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THE ALUMNI
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JANUARY, 1936
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

JANUARY,

37

NO.

1936

1

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July

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

Pa..

H. F.

MRS.

FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.

JENKINS,

’12

Editor

Business Manager

’75

DUTIES OF A DEAN
cv

snort time spent in the office of Dr. Marguerite Kehr,

Women

Dean

of

Bloomsburg, gives an idea of the great variety of duties
the position entails. It is an occupation which includes much routine, but not a trace of monotony. There is a sort of motion picture,
with incidents ranging from farce to tragedy, going on before her all
the time.
Dr. Kehr has helped to solve a multitude of individual problems
in her capacity as adviser and aid to the college women.
She has
taken it upon herself to try to see that the shy girls overcome their
shyness, and that the noisy ones get toned down. When roommates
who clash over borrowed clothing, grades, or tidying up the room,
become too incompatible, she must separate them.
She must see that the enterprising Freshman gets on a committee, and she must try to persuade the discontented to stay in school.
She must often bring her problems before parents, perhaps suggestat

ing to them that their opposition

may

precipitate a

runaway mar-

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riage, or

perhaps soothing them when their daughter gets a

D

in-

stead of an A.

“Their individual problems are without end,” Dr. Kehr states.
my time on these alone to very good advantage.
For instance, there are the difficulties which many students
have with student teaching. This is a sort of acid test, and many
“I

could spend most of

girls

have a hard time.

“Then there are the
in the majority of cases,

At times

I

must

girls
it is

try to hold

who have

physical handicaps, although

inspiring to see

back the

girl

how girls overcome this.
who is too ambitious for

her strength.”

Problems arise over dress, manners, and standards of dancing.
At the present time Dr. Kehr is experimenting with a group of fifteen girls who want to study good manners.
Sensitive girls often seek the dean when they want to confide
that they are afraid of a teacher, or that an instructor is “down” on
them. Troubles at home which affect the girl’s life at college must
often be taken into consideration, and among the saddest tasks is
that of delivering death messages and other bad news, accompanied
by writing notes of sympathy.
“At the

first

of the year,” states Dr. Kehr,

“we have

the

home-

although there was not much trouble this
year, because of the excellent work of the upper classmen in helping
to orient the newcomers. Serious discipline cases are very few, and
most troubles are due to carelessness or acting upon impulses.”
sick

Freshman

to consider,

Many enduring friendships have been made by Dr. Kehr in the
very personal relationship she maintains with the students, and she
can claim many close friends and some “grandchildren” in various
parts of the country, and also in one foreign country.
“One learns,” she remarked, “how to keep cool, how to understand people, and how to reserve judgment, because you can never
tell what the individual is going to do or why she is going to do it.”
Even in the routine work, emergencies arise, when the Dean
must drop everything else for the time being. The office must be
open part or all of the seven days of the week from eight in the
morning until ten at night.
Conferences of administrative officers, faculty meetings, and
faculty committee meetings take hours of the Dean’s time.

her

own

office,

Within

she has enough routine matter to furnish employment

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for about fifteen girls.

The work includes such

3

activities as

handling

records for signing in and out, excuses for absences, guest cards,
files, lists, records, and general information and service when other
offices are closed.

Questionnaires and inquiries are sent out from this department,

and also recommendations of students for positions. Correspondence
must be maintained, and conferences arranged with parents.
But Dr. Kehr's special interest is in the two hundred girls living
on the campus in Waller Hall. The Dean, the Assistant Dean, and
five faculty

women

live in the dormitory.

The Dean must work

in cooperation with the dietitian, the resident nurse, and the superintendent of buildings and grounds in her
concern over living conditions. From her office must come the
assignment of rooms, regular inspection of the building must be
made, and girls must be educated on the proper care of their rooms
and personal belongings.

Working

in cooperation with the

Dean

the welfare of the dormitory students

is

in all matters concerning

the

Waller

Hall

Student

Government Association. The Association is composed of all dormitory women, and is a legislative, executive, and judicial body.
Each woman member of the faculty resident on the campus has
a group of girls from one class who form her “clan.” Dr. Kehr has
Seniors in her group, which is called “Kehr's Kultured Klan.”
The
relationship is informal and social, as the groups meet for good times
activities as they may choose, convening for various conthroughout the year. The Kultured Klan are now practicing

and such
tests

bridge.

Another group which the Dean supervises through the Assistant Dean, Miss Ethel A. Ranson, is composed of 140 girls who live
off the campus.
This group includes commuters, and also about
thirty girls who live with relatives or work for board in Bloomsburg.
The Dean’s office keeps in touch with each of the girls and their
homes.

Among some

which bring the Dean in contact
employment of them for work for the College, which supplies about thirty girls with work, and also for the
NYA, which provides work for sixty, and for board and room positions, which take care of about twenty-five girls.
She recommends girls for Summer positions at a children’s
with

all

the girls

of the activities

is

the

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New York, where B. S. T. C. girls have
been employed for eight years. The girls doing student teaching in
Williamsport are also under her jurisdiction. She cooperates witn
the Dean of Instruction and the faculty in promoting good scholar-

hospital on Staten Island,

ship.

One of her most enjoyable activities in connection with her work
was the chaperoning of a group of twelve girls when went to New
York this year for a week-end of sight-seeing.
Besides her work with women students, Dr. Kehr shares with
Dean of Men the responsibility of working with the entire student body of 598. The student body is organized as the Community
Government Association and includes students and faculty. The
the

Association’s governing

body

is

the Student Council.

“Student leadership at B. S. T. C.,” says Dr. Kehr,
good earnest, sincere, and capable.”

“is

—

unusually

Vocational guidance at Bloomsburg is not so necessary as in
other types of Colleges, because most of those who enroll here have
already chosen teaching as their vocation. The vocational guidance
them to choose the type of teaching that

offered at the College helps

they want to do, and also helps them to secure positions.
this capacity that the
is

It is

Dean’s knowledge of students’ personal

in

traits

especially valuable.

Men and

Women

devote much time to
be valuable as recreation, and also as training.
An attractive appearance and manners,
they assert, help one to secure and hold a position.

The Dean

the social

of

life of

the

Dean

of

the students, believing

it

to

Matters concerning the health of students also come under the
The Dean works with the resident
“Bloomsburg is a
nurse, the dietitian, physicians and parents.
healthy place,” declares Dr. Kehr. “Most students gain weight because of regular hours, exercise, and scientifically planned meals.”
list

of the Dean’s activities.

In emergencies, accidents, and sickness, the

when

Dean

acts for the

She
and the nurse usually stay with the girls who must undergo an operation.
They remain with the patient until the operation is over.
Regular visits must be paid to girls who are sick in the infirmary or
College, and also for the parents,

they cannot be there.

the hospital.

Even oratory comes under the
frequently

is

called

upon

to

duties of the Dean’s position.

speak at assembly,

girls’

She

meetings, and

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Attendance

before organizations.
“It

is

fortunate that

at

5

most College events is expected.
dramatic performances, and

like athletics,

I

other student events,” observed Dr. Kehr.
She helps with conventions and meetings held on the campus,
helps entertain college visitors, and helps to get new things started.
Poetry Committee, in which she was interested last year, has developed into a Poetry Club this year, and will issue a book on verse

A

by B. S.
But

T. C. students
all

and

faculty.

these activities are within the College.

to develop her

own

and

A

Dean, in order

give proper

perspective to
her work, must have outside interests and contacts. She must maintain membership in professional organizations; she must be active in
community life, and keep in contact with student affairs in the state

and

personality,

to

in the nation.

BLOOMSBURG BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

—December
—December
Monday— December
Saturday —January
Wednesday —January
Thursday—January 23
Friday—January 31
Saturday—February
riday —February
Saturday — February
Friday—February
Saturday —February
Thursday—February 20
Friday —February
Saturday —February 29
Friday
Friday

Alumni,

6

16

Susquehanna,

.

Lock Haven,

15

at

Mansfield, at

_

1

at

Mansfield,

11

1

at

Ithaca, at

13

Shippensburg,
Millersville,

_

Shippensburg, at
East Stroudsburg, at

7

8

Lock Haven,

14

Indiana,

15

East Stroudsburg,
Millersville, at

21

Susquehanna,

home.
home.
home.
away.
home.
home.
away.
away.
home.
home.
away.
away.
away.
home.
away.

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Ray McBride, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray McBride, of Berwick, has
been elected President of the Freshman class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. McBride is a member of the College Band,
the College Orchestra and the Maroon and Gold Dance Band.

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THREE CONVENTIONS HOLD SESSIONS AT BLOOMSBURG
be a busy one at the Teachers
during the day. The
county school directors discussed possible WPA projects on new
buildings and the program of the schools for the future, while the
Friday,

October

18,

proved

to

College, with sessions of three conventions

79th

Annual County Institute also was in session.
The afternoon also marked the opening of the

Convenfrom seventeen counties attending. The program opened at two o’clock, and
the sessions in the evening and Saturday morning were held in conjunction with the Institute. The afternoon was devoted to business,
following greetings by Mrs. J. J. Fisher and the response by Mrs. H.
T. Keiser, the President of the district.
Both district and state offiDistrict

tion of the Parent Teacher’s Association, with delegates

cers attended.

LARGER DISTRICT LIKELY TO COME FOR RURAL SCHOOL

“The larger school district is a certain product of the future and
community with a modern school building is the one which will
hold its identity and remain a civic center,” school directors of Columbia County were told Friday morning, October 18, at the Teachers College, in one of the most important sessions of its kind held in
a number of years.
Charles Hilbish, Superintendent of Northumberland County
Schools and W. W. Evans, of this county, spoke on present trends
and the opportunity provided districts at this time, when the PWA
offers labor cost and part of the material cost, in some cases, on the
the

smaller projects.
Mr. Hilbish spoke of the
that of a larger school area.

many problems of the day, including
He spoke of a modern school building

as something which will build a better society, and spoke of the need
of moulding leading in each community.

wanted or not,”
if a community
erects a modern building it will remain a community center even in
case of consolidation. He spoke of the advisability of building now,

“The larger school unit

is

is

the opinion of Mr. Hilbish.

coming whether

He was

it is

confident that

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when Federal

help

is

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available and believed that in the next seven or

much higher, because of cheaper money,
and such Federal aid cannot be obtained.
Superintendent Evans spoke of the many townships which would
greatly improve their schools by consolidating and of the splendid
eight years prices would be

opportunity

now

available.

A number

of the directors took part in

a lively discussion of school problems and the exchange of ideas and

experiences proved of

much

benefit to

TEACHERS HEAR

all.

L. H.

DENNIS

The importance of vocational work in preventing social maladjustments was emphasized before the teachers of Columbia County
at the afternoon's Institute session. Friday, October 18, by Lindley H.
Dennis, a former county teacher, and now Executive Secretary of the
American Vocational Association.
"Keeping Abreast of the Times in Education,” was his subject,
and it was handled in his usual forceful manner. He referred to his
service as a teacher at Lime Ridge and Orangeville and to the fact
that his wife was an Orangeville native.
Mr. Dennis pointed out that real teaching consists of teaching
the child and not the subject, and declared that as the teacher grows
in experience and years, he must experience care to see that the
teaching is approached from the standpoint of the child rather than
that of the adult.

He urged
in

an

the teachers to put themselves in the place of the child,

effort to

understand that the youngster cannot be made to

fit

enough

to

any given mould, but that the curriculum must be

elastic

care for the varying capabilities of the child.

One of his most striking illustrations concerned the prison at
Jackson, Michigan, the largest in the world, and holding 5000 prisoners. Two thousand of that number are between sixteen and
twenty-five years of age, and most of them, Mr. Dennis declared, are
there because of social maladjustments.
Many of those maladjustments can be eliminated through the

proper vocational training, he declared.
He spoke of the changing methods in education and of the fact

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that even the child

is

quick

to

appreciate the teacher’s approach to a

problem from the youngster’s standpoint.

CO-OPERATION OF HOME AND SCHOOL URGED BY PTA

Climaxing with a joint dinner and evening program with the
teachers of Columbia County gathered in their annual Institute, the

annual convention of District 2, Parent Teachers Association of the
opened at the Teachers College Friday, October 18, with representatives of associations in eleven counties in central and northern Pennsylvania in attendace.
Mrs. Howard Hall, of Williamsport, President of the state organization, was the principal speaker during the evening, and emphasized the great work being done by the organization. Following the
dinner in the College dining room, attended by several hundred, a
two hour program was held in the auditorium, and a reception and
social hour in the gymnasium followed.
One of the most delightful features of the auditorium program
was the first presentation of the motion picture “Human Heritage,”
made by Prof. George J. Keller, of the Teachers College faculty, emphasizing the important part that art can play in every day life.
Principal L. P. Gilmore, of the town schools, presided at the dinner in the absence of Harold Hidlay, ill in the hospital. Singing was
led by Mrs. H. T. Keiser, Mrs. Raymond Kashner and Miss Harriet
Moore, and Mrs. H. T. Keiser, of Sunbury, the District President, responded briefly.
State,

Miss Maree Pensyl, of the town school faculty, spoke of the
changes which have taken place in recent years, and declared that

more pupils are looking to school as a means to get ahead. The
youngster is being treated as an individual, and the relation of the
parent to the school has taken on a new outlook. Credit for bringing
the parent and the school into closer relationship, she said, belongs
to the Parent Teaching Association.
Charles

S.

Davis, former Superintendent of Steelton schools, de-

clared the world

childhood

is

is

ahead

becoming child centered, and a millenium for
the natural development is followed through to

if

a possible conclusion.

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At the speakers’ table were: Mrs. H. C. Deick, Steelton, Treasurer of district two; Mrs. Albert Beard, of Highspire, Secretary; Mrs.
S. R. Michael, Selinsgrove, Vice President; Mrs. Keiser, the District
President; Mrs. Hall, the State President; L. H. Dennis, Executive
Secretary of the American Vocational Association; M. Marshal Dean,
New Cumberland, State Vice President; former Superintendent
Charles S. Davis; Miss Maree Pensyl and Principal Gilmore.

of

The Maroon and Gold Orchestra furnished

the music both for

the dinner and the auditorium program.

Superintendent of Schools Evans presented Mrs. Keiser as the
in the auditorium got under way, and Marshall Dean, Vice
President of the State Parent-Teachers organization was introduced.
He spoke briefly on the tremendous responsibility that rests jointly
on the teachers and the parents in the development of youth. Mrs.
Hall, the State President, spoke of the important work the ParentTeachers organization is doing with its 90,500 members throughout
the state, and gave many illustrations to show the tremendous effects

program

of close cooperation between

home and

school.

Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the Teachers

College referred

on the day’s Institute program had chosen subjects which were closely allied with the problem of youth.
The old time school, he said, would not do under the social deto the fact that the teachers

mands

of the present day.

Dr.

Haas spoke

Prof.

briefly in introducing the film

George Kellar

which followed.

told of the efforts being put forth

on the

practical application of art, rather than merely teaching drawing, as
art

work was

carried out for years.

In the motion picture, which

was

in colors,

and

in

which many

of the youngsters of the Benjamin Franklin Training School were
shown, the practical side of art work was shown.
Project after project carried out in the training school

and

some

was

pic-

house developments that
were truly remarkable, he pictured the hodge podge of color that
marks the main streets of most towns and the despoiling of the countured,

in contrast to

of the bird

tryside. Symmetry, subordination to
were emphasized as cardinal principles

a

main idea and

repetition

in art instruction.

The conference convened in Science Hall at two o’clock Friday
afternoon with a fine registration of delegates.
Mrs. H. T. Keiser, of Sunbury, District President, presided.
Greetings from the Bloomsburg P. T. A. were extended by Mrs.

J.

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J. Fisher,

President of the Benjamin Franklin Training School

unit

of the College.

Musical numbers were in charge of Mrs. Raymond Kashner, of
Bloomsburg, and Mrs. A. Korte, of Northumberland, sang beautifully
“Kashmiri Song” and Schubert’s “Serenade,” in German.
Mrs. S.

S.

Michaels, of Selinsgrove, Vice President, received re-

port of organized councils from Dauphin, Lebanon, Northumberland,

Snyder and Union Counties and for the Sunbury City Council.
Marshall H. Dean, of Cumberland, State Vice President, urged
the association to build stamina

of character

that will protect

the

any circumstances. He urged that parents take time
for constant companionship with their children.
Mrs. Albert C. Beard, of Highspire, extended a cordial invitation for the 1936 conference to be held in Harrisburg, and Mrs. H.
child to endure

C. Deick, of Steelton, presented the Treasurer’s report. Reports of the

Scott

Township and Training School Units preceded adjournmnt.

Resolutions and Auditing Committees were appointed by the Presi-

dent at the opening session.

SAYS DEMOCRACY MUST BE ALTERED
“Democracy

be saved must

IF IT IS

SAVED

fundamentally altered and
George S. Counts,
Professor of Education of Columbia University, told county teachers
Friday, October 18, at the opening of the Seventy-Ninth Teachers Institute, which convened at the Teachers College.
Speaking on “The
Future of American Democracy,” the New York educator declared
leaders are now ready to resort to methods of fascism to combat unto

be

capital brought under control of the masses,” Dr.

rest.

“American youth need something bigger than themselves to
and work for,” the Rev. Thomas Law Coyle, Milton Presbyterian
pastor, told the teachers in an address on “The Youth Movement in
Europe,” in which he gave observations gained in a recent visit to
the Continent, asserting in the course of his remarks that not all of
the regimentation ideas in Europe are bad; that some of them have
live

merit.

The Rev. Dr.

S.

A. Harker, local Presbyterian pastor, had charge
This was followed

of the devotions at the opening of the sessions.

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Superintendent W. W. Evans presided.
America at this time would likely move us right into
fascism, Dr. George S. Count declared in his address, the first of the
institute.
If economic conditions do not improve, he prophesies that
we can expect more gang rule legislation; but a period of smoother
sailing would be accompanied by a general relaxation of such legis-

by group singing.

A

crisis in

lation.

People at the head of our economic and social order are ready
methods to combat unrest. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see forces representing those ideas rise up and take control,” the speaker declared.
He explained that the question confronting America today is “Can our political institutions bear the
strain that a period of changes will bring?” “It is,” he continued, “a
question of whether the people in charge will be sufficiently loyal to
the ideals of democracy to stand by while it is undergoing changes.”
What happens abroad is the big variable in the question of
whether the nation has a chance of pulling through the present situation without resorting to violence. He complained that the attitude
of American people toward the Ethiopian trouble was too much like
that of spectators at a football game; it is more than a great spectacle, he asserted, and it bears directly upon our own future.
“By this morning’s paper, I see that there is a great chance
that there will be a realignment of powers in Europe. Great Britain
is trembling on the brink as to whether to continue relations with
France or Germany. Unless Mussolini backs down and who expects that he will
we shall be in the midst of a gigantic struggle.”
to resort to fascist

—

—

“As soon as European countries start, then Japanese armies
on the march. Even now they are getting ready to march
into middle China and even farther toward England’s possessions.”
He mentioned the statement which he had read in a recent magazine article, which declared Great Britain was nothing more than an
empty shell at the present time and that Mussolini was aware of that
fact when he started the Ethiopian campaign.
“The future of democracy depends upon the education of the people,” he said, “but
people are educated by the conditions under which they live. Obviously, this education must go forward slowly.
There is not very
much hope for an adequate attack upon the evils of our present democracy in the very near future. The opposition is too great. But
when one has in mind a longer range of time, there is hope.”
“The press holds the key to the situation,” Counts stated, “and
will be

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I

am

inclined to think that the influence of the press will be on the

side of the great economic interests.”

A

more optimistic point which he brought in here was the fact
American press is the best in the world today; but, he added,

that the

is not good enough.
“There is little question in my mind,” he asserted, “that America has had real democracy in the past, especially during the end of
the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. American
people then were really convinced that they were in the vanguard of
political and economic progress.
Other countries, too, looked upon
America as the worker of an experiment.”
He outlined the following four aspects of democracy: ethical,
political, social and economic.
The ethical conception is based upon Kant’s theory that everyone must be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means.
This democratic principle can be traced back to ancient times,
through the works and lives of such great thinkers as Jesus and
Plato. Although it is not a biological fact that men are all born
equal, yet it is an ethical principle that they shall be treated with

that

equality.

From the middle of the eighteenth until almost the middle of the
nineteenth century, the principle of equality was in the midst of a
struggle to establish freedom of speech and assembly and political
The

frontier played a great part in the establishment of

social equality

and the idea that one man is just as good as another,
bit better.
For some time that feeling permeated the

suffrage.

if

not a

little

nation.

The economic phase of democracy Counts considered the most
important of all, not because he considered material wealth the
greatest blessing, but because he believes it to be the basis of other
“Economic power,” he said, “can be translated into public
interests.
opinion through the press and from public opinion into economic
power.”
According to Counts, a country may have the forms of democracy, yet not the reality because of inequality among the people.
Part of the struggle over democracy is going to involve the quest of
individualism. American individualism has grown from two very
different roots.

One

of these roots

comes from the Jeffersonian concept, which
who main-

has the basis of the individualism of the fi'eehold farmer,

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tained relative independence because of his ability to supply his own
needs. The other root, which came from the idea of individualism,
was asserted by the merchant, and grew up around the market.

As long

as this latter type of individualism operated on a small

scale, its predatory character

was held

in

check by the moral stand-

ards of the community, but with the coming of individualism, it became more pronounced and became incompatible with the concepts
of democracy.

“But democracy,” Counts declared, “cannot be saved by going
back to the old freehold farmer method of living. If democracy is to
be saved and restored, it can be saved and restored only if it is fundamentally altered and the great aggregate of capital brought under
direct control of the masses of the people.”
Rev. Thomas Law Coyle, of the Milton Presbyterian Church,
pointed out a number of worthy elements which American youth
could derive from the youth movement which has been growing, a
new use of leisure, and discipline and a deeper interest in American
ideals are all elements in which we would build up a stronger generation.

“Taking youngsters off the street isn’t going to improve condihe declared, “unless we have a program to substitute, and unless they can have the feeling that they belong to an American tradiThey need something better than themselves to live and work
tion.
tions,”

for.”

“In England,” he said, “there is no youth movement as such, but
everywhere there is an emphasis placed upon discipline discipline
of the body and spirit. There is very little romantic interest and a

—

certain coldness in their attitude.

imbued with the idea that

life

Early in

is

a

battle

life,

—

a

English children are
struggle
and they

—

while they are yet children. They are taught
never to expect big things for themselves.
In southern France there is less discipline exercised than in
England and the brutal desire to get money often smothers parental
instincts.
Yet children learn from their adults the ability to have
learn to endure

leisure

and use

it

it

beautifully.

City children are often farmed out to country dwellers, and thus

they get used to the feel of the

soil.

They have the

instinctive desire,

characteristic also of their elders, to do things for themselves

spend time watching others. Instead of watching
games, they desire to exercise their own muscles.
to

and not

others

play

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“In Germany we see discipline in its highest development. Yet
everybody seems happy, mainly because Hitler has given them
something to live for. They are contented in the midst of their hardships. There are no young men hanging around drug stores
everyone is busy. Yet they are working for the state and no one seems
to worry about their financial matters.
Here living is completely

—

socialized.’’

Although Coyle declared that he disapproved heartily of many
were some which he believed highly worthwhile. He explained the method whereby city children must spend
part of their time in the country. Here there are no “hayseeds.”
Another commendable principle of Adolf Hitler is that of allowing the breeding of only the strong, intelligent members of the
race. “Hitler has none of the false sentimentality which allows stupid children to be brought into the world,” Coyle asserted.
In Russia, he declared, there was a certain carelessness in the
atmosphere which gave the impression that here was a group of
children playing at governing a nation, and that here was a bureaucracy where inefficiency is almost blessed.
Women appear to be doing everything, running machines, cleaning streets and marching with the army. Young people, here as in
Germany, also appear to have something to live for. The country is
dotted with communistic societies for young people, to whom badges
are awarded for spying on their adults. Everywhere they are taught
of Hitler’s ideas, there

the doctrine of hate.

“We

showing devotion
few other states,
young people are looked up to more than adults and they are taught
They are
a puritanism which has economic but not moral value.
never romantic and are taught only to work, build and fight.
are changing the world,”

to a materialistic ideal of the state.

is

their salute,

Here

as

in

DISTRICT OFFICERS PTA ELECTED AT CLOSING SESSION

Election of officers and inspirational addresses marked the close
Saturday, October 19, of the convention here of District 2, Parent
Teacher Associations of the State. Mrs. H. H. Hall, State President,
at the morning session stressed the importance of friendly relationship between parents and teachers and explained the objectives of

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Finer spiritual and moral ideals for youth were urged.
of the Union County Council, pre-

Sherman Kreisher, President

sided in the afternoon, when the following officers were installed by
Mrs. Hall: President, Mrs. H. T. Keiser, Sunbury; Vice Presidents,

Mrs. S. R. Michaels, Selinsgrove; Marshall H. Dean, New Cumberland; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Albert C. Beard, Highspire; Cor-

responding Secretary, Mrs. F. H. Wagner, Harrisburg; Treasurer,
Mrs. H. C. Deick, Steelton. Mrs. Keiser responded for the new officers.

certificates were awarded by Mrs. Hall to two Sunbury
two Dauphin units, one each at Lewisburg, Highspire, Steelton
and the Benjamjn Franklin Training School in Bloomsburg.
A poem dedicated to Mrs. Hall was read by Mrs. Michaels, and
a trio composed of Mrs. Raymond Kashner, Mrs. William V. Moyer
and Mrs. George Doty, accompanied by H. F. Fenstemaker, sang
“Morning,” by Oley Speaks.
Mrs. E. W. Walters, chairman of the State Magazine, spoke on
means to promote interest. Miss Woodruff, of the Emergency Parent
Education Committee, of the State Department of Public Instruction,

Standard

units,

offered her assistance to the association.

Miss Sanford, State Secre-

was introduced.

tary,

Reviews of Congress leaflets were given by Carl Bowman, of
Lebanon, on County Councils; Miss Grace Baylor, of Lewistown, on
"A Year’s Program Based on the Children’s Charter;” Mrs. R. Pluemacher, of Northumberland County, who mentioned the motion picture of Pi'of. George Kellar, “Human Heritage,” shown Friday evening, as a striking example of what the proper use of the leisure time
could create; Mrs. Jacob Schaeffer, “Parent Education.”
Mrs. Carl

Bowman,

of

Lebanon, was elected a member

of the

State Nominating Committee.

Marshal H. Dean, of

New

Cumberland, presented the report

of

the Resolutions Committee, expressing thanks to Dr. Haas, President
of the College,

John

members

Fisher, President,

their co-operation,

and

A

of the faculty and student body, and Mrs.
and members of the Training School unit, for

to the institute officers.

motion picture, “Baby Takes a Bath,” the result of a parent
education project, was shown, having been produced through the ac“Secrets of
tivities of the Dauphin County and West Shore Council.
Success” and “Wednesday’s Child” were other pictures shown in
concluding the session.

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ALUMNI HOME-COMING DAY

The tie that binds Alumni and former students to their Alma
Mater was more closely knit Saturday, October 26, when Bloomsburg
State Teachers College was host to thousands at its finest Home
Coming Day since the Fall feature was inaugurated back in 1928,
when Wyoming Seminary was still the traditional foe. Always a
royal host, the College, through

its

Trustees, Dr. Francis B. Haas, the

body, had prepared and carried
through a program which kept the guests of the day well entertained
President, the faculty and student

from morning

until late at night.

Dr. Haas, the

man who

has

largely

been responsible for the

building up of the alumni activities at the College, which have led to

increased interest of graduates in their

Alma

busiest persons on the

all of

Mater, was one of the
the guests thoroughly
enjoyed the activities. Speaking to a group representing Alumni, the
College president during the morning extended a hearty welcome to
all returning and said the College was always pleased to be visited

by

its

graduates.

A

hill,

last

seeing that

quarter drive which swept Bloomsburg to a

well earned 6 to 0 victory over Indiana State Teachers College, in
the sports feature of the day, was the last thing needed to

one

of the finest in the history of College

Home

make

it

Comings.

accomplishments was achieved by represenand the officers of the General
Association who met during the day and made strides in bringing
together the local units with the main organization. There are now
seven active unit organizations, one about to organize, and two others
expected to be formed during the Winter. Philadelphia, through the
inspiring leadership of Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, has been active for
Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Lackyears. Six other units
awanna, Wyoming and Union formed during the past year, and
Luzerne is now taking steps to organize the large number of Bloomsburg graduates in that county. Each of these eight organizations
was represented at a meeting starting in the morning and continuing
over to the afternoon. Representatives were guests of the College at

But one

of the real

tatives of the various county units

—

—

lunch.

With renewed activity in the various areas so well served by
Bloomsburg, it was the feeling of the entire group that it would be

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possible to bring into active

graduates.

been

loyal,

Interest
is

among

membership

4,000 of the

the former students

rapidly increasing.

An

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indication

more than

8,000

who have always
of

this

was the

Home Coming

Day. Dauphin and Susquehanna
Counties expect to organize during the Winter.
Attending the meetings of the county organization and general
association were: D. J. Mahoney, Wilkes-Barre; Deri Hess, Northumberland; John B. Boyer, Herndon; Lehman Snyder, Turbotville; Fred
W. Diehl, Danville; Maurice E. Houck, Berwick; J. Frank Dennis,
Wilkes-Barre; Ethel M. Fowler, Watsontown; Mrs. Martha Moore,

number back

for the

Nescopeck; Helen M. Fairchild, Lewisburg; Alice Guest, Alice L.
Smull, Isabel Boyer, Danville; M. Edna Girton, Berwick; F. H.
Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock; Adeline Williams, Scranton; Margaret
M. Fay, Kingston; Jessica C. Trimble, Luzerne; Florence Hess Cool,
Jennie Yoder Foley, Philadelphia; Elmer Levan, Catawissa; Clarence
R. Wolever, Mill City; R. Bruce Albert, D. D. Wright, Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Dr. Francis B. Haas, Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, Miss Harriet Carpenter, Edward Francis Schuyler, Bloomsburg.
Carrying forward the plans for the bringing of the local organizations into close function with the general association, the general
executive committee met during the evening.

The guests were on hand

early, soending the

morning

in

renew-

ing friendships and acquaintances of College Days and in viewing

with pleasure the numerous improvements made to the plant since
they were last here. There were two events on the morning program. One was a cross country run in which Mt. Carmel High’s fast
steppers defeated the College Frosh Harriers. The other was a concert in the gymnasium by the College Band, directed by Howard F.
Fenstemaker. This band of thirty-two members, including two
girls, did splendid work both in the concert and during the afternoon
game.
The program for the concert follows: March, “Old Bloomsburg;’’
March, “S. I. B. A.,” Hall; “Lustspiel Overture,’’ Keler-Bela; March,
“Regimental Band,’’ Sweely; “American Patrol,” Meachan; March,
“Golden Spur,” Weber; Selection, “Martha,” Flotow; “Maroon and
Gold,” and “Alma Mater.”

