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DECEMBER, 1931
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

GEORGE EDGAR WILBUR

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACH E RS COLLEGE
DECEMBER, 1931

33

Vol.

No.

1

1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year

Entered as Second-class Matter, July
Pa.,

H. F.
F.

FENSTEMAKER,

’12

H. JENKINS, ’76

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Editor-in-Chief

-

Business

Manager

George Edgar Wilbur
Few men who have served on the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have left an impress upon the
institution equal to that left by George Edgar Wi.bur, who served as a

To

member

of the faculty for forty-two years.

who

Bloomsburg as “Old
have a vivid image
of him, sitting in his classroom, as class after class came and
went.
When they left Bloomsburg, they carried with them
the memories of his kindly spirit, the twinkle in his eye, and
the charming personality which endeared him to all who ever
sat under his instruction.
When they came back to Bloomsburg, to renew the memories of their normal school days, it
was Professor Wilbur whom they sought, and he always rethe thousands

Normal,”

his spirit

still

still

lives.

think of

They

still

membered them.
Professor Wilbur was born September 2,
ly,

Pennsylvania.

He was

1

850,

in

Waver-

the son of a Methodist Episcopal

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L. Wilbur.
He was blessed with an
home training, and at the age of nineteen, he enWyoming Seminary, where he received his preparatory

clergyman, the Rev. John
exceptional
tered

work.

Carlisle, and
1873 he received the A. B. degree, and three years later, he received the A. M. degree.
Following his graduation from Dickinson, he came to
Bloomsburg, and served two years as supervisory principal of
the Bloomsburg schools.
The trustees of the Bloomsburg
State Norma! School then invited him to join the faculty of
that institution.
For seven years he was professor of Ancient
Languages and History, after which he was transferred to the

In

1873, he entered Dickinson College,

studied law for two years.

In

department of Mathematics.
thirty-five years,

to

making a

He served

total of

that capacity for

Bloomsburg.

He was married October 28, 1874,
er,

in

forty-two years of service

of Wilkes-Barre.

to Frederica L. Hill-

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur had three children,

whom grew

to manhood.
The only son who now surHarry Curran Wilbur ’97, of Chicago.
The other son.
Professor G. Elmer Wilbur 00, died August 28, 1928.
At
the time of his death, he was Superintendent of the schools of
Duval County, F’orida.
Professor Wilbur’s activities in the town of Bloomsburg
were many.
A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
he was for many years a teacher of a class in the Methodist SunFor many years, he was editor of the Normal
day School.
Quarterly, and this served to keep him in close touch with
the graduate body.
Not long after his retirement from teaching, the Quarterly passed out of existence, and was not revived until 1926, when the Alumni Association voted to resume publication, and to support it by funds from the treasury

two of

vives

is

of the Association.

He was

elected to the Thirty-Third degree, Scottish Rite

in 1913, and was crowned at the sessions of the Supreme Council held in Chicago on the 14th of September,

Masons,
1914.

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He was
F.

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4

a past officer of the Washington Lodge No. 265,

A. M., Bloomsburg Chapter No. 218, Royal Arch Masons;

Crusade Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar, Mount Moriah
10, Royal and Select Masters, and Oriental ConHe was
clave No. 2, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine.
Council, No.

a past sovereign of the Knights of the

Red

Cross of Constan-

He
and past grand sovereign of the state organization.
served as secretary and recorder of these bodies for thirty-one

tine,

years.

was

It

in

1910

that Professor

Wilbur went to the Moses

Taylor Hospital, Scranton, for a serious operation that,

Never

it

was

feared, might cost

him

ephone service

Northeastern Pennsylvania had there ever

in

his life.

in

the history of

centered the interest that was manifested concerning his
dition at that time.

Day and

night, the

tel-

con-

messages of inquiry

poured into the hospital.
A special force was required to
The love and adoration in which he was held
by those who had sat under his instruction, were strikingly

handle them.
emphasized.

He recovered in time to come back for the Commencement exercises in June. Those who saw the reception accorded him as he came back as though from the dead, will never
forget the scene.
Men and women, young and old, were in
tears and unashamed, as he stepped before them for the most
impressive Ivy Day program in the history of the school.
tribute that was paid him when he
Morning Press of the following day,
“round after round of applause sweeping over the large audience gathered on the campus.
He demonstrated, before he
had gone far in his talk, that the hand of illness had not deprived him of his happy temperament, and when he said that
he did not want to make a speech, the audience broke into
applause, in which the element of sympathy was not lacking.”
“It

was a wonderful

rose to speak,” stated the

Another affecting scene was enacted at the Alumni Banwhich over four hundred fifty members were present.

quet, at

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and a trustee, had responded to
"Our Grand Old Boy Professor Wilbur," and had
paid a wonderful tribute to his worth as a man and as an instructor.
He referred to the joy which all felt over his recovery, and touched beautifully upon the impressive talks which
Professor Wilbur had always given to the graduating classes,
talks that he knew had made them better men and women than
they would otherwise have been.
Granville

Clark, an alumnus

J.

the toast

As he

sat

down, Professor Wilbur, who occupied a seat

not far distant, arose.

am

—

Breaking the intense silence, he said

in

had the best physicians
in the world; I had the best surgeons; no nurses could have
been more kind, nor could any have been more efficient.
But
with all these, I would not have been here with you today, had
it not been for the prayers that went up to God from my boys
and girls."
He uttered another sentence that was not heard,
and as he sat down, the entire assemblage broke into tears.
It was a scene that cannot be described.
Strong men lost control of themselves, and for a time it looked as if the banquet
would come to an end. Then Prof. Wilbur gathered himself
together sufficiently to arise and thank the alumni for the beautiful flowers that they had sent him in the hospital.
The memory of them he carried with him to the depths, he said, and
then, as he again took his chair there was a fresh outburst.
part: "I

With

glad to be here today.

his

recovery from that

labor of love at the school

illness

where

Curran were contemporaries of

I

he again took up

Dr. Waller

his

and Professor

his.

The year 1917 marked his fortieth year of affiliation with
The Class of 1917 observed this in a fitting manthe school.
Volume Two of
ner by dedicating to him their class annual
The dedication includes a short sketch of his
the "Obiter.”
life, and also contains this tribute:

—

"The

distinguishing characteristics of Professor Wil-

bur have been thoroughness

in scholarship,

deep person-

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and his phenomenal success as
He was always very successful of

al interest in his pupils,

a

disciplinarian.

holding the esteem of
tact;

students

all

with

whom

he came

in

con-

faculty of winning complete confidence

his

was

great,

of

not only as an instructor but as

a friend, which proved to be of the highest value.

“Large numbers of young men have received trainand have gone out to higher institutions
of learning.
He has used his influence to stimulate

ing under him,

young men

to the pursuit of higher education.

“Ties of friendship are not stronger between any

member

of the Faculty than they are between Profess-

or Wilbur

and the former as well as the present students
No one connected with the schools has

of the school.
as

wide acquaintanceship among the alumni members

as Professor Wilbur.”

At the Alumni meeting held in the same year. Professor
Wilbur was honored by the Alumni.
There were tears in his
eyes that day, as he was called before the Alumni body and
presented with a beautiful gold watch, as a slight token of
appreciation of the wonderful life’s work that he had given to

Everyone was deeply moved, for it seemed to
achievement of a lifetime, but the first
drawing the curtain on a remarkable life.

the school.

signalize, not only the

act in

Two

years later, in 1919, he was forced by

withdraw from active service.
he seemed to have recovered,
But his work was done.
The
him to such an extent that he

By November

ill

of the

health to

same year

and again there was rejoicing.
death of Mrs. Wilbur affected
never was the same.
He continued to fail gradually, until 1923, when on January 6, he was
stricken with paralysis.
He lived until January 19, and then

came

the end.

The Alumni meeting held

in

over especially to a tribute to the

June,

memory

1923,

was given

of Professor Wil-

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bur.

The

files

of

the Morning Press

give us

following

the

account of the meeting:

“The precept of a

the wonderful

life,

have gone before have done

in

work

that those

character building

—

who

these were

were spoken by
representatives of thousands of graduates of the Bloomsburg
State Normal School as they gathered in the auditorium Saturday
morning for the annual meeting of the Alumni Association.
Hundreds were there hundreds who had come to pay tribute
to the men who in past years had laid the foundation for the
Bloomsburg State Normal School of today.
The names of Dr.
Waller, of Prof. Wilbur, of Prof. Noetling, and many others in
the “Old Guard” were called up in terms of reverence and respect, for those who were back were those who owed much
the outstanding thoughts in the

words

that

—

they are to the

men who

the banner of “Old

in

the days that are past flung high

Normal” and kept

“In the hands of Dr. Arthur
land,

it

J.

had been placed the task of love

there.

Simmons, of Newfoundin expressing what hun-

dreds thought of Professor Wilbur.

He

relationship in which, as a student, he

had come

fessor Wilbur.

He

told of the years

told of the intimate

that

know

Pro-

Prof. Wilbur

had

to

taught Civics and Psychology, and then of his thirty-five years

He told of his popularity in the
won in Masonic circles, and of his
in which he mingled.
He alluded

as instructor in Mathematics.

town, of the prominence he
popularity in every circle

keen wit, to his fire and imagination,
under perfect control, and of the delight he took

also to Prof. Wilbur’s

kept

all

in

friendship.

“He spoke
larity

of Professor Wilbur as a teacher; of his popu-

with his students, and of the fact that he never criticized

He never gossiped; he was never meddlesome;
man who knew remarkably well how to attend to his

a co-worker.

he was a

own

His discipline was remarkable, in spite of the
was never nagging or cross. If he had anything

business.

fact that he
to say,

it

lasted the class for the rest of the year.

He was

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open-minded and

how

to impart the

magnetism

to a

but the classroom with him was always

fair,

He knew

a place of business.

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knowledge

remarkable degree;

He had

the speaker

when a school has men like Waller, Wilbur, and
men are bound to leave their mark on the lives
and women.
“Dr. Waller also paid a tribute to the

He

bur.

and he knew

his subjects well,

that he had.

personal

added

that

Noetling, these
of

memory

young men

of Prof. Wil-

coming to Normal the year following the
and of the fact that from that time up to the time

told of his

Centennial,

of his retirement, he served the school for a longer continuous

period than anyone he knew.

Dr. Waller stated that

when

students studied Latin under Professor Wilbur, they learned

the
it,

was only because of conditions in the other department
not his
that he was changed to the department of Mathematics.
That ability to change from one department to anand

it

—

other reflected the unusual attainments of the man.
his sense of justice, all

knew

All

knew

that he never allowed himself to

be vindictive.
He was so fair that when it was said that Professor Wilbur had said so and so, that ended all discussion,
even in faculty meetings.
George F. Wilbur was a great instructor.

He was

loyal to the school at all times,

and absolutely

loyal to his fellow-workers.

To

those

who knew

Professor Wilbur,

this

tribute

seems

hardly necessary, but hundreds have gone out from Blooms-

burg since he disappeared from the scene, and to many of these,
he is but a name.
It is fitting, therefore, that the later graduates of Bloomsburg should know him as he was, in order that
one more link might be forged into the chain of loyalty that
binds them to their

Alma Mater.

All Alumni of Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg State Teachers College is as rich in traditions as any other college; that great
figures once walked the corridors and campus.
They may well
say today, as we hope they will be able to say fifty years from
now: “There were giants in those days.”

may be proud

to feel that the

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Thousands

at

Home-Coming

The most successful Home Coming Day in the history of
was held Saturday, November 4, with three thousand at the football game and eight hundred guests at the dinner
the College

in

1

the evening.

A

7-7

tie

with the powerful East Stroudsburg Teachers

The score made

College was the main attraction of the day.

everyone happy, as East Stroudsburg was expected by many
to be the winner.
The Bloomsburg team played its greatest

game

of the year to

keep the

visiting

team from winning a

vic-

ory.

The

principal streets of the

town were

in gala dress for

the day, as were the campus and buildings at the College.
The
Maroon and Gold of Bloomsburg and the Maroon and Black of
East Stroudsburg were used in the decorative scheme.
These
colors also predominated in the beautiful effect worked out in
the gymnasium, where there was an informal “get-together”
following the game, and an informal dance in the evening.
For the first time, the living quarters of the students were
open to the inspection of parents and alumni.
Dr. Haas and

many

others connected with the College heard

much

praise from

the visitors, concerning the excellent condition of the dormitories.

The improvement program

in the

dormitories was complet-

ed during the past summer, and the rooms are now in fine condition.
The newly furnished rooms for the girl and men day
students were also open for inspection, and

drew many favor-

able comments.
All visitors received a royal
tion

of three hundred faculty

welcome, with an organiza-

members and students having

definite assignments in the efficient organization

charged with

Much credit is due to
who acted as general chair-

making the necessary arrangements.
Miss Jessie Patterson, of the faculty,

man

of the Home-Coming Day Committee.
There were no classes during the day,

in

order that the

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students might give their entire attention to entertaining the

The program opened at ten o’clock in the morning,
when parts of the building were thrown open for inspection.
At eleven o’clock, the Maroon and Gold Band gave a
The concert
concert on the campus in front of Waller Hall.
was enjoyed by a large crowd that gathered on the campus,
and in the windows of Waller Hall.
There were four bands present at the football game. East
Stroudsburg brought their own band, the Pdaroon and Gold
Band was there, and the Bloomsburg High School Band and the
Band from the Northumberland High School arrived on the
guests.

scene at the end of the

first half.

Following the game, there was a large gathering of students and alumni in the gymnasium, where tea

The dining room was not
all

large

that wished to attend the dinner.

after the

was served.
enough to accommodate
The overflow was served

group had left the dining room.
During the
Maroon and Gold Orchestra furnished a musical

first

dinner, the

program.

The crowd

at

the dance in

largest that has ever attended this

The

was one of the
Home-Coming Day feature.

the evening

was crowded with dancers, and the seats on the east
gymnasium were filled with alumni, who were renewing col’ege day friendships.
Music for the dance was furnished by the G-Y All Stars, of Bloomsburg.
Home-Coming Day is becoming more popular every year
and is just one more evidence of the ever-strengthening tie
that binds all Bloomsburg Alumni to their Alma Mater.
floor

side of the

Harvey A. Andruss, Director of the Department of Commerce, has signed a contract with the Prentice-Hall,
York, to write a book on Business Law.

title “Business Law Tests and Cases’’ and
Commercial Departments of High Schools.

ably bear the

used

in the

Inc.,

New

This book will probis

to

be

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The
One

1

S3 1-32 Calendar

of the most important committees in

the

administra-

the Calendar Committee.
is
under the chairmanship of Dr. Thomas P.
North, consists of the chairmen of all faculty committees, and
the administrative officers.
The duties of the committee are
to draw up the calendar of all social and athletic events for the

organization of the College

tive

This committee,

college year, to consider
if it

approves them,

work

all

applications for social events, and,

to give

them a place on the calendar. The

of the committee serves to eliminate events that are un-

desirable,

and

throughout

also to provide for an even distribution of events

the

college

year.

The committee has

a

meet-

ing once a month, to pass on matters of routine, to study the

working out of the calendar, and to formulate policies that will
improve the calendar the following year.
At present the committee is engaged in making a study of the faculty load, with
the idea of securing a
the various

members

more equal

distribution of load

among

of the faculty.

The calendar for the present year will give the reader an
idea of what is being done to making college life more interesting to the students, without sacrificing the regular work of the
curriculm.

September

— Pajama
— Gymnasium

10
1

1

1

2

13
3

1

1

9

23

Parade.

Girls’

Joint Service: Y. M. C. A.

—Day
—

9

and

Y.

W.

C. A.

Girls’ Picnic.

All-College Entertainment.

—-Freshman

Circus.

October
Football: Kutztown, home.

—
—Opera,
10 —
3

Party; Men’s Smoker.

Reception by Faculty and Trustees.

“The Bohemian

Commercial Club Dance.

Girl.”

Football: Millersville, at Millersville.

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7

—

Football

:

12

Mansfield, at Mansfield.

23

Freshman Class Election;

24
27

Football: California, at Bloomsburg.

31

1

November
Dramatic Fraternity Play.
Football Shippensburg, at Shippensburg.

7
3

:

Charles Naegele, Pianist.

4

25
30

A. Vod-Vil.

Football: Lock Haven, at Bloomsburg: Community
Government Association, Hallowe’en Party.

21—

1

C.

Presidents Reception to Trustees and Faculty.

—

6

M.

Y.

Alumni Home-Coming Day
Y. W. C. A. Formal Dance.

football

;

:

Stroudsburg.

—

Thanksgiving Recess begins at
Recess ends at 12 M.

—

Men’s Glee Club Concert.
Basketball: Alumni, at Bloomsburg.
Basketball Lock Haven, at Bloomsburg.
Sue Hastings’ Marionettes.

1

2 M.

December
4
5
1

1

2

8

19

:

Senior Informal Dance.

— Christmas Recess
January
4 —Recess ends
M.
9—
Shippensburg,
6—
Semester
18— Second Semester

23

begins after

at

Basketball

class.

12

:

at

Shippensburg.

Ends.

First

1

last

Begins.

22

Basketball: East Stroudsburg, at Bloomsburg.

Community Government Mid-Year

28
29

Party.

Basketball: Shippensburg, at Bloomsburg.

Basketball: Mansfield, at Bloomsburg;

mond,

Cellist.

February

1

8

Basketball: Millersville, at Bloomsburg.

2

Basketball

13

:

Lock Haven,

at

Lock Haven.

Basketball: Mansfield, at Mansfield.

Felix Sal-

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19

Basketball: Open.

20
26
27

Sophomore Cotillon, formal.
John Goss and the London Singers.
East Stroudsburg, at East Stroudsburg;

Basketball:

High School Play Tournament.

6
1

1

12

March

—
—
—

Basketball

Millersville, at Millersville.

:

Junior Class Play.
Basketball: High School Tournament, afternoon and

evening.

18

Basketball: High School Tournament, evening.

19

Basketball: Finals of High School Tournament, evening.

—
Recess
4 — Recess ends

24

Easter

begins after

last class.

April

at 12 M.
Men’s Glee Club Concert.
Freshman Hop.
Entertainment Course; Obiter and Maroon and Gold

8
9

—
22 —Dramatic Club Play Tournament.
15

Elections.

29 “He-She” Waller Hall Party.
21—Junior Prom, formal.
30
May
1

—

6
7

Department of Music.
and Dance, Girls’ Chorus.
Athletic Banquet and Community Government Spring
Recital,

Recital

Dance, formal.

—May Day.
14 —
1

1

President’s

20
20

Lawn

Party for Faculty.

Senior Ball, formal.

work ends, 4:00
ALUMNI DAY.
Class

22
23

Senior Day:

24

Commencement

P.

M.

Baccalaureate Sermon.

My Day
:

1

and Class
0 A. M.

Night.

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The 1931
The 1931-32

Course

Artists’

Artists’

14

Course opened Friday, October 9,

“The Bohemian
by a group of four artists. The company, working under the limitations due to the small size of the cast, the absence of a chorus, orchestra, and adequate scenery, gave a

with the presentation of the Balfe’s opera,
Girl,”

fine

account of

itself.

The second number

of the course

was

a

piano

recital

Charles Naegele, one of America’s outstanding pianists.

by
Mr.

This was his
Naegele appeared Friday Evening, November 13.
third appearance in Bloomsburg, and the applause indicated the

popularity he has gained with Bloomsburg audiences.

ing,

Sue Hastings’ Marionettes are booked for Friday even18, with a special children’s matinee in the after-

December

noon.
Felix Salmond, considered

by leading

critics as

among

the

best of the cellists in the world, will give a recital Friday even-

January 26.
As the concluding number of the course, John Goss and
the London Singers will appear Friday evening, February 26.
In addition to the above numbers. Dr. George Earl Raiguel,
of Philadelphia, was scheduled for three lectures on subjects of
ing,

and international importance.
Dr. Raiguel gives his
Assembly exercises held in the morning.
He has
been coming to Bloomsburg for four years, and his lectures are
growing more popular every year.
national

lectures at the

An

informal dinner in honor Superintendent of Public In-

was given by President and
The dinner was followed by a reception to the faculty and administra-

struction

and Mrs. James

N. Rule

Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Tuesday evening, October 27.

tive

officers

of the College,

President’s residence.

the reception being held at the

Included

in

the

list

of invited guests

were the members of the Board of Trustees, cooperating teach-

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ers in Berwick and Bloomsburg, and members of the Bloomsburg and Berwick Boards of Education.
About two hundred

guests were present.

The

atfair

was

much enjoyed

a

present an opportunity

to

one, and afforded those
meet the head of the Pennsylvania

school system.

At the College and the President’s residence there were
beautiful floral decorations.

Alexander’s orchestra furnished

a delightful musical program,

and delicious refreshments w'ere

served.

The annual reception, inaugurated during the administrabecome an important event on the

tion of President Haas, has

calendar of the College.

social

Kappa Delta

Pi Initiates

Eighteen candidates were initiated November 20 by the

Gamma

Beta Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi honorary educa-

tomal fraternity,

at

ceremonies held

in

the social

rooms

in

Science Hall.

The

was incorporated at the University of Illiand there are now about sixteen thousand memThe Bloomsburg chapter was installed in February, 1930,
fraternity

nois in 1911,
bers.

by Dr. A.

L. Hall-Quest.

Among

other requirements there must be scholarship rat-

ing in the upper quarter of the Junior

The following students were

mond

and Senior

initiated:

classes.

Gilbert Gould, Ed-

Smith, William James, Charles Hensley, Charlette Os-

borne, Ruth Appleman, Laura Kelley, Pauline Reng, Iva Jenkins, Zela
ler,

Bardo, Melba Beck, Mildred Busch, Mary

F.

Schuy-

Frances Evans, Ida Arcus, Lois Lawson, Mary McCawley,

and Carl Riggs.

The advisors

of the local chapter are Miss Ethel A.

son and Dr. H. Harrison Russell.

Ran-

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Improvement Projects Planned
Ganet, Seeley, and Fleming have been appointed architects

on three projects that are to be developed

in the

near fu-

ture.

The

first

project

is

the erection of a projection booth in the

auditorium, and the making of changes necessary for the suc-

showing of sound pictures.
The sound equipment has
is ready for installation as soon as
the projection booth is completed.
Another project provides for the placing of bleachers on
the west side of the gymnasium.
These will be similar to those
now on the east side. The plans also provide for dressing
rooms and showers under the new bleachers.
cessful

already been delivered, and

The

third project

is

the erection of a

fire

tower, freight

and freight platform in the rear of Waller Hall and near the
kitchen.
These will replace the present wooden lift and platlift,

form.

10,000 Preparing to

Teach

Approximately ten thousand students are enrolled at presand the Cheyney

ent in the thirteen State Teachers Colleges

Training School for teachers, according to a statement issued

November 12 by Dr. James N. Rule, Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
The exact figures are 9849, as of October 15.
These students are distributed as follows

Bloomsburg
California

649
694

Cheyney Training School

166

Clarion

346

East Stroudsburg
Edinboro

753
532

Indiana

Kutztown

1427
512

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566
728
573
642
899

Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville

Shippensburg
Slippery

Rock

WestChester

The

total

1362

enrollment

corresponding period

this

last

year

is

slightly less

than for the

year.

Of the 9849 students registered in regular teacher training courses, 5,126 are enrolled in four-year curriculums leading to a degree, not including 2,304 students registered as first
semester students who will not choose a definite curriculum
until the second semester of this year.
The 5,000 young men
and women who are candidates for a degree, which number
constitutes over half of the entire group, represents a

marked

development of six years, or the period elapsing since the State
Normal Schools were changed into State Teachers Colleges.
Prior to that time

students, with the exception of a few, pur-

all

sued the two-year course.

An

analysis of the figures representing the entire student

body shows
curriculum

165

that
1

;

in the

985

,269

in

are registered in the two-year primary
the two-year intermediate curriculum

two-year rural school curriculum;

with the exception of the 2,304

first

while the others,

semester students, are re-

gistered in the four-year curriculums, as follows:

Elementary grades
Junior High School
Art

Commercial Subjects
Health

Home Economics
Industrial Arts

Kindergarten

Music
Others

253
2613
235
285
930
237
20
1

10

437
6

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The 1931 Football Season
The

team of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

football

came

end of its 1931 season with a record of two
victories, three ties, and two defeats.
The schedule was made
exclusively
up
of games with the teams of other State Teachers Colleges, and the Bloomsburg team met with plenty of opposition.
All of the games were hard fought, and, in most
cases, our boys brought credit upon themselves.
In several
of the games, the opponents of Bloomsburg were expected to
win by a large margin, and the fact that Bloomsburg was able
to forestall defeat is an indication of the type of football that
lege,

to the

was played.

The scores follow:

32

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

7

Kutztown

6

_

7

Millersville

12

Mansfield

0

California

7

0

Lock Haven
Shippensburg

7

East Stroudsburg

0
0
20
30
_

7

Northumberland County Alumni of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, met at a luncheon held Thursday, October
St. John’s Methodist Church in Sunbury.
The meetwas addressed by President Francis B. Haas, and by Dean
William B. Sutliff.
The luncheon was in charge of John B. Boy-

29, at the
ing

er,

Assistant County Superintendent, Mrs.

John

E.

Marion Skeer, and
Shambach, Superintendent of the Sunbury schools.

Dr. Francis B.

Haas

is

serving as State Chairman for the

He has appointed
work with him.

annual Christmas Seal campaign.
mittee of fifty-five

members

to

a

com-

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As noted

members

in the

September

of the class of

agreed to write brief histories of their
tion.

Several of these

publication

is

QUARTERLY

issue of the

1881, at their reunion held

were printed

activities since
in

that issue,

in

,

the

June,

gradua-

and

their

continued below.

1881
Greenwood
Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Martin 0. Lepley, 520
pastor of Prospect Avenue M. E. Church, Brooklyn, sends the
following

Dear Classmates of 1881

:

Hurrah for dear old Normal!
How I w'ould
be with you at our semicentennial
I hope
that we will have a full gathering at our centennial
celebration.
By that time we will have graduated
from this mundane sphere.
like to

I

say.

!

cannot find the old catalogue,
It

seems

to

me

that

I

am

some years ago

sorry to

the Facul-

wanted some copies and that I returned mine. I
need no printed page, however, for a number of
I can still hear Nuss ringing the dinner bell,
names.
bringing welcome news to us all.
I have not forgotetc.,
which
ten Leff Morgan’s chicken,
he received
Although I was always sedate myself, I
from home.
have not forgotten some of the pranks of others.
ty

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Yes,

Some

did participate in one.

I

20

cf the boys re-

member the ducking as we raced through the halls
one vacation day until we were discovered by Professor Wilbur.

and so became

Leff sat at his table

quite intimate with the stern Latin Professor.
told

me

that the dignified “Prof’’

was

Leff

quite gay him-

younger days and that he understood our
and so we were never taken to task for
the prank.
Of course it was my reputation for orderliness that saved the rest, though I did not tell
them so at the time.
Leff never did tell me definiteWell,
ly who hid the chairs under the platform.
we had the rhetoricals that Friday just the same, but
we had to stand through it all. I always felt that
Harrison, Morgan and Nuss knew more than they cared to tell.
Professor Wilbur hid under the trees on
Sunday evening and listened to the conversation of
the students as they came home from church, hoping
to hear some secrets about the whole affair.
I think
self in his

playful spirit,

he did, too.

Here

is

a brief outline of

Assistant Principal at

my

fifty years.

Lewistown for one year.

Drums, one year.
Principal of Kingston schools, four years.

Graduated

at

stitute in ’89.

prize in

Hackettstown Centenary Collegiate InGot first prize in Greek and second

Commencement

Oration.

Graduated

at

Weslyan University

celebrates

its

centennial this

Joined
still

a

New York

member

in ’93.

Wesleyan

fall.

East Conference in ’93, and am
Was married in ’94 and

of the same.

had three girls.
One died in infancy. The other
two married lawyers and live on Long Island.
I
have three grandsons and one granddaughter.
My first wife died and I was married again in 1909.

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I

Two are in Manuhave three daughters at home.
High and one is in Maxwell Training School for

al

Teachers.

have had charges

Waterbury, Bridgeport,
For two years I
was in Greenwich, the second richest town in the
I
country, and one of the most beautiful as well.
left somewhat reluctantly, but accepted a call to a
larger church in Brooklyn.
I

New Haven, and

in

three in Brooklyn.

Heister V.

Hower

Graduated at 7 at B. S. N. S. with Class of 1881.
Taught school four years at Conyngham, Luzerne County,
1

Pa.

Graduated in Medicine from College of Physicians and Surgeons, now combined with the University of Maryland under
the title of University of Maryland and College of Physicians
and Surgeons in 1887.
Located at Mirflinville in General Practice, succeeding Dr.
J. J.

of

Brown, now of Bloomsburg, Pa.
Married to Miss Dora E. Drum, daughter of Geo. W. Drum

Conyngham,
Continued

Pa., 1888.
in

practice at Mifflinville until 1911.

Entered John Hopkins University, taking a course in Inand studying there for one year.
Elected Superintendent of Scranton Private Hospital 1912,

ternal Medicine

remaining there doing a Consultation and Referred practice until

1917.

Entered the

Army

in

June 1917, being one of the

three Physicians to enlist from Scranton, Pa.
ing

Camp

at

Camp

Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and after

four weeks was ordered to

Camp

for duty in Base Hospital,

where

the war.

first

Sent to Train-

While there

I

filled

Sevier, near Greenville, S. C.
I

remained

until the close of

successively every position on

Medical side of the Hospital (Assistant-Ward,

Ward

Surgeon,

*

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Section Chief, Consultant to Medical Staff, Chief of

Pneumonia

Section Chief of the Medical Section and Superintendent of Nur-

60 students which was connected with the Hoswas Commissioned as 1st Lieutenant and received two
promotions. Captain and Major.
In Sep. 1918 was appointed
sing School of

pital)

I

Chief of the Medical Section of Base Hospital No.
seas duty which carried with

the

it

Rank

1

48

for over-

of Lieut. Col. on the

other side, but owing to the then prevailing epidemic of Influ-

enza (there were

1

700

cases of

Pneumonia

at

one time

Hospital) no troops were moved, and as the Armistice

in

was

our

sign-

although

we were sent over this promotion did not materialize
we were under orders to sail when the Armistice was

signed.

I

ed before

was discharged with

having served 18 months.
position in Hospital

been

in

Front

general

St.,

and moved

practice

the rank of

Returned
since

to

Major

Berwick, Pa. where

that

1919,

in Jan.

to Scranton, Pa., resigned

time.

I

have

229 W.

Address

Berwick, Pa.

I am a member of the Co. State and National Med. Socieand of the Lackawanna Medical Society.
Twice President
of County Society and several times delegate to State and Nat-

ties

ional Societies.

On Wednesday

evening, September

16,

the teachers of

the public schools of Catawissa served a supper in the school

honor of the Misses Claudia and Enola Guie, former
Miss Enola Guie started
teaching in the high school in Catawissa High School in 1882,
and her sister followed two years later.
rooms,

in

teachers in the Catawissa schools.

The Misses Guie left this fall to make their home in Seattle,
Washington.
They are now living at 745 Bellevue Avenue, in
that city.
Three weeks after their arrival in Seattle, their
brother, E.

Crier’’

passed away.

Mr.

Guie

1884 and 1885.

The

Seattle

Heister Guie,

Bloomsburg Normal

in

attended

"Town

has the following concerning Mr. Guie’s death:

“The recent death

of Mr. Guie

was

a loss to not only a wide

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but to the State at large.
He had lived in
Washington for many years, having come to the Coast from
Pennsylvania when a young man.
And during the entire period of his residence here he had given generously of his time to
public service.
He was a politician, in the better and admirable
sense of a word that in these days is in somewhat of disrepute.
That is, he took a sincere interest and active part in politics,
which is one of the most important of human activities.
But it
was neither a spectacular nor a self-seeking part.
His interest
was rather in good government and sincere public service, and
to this purpose he exerted a marked influence on the political
affairs of the State over a period of many years.
He was speaker of the House of Representatives in the early days of statehood, and repeatedly served in the legislature.
His last expercircle of friends

was

ience in public office

as

Judge of the Superior Court of

this

county, to which post he was appointed by Governor Hartley.

whatever capacity he was an honor to the position he held.
a supporter of Governor Hartley, and was for long his
attorney and one of his chief advisers.
And it is noteworthy
that he always enjoyed the respect and confidence of the people
of the State, including the opponents of the governor, which was
In

He was

not the case with

all

of those

Hartley administration.

intimately

Mr. Guie’s

life

associated

was

a

with the

long and honor-

able career, and his death marks the passing of a faithful public
servant, a student of

good government, an able lawyer, and a

useful citizen.”

Mr. T. B. Harrison spent several years teaching, after

which he was elected Superintendent of the Luzerne County
For the past thirty years he has been farming.
He
Schools.
Three
of his
has five children; four daughters and one son.
All but one of his
daughters are Bloomsburg graduates.
children are now married.
There are nine grand children.

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1884
Margaret
J.,

E.

Gogan (Mrs.

F.

J.

Bayonne, N.

Scanlon) of

formerly of Hazleton, died Monday, October 19, at her

Bayonne.
The body was brought to Weatherly for
She is survived by her husband and ten children.
in

home

burial.

1892

“Go

to

Get the

summer ready for occupancy.
dred dollars available for the furnishing.”

There are a hun-

just built last

There were many

Work
new house

Stay there for three months.

Higgins.

out a program for a permanent worker.

awaiting Miss Martha RobinCounty Life department of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, in November, 1921.
Today, in this picturesque and prosperous little Yancey
son

when

she

came

county section there

difficulties

to the

is

a large

a church, Sunshine cottage, the

community

center, consisting of

new Markle

building,

and other

work has grown and prospered and although
Miss Robinson was instructed to “work out a program for a
structures

;

the

permanent worker,” she
part of the

work

still

remains.

She

is

such an integral

there that she has been kept on the job con-

stantly.

Many
There were many

came to
survey work

she

Difficulties

difficulties

*

awaiting Miss Robinson

when

For several years she had been doing
the East and Middle West.
Prior to that time

Higgins.
in

she had been on the field staff of the Pennsylvania State Sab-

She had traveled a great deal.
She learned that Higgins was a mountain settlement in
Yaney county, that it was located on Cane river, 2 miles from
Burnsville, which was its closest railroad connection, and that
only one train came to Bensonville a day over a small branch
road for lumber hauling.
She was told that Dr. W. E. Finley
and the Rev. J. E. Gruver would be there to take care of her.

bath School association.

1

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is still a Presbyterian minister and
Madison county.
Mr. Gruver is superintendent of the Mountain Orphanage on Swannanoa, a Presbyterian

Incidentally Dr. Finley

is

now

located

in

institution.

On

a dark night in January, 1922, Miss Robinson reached

Burnsville.

Dr. Finley

met her

at the

Marion junction and after

driving a mile through the deep mud, she reached the manse.

Next day she assembled supplies, mostly from an older community house, near Mount Mitchell, which had been closed.
She learned that the $100 appropriated for her work had been
used for another purpose so her

“Go down and

final instructions

were:

see what you can do without any money.”

Early on the morning of January 18, she started for the
Higgins.

wagon drawn by huge draft horses and
men in the Higgins community.
furniture and Miss Robinson arrived at the new

They had

a

driven by one of the young

That day the
cottage.

Activity Starts

Immediately things began happening in the community
The people, young and old, began coming to the cottage.
Miss Robinson was presented to the Sunday School
the
people requested that she become their new leader; recreation
was provided for the young people. The children came together for Bible stories and games.
And then Miss Robinson
found herself actually dreading the end of the three months and
time to leave.
The board added a year to her term. And at
the end of two years, the directors of her department in New

—

York decided that Miss Robinson should have five years to get
the work under way, at the end of that period five years more
were added, and she still remains.
Books, magazines, sewing materials and almost all the
other essentials of a properly equipped community center were
She had an inexpensive
absent when Miss Robinson came.
box of dominoes and a charming personality to begin with;
the other things came later as often as money could be supplied.

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Cottage Burned
In October,

1930, the cottage with a splendid library of

This
,000 volumes was burned.
paired the progress that had been made.

almost

On

1

loss

seriously

im-

were transferred to
Even these quarters
Crowds came and were unable to find room
were inadequate.
to attend Sunday School and church services inside, so they
gladly took seats on the porch, the lawn, and in the woodshed.
In August, 1927,
Plans for a new church were launched.
work on the foundation on the mountainsides across a small
Very little monlevel expanse from the cottage were begun.
ey was available and the men kept on working until they had
contributed labor and materials worth $2,000.
Then a grant,
in the form of a legacy, given as a memorial to Mr. and Mrs.
Holland, of Chicago, was given.
The church was completed
Holland
Memorial
and named the
Presbyterian church.
It was
used for the first service on September
1929, although it was
not completed until October
In December the church was
Easter Sunday, 1927,

Sunshine cottage,

the larger

all

services

building.

1

1

,

.

dedicated.

The church has

been improved with the addition of
Meanwhile, other developments were under way.
Miss Robison was offered funds
by her cousin for the erection of a building to house various
community activities. This building, known as the Markle
building was started late in October, 930, and was completed
in the spring of 1931.
Like the church, the Markle building is
constructed of native field rocks.
Both buildings are thoroughly modern.
since

a heating system and other equipment.

1

The contractors had worked but two days on the Markle
building

when

fire

destroyed Sunshine cottage together with

the supplies Miss Robison

had accumulated.

all

She and Clarence

Higgins, a small boy who made his home with her, barely escaped with their lives. A new Sunshine cottage was completed
in August this year.
Now a school building is being erected.

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Additional buildings are planned.

sourceful and aggressive

mud

the energetic reto Higgins in the

In

months, has

of January, 1922, to stay only three

community

real

fact,

woman who came

built

a

center.

1896
Gertrude Miller (Postle)

Her address

schools.

is

is

a teacher

in the

Los Angeles

6703 Tyrone Avenue, Van Nuy,

Cali-

fornia.

