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DECEMBER, 1932
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
DECEMBER, 1932

Vol.34

No.

1

Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year

H. F.

FENSTEMAKER, T2

F. H.

JENKINS, ’76

The week

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of Armistice

Business Manager

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Day has

Editor-in-Chief

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for several years

been

set

apart to call the attention of the public to the place occupied by

our public schools

in

our national

life.

One

of

the

ways

in

which Education Week has been observed has been an assembly
program, at which a group of students read papers setting forth
the various aspects of education.

We

take pleasure

ing the papers read at this year’s program.
in the

order in which they were read.

in publish-

They are printed

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EDUCATION WEEK

ROSTAND KELLY

“We
gion.

celebrate Christmas because

it

gave us a great

reli-

We observe the Fourth of July because gave us a free
We magnify the schools during one week each year
it

nation.

because through them

we develop

the finer values of our civiliza-

tion.”

The first American Education Week was organized in 1921
by the National Americanism Commission of the American Legion and the National Education Association.
In 1922 the
United States Bureau of Education, recognizing the value of
such an observance, gave them aid.
Since that time Education
Week has become a permanent, annual feature of our educational

program.

Today

practically every

Education Week.

Official

part of

the

country

celebrates

proclamations are issued by the Pres-

and the
Newspapers and periodicals feature
school activities
and the development of Education. The
churches cooperate by arranging to have special sermons during
Education Week.
Chambers of Commerce, Labor organizations, women’s clubs, fraternal bodies, and other organizations
give publicity by providing speakers about school affairs.
Parents are brought into closer contact with the schools by exhibits
of pupils’ work and by visiting the schools while the children are
at work.
All this activity has given to the American people “A
ident of the United States, the governors of the states,

mayors of the

cities.

new understanding
playing,

of

and must play

the part that
in the life of

Although education

education has played,

is

our great democracy.”

always a matter of great national
should have an added importance.
At the very time when the services of our schools are most needed they are threatened by a decrease in financial support.
For
this reason Education Week this year has a deeper meaning.
is

concern, during these years

it

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for 1932 is “The Schools and the Nahave chosen for our talks the topics sugdays of Education Week.

The general theme

We

Founders.”

tion’s

gested for the different

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THE HOMES OF THE PIONEERS
MILDRED FORD
The pioneers found a land magnificent m forests. LimeThe pioneers, however,
and stone were plentiful.
lacked the facilities for cutting and sawing.
In their predicament they resorted to cave dwellings. Pennsylvania, New York
and Massachusetts are best known for this.
Pennsylvania especially for here for more than one-half century could be found
cave dwellings or smoky homes.
These caves were dug into the side of a hill, low cliff, or
high bank, usually four feet deep.
The walls were then built
up of sod or earth laid on poles or brush. Thus only half of the
chamber was really under ground.
The roofs were layers of tree limbs covered over with sod,
bark, or rushes.
The chimneys were made of cobblestones or
sticks of wood mortared with clay and grass.
Madame Jumel,
whose home on Washington Heights, New York City, is famous
stone, clay,

for

its

beauty, lived

in

one of these wretched hovels

in

her early

girlhood in Rutland, Massachusetts.
the Indians and built wigwams of
These usually were called half-faced camps.
They had an open side which served as window and
door.
Abraham Lincoln m his youth lived in one of these.
In
626 thirty buildings in Manhattan were made of bark.
Bark was used because it could be easily pinned onto a light

The Southerners imitated

plaited rush or grass mats.

1

frame.

The
found

settler

had one

in the early days.

her mountains.

friend, his axe,

North Carolina

and so log cabins were
still

has log cabins

in

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were cross-lapped at the corners to make walls
were roofed with logs, or thatched with
light poles and covered with bark.
The cracks were usually
daubed with clay. Doors were hung on wooden hinges or

Round

logs

of the cabins, which

straps of hide.

The

even on hemlock boughs for he
said, “A hard day’s work makes a soft bed.”
If the wife desired something better, a rough platform, placed about two feet
high beside one wall and supported at the outer edge with strong
tired pioneer slept well

formed a bedstead.
As the Colonists adapted themselves to their surroundings,
Each settlement copied the type of
brick homes were built.
home to which they had been accustomed while in Europe.
Madam Knight’s instructor of Benjamin Franklin writes of the
homes m New York about 750: “The buildings are brick generally, very stately and high and are of various colors laid in
glazed checker form.
The inside of the house is neat to admiration with wooden work.
The walls are plastered, the wood
work planed and scoured.
“The roofs were higher in proportion to the side walls and
the bricks were arranged fantastically.
The windows were
The front doors were cut horizontally and suspended by
small.
leather hinges.
Each door had a knocker. Nails were costly
as were all articles of iron.
So leather and wood served the
posts,

1

purpose.

m

and the homes
of the Southerners were more luxurious both inside and out.”
“Later plantations developed

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SCHOOLS OF THE PIONEERS
ELIZABETH ROW
Having come to America to secure religious freedom, it
was natural that the people should look to education for the perpetuation of their faith.
At first English precedents were fol-

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lowed, and

home

to read the Bible.

and

later English

instruction

was employed

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to teach the children

After 1674 town elementary schools existed

“dame”

schools were established

to

provide

This type of school was held in the
rudimentary education.
home of some woman with the mere rudiments of an education,
who desired to earn a small stipend for herself by imparting to
the children of her neighborhood her small store of learning.

Although the pioneers were concerned with education, it
had to take second place to the business of making a living.
Only after food, shelter, clothing, and protection were assured
could thought be given to matters of education.
However,
there

was a

desire for schools

and

m

each settlement there was

established the beginnings of a system of education.

neer school-houses were of the rudest sort, built of logs

The piowood-

in

They were located at
was too poor for cultivation.
Usually there were no floors and oftimes the children would
purposely stir up the dust in clouds to annoy the teacher.
The
benches were split logs.
Around three sides of the room, pegs
were put m the walls three feet from the floor and rough boards
placed on the pegs.
The resulting shelf served as a desk for
the older pupils.
The room was heated by a stove or a fireplace.
The pupils were always either too hot or too cold, aced regions and of sod on the

prairies.

cross-roads and on land which

cording as they sat near to or distant from the heat.
spelling, and history were
There were no courses of study to be followed, and
pupils studied whatever the teacher could teach or had books to
use.
Reading was done largely from the Bible.
The children
learned to write by copying verses which the schoolmaster wrote
at the top of each pupil’s rough copy-book.
Spelling-bees took
’’
up a large part of the time. Arithmetic problems were “set
from the master’s sum book.
The schoolmaster was sometimes a man of learning, but
often a very ignorant person.
The pay received by the teachers was small and, since money was scarce, he was more often
paid with wood, food, or clothing.
For the balance of his wag-

Reading, writing, arithmetic,

taught.

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he “boarded around”

among

the families in the district.

The most important thing which any school master d:d was
to keep order, for his pupils were often full-grown young men
and women who tried to get the best of him and drive him away.
Therefore, he employed severe punishments.
He used a cowhide, or cat-o-nine-tails for whipping, and a ruler for hitting
children over the hands.
When the disturbance was general, he
would order each one to pass his desk and each received a
smack with the ruler. In this wa\^ he made sure that none of
the guilty escaped.

As the communities

flourished,

education advanced, and

pioneer schools of the old type became history.
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TWO CENTURIES OF PROGRESS IN NEW-WORLD SCHOOLS
JOHN McGREW
In the early part of the eighteenth century we were using
European traditions, social customs and types of schools.
But
by 1750 it was evident that European ways could no longer survive. A desire was manifested by the American people to adapt
the schools better to American needs.
The evolution of the public or state school from the original
religious school m New England; the rise of the district system;
the introduction of new textbooks; the establishment of two
new colleges (Penn 749, Kings 754) and the abandonment
of the practice by Yale and Harvard of ranking their students according to social position
al! were clear indications of the
abandonment of English ideas, schools and types of instruction.
With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, education
everywhere suffered tremendously.
Most of the schools were
closed, or continued a more or less intermittent existence.
During this period little or no attention was given to education.
In
fact, nowhere in the Constitution as framed by the Continental
Congress is there any mention of education.
Were the Consti1

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tution to

be reframed today there

is little

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doubt but that educa-

would occupy a prominent place in it.
As yet the school equipment has been limited, and trained
In 839 the first American Normal School was
teachers scarce.
established at Lexington, Massachusetts, and up to 1860 there
Today
were only eleven such schools in the United States.
there are approximately two-hundred fifty teachers colleges and
tion

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normal schools
ican
sion

United States.

in the

War created another lull in the progress of Amereducation.
Up to 1890 further development and expancame slowly; expenses were kept down and few new feaThe

Civil

Then followed the remarkwere added to the curriculum.
able development in public education which has characterized
tures

the last thirty-five years.

A

890 shows
comparison of the records for 928 and
were seven and one-half times as many high schools,
twenty times as many teachers, seventeen times as many pupils,
twenty-two times as much money invested in buildings and
schools.
Statistics show that high schools have been built in
the United States on the average of one a day for the last thirtyfive years.
During the World War it was stated we were a nation of sixth graders.
Today we have attained a level of mass
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that there

intelligence equivalent to the eighth grade.

We

have

however, reached the highest levels of uniwe can attain.
Quoting the words of Washington in his farewell address,
not,

versal education to which

he said: “Promote then, as an object of primary importance,
stitutions for the general diffusion of

as the structure of a
is

knowledge.

in-

In proportion

government gives force to public opinion,
be enlightened.”

it

essential that public opinion should
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS AND EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
HELEN HARTMAN
Every

child,

regardless

of

nationality,

intellect,

or

sex,

should have an equal educational opportunity for our public edu-

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and a worthy
expand the reasoned equality
for all men and women to develop their talents, win rewards,
seek appreciations in public and in private life, employ their
creative impulses, and reach distinction in the various fields of
cational system has a sound doctrine of equality

goal which

is:

To preserve and

to

human endeavor.
Whatever our nationality, we are all equal under this docThe American school system is the pit of the melting pot
where ancient foreign prejudices are melted out of youth and
the best that is brought and the best that is here are fused together.
The principal instruments that brought about this condition are The American playgrounds, athletic fields, laboratories, libraries, and public schools.
Above these rises supreme the
personality of the teacher.
Common schools have helped men
to achieve the realization of democratic ideals, widened the opportunities for new citizens from across the seas, given women
the highest place that they have ever held in education.
The plan of co-education in colleges and in universities has,
in most instances, fulfilled the highest expectation of its promotHowever, its ultimate results are uncertain. The intellecers.
trine.

:

women is not questioned but the increase in the
women students makes an over-feminized student

tual equality of

number

of

body.

One aim

of education

is

identical for

both sexes

—

that

of freedom of choice of specialization.

One

of the most complicated educational problems

of affording equal opportunity to

those of

different

is

that

inherited

whatever environment they may be.
Experimental work has drawn attention to the enormous range of
abilities that are present in an ordinary class of pupils.
Educators have proposed and experimented with many plans and
methods of organizing school work to meet these varying abilities of pupils such as the Dalton plan, the Winnetka plan, the
Batavia plan with its many modifications, promotion of pupils
semi-annually and four times a year as m St. Louis, the contract
method, project and problem methods, differentiated assignments, activity programs, and many more.
mental equipment

in

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Public school

financial

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and administrative problems are

commanding more attention the nation over than ever before.
The efforts of educators in Pennsylvania well illustrate the point.
Committees are at work on plans for the reorganization of the
school districts of the Commonwealth and on new taxation plans
and plans for a more equitable distribution of State aid in order
to equalize the educational opportunities of children in the poor-

The need

er districts.

for such plans

becomes clear when one

considers that the poorest fourth class district has

$4000

true

valuation per teacher employed, as contrasted with the richest
fourth class district, which has $2,346,000

teacher employed.
district

This

means

true valuation

per

that the wealthiest fourth class

has five hundred eighty-six times the ability to pay that

the poorest school district has.

quoted from a report by the Commission
Problems in Pennsylvania.
The
report further states that over 1300 school districts m Pennsyl-

These

facts are

for the Study of Educational

vania

in all

gram

of education

probability are not able to offer the

demanded by

working on programs of

financial

so that educational opportunities

Our

city school

the State.

minimum

pro-

Other states are

adjustment and reorganization

may be

equalized.

systems have progressed rapidly

dumb,

in

provid-

and
and the otherwise physically handicapped. Special classes for the subnormal and open-air schools for the weakbodied are common.
These are some of the many ways m
which the schools are providing for varying needs, and abilities
ing for the mentally inferior, the deaf, the

the blind,

the crippled,

of pupils.
If

we

define equality of educational opportunity as an op-

portunity to develop to a point approaching the limit
capacity,
to

make

we may

of

one’s

say that the nation’s schools are doing

much

The types of schools adapted to the
in any community or
depend very largely upon the willingness of society to supthis possible.

varying needs and capacities of children
state

port them.

Society, indeed,

of the schools

and

is

is

responsible for the present state

obligated to cooperate with school people

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in

perfecting educational institutions and adjusting them to the

needs, interests, and capacities of children.
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THE SCHOOLS AND AMERICAN IDEALS
FREDERICK NYHART
At present, educationalal systems are being put to a test by
the public as to whether they cope with its established ideals.
The public is judging it in these aspects. Just how much are
Does the
schools responsible if the social order goes wrong?
fact that crime is mounting reflect discredit upon the schools?
Are the schools concerned that unprecedent numbers of worthy
men and women cannot get w'ork?
The public realizes that w’ithout education, we cannot advance also that there is a close relation between expenditures
for education and per capita wealth.
The public realizes that
educational systems have coped w'lth past conditions, but will it
meet the demands of the present, or is it partly responsible for
;

the present situation?

Tw'o illustrations

will suffice

to

show

been thinking.
No social changes of our day are more far reaching than
the increasing attainment of equal rights of woman with man.
Our school system developed as one common to boys and girls
from the kindergarten to the university.
Many question the ad\ isability of establishing the equality of men and w'omen, especially in the industrial wf'rld, and base their judgment in the
Nothing will
present unemployment situation as it affects men.
prevent the inevitable completion and establishment of this
equality, but a change in our scheme of education.
A second change which the public charges to the school is
our growing lawlessness.
Our policy of government is the regulations of the morals and tastes of the people by statutes.
We
depend on statutes for what we may do or may not do, and so
w’hat the public has

public opinion languishes as

a controlling

factor.

Therefore,

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doing a thing forbidden by law

is

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not a moral matter but a legal

matter.

Our higher educational system has a tendency
future citizens in a type of lawlessness.

bundles of statutes,

rules

and

to train the

College catalogues are

regulations..

A

student

starts

with regulations such as program card signing, checking credits,

and the like.
It becomes obvious to the student that he graduates by record.
He must disobey none of the rules. How to
get those credits now becomes the problem.
It
becomes a

game

Evasion

of acquiring credits rather than self-education.

or possibly deception grows in the character of the student
intends merely to get by.
later

of

What

better training than

citizens

does

higher

education

tend

who
for

What type

matching wits with the guardians of the law?

future

this

to

develop?

The present chaotic condition has stirred the public to the
point where it demands that educational systems create such
ideals as will tend toward self-government and the elevation of
morals and good taste.
examples of ideals that the United
States wishes the schools to develop in her youth.
An Englishman traveling in this country was impressed by
I

should

like

to cite

and woods, but greatly distressed by the unsightly billHe asked his host, “Why do you allow them?” His
host replied, “We have not yet succeeded in passing a law to
the lakes

boards.

abolish them.”

Englishman said, “We have no laws,
and probably never shall have on such a subject, but
when a great gasoline company put up billboards along English
highways a few years ago, the company was flooded with postcards and letters protesting in such numbers that it promptly removed the billboards and published its apologies for having so
In reply to this, the

either,

far

mistaken the taste of the English people.”
This illustration is modern.
Let us recall an

illustration of

the past.

The knights
tered an abbey,

of old

had a

rule of their order

“Do What Thou

Wilt.”

when they

They entered

the

en-

abbey

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on their honor.
It is not easy to explain the influence of this
code of honor.
One writer, however, states that those who are
free, well known, well educated, and accustomed to good company, have by nature an instinct and spur which prompts them
to virtuous acts and withdraws them from vice.
This they call
honor.
Dr. William C. Bagley says that this so-called “honor”
and “ingrained respect for law” are one and the same thing, and
are dynamic forces in the control of conduct.
They are, of
course, not instincts but are rather the products of education and
training.
Is our educational system equal to the task?
If this
problem is to be solved at all, education will have to solve it.
Dr. Frank N. Freeman, of the University of Chicago, says,

“The challenge of today is conduct. People cannot be made
good nor happy by social devices (that is, laws and regulations).
It takes both intelligence and good will.
Internal principles of
behavior are not as changeable as exterior forms,
social,

and

terlocking of interests, should replace
gain, strife in

all

economic,

Social cooperation, inter-independence, in-

political.

greed for

individualism,

forms, political turmoil.

People must have their intelligence developed.

understand the meaning of good

will, of social

They must

cooperation,

inter-independence, of one person upon others,

of one

of

group

upon another group; they must understand that the interests of
the few are not unrelated to the interests of the many.
These
are ideals to which education as conducted in our public schools
may devote its major attention in these modern days.
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THE SCHOOLS AND PROGRESSIVE LIVING

ANTHONY SHAKOFSKI
Education trains minds which are sources of untold benefit
to all

mankind.

They
They lessen the waste of
They produce more service-

Trained minds create, discover, invent.

save labor, material, time and land.
disease, deterioration,

and decay.

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able and attractive articles, and help

make

life

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more complete

and happy.
Our annual production of crops has been increased immeasurably by discoveries made by men working in agricultural
colleges.
The United States is the greatest fruit-producing nation of the
to

world largely because men through education brought

bear the principles of science on horticultural problems.

Through education Professor Yardell Henderson, of Yale,
was able to solve the problem of diabetes and save thousands of
lives

each year.

Over the radio daily come programs detailing the events of
lectures on current news and topics.
You could not
very well appreciate these if you were not educated.
the world

—

Education plays such a great part

in

progressive living that

unemployment
gether a number of people who have a great deal
cation to consider ways and means of retraining
the President’s

This

jobs.

IS

organization on

is

Modern surgery was
teur’s

to-

do with edu-

adults for nev/

the biggest factor in bringing the present crisis to

an end, and the country
Joseph

relief call

to

Lister, of

looking toward education to do
the

result of

Edinburg University,

education.

it.

Professor

from the study of Pas-

theory of germ infection, conceived the plan of keeping

wounds

from infection by applying antiseptics.
The British
Medical Journal said that, because of his education and findings,
he saved more lives by the introduction of this system than ail
the wars of the nineteenth century together had sacrificed.
One of the most important results of widespread education
is freedom.
We are free to worship or not to worship. We
are free from the dictation of others as to the choice of our occupations.
We are free to criticize existing institutions, whether
of government, property, education, or religion, and equally
free to defend these institutions.
This, however, does not tell the whole story.
There are
other meanings of disciplined freedom that education especially
should explicitly recognize.
While we are glad that we are free
from personal slavery and bondage, we are just as happy that
free

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we are free from certain fears, superstitions, and frauds which
would otherwise hold us in something that might be worse than
physical bondage, and for those blessings of freedom we are indebted very largely to education.
Education has made the United States the greatest fruit
producing country in the world it has connected us with the rest
of the world by radio, telegraph, steamship, and airplane; education has played its part in making the United States the
wealthiest and most prosperous great nation on the globe; education has raised our standards of living to a point unequaled m
any other civilized country education has saved untold numbers
of lives by means of surgery.
Many other achievements of education could be cited.
Education now is called upon to help
bring about the end of the present crisis of our nation.
If this
problem is to be solved, education and the forces that eminate
from education will solve it.
In the future the laws of the country will not be made by cheap grafting politicians, but, let us
hope, will be governed by men of thought and learning who are
;

;

the products of a great public
tion of

democracy,

m

fact,

is

educational

The Ben Franklin Training School

week

earlier than the college

the length required

grades
ers:

by

in the training

law.

system.

Preserva-

the responsibility of public schools.

at the College

opened a

proper so that the term may be of
Following is the enrollment by the

school with the

names

Kindergarten, Miss Woolworth, 40;

of the critic teach-

grade. Miss Stan-

first

40; second grade. Miss Moyer, 33; third grade, Mrs. Baker, 40; fourth grade. Miss Carpenter, 33; fifth grade. Miss Garrison, 34; sixth grade, Mrs. Keller, 40; total 260.
ton,

The growth of the American high school
it

enrolls half the eligible

youth of the nation

significant facts in our country’s history.

is

to a point

where

one of the most

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Prof. Hartline Views Eclipse
Professor Daniel

went

to

New England

Hartline

S.

to

make

was

a

member

of a party that

scientific observations of the total

which occurred August 31.
In a letter written from Gorham, New Hampshire, Prof. Hartline had the following to say regarding the preparations made to view the
eclipse of the sun,

eclipse

“The Waterfield Eclipse Expedition, consisting of a group
astronomy studies, headed by Dr. R. L. Water-

of amateurs in
field,

formerly of the

land,

now

staff of the

apparatus for observing the total
at

3:30

Greenwich Observatory, Enghas now set up its
eclipse of the sun, August 3 st,

of St. Guy’s Hospital of London,

P.

1

M.

“The initial group met Dr. Waterfield, August st, at the
summer camp of Garrett Hobart, grandson of the former Vice1

Lake Mooselucmaguntic, one of the Rangely lakes,
and other apparatus that needed machine work, and then came to Gorham, N. H., where they selected a spot near the central line of the eclipse pathway, for setting
up observation machinery.
“Gorham is a delightful New England town at the junction
of the Peabody and the Androscoggin Rivers, by the foot of Mt.
Madison, one of the Presidential Range that culminates in Mt.
Washington and is surrounded by the numerous subordinate
ranges and peaks of the famous White Mountain group.
“We have now set up:
“( ).
A telescope with spectroscope attachment for takPresident, on

made

the telescope tubes

1

ing spectographs, that

“(2).
corona, using

A

is,

spectrum

prints.

5-inch telescope for taking photographs of the

filters to select

the light rays of the desired

wave

length.

“(3).

A

telescope

made up

a 4-inch, and a 2-inch, that
infra red rays

along with

is,

the

of three telescopes, a 6-inch,

a 3 in

1

visible

affair for

rays

of

photographing
the

spectrum.

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From

these comparative studies will be

in this

manner

at the

A

“(4).

same time and

telescope, the large

made

John Hopkins Refractor, for

taking photographs of the various stages

whole.
are

In this set-up, the telescope

moved

of the prints taken

place.

is

of

the

eclipse as

a

stationary and the plates

to follow the course of the eclipse.

A

“(5).

which reflects the light into the teleby means of a moving mirror. A second
mirror is used to send the reflected beam where it is wanted.”
On his return from the expedition. Prof. Hartline gave a
very interesting report of his experiences, at a meeting of the
Bloomsburg Rotary Club.
The Morning Press carried the following account of the address he gave on that occasion
“The Lure of the Eclipse” and his personal reactions thereto, formed the basis of a remarkably fine address given before
members of the Bloomsburg Rotary Club by Prof. Daniel S.
scope, which

Hartline, a
shire as a

Sight at

“A

my

its

is

Celostat,

at rest,

member of the club who journeyed to New Hampmember of an expedition to witness the marvelous
point of totality.

rather too ready assent that

‘Personal Experiences and

I

gave

Impressions

week that I give
From the Eclipse

last

Study on August 3 st’ and the long, hard, exact preparation for
it all through August, is explained by the fact that I expected to
bring with me to this meeting two other members of the expedi1

tion

and hoped

to give

you the pleasure of having them
work together

called on, of the happy, arduous, thrilling

paring for worthy, result! i

!

seeing of

this

tell,

if

in pre-

wondrous, sublime

spectacle of the sky.

“But ocean liners, like the men who made them, come and
and the genial cultured English clergyman. Rev. Rector
Theodore R. Phillips, distinguished amateur astronomical observer, and editor and co-author of England’s finest book on popular astronomy entitled “The Splendour of the Heavens,” instead
of being here to talk to us tonight, is returning to the great work
in his parish in Hereford; and Dr. Keffer Hartline is responding
to the fascinating lure of his work in ‘Research Medical Biophygo,

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sics’ at

18

the University of Pennsylvania.

“We

spent a gay, beautiful day together on our magnificent

North Mountain; eagerly and blithely as boys, discussing and
enjoying allied problems presented by the flora and fauna,

liv-

and struggling m and on them, even as we are.
“So I am left to do the best I can to meet the responsibility
I assumed for them.
“It is quite likely that your president was wise, as usual,
in making the request as he did.
He put into the foreground the
elem.ent of personal experience.
Presumably you are pretty
well fed up on how and what to see in the phenomena of the
eclipse which you tell me you did not see and its speculations on
the great meanings of the startling, weird features of the thrilling

ing sky show.

“The request having come

as

it

did,

I

shall

not

repeat or

add

to the superb material given you galore by the marvelous
enterprise and amazing efficiency of our great newspaper and

you call for
you remember that

periodical press, unless
stipulation that

it
I

;

and then only with the
a biologist and only a

am

very amateur student of astronomy.
“It may be worth while to give a paragraph or two on the
motive that makes men go to the extraordinary effort, travel the
long distances, undergo the heavy expense, to see for a minute

and a half

all

that

can be seen of

this

show, with the chances that
all can be

the VA'eather conditions will be such that nothing at
seen.

upon me when I
made my first observation of the total eclipse. It was the total
eclipse of January 24th, 1925, which was not quite total here
but the path came near enough to us, the edge of it being near

“The extraordinary

Wilkes-Barre, to

make

it

lure fastened itself

possible to get the central line of

the

path by traveling a short distance.

With a small group of inBinghamton, N. Y., which was right on

went to
I was very fortunate in selection of a site for
observation and photographing on a high hill top.
The ground
terested people

the central line.

I

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was covered with snow and it was extraordinary cold, 2 degrees below zero.
“The subimity of the picture as it unfolded thrilled one
with awe and I came away from it all feeling very certain that if
there was a chance to go to another I would go because there
were still so many things to see that I did not get satisfactorily
m the short time I had for seeing all the amazing features.
“On this expedition, a month of hard work, the majority of
which taxed the strength in any of the numerous phases calling
1

for expenditure of effort, exact calculations,

careful

lining up,

awkward

tubes holding

the lenses, these set so that they could be driven

by clock work

driving stakes, and fastening securely
that were timed with the movement
was necessary for the entire party.

“In addition to

all this

the

financed wholely by the members.

men whose work was

in

of the phases of the eclipse,

expedition was private and

These were chiefly young

other lines of science and done

vacation time from the sheer desire to
in

know and

in their

the satisfaction

the effort to set up things so that they could see quickly and

and come to an understanding of what they saw.
“Here is the reason for the fact that we ask that there be
no newspaper publicity.
Not one of them was a professional
astronomer.
How strong the lure set itself upon them was evidenced by the fact that three of them came all the way from
England, three from Belgium, one from Canada, several from
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and from the University of Pennsylvania.
And when all this was done and the telling moment
came, the sky was cloudy and not a thing was seen but there was
no whimper, no disgust about the hard luck, simply a calm
sportsmanslike acceptance of the results of gambling with
weather for a minute and a half of seeing what was happening
accuratel)'^

in

a clear sky.

“The first thing said was ‘When and where is the next
The answer was made that the next good one was in
Borneo.
All agreed that they would come together there in the
same way and try it again.
one?’

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“S. A. Mitchell, director of the

vatory, professor of astronomy in
tells in his

recent

book of 500 pages

Sun,’ that he has traveled

20

Leander McCormick obser-

the University

of

Virginia,

entitled ‘The Eclipses of the

many thousand

miles to see the total

he has seen a total of 5 minutes,
It
accumulated time for seeing.
means that he traveled about 00 miles for each second of work
during totality.
eclipses of the sun.

that

is

900 seconds

In this

1

of total

1

“Besides the great features that have been widely publish-

may be mentioned as items of special interest
made by those who took the ride of 30 miles, chasspot in the sky in a Cadillac at the rate of 80 miles

ed the following
in the

study

ing a clear

an hour,

to see the eclipse

“Oncoming shadows; the great wall of darkness suddenly
overwhelming us coming upon us at the rate of 2400 miles a
minute.
One could see this coming. In the darkening dusk a
song sparrow let go his song just as it does during the oncoming twilight; and then again the midst of the darkness.
Our
eyes were soon adjusted to the darkness and then came the flash
of the corona.
The beginning of a thin crescent showed up as
vividly bright Bailey’s beads.
As the thin crescent of light
flashed by the corona developed, the bead, which is the flash of
light to come from the disc of the bright sun through a gap in
the edge of the moon’s shadow, enlarged and in a twinkling crescents from the two sides showed that point that made a beautiful ring with the original head as the diamond.
“Other features that were looked for were the colors
orange at the base of the corona, bright scarlet higher up and
three large streamers.
Shadow bands were seen by only one
member of the party and these is about the same way we see
shimmering air waves over a heated road surface.
Next came
the passing of the shadow, coming again to the light of a larger
;

portion of the sun’s disc and the quick return to normal sun light
conditions,

much

as at the

coming of the dawn.’’

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Frances Musselman
TEACHER, EDUCATOR, PHYSICAL TRAINING EXPERT
remembered by

Miss Frances Musselman will be
dents of old Normal days as a

many

the

of the class of ’85.

stu-

Her

classmates and friends will hear with regret of her death

which occurred early
in

member

in

June of

present year, at her

this

home

Chicago.
Miss Musselman was a

native of Danville, Pa., born in
She received her preliminary education in the public
schools of Danville.
She entered the Bloomsburg State Normal
School in the fall of 1883.
She took rank at once as a superior
pupil, with delightful personality, intelligent and aggressive.
She made many friends who after all these years, speak of her
with fond remembrance.
After her graduation from the State Normal School, she
spent some ten years teaching in the rural and borough schools
of her native State.
She was eminently successful as a teacher.
Her experience was rich and enlarging, giving her a practical
understanding of young life, with a grasp of psychology of
childhood and youth with a sympathy for youth and its needs
that made it possible for her to reach the mind and heart of her
These
pupils, inspiring them toward higher and better living.
early years of her profession were of inestimable value to her in
her later and wider professional field, which she then chose and
for which she planned to prepare herself.
In 895 she decided to abandon the public school work for
Physical Educaa wider and still more exacting field of labor.

1867.

;

1

tion

new

was then claiming
field of effort in

Musselman decided

to

the attention of educators;

education; an

experimental

tram for and enter

this

new

was rather
field.
field.

a

Miss

With

her usual thoroughness and intelligence she planned for the best
possible training in her

new

summer she took

She entered the Boston
During the following
her field in the Department

venture.

Normal School of Gymnastics

for a year.

special training in

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Harvard Summer School, then under the
In September she entered the Sargent School of Physical Education, graduating from it in the
spring of 897.
She was at once called to the Stevens Point
State Normal School, Wisconsin, as director of Physical Education, where she spent her first year in her new work.
It was a
very successful year.
She then received a call to the new Francis Parker School for the same line of work.
She continued in
this school for almost twenty years, from the foundation of the
school, until 1917.
She is lovingly remembered by hundreds
of her former pupils, who were trained under her sympathetic
and enthusiastic care during these years m the Frances Parker
of Physical Training in

management

of Dr. Sargent.

1

School.

During the

last fifteen

years of her professional career, she

was director of the Chicago School of Physical Education (now
known as the Kendall College of Physical Education). Her already exalted reputation as a teacher rests still more securely on
the foundation of the lives and the successful careers of more
than a thousand teachers of Physical Education,

who

received

and much of their inspiration from her consecrated efforts and exalted ideals.
After fifteen years of service m
this college, she resigned from active work, but retained the po-

their training

sition of Director

In

an

Emeritus

article

m

until the

the September

time of her death.

number

Health and Physical Education, from which
this article is

gleaned, the

author,

“Miss Musselman began her career
still

new

a

subject

m

of

Virginia

when

the curriculum of

The Journal

much
H.

Kendall,

says

physical education

American

of

of the data of

schools,

her constant study and experimentation resulted in adding

was
and

much

knowledge and technique of the profession. Devoted to
teaching, her life’s ambition was realized during the years she
was training others to become capable teachers themselves and
those whom she served as a guide and counselor, will be the first
to testify to the thoroughness of her work and the inspiration
to the

;

of her leadership.

“At the thirty-seventh annual convention of the American

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award for meritorious
was given to her in
these awards were given in the United

Physical Education Association, the honor

service to the physical education profession,

(Only two of

absentia.

States)

“In the hearts and minds of

all

her friends,

in the

work

of

those she trained, and in the profession to which she devoted her
life,

the

memory

of Frances

Musselman

will

long endure.”

y ¥ ¥
Is it assuming too much to say that Miss Frances Musselman, with her remarkable personality, superior ability, industry,
and enthusiasm, probably caught her “vision splendid” (as did
so many of the strongest and best students sent out from the
“Old Normal”) in the class-room of that remarkable man and
The scientific asgifted teacher. Professor William Noetling?
pect of his profession was never forgotten but, on the other
hand, he demanded also a sympathetic understanding and appreciation of the child and his needs, on the part of his student
teachers.
To him and his understanding pupils, there was a
pedagogy of the heart as well as of the intellect. This young

woman,
this

like so

many

others of her pupils,

great teacher, imbibed his enthusiasm,

divine

fire

of his spirit.

came in touch with
was filled with the

She bore the torch, lighted

at his shrine,

into the educational field for a half century, faithful to his spirit

and his traditions and her own ideals. The sympathetic spirit
and the deeper understanding of the heart, advocated by the
pedagogy of a Pestalozzi and a Froebel, and as applied by a
Noetling and a Waller, quickened the professional zeal and practice of the more intelligent students of the old regime, and sent
out many great teachers, who quietly and unostentatiously, lived
their lives and fulfilled their mission as has FRANCES MUSSEL-

MAN.
0. H.

NOTE — The

BAKELESS.

above article was made possible by the efforts of Mrs.
Henry Bierman, (nee Lou Sober) a classmate and life-long

friend of Miss Musselman.

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Alumni Room (“Trophy Room”)
STATEMENT OF NOVEMBER
Amount Secured

28,

1932

Since Last Report.

—

Addition to Fund of Class ’82
October 12
Received
at Last Report
Amount
Total Received Since

Balance

Still

Due on Note

May

of

of Pledges

Still

—

24, 1932

$

5.00
105.00

$1 10.00

Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia

$520.00
$586.00

Trust Co.

Amount

-

Outstanding

¥ V ¥ V

CLASS PLEDGES, BY CLASSES, DUE BUT STILL UNPAID

NOVEMBER
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class

28,

1932

’79

$

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

^

2.00
7.00
41.50
3.00
62.00
44.00
99.00
4.00
80.00
4.00

225.00
15.00

Total Unpaid

$586.50
if-

>(>{

>(

The following additions were made to the room for “HomeComing Day” Seven additional window chairs, two trophy
cases and hangings for the wall m maroon and gold with the
school seal in medallion.
The room, to complete the original
plan, still needs two davenports and a few accessories, which we
hope to place before commencement in 1933.
The classes that meet for reunions on Alumni Day, 1933,

—

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are the only ones

who have

they are as follows:

not yet been asked to

73, 78,

contribute;

’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, ’03,

’08, ’13,

’18, ’23, ’28.

We

hope the officers of these classes will take up the matter with their members, and come back ready to finish this project so enthusiastically begun by the classes who held reunions
m 1929. The plan must be finished and properly finished, at
this commencement.
Give us your enthusiasm, give us your
help, and enjoy the thrill of satisfaction that comes only with the
consciousness of a work rightly begun, and well done.
Respectfully,
0. H.

BAKELESS,

Treasurer of “Trophy

Room

Public education

is

Fund.’’

the greatest potential social welfare

agency which any state or nation has at its command. Good
schools maintained by the present generation are to be looked
upon as an investment in present and future social welfare. They
are the state’s essential agency for improving the quality of its
citizenship. It is, therefore, a sound principle that to create and
maintain the best possible public school system, with a good
school in charge of a competent teacher accessible to every
child, IS the wisest investment which any state can make. It is
evident also that so dependent is the system of public education
upon the maintenance of effective schools for the preparation of
teachers that these institutions are most fundamental and essential to the welfare of the state.
The whole plan of preparation
for producing such a body of teachers is, therefore, one of the
most fundamental necessities in American life today.
H. A. Brown,
President of American Association
of Teachers Colleges.

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Home-Coming Day
The faculty and student body of the College were hosts to
Alumni at another successful Home-Coming Day, on Satur-

the

day,

November

5.

Home-Coming Day

is

organized as a student

and for several years has been efficiently handled by a
committee of which Miss Jessie Patterson, of the faculty, is the
project,

chairman.

Alumni from
its

all

parts of the state,

and many from beyond

boundaries, were back for the day, together with

many

par-

and friends of the students, and the entire program was
one that met favor with all who were present.
The day’s most important event, the football game with
Shippensburg State Teachers College, went to the Maroon and
Gold in a real battle that ended with the score of 6-0. About
two thousand witnessed the game.
The crowd appeared early, and continued to increase up
to the time of the game.
The Maroon and Gold Band, in their
new maroon and gold uniforms, made its debut of the year with
a concert m the auditorium. Many were present to enjoy the
ents

music.

After lunch the buildings were thrown open for inspection,
and a large number, most of them parents and friends of the
students, availed themselves of the privilege.

Following the game, there was a reception and tea for parand alumni, held in the gymnasium. Music for dancing was
provided by a Victrola, connected with a loud speaker. There
was a large number at the dinner, at which the Shippensburg
squad and faculty members of that institution, faculty members, and day students were the guests. A program of music
was provided by the Maroon and Gold Orchestra, led by Don
Hower, student director.
The dance in the gaily decorated gymnasium in the evening was the closing feature of the day.
The Bloomsburg and
Shippensburg colors were used as the color scheme of the decoents

ration.

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1932-33 Artists’ Course
The entertainment committee,
is

of which Prof. E. A.

Reams

the chairman, has arranged a very fine series of concerts for

the current college year.

The

first

concert of the series was given Friday evening, Sep-

tember 23, and was presented by the Boston Sinfonietta, an ensemble consisting of sixteen members of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. The group was under the direction of Arthur Fiedler.

The second number

of the course

was a two-piano
members

given by Bruce and Rosalind Simonds, both

The program

Yale School of Music.

recognized as one of the most
in

many

artistic

recital

of the

that they presented

was

performances given here

years.

The third number of the series was a concert given Friday,
November 18, by the Welsh Imperial Singers, under the direcThis organization, consisting of twelve

tion of R. Festyn Davies.

and the director, has the reputation of
greatest male ensemble, and the program pre-

singers, the accompanist,

being Britain’s

sented by them entirely

On

justifies this reputation.

December 16, the school children of the county
will be entertained by the Tatterman Marionettes, and the program will be repeated in the evening for the holders of Course
Friday,

tickets.

The Boston Sextette, which appeared in Bloomsburg during the summer session, will return Friday evening, January 27.
The closing number of the series will be given by Miss Gay
MacLaren, known as “the woman with a camera mind.” Miss
MacLaren will give a play, impersonating, in her effective manner, all of the characters.
In addition to these

numbers, George Earle Raiguel, Phil-

adelphia publicist, will give three lectures on national and international affairs.

Dr. Raiguel has been

for the past four years,

and

his lectures

coming

to

Bloomsburg

always arouse great

in-

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was given Friday, November 4, at the
The dates of the other two lectures
7.
are: Friday, January 20, and Friday, March
terest.

His

first

lecture

regular assembly period.

1

Classes Elect Officers
The various

classes of the College

have elected the follow-

ing officers for the present year:

Senior Class

Howard

President

Berninger, Mifflmville.

John McHugh, Scranton.
Lenora Potter, Old Forge.
Thomas Hartman, Berwick.

Vice-President

Secretary

Treasurer

Junior Class

Mark

President

Peifer, Mifflinville.

Vice-President

Alfred Vandling,

Secretary

Treasurer

Margaret O’Hara, Dunmore.
Thelma Knauss, Nazareth.

President

Sophomore Class
Wesley Knorr, Catawissa.

Mifflinville.

Howard DeMott, Bloomsburg.
Betty Row, Bloomsburg.

Vice-President

Secretary

Treasurer

William Reed, Shamokin.

President

Freshman Class
Eugene Fleming, Catawissa.
Rachel Beck, Sunbury.

Vice-President

Margaret Schubert, Laureldale.
Mary Kuhn, Tamaqua.

Secretary

Treasurer

They repre$6,000,000,000; their payroll and
$2,185,000,000 annually. The money spent for

The schools are

the nation’s biggest business.

sent an invested capital of

supply

bill is

running the school flows directly into the channels of other activities.

Every increase

prosperity.

in

school support

is

a boost to general

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Dr.

Haas Addresses A. A. U. W.

The Bloomsburg Chapter
University

Women

of

sponsored as

The American Association of
contribution to the celebra-

its

Week, an open club meeting held
Science Hall, Monday evening, November 7.
Dr. Francis
Haas was speaker of the evening. His address was devoted
tion of National Education

in

B.
to

the current problems of educators in Pennsylvania.

He began with an explanation
and educational

social

ideals

of the inter-relation of the

which are

with the governmental ideal, as

in

in

some

instances linked

Russia and Italy at the pres-

Dr. Haas differentiated between the terms schooling, which
be understood as the participation in school activities, and
education, which is to be understood as an activity which conditions man’s response to a situation. He traced the thread of this
educational ideal through Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Medieval, and Reformation periods, down to our own time.
In the early history of the race the family bore the responsibility of conditioning the child’s responses or informal education. But as civilization became increasingly complex an outside
agent had to be provided to meet this need the school. This is
the agency which man has established and to which he has assigned the task of training the future citizen that he may funcent.

is

to

;

tion efficiently in the social unit.

Haas continued by pointing out the essential difference
between the older and contemporary conceptions of education.
The older of the two interpreted education to mean the training
of a child while he was a child for the responsibility of citizenship which he should come into suddenly when he became an
adult. The present conception interprets education as the whole
development of a child, which should include such activities during childhood as the child will be called upon to participate in
Dr.

on a larger scale when he reaches the adult stage of development.

At intervals of approximately ten years, education
sylvania

is

in

subjected to the spotlight of public attention.

Penn-

The

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light

about to be focused on Education

is

ing meeting of the Legislature.

been

set to

work on

this

30

year with the com-

Certain definite agencies have

the problem to investigate the status of edu-

cation in Pennsylvania.
for the Recodification

The
of

Committee
Law, the Committee for the

Sterling Committee, the

School

Study of Teacher Preparation, are several branches of the organization which has been set in motion by Dr. Rule for the
study of the educational situation in our State.
The constitution of Pennsylvania is unusual in that it provides free public education as the birthright of every child. Here
Dr. Haas quoted a portion of the constitution dealing with education

:

“The Legislature shall provide for maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public schools wherein the children of the Commonwealth above the age of six years

may be

educated.” This specification then points out that the
maintenance of free public education for the children of Pennsylvania
children.

an obligation which the Commonwealth owes its
Hence we have “the preferential right of education

is

to seek the support of the State.”
If

crisis,

education

is

to function in aiding society in this present

the public must see to

it

that the schools are not curtailed

because of lack of support.
This address was followed by two reels of films, one dealing with the problem of education in our country from colonial
times to the present area of the Junior-Senior High Schools, and
a second which dealt with Vocational Training and its place m
solving the problem of Americanization of the immigrant.
in efficiency

Work IS
Cammon and

under way on the new residence of Miss Lucy McMrs. Allis B. Mulford. The home is located on the
extension of East Second Street, and adds one more home to the
rapidly growing faculty colony adjoining the upper campus.
Miss

McCammon

has for several years been a

Department of Health Education

at

Bloomsburg.

member

of the

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Large Enrollment

in

Graduate Courses

At the beginning of the second semester of last year,
Bloomsburg was selected as one of the centers where courses
are given by members of the staff of Institute of Education of
New York University. Two courses in the Philosophy of Education were given by Prof. Alfred L. Hall-Quest, nationally known
educator.

The center was continued

and Dr. Hall-Quest reThe Evolution of Educational
Theory, and Integrated Educational Method. The first of these
courses is given every Tuesday afternoon, from 4 to 6, and the
turned to give two courses

latter

course

is

given

in the

this year,

:

evening.

There are twenty-eight enrolled
and forty-three in the evening course.
only to those

who

in

the afternoon course,

These courses are open
hold bachelor’s degrees. They provide an

excellent opportunity for such persons to continue their professional preparation,

and

at the

same time receive

New members may enroll at
semester, and all who live within

credit

toward

advanced degrees.

the beginning

of the second

easy traveling

distance of Bloomsburg are invited to do so.
tion

may be

Further informa-

obtained by writing to Dr. Nell Maupin, at the Col-

lege.

Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and A. Z. Schoch, for many years
President of the Board of Trustees, were guests of honor at a
reception in the college gymnasium, Tuesday evening, October
25, given by Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas. Guests at the affair

included

members

of the faculty, trustees, school directors of

and wives and husbands. The gymnasium
was beautifully decorated with chrysanthemums, roses, and autumn leaves, and cards and dancing were enjoyed during the
cooperating

evening.

districts,

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Notes From the Philadelphia Alumni
Association
The monthly luncheon meetings

of the Philadelphia

Alumni

opened October

8, with

Association, for the season of 1932-33,

The second meeting night, November
brought
out another large and enthusiastic group, with New
12,
We
Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania well represented.
were pleased to greet Mr. John G. Conner, ’83, President of the
Conner Millwork Company, Trenton, N. J. We were also delighted to greet Mrs. Conner, who came with him.
Isabel Monie
Harriet Shuman Burr
Jones, ’86, brought her good husband.
brought her mother.
We enjoyed her little impromptu talk.
Jennie Arbogast had as her guest her sister, Mrs. Schoch, cf
Lewisburg.
Judge and Mrs. Patterson were there. Judge Pata splendid attendance.

me

terson says “try to keep

away.’’

Mrs.

Patterson

is

as

en-

good husband.
Winifred Hutchison is a charming girl with a charmed life,
we’ll say.
Her experience has been a head-liner in the Philadelphia newspapers for several days.
She attended the luncheon and very graciously consented to tell of her experiences.
While driving along the Roosevelt Boulevard and approaching a
bridge, she failed to notice a curve, and plunged down a thirty
foot embankment, landing on the railroad track below, right
side up, to the great surprise of a guard, who saw her go, and
who rushed after her. He landed at the foot of the bank almost
at the same time, and there was Miss Hutchinson sitting at the
thusiastic as her

wheel, comparatively unhurt, except for the shock.
engine

came

along, and

Mr. Policeman, don’t

all

let

A

shifting

Winifred could think of was “Please,
my Chevy!’’ We con-

that engine hit

gratulate Miss Hutchinson on her miraculous escape and her
wonderful presence of mind in putting on the brake, and sticking to the wheel.

At every meeting
meetings.

we

hear of some very delightful surprise

Dorothy Schmidt, ’29, one of the Hatboro

girls, tells

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same Sunday School with Grace Reimer
and not knowing she was a Bloomsburg graduate. And so the
good work goes on.
These gatherings afford an opportunity
for our members to see each other and visit informally once a
of her teaching in the

month.

We
Visit

Otherwise they might not see each other for years.
dine a

Order a sandwich or a turkey dinner.
Arrange to be in the city on one of

la carte.

one hour or

five hours.

We have

these second Saturdays.
ings of friends

Come

for the day,

in the

other for

morning, and

like us,

and

if

visit

many
with us

years.
in

you come once,

the

you'll

again.

Remember
vere

shop

witnessed a number of meet-

not seen each

We know you’ll

afternoon.

come

who had

Room

in

the second Saturday in each

Gimbel’s Restaurant, 7th

floor.

month

Any

:

Paul Re-

information

this Philadelphia group can be obSecretary,
writing our
Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley, ’08,

concerning the activities of
tained by

8134 Hennig
1

1

Street,

Fox Chase,

Pa., or Florence Hess Cool, ’88,

2 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

NOTE:

Subscribe
hearts,

QUARTERLY, and thus keep in
news of the school so dear to our

for the

touch with the

and the dear school-mates who become dearer

with the years.

FLORENCE HESS COOL,

’88.

Emanuel Wenner, for eight years an employe at the ColSeptember 7, at his home in Fishingcreek
Township. He was seventy-one years of age at the time of his
death. Mr. Wenner was for many years a farmer in Benton and
Fishingcreek Townships, and later resided in Benton, Bloomsburg, and Nescopeck. Six years ago he moved from Nescopeck
He is survived by his wife, one
to Fishingcreek Township.
daughter, a grandson and three sisters.
lege, died Saturday,

1

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Football

during the

new on

34

and cross-country were the interscholastic sports
Both were coached by Mr. George Buchheit,

fall.

the faculty this year.

football season opened October 8, when Millersville
was entertained with a 0-0 score. The following week-end, the
boys had no game scheduled, so they went to Lewisburg to witness the Bucknell-St, Thomas game.
On October 22, Mansfield came down to avenge a
93 defeat, and the Mansfield
rooters went home happy with a 7-6 score.
The first game
away from home was played October 29 with Lock Haven, the
1930 and 1931 champions of the Pennsylvania State Teachers
Colleges.
There was no score during the first period.
During
the second period. Captain Yozviak suffered a severe arm injury
that was to keep him on the side lines for the rest of the season.
Taking advantage of the absence of Yozviak’s leadership and
sterling defensive play. Lock Haven soon scored seven points.
But that was the end.
The Bloomsburg team soon recovered
its poise, and during the second half, pushed the much-vaunted
Lock Haven team all over the field. Three times a Lock Haven
team had to stand in the safety zone to boot the ball away. At
one time, three more inches would have meant a Bloomsburg
touchdown, but Bloomsburg was not to score that day, and the
However, the team had found that it could
score remained 7-0.
play hard, aggressive football, and was beginning to find itself

The

1

in spite of

1

a constantly growing casualty

list,

which now included

Captain Yozviak, great leader and outstanding defensive player,
and four other letter men of the 1931 squad.
Before the sea-

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son closed, a total of eight
lines

with

1

93

letter

1

men were on

the side

But courage never flagged for an instant.
Shippensburg was the guest team on Home-Coming Day,
injuries.

be won to uphold Bloomsburg’s tradition of never losing a game on Home-Coming Day.
It was a great game before a great crowd.
The game was featured by the sterling punting of Walter Moleski, and by smart
aggressive football by the whole squad.
A blocked punt, with
Gerald Harter on the ball like a flash when a Shippensburg back
was trying to kick from behind his own goal line, and the game
was won, 7-6.
The following Saturday a 45-0 score was piled up against
Bloomsburg by East Stroudsburg.
No alibi no excuses:
Bloomsburg was beaten by a better team.
Here fighting spirit
could not make up for strength that had been relegated to the
side lines because of injuries.
One game remained: Oswego Normal School, of New York
State.
For the first time, these two schools were to play football together.
The field was a sea of mud that day October
29 but the two teams came out of it with a smile and a 0-0

November

5,

and

that

game had

to

—

—

—

score.

And

so the season closed, with 3 lost, 2 tied, and

game won.
The cross-country team made
Wednesday, November 9, with an

its first

start of the

one

season on

impressive victory over Sus-

Bloomsburg won nine of
the first ten places, winning the meet by a wide margin of points.
The race was over a course of three and a half miles.
Susquehanna started eight men, and Bloomsburg nine.
The order of finish and the time are as follows
7.47.
Larish, Bloomsburg,
First
Karns, Bloomsburg, 18.33.
Second
Third
Sell, Bloomsburg, Captain, 18.43.
Baum, Bloomsburg, 18.49.
Fourth
Young, Bloomsburg, 18.58.
Fifth
Early, Bloomsburg, 20.30.
Sixth
Seventh
Kudgas, Bloomsburg, 20.47.

quehanna University

at Selinsgrove.

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Finn, Susquehanna, 20.48.

Eighth
Ninth

Roan, Bloomsburg, 20.49.

Tenth

Verhovsek, Bloomsburg, 21.05.
Wothington, Susquehanna, 21.15.
Bottiger, Susquehanna, 21.30.
Sharkey, Susquehanna, 21 .23.
Webber, Susquehanna, 23.03.
Suss, Susquehanna, 23.30.
Eyer, Susquehanna, 24.
Rimer, Susquehanna.

Eleventh
Tw'elfth

Thirteenth

Fourteenth
Fifteenth

Sixteenth

1

Seventeenth

The second

1

was at West Chester, at an
Four schools competed: West Chester, St.
Bloomsburg
John’s of Annapolis, Ursinus, and Bloomsburg.
test of the harriers

invitation meet.

In a starting field of 35
men, Bloomsburg had Joe Larish in second place, James Karns
fourth, and Captain Sell in fifteenth.
The final score
West Chester
39
St. John’s
52
Bloomsburg
59

took third place, beating out Ursinus.

Ursinus
In the

widely

66
known Berwick Thanksgiving Marathon,

where the best in the United States and Canada compete, the
had two entries Joseph Larish, and James Karns. Forty-four men started the 9 and one-third mile grind.
Larish was
sixteenth to finish, winning the local prize.
Karns was twentysecond.
A good showing in a tough field.
Basketball is now under way.
It looks like a good season.
The presence of Alumni at interscholastic contests at home or
away, is always heartening to Bloomsburg teams.
Your inter-

college

est

is

:

appreciated.
E. H.

The contribution
the College to the

1

NELSON,

of the faculty, employes,

932

Roll Call of the

over seven hundred dollars.

Red

’ll.

and students of
amounted to

Cross

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First

Semester Enrollment

The enrollment report

for the

semester of the current

first

college year shows the following figures
Class

I

Students

Year
Second Year
Third Year
First

Men

Women

63
57
42

132

195

44
59

101

36
48

119

155

28

76

246

382

628

46

73

119

292

455

747

Total

10!

Seniors

Two-year course

.

Four-year course
Total
Class

II

Students (Those Taking

Than 13 Hours
Total Class

I

of

and

Work)

Less

,

II

Leo Yozviak, captain of the college football team, has been
elected as president of Iota chapter of the Phi Sigma Pi Fraternity at the college, succeeding Carl Riggs

who

resigned.

Aldwin

Jones was appointed to represent the fraternity at the meeting
of the various committees from

campus

fraternities for the in-

ter-fraternity dance.

The following program has been arranged for the present
December 2, initiation of new members and alumni night
December 18, new member night; December 21, smoker at
year.

member night; January 28, intermeeting with Mansfield at Mansfield; February 4,
theatre party followed by luncheon; February 18, inter-fraternity meeting with Mansfie’d; March 3, meeting at home of W. W.
Smith’s cabin; January 6, old
fraternity

Evans with

talks

by Dr. Garwood and

Dr.

Haas and a sausage

supper; April 8, Saturday afternoon initiations
the college; April 26, Founders

Day banquet.

with dinner at

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The annual reception

38

to the students of the College, spon-

and Community Government
was held in the College Gymnasium, Saturday evening, September
7. The reception was preceded by a short program in the Auditorium, given under the direction of the Community Government Association. The following program was
sored by the Trustees,

Faculty,

Association,

1

presented:

Alma Mater

Audience.

Selections

Girls’

Chorus.

Dr. Francis B. Haas.

Greetings

One-Act Play

“Grandmother

Dramatic Club.
Mens’ Glee Club.

Pulls the Strings”

Selections

George Buchheit, the new coach, was presented

to the au-

dience and was cordially welcomed by the student body.

Following the program, the audience adjourned to the
gymnasium, where the new students were introduced to the
members of the faculty. The remainder of the evening was de-

voted to dancing.

total

What is
number

the

relation of

of prisoners

education to crime?

received from the courts

Out of the
1

1

.6

per

71.2 per cent were reported as having attended elementary school only,
per cent as having attended
cent were

illiterate,

1

1

high school, and 3.1 per cent as having attended college.

It is

apparent that the great majority of the prisoners had only limited education at the time of commitment to prison.
Department

—

of Justice.

Out of each

,000,000 people without schooling, only six
Out of each
,000,000 with elementary
schooling, 24 attain distinction.
Out of each ,000,000 with
high school education, 622 attain distinction.
Out of each
1,000,000 with college education, 5768 attain distinction.
So
it seems that for all their faults, the schools are a good investment.
Glenn Frank.
attain distinction.

1

1

1

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The sound picture equipment recently installed in the Auditorium was tested before the student body and faculty at the
Assembly exercises held Monday, October 7. Six reels of educational talkies were shown and everything was found to be
1

working satisfactorily. This valuable addition to the college
equipment will in the future play a prominent part in the pro-

gram

of visual education.

Plans have been announced

book

for

the

publication

of

the

by the editor, Carl
Riggs. He will be assisted by Frank Greco. The business manager is Woodrow Hummel, of Rupert; with William James as asObiter, year

of the graduating class,

sistant.

Students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have
been acting this fall as officials in the basketball league games
conducted by the Columbia County High School Athletic Association. Ray M. Cole, ’ll, is president of the association.

A

recent improvement on the

campus has been the con-

macadam road, with a
about half a mile. The roads were constructed
by the State Highway Department.

struction of several short stretches of
total length of

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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 on our files.
All

of

all

^

Officers of the

President

—

^

^

^

Alumni Association

R. Bruce Albert, ’06, Bloomsburg.

—

Vice-Presidents

Dr. D.

Waller,

J.

Jr.,

’67,

Bloomsburg;

0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg.

Secretary

—Edward
—

Treasurer

F.

F.

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg.

H. Jenkins, ’76, Bloomsburg.

—

Fred W. Diehl, ’09, Danville; Mrs.
Bloomsburg; Maurice F. Houck, ’10, Berwick; Daniel J. Mahoney, ’09, Wilkes-Barre; Harriet Carpenter,
’96, Bloomsburg; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg.
Executive Committee

C.

W. Funston,

’85,

V- V-

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, MAY
It is

unions.

some

individual

who

making plans

your class redepends upon
willing to take the initiative in rounding
class, getting a small group together to

not too early to begin

The success

27, 1932.
for

of a class reunion usually
is

up the members of his
lay plans, and putting these plans

into action.

considerable amount of correspondence.

This requires a

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41

be followed. There will
annual Alumni meettwelve-thirty, the Alumni Banquet, and some

The usual program
be

class reunions

of the

from nine

ing from eleven to

day

m

other event on Mt. Olympus field

and Gold Band,

in their

will

to eleven, the

new

The Maroon

the afternoon.

uniforms, will no doubt be on hand
In the past

to lend a note of color to the affair.

few years, many

of the classes have held get-together meetings the night before

Alumni Day, and these have all been delightful affairs. One of
the classes added a new feature last year, when they held a
breakfast Saturday morning, from eight to eleven, closing in
ample time to arrive at the Alumni meeting in Carver Hall.
The staff of the Quarterly will be glad to lend assistance
in providing lists of names and addresses of the various classes
The following classes will hold their reunions this year:
1873, 1878, 1883, 1888, 1893,
1918, 1923, 1928, and 1931.

1898,

1903,

1908,

Don’t wait for someone else to start something.

1913,

Start

it

yourself
>{

In the

September

>{

if-

if-

issue of the

QUARTERLY,

the Editor re-

quested that the various class secretaries send him their names

and addresses,

m

order that

this

future issues of this publication.

information might be printed

Up

only one response to this request.

hoping that those concerned

will

to this time, there has

We

again

make

cooperate with

us.

in

been

this request,
It is

hoped

that the

members

taries in

keeping their respective classes on the map, by sendregarding themselves and their classmates.

ing in

We

of the various classes will assist their secre-

news items

often receive the inquiry:

class in the last issue of the

we

“Why was

QUARTERLY

news of our
Our answer is that

there no

—

when we can get it.
honors go to the class of 1917 for supplying us with the
name and address of their class secretary. Who will be the
are only too glad to print such news

First

next

?

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42

1867
Following a lingering

home
ment, Tuesday, November

Elwell occurred at her

illness,

the death of Mrs. George E.

in the

Farmers National Bank apart-

29.

For weeks her condition had

been such that no hopes could be entertained for her recovery.
The death of Mrs. Elwell removes a member of one of
Bloomsburg’s oldest families and one who has always commanded the highest respect and esteem of all who knew her.
She was born June
1, 1953, and was the daughter of
Isaiah W. and Elmira Barton McKelvey. She was born at the
corner of Third and Market streets, where she spent her entire
life until 1916 when Mr. Elwell and she moved to the Farmers
1

National

Bank apartment.

She was educated

and

Bloomsburg State Normal School
Germantown.

at the

at a private school in

She was a lifelong member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
and active in many of its organizations until recent years. She
was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
and for many years a member of the Wednesday Club.
Mr. Elwell and she passed their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary October

She

IS

1

6.

survived by her husband, and one son, G.

Edward

Elwell, Jr.; a sister, Mrs. William Leverett, of Philadelphia;

a brother, C.

W. McKelvey,

and

of Vanderhoof, British Columbia.

Funeral services were held at
Thursday afternoon, December 2.

St. Paul’s

Episcopal Church,

1882

QUARTERLY were printed
some of the letters that constitute the “Round Robin’’ circulated by the members of the Class of 882. The publication of
In the

September

issue of the

1

these letters

Dr.

is

continued

in this issue.

Henry Bierman, president of the

class, writes as fol-

lows:

Taught four years

in the schools of

Shenandoah, two as

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Principal in the Old

two years

Brown

Building, as

school building in

in the

we

called

The Bloody

it,

and the

First

last

Ward

of

town.

During the

last

year of teaching

I

began reading medicine

due time graduated from Hahnemann College, Philadelphia. Located in Danville and practiced there five and one half
years when we moved nine miles up the river to Bloomsburg.
In Danville I met my fate, and, it is not as bad as it sounds, I
persuaded a young teacher, who up to this time had always been
Sober to join me and never be Sober again. I think we have had
a very happy forty-two years together. The union resulted in
adding two fine girls to the family circle who m time increased
the number to five grand children, two girls and three boys.
Both of our daughters graduated from our Alma Mater and two,
no three of the grand children have attended its training school
some time.
and

in

At the outbreak of the World War,
to our country,

of

my

service

was accepted
left the army

time as the Surgeon

in

as a

first

as a Major.

Charge of

I

offered

lieutenant
I

Eye Work

and

my

services

at the close

served most of the
in

a Base Hospital

and the last half as the chief of Head Surgery. I was at first
connected with the 37th Division, formerly The Ohio National
Guard, the latter part with the Ninth Division. I enjoyed my

army experience.
I

am

still

in

summons comes,
have passed

in

harness and expect to keep active
at least

my

I

present

hope

I

can.

work and

I

till

the last

Already forty-four years
am proud to say I am still

going strong.

Martha W. Vaughn, of 1110 West Elm Street, Scranton,
wrote the following last spring, while recovering from the effects
of an injury sustained while on jury duty in March:
This is to be the autobiography of a very, very much disappointed member of the class of ’82. For years I have looked
forward to being with you upon this, our golden anniversary.
Instead, I am nursing a broken hip and have been a patient in

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West Side Hospital for the past eight weeks. Disappointed
am, I feel that I must not complain for this is the first time
that I can recall ever having been confined to bed through either

the
as

I

illness or accident.

Upon graduating from

was fortunate enough
to secure a position as teacher in my home city of Scranton and
began my teaching career in September 1882. My years m the
schoolroom were happy ones. The greater number were spent
in the first grade, teaching the children and grandchildren of my
friends.
During these years I have seen many teaching methods
come and go and have been kept busy keeping up with the ever
B. S. N. S.,

changing procession.
Having taught continuously
years,

I

decided that

1931, tendered

my

it

was time

in the

I

same

city for forty-nine

to take a rest

and so

in

June,

resignation to the Scranton School Board.

have been caring for my home. I have enjoyed
and have done things that I could not do while
teaching. It was while serving on the jury for the first time that
I met with the accident which kept me away from our reunion.
I know you are all telling about your families so I shall
have to tell you about mine.
When one of my sisters passed
away leaving a large family, mother and I assisted in caring for
them.
Three of the girls graduated from B. S. N. S., and the
youngest one, who is still teaching, makes her home with me.
Three of my grandnieces have also received their diplomas at
Old Normal, so you know it holds a warm place m our affections. I hope that each member of my class has enjoyed his oi
her family as much as I have enjoyed mine.
Since that time

my

I

leisure time

In looking over our class roll,
girls

have “crossed the

the boys are

questions:

take

life

still

“How

with

bar’’

us.

If

I

note that seventeen of our

and that one hundred per cent of
were with you I should ask these

I

have the boys managed to survive?” “Do men
do the women?” I’m sure we’d have an

easier than

interesting discussion.

R. Sue

Wenner (Mrs. Henry W. Hower)

of Bloomsburg,

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has the following message to her classmates

Only pleasant memories come to me of the past while restmy bed for nearly two years. My hands and mind are
no doubt, has received “the last
still active, but my back,
years of alloted time due me and
There
are
still
several
straw.”
with God’s help I trust to see all nor be afraid.
For over forty-one years, I have lived in the same house
to which I came as a bride. Four children blessed our home and
they were all graduates of Old Normal. I trust my grandchildren
will aim a notch higher and become graduates of the Teachers
ing

upon

College.
Lizzie M. Church (Mrs. H. W. Search)
Marks Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

James W. Delley

lives in

lives

G.

summer, and went

to

“cure” at Baden-Baden, after which
Paris and England.”

We
column

Ct.

Germany.

we

Conner,

In a recent
bit

from the

We

took the

:

this

202

Del Norte, Colorado.

1883
One of Bloomsburg’s loyal Alumni is John
whose address is 8 Belmont Circle, Trenton, N. J.
note he states “Mrs. Conner and I ran away for a
depression

at

Switzerland,

visited

are pleased to quote the following from “Girard’s”

in the

Philadelphia Inquirer:

For years after he graduated at college, John G. Conner

was

a school teacher.

Then he turned manufacturer and Trenton
has rated him

among

the leading business

Mr. Conner was talking to

me

men

at a college

for years past

of that city.

luncheon about

the business of teaching.
”

—

have visited schools all over this country
also some
m Europe ^“and I am amazed at the large amount of inferior
teaching in what are supposed to be high-grade schools.”
John is one of those hard-boiled chaps who refuses to be
blinded by a three-million-dollar school building. He is far more
“I

—

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impressed by the methods employed by teachers to get the best
out of boys and girls.
Mr. Conner looks back to the old Bloomsburg State Normal

School as a place where teaching was something more than a
series of

card indices and questionnaires.
J.

Waller,” vows John G. Conner, the manufac-

“was one

of the great educators in Pennsylvania during

“Dr. D.
turer,

the past half-century.”

more than sixty years
was he who put Bloomsburg upon the educational

Dr. Waller graduated at Lafayette

ago and

map

it

big bright letters.

in

It is

Mr. Conner’s idea that one good teacher

is

worth more

to a college or school than a half-million dollar edifice.

Jennie Wells (Mrs.

S.

Wednesday, October 26,
illness

of several weeks.

C. Wells,

who

in the

Muncy

who was

Valley Hospital, after an

Mrs. Henderson was a daughter of F.

served as steward at

School for several years.
as the one

R. Henderson) of Montgomery, died

the

Bloomsburg Normal

Mr. Wells will always be remembered

responsible for the purchase of the clock in

the tower of Carver Hall.

Mrs. Henderson

was

Wells, of Bloomsburg.

Mrs.

a sister of Mrs. S. C. Creasy

She

is

also survived

1887
Mary Morgan Ayers, who

Apartments, Wilkes-Barre,

is

a

by three

lives at

and

J.

G.

children.

46 Cumberland

very busy woman.

She has

charge of nine kindergartens, and teaches two sessions of kindergartens.

She is also president of the Cambrian Club of Wilkes-Barre,
which is made up of 5 2 women of Welsh ancestry.
On the 6th of November, the Club had its annual banquet
at the Hotel Sterling which was attended by three hundred women.
The officers, board members, and hostesses seated at the
speaker’s table, wore white wigs and Colonial costumes, in keeping with the Colonial theme of the program.
Judge Benjamin
1

1

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R. Jones gave the address of the evening.

Judge Jones, in his talk, said that the contribution of the
Welsh to the founding of the American colonies, and their part
m the War of Independence, should be a priceless heritage to
every one of Cambrian descent.

1897
Millicent Broadbent (Mrs. John A. Sitler) lives at 624
West Madison Avenue, Newcastle, Pa. Mrs. Sitler fell downstairs and broke her ankle last March, and was thereby prevented from attending her class reunion.

1900
Mrs. Helen
in

Lendrum Mannear died

Wilkes-Barre, after a short

illness.

announcement
Mannear had a host of

A

recently at her

home

Wilkes-Barre paper car-

of her death

ried the following

who will be
She was born in this city and resided here all her lifetime. She was a daughter of Alexander
and Hyla Felter Landrum. Mr. Mannear is head of the Taxpayers’ Association of Wyoming Valley and former postmaster. His
many friends extend their sympathy to him at this time.
A member of Derr Memorial Church, Mrs. Mannear was an
active member m the church societies. She was a charter member of the church and for many years was president of Ruth and
Esther Missionary Society. She was a member of Wyoming Valley Chapter D. A. R., and acted as treasurer for a number of
years. She was also a member of Firelands Chapter, Daughters
of American Colonists.
Mrs. Mannear was a former school teacher, having taught
in what is now' known as the Strauss building. South Washington
Mrs.

shocked

to learn of her death.

street, for

She

friends in this city

is

many

years.

survived by her husband, two

sisters,

and two broth-

ers.

Mr. and Mrs. Miles Kilmer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were guests
at the

home

of Prof, and Mrs.

W.

B. Sutliff, over the

week-end

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of October 22.

Mr. Kilmer was the engineer for the Holland

Tunnel, between

New York and

George W. Carl
ship Schools.

He

is

Jersey City.

Supervising Principal of the Butler

lives in

Town-

Ashland, Pa.

1905
Angela Rivera, now Dr. Angela Rivera de Tudo, is a prominent teacher in the schools of Puerto Rico.
She is now in this
country at the request of her government, and is giving lectures
to promote friendship and understanding between the people of
the United States and their fellow-citizens of the island in the
Caribbean.

Edward Hippensteel
at the Atlantic City

is

1911
head of the Commercial Department

High School.

1912
The

class of

1912, at

its

twentieth reunion, pledged

hundred dollars to the Trophy Room Fund.
were given in cash, leaving eighty dollars still

Twenty
to

be

one

dollars

raised.

If

members of the class each contribute a dollar, we
shall have more than enough to meet our pledge.
We are asking those members of the class who have not contributed to forward their dollar to the undersigned, who will see that it is propthe remaining

erly accredited.

H. F.

FENSTEMAKER,

Chairman,

1912 Trophy Room Fund Committee.
Edith G. Cole was a recent guest at the
Mrs.

W.

Home

B. Sutliff.

for

Miss Cole

Friendless

dress in Denver

is

is

home

of Prof,

and

assistant superintendent of

the

Children at Denver,

2305 South Washington

Colorado.

Her ad-

Street.

1913

An

educational life of Columbia
County for these many years has been L. Ray Appleman, principal of the Benton consolidated schools and a man who has left

outstanding figure

in the

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the impress of his ability

under

upon hundreds of those who have come

his influence.

A
class of

graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School in the
1913, Mr. Appleman has continued his studies through

the years and has received
Teachers College.
It

was

in

1912

his

that Mr.

ship of the Benton schools,

degree from the Bloomsburg State

Appleman took over

the principal-

and ever since he has played a very

definite part in the life of that entire part of the county.

During the years that County Superintendent Evans was responsible for summer school sessions at Benton in seeking an

improvement of teaching
Appleman was

county, Mr.

ability

among

the

teachers of

the

for several years the principal of that

school.

When

he took over the principalship of the Benton schools,

the students

numbered about

1

50.

Today, housed

in the

fine

school building which the consolidated district erected in 1927,

are

400

students.

was under the principalship of Mr. Appleman that Benton
and Benton Township had the first vocational school in the county.
That was in 1916.
Ever since then it has been an outstanding example of an efficiently operated vocational school.
It

Through

all

the

years the Benton schools have

won

for

themselves the very fine reputation of giving their students a

thorough education, so thorough that

its

graduates have no dif-

some of the finest colleges in the counAppleman has played a very definite part.

ficulty in matriculating in
try.

In all of this Mr.

Untiring in his zeal for the advancement of the schools
which he heads, he is equally active in all civic projects, whether
they be local or of countrywide importance.
He is one of that
group of men that has done so much through the years for Benton in a civic way.
Many have been the opportunities for him to seek wider
fields, but his heart and his loyalty have always kept him close
to his

home town.

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Announcement was made recently of the wedding on May
2, 1931, of Myron P. Rishton, son of W. S. Rishton, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Cathryn Marie Lockard, daughter of Alex T.
Lockard, of Berwick.

The ceremony uniting the well known and popular couple
was performed in Pittsford, N. Y., by Rev. Frederick H. Chambers, rector of Christ Episcopal Church.

The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School, and is well
in town where she resided for some time with her aunt.
Subsequently she lived for a time in Newark, N. J.
The bridegroom was a member of the last class to graduate

known

from the Literary

He

is

that

Institute

now

is

the

Teachers College.

also a graduate of the Philadelphia College of

Pharmacy.

The couple plans to go to housekeeping in the spring
lentown, where the bridegroom now is employed.

in Al-

1915
Fred Faux

is

a

member

of the faculty of the

Shamokin High

School.

Frances Smith (Mrs.
D. No.

1

,

Van

C.

Lewis)

may be reached

at R.

Dalton, Pa.

1917
Class Secretary

:

Miss Ruth Smith, East Curtin Street, Belle-

fonte. Pa.

1918
Bertha Andrews

is

a teacher in the school of

Camden,

N. J.

1920
Joseph

S.

Grimes

school at Westwood, N.

is

teacher

of social studies

in the

high

J.

1921
Mildred Treverton (Mrs. Harvey G. Ziegler)

lives in

Hazle-

ton, Pi

1924
Marian K. Andrews was married

to

Herbert Laise, of Bun-

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ker

Hill, Virginia,

on June 30th, 1932.

The wedding ceremony took place at the bride’s home in
Slatington at 10:00 in the morning.
Helen Barrow, of Sunmaid
of honor and William
bury, a classmate of the bride’s, was
Thomas, of Wilkes-Barre, was best man.
Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served
to the guests.
The bride and groom then left for a motor trip
through the South.
They are now at home at 6117 200th
Street, Bayside, Long Island.

Thomas

R. Rowland, of Scranton, and Miss Arline Wilcox,

also of that city,

Scranton.

of the

Mr. Rowland

School, No. 12, and Mrs.
riage,

employed

3, 930, by the Rev. Gordon
Providence Presbyterian Church, of

were married July

G. Kibler, pastor

is

1

Principal of the Washington Irving

Rowland was.

her marAlden Coal Com-

at the time of

as a stenographer for the Glen

pany.

1926
Margaret Richards, a teacher

in the

Berwick schools, was

severely injured in an automobile accident which occurred near

Huntingdon, Pa., on Saturday, November 5.
The machine in
which she was riding was struck by a man who later pleaded
guilty before a justice of the peace to the charge of driving
while intoxicated.
Miss Richards was taken to the Huntingdon
Hospital, and was later brought to her home in Berwick.
Pearl

Hagenbuch

is

teaching

in Passaic, N. J.

1927

Adams and Earl McCloughan, both of Danwere married Saturday, June 11, in the Presbyterian
The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Church at Elysburg.
Mrs. McCloughan has,
George H. Martin, pastor of the church.
since her graduation, been teaching in the Mt. Union Consolidated School, of Ralpho Township.
Miss Mildred F.

ville,

Catharine C. Phillips lives

in

Shavertown, Pa.

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Fred W. Kistler

teacher of

is

52

Muncy High

English in the

School.

Mark Fowler is teacher and coach of
ertown High School.

athletics at the

Yeag-

1928
Miss Florence Stivers, daughter of Mrs.

A. E.

Stivers,

of

Ashley, and Byron L. Camp, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Camp, of
N. Irving Ave., Scranton,

were married

in St.

Clement’s Episco-

pal Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, July 2, 1932.

Mr.

Camp

a graduate

is

of

Pennsylvania

School of Electrical Engineering.
Fraternity and A.

E. E. Society.

I.

He
He

a

is
is

State

member

College,

of A. K. T.

employed by the Scran-

ton Electric Co., Engineering Department.

The bride is a graduate of Ashley High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is employed in the High School
Department of the International Correspondence Schools at
Scranton.

home

746 Madison Avenue, Scranton,

The couple are

at

Arzella Giger

a teacher in the schools of Bristol, Pa.

at

Pa.
is

Marjorie V. Pursel
Elizabeth

Ward

is

is

teaching at Palmerton, Pa.

teaching in the Consolidated School

at

Mainville, Pa.

1929
Mildred

Rehm

is

William B. Jones,

teaching in the schools of Passaic, N.

who

lives at

822 Archbald

ton, has sent us the following items concerning

who

J.

Street, Scran-

his

classmates

are living in Scranton:

Grace Baskerville, 1721 Mulberry Street, Scranton,
fifth grade in the James Madison School.

teaching

is

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Mary Becker, 310

Stafford Avenue,

is

teaching in the John

James Audubou School.

630 N. Summer Avenue,
Van Buren School.

Irene Guest,

grade

in the

teaching

is

fifth

Martin

Mabel Highfield, 1111 Bryn Mawr Street,
ond grade m the James Abram Garfield School.
Kathryn Wilson, 220 N. Bromley Avenue,
in the John Bartram School.

is

teaching sec-

teaching fourth

is

grade

Marjorie Eley, 3506 S. Main Avenue,
grade in the Thaddeus Koscinsko School.
Elizabeth Williams,

grade

m

1

1

35 Rock

is

Street,

teaching the third

teaching

is

sixth

the William Cullen Bryant School.

Sarah Krauss

is

a teacher in the

Georgiena Weidner

One

of the

Nuremberg

1930
198 Main

lives at

members

schools.

Street, Luzerne, Pa.

930 has asked that we
Alva Fetterman.
If anythe Editor, the favor will be

of the class of

1

print a request for the address of Miss

one can send

information to

this

greatly appreciated.

Josephine Holuba

is

teaching in leaneck, N.

Armand

a

member

Keller

is

J.

of the faculty of the Harding

Junior High School, Lebanon, Pa.

Margaret Swartz

is

a teacher

in the Scott

Township Con-

solidated High School, at Espy, Pa.
Earl Miller
Cyril Stiner

Pa.

is

is

teaching in the high school at Bushkill, Pa.
teaching

in

the high school at Susquehanna,

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1931
Robert

Sutliff suffered

contusion of the back but was not

Wednesday, September 7, in
Hanover Township when the car in which he was a passenger
was struck by another machine, the driver of which is said to
have d sregarded the red signal of the traffic light.
Mr. Sutliff, who is principal of the Lake Township Consolidated School, was a passenger in the car of the Harvey’s Lake
seriously injured in an accident

police ch ef, Ira C. Stephenson,
ribs, lacerations

Fred Aten

who

of the face, ears

is

suffered fractures of three

and elbow.

teaching a rural school near Nescopeck, Pa.

Helen Appleman is teaching
Township, Montour County.

Warren Pennington

is

in

teaching

the

in the

schools

Liberty

of

high school at Pleas-

ant Gap, Pa.
Llizabeth

Bowman

is

teaching in Catawissa Township, Col-

umbia County.

1932
Ruth Wagner
John A. Hall

is

is

teaching

Gerald Hartman
ville

teaching

is

in the

in the

schools of Dushore, Pa.

West

Pittston

High School.

teacher of French and Latm

in

the Mill-

High School.

Henry Warman is a member of the faculty of the Norristown Junior High School.
Arlene Werkheiser
of

is

teacher of

first

grade

in the

schools

Montgomery, Pa,

Mrs. Sarah E. Hartt is a teacher in the schools of Upper
Augustus Township, Northumberland County.

THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

m

e.EO.J.MEl.iLl^

MARCH, 1933
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

CHARLES

H.

ALBERT

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACH ERS COLLEGE
MARCH, 1933

Vol. 34

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 Tear

H. F.
F.

FENSTEMAKER, T2

H. JENKINS, ’76

-

-

Editor.in-Chief

-

Business

-

Manager

Charles H. Albert
When
they never

the older graduates of Bloomsburg gather together,
fail to

look back upon the days they spent here as

students with a feeling of pride, and sometimes they regret that

those days are no more.

The memories

Those were the days!

of those days center about one figure,

represents the spirit of Bloomsburg.

As the

loyal

who

Greek looked

back to the Age of Pericles, so does the loyal Alumnus of
Bloomsburg look back to the period when Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.
was at the head of the school on the hill.
The name of Dr. Waller then suggests a group of men who
are often referred to as “The Old Guard.”
One by one, the
names of these men pass through one’s mind Noetling, Niles.
Feree, Cope, Jenkins, Wilbur, Bakeless, Albert.
These men,
by their long association with the old Bloomsburg State Normal
:

School,

came

to personify our

Alma Mater.

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many of these are names,
Another group of men and women are now
trying, to the best of their ability, to carry on the work that has
been handed on to them,
.^nd in these critical days, the task
IS no small one.
If it be true that “the hope of democracy lies
To

and

the graduates of recent years,

little

more.

in

education,” then the responsibility of training those

to

go out and perform

this essential

present time, as great as
nation.

it

ever has been

Let us hope that the

same

responsibilities with the

of yesterday

met

function of society

men

spirit

who
is,

are

at the

our

in the history of

meet

of today will

their

of consecration as the

men

theirs.

There are a few who still remain as connecting links
between Bloomsburg, as she is today, and the Bloomsburg of a
few decades ago.
Not the least of these is Professor Charles
H. Albert, whose face is still seen on the campus when the Alumni return to renew old ties.
It IS just a little over six years ago since Professor Albert
retired from active service as a member of the faculty.
To say
that he has retired, however, is to depart from the truth.
One
IS safe in saying that Professor Albert is as busy a man today as
he has ever been, as a survey of his present activities will indicate.

Professor Albert was born in Selinsgrove, Pa., on Septem-

ber 22, 1858.

He attended

the public

schools of

Selinsgrove

he was fourteen years of age. He then entered the Lutheran
Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna University, and contin-

until

ued

his studies there for five years.

Professor Albert was closely connected with the Blooms-

burg State Normal School for a period of forty-five pears.
He
came to Bloomsburg as a student in the fall of 1877, the same
year that Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr. began his first term as principal.
It

was

that

same year

bers of the faculty,

that also brought to Bloomsburg, as

Prof.

William Noetling, Prof.

mem-

George

E.

Wilbur, and Prof. H. A. Curran.

Before

his

graduation from Bloomsburg, Professor Albert

had taught three terms

in

the rural schools of Snyder

and Union

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Counties, and following his graduation, he taught two years in
the schools of Selinsgrove under Prof. John G. Cope.

Following

he became principal

his service in Selinsgrove,

of the schools of Catawissa,

and opened

their first high school

building in 1881.

For four years he served as superintendent of schools at

Waynseboro, Pa., and in the fall of 1887 he came to Bloomsburg as a member of the faculty, on the invitation of Dr. Waller.
Prof. Albert served the school as a

through the remainder of Dr. Waller’s

member
first

of the faculty

term, for thirteen

years during the administration of Dr. Welsh, and fourteen years

more, throughout the second term of Dr. Waller.
He served
three years under Dr. Charles H. Fisher, and served under Dr.
G. C. L.

Riemer

until

ty, after

1926.

926, Prof. Albert resigned from the faculhaving served thirty-nine years as a member of that

In the spring of

1

The Bloomsburg Morning

body.

Press, in

commenting upon

his resignation, said the following:

“This record has given Prof. Albert a continuous service
in the

school of thirty-nine years, prior to which he

parts of six years.

This

made

his association

was here

for

with the school,

as a student or teacher, one of forty-five years.

He was

a

m.ember of that small group of men that laid the foundations for
the success of the school, and who through its earlier and later
years gave the school the exceptional reputation which it has
always enjoyed in educational circles.”
The field in which Prof. Albert did most of his teaching and
m which he was profoundly interested, was Geography. In order to secure the best possible preparation

in this field, he took
Teachers College, Columbia University, at the
University of Chicago, and with Dr. Davis of Harvard. That Professor Albert was recognized as an authority in his field is made

special

work

at

evident by the fact that, in 1912, at the request of Rand, McNally Co., he prepared a geography of Pennsylvania that

incorporated

in a

was

textbook that received wide circulation.

While he was

still

a

member

of the faculty, his

name was

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Bloomsburg.
One of the ways
was spread abroad was his work in the
various county institutes of Pennsylvania and other states. This
work is still being carried on by him. He has appeared on instiHe has done
tute programs in every county in Pennsylvania.
similar work in eighteen different states, from Main to Alabama,
and as far west as Illinois and Nebraska.

known

far

by which

beyond the

limits of

his reputation

Another piece of work, of which Prof. Albert may well feel
for the Tuskegee Institute, the
is what he has done
school for negroes founded in Alabama by Booker T. Washington.
For thirty-five years. Prof. Albert has made an annual

proud,

visit to

His

that institution.

ducting a course

work with

in

methods

work

there has consisted of con-

for the faculty of the Institute,

and

the Senior class.

Since his retirement from the faculty. Prof. Albert has continued most of the activities in which he had long been engaged.

He

IS

much

in

demand

as an institute speaker,

several visits to the Tuskegee Institute.

occupies a great part of his time

is

the

A

work

and has

field of

also

made

work which

of the Pennsylvania

Anti-Saloon League, an organization of which Professor Albert
is

His duties in this field consist of

Field Secretary.

public

addresses

in

behalf of

the

work

making

the Anti-Saloon

of

League, and of raising money to carry on the activties of the
organization.

Small wonder

is

it,

then, that Professor Albert holds a

unbounded affection, in
Bloomsburg Alumni with whom he has come in
contact. The members of the Alumni Association hail him for
his past achievements, and extend to him the most hearty wi.sh
place of high honor, great respect, and
the hearts of

all

that his present

life

of usefulness to society

may

long continue.

o

The Bloomsburg Players delighted an audience on Friday
February

evening,

10,

with the presentation of the

Abbey

Theatre play, “The White-headed Boy,” by Lenox Robinson.

The

cast

was directed by Miss

assistants.

Alice Johnston

and three student

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Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges
In the present session of the Pennsylvania State Legislature,

there has been frequent mention of the status of the State Teach-

Many

ers Colleges.
institutions;

attacks have been directed against these

these attacks have taken the form of proposals to

curtail the activities of the colleges in various

The new school code provides that
be abolished, and that the control of all

all

ways.

boards of trustees

institutions rest in the

hands of the State Council of Education. There is strong likelihood that the appropriations will be greatly reduced during the
next biennium. The new school code provides that the number
of teachers colleges be reduced to not more than ten.
It has
also been proposed to limit the activities of the colleges to preparation for teaching in the primary and intermediate grades,
and in the rural schools.
No definite action has as yet been taken on any of these
proposals, and it is therefore impossible to predict what the
status of the State Teachers Colleges will be during the next

few

years.
In order to place the facts before the people of the state,

the Association of Trustees of State Teachers Colleges of Penn-

sylvania issued a small pamphlet, setting forth

some

facts con-

cerning the purpose of these institutions, their support, and the
service which they render.

ceive wider circulation,
in this issue of the

some

In order that these facts

may

re-

parts of this pamphlet are printed

QUARTERLY.

ARE THERE TOO MANY TEACHERS?
good deal of comment today to the effect that
there are too many teachers and that in consequence of this
fact, the State should no longer support all or any teacher pre-

One hears

a

paration institutions.
In order intelligently to

supply and

demand

it is

understand the problem of teacher

necessary that

we have

certain facts:

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1

.

How many

teachers will be needed for the public

schools of Pennsylvania next year?
2.

How many

3.

What

teachers are

now

being prepared for next

year’s schools?

other sources of supply are available?

To answer the first question, a very careful survey has been
made by the Office of Education of the Department of the InterWashington for the whole United States and for each of
the States separately.
Facts were obtained from letters sent
to hundreds of thousands of teachers and from a careful compilation of the results.
From this survey it would appear that
Pennsylvania will need next year 5458 teachers. That this figure is conservative is evident from the fact that the average
length of teaching service in Pennsylvania is approximately 8
years, and as there are 63,000 teachers in the public schools of
the Commonwealth, this would indicate a need of more than
7800. Somewhere between these two figures, 5458 and 7800,
lies the number of new teachers which we will need in Pennsylvania next year.
Were next year to be a normal year, the number would be close to or exceeding 7000, but next year is probably not going to be a normal year. Fewer teachers are going
to leave the teaching service and more persons are going to
ior in

seek to enter

it

than

is

normally the case, so that the actual

fig-

ure will probably be less than 6000.

What

meet this demand?
employed in the public schools from
the various colleges, teachers colleges and normal schools approximately 6200 new teachers. It is obvious that in any large
group of trained workers such as this it is necessary to have an
excess of supply over demand in order that there may be an
opportunity for selection on the part of the employing agencies.
In other words, if there were just exactly as many teachers as
there were positions to be filled, it is inevitable that some school
boards would be compelled to employ teachers whom they
would not ordinarily choose, and there would of course be a
IS

the supply to

Last year there were

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complete absence of the desirable stimulus that comes from
reasonable competition.