The business section of the town, College Hill, and the campus
were a riot of color. The Frosh did a fine job in decorating, using
the Maroon and Gold of Bloomsburg, and the Red and White of Indiana at every hand. The paper streamers used on the campus were

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placed on poles erected for the occasion. The building held large
“welcome” signs for returning graduates and the honored foes of the
day. On the screen back of the home plate, there was a new deco-

On

a red background was a large white “I” and
was “B” on a maroon background. Half of each
goal was wrapped in the colors of one of the Colleges.
There was plenty of music during the afternoon. Shenandoah
High School’s smart sixty-five piece band, the members wearing uniforms of blue and white, were guests of the College during the day.
They came on the field just before the game, followed by the Maroon
and Gold Band of the College. Shenandoah had at its head a fancy
stepping horse, capably handled by its youthful master. The animal
was well trained and the crowd got much enjoyment watching it step
rative feature.

alongside of this

to the martial tunes.

Late in the second half, the Bloomsburg and Shamokin High
School bands, coming from their game at Athletic Park, reached the
field.

A tea and informal get-together was held in the gymnasium following the game. Many striking decorative schemes have been
worked out for the various functions at the College, but the gymnasium never looked prettier than for Home Coming Day. Many hours
were spent in executing the elaborate decorations in the colors of
Bloomsburg and Indiana. Crepe paper was used in the extensive
festooning,

and ballons added a

fine touch.

which followed,
were seated at the main table and were guests of honor. Students
and graduates, flushed with the stirring victory, were in a happy
mood and the dinner was a merry occasion. The concluding feature of the day was the informal dance in the evening. The Maroon
and Gold Dance Band provided the music and the boys left nothing

Members

to

of the football team, at the dinner

be desired.

The crowd was exceptionally large, with many graduates having
such a good time at the Home Coming that they remained until the
very end of the concluding feature.
o

Miss Nell Maupin, of the Social Science Department of the Colwas one of the speakers at the tenth annual conference on education at Bucknell University, Friday and Saturday, October 18 and
lege,

19.

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AID GIVEN AT THE COLLEGE

Through the National Youth Administration, Federal aid is being given to 121 students at the Bloomsbuig State Teachers College
and will continue throughout the year. According to the specifications, the total available for various high school and college students,
determined by taking twelve per cent of the enrollment, as of
October 15th, of the preceding year, and multiplying this figure by
$15.00. Twelve per cent of the enrollment at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College last year was sixty-six and this total multiplied by
$15.00 gave $990.00, which is available for the local institution.
The amount received by students at the College varies from $6.00
to $15.00 per month, and various types of works are being carried on
at the direction of Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College. The
work carried on must be socially desirable and must not interfere
with work being carried on under the College budget such as waiting
on tables or assisting in the care of the grounds.
is

The National Youth Administration began work
of the present term and both

work

men and women

at the

opening

of the student

body

hours of the day up until noon on Saturday. The
funds are distributed on an even basis between men and women.
at various

A reci-eation program is being carried on with the Federal funds,
twenty of the students carrying on the work under the direction of
Dr. E. H. Nelson. Supervision of children playing on the recreation
grounds is provided in this way.

A
vided

number of
among the

Direction of this

the students receiving Federal funds have been di-

which is carrying out various surveys.
given to the members of the faculty.

faculty,

work

is

At the present time, some
state-wide survey.
of

of the students

Efforts are being

made

are

carrying out a

to secure a

complete

list

Bloomsburg State Teachers College alumni who are teaching in

Plans are being made to extend the work
campus activities in the future. In several isolated cases, students from the College have gone to farm houses and helped farm
children with their English. This is one of the many types of work
which is expected to be carried out. Another possible channel for
the various State schools.

to off

work

to be done
Federal aid

is
is

a survey of libraries in the county schools.

available for two classes of individuals: single

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young men and women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five
from families on relief and unable to attend school for want of
money for textbooks, carfare, lunch and other essentials; and needy
College students on substantially the same plan as the last year. In
addition to the educational aid phases of the NYA program include
the establishment of educational and recreational youth centers,
guidance work and assistance in placement.
One may not work more than thirty hours per week nor receive
more than $20 per month, and in College work it makes no difference
whether or not the family of the student is on relief rolls. Stipulations governing assistance for students other than those in a collegt

or university are different.

In the

first

place, all institutions

which

do not require the equivalent of high school graduation for entrance
shall be included within this program, provided they are organized
and operated as institutions which are non-profit making in character.

Secondly, the number of students to be given aid shall be seven
per cent of the number of persons between th ages of sixteen ana
twenty-five on relief as on May, 1935. Only students certified as

members

of families

on

relief shall

be

eligible.

Thirdly, assistance to any student shall not exceed

$6 per

cal-

endar month.
Fourth, financial aid made available shall be used to assist students from relief families for doing socially desirable work, such as
clerical duties

and library work.
be used

Fifth, this aid shall not

to replace funds available for

aid to the students in the school applying for

participation

in

the

program.
of sixteen and twenty-five from
be selected for assistance in continuing school
on the following considerations: need, character and ability to do the
school work, and status of attendance.
Seventh, the hourly rate of pay for those students who are
granted assistance in return for work that they shall perform shall
be such as is commonly paid by the institutions for the type of service rendered. No student shall work more than ten hours in any
week nor three hours in any day.
Eighth, the assistance granted to qualified students in return for
the excellence of the performance of their full time school studies
shall be made available in amounts determined by the student’s in-

Sixth, persons

between the ages

relief families shall

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dividual need as indicated on the application submitted after view.
Ninth, school pupils desiring aid should
for

work

make

direct application

to their schools principals.

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EDUCATORS URGE LONGER TRAINING FOR ALL TEACHERS

Educators representing seventy colleges and universities in
Pennsylvania have recommended that all future high school teachers
be required to have five years of College Training.
The recommendation was contained in a resolution adopted at a
one day joint conference on members of the Association of Liberal
Arts Colleges and directors and supervisors of student teaching in
accredited teachers institutions, held October 24, 1935.
The resolution suggested also the minimum post high school
education of teachers for the elementary field be four years. It was
submitted by a committee composed of Dr. Carmon Ross, President
of the Edinboro Teachers College; Dean W. G. Chambers, School of
Education, Pennsylvania State College, and Dr. I. H. Brumbaugh, of
Juniata College.
Dr. Lester K. Ade,

Superintendent of Public Instruction, urged

the 100 delegates to give serious consideration to teacher prepara-

which he described as a vital factor in the education program.
Other speakers suggested that training schools, both on and off
the campus, should be maintained by all colleges preparing students

tion,

for teaching.

Dr. Herbert L. Spencer, President of
for

Women, presented

a

summary

the

Pennsylvania College

of points raised in the conference.

o

The Christmas season

in

Bloomsburg was featured by a

series of

concerts on Market Square, sponsored by the Bloomsburg Board of

The contribution of the College to the program was a conby the Mixed Chorus Tuesday evening, December 17, and
a concert by the Maroon and Gold Band, Thursday, December 19.
The Mixed Chorus was under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore,
and the Maroon and Gold Band was directed by Samuel Green, stuTrade.

cert given

dent director, and

Howard

F.

Fenstemaker, of the faculty.

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COLLEGE OBSERVES ARMISTICE DAY
Students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College were urged
keep the faith of those who gave their all on the field of battle
for American ideals, by the Rev. B. B. Heller, pastor of the Reformed
Church, during impressive Armistice Day exercises Monday morning,
November 11, in the College auditorium. The program was in charge
to

Community Government Association. Announcements
were made by Earl Kershner. “Taps” were sounded and a silent
tribute of two minutes was paid to the war dead.
Kershner read the Scripture lesson, and Miss Doris Bonnenberg

of the College

led in singing the “Star Spangled Banner,” with Miss Gladys Rinard
All remained standing to give the salute to the
which was led by Neil Ritchie. Sam Cohen read two poems,
“Unknown Soldier Speaks,” by E. V. Emans, and “War Debts,” by C.

as the accompanist.
flag

Parmenter.
Miss Jane Manhart spoke of the attitude of women toward war,
asserting that the loss to women, directly and indirectly, is greater
than that to men.
Larue Derr discussed, “Why I, As a Student, Am Opposed To
War,” during which he spoke of the great suffering that war brings,
and referred to the vast amount of talent destroyed as youth is
slaughtered.

Following the address of the Rev. Mr. Heller, the program concluded with the sounding to “Taps.”

TRAINING SCHOOL OBSERVES DAY
Armistice

Day was made

a

real thing to

children of

the

Ben-

jamin Franklin Training School at the College. There were programs in each grade, so designed that the children would get much
enjoyment and knowledge from them.
The meaning of the day was discussed by the children and the
teachers in each grade. Some of the questions discussed were:
“What Our Nation Is Doing To Honor the Soldiers In the World
War,” “Why We Want Peace,” “The League of Nations, What It Aims
To Do, What It Is Doing To Prevent War Between Italy and Ethio-

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pia,” and “How the United States Is Trying To Be a Good Neighbor
To the Other Nations.”
A number of the children said their fathers served in the World
War, and that the men were greatly pleased by news that the way
was over and do not want to go to war again.
Appropriate stories and poems were used to bring home to the
children the significance of the day. These included “The Good Citizen,” by Theodore Roosevelt; “In Flanders Fields,” by Lieutenant
Colonel J. D. McCrea, and “Armistice Day Makes Us Think of
Peace.” The latter appeared in “My Weekly Reader,” a children’s
paper. There were patriotic songs, the flag salute was given and the

children observed a period of silence in tribute to the departed.
o

KAPPA DELTA
A

INITIATES

class of twenty-three, the largest ever to be initiated into the

local chapter,

was received

into the

sional scholastic fraternity, at the
lege,

PI

Kappa Delta

Friday evening, October 18.
local chapter, founded in 1931,

The

and student members.
of the class are eligible

Pi, national profes-

Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

now

has about 200 graduate
in the upper fourth

Only members who stand
for membership.

Received in the October class were: Miss

Amanda

Babb, Miss

Florine Moore, Miss Margaret Manhart, Miss Gladys Brennan, Miss

Maria Berger, Miss Marie Foust, Miss Mary Grosek, Miss Eudora
Anna Jean Laubach, Michael Marshalek, Harry Nelson, Luther Peck, Miss Ruth Radcliffe, Miss Mae
Ressler, Miss Ruth Smethers, Miss Beatrice Thomas, Edward Webb,
Miss Jeanie Weber, Clyde Luchs, Miss Kathryn Van Auker, Miss
Gladys Rinard and Miss Jane Manhart.
Harvey A. Andrus is faculty advisor of the local chapter. The
ceremony was held in the social room of Science Hall with Mervin
Mericle, of Bloomsburg, the President, presiding. Dr. Nell Maupin
gave a talk and Miss Gladys Rinard sang “I Heard You Go By,”
with Earl Kershner as the accompanist. Dean of Instruction, W. B.
Sutliff, spoke and Charles Michael gave a reading, “Congo.”
Refreshments followed the meeting and dancing was enjoyed with the
music provided by Miss Anna Jean Laubach and Miss Florine Moore.
Hosier, Alvin Lapinski, Miss

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SCRANTON STUDENT DIES FROM APPENDICITIS
Milton Goldstein, aged eighteen, of Scranton, a member of the
class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, passed
away in the Bloomsburg Hospital at 9:55 o’clock, Friday evening,
November 15. An emergency operation disclosed a ruptured appen-

Freshmen

His condition had been critical for two days.
The young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Goldstein, of Franklin Avenue, Scranton, and came to Bloomsburg following graduation last Spring from Central High School.
While he had been at the College but a short time, he had made
a number of friends and was active on the campus. The lad was
one of the assistant managers of the football team. In high school
he was on the managerial staff for three years. He had been ill only
a few days and members of the family said that prior to that time
he had never suffered any attacks of appendicitis. He was a mem-

dix.

ber of the Linden Street Temple, Scranton.
Surviving are the parents, a sister, Miss Sylvia, two brothers,
Franklin and Sydney. His mother was with him when the end came.

The students

of the College paid tribute to the

memory

of

Mr.

November 20. Eulogies
the Freshman class, and

Goldstein, in an assembly held Wednesday,

were given by Ray McBride, President of
by Charls Michael, student manager of the

football team.

developed during the services that Goldstein, a Freshman
assistant student manager of the football team, had inquired of his
It

mother

at the bedside, just before lapsing into a

he never

rallied, “Is the

coma from which

team practicing tonight?”

Before the College team left the locker room for the game with
East Stroudsburg, one player was heard to remark, “We must win
this game for Goldstein.” Bloomsburg won 12 to 0.

Sophomore President, read the Scriptures and gave
The memorial exercises were under the auspices
of the Community Government Association, of which William Morgan, of Scranton, is the President. The exercises opened with singing, and Hill read the twenty-third Psalm and followed with introductory remarks. Following the eulogies, there was a silence of a
minute, during which the pianist, Miss Mary Johnston, played
“Abide With Me.”
Walter

Hill,

the introduction.

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Representatives of the faculty and student body of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College were in attendance at the funeral services.

o

HALLIBURTON DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
That thirst for adventure, which is in the heart of every human,
dormant in the most of us, was satisfied for about a thousand
residents of Bloomsburg and vicinity, Friday evening, December 13,
when Richard Halliburton spoke before a capacity audience in the
auditorium of the College.
During the time in which he spoke, every man, woman, and
child was an adventurer, sharing for the time being, the adventures
of one who has for more than a decade, through his writings, added
realism to the dreams of millions who have found their niche in life
to contain less of the thrilling and more of the hum-drum.
In this, his first appearance before a Bloomsburg audience, Halliburton narrated a few of his many experiences as a world traveler
and journalist. His stories included that of his crossing the Alps on
an elephant, his airplane ride with two princesses in Persia, and his
ride with the Prince of Bagdad, son of King Feisal of Irak.
The
speaker, whose ability to find extraodinary places and do unusual
things was received enthusiastically by the audience, which was the
largest one that has been in the auditorium in many years.
lies

o

The Alpha Delta Chapter of the Pi Omega Pi Fraternity was
represented at the National Conclave by Professor Harvey A. Andruss. Every two years this meeting is held on the days just preceding the Christmas meeting of the National Commercial Teachers’
This year the meetings were held in the Hotel Sherman
in Chicago, from December 26 to 28.
The Alpha Delta Chapter of

Federation.

commercial fraternity was installed at Bloomsburg
membership is drawn from the upper fourth of
the Junior and Senior classes of students enrolled in the Department
of Commerce. Over thirty colleges and universities have organiza-

this professional

May

28,

1935.

Its

tions of this type.

The

chapter were elected
Christmas meeting.

officers of the national

and other business was transacted

at the

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MAKE REPORTS ON STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Reports of delegates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Women’s Intercollegiate Association for Student Government,
which was held at Beaver College, Jenkintown, were heard at a
women’s assembly, Wednesday, November 14. This is a national
organization of women’s colleges and co-educational institutions.
The convention upon which the delegates reported was the twentyeighth annual convention and was in session from October 23 to 26.
to the

Colleges represented included University of Maryland, Univer-

Richmond, Hood College, Miami, Ohio University, Allegheny
Women, Lake Erie College,
Western Reserve University, Duke University, Wilson College, Alfred
University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Russel Sage College,
Wooster College, Conn. College for Women, New York University,
Bates College and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
sity of

College, Greensburg, N. C. College for

Local delegates were Miss Violet Brown, Carlisle, President of
Government Association, Miss Eleanor Mor-

the Waller Hall Student

of Taylor, also a Waller Hall girl and Miss Kathryn John, of
Bloomsburg, President of the Day Women’s Association. The general
theme of the program was “Ideals of Student Government,” and all
kinds of College problems were discussed with emphasis on those
concerning women students.
For the special session, the speakers were the Deans of Women
ris,

Hood College, Goucher College
and the President of the National Young
Women’s Association and the President of the Philadelphia Women's
Clubs. There were informal discussion groups on these subjects:
“Nominating System,” “Freshmen Orientation,” “Problems of Student Council,” “Effective Use of Leisure Time,” “Honor System” and
“How to Interest Timid and Reserved Girls in Student Activities.”

of the University of Pennsylvania,

and Beaver College

There were

a

number

of social affairs including several teas, a

formal dinner and a Hallowe’en party.

One afternoon was devoted

to a trip to Philadelphia.

had a fine time and secured a number of
Bloomsburg is the only Teachers College entered in
the association. The local delegates reported the school here had the
best day girls’ organization of any of the institutions represented.

The

local delegates

splendid ideas.

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CHRISTMAS ON THE CAMPUS

For two weeks before the College closed for the Christmas vacawas much in evidence at the College. The
first major event was the Christmas party for crippled children,
given by the girls of Waller Hall. This was held in the gymnasium
Saturday afternoon, December 14. An excellent program was provided for the entertainment of the children. The Dramatic Club
presented a Christmas play in Assembly on Monday, December 1(3,
and the Mixed Chorus and A Capella Choir presented a program cf
Christmas music in the Assembly held Friday, December 20. The
dormitory students held their Christmas party in the dining room
tion, the Yuletide spirit

Thursday evening, December 19. On Friday, December 20, there
was a program in the Auditorium in the afternoon for the school
children of Bloomsburg and vicinity.
The program consisted of
music by the Maroon and Gold Band, movies, and a juggling act by
George DeMott. The same program was repeated in the evening
for the students of the College. There were many parties by smaller
groups, and several others provided Christmas cheer to needy families.
The Mixed Chorus and the Maroon and Gold Band provided
programs on Market Square, as part of the town’s Christmas seasou,
and the Mixed Chorus sang at the Bloomsburg Hospital. The Men
of North Hall celebrated by holding a smoker Thursday evening,
December 19. The climax of it all, however, was packing to go home
when the College closed Saturday noon, December 21, for a two
weeks’ vacation.
o
L. V. Granville, veteran actor, making his third appearance in
Bloomsburg, opened the College Artist’s Course, Friday, October 4,
with the presentation of ‘"Dramatic Interludes,” which delighted an
appreciative and good sized audience and gave the course one of its
best openings in years.

From

the great drama of the past, Mr. Granville takes the choice
have lived. These he plays with a feeling and understanding which wins his audience.
Realism is added to the scenes by
changing of costume and special lighting effects. Quick changes of
Mr. Granville prevented the program from dragging.

hits that

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ROONGO, COLLEGE MASCOT,

DEAD

IS

the Bloomsburg State Teachers College mascot, is
The handsome full-blooded North Greenland Eskimo Husky
succumbed at ten o’clock Wednesday morning, November 27, after
an illness of but two days with pneumonia.
“Roongo” was raised by George J. Keller, instructor at the College, who has had much success in handling Huskies in this climate.
“Roongo” liked the snow, and when it covered the ground, and especially when snow was falling, he refused to go in his kennel, pre-

“Roongo,”

dead.

ferring to sleep in the snow.

season was too

much

But the changing temperature

for him.

The veterinarian

this

said the rapid low-

ering and raising of the temperature brought on the pneumonia
which caused the canine’s death.
“Roongo’s” ancestors had been with Peary on his North Pole
expedition. It was in 1933, when the College chose a mascot, selecting the

Husky

for

its

many

fine stalwart qualities

mediately became a part of the institution.
from the College colors, Maroon and Gold.

His

and “Roongo” imname was made

Now that he has passed
Labrador Husky will likely replace him and will probably become “Roongo II.” This dog is now ten months of age. He is almost the size of “Roongo.”
The first mascot will be missed, especially at the football games,
where he was all rigged out in a Maroon and Gold blanket and
strutted proudly in front of the stands. “Roongo” liked exercise and
his fun in attending football games was secured, not from watching
the contest, but from circling the track. Louis Bertoldi, cross country star, ran many miles with “Roongo” during the games. Bertoldi
completed his course last spring but was back for many of the
games this Fall and always had a run with the mascot.
on, a

o

Friday evening, November

Charles Naegele, concert pianist,

15,

presented, before a large and appreciative local group, another of
his

unusual concerts.

artist

was

a

The

last

previous appearance of this popular

command appearance

before the Prince of Wales, which

The music of Chopin and Debussy composed half of his program at the College, and he himself
explained the series of descriptive pieces which concluded his prefollowed a concert tour of Europe.

sentations.

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ALUMNI DIRECTORS HOLD MEETING
The Board

of Directors

held a meeting on

of the

Home Coming

B. S. T. C.

Day, October

Alumni Association

26, 1935.

Prior to this

meeting, representatives of the various local Alumni organizations

had met in the Alumni Room. Plans were discussed for making the
program more effective during the coming year.
The Board of Directors passed the following resolutions:
Resolved That a Membership Card be issued to all Active
Members upon payment of dues.
Resolved That each local Alumni Organization be invited to
designate and qualify one representative. These representatives together with the Board of Directors of the Association shall be an Advisory Council. The Council will make recommendations to the
Board of Directors for final action and disposition.
Resolved That the Alumni Association adopt a policy of refunding to county or local organizations twenty-five cents of the one
dollar membership dues. A member paying dues of one dollar to the
local group, thereby becomes an active member of the local organization and the Alumni Association.
Note. The last two resolutions will be submitted to the Alumni
Association for approval at the Annual Meeting in May, 1936.
entire

—
—

—

o

John Circovics, of Berwick, a member of the class of 1938, has
been elected Captain of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College football team for next year.
The honor is all the more to be coveted because captaincies seldom go to men who are members of the Senior class. Lamar Blass,
of Aristes, a member of the class of 1937, was, however, similarly
honored last year when he was elected Captain of the 1936 track and
field

team.

who captained the Berwick High School team in 1931,
has been a star with the Huskies for two seasons. He plays roving
center, and is outstanding in diagnosing plays of the opponents.
Circovics,

Much of his time, when on defense, is spent in the backfield of the
opposing team.
The Captain-elect is popular on the campus, and his selection
has met with favor among the squad and the student body.

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BUSINESS EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Harvey A. Andruss, Director of the Department of Commerce at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has announced that at the
present time, four states have recognized the business education curGraduates of the Department of Commerce
York, New Jersey, and Virginia, as well as
Pennsylvania. No effort has been made on the part of the College
to have the curriculum recognized by states other than Pennsylvania
in advance of the time that graduates were to be placed in positions.
Mr. John Krepich, ’34, after teaching one year in Tunkhannock, is
now teaching in the high school at Goshen, New York. Three other

riculum at Bloomsburg.
are

now

teaching in

New

Bloomsburg graduates are teachers of business subjects in New JerThey are: Miss Santina La Brutto, ’35, Ellis Hamilton Junior
sey.
High School, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Anthony Conte, ’35, East Side
Junior High School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Clarence Slater, ’35,
Senior High School, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Miss Clara Vanderslice, ’35, is teaching commercial subjects at Fort Royal, Virginia.
In all cases these graduates were certified to teach on the same
basis in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, as that which they
would have occupied in Pennsylvania.
This means in effect that graduates from the Department of
Commerce of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College may apply for
with the assurance that they are
properly qualified and trained for the teaching of business subjects.
positions in surrounding states

o

NURSERY SCHOOL SPECIALISTS HERE
As a culminating event of the laboratory course in nursery
school education for experienced teachers, an emergency relief training school conducted at the Teachers College during September for
this entire section,

ment

Institute of

an exhibit of clothing from the Child DevelopCity was held Wednesday, October 2 in

New York

Noetling Hall social room at the College. The exhibit included toys
and nursery school equipment made by the New York students.
Dr. Grace Langdon, specialist, emergency nursery schools, Department of Education of the United States, and Miss Teressa Yeager, head of Kindergarten and Elementary Education in Harrisburg,

spoke

in the

auditorium of the college.

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Two

PROGRAMS

IN

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COLLEGE ASSEMBLY

excellent programs were presented at the College assembly

Pierre Henrotte, concert master and conductor of the
Metropolitan Opera House for twenty-five years, appeared before the
student body Monday morning, October 21.
He was a concert master in France at the age of sixteen years
in October.

and came

to

America when twenty years

of age.

He formerly was

concert master under Toscanini, Weingartner, and Mahler and was
concert master of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago

Opera Company, Boston Opera Company and the

New York Cham-

ber Music Society.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Turner, of Sharon, appeared at the assembly
Friday morning, October 25, for a song festival. Mr. Turner is a
personal friend of Prof. E. A. Reams, of the College faculty. He appeared on an assembly program about eight years ago.
o

"Human

Heritage,” a colored picture which depicts the teaching
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, with an application
of training and every day life, appeared at the meeting of the Pennof art in the

sylvania State Education Association held in the Education Building

Thursday, December 26.
was under the direction of George J. Keller, art instructor at the College, and the children were under the direction of
Miss Harriet M. Moore. The splendid cooperation of various teachers in the training school was instrumental in the filming of the
at Harrisburg,

The

filming

scenes.

Children of the sixth grade of the Benjamin Franklin Training
School accompanied the film to Harrisburg, and transportation for
them was provided by the parents.
The film shows children of the training school in the class room,
and then shows the same children in their homes, making the application of the various principles to problems with which they come

home.
Approximately one hundred children participated in the filming
which took a year to complete. The actions were synchronized with
vocal and instrumental music.
Part of the film was shown in October at the Parent-Teacher
convention, but since that time additions have been made to the film.
in contact in the

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FORM UNION COUNTY ALUMNI BRANCH
Bloomsburg State Teachers College graduates of the Mifflinburg
and Lewisburg sections, on Thursday, October 3, at Mifflinburg,
effected a local branch of the general alumni body, forging another
link in the local association program which has been growing so rapidly.
Miss Helen Kellar, of Mifflinburg, was named President; Miss
Margaret Lodge, of Mifflinburg, Vice President; Miss Ruth Fairchilds, Lewisburg, R. 2, Secretary and Lewis Pursley, of Lewisburg,
Treasurer.

Other branch organzations now keeping alive interest in
Bloomsburg among graduates within the territory served the local
institutions are: Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Montour County,
Northumberland County, Lackawanna County and Philadelphia.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College;

W.

Dean

of Instruc-

and Dr. E. H. Nelson, represented the College, and
Prof. C. H. Albert and D. D. Wright, the General Alumni Association.
Mrs. David Glover, of Mifflinburg, presided. She is the wife of
one of the Trustees of the College. Prof. Thomas, Supervising Principal of the Mifflinburg schools, and Mr. Winter, of Milton, were
others in attendance. Mrs. C. C. Lesher, of Lewisburg, and Miss
Margaret Bogenrief, a former member of the Bloomsburg faculty and
now residing at Mifflinburg, were among those speaking.

tion,

B. Sutliff

Among

the graduates at the Mifflinburg dinner were: Miss

Myr-

Wagner, Mifflinburg; Miss Sara Heiser, Lewisburg; Mrs. Sara
Heinbach, Lewisburg; Miss Kathryn Wilson, Lewisburg; Miss Grace
Baylor, Lewisburg; Mrs. Helen Kunkel, Lewisburg; Miss Dorothy
Criswell, Lewisburg; Miss Foresman, Lewisburg; Miss Lauretta Latshaw, Mifflinburg; Miss Anne Mary Leiser, Mifflinburg.
tle

o

Prof. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, discussed the nature of a wellrounded teacher preparation program, emphasizing feasible and necessary curricular developments at a meeting of the Association of
Liberal Arts College of Pennsylvania for the advancement of TeachThe meeting was held in the Education Building, Harrisburg,
ing.

October

23.

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STATE CONFERENCE

A

A. A. U.

state conference of the

Women was

W. HELD

IN

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BLOOMSBURG

American Association

of University

held in Bloomsburg, Friday and Saturday,

November

1

here from Bethlehem, Carlisle, Easton,
Chambersburg,
Harrisburg, Huntingdon, Reading, Wilkes-Barre,
Selinsgrove, Hazelton, Lansdowne, Philadelphia, Sayre, Athens,
State College, Stroudsburg, and Wilmington, Delaware.
A general session was held in the morning, Mrs. W. M. Parrish,
of Glenshaw, the President, presiding. Luncheon was held at the
Elks’ Club with Dr. Susan Kingsbury, of Bryn Mawr, as the speaker
of “Economic and Legal Status of Women.” The chairman was Mrs.
H. Mont. Smith.
The officers and chairmen of the committees of the host chapter
were: President, Miss Ermine Stanton; Vice President, Mrs. Paul
Trescott; Secretary, Mrs. Sheldon Groner; Treasurer, Miss Grace
Woolworth; Committee Chairmen: Program, Miss May T. Hayden;
Education, Dr. Marguerite Kehr; Fellowship, Mrs. Clyde Snydev;
Legislation, Miss Ward; Legal Status of Women, Mrs. Remley, and
Membership, Mrs. Harry Keller, Jr.

and

2,

bringing delegates

o

Leonard Craske, well known English sculptor, appeared in the
Teachers College assembly Monday morning, November 4, and delighted the students with a splendid talk on his art. He illustrated
his lecture, “The Making of a Statue,” with numerous slides showing
the various steps in the development of a statue. Mr. Craske is the
sculptor of a number of the well known bronze statue of the “Gloucester Fishermen,” which stands at the entrance to Gloucester harbor, the DeLong Memorial, and the “Joy of Life.”
o

A

Jewel emblematic of the thirty-third Degree was presented

during the November session of Caldwell Consistory to Dr. Francis
B. Haas, who was crowned member of the thirty-third Degree during the meeting of the Supreme Council in Cleveland in September.
The jewel was presented by H. A. McKillip, Secretary of the Consistory, who spoke of Dr. Haas as an outstanding educator who has
done much in his field, and whom Masonry was proud to honor.

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FRESHMAN KkD PARTY
On Friday evening, October 11, Bloomsburg College Freshmen
were able, for a few hours, to lay aside the cloak of college dignity
and be kids again. The occasion was the Annual Freshmen Kid Party
and just about every member of the Class of 1939 was in attendance,
and with the exception of a few, everyone wore the costumes of
children of tender years.

Games of childhood, such as “Farmer in the Dell,” occupied an
hour of the evening and then following dancing with the Maroon and
Gold Band providing a program of music. Refreshments were plenThey included cider,
tiful, and were served throughout the evening.
jumbo ginger cakes, lolly pops and Dixies.
The judges were Dr. Thomas P. North, Prof. E. A. Reams and
Prof. John C. Koch, and the three had a difficult task. After much
consideration, the awards for being the biggest babies went to Miss
Bessie Levine, of Edwardsville, and Robert Parker, of Kulpmont.
Each wore a full length night gown.
Jim Mootz, of Potstville, dressed up with a big tie, sailor hat and
all the trimmings of a childhood “sissy” nevertheless won the award
for being the toughest boy. How the judges arrived a such a conclusion probably only professors could explain. Miss Mary O’Donnel, of Mt. Carmel, received the award for being the daintiest baby.
The chaperons of the night were Dean Marguerite Kehr, Miss
Ethel Ransom, Prof, and Mrs. E. A. Reams, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P.
North, Dean and Mrs. John C. Koch and Prof, and Mrs. Howard F.
Fenstemaker.
o

sway at the Teachers College
Thursday evening, October 31, when the annual Hallowe’en dinner
and dance was held and attended by the students and faculty memThe dance which followed in the gymnasium was a function
bers.

The ghosts and

of the

goblins

held

Community Government

Association.
u

Miss Grace Woolworth, Kindergarten Training Teacher at the
Benjamin Franklin Training School, attended the Northumberland
County Teachers Institute and participated in the discussion on
“What Are the Implications of the Nursery School For the Primary

Grade.”

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Miss Natalie Briggs, of

Springfield,

Missouri,

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and George C.
Sunday,

Buchheit, coach of athletics at Bloomsburg, were married

December

22, at the

home

of the bride’s parents, in Springfield.

The

Rev. Charles Gilbreath, pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church,
of Springfield, officiated.

