachers have returned to the State Teachers’
tinue their preparation to this
Beginning teachers of
new
art,
Colleges to con-
level.
music,
home economics, com-
:
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mercial and physical education, after September
932, will
be required to complete approved four-year curriculums.
Teachers of these special subjects now in service are continuing
1
level to equal the requirements
their preparation to the college
become
1
,
September
932, although the revised
certification regulations do not require it.
The list below shows the enrollments in the Pennsylvania
colleges and universities during the 93 summer session
Liberal arts colleges and universities and number of teachto
effective
1
,
1
1
1
ers enrolled:
Albright College
Allegheny College
Beaver College
Bucknell University
Carnegie Institute of Tech.
Drexel Institute
Duquesne University
7
27
3
186
100
78
523
Elizabethtown College
69
Geneva College
35
53
23
Gettysburg College
Grove City College
Immaculata College
Juniata College
LaSalle College
19
139
14
Lebanon Valley College
108
Lehigh University
Mercyhurst College
26
300
94
Misericordia College
15
Marywood
College
Mount Saint Joseph College
Muhlenberg College
13
320
Rosemont College
3,000
5
College
383
Pennsylvania State College
Seton
Hill
:
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St.
Thomas College
St.
Francis College
5
30
10
Susquehanna University
Temple University
190
1,001
Thiel College
54
University of Pennsylvania
1
University of Pittsburgh
Villa
3,600
Maria College
12
Villanova College
365
Wash, and Jefferson
Col.
31
Total
State teachers’ colleges
,500
12,441
and number of teachers enrolled
Bloomsburg
401
California
Shippensburg
814
396
308
399
867
255
319
265
340
364
Slippery Rock
West Chester
565
633
Clarion
East Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Indiana
„
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
r
Millersville
Total State Teachers Colleges
Tot. Liberal Arts Col.
Grand Total
and Univ.
5,926
12,441
18,367
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Six members of the faculty were on leave of absence with
Five took work in institutions in this
pay during the summer.
country and abroad and one spent the summer traveling.
Howard
F.
Fenstemaker,
of
the
department of foreign
Summer
languages, attended the Inter-Session and
New York
trip
Session
Mrs. Etta H. Keller, training teacher of grade six, took a
conducted under the auspices of Clark University.
Her
travels took her across the Continent to the Pacific Coast,
Alaska, through the
John
C.
Education,
Koch and
at
at
University.
Panama Canal
his
Men and
Koch, Dean of
spent the
to Cuba,
summer
at
up
to
and home.
Director
New York
of
Secondary
Mr.
University.
family had an apartment at Freeport, Long Island.
Miss Ethel E. Shaw, of the English department, took work
Oxford University.
Miss Alice Johnston, teacher of oral expreosion,
Summer
the
Session of the University of Michigan.
Mrs. Kathryn Loose
Education, studied at
W.
of the
Sutliff,
New York
*
Mrs.
attended
*
Clair Hidlay, of
department of Health
University.
*
*
Bloomsburg, taught oral expres-
sion, taking the place of Miss Alice Johnston.
L. P.
ty,
Gilmore, of the Bloomsburg Junior High School Facul-
acted as Dean of
Men
in the
*
A
sion
*
*
reception and dance for the students of the
was
nasium.
*
absence of Dean Koch.
held Thursday evening, June 25,
in the
Summer
college
Ses-
gym-
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The Boston Male Choir appeared Monday evening, July
which delighted a large audience.
This was the
appearance of the Choir in Bloomsburg in the last three
6, in a recital
fifth
years.
*
*
*
*
V. L. Granville, celebrated English actor, appeared in
Dramatic Interludes” Friday evening, July 24.
This was Mr.
Granville’s second appearance in Bloomsburg.
His program
consisted of selections from several great works of dramatic literature, presented with striking costumes, make-up, and lighting effects.
*
*
*
*
Four education forums, led by superintendents of schools
of Bloomsburg, were held during the Summer Ses-
in the vicinity
sion.
The first was held Tuesday morning, June 30, and was led
by Carl L. Millward, superintendent of the Milton schools.
The subject of the discussion was “Personalities.”
On Tuesday, July 7, J. Andrew Morrow, of Towanda, superintendent of the Bradford County schools, spoke on
“A
Larger
Unit of School Administration.”
“What Values Teachers Should
the Hazleton schools, at
Realize
From Supervision”
Thomas, superintendent of
the meeting held Tuesday morning,
was the subject discussed by A.
D.
July 14.
The
er Paul
last of the
Witmeyer,
had as
Shamokin
four meetings, held July 21
superintendent
The subject was “The Schools and
*
*
*
of
the
its
lead-
schools.
the Public.”
*
Athletics played an important part on the
dent activities carried on during
,
the
Summer
program of
Session.
stu-
Two
baseball teams were organized: the “Whiffers,” under the leadership of Nicholas Rudowski,
and the “Breezers,” captained by
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A series of six games was played, four
were won by the “Whiffers.” The rewards of victory
came in the form of a chicken and waffle dinner, served at the
Kocher Hotel, Light Street, Tuesday evening, July 28, at which
time the
Whiffers” were the guests of the “Breezers.”
Edward
Yarashefski.
of which
*
*
*
*
Joseph Yacabonis, of Mahanoy City; Harold Miller, of
Bloomsburg, and Miss Gladys Dildine, of Orangeville, received
their
diplomas for the successful completion of the four year
course for a degree as Bachelor of Science
close of this year’s
Summer
in
Education, at the
Session.
was made by Dean of Instruction W. B. Sutliff, during a brief program which followed a
dinner in the school dining hall Thursday evening, July 30, at
which members of the Board of Trustees, the faculty and day
Mr. Sutliff also read the
students were guests of the College.
names of 2 students who have completed the two year course.
E. H. Nelson had charge of the program for the dinner
which was a fine closing feature of the Summer Session.
The presentation
of the diplomas
1
During the serving of a fine dinner there was group singing
L. P. Gilmore, dean of
under the direction of E. A. Reams.
men, and Miss Bernice, dean of women during the Summer Session,
were introduced.
Dr. Haas, president of the College, gave a farewell talk to
the largest
number
of students to attend
Summer
School here
in
several years.
Students heartily approved the plan of having classes during the term an hour and a half long with no classes on Saturday
mornings.
having
They
also
commented very favorably on
the plan of
a dinner at the close of the term.
The
faculty
Shortens, E. A.
numbers.
quartet,
Reams and
composed of
H. A.
L.
P.
Gilmore,
S.
I.
Andruss, sang some enjoyed
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Following the dinner dancing was enjoyed in the gymnasium with the Maroon and Gold orchestra furnishing the
music.
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EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED
An
program of improvements to the college
campus will be completed in time for the opening
college on September 8.
The principal projects are the
extensive
buildings and
of the
following
The
old Manual Training rooms in the basement of Noethave been completely refinished with new floors, replastered, and equipped with new lighting fixtures and new furling Hall
niture, to provide a place for the social activities of the various
student groups.
The Domestic Science rooms in the basement of Science
have
been refinished in the same manner, to provide addiHall
tional facilities for the various social activities of the college, es-
pecially for the faculty.
Room A, on the first floor of Carver Hall, has been equipFor many years they
ped to take care of the men day students.
have had inadequate and unsanitary quarters in the basement
The new room is well provided with comnear the gymnasium.
fortable furniture, and will provide a pleasant place for the men
to go between classes.
Room G, the former third grade room in Noetling Hall, has
A new
been refinished for the use of the woman day students.
The
floor has been laid, and this will be covered with linoleum.
kitchenette, and
little room to the east will be furnished as a
The little room to the west will
lunch tables will be provided.
be furnished as an office for Miss Ethel Ranson, Dean of Women
Day
Students.
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The
largest project has been the completion of the improvements in Waller Hall and North Hall.
This project was
begun several years ago.
New wood floors have been laid in
all of the rooms and corridors.
Linoleum has been laid throughout both buildings.
All of the rooms and corridors have been
One
redecorated.
year.
New
floor
has been completely refurnished each
furniture has arrived, to equip about one-third
of
North Hall.
Rugs will be placed in all of the dormitory rooms, and in
most of the administrative offices.
The space formerly used as a playground, lying between
Noetlmg Hall and Science Hall, on the east side of the walk, has
received a covering of top soil, has been seeded, and restored
to
campus.
Many
other parts of the campus have been graded, and im-
proved by the
large
installation of
an adequate drainage system.
A
in concrete walks, steps, and curb-
sum has been expended
ing.
The vacant
ite
lots
on the south side of Second Street, opposgraded, and will furnish a
the long porch, have also been
p’easing addition to the campus.
Another project, carried on by the town of Bloomsburg, is
East Second Street, running along the enworthy of mention.
tire south side of the campus, has been resurfaced as a fine highway leading to the new training school building, and the rapidly
growing “faculty colony” extending two blocks farther to the
east.
The placing of permanent bleachers on the west side of
the gymnasium at the State Teachers College, similar to those
placed on the east side three years ago, together with the im-
provement of the men and women’s dressing rooms and the
fices of the
of-
teachers of physical education will take place within
the present year.
To place
ed
seats
on the east
was extendgymnasium floor was
side, the building
in that direction so that the size of the
!
!
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A similar plan will be followed in placing the
on the other side although the plans for that and improvements to the offices and dressing rooms have not been worked
not decreased.
seats
out
in detail.
The whole
to
and
plant, inside
outside,
is
now
in a
condition
cause the alumni, students, and faculty to be proud of the
in-
stitution.
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HOME-COMING DAY, NOVEMBER
Alumni
!
Do
14
not forget the big home-coming celebration
be held November 4
This is your one big chance to come
back and see the college year in full swing.
When you come
to
1
back
to
!
your class reunion
body
will
dressed up
all
be there
in
to
Two
the finest exhibibtions of
Come and
see us do
are
your honor.
In the afternoon there
East Stroudsburg.
June, most of the students
The whole student
welcome you, and town and campus will
gone, and you miss one
be
in
side of the picture.
it
will
be a big football game with
we defeated them, in one of
years ago,
football seen
here
in
many
a
day.
again
The football game will be followed by a reception in the
gymnasium, and there will be a dance in the evening.
Everyto
give
you
a royal time.
thing has been well planned
Full particulars as to the plans for the day will be sent out
These will not be sent to all members of the
in a few weeks.
Alumni Association, but an effort will be made to reach every
community in the vicinity of Bloomsburg. If you get an announcement, pass the word along; if you fail to receive one,
consider yourself invited anyhow.
The Committee hopes to make this the biggest Home-ComHelp them to make it so by
ing Day that we have ever had.
as
many
others as you can
bringing
and
yourself,
coming
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VIRGINIA DICKERSON
A
.
v?n
Miss Virginia Dickerson, teacher of Latin at the Blooms-
burg State Normal School for twenty-eight years, died Thursday
morning, June 4, 1931, at the home of Mrs. E. G.n Pickering,
Maple Street, Montrose, where she had been living for several
Miss Dickerson had been suffering from heart trouble,
years.
and
for about three
weeks prior
to her
death had been confined
to her bed.
Miss Dickerson was born
early
life
was spent
in
Sprmgville Township and her
She attended the Soldiers’ Orphan
there.
School at Harford, until she was sixteen years of age, and then
attended the Mansfield State Normal School, from which she was
graduated
school,
in the class of
and then came
to
ty-eight years of faithful
She taught in the Springville
1886.
Bloomsburg, where she rendered twen-
and
efficient service.
Following her retirement, she spent most of her time
in
She
Montrose, where she was living at the time of her death.
would have been sixty-eight years of age had she lived until
Hundreds of Bloomsburg graduates have set in her
July 12.
classes, and will be grieved to hear of her death.
o
PROF. AND MRS. ALBERT CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING
With
all
guests. Prof,
C. H. Albert
ding anniversary at their
fair,
and two of the bridesmaids as
observed their golden wedhome on Sunday, July 26.
of their children
and Mrs.
Not only were the children present for the delightful afin attendance were their wives and children and
but also
The bridesmaids who were
event were Mrs. Edward E. Duck, sister of Prof.
Mrs. Charles Herman.
three grand children.
Prof. Albert has long
been
at the
happy
and
Albert,
identified with the educational
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and for years was one of the members
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College.
Both during that period and since, he has been in close touch
with Tuskeegee Institute, Alabama, and visits that noted instiactivities of this section
of
faculty
the
of
the
tute for negroes each year to give
Since his
lectures.
retire-
ment from the Teachers’ College he has been very active on the
institute program and as a speaker for the Anti-Saloon League.
His institute work has carried him into 22 states and his friends
and those of Mrs. Albert are legion.
The happy couple received over 200 telegrams, letters and
cards of congratulations and there were many beautiful bouquets and other gifts, as well as a purse of gold from their children, Mrs. Jesse Y. Glenn, of
Bloomfield,
N. J.
Mrs.
;
Dallas C.
Baer, of Selinsgrove; Keller B. Albert, of Reading; Charles
Albert, of Dallas,
A
delicious
Magee with
L.
and R. Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg.
anniversary dinner was served at the Hotel
the following attending:
and Mrs. Charles H. Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Keller A.
Albert, of Reading; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Albert and children, Charles, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth, of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Y. Glenn, of Bloomfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce
Albert, of Bloomsburg; Rev. and Mrs. Dallas C. Baer and daughter, Mary Annabell, and Mrs. William Noetling, Selinsgrove; Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Duck, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Duck, of Williamsport;
Prof,
Mrs. John Fasold, Mifflinburg; Mrs.
J.
G. Cope, of
Bloomsburg.
o
1931-1932
The 1931-32 term
at the
Tuesday, September 8th, and
May
is
Teachers College
will
announced
now being sent out by the
24th, 1932,
which
CALENDAR
it
is
close
in
with
the
will
open on
Commencement
1931-32 catalogue
institution.
:
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The catalogue
tails
is
exceptionally complete,
concerning the courses of study
College
life
offered.
giving
full
phases
All
are well handled in the volume which has a
of fine illustrations of
campus scenes and
of
College
deof
number
organiza-
tions.
Classes will begin this
fall
the
day following the
registra-
continue to the Thanksgiving recess which extends
and
from noon Wednesday, November 25th, until noon Monday,
November 30th. The Christmas recess starts Wednesday, December 23rd, and ends at noon Monday, January 4th, with the
tion
first
will
semester closing on the
The second semester
1
6th of that month.
starts
Monday, January
1
8th.
The
only vacation during the second semester will be during Easter
and extends from Thursday, March 24th, to noon on Monday,
Class work ends on Friday, May 20th.
April 4th.
Alumni Day will be Saturday, May 2 st, with the baccalauSenior Day will be Monday,
reate sermon the following day.
May 23rd and Commencement Tuesday, May 24th.
1
o
TROPHY ROOM STATEMENT
i
o the Alumni
The classes that have held reunions during the years of
1929-30-31 have subscribed to the Trophy Room Project a
Of this there has been paid in $1 755.00.
total of $2336.00.
The balance unpaid is $581 .00. The amount expended on the
room thus
far
is
$3050.59.
The following statement shows what classes are delinquent
payment of their pledges and how much. The committee
in charge of the work would be glad to have this money in their
The Alumni, by their enthushands to meet their obligations.
are heart and soul behind this
reunions,
class
their
iasm shown at
with many things, easily
busy
members,
movement. Some
in
the
1
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The project is still unknown to many
were not able to get to the reEach member of every class should be reached by
letter, explaining the work we are doing.
Let all get
overlook
of the
unions.
special
15
this obligation.
members
of classes that
member of every class may
The movement must succeed. It will.
busy, that each
once.
Class
Pledge
Paid
79
$ 26.00
’86
114.00
’93
’25
5.00
108.00
50.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
150.00
132.00
70.00
100.00
30.00
’27
250.00
$ 19.00
107.00
0.00
65.50
39.00
37.00
48.00
73.00
000.00
128.00
66.00
20.00
26.00
25.00
’94
’99
’05
’06
’09
’10
’1
’15
’20
get into action at
Unpaid
7.00
7.00
$
5.00
42.50
11.00
62.50
52.00
27.00
150.00
4.00
4.00
80.00
4.00
225.00
$581.00
Total unpaid
0. H.
BAKELESS,
Custodian and Treasurer.
o
Miss Margaret Waller,
who
has
been engaged
in
library
work in New York City for several years, left early in August for
the American College, Peking, China, where she will be engaged
Miss Waller sailed from Vancouver, and viswork.
Korea and Japan before entering China to begin her work.
in library
ited
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DR.
WALLER
ILL
Jr., President Emeritus of the College, was
weeks this summer, as the result of an accident sustained while on his way to Indiana, Pa., to visit his sonin-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Mack.
He was struck
in the eye by a sharp stone that was thrown from the road by
The accident occurred June 5.
the wheel of a passing car.
His condition improved slowly until June 19, when he suffered an embolism, which caused the members of his family to
be gravely concerned about his condition.
Dr. D.
very
ill
J.
Waller,
for several
Two
days before
birthday, and
was able
his relapse,
he celebrated
his eighty-fifth
to join heartily in a dinner
given
in his
honor.
His daughter, Elizabeth Waller,
illness,
and
his son
was with him during
Robert was called from Boston.
After the effects of the embolism were removed,
tinued to improve, and
is
now
well on his
way
he con-
to recovery.
o
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE— 1931
October 3
October 10
Kutztown
at
Bloomsburg
_
Millersville at Millersville
November 7
November 4
November 2
Bloomsburg
Lock Haven at Bloomsburg
Shippensburg at Shippensburg
East Stroudsburg at Bloomsburg
Class Game at Bloomsburg
Mansfield at Mansfield
October 17
October 24
October 3
California at
1
1
1
his
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THE FACULTY
Mary
Dr.
member
Roe, of Texas, a medical doctor,
E.
will be a
coming year, taking the place
dean of women, who is on a
of the faculty during the
of Miss Rachel Turner, assistant
leave of absence.
Roe has been experienced in the field of physical eduand teaching and will devote her work in those fields and
Dr.
cation
medicine.
will not practice
The new
faculty
member comes
the institution believes that a
will
be worthwhile addition
highly
woman
of
recommended and
her accomplishments
to the faculty.
She graduated from the medical college of the University
1917 and in addition had a year’s work at Texas
Presbyterian College and a year and a summer at the University
of Texas in
of Texas.
for
Women
She served her internship
and Children.
She taught
an interne
the next
sity of
in public schools
in the
New York
from 1911
to
first
She was
1913.
two years was a member of the faculty
Texas, the
Infirmary
Hospital the following year and for
year as an instructor
hygiene and the second year as instructor
and
New York
at the
in
at the
Univer-
bacteriology and
in clinical
medicine
diagnosis.
During the college year of 1921-22 Dr. Roe was pathologist at
the John Sealy
Hospital,
Galveston,
Texas,
and from
925 was physician for women at the University of
During the summer of 1923 she served as assistant
Texas.
resident physician in the Women’s Medical College Hospital,
Philadelphia, and from October, 1926 until September, 1930,
Last year
was engaged in private practice in Austine, Texas.
1
922
to
1
she took a temporary position as college physician at the State
Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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A new member
of the
Department of Health Education
is
Miss Lillian B. Murray, elected to take the place of Mrs. Kathryn
Loose
who
Sutliff,
Mormngside
Miss Murray
has resigned.
College, Sioux City, Iowa,
Biology, Psychology and Physical Education.
degree of Master of Arts from
is
a graduate of
where she specialized
New York
University, where she
Her previous experience in-
specialized in Physical Education.
cludes one year at the Central High School, Duluth,
and three years
at
as
in
She also has the
Minnesota,
head of the Department of Physical Education
Morningside College.
*
*
*
*
Miss Alice Johnston, instructor
matics, will be on leave of absence
in oral
expression and dra-
during the
first
semester.
be taken by Miss Marjorie Stackhouse, of Bloomsburg.
Miss Stackhouse is a graduate of the Emerson School
of Expression, in Boston, and has also taken work at the College
Her
of Industrial Arts, in Texas, and the University of Iowa.
Her place
will
teaching experience includes several years at the College of Industrial Arts, in Texas,
and Hood College, Frederick, Maryland.
*
Miss Ida M. Gray, a
*
*
member
*
of the faculty in the Art De-
partment, has asked for her release so that she may continue her
work in another institution, and her resignation will be recom-
mended
to the
Board as soon as a suitable successor
*
*
*
is
secured.
*
Miss Grace H. Woolworth has been appointed kindergarten
teacher at the Ben Franklin Training School, succeeding Mrs.
Norman Hoffman, formerly Miss Schmehl.
Miss Woolworth this past June received her Master’s Degree at Teachers College, Columbia University and has been
teaching in the State College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina.
She has had a wide and varied experience
school and kindergarten work.
in
public
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The Department of Commerce, instituted last year, is rapbecoming one of the most popular at the College. The
enrollment of first year students is limited to thirty-five, and almost that many have already registered.
It was necessary to add an additional member to the faculty at the close of the first semester last year and a fourth mem-
idly
ber, Lewis B. Clark,
term.
fall
is
joining the faculty at the opening of the
H. A. Andruss
The department
bachelor of science
class there will
in
is
director of the department.
year course with a degree
offers a four
In addition to the
education.
be about 50
in
the upper classes in
first
the
in
year
depart-
ment this year, some of them having started the course last year
and others transferring their work to Bloomsburg.
Mr. Clark received his A. B. and M. A. degrees from the
University of Maine and has completed a year of work toward
his
degree as Doctor of Education
a
member
a
number
Kappa
at
Rutgers University.
He
is
and was formerly head
of the commercial department of Altoona High School.
For three years he was a member of the faculty of the
State Normal School, Plattsburg, N. Y., and in addition has had
New
of Phi Beta
fraternity
of years of public school teaching experience in Maine,
Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
o
Thornley W. Booth, coach of the athletic teams, and
mem-
ber of the Physical Education faculty, was a member of the Summer School faculty at the State Teachers College at Clarion, Pa.
o
E. H. Nelson, Director of Health Education, has returned to
Bloomsburg, after a year’s leave of absence, during which
time he studied for his Doctor’s degree at New York University.
He resumed his duties at the college at the beginning of the Sum-
mer
Session.
...
.
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THE ALUMNI
Copies of the
QUARTERLY,
sent
to the
following,
have
Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Business
been returned as unclaimed.
grateful
if their correct addresses were
would
be
very
Manager,
sent to him.
Mary
F. Davis,
31
Elizabeth Stroh, 23.
Anna M. Fagan,
’05.
Regina M. Williams,
’30.
Edith Patterson, ’03.
Margaret Fay, ’25.
Mrs.
J. C.
Taylor, ’89.
H. Jayne Cease,
’3
Retha M. Noble,
’3
1
1
Mrs. Catherine H. Baum, ’3
Miriam A. Cole,
Mrs. H.
S.
’3
1
1
Knight.
Mrs. Fred B. Steig, ’10.
Mrs. F. Harold Thomas, ’24.
Helen A. Banta,
’31
1875
Mrs. Annie Morris Sayre, of Hampton, Virginia, with her
spent Wedwho
is an Episcopal Rector, at Williamsport,
son,
Mrs.
H.
Jenkins.
Mrs.
F.
and
Prof,
with
nesday, August 26,
Sayre was a classmate of Mrs. Jenkins.
1881
At the 50th reunion of the class in June, it was felt by the
members of the class that the time was insufficient for all to give
It was
a complete account of their activities since graduation.
a
brief
write
should
therefore decided that as many as possible
account of these
activities, for publication in the
QUARTERLY.
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It is
impossible, because of lack of space, to print
histories in this issue
all
;
21
all
of
these
they will appear in subsequent issues untij
them have been published.
of
May
1
Wells (Creasy)
aught the Ungraded School at Rupert one year.
Second
Pne following year
was assistant to Miss Brewster in the Model School, which was
the Training School for old Normal.
In July, 1884, was married to S. Clifton Creasy
one of the Normal boys—who had
established a wholesale and retail lumber yard in Bioomsburg.
We had six children. Anna married Earl F. John; Martha, at
home Edward married Lydia Andres Ethel married Dennis D.
Wright; Ruth, who announced her engagement to Luther P.
Creasy June 23, 1931 Jean, at home, teaching Music.
I have
Kathryn John and Louise Creasy, who will
six grandchildren
enter the senior class at High School in the Fall; Martha Wright,
Ninth Grade Junior High; Clifton Wright, Seventh Grade Junior
High; Helen May Wright, who will enter First Grade and Anne
Since the passing away of Mr. Creasy in
Wright, 4 years old.
1923, the lumber business of Creasy and Wells has been carI have been active in the
ried on by my son and sons-in-law.
different organizations of the First Methodist Church; was the
first president of the Board of Directors of our Public Library,
grade
in the
Catawissa School one year.
—
;
;
—
;
holding that office for several years
;
I
am
a
member
tury Club, the Eastern Star and one of the charter
of the Cen-
members
of
our local Chapter D. A. R.
Enoia B. Guie
After graduating from the State Normal School in June,
1881 1 taught as assistant in the Catawissa High School for three
In the meantime, I took a special course in Expression
years.
,
in
the
autumn
Summer
of 884
1
School of
I
S.
S.
Hamill in Chicago.
In
the
entered the Bloomsburg State Normal School
as teacher of Elocution
pacity for seven years.
and
Calisthenics,
remaining
in that
ca-
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In
September, 1891
,
I
took the position of teacher of Eng-
and Expression in the Wilkes-Barre High School. I was
head of the Department of Expression during the last two years.
lish
retired the
I
summer
of 1919.
Abigail Robbins (Hartman)
year taught at Plymouth at $32.00 a month and eight
months term.
Second year started at Plymouth for one month;
First
then went to Nanticoke at $30.00 a
month and nine months
term.
Third year
I
addition of four.
took a school of one.
In nine years,
have three boys and; three
home.
I
In 6]/2 years
two more added
girls.
had an
to the family.
Also six grandchildren to
bless the
After being
in the
home
for sixteen
realize that the four eldest children
lege at once, being near of an age.
ily,
there
were
would
years,
all
began
I
to
be ready for col-
But being a minister’s fam-
insufficient funds, so the only thing
to
do was
make myself fit for the teaching profession again. So I attended summer terms at State College and Industrial Art School of
Philadelphia, after which
1
taught five years.
sidered by the school board that
my
Then
it
was con-
school should be given to a
younger teacher, as the preacher was capable of supporting his
Five years being the limit in one place, I had four years
wife.
yet to remain without a school, so I studied china painting and
firing of china.
of Chicago by corresI took instructions from Campana
As I was the
pondence, having studied painting previously.
only person having a kiln in the county, I fired china for all the
I made more than by teaching.
artists of Clearfield County.
The next place we moved I had no place to install my kiln,
Through
taught drawing and color theory in the grades.
teaching and demonstration of combination of colors on the
color wheel at institute, my county superintendent and principal
so
I
my
recommended me
to
Governor Sproul for a three year scholar-
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ship at Industrial Art School at Philadelphia.
on
my
not take
it
up, as
I
was
This
sent
me
have always been sorry that I could
could not be there for that length of time,
sixtieth birthday.
I
which was a requirement of the school.
The next place, no art was ever taught in the schools, so 1
taught five more years in the grades, after which I had a request
from my sister to come home and help care for an invalid mother.
That not being job enough, I boarded high school teachers.
But having lost practice in the culinary arts, I decided to take a
two years course in Domestic Science and Art, which I took by
correspondence with the Scranton Schools, and practiced on my
boarders.
It
was through loving
sacrifice that
I
saw
all
my
six child-
ren through Colleges, Universities and Business Courses.
Three
had scholarships, which helped out some.
They are all happily married, and have married
their
equals in education. All are living but the second daughter,
who
has been
I
life,
in the Spirit
World
for about twelve years.
expect to spend the balance of
helping to care for those of the
My
eldest grandchild
a great pleasure to see
which
is
is
my
the right start for
my
time
home
in a less
only twelve years old.
six grandchildren
life’s
strenuous
older than myself.
It
will
be
through college,
work.
The children and in-laws are:— two are lawyers, three are
music teachers, two have business courses, one is a mechanical
engineer, one domestic science, one physical culture,
one mer-
chant, one mechanical draftsman.
1882
Gertrude LaShelle (Mrs. W. E. Wagner)
lives in
Gordon,
She has sent us a very interesting clipping from the AshPa.
’and Daily News, giving an account of a recital given at her home
Miss Wagner is a
by her daughter. Miss Margaret M. Wagner.
very successful music teacher, with studios in Gordon and AshMr. and Mrs. Wagner have three
land, and has fifty-two pupils.
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other children: Ralph
Evalyn
D.,
now
L.,
a minister
in
the
Lutheran Church;
Mrs. L. R. Grover, and Helen E., at home.
1884
Miss Laura M. Helman, of Catasaqua, Pa., died at her
Saturday, June 6, her death following as the
result of a
home
heart
attack.
Miss Helman was a daughter of the late Abram and Mary
M. (nee Drum), Helman, and was a native of Drums.
Her parents located at Catasauqua over forty years ago and the family
was well and favorably known.
In
1
884 Miss Helman became
a
teacher
in
the
grade
schools of Catasauqua and continued in the service of the local
school district until 1906,
her interest
in
when
she resigned.
She continued
education up to the time of her death, however.
She was a geneaologist of note and took great interest in
During her career she compiled three books
on family histories that have had wide circulation.
Miss Helman was a member of the Lehigh County Historical Society, the Huguenot Society and Liberty Bell Chapter of
She was very
the Daughters of the American Revolution.
active in the affairs of all of these organizations and for a numfamily histories.
ber of years served as historian of Liberty Bell Chapter.
A
devoted member of the First Presbyterian Church, she
was a teacher in the infant department for many years, and was
prominent in the Ladies’ Aid Society and the Woman’s MissionShe was held in high esteem by a host of friends.
ary Society.
Sophie E. Glover, a teacher for many years in Philadelphia
in June, at her home in Shenandoah, after a
and New York, died
long
illness.
1897
Mary A. Good (1897 and 1903) who is now teaching in
the High School at New Castle, Pa., where she has been for the
past ten years, called on some of her Bloomsburg friends August
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She is looking fine' and says she enjoys her work very
much.
She was a former teacher in chemistry at the State
22.
Teachers College.
1898
Flora B. Bentzel
is
teaching
in
Harrisburg, Pa.
1899
Lindley H. Dennis, Deputy
Superintendent
of
Public In-
was a member of the faculty of the University of WisOn the way home,
consin, during this year’s summer session.
the
victims
of
a serious automoMr. Dennis and his family were
struction,
bile accident
near Plymouth, Indiana.
Mrs. Dennis (Geraldine
Conner, ’96) suffered severe injuries to her back.
Mr. Dennis,
and the son of a neighbor, escaped with minor injuries.
Mrs. Dennis was brought by train to her home in Camp Hill, Pa.,
where she is recovering /from the effects of the accident.
his son,
1900
George W. Carl
is
Principal of the Fountain Springs School,
Schuylkill County, Pa.
1901
Claude
L.
Moss has been advanced from principal of the
high school at North Tonawanda,
schools.
Mr. Moss
at the time of his
Phi Beta Kappa.
is
N. Y., to
superintendent
a graduate of Syracuse University,
of
and
graduation from that institution was elected to
He was
N. Y., nine years at
two years at Sherburne,
and eleven years at North
principal for
Chatham,
N. Y.,
Tonawanda.
Louise M. Larabee, of Honolulu, spent the
University of Washington.
Miss Larabee
is
summer
at
the
a teacher of Science
in the Senior High School at Honolulu, is sponsor for the local
chapter of the National Honor Society and advisor to the Junior
Class.
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1902
Robert
B.
Leighow
is
a
member
of the faculty
of the Car-
negie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Madge Bennett
Grange Farm,
(Mrs.
1905
Herman
Johnson)
L.
of
Willow
March at the WilkesBarre General Hospital.
Mrs. Johnson was for many years a
resident of Wilkes-Barre, where her husband is assistant manager of the district office of the F. W. Woolworth Company.
She
was prominently identified with the musical life of Wilkes-Barre
and was for many years affiliated with the Century Club. She
was a member of Central M. E. Church, Wilkes-Barre, and was
She is survived by her
active in the various church activities.
husband and two children, Miss Lorene Johnson, a student at
the Eastman School of Music, and Herman L. Johnson, Jr., a
Funeral services were held at
student at Wyoming Seminary.
her late home and the body was Itaken to Willow Grove Cemedied
irucksvilie. Pa.,
in
tery, Clifford, Pa., for burial.
1906
Catherine Hartline, sister of Prof. D.
Bloomsburg
faculty, died
May
19,
1931,
S.
at
Hartline,
the
of
the
Presbyterian
Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
1907
Margaret
C.
Brooke served
this
summer
as a
member
of
The hospital is
the staff of the Colorado Psycopathic Hospital.
School
of
Medicine.
Miss Brooke
connected with the Colorado
was in Denver during July and August.
Margaret O’Brien Henseler
West New York, N.
lives at
300
Thirteenth Street,
J.
The address of Joanna Bedall (Mrs. J. M. Watkins) has
been changed to 201 Galbreth Road, Pasadena, Cal.
1
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1908
from the Mount Carmel “Item
June 6, will be of interest to the friends and classmates of
Jennie Yoder Foley, who lives at 81 34 Hennig Street, Fox Chase,
The following
item, clipped
for
—
Philadelphia, Pa.:
Edward
Foley, of
L.
Fox Chase, Philadelphia,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Foley, former residents of
Mount Carmel,
will
mention
annual commencement
at the
be graduated with distinguished
exercises
Frankford High School on Tuesday, June 23.
young man
is
the
valedictorian
of
a class of
of
The
284
students.
The honor
new
of being the
leader of his
class
is
young Mr. Foley. Four years ago he
was graduated by the Fox Chase schools with the
nothing
for
highest scholastic averages.
His valedictory address will be,
View of
His father
staff
“An Unbiased
the Five Year Plan in Russia.”
and
was
at
one time a member of the Item
also a former city editor
of the
Shamokin
American, now
Publicity Director of Keystone Automobile Club.
His mother was formerly a school teacher in this
Daily
News and
Philadelphia North
borough, a graduate of Mount Carmel High and of the
She was electBloomsburg State Teachers College.
ed vice-president of the Class of 908 at the College.
At the first annual meeting of the Philadelphia B. S.
T. C. Alumni Association, she was elected secretary of
1
that organization.
James
E.
Cummings, 08,
is
on the
staff of
the
National
Catholic Welfare Conference, Department of Education,
Wash-
ington, D. C.
The following summary
of Mr.
Cummings’
activities since
leaving Bloomsburg has been prepared at the request of his
classmates to whom he has been “lost” for over twenty years.
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After graduating from B.
several years
came
is
in his
N. S. Mr.
S.
home town
Cummings taught
He then
for
Shenandoah.
of
be-
He
principal of the public school at Clifton Heights, Pa.
credited with starting the
While
County.
first
Junior High School
Delaware
in
Mr. Cummings continued
at Ciifton Heights,
his
education at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the outbreak of the World War Mr. Cummings discontinued his school
work
to
become
with
identified
Knights of Columbus.
activities of the
the
welfare
His services covered
all
war and post-war period and extended up until the time
when all of the work for the education of veterans was completof the
ed.
When
he
undertook the
of
first
entered upon
field service in
this
work, Mr. Cummings
connection with the organization
the evening schools conducted by the K. of C. in the South-
all
Over a period of
eastern States.
five years
North
cational supervisor, through
he traveled, as eduSouth Carolina,
Carolina,
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and
of which he is well known.
Florida, Georgia,
Arkansas,
in all
Following
the K. of C. in
this,
Mr. Cummings went to the headquarters of
New Haven, where
director in direct charge of
the instructors in correspondence
In the course of the five years during
work.
office,
all
he was assistant educational
Cummings was
Mr.
which he held
this
the author of “Beginning English for
Adults” and “Applied Arithmetic,” books which were used in
the courses he supervised and which have gained wide popularity-
Mr. Cummings’ work with the N. C. W. C. Department of
Education includes the compilation of statistical data for the
Directory of Catholic Colleges and Schools, the preparation
of
bulletins dealing with the administrative phases of Catholic edu-
cation,
and
Mr.
tives at the
tion.
field studies in
connection with surveys.
Cummings was one
He
of the Parochial School representa-
White House Conference on Child Birth and Protec-
is
a frequent contributor to the Catholic
Educational
:
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Review, The Catholic School Journal and the N.
C.
W.
C.
Re-
view.
Cummings has continued
Since coming to Washington Mr.
his college
he
will
graduate next February.
Mr.
old
course at George Washington University from which
Cummings has
three children, two
and one seven years old; one boy,
Thomas
six
Francis, Superintendent of
girls,
one
months
old.
six years
Lackawanna County
A
Schools, seems to have been spending his vacation fishing.
paper states: “Prof. Francis, of 1707 Pine Street, County
Superintendent of Schools, is proving himself a championship
The educator has been busy telling of his catch of
fisherman.
two brown trout at Wallenpaupack. One measured 24*/2
inches and weighed five pounds, while the other measured
exactly 24 and one-eighth inches and tipped the scale at four
local
pounds.”
Hazel
Row
(Mrs.
J. C.
Creasy) had the great distinction of
same
seeing a sister and a son graduate in the
Bloomsburg High School last June.
seventeen, was valedictorian of her
Creasy,
who
is
same class as
dom, we feel
Her
his
aunt
sure.
—
class
Betty,
at
Her
is
son,
a coincidence which happens very
To add
the
who
Edwin Row
high school work in the
class.
only sixteen, finished his
sister,
greater interest
to
the
sel-
occasion,
Mrs. Creasy attended her twenty-fifth high school reunion and
banquet with her son and
Sadie
L.
Hartman
is
sister.
Secretary of the Industrial Department
C.
“The Capital Outlook”
May, 1931, contains a picture of Miss Hartman, together
Following are excerpts from
with a description of her work.
of the Y.
W.
for
this
booklet
C. A. in
Washington, D.
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“Somewhat
similar to the
work
of the
Business
and Professional Department, but concerned with a
different type of girls and women, the Industrial Department plays an important part in the work of the
Young Women’s Christian Association. The work of
the Washington Department is entrusted to Miss Sadie
L. Hartman, the secretary.
Miss Hartman has been
connected with industrial departments of the Y. W.
C. A. in St. Louis, Illinois, Harrisburg, Pa.,
and
for the
past six years in our Association.
“The
Industrial
Department may be said
divided into two main sections: trade union
to
be
groups
and the foreign and immigration groups. Through
the painstaking care and interest of the National
Board of the Y. W. C. A., a cordial welcome is extendEach day there
ed to many newcomers to America.
pass across the desk of the industrial
secretaries
in
from the Department of Immigration, and Foreign Communications of the National Board, announcing the forthcoming arrival in
the secretary’s city of girls or women who have rethe various cities letters
cently landed in America.
For such people our In-
Department attempts to make Washington
seem less strange and unfriendly.
dustrial
“Soon after the new arrival reached Washingfrom the Industrial Department
acquainted, and to see that
to
become
calls on her,
A special
living accommodations are satisfactory.
effort is made to introduce her and to help her make
ton, a representative
friends with others of her
own
nationality.
“For most of the strangers, it is possible to arrange classes at the Americanization School of the
For some, however, this is not
District of Columbia.
needs of these persons there
meet
the
and
to
possible,
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31
conducted under the auspices of the Industrial De-
partment, a special Americanization
A
class.
teach-
from the Americanization school comes to the headquarters of the Association to conduct classes in Citizenship and English.
“There is another phase of the Industrial Department work which is noteworthy.
According to
a law of the United States, immigrants receiving aid
from a public charity within five years after their ar-
er
rival in this
if
country are subject to deportation.
the father of a family
is
Thus,
taken sick or dies, the
mother cannot accept public assistance or apply for
mother’s pension even though her children are American-born.
To meet these emergencies the various
foreign groups keep in touch with immigrant families.
They work through the Industrial Department of the
Y.
W.
C. A.
“To many
come
selfish spirit.
field
is
the scope of
people,
as a surprise, for
it is
The Department
broadening, and
look forward to
all
new and
work
this
will
carried on in a quiet, unis
those
growing larger, the
connected with it
great opportunities.”
1910
Bertha V. Polley (Mrs. James
L.
Oakes) may be reached
at R. D. 2, Union, N. Y.
1911
A.
J.
Sharadin,
who
has
been coach
at
Ford City High
School for several years, has been elected coach and teacher of
physical education at Danville, Pa.
1912
Verna M. Smith
lives in
ed as a private secretary.
Street.
Wilkes-Barre, where she
Her address
is
91
employNorth River
is
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1913
Estelle
School,
Madden,
Borough
Susquehanna University, re-
assistant principal of the Centralia
was graduated
in
June
at
ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Margaret Crossley (Mrs.
F.
Earle Gooding)
North Winsor Street, Bound Brook, N.
lives at
534
J.
1916
Martha Yetter (Mrs. Harry E. Rider) received her degree
at the annua!
Commencement
at Bucknell University in June.
1917
C. T.
Pa.
Hodgson
His address
is
is
Principal of an elementary school in York,
472
Atlantic Avenue.
1918
Miss Lola Pennington, and Miss Bertha Andrews, both
of
Bloomsburg, took an automobile trip to the Pacific Coast this
summer.
They were away about ten weeks, and covered about
ten thousand miles.
Mary Powell (Mrs.
J. S.
Wiant)
Laramie, Wyoming. Her husband
being a
member
of the classes of
is
1917 and 1918.
Helen Knouse (Mrs. Sheldon Long)
in
Benton, Pa.,
515 Lewis Street,
Bloomsburg alumnus
lives at
also a
will
teach
in the
grades
this year.
1920
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Lewis are now living at 20 South Fifth
Mrs. Lewis was formerly Florence M.
Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
Beyer.
1921
of Bloomsburg, and Miss Grace
Reimard, of Danville, members of the Bloomsburg High School
Miss Maree
E. Pensyl,
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were on a
faculty,
six
33
weeks’ tour of the west
summer.
this
Their party assembled at Wilkes-Barre, and went from there to
Chicago, Denver, Colorado Springs
Park.
there
and Yellowstone National
The party then went to Seattle, Washington, and took
a Pacific steamer for Skagway, Alaska.
The party re-
turned through the Canadian Rockies on the
From
Lake Louise and Banff.
at Chicago and Buffalo.
Alice M. McDonnell
dress
is
there they
teaching
is
in
way home,
visiting
came home, stopping
Her ad-
Philadelphia.
325 Sloan Avenue, West Collingswood,
N. J.
1922
Olen M. Lewis
is
teacher of fourth grade in the Scranton
schools.
Alma Hampton, now
graduate nurse,
a
is
practicing
in
Chicago.
1923
Bloomsburg, and M. Creveling
Strauser, formerly of Bloomsburg, were married Thursday, July
23, at the Lutheran parsonage in Milton, by the Rev. J. M.
Miss Helen E. Wolf,
of
Reimensnyder, uncle of the groom.
The bride has been a successful teacher in the Bloomsburg
schools.
Mr. Strauser is a Bloomsburg graduate, in the class of
He later attended the Pennsylvania State College,
1927.
where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science.
is
He
is
now working
for his Doctor’s degree.
a plant disease specialist in fruits in the Bureau
dustry, State
Department of Agriculture, and
is
of
He
Plant In-
located at Har-
risburg.
1924
Matthew Lutheran Church of Catawissa, was the scene
of a simple wedding ceremony Tuesday morning, July 4, when
Miss Florence Hollingshead, of Catawissa, became the bride of
Edward Schuyler, of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performSt.
1
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ed by the Rev. Myles
E.
Smeltz, pastor of the church,
in
the
presence of the immediate families and a few guests.
of
1
The bride is a graduate of the Catawissa High School, class
926, and is one of the most esteemed young women of her
community.
Mr. Schuyler has for the p?.3t eight years been
employed as reporter for the Bloomsburg Morning Press, and ii
also the very efficient secretary of the Alumni Association.
Mr.
and Mrs. Schuyler are now living on West Ridge Avenue,
Bloomsburg.
Miss Phyllis E. Miller, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Dumbauld,
Philadelphia surgeon, were united
berland, Md.
Dr.
Dumbauld
in
marriage recently at Cum-
will take
months’
six
work
at
Johns Hopkins University and then he and Mrs. Dumbauld will
sail for Haiti where he will be employed by the Government for
The bride has a wide circle of friends in this section
two years.
and formerly resided in Benton and Bloomsburg. She is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1924,
and later of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Training
School for Nurses.
Sarah Tregellas (Mrs. Harold Klinger) died suddenly at her
home in Hatboro, Sunday, June 4. Funeral services were held
1
at the
Street,
home of her father, Thomas Tregellas, 33
Mahanoy City, on Wednesday, June 7.
East
Centre
1
Beulah M. Deming (Mrs. Willard Gibson) taught during the
Pa.
She
past year at the Burns school, Susquehanna County,
was married August
1
,
1930, at Uniondale, Pa.
Mary Ruth Eisenhower (Mrs.
H. F.
Brown)
lives at
83
South Bennett Street, Kingston, Pa.
Margaret
heim, Pa.