1899

A

complication of diseases,

several years, caused the death of

following an illness lasting

Boyd

F.

Maize, at the Gei-

singer Hospital, Danville, on Saturday, August 29.

He had

been a patient there for several weeks before his death, and
his condition had been critical for several days.
Mr. Maize was fifty-one years of age, and was a graduate
of the Bloomsburg High School, Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and the law school of Yale University.
Following his
graduation from Yale, he was admitted to the Columbia County
Bar, but never followed the legal profession to any extent.

He

became identified with the fire insurance business. He
some years connected with the business in an executive

early

was

for

capacity in one of the country’s largest

He was

a school director in

cities.

Bloomsburg for several years,

and was elected without opposition.
He resigned the office
business interests called him away from Bloomsburg. He
was a trustee of the Bloomsburg Lodge of Elks for a number

when

of years.

He

is

survived by his father, two

sisters,

and two daughters

1900
Miss Mary L. Smith and G. Bernard Vance, both of Berwick
were married Wednesday, November 23, at Sunbury, by the
Rev. J. Howard Ake, a cousin of the bride, and former pastor
Mrs. Vance has
of the First Methodist Church of Berwick.
been departmental bookkeeper at the Berwick Store Company

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and Mr. Vance
are

now

is

living at

credit

338

manager

of the

28

They

same company.

East Tenth Street, Berwick.

1905
J.

Glenn Blaisdell

is

head of the Biology Department of

the Charles F. Gorton High School, Yonkers, N. Y.

1908
The following are excerpts from The Philadelphia

929
“One of the strangest law suits
faces the Camden Board of Education
er;

Inquir-

1

ment

in

the annals of the city

unless an amicable agree-

reached between that body and a dismissed school

is

teacher.

“The

teacher, Mrs. Carrie

monton, N.

J.,

Gray Hurley, now

from where she reports daily

lives in

Ham-

to A. E. Auster-

muhl, secretary of the board, by telephone, requesting where

(She did this for 17 months).
“Mrs. Hurley has been officially designated on the payroll

she shall instruct a class.

With the beginning of the school
the school board
could not charge her with failure to notify them that she

as a ‘dismissed’ employee.

term, Mrs. Hurley has reported daily, so that
officials

was ready

for her duties.

“Mrs. Hurley declares that she was discharged after fifteen years of service “because she married.”
This, she asserts,

took place seven years after her marriage.
“Mrs. Hurley entered the employ of the city as a teacher

At that time she was known as Miss Carrie G. Gray.
1920 she married, but continued serving in her duties.
“Mrs. Hurley declared that Dr. Bryan summoned her and
3 others and informed them that they could no longer serve

in

1914.

In

1

as teachers, as the State

law prohibited the retention of mar-

women.
“No such law exists on the statutes Mrs. Hurley and Austermuhl declared.
He also informed the nine members of the
ried

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Board of Education of
several years ago the

this

fact.

However, he pointed

Camden board passed

out,

a resolution pro-

employment of married teachers, but did not cite
what action should be taken in the event that a teacher married after being emp’oyed, and what specific action could be
hibiting the

taken after she passed the tenture of

"To

assist

her

in

office.

obtaining reinstatement and back pay,

Hurley retained Congressman Charles A. Wolverton as
The Board of Education is now acquainting Lewis

Mrs.

counsel.

Lieberman, Assistant City

Solicitor,

rounding the case,

event that the matter

in the

with the circumstances suris

brought into

court.

"When Mrs. Hurley entered the employ of the city she
$850 a year, and with the annual increases she received $2,100 when her services were dispensed with.
Suit
received

will

be brought for

until the

due to her from Sept.
brought into court, she said.

salaries

all

time the case

is

1927

"Attaches of the Board of Education declare that officials
and members of the board are "stumped” and realize that the
dismissal of Mrs. Hurley because she married after receiving the
tenure of office will result in her reinstatement.
Mrs. Hurley has added other facts and questions

"This stunt has been used in Camden for years, it seemed an unwritten law until this affair brought it to a climax.

or

"The Pres, of the Board or Supt. intimidated the teachers
would trick them by such stunts and humiliation as:

Questions and answers of Mrs. Hurley.
1

on

.

Don’t you

know

that

when you break your

you have not a

legal leg to stand

contract?

(b) The
Ans. Never signed a contract not to marry,
Board made a law many years ago to prohibit hiring married
teachers.

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was not in my contract, and laws prohibitive of
marriage have always been proven unconstitutional.
Ans.

It

You know you automatically broke your contract when

2.

We

you married.

Mrs. Hurley

Gray.

never hired Mrs. Hurley,

we

hired Miss

not on our payroll.

is

People teach, names
same person, same name with addition
Carrie M. Gray Hurley.
I am under tenure and in addition to
violating that law you are violating the school law passed in
1925 which says there must be no discrimination between the
sexes in regard to position, salary, etc.
You have not asked
Ans.

do

not.

You

am

I

hire people, not names.

the

men who married

three

3.

Can you stand the publicity?
(b) You

Ans. Yes.

you

will not

Ans.
4.

be able

know

it

will

go

all

over the state and

to get a position.

Position or not the principle

is

objectionable.

Can your husband stand such publicity?

Ans.
5.

to resign or dismiss them.

I

know no

reason

why he

Can’t your husband support

Ans. That

is

a subject for

you

can’t.

you?
to discuss with

him

if

you

are interested.
to teach we could give you a substitute
probably several months in the year but not a
permanent appointment.
6.

position

If

you have

for

Ans.

No,

we want permanent

ones.

The President of the Board of Education said to me
you should possibly win, the Board of Education reserves the right to make life so unpleasant for you that you
7.

“That
will

if

be glad

to resign.

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Board meeting in fall (in
I, Mrs. Hurley had won the nomination in
the primaries and was a candidate for the Legislature from
Atlantic County.
One lady member informed him that I was
just doing that for pass time since I was not teaching.
President of Board spoke

8.

my

in

disfavor) That

The

was

result of all this fight after the suit

filed

was

Reinstatement to former position with yearly increment making

Treatment same as other teachers and back
all married women teachers, and since then those who are under tenure and have married may and are teaching in peace.

salary $2,300.

pay.

has settled the fact that for

It

Edith Hull’s address

Joseph Shovlin
Pa.

is

is

7 East 64th Street,

1

New York

Superintendent of Schools

work

His son finished High School

in

in

Ashland

City.

Kulpmont,
year and

this

has entered LaSalle College, Philadelphia, Pa.

Hazel

work

in

Row

Creasy’s son, Edwin,

Bloomsburg

this year,

is

they enjoy his impressions of Prof.
Prof. Hartline as

we knew

Philadelphia this year,

in

is

finished

Hartline.

High School
She says

S. T. C.

He

is

same

the

1908.

Jennie Yoder Foley’s son,
in

who

attending B.

who

finished

High School work
of Penn-

attending the University

sylvania.

Martha James, a teacher

in the

dent of the Business and Professional

Scranton schools,

Women’s Club

is

Presi-

of that city.

1911
Dennis

D. Wright

has

Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club.
the office of Vice-President.

been

elected

John H.

president

Shuman was

of

the

elected to

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Lillian F. Cole,

is

32

teaching in Fall River, Mass.

1919
Albert

W. Duy,

Jr.,

the North Branch Bus

investment business

Company. He will also continue the
which he has been engaged for several

Duy was formerly Miss

Mrs.

years.

in

has been elected general manager of

Beatrice

Ely, of the class

of 1912.

1914

A

daughter was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. DeckMrs. Decker was formerly Miss Pauline
er, of Lansdowne, Pa.
Hyde, of Bloomsburg.

1916

A

son was born Wednesday, October 21, to Mr. and Mrs.

George Doty, of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Doty was formerly Miss
of Bloomsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Doty now have
three children a daughter and two sons.

Anne Reaser,

:

1918
Margaret Miriam Henrie, of Millville, and Jennings C.
Henderson, of Montgomery, West Virginia, were married Saturday, October 10, at the home of the bride’s parents.
The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Thomas Heistand,
rector of

St.

Paul’s Episcopal Church,

Bloomsburg.

Mr. Hen-

derson, a graduate of Washington and Lee University,

member

of the Reserve Officers Training Corps.

Henderson are now

living in

Montgomery, West

is

a

Mr. and Mrs.
Virginia.

1923
Miss Arline Hart, and Karl Brown, of Wilkes-Barre, were

married Saturday, September 5, in the Firwood Methodist
Church, at Wilkes-Barre.
Mrs. Brown has been

Episcopal

teaching for several years in the Wilkes-Barre schools.

Brown

employed

Mr.

bookkeeper in the Kingston branch of
a nationally known Adding Machine Company.
They are now
is

living in Kingston.

as a

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33

1924

Alma Thomas is teaching music in Wilkes-Barre.
is 374 North Washington Street.

Her

address

Irene
ton,

Hortman

Delaware.

is

teaching Art

Her address

is

in

the schools of Wilming-

822 North Adams

Street.

Miss Beatrice Courtney, of Gouldsboro, Pa., informs us
of the death of Miss Katherine Ball, which occurred August 24,

1931.

1925
Frances Davenport

Miss Marian

S.

is

teaching at Wyommissing.

Ha rman,

and Carl J. Frank
Rochester, Wednesday,

of Bloomsburg,

were married in
September 23, by the Rev. Charles Craver.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and the Eastman School of
Music.
Mr. Frank is conductor of an orchestra in one of the
motion picture houses in Rochester.
of Rochester, N. Y.,

1926
Evelyn G. Robbins

is

teaching art at the Mansfield State

Teachers College.

A

son was born Wednesday, September 23,

to

Mr.

and

Hummel, of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Hummel, who beher marriage was Miss Isabel Ward, taught for several

Mrs. Russell
fore

years

in the

schools of Vintonadel, Pa.

Grace Robbins

is

teaching at Darien, Connecticut.

Freas Downing

is

Principal of the Lincoln

McKean County,

Pa.

School at Tuna,

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Raymond

Getz

is

34

principal of the Lee Driver School at Revv

City, Pa.

1927
Rachel

F.

J.

Wolfe

Mamie

C.

Crone

is

teaching

is

School at West Trenton, N.

first

grade

the

in

Fisk

J.

teaching

in

the schools at Shamokin,

Pa.

Daisy Alleman

is

teaching at McAliisterville, Pa., where

she has been located since her graduation.

Mercia Kreigh

is

teaching at McAliisterville, Pa.

1928

made concerning the marand Miss Mary C. Hertz,
The wedding took place at Sonestown, November

Announcement was

recently

riage of Blake Stokes, of Bloomsburg,

of Milton.

Mr. Stokes is a teacher
8, 1930.
Township, Columbia County.

in

the schools of Franklin

who has been teaching near Mainwas seriously injured in an automobile accident on
the road between Berwick and Bloomsburg, during the week of
Thanksgiving.
Miss Ward was driving toward Berwick, and
crashed into a truck which was turning off the highway.
She
suffered a fracture of the skull and probable internal injuries,
and was taken to the Berwick Hospital.
Miss Elizabeth Ward,

ville,

Pa.,

Eleanor Sands

is

teacher

in

the primary department of

the Brookdale School in Bloomfield, N.

Mabel Albertson
Street School,

is

Red Bank,

J.

teaching sixth
N. J.

grade

in

the

River

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35

and John Fairchild, of
were united in marriage Saturday, October 0, at
the First Baptist Parsonage at Stroudsburg, Pa.
The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Alfred Stokes. Mrs. Fairchild is
now teaching at the Summer Hill School, near Berwick, and she
and her husband are living at the home of her parents in BerMiss Esther Frees, of Berwick,

Briar Creek,

1

wick.

The engagement of Miss Mary Phillips, of Bloomsburg, and
Miss PhilJohn McDowell, Jr., has been recently announced.
lips spent two years at Skidmore College, and at the College
of Education at Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois. Mr.
McDowell is a graduate of Mercersburg Academy.
Miss Ellen A. Schlier, of Hazleton, and Earl A. Schaeffer,

were married Tuesday, August
in the Trinity
Church at Royersford, Pa.
The
bride has been teaching in the Hazleton City Schools, for the
past three years.
Mrs. Schaeffer is an insurance agent, and is
employed in Pottsville. The present address of Mr. and Mrs.
Schaeffer is the Sailor Apartments, Mauch Chunk Street, Pottsof Pottsville,

1

1

,

Evangelical Congregational

ville.

Grace

Phillips,

of Catawissa,

and Chester

Franklin Township, were married at the bride’s

J.

Bucher, of

home on

Satur-

day morning, August 29, by the Rev. H. J. Billow, pastor of St.
Mrs. Bucher taught last year in the
John’s Lutheran Church.
schoo's of Beaver Township.
Mr. Bucher is employed in the
radio department of the F. B. Kern store in Catawissa.

Ray Hawkins

is

supervising principal of the schools at

Galeton, Pa.

Miss

Lucille

Yeager,

and Isador E. Heicklen, both of
Mrs. Heicklen
in November.

Berwick, were married sometime

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36

has been teaching in the Orange Street Building in Berwick.

Mr. Heicklen, a graduate of Penn State
the Metropolitan Life Insurance

Marjory Pursel

is

in

1

930,

is

employed by

Company.

teaching in the schools at Palmerton,

Pa.

1929
Miss Agnes Krum and Elmer R. Eveland, of Bloomsburg,
were married Saturday, September 26.
The ceremony took
place in St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg, and was
performed by the pastor, the Rev. Norman S. Wolfe.
Mrs.
Eveland has been in the employ of the Bloomsburg Silk Mill for
several years.

1930
Dorothy Erwin

is

teaching in

the Priestly school

at

Nor-

thumberland, Pa.

Myra Sharpless

is

Karleen Hoffman

teaching

is

in

Scott High School, Espy, Pa.

teaching at Montandon, Pa.

This

is

her second year in that position.

Mary Agnes

Sharpless,

who

has been teaching in the con-

solidated school in Point Township,

is

now

teaching in the

fourth grade in the schools of Catawissa.

Miss Helen Gibbons, of Benton, and Charles A. Edson, formerly of Benton, were married Saturday, October 24, by the
Rev. Paul T. Shultz, pastor of the Moravian Church at Emaus,
Pa.

and

Mr. Edson

is

a graduate of Pennsylvania State College,

employed in the development and research department
of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company in New
York City.
is

Hazel Sanders

Meshoppen, Pa.

is

teacher of Latin

in

the high school at

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37

Thursabert Schuyler
mascus,

Wayne

Armand

teaching

is

in the

high school at Da-

County, Pa.

Keller

teaching in

is

the

Harding Junior High

School, Lebanon, Pa.

Earl R. Miller

Cyril Stiner

teaching

is

in

the high school at Bushkill, Pa.

teaching in the schools of Susquehanna, Pa.

is

Mildred Manbeck

is

teaching in Delaware Township, North-

umberland County.

Clarence

Ruch,

who

has

been teaching

in

the grades in

the Berwick schools, has been transferred to the High School.

He

also acting as

is

Haven

coach of the Junior Varsity football team.

Fortner,

grade

at

in the

same system.

Osceola

who

has been teaching in the seventh

has been transferred to the high school

Mills,

Charles A. John,

Jr.,

is

teaching in the high school at

Domock, Pa.
Jasper M. Fritz is teacher of chemistry at the Osceola Mills
High School.
He is also meeting with great success as coach
of the Osceola Mills High School football team.

1931
Harriet

Rhone

Englewood, N.

is

teaching in a private school for boys at

J.

Charleen Kreigh

is

a teacher at Middleburg.

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38

Frank Colder and Lew Creveling are teaching
ville,

in

Hughes-

Pa.

Robert Sutliff
Harvey’s Lake.

Lydia Fortner

is

principal of the consolidated school at

is

teaching at Osceola Junction, Clearfield

County.

Miriam Hartt

is

Dawn Townsend

At a dinner

teaching at Lime Ridge, Pa.

teaching at Dallas, Pa.

is

at the Elks’

Club, Bloomsburg, held Friday

evening, October 9, Miss Rebecca Gilmore, of Bloomsburg, an-

announced her marriage

to

Roy

marriage took place Thursday,

The

Troy, of Nuremberg.

F.

May

28, 1931.

Mr. Troy

is

a

teacher in the schools of Nuremberg, where he and Mrs. Troy
are

now

living.

Miss Mary Flick, of Bloomsburg, is teaching in the Bloomsburg schools.
Miss Flick is also a member of the class of
1923, having been graduated from the two-year course in that
year.

Margaret

P.

Stewart

is

teaching at the River School, May-

berry Township, Montour County.

Marie W. Kelly

is

teacher of

fifth

grade

in the schools at

Vandergrift, Pa.

Harold Lanterman

Berwick High School.

is

teacher of General Science

in

the

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and Harvey Smith, of Bloomsburg, won the
in the Susquehanna Valley tennis tournament held at the Williamsport Tennis Club on August 30. The
tournament attracted players from many towns in Central
Robert

Sutliff

doubles championship

Pennsylvania.

William H. Weaver and Miss Minnie Kocher, of Bloomsburg, were married Wednesday,

Lloyd

Bomboy

cinity of

November 25, by

pastor of several Lutheran

Bloomsburg.

Mr. Weaver took

churches

the Rev. D.
in

summer work

the
at

York University immediately after his graduation, and is
teaching in the Madison Township Consolidated School,
Jersey.

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now
at

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MARCH, 1932
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

DANIEL

S.

HARTLINE

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol.

MARCH, 1932

33

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.
F.

FENSTEMAKER, T2

H. JENKINS, ’76

-

-

-

-

Editor-In-Chief

Business Manager

-

Daniel S. Hartline
There are four or

who were

members

five

members

of the present faculty,

up under
J. Waller. When Alumni Day comes
around each year, bringing hundreds of Bloomsburg Alumni
back to the campus to visit familiar scenes, and to renew old
also

of the splendid facu’ty built

the administration of Dr. D.

friendships,

it

is

these old friends that are sought eagerly, as

oases in the desert of unfamiliar faces.

They are

the connect-

ing links that join the present to the past.

have passed since Dr. Waller retired from
place. The returning alumnus
seeks out familiar spots, and is unable to find them. He tries to
find the stairway that once led from the bridge to the first floor
of Carver Hall, and finds that it is gone. He enters the main
entrance of Waller Hall, and, instead of narrow corridors, he
In the days that

office,

many changes have taken

finds a spacious lobby.

He goes

to Noetling Hall to see again

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where he did

the place
full

of typewriters.

the p'aces

dence of

He

his student teaching

2

and

finds a

room

climbs to the top of Science Hall to see

where Philo and

Callie held forth,

and

finds

no

evi-

their existence.

had to be. As soon as a living organism ceases to
no longer living. The old wears out, and must be
replaced. The progress of education demands constant readapAll this

change,

it

is

tations to the needs of the hour.

There are, however, many evidences of the Bloomsburg
Normal School that was. Not all of the familiar spots are
gone, and great is the feeling of elation when one comes upon
a spot that has familiar and pleasant associations.
But most of the familiar faces that once were seen behind
the professor’s desk are gone. One looks in vain for Professor
Cope, with alert step, and Professor Wilbur with his twinkling
eye. Dr. Waller, Professors Jenkins, Bakeless and Albert have
retired, but are always on hand when the Alumni come back,
and warm is the welcome that they receive.
The purpose of this article, however, is to say a word of
State

tribute to a

man who

is still

in the harness.

He

giving to

is still

your Alma Mater the same high type of devoted service that he
has always been giving since he began work here in 890.
1

This

man

is

Professor Daniel

S.

Hartline, universally rec-

ognized as a scholar and an outstanding teacher

in his field.

was born September 6, 866, in Reading, Berks County, Penna., and attended public school there, as
well as in Oley, Earl and Douglass townships. He then entered
the Pottstown high school, and subsequently taught public
school four years in Berks and Chester counties. Then he entered the West Chester Normal School, from which he was graduated in June, 1890. In September of the same year he came
to Bloomsburg, where he organized the manual training department. In September, 1893, he began a course at Lafayette
Daniel

S.

Hartline

1

1

from that institution in 1897.
Returning then to the Bloomsburg State Normal School, he has
since been on its teaching staff, and has done notable work in
College, Easton, Pa., graduating

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3

the promotion of

its

best activities, the broadening of

its

of influence, and the awakening of popular interest in

He organized

jects.

tinued in
line

scope

its

ob-

Department of Biology and has concharge of the same. During 1901-92 Professor Hartthe

gave considerab'e time

to study abroad, at the Universities

up work necessary to obtain a
doctorate. He is an able scholar, and his concentration and
conscientious preparation have made him highly proficient in
his chosen line. His efforts are much appreciated by his studies
and fellow educators, who recognize the worth of his work.
During the reorganization of Pennsylvania’s System of Education and the organization of the State Teacher’s Colleges out
of results and materials and showings from the State Normal
Schools, Mr. Hartline was offered the opportunity to organize
and take charge of the Bio’ogical Work in the State Normal
of Heidelberg and Bonn, taking

School

in

Because of connections
Twice he accepted op-

Bellingham, Washington.

made here he

felt

he ought not

portunity to teach there in

to leave.

Summer

Sessions.

During the same period he was twice given opportunity to
accept the office of Head of Department of Biology in a prominent, well-established Liberal Arts College in Oregon, but de-

same grounds. He accepted the opportun ty offered by our College to attend New York University, during leave
of absence in Summer Session, to study the development and

clined on the

trends in his teaching

He served

field.

as President of the Pennsylvania

Academy

of

Science during the term 1930-31.

He is a member of the Honorary Professional Fraternity,
Kappa Phi Kappa, Beta Chapter, Lefayette College, and of the
Bloomsburg Rotary Club. The 1930 Obiter was dedicated to
Prof. Hartline.

On August

1897, Professor Hartline married Harriet Franklin Keffer, daughter of Prof. Washington Keffer, of
Lancaster, Pa., and they have one son, Haldan Keffer, of whom
they have ample reason to be proud. A brief account of the
26th,

achievements of Keffer Hartline,

now

Dr. Hartline, follows:

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4

be remembered by the Bloomsburg studBoy Scout in the days
county
institution
was struggling for
when that now thriving
reorganization; as president of his class of 1921 in the B. S.
N. S.
as a graduate of Lafayette College, class of 1923 with
Dr. Hartline will

ents of the early twenties as an ardent

;

Phi Beta

Kappa honors

;

as a student going through a four year

course at John Hopkins Medical School for his medical degree,

which was awarded, as were also election to the S’gma 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

John Hopkins University under a National Research

Council Fellowship and taking post-graduate courses in physics

and mathematics. Along with Biological Research he gave
oratory and lecture courses during
or in the

Woods

Summer

lab-

Sessions as instruct-

Hall Biological Laboratory.

He was awarded

a

fellowship in Medical Research by the Johnson Foundation of
the University of Pennsylvania which gave him the opportunity
to carry his studies

forward

in

the Universities of Leipzig

and

Munich, Germany.

Among
student

the

many happy

contacts of the

German

University

during his Wanderjahr, he had invitation as a

member

of the Physikalisches Institut die Universitat zu Leipzig to at-

tend the Einstein lecture at the University of Berlin, where he

met

Einstein under these favorable auspices.

He

returned from

Germany

in April,

1931, and joined the

faculty of the School of Medical Research of the University of

Pennsylvania as Fellow

in

Medical Research.

Hopkins post-graduate years he became associated, through his work in the Department of Physics, with a
In his Johns

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 did not accept. This association, however, resulted in visits to the Greenwich and Heidelberg astro-

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5

nomica] observatories and attendance at the meeting of the
British

Astronomical Association and

his election to

membership

of that body.

He
Research

is

now

a Staff

in Biophysics,

member

of the Medical Department of

Johnson Foundation for Medical Re-

search in the University of Pennsylvania.

He has

recently published two papers announcing original
Study of Vision, and is now engaged in assembling
materials for another publication of the results of his experifinds in the

ments.
o

Dr. Francis B. Haas, chairman of the scholarship commit-

Academy, has announced a $6,000
awarded this year to a Pennsylvania high

tee of the Culver Military

scholarship will be

school boy

who

has passed the ninth grade.

be held in March, with principals of the high schools to select one boy from each school.
Competitive examinations

will

In addition to Dr. Haas, the

members

of the committee

are: Dr. Francis M. Garver, of the University of Pennsylvania;

and Dr. Ben.

G.

Graham, superintendent of Pittsburgh

The examinations already have been arranged

schools.

for Allen-

town, Altoona, Chambersburg, Clearfield, Erie, Harrisburg, Indiana, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Shamokin,

Uniontown and Warren.

The

six

boys ranking highest

in the

examination

will

be

taken to a university for a period of entertainment where their
capacity for leadership and social adjustments can be observed.

The scholarship will be based on these
scholarship and health.

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capabilities as well as

DAY—SATURDAY, MAY

21

cn

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John
In the death of Dr.

Market

J.

6>

Brown

John Jordan Brown

at his

home on

Saturday morning, January 2nd, there passed away one of Bloomsburg’s best known
Street, shortly after five o’clock

and physicians and one whose

citizens

life

had been

closely

linked with that of the town through several generations.
Dr.

Brown was a member

Brown
31,1 848,
Brown, a member of a family that had intiof the o'd established

family of Mifflin township, where he was born March
the son of Elisha B.

mate and honorable connections with the history of that region
for almost 40 years, and which had been in America since the
day of James Brown, the doctor’s great-great-grandfather.
1

Brown received his early education in the select
schools of his home district, and then took a course at Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport. He graduated from that instituDr.

tion in

1867. After teaching school for two terms, he entered

Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he gradu-

ated

in

tice the

March, 1870, with the degree of M. D. He began pracsame year in Mifflinville, where he continued for seven-

teen years. Since then he resided and practiced

During

his regular

in

Bloomsburg.

course at college he took a special course

in

888 he took a special course on the
in
eye at the New York Polyclinic. That fitted him for the work
in which he specialized throughout the remaining years, and

operative surgery, and

made him

the best

1

known eye

specialist in this part of the state.

During the last few years, however, he had practically retired
from practice. He was for years the ophthalmologist at the

Bloomsburg Hospital and

at the Danville Hospital for the In-

sane.
In his earlier years he was a director of the Bloomsburg
Water Company and a trustee of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School. He was one of the first stockholders of the Farmers
National Bank of Bloomsburg and upon the death of Charles M.
Creveling succeeded to the presidency of the board of directors.

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7

Prior to that time he had been vice president.

He was

member

of the Methodist Episcopal Church from
and for many years was trustee of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Bloomsburg.
Fraternally, he was a member of Washington Lodge 265,
F. & A. M., of Bloomsburg; Bloomsburg Chapter, No. 218, R.
A. M.
Crusade Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar; Caldwell Consistory, and Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre.
In 1880 Dr. Brown married Mary S. Brands, daughter of
David F. Brands, of Hackettstown, N. J. Her death occurred
August 13, 1907. His only survivors are two sisters: Misses
Mary and Martha Brown, who resided with him.
Funeral services were held at his late home on Market
Street and his own pastor. Rev. Harry F. Babcock, officiated.
Burial was made in Rosemont cemetery.

a

the days of his youth,

;

o

A

Bloomsburg that ordinarily is not
considered as such, is the State Teachers College, where at the
present time, in addition to student he’p, one hundred and fifty
persons are employed. A varying number of students is employed, mostly in the dining room, and their number now is
sizeable industry in

about seventy-five.

The
fiscal

payroll for employees of the school during the present

year

is

$265,000 and

the total allocation

is

$377,00, the

difference covering other expenses of running the institution

other than wages.

During the

last fiscal year,

approximately $180,000 was

spent in Bloomsburg by the department of property and supplies,

and

this

year there has been allocated $25,000 for three

gymnasium, a projection booth in
tower and freight lift.
Practically all of the employes of the school are residents
in the community, and there is a considerable expenditure other
than salaries which is spent locally. This includes fuel and most
of the food supplies with the exception of canned goods.

projects, the addition to the

the auditorium

and a

fire

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Report of Alumni “Trophy”
Total

amount subscribed

to

the project

8

Room Fund

by

Classes

who held Reunions in 1929, 1930, and 1931
Amount still outstanding of this subscription
Amount expended thus far in furnishing the room
Amount of indebtedness on the room
Money received, and hereby acknowledged,
mencement of 1931 and
where possible).
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class

of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of

since.

(In

all

cases receipts

1931
1924
1921
1920
1916
1911
1910
1909
1907
1906
1905
1901 and 1902
1895
1891
1886
1885
1883
1881
1879
1876

$300.00
$ 19.00
$ 32.00
7.00
$
$ 26.00

$128.00
$ 50.00
$ 31.00
5.00
$
$ 38.00
1.00
$
8.00
$
$

$107.00
$ 10 00
5.00
$

$125.00
500
$
$ 10.00

(Unknown)

$

14.00

$969.00

Following Classes are
1879
1886
1894
1899
1905
1906
1910
1911
1915
1920

36.00

$ 12.00

Total

Class

$2567.83
$ 618.72
$3160.88
$1300.00
at Comwere given

Subscribed
$ 21.00
114.00
108.00
50.00
100.00
100.00
150.00
132.00
70.00
100.00

still

back on

their Subscription

Paid
$ 19.00
107.00
61.50
39.00
37.50
48.00
51.00
128.00
66.00
20.00

Unpaid
$

2.00
7.00
46.50
11.00
62.50
52.00

99.00
4.00
4.00
80.00

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1925
1927
1929

30.00
250.00
35.00

26.00
25 00

225 00

19.00

16.00

4.00

Total outstanding

To

the Classes

$613.00

still in

arrears on their subscriptions to the

“Trophy Room Fund”:
If

your president, or some aggressive members of your
up the matter of your deficit with your respective
your records will soon be cleared, to the satisfaction of

classes, take
classes,

yourselves, and those of us

work

who have been

of completing the Alumni project.

your self-assumed obligations. Help us

put

in

charge of the
complete

Get to work
to finish

;

what has been

so well begun.
Respectfully,

February

1932.

1,

0. H. Bakeless,

Custodian and Treasurer.

—

o

The following are the enrollment

figures for the

second

semester of the present College year:

—

Boarding
Women 263 (10 in Berwick), (233 in the
Dorm.). Day
(MO Reg. Day), (33 Saturday). Total
173,
436.

—

Boarding

Men— 104,

Total of

men and women

Dorm.), (33 in Town).
Day
(89 Reg. Day), (53 Saturday), (45 Non. Res.
159
Day). Total 263.

—

It

will

(71

in

students

is

699.

be noted that the above figures include eighty-eight

who are taking work at the College in coursby the Faculty every Saturday morning. There are
also forty-five men whose home are not in Bloomsburg, and
who are being accommodated in private homes in town. This
is due to the fact that North Hall is no longer large enough to
accommodate all the men.
teachers in service
es given

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Campus Notes
The Fifth Annual College Night program of the Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs was held at the College, Thursday evening, January 28 th.
There was repeated the success scored in previous programs at the College, and the dinner and brief program in the
dining hall was followed by a delightful entertainment in the
auditorium and dancing in the gymnasium.
Seated at the speakers’ table were: Dr. and Mrs. F. B.
Haas, Dr. and Mrs. James N. Rule, Dr. David J. Waller, Jr.,
Rev. and Mrs. H. F. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Wright,
William W. Evans and Miss Mary Evans.
William W. Evans, president of the Rotary Club, presided
during the dinner, and there was spirited singing directed by E.
H. Ent, of the Kiwanis Club, and W. S. Swingler, of the Rotary
Club. The Maroon and Gold Orchestra furnished a program of
music during the dinner.
The program afforded many in the audience their first
experience with the use of the amplifying system that has been
installed in the dining room, and the fact that the speakers
could be heard clearly in all parts of the large dining room
added much to the enjoyment of the program.
The Kiwanis double quartette delighted with several selections.

Following the menu, toastmaster Mr. Evans introduced
Dr.

James

N. Rule, Superintendent of Public Instruction, calling

attention to the fact that
sors also

were seated

two of the superintendent’s predeces-

at the speaker’s table.

Dr. Rule brought greetings

from the

state at large

and

expressed his pleasure at coming to Bloomsburg.

“You have here,” he said, “a rare spirit of co-operation
and mutual helpfulness that is found in few cities.” He believed
that spirit was due to the co-operation of the service clubs.
“The community is fortunate in its educational leader-

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ship,” he said, declaring that County Superintendent Evans

is

‘one of the best county superintendents the state has ever

when advice was sought on rural
was consulted.
He paid tribute to Dr. Haas as “one of the outstanding
leaders of the field,” and that Bloomsburg and the College were
fortunate that he could render such fine service to the community and to the whole state.
Bloomsburg is ‘‘very fortunate in the fine type of real
leadership” exemplified in Dr. Garwood, superintendent of the
town schools. Dr. Rule said.
The state, the superintendent said, is very proud of Dr.
had.”

Dr. Rule said that

school problems, Mr. Evans

Waller.

Dr. Rule paid tribute to the former principal of the

Teachers College, for

his leadership

and

fine service

and pre-

sented to him a bouquet of roses as a tribute from the gathering.

Mr. Evans presented roses to Mrs. Haas, Prof. 0. H. Bakeless

presented a similar bouquet to Mrs. Rule, and E. H. Nelson

made

the presentation to Mrs. Babcock.
Dennis Wright, president of Kiwanis, presided during the

later part of the

program, and introduced Rev. Babcock, who

spoke briefly on ‘‘The Place of Service Clubs in a Community.”
With the singing of the ‘‘Star Spangled Banner,” the program in the d ning room closed, and the guests went to the
auditorium where the following program was presented
Luscomb.
Overture, March, Praetorian Guard
Maroon and Gold Orchestra, direction H. F. Fenstemaker.

Maroon and Gold, H.

F.

and

F.

College Chorus.

H.

Direction Miss Harriet Moore.

Swedish Folk Songs

The

Miller’s

Wooing

Louis Victor Saar.

Eaton Faning.

Girls’ Glee Club, direction Miss Jessie A. Patterson.

Accompanist, Mrs. John Ketner Miller.
Robert E. Clark
Three for Jack, Squire
College Chorus.
Vesper Hymn, Russian Air
Wing Tee Wee, O’Hara; There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the

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Lake, double quartet, direction Miss Harriett M.
Moore. Accompanist, Miss Frances Evans. Karl L. Getz,
Robert A. Brown, Wilbur J. Jibbard, Thomas Beag'e,
William E. Letterman, Gordon Cullen, Sheldon C. Kingsbury, Wilbur L. Hower.
One act play, So’s Your Old Antique, Clare Kummer. Scene,
an antique shop in New York City. Players, Dick Barlow,
Jack Hall; Sally Barlow, Mildred Rabb; Mrs. Pettis, MinSea,

William,
nie Howeth;
Mr. Malster, Edward Jenkins;
Thomas Coursen. Presented by Alpha Omega Fraternity,
direction Miss Alice Johnston.

Prelude, L’Arlesienne, Suite No.

Bizet.

1

Maroon and Gold Orchestra.
Cadman.
Chorus, Chorus from Tannhauser, Wagner, Andrews,

Service
Pilgrim’s

Men’s Glee Club, direction Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Dance: Liebesfreud, Kreisler,

Violin solo. Old Viennese Folk

Karl Getz.
Gloria,

Mrs. John Ketner Miller, accompanist.

From Twelfth Mass, Mozart

College Chorus.

Youth,

Spirit of

Sordillo.

Maroon and Gold Band,
Alma Mater, J. H. Dennis

direction Russell Llewellyn.

Audience and Chorus.
Maroon and Gold Band.

March, Flying Colors, Myers _
o

and Dr. Francis Haas were among the
in Washington on February
connection with the annual meeting of the Department

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,

speakers at the Pennsylvania dinner

22nd,

in

of Superintendence of the National Education Association.
Dr. Haas, as president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, presided at the dinner,

Kelly

was

and Congressman Clyde

the principal speaker.

o

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Dr. Francis B.

Haas was elected president of the Pennsyl-

vania State Education Association at the annual convention held
in December.
Haas was elected over John C. Diehl, superintendent
of Erie schools, and succeeds M. S. Bentz, of Ebensburg, who
becomes first vice president.
Dr. Haas is also chairman of the committee on legislation

in

Pittsburgh
Dr.

in the state’s ten

year educational program.
o

Two

employes of the Teachers’ College have recently gone

on the pension

list

of state employes.

They are the first employes, other than the teaching staff,
to be affected by the state employes’ retirement fund.
Russel P. McHenry, of 454 East Third Street, groundsman
on the campus for more than thirty years, and R. E. Yocum, a
building janitor, of East First Street, are the two who ended
their years of faithful service.

Both have been employed by the college for more than
Mr. Young is past seventy years of age, and Mr.

thirty years,

McHenry, who actively

belies his years, will celebrate his nine-

ty-third anniversary on April 29.

State employes

who were

here going over the records as

a formality to approving the retirement of the two men, were

amazed when they learned Mr. McHenry’s age,
questioned whether he was more than in his early

as they

had

seventies.

Both of the men have remained in exceptionally good
was no impairment of their faculties as they
continued their work up to the day of their retirement.
health and there

o

One

of the finest

Bloomsburg audience
violincellist, in the

and most

in

artistic recitals

presented to a

some time was given by

Felix Salmond,

College

artists’

course, on Friday evening.

January 29th.
Both the soloist and Ra'ph Beckowitz, his accompanist,
proved real artists and an enthusiastic audience enjoyed their
diversified program.

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The annual Christmas dinner for the students, faculty and
members of the board of trustees of the Teachers College was
held Tuesday evening, December 22nd, in the college dining
room.

and daughter, of Berwick; A. Z. Schoch,
McKelvey, Paul E. Wirt, Mrs. Pauline Roche, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Townsend, of town; and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl,
of Danville, were the trustees and their ladies who attended.
A delightful menu was served, and the Maroon and Gold
Orchestra furnished an enjoyed program of music. Prof. E. A.
Reams led in the singing of Christmas songs, and Miss Lenore
Potter, a member of the freshman class, delighted with a readDr. E. A. Glenn

Mrs. M.