The bride

is

a graduate of Springfield Teachers College,

for the past

two years been a member

High School

at Jefferson City, Missouri.

four years ago,
at

of the

when both were studying

faculty of

and has

the Junior

Mr. and Mrs. Buchheit met
for their Master’s Degree

Columbia University.
Mr. Buchheit came

Bloomsburg

and since
and track. He
has been very popular with the members of the teams, and with the
student body as a whole. The records of the various teams coached
by him show that his work has been very successful.
Mr. and Mrs. Buchheit have moved into their newly furnished
apartment on Market Square, Bloomsburg.
to

that time he has been coach

A
ber,

in the Fall of 1932,

of football,

basketball

marital union of more than fifty-two years was ended in Octo-

when death claimed Elwood Yocum, one

of Bloomsburg’s

most

highly esteemed men.

Mr. Yocum’s death occurred at his home on East First street,
where he had been confined to his bed from a stroke since Memorial

Day.
For more than twenty years he was a janitor at the Teachers
College and during that time built up a friendship with hundreds of
students which lasted through his life. He retired from the College
service some years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Yocum were married in 1882.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg.
Surviving are his wife, a brother, Hurl Yocum, of near Orangeville, and a sister.

An

allocation of $8,860.00

from the Works Progress Administra-

tion for completion of the athletic field at the State Teachers College

here was announced recently. The College will contribute an additional $679.00 toward completion of the job that was begun last Winter.
Extensive grading has already been done on the field, which is
located above the present athletic field and the training school.

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Three representatives of the Freshman

class

of

the Teachers

College have been elected representives on the Governing Board of

The upper classes elect their represenThey are: Miss Annabelle Smith, of Sunbury;
Miss Deborah Jones, of West Pittston, and Miss Betty E. Thomas, of
Jermyn.
the Waller Hall Association.
tatives in the spring.

Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, of East Fourth Street, have returned home from Yellowstone Park, where they spent the Summer.

They accompanied their son, Dr. Keffer Hartline, to Philadelphia,
and were flown to the Bloomsburg airport in the latter’s plane. Dr.
Keffer Hartline returned immediately to Philadelphia.

Tuesday evening, October 15, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas tendered the annual reception to the Trustees and members of the facDirectors and coulty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
operating faculty members in the districts in which student teaching
is being done also were guests.

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All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Mrs. F. H. Jenkins
of all 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.

•

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Mr. R. Bruce Albert,
Dr. D.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

’06

Waller, Jr., ’67
Mr. Edward Schuyler, ’24
Miss Harriet Carpenter, ’96
J.

Executive Committee

Mr. Fred W. Diehl, ’09
Mr. H. Mont Smith, ’93
Mr. Maurice F. Houck, TO
Mr. Daniel J.

Mr. Frank Dennis,

’ll

Dr. E. H. Nelson, ’ll
Mr. Dennis D. Wright, ’ll

Mahoney,

’09

1876

Mrs. Annie Milsom Smith died at her home in Elmira, Tuesday,
October 22, 1935. In 1878 she was married to William S. Smith of
the Class of 1876. During their married life, they lived in Lawrenceville, Pa.
Since her husband’s death in 1915, she made her home in
Elmira. During these years she made a very definite place for herself in the community.
Her keen mind, sympathetic understanding,

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endeared her to all, and she was loved and admired by
number of people. One person said of her, “She was a benediction. She made me feel that she had a calm inner strength, and

and

serenity,

a large

that helped to give strength to me.”

She was a valued and loved worker
terian Church, a

member

in the

of the Sorosis

Lake Street Presby-

Club, Current Literature

Club, Garden Club, and Willing Workers Sunshine Circle.

Surviving are her six children, Miss Mida D. Smith, of Elmira;
Mrs. Harry E. Webster, of Wellsboro, Pa.; Mrs. W. H. Ryan, of
Lawrenceville, Pa.; Miss Helen E. Smith, of Pasadena, California;
Warden N. Smith, of Elmira; and Roy L. Smith, of Corning. There
are also eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Annie Milsern (Mrs. W.

S.

Smith) passed away at her home in

She was survived by five children. Her
husband died a number of years ago. Her oldest daughter, Mida, has
been a teacher in the public schools of Elmira for a number of yers.
She and her mother were living together. She had been in good
health until her last sickness. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and active in its organizaitons, and also in literary
clubs.
She was buried at Lawrenceville, Pa., her former home.
Elmira, N. Y., October 22.

1886
N. H. Sanner has retired from the active ministry, and
living at 1250

is

now

Peermont Avenue, Dormont, Pittsburgh, Pa.
1894

Mrs. Nellie Coffman McDermott has retired from teaching and
living at Fawn Grove, Pa. Her son, William, has a Master’s
and a Doctor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, and is a member of the faculty at Lehigh University. Her daughter, a graduate
of Dickinson College, is teacher of English in the high school at
Gloucester, N. J., and her daughter, Mary, also a graduate of Dick-

is

now

inson, has a business position in Philadelphia.

1899
E. F.

Brent died at his home in Lewistown, Pa., Tuesday, June
an illness lasting five months.

25, 1935, after

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1912

John R. Jones, Principal of the Frances Willard School, Scranhome Tuesday evening, November 19, after several
weeks’ illness. Mr. Jones was one of Scranton’s best known educators, and had taught in the public schools of that city for twentyton, died at his

three years.

Immediately after Mr. Jones was graduated from Bloomsburg,
he was named Principal of the Van Buren School in Scranton. Later
he was named principal of the Frances Willard School, and subsequently was appointed to a similar position at the Bryant School.
When the new Frances Willard School was opened in 1929, Mr. Jones
was appointed Principal, and served there until his death.
He was a member of the Board of Deacons of the Plymouth
Congregational Church, of White Face Mountain Lodge, F. & A. M.,
Saranac Lake, N. Y., a life member of Karinak Temple, Montreal,
Melita Commandery, No. 68, Knights Templar, Keystone Consistory,
and the Craftsmen’s Club of Scranton.
He is survived by his wife, Edna Lewis Jones, and by five sisters.
teacher of English in the Junior High School at
She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Alfred
University and has taken additional work at Rutgers and at New
York University. Her address is 28 South Street, Red Bank, N. J.

Frankie Davis

Red Bank, N.

is

J.

1927

A

son was born Wednesday, October 9, at the Bloomsburg HosDr. and Mrs. George Leighow, of Danville, R. D. Mrs.
Leighow was formerly Miss Anne Wendel, of Bloomsburg.

pital to

Miss Myrtle Appleman, a native of Valley township, died on
Thursday, October 10, at the South Mountain Sanatarium, Franklin
County. She had been ill for three years. She was a graduate of
the Danville High School, Class of

1924,

and the Bloomsburg State

Teachers College in 1927, and the Harrisburg Training School for
Nurses in 1931. She was a member of Hendrickson Church in Valley township.

Private funeral service were held Saturday, October 12, Rev.
Gould, of Montandon, officiating. Burial was made in the Hendrickson cemetery.

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1928

George

T.

Bamford,

Jr.,

of Laurel

Run,

Pa., died at his

home

December 13, following two weeks illness with pneumonia.
Mr. Bamford had been teacher of fifth and sixth grades in the
schools of Laurel Run since his graduation. He was Superintendent
of the Laurel Run Primitive Methodist Sunday School, in the church
of which his father was pastor.
Friday,

Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Pauline Bell, of Ashley,

two daughters, Faye and June Dawn, his parents, the Rev. and Mrs.
George T. Bamford, and a sister, Ethel Bamford, all of Laurel Run.
Miss Mildred M. Herr, of Berwick, and Earl Ginter, of Johnson
were married on New Year’s Day at the Trinity Lutheran parsonage in Berwick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. A.
Smith. The bride has for several years been teaching at Wernersville, where she served as Assistant Principal. Mr. Ginter is Assistant
Principal of the Coal Township High School, and has been a teacher
there for several years. The couple will make their home in Coal
Township.
City,

1930

Announcement has been made

of the

marriage of Miss Florence

Davis, of Duryea, and Harold V. Biggar, of Old Forge. The ceremony took place in June, 1935, in Scranton, the Rev. R. L. Markarrian officiating.

1931

Edward T. DeVoe, English instructor and publications advisor at
the Bloomsburg High School, gave an address at the meeting of the
Susquehanna Valley Press conference at Williamsport, November 1(3.
Mr. DeVoe spoke on the subject “Problems of the Year Book.”
Samuel Kurtz, who has been directing the band and orchestra
Bloomsburg High School, has accepted a position as teacher
in the Catawissa High School. The position was made vacant by the
illness of one of the teachers. Although he was not a regular teacher
in Bloomsburg, Mr. Kurtz was given charge of the musical organizations shortly after school began in September, and he has done remarkably well in developing both of them. Mr. Kurtz will continue
the work with the Bloomsburg High School musical groups.
in the

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Miss Marie W. Kelly and Edgar M. Derr were united in marriage
Wednesday evening, October 23, by the Rev. H. B. Gies, rector of
The ceremony was
St. Columba’s Catholic Church, of Bloomsburg.
performed on the birthday of the bride. The bride is a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School and of the Teachers College, and for four
years has been a teacher at Vandergrift. The bridegroom is also a
graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and in his student days was
an outstanding athlete. He is a member of the firm of Laubach and
Derr. The couple will reside on Jefferson street, Bloomsburg.
1932

Miss Mary Alice Eves, of Schuylkill Haven, and Charles Cox,
of Bloomsburg, were married Tuesday, December 24, in the Reformed Church at Schuylkill Haven. Mrs. Cox is a graduate of the
George School, a Quaker institution near Philadelphia, and of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She taught for two years in
the North Manheim Township school in Schuylkill Haven. Mr. Cox
has been teaching science and mathematics for the past two years in
the Nescopeck High School.
Miss Katharine Fritz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Fritz,
formerly of Bloomsburg, and now of Gramercy Gardens, Douglassville, Pa.,

became the bride

of

James M.

Gillen, of Philadelphia, Fri-

day afternoon, October 4, at two o’clock in a pretty ceremony in the
Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge. The groom is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Gillen, of Philadelphia, and is assistant credit
manager for the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, of Philadelphia. They will reside at 2134 North 28th street, Philadelphia.
1933

A

daughter was born at the Bloomsburg Hospital, Thursday,
October 3, to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Black, of Millville. Mrs .Black
was formerly Zela Bardo, a member of the graduating class of 1933.
The child has been named Eleanor Darlene.
Miss Iva Jenkins and Ira Newton were married at Coudersport
Saturday, May 11, 1935. They are now living at Coudersport, Pa.
1935

Edwin Row Creasy has accepted a position as instructor in the
Bordentown Military Institute. Mr. Creasy is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a member of Gamma Theta Upsilon and Kappa Delta Pi.

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1881

Mrs. Mate Spaulding Borden, 89 Putman Street, Tunkhannock, Pa.
1885
L. P. Bierly, 925 Exeter

Avenue,

Pittston, Pa.

1889

Margaret A. Stephens (Mrs. John C. Taylor), 159 State
London, Connecticut.

Street,

New

1894

William Buckwalter, 622 N. Lincoln Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
1898

Mandilla Hartline (Mrs. C. C. Yeager), 8058 Crispin Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Nora

E.

Hankee (Mrs. John A. MacGuffie),

104

York Avenue, West

Pittston, Pa.

Lindley H. Dennis, 1010 Vermont Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.
1900

Lydia Zehner (Mrs. F. A. Shuman), R. D. 3, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bess Griffiths, 13 S. Meade Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
1904

Emma

Hinkley (Mrs. John P. Saylor), 313 Pine Street, Tamaqua, Pa.
1906

Millie Seely Thomas, 208 East Seventh Street, Berwick, Pa.

1907

Esther A. Wolfe, R. D.

2,

Dallas, Pa.

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1908

Mary Louise Moore,

421 Vine Street, Scranton, Pa.

1909

Florence Priest (Mrs. M. W. Cook), Cortez, Lackawanna County, Pa.
Dr. Scott R. Fisher, 511 Keith Building, Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. Robert F. Wilner, Easter School, Baguio, Philippine Islands.
1911

Ethel

J.

Paisley, 127 E. Catawissa Street, Nesquehoning, Pa.

1912
Jessie Doran, Daleville, R.

3,

Moscow, Pa.

Alfa Stark (Mrs. Robert F. Wilner), Easter School, Baguio, Philippine Islands.
1913
Catherine A. Malloy, 5652 Whitby Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lillian M. Kearney, 82 Market Street, Pittston, Pa.
Mildred Stemples, Mehoopany, Pa.
1914

Susan Jennings (Mrs. A. W. Sturman), 42 Slocum Avenue, Tunkhannock, Pa.
1915

Norma Hoag (Mrs. William R. McReady), 110 South Chestnut Street,
Summit Hill, Pa.
Alma Baer (Mrs. Eduardo Llerena), Caixa Postal 849, Care of Kodak
Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mary

E.

Hess (Mrs. Walter Croop),

1733

West Front

Street,

Ber-

wick, Pa.

Helen E. Harris (Mrs. George A. Aliton),

4

North Broome Street,

Port Jervis, N. Y.
1916

Hazel M. Kreamer (Mrs. John A. Price), 183 Delaware Street,
bury, N.

Wood-

J.

Elizabeth Wiegand, 279

New Hancock

Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

1917

Gertrude C. Lecher, 54 Terrace Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
1917

Rhoda Crouse, 1318 Orange

Street, Berwick, Pa.

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Arthur Eugene Steward, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Gladys E. Fetterolf (Mrs. J. S. Crossman), 1701 Norwegian

Street,

Pottsville, Pa.

1920

Francisco Lago, Box 230, Havana, Cuba.
Grayce O. Mausteller, 353 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1923
Lois Dodson, 122

Dana

Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

1924

Kathryn C. Schuyler (Mrs. Russel Gaston), Turbotville, Pa.
Grace F. Baylor, Montandon, Pa.
Mary Ruth Eisenhauer (Mrs. Harold F. Brown), 557 Charles Avenue,
Kingston, Pa.
1926
Ida Steinert (Mrs. F. C. Fisher), 1042 Masser Street, Sunbury, Pa.
1927

M. Edna Girton, 508 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Mary Elliott Jones, 632 N. Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
1930

Mrs. Annie E. Schell, Mainville, Pa.
1931
Beatrice

Bowman,

2619 Highland Avenue, Rochester, N. Y.

Regina B. Haggerty, Mary

D., Pa.
Esther Yeager, 8058 Crispin Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

1933

Miles B. Potter, 119 East

Main

Street,

Old Forge, Pa.

Vol.

No. 2

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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

APRIL, 1936

BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

APRIL, 1936

37

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July

1,

1909, at the

NO.

2

Post Office at Bloomsburg,

Pa„ Under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year.
H. F.

MRS.

FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.

JENKINS,

DR.

’12

’75

Editor

Business Manager

ADE URGES INDIVIDUALISM

Declaring education to be the bulwark of democratic government, Dr. Lester K. Ade, State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
stressed the importance of formulating a philosophy of education and
of life in an address Tuesday, March 10, before the student body of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Because of people’s ever increasing participation in civic affairs,
educators must have much knowledge of the social sciences and must
use such knowledge more than they have in the past. He emphasized
the importance of the school as a coordinating and controlling center
of all the growth and the experience of childhood.
“The new theory of education holds that folks are being educated all day long and that education is made up of activities and experiences,” he stated. “To the question, ‘What constitutes the individual,’ my answer,” he stated, “is that a person is the sum total of
experiences.”
Ade described education as a life-long process, not as several years academic study.
He added that education is not merely
all his

Dr.

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preparation for life, but is really life as well. Depicting the two-fold
purpose of education, that of living and of preparing to live, to be
one of the many dualisms in education, Dr. Ade continued by enumerating other dualisms content and method, effort and interest, both
groups containing mutually inclusive terms.
He warned the teachers and prospective teachers in his audience against over-emphasizing the scientific approach to the exclusion of the philosophic. Analysis is an essential part of the education, but synthesis is needed as well.
Action plus reflection, he declared to be another essention dualism of education.
“We Americans are in a great hurry; we cannot slow down. Yet
what we need is to do more thinking,” Dr. Ade stated. “I hope you
will form your own philosophy of education and of life. Be sure that
the traditions you support contribute to your objectives.”
“Modern sets of educational objectives have the sanction of the
ages,” he continued, tracing the history of the philosophy of education and linking with it the names of such great men as Spencer and

—

Plato.

He urged

the

necessity

for

education becoming more self-dias a society in which children

and characterized the school
assume responsibility on a childhood
recting

education

The

is

level.

The great objective

of

to stimulate thinking.

chief obstacles in achieving a civilized world lie in our

men-

not a question of pupil and teacher, but
of society and its members. A school must emphasize the cooperative rather than the individual outlook, although there is a need for
both.
It is becoming increasingly imperative that the teachers in
our schools understand that books are not a substitute for experience. Books are artificial, whereas life is real. “Children must see
in their education something that is eternal and lasting,” he added.
Teachers must find some way to make clear thinking the criterion of
modern man. The vigorous thinker in action. Dr. Ade declared to be
the most imposing figure in the intellectual life of man. Our tendency to strengthen the group life by advocating conformity must be
balanced by instruction in methods of thinking.

School

tal outlook.

The four aims
as follows:

first,

him capable

to

life is

of education

make

of initiating

which Dr. Ade has formulated are

man master of himself; second, to make
his own activities; third, to make him rea

sponsible for his own activities; and fourth, to be able to discern and
assimilate ideas from any source.
Spiritual life, Dr. Ade declared to be the most important phase

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all life.
He stressed the importance of advancing spiritually and
explained that the best method of doing so was by adhering to the
Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments. Spiritual development
is founded on fact, not fancy, and this fact is a challenge to most
people. Take out of life such things as reverence, admiration, ap-

of

preciation,

and adoration, and

life loses

most of

its

flavor.

o

DANCERS DELIGHT COLLEGE AUDIENCE
Unusual coordination and intricate rhythm patterns marked the presentation given by Miriam Winslow and her dancers
before a large audience in the State Teachers College Auditorium.
In their second performance on the college platform, the group of
five young women delighted with fourteen dance numbers, featuring
colorful costumes and striking dance arrangements. The four dancMary
ers who form Miss Winslow’s ensemble are Olive Cousens,
Hughes, Jacqueline Magrath and Nancy Minor. At the piano was
Mary Campbell, whose accomplished playing added an enjoyable
musical background to the dance arrangements.
Nine solo dances were presented by Miss Winslow herself, whose
grace and flexibility of movement surprised and delighted the audience. The Spanish dances “Sevilla” and “Andalouse,” solo numbers
by Miss Winslow, were received with special enthusiasm by the spectators.

(a)

Fantasia (Teleman)

*(b)

Song (Grazioli)

•(c)

Passepied (Fisher)

(d)
(e)

(f)

Ensemble
Miriam Winslow

Miriam Winslow with Misses Cousens and Hughes
Misses Magrath and Minor
Sarabande (Muffat)
Miriam Winslow
Hornpipe (Lully-Purcell)
Miriam Winslow and Ensemble
Threnody (Gibbons)
Intermission
o

Dr. Haas, President of the Teachers College, has been re-elected
a director of the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society. The election
was made during the 45th annual meeting held recently in Allentown.

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NINE DEGREES CONFERRED AT COLLEGE
For those who have learned value during their days, tomorrow
holds no fear, Dean of Instruction William B. Sutliff told the students
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, who completed their work
and received degrees of bachelor of science in education.
The exercises were held in the College chapel at ten o’clock Friday morning, January 24. Dr. Haas, College President, was unable to
attend because of illness, and the inclement weather prevented
Henry Klonower, chief, teacher division of the Department of Public
Instruction, from coming to Bloomsburg to take part in the exercises.
Those receiving degrees were:
Miss Mary Alice Frantz, commercial, Lancaster, R. D. 6.
Mr. Francis Garrity, secondary, Englewood, N. J.
Bernard Kafchinsky, secondary, Scranton.
Joseph Kane, secondary, Wilkes-Barre.
B. Donald Sands, secondary, Bloomsburg.
Miss Amy B. Smethers, intermediate, Berwick.
Miss Myrtle Trembley, secondary, Ambridge.
Joseph Visotski, secondary, Excelsior.
John Yeager, secondary, Hazleton.
Dean Sutliff’s address to the graduates follows:
“Today marks a milestone to most of us. It is the end of a semester. To nine of our fellow students, it marks the completion of
four years devoted to the completion of a choosen curriculum.
“A milestone is a peculiar thing. It is never the ultimate goal.
A milestone marks the point of progress. It may tell us how much
lies behind us, but how grateful we should be that it cries to us ‘The
goal lies

beyond

thee.’

not the goal, but the effort to win that
sportsman the greatest thrill. Someone has said:
“It

‘

is

gives

the

true

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own,

He who, secure within, can say
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have

lived today.”

’

“This philosophy of life, however, is a safe guide only when
today is well spent. If we truly live today, tomorrow may be faced
without fear. For as “The child is father to the man,’ so today, with
its duties done or left undone, is the arbiter of the success or failure
of tomorrow.
“In the book of Samuel, there is a beautiful story of the inci-

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dents in the lives of two young men, whose story has become the
example of enduring friendship. David was the popular guest
in the palace of King Saul. Jonathan was the prince royal and heir
to the throne. As the popularity of David grew, the jealousy of King
Saul increased to fury. David fled for his life, and Jonathan concealed him in a field, bringing him news of the state of mind of the

classic

king.

“But the fear of King Saul’s wrath made it necessary to plan to
inform David without revealing his hiding place. Jonathan was to
go into the field to practice archery. A lad was taken along to retrieve his arrows.
If Jonathan, after shooting his arrows, cried to
the lad, ‘the arrow is this side of thee,’ then all was well and David
was to return to the king’s house. If he cried as he did ‘the arrow
lies beyond thee,’ then David was to leave.
On one side lay the east
and luxury of the king’s palace. On the other the long fight for his
recognition as the chosen king of Israel. You know how he accepted
the challenge and won his kingdom. The task set for himself was
not an easy one. Years of planning, fighting and sacrifice. And so

some of us the cry, ‘the arrow lies beyond thee’ comes this morning not as a cry of fear, but as a challenge to greater effort.
“If four years of college life has or shall have taught us how to
budget our time, how to mix pleasant diversion with hard work,
how to make and keep friends, how to distinguish between the dead
wood of courses and those elements of life and meaningful nature,
how to ride a hobby without it riding us, how to build and recognize character, and how to make our regular tasks as attractive to
oneself and others as the extra-curricular things which we love to do
then you need have no fear when the call comes ‘The arrow lies
beyond thee.’ You have lived today tomorrow holds no fears. And
now, in the absence of Dr. Haas and by the authority conferred upon
him by the Board of Trustees of the State Teachers of College at
Bloomsburg and delegated to me, I now confer upon the following
members of the class of 1936, the Degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education, and extend my personal congratulations and that of the
entire faculy to you upon the completion of your chosen curriculum
and to extend to each of you our best wishes for your success.”

to

—

—

o

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel

J. Johnston and Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartfrom an extended sojourn in Florida, most of
Miami.

line returned recently

which was spent

in

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N'NTH ROTARY-KIWANIS COLLEGE EVENING

The ninth annual college evening of the Bloomsburg Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs, held Thursday evening, March 12, again reflected
the wealth of talent the College possesses, and the place it occupies
in the life of the community. From first to last, the evening ranked
with the most successful of the nine annual occasions.
As the guests assembled in the dining hall, the Maroon and Gold
Orchestra, furnished a musical program.
Professor S. I. Shortess, president of the Kiwanis Club, presided
over the first part of the program, and James G. Law, president of
the Rotary Club, over the concluding part in the dining hall.
During the dining hall program, four gypsy flower girls, Misses
Mary Quigley, Anne Curry, Virginia Burke, and Eleanor Reilly,
headed by the “wandering minstrel” Frank Rompolo, playing an accordian, distributed beautiful corsages to the ladies.
The speaker of the evening was Arthur W. Rabb, President of
the Bloomsburg Board of Trade. His address dealt chiefly with the

Bloomsburg Board

of Trade,

and the work

it

has undertaken to do.

In concluding his address, he expressed the congratulations of the
to Dr. Haas for the work he has done in Bloomsburg; he
de l~;cd that the town may be proud of those just named to executive positions in connection with the college, and expressed the confidence that they had the vision to carry on with increasing success
the work that has been placed in their hands.
The guests then adjourned to the balcony of the auditorium,
where they found the student body already assembled for one of the
finest programs yet presented.
In welcoming the guests, William Morgan, on behalf of the Community Government Association, said:
“It is a great privilege and pleasure tonight to have as our honored guests members of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs and their
friends from Bloomsburg and the neighboring communities.
“We appreciate the very pleasant and friendly relationship that
exists between us. We realize the value of such cooperation as an
asset to our college. It is our hope that this bond may be strengthened as we go on and work together.
“Your interest on this occasion has two outstanding values. It
offers an opportunity for us to become acquainted with you, and provides a chance for us to show you some of our college organizations

community

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In action. We are glad to be able to present this program for your
entertainment.
“In behalf of our entire college community, I extend to you a
sincere welcome, not only tonight, but at any time that you wish to

We hope to see you often.”
The audience and the College Chorus joined in singing “Maroon
and Gold” and “America the Beautiful.” Several much enjoyed
sound pictures followed.
The fine work of the Music Department was reflected in the
piano solos “Tarantelle” by Nicode, played by Miss Harriet Kocher,
and “C Minor Polonaise,” by Chopin, played by John Andreas.
The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah” was beautifully
rendered by the Mixed Chorus, under the leadership of Miss Harriet
M. Moore.
The Maroon and Gold Orchestra followed with “Friml Favorites” using the arrangement by Grofe.
One of the high lights of the program was the one-act play “The
Gooseberry Mandarin,” presented by the Alpha Psi Omega FraterThe cast included:
nity, under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston.
Miss Ruth Langon, who gave the prologue; Walton Hill, as the Manvisit the college.

darin; Miss Virginia Burke, as Fing-Loo; Philip Snyder, as the Wil-

low Tree, and Edward Garvey, as the Trumpeter.
The play was followed by “Praise Ye the Father” by Gounod,
sung by the College Chorus.
The A Capella Choir, under Miss Moore’s leadership, and with
John Andreas as the accompanist, sang “Good Night, Beloved,” by
Pinsuti, and “My Bonnie Lass She Smileth” by Bottomley.
Woodrow Litwhiler and Frank Rompolo scored a hit with their
trumpet and accordion duets. Frank Patrick, vocalist, also scored
heavily with the audience.

The drawn curtain then revealed the Maroon and Gold Band in
They played a march, then a selection from

their striking uniforms.

“Carmen,” and played for the College Chorus as the latter sang “Old
Bloomsburg,” while cheerleaders Albert Watts and John Slavin
helped on the front of the stage.

The program came to a close with the singing
Mater” with band accompaniment.
Dancing followed
evening to a close.

in

of

the gymnasium, bringing the

the

“Alma

memorable

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ORANGEVILLE AND NORTH SCRANTON PLAYS TAKE CUPS
Orangeville High School won in Class B and North Scranton
Junior High in Class A in the Seventh Annual Scholastic one act play
tourney which opened Friday evening, February 28, at the Teachers
College and concluded Saturday evening, February 29.
The College national dramatic fraternity, Alphi Psi Omega,
sponsored the tourney which produced the highest standard of competition in the history of the event. Without exception the work of
the six competing casts was excellent. Their plays had been carefully selected and splendid costuming added to the effectiveness of
the presentations.
Orangeville, in winning in class B, presented “Pink Geraniums”
by Marguerite Phillips with C. M. Davis the director. The winning

John Barrows, Sheldon Hess; Mrs. John Barrow, Miss
Marie Parnell; Tessie Wells, Miss Bertha Rose Miller; Mrs. Carey,
Miss Josephine Chamberlain, and Tim Nelson, Max Smith.
Raymond Hodges, a graduate of Bloomsburg and an alumni
member of the sponsoring fraternity, directed the class A prize winning play, given by North Scranton Junior High, Anton Tchekoff’s
“A Marriage Proposal.” Members of the cast were: Stephen Tscheibuvek, William Leveeing; Natalia Stephanovna, Miss Barbara Burns
and Ivan Lomov, Charles Kinsley.
The judges, all alumni members of the fraternity, were Miss
Karleen Hoffman, Miss Elizabeth Bowman and Maynard Pennington, of Bloomsburg.
Mr. Pennington announced the decision of the judges at the close
of the plays Saturday evening and presented the loving cups to each
of the winning schools. Each cup bore the Greek letters of the fraternity and the added inscription “H. S. Play Tourney B. S. T. C.
cast follows:

1936.”

In each of the casts other than the two winners, the judges se-

member who did outstanding work. Those accorded this
honorable mention were: Miss Jane Zimmerman, Berwick; Robert
Hand, Coal Township; Miss Margaret Itler, Hazleton Senior High and
Bernard Taylor, Millville.
Plays presented by contesting schools in addition to Orangeville
and North Scranton and the casts follow:
lected one

—

Berwick High “Grandma Pulls the Strings,” Edith Delano, directed by Miss Mildred Moody; Grandma Blessington, Miss Beverly

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Bower; Mrs. Cummings, Miss Ruth Fairchild; Hildgard Cummings,
Miss Jane Zimmerman; Julia Cummings, Miss Annabelle Vandevere;
Nora Cummings Deaver, Miss Dorothy Krebs and William Thornton
Jack Graham.
Coal Township “The Message From Khu Fu,” Stuart Cottman,
directed by Miss Anne Ryan; Prof. Arthur Harden, Ben Walburn;
Herman, Thomas Secri; Butch, Robert Hand; Ben, Robert Lewis and

—

Khu

Fu, William Patrick.

—

High “Miss Molly,” Elizabeth Gale, directed by Miss
Lois DeMott; Reginald Peters, Bernard Taylor; Annie, his sister, Miss
Betty Woolcock; Molly, their niece, Miss Louise Lawton; Cessie
Saunders, Miss Dorothy Greenly; Julian Hewitt, Henry Gordner; Joe
Johnson, William Fetzer; Pearl White, Miss Kathryn and Lady Elusia, Miss Vanice Woolcock.
Hazleton Senior High “The Boor,” Anton Chekovs, directed by
Miss Edith Harrison; Madame Popov, Miss Margaret Itler; Luka,
Gordon Novotnie; Gregori, William Schmeer; Gardner, James Hartman; coachman, Neil McHugh.
Millville

—

MILTON SYMPHONY PRESENTS PROGRAM
The Milton Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of E. H.
Bugbee, of Williamsport, presented a concert Friday evening, March
6, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The organization, with
a personnel of sixty-five, played in Bloomsburg last year before a
large audience, and has played together for seventeen years. The
personnel includes musicians from Bloomsburg, Danville, Sunbury,
Lewisburg, Lock Haven, Williamsport, Milton and others.

The program was as follows:
March Militaire Francaise Op. 60 No. 4
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (Unfinished)
First Suite From “Carmen”
The Blue Danube
Overture

Saint Saens

Schubert
Georges Bizet

Johann Strauss

Wagner

to “Rienzi”

o

Miss Margaret Ridgely, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, died in February at West Pittston following a short illness of pneumonia.

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W.

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C. A.