B.
Mensch
is
teacher of primary grades at Mill-
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1925
Miss Mildred Wolfe, of
August
3, at the
home
of Englishtown, N.
J.,
New
Berlin,
was married Monday,
of her parents, to George Vandenbergh,
where the bride had been teaching for
several years.
Marian A. Gower
schools at
Maywood,
teacher of third grade in the public
is
Her home address
N. J.
is
60 Manhattan
Street, Ashley, Pa.
Miss Pearl Radel, of Sunbury, and Leon
Bickel,
also
of
Announcement of the
Sunbury, were married July 12, 1930.
marriage was made last December.
1926
Margaret Emmitt (Mrs. Allan A. Rarig) lives at Fourth and
Catherine Streets, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Rarig, before her
in the Catawissa High School.
connected with the Bloomsburg office of the Bell
marriage, taught for several years
Mr. Rarig
is
Telephone Company.
Verna M. Paul
Laura
address
is
Mary
E.
Mann
is
teaching in the
is
teacher of
625 North Church
Alice Yoder
is
first
fifth
grade at Shamokin.
grade
in Hazleton.
Her
Street.
teaching seventh grade Arithmetic in
Berwick.
1927
Miss Clara Miller and Follmer A. Siegfried, of Catawissa,
were married January
1
at the
parsonage of the
St.
Matthew’s
The ceremony was performed
Lutheran Church, in Catawissa.
by the Rev. U. Myers, pastor emeritus of the church. Mrs.
Siegfried has been teaching in Beaver Township, Columbia
County, for several years.
Mr. Siegfried
is
at the present time
.
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employed as a telegrapher for the Reading Railroad Company.
They will make their home near Orangeville, Pa.
Naomi Bender
is
teaching in Sunbury, Pa.
1928
Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Snyder, of Shamokin,
party held at their
home Thursday
at a
the marriage of their daughter, Florence Kathryn,
Kester, of Shickshinny.
in the
dinner
evening, June 4, announced
to Philip R.
The marriage took place May
3,
1930,
Evangelical Church at Bellefonte.
Mrs. Kester taught in the Shamokin schools for three years
following her graduation from Bloomsburg.
Mr. Kester attended Bloomsburg during his Freshman year,
and was well-known on the campus, because of his musical actiHe was a member of this year’s graduating class at the
Pennsylvania State College, where he was prominent in musical
vities.
activities.
He has accepted
a position
as
director
school and municipal music at
Punxsutawney,
and Mrs. Kester have been living since August
Pa.,
of
public
where he
1
At eight o’clock Tuesday morning, August 18, in a very
ceremony at the Bower Memorial Evangelical Church, of
Berwick, Miss Mabel Bower became the bride of Leroy A. Baer.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. E. Remaley, pastor
pretty
of the church.
Mrs. Baer has been teaching in Berwick since her gradua-
Mr. Baer, also a member of the class of
from Bloomsburg.
928 at Bloomsburg, received his degree at the same institution
For the past three years he has been teaching in the
in 1930.
This fall
Science department of the Shickshinny High School.
tion
1
he
will
take a
school in
new
McGraw,
position as
assistant
principal
of
the
high
N. Y.
Announcement was
recently
made
of
the
marriage
last
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November
Mordan,
Viola
Miss
of
37
formerly
Bloomsburg,
of
teacher of the Island Park school near Sunbury, and Preston Kelof Sunbury.
ler,
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and
Teachers’ College and has been a successful teacher for several
The bride-groom
years.
Frank
F. Keller,
at
is
engaged in business with his father,
The couple will reside at
Klinesgrove.
Klinesgrove.
Miss Ruth Baxter, of Berwick, and Robert
more, were married
in
W. Russ,
Ardmore, Tuesday, May
16.
of Ard-
Since her
graduation, the bride taught in the Mifflinville schools, and at the
time of her marriage was a teacher
Ardmore High School.
employed in Philadelphia.
The present address of Mr. and Mrs. Russ is 24 Wyoming Avenue, Ardmore.
Mr. Russ
is
an insurance agent, and
in
the
is
Miss Evla M. Carlson, of Courtdale, Pa., and
tenbauder, of Luzerne, were married
Church on Monday, June 22.
in the
Howard Kos-
Courtdale Methodist
The bride has been teaching
in
Kostenbauder is a
graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Kostenbauder
Courtdale for the
are
now
past three
Mr.
years.
living in Kingston.
Mabel A. Albertson, a teacher
at
Red Bank,
music student at the summer session of
appeared during the summer
N.
New York
J.,
and a
University,
program given by the UniverThe principal soloist on
the program was Reinald Werrenrath, famous baritone.
sity in the
in a
Wanamaker Auditorium.
Lucille
Henry, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Glen A. Taylor, of
Dushore, were married at Hughesville, on Monday, June 22.
Mrs. Taylor has been teaching for several years in Wilkes-Barre,
and Mr. Taylor has been teaching near
now
living at
Dushore.
his
home.
They are
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Ellen A. Schlier lives at
Pa.
She
is
319 West Green
Hazleton,
Street,
a teacher in the Hazleton schools.
1929
In a pretty wedding in the Church of Christ, Bloomsburg,
Sunday morning, June 7, Rev. Larue Z. Brown, pastor of the
Christian Church, of Hollbrock, Pa., claimed as his
Elizabeth Munson, of Bloomsburg.
Rev Robert
bride. Miss
L. Porter,
pas-
ceremony taking place at
The ring ceremony was
the close of the morning worship.
used.
The couple are among the most esteemed young people
of the town and enjoy a wide circle of friends.
tor of the local church, officiated, the
Following a dinner served at the bride’s
left for
a wedding trip to the Thousand Islands.
turn they will be at
home
home the couple
Upon their re-
to friends in their residence
at
Rog-
ersville, Pa.
High School,
is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
1927, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
For the past two years she has been a success929.
class of
ful teacher in the Northumberland county schools.
The bride
class of
1
Rev. Brown was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
in 1925 and graduated from Bethany College, Bethany,
W. Va., with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While there he
School
was selected as a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity and the
For the past two
Alpha Phi Epsilon, honorary literary society.
years he has been pastor of the Rogersville-Holbrook Churches
of Christ.
Miss Ruth Meixell, of Wapwallopen, and Claude Miller, of
Pond Hill, were married Monday, June 15. Mrs. Miller, before
her marriage, taught for three years in the Nescopeck schools.
Mr. Miller has been teaching in the Shickshinny High School for
the past
two years.
They
will
make
their
home
in
Shickshinny.
Ruth Shannon has been transferred from the Beach Grove
school, Salem Township, to the East Berwick school.
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Wilheimina Elder has been transferred from Beach Haven
to East Berwick.
Anna
is
E. Miller
is
teaching at Lime Ridge, Pa.
Her home
in Mifflinville.
1930
of Mr. and Mrs. John B.
became the bride of Jasper M. Fritz, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Rush Fritz, of Main Township, in a quiet ceremony
performed at noon Monday, June 8, in the parsonage of the
Miss Kathryn Jones, daughter
Jones, of Nanticoke,
Grace Methodist Church, Harrisburg, Dr. Bagnell, pastor of the
church, officiating.
The couple was unattended and the ring
ceremony of the Methodist Church was used.
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz
trip to the
left
immediately afterward on a motor
southern part of the State.
summer with
the groom’s parents
Osceola Mills where the groom
is
and
a
They
in
will reside for the
the
member
fall
will
go to
of the high school
and coach of the school athletic teams.
The couple were class mates at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College, being prominent members of the class of
Both enjoy wide circles of friends.
1930.
During the past year Mr. Fritz was a successful teacher in
the Osceola Mills High School and Miss Jones was a teacher in
faculty
the Nanticoke schools.
The groom is a graduate of the Main Township Junior High
At both the local high
School and the Bloomsburg High School.
school and the Teachers College he was a member of the varsity
football team, playing tackle at the college
during
the
entire
four years of his course and was pitcher on the varsity baseball
team for the same
was active in girls’
Mary
E.
period.
The bride during her college days
athletics.
White, of Berwick, and Heister H. Bittenbender,
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of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 20, at Frederick.
Marjdand.
Mrs. Bittenbender taught during the past
year
in
Salem Township, Luzerne County.
Mr. Bittenbender is a graduate of the Center Township High School, and is employed by
ihey will make their home in
the Magee Carpet Company,
Bloomsburg.
Nancy Haynes
Pa.
lives at
3 3 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre,
1
During the past year she was a substitute teacher
in the
Wilkes-Barre schools.
Dorothy M. Foote taught during the past year
in the
Vo-
cational High School at Orangeville, Pa.
William M. Jones
Forge, Pa.
He
is
1117 North Main Street, Old
of the Madison Township schools.
lives at
principal
Mrs. Annie E. Schell taught in grades five and six in the
Mainville Consolidated School.
Helen Cott taught
303 Keyser Avenue.
in
Grace V. Reinhold
Nuremberg, Pa.
is
is
Pa.
Taylor, Pa., last year.
teaching
in
Her address
grades seven and eight at
Dorothy M. Harris is teaching in the schools of Old Forge,
Her address is 216 East Morton Street.
Margaret
E.
420 North Maple
Davis
is
teaching in Kingston.
Her address
is
Street.
Ethelda Young has been elected teacher
mentary grades in Berwick.
in
one of the
ele-
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1931
Cora M. Wagner, of Shamokin, represented the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the Laurel Blossom FestiMiss
val in the Poconos, which began June 12 and ended June 21.
She was an attendant in the court of honor of the “Queen of
Laurel Blossom Time” and was known as “The Princess of
Bloomsburg.”
Upon her arrival in Stroudsburg, she attended a dinner and
bail given in honor of Miss Lois Strickler “Princess of Ursinus
College,” to the Queen of Laurel Blossom Time and her fourteen princesses.
Miss
Wagner was one
of the attendants
to the
Laurel Blossom Time at the coronation ceremonies
Queen
held at
of
the
Wolf Hollow Country Club, Delaware Water Gap, Friday afternoon, June 19.
Two hundred persons participated in the brilwhich
marked the climax of the Laurel Time celeliant pageant
bration, in which Governor Pinchot and Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia, were scheduled to take part.
Following the coronation a grand ball was held at the Wolf
Hollow Country Club in honor of the Queen of the festival.
Miss Wagner was guest of honor at a luncheon given by
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Leech, at the Mount Pleasant House,
Mount Pocono, on Thursday, June 8.
Miss Wagner was awarded the honor
Bloomsburg, by the action of a committee of
Government Association at the College.
1
wedding
in St.
Huntingdon, Pa., Saturday,
July
In a beautiful
of
representing
the
Community
John’s Episcopal
18,
Miss
Bess
Church
Conner,
at
of
Bloomsburg, and Maynard Pennington, also of Bloomsburg,
were married by the Rev. Fred Holmes, rector of the church,
and cousin of the bride.
The bride, who is one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteemed young ladies, attended school at Worcester, Mass., and graduated from the training school of the Bloomsburg Hospital, in
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She has since been doing private nursing.
the class of 1930.
Mr. Pennington, during his four years at the college, was a
member
part
m
of the varsity football team, and also took a very active
He
dramatics.
will
teach
in
Mount Pleasant Township,
Columbia County, during the present school term.
Frank Golder,
teacher
in
Harriet
boys
at
star athlete at the college, has
been elected
the high school at Hughesville, Pa.
Roan taught
Englewood, N.
J.,
at Junior
Haven, a private school for
during the summer.
Miss Jane Fahringer will teach in East Berwick this year.
Miss Emily Park will teach this winter at the Pleasant Valley school,
Fairmount Township, Luzerne County.
o
An envelope containing fourteen dollars
ed “Alumni Room,” but with no name on
in cash,
and mark-
came into the
Alumni Day activi-
it,
hands of Professor Jenkins at the close of the
Inasmuch as Professor Jenkins is unable to give proper
ties.
credit for this contribution, he would be very grateful if anyone
able to do so would communicate with him and give him information as to
its
source.
o
among
President Haas was
at the fourteenth annual
those
who conducted forums
American Country
4 to August 20.
Cornell University, August
1
Life
Conference
at
'
Harvey A. Andruss Librory
Bloomsburg State College
Bloomsburg, PA 178)5
Vol.
3* $ 2
No. -6-JC
THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
--i-i GEo.j.Heuti^
DECEMBER, 1930
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol. 31
'
Bloomsburg, Pa., December, 1930
No.
£
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
FENSTEMAKER,
H. F.
’12
F. H. JENKINS, ’76
-
-
Editor-in-Chief
Business
-
Manager
THE PURPOSE OF THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
IN
THE
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF THE COMMONWEALTH
(Address Delivered at the Dedication of the
DR.
JAMES
N.
New
Training School)
RULE
Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction
“This rapid sketch of the State’s program for securing and
preparing competent teachers for the public schools is of value
as indicating three major trends that we do well to note as we
project plans for the future development of our teachers colleges
:
“1.
of misfits
That teaching is no longer the last resort and refuge
and failures in other lines of work, as was apparently
so frequently the case in early days but
is
a profession that pre-
sents a high challenge of service to the best minds, requiring for
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3
successful pursuit a prolonged period of technical prepara-
tion.
That the preparation of teachers is a State function
only to its own institutions and those willing
delegated
to be
accept
the standard which the State sets up for the
and able to
“2.
adequate preparation of teachers.
“3.
That as the child is the growing point of society, so
our teachers colleges are the growing point of our State system
and must, therefore, be progressively developed along lines that will enable them to meet effectively the
development needs of our public schools.
of public schools
What
of the Future?
“In the light of these trends, which are peculiar not to
Pennsylvania alone but are general, what of the future of our
state teachers colleges ?
“1.
Studies in the field of the nature and
needs of the
child point clearly to the requirement of as scientific and as pro-
longed a program for the preparation of
elementary schools as
secondary
field.
The
is
now
single
teachers in
required of those
salary schedule,
pay for equivalent professional
qualifications
entering
our
the
granting equal
whether
in
the
elementary or secondary field, is indicative of the growing conviction that in the education process the period of childhood s
fully as important as adolescence and must receive the most
:
highly skilled care and attention
if
maturity
is
to
bear
its
full
and the ideal perhave the term American
fruitage in terms of a competent citizenship
which we should like to
stand.
The best thought and practice now indicate that four
years of post high school work should be the minimum requirement for teaching in the elementary field. Our own Board of
State Teachers College Presidents at its last meeting petitioned
the State Council of Education to set up a requirement, effective
in
933, of four years of post high school professional preparation for elementary school teachers.
In my judgment it is
sonality for
1
a
question
of
but a comparatively short time
until
such a
:
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requirement
will
be
set as the
minimum
teaching profession in this State.
basis for entering the
Until such a requirement
exacted, teaching cannot properly be called a profession.
L
In
no shorter time can the techniques and knowledge requisite to
teaching be secured.
As society
more
of
its
schools
much
in
an
demands
age in which it takes
but fifteen minutes to raise a bushel of wheat than it did in an
successful preparation for
age when
it
required three hours, so
and when the increased requirement
more
correspondingly
required of those entering the teaching
profession
today.
is
If
for the elementary teacher
goes into effect, the two-year curriculums leading to the normal
certificate will automatically
be discontinued and there
but one standard for graduation, namely, the
pletion of a four-year degree curriculum.
surplus of certificated teachers which,
measure be due
to the current
be
com-
will
successful
The present indicated
may in some
however,
depression,
cutting
down
the
annual turn-over and driving back into teaching as a means of
earning a livelihood many former teachers who had gone into
wisdom and the possibility of
minimum four-year post high school
other lines of work, suggests the
placing teaching on the
any early date.
A second development which I foresee in order that
the public schools may be more efficient and useful is an extension of the helpful relationship that now exists between the
several teachers colleges and their respective service areas.
This development will probably proceed along three lines, all
of which are now being followed to a greater or less degree
Acceptance by the college of a larger degree of
“a.
level at
“2.
responsibility for the success of
its
graduates
during
the
first
year of their teaching through a plan of cooperative, follow-up,
relationship developed with local school districts.
“b.
in service
“c.
ments
use.
in
Provision of extension, in service training for teachers
below new State minimums.
knowledge of new developeducation and of instruction and demonstration in its
whose
qualifications are
Distribution of detailed
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“The development
of these relationships within the areas
served by the several teachers colleges not only will advance the
educational efficiency of the school districts concerned but also
keep the work of the college dynamic and
character.
“3.
A
truly
functional
in
development that I foresee is one on which
there may very properly be a difference of opinion and which I
advanced therefore somewhat cautiously. The existing surplus
of certified teachers and the indicated decreasing annual turnover of teachers suggests the wisdom of an early adjustment ot
the quality and quantity of our teacher preparation facilities to
the requirements of fewer but better prospective teachers.
Some surplus of teachers over and beyond actual needs is not tc
be viewed with alarm but rather as a healthful sign, permitting
third
the elimination of
the relatively
less
fit.
A
concentration of
our resources, however, upon fewer candidates would appear to
be not only distinctly helpful in view of the demand for a progressively better product, but also inevitable
are to be maintained on levels
if
teachers’ salaries
commensurate with
their
ad-
vancing qualifications.
“Many other lines of progress might be prophesied if time
permitted but the three indicated immediately above seem to be
those of immediate importance and incidence, as affecting the
State Teachers Colleges, namely:
“1.
A uniform four-year requirement for graduation, regardless of the
field.
“2.
Acceptance by the teachers colleges as the legal
a large degree of
responsibility for the continuous professional stimulation and
growth of the public schools included therein.
service centers of their respective areas of
“3.
Concentration upon a smaller but more competent
product.
A Program
“With these heavy
of
Development
responsibilities resting
upon our system
of state teachers colleges as the growing point of our system of
:
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what measures should be taken by the State
to insure the continuous and effective adjustment of their facilities to meet these ever increasing responsibilities?
“Time permits but a brief reference to only the more imThere are three major factors
portant and pressing measures.
involved in a good teachers college
“
A professional program to meet the developing needs
public education,
1
.
of our public schools on the side of the best educational theory
and
practice.
“2.
A
staff of
teachers
competent
in
personality,
and
professional preparation to carry out such a program effectively.
“3.
Physical plant
and equipment that provide the
necessary tools.
“The question
make
the
teachers
as to the measures the State should take
colleges
progressively
more
useful
to
and
meeting their obligations to the public schools finds
answer in terms of adequate provision for the progressive
development of the three factors just mentioned.
First, a proprogram
to
meet
the
developing
needs
fessional
of the public
schools can be formulated only upon the basis of accurate and
comprehensive data gathered continuously, relative to the
specific needs of the public schools for teachers and supervisors
These
in each and all of the several state teachers colleges.
needs must be expressed in terms not only of the number of
new teachers and supervisions required in each separate field
Only on the
but in terms also of their specific qualifications.
basis of known State needs can a progressive and differentiated
program for the preparation, guidance, and placement of teachAcers be developed for the several state teachers colleges.
cordingly a highly efficient, technical fact finding unit should be
developed in the Department of Public Instruction for the State
as a whole and in each teachers college for its separate area, in
order to provide dependable data upon which to base a professional program that will adequately and continuously meet
Second,
the changing and growing needs of the public schools.
personality
secured
competent
in
teachers
is
to
be
of
if a staff
efficient in
its
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and preparation to carry out such professional program effectively, the most capable teachers in the profession must be
attracted
to our teachers
colleges.
Exceptional
preparation
and service must be adequately recognized in salary and tenure
Teaching programs must be arranged to permit
provisions.
thorough preparation for the teaching job and continuous proThird, the physical plant and equipment
fessional growth.
must be brought into line with the best educational thought and
The modern educational log on which sits the teachpractice.
er and his pupils is not and cannot be the simple affair it was in
the days of
Mark Hopkir.'.
new type teacher
“Placing a
in the schools of
today which
safeguard individuality and at the same time develop a competent, cooperative type of citizenship
a complex and,
is
let
it
Yet in terms of blighted,
be said, not an inexpensive job.
undeveloped lives, nothing is so expensive to the State as an
incompetent teacher.
We cannot afford not to have good
teachers.
this new unit in this college to be
Benjamin Franklin Training School, the State
recognizes its obligation to make this and all the other state
teachers colleges increasingly more useful and efficient in their
service to the public schools of this Commonwealth.
“Finally, it is generally recognized that government by
discretion rather than by regulations is rapidly becoming a
distinct trend in democracy.
Government by discretion rather
than by regulations requires a definite outlining of the functions
of each separate officer and agencies, but gives such officers and
“In the dedication of
known
as the
agencies within the
field of their
authority to develop their
own
assigned
and
responsibilities
full
be held accountable
Under the leadership of so distinguished an
only for results.
able educator as your president the future of your College is
assured, particularly with full discretionary powers granted him
within a clearly defined area.
Under such a policy and such
ideas
to
leadership this College will inevitably rise
largest level of achievement.”
to ever
higher and
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NEW TRAINING SCHOOL DEDICATED
“The
first
dream come true” was
the
manner
which Dr.
in
Francis B. Haas, college president, referred to the dedication of
Benjamin Franklin Training School of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College as one of the features of the greatest Home
the
Coming Day in the history of the institution.
Dr. James N. Rule, Deputy Superintendent
of the State
partment of Public Instruction, taking the place of
Dr. J. A. Keith, who is recovering from a serious
De
his superior,
illness,
de-
livered the dedicatory address.
The presentation
and trophy room,
was
The presentation was made
another feature of the program.
by R. Bruce Albert, president of the association, and both acceptances were by A. Z. Schoch, president of the Board of
Trustees and for 39 years one of its members.
of the alumni memorial
furnished by graduates of the school at a cost of $4,000,
Educators from throughout this section joined w'ith alumni
and friends of the institution for the dedication exercises which
were held in the college auditorium in Carver Hall.
Children
of the training school participated by singing a number of songs
under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Before the dedication and throughout the day except during the football
game thousands
were delighted with the
visited the
new
building
and
structure.
While the audience was assembling in the auditorium in
Carver Hall the College Symphony Orchestra under the direction
of Howard F. Fenstemaker furnished a program of music.
A number
of
the visiting
educators were
platform with the participants of the exercises.
sided,
and
in
on the
Haas pre-
seated
Dr.
opening the program expressed the belief that
present were taking part
Babcock, pastor of the
in a historic
First
occasion.
Dr.
Harry
all
F.
Methodist Church, read the Scrip-
tures, selecting a portion of the sixth chapter of Chronicles
and
:
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a part of the
New
Testament.
Dr.
David
Waller,
J.
Jr., Presi-
dent Emeritus of the institution, gave the invocation.
The children of the Training School then added a delightful
touch to the program
when
they sang,
“Who Knows?” by John
West.
Dr. Rule followed with his fine address on the purpose
program
Commonwealth.
the state teachers college in the educational
he spoke of
its
vast importance to the
in
of
which
Mr. Schoch’s Acceptance
Mr. Schoch
in his
acceptance of the building on behalf of
the trustees spoke as follows
“It
is
a matter of especial satisfaction to me, that brings us
here today, to take a part
new
in the
Dedication Exercises of
this
Training School Building.
“For a long time I have watched with great interest the
steady growth of this school serving as occasion arose, its practical needs and encouraging its speculative intentions.
“I have had too, the rare privilege of seeing three generations of my family, a daughter, a grand daughter and a great
grand daughter, enrolled with the student body.
“But in the 39 years of my Trusteeship, no addition to the
equipment of the College has held for me the importance of this
latest development.
;
“Just as perfection in
its
foundation
sary to the strength of a great building, so
paramount importance
child’s education of
absolutely neces-
is
is
the beginning of a
to the life
and char-
acter he or she forms.
“Therefore,
it
with
is
accept the trusteeship of
name
this
exceptional
gratification
Training School
Building
that
I
in the
of the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teach-
ers College for the
Commonwealth
How
Dr.
Haas said
the School
of Pennsylvania.”
Was Named
that, in searching for a
building, suggestions
name
for
the
new
had been asked from the faculty and other
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He
was made to select a name keepThey had desired a name
not only identified with childhood but one that would strike the
imagination in every field of learning.
The name of Franklin,
most generally suggested, was a name of that kind for Franklin
sources.
ing in
said an attempt
mind primarily the
has contributed so
much
children.
to so
many
phases of
human endeavor.
Haas called attention to the inscription over one of the doors
of the new building which is Franklin’s “Education is the foun-
Dr.
dation of happiness.”
ALUMNI MEMORIAL ROOM
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, in
making the presentation of that room to the institution, said that
two years ago the graduates had outlined a program of three
projects.
One was the enlarging of the number of the subHe reported this had been
scribers to the Alumni Quarterly.
tripled and the publication made self supporting.
The second project was the creating of an alumni memorial
and trophy room with one aim the preservation of trophies
many of which have been lost in the past. Another object was
to have a place where alumni could mingle in fellowship when
they return, and a place that could be used by the college
—
—
faculty.
“The success of this project is due,” Mr. Albert
and tireless effort of Prof. 0. H. Bakeless.”
the courage
said, “to
He
also
spoke of the cooperation of Dr. Haas, N. T. Englehart and Miss
Gray, of the College Art Department, all of whom ably assisted.
The
third project, the enlarging of the student loan fund,
is
yet
be taken up, a considerable amount remaining to be paid on
the alumni room, furnished at a cost of $4,000.
Mr. Schoch in his acceptance on behalf of the institution,
declared that the room was an evidence of the love and devotion
to
of the graduates to their
Alma Mater.
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Guests Introduced
Haas then introduced a number of the guests at the
many of whom were seated on the platform. They
included: County Superintendent of Schools, W. W. Evans; J.
1. Townsend, Secretary of the Board of Trustees; Paul E. Wirt,
Dr.
exercises,
board of
oi the
of the faculty
;
1
rustees
;
Prof. C. H. Albert, a retired
member
Ricnie Laurie, of the architectural firm of Laurie
and Ureen, Harrisburg, designers of the building; C. H. Dillon,
President of the bloomsburg School Board; William V. Moyer,
President of the Bloomsburg Council; David L. Glover, of Miftlinburg, a member of the board of 1 rustees; Dr. C. H. Garwood, Superintendent of the Bloomsburg Schools and Superintendent bred W. Diehl, of the Montour County schools and also
a member of the Board of Trustees.
Parent-Teachers Association
Haas on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the faculty
paid tribute to the fine work being carried on by the ParentHe spoke of the piano which has been
Teacher Association.
Mrs. Haas is
presented to the school and is already installed.
Dr.
president of the organization.
He
briefly described the
lieves has
make
some new features
new
Training School which he be-
that will enable the institution
contributions to teacher training.
to
All of the building has
been completed except the cellar where an indoor playground
be placed.
The program came to an end with the singing of the “Alma
Mater,” led by Miss Harriet M. Moore.
will
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
who
this
year
is
President of the North-
eastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State Education
Association, is now at work planning the program for the district
convention to be held
March.
in
Wilkes-Barre on the 6th and
7th
of
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HUNDREDS BACK FOR HOME COMING DAY
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was the centre of
when the institution was host to hundreds of graduates
activities
and
friends
at the
annual
Home Coming
Day,
School and the opening of the
this
year with
new Training
Alumni Memorial Room.
special features including the dedication of
the
The campus buildings and the business section of the town
were in gala dress for the day with the Maroon and Gold of
Bloomsburg and the Red and Blue of the visiting athletic rivals,
Shippensburg,
much
in
evidence.
Boulevard light standards on Main Street and trees on East
Street were used to place the decorations in the business section.
There was a large welcome sign at the entrance to the college
and signs with the message “Welcome Parents- Alumni” were
on Waller Hall.
The program throughout was one to delight alumni, with
Bloomsburg winning the football game from Shippensburg 3
to 0 and the cross country run by the decisive score of
6 to
39, Bloomsburg having five runners in the first six to finish.
The dedication of the new Training School, to be known
as the Benjamin Franklin Training School, opened the day’s pro-
—
1
1
gram with the dedicatory address by
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Dr.
James
N. Rule,
Deputy
Practically every visitor
went through the new building during the day and was delighted
with the plant, the first of a proposed series of new buildings.
T he Alumni Memorial and Trophy Room was another place
that secured much attention and favorable comment.
This
room was beautifuly furnished by alumni at a cost of $4,000.
It is located on the first floor of Waller Hall and is an achievement in which graduates of the school can be justly proud.
It is doubtful if a Home Coming Day ever attracted a larger
crowd and certainly there was never a better program offered.
Students and faculty worked tirelessly to entertain the guests
and they were quite successful.
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program were an informal get-together in the gymnasium following the game and a dance in the
Ihe gymnasium was beautifully decorated for the
evening.
day in Maroon and Gold and Red and Blue. The railing around
the orchestra pit was a scene of players benches, some of the
players in the Maroon and Gold of Bloomsburg and others in the
Red and Blue of Shippensburg, with the scores also announced.
Crepe paper festooning and red, gold and blue balloons
added to the attractiveness of the decorative scheme. The
Maroon and Gold Orchestra played for the dance and they were
Punch was served.
at their best.
Day students and members of the faculty, Shippensburg
athletics and faculty members and hundreds of alumni enjoyed
both lunch and dinner at the school.
Ail in all, the day was the greatest of the Fall and one of
the greatest Home Coming Days Bloomsburg has ever had.
Social events on the
On Tuesday evening, October 28, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.
Haas delightfully entertained at a reception at the President’s
house on Light Street Road.
Educators from throughout this
vicinity were in attendance at this event, which is an annual one.
The home was beautifully decorated with chrysanthemums and
roses, and during the evening the Alexander Trio provided a
charming program of music.
The guests included the trustees of the Teachers College,
the members of the college faculty, the Bloomsburg School
Board and faculty, the Berwick School Board and faculty, and
other prominent educators from Bloomsburg’s service area.
William John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Eduwas the speaker at the chapel exercises Monday, October
cation,
25.
Mr. Cooper delivered a very
a Profession.”
fine
address on “Teaching as
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MARK CREASY
TEACHER, EDUCATOR, FRIEND OF YOUTH
The passing of Mark Creasy, January
noted
in the
Quarterly at the time.
to give later a
It
12, 1930,
was the
more nearly adequate account
was
briefly
intention then,
of his character
and work.
No educator or teacher ever received a finer, more tender,
and more deserved tribute than did Mr. Creasy in the Chestertown (Md.) High School Reflector of January, 1930.
Excerpts
from this series of tributes, in brief, are quoted as part of this
article.
Mark Creasy was
a Columbia County product, born in
His father was Philip Creasy.
Township, in 866.
His
mother was Sarah Good.
Mr. Rush Creasy, a teacher for many
Mifflin
1
years in this county, was his brother.
He
received his early education in the public schools of the
county.
He taught
county.
In
several years in the public schools of the
1890 he entered
the
Bloomsburg State Normal
School as a student and graduated therefrom with the Class of
1891.
He was always a forceful outstanding member of his class,
In the classroom, and outside
though quiet and unobtrusive.
of it, his clear-thinking, and independent, but cooperative
He
action, when things were right, had to be reckoned with.
was always a
favorite in his
helper to every one.
to participate in the
class
—
kind,
jolly,
a
friend
and
His studiousness, earnestness, readiness
work
of the classroom
made him
a favorite
of his teachers.
ley,
After his graduation he was elected to a position at HawCounty, Pa., where he followed Mr. Kimber Cleaver
Wayne
(Class of ’81
)
as Principal
and labored joyously and with rare
Here he did for a community
success for twenty-two years.
and
its
doing.
schools,
what few educational leaders are capable of
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He was elected to the superindency of the Chestertown,
Md., High School about 1913, where he contineud his work
until the close of his life, dying in the harness, January 12,
193°.
In
all
work,
wavered.
his
these years his love for his profession, his interest in
in child-life
and youth,
in the
cause of education, neve;
His co-workers, his fellow teachers, his pupils,
his
directors, his patrons, believed in him, trusted him, relied on his
more experienced judgment, took their standards, ideals and
Mark Creasy was
educational vision from his helpful teaching.
always the seer, the leader, the inspiration of his community.
His leadHis devotion to child-life and youth was Pestalozzian.
His eagerness
ership and vision akin to that of Horace Mann.
and enthusiasm to understand the needs and growth of youth
His deep seated love for
were born of Francis W. Parker.
rational teaching, where not distinctively innate, was the direct
influence of his contacts with two great teachers whose lives enProf. John G.
riched all youth who sat in their class rooms
Cope and Prof. William Noetting of blessed memory.
He was married to Miss Phoebe Shew, of Light Street, Pa.,
in 1895.
She also was a very live member of the Class of
1891.
It was a marriage of kindred souls, and only Mark knew
—
—
how
the willing sacrifice of her pedagogical career
his support,
co-worker and guide
in his career,
a
to become
home-maker
and leader for him, made greater his success and the cause of
education wherever they worked together
and they worked
—
together.
Beautiful are the tales of their united efforts for the
young people with
whom
they worked; the friendships made;
and encouragement given and followed to successful careers.
The Alumni of the B. S. T. C. and the Class of 1891 are
justly proud of the career of Mark Creasy and his wife Phoebe
Shew Creasy. Their old pupils will deepen their breathing and
gird their loins for finer effort always at the mention of their
names.
Unseen to mortal eye, he will live in minds and hearts
of those who knew him best, only to urge them on to keener
the standards set
;
the advice
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effort, to clearer heights of labor.
was the privilege
have Mark in his summer
It
of the writer a
few summers ago
class, as a student, old in
perience, wise in a continued practice that
to
years of ex-
had made
his
mind
keen, his expression clear, his apprehension quick, he was the
humblest, most simple, most helpful pupil
so
much
to give, so kindly a
vious of his
power
He had
all
way
in the class.
of giving
it,
so
He had
utterly obli-
that he inspired the recitation.
much and loved much in his profession and
word as he modestly gave his best in the daily
lived
hung upon
his
discussion.
We
wish that Pennsylvania had
—
Mark Creasy
many
great
spirits
like
and friend of youth and hu-
teacher, educator
manity.
Excerpts from the Chestertown, Md., High School Reflector
of January, 1930, Memorial edition
MARK
CREASY,
—
in loving
memory
of R.
Principal of Chestertown High School.
The Chestertown High School has lost her most valuable treaMr. Creasy was
sure, her best friend, the spirit of all her enterprise.
He was
a man of unusual ability, friendliness, and quiet enthusiasm.
always ready to help the struggling with his abundant store of experience, to urge the struggling on to endeavor, and to cheer the
downcast with a good story; keeping at the same time a steady balance with his wholesome common sense and enlivening all with his unfailing sense of humor.
His friendship was extended to every one, from the smallest and
most frightened Freshman to the most prominent Senior; from the
school’s “bad boy” to the most studious and well-behaved scholar.
When a person needed a friend, he always found one, ready to symMany a time he has pleaded that
pathize or correct, in Mr. Creasy.
another chance be given to some wayward boy, and when an evil-doer
confessed his guilt like a man, he never failed to honor the courage
required for such confession.
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Their (Mr. and Mrs. Creasy’s)
His hospitality was a proverb.
friends are legions, and those who have not experienced their friendship have missed something sweet, strong and beautiful.
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*
Mr. Creasy’s ideas of sportmanship meant everything to the
school.
He could not endure cheap flimsy excuses for failure to win
games. He taught the school to admit that the better team won the
game and, if its team lost, to grin and bear the defeat. When visiting teams came to the school, he encouraged the boys, and girls to
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be courteous to their visitors.
when
it
was cleanly and
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loved to win a game, but only
fairly played.
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There were always plans in his mind for the betterment of the
school conditions.
He bought more ground for the soccer field, of
which he was very proud.
There was no department in which he
was not profoundly interested.
There is no activity in the school
that will not suffer from his lose, and he will be remembered as a
helpful generous and sympathetic influence.
Our eyes may at length persuade us that he is not here, but our
hearts will never admit that he is dead, for he will in them, go on
with us in our struggles, giving us in spirit the same wise counsel and
friendliness, and helping us to fight for all that is good and worthy in
life.
So great was his personality, and such was our love for him,
that he will not and cannot die so long as we live and labor.
MARION D. BRYON For His Teachers.
.
.
.
.
.
.
—
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*
The real measure of the man is to be found in those qualities of
mind, heart and character which he manifested to every one who was
associated with him.
He believed in the idealism of youth. He labored heroically for
the enlightenment and encouragement of the young men and women
who came under his supervision and instruction. He believed in the
ultimate triumph of right over wrong; worked faithfully in the light
of this ideal in education, civics and religious endeavor; sought first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and died fighting the good
fight of faith.
He takes with him into the unseen world, as every man must do,
the record of his life lived among his fellows.
Mark Creasy has left
with us, however, the memory of his unselfish devotion to his duty.
Truly he was a man who at all times and everywhere gave his
strength to the weak, shared his experience gladly with the young,
gave his sympathy to the needy, and unfortunate, gave his substance
to worthy causes and gave his heart to God.
Surely his labor of
love and his life among us shall not have been in vain, for we who
follow on shall take renewed devotion from the example which this
good man has given us. We shall miss him from our friendly circles,
but we shall cherish the rich heritage and precious memories he has
left.
And we shall carry on, following the gleam of truth, love, and
goodness, which shone so beautifully from the life of our good leader of young people in this community.
J.
WRIGHT, Pastor.
HARRY
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*
The Alumni of the Chestertown High School offer their respect,
admiration and gratitude for Mr. Creasy’s long and untiring service
A truer friend and more efficient leader could
to the High School.
not have been found.
To his wise guidance, nnusual ability, and untiring efforts can be traced the success of many, many high school
undertakings.
Giving most of his time and energy to his work in the Chestertown High School his unselfish and kindly help has gained for him the
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undying gratitude of us
—the Alumni.
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*
ANNA BONWELL,
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Now that he is with us only in spirit, we shall try to keep up the
To have known him and to have been
standards he bequeathed us.
in daily contact with him has enriched all our lives.
NANCY JEAN USILTON,
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*
’30.
*
passing of Mark Creasy the world is poorer in
man, a gentleman, a teacher and an educator,
a rare and beautiful character whose
a friend of the children
In these
influence we fain would not have lost to the world.
days of superficial hurry, we need his life and his work to ponder on and grow wise in our work as teachers.
Truiy
that
has
it
in the
lost a
—
Mrs. Chester P. Martindale (Bertha M. Foulke), a
member
of
Normal School during the
administration of Dr. J. P. Welsh, died at her home in West
She is survived by her husChester Thursday, November 27.
band and one daughter, a Senior at Swarthmore College. Mrs.
Martindale was a graduate of the West Chester State Normal
School, in the Class of 1890, and came to Bloomsburg at the
same time that Dr. Welsh left West Chester to take up his duties
the faculty of the Bloomsburg State
as Principal at Bloomsburg.
Dr. Charles H. Fisher, former Principal of the
State
Bloomsburg
Normal School, and now President of the State Teachers
College at Bellingham, Washington, was in Bloomsburg renewing
acquaintances on Thursday, October 30.
Child Welfare Commission
named by
of the Teacher Training Division and
ington
in
Dr. Fisher
is
on the
Head
Wash-
President Hoover, as
was on
his
way
connection with the work of the commission.
to
ATHLETICS
team has closed the 930 season
two defeats, and one tie.
The first game, played at Kutztown, September 27, resulted
in a 19-14 victory for Bloomsburg, which was followed two
weeks later by a 19-0 victory over Millersville, at Bloomsburg.
The battle with Mansfield State Teachers College, fought on Mt.
Olympus field, resulted in a tie, with the score 6-6.
Bloomsburg’s prospects were then darkened by the fact
that a considerable number of her first line men were more or
less seriously injured; another player was declared ineligible
because he played last year on the team of another teachers
college, and several others were lost because of low scholarship.
The first defeat came when Bloomsburg came out with the
small end of a 13-0 score at California State Teachers College,
The Bloomsburg
football
with a record of four victories,
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The week following. Lock Haven,
on Saturday, October 25.
Bloomsburg has defeated with ease for the past several
years, turned the tables with a vengeance, and won, with the
whom
In this game ten of the regular men were absent
from the line-up, while Lock Haven was represented by the best
team she has had for many years.
In the last two games, the Maroon and Gold team came
The Home Coming Day proback with two brilliant victories.
gram on Saturday, November 8, was made a complete success
by the victory over Shippensburg. The score was 13-0.
Bloomsburg had the upper hand throughout the game, with
score 20-0.
first downs to three for Shippensburg.
The season came to a climax with a 13-6 victory over East
Stroudsburg Teachers College, the game being the principal feature of East Stroudsburg’s Home Coming Day, on Saturday,
November 15. The outstanding feature of this game was the
aerial attack launched by Bloomsburg, in which nineteen out of
thirty forward passes were successful, and gained a total of one
hundred fifty-four yards.
In the same game East Stroudsburg
sixteen
forward passes, completed two, with a gain of twentytwo yards, had two passes intercepted, and grounded six.
There is no doubt that, had it not been for the fact that so
many men were injured, the 930 season would have been the
Under the circumstances,
most successful one in many years.
the supporters of Bloomsburg feel that the team gave a splendid
tried ten
1
account of
itself.
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Another group of athletes that brought glory to Blooms-
The season was
burg this fall was the cross-country team.
opened at California State Teachers College, when the team
went there with the football team. Allen Parr, captain of the
team, came in an easy first in the six-mile race, with other
Bloomsburg runners taking third, fourth, seventh and eighth
places.
The second race was with Shippensburg, over a five-mile
In this race Bloomsburg took first, sec-
course at Bloomsburg.
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and sixth places. The following week
Bloomsburg again met Shippensburg at the latter institution, and
again won, taking first, second, third, fourth and seventh places.
Captain Parr added further glory to the Maroon and Gold
by taking sixth place in the Berwick Marathon on Thanksgiving
Day, coming in ahead of some of the best runners in the country.
ond,
third,
fourth,
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The basketball schedule includes
1
9 games, of which all
Of those four two
but four are with State Teachers Colleges.
are with the leading rival of Bloomsburg,
the opening
game
is
Wyoming Seminary,
with the fast veteran combination of
the
one game with college alumni.
State Teachers College in Pennsylvania
Danville Y. M. C. A., and there
is
There are 12 rival
and every one of them will be met in basketball with two exceptions, Clarion and Edinboro, two western schools.
If Bloomsburg can go through this schedule without a defeat there will be no question but that they can be undisputed
champions of the State in the Teachers College ranks.
The schedule follows
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Saturday, December 6
Danville Y. M. C. A.
Home.
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December
Saturday,
Alumni.
Home.
Friday, December 19
Indiana S. T. C.
Away.
Saturday, December 20
California S. T. C.
Away.
Saturday, January 10
Shippensburg S. T. C.
Away.
Friday, January 16
East Stroudsburg S. T. C.
Away.
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Saturday, January
Wyoming Seminary. Away.
Friday, January 23
Shippensburg S. T. C.
Home.
Kutztown S. T. C. (4:00 P. M.)
Saturday, January 24
Home.
Friday, January 30
Lock Haven S. T. C.
Home.
Saturday, January 31
Mansfield S. T. C.
Home.
Tuesday, February 3
Slippery Rock (4:00 P. M.)
Home.
Friday, February 6
East Stroudsburg.
Home.
Saturday, February 7
Kutztown S. T. C.
Away.
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—
February
—West
February 27 —Wyoming
Open.
February
March —
Friday, February 13
Friday, February
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Saturday,
Friday,
Indiana
Away.
Home.
Chester S. T. C.
Home.
Seminary.
Home.
S. T. C.
S. T. C.
28.
Saturday,
7
Saturday,
Home.
Millersville S. T. C.
NEW COMMERCIAL COURSE OPENS
With the opening of the
first
semester
in
September was
in-
augurated the department for the training and preparation of
Authorizateachers of Commercial Subjects at Bloomsburg.
tion for the opening of this course was given
Department of Public Instruction.
The object of the course
is
to
last
spring by the
prepare commercial teachers
for the public schools of Pennsylvania.
In
accordance with the
regulations of the State Council of Education approved
Decem-
1928, students graduating from a high school in 1930
cannot prepare for teaching commercial subjects by taking less
ber
7,
than a four-year course (or the equivalent) approved by
Department of Public
The course
offered at Bloomsburg
is
therefore a four-year
course and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science
The purpose
cation.
in
is
is
in
Edu-
not to compete with business colleges
preparing students for
above,
the
Instruction.
the business
world,
but, as
intended specifically to prepare them to
stated
teach com-
mercial subjects in high schools.
About
thirty-five students enrolled in the first
year of the
The enrollment is destined to attain large proportions in the next four years, by which time there will be students doing work in all four years of the curriculum.
course
this fall.
The curriculum offered
is
as follows
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23
Semester
Cr.
Hrs
Elementary and Intermediate Bookkeeping
Commercial Geography I
CM
English
CM
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Business Writing i}/2 hour)
Rapid Calculations (j/4 hour)
Introduction to Teaching
—
K>
CM
‘
Typewriting Theory
Physical Education
—
I
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1
Second Semester
Advanced Bookkeeping
Commercial Geography II
CM
English
do
II
Business Mathematics
CM
CM
I
Shorthand Theory I
Typewriting Theory II
Physicial Education (2)
CM
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Third Semester
Elementary Accounting
Business Organization
VjO
Business Correspondence
CM
Business Mathematics
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II
Shorthand Theory II
Typewriting Theory III
Physicial Education (3)
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Fourth Semester
Cost Accounting and Machine Bookkeeping
Business
Law
U)
I
Educational Biology
Economic History of the U. S.