S.

ing.

Santa Claus appeared with
ties”

on the

gifts for

a few of the “celebri-

hill.

In the auditorium,

following the dinner. Miss Marjorie

Keith Stackhouse delighted with the reading,

in

her usual capa-

ble manner, of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.”

o
Forty-four teachers and administrators in schools and colleges of the district

the

first

have reported

at the

Teachers College for

classes in a post-graduate course in philosophy of edu-

cation which

being given by Dr. A. H. Hall-Quest, of the edu-

is

cational department of

extension

work

New York

University, as part of the

of that institution.

Bloomsburg is the extension center of the university for
and there is a strong probability that there will be
more than fifty enrolled for the course which will make the
class the largest of any in the University’s extension work. Dr.
Nell Maupin, of the College, and Dr. C. H. Garwood, of the
town schools, were active in organizing the class.
Dr. Hall-Quest outl ned the course and discussions will
follow during the fifteen weeks the course will continue.

this section,

It

is

the

first

time that a post graduate course has ever

been offered here and is regarded by educators as a forward
step in this section. Through extension work, they explain, it

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will

be possible for those seeking master’s and doctor’s degrees

to take half of the

work

Bloomsburg.

in

o

About two hundred day students,

and memwarming held at the

their parents

bers of the faculty, attended the house

rooms for the day student girls in Noetling hall, Friday evening,
th, and the guests were very much delighted with
this fine improvement.
The rooms were inspected between seven and eight
o’clock in the evening and a much enjoyed program followed

December

1

1

auditorium

in the

in

Carver Hall.

The present quarters
and

for the girls are

on the

over the old quarters. The main room

very large and

is

fortably furnished for a lounge or study room.
is

first

floor,

they are comfortably furnished, being a vast improvement

a small room where day students

the other side

day student

is

may

To

is

com-

the one side

and on
Ransom, the dean of

eat their lunch

the office for Miss Ethel

girls.

o

A number
gram

of educators

from

this vicinity

for the Northeastern District of the

were on the pro-

Pennsylvania State

Education Association convention at Hazleton, on March 4 and
5.

On

Friday afternoon, March 4, Miss Mary T. Haden, diand primary education at the Teachers

rector of kindergarten

College, spoke on suggestions for training faculties

from the

viewpoint of student teacher at work, and Miss Edna Hazen,
director of intermediate education, led a discussion on some
teacher training problems.

Friday evening, Dr. Haas, president of the Teachers College; Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president of Bucknell; and Dr. J.
N. Rule, state superintendent, were among the speakers.
In

“Knots

the
in

science

section.

Prof.

D.

S.

Hartline spoke

on

Science Teaching for Public Education.”

In the Latin section. Prof. Hartline

spoke on “What the

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Teacher of Science Owes

16

to Latin.”

Dr. T. P. North, of the Teachers College,

spoke on

social

problems of the supervisor of agriculture.
Prof. H. A. Andruss, director of the department of commerce at the Teachers College, spoke on ‘‘Recent Trends of

Secondary Schools.”
o
New heights were achieved by the Men’s Glee Club of the
College when they presented an outstanding program in their
fourth annual concert in the col'ege auditorium on Friday evening, December 4th, under the direction of Miss Harriet M.
Moore.

Commercial Education

in

Chorus numbers, together with those by the double quarand the Campus Crooners, were given in a manner that delighted the audience, and the club was compelled to give severtet

al

encores.

The advancement of the club has been rapid since its orit has become one of the outstanding groups on the hill. The program presented was one
which reflected much credit on the club and the institution.
ganization four years ago and

o

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd paid his second visit to
Bloomsburg on February 4th, to address nearly two thousand
persons at two meetings in the afternoon and evening.
School children who have grown out of their cradles since
he detailed here his experiences on the North Pole flight, were

numbered among the afternoon audience
auditorium at the Teachers College, and

that filled the large

adults

crowded the

auditorium for the evening meeting.

Brought here jointly by the Kiwanis and the College, Admiral Byrd was presented in the afternoon by Dr. Francis Haas,
president of the Teachers Co'lege, and presented Eagle Scout
badges to Robert Goodman and Edwin Creasy, two Bloomsburg

Boy Scouts. Scout Executive Blake and G. Edward Elwell,
chairman of the Kiwanis committee, also were on the platform.
School children from throughout the county attended the

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afternoon lecture, hundreds of them being in the audience of
nearly

1

,000.

Many were accompanied by

their arrival in

schools

groups indicated that

were making the

trip to

in

their teachers,

some

and

instances entire

Bloomsburg.

Striking comparisons of conditions

between the North and

South Polar areas were given, and one of the most interesting
features, to

many, was the graphic manner

in

which the photo-

graphs showed the inability to correctly judge distances

in

Ant-

arctica.

Byrd was presented by G. Edward
chairman of the Kiwanis committee, and Dennis

In the evening Admiral
Elwell, Jr.,

Wright expressed the thanks of the club and the college for the
fine

attendance.

More than 400 of the afternoon aud ence came from out
town and included mostly school children, while several hundred of the evening audience also were from out of town.
of

o
In the presence of students of the Teachers College

number

and a

of the parents and friends of children of the Benjamin

Franklin Training School, the children, at the assembly exercises in the

program

aduitorium on February 19, presented a very
“A Song, Dance, and Play Contest.”

fine

entitled

Children of the intermediate grades presented the entertainment, which

was based on

folk songs

and dances which the
was arranged by

children studied in geography classes and

those directing the activities in those grades: Miss
en, director of intermediate

education;

director of music; Miss Lucy

McCammon,

education and Miss Alice Johnston

in

Edna

J.

Haz-

Miss Harriet Moore,
director of physical

charge of speech.

The program opened with two children looking at a picbook and wishing that they might see real people sing,
dance and play as those activtites are related in the book. Then
followed the main program made up of delightful scenes presented by the children in costume.
The sixth grade, of which Mrs. Etta Keller is the teacher,
gave its part of the program with Miss Louise Strunk directing.
ture

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They sang “Bonnie Charlie” and gave

18

the dance

“Highland

Schottische.”

The English song “Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid”
was dramatized by Betty Purcell and Nelson Oman. This was
followed by the English dance “If All the World Were Paper.”
Final number given by the sixth grade was the song “Jack Tar”
and a dance “The Irish Jig.”
The next part of the program was given by the fifth grade
of which Miss

Anna Garrison

directed the children.

lows:

“Come

is

the teacher.

Miss Venita Pizer

Their part of the program was as

fol-

song “Fairies” by the entire grade; German dance,
Let Us Be Joyful”; Hungarian song “Gypsy Forge”;

Italian song, “Tic-e-tice-lac”

The

last

part of the

;

Italian

dance “Tarantella.”

program was presented by the fourth

grade of which Miss Helen Carpenter

is

the teacher.

This part

program opened with an American song “Char the
Kitchen.” This was followed by the “Virginia Reel.” Then came
the dramatization of the song “A Frog He Would a Wooing
Go”. The program closed with the singing of “Minuet” after
which a group of e ght chi dren danced the minuet.
of the

o
Dr. Francis B.

Haas and

Dr.

James

N.

Rule were guests at

the annual banquet of the Philadelphia Teachers’ Association

on Thursday evening, February 18th, at the Penn Athletic
Club. There were 2100 teachers present. The speakers, in ad-

Haas and Dr. Rule were the city superintendent.
Broome, and Dr. Joy Morgan, of Washington, editor of the

dition to Dr.

Dr.

N. E. A. Journal.

o
Prof. H. A. Andruss represented the Teachers College in

the house of delegates at the State Education Association meeting

which was held

in Pitsburgh.

He was

elected president of

the commercial section in the secondary education department.

o

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Athletics
The

basketball season ended on Saturday,

March

5.

season opened with a victory over the A'umni on December

The
1

2.

Then followed a game at Indiana on December 18, when the
Bloomsburg team was beaten. Indiana, however, was later defeated on the Bloomsburg court. Oddly enough, Shippensburg
and Lock Haven defeated Bloomsburg at Bloomsburg, but each
team suffered defeat in the return games on their home floors.
East Stroudsburg took both games played, but Mansfield divided victories. The complete schedule follows:

Home
December

12,

Alumni

Won

January 22, East Stroudsburg
January 23, Shipensburg
January 29, Lock Haven

Lost

January 30, Indiana
February 6, Millersville
February 13, Mansfield

Won

Lost

Lost

Lost

Won

Away
December

18, Indiana

January 9, Shippensburg
February 12, Lock Haven
February 26, Mansfield
February 27, East Stroudsburg

March
The team

3, Millersville

Lost

Won
Won
Lost
Lost

Lost

be congratulated for its showing.
There remained from last year’s State Championship team two
of the regulars, to form a nucleus for this year’s squad. These
two boys, however, decided to turn professional, and this left
Coach Booth with the difficult problem of developing an entirely new team to play a schedule that was no set-up. Those who
have seen the team play say that the College has never had a
team with better fighting spirit. Handicapped as the boys were
by inexperience, they overcame it all with gameness, and have
made a record worthy of congratulation.
this

year

is

to

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Besides the regular Varsity schedule, the Junior Varsity

played a six-game schedule.

An

intramural league of eight

teams was also formed. One night each week was given over
to this group of about sixty-five boys, four games being p'ayed
each evening. At the close of the “round robin” tournament,
four teams had tied for first place. Just now a play-off is being
carried on among the upper four teams in the league, to determine first, second, and third place, and a similar scheme is being
used to determine places

in the

lower division.

Much

interest

has been manifested in this intramural program, as well as in a
triple “round rob n” tournament in volley ball, with four teams
competing every Wednesday evening.
During the winter months, four evenings each week have
been given over to basket ball for girls. There ha$ been definite
organization for playing through two separate schedules. The
upper class group of ten teams played two afternoons each
week, and the Freshman group of twelve teams played the
other two afternoons devoted to this program. Girls playing
on these teams earn points leading to definite numeral, letter,
and chevron awards.
The eleventh annual invitation high school basketball
tournament will be played March 5, March 1, and March 12.
Fourteen schools have asked to enter, but only eight can be
accommodated. It is planned to organize a Class A and Class
B rating next year, and thus provide a larger and better balanced tournament.
1

E. H. Nelson.

o
Miss Jeanne Christy, a

member

of the national

visory staff of the Girl Scouts of America,

was

in

camp

ad-

Bloomsburg

January and gave two separate courses of five meetings each,
one in the afternoon from four to six o’clock to College students interested in the work and another in the evening from
7:30 to 9:30 o’clock in room L at Waller Hall to women of
the town who are interested in the Girl Scouts.
in

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The Philadelphia Alumni
The second annual banquet

of the Philadelphia Alumni

Association of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, will be held
at

Adams’,

1

3th and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia, April

6:30

M. in the form of an informal dinner dance.
be sent out in the near future. Reservations for
tickets should be made through the secretary, Jennie Yoder
Foley, 8134 Hennig Street, Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pa.
Included among those who are expected to attend will be
members of the faculty, and other men and women of prominence in educational, professional, and industrial circles. We
sincerely hope that Dr. Waller, Dr. Haas, and the professors
who were with us last year, can come again this year.
At our banquet last May 9th, we had the largest representation of any initial gathering of any alumni group of the college. This year we hope to have an even larger attendance.
As at our banquet last year, each alumnus is requested to
bring any pictures or mementoes of his or her school days to
refresh their memories of the days “On Normal Hill.”
Any Bloomsburg alumnus with their families or friends is
welcome, but reservations should be made very soon.
Come and be boys and girls again with us just for “Auld
Lang Syne.”
Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, President.
Per J. Y. F.
luncheon
meeting of the Philadelphia
The first monthly
Bloomsburg Alumni Association was held from 1:30 to 3:30
December 12, in the Paul Revere room of Gimbel’s Restaurant
with thirty-one present, twenty-eight of whom were alumni, the
other three being either friends or relatives, and as these luncheons are given for the purpose of working up and keeping up
Bloomsburg spirit, we want the Alumni to feel free to bring
their relatives or friends with them. Considering the busy season, we were grateful to have so many present.
23rd, at

Invitations will

P.

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After the luncheon, our President Mrs. Norman G. Cool,
requested each one present to become a committee of one to

own classmates, and to try to interest as
come to the luncheons, which will be held
second Saturday of each month up to and including the

work up

many
the

lists

of their

as possib’e to

March meeting

at the

same

place.

Almost every one present

volunteered to become a committee of one, thus insuring decid-

ed success for the annual meeting to be held April 30th.
Several of our members suggested others, among classes
not represented at the meeting who, they felt certain, would be
g'ad to work on their class lists, and to these we are very grateful.

Two

splendid examples of cooperation were

by Miss Catherine

P. Boyle, of Philadelphia,

of the meeting to the

News

who

shown

first,

sent a notice

Letter, a publication of interest to

Philadelphia teachers, and also had published a story of our an-

same magazine. The second inand Miss Reip, Hatboro teachers,
who brought in two graduates, teachers from Nanticoke, who
were spending the week end with them. These are the things
which are so helpful and which will tend to make our infant
organization grow from year to year to a strong association of
which our Alma Mater may feel proud.
Several alumni who did not have time to stay for the
luncheon, just dropped in to say “Hello” to their classmates and
acquaintances and we want anyone to feel free to do the same
if they cannot stay for the whole meeting. And most important
of all, we again stressed the need of every member of the association not only to subscribe to the Alumni Quarterly themselves, but to urge their classmates and other alumni friends to
do the same. Those of us who do subscribe find it very helpful
in locating old classmates and in keeping in touch with the doings on “College Hill” as well as other interesting facts presented in this newsy publication.
We were de.ighted to greet the baby member of our ornual banquet in May, in the
stance,

was

that of Miss Hill

ganization, class of 1931, Miss Esther Yeager, niece of Profes-

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sor Hartline, as well as her mother, Mrs. Mandilla Hartline Yeager, at this meeting.

The annual spring meeting
place as last year, Adam’s,

probably be held the same

will

13th and Spring Garden Streets,

Philadelphia.

Jennie Yoder Fo'ey, Secretary.

8134 Hennig
Fox

Street,

Chase, Philadelphia, Pa.

(Mrs. Foley wishes any Alumnus to feel free to write for

any desired information concerning

this

organization).

* * * *

Our second Bloomsburg luncheon was held at Gimbels,
January 9th, 1932, with our President, Mrs. Cool in the chair.
After congratulating us on the fine attendance, considering the
terrible state of the weather, our chairman appointed the following members as Hostesses for the next luncheon
Mrs. Nora

—

Woodring Kenney, Mrs. Harriet Shuman Burr, Mrs. Edwina
Weyland Brouse. Seven other members were appointed to get
in touch with five or ten other Alumni who have not as yet attended these meetings, and to tell them of these informal luncheons which they can plan to attend, or to look us up if they happen

to

be

visiting or

shopping

in

Philadelphia at the time. These

appointees are as follows— Mrs. Harriet

Shuman

Burr, Mrs. J.

F. McDonnell, Mrs. Julia Sharpless Fegley, Mrs. Louella Burd-

ick Sinquett, Miss Catherine A. Malloy, Miss Catherine Boyle

and Dr. Klingaman.
Our President then asked if any one in our group has access to a mimeographing machine and could do some work for
our Association. Prof. Klingaman volunteered to do all he could
in that respect.

The need of having the Alumni Quarterly in the hands of
every Alumnus was again stressed. It was also stated that Professors Jenkins and Fenstemaker would be very grateful to receive any news items of interest to the Alumni.
In speaking of the second annual banquet, it was decided

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to hold the affair April 23rd, at the

same place

24

as last year,

Adam’s, 13th and Spring Garden Streets. All things relative to
expenditures are to be kept in moderation.
Mrs. Cool then asked for any other suggestions. None
were made. A newspaper article telling of Dr. Haas’ election
as President of the Pennsylvania Education Association was
then read by our chairman.

The minutes of the preceeding meeting were read and approved without any corrections, after which there was a brief
intermission.

Klingaman, of Ursinus College, then gave us a short
He stated that the great difference between
these Alumni gatherings and others which he attended, was that
we eliminated any tendencies to inf uence the methods of teaching by Bloomsburg professors and that we did not interfere with
the running of College affairs. Our organization, he emphosized, stands for every good purpose and is an encouragement to
the teach ng profession. Dr. Klingaman also affirmed that there
were too many people in our Colleges who are not students, but
who attend merely for the social life and prestige it affords
Dr.

but interesting talk.

them.

he remarked that we, as a body, are interested
its growth and well
being also, as well as the present day affairs of our Alma Mater.
We all enjoyed his sincere and earnest address and we appreciate his hearty cooperation in these luncheon meetings.
In closing,

not only in the past of the College, but in

Mrs. Cool then closed the meeting by asking each one of

Alumnus and to call up or write to others
remind them of our delightful gatherings. After a short time
of renewing old ties, we adjourned to meet again February 13,
at the same time and place.
us to bring in another
to

Respectfully submitted,

Jennie Yoder Foley, Secretary.

* * * *

Our

third luncheon meeting,

February 13th, was opened

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25

with our President, Mrs. Cool,

in

the chair.

There were

thirty-

seven present, four guests, and thirty-three members.

which followed, we noted members from
1924 report “present.” In computing
the number of individual Alumni attending these three meetings
we found it reached fifty-one; so that with fifty-one interested
members cooperating we ought to have a splendid time at our

At the

roll call

the classes to

1888

to

annual banquet, April 23rd.

Mr.

J.

Howard Patterson, U.
He presented the idea

S.

Commissioner, was then

up a Commencement Day Party for the annual foregathering of Alumni at the
College on May 2 st. He stated that we want to show the Faculty that “the Philadelphia Alumni are very much alive.” He
also suggested that those having cars should be willing to take
those who hadn’t any, and he offered to take several in his own
car. The Commencement Day Party idea was very favorably
called upon.

of getting

1

received.

Mrs.

J. F.

meeting place.

McDonnell then advised us to have a common
Such place is to be decided upon at the next

meeting, March 12th.
Mrs. Cool appointed the following committee to plan the
trip: Mr. J. Howard Patterson, Chairman; Mrs. J.
McDonnell, Mrs. Harriet Shuman Burr, Mrs. Sabilla Shobert

Bloomsburg
F.

Campbell, Mr. Chester McAfee, Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley.

Those who wish to take
any one on the Committee.

The

this trip

are to give their names to

Secretary’s report of the last luncheon meeting

read and approved.

Mrs. Cool then stated that those

who

was
de-

sired to do so could pay their dues t£ the Secretary after the
meeting and that the tickets for the banquet could also be purchased from the same person if any one so desired either today
or whenever they were ready to do so.
Mention was then made of the trip to Washington at cherry blossom time, to be sponsored by the Garden Slubs of the
Deleware County Federation of Women’s Clubs of which Federation our fellow alumnus, Mrs. Annie Miller Melick is the Pres-

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ident.

Our President, Mrs. Cool, then introduced to us Mrs. Nina
Tague Frantz, class of ’95, State President of the W. C. T. U. of
New Jersey and also a member of the National Board, whom
we were delighted and honored to greet as a fellow alumnus.
We regret to record that Mrs. Annie Melick, President of the
Delaware County Federation of Women’s Clubs, and well and
favorably known among clubwomen throughout Pennsylvania,
and who was to have been our speaker on this occasion, couid
not be present because of the serious illness of her husband.

we were very fortunate to have Mrs. Frantz, a woman of
same high character as Mrs. Melick, to consent so graciously
to give us an impromptu address in Mrs. Melick’s stead. Though
she came to the meeting, not expecting to be called upon to
speak to us, Mrs. Frantz very ably and pleasantly filled Mrs.
But
the

Melick’s place.

Mrs. Frantz told how the preparation she had had at
Bloomsburg influenced her whole after life through the example
and teachings of Miss Elissa Purley, who founded “The Loyal
Temperance Union” at the School. “That organization,” she
sa:d, “had spun a thread which wove its way all through my life
and influenced me to choose my life’s work with the W. C. T.
U.” She told us of some of the disheartening things which one

meets

in

such a work as well as of the

many

achieved. She also spoke of her work, not only

population of the state, but

among

the

splendid results

among

young

the adult

folks as well,

teaching them stewardship and citizenship, so that they can
help change some of the deporable conditions in their towns.

She stated here that she wanted them to remember that “Life
is not a goblet to be drained but a measure to be filled.”
In closing her interesting and instructive address she prophesied “In twenty-five years the Prohibition Question will be
just as settled as is the Question of Slavery today. Let us meet
in

twenty-five years and talk

Mrs. Frantz

phia Association.

it over again.”
an alumna, a member of our PhiladelAfter thanking Mrs. Frantz for her fine ad-

is

also

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dress, Mrs. Cool closed the meeting.

We

then adjourned until

our next meeting, March 12th, at the same time and place.
After the meeting was adjourned the Secretary received alumni
dues.

Respectfully submitted,

Jennie Yoder Foley, Secretary.

Wyoming Seminary was
ketball schedule of the

was not of

when

the only school on the

1

905 bas-

Bloomsburg State Normal School, that
This fact was disclosed recently
manager of the team, found one of

college rating.

Prof. C. H. Albert,

the old schedules.

The team played twelve games

home,

that year, nine at

with return games played only with Calvary, of Philade'phia,

Wyoming and Susquehanna University.
Colleges who came to Bloomsburg
inson, Drexel Institute of Philadelphia,

that season were DickSwarthmore, Gettysburg,
:

Lebanon Valley and State College.
Dr. A. K. Aldinger, coach of many successful Bloomsburg
teams which competed with the best college clubs of the section, was coach of the team.

None of the schools on the schedule is now an athletic opponent of Bloomsburg. Most of the colleges have long since
moved out of Bloomsburg’s class.

Wyoming was

the last to go, the Kingston institution, long

arch rival of Bloomsburg, being

off all athletic

schedules for the

were severed after the
Bloomsburg now confines its athletic activities
largely to Teachers Colleges, with no outstanding rival.

first

this year although football relations

1929

contest.

o

At the concluding session of the Pennsylvania TubercuDr. Haas was
losis Society in Pittsburgh, on January 22nd,
elected one of the directors.

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28

THE ALUMNI
xzJq&t-

All

Alumni are earnestly requested

inform Professor

to

changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni
have
Quarterly
been returned because the subscribers are no

Jenkins of

all

longer living at the address given in our

files.

* * * *
1881
Lizzie R.

Lessig

(Mrs. B. F. Laudig)

who

lives at

845

Prescott Avenue, Scranton, Pa., writes the following account of

her activities since graduation:
After leaving the Normal, the following September

gan teaching

in

my home

I betown, Shenandoah, teaching eleven

years, five years in third grade primary,

grammar

My

school.

married on the

Shenandoah.

thirtieth

We

and

six

years

school closed the sixth of June and
of June to Benjamin F.

in the
I

was

Laudig, of

have always been very happy, both of us

terested in the better things of

in-

life.

We were blessed with two sp'endid sons. The oldest,
James Jacob Laudig, is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of
Technology in Chemical Engineering and has been, for the past
four years. Chief Chemist and Engineer of Tests for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. He has
two promising sons, and I am very proud of them.
The other son, John Benjamin Laudig, is a graduate of
Lehigh University in Mechanical Engineering and is Research
Engineer of the large power plant located at Exeter. It is
owned by the American Gas and Electric Company.

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29

My

youngest

sister

died over two years ago, leaving

now about

\a

I had
him before his mother’s death,
steering him through high school, and he is now attending the
College of Pharmacy at Philadelphia. He is getting along nicely, and I have every reason to feel he will graduate in two

son, William Morrison,

taken a very keen interest

nineteen years old.

in

years.

We

have a very comfortable and happy home at 845
The latch string is always out and
always be very glad to see our friends and classmates of

Prescott Ave., Scranton, Pa.
will

I

dear old Normal.

1892
Charles G. Hendricks, Selinsgrove’s oldest retail merchant,

died at 4 P. M. January 20th, at his
Street.

He

home on South Market

and sank gradually
The deceased would have been sixty-

suffered a stroke while he slept

without a marked

two years old

in

rally.

February.

Funeral services were held at his late

Union cemetery. Dr. Walter
Lutheran Church officiated.
in

C.

Mr. Hendricks was one of the best
munity.

He was

home with

interment

Beck, pastor of the First

known men

of his

a leader in church and civic circles, a

com-

man

of

and ever ready
to give of his time, talent and means to he’p other people and
his community. Many of the hundreds of times he gave a helping hand to persons in need the incidents were cloaked in the
secrecy of business and thus the details of those numerous circumstances may never be known.
kind heart, one of

strict

application to business

The deceased man was born in Selinsgrove, February 6,
1871, the son of George R. and Matilda (Boyer) Hendricks.
After completing his course of studies

in

the Selinsgrove high

was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, now the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, in 1892.
He was a teacher in that institution for the next four years, and
school, he

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30

when he became

returned to Selinsgrove in 1896

associated

been
hardware
deceased
estab'ished in 1896 by the father. Meanwhile, the
man continued studies at Susquehanna University and was

with his father

business, the store having

in the

graduated with the class of 1899.
Mr. Hendricks married Miss Susan Alice Pawling, on June
908. Mrs. Hendricks survives, as do his sisters, Mrs.
11,
1

Chanuncey A. (Carrie) Keeley, and Mrs. Charles

C.

(Nettie)

Walter.

Mr. Hendricks was a devout

member

of the First Lutheran

Church, having served on the church council over a score years

and having taught a Sunday School

class

therein for even a

longer time.

1902
George Baker
town, N.

is

Superintendent

of

Schools

in

Morris-

J.

1905
George Harris Webber, of Mil'edgeville, Georgia, head
of the department of education and psychology at the Georgia
State College for Women, has been signally honored in being
Dr.

named

first

vice president of the National Social Science

Society and also a
cial

member

Honor

of the board of directors of the So-

Science Publishing Company.

He

is

also associate editor of

the national publication “Social Science.”

The

distinction

of unusual character.

thought and effort to

known

accorded Dr. Webber
Dr.
his

Webber

is

regarded as one

not only gives unremitting

educational

work with

the institution,

be exceptionally active and interested in
many important matters of civic and social character and gives
adjacent communities the benefit of his knowledge and experience in many instances, addressing various organizations and
otherwise assisting in many ways to improve conditions.
but he

is

to

1907
Helen Masteller Teple

is

now

Mrs. William H. Hile, and

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31

341 West Delaware Ave., Toledo, Ohio.
Her oldest son is a Junior in Ohio Northern University, one
son is a Senior in Scott High School, Toledo, and the youngest
son is in Junior High School.
lives at

1908
The following are excerpts from the Lackawanna County
Teachers’ Annual and Directory:

“The Resolutions Committee has the following report to
Lackawanna County in Annual

offer to the School Directors of

Convention assembled at Scranton, October 30.
“Resolved, that

we

extend to Mr. Thomas Francis, County

Superintendent of Schools, and his Assistant, Mr. R. M. Northup, our sincere appreciation of the efforts they have

behalf of the school children and directors in

made

Lackawanna

in

Co.

“That we especially commend the County Superintendent
for his leadership in developing a

new course

of study for the

Lackawanna County Schools. We approve of this progressive
step and we urge all teachers of the County to co-operate with
the County Superintendent and his assistant, together with the
Chairman of the various committees appointed to work on this
course of study.

“We,

the teachers of

Lackawanna County,

in Institute as-

sembled, desire to express these resolutions:

“We

heartily

commend

the Institute Program that has

been provided for us by County Superintendent of Schools

Thomas

Francis.

“We congratulate the County Superintendent of Schools
on the 1930 issue of the Lackawanna County Teachers’ and
Directors’ Annual and Directory.
The information contained
therein has been carefully compiled and is of lasting value.
“Again this year the County Superintendent’s Office has
made arrangements to carry on, in Lackawanna County, a
Reading Course for the pupils of the elementary grades. It is
unnecessary in this day and age to argue the advantage of

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reading.

In

32

books we have the companionship of the past and

a broader vision of the future.
“All pupils attending

the Elementary

Public School of

of the County
Each pupil shall read ten
books carefully. These books to be taken from a selected list.
“Pupils will be required to answer questions on the books
read. This will be in the form of a questionnaire. The teacher
shall certify to the County Superintendent that the pupils complied with the above requirements and regulations.
“When these rules have been complied with in a satisfactory manner, a certificate will be issued to the pupil stating
that the holder has the honor of having completed the Reading

Lackawanna County, under

Superintendent,

may be

the

supervision

included.

Course of Lackawanna County.”

“Mr. Thomas Francis, the present County Superintendent
of Schools, has been a pioneer worker for P. T. A. both in the
city

and

country. He is always willing to co-operate and
work. Mr. Francis feels the need of educated leadeducators do. Parent-Teacher courses are being given

in the

assist in the

ers as all

summer

courses at Columbia and other universities.”
“Addresses were made by Thomas Francis, County Superintendent of Schools at The Moosic Local Institute and at
as

Clark’s

Summit.”

“In 1926 the County Superintendent’s office

vey of

made

a sur-

under the jurisdiction of the county office. The third objective announced in this survey was the feasibility and advisibility of consolidation of these schools in the
interest of economy and for better educational facilities for
all

rural schools

the children

who

attend them.

“As a result of various conso'idations in the county, we
now have but twenty-seven one-room school buildings. Some
of these will probably never enter into consolidation because of
their isolated location in the county.”
in Agriculture and Home EconomLackawanna County has completed two years of work
and will launch on the third year this Fall. This work has been

“Vocational education

ics

in

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33

established in seven centers in the county.

“The program of Vocational Education

Home Economics

is

proving

its

real

worth

work learned in
The community may well feel

for the application of the

education.

and the progress made
of

its

in its

new

Agriculture and
Benton Township
High School in real
proud of its school
in

in

provisions for the education

children.

shown in the
work in Vocational Education in this school. The Home Economics Department started this year with an enrollment of 23
girls.
The work is compulsory to the students in the first two
years and elective in the last two years of high school.”
“There are in Lackawanna County, under the direction of
“There

is

a decided increase in the interest

kindergarten, 5
County Superintendent,
elementary
13 high schools. There are 10 consolidated schools
and 27 one-teacher schools. There are 58 school houses in use
in the county. Two hundred and eighty-four teachers are emthe

1

1

schools,

ployed.

“In the county under the County Superintendent’s direction there are

7,474 elementary pupils and 1,445 high school

pupils with an average attendance of 7,694.”

Darwin Maurer taught school for five years after graduation. He is now employed as a Railway Mail Clerk in the
government service. He makes the trip between New York and
Washington. He is married and lives at 5855 Hazel Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pa.

The Philadelphia Association of the B. S. T. C. Alumni
will hold its second Annual Banquet on April 23, 1932, at
Adams, 13th and Spring Garden Sts., Philadelphia. Let us have
as many of our “Naughty Eight” classmates present as possible.
Mrs. Willie M. Stein.

1912

We

quote the following from the “Daily News” of Tupelo,

Mississippi,

dated January 16, 1932:

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34

“Charles R. Wiant, superintendent of the government

hatchery

in this city,

fish

has been transferred to Marion, Alabama,

where he will be in charge of the new federal fish hatchery six
miles from that city.
Six hundred acres of land have been purchased for the
new project which, it is reported, will be the largest in the
United States. Five brick buildings will be constructed for
homes of employees and administration purposes and the ponds
will

cover about

500

acres.

Mr. Wiant leaves Tupelo about February

1.

He

will retain

supervision of the local hatchery, which will bring him back to

Tupelo

once a month. He has served as superintendent
won the confidence and esteem of hunsection who regret the departure of himself and

at least

here since 1916 and has

dreds

in this

his family.”

Announcement was made on February 24th, by Charles
McDonald, of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination
congressman in the far-flung 15 th district.
Mr. McDonald, one of Bloomsburg’s well known business
men, said he expected to devote his time from now until the
K.

for

election in April to a canvass of the district.

His candicacy has the backing of the Democratic organi-

was made in accordance with
Tunkhannock that a Columbia

zation of the eight counties, and

a request

made

at a caucus in

county candidate be brought into the

field.

1913

A

self

Bloomsburg man who is rapidly making a name for himas an author and lecturer is John E. Bakeless, son of Prof,

and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless.

A

one-time reporter on The Morning Press, he has written

and has served as editor of The
Forum and The Living Age. One of his most noted articles was
extensive'y for the Outlook,

a series which followed a trip into the Balkans to interview the
uncrowned king of Macedonia a ruler without a definite king-

—

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dom, but with a strong

following.

Mr. Bakeless also is the author of several books and has
contributed articles to a number of magazines.

One

of Mr. Bakeless’ most widely publicized accomplish-

ments was
loff,

his

journey into Macedonia to interview Ivan Mihai-

leader of the “Imro” a revolutionary organization there

and the uncrowned king without a kingdom.
Mr. Bakeless’ journey was not without dangers, and the
subsequent articles he wrote were widely followed through The
Outlook.

1922
Corrine Brittain

is

a teacher

in

the schools of Newark, N.

J.

1923
Christine F. Smith

is

teaching

in

Moorestown, N.

J.

1925

A
St.

Valentine season wedding ceremony was performed at

John’s Lutheran parsonage at Berwick, on Saturday after-

noon, February

13th, at four o’clock,

when

Beaver, of Numidia, became the bride of Henry

Miss Bessie M.
L.

Werkheiser,

also of Numidia.

Both bride and groom are graduates of the Locust Towngroom graduating in the class of 1919.

ship High School, the

The bride is at present a teacher in the Locust Township
schools. The groom is at present engaged in the butcher business at Numidia.
In a pretty

wedding solemnized

at the rectory of St.

Co-

December 28th, Miss Harriet Margaret Williams, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John T. Williams, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Edwin Stanley Dixon, son of Mrs. Lillian R. Dixon, of Downinglumba’s Church by Rev.

Fr. H. B. Gies, at nine o’clock,

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town, a

member

of the State Police, and well

36

known

in

Blooms-

burg, where he was stationed for some time.

The couple was attended by Miss Mary Penman, of
first cousin of the bride, and William V. Murfriend
phy, a
of the groom and also a member of Troop B. of

Wilkes-Barre, a

the State Police.

Mrs. Dixon is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High school
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and for several years
has been the successful teacher of art and music in the town
schools. Mr. Dixon is a graduate of Downingtown high school
and for some years has been a member of Troop B. of the
State Police with headquarters at Wyoming, Pa. He was for
some time a member of the detail stationed in Bloomsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davenport, of Waterton, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Frances, to H. Max Pennington, of Bloomsburg.
Miss Davenport is well known in Bloomsburg, being a

graduate of the Teachers College, and for several years she has
been teaching at Wyoming.
Mr. Pennington is one of Bloomsburg’s best known young
business men and is active in fraternal circles.

Laura Dieterick

is

teaching

in

Chester, Pa.

1927

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Mercea Kreigh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kreigh, of
Bloomsburg, and Glen Benner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H.
Benner of McAllisterville.
Miss Kreigh has been teaching at McAllistervi'le, and Mr.
Benner is employed by the state highway department.
Margaret Hartman
town, Pa.

is

a teacher in the schools at Lewis-

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Edith Sitler

is

a teacher in the schools at Alden, Pa.

1928
Miss Eleanor Sands, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Sands, of Benton, a teacher in the Bloomfield, N.

Raymond
J.

schools,

was appointed critic teacher by W. V. Singer, director
and student teaching of the New Jersey State Normal School at Newark, N. J. Miss Sands is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and was the Ivy Day
recently

of education

speaker of her

class.

Mildred Herr

is

teaching

Marjorie Vanderslice

is

in

the schools at Reading, Pa.

teaching

in

Lewisburg, Pa.

1929
Miss Margaret Umbewust, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Umbewust, of Benton, a graduate of the Benton High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and for the past
two years a teacher in the Waller and Divide schools, became

W. S. Soroka, of Haverhill, Mass.,
was performed September 19, 93

in a quiet cere-

the bride of

mony

that

1

1 ,

at Plaistow, N.

H.

Mr. Soroka, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Soroka, of Hanis a graduate of Boston College Prep. School, class

over, Mass.,

of 1923.

He

received his A. B. at Boston College in 1927 and

Harvard Law School
the Massachusetts Bar with law

his

LLD

at

associated with L. F. Callahan.
division

of

in

1930.

offices at

He

He

is

a

member

of

6 Legion Parkway,

also has charge of the claim

The Travelers Insurance Company, of Hartford,

Conn., with branch office at Haverhill, Mass.

At present the young couple are making

Commonwealth

their

home

at

56

Ave., Haverhill, Mass.

1930

On February

3rd,

Mark

Ennis, Wexford, Ireland,

Ennis, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
and Miss Lucy Keeler, daughter of

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Mr. and Mrs. Malan A. Keeler, of Bloomsburg, were united in
marriage at Greenwich, Conn. The bride is a graduate of Benton Vocational High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers

The groom is employed as an operator of the White
Subway station at the West Chester Lighing Company.
They are at home at 25 Hillside Avenue, White Plains, N. Y.
College.

Plains

At the Orangeville Methodist parsonage, Saturday after6, Miss Helen Bangs, of Rohrsburg, became the
bride of Simon L. Richie, son of Mrs. Eva Richie, of Shamokin.
The ring ceremony of the Methodist church was used by Rev.
noon, January

1

G. L. Bennett, pastor of the church.

Miss Bangs has been the teacher of the Center school

in

Greenwood township.
Mr. Richie

is

a graduate of the Chicago Technical College

1927, and is a bridge engineer employed by the
state highway department. At the present time he is working
on a bridge job in Susquehanna county.

in the class of

For the present the couple

will

make

their

home with

the

bride’s parents.

Mildred Manbeck

is

teaching in the schools at Watson-

is

teaching in the schools at Tennack,

town, Pa.

Josephine Holuba
N. J.

Isabel Miller

Earl Miller

is

is

a student at

New York

University.

teaching near Stroudsburg, Pa.