The other sources

of supply for teachers are of course the

teacher preparation institutions

some

other states,

in

of

whose

graduates either immediately upon the completion of their courses or after a period of teaching, come to Pennsylvania for one
reason or another. This source of supply

a similar

movement

is

off-set,

however, by

of Pennsylvania trained teachers out of

Pennsylvania into other

Accurate figures are not avail-

states.

able as to this flow in and out, but
as balanced to a point

it

where there

has generally been regarded
is

no great difference either

way.
There is, however, a further complicating factor which
must be considered m this connection. A substantial number or
persons who were once teachers are returning to the teaching
profession because of loss of employment elsewhere. Just how
many of these persons there are it has been so far impossible to
determine. Some of them are undoubtedly desirable additions
to the teaching professions, but on the other hand, the much
larger

number are persons whose preparation for teaching was
many years ago, who have had no interest in teaching

secured

nor have

made any attempt

to

keep abreast of the advancing

educational standards since leaving the profession, and

have been discouraged

in

some other

field

who

before returning

to

The return of such persons to the teaching service is
not desirable and does not serve the best interests of the children
in the schools.
Few professional fields have advanced more in
teaching.

the last fifteen years than has the business of teaching school,

and those who have not remained continuously

in touch with
educational progress during this time are usually not competent
to take over the business of teaching today.
Undoubtedly the
number of these persons returning to teaching is substantial but

as

unemployment

is

reduced

this

number

will

correspondingly

reduce, and as the economic situation improves there will be an
exodus of such persons from the teaching profession.
It

will

be seen from these facts and these figures that there

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IS

not the great over supply of competent teachers that

ally

believed to exist, but that on the contrary, there

more than a

safe margin of supply over

try returns to

demand.

normal economic conditions, as

is

is

gener-

much

not

As the coununemployment

diminishes and prosperity returns, the schools will be seriously

handicapped by an

insufficient supply of teachers

if

the existing

for the preparation of teachers are not adequately

facilities

maintained.

THE COST OF THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
In spite of the legal

and moral obligation on the part of the

State for the support of these institutions, the students in the
State Teachers Colleges have been carrying approximately

30

per cent of the instructional charges through fees collected for
housing, food, enrollment fees, etc.
fulfilled its
It IS

minimum

At no time has the State

legal obligation in the matter of support.

only reasonable that the State should sustain this

tion cost entirely

and

tui-

by students should be
which they are paid.

that the fees paid

spent exclusively for the purposes for

There has been much recent misunderstanding regarding
money by the Legislature to the State
Teachers Colleges. By a change in the fiscal administration of
the State Teachers Colleges effected in 1929, all fees paid by
students for their room, board, laundry and extra curricular activities such as entertainment, athletics, health service, etc., were
required to be paid directly to the general treasury. The Legislature then reapportioned these fees back to the colleges by appropriation as they were obligated by law to do for the cost of
instruction, meeting, however, but 70 per cent of this cost.
By
the appropriation of

means

of this purely administration device the appropriation to

the State Teachers Colleges appeared to increase from $4,600,-

000
1

in

929-3

the biennium
1

.

Whereas

1927-29
in fact

to

$10,700,000

actually an increase of but

$350,000 over

By

of

1927-29.

a

in

the appropriation for

continuance

this

the biennium
1

929-3

1

was

the appropriation for
fiscal

administrative

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arrangement the appropriation for 93 -33 was then again inclusive of student fees and amounted to $10,512,000 of which
only $4,440,000 was actually to be paid by the taxpayers for
the support of these fourteen institutions which represent the
1

1

chief source of teacher supply for the great public school system,

of the

Commonwealth.

It

will

be noticed that

this

amount

is

a

decrease over the appropriation for the preceding biennium.
But

this

is

not

all.

In the Extraordinary Session of Legis-

of 1932 when the biennium was
more than half over, this appropriation was reconsidered by the
General Assembly and was further reduced by $1,012,000 or
approximately 25 per cent of the total biennial appropriation
exclusive of student fees.
As the biennium was already well
advanced the budgets at all of the colleges had to be rewritten
and the reduction in appropriation absorbed in the remaining
nine months of the biennium.
To balance the budget drastic
economies were necessary at all these institutions, teachers’ salaries were cut and former enrollments reduced by more than
,000 students and in addition thousands of other qualified
young persons seeking admission to these institutions, chiefly
from rural areas, had to be excluded.
The Legislature in 1931 and in the special session of the
summer of 932 appropriated for the cost of the fourteen State
Teachers Colleges with a combined enrollment of 10,000 students $3,440,000 exclusive of feeds for board, room, etc., far
less than is spent at any of our great universities with a comparable enrollment and a sum inadequate to meet the instructional requirements for a modern and improved teacher prepalature called during the

summer

1

1

ration program.

remember that the entire cost of
met from the general fund which is derived
from corporation, mercantile, inheritance and similar taxes and
not a penny of which comes from farmer’s or home owner’s
It

is

also important to

these institutions

is

property tax payments.

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Dr.

Haas Speaks

at School

Code Hearing

Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, and now serving his second term as president
of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association, addressed
the House Committee on Education at a hearing in the hall of the

House of Representatives at Harrisburg. Seven hundred persons, coming from all parts of the state, attended the hearing.
About fifteen persons addressed the committee.
In addressing
the committee. Dr. Haas said:
“Mr. Chairman and Members of the House Committee on
Education
“I

have been requested by

official

action of the Executive

Council of the Pennsylvania State Education Association to pre-

you the attitude of our Association, numbering more than
62,000 workers in the field of education, on the proposed
school code which is now before you for consideration.
We
appreciate this opportunity provided by your committee.
“Our Association has recognized, for a number of years,
sent to

the need for a recodification of the laws relating to public edu-

cation and

work

as

it

it

appreciates the conscientious and comprehensive

finds expression in the

proposed code.

and endorses in principle a number of the
embodied in it, particularly the principle
for more effective administration and the prin-

“It recognizes

constructive features
of a larger unit

ciple of equalization of educational opportunity through equali-

by the State of the burden of local support.
“However, the principles of the larger unit and equalization
as applied in the proposed code, together with certain other
related provisions, do not, in our judgment, provide adequately
for the realization of the constitutional ideal of a ‘thorough and

zation

efficient

system of public schools wherein

Commonwealth above

the age of six

all

may be

the children of this

educated,’ nor do

they appear to meet the needs of the present economic situation

immediately confronting public education

in

Pennsylvania.

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“The

11

larger unit as proposed does not recognize sufficiently

the principle of local determination in developing the larger unit
as regards economic, geographic,

and community

factors, nor

does the minimum

permit sufficient

flexibility to

size of the unit

adjust local problems of organization, building requirements,

and

finance.

“Effective

consolidations

of the school

when such combinations

districts are

best

from the desires of the
district affected and are initiated because of a desire for better
educational facilities.
The sudden and arbitrary consolidation
of districts which have never united voluntarily or which, in the
past, have deliberately separated because of the wide diversity
of community conditions, which have unequal equipment, which
have been accustomed to different levels of local tax support,
invites confusion, irritation, and lessened efficiency.
“The general tendency of the proposed code toward the
compulsory removal from local boards of education and from
local communities the determination of their educational policies
obtained

is

result

undesirable.

“In general, the principle of equalization

is

effective as a

basis for State subsidy to the extent that the assessments

which

local

are

taxes

levied

are

equalized.

upon

Unfortunately,

Pennsylvania as yet has no effective system for guaranteeing

approximate equalization of assessment.
It is difficult
sound conclusion from a faulty premise.
Furthermore, the proposed plan of equalization calls for approximately
even

in

to secure a

$5,200,000

less

in

a

time of

emergency than the subsidy

requirements under the normal operation of the Edmonds’ Act.

The immediate saving because
from a larger

The

unit

is

of reduced overhead resulting

estimated at approximately $2,000,000.

net result therefore, using the budget proposals

ing of approximately

$3,200,00

is

a shift-

to local sources unless the pres-

program of public education, now in effect in many districts
be very materially reduced and handicapped.
“Everyone recognizes that public education is a vital State
function.
For years, educational and civic leaders and students

ent
is

to

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of taxation have maintained that real estate bears too large a

proportion of the burden of taxation.

State appropriations,

with the exception of the per capita tax, are the only parts of
the school revenue
fore,

which do not come from

any reduction

in the

amount

this source.

There-

of these subsidies because of

the operation of the proposed equalization plan
er increase the relative real estate

must still furthburden and must throw back

upon the local communities an additional proportion of the burden of the support of the public school system.
“Again,

in individual districts the net

decrease or the net

by large
amounts from the aid available through the operation of the
present Edmonds’ Act.
Even in normal times such drastic
increases or decreases should be spread over a reasonable period
m order to safeguard, on the one hand, the educational program now m operation and, on the other, to prevent wasteful
inefficiences in administration likely to result from an abnormal
increase in State aid in certain instances will vary

increase in income.

“In the

less

wealthy

districts of the State,

it is

highly desir-

and in most instances, imperative, that the Commonwealth
more liberally in the support of the programs of public eduHowever, such aid should not be at the expense of
cation.
able,

aid

programs of education which, over a long period of
have been built up in other districts through the encourTo provide an effective program
agement of our present laws.
of equalization commensurate with Pennsylvania’s ideals as expressed in the present laws, sufficient State subsidies must be
provided to raise the level of the educational opportunities in
the less wealthy districts without curtailing by reduced support
the programs of education now in effect and supported in larger
numbers of districts.
effective

years,

“It

is

the position of our Association that the best interests

would be served in the present
by a guarantee on the part of the State, to
each district of appropriations in such amount as is now mandated under the Edmonds’ Act, and the other related laws which
of the State and of education

emergency

at least,

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provide aid for special types of education, and,
such supplementary aid as
schooling to poor districts

in

addition,

in

the past, to guarantee effective

The financial
emergency would appear to be

in financial distress.

obligation of the State in this

one of increased rather than

less financial aid.

“Our present laws recognize the obligation of the State to
school districts in a program of public education designed

aid

which we

for the preparation of effective citizens in the era in

Computation of aid on the basis of the teacher-pupil unit
as now proposed arbitrarily, places a handicap upon the development of many types of educational opportunities which have
Not only does
been encouraged through special laws and aids.
the ratio of pupils per teacher now proposed fail to recognize
these types of education and auxiliary services such as supervision, but, because of this situation, it will tend to stimulate the
crowding of pupils into classes larger than are now recognized
live.

as efficient educational practice.

“A
fied as
girls

larger unit

they result

and an equalization plan can only be justischool opportunities and facilities for

in better

and boys resident

in the districts affected.

It

observation that the combining of school districts

is

common

in

the past

has necessitated either immediately, or shortly after consolida-

an expanded building program.
Therefore, consolidation
proposed m this code ultimately will mean an enlarged building program throughout the Commonwealth.
This can only be

tion,

as

realized after a system of increased

financial support

from the

made

available for use in developing this needed build-

ing program.

Realty apparently cannot provide the revenues

State

is

necessary for such program.
“In addition to these major principles which cross-cut the
fabric of the proposed code,

we

invite the attention of the

mittee to the following specific provisions which

we

com-

hold are un-

desirable.

“Sections

more
in

813 and 1009

difficult for local

boards

to

1913, inclusive,

will

many complex problems

preparing, approving, and administering the budget.

make

involved

These

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14

and conboard action, both of which are detrimental

sections invite delays in the formation of the budget
stant criticisms of

to the best interests of the schools.

“Section

1605 provides

school

may demand and

ject.

A

that

any

pupils

fifteen

in

the

secure instruction in any desired sub-

school system cannot function efficiently under such

Boards of education cannot control expenditures
they are compelled rather than permitted to increase the

conditions.
if

teaching force following any request of the children.

XXX relating the State Teachers Colleges is too
immediate requirements and in the almost unknown

“Article
drastic in

its

grant of arbitrary centralized authority to the State Council or

Education.

“The tendency

to

make

the State Council of Education

responsible for decisions on matters throughout the State which
in any way be determined wisely without a thorough
knowledge of local conditions is not wise.

could not

“Sections 3102, 3103, 3105, 3106, and 3107, relating

By

to the certification of teachers.

writing unnecessary details

into the law, the resulting inflexibility

hampers the professional

development of teacher preparation.

“We

invite, also, the attention of the

lowing Items for which,

in

committee

to the fol-

our judgment, the proposed code

makes unsatisfactory provisions

“The increased number of members
directors in third

and fourth

class districts

of boards of school

(502)

;

the eligibility

requirements of relatives of members of boards of school direct-

(638) the purchase of bonds for purposes of cancellation
(907) the power to acquire and dispose of realty and to erect
buildings (1201); the reimbursement provided for closed
schools (1414), for special education (1415-1416), for vocational and continuation education (1417-1419), and for extension (1420); the admission of beginners (2116); the transportation of pupils (Article 24}
the management and expenses
of meetings of teachers (2801)
and the State Teachers Colors

;

;

;

;

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leges (Article 30).

to

“These are the major reasons which cause our Association
oppose the proposed code.”
o

The Sophomore Cotillion, one of the big social events of
was held in the gymnasium on Saturday evening,
The
February 25, under the sponsorship of the Class of 1935.
patrons and patronesses were: Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas,
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Koch, Dr. Mary E. Roe,
Dr. Nell Maupin, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward A. Reams, and Miss Rachel Turner. The officers of
the year,

the class are: President,

President,

Elizabeth

J.

Wesley Knorr, of Bloomsburg; Vice-

Howard DeMott, of Bloomsburg; Secretary, Miss
Row, of Bloomsburg; and Treasurer, William Reed,

of Shamokin.

o

W.

C.

Forney, a native of Danville, and for the past eight

years head of the commercial department of the Easton High
School, recently joined the faculty as a teacher in the Depart-

ment

of

He took up

Commerce.

his

work here

at the beginning

of the second semester.

Mr. Forney was graduated from the Danville High School
Since his grad1916, and from Temple University in 1924.
uation from the latter institution, he has been a member of the

in

Easton High School faculty, but during that time, he completed

work

Harvard University, the University
and New York University, receiving the Master’s Degree in Education at the School
of Education at New York University last October.

courses in graduate

at

of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago,

o

A

course in Girl Scout leadership was given at the College

during the week of February 13, by Miss Jeanne Christy, of the
national organization.

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A T MLE TI CS
The basketball season

for

1932-33 has been more or

less

Practice started immediately after the
an uncertain quantity.
close of the football season and a goodly number of candidates

reported.

Lettermen reporting were Yaretski, Captain, Shepela,

Malone, Blackburn, Kafchinski, and Yozviak.

who

previous year

Jay-Vees of the

strengthened the squad were: Valente, Mc-

Hugh, Jaffin, Reed, Washeleski, Shakofski and Kelly. Among
the Freshmen reporting Phillips, Elder, Rompola, Mericle and
Kudgus did good work. There has been a good spirit among the
squad and they have practiced regularly.
The first game was with the Alumni. A good many men
were used and the squad showed possibilities. The Alumni reWilson, Colder, Turner, Rudowski, and Yacaturning were
bonis (all former captains) Yacabonis showed some of his old
time form, scoring 6 points. Tam Kirker was present but was
unable to play because of an injury. The score was 51 to 36 in
favor of the Varsity. For the game next year more members of
the 1928-29 team have signified their intention of returning
and the date has been set for December 16, 1933. The varsit}'^
and school look forward to the Alumni game and we hope that
a good many Alumni may return.
This past season, just before the Christmas vacation, December 6 and 7, the team took a western trip, playing Indiana and Slippery Rock. The squad did not have sufficient training nor were they sufficiently organized so early in the season to
play against these teams. The first was lost 37-21 and the second lost 50-25.
:

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1

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The

first

appearance

to

17

game, following the Christmas holidays, gave
The center position, which was
a new line-up.

destined for several changes during the season, was taken care

by Malone, Kafchinski being forced out by illness. Phillips,
and played consistent,
steady ball the rest of the year. Shepela, one of the “old timers’’
became a stalwart on the defense and a constant threat on the
offense.
The forwards were Captain Yaretski, a faithful, hardworking player and Ellis, a new member of the squad. The
team in this game started functioning slowly and after trailing
the first half overtook their opponents in the last few minutes of
the game and won 34-33.
The next two Saturdays the team went to Millersville and
East Stroudsburg respectively. Millersville won a close game,
30-24 and the veteran East Stroudsburg team turned us back
with a 52-28 score.
The following week end, the team, composed of Captain
Yaretski, Valente, Malone, Phillips, and Shepela, together with
B’ackburn, Washeleski, Reed and Ellis as substitutes, defeated
Lock Haven 39-38 and Mansfield 56-24 on their respective
of

a Freshman, also broke into the line-up

floors.

The East Stroudsburg team came here February 4 for their
game and met a different team than the one they had
played there. However, after being pushed they won out in the
end, 55-42. It was probably one of the best games played on
return

the floor this year.

The remaining games were all close games with the excepLock Haven and it was close until the final quarter. Indiana, here, was next and with Washeleski starting at the center
position, which he played until the end of the season, due to
Malone receiving an injury, the team ;oct a hard game by the
score of 39-36. We then beat Mansfield 46-36, Lock Haven
42-22, and lost to Shippensburg 36-33 and to Millersville 34-30.
Bloomsburg scored 507 points during the season to their
opponents 522 and won six games and lost eight.
The Jay-Vees, in ten games, have won five and lost five.
tion of

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At the time of writing, the Lettermen’s Club

is

in

the midst

of their twelfth annual high school basketball tournament.
first

The

round of the tournament has been played and the scores are

as follows:

—
45
— Conyngham, 45 Lake Township,
Township, 44;
A—
A — Hanover,
A — Mahanoy
29; West
— Bloomsburg, 38;

Class
Class
Class

Class
Class

B
B

Numidia,

Orangeville, 15.

;

;

26.

Freeland, 22.

Coal

7

1

Sunbury,

;

1

4.

Hazleton, 23.

City,

Class A.

Danville, 27.

has

the appearances of being a very successful tour-

It

all

nament.

Alex Shepela and

Tom

have been taking an active
managing of the various com-

Griffith

part in the arrangements and the
mittees.

A

track schedule has been completed

boys are practicing and getting
The schedule

is

in

shape for

and a good many
the coming meets

as follows

Lock Haven (here) April
Bucknell (there)

May

12.

1.

State Teachers College Meet at Shippensburg

May

13.

The Athletic Banquet and Community Government Association Dance has been scheduled for May 20. Dr. Maroney, of
Teachers College, Columbia University, has been invited to be
the speaker.

VARSITY
51
21
25
34
24
28
39
56
42
36
46
42

Alumni
Indiana
Slippery Rock

_

Shippensburg
Millersville

East Stroudsburg

Lock Haven
Mansfield
East Stroudsburg
Indiana
Mansfield

Lock Haven

36
37
50
33
30
52
38
24
55
39
36
22

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19

36
34

Shippensburg

33
30

Millersville

522

507

JAY-VEES

25
39
24
12
50
39
27
41
19
34

_

.

_

.

.

_

Won

74
13

Freeland M. M. I.
Lake Township High School
Bloomsburg Cardinals

.

-

5

19

Fast Stroudsburg
42
42
Locust Township
Delaware Lackawanna & Western ___ 45
45
East Stroudsburg
Lock Haven
34
Shippensburg
27
32
Freeland M. M. I.
Lost 5.

—

o

—

Dr. J. Bruce Patterson, for the past eight years a prominent

physician and surgeon of Wooster, Ohio, was instantly killed on

Wednesday, February 15, when his car skidded into another
machine while he was driving to Cleveland to assist in performing an operation.

After graduation from Bloomsburg, Dr. Patterson contin-

ued

his

education at Wooster University and at the Medical Col-

lege of Washington University, at St. Louis.

Immediately after

graduation from the latter institution, he was sent to Kunsan,
Korea, by the Presbyterian Church, South, and during his four-

his

teen years

in that field,

he was the moving

spirit in the erection

of one of the finest medical centers in the mission field.

was with keen regret that he gave up his work in Korea
and he did so in order that his children, all of
whom were born in Korea, might be educated in the United
States.
Upon his return to America, he took up his residence
at Wooster, and was active in the practice of his profession at
It

eight years ago,

the time of his death.

He

is

survived by his wife and four children.

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Notes From the Philadelphia Alumni
Association
The Philadelphia organization has grown

so steadily that

our President, Mrs. Norman G. Cool, deemed

form an Alumni Council.

The

first

it

advisable to

meeting, with about twenty-

5, 1932, and was
and unity the purpose
strongly evident.
Many practical ideas for the advancement of
our organization were put forth.
With her usual gracious hos-

was held

five present,

at her

home December

a most interesting meeting, with loyalty

pitality,

our hostess served a delightful luncheon.

What

lovely times

we have

our luncheon meetings!

at

and meeting friends who
might not otherwise see each other in years.
The December
luncheon meeting was a record-breaker, with an attendance of
fift 3^ although we have averaged about forty-two.
It is gratifying to see new faces bob up at each meeting, a circumstance
which shows continued interest and a healthy growth in membership.
We have many who do not miss a meeting.
The regular monthly meeting in January, brought out
forty-six.
Our luncheon, followed by cards, was truly a

They afford

the opportunity of seeing

delightful affair.

mentioning

all

the presence

We

who

regret that lack of space prevents our

attended, but

of Edith

Keller

we

Ritter,

certainly did appreciate

wife of Verus Ritter,

a

very well-known Philade’phia architect.

Mrs. Ritter brought

Amy

Ritter Eyerly, wife of

with her her house guests, namely

—
—and

Paul Eyerly, Editor of the Bloomsburg Morning Press
booster for everything that concerns Bloomsburg
ter,

Mrs. Jackson, of

who

City.

contributed to the success of

an all-day pilgrimage
Plant

New York

We

desire to thank

this affair.

to the Abbott’s Dairies

was a real treat.
The February meeting,

held

February

attended, despite the fact that on that date

a real

her

sisail

On January 30,
and Ice Cream
11,

we had

was well
the worst

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storm that

who

we have had

should breeze

and her sister.
Another
and enthusiasm.

We

find that

On

tion.

To our

in years.

but Mrs. D.

in

fine

S.

21

delight

and

example of Bloomsburg

we may be obliged to form a junior
roll we have the young daughter

the infant

Fox Steimayer,

’20,

surprise,

Hartline (Hallie Keffer ’92)
interest

organizaof Valera

and the young son of Dr. and Mrs. Castelis known to her Bloomsburg friends as

Mrs. Castellani

lani.

Bessie Evans.

Word

has just

come

to us that

little

Doris Pettit,

young daughter of Esther Hess Pettit, 12, of Pitman, New
met with a distressing and peculiar accident. While
she was riding her pony, a dog attacked the pony, which
started, threw Doris, and fell upon her leg, crushing it badly.
The young lady is recovering, and we hope soon to hear that the
the

Jersey,

leg

is

entirely healed.

We

are pleased to note the prompt and active part our

beloved Dr. Haas is taking m the interest of our Pennsylvania
Educational work.
We expect to hold our third annual banquet and reunion
on Saturday, April 22, at 6:30 P. M., at Adams’, 13th and
Spring Garden.
President, Florence Hess Cool, ’88,

1

12 North 50th Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Secretary Jennie Yoder Foley, ’08,

8134 Hennig Avenue,

Fox Chase, Pa.
o

Bloomsburg State Teachers
Annual New Year’s Day MarThe
athon held in Bloomsburg, when they won the team prize.
members of the team and the positions in which they finished,
are as follows: Allan Parr, first; Joseph Larish, third; James
The two other members
Karns, fifth; Francis Sell, eleventh.
of the team were: Edward Baum, who finished in thirteenth
place, and Bernard Young, who finished in fifteenth place.

The cross-country team

College figured prominently

of the

in the

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Kiwanis-Rotary College Night
Five years ago, Kiwanis and Rotary, the two local service
clubs,

were invited

to

meet in the college dining-room for a
was such a great success that it was

joint meeting.

This affair

made an annual

affair.

The

sixth affair of this kind took place

Thursday evening, March 2, with the program following the
same general lines that have been followed since the first meeting.

Beginning at 6 P. M., the members of the two clubs and

and the members of the college faculty and their
were served a delicious banquet in the college dining
Music was provided
room, with over four hundred present.
by the Maroon and Gold Orchestra, which played during the
A short program was given at the close of the dinner.
dinner.
The program included several selections by the Kiwanis Double
Quartette, a short address by Rotarian R. S. Hemingway, and
group singing by the guests.
The scene of action was then transferred to the Auditorium, where the guests of the evening were entertained by a program presented by the various campus organizations. This
included several numbers by the Maroon and Gold Orchestra, a
violin solo by Karl Getz, ’33, two reels of sound pictures, two
numbers by the girls’ chorus, a one-act play by the Alpha Psi
Omega Fraternity, two numbers by the Men’s Glee Club, and
two numbers by the Maroon and Gold Band.
The guests were seated in the balcony, and the student
body was seated on the main floor. Group singing by the student body, led by Miss Harriet M. Moore, was one of the enjoytheir guests,

guests,

able features of the evening.

Following the program

in the auditorium, there was dancgymnasium, and a large number of the guests
remained for this part of the evening’s program.
The Rotary-Kiwanis College Evening has been a potent
factor in bringing the leaders of community life in Bloomsburg

ing

in

the

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into close contact with the College,

the entente cordiale which

now

23

and is largely responsible for
between the town and the

exists

college.

o

No
action

entering class

the

ing of

was enrolled at the College at the openMonday, January 23. This

semester on

second

was made necessary because

ment, due to the cut

in

of the limitation of enroll-

appropriations.

accordance with the present plans of the College, the
next entering class will be received at the opening of the College
year next September.
Students desiring to be considered for
admission at that time should secure information now from Dean
In

of Instruction

W.

B. Sutliff.

o

who

President Francis B. Haas,

served

last

year as Presi-

Education Association,

dent of the Pennsylvania State

was

re-elected for another term at the annual convention held in Har-

risburg during the holidays.
retiring

president

Convention rules provide that the

automatically becomes

first

vice-president,

and the superintendent of the convention

city schools becomes
The re-election of Dr. Haas necessitated
a suspension of the rules.
Owing to the present crisis in education in Pennsylvania, it was considered imperative that Dr. Haas

second vice president.

be retained

in office for

another year.
o

The Men

s

Glee Club gave

its

Friday evening, December 9.

annual Christmas concert on

The program was directed by

Miss Harriet Moore, with Miss Frances Evans, ’33, at the piano.

The program

also included a violin solo

a contralto solo by Miss Moore.

numbers was Mrs.

J.

by Karl Getz,

The accompanist

’33,

and

for the solo

K. Miller, of the School of Music.

o
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the College,

now

able to be out again, after

with influenza.

having been

ill

for

is

some time

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24

Alumni Room (Trophy Room)
Statement of March

1st,

1933

Amount

$586.50
of Pledges still unpaid
Balance due on note of Bloomsburg-Col. Trust Co. Bank 520.00
11.70
Interest on same to March
(Oct. 15-Mar. 1)
1

$531.70

Total Indebtedness
Classes

whose pledges are

still

unpaid March

1

,

with the

amounts
’79

’25

2.00
7.00
41.50
3.00
62.00
44.00
99.00
80.00
4.00
80.00
4.00

Class ’27

225.00

’29

15.00

Class

Class ’86
Class ’94
Class

’99

Class

’05

Class

’06

Class

’10

Class

12

Class ’15
Class ’20

Class

Class

Total Pledges Unpaid to Date

$

$666.50

The following classes will meet for reunion in May, 1933,
and will be the last of the five years’ series to contribute to the
“Trophy Room’’ project. We hope their officers will clearly
present the cause and urge the class individually to close the
project as successfully and as enthusiastically as it was begun.
We are convinced that the “Trophy Room’’ idea is a great uniClasses returning
fying influence to our old boys and girls.
reuniting m May, 1933: ’73. ’78, ’83, ’88, 93, ’98, ’03, ’08,
’13, ’18, ’23, ’28, ’33.

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The following classes did not report contributions to the
project at their last Reunions: ’69, ’70, ’71, ’74, ’77, ’87, ’00,
’26, ’32.

Amount needed
Note

at

to

complete the project:

Bank

$ 520.00

June
Amount borrowed from Quarterly Fund
Davenport furnished
Trophy Cases
Accessories needed
Interest to

1

19.50

450.00
192.00

244.40
165.00

$1590.00

Total
Respectfully,
0. H.

BAKELESS,

Treasurer of Fund.

o

The correct addresses of the following are unknown. If
any of the readers of hte QUARTERLY are able to supply the
desired information, they will render a great favor by sending
it to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, West Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Louise T. Dowin, ’3
Ruth Logan Fairbanks, ’22.
Mrs. Eleanor Daniels German, ’91.
Marie Standish, ’32.
Mrs. Helen Wardell Eister, ’07-’08.
1

o

The Maroon and Gold instrumental music organizations
have recently added to their equipment a fine case for storing
uniforms, instruments, and music.
This case was recently
installed in Room 40, where the various organizations meet for
Provision has been made for a very fine filing sysrehearsal.
tem, whereby music may be found instantly when needed.

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26

Northeastern District Convention
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was well represented
at the eighth

annual convention of the Northeastern District of

the Pennsylvania State Education Association, held in Scranton,

The names of members of the facutly, and of
alumni, appear on the program as members of committees,
departmental presidents, and as participants in the program.
The chairman of the Committee on Resolutions was W. W.
March 3 and

4.

Evans, ’94, Superintendent of the Columbia County Schools.

On

the

Faculty,

same committee were Miss Edna Hazen, of the College
and Harlan R. Snyder, ’98, Principal of the schools of

Catawissa.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the Pennsylvania State

Education Association, was present and gave an address

at

one

of the general sessions.

Ida M. Walter, ’92, Assistant Superintendent of the Colum.bia County Schools,

was Secretary of the Department

of County

Superintendents.

John F. Shambach, ’06, Superintendent of the Sunbury
was president of the Department of District Superintendents, while Mauric E. Houck, ’10, Superintendent of the
Berwick schools, was secretary of the same organization.
Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training at Bloomsburg, was chairman of the Department of College and Teacher
schools,

Training, while Dr. H. Harrison Russell, a

presented to

ulty,

this

member

of the fac-

group a discussion on “Visual Aids

in the

Teacher Training Program.’’
o

Miss Rachel

Ann

Fahringer, a

member

of the class of

1932

of the Berwick High School, and a Freshman at Bloomsburg,

died suddenly at her

ber

1

1

.

funeral,

Members
and served

home
of the

in

Berwick, Sunday evening, Decem.-

Day

Girls’

as flower bearers.

Association attended the

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Send

in

27

Your Dollar

Most of the subscriptions to the Quarterly will expire with
We hope that most of those on the mailing list this
year will renew their subscriptions, and thus retain their memLast year over six hunbership in the Alumni Association.
Attention has many
dred failed to renew their subscriptions.
times been called to the fact that the Alumni of Bloomsburg
this issue.

should be members of their Alumni Association five years out of

and not just one year out of five. We should have an
active membership of over six thousand, and not less than onefifth of that number, as is now the case.
Many fail to renew their subscription because of indifference, but many more have failed to do so because of neglect.

five,

Please consider this as an appeal to send your dollar to Prof.
this.
Do this before you forget it.
you have no reunion this year, there are many reasons
why you should retain your membership in the Alumni Association.
You need the Quarterly to keep in touch with what is
going on at Bloomsburg; your dollar will help the Association
to become a more effective agent in furthering the interests of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Send in your dollar NOW

Jenkins as soon as you read

Even

if

o
Delighting a large audience with its brilliant program, the
Boston Colonial Sextette appeared in the college auditorium, Fri-

day evening, January 27, as one of the numbers of the Artists’
Course.
The first part of their program was given in colonial
costume.

The members

of the organization are as follows:

Beulah Hildebrandt, contralto; Yvonne Des Hosiers, soprano;

Dundon, baritone; Eugene Conley, tenor; Hudson Carmody, basso; Raymond Simons, tenor; and Howard Slayman,

Philip

pianist.

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28

Alumni Day, Saturday,
Many

of the classes are already

May 27,

1933

making plans

for their

reunions which form such a delightful part of the Alumni

The following

Program.

classes are scheduled to

meet

m

Day

reun-

ion this year:
’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, ’03, ’08, ’13, ’18, ’23, ’28, ’31.

78,

m

the events of Alumni Day is becoming greater
The usual four-page supplement, announcing the
events of the day, and containing personal greetings from the
President of the College and the President of the Alumni Association, will soon be mailed to all Alumni whose correct addresses
are on file in the office of the Business Manager.
Watch for this
bulletin, and be prompt in sending in the coupon with the usual
Interest

every year.

Bloomsburg, at

dollar.

this

time,

needs the support of

its

Come to
Alumni more than at any other time in its history.
Bloomsburg on May 27, if you possibly can; if it is impossible
for you to do so, send your dollar and put it to work for the
interests of your Alma Mater.
o

Channing Pollock’s “The Fool’’ was used by the Alpha
Omicron cast of Alpha Psi Omega, dramatic fraternity, as the
vehicle for a beautiful Christmas message to an appreciative
audience

in the

College Auditorium, Friday evening,

December

Ralph Evans, ’33, and Grace Foote, ’34, headed a strong
The play was
cast that gave an outstanding performance.
directed by Miss Alice Johnston.
23.

o

Announcement was

recently

made

of the marriage of Miss

Mary Novotny, of Marion Heights, and Bert Sheean, of Mount
The wedding took place in Philadelphia October 3

Carmel.

1931.

I

Mrs. Sheean has been a successful teacher

of Marion Heights.

m

the schools

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29

Miss Ruth A. Eismann has been appointed Assistant Librarian, to

fill

the vacancy caused

by the resignation of Mrs. Doro-

thy Breitenbecker.

Miss Eismann

is

a graduate of the Flora Stone Mather Col-

lege of Western Reserve University,

where she received the

degree of Bachelor of Science, and a Librarian’s certificate. She
took the combined Literary and Library Course at the above-

named

institution.

She

later

attended the University of Michi-

gan, where she received the degree of Master of Arts

m

Educa-

tion.

o
A. Z. Schoch, President of the Board of Trustees, underwent a serious operation at the Geisinger Hospital at Danville,
on Monday, January 23.
Mr. Schoch is recovering satisfactorily from the operation, despite the fact that he is eighty-eight

years of age.
o
Mrs. Dorothy Breitenbecker, assistant librarian at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and Mr. Amos Showalter,
of Bridgewater, Virginia, were united m marriage on the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day in the Friends’ Meeting House, at
Millville, Pa.

o

Wednesday afternoon, December

16, the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College was host to hundreds of children who packed
the auditorium in Carver Hall for the presentation of John Ruskin’s

“King of the Golden River’’ by the Tatterman Marionettes.
same company gave “Stringing Broadway”

In the evening the

as a part of the regular Artists’ Course.

o

Friday evening, January 6, the Maroon and Gold Band,

under the direction of Prof. Russell Llewellyn, gave a much
enjoyed concert.
The band was assisted by Edward Tyrell,
Baritone, and Beatrice Gros Gram, Pianist.

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30

Class

Secretary:

Prutzman,

Fernbank

Penney home

for retired

Kitchen

Celestia

Farm, Trucksville, Pa.
Alice Fisher has gone to the

J. C.

ministers and missionaries in Florida.
since October

1

,

1

932, and

is

She has been living there

delighted with the place.

Henderson Reed has been confined
May, but is now able to sit up.

Belle
since last

Bridget Burns,

who

taught

fifty

to

years in her

her

home

own home

town after her graduation from Bloomsburg, has been pensioned
by the Commonwealth.
Maggie Cavanaugh Bigley

is

teaching in Philadelphia.

1886

W.

L.

Williams

may be

reached at the Court House,

Madera, California.

1888
Class of ’88, Attention!

We

are having our forty-fifth reunion on Alumni Day,

27, 1933.

Rally ’round “Old Normal” in the true

May

spirit of ’88.

Committee.

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31

1903

W. Riland

H.

is

active in the preparations for the reunion

1903, to be held Alumni Day, May 27.
Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Brooklyn, N. Y.

of the class of

Riand

is

Mr.

1908

CLASS

MOTTO— “Deeds

Not Words.”

Class Officers

Joseph Shovlin
Jennie Yoder Foley

President

Vice President

Marion Smith Moore

Secretary

Treasurer

Reunion Committee

Thomas

—

William Rarich
Willie

Morgan

Yoder Foley,

Francis, Joseph Shovlin, William Rarich.

1908
Sis

class

!

Boom

!

Rah
As a

Stein, Jennie

!

1908
Rah

you ever see

Ah

!

!

!

Roh

us brilliant, fair

And the Orange and Blue we’ll never
On life’s journey we will e’er be true

fail to

wear

Orange and the Blue
Then shall each remember that he was a member
Of the class of 1908.
(Written in 1908)
My Dear Classmate:
Twenty-five years ago we were “dignified seniors” looking
forward to that day when Dr. Waller would hand us our diplomas.
It was truly a commencement of hope for big things
which we were to achieve on life’s journey.
There were 103 members of our class, just a quarter of a
century ago (June 23, 908) who walked away from “Old Normal” with that prized possession for which we had worked so
First of all to the

1

hard.
In twenty-five years our class has

dwindled

until

now we

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32

have but 85 members living whose addresses we know.
There
have been ten deaths within our ranks in that quarter of a century.

In

Memoriam

Reba Campion

Adam Wiegand

Ida Driesbach

Lillian

Yeager

Mary Fegley
Ellie Deighmiller
Daniel Morgan
Helen Hill
Thomas Plank
Irene Kahler
The last three named attended our Twentieth Year Reunion
Detailed accounts of
and laughed and chatted with us.
in the Alumni Quarterly.

their

deaths were given

There are seven members of our
‘‘lost,

strayed, or stolen.”

we have been

We

.Nellie

class

who have become

during five years of effort

unable to locate them.

are: Mertie Cool,
Merrill Smith,

.At least

These missing members

Cox, Charlotte Geislorf, Harriet Miller,

Margaret Woods, and Francesco

give the names here in the hope that

Petrilli.

some one may be

able to give us information concerning them.
issued in June, September, December and
Alumni members one dollar a year and we
feel sure that it helps to keep us in touch, not only with our own
classmates, but those of other classes and with our Alma Mater.

The Quarterly

March.

It

Let us

make

it

a habit to read our Quarterly every year, not

merely the years

A

is

costs our

we

return for our class reunion.

very good suggestion was

made

at our

Twentieth Year

Reunion, that of bringing our families with us to the TwentyIf you have a family, and it is at all posYear Reunion.
you to do so, we would like to extend a special invitation to them to meet with us.
Members of the ’07 and 09 classes who will attend the
Alumni Day meeting are also invited to come to our reunion and
The ’07 class were “dignified seniors” while
“chat” with us.
we were “those terrible middlers.” The ’09 class were “horBut class
rible middlers” while we were “dignified seniors.”

Fifth

sible for

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when

rivalry fades into insignificance

“reun” with
If

not

We

around.

rolls

you
if

a quarter of a century

be delighted to have them

truly

us.

feel that

make an

and see

would

33

the

you have

effort to

come

lost interest in

our class, will you

Twenty-Fifth Year Reunion

to our

good old “Naughty Eight”

spirit

cannot be reviv-

ed.

We would like to have a reply from you so that we can get
some idea of the number planning to attend this reunion. Let
us show by our attendance at the Twenty-Fifth Year Reunion
that we are still “true to the Orange and the Blue and remember
that we are members of the class of 1908.”
Take a good long look at your class picture taken twentyfive years ago, then come “take a look at us now” and see how
much we have improved.
Oh, Naughty Eight.

No

Oh, Naughty Eight

other class you fear;

Oh, Naughty Eight.

Oh, Naughty Eight

You are without a peer.
Mid joys and sorrows.
We’ re always true.
Loyal forever, to the Orange and Blue.
(Written

in

WILLIE

1

908)

MORGAN

STEIN,
Chairman Reunion Committee.

Fred W. Bragg, husband of the former Martha E. Herring,
home on Monday, March 6. Mr. and Mrs. Bragg

died at his
lived in

Toms

River, N. J.

1912
Dr. P. C.ive Potts,

who

has been supervising principal of

the Maryland School for the Blind at Overlea, Md., for the past

and a half years, has been elected superintendent of the
Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, located at Gooding,

eight

Idaho.

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34

Dr. Potts
lic

went

to the

Maryland

from the pub-

mstitutition

schools of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of Doctor

of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in June, 1930.

He assumed

his

new

duties in January.

1913

62 South Grant Street, Wilkestouch with the members of her class,

Miss Mildred Stemples,
Barre,

is

trying to get in

1

all may be informed as to the plans for the reunion
be held on Alumni Day, May 27.
The list printed below contains the names of those whose addresses are unknown to her.
Miss Stemples will greatly appreciate the assistance of any who

in

order that

to

are able to supply her with the desired information.

James Richard.
Robert Throne.

Rena Schlotterbeck.
Effie

Rhodes.

Shuman (Mrs. L. S. Bowers).
Miriam Hetler (Mrs. J. K. White).
Margaret Haley (Mrs. F. L. Flaherty).
Carrie

Oswell Hutton.

Kimber Kuster.
Anita Lynch.

Ruth McGirk.
Elizabeth K. Scharf

grove schools.

is

Her adress

teacher of fifth grade
in

Selinsgrove

is

in

the Selin:-

203 North Water

Street.

1919
Elizabeth M. Steele and Major Henry

Army, were married

in

Shamokm

S.

Aurand, U.

S.

Thursday, February 2, 1933.

1923
Kathryn Townsend (Mrs. R.

E.

Nicodemus) died of pneu-

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monia

on Tuesday, Decem-

at the Geisinger Hospital, Danville,

ber 27, after an

illness

eight years ago, Mrs.

Prior to her marriage

of five days.

Nicodemus taught

delphia, and two years in Bethlehem.

husband. Dr. R.

35

for

She

two years
is

Nicodemus, a member of the

E.

in Phila-

survived by her
staff at the

Geisinger Hospital, and two daughters, Shirley, five years of
age, and Audrey, three years.

The funeral was held in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in
Bloomsburg, and was conducted by the Rev. J. Thomas HeiBurial took place in the New Rosestand, rector of the church.
mont Cemetery.

Mary

O’Brien, a teacher in the

Woodbridge, N. J.,
an attorney in that

is

Woodbridge High School,
Desmond, who is

the wife of .Andrew

city.

Frances Golden

Anna

now

is

teaching

schools at Hawley, Pa.

in the

G. Kelley, formerly teacher of Spanish in the

Swoy-

High School, now answers to the name of Mrs. William
Kirby, and lives at 270 Chapel Street, Luzerne, Pa.
erville

F.

1924
The

friends

and classmates of Mary

grieved to learn of her recent death.
teacher of Mathematics
to

become

in the

the bride of M.

later, after a

very short

J.

be

After having served as

Exeter High School, she resigned
Hastings.

She died four months

illness.

Anna Hoffman and Mary O’Mara
ty of Exeter

Clair Kelley will

are

members

of the facul-

High School, Exeter, Pa.

1925
Laura G. Dietnck, formerly of Espy, died Thursday morn5, in the Cooper Hospital at Camden, N. J., from a
complication of diseases from which she had been suffering for
about a month.
Miss Diertick was a teacher in the Stevens
ing,

January

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36

School at Camden, N.

from the time of her graduation

J.,

until

the time of her death.

1926
Genevieve Kelley, has received the degree of Bachelor of
Music at Marywood College, Scranton, Pa., and is now Supervisor of Music in the schools at Wyoming, Pa.

1928
Pauline Reese (Mrs. Clemons Smith)

is

now

living near

Nescopeck.

1930
Miss Marie Nelson, of Catawissa, has enrolled in the University of Florida this semester, to continue her graduate

versity of Pennsylvania,

during the

work

Miss Nelson has a Master’s Degree from the Uni-

in English.

first

and took special work

semester of

at

Bloomsburg

this year.

Kathryn I. Schooley, of Allenwood, and Donald E. Waitman, of Montgomery, were married at Montgomery, Saturday,
January 14.

Norma

Knoll

doing welfare work

is

Alva Fetterman

lives at

in

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

245 Van Gelder

Street,

Tamaqua,

Pa.

Jeanette Roberts and Helen Mackie are teaching

in rural

schools near Lake Ariel, Pa.

Jane William

(Mrs.

Charles Perry)

lives

729 Main

at

Street, Edwardsville, Pa.

Loretta Fleming

is

doing welfare work

in

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

1931

Mary Davis

is

teaching in Edwardsville, Pa.

Previous to

taking her present position, she conducted a private kindergarten.

Dolores Keating

is

teaching

in

Edwardsville, Pa.

fste] nr

To/.

No. 3

34

THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

JUNE,

1933

BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JUNE, 1933

Vol. 34

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 Tear

F.

...

FENSTEMAKER, T2

H. F.

H. JENKINS,

76

The Fundamentals

Editor-in-Chief

Business Manager

of Education

By William John Cooper
United States Commissioner of Education
State I'eachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Commencement Address.