Shorthand Theory and Practice III
Typewriting, Theory and Practice IV
Physicial Education (4)
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Fifth Semester
Advanced Accounting with Banking and Finance
American Government
2
3
3
3
Dictation, Office Practice, Typewriting Practice
3
Salesmanship and Advertising
3
Business
Law
II
Educational Psychology
Sixth Semester
Tests and Measurements
—
Teaching of Technique:
Methods in Bookkeeping
Methods in Shorthand
Methods in Typewriting
Purpose and Organization
Secondary Education
—
Economics
I
Secretarial Office Practice
Store Practice and Merchandising
Seventh Semester
Educational Administration and School
Law
Junior High School-Exploratory Courses
__
Educational Sociology
Economics
II
Clerical Business Practice
Professional Readings
Eighth Semester
12
Student Teaching and Conference
Extracurricular Activities
3
Professional Readings
2
Total Credit For Graduation and the Degree
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who has been selected as
new Department of Commercial Teacher
Professor Harvey A. Andruss,
the Director of our
Training, comes to us from the State Teachers College, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, where through his experience in the training and
supervision of commercial teachers he has gained accurate first-
hand information
as to the
secondary school demand for prop-
erly trained commercial teachers.
Before coming to the Department at Indiana, Professor
Andruss had a wide range of experience as Principal of High
Schools at Gotebo, Maramee, and Tipton, Oklahoma; as Head
of the Commerce Department of Ponca City High School, Ponca
City, Oklahoma and as an Instructor and Lecturer in the North;
western University School of Commerce, Chicago, 111.
Professor Andruss received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
and a Certificate in Public and Private Business from the University of
Oklahoma
in
1
924.
Prior to that time he
had graduated
from the Draughon’s Practical Business College, Dallas, Texas.
He also holds the degree of Business Administration from the
Northwestern University School of Commerce, and, in addition,
has one year’s work toward the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The quality of his academic preparation is evidenced by his
membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary scholastic fraternity; the Kappa Delta Pi-Honorary educational fraternity;
Honorary commerce fraternity
the Beta Gamma Sigma
the
Gamma Rho Tau Honorary and professional business educa-
—
—
—
tion fraternity;
the
Pi
;
Omega
Pi
—
Professional
Teacher fraternity; and the Beta Alpha Psi
—
Commercial
Professional
ac-
counting fraternity.
Professor Andruss has contributed to
educational magazines and periodicals.
many
business
and
His most recent con-
a series of three articles dealing with
methods of
appeared
in The Balance Sheet, a magazine for commercial teachers.
As
the result of the demand for these articles, they are combined in
an educational monograph “How to Use Practice Sets in the
Teaching of Bookkeeping.”
tribution
is
teaching bookkeeping.
The
first
article of this series
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The Business Problems Committee of the Investment BankAndruss in 1927 to investigate cost accounting practices among its members.
For a period of a year he visited a large number of the leading investment banking concerns in the United States studying business
conditions and accounting practices.
The results of this iners Association selected Professor
vestigation will be used in formulating a uniform
ing system to be used
cost account-
A
by the members of the Association.
private accounting practice dealing with the Pennsylvania Se-
Commission has acquainted Professor Andruss with z
knowledge of corporate business practices in this State.
This combination of teaching and business experience
coupled with adequate academic preparation fits Professor Andruss to head our new Department for training Commercial
curities
Teachers.
NEW HEATING SYSTEM INSTALLED
Work on
exception of the
the past
new heating system, a project that, with the
new Training School building, is the largest in
the
two years,
is
rapidly nearing completion.
When
it
is
completed, every building on the campus, with the exception oi
the laundry, will be heated from the one plant.
The power house has been enlarged to make room for adand new machinery, including a boiler feed
A new stack, 125
water heater and pumps, has been installed.
ditional boilers,
feet in height, has
been erected
to provide additional
draught
for the furnaces.
up with trenches since August,
that it made one think of the Western Front. The trenches were
dug to make possible the installation of new underground heat
Concrete floors were laid in the
transmission service lines.
The mains have
trenches before the mains were put in place.
been thoroughly insulated and covered with steel sheeting and
This work has just been completed and, in the words
concrete.
The campus has been
so cut
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Henry Ford, “we hope to have the boys out of the trenches
by Christmas.”
Other projects have been the constructioin of a paved road
from the upper end of the porch on East Second Street to a
point beyond North Hall.
The bank along East Second Street, south of the tennis
courts, has been cut back eight feet, and a concrete walk laid
from the new paved road up to Spruce Street, thus making the
new Training School of more easy access. Another walk has
been laid to the west entrance of the Training School from the
paved road, passing between North Hall and the tennis courts.
A new playground for the Training School children has
Considerable
been laid out just south of the Athletic Field.
grading has also been done at various points on the campus, the
grading having been made necessary by the various projects
above mentioned.
of
THE ALUMNI ROOM
At the
was made
posal was
1
929 meeting
to furnish
of the
an Alumni
Alumni Association, a proposal
Room
enthusiastically passed,
at the College.
This pro-
and Prof. Bakeless was made
chairman of a committee to take charge of the furnishing of the
room.
The classes in reunion that year all made pledges
amounting to over $800.
The classes in reunion in 1930
were also called upon, and pledged their support.
The room, formerly Room K, has been beautifully furnished, and was dedicated on Home Coming Day, November 8.
Professor Bakeless, with the assistance of Miss Gray, of the Art
Department, has been working hard for over a year, planning
room and selecting the furnishings.
room were profuse in their admiration of
the
that has
A
done.
All
who
visited
the fine piece of
the
work
been done.
very important piece of work, however, remains to be
The
total cost of
furnishing the
room
will
amount
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amount, about one-fourth has been paid
still remains to
be
collected.
It is hoped, first of all, that all classes which have
made pledges to the project will take immediate steps to make
good their pledges. It is further hoped that the classes meeting
in 1931
1932, and 1933, will immediately begin to plan to assume their share in the successful completion of the project.
The purpose of this beautifully furnished room is three-
Of
about $4000.
A
in.
this
considerable amount on the pledges
,
fold:
First.
of the
To provide comfortable
Alumni upon returning
To make
Second.
quarters for the fellowship
to their
Alma Mater.
possible the preservation
exhibit of various trophies,
and
and proper
treasures, thus maintaining the
cherished traditions of the institution.
Third.
To provide
a pleasant and comfortable
room
for
the use of the Faculty of the College.
Show your
Alumni!
Bakeless and his committee.
loyalty!
If
Get
behind
Professor
you have seen the room,
tell
you have not seen it, ask those who have;
Send your gift
they will tell you what a fine contribution it is.
to Professor Bakeless, and appoint yourself a committee of one
to stir up enthusiasm among the Alumni of your locality.
others about
it.
If
Haas has accepted the invitation of Henry P.
of the Christmas Seal sale in Pennsylvania,
chairman
Fletcher,
to serve on the Seal Committee again this year.
Dr. Francis B.
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1876
and Mrs.
Prof,
F. H.
Jenkins are looking forward to cele-
brating the Fiftieth Anniversary of their wedding at their home,
216 West
Fifth Street,
December 22,
at
8:00
Bloomsburg, Pa., on Monday evening,
o’clock.
1877
1
Margaret N. Richards (Mrs. F. D. Lamb) died January 27,
929.
It was only a short time ago that news of her death was
sent to the
QUARTERLY
by her
son, Frederick D.
Lamb, Secre-
tary of the Railroad Branch of the Y. M. C. A. at Rochester, N.
Y.
Mr. Lamb also states that his mother had the distinction of
being the
State
first
woman
Normal School.
to
be valedictorian
at
the
Bloomsburg
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1892
The home
of Miss
Martha Robinson, who for many years
work at Higgins, N. C.,
was completely destroyed by fire at 3:00 o’clock Wednesday
morning, October 22.
The fire, of unknown origin, had made
considerable headway when discovered, and Miss Robison,
and a little boy whom she had taken to rear after his parents
died, were forced to flee in their night clothing.
In addition to
Sunshine Cottage,” where Miss Robinson lived, all of the furnishings, including books and clothing, were destroyed.
Miss
Robinson had a fine library, and an appeal has been sent out to
her friends to send her any books which might help her in h
work.
Miss Robinson has been carrying on her work under the
Presbyterian Board of Missions.
has been doing a fine piece of missionary
'
1893
Alice Fenner
is
2029 Highland
is
now
living in Allentown, Pa.
Her address
Street.
1899
Charles E. Keefer lives at 5
1
7
Washington Avenue, Walla
Walla, Washington.
1900
Jean A. Beagle (Mrs. W. C. Leach) has moved from California and is now living at 432 South McArthur Street, Macomb,
Illinois.
Harry D. Keefer
lives at
361 Light Street Road, Blooms-
burg.
1901
Miss
Mary
member of the Bloomsburg High
member of the class of three hundred
G. Beiig, a
School faculty, was a
which graduated August 5 from Rider College, Trenton, N. J.
Miss Beiig completed a four-year course, and received the baccalaureate degree in commercial education.
1
1905
Inez Robbins Wilson
is
living
on a farm near
Millville, Pa.
:
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1907
E. Louise Jolly
Jose, California.
is
now
living at
Miss Jolly
is
1248 Lincoln Avenue, San
in the Alameda High
nineteen hundred students,
a teacher
School, which has an enrollment of
and a faculty of one hundred.
Artemesia Bush is teaching
in Patterson, N. J.
1908
Ida M. Dreibelbis (Mrs. William DeLong) lives at 1201
Her husband, a member of the
West Front Street, Berwick.
They have one
Class of 1903, is in the insurance business.
now
daughter,
in the
eighth grade.
Nellie Deighmiller (Mrs. C. R. Stecker) lives at
Fourth Street, Bloomsburg.
of 1893,
ter,
who
is
is
Carol
St.
Mr. Stecker, a
member
223 West
of the Class
They have one daugh-
a merchant in Bloomsburg.
member of the Class of 1925.
Krum (Mrs. Frank Buck) lives at 50 Macaris
a
Augustine, Florida.
Mr. Buck
is
a
civil
engineer,
Street,
and
is
connected with the Florida East Coast Railroad.
She writes
“The weather here is delightful, and I shall be glad to see any
classmates coming to Florida this winter.”
Mr. and Mrs. Buck
have two sons, one in sixth grade, and one in the eighth grade.
Class letters sent to Francesco C. L. Petrilli and J. Wesley
have been returned to the committee marked “Moved, no
This adds two more “lost” classmates to our list.
address.”
Sitler
Anyone
learning the address of either of these will please
municate with any
member
com-
of the committee, or with Mr. Jen-
kins.
Lucretia Christian (Mrs.
W.
T.
Wooters)
lives at
601 North
Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Joanna Beddall Watkins
lives at
1110 Michigan Avenue,
Pasadena, California.
1909
George I. Williams has been connected with the Justin
Leather Goods Company, of Nocony, Texas, for the past eight
years.
His travels take him through all the states of the Middle
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His address
West.
is
Box 1205, Omaha, Nebraska.
Mr. Wil-
liams would be glad to get in touch with any of his Bloomsburg
friends
who
live in that part of the country.
M. Reinee Potts (Mrs. 0.
B.
Jacob)
lives in
Folsom, Dele-
lives at
1547 Farwell
ware County, Pa.
1911
Edna Lewis (Mrs. E. J. Robinson)
Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A clinic for crippled children, sponsored by the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Ciub, was held in July at the Bloomsburg Hospital.
The work was in charge of Dr. Harry Alexander Smith, of
Wilkes-Barre, a noted orthopedic specialist.
Dr. Smith studied
abroad for four years under Sir Robert Jones, of London, at the
London Orthopedic Hospital, and is now orthopedist at the
General Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, where he holds weekly clinics.
He also has charge of the Kiwanis Club Clinic at Nanticoke.
The Rev.
service which
C. Carroll Bailey was the principal speaker at a
was the climax of a rally week program, held at
the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church, Bloomsburg, during the
month of October. Mr. Bailey is pastor of the Faith Evangelical
Church, at Baltimore, Md.
1912
A
daughter was born in September to Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Mrs. Bachinger, before her marBachinger, of Bloomsburg.
riage,
was Miss Teresa
Daily.
P. Clive Potts, Principal of the
Maryland State School
for
the Blind, Overlea, Maryland, received the degree of Ph. D. at
John Hopkins University last June.
Laura Houghton (Mrs. W. E. Peacock) lives in East
Stroudsburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Peacock have three children,
one of whom is in the Senior High School, and two in the Junior
High.
1913
A
son was born
in
September
to Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Barnett,
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of San
Mazie
Diego,
Mrs.
California.
Barnett
was formerly Miss
Bloomsburg.
Phillips, of
1916
The engagement of Miss Martha V. Yetter and Harry E.
Miss Yetter is a member
Rider, ’04, was announced recently.
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg Junior High School, and Mr.
Rider
is
Principal of the Fifth Street School, Bloomsburg.
Anna A.
F.
Rusk (Mrs. Paul
J.
Fitzpatrick) of 41 19 13th
from
Her husband
Place, N. E., Brookland, D. C., received her A. B. degree
the Catholic University of Washington in June.
is
a professor in the same institution.
Mildred Helen Williams (Mrs. Willis Pettibone) died unexpectedly Sunday,
November
Avenue, Forty Fort.
Mrs. Pettibone
2, at
was employed
School, Kingston.
her home,
1127 Wyoming
After her graduation from Bloomsburg,
She
is
Maple Street
by her husband and two
as a teacher at the
survived
daughters.
Hilda
Clark (Mrs.
Elmer Fairchild)
lives at
333 Front
Street, Milton, Pa.
1918
Jane Williams
(Mrs. Charles Perry)
lives at
729 Main
Street, Edwardsville, Pa.
1919
wedding ceremony performed at the home of the bride
Wednesday morning, October 29, Miss Helen Meixell, of Beach
Haven, became the bride of James D. Bower, of Berwick.
The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. L. Hemmig, pastor of
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Berwick.
Mrs. Bower has for a
number of years been a teacher in the Berwick schools. Mr.
Bower is employed in the engineering department of the American Car and Foundry Company, at Berwick.
In a
1920
Miss Myrtle Dent and Paul M. Trembly, both of Espy, Pa.,
were married Saturday, September 20, at Williamsport.
Since
her graduation, the bride has been employed in the office of the
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Bloomsburg
office of the
Mr. Trembley is employed in the general
American Car and Foundry Company, at Berwick.
Silk Mill.
Lawrence V. Keefer, of Catawissa, and Miss Edith L.
Lemon, of Uniontown, were married Monday, June 23, in the
Central Christian Church at Uniontown, by the pastor, the Rev.
W. H. McKinney. The bride is a graduate of North Union High
School, and of the State Teachers College at California, Pa.
She has been teaching in the schools of Redstone Township.
Mr. Keefer received his M. A. degree at the University of Michigan in 929, after having previously received the A. B. degree
i
1
at the University of Utah.
versity of Michigan,
This
where he
fall
will
he
will return
to the Uni-
study for his Ph. D. degree
I
in
English.
In a very pretty wedding solemnized in the Espy Methodist
Church Wednesday, June 18, Miss Grace Gotshall became the
For the
bride of the Rev. Foster Pannebaker, of Lewistown.
past three years the bride has been a teacher in the Morrisdale
school.
Mr. Pannebaker is a graduate of Dickinson Seminary
He is pastor of the Maderaand is a Senior at Juniata College.
I
Glen Hope Charge.
Ruth
E.
Titman, of Bloomsburg, and Rollin E. Deitrich, of
home of the bride Wednesday evenThe Rev. Harry F. Babcock, of Bloomsburg,
assisted by Dr. E. A. Martin, of Tunkhannock, performed the
ceremony in the presence of the members of the two families
and a few relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Deitrich are now
living at 140 Market Street, Bloomsburg.
Espy, were married at the
ing,
I
October 29.
1921
Miss Helen Welliver is now a member of the faculty of the
She received the degree of Bachelor of
Berwick High School.
Science in Education at Bucknell University last June.
1923
Miss Helen
I.
Harmon and Maurice
wick, were married June 25, by the Rev.
E.
Bowes, both of BerJ. Cambpell, pastor
W.
I
\
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of the North Berwick United Evangelical Church.
is
Mr. Bowes
Wyoming Seminary, and
employed in the
is
American Car and Foundry Company,
Mr. and Mrs. Bowes are now living in their newly
a graduate of
audit department of the
at Berwick.
furnished
home
in Fifteenth Street,
Berwick.
Miss Vera Parker and Relbert Shultz,
both
of
Berwick,
Mrs. Shultz
were married September 20, at Sonestown, Pa.
has been teaching in the Berwick schools since her graduation
at
Bloormburg.
1924
At 3 00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, July 30, in the Reformed Church of Bloomsburg, Pa., Miss Margaret E. Keefer, of
Bloomsburg, Pa., became the bride of the Rev. John C. BrumThe cerebach, pastor of the Bloomsburg Reformed Church.
mony was performed by the Rev. John K. Adams. Mrs. Brum:
bach taught for several years
Rev. Brumbach
at
Central
Park,
Long
Island.
graduate of the Reading High School,
Franklin and Marshall College, and the Theological Seminary of
He has been pastor of
the Reformed Church, at Lancaster, Pa.
is
a
Reformed Church since December, 1927. Mr.
and Mrs. Brumbach are now living at the parsonage on East
the Bloomsburg
Third Street.
Miss Virginia Gallen, of Bloomsburg, and Alan T. Knight,
were married Saturday, August 6 in St.
by the Rev. J. Thomas
Heistand.
Mrs. Knight has been teaching in the Marcus Hook
schools.
Mr. Knight is a graduate of Drexel Institute and is a
construction engineer in the employ of the Sun Oil Company.
of Clayton, Delaware,
1
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg,
He is at present in charge of construction of the new plant of the
company at Marcus Hook. Mr. and Mrs. Knight are now living
at
Palace and Brookview Avenues, Claymont, Delaware.
Ruth Tempest and R. Wayne McLaughlin, of Oakland,
Iowa, were married at the Valley Forge Memorial Chapel last
Mrs. McLaughlin, before her marriage, was a member
June.
Lower Merion Township, Merion, Pa.
The year following her graduation from Bloomsburg, she served
of the teaching staff of
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Primary Supervisor in the Training School.
Mr.
McLaughlin is a graduate of Iowa State University, and is now
a mechanical engineer at the General Electric Company, Scheas Assistant
nectady, N. Y.
Sara E. Smull (Mrs. Eugene E. Free)
Pa.,
where her husband
is
is
living in Danville,
employed by the Penna. Power and
Light Co.
1925
Miss
Maryan
Hart, of Berwick, and
James W.
were
by
Mrs. Miller has been
Miller,
married June 25, in the First Methodist Church, of Berwick,
Dr. R. Skyles Oyler, pastor of the church.
Berwick since her graduation.
Mr. Miiller, a gradis employed by the American Car
and Foundry Company at Cleveland as sales engineer. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller are now living at 2225 Clifton Boulevard, Lakewood, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sabilla Schobert (Mrs. Earl Campbell) is now living at
310-A “The Manor,” Alden Park, Germantown, Pa.
Miss Margaret Eyerly and Ralph B. Aul, both of Espy, Pa.,
were married Monday, June 30, by the Rev. John J. Weikel,
pastor of the Espy Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Aul has been a successful teacher in the schools of Scott Township, Columbia
County.
Mr. Aul is a traveling salesman.
They will make
teaching
in
uate of Penn State College,
1
their
home
is
Espy.
Miss Marie Karns, of Benton, and Stanley Wright, formerly
of Benton, and now of Windsor, Vermont, were married at
The bride has been teaching
Windsor, Wednesday, June 25.
while
Wright
Mr.
is at present manager of the
since graduation,
Newberry
store at Windsor.
1926
Saturday morning, October 18, at
St.
Gabriel’s
Church,
Hazleton, Miss Margaret M. McLaughlin, of Hazleton, and Ray-
mond W.
George, of Scranton, were married by the Rev. Father
Leo Gilroy.
staff of the
Mrs. George has been a
Kline Township schools.
member
of.
Mr. George
is
the teaching
manager of
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37
Company.
Miss Geraldine Aul and Carl M. Davis, both of Espy, were
married Wednesday, June 25,
John’s Lutheran Church,
in St.
The ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev. J.
Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Davis left on
Weikel.
Espy.
J.
a tour of the
eral years in
New England
Mr. Davis, a graduate of State Col-
Hershey, Pa.
lege, has served during the past
ervisor,
and
is
now
Orangeville, Pa.,
Mrs. Davis taught for sev-
States.
two years
as agricultural sup-
Principal of the Vocational High School
where he and Mrs. Davis now
Miss Viola Quick, of Fairmount Springs, and Harland
Franklin, of
Harwood, were united
Rev. Robert
S.
dale.
in
at
reside.
J.
marriage, July 15, by the
Boyce, pastor of the Methodist Church of Hones-
The bride has been teaching
Mossville school.
for several years
in the
Mr. Frankiin holds a position with the
J. J.
Linebach Construction Company, at Hazleton.
1927
The Stevens Memorial Church at New Columbus was the
scene of a pretty wedding at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening,
October 20, when Miss Esther Chaplin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Ward Chaplin, of New Columbus, became the bride of
Edward C. Laubach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Laubach,
of Benton.
Rev.
J.
R. Stoudt, pastor of the church, officiated,
using the ring ceremony.
The bride was
a successful teacher
Benton schools.
The groom is a
graduate of the Benton Vocational High School and Pennsylvania State College and is assistant head of the sales personnel department of the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Laubach will make their home in Philafor the past three years in the
home after December first at their newly
home on Arbor Street, Yeagon, a Philadelphia suburb.
delphia and will be at
furnished
1928
Marjorie Vanderslice
is
Marjorie Ellen Wallize
teaching in the Lewisburg schools.
and Mr. Francis Paul Prettyleaf
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were married October 22, 1930, in New York City. Mrs. Prettyleaf, before her marriage, was a teacher in the Granville
Township schools, Mifflin County. Mr. Prettyleaf is a graduate
of the Pennsylvania State College, Class of 1927, and is manager of the Lewistown Wholesale Grocery Company.
Mr. and
make
Mrs. Prettyleaf will
their
home with
the bride’s parents
until the first of the year.
Kathryn M. Abbett is a teacher in the Center Township
Her home address is Rupert,
High School, Columbia County.
Pa.
1929
Moore
Ethel
teaching seventh
is
grade
in the
schools
at
Nescopeck, Pa.
Lester Devine
Ruth
P.
is
Gardner
teaching
in
Berwick.
a teacher in the schools at Dalton.
is
1930
J.
Fred Berger
is
Principal of the
fine
new DeLong Me-
morial School at Washingtonville, Pa., dedicated
Friday,
No-
The new school, modern in every detail, is the gift
of Frank E. DeLong, and replaces seven one-room schools that
were formerly in use in Washingtonville and Derry Township.
vember 28.
Thursabert Schuyler
is
teaching in
the
high
school
at
Damascus, Pa.
Winifred Follmer
is
teaching at Brooklyn, Pa.
Haven Fortner and Jasper
grade, while Mr. Fritz
athletics.
Fritz are teaching in the schools
Mr. Fortner
of Osceola Mills, Pa.
is
is
teaching
in
the seventh
teacher in the high school and coach of
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Baker,
Captain
Shepella,
TEAM
Wanbaugh,
Golder,
BASKETBALL
Wilson,
Booth,
Warman,
Coach
CHAMPION
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Right:
Right:
Liptzer.
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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
MARCH, 1931
Vol. 32
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
BLOOMSBURG WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Statistics
show
clearly the great
power of the Bloomsburg
this year won,
State Teachers College basketball team which
Keydecade
clean-cut, the championship of the teachers colleges in the
stone State.
Bloomsburg teams four times
in the past
have had leading claims to the honors but never has a Maroon
and Gold team so cleverly dominated the field as the 1930-31
combination.
Bloomsburg compiled
This gave the local
a total of 81 0 points to 3 3 for opponents.
boys an average of 45 points per game, 6 points more than
Their average was 29 points
opponents were able to gather.
per game.
The teams met during the season included every state
teachers college in the state except Edinboro and Clarion in the
West Chester defeated by
west and West Chester in the east.
both Mansfield and Kutztown, was on the original schedule, but
Winners
in
1
7 of their
1
8
contests,
1
1
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when Bloomsburg was unable to argame at West Chester as that institu-
cancelled during the season
range a suitable date for a
tion requested.
There was no outstanding star for Bloomsburg.
man was
Every
was the great passing attack
that carried the team through.
Opposing clubs had some outstanding long shots, but that kind of a game was not good
enough to offset the machine-like passing attack of Bloomsburg.
Captain Wanbaugh, Columbia boy, and the lanky youngster around whom the Bloomsburg offense was started, was high
He had 228 points. These were made up
scorer of the team.
of 97 field goals and 34 foul goals.
In foul shooting Wanbaugh proved the most accurate on the club, making 34 of 59
a star in his position.
It
attempts.
Mahanoy City, rounding out four years of
varsity play at the College, was second in line, with 224 points.
Then came Kirker, also of Columbia, with 54 points. Kirker
Yocabonis, of
1
was not
who so well handforward during Kirker’s absence, had 57
Rudowski, of Newport, who played at both forward
in five of
led the duties
points.
games played.
the
Wilson,
at
and guard, collected 40 points.
Shepella, of Newport township, with 33 points was next
in scoring and then came Golder, of town, back guard, with 32.
Others who have contributed to the 810 points were Warman,
of Scranton, with 7 Baker, of Columbia, with 0 and Yaretski,
Carr, Luzerne, a Freshman, was the
of Glen Lyon, with 15.
1
eleventh
The
member
1
;
of the sqaud.
starting combination in the majority of the
games was
Yocabonis and Kirker at forward, Wanbaugh at center and
Golder and Shepella at guards.
This was a brilliant team and
was the stronger because there was
excellent material for re'
serve duties.
Of the eighteen games, seven of them were away from
home and five of these were played early in the season and
The fourth of these games, that
were consecutive contests.
:
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with East Stroudsburg, was the only one
lost
3
but
when
the
team
returned from the road trip with four decisive victories against
the lone setback,
it
had already established for
itself
a place
with the greatest basketball teams Bloomsburg has ever pro-
duced.
Of eleven varsity men, coach
T.
W. Booth, coaching
his
by graduation in June.
They are Kirker, Colder, Yocabonis, Baker and
Wilson.
Wanbaugh, of the first stringers, has one more year
as does Rudowski while Alex Shepella has two more years
ahead.
With the six members of the varsity squad remaining
together with some fine material from the Junior Varsity, undefeated in 12 games, Bloomsburg appears to have material for
second championship
five in three years, will lose five
another great team.
and
The team in making the 810 points made 318 field goals
74 of 344 fouls. The foul shooting average was just
1
over the .50 mark.
The individual scoring af each member of the team, as
compiled by Morris Liptzer, of Catawissa, the student manager,
follows
G.
F. G.
Pts.
34-59
40-73
44-80
3-12
16-29
228
224
13
7-21
14-32
9-17
33
32
Warman
9
4
Yareski
5
5-13
2-8
Wanbaugh
Yocabonis
Kirker
97
92
55
27
_
_
.
Wilson
Rudowski
_
Shepella
Golder
Baker
Carr
Total
_
_
12
4
0
318
0-0
1
74-344
154
57
40
17
15
10
0
810
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The team record follows:
M. C. A. 21 at Bloomsburg.
Alumni 34, at Bloomsburg.
B. S. T. C. 38, Danville Y.
B. S. T. C. 70,
,
B. S. T. C. 24, Indiana S. T. C. 23, at Indiana.
B. S. T. C. 42, California S. T. C. 30, at California.
B. S. T. C. 49,
Shippensburg
East Stroudsburg
S. T. C.
S. T. C.
42, B.
1
6, at Shippensburg.
T.
S.
C.
29, at East
Stroudsburg.
B. S. T. C. 44,
Wyoming Seminary
B. S. T. C. 60,
Shippensburg
B. S. T. C. 38,
Kutztown S.
Lock Haven
B. S. T. C. 47,
S.
21
at Kingston.
,
T. C. 34, at Bloomsburg.
T. C. 34, at Bloomsburg.
S. T. C.
27, at Lock Haven.
B. S. T. C. 53, Mansfield S. T. C. 37, at
B. S. T. C. 55, Slippery
B. S. T. C. 64, East
Rock
S. T. C.
Stroudsburg
Bloomsburg.
40, at Bloomsburg.
S. T. C.
41,
at
Blooms-
burg.
B. S. T. C. 27,
B. S. T. C. 42,
Kutztown S. T. C. 26, at Kutztown.
Lock Haven S. T. C. 20, at Lock Haven.
B. S. T. C. 42, Indiana S. T. C. 22, at
B. S. T. C. 47,
Wyoming Seminary
Bloomsburg.
24, at Bloomsburg.
B. S. T. C. 29, Millersville S. T. C. 23, at
Totals:
—
B. S. T. C.,
Bloomsburg.
810; Opponents, 515.
Harvey A. Andruss, head of the Commercial Department,
at the meeting of the commercial department of the secondary schools at the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, held at Williamsport, December 31,1 930.
At
the same meeting. Prof. Andruss was elected vice-president of
spoke
the commercial section in the state.
Dr. Nell Maupin, of the
dressed the
meeting held
Turbotville
Department of Social Studies, ad-
Parent-Teacher Association at
Wednesday evening February 25.
their
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MARION
many
the
force-
connected
personalities
ful
with
Bloomsburg State
the
Normal
School
fifty-five
years of existence,
is
of
that
Imrie,
the
M. IMRIE
Teacher and Social Worker.
Artist,
Among
5
during
Marion M.
charge of
Miss
who was
its
in
Department during
She was a
Art
the year 1878-9.
socially
strong teacher;
charming;
and
a
cultured
woman.
At
this
time the vivid
lessons of the Centennial Ex-
position at Philadelphia,
still
were
disturbing the American
who was only too
aware of the smugness
ind complacency of the masseducator,
well
es of
our people
in their isolation
exposition had given the nation a
leaders
many
needs,
many
mart could be assured.
from world movements.
jolt.
It had suggested
changes, ere our place
The older and
Asia and Europe, as manifested
in this
in the
The
to
our
world’s
richer civilizations of
great exposition, reveal-
ed also our crudeness, our slight development artistically. Their
treasures in art, their products in every field of industry, their
superior
To many
skill,
all
tended
to give us vision
of our workers for the
first
time
and new standards.
came
the possibilities
of form, color, design, in manufactured
Our eyes were opened
to
and industrial products.
the great domain of beauty; new
needs appeared; necessities for training,
skill,
growth, develop-
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ment, became apparent,
our commerce might hope to com-
if
pete successfully with older nations.
textiles and other products, saw defects in
had been overlooked before. Museums and
new schools of design were founded in many cities. Art classes
grew.
The few art schools in the country caught a new vision
and enlarged their fields. Public schools, in the more intelligent centers began to modernize and extend their courses.
The
truth dawned upon many that art was an every-day subject,
Manufacturers of
their
work
that
touching our
common
life in
intimate relations
;
ed commerce, industry and manufacture; that
that
it
it
enchanc-
was a part
of
even the poor man’s daily existence, in his dress, his furnishings,
and home life that with knowledge, right ideals and standards,
;
good
taste
is
as easily cultivated as
power
anter to dwell with; that
taste, and much pleasenchance the quality of a
bad
to
product need not militate against the quantity produced, and
would gain a more ready market for that product.
was
Bloomsburg State Normal
management, (D. J. Waller had become the young and enthusiastic principal of the budding institution), decided that art courses in the Normal Schools of the
State ought to be live, practical courses, so equipping the teachers of the State that they might carry the new message to the
It
just at this time that the
School, under a change of
children of the masses
whether
in
in the training
penmanship.
—
vision,
taste,
appreciation of beauty
The length of the course then offered
schools was only sixteen weeks of drawing and
The teacher in charge of the work tried in that
nature or
art.
time to give the candidate for the teacher’s profession something
and taste, if not skill, in drawing and writThe crude pupils were earnest and receptive; and more
was done in the brief time than instructors and school authoriThe leven planted silently stirred the mass to life.
ties knew.
of ideals, standards
ing.
We
have gone far
great laps to go
;
in this
field for
our children;
we
still
have
but our children are slowing coming into their
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aesthetic inheritence, because of this small
this
at hand.
and faraway begin-
wisdom of discerning educators.
ning, through the
At
7
opportune time a
woman
work was
unknown, stepped
qualified for this
Somehow, somewhere, out
of the
Miss Marion M. Imrie, a refined and intelligent
an, blue-eyed, auburn-haired,
awake, active;
little
trained and ready for the task school had set in
tips;
departure for
its
in the fall of
1878.
department.
art
wom-
Scotch
artist to the finger
Her early training she had gained
native Scotland, ere she cast her lot
among
new
its
Miss Imrie assumed her
work
in
her
us about 1870, in
her fifteenth year.
She sketched from naShe was a very versatile teacher.
She understood
She instructed in oil and water color.
She made it a means
designing, and was creative in that field.
of opening the eyes of her pupils to the wonders of form and
color; of line and surface; of light and shade. She taught them
She apto see, and interpret what they saw in various media.
preciated good line and arrangement in architecture, and helped
ture.
She knew the history of art,
But most of all did she
and opened that field to her classes.
know and understand the principles of design, and how to make
this field interesting to her classes, and a never-failing source of
pleasure to them in their daily life.
her pupils to see and enjoy them.
She was one of those rare teachers who believed in the inexpected results creditall her students
herent artistic ability of
able from
time,
all
;
and secured them.
and her pupils
ability,
or lack of
to do, to enjoy their surroundings,
a
skill
as a teacher,
and her
She made the most of her
it.
All learned to see,
because of her charm and
faith in their inherent ability.
The
world to every one of them became a richer place to live in;
and their usefulness as teachers was enhanced because of her
faith in their power to do, and her enthusiasm for this great field
she
knew
so well
;
loved so wisely.
Her pupils reverenced
her.
Their best efforts, however poor, were accepted by her with
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dignified constructive criticism,
and a
sincerity that enriched
their next effort.
Miss Imrie was born at Colmonell, Ayer, Scotland, about
known
and education. She
we have already
said.
An "In Memoriam” card which fell into the hands of
the writer, gave the fact that her mother, Marion Jameison, widow of John Barton Imrie, who died at Royal Bank House, Ayer,
on the 21st of May 1892, in her sixty-eighth year, was interred
1855.
Little
is
of her early
to
in the
church-yard at Colmonell.
America
in
life
her early womanhood, as
came
In the old family Bible, brought
Psalms
in
from Scotland, are the
metric form as sung in the Presbyterian service of the
Scottish church.
Some remnants
of poetry, written
by her
fath-
er remain, and suggest where her poetic and artistic tempera-
ment
is
derived.
Her family was a
for beauty, for poetry, for
all
religious one.
Her love
things that stir ones finer nature,
no doubt influenced her choice of a profession and her subselife work.
quent training and
After leaving Bloomsburg, Miss Imrie took up her residence and work in Ohio where she married Mr. Vernon C. Ward.
She lived for sometime in Columbus. Her family later moved to
Chicago, where she died August, 1906, leaving a son Vernon
C. Jr.,
and a daughter Elizabeth H. Ward.
Those who knew of her work say that she spent some time
this study was a beautiful head of
Christ.
She was represented at the Paris Exposition by two
panels, "The Trossachs,” and two other small paintings of
Her work was also represented at the ColumScottish scenery.
in
study abroad. The result of
bia Exposition in
Chicago,
in
1893.
One
of her paintings
"Oranges and Lemons” was a prize-winner at the San Francisco
She had a collection of hand painted china at the
Atlanta Exposition that attracted attention, and received compliShe had an
mentary notice in the southern papers at the time.
exposition.
exhibition also at the St. Louis Exposition.
a
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Mrs.
9
Ward sponsored the movement for the single moral
when such ideas were not considered
standard for both sexes
She was the founder of an organization,
Order of the Four P’s,” (Patience, Perseverance,
Purity, Prayer), January 1896 at Columbus, Ohio, which was
the outgrowth of a religious awakening there among the young
with popular favor.
called the
people
in
‘
1895.
The object
among
was
of the order
whom we
to raise the standard of morals
There
were sixteen character members “Patriots of Purity,” all memThe movement had quite a
bers of her Sunday School Class.
those with
associate, especially youth.
following jn other churches at the time.
was always inspiring and uplifting,
young people among whom she worked. She was a
woman of high ideals, and forceful character; in vision far
ahead of her times. She believed in and advocated prohibition,
when as yet is was only a name. She wore among the first, the
Mrs. Ward’s influence
with
all
white ribbon of the
W.
C. T. U.
—
She was preeminently an artist and a teacher of art,
worthy FIRST among the many excellent art teachers who have
served “Bioomsburg ” during its work in this field for sixty years.
She
left
her impress on our institution.
Her memory
is
a bene-
diction to her pupils as they in their teaching labor on in the
cause of truth and beauty.
among
Pennsylvania
is
better for her
work
us.
0.
H.
BAKELESS.
Dr. C. F. Hoban, Director of Visual Education in the Department of Public Instruction, spoke at the College Assembly
Friday morning, January 23.
Dr.
Hoban
greater use of visual aids to education.
trations
from
his recent trip to
stressed the need for
He drew many
illus-
Europe, and from the point
of
view of visual education, discussed the technique of teaching
in the schools of Europe as compared with those in America.
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IRENE GEORGIA KAHLER
Teacher and Inspirer of Youth.
Irene Georgia Kahler, teacher of mathematics in the
Bloomsburg High School, for sixteen years, died December 26,
She was a
930, after a lingering illness of many months.
member of the class of 908, of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, a very superior student, graduating with honorable mention in both scholarship and teaching ability, in the old days
when the dagger stood for superior ability as a teacher on the
commencement program, and the star for excellence in scholarship.
Miss Kahler always led her group in whatever she did.
1
1
Miss Kahler was born September 8, 1890, and was a
life
She was graduated from the local High School with high honors with the class of 906 and was
She entered the Normal School in the
historian of her class.
long resident of Bloomsburg.
1
autumn of
that year.
After finishing her course
in training,
she was elected to
the North Berwick High School, as assistant principal, and taught
there two years.
in the
She was then elected
to a position as teacher
public schools of Bloomsburg, teaching in fifth and sixth
She joined the high school faculty in 1916 as teacher
She was elected to this position because of
grades.
of mathematics.
her superior ability as a teacher, and her tact
in
dealing with
young people.
She was a very excellent teacher, clear
in
presentation,
and tactful in control; always winsome
and kindly in manner. She loved her work, knew her subject
matter, and was in thoro rapport with young life.
forceful in instruction
Two
volume
in
conversations
pedagogy
come
to the writer
in their brief
sentences.
that
comprise
To an
a
indifferent,
not over brilliant student in her class the question was asked:
“Who
is
your algebra teacher?”
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11
“Miss Kahler.”
“How
are you getting along with the subject?”
“Very
well.
She
is
so earnest
and so kind that you learn
her subject whether you have brains or not.” (The pupil had
them on general
brains but avoided using
principles).
This later with Miss Kahler:
“Miss K.,
Her face
How
does
X
get along in your algebra class?”
up with a gleam of pleasure
lit
that
was assuring
as she answered:
“One
of the very best boys
of apprehension; but he
do
his best for
me
is
that he
I
He
have!
is
not so quick
so attentive, so willing, so eager to
is
an inspiration
to
me
every recita-
was a heavy weight in other classes,
and a failure in some. The difference was in the personality
of the teacher, the personal touch of one who knew youth and
tion.”
This of a boy that
cared to inspire
And
so
we
effort.
say rightfully that pupils loved her, and took
pains to have her
know
worked
were orderly, kind
They mourn her
going; they miss her presence; her spirit.
A great and beThey loved to cheer
nign influence has gone out of their lives.
her last days with flowers and appreciative messages, because
her earnest, beautiful life, her untiring effort had enlarged their
vision and they had grasped something of her spirit.
In touch
with her, inspired by her earnestness, they ceased to trifle in the
adolescent way, in the spirit of mere play, and began the search
courteous
in
it;
for her;
her presence and in her classes.
for deeper things.
and sacrifice
be a part of their standards, and all of us
teachers will be measured by the standards she all unwittingly
set in their young souls.
Her
spirit of gentleness, earnestness, solicitude
will live in their lives,
She was popular
in the true
sense of the term, in that she
sought ever to be useful and helpful, often to her
venience and detriment.
In
own
incon-
always putting forward the good
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of others, she enhanced her power, and influence
and become
among
her
an object of affection
among all who knew her, and worked with her.
‘‘Irene” will be missed when her classmates gather.
She
pupils,
all
unconsciously
will
be missed among her fellow-teachers.
pils
miss her guiding steady hand, her encouraging winsome
spirit.
She
who knew
will
continue to live
in the
Most of
all
minds and hearts of those
her best, as an inspiring and uplifting force.
more teachers with
her pu-
0, for
the intelligence, the wisdom, the tact, the
patience, the sympathy, the vision, and the character of Irene
Georgia Kahler!
0.
H.
BAKELESS.
THE ALUMNI RECEPTION ROOM
“Trophy Room”
The Alumni Reception Room, (‘‘Trophy Room”), is now a
It
was permanently opened November 8, 1931,
(Home Coming Day), and sufficiently equipped to be used with
comfort, pride, and satisfaction by any alumni who return to
reality.
the college on a
visit.
made and the
need
the
money
to settle our
amounts still
obligations, and save interest charges.
We hope the members
of the various classes, who have endorsed the movement, will
note the figures, and respond at once with their quota.
Send your check to the treasurer of the fund and he will
acknowledge it by receipt. Whether your class has been soliFollowing
is
a statement of the subscriptions
outstanding.
cited or not,
up to
this time,
We
anything contributed to the project
be credited to the person and class from which it comes.
Send
let your dilatory good intentions delay the work.
your check now.
Yours for service and growth,
will
Do
in
not
0. H.
BAKELESS,
Treasurer.
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STATEMENT OF “TROPHY ROOM” FUND
(Only classes who held reunions in 1929 and 1930
made pledges
Pledge
Class
Class of ’75
Class of
79
_$
_
.
Class of ’80
12.50
16.00
14.00
50.00
51.00
2.00
2.00
Class of '84
Class of ’85
115.00
60.00
5.00
108.00
Class of ’90
Class of ’93
Class of ’94
Class of ’97
Class of ’99
50.00
Class of ’01
Class of ’04
Class of ’05
33.00
100.00
Class of ’06
Class of ’09
__
Class of ’10
_
Class of ’14
Class of ’15
Class of ’19
Class of ’20
Class of ’24
Class of ’25
Class of ’27
Class of ’30
Subscribed
100.00
150.00
25.00
70.00
100.00
100.00
Amt. Unpaid
Paid
12.50
Class of ’81
Class of ’89
as yet).
15.00
115.00
85.00
—
2.00
...
61.50
2.50
40.00
5.00
33.00
27.00
.
13.00
30.00
250.00
250.00
21.50
26.00
25.00
250.00
$1624.50
$1068.00
5.00
46.50
10.00
73.00
5.00
71.00
25.00
66.00
100.00
$
29.00
150.00
_
4.00
87.00
4.00
225.00
$635.50
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A.
Death
at
5:00
BRUCE BLACK
o’clock,
Monday morning, March
denly ended the career of A. Bruce Black, for
1
6, sud-
5 years head of
the penmanship department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
1
College and nationally recognized as a Shakespearean author-
The end came at his home on East Street about two hours
was stricken with an attack of indigestion, and was due
principally to heart disease.
He was aged 57 years.
ity.
after he
Mr. Black at the time of his death was court crier of Col-
umbia County
courts, to
Throughout
his life
which he was appointed May
3, 1930.
he was a keen student of Shakespeare
His collection of books was one of the
and a lover of books.
finest to be found in this section of the country, and his library
included copies of books which were most rare.
Many of these
were disposed of only a few years ago.
He had
written a
Shakespeare, and
lusions
and
number
his latest
parallels,
of books, most of
them based on
work, a pamphlet containing 60 alin collaboration with Dr. Robert
compiled
M. Smith, professor of English
only a few weeks ago.
at
Concerning the pamphlet the
Lehigh University, came out
New York Times
carried the
following dispatch under a Bethlehem date line:
“An original collection of sixty allusions and parallels has
been compiled in a publication of the Institute of Research of
Lehigh University largely as the result of exhaustive study for
thirty-five years of an invalid in his home at Bloomsburg, Pa.
The man is A. Bruce Black who is co-author with Dr. Robert M.
Smith, Professor of English at Lehigh.