1931
Arthur C. McKenzie, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKenzie,
of Bloomsburg, and Miss Ann:e T. Morgan, daughter of Mrs.
Annie Morgan, of Green Street, Nanticoke, classmates at the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College where they graduated

last

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May, were quietly united in marriage at six o’clock Saturday
evening, January 2nd, by Rev. Samuel A. Harker, at the Presbyterian manse. They were unattended and the ring ceremony
was used.
Following the ceremony they left for Norristown, where
the groom is employed as mathematics teacher in a Junior High
School on Powell Street.
The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and was the Ivy Day orator of his college class last June. He
was a member of the varsity football team at the college. Both
enjoy a wide circle of friends.
Miss M. Irene Rhinard, of Fishingcreek, and Lewis L.
Creveling, of Hughesville,

were united in marriage by Rev. C.
Reformed parsonage on Febru-

H. Kichline at the Orangeville

ary 26th.

Mr. Creveling

teacher of science at Hughesville High

is

School and the bride

is

a teacher of the Bendertown school.

Both the bride and groom are graduates of the Benton
High School.
Mr. Creveling both at the Benton High School and at the
college was prominent in athletics and was one of the best
baseball pitchers that ever played at either institution.
Helen B. Gibbons (Mrs. Robert
Burchard Ave. East Orange N. J.
Robert Sutliff
Harvey’s Lake, Pa.

is

C.

Edson)

at

97

principal of the Consolidated School at

o
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DAY—SATURDAY, MAY

21

THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

OE.0-J.HE.UE.H_

JUNE, 1932

BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JUNE, 1932

Vol. 33

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.
F.

FENSTEMAKER,

’12

H. JENKINS, ’76

-

-

-

Editor-in-Chief

Business

Manager

COMMENCEMENT
“In these days

when

old values are being destroyed almost

over night, the constructive processes of education are needed

and should be made effective as never before in the history of
James N. Rule, Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction, told one hundred ninety-one graduates at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College’s sixty-third annual Commencement in May.
“The Depression and the School of Tomorrow” was the
subject of a timely address by Dr. Rule who was speaking for
the first time at a Pennsylvania State Teachers College commencement.
The College auditorium was well filled for the exercises.
civilization,” Dr.

Com-

Rule.

1932

N.
the
James

at
Dr.

and
Superintendent

Jr.,

Waller,

present

T.
D.
the
Dr.

and
Haas,

B.
Instruction

Frances

Public

Dr.
—

of
right

to
Superintendents

Left

mencement.

former

Two

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which opened at ten o’clock with the processional, and were
featured by the presentation of fifty-two degrees of bachelor of
science in education, forty-five to students in the field of second-

ary education and seven to students

in the

elementary

field,

the presentation of diplomas to others for completion of the

and
two

year normal school course.
Dr. Francis B. Haas,

the

list

of those

who had

who

presented the degrees and read
the

certificates as

qualified for

lists

were presented to him by Dean
gave his parting message to the graduates near the conclusion
of Instruction William B.

Sutliff,

of the exercises.

The president of the institution remarked that if the class
would put its thoughts into the language of the street it would
be “Where do we go from here?”
There are two journeys that can be made at the same time.
Regarding one of those journeys he said that Bloomsburg in
addition to saying good-bye added “Come, see us again.”
In
speaking of the second journey, Dr. Haas said that the constitution of the State sets forth that the Legislature shall provide and
maintain a thorough and efficient system of public schools
whereby all children of the Commonwealth above six years of
age

may be

educated.

One

that into the constitution

of the

men

instrumental in writing

resided in the

home now used

residence of the College president, he added.
to the late Senator

The

ratio

to

present there

go
is

as

a

Haas referred

Buckalew.

unemployed

of

to

every business, trade and vocation.

some one

Dr.

into

employed has increased

in

seems a fallacy to direct
work which he does not care to do, for at

a shortage of

work

It

of

all

kinds.

If

the youth

do not follow that which they desire to do, the decade
will produce a generation without training in anything.
Dr. Haas’ advice was that if any one wanted to be a teacher now is the time to train, for never have the advantages been
of today

better.

He regarded

declared that

if

“This class

the current year as

a

difficult

one,

but

they had faith they need have no fear.
in

leaving Bloomsburg takes with

it

the

good

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traditions of the

We

institution

and the

fine

training

it

provides.

wish you well and invite you to come back with your

troubles,” the president said in conclusion.

Preceded by the participants in the program, trustees and
of the faculty, who had places on the platform, the
class, attired in black caps and gowns, marched into the auditorium as Alexander’s orchestra played the processional, and
occupied a reserved section in the front of the auditorium.
Candidates for degrees wore blue tassels on their caps, the
others black ones.
Trustees attending the exercises were: A.
Z. Schoch, Paul F. Wirt, Joseph L. Townsend and Harry S. Bar-

members

ton.

Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the College,
Dr. Haas in introducing Dr. Rule remarkgave the invocation.
ed that public education is entering in Pennsylvania and the
Nation a difficult time. It is going through the process of
harmonizing income with expenditure, as is other business, and

he said he was happy that Dr. Rule was in the position he
Pennsylvania.
A splendid address followed.

Two

is

in

very beautiful violin solos by Karl Getz, a student of

head
were thoroughly enjoyed. Mr.
Getz played the meditation from “Thais,” by Massenet, and the
“Minute Waltz,” by Chopin.
Dr. Haas conferred the degrees and presented the certificates and the program closed with the singing of the Alma
Mater by the assembly and the recessional of the class, trustees
and faculty.
the institution, accompanied by Mrs. John Ketner Miller,
of the College School of Music,

Members

of the graduating class are:

—

Bachelor of Science in Education Grace W. Callender, Berwick.
Lois M. DeMott, Millville.
Secondary Field
Roy J. Evans, Bloomsburg.
John C. Adamson, Frackville.
Katharine I. Fritz, Danville.
Leslie Ray Appleman, Benton.
Lorna M. Gillow, Lakewood.
Ida A. Arcus, Bloomsburg.
Elizabeth M. Brooks, Lewisburg. Saul Gutter, Plymouth.
John A. Hall, West Pittston.
Robert A. Brown, Columbia.
Ezra W. Harris, Bloomsburg.
Frank Dushanko, Jr., Freeland.

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Gerald C. Hartman, Catawissa.
Chester C. Hess, Trevorton.
Wilbur J. Hibbard, Wanamie.
Clarence L. Hunsicker, Lehighton.
Desda E. John, Bloomsburg.
James J. Johns, Scranton.
Anthony E. Kanjorski, Glen Lyon.
Doyle Keller, Muncy Valley.
Ethel M. Keller, Bloomsburg.
Helen M. Keller, Mifflinburg.

Muncy

5

Helen L. Brennan, Shamokin.
Eleanor B. Clapp, Danville.

Mary Elizabeth

Cole,

Waymart.

Connor, Edwardsville.
Congetta A. Contini, Freeland.
Catherine B. Curry, Haddock.
Lillian

Mary E.
Almeda

Davis, Pittston.

Derby, Scranton.
Eleanor D. Devine, Mt. Carmel.
Mildred M. Dimmick, Shamokin.
L.

Oliver H. Krapf, Lehighton.

Irene T. Braina, Ashley.
Betty J. Dunnigan, Hazleton.
Mary Alice Eves, Schuylkill Hav-

Jessie F. Laird, Muncy.
Joseph D. McFadden, Hazleton.

Emma

Inez Keller,

Fred W.

Kistler,

Valley.

Bloomsburg.

Harold M. Morgan, Scranton.
Bernard E. Mohan, Centralia.
Glenn A. Oman, Bloomsburg.
Frank J. Perch, White Haven.
Helen F. Rekas, Berwick.
George S. Rinker, Eldersville.
Eldora B. Robbins, Shickshinny.
Nicholas Rudowski, Alden Station.
Margaret N. Shultz, Bloomsburg.
Joseph A. Slominski, Mocanaqua.
H. Edmond Smith, Bloomsburg.
C.

Seymour

Stere, Millville.

en.

A. Gasewicz, Glen Lyon.
Florence H. Gruver, Pittston.

Mary

R.

Oman, Mahanoy

City.

Dorothy N. Hartman, Danville.
Margaret M. Hendrickson, Danville.

Lois M. Heppe, Sheppton.
Marie S. Hoy, Ashley.

Marie G. Hunsinger, Mifflinville.
Florence A. Isaacs, Forty-Fort.

Dorothy G. Jones, Taylor.
Dorothy Jenkins Jones, Kingston.
H. Elizabeth Jones, Plymouth.
Alice C. Kimbel, Bloomsburg.

Daniel E. Thomas, Edwardsville.
Sara D. Vanderslice, Bloomsburg. Gwendolyn E. Lewis, Freeland.
William Gordon Wanbaugh, Col- Vivienne T. Lewis, Shaft.
Lucille A. McHose, Hazleton.
umbia.

Alice B. MacMullen, Shamokin.
Warman, Scranton.
Eleanor I. Materewicz, Glen Lyon.
Elementary Field
Catherine G. Meade, Pittston.
Phyllis M. Fowler, Berwick.
Carnella G. Milazzo, West WyomBeatrice E. Girton, Bloomsburg.
ing.
Dorothy M. Gorrey, Bloomsburg.
Jeanne L. Morgan, Jerymn.
Minnie E. Howeth, Baltimore, Md.
Mildred D. Naryauckas, ShenanMary Jean Lewis, Bloomsburg.
doah.
Ruth L. Wagner, Bloomsburg.
Genevieve M. Omichinski, Glen
Arlene P.
Werkheiser, BloomsLyon.
burg.
Gertrude E. Oswald, Scranton.
Group I Primary
Nola S. Paden, Berwick.
Reta T. Baker, Nescopeck.
Edith H. Peterson, Taylor.
Vera G. Baker, Tunkhannock.
Doris M. Price, Shaft.
Monica M. Sarauskas, Shenandoah. Mabel E. Rinard, Sunbury.
Mary M. Bray, Nanticoke.
Mary E. Shaw, Lewistown.
Louise M. Breisch, Catawissa.
Catherine A. Smith, Kingston.

Henry

J.

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Catherine Hoff Smith, Sunbury.
Helen J. Smith, Scranton.
G. Ruth Smith, Sunbury.
Blanche Standish, Forest City.
Marie M. Standish, Freeland.
Hazel M. Walters, Freeburg.
Sarah C. Zimmerman, Berwick.
Emily V. Zydanovicz, Glen Lyon.

Group II Intermediate
Margaret E. Arnold, Hudson.
Pearl L. Baer, Shickshinny.

Kathryn M. Benner, Lewistown.
E. Berger, Bloomsburg.
Ida M. Bubb, Berwick.
Madaline M. Carle, Kingston.
John R. Carr, Luzerne.
Dora M. Oscchini, West Wyoming
Wilhelmina M. Corine, Scranton.

Mae

Grace E. McCormack, Scranton.
Ruth E. McCormack, Scranton.
Russell F. Miller, Shamokin.
Ellen L. Monroe, Peckville.
Ruth H. Myers, Scranton.
Ramona H. Oshinsky Ranshaw.
Alvina M. Picarella, Shamokin.
Venita K. Pizer, Peckville.
Theron R. Rhinard, Berwick.

Hope

G. Richards, Elysburg.

M. Roberts, Plymouth.
Alice M. Rowett, Luzerne.
Esther A. Saylor, Beavertown.
Lillian

Sara E. Schilling, Lewistown.
Merdeces E. Shovlin, Mt. Carmel.
Verna Pauline Showers, Milton.
Edith C. Strickler, Mifflinburg.
Louise G. Strunk, Kingston.
Carolyn Sutliff, Shickshinny.
Anna L. Chevitski, Larksville.
Muriel E. Thomas, Glen Lyon.
Morris
Dehaven,
Jr.,
WilkesHelen M. VanBuskirk, Kingston.
Barre.
Mary A. Vollrath, Nanticoke.
Thelma C. Derr, West Hazleton. Leo L. Washeleski, Kulpmont.
Marie I. Devine, Centralia.
Alma E. White, Frackville.
Jemima Eltringham, Mt. Carmel. Estelle F. Ziemba, Simpson.
Thelma E. Erb, Middleburg.
Ethel M. Felker, Beaver Springs.
Group III Rural
Ruth M. Foulke, Danville.
Margaret J.
Francis, Edwards Lesta E. Applegate, Millville.
ville.
Woodrow W. Aten, Catawissa.
William C. Furlani, Atlas.
Gladys R. Boyer, Pillow
Frank J. Gerosky, Pittston.
Ruth E. Haggy, Mifflinburg.
Louise R. Cord, Wanamie.
Sara Irma Lawton, Millville.
Elizabeth Hafer, Muncy.
Lois E. Lawton, Millville.
Ann P. Harris, Taylor.
Marjorie R. Lewis, Drums.
Sarah E. Hartt, Bloomsburg.
John A. Long, Fisher’s Ferry.
Alys Henry, Hughesville.
Blanche D. Mordan, Benton.
Ann L. Howells, Taylor.
Florence A. Mowery, Bloomsburg.
Ruth E. Jones, Scranton.
Esther Pealer, Stillwater.
Margaret V. Kane, Centralia.
Helen S. Piatt, Millville.
Phyllis M. Keirnan, Dickson City. Paul Reichard, Light Street.
Blanche I. Kostenbauder, Blooms- Pauline E. Romberger, Pitman.
burg.

Adam

L. Schlauch,

Nuremberg.

Rhea A. LaFrance, Meshoppen.
Emma May Lehman, Wilburton.

Hester I. Slusser, Catawissa.
Hazel M. Small, Catawissa.

Bessie Levan, Catawissa.
Harriet A. Levan, Catawissa.
Mildred H. Lowry, Scranton.

Ruth Anna Stine, Paxonis.
M. Irene Wagner, Mifflinburg.
Virginia R. Zeigler, Herndon.

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SENIOR BANQUET

On

Commencement programs shared with
and friends, members of the graduating class of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College assembled Thursday evening, May 26 in the College dining hall for their banquet, one of
the events of the Commencement season which in later years
will become one of the most cherished memories of College life.
Guests of the evening were members of the College faculty
with whom they have been in close contact during their undergraduate days and the program was a truly delightful one.
the eve of the

relatives

Saul Gutter, of Plymouth, president of the graduating class,

happily presided and the tables were attractively decorated with

lavender and pink sweet peas.

Dean

served.

of instruction,

W.

A

very delicious

B. Sutliff,

dinner

was

gave the invocation.

During the program which followed Miss Sara Zimmerman,
of Berwick, secretary of the class, gave a toast to her classmates.

The

was

toast

cleverly presented as “minutes.”

John Hall, of Pittston, editor of the Obiter, the College year
book, responded to the call of the toastmaster as did Prof. E.
H. Nelson, the faculty advisor and Dr. Francis B. Haas, president
of the College.
Miss Marjory Stackhouse delighted with a
reading.

awards were presented by Mr. Gutter to Miss Zimsecretary; John Adamson, Mahanoy City, the
treasurer, and James Johns, of Scranton, vice-president.
Group singing during the banquet was led by Miss Betty
The program closed with the singing of
Jones, of Plymouth.
Class

merman,

the

the

Alma Mater.
Invited guests of the class included Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.

Haas, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl N. Rhodes,

Dean and Mrs. W.

B. Sutliff,

Miss

Marjory Keith Stackhouse,
Mr. and Mrs.

Miss Alice Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Reams,

John

C.

Koch.

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DAY

IVY

Held indoors for the

was not necessitated by
cises attracted

ium

first

t

me

in

years

when such a
Day

the weather, the College Ivy

an audience of hundreds

in the

plan
exer-

College auditor-

at six o’clock.

Usually held in the grove, plans were
cises this

year

in the

made

for

the exer-

auditorium, where the usual program was

carried out.

Three of the

May Day

dances were presented

to the delight of the audience,
cises the class

marched

and

in

costume,

at the conclusion of the exer-

to Science Hall,

where the ivy was plant-

Tom

Beagle, president of the

ed and the spade turned over to
Junior class.

The program opened with the color song, words and music
were composed by Dr. Francis B. Haas and Prof. Howard Fenstemaker.
The address of Saul Gutter, the class president, was read by James Johns.
There followed the class song, written by Gerald Hartman
and Ezra Harris, and the Ivy Day oration then was presented by
Henry Warman.
Three of the dances of the May Day program then were
presented.
“Rufty Tufty,” in charge of Jemima Eltringham;
“Kull Dansen,” in charge of Congetta Contini, and “Virginia
of which

Reel,”

in

charge of Irene Draina.

With the singing of the Alma Mater the program in the
auditorium closed and the capped and gowned class began to
march to Science Hall.

The

class

We

song follows:

—

—

met as echoes merge from distant hilltops.
Repeat one pulse, break mute in one long rhyme.
Our nascent souls regaled on youthful tear drops.
Grew warm beneath the breast of a new found clime.
We know that youth was mother our dream:

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Nor tinselled pomp nor suckled sophistry
Could mar one moment of our rapt esteem.

We
We

—
—

stood
part

brief hour! at joy’s nativity.

as

shadows waver

ravelled night,

in a

Enfold the moon, and then are seen no more;

As wreckage from a

storm-tossed plight.

sail in

Drifts tracklessly to gain the farthest shore.

But

men

will

Our kinships
Mr. Warman’s Ivy

Members

never

know

lifted us,

Day

to what glad ends
ephemeral friends.

oration

was

as follows:

—

and Friends:
day to perform a
symbolic act.
The actual planting of this ivy is but an empty
gesture.
The stately traditions, the fond and loving memories,
the tender associations, and the deep regrets embodied in this
planting are the determinants that make this ceremony a solemn
and meaningful one.
I am more than grateful to the Class of 1932 for affording
me this opportunity to express humbly the inner thoughts that
Mr. President,

We come

together

of the Faculty, Parents
in the

dusk of

this

surge through our hearts.

Today when we

plant this ivy, and hope to watch

through the years, growing ever more

tall,

ever more

it

endure
mature,

and ever more self-reliant, do we realize that our friends, teachers and parents have anxiously watched us through the years
also?

Their greatest hopes, their best wishes, their hardest

and

work

have been that we, too, may grow in
grow mature in thought and deed, and

their fervent prayers

wisdom and in culture,
grow self-reliant in this ever-changing world.

For whatever heart-rendering sacrifices have been made,
whatever keen joys have been realized, whatever sweet victories have been won, to you, our loyal friends and teachers
to
you, our devoted parents, do we ascribe your just due.
The planting of the ivy belongs to you as well as to us.
You have made it possible.

—

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BACCALAUREATE SERVICES

The baccalaureate

services of

were held in
The sermon was

the College

May 22nd.

Carver Hall Sunday afternoon.
delivered by

the Reverend Robert
Church of Christ of Bloomsburg.

L.

Porter,

pastor

of

the

The members of the class at this sixty-third commencement
marched into the auditorium singing the traThey
ditional college processional hymn “Ancient of Days.”
were followed by participants in the services, trustees, and
faculty members.
The class occupied a reserved section in the
front of the auditorium.
The others were seated on the platform.
The trustees attending were A. Z. Schoch, Joseph L.
Townsend and Harry S. Barton.
Rev. Porter gave the invocation and the audience sang the
hymn “Awake My Soul," by Handel. President Haas read the
scripture lesson, which consisted of passages from Proverbs and
St. Matthew.
The sermon followed, with Mr. Porter speaking
on “Values,” and taking for his text, Proverbs 4:7: “Wisdom
therefore get wisdom; yet with all thy
is the principal thing;
of the institution

getting, get understanding.”

At the conclusion of the sermon an octette from the Men’s
Glee Club added an impressive touch with a fine

“Service” by Charles Wakefield Cadman.

The

rendition

of

service closed

with the benediction by Rev. Porter and the recessional of the
class.

o

About two hundred students and alumni enjoyed the “Depression Dance” held in the College gymnasium by the Men’s
Glee Club Saturday evening, April 23rd.
the spirit of the occasion, the

members

In

accordance with

of the Club used rem-

nants of other decorative schemes, and placed them around the

gymnasium

in a

haphazard manner.

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CLASS NIGHT

The presentation

of a check for

$250

as a

memorial from

the class of 1923, during Class Night exercises in

Auditorium, was

by

the

College

spoken of as a fitting climax to a perfect day

Dr. Francis B. Haas,

who accepted

the gift on behalf of the

College.

The presentation of the memorial gift was made by John
Adamson, the class treasurer, and came near the end of an hour
and a half program of the lighter things of College life, with
about forty Seniors participating.
Two faculty members, Prof.
John C. Koch, Dean of men and Prof. E. H. Nelson, head of the
Department of Health Education, were called from the audience
to the stage to add a touch of realism to a North Hall Scene.
Members of the class, attired in caps and gowns, attended
the exercises in a body, occupying a reserved section near

the

At the opening of the program, James
Johns, Vice-President of the class, outlined the program which
front of the auditorium.

was

to follow.

The opening

scene, laid in the girls’ dormitory,

ed by two classroom scenes, with John Hall
S. L.

Wilson, and James Johns taking

the

was follow-

in the role of Prof.

part of

Prof.

John

Fisher.

Henry Warman provided a feature of the evening by singtwo baritone solos.
Gerald Hartman was at the piano.
Other scenes of interest were a rehearsal of the Senior
play, a Girls’ Glee Club rehearsal, and a scene showing social
activities in North Hall.
The center of attraction in the North
Hall scene was a ping-pong table, a game which has held the
ing

interest of the

North Hall

men

during the past winter.

by a male quartette were a part of
much enjoyed by the audience.
tions

this scene,

Selec-

which was

o

The Glee Club gave a program
Wednesday morning, May 4th.

in

the

Plymouth High School

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ALUMNI DAY
i

'*

it seems necessary to say
Alumni Day of 932 was the greatest in the history of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. With no rain cloud to
keep anybody home over one thousand Alumni returned to
Bloomsburg and entered whole-heartedly into a program that
had been arranged through the cooperation of the College authorities, students and Alumni officers.
Those who made the
pilgrimage back to the scenes of many happy years, were on
hand early and more than six hundred exclusive of the graduating class, were on hand at the general session of the Alumni at
eleven o’clock.
Those whose classes were in reunion arrived
much earlier, some of the classes having fine representations at

Superlatives are dangerous, but

that the

1

nine o’clock.

A splendid meeting in the auditorium at which graduates
heard of progress being made on all projects, and at which they
pledged their support, was followed by a luncheon in the dining
room, and a record number of nine hundred forty were served.
L. H. Dennis, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, was
the speaker.

won from an Alumni
on which seven former Maroon and Gold captains played,
by a ninth inning rally, 6 to 5, which a graduate tennis team
defeated a College tennis team, 6 to 2.
Following the dinner the College team

nine,

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13

ALUMNI MEETING
More than 600 graduates, exclusive of the members of
were present Saturday morning in the College

this year’s class,

auditorium for the general meeting of

the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College Alumni Association, one of the
ganization has ever held.

finest the

or-

Announcement was made during the meeting by Prof. 0.
charge of the Alumni Memorial and Trophy
Room, that the original indebtedness for furnishings of $3,000
had been reduced to less than $1,000.
Both Mr. Bakeless and
R. Bruce Albert, alumni president and the presiding officer, exH. Bakeless, in

pressed the hope that subscriptions of reunion classes during the

day would wipe out the debt and allow the purchase of additional furnishings needed to complete the project, now entering its
fourth year.

Members of the graduating class, following the fine custom
inaugurated by the class of 1931, marched into the meeting attired in caps and gowns and John C. Adamson, of Mahanoy City,
class treasurer, presented a check of $192 for the class dues in
the association.

This

is

the third consecutive year that a grad-

uating class has joined the association

1

00 per

cent.

Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the institution, extended

welcome to the alumni on behalf of the trustees, faculty
Officers of the organization were
and undergraduate body.
a royal

re-elected.

The main floor of the auditorium was practically filled and
some were in the balcony when the meeting opened at 11:00
o’clock.
Seated on the platform were Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,
president emeritus; Prof. F. H. Jenkins, George E. Elwell,
former trustee and alumni president, and Dr. Haas.
The 932
class was admitted to membership.
Upon entering the auditorium they massed in the front, Mr. Adamson presented the check
for dues, and the class and alumni, under the direction of Miss
Harriet M. Moore, sang the Alma Mater.
The graduating class
1

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14

left

immediately for the dining

room

hall so that there

would be more

for alumni for the luncheon.

The report of F. H. Jenkins, association treasurer, showed
Howard F.
$1,596.23 and a balance of $886.76.
Fenstemaker, editor of the Alumni Quarterly since its revival in
1926, urged all to cooperate in sending in news of graduates
and thanked those who have contributed.
D. D. Wright, treasurer of the Worthy Student Fund, an
Alumni project, reported a total of $3206.38 with $2,591.50
receipts of

now

out in loans.

Mr. Jenkins, as treasurer, presented
treasurer of the College

Mr. Bakeless

in his

Alumni

Room

He

as

$900 would be wiped

out dur-

told of additional furnishings needed.

Mr. Albert thanked
cient service

Bakeless,

response told of the work and of the hope

that the present indebtedness of

ing the day.

to Mr.

Fund, a check for $400.

all

and remarked

any money through loans

to

of the

men

and

for their loyal

effi-

that never has the association lost

worthy students of the institution.
were re-elected on recommenda-

Officers of the association

tion of the

making

nominating committee, W. B.

the report.

The

officers are:

Sutliff,

the

chairman,

President, R. B. Albert,

1867; Prof. 0. H.
1924; Treasurer, F. H. Jenkins,
Fred W.
1876; Executive Committee
Diehl, 1909, chairman, of Danville; Mrs. C. W. Funston, 1885;
Maurice E. Houck, 1910, of Berwick; Daniel J. Mahoney, 1909,
Wilkes-Barre; Miss Harriet Carpenter, 1896, and Dennis D.
1906; Vice-Presidents, Dr. D.

Bakeless, 1879; Secretary,

J.

Waller,

Edward

Jr.,

F. Schuyler,

—

Wright, 1911.

was given a standing ovation when

Dr. D. J. Waller

duced.

He spoke of the fact that both George

himself, the only living

members

of the

E.

Class of

intro-

and
1867, were
Elwell

present and were the oldest class in reunion.

Introduced by Mr. Albert as a
to the

alumni through

whose administration

it

his interest

man who made

himself dear

and cooperation and under

has been a pleasure for graduates to re-

turn to Bloomsburg, Dr. Haas spoke briefly.

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He extended

a hearty welcome.

It is

15

true,

he pointed out,

have been many improvements to the physical plant
few years and others will be made.
However, a fine physical plant and a beautiful campus, while deAn institution is made by its
sired, do not make an institution.
By and large, the
trustees, faculty, students and graduates.
College president said, the final test of an educational institution
focuses on its graduates.
that there

of the College in the past

Dr. Henry Bierman, of Bloomsburg, reported for the class
882 which had 5 of its 36 members back for the fiftieth year
reunion.
Half of its number have passed away.
One member,
Mrs. C. M. Sanders, who came from Delta, Colo., to attend the
reunion, was introduced.
Several members have made contributions to the Memorial Room Fund and additional contributions

of

1

be made, Dr. Bierman

will

said.

887, was the only member of her class at the meeting, and responded. Another member, W. C. Johnston, of Bloomsburg, had been at the College
earlier in the morning.
Miss Laura White, of the class of

1

There were 13 members back for the
A. Kearns, of Fall River, Mass., reported.

class of

The

1892, John

class

had

members and 21 have passed away. Of the men in the
three became lawyers, three physicians and one a dentist.

92
class

Low, of Orangeville, reported 25 back for the class
Thirty dollars had been received for the Alumni
up to that time and more was expected.

0. Z.

of

1

897.

Room

Miss Marie Dean, of Wilkes-Barre, reported 23 of a class
of

1

19 back for the

the fund

thirtieth

year reunion.

A

contribution to

was promised.

William V. Moyer, Bloomsburg’s President of Council, re-

907.
There were 25 members back
and he promised substantial support by the class for the fund.
He drew a laugh when the remark that he had known only a
couple of minutes before that he was to report for the class and
ported for the class of

1

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that

back

in

1907 he found out only about
was to graduate.

five

minutes before

the exercises that he

Mr. Savage of the class of 1912 reported 38 of 192
bers back for the twentieth year reunion and

mem-

$100 pledged

to

the fund.
J.

J., reported 50 of the
1917 back and the decision of the

Stewart Wiant, of Bloomfield, N.

180 members of the
class to turn over a

Edward

class of

balance of $1 10 to the fund.

1922 had raised $25 for
five years ago he
had been the only man among more than 50 back for the reunion.
Saturday he said he was the only man of the class back
the fund

Yost, of Ringtown, said

and expected more.

along with 69

Mr. Yost said

girls.

Mrs. Davenport reported 75 of the

300 members

of the

1927 were present.

She reported her class as being
and that among its members was
the first person to ever receive a degree from the institution.
Miss Norma Knoll reported for the “baby” class in reunion,
1930, which had 75 members back.

class of

the largest ever to graduate

who had not acted on contribufund to make them before the day was over.
He
spoke on the fact that the alumni had lost a fine feature in not
having many county associations any more.
He spoke of the
Mr. Albert urged classes

tions to the

splendid Philadelphia organization and Mrs. Florence Cool,
that city, reported of the

work

two banquets with splendid

there.

interest

of

The association has held
and attendance. During

the winter a luncheon club meets once a month.
J.

Howard

Patterson,

a

United States

commissioner,

to
to

in

was planned
Bloomsburg and said he hoped

charge of the motorcade from Philadelphia, said

it

make an annual pilgrimage to
have twice as many back next year.
E. H. Nelson,

alumni marshal, had charge of the procession

of classes into the dining hall for the luncheon which followed,
the arrangement being the best in years.

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17

ALUMNI DINNER

“The glories of the past are surpassed only by the present
and the glories of the future and if you uphold Dr. Haas and the
College staff you need have no fears of the future,” almost 1000
Bloomsburg Alumni, the greatest number ever assembled for the
annual luncheon, were told by Lindley H. Dennis, a graduate and
now Deputy Superintendent in the State Department of Public
Instruction.

There were 940 served at the luncheon, one of the feaan outstanding Alumni Day.
The large dining room
was unable to accommodate the crowd, and additional tables
had to be hastily erected in the lobby. This was done in a very
tures of

short time.

R. Bruce Albert,

association

president,

presided

at

luncheon with the College orchestra, under the direction of

the

How-

Fenstemaker, furnishing a program of music as the alumni
assembled and during the serving of the luncheon.
The floral
ard

F.

decorations were the most beautiful ever effected

for the

casion, beautiful bouquets of tulips adorning each table.

Harriet M.

Moore capably

led in

group singing.

John McGuffy, one of the College’s

number

of years ago,

opening

In

his

athletic

heroes of

a

was introduced.

address Mr. Dennis said that one of the

est things that brings

oc-

Miss

graduates back

is

fin-

the opportunity such an

occasion affords to meet former teachers whose work has touch-

ed the

lives of

many more deeply

than they will

ever know.

He paid tribute to faculty members of the past and the present
and spoke of the exceptionally fine spirit now existing between
the College and its graduates, a condition brought about through
the leadershnp of President Haas, of the College, and President
Albert, of the Association.

He

is

was a lot of satisfaction to see
being made and to know that the institution
said

it

the progress that
is

as

much need-

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now

ed

as in the past

and

that

serving as well

it is

now

as

it

has

ever served.

He spoke
it

later

of the founding of the school as an

being a normal school and

academy, of

then a teachers college.

Dennis referred to the fact that for 3

1

years of the past

38

Mr.
the

College has been guided by two former State Superintendents,
Dr. Waller
tion

is

and Dr. Haas.

in close

He

said that

means

that the institu-

contact with the State.

There are other developments ahead, and one would be a
prophecy what they are.
He spoke of the present con-

fool to

had no fears for Bloomsburg and declared
development going on in the local institution will keep

ditions but said he

that the
it

in the forefront of

He
public

is

said that

the institutions of the State.

some adjustments must be made, but

finding that

it

is

that the

not safe to jeopardize the educational

program in an effort to effect economy.
He spoke of the fact
that Bloomsburg is one of but two such institutions in the five
counties it serves and that it draws most of its students from
two counties in which there is no other such institution of higher learning.

At the conclusion of his address former faculty members and
They were
wives were presented and warmly received.
Dr. Waller, Prof, and Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, Mrs. J. G. Cope, Prof,
and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless and Prof, and Mrs. Charles H. Albert.
their

o

Six schools

were entered

in

the second annual High School

of the Alpha Psi
and evening, February
The schools represented were Lake Township, North
27th.
Scranton Junior High, Hughestown, Dimock, Scott Township and
Sunbury.
The tournament was won by the cast of North Scranton Junior High School under the direction of Raymond T.

Play Tournament,

Omega

held under the

auspices

Fraternity, Saturday afternoon

Hodges, of the

class of

1930.

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T.

W. Booth, rounding

19

out his sixth year as athletic coach

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has made a review
of the athletic teams of the institution.
In that time the football team has gamed twenty-four vicBaskettories, lost twenty-three games and played four ties.
ball has compiled the finest percentage with sixty-seven victorBaseball has just broken even
ies and twenty-seven defeats.
with eighteen triumphs against the same number of set-backs.
During that time the Maroon and Gold has captured two
at the

basketball championships
in

1928 and 1931, and

in

in

the State Teachers College ranks,

baseball the State

Seven games, four of them

to

title

be played

came

in

in 1927.
Bloomsburg,

932

at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
There is a possibility that an
eighth game will be placed on the schedule.
Oswego, N. Y., Teachers College, is a newcomer on the
Bloomsburg schedule and will play here November 19th, the

are listed thus far for the football season of

closing

game

1

of the season.

The other

six

teams,

California,

Millersville,

Mansfield,

Lock Haven, Shippensburg and East Stroudsburg, have been on

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the Maroon and Gold gridiron schedule for several seasons and
most of those institutions have for many years had places on the

schedule.

whom

game has been played
on
the
schedule this year.
for the
is
Kutztown was desirous of a later date which Bloomsburg was
unable to provide this year, thus causing a temporary severing
Kutztown, with

the opening

not

past several years,

of gridiron relations.

As the schedule stands at present, California is tentatively
be played in Western Pennsylvania on October
st.
This game may be moved up to the 5th of that month.
If this
is done, the schedule may open a week later than is now planned
listed to

1

1

or another opening season attraction

game remains where
the

1

may be

secured.

If

the

now, and no opponent is scheduled for
5th, the squad that day may be taken to a college game in
it is

this section.

The Home Coming game has not been designated but will
November 5th, when Shippensburg is here
two weeks later in the closing game with Oswego. With

either be Saturday,

or

Shippensburg a
the

rival of

Home Coming Day

over township,

is

many

game

years, that

will probably be
Leo Yozviak, Han-

sports attraction.

the captain-elect of the team.

During the spring months there has been considerable
vities in the three

The

spring

results of the baseball

sports

—

baseball,

— Bloomsburg,
—Bloomsburg,
— Hanover, Bloomsburg,
—Bloomsburg,
May 4 — Bloomsburg,
May — Bloomsburg,
— Bloomsburg, 2
May
May
— Bloomsburg, Alumni,
team had
The
—Shippensburg Bloomsburg.

April
April

April

and

season are as follows

April 16

20
23
28

tennis

12; Shippensburg, 5.
1

5

;

Shippensburg, 9.
6.

;

12; Mansfield, 3.

14; Mansfield, 5.

7
1

3

21

3; East Stroudsburg, 5.
East Stroudsburg, 4.
;

6;

the following schedule

College tennis

April 16

1

5.

at

acti-

track.

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—Shippensburg
Bloomsburg.
—
— Thomas
Bloomsburg.
— Thomas
30 —
Bloomsburg.
May 4 —
Bloomsburg.
May —
Stroudsburg
4
May
— Stroudsburg
Lewisburg.
May 8 —
20

April

at

Shippensburg.

22
April 23
April 29

St.

April

Mansfield at Mansfield.

April

Bucknell University at

College at Scranton.
College at

St.

Mansfield at

7
1

1

East

at

at East Stroudsburg.

East

Bucknell University at

The College track team participated in two meets. The
meet with Lock Haven, although lost by Bloomsburg
showed that the College team was stronger than it has been for
many years. Lock Haven won the meet by gaining a total of
The
7 6/2 points as against 58'/2 points won by Bloomsburg.
events in which Bloomsburg took place were: 100 yard dash,
won by Thomas; the 220 yard dash, won by Thomas; the halfmile and mile, won by Rinker; the discus shot put and javelin,
won by Rudowski.
The second meet was the annual track and field meet of
Tie eastern division of State Teachers Colleges held at West
Bloomsburg sent twelve men to
Chester Saturday, May 4th.
this meet but only one man succeeded in gaining any points for

first,

a dual

1

Rudowski, Bloomsburg’s only point winner, won
and the javelin throw.
Rudowski threw the sixteen pound shot thirty-nine feet, eleven and three-fourth inches,
thereby breaking the record for State Teachers Colleges.
West
Chester was the winner of the meet while Bloomsburg placed
Bloomsburg.

the shot put

seventh.

o

McHenry, for many years an employee of the ColWednesday, March 9th, at the home of his daughter,

Russell
lege, died

Mrs. William H. Housel, of Bloomsburg.

Mr. McHenry retired

from active service six weeks before his death.
He would have
been ninety-three years of age had he lived until his birthday in
April.
Death was due to paralysis.

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ATHLETIC BANQUET

One

was the
second annual Athlet e Banquet, held in the College dining room
Saturday evening, May 7.
The banquet was begun as an annual college event last year, and was instituted for the purpose
of giving public recognition to both men and women students
of the outstanding social events of the year

who have been

active in athletics during the year.

The speaker of the evening was Dr. Henry Crane, Pastor
Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church of Scranton. His
subject was “Growth.”
of the

R. Bruce Albert, President of the

Alumni Association, pre-

During the evening, a program of music
was given by the Maroon and Gold Orchestra. Previous to the
presentation of athletic awards. Dr. Haas introduced the guests,
and Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the College, was
sided as toastmaster.

given a standing ovation
resents the genius of
Dr.