About ninety members of the Y. W. C. A. of the Teachers Coland their guests enjoyed the dinner meeting at the College dining room at six o’clock Thursday evening, January 16.

lege

Miss Mildred Auten, president of the Y. W. C. A., acted as the
and Prof. Charles H. Albert gave the invocation.
Group singing was led by Florence Snook, chairman of the Y. W. C.
A. Music Committee. Miss Sally Davies was at the piano.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College, extended greetings
and expressed his appreciation of the work of the organization on
the campus.
The Rev. Thomas Law Coyle, of the Presbyterian Church, Milton, gave an interesting account of some of his experiences in Europe
and under the appropriate title of “Innocence Abroad.”
Guests at the dinner included: Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, the
Rev. Thomas L. Coyle, Prof. C. H. Albert, Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Prof, and Mrs. E. A.'Reams, Prof, and Mrs. S. L. Shortess, Prof,
and Mrs. John Fisher, Prof, and Mrs. John C. Koch, Dr. Marguerite
Kehr, Miss Pearl Mason, faculty advisor of the Y. W. C. A.
toastmistress,

*

*

*

Following a dinner party in the College dining room, at which
the guests were the officers of the old and new Y. W. C. A. cabinets,
Prof. Charles H. Albert, Dr. Marguerite Kehr and Miss Pearl Mason,
the regular meeting held Wednesday evening, March 25, took the
form of an impressive installation service in the social rooms in
Science Hall. Prof. Albert was guest speaker. He gave the members a very inspiring talk on “Civilization and Culture.” The new
officers are as follows: President. Miss Marie Foust, Milton; VicePresident, Miss Ruth Kramm, of Watsontown: Recording Secretary,
Miss Deborah Jones, of West Pittston; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Thelma Moody, of Sunbury; Devotional Chairman, Miss Helen Weaver, of Bloomsburg; Bible Chairman, Miss Alberta Brainard, of Susquehanna; World Fellowship Chairman, Miss Amanda Babb, of Summit Station; Social Chairman, Miss Florence Snook, of Middleburg;
Social Service Chairman, Miss Gladys Brennan, of Sunbury; Music
Chairman, Miss Alice Foley, of Philadelphia; Publicity Chairman,
Miss Ruth Miller, Forty Fort; Treasurer, Miss Annabelle Bailey, of
Danville. Miss Pearl L. Mason is the faculty advisor of the Y. W.
C. A.

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ANNUAL COMMERCIAL CONTEST
The Junior Chamber of Commerce announces that May 2, 1936,
the date set for the Sixth Annual Commercial Contest of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. It may be necessary to have
two days of competition to satisfy all schools who wish to enter.
Since 1931, the number of schools participating has grown from
13 to over 30. For the past years, schools have been turned away on

is

account of the inability to accommodate more than thirty schools in
one day of competition. Since fair play is necessary to the successful
continuance of such an event, it was thought better to restrict the
number of schools rather than deal with overcrowded conditions.
Each school will bring five students and one teacher-chaperon.
About half of the contestants and the teachers stay over night at the
College. Beginning at eight o’clock, there will be contests in Gregg
shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and commercial arithmetic.
Gold, silver and bronze charms, bearing the seal of the College and
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, are given to those ranking first,
second, and third, in each of the five contest events. For the best
team of contestants, the Commercial Contest Cup is awarded. This
cup is now held by the Collingsdale High School. The High Schools
of Wyoming, Berwick, Northampton, and Latrobe have held this cup
in the past.

The Pi Omega Fraternity (commercial education students) is
sponsoring a short professional program for the visiting commercial
teachers directly after the luncheon hour Saturday. Beginning with
several short talks in the College dining room, the group will go to
the Auditorium where they will witness the dramatic presentation of
a way to teach desirable traits in getting a position. The short play
is called “College Bread” and was well received when given in the
College assembly last year.
The following schools have asked for more information about the
contest: Abington, Ambler, Berwick, Catasauqua, Blakely, Bloomsburg, Coal Township, Collingsdale, Dallas, Duke Center, Edwards(Hanover), Glen-Nor, Hawley, Hokendauqua,
ville, Eischelberger
Honesdale, Jersey Shore, John Harris, Kennett Square, Latrobe,
Lewistown, Marysville, McKees Rocks, Mechanicsburg, New Oxford,
Mount Union, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, Northampton, Uniontown, Orangeville, Peckville, Plains, Punxsutawney, Quakertown,
Ridley Park, Schuylkill Haven. Selinsgrove, Sellersville, Perkasie,

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Shinglehouse, Slatington, St. Clair, Sugar Notch, Sunbury, Swoyerville, Towanda, Trevorton, Tunkhannock, Tyrone, Weatherly, West
Chester, West Hazleton, William Penn, Williamsport, Wyoming.

LOCAL STUDENT ELECTED
Harold Border, of Bei'wick, a Bloomsburg Teachers College Junvice president and regional chairman of the
central region of the Pennsylvania Association of College Students at
the concluding sessions of the fourth annual convention held at State
ior,

was chosen second

College.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, dean of

women

at the College

of by the students as “mother” of the organization,

and spoken

was one

of the

speakers at the dinner program.

Rostand Kelly, a member of the class of 1935 at the Teachers
Lehigh gets the convention in 1937.
Bloomsburg had been urged to extend an invitation,
but refrained from doing so after the Lehigh bid was presented as
the association, rapidly gaining strength, is desirous of meeting in the
Bethlehem section.
The organization, by resolution, decided against subsidizing of
college athletics but felt that if it was done no cash should be involved, that scholarships should be awarded as they are in the academic field and that each athlete should receive similar treatment.

College, headed the organization last year.

The students felt that military training in college should be optional
with the student, favored freedom of the press and a continuation of
the present National Youth Administration for the aid of students.
Colleges represented were: Indiana State Teachers, Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy and Science, Moravian College for Women,
Dickinson, East Stroudsburg Teachers, Thiel, Lehigh, Edinboro State

Cedar Crest, Albright, Bloomsburg State Teachers, PennWomen, California State Teachers, Susquehanna, Seton Hill, Millersville State Teachers, Penn State, West
Chester State Teachers, Wilson and Elizabethtown.

Teachei's,

sylvania College for

Bloomsburg delegates were: Dan Jones, of Nescopeck; Harold
Border, of Berwick; Miss Sara Shuman, of Bloomsburg; and Miss
Wilhelmina Hayes, of Wilkes-Barre.

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LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI ORGANIZE
Three hundred Luzerne County graduates of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College attended a delightful dinner and dance at the
Hotel Redington in Wilkes-Barre, Monday evening, February 24, as

the Luzerne County Branch of the General Alumni Association began what is expected to be an exceptionally active program.
Luzerne County gives the College a most important link in a
chain of thriving branch organizations in the territory served by the
College. Most of these branches have sprung into activity during the
past year, and each is doing splendid work.
Tom E. Williams, Wilkes-Barre City Councilman, was toastmaster, and addresses were given by J. Frank Dennis and R. Bruce Albert, the latter being president of the general organization.

Miss Mary McBride delighted with a

W.

solo.

Dean

of

Instruction

B. Sutliff, one of the College “Old Guard’’ spoke informally, as

did Coach George C. Buchheit, Dr. E. H. Nelson and Nevin T. EngleMiss Melba Davis gave a reading, and John J. “Butch” McDevitt, of “millionaire for a day” fame, added some humor to a well-

hart.

balanced program.

Graduates of the College introduced by Mr. Williams as particuMiss Edith Moses, class of 1890; Mrs. Rich-

lar guests of honor, were:

ard Roderick, class of 1893; Mrs. John Redington,
Mrs. Samuel Pratt, of the class of 1896, and Mrs.
Rio de Janeiro.

Sr., class of 1894;

Alma

Llerena, of

Luzerne Branch are: Tom E. Williams, WilkesBruce C. Blackman, Forty-Fort, Vice-President;
Mrs. Mary Emanual Brown, Hanover Township, Secretary and Miss
Officers of the

Barre, President;

Irene Draina, Ashley, Treasurer.

Among those from the College in attendance were: Dean and
Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Coach and Mrs. George C. Buchheit. Mr. and Mrs.
Nevin T. Englehart, and Dr. E. H. Nelson.
o

Women students of the Teachers College assisted the Bloomsburg Chapter of the Red Cross during the recent flood emergency.
Some aided in the clothing work, and others assisted in the preparation and serving of meals to flood refugees.

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THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
Once again Father Time has brought us to our annual reunion
and banquet. What happy times we have had, these past five years
full of renewed friendship and the making of renewed acquaintances
among our loyal Alumni. And with what pleasure we are anticipating our sixth reunion on April 25, at 6:30 P. M., at the BellevueStratford in the beautiful North Garden, on the roof of this famous
old hotel!

*****

Our luncheon meetings throughout the year have been perfectly
and are growing in numbers and in interest. Our loyal
Alumni have been out in even the most severe weather and we do
delightful,

appreciate and

commend such
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love and steadfastness of purpose.
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*

*

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William Burke, husband of Lou Lesser Burke, ’07, died March 3,
Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City. He was convalescing from an
attack of pleuro-pneumonia, when an abscess developed on the lung.
in

He was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital immediately for an operation,
and on the following day he died. Mr. Burke was principal of the
Washington and Jefferson School in Union City, New Jersey, at the
time of his death.
=3=

*

Sara Ferber, '09, has moved
Quincy Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
*

*

*

to

her

*

*

*

new

address,

which

is

833

*

William Emmert, father of Marguerite E. Nearing, ’08, a wellknown stamp collector of Philadelphia, gave a talk to the Stamp
Club at Gimbel’s on one of our luncheon dates, and quite a few of
our members attended. Mr. Emmert was a classmate of Dr. Waller,
at Lafayette.
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4:

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Louella Burdick Sinquett, ’10, was a visitor at
several weeks during the past winter.
:j:

Willie

Morgan

Stein,

have changed their address

’08,

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4:

Palm Beach

for

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and her husband, Mr. Vincil Stein,
Veronica Road, Upper Darby.

to 7057

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“A DAY
lege,

IN

CHINA” OBSERVED

“A Day in China” was observed Monday, March 23, at the Colwhen Mr. and Mrs. Henry White gave a series of illustrated

talks on the highlights of Chinese civilization. Mr. and Mrs. White
featured on their program a fine collection of slides and pictures,
many of which have been used by the National Geographic Magazine.

A display of the photograph enlargements was shown throughout the day in the lobby. Great interest was manifested in the intricately designed frames which held the pictures, and also in the artistic coloring of the photographs, done by Chinese artists.
The first lecture on the program, “A Trip to Romantic Peking,
Showing Miracles of Chinese Art,” was given in the morning assembly, when Mr. White appeared wearing the dark gown which is the
ordinary dress of the Chinese gentleman.
Speaking before a large group of students in Science Hall during the afternoon, Mrs. White discussed Chinese literature.
The last lecture on the program was delivered at three o’clock
by Mr. White on the subject, “China’s Wonderland and Her Landscape Painters.” A group of pictures from the southern province of
Che-Kiang formed the basis for this discussion.
Through the travel talks of Mr. and Mrs. White, China became
to the college audiences a land of brilliant and harmonious color,
with an art that has developed many beautiful forms and a great
natural beauty.
o

COLLEGE DRAMATIC CLUB PRESENTS “TWELFTH NIGHT”
Bloomsburg Players Teachers College Dramatic Society presented
Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” Friday evening, April 3. Miss Alice
Johnston, of the College faculty, directed.

The

cast follows:

David Mayer, Orsino, the Duke of

Illris;

Harry

Nelson, Valentine, a gentleman attending the Duke; Miss Sue Morgan, Viola; Bernard Young, a sea captain and friend of Sebastian;
Philip Frankmore, Sir Toby Belch; Miss Kathryn John, Maria;
George Van Sickle, Sid Andrew Augecheck; Miss Jean Reese, Olivia;

Blaine Saltzer, the clown; Robert Abbot, Sebastian, brother of Viola;
William Morgan, Malvolio, steward to Olivia; Ernest Lau, Fabian;
Harold Border, Antonio.

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NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES
A new

Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers ColGovernor Earle to replace the members
of the former board, all of whose terms expired last October. The
lege has been appointed by

new members

are as follows: Clinton Herring, Orangeville;

Henry

T. Meyer, Lewisburg; Mrs. Ethel Noecker, Schuylkill Haven; Grover

Shoemaker, Bloomsburg; Judge Charles C. Evans, Berwick; William W. Evans, Bloomsburg; Dr. H. V. Hower, of Berwick; William
P. Gallagher, of Wilkes-Barre, and Thomas G. Vincent, of Danville.
The following are the retiring members of the Board: A. Z.
Schoch, of Bloomsburg; Paul E. Wirt (deceased), Bloomsburg; J. L.
Townsend, Bloomsburg; Harry S. Barton, Bloomsburg; Fred W.
Diehl, Danville; Albert W. Duy, Bloomsburg; Dr. E. A. Glenn, Berwick; David L. Glover, Mifflinburg; and Effie Llewellyn, Elysburg.
C.

DEAN KEHR ADDRESSES IVY CLUB
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, dean of women of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, was the speaker at the meeting of the Ivy Club at
the home of Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Wednesday afternoon, March 4.
Dr. Kehr gave a helpful and interesting talk on “Heredity and
Environment in the Life of a Child.” In concluding her talk, Dr.
Kehr gave seven important rights of a child. First, the right of a
permanent home; second, the right of affection; third, parents who
understand, who have real sympathy and common sense; fourth, allaround development; fifth, the right to be trusted; sixth, the right to
grow up; seventh, the right to live his or her own life.
o

The following formed a group in the main dining hall of the
Teachers College on March 11, when faculty members and their
wives were afforded the opportunity of meeting Dr. Lester K. Ade,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Dr. and Mrs. Haas, Dean
and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Dean and Mrs. John Koch, Dr. Marguerite
Kehr, Miss Ethel Ranson, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hausknecht, Mr. and
Mrs. George Buchheit, Mr. and Mrs. Nevin T. Englehart, Mr. and
Mrs. Earl N. Rhodes, Miss Bertha Rich, Miss Irma Ward, Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Evans, Mr. Henry Meyer, of Lewisburg, and Mrs. Edith
Noecker, of Schuylkill Haven.

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FOOTBALL
Losing only four varsity winners by graduation, and with twenty
Frosh candidates boosting the number of grid aspirants to fifty, the
Husky football camp was a busy place early last September. The
willingness to practice regularly, the co-operation between players
and coaches, and the constant high spirits of the squad were reflected
in the sterling brand of ball played during the season.

Most of the veterans reporting were members of the varsity
Captain “Whitey” Moleski, signal
squad during the Fall of 1934.
caller and triple-threat man, headed the seasoned players who were
again ready to “rough it up.” Other Seniors eager to don the moleskins were: “Joe” Dixon, a vicious tackle; “Rip” Mericle, a sturdy
defensive and offensive lad of three year’s experience; “Woody” Litwhiler, a smashing end; Frank Rompalo, light but alert ball carrier;
and Tommy Vershinski, ball snatching end.
Underclassmen reporting for duty were: “Johnny” Sircovics,
captain-elect for 1936-37; “Hal” Border, Frank Camera, A1 Finder,
“Red” Dixon, John Supchinsky, Vance Laubach, Frank Patrick,
Luther Troutman, and Eugene Harney. An unusually large number
First
of the once scholastic stars turned in very creditable service.
year men breaking into the line-up were: Wenrich, Erney, Jones,
Link, Shedlosky, Zelesky, Krashinsky, Hopfer, Dietrick, Lipfert, Van
Devender and Stenko.
From this group of varsity performers, the coaches chose an
eleven for each game. During the entire season Coaches Buchheit,

Tate and Seely were assured of capable reserve material, something
more difficult games.
After a short period of nightly practices, the Huskies emerged
from a sea of mud, a 19-0 winner of the initial game with Clarion.
With water overhead and underfoot, the game settled down to a

greatly appreciated during the

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punting duel with Captain Moleski’s toe booting the soggy ball to advantage. Gaining ground by laterals and aerials, two touchdown
drives were made with Moleski and Finder carrying the ball over. A
third six-pointer was converted when Border fell on a blocked kick
in the enemy’s end zone.
The only extra point was contributed by
“Krashinsky, who crashed his 171 pounds through the line after the
second touchdown.
Following a week of scrimmage and drilling of plays when the
weaknesses appearing in the Clarion game were patched up, the
local eleven opened Millersville’s schedule with a 6-0 victory.
The
score belied the real power of the locals, for Millersville attained but
four first downs to ten for Bloomsburg. No less than five scoring opportunities presented themselves after the ball had been worked
deep into Millersville territory with a varied attack of running, passing and punting. The Huskies failed to capitalize upon any of these,
but while the third quarter was yet young, A1 Finder, behind flawless blocking and interference, raced 51 yards to tab a goal standing
up. Vershinski’s placement kick went wide of the uprights.
Enheartened greatly with two victories under its belt, the squad
dug in for a crucial contest with the highly-touted Lock Havenites.
Rated as the underdog in all localities except Bloomsburg, the team
rose to new heights and battled the heavier and more experienced
team to a standstill. Bloomsburg’s defensive tightened about the reverses and spinners of the visitors and at one time held the ball on
the one yard line for four successive downs. Along this wall of stone,
Mericle, Dixon and Sercovics were particularly resistant. More than
once Moleski’s long punts kept his team out of danger.

On October 19, a battered and bruised Husky squad went to
Mansfield for the fourth game of the season. After outgaining, outpassing, outrunning and outkicking the teachers of Northern Pennsylvania, Mansfield took a gamble, reserve back, and eked out a 3-0
win in the waning minutes of the tilt. After this score the Huskies
regained their lost spirits only to have the final whistle end the contest.
As fate would have it, the score, not other factors, decides the
winner of gridiron battles. The boys tried hard but just didn’t click.
“Rip” Mericle played a “bang-up” game, recovering several fumbles
and smashing offensive thrusts aimed at the center of the line.
With hearts set on blotting out of memory the 3-0 setback at the
hands of Mansfield and determined to uphold Homecoming Day
traditions, the members of the squad downed the hitherto potential
State Teacher’s champions frcm Indiana, 6-0.
Although statistics

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prove Bloomsburg the better all-around team, the tide surged back
and forth with most of the play in mid-field. After three quarters
of mostly punt exchanges, sprinkled with a mixture of surprising
spinners, shovel passes, and reverses, the fireworks began.
The
tempo of the game quickened and ball carriers flashed around ends,
and passes scorched the atmosphere. Near the close of the game,
Wenrich snatched a long Moleski pass and galloped down the field
for the only score of the game. Dixon, Mericle, and Sircovics deserve
special praise for their smearing tactics, and Henry and Camera for
upholding the interference end of the game. All of the running
blocks proved to be of value with Laubach doing the lion’s share of
the blocking.
Again the signs of a hard battle told upon the Huskies, who met
a crushing defeat at the hands of the powerful Shippensburg eleven.

That the down state gridders knew of Bloomsburg’s power is certain,
up Mericle, Dixon, Sircovics, Moleski and
Krashinski. The Huskies battled the opposition on even terms, but
cracked in the final quarter to allow three touchdowns to cross their
for they wisely bottled

goal

line.

home game of the season, November 16, the Huskies
humbled East Stroudsburg, 12-0, a cherished revenge for the Homecoming defeat of 1934. Dominating in every phase of the game, the
local team so far outplayed the Big Red visitors that a host of substitutes were used in the fourth quarter. Laubach, up to this time a
fine blocking back, turned ball carrier and hammered the opposing
line to shreds.
Rompalo, directing the team in the absence of the
In the last

injured Moleski, did a first rate job, while Krashinski, half-back,
ran wild for numerous and lengthy gains. Again the whole line
proved its power.

Playing on frozen turf and in weather below freezing, which

Bloomsburg gridders dropped
powerful Slippery Rock aggregation by the score
of 21-6. Immediately after the first whistle of the game, the westerners marched 90 yards to a touchdown. The locals seemed to be
off form until late in the fourth quarter, when Krashinski, who was
about to be tackled, lateraled the ball to Shcdlosky. Deitrick and
Mericle waylaid two opposing players and Shedlosky scored.
Throughout the game the Huskies failed to fathom the deceptive
greatly handicapped both teams, the

the final

game

to a

plays of the strong Rockets.

Although the coaching
terial for

staff will

next year, the gaps

have

a plentiful supply of

made by graduation

will be

hard

ma-

to

fill

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Linemen

like

20

Vershinski, Litwhiler, Mericle and Dixon

it will take good men to “fill the shoes” of
Captain “Whitey” Moleski and “Rompy” Rompalo, backfield men.
For two years in succession, the team has had a record of four
victories, three defeats and one scoreless tie.
Against teams of the
calibre as were on the schedules, these results are very gratifying;

are not too numerous; and

and besides the players who worked faithfully, the greatest of praise
is owed to Head Coach Buchheit, and his assistants, Mr. Austin Tate
and Mr. Raber Seely. Win or lose, the breaks of the game with or
against them, the members of the squad did their best to win fairly.
They played their best because they wished to reward the three
coaches who treated them like men on the practice field. That such
relationship

is

of value

was

reflected in the cooperation of coaches

and players.
Schedule

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

Clarion

0

6

Millersville

0

0

Lock Haven

0

0

Mansfield
Indiana

3

19

6

0

(Home-Coming Game)
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

0

12
6

Shippensburg
East Stroudsburg

26

Slippery Rock

21

0

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BASKETBALL
Starting early season practice with only three veterans from last
Coach Buchheit molded together one of the most successful

year,

basketball teams in the history of the institution.

Opening the current season against a powerful Alumni team on
December 6, the Huskies, led by Captain Philips, started a winning
streak that extended into the middle of February,

when

the streak

was broken on

the trip to the western part of the state.
Against superior odds and seasoned teams, the Huskies,

with

Ruckle, Robinson, and Smethers at forward, Blass at center, and
Captain Phillips, Banta, and Withka at guard, won nine games and
lost five.

Losing only one varsity man, Captain Phillips,

who played every

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game in his four years, and who worked hard as leader, the Huskies
should furnish difficult opposition for any team next year. With
“Junie” Ruckle as captain, the Husky squad will strive to win the
coveted Teachers College championship.
The scores are as follows:
Dec. 6 Bloomsburg
51
Dec. 13— Bloomsburg
35
27
Dec. 16 Bloomsburg

—
—
Jan. 11 — Bloomsburg
Jan. 15 — Bloomsburg
Jan. 23— Bloomsburg
Jan. 31 — Bloomsburg
Feb. 1— Bloomsburg
Feb. — Bloomsburg
Feb. 14 — Bloomsburg
Feb. 15 — Bloomsburg
Feb. 20 — Bloomsburg
Feb. 21 —Bloomsburg
Feb. 29 — Bloomsburg
8

Alumni

39

Ithaca

36

Susquehanna

36

39

Mansfield

27

46

Lock Haven

30

39
34
49
41
29
34
34
51
37

Mansfield

18

Shippensburg

27

Millersville

41

East Stroudsbug

36

Lock Haven

37

Indiana
East Stroudsburg

39
44

Millersville

35

Susquehanna

22

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JUNIOR VARSITY UNDEFEATED
The Husky Junior Varsity basketball team, although playing
only six games, showed great form by winning them all. The quintette, composed almost entirely of Freshmen, should furnish seasoned
players for Coach Buchheit to use in varsity competition. Those
showing the most promise were: Frank Van Devender, Donald
Blackburn, Aubrey Giermack, Phillip Snyder, Jack Gering, and John
Slavin.
o

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
The Varsity Lettermen’s Club successfully conducted their fifTournament on March 14, 28, and 29. The
winners of the tournament were: Coal Township in Class A, SwoySeventeen teams comerville in Class B, and Pulaski, in Class C.
peted in the entire tournament. The tournament was ably managed
teenth annual High School

by George Kressler, the varsity basketball manager, under the supervision of Dr. E. H. Nelson.

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1936 BASEBALL SCHEDULE
April
April
April
April
April

May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May

—Shippensburg
—Lock Haven
24 — Millersville
25 —Susquehanna
29 — Mansfield
—Millersville
6 — Mansfield
8 — Lock Haven
—Kutztown
12 — East Stroudsburg
16 —Shippensburg
20— Indiana
23 —Susquehanna
18

22

1

11

Away
Away
Home
Away
Home
Away
Away
Home
Away
Away
Home
Home
Home

TRACK SCHEDULE
April
April
April
April

May
May
May

—Class Meet
—Lock Haven
Away
24-25 —Penn Relays
Philadelphia
28 — Shippensburg
Home
— Invitation High School Meet
4 —Susquehanna
Home
—State Teachers College Meet, Shippensburg
16-17

22

2

8

TENNIS SCHEDULE

—Shippensburg
—Lock Haven
—Millersville
25 —Villa Nova
29 — Mansfield
May —Millersville
May 4—Susquehanna
May 6 — Mansfield
May —Lock Haven
May — Kutztown
May 12 —East Stroudsburg
May 15 —
Thomas
May 16 —Susquehanna
May 20 — Indiana

April
April
April
April
April

18

22

24-

1

8

11

St.

Away
Away
Home
Home
Home
Away
Home
Away
Home
Away
Away
Home
Away
Home

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HIGH SCHOOLS ENTERTAINED

A number

of the students and faculty members of the OrangeTownship and Millville High Schools were delightfully
entertained at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently.
The guests, who had an enjoyable day, included the Junior and
Senior classes of Orangeville, the Seniors and post graduate students
of Scott, and Millville Seniors.
The party was welcomed by Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of
the College; Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women; Coach George C.
Buchheit and William Morgan, the latter representing the student
ville,

Scott

body.

The student Hospitality Committee acted as guides for a sightseeing tour about the campus and also acted as hosts and hostesses in
the dining room.
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SOPHOMORE COTILLION FEBRUARY
In an attractive setting fitting for Washington’s

22
Birthday,

the

Sophomore Cotillion of the Teachers College was held in the gymnasium Saturday evening, February 22. The delightful affair was
attended by members of the class and a number of guests.
The gymnasium was decorated with red, white and blue and
numerous pictures of Washington. Programs were in black and
white with attractive covers of figures in Colonial costume.
Patrons and patronesses were Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas,
Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Mr. and Mrs. John
C. Koch, and Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Shortess.
The officers of the class are: Walton Hill, president; Adolph Zalonis, vice president; Miss Marjorie Beaver, secretary; Clyde Klinger,
treasurer,

and Prof.

S.

I.

Shortess, class advisor.

o

Tuesday evening, March 31, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas were
tendered a dinner by the faculty, with 68 in attendance at the delightful affair at the Hotel Berwick. Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline
and Miss Helen Carpenter, former members of the faculty, were
among those in attendance. John C. Koch, Dean of Men, presided as
toastmaster, and presented Mrs. Haas with a beautiful basket of
flowers. During the program that followed the dinner, Dr. Haas responded in his delightful manner. Bridge was played during the
rest of the evening.

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PROF. ANDRUSS IN CHARGE OF CONTEST
For the third year, Harvey A. Andruss, Director Department of
at the College, had charge of the Bookkeeping Contest in
Bucks County. In addition to making and administering the test,
Prof. Andruss scored the papers and indicated the winners.
This
year the Bucks County Intercollegiate Meet was held at Morrisville,

Commerce

Pa.,

March 14.
The Department

Commerce

is making tests in business suband county contests in Illinois, Delaware,
and Michigan. The proceeds from the sale of such tests will go into
the treasury of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, to aid in defraying
the expense of the Sixth Annual Pennsylvania Commercial Contest,
which will be held at the College on May 2, 1936. Last year thirtythree schools from eighteen counties were entered for this state-wide

of

jects to be given in local

testing event.

o

IVY

DAY ORATOR SELECTED

Announcement has been made of the selection of Bernard J.
Young, of Berwick, as Ivy Day Orator for the Commencement Exercises.

He was

Berwick High School in the class of
Sophomore year he was president of his class. During
his Junior year, he was editor of the Maroon and Gold, the college
paper. During the same year he was vice-president of his class, and
1932.

is

now

a graduate of the

In his

captain of the cross-country team.
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DIED AT BLOOMSBURG HOSPITAL
Taken ill while visiting at the home of his daughter, Dr. Nell
Maupin, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College faculty, Edward
Lester Maupin, of Culpepper, Va., died February 23, at the Bloomsburg Hospital.
Surviving are a brother, John Lester Maupin, of New York; one
granddaugter, Miss Margaret Ruth Maupin, and a daughter, Dr. Nell
Maupin, of town. The body was taken to Culpepper, Va., for funeral services.

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Alumni are earnestly requested

All

to

inform Mrs. F. H. Jenkins

Many

copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at
the address on our files.
of all changes of

address.

•
OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Mr. R. Bruce Albert,

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

’06

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., ’67
Mr. Edward Schuyler, ’24
Miss Harriet Carpenter, ’96

Executive Committee

Mr. Fred W. Diehl, ’09
Mr. H. Mont Smith, ’93
Mr. Maurice F. Houck, ’10
Mr. Daniel J.

Mr. Frank Dennis,

’ll

Dr. E. H. Nelson, ’ll
Mr. Dennis D. Wright,

Mahoney,

’ll

’09

»

ALUMNI

!

ARE YOU WITH US?

Once more the great majority of the members of the Alumni
Association are reminded that it is time to pay their dues for next
year. From year to year, an effort has been made to keep the
as to the objectives and achievements of the AlumThere has been mailed, to all graduates of Bloomsburg who can be reached, a four-page folder announcing the activities of Commencement Week, with special emphasis on Alumni Day,

Alumni informed
ni Association.

May

23.

Material contained therein is reprinted in this issue of the
it again and acquaint yourself with the objectives

Quarterly; read

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of the Association, and you will understand why the officers of the
Association want you to keep up your membership.
The folder tells you what the Association hopes to do with your
dollar.
Once more we should like to answer a question that comes
up all too often. The question is this: “Does any part of the dollar
paid as dues go to the College for the Alumni Dinner?” The answer
Alumni are guests of the College on Alumni Day, thereis “No.”
fore, when you pay your dues, you are not paying for your dinner.
Finally, we urge you not to let the fact that you will not be present
on Alumni Day prevent you from giving your support to the Asso-

ciation.

What have

Alumni obtained in return for their dues during
all, they have received four numbers of the
Alumni Quarterly; second, those who came to Bloomsburg on Alumni
Day were guests of the College at the Alumni Dinner and at the
baseball game in the afternoon; third, those who were in Bloomsburg
on Home-Coming Day last October, were guests of the College at
luncheon, at the football game in the afternoon, and at the dance in
the evening; fourth, those who paid their dues were happy in the
fact that they were showing their loyalty to their Alma Mater by
helping the Alumni Association to attain the objectives that they
had set up.
Once more we ask you, “Are You With Us?”
the past year?

the

First of

o

1881

A

heart attack proved fatal Monday, January 23, to Torrence B.
Harrison, former Luzerne county superintendent of schools, at his
home along the Huntington Mills-Muhlenburg road in Union Township.

The seventy-seven year old educator
chair talking to his daughter, Miss Mary.

was stricken

as he sat in a

He had served several terms as superintendent of the Luzerne
county schools, and likewise had been a teacher in Wilkes-Barre and
Huntington township. He was one of the best known residents of
that part of Luzerne county.