“The pamphlet, covering a period from 1599 to 1701 and
which Shakespeare has upon the literature of the seventeenth century, is composed of allusions and
parallels selected from almost 600 passages submitted by Mr.
illustrating the influence
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They are
Black.
and research
the fruit of intensive reading
and were discovered largely as a
sociate
15
result of his
remarkable as-
memory.”
His
work
An
evidence of
attracted w'ide interest in literary circles.
this
was
that only last Friday, Mr. Black
received a letter from the president of the Encyclopedia Brit-
from London congratulating him on his work and asking
him a copy of his drama “William Shakespeare,
Gentleman,” which Mr. Black wrote some years ago but never
tanica
that he send
published.
Word
of his death came as a profound shock to his legion
He had
and acquaintances throughout this section.
been in failing health for some years and about five years ago
He
had to undergo operations for the amputation of both legs.
showed remarkable grit in rallying from this misfortune and in
Throughout this lliness
learning to walk with artificial limbs.
he continued his work and studies.
of friends
The son of the fate Sheriff and Mrs. William W. Black, Mr.
Black was born September 20, 1873, at Rohrsburg, Greenwood
Township.
As a youth he attended school in that locality and
at Dickinson Seminary and in the high school at York, Pa.
He
continued
his studies at
Michael University,
graduating from that institution
he took a special course
lege,
in
Logansport, Ind.,
in the spring of
penmanship
Columbus, Ohio, graduating
1
896, and then
at the Zanerian Art Col-
in the fall of that year.
Returning to Bloomsburg, he became deputy
sheriff
under
1897 and served during the three years of his term,
continuing as deputy under Sheriff Knorr and then remaining as
his father in
deputy through
years he
was
his father’s
clerk to
second term.
the county
For the next three
commissioners,
twelve years of service in the court house
when he
completing
left that
po-
sition.
For a short time he taught
and then
in
1
909 he accepted
in the
summer
school at Benton
the position of instructor in pen-
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manship at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, at that time
the Bloomsburg Normal School.
He continued a valued member of that faculty for about
During
5 years.
1
his service at that institution
ope, once in 1911 and again in 1914.
much
spent
time in the British
peare and continuing
back
some hours
to
Isles, visiting
the
home
visits
he
of Shakes-
He was in Europe at the time
World War and had a thrilling experience
his studies.
of the outbreak of the
in getting
he twice visited EurDuring these
America, being forced to stand
in water for
which he was a passenger had
stop so that it could be searched for
after the vessel in
been shelled for refusal
draft evaders.
Some
to
years later Mr. Black continued his tra-
vels with a trip to the Pacific coast.
His
first
published literary work was
“Like Expressions.”
titled
This
was
in
1
900 and was
en-
and enlargThe work was in-
later revised
ed and printed in two good sized volumes.
tended to do away with parallelism arguments, especially in the
Bacon-Shakespearean controversy.
He also published a novel,
“A Random
Shaft.”
For some years Mr. Black was also
interested in
writing
the words of songs, a number of which were published.
He
was always a lover of fine books and during the past summer
was congratulated by Senators and Congressmen for his part in
securing for the United States from Germany a number of val-
uable books which are a real addition to the Library of Congress at Washington.
His last literary efforts were devoted to working with Prof.
in the publishing of the allusions and parallels to the
words of Shakespeare and at the time of his death was continuing work in this field.
Only a few weeks before his death, he
stated that Lehigh University was anxious that he complete this
work and he said he was eager to do it but was doubtful whether his life would be prolonged over the necessary period.
Mr. Black was nationally recognized as an authority on
Smith
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Shakespeare and frequently addressed clubs on that subject in
New York and Philadelphia. Only a few months ago he delivered a lecture on
Shakespeare at the Ben Franklin Hotel
in
Philadelphia and he appeared several times before the Yale Club
of
New York
City.
Through
erary
field,
his
work
at the
Teachers College and
Mr. Black was widely
known and had
a
in the lit-
legion
of
friends throughout the country.
On February
liams, of
About
23, 1907, Mr. Black married Miss Helen Wil-
Bloomsburg,
who passed away August
30,
1910.
2 years ago he married Miss Lois Brunstetter, of Orangewho survives him, as does one son by the first marriage,
ville,
1
Lessing Black, a chemist working
home
to visit his father only a
New
in
week
York.
three nephews, Bruce Mather, of Benton;
The son was
Also surviving are
ago.
Ray Mather,
of Bos-
ton University, and Dr. Clayton Mather, of Strausburg.
Mr. Black was a
member
of the Methodist Church and of
the Sons of Veterans while that organization
was
active.
In
he was a Democrat and in 928 was the Democratic
nominee for member of the General Assembly.
politics
1
WILLIAM
William H. Housel, for
H.
many
HOUSEL
years steward at the Blooms-
burg State Normal School, died in Philadelphia Friday, February
He was found dead in his bed. News of his death came
20.
as a shock to his relatives and friends, as he had visited Bloomsburg two weeks before his death, and at that time was apparAt the time of his death, Mr. Housel
ently in the best of health.
was
sixty-nine years of age.
A
was born in 1861.
Bloomsburg and resided here for
native of Lock Haven, Mr. Housel
As a young man he came
to
:
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many
years.
For about twenty years he was steward at the
Later he held a similar poBloomsburg State Normal School.
At another time he had a music store
sition at the Elks’ Club.
For the past five years he had lived in Philain Bloomsburg.
delphia, where he was employed as night watchman for the
Market Street Title and Trust Company.
Although not many are aware of the fact, Mr. Housel left
behind him a monument that people look at many times a day.
We refer to the clock on the tower of Carver Hall. In the December,
1
by Dean
Sutliff, relative to
928, issue of the
take the liberty to quote
“Among
QUARTERLY, we
this artcle in
We
part
other improvements in the late 90’s, the trustees
decided to remodel the front of Carver Hall.
posing front facing the town,
erected.
printed an article
placing the clock in the tower.
including the
But no clock was available
—
or, in
Ihe present imclock
tower, was
other words, there
was no cash on hand to provide the clock. The circular windows were boarded up, blind eyes to a beautful tower.
the
“At that time William Housel was the efficient steward at
Normal School. He saw the need of a clock and made the
proposition to the trustees to secure
stitution.
at the Fair
it
without cost to the
in-
The large eating stand
Grounds could be rented and dinner served to the
His plan
was
briefly this:
He decided to try renting this building
crowds at a fair profit.
and serving a turkey dinner each day during the Fair.
“The students and
the
project.
nations were
faculty of the school
Volunteer
made by
waiters were
dealers from
whom
were
secured.
enlisted
Some
in
do-
regular supplies were
purchased, and the plan went forward with great
enthusiasm.
Good weather prevailed and large crowds were in attendance.
It was a successful project from every standpoint.
“Mr. Housel then went to New York, and with about seven
hunderd dollars as his assets from the plan, bought the clock
and had it installed without cost to the school.”
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Dean
Sutliff
closed his article with the following: “Here’s
hoping that someone
will
remember the date and place
marker upon the clock and give a few
credit to
whom
19
credit
is
due.”
We
details of
wonder
time for the suggestion to be carried out.
It
if
its
a
origin,
this is
little
and
not the
would be a worthy
project for the Alumni Association.
ANNUAL COLLEGE NIGHT A SUCCESS
The annual
—
college night of the service clubs of Blooms-
burg
one of the outstanding events of each year’s program
provided a treat Thursday evening, January 8, in the appearance of Dr. John L. Davis, of New York, a humorist extraordinary, and one who declared his mission of the evening was to
drive
away depression.
From the march
more than 400
guests entered the college hall to the close of the good night
dance in the auditorium, the program of the evening was one
that held the closest attention of every guest, and every part
of it was unqualifiedly good.
President R. G. Buckalew, of the Kiwanis Club, and president H. Mont. Smith of the Rotary Club, jointly presided and
Miss Harriet Moore led in spirited singing.
The college orchestra
of the orchestra as the
under the direction of Howard Fenstermaker, provided a
delightful
program of music.
At the close of the program in the dining room, students
of the college and others presented music and one act plays in
the auditorium
follows:
Mireille, Overture,
Gounod
College Orchestra
Direction H. F. Fenstemaker.
Maroon and Gold, H.
F.
and
F.
H.
Direction Miss Harriet M. Moore.
College Chorus
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Oley Speaks
Morning
When
the Roses
Bloom
Richardt-Roepper
Edmund Parlow
Amaryllis
An
Arab’s Song
Girls’
H. M. Higgs
Glee Club, direction Miss Jessie A. Patterson.
Flow Gently Deva
Mrs. Dorothy
J.
Everitt,
Robert
E. Clark, Mrs.
Parry
Eza
Feldman, accompanist.
Stars of the
Summer
Woodbury
Night
Cooke
01’ Car’lina
College Chorus
One Act
Scene:
New
Henry Arthur Jones
Play, Dolly’s Little Bills
Living
Room
in
London,
the Telfer apartment,
Year’s Day.
Players
—Harry
Telfer,
Henry Warman;
Dolly
Telfer,
Frances Evans; Dolly’s Father, Aldwin Jones.
Curtain closed for a few minutes to indicate passing of a
year.
Presented by Alpha Psi
Omega
Fraternity, direction Miss
Alice Johnston.
Bohm
Cavatina
College Orchestra
Ma
Dichmont
Little Banjo
Double Quartet
Men’s Glee Club
Miss Frances Evans, accompanist.
Hunter’s Loud Hallo
Suabian Folk Song
O’Hara
Arr. by Brahms
Arr. by Bartholomew
Battle of Jericho (Spiritual)
Direction Miss Harriet M. Moore
Men’s Glee Club
Bronson
Violin solo, Gipsy Legend
Karl Getz
Mrs. John Ketner Miller, accompanist
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Gounod
Send Out Thy Light
College Chorus
Bennett
Military Escort
KAPPA DELTA
PI
ORGANIZED AT BLOOMSBURG
Dr. Alfred L. Hall-Quest, educator, author,
the Kadelphian Review, installed the
Kappa Delta
2
1
Gamma
and editor of
Beta Chapter of
Pi at the College Saturday afternoon, February
Alumni, juniors, and seniors were initiated as charter
.
members
The
at that time.
were followed by a banquet in
and special guests.
national
honorary
Kappa Delta Pi is a
educational fraternity.
Its purpose is to foster high professional and scholarship
standards during the period of preparation for teaching, and
exercises
initiation
the college dining
room
for the fraternity
to recognize outstanding service in the field of education.
this
it
maintains the highest educational ideals and fosters
To
fel-
lowship, scholarship, and achievement in educational work.
Membership consists of juniors and seniors, both men and
women, with general scholarship requirements of a grade in
the upper quarter of the enrollment, and the completion of at
least six hours in education for juniors and twelve for seniors.
It is both a graduate and an undergraduate fraternity and has
the unique distinction of a Laureate Chapter composed of out-
standing educators throughout the world, the intention being
to make this
Academy of
number
in
essence an
Academy of Education similar to
Academy of Letters. To date
Science or the
of laureates
is
the
the
nearly twenty-five, and there are seven-
ty-four active chapters.
A
convocation
quarterly,
of
the
fraternity
the Kadelphian Review,
is
meets
biennially.
A
published at Menasha,
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The key is a scroll and stylus.
Kappa Delta Pi grew out of a local
Wisconsin.
society, the Illinois
Education Club, founded at the University of
Later, June 8, 191
1
,
it
was incorporated under
the laws of the
State of Illinois as the honorary educational fraternity
Delta
1909.
Illinois in
Kappa
Pi.
There are chapters throughout the East and West. Some
where chapters have been established are: State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa., State
of the colleges in this section
Teachers College, Mansfield, Pa., William and Mary College,
Teachers College, Columbia University, University of Cincinnati,
and West Virginia University.
The organization of the chapter
interest to
of
Kappa Delta
requirements
high
of
scholarship
at
Pi
is
of
shows that the
Bloomsburg compare
every student of the College, for
it
favorably with other colleges and universities.
The faculty committee on fraternities and sororities which
has been instrumental in securing a chapter of Kappa Delta Pi
is
of interest to every student of the College, for
it
shows that
the requirements of high scholarship at Bloomsburg
compare
favorably with other colleges and universities.
The
faculty committee on fraternities
and
has been instrumental in securing a chapter of
at
Bloomsburg
composed
is
sororities
which
Kappa Delta
Pi
of Prof. S. L. Wilson, Dr. H. H.
Russell, Miss Ethel A. Ranson, Miss
Edna
J.
Hazen, and Dr.
Nell Maupin, Chairman.
In the business
lowing
officers
meeting following the
were elected and
installed:
installation, the fol-
President, Chester
Zimolzack; Vice President, Martin Sekulski; Recording Secretary, Miss
beth
Lorna Gillow; Corresponding Secretary, Miss ElizaTreasurer, Frank Perch; Historian, Laura
Bowman;
Shultz.
The members
Graduates:
of the
Bloomsburg Chapter are:
Margaretta Bone, Llewellyn Edmunds, Anna
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Edward Jacob Ferber, Gilbert Gould, Karleen
Hoffman, Josephine Holuba, Charles John, Norma Knoll, Edgar
Richards, Thursabert Schuyler, Nevin Sponseller, Blanche Fahringer, Leroy Baer, Earl Farley, Margaret Swartz, Luther Bitler,
Elizabeth Erwin,
Lawrence Creasy, Roy Haring, Mary A. Laird,
Alice Pennington, Thomas Welsko, Francis McHugh, Martha
Myra
Sharpless,
A. Laird, Marjorie Orr, Nicholas Polaneczky, Helen Stackhouse,
Arthur Jenkins, Dorothy Schmidt.
Seniors:
Edward Devoe, Esther Yeager, Emily A. Park,
Bowman, Thomas Henry, Helen
Clarence Wolever, Elizabeth
Maynard, Marian Meixwe.l, Martin Sekulski, William Weaver,
Chester Zimolzack, and Dorothy Kisner.
Demott, Lorna Gillow,
Juniors: Grace Callendar, Lois
Ezra Harris, Gerald Hartman, James J. Johns, Frank Perch, Ivor
Robbins, Laura Shultz, Lottie Zebrowski, and Frank Dushanko.
Faculty Members: Nell Maupin, Edna J. Hazen, Ethel A.
Ranson, H. H. Russel, S. L. Wilson, and Rachel Turner.
Honorary Members: President Emeritus David J. Waller,
Jr. and President Francis B. Haas.
PROF. AND MRS. JENKINS CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING
Fifty years of married
life,
most of
it
intimately connected
with the educational institution where they met as pupils, were
rounded out Monday, December 22, by Prof, and Mrs. F. H.
Jenkins, of West Fifth Street, and that evening at their home
they were hosts to a number of friends.
In addition there were many telegrams and letters of conThe home was
gratulation from friends who could not attend.
a bower of flowers sent by friends, and the couple also re-
many handsome gifts.
Few Bloomsburg residents
ceived
Prof. Jenkins
came
in
are better
known than
contact with thousands
of
they.
students dur-
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more than forty years of service at the Normal School,
and Mrs. Jenkins has for many years been one of the most active members of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
ing his
Mrs. Jenkins was formerly
Miss
Anna
Bittenbender,
of
town, and Prof. Jenkins came here as a student from Chittenango, N. Y.
During the observance that evening at the home, Mrs. W.
played the “Venetian Love Song,” by Ethelbert Nevin.
B. Sutliff
Miss Harriet Moore sang delightfully, “When You and i
Were Young, Maggie,” and also sang an original song for which
Prof. W. B. Sutliff had written the words and music.
Mrs. William Fortner
read “The Golden
Milestone”
by
Longfellow, and Mr. Fenstemaker played a medley of songs
that
were popular a half century ago.
Prof. Jenkins came to the Normal
prepare for college and graduated in
still
was
from
1
He
in its infancy.
880
to
1
884 was
in
1
the
fall
1873
of
876 when
the
to
school
then entered Amherst college and
principal of the public schools at Eaton,
N. Y.
He returned
to
Bloomsburg
in
August,
1
884, to be teacher
of English at the Normal School, continuing in that position until
1
895 when he was made
registrar
and business manager of the
school, a position he filled capably for thirty years
tirement in August, 1925.
with
all
In that capacity
until his re-
he came
contact
in
of the thousands of students during those three decades.
Altogether he was at the school for forty-one years
in
addition
to the years spent there as student.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins were married in St. Matthew Lutheran Church by Rev. 0. D. S. Marclay, who was the pastor at that
One of the guests at the wedding, Mrs. Dora Fritz, of
time.
Pottstown, was able to attend the golden wedding.
They have one daughter, Mrs. R. A. McCachran, and two
grandsons, Robert and Russell McCachran.
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25
HAAS WRITES NEW COLLEGE SONG
Teachers
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the
College,
has entered the ranks of the composers.
At the college night of
the service
clubs
evening, January 8, there was sung for the
first
on Thursday
time “The Ma-
roon and Gold,” which was written by Dr. Haas recently.
Inquiry as to the writing of the words and melody brought
the information that Dr.
Haas had the tune
in
mind
for
some
when he hummed it. Prof. Howard Fenstemaker
college faculty, set down the words.
time and
the
The words
of
of the song follows
In the
And
To
A
days to come when others boast
College tales are told
the glad refrain
add a joyful
strain
cheer for Maroon and Gold
And be
not
weak
in praise
nor slow to honor.
Refrain
Keep
the colors proudly flying
Raise them high. Maroon and Gold
Colors royal for the loyal
And
a cheer for the brave
and bold
Fling a challenge to the honest foe
And
the colors bravely hold
Sound the noble cry with courage high
Hurrah! Hurrah! Maroon and Gold!
Bloomsburg and vicinity who are patients
at the Clinic for Crippled Children, conducted by Dr. Merrill at
the Geisinger Hospital, in Danville, were the guests of the girls
The children
of Waller Hall
of
at a Christmas
party held in the college
nasium Saturday afternoon, December
1
4.
gym-
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THE 1930-31 ARTIST’S COURSE
The
Artist’s
Course, as outlined for
this year, has been
and has been well received. The
7, with “The Violin Maker of Cre-
attracting large audiencas,
course opened October
mona.”
pianist,
Friday
!
evening,
who played
November
engagement, and again delighted
ing,
December
19,
Charles
Naegele,
the attraction
his
hearers.
Friday even-
was John Bockewitz, Dra-
Mr. Bockewitz also presented his program
matic Cartoonist.
in the
21,
here several years ago, played a return
afternoon to
all
the children
who
are part of the train-
A
program of high artistic quality was
presented Friday evening, January 30 by the Durrell String
Quartette, assisted by Reginald Boardman, pianist, and John
The program given March 6, was prePercival, baritone.
This was the third engagesented by the Boston Male Choir.
ment of the Choir in Bloomsburg, and their popularity was well
The last number of
indicated by the applause they received.
the course was the drama “Old Nobody,” presented by the
This was also a return
Matheson, Kennedy, Gage Players.
engagement, as this party played “The Chastening” here two
Charles Rann Kennedy, a member of this comyears ago.
pany, won fame as the author of “The Servant in the House.”
If the increase in attendance is any indication, the Artist’s
Course is growing more popular every year.
ing school system.
The
faculty of the
another of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College held
night” parties Tuesday
much enjoyed “family
evening, February 24, the affair opening with a dinner
dining room
of the First Methodist Church,
with cards at the
home
at the
and being, concluded
of Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas.
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TWELVE STUDENTS COMPLETE WORK
With the close of the
first
semester at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College Saturday noon, twelve girl students,
all of them working in the primary and intermediate fields,
completed their college work.
They will return at the end of
the second semester to take part in the commencement exer-
cises.
Students
who have completed
Intermediate
Duryea.
Intermediate
Jermyn.
Intermediate
Barre.
Rural
—
—Dobrowolski,
— Dunn,
Dora,
—
Stella
Florence
Ada
F.,
—Kasaczun,
are:
821
F.,
Main
78, R. D.
Huntington
Alice
Foot
427
Louise,
Box
Gitlovitz,
Harrison,
Intermediate
work
their
H.,
1
Ave.,
St.,
Wilkes-
,
Mills.
609
Cherry
St.,
Scranton.
—Kazunas, Milda 38
535
Mildred
Primary—
Coxton
—Mann,
3505
Primary —
920
Helen
—
729 Poplar
Anna
Primary—
Primary
doah.
Liddell,
City.
Intermediate
ton.
R.,
S.
Jardin
E.,
E.
Center
Y.
Lillian E.,
Rosser,
Solonski,
Intermediate
St.,
M.
Shenan-
Mahanoy
C. A., Pitts-
Odell Ave., Scranton.
Roberts, Jeanette,
Intermediate
St.,
Pine
C.,
A.,
—Wolfe, Genevieve
G., R. D.
Francis T. Brown, of Wilkes-Barre,
St.,
St.,
was the
1,
Scranton.
Bloomsburg.
Alderson.
successful bid-
der for the installation of a clock and bell system to be installed
in the
Benjamin Franklin Training School
at the College.
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ATTENTION, PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
The Philadelphia Alumni are planning a dinner, to be held
The date has not yet been definitely fixed.
Members of the old Faculty will be invited, and
a cordial invitation is extended to all Alumni living in and
Those interested should communicate with
near Philadelphia.
2 North 50th Street, West PhilaMrs. Florence Hess Cool,
during the latter part of April.
1
1
delphia.
ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 23
The following
classes will
hold reunions:
1876,
1871,
1881, 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1921,
Plan now to make this the greatest Alumni
1926, and 1929.
Day
in
the history of the College.
A
special supplement to the
QUARTERLY
It
Bloomsburg graduates.
plete announcement of the day’s program.
mailed to
all
will
will
soon be
contain a com-
Watch
for
it.
SOUND PICTURE DEMONSTRATION
Students of the College were given a fine demonstration
of the possibilities of the sound picture as an aid to teaching
by a program presented Monday, February
9,
through the
courtesy of the Electrical Research Products, Incorporated, a
The program began with the
branch of the Western Electric.
regular chapel exercises at
10 A. M., and ran continuously
The following films were shown: “The Play of
until 4:30.
Imagination in Geometry,” by Eugene Smith, Professor Erne-
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ritus of Mathematics, Teachers College Columbia University;
“Fundamentals of Football” The Symphony Orchestra Series;
“Woodwind Choir,” “Brass Choir,” “Percussion Group,” and
“String Choir”; “Acoustic Principles,” by Dr. Harvey Fletcher,
of the Bell Telephone Laboratories; “Finding His Voice,” an
animated cartoon explaining “What Makes the Movies Talk”;
“Our Government at Work,” “The Testing of Child Intelligence,” as demonstrated by Mrs. Ina C. Sartorius, Assistant
Principal of the Horace Mann Elementary School; “The Study
of Infant Behavior,” by Dr. Arnold Gesell, Director of the Yale
Psycho Clinic; “The Creative Approach to Education,” by.
Hughes Mearns, Professor of Education at New York University; and “Accomplishment Tests for Babies,” by Dr. Charlotte
Buhler, of the Psychology Institute of Vienna.
;
ADD TEACHER
Miss Marguerite
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
IN
Murphy has been added
to the faculty of
head of this
The department has
the commercial department to assist H. A. Andruss,
department, which was opened
last Fall.
proved very popular with the students with over forty having
taken the work during the past semester.
in this field a
The
college offers
four year course leading to a bachelor’s degree in
commercial education.
Miss
Murphy
is
University, Normal,
a graduate of the
111.,
Illinois
attended the Gregg
State
Normal
School, Chicago,
and Teachers College, Columbia University, receiving her
S. degree in February, 1929, and her M. A. degree in Decem-
111.,
B.
ber of that year at Columbia.
Miss Murphy has taught at Granville and Chillicothe, 111.,
and since October, 1929, has been principal of the Sherman’s
Business School, Mount Vernon, New York.
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LEGISLATORS OF DISTRICT GUESTS
Members of the legislature from the area served by the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College were guests at the institution on Monday, December 22nd, as the board of trustees held
and the students enjoyed their annual
its regular meeting,
Christmas dinner party.
and representatives from throughout the serhad been invited to the school for the day and during
the afternoon they were shown the college as it was at work by
the members of the board of trustees and the president. Dr.
Senators
vice area
Francis B. Haas.
Mrs. Haas served tea to the ladies in the new alumni room
and dinner was enjoyed in the dining room where the students
During the dinner there was spiritenjoyed a turkey dinner.
ed group singing and a number of selections by the double
quartet and the boys’ glee club of the college.
A
Christmas dance was enjoyed
in the
gymnasium
follow-
ing dinner.
The guests were Senator and Mrs. Benjamin Apple, of
Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. Frank McArran, of Danville; Sterling
Post, of Northumberland; Benjamin Jones and son, of WilkesBarre; W. W. Shutt, of Bloomsburg; Mrs. John G. Harman, of Bloomsburg; the Misses Llewellyn, of Elysburg; Miss
Elizabeth Waller, Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
L. Townsend, Mrs. A. W. Duy, Jr., A. W. Duy, Paul E. Wirt,
Miss Sara Wirt, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl,
of Danville, and Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas.
E.
A.
Reams
of the
Department of Social Studies, spoke
Wednesday, January 14 to the Garden Club of
Reams spoke on
terest.
Millville.
Mr.
current events of national and international in-
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COLLEGE BAND ORGANIZED
One
of the most active of the under graduate organizations
formed band of the Bloomsburg State
This band made its first public appearance
at the Rotary-Kiwanis College Night early in the year and has
been a success from the start.
Howard Fenstemaker, of the department of modern languages, is the director of the band which has 30 men in its personnel.
The institution has equipped the organization with
white duck trousers and black sweaters and they make a natty
on the
hill is
the newly
Teachers College.
appearance.
They have been playing for basketball games recently and
have added much to the enjoyment of the spectators.
Of the present members only about five will be lost through
graduation.
This number should be recruited from the incomIn addition there are several students at the school
ing class.
who
will
probably be recruited for the band next year.
The need
of a
band has been long
recent years attempts have been
made
Now
have met with little success.
to have a band and a good one.
it
the school and in
form one but they
felt at
to
appears that the college
During the holidays, Bloomsburg attracted many
who came
to see the beautiful Christmas illumination.
the features of the holiday decoration
Carver Hall.
The
electrically
was
lighted
that of the
dome was
is
visitors
One
dome
visible
of
of
for
huge bell, worked out in red lights.
Below it, and facing College Hill, the letters “B. S. T. C.” were
worked out in brilliant colors, while a panel of colored lights
Still lower, the front
surrounded the entire base of the dome.
of the building was outlined in red lights, and the entrance in
At the front of the building the fountain and its
green lights.
The
base were beautifully decorated with Christmas greens.
miles, giving the effect of a
credit for the
whole project goes
to
Nevin B. Englehart, Super-
intendent of Buildings and Grounds, and his corps of assistants.
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Prof. C. H. Albert, spoke three times during the two day
program of the Monroe County School Directors’ Association
which was held at Stroudsburg Wednesday and Thursday,
January 14 and 15.
Speaking before the directors Wednesday morning, Mr. Albert delivered an address on “Some Rightful Demands of Parents, Pupils and Teachers.’’
His subject
that afternoon was “The Three Fold Nature of the Child.”
Thursday morning he spoke on “Some Real Tasks for School
Directors.”
Miss Ethel A. Ranson, of the College
home
faculty
is
having a
on East Second Street, above the college property.
built
Miss Ranson will be the latest addition to the “faculty colony”
which
is
growing up
by
built there
in that locality,
homes having already been
Manager C. M. Haus-
Prof. S. L. Wilson, Business
knecht, Prof. F. A. Reams, and Prof. E. H. Nelson.
An audience
that almost completely filled the college audi-
torium Friday evening, December 12, was carried back to the
Civil War and lived with the characters of the tragedy “The Copperhead” the many trials and tribulations of the
days of the
war time spy.
Members
of the Alpha Psi
Omega Dramatic
Fraternity pre-
sented the play under the auspices of the Senior class and
no
college production in recent years has been any better handled.
An
exceptionally strong cast under the capable direction
had undivided attention throughout the
The character roles were enacted in such a way that
of Miss Alice Johnston
evening.
was nothing left to be desired.
The cast of characters for the first epoch follows: Joey
Shanks, Nicholas Jaffin; Grandma Perley, Luella Krug; Mrs.
there
Shanks, Miss Elizabeth VanBusKirk; Captain Hardy, John Hall;
Milt Shanks,
Maynard
J.
Pennington; Mrs. Bates, Miss Dorothy
Levere; Sue Perley, Miss Mary Davies;
Kirker;
Newt
Gillespie,
Robert G.
Lem
Sutliff;
Tollard,
Thomas
Andrews, George
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Breuchman;
Miss Ruth
Elsie,
Emma
Fortner.
33
Additional char-
acters playing in the second epoch were: Madeline King, Miss
Millie
Rabb;
Dr.
Philip
Bowman;
Elizabeth
Manning, Arthur McKenzie; Mrs. Manning,
Dr. Randall, David Baker.
Haas was one of the speakers on the eighteenth annual
Week program, held at Philadelphia from March
Schoolmen’s
18 to 21, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
who is a member of the General Committee of School-
Dr. Haas,
men’s Week, spoke on “Financing a Teacher-Training Program
for the State of Pennsylvania,” at the session held Friday morning,
March 20,
in
Houston
Hall,
on the University Campus.
Faculty and Alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College played a prominent part in the sixth annual convention of
the Northeastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State
Education Association, held
in the
Wilkes-Barre, March 6 and
7.
Elmer
L.
Meyers High School,
was presi-
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
and presided
John
Committee on
Resolutions, while George J. Keller, of the Art Department, was
Ear! N. Rhodes, Dia member of the Legislative Committee.
rector of Teacher Training, presided at the meeting of the Department of College and Teacher Training.
Dr. Nell Maupin,
of the Department of Social Studies, spoke at the Social Science
Section, her subject being “Development of Attitudes and Abilities in Social Studies.”
H. F. Fenstemaker, of the Department
of Foreign Languages, spoke at the Latin Section on “Vergil and
the Modern Reader.”
May T. Haden, Director of Primary
Education, led a discussion at the meeting of the primary teachers.
Dr. Thomas P. North, of the Department of Education,
spoke at the Agriculture Section of the Anthracite Arts Association; his subject was “Social Problems of the Supervisor of
Agriculture.”
Many alumni also had prominent parts on the
dent of the
C.
district,
Koch, Dean of Men, was a
program.
at the general sessions.
member
of the
1886
OF
CLASS
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1872
Mrs. Emma Harman, wife of the late Prof. David A. Harman, formerly Superintendent of the Hazleton schools, died on
November 9, 930, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert
Funeral services were held Friday, NoBazley, in Pottsville.
vember 2
in the Lutheran Church at Hazleton.
1
1
1
,
1875
Ernest
W. Young,
’80, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, send us the
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following tribute to Lorena G. Evans, for
editorial
The
Harrisburg, Pa.
in the schools of
many
article
years a teacher
appeared on the
page of the Harrisburg Telegraph, of Saturday, Jan-
uary 10, 1931.
An
A
little
note
in
Able Teacher.
the Telegraph
birthday of Miss Lorena G. Evans.
tells
of the
80th
Miss Evans writes
from her New York home that she has received many
cards and other tokens of remembrance from those
who recall her teaching days in the Harrisburg High
Which is at it should be, for the city never
had a better or more devoted teacher than Miss
Evans.
Of stern demeanor she was yet kind of heart
and considerate of those of her pupils who really
There are many men and women once under
tried.
School.
her tuition
who
will readily
they received at her hands
admit
in
that the
logical
training
deduction and
mind and conduct on which she inoutstanding factors in whatever dehave
been
sisted
It
has been
gree of success they have enjoyed.
many years since Miss Evans presided over classes
That she is still so well and affectionately
here.
the discipline of
remembered is a tribute to the quality of her teaching and her personal influence for good.
1883
Samuel Henderson, one of Montgomery’s most prominent
He
1930.
citizens, died at his home Monday, November 24,
his
to
confined
had been in ill health for several years, but was
the
He was president of
bed only a few days before his death.
Lycoming Upholstery Company, and was very prominent in
He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Jean
Freemasonry.
Wells, of Bloomsburg, and
by three sons and a daughter.
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1885
After years of
exacting
toil
from abbreviated
wresting
Latin the meanings in the philosophy of a
man dead
nearly
600
years, T. Bruce Birch, Ph. D., D. D., professor of philosophy at
Wittenberg College,
begins
enjoy the pleasant
to
fruits
of
scholarly authoriship.
His new book is a translation of William of Ockham’s “De
Sacramento Altaris,” and has been immediately accepted by
critics in universities, seminaries and colleges as a monumental
contribution to knowledge.
Having been available for purchase only a short time ago,
book has been placed in
0 American universities and colleges and seminaries, and in three European universities, acthis
1
cording to the publishers,
1
who
regard these orders as only the
beginning of a demand.
Even from the County of Surrey, England, where Ockham
was born, comes a letter from Mary, Countess of Lovelace, who
lives in
Ockham
making a
Park, Surrey, in
translation so that
gratitude to
many may enjoy
the
author for
the philosophical,
psychological and theological teachings of “our famous inhabitant.”
based upon manuscripts now treasured in Balliol college and Merton College and at the University
of Rouen, and modern photography made it possible for Dr.
Birch to get copies of the pages so that he could complete his
Dr. Birch’s
new
text
is
work without leaving American soil and his classes
berg College where he has taught since 908.
at
Witten-
1
Dr. Birch
began
this
work more than 20 years ago,
as
a
graduate student at Pennsylvania University, and since then, in
person or through agents has searched libraries of two continents for original or manuscripts.
able an authoritiative Latin text,
As a
and
result
he has made avail-
his translation has
the writing immediately accessible to those
made
who, unlike a few
:
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scattered scholars, have found abbreviated Latin too
difficult.
Because “De Sacramento Altaris” is one of those of Ockham’s writings which exercised great influence upon Martin
Luther, the translation will be of much use to students of theology.
In this connection the Rev. Prof. M. Reu, D. D., Lit. D.,
of Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, la., editor of Kirchliche Zeitschrift, writes:
may be
This
is
justly proud.
a book of which our
It is,
Lutheran Church
indeed, no easy task to publish a
text of the fourteenth century.”
The following
Alumni News Notes
is
quoted from the Gettysburg College
“In person or through agents he has searched
the libraries of two continents for original editions
and manuscripts. As a result he has made available an authoritative Latin text and at the same time
has given it to those hampered by classical limitations.
By this book Professor Birch has written his name
permanently in the annals of scholarly endeavor.”
Dr. Birch is also president of the City Zoning Board in
The Board was recently apSpringfield, Ohio, his home city.
pointed by the mayor of that city to adjust matters arising from
the enforcement of the city’s
new zoning
ordinance.
1891
crat,
The following is clipped from the Johnstown, Pa., Demoof Monday, March 2, 1931
Mrs. Mary Kintner Harris, twin sister of Attorney
Kintner, of 203 Fayette Street, Westmont, and
J.
J.
widow of Charles S. Harris, died at 6 40 o’clock Saturday evening at the Kintner hom,e where she had
She was born in
been bedfast since Christmas Eve.
of the late Col.
daughter
Wyoming County and was a
Ann Jennings Kintner.
J. C. Kintner and Mary
Mrs. Harris was a graduate of the Bloomsburg
:
:
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State Teachers College and taught school for a
ber of years before her marriage to Charles
in
Renovo
Harris
numHarris
From Renovo Mr. and Mrs.
1898.
in
moved
S.
to Oil City
and
later to Chicago,
Mr. Harris’ death occurred seven
years
where
Last
ago.
came to reside with the Kintner
She was a
family and became ill Christmas Eve.
woman of exceptional ability and was known for her
fall
Mrs.
Harris
kind and generous acts
in
behalf of
less
fortunate
persons.
Mrs. Harris
is
survived by one daughter, Ruth Cecelia
Harris, of Chicago, at present with the Kintner
ily;
a
sister,
Mrs. Ruth C. Parrack,
Pittsburgh,
famand
one brother. Attorney Kintner.
1892
Concerning the death of one of Bloomsburg’s most diswe quote the following from the Syracuse,
tinguished alumni,
N. Y., “Post-Standard” of January 2:
Dr.
Tennyson
L.
Deavor, 61, founder of Onon-
daga General Hospital and nationally known goiter
expert, died last night at his home, 677 West OnonHe had been ill for six weeks.
daga Street.
Dr. Deavor founded Onandaga General Hospital
in 1918 and fostered its growth until a new and comHe
pletely equipped building was erected in 1928.
was chief of staff, surgeon in chief and a member of
the Board of Directors of the institution.
His fame as a goiter expert was national, and
While he
leading surgeons recognized his ability.
practiced general surgery he specialized in goiter and
sufferers came to Syracuse for treatment by him from
all
sections of the country.
Born January 10, 1869,
in Dublin, Pa., a
son of
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the late Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deavor, he graduated
from McConnelsburg Preparatory School, Bloomsburg
State Normal, Carlisle College and the College of Med-
Syracuse University.
icine,
After his graduation at Syracuse University
1898 he began
his practice in
remained here.
eral Hospital
Before founding
he was a
Good Shepherd
member
in
Syracuse and always
Onondaga
Gen-
of the Hospital of the
staff.
Deavor was a feilow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Syracuse
Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association,
New York State Medical Association, and the Onondaga Medical Association.
Dr.
He was
32nd Degree Mason, a member of
Command-
a
Zyra Temple Shrine, Utica; Central City
ery, Knights
fraternity
Templar, Phi Beta
Pi,
national medical
and the Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace
Deavor,
L.
whom
he married in Berwick, Pa., in 1898; a
brother, j. D. W. Deavor, of Harrisburg, Pa., and a
sister,
Mrs. William McClain, of Robertsdale, Pa.
Funeral services will take place at
tomorrow evening
undertakers,
where
will
burial will
at the
home.
8:30
o’clock
&
Meech,
Fairchild
body to Berwick,
Monday.
conducted
be
send
the
Pa.,
1894
The sympathy
of
all
friends
and classmates of William W.
Evans, Superintendent of the Schools of Columbia
extended to Mr. Evans for the death of Mrs. Evans,
County,
is
who passed
Bloomsburg, November 6, 930, followMrs. Evans was one- of the most
ing a stroke of apoplexy.
esteemed women in Bloomsburg, and news of her death came
away
at her
home
in
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as a shock to the entire
First
41
She was a member of the
community.
Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg, and was very active
Order of Eastern Star and the Bloomsburg Chapter of
Mrs. Evans was fifty-five years of age, and was a
native of Dickson City.
She spent most of her girlhood in Taylor, and for ten years was one of Lackawanna County’s most
efficient teachers.
She is survived by her husband, four daughters, one grand-daughter, and one sister.
in the
Delphians.
1895
Nathan W. Bloss, principal of the
Conyngham Township Schools in Luzerne County, has not missed a day because of illness, and in addition, never missed a day
from that cause while he attended the public schools, and later,
Since his graduation,
the Bloomsburg State Normal School.
Mr. Bloss has taught in Hollenback Slocum, and Conyngham
For
twenty years,
Townships.
1896
The classmates and
friends of Mrs.
Edward
Purcell (Tillie
Casey) extend to her their sympathy for the recent death of her
husband.
The Morning Press of December 29, 1930, had the
following concerning Mr. Purcell’s death:
A telegram received yesterday by Henry
Casey of town announced the sudden death of
brother-in-law,
at his
home
in
Edward
J.
his
Purcell, a native of Centraha,
Bartow, Florida.
Death was due
to a
heart attack.
Mr. Purcell, who was very well known in
Bloomsburg, where he resided during the time he was
engaged in building the Susquehanna, Bloomsburg
& Berwick Railroad, had a career in which adventure
played a real part.
He was
sent to China a
few years ago by the
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W.
Carey Company of
F.
New
York, with
whom
he
was associated for years, to build a railroad.
He had work well underway when he and a
companion were taken captives by Chinese bandits
and held for ransom.
Their capture attracted worldwide attention for a time because the Boxer uprising
had a part in it.
They were separated and kept captive for
weeks.
Mr. Purcell was kept on the march for
weeks and a new pair of high top boots which he had
started to wear just before his capture was in shreds
by the time he had made his escape.
Once before he had attempted an escape during
was at once covered with
a half dozen guns.
He realized then he had small
the dead of the night, but
chance
to escape.
During the course of their wanderings and when
bandits and prisoners alike were nearly dead for lack
of water, the party
came upon a pool of water covOne of the bandits who
ered with a green scum.
could
make
himself understood
in English,
Mr. Purcell not to drink the water;
who drank
that
it
cautioned
killed all
it.
in it a chance to escape.
He
hands and knees, pretended to take
All his
great swallows of the water, and to like it.
captors left him with the exception of the one who
could speak English.
They figured that he would
soon be dead, and their chance of securing ransom
money had passed. But, Mr. Purcell had drunk none
He bribed the lone Chinaman and set
of the water.
The prisoner saw
got
down on
his
him up in a store business, the latter aiding him to
get back to country with which he was familiar.
Ransom money was paid for the release of his companion.
!
!
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and
In recent years, Mr. Purcell
W.
resided in Florida, where the
had extensive
F.
43
have
his family
Carey Company
Christmas greetings to the
interests.
he
relatives here indicated that
was then
good
in
health.
He was
by
his wife,
well along in his
formerly Miss
when he was
fifties
Tillie
and
Casey,
is
survived
whom
located in Bloomsburg on the
he met
S. B.
&
B.
by three children, Edward, married and living in Bartow, and Margaret and Jack, at home.
Two sisters, Mary and Catherine, reside in Philacontract
;
delphia.
1901
Miss Louise Larrabee,
who
has been
teaching
in
Hawaii,
received her Master’s Degree at the University of Hawaii, at the
Commencement
held June 2, 1930.
1904
Emma
Berry Motter
lives at
1
56 South Third
Street,
Ham-
Her husband, who had been Treasurer of the Hamburg Savings and Trust Company, died suddenly, August 20,
Mrs. Motter has one daughter, who
1930, of a heart attack.
was graduated last June from Coughlin High School, Wilkesburg, Pa.
Barre.
1906
Bean Soup
Kertoffel
Ach du
!
Bean Soup
!
Schnitz
lieber!
Naughty Six!
R. Bruce Albert,
president of the class,
will
soon send
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notices to
all
members
pep and
them of their comgood crowd, lots of
of the class, advising
ing twenty-fifth reunion.
He expects
a
interest in the meeting.
1908
We
are indebted to Laura
Morgan (Mrs. V.
3816
C. Stein)
Locust Street, Philadelphia, for the following items
Joseph Shovlin’s address is Kulpmont,
County Superintendent’s office.
Wesley
Sitler’s
address
Los Angeles, California.
is
We
Pa., in care of the
1915 North Catalina Avenue,
thank Arvilla Kitchen
’07, for locating this lost classmate for us,
Eunson,
and sending
in
his
address.
Martha James had a very interesting trip to Europe this
She says “I never enjoyed anything quite so much,
summer.
and have enough to think about for the rest of my life. There
were forty-six in our party, and they were all very congenial.
Both conductors were Frenchmen, and I think it would have
been hard to find better ones.”
William Watkins was in St. Augustine, Florida, in January
and did not know where Carol Krum lived. A letter from Bill
it was
I thought
states
“I wish I had had Carol’s address.
Jacksonville, but I see from the last Quarterly that it is St.
We paid no attention to looking up “Crummy”
Augustine.
:
there.
We
are just as sorry about
Keep your class list
you make a trip.
in a
it
as
we can
Moral:
be.”
place where you can refer to
it
Mrs. Ethel Henrie Stevens lives at 733 Broadway,
Rocks, Pa.
respectively.
Mrs. Stevens has two sons, ages
fifteen
in
case
McKees
and
five,
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1909
Charles L. Maurer, clean of the college department of the
Law
South Jersey
Camden High
School, and a
member
School, has received
the
He
Education at Temple University.
of the faculty of the
degree
of
Doctor of
holds degrees of
B. Pd.
from Bloomsburg State Teachers College; A. B. from Ursinus
College, and A. M. from University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Maurer’s thesis was
eran Church
in
Pennsylvania
tors’ dissertations
‘
Week-day Schools
in the
of the Luth-
Doc-
Eighteenth Century.’
are published at the expense of the recipients
However, the Pennsylvania German Society
heard of Maurer’s thesis and asked to be permitted to publish
His thesis was deit in their journal without any cost to him.
It will be
clared by Dean Walk to be a ‘notably fine thesis.”
published in book form next December.
It will be illustrated
with cuts and plates of old schoolhouses, a few of which are
still standing; name plates of books and catechisms, specimens
of penmanship by the schoolmasters, and other material.
He
obtained much of the material for his thesis by translating the
original church records which are in German.
of the degree.
Before coming to
Camden
in
1915, Mr. Maurer taught
the public schools of Pennsylvania.
cipal of
Plymouth Township schools,
vice-head-master of
Conway
Camden, he has been active
Hall,
in
in
He was supervising prinMontgomery County, and
Carlisle.
Since
coming
to
educational affairs, having been
chairman of the Camden Teachers’ Council, and president of the
Teachers’ Association.