May
Ai:

29, 1933.

the present time, there

is

.

considerable clamor

among

tax-paying organizations for a return to the fundamentals. They

do not te'l us, however, what these fundamentals are, but I
assume that they mean reading, writing, and arithmetic, with
some emphasis upon geography and history.
It

may be

well for us at this time to look at the history of

education for a few minutes
jects

to

came

keep

m

the curriculum.

history of education,

achusetts

in

order to decide

why

these

sub-

and why they are so important
you will recall for a minute your

into the curriculum

you

If

days

in

Mass-

education

in

book

will realize that in early

some good lady who had

a

little

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2

learning invited into her home, and for a few pennies from each
child

gave them the rudiments of reading. It may be that they
New England Catechism or the Bible itself. At the

read the

same time some

of these children received a slightly

more

for-

mal training in writing and in the bare elements of arithmetic
another good lady’s house. The first of these schools was
called the Dame school and the second was usually called the
writing school, and from these two schools grew our elementary
school. But in general, even this meager education was paid for
by the parent of the child until approximately one hundred
in

years ago.
It

and

was a part

of the valiant fight

his associates that

made by Horace Mann

elementary education was taken over and

paid for by the community.

Andrew Jackson was going

This fight began in

1837

just as

To

out of the Presidency.

these

had been added, after 1800, a little geography, and
However, it was
after about 1825 a little American history.
not until 795 that Jedediah Morse had produced his geography
and it was not until 822 that Goodrich produced his first American history. If one should have asked then, in Jackson’s time,
what were the fundamentals of education, he would have been
told immediately reading, writing, arithmetic, and a little geography and American history.
I am wondering if those who are advocating these subjects
as the fundamentals today realize what changed conditions our
boys and girls will have to live under in 1940 and 1950. Will
they be adequately prepared if they have only the Information
that was current in Jackson’s time? If we are to consider this
subjects

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question,

I

think

we must

working man spent

much he

will

consider

at this

work

how much
in

probably have to spend

time the average

Jackson’s time, and
in

1950. That

—

is

how

the prob-

lem the average school superintendent must solve and he must
solve that problem to the satisfaction of a board of education
which was educated around 1900. The 50 years which have
elapsed between the time the board was educated and the time

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that these present boys

and

be called upon to disa rather remarkable 50-year

girls

charge the duties of citizens

is

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will

period.
But,
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00

if

years

likely

we

before

in

comprehend what

are very significant.

day

in

Jackson’s time,

we go back
we shall more

discuss this 50-year period

order to get our bearings better,
I

mean by

stating that these

50 years

we consider the length of the working
we will find that men and women worked

If

developing factories from sun-up to sun-down or

in the

and we

shall also find that a great

some

many

later,

worked in
were employed

children

whole families
and it was not permitted for any member to attend school at
all. If we examine the work today in factories, we find that they
are excluding children many employers demand a high-school
education if they will consider an application. The United States
Census shows that young people between 0 and 5 years of
age were employed to the extent of more than 18 per cent in
1910; in 1920, only a little over 8 per cent of children of this
age were employed at all; in the year 1930, for the United
these factories.

In

cases,

;

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States as a whole, only a

1

over 4 per cent were employed.
tells us that machinery is getting
so complex and the manufacturing processes so complicated
that they do not care to have children in these factories at all.

And

little

the Manufacturers Record

There is no possibility of machinery becoming less complicated
and no possibility of the manufacturing processes being simpliI think we are safe in assuming that
be in school in 940 and 950.
At the present time we estimate, since

fied, so

will

1

rate figures, that the

all

of the children

1

number

of people

we have no accuunemployed as being

somewhere

in the neighborhood of twelve million or approximately one-fourth of our entire working population. There is
no possibility that all of these people can ever be employed

again

had

if

its

same working hours are maintained. England has
working men unemployed constantly since the War;
the

•Germany, likewise; France, the other large belligerent, had a

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period of prosperity during the years that

but

this

was due

we were

prosperous,

largely to the fact that French industry has

in small fine articles which do not yield readmanufacture by machinery, and further that France was
engaged during these years in rebuilding northern France. That
was a big job in itself. Moreover, it must be remembered that
France has had a million men in arms regularly since the War.

always specialized
ily to

same ratio would
army of three and a half million men. If we could
put these three and a half million men under arms this country
would go a long ways toward solving this unemployed question.
In terms of the United States population, the

give us an

is no answer to the argument that we must shorten
working day. The bill which calls for a 30-hour working
week is now before Congress. I think it will have to pass either
I

think there

the

at this session or at a session in the

near future.

I

am

willing to

950 we shall have a working week not to exceed 25 hours. Now if men worked from sun-up to sun-down in
Jackson’s time, if they are now out of work on a 40-hour week,
and if by reducing the the working week one-fourth, we could
put a large number of them to work.
I think I am safe in predicting a 25-hour week for the folks who are now in school and
will hold their jobs in
940 and 950. Therefore, it will be
very much more important to prepare them to spend properly
predict that in

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the time which they will have on their hands than

pare them to operate machinery
processes and the speed of
er strain

in

modern machinery make

on the modern factory operator.

the pace physically, there

is

not very

to

is

to pre-

for a great-

he can stand
be learned about

But

much

it

The complicated

a factory.

if

the processess which he has to do.

Spending one’s

leisure time,

however,

is

a

much more com-

plex arrangement. In the time of William Penn, leisure was very

much dreaded.

In the time of

Benjamm

Franklin,

we

find that

Autobiography, he
some
experiences
gives an account of
he had with a troop of
men who were fighting Indians in Western Pennsylvania. He
Franklin also feared idleness.

In fact, in his

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says that on days
the

men

to

work

when

the sun shone

and

it

was

possible for

outside, they got along famously together.

when work had

On

be suspended, they had
very great difficulty in getting along, which he said called attention to the fact that idleness was a great vice to be guarded
against in every way.
If we are to work only five hours a day and sleeping and
eating takes us approximately ten hours, we still have nine
rainy days, however,

to

hours to spend profitably to ourselves and to society.

have been trying

I

what these men do during
moment.

to find out

the time that they have on their hands at the present
It is

not insignificant that during the past three years

when

un-

employment has been at the worst, the use of books m the District of Columbia library has increased 66 per cent. The Survey
of Secondary Education, which is just being completed, shows
that in literature a great many of our schools now use modern
reading. No longer do they use the classics exclusively which I
used in my day. No longer are these classics taken apart and a
discussion had on every construction and every figure of speech.
In 157 selected schools, it was found that George Eliot’s “Silar
Harner” was used in 56 of them, and this was by all odds the
most popular classic. “Julius Caesar” was used in 52 schools:
“Idylls of the King” in 45 schools; “Ivanhoe” in 44 schools;
and “A Tale of Two Cities” in 43 schools. Other than these five
classics, no standardized English classic was found in as many
as 40 schools out of the 57. This emphasis upon modern literature has led people to go to books and when they are unemployed, where can they read books better than in the public
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library?
But, if one should go to the art galleries in Washington, he
could find a different situation. The Freer gallery and the Corcoran gallery have certain days when the public is admitted free

same influx of the unemand I think the reason must be that
people, when they were boys and girls, did not have in-

of charge.

ployed
t’'ese

But he

will not find the

at these galleries,

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struction

m

line

and shade and color and the other things which

constitute art teaching.

During the past few years while I have been Commissioner
I have had to pass through the city of Chicago
frequently. Sometime I have had to wait for trains, and upon

of Education,

one of these occasions, when I had an evening to myself, I went
to the Music Hall and asked for a ticket to the grand opera. The
lady in charge told me that they were all sold out. But, upon
seeing my persistence, she said, “There are a few seats left in
I
the top balcony.”
I told her that I would take one of these.
paid for it exactly 5 cents, and I think I walked up about 00
steps. Between the acts of the opera I heard almost every language Polish, and German, and Italian but not Englisli.
What Americans there were m the Hall were in full dress and
They had paid probably
in the boxes and on the first floor.
$7.00 apiece for those seats. I had paid 5 cents to hear the
same opera. Why were there no American working men in the
gallery where I was at the same time?
They do not appreciate
great music. If, on the other hand, a moving picture theater in
Chicago had a motion picture and had advertised it “for adults
only” or given some other indication that it had a sex theme
behind it, you would have had “standing room only” in that
theater. But what difference is there between m.en in their ability to understand these two things? The sex impulse is one of
the oldest impulses in the race. It is understood by men of no
education, and by men of meager education, as well as by men
of fine education. But, if you take music, only a man with an exceedingly good education can understand Beethoven, and Wagner, and Verdi. The fact that Americans do not appreciate these
things is due to the fact that they are ignorant. When are we
going to support good music as it should be supported un'ess we
educate men and women for it ? And so today, I have to say
to you that when we go back to the fundamentals, we must go
back to instruction in literature, art, and music.
We also claim m our educational literature that one of the
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aims of the schools

is

worthy home membership, but when we

look at the curriculum,

nomics

we

find that there

curriculum, but that

in the

7

it

is

is

a

little

it is selected as an elective by a few of our
more important today than a knowledge of

body, and

what

is

home

eco-

usually required of nogirls.

Yet,

nutrition?

We have
numbers within
the last quarter of a century; and most of us have no more
knowledge of nutrition today than we or our ancestors did when
we lived in the country. One may eat a full meal of meat and
potatoes, and another full meal in the form of dessert
cake,
or pie, or apple dumpling. In the country we can work it off in
a very short time and no harm whatever results. People leading
a sedentary kind of life cannot live on such a diet.
We now
know that certain vegetables and fruit juices contain vitamins
necessary for our good health, but not even our physicians tells
us much about them. The people who have discovered them
and the people who know about them are home economists, and
yet what a small number of our high school graduates ever come
in contact with these sources?
I think home economics will be
required of every graduate of a high school by 950. One of
the courses which boys and girls should take is a course on the
We

are told that

moved from

we

dig our graves with our teeth.

the country into the city in large

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nutritive values of food.

they

And another thing which everyone of them should get, and
may as well get it in home economics as in some other

course,

is

a course on economic independence of the individual.

Nearly everyone today has frozen assets
I

am

going to

mystelf
I

pay

—

is:

move

Should

I

into a city, the

buy a house?

first

If I

in his

investments.

question

buy

it,

I

If

should ask

how much

part of a year’s salary, or a year’s salary, or

shall

two or
me and

How much should the house cost
be paid for? But if I cannot buy a house a certain
amount of my income will need to be saved. Should I buy life
insurance? How much insurance should I carry? Should I carry
a policy that matures only on my death for the benefit of my
three years’ salary?

how

is it

to

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relatives?

Should

children will be ready for school? These are

and

tions

if

when should

all

pertinent ques-

should not buy either a house or

I

buy bonds? Should

I

my

carry a policy that matures at the time

I

I

buy bonds

insurance

life

of the United

States Government, or of a State government, or of a local

government, or bonds of a corporation? What kind of a corit be?
When should I buy preferred stocks?
buy common stocks? I think this would be a
course which every boy or every girl could profit by at the present time.
I would have at least a year’s course in home econo-

poration should

When

should

I

mics required of everybody.
Physical education
to as a fad or

frill.

is

a course

know

I

which

is

sometimes referred

of a country high school

where a

grand jury, a few years ago, was holding an investigation.

They summoned

One
had a
man employed who did nothing but play with the boys. The
principal said that he had a man who devoted his time to phyand by showing the State law which required
sical education
this course 20 minutes per day, he saved himself from indictthe principal of the school before them.

of the jurors asked the principal

if

it

were true

that he

;

That grand jury certainly did not consider physical eduIt would not have been one of the fundamentals in any course which that grand jury approved. Yet,
how important is it that we have good bodily health? Good
ment.

cation important.

bodily health
httle

may be

retained either by the administration of a

medicine or by eating the right sort of food, or by taking

the right kind of exercise.

do not get enough
All of the

As we have come

to live in cities,

we

exercise.

important chores which

the country, neither of

my

I

performed as a boy

sons has ever had to do.

a spigot in the house for their water

—

pumped

They

in

turn

from a well
I chopped
wood for the stoves and carried it in. They push a button on
the wall for light
I filled and trimmed lamps every day.
We
do not stop to realize how much we have changed in our meth-

and brought

it

in.

They

—

I

it

turn another spigot for fuel

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ods of

But

living.

in

our high schools and

m

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our colleges,

events

;

one of these has much,

yet, not

adult

in

What man, who has been

life.

men

if

we

and track

put emphasis upon football, baseball, basketball,

any, carry-over value

a football star, can get

go out with him after office hours and play a
game of football? Tennis, which rates as a minor sport, as
shown in the National Survey of Secondary Education, attracts
fewer men than any of these other sports, is practically the only
game which has any carry over value. When are we going to
develop some activities of the sport type which will have carry2

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other

to

over value to the adult life?

Then we

talk

about education for citizenship.

the National Education Association at one of

lowing the

Civil

War

if

I

recall that

meetings

fol-

discussed the question of the United States

Some

Constitution as course of instruction.

thought that

its

we had had

of those present

the United States Constitution in the

schools there might not have been a war.

Some books were

and in
was suggested that it be memorized. A little later
when the trust issue came up and the fact came out that those
trusts were based upon the State Constitution and the State law,
we had books which emphasized the State law and State government as well as the National government. And then later we
had books on the city when we learned that certain problems
of government had produced graft m our city governments.
But today, we must get into government on a larger scale. The
National machinery is even more important to the average citizen than all of these other governments were to us.
What one of you has seen one hundred or two hundred
aeroplanes in military formation over a city and not been caused
to wonder what would happen if these planes were army planes
of an enemy and each one were loaded with all the poison gas
it could carry?
Every man, woman, and child in a modern city
would be wiped out of existence in a few minutes. Yet we still
published shortly thereafter containing
the preface

this Constitution,

it

talk of international citizensh’p in the

language of Washington,

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and Monroe. We talk as if we were still 90 days
away from Europe. We forget that since Lindbergh crossed the
ocean we are only 26 hours away and that if the experiments
now in progress in studying the stratosphere are successful we
shall probably be only five or six hours away from Europe.
Jefferson,

;

These are some of the questions to which I invite your
when we talk of getting back to the fundamentals.
The year 950 will be vastly different from Jackson’s time or
from 900. The fundamentals of today are the subjects which
prepare for a kind of a life we must live when we are out in the
attention

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world.

An
in

appreciative audience that well

Carver Hall, Friday evening, March

1

7,

filled

the auditorium

enjoyed the seventh

annual play tournament of the Bloomsburg Players of the Col-

and effectively
Eugen O’Neill’s well known play “He.”
There were four one act plays presented during the evening, each directed by a student member of the organization, and
each cast did such a fine piece of work that the task of the
judges was a most difficult one.
The award was made by Miss Alice Pennington, of Benton,
and Armond Keller, of Lebanon, alumni members of the organization, and Prof. E. A. Reams of the college faculty.
lege, honors going to the cast that so forcefully

•interpreted

In all but the prize

winning presentation, the judges picked

member of the cast doing the finest piece of work. In the
comedy “Joint Owners in Spain,” Miss Mary Beierschmitt, who
the

was selected. In Kendall Blanning’s newspaper play, “Copy,” Thomas Coursen was mentioned for his clever work as the stuttering reporter and in the
fantasy “Will-o-the-Wisp,” Miss Dorothy Lewis was mentioned
for her work in the portrayal of the child.
Gordon Cullen, president of the Bloomsburg Players, pregave a

fine

characterization,

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Other officers are; Vice President, Richard Smith; sec-

sided.

retary, Georgia Morris; treasurer,
ston, of the College faculty,

is

eral supervision of the excellent

The members

Tom

Davis.

Miss Alice John-

director of the club

and had gen-

program.

“He” were:

of the prize winning cast in

Steward, Bernard Young; Ben, Kenneth Merrill; Captain Keeney,

Richard Thomas; Siocum, John Shellenberger Mrs. KeenSamuel Cohen. Miss Mary Betterly was
;

ey, Harriet Sutliff; Joe,

the student director.

Miss Irene Hirsch directed “Will-O-the-Wisp” with the fol-

lowing cast: Country woman, Mildred Quick; whitefaced

Dorothy Lewis;

the

lady,

Thelma Krauss;

the

girl,

maid, Irene

Hirsch.

“Copy” in which action is confined to a newsand with an all-male cast, was directed by Howard
Bevilacqua. Those taking part in the play were Adams, Thom.as Coursen; Pratt, George Kessler; Thomas, Gordon Cullen;
Jimmy, Daniel Sallitt; Wilson, Jack Jones; Lay, John Krepich;
Baldwin, Edgar Artman.
The

paper

cast for

office

:

In sharp contrast to “Copy” the comedy “Joint Owners in
Spain” had a cast entirely of girls with Miss Priscilla Acker as
director. Members of the cast were: Mrs. Fullerton, Kathryn

John; Mrs. Mitchell, Sara Lentz; Miss Dyer, Clara Singleman;
and Mrs. Blair, Mary Beierschmitt.

The Spring Concert
Friday evening, April

of the Men’s Glee Club

7, in the

direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore.

gram included

was presented

auditorium, and was under the

spirituals, folk songs,

The first part of the proand chanteys. Mrs. Doro-

thy Everitt, soprano, of Espy, was the guest artist, with Miss
Frances Evans, ’33 at the piano. The second part of the pro-

gram was

a musical

comedy burlesque

of

“Romeo and

Juliet.”

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Commencement
A

Exercises

changing world changes the fundamentals of education.
John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Edu-

Dr. William

223 at the 64th annual Commencement
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The educator predicted that “the so-called frills of today will be the fundament950.”
als of education in
cation, told a class of

of the

1

The address, practical and timely, held the closest attenand relatives and friends who packed the Col-

tion of the class

lege auditorium in Carver Hall to witness one of the most im-

pressive

Commencements ever held by

the institution.

Only a little over an hour was required for the exercises
which concluded another year and marked the embarking of
the class on careers as teachers, 77 of them with degrees as
bachelors of science

m

education and the others with normal

school certificates.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the institution, after con-

ferring degrees

and presenting the

He spoke

certificates,

extended con-

good will
upon the class from all sides of the auditorium.
The head of the institution expressed the hope that above
any mere book learning the class was taking away with them
two things The ability to face the facts and come to an honest
conclusion and the ability to exert control from within over
their lives.
He closed by saying:
“I want you to know that the latch string of your Alma
Mater is always on the outside. Good luck and best wishes to
gratulations to the class.

of the pressure of

:

you.”

Headed by

the trustees and

members

of the faculty, the

class entered the auditorium as Alexander’s Orchstra

played the

processional.

The

trustees

in

attendance. Miss Effie Llewellyn, David

Glover, Paul E. Wirt, Joseph L.

Harry

S.

Townsend, Fred W. Diehl and

Barton, were seated on the platform with

members

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and the participants in the exercises.
David J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus of the
gave the invocation and Dr. Cooper followed with

the faculty
Dr.
tion,

institu-

his ad-

dress.

Miss Eleanor Swope, accompanied on the piano by Mrs.
John Ketner Miller, delighted with two beautiful violin solos,
“Prize Song” from “Die Meistersinger,” Wagner-Wilhemlj, and
“The Bee,” by Francois Schubert.
Receiving the lists of successful candidates from Dean of
Instruction W. B. Sutliff, Dr. Haas conferred the degrees, each
receiving diplomas at the time, and presenting certificates which
were distributed immediately after the exercises.
The exercises closed with the singing of the Alma Mater
and the recessional by the class.
Of the 223 graduates in the class of 1933 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, 24 ranked as honor students, having attained an average of two points or better throughout their
course.

Among

the candidates for the baccalaureate

—

degree
the
number, 14 ranked as honor students. They were: Zela N. Bardo, Millville; Melba C. Beck,
Millville; J. George Brueckman, Philadelphia; Frances L. Evfour-year students

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in

ans, B.'oomsburg; Charles F. Hensley, Parsons; Iva C. Jenkins,

Galeton

Laura G. Kelley, Northumberland Emily A. Landis,
Mechanicsburg Mary G. McCawley, Exeter; Charlotte E. Osborne, Kingston; Pauline E. Reng, Shickshinny; Carl G. Riggs,
Northumberland; Mary Freas Schuyler, Bloomsburg; and Har;

;

;

riet

Hartman

Among

Kline, Bloomsburg.

candidates

the

two-year students

Mabel Frances
burg; Dorothy

—

for

the

Belles, Wilkes-Barre;
L.

Normal

certificate

—

the

the following ranked as honor students

Ruth

L.

Lewis, West Pittston; John F.

Enders, Millers-

McHugh, Scran-

Emily A. Malkames, Hazleton; Mary V. Maloney, Lost
Creek; Samuel Sacus, Ranshaw; Margaret R. Sandbrook, Cataton;

sauqua; Louise A. Shipman, Sunbury; Evelyn M. Smith, Weatherly.

SOUTH CAMPUS
An

outstanding event

in the three

years of the Bloomsburg

Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, honorary scholastic fraternity, was
the observance of Founder’s Day, on Saturday, April 8. Features of the
in the

day were the address delivered

to the student

body

morning, by John Shambach, Superintendent of the Sun-

bury Schools, the

initiation of the class of five

officers in the afternoon,

and election of

followed by a banquet at the Lime

Ridge Inn during the evening.
Mr.

Shambach was received as an honorary member, and
members received were Edward Horne, of Sha-

the four active

mokin; Miss Grace Feature, of Pottstown; Miss Helen Wolfe,
of Espy, and Paul Brock, of Berwick.
The new officers are: President, Joseph Gribbin, of Dunmore; Vice President, Alfred Vandling, of Mifflinville; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Miriam Eroh, of Nescopeck
Historian,
Miss Sara Lentz, of Bloomsburg; and Treasurer, Miss Esther
Evans, of Bloomsburg.
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Members

15

of the Graduating Class
of 1933

CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREE
Abbett, Kathryn M.

Jones, Aldwin D.

Appleman, Ruth
Artman, William Edgar

Kafka, Albert J.
Keefer, Hazel F.

Bardo, Zela N.
Beagle, Thomas H.
Krauss, Eva C.
Beck, Melba C.
Berninger, Howard R.

Kelley,
Kester,

Laura G.

W. Fred

Kingsbury, Sheldon C.

Hartman

Kline, Harriet

Bittenbender, James

Krauss, Milton L.
Landis, Emily A.
Lawson, Lois

Brueckman,

Letterman, William E.

Betterly,

Mary
J.

E.

George

Busch, Mildred Anna
Byers, Chester W.
Coursen, Thomas S.
Cox, Charles N.
Creveling, Edna G.
Cullen,

James Gordon

Cuthbert, Bernice E.

Deppen, Helen K.
Derr, Wallace E.
DuBois, Grace A.
Evans, Frances L.
Evans, Ralph F.
Fowler, Fred W.
Getz, Karl L.

Gilmore, Dorothy E.
Greco, Frank J.
Griffiths,

Thomas

J.

Hartman, Thomas G.
Hartman, Vida H.
Hartzel, James W.
Hensley, Charles F.
Hidlay, Clarissa B.

Hileman, Dorothy E.
Hinckley, James L.

Hower, Wilbur

L.

Hummel, Woodrow W.
James, William L.
Jenkins, Iva C.

Lewis, John V.
Lewis, Ruth M.
Liptzer, Maurice H.
McCawley, Mary G.
McHenry, Ward K.
Mensch, June R.

Naus, Irene A.
Osborne, Charlotte E.
Parker, Robert B.
Paulus, Charles B.
Potter, Miles B.
Pyle, Marian C.
Reng, Pauline E.
Riggs, Carl G.

Rovenolt, Charles S.
Schuyler, Mary Freas
Shaffer, Margaret H.
Shepela, Alex J.
Snyder, Arthur H.
Stier, Walter H.
Strausser, Stanley C.
Timbrell, John Q.
Troy, Clair E.
Williams, James H.
Wolfe, Mary Helen
Yaretski, Walter
Yeany, Vivian A.
Yozviak, Leo V.

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CANDIDATES FOR THE NORMAL CERTIFICATE
Ackerman, Laureen M.
Ahearn, Mary C.
Albertson, Catherine M.
Allen, M. Bethia
Allen, Marjorie S.
Arey, Joseph R.

Gallagher, Catherine A.
Gallagher, Mary Grace
Gass, Larue E.
Gearhart, Anna M.
Gemberling, Violet C.
Giannina, Alda M.

Artman, Charles

Good, June R.

L.

Astelford, Bertha E.
Austin, Anna F.
Bangs, Donald E.
Barrall, Alice L.
Belles,

Mabel Frances

Benscoter, Eleanor E.
Berriman, Martha E.

Lucy

Bitetti,

F.

Bixler, Homer S.
Bixler, Mildred P.

Bohr, P.
Borsi,

Edward

Tosca M.

Boyle, Elizabeth T.
Brislin, K. Louise

Buckley, Mary L.
Burke, Elynor G.
Burns, Mary E.
Byerly, Florence M.
Carl, Mary M.
Carroll, Anthony F.

Griffith, Dilys E.

Hagenbuch, Jay

P.

Halkowicz, Jearl L.
Harris,

Naomi

R.

Harrison, Arthur H.

Hausch, Adelaide C.
Heiser, Evelyn M.
Heller, Dorothy N.
Higgins, Nan C.
Hirsch, Irene E.

Homiak, Anna M.
Hoinberger, Gertie R.
Houser, Creda F.

Hummel, Bessie M.
Jackson, Ruth L.
Jenkins, Mary L.
Jones, Marjorie L.
Keefer, Eugene M.
Greischer, Catharine C.
Kressler,

Martha

L.

Chapman, Helen M.

Kritzberger, Walter M.

Connors, Dorothy A.
Criswell, Dorothy A.
Danowsky, Harold M.
Davis, Joseph P.
Dean, Rita A.
DeFrain, Marion
Donaldson, Margaret E.

Lachowicz, Martha M.
Lamoreaux, Edna A.
Larish, Joseph L.
Laubach, Lois E.
Leiser, Anna M.
Lesser, Ruth M.
Lewis, Dorothy L.
Litzenberger, Frances
Long, Pauline M.
McDonnell, Helen F.
McGinley, Anne M.

Drennan, John J.
Dymond, Frances
Early, John A.
Edwards, Inez E.
Enders, Ruth L.
Evans, Thelma F.
Fisher, Sarah E.
Fowler, Ruth P.
Furman, Helen E.

Furman, Mary E.

E.

McHugh, John

F.

Malkames, Emily A.
Maloney, Mary V.
Mantz, Mae S.
Marr, Martha F.
Menges, Calvin W.

I.

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Margaret M.

Middlesworth, Lena E.

Sites,

Amos G.
Monaghan, Anne

Smith, Evelyn M.
Snyder, Violet I.
Stahl, Mary A.

Miller,

E.

Morgan, Robert P.
Moyer, Mary K.
Murzenski, Sabina C.
Musgrave, Claire M.

Strien, Gertrude C.

Strouse, W. George
Strunk, Catherine C.
Stryjak, Raymond
Stush, John J.
Styer, Harriet A.
Swalinski, Aleksander

Mary

Naples,

Neiss, Martina E.
Newman, Phyllis E.
Olash, Matilda E.

Petrilla,

Potson,

Emma

Thomas,

Pack, Josephine
Parr, Allen W.

Timbrell,

J.

Edna Louise

Van Horn, Marion
Wagner, Anna E,
Wagner, Edna M.

Stephen T.

Andrew

D.
Potter, Lenore D.

Wagner, Emily D.

Quirk, Catharine V.
Radel, L. Grace
Rembis, Anna A.
Roberts, Kenneth A.
Rokosz, Charles W.

Wary, Amelia A.
Watkins, Warren W.
Wenner, Kathryn E.

Rough, Isabell
Sacus, Samuel J.
Sandbrook, Margaret R.
Schild, Dorothy M.
Shanno, Alice J.
Shipman, Louise A.

Wildoner, Mary Louise
Wilkinson, Lorene G.
Williams, Edward R.
Williams, Sarah Arline
Worrall, Grace
Wright, Anna Mae

A
lege,

gala event

when

Walsh, Mary M.

was added

Saturday evening, April
that

it

IS

to the social calendar of the col-

was staged for the first on
and proved to be such a success

the Inter-Fraternity Ball
1

st,

almost certain to become an annual

The four Greek
sponsoring the

ball,

tion has held separately in the past.

were

affair.

on the campus united in
which replaced the dances each organizaletter fraternities

Gamma

The

fraternities holding the

Theta Upsilon Iota Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi Gamma Beta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi;
and Alpha Omicron Chapter of Alpha Psi Omega. The patrons
and patronnesses were Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, and Mr. and Mrs. John C. Koch.
ball

:

Delta Chapter of
;

;

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Ivy

Day

Against the sloping hillside of the college grove, the tradi-

and picturesque Ivy Day ceremonies of the Bloomsburg
were held Friday evening. May 26th.
The sylvan setting, freshened with a dash of rain that had
threatened but did not mar the program, has never been prettier.
Where in former years broken twigs and the leafmold of
the years have furnished the carpet, there was green grass this
year, and the entire grove appeared fresh and clean.
The ivy itself, to clamber and twine through the years, was
planted on the east side of Science Hall and near the rear.
The darkened skies of late afternoon and the touch of rain
tional

State Teachers College

came just before the scheduled start of the ceremonies kept
down the crowd to but half the proportions of former years,
and many elected to stand in prefernce to sitting on the ram
that

sprinkled bleachers.

As the long capped and gowned procession of 223 memmarched from the gymnasium to the

bers of the graduating class

grove, the slanting rays of the dying sun pierced the clouds,
in the south and east.
Behind the crowd the withering petals of dogwood strove

though they remained black

vainly to lend variety to the sylvan green.

The

conducted the program from the pergola,
which faced a rectangle along the sides of which ranged the
graduates, and at the uphill end of which were the bleachers.
class officers

Howard

Berninger, of Mifflinville,

president of the class,

opening the program, expressing his
appreciation to the members of the class for their accomplishments during their careers in the school. Likewise did he pay

delivered his address

in

which had motivated the class.
Day oration by Thomas
Beagle, of Bloomsburg, which touched on the symbolism of the
ivy and its lessons to life.
A number of dances from the recent May Day pageant
tribute to the unity of purpose

The

color song preceded the Ivy

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were under the direction of Miss Lucy McCammon. They were
given by Senior

Yeany

the

as

girls in

vari-colored costumes, with Miss Vivian

They were the “Balloon,” “Fairy,”
“Wind” dances.
then marched to Science Hall where the ivy was
pianist.

“Scarf,” “Flower,” and

The

class

planted.

Presentation of the spade
to

Mark

was made by Howard Berninger

Peifer, also of Mifflinville, president of the Junior class,

who pledged

the

members

of the

1934 group

to continue the

traditions that intertwine with the ivy.

The committee

in

charge of the event was composed of

Miss Margaret Sandbrook, of Catasauqua
of Berwick

;

;

Miss Louise Timbrell,

Misses June Mensch and Lois Lawson, of town.

The Ivy Day oration of Mr. Beagle follows:
“Madam chairman, faculty, classmates and friends
“
‘Whole ages have fled and their works decayed;

And

nations have scattered been.

But the stout old ivy

shall

never fade

From its hale and hearty green’.”
“The ‘hale and hearty’ ivy nothing could be more

—

as a symbol of the spirit of the class of 1933, for
ivy,

is

it,

fitting

like the

strong and healthy, ever reaching and climbing upwards

and aspirations; ever seeking to broaden the
by spreading its tentacles far and wide
to new and unexplored fields
ever enriching and making more
beautiful the place in which it lives,
“And, as today we plant this little green shoat of ivy,
separated from the mother vine, yet carrying the potentialities
of the stronger parent, so are we being torn from our Alma
Mater to be planted in many and varied places. And in our new
environment let us strive to keep living within ourselves those
capacities given us by our faculty, classmates, and four years
spent on College Hill
the capacity to grow into fullness of life,
to build in strength of character and to realize that our success
depends upon the success of each young mind given to us to
to higher goals

scope of

its

existence

;

—

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As Mother Nature tenderly nurtures this tiny twig
and intelligently develop these little minds

develop.
let

us watchfully

we

are privileged to cultivate.

we must
of our
wherever
go,
the
spirit
each one of us
take,
we
class. We must send our roots deeper and deeper into the roots
of our profession. We must fight to maintain the foothold it
now has especially at this time it is necessary to do everything
in our power to prevent education from taking a step backward
and to strive to regain and raise even higher its present status.
We must continue to grow not only along the lines of our profession but to branch out into other fields in order that we may
widen the margin of our learning, and broaden our social and
econom c views. And finally we must take with us the yearning
for good fellowship, the willingness to serve others, and a heart
cheerful, and sincere.
“Let us first choose carefully the soil for this new plant so
that the roots may take on a strong and firm foothold to serve
“In order to

—

fill

—

to the uttermost these capacities,

;

as a foundation for the developing vine.

Let us look to

its

sur

harmony with its habits
may it grow tall in its ideals,

roundings that they are agreeable and

in

and then having firmly planted it,
wide in its knowledge, rich and beautiful

in its

wisdom.”

Mr. and Mrs. David Howard Robbins of “Blue Gables,”
Bloomsburg, announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss

Grace D. Robbins,
cut.

to Philip A.

Kammann,

of Darien, Connecti-

Miss Robbms, a graduate of Bloomsburg Teachers Col-

is a teacher in the Darien High School, and Mr. Kammann
employed by the Highway Department of the town of Darien.

lege,
is

M'ss Ermine Stanton, training teacher of the
in

the

Benjamm

first

Franklin Training School, received

grade

word

re-

cently of the death of her brother James, at Winder, Georgia.

Mr. Stanton was killed

in

an automobile accident, when he was

blinded by the light of a truck.

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Class Night

Class Night

was

lifted out of the

those things on the College

category of just one of

Commencement program Friday

May 26, when about two score of the graduates presented a musical revue, “College Days,’’ written by one of the
evening,

George Brueckman, Jr., of Philadelphia.
Those who have been closely identified with Commence-

class, J.

ment

at the institute for

sentation
in their

was the

finest

over a score of years declared the preClass Night the institution has had with-

knowledge.

and
was written by
Lyrics that were most timeMr. Brueckman, except the music.
ly caused many a laugh from students and faculty, were aptly

The

entire revue, with the local College as the setting

familiar scenes as features of the production,

set to the

popular

A $200

airs of the

gift to the

day.

Student Loan Fund and

$200

to

the

College community chest constituted the memorial of the class

of

1

933 and were presented by Howard Bernmger,

vi'.le,

of Mifflin-

president of the class.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the institution, in his ac-

ceptance, said that the Student Loan Fund, to assist worthy

was started in 1893 by a
$3,200 and at the present time

$144. It has grown
35 students. In
all of this time not a cent of the fund has been lost. Regarding
the College community chest. Dr. Haas explained that the funds
received are used for things from which the College as a whole
derives the most benefit. A contribution to the fund by the
class of a year ago went to uniform the band.
Mr. Bernmger also presented the author of the night’s
success and Mr. Brueckman was given a big hand by an audistudents,

gift of

to

is

ence that

filled

assisting

the College auditorium.

The prologue found

the Class Day committee in session
endeavoring to plan the program. They tried songs, cheers and

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jokes with varying success.

Misses Emily

Wagner and Bertha

Then, turning to the popular faculty impersonation feature, worked out with some clever takeoffs of Prof. E. A. Reams, Prof. H. A. Andruss, Dr. Thomas P.

Astleford gave a tap dance.

Dean John

Koch, Prof. Earl N. Rhodes, Dr. E. H. NelThis was followed by a clever
song number devoted to the faculty and those pet mannerisms
so indelibly catalogued in the minds of the students.
North,

C.

son and Miss Jessie Patterson.

Then followed

the revue, one scene devoted to each year

of the College course.

Miss

A

splendid cast of principals, headed by

Mary McCawley and William Letterman,

of town, with Miss

Irene Naus and Frank Greco, of Catawissa, as the comedians,

song and dialogue of the lighter side of College life.
They were supported by a splendid chorus. Solo work
was ably handled by Misses McCawley and Naus and Messrs.
Letterman and Greco, each possessing a fine voice.
Miss Naus and Greco as a couple of Frosh got in some clever humor in the first scene. Then turning to the Sophomore
year, the “cases” were scored. Before the next scene the audience under the capable direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore with
Robert Parker at the piano, sang the Color Song and some of the
popular numbers of the day.
The third scene had the Junior Prom as the background
and was aptly captioned “All Pennsylvania Girl.” One of the
dance numbers in this scene, in which the girls wore chic costumes of orange, blue and green, was the leading chorus numtold in

ber of the night.
Following this series of scenes, all of which reflected talent
on the part of the author, came the clever scene of the revue.
It was entitled “River Road” and with the auditorium in darkness except for two flash light bulbs and a red light, the setting
left nothing to be desired and provided a situation that Miss
Naus and Greco made the most of in presenting another gem
of humor.
“Alma Mater” brought the fitting climax, the cast appear-

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and gowns and after a duet by Miss McCawIey and
Letterman that was a parting message of the class in song.
Supporting the principals were: John Timbrell, Miss Mary
ing in caps

and Daniel Salitt. The singing chorus
was composed of Misses Lenore Potter, Elynor Burke, Gertrude
Betterly, Robert Parker

Strein,

Frances Litzenberger, Charlotte Osborne, Lorene Wil-

and Grace Gallagher.
The supporting choruses were:

kinson,

Misses

Margaret Sand-

brook, Vivian Yeany, Irene Hirsh, Louise Timbrell, Frances Ev-

Wagner, Eva Krauss, and Iva Jenkins and Messrs.
Thomas Beagle, Gordon Cullen, Howard Berninger, Albert Kaf-

ans, Emily

ka Stephen

Petrellia, Milton Krauss,

Wilbur Hower, and Ken-

neth Roberts.
Lighting effects were by Maurice Liptzer, of Catawissa.

Miss Murray, Miss Moore and Miss

Faculty directors were:
Johnston.

Much was added to the presentation by the musical accompaniment provided by Carl L. Getz, violin, director; Robert
Parker, piano; Donald Hower, clarinet; and Woodrow Litwhiler,

trumpet.

The Freshmen
had their night and

Bloomsburg State Teachers College
most important social function of
the year staged one of the finest dances amid one of the most
colorful settings that has been held at the institution in recent
of the

in their

years.

A

rainbow

effect

of colors for the night.
ter

and they had the

transformed the gymnasium into a maze
Phil Guinard’s Orchestra

first

year class and their

was never

many

bet-

guests danc-

all evening.
Punch and cakes were served.
and Mrs. George J. Keller, the former faculty advisor of the class, were the sponsors and the patrons and patronesses were: Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Dr. Marguerite Kehr,
Dr. Roe, Prof, and Mrs. John C. Koch, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P.
North, Prof, and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Prof, and Mrs. E. A.
Reams and Coach George Buchheit.

ing to catchy tunes
Prof,

AIR VIEW OF THE CAMPUS
During the month of March, Miss Marian

Giles, expert on
on correct costuming to the women of the College. The opening program, given
March 7, was a style show, in which many of the students acted

problems of dress, gave a

The general

as models.

You?” The

man

girls,

series of lectures

topic of this

series of lectures

who were

The dates and

program was “What About

was given primarily

for the Fresh-

required to attend.
titles

of the remaining lectures were as fol-

lows: March 8, “Colors Preferred”; March 10, “Your Ensemble”; March 13, “Hair is Important”; March 15, “Accessor17, “What is Your Line?” March 20, “Fascinat“March 22, “Your Personality Type”; March 24,
“Extreme Importance of Extremities”; March 27, “Shall We
Make Up?” March 29, “Next to You”; March 31, “The Com-

ies”;

;

March

ing Fabrics”;

plete Personality.”
If

present plans are carried out. Miss Giles will

College each year.

visit

the

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Baccalaureate Sermon
“There are no more independent lives or independent peoples. We are all dependent on each other. What hurts one,
harms all. What lifts and glorifies one, raises all.”
This was the message delivered Sunday, May 28, to the
graduating class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College by
Rev. Samuel A. Harker, pastor of the First Presbyterian church,
of town.

The baccalaureate service for the sixty-fourth annual commencement was held in the auditorium in Carver Hall and was
well filled with relatives and friends of the class.
The class of 223 members, attired in caps and gowns,
marched into the auditorium singing the College processional
hymn, “Ancient of Days.” They were accompanied by participants m the service, some of the trustees and the members of
the faculty. All in the procession, except the class, were seated
on the platform. The student occupied a reserved section in the
front of the auditorium.

The invocation was given by Rev. Mr. Harker and the con“0 Worship the King,” Hayden-Grant.

gregation sang the hymn,

Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the College, read the Scripture

and Rev. Harker preached the sermon.
At

its

conclusion the Senior Girls’

Patterson director and Mrs.

J.

Chorus, Miss Jessie A.

K. Miller accompanist, sang

“The

Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away,” H. H. Woodward. The service concluded with the benediction by Rev. S. A. Harker and
the recessional.

The text was taken from Exodus 3:10
send thee that thou mayest bring forth
Egypt.”

will

Rev. Harker’s sermon follows
“My esteemed young friends, I
vilege to address

you on

this

deem

it

“Come now and

my

I

people out of

an exceptional

pri-

occasion because you are just be-

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life. How you accept these
and how you deal with your opportunities will
determine your place in the economy of this world. It is not the
advantages you may have nor the education you may possess
that will determine your success or failure; but whether you
accept your responsibilities and faithfully perform your tasks.
“It is to emphasize this truth that I have brought this passage from the Old Testament Scriptures before you at this time.
The man Moses with whom this bit of history is concerned, was

ginning to face the responsibilities of
responsibilities

trained in

all

the education of that highly developed civilization

Money and

influence could not secure for him more,
because he was as a son in the palace of a great and rich ruler.
Notwithstanding that advantage, at the time of the text, he
of Egypt.

was engaged

in the

menial labors of a slave, that of attending

the flocks of his father-in-law near the desert about Horeb.

Then God spoke to him out of the midst of a burning bush, designating him as the agent by which the promise to a former
patriarch was to be fulfilled.
“That day, Moses was made to see his opportunity, and he
accepted his responsibility, and, as a result, he marched out of
that desert to lead his people of the Egyptian bondage and record his name among the names of the world’s great. And I
should like to suggest that opportunities of grave importance to
yourself and to the future of your nation, awaits your decision.
I

am

not saying that you will transform the nation into a Land

of Promise; but

I

am

saying that

you are confronted with the

in

your day and generation,

responsibility of helping

it

in that

direction.

“Whether you accept or evade

that responsibility, will de-

termine the success of failure of your

human
which

history has

had so many of the

life.

No generation

to build a great civilization as the present one.

generation

we have

in

essential materials out of

In this

seen the rise of democracy, recognizing the

We

have

seen the development of modern science opening up vast

new

sacredness of personality and the rights of democracy.

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immeasurable enrichment of
comfort, convenience and progress to mankind. We have seen
the expansion of popular education until, not to the few, but to
the multitudes, there comes the opportunity for culture and
areas of truth, and bringing

training,

and the

But into

this

its

fitting of one’s self for the finer things of life.

highly favored generation has

of wistfulness that does not

seem able

come also a kind
way that sat-

to find the

isfies.

“Physically,
ically.
in

we

are

more

or less comfortable;

morally, socially, so restless and unsatisfied.

our day, we have seen men thoughtlessly turn

ulation of material

things, foolishly

believing

lead to the peace they have sought. So

but polit-

As a

to the

that

fascinating

result,

accum-

these

will

this

pur-

is

mere acquisition do men become, they
means and not an end in life.
At first, loving money for what it will procure of comfort and
culture, they have come to love it for its mere possession.
“No thoughtful person can look upon the shameless revelations of recent years, and not see the greatest reason for fear,
suit,

and so absorbed

in

forget that possessions are only a

that even integrity

may be

bartered

away

for gold.

And

can

any thoughtful person fail to see our present moral crisis as a
result? There is no need to indulge in sentimentalism, for the
bare facts make a shameful record. How heavy has been the
price paid in dishonor for simple greed for gain by a long list
of men, who had been held high in public esteem? We are
everywhere bui'ding greater, but in that process we are too
often forgetting to build

“We

build too

life.

much

by the possession of
all are measured by

inclined to think that success

things.