A

graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, he taught
in Hazleton and was a member of the Wilkes-Barre
Episcopal Church.
for

some time

Surviving are: one son. Dr. J. H. Harrison, of Hazleton; four
daughters, Mrs. L. M. Chambers, of Ardmore; Mrs. Karl Keefer, of

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Wilkes-Barre; Ada, of Newark, N. J., and Mary, at home; two brothers, Dr. Ezra Harrison, of Scranton, Pa., and Douglas, of Town Line,
and by two sisters, Mrs. Fred Naugle, of Sweet Valley, and Mrs.
Frank Hartman, of Scranton.
1904

Blanche M. Grimes, who

is

in the office of the

Adjutant General

had a letter from
Adele Mead, Class of 1904. She is now Mrs. L. T. Kendrick, 1453
South West 77th Street, Miami, Florida, and would be very glad to
have any Bloomsburg Alumni look her up if they are in the South.
“I cannot tell you how surprised Adele and I were when we met
in Miami during an American Legion Convention.
We had much to
talk about, as she served in the U. S. N. R. F. during the war, and
belongs to the National Organization of Yeomen F, of which I am
at Harrisburg, states in a recent letter: “I recently

the chaplain.”
1908
Nellie Deighmiller (Mrs. C. R. Stecker) died

home

November

20, 1935,

Bloomsburg. Mrs. Stecker was a victim of the same
ailment that caused the death of her twin sister, Mrs. Ellie Deighmiller Hartman, several years ago. The class of 1908 has lost a loyal
member of sterling character and worth, and we deeply sympathize
with her bereaved husband.

at her

in

1911

Reno J. Bush, one of Bloomsburg’s best known business men.
Death came as the result of a heart attack. He was aged forty-two
years, and was a native of Bloomsburg. He grew up in the candy
and ice cream business which his parents conducted, and for years
28, to

he had been widely known as a photographer and musician. His
fame as a candy-maker and baker was known throughout this section of the state. During the war he served with the American Army
and upon his return, he re-entered business. He was a member of
the Elks, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the
Knights of Columbus, and of St. Columba’s Catholic Church.

Mabel Van Reed (Mrs. R. T. Layton), who lives at Franklin, N.
has joined the ranks of the one-hundred percenters by sending a
check for five dollars as payment for dues.
Death came with shocking suddenness Saturday morning, March

J.,

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1912

Death, at 6:00 o'clock Sunday morning, April 12, ended a fouryear battle against failing health waged by Beatrice Ely (Mrs. A. W.
Duy, Jr.) Her death occurred at the Bloomsburg Hospital, where she
had been taken with kidney complications that followed a week’s attack of grippe.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Ely, she was born at
Millville, August 28, 1893.
After her graduation from Bloomsburg,
she taught for several years in Milton.
Mrs. Duy was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the S.
Club, and the American Legion Auxiliary.
Surviving are her husband, two children, Suzanne and William
E., at home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ely, of Millville; a brother,
Robert Ely, of Millville, and a sister, Mrs. E. Samuel Meed, of Eastport, Maine.
1913

Announcement has been made
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon
John E. Bakeless, for seven months' study abroad for preparation of a work on
Christopher Marlowe, designed to provide the most complete account
possible of his life, his work, and the work of scholars and writers
who have dealt with him. The work will begin June 15.
The Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to mature writers
and artists for the completion of works of importance, and of genof the

award

of the

of a fellowship to

eral artistic, literary, or scholarly interest.

Many important books have been written on these fellowships,
including Stephen Vincent Benet’s poem, “John Brown’s Body,” and
Louis Adamic’s “Native’s Return.” The poet Conrad Aiken is now
abroad on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The study of Marlowe will take Mr. Bakeless to Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, London, and wherever else his research may
lead. The book has occupied much of his time since 1920, and he has
worked continuously on it since 1932.
The book will be an effort to bring together all that is known
about Christopher Marlowe’s life and works. The first six chapters

are biographical, their chiefly original contribution being a study of
student life in Cambridge, and its influence on the poet, and an
analysis of the evidence bearing on his religious belief.
The next
eight chapters deal with the plays and poems, the next three with

Marlowe’s relationship to Shakespeare, and with plays erroneously
ascribed to Marlowe.

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Since his graduation from Williams and Harvard, where he subsequently pursued graduate study, Mr. Bakeless served as editor of
The Living Age; literary advisor of the Independent, editor of the
Forum, assistant professor of journalism at New York University,
and in charge of publications at Sarah Lawrence College.
His publications include “Economic Causes of Modern War,”
awarded the David A. Wells prize of $500 by Williams College; “Origins of the Next War,” “The Business Man’s Interest in World
Peace,” “Magazine Making,” and articles in most American and
British literary magazines. He has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Social Science and the Dictionary of American Biography.
1914

Major Idwal Edwards, formerly of town, now in the Hawaiian
Islands, was selected to fly from Honolulu to Molokai Island leper
colony to remove the body of the martyr priest, Father Damien, for
shipment to the priest’s native home in Belgium.
Major Edwards, whose wife is the former Miss Katherine Bierman, of Bloomsburg, has been in Hawaii for some time.
Father Damien spent his life among the lepers of Molokai, sacriown health and comforts to save them. The highest honors
of the Catholic Church were paid him as the body was sent back to
ficing his

his native land.

1926

Miss Catherine A. Strine, of Milton, graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, class of 1926, was married recently to Dr.
Charles A. Harvey, Milton chiropractor. Miss Strine has been teaching in the Lewisburg Junior High for several years.
1928

on New Year’s Day, there
the marriage of Miss Mildred M. Herr, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence G. Herr, of Berwick, and Earl E. Ginter, of

At the home

of the bride’s parents,

was solemnized

Johnson City.
At 2:30 o’clock, the ring ceremony of the Lutheran Church was
performed by Rev. A. W. Smith, pastor of Trinity Church, of which
is a member.
The immediate families of the couple witnessed the ceremony.
Following a wedding dinner, the couple left by automobile for ReadThe bride is a teacher in the schools of Wernersville, near
ing.

the bride

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Reading, and will

continue

with

her school

until

30

a

successor

is

named.

The groom is a son of William Ginter of Johnson City. He is
the assistant principal of Coal Township High School.
Both are
graduates of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and were students
here together six years ago. They will make their home in Coal

Township.
1929

Announcement

engagement

of Miss Charlotte Mears,
daughter of Mrs. Edith Mears, of Bloomsburg, to Dr. N. F. Davis,
son of Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, of Danville, has been made.
Miss Mears is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in the class of 1929, and is
now teaching in the Junior High School at Hunting, L. I.
Dr. Davis is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1931
and has been practicing in Bloomsburg for several years.
of the

1933

Karl Getz, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Getz, of Light Street Road,
Bloomsburg, who has been studying music at New York University,
has accepted a position at Johnson City, N. Y. to teach both instrumental and vocal music in the public schools.
1930

Miss Frona Bingham, of Beavertown, and Ira Babb, were married during the summer of 1935.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Roscoe are the proud parents of a daughNorma Jean, born June 17, 1935. Mrs. Roscoe was formerly
Helen Mackie of Scranton.
ter,

Miss Jeanette Roberts, of Scranton, has accepted a teaching poScranton schools after teaching in rural schools for the
past four years.

sition in the

Miss Adeline MacKinder is recovering from a serious
a beauty parlor in Nanticoke.

illness.

She conducts

1931

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Franklin are rejoicing over the birth of a
son. Mrs. Franklin, before her marriage, was Ruth Sutter, of Glen
Lyon.

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Miss Esther Jones

is

teaching in the fourth grade in Edwards-

ville.

1933

Shorty after 12:00 o’clock Easter morning, in the Salem Reformed Church, at Pillow, Pa., Elbert W. Ashworth, of Bloomsburg, and
Miss Hazel F. Keefer, of Lime Ridge, were united in marriage. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. John C. Brumbach, pastor of
the church and brother-in-law of the bride. Mr. Ashworth is a
member of the class of 1933 at B. S. T. C., and is employed by the
Leader Store Company, in charge of the men’s clothing department.
Mrs. Ashworth has been teaching the primary grades in the grade
school at

Lime Ridge. They

are

now

at

home

at 14 East

Main

Street,

Bloomsburg.
1934

James Gennaria, who has been Principal of the Lime Ridge
grade school for the past two years, has been transferred to the Center Township Consolidated School, where he will be a member of
the High School faculty.
Miss Alice Kembel, of Bloomsburg, has been elected to teach in
the primary grades in the Lime Ridge grade school.
1935
In reporting to the National Association of Commercial Teachers
Training Associations, H. A. Andruss, Director of Commerce at the

who received the
College Provisional Certificate in the school year of 1934-35, are employed as follows: Resident teaching positions, 29; substitute teaching, 1; employed in business, whole or part time, 2; unemployed, 2.
The teachers who were graduated last year are located in the
following places:
College, finds that the class of thirty-four students

John Butler, substitute teacher, Dunmore; Woodrow BrewingDepartment of Revenue, Harrisburg; Anthony Conte, Elizabeth,
N. J.; John Deppen, McAllisterville; Howard Fauth, Lewistown;
Ruth Flanigan, Duryea; Dorothy Foster, Bethlehem; Helen Frey, sec-

ton,

retary, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg; Lucille Gilchrist, Lititz;

John Gress, Bloomsburg; Gerald Harter, Darby; Stanley Heimbach,
Birdsboro; Harold Henry, New Cumberland; Elvira James, Frackville; Santino LeBrutto, Elizabeth, N. J.; Mable Oxford, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg; Irma Moyer, Canton; Adeline Pfeifer, Nescopeck; William Reed, Harrisburg; Daniel Sallitt, Wilkes-Barre;
Francis Sell, Kutztown; Anna McCann, Dunmore; Clarence Slater,

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J.; John Utz, Norristown; Clara Vanderslice, Fort
Royal, Va.; Warren Ulshafer, Nesquehoning; Roy Peterman, Williamsport.
The following students have had part time work in business:
Mildred Hollenbaugh, Harrisburg; Louise Yeany, Bloomsburg.

Atlantic City, N.

Of the group of thirty-four, only two are unemployed at the
There will be approximately one-half this number
present time.
graduating in June, 1936. Of the number employed, three found positions in New Jersey, one in New York, and one in Virginia, and the
remainder in Pennsylvania.

Announcement was recently made of the marriage of Walter
Hiney and Miss Mary Shultz, both of Berwick. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School, in the class of 1933, and has been
employed in the office of Dr. R. W. Miller. Mr. Hiney has been a
member of the faculty of the Mainville High School.
Miss Muriel Carman, of Sunbury, a graduate of the Teachers
and William Volinsky, of Northumberland, were married Saturday, January 18, by the Rev. Chester W. Todd, of Sunbury.

College,

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DAY
ALUMNI
MAY
23,

1936

Class Reunions
1876
1881
1886
1891

1932
1933
1934
1935

1916
1921
1926
1931

1896
1901
1906
1911

The Program
9:00
11:00
12:30
2:30

—
Reunions.
— General Assembly.
— Alumni Banquet.
—
Bloomsburg
Class

Baseball,

Commencement

vs.

Susquehanna.

Activities

— Sunday, May 2:30
—
May
Monday,
Day
M.
10:00
Commencement — Tuesday, May
Baccalaureate Sermon

Senior

P.

24,

25.

26,

A.

M.

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GREETINGS
Once more I have the honor and the privilege of extending a
very cordial invitation to those who call Bloomsburg “Alma Mater,”
Another splendid program has
to visit the College May 23, 1936.
been provided through the cooperation of the Faculty and Students.
I am sure that you will find something to interest you at the same
time that your presence brings inspiration to those responsible for
the program.
While special preparations are made for the regular Class Reunions. we look forward to seeing you regardless of Class. You are reminded that, beginning last year, each graduating class is invited to
return for regular Reunion yearly for five years, and that special
preparations are being made for these Reunions.
I hope to have an opportunity to welcome you on Alumni Day.
Sincerely Yours,

FRANCIS

B.

HAAS.

TO ALL ALUMNI:
Bean Soup!

Bean Soup!

Cartofel

Ach du

lieber.

Schnitz

Naughty Six

Every member of the Class of 1906 will respond to the above
We are hoping for a fine Reunion of this illustrious Class
on Alumni Day. However, we will share this summons with all
Alumni and Classes in Reunion. Alumni Day of 1936 should be a
Record Breaker. Make your plans now and be prepared for a happy
day on College Hill. Come early and avoid the rush. You will have
a good time.
The College has arranged a delightful program. There will be
something doing from morning till night. Your friends and classmates will be looking for you. Don’t disappoint them. Come!
Luzerne County Alumni Association had a wonderful party at
the Hotel Redington, February 24th. Nearly three hundred graduates
enjoyed a fine program of entertainment. Keep your eye on this
Battle Cry.

group.

The Philadelphia Association will hold their annual meeting at
the Bellevue-Stratford April 25th. Indications are that this meeting
will maintain the high standard of former years.
cordial welcome

A

is

extended to

Alumni.
Don’t forget Alumni Day.
all

We want

Y’OU present.

Sincerely yours,
R.

BRUCE ALBERT.

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The Goal--2000 Members
There are 8000 Graduates of Bloomsburg.
Association
This
1.

2.
3.

not

now

has

The Alumni

1000 members.

is what the Alumni Association can do with $2000:
The Quarterly
$1000.00
500.00
Debt on Bakeless Memorial Room
500.00
Student Loan Fund

Whether you plan to come to Bloomsburg on May 23 or
We Need Your Support!

—

Pay Your Dues for 1936-1937

1936

Mrs. F. H. Jenkins,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Jenkins:
I

pledge

my

support as a loyal Bloomsburg Alumnus by

enclosing one dollar, as dues to the

Name
Address

Name
Class

while in School

Alumni

Association.

No. 3

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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

JULY,

37

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July

1,

NO.

1936

1909, at the

3

Post Office at Bloomsburg,

Under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year.

Pa.,

H. F.

MRS.

FENSTEMAKER, T2
F. H.

JENKINS,

Editor

Business Manager

’75

THE 1936 COMMENCEMENT
“Don’t wait for opportunity to come and

Go

sit

on your doorstep.

out and hunt success.”

This was the admonition to the class of eighty-four members
their work at Bloomsburg and received degrees of
Bachelor of Science in Education at the Sixty-Seventh Commencement Tuesday, May 26, in Carver Hall.
It was given by Dr. Lindley H. Dennis, of Washington. D. C.,
Executive Secretary of the American Vocational Association, Inc. Dr.
Dennis, a Bloomsburg alumnus, directed his remarks entirely to the
graduates, and his address was regarded as one of the finest ever
delivered on such an occasion at Bloomsburg.
In speaking of the teaching profession, the speaker told the graduates “Your approach to the great work that you are about to undertake is of tremendous significance.
Can you at the outset create a
wish in your heart to be a great teacher? Have you decided that you
are going to like teaching, that you are going to* get real enjoyment
from your efforts in behalf of the generation following you?”
He spoke of youth and vigor as great assets, and told the class
“pep is power. You have a life of interesting adventure just ahead of
you.”

who concluded

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In his conclusion Dr. Dennis declared

3

“our great teachers come

up from the crowd. You are now in the crowd, although some of you
have already given evidence that you intend to be ready to come up
from the crowd. Which of you will do this?”
The impressive exercises, which lasted a little over an hour,
opened at 10:00 o’clock, with the procession headed by Dr. Dennis and
Dr. Haas. Then followed members of the Board of Trustees: Mrs.
Ethel Noecker, Schuylkill Haven; Henry T. Meyer, Lewisburg;
Clinton Herring, Orangeville;

Thomas G.

Vincent, Danville; Dr. H. V.

Hower, Berwick; Grover C. Shoemaker, Bloomsburg, and W. W.
Evans, Bloomsburg.
These were followed by the members of the
faculty and the graduating class, the latter led by its officers.

The invocation was delivered by Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., President
Emeritus of the College. Following Dr. Dennis’s splendid address a
double quartette, composed of Miss Eugenia Lewis, Miss Kathryn
Van Aueker, Miss Margaret Creasy, Miss Miriam Utt, Kenneth Merrill, Luther Peck, Robert Goodman, and
Ray Schrope, sang “The
Kerry Dance,” by J. J. Molloy, with Miss Harriet M. Moore directing.
Dean of Instruction William B. Sutliff presented a list of applications for degrees to Dr. Haas. Of the class forty-nine had qualified
for degrees in the field of secondary education, seventeen in commercial education, and eighteen in elementary education.
Dr. Haas told the class that the degrees carry with them both
rights and responsibilities. They are the citizens of a State, he told
them, with a social purpose; a state that is predicated on the fact that
its citizens are entitled to an opportunity to fit themselves for life. He
referred to the fact that most of the present constitution was written
by the late Senator Buckalew, whose home for many years was the
residence now owned by the College and occupied by its President.
Reference was made to the fact that thirty of the forty known
living members of the Class of 1386 had returned for its Fiftieth Reunion this year. These men and women, he pointed out, thought
enough of the traditions and friendships of the College to return.

He

stated further:

“As you leave

this

institution,

you will

find

with you always memories of these days; memories such as you get by association in good environment and with
good friends.”
“Education,” said Dr. Haas, “is more than schooling.” The best
definition of an educated man that he knew of was this: One who is
willing to wait until the facts are all in before drawing his own conclusions, and with the ability to look at the facts clearly and not
that

you

will carry

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through the screen of his own prejudices.
In his final word, he hoped that the class will always remember
the College, and reminded
is

them

that “at

Bloomsburg the latdi-string

always on the outside.”

The

Alma Mater and
Music for the program was provided by the Maroon

exercises concluded with the singing of the

the recessional.

and Gold Orchestra.

The speaker traveled by plane from Washington, D. C., to
Bloomsburg, making the trip in an hour and twenty-eight minutes.
He left on the return trip immediately following the exercises.

The

text of Dr. Dennis’s address

“I find

it

difficult to

is

as follows:

express adequately

my

invitation to participate in your exercises this

tution

is

my Alma

Mater.

It is

the

first

appreciation for the

morning.

This

insti-

educational institution from

which I graduated. I went out from here as a young man, a very
young man, to begin my life work in the field of education. As one
of the boys of the Bloomsburg Normal days, I have come back to
celebrate with you the completion of your work as undergraduate
students. It seems but yesterday that I sat where you now sit. Little
did I dream that I would some day be invited to return to say a word
or two to those who would be ready to start out as I was then starting out. I am wondering which one of you will some day return to
participate in like manner in the ceremonies of some years ahead.
“I have always found it difficult to even hesitate whenever my
friend, your President, Dr. Francis Haas, would suggest that he
would like to see something done. You see, I had the great privilege
of serving as one of his Deputy State Superintendents when he was
State Superintendent

of Public Instruction.
I
have always been
rather proud of having been associated with him during those years
of service at Harrisburg. As State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Haas left a record of constructive leadership and educational

accomplishment that will not be easily equalled. The schools of
Pennsylvania were safe while in his hands as our leader.
“I feel quite inadequate to measure up to the privilege and opportunity which is mine this morning.
Like the two-headed god
Janus, I am looking both forward and backward. It is really with a
feeling of reverence that I stand on this platform. If I should temporarily disregard you and look at this platform through the eyes of
your predecessors of a quarter of a century ago, sitting in these very
same seats, I would see here on the platform men and women whose
lives and influence were an inspiration, to hundreds who were privi-

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leged to study and live under their guidance. Wilbur, Albert, Jenkins, Aldinger, my own brother Joseph Dennis, Hartline, Cope, Miss
Dickerson, Bakeless, Waller and others, gave their lives and a full

measure

young men and women

of devotion to the

of this institution.

on Commencement Day and looked into the faces of the
members of the faculty who were then sitting on this platform, I
thought I had some idea of how patient they had been with me, and
how helpful. Many specific instances now flash into my mind. I recall the attention given to me in assisting me to prepare myself for
my participation in the Class Night program. I also recall how
tenaciously I clung to a mispronunciation in spite of the patient help
of the one who coached me. As I now, through the eyes of memory,
look into their faces, I begin to realize how much these men and women of the Faculty of those days are responsible for many of the opportunities and privileges which have come to me since, opportunities and privileges for which they helped me to pave the way.

“As

I

sat

“These great spirits of the past, and those who are now carrying
on in their places, have made this great institution what it is for you.
“I

have taken

tribute to

whom

this fleeting

tribute

is

glimpse into the past, partly to pay

due, and partly to help you to look ahead

a glimpse of what you may do and be.
“You are standing at the threshold of a great and unknown age.
When I sat where you now sit, many things which you now enjoy
were not even thought out. Let me talk to you as one of the boys of
Bloomsburg Normal who has come back. Think of me as a happy,
exuberant, somewhat care-free lad in those days. I was Captain of
the scrub foot ball team and substitute quarter on the varsity team.
I was a member of the M. A. C., the Monday Afternoon Club, which
carried on important research work in the watermelon patches and
orchards of the surrounding country. I was active in the work of the

and catch

Caliiepian Literary Society.

mention these things solely for the purpose of trying to have
wish for a few moments to look out upon life with
the eyes of youth starting out on a great adventure.
“I

you

realize that I

“What are you going to do with and for our social institutions?
Someone has said that the day of geographical pioneering is past, but
that the era of social pioneering has just begun.

contribution and service in this great
that

is

already almost sweeping us

“What part do you intend

off

work

of

What

social

will be

your

reconstruction

our feet?

to play in straightening

out our

eco-

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nomic situation?

You

will look after that.’

say ‘Oh,

How

I

expect to teach school; someone else
you prepare the youth

successfully can

following you, for participation in the economic and social life of this
nation unless you yourself have some appreciation of our economic
and social structure, and of the great fundamental changes that are

The era that you are entering will not be a
Changes and developments may be precipitated more

rapidly taking place?
static one.

rapidly than our people can absorb

“The schools

them

of your time will be

wisely.

much more

definitely related to

than are most of the schools of today.
Curriculum revision is the order of the day. You are facing an educational program on the march. Either you will soon be lost in the
shuffle because of changes in educational procedure with which you
are not familiar, or you will be right up front taking part in bringing
about the new approach to our educational problems.
“A national authority on crime recently stated that our penal
system was almost vicious, that it tends to make good young men
bad, and bad ones worse. He advocated a system of progressive education instead of so much emphasis on the antique system of retributive punishment.
the actual situations in

life

“If this were the Class of 1885, you would be going out into
school conditions vastly different from those in which you are about
to enter. In those days there were no consolidated schools, no Junior
High Schools. Our present system of high schools had not been de-

There were no high schools with enrollments of 8,000 stuLane Technical High School of Chicago. The boys
and girls of rural America were compelled to go to town to high
school, or to private academies. The present system of secondary
education is the product of the generation which has preceded you.
It is a notable educational achievement, but the American High
School has not yet found itself. Its methods and activities will change
markedly in the years just ahead, and you and others like you will
veloped.

dents, such as the

bring about those changes.

“Your study here has given you some appreciation,
the educational progress of the last
eral

hundred former students

fifty

years.

of this institution

tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, fortieth

and

at

least, of

Last Saturday, sev-

came back

fiftieth reunions.

Many

to

their

of these

Alumni have given their lives in the service of public education.
Those who know them and their work realize that they have played
an important part in bringing about the educational progress of those
years during which they have served the cause of public education.

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Can the same be said of you, when you come back to your thirtieth
or fortieth reunion, after you have devoted a better part of your life
to

education?

“Patience, perseverance, and a dogged determination to achieve
your aim, will carry you through many a storm. Do not let present
gain, profit, or advantage cloud your vision, or swerve you from your
ultimate purpose and aim to be a great teacher. Keep your eyes
eternally on the road ahead, and not just on the present scene.
“In 1966, what will the schools be like, after you have had them
Do you intend to have any genuine
in your charge for thirty years?
part and parcel in the process of making the schools of your generation any better than the schools we are turning over to you?
“Do you intend to keep yourself prepared to meet the changing
educational situations of the years ahead of you? Just what are you
looking forward to in teaching? Does it mean just a job and some
salary, or is there in your heart the genuine desire to be a real teacher? Do you want to learn to love to teach and to be happy when
dealing with the problems, difficulties, and great opportunities of
helping children entrusted to your care?
“Your approach to the great work you are about to undertake is
of tremendous significance. Can you at the outset create a wish in
your heart to be a great teacher? Have you decided that you are
going to like teaching, that you are going to get real enjoyment from
your efforts in behalf of the generation following you?
“The hardest thing about getting up in the morning is deciding to
get up. Perhaps the most difficult phase of producing a great teacher

—

is

creating in the heart of a prospective teacher the wish, the resolve,

A consuming, burning debe a real teacher is indeed a worthy aim for one about to leave
this College.
Such a deep-seated desire is worth more than high
scholarship, as important as that is.
the determination to be a great teacher.
sire to

“You have youth. Youth and vigor are great assets. With these
go enthusiasm and pep. Someone has said that ‘pep without purpose
is piffle.’
However, pep with purpose is power. No wonder you
young folks are eager and full of enthusiasm. It is right that it should
be so. You have a life of interesting adventure just ahead of you.
“Keep your enthusiasm and zeal as the years go by. Enthusiasm
is not the property of youth alone.
It is an attitude of the mind and
heart, and can always be a mainspring of spirit for you as long as
you

live.

“Don’t wait for opportunity to come and

sit

on your doorstep.

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out and hunt for success. Make your own breaks in life. Ty Cobb
once made a home run out of a strike-out.
“You are here because you are considered fit and qualified to
represent the great teaching profession. You become eligible today
to join its ranks. You are entering the profession at a very propitious
hour. You should be thankful that you have been in College during
the last two or three years.
Teaching opportunities for beginning
teachers have been scarce, and the supply of teachers more than ample.
Opportunities for qualified teachers are more numerous this
year, and the situation will be even better next year.
“Approximately twenty-five per cent of the graduates of 1931
qualified to teach secured positions. In 1934, nearly fifty per cent of
the graduates were placed, and probably sixty per cent will be placed
this year. As business improves, many out of work in their own professions, who turned to teaching during the depression, will return to
their chosen fields, making many openings for others qualified to

Go

teach.

already a shortage of teachers in commercial education,
home economics, in general shop, in the
The
field of industrial arts, and in some other vocational fields.
United States Congress is today considering an educational bill, the
passage of which will have great significance in stabilizing and developing our program of public education.

“There

is

in vocational agriculture, in

“In one southern State there are on file in the State Department
two hundred requests for teachers of vocational agri-

of Education

Another State has received three hundred requests for
Home Economics. The development of vocational schools
and classes for out-of-school youth will also create a demand for the
services of additional academic teachers. With the return of more
normal business conditions and the ability to pay taxes, school budgets will become easier, over-sized classes will be divided, and adculture.

teachers of

ditional teachers will be needed.

“The outlook is encouraging for you if you keep yourself qualiand in step with educational progress. Some of you will go far
the teaching profession if you want to.

fied,

in

“Our great teachers come up from the crowd. You are now in
some of you have already given evidence that
you intend to come up from the crowd.
“May God grant you rich opportunity for service to the generation that will be under your guidance and inspiration.”
the crowd, although

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THE CLASS OF 1936
Secondary
Elmira Bankes, Bloomsburg

Edward H. Baum, Nuremberg
Howard P. Bevilacqua, Berwick
Peter Bianco, Glen Lyon
Violet V. Brown, Carlisle
Elizabeth M. Chalfant, Scranton

Samuel Cohen, Plymouth
Bernard J. Cobb, Scranton
*Larue C. Derr, Bloomsburg

Robert Joseph Rowland, Connerton
*B. Donald Sands, Bloomsburg

Robert W. Savage, Catawissa
Marjorie Thomas, Nanticoke
*H. Myrtle Trembley, Bloomsburg
William F. Turnow, Wyoming
Kathryn M. Van Aucker, Hazleton

Joseph F. Visotski, Excelsior
Ruth E. Wagner, Hazleton

Joseph L. Dixon, Hazleton
*Francis Garrirt, Englewood, N. J
*Anna M. Gillespie, Centralia
Samuel Green, Berwick
Lillian Mac* Guyer, Chester

Frank Hudock, Bloomsburg
Harold H. Hyde, Bloomsburg
Kathryn B. John, Bloomsburg
Daniel J. Jones, Nescopeck
Verna E. Jones, Centralia
* Joseph

Kane, Wilkes-Barre

Earl O. Kershner, Berwick
George E. Kessler, Locust Dale
Gilbert L. Kline, Catawissa
Ernest V. Lau, Bloomsburg
Woodrow W. Litwhiler, Ringtown
Mervin W. Mericle, Bloomsburg

Kenneth

C. Merrill,

Bloomsburg

Charles P. Michael, Delano
Verna Morawski, Hazleton
William L. Morgan, Wanamie
Anne B. Nash, Wilkes-Barre
Leota A. Nevil, Bloomsburg
Janice L. Nichols, Berwick

Edward

R. Phillips,

Wanamie

"

Frank P. Wojcik, Forest City
John Henry Yeager, Hazleton
Bernard J. Young, Berwick
Commercial
Robert D. Abbott, Bloomsburg
Mary Jane Mathews Denn, Scottdale

Gertrude E. Dermody, Scranton
Mary Alice Frantz, Lancaster
Betty I. Harter, Nescopeck
Phyllis E.

Heckman, Nuremberg

William A. Karshner, Almedia
Matilda M. Kirticklis, Tamaqua
Mary Kuhn, Tuscarora
Helen F. Latorre, Atlas
Stanley A. Marcinkavicz, Ran-

shaw
Alfred David Mayer, Laketon
Margaret E. Schubert, Laureldale
Andrew J. Thornton, Simpson
Francis V. Vinisky, Simpson
Howard O. Waite, Hazleton
John J. Yurgel, Wilkes-Barre

Primary

Florence J. Piatkowski, Forest *Grace E. Baylor, Montandon
City
Kathryn E. Brobst, Bloomsburg
* Alice S. Harry, Berwick
Francis I. Riggs, Bloomsburg
Frank A. Rompalo, Combola
Vernice R. Pooley, Danville

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Mary Jane Fink, Conyngham
Evelyn R. Fries, Scranton
Florence E. Keating, Kingston
Jean A. Phillips, Scranton
sport
Gladys M. Rinard, Catawissa
Intermediate
*Amy B. Smthers, Berwick
Rachel D. Beck, Sunbury
Mae H. Willis, Bloomsburg
Rural
Evelyn B. Campbell, Bloomsburg
Beatrice M. Eisenhauer, Mifflin- Mildred E. Auten, Danville

*Sarah Pauline Ranck, Bloomsburg
Sara M. Shuman, Bloomsburg
^Esther M. Welker, South William-

ville
*

Teachers in service.

MONTOUR COUNTY ASSOCIATION MEETS
The Annual Banquet of the Montour County Branch of the
Bloomsburg Alumni Association was held Tuesday evening, May 19,
in the Fellowship Hall of the Shiloh Reformed Church in Danville.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, of the College faculty, acted as Toastmaster, and
Prof. E. A. Reams, also of the faculty, was song leader.
Responses were made by Dr. Francis B. Haas, Dean W. B. Sutliff,
Fred W. Diehl, and Charles W. Derr.
The program was given by students of the College, and included
a trio consisting of Frank Patrick, Frank Rompalo, and Woodrow Litwhiler, and a double mixed quartette consisting of Eugenia Lewis,
Kathryn Van Aucker, Margaret Creasy, Miriam Utt, Luther Peck,
Kenneth Merrill, Robert Goodman, and Ray Schrope. Miss Gladys
Rinard was at the piano.
The officers elected are: Miss Harriet Frye, President; Pierce
Reed, Vice-President; Miss Alice Smull, Secretary, and Miss Isabelle
Boyer, Treasurer.