Topics,” and edited
it
He was chairman
He
originated ‘‘Teachers’ Association
for three years.
of the American history section
State Department of Education to prepare a
syllabus
of the
for
the
He served on the Collingswood Board of EduHe has also been active in Y. M. C. A.
one term.
social studies.
cation
church and Sunday school work, being assistant superintendent of the Collingswood Presbyterian Sunday school,
activities,
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one of the largest Sunday schools in South Jersey.
Mr. Maurer helped to organize the college department of
the South Jersey Law School, and has served as dean and professor of economics since its inception.
Miss
Mary Bevan and Benjamin Souders, of Hazleton, were
in the Diamond M. E. Church, of that city.
married recently
1912
Charlotte Peacock Holmes and son Billy left
for California,
where they are now
living with
in
Mrs.
January
Holmes’
sister.
1918
was that of Miss Mary Powell and
Dr. J. Stewart Wiant, which was solemnized in Forty Fort June
Mrs. Wiant, prior to her marriage, was a teacher in
28, 1930.
the Junior High School in Forty Fort.
Dr. Wiant graduated
from Bloomsburg and is also a graduate of Penn State.
He
received his doctor’s degree at Cornell University. Mr. and Mrs.
Wiant are living at 3 5 Lewis Street, Laramie, Wyoming, where
Dr. Wiant is employed as plant pathologist at the University of
Wyoming.
A
wedding
of interest
1
1921
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Weigand, of
406 North Fourth
Street,
Sunbury, Pa., have announced the engagement of their daughter,
Kathleen, to Ralph G. Shuman, son of Samuel T. Shuman,
of Mainville.
Weigand is one of Sunbury’s most esteemed young
and a graduate of Sunbury High School in the class of
Miss
ladies
1927.
Mr. Shuman graduated from Main Township High School,
Bloomsburg Teachers College, class of 1921 and also the PennHe has been principal of the
sylvania State College in 1926.
Mifflinville High School for three years, also the principal of the
,
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At
Spring Garden Junior High School, of York, for two years.
present he is engaged in teaching mathematics and serving as
Dean of Boys
for
Boys
in the
Thomas Ranken Patton Masonic
Institution
at Elizabethtown, Pa.
The announcement
been elected
a member of the British Astronomical Association has just been
received by his father, D. S. Hartline of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, through Credentials and Association publicathat Dr. H. K. Hartline has
tions.
Dr. Hartline will
be remembered by the Bloomsburg
stu-
Boy Scout in the days
county institution was struggling for re-
dents of the early twenties as an ardent
when
that
now
organization
S.
;
;
thriving
as president of his class of 1921
in the B. S. N.
as a graduate of Lafayette College, class of 1923, Phi Beta
Kappa honors
;
as a student going through a four year course at
Johns Hopkins Medical School for
his
medical
degree,
which
was awarded as were also election to the Sigma Chi Honorary
fraternity and the prize for his paper in medical research.
Since that time he has been doing two years of research
work
in
Johns Hopkins University under a National Research
Council Fellowship and taking post-graduate courses in physics
and mathematics. Along with Biological Research he gave
laboratory and lecture courses during Summer Sessions as inHe was
structor in the Woods Hall Biological Laboratory.
awarded a fellowship in Medical Research by the Johnson
Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania which gave him
opportunity to carry his studies forward in the Universities of
Leipzig, and Munch, Germany, where he is now.
Among
sity
the
many happy
contacts of the
German Univer-
student during his Wanderjahr, he had invitation as a
mem-
ber of the Physikalisches Institut die Universitat zu Leipzig
to
where he
met Einstein under these favorable auspices.
His return from Germany is due in April, 1931, when he
attend the Einstein lecture at the University of Berlin
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48
School of Medical Research of the
will join the faculty of the
University of Pennsylvania as Fellow
In his
in
Medical Research.
became
Johns Hopkins post-graduate years he
work
as-
Department of Physics with a
member of the Medical School Faculty, who previously had
been an Astronomer in the Greenwich Observatory, and with
him made some interesting original observations on Mars.
This led to an invitation to join an Eclipse Expedition to the
Philippine Islands which he could not accept.
This association,
however, resulted in visits to the Greenwich and Heidelberg
astronomical observatories and attendance at the meeting of the
British Astronomical Association and his election to membership of which announcement has just been received.
sociated through his
in the
1924
Miss Bessie Singer and John Shaffer,
were married August 20, 1930,
Mrs.
bride’s parents, 714 Locust Street.
sport,
prior to her marriage, taught in
Williamsport.
Mr. Shaffer
is
the
home
of
the
two years
the Curtin Junior High School,
assistant
Trojan Composition Corporation,
and Mrs. Shaffer are now
both of William-
Jr.,
at
Shaffer, for
superintendent
Trenton, N.
in
J.,
of the
where he
living.
Anna Ingleman Barnes
lives at
206 Fox
Hill
West
Place,
Pittston, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hollingshead, of Catawissa, have
announced the engagement of their daughter, Florence, to Ed-
ward Schuyler,
of Bloomsburg.
Catawissa’s most esteemed young
the Catawissa High School.
Miss Hollingshead
women, and
is
is
one of
a graduate of
Mr. Schuyler has for the past six
years been employed as reporter for the Morning Press.
also the very efficient secretary of the
He
is
Alumni Association.
1927
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Lillian
Wagner Chamberlain, of Bloomsburg, and John Vought, of
The marriage took place Thursday, February 26.
Berwick.
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Mrs. Vought
is
49
a former teacher in the Nescopeck schools.
ceremony performed
In a quiet
at the
parsonage of
the
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, Wednesday, February
First
25, Miss Pearl E. Long, of Bloomsburg, became the bride
The
Dr. Elvin Axt, prominent dentist of Millburn, N. J.
mony was performed by
Kathryn
Fritz,
of
Rev. Harry
the
Max
couple was attended by
F.
Members
Bloomsburg.
of
The
Babcock.
and Miss
immediate
Long, of Chester,
E.
of
cere-
the
family witnessed the ceremony.
Since her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. Axt has been
secretary to Prof. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training
at the
College.
Pennsylvania.
Axt
Dr.
Mountain Road, Millburn,
Doris Palsgrove
is
1
1
is
graduate of the
a
Mr. and Mrs. Axt are
New
University
living at
1
of
5 South
Jersey.
teaching
is
now
Her address
in Frackville, Pa.
7 North Lehigh Avenue.
1930
In a pretty
at
9:00
wedding
in St.
John’s Lutheran Church of Espy
o’clock on Christmas morning, Miss Glovene Fausey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phineas Fausey, became the bride of
Harold Hidlay, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hidlay, also of Espy.
Both bride and groom are highly esteemed Espy young
people.
The groom
Teachers College and
is
is
a graduate
now
of
teaching
the
in
Bloomsburg State
the
high
school
at
Espy.
Esther Wright, of Berwick,
who
is
teaching
this
year
in
the
Mayberry Township, Montour County, was severely
injured Sunday evening, December 7, when she was struck by a
car as she stepped from a bus near her boarding house near
Elysburg.
She was returning to Elysburg after spending the
week-end with her mother.
schools of
;
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TRAINING SCHOOL CHILDREN PRESENT OPERETTA
On Wednesday, March
1
1
,
children
of the
intermediate
grades of the Benjamin Franklin Training School of the College
delighted two audiences in the College auditorium with the pre-
and Gretel.” The production
was simplified from Humperdinck’s opera by the same name
and the children did splendid work.
It was given in the morning before college students and in the afternoon before intermediate students of the town school.
Those heading the cast were Sara Hemingway as Gretel
Billy Hagenbuch as Hansel; Leo Conner as the father; Marjory
Dillon as the mother and Martha Force as the head witch.
Girls of the fourth grade gave the angel pantomime during
which a dull blue light was thrown on the stage and this was
one of the most beautiful numbers of the operetta.
A colorful
was
feature
the number put on by the “cookie” chorus.
Children of the training school not in the cast were grouped around the front of the auditorium as an orchestra would be
grouped and they were a singing orchestra for the production.
Their work added much to the entertainment.
A large number of the members of the college faculty and
student teachers assisted in the production and even mothers
assisted in the making of costumes.
This effort was reflected
in the fine way in which the children gave the operetta.
Miss Edna Hazen supervised the work and Miss Elizabeth
VanBusKirk was the stage manager.
Miss Lucy McCammon
had charge of the dances and Miss Harriet M. Moore directed
Gerald Hartman was the accompanist.
the singing.
The stage settings were worked out under the direction of
Children
George J. Keller, of the college Art Department.
worked out the stage setting plans according to their own ideas
and these were developed under the direction of Mr. Keller.
sentation of the operetta “Hansel
Vol.
No. 3
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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
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JUNE,
1931
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JUNE, 1931
Vol. 32
No. 3
Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year
H. F.
FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.
JENKINS, ’76
’12
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Editor-in-Chief
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Business
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Manager
ALUMNI MEETING
If
was one thing needed Saturday to make this year’s
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College the finhistory of the institution, it was provided at the open-
there
Alumni Day
est in the
at the
ing of the general meeting
tired in caps
when
the entire graduating class, at-
and gowns, marched
into
the
auditorium
$218 for
one for $300
formally presented three checks, one
of
class
and
sub-
Alumni Quarterly,
as a Class
Memorial to the Alumni Trophy Room Fund and $150 as a
Class Memorial to the Worthy Student Fund.
The day had opened at 9:00 o’clock with record breaking
attendances at all class reunions and with an exceptionally fine
spirit, but it was the new feature and wonderful spirit provided
by the graduating class which assured a record breaking day.
As the classes assembled for the meeting, and they were
in such large number that they filled the main floor of the audiscriptions to the
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torium and overflowed to the balcony,
Alexander’s
Orchestra
Association,
presided,
furnished a fine program of music.
A. Bruce Albert, President
of the
and Rev. C. C. Bailey, of Baltimore, Md., gave the invocation.
Then the graduating class marched in and massed at the front of
the auditorium, alumni standing
addition to
the graduating
alumni were
in the
class
during the
it
processional.
was estimated
that
In
800
auditorium.
The president remarked that it was the first time in history
had attended the meeting. He welcomed them into the association and was sure that they would
help to maintain the ideals and standards of the association and
The class was unanimously admitted to memthe institution.
that the graduating class
bership.
James Davis, of Ringtown, president of the class, presented the check for dues in the Alumni Association, a check for
Edward Devoe, of Berwick, editor-in-chief of the
$218.
Obiter, presented the $300 for the Alumni Room Fund, and
Thomas Kirker, of Columbia, treasurer
the $150 for the Worthy Student Fund.
not see
how
of loyalty.
advisor, led in singing the
Miss
and
come through with
Harriet
Alma Mater and
of the auditorium
presented
Mr. Albert said he did
the graduating class could have
a finer expression
marched out
the class,
of
M. Moore,
the
class
graduates then
to the dining hall
where they
enjoyed an early dinner.
The report of F. H. Jenkins, treasurer, submitted by D. D.
Wright, showed almost 1200 subscribers to The Quarterly and a
balance on hand of $775.11, $400.00 of which is invested.
Mr. Wright then reported as treasurer of the Student Loan Fund
which totalled $2881 .82, but which later in the day was conMr. Albert told of the splendid piece of
doing.
P. L. Drum, Esq., of Wilkeswas
Wright
Mr.
w ork
to
the
alumni $100.00 given the fund
Barre, formally presented
siderably increased.
r
Drum. The response was by 0. H. Bakeless,
rapidly recovering from a serious illness, and who was given a
by the
late E. J.
—
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warm
reception by alumni during the day.
editor of the Quarterly, told of the
be continued from year
0. H. Bakeless, the man who,
scriptions
did 99.98 per cent, of the
made
work
3
H. F. Fenstemaker,
work and urged
sub-
that
to year.
to
in
the words of the president,
make
the alumni
room pos-
showing liabilities of $2122.
This was
considerably reduced by subscriptions during the day, many of
them cash.
sible,
H.
his report
Mont Smith,
Esq.,
who
volunteered his
services
as at-
torney for the incorporation of the association, told of the work
and a resolution was passed giving the execupower to incorporate.
The officers were re-nominated by a committee composed
of W. B. Sutliff, D. S. Hartline and H. F. Fenstemaker and were
The officers are: President, R. Bruce
unanimously elected.
of the committee
tive officers
Albert, class 1906; Vice-President, Dr. D.
1867,
1876;
Secretary, Edward F. Schuyler, 1924; Executive Committee
Fred W. Diehl, 1909, chairman; Mrs. C. W. Funston, 1885;
Harriet Carpenter, 1896; Maurice Houck, 1910; Daniel J.
Mahoney, 1909 and D. D. Wright, 1911.
and 0. H. Bakeless, 1879;
Waller,
J.
Treasurer, F. H.
Mrs. Florence Cool, of Philadelphia,
Jr.,
Jenkins,
woman
the
at
the
head of the recent organization of the Bloomsburg Alumni of
Philadelphia area, which opened its program with a banquet
attended by over 200, was introduced and responded briefly.
The president then introduced the Trustees and former
faculty members seated on the platform.
They were Prof. F.
:
George E. Elweli, for 18 years
a member of the Board of Trustees and for
years president
of the Alumni Association; Mrs. Philip Drum, a former teacher
in the music school; Miss Margaret Bogenrief, former teacher
in the Physical Education Department
Miss Enola Guie, Mrs. W.
B. Sutliff and Mrs. Myrtle Swartz VanWie, former faculty members; Fred W. Diehl, trustee and former alumni president; David
L. Glover, trustee; Miss Bess Hinckley, former teacher and Dr.
H. Jenkins, Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,
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Each was given
acknowledged the introduction.
Francis B. Haas, president of the institution.
a
warm welcome
as he or she
Roll Call of Classes.
F. H. Jenkins,
that of
responding for the class of
27 graduates
1
1
1
876, reported
and three were present.
the Trophy Room and expected to
were
living
They had subscribed $10 to
do better.
Dr. H. V. Hower, of Berwick, responded for the class of
1881 with $120 cash contributions to the Trophy Room Fund.
The class had 41 members, of whom 14 are dead and
were
1
1
present.
Mr. Sanner, of Pittsburgh, reported for the class of 1886
More
which after 45 years had 30 of the 64 members back.
than 50 are living.
Members came from Wyoming, Washington and Kansas for the reunion, the speaker declaring the school
was very dear to the entire class.
James Costello, Hazleton attorney, reported for 1891
W. H. Jones, of Scranwhich had 7 of its 87 members back.
Mrs.
ton, reported for the 4 members back of the 896 class.
1
1
Arthur Lowry, Port Washington,
members
of the class of 1901.
L.
I.,
N. Y., reported for the 15
Elwell Dietrick, of
Scranton,
00 pledge of the class of 1906 with 31 members
back.
Of the class of 40, 2 have passed away.
Donald Ikeler, Peekskill, N. Y., reported for the 41 memtold of a $1
1
bers of the class of 1911.
There were 156 members of the
Counting wives, husbands and children there were 65
back for the reunion and $120 had been subscribed in cash
Seven states were
with the amount expected to reach $200.
class.
represented by returning
members, one
traveling
from
Mil-
waukee.
F. J. Meehan reported for the class of 1916 which had 40
members back. There were 189 in the class and $25.00 was
subscribed.
M. T. Shaffer, Wilkes-Barre, reported for 1921 which had
They gave their treasury balance of $122 to the
50 back.
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Worthy Student Fund and $30 to the Alumni Room Fund. The
63 of whom two have passed away.
class totalled
Theodore Keen, Wilkes-Barre, reported 55 of the 1926
class back and Theodore Davis, Englewood, N. J., reported 60
of the 929 class back, with $35 cash given to the Alumni Room
1
1
Fund.
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ALUMNI BANQUET
More than 700 Bloomsburg Alumni, not including the 235
members of the graduating class, packed the large College dining hall for the Alumni Day luncheon, always a feature of the
day’s program, and heard John Shambach, Superintendent of
the Sunbury schools
short address
among
tell
of
and a member of the
the fine
spirit
such
class of
events
1906,
are
in
a
creating
the alumni.
Amplifiers, recently installed as the Memorial of
the class
added immeasurably to the success of the dinner, for
no longer were guests forced to leave their tables and crowd forward to hear the program.
of 1925,
The College
orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenste-
maker, furnished a program of music while the classes were
marching
into the
room and
also
during
the
serving
of
a
delicious dinner.
Each
class in reunion
the class numerals.
the dining hall
was supplied with a banner bearing
marched from the auditorium to
Classes
and the banners aided greatly
in
keeping the
classes together.
C. Bailey, of Baltimore, was in charge of the
and there was something doing every minute.
R. Bruce
Rev. Carroll
singing
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6
Albert, president of the Association, presided.
During the dinner he announced that contributions to the
Worthy Student Fund by the late E. J. Drum, of town, by the
class of 1931 and of the graduating class, had increased that
fund to $3,153.
He also announced that Northumberland
County Alumni were getting ready to follow in the footsteps of
Philadelphia Alumni.
They have already appointed members
of a committee to arrange a banquet with the committee head-
ed by John Shambach, Sunbury.
Dr. D. J. Waller
class of
and George
E.
Elwell,
members
of
the
1867, were introduced as the entire class of that year
and v/ere given a big hand. Dr. Waller is president emeritus
of the institution and Mr. Elwell has served along periods as a
member of the Board of Trustees and as president of the
Alumni Association.
Fred W. Diehl, a member of the Board of Trustees, former
president of the Alumni Association, and a
member
of the class
909, spoke a word of greeting on behalf of the trustees,
declaring that he knew that such interest and enthusiasm as
displayed by the Alumni make Bloomsburg shine in the future
of
1
as in the past.
Prof. C. H. Albert, long a valued
member
of the faculty,
and not present at the general meeting, was introduced and
given a warm welcome.
Dr. Waller declared
drawing
that
the
meeting of the graduates
was the largest in the
that was highly gratifying
to a conclusion
history
of
the
was the
highest guarantee of the condition of the institution and he congratulated all who were responsible for such a happy state of
institution.
He
said
for
it
affairs.
Mr. Shambach Speaks.
Mr. Shambach spoke of the paramount things
in the
minds
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of
Alumni of
and referred to the class just
They are now on the starting line and
different periods
leaving the institution.
they are going out to spread ideas that
give a
new
he
era,
He paid
7
when they mature
will
said.
on behalf of the Alumni, to Dr. Haas, the
and student body for the splendid arrangethe graduates and for the outstanding work of
tribute,
faculty, trustees
ments made for
the institution.
He
ities
some of the
them the qual-
said the class of 1931, sharing advantages
previous classes had not, should have instilled
which
will
make them
in
fine representatives of the
spirit of
the age.
He declared all graduates proud of Bloomsburg and its
work and he was confident that with the support of the Alumni
by talking up the institution and contributing to financial proHe urged that each graduate
jects, the institution could go far.
make some contribution to his or her Alma Mater, for that tie-up
with the school will be of much value to the graduate, and will
create a real feeling in the heart for the old school.
Dr.
Haas Introduced.
Introduced by President Albert as the
about the
spirit of
unity
and good
will
man who brought
between Alumni and
school and also as giving such fine service that under his direction the institution
can go only one
president
B. Haas,
of
the
way
institution,
— forward,
was given
Dr. Francis
a
standing
ovation.
It
was
on Alumni Day it was the duty of the
He spoke to
produce the goods and not to talk.
his opinion that
institution to
Alumni and told of securing amplifiers
class of
1
923 voting
organ fund for
this
to use the
purpose.
$600
for the auditorium,
originally
placed
in
the
an
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Dr. Haas spoke of the first banquet held by Philadelphia
Alumni and of the fine work of the Alumni president, R. Bruce
Albert, of the treasurer of the Student Loan Fund, D. D. Wright,
and other Alumni officials.
He spoke of the fine piece of work
carried on by the Worthy Student Fund and mentioned the fact
that a penny had never been lost during the years the fund has
loaned money to students.
In closing he said the institution was
happy to have the assistance of its graduates and hoped that it
would continue to merit the confidence of the graduates.
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PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ORGANIZE
The
iation of
Room
at
first annual banquet of the Philadelphia Alumni AssocBloomsburg State Teachers College held in the Gold
Adams, 3th and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia,
1
on the night of
May
9th, with
J.
Howard
Patterson
acting
as
Bloomsburg gathering.
ever
held by any group
It was one of the most successful affairs
of the Alumni Association, and numbered close to 200.
Men and women, prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia
today, laid aside the cares of the day and became boys and girls
Indeed there were no old people in the gathagain that night.
every heart of the
ering
age records did not mean a thing
’31
’71
thoughts
reverted to
young.
Their
or
was
of
vintage
or dear old Northeir school days at the College on the hill
mal
as you will.
Mr. J. Edward Durham, ’74, the records say, is the oldest
Philadelphia Alumnus, a man active as the head of one of the
largest Insurance Companies in the city, was with us and gave a
with us,
It was a real joy to have him
very interesting talk.
toast-master,
—
—
was
truly a representative
—
—
and hear the voice of our beloved Dr. Waller.
How much we
!
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and the message he brought us
did appreciate his coming,
His tribute to the ability and
character
of Bruce
President of the Parent Association, found a
warm
Albert,
the
response
in
our hearts.
Dr. Haas, the capable, efficient,
and much-loved head of
now Teachers College, gave a very able and enlightening
address.
Our Alma Mater is in most excellent hands under Dr.
the
Haas’ leadership, with his
Dean
Sutliff
efficient
corps of teachers.
gave a most interesting
and we were im-
talk,
pressed with the real interest those wonderful teachers have
in
the great student body.
Mrs.
Mintie
Sharpless
Wilson,
’67,
so
well
known
in
Bloomsburg, gave a short but interesting talk of the school when
it
was known
C.
ment
at
as the Literary Institute.
Edward Houseknecht,
’00, head of the Music DepartWest Chester State Teachers College, led the group sing-
ing in his inimitable style.
Maxwell Noack,
’16, sang his class song,
which he com-
posed.
Elsie Hess Pulker (sister of Florence Hess Cool) ’88, rendered two delightful soprano solos.
She was accompanied on
the piano by Katherine O’Boyle, daughter of Hannah Reese
O’Boyle, ’88.
Lack of time prevented our
ers
us,
calling
upon a number of oth-
who no doubt would have had something of interest to tell
as we had with us Dr. George Pfahler, ’94, noted Philadel-
phia
X-Ray surgeon;
Barnard,
sicians;
Dr. Fred
Dr.
Dr.
J.
F.
Sutliff, ’94,
McDonnell,
’94,
Dr.
Everett
prominent Philadelphia
phy-
James Maurer, ’86, Dr.
J. P. Echternach, ’99, Dr.
Dentists; Dr. Leslie B. Seeley, ’02,
Ralph Hart, ’18, well-known
a very well-known educator in the Philadelphia Public Schools
F. Herman Fritz, ’99, Superintendent of Pottstown Schools;
Anna E. Roxby, ’79, Supervising Principal of the Linwood PubSchools; Thomas Francis,
08, County Superintendent of
Lackawanna; Judge William Broughall, of Wilmington, Del.,
lic
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son of Adele Shafer, ’86; Annie Miller Melick,
womens’ club work, both
W.
Frantz, ’95, President of
Morgan
political
and
C. T. U. of
outstanding
New
in
Nina Tague
social;
Jersey.
and Jennie Yoder Foley, 06, gave
valuable
very
assistance in arranging for the banquet and in
bringing out the largest representation of any class.
Willie
Stein
Mary Detwiler Bader,
’95,
brought out a
fine representa-
tion of the Class of ’95.
We
could go on
how each one
down the list of those present and tell
her way contributed much to the success
in his or
of this gathering but space limits our mentioning
We
all.
regretted the enforced absence of Professors Albert,
We would have loved to have
them with us at this time, the initial banquet.
permanent organization was effected by the election of
Bakeless, Jenkins and Hartline.
had
all
A
of
the following officers:
Florence Hess Cool, ’88
Willie Morgan Stein, ’08
President
Vice-President
Jennie Yoder Foley,
Secretary
08
Julia Sharpless Fagely, ’95
Treasurer
The Secretary would appreciate the name and address of
any Alumnus or students living in Philadelphia or near by.
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BACCALAUREATE SERMON
The greatest thing
in the
world
is
love.
the graduating class of the
Edward
members
Rev.
Radcliffe, pastor of the First Baptist Church, told
J.
of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
in delivering the baccalaureate sermon in the College auditorium
and impressive service Sunday afternoon, May 24.
Basing his remarks on the words of St. Paul, “The Great-
at a short
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These is Love,” the minister said the policy of building a
on love is not just idealistic but workable, and declared that
with love in international relations things could be accomplished
which force can never hope to do.
The minister said the present age could be characterized as one of many noises and one
must be careful in selecting the right sound to follow.
est of
life
The class, numbering 235, and
gowns, marched into the auditorium
vice to occupy a reserved
attired in
at the
section in the
black caps and
opening of the serMarching at
front.
were members of the Board of Trustees
and of the faculty, the latter attired also in caps and gowns.
Trustees and faculty members were seated on the platform.
As usual the class entered singing the processional hymn,
the head of the class
“Ancient of Days.”
Rev. Radcliffe was introduced by Dr. Francis B. Haas and
gave the invocation.
The audience sang “From All That Dwell
Below the Skies,” and Dr. Haas read the Scripture lesson taken
from the 13th Chapter of I Corinthians.
Following the sermon a double quartet of Senior men, accompanied by Miss Emily Park, sang “Peace I Leave With You,”
by Robert. The impressive service, lasting only about 45 minutes, concluded with the Benediction by Rev. Radcliffe and the
recessional of the graduates.
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IVY
DAY
Black skies and frequent showers dampened
the
sylvan
made Ivy Day at the State Teachers College
most picturesque of commencement week events, but did
scenes that have
prevent the presentation of an interesting program
torium at 6
A
:
00
o’clock
fair-sized
when
the
in
campus was bathed
crowd attended the
exercises.
the
not
the audiin rain.
Folk dances.
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12
in the grove, were given
somewhat cramped space of the stage, which prevented
freedom of action permitted in the open.
As the program opened. Miss Esther Bower, presiding,
arranged for a feature at the pergola
in the
the
called on Dr. Haas, president of the school, at the request of the
class, for a brief address.
is traditionally a memory day
memories of departing classes.
A recent survey had shown that 4 of the 35 ivy plants set out
in exercises of the classes had ceased to exist, but the school
had arranged to replace all of them and would replace those in
the future which fail to grow.
In closing he told the class that in their class night program
they should feel free to go as far as they liked in their comments on the faculty, as he believed that at least once in their
school careers they should have the freedom of saying what
Dr.
program
Haas said
that Ivy
Day
as the ivy perptuates
1
they thought.
by Lydia Smith with music by Samwas sung by the class.
Arthur C. McKenzie presented the Ivy Day oration, speakTire class song, written
uel
W.
Kurtz,
ing as follows:
“Once more we are gathered
who
here, a group of
neophites,
are about to be initiated into the great fraternity of char-
whom we know
formers
acter
professionally
as
teachers.
Through a varied period of years we have toiled, played, laughed and sorrowed together as we learned the art of teaching
children.
“By our very presence here we denote a response
calling
which
medium
is
second to none, that of guiding
of our instruction
—
the future destiny
to the
— through
of our
the
nation,
whose fate rests in the hands of the generation we will be called
upon to teach.
“A few more precious hours and we will begin a journey
As for our preparation
that will lead us, we know not where.
for that journey, the opportunity
is
past.
How
well
we have
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individually attuned ourselves to the
ing,
13
melody of successful teach-
remains to be seen.
“But there
is
something far more important to each one of
It is the attitude which we have assum-
us than any of these.
ed toward our
life’s activity.
“God has provided
for each one of us a niche
which He
There remains for us the work of using the
in such a way that the most good will be
realized both to ourselves and to society in general.
expects us to
talents
we
fill.
possess
“As we leave these surroundings tonight, let us remember
no matter what else may intervene, we can always strive
do our best in whatever we undertake.
that
to
“In closing,
let us, like
the ivy, ever strive to climb higher
and reach for larger things in life.
It is an ambition worthy of
the noblest, one which, if always carried out, will cause us to
reap rich harvests and achieve great reward.
“A few years ago we made a decision which has led us
here tonight.
Tonight let us make a decision which will lead
us to paths of success and happiness in years to come.
The
power is in your hands. Time only can tell how, through each
of us, it will be used.
Therefore, let us make an individual
resolve that when there comes a time for accounting, it can be
said of us, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant,’ enter
into joy and reward.”
Miss Miriam Hartt read the class poem, which she had written, and girls of the class presented the folk dances which had
been arranged as the artistic feature of the outdoor program.
Officers and a committee handled the planting of the ivy
at Science Hall between showers.
The spade, in school colors,
was presented to Henry Warman, the Junior President, and the
program closed with the Alma Mater.
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14
CLASS NIGHT
Opportunity was offered
Monday
evening.
crystallizing of those things in college life
the passing of each year,
College
made
May
25, for the
which mean more with
and the Seniors of the State Teachers
the most of
it
at their class night exercises in the
College auditorium.
Several hundred relatives and
friends of
the
graduates
joined the class to enjoy the evening, but the program was principally for the class and, of course, they
it
as the forerunners of the
all
reaped the most from
commencement program
closed and
was made ready for the graduating.
The exercises were much on the order of those
managed to get a realism
made them more effective. By a
years, but the class
into the
scenes that
series
changing scenes, with attention to the
such a prominent place
ed
its
in
memory’s
little
details
in
past
familiar
of rapidly
that
have
treasures, the class review-
College career for registration to Alumni
Day some time
in the future.
Then
in
climaxing the program, James Davis, the President,
presented to Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the
$25.00
as a class
memorial
to the College
Community
institution,
Chest, this
Alumni Trophy Room Fund, $150 to
the Worthy Student Fund and $218 for dues of the class in the
Alumni Association, which were presented at the alumni meetaddition to
$300
for the
ing.
Dr. Haas, in his acceptance, thanked the class for the gifts
and spoke of the class night program as both interesting and
The program closed with the Alma Mater.
instructive.
The class introduced a new feature, that of singing popIncluded in
ular numbers between the scenes of the program.
these songs was “The Maroon and Gold,’’ a most popular number on the hill and one written during the College year by Dr.
Haas.
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About two score of the
class
everything was worked out even
This
love interest.
Mildred
to,
were
program and
the
it,
was handled by Misses Dolores Keating and
Rabb and David Baker.
nified Seniors
book which most
dig-
choose to forget, when they emphasized “Frosh
day scene, the first of the evening.
room scene in which Chester Zimolzack
clever piece of work in impersonating a number of the
greenness”
in the registration
Then came
a class
College professors.
body
the
in
as the movies term
Seniors tore a page from memory’s
did a
15
told just
Then came
from the student
Roars of appreciation
how good
those impersonations were.
and following
that a pep meeting
which Sam Kurtz was the leader with William Weaver impersonating Coach Booth and Bob Sutliff imitating Zimolzack, as-
the kid party
in
sistant coach.
“Cases” were scored
in the characteristic
night programs in the Waller Hall scene which
Then came scenes from
not realistic.
manner of class
was nothing if
the Junior
Prom,
one
during play rehearsal and one of alumni day.
The committee
in
charge of the program were:
Chester
Maynard Pennington, Doris Sechrist,
Elizabeth Bowman, Arthur McKenzie and Dorothy Levers.
Zimolzack,
chairman;
o
——
COMMENCEMENT
“Much
we
of
what we are and are going
to be, will
be what
write deep into the souls of the boys and girls,” Dr. John
W.
Withers, dean of the School of Education of the University of
New
York, told 235 graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teach-
ers College at the
62nd annual commencement
of the institution
in the College auditorium.
Talking to the class on the profession of their choice and
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16
making no attempt
at oratory. Dr.
Withers held
their
closest
attention as he told of the public school as an institution which
must cope with the problems of the day and therefore must be
from what it was 25 or 30 years ago.
Forty-six of the class completed the four year course for
the degree of bachelor of science in education, and in the two
years course, 83 completed work in the intermediate field, 69
in the primary course and 37 in the rural course.
Of those receiving degrees, two completed the elementary course and the
different
others the junior high school course.
Members
of the class stood as their
names were read by
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the institution,
who
received
from Dean of Instruction W. B. Sutliff. When the
names of the candidates for degrees were read Mr. Sutliff preOne of the successful
sented each with his or her diploma.
candidates was his son, Robert Sutliff.
The College orchestra furnished a fine program of music
for the exercises and played as the processional, “War March
The procession
of the Priests from ‘Athalia’,” Mendelssohn.
was headed by the speaker of the day. Dr. Haas, members of
They occupied chairs on
the Board of Trustees and faculty.
the
lists
the platform with the class in a reserved section in the front of
All but the trustees
the auditorium.
were
attired in caps
and
gowns.
Dr.
David
J.
Waller,
Jr.,
President emeritus of the College
gave the invocation and Dr. Withers then delivered his address.
Robert E. Clark, of the College faculty, accompanied by H. F.
Fenstemaker, sang most beautifully, “De Glory Road,” by Jacques Wolfe.
Then came the conferring
The
parting by Doctor Haas.
of degrees
and a
president, on
trustees, faculty, the parents of the class
and
brief
behalf
word
of
of
the
their friends, con-
gratulated them and wished them success.
He
said that he
upon which
hoped they had secured a
solid
background
to earn a livelihood in the profession of their choos-
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had learned that in this world we
no such thing as the individual.
hoped that they knew spiritual values and the value of
There is no substitute for hard work and common sense.
He
ing.
also
hoped
that they
must work together, for there
He
also
work.
The
individual
fool the
God
17
may
work.
is
he will never
he wished the class good luck and
fool himself regarding that but
In closing,
speed.
Dr. Withers’ Address.
Dr. Withers, in opening
class
his address,
on past achievements and present
He
on the outlook for the future.
congratulated
the
accomplishments and
told the class that they
were
entering the greatest enterprise in the world today and spoke of
the two billions spent annually on elementary education, an
amount so vast that if the entire wealth of the German nation
were invested at five per cent, it would be just great enough to
allow the expenditure of that
sum each
year.
He spoke of the huge cost of education in Pennsylvania,
which he termed a progressive state and he spoke of death removing each year an educational investment of around
$45,000,000, so that part of the money allotted to education
each year is to replace that civilization which is lost through
death and to keep the standard of civilized life on the basis to
which it has been brought.
He spoke
amount w'hich is used in replacements
buildings and then of the fitting of teachers of
of the
and expansion of
whom 7,500 leave the ranks
in the State
represent a State investment of
He spoke
their school
It is
each year.
Teachers
millions.
of the necessity of re-education of adults
days have
necessary that
want a high type of
Education
50
is
failed to get that
this
work be done
civilization
may
which they need
in
continue to have
who
feel that
it
in
in life.
order that those
looked upon differently than
there are some today
who
who
it.
used to be, but
education should be the same
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18
was 25 or 30 years ago when the three R’s formed the
The teacher today needs to know life and
education and its relation to the people of today and the part it
should play.
Education today is not just teaching.
“You are
students of modern life in all its phases and it is your business to
find what part the elementary and high school should play in the
life of the state and what interest it should hold,” he told the
class.
How shall the school take its place and play its part in
as
it
basis of schooling.
the
life
of people as a whole,
is
a problem for the teachers.
Dr.
Withers continued.
He spoke of the characteristics of the western civilization.
There is a tendency to emphasize research and to use scientific
methods in the investigations.
One man in a book on achievements said that there were 5 prior to the 9th century and 24
Certainly the 20th century is doing even
during that century.
1
1
greater things and excelling past achievements.
eristic
has a great influence on education
if
the
This charact-
people are to
keep up with the present movement.
There is a tendency for education to move up and it must
There is a tenextend to cope with present day problems.
dency to apply knowledge as quickly and fully as possible for
human advancement and this means that if we are to apply
what we know we must have education to do it.
Professions
There is emphasis placed on specialization.
Medicine which used to have but two
are being diversified.
classes now has 25 or 30 distinct ones and each required much
We are building up skilled trades to put them on
preparation.
More and more emphasis is being
a semi-professional basis.
placed on high grade preparation for the problems of life.
Great importance is being placed on elementary and high school
education.
There
is
a tendency to
enlarge and
expand the funda-
This was first extended when
was freed and was further extended when the adult
women were given the right to franchise. Now we are coming
mental principles of democracy.
the negro
:
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to recognize that the adolescent
boy and
girl
19
has a right to
expression within the limits of his or her ability.
self
They make
in a while but so do adults.
The young people in the public schools are being recognizThe
ed as persons and that makes for different school life.
mistakes once
way
be a democrat in a demorcracy is to learn it in the
life.
The problems of importance are those which
have factors that cannot be worked out with education alone.
He urged that no time be wasted in friction and declared what
we must learn how to live in a democracy by early teaching.
The lesson of how to work with others is more and more that of
only
to
early days of
the school.
He
likened the individual unto an iceberg which has four-
fifths of its
body submerged.
going to be, will be what
boys and
girls,
he
we
Much
of
what we are and are
write deep into the
souls
of
the
said.
There is something more to education than the solving of
In closing, he asked the class to
problems through education.
The progress
treat the achievement just as Commencement.
American nation and its fate rests largely in the hands of
the teachers, and there is great need for the progressive teachHe wished them God speed and congratulated the class.
er.
of the
The members
GROUP
I
of the class are
—PRIMARY
Josephine M. Baas, Wilkes-Barre.
Helen A. Banta, Luzerne.
Beatrice Beale, Duncannon.
Florence Bettens, Riverside.
Florence E. Blythe, Nanticoke.
Louise H. Bombe, Nanticoke.
Fannie M. Bonham, Berwick.
Lulu Boyer, Lewistown.
Theresa D. Carpenter, Hazleton.
H. Jayne Cease, Alden Station.
Nicia M. Chiavacci, Pittston.
Miriam Aileene Cole, Millville.
Mary
J.
Concannon, Shamokin.
Phyllis Coopey, Nanticoke.
Mary F. Davis, Nanticoke.
Naomi
C. Davis, Peckville.
Rose E. Delliquanti, Pittston.
Kathryn M. Dougherty, Tuscarora.
Louise T. Downin, Harrisburg.
Catherine J. Dugan, Shamokin.
Naomi M. Edmunds, Nanticoke.
Isabel Eshleman, Berwick.
Jane L. Fahringer, Berwick.
Ruth E. Fairchild, Lewisburg.
Mary
Freeburg.
Forgeng, Scranton.
C. Fisher,
Dorothy
J.
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Lydia R. Fortner, Bloomsburg.
Rose A. Frank, Gordon.
Anna E. Frew, Olyphant.
Helen C. Galazin, Nanticoke.
Evelyn E. Gilbert, Shenandoah.
Mary E. Gorham, Scranton.
Miriam F. Hartt, Bloomsburg.
Ellen M. Hegarty, Tamaqua.
Rosa D. Hill, Jerseytown.
Lois C. Hirleman, Almedia.
Julia M. Hopkins, Shenandoah.
Catherine R. Ingram, Nanticoke.
Bessie A. Jenkins, Nanticoke.
Anna
A. Solonski, Wilkes-Bai're.
Helen G. Stryjak, Nanticoke.
Ruth E. Sutter, Glen Lyon.
Dawn E. Townsend, Bloomsburg.
Helen M. Walborn, Selinsgrove.
F. Beatrice Waples, Espy.
Leona M. Werchok, Plymouth.
Anna
Williams, Scranton.
Catherine Williams, Nanticoke.
M. Violette Williams, Luzerne.
Mary G. Yabroski, Ashley.
Albina M. Zadra, Freeland.
GROUP
II
— INTERMEDIATE
Dorothy Katherine Jones, Scranton. Myfanwy M. Beynon, Scranton.
Esther C. Jones, Edwardsville.
Esther A. Bower, Chinchilla.
Hilda R. Kazunas, Shenandoah.
Edith E. Boyer, Selinsgrove.
Dolores E. Keating, Nanticoke.
Hazel F. Keefer, Bloomsburg.
Mabel M. Kehler, Locust Dale.
Marie W. Kelly, Bloomsburg.
Eva C. Krauss, Bloomsburg.
Charleen B. Kreigh, Bloomsburg.
Luella F. Krug, Berwick.
Mildred E. Liddell, Mahanoy City.
Grace G. Linskill, Pottsgrove.
Ruth A. McDonald, Dunmore.
Margaret L. McNealis, Nanticoke.
Margaret M. Maddox, Nanticoke.
Mary
C. Miles, Shenandoah.
Mildred R. Miller, Nescopeck.
Marjorie R. Mills, Nanticoke.
Anne C. Murtha, Scranton.
Retha M. Noble, Montrose.
Pearl M. Quoos, Nanticoke.
Anna Mildred Rabb, Danville.
Mary E. Raiewski, Glen Lyon.
Eleanor R. Rhoades, Wyoming.
Marjory Roachford, Wilkes-Barre.
Harriet Roan, Bloomsburg.
Jeanette Roberts, Scranton.
Alice K. Roush, Selinsgrove.
Mary S. Rozanski, Plymouth.
Grace L. Shear, Coudersport.
Gladys M. Shotsberger, Freeburg.
Ruth Naomi Snyder, Pillow.
Mary P. Boyle, Hazleton.
Mae R. Cavanaugh, Coaldale.
Elizabeth M. Challenger, Scranton.
Elizabeth M. Cochran, Berwick.
Helen C. Cunningham, Kingston.
Mary E. Davis, Edwardsville.
Edna M. Derrick, Sunbury.
Florence Louise Dunn, Jermyn.
Margaret D. Eck, Allentown.
Elva M. Edwards, Edwardsville.
Doris E. Empett, New Milford.
Florence E. Fawcett, Berwick.
Dorothy M. Foust, Watsontown.
Anna L. Fowler, Berwick.
Kathryn H. Fowler, Berwick.
Beatrice Francis, Peckville.
Gladys M. Frantz, Danville.
Harold J. Freeman, Wilkes-Barre.
Dorothy J. Frick, West Pittston.
Dorothy Gitlovitz, Wilkes-Barre.
Margie P. Harrison, Hunlock Creek.
Romaine E. Henrie, Berwick.
Florence C. Hochberg, Philadelphia.
Elizabeth H. Hubler, Gordon.
Mary Eliz. Johnstone, Wilkes-Barre.
Dorothy Jean Jones, Berwick.
Alice A. Kasaczun, Scranton.
Grace R. Kauffman, Milton.
Winifred Keen, Glen Lyon.
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Erma
Mary
V. Kelchner, Shickshinny.
Eliz. Kelly, Edwardsville.
Sue 0. Kepner, Berwick.
Harriet B. Klingerman, Sunbury.
John F. Klotz, Wanamie
Dorothy R. Levers, Milton. '
Charlotte Mack, Forty Fort.
Dorothy E. Maines, Peckville.
Lillian E. Mann, Pittston.
Nellie D. Masluski, Edwardsville.
Maude
A. Michael, Berwick.
Jean M. Mileskay, Forest City.
Rachael E Miller, Berwick.
Annie T. Morgan, Nanticoke.
Elizabeth M. Morgan, Plymouth.
Sara D. Morgan, Edwardsville.
Leonore R. Murko, Berwick.
Anna
K. Ollendick, Chinchilla.
Agnes D. Ondovchak, Plymouth.
William T. Pelak, Edwardsville.
Helen C Rosser, Scranton.
Eleanor C. Sheridan, Nanticoke.
Marion L. Shook, Pittston.
Emilie L. Sides, Berwick.
Estelle F. Simonovitz, Plymouth.
Ruth E. Sonner, Honesdale.
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Creta M. Davis, Zion Grove.
C. Derr, Jerseytown.
Peter Evancho, Eckley.
Clara E. Fahringer, Catawissa.
Mildred E. Ferry, McAdoo.
Marie A. Foust, Washingtonville.
Kathryn A. Graybill, Paxtonville.
Regina B Haggerty, Mary D.
Irene Harris, Hickory Corners.
Ada F. Harrison, Huntington Mills.
Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek.
Corinne A. Hess, Bloomsburg.
Esther A. Hutchings, Uniondale.
Lois M. Ivey, Rupert.
Esther L. Kile, Rohrsburg
Ethel E. Jacoby, Barnesville.
LaRue
Marion E. Klinger, Nuremberg.
Theodore Laskowski, Trucksville.
Kaom Mae Lewis, Drumns.
Minnie B. Olschefsky, Catawissa.
Eva W. Robbins, Millville.
Frank J. Roman, Wilkes-Barre.
Winifred Shultz, Berwick.
Lydia A. Smith, Dallas.
Catharine H Stackhouse,
Hunting-
ton Mills.
Margaret P. Stewart, Catawissa.
Anne B. Urban, Pittston.
Elizabeth M. Van Buskirk, Kingston .Earl H. VanDine, Montoursville.
Aria P. Weikel, Shamokin.
Cora Mae Wagner, Shamokin
Raymond W. Willard, Trevorton.
John J. Wilkes, Alden Station.
Geo. Keith Witheridge, Wyoming.
Reba E. Williams, Scranton.
Ruth M. Williams, Peckville.