Manhood,

is

gained

social prestige, honor,

the material standard of values. Everywhere, men have spent much time and thought in dealing with
the problems of production and distribution, but have omitted
from their program the training of themselves in the wise use
of the things they seek to distribute.

young

friends, to lead

The

call

comes

your generation out of

this

to you,

my

bondage

in

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which it is held by its mistaken judgment of true values. Will
you thoughtfully assume your responsibility?
“Then in the second place, you are called upon not only
to take your part in leading your generation out of that bondage, but of leading it into a kind of world discovery. The task
which confronts not only you of this graduating class, but of all
young men and women of enlightenment of this age, is the common problem that has grown out of the economic and social
conditions that have overtaken mankind. Those who have cultivated the spiritual resources of life, can understand that the
cause of our present situation, is not so much material and physical, as it is mental and spiritual.
“Men are hungry, but there is no lack of food. Men are
inadequately clothed, but there is no lack of clothing. Men are
unemployed, but everybody knows there is work that ought to
be done. But we are dealing with the intangible factor of the
spirit of life and a state of mind with a cause that lies deeper.
We are in our present time of crisis fundamentally because
through many generations we have circumscribed our thinking
by the boundaries of our own national life. As a result we have
believed that it was possible to have a serene and satisfactory
life by living to ourselves. But we must know by this time, that
the whole world is related to us in one social and economic life.
“There are no more independent lives or independent peoples. We are all dependent on each other.
What hurts one,
harms all. And in this we come directly back to Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years ago. He told us these very

The realities of life in the twentieth century have
stamped the thoughts of Jesus upon our very being, and the
question before you is, whether you are going to understand the
unity of our common humanity, and help to form a world upon
things.

that foundation that Jesus laid

when he

said: “All ye are breth-

ren.’

ing,

“As a company of young men and women of understandyou will want to ascertain the meaning of your education

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all

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mankind. Our concern

ours alone, but the concern of every

man,

woman and

is

not

child in

Our problem is not simply that of feeding the
it is a problem that is not solved anywhere
until all the children of the world are fed. The time of thinking
that America can go on confidently and serenely independent,
that kind of thinking
no matter what happens to other nations
Your responsibility is to help your
ought to be left to the past.
generation in the discovery of this important truth, for you cannot afford to be little men and women in great days like these.
the world.

all

children of America

;

—

“Then,
tor of

all.

finally,

It is

I

call

to the underlying fac-

the claims of Christianity on you, for this

that contains the ideals

is

right path, nor force

your

way onward

‘Surely the future looks black enough,’ said Mr. Watter-

it.

son a few years ago

an editorial

in

in the Louisville

Journal, on the occasion of the fiftieth Christmas in
‘yet

it

and imparts the energies, without which

you can neither see the
in

your attention

it

holds a hope, a single hope.

arrest the descent

Democracy
“

is

and save

us.

its

Courierhistory,

One and one power only can

That

is

the Christian religion.

but a side issue.

‘The paramount issue underlying the issue of democracy

bed rock of civilization; the source
worth having in the world that is, and
that gives promise in the world to come. If the world is saved,
it is to be saved alone by the Christian religion.’
“These are the words, not of a minister of the Gospel, but
of an experienced newspaper man. My young friends, Jesus
Christ is the one solution of the world’s problems. The world
has not believed this, and as a result it has worked out all sorts
of political and social schemes, and trusted to a dozen devices
to bring in the Golden Age, but they have all failed. Now you
are going from this place into this world that lies before you.
It will be well to pause a while on the frontier before you cross
is

the religion of Christ; the

and resource of

its

all

that

is

borders, in order to ask yourself with searching honesty,

whose world

it is

and

to

what sovereign power you owe your

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Do not be deceived by a narrow-minded prejudice
which places exclusive stress upon material values, and thereby
allegiance.

starves the soul.

“This

is

not a world in which you are merely to seek for-

name and
fame.
It is primarily a world in which God’s commands are to
be heard and obeyed, and those commands are vibrant m every
worthwhile opportunity offered you. The tragedy of a life such
tune, pursue pleasure, or even to endeavor to achieve

as yours is to fail in what is expected of you, and rightly expected of you because of your exceptional advantages. There
are two factors which determine your responsibility; they are

same

combined to determine the responsibility of Moses
day as he watched his sheep in Horeb. They are
these The world’s need on the one hand and your ability to
meet that need on the other.
“As you enter the world with its bewildering confusion of
clashing interests; its light and darkness; its strife and discord;
its hopes and fears;
its stubborn questioning;
enter it determined to fearfully fill the place God has assigned you, and to
honestly assume the responsibilities that come to you in the line
of duty. That is all Moses the great leader of Israel did, and if
you hope to build a successful life, you dare not do less.’’
the

on that

that

far-off

:

The Junior Prom of the Teachers College, held in the gymnasium on Saturday evening, March
proved to be one of
the most colorful functions of the College year.
The gymnasium was transformed for the night with a
1

1 ,

beautiful decorative effect appropriate to the St. Patrick’s sea-

son and “Doc” Francis’ orchestra, of Sunbury, provided a pro-

gram

of dance music that delighted.
Overhead was festooning in white with Shamrocks on the
white streamers. The side decorations were of the same type.
Punch and small cakes were served during the evening.
The affair was one of the largest attended in some time
and there were many visitors here for the dance.

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Senior Banquet
In the beautiful College dining hall

where the majority of

many joyous hours of their
many events took place that

the class had spent so

and where so

reers

college
in

ca-

years to

come will be the cherished memories, the class of 1933 of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College assembled Wednesday evening,

May
As

24, for their banquet.
their guests

were members of the faculty

with the class and

tified

its

closely iden-

history, including the four

who had

acted as faculty advisors.

The banquet
the

is

Commencement

alwa 3^s one of the outstanding features of
season, principally, perhaps, because

it

is

where the class is assembled alone with faculty members; an event where the College atmosphere is more
predominant than for any other of the Commencement exerthe lone function

cises.

Tom

Coursen was the toastmaster and he did a splendid
moving through the serving of a

piece of work, keeping things
delicious dinner

lowed.

Dean W.

Howard

and during the delightful program which
B. Sutliff gave the invocation.

Berninger, of Mifflinville, president

of the

fol-

class

and introduced as a president “who has fulfilled his obligations”
answered the call of the toastmaster.
The class also heard briefly from the four advisors, described by Coursen as “those who have set the sail of our class
through College.” They were Miss Jessie Patterson, Freshman
advisor; Dr. Thomas P. North, Sophomore advisor; Howard F.
Fenstemaker, Junior advisor, and Dr. E. H. Nelson, Senior advisor.

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

gave a
on the development of educational commencements. The evening closed with the singing of the Alma

much enjoyed
Mater.

talk

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Class officers in addition to the president are: John McHugh, vice president; Thomas Hartman, treasurer, and Lenore
Potter, secretary.

The
class

1

7th volume of Obiter, publication of the graduating

of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,

among

the finest volumes of

its

takes rank

kind ever published at the local

institution.

The Obiter
green and silver

is

handsomely bound

in

of the cover carried out

elaborately illustrated.

The events

green leather with the
in the

volume which

is

of the College are treated

and followand Summer, pictures of the gradu-

as to seasons, opening with the activities of the Fall
ing through Winter, Spring

ating class and a

list

of the activities of each being included in

the latter season.

The most of the cover is in dark green. At the bottom
and on a light green background is “Obiter 1933” and
same manner “The Obiter, Vol 7.”

silver

the

in

in

1

The volume
the most popular

is

dedicated to Miss Ethel A. Ranson, one of

members

of the College faculty.

The book was edited by Carl G. Riggs, of Northumberland; with Woodrow Hummel, of Rupert, business manager.
Other members of the staff were Howard Kreitzer, Mechanicsburg; Miss Mary Betterly, Bloomsburg; Miss Charlotte Osborne, Wilkes-Barre; Arthur Knorr, Drums; Miles Potter, Old
Forge Miss Ruth Appleman, Benton Frank Greco, Catawissa
Lorene Wilkinson, Kingston; Gordon Cullen, Berwick; Edgar
:

;

;

Artman, Yeagertown;

Naus, Fern Glen; Walter
Mensch,
Bloomsburg; John
June
Timbrell, Berwick; Miss Mary Furman, Northumberland; Miss
Laura G. Kelly, Northumberland; Thomas Griffith, Centralia;
Miss Vivian Yeany, Bloomsburg; William James, Wanamie.
Stier,

Wilkes-Barre;

Miss

Miss

Irene

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Banquet

Athletic

Paying tribute to Bloomsburg State Teachers College as
“a school that has made athletics an educational advantage for
all,” Dr. F. W. Maroney, professor of physical education, Columbia University, speaking at the third annual athletic dinner
of the institution in the College dining hall Saturday evening.

May

20, declared that bodies cannot be kept
observing but only by doing.

fit

by reading or

As the College paid tribute to its men and girl athletes in
an event that was probably the finest thing of its kind ever held
there despite the success of the two athletic dinners previously
staged, a number of features were presented including the introduction of Fred Jaffin, of Berwick, football captain-elect and
Ernest Valente, of Hazleton, basketball captain elect, and the
giving of hundreds of athletic awards.
But one thing that in the minds of many in attendance will
outlive all others was the announcement by Dr. Francis B. Haas,
president of the institution, of the splendid tribute paid last Fall
to

George

C. Buchheit, varsity

coach, by

members

of the Col-

_ege football squad.

At the close of a season, that based merely on the percentage of games won and lost would not have been regarded
as very successful, there

a letter signed by 25

was presented to the College president
members of the squad in which they

thankd Dr. Haas ‘‘for providing such a fine coach,” adding that
no one could have inspired them to greater accomplishments
than Buchheit
field.”

of the

whom

they termed

‘‘a

man both on and

The College president said he concurred in
squad. The letter was made public for the

off the

the opinion
first

at the

banquet.
Miss
ly,

girl

Mary

Betterly, daughter of Mr.

of town, received the

student of the year

award

and Mrs. I. M. Bettermost outstanding

for being the

in athletics.

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Members

of the board of trustees, the college faculty, day

students and others were included in guests with almost a score
of former varsity

men

in

attendance.

dining hall was practically

The

large

and beautiful

filled.

was
were

R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association,
at his best as toastmaster.

Seated at the speakers’ table

Waller, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Haas,

Mr. and Mrs. R.
Bruce Albert, Dr. Maroney, and Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson.
The program opened with the march from “Aida,” Verdi,
by the College Orchestra, under the direction of Howard F.
Dr. D.

J.

Fenstemaker which provided a splendid program of music durDr. Waller, president emeritus, gave the invo-

ing the evening.
cation.

Miss Harriet

Moore

led in spirited

conclusion of the dinner led

m

group singing and at the

the singing of the Color Song,

written by Dr. Haas and Mr. Fenstemaker.

and certificates to varsity letextended a welcome to those in
attendance at a dinner which he said was to honor both those
who had participated in inter-collegiate and intra-mural athDr. Haas, in presenting keys

ter

men and chevrons

to girls,

letics.

He made announcement of the award to Miss Betterly and
men and girls, stating that the gold keys
given varsity men were presented by the Men’s Letter Club.
The College president declared “we sincerely believe in
of the awards to the

the right type of athletic

velop

it.

We

program and are doing our best

are here tonight fundamentally because the

to deinsti-

board of trustees with a sympathetic understanding
of the administration’s program and they are backing it to the
tution has a

”

limit

!

Dr.

Haas introduced Harry

Barton; Fred

W.

and A. W. Duy,
Albert Duy,

Jr.

S.

Barton, a trustee, and Mrs.

a trustee and Mrs. Diehl,
town, a trustee, and Mr. and Mrs.

Diehl, of Danville,

Sr., Esq., of

Some

of the other guests

were

also presented.

Mr. Albert presented Dr. Marooney, former director of

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physical education of the Atlantic City schools

35

;

New

sioner of physical education of the State of

former commisJersey; former

president of the National Physical Education Society and at the

present time professor of physical education at Columbia University.

Speaking with a conviction that instantly caught and held
Maroney, in a message that was replete with
humor but filled with worthwhile and thought provoking inforhis audience. Dr.

mation, brought to the fore the necessity of physical education.

Referring to the

dynamo

as that

which carried the peak

load of electricity, the speaker likened the

dynamo.

The body

is

human body

put together with great

skill

to the

and

is

to

carry the load physically, mentally, morally and spiritually.

He spoke
life

of the ease with which

it

carries the load in early

but of the fact that without care the body later breaks

down

Urging that each one do each day what he
knows should be done to keep in condition, the speaker said

under the

strain.

that unless the physical

machine

is

kept moving

it

becomes

rusty.

Likening the parts of the body to those of an automobile,
the speaker said that invariably
is

scrapped

in a

more care

is

given to a car that

three year period than to the

body which must

carry the load a lifetime.

Touching on what will constitute good schooling twenty
years from now. Dr. Maroney said that he would give students
all the academic studies of today but he would also give them a
program of good health.

The students need initiative and he suggests that they get
They will never make a gentleman out of a cheat
but they will give boys and girls an opportunity to measure up
it

in athletics.

things so essential in

He would teach

life.

tolerance to the rights of others and the
must come if we are to have the world a
place of unity. Speaking of the danger of over emphasis in
athletics. Dr. Maroney said there is one type of athlete who does
social graces that

36

nothing wrong

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in the

letter of the

law but something that

is

queer as to the spirit of the sport. He spoke of the other type
which measures up.
He congratulated the athletes and said he would like to
judge them by the job they are doing 0 to 15 years from now.
1

Closing with Henry VanDyke’s, “This is my work, my blessing
not my doom,” the speaker added “I bow to a school that has
made athletics an educational advantage for all.”

Miss Lillian Murray made the presentation of the numerand Miss Lucy McCammon the presentation of the “B“ to
the girl students. Miss McCammon thanked Dr. Haas for his
als

understanding of the B Club.

Coach Buchheit presented the football and basketball
awards and called upon captains of teams during the past year
to present the captains-elect, Leo Yozviak presenting Captainelect Jaffin, of football and Walter Yaretski presenting Captainelect Valente of basketball. Awards in cross country, and track
were presented by J. C. Koch who explained that inclement
weather had caused so many tennis postponements that awards
in that sport could not be made. Receivers of all awards during the night stood when their names were called.
Mr. Koch spoke of the splendid services Frank Kostos, a
graduate of Bucknell and a football star there, had given at
Bloomsburg during the past year, where he was a student. He
assisted in the coaching of football and did many other worthwhile things. In appreciation for these services the Men’s Letter
Club and some others presented Kostos with a leather jacket.
Dr. Nelson, chairman of the faculty committee on athletics,
welcomed back the former athletes and introduced those at the
speakers’ table. He said the athletic program of the institution
is aimed to give all an opportunity to participate in athletics who
desires to do so. He said the institution believes it is worthwhile, that they have provided a good program and hope to do
bigger and better things in the future.
The presiding officer led in cheers for Dr. Haas and for

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Miss

those

who

37

assisted her in the preparation of the

delicious dinner.

The Music Week feature at the College “A Day in Venice,”
was very beautifully presented by the Girls’ Glee Club before
an appreciative audience
evening.

May

in

the College auditorium, on Friday

5.

The girls were assisted in the presentation by Miss Eleanor
Swope, violinist; Miss Frances Evans, soprano; Karl Getz, violinist; Robert Hartzell, pianist, and the College Orchestra.
The program follows:
Triumphal March of the Boyards
Halversen

The Orchestra

May

Bells are

West

Ringing

Serenade

Drigo-O’Hare

Country Gardens

Treharne

The Glee Club
Prize

From

Song (from Die Meistersinger)
the Canebrake
Miss

The

Who

Wagner-Wilhelmj
Gardner

Swope
Rogers

Star
is

Sylvia

Schubert

The Swan

Saint Saens

The Glee Club
Heaven Hath Shed a Tear

Kucken

Miss Evans, Mr. Getz, Mr. Hartzell
Soul Star

Bantock

Galway Piper
Rest Thee on This Mossy Pillow
The Glee Club
Andante, from Surprise Symphony
The Orchestra
Cantata, A Day in Venice
Marche Militaire
The Orchestra

Fletcher

Smart

Haydn
Nevin
Schubert

May Day
Fortune and the weather
annual

May Day program

man

smiled

down upon

the sixth

of the Benjamin Franklin Training

School and the senior gymnasium classes of the Teachers’ Col-

Wednesday, May 7, on the athletic field. With a natural
background of trees and green fields, the setting was charming.
Birds and fairies, the first harbingers of spring opened the
entertainment to the strains of the Spring Song. These kindergarten and first grade children danced upon the green with blue,
yellow and red colored wings and caps. The senior girls followed them.
The May Day processional with the crowning of the queen
was the spectacular event. Winding from the Light Street side
lege

1

of the field towards the dais

came

the tiny flower girls of the

on which the queen
Marian Underwood, the queen, carried a shower bouquet of carnations and her long white train was carried by Bobbie Allabaugh and Hobart Heistand, the pages. Maids to the
queen were Jean Kuster, Mary Lou Dillon, Mary Haas and Shirley Appleton and they were costumed in pastel colors. Attendthird grade, scattering flowers over the path

followed.

ants to the queen, the sixth grade

girls,

followed as did the

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other grade children. Before the dais the procession halted, the

queen was crowned by her pages with a chaplet of flowers and
together with the Maids took her place on the throne.
Miss Harriet Moore directed the singing of the training
school children in four songs: The Field Daisy, Spring Grasses,
In the Trees, and The Strawberry Fair.
The senior girls, in green, danced the balloon dance as
Water Nymphs. A Waltz Study, by the fifth grade children,
dressed in green and yellow, and a scarf dance by the senior

came next.
The dance of the clouds, winds and the aeroplanes, by the
first grade boys and children of the second grade, was one of
the more amusing though none the less delightful. The girls, as
clouds in billowy dresses of blue and white, waved their way
onto the field. The boys, with arms outstretched as aeroplanes,
weaved through the clouds. The senior girls concluded the numgirls,

ber with a dance of the winds.

No May Day would be complete without

flowers and in

Jean Neisley, Beverly Hower, Patsy Nelson, Athamanthis Communtzis, Elizabeth Ryan and the senior girls danced
their honor,

Dance of the Flowers.
The fourth grade was represented in the Dance of the Villagers. The girls were costumed in many colored dresses and
aprons and the boys in overalls and they danced the country
dance in pairs. To one side the senior girls danced the same
dance as the children.
The May Pole winding, in which all took part, brought to
a conclusion one of the prettiest May Days ever held at the College. Seventeen May Poles with multi-colored streamers were
wound and unwound.
the

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Friends of Teachers Colleges Organize
“An

organization of citizens representing the State Teach-

ers Colleges

and pledged

to use their best

endeavors to safe-

and College communitis solicits the support and cooperation of the Alumni of all the
Colleges in legislation that will in any way aid in the usefulness
of these worthy institutions. In the interest of your Alma Mater
you are urged to keep in touch with the Secretary of this organization, who will supply data and keep you posted on the plans
adopted for rendering service when needed. Be prepared.
Write at once to Harry L. Cooper, Secretary, Edinboro, Pa.”
The organization, known as the Pennsylvania Schools Asguard the

interests of the several Colleges

sociation, has issued the following statement

The Pennsylvania Schools Association was

or-

ganized to promote the interests of the Pennsylvania
State Teachers Colleges.

It

will consist of a Central

Committee made up of three members from each of
the fourteen Teachers College districts, and a local
branch to be organized from the Service Clubs, Alumni and interested citizens of each district.
We need every alumnus of all the Teachers Colleges, your moral and financial support. These institutions must be preserved for the benefit of our public school system.
If you believe in our “common
people’s colleges” sign the membership blank and
help insure their advantages for the coming generation of boys and girls who can not afford the higher
priced institutions.

At a recent meeting of the Bloomsburg Rotary club, H. V.
White, chairman of the committee named in Bloomsburg’s interests, gave a report of the work thus far done by the Pennsylvania Schools Association.

This organization

is

composed of

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representatives of the thirteen communities of the state in which
state teachers’ colleges are located.

Mr. White’s report of the second meeting of the association, at

Lock Haven, reflected the

no time

in getting

colleges

is

down

fact that the organization lost

to business.

The cause

of the teachers’

being espoused by the alumni associations of the vari-

ous colleges, which have a membership of over 60,000 throughout the state.

Other plans already well organized promise that Pennsylvania will soon become familiar with the part the state teachers’
colleges play in the educational

life

of the state.

Mr. White emphasized the necessity for every one of these
colleges

on the

and every community

in

which one is located keeping
been ended and indif-

job, because the fight has not yet

ference would be serious.

The report indicated that no association more quickly
formed in the state has gone further in advancing the cause in
so short a time as has

this.

Bloomsburg was represented at this meeting by H. V.
White, of the Rotary club; W. L. White, of the Kiv/anis club and
Leo Schneider of the Business Men’s Association.

The Alumni
Alumni ave earnestly requested to inform Professor Jenkins
changes of address. iMany copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at
the add: ess on our files.
All

of

all

Officers of the

President

—

Ahmni

Association

R. Bruce Albert. ’06, Bloomsburg.

Vice-Presidents

—

Dr. D.

J.

Waller,

Jr.,

’67,

Bloomsburg;

0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg.

Secretary

—Edward
—

Treasurer

F.

F.

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg.

H. Jenkins, ’76, Bloomsburg.

—

Executive Committee
Fred W. Diehl, ’09, Danville; Mrs.
W. Funston ’85, Bloomsburg; Maurice F. Houck, ’10, Berwick; Dan el J. Mahoney, ’09 Wilkes-Barre; Harriet Carpenter,
C.

’96,

Bloomsburg; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg.

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ALUMNI MEETING

A

charter incorporating the Bloomsburg State Teachers’

College Alumni Association was presented by H. Mont. Smith,
Esq., of town, one of

association

m

its

members,

at the annual

connection with the Alumni

Day

meeting of the
activities,

and

by-laws of the corporation were approved.

There were 700 graduates of the institution present in the
auditorium in Carver Hall when reports were made of contributions of $400, mostly in cash, to the Alumni and Trophy Room
Fund with promises of much larger contributions because some
of the classes

had not acted on the matter

H. V. White, of Bloomsburg, a

at that time.

member

of the State organ-

any of the teachers colleges
spoke of the work that has been accomplished and urged that
the alumni become organized and actively interested in the
work. R. Bruce Albert, president of the graduate body and presiding officer, urged county organizations as one of the most
effective means of marshalling the power of the Alumni.
The class of 933 attended the meeting in a body and
attired in caps and gowns, presented a check of $207 for dues
of the class in the association and announcing a contribution of
ization to prevent action eliminating

1

$200

to the student loan

fund as part of their memorial.

Just preceding the meeting a film

was shown

in the audi-

torium so that the alumni might witness the sound motion picture equipment installed during the past year.

The gathering was perhaps the most

colorful in the history

908, gaily bedecked in the
class colors, paraded into the auditorium headed by small bands
recruited for the occasion from the College musical organization.
of the association.

Classes, such as

1

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus of the institution,

gave the invocation. Seated on the platform with the presiding
officers were: Prof. 0. H. Bakeless, Dr. Francis B. Haas, Fred

W.

Diehl, Philip

E. Elwell.

Drum, Mr. Dewitt, H. Mont. Smith and George

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The 933 class entered at the start of the session and
Thomas Hartman, treasurer of the class, presented the check
1

for

Alumni dues and

told of the gift to the student loan fund.

Mr. Albert, on behalf of the organization, said the Alumni was

deeply grateful for

this

fine

support and promised the funds

The class was voted into membership, sang the Color Song of which Dr. Haas and Howard F.
Fenstemaker are the authors, and retired to the dining hall for
would be used with

discretion.

an early lunch.
Charles Hensley, president of the College Community Government Association, extended a welcome to graduates, told of
the work of the association and said new projects during the past
term had been the organizing of fire drills for the entire campus and the creation of a student welfare committee. Four College students, Charles Cox, Karl Getz, Howard Berninger and
Don Hower, forming a saxophone quartet, delighted with three
selections.

President Albert spoke of the four Alumni projects of the

increased interest in the quarterly publication which
growing rapidly; an increased amount in the student loan
fund; completing payment for furnishings of the Alumni and
Trophy Room and organization of the Alumni in the various
present;
is

counties.

Mrs. Florence Cool, of Philadelphia, moving spirit in

of Bloomsburg”
was responsible for that organization.
The report of the treasurer, F. H. Jenkins, presented by
Mr. Fenstemaker, showed a balance of $678.40. Prof. Jenkins
was in attendance at the luncheon and was warmly welcomed.
the Philadelphia organization, said the “spirit

D. D. Wright, president of the student loan fund, reported

$3214.46 in addition to the gift of the class
1933 with 35 students now being given aid. Prof. 0. H.
Bakeless reported as treasurer of the Alumni and Trophy Room
the fund totalled

of

of

the

progress being

made

with furnishings

at

$3644.09 and with unpaid subscriptions and pledges
totalling almost the $1252 remaining to be paid.

a

cost

of

of the day

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Haas introduced as the one largely responsible for the
among the Alumni told the graduates “we feel
today is your day and the trustees and faculty believe we should
be known by our work and not by what we may say today. You
are very welcome. An institution is primarily judged by its
alumni. Otherwise it has no meaning. We hope you have a
good time.”
Dr.

increased interest

Mr. Smith presented the charter and told of the steps that

have been taken

to secure

it.

A

vote of thanks was extended to

H. G. Teel, master in the proceedings
tary;

aid

;

H. N. Gunther, prothono-

and Carl H. Fleckenstine, register and recorder, for the
they have given.
The by-laws were submitted and

approved.
Mr. Smith announced the following as directors of the corporation, three to be elected each year in the future: Mrs. C.

W. Funston,
less, F.

Miss Harriet Carpenter, D. D. Wright, 0. H. Bake-

H. Jenkins, Dr. D.

Albert and

The

Edward

class of

introduced and

its

J.

Waller,

Jr.,

Fred W. Diehl, R. Bruce

F. Schuyler.

1867, with a 100 per cent attendance, was
members. Dr. Waller and G. E. Elwell, were

given an ovation.
Mrs. Ida K. Mausteller, of town, was the only one of the
18 members of the class of 1878 in attendance.

Three members of the

class of

1883 were

there, Charles

R. Powell, of Scranton, reporting and introducing John Conner,
of Trenton, N. J., and Rev. Karshner, of Dallas.
They gave $8
to the

Trophy Room Fund.

Of the 52 members of the
present.

nounced $33

W.

class of 888 ten members were
Crow reported and Mrs. Annie Nuss ancash and $2 in pledges for the Trophy Room.

Rev. H.
in

1

I.

R. Bray, of Freeland, reported for the class of 1893,

which has 1 18 members, 41 of whom have since passed away.
There were 30 in attendance. The class organized the scholarship fund and was the first to hold an entertainment in renc-

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vated Carver Hall.

They pledged $100, $28

of

which was

in

members

of

cash.

Albert Nichols, of Wilkes-Barre, reported 35
the class of

1

898 back with $38

in

cash for the Trophy Room.

H. Walter Riland, of Brooklyn, N. Y., responded for 1903

which had 21 of its original 55 back. There have been six
They pledged $50. Prof. Bakeless announced this class
started the art fund which since has invested $10,000 in art
works on display at the institution.
Thomas Francis, of Scranton, reported 43 of the class of
908 back. There have been 0 deaths. William Rarich, of
Audubon, N. Y., reported $33.50 for the Trophy fund.
John Bakeless, of New York City, reporting for the class
of 1913, said that class of 160 was the first to have some of its
members graduate from the four year course. They had 35
back with $50 in cash and pledges.
Charles Wolfe, of Gettysburg, reported 43 of the class of
1918 back with $18.50 in cash for the Trophy Room Fund.
Mrs. W. E. Evans reported
6 of the 267 members of the
class of
923 in reunion. There have been nine deaths. They
had not acted on the fund at the time of the meeting.
The class of 1928 had 40 back with Tom Welsko, of Freeland, reporting. They had taken no action on the Trophy Room.
James Davis reported 38 of the 233 members of the class
of 1931 present. This class made a substantial contribution to
the Alumni Trophy Room fund at the time of graduation.
Mr. White told of the Bloomsburg community and State
deaths.

1

1

1

1

1

organization to prevent elimination of the teachers college.

He

spoke of the need of support by all and said that the danger was
by no means removed by the adjournment of this Legislature.

He

said

56

educational institutions of the state are organized

against the teachers colleges and that the support of

protection of the State institutions

is

vital.

all in

the

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ALUMNI BANQUET
“You may confidently
and

rely

upon our wholehearted support

active participation in the fight to present the discontinu-

ance of

Bloomsburg State
by H. Mont. Smith, prominent attor-

institution,” authorities of the

this

Teachers College were told

ney of Bloomsburg, and a member of the class of 1893, who
addressed almost 800 graduates at the Alumni Day banquet.
In one of the finest Alumni Day addresses ever presented

and one that was most timely in the face of
some of the State Teachers Colleges abandoned by the State, Mr. Smith, on behalf of the Alumni declared
“we pledge you our utmost cooperation in all matters pertaining to the welfare of this college; and especially do we now
pledge you our utmost efforts to defend this college against the
at the institution

recent efforts to have

real peril that

now

threatens

its

very

life.

“This college means far more to

community than
spiritual value

—

its

—

who from

its

students.

It is

its

made up
all

this

has a
of

all

those

made up

Alma Mater
made up also

high morale. This

composite personality

of the youthful hopes

all

its

It

very beginning to the present time have

this intangible

of

value.

and beloved personalities of

contributed to maintenance of
of ours

alumni and to

a sort of composite personality

the noble, self-sacrificing
teachers,

its

mere physical or material

—

is

and dreams, ambitions and
of

all

ideals of

the cherished sentiments, hal-

lowed memories and grateful affection of its alumni. We know
that It has been in the past and we confidently believe that it
will be in the future, one of the most potent and far reaching
powers for good to all with whom it or its graduates come in
Its continued existence is something worth fighting for.
would be a monstrous disaster to this community, to its
graduate body and to the entire commonwealth.

contact.
Its loss

“To

would be utterly imOur Alma Mater’s cherished memories and all that
constitutes its intangible personality and spiritual influence is
poss:ble.

establish a substitute elsewhere

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48

to be torn up by its roots
and transplanted elsewhere. One might as well try to remove
Bunker Hill and its cherished traditions to Coney Island.”

something too fine and too delicate

He

referred to the

state are facing

—

of

crisis

all

the teachers colleges of the

the threat of extinction

—and spoke

of the

organization of the people of Bloomsburg against such a move.
Continuing, Mr. Smith said ‘‘As Alumni, we, too, must

organize

m

defense of

this college.

We

have already taken a

step forward today by giving to our association the stability of

We

have an estimated body of
To this may be added as
many more thousands of students of the past, who, though they
did not graduate, are just as loyal as we and will gladly respond
a regular corporate existence.

graduates of at least six thousand.

to our call for help. This association counts among its members
former students scattered over all this state and elsewhere. Each

of

whom

of

its

and her respective community can exercise a
powerful influence upon our legislators and in opposition to the
program of our enemies.
‘‘If we can but stir to action, crystallize, organize and coordinate the Alumni body, we shall have a fighting force of inestimable power. We shall live to see many, many more joyful
Alumni Days. If we fail to do so, we may in a few years lose
forever this beloved institution with all its hallowed past and ail
in his

hopeful future.

am

not alarmed.

have

awaken

in you a
and how
great will be the loss, if we fail to rally to its support. Out of
the smiling yesterdays of the past our Alma Mater has greeted
and welcomed us today. At the same time and with an expression of deep concern and anxiety she points to the uncertain,
‘‘I

new

apreciation of

what

threatening future. Shall

I

this

we

tried only to

school

means

to us all

not pledge her our utmost loyalty

and undying devotion in any line of service that she may ask?”
Although the Senior class had lunch early, the large dining
hall of the College was filled with graduates for the dinner. The
College, always a delightful host to its alumni, had never made

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better preparation than did Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the
institution,

its

and students for

faculty

A number

feature of the day.

this

were seated in various
were appropriately decorated with class
colors. Of all the classes that of 1903 was the most active in
the dining hall. They wore paper hats and used noise makers
with much enthusiasm as well as cheering and singing a song.
of the classes in reunion

parts of the hall which

R. Bruce Albert, president of the organization, presided.

Miss Harriet Moore led

spirited

in

orchestra, under the direction of

singing

Howard

F.

and the College
Fenstemaker, pro-

vided a program of music during the serving of the dinner.

Drum, Esq., of Wilkes-Barre, executor of the estate of E.
Drum, late of Bloomsburg, announced a gift of from $75 to
$100 from that estate to the Alumni Memorial and Trophy
Room. Eight members of the graduating class entertained with
songs concerning prominent faculty members, that having been

Philip
J.

one of the features of Class Night the preceding evening.
Mr. Smith’s splendid address was the feature of the pro-

gram which closed with

the singing of the

Alma Mater.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF
THE BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Basket Picnics

SATURDAY—JUNE

17th.

Valley Forge picnic grounds on the

Come any time
SATURDAY—JULY

of the

hillside.

day or early evening.

15th.

Willow Grove Park

SATURDAY—AUGUST

—Grove

No. 3.

19th.

Grounds of the Westtown School for
Chester County.
of Tennis Courts,

Racquets and

Come

—600

Swimming and

balls. Baseballs,

Girls

acres to play

Boating.

Quoits

—Westtown,
in.

Privilege

Bring Tennis

— anything

to

amuse

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Motor out West Chester Pike
(Route 5) to Pumping Station. Turn left onto cement
road and follow signs to Westtown School.
Any alumnus who has no way of preparing a basket is
specially invited to take supper with us at any of our picbig and

little

boys and

girls.

nics.

Look

for the

SATL'RDAY—SEPTEMBER
A card party on the
home

Bloomsburg Banner
16th.

lawn

—Washington Gardens,

Edwina Wieland Brouse’s

at

Norristown, Pa.

Monthly Luncheons
These delightful meetings

Room

of Gimbel’s Restaurant

day beginning October

1

—

—

will

—

be held

in the

Paul Revere

7th floor on the second Satur-

November

4th, then

—

1

1

th

—December

January 13th
February 10th
March 10th.
meetings are informal. Luncheon A La Carte.
Come out and meet your old school friends.
9th

Jennie Yoder Foley, 08, Sec.

Florence Hess Cool, ’88, Pres.

8134 Hennig Avenue

1

12 N. 5th Street

Fox Chase, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Thanksgiving

By

Ellen Isabella Tupper
SjS

For

all

that

God

in

^

^

mercy sends

For health and strength, for
For comfort

in

home and

the time of need.

For happy thoughts and pleasant
For guidance
For

all

These

in

our daily walk.

these things give thanks.

talk.

friends.

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For beauty

in this

51

world of ours.

For verdant grass and lovely flowers.
For song of birds, for hum of bees.
For the refreshing summer breeze.
For hill and plain, for streams and wood.
For the great ocean’s mighty flood.

For

all

these things give thanks.

For the sweet sleep that comes with night.
For the returning morning’s light.
For the bright sun which shines on high.

For stars that

sky

we

0

to thee.

Lord, our hearts

And

An
nor does

we

lift

see

give thee hearty thanks.

From

the Writing of John

Wanamaker

old-time Friendship or Fondness never loses

its

gloss,

ever cease to do the heart good.

it

How
of the

glitter in the

For these and everything

delightful

little

youth with

it

is

well-doing
his

to take the

girl,

grown

honest manliness

hand and look

to

womanhood;

— every

in

the face

or the fine

inch a gentleman.

and to the classes
do the most and the best in building

Stick to your old friends, old teachers,

where you learned how
your

to

life.

Don’t neglect your earliest true friends.

THE SPRING BANQUQET
Another, the third, annual banquet and reunion of the
Philadelphia Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teach-

Gold Room at Adams, 3th and Spring Garbrought out a fine gathering of loyal and enthusi-

ers College in the

den

streets,

1

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52

They came from

astic alumni.

far

and near to spend an evenand teachers. In gratitude

ing with their dear old school friends

these alumni spoke of their President, Mrs. Florence Hess Cool,
’88.

In these

days of unemployment and financial

distress,

it

took no small amount of courage on her part to attack the job
of rallying her alumni family together for their annual meeting,

and what an

inspiring meeting

it

was

!

Men and women grown,

forgetting the responsibi’ities and discouragements of the day,

were, for the night, happy, joyous, care-free boys and

girls, re-

newing the friendships of their youth, and reliving the memories
of their happy school days at dear old Bloomsburg.

The evening opened with music by the ladies orchestra,
conducted by Katherine O’Boyle (daughter of Hannah Reese
O’Boyle, ’88). With Dr. and Mrs. Haas, Dean and Mrs. Sutliff,
Dr. and Mrs. Seely, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Fritz leading the procession the alumni took their places at the tables according to
class.

Edward Houseknecht,

C.

Ned’’ at West

affectionately

Chester State Teachers

College,

termed “Uncle
where he has

been head of the Music Department for a number of years, requested the assemblage to repeat with him the pledge of allegiance to our flag. Then he led the singing of America and Our
Alma Mater. A poem, “Thanksgiving’’ by Isabella Tupper, was
then read by Mr. Herman Fritz, our toastmaster, who is superintendent of the Pottstown Public Schools. A mighty fine dinner was then served.

At the conclusion of the meal, Mr. Houseknecht, seated

at

the piano, in his inimitable style, led the group singing favorite
songs.
This feature was very much enjoyed, and voted all too
short.

A

short business meeting, with re-election of

was then

held.

A

brief acceptance speech

same officers
was made by our

President, Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, a part of which follows:

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I

in
I

have often been asked why

organizing

this

group.

My

I

was

53

so interested

reply has been, because

love and always have loved everything that savored

Bloomsburg and a deep gratitude for all that
Bloomsburg School, its contacts and influence have
meant to me. Some years ago I asked my mother
why every seed and plant she put in the earth grew
and thrived, and I couldn’t seem to grow anything.
She smiled, and quietly replied “I guess you must put
of

a

little

love into

know it
your Alma Mater,
made this gather-

In our organization

it.”

has been the love you have for

I

and your school friends, that has
ing such a fine one each year. I trust this loyalty and
unity of purpose will keep our group together for
many years to come. I desire to thank my fellow
officers for their wonderful help and support.
A beautiful basket of flowers was then presented to Mrs.
Cool by the other officers.
Mr. Herman Fritz was then introduced as Toastmaster and
The honor of being the oldest
roll call of classes followed.
Alumnus present went to Mrs. Nell Kolb Smith, ’84, who came
with her two daughters, Margaret, ’13, and Helen, ’12. The
Class of 1918 brought out the largest representation. The largest family representation went to Dr. and Mrs. Fred Sutliff with
their four children. Indeed Dr. Sutliff and his gang contributed
much to the enjoyment of the evening at their table. From a
distance came Mane Bailey, ’02, Fairmount Springs, Pa., Sarah
Ferber, ’09, Scranton, Pa., Robert Sutliff, ’30, Laketon, Luzerne Co.,

came

the greatest distance.

In introducing Dr. Haas, the Toastmaster

rendering a service wide

in

the signal honor of having

been reelected President of the Penn-

sylvania Educational Association, the
in its sixty

man

years history.

of his character

and

spoke of him as

scope, and his having just received

first

The College
ability as

its

is

time this has occurred
fortunate in having a

head, and with his won-

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54

derful corps of instructors the continued success of our

Mater

is

Alma

assured.

he was proud to represent an
He spoke of
that very intangible something which one takes away from an
institution
in this instance known as “The Spirit of Bloomsburg” enabling the Philadelphia Association, which is unique
of its kind, to be formed. What one thinks of most after leavIn his talk Dr.

Haas

told us

institution that could inspire so fine a gathering.

—

ing school

is

not buildings or course of study, but

it is

the teach-

and the enduring friendships, as Mr. Fritz stated “Bloomsburg stands for enduring friendships.” Another thought he gave
us was the desirability of cultivating in ones self the ability to
form a true judgment by being willing to wait until all the facts
are in. and then without prejudice form an opinion.
Dean Sutliff was then introduced, and gave us the story
of the wonderful love existing between two brothers which was
responsible for the location of the Temple of Friendship. We
are glad to give our contribution to the Bloomsburg Temple of
ers

Friendship.
Dr.

Leslie B.

Seely,

Germantown High
followed Dean
were touched as he

Principal of the

School and a prominent educator

in Philadelphia,

with “Reminiscences.” Our hearts
spoke of our beloved Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., regretting his
absence, and referring to him as “the Grand Old Man of Blooms-

Sutliff

burg” whose influence in building men of ability and character
has meant so much to the youth attending Bloomsburg. We find
Bloomsburg graduates among the finest citizens everj^here in
our land.
Fine tribute by every speaker, and the Alumni, was paid

and the members of the “Old Guard” as well as to
Haas and the present faculty.
We were grateful to Dr. Haas for coming and bringing so

to Dr. Waller

Dr.

many

of the faculty with him.

We

are sorry

we

cannot give

the talks in their entirety, because each one brought a special

message.

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we cannot mention

are sorry

all

55

the letters, telegrams

and messages by phone expressing regret at not being able
be with us which were received, all of which showed interest

to
in

the success of the Association.

The balance

of the evening

was devoted

to visiting

and

dancing.

There were about

1

50

The Association has
ing of

J.

attendance.

in

two valuable members in the passHoward Patterson and Fred W. Bragg (husband of
lost

Martha Herring Bragg, ’08.)

REPORT OF F. H. JENKINS, TREASURER
OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
May
Balance on hand,

Alumni Dues

May

1932 to May 25, 1933
RECEIPTS

20, 19-32
to

— Receipts 6054

Interest on Savings

Total

20,

$

6790 inclusive

Account

886.76
939.00
9.65

Receipts

$1835.41

EXPENDITURES
Printing Quarterly, 4 issues
Quarterly Envelopes and Subscription Blanks

Postage

Stamped Envelopes for Alumni Fund Acct.
Clerical

Work

Commission to Editor
Commission to Business Manager
Tax on Checks
0. H. Bakeless for Trophy Room
Ralph Phillips, Picture
Total

Expenditui’es

Balance on Hand May 25, 1933
Checking Account
Savings Account

$ 439.76

32.50
47.49
3.28
82.60
50.00
50.00
.38

450.00
1.00

$1157.01

$526.90
151.50
$ 678.40 $1835.41
F. H. JENKINS, Treasurer.
We have examined the accounts as represented by the above
and find them to be correct:
Auditing Committee:
Aula F. Holter
C.

M

Hausknecht

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56

“TROPHY ROOM”

Following

Room Fund

to

is

Trophy

the report of the treasurer of the

May

15,

1933.

RECEIPTS
May

Cash on hand as per last report
Payments received from May 15, 1932 to May 15, 1933
Loan from Quarterly Fund
_
Loan from Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Co.
15, 1932,

$

3.92

419.50
450.00
286.00

$1159.42

DISBURSEMENTS
Dec. 8, 1932 W. H. Dunkelberger, Furnishings
$
Jan. 20, 1933, W. H. Dunkelberger, Furnishings
April 5, W. H. Dunkelberger, Furnishings
April 5, Creasy & Wells, Showcases and Glass
May 9, R. B. Albert, on account of Geo. Creasy
April 5, 0. H. Bakeless, Postage & Expenses
Interest paid on loans at Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia County Trust

Co

44.30

Payment on account of loans
lumbia County Trust Co.
U.

S.

at the

Bloomsburg Bank-Co384.00

Revenue on checks

.10

Total Disbursements

May

15,

192.00
100 00
226.50
187.92
10.00
14.43

$1159.25

-

1933 Balance of cash on hand

.17

ASSETS AS OF MAY

15, 1933:
Furnishings as per May 15, 1933 at cost
Furnishings purchased during year
Cash on hand

$2937.50
706.42
.17

TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES AS OF

NET WORTH

$3644.09

MAY

15,

1933:

Quarterly Fund
Total

$2392.09

*

Loans owing as May 15, 1932
New Loans made:
Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Co.

$1300.00
286.00
450.00

$2036.00

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Less:

$400.00
Alumni Fund Loan cancelled
Payment on loans at the Bloomsburg
$384.00
Columbia Trust Company

784.00

TOTAL LIABILITIES

$1252.00

BAKELESS,

0. H.

Treasurer.

Examined and approved;
Paul C. Webb
C. M. Hausknecht.

STATEMENT OF JUNE
The

classes holding reunions on

May

1,

1933

27, 1933, contributed as

follows

Cash by Classes

From Members

$

of the Faculty

Cash, Other Sources

6.17

Total

$

Indebtedness on

May

27.

180.00
40.70
806.00
450.00

Securing Charter

in Bloomsburg Bank and Columbia Trust
Loan from Quarterly Fund

Notes

Total
Total indebtedness on June 1, 1933
Pledges made before May 27, 1933,
Class

1879
1886
1894
1899
1905
1906
1910
1912
1915
1920
1925
1927
1929

204.67

1933

One New Trophy Case
Bill for

183.50
15.00

$1476.70
$1272.03
still

unpaid
$

2.00
7.00
41.50
3.00
62.50
44.00
99.00
80.00
4.00
80.00
4.00

212.00
15.00
Total

Unpaid

$

654.00

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58

Sources of Funds

From

$2129.32

Classes

Other Sources:
Contribution from Quartery Fund
$400.00
20.00
A. A. U. W. (Pearl Mason, Treas.)
* Members of faculty, honorary members of
Alumni Association but not graduates of B. S.
T. C.
29.00

Unknown

.33

Accumulated Interest

7.56
10.55

Special

$ 467.44
Total
$2596.76
^Contributions of members of faculty who are graduates of B.
S. T. C. are counted with their respective classes.

1867
was that of 867 which had a
perfect attendance, both of its members. Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,
president emeritus of the College, and George E. Elwell, former
trustee and Alumni president, being in attendance.
The

oldest class in reunion

1

1878
Mrs. Ida K. Masteller, of Bloomsburg, was the only one

back of the class of 878 which numbered 8 members. She
had a fine time and attended the luncheon with one of her former pupils, S. J. Johnston, of Bloomsburg, whose class of 1893
was in reunion.
1

1

1880
Lina E. Faulds lives

formerly instructor

in

in Latin

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

and Greek

in

Miss Faulds was

the Wilkes-Barre High

School, and retired from that position in 1917.