Jay Pursel, of Bloomsburg, was elected President of the Bloomsburg Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, geographic fraternity, for the
coming year. Other officers elected are: Luther Peck, Vice-President;
Miss Margaret Creasy, Treasurer; Miss Margaret Potter, Recording
Secretary; Miss Jane Manhart, Recording Secretary, and John Fiorini
and Miss Carrie Livsey, representatives to the Panhellenic Interfraternity Council.

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BACCALAUREATE SERMON
Declaring that there is still a place in the world for men and
are willing to play a part in making a better world, the
Rev. B. R. Heller, pastor of the Bloomsburg Reformed Church, at the
Baccalaureate services held Sunday afternoon, May 24, exhorted the
graduating class to let the teachings of the Master guide their efforts.

women who

The program was presented before a large audience in the Coland was opened with the processional, “Ancient of

lege auditorium,

Days.”

The Rev. Mr. Heller
hymn, “Faith

joined in a

offered the
of

Our

invocation,

Fathers.”

and the audience

The Scripture

lesson

was

read by Dr. Haas, and the sermon followed. Following the sermon,
the women’s chorus sang “The Sabbath Morn,” by Mendelssohn, and
the benediction and recessional followed. The music was directed by
Miss Harriet Moore, and the accompanist was Mrs. J. K. Miller.

The

sermon was John 3:2: “Beloved, now are we the
doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we
He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall

text of the

sons of God: and

it

know that, when
Him as He is.” The sermon follows:
“Dr. Haas, members of the faculty, graduating class of 1936, students, parents, and friends, we deem it a pleasure and an opportunity to address this graduating class on this glorious occasion.
You are
now starting on a new path of life, and you will be asked time and

see

time again to measure your life by the achievements that you are to
accomplish. You are now likened to a ship leaving its port for the
open sea. Thus far, you have had a pilot who, like the pilot of a ship,
has led you over difficult situations and rugged paths, but you now
drop your pilot and must face the world with your knowledge alone.
How will you measure up to the test?

“Many young
tions
I

do,

people, yes, and older people, are asking the ques‘What is left for me to do in this disturbed world?’ ‘What can
and what part can I play, in the making of a better world?’

“In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there is a large
suspended from the dome of a certain building to within a few
inches of a table upon which is a blank paper.
Upon this may be

ball

recorded the law of the pendulum or the rotation of the earth. There
is also another instrument which is a solid steel cylinder five inches
in diameter, so illuminated that, as we should press our finger against

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it, the rays of light are seen to move
on a glass screen. A placard
shows that the steel bar has been bent one five hundred thousandth
of an inch. Between this modern measuring instrument and the
plumb line are centuries of man’s history of measurement. Man is
actually a measuring animal. He measures space, time, energy, light,
heat, weight, and sound, in fact, anything that comes under his
scrutiny. Man’s rule is the foot rule. Undoubtedly you have been
doing this during your school life, forgetful of the fact that you also
shall be judged by this measurement. For in life today, you shall be
measured by your character; so now, wouldn’t it be wise to take time
to measure yourself, your soul, to see where you stand in the sight of
God and your fellow man. Our text says that ‘we are now the sons
of God, but do not know what we shall be.’ Certainly many of you
are leaving these halls with brilliant minds which are treasure houses
of knowledge, but after all, remember that men shall know you by
your life, actions, and character. Learn to know thyself, have freThen you will learn to guard
quent meditations with yourself.
against the error of trying to do the impossible, and you will learn

that nothing can be gained without honest efforts.

me

measured, not by the unworthy things, but by
Since we are placed in the world, it is well
that we aim for success in that which the world has to offer, but let
us be reminded that life is just the prelude for the life yet to come.
We are placed as in a school, to prepare for the glorious life to come.
May we not let the things of this world crowd out the finer things of
life.
You may give your life for the service of the world, you may
acquire riches, power, and prestige, but in doing all this, if you have
forgotten your God and neglected your soul, that is, if you have been
so busy with temporal things and forgotten your spiritual welfare, all
you have gained is your goal, but nothing else. Are you measuring
your life with the plummet of emptiness, or are you growing strong
through the errors of those who have carried the torch of experience,
and are tossing it back to us today, saying ‘Carry on, but with this
thought in mind: learn from our mistakes and nourish and strengthen
your soul and spiritual life.’

“Your

life will

the finer things of

life.

“You are today being
are either going

to

say

classified in

‘somebody

either of

will

do

it,

two

why

categories.

not

I?’

We

or else

do it, why should I?’ This will come about through
we show forth and in our attitude, concerning the things
of life. Certainly we cannot say of the moral and ethical side of life
‘What is the use of living a good life?’ or, when asked to live this

somebody

the efforts

will

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This question is asked when we
people who disobey the moral
code. Ask one concerning the spiritual welfare of himself and his
children, and he will say “What is the difference?’ We can reach our
glory, not with such an attitude, but by counting the cost of our riches
in Christ Jesus, by trying through things of the past to reach our
high calling in Christ Jesus.

moral

life

see so

many apparently

‘what

is

the difference?’

“What can bring
tells

successful

us to a right understanding?

Can

history?

us to look back, perhaps with patience, as of Job of old.

If

It

we

pay particular attention to the higher ambitions, we can remain true,
and find that God is right and good, and will eventually speak to us.
Science tells us to look around. Young people, do not be afraid that
you will have nothing to do; look around. There you will find your
longing. Philosophy says ‘look within.’ Psychologists tell us that we
have used only a portion of our brain cells in the striving for success.
Religion says, ‘look up.’ I do not mean that religion will give us a
reward only after our work is finished, but I say that if your religion
does not help you as you leave this building today, let it alone. Religion

is

not only a sedative for pain, but a challenge for greater ser-

vice.

“Then may I say that your lives will be measured by the labor
you extend. You will receive strength only by hardship and
toil.
You will grow beautiful, not by standing along the road, rejoicing that you are free from trials and hardships, while your friends
are in trouble. It will come only when you share your strength,
faith, power, and education.
There is only one place where toil is
not necessary, and that is in the grave. You have already learned
that that which comes hardest brings the greatest successes. Ruskin
says: ‘If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if you want food,
you must toil for it; if you want pleasure, you must toil for it; toil is
the law of life.’ As you toil for things of this world, so must you toil
for happiness and joy of heaven. Seek out noble things. Whittier,
that

in writing

when

about a certain Indian

the tribe

went

home, so that

tribe,

made

this statement:

pilfering or carousing, one lone Indian

‘Always

was

left

he might be sober, that he might
be the means of saving the tribe.’ Therefore, I beg that, when others
are saying ‘What is the use?’ or ‘What is the difference?’ you might
remain sober and strong, and perhaps be the means of saving yourself and the society of which you are a part, by your sober thinking,
at

in case of trouble

meditation, and fellowship in

Him, may you be

like

Him.”

Him whom you

believe.

When you

see

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IVY

DAY

Preceded by a group of pastel-clad Senior girls bearing the ivy
black-gowned procession of the graduating class of 1936
marched up the winding pathway from Carver Hall to the pergola in
the grove Monday evening, May 25, to hold the traditional Ivy Day
exercises. Evening shadows were lengthening as the class members
assembled, and before the program was concluded, the setting sun
was casting a red glow upon the campus.
March music for the procession was played by Miss Gladys RinIn opening the services, the Seniors gi'ouped
ard, of Catawissa.
themselves in front of the large body of spectators who were awaiting them in the grove. Three songs, the words of which were written by two members of the Senior class, Sam Cohen, of Plymouth,
and Sam Green, of Berwick, were sung by the entire class under the
direction of Mr. Cohen.
Five Senior girls, accompanied by Miss Jean Phillips, of Scranton, tapped out two rhythm clog dances on the floor of the pergola.
Miss Frances Riggs, Miss Sara Shuman, and Miss Kathryn John, of
Bloomsburg; Miss Rachel Beck, of Sunbury, and Miss Betty Chalfant,
of Scranton, composed the dancing group.
Bernard J. Young, of Berwick, was then introduced by the class
President, David Mayer, as the Ivy Day orator. Mr. Young’s oration
chain, the

follows:

“For over twenty-five years, Ivy Day has claimed a place on the
calendar of Senior activities.
“Truly this is a memorable occasion. No matter how often these
ceremonies are held, I am certain that nothing will disturb the atmosphere of reverence, dignity, and, at the same time, of triumph.
The evening shadows lengthen, and departing rays shed softened
Everything takes on beauty, seems to be influenced,
light about us.
as the better things come to the fore at the end of the day. At such
a time it is well to review the past, but even better to gaze into the
starlit future with its great possibilities.
“Now our responsibilities are widened, for we must enter upon
It is well if we can make practical application and
the advantages of culture. This has been our aim, and when
think of our future work, the ivy will be a typical emblem. The

active duties.

show

we

foundation on which to build has been erected, the cornerstone of our

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building is laid. That this cornerstone is strong and will ever endure
can be attributed to the innumerable sacrifices of our parents and the
patient guidance of our classroom teachers. But the building is yet
to be completed; its completion depends upon our conception of culture.

lasting ideals in art. literature, and
Athenian and Roman cultures crumbled because of poor foundations. Not until the darkness of the Middle Ages was banished by the* Galilean Master did the beginnings of
civilization and happiness evolve from a culture that included physical, intellectual, and spiritual qualities of man.

“Even though they furnished

philosophy,

we

realize that the

“After four years of knowledge-seeking at this

institution,

we

are proud to have received a well-rounded education including these
this foundation is now the
Like the ivy, some of us will
branch out and climb high, while others will remain at lower levels.
Because a multitude of conditions needing no explanation, the courses
of our lives will not be similar. All of us will retain, nevertheless,
the cultural background of College experience. No matter where we
go, no matter if we forsake the teaching profession for another, a
guiding relationship will always exist with the main branches of this
symbolic ivy and the deep root system, or foundation.
“Tonight* we stand in a plane elevated enough for us to see and
understand something of the world's culture. The lessons learned in
this place have sunk deep within our hearts, to be cherished by us,
and to make it possible for us to win, little by little, the goal of culture fittingly represented by the ivy. Who would strive to reach this
goal more than we who are to pass on to other generations an interpretation of culture? In the fostering bosom of Mother Earth we
place this plant. Receiving nourishment, the clinging tendrils will
cover the walls of our school, symbolizing our hopes. The ways of
life may be long and weary, but patience and perseverance, striving
to reach the loftiest ideal
as the ivy reaches out for the highest pinnacle will make our mission, whether humble or great, to bring the

three qualities.

task of each

—

To

erect a building

member

upon

of this class.

—

blessings of true culture to others.

“As class representative, I wish, again, to extend most sincere
thanks to our parents and our instructors, who have given us materials of culture with wilich to lay a solid foundation, and upon
which we hope to erect a magnificent structure.
“In conclusion, I wish to direct a few words to my classmates.
For four years we have worked and played together; now each of us

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must embark upon the sea

of life.

Remember

all

ideas of succeeding by luck.

We may

is made;
from our minds

that success

therefore, in the outset of our career, let us dismiss

follow luck to ruin, but not

The Great Napoleon believed in his destiny, and was lost
at Waterloo. Let us build upon the solid foundation of culture with
the idea that ‘a pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck’.”
to success.

Following Mr. Young’s oration, the Seniors and the audience
proceeded to Carver Hall for the Ivy planting. In continuance of the
tradition over twenty-five years old, Mr. Mayer inserted the sprig of
ivy in the ground, explaining that the plant is symbolic of the growth
of the 1936 Senior class. He presented the spade to the Junior class
President, Edward Webb, of Tower City, who accepted it on behalf of
his fellow class members, and pledged himself to carry on the school
tradition.

The entire body then joined in singing the Alma Mater, directed
by Miss Harriet M. Moore. Up Senior Walk and into Waller Hall
continued the Seniors, while the audience scattered about the lawn
for the reception. Long rows of red and green lights enlivened the
lawn in front of Waller Hall, when, following the program, a lawn
party for members of the graduating class, their relatives and friends,
and the faculty took the place of the usual Class Night presentation.
On a low platform under the trees, the Maroon and Gold Orchestra
played throughout the reception.

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING BRANCH ASSOCIATION
FORMED
The Wyoming County Branch
ing

of the

Alumni Association has

known as the Susquehanna-WyomBranch, and including members from Susquehanna County.
The Spring meeting was held at the Graham Hotel, Tunkhan-

formed

a

new

organization, to be

nock, with thirty-five present. Dr. T. P. North and Prof. E. A. Reams,
were present and spoke, as did R.

as representatives of the College,

Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association.
Miss Decker was chosen President of the Branch, with two VicePresidents from Susquehanna County. Francis Shaughnessy, of Tunkhannock, was named Treasurer, and Mrs. Sterner, Secretaiy.
The group will meet twice a year, once in each county, and with
sessions in the Spring and Fall.

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RECORD

Reports of reunion classes, an address by Dr. Francis B. Haas,
and actions to bind the county branches with the general sessions,
were features of the largest general meeting of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Alumni Association in its history.

The main

floor

was well

the President, R. Bruce

the session, presided over by
and many of the classes were

filled for

Albert,

06,

seated in the balcony.

The Class of 1936, attired in caps and gowns, marched into the
auditorium at the beginning of the meetings. They were elected into
the Association, and welcomed by President Albert. David Mayer, of
Laketon, President of the class, in presenting a check covering the
class dues in the Association, expressed the hope that the members
could add strength to the organization.

William Morgan, of Wanamie, President of the Community Government Association, spoke of some of the College activities, and
pledged the class to make its contribution to a bigger and better
Bloomsburg.

The invocation was given by the Rev. C. Carroll Bailey, pastor
Md. Mr. Bailey is a member

Faith Evangelical Church, Baltimore,
the Class of 1911.

were W. W. Evans,
wick,

members

of
of

Seated on the platform with the presiding officers
of Bloomsburg, and Judge C. C. Evans, of Ber-

of the

Board

of Trustees.

With them were Dr. Haas

and Prof. C. H. Albert.

Howard

Fenstemaker and Mrs. F. H. Jenkins made pleas for
and spoke of the fine things that might be accom2000 of the graduates would be members of the Association
F.

larger enrollment,

plished

if

each year.

The report of D. D. Wright, Treasurer of the Student Loan Fund,
showed a total in the fund of $3,483.11, with loans now out to fiftyseven persons and totaling $3,029.19. The report of Miss Harriet Carpenter, Treasurer, showed a balance of $289.78, with total receipts of
$1,170.95 during the year. It was reported that there is a $400.00 indebtedness against the Bakeless Memorial Room, and this will be
handled through the general association treasury.

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President Albert said he was proud of the progress of the Assocup in county organizations
and the increased interest as manifest by the record-breaking attendance on Alumni Day. He believed this was due largely to Dr. Francis
B. Haas, who was given an ovation as he rose to address the gradiation, especially the activities springing

uates.

Dr. Haas said that the large attendance was inspiring. Alumni
Day, he said, was one day when he believed the welcome of those
connected with the College should be by deeds, and that the Alumni
were most welcome.

He remarked that during the past year a slight concern had been
expressed concerning the Board of Trustees. Dr. Haas said that the
College has always been favored with fine, strong Boards of Trustees,
Boards that worked together, and he declared that the present Board
was one of the finest of those recently appointed to any of the State’s
institutions. So far as the Board of Trustees is concerned, he was
confident that the College would go forward. He presented the two
Trustees in attendance, both Bloomsburg graduates.

He spoke of the Alumni
campus, for it is a memorial
typical of

him

in that

it is

Room

as

to Prof.

one of the

finest projects

Bakeless, a great

on the
and

teacher,

a useful memorial.

S. J. Johnston, chairman of the Nominating Committee, of which
Mrs. C. C. Housenick and Harry Rider were members, presented its
report, which was accepted, and R. Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg;
Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, and Edward F. Schuyler, of Bloomsburg,
were re-elected members of the Board of Directors for three years.

In order that there may be closer ties between the various groups
and the general association, the meetings passed the following resolutions;

“Resolved: That the Alumni adopt a policy disbursing to county
local organizations twenty-five cents of the one dollar membership dues. A member paying the dues of one dollar to the local
group, thereby becomes an active member of the local organization

and

and of the Alumni Association.”
“Resolved: That each county or local alumni organization be invited to designate and qualify one representative, and that these representatives, together with the

Board of Directors

of the

Alumni As-

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an Advisory Council. The Advisory Council will
representing county organizations, and may
make recommendations to the Board of Directors for final action and

sociation, shall be

have

full authority in

disposition.”

Judge Evans reported the oldest class in reunion, 1876. He and
Bausch, of Shamokin Dam, two of the five members living, were
in attendance, and were applauded by the graduates.
Mrs. S. C.
Creasy, of Bloomsburg, reported three of the Class of 1881 present.
I.

E.

The
show.”

fifty

year

class,

with thirty-one

members

back,

“stole the

Dr. N. H. Sanner, of Pittsburgh, Class President, said that the

class still held its

There were
twentytaught, but four were preachers, four were doc-

motto “Not Finished; Just Beginning.”

sixty-nine members, of

whom

forty are living.

Many

of the

one men in the class
tors, and six were attorneys.

M. A. Kline, prominent attorney of Cheyenne, Wyoming, recalled
Commencement fifty years ago, he had given an oration
on “Stepping Stones To Success.” He remarked that he knew more
today than then, although at that time he felt that he knew a great
deal more. He declared the class to be as loyal as any ever graduated from Bloomsburg. Mrs. Emma Witmer Felty, who came from
that at the

Abilene, Kansas, to attend the reunion
Cool, 2nd,

man

who came from

was presented,

as

was Norman

California to be with his grandfather, Nor-

G. Cool, of Philadelphia, at the golden anniversary of the latter’s

class.

James

P. Costello,

Hazleton attorney, in reporting for the Class
members, sixteen have passed

of 1891, said that of the seventy-six

away, and the class stood

marked

that three

in silent tribute

members

to their

van, and Miss Black, had played leading parts

in the

the teachers of the State, and served for five years
ization

was

started.

Harvey

memory.

He

re-

of the class, Miss Longshore, Miss Sulli-

B. Rinehart, of

organizing of
organ-

after the

Waynesboro, also spoke

for the class.

Harry

Barton, of Bloomsburg, in reporting for the Class of
when that class had attended the school, the colors
were lemon and maroon, and he said the class wanted to know what
deed had been committed, which caused the lemon to blush into gold.
There were one hundred twenty in the class, with thirty-four at the
reunion. Eleven members have served on the faculty or Board of
S.

1896, declared that

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Trustees of the College. Members have 163 children, and 64 grandchildren. There are twenty-eight unmarried. In 1946, he said, the

wants three sections reserved for them, as they intend
present with their children to celebrate the fiftieth reunion.

to

be

Ronemus, Harrisburg, reported seventeen members

of

class

Rollin A.

Elwell P. Dietrick, of Scranton, reported thirty of the Class of 1906 in attendance.
the Class of 1901 in reunion.

Frank Dennis, of Wilkes-Barre, reported for the twenty-five
which had 151 members, of whom eight have died. There

J.

year

class,

were

fifty-four

The

of

the

class

present,

together

with

twenty-eight

and two atSan Juan, Porto
Rico, is now President of the Communist Party there. With a member of the Class of 1911 at its head, he declared, the Communist
Party in Porto Rico is in safe hands. Mrs. Florence Coolbaugh Warner, who came from Detroit, Mich., to attend the reunion, was pre-

guests.

class has eleven doctors,

three

ministers

torneys, and Mr. Dennis added that Louis Verna, of

sented.

Ray

D. Leidrich, of Tremont, reported fifty-four

Class of 1916 present.

Kline

members
John
284

S.

members

Of the 187 members, nine have

Wernert, of Lansford, reported

of the

died.

thirty-five

of

the 164

of the Class of 1921 present.
P.

members
James

Rowlands, of Warrior Run, said that forty-three of the
of the .Class of 1926

were present

at the tenth reunion.

Davis, of Ringtown, reported forty of the 240

members

of

the Class of 1931 in attendance, with Miss Harriet Moore, the faculty
advisor, the guest of honor of the day.
with one at the reunion.

The Class

The

class has

two clergymen,

had sixteen back; the Class of 1933 had fourhad fifteen, and the baby Class, 1935, had
John Beck, of Hershey, responded for that class.
of 1932

teen; the Class of 1934
thirty.

Following the
to the

roll call of reunion classes, the
dining room for the annual banquet.

Dr. William T. Ellis, noted traveler
lege assembly held Friday, April 24.

members adjourned

and author, spoke

at the Col-

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MAY DAY

The

traditional

May Day festivities occupied the center of the
May 14. The event had originally been

stage Thursday afternoon.

scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, but a storm came up a short
time before the program was to begin, and postponement was necessary.
Setting for the traditional Spring-time merry-making was
changed this year from the athletic field to the campus between
Science Hall and the gymnasium.
Maypoles were placed in rows
along the terraces, and in front of the gymnasium was a green bower
and dais holding the purple-covered throne for the Queen, Miss Jean
Niesley, a pupil in the sixth grade of the Benjamin Franklin Training
School.

While the Maroon and Gold Orchestra played a processional, the
filed down the hill from the grove.
In the procession were flower girls Ruth Pegg, Carvel Hidlay, Anne Mae
Schneider, Doris Hartman. Kathryn Gunter, Alberta Garthwaite,
Natalie Laubach, Audrey Rehm, Barbara Ann Niesley, and Barbara
Ann Groner. The Crown Bearer was Ernest Bitler, and the Pages
were Bobby Kerr and Stanley Levan. Then came the Queen with her
attendants, Patricia Nelson, Beverly Hower, Phyllis Guthrie, Marjorie Barton. Jane Buckalew, Mondo Comuntzis, Dawn Geasey, and
lone Hendcifhot. Also in the procession were the Prince, John Mausteller, with his attendants, Leo Schneider and Francis McNamee, and
the Jesters, Jane Oswald and Lois Johnson.
Queen's profession

—

Following the picturesque crowning of the Queen with the tradiceremony, the Training School pupils sang two old English

tional

folk songs.

The dance program consisted of dances by each of the grades and
of the College. The climax was reached when the Maypoles were wound. The poles were arranged on the terraces in four
the

women

tiers,

and presented a lovely picture.

Theodore P. Smith, former Principal of the Bloomsburg High
School, has been elected Principal of the High School at Columbia,
Pa., for the

coming year.

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THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
The sixth annual reunion and banquet of the Philadelphia
Alumni Association, which was held in the North Garden of the
Bellevue-Stratford, Saturday, April 25, was voted the most enjoyable
of

any

of the yearly convocations of this organization.

honor our respected and much admired Dr. Haas,
with happy, whole-hearted enthusiasm. To the strains of “Maroon and Gold,” as played by the
Maroon and Gold Orchestra, the alumni, with Dr. and Mrs. Haas at
the head of the procession, marched into the North Garden on the
roof of the hotel. There the banquet tables, beautifully decorated
with colorful yellow daffodils of Springtime, greeted the gathering,
the flowers themselves in tune and tone with the Springtime in the
hearts of every one present, young, and we were about to say older
alumni, but there were no old folks present, as every one was young
again for this happy occasion. The caps and balloon noise-makers,
with Dr. Haas and Mr. Hausknecht in their “top hats,” added greatly
to the merriment of the evening.

Having met

to

the Association proceeded so to do

The

was then given, after which all joined in
The invocation was given by Prof. C. Edward
Hausknecht, head of the Music Department at the State Teachers
College at West Chester. Mr. Hausknecht acted as Master of Ceremonies, and thus we were certain of an evening of fun and pleasure.
He is a Bloomsburg Alumnus of the Class of 1900.
Dr. Haas was introduced to the assembly and was given a rising
ovation by the alumni and their friends. Mrs. Haas and faculty members and their wives were next presented. They were: Dean and
salute to the flag

singing “America.”

Mrs. SutlifF, Dr. and Mrs. Kuster, Prof, and Mrs. Fenstemaker, Mr.
and Mrs. Hausknecht, and Dr. and Mrs. North.

Mr. Clinton Herring, newly-elected Trustee of the College, and
and Miss Elizabeth Herring,
were then introduced. The younger generation of faculty families
present were Miss Mary Haas, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Haas, and
Miss Harriet SutlifF, daughter of Dean and Mrs. Sutliflf. Dr. Haas’s
The orchestra
sister and cousin, of Philadelphia, were also present.
and their leader, Mr. Fenstemaker, were asked to rise, as were the
members of the double mixed quartette, with their dirctor, Miss HarBoth groups of young people received loud applause.
riet M. Moore.
his wife, Jessie Fleckenstine Herring, ’09,

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Alumni attended from near and

New

Jersey, and

New

far, from the States of Delaware,
York, as well as from the four corners of the

welcomed to any and
Telephone messages, letters,
and telegrams for good wishes for a wonderful time were sent by
those who could not attend. One letter came from Emma Witmer
Felty, ’86
a 50 year alumna, saying "I hope the music of the reunion
will go 'round and come way out here.” Other letters and messages of
good will came from all over the country, as far west as California, as
far north at Vermont, and as far south as Florida, to Mrs. Florence
Hess Cool, founder and president of the Association.
Mrs. Cool, of the Class of 1888, the moving spirit and organizer
of the Philadelphia Alumni, was then presented by the Master of
Ceremonies, and after her introduction was given a beautiful basket
of flowers, the gift of the officers and the Alumni Council of the Association.
She responded with a gracious “thank you,” and welcomed all present to the sixth annual reunion.
State of Pennsylvania.
the Philadelphia

all of

All Bloomsburgers are

Alumni

affairs.

—

Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College, was then introduced by Mr. Hausknecht, Master of Ceremonies. The founding of the
school was then described briefly by Dr. Haas. A group of citizens in
Columbia County asked Mr. C. B. Waller to start a little Academy.
This was coincident with the passing of the Common School Act of
Pennsylvania. In his talk. Dr. Haas remarked, “Students remember
individuals rather than subject matter of their studies. The traditions
of the school have developed around people of noble character, of
whom the best loved and no doubt the best known personality is our
President Emeritus, Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., a resident of Bloomsburg. To this fact, future graduates may point with pride. The next
ten years will be a period of improved opportunity for education in
America. Five hundred thousand young people in America are without vocational and educational opportunities. In Pennsylvania, they
are being assisted by the NYA. One hundred young men and women in Bloomsburg was being helped by the NYA. to earn their way
through College.

Dr.

Haas closed

his interesting

ing all present to attend the

Day,

May

and instructive address by invitExercises and Alumni

Commencement

23.

The Master

of

Ceremonies then presented William Morgan,

’36,

Community Government Association at the College.
Mr. Morgan, in a very commendable manner, gave us a very enlightening word picture of the activities at the College. The organization

president of the

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of

which he

is

President

of College Students.

is

a

member

of the Pennsylvania Association

The speaker reported

thirty-four active organ-

izations at the College, including five governing bodies, four class or-

and band, a mixed
Capella Choir of thirty
voices, as well as many other extra-curricular organizations.
Miss Violet Brown, ’36, President of the Waller Hall Association,
was then presented by Mr. Hausknecht. This charming young lady,
in her clear voice and lovely manner, described to us the activities of
the girls of Waller Hall, and the above Association. This group is a
member of the Women’s Intercollegiate Association, and B. S. T. C. is
the only State Teachers College in the group, an honor of which they
have the right to be justly proud. Miss Brown spoke of the party
given to crippled children, who invited their fathers and mothers, as
well as their little friends, to join in their activities. The He-She
party was next described. The men in North Hall stayed in-doors
that evening, she stated, as the girls had requisitioned most of their
habiliments for the affair. These young people from the College have
brought us great pleasure by attending our banquets during the past
few years, and we have always been happy to have them with us.
Miss Harriet Moore’s young people, the Double Mixed Quartette
rendered six selections in pleasing tone, and their fresh young voices,
floating through the banquet hall, added greatly to the evening’s enjoyment. We hope they will sing again for us. Compliments for Miss
Moore, and congratulations on procuring their services for the entertainment, were heard on all sides. The College is to be congratulated
for having such an able leader as Miss Moore in this line of endeavor.
ganizations, six national fraternities, an orchestra

chorus of one hundred

fifty

voices,

and

A

There were queries from many alumni as to where we found our
splendid orchestra. The playing of the Maroon and Gold Orchestra,
composed entirely of students, was much enjoyed, both during the
banquet, and the dancing that followed.

We

were

just one gay large

family,

with

Mrs.

Florence Hess

Cool, the leading spirit, ably assisted by “Uncle Ned’’ Hausknecht, in

and humorous talk on “Excuses,” which tickled one's risibiWe laughed until we cried. He outdid
himself, even though he always was humorous at all our other affairs
when he led the group singing. His “Book of Excuses” is indeed a
treasure, and many of our younger teachers who were present will
no doubt copy his idea of saving excuses. This lecture closed the
evening’s program.
Dancing, reminiscing, and visiting with each other were indulged
his witty
lities to

the point of tears.

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in until a late hour,

25

when we went our several ways
we had ever held.

to

report

the

sixth annual reunion the best

The Philadelphia Alumni extend

to all a cordial invitation to at-

tend the next year’s banquet at the Bellevue-Stratford, the last Sat-

urday of April, 1937.
to

This date has already been reserved, so start
think about attending the seventh reunion, which we intend to

make even
All
will

bigger and better than this year’s affair.
friends are invited to the basket

Alumni and

picnics,

which

be held as follows:
Valley Forge, June

13; Willow Grove, July 11; Willow Grove,
August 8.
Luncheons at Gimbel’s begin in October and continue through to
the second Saturday in March. These affairs are always held on the
second Saturday of these months. All are welcome.
And now, in the words of Tiny Tim, “God bless us every one.”

FLORENCE HESS COOL,

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,

’88

President

'08

Secretary

SUBSCRIBE TO THE QUARTERLY

Miss Sarah Shuman, of Bloomsburg, has been selected Laurel
Blossom Princess by the Student Council of the College. She will
represent the College at the Laurel Blossom Festival held in the
Poconos during the month of June. Miss Shuman has been active on
the campus as a member of the B Club, and is Secretary of the Community Government Association. She has also been active in the Day
Women’s Association. For several years, Bloomsburg has been sending a representative to the Festival. Bloomsburg’s representative in
1931, the first year of the Festival, was Miss Cora Wagner, of Shamokin; in 1932, Miss Laura Kelly, of Northumberland; in 1933, Miss
Sara Lentz, of Bloomsburg; in 1934, Miss Louise Yeager, of Berwick,
and in 1935, Miss Charlotte Hochberg, of Hazleton.

Dr. and Mrs. Francis

home Tuesday

B.

evening, April

Haas delightfully entertained
7,

the

members

the officers and faculty advisers of the four classes
of the staffs of the

Maroon and Gold and

at their

of the Student Council,

Obiter.

and the members

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THE 1936 ATHLETIC BANQUET
Men and women

athletes of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwere honored Saturday evening, May 16, at the Sixth Annual
Athletic Dinner, at which awards were made and a splendid program
presented, including an address by C. William Duncan, of the staff of
the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.
Keys were given to varsity athletes who completed their vai'sity

lege

careers during the present College year.
Dr. Francis B.

part in the
scale,

life of

Haas declared that the
the College,

and he presented the keys

standing

athletic

both on a
to the

program had a real
and intra-mural

varsity

men and chevrons

to the out-

girl athletes.