Haas presented

who were

also

when presented

Bloomsburg and

members

to eleven

its

as the

man “who

members

of the Senior Class,

of varsity teams, gold keys

and

certifi-

cates in recognition of their athletic achievements during

four years

in college.

rep-

finest traditions.”

The following men were

their

so honored:

Robert A. Brown, tennis 1930, 1931, 1932, Captain 1932;
John R. Carr, basketball 1932; John A. Hall, football 1929,
Clarence L. Hunsicker basketball manager 1932;
1930, 1931
Anthony Kanjorski, football 1930, 1931, wrestling 1930; Harold M. Morgan, football 1930, baseball 1931, 1932; Frank J.
Perch, football 1931; GeorgeS. Rinker, track 1929, 1931,
1932; Nicholas Rudowski, football 1929, 1930, 1931, basket;

ball

1930, 1931, 1932, captain 1932, baseball

1931,

1930,

1932, captain 1932, track 1930, 1931, 1932; Joseph A. Slominski, baseball

1931, 1932; Daniel Thomas, track 1929, 1930,

1932, captain 1930, football 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931

;

Henry

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J.

Warman,

football 1928, 1929, 1930,

23

1931,

captain 1931,

basketball 1929, 1930, 1931, track 1928.

Miss Lillian Murray and Miss Lucy

McCammon

presented

women. These awards consisted of numerals,
letters and chevrons, depending upon the number of points gained by the various participants.
The award made each year to
the woman student who has done the most to advance the women’s athletic program was presented to Miss Beatrice Girton, a
Senior.
Letter awards to the members of the various varsity
and junior varsity teams were made by J C. Koch and E. H.
the awards to the

Nelson.

o

REPORT OF

F. H.

Alumni Association

B. S. T. C.

TREASURER

JENKINS,

— May

18,

1931

to

May

20,

1932

RECEIPTS
Balance on Hand

May

18,

$ 375.11

1931

Alumni Dues

1218.00

Interest

3.12

$1596.23

EXPENDITURES
Printing Quarterly, 4 Issues
Other Printing and Supplies
Printing and Supplies For Loan Fund Account
Postage
Postage For Alumni Loan Fund Account
Clerical

$ 402.49

62.80
21.20
38.10
6.78
83.10
10.00
25.00
30.00
30.00

Work

Attorney Fee
Advertising

— Obiter

Commission
Commission

to Editor
to Business

Manager

Total Expenditures
Balance on Hand May 20, 1932:
Checking Account
Savings Account

$ 709.47

$779.87
106.89
$

886.76

$1596.23

Examined and Approved:

AULA
C.

M.

F.

HOLTER,

HAUSKNECHT,
Auditing Committee.
F. H. JENKINS, Treasurer.

MAY DAY
A
over

1

spectacle of beauty

000

was presented

May Day Program
Monday, May 6th.

at the

annual

Olympus Field,
The theme of

to

an

audience

of

presented on Mt.

1

program was in keeping with the bicentennial of Washington’s birth.
The idea around which the program was built was a garden party given by Patsy, daughter of
Dances given by groups reprethe first President and his wife.
senting each of the thirteen colonies, and presented in costume,
were a feature that took many days of effort, but will be remembered long by the large crowd of enthusiastic spectators.
From the opening by the grand march of the several hundred participants and the entrance of the May Queen, Miss
Margaret J. Francis, of Edwardsville, and her attendants, until
an hour and one-half later when the program reached its climax
by the winding of fifteen gaily colored may-poles, there was
presented a beautiful picture which has seldom been equaled.
A new feature of the program was the presence of the College
Band which played the music for most of the dances. The
band was under the direction of R. R. Llewellyn.
the

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The second annual banquet

25

Alumni
on
April 23rd, brought forth another representative Bloomsburg
gathering
joyous, enthusiastic and loyal to the nth degree.
The response of the alumni from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware and New York to the call of the Philadelphia organization was very gratifying, and tells us there is a strong bond of
friendship uniting all who have been touched with the hand of
Bloomsburg.
As we looked into the faces and saw them light
up as friend met friend we knew they were glad to be there, and
glorious
proud to be identified with our fine group.
It was a
picture as they marched into that fine banquet room, led by Dr.
and Mrs. Haas, Dean and Mrs. Sutliff, Dr. Bakeless, Dr. and Mrs.
Harthne to the strains of delightful music rendered by a woman’s
orchestra under the direction of Miss Katherine O’Boyle, daughter of Hannah Reese O’Boyle, ’88.
After singing “America,”
Prof. Bakeless delivered the invocation and the banquet was
under way, during which the College and old Normal songs were
of the

Philadelphia

Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, held

—

sung.

A

meeting was held.
Mrs. Foley, the secreand banquet of last May 9
were re-elected for another term, viz. Mrs. Flor-

brief business

tary, read a report of the reunion

the old officers

ence Hess Cool, ’88, President; Mrs. Willie Morgan Stein, ’08,
Vice President; Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley, ’08, Secretary; Mrs.
Julia Sharpless Fagely, ’95, Treasurer.

stressing the thought

new

“Make new

are silver, the old are gold.”

Mrs. Cool spoke briefly

friends, but

keep the

old.

The

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Mrs. Cool then introduced

Toastmaster,

the

Herman

F.

prominent educator, and Superintendent of the Pottstown schools.
He is a Bloomsburg boy of whom we are all
mighty proud. He captured his audience in the beginning
Fritz, a

with that fine sonorous voice of
rily

his,

and the evening

rolled

mer-

on.

Roll call of classes from 1867 to 1931 showed 1900 as
having the largest representation.
Last year 1908 carried off
this honor.
Let each class vie with another to bring out the

greatest

number next

April.

We

were glad to have with us again Mrs. Wilson (affectiontermed Mintie Wilson) formerly of Bloomsburg but now
She is the
of Philadelphia, and a sprightly little lady she is.
oldest Alumnus :n Philadelphia, and taught in the school when it
was known as the Bloomsburg Literary Institute. Miss Anna
E. Roxby, ’79, of Swarthmore (a classmate of Prof. Bakeless)
end Miss Bridget Burns, ’80, of Shenandoah, were guests of
honor.
They have a record of 52 and 53 years respectively of
teaching.
ihe youngest alumni present were Florence Hochberg and Robert Sutliff, '31
the latter being the son of Dean
and Mrs. Sutliff.
ately

—

Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College, gave a very
interesting talk.

He brought

greetings from Dr. Waller

gretted his inabTty to be with us this year.

who

re-

Dr. Waller in send-

ing his regrets to the Association writes of Dr.

Haas

“The development of the College year by year
under the administration of Dr. Haas can only be appreciated by those Alumni that return.
President
Haas is a great executive.
His hand is on the throttle
every hour.
ployees are

Trustees, Faculty,
all

How happy we

devoted

Students and

is

Em-

him.”

are in the knowledge that a

high character and ability

Alma Mater.

to

now

guiding

man

the destiny

of such
of our

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George
town, N.

J.,

C.

27

Baker, ’02, Superintendent of Schools, Moores-

and President of the

New

Jersey

State

Teachers’

Association, gave us a snappy address.

A note of sadness was then injected into the meeting by
announcement of the passing away that morning of Dr.
Anthony McNelis, beloved husband of Margaret Moran, ’90.
The gathering stood a few moments offering a prayer for the
A modead, and asking God to comfort the sorrowing widow.
tion was passed directing the Secretary, Mrs. Foley, to send a
letter of sympathy to Mrs. McNelis.
the

Mr. Fritz paid fine tribute to the

memory

of

Professors

Cope and Wilbur. He then called upon Professors Bakeless
and Hartline, who both gave us inspiring addresses, each in his

own

inimitable way.

Dean

Sutliff,

the speaker of the evening, followed with

brief talk in his usual delightful

a

manner.

Bloomsburg has been extremely fortunate in obtaining
teachers who have dedicated mind, body
and spirit to their work, and as a consequence they will never
cease to be living personalities to us all.
These dear teachers
by their presence and with their messages added much to the
enjoyment of the evening.
We appreciate very much the coming of Dr. Haas and his family.
truly great teachers

’

1

—

Vocal solos by Mrs. J. Howard Patterson and Mr. Noack,
O’Boyle at the piano, were very much appreciat-

6, with Miss

ed.

We

regretted the absence of Claude E. Houseknecht, ’00,

who

so ably led our group singing last year.

until

midnight,

After the dinner, visiting and dancing

You

’Till

We

Sorry

when we parted

singing as

we

were indulged in
left “God be With

Meet Again.’’

we

could not read

good wishes received.

all

the

messages of regret and
will be held at Willow

Basket picnics

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Grove Park on the second Saturday of July, August and SeptemBring your families.
ber, to which everyone is invited.

FLORENCE HESS COOL,
120 North 50th

’88, Pres.,

Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,
8134 Hennig Street,

’08, Secy.,

Fox Chase, Pa.
^

^ ^

The March luncheon of the Philadelphia Alumni Association
was held in the Paul Revere Room, Gimbel’s Restaurant, Saturday, March 12, with the President, Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, ’88,
in the chair.
Thirty-three members were present, representing
classes from 1886 to 1925.
After the report of the secretary, there was a brief intermission for renewing old acquaintances, which
tiful

is

the most beau-

feature of these meetings, thus strengthening our ties

to

dear old Bloomsburg.

George

C. Baker, ’02, Superintendent of the

Mooresgave
a
brief
resume
of
his
life
and
progress
J.,
since leaving Bloomsburg.
With him was his wife, Mrs. Lillian
Gardner Baker, of the class of 1900.
Dr.

town, N.

schools,

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Frantz, of Moorestown, were present.
Mrs. Frantz, ’95,

is

president of the

Mr. Frantz, also of 1895, was,

member

New

during his

Jersey W.

days

at

C.

T. U.

Normal, a

of the football team.

Mrs. Cool then read a clipping concerning Ethel Echter’99, who was chosen as
J. P. Echternach,
chairman of the committee on arrangements of the Senior Prom
Miss Echternach was also a member of the comat Bryn Mawr.
mittee on arrangements for the May Day celebration at Bryn

nach, daughter of

Mawr.
Mr. Claude Houseknecht, director of music at West Chester
State Teachers College, gave a brief address.

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William Watkins,

Raymond

00;

18; Reuben Farver,

Hart,

’87,

and H.

29

Gallagher, ’24;

Ralph

T. Frantz, ’95, express-

ed their pleasure at attending the luncheon.

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,

Sec’y.

¥¥¥¥¥
One

Alumni Day was the attendance of
About forBloomsburg in cars.
Arrangements for

of the features of

a large representation of the Philadelphia Alumni.
ty-five

people drove to

A partial
J. Howard Patterson.
who made up the party follows
Howard Patterson and family, Mrs. Anna Sandoe Hoke,

the trip were in charge of Mr.
list

of those
J.

Miss Jennie Gilchrist, Chester

Oman Buchman,
Townsend

Mr. and

McAfee and
Norman G.

Mrs.

Eyer, Mrs. Adele Shaffer

family,
Cool,

Broughall,

Mrs. Lena

Mrs.

Mr.

Emma

and Mrs.

George Kinney and family, Mrs. Louella Burdick Singuett, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Foley and family, Mrs. Willie Morgan Stein
and son, Mr. Bernard Kelley, Miss Catherine Boyle, Mr. and
Mrs. Reuel Burr, Virginia Gallen Knight, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Pettitt,

Mrs.

Emman

Berry Motter, Miss Anna E.

billa

Schobert Campbell, Mr.

Effie

Heaton Hook.

Elliott,

Mrs. Sa-

and Mrs. Will Fagley and Mrs.

o
A.

Z.

Schoch, for

many

years a

member

of the

Board of

Trustees of the State Teachers College, was re-elected President
of the board at the annual luncheon of the trustees on Tuesday,

May

24th, following the

commencement

exercises.

Paul E. Wirt was elected Vice-President,

and Joseph L.
Townsend, Secretary and Treasurer.
Organization was the only business coming before the
meeting.
Dr. James N. Rule, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, was a guest at the meeting.
Attending the luncheon were: Mr. Schoch, Mr. Wirt, Mr.
Townsend, Dr. Rule, Dr. Haas, Fred W. Diehl, Harry S. Barton,
Miss Effie Llewellyn and Dr. E. A. Glenn.

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“Trophy Room”
REPORT OF O. H. BAKELESS, TREASURER OF THE BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE TROPHY ROOM FUND
AS OF MAY 15, 1932.

—

May

Cash on Hand
1, 1931
Payments Received From May
Interest on Account

$
1,

1931 to

May

15,

1932

18.42
1012.50
.14

TOTAL RECEIPTS

$1031.06

Disbursements
May 25, 1931 Payment on Note
$322.00
May 25 Payment S. J. Johnson, Fire Insurance
64.06
May 27 Payment To Bloomsburg Floral Co., Flowers for Alumnae Day, May 23
10.00
May 28 Payment on Note
250.00
June 1 Payment on Note
150.00
June 4 F. H. Jenkins, Treas. of Fund, Payment
of Cash Advanced
21.00
June 29 Payment on Note
50.00
June 11 O. H. Bakeless, Postage and Stationery _
7.53
October 15 Payment on Note
25.00
December 3 Payment on Loans
45.00
December 22 Payment on Loans
30.00
Interest Paid on Loans
102.55

—
—
—
—
—
—
—

—

—

—
—

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
May

15,

1932

$1027.14

— Cash on Hand

ASSETS AS OF MAY

$

3.92

15, 1932.

Furnishings at Cost
Cash on Hand

$2937.50
3.92

$2941.42

LIABILITIES AS OF

MAY

15, 1932.

Note to Bloomsburg Bank,
Columbia Trust Company
$1400.00
Less Payments
500.00
O. H. Bakeless, Personal

900.00
400.00

Loan From Quarterly Fund

TOTAL LIABILITIES

$1300.00

NET WORTH

$1641.42
O. H.

Examined and Approved:
Paul C. Webb,
C.

M. Hausknecht.

BAKELESS,

Treasurer.

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JUNE

1,

1932

31

STATEMENT

The Classes Holding Reunions on May

21,

1932 Con-

tributed Cash
F. H. Jenkins, Treasurer of Quarterly Fund Transferred to
the “Trophy Room” Fund
Leaving Balance of Indebtedness, June 1, 1932
Pledges Still Unpaid Amount to List as Follows:

Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class

’79
’86
’93
’94
’99
’05
’06
’10
’15
’20
’25
’27
’29

$

$400.00
$636.00

2.00
7.00
5.00

41.50
3.00
62.50
44.00
99.00
4.00
80.00
4.00
225.00
15.00

TOTAL
NOTE:

$264.00

$592.00

This sum will be paid when the hustlers of each class in arrears take time to get after the matter. The treasurer will
be glad to secure the funds and close out the indebtedness
as soon as possible.

Classes thus far have responded to the project as follows:
Class
Unpaid
Pledged
Paid
’75

’76
’79
’80
’81

’82
’83
’84
’85
’86
’89
’90
’91
’92
’93
’94
’95
’96

$13.50
10.00
21.00
51.00
127.00
25.00

$13.50
10.00
19.00
51.00
127.00
25.00

5.00
2.00

5.00
2.00

30.00
114.00
115.00
72.00
12.00
30.00

30.00
107.00
115.00
72.00
12.00
30.00

5.00

108.00
47.00
14.00

$

-

2.00

7.00

5.00

66.50
47.00
14.00

41.50

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’97
’98
’99
’01
’02
’04
’05
’06
’07
’09

30.50

30.50

TO
’ll

T2
’14
’15

T6
T7
T9
’20
’21

’22
’24

’25
’27
’29
’30
’31

1.00

1.00

50.00
19.00
33.00
33.00
100.00
100.00
57.50
101.00
150.00
144.00
100.00
25.00
70.00
26.00
1.00
100.00
100.00
32.00
30.00
21.50
30.00
250.00
35.00
257.00
300.00

47.00
19.00
33.00
33.00
37.50
56.00
57.50
101.00
51.00
144.00
20.00
25.00
66.00
26.00

3.00

62.50
44.00

99.00
80.00
4.00

1.00

100.00
20.00
32.00
30.00
21.50
26.00
25.00
20.00
257.00
300.00

80.00

4.00

225.00
15.00

FUNDS FROM OTHER SOURCES
F. H. Jenkins, Treasurer of

Alumni Association

W. (Miss Mason, Treas.)
*Members of Faculty Not Graduates
Unknown Source
A. A. U.

of B. S. T. C.

Accumulated Interest

$400.00
10.00
14.00
.33

7.56
10.55
are graduates of B. S.

Special
* Contributions of members of the faculty who
T. C. are counted with their respective classes.

o

Miss Sara Lentz, of Bloomsburg, a

member

of the class of

1934, has been selected to represent the College at the Laurel
Blossom Festival, held in the Poconos during the month of June.
Bloomsburg’s representative last year was Miss Cora Wagner,
’31, of Shamokin.

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A

large audience

of the Girls’

33

was delighted by the musical program

Glee Club, directed by Jessie Patterson, assisted by

Edison D. Harris, tenor, and the Maroon and Gold Orchestra,

Fenstemaker.
Mr. Harris, a graduate of
Bloomsburg, sang two groups of songs.
He has a voice of fine

directed by H. F.

One of the features of the
quality and delighted the audience.
program was the Cantata “Spring Rapture,” by Gaul.
o

The Men’s Glee Club appeared in
evening, May 3th.
The first part of

its

Spring Concert Friday

program consisted of
and also included a
solo by Miss Harriet M. Moore, director of the Club.
The second part of the program was a presentation of “Cleopatra,” a
burlesque of College iife by John W. Brigham.
The entire program gave evidence of the high standard which the Club has
1

the

a series of well rendered vocal numbers,

reached

in

recent years.

o

The

Gamma

Theta Epsilon chapter of the Geography Proone of the newest fraternities on the College campus that is national in scope, received three alumni and
four students into membership on Friday, May 8. Admiral Byrd
was made an honorary member of this fraternity during his visit
to Bloomsburg in February.
Graduates received into membership were: Misses Harriet
Carpenter, Miriam Lawson and Maynard Pennington.
Student
members received were: Wallace Derr, June Mensch, Mary
Schuyler and Alex Shepella.
fessional Fraternity,

Officers of the fraternity are:

Charles Hensley, President;

Edgar Artman, Vice-President; Melba Beck, Secretary; Alfred
Vandling, Treasurer, and Dr. H. H. Russell, Sponsor.

——o
-

The double quartette

gram

of the Glee Club furnished a fine pro-

of music at the meeting of the

held Thursday,

May

1

2th.

Bloomsburg Kiwams Club

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34

H. C. “Daddy” Grotz has gone over his last beat.
The veteran night watchman, who, for almost a score of
years, was on duty at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and who retired six years ago, slept peacefully away Tuesday,

May

1

home

7 at the

H. H.

of his son,

Grotz,

on East Eighth

Street.
Infirmities of age brought death to a man whose friends
were legion.
“Daddy” would have observed his ninetieth birthday in July and had been confined to his bed but a week. Death
came just as the clock was tolling the hour of ten. He remain-

ed conscious almost to the end.

A

lifelong resident of

Bloomsburg Mr. Grotz followed the

trade of tanner and later of millwright before going to the Col-

Bloomsburg State Normal School,
night watchman.
lege, then the

to

become

the

For 6 years he made his nightly rounds and he became
one of the most popular men on the campus.
1

All students

were

his friends

trouble for him to do for them.

and nothing was too much
Each year at Commencement
hours signing his photograph

time “Daddy” was kept busy for
which always appeared near the front of the Obiter.
No year
book was complete unless it contained “Daddy’s” signature.

Cherished

among

his

of photographs of those

boys and

belongings were scores upon scores

“Daddy”

referred

to

fondly

as

“his

girls.”

Always on Alumni Day “Daddy” was among the first
left the campus
upon retirement those student friends, who numbered thousands,
never forgot “Daddy.”
sought by returning alumni and even after he

Seldom,

if

ever, did Mr. Grotz miss an athletic contest at

the institution.

He

and sympathized

in their defeats.

No

rejoiced with the students in their victories

figure at the College in

loved than “Daddy” and

sympathy

to

members

many

many

years was more generally

regret his passing

of his family.

and extend

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35

Surviving are four children: H. M. Grotz, of Eighth Street,

with

whom

F. Grotz, of

he resided; Mrs. Mary E. Shutt, of Fernville; Alfred
Forty Fort, and Robert B.

Also surviving are

five

Grotz, of Jenkintown.
grand children and three great grand

—— —

children.

-

o-

A

hundred members of the faculty and Board of Trustees

of the Teachers College, together with

were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Francis

members

of their fami-

Haas of the Teachers
College, Saturday, May 4. Dr. Waller also was one of the guests.
A lawn party had been planned, but showers necessitated
moving indoor.
Following dinner, card and other games were
lies,

B.

enjoyed.

o

Northampton High School won the second annual commercontest at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Satur-

cial

day,

test

May

7th.

The attendance was three times as great as in the first conand twenty high schools, twice the number of last year, par-

ticipated.

Gold, silver and bronze charms

were given

to the

three

highest students in each of the five contests.

The contest was held

May
of

at

the

College

Saturday

7th, in charge of H. A. Andruss, Director of the

Commerce

morning.

Department

of the College.

o
Dr. D.

J.

Waller,

Jr.,

President Emeritus of the College, was

guest of honor of Iota Chapter of the Phi Sigma Pi Fraternity at
its

second annual Founder’s Day Banquet held at Light

Street

Saturday evening, April 23rd.
o

Members

of the faculty gave a

honor of President and Mrs. Francis
April 25th, at the
bridge.

Magee

Hotel.

much enjoyed dinner in
Monday evening,

B. Haas,

The dinner was followed by

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36

ALUMNI
i

+

Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Professor Jenkins
changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at the
address in our files.
All

of

all

o

1875
Mrs. Lillian Edgett

home

Witman died Tuesday,

April

1

3, at the

and daughter, the Rev. and Mrs. J. M.
Witman was born at Carbondale, Pa.,
May 4, 858. She was united in marriage to the Rev. Edwin
H. Witman, who died in 1918, at Danville, where he was pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Reiley, of Altoona, and Mrs. Howard Ryder, of
Shippensburg, Pa., and also by three grandchildren.
of her son-in-law

Reiley, of Altoona.

Mrs.

1

1880
Ernest

Alden

W. Young, Attorney-at-Law, whose address

to note that the Philadelphia
It is

me

Street, St. Paul, Minnesota, writes: “It gives

gratifying to note that

dent of the

because

New

Jersey

my major

W.

2302

Alumni are much like a live wire.
is found the State Presi-

among them
C. T. U.

I

say

this,

activity at the present time

matter of Prohibition, the central
the presidential

is

pleasure

issue, as

it

perhaps chiefly
is

now

campaign immediately ahead.”

given

to the

appears,

in

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37

1881
Dr. H. V.

Hower

lives in

Newton Glover died

J.

Berwick, Pa.

at his

home

in

Vicksburg,

Union

County, Pa., on Monday, February 22, 1932.
Mr. Glover served as teacher for nine years, became a farmer, and later served
as appraiser of estates in Union County.

Helen
ville,

L. Gossler lives at the

Home

Presbyterian

in

New-

Pa.

M.

E.

Simons

is

a

member

of the firm of Simons

and Bodie,

Attorneys-at-Law, located at Honesdale, Pa.

1882
The
fine

c’ass of

time with five

1882, holding

its fiftieth

members back.

year reunion, had a

Half of

its

number
went the

original

of thirty-six has been called by death.
To that class
honor of having a member come the greatest distance.
Mrs.
Minnie Hallstead Sanders, of Delta, Colorado, is still connected
with the schools, being an attendance officer there.
The class during the day honored Miss Sarah M. Hagenbuch, of Berwick, an associate member, who recently rounded
out fifty years of successful teaching.
She was presented with
a beautiful bouquet of flowers by the class for her excellent service in the profession.

During the day the class visited at the home of one of its
members, Mrs. Sue Hower, of West Fifth Street, who was unMrs. Hower gave the
able to attend on account of her health.
class a

and

very beautiful landscape painting of her

this will

be placed

in the

own

creation

Alumni Memorial Room.

Members of the class back for the reunion were: Miss
Sarah M. Hagenbuch, Berwick
Dr. Henry Bierman, Bloomsburg; Mrs. William E. Wagner, Gordon; Franklin E. Hill, Wil;

liamsport; Helen L. Gossler, Newville; Mrs. C. M. Sanders,
Delta, Col.

of

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38

Jennie Helman, a former teacher

aqua, has retired from teaching, and

asaqua Memorial Library.

is

schools of Catas-

the

in

now

Her address

is

librarian in the Cat-

428 Walnut

Street,

Catasaqua.
Mrs. C. M. Halstead Sanders lives

Mary Reagan (Mrs.

E. C.

Delta, Colorado.

in

Hood)

lives at

2608 Jackson

Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa.

Gertrude La Shelle (Mrs. W. E. Wagner)
ber of the faculty at Bloomsburg,

lives at

a former

mem-

Gordon, Pa.

1883
Sarah
Harvey,

E.

Richards Daniels lives at

1

502

1

Myrtle Avenue,

Illinois.

1886

Emma

M. Sites is teaching in the primary grades in HarrisShe has been teaching for forty-three years in the
schools of that city. Her address is 720 North Sixth Street.

burg, Pa.

Ida Bernhard

is

in the

who

Jere Reeder,

jewelry business

in

Bloomsburg.

has retired from teaching, lives

in

Sha-

During the month of May, he attended the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Denver, Colorado, as a
Commissioner representing the Northumberland Presbytery.
mokin, Pa.

D.
J.

iness,

W. Glover
0. Felker

with offices

is

is

practicing law in Miffhnburg, Pa.

in the

in

general insurance and real estate bus-

Room

9,

Second Floor Houck Building,

Lewistown, Pa.

1887
Miss Laura White, of Trucksville; and W. C. Johnston, of
Bloomsburg, were back for the reunion of the class of 1887.

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39

1888

Ambrose Shuman
F. 0.

Maurer has

is

practicing medicine in Catawissa, Pa.

a store in Frackville, Pa.

1889
Margaret Stephens (Mrs. J. Clifton Taylor)
New London, Connecticut.

lives at

139

State Street,

1890
Ella F. Custer, for

many
May

Nanticoke, died Monday,

Abram

years a teacher in the schools of
2, at the

home

of her niece, Mrs.

Lewis. She had taught in the Nanticoke schools for thir-

ty years,

and was next

to the oldest teacher there.

1891
Harvey

B. Rinehart lives in

Waynesboro, Pa. Mr. Rinehart
come to Bloomsburg

expresses his regrets at not being able to

on Alumni Day, and extends greetings

to all of his classmates.

1892
The class of 1892 had fifteen of its original ninety-eight
back and they had a fine time. During the two score years,
twenty-one of the members have passed away.

Members back were:

Eudilia A. Seiwell Bierly, West PittsShamokin; Mrs. Sue Creveling Miller, Weatherly; Mrs. Mary Booth Wragg, Shamokin; John A. Kearns, Fall
River, Mass.; Flora Ransom, Kingston; Edna L. Fairchild, Nanticoke; Cady I. Hawk, Plymouth; Mrs. Edward V. Vanhorne,
Mountain Lakes, N. J.
Mrs. Hattie Ringrose Kmes, Bloomsburg; H. U. Nyhart, Glen Lyon; Katie Douglas, Mrs. F. F. Flem-

ton; Ellen Doney,

;

ing,

Anna

J.

Gavin, Hallie Keffer Hartline, G.

W.

B. Tiffany.

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Katie Dougher (Mrs. T. F. Fleming) lives in Exeter, Pa.
Her daughters, Loretta and Katherine, are members of the class
of 1930, and also have received their Masters’ degrees from Co-

lumbia University.

Mary

E.

Her address

Edna

Booth (Mrs. B. F. Wragg)
123 North Grant Street.

lives in

Shamokin, Pa.

is

L.

Fairchild lives at

1

03 West Main

Street, Nanti-

coke, Pa.

who

Miss Martha Robison,

recently submitted to a severe

operation in the Mercy Hospital at Scranton, has returned to her

home

in

Higgins, N. C.

1893

Norma

B. Nichols (Mrs. William L. Davies) lives at

1419

Lafayette Street, Scranton, Pa.

Martha Powell

is

secretary to H. V. White, of the White

Milling Co., Bloomsburg.

1894
Dr. Fred A. Sutliff lives in Philadelphia, Pa.

His address

is

1901 Cayuga.
Edith A. Nesbit lives on a farm near Milton, Pa.
dress

is

Euphemia M. Green has
living in

Her ad-

R. D. 3, Milton, Pa.
retired

from teaching, and

is

now

Englewood, Florida.

1895
Melissa

S.

of the class of

Lewistown, Pa.

Shaw
1

890.

lives

with her

sister,

Their address

is

1

Margaretta T. Shaw,

8 South Main

Street,

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M.

L.

Laubach

is

Head

41

of the Department of Industrial

Arts at the Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute, Ind.

Dr. B. F. Beale lives at

Mrs. Beale was

Ada

207 High

Street,

Duncannon, Pa.

G. Lewis, also of the class of 1895.

1896
Miss Harriet Carpenter, a

member

of the faculty of the

Junior High School, of Bloomsburg, has recently been elected
to two honorary fraternities at Bloomsburg. On February thirteenth she was received into the Gamma Beta Chapter of the
Kappa Delta Pi National Scholastic Fraternity, and on April
eighth, she was received into membership of Delta Chapter,
Gamma Theta Upsilon, Professional Geographic Fraternity. Miss
Carpenter received her Bachelor’s Degree at Bloomsburg in
1928.

Jane Rosser
N.

lives at

24 South Grove

Street, East

Orange,

J.

1897
The

class of

1897 had twenty-five back

after thirty-five

years and they had a wonderful time informing each other of

themselves and class mates since graduation.

Those back for the day were: Bertha Kelly, of Scranton;
Leonora L. Pettebone, Forty Fort; Mrs. F. L. Scott, Forty Fort;
Mrs. Ed. S. Gething, Nanticoke; W. C. Burns, Northumberland;
R. C. Welliver, Berwick; Bess Davis, Wilkes-Barre; Jessie L.
Gilchrist, Atlantic City, N. J.
0. Z. Low, Orangeville; Mrs.
George J. Curran, Agnes M. Curran, Plymouth; Harry Geinett,
Swineford; Blanche P. Balliet, Williamsport; Emma Forster
;

Sims, Williamsport; C. E. Kreisher, Catawissa; Mrs.

Probert,

Eva Martin, Hazleton; Dora Huber

Thomas

Ely, Hazleton;

H.

Mar-

garet E. Andreas, Hazleton; R. Curtis Welliver, Berwick; Mrs.

W.

F.

Thomas, Hazleton.

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Helen Vanderslice
Curtis Welliver

teaching

is

employed

is

Bloomsburg, Pa.

in

as a

foreman by the A.

C. F.

Co., at Berwick.

Grace Lendrum (Mrs. John H. Coxe) lives at 2 N. PleasNorwalk, Ohio. She is president of the Norwalk
1

ant Street,

Vault Company.

1898

Anna

G.

Seaman

is

principal of an elementary school in

Honesdale, Pa.

Henry F. Broadbent is President of the James B. Lambie
Company, dealers in Hardware, 1415 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.

Florence E.

Bachman

Edith Y. Eves (Mrs.

teaching

is

J.

in

W. Biddle)

Wilkes-Barre.
lives in Millville, Pa.

1899
John A. MacGuffie, now a Luzerne County Commissioner,
to the Republican National Convention, to

was elected delegate
be held

in Chicago.

E. F. Brent

is

Postmaster at Lewistown, Pa.

Warren W. Preston

Dr.

Carrie

S.

Flick

Bloomsburg, Pa.
care of a

filling

station

Bessie Creveling
dress

is

in

J.

Redline)

lives

at R. D.

5,

her various duties, she helps to take

and a

is

C.

Montrose, Pa.

tourist

camp.

a teacher in Irvington, N.

J.

Her ad-

10 Stanley Street.

Gertrude Rinker
is

(Mrs.

Among

lives in

is

Prospect Park, Pa.

teaching in Essington, Pa.

Her home

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43

1900

Pa.

Raymond D. Tobias is practicing law in Mount Carmel,
He recently addressed the Rotary Club of that city, on the

value of real estate as an investment.

1901

Madsen) is mourning the loss of her
April. The following account of his death

Lela Shultz (Mrs.

husband,

who

appeared

in

died

in

a Perth

I.

T.

Amboy,

N.

J.

newspaper:

Ingfred T. Madsen, president of the Perth

ware

Co.,

dropped dead

home

at his

Amboy

Hard-

in Plainfield, N. J., April

24th, of a heart attack.

Mr. Madsen was born in Perth Amboy, N. J, in July, 1879.
He attended the local public schools. In 1897 he was engaged

newspaper business for a time and then took a position
& Wilcox, hardware manufacturers in New
York. He became manager of this company and then became
in the

with Peck, Stow

a manufacturer’s agent for the Eastern States.

He organized the Perth Amboy Hardware Co. in 1909 and
some years ago established a branch of the business in Plainfield.

From 1918 to 1920 he was president of the Perth Amboy
Chamber of Commerce. He was President of the Home for the
Aged, and a director of the Y. M. C. A. He was a member of
the Perth

Amboy

Rotary Club, an Elk, a member of the

A. M. and a Shriner.

He was

also a

member

F.

and

of the Plainfield

Country Club.
Surviving are his widow, Lela Shultz Madsen, three child-

about 20 years. Jack, about 14 years, and Mary
2 years.
Dr. M. P. Madsen, a brother, of Hastings, N. Y., also sur-

ren, Dorothy,

Elizabeth,

1

vives.

Adele Altmiller (Mrs. Geo.
dar Street, Hazleton, Pa.

F.

Burkhardt)

lives at

154 Ce-

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44

Augusta B. Henkelman is an account clerk for the U. S. Government at Washington, D. C. Her address is 33 8 37th Street,
Mt. Ranier, Maryland.
1

Blanche Letson (Mrs. H.
Tennessee. Her husband

is

C.

MacAmis)

lives in Greenville,

Assistant Treasurer of

Tusculum Col-

lege, located in that city.

Keller B. Albert

may be reached

at

Box 204, Reading,

Pa.

1902
There were twenty-five members of the class of 902 back
and they had a fine time. Those
here were: Fred Drumheller, Sunbury, R. D. 3 Helen Czechowicz, Alden Station; Hortense Metcalf, Askam; Marie L. Diem,
Scranton Mrs. Samuel Dresher, Ringtown Blanche Austin Gib1

for the thirtieth year reunion

;

;

;

bons, Wilkes-Barre;

Mary

Mrs.

Ratajski, Scranton;

Amy

B.

Smethers, Berwick; Camille H. Pettebone, Kingston; Grace B.
Everett, Stroudsburg; Margaret

Edwards Morris, Edwardsville

Edith L. Kuntz, Allentown; Edith C. Appenzeller, East

Chunk;

Elsie S.

Knelly,

New York

Mauch

Crawford, Dallas; Jennie Rosenstock Young,
Middletown, N. Y. Hadassen T. Balliet, Williamsport; Sue M.
;

City; Eunice F. Spear, Bethlehem; Mrs. Jen-

nie Williams Cook, Bess

M. Long, Bloomsburg;

Effie

M. Vance,

Etta H. Keller, Orangeville.

Mae Rhodomoyer (Mrs. Oliver Klingerman) of Bloomshome on West Third Street, Sunday evening,

burg, died at her

March 20th. Death was due
atic

rheumatism.

She

is

to a heart condition following sci-

survived by her husband, her mother,

and one daughter.
Mrs. Klingerman was a teacher in the Third Street building
of the Bloomsburg schools for a number of years.
S.

Gertrude Rawson

schools in Scranton, Pa.

Scranton.

is

Principal of one of the elementary

Her address

is

3713 Birney Avenue,

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Fred Drumheller

45

His address

teaching near Sunbury.

is

is

R. D. 3, Sunbury.

Florence Crow (Mrs. W. E. Hebei) lives in Liverpool, Pa.
Her oldest son, Theodore, was a sophomore last year at Penn
State, and is taking a course in Agricultural Economics. He won
a sophomore scholarship for his fine scholastic work. Another
son, John, was graduated from high school this year. A daughter, Shirley, aged
will enter Senior High School in the fall.
Mrs. Hebei is a reporter for six newspapers, a lecturer in the
Grange, and conducts a magazine agency.
1

Florence

She

Barre.

Mary

1

,

Dewey

lives at

employed as a stenographer
74 Carey Avenue.

in

is

1

E. Francis (Mrs. G. H. Gendall) lives at

Wilkes-

333 Forest

Avenue, Rockville Centre, N. Y.

Amy

Smethers

B.

is

Her address

of Berwick.

Camilla Hadsall

teacher of fourth grade

3 5 East

is

1

(Patterson)

1

1

lives

in the

schools

th Street.

at

19 Slocum Street,

Kingston, Pa.

Helen Reice Irvin
schools.

She

lives at

Bessie Rentschler

town,

Pa.

is

a grade teacher in the Philadelphia

4143 Baltimore Avenue.
(Mrs. Samuel Dresher)

Mrs. Dresher

is

lives

in

Ring-

organist and choir director of

St.

John’s Lutheran Church, Ringtown.

1903
Edith Patterson

is

a teacher of English in the Robert Treat

High School, Newark, N.
Avenue, East Orange.

J.

Her address

is

1

48 South Munn

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46

Calvin

J.

Adams

is

Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engi-

neer for the Hudson Coal Company.

His address

1641 Quin-

is

cy Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

1904
Leona Kester (Mrs.

Anna Goyituey

R. Lawton) lives in Millville, Pa.

J.

(Mrs. Fred

W.

Canfield)

the staff of the Indian School at Albuquerque,

a

is

New

member

of

Mexico. She

writes “I had to give up teaching on account of poor health.

am now
and

the school librarian,

and certainly enjoy

my new

I

work,

also better health.”