SECONDARY FIELD
Genevieve G. Wolfe, Alderson.
Degree
of Bachelor of Science in
Pauline Womer, Sunbury.
Education.
John G. Wood, Dickson City.
David H. Baker, Columbia.
Lois M. Wyandt, Scranton.
Beatrice Bowman, Orangeville
Hilda D. Yocum, Milton
Elizabeth C. Bowman, Bloomsburg.
GROUP III RURAL
Lewis L. Creveling, Orangeville.
—
Helen M. Appleman, Danville.
Fred T. Aten, Catawissa.
Helen E. Bangs, Rohrsburg.
James
Mae
John W. Dyer, Bloomsburg.
Elouise J. Evans, Bloomsburg.
Frank V Faus, Bloomsburg.
Helen S. Gibbons, Benton.
Amy
E. Bitler, Millville.
E. Bittner, Catawissa.
Barbara M. Booth, Eagles Mere.
Minnie S. Clark, Dornsife
B. Davis, Ringtown.
T. DeVoe, Berwick.
Gladys J. Dildine, Orangeville.
Edward
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22
Rebecca Gilmore, Bloomsburg.
Frank J. Golder, Bloomsburg.
John E. Morris, Forty Fort.
Theodore Morrissey, Wanamie.
Catherine F. Hayes, Berwick.
L. Henry, Wilkes-Barre.
Ila A. Ivey, Bloomsburg.
Nicholas Jaffin, Berwick.
Orval C. Palsgrove, Frackville.
Maynard J. Pennington, Bloomsburg.
Wm. Bernard Roan, Espy.
Winifred Robbins, Orangeville
Doris S. Sechrist, Bloomsburg.
Martin A. Sekulski, Glen Lyon.
Robert G. Sutliff, Bloomsburg.
Wm. H. Weaver, Bloomsburg.
Robert C. Wilson, Bloomsburg.
Clarence R. Wolever, Nanticoke.
Esther R. Yeager, Holmesburg
Joseph J. Yocabonis, Mahanoy City.
Chester Zimolzak, Glen Lyon.
Thomas
Muncy Valley.
Kirker, Columbia.
Dorothy B. Kisner, Muncy.
Robert F. Knierim, Scranton.
Eugene Krolikoski, Glen Lyon.
Samuel W. Kurtz, Milton.
Harold H. Lanterman, Berwick.
Elsie V. Keller,
Thomas
J
Arthur C. McKenzie, Bloomsburg.
Helen L. Maynard, Chinchilla.
Marion R. Meixell, Espy
Harold R. Miller, Bloomsburg.
Norman G. Morgan, Lock Haven.
ELEMENTARY
Mary M.
FIELD.
Bloomsburg.
Emily A. Park, Berwick.
Flick,
O
CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
Work
campaign
add much
is
rapidly nearing completion on an
at the
active
Spring
Bloomsburg State Teachers College which
will
N. T. Englehart,
beauty of the school plant.
superintendent of buildings, has had the regular force of the
College and 7 additional men at work on a number of projects,
to the
1
many
of
them now complete.
The projects have been underway for the past month or
two and the additional help required has meant much to the emWork was rushed so that the Colployment situation in town.
lege plant would look its best for the Commencement season.
The dome and tower of Carver Hall and
wood work on the building have been painted.
all
A
the
exterior
considerable
amount of shrubbery and trees have been planted
Benjamin Franklin Training School.
at the
new
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Hand
23
have been erected at four sets of concrete steps
Underground drains have been
last year.
a number of points on the campus.
rails
which were erected
placed at
Concrete walks have been placed from the gymnasium to
North Hall, from Waller Hall to North Hall and from Waller Hall
to the Training School.
Parking space with a curb has been
created at the rear of Waller Hall and re-grading and re-sodding
of
some
parts of the
campus are under way.
Paths on the campus affected by the installation of the
new
heating system have been re-graded by the Coxe Stoker Engineering
Company.
campus adjacent to the boiler house has been
damper regulators have been
Both of these jobs were done by the heating con-
Part of the
resurfaced and automatic stack
placed.
tracting firm, Herre Brothers.
A
very noticeable improvement
is
that on the lower side
A
of the tennis courts which face East Second Street.
wall has been erected and a rock garden on
nearing completion.
It is
now being
top of
limestone
the wall
is
planted with several kinds
being planted with several kinds of suitable shrubbery.
The
field
house on the athletic
field
has been
moved
to the
rear of the back stop, greatly improving the appearance of the
field
and the
training school play grounds.
Flower beds have been made at the fountain
in front of
Carver Hall and at various places on the campus.
geraniums, alyssum and colia have been used to good
Petunias,
effect.
The electric clock and bell system together with telephone
system for the new training school have been completed by
Francis T. Brown, of Wilkes-Barre, the contractor.
—
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ATHLETIC BANQUET
A
standard for athletic dinners was set at the State Teach-
ers College Friday evening.
May
15,
when
the
annual affair
first
was held and when more than 700 guests enjoyed a
marvelous program and heard Dr. Wallace G. Petty, a Baptist
clergyman from Pittsburgh, who was introduced as “a preacher, teacher and counsellor of youth” and who proved himself as
well a humorist and philosopher ranking with the best on the
of the kind
platform today.
It
is
seldom
—very
seldom
—
that
one hears
his equal.
The program from
first
to last held the close interest of the
wide participation of the student body
in sports as well as the increasing part which they are to play in
life of the student body in the years to come.
guests.
It
reflected the
Dr. Petty spoke on ‘’The Straight Shooter” and he used
Knute Rockne, a personal friend, to illustrate the point. Dr.
Petty could talk in the language of the athlete, for he was one
It
a football player for years and a football coach for years.
paid
Rockne,
who
to
him
typified
the
was a beautiful tribute he
drama of America the America of opportunity. The finest
compliment the speaker paid him was that he was a gentleman,
In America, he said,
and one who had sense of direction.
—
“there
is
too
much going but never
They are made
who see through things and who see
Touchdowns are not made by
by those who see
things through.
things,
getting there.”
That’s the
way
it
accident.
is
with those
who make
a
success of their lives.
—
There must be a sense of direction; there must be a sense
“and it is harder to be decent today than at any
of decency
time since the
He urged
Roman
the
era.”
young people before him not
to
be cheap and
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He would
tawdry, but to be “loyal to the royal in yourself.”
have them keep their sense of direction, their decency and have
a destiny.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the
Alumni Association, pre-
sided most happily as toastmaster.
The invocation was offered by
Dr.
David
J.
Waller,
Jr.,
president emeritus.
During the serving of the delicious menu, the College Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker, ren-
dered a musical program.
There were a number of guests at the dinner, including
and members of the faculty and their wives, college
day students and many former college and varsity athletes.
trustees
Former lettermen of the school attending were: Herman
Fowler, Robert Dew, Ray Hawkins, William Swinehart, Leslie
Zimmerman, Gerald Fitzpatrick, William Partridge, Veryl Mowrer, Harold Hidlay, J. W. Jones, George Mathews, Nicholas VanBuskirk, Arch Austin, William Felcamp.
ing
One of the spirited renditions of the evening was the singof “Maroon and Gold,” composed by Dr. Haas, under the
direction of Miss Harriet Moore.
Keys and Chevrons Presented.
Under the
rules of the athletic
department,
300 points are eligible to wear numerals.
600 points are required and for each 300
girl
a letter
tional
chevrons are
awarded.
fourth chevrons: Miss Beatrice
Miss
first
Ila
Ivey with
1
847
points.
students
To
receiving
receive
points addi-
Two students received their
Bowman with 1910 points and
Miss Ruth Sonner received her
and second chevrons.
The presentation
of
chevrons to these
girls
and
to a
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number
of others
keys to
men
who
received their
of varsity athletic teams
first
chevron and of the
was by
Dr. Haas.
Varsity certificate and charms were presented
to the fol-
lowing men:
David G. Baker,
Creveling, baseball;
basketball, tennis manager;
Frank V. Faus, tennis; Frank
Lewis
J.
L.
Golder,
basketball and baseball; Nicholas E. Jaffin, football, wrestling
and track; Thomas J. Kirker, football, basketball, baseball and
track; Arthur C. McKenzie, football, wrestling and baseball
manager; Maynard J. Pennington, football; Martin Sekulski,
baseball; Robert G. Sutliff football and tennis; Earl H. VanDine, baseball manager; Robert C. Wilson, basketball and baseball; Joseph J. Yockabonis, football, basketball, baseball and
track; and Chester Zimolzak, football and basketball.
,
Presentation of the 1925 class memorial by Miss Emily
Park followed and the orchestra played “Rakoczy March,” Beriioz-Liszt.
Dr. Petty’s address was followed by group singing
led
by the College Chorus.
Sutliff and Miss Lucy McCammon presentand numerals, respectively, to the girls.
Mrs. Kathryn L.
ed the
letters
The orchestra delighted with “Czardas,” Gungl, and Coach
the football and basketball awards.
School cheers were directed by Daniel Thomas, and dean of men
John C. Koch, also coach of the tennis team, presented the baseball, track and tennis awards.
T.
W. Booth presented
S.
letics,
I.
Shortess, chairman of the faculty committee on ath-
made
the
announcement of the captains and told of the
The program closed with the Alma
school’s athletic policy.
Mater.
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MAY DAY
No May Day
in
recent
years,
if
ever, has
surpassed
in
beauty that was staged by over 500 children of the training
school and College Seniors on the College athletic field
May
18, to the
more than
filled
Monday,
enjoyment of an audience of townspeople that
the bleachers especially placed for the program.
From the time the program opened with the processional,
headed by Miss Sara Hemingway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
F. Hemingway, of West Fourth Street, as Queen of the May,
until the climax, two hours later, when
6 vari-colored May
poles were simultaneously wound by the children and College
1
students, the entertainment provided feature after feature
of
outstanding beauty.
With the Queen
at the
head of the procession, were Jack
Shortess as Prince Charming; Virginia Reams, Marjory Dillon,
June Nicewinter and Clara Fausey, as ladies in waiting; Frank
Haas, Jr., and Douglas Dillon, as pages; Patsy Moyer, as flower
girl and Thomas North and Howard Fenstemaker, Jr., as attendants to the Prince.
On
the throne covered with leaves, the
processional of
all
Queen reviewed
the
the participants.
Then followed dances by children and students. Each
was very well given and showed very careful training. Children as butterflies, flowers and bees, all in costume, gave a number of
much enjoyed
features.
All of the children of the train-
and sixth grade boys,
dances and those boys joined with the other students
ing school, with the exception of the fifth
were
in the
singing a number of songs under the direction of Miss Harriet
M. Moore.
These songs interspersed the program of dances
and added much to the program.
in
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The splendid work was under the
McCammon,
direction of Miss
Lucy
of the physical education department, with Mrs.
Kathryn Sutliff, also of that department, giving splendid
ance in preparing the dances.
assist-
The College Orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker, played for the processional and for the winding of the
May pole. The accompanist for many of the dances was Gerald Hartman.
Properties were supplied by a force of
N. T. Englehart
men
and they certainly furnished a
in
charge of
fine setting for
the pageantry.
worked out their own dances and for the
own costumes which added greatly to the
Over 300 College girls particidances.
College students
most part made
their
effectiveness of the
pated.
The
opened their program with
The costumes were yellow with black
black band around the skirts.
training school teachers
“Portland Fancy.”
bodice and a
Then followed the English dance “Bocastle” with the parwearing white dresses, pink sashes and hair ribbons
ticipants
and those taking the part of boys wearing pink
The
girls’
overalls.
costumes for “Gathering Peascods” were on the
The boys wore blue costumes with
Then came the farmer dance “Strawtassels on their hats.
The participants ended
foot” and that provided some comedy.
their number with a clog dance.
order of those of Bo-Peep.
A
French number, the “Vineyard Dance,” found those taksmocks and tarns, with white
ing part attired in blue trousers,
collars.
Knickers, dark coats and tarns for one group and var-
ied-colored attire for the other group were the costumes used
by them
in the
number “Bean
Setting.”
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Another farmer dance, “Dancing On The Green,” had the
girls in farmer costume with sunbonnets and aprons and the
Boys wore overalls, and small aprons added
boys in overalls.
a touch to the girls’ costumes in “Green Mountain Volunteers.”
For “Firetur” the girls wore costumes with black bodice
and varied-colored skirts and the boys wore tan caps with red
Then came the always popular sailor
tassels and black suits.
number “Horn Pipe” with the costumes appropriate.
“Fandango,” a Spanish number, was next. The boys wore
suits with sashes and large Spanish hats.
Girls wore crepe
shaded
from
dresses
which
a
light
yellow
paper
to a
deep
Shawls were used to set off the dresses.
orange.
black
“Pirates” found the participants dressing the part and carThis was a popular number as was “French
which the girls wore tight waists and full skirts with
The boys’
high collars and red ribbons around their heads.
costumes were light blue trousers, blouses and tarns.
rying daggers.
Reel”
in
Old fashioned Colonial costumes were used in that age old
“The Minuet” with the girls doing a fine piece of work.
Nine clowns ended the dancing with “Grotesque.”
favorite
The winding
of the
May
poles brought the colorful spec-
tacle to a fitting close.
o
April
29 was
the
92nd birthday
he spent the day as usual
—
McHenry and
mower over the Col-
of Russell
pushing a lawn
lege campus.
decked out with a new lawn mower in honor
of the occasion, and the day was marked by nothing more un-
He was
all
usual than a nine-hour day’s work.
The
elderly
man
is
enjoying good health and he expects to
.
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in the summer working on
many summers previously.
put
The number
tion
is
as he
has put
of years he has been working at the
not definitely known.
of buildings
the campus,
and grounds,
in
institu-
Nevin Englehart, superintendent
asserts that
it
is
so
long
“that
the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary.”
McHenry tells of aiding in the excavating for some of the
buildings that now comprise the college plant— and they were
buildings erected when the college was a young institution.
He
hasn’t been
employed without interruption
at the
school,
but
has returned after brief intervals.
o
PLAY TOURNAMENT
“The Stoker,” by Harold Brighouse, was awarded
first
place in the fifth annual play tourney of the College Dramatic
Club which was held in the College auditorium before a goodsized crowd Friday evening, May
The play, built around the conflicting viewpoints of natives
1
of the East
students
and West, was expertly presented by the College
directed by Miss Elizabeth Bowman, also a
who were
student.
The other plays given were “Cooks and Cardinals,” by
Winifred Hawkbridge, and “Thursday Evening,” by Christopher
Miss Doris Sechrist, of town, directed “Cooks and
Morley.
Cardinals” and Miss Harriet
Sutliff
directed the other play.
All
town students, while a large number
Bloomsburg
students.
part
were
taking
of those
connected
with the tourney was
every
one
The work of
In
exceptionally fine and the task of the judges was difficult.
making the first award to the cast of “The Stoker,” the judges
gave honorable mention to Miss Mildred Rabb, of Danville, in
three student directors are
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“Cooks and Cardinals” and to Miss Grace Foote, of
in “Thursday Evening.”
The judges were Mrs.
Hidlay and Mrs. Allen Rarig, of town, and Miss Rachel
the cast of
town, playing
W.
Clair
Turner of the College faculty.
“Cooks and Cardinals,” a comedy, was presented
the
members
first
of the cast as follows: Katie, Miss Mildred
with
Rabb;
Teddy, Lee Hippensteel; Mrs. Connelly, Miss Mary Betterly;
Father Anslem, Thomas Coursen; Monsieur Le Beau, Thomas
Kirker; Cardinal Wheeler, William Thompson.
Those in the cast of “Thursday Evening” were: Gordon
Miss Grace
Johns, David Baker; Laura, Mrs. Gordon Johns;
Foote; Mrs. Sheffield, Laura’s Mother, Miss Elizabeth Cochrane;
Mrs. Johns, Gordan’s Mother, Miss Elizabeth VanBuskirk.
The prize winning cast of “The Stoker” was: Peter HowAldwin Jones; the captain, Robert Sutlirf; Mrs. Leighton,
Miss Dorothy Faust, and the stoker, Maynard Pennington.
The Dramatic Club is known as the Bloomsburg Players
and the officers are: President, Arthur McKenzie; Vice-President, Miss Esther Jones; Treasurer, James Davis; Director, Miss
ard,
Alice Johnston.
Members
sie Laird,
er
ris
of the Tournament Committee were: Misses JesLorna Billow, Helen Keller, Alma White, Grace Feath-
and Ida Arcus and John Shellenberger, Nick Jafhn and MorDeHaven.
o
SENIOR BANQUET
Another Commencement program opened at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday evening. May 21, when
Every member of the
the annual Senior Banquet was held.
class of 235 members was present at the affair which is the only
Commencement program
in
which only the
class
and faculty
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members who have been
in close
contact with them during their
college courses, are in attendance.
James Davis, of Ringtown, class president, happily presided as toastmaster and a splendid program of music was furnished by the College orchestra under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker.
The
memories
was one which
affair
in
years to come.
will
A
bring
back many happy
large basket of flowers adorned
and decorations at all tables were sweet
and
yellow
candles.
peas
A committee composed of Thomas L. Henry, Miss Cora
Wagner, Miss Edna Mae Derrick, William Weaver and Keith
Witheridge was in charge of the successful affair.
During the evening among those responding to toasts were
Miss Jessie Patterson, Freshman advisor; H. F. Fenstemaker,
Sophomore and Junior advisor; Miss Harriet Moore, Senior advisor; Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the College, and Dean of
There were some much enjoyed
Instruction William B. Sutliff.
selections by the Senior Girls’ Chorus and the Senior Male Chorus
and the program closed with the Alma Mater.
the speakers’ table
o
The
Girls’
Glee Club of the College under the direction of
Miss Jessie Patterson,
Music
made
Week program, on
a real contribution to Bloomsburg’s
Friday evening,
very ably presented the cantata '‘Pan on a
May 8, when
Summer Day”
they
to a
and appreciative audience in the College auditorium.
The chorus of 50 voices showed careful training and the
was
It
chorus and solo work was exceptionally well given.
one of the finest pieces of work of that type that the College has
Mrs. J. K. Miller, of the Music School, was the
ever presented.
large
accompanist.
Another feature which added
to the
program was provided
by the College Symphony Orchestra under the
F.
Fenstemaker.
direction of
H.
;
;
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COLLEGE SONG
class
The words of the Class Song of the College graduating
were written by Miss Lydia Smith and the music by Sam-
uel Kurtz, of Milton.
The song follows:
Hail to our college dear, our
Whose ivy-covered
alma mater
walls enclose so
fair,
much
that
we
hold dear!
Let every heart and voice unite to sing her praise.
With one accord
to chant of our College days.
day
onward as our College points the way.
Yet through the years to come our thoughts will oft be here
For time cannot destroy the memories of Bloomsburg dear.
The past so full
The future calls
of glory joins with present
us
o
The Junior
Friday evening,
Class of the State Teachers College
May
“Skidding,” by Aurania Rouverol
ed the play, and each
delighted
7 with their presentation of the
1
member
comedy
Miss Alice Johnston direct-
of the cast gave fine interpreta-
tions of their parts.
The
around the election of Judge Hardy, a
by Henry Warman, to the bench. In securing reelection he is aided by his daughter who herself is nominated
The daughter was played by Miss Ruth
for the Legislature.
With both father and daughter in public
Wagner, of town.
life complications came thick and fast but the usual happy endplot centered
part played
ing closed the play.
in the cast were: Wayne Trent, Jack Hall;
Andy,
Thomas; Grandpa Hardy, Seymour Stere; Mrs. Hardy,
Laura Shultz Aunt Milly, Lois Demitt Estelle, Minnie Howeth
Stubbins, James Johns.
Others
Daniel
;
;
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1931 OBITER
The 1931 Obiter of which Edward DeVoe, of Berwick, was
was dedicated to Prof. S. L. Wilson, head of the
English Department of the institution, and one who is always
willing to assist in student activities.
Ever since he became aseditor-in-chief,
sociated with the faculty eight years ago, Mr. Wilson has been
particularly active in assisting with student publications
acted as faculty advisor of most of them and edited
Maroon and Gold and year book copy during
and has
much
of the
that period.
He
one of the most popular of the faculty members.
The book is outstanding in content and workmanship. It
“The Gleeman’’
is handsomely bound in a blue leather cover.
is the theme of the book and is carried throughout in arrangement and illustrations. Anglo-Saxon terms of the Medieval peris
iod are used in department headings.
Among
the outstanding features of the
volume are pencil
sketches by Katherine Hayes Baum, of Berwick, of Dr. Francis
and of members of the
The books contains photographs of the 233 members of
the class but instead of the write-ups which were used in past
years the book lists only activities, a form used by the majority
B. Haas, president of the institution,
staff.
of the colleges.
The members
of the capable staff are:
Berwick, editor-in-chief;
business manager;
Miss Elizabeth
associates
—
Catherine
H.
Edward
T.
Huber,
Hayes
DeVoe,
Gordon,
Baum,
Ber-
wick; Miss Alice MacMullen, Shenandoah; Miss Emily Park,
Berwick; Miss Dorothy Frick, West Pittston; Miss Esther YeagDavid Baker,
er, Philadelphia; Miss Helen Gibbons, Benton;
Columbia; Beatrice Bowman, Orangeville; Miss Helen CunningArthur McKenzie and Miss Miriam Hartt,
ham, Kingston
Bloomsburg.
;
CLASS
OF
1886—
ALUMNI
DAY,
1931
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THE ALUMNI
1871
Dr. A.
W. Sheiley
lives at Port
Royal, Pa.
1876
March 30 was the 25th anniversary of Judge Charles
Evans’ appointment to the
Common
C.
Pleas bench of Columbia
and Montour Counties.
The Judge, still hale and hearty, has been four times commissioned as president judge of the 26th district, twice following appointment and twice following election.
The first commission was issued in April, 906, by Governor Pennypacker, after appointment following the death of
He was again commissioned by the
Hon. Robert R. Little.
same governor following his election in November of the same
1
year.
was issued by Governor Pinchot,
John G. Harman, and the commission was issued early in the Fall of 1925.
His third commission
after appointment, following the death of Hon.
His latest commission, following
his election
was issued by Governor John
term,
election in
F.
for the
Fisher,
current
following
his
1927.
Judge Evans has presided over
7 years and three months.
Then he was electHis first appointment was for nine months.
years, the length of term being changed at
ed for a term of
His second appointment was for two years and
that time.
three months and he has served three years and three months
of the ten year term for which he was elected in November,
In the past quarter century
the courts of the judicial district
1
1927.
1
1
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Of the
kins
1
1876, oldest in reunion, Prof. F. H. JenEvans and George Tustin were three of the
class of
Judge
living
1
37
C. C.
members
attending.
1879
Anna
E.
Roxby
is
Her address
schools.
supervising principal of the Swarthmore
is
1
1
2 Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore.
1880
Alice H. Fisher,
Cadbury
missionary
to
who
has retired from teaching, lives at
in
South America from 1893
1927, she was
50
Miss Fisher served as a foreign
Street, Pottsville, Pa.
to
1919.
From 1921
charge of the Art Department of Genesee
in
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima,
New
York.
1881
A
was pushed aside Friday evening.
and
temporarily
forgotten
by eight members of the
May 22,
class of 1881 of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, as
eight members of that class, their wives and husbands and some
half century of time
guests, gathered at the
home
of Mrs.
May
Wells
Creasy,
of
East Fifth Street, for a delicious dinner and a memorable evening.
A
feature of the night that
presence of Dr. D.
J.
Waller,
Jr.,
made
it
all
the finer
was the
president emeritus of the
in-
and principal of the school when the class of 1881
completed its work.
Those of the class present were: Myron E. Simons, of
Honesdale; Dr. H. V. Hower and James L. Evans, Esq., of Berwick; the Misses Enola and Claudia Guie, of Catawissa; Miss
Dora Marr, Mrs. Abigail Robbins Hartman and the hostess, Mrs.
They were joined later by T. B. Harrison, of
Creasy, of town.
Town Line; Henry L. Morgan, of Scranton, and Mrs. Lizzie
stitution,
Laudig, also of that
city.
The
class
numbered 41.
and wonderful improve-
Dr. Waller spoke of the changes
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ments that have marked the past 50 years.
In the years when
the class of 1881 was at the institution funds were very scarce
and even the purchase of so small an article as a map had to be
He spoke
carefully considered.
of the changed conditions as
they regarded support to Normal School, now Teachers College,
which came about in 1920 when Dr. Finnegan headed the State
Department of Public Instruction. Since that time the necessary amount for the operations of the colleges has been forthcoming.
He spoke very highly of the members of the 50 year
class.
The class is interested in doing its part toward the College
Memorial Fund and they received a letter from Miss Anna Wier,
Plymouth, with a $10 check enclosed.
Since the graduation of the class,
away, seven members of the
1
5
members have passed
be located and an-
class could not
other has not replied to letters sent out by
took the initiative
Mrs.
who
Creasy,
planning the reunion.
in
During the evening the family of Mrs. Creasy was introduced and Mrs. Earl John, a daughter, accompanied another
daughter, Miss Martha Creasy, while she
beautiful solos.
delighted
two
with
Miss Jean Creasy, a third daughter, pleased
with two piano solos.
Guests at the dinner
were: Mrs. Myron
Hower and Mrs. James
class
in
addition
E. Simons, of
L.
to the
members
Honesdale;
Mrs.
of
the
H. V.
Evans, of Berwick, and Mrs. Jenny
Wells Flenderson, of Montgomery, and Rev.
W. H. Hartman,
of
town.
Dr. Heister V.
Hower
lives in
Berwick, Pa., where he has
a very successful practice.
Anna Weir
Myron
E.
lives in
Simons
is
Plymouth, Pa.
a lawyer, located at Honesdale, Pa.
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Claudia B. Guie has retired from teaching, and
is
living in
Catawissa, Pa.
1882
1514 Sevmourning the
loss of her husband, who died suddenly January 21,
1931.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmateer had gone south for the winter, when
the former s death occurred in Raleigh, N. C.
Emilie Ayres (Mrs. Charles Palmateer) lives at
enth Avenue, Neptune, N.
Mrs. Palmateer
J.
Carrie C. Rogers (Mrs. D.
Susquehanna,
Pa.,
on February
J.
5,
is
home
in
1931, after a few days’
ill-
Peck) died
at
her
ness.
1885
Annie Miller (Mrs. Elmer E. Melick) is President of the
This organDelaware County Federation of Women’s Clubs.
ization consists of thirty-two clubs in the county, and has a total
membership of over three thousand. Mrs. Melick’s address is
South Haven Inn, Swarthmore, Pa.
1886
On Alumni Day
the class of ’86 held one of
its most sucwhich is saying much.
Their festivities have
This year they began on Friday
always covered two days.
home
of Elizabeth Low, Lime Ridge,
afternoon with a tea at the
who is one of the members of the class. Among those present
in addition to the members, many of whom had their wives or
husbands, were: Dr. and Miss Waller, Mrs. Frank Cully, Mrs. W.
B. Sutliffe, Mrs. F. P. Purcell, Mrs. Harry Barton, Prof, and Mrs.
Albert, Mrs. Nuss, Mrs. Dr. Haas, Miss Martha Connelly, and
Miss Low is an ideal entertainer, and spared
Mr. A. Z. Schock.
no pains to make the occasion the great success it proved to be.
After greetings and refreshments the party was taken in
automobiles to the home of William Snyder, on East Fifth Street,
where it was entertained by another member of the class, Mrs.
Anna Snyder Mausteller. Prof, and Mrs. Jenkins, among oth-
cessful reunions,
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ers,
At
joined the party here, where a delightful evening
time twenty-six
this
members
of the
class
was spent.
were reported
present.
Saturday morning the class met
in
its
appointed place,
where two more members were announced as present. After
the transaction of some business the class adjourned to meet at
the close of the Alumni Dinner, at which time reports were had
from those present and letters read from the absent ones.
Ida
Bell Preston was reported in a letter from her husband to be
helpless and unconscious from a stroke she suffered sixteen
months ago.
The class adjourned at 5:30 to the home of Melle Long
Dickson, in Berwick, where the hostess served an elaborate buffet luncheon, and the evening was spent in reminiscing and
singing.
This was not an unusual reunion, for a similar program had
been carried out each time the class met in the past. A wonderful class spirit prevails and a corresponding loyalty to the
old school.
The success of the reunions has been due largely
to the interest and enthusiasm of a group of Bloomsburg girls,
members of the class, aided and abetted by Miss Low and Mrs.
Dickson.
The members
of the class
who were
present were
:
D. L.
Glover, Mifflinburg; James Maurer, N. G. Cool and Belle Monic
Marne Schoch McKelvy, Ida BernMoyer White, and Anna Snyder Mausteller, all of Bloomsburg; Elfreda Barnes Gottschall,
and Emma Fisher Thomas, both of Harrisburg; Maggie Brennan, Shenandoah; Nan Silvia Coughlin, and Grace A. Leacock,
Jones,
all
of Philadelphia;
hard, Stella Lowenburg, Lucetta
both of Kingston; Alice Donley, Wilkes-Barre; J. 0. Felker, of
Lewistown; Ellen Geiser Seip, Easton; Hattie Hoffa Ruhl, Lewisburg; Flora Jones Fetterolf, Pottsville; M. A. Kline, Cheyenne,
Wyoming; William
R. Lewis, Scranton; Melle
Long Dickson, of
Berwick Elizabeth A. Low, Lime Ridge Emma Patton Connelly, Spokane, Washington; Jeremiah Reeder, Shamokin; N. H.
;
;
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41
Sanner, Pittsburgh; Adelle Shaffer Broughal!, Reading; George
Emma
A. Spangler, Milroy;
Donley
Allie
address
is
Felty, Abilene, Kansas.
Her
a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools.
187 Stanton
is
Witmer
Street.
Jere Reeder has retired, and
now
is
living in
Elfreda Barnes (Mrs. Edwin H. Gottschall)
Shamokin, Pa.
lives
at
647
South 29th Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas
B.
Main
(Emma W. Murphy), whose
home is in Tryon, North Carolina, expects to spend
summer in California and some of the National Parks.
winter
W.
L.
Williams
is still
capably
0. Felker
J.
Emma
address
is
is
M.
Sites
720 North
in
in the real estate
His address
is
is
position as County
Madera, California.
filling his
Superintendent of Schools, and lives
Lewistown, Pa.
the
and insurance business
Room
a grade teacher
9,
in
Houck
in
Building.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Her
Sixth Street.
Flora B. Jones (Mrs. L. M. Fetterolf) lives at 903 West
Market Street, Pottsville, Pa.
Mrs. Fetterolf’s husband is Pastor of one of the Reformed churches in that city.
Mrs. Isabella Monie Jones lives at 733 Concord
Drexel
Hill,
Avenue,
Pa.
1888
Margaret Petty (Mrs. Herbery D. Beatty)
ettstown,
New
Harvey
at
I.
lives
in
Hack-
Jersey.
Crow
Bethlehem, Pa.
is
Pastor of the Bethany Reformed Church
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42
1890
Jennie D. Kline
high school at
is
head of the English Department
City, Pa.
Her address is 301
Mahanoy
in
the
West
Mahanoy Avenue.
Hayman is Librarian and teacher of Latin, French,
and English History in the Turbotville Vocational
School.
She has returned four times to Bloomsburg for postgraduate work, and has also taken courses at Penn State, Susquehanna University, and Cornell University.
Miss Hayman’s
Eleanor
Biology
address
is
Box 169,
Turbotville, Pa.
1891
The class of 1891 had seven of its members back in reMembers were Edward
union and they had a splendid time.
:
J.
Gormley, Hazleton; Frank A. McGuigan, Wilkes-Barre; J. P.
Dimmich, Mt. Carmel; W. B. Sut-
Costello, Hazleton; Elizabeth
liff,
Jennie M. Sheep, Bloomsburg; Margaret Sullivan Meyers,
Lewistown.
Frank A. McGuigan
is
practicing law in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
1893
Miss Alice Fenner,
who
lives at
2029 Highland Street,
home after spending
Allentown, Pa., has just returned to her
the winter in Florida.
Martha Powell
is
secretary of the White Milling
Company,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
1894
J.
Howard
His address
is
Patterson
is
practicing law in Philadelphia, Pa.
the Real Estate Building in that city.
Louis L. Ansart, Counselor at Law, specializing
in
patent
announces the removal of his offices to
the Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
and trade-mark
cases,
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Mildred D. Birton (Mrs. John Vought)
primary grades
43
is
teacher of
the
at Mainville, Pa.
Harry G. Dechant passed away February 9, 1931, after an
operation.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, he attended
Princeton University, and was graduated from that institution.
became Vice-President of the Monroe Calculating MaCompany. About ten years ago, he left that company,
and was very successful in building up the Health Production
Corporation.
He was a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey, at
Later he
chine
the time of his death.
1895
Nina Tague (Mrs. H. A. Frantz)
J.
Mrs. Frantz
is
Temperance Union
E. P.
of
State President
of the State of
lives in
of the
New
Moorestown, N.
Woman’s
Christian
Jersey.
Heckert has been Supervising Principal of the schools
Mauch Chunk
for the past sixteen years.
Mauch Chunk
that the following teachers in
Mr. Heckert writes
are
Bloomsburg
graduates and that they are giving excellent service: Mary F.
Bevan, ’09; Laura Smith, 00; Charles W. Keller,
10, and
Elizabeth Ransom, ’23.
1896
The class of 1896, holding its 35th year reunion, had 14
members back and they renewed school day acquaintances
and told of members unable to return to the reunion.
Present
were: G. J. Thomas, Clark’s Green, Pa.; Gertrude Morse, Mary
of
its
Coxe, Mt. Carmel; Jennie Rossar, East Orange, N. J.
Myrtle
Swartz VanWie, Burdett, N. Y. Millie Seely Thomas, Berwick;
;
;
Mabel Yost Hall, Pittston; Elizabeth McKane Campbell, Wyoming; Vida Bowman Drum, Kingston; Harriet F. Carpenter and
Helen F. Carpenter, Bloomsburg; Bertha Kelly, Scranton.
Eleanor
L.
Quick (Mrs. H. A. Walters)
lives
in
Gallup,
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44
New
Mexico.
son, near her
Mrs. Walters
is
principal of the school at Gib-
home.
Florence A. Lins (Mrs D. W. Ardt) lives at 202 Madison
Avenue, Lock Haven, Pa.
Mrs. Arndt states: “Memories of
the days spent at B. S. N. S. back in 1895-1896 are some of
my most pleasant ones.”
Dr.
J.
Warren Shuman
is
a successful physician at Jersey
Shore, Pa.
1899
A. R.
McHenry holds
address
is
295 Voorhees Avenue,
Anna Sandoe Hake
schools of Atlantic City.
Edward
F.
Brent
is
is
as General
employed.
His
a responsible position
whom
Purchasing Agent for the firm by
he
is
Buffalo, N. Y.
a teacher in the sixth grade in the
Her address
is
1
49
St.
James Place.
Postmaster at Lewistown, Pa.
1900
Blanche Letson (Mrs. H.
of the
Mrs.
of
Bloomsburg
MacAmis
faculty,
assists
C.
MacAmis), a former member
lives
her husband,
Tusculum College, located
in
Greeneville,
who
is
Tennessee.
Assistant Treasurer
in Greeneville.
Kuhns is Secretary of the Milton Trust and Safe DeCompany. He lives in West Milton, Pa.
B. B.
posit
1901
There were 5 members of the class of 1901 back for their
30th year reunion and they had a great time throughout the day,
many of the members being on hand for the opening of the pro1
gram
at
9:00
o’clock.
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45
Those attending were: Miss Augusta B. Henkelman, Mount
Md. Miss Harriet A. Bittenbender, Berwick; Adele Alt-
Rainier,
miller,
;
Burkhardt, Hazleton; Mrs.
R. Kohr, Richland;
J.
Thomas Joseph, Wilkes-Barre; Miss Hadassa
F.
liamsport; Mrs. Alice Roderick, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.
Mary
Balliet, Wil-
Mary Shoe-
maker Valentine, Wilkes-Barre; Adele
G. Altmiller, Hazleton;
Arthur Lowry, Port Washington,
H. Maust, Bloomsburg;
L.
I.
;
J.
Miss Genevieve L. Bubb, Williamsport; Lela
field,
liamsport; Mrs. M.
J.
Miles, Kingston; Mrs.
Madsen, Plain-
Reddington, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. John M.
Joseph V. Donnelly, Wilkes-Barre.
Harriet A. Bittenbender
Her address
wick.
dress
S.
N. J.; Dr. A. E. Fagan, Hazleton; Blanche P. Balliet, Wil-
is
1
is
teacher of
308 Market
Mary M. MacFarlane is teaching
is 37 South Laurel Street.
Lela M. Shultz (Mrs. Ingfred T.
Hillside
Avenue,
first
grade
in
Ber-
Street.
in
Hazleton, Pa.
Madsen)
Her ad-
lives at
1046
Plainfield, N. J.
Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T. Lowry) lives at 10
Madison Avenue, Port Washington, Long Island, New York.
Mrs. Lowry sends us the following item, which shows how
Bloomsburg alumni keep old friendships alive: “Mrs. Jesse Y.
Glenn (Mary Albert), of 55 Park Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J.,
entertained at luncheon and bridge April 18, 1931: Miss Edith
Curtis, ’99, Westfield, N. J.
Miss Ada Harrison, ’02, Newark,
N. J.; Lela Shultz (Mrs. I. T. Madsen), ’01, Plainfield, N. J.,
and Gertrude Follmer (Mrs. A. T. Lowry), 01 and 03, Port
Washington, Long Island.
These five loyal alumnae meet several times during the year, usually for luncheon and a show in
New York.”
;
1902
Genevieve
L.
Bubb
is
teacher of Art
in the
Stevens Junior
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46
High School, Williamsport, Pa.
Alice Melvin (Mrs. B. Eichholzer) lives in Forest City, Pa.
Mary
E. Francis (Mrs. G. H. Gendall)
lives
at
Rockville
Center, N. Y.
1903
M.
H. Walter Riland
is
Executive Secretary of the Bedford Y.
His address
is
1280
C. A.
Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1904
Dr. A. K. Aldinger
schools
Street.
of
New York
Dr. Aldinger
is
Director of Health Education in
City.
is
address
His
recalled
the
157 East 67th
the coach of many
is
by many as
by him during the
successful athletic teams developed
thirteen
years that he spent at Bloomsburg.
W. Ray Helwig
eapolis, Minn.
lives
at
3709
Pillsbury
Mr. Helwig writes: “If any of
Avenue, Minn-
my
old friends
happen through Minneapolis, I wish they would call Colfax
6171.
While I am away from home a big part of the time, it
might be possible that
H. E. Rawlinson
I
is
could get
touch with them.”
in
President
of the
Institute
Education, with headquarters at 715 South Park
Los Angeles, California.
This information
has,
of
Musical
View
Street,
besides
the
main conservatory, thirty-two branches in Los Angeles, a hundred in other cities and towns in California, one branch in
Alaska, five in Arizona, one in Colorado, five in Oregon, six in
Mr. Rawlinson
Washington, one in Hawaii, and two in Japan.
Alumni
California,
you
know
of
any
we might
writes: “If
in
Inasmuch as the successful meeting in
have a reunion here.”
Philadelphia has already furnished the inspiration for the forma-
would be a good time for
any knowing of any other
tion of other local organizations, this
any Alumni
living in California, or
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Alumni
living in that state, to
47
communicate with Mr. Rawlinson.
1906
The
class of
1906, holding
its
bers back for a wonderful day.
class
meeting
in
silver reunion,
As
in all class
has 41
mem-
reunions,
the
which members told of what they had been
was an outstanding feature. Among those attending
Anne L. Evans, Maude Evans, Adeline Williams, Nora Gaffney, Mary Mitchel Beau, Lu Breddinger Mershon, R. Bruce Albert, Grace Bonham, Aleta Bom'boy Englehart,
John E. Shambach, W. R. Girton, Anna Barr Schuioll, Laura
Weiser, Cottie Meiser, Laura Aurand Witmer, Clara Coughlin
doing,
were:
Eliie Dietrick,
Roselle,
Amy
Levan, Ethel
Groff Spangler, John
Maxwell, Hazel
B.
Marion
Allen,
Shambach and Myrtle Longenberger Mes-
sersmith.
Myrtle Longenberger (Mrs. C. P. Messersmith)
1813 Pennsylvania Street, Allentown, Pa.
Laura Aurand (Mrs. M. W. Witmer)
Street,
lives at
1
at
lives
78 Main
Trappe, Pa.
Honora M. Gaffney
where she
lives in Steelton, Pa.,
is
em-
ployed as a supervising clerk.
Elwell P. Dietrick
gineering
is
Secretary of the Penn
Electrical
En-
Company, Scranton, Pa.
Maude Evans is teaching
109 West Taylor Street.
Her address
in Taylor, Pa.
W. Raymond Girton is Assistant Superintendent of
Company, and is located at
East Fall
ternational Salt
Ithaca, N. Y.
1
1
1
is
the InStreet,
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48
Adeline Williams
is
teacher of eighth grade in Scranton, Pa.
1907
Blanche Westbrook (Mrs. Newton C. Fetter) lives at 335
Her husband, a Baptist
Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Minister,
is
charged with the welfare of the Baptist students in
Mr. and Mrs. Fetter have two children: Emily,
Greater Boston.
a Junior
W.,
in
in
the
Cambridge High and Latin School and Edmund
the seventh grade.
Sadie Rush Moyer (Mrs. John R. MacCulloch) lives at
Main
following,
now
New Jersey.
which we pass on to
Street, Lodi,
to plan for our reunion next year.
Let us
1
78
MacCulloch writes the
her classmates: “Let us start
Mrs.
show our Alma Mater some
Where
of the
is
our secretary?
loyalty
we
tried
to
show years ago.”
E. Louise Jolly
is
a teacher in the high school at Alameda,
California.
Helen Wardell
Street,
(Mrs. A. B.
Eister)
lives at
409 Union
Warsaw, Indiana.
1908
The class of 1908 was well represented at the Philadelphia Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni meeting, by the
following members, some of whom hadn’t seen each other for
23 years, thus making it a very real reunion to them: Dariom
Maurer, Charles Maurer, Tom Francis, Carrie Gray Hurley, Flora
Miller Anderson, Bill Rarich, Martha Herring Bragg, Olive
Major, Willie Morgan Stein, Agnes Burke Kinney, Jennie Yoder
Foley.
Tom Francis helped wonderfully by having all the letters
and songs mimeographed for us, which was a big undertaking
and the Philadelphia organization feels deeply grateful to him
for this service.
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Every member of the 08
Beddall,
attended the
Florence would have liked to have been with us but
banquet.
it
and around Phila-
class living in
delphia with the exception of Florence
49
was impossible
However, we are hoping she can
this year.
be with us next year.
Class songs written in 1908 by Agnes Burke Kinney and
James Cummings were on the song sheet. Mrs. Foley wrote
and revised several of the other songs.
Willie
ganization.
Morgan
Stein
Following
is
an excerpt from a
letter
news of interest about
Wessley Sitler, 1908:
Sitler,
of 1907, with
band,
J.
“Mr.
He
was e'ected Vice-President
of the
or-
Jennie Yoder Foley was elected Secretary.
Sitler
graduated
practiced forestry until
from Jennie Klein
and her hus-
herself
at the University of
1
He
920.
Michigan, 1914.
then returned to teaching
Yuma, Arizona, three years at Flagstaff,
Hollywood for six years.
He is following the line you would expect
Biology.
He likes his work
here very much.
Los Angeles schools are very progressive and
Hollywood is a most ideal location.
The school has an enrollment of about 2000 at present I think. He still loves all the
out-door sports and goes hunting and camping quite often.
The high school boys are just crazy to go out with him.
and taught two years
at
Arizona and has been
I
in
—
finished a degree (A. B.) at the University of Southern
California
and
am
Fve been teach-
about to complete a M. A.
ing Social Science in the Junior High School in Los Angeles for
seven years.”
Mr. and Mrs.
Sitler’s
address
is
1915 Catalina
Street, Los
Angeles, California.
Mary Louise Moore
Mary’s address
is
1
am always
my dues.”
says, “I
Quarterly and wish to keep up
glad to receive the
029 Munroe Avenue,
Scranton, Pa.
:
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50
A
letter
“I
from James
do not deserve
persistent in learning
forts should
E.
to
my
Cummings
states:
be discovered,’ but you have been so
whereabouts that I believe your ef-
be rewarded, so here
I
am
James E. Cummings,
Department of Education
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Washington, D. C.
I
should like very
may have
much
any information you
to receive
about former classmates and especially those
living in or near
Washington.
hope
I
be able
to
who
are
to attend our
next class reunion.
Thanking you for discovering me,
I
am.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES
E.
CUMMINGS,
Statistician.
Three members of the
908
1
twenty-fifth anniversary of their
have sons who
will finish their
Row
Hazel
Creasy, a
1
this
own
who
high
are celebrating the
school
high school courses
906 graduate
High School, has a son Edwin
same school
class
Row
graduation
this
of the
month.