Mr. Duncan declared that the athlete gets out of sport just what
he or she puts into it. He congratulated the teams on their success,
and spoke of a number of sports figures whom he has interviewed.
R. Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association, who presided at the dinner, declared that the alumni were with the College,

win or lose.
Coach George C. Buchheit complimented Coach Austin Tate,
Coach Raber Seely, Dr. E. H. Nelson, and Dr. Haas for their assistance in the athletic program, and especially in football, basketball,
and track, in which Mr. Buchheit is coach.

John C. Koch, Dean of Men, spoke of the success of the track
team, which won all four dual meets, was fourth in the Normal
School mile relay for the championship of America in the Penn Relays, and third in the State Teachers College Meet.
He spoke of the baseball team, coached by Dr. E. H. Nelson,
which had a winning streak of twenty games halted this year, but
which has won eight of eleven games this season.
Dr. Nelson spoke of preparation as the secret of athletic success,

and also of the importance of keeping the grounds in good condition.
At this point he presented to Daniel Creveling, Superintendent of
Grounds, a

life

pass to

ling retires this year,

with the teams at

The awards

all

athletic events at the College.

and Dr. Nelson spoke

of

his

fine

Mr. Crevecooperation

all times.

for the girls

were made by Miss Lucy McCammon,

athletic director of the girls.

During the dinner, the Maroon and Gold Orchestra provided a

TIIK

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program of music. Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the singing and
Albert Watts, John Slaven, Leonard Menjone, and William Miller led
the cheering.

Following the program
psychologist,

dining hall, the group was enterFitzgibbon, hypnotist,
Dancing in the gymnasium followed.

in the

tained in the auditorium by

and entertainer.

Prof. Gerald P.

PHOTOGRAPHY OBITER THEME

Photography conveys the

spirit of

campus and classroom across

the pages of the 1936 Obiter, which has been issued this year as an
Charles P. Michael, of Delano,
artistic black and silver volume.
edited the book, with Miss

Mary

C.

Kuhn,

of

Tuscarora, as Business

Manager.
Dedicating the volume to Dr. H. Harrison Russell, of the Departof Geogi'aphy, the staff described him as a “sound thinker, a
friend to everyone and a real man in every sense.” Dr. Russell is
recognized to be one of Pennsylvania's outstanding geography teach-

ment

ers.

and activities are the
book, which are separated by striking photographic studies. At the beginning of the athletic section is a picture
of Garou, Husky mascot, who is “symbolic of the spirit and qualities
engendered in the athletic teams” and who “represents Bloomsburg
athletes and challenges them to live up to the traditions of the far
College, classes, athletics, organizations,

five divisions of the

North.”

The editorial staff is as follows: Charles P. Michael, Editor-inFrank P. Wojcik, of Forest City; Peter Bianco, of Glen Lyon;

Chief;

Bernard Young, of Berwick; Daniel Jones, of Nescopeck; Leota Nevil,
Bloomsburg; Sara Shuman, of Bloomsburg: Gladys Brennan, of
Sunbury; Amanda Babb, of Summit Station: Sam Cohen, of Plymouth, and Francis Riggs, of Bloomsburg.
Miss Kuhn, as Business Manager, was aided by the following:
Kenneth Merrill, of Light Street; Mervin Mericle, of Bloomsburg;
Ernest Lau, of Bloomsburg: Howard Bevilacqua, of Berwick; Harry
Nelson, of Hazleton; Violet Brown, of Carlisle; Verna Morawski, of
Hazleton; Gladys Rinard, of Catawissa; Kathryn John, of Bloomsburg, and Rachel Beck, of Sunbury.
of

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ALUMNI BANQUET

Life’s success

is

measured by what we make

the Rev. C. Carroll Bailey, pastor of

of our opportunities,
Evangelical Church, of

Faith

Baltimore, and a member of the Class of 1911, told over one thousand
persons in the address at the College Alumni Day Luncheon.
In one of the finest addresses ever to feature the luncheon, the
Rev. Mr. Bailey spoke of the fine thing it is to return to the College
and renew friendships and share experiences with classmates.

a

The number present at the luncheon was so large that more than
hundred had to be served in the lobby adjoining the main dining

hall.

R. Bruce Albert, President, presided, and the Rev. Dr. N. H.
Sanner, of the Class of 1886, gave the invocation.
The graduates,
under the leadership of Miss Harriet M. Moore, made the hall ring
with the group singing. The Maroon and Gold Orchestra provided a
program of music during the serving of the luncheon.

Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, moving spirit of the Philadelphia
Alumni, spoke, and members of the various county associations were
presented.

A

gifted speaker, the Rev. Mr. Bailey held the closest attention of

the graduates and guests as he gave the address of the day. He spoke
of twenty-five years as a short period of time, and he found that his

classmates had changed but little. The speaker referred to the many
accomplishments of the quarter of a century that has elapsed since
the Class of 1911 has left the school. All of these, he stated, show
that youth is marching on and making the most of its opportunities,
but they show also that youth is not unmindful of the wisdom of
their elders. He spoke of the fine contributions made to the lives of
thousands by members of the faculty, and he mentioned Dr. D. J.
Waller, Jr., Prof. C. H. Albert, Prof. D. S. Hartline, and the late Prof.

Wilbur.

He

pointed out that a full

contacts as possible.

life is

He spoke

of as many sympathetic
wave, and of a guide in

made up

of the crime

the Department of Justice, who remarked that ‘‘if people paid more
attention to the high chair, they would have less attention to pay to
the electric chair.” There is, said he, a great responsibility placed on
the home, the church, the school, and each individual.
He spoke of the inspiring teaching of Prof. Hartline,

who

has

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recently retired, and spoke of

portunity to help youth

He urged

that

that the Master

follow where

we

make

what

a fine thing

contact with

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it is

to

learn to understand each

other,

was misunderstood, but no one can do

He

have the op-

life.

pointing out
better than to

leads.

what a person is inside that counts, and the most abundant
comes to one who gives most, said Mr. Bailey, concluding his adIt is

life

dress with reference to Robert Service’s

poem “Carry On.”

SENIOR BANQUET

The Class

May

of 1936

opened

its

Commencement program Thursday

with a delightful banquet in the College dining hall.
David Mayer, of Laketon, the President of the class, turned the
meeting over to Sam Cohen, of Plymouth, who acted as Master of
Ceremonies for the evening. Addresses wex'e made by Dr. Francis B.
Haas, by Dr. H. H. Russell, to whom this year’s Obiter was dedicated,
and by Prof. S. L. Wilson, the class advisor.
One of the features of the banquet was the presentation of honor
keys to six members of the class, for outstanding service in campus
activities during their collegiate careers. Under the system of awards,
not more than ten per cent of the class may receive the keys, and the
number receiving them must be divided in proportion to the men and
women composing the class. Those honored were: Miss Kathryn
John, Miss Sara Shuman, and Ernest Lau, of Bloomsburg; Bernard
Young and Howard Bevilacqua, of Berwick; Miss Rachel Beck, Sunbury, and Miss Mary Kuhn, Tusearora.
The banquet is the one Commencement function in which only
the class and those intimately connected with it during the four years
are in attendance, and for that reason it is an outstanding feature of
evening,

the

21,

Commencement

season.

Guests of the class were: Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Wilson, Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Dr. and Mrs. H. H.
Russell, Dean and Mrs. J. C. Koch, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Miss Alice
Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker, Mr. and Mrs. S. I.
Shortess, and Mr. and Mrs. George C. Buchheit.
At the close of the banquet, the class and guests enjoyed a
theatre party at the Capitol.

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RETIRED FACULTY MEMBERS HONORED

A

in honor of Miss Helen Carpenter, Proand Professor D. H. Robbins was held Tuesday

testimonial dinner

fessor D. S. Hartline

evening, April 23, in the dining room at the College.
Dr. Francis B. Haas acted as Toastmaster, and spoke of his appreciation for having received the honor of presiding on such a signi-

Continuing, he spoke of his appreciation for the
the committee and said that the type of work
done by the individuals was evidenced by the high opinion in which
they are held by the members of the faculty.
ficant occasion.

splendid

work done by

Because of

illness Professor D. H.

Robbins was unable

to attend

the dinner.

The program was opened with the singing of “America.” The
Dean William B. Sutliff. Miss Jean Lewis,

invocation was given by
’39,

delighted with a solo,

“A Whispering,” with Miss Muriel Marshall

at the piano.

In presenting a colored picture of Science Hall to Professor Hart-

Mrs. A. N. Keller stated that “to be able to realize that you have
had so large a part in the planning and beautifying of the older part
of the campus, and that you have been able to inspire and impart a
vision to hundreds of students through your forty-two years of teaching here must be a source of great satisfaction to you.”
line,

The presentation of a silver platter was made to Miss Carpenter
by Professor Sutliff, who stated “to spend one’s life in a community
and in the honorable endeavor to pass to others the heritage of
knowledge and training gained by individual effort, and to do so
without reproach, is indeed a great accomplishment. Our only regret
is that the passing years have taken you from the familiar paths of
duty and have made our associations less vital.”
Flowers were presented to Miss Lewis and Miss Marshall by
Miss Harriet Moore. Mrs. D. S. Hartline, Mrs. D. H. Robbins, and
Miss Harriet Carpenter also received flowers.

Group singing was
of the

Alma Mater,

After the singing

Alumni Room.

in charge of Professor S. I. Shortess, Mrs. LuBaker, Miss Margaret Hoke, Mrs. A. N. Keller, and George J.

The program was
cille

led by Miss Harriet Moore.

the party adjourned to the

Keller.

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COMMERCIAL CONTEST
Two hundred students and fifty teachers from the thirty-five
high schools throughout the eastern half of the State came to Bloomsburg Friday, May 1, to compete in the Sixth Annual Pennsylvania
Commercial Contest.
Thirty gold, silver, and bronze charms were awarded the winner's, and the winning school of Class A received a silver loving cup.
The honor

of

winning the cup

A

this

year went to

Wyoming High

come from schools having
more than 500 students in the Senior High School and more than two
Commercial teachers. The winner of the cup last year was CollingIn the Class

School.

contest, students

dale High School.

The competition is based on Bookkeeping, Business Arithmetic,
Business Law, Gregg Shorthand, and Typewriting.
The Class A contests were held on Friday, May 1, and the Class

B

were held Saturday, May 2.
The contestants were guests at the Spring concert of the combined musical organizations, and at the dance which followed.
In connection with the contest, there was a conference of Commercial teachers in the auditorium, with the theme “Building Desircontests

able Character

in

Business

Bread,” was presented by

members

Omega

Traits

Education.”
of the

A

play,

“College

Commercial Fraternity, Pi

Pi.

The

victorious

Wyoming team were

guests of

fraternity at a banquet held at the Elks’ Club on

the Pi

Omega

Pi

Saturday evening,

which time the cup was presented.
The contest was directed by H. A. Andruss, Director of the Department of Commerce, with the assistance of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and the Pi Omega Pi fraternity.
at

Twenty-two members of the Student Council of the Pottsville
High School were guests of the Student Council of the Teachers College Saturday, May 16. The visitors were in charge of Miss Dorothy
K. Fritz, Dean of Girls, and Mrs. Edward F. Marburger. The group
arrived about 11:00 o’clock, were shown about the College and were
guests at the institution for lunch. There followed a conference, during which the work of the two groups was discussed and compared.
During the afternoon, the visitors were guests at the Shippensburg
game.

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COLLEGE GROUPS NAME OFFICERS
As the College year drew

to a close, classes

and other organiza-

tions elected officers for next year.

The Class

Jay Pursel, of Bloomsburg, as the EdiHunter as Business Manager.
of Aristes, Captain of the track and field team and

of 1937 chose

tor of the Obiter, with Earl

Lamar

Blass,

varsity basketball player,
class.

Blaine

Saltzer, of

was named President of next year’s Senior
Bloomsburg, was elected Vice-President;

Miss Jane Manhart, of Berwick, Secretary, and George Tamalis, of
Edwardsville, Treasurer. Class representatives to the Student Council are Alvin Lapinski, of West Hazleton, and Miss Muriel Stevens, of
Berwick.
William Thomas, of Scranton, was elected President of the Class
of 1938. Francis Parcell, of Frackville, was elected Vice-President;
Miss Margaret Potter, of Bloomsburg, Treasurer, and Miss Dorothy
Edgar, Secretary.

Robert Price, of Plains, and Miss Alice Auch, of

Easton, were elected class representatives to the Student Council.

Roy Evans, of Taylor, will be President of the Sophomore class
next year, with William Yarworth, of Centralia, Treasurer; Alex McKechnie, of Berwick, Vice-President, and John Jones, of Olyphant,
Secretary. Class representatives to the Student Council are Ray McBride, of Berwick, and Miss Peggy Lonergan, of Berwick.
Miss Margaret Graham, of Bloomsburg, will head the Day Women’s Association. Miss Ruth Leiby, of Danville, was elected VicePresident. Miss Betty Savage, of Berwick, and Miss Martha Wright,
of Bloomsburg, were elected Sophomore representatives; Miss Margaret Creasy, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Jane Lockhard, of Berwick,
Junior representatives, and Miss Muriel Stevens, of Berwick, and
Miss Maria Berger, of Bloomsburg, Senior representatives.
Miss Marie Davis is the new President of the Waller Hall Government Association. Miss Rachel Jones was elected Vice-President;
Miss Anne Ebert, Recording Secretary; Miss Edith Justin, Corresponding Secretary, and Miss Betty Gilligan, Treasurer. Anne Ebert,
Edith Justin, and Amanda Walsh were elected Senior representatives; Dorothy Edgar, Anne Grosek, and Betty Gilligan, Junior representatives, and Annabel Bailey, Ann Evans, and Tirzah Coopes,
Sophomore

representatives.
Earl Gehrif has been elected President of Alpha Phi Omega, with
Clyde Klinger, Vice-President; George Lewis, Secretary, and Randall

Clemens, Treasurer.

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COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Dr. Francis B. Haas has often, in his public utterances, made the
statement that the policy of the College is based on the philosophy
that “a school is a community organized for learning.” As an example of this philosophy in action, the following summary of the
Community Government Association during the past year should
prove of interest to the Alumni. It was prepared by William L. Morgan, President of the Association, and published in the Maroon and
Gold.

Freshman Week — Reception and welcome

man

to

Freshmen; Fresh-

Party; Faculty-Trustee Reception.

—

Social Activities Hallowe’en Masquerade;
Mid-Year Dance;
Leap-Year Dance; After-Dinner Dancing to Victrola Music.

Special

Affairs

— Rotary-Kiwanis

Welcome; Homecoming Day;

Athletic Banquet.

—

Recommendations C. G. A. elections changed to more efficient
method of handling; Maroon and Gold nominations and elections to
be held in different manner; progressive system of band awards, including letter, sweater, and key; customs revision; emblems for cheer
leaders; membership of Maroon and Gold in Associated Collegiate
Press; change in form of bulletin boards; revision of point system for
service awards.

Conventions
tion at

Kansas

—National

Student Federation of America

Conven-

City; Pennsylvania Association of College Students, at

Pennsylvania State College.
Special Meetings Susquehanna University
Student Council;
Philadelphia Alumni Association meeting; High School Seniors;
Pottsville High School Council.
Chapel Programs Memorial for Milton Goldstein; Peace Program for Armistice Day; Tribute to Professor Hartline.
Committees Entertainment Course: Revision of entertainment
set-up; Relations with other Colleges; Suggestions for improvement

—

—

—

Guest book
and regular work in connection with special days and events; Social
Committee; Supervision of all social activities; Pep Committee;
School spirit problems; Supervision of pep meetings; Handbook;
Publication of 1935-36 volume with improved organization; Fire
Drill: Active work in improving conditions in case of fire.
as result of questionnaire to other Schools; Hospitality;

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SPRING ATHLETICS

We

had a splendid season. Coach Buchheit’s track squad never
duel meet. Against the fastest competition in years the relay
team placed fourth in its class at the Penn Relays. Bloomsburg was
the only Pennsylvania Teachers College to place.
Coach Koch put another good squad in competition. No other
Teachers College showed as impressive a record as did the Bloomslost a

burg team. Captained by Sam Cohen,
made a good record for themselves.

of

Plymouth, the boys surely

Baseball for the third consecutive year hit a high standard. Five
this year’s squad so we hope the seasons to come
will see a continuance of the excellent work. Teams that lose but
four games in 34 starts in nothing but College competition surely
make the Huskie a competitor to be reckoned with on any diamond.
This year’s scores give evidence that Coach Nelson’s “hit and wreck

Freshmen were on

’em” philosophy evidently worked

this season.

BASEBALL
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

2

15
6

18
_

_

.

.

_

_

__

_

Millersville

Mansfield

20
2

Lock Haven
Kutztown

4

East Stroudsburg

_

Shippensburg
_

0

.

2

.

5

.

6

.

2

.

4

1

12

Indiana

3

.

.

Susquehanna

9

10

Lost

Millersville

Mansfield

_15

10;

.

Lock Haven

9

19

Summary — Won

Shippensburg

_

Susquehanna

_

7

-_
.

5

..

9

.

8

..

5

_

_

-

_

_

.

3.

TRACK
Bloomsburg
Penn Relays
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
_

.411
Lock Haven
Normal School Competition
— _ — -67 Shippensburg _
..59
..35
_
_
-.91
_ _
__
Susquehanna _
State Teachers College Meet Place Third (28 Points)
Bloomsburg
-46
80
Susquehanna
.

— Placed

841

Fourth

in

.

-

Summary —Won

4;

Lost

0.

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TENNIS
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

Summary— Won

7

Shippensburg
Lock Haven

2

9

Millersville

0

8

Villanova
Mansfield

3

5

Millersville

2

7

Susquehanna

0

6

Mansfield

3

4

Lock Haven

2

0

East Stroudsburg

6

St.

7

Shippensburg

2

4

Indiana

5

9

6

11;

Lost

Thomas

0

1

9

3

2.

1911 REUNION
The Twenty-Fifth Reunion of the Class of 1911 was one of real
worth and enjoyment to all who participated. The first “get together” was staged at the Elks’ Club, Friday evening, May 22, in the nature of an informal dinner. Oral reports of 25 years of activity and
living were either listened to or given the bell. Telegrams and letters from members unable to be present were given proper consideration. A fine message in the way of a night letter was received from
our former Miss Ellis, of the faculty.
Elna Nelson showed the lantern slides used 25 years ago when
Lois Norris and he gave an illustrated lecture for the Class History.
Prof, and Mrs. Hartline were class guests and Prof. Hartline talked
interestingly of his activities now that he has retired from the
faculty. Dr. and Mrs. Haas called at the meeting for a few minutes
and Dr. Haas brought greetings for the College.
Harry Bogart gave the most heartening report when he testified
he had money in the bank and never expected to apply for W. P. A.
The rest of us were counting up the days until the next note was due
at the

bank.

The meeting Saturday morning in Prof. Wilbur’s old class room
saw a few added to the group who could not be present the night before.
Prof. Albert, Miss Good and Miss Swartz came in to greet us.
Then we journeyed down to the general meeting, reported elsewhere
in this issue.
It was a wonderful reunion.

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THE SUMMER SESSION
A

regular

Summer

School Session of six weeks, opening on June

22nd, will be followed by a post-session of three weeks, opening on

August

3rd.

possible, as in the past, to earn six credits during the six
weeks’ session, while the post-session of three weeks will offer the
opportunity to earn three more credits.
Many colleges and universities have been featuring pre-sessions
and post-sessions. These are popular with students who need only a
few credits, or those who need a few more than the number which
can be earned at the regular session.
It is

When Summer

Sessions

The

were

first

featured,

they

were nine

one of that duration was held in 1927.
Since that time, the sessions have been six weeks.
There have been a number of requests for the post-session, and it
is believed that it will
be exceedingly popular.
Arrangements for
it have been made in line with the policy of the College
to give the
utmost service.
New courses to be offered during the Summer Session are “Leadership in Parent Education,” divided into units and taught by several
members of the faculty; “The Modern Rural School,” taught by Miss
Edna Hazen; “Safety Education,” taught by Dr. E. H. Nelson, and two
courses lor orthogenic classes, “Psychology of Atypical Children,”
taught by Prof. John J. Fisher, and “Industrial Arts,” taught by Prof.

weeks

George

in length.

J.

last

Keller.

SENIOR BALL
In a beautiful setting of blue and white, the Class of 1936 held its
Senior Ball in the gymnasium Friday evening, May 22. A large number of the class and its guests were in attendance at the most brilliant
social function of the Commencement season.
The patrons and patronesses were: Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas,
Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Russell, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean and Mrs. John
C. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Keller, Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Shortess,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wilson,
Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Dr. and Mrs. T. P. North, Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Buchheit, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mr. and Mrs. E. N.
Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. Austin J. Tate, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Miller, Miss
Ethel Ranson, and Miss Harriet M. Moore,

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REUNION NEWS OF THE CLASS OF 1926

Thirty-nine back.
One hundred twenty-five married.

Four dead.
Jack Rowlands, Captain of the 1925 football team, was elected
President of the class and plans were formulated for a big reunion in
1941. Jack is at present Supervising Principal of the Warrior Run
Borough Schools. He married Edith Morris, Vice-President of the
class, and they have a daughter.
is teaching in the Sunbury schools.
Caffrey is head of the Commercial Department of Sugar
Notch High School. She expects her M. A. Degree shortly.

Eleanor Butler

Mary
Our

little

Jimmie Coursen has grown

married and teaches

in

New

to

be six

foot, plus.

He

is

Jersey.

Mabel Davies is married to Arch Turner of the 1925
they reside at Alden.

class

and

Francis Fester teaches in Berwick.

Mae Gable Everson

lives in Camden, N. J.
Fanny Hilbert married the Rev. George Roberts.

They have two

daughters, and live in Afton, N. Y.

Betty

Ohlman

is

teaching in the Kirby Health Center at Wilkes-

Barre, Pa.

Margaret Phillips Walker

lives in

Glen Lyon.

Wanamie and was assistant coach of the
Newport Township basketball team, who were Pennsylvania's 1936
Bill

Stoker teaches at

champions.

Haas entertained members of the Board
and faculty and their families at a lawn party, Saturday,
May 9, with eighty-eight in attendance. Tennis, baseball, quoits, and
other games were enjoyed and a delicious supper was served.
Attending from the Board of Trustees were Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Shoemaker, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Evans, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Myer, of Lewisburg, and Thomas G. VinDr. and Mrs. Francis B.

of Trustees

cent, of Danville.

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KAPPA DELTA

PI

The Bloomsburg Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi fraternity held
Annual Founder’s Day Exercises Saturday, April 25, at the Elks’
Home.
The program opened at 2:00 o’clock with formal initiations and a
tea in the social rooms in Science Hall. Five pledges, who became
members of the fraternity were Misses Armina Kreischer, Edith Justin, Rosetta Thomas, Jean Reese, and Jeanette Fawcette.
its

Prof. D. S. Hartline, former member of the faculty, received an
honorary membership, and officers for the coming year were elected.
The new officers are Luther Peck, President; Alvin Lapinski, VicePresident; Gladys Brennan, Corresponding Secretary; Jessie Webber,
Recording Secretary; Florine Moore, Treasurer, and Anna Jean Lau-

bach, Historian.

A

banquet and dance

Home

completed the program.
Church, offered the invocation. Mervin Mericle, the President, read a letter from
Dr. Francis B. Haas, in which the latter expressed regret at his inability to be present. Another letter of regret was received from D.
I. Williams, a National Officer. Group singing was led by Earl Kersh-

The Rev. Stuart

at the Elks’

F. Gast, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal

ner.

Responding to the call of the toastmaster were; Dr. D. J. Waller,
President Emeritus of the College and an honorary member of
the fraternity; Prof. D. S. Hartline, Prof. Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. Nell
Maupin, and Dr. H. H. Russell.
John McGrew, ’35, last year’s President, responded and Alvin
Lapinski introduced the newly-elected officers. Charles Michael, the
Vice-President, presented the speaker of the evening, Dr. Joseph F.
Noonan, Superintendent of the Schools of Mahanoy Township, and
Past President of the Pennsylvania State Education Association. Dr.
Noonan spoke on “The Function of Youth in the Social and Economic

Jr.,

Order.”

The women students of the College met in the College gymfor the Fifth Annual He-She Party Friday evening, April 24.
Prizes for the best costumes were awarded. The evening’s entertainment was devoted largely to dancing. During intermission, announcement of the officers of the Women’s Governing Boards for next year
was made.
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9
Alumni are earnestly requested

to inform Mrs. F. H. Jenkins
copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at
the address cn our files.

All

of all changes of

address.

Many

9

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Mr. R. Bruce Albert,

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

'06

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., "67

Mr. Edward Schuyler, ’24
Miss Harriet Carpenter, ’96
Executive Committee

Mr. Fred W. Diehl, ’09
Mr. H. Mont Smith, ’93
Mr. Maurice F. Houck, TO
Mr. Daniel J.

Mr. Frank Dennis,

’ll

Dr. E. H. Nelson, ’ll
Mr. Dennis D. Wright,

Mahoney,

’ll

’09

©
1872
Class Reunion

—May

22, 1937.

1876

Judge Charles C. Evans, on the bench in Columbia County for a
quarter of a century, and I. E. Bausch, of Shamokin Dam, represented the oldest class in reunion. They were members of the Class of
1876, and were back for their sixtieth year reunion. The Judge is a
member of the Board of Trustees of his Alma Mater.
1877

Class

Reunion—May

22, 1937.

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40

1880

Faulds lives at 32 West Union Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
In a recent letter she states: “The condition of my health prevents me
from attending reunions or enjoying any of the festivities of the College, but I want to tell you this: Always, after reading my Quarterly,
I take it to the Y. W. C. A., of which I am a member, and place it
on
the table in the lounge, hoping that some girl will read it and decide
to take the training at ‘Old Normal’.”

Lina

E.

Mr. Poppert, husband of Susan Fellona Poppert, passed away
home on North 37th Street, Philadelphia.

in

April, at his

1881

The Class of 1881 reported three members in attendance. They
were Mrs. S. C. Creasy and Mrs. W. H. Hartman, of Bloomsburg, and
H. L. Morgan, of Scranton.

with them

in the

E. E. Butz, of the

Class of

1882, joined

happy reunion.
1882
Class Reunion

—May

22, 1937.

1885

Mr. Elmer E. Melick, husband of Annie Miller Melick, died at his
son’s home in Worcester, Mass., where he was visiting.
1886

On Alumni Day

the Class of 1886 held a very successful reunion.

Of the original sixty-seven members,
nine were present. After fifty years,

and twentyunusual occur-

forty are living,
this

is

a most

rence.

The members of the class were entertained on Friday evening at
most delightful reception held at the Hotel Magee. Prof, and Mrs.
Albert, Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, and Dr. and Mrs. Haas were guests of the
The class regretted very much that Dr. Waller’s absence from
class.
town prevented his attendance.
For the Saturday meeting a program arranged by the President
of the class, Dr. N. H. Sanner, was greatly enjoyed. Following greetings and songs, reminiscences were given on “The Faculty Fifty
Years Ago,” by M. A. Kline, “The Boys of ’86,” by Miss Elizabeth
Low, “High Spots on Dormitory Life,” by Mrs. Belle Monie Jones.
A most unique feature of the program was a piano duet played
by Mrs. Mclle Long Dickson and Miss Elizabeth Low, in the costumes
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they wore twenty-five years ago, when they first played the duet.
Dr. Sanner closed the meeting with prayer, and the class adjourned. hoping that all might return to their next reunion in 1941.
At the general alumni meeting, Dr. N. H. Sanner, Mr. M. A.
Kline, and Mrs. Emma Witmer Felty responded for the class. Nor-

man

Los Angeles, California, grandson of Norman H.
'86, and greetings to the
Alumni Association from his father, Harold Cool, of the Class of 1912.
The wonderful spirit of 1886 prevails, as dees the loyalty to good
old Normal, which they now share with B. S. T. C., who so hospitably
entertained them.
Cool,

II,

of

Cool, brought congratulations to the Class of

The following members

of the class attended:

N. H. Sanner, Pittsburgh; Belle Monie Jones, Philadelphia; N. G.
Ccol, Philadelphia; James Maurer, North Darby; M. A. Kline, Cheyenne, Wyoming; D. L. Glover, Mifflinburg; Emma Witmer Felty,
Abliene, Kansas; Allie Donley, Wilkes-Barre; Grace Laycock, Forty
Fort; Eleanor Wintersteen, Kingston; Adelle Shaffer Broughall, Reading; Fleda Barnes Gottschall, Harrisburg; Emma Fisher Thomas,
Harrisburg; Flora Jones Fetterolf, Pottsville; Hattie Hoffa Ruhl, Lewisburg; Annie Shalter Balliet, Milton; Melle Long Dickson, Berwick;
Elizabeth Low, Lime Ridge; Maggie Brennan, Shenandoah; W. R.
Lewis, Scranton; Jerome Felker, Lewistown; Jerry Reeder, Shamokin; Mary Schoch McKelvy, Joe Barkley Eyer, Lettie Moyer White,
Ida Bernard, Stella Lowenberg, Rachel Shultz, and Annie Snyder

Mausteller,

all of

Bloomsburg.
1887

Fifty-Year Reunion

—May

22, 1937.

1890

Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Faus, formerly of Centralia, have moved to
their recently purchased home, at 61 West First Street, Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Faus was former^ Miss Minnie L. Kitchen. Rev. Faus has served as pastor of Methodist Churches in Altoona, Bedford, Shickshinny,
Mifflinburg, Jersey Shore, and Osceola Mills.
1891

There were sixteen
1891 in attendance.

of the seventy-six

The

members

class roll included

and Miss Katherine Longshore, who were active
of the teachers of the State.
ization for five years,

of the Class

of

Miss Margaret Sullivan
in the

organization

All three served as officers of the organ-

and were largely responsible

for

its

fine start.

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Members

of the class in reunion were Rose A. Cohen, Wilkes-Barre;
Mrs. Belle W. Grotz. Jackson Heights, Long Island; Mrs. W. W.
Brown, Fairport, N. Y.; Mrs. Eliza Ward Loughran, Hazleton; Miss
Jennie M. Sheep, of Bloomsburg; Mrs. Alice D. Furman, Haddonfield,
N. J.; Mi's. Margaret Sullivan Meyers, Lewistown; Mrs. Mark Creasy,
Bloomsburg; W. B. Sutliff, Bloomsburg; Frank E. McGuigan, WilkesBarre; James P. Costello, E. J. Gormley, Hazleton; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey B. Rinehart, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rinehart, Waynesboro; Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Turnbach, Hazleton, Mrs. Joseph Brunn, New York City.

1892
Forty-Five Year Reunion— May

22, 1937.

1896

The Class
Flash!

of 1896 broadcasting

from Station B.

S. T. C.

Thirty-three Ninety Sixers from various points of the
in Room L on Alumni Day to celebrate their Fortieth

compass met

After a lively interval of greeting and good fellowship,
Barton presided at an informal class meeting, during which
all reuning members were heard in brief personal reminiscences, and
greetings were read from absent members.
Flash!
Members, upon registering, were presented with name
cards in the form of a small replica of the ’96 Class pins (a four-leaf
clover) and a large standard of the same design marked the progress
of the group from Room L to the auditorium and thence to the dining

Reunion.

Harry

S.

hall.

Flash!
tired

joyment

number of present and readded a large measure of en-

Guests, including a gratifying

members

of the College faculty,

to the occasion.