H. G. Supplee,

cago,

who

Illinois, invites his

lives at

6143 Milwaukee Avenue,

classmates

who

Century of Progress Exposition to get in touch with him.
comfortably located.

will see that they are

Chi-

expect to attend the

He

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59

1882
Mr. Frank E.

2205 W. Fourth

who had been

Hill

St.,

was found dead

Williamsport, Pa.,

unable to rouse him

in

by

in the

bed

his

at his

home,

daughter, Cora,

morning.

Because of

a bad heart condition, he had not been able to engage in any

and one half years, but had appeared to be in his usual health on retiring the night before.
Mr. Hill was born in what is now North Berwick, the oldest son
of Daniel A. and Mary Martz Hill. He was educated in the
schools of Salem Township and following his graduation from
B. S. N. S., taught school in Luzerne County. He was connected
with the Reading R. R. in Philadelphia for several years. He
was married to a Normal friend. Miss Gertrude Sprague, of
White Haven, Pa., who died in 1921. Soon after marriage, he
went to Chicago, with the Chicago and Northwestern R. R. In
900, the family moved to Tunkhannock, Pa., where he was
active

work

for the past four

1

signal inspector for the Lehigh Valley R. R. for 13 years.

He

was a car inspector for the New York Central R. R. for the past
6 years, which position he held at the time of his death. Mr.
Hill was a member of the Lycoming Presbyterian church, of
Williamsport, Pa. He is survived by two daughters, Eloise E.
who is teacher of French and Spanish in the Clayton, N. J. high
school, and Cora G., with whom he resided, who is a depart1

Abraham

mental teacher

in the

Because of the

illness of Eloise,

Lincoln school in Williamsport.

who was

confined to her bed

with influenza, the funeral services were held from the Knight
Funeral

Home on January

7th, in

charge of the Rev.

C.

Alfred

Underwood, pastor of the Lycoming Presbyterian church, and
interment was made in the family plot in East Wildwood Cemetery at Williamsport, Pa.

Mr. Hill was one of the few members of his
tended the 50th reunion at B. S. N. S. last May.

One

brother, Charles W., also survives him.

class,

who

at-

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60

1883
There were three members of the class of 1883 back for
reunion. They were: John G. Conner, of
Trenton, N. J., Charles R. Powell, of Scranton, and Rev. L. W.
their fiftieth year

Karshner, of Dallas.

1885
Louis P. Pierly lives at

Mr. Bierly

is

925 Exeter Avenue,

M. Cockill (Mrs. G. H. Wilcox)

Sallie

Pittston, Pa.

agent for the Fire and Marine Underwriters.
lives in Kyle,

W. Va.

1886
After thirty-eight years of service as a teacher, thirtyfive

years of that time having been spent in the primary grades

of the Bloomsburg schools,
at the close of this term.

Mr''-.

Annie Snyder Mausteller retired

Mrs. Mausteller

first

taught in Espy in

The following two years, she taught in Frosty Valley,
and then entered the Bloomsburg schools, where she taught
until 1911. In 1920 she returned to the schoolroom to render
thirteen more years of service. In recognition of her work, the
Board of Education passed a motion expressing gratitude for
1886.

her splendid services to the children of Bloomsburg.

David

L. Glover, of Mifflinburg, a

member

of the Board of

Trustees of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, has been

appointed one of Union County’s members to the State Emergency Relief Board.

Emma

M. Fisher (Mrs. Martha H. Thomas)

lives at

2214

Chestnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Nolan H. Sanner lives at 913 Mifflin Avenue, Wilkinsburg,
For the past two years he has been the Pastor of the Mifflin
Avenue Methodist Church at Wilkinsburg, and serves a congregation of over eleven hundred members.
Pa.

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Grace A. Leacock

lives at

61

43 Virginia Terrace, Forty

Fort,

Pa.

1888
The

888

had a most delightful
45th year reunion.
It began by their being invited to a “get together” meeting at the home of Mrs. Annie
Supplee Nuss, 250 West street, one of the members of the class
on Friday evening. The following were present together with
some of their former teachers and friends Mrs. Ella Kitchen
Sands, Benton; Rev. George Faus and Mrs. Minnie Kitchen Faus,
of Centralia; Mrs. Adah Yetter Clapham, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Norman Cool and Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, of Philadelphia; Dr.
and Mrs. Ambrose Shuman, of Catawissa; William Lowenberg,
B.oomsburg; Prof, and Mrs. Jenkins, Prof. Albert, Dr. Waller
and Dr. and Mrs. Haas, Bloomsburg.
Saturday morning at 9 o’clock they met again in room B
at Carver Hall on College Hill. The following were there in addimeeting

class of

1

of the college

at their

:

tion to those

who met

Friday evening: Mrs. Lizzie Lewis Price,

Mrs. Sallie Palmer, Wilkes-Barre;

Mr. and Mrs. F. 0.
Maurer, Frackville; Mrs. Mary Taylor Jones, Scranton; Rev. H.
I. Crow and daughter of Bethlehem, making a total of
3 memPlains;

1

52 back after 45 years. Twenty-one of the
class passed away and letters were received from several of the
members who could not be present: Mrs. Hattie Richardson
bers of the class of

Gordon, of Norwalk, Cal.
Mrs. Margaret Petty Beatty, of
Hackettstown, N. J. W. T. Magee, Bethlehem; Mary S. Wendt,
;

;

Catawissa, sent greetings to the class, and a telegram was received during the banquet from Ed. J. Dougher, of Midlands,
Mich. The class gave $35 towards the Alumni room. After the
meeting they marched to the auditorium where moving pictures
were enjoyed, followed by the general alumni meeting.

Among

who have passed on since the last reunion
Ringler Evans, of Cleveland, Ohio, who never
missed a reunion since graduating, and B. Frank Meyers, of
Wilkes-Barre.
were

:

Mrs.

those

Ada

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62

After viewing the alumni room and other places of interest
they disbanded to meet again in 5 years, one hundred per cent,
strong if possible.
Harriet Richardson

(Mrs. John Gordon)

lives

at

1530

North Second Street, Norwalk, California.

Margaret Pell Petty (Mrs. Herbert D. Beatty) lives at 719
Washington Street, Hackettstown, N. J.
Owing to the illness of
her husband, Mrs. Beatty was unable to attend the forty-fifth

reunion of her class

this year.

1892
Sue Creveling (Mrs. G. W.

Miller, Jr.) lives in

Weatherly,

Pa.

1893
One of the most active reunion classes was
which had thirty members back for their fortieth

that of

year.

1893

Among

those at the enjoyed atfair were:

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Thomas, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs.
John A. MacGuffie, West Pittston; Elizabeth Foresman, Montgomery: Charlotte Beardslee, Dallas; Mrs. W. F. Hosie, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Laura A. Brower, Herndon; Louise Benson, Tunkhannock
Florence E. Bachman, Wilkes-Barre
Mrs. Mabel
Hawk Anthony, Nanticoke; Edna Huntzinger, Cleveland, 0.
Mrs. Kate Parfit, Nanticoke; I. A. DeWitt, Sunbury; Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Johnson, Bloomsburg; Harry R. Brubaker, Halifax;
Mrs. Charles Hess, Benton; Mrs. Maude Anderson, Wyoming:
Martha Powell, Bloomsburg; Alice Fenner, Allentown: Mrs.
Eleanor W. Roderick, Jane Huges, West Pittston; Maud E.
;

;

;

Zarr, Nanticoke;

Mrs. Edith H. Coon, Kingston;

Minnie Pen-

man, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Wm. L. Davies, Scranton; Mrs. J. N,
Echenbach, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. J. F. McDowell, Jenkintown.
M. Elizabeth McNinch

York

City.

Law

firm.

Miss McNinch

is

lives at 141 West 93rd Street, New
employed as Secretary with a Patent

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Josephine Zarr (Mrs. Charles Hess)

Laura A. Romberger (Mrs. John

L.

63

lives in

Brower)

Benton, Pa.

Hern

lives in

don, Pa.

1894

Howard

J.

Patterson, United States Commissioner for the

Philadelphia Federal District since

1929, died Monday, April

24, at his home, Cresmont Farms, Torresdale, after an
lasting a

illness

month.

Mr. Patterson was born April 18, 1876, at Milford, N.

and spent most of

his

burg.

was

His father

boyhood and young manhood

in

J.,

Blooms-

the late Rev. Isaac M. Patterson,

who

served for several years as pastor of the First Presbyterian

Church of Bloomsburg.
After his graduation from Bloomsburg, Mr. Patterson attended the Law School of Yale University and was graduated
in 1898. He then engaged in the machinery business in New

York
port.

1906, when he began the practice of law in WilliamsHe went to Philadelphia to continue his practice in 1916.
He IS survived by his wife, Mrs. Gabrielle Patterson, and
in

two daughters. Miss Jeannette

F.

Patterson and Miss Frances

Patterson.

Mr. Patterson was a moving

spirit in

the organization of

Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. He promoted the motorcade of Philadelphia
graduates back to the College at the time of the Alumni reunion
last year. At that reunion he remarked: “You can count upon
the Philadelphia

my

returning for next year’s reunion.”

Funeral services were held from his late

home on Wednes-

day, April 26, following which the body was taken to Milford
for burial.

Euphemia M. Green

lives in

Englewood, Florida.

1896
Elizabeth V. Miller (Mrs. Frank P. Eyer)
Street, Millersburg, Pa.

lives

on State

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Gertrude Miller (Postte)
Nuys, California. Mrs. Postte

lives at
is

4289

Knobhill Drive,

Van

a teacher in the schools of Los

Angeles.

1897
Grace Lendrum (Mrs. John H. Coxe)

lives

in

Norwalk,

Ohio.

1898
There were

back

35th year reunion of
day one of the finest
have
ever
Among
they
had.
those in attendance were:
Auber J. Robbins, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Luther H. Brown,
Washington, D. C. Sarah H. Russell, Watsontown; Elizabeth
C. Foresman, Montgomery; Chas. W. Derr, Riverside; Mrs. S.
L. Richards, Weston, W. Va.
Ira Cherrington, Allentown; Elmer Levan, Catawissa; Gertrude Rinker, Prospect Park; Mrs,
the class of

1

thirty-five

for the

898 and they declared

that

;

;

Charles A. Austin, West Pittston; Mrs. William Haas, Mt. Car-

mel; Mrs. Guy Evans, West Pittston; Mrs.
ville;

West

Mrs. Laura Landis Behney, Freeland;
Pittston;

J.

W.

Biddle, Mill-

Mrs. A. MacGuffie,

John M. Thomas, Kingston; Charles Beardsley,

Dallas.

Anna Sandoe Hake
Atlantic City, N.

1899
149

lives at

St.

James Place, Apt. 26,

Mrs. Hake’s daughter, Elizabeth

J.

has just completed the

work

S.

Hake,

of the junior year in the four year

secondary curriculum at Bloomsburg.
F. F.

Brent lives at 74 Logan Street, Lewistown, Pa.

1900
Dr. G. E. Follmer died at his

home

m

Bloomsburg Saturday

April 22, after an illness of five months with a complication of
diseases following pneumonia. Dr. Follmer

medicine for twenty-six years, fourteen of

had been practicing
which were spent in

Bloomsburg.

He was born

in

Fishingcreek Township, Columbia County

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He attended

65

Bloomsburg State Normal School after
graduating from a select school in Benton, and teaching for two
years in Columbia County. Following his graduation from college, he taught for four years, and then attended Illinois Medical College and Jefferson Medical College, graduating from the
in

1875.

latter institution in

the

1907.

in Berwick for seven months and then moved
where he practiced for eleven years, before
moving to Bloomsburg in 1919. Since residing in Bloomsburg,
he took two years of work at Harvard in 1926 and 1927 under
Dr. Richard C. Cabot, and graduated from the Philadelphia Op-

He

to

practiced

Orangeville,

tical

College in 1931.

was a member of the Columbia County Mediand the American Medical
Association. He also belonged to the Methodist Church, was a
past master of Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., at Orangeville, was
a member of the various bodies of Caldwell Consistory, and was
Dr. Follmer

cal Society, the State Medical Society,

a

member

of the

Woodmen

of the World.

Surviving are his wife and two daughters, Vera and Winifred and also by five sisters and one brother.

1901
Adele Altmiller (Mrs. G.
Cedar Street, Hazleton, Pa.

F.

Burkhardt)

lives at

154 South

Rebecca Moyer (Mrs. E. A. Ziegler) lives at Mont Alto,
where her husband is in charge of the Forest Research Institute. From 1919 to 1931, Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler lived in New
Orleans, Louisiana, where the former was employed in the
Pa.,

United States Forestry Service.

1902

Amy
at

B. Smethers, a teacher in the

305 East

1

1

th Street, Berwick, Pa.

Berwick schools,

lives

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66

1903
Looking not a day older and bubbling with the same spirit
and pep that have always characterized the Class of 1903,
twenty-one of its members tripped back to Normal Hill, May 27,
to greet

one another, reminiscence wistfully over good times, and

was doing in the College these busy, modern days.
who went was more than compensated for the
trip, as it was a day full of interest and pleasure, one long to be
remembered for the delightfully courteous treatment given us
by the College staff and for the good fellowship that comes from
rubbing shoulders again with former classmates and old friends.
The day was warm and sunshinny, just as Reunion Day
should always be, much of its charm resulting from being able to
stroll about on the campus pack the bleachers for the ball game,
and enjoy the gayety of the flowers and the songs of the birds
see just what

And

every one

that fair

weather so greatly enhances.

clock struck nine,

through the

groups of

all

halls to the various

And

just as the

Chapel

ages could be seen trouping

rooms assigned

to

them

for their

class meetings.

Our class went to Room H, which, you’ll remember, was
where Professor Bakeless worked hard to instil in us the rules of
pedagogy and the ideals of true teachers. And Professor Bakeless, who looked as young and animated as ever, had not only
not forgotten us, but paid us a fine
after President Riland

had reported

tribute in

the

auditorium

for us in our turn.

ing to his feet, he said, “Yes, that class

was not only

Jumpand

spirited

peppy, but they did something for which they should be highly
they started the Art Movement in the school by

commended

—

money they

be used for the buying of
$10,000 had
been contributed for similar purposes.” Did that bring smiles
of approval and delight to our faces?
I’ll say so.
But I’m getting ahead of my story.
Walter Riland, our
designating that the

pictures to decorate the halls.

president,

As soon

was there with

his

left

Since then, over

wife to greet us

all

as

as the excitement of greetings subsided a

we

little,

arrived.

he

call-

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67

ed the meeting to order and expressed his pleasure at seeing such
as follows
a goodly group assembled, the roll call showing 2
Laura MacFarlane, Etta Schatzle Horlacher, Mary Hayes, Carrie
Hicks, Anna Patten, Elizabeth McCullough Moorish, L. Ray
Hawk, Grace Housel Church, Mildred Krumm Barndt, Ora Fleming Levering, Jessie Raup Lloyd, Flossie Rundle Chase, Nellie
Sweppenheiser Worman, Edith Patterson, Laura Landis Behney,
William DeLong, Harold Jameison, Charles L. Albert, Abraham
Rarich, John R. Miller, Walter Riland.
1

Tbis

number was increased

wives, children and friends.

charming young daughter
heiser
er,

Worman, her

her nice

fine

to over thirty

Jessie

,

with husbands,

Raup Lloyd brought her

just out of college;

Nellie

Sweppen-

looking son, and Etta Schatzel Horloch-

little girl.

First of all

we

stood

m memory

of those of

the class

who

had

died. Bell Burr, Lucy O’Boyle, Katherine James, Rosetta
Kramer, William Snyder and Z. R. Howell.
Then letters were read from Frank Humphreys of Birmingham, Ala., who had planned to make the trip north for the Reunion but who had to change his arrangements because of improved business conditions, he being in charge of material inspection for the Southern Railway System from Mary Kelley,
prevented from going through the illness of her mother; and
from Edith Gresh Kitt, who was obliged to take another trip.
Funds were collected to reimburse the president for money
;

spent in connection with the Reunion.
And the sum of $50.00
was pledged to the Trophy Room Fund, to be paid within six
months.
Of this amount, $2 .00 was collected and paid at
once, the Treasurer being instructed to invite the members of the
1

class not present to subscribe to the fund.

was decided to have Charles Albert start a Round-Robin
and send it to the next one in the alphabetical list, that
person to send it to the next, and so on.
The idea is to have
each add a little to the letter, telling something of interest about
herself or himself.
The hope was expressed that no one would
It

letter

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fail

upon receiving it and then to send it
of the members and complete directions will accom-

to continue the letter

A

on.

list

pany the

letter.

We were honored

by having Professor

Sutliff

and Professor

Hartline attend our meeting and each responded most graciously to

an invitation from President Riland

fessor Sutliff told of the high type of
at present,

it

having given B.

to

speak

work done

to us.

Pro-

at the College

degrees for 4 or 5 years and

S.

its

graduates being able to work for their master’s degree at schools
of such standing as Columbia University.
lent,

most of

whom

have

B. S.

The

faculty

is

excel-

degrees and two years of public

all but two have master’s deand several have doctor’s degrees. Their salaries are

school experience before entering,
grees,

considrably higher than teachers

in

other small colleges.

“Improvements are constantly being made in the plant,”
he said.
And these we noticed as we went about, all making
for convenience and efficiency and many for beauty as well.
Professor Hartline philosophized most charmingly, saying,
in

reference to President Riland’s introduction that he used

to

up frogs for us, “Yes, but I like to do more than cut up
biology but also to help the
frogs.
I want not only to teach
boys and girls make up their life philosophy.
The human side
should never be forgotten.”
Then he continued, “It’s pleasant to think of the changes
t^at have come about and to know that we all had something to
do with them. It’s been fun to try to bring about the desired
results.
If we run into things that we had hoped to stave off,
like prohibition, the young folks’ outlook, the new philosophy,
the new ideas, we must remember we all had something to do
with them.
We must get away from the complaint toward the
things we don’t like and look on life pleasantly.
“I like to stay on the job at Bloomsburg even though larger opportunities have presented themselves, for I feel that I may
be able to do a little more to bring up this rising generation. I’m
glad to have lived long enough to see many improvements accut

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complished.

we can keep

steady and cool

—

on our-

a grip

—

that’s the

He

paid a glowing tribute to Dr. Haas for the tremendous

selves

effort

If

69

he

is

to eliminate

main thing.”

putting forth to retain the College
it

that has

m

the

been under consideration, and

erness to imbue the school with the

modern

movement
to his eag-

spirit.

We

were conscious of that modern spirit as the day wore
All changes seemed so
on and we went about the buildings.
much worth while the front entrance, so spacious and comfortable; the redecorated dining hall, so bright and cheery; the
Trophy Room, such an expression of good taste and restrained
elegance.
Flowers in the various offices and halls added their

—

softening touch of beauty.

Gracious hostesses

served pleasantly and

efficiently.

costumes played spiritedly

A

dispensed

ice

delicious

meal was

The school band

in colorful

cold drinks wherever one would turn.

now and

then during the day.

Our class sat as specially decorated tables in the dining
bedecked with gay caps and adding to the excitement with
our lusty yells and the raucous noise makers.
At the invitation
of the toastmaster, Bruce Albert, we rose, played a band selection (on our noise makers) and sang a merry little parody to the

hall,

tune of “Happy Days.”

Happy Days

Happy days are here again.
At Bloomsburg where they all began.
Let us give a cheer for ’03 again.

Happy days

are here again.

Happy days are here again.
Those recollections real again.
Let us turn time back to ’03 again.
Happy days
That’s the

way we

are here again.

all felt

that

day.

And

that

was

the

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70

spirit that

everyone seemed

to

So,

express.

we were mighty

glad to have gone back, and the College authorities can feel well
repaid for their efforts to

make

the

day a pleasurable event.

LAURA MACFARLANE,
Harold A. Jamieson

is

Secretary.

principal of the Lincoln School, at

Scranton, Pa. His address in Scranton

is

1

506 Washburn

Street.

1907
Blanche M. Westbrook (Mrs. Newton C. Fetter, Jr.) lives
at 335 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Fetter has a
daughter, Emily, who has completed the work of the Freshman
year at Radcliffe College, and a son, Edmund,

man

this

year

in

who was

a Fresh-

the Cambridge High and Latin School.

1908
The twenty-fifth year reunion of the class of 1908
held at Bloomsburg State Teachers College in Room E.
room had been decorated in orange and blue crepe paper
908 banners. An orange and blue bouquet of cornflowers
1

was
The
and
and

marigolds (class colors) completed the decorations.

The walls, which were used as
and articles of interest about

pictures

the B.
in

S.

bulletin boards contained
1

908

class

T. C. Quarterlies for the past five years

order on the

window

sills

so

members

members. All
were arranged

of the class could read

news about the “Naughty Eight” class.
was truly an enjoyable day and many old acquaintances
were renewed. We are glad to report nine members of our class
were back to the Quarter of a Century Reunion who had not
been back before.
Those in attendance who had not attended previous reunions were: Jay Grimes, James Cummings, Ruth Finn Harrington, Alberta Handley McGowan, Mayetta Mulligan, Charles
Maurer, Elsie Jayne, Evelyn Peck, and Eugene Piatt. Other
members in attendance were: Laura Benscoter Dodson and
family, Nellie Bogart, Laura Boone, Adda Brandon Westfield
all

the

It

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71

and daughters, Mae Callendar Wilson and family, Mable Clark,
Deighmiller Stecker,

Nellie

Thomas Francis, Pearl Heberling
Morgan Stem, John Piatt, Wm.

Jones, Martha James, Willie

Ranch, Adda Rhodes Johnson, Hazel Row Creasy, Helen Seasholtz, Anna Shiffer Peters, Jennie Yoder Foley and family.
A class picture of all attending the reunion was taken by
Ralph Phillips, Bloomsburg. He is the same photographer who
took our class picture twenty-five years ago. We were very
fortunate in having Prof. Sutliff and Prof. Albert in the group.

Any member

who

of the class

may do

has not already placed an order

by writing directly to Mr. Phillips.
A total of twenty-eight members of the class attended
our twenty-fifth year reunion. Including the families and friends
there were forty-seven in the group wearing 908 orange and
blue banners as we marched into the auditorium and the dining
for this picture

so

1

hall.

The chairman of the Reunion Committee wore the same
was graduated twenty-five years ago.
Owing to the absence of the President of the class the
meeting was conducted by the Vice President, Jennie Yoder
dress in which she

Farley.

The day was spent m roll call, those present responding
talks, and interesting letters were read from many

with short

absent ones.

We

appreciated very much the fact that we had as our
some 1907, 1909 and 1910 Alumni members. Next year
the 909 class will hold their big Quarter of a Century Reunion. Let us see how many of our class can be back at that time.
Many of us knew this class almost as well as our own, and it is
nice to see old friends whether they be in our own or somebody
guests
1

else’s class.

In order to

should have

all

of interest.

If

keep

in

touch with class mates and friends you

the Quarterlies as each one contains

you did not attend the

some news
and have

class reunion

not sent your dollar to Prof. Jenkins will you not do so at once?

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

72

This

is

we have by which we can keep in touch
and other Alumni members.
owe that much to our Alma Mater and to our

the onlj^ medium

with our

We

own

class

really

Alumni Association. After
of news for only one dollar.

all

we

receive four Quarterlies

full

were asked to contribute to
you wish to contribute to this fund

Classes in reunion this year

the Alumni

Trophy Room.

If

you may send your contribution directly to Prof. Bakeless.
Three more names were added to our Reunion Committee.
They are: Hazel Row Creasy, Bloomsburg; Laura Boone, Hazleton; and Anna Shiffer Peters, Wilkes-Barre.
The class of 908 extends sincerest sympathy to one of its
members, Martha Herring Bragg. Mrs. Bragg has been most
unfortunate in having lost mother, father and husband in the
last year. Her mother passed away in May 1932, her father in
November of the same year and her husband in March, 1933.
Carrie Gray Hurley could not attend our Twenty-fifth Year
Reunion because she is too busy getting Bachelor’s degrees.
This week she receives her Bachelor of Science Degree from
Rutgers University. At the same time she will receive her degree Pres. Roosevelt receives a degree from the same college.
We know that Carrie must feel this a great honor and we are
proud to have a classmate receive a degree under such condi1

tion.

working for her Masters degree at the U. of
P.
We do hope she will have all her degrees before our 1938
Reunion, so she can meet with us for our thirtieth reunion.
Carrie

is

also

Willie

Morgan

Stein

Chairman of Reunion Committee.

Members of the Alumni Association who have been listenMorgan Stein over the radio for the past ten months
will continue to hear her on Tuesday afternoon at the same
time, until the November 7 election, at which time the state
will vote on the repeal question. The many friends of Mrs.
ing to Willie

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73

know that she has had the honor of being
appointed chairman of the Speaker’s Bureau of Philadelphia by
a unanimous vote of the officers of the Women’s Organization

Stein are pleased to

for National Prohibition

Reform.

6520 Rogers Avenue, Merchant-

Olive A. Major lives at
ville, N. J.

M.

Ella

Dr.

Billings

may be reached

H. Grimes lives at

J.

1

at R. D. 1, Nicholson, Pa.

53 West Marion

Street, Danville.

Indiana.

1909

til

Jennie S. Knapp (Mrs. Leslie R. Ames)
Apartments, Raleigh, North Carolina.

lives at

202 Capi-

1910
Hilda Altmiller Taylor

band, Dr.

R. Taylor.

J.

after a brief illness.

and

is

mourning the death of her hus-

Dr. Taylor died

He was

also a popular athlete.

November 22, 1932,

a prominent dentist in Hazleton,

He was

a graduate of Eastman

Business College, and of the University of Pennsylvania, in the
class of

1919. While a student at the University, he starred

football

and wrestling.

friends

m

all

walks of

His passing

is

mourned by a

in

legion of

life.

1913

The

class of

turn to their

Among

1913 marshalled 35 of

Alma Mater

after

its

original

20 years and enjoy

160

to re-

the day.

those present were

Mrs. H. B. Sterner, Dewart; Mrs. Carl Auvil, Noxen; Nellie

M.

Seidel, Harrisburg:

Elizabeth K. Scharf, Selinsgrove; Ethel

Helen Pegg, Danville; Mrs. A. J. Keachel,
Blooklyn, N. Y.; M rs. Clyde Hicks, Berwick; Kathleen Jones,
Berwick; Mrs. P. E. Thompson, Berwick; John Bakeless, New

Altmiller, Hazleton;

York, N. Y.

:

Elizabeth Pugh, Ashley; Mrs.

J.

W. Shimp, Mar-

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74

garet Shimp, Ruth Jones, Hazleton; Irene B. Mock, Hazleton;

Lena M. Marsh, Tunkhannock; Mary E. Collins, Shamokin;
Fallman, Vienna, Va.
Margaret Crossley, Mrs. Earle
Gooding, Bound Brook, N. J.
Renna Crossley, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Joseph Cherrie, Alden Station; Mildred Stemples, Mehopany; Mrs. Helen S. Bardslee, Bound Brook, N. J.; Mrs. Lillian
Edith

;

;

Fisher, Forty Fort;

Homer W.

Fetterolf, Spring Mills;

Luthe'"

Hess, Espy; D. B. Dewitt, Hamilton, N. Y.

Harry Summers Evans, President of the Class of 1913, died
at his home, 724 Marion Street, Scranton.
The editor has not
been informed as to the exact date of his death, but it occurred

some time

in April.

Mr. Evans was a native of Dorranceton, Pa., where he was

born on July 10, 1893.

He was

a graduate of the Taylor High

and the Bloomsburg State
Normal School.
For some time, Mr. Evans taught in the commercial department of the Kingston High School, and also in the Owens’ BusiSchool, Scranton Business College,

ness College, in Pottsville.

For the past fifteen years he was

associated with the Scranton-Lackawanna Business College.

Mr. Evans was a member of Peter Williamson Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, and also of the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Scranton.

The immediate relatives who survive him are
sister, and a brother.

his father

and

mother, a

Elizabeth

Newport, N.

J.

Robbins (Mrs. John B. Bradford)

lives

in

J.

Pegg

Helen

J.

Mary

E. Collins lives at

is

teaching

m

Danville, Pa.

2 4 East Sunbury Street, Shamo1

kin, Pa.

1914
Beulah Fowler (Mrs. R. B. Thomas)
Dartford Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

is

now

living at 5

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Elsie E.

1915
Thomas and William

C.

Burger were married at

the Presbyterian manse, Bloomsburg, Pa.,

Rev.

S.

A. Marker.

the Luzerne

Mr. Burger

is

75

June

1,

1932, by the

Assistant Superintendent of

County Industrial School for Boys, located

at Kis-

Lyn, Pa.

Alma Baer

(Mrs. Eduardo Llerena) lives in Rio de Janeiro,
Her address is Care of Kodak Brasileira Ltd., Caixa Postal 849, Rio de Janeiro. Mrs. Llerena writes as follows: “We
have been living here in Brazil thirteen years, and like it very
much. We have three sons, Eduardo, Juan and Paul. They
keep me quite busy.”
Brazil.

1916
Charles

Department

in the

who

is head
of the Commercial
Shamokin High School, lives at 1216 West

F. Schoffstall,

Laurel Street, Pottsville, Pa.

The following is an excerpt from The Musical Courier of
February 25, 1932.
“The tenth annual dinner-dance musicale given by the
pupils of the Maxwell R. Noack Studio was held at the Rittenhouse Hotel, 22nd and Chestnut Streets on February
th.
1

1

was largely attended and the musical program as presented by Mr. Noack’s students was delightful. Those giving
“It

vocal selections acquitted themselves creditably.

dramatic art class were heard

Pupils of the

The Melyoung women, delivered several
One of the most striking parts of the
in interesting readings.

rose Singers, a group of six
selections with artistry.

program was the singing of the chorus,

class of thirty voices.

In the three selections. Bells of St. Mary’s, Vikings

Nightfall

in

smoothness

Grenada,

singers

of tone, excellent attacks

ally fine choral

“Some

these

Song and
and
and gener-

revealed freshness

and releases

work.

of the vocal

numbers were provided with

artistic

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violin obligato.

All the accompanists excellently

supported the

soloists.”

1917
Harriette

Shuman

(Mrs. Reuel

S.

Burr)

lives at

1

12 Win-

chester Road, Merion, Pa.

1918
Rose Engel (Mrs. Charles

S.

Poppy)

90

Charles

their

number

lives at

Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

The

class of

1918

return and they were

had 40 of

after 15 years

much impressed by

the rapid progress of

the institution.

Those having an enjoyable day were
Mrs. Robert Berninger, West Pittston; Elizabeth Robert,
Hazleton; Mrs. Sheldon Groner, Bloomsburg; Marne E. Richardson, Kathryn Spencer, Mahanoy City; Harold Pegg, Altoona; Mrs.

Thomas O’Toole, Nanticoke; Mary

Gillespie, Hazle-

ton; Mrs. Charles Popky, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Edith M. Dzuris,

Nanticoke; Mrs. Carrie K. Fischer, Glen Lyon; Mrs.
Ohl, Bloomsburg; Viola M. Fischer, Glen Lyon;

Blecher, Bloomsburg;
ton,

N. J.

Mary

Cuff,

J.

Rutter

Edna D.

Shenandoah; Paul Cherring-

Allentown; Mary Boyle, Drifton;
;

Mrs.

Mrs. Esther Bell, Montour Twp.

L.
;

E. Bracy, Westfield,

Clyde Miller, Danville,

Helen G. Sypniewski, Nanticoke; Valeria A. Sypniewski, NantiMrs. E. J. Cronka Kielar, Mary Belefski, Glen Lyon;

coke;

Kathryn Levan, Bloomsburg; Bruce M. Shearer, Connellsville
Fannie R. Van Sant, Bloomsburg; Gretchen D. Wintle, West
Pittston; Genevieve C. Healy, West Pittston; Dorothy Pollock,
Hazleton; Mrs. E. C. Stiteler, Bloomsburg; Margaret Smith,

Bound Brook,

N. J.

;

Charles Wolfe, Gettysburg.

1920
Mr. and Mrs. Leon R. Grover (Evalyn Wagner) of Mooreheld,

W.

Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Helen La Shelle,

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on Tuesday, April 5, 1933. Mr. Wagner
County News, published in Moorefield.

is

77

editor of the

Hardy

1923
was that of 923 which
had 16 of its 207 members back. They had a merry time at
the College in the morning and then 85 of their number went to
the Elks home for dinner at noon. There was no set program
but all had a delightful time talking over school days at “old
The

largest of the class reunions

1

1

Normal.”
Those

in attendance were: Kathryn Naylis, Edwardsville
Evelyn Thompson Reid, Harrisburg; Beatrice Berlew, Moosic;
Elmer H. Haupt, West Chester; Martha Jane Moran, Muncy Val-

ley; Mrs.

W.

E.

Evans, Moosic; Margaret A. Bittner, Luckaloe,

Orpha McPherson, New York

City; Mrs. Grace Seely
Nescopeck; Mrs. Florence Breisch Drake, Light
Street; Mrs. Betty Robinson Roland Harrisburg; Frances R.
Keeler, Trucksville; Mrs. Marian Badsall Parrish, Wyoming;
Norma L. Agnew, Upper Darby; Margaret Butler, Tonawanda,
Kathryn Campbell, Danville; Dily P. Rowland, TrucksN. Y.
ville, R. D.
George P. Schwartz, Jr., Hazleton.
Mariam E. Day, Taylor; Adeline Robbins, Danville; Helen
Like West, Margaret Hughes, Wilkes-Barre; Helen I. Lamb,
Shamokin; Alice Albee Lutz, Ashley; Kathryn R. Griffith, Kingston; Robma Batel, Plymouth; Margaret Jones, Helen M. Keller, Kingston; Mary McNinch Davis, Vera Parker Shultz, Berwick; Marie T. Cabo, Elizabeth J. Thomas, Scranton; Marion
Watkins Taylor, Mrs. Helen Riegel Hart, Philadelphia; Ruth
McNertney, Milnesville; Gladys Brutzman, Scranton; Mrs. Jerry Geise, Sunbury; Mrs. Arline Hart Brown, Betty Ransom,
Kingston; Mrs. Josephine Kistler Vanderslice, E. H. Vanderslice, Bellefonte; Harold D. Klinger, Hatboro; Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew B. Lawson, Williamsport; Mrs. Minnie Melick Turner,
Bloomsburg; Geraldine Hall, W. Pittston; Patrick R. Whelan,
Tobyhanna; Mane McGrath, Scranton; Mrs. Betty Sodon SaxN. Y.

;

Smethers,

;

;

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ton,

Mauch Chunk;

Mrs. Betty Evans West, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.

Cecil J. Toor, Doylestown.

Anna Ozelka

Isabel Lukasytis,

Kohler, Margaret Schartz,

Hazleton; Mrs. Ralph R. Beagle, Danville; Mrs. Mary Howell,

Alden Station; Freda B. Phillips, Glen Lyon; Rhoda Young,
Ernestine
Hackenburg, Northumberland
Edith
Hampton,
Frackville; Anna Kelly Kirby, Luzerne; Helen Karalus, Cecelia
Turman, Nanticoke; Mrs. Mary Pratt Davis, Wilkes-Barre; Helen E. Sutliff, Harrisburg; Mrs. S. H. Laidacker, Wyoming; Ruth
Lenhart Crawford, Drexel Hill; Mrs. Walter Whitebread, Mrs.
Lesie Seely, Nescopeck; Mrs. Lola Kocher Seward, Berwick;
Marion E. Williams, Shickshinny; Mrs. Elsie 0. Shaughnessy,
Tunkhannock; Ann Jarrett, Taylor; Martha Fenwick Ashbury,
Carlisle; Matilda Kostenbauder Tilley, Dorothy Barton Cherrmgton, Betty Kessler Kashner, Dorothy Titman Blancher, Leona
Williams Moore, Elma L. Major, Rachel Benson Mitchell, Mary
Howell Dean, Stephen A. Lerda, Walter A. Krolkowski.
;

Mrs. Lucy Weikel Coughlin

Dunellen, N.

J.,

and

is

a teacher

in

the schools of

lives in Plainfield.

1924
Adeline Swineford
Pa.

.Miss

Swineford

is

lives at

506 West Front

Street, Berwick,

a teacher in the Berwick schools.

1925
Miss Laura G. Dietrick, of Espy, Pa., died

Camden,

at the

Cooper

J., on Thursday, January 5, death being
due to a complication of diseases from which Miss Dietrick had
been suffering for a month. She was twenty-seven years of

Hospital,

N.

age at the time of her death.
Miss Dietrick was a graduate of the Scott Township High
School, in the class of 1923, and two years later

was graduated

from Bloomsburg. After her graduation from Bloomsburg, she
began teaching in the Camden schools. During her first year.

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she was elected representative and treasurer of the school

in

which she was a teacher.
She attended several summer sessions at Bloomsburg, working for her Bachelor’s degree.
She then spent several summers
at the Breakers’ Hotel, where she had charge of the kindergarten and play-room.
Miss Dietrick was chosen as one of the critic teachers in
the Camden schools and had under her supervision and training,
student teachers from the various normal schools of New Jersey.
In February, 1931 she had a nervous breakdown and was
given a leave of absence for one year.
She was very active in the social life of Camden and enjoyed a wide circle of friends, who were greatly shocked to learn of
,

her death.

Marjorie Davey

lives

1926
1414 Westside Avenue, Hones-

at

dale. Pa.
S.

Ethel Scholl lives in Halifax, Pa.

1927
Announcement of the wedding of Miss Anne B. Wendel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wendel, of Market street,
Bloomsburg; and Dr. G. M. Leighow, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S.
Leighow, of Bloom Road, Danville, which occurred in Dalton,
Ga., August 22nd, of last year, was announced at a dinner and
card party at the Elks’

home

recently.

The ceremony was performed by Judge

0. M. Stacy, of

Dalton, a friend of Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Althouse, of Sunbury,

who

accompanied the couple. After the wedding the party motored
to Atlanta, Ga., where they attended the annual meeting of the
American Veterinary Medical Association.
Both the bride and groom have a legion of friends throughout this section. Mrs. Leighow is a graduate of Bloomsburg High
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and studied at
Columbia University. She has been a successful teacher of the

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first

grade at the Third Street School and was a training teacher

for the local College.

The groom is a graduate of Center Township High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the University of Pennsylvania.

He

is first

vice president of the Pennsylvania Veterin-

ary Medical Association and secretary of the University of Pennsylvania extension courses for Central Pennsylvania.

Mary

Ediott Jones lives at

632 North Main Avenue, Scran-

ton, Pa.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Oce Williams, of Edwardsville, and William A. Austin, of Dallas.

1928
There were not so many changes for the five year class but
there were some that were most favorably commented upon by
members of the class of 928. All were delighted to find many
of the friends of their school days still at the institution.
Among those back were Mabel Albertson, Benton Edith
Davis, Helen Jenkes, Kathryn Zurlinden, Kathryn Toye, Helen
Owens, Zelma Ramage, Pittston; Eleanor Sands, Benton; Grace
Radler, Pittston; Elizabeth G. Rutter, Bloomsburg; Virginia M.
Lewis, N. F. Polanezky, Philadelphia; T. E. Welsko, Freeland;
Margaret Lewis, Scranton; Hester L. Bowman, Mifflinville; Fay
Appleman, Light Street; Charlotte Mears, Karleen M. Hoffman,
Bloomsburg; Mattie Townsend, Light Street; Mrs. Marjorie
1

:

Prettyleaf, Lewistown;

Anna Mary

;

Hess, Boalsburg.

Nicholas F. Polaneczky has been teaching for several years
in Philadelphia.

His address in that city

is

2324 North Mascher

Street.

Francis

McHugh, ’23 and ’28 has been

seriously

ill

in the

State Hospital at Hazleton.

Marjorie E. Wallize (Mrs. Francis P. Prettyleaf) lives

Lewistown, Pa.

in

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1930

A

daughter was born

ner, of Osceola Mills, Pa.
ty of the Osceola Mills

in

March

to Mr.

and Mrs. Haven Fort-

a

member of the faculThomas was formerly

Mr. Fortner

is

High School. Mrs.

Miss Kathryn Thomas, of Osceola Mills.

M. Frances Morton, who
Berwick, Pa.,

is

lives

at

334 Mulberry

Street,

teacher of grades one and two in the schools

of Briar Creek Township, Columbia County.

Letha Mericle

is

teacher of grades three and four in the

schools of Madison Township, Columbia County.

Hazel McMichael

Hemlock Township

is

teacher of grades one to eight in the

schools.

1931

its

The class of 1931, the “baby” class in reunion had 38 of
members back for the day. Among those attending were:
Doris E. Empett,

New

Milford; Elizabeth H. Hulber, Gor-

Bowman, Dons Sechrist, Eloise EvBloomsburg; Mrs. Gladys D. Whitmore, Orangeville; Lois
Hirleman, Almedia; Mrs. Helen G. Edson, East Orange, N. J.
Frances Fester, Berwick; Lydia Smith, Dallas; Genevieve
don;

Ila

A. Ivey, Elizabeth

ans,

LaRue Derr, Jerseytown; Kenneth Hawk,
Bear Creek; Minnie Clark, Dornsife; Esther Jones, Edwardsville; Violette Williams, Luzerne; Mary Fisher, Gladys Shotsberger, Freeburg; Helen Walborn, Selinsgrove; Helen Maynard, Chinchilla; Emily A. Park, Harold Lanterman, Berwick;
Myfanwy Beynon, Scranton; Harriet Roan, Mary M. Flick,
Dawn Townsend, Robert Sutliff, Bloomsburg; Marie Foust,
Washingtonville; Sally Morgan, Elva Ellis, Edwardsville Joseph

Wolfe, Trevorton;

;

Yocabonis,

Mahanoy

Ingrahon, Nanticoke
ner, Harrisburg.

Samuel Kurtz, Mainville; Catherine
Beatrice Beale, Duncannon Dorothy Kis-

City;
;

;

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Fannie Bonham is teacher of the
Creek township schools.

Anna Fowler
Creek township.

is

Rachael Miller

teacher of the

is

teaching

in

fifth

first

the

grade

in the Briar

eight grades in Briar

Briar Creek

township

schools.

Coopey has been serving as Librarian in the Junior
High School at Nanticoke, Pa. Her address is 360 East Noble
Phyllis

Street.

1932

Members

of the class of ’32 join in wishing the best of

luck and success to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jenkins, of Danville, Pa.,

who were

married June

1

1,

1932.

Mrs. Jenkins was formerly

Miss Ida Bubb, of Berwick.

The Rev. and Mrs. Oliver Kraf are being congratulated on
was formerly Miss Vera
Kadel, for some years a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School. Mr. Krapf is now pastor of the Methodist
the birth of a daughter. Mrs. Krapf

church

at

Johnsonburg, N.

Kathryn M. Benner

J.

lives at

425 Logan

Street,

Lewistown,

Pa.

Miss Helen Fox, of Catawissa, and

were married

ville,

March
teacher

4.
in

Seymour

Stere, of Mill-

Hagerstown, Maryland, on Saturday,
For the past year Mr. Stere has been a successful
the schools of Greenwood Township, Columbia Counat

ty.

Class Secretary: Miss Sarah C.

Zimmerman, 447 East 5th

Street, Berwick, Pa.

Doris

Mae

Price lives in Shaft, Pa.

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THE PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP
Date
Being interested

in the

1933.
welfare of the Pennsylvania

State Teachers Colleges and wishing to aid

m

the

work

of

the Association in their efforts to see that these Colleges are

continued and properly managed and financed,

I

hereby

subscribe one dollar for membership in the above Association.

Name
Street

Post Office

Hand your

dollar

and

State
this slip

to

your Alumni Secretary or

mail to Harry L. Cooper, Treasurer, Edinboro, Pa.

ice;

Vol.

No. 4

34

THE ALUMNI
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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
!!

SEPTEMBER,

1933

BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

-f'-.

1858

O. H.

BAKELESS

1933

The Alumni Quarterly
THE

PUBLISHED BY
ALUMNI ASSOCIA'I'ION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol.

SEPTEMBER, 1933

34

No. 4

Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year

H. F.
F.

FENSTEMAKER, T2

H. JENKINS, ’76

-

-

Editor-in-Chief

-

Business

Manager

Prof. O. H. Bakeless
1858-1933
Prof. 0. H. Bakeless, one of Bloomsburg’s

and

most beloved

one of the leading educators of
dead Wednesday evening, September
6th, in the Sunday School room of the Methodist church as he
conducted the mid-week prayer service.
His death, upon his 75th birthday, came with a suddenness
that shocked the entire community as it has not been shocked
in years, for the many-sided activities of the retired professor
of the Teachers’ College had endeared him to thousands.
Prof. Bakeless had been suffering from a heart ailment for
several years and avoided, as much as possible, any activity

citizens

for a generation

Central Pennsylvania,

fell

that taxed his strength.