Bloomsburg
Creasy graduating from the
June.
Jennie Yoder Foley, a 1906 graduate of Mt. Carmel High
School, has a son,
Edward
L. Foley,
graduating from the Frank-
ford High School, Philadelphia, on June 23rd.
Willie
School
in
Morgan
Stein
who graduated from Bloomsburg High
Jr., who finishes his
1906, has a son Vincil G. Stein,
high school course at the West Philadelphia High School
month
this
also.
Mrs. Willie
Morgan
Stein,
Chairman Reunion Committee.
Per Jennie Yoder Foley.
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In the
March
issue of the
QUARTERLY, we had
who was
an item
awarded the degree
Temple University. It was stated
regarding Charles Maurer,
of Doctor of Education at
that Mr.
51
recently
Maurer was a member of the
We
1909.
class of
mediately received protests from members of the class of
saying that he was a
we
member
On
of their class.
1
im-
908,
consulting the
Maurer was graduated from the Regular Normal Course in 908, and from the College Preparatory
It therefore seems that both classes share in
Course in 1909.
records,
find that Mr.
1
the honors.
1909
Geraldine Hess (Mrs. George E.
grades one and two
umbia County.
in the
Her address
Dr. Scott R. Fisher
is
Follmer)
teacher
is
of
Sugarloaf Consolidated School, Colis
Benton, Pa., R. D. 4.
Assistant Surgeon in the Crouse Irv-
ing Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y.
In a recent issue of the
QUARTERLY we
an an-
printed
nouncement of the marriage of Mary F. Bevan. We have been
informed by a friend of Miss Sevan’s that this event did not take
we
place;
name
is
therefore apologize
mentioned elsewhere
teacher in the schools of
for the
Mauch Chunk,
Bevan’s
Miss
error.
in this issue as
being a successful
Pa.
1910
John Sweir, Attorney-at-Law,
Louella
S.
Burdick
Crown Point Road,
subscription to the
(Mrs.
is
L.
located at McAidoo, Pa.
H.
Sinquett)
lowing comment: “What has happened to the class of
mentioned
cause they havn’t made good
that they are rarely
208
lives at
New Jersey. In renewing
QUARTERLY, Mrs. Sinquett makes the
Westville,
in
the
their
QUARTERLY ?
pledges
for
the
her
fol-
1910,
Is it
be-
Trophy
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52
Room?
Come
on, classmates
H. C. Fetterolf
in the
is
Sara
40 North 27th
is
Lewis
F.
Her address
in
is
go!”
first
Public
Hill,
grade
in
26 East Pettebone
1911
is
members
Camp
Street,
teacher of
Forty Fort
Thirty-three
Let’s
State Department of
Pennsylvania
His address
—
State Director of Agricultural Education
Instruction.
Pa.
Forty Fort,
Pa.
Street.
of the class of 1911 of the Blooms-
burg State Teachers College, many of them accompanied by
wives or husbands not members of the class so that the group
totalled 50,
licious
It
met
in
reunion at the Wimodausis Club where a de-
dinner was served.
was the second time
met in reunion the
They met for the first at
that the class has
night before College Alumni Day.
such a dinner five years ago.
One member
New
of the class, Mrs. Ethel Fairchild, of Elmira,
York, had her daughter as a guest and 16 members were
Two other classes
accompanied by their husbands or wives.
Fred W. Diehl, of 1909,
were represented at the reunion.
whose wife was formerly Miss Pearl Fitch, of 11; the former
Miss Ethel Creasy, of 09, whose husband, D. D. Wright, is a
member of the reunion class and the former Miss Georgia McHenry, 10, whose husband, Abe Sharadin, of Ford City, is a
member
of the 1911 class.
One member
of the class,
Jennie
Harrison
Keefer,
Wilkes-Barre, reported that her father, T. B. Harrison of
Hall,
of
Town
would attend the 50th reunion.
The invocation was given by Mrs. May Chamberlain Sher-
man, an ordained minister of the gospel who conducted an evMrs. Sherman resides
angelist campaign in Berwick last year.
in
Scranton.
The evening was spent
of his or her
life
in brief talks,
ported the number of children,
each
member
telling
Each married member rewith honors in that department
since graduating.
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going to Sharadin
who
is
The following men
class,
responded:
Earl
the father of eight.
the
attendance, not
in
Arthur
Cortright,
Ranck, Fred W. Diehl, Karl
ich.
53
Twenty members of
Alumni Room Fund.
E. Keefer,
John
members
Fairchild,
S.
of
the
Dayton
Helt and Mr. Rar-
the class have already contributed to
and a firm
and extended a hearty welcome.
Those attending the dinner were Mrs. Anna Kline Kocher. Espy; Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Keefer, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson Lanterman, Mrs. Mathilda Bush White, Bioomsburg; Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Baker, Muncy; Mr. and Mrs. George
B. Landis, Rock Glen; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Dr. and Mrs.
D. B. McHenry, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Foust, Sunbury;
Mrs. Irene Campbell Getty, Muncy; Mrs. Mae Chamberlain
Sherman, Scranton Miss Elizabeth A. White, Bloomsburg Mrs.
Edna Lewis Robinson, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cortright,
Shickshinny; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Helt, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Ferris, Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Myrtle Rice Singley,
Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Ranck, Mrs. Anette Osborn Frantz, Luzerne; Mr. and Mrs. Rarich, Miss Jennie Barklie, Ashley; Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Sharadin, Ford City; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fairchild and daughter, Elmira, New York; Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McDonald, Mrs. Pauline Harper, Bloomsburg; Miss Lydia Koehler,
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the College
friend of Alumni,
dropped
in
:
;
;
;
Scranton; Mrs. Margaret Yost, Hazleton;
Miss Ethel
Paisley,
Treweek Watkins, Nesquehoning; Ralph H. Smoyer, Bloomsburg; Miss Ruth Harris, Berwick; Mrs. Elsie Winter
Stevens, Tunkhannock; Donald Ikeler, Peekskill, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Laura
Eighteen hours after death claimed Joseph H. Fitch, father
of Mrs. Fred
Diehl, passed
W.
Diehl, of Danville, Mr. Diehl’s
and both made
and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl.
71
father,
Alfred
Mr. Diehl was aged 80 years, Mr. Fitch
their home with Superintendent of Schools
away.
;
:
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54
The
class of
1911, opening with a dinner, had their num-
ber augmented some and
in all
41
members of the class were
was one of the first to hold a
back for the reunion.
This class
dinner on the night preceding Alumni Day, adding that feature
to their reunion in 926.
Those attending were
Bessie Ashe Naunas, Matilda Bush White, Bloomsburg;
Harold F. Baker, M. D., Muncy; C. Merrill Boust, Sunbury; Jennie Barklie, Ashley; Rev. C. Carroll Bailey, Baltimore, Md.
Rev. Mae Chamberlain Sherman, Scranton; Irene Campbell
1
Getty,
Muncy;
Dr. Carlton Creasy, Wilkes-Barre; Edith
DeLong
Frank Dennis, Kingston; Elizabeth Ferguson Lanterman, Miriam Hess McDonald, Bloomsburg; Pearl
Fitch Diehl, Danville; Mary Ferris, Dickson City; George H.
Tyson, Millersburg;
J.
Ferris, Jr., Bridgeport,
Barre;
Conn.; Jennie Harrison Keefer, Wilkes-
Louisa Hartman Cortright, Shickshinny;
Fairchilds, Elmira, N. Y.
Peekskill, N. Y.
Anna
;
;
Ruth
Harris,
Kline Kocher,
Berwick
Espy;
;
Hower
Ethel
Donald
Lydia
Ikeler,
Koehler,
Scranton; George B. Landis, Rock Glen; Edna Lewis Robinson,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Miller,
Niagara
;
D. B.
McHenry, M.
Falls, N. Y.
;
D., Danville;
Bruce Mather,
Benton;
Elverta
I.
Annette
Osborn Frantz, Luzerne; Ethel Paisley, Nesquehoning; Myrtle
Rice Singley, Irene Snyder Rauch, Lewisburg; Katherine Stunz
Rarich, Berwick; A. J. Sharadin, Ford City; Margaret Simmons
Yost, Hazleton; Pauline Sharpless Harper, Bloomsburg; Blair
Shaffer, Gravity; Laura Trench Watkins, Nesquehoning; Elizabeth A. White, Bloomsburg; Jennie Whitmire Helt, Berwick;
Elsie Winter Stevens, Tunkhannock; D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg.
Two men attended the reunion who had been members of
the class during the first two years but who did not graduate
with them, namely, Ralph H. Smoyer and Charles K. McDonald,
Bloomsburg.
Also the following husbands and wives of members of the
Muncy; Mrs. C. M. Boust, of
Sunbury; Mrs. Carlton Creasy, Wilkes-Barre; Ralph Tyson,
Millersburg; Mrs. J. Frank Dennis, Kingston; Fred W. Diehl,
class attended: Mrs. H. F. Baker,
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Mrs. George H. Ferris, Bridgeport,
Danville;
Conn.; Karl
Arthur
Earl Cortright, Shickshinny;
Keefer, Wilkes-Barre;
Fairchilds, Elmira, N. Y.
;
E.
C.
Rock Glen;
Mrs. George B. Landis,
Mrs. D. B. McHenry, Danville; Mrs. Bruce Mather, Benton; Dayton Ranck, Lewisburg
Sheldon
;
Rarich, Berwick
J.
;
Mrs. A.
Sharadin, Ford City; James Watkins, Nesquehoning;
Helt,
John
J.
S.
Berwick; Mrs. D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg.
Members of
The total number
the class brought with
them
thirteen children.
of persons attending the reunion
Pauline Snarpless Harper
is
teaching
in
the
was 76.
schools,
of
Bloomsburg, Pa.
dress
Ruth Harris is teaching
is
324 Market Street.
grades
in
Margaret R. Gaffney (Mrs. William
J.
in the
Berwick.
Her ad-
1
March 24, 1931. She
and three daughters.
Paul
Z.
Hess
is
George Ferrio,
Mary
is
survived by her
Reagan) died on
husband, two
sons
a clerk in the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa.
Jr., is
practicing law in Bridgeport, Conn.
G. Ferrio lives at
643 Main
Street,
Dickson City, Pa.
1912
Laura Williams is teaching in the Roosevelt School, Detroit,
She is living at the Savarine Hotel, 13115 East
Michigan.
Jefferson Avenue.
Louise
New York
W.
City.
Vetterlein
is
Frankie Elizabeth Davis
School at
teaching English to foreigners
Her home address
Red Bank,
N.
J.
is
is
in
Paupack, Pa.
a teacher
Her address
is
in the
1
3
1
Junior
High
Hundson Avenue.
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1913
John Bakeless, son of Prof, and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless of
Its title is “Magazine Making.”
town, has just had his third book published.
The book deals with the whole process
ing as the author has seen
it
of magazine
mak-
through ten years of experience on
and monthlies, especially the Living Age,
was successively literary editor, managing editor,
”
and editor; the Independent, for which he was literary “scout;
and the Forum, of which he was managing editor.
It is based
on lectures dealing with magazine making, which he began in
1928, at the request of the late James Melvin Lee, Director of
the Department of Journalism at New York University.
It describes the work of the editor, the relation of editor and author,
the economics and finances of magazine making, the problems
the leading weeklies
of which he
of the publisher, the problems of the printer as the editor must
know them, methods
of promoting magazine circulation,
and the
is based
magazine
This last
on the author’s own newspaper Aperience and his experience
in directing the publicity campaigns of the Forum magazine for
two years. There are many amusing anedotes.
editor’s dealing with
newspapers.
The book has some 300 pages, including
grams, type tables and an appendix.
Viking Press,
Next War,”
in
New
York,
1926.
who
The
It
is
also published
price
is
illustrations, dia-
by the
“The Origin of the
published
$3.00.
The writer has had the collaboration of many distinguished
and famous publications, including Professor H. B.
authorities
Rathbone, chairman of the Department of Journalism, New
York University, and members of the staffs of the Atlantic
Monthly, Forum, Conde Nast publications. Outlook, New Republic, Harper’s, the Curtis publications, the London Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the
New York Nation, the Ullstein Verlag, of Berlin, Germany and
the Quinzaine Critique, of Paris.
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It
is
dedicated to Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs, of Har-
It
is
the author’s third
vard.
Causes of Modern
War was
book.
His
Economic
the
first,
1921, under the auspices of the Department of Political Science, Williams College,
where
ing
published
in
was awarded the $500 David A. Wells
it
prize.
“The Origin of the Next War’’ was published by the VikPress, New York and Jonathan Cape, London, in 1926.
The book
is
not written in a technical style.
It is
design-
ed to interest the general reader, the high school or college student, the high school or college teacher in charge of amateur
publications, as well as the professional journalist.
It is
the
first
book ever written on magazine production.
Catharine Richardson (Mrs. L. Boor) lives at
Fourth Avenue, Roselle,
New
313 West
Jersey.
1915
A
daughter was born April 23
Danville, to Mr.
and Mrs. Frank
S.
at the Geisinger Hospital,
Hutchison, of
Mrs. Hutchison was formerly Josephine
Esther C. Helfrich
Her address
is
Bloomsburg.
Duy, of Bloomsburg.
a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools.
is
239 Dana
I.
Street.
1916
who almost
auditorium
of
the
Methodist
the large
First
Church to ca-
Before a large number of relatives and friends
filled
pacity Sunday, April 6, at
became
8:00
Martha V. Yetter
F. Babcock,
and the double ceremony was
o’clock. Miss
the bride of Harry E. Rider.
pastor of the church, officiated
Rev. Harry
used.
After receiving the best wishes and congratulations of their
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motor trip into the South.
Both the bride and groom are graduates of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and are successful teachers in the local
schools, the bride being a member of the Junior High School
faculty and the groom being principal of the Fifth Street School.
friends they left on a
The 15 year
class,
1916, had 40 members back
the
for
reunion and they had a fine time, spending several hours telling
of
what happened
in their lives since
graduation.
Hilda G. Wosnock is teaching Mathematics and Art in the
Green Vine Junior High School, Hazleton, Pa.
Her address is
565 Lincoln Street. Miss Wosnock received the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education at New York University, in
October, 1930.
C. F. Schoffstall lives at
ville.
Pa.
1216 West Laurel
Street, Potts-
Mr. Schoffstall received the degree of Master of Arts
from Lehigh University, October
930, and expects
for his doctor’s degree at New York University.
1
,
1
to take
work
Dorothy M.
Fritz lives at
1718 Westmoreland
Street, Phil-
adelphia, Pa.
Helen M. Shaffer (Mrs.
er in the
Bloomsburg
S. C.
Henrie)
is
a substitute teach-
schools.
Ruth N. Fuller (Mrs. Wade W. Gregory)
lives in
Weath-
erly, Pa.
Annie M. Schweppenheiser
413 Walnut Street.
is
a teacher in
Berwick.
She
lives at
Olive Marie Aucker (Mrs. 0. Hoyt Glaze)
Watsontown, Pa.
is
teaching
in
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1917
An
unusual tribute to a well liked teacher was expressed
Friday evening, April 24th, by the pupils of Lime Ridge schools
and the people of the town when a fare-well party was given
Mrs. Bulla has been
to Mrs. Harold Bulla, (Helen E. Lord).
teacher in the grade school at Lime Ridge for ten years and has
She will leave after this term.
been efficient and well liked.
The party was marked by many verbal expressions of appreciation for her services during the ten years and she was presented with a chest of silver.
1918
Miriam
grades
Pa.
in
E. Welliver
the
Mahoning Consolidated School, Montour County,
home
Miss Welliver’s
Jennie
Ralph
phia, Pa.
surgeon
W. Longshore
L.
He
teacher of the seventh and eighth
is
Hart
is
address
is
lives at
is
Catawissa, Pa.
teacheing
in
Shamokin, Pa.
5442 Woodland Avenue,
Philadel-
conducting a successful practice as a dental
in that city.
1919
Kathryn Walborn
(Mrs.
J.
Forrester
Labagh)
lives
in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Rhoda Crouse is a teacher
is 1318 Orange Street.
in the
Berwick schools.
Her
address
1920
Elizabeth Marchetti
is
teacher of the primary grades
in
Nuremberg, Pa.
Evelyn Wagner (Mrs. L. R. Grover) is editor of the Hardy
County News, a weekly newspaper published in Hardy County,
West Virginia.
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Jeanne Stroh (Mrs. James Walsh)
Ronald Kehler
Miriam Kehler
is
is
lives in Harrisburg, Pa.
Principal of schools in Lavelle, Pa.
Supervisor of Penmanship
in
Butler
Town-
ship, Pa.
LeRoy W. Creasy
is
private secretary of A.
torney-at-Law, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mr. Creasy lives
W. Duy,
in
At-
Espy, Pa.
1921
The class of 1921 made contributions to both the Worthy
Student Fund and the Alumni Room Fund, had 50 members
Those attending were: Emma Saltzer Ratzburg, Ringtown; Mrs. Samilla Herman Garey, Scranton; Marion Hobbes
Rheinhart, Wilkes-Barre; Mary R. Gilroy, Wilkes-Barre; M. T.
Shaffer, Wilkes-Barre; Angeline Evans Beaver, Scranton; Lillian Nelson Yerkes, Honesdale; Lucille Shaffer Kile, Rohrsburg;
back.
Chloe McKinstry Cole, Bloomsburg;
Olive
Scott,
Kingston;
Hester E. Henrie, Mifflinville; Helen Eisenhauer Kocher, Mifflinville;
Lillie
Breisch Moser, Margaret Manhart, Berwick;
Ada
Margaret Hines, Berwick; Alice M. McDonnell,
West Collingswood, N. J.; Mickey McShea Kester, Danville;
Mildred Trevorton Zeigler, Hazleton; Clara E. Fisher, Mahanoy
City; Ruth Koch, Hazleton; Lillie Breisch Moser, Ringtown;
Behr, Lopez;
Eleanora Shannon Kaiser, Pottsville; Anna Swanberry, Alden
Station; Margaret Baldouski,
Wyoming;
Mrs. Cecil A. O’Rourke
of Hazleton.
Helen M. Welliver is teacher of Social Studies in the BerHer address is 235 West Second Street.
wick High School.
Miss Welliver was graduated from Bucknell University, with the
degree of Bachelor of Science
Anna Swanberry
is
in
Education,
in
June, 1930.
teaching in Wanamie, Pa.
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is
Ruth I. Gerhard
79 Norman Place.
is
teaching
in
Tenafly, N.
61
Her address
J.
Lucille Shaffer (Mrs. Willard Kile) lives in Rohrsburg, Pa.
Emma
Seltzer (Mrs. Herbert E. Ratzburg) lives in Ring-
town, Pa.
Miss Elenora Shanno was married three years
ago
to j.
703 West Market
Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser live at
Allen Kaiser.
Street, Pottsville, Pa.
Camilla
Herman
(Mrs. Cecil Sharp
Garey)
lives at
810
Madison Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
demy
Mabel Kraft (Mrs. Manuel Peniche) lives at 30-93 AcaStreet, Astoria, Long Island City, New York.
Lawrence R. Cherrington
tate business in
Lillian
is
in the
Insurance and Real Es-
Bloomsburg.
M. Nelson (Mrs. Carl
J.
Yerkes)
lives in
Honesdale,
Pa.
Mae
D.
McShea (Mrs. Ray Kester)
is
living in
Danville,
Mr. and Mrs. Kester have a daughter, born February 15,
Pa.
1931.
1924
Mr. and Mrs. Rutter
L. Keller (Alice
Williams) entertain-
ed at a dinner and musical Wednesday evening. May 6, at their
home on Pine Street. The event marked the observance of
their fifth anniversary.
Miss Clair Lowenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Lowenberg, of Fourth Street, chemist at the Post Graduate Hos-
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New
pital.
York, for the past four years, has been awarded a
scholarship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
*
Miss Lowenberg is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and State College. The
scholarship was awarded on recommendation of the head of the
laboratory of the hospital and is in connection with a student
exchange between the two countries.
The academic year at the University of Zurich begins in
the middle of October and Miss Lowenberg will go to Europe
several weeks before that time.
She plans to specialize in
chemistry.
Lawson
Miss Miriam
schools of Bloomsburg, Pa.
the class of
1
is
teacher
of
Miss Lawson
grade
sixth
is
also a
in
member
929, having received her Bachelor’s degree
the
of
in that
year.
A
daughter, Sylvia Anne, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Willis
C. Barnes, of
1930.
206 Fox
West Pittston, Pa., on May 24,
remembered by her classmates as
Hill Place,
Mrs. Barnes will be
Anna Singleman.
Ruth Morris
and eighth grades
is
in
teacher of English and Art
in the
seventh
the schools of Luzerne, Pa.
1925
Laura G. Dietrick
N. J.
Her home
is
address
a teacher
is
in
the schools of
Camden,
Espy, Pa.
Helen Barret Baer has been teaching
home in Cambra, Pa.
in
the
Register
School, near her
Martha A. Fisher
is
310 South Front
is
teaching in Sunbury, Pa.
Street.
Her address
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Pearl Poust
is
63
teacher of the upper grades in Orangeville,
Pa.
Esther M. Grim
Tower
City, Pa.
is
teacher of fourth grade in the schools of
Her address
is
341 Wiconisco Avenue.
1926
There were 55 members of the class of 926 back for their
Members were: Theodore Keen, WilkesBarre; Jack Rowlands, Plains; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cooper,
1
five
year reunion.
Coatesville; Mrs. F. E. Mensinger, Orangeville;
Miss Eva Bur-
lingame, Almedia; Irene Rhinard, Orangeville, R. D. 2; Martha
B. Harris, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3
Mabel Davies Turner, Margaret
;
Walker, Glen Lyon; Edith Morris Rowland, Plains; Geraldine Aul Davis, Orangeville; Miriam E. Straub, Espy; La Verne
Phillips
Reese, Nanticoke; Margaret Emmitt Rarig, Bloomsburg; Han-
nah M. Lutz, Sunbury; M. Alma Corman, Rebersburg; Mildred
A. Deitrick, Williamsport; Helen M. Spare, Wilkes-Barre; Grace
E. Vail,
Jermyn;
Henry, Wilkes-Barre; Beryl Ikeler
Lucille P.
Bangs, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Friedman, Luzerne; Elgie Proutz-
man, Shavertown.
Mildred K. Higgins Weidner has been teaching
the
in
schools of Delaware County, Pa.
Miriam R. Straub
is
teaching in the Scott Township
High
School, Espy, Pa.
Irene Rhinard
dress
is
is
teaching near Orangeville, Pa.
Her ad-
Orangeville, R. D. 2.
Margaret R. Isaac
is
teaching in Hazleton, Pa.
Maude Fenstermacher
schools of Catawissa, Pa.
is
teacher of the
fifth
grade
in
the
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Alice M. Budd, of
Pa., sailed
on
May
Budd has taught
1
3
1
South Cannon Avenue,
Lansdale,
30, for a two months’ trip to Europe.
for five years in the
Primary grades
Miss
at Lans-
dale, Pa.
Marjorie Davey, of Honesdale, Pa., has been teaching
the schools at
dress
in
Waymart.
Dorothy E. Newman is teaching
is 201 East Mahoning Street.
in Danville, Pa.
Helen Louise Dunn and Allen
Earnhart were married on
L.
Her ad-
Mrs.
1931, and are now living in White Haven, Pa.
Earnhart informs us that she has not yet severed her connec-
January
1
,
tions with the teaching profession.
Mary
K. Leiby (Mrs. Russell A. Fagley) lives in Elysburg,
Pa.
Martha
B. Harris
teaching
is
Her address
bia County.
is
in
Center Township, Colum-
R. D. 3, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Beryl Ikeler (Mrs. Paul L. Bangs) lives on a farm at R. D.
6, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helen R. Kellam
New
is
teaching
in
Oaklyn,
Camden County,
Jersey.
1927
Eleanor A. Henry
is
Marian A. Marshall
ston.
teaching at Summit
is
a teacher of the
Her Kingston address
Mary
E. Jones
Her address
is
is
is
teacher
Hill,
fifth
Pa.
grade
in
King-
845 Anthracite Avenue.
of
second grade
632 North Main Avenue.
in
Scranton.
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Esther M. Welker
is
65
teaching in Hershey, Pa.
Lena Van Horn has entered John Hopkins Hospital
to pre-
pare herself to become a nurse.
Doris Palsgrove lives at
ville, Pa.,
1
1
and has been teaching
Cathryn Gruber
Keansburg.
teaching
is
Her home
Martha Tasker
is 221 Vine
address
is
in
is
7 North Lehigh Avenue, Frackin the Frackville schools.
first
Mahanoy
and second grades
in
Mc-
City.
teaching third grade in Shamokin.
Her
Street.
1928
Ruth M. Budd of Beach Lake, Pa., and Ralph Schweigho1930.
fer, of Honesdale, were married October 4,
Mrs.
Schweighofer taught for two years in the graded school at Lans-
They are now
dale. Pa.
living in Honesdale.
G. Beatrice Killian has taught for the past three
years in
Union Township, Luzerne County, Pa., and has been elected to
the
same
position for next year.
Miss Killian lives
in
Shick-
shinny, Pa.
Florence Berninger
is
teaching in Mifflinville, Pa.
Marjorie Wallize (Mrs. Francis P.
Shaw Avenue, Lewistown,
Prettyleaf)
Marjorie Vanderslice has been teaching
in
lives at
1
Pa.
in the fifth
grade
Lewisburg, Pa.
The
largest number
class of
1
929, the
1929
baby class
in
reunion, reported the
of any class in reunion, 60.
Among
the
mem-
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66
bers back were: Agnes Burns, Kingston; Myrtle Hoegg, Hazle-
Mabel Penman, Grace Munrow, Hazleton; Marjorie A.
Hoegg, Hazleton; Robert Davis, Nanticoke; Kenneth E. Yocum, Orangeville; Minnie M. Melick,
Bloomsburg; Elizabeth Archibald, Scranton; Jane B. Evans,
West Pittston; Sara Skidmore, Dubois; Florence Jones, DuBois;
ton;
Eley, Scranton; Marion
Muriel Jones, Eleanor L. Hughes, Wilkes-Barre; Elsie M. Lebo,
Mary
Shaft; Arline Frantz, Trucks ville; Alice Rabuck, Sunbury;
Ross, Sunbury;
Mary Hays, Nescopeck;
Laubach,
Elizabeth
Doris Johnson, Berwick; Alda Cotner, Washingtonville;
Gold, McEwensville
;
Ruth Gardner, Dalton
;
Louise Black,
Erma
Map-
plewood; Lavina K. Crowell, Nanticoke.
Anna Mary Wasley, who has been teaching
37 North Jardin Street, in that city.
in
Shenandoah,
lives at
Ruth
home
Pa.
P.
address
Gardner has been teaching
is
Jane B. Evans is teacher of fourth grade in West
Her address is 460 Tunkhannock Avenue.
Mary A. Hayes
Grace
dress
at Glenburn, Pa.
L.
is
Mumaw
Pittston,
a teacher in the Nescopeck schools.
is
teaching in Hazleton, Pa.
M. Elizabeth Laubach is teaching
is 341 East 10th Street.
Mary
Her
Dalton, Pa.
in
Berwick, Pa.
Alice Ross lives at R. D. 2, Sunbury, Pa.
Her ad-
Miss Ross
has been teaching near Klingerstown, and will teach next year
at Hile’s School, in
Helen Ash
Stillwater.
is
Rush Township.
teaching at Forks, Pa.
Her home address
is
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Lena Serafine
Anna Jones
teaching in Mocanaqua, Pa.
is
is
teaching in Plymouth, Pa.
Cora A. Rabuck
Pearl M. Schell
teaching in Sunbury, Pa.
is
is
Budd
Edith Fay
67
teaching at Nuremberg, Pa.
Northumberland, Pa., and
is
teach-
teacher of third grade in Berwick.
Her
lives in
ing in the Northumberland schools.
Doris Johnson
address
is
is
337 Mulberry
William B. Jones
and
is
Street.
lives at
822 Archbald
teaching in the schools of that
Margaret
Alice
I.
Ethel L.
E.
Wickizer
is
is
Scranton,
teaching at Sterling, Pa.
Veety has been teaching
Moore
Street,
city.
at Mill City, Pa.
teacher of seventh grade
in
the
Nesco-
peck schools.
Gladys Richards
a teacher in the
lives at
Shamokin
1
30 Elm
Street,
Shamokin, and
is
schools.
1930
Mabel Gearhart has been teaching in a rural school near
Her address is Sunbury, Pa., R. D. 3.
Sunbury, Pa.
Alda Kulp
Pa.
is
Her address
teaching in a rural school
in Mifflinburg is
near Mifflinburg,
100 Market
Street.
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Lillian
Reese
is
teacher of French and Mathematics in the
high school at Weatherly, Pa.
Belle Foulds has
home
been teaching a
rural
school
near her
at Trevorton, Pa.
Helen M. Morgan
is
teaching
Karleen M. Hoffman
Montandon, Pa.
is
in Danville,
Pa.
teacher of the primary
grades
at
Florence E. Baker has been teaching in the Tunkhannock
Township
schools.
Virginia Cruikshank
grades
in the
is
teacher of
Mt. Union School.
the
third
Her address
is
and fourth
120 North
Franklin Street, Shamokin, Pa.
1931
Robert
C. Wilson, of
Bloomsburg, has been elected teacher
of social studies in the Bloomsburg High School.
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PUBLISHED BY
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OF THE
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SEPTEMBER, 1931
Vol.32
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
-
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Business
-
Manager
NEW CURRICULA ADOPTED
New
Normal Schools and Teachers’
recommended by the Board
of Presidents, and will go into effect September 1, 1931.
The
new curricula are four years in length, and will eventually reThe revision of the
place all of the former two-year curricula.
curricula for the State
Colleges of Pennsylvania have been
curricula of the teacher-training institutions of Pennsylvania,
a part of a
movement going on
all
over the country, resulting
is
in
a lengthening of the period of teacher preparation.
Several years ago, four-year curricula were adopted as the
standard of preparation for teachers in secondary schools, and
teachers of special subjects, such as Commercial subjects. Health
Education, Public School Music, and
this time,
the curricula
schools have been
more years
Home
Economics.
preparing for teachers
two years
to these curricula
in
is
length.
in
Up
to
elementary
The addition of two
a recognition of the fact that the
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preparation cf teachers
good
in the
elementary grades should be as
as that of high school teachers.
The
certification requirements in Pennsylvania, for teachers
of elementary schools
demand two
still
years of post-high-school
preparation, and therefore, for the time being, adjustments will
be made, whereby
will
it
be possible for students
two years, and be
attend a
to
allowed to
teacher-training institution for
teach.
The present policy will be to encourage students to take
work before they begin their teaching, and to provide the facilities whereby the four years of preparation may be
four years of
obtained.
The present
surplus of teachers in Pennsylvania
is
a factor
which will encourage many students to remain at the institution
for two more years, thus giving them a better chance to secure
a position after they have graduated.
All of the curricula will
Bachelor of Science
in
carry with them
degree of
the
Education, which the student will receive
at the successful completion of the four-year course.
All students must be graduates of an approved four-year
high school before they will be admitted to begin their college
work.
All of the
provision
in
is
work
made by
is
entirely
on the college
the institution for
making up of
level.
No
deficiencies
These deficiencies must be
the student’s high school course.
made
up before the student will be admitted.
The
raising of
standards of
teacher-preparation will un-
doubtedly result in better public schools,
and
it
will aid greatly
teaching profession, so that it may take its
place by the side of other recognized professions, such as law
in elevating the
and medicine.
Some minor
fall.
When
revisions in the
new
curricula will be
made
this
the curricula have arrived at their permanent form,
they will be published
in the Quarterly.
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SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES
One of the most successful summer sessions in several years
came to a close Friday, July 31. The enrollment for the summer was 401, which number was 84 more than the enrollment
last year.
The increase in enrollment, which came as a surprise
to the authorities at the institution, was paralleled in most of the
other summer schools in the state.
Department of Public Instruction
-all teachers employed
in the public schools of the Commonwealth were enrolled in summer courses at accredited colleges, universities and State Teacher Training institutions in the Commonwealth.
The enrollment of 8,367 teachers in these courses indiReports received
show
in the
that approximately 3
per cent, of
1
1
cates that
3300 more
preparation.
In
teachers than last year sought additional
view of the
industrial depression, State Super-
intendent James N. Rule said that this manifestation
sional zeal
on the part of the teachers was the
of profes-
finest display
of
loyalty to public education in the history of Pennsylvania.
The demand
for better
prepared teachers and the desire on
the part of the teachers to secure higher forms of licenses have
brought about
this large
After September
1,
enrollment,
1932,
all
it is
new
believed.
entrants into the teach-
have four
ing service in the secondary field will be required to
While
years of post high school preparation.
is
not retroactive and does not affect teachers
many
of the teachers
now
in service
who have
this
now
requirement
in
service,
not reached this
making every attempt to meet the new
be required of beginning teachers.
level of preparation are
level
which
will
While the State does not require four years of professional
elementary field, hundreds of
preparation for teachers in the
teachers have returned to the State Teachers’
tinue their preparation to this
Beginning teachers of
new
art,
Colleges to con-
level.
music,
home economics, com-
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mercial and physical education, after September
932, will
be required to complete approved four-year curriculums.
Teachers of these special subjects now in service are continuing
1
level to equal the requirements
their preparation to the college
become
1
,
September
932, although the revised
certification regulations do not require it.
The list below shows the enrollments in the Pennsylvania
colleges and universities during the 93 summer session
Liberal arts colleges and universities and number of teachto
effective
1
,
1
1
1
ers enrolled:
Albright College
Allegheny College
Beaver College
Bucknell University
Carnegie Institute of Tech.
Drexel Institute
Duquesne University
7
27
3
186
100
78
523
Elizabethtown College
69
Geneva College
35
53
23
Gettysburg College
Grove City College
Immaculata College
Juniata College
LaSalle College
19
139
14
Lebanon Valley College
108
Lehigh University
Mercyhurst College
26
300
94
Misericordia College
15
Marywood
College
Mount Saint Joseph College
Muhlenberg College
13
320
Rosemont College
3,000
5
College
383
Pennsylvania State College
Seton
Hill
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St.
Thomas College
St.
Francis College
5
30
10
Susquehanna University
Temple University
190
1,001
Thiel College
54
University of Pennsylvania
1
University of Pittsburgh
Villa
3,600
Maria College
12
Villanova College
365
Wash, and Jefferson
Col.
31
Total
State teachers’ colleges
,500
12,441
and number of teachers enrolled
Bloomsburg
401
California
Shippensburg
814
396
308
399
867
255
319
265
340
364
Slippery Rock
West Chester
565
633
Clarion
East Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Indiana
„
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
r
Millersville
Total State Teachers Colleges
Tot. Liberal Arts Col.
Grand Total
and Univ.
5,926
12,441
18,367
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Six members of the faculty were on leave of absence with
Five took work in institutions in this
pay during the summer.
country and abroad and one spent the summer traveling.
Howard
F.
Fenstemaker,
of
the
department of foreign
Summer
languages, attended the Inter-Session and
New York
trip
Session
Mrs. Etta H. Keller, training teacher of grade six, took a
conducted under the auspices of Clark University.
Her
travels took her across the Continent to the Pacific Coast,
Alaska, through the
John
C.
Education,
Koch and
at
at
University.
Panama Canal
his
Men and
Koch, Dean of
spent the
to Cuba,
summer
at
up
to
and home.
Director
New York
of
Secondary
Mr.
University.
family had an apartment at Freeport, Long Island.
Miss Ethel E. Shaw, of the English department, took work
Oxford University.
Miss Alice Johnston, teacher of oral expreosion,
Summer
the
Session of the University of Michigan.
Mrs. Kathryn Loose
Education, studied at
W.
of the
Sutliff,
New York
*
Mrs.
attended
*
Clair Hidlay, of
department of Health
University.
*
*
Bloomsburg, taught oral expres-
sion, taking the place of Miss Alice Johnston.
L. P.
ty,
Gilmore, of the Bloomsburg Junior High School Facul-
acted as Dean of
Men
in the
*
A
sion
*
*
reception and dance for the students of the
was
nasium.
*
absence of Dean Koch.
held Thursday evening, June 25,
in the
Summer
college
Ses-
gym-
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The Boston Male Choir appeared Monday evening, July
which delighted a large audience.
This was the
appearance of the Choir in Bloomsburg in the last three
6, in a recital
fifth
years.
*
*
*
*
V. L. Granville, celebrated English actor, appeared in
Dramatic Interludes” Friday evening, July 24.
This was Mr.
Granville’s second appearance in Bloomsburg.
His program
consisted of selections from several great works of dramatic literature, presented with striking costumes, make-up, and lighting effects.
*
*
*
*
Four education forums, led by superintendents of schools
of Bloomsburg, were held during the Summer Ses-
in the vicinity
sion.
The first was held Tuesday morning, June 30, and was led
by Carl L. Millward, superintendent of the Milton schools.
The subject of the discussion was “Personalities.”
On Tuesday, July 7, J. Andrew Morrow, of Towanda, superintendent of the Bradford County schools, spoke on
“A
Larger
Unit of School Administration.”
“What Values Teachers Should
the Hazleton schools, at
Realize
From Supervision”
Thomas, superintendent of
the meeting held Tuesday morning,
was the subject discussed by A.
D.
July 14.
The
er Paul
last of the
Witmeyer,
had as
Shamokin
four meetings, held July 21
superintendent
The subject was “The Schools and
*
*
*
of
the
its
lead-
schools.
the Public.”
*
Athletics played an important part on the
dent activities carried on during
,
the
Summer
program of
Session.
stu-
Two
baseball teams were organized: the “Whiffers,” under the leadership of Nicholas Rudowski,
and the “Breezers,” captained by
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A series of six games was played, four
were won by the “Whiffers.” The rewards of victory
came in the form of a chicken and waffle dinner, served at the
Kocher Hotel, Light Street, Tuesday evening, July 28, at which
time the
Whiffers” were the guests of the “Breezers.”
Edward
Yarashefski.
of which
*
*
*
*
Joseph Yacabonis, of Mahanoy City; Harold Miller, of
Bloomsburg, and Miss Gladys Dildine, of Orangeville, received
their
diplomas for the successful completion of the four year
course for a degree as Bachelor of Science
close of this year’s
Summer
in
Education, at the
Session.
was made by Dean of Instruction W. B. Sutliff, during a brief program which followed a
dinner in the school dining hall Thursday evening, July 30, at
which members of the Board of Trustees, the faculty and day
Mr. Sutliff also read the
students were guests of the College.
names of 2 students who have completed the two year course.
E. H. Nelson had charge of the program for the dinner
which was a fine closing feature of the Summer Session.
The presentation
of the diplomas
1
During the serving of a fine dinner there was group singing
L. P. Gilmore, dean of
under the direction of E. A. Reams.
men, and Miss Bernice, dean of women during the Summer Session,
were introduced.
Dr. Haas, president of the College, gave a farewell talk to
the largest
number
of students to attend
Summer
School here
in
several years.
Students heartily approved the plan of having classes during the term an hour and a half long with no classes on Saturday
mornings.
having
They
also
commented very favorably on
the plan of
a dinner at the close of the term.
The
faculty
Shortens, E. A.
numbers.
quartet,
Reams and
composed of
H. A.
L.
P.
Gilmore,
S.
I.
Andruss, sang some enjoyed
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Following the dinner dancing was enjoyed in the gymnasium with the Maroon and Gold orchestra furnishing the
music.
o
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED
An
program of improvements to the college
campus will be completed in time for the opening
college on September 8.
The principal projects are the
extensive
buildings and
of the
following
The
old Manual Training rooms in the basement of Noethave been completely refinished with new floors, replastered, and equipped with new lighting fixtures and new furling Hall
niture, to provide a place for the social activities of the various
student groups.
The Domestic Science rooms in the basement of Science
have
been refinished in the same manner, to provide addiHall
tional facilities for the various social activities of the college, es-
pecially for the faculty.
Room A, on the first floor of Carver Hall, has been equipFor many years they
ped to take care of the men day students.
have had inadequate and unsanitary quarters in the basement
The new room is well provided with comnear the gymnasium.
fortable furniture, and will provide a pleasant place for the men
to go between classes.
Room G, the former third grade room in Noetling Hall, has
A new
been refinished for the use of the woman day students.
The
floor has been laid, and this will be covered with linoleum.
kitchenette, and
little room to the east will be furnished as a
The little room to the west will
lunch tables will be provided.
be furnished as an office for Miss Ethel Ranson, Dean of Women
Day
Students.
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The
largest project has been the completion of the improvements in Waller Hall and North Hall.
This project was
begun several years ago.
New wood floors have been laid in
all of the rooms and corridors.
Linoleum has been laid throughout both buildings.
All of the rooms and corridors have been
One
redecorated.
year.
New
floor
has been completely refurnished each
furniture has arrived, to equip about one-third
of
North Hall.
Rugs will be placed in all of the dormitory rooms, and in
most of the administrative offices.
The space formerly used as a playground, lying between
Noetlmg Hall and Science Hall, on the east side of the walk, has
received a covering of top soil, has been seeded, and restored
to
campus.
Many
other parts of the campus have been graded, and im-
proved by the
large
installation of
an adequate drainage system.
A
in concrete walks, steps, and curb-
sum has been expended
ing.
The vacant
ite
lots
on the south side of Second Street, opposgraded, and will furnish a
the long porch, have also been
p’easing addition to the campus.
Another project, carried on by the town of Bloomsburg, is
East Second Street, running along the enworthy of mention.
tire south side of the campus, has been resurfaced as a fine highway leading to the new training school building, and the rapidly
growing “faculty colony” extending two blocks farther to the
east.
The placing of permanent bleachers on the west side of
the gymnasium at the State Teachers College, similar to those
placed on the east side three years ago, together with the im-
provement of the men and women’s dressing rooms and the
fices of the
of-
teachers of physical education will take place within
the present year.
To place
ed
seats
on the east
was extendgymnasium floor was
side, the building
in that direction so that the size of the
!
!
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A similar plan will be followed in placing the
on the other side although the plans for that and improvements to the offices and dressing rooms have not been worked
not decreased.
seats
out
in detail.
The whole
to
and
plant, inside
outside,
is
now
in a
condition
cause the alumni, students, and faculty to be proud of the
in-
stitution.
o
HOME-COMING DAY, NOVEMBER
Alumni
!
Do
14
not forget the big home-coming celebration
be held November 4
This is your one big chance to come
back and see the college year in full swing.
When you come
to
1
back
to
!
your class reunion
body
will
dressed up
all
be there
in
to
Two
the finest exhibibtions of
Come and
see us do
are
your honor.
In the afternoon there
East Stroudsburg.
June, most of the students
The whole student
welcome you, and town and campus will
gone, and you miss one
be
in
side of the picture.
it
will
be a big football game with
we defeated them, in one of
years ago,
football seen
here
in
many
a
day.
again
The football game will be followed by a reception in the
gymnasium, and there will be a dance in the evening.
Everyto
give
you
a royal time.
thing has been well planned
Full particulars as to the plans for the day will be sent out
These will not be sent to all members of the
in a few weeks.
Alumni Association, but an effort will be made to reach every
community in the vicinity of Bloomsburg. If you get an announcement, pass the word along; if you fail to receive one,
consider yourself invited anyhow.
The Committee hopes to make this the biggest Home-ComHelp them to make it so by
ing Day that we have ever had.
as
many
others as you can
bringing
and
yourself,
coming
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VIRGINIA DICKERSON
A
.
v?n
Miss Virginia Dickerson, teacher of Latin at the Blooms-
burg State Normal School for twenty-eight years, died Thursday
morning, June 4, 1931, at the home of Mrs. E. G.n Pickering,
Maple Street, Montrose, where she had been living for several
Miss Dickerson had been suffering from heart trouble,
years.
and
for about three
weeks prior
to her
death had been confined
to her bed.
Miss Dickerson was born
early
life
was spent
in
Sprmgville Township and her
She attended the Soldiers’ Orphan
there.
School at Harford, until she was sixteen years of age, and then
attended the Mansfield State Normal School, from which she was
graduated
school,
in the class of
and then came
to
ty-eight years of faithful
She taught in the Springville
1886.
Bloomsburg, where she rendered twen-
and
efficient service.
Following her retirement, she spent most of her time
in
She
Montrose, where she was living at the time of her death.
would have been sixty-eight years of age had she lived until
Hundreds of Bloomsburg graduates have set in her
July 12.
classes, and will be grieved to hear of her death.
o
PROF. AND MRS. ALBERT CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING
With
all
guests. Prof,
C. H. Albert
ding anniversary at their
fair,
and two of the bridesmaids as
observed their golden wedhome on Sunday, July 26.
of their children
and Mrs.
Not only were the children present for the delightful afin attendance were their wives and children and
but also
The bridesmaids who were
event were Mrs. Edward E. Duck, sister of Prof.
Mrs. Charles Herman.
three grand children.