Shambach is Director of the Child Accounting DiBureau of School Administration, Department of Public
Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa. His address is 2315 Page Street,
Jesse Y.

vision,

Camp

Hill,

Pa.

Gertrude

Rowe

lives at

212 Academy

Street, Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.

1906
Adeline Williams

is

teacher of 8th grade in the schools of

Scranton, Pa.

Mabel R. Farley

Long

Island.

lives

Miss Farley

is

at

108 Cherry

Street,

Hicksville,

principal of the Junior-Senior High

She holds the degrees of B. S. and M. A.
from New York University. While at New York University, she
was elected at Pi Lamba Theta, Rho Chapter, and has been the
School at Hicksville.

chapter treasurer for the past ten years.

Miss Farley has also

been the chapter’s delegate to a biennial council meeting in Indiana, and to a biennial council meeting at Seattle, Washington.
She was selected as delegate to the Pan-Hellenic convention at
Washington, D. C.

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Mary Witman (Mrs. H.

47

A. Ryder) lives in Shippensburg,

Pa.

1907
The twenty-five year class,
907, had twenty-five back
and they had a fine time. The time in the morning was insufficient and the class met again after the luncheon and remained
until late in the afternoon renewing acquaintances.
Those attending were: Gertrude Gross Fleischer; Margaret O’Brien Henseler, West New York; Arvilla Kitchen Eunson,
Bloomsburg; P. W. Englehart, Harrisburg; Lu Lesser Burke,
Union City, N. J. Aleta Bomboy Englehart; Mary Barrow Anderson, Plainfield, N. J.; Helen Hemingway, Bloomsburg; Bertha Sterue Richard, Williamsport; W. V. Moyer, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. John R. MacCulloch, Lodi, N. J.
Mrs. John W. Cressler,
Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Frank Baker, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Arthur
Holt, Hawthorne, N. J.; Mrs. George Wetherly, Rose Barrett,
1

;

;

Archbald; Esther A. Wolfe, Dallas,

R. D. 2

;

Blanche Hoppe

Chrisholm, Nicholson; Elizabeth Dreibelbis Orner, Orangeville;

Mary

E. Hess,

Espy; Helen Wardell

Eiter,

Warsaw,

Ind.

Charles Jenkins Locke, Mrs. Miriam Jones, Whiby;

;

Mrs.

Margaret

G. Dailey, Steelton.

J.

J.

A. E. Rodriguez

President and General

is

Elizabeth P. Evans (Mrs.
la,

Manager

of

A. E. Rodriguez, Inc., San Juan, Porto Rico.

W.

J.

Wilkins) lives

in Chinchil-

Pa.

Helen H. Conner (Mrs.
Avenue, Plainfield, N. J.

E. R.

Vactor)

lives at

89 Jackson

Esther A. Wolfe lives at R. 2, Dallas, Pa.

Mary Elizabeth Gregg

is

Agnes Wallace Dutcher

teaching in Tenafly, N.
is

school in Livermore, California.

Vice-Principal

of

a

J.

grammar

Mrs. Dutcher will be a dele-

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48

gate to the National Education Association Convention, held
Atlantic City this

Bertha H. Bacon (Mrs. H.

antango

L.

Wagner)

lives at

Burke)

lives at

2000 Mah-

Street, Pottsville, Pa.

Lulu
Street,

in

summer.

L.

Union

Alice

Lesser (Mrs.

Wm.

J.

614

17th

City, N. J.

Dean (Mrs. George Wetherly)

lives at

287 Laurel

Street, Archbald, Pa.

Marne R. Barrow (Mrs.
field,

G.

W. Anderson)

lives

in Plain-

lives at

300 13th

N. J.

Margaret O’Brien (Mrs. Albert Henseler)
Street,

West New York,

N. J.

Blanche Hoppe (Mrs. Herbert M. Chisholm)

lives in Nich-

olson, Pa.

1908

Anna
the Miners

Shiffer Peters

Bank

is

secretary to the Vice President of

of Wilkes-Barre.

Sara G. Faust lives at 43 Summit Cross, Rutherford, N.
Ella
is

M.

Billings lives at R. D.

1

,

Nicholson, Pa., where she

keeping house for her father.
Olive A. Major lives in Merchantville, N.

is

J.

J.

Her address

6520 Rogers Avenue.
Rebecca Appleman
Florence G. Beddall

dress

is

is

is

a teacher in Danville, Pa.
a teacher in Philadelphia.

Her ad-

the Lancaster Apartments, Ardmore, Pa.

Norah D. Carr
Hazleton, Pa.

is

teaching

in the

Junior High School in West

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Kate

67th

F.

Street,

Mae

Seasholtz (Mrs.

J.

49

G. Morris) lives at

2047 South

West Philadelphia.

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

Joseph A. Shovlin
of Kulpmont, Pa.

Supervising Principal of the schools

is

Mr. Shovlin recently acted as chairman of the

committee in charge of the pageant presented in Kulpmont on
Memorial Day. Kulpmont Borough recently voted two to one,
authorizing the Board of Education to float a $50,000 bond is-

new high

sue for the construction of a

school building.

1910
Charles

J.

24 Graham

Morris lives at

Av.,

Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.

Mary

B.

Lowry (Mrs.

J. Y.

of a family of four boys at her

Morris E.

Houck

is

Shambach)

home

in

is

Camp

busy taking care
Hill,

Pa.

superintendent of the schools of Ber-

wick, Pa.

1911
Julia
tion of a
girl

Gregg Brill, Assistant Professor of English Composipamphlet of information on occupations open to the

with a general Liberal Arts training.

Miss

Brill lives at

1

28

East Nittany Avenue, State College.

ton,

Ruth Ruhl is teacher of
N. J. Her address is
1

Elverta

I.

1

grade in the schools of IrvingTusca Road, Maplewood, N. J.

first
1

Miller lives at

934 Lafayette Avenue, Niagara

Falls, N. Y.
J.

Frank Dennis

is

Director of Manual Arts in the Wilkes-

Barre schools. His address

Edna Lewis (Mrs.

E.

is

576 Warren Avenue,
J.

Kingston, Pa.

Robinson) lives at 4325 North
Mrs. Robinson invites all of

Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

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50

come

her friends to

World’s Fair

in

to see her

when they

attend the Chicago

1933.

Pearle M. Green (Mrs. Denton E. Brome, Jr.) lives at

Harrison Avenue,
Ethel

New

Paisley

J.

Brunswick, N.
is

309

J.

teacher of Social Science in the high

school at Nesquehonmg, Pa.

Pauline Sharpless Harper

is

a teacher

in

the

Bloomsburg

schools.

Lucy

G.

Hawks, of West

Pittston, died at her

home

in

West

Pittston on April 10th.

1912

One of the finest programs of the reunion was that staged
by the class of 1912 with fifty members back. The program opened with the informal reception of Friday evening, May 20th,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker and continued Saturday morning with a breakfast served by the Wimodausis Club in the Eastern Star rooms in the Housemck building.
At the breakfast Howard F. Fenstemaker, who was active
in planning the reunion, read about a score of messages from
class members unable to get back for the day.
Speaking

at the breakfast

were: John R. Jones, of Scran-

ton; C. E. Barrow, of Ringtown; L. D. Savige, of Scranton; and

McDonald and Ercil Bidleman, of town. A number of the
members at the time the class was attending the institution were guests of honor and each one in attendance told briefly of their work since leaving the college.
C. K.

faculty

Those attending were: Mrs. Emory Leister, Mrs. William
Mrs. Helen Zehner Fuller, Berwick; Mr.
and Mrs. L. D. Savige, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Pettit, Pitman, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
H. Albert, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. FenRhinehart, Sunbury;

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stemaker, of town; Mrs R.

J.

51

Rehr, Mountain Top; Emily Bar-

row, Ringtown; Mrs. Harriet Hartman Kline, Bloomsburg; Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Jones, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jenkins,
Bloomsburg; C. E. Barrow, Ringtown; Louise Vetterlein, Mrs.
Walter Vetterlein, Paupack; Mrs. F. Mansuy, Scranton; Mrs. J.
Webb Wright, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Wm. Peacock, East Stroudsburg; Martha Schiefer, Steelton; Elnora Seeley Reimensnyder,
Nescopeck; Mrs. Ercil Bidleman, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Mary EisMrs. Anna Reice Travelpiece, Danville;
Conyngham; Jessie Doran, Daleville; FlorDixon, Kingston; Helen Fetter Ream, Scranton;

enhauer, Mifflinville;
Mrs. Leon Smith,

ence Merritt

Eva Weaver Swortwood, Mountain Top; Mrs. Homer Zieder,
Herndon; Floyd Tubbs, hickshinny; Mrs. D. E. Fetterolf, Leek
Hill; Mrs. George E. Pizer, Jerymn; Florence M. Lowry, Leah
D. Evans, Scranton; Mrs. Joseph Davison, Scranton, and Francis
Dobson, Wilkes-Barre.

Iris

of the

Ikeler (Mrs. H. L.

Moody

been on the radio teaching
tion

WMBI.

Mrs.

McCord

broadcasting schedules to
is

153

McCord)

a

member
Since

of the faculty

1926 she has

and broadcasts lessons over stabe pleased to mail
those who desire them. Her address
staff

states that she will

Institute Place, Chicago,

Myra

is

Bible Institute of Chicago.

111.

Campbell is teaching grades one and two in HerShe lives with her sister at Thompson, Pa.
Miss Campbell has been teaching every year since she left
Bloomsburg. Her first seven years were spent in Osceola, Tioga
County.
She then taught four years in Thompson, Pa., after
which she came to her present position which she has held for
the past nine years.
She expects to teach in Herrick Center
L.

rick Center,

Pa.

again next year.

Harold Cool

He

is

manager

lives at 41 15 Irving Place,

Culver City. Cal.

of the Exclusive Prescription Pharmacy, Brock-

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52

man

Building Store, Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. Cool

the College of

Pharmacy

a classmate at Columbia.

They have four

a graduate of

is

at Columbia University.

Mrs. Cool

was

children.

Lena Severance Roberts lives near Lennoxville, Susquehanna County, Pa. She has four children. Her address is R. D.
3, Nicholson, Pa.

Bina W. Johnson is a member of the
Maryland,
of
College Park, Maryland.

staff of the

University

Elizabeth McCollum is head of the Kindergarten Department at the Peru State Teachers College, Peru, Nebraska. Miss
McCollum has held this position for the past eight years.

Ruth Kline (Mrs. John W. Everett) lives at 364 N. Eighth
Her husband is secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Everett have three boys, one in eighth
grade, one in fourth grade, and one who will enter kindergarStreet, Indiana, Pa.

ten next year.

is

Anna E. Stevens
618 Main Street.

is

teaching

Grace Wolf (Mrs. H.

F.

in

Freeland, Pa.

Arnold)

lives at

Her address

221

E.

Oakdale

Ave., Glenside, Pa.

Theresa Dailey (Mrs. Frank A. Bachinger)
First Street,

wholesale

lives at

239 W.

Her husband is engaged in the
business. They have a fine family of eight child-

Bloomsburg, Pa.

fruit

ren.

Harriett Graves (Mrs.

Raymond Marsh)

lives at

210 Sedg-

wick Drive, Syracuse, N. Y. Owing to the serious illness of her
husband she was unable to attend her class reunion.

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53

Helen Appleman (Mrs. Herbert B. Keller) lives in Culver,
Her husband is an instructor of Spanish in the Culver

Indiana.

Keller have a daughter, Jean,

Academy. Mr. and Mrs.

Military

eight years old.

Paul D. Womeldorf

Church

of the class of 1911.

pastor of the Methodist Episcopal

is

Womeldorf was Eudora Walton
They have three children.

at Kinsley, Kansas.

Mrs.

Beulah Anderson Bronson

Her post office address
daughters and two sons.
Lake.

Isabel

Thomas

lives
is

on a farm near Harveys
She has two

Alderson, Pa.

708 Wyoming Ave., West

lives at

Pittston,

Pa.
Ethel McGirk (Mrs. Samuel E. Eby) lives in Ridley Park,

Pa.
Lucille G.

Wakeman

(Mrs. Casson Rair) lives

in

Mountain

Top, Pa.

James

Harriet E. Davis (Mrs.

T. Davison)

lives at

2221

Capause Ave., Scranton, Pa.
Leah D. Evans

lives at

122 Belmont Terrace, Scranton, Pa.

Florence Lowry (Mrs. George E. Pizer) lives

Her address

Pa.

is

in

Jermyn,

524 Madison Ave.

Frances R. Pachnicke (Mrs. D. E. Fetherolf) lives at Leek
Hill,

Pa.

Floyd Tubbs

lives at

5 Church Street, Shickshinny, Pa.

Foster C. Crouse lives in Edgewood, near Pittsburgh, Pa.

He

is

married and has two daughters and one son.
Edith Martin Meiner,

greetings to the

members

who

lives in

Denver, Colorado, wired

of her class in reunion,

her regrets at being unable to be with them.

and expressed

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54

1913

Mary

E. Collins

teacher of

is

fifth

grade

in

Shamokin, Pa.

Mae M. Byington is a teacher in East Junior High School,
Binghamton, N. Y. Her address is 46 Mill Street.
Lillian R.

Kocher (Mrs. Carl

L.

Auvil) lives at Noxen, Pa.

1914
Sab’lla Schobert (Mrs. Earl

Campbell)

lives at

301

A

Ald-

en Park Manor, Philadelphia, Pa.

Martha W.
Bloomsburg.

Fern Pritchard

E.

She

is

White

teaching Latin

is

keeping

lives at
in the

house

646 Madison

for

her father

in

Ave., German, Pa.

Central High School at Scranton.

She has received her A. B. and M. A. degrees from Pennsylvania
State College.

Catherine Bone, of

30

Dilley St., Forty Fort,

is

teaching

science in the Forty Fort High School.
ine received her B. S.

In August 1929, Catherdegree from Pennsylvania State College.

1915
Edith Bray Bidwell, formerly of Jermyn, Pa.,
in

now

resides

Cleveland, Ohio.

Margaret

E.

Smith

is

teaching

in

Wilkes-Barre.

1916

We

quote the following from the Philadelphia “Sunday

Dispatch” dated April 24th, 1932.

Prominent among Philadelphia’s successful teachers of vocal culture and dramatic art, the Dispatch is pleased to present
to its readers, in these columns, Mr. Maxwell R. Noack, whose

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55

studio is located at 2045 Chestnut street, and whose energy has
been devoted to his profession. Mr. Noack combines with a
thorough knowledge of voice production, exceptional ability as
an exponent of the modern school of dramatic art. He is an instructor of rare achievement, capable of carrying his students

through

all

the stages of progression to the highest attainment

Today, such

vocal rendition.

in

is

the tremendous advance in

the culture of music in this country that, while
able,

European training

is

it

may be

desir-

not a necessity to the attainment of

artistic perfection.

Conservatories patterned after the European studios with
faculties

composed

sors are to

American and foreign profes-

of the finest

be found

in

most of the leading

tutors of the highest type are available.

standing example of

this class.

He

is

cities,

while private

Mr. Noack

an out-

is

particularly fortunate in

being able to offer his students the additional training

in

stage

deportment and dramatic expression demanded of the modern
singer. Mr. Noack, who spent ten years in his profession, is a
graduate of Bloomsburg Teachers College, taking a post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. Of magnetic personality, he occupies a prominent place
in the city’s musical community and enjoys the respect and esteem of a wide circle of friends, students and associates. During the World War, Mr. Noack served in the Motor Transportation Corps, and is an enthusiastic devotee of our national game

—

baseball.

Annette Rogers Lloyd

is

now

living at 61

1

N.

Sumner Ave.,

Scranton, Pa.

Ruth F. Graves (Mrs. Thomas R. Edwards) lives in Dalton,
She has two children, Robert W., eight years, and Lois F.,
two and one-half years.

Pa.

Charles
ville.

Pa.

F. Schoffstall lives at

He has

Department

at

recently been

1216 W. Laurel

made head

Shamokin High School.

of the

St.,

Potts-

Commercial

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56

1917
There were

members

fifty

their fifteenth year reunion

of the class of 1917 back for
and they had a thoroughly enjoy-

able time.

Among

those back were: Fred Turner Sliker, Alden StaMabel Varker Stark, Alden Station; Emily Enterline Grittner, Turbotville; B. J. Sweetwood, Mountain Top; Sara D.
Vanderslice, Allen L. Cromis, Bloomsburg; J. Stewart Wiant,
Bloomfield, N. J.; W. Fred Kester, Ted P. Smith, Bloomsburg;
Helen McCarthy O’Toole, Scranton; Elizabeth Williams Greish,
Kingston; Mildred Avery Love, Mehoopany; Helen Gregory
Lippert, Dalton; Alice Snyder Guthrie, Bloomsburg; Harriette
Shuman Burr, Merion; Ruth Groves Edwards, Valetta Kahny
Robinson, Mary Kahny Arnold, Kiski Schools, Saltsburg; Ruth
Bower Schlauch, Bloomsburg; Marie Cromis, Philadelphia; Agnes B. Maust Dieffenbacher, Kathryn Row McNamee, BloomsSarah Garrison
burg; Anna Myers Alpaugh, Plainfield, N. J.
Miller, Williamsport; Dorothy Miller Brower, Allentown; Mary
Fisher Eyerly, Sunbury; Mabel E. Maust Duck, Harriet E. Sharpless, Bloomsburg; J. Loomis Christian, Harrisburg; Jane Peck
Starr, Forty Fort; J. Claire Gift, Bloomsburg; Margaret McHugh, Bertha E. Broadt, Mary Schaller, Mary Murphy Prim, Hazleton; Blanche Mason Caswell, Plymouth; Mildred F. Mileham,
tion;

;

Kingston; Elsie Jones Green, Florence Grenner, Myrtle Keiser

Shepherd, Anna

L. James, Wilkes-Barre; Margaret Pettebone
Moss, Kingston; Mary Moss Dobson, Plymouth; Myrtle Bryant

Henshall, Wilkes-Barre; Nora Berlew

R. A.

Ramage,

Dymond,

Dallas.

a prominent athlete during his days as a

student at Bloomsburg, lives at Prescott, Arizona.

who was
degree

Mr. Ramage,

obliged to go West for his health, received his B.

at the University of

Walter

L.

Agnes

G.

Joyce

Bloomsburg, Pa.

is

Maust

Arizona

S.

this year.

practicing law in Washington, D. C.

(Mrs.

Kester

Dieffenbacher)

lives

in

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Anna Myers

(Mrs. John

Ave., Plainfield, N.

Mildred

F.

S.

Alpaugh)

57

lives at

1

7 Fairview

J.

Mileham is a teacher in the G. A. R. High
Her address is 35 Union Street, King-

School, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
ston, Pa.
Elsie A.

Washington

Jones

(Mrs.

Joseph Green)

J.

lives

at

311

S.

Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Florence Greener lives at

216 Dana

Street, Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.

Anna
41

S.

L.

James

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

lives in

Her address

is

Grant Street.
Mildred Avery (Mrs. Charles Love)

lives in

North Mehoop-

any. Pa.

Mary Kahny (Mrs.

Arnold)

C. L.

is

a teacher in the Kiski

School, Sautsburg, Pa.

Miss Lucy

address

is

56

E.

Padagomas
Main

teaching

is

in

Glen Lyon, Pa.

Her

Street.

Alice Snyder (Mrs. Dale Guthrie) served last year as president of the Parent-Teacher Association of the
lin

Benjamin Frank-

Training School of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

1918
Edwina

C.

Wieland

(Mrs. E. F. Brouse)

lives

at

1984

Juniata Road, Norristown, Pa.

are

Mary Powell Wiant and her husband. Dr. J. Stewart Wiant,
living at 159 Weaver Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.

now

Miriam
Danville, Pa.

E. Welliver

is

Her address

teacher of grades seven and eight
is

14 Walnut

St.

in

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58

Katharine Bakeless (Mrs.

F.

Alex Nason)

lives at

1860

Hillside Ave., East Cleveland, Ohio.

Margaret
Streets, N. W.,

L.

Brown

lives at Colonial Hotel,

1

5th and M.

Washington, D. C.

1919
Frances E. Kinner

is

supervisor

of

English

in

the

High

School at Hallstead, Pa.

Rhoda Crouse

is

a teacher

Sadie G. Kline

is

a grade teacher

in the

Berwick schools.

1920
in Register,

Pa.

Mary M. Mauser (Mrs. Roy 0. Fry) lives at 952 West
Main Street, Bloomsburg. Until January, 1932, Mrs. Fry was
employed in the office of the Bloomsburg Silk Mill.
Agnes Anthony Silvany is a teacher
Her address is Alden Station, Pa.

in

the Wilkes-Barre

schools.

1921
Angeline Evans Beavers
nue,

lives at

126 North Lincoln Ave-

Scranton, Pa.
Miller

I.

Buck

is

an insurance salesman

in

Bloomsburg.

1922
There were seventy members of the ten year class present
for the reunion and they reported a fine time.
Among those
back were:
Anna Naylor Kuschel, Lucile Snyder, M. Dorothy Faust,
Mattie L. Luxton, Stella Wheeler Kern, Gertrude S. Miller, Martha Lawrence Hoppes,
Teressa Knoll, Laura Miller Goodman
and daughter Lillian Kathryn, Helen R. Lees, Mrs. Earl V. Wise,
Mrs. Joseph R. Cameron and daughters Joy and Mary Elizabeth,

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Edna Harter,

Clarissa S. Welliver,

Edward

59

Ruth Robbins

Yost,

Creasy, Genevieve Bahr Morrow, Martha Y. Jones, Henrietta

Rhoads Ramage, Bess Barnett O’Donnel, Zelma Thornton Lugg,
Margaret Murray Luke, Olwen M. Lewis, Anna McKeon, Nan
Emanuel, Isabel Jones, Cecelia Philbin, Marion W. Graham, Eva
M. Morgan, C. Adelle Cryder, Alderetta Slater Cook, Helen Vivian Rosser, Helen Hess Strauch, Betty Owens, Helen Ely Wood,
Zelma Norton, Anna Naylor, Marie King, Gladys Ramage, Katy
Payne, Bess Barrett.
Bessie

Barnett

(Mrs. F. E. O’Donnell)

Barre where her husband

is

lives in

Mildred N. Hankee (Mrs. C. T. Pitchel)
coln

St.,

Englewood, N.

Olwen

N. Lewis

is

Wilkes-

practicing medicine.
lives at

235

Lin-

J.

teacher of fourth grade

in

Scranton, Pa.

Pauline McClean (Mrs. Walter Gibson) lives in Scranton,
Pa.

Genevieve Bahr (Mrs. Paul Morrow)
schools of Endicott, N. Y.

Her address

is

teaching

is

207

in

the

East Valley

St.,

Union, N. Y.

Sarah R. Birch taught during the past year
ville,

in

Merchant-

N. J.

1923
Regina McHale d.ed

at her

home

in Pittston in

Marian Hadsall is teacher of grade
Graded School. She lives in Alderson, Pa.
Helen Karalus

lives

at

1

in

313 South Market

the

May.

Beaumont

Street,

Nanti-

coke, Pa.

1924
Announcement was made

this

Miss Lois Remley of Bloomsburg and

spring of the marriage of

Wayne M.

Hartranft of AI-

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60

The wedding, which took place

lentown.

Muncy Valley

in the

M. E. Church October 3rd, 1931, culminated a romance which
had its beginning when the couple were students at Pennsylvania State College. Mrs. Hartranft has been a successful teacher in the Bloomsburg schools. Mr. Hartranft is employed as a
State Poultry Inspector with headquarters in Allentown.

Mary

E.

Lauver taught during the past year

Adeline Swineford
is

506 West Front
Margaret

B.

is

teaching

in

at

Berwyn, Pa.

Berwick, Pa. Her address

Street.

Mensch

teacher of the primary grades

is

in Mill-

heim. Pa.

Anna Singleman
Main
born

A

Street, Pittston, Pa.
to Mr.

287 South
Barnes, III, was

(Mrs. Willis Barnes) lives at
son, Willis Curtis

and Mrs. Barnes on Wednesday, April 20.

1925
Edith M. Fade

She

Pa.

lives at

teacher of third grade

is

Margaret Fleming
is

1

1

6

Mam

Nesquehoning,

in

101 E. Center Street.
is

teaching

in

Kingston, Pa. Her address

Street.

Cambra, Pa.

Helen Barrett Baer

lives in

Esther M. Grim

teacher of fourth grade

City Schools.

She

is

lives at

Adeline Burgess

in

the

Tower

341 Wiconisco Ave.

lives at R. D. 3,

Wyoming,

Pa.

1926
Laura Blaine and Olen Davis, both of Berwick, were married Saturday, March 19th, in the Second Methodist Church of
Sunbury. Mrs. Davis has been teaching in North Berwick since

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
her graduation.

Harvey Garage

Mr. Davis

employed as a mechanic in the
They are now living in Hazleton.

is

at Hazleton.

Marian Decker Eschenlauer
Westfield, N.

J.

Her address

Margaret R. Isaac

Sue Ethel Scholl
lem, N.

is

is

61

is

is

teaching the sixth grade

in

503 Carlton Road.

teaching in Hazleton, Pa.

teacher of commercial subjects

in

Sa-

J.

Lois M. Merrill

is

teaching in Northumberland, Pa.

1927
The

year class had seventy-five of

five

its

membership of

over three hundred back for the day and they had a

fine

time

renewing acquaintances and viewing the numerous improvements made since their graduation.

Among
shinny;

those returning were:

Florence E. Reap, Shick-

Gertrude Grimes, Berwick;

Helen Gertrude Mulligan,

Mary Jane Morgan, Plains; Adella A. Chapley, Shenandoah;
Mary Elliott Jones, Jane Gleason, Scranton; Margarette Luce,
Messhoppen;

Martha Tasker, Shamokin;

Mildred R. Lowry,

Forest City; Minnie L. Wolfe, Helen M. Jones, Jennie Williams,

Dorothy Goss, Florence Blank,

Edwardsville;

Wilkes-Barre;

Mildred Adams, Danville; Hope Schalles Rosser, Berwick; Ver-

na Medley Davenport, Plymouth; Pauline Vastine Sugden, Sunbury; Mary

E.

Reba Stamm,

Rowland, Connerton; Jennis Dixon, Lost Creek;

Millersburg;

Ada Mowery Housenick, Beechwood

Park; Alta George, Rosina Ellery, Nanticoke; Mildred T. Taylor,

Scranton; Marian C. Marshall, Kingston; Margaret Sheri-

dan, Nanticoke; Mrs. Arthur Husband, Pittston; Geraldine E.
Hess, C. Edith Quinn, Elsie G. Bower, Dorcas M. Epler, Northumberland; Helen Ceppa, Marion Turman, Nanticoke; Helen
I. Andrews.

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62

The marriage of Miss Nola F. Kline, of Berwick, and Ralph
Brown, of Catasaqua, was announced at a card party and

C.

home

luncheon at the

of the bride’s parents Saturday evening,

The marriage was performed on July 3rd, 1931,
by the Reverend Lester Updegrove, pastor of the Evangelical
Church at Tamaqua, at the home of the groom’s brother, Jacob

April 30th.

J.

Brown, Muir, Pa.

the

Mrs. Brown has, since her graduation, been a teacher in
Rock Glen Schools. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Muhlenberg

College. For the past four years he has been at the

Brown

will

be

home

at

head of the

Mr. and Mrs.

English Department in the Catasaqua High School.

Catasaqua after September

in

first.

Announcement was recently made of the marriage of Miss
Maud Dent, of Espy, and Lee Banghart, of Berwick. The ceremony was performed June 18, 1931, at the Methodist Episco-

Muncy

pal parsonage in

Valley by the Rev. Reyburn

Fritz.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Banghart are Bloomsburg graduates.
Mrs. Banghart has been a successful teacher in the schools of
Columbia County, while Mr. Banghart teaches in the Berwick
schools. They are now living in their newly furnished home on
East Eleventh Street, Berwick.

Dorothy Dodson
She

is

lives at

271 Courtdale Ave., Luzerne, Pa.

a teacher in the Courtdale schools.

Alta George lives at

Mildred R. Lowrey

317

is

State Street, Nanticoke, Pa.

teaching at her

home

in

Forest City,

Pa.

Ada Mowrey Housenick
Beechwood Park, Upper Darby,

Mary
Pa. She

Elliott

lives at

Jones

632

N.

is

lives

at

712 Homestead Ave.,

Pa.

teacher of second grade

Main Ave.

in

Scranton,

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Reba Stamm

63

a teacher in the Junior High School at Mil-

is

lersburg, Pa.

Orice

Dodge

teacher of grades three and four

is

in

the

schools of Wyalusing, Pa.

dress

Myra L. Thomas is a teacher
is 527 Prospect Ave.
Hilda Ruggles

ship,

is

a teacher

in

in

Luzerne County. Her address

Her ad-

Bethlehem, Pa.

the schools of Dallas
is

R. D.

1

Town-

Hunlocks Creek,

,

Pa.

Delma

Myers (Mrs. Arthur Husband)

E.

78 Church

lives at

Pa.

St., Pittston,

Edith E.

Sweetman

of Taylor, Pa.

is

teacher of fourth grade

Her address

is

519 W. Taylor

in

the schools

St.

Verna Medley (Mrs. Ralph G. Davenport)

lives

in

Ply-

mouth, Pa. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Davenport October
18th, 1931.

dress

Marian D. Thomas
7 Fifth Ave.
is 7

teaching

is

in

Bethlehem, Pa.

Her ad-

1

Mildred R. Taylor has been teaching grade

number nineteen, Scranton,
at 535 Adams Ave.
Margaretta Luce

lives at

Elsie J. Lutz lives in

4B

Pa., since her graduation.

24 Orchard

Berwick, Pa.

is

school

She

Dover, N.

St.,

She

in

lives

J.

teacher at Hills

School, Salem Township, Luzerne County.

Elizabeth Button

is

a registered nurse

and

is

located at the

State Hospital, Binghamton, N. Y.

Alice M. Meiss

Her address

is

320

is

S.

a teacher

Second

St.

in the

schools of Bangor, Pa.

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64

Rosina Ellery

corner of Ridge and College

lives at the

Streets, Nanticoke, Pa.

Gertrude Grimes

Florence N.
St.,

is

principal of the Chestnut Street Build-

Berwick, Pa.

ing,

Gamber

(Mrs.

J.

Earl Hause) lives at 135

Ann

Duncannon, Pa.

1928
Dorothy Goss

is

a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools.

Telow R. Wagner (Mrs. Roy A. Wetzel)
her

home

at R. D.

1,

Martha Yavorsky
Margaret

is

teaching near

Weatherly, Pa.
is

teaching

E. Davies lives at

in Atlas, Pa.

420 North Maple

Street, King-

ston, Pa.

1929
Minnie M. Mellick, Bloomsburg, and
Pleasant Township, were married

Mumford, pastor
City,

Maryland.

Ellis

last

fall

H. Turner, of

by the Rev.

Mount
C.

S.

of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, of Ellicott

Mrs. Turner, also a graduate of the two-year

1923, has been a successful teacher in the Bloomsburg schools, during the past three years. Mr. and Mrs. Turner
are now living on their farm in Mt. Pleasant Township, where
course

in

the former

is

engaged

in the

dairy business.

Warren Pennington, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Evelyn Kelwere married in October, 1931, at Bellefonte, Pa. The bride is a graduate of the Geisinger Memorial
ly,

of Williamsport,

Hospital Training School of Nurses, of Danville, of the class of

1929. Mr. and Mrs. Pennington

will

make

their

ant Gap, where the former will teach next year.

home

in

Pleas-

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Esther K. Wruble
dress

is

1227 Main

is

Dorothy

Schmidt

is

is

a teacher in the Hatboro Schools.

23 Fairview Ave.

Eleanor R. Hughes
ship,

Her ad-

teaching in Nuremburg, Pa.

is

Her address

Swoyerville, Pa.

in

St.

Pearl Schell
L.

teaching

65

is

Luzerne County. Her

a teacher at Pikes Creek, Lake

home

is

in

Town-

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Alice Rabuc (Mrs. H. Nelson Smith) is now living at Fort
Sherman, Canal Zone, Panama, where her husband, a staff sergeant in the United States Army, is now stationed. Mrs. Smith
taught at Winfield, Pa., until her marriage, which took place
November 30th, 1931.

Sara E. Heiser
ship, near

is

teaching

Mary A. Ross

is

Florence

is

is

school in Buffalo

Her address

is

R. D. 2, Sunbury, Pa.

teaching at Trucksville, Pa.

Drummond

is

teaching at Pond

Sarah Pearce died March 25, 1932,

mokin, after a long

Town-

R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

teaching at Hiles School, Rush Township,

Northumberland County.
Louise Hewitt

in a rural

Her address

Lewisburg.

Hill,

at her

Pa.

home

in

Sha-

illness.

1930
The “Baby” class
They were

bers back.

1930, had seventy-five membusy to remain in the room as-

in reunion,

far too

signed to them, but they had a fine time.

Dorothy H. Erwin, of Bloomsburg, and John Schoberlein
were married Monday, May 6th, in New York City, and left
1

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66

the next

day

an extended honeymoon

for

they expect to return

two years

is

a graduate of

in

Europe, from which

Mrs. Schoberlein taught for

August.

Joseph Priestly School

in the

Schoeberlein

in

Northumberland. Mr.

in

College

Textile

the

Zurich,

in

Switzerland, and has been with the Bloomsburg Silk Mill for the
past six years as textile expert.

Upon

New York
office

their return they will reside for several

where Mr. Schoeberlein
of the Bloomsburg Silk Mill.

Ila

City,

will

be

in the

months iin
New York

Ivey has been elected teacher of the White School, Mt.

Pleasant Township, Columbia County.

Leona Sterling

is

Loretta Fleming

Her address
Fleming,
eter

is

who

1

a teacher at Scot Run, Pa.

is

a welfare

worker

240 Wyoming Avenue,

lives at the

same address,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

in

Kathryn

Exeter, Pa.
is

a teacher in the

Ex

High School.

Dorothy G. Brobst

is

teacher of

first

grade

in the

Berwick

schools.

Dorothy M. Foote teaches
ville,

in the

High School

Orange-

at

Pa.
F. Snyder has for the past two years been teaching
and fourth grades at the Mt. Union school, Ralpho TownNorthumberland County. Her address is 059 East Mar-

Helen
third
ship,

1

ket Street, Sunbury, Pa.

Wm.

Brooke Yeager,

Jr.,

University during the past year.

did graduate
His

work

home address

over Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Jennie Retiz

is

teaching at Leek

Hill,

Pa.

at
is

Columbia
0 Han-

1

1

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67

M. Augusta Schnure is teaching a rural school near her
home. Her address is R. D. 2, Milton, Pa.
Grace

E.

Reichard

teacher of second grade

is

in the

Grant

School, Milton, Pa.

Dorothy M. Keith
School, Scranton, Pa.

teacher of grade

is

Her address

Harold H. Hidlay

is

1

5A

in the

a teacher in the Scott

is

Hamilton

636 West Gibson

Street.

Township High

School, at Espy, Pa.

Margaret R. Spalone

530 Seybert

is

teaching

in

She

Hazleton.

lives at

Street.

Margaret Swartz is a teacher in the Scott Township High
Her address is State Street, Millville, Pa.

School, Espy, Pa.

Pa.

Gertrude Furman

is

teacher of sixth grade

Her home address

is

825 Quincy Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

Georgianna Weidner
ville.

is

is

in

Norristown,

teacher of fourth grade at Trucks-

Pa.

Marion G. Young is teaching
213 North Bromley Avenue.
Hazel McMichael

is

in

Scranton, Pa.

Her address

teaching a rural school near Stillwater,

Pa.

Florence M. Jones
Milton public schools.

is

teaching grades three and four in the

Her address

is

442 Cherry

Street.

is permanent substitute teacher in
Her address is 120 North Franklin

Virginia E. Cruikshank
the schools of Shamokin.
Street.

Miss Karleen Hoffman,

who

has been teaching at Montan-

don, Pa., has been elected to the position of teacher of second

grade at the Fifth Street School

in

Bloomsburg.

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68

1931
Miss Charleen Kreigh taught during the past year at Globe
Mills, Pa.

Lydia Fortner, of Bloomsburg, and Earl

were married

E. Davis, of Light

Hagerstown, Md., Saturday, April 9th.
Davis,
graduate
of
Gettysburg College, has for the past
Mr.
a
two years been a successful member of the coaching staff at
Tyrone High School.
Mrs. Davis taught during the past year
Street,

near Osceola

in

Mills, Pa.

Robert M. Shoemaker, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Margaret
were united in marriage by the Rev. J.

Eck, of Allentown,

Thomas

Heistand, at

burg, on Sunday,

St.

May

Paul’s

Mr. Shoemaker

8.

Bloomsburg High School, and
Drug Store, in Bloomsburg.
Robert Knierim

is

Church, of Blooms-

Episcopal

is

employed

is

a graduate of

at

Rea and

instructor in Science

the Technical High School, Scranton,

Pa.

the

Derrick’s

and Mathematics at
His address is 801

Prospect Avenue.

Minnie Clark

is

teaching

in

the schools at Dornsife, Pa.

Mildred Rabb has been elected teacher of
schools of Lewisburg, Pa.

Her address

is

first

200

grade

in the

East Mahoning

Street, Danville, Pa.

Helen Bangs Ritchie taught during the past year

in

Rohrs-

burg, Pa.

Mary

Fisher

is

teaching

in the schools of

Freeburg, Pa.

Helen Walborn and Gladys Shotsberger are teaching
schools of Washington Township, Snyder County.
Grace R. Kauffman
lic

schools.

will

teach next year

in the

in the

Milton pub-

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Helen M. Appleman
Lois C. Hirleman
Street, Pa.

teaching at Pottsgrove, Pa.

is

teacher of grades one to four at Light

is

Her home

69

is

Almedia, Pa.

in

Albina M. Zadra is teacher of first grade at Sheppton, Pa.
Her home address is 401 South Center Street, Freeland, Pa.
Louise

teacher

stitute

North

Timms Downin served during

1

in the

the past year as sub-

Her address

Harrisburg schools.

is

719

6th Street.