At dinner that evening, with a guest and members of the
had been in jovial mood, and immediately following

family, he

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took

down

a textbook on psychology to prepare for a series of

lectures to the Nurses’ Training School of the
tal,

Bloomsburg Hospi-

a task he had agreed to undertake.

A

short time later he

went

to

the church

to

conduct the

prayer service.

The prayer service was held in the chapel of the church
with about one hundred in attendance. As he arose to give the
message Prof. Bakeless asked those in attendance to please
come forward as he would be unable to talk long if he had to
speak loudly. They moved to the front of the chapel immediately.

As he spoke he continually touched his breast in the region
and it was evident he was having difficulty getting
breath.
After
his
he had spoken about ten minutes he stopped
and saying “Excuse me please,” seated himself on a chair and
leaned his elbows on a table. Then he slumped back in the
of his heart

chair.

Men

in the

congregation hurried to

placed on the floor of the chapel,

made

his side

and he was

as comfortable as pos-

and fanned. Water was secured for him.
J. W. Bruner was the first to arrive and he immediately
gave a hypodermic, inserting it in the left wrist. The physician
then administered artificial respiration and upon the arrival of
Dr. Charles B. Yost, another hypodermic was administered, this
sible

Dr.

in

arm near the shoulder.
The congregation remained

the left

quiet

and did not leave the

chapel until after the arrival of physicians and then

Death came around eight o’clock.
Prof. Bakeless was born at Shamokin

left

very

quietly.

Dam

on September
6, 1858, the son of John C. Bakeless, a contractor and builder.
The family is of French extraction, and his great grandfather,
Phillippe Beauclerc, was a French refugee.
Prof. Bakeless
in Prof. Noetling’s
his

was educated in Shamokin Dam schools and
Normal Institute at Selinsgrove. Following

graduation he taught for several years before entering the

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Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which he graduated in
1879. His first teaching position was at Laurelton.
Subsequently he taught in Catawissa, and entered Lafay890. His college course
ette College, where he graduated in
taxed his strength severely, since it was made possible only by
the greatest of sacrifices, and there were few of his friends who
expected him to survive the strain.
While teaching at Milroy he met Sara May Harvey, and
they were married in 1892. For a short time they resided at the
Normal School here, and in 1892 Prof. Bakeless went to the Carlisle Indian School to become head of the academic department.
He directed the work of the academ c faculty and traveled ex1

tensively throughout the United States to see that Indian youths
in

white homes were accorded
In

fair

treatment.

1902, Prof. Bakeless returned to Bloomsburg as head of

the department of

pedagogy of the Normal School, and con-

tinued in that capacity until he resigned in

Always a firm believer
for

interest

929.

and Greek as fundamentals
Normal School during
association with the institution, and maintained a keen
throughout his life in that phase of education. Although

an education, he taught

his first

m

1

Latin

classics in the

he kept abreast of educational developments,

wavered

that classical education

his belief

never

was the only proper founda-

tion.

During the years of his service at the Normal School and
Teachers College, he left an indelible impress on the lives of
thousands of students, and following his retirement maintained
a keen interest in the affairs of the

Alumni Association. The
handsomely furnished Alumni Room at the College was one of
his dreams, and he was the leading force during the years in
seeing that it was properly equipped.
While a member of the faculty here, he did graduate work
at Harvard and Columbia Universities.
For many years he had been a member of the Methodist
Church and Sunday School, and had taught classes there during

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his entire residence in

town.

had
Board of Directors for many years and
His interest in
also was a
the Reading Committee.
the Bloomsburg Hospital was reflected m many ways, too, and
he served as a member of the Hospital Corporation and of the
He had
Advisory Committee of the Nurses’ Training School.
been a member of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club from the time

Always

served as a

of

its

vitally

interested in the Public Library, he

member of
member of

its

organization.

New

His son, John E. Bakeless, of

who had been

York,

here on a vacation, had planned to return to the city the day of

changed

Prof. Bakeless’ death, but

his plans to

summoned

next day, and was quickly

to the

remain

until the

church following

his father’s death.

Mrs. Bakeless suffered

much from shock upon

learning of

the death of her husband.
Prof. Bakeless
F.

is

survived by his wife, two children, Mrs.

A. Nason, of Cleveland, Ohio, and John E. Bakeless, of

York, and a brother, Newton Bakeless,

who

is

in

New

business

m

Reno, Nevada.

sympathy and tributes to his zealas Bloomsburg learned of

Heart-felt expressions of

ous work

came from many quarters

the death of Prof. 0. H. Bakeless.

Among them

were:
Dr.

Dr. Francis B. Haas,

Haas

President

of the

Teachers College, paid this tribute to the
less

Bloomsburg State
of Prof. Bake-

memory

:

“The sudden death
shock to

his

many

of Prof. Bakeless

friends.

comes

as a

profound
I have

Since coming to Bloomsburg,

been honored personally by his friendship and I have had the
advantage of his constant help in advancing the interests of the
College. Our art collection and the Alumni Trophy Room are

two of the most recent of

his contributions.

He contained

all

the

THE alumni quarterly
qualities that

go to make a master teacher

—

5

a thorough mastery

of subject matter, an instructive ability to arouse the interest of
the student, the joy of an artist in

the

creation of his

master-

piece.

“That he was successful is revealed in the character of the
thousands of graduates of Bloomsburg whose undying affections
are a lasting

monument

to his

that he ‘would rather live

honored

m

life.

It

can truly be said of him

the hearts of his students than be

The deepest sympathy
hour of bereavement.

in story or song.’

who mourn him

is

with those

”

in this

Fred W. Diehl

Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, Superintendent of the Montour
County Schools, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers College and a member of the Executive Committee of the
Alumni Association, paid this tribute on behalf of the trustees
and alumni to the memory of Prof. Bakeless:
“As we sit in the shadows of this great sorrow that has so
recently and so suddenly come upon us, it is difficult to fittingly
express the esteem and the appreciation in which Prof. Bakeless
was held by our Board of Trustees and by our Alumni Association.

“St. Paul says Tt

is

Measured by

required of a steward that he be found

standard Prof. Bakeless was a stewOver a long period of years in active
and inactive service, his work for the college, its students and
alumni in and out of the class rooms has been marked by an
earnestness and faithfulness that was second to none. Due to his
perseverence and indomitable persistence toward the accomplishment of his task, the corridors and windows of our College
have been singuarly enriched and beautified.
“Prof. Bakeless was its originator and ardent promoter of
our Alumni Room project which exists as a fitting memorial to
his intense zeal and love for our school and its alumni.
“As the Board of Trustees we bear sincere testimony to the
faithful.’

ard of the highest rank.

this

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employe and friend of the

loyalty of Prof. Bakeless as a faithful
school.

As alumni we revere

his

memory

as a consecrated teach-

and inspiring us

er interested in our continued success

to higher

and nobler attainments.
“Beautiful
Is

Beautiful calm

whose span
God and man;

that

life is

spent in duty to

when

the course

is

run;

Beautiful twilight at set of sun;
Beautiful death with

life

well done.”

Prof. Albert

Professor

Charles

low faculty member and
this tribute to his

“chum, classmate,

H.

Albert,

life

long friend” of Prof. Bakeless paid

a

fel-

memory

“Prof. Bakeless was one of the outstanding educators. He
was sane and sensible and well founded in pedagogy. Prof.
Bakeless was a wonderful class room teacher and he gave his
His work at Carlisle was one of the finest
life to his students.
pieces of work ever done m an Indian school in the country. He
was quiet, unassuming and the last to talk of himself. He was

helping other people

all

the time.”

Tribute

From Students

Prof. Bakeless retired as a

faculty in 1929.

The

member

of the Teachers College

Obiter, the College year book, of that year

was dedicated to him. The dedication clearly reflects the affection and admiration of the thousands of students of the institution

toward him.
“

It

follows

‘He has achieved success

who

has lived well, laughed

and loved much; who has gamed the respect of intelligent
men and the love of little children who has filled his niche and
often,

;

accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he
found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a
rescued soul who has looked for the best in others and given
;

the best that he had;

whose

life is

an inspiration; whose

mem-

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7

a benediction.’

is

“Such

is

the finest degree the meaning of the

he has taught

his classes

He has

our estimate of Mr. Bakeless.

many

word

things, but

fulfilled to

‘teacher.’

by

his life

Through
and influ-

ence he has taught more of honor, love, friendship, duty to oneself

and one’s fellowmen than any mere curriculum could con-

tain.

“His work with the Art League has brought to this school
beauty and appreciation of the beautiful seldom seen and found
elsewhere. By his wide reading he has challenged and stimulated the minds of many students to an understanding of litera-

By

ture.

his wit

and humor he has endeared himself

es of the past until

it

is

to the class-

with a great deal of regret that

we

say

‘goodbye’ to a true Christian gentleman.”

Harry

S.

Barton, Class of ’96, Trustee.

An
“And

lo!

child has

Appreciation

he whose heart was as that of a little
answered to his name and stands in the

presence of the Master.”

“Within the sacred walls of the sanctuary of God the twi-

King of Kings came to our beloved
and teacher. Professor Bakeless, and his immortal spirit

light call of the invisible

friend

sunshine of the Maker.
“For more than the alloted span of our earthly years, not
one of which was lived in vain, he has enriched and bettered
the world and by precept and example has led and guided his
many thousands of students to a contemplation of the high
ideals of human life and values, and the rich reward with the
rests in the

;

spiritual as

its

goal.

“Genial, kindly, with wide knowledge and rare talents, his

splendid faculties for imparting information,

made him

a

won-

derful teacher.

“And so, we reverently bow to the inevitable decree as to
human life; and tho it takes him from our vision, his splendid

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8

life

and work

our memories.”

shall live in

Printed elsewhere in this issue of the Quarterly

Prof.

is

Bakeless’ last statement concerning the Alumni Trophy

Room

Fund. The idea has occurred to several of the Alumni that
IS

the time to bring Prof. Bakeless’

dream

President Haas has put this idea into form

tion.
letter,

addressed to

all

now

to successful realiza-

m

the following

the Alumni:

BAKELESS MEMORIAL
“A

sudden death of our beloved Fache came to me and said that his
heart was set on completing the Alumni Trophy Room. His
sudden death was a profound shock to his many friends. He
was a Master Teacher. That he was successful is revealed in the
character of the thousands of graduates of Bloomsburg whose
undying affections are a lasting monument to his life. It can
truly be said of him that he ‘would rather live in the hearts of
his students than be honored in story or song.’
short time before the

ulty Associate, Prof. Bakeless,

“He was profoundly

interested in doing things for those

whom he
Trophy Room was

groups and individuals

loved, and his intense interest
Alumni
merely a reflection of his philosophy of life. It has occurred to me that no finer continuing
memorial could be erected to him than to complete, this year,
this room, and to dedicate it on Alumni Day, May 26, 1934, as
the Bakeless Memorial Room.

in the

“President Albert has appointed Dr. E. H. Nelson, a graduate of the College and a
surer.
will

A

member

of the Faculty, to act as Trea-

contribution of $1.00 forwarded immediately to him

help to complete the Memorial and permit the Alumni Asso-

which Prof. Bakeless
and in addition to erect a marker which will in
an appropriate manner dedicate the room as a Memorial to a
great Son of Bloomsburg.

ciation to finish a last College project in

was

interested,

”

Bloomsburg, Pa.
September 12, 1933.

Francis B. Haas.

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as this appeal will reach only the subscribers to

Inasmuch

constitute about one-sixth of the total Alumplanned to circularize the entire Alumni in a small

who

the Quarterly,
ni

list,

is

it

9

bulletin.

meantime. Alumni can show their loyalty to Bloomsburg and honor the memory of Prof. Bakeless, by communicatIn the

ing with

made

their classmates.

all

Many

classes

have already made pledges, and many have

The present appeal

individual contributions.

is

directly

who have not contributed to the Alumni
Room, but that does not mean that any who desire to add to
their previous contribution may not feel free to do so. Loyal

addressed to

all

cooperation by

those

all will

enable us to dedicate the Alumni

next Alumni Day, free of debt, to the

memory

memory

of the

Room

man whose

be kept alive as long as “Old Normal” stands.

will

o
Orville Bennett, ’13, lives at 19 Kendrick
ton, N. Y.

For the past

six years

Department of Mathematics

Myron

Avenue, Hamil-

he has been a member of the

at Colgate University.

425 East Front Street, BerFor several years Mr. Beyer has
been operating a meat and grocery business in Berwick, and at

wick, Pa.

D. Beyer,

He has two

13, lives at
sons.

the present time he has in addition, a Laundry

and Linen Supply

business.

Irene Roughner (Mrs. Howard Mock), ’13, lives at 474
West Broad Street, Hazleton, Pa. She has one son, four years
Following her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. Mock
old.
taught m first grade for two years, after which she was Supervisor of Public School Music in the schools of Albion, Mich., for

three years.

Mae M.
Her address

is

Byington, ’13,

46

Mill Street.

is

teaching in

Binghamton,

N. Y.

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10

Charter of the Alumni Association of the
State Teachers College
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mmutes

and subscribers

of the meeting of the incorporators

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE BLOOMSBURG STATE
TEACHERS COLLEGE, held on the twenty-seventh day of May,
to the

main auditorium of Carver Hall at the State TeachTown of Bloomsburg, County of Columbia, and
State of Pennsylvania, at eleven o’clock A. M. by the express
1933,

in the

ers College in the

consent

in

writing of

all

of said incorporators.

The following persons were present

:

Lillian

Barton Fun-

ston, Harriet Carpenter, Dennis D. Wright, Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,

Fred W. Diehl,
Edward
and
Schuyler.
The meeting was organized by the selection of R. Bruce
Albert to be Chairman and Edward Schuyler to be Secretary,
0. H. Bakeless, F. H. Jenkins, R. Bruce Albert,

thereof,

H.

and they each assumed

Mont Smith,

their respective duties.

Esquire, counsel for the incorporators, an-

nounced that the Association had been incorporated under the
.Act of Assembly of Pennsylvania of April 29,
874, and its supplements, and that a charter had been issued out of the Court of
Common Pleas of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and that the
same had been recorded in the office for the Recording of Deeds
in and for the County of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania,
and that all other requirements of said Act of Assembly had
Said Charter, engrossed upon parchment
been complied with.
and appropriately framed, was thereupon exhibited to the meet1

ing.

On motion

the Secretary was directed to record and set forth
upon the minutes of this meeting, a copy of said Charter,
and the original thereof was delivered to Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,
one of the incorporators, with instructions to hang it in the
Alumni Room of the College.
in full

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11

CHARTER
TO THE HONORABLE CHARLES C. EVANS,
PRESIDENT JUDGE OF THE COURT OF

COMMON

PLEAS:

Agreeably

—

to the provisions of the

bly of Pennsylvania, entitled

“An Act

to

Act of General Assemprovide for the incor-

poration and regulation of certain Corporations,” approved the

29th day of April A.

D.,

thereto, the undersigned,

1874, and the several supplements
of whom are citizens of Pennsyl-

all

vania, have associated themselves together for the purposes and
on the terms, and by the names hereinafter set forth, and to the
end that they may be duly incorporated according to law, hereby certify
:

—

The name

FIRST:

of the Corporation

is

“ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE”

SECOND

:

The

recorded

said

in

name

the Office

of the Corporation has been filed
of the

Secretary of the

and

Common-

wealth of Pennsylvania, and does not conflict with the

name
more

of any other corporation registered in said office
fully

;

as

appears upon reference to the Certificate of the

Secretary of the

Commonwealth hereto

attached, in accord-

ance with the provisions of the Act of Assembly approved
May 16, 1923, P. L. 246.

THIRD

The purpose for which the Corporation is formed is
promote the cause of education by fostering and maintaining among its members, a spirit of cooperation with the
Officers, Teachers and pupils of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College; and for this purpose to have, possess
and enjoy all the rights and privileges of the said Act of
Assembly and its supplements.
to

:

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12

FOURTH:
to

The place where

be conducted,

is

in

the business of said Corporation

is

Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Penn-

sylvania.

FIFTH

The Corporation

:

shall

have succession by

corpor-

its

ate name.

SIXTH:

The names and residences

by

of the subscribers appear

their signature hereto.

SEVENTH

The number

:

of Directors of the Corporation

is fix-

ed at nine (9) three (3) of whom shall be elected each
year after the year 1933, from the membership of the Cor;

poration,

to serve

term of three

for a

(3)

names and residences of those who are chosen
for the

first

term, are as follows

:

—

years.

The

as Directors

Term Expires
Fourth Saturday

Name
Lillian

Residence

Harriet Carpenter

Dennis D. Wright
Dr. D.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

^

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Waller, Jr.

J.

H. Jenkins

_

R. Bruce Albert

Fred W. Diehl
Edward Schuyler

The

said

control of

all

May
1934
1934
1934
1935
.

Bloomsburg Pa.

0. H. Bakeless
F.

in

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Barton Funston

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Danville, Pa.

_

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Directors shall
the property

have the

of the said

such By-Laws as

may be

EIGHTH

Officers of said

sole

1935
1935
1936
1936
1936

management and

Corporation,

subject to

adopted.

Board of Directors shall consist
of a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, to
be chosen annually from among the members of the Board
of Directors, who shall perform the duties usually assigned

to

:

such

The

officers.

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NINTH:

The Corporation has no

13

capital stock, but every

mem-

by payment of fees
and or dues as the Corporation, by its By-Laws, may determine, which fees and dues shall be applied to promoting
the purposes for which the Corporation is formed.
ber

shall contribute

—

TENTH:

to

support

its

The yearly income

of the said

Corporation,

other

than that derived from real estate, shall not exceed the
of Fifty

Thousand ($50,000.00)

ELEVENTH:

The funds

from whatever

Corporation

of this

sum

Dollars.

source received, shall from time to time, be applied to pro-

moting the purposes for which the Corporation
including the publication of a Quarterly

News

is

formed,

Bulletin; the

furnishing and maintenance of Alumni and Trophy Rooms;
and the establishment and maintenance of a Scholarship
Loan Fund.

WITNESS

our hands and seals

One Thousand, Nine Hundred and
Name

this

1

4th day of April, A. D.,

Thirty-Three.
Residence

WALLER, Jr.
BAKELESS

(SEAL)
(SEAL)
F. H. JENKINS
(SEAL)
R. BRUCE ALBERT
(SEAL)
FRED W. DIEHL
(SEAL)
HARRIET F. CARPENTER
(SEAL)
LILLIAN BARTON FUNSTON (SEAL)
D. D. WRIGHT
(SEAL)
EDWARD F. SCHUYLER
(SEAL)

D. J.
0. H.

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Danville, Pa.

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

)

COUNTY OF COLUMBIA
Before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public m and for the
County and State aforesaid personally appeared 0. H. Bakeless,
R. Bruce Albert, and Edward F. Schuyler, three of the subscribers of the above and foregoing certificate of incorporation, and

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14

in

due form of law acknowledged the same

be

to

their act

and

deed, and the act and deed of their associates, according to the

Act of Assembly

in

such case

WITNESS my hand and

made and

provided.

Notafial seal this

5th day of April,

1

One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirty-Three.

A. D.,

HERVEY
My

B.

SMITH (SEAL)

Notary Public
Commission Expires

June 27, 1936.
Decree of Court

AND NOW, this 22nd day of May, A. D., 1933, the foregoing Certificate of Incorporation of the Alumni Association of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College having been on file in
the office of the Prothonotary of the said County, since the 15th

day of April, A. D., 1933, as appears from the entry thereof,
and due proof of publication having been presented to me herewith, I hereby certify that I have persued and examined said instrument and find the same to be in proper form, and within the
purposes specified

in the class of

corporations designated as of

Act of April 29, 1874, and the supplements
thereto; and that the said purposes are lawful and not injurious

the

first

to the

class in the

community

IT IS

;

and

FURTHER ORDERED AND DECREED

that the char-

upon the recording of

be and it is hereby approved and that,
same and its endorsements together with this order in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Columbia County, the subscribers thereto and their associates and successors shall thenceforth
be a corporation for the purposes and upon the terms and under
ter

the

the

name

therein stated.

Witness

my hand and

the seal of the said Court.
Attest:

(SEAL)

CHARLES

C.

EVANS,

President Judge.
H. N.

GUNTHER,
Prothonotary.

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15

Recorded in the office for the Recording of Deeds for the
page 121.
County of Columbia in Charter Book No.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 22nd day of May,
1

,

A. D., 1933.

CARL

H.

(SEAL)

FLECKENSTINE,
Recorder of Deeds.

Upon motion

the following

unanimously adopted? —

By-Laws were submitted and

BY-LAWS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE
BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
ARTICLE

I

Name, Location and Object
Section

1

This corporation

.

OF

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
TEACHERS COLLEGE.
Section 2.

ducted
vania,

The business

at the State

where

all its

shall

THE

be

known

as

the

BLOOMSBURG STATE

of the Association shall

be con-

Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylmeetings shall be held.

promote
and maintaining among its
members a spirit of cooperation with the Officers, Teachers, and
Pupils of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Section 3.

It IS

the object of the Association to

the cause of education

by

fostering

ARTICLE
Section

1

.

The

II

officers of the Association shall

among

be chosen

number and shall be
dent, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
Section 2.
The Board of Directors shall be nine
by

the Directors from

whom

their

a Presi-

in

num-

be elected each year after the year
933 from the membership of the corporation to serve for a
Said Directors shall be elected at the anterm of three years.
nual meeting and shall be organized immediately thereafter and

ber, three of

shall

1

select their officers aforesaid.

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16

Vacancies

Section 3.

in

the Board of

Directors shall

be

supplied by the Board until the next annual meeting; and in case
of the death, resignation, or disability of any of the officers, the

vacancy for an unexpired term

shall

be

filled

by the Board of

Directors.

ARTICLE

III

President

Section

1

The President

.

the Association

shall preside at all

and of the Board of Directors and

meetings of

shall,

with the

all written contracts of the Association and perform such other duties as the Association or Board of Directors
may assign to him. In his absence the Vice-President shall assume. and perform his duties.

Secretary, sign

ARTICLE IV
Secretary

The Secretary shall give notice of all meetings
of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and shall conduct the correspondence and keep the records of the AssociaSection

1

.

complete record of its membership.
be custodian of the seal of the corporation.

tion, including a

also

He

shall

ARTICLE V
Treasurer

The Treasurer shall receive and receipt for all
dues, contributions, and other funds of the corporation

Section
fees,

1

.

(except only such special funds as are in the custody of the
chairmen of standing committees under the provisions of Article
VII of these By-Laws), and shall keep the same in a bank account m the name of the corporation.
He shall keep accurate
accounts of

all

receipts

and disbursements and

shall

report

thereon at each regular meeting of the Board of Directors,

or

whenever so required.
He shall pay all bills when certified for
payment by the President and Secretary and shall, upon request,
furnish such security as the Board of Directors may require. His
accounts shall be audited annually.

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17

ARTICLE VI
Board of Directors
Section
The Board of Directors shall have general
charge and sole management and control of all the funds and
property of the corporation, and shall carry out its purposes,
It shall submit at each annual meeting
subject to the By-Laws.
1

.

a general report of the affairs of the Association.

Board of Directors
Special meetings shall be called by the
shall be held quarterly.
order of the President or upon the written request of any two

The regular meetings

Section 2.

members

of the Board.

Five

of the

members

shall constitute a

quo-

rum.
Section 3.
its

own

Said Board shall have power to frame rules for

regulation and transaction of business.

ARTICLE

VII

Committees
Section

1

.

own membership

The Board

of

Directors

such committees as

as assistants in the performance of
to such duly constituted

move employees,

it

its

elect

shall

may

duties

see
;

fit

from

its

to constitute

and may delegate

committees authority' to hire and

collect, receive,

re-

and disburse funds, make nec-

essary expenditures and generally to

manage

the particular acti-

vity of the association delegated to them.

Section 2.

The following standing committees

pointed by the Board, viz:
A.

A

news

A

shall

Quarterly Publication Committee, whose duty

to stimulate

B.

—

membership by the publication

it

be ap-

shall

be

of a quarterly

bulletin.

Property Committee, whose duty

it

maintain Alumni and Trophy Rooms,

shall

be

solicit

purpose, and receive and expend same;

to furnish

and

funds for said

and

to

have cus-

tody of and properly care for and preserve all trophies,
work of art, furniture, goods and chattels whatsoever be-

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18

longing to the corporation.

Student Loan Fund Committee,

whose duty it shall be to
and disburse all contributions, make loans
and investments and generally to manage said activity.
The chairman of each of said standing committees shall be
elected by the Board of Directors from its own membership and

C.

collect, receive,

such additional members of the Association as

shall consist of

be appointed by the Board of Directors upon recommendation of the chairman.
Each of said committees shall make an
annual report to the Board, and when required shall transfer any
part or all of the special funds in its hands to the Treasurer of

shall

the Association.

The chairman

of each of said standing committees shall act

and disbursed

as treasurer of the funds received

in

connection

with the functions of his or her committee, shall keep accurate
file an annual report of the same with the
Board of Directors two weeks before the annual election; said
accounts to be audited by the Board.
Said Board at any time
may require full reports from said standing committees and shall
at all times be at liberty to control and direct the activities of
said committees and the use and expenditure of the funds in

accounts thereof, and

their hands.

ARTICLE
1

to

for

of

its

.

general purposes as aforesaid, the

One ($1 .00)

Dollar,

lowing classifications
A.

B.

VIII

Membership
Section
Membership in the corporation shall be limited
those persons who shall pay or contribute to the corporation

:

—

and who

shall

minimum annual sum

belong to any of the

fol-

Graduates of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School, and or of the State
Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

—

Former students who were duly enrolled and

in

regular at-

tendance at any of said schools for a period of one

full

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19

school year.
All

C.

members

of the faculties of said schools, past

members

of the

and pres-

ent.

D.

All

Board of Trustees during

their

tenure

of office.

Section 3.

Membership and the

ing of the corporation shall be
failure to

pay

said annual

fee.

A

suspended member may be reinstated into
membership upon payment of all fees in arrears.
Section 3.

full

membership

any meetsuspended upon

right to vote at

automatically

ARTICLE IX
Meetings and Elections

There

be an annual meeting of the cor00 A. M. on such day during
Commencement Week of each year as may be designated by the
College authorities, as “Alumni Day.”
At such meeting three
members of the Board of Directors shall be elected. Nominations for the election of Directors shall be submitted to the meeting by a Nominating Committee appointed by the Board of Directors two weeks before the election.
Nominations may also
be made by any member of the corporation at the time of said
meeting.
Elections shall be by a viva voce vote of the duly
Section

1

.

qualified

shall

10:00 and

poration between

members

1

1

:

of the corporation, unless a written ballot

is

requested by at least five members.
Section 2.
shall

The order

of business at the annual

meetings

be that generally adopted and followed by corporations

si-

milar to this one.
Section 3.

Special

meetings of the corporation

may be

by the President upon the request of the Board of Directors, or upon the written request of any five members.
Such
request, as well as the notice of any special meeting, shall state
the purpose for which the meeting is called, and no subject not
so stated shall be considered at such special meeting.
Ten days

called

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20

notice of

all

member b)'
named address,

such meetings shall be given to each

written communication mailed to his or her last

or by publication in the Quarterly Bulletin of the corporation.
Section 4.

Fifty

members

shall

constitute

a

quorum

at

any general or special meeting of the corporation.

ARTICLE X
Seal

The common or corporate seal of the corporation shall be round, with the name “Alumni Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College” arranged in the form of a
1933’
circle on the outer edge, and the words “Incorporated
Section

1

.

—

arranged across the inside of the

circle.

ARTICLE

XI

Amendments
These By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the corporation, annual or special, by a vote of two-thirds
Three months’ notice of the proposed
of the members present.
amendments shall be given by publication in the Quarterly Bulletin.
All proposed amendments shall be submitted in writing
to the Secretary, accompanied by a request for their adoption
Section

1

.

signed by at least ten members.
U

Eleanor Amos,
schools.

’29,

Her address

Helen Spare, ’26,
schools.

Her address

is

is
is

is

teaching art in

95 North Meade
teaching

the

Wilkes-Barre

Street.

music

in

the

Wilkes-Barre

41 South Sherman Street.

Anna E. Adams (Mrs. H. H. Rohrbach), ’13, lives at 394
Queen Street, Northumberland, Pa. She has two children.
Ethel Altmiller, ’13,

is

teaching

in

Hazleton, Pa.

ceived her Bachelor’s degree at Muhlenberg College

She

re-

this year.

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The 1933 Summer Session
There were several factors that made doubtful any accurate predition as to

the

success

of the

1

933 summer

session.

from which Bloomsburg draws its
summer session students, the teachers have received cuts in salThe same conditions which caused these salary reducary.
tions made necessary an increase in the fees of the summer session.
According to action taken by the State Legislature, the
summer sessions of the State Teachers Colleges were required
to be self-supporting, all expenses to be taken from the receipts,
with no money appropriated by the State.
In order to balance
the budget, it was necessary to charge a fee of five dollars for
each semester hour earned by the student, plus an activities fee
of two dollars.
In previous years the fee had been fifteen dollars.
There was a reduction in the housing fee from forty-eight
dollars to forty-two dollars.
This change meant an increase of
eleven dollars for boarding students, and seventeen dollars for
day students.
As was expected, there was a decrease in enrollment, as
compared with the enrollment in 1932. The enrollment in 1932
was 480, while the figures for 933 show an enrollment of 390.
The same situation prevailed in the great majority of the sum-

Throughout the

entire area

1

mer

schools of the country

this year.

The administration

at

Bloomsburg, however, was greatly gratified by the fact that in
comparison with the figures for 1932, Bloomsburg showed a
smaller percentage of loss than any other Teachers College in
the State.
Great credit is due to the teachers in the Bloomsburg area, who, because of their loyalty to Bloomsburg, and
their loyalty to their profession,

year, in spite of

all

continued their work here

this

the adverse conditions that might otherwise

have kept them away.

An

was arranged to make the
and enjoyable as possible.
There was a
convocation once a week, the program consisting of an address
interesting series of events

session as profitable

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by a speaker prominent in educational circles and two reels of
sound pictures.
The programs as scheduled were as follows
July

5.

—

Speaker
John E. Shambuch, Superintendent of the
Sunbury Schools.
“Articulation Up and Down.”
Sound Pictures “Individual Differences in Arithme-

—

tic.”

July

12.

—

Speakers
C. Valentine Kirby, Director of Art, Department of Public Instruction; M. Claude Rosenberry. Director of Music, Department of Public Instruction.

Sound Pictures
July

18.

Speaker

— “Leaves;

”

—Henry Klonower,

“Plant Traps.”
Director of the Teacher

Bureau, Department of Public Instruction.

— “Development

“Teach-

er Personnel in Pennsylvania.”

Sound Pictures

of

Industry,”

and

“Moths.”
July 25.

—

Speaker F. Herman
Pottstown Schools.

Fritz,

Superintendent

of

the

—

Sound Pictures “Interpendence of Modern Life;”
“Development of Transportation.”
Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, arranged

a

be taught by members of the
College faculty, the purpose being to demonstrate modern classroom procedures. The list of these observation lessons, each of
which was held in the demonstration room of the Benjamin

series of six observation lessons to

Franklin Training School, was as follows;

—

Thursday, June 29 ^Miss Anna Garrison, fifth grade training
teacher: “Teaching of Social Studies.”

—
—

Miss Edna J. Hazen, fourth grade training
Thursday, July 6
teacher: “Teaching of English.”

Thursday, July

13

Miss Mabel Moyer, second grade

teacher: “Language and Social Studies.”

training

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Thursday, July 20
Mrs. Etta H. Keller, sixth
teacher: “Teaching of Nature Study.”

23

grade

training

Thursday, July 27
Miss Ermine Stanton, first grade
teacher: “Teaching First Grade Reading.”

training

—

Monday, July 31

—

Mrs.

Lucille

Baker,

third

grade

training

teacher: “Teaching Primary Numbers.”

¥ * *

The
evening entertainments were provided.
was provided by V. L. Granville, eminent English
who presented his program of “Dramatic Interludes,” in

Three
first

fine

of these

actor,

which he gave, in costume, cuttings from great masterpieces of
the drama.
Mr. Granville has appeared in Bloomsburg several
times before, and is always well received.
Wednesday evening,
July 12, the Boston Art Quartette, assisted by Reginald Boardman, pianist, appeared in a recital that delighted the audience.
Wednesday evening, August 2, the Plymouth Glee Club, of a
dozen voices, under the direction of Llewellyn Llewellyn, gave
a splendid program as the final number of the summer Entertainment Course.

¥ ¥ ¥

The
The

first

social

calendar included

of these

was

three

outstanding

events.

the annual reception of the trustees

faculty to the students of the

summer

and

session.

The second event was the College picnic, which was so sucit will undoubtedly become a permanent feature of
the summer session.
About five hundred students, faculty
members, other employes and their guests were present at the
affair, which was held at Columbia Park.
Two buses and a
large number of private cars formed a procession that made its
way to the park, where the guests spent the afternoon swimming, playing baseball, bowling, and pitching quoits. Two baseball teams, one composed of day students and the other com-

cessful that

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posed of dormitory students, engaged
students winning with a score of 9-7.

A

in battle,

picnic supper, served cafeteria style,

with the day

was served

in

the

park by the dining room staff, with plenty of delicious food for
all.
The evening program consisted of dancing in the pavillion,
with Kindig’s Orchestra, of Berwick, providing the music.

¥ ¥ V
Strickland Gillilan furnished a joyous finale to the
session

mor

Thursday evening, August

at the

annual dinner.

3,

when he

Dr. E. H. Nelson

let

summer

loose his hu-

presided as toast-

master and proved to be a formidable rival to the famous comedian.
The College Orchestra provided a program of music
during the dinner, and group singing was led by Miss Jessie A.
Patterson, of the faculty, and Harry

S.

Barton, a

member

of the

Board of Trustees.
Following the serving of the dinner and after the guests at
the speaker’s table

and the

College
Sutliff.

work
The

at the
list

of the

trustees

wives had been introduced, the

of those

list

and

their

completing

their

College

end of the summer session was read by Dean

included:

Bachelor of Science

Education

in

—
—
—

Frank J. Greco, Catawissa
Commerce.
James K. Hartzel, Almedia Commerce.
Ruth E. Pooley, Bloomsburg Elementary.
Margaret H. Shaffer, Bloomsburg
Elementary.

—
Espy —
—
Kafka, Haddock —
—
Old Forge —

Zela N. Bardo, Millville

Samuel D.

Thomas
Albert

Beishline,

J. Griffiths,

J.

Secondary.

Centralia

Secondary.

Secondary.

Julia E. Petekofsky, Scranton

Miles B. Potter,

—

Secondary.

Secondary.

Secondary.

—Secondary.
—Secondary.

Stanley C. Strausser, Bloomsburg

James H. Williams, Edwardsville

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Normal School

25

Certificates

Gap — Primary.
—
—
—Primary.
—
Anna Mae
—
Frances M. Dymond,
Hause, Berwick —
Mary
Berwick —
Martha
Pack, Glen Lyon —
Josephine
Trevorton —
Marguerite M.
Emma Thomas, Plymouth —
—
Margaret Hauze
Nuremberg—
Bertha M.
Arey, Wilmot —
Joseph
Nuremberg —
M.
Wiconisco —
Kenneth
Marian Van Horn, Huntington
—
Warren W. Watkins, Catawissa —

Elizabeth T. Boyle, Locust

June R. Good, Kulpmont
Rosa D. Hill, Bloomsburg
Ruth M. Lesser, Freeland

Primary.

Primary.

Primary.

Wright, Factoryville
Dallas

Intermediate.

Intermediate.

A.

Intermediate.

Y. Kressler,

Intermediate.

E.

Intermediate.

Partridge,

Intermediate.

J.

Zeigler, Sugarloaf

Rural.

R.

Ethel

Intermediate.

Rural.

Allen,

Rural.

Davis,

A. Roberts,

Rural.

Mills

Rural.

Rural.

Mr. Nelson then presented athletic awards
ing:

Thomas

J. Griffiths,

Miles Potter, and

President Haas gave a

dent body.

of

follovv

encouragement

to the stu

He touched upon tne present economic situation

and the manner

He suggested

word

to the

Warren W. Watkins.

in

which

it

has affected every

field of

endeavor.

what the vocation might be that
they desired to enter, they would hear of overcrowding.
The
fact remained, however, that there never was a time when it was
cheaper or more economical to secure an education than at the
present time, and that likewise there never was a time when an
educated person was of more service to mankind, nor a time
when there was greater need for education in the scheme of
things.
He touched upon the pleasure it gave the trustees and
faculty to join with them in the evening’s dinner, as well as upon
the pleasure it gave the College authorities to note the very large
that no matter

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percentage of former students continuing their work.

The program was then turned over

to Mr.

Gillilan,

who

kept the audience well entertained for half an hour.

The dinner was closed with the singing of the Alma Mater,
and was followed by dancing in the gymnasium.
o

AND MRS. WELSH CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING

DR.

The Morning Press

of July

26 quotes

the following from

the Pleasantville, N. Y., Journal:

“Mr. and Mrs. Judson P. Welsh, of Ossining Road, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Monday, with a
reception

home

for

in the

several hundred

relatives

and friends

at

their

afternoon, and a dinner party at the Nannahagan

Golf Club in the evening.

“The reception was held on the lawn, and was attended
who came many miles to extend their congratulations to the couple. Exceedingly active and vigorous, Mr. and
Mrs. Welsh seemed more alert than many young persons about

by

friends

on their fifty years of married life.
“Mr. and Mrs. Welsh met when both were members of the

to start

West Chester State Normal School. Mr. Welsh was president of
the Bloomsburg State Normal School for sixteen years, resigning to become Dean at the Pennsylvania State College, in which
About sixteen years ago,
capacity he served for four years.
he became associated with the late A. H. Smith and accepted a
position with the New York Central Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs.
Welsh moved to Pleasantville at that time, and have since made
their

home

here.

“The dinner party was given by

their three children,

New York

Welsh, of Rochester; Miss Gertrude Welsh, of

and Mrs. W.

S.

A. Pott, also of

New York

City.

Newtown,

of

Welsh’s bridesmaids

fifty

Pa.,

years ago.”

City

Several hundred

Among them
who was one of Mrs.

guests attended the reception in the afternoon.

was Miss Atkinson,

Fred

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Community Government
BETTY ROW,

at

27

Bloomsburg

’35

The Community Government Association was organized
during the second semester of the year 1927-28.

Every student
and faculty member of the school belongs, ipso facto. The administrative body of the Association is the Student Council. The
Constitution, adopted in the beginning and, with the addition of
a few amendments, still in use, provides that the four CommunPresident, Vice President,
ity Government Association officers
elected by the school at large, shall
Secretary and Treasurer
The other members of
hold similar positions in the Council.
the Council are elected by the groups which they represent and
Man and woman from the four-year Senior
are as follows
group, two-year Senior group. Junior, Sophomore, and Fresh-

—

—

:

man

groups; the President of Waller Hall

Day Women;
Women; Dean of

;

President

of North

Day Men; Dean

of

Hall; President of

President of

Men; Dean

Instruction; Director of Teach-

of

and the Assistant Deans.
The first president was Thomas Welsko, who had, along
with the other officers, the difficult tasks accompanying the eser Training,

tablishment of a

new government.

The next year George Matthews was president. During
that year committees whose work has become so important,
were organized and began to function.
The Dining Room Committee in particular was active in its seating of students at definite

places in the dining room.

The

third year

Edgar Richards was elected president.

that time national professional

fraternities

displaced

At

the local

The Annual Teachers College Faculty Conference was held at Bloomsburg that year.
In addition to
faculty representatives from all of the Colleges, two students
came from each, and meeting with two Bloomsburg representatives, discussed student problems.
Bloomsburg students, under
social fraternities.

the guidance of the Council, acted as hosts to these visiting stu-

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dents.

Thomas Henry headed the organization in the fourth year
and arranged an installation ceremony for officers which was
used that year and in following years.
Three students
Henry
Warman, Grace Callendar, and Thomas Henry were delegates

—

—

to a Student Council gathering at Trenton.

The next year Henry Warman was elected president. Durand Ruth Appleman were sent to

ing that term Rostand Kelly

represent the Student Council at the National Student Federation
of America Conference held at Bucknell University, Lewisburg,

and Sara Lentz was elected “Princess Bloomsburg” for the
Laurel Blossom Festival in the Poconos.
Charles Hensley was the president in
932-33.
During
this year the finances of the Community Chest, formerly administered by the president of the College, were taken over by the
Student Council.
Four delegates
Ruth Appleman, Marion
Hinkle, Rostand Kelly, and Betty Row
were sent by the Council to represent Bloomsburg at the N. S. F. A. Conference held at
the University of Delaware and Laura Kelly was elected to represent Bloomsburg at the Laurel Blossom Festival.
Student representation on the Censorship Committee of the Maroon and
Gold was secured.
Another plan of utmost importance is now
being considered by the administration
that of student representation on the committee that arrange the Entertainment
1

—

—

—

Course.
Since the second year of the existence of the C. G. A., the
committees have been active but during this year their work

was

The following will show briefly some
some accomplishments peculiar to

especially stressed.

of the routine work, and also
this

one year alone:

Hospitality Committee:

Routine

—

— Home Coming,
—Chapel

Alumni

Day,

Rotary-Kiwanis

Banquet.

Innovations

ushers,

campus

guides.

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Fire Drill

Committee:

(New
drill

—

Completed and
whole campus.

year).

this

for the

29

tried out a

complete

—
— Hallowe’en Dance, Mid-Year Dance,
Dance.
— Leap Year Dance.
Dining Room Committee: —
Routine —
arrangements and
—
and
and
Dining Room.
Pep Committee —

fire

Social Committee:

Routine

Spring

Innovation

Usual seating

Innovations

parties.

Suggestions printed for Hosts

Hostesses

for

:

(New

this

To

year).

revive College spirit especially

in

athletics.

Finance Committee:

Work on

—

budget.

Student Welfare Committee:

(New

this

—

To formulate student opinion and conThis committee made recommen-

year).

sider student problems.

dations concerning athletics, library

noises, social

rooms,

two
mass meetings for Student Council and studied a number
eligibility rating for

student

officials;

took charge of

of other student problems.

For the year 1933-34 Alfred Vandling has been elected
president.

were ready to be executday of school in September so that
A. might start promptly, efficiently, and pro-

Plans, already formulated,

ed beginning with the
the year for C. G.

first

fitably.

o

A

daughter was born Sunday, July 30, to Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Guinard, of Bloomsburg, Pa. Mrs. Guinard served for
several years as the efficient secretary to the President of the
College.

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30

Change in Fees
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was allocated
$108,074 for the fiscal year of 1933, as announced by the Department of Public Instruction in making allocations of half of
the three million dollars appropriated for

made

this

biennium.

This

be paid by the students of the College this year.
The increased cost is brought
about by the fact that the State appropriation for the Teachers
Colleges for this biennium is a reduction of $428,000 from that
of 1931-33.
has

necessary a change

Under the schedule
rates for a

full

in the fees to

as set

College year

up

for the

for

coming

fall

term,

boarding students

the

be

will

$344.00 as compared with $328.00 for the past year, and for
day students $92.00, as compared with $40.00 for the past
year.
For the summer session the total for boarding students
was $74.00, an increase of $1 1.00, and for the day students
$32.00, an increase of $1 7.00.
At the past session of the Legislature, the Board of Trustees, with the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, was granted the right to charge such fees as may be necessary for the operation of the College.

These fees consist of a tuition fee of two dollars per week,
but the board has been reduced from eight dollars to seven dolThe reduction in board has to a great extent
lars per week.
offset the tuition charges, as far as the boarding students are
concerned.
In the new rates an effort has been made to have
the boarding students and the day students each pay an equitable share of the expenses.

Under the arrangements
by

e students will

go

to the

for this biennium, all fees paid in
State, as in

the

past, but

will

be

des gnated for the use of the institution from which they are received.

For the past several yeais

all

receipts

have gone

to the

State Treasury, but have been distributed on a differc nt basis.

For the past

se\'eral years, the

money paid

in

by the

stu-

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31

dents of the various State Teachers Colleges has been included
with the money appropriated by the State, and has totaled ap-

proximately $10 000,000 but for no biennium has the State apits fourteen Teachers Col-

propriated more than $4,955,000 for

The above amount was appropriated for the biennium
929-3
and since that time there has been a steady reduc-

leges.

of

1

1

,

tion in the State appropriation.

The amount appropriated for the biennium beginning in
1927 was $4,600,000. This was the time when Teachers Colleges were given the right to grant degrees, and courses were
extended to four years for those seeking degrees.
The next
biennium, the appropriation was increased to $4,955,000, but in
In fact, it was
1931, the amount was reduced to $4,440,000.
cut to $3,428,000, for the special session of 1932 reduced the
amount almost a million dollars, and this reduction all came
from the

last

year of the biennium.

The combining

of the six million dollars paid in

dents of the various colleges

in

health service, books, supplies, and other items

appropriation has led
of that

many

by the

stu-

board, room, laundry, athletics,

to believe that this

appropriated by the State.