Class statistics record:
Class enrollment, 120; Present at the reunion, 34; Children, 163;
Flash!

Grandchildren, 64; Unmarried. 28. Eleven members have served on
the faculty or the Board of Trustees of the College.
The following were present at the reunion Harry S. Barton,
Cora Gcrnon Wynkoop, Gertrude Oliver Saums, Vida Bowman Drum,
Harry Gable, Leora F. Van Loan, Millicent Broadbent Sitler, Geraldine Conner Dennis, Margaret R. Lodge, Helen F. Carpenter, Bessie
Vance DeMott, Harriet F. Carpenter, Gertrude Reese Hartman, Crawford C. Smith, Alfred B. Houtz, Peter S. Hart, Celia M. Cohen, Julia
Moran Gritman, Elizabeth Zehner Keiper, Luella Good Polhamus, E.
Gertrude Garrison, Elizabeth V. Miller Eyer, Florence Lins Arndt,
Jane Rosser, Martha Jones Saums, Mida D. Smith, Myrtle Swartz

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Van Wie,

Hettie Cope Whitney, Ida Miller Masteller, Rachel Winter
and Jennie Sutliff Rush.
Flash! Those having enjoyed the cordial hospitality of their
Alma Mater and the renewed contact with their classmates on May
23 will need no urging to plan for their return to the College on their
next class anniversary. We send greetings to those who were prevented from being present at our Fortieth Reunion.
All may anticipate an equally felicitous time in 1941.
Pratt,

Class of 1896 signing
Till

We

Station B. S. T. C.

off.

Meet Again!
1897

Forty-Year Reunion

— May

22, 1937.

1898

James C. Tucker died August 31, 1935. At the time of his death
he was Superintendent of the Masonic Home in Wallingford, Connecticut.

1899
Dr.

Main

W. W. Preston

Street.

lives in Montrose, Pa. His address is 32

His son, Elmer H. Preston, graduated in

South

dentistry

at

the University of Pennsylvania this year.

1901

Following a lingering illness, and with her condition critical for
some time, the death of Mrs. Verus T. Ritter, residing at Latches
Lane, Merion. occurred Sunday evening, May 24.
Born at Dushore, Pa., Mrs. Ritter, formerly Miss Edith Keller,
was a resident of Bloomsburg throughout her girlhood and young
womanhood. She taught in the Bloomsburg schools for several years.
She resigned from that position twenty-five years ago, and was soon
after married to Mr. Ritter, then residing in Huntington, West Virginia. Since 1918, the family has resided at Merion.
Mrs. Ritter is survived by her husband and two children: Verus
T. Ritter, Jr., in his Senior year at Princeton, and Miss Eleanor F.
Ritter, a student at

Smith College.

1902
Thirty-Five Year Reunion

—May

22, 1937

1904

Anna Goyituey
buquerque,

New

Canfield

is

The

Mexico.

recently received from her:

Registrar at the Indian School at Alfollowing are extracts from a letter

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My

graduating from State College at Las
finishes High School the 29th of
May, and in the Fall will enter College. We have one boy here in
daughter, Mabel,

Cruces in June.

is

Our youngest boy

the University.

“On

a recent trip to

New

York,

we stopped

to

see a

classmate,

Blanche Hartzell Barton, and then went into Scranton to visit a
schoolmate, Marie Diem, and what a lovely visit we had with her,
and also with Blanche!
“Susie Rayos Marmon, ’06, has retired from teaching. Her two
daughters have become teachers, and both are teaching at Laguna,
one in a public school, and the other in a Government Day School.
1905
Ida Sitler is a member of the faculty at Hollins College, Virginia. In a recent letter she states: “I have just finished my term as
President of the Virginia Academy of Science. On April 27th, I took

Roanoke Chapter

up the presidency

of the

tion of University

Women.

campus work,

I

as well as with

American Associakeeping busy with off-

of the

am therefore
my teaching.”
1907

Thirty-Year Reunion

—May

22, 1937.

Esther A. Wolfe has taught in the schools at Lehman, Pa., every
year since graduation. During that time she has missed only five
days.

1909

Jeannie Stoweel Knapp (Mrs. Leslie R. Ames) is now living at
202 Capitol Apartments, New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina.
1910

Mrs. Alma Vetterlein Mansuy is employed in the Emergency
Education Division of the W. P. A. in Lackawanna County. Thomas
Francis, 08, County Superintendent of the schools of Lackawanna
County is the chairman in charge of the work.
1911

Hazel D. Kester has taught eight years in the Junior-Senior High
School at Hicksville, Long Island.
(Mrs. John S. Helt) lives at 402 East Fifth
Mrs. Holt’s classmates extend to her their sympathy for the loss of her husband, who died in January of this year.

Jennie Whitmire

Street, Berwick, Pa.

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ALUMNI QUARTERLY

45

1912

Twenty-Five Year Reunion

— May 22,

1937.

Jack Wiant is living in Alabama, where he has a
with the Federal Department of Fisheries.

fine

position

1917

Twenty-Year Reunion

— May 22,

1937.

1918
Mrs. Wieland, mother of Edwina Wieland Brouse, died early
April at Linden Hall.

in

1921

Mrs.

Emma

V. Caldwell

Hampshire. Her husband
Keene Teachers College.

is

lives at

9

Court Street, Keene,

New

Director of Physical Education at the

Miss Jennie Trivelpiece, of Berwick, has been elected to a posiof Mathematics and Art in the Seventh Grade in
Bloomsburg.
tion as teacher

1922
Fifteenth Year Reunion

— May

22, 1937.

1927

Tenth Year Reunion

—May

22, 1937.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Husband and son, Arthur Clayton, have
changed their address to 97 Church Street, Keyport, New Jersey.
Mrs. Husband was formerly Miss Delma E. Myers.
1928
Miss Thelma M. Brandon, of Bloomsburg, and Arthur T. Lee, of
Paulsboro, New Jersey, were married Saturday, April 18, at the St.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. N. S. Wolf. The bride has been a successful
teacher in the schools of Paulsboro for six years. Mr. Lee is an electrical engineer.
They are now living in Paulsboro.

Announcement has been made of the marriage, on the 21st of
February, 1934, of Miss C. Elizabeth Ward, and Donald P. Ohl, of
Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. Harry F. Babcock. The bride is a graduate of Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers

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She

been teaching in the Consolidated
Mr. Ohl is employed in the Bloomsburg office of the State Highway Department.
They are now living at their
home on Ninth Street, Bloomsburg.

College.

has, for several years,

School at Mainville, Pa.

1930

Samuel Kurtz has been elected Music Supervisor in the Bloomsburg High School. He has been serving during the past year as Director of the School Band and Orchestra.
Helen

Snyder

E.

lives at 1059

Market

Street,

the

Sunbury

For the

Sunbury.

past two years, Miss Snyder has been teaching' in the First

Grade

in

schools.

Harold Hidlay, who has been teaching in the Scott Township
High School, has been elected Assistant Principal at Orangeville.
Miss Mabel Gearhart, of Sunbury, was married March 29

Frank

to

Mr.

Miller.

1931

Announcement was recently made of the marriage of Miss Ptomaine Henrie and H. Kenneth Hess, both of Berwick. The wedding
took place November 30, 1934, at Chambersburg, with the Rev. Paul
Lucas, pastor of the Lutheran Church, performing the ceremony.
Mrs. Hess has been teaching in Salem Township for several years.
Mr. Hess is manager of the Newberry Store in Carthage, N. Y., where

he and Mrs. Hess will make their home.

James

who has been teaching for several years at Wesbeen elected Principal of the Main Township Consol-

B. Davis,

ton, Pa., has

idated School at Mainville, Pa.

Mary Miles is a teacher in the West Mahanoy Township
Her address is 1147 West Lloyd Street, Shenandoah.

schools.

1932
Fifth

Year Reunion

— May

22, 1937.

At 8:00 o’clock Saturday morning, April 27, Miss Arlene P.
Werkheiser, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Myron A. Traub,
also of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Nor-

TIIE

man

S.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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Wolf. Mrs. Traub taught for two years in the schools of Mont-

gomery,

Pa.,

and one year

in

Bloomsburg.

Mr. Traub

is

employed as

investigator for the Pennsylvania State Milk Control Board.

in

Monica Barawskas is a teacher in the Adult Educational Project
Shenandoah. Her address is 200 East Centre Street.
1933

Fourth Year Reunion

— May 22,

1937.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Yeany, of Bloomsburg, have announced
the engagement of their daughter, Vivian, to J. Ernest Nachod, of

Wyncote, Pa. Miss Yeany has been teaching in the High School at
Hickory, Pa., since her graduation from Bloomsburg. Mr. Nachod
attended the Colorado School of Mines, Boulder, Colorado, and has

been attending the Pennsylvania State College, where he is a
of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, and Phi Lambda Upsilon, honoral chemical fraternity.
also

member

Miss Rita Dean, of 1244 West Coal Street, Shenandoah,
teacher in the Adult Educational Project in Shenandoah.

is

a

Eleanor Darlene Black, seven months old, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Black, of Millville, Pa., R. D., attended the Alumni Reunion this year with her parents. Her mother was formerly Zela
Bardo, of the Class of '33.
1934

Third Year Reunion

— May

22, 1937.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Crispell, of Laketon, announce the marriage of their daughter, Ella Elizabeth, to Edward William Cobleigh,
of Dallas. The marriage took place Saturday, June 6, at the M. E.

The Rev. Floyd S. Crispell, uncle of the
Mrs. Cobleigh has been teaching for the past two
years in the schools of Laketon. Mr. Cobleigh is employed in Dallas,
where he and Mrs. Cobleigh now reside.
parsonage

at

Mountain Top.

bride, officiated.

Irene Giger has been elected to a position in the grades in the
schools. She has been teaching in Light Street.

Bloomsburg

Miss Mary Ruth Rishe has been teaching during the past year at
Wernersville, Pa.

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1935

Second Year Reunion

—May

22, 1937.

Mr. John Beck and Miss Gertrude Oswald were married in
Scranton, Saturday, June 6. The ceremony took place at the Plymouth Congregational Church, and was performed by Dr. Upton,
pastor of the church. Following the ceremony, there was a reception
at the home of the bride. The best man was Henry Warman, of the
Mr. Beck is teacher of Geography in the Hershey High
Mrs. Beck has been teaching in the first and second grades
in the schools of Elmhurst.

Class of 1932.
School.

1935

The engagement

Mary

A. Prowell, daughter of C. M.
Harold C. Henrie, has recently been
announced. Miss Prowell is a graduate of New Cumberland High
School and attended the Indiana State Teachers College and Elizabethtown College. She is a teacher of Commercial subjects in the
New Cumberland High School. Mr. Henrie is at present teacher of
Book-keeping and Director of the Band in the New Cumberland
High School.
Prowell, of

New

of Miss

Cumberland,

to

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Helen
Bray and William Smith, of Jeddo. The wedding took place in Maryland, sometime in March.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Steinhart, of Bloomsburg, are the proud
parents of a daughter, Marcia Anne, born February 8, 1936.
1936
First

Year Reunion

—May

Kenneth Merrill has been elected
School at Orangeville.
Daniel Jones has been

22, 1937.

to a position in the

elected to a

position

in

the

Grammar
Nescopeck

High School.
Misses Audrey Fleming and Rachel Beck, of Sunbury, have been
elected to positions in the

Sunbury

schools.

Samuel Green, of Berwick, has been elected to a position as
teacher in the Salem Township Consolidated School at East Berwick.

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49

1878

William Chrisman, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1880
Ernest W. Young, 2302 Alden Street, St. Paul, Minn.
Robena F. Glover, 1248 South Jardin Street, Shenandoah, Pa.
1881

May

Creasy) 60 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Henry L. Morgan, 922 Richmond Street, Scranton, Pa.
Mate Spaulding Borden, 89 Putnam Street, Tunkhannock, Pa.
Wells (Mrs.

S. C.

1882
E.

Gertrude La Shelle (Mrs. W. E. Wagner) Gordon, Pa.
1883

Granville

J.

Clark, 268 North

John G. Conner,
Katherine

E.

8

Belmont

Maple Avenue, Kingston, Pa.

Circle, Trenton, N. J.

Harvey, Milroy, Pa.
1884

S. Ella

Young,

Millville, Pa.

1885
Edith Ent (Mrs. Fred Holmes) 148 West Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
C. Ernest Dechant, 1950 East Ninth Street, Charlotte, N. C.
Harry O. Hine, 3204 Highland Place, Washington, D. C.
Sallie M. Cockill (Mrs. G. H. Wilcox) Kyle, W. Va.
Annie Miller (Mrs. Elmer E. Melick) Swarthmore, Pa.
1886
Flora B. Jones (Mrs. L. M. Fetterolf) 903 West Market Street, Pottsville, Pa.
David L. Glover, Mifflinburg, Pa.
Emma M. Sites, 720 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Mary L. Schoch McKelvey, 75 North Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Eleanor Wintersteen, 63 First Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Lizzie Lewis (Mrs. Hugh Price) 38 North Main Street, Plains, Pa.
Grace A. Leacock, 43 Virginia Terrace, Forty Fort, Pa.
Annie Shalter

Balliet, Milton, Pa., R. D.

2.

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50

Elizabeth Low, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Margaret

C.

Brennan, 313 West Oak Street, Shenandoah, Pa.
Front Street, Lewis-

Hattie A. Hoffa (Mrs. John P. Ruhl) 31 South

burg, Pa.
Ida Bernhard, 37 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Allie Donley, 187 Stanton Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

N. Id. Sanner, 1250 Peermont Avenue, Dormont, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Jeremiah Reeder, 909 East Sunbury Street, Shamokin, Pa.
Annie Snyder Mausteller, 425 East Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Emma M. Fisher (Mrs. Martin H. Thomas) 2214 Chestnut Street,

Harrisburg, Pa.
Melle Long (Mrs. Duval Dickson) 209 East Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
1887

W.

Wagner, Gordon, Pa.
William C. Johnston, 569 East Third
E.

Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1888

Rev. H.

I.

Crow, 1716 West North

Street,

Bethlehem, Pa.

Ella Kitchen (Mrs. H. G. Sands) Benton, Pa.

Dr.

Ambrose Shuman, Catawissa,

Pa.

1889

Bess Wintersteen (Mrs. R. W. Shelby) 22 Pleasant Avenue, Passaic.
N. J.
Mrs. Mary Albertson Adams, 137 East Sixth Street, Berwick, Pa.
1890
Minnie L. Kitchen (Mrs. G. W. Faus) 61 West First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1891
Phoebe Shew (Mrs. Mary Creasy) 339 Iron Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Sullivan Myers, 205 East Third Street, Lewistown, Pa.
Edward J. Gormley, 135 South Wyoming Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Eliza Ward (Mrs. P. F. Loughran) 668 North Church Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Carrie Maue (Mrs. W. R.
Hazleton, Pa.

W.

Turnbach)

815

West Diamond Avenue,

West Diamond Avenue, Hazleton, Pa.
Weaver (Mrs. W. W. Brown) 120 South Main Street,

R. Turnbach, 815

Carrie

Fair-

port, N. Y.

Meta Walter (Rinehart) 124 West Grant Street, Waynesboro, Pa.
Alice M. Dillon (Mrs. B. W. Furman) 239 Hawthorne Avenue, Haddonfield, N. J.

Rose A. Cohen, 76 Carey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Carrie

Meyer (Mrs. Joseph Brunn) 395 Broome

51

Street,

New York

City, N. Y.

418 West Oak Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Evans (Mrs. J. William Wall) 146 East Carey

J. P. Costello,

Annie

J.

Street, Plains,

Pa.

H. B. Rinehart, 125 East Main Street, Waynesboro, Pa.
1892

Sue Creveling (Mrs. G. W.

Miller, Jr) 315

Second

Street, Weatherly,

Pa.

Flora Ransom, 386 Rutter Avenue, Kingston, Pa.

Edna

L. Fairchild, 103

West Main

Street, Nanticoke, Pa.

1893
H. Mont Smith, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Martha Powell, 111 West Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mary E. McNinch, Hotel Willard, 252 West 76th

Street,

New York

City, N. Y.

1894

Norma

Nicholls

Wm.

L. Davies) 738 Prescott Avenue,
Scranton, Pa.
Euphemia M. Green, Englewood, Florida.
William Buekwalter, 622 North Lincoln Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Minne L. Bernon, 1002 Columbia Street, Scranton, Pa.

B.

(Mrs.

1895

Fred

E. Fassett, Stevensville, Pa.

Mary Pendergast, 918 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Raymond Stecker, 118 West Main Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

C.

Laura Gilbert (Mrs. Charles

S.

Kline) 347 Pine Street, Catawissa, Pa.
1896

Myrtle A. Swartz (Mrs. F. E. Van Wie) Burdett, N. Y.
Elizabeth V. Miller (Mrs. Frank P. Eyer) Millersburg, Pa.
Celia M. Cohen, 76 Carey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
A. B. Houtz, 106 East Colonial Avenue, Elizabeth City, N. C.
Julia Moran (Mrs. W. T. Gritman) 242 North Washington Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Martha E. Jones (Mrs. S. F. Saums) 118 Warren Street, West Pittston, Pa.

Gertrude Oliver (Mrs. Edward Saums) 289 East Northampton Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Vida Bowman (Mrs. P. L. Drum) 415 Warren Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Harry S. Barton, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Crawford C. Smith, 733 Wyoming Avenue, Kingston, Pa,

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52

Mary Cope,

35 East Second Street, Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Mrs. Gertrude Reese Hartman, 1113 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Mrs. Luella Good Polhamus, 85 North Dorrance Stx'eet, Kingston, Pa.
Mrs. Cora Gernon Wynkoop, 1002 Columbia Street, Scranton, Pa.
E. Gertrude Garrison, 108 West Vaughn Street, Kingston, Pa.
Millicent L. Broadbent (Mrs. John A. Sitler) 624 West Madison Avenue, New Castle, Pa.
Mrs. Rachel Winter Pratt, 270 East Broad Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Mida D. Smith, 743 West Clinton Street, Elmira, N. Y.

1897

Mary Williams Gething,

Mrs.

139 East Broad Street, Nanticoke, Pa.

1898

Henry

F.

Broadbent, 1415

New York

Avenue, N. W., Washington,

D. C.
16 West Third Street, Watsontown, Pa.
Florence E. Bachman, 327 Kidder Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Josephine Pursel (Mrs. M. E. Conner) Benton, Pa.

Sarah H. Russell,

1899

Joanna Sullivan, 805 Mulberry Street, Scranton, Pa.
Carrie S. Flick (Mrs. John C. Redline) R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
John C. Redline, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Miles
C.

I.

1900
Killmer, 410 West 24th Street,

Edward Hausknecht,

New York City, N. Y.
State Teachers College, West Chester, Pa.

Maud

Belig (Mrs. C. T. Yentzer) Cherokee and West Willow Grove
Avenues, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.
Josephine M. Cummings, 3652 Brisbane Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
1901
Harriet Bittenbend,er, 1308 Market Street, Berwick, Pa.
Mary C. Ebner (Mrs. Chalmers C. Groff) 2255 North Fifth Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Keller B. Albert, P. O. Box 204, Reading, Pa.

Minnie

B.

Owen

(Mrs.

J.

Warren Geist)

104

West Avenue, Mt. Car-

mel, Pa.

Mrs. Mabel Pennington Wieland, 215 Hartwick Avenue, State College,
Pa.

William R. Lams, 2542 Walnut Street, Allentown, Pa.
Virginia E. Vought, Elysburg, Pa.
Arthur D. Templeton, 36 Graham Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Evelyn Creveling (Mrs. C. S. Shuman) 125 Chestnut Street, Sunbury,
Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
R. A.

Rowemus, 526 North Second

53

Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Kohr) Richland, Pa.
Martha A. Jones, Farmers’ Bank Building. Bloomsburg, Pa.
Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T. Lowry) 16 Madison Avenue,
Port Washington, Long Island.
Nellie Weigley (Mrs. J. R.

1902
Alice F. Melvin (Mrs. Benjamin Eiehholzer) Forest City, Pa.
S. Gertrude Rawson, 748 Prescott Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

1903
Edith Patterson, 148 South Munn Avenue, East Orange, N. J.
C. J. Adams, 1619 Quincy Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Flossie Rundle (Mrs. Arthur L. Chase) 111 Spring Street, Carbondale, Pa.

Bank Building, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
(Mrs. Earl John) 146 West Third Street, Blooms-

C. L. Albert, 615 Miners'

Anna Wells Creasy
burg. Pa.

1904
Bessie Derr (Mrs.

Norman

J.

Sked) 213 Franklin Avenue, Penning-

ton, N. J.

Emma

S. Hinkley (Mrs. J. P. Saylor) 313 Pine Street, Tamaqua, Pa.
Mrs. Leona Kester Lawton, R. D. 3, Millville, Pa.
1905
Besse Grimes, 415 East Main Street, Catawissa, Pa.
Sue Thomas Beaver, 520 Mavey Place, North Bergen, N. J.

1906

Laura Aurand (Mrs. M. W. Witmer) 178 Main Street, Trappe, Pa.
Adeline Williams, 810 Archbald Street, Scranton, Pa.
Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon) 9011 169th Street, Jamaica,
N. Y.

Grace Bonham, Forty Fort, Pa.
Nellie Evans, 427 Minooka Avenue, Moosic, Pa.
Myrtle Longenberger (Mrs. C. P. Messersmith) 535 Sherwood Parkway, Westfield, N. J.
Edith Shuman (Mrs. M. J. Grimes) 415 East Main Street, Catawissa,
Pa.

Helen K. Margerum, 328 Pine Street, Catawissa, Pa.
R. Bruce Albert, 146 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Elwell P. Dietrick, 829 Richmond Street, Scranton, Pa.
Mrs. Nellie Durbin Batey, 62 Gaylord Avenue, Plymouth, Pa.
Hazel Owen (Mrs. H. J. Schuchart) 931 East Third Street, Williamsport, Pa.

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54

1907

Helen Masteller (Mrs. W. H. Hile) 372 14th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
Blanche Westbrook (Mrs. Newton C. Fetter) 335 Harvard Street,
Cambridge, Mass.
Laura R. Essick (Mrs. Robert N. Lowrie) 210 Hawkins Avenue,
North Braddock, Pa.
Mi's. Bessie Baer Doig, 69 Bruce Street, Walton, N. Y.
Blanche Johns (Mrs. R. Burchard Lawrence) 23 Carlton Avenue.
Port Washington, Long Island.
Reba Quick (Mrs. F. H. Lerch, Jr.) 3405 80th Street, Jackson Heights,
N. Y.

Wendt

Lillian

(Mrs. Geo. Harris Webber) 507 West Hancock Street,

Milledgeville, Ga.

1908

Bruce Sneidman, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Olive A. Major, 6250 Rogers Avenue, Merchantville, N. J.
Sara C. Faust, 12 East Newell Avenue, Rutherford, N. J.
Mae Callender (Mrs. Lloyd Wilson) Kis-Lyn, Pa.
1909
L. T.

Krumm,

291

Grove

Street, Montclair, N. J.

Sarah E. Hartzell (Mrs. David D. Ogilvie) 1119 Idaho Street, Elko,
Nevada.
1910

Harold C. Box, South Canaan, Pa.

Gregg

Julia

Brill, 128

East Nittany Avenue, State College, Pa.
1911

Irene Snyder (Mrs. Dayton L. Ranck) 35 Market Street, Lewisburg,
Pa.
Pearle C. Fitch (Mrs. Fred W. Diehl) Danville, Pa.
Paul Z. Hess, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Elsie

Ethel

Winter (Mrs. Nat D. Stevens) Tunkhannock, Pa.
Hower (Mrs. Arthur C. Fairchild) 310 Grove Street, Elmira,

N. Y.

Grace
L.

E.

May

Shuman

(Mrs. Harry G. John) R. D. 3, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Gamble, Jr.) 2811 North 12th Street,

Steiner (Mrs. G. E.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Hofer (Mrs. W. Stanley Bartle) 118 Hamilton Street,
Bound Brook, N. J.
Edna Lewis (Mrs. E. J. Robinson) 44 Pleasant View Avenue, Long
Meadow, Mass.
Clara Wardan, Dallas, Pa.

Cecelia G.

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55

Jennie Barklie, 90 Ashley Street, Ashley, Pa.
W. Homer Englehart, 1821 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Irene Heimbach (Mrs. George Reinhart) 120 East Mine Street, Hazleton, Pa.

Frank Dennis, 195 Academy Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Catherine Stunz (Mrs. Sheldon Rarich) 301 East 11th
wick, Pa.
Harry W. Bogart, Rohrsburg, Pa.
Annette Osborne (Mrs. Howard P.

Frantz)

294

Street, Ber-

Bennet

Street,

Lu-

zerne, Pa.

George Landis, Sugarloaf, Pa.
Marguerite Clune (Mrs. John Jennings) 41 Flemer Avenue, Springfield,

N. J.

Ralph H. Smoyer,
Capt.

Wm.

4

Upper Mulberry

P. Weiss,

Street, Danville, Pa.

Pennsylvania Military Reservation, Colebrook,

Pa.

Florence Coolbaugh (Mrs. W. O. Warner)
Detroit, Mich.

19635

Canterbury Road,

Ray M.

Cole, 710 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Pauline Sharpless Harper, Bloomsburg. Pa.
Clyde B. Myers, Scipio Center, N. Y.
Grace F. Johnson, 175 Queen Street, Northumberland, Pa.
C. M. Boust, 634 North Fouth Street, Sunbury, Pa.
George Ferrio, Jr., First National Bank Building, Bridgeport, Conn.
Iris Avery (Mrs. Geo. C. Armitage) Alderson, Pa.

1912

William H. Davis, 35 Grand Avenue, Johnson City, N. Y.
Blanche I. Strayer (Mrs. Chester S. Reigle) Freeburg, Pa.
Bertha Harner (Mi's. Ercell D. Bidleman)
Bloomsburg, Pa.

321

East First

Street,

Edna Hess (Mrs. R. B. Frey) Bloomsburg, Pa.
Jessie Doran, Moscow, Pa., R. 3.
1913

Mary Shupp

(Mrs. E. F. Sorber) 22

Simpson

Street,

Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.

M. Denison, Station Hospital, Schofield Barracks,
Hawaii.
Catherine Malloy, 5652 Whitby Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Helen J. Pegg, 115 Lower Mulberry Street, Danville, Pa.

Nellie

Honolulu,

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1914

Pearl

Hughes

(Mrs.

Howard Gunther)

East

621

Third

Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa.
1915
Elsie E.

Thomas (Mrs. W.

C.

Burger) Boy’s Industrial School, Kis-

Lyn, Pa.
Edith M. Saricks, 801 Birkbeck Street, Freeland, Pa.
Fred W. Faux, 600 East Cameron Street, Shamokin, Pa.
1916

Sara Margaret Hidlay (Mrs. Edson A. Potter)

Box

131,

Glen Gard-

ner, N. J.

Ruth N. Fuller (Mrs. Ruth F. Gregory) Weatherly, Pa.
Valetta Kahny, Saltsburg, Pa.
Ruth Harris, 1324 Market Street, Berwick, Pa.
Ann Morgan (Mrs. Percy Williams) 333 East Main Street, Nanticoke, Pa.

Ruth Frances Graves (Mrs. Thomas R. Edwards) Dalton, Pa.
Helen E. Hartman (Mrs. John L. Bradford) Kennedy-Warren Apartments, Washington, D. C.
E. Thomas, Box 49, Mountain Top, Pa.
Hazel A. Walper (Mrs. Edgar A. More) 635 Seventh Avenue, Bethle-

Lorena

hem, Pa.
Cora S. Funk, 250 West Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Nina Zehner (Mrs. Monroe Frey) 130 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1917

Miss Lucy Padagomas, 56 East Main Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.
Mildred Avery (Mrs. Charles Love) North Mehoopany, Pa.
Harriette Shuman (Mrs. Reuel S. Burr) 306 Berkley Road, Merion,
Pa.
J.

Loomis Christian, M.

D.,

3632 Rutherford Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
1918

Margaret Brown (Mrs. James A. Wilson) 1907
43, Washington, D. C.

K

Street, N. W., Apt.

1919

Hazel B. Wayne (Mrs. Grover C. Shoemaker) 120 Market Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Olive Oliver Robinson, 9 Hawk Street, Schenectady, N. Y.
Rhoda Crouse, 1318 Orange Street, Berwick, Pa.
1920
Ella

Swcppenheiser (Mrs. Clark Kennedy) R. D.

5,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

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57

1921

Mrs. Jennie Cooke Ellis, 438 Harrison Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Clara E. Fisher, 129 East Pine Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.
Miller S. Buck, 230 West Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Emma

Seltzer (Mrs. Herbert Ratzburg) 294

West Main

Street,

Ring-

town, Pa.
Mrs. Helene Lowe Schlegel, 10 Bank Street, Montrose, Pa.
Ruth Koch, 557 Lincoln Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Elizabeth Johnson, 722 West Lackawanna, Olyphant, Pa.
Margaret Harned, Main Street, Peckville, Pa.

Mae McShea

(Mrs. Ray Kester) 348 Mill Street, Danville, Pa.
Hester Henrie, Mifflinville, Pa.
Mrs. Helen Eisenhauer Kocher, Mifflinville, Pa.
Chloe McKinstry (Mrs. Harry Cole) Leonard Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Olive Scott, 263 Pierce Street, Kingston, Pa.
Mrs. Julia Fagan Rourke, 583 North Church Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Lillie Breisch (Mrs. Ralph Moser) Ringtown, Pa.
Kline Wernort, 211 East Bertsch, Street, Lansford, Pa.
Mrs. Edith Blossom Hoffman, 77 North Laurel Street, Hazleton. Pa.
Mrs. Mary Dreese Strieker, Route 1, McClure, Pa.
Mae George, 632 Front Street, Danville, Pa.
Anna Thomas (Mrs. Edward Unangst) Catawissa, Pa.
Mrs. Gladys Beddall Saul, 815 West First Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. Lillian Nelson Yerkes, Honesdale, Pa.

1922
Bessie Barnett (Mrs. F. T. O'Donnell) 345 North

Main

Street, Wilkes-

Barre, Pa.

1923
Edith E. Hampton, 119 South Nice Street, Frackville, Pa.
1924

Ruth Beaver (Mrs. Ralph A. Lindenmuth, Numidia, Pa.
Dorothy K. John (Mrs. Harold Dillon) Bloomsburg, Pa.
Adeline Swineford, 506 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Faye Kline (Mrs. Milton Sommer) 541 Church Street, Bound Brook,
N. J.
Deris Morse, 23 Mitchell Place, White Plains, N. Y.
1925

Lucy H. Evans, 325 Rose Avenue, Elmira, N. Y.

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1926

W. Wormley)

127 Hanover Street, Northumberland, Pa.
Dorothy L. Friedman, 242 Main Street, Luzerne, Pa.
Marjorie Davey, Honesdale, Pa.
Elgie V. Prutzman, Ferguson Avenue, Shavertown, Pa.
Eleanore J. Roderick, 362 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Mae Gable (Mrs. William Everson) 3306 Pleasant Street, Camden,

Lois M. Merrill (Mrs. Neal

N. J.
Josephine Gavey, 5 Orchard Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.
Eleanor Butler, 486 Second Avenue, Northumberland, Pa.

Ruth

302 First Street, Blakely, Pa.
Robbins, Millville, Pa.
Helen R. Kellam, 35 North Logan Avenue, Audubon, N. J.
Emma Dolores Selecky