Isabel

Eshleman

is

teacher at Zehner’s

school,

Her home address

Township, Luzerne County.

is

Nescopeck

607

East 4th

Street, Berwick, Pa.

Gladys
ville,

J.

Dildine taught during the past

year

in

Orange-

Pa.

1932
Grace Callender, of Berwick, has been elected teacher of
Township High School, at Huntington

Latin in the Huntington
Mills, Pa.

Oliver H. R. Krapf, of Lehighton, and Miss Vera Kadel, of

Gettysburg, were married at the

May

by the Rev.

home

of the bride on Saturday,

groom.
Mrs,
Krapf has for the past two years been a member of the faculty
of the Bloomsburg High School.
Mr. Krapf is now a student at
the Boston Theological Seminary.
14,

E. C.

Krapf, father of the

o

The Senior
functions of the

Ball,

one of the most colorful of the social

Commencement

nasium Friday evening,

May

season,

was held

in the

20th, and was well attended.

gym-

No. 4

Vol. 33

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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

——

&eo.j.heue.\-

SEPTEMBER, 1932
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol.

SEPTEMBER. 1932

33

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 Tear

H. F.
F.

FENSTEMAKER, T2

H. JENKINS, ’76

-

-

Editor-in-Chief

-

-

Business Manager

-

THE DEPRESSION AND THE SCHOOL OF TOMORROW
DR.

JAMES

N.

RULE

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Commencement address delivered at the
Teachers College, Tuesday, May 24, 1932:

Bloomsburg State

*

“Being neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, I hesigrowing out of the current economic and social depression, that seem to be pending in the field
of public education.
Nevertheless, if we are to be prepared to
meet the needs of the schools of tomorrow, we must consider
tate to indicate the changes,

carefully the implications
social

and economic

“How
of

will the

for

many

current

situation affect the

schools

education

of the

dislocations.

unemployment

tomorrow?
“Technological unemployment

youth into business and industry.

is

delaying the entrance of

At a time when adult labor

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3

is

so largely unemployed, the entrance of youth into competition

with adult labor for jobs should be and
ferred.

The

result

is

of necessity being de-

a gradual lengthening of

is

the period

of

The present compulsory school
attendance laws of Pennsylvania and of other states generally
schooling for the average child.

require children to remain in school until sixteen years

of

age.

The number remaining until eighteen years of age is increasing;
and it seerns quite probable that the period of formal schooling
for all will be extended
not necessari.y by law but by economic
and social necessity until eighteen years of age this within

—

—

—

Many

possibly a decade.

educators predict that the school age

be advanced to twenty years.
“Furthermore economists estimate that if the aggregate
number of work hours, necessary to produce all the articles of
consumption needed by our present population, were divided
evenly among the total number of available workers, probably
The
no one wou'd work more than thirty-six hours per week.
hours of labor in the major industries have been greatly shortened in recent years—pathetically and tragically so in recent
months.
The machine has not only freed men’s backs from
will

burdens but, by so doing, has also released much free time for
recreational pursuits.

“How

will

our

much wanted American

dividualism be affected by the forces

quality

underlying and

of

in-

growing

out of the current depression?
“Certainly one outcome of the depression
ization that the last frontier of our country has

days have passed forever

;

is

the clear real-

gone and pioneer

that like the older civilizations of the

world we in the United States are at last locked into a social and
economic order that demands a substitute for our rugged American individualism to which we owe so much of our past progress.

“Tiring of the restrictions and banalities of community

life,

one can no longer escape to the frontier and there literally hew
and shoot his way to a free life of his own choosing and ordering.

The mechanization

of industry with

its

subordination

of

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4

the individual to the regimentation of the factory is resulting in
an increasing social control, under voluntary and governmental
agencies, of the means of production and the channels of distri-

bution and consumption.
is

giving

way

The independence

to the interpendence of

all.

of the individual

Individualism must

yield to an enlightened selfishness that finds in a stabilized pros-

perity for

all

“We

the greatest individual happiness and growth.

yoke
whole or in part either by
voluntary organizations or governmental agencies.
Yet it seems
we must all learn to pull together in harness, and the yoke of a
willing and intelligent cooperation will alone enable us to assume the demand of the new social order with any degree of
ease and success.
“Summing up what seem to me to be some of the general
effects of the depression of most significance to education, I
Americans do not

easily submit our necks to the

of the social control of our lives in

venture the following:
1

.

A

lengthened period of schooling for

2.

A marked

3.

The

all.

increase in leisure time.

substitution of the principle of cooperative citizen-

ship for the individualism characteristic of pioneer days.

“The educational

significance of these

outcomes of the de-

pression are interesting and important.

“What

is

the educational significance of the increasing per-

iod of schooling?

“The

facts relative to the greatly increased enrollments in

our public schools, particularly in our high schools,

known

are

well

The educational significance of these increases
lies
not in the larger number of pupils alone
but in the greatly increased variety of types of young people entering our high
schools.
Whereas originally our academies and high schools
were almost exclusively college preparatory in purpose, the number within our public high schools demanding inclusive preparation for civic and economic competence is now by far the larger

—

to you.

—

group in every high school that attempts without discrimination
to meet faithfully the needs of all.

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“A

single

curricmum, emphasizing college preparatory sub-

A core curricuno longer suffices.
lum for all that stresses functional preparation for civic and social competence and physical fitness is being supplemented with
adapted curriculums in vocational and other practical courses,
affording adequate opportunities for these who must enter gainful occupations immediately upon leaving high school.
The socalled expanded high school program represents an effort to
meet faithfully and without discrimination the needs of all the
various groups of pupils compelled by the force of circumstances
to remain in high school for a lengthened period.
“How important in the schools of tomorrow is preparation
for wide use of leisure time?
Some one has said: Show me
how a man spends his Saturday nights and I’ll tell you the kind
of man he is.
True it is that a man’s work should provide his
most fruitful channels for constructive service to his community
and his fellow citizens channels of service which, if faithfully
used, deve'op those traits we admire as typsical of the ideal
American.
Nevertheless it is still true that it is through wise use
of leisure time that character is strengthened and through its
misuse weakened and degraded.
No government of the people
can long operate helpfully for the people if it is not conducted
and supported by people of sound character.
“One of the most important tasks confronting the schools
of tomorrow is that of providing our junior citizens with habits
and means of using their leisure time sanely, safely, and constructively to the end that in these free hours of peril and profit
development of personality may continue onward and upward to
ever richer and higher leve's of attainment.
“Skills and appreciation in art, music, literature, sports,
and creative avocational activities in all forms of the fine and
practical arts should be encouraged in order to provide wholesome outlets for surplus physical energy and the means for

jects important as they are,

—

creative self-expression.

“At

this

point

it

attention of business

may be worthwhile to digress to call
men to the highly profitable character

the
of

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6

and recreational activities of the schools in
new and refined wants. Doctor Morgan,

their stimulation of

of Antioch College, has well said that

‘Education

that lays the golden eggs of Prosperity.’
literature, physical

education and

in the

Courses

the

goose

in art,

music,

is

various fine and practi-

and profitable consumers of the
Such courses have long since passcommerce.
ed out of the fad and frill stage and are among our most pracBusiness could well
tical and necessary studies and activities.
afford to pay their entire cost and charge it up to advertising in
order to make these avocational and recreational activities in our
public schools universally available to all adolescent girls and
cal arts products discriminating

better articles of

boys.

“What

is

the responsibility of the schools of

tomorrow

for

the development of competent, cooperative citizenship in the
members of the oncoming generation? Public education in the

United States

in lifting the

population generally to a

literacy

done much toward insuring the safety and safeness
of our democracy.
We cannot stop, however, at a mere literacy level, but must go on to a cultural level if social progress
and contentment are to be secured by orderly, progressive
evel has

means.

“With the rapid development of means of mass communication through the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, and news-

papers and magazines, mass education has arrived.

The public

exposed today, especially through the radio, not only to the
true and beautiful, but also to demagogery and misleading and
baneful advertising and propaganda to a degree never before
thought possible.
Heretofore, desirable and necessary changes
in society have come about largely through major catastrophies,
revolutions, wars and panics, caused largely by ineffective thinking and leadership, and by what some one has described as the
is

capacity of the human mind to resist the introduction of
new knowledge. But the newspapers and the radio have now
unlocked the human mind.
The masses are thinking and choosinfinite

ing for themselves.

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“In the midst of

the bitter

disappoint-

disillusionments,

ments and disasters of the economic depression that is upon us,
we hear the cry that Democracy has failed and that other forms
of government should be created.
The answer is that Democracy has never had a fair trial.
Through influences and pressures exerted largely by the newspapers and by radio. Democracy is beginning to have a fair trial.
Whether this new-found
socialized Democracy will lead us to peace and to a stabilized
prosperity for
forts of

all will

home and

depend

competent, cooperative
self-centered

recognizes

citizen,

who

individualism to an

in the

upon the cooperative

largely

school and church in

welfare of

all his

is

ef-

developing a type of

willing to subordinate

enlightened

selfishness

a

thal

opportunity to enjoy

largest

a stabilized prosperity.

outcomes from

“In addition to these general educational
the depression

are certain

other effects

The

related to

specifically

under which
our school districts with few exceptions are laboring has served
to bring out into bold relief certain antiquities and inequities in

conditions in Pennsylvania.

financial

strain

The

the administration of our system of public education.

pres-

sures growing out of the current economic situation will prob-

ably bring about changes greatly and long desired

phases of our educational policy and organization.
ticularly to our State plan for distribution of State

I

in

certain

refer par-

subsidies

school districts, our local unit of school organization, and
State

program

for the preparation of teachers.

to discuss but briefly these special

“Glaring inequities

There

is

to

our
time

problems.

in the distribution of

State aid and

of

educational opportunities afforded Pennsylvania’s children have

long been obvious.
generally the best in
tice to

Our wealthier districts can and do provide
modern equipment and current school prac-

meet the educational needs of their children.
In our
however, the farmers’ girls and boys are not get-

rural districts,

an educational square deal.
“Present legislation governing d’stribution of State aid in
Pennsylvania provides for five classes of school districts only.
ting

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with but two of these classes determined by ability to pay taxes.

$4,000 true valuation beOur wealthiest fourth class disThe one
has $2,357,000 behind each teacher employed.

Our poorest fourth

class district has

hind each teacher employed.
trict

has

589

times greater ability to support

its

public schools

than

one district has
as low as $4,000, and others as high as $49,000 behind each
teacher.
These have 12 times greater financial ability than the
one, yet both receive the same State aid.

has the other.

In our highest differential group,

“This inequity

in the distribution of State subsidies,

attendant inequalities in the distribution of

with

its

educational oppor-

tunty and of the burden of local support of public schools, is
aggravated by the chaotic and unjust method of assessing property for purposes of taxation which prevails throughout the
State.
The assessment of property in Pennsylvania for the purpose of taxation is for the most part made crudely, and, generally throughout the State, with little co-ordination between gov-

ernmental units or even within governmental

“The weaknesses and

units.

inequalities of our present property

tax are further complicating the problem of the financing of pub-

The property tax, particularly in the case of farmand home owners, has become in many areas well nigh confiscatory and in too many instances, entirely so.
lic

schools.

ers

“State revenues, as well as local revenues, are

There

is

declining.

every reason and incentive for the utmost economy

in

and administration of our public schools.
during this period of reduced revenues the work

In

the organization

order that

the public schools

may be maintained

without

loss

of

of efficiency

and without deprivation to the children of the Commonwealth,
we must be on our guard on the one hand against those who
would slash school appropriations without due regard to the effect of such reductions upon the work of the public schools, and
on the other hand against the demands of those who would expand the work of the public schools without regard to cost and
the interest of the tax-payers.
There must be a dove-tailing of
our educational programs and policies with the economic neces-

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sities

and resources of the tax-payer.
“The whole problem of the financial support

of the public

schools in Pennsylvania will require, during the next few years
in particular, the

public education
social, business

“A

most careful study and thought

may

and

continue to play

civic life of the

its

in

order that

necessary part

in

the

Commonwealth.

strong State committee of school men, economists, stat-

and representatives of interested and influential lay
groups, is now engaged in an intensive study of this whole problem of school finance and has agreed upon the broad outline at
least of a new principle for financing public education in Pennisticians,

sylvania.

“Higher standards of teacher preparation, modern school
and improved equipment have helped to increase the

buildings,

many school districts. Adequate
made generally available, however, until our local unit of school organization is made sufficiently large to provide efficient professional leadership and make
quality of public instruction in

school opportunities cannot be

available a complete twelve-year

program

of

public education

to all children without discrimination.

“We have

within our Commonv/ealth 2,582 separate

distinct school districts,

high school

facilities.

many
It

and

impoverished and without public

should be

added

that Pennsylvania

cannot long afford to pay to smaller and poorer school districts
a high differential of State aid for the particular support at least

overhead cost of unwarranted duplication of ofwhich have grown, in too many cases, out of
prejudices and local preferences.

of unnecessary
fices

local

and

activities,

districts have such a small school popudo not maintain even a single school, sending the
few pupils they have, on a tuition basis, to neighboring districts.
One hundred fourteen school districts have but one teacher.
Four hundred four school districts have three or fewer teachers.

“Eighteen school

lation that they

In these districts the educational opportunities offered to the girls

and boys who

live there are

meager

in the

extreme.

A

square

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deal to rural girls and boys under such conditions

is

an impos-

sibility.

“The economic

much

to further,

if

our smaller school

necessities of the current situation will

do

not force, such a desirable reorganization of
districts into

larger

units

with consequent

and greater possibilities of an enlarged
and enriched educational program for rural girls and boys or in
other words, to bring needed tax relief to the farmer and an educational square deal to formers’ girls and boys.
“The horse-and-buggy era still maintains in far too many
Every other public enterprise has
of our rural school districts.
gone forward in this automobile age, and I look for this depreslarge financial savings

;

sion to bring every citizen to the realization that our schools can-

not

make progress on a one-horse-shay
“Good schools go hand in hand

organization.

with

good roads, and

Pennsylvania’s leadership in good roads lends every opportunity for

inauguration of the proposed larger unit plan for admin-

and rapid
be no further
delay in abandonment of small, struggling districts and merging
them into larger and more capable units.
It is a very important
step towards giving country boys and girls an equal chance with
istration of our public schools.

With

relatively easy

transportation a present-day reality, there need

their city cousins.

“The current indicated surplus

of

certified teachers, par-

academic subjects of the secondary school field,
greatly aggravated by the current depression, presents one of
our most difficult and pressing problems.
There will be many
more certificated school teachers available next September, than
vacancies and new positions.
Remedies lie along three possible
lines
A sharp restriction of approvals by the State Council of
ticularly in the

:

Education of additional institutions for the preparation of secondary school teachers an increase to five years of post high
school work of the requirement for State certification for the
;

secondary

field;

and higher requirements for admission

graduation from teacher preparation institutions.

ment

for increasing requirements for

In this

and
move-

to

admission to college our

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State Teachers Colleges are

mendable

taking

most com-

a leading and

part.

“The depression has served

to aggravate and emphasize a
been rapidly developing within the past five
years and many thus provide just the necessary incentive and
pressure to bring about a much needed and long needed re-de-

situation that has

standards

finition of

in this field.

“The great depressions
have inevitably resulted

that

have set up pressures
noteworthy advances in educa-

of the past
in

tion in Pennsylvania.

“In 1837 there

came

the

first

economic depression of a

country-wide nature, a period of wild ventures and bad manage-

ment

in

business enterprises.

Speculation

of western lands on the basis of paper

banks was largely the cause.

in

buying and

money

issued

selling

by State

few years before, in 1834,
Law had been enacted and reported atbring about its downfall from 1837 to 1840 were unJust a

the original Free School

tempts to

successful.

“In 1857 another panic spread over the country as a
sult of

too rapid development of the West.

made

It

was

re-

short but se-

forward
department
of education was set up in the State government, and the General Assembly also provided for the training of teachers by passing the Normal School Act of 1857. A few years later, in 1862,
vere, but Pennsylvania education
until the Civil

War

period.

rapid

strides

In that year a separate

national public higher education received

its

start in the

Land

Grant Act of Congress which provided for the establishment of

one or more state colleges or state universities in each state.
The immediate resu’t in Pennsylvania was the beginning of the
real

development of the Pennsylvania State College.

“Again

in

1

873

there

was a period

of depression with caus-

economic conditions, and once more
Pennsylvania took definite forward steps in education.
The
State Constitution of 1873 went into effect in 1874, providing
for education for “all the children,” and for the first time women
es similar to the present

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control in the management of
Commonwealth.
“Out of the panic of 1893 there came a program of closer

were permitted

to

exercise a

school affairs of the

attention to child welfare, the enactment of child labor laws, the
compulsory attendance law, the adoption of the free textbook
law which provided for the first time free books for school children, the organization and promotion of a definite system of public high schools, and the creation of the College and University
Council,

now

the State Council of Education.

“The year 1907 records
ed in 1909 by the passage of

a milder panic,
the

first

and

it

was follow-

School Code which was

But two years later, in 1911,
were remed:ed, and this great forward step

vetoed on legal technicalities.
the legal objections

directly followed the depression of 1907.

“The enactment
period of unrest that

of the

Edmonds law

in

1921 came

followed the World War.

the

in

Through

it

Pennsylvania entered on one of the greatest forward steps it has
ever taken in public education.
This act, together with the
formal transformation of the normal schools into State Teachers
Colleges and the supplementary legislation, have

resulted in

a

definite raising to a higher level of all educational interests oper-

ating in the

“The

Commonwealth.

confronts Democracy today cannot in the
main be solved by more laws or economic formulas. The problem of Peace on Earth is still one of Good Will among Men.
Certainly one of the most effective instruments for creating good
will between individuals, between communities, and between
nations is understanding, and understanding depends upon educrisis that

In these days

cation.

when

old values are being destroyed

al-

most over night, the constructive processes of education are
needed and should be made effective as never before in the history of civilization, in stabilizing the lives of on-coming generations

on a common, high

level

of material

and

cultural

weli

being.

may well happen then that out of the current depresfrom previous depressions our system of education, both

“It

sion as

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secondary and higher, will issue strengthened and purified to
render increasingly effective service to the youth of our Com-

monwealth and Republic.

“To you,

the

members

of the Class of 1932,

comes a

chal-

lenge greater than that to any other class that has been graduat-

ed from this institution.
Society needs better schools and more
competent teachers than ever before.
Yours is the high call to
justify to society, by the high character of your professional services, the preeminent place which we believe education should
occupy in the plans and policies of our State.”
o

The annual dinner

of the

held Thursday evening, July

The guests
their work

of honor

summer
28,

session of the College

in the

College

dining

was

room.

were the eleven students who completed
and fifteen who completed

for the Bachelor’s degree,

the two-year course.

Arrangements for the dinner had been in the hands of a
which Prof. Samuel L. Wilson was chair-

faculty committee, of

man.

Prof. Wilson presided at the dinner.

The program consisted of group singing, led by Miss HarM. Moore, three numbers by the Men’s Glee Club, and two
solos by Miss Helen E. Sutliff.
The degrees and certificates were presented by President
Haas and Dean Sutliff.
Those who completed their work for degrees were: J.
Fred Berger, Robert A. Browm, Roy J. Evans, Earl T. Farley,
Helen R. Kellam, Joseph D. McFadden, Claude E. Miller, Bernard E. Mohan, Glenn A. Oman, Eldora Robbins and Daniel E.
Thomas.
Those receiving certificates were: Primary Field Lillian
Connor, Frances P. Fester, Helena J. Fowles, Florence H. Gruver, Marie S. Hoy, Vivienne T. Lewis, and Catharine Anna Smith.
Catharine M. Brobst, Ida M. Bubb, Jemima ElIntermediate
tringham, Alys Henry, Emma M. Lehman, Harriet A. Levan,
Mary A. Vollrath. Rural M. Helen K. Hartman.
riet

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NEW COACH APPOINTED
George
Illinois, in his

C. Buchheit,

a star athlete

undergraduate days, and

at

the

University

later a successful

of

coach

Kentucky and Duke University over a period
comes to Bloomsburg this fall as coach of ath-

at the University of

of twelve years,
letics.

Thornley W. Booth, head coach for the past six years, will
devote his attention during the coming college year to duties
within the department of physical education.

Mr. Buchheit served as head coach of basketball and track,

and

assistant football

coach

Duke

at

University

from

1

924

1931.

He went

Howard

Jones, one of the best coaches in the country, and

to the university

at the University of

as

to

one of the assistants to

Southern California.

In

now

1928 Mr. Buchheit

was appointed assistant athletic director.
During the past year
he was a graduate student at Columbia University, where he received the Master’s degree
this year,

ers

he gave a course

College,

in
in

June.

During the summer session

track and field athletics at Teach-

Columbia University,

to

graduate

students

and

coaches attending that session.
Before going to Duke, Mr. Buchheit was at the University

Kentucky from 1919 to 1924, where he was varsity basketand track coach and assistant football coach.
His basketball team won the southern tournament in Atlanta in 1921, and
the track team won the Kentucky meet three times.
The new Bloomsburg coach took his undergraduate work
at Hillsdale College, the University of Illinois and the University
of Kentucky, and was graduated from the last named institution
in 1921.
While at Illinois, he played end in football on the
team which won the Big Ten championship in 1918, and was
selected on the second all-conference team picked by the late
Walter Eckersall.
He has been placed on one of the University
of Illinois “all-time” football teams selected by the coaching
staff.
He was considered one of the best all-round track athletes in the Western Conference, and in a dual meet with
Chi-

of

ball

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scord twenty points.
He was awarded the Big Ten
medal that is given yearly to a senior for proficiency in scholarship and athletics.
Coach Buchheit is a member of the Society
of Directors of Physical Education in College, and of the Delta
Tau Delta, Theta lau, and Omicron Delta Kappa fraternities.
Robert C. Zupke, famous Illinois coach, writes “Mr. Buchheit was one of the best ends in Illinois history, and was a versatile track athlete.
He was also on the basketball squad. He
was awarded the Big Ten medal for proficiency in scholarship
and athletics.”
Wallace Wade, present football coach at Duke, and a developer of national championship teams of the University of Alabama, says of the new Bloomsburg coach: “He has had several
cago,

years’ experience in coaching very successfully

He

leges in the South.

is

considered by

many

in

leading col-

as one of the best

basketball and track coaches in the Southern Conference.
have the utmost respect for him, and confidence in his ability
coach football, basketball, and track.”

I

to

In addition to his duties as coach, Mr. Buchheit will serve

as Assistant

Dean

of Men.

o

Miss Edith Dilks, of Woodbury, N.

teacher of penmanship and English for

J.,

the

has been appointed

coming semester,

during a leave of absence granted to Miss Helen M. Richards.
Miss Dilks

New

is

a

graduate of the State Normal School at

and received her B. S. degree at Rutgers
She received the degree of Master of Education
from the same institution this summer.
She has taught in Camden and Newark, N. J., and in the
State Summer School at Glassboro.
She has had experience in
Glassboro,

Jersey,

University.

supervising,

member
burg.

and during the second semester of

last

year was a

of the faculty at the State Teachers College at Shippens-

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THE TEACHERS COLLEGES AND THE PRESENT
SURPLUS OF TEACHERS
The

and not the State Teachers ColPennthe high school field, Dr. James N. Rule,

Liberal Arts Colleges,

leges, are responsible for the great surplus of teachers in

sylvania which exists in

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, stated in a recent letter,

which was

in

answer

to

turning out teachers on a

some

criticism of teachers colleges

‘glutted market.”

The head of Pennsylvania’s school system, who made the
Commencement address at Bloomsburg last May, declares, after
stating in detail the number of qualified teachers being turned
out by both Liberal Arts Colleges and Teachers Colleges, and the
fields for

which they are prepared, that the answer

to the prob-

lem of controlling the surplus of high school teachers lies in
severely restricting the number of both Arts and Teachers Colleges preparing high school teachers, and exacting more selective requirements for entrance to and graduation from curricula
for high school teaching, limiting successful candidates to those

who

possess the requisite mental ability, personality, and physi-

cal fitness,

and are

definitely looking

forward to teaching as a

profession.
Dr. Rule states that the yearly
field for

new

teachers

is

1

,500 and

demand

in

the high school

in

the elementary

field

3,500.

In

1931 Arts Colleges

to

3,505 graduates, while the Teachers Colleges issued similar
945, and of that number 321 were trained in

in the State issued

high school certificates

certificates to but

the so-called special fields, such as music,
tion,

home economics, and

art,

industrial arts, for

physical educa-

which the Teach-

ers Colleges are the principal source of supply.

He

points out further that the Teachers Colleges are prac-

tically the

only source of supply for the 3,500

new elementary

teachers needed annually in Pennsylvania, as the Arts

are not preparing,
school teachers.

and do not desire

to

prepare

Colleges

elementary

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The head of the
Board of Presidents of

System believes that the
the Teachers Colleges, by exacting more
selective requirements for entrance and graduation, has taken
an effective concerted action to keep the supply of elementary
and high school teachers well within sight of normal demand.
He spoke of the recent requirements of four-year post-high
State School

school professional preparation for elementary teachers, effective in

936.
Regarding the present
1

situation. Dr.

depression like the present, or

when one

Rule says “In times
is

getting started

oi
in

some other profession, or waiting to be married, a teaching position may come in handy.
These are the ones who are now
crowding the high school teaching situation, and comprise prob-

who

ably about thirty per cent, of the Arts College graduates
secure high school certification.”

Part of the letter was written

in

answer

that because of the surplus of teachers, the

would be reduced.

Colleges

to some predictions
number of Teachers

Concerning the cost of the

teen Teachers Colleges of the State, Dr. Rule says that

current biennium
of over

made

I

1

it

for

the

does not exceed $3,700,000 for the training

,000 teachers.

in the

four-

The budget, before

recent session of the

legislature,

the

adjustment

showed an ap-

propriation of $10,312,000, but of this approximately six millions are

paid

in

by students

for the cost of board, room,

laundry, as the administrative code requires

that

all

and

collections

be deposited in the general fund and reappropriated specifically
by the General Assembly. In addition, approximately $700,000
will be turned back by the Teachers Colleges, to be used for unemployment relief, or to help balance the general budget.
In completing his survey of the teaching situation at pres-

and especially as it affects Teachers Colleges, Dr. Rule declares the problem of equalizing teacher supply and demand is
no different from what it is in practically all occupations and professions.
“If too restrictive measures are taken in any one, the
problem is only complicated and made more difficult for all the
Undoubtedly reasonable restrictive measures must be
rest.
ent,

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taken

in

adopted

but

teacher preparation,

field of

the

in the light of the

18

must be

these

needs of the public schools, the suc-

and Teachers Colmeeting the State’s standards, and the

cess of specific institutions, both Arts Colleges
leges,

most effective

fiscal

resources of the

in

Commonwealth.”
o

TROPHY ROOM
STATEMENT AUGUST

25,

1932

Received Since Last Report, June
July

2,

August

1,

1932.

Class of ’93
12, Class of ’17

$

5.00

100.00

$105.00
Balance Still Due on Note of Bloomsburg Bank and Columbia
$520.00
Trust Co., August 25, 1932

Total

Class Pledges

Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class

Due But

Still

Unpaid, August 25, 1932

’78

$

’86
’94
’99

’05
’06
’10
’15
’20
’25

99.00
4.00
80.00
4.00
225.00
15.00

’27
’29

Total Pledged But Unpaid

Will the officers of the

$586.50

above

collect the outstanding pledges that

ness

and stop

2.00
7.00
41.50
3.00
62.00
44.00

classes please get

we may pay

busy and

our indebted-

interest charges.

Respectfully,
0. H.

BAKELESS,

Treasurer Trophy

Room

Fund.

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19

SELECTIVE ADMISSION

NOW

IN

FORCE

In order to raise the standards of the teaching profession,

and

in

order to offset, to some

extent, the

surplus

existing

of

teachers in Pennsylvania, the Board of Presidents have adopted
a procedure

by which the more undesirable candidates

mission to the State Teachers Colleges

may be

for ad-

This

eliminated.

measure has been put into operation by a ruling issued by the
State Department of Public Instruction.

The philosophy underling such

a procedure

is

that the State

Teachers Colleges are an agency operated by the State for supplying teachers for its own public schools, and that an attempt
should be

made

to adjust the supply to the

demand.

This procedure has been applied for several years in
States of the Union, particularly in

New

England.

many

Basing their

estimates on the present need for teachers, these states set
definite quotas,

aimed

to turn out the

number

up

of teachers need-

and no more.
To keep the number of entrants within the assigned quotas,
some principle of selection must be applied. Various procedures have been set up, based on the measuring of qualities that
are generally agreed upon as desirable for successful teaching.
The candidate must come up to certain standards in scholarship,
intelligence, health, and social qualities.
A step forward was made in Pennsylvania several years
ago, when it was required that all candidates for admissions be
not so
graduates of an approved four-year high school.
It is
many years ago that students entered the Normal Schools directly from the eighth grade.
The present regulations require that the candidate, if he is
in the upper half of his class, may be admitted without any fured,

ther examination as to scholarship.

lower half of

he passes
ments.
test.

his class,

in

the
If

this successfully,

The

test

given

the candidate

he must take a written examination.
this

If

is

he has met the academic requireyear

is

a standard college

aptitude

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The applicant

is

further required to

ord, giving information as to

economic

fill

20

out a personnel rec-

status, his family, activi-

which he engaged while in high school, subjects that he
liked and disliked, hobbies, special interests, and the type of
reading engaged in by him.
The prospective student must undergo a physical examination by his home physician.
Many having serious defects are
eliminated at this point, or the defects are corrected.
Another
ties in

physical examination

is

given by the college physician,

when

the

applicant comes to the campus.

As a further check, the student appears
At

before a com-

time an atany serious social shortcomings which
might prevent the candidate from becoming a successful teacher.
A candidate is thus accepted or rejected on the basis of the
sum total of all the information obtained in all of the above demittee of the faculty for a short interview.

tempt

is

made

this

to find out

scribed procedures.

o

Three evening entertainments were given during the SumOne was a concert by the Boston
Sextette, consisting of four members of the Boston Male Choir,
which has visited Bloomsburg several times, and two soloists,
Miss DesRosiers, and Miss Aubens.
Another number was a recital by a Woodwind ensemble, consisting of members of the

mer

Session at Bloomsburg.

Wilkes-Barre

Symphony

Orchestra.

The third number was the
members of the Dramatic

presentation of three one-act plays by
Club.

o

Among

Bloomsburg graduates who attended the Sumwere the following:
Margaret McHale, Ruth Rarig, Audrey Moore, James Coursen,
Archie Austin, Alex Kraynack, Elfred Jones, Llewellyn Edmunds,
Eleanor Zimolzack, Chester Zimolzack and Luther Bitler.

mer Session

the

at Pennsylvania State College

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21

THE 1932 SUMMER SESSION
The Summer Session at Bloomsburg has been undergoing
Since
an interesting development during the past two years.
922, with the exception of the year 926, there has been a
steady decline until 930, when the enrollment dropped to 3 7.
1

1

1

1

In

1

93

1

,

the enrollment again turned upward,

istered for the

Summer

Session.

The high

fluctuation

figures for

1

from

922 and

the State regulation, requiring

all

reg-

was again an
The graph shown
932

This year there

increase, with the enrollment reaching 480.

below indicates the

when 401

920

1

1

923

to

1

:

are no doubt due

teachers in the

to

Commonwealth

have the equivalent of two years post-high school preparaThis regulation went
tion, in order to retain their positions.
to

With these requirements met, the Summer
Sessions of the State Teachers Col'eges assumed a new function.
into effect in 1927.

The Summer School population now
of students

consists of four groups

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1

.

Students

had

who wish

to

22

make up work

in

which they

failed during the regular year.

2.

Students

3.

Teachers

who wish

to shorten the time spent in prepa-

ration for teaching.

who wish

to add two more years
and obtain a degree.
Teachers and students who wish to be certified in an
in service

to their preparation,

4.

additional field of subject matter.

During the period preceding the depression,

many

teachers

attended Summer School in the large universities and colleges.
With the coming of the depression, a large number of these
found that attendance at the Summer Sessions of the State
Teachers CoLeges was less expensive, and the upturn in enrollment followed.
Another factor which helps to explain the present situation
is the fact that, owing to better roads, Bloomsburg has become

more

easily accessible to all those living within a radius of fifty

This

miles of the College.
figures

showing the

is

revealed

in

relative proportion of

an examination of the
boarding students and

day students.
Percentage

Boarding

Bay

302
229
219

231

1926
1927
1928
1929
1930

Day Students
43.3
50.6
42.7
49.5
50.5

235
163
162
160

165
157

217
54.1
60.0
288
The total enrollment of the Summer Sessions in all of the
teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania was 5785.
Exactly five
hundred of the more than five thousand Summer School students
184
192

1931

1932

are graduates of accredited colleges
to the

which

Teachers Colleges
will entitle

them

teaching certificates.

to

to

obtain

and

universities

professional

who went

preparation

have additional subjects added to their
James N. Rule, Superintendent of

Dr.

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23

Public Instruction, stated that this
l

was most

significant

ght of improved teaching standards existing

in

in

the

Pennsylvania

public schools.

summer students at Teachers Colleges this
500 college and university graduates
seeking additional training, include 814 working to qualify for
standard teaching cert’ficates, 949 seeking to complete Normal
School certificates, 3448 in the degree courses, and 74 in misDistribution of

summer,

in

addition to the

cellaneous subjects.

——
-

o

HOME-COMING DAY
Alumni Home-Coming Day, which has come

to

be one of

the outstanding events of the college year, will be held Saturday,

November 5.
Home-Coming Day, which is largely a student project, is
one of those happy occasions when the graduates of Bloomsburg
have an opportunity to come back to the campus to renew their
ties with their Alma Mater, and to meet old friends.
One mam point of difference between Home-Coming Day
and Alumni Day, held at the close of the year, is that the returnAlumni have an opportunity to come in contact with the
present student body.
At Alumni Day, all of the student body,
As a consequence,
except the Senior class, have gone home.
student life at
chance
become
acquainted
with
there is no
to
Bloomsburg as it is at the present time.
The program of the day will be laid out along the lines followed last year.
There will probably be a concert on the campus by the Maroon and Gold Band, a football game in the afternoon, followed by a reception in the gymnasium, and a dance m
ing

the evening.

The

athletic

pensburg, one

of

program

consist of a football

Bloomsburg’s strongest

country race with a team from Shippensburg.
ing

Day

is

game with

Ship-

and a crossThe Home-Com-

rivals,

always the most colorful of the season.

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24

IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED
The three major improvement projects
going on for some time at the College, are

have been

that

now

rapidly nearing

completion.

The projects are the placing of a permanent bleacher on
the west side of the gymnasium, with shower baths and locker
rooms for men and women underneath; the erection of a new
fire tower and freight lift on the east side of Waller Hall, and
the placing of a projection

booth

in

the

auditorium

in

Carver

Hall of the showing of sound pictures.

The erection of the fire tower at Waller Hall is the final
improvement project of several years, designed to re-

step in an

move

It is now believed that the dormitory is now
from fire hazards as it is possible to make it.
now a fire tower at the end of every corridor, and no

fire

hazards.

as reasonably safe

There

is

student has to turn a corner to reach an
freight

lift is

The

exit.

erection of a

another improvement, and eliminates the necessity

for using the passenger elevator for freight.

equipment for the showing of sound pictures This equipment, which is entirely modern, will
be used as an experiment in the development of educational
All of the

now

in place.

films.

With the completion of the permanent bleachers on the
west side of the gymnasium, similar to those placed on the east
side a few years ago, the gymnasium now has a seating capacity
of eight hundred, without the use of temporary bleachers.

One

of the most needed of improvements in the

has been the placing of a
In the spring there

new

was some trimming

of

the trees in

grove, and the underbrush has been cleared out.
the grove have been relined,
in

gymnasium

lighting system.

the

The walks

in

and flower beds have been placed

various spots.

A new concrete

walk and concrete steps have been built on
Hall, to meet the walk that leads to

the west side of Carver

Science Hall.

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As has been the case every year for the past
many new and interesting

turning Alumni will find

when

six years, re-

things to see,

they return to the campus.

o

ATHLETICS
The following

the schedule of athletic events for the

is

first

semester

—
October
—
October 22 —
October 29 —
Haven.
October 29 —
Lock Haven.
November —
Bloomsburg.
November 5 —
Bloomsburg.
November 12 —
November 19 —
Bloomsburg.
December 16 —
December
—
Rock.
—
January
Shippensburg.
—
January
January 4 —
—
January

Saturday, October 8

Football, Millersville S. T. C., at Blooms-

burg.

Saturday,

5

1

Football, open.
Football, Mansfield S. T. C., at Blooms-

Saturday,

burg.

Lock Haven

Saturday,

Football,

Saturday,

Cross Country, Lock

5

Saturday,

Football,

T. C., at

Haven

Shippensburg

Cross Country,

Saturday,

S.

Lock

S. T. C., at

S. T.

Shippensburg

C.,

at

S. T. C.,

at

Saturday,

Football, East Stroudsburg

S. T. C.,

at East Stroudsburg.

Saturday,

Football,

Oswego,

Basketball, Indiana

Friday,

Saturday,

1

7

N. Y. S. T. C.,

S. T. C., at

Basketball, Slippery

Rock

at

Indiana.

S. T. C.,

at

S. T. C.,

at

Slippery

7

Saturday,
Friday,

13

Basketball,

Shippensburg

Basketball, Millersville S. T. C., at Millers

-

ville.

Saturday,
Saturday,

Stroudsburg.