Prof. Albert has long
been
at the
happy
and
Albert,
identified with the educational
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and for years was one of the members
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College.
Both during that period and since, he has been in close touch
with Tuskeegee Institute, Alabama, and visits that noted instiactivities of this section
of
faculty
the
of
the
tute for negroes each year to give
Since his
lectures.
retire-
ment from the Teachers’ College he has been very active on the
institute program and as a speaker for the Anti-Saloon League.
His institute work has carried him into 22 states and his friends
and those of Mrs. Albert are legion.
The happy couple received over 200 telegrams, letters and
cards of congratulations and there were many beautiful bouquets and other gifts, as well as a purse of gold from their children, Mrs. Jesse Y. Glenn, of
Bloomfield,
N. J.
Mrs.
;
Dallas C.
Baer, of Selinsgrove; Keller B. Albert, of Reading; Charles
Albert, of Dallas,
A
delicious
Magee with
L.
and R. Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg.
anniversary dinner was served at the Hotel
the following attending:
and Mrs. Charles H. Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Keller A.
Albert, of Reading; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Albert and children, Charles, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth, of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Y. Glenn, of Bloomfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce
Albert, of Bloomsburg; Rev. and Mrs. Dallas C. Baer and daughter, Mary Annabell, and Mrs. William Noetling, Selinsgrove; Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Duck, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Duck, of Williamsport;
Prof,
Mrs. John Fasold, Mifflinburg; Mrs.
J.
G. Cope, of
Bloomsburg.
o
1931-1932
The 1931-32 term
at the
Tuesday, September 8th, and
May
is
Teachers College
will
announced
now being sent out by the
24th, 1932,
which
CALENDAR
it
is
close
in
with
the
will
open on
Commencement
1931-32 catalogue
institution.
:
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The catalogue
tails
is
exceptionally complete,
concerning the courses of study
College
life
offered.
giving
full
phases
All
are well handled in the volume which has a
of fine illustrations of
campus scenes and
of
College
deof
number
organiza-
tions.
Classes will begin this
fall
the
day following the
registra-
continue to the Thanksgiving recess which extends
and
from noon Wednesday, November 25th, until noon Monday,
November 30th. The Christmas recess starts Wednesday, December 23rd, and ends at noon Monday, January 4th, with the
tion
first
will
semester closing on the
The second semester
1
6th of that month.
starts
Monday, January
1
8th.
The
only vacation during the second semester will be during Easter
and extends from Thursday, March 24th, to noon on Monday,
Class work ends on Friday, May 20th.
April 4th.
Alumni Day will be Saturday, May 2 st, with the baccalauSenior Day will be Monday,
reate sermon the following day.
May 23rd and Commencement Tuesday, May 24th.
1
o
TROPHY ROOM STATEMENT
i
o the Alumni
The classes that have held reunions during the years of
1929-30-31 have subscribed to the Trophy Room Project a
Of this there has been paid in $1 755.00.
total of $2336.00.
The balance unpaid is $581 .00. The amount expended on the
room thus
far
is
$3050.59.
The following statement shows what classes are delinquent
payment of their pledges and how much. The committee
in charge of the work would be glad to have this money in their
The Alumni, by their enthushands to meet their obligations.
are heart and soul behind this
reunions,
class
their
iasm shown at
with many things, easily
busy
members,
movement. Some
in
the
1
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The project is still unknown to many
were not able to get to the reEach member of every class should be reached by
letter, explaining the work we are doing.
Let all get
overlook
of the
unions.
special
15
this obligation.
members
of classes that
member of every class may
The movement must succeed. It will.
busy, that each
once.
Class
Pledge
Paid
79
$ 26.00
’86
114.00
’93
’25
5.00
108.00
50.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
150.00
132.00
70.00
100.00
30.00
’27
250.00
$ 19.00
107.00
0.00
65.50
39.00
37.00
48.00
73.00
000.00
128.00
66.00
20.00
26.00
25.00
’94
’99
’05
’06
’09
’10
’1
’15
’20
get into action at
Unpaid
7.00
7.00
$
5.00
42.50
11.00
62.50
52.00
27.00
150.00
4.00
4.00
80.00
4.00
225.00
$581.00
Total unpaid
0. H.
BAKELESS,
Custodian and Treasurer.
o
Miss Margaret Waller,
who
has
been engaged
in
library
work in New York City for several years, left early in August for
the American College, Peking, China, where she will be engaged
Miss Waller sailed from Vancouver, and viswork.
Korea and Japan before entering China to begin her work.
in library
ited
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DR.
WALLER
ILL
Jr., President Emeritus of the College, was
weeks this summer, as the result of an accident sustained while on his way to Indiana, Pa., to visit his sonin-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Mack.
He was struck
in the eye by a sharp stone that was thrown from the road by
The accident occurred June 5.
the wheel of a passing car.
His condition improved slowly until June 19, when he suffered an embolism, which caused the members of his family to
be gravely concerned about his condition.
Dr. D.
very
ill
J.
Waller,
for several
Two
days before
birthday, and
was able
his relapse,
he celebrated
his eighty-fifth
to join heartily in a dinner
given
in his
honor.
His daughter, Elizabeth Waller,
illness,
and
his son
was with him during
Robert was called from Boston.
After the effects of the embolism were removed,
tinued to improve, and
is
now
well on his
way
he con-
to recovery.
o
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE— 1931
October 3
October 10
Kutztown
at
Bloomsburg
_
Millersville at Millersville
November 7
November 4
November 2
Bloomsburg
Lock Haven at Bloomsburg
Shippensburg at Shippensburg
East Stroudsburg at Bloomsburg
Class Game at Bloomsburg
Mansfield at Mansfield
October 17
October 24
October 3
California at
1
1
1
his
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THE FACULTY
Mary
Dr.
member
Roe, of Texas, a medical doctor,
E.
will be a
coming year, taking the place
dean of women, who is on a
of the faculty during the
of Miss Rachel Turner, assistant
leave of absence.
Roe has been experienced in the field of physical eduand teaching and will devote her work in those fields and
Dr.
cation
medicine.
will not practice
The new
faculty
member comes
the institution believes that a
will
be worthwhile addition
highly
woman
of
recommended and
her accomplishments
to the faculty.
She graduated from the medical college of the University
1917 and in addition had a year’s work at Texas
Presbyterian College and a year and a summer at the University
of Texas in
of Texas.
for
Women
She served her internship
and Children.
She taught
an interne
the next
sity of
in public schools
in the
New York
from 1911
to
first
She was
1913.
two years was a member of the faculty
Texas, the
Infirmary
Hospital the following year and for
year as an instructor
hygiene and the second year as instructor
and
New York
at the
in
at the
Univer-
bacteriology and
in clinical
medicine
diagnosis.
During the college year of 1921-22 Dr. Roe was pathologist at
the John Sealy
Hospital,
Galveston,
Texas,
and from
925 was physician for women at the University of
During the summer of 1923 she served as assistant
Texas.
resident physician in the Women’s Medical College Hospital,
Philadelphia, and from October, 1926 until September, 1930,
Last year
was engaged in private practice in Austine, Texas.
1
922
to
1
she took a temporary position as college physician at the State
Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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A new member
of the
Department of Health Education
is
Miss Lillian B. Murray, elected to take the place of Mrs. Kathryn
Loose
who
Sutliff,
Mormngside
Miss Murray
has resigned.
College, Sioux City, Iowa,
Biology, Psychology and Physical Education.
degree of Master of Arts from
is
a graduate of
where she specialized
New York
University, where she
Her previous experience in-
specialized in Physical Education.
cludes one year at the Central High School, Duluth,
and three years
at
as
in
She also has the
Minnesota,
head of the Department of Physical Education
Morningside College.
*
*
*
*
Miss Alice Johnston, instructor
matics, will be on leave of absence
in oral
expression and dra-
during the
first
semester.
be taken by Miss Marjorie Stackhouse, of Bloomsburg.
Miss Stackhouse is a graduate of the Emerson School
of Expression, in Boston, and has also taken work at the College
Her
of Industrial Arts, in Texas, and the University of Iowa.
Her place
will
teaching experience includes several years at the College of Industrial Arts, in Texas,
and Hood College, Frederick, Maryland.
*
Miss Ida M. Gray, a
*
*
member
*
of the faculty in the Art De-
partment, has asked for her release so that she may continue her
work in another institution, and her resignation will be recom-
mended
to the
Board as soon as a suitable successor
*
*
*
is
secured.
*
Miss Grace H. Woolworth has been appointed kindergarten
teacher at the Ben Franklin Training School, succeeding Mrs.
Norman Hoffman, formerly Miss Schmehl.
Miss Woolworth this past June received her Master’s Degree at Teachers College, Columbia University and has been
teaching in the State College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina.
She has had a wide and varied experience
school and kindergarten work.
in
public
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The Department of Commerce, instituted last year, is rapbecoming one of the most popular at the College. The
enrollment of first year students is limited to thirty-five, and almost that many have already registered.
It was necessary to add an additional member to the faculty at the close of the first semester last year and a fourth mem-
idly
ber, Lewis B. Clark,
term.
fall
is
joining the faculty at the opening of the
H. A. Andruss
The department
bachelor of science
class there will
in
is
director of the department.
year course with a degree
offers a four
In addition to the
education.
be about 50
in
the upper classes in
first
the
in
year
depart-
ment this year, some of them having started the course last year
and others transferring their work to Bloomsburg.
Mr. Clark received his A. B. and M. A. degrees from the
University of Maine and has completed a year of work toward
his
degree as Doctor of Education
a
member
a
number
Kappa
at
Rutgers University.
He
is
and was formerly head
of the commercial department of Altoona High School.
For three years he was a member of the faculty of the
State Normal School, Plattsburg, N. Y., and in addition has had
New
of Phi Beta
fraternity
of years of public school teaching experience in Maine,
Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
o
Thornley W. Booth, coach of the athletic teams, and
mem-
ber of the Physical Education faculty, was a member of the Summer School faculty at the State Teachers College at Clarion, Pa.
o
E. H. Nelson, Director of Health Education, has returned to
Bloomsburg, after a year’s leave of absence, during which
time he studied for his Doctor’s degree at New York University.
He resumed his duties at the college at the beginning of the Sum-
mer
Session.
...
.
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THE ALUMNI
Copies of the
QUARTERLY,
sent
to the
following,
have
Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Business
been returned as unclaimed.
grateful
if their correct addresses were
would
be
very
Manager,
sent to him.
Mary
F. Davis,
31
Elizabeth Stroh, 23.
Anna M. Fagan,
’05.
Regina M. Williams,
’30.
Edith Patterson, ’03.
Margaret Fay, ’25.
Mrs.
J. C.
Taylor, ’89.
H. Jayne Cease,
’3
Retha M. Noble,
’3
1
1
Mrs. Catherine H. Baum, ’3
Miriam A. Cole,
Mrs. H.
S.
’3
1
1
Knight.
Mrs. Fred B. Steig, ’10.
Mrs. F. Harold Thomas, ’24.
Helen A. Banta,
’31
1875
Mrs. Annie Morris Sayre, of Hampton, Virginia, with her
spent Wedwho
is an Episcopal Rector, at Williamsport,
son,
Mrs.
H.
Jenkins.
Mrs.
F.
and
Prof,
with
nesday, August 26,
Sayre was a classmate of Mrs. Jenkins.
1881
At the 50th reunion of the class in June, it was felt by the
members of the class that the time was insufficient for all to give
It was
a complete account of their activities since graduation.
a
brief
write
should
therefore decided that as many as possible
account of these
activities, for publication in the
QUARTERLY.
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It is
impossible, because of lack of space, to print
histories in this issue
all
;
21
all
of
these
they will appear in subsequent issues untij
them have been published.
of
May
1
Wells (Creasy)
aught the Ungraded School at Rupert one year.
Second
Pne following year
was assistant to Miss Brewster in the Model School, which was
the Training School for old Normal.
In July, 1884, was married to S. Clifton Creasy
one of the Normal boys—who had
established a wholesale and retail lumber yard in Bioomsburg.
We had six children. Anna married Earl F. John; Martha, at
home Edward married Lydia Andres Ethel married Dennis D.
Wright; Ruth, who announced her engagement to Luther P.
Creasy June 23, 1931 Jean, at home, teaching Music.
I have
Kathryn John and Louise Creasy, who will
six grandchildren
enter the senior class at High School in the Fall; Martha Wright,
Ninth Grade Junior High; Clifton Wright, Seventh Grade Junior
High; Helen May Wright, who will enter First Grade and Anne
Since the passing away of Mr. Creasy in
Wright, 4 years old.
1923, the lumber business of Creasy and Wells has been carI have been active in the
ried on by my son and sons-in-law.
different organizations of the First Methodist Church; was the
first president of the Board of Directors of our Public Library,
grade
in the
Catawissa School one year.
—
;
;
—
;
holding that office for several years
;
I
am
a
member
tury Club, the Eastern Star and one of the charter
of the Cen-
members
of
our local Chapter D. A. R.
Enoia B. Guie
After graduating from the State Normal School in June,
1881 1 taught as assistant in the Catawissa High School for three
In the meantime, I took a special course in Expression
years.
,
in
the
autumn
Summer
of 884
1
School of
I
S.
S.
Hamill in Chicago.
In
the
entered the Bloomsburg State Normal School
as teacher of Elocution
pacity for seven years.
and
Calisthenics,
remaining
in that
ca-
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In
September, 1891
,
I
took the position of teacher of Eng-
and Expression in the Wilkes-Barre High School. I was
head of the Department of Expression during the last two years.
lish
retired the
I
summer
of 1919.
Abigail Robbins (Hartman)
year taught at Plymouth at $32.00 a month and eight
months term.
Second year started at Plymouth for one month;
First
then went to Nanticoke at $30.00 a
month and nine months
term.
Third year
I
addition of four.
took a school of one.
In nine years,
have three boys and; three
home.
I
In 6]/2 years
two more added
girls.
had an
to the family.
Also six grandchildren to
bless the
After being
in the
home
for sixteen
realize that the four eldest children
lege at once, being near of an age.
ily,
there
were
would
years,
all
began
I
to
be ready for col-
But being a minister’s fam-
insufficient funds, so the only thing
to
do was
make myself fit for the teaching profession again. So I attended summer terms at State College and Industrial Art School of
Philadelphia, after which
1
taught five years.
sidered by the school board that
my
Then
it
was con-
school should be given to a
younger teacher, as the preacher was capable of supporting his
Five years being the limit in one place, I had four years
wife.
yet to remain without a school, so I studied china painting and
firing of china.
of Chicago by corresI took instructions from Campana
As I was the
pondence, having studied painting previously.
only person having a kiln in the county, I fired china for all the
I made more than by teaching.
artists of Clearfield County.
The next place we moved I had no place to install my kiln,
Through
taught drawing and color theory in the grades.
teaching and demonstration of combination of colors on the
color wheel at institute, my county superintendent and principal
so
I
my
recommended me
to
Governor Sproul for a three year scholar-
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ship at Industrial Art School at Philadelphia.
on
my
not take
it
up, as
I
was
This
sent
me
have always been sorry that I could
could not be there for that length of time,
sixtieth birthday.
I
which was a requirement of the school.
The next place, no art was ever taught in the schools, so 1
taught five more years in the grades, after which I had a request
from my sister to come home and help care for an invalid mother.
That not being job enough, I boarded high school teachers.
But having lost practice in the culinary arts, I decided to take a
two years course in Domestic Science and Art, which I took by
correspondence with the Scranton Schools, and practiced on my
boarders.
It
was through loving
sacrifice that
I
saw
all
my
six child-
ren through Colleges, Universities and Business Courses.
Three
had scholarships, which helped out some.
They are all happily married, and have married
their
equals in education. All are living but the second daughter,
who
has been
I
life,
in the Spirit
World
for about twelve years.
expect to spend the balance of
helping to care for those of the
My
eldest grandchild
a great pleasure to see
which
is
is
my
the right start for
my
time
home
in a less
only twelve years old.
six grandchildren
life’s
strenuous
older than myself.
It
will
be
through college,
work.
The children and in-laws are:— two are lawyers, three are
music teachers, two have business courses, one is a mechanical
engineer, one domestic science, one physical culture,
one mer-
chant, one mechanical draftsman.
1882
Gertrude LaShelle (Mrs. W. E. Wagner)
lives in
Gordon,
She has sent us a very interesting clipping from the AshPa.
’and Daily News, giving an account of a recital given at her home
Miss Wagner is a
by her daughter. Miss Margaret M. Wagner.
very successful music teacher, with studios in Gordon and AshMr. and Mrs. Wagner have three
land, and has fifty-two pupils.
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other children: Ralph
Evalyn
D.,
now
L.,
a minister
in
the
Lutheran Church;
Mrs. L. R. Grover, and Helen E., at home.
1884
Miss Laura M. Helman, of Catasaqua, Pa., died at her
Saturday, June 6, her death following as the
result of a
home
heart
attack.
Miss Helman was a daughter of the late Abram and Mary
M. (nee Drum), Helman, and was a native of Drums.
Her parents located at Catasauqua over forty years ago and the family
was well and favorably known.
In
1
884 Miss Helman became
a
teacher
in
the
grade
schools of Catasauqua and continued in the service of the local
school district until 1906,
her interest
in
when
she resigned.
She continued
education up to the time of her death, however.
She was a geneaologist of note and took great interest in
During her career she compiled three books
on family histories that have had wide circulation.
Miss Helman was a member of the Lehigh County Historical Society, the Huguenot Society and Liberty Bell Chapter of
She was very
the Daughters of the American Revolution.
active in the affairs of all of these organizations and for a numfamily histories.
ber of years served as historian of Liberty Bell Chapter.
A
devoted member of the First Presbyterian Church, she
was a teacher in the infant department for many years, and was
prominent in the Ladies’ Aid Society and the Woman’s MissionShe was held in high esteem by a host of friends.
ary Society.
Sophie E. Glover, a teacher for many years in Philadelphia
in June, at her home in Shenandoah, after a
and New York, died
long
illness.
1897
Mary A. Good (1897 and 1903) who is now teaching in
the High School at New Castle, Pa., where she has been for the
past ten years, called on some of her Bloomsburg friends August
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She is looking fine' and says she enjoys her work very
much.
She was a former teacher in chemistry at the State
22.
Teachers College.
1898
Flora B. Bentzel
is
teaching
in
Harrisburg, Pa.
1899
Lindley H. Dennis, Deputy
Superintendent
of
Public In-
was a member of the faculty of the University of WisOn the way home,
consin, during this year’s summer session.
the
victims
of
a serious automoMr. Dennis and his family were
struction,
bile accident
near Plymouth, Indiana.
Mrs. Dennis (Geraldine
Conner, ’96) suffered severe injuries to her back.
Mr. Dennis,
and the son of a neighbor, escaped with minor injuries.
Mrs. Dennis was brought by train to her home in Camp Hill, Pa.,
where she is recovering /from the effects of the accident.
his son,
1900
George W. Carl
is
Principal of the Fountain Springs School,
Schuylkill County, Pa.
1901
Claude
L.
Moss has been advanced from principal of the
high school at North Tonawanda,
schools.
Mr. Moss
at the time of his
Phi Beta Kappa.
is
N. Y., to
superintendent
a graduate of Syracuse University,
of
and
graduation from that institution was elected to
He was
N. Y., nine years at
two years at Sherburne,
and eleven years at North
principal for
Chatham,
N. Y.,
Tonawanda.
Louise M. Larabee, of Honolulu, spent the
University of Washington.
Miss Larabee
is
summer
at
the
a teacher of Science
in the Senior High School at Honolulu, is sponsor for the local
chapter of the National Honor Society and advisor to the Junior
Class.
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1902
Robert
B.
Leighow
is
a
member
of the faculty
of the Car-
negie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Madge Bennett
Grange Farm,
(Mrs.
1905
Herman
Johnson)
L.
of
Willow
March at the WilkesBarre General Hospital.
Mrs. Johnson was for many years a
resident of Wilkes-Barre, where her husband is assistant manager of the district office of the F. W. Woolworth Company.
She
was prominently identified with the musical life of Wilkes-Barre
and was for many years affiliated with the Century Club. She
was a member of Central M. E. Church, Wilkes-Barre, and was
She is survived by her
active in the various church activities.
husband and two children, Miss Lorene Johnson, a student at
the Eastman School of Music, and Herman L. Johnson, Jr., a
Funeral services were held at
student at Wyoming Seminary.
her late home and the body was Itaken to Willow Grove Cemedied
irucksvilie. Pa.,
in
tery, Clifford, Pa., for burial.
1906
Catherine Hartline, sister of Prof. D.
Bloomsburg
faculty, died
May
19,
1931,
S.
at
Hartline,
the
of
the
Presbyterian
Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
1907
Margaret
C.
Brooke served
this
summer
as a
member
of
The hospital is
the staff of the Colorado Psycopathic Hospital.
School
of
Medicine.
Miss Brooke
connected with the Colorado
was in Denver during July and August.
Margaret O’Brien Henseler
West New York, N.
lives at
300
Thirteenth Street,
J.
The address of Joanna Bedall (Mrs. J. M. Watkins) has
been changed to 201 Galbreth Road, Pasadena, Cal.
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1908
from the Mount Carmel “Item
June 6, will be of interest to the friends and classmates of
Jennie Yoder Foley, who lives at 81 34 Hennig Street, Fox Chase,
The following
item, clipped
for
—
Philadelphia, Pa.:
Edward
Foley, of
L.
Fox Chase, Philadelphia,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Foley, former residents of
Mount Carmel,
will
mention
annual commencement
at the
be graduated with distinguished
exercises
Frankford High School on Tuesday, June 23.
young man
is
the
valedictorian
of
a class of
of
The
284
students.
The honor
new
of being the
leader of his
class
is
young Mr. Foley. Four years ago he
was graduated by the Fox Chase schools with the
nothing
for
highest scholastic averages.
His valedictory address will be,
View of
His father
staff
“An Unbiased
the Five Year Plan in Russia.”
and
was
at
one time a member of the Item
also a former city editor
of the
Shamokin
American, now
Publicity Director of Keystone Automobile Club.
His mother was formerly a school teacher in this
Daily
News and
Philadelphia North
borough, a graduate of Mount Carmel High and of the
She was electBloomsburg State Teachers College.
ed vice-president of the Class of 908 at the College.
At the first annual meeting of the Philadelphia B. S.
T. C. Alumni Association, she was elected secretary of
1
that organization.
James
E.
Cummings, 08,
is
on the
staff of
the
National
Catholic Welfare Conference, Department of Education,
Wash-
ington, D. C.
The following summary
of Mr.
Cummings’
activities since
leaving Bloomsburg has been prepared at the request of his
classmates to whom he has been “lost” for over twenty years.
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After graduating from B.
several years
came
is
in his
N. S. Mr.
S.
home town
Cummings taught
He then
for
Shenandoah.
of
be-
He
principal of the public school at Clifton Heights, Pa.
credited with starting the
While
County.
first
Junior High School
Delaware
in
Mr. Cummings continued
at Ciifton Heights,
his
education at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the outbreak of the World War Mr. Cummings discontinued his school
work
to
become
with
identified
Knights of Columbus.
activities of the
the
welfare
His services covered
all
war and post-war period and extended up until the time
when all of the work for the education of veterans was completof the
ed.
When
he
undertook the
of
first
entered upon
field service in
this
work, Mr. Cummings
connection with the organization
the evening schools conducted by the K. of C. in the South-
all
Over a period of
eastern States.
five years
North
cational supervisor, through
he traveled, as eduSouth Carolina,
Carolina,
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and
of which he is well known.
Florida, Georgia,
Arkansas,
in all
Following
the K. of C. in
this,
Mr. Cummings went to the headquarters of
New Haven, where
director in direct charge of
the instructors in correspondence
In the course of the five years during
work.
office,
all
he was assistant educational
Cummings was
Mr.
which he held
this
the author of “Beginning English for
Adults” and “Applied Arithmetic,” books which were used in
the courses he supervised and which have gained wide popularity-
Mr. Cummings’ work with the N. C. W. C. Department of
Education includes the compilation of statistical data for the
Directory of Catholic Colleges and Schools, the preparation
of
bulletins dealing with the administrative phases of Catholic edu-
cation,
and
Mr.
tives at the
tion.
field studies in
connection with surveys.
Cummings was one
He
of the Parochial School representa-
White House Conference on Child Birth and Protec-
is
a frequent contributor to the Catholic
Educational
:
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Review, The Catholic School Journal and the N.
C.
W.
C.
Re-
view.
Cummings has continued
Since coming to Washington Mr.
his college
he
will
graduate next February.
Mr.
old
course at George Washington University from which
Cummings has
three children, two
and one seven years old; one boy,
Thomas
six
Francis, Superintendent of
girls,
one
months
old.
six years
Lackawanna County
A
Schools, seems to have been spending his vacation fishing.
paper states: “Prof. Francis, of 1707 Pine Street, County
Superintendent of Schools, is proving himself a championship
The educator has been busy telling of his catch of
fisherman.
two brown trout at Wallenpaupack. One measured 24*/2
inches and weighed five pounds, while the other measured
exactly 24 and one-eighth inches and tipped the scale at four
local
pounds.”
Hazel
Row
(Mrs.
J. C.
Creasy) had the great distinction of
same
seeing a sister and a son graduate in the
Bloomsburg High School last June.
seventeen, was valedictorian of her
Creasy,
who
is
same class as
dom, we feel
Her
his
aunt
sure.
—
class
Betty,
at
Her
is
son,
a coincidence which happens very
To add
the
who
Edwin Row
high school work in the
class.
only sixteen, finished his
sister,
greater interest
to
the
sel-
occasion,
Mrs. Creasy attended her twenty-fifth high school reunion and
banquet with her son and
Sadie
L.
Hartman
is
sister.
Secretary of the Industrial Department
C.
“The Capital Outlook”
May, 1931, contains a picture of Miss Hartman, together
Following are excerpts from
with a description of her work.
of the Y.
W.
for
this
booklet
C. A. in
Washington, D.
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“Somewhat
similar to the
work
of the
Business
and Professional Department, but concerned with a
different type of girls and women, the Industrial Department plays an important part in the work of the
Young Women’s Christian Association. The work of
the Washington Department is entrusted to Miss Sadie
L. Hartman, the secretary.
Miss Hartman has been
connected with industrial departments of the Y. W.
C. A. in St. Louis, Illinois, Harrisburg, Pa.,
and
for the
past six years in our Association.
“The
Industrial
Department may be said
divided into two main sections: trade union
to
be
groups
and the foreign and immigration groups. Through
the painstaking care and interest of the National
Board of the Y. W. C. A., a cordial welcome is extendEach day there
ed to many newcomers to America.
pass across the desk of the industrial
secretaries
in
from the Department of Immigration, and Foreign Communications of the National Board, announcing the forthcoming arrival in
the secretary’s city of girls or women who have rethe various cities letters
cently landed in America.
For such people our In-
Department attempts to make Washington
seem less strange and unfriendly.
dustrial
“Soon after the new arrival reached Washingfrom the Industrial Department
acquainted, and to see that
to
become
calls on her,
A special
living accommodations are satisfactory.
effort is made to introduce her and to help her make
ton, a representative
friends with others of her
own
nationality.
“For most of the strangers, it is possible to arrange classes at the Americanization School of the
For some, however, this is not
District of Columbia.
needs of these persons there
meet
the
and
to
possible,
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31
conducted under the auspices of the Industrial De-
partment, a special Americanization
A
class.
teach-
from the Americanization school comes to the headquarters of the Association to conduct classes in Citizenship and English.
“There is another phase of the Industrial Department work which is noteworthy.
According to
a law of the United States, immigrants receiving aid
from a public charity within five years after their ar-
er
rival in this
if
country are subject to deportation.
the father of a family
is
Thus,
taken sick or dies, the
mother cannot accept public assistance or apply for
mother’s pension even though her children are American-born.
To meet these emergencies the various
foreign groups keep in touch with immigrant families.
They work through the Industrial Department of the
Y.
W.
C. A.
“To many
come
selfish spirit.
field
is
the scope of
people,
as a surprise, for
it is
The Department
broadening, and
look forward to
all
new and
work
this
will
carried on in a quiet, unis
those
growing larger, the
connected with it
great opportunities.”
1910
Bertha V. Polley (Mrs. James
L.
Oakes) may be reached
at R. D. 2, Union, N. Y.
1911
A.
J.
Sharadin,
who
has
been coach
at
Ford City High
School for several years, has been elected coach and teacher of
physical education at Danville, Pa.
1912
Verna M. Smith
lives in
ed as a private secretary.
Street.
Wilkes-Barre, where she
Her address
is
91
employNorth River
is
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1913
Estelle
School,
Madden,
Borough
Susquehanna University, re-
assistant principal of the Centralia
was graduated
in
June
at
ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Margaret Crossley (Mrs.
F.
Earle Gooding)
North Winsor Street, Bound Brook, N.
lives at
534
J.
1916
Martha Yetter (Mrs. Harry E. Rider) received her degree
at the annua!
Commencement
at Bucknell University in June.
1917
C. T.
Pa.
Hodgson
His address
is
is
Principal of an elementary school in York,
472
Atlantic Avenue.
1918
Miss Lola Pennington, and Miss Bertha Andrews, both
of
Bloomsburg, took an automobile trip to the Pacific Coast this
summer.
They were away about ten weeks, and covered about
ten thousand miles.
Mary Powell (Mrs.
J. S.
Wiant)
Laramie, Wyoming. Her husband
being a
member
of the classes of
is
1917 and 1918.
Helen Knouse (Mrs. Sheldon Long)
in
Benton, Pa.,
515 Lewis Street,
Bloomsburg alumnus
lives at
also a
will
teach
in the
grades
this year.
1920
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Lewis are now living at 20 South Fifth
Mrs. Lewis was formerly Florence M.
Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
Beyer.
1921
of Bloomsburg, and Miss Grace
Reimard, of Danville, members of the Bloomsburg High School
Miss Maree
E. Pensyl,
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were on a
faculty,
six
33
weeks’ tour of the west
summer.
this
Their party assembled at Wilkes-Barre, and went from there to
Chicago, Denver, Colorado Springs
Park.
there
and Yellowstone National
The party then went to Seattle, Washington, and took
a Pacific steamer for Skagway, Alaska.
The party re-
turned through the Canadian Rockies on the
From
Lake Louise and Banff.
at Chicago and Buffalo.
Alice M. McDonnell
dress
is
there they
teaching
is
in
way home,
visiting
came home, stopping
Her ad-
Philadelphia.
325 Sloan Avenue, West Collingswood,
N. J.
1922
Olen M. Lewis
is
teacher of fourth grade in the Scranton
schools.
Alma Hampton, now
graduate nurse,
a
is
practicing
in
Chicago.
1923
Bloomsburg, and M. Creveling
Strauser, formerly of Bloomsburg, were married Thursday, July
23, at the Lutheran parsonage in Milton, by the Rev. J. M.
Miss Helen E. Wolf,
of
Reimensnyder, uncle of the groom.
The bride has been a successful teacher in the Bloomsburg
schools.
Mr. Strauser is a Bloomsburg graduate, in the class of
He later attended the Pennsylvania State College,
1927.
where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science.
is
He
is
now working
for his Doctor’s degree.
a plant disease specialist in fruits in the Bureau
dustry, State
Department of Agriculture, and
is
of
He
Plant In-
located at Har-
risburg.
1924
Matthew Lutheran Church of Catawissa, was the scene
of a simple wedding ceremony Tuesday morning, July 4, when
Miss Florence Hollingshead, of Catawissa, became the bride of
Edward Schuyler, of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performSt.
1
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34
ed by the Rev. Myles
E.
Smeltz, pastor of the church,
in
the
presence of the immediate families and a few guests.
of
1
The bride is a graduate of the Catawissa High School, class
926, and is one of the most esteemed young women of her
community.
Mr. Schuyler has for the p?.3t eight years been
employed as reporter for the Bloomsburg Morning Press, and ii
also the very efficient secretary of the Alumni Association.
Mr.
and Mrs. Schuyler are now living on West Ridge Avenue,
Bloomsburg.
Miss Phyllis E. Miller, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Dumbauld,
Philadelphia surgeon, were united
berland, Md.
Dr.
Dumbauld
in
marriage recently at Cum-
will take
months’
six
work
at
Johns Hopkins University and then he and Mrs. Dumbauld will
sail for Haiti where he will be employed by the Government for
The bride has a wide circle of friends in this section
two years.
and formerly resided in Benton and Bloomsburg. She is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1924,
and later of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Training
School for Nurses.
Sarah Tregellas (Mrs. Harold Klinger) died suddenly at her
home in Hatboro, Sunday, June 4. Funeral services were held
1
at the
Street,
home of her father, Thomas Tregellas, 33
Mahanoy City, on Wednesday, June 7.
East
Centre
1
Beulah M. Deming (Mrs. Willard Gibson) taught during the
Pa.
She
past year at the Burns school, Susquehanna County,
was married August
1
,
1930, at Uniondale, Pa.
Mary Ruth Eisenhower (Mrs.
H. F.
Brown)
lives at
83
South Bennett Street, Kingston, Pa.
Margaret
heim, Pa.
B.
Mensch
is
teacher of primary grades at Mill-
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1925
Miss Mildred Wolfe, of
August
3, at the
home
of Englishtown, N.
J.,
New
Berlin,
was married Monday,
of her parents, to George Vandenbergh,
where the bride had been teaching for
several years.
Marian A. Gower
schools at
Maywood,
teacher of third grade in the public
is
Her home address
N. J.
is
60 Manhattan
Street, Ashley, Pa.
Miss Pearl Radel, of Sunbury, and Leon
Bickel,
also
of
Announcement of the
Sunbury, were married July 12, 1930.
marriage was made last December.
1926
Margaret Emmitt (Mrs. Allan A. Rarig) lives at Fourth and
Catherine Streets, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Rarig, before her
in the Catawissa High School.
connected with the Bloomsburg office of the Bell
marriage, taught for several years
Mr. Rarig
is
Telephone Company.
Verna M. Paul
Laura
address
is
Mary
E.
Mann
is
teaching in the
is
teacher of
625 North Church
Alice Yoder
is
first
fifth
grade at Shamokin.
grade
in Hazleton.
Her
Street.
teaching seventh grade Arithmetic in
Berwick.
1927
Miss Clara Miller and Follmer A. Siegfried, of Catawissa,
were married January
1
at the
parsonage of the
St.
Matthew’s
The ceremony was performed
Lutheran Church, in Catawissa.
by the Rev. U. Myers, pastor emeritus of the church. Mrs.
Siegfried has been teaching in Beaver Township, Columbia
County, for several years.
Mr. Siegfried
is
at the present time
.
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36
employed as a telegrapher for the Reading Railroad Company.
They will make their home near Orangeville, Pa.
Naomi Bender
is
teaching in Sunbury, Pa.
1928
Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Snyder, of Shamokin,
party held at their
home Thursday
at a
the marriage of their daughter, Florence Kathryn,
Kester, of Shickshinny.
in the
dinner
evening, June 4, announced
to Philip R.
The marriage took place May
3,
1930,
Evangelical Church at Bellefonte.
Mrs. Kester taught in the Shamokin schools for three years
following her graduation from Bloomsburg.
Mr. Kester attended Bloomsburg during his Freshman year,
and was well-known on the campus, because of his musical actiHe was a member of this year’s graduating class at the
Pennsylvania State College, where he was prominent in musical
vities.
activities.
He has accepted
a position
as
director
school and municipal music at
Punxsutawney,
and Mrs. Kester have been living since August
Pa.,
of
public
where he
1
At eight o’clock Tuesday morning, August 18, in a very
ceremony at the Bower Memorial Evangelical Church, of
Berwick, Miss Mabel Bower became the bride of Leroy A. Baer.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. E. Remaley, pastor
pretty
of the church.
Mrs. Baer has been teaching in Berwick since her gradua-
Mr. Baer, also a member of the class of
from Bloomsburg.
928 at Bloomsburg, received his degree at the same institution
For the past three years he has been teaching in the
in 1930.
This fall
Science department of the Shickshinny High School.
tion
1
he
will
take a
school in
new
McGraw,
position as
assistant
principal
of
the
high
N. Y.
Announcement was
recently
made
of
the
marriage
last
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November
Mordan,
Viola
Miss
of
37
formerly
Bloomsburg,
of
teacher of the Island Park school near Sunbury, and Preston Kelof Sunbury.
ler,
The bride
is
a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and
Teachers’ College and has been a successful teacher for several
The bride-groom
years.
Frank
F. Keller,
at
is
engaged in business with his father,
The couple will reside at
Klinesgrove.
Klinesgrove.
Miss Ruth Baxter, of Berwick, and Robert
more, were married
in
W. Russ,
Ardmore, Tuesday, May
16.
of Ard-
Since her
graduation, the bride taught in the Mifflinville schools, and at the
time of her marriage was a teacher
Ardmore High School.
employed in Philadelphia.
The present address of Mr. and Mrs. Russ is 24 Wyoming Avenue, Ardmore.
Mr. Russ
is
an insurance agent, and
in
the
is
Miss Evla M. Carlson, of Courtdale, Pa., and
tenbauder, of Luzerne, were married
Church on Monday, June 22.
in the
Howard Kos-
Courtdale Methodist
The bride has been teaching
in
Kostenbauder is a
graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Kostenbauder
Courtdale for the
are
now
past three
Mr.
years.
living in Kingston.
Mabel A. Albertson, a teacher
at
Red Bank,
music student at the summer session of
appeared during the summer
N.
New York
J.,
and a
University,
program given by the UniverThe principal soloist on
the program was Reinald Werrenrath, famous baritone.
sity in the
in a
Wanamaker Auditorium.
Lucille
Henry, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Glen A. Taylor, of
Dushore, were married at Hughesville, on Monday, June 22.
Mrs. Taylor has been teaching for several years in Wilkes-Barre,
and Mr. Taylor has been teaching near
now
living at
Dushore.
his
home.
They are
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Ellen A. Schlier lives at
Pa.
She
is
319 West Green
Hazleton,
Street,
a teacher in the Hazleton schools.
1929
In a pretty wedding in the Church of Christ, Bloomsburg,
Sunday morning, June 7, Rev. Larue Z. Brown, pastor of the
Christian Church, of Hollbrock, Pa., claimed as his
Elizabeth Munson, of Bloomsburg.
Rev Robert
bride. Miss
L. Porter,
pas-
ceremony taking place at
The ring ceremony was
the close of the morning worship.
used.
The couple are among the most esteemed young people
of the town and enjoy a wide circle of friends.
tor of the local church, officiated, the
Following a dinner served at the bride’s
left for
a wedding trip to the Thousand Islands.
turn they will be at
home
home the couple
Upon their re-
to friends in their residence
at
Rog-
ersville, Pa.
High School,
is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
1927, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
For the past two years she has been a success929.
class of
ful teacher in the Northumberland county schools.
The bride
class of
1
Rev. Brown was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
in 1925 and graduated from Bethany College, Bethany,
W. Va., with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While there he
School
was selected as a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity and the
For the past two
Alpha Phi Epsilon, honorary literary society.
years he has been pastor of the Rogersville-Holbrook Churches
of Christ.
Miss Ruth Meixell, of Wapwallopen, and Claude Miller, of
Pond Hill, were married Monday, June 15. Mrs. Miller, before
her marriage, taught for three years in the Nescopeck schools.
Mr. Miller has been teaching in the Shickshinny High School for
the past
two years.
They
will
make
their
home
in
Shickshinny.
Ruth Shannon has been transferred from the Beach Grove
school, Salem Township, to the East Berwick school.
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Wilheimina Elder has been transferred from Beach Haven
to East Berwick.
Anna
is
E. Miller
is
teaching at Lime Ridge, Pa.
Her home
in Mifflinville.
1930
of Mr. and Mrs. John B.
became the bride of Jasper M. Fritz, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Rush Fritz, of Main Township, in a quiet ceremony
performed at noon Monday, June 8, in the parsonage of the
Miss Kathryn Jones, daughter
Jones, of Nanticoke,
Grace Methodist Church, Harrisburg, Dr. Bagnell, pastor of the
church, officiating.
The couple was unattended and the ring
ceremony of the Methodist Church was used.
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz
trip to the
left
immediately afterward on a motor
southern part of the State.
summer with
the groom’s parents
Osceola Mills where the groom
is
and
a
They
in
will reside for the
the
member
fall
will
go to
of the high school
and coach of the school athletic teams.
The couple were class mates at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College, being prominent members of the class of
Both enjoy wide circles of friends.
1930.
During the past year Mr. Fritz was a successful teacher in
the Osceola Mills High School and Miss Jones was a teacher in
faculty
the Nanticoke schools.
The groom is a graduate of the Main Township Junior High
At both the local high
School and the Bloomsburg High School.
school and the Teachers College he was a member of the varsity
football team, playing tackle at the college
during
the
entire
four years of his course and was pitcher on the varsity baseball
team for the same
was active in girls’
Mary
E.
period.
The bride during her college days
athletics.
White, of Berwick, and Heister H. Bittenbender,
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of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 20, at Frederick.
Marjdand.
Mrs. Bittenbender taught during the past
year
in
Salem Township, Luzerne County.
Mr. Bittenbender is a graduate of the Center Township High School, and is employed by
ihey will make their home in
the Magee Carpet Company,
Bloomsburg.
Nancy Haynes
Pa.
lives at
3 3 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre,
1
During the past year she was a substitute teacher
in the
Wilkes-Barre schools.
Dorothy M. Foote taught during the past year
in the
Vo-
cational High School at Orangeville, Pa.
William M. Jones
Forge, Pa.
He
is
1117 North Main Street, Old
of the Madison Township schools.
lives at
principal
Mrs. Annie E. Schell taught in grades five and six in the
Mainville Consolidated School.
Helen Cott taught
303 Keyser Avenue.
in
Grace V. Reinhold
Nuremberg, Pa.
is
is
Pa.
Taylor, Pa., last year.
teaching
in
Her address
grades seven and eight at
Dorothy M. Harris is teaching in the schools of Old Forge,
Her address is 216 East Morton Street.
Margaret
E.
420 North Maple
Davis
is
teaching in Kingston.
Her address
is
Street.
Ethelda Young has been elected teacher
mentary grades in Berwick.
in
one of the
ele-
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1931
Cora M. Wagner, of Shamokin, represented the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the Laurel Blossom FestiMiss
val in the Poconos, which began June 12 and ended June 21.
She was an attendant in the court of honor of the “Queen of
Laurel Blossom Time” and was known as “The Princess of
Bloomsburg.”
Upon her arrival in Stroudsburg, she attended a dinner and
bail given in honor of Miss Lois Strickler “Princess of Ursinus
College,” to the Queen of Laurel Blossom Time and her fourteen princesses.
Miss
Wagner was one
of the attendants
to the
Laurel Blossom Time at the coronation ceremonies
Queen
held at
of
the
Wolf Hollow Country Club, Delaware Water Gap, Friday afternoon, June 19.
Two hundred persons participated in the brilwhich
marked the climax of the Laurel Time celeliant pageant
bration, in which Governor Pinchot and Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia, were scheduled to take part.
Following the coronation a grand ball was held at the Wolf
Hollow Country Club in honor of the Queen of the festival.
Miss Wagner was guest of honor at a luncheon given by
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Leech, at the Mount Pleasant House,
Mount Pocono, on Thursday, June 8.
Miss Wagner was awarded the honor
Bloomsburg, by the action of a committee of
Government Association at the College.
1
wedding
in St.
Huntingdon, Pa., Saturday,
July
In a beautiful
of
representing
the
Community
John’s Episcopal
18,
Miss
Bess
Church
Conner,
at
of
Bloomsburg, and Maynard Pennington, also of Bloomsburg,
were married by the Rev. Fred Holmes, rector of the church,
and cousin of the bride.
The bride, who is one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteemed young ladies, attended school at Worcester, Mass., and graduated from the training school of the Bloomsburg Hospital, in
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She has since been doing private nursing.
the class of 1930.
Mr. Pennington, during his four years at the college, was a
member
part
m
of the varsity football team, and also took a very active
He
dramatics.
will
teach
in
Mount Pleasant Township,
Columbia County, during the present school term.
Frank Golder,
teacher
in
Harriet
boys
at
star athlete at the college, has
been elected
the high school at Hughesville, Pa.
Roan taught
Englewood, N.
J.,
at Junior
Haven, a private school for
during the summer.
Miss Jane Fahringer will teach in East Berwick this year.
Miss Emily Park will teach this winter at the Pleasant Valley school,
Fairmount Township, Luzerne County.
o
An envelope containing fourteen dollars
ed “Alumni Room,” but with no name on
in cash,
and mark-
came into the
Alumni Day activi-
it,
hands of Professor Jenkins at the close of the
Inasmuch as Professor Jenkins is unable to give proper
ties.
credit for this contribution, he would be very grateful if anyone
able to do so would communicate with him and give him information as to
its
source.
o
among
President Haas was
at the fourteenth annual
those
who conducted forums
American Country
4 to August 20.
Cornell University, August
1
Life
Conference
at
'
Media of