This

with the State

money was

part

circumstance came

about through a change in the policy at Harrisburg in 929, for
the paying in to Harrisburg of all fees paid by the students, and
having them reappropriated back to the Teachers Colleges. For
the past biennium, the students have paid almost twice the
1

amount of the State appropriation.
The following table shows the comparison
paid

this

year with those paid

last

of the fees to be

year:

Boarding Students

1932
Board, Room, Etc.

Enrollment Fees

1933

$288.00
40.00

Board, Room, Etc.
Activities Fees

Contingent Fees
Total

$328.00

Total

$252.00
20.00
72.00

$344.00

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32

Day Students
$ 40.00

Enrollment Fees

Contingent Fees
Activities Fees

$ 40.00

Total

$ 72.00
20.00

$ 92.00

Total

The above figures are for the whole year. Half of the
above amount is to be paid in at the beginning of each semester.
The allocations to the various Teachers Colleges for the
current

fiscal

year are as follows

Bloomsburg
California

Cheney
Clarion

East Stroud' jurg

Edinboro
Indiana

Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville

Shippensburg
Slippery

_

Rock

West Chester

_

.

$108,074.00
109,086.00
40,943.00
59,897.00
97,901.00
93,865.00
„ 154,160.00
91,421.00
84,986.00
104,947.00
88,351.00
„
100,295.00
116,391.00
149,060.00

o
Prof. D. S. Hartlme
citis at

line’s

underwent an operation for appendi-

the Bloomsburg Hospital Sunday, August 20.

condition

the latest

was

news available

well on the

way

Mr. Hart-

for a time quite serious, but according to
at the time of

going to press, he

is

to recovery.

o

Walter Bower,
ton, N.

ematics

J.

m

13, lives at

Mr. Bower

is

997 Sanford Avenue,

a teacher in the

Irving-

Department of Math-

the F. H. Morrell High School, in Irvington.

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Trophy Room
Following
to

August

1

5,

1

is

a brief statement of the

933

Trophy Room Funds

:

Cash From Classes Holding Reunions on May 27, 1933
From Members 6f Faculty Not Graduates of B. S. T. C.
Other Sources
July 13
Members of Class of 1913
August 1 Class 1908 (William Rarich, Treas.)

—
—

$183.50
15.00
6.17
5.00
34.50

$244.17

Total

LIABILITIES

AUGUST

15,

1933

—

Balance Due on Trophy Case Creasy and Wells
78.00
$
Note Held by Bloomsburg Bank and Columbia Trust Co.
(Interest Paid to August 15, 1933)
702.00
Loan From Quarterly Fund
450.00
$1230.00

Total

CLASS PLEDGES STILL UNPAID
1879
1886
1894
1899
1905
1906
1910
1912
1915
1920
1925
1927
1929

$

212.00
15.00
Total Unpaid

NOTE:

2.00
7.00
41.50
3.00
62.50
44.00
99.00
80.00
4.00
80.00
4.00

— Pledges made by

$654.00
classes

who had reunions May

27, 1933,

are not here noted.

SOURCES OF FUNDS
Contribution From Classes
Contributions From Quarterly Fund
A. A. U. W. Club
(Pearl Mason, Treas.)
Faculty Not Graduates, But Hon. Mem. of Alum.

—

$2168.82
400.00
20.00
29.00

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34

Unknown

.33

Accumulated Interest

7.56
10.55

Special

Total paid in to Treasurer
$2636.26
Contributions of members of the faculty who are graduates
of the school are counted with the contributions of their
respective classes.
0. H. BAKELESS, Treasurer.

NOTE:

—

o

1890
Miss Margaretta Shaw, since 1918 a teacher in the Burn-

ham

At the

schools, retired at the close of the last school year.

time of her retirement, a Lewistown paper paid her the following tribute: “Miss

Shaw has endeared

her care, and to the parents

Many

of the

herself to the pupils under

whom

pupils

she

taught.

expressions of appreciation from interested parents have

been spoken to her.
She has not only been a good teacher, but
she has been a mother to many of them.
She would share with

who come

who had little in
Her chief concern was to make her pupils hapThe Burnham School District will
py and keep them contented.
those

scantily clothed, or with those

the lunch box.

never
of her

know how much this faithful teacher has
own salary to keep certain of her pupils

was considerate, not only
thoughtful

m

providing

Truly her soul was

in

contributed out

She

in school.

of the pupils under her care, but

kindnesses

for

her

was

fellow-teachers.

her work.”
o

L.

Ray Appleman,

’13,

is

Principal of the Vocational High

School at Benton, Pa.
Clara Beers (Mrs.
Pa.

Commodore

Rarich), ’13, lives at Drums,

She has one son, aged two years and a
Olive R. Breisch, ’13

Indianapolis,

Washington

Indiana.

Street.

is

half.

teacher of Grade I-B

Her address

in

in

Indianapol

School 51,
s

is

7903

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Athletics
With nine

more Junior

men returning, together with a dozen or
men who show promise of development, and

letter

varsity

with prospects of having more good material
class than usual, the outlook for a

burg

IS

good

football

in

the

team

first

at

year

Blooms-

very bright.

Coach George Buchheit will be starting his second year as
Maroon and Gold coach. His system is well known to the score
or more of candidates returning, and this will be a great aid in
getting off to a good start.
Captain Freddy Jaffin, of Berwick,
will again play a seven game schedule, but each game on the
schedule is an important one, and there is still a possibility that
an eighth game will be secured for Armistice Day.
Jaffin, Mericle, and Moleski, are three backs returning,
together with Kreitzer and Sopchak, who were playing varsity
football last year until forced out of the

game because

of in-

juries.

Varsity linemen returning include Harter, Kitch, Line, Litwhiler, Skerel, Turse, Kafchinsky,
varsity

men

and

Kelly.

Promising Junior

returning are Boylan, Beck, Dixon, Elder, Kline,

Novak, Rompolo, Ruckle, Sallitt, and Yerko. Lawrence Evangelista is the student manager.
There will be a little over three weeks for practice for the
opening game of the season, which will be with Millersville, the
game being played at Millersville, October 7. In October 14,
Indiana will visit Bloomsburg for the first home game, which will
be one of the big games of the year. After a two-year lapse,
Indiana is back on the Bloomsburg schedule under a two-year
contract, taking the place of California.

Mansfield will play Bloomsburg at Mansfield on October
and the following Saturday, the Maroon and Gold team will
play the Oswego Normal team at Oswego, N, Y.
Bloomsburg
will return to its own field on November 4 to meet East

2

1

,

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Stroudsburg, a leading

The schedule

will close

in the Home Coming Day game.
November 25, when Bloomsburg will

rival,

play at Shippensburg.

As an economy measure,
appropriation

last year,

there

to meet the reduction in the
was no baseball team in 1933.

However, announcement has recently been made that baseball
will be put back on the calendar next spring. More prominence
was given to track and field athletics this year.
o

Miss Arlene Kimbel, of Bloomsburg, and Ernest E. Line,

Jr.

of Alden, were married at Wilkes-Barre, Saturday, June 3. Both

young people are student

member
class of

1

Bloomsburg, the bride being a

at

of the class of 1934,

and the groom a member

of the

935.
o

Clarissa Blakeless (Mrs.

cono Lake, Pa.

Her time

is

Adam

0. Smith), ’13, lives at Po-

much occupied

in

caring

for her

SIX children.

Estella

Callender (Mrs.

I.

J.

H. Wright), ’13, lives at

672

Schuyler Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
o

At the time of going

many
ness
in

to press. Professor F. H. Jenkins, for

years Registrar at the College, and since 1926

Manager

of the

Bloomsburg.

months, and
the worse.

Alumni Quarterly,

is

critically

ill

the Busi-

at his

home

Professor Jenkins has been failing for several

his condition

has recently taken a decided turn for

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THE ALUMNI
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 on our files.
All

of

all

Officers of the

President

—

Alumni Association

R. Bruce Albert,

Vice-President

—

Dr. D.

J.

06, Bloomsburg.

Waller,

Jr.,

’67,

Bloomsburg;

0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg.

Secretary

— Edward
—

Treasurer

F.

F.

Executive Committee
C.

W.

— Fred W.

Diehl, ’09, Danville; Mrs.

’10; Ber-

Funston, ’85, Bloomsburg; Maurice F. Houck,

J. Mahoney,
Bloomsburg; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg.

’09, Wilkes-Barre; Harriet Carpenter,

wick; Daniel
’96,

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg.

H. Jenkins, ’76, Bloomsburg.

o

1875
Lorena G. Evans

Home,

at Third

is

now

living

Avenue and 183rd

at

Street,

the Braker Memorial

New York

City.

1879

Anna

E.

Roxby

lives at

1

12 Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore,

Pa.

1880
away

at the Bloomsburg HosSaturday afternoon, August 19, after an illness of two
weeks. Death was due to complications following an operation

Miss Alice H. Fisher passed

pital

for appendicitis.

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38

Miss Fisher

became

ill

came from

Florida to

visit

her

nephew and

shortly after her arrival.

Miss Fisher had a long and successful career

in

teaching.

began her
teaching career at the McIntyre school m Catawissa Township.
Becoming desirous of specializing in art, she went to Florence,
Italy, where she spent some time preparing herself for that
work.
She then became a teacher in the mission field, entering
that work in 1891. Her first mission was in Chile, and she also
served in Ecuador, Panama, and Porto Rico.
She served as a
missionary for twenty-five years, retired from that work, and
came back to the United States to continue her teaching. She
taught mechanical drawing in Florida, and from there she went
to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York, where she
taught until the time of her retirement from teaching.
Following her graduation from Bloomsburg,

she

Following her retirement, she spent four years with a

nephew

and in October, 1932, she was admitted
Penney Memorial Community for retired ministers
and missionaries at Penney Farms, in Florida.
Miss Fisher was aged seventy-six in January. She attended
fiftieth
reunion at Bloomsburg in 1930. Her death will be
her
greatly mourned by her classmates and friends.
in Pottsville,

to the J. C.

1886
Mrs.

Emma Witmer

Felty lives at 821

West Third

Street,

Abilene, Kansas.

1888

One
lowing:

of the

members

of the class of

1888

reports the fol-

“In addition to our splendid forty-fifth reunion

in

May,

we had another reunion in August. Annie Hine, one of our class
who has stuck to her job for forty-five years, and whose name
was inadvertently omitted from the list
Alumni Day, invited four of her classmates

of those present on
to a picnic at

Benton

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Annie Supplee
Kitchen Sands, of Benton; Lizzie

The following classmates were present

Park.

Nuss, of Bloomsburg;

Ella

39

:

Lewis Price, of Plains; and Mary Taylor Jones, of Scranton.
Mrs. Jones was accompanied by her four daughters,

members

are graduates of Bloomsburg, and
fession.

We

had a most

who

We

reads this will resolve to

—

1938

ion in

of

whom

and a delicious dinner,
hope each member of the
be present at our next reun-

delightful time,

thanks to Annie’s hospitality.
class

all

of the teaching pro-

our fiftieth.”

1889
Irene Stager (Mrs. A. B. Longshore) lives at
Street,

1

1

5 Dewart

Shamokin.

Adelaide

McKown (Hawks)

is

a teacher in the Junior-

Senior High School at Tunkhannock, Pa.

1891
Mrs. Eleanor Daniels

German

lives at

217 Chestnut

Street,

Kingston, Pa.

1892
Flora

Ransom

lives at

386 Rutter Avenue,

Kingston, Pa.

1893
Prof.

W.

R. Bray, for

many

years principal of the Freeland

Mining and Mechanical Institute, and known as one of the most
prominent educators of northeastern Pennsylvania, died Thursday morning, July 3, at the Hazleton State Hospital, where he
had undergone an operation two weeks previously.
Prof. Bray was born at Wanamie, Pa., on July 14, 1873.
He started working in a breaker when he was nine years of age.
He continued his elementary education during his spare time,
later entered the Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which
institution he was graduated at the age of twenty.
While a student at Bloomsburg, he starred as guard on the football team.
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After teaching two years, he returned to Bloomsburg for
advanced work, and then, after teaching another year, he entered Lehigh University with the class of ’99. In 1902 he became principal of the Mining and Mechanical Institute at Freeland, a position which he held until the time of his death. From
a school with a student body of five or six, he built it into a
school whose student body numbers from 125 to 160.
Today
the Institute ranks with the first class high schools and preparatory schools of the Middle Atlantic states.

He was always

a civic leader, ever ready to advance the

cause of public welfare. During the war his services as a speaker

were much

in

demand.

member of St. James Episcopal
member of the board of vestrymen
member of the Freeland Rotary Club

Professor Bray was a

Church, Drifton, and was a
of that parish.

and

He was

a

of the Allentown Consistory of the

Masonic

fraternity.

Surviving him are his wife, two sons, three daughters, two
brothers and two

sisters.

Edna Santee (Mrs. Adam Huntzinger)
20th

lives at

1905 East

Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

Norma

B. Nicholls (Mrs. William L. Davis)

lives at

141"^

Lafayette Street, Scranton, Pa.

1894
Edith M. Nesbit lives at Milton, Pa., R. D. 3.

1895

Mary Pendergast

lives at

918 North

Sixth Street, Harris-

burg, Pa.

1896
Miss Delia E. Geisinger, of Espy, died Tuesday,

May

30,

been ill three days with pneumonia. Miss Geisinger
was a graduate of the Department of Music at Bloomsburg, and
after having

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41

had a large class of pupils
Bloomsburg and Berwick. For over thirty years, she has been
organist and choir director at the First Methodist Church in Ber-

since the time of her graduation, she
in

wick.

Jane Rosser
N.

lives at

9 South Maple Avenue, East Orange,

J.

Millie

died at her

Wagner (Mrs. Calvin D. Yost) of Collegeville,
home July 13, 1932. She is survived by her

Pa.,

hus-

band.

Laura Landis (Mrs.

1898
Behny)

J. J.

lives at

434 Park

Street,

Freeland, Pa.

Bachman lives in Wilkes-Barre,
327 Kidder Street.
1900

Florence E.
dress

is

Friends of Miles

I.

Pa.

Her ad-

Killmer will be interested in the follow-

ing article, which appeared in the

Penn State News of February,

1933:

“The subject of our sketch is a representative of that great
county of Pennsylvania, Berks. Miles I. Killmer opened his eyes
to light of day at Stouchsburg, and from that day to this has
been in constant conflict with the world but at all times climbing
steadily to the top.
“
‘Dutch’ prepared

for college at the Bloomsburg State
Normal School and graduated in civil engineering with the class
of 906. He has been too modest to tell us of his work since
leaving college, but we have learned that he played an important part in the building of the New York Subway Tunnels and
the Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel.
“Mr. Killmer came to New York in 1906. As a former inspector on the Pennsylvania Railroad, he had had considerable
experience working on the various tunnels of that railroad. In
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those days ‘sand hogs’ and engineers

worked

eight

hours

In

pounds of air, and came out only to the intermediate
pressure between locks to eat their lunch. Cases of the bends
were common and fatalities were not infrequent. Conditions
have since been greatly improved as a result of study and experience. Even on the Pennsylvania job, the fatal cases were only
a fraction of what they had been in the earlier days of the Hudson and Manhattan tunnels before the invention of the hospital
lock by an English engineer, F. W. Moir.
“Perhaps one should digress here and explain something
of the use of compressed air in tunneling. From 1879 to the
present time, the City of New York and private agencies have
been constructing tunnels under the waterways dividing the sections of the city. These tunnels provide for railroads, rapid
transit lines, vehicles, and gas and duct lines. One of the first
steps in the design of any tunnel structure is to get a series of
borings from which is plotted a profile showing the depth to the
river bottom, and the depths and character of the earth or rock
strata below the bed of the river. This sectional view is essenthirty-five

tial

as different materials such as sand, clay,

rock, call for different structural designs
of construction.

When

silt,

and

solid or fissured

different

methods

the tunnel passes through solid rock, the

presence of a river alone does not seriously concern the tunnel
builder, but

or

silt,

when

the

work

is

the elimination of water

be done in sand, gravel, clay,
from the heading is of prime im-

to

portance.

“The

first

use of compressed air to keep the water out of

m 879, when work of this character was
performed on a small scale in Antwerp and on a much larger
scale m the commencement of the Hudson and Manhattan Tuna tunnel heading was

nels in

New

1

York. The principle involved

is

simply the balancing

of the hydrostatic pressure of the water in the ground

equal pressure of air

filling

the entire heading.

Some

by an

sort of a

bulkhead must be provided at the shaft or rear end of the tunnel
to confine the air, and locks must be provided to permit the

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43

and out of the workers and the materials. The air
chamber in the bulkhead wall, provided with air
valves and piping, and with a door at one end opening into the
tunnel, and a door at the outer end opening into the lock. When
the bulkhead is in use to confine compressed air in the tunnel,
one door or the other must be closed; indeed it would be physically impossible to open the door against pressure, as even one
pound per square inch totals up to a ton for a door three feet
by five feet.

passing
lock

in

a steel

is

“After

his

work with

the railroad

was

finished,

Killmer

spent some years as foreman of a gang on a rock excavating
job.

It

was while he was in this work that he started wearing a
his working clothes. These derbies have been a fasight in many tunnel headings, and while they no doubt

derby with
miliar

have occasionally softened the impact of an overhead timber
or tie rod, they have served equally well to apprise the gang of
the approach of the boss.
“In 1914,

when

of several East River

the City of

subway

New York

started the building

tunnels, Mr. J. B.

Enow remem-

bered ‘Dutch’ Killmer of the Pennsylvania tunnels, and summoned him for a job as shift engineer at Montague Street. Killmer later became resident engineer. Just before the headings
holed through in a subterranean ridge of rock under the East
River, war was declared, and Killmer resigned to go to the first
officers’ training camp at Plattsburg. At the close of the camp,
he was commissioned as first lieutenant, and assigned to the
28th Engineers, with which outfit he soon went to France, and
served as captain and supply officer.
“After demobilization, Killmer went with Mr. Clifford M.
Holland on the engineering staff of the Hudson River Vehicular
Tunnel.

His service on this

He became one

work extended through nine

years.

of the outstanding figures of that great under-

taking.

“As the work drew

to a close, the

Mason

&

Hanger Com-

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44

pany had just secured the contract of the Fulton Street-East
River subway tunnels. This contract amounting to over $22,000,000, was the largest single contract ever let by the City of
New York, and was a job of unparalleled risk and difficulty.
Killmer was offered, and accepted a post as manager for the
contractor. Later the same company secured the contract for
the Rutgers Street tunnels.

only the simple truth that

It is

Kill-

mer’s unique ability and unsparing devotion to his work contributed largely to the successful completion of these two great

undertakings.”

Verda H.

Correll gives her address as the

Davenport Home,

Bath, N. Y.

1902
Sue M. Knelly

lives at

426

East 26th Street,

New

York.

1904

Anna Goyituey

(Mrs. Fred

W.

of the Indian School at Albuquerque,

Canfield)

New

is

the Librarian

Mexico.

1905
Miss Lulu Brady, retired this year after twenty-seven years
of service as teacher in the schools of Ralpho Township,

Township, Point Township, and Sunbury.

She

is

Rush

a resident of

Elysburg, Pa.
Miss Ida
eral

weeks

Sitler, of Hollins College, Hollins,

this

summer

in

Va., spent sev-

Bloomsburg, renewing acquaintance

many friends, especially the members of
who were in the College when she was a student.

with her

the faculty

1906
Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon)

63 92nd Road, Jamaica,

N. Y.

is

now

living at 168-

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45

1908
Mr. Francis Petrilh, our long

The following

is

a resume of his

“Before coming to Normal,

m

Italy, three

lost

life’s
I

classmate, has been found.

work

attended elementary schools

years; public schools here about four years.

my

graduation at Normal, I taught one year in Allegheny County, and seven years in the Hazleton schools, resigning to come to Philadelphia where there would be a chance to
do further academic work.
“After attending a term at the U. of P. day school, I decided to remain here. The Atlantic Refining Company called me
as their employment man. They had been told of my interest
in languages. The languages were of service up to three years
ago, when immigration restrictions and the substitution of colored for white help made a change in my job necessary.
“I have been working with this company ever since June
9, 1917. For about ten years I kept up the study of Lithuanian,
Slovak, Russian, Polish, German, Magyar, French, Spanish, Italian, even learning to read and understand Yiddish. These, added
to such capital as I did have enough to be able to speak to all
workers employed at the Point Breeze plant of said company.
“Meanwhile I studied short-hand and typing and received
a certificate in 1927 at the evening school, West Philadelphia
High School, on which occasion I was asked to read a paper.
“Kept up my interest in music and played with the Philadelphia Municipal Band in municipal concert tours. Have been
associated with bands of the National Guard of Pennsylvania,
and just now with the 108th Field Artillery.
“In February, 1928, I asked my employers to so arrange
my hours as to enable me to attend classes in the Department
College Course for Teachers at the U. of P., where I have majored in romance languages, with Spanish preferences. I have
also continued my study of German.
“Just now, taking literature courses in Italian, French and
Spanish, and am preparing for the comprehensive examination.
“After

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46

(Letter received just before Twenty-Fifth year class reunion).
“I

am

attend.

very, very sorry that

never

I

‘cut’

cannot see

I

my way clear
May go

a class, and on the 27th of

I

month I expect
would like to see

In the following

class for the last time.

ceive the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

I

to

to

to reclass-

mates who were with me when I was ‘working my way through
B. S. N. S.’ something that has meant so much to me, at least in
the way of satisfaction, and for which I owe much to the broadmindedness of Dr. Waller, who ‘gave me a break’ since I had
had no high school training, having attended American schools
scarcely more than three years after my coming to this country
from Italy.
“I often think of schoolmates on Normal Hill, and of the
members of the faculty. Last summer, m my botany work, on
every trip. Dr. Walter Steckback and I spoke about Prof. Hartline, who had studied with him at West Chester.
“Married. Of two sons, one survives; going on thirteen;
is

in

Junior High.
“I said

not

mean

do
the sense of Alphonse Daudet’s charming

on 27th
in

‘last’

inst.

French story about the

by the enemy.
diploma.

I

It’s

last

I

will

attend the

last class,

but

I

French session before the occupation

the last for this year, before

I

receive the

expect to be able to go on.

“Even away,

I

am

with you

all

m

the spirit of the Class of

1908.’’

Mr.

Petrilli

received his A. B.

Pennsylvania on June 21,

1933.

degree at the University of

Quoting from The Atlantic

The Atlantic Refining Co., it says:
“The Industrial Relations Department is quite proud of one
of its members, Francis Petrilli, linguist, musician and ‘all-around
man’ in the department. Francis was selected to read an essay
at the Commencement of the West Philadelphia High School

Seal magazine of

Evening School, and ably describes the educational facilities of
America of which he has availed himself since he came from
’’

‘sunny

Italy.’

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James

E.

Cumming

s

manager

duties as business

National Catholic Education Association

him

47

to attend the Thirteenth

made

Annual Meeting

it

for the

necessary for

in St. Paul,

Minn.,

shortly after our class reunion.
In this capacity

he had charge of

all

exhibits at the meet-

Mr. Cumming’s paper on “Tax Support of Education

ing.

in the

United States” was of sufficient importance to receive front page
publicity in the St. Paul Daily News.
of Mr.

Cummings with

The paper printed

a great deal of favorable

a picture

comment on

his

remarks.
His article will be published in the September issue of “Co-

lumbia” a national magazine. As soon as this article appears we
have it published in the Quarterly, at the earliest possible

shall

issue.

M. Evelyn Peck
Pa.

Miss Peck

is

lives at

a teacher

106 North Wilbur Avenue, Sayre,
the Science Department of the

in

Sayre High School.

For twenty-five years
Ina N. Arnold.

we have

called one of our classmates

After our June class letter was sent out,

learned that Ina A. Arnold

is

Brandywine Ave., Claymont,

now

Mrs.

Wm.

H. Howell,

1

7

we
W.

Del.

Mayetta Mulligan is Mrs. B. A. McCadden and her address
Main St., Plains Pa. Her summer address, or until the end
of September is Mt. Pocono. She has been married nine years
and we were still addressing her as Mayetta Mulligan.
is

7

Martha Herring Bragg’s address during the winter will be
J. She is a teacher in the Junior

Neikin B’dg., Lakewood,, N.

High School

in that place.

Chairman of the Reunion Committee.
Willie

Morgan

Stein,

(Mrs. Vincil G. Stein)

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48

1910
Louella

S.

Burdick

Crown Point Road,

(Mrs. L.

H. Sinquett)

lives

208

at

Westville, N. J.

1911
Pearle Green (Mrs. D. E. Brome, Jr.) lives at

New

son Avenue,

Brunswick, N.

309

Harri-

West

Pitts-

J.

Lucy M. Hawk, whose home was formerly

in

ton. Pa., died April 9, 1932.

1913
pany

Oscar H. Boyer is manager of the Atlantic Refining Comat Shenandoah, Pa. His home is in Ringtown, Pa.

Arlme Tidd (Mrs. Milton M. Evans)
Catherine A. Malloy lives at

Taylor, Pa.

lives in

5652 Whitby Avenue,

Phila-

delphia, Pa.

203 North Water

Elizabeth K. Scharf lives at

Street, Sehns-

grove. Pa.
Jessie Dersheimer (Mrs.
Avenue, Enola, Pa.

C.

W. Hoover)

Miss Estella Madden, of Centralia,

degree at Temple University

at the

lives at

24 Altoona

received her master’s

June commencement of that

institution.

One

of the interesting features of the reunion of the Class

of 1913 was a
dresses,

mimeographed

the class.

members

For the benefit of

all

activities of

who came

of this class, the data found

lished in this

and future

the

bulletin, stating

and the past and present

m

in

the

names, ad-

members

contact with

this bulletin will

issues of the Quarterly.

of
the

be pub-

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The

bulletin

the following

lists

49

who have

died since grad-

uation: Lila Aston, Donald Baldy, Phoebe Berlin (Mrs. Lee Har-

Harry S. Evans, Harry Funk, Oswell Hutton, Ruth B. MayGertrude Mulligan, Harriet Myers, Elizabeth Porter, Robert

ris),
er,

Schooley, Charles Shuman, George
(killed in action,

Yerg,

and Gabriel Adams

September 26 1918).

1917

Mary

C. C.

Kahny (Mrs.

C. L.

Arnold) gives her address

as the Kiski School, Saltsburg, Pa.

Blanche Caswell

lives at

1918
402 East Main

Street,

Plymouth,

Pa.

1923
Lois

Dodson

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

is

a teacher in the Franklin Street School, at

Her address

is

122 Dana

Street.

1925
Elizabeth Stroh

address

is

is

a teacher

89 North Dorrance

m

the Kingston schools.

Her

Street.

Miss Margaret Rita Fleming, of Kingston, died at her

home

early in September, after a long illness.

1926

.

Ray

K. Hagenbuch, of Bloomsburg,

and Miss Carolyn Thur-

low, of Trappe, Pa., were married Saturday, July 29, at the

Trappe Reformed Church. The ring ceremony was performed
by the bride’s father, the Rev. Dr. H. M. Thurlow, assisted by
the Rev. Arthur C. Ohl. Mrs. Hagenbuch has been employed m
the Philadelphia National Bank, and Mr. Hagenbuch has been
principal of the Trappe School for the past five years. They are
now living at 371 Main Street, Trappe, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Silverman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and former-

50

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ly of

Bloomsburg, have announced the marriage of

daugh-

their

The wedding took place Feb-

Frances, to Arthur Goldberg.

ter,

ruary 25, 1932, at the Jewish Center in Flatbush. Mrs. Goldberg has attended Columbia University, and has taught in Woodbine, N. J., and Long Beach, N. Y. Mr. Goldberg is a graduate
of

Fordham

University,

and

is

associated with a law firm in

Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg are living

Brooklyn.

in

the Prospect

Park Section of Brooklyn, 2111 Beekman Place.
Miss Pearl Gearhart, of Danville, and George F. McCollum,

of Muncy, R. D., were married Saturday, June 3, 1933, at the

Chestnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, at Shamokin.

The

ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. J. Symons, pastor of
the church. Mrs. McCollum taught for three years in the schools
of Upper Augusta Township, after which she was elected to a
position in Sunbury, where she taught up to the time of her marriage. The present address of Mr. and Mrs. McCollum is Strawberry Ridge, Pa., R. D.

1.

1927
Miss Gladys M. Bundy, of Catawissa, and Walter L. Krick,

were married Tuesday afternoon, August
by the
Rev. Mr. Kern, pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
at Nanticoke, Pa.
of Bear Gap,

1

Miss Elsie A. Welliver, of Grovania, and

Sunbury, were married

at the

home

Guy

J.

,

Kline, of

of the bride, Saturday even-

June 7, by the Rev. F. L. Leisey, pastor of the Trinity
Luthern Church of Danville. Mrs. Kline taught for several years
in Pittsburgh. Mr. Kline is employed at the Plum Creek Poultry
Farm, near Sunbury.
ing,

1

Leonard Durkin and Mildred Taylor, both of Scranton,
were married Friday, June 30, by the Rev. Harry F. Babcock,
pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg.

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Helen T. Ceppa

3 West Grand Street, Nanticoke,

lives at

On Monday, August

51

in the

21,

Washington Memorial Cha-

pel at Valley Forge, Miss Phyllis Callendar, of Berwick,
the bride of Arthur Michael, also of Berwick.

years the bride has been a teacher
in

Berwick. Mr. Michael,

who

in the

became

For the past four

Fairview Avenue school

received his Bachelor’s degree at

Bloomsburg in 930, has for the past three years been teacher
of mathematics in the Shickshinny High School.
1

Martha Yavorsky

lives at

446 Columbia Avenue,

Mt. Car-

mel, Pa.

1929
Miss Virginia E. Dawe, of Ashley, and Asher H. Welker, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 7, at the home of
the bride’s aunt, Mrs. Evan Moore, of Berwick. The ceremany
was performed by the Rev. H. F. Babcock, pastor of the First
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. For the past several years,
1

Township schools.
Bloomsburg High School, and is
employed at the Farmers’ National Bank in Bloomsburg. They
are now living on West Main Street, Bloomsburg.
the bride has been teaching in the Dorrance

Mr. Welker

is

a graduate of the

Mary A. Ross has been teaching in Rush Township, Northumberland County.
Miss Ross attended the summer session
of the

Moody

Bible Institute, Chicago.

1930
Snyder has been teaching in the first and second
the Mt. Union School in Ralpho Township, Northum-

Helen
grades at

E.

berland County, Pa., during the past year.
Gertrude Gavey
Michigan.

is

living at

22804 Nona Avenue, Dearborn,

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52

A.

Nevm

Sponseller,

who

a teacher

is

in

the

Hatboro

Temple University

schools, received his master’s degree at

this

year.

On Tuesday,

July 25, at the

home

W.
at

Stiner, of Orangeville. Mr. Stiner

of the bride’s parents,

became

Miss Vera L. Kressler, of Bloomsburg,

is

the bride of Cyril

a teacher in the schools

Susquehanna, Pa., where he and Mrs. Stiner are now

A

son,

John Jasper, was born

Mr. and Mrs. Jasper

to

of Osceola Mills, on Tuesday, July 4.

Miss Kathryn Jones, of Nanticoke.

living.

Fritz,

Mrs. Fritz was formerly

Mr. Fritz

is

a

member

of the

faculty of the Osceola Mills High School.

1931

Announcement has been made

of the marriage of Donald

lola. The
ceremony was performed Saturday, April 15, by the Rev. Mr.
Olmstead, of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Elmira, N. Y.
Mr. Bangs will teach during this year at the Pleasant Valley
school m Lycoming County.

Bangs, of Greenwood, and Miss Lesta Applegate, of

Florence Fawcett and Walter F. Fowler, both of Berwick,
were married Monday, April 29, 1933, by the Rev. J. Howard
Ake, pastor of the Methodist Church at Sunbury. Mrs. Fowler
has been teaching in the schools of Salem Township, Luzerne
County. Mr. Fowler is a graduate of the Berwick High School,
and attended Bucknell University.

A

son, Douglas Alvin, has

liam H. Weaver, of Jerseytown.

Madison Junior High School

at

been born

to Mr.

Mr. Weaver

is

and Mrs. Wil-

a teacher

in the

Jerseytown.

Miss Grace Linskill, of Pottsgrove, Pa., and Frank Martin,
of East Orange, N.

J.,

were married Tuesday, February

Martin served for several months as assistant teacher

14. Mrs.
in

a pri-

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vate school for backward children at East Orange.
IS

engaged

in

same

the contracting business in the

Mr. Martin

city.

Harold H. Lanterman is instructor of Science in the Berwick High School. In October, 1931, Mr. Lanterman married
Miss Marthena Heller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Heller,
of Berwick.
Lillian

Her address

Mann
is

1

is

teaching

24 Linden

in the

Don

Miss Aileen Cole, of Bloomsburg, and

Berwick, were married
has been teaching at

ager of the

in

West

schools of

Pittston, Pa.

Street.

June

Millville,

Montgomery, Ward

at Elgton,

and Mr.

&

H. Miller, of

Maryland. Mrs. Miller

Miller

is

assistant

man-

Co., store at Berwick.

Helen Appleman has been elected to the position of teacher
in the

intermediate grades

in

the Valley Consolidated School,

Montour County, Pa.
Florence Bettens will teach during the coming year

primary grades

in the

Winifred Shultz

in the

Riverside School, Danville, Pa.

is

teacher of third grade

in the

schools of

East Berwick.

1932
Nick Rudowski
tion, Pa.

A

lives at

44 West Kirmar

.Avenue, Alden Sta-

recent issue of the Wilkes-Barre Record carried the

following item regarding Mr. Rudowski’s present activities:

“Nick Rudowski, prominent young

man

of

Newport Town-

ship, has accepted a position with the Prudential Insurance

pany.
’28,
is

He was

a graduate of the

and Bloomsburg State Teachers College,

an all-round star athlete.

ity

Newport High School,

class of ’32.

Nick

His genial disposition and personal-

have won for him a legion of friends,

success in his undertaking.’’

Com-

class of

all

of

whom

wish him

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Lois M.

Heppe has been teaching

in the first

grade

in the

schools of Sheppton, Pa.

Hope Richard has been teaching
grades

in the

and fourth
Ralpho Township, Northum-

Mt. Union School in

in the third

berland County, Pa., during the past year.

1933
Announcement has

recently been

made

of the marriage of

Miss Thaylia Andes, of Espy, and John Timbrell, of Berwick.

The marriage took place

1933.

at Easton, July 31,

Miss Marjorie Jones has been elected to a position in the

consolidated school at Slocum, Pa.

Wilbur E. Hower, of Berwick, has been elected teacher of
English and Social Studies at the Huntington Mills High School.

Miss Marion

teach

in

Van Horn,

of Southdale, has been elected to

the e'ementary grades in the schools of Huntington

Mills, Pa.

Robert Parker has been elected teacher of chemistry,
mathematics, and social studies

At a luncheon given

in the Millville

at the

home

High School.

of the bride’s parents,

Wednesday, June 21, announcement was made of the marriage
of Miss Ruth Appleman, of Benton, and Dean Pealer, of Fishingcreek Township. The ceremony was performed May 28, 1932,
by the Rev. C. H. Kichline, at that time pastor of the Orangeville
Reformed Church. Mr. Pealer is a graduate of Benton High
School and has attended Pennsylvania State College. He is now
engaged in farming with his father. Mr. and Mrs. Pealer are
nov»' living

m

Fishing Creek Township.

Stanton Lillibridge, of Smethport, Pa., died at the General
Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y., on Sunday, June

by

colitis,

1

1

from which he had been suffering

,

death being caused
for ten months.

He

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was twenty-two years of age
He was a graduate of

55

at the time of his death.

the Smethport High School in the

class of 1928, attended the State Teachers College at Indiana,

and then came to Bloomsburg. While at Bloomsburg, he was a student in the Department of Commerce.
He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C.
Pa., for a year,

W.

Lillibridge,

tendent of the

and four

Mr. Lillibridge

sisters.

McKean County

is

the superin-

Schools.

Vivian Yeany, of Bloomsburg, has been elected teacher of
commercial subjects in the high school at Hickory, Washington
County, Pa.

Fred Kester has been elected teacher

m

the schools of

Tunkhannock.

Thomas Coursen has been named
at the Larksville

assistant football

coach

High School.

Emma

Roberta Smith, of Wallis Run, near Williamsthe work of the Freshman year in June,
died Thursday, July 3, in a Williamsport hospital following an
Miss

port,

who completed

1

operation for appendicitis.
o

NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Again the old-fashioned basket picnic has become quite
we now say, modern. On June 7, at the Valley
Forge picnic grounds on the hillside, we had a most delightful
day, with about forty-five present to enjoy each other and that
The morning was grey and threatening,
glorious sacred spot.
a circumstance which we felt would keep away many who lived

popular, or as

1

some distince, but the rain ceased, the sun came out about
11:00 o’clock, and the afternoon and evening could not have
Indeed, a number stayed until darkness came on
been lovelier.
to send us homeward.

at

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Willow Grove, we had regular
weather.
There were quite a
number of new faces. How we wish we might mention the
names and tell you more about them
But time and space will
not permit.
We had about fifty out. The years represented
ranged from 1883 (Christine Woolcock Parmley, ’83, with her
daughter and grand-daughters) to several girls from the Class
of 1923.
Saturday,

July

Bloomsburg weather

15,

—

at

picnic

!

Saturday, August 19, another picnic was held at the West

Town

School for Girls

thirty-five

were

in

—

able day, every one voting

we had

the picnic

you

in detail

October
meetings.

1

4

We

a thoroughly enjoy-

a success.

looking forward to next summer’s picnics.
tell

About

a beautiful place for a picnic.

attendance, and

We

All will

wish

we

be

could

about these gatherings.
is

the date for the

first

of our monthly luncheon

look forward eagerly to these monthly

gather-

These are to be held the second Saturday of
the Paul Revere Room, m Gimbel’s restaurant,

ings at Gimbel’s.

each month, at
seventh

floor.

The

final

get-together of the

home

summer season was held

at

Edwma

Wieland Bronse, Washington
No
on Saturday, September 16.
more pleasant fellowship could have been enjoyed than on that
Though the inclement weather kept away almost half of
day.
those who expected to attend, thirty brave souls were there, re-

the beautiful

of Mrs.

Gardens, Norristown,

Pa.,

gardless of the phophesied

show how much “The

“Nor’easter.”

Spirit of

This

only

goes to

Bloomsburg’’ means to the Phila-

delphia Alumni.
In

paying tribute

to Professor 0. H. Bakeless,

one of our best

loved professors, and an active member of the Philadelphia
Alumni Association, Mrs. Cool said, “We are greatly grieved and
shocked to learn of our dear friend’s passmg on, but we are glad
that he died as he lived, busily engaged in the Master’s work.’’

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After the tribute, Mrs. Cool read a letter from Mrs. Bakesays, “He was happily active during his last
work he loved best.” This brings to mind his saying to us at our 932 banquet, “All I want when I get to Heaven
God grant him his wish.
is to go on teaching.”
Miss Claire Keating was co-hostess for the day.
Her cakes
were very much appreciated by all present. Right here we
want to mention the two delightful young sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Bronse, who played a large part in making our affair so enjoy-

less, in

hours

which she

in the

1

able.

Mrs. Cool then asked the
of the city and

its

members

living in various sections

suburbs to hold regional parties, thus keeping
Association.

alive the interests of the

teered to do so, and

we

Several

women

volun-

expect an even greater enthusiasm for

Old Bloomsburg during the coming season.

A

vote of thanks, consisting of hearty applause, was then

given to Mrs. Bronse for her delightful hospitality, and to Mrs.

Cool for planning

We

then

this affair for

wended our

our pleasure.

various

ways homeward, happy

after-glow of being with congenial

friends, all

same purpose: “A bigger and better and more
our Alma Mater, the Bloomsburg State Teachers

fired

loyal spirit”

’08, Sec’y.

to

College.

FLORENCE HESS COOL,
JENNIE YODER FOLEY,

in the

with the

’88, Pres.

1855

FRANCIS

H.

JENKINS

1933

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Prof. Francis H. Jenkins, one of the last

remaining

mem-

bers of that revered “old guard” that carried on during the darkest

days of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, died

at

5:40

o’clock Saturday evening, September

ness of several months, during the last two

condition had been

at his

home

30, after an

weeks

of

which

ill-

his

critical.

Retiring in 1925 from active service at the institution after

41 years of work. Prof Jenkins maintained an active interest in
the school and its alumni, served as business manager of the
Alumni Quarterly, and was active in its revival.
Graduated Here

Leaving

his

impress on thousands of students at the school.

was a graduate of the institution before becoming
a member of the faculty, and for eleven years taught English.
At the end of that time he became the business manager and
bursar and nursed the precarious finances of the school through
Prof. Jenkins

the darkest hours.

Upon

the occasion of his retirement in 1925, glowing

bute was paid to

and

his

work with

a dinner tendered

tri-

by the faculty

trustees.

was born March 15, 1855, in Cittenango,
Madison County, New York, and was educated in the public and
private schools there.
In 873 he entered the Bloomsburg Normal School as a student and graduated in 1876 from the College
preparatory course.
In 1876 he entered Amherst and studied
Prof. Jenkins

1

there until 1878,

887

when typhoid

fever prevented his return.

In

was conferred on him by Pennsylvania
College at Gettysburg.
From 1880 to 1884 he was principal of
the schools of Easton, N. Y., and returned to Bloomsburg in
1

the degree of A. M.

1884.

On December 22, 1880, he married Anna M. Bittenbender,
daughter of one of the original trustees of the school, who survives him, together with one daughter, Mrs. R. A. McCachran, of

Camp
ran.

Flill,

Pa.,

and two grandsons, Robert and Russel McCach-

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Tribute in Obiter

The Obiter, the College yearbook, was dedicated to him in
1920, and the Class of 1927, in its Obiter, paid the following
tribute to him under the heading, “An Appreciation;”
“In the

fall

when

of 1925,

a large majority of the Class of

1927 entered the Bloomsburg State Normal School for the first
man who had given 41 years of faithful work to the
This
school he loved so well, was retiring from active service.
was Prof. Francis H. Jenkins. In speaking of the years spent
at the Normal School, Prof. Jenkins says:
They have meant
much to me. I came here as a boy of 8. I am now a man of
70.
All my life from 18 to 70 has been lived here except 8
years.
I have been privileged to work and I like nothing better
than work.
My wife and I have our home, made possible
through our earnings here
a home that we love and hope to
keep as long as we live.
What more could one ask for? I
t’me, a

1

—

could not ask for more.’

“No one who watches
hind the western

hills

can

the

summer sun as it slowly sinks bewonder at and be impressed by

fail to

So are we impressed by the inthe Normal School he has given
much in strength and devoted effort. In days of need, the
school never had a better friend.
The institution is better bethe beauty of

afterglow.

its

fluence of Prof. Jenkins.

'

To

cause of the excellence of his service to it.
After these years of
honorable service we want him to know that we appreciate what

mean

and to the classes to come.”
The Early Days
When Prof. Jenkins came to the Normal School there were
2 members of the faculty, and the student body numbered 16
girls and 156 boys, of whom there were 19 boys and four girls

his efforts

to us

1

1

in the

dormitory.

rooms were on the first floor of Institute
and the auditorium during the year was fitted up for a

All of the class

Hall,

study

hall.

There were but two buildings

at the school then, the Instl-

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tute Hall
in

and the dormitory, and the

latter

was destroyed by

fire

1875.

When

Prof. Jenkins took

small and disorderly library,

it

upon himself

to clean

out the

he was promptly made librarian

and served until he requested to be relieved.
Later the principal asked for his assistance in handling detail work and he was

named

Registrar, a designation that continued until the reorgan-

ization

m

1

920, when he was named Bursar.

Always

in the

years he handled the school

finances. Prof.

There were times when teachers’
pay checks were held back from three to six months, and times
when it was necessary for Prof. Jenkins to borrow on his own
note to pay the help.
His rule with respect to payment of
teachers in those dark days was to give the first available checks
to the teachers who resided in homes m town and had rent and

Jenkins paid himself

last.

expenses to pay, and to hold back

living

until

last

those

who

lived at the school.

At one time unpaid

000 and

bills

due the school amounted to $28,and obtained more

Prof. Jenkins set about to collect,

than $22,000.

Competition in those days was extremely keen.
Students
were solicited, and teachers during the summer time worked at
$10.00 a v\'eek and expenses in soliciting students. Prof. Jenkins for years was in charge of this work.

he became treasurer and business
Alumni Quarterly and continued his active interthe last few months.

Following

manager
est up to

his retirement

of the

He was
of the Royal

a charter member of the Kiwanis Club, a member
Arcanum and of the Lutheran Church. He was

treasurer of the College Alumni Association at

the

time of his

death.

Funeral services were held at

2:00

o’clock

Tuesday

noon, October 3, at the home and was in charge of Rev.
S. Wolf.
Bur al was made in Old Rosemont Cemetery.

after-

Norman

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