1

21

Basketball, open.
Basketball, East

Stroudsburg, at

East

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26

TEACHERS COLLEGE FULL FOR OPENING OF TERM
Bloomsburg State Teachers College is filled for the College
year opening September 4th and there are over 09 who desire to enter the first year class who are on the waiting list.
The total enrolment for the coming year will be 584, a reduction of 10 per cent, from the 649 of last year which has been
made necessary because of the reduction by the special session
of the State Legislature of one m-llion in the appropriation for
the 14 Teachers Colleges of the State for the remainder of the
1

1

biennium.

The reduction

of the million dollars, which must be absorb-

ed by the institutions

in a

period of approximately nine months

of the biennium, will require strictest economy.
In addition to the reduction in enrollment

it

will

be neces-

sary to make an adjustment of the sa’ary schedule so far as increments are concerned.
In connection with minor adjust-

ments, the football

game with

California Teachers at California,

and the
schedule reduced to six
games while baseball has been dropped from the athletic calendar and track and field sports have been substituted as the major
sport of the spring.
Curtailment of the lecture and entertainment program is also probable.
Last year’s enrollment was 649 and a 10 per cent, reduction makes the maximum enrollment of the coming college year
584.
There are 445 students returning.
If they all return the
first year class would be limited to
39 but it is probable that a
has been cancelled

Pa.,

1

members

number

of the upperclass

and

believed that the class entering will be between

1

it is

The waiting

55.

list

was

started

will not

when

1

continue their work

50 and
39 had completed the
1

requirements to enter the College and as upperclassmen drop out
those on the waiting
class in

list

automatically

move

up.

The

first

year

1931 totaled 263.

In addition to the

1

39 accepted

whom

there are 24 at the head of
graduated from the upper half of

the waiting

list,

the class.

There are 38 men and 101

all

of

girls

thus far

accepted.

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27

the percentage of

men being above

the average at the collge.

25 who graduated from the
first half of the class but have not met all the requirements and
60 who graduated from the lower half of the classes and are in
Also on the waiting

list

are

various stages of meeting the requirements.

While

this

waiting

list

now

totals 109, there are sure to

when

additional applications for admittance

This has always been the case

day students, but

this

in

year they

the

especially

past years,

will

term

have no opportunity

be

starts.

among
to gam

entrance to the college.

two have been rejected because they could
Ten other applications are
pending because the applicants have physical defects which are
remedical, such as ear, eye and throat trouble.
The fact that
Thus

far only

not meet the physical requirements.

those considering entering the College

quirements prevents

many

of

known

know

of the physical re-

physical

defects from ap-

plying and this eliminates the necessity of rejecting them.

Freshmen applicants will report at the College on Monday
and Tuesday, September 12th and 13th, with the written examination for those still having some entrance requirements to fulfill to be given at 2:00 o’clock on the afternoon of September
Parents of applicants for admittance have been notified
2th.
by Dr. Haas of the situation and of the fact that those now having requirements completed can do no better than get on the
This situawaiting list if they do complete the requirements.
tion will probably greatly reduce the number appearing for the
1

examination.

The necessary reductions have been apportioned among
the 14 State Teachers Colleges under the plan

now being

devel-

oped.

Concerning the reduction
islature, Dr.

in

in the

appropriation by the Leg-

Haas said:

The action of the recent
reducing by over a million

special session of the
dollars the

current biennium for the State Teachers

Legislature

appropriation
Colleges,

for the

makes nec-

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28

essary a most careful scrutiny and revision of our budget at
Bloomsburg for the balance of the biennium.
The necessary retrenchment will mean in addition to strict
economy in all lines of expenditure, an adjustment of the salary
schedule so far as increments are concerned and also a limitation
upon enrollment.
While the necessary budget revision has not
yet been finally approved it looks as though increments given
for the first year of the biennium cannot be carried for the second year, and it looks as though our total enrollment would be
reduced by about ten per cent.
In addition, minor adjustments
will probably require the cutting of our football and basketball
schedules and the dropping of the baseball schedule, together
with some curtailment of our lectures and entertainment program.
We hope, however, to be able to compensate for any
temporary curtailment with other lines of student activity.
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.

September

1,

1932.
o

Among
ment

at

those who received degrees at the June CommencePennsylvania State College were three former Blooms-

burg students: Florence M. Edwards, of Bloomsburg; Harriet
M. Harry, of Berwick, and Mary R. Schultz, of Millville.
o
Prof. D. S. Hartline

members

and

Lake section

in

Maine

to

were
Rangeley

his son. Dr. Keffer Hartline,

of a scientific expedition that

make

went

to

the

observations of the total eclipse

of the sun, that occurred on August 3

1

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THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

The regular monthly luncheon meetings of the Philadelphia
Alumni B. S. T. C., will be resumed October 8, 1932 and will be
held the second Saturday of each succeeding month including
March, on the following dates:
November 12, December 10,
The meeting place
January 14, 1933, February 1, March 1.
will be the Paul Revere Room, Gimbel’s, at
2 30 P. M., instead
of 1:30 as formerly.
All Alumni and friends are invited to attend these meetings
which were so well attended and so thoroughly enjoyed last
year.
Come and re-live your Normal and College days again
with your classmates and school friends from our “Dear Old
Bloomsburg.”

—

1

1

1

w

y y^

The basket

picnics held at

:

Willow Grove Park by the Phila-

delphia Alumni on the second Saturdays of July and August were

very well attended, there being 45 at the July picnic and 40 at
the August affair.

Blue skies, soft cool breezes and friendly games and conversations

were indulged in; Mrs. Cool’s home-made cakes and
watermelon helping along the old-fashioned

Prof. Klingaman’s

basket picnic idea to perfection.
Quoits and horse-shoe pitching as well as a friendly
of ball were indulged

in

by

game

the men.

Mrs. Stein’s banner with Bloomsburg painted on by hand
all who attended the picnics, so that there was no fear
any one getting “lost.”
the time
These picnics are to be held again next summer
and place to be mentioned in another issue of the Quarterly.
The last picnic, September 0, is being eagerly anticipated
by all.

greeted

of

—

1

FLORENCE HESS COOL, ’88, Pres.
JENNIE YODER FOLEY, ’08’ Sec’y.

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All

of

Alumni are earnestly requested

Many

changes of address.

all

to

copies

30

inform Professor Jenkins

of

Alumni Quarterly

the

have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at the
address in our

files.

* * * * * *

Officers of the

President

—

Alumni Association

R. Bruce Albert, ’06, Bloomsburg.

Vice-Presidents

—

Dr. D.

J.

Waller,

Jr.,

’67,

Bloomsburg;

0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg.

Secretary

—Edward
—

Treasurer

F.

Executive Committee

W.

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg.

F. H. Jenkins, ’76,

— Fred W.

Bloomsburg.
Diehl, ’09, Danville; Mrs.

Bloomsburg; Maurice E. Houck, ’10, Berwick; Daniel J. Mahoney, 09, Wilkes-Barre; Harriet Carpenter, ’96, Bloomsburg; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg.
C.

Funston, ’85,

names and

All class secretaries are requested to send their

addresses to the Editor,

who

wishes to

make

a

list

of

class sec-

Dermanent feature of the QUARTERLY. It is believed that this will be of great help, both in
providing news items for the QUARTERLY, and also in making
retaries,

and publish

it

as a

preparations for class reunions.
Prof. Jenkins

addresses of the

returned

would

fol

like to

be informed

as to

the

correct

owing, as mail addressed to them has been

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31

Rachel

Wolfe, 1927.

J.

Bernard

Kelly, 1913.

J.

Reba Stamm, 1927.
Mrs.

Emma

Mrs.

Guy

1898.

E. Sims,

Brunstetter.

Josephine Walsh.
Jessie Gilchrist.

Mrs. Ruth

L.

Fairbanks, 1922.

Florence K. Snyder, 1928.

Hannah Jayne Cease, 1931.
Helen C. Rosser, 1931.
Ruth Vandermark, 1930.
Laura M. Shultz, 1930.
Mildred M. Stiasny, 1930.
Phillip DeKarcher, 1930.
Blanche Fahringer, 1930.
Mrs. Elmer R. Eveland, 1929.
Mrs. A.

S.

Leonard.

1867

One

of the interesting features of the Alumni Meeting has

been that moment

867

in the roll-call of classes

is

called upon.

ler, Jr.,

and George

1

Two members
E. Elwell, are

when

the Class

of that class, Dr. D.

always on hand and

J.

of

Wal-

rise

in

their places in response to the roll-call.

Mr. Elwell has recently presented

with bound volumes of

all

of the

the

Alumni Association

catalogues issued by the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College since the establishment of
the institution.
In view of this fact, we consider it fitting at this
time to print the following history of Mr. Elwell’s

life,

as

it

re-

cently appeared in the Morn.ng Press

Closely interwoven into the history of Bloomsburg since
the seventies has been the

throughout

all

name

of George E. Elwell, prominent

those years in the professional and business

and a leader in numerous activities
made possible the Bloomsburg of today.
of the town,

that

life

have largely

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and Mary Elwell, the former for many years one of the State’s most distinguished jurists,
practically his entire life-time has been spent in Bloomsburg and
much of it given over to furthering Bloomsburg enterprises.
Mr. Elwell was educated at the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute at Towanda; at Prof. G. R. Barker’s school in Germantown, Philadelphia; the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., graduating in the Class of 1870 and
later receiving the degree of Master of Arts from that institution.
Upon completing his college course he was elected assistant principal of the Fifth Street school in Bloomsburg, then just
opened.
In January,
8 72, he was made a member of the Normal School faculty, to teach English literature, German and
French.
He remained there until July, 1873, when he resigned
to pursue his legal duties, which he had previously begun under
his father’s tuition.
He was admitted to the bar of Columbia
County September 4, 874, and at once formed a law partnerThis partnership continued
ship with Captain C. B. Brockway.
for five years.
In 1877, the firm of Elwell & Brockway was
among the seven counsel employed in the defense of Hester,
Tully and McHugh, the Molly Maguires charged with the murder
of Alexander Rea.
After the conviction of these men and when
appeals to the Supreme Court and Board of Pardons had failed,
Tully made a written confession to Mr. Elwell, to be published
question
at his request after the execution.
It settled beyond
any doubt as to the guilt of these men.
On October 1, 1875, Mr. Elwell, with Mr. Brockway, purchased the Columbian printing office, and from that day until
publication was discontinued in 1910, Mr. Elwell was always

The son of

the late Hon. William

1

1

In 1879, J. K. Bittenbender purchased the interest of Mr. Brockway, but from 893 on Mr. Elwell
was editor and sole owner.
identified with the paper.

1

It

was

in the latter

years that Mr. Elwell discontinued active

practice of law because of the press of his publishing and editorial

Prior thereto, however, he had figured prominently
Columbia County lawyer and was a leader at the bar.

duties.

as a

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33

It

was

as an

trenchant pen was
his influence

editor
felt in

that

for

years

the

influence

Bloomsburg and the county.

of

his

Using

always on the side of B’oomsburg’s best interests he

contributed largely to the town’s progress.

Not only was

his influence exercised

through the columns

of his newspaper, but he gave personally of his time

and

talents.

He served on Town Council in 1876, 1877 and 1878. He was
president of the Winona Fire Company m 1882; fire chief of the
Bloomsburg Fire Department in 1883, and was a member of the
committee of the several fire companies that prepared the
Bloomsburg Fire Department.
His interest in the
cause of education has likewise carried on through the years.
He was a trustee of the Bloomsburg State Normal School for 18
years, and for 0 years was president of the Alumni Association
of that institution.
Today one of the oldest graduates of that
institution, he continues his active interest in the Alumni Association.
From 1909 to 1923 he also served Bloomsburg efficiently as school director, bringing to the board his sound judgment based on many years’ experience.
Prominent in St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, he was a vestryman there for 33 years, and
joint

rules of the

1

frequently a delegate to the diocesan convention.

Through the years

have gone he has taken a leading
He was one of the
original directors of the Bloomsburg Water Company, a director
For
of the Gas Company and of the Oak Grove Association.
years he has been a director of the Industrial Building and Loan
Association; a member of the Corporation of the Bloomsburg
Hospital, and a member and former president of the Columbia
County Historical Society.
He was secretary of the Columbia
that

part in the business activities of the town.

County Bar Association for thirty years, librarian of the Law Limany years, and secretary of the Bloomsburg CentenIn 1915, he was president of the
nial Committee in 1902.
Bloomsburg Business Men’s Association.
brary for

Noted throughout Central Pennsylvania as a public speaktoastmaster have been frequently sought, and

er, his services as

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the presence of his

name heading

34

the post prandial has

always

insured success.
In politics he served as secretary of the Democratic County
For
Committee; as delegate to county and state conventions.
three years he was a member of the State Committee, and in
numerous Presidential campaigns his services were widely in
demand as a campaign speaker.
A gifted musician, Mr. Elwell’s !ove of music has indelibly
impressed itself upon the community, for he was the moving
spirit in much that Bloomsburg has had in past years in the way

of musical advantages.

Altogether, his has been a life filled with service for
Bloomsburg, and today, in connection with the extensive printing business of the Columbian Printing House, one of the best in
inland Pennsylvania and in the operation of which his son, G.
Edward Elwell, has been associated with him for a number of
years, he retains the enthusiasm for Bloomsburg and for Bloomsburg’s development that so conspicuously

marked

his

younger

years.
Fraternally, he

a

is

member

of the various bodies of Cald-

he is a member of the Craftsman
Club, and the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club.

well Consistory.

He

is

Socially,

man

the type of

of

whom

any community has

alto-

gether too few!

1876

May Stephenson may be
recent letter

which

is

but get

In a
reached at Cocoa, Florida.
she states: "I spent the past winter in Rockledge,

a litCe

my

town following the windings of the Indian River,
This section is noted for the famed

mail at Cocoa.

Indian River oranges.”

has spent two years

in

Miss Stephenson states

also

that she

Santo Domingo.

1880
Celeste Kitchen Prutzman, of Trucksville, R. D.

1,

Luzerne

County, Pa., sends the following:
“I

am

secretary of

my

class,

and

am

trying to

keep

in

touch

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35

with the sixteen still living, but have lost track of Tille Sterner
Young.
If anyone who reads the QUARTERLY knows of her
whereabouts, will he please communicate with me?
It will be
a great favor.’’

1881

Town Line, was the scene of an interesting
Tuesday, July 19, when Prof, and Mrs. T. B. Harrison

Uniondale Farm,
festivity

wedding anniversary. Their five childthem to celebrate the occasion.
Harrison was born at Uniondale Farm seventy-three

celebrated their
ren

and

fiftieth

their families joined with

Prof.

He has taught

years ago.

and Huntington

Mills,

Hazleton, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre,

in

and served

for

some time

as

County Sup-

erintendent in Luzerne County.

1882

One

of the interesting features of the fiftieth reunion of the
’82
Class of
was a Round Robin. Out of a class of thirty-six,

nineteen are

now

living,

Those who were unable
letter to Dr. H.

and five were present at the reunion.
be present were reqeusted to send a

to

Bierman, of Bloomsburg, and, with one excep-

The letters thus received were sent from
one member of the class to another, each one adding his own
contribution.
Inasmuch as many members of the classes of
1881 and 1883 will remember those who were on the campus
with them, we take pleasure in publishing extracts from these
tion, all

responded.

letters.

Ida Harkness
as follows

You ask
one

who

Ramsden

lives at

Friday Harbor, and writes

from Seaside, Oregon
for a brief history of

has lived

in the

West

my

past

fifty

years, but

that long could give

you a

no

brief

history of that time.

We

have seen

cities

grow from

We

little

hamlets to

cities of

have seen prosperous towns fade
ocean liners move up and down
nothingness.
Great
away into
Puget Sound, instead of the little boats that were all that were
half a million people.

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available
that

when

any place

I

first

came

else in the

36

And now we have

here.

everything

world has.

My home

of
is at Friday Harbor, one hundred miles north
I live
and only eight miles from the Canadian border.
on San Juan Island, the one that nearly caused war between
When we go anywhere
England and the United States in 859.
we have to take a ferry to the mainland. The Archipelago is
composed of 71 islands and is one of the loveliest spots in the
world.
If you are the least bit skeptical about all or any of my
statements you may come and see for yourselves, and be welcome.
Seattle,

1

1

Burnette

Stiles

Brooke,

who

lives at

1

80 Meigs Street,
members

Rochester, N. Y., says: “I notice that about half of the

have passed on.
Perhaps at our seventy-fifth, in 95 7, we may
have a very glorious reunion with every member of class and
1

faculty present.”
lives at 257 Erie Road, Columbus, Ohio.
an extract from his letter:
“I have been in active work throughout these years until

Rev.

E. J.

The following

Moore

is

two years ago, when

I

retired.

It

has been

my

privilege to ad-

dress audiences in every State of the Union save one, and also in

have been in excellent health, but my
and now I have to take it easy. We
have three girls, three grand-children, and a grand-son-in-law,
all living within a few blocks of us, so that we expect our declining years to be happy ones.
However, we don’t expect to deEurope.

Until recently

heart has at

I

last rebelled,

cline yet awhile.”

May Reagan (Mrs. E. C. Hood) lives at 2608 Jackson
Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa.
The following is quoted from her
letter:

“After teaching

in

Hazleton for ten years,

I

stopped

to get

married, but the marriage was delayed a number of years on account of the ill health of my parents.
After both had passed

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37

was married, and came to Battle Creek, Iowa, where my
lived.
He was married to Emeline Fetherolf,
my cousin. Later we moved here. In 1920 my husband died,
after a few days’ illness of pneumonia.
A couple of years later
I had a delightful trip to Europe, which did me
much good in
away,

I

husband’s brother

every way.

I

have kept busy

in the

various activities connect-

ed with church clubs. Red Cross and social

who

The following is taken from the letter of Franklin
2205 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pa.

E. Hill,

lives at

“I taught school for
in

life.”

my home

locality, in

two years,

after

Luzerne County.

leaving the
In

1

884

I

Normal,

took a

trip

Europe with a cousin of mine, who was teaching also. The
next three years I spent in teaching, and then started a railroad
career, which I followed up to a little more than three years
ago, when my health prevented me from continuing it any longI have not seen as much of our country as some have, as I
er.
have been in only thirteen States, spending most of my time in
Philadelphia, Chicago, Tunkhannock and Williamsport.
I have
lived in Williamsport over eighteen years.
I have
two daughters, both single and teaching; one here, and the other in a high
school in New Jersey.
The one teaching here was graduated
from Bloomsburg in 1916, and the other was graduated from
Bucknell in 922.”
to

1

Extracts from other letters will be printed in the

December

QUARTERLY.
Jorden died at her home in Tunkhannock
She suffered a slight stroke more than two
She
years ago, and had been a semi-invalid since that time.
was the last of her immediate family.
Stella Sickler

Saturday,

May

1

4.

Martha W. Vaughan, who has retired from teaching, now
1110 West Elm Street, Scranton, Pa.

lives at

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38

1885
The Philadelphia Public Ledger of June 3 published
of

feature columns, a very interesting

its

interview

in

one

with Mrs.

Annie Miller Melick, president of the Delaware County Federation of

Women’s

Clubs.

In this interview Mrs.

her ideas of women's club
cation of

work
modern women. The

the value to be gained in the

committee reports.

Melick sets forth

as a powerful factor in the edu-

was
and presentation of

particular point emphasized

preparation

The interviewer,

in

her closing paragraph,

—

“Of instruments in ‘adult education’ as ‘post-graduate
work through living,’ which is one of the most valuable departstates:

ments

—

the c’ub committee’s reading of

its

reports

is

one of the

best.’’

1889

home on
of May

Miss Frances Kennard. of Meshoppen, died at her

Monday, May 10, 1932. The Meshoppen Enterprise
had the following to say concerning her death: “The announcement of the death of Miss Frances Kennard was a real shock to
her many friends.
She has been in failing health for several
months, and returned home from California, where she went to
Miss Kennard was born at Laceyville, but
spend the winter.
She always
practically all of her life was spent in Meshoppen.
Espectook a keen interest in seeing the community prosper.
keeping
took
in
up the
can
thanked
for
the
part
she
ially
she be
fine Library, of which Meshoppen is proud.”
1

1

1893
Grace E. Shaffer Perham, of Varden, Pa., died at her home
She had been ill since
Thursday morning, July 21, 1932.
March, having suffered an attack of influenza at that time.
Heart trouble developed, and was the immediate cause of her
death.

Wayne

Mrs.

Perham was

assistant superintendent of schools in

County, a position which she had held about thirteen

years.

After her education at Bloomsburg, Northwestern Uni-

versity,

and

teacher, in

New York

University,

1907, she was united

in

and successful work

as a

marriage to Warren E. Per-

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39

ham, a prominent

citizen

of

Wayne

County, and at one time

county commissioner.

Following the death of her husband

teen years ago, Mrs.

Perham again entered school work, and

fif-

was soon chosen

A

to the position which she held in the county.
Honesdale paper paid her the following tribute:

“In the death of Grace E. Perham, Wayne County loses her
She was born within its borders,
most widely known woman.
Early in life
and has passed all her years within its boundaries.
she determined to secure an education, and revealed a worthy

ambition for a

of usefulness.

life

had attained her
came, as they do

When

to

to her duty, capable in the exercise of her
fine

ended,

that life

she

Of course, many disappointments
the average life, but she was always faithful

desires.

obligations,

sense of discrimination, and loyal to the best

with a

principles of

and public duty.
The schools of Wayne County
have lost a faithful servant.
As an official, she did not spare
herself.
As an educator, she was up to the times, and knew her
job.
As a private citizen, she was concerned with the welfare
of the community and the uplift of society.
For years she has
gone about Wayne County, after having been a successful teachProbably she
er, in the capacity of assistant superintendent.
was known personally to more people in Wayne County than
any other one living woman.
Those who mourn her death are
legion.
Those who appreciate her faithful and capable service
She deserves
are those who are familiar with what she did.
much praise for her accomplishments, and even greater praise
Our county has
for her loyalty to public duty as she saw it.
social welfare

lost

a

first

class citizen.”

Miss Alice Fenner,

who

lentown, Pa., returned from

lives at

2029 Highland

a trip to Florida.

Street, Al-

She reports that

she had fourteen delightful weeks at Tampa.

Laura A. Romberger, (Mrs. John
don, Pa.

L.

Brower)

lives in

Hern-

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Chaperon and Assistant House
the National Cathedral School, Washington, D. C.

Margaret M. Bogenrief

Warden

at

40

Katharine

S.

is

Bowersox, a member of the Faculty of Berea

College, Berea, Kentucky, will be on leave of absence with

full

pay during the coming college year.

1894
John

Watson,

Fruit

former prothonotary and clerk of
away Sunday morning, Augsister, Ella Watson, in Bloomsburg,

courts of Columbia County, passed
ust

1

4, at the

home

of his

where he had resided for the past two and a half years, during
which time he was confined to his bed.
Death was due to
uremic poisoning.
Mr. Watson had been in ill health for about
twelve years.

He taught

for

several

years after his

graduation from

Bloomsburg, and then entered Dickinson Law School, from
which he was graduated in 1903.
In 1910 he married Miss
Carrie Klase, of Danville,

He was

many

who

survives.

in the Democratic party in
Columbia County, and served as deputy prothonotary for two

for

years active

In 1915, he was elected to the office of prothonotary,
and was re-elected in 1919.
During his second term he became
ill, and was never able to regain his health.
Mr. Watson was a member of the First Presbyterian Church
of Bloomsburg, and of the Bloomsburg lodges of the I. 0. 0. F.,
B. P. 0. E., and the P. 0. S. of A.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two sisters. Miss Ella
Watson, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Sallie Watson, of Keyport,

terms.

N. Y.

1897
Miss Mabel Moyer, training teacher
lin

in the

Benjamin Frank-

Training School, received the degree of Master of Arts at the

commencement

exercises he'd at the close

sion at Bucknell University.

of the

summer

ses-

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41

1900
Edward
Klingaman
has moved from Dover, Pa., to
J.
1119 West Princess Street, York, Pa. He resigned his charge
at Dover, and is now Sales Manager for the Victor Products Corporation.
The territory in which he works is York County.
Rev.

Mary Louise Bogenrief (Mrs.

Leslie B. Seely) lives at

5918

Pulaski Avenue, Germantown, Pa.

1902

The members

1902 chose Miss Marie L.
Diem, of Scranton, as President, and Mr. Fred Drumheller, of
Sunbury, as Secretary, at their meeting held on Alumni Day.
They anticipate a rousing reunion in 1937. They plan to hold
a banquet and get-together meeting on the evening before their
of the Class of

next reunion.
Harriet E. Fry

3

Bloom

is

teaching

in Danville, Pa.

Her address

is

Street.

1904

W.

R. Helwig, an enthusiastic supporter of the

LY, lives at

3709

Pillsbury

Maude Davis
Richmont

QUARTER-

Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.

Pentecost, Secretary

Street, Scranton, Pa.

of

Members

04,

lives

at

1000

of the class will ren-

der great service to Mrs. Pentecost, and to the

QUARTERLY, by

sending to her interesting news items concerning themselves or
their classmates.

1905
now head

Glenn Blaisdell is
of the Biology Department
He has
Gorton High School, Yonkers, N. Y.
made his name well-known in educational circles through his
widely used text books and pamphlets in his chosen field.
J.

at the Charles E.

He says that he got his inspiration from Professor Hartlme,
though he rather stood in awe of him.
Mr. Blaisdell worked his way through Bloomsburg, and
also through Syracuse University.
In 191

1,

he married Lida North, of Binghamton.

He has

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one son, Edwin,

who

will enter

Stevens

42

this fall,

having been

marked ability.
Mr. Blaisdell has said that 1905 classmates will find the
latchstring out at 6 Arden Place, Yonkers, N. Y., and during the
Grindstone Island, St. Lawsummer, at “Riverside Cottage,
awarded a scholarship

for

’

rence River.

1907

Reba Quick

(Mrs.

F.

H.

Lerch)

is

living

in

Monroe,

Louisiana.

Y.

Gertrude Gross (Mrs. R. B. Fleisher) lives in Syracuse, N.
1030 Genesee
is the May Flower Apartment,

Her address

Street.

1908
Morgan Stem, as a member of the Advisory Council
of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform,
has been broadcasting each Saturday during the summer over
Willie

Station

WDAS

in

Philadelphia.

The Women’s Organization

for

National

Prohibition

Re-

form started three years ago in Chicago with twenty-four memToday their membership numbers well over a million.
bers.
The organization is advocating the repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment, and proposes a campaign of education to attain the
goal of temperance in the United States.
In one of her speeches, Mrs. Stem sums up their program
“Let us as a nation admit that prohibition was a mistake, as other nations have done, and try again to attain real temperance;
not through legislation, which has bred boot-legging, graft and
corruption, but rather through the only means by which we can
attain true temperance
that is, through education.”
All who have had the pleasure of listening to Mrs. Stein
have been impressed, not only with the excellent delivery, but
with the quality and clearness of thought expressed.
Much of
the material has been based on a careful study of the Wicker-

—

sham

report.

Mrs. Stein lives at

3816

Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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43

Martha Herring (Mrs. Frederick Bragg) lives near Toms
Her address is R. F. D. 2, Box 129, Toms River.
j.

River, N.

Thomas

Francis has been elected President of the Rotary

Club of Scranton, Pa., for the current year.

which he deserves and we
ably

Mr. Francis

filled.

Lackawanna County.

This

feel sure the office will

honor
is an
be very cap-

County Superintendent of Schools

is

His address

is

1

707 Pine

in

Street, Scran-

ton, Pa.

Agnes Burke Kinney’s son graduated from Lebanon High
School last June.
He was valedictorian of his class and received other high honors.
He is a member of a debating team
which has won many contests throughout the State.
He will
enter college this fall.
Agnes’ address is 336 Cumberland
Street,

Lebanon, Pa.

Carol

Krum Buck

iation picnic

at

attended the Philadelphia Alumni Assoc-

Willow Grove,

Philadelphia, in

August.

The

Philadelphia organization holds picnics during July, August and

September on the second Saturday of each month.
We believe
that Carol came from the greatest distance, as her address is 50
She is planning to be
Macaris Street, St. Augustine, Florida.
with us for our 25th year reunion next spring.

1910
Bertha Polley (Mrs.

J. L.

Oakes)

lives at R.

D. 2, Union,

N. Y.

A

stroke of paralysis, following a week’s illness with heart

disease, caused the death of

August

1

6, at his

home

in

Kimber A. Hartman on Tuesday,
Mr. Hartman had been

Bloomsburg.

suffering with a heart condition for the past year, but his condition

caused no alarm

until

about a week before

he was compelled to take to

He was

his death,

when

his bed.

the son of the late Charles L.

Hartman and Lucy

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44

Buckhorn, March 1, 1885.
Bloomsburg State Normal
School, he taught in the public schools of West Berwick, Hemlock Township, and Jerseytown, and was principal of the Elders
Ridge Vocational School for seven years.
Following this, he

Appleman Hartman, and was born
Following

in

graduation from the

his

served for seven years as Superintendent of the
Several years ago he

phanage, near Sunbury.

I.

0. 0. F. Or-

came

to

Blooms-

burg, and took up the position of receiving clerk at the Blooms-

burg State Teachers College.
His wife, formerly Miss Elbe Deighmiller, ’08, died

He

years ago.

nell University,

He was

is

three

survived by a son, Henry, a Junior at Buck-

and three

sisters.

the First Presbyterian Church of
Bloomsburg, and was one of the teachers of the Men’s Bible
a

trustee of

He was

Class of that church.

a

member

August

1

with burial

8,

E. H. Nelson,

in

the

Odd Fellows.
home on Thursday,

of the

Funeral services were held at his late

New Columbia

Cemetery.

1911
head of the Department of Health Education,

has completed

which

will

all of the requirements for the Ph. D.
degree,
be conferred upon him by New York University in

October.

Mr. Nelson received his Bachelor’s degree at the University
of Michigan,
L.

North

1

May

and

his Master’s

degree at Harvard University.

Steiner (Mrs. George E.

Gamble)

lives at

2811

2th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Florence Coolbaugh (Mrs. W. 0. Warner)
La Salle Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan.

Shuman

Grace

E.

Jessie

Doran

lives at

16880

(Mrs. Harry G. John) lives in Catawissa,

Pa.

1912

home address

is

is

a teacher

Daleville, Pa.

in

the

Scranton

schools.

Her

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45

A daughter was born Wednesday, July 20, to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank A. Bachinger, of 239 West First Street, Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Bachinger was formerly Miss Theresa Dailey.
1914
The present address of Capt. Idwal H. Edwards
liday Apartment, Hampton, Va.

is

the Hol-

1915

A

daughter was born Wednesday, August 3, to Rev. and
Mrs. Baer was formerly Miss
Mrs. Dallas Baer, of Selinsgrove.
Ruth Albert, and is a daughter of Prof, and Mrs. C. H. Albert.

Mary A. Brower (Mrs. Elmer A. Harrington) lives at 6409
Beechwood Drive, Chevy Chase, Md. She is the mother of two
interesting sons, Robert

and Richard.

1916
Margaret Ferrio
dress

is

Mam

643

is

teaching

in

Dickson City, Pa.

Her ad-

Street.

1918
J. F.

Brink

is

teaching

His address

Wilkes-Barre.

George Harry Derr
His

home

is

is

employed

as a

traveling

salesman.

at Salladasburg, Pa.

Margaret Search
is

is

Myers Jun.or High School,
60 Amherst Avenue.

in the

262 Madison

is

teaching

in

Wilkes-Barre.

Her address

Street.

William U. Keller has been teaching at Dunbar, near UnionHe is married and has three
town, for the past fifteen years.
Professor
Bakeless a check for
He recently sent to
children.

one hundred
Fund.

dollars, as a gift of his class to the

Trophy Room

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W. Fred Kester lives at 503
He expects to complete his work
end of the

first

46

East Third Street, Bloomsburg.
in the

four-year course at the

semester of the coming college year.

1921

Maree E. Pensyl, a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School, received the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education at the commencement exercises held at the close of
the

summer

session at Bucknell University.

1922
Ario T. Sweppenheiser, of Mifflin Township, and Harriet E.

were married Saturday, August 20, by the
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Both Mr. and Mrs. Sweppenheiser are Blooms-

Schultz, of Millville,

Rev. E.

J.

Radcliffe,

Bloomsburg.
burg graduates.
Mr. Sweppenheiser
Mifflin Township.

is

a successful teacher in

1924

On Thursday, June
became

burg,

New

Jersey.

30, Miss Martha Faye Kline, of Bloomsof Milton

the bride

Mrs.

Sommer was

Sommer,

for several

of

Bound Brook,

years a teacher in

Bound Brook, and was a member of the
Bound Brook. Mr.
Sommer has been engaged in work for the Federal Government,
Lehighton, Pa., and

faculty of the Junior-Senior High School in

and

at present holds the position of liquidator in the office of the

comptroller of customs

in

New York

City.

Joseph M. Gallagher, of Park View, a teacher in Banks
Township, died Tuesday afternoon, July 12, at his home, after
a long

illness.

Announcement has been made of the wedding at Valley
Forge of Miss Sara Steese, of Mifflinburg, and Herbert T. Clarke,
The bride has been teaching in the
Jr., of Palmyra, N. J.
schools of Riverton, N.

J.

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47

Miss Frances M. Williams

and George Powell Williams,

both of Edwardsville, were married Monday, June 27, at

home

Mrs. Edwin Daveler (Jean Fox)
son, born Thursday,
ville,

the

of the bride.

June 23,

at the

is

the proud mother of a

Geisinger

Hospital,

Dan-

Pa.

1925
At eight o’clock Sunday morning, June 26, in the First
Methodist Church, of Bloomsburg, Miss Frances Davenport, of
Waterton, became the bride of H. Max Pennington, of Bloomsburg.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the church.

with his

The bride has

for

Wyomissing, and Mr. Pennington
father in Bloomsburg.

been teaching

in

several
is

in

years

business

1927

On
became

Friday, July 8, Miss Mabel

McHenry, of Bloomsburg,

the bride of Robert Brewington, of Benton, in

mony performed

at the

home

a cere-

of the bride’s grandparents in Ben-

by the Rev. Robert Porter, pastor of the Christian Church
Bloomsburg.
of
Mr. Brewington is associated with his father, Percy Brewington, in the publication of the Benton Argus, and is active in
the affairs of Benton, and the northern end of Columbia County.
Mrs. Brewington taught for a time in Bristol, Pa., and for two
years previous to her marriage, was a teacher in the Benton Voton,

cational High School.

On Thursday morning, June 2, at the Evangelical Parsonage in Bloomsburg, Miss Beatrice Renn, of Berwick, and Furman
Koppenhaver, of Saranac, N. Y., were united in marriage.
The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. S. S. Mumey, pastor of the
Bloomsburg Evangelical Church.
The bride has, for the past
three years, been teaching in Briar Creek Borough.

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Irene M. Montgomery, of Orangeville, and Dayton C. Fairman, of Light Street, were married June 8, by the Rev. Louis V.
Barber, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Benton.
Mrs.
Fairman has been teaching in the schools of Orange Township
for the past five years.
Mr. Fairman is employed by the Magee
Carpet Company, at Bloomsburg.

Miss Mercea Kreigh, of Bloomsburg, and Glen Benner,

of

McAllisterville, were married Saturday morning, August 6, at
Freemont, Pa.
Mrs. Benner has, since her graduation, been a

successful teacher in the McAllisterville schools.

1928
Miss Geraldine Diehl, of Northumberland, and George
Cross, of

Sunbury, were married Saturday,

Mrs. Cross

was

which took place

in

grade

in

of the

marriage of Miss

D. H. Saoui, of Pitman, N.

October, 1931, at the Germantown PresMrs. Saoui

byterian Church, Philadelphia.
first

P.

1932.

5,

a teacher in the Northumberland schools.

1929
Announcement has been made
Fay E. Blud, of Northumberland, and
J.,

March

has been

teaching

the Northumberland schools since her graduation

from Bloomsburg.
Mr. Saoui is employed
They are now living in Clayton, N. J.
Miss Charlotte Mears,

of

Bloomsburg,

as

who

a

salesman.

for the

past

three years has been teaching in the high school at Dimock, Pa.,

has been elected

teacher of

English

in the

Bloomsburg High

School.

and Meade Keane, of BerMrs.
wick, were married in Easton on Saturday, June 18.
Keane has been a teacher in Columbia County for the past five
years, during the last two of which she taught in Lime Ridge.
Mr. Keane is employed by the A. C. & F. Co., at Berwick. They
are now living at 438 West Second Street, Berwick.

Anna

E. Miller, of Miff linville,

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49

1930
Miss Mildred Manbeck, of Bloomsburg, and Quentin House-

Muncy, were married Tuesday, June 21 by the Rev. N.
St. Mathew’s Lutheran Church, of Bloomsburg.
The groom is employed by the Bell Telephone Company
at Muncy.
Mrs. Housenick taught last year in Northumberland
nick, of

S.

,

Wolf, pastor of

County.

1931
Gorham, of Scranton, Pa., andaughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Clar-

Mr. and Mrs. William H.

nounce the marriage of their
ence R. Wolever, of Nanticoke.
The ceremony was performed on Monday, May 23, 1931,
by the Rev. Allen C. Shue, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Sunbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolever will reside in
where Mr. Wolever is a member of the Hun-

After September

Huntington

Mills,

1

,

tington Mills High School.

Doris Sechrist has been elected

teacher of

eighth

grade

English in the Bloomsburg High School.

Gladys Dildine, of Orangeville, and Mahlon K. Whitmire,
were married at the home of the bride on Thursday,

of Berwick,

by the Rev. Louis V. Barber, pastor of the Orangeville
Mrs. Whitmire taught in the Orangeville
schools during the past year, and the groom has been bookkeeper in the Orangeville Bank for several years.

June

2,

Presbyterian Church.

1932
Miss Mabel Reinard, of Sunbury, has been elected teacher
of the

Orphanage School

berland County.

in

Upper Augusta Township, Northum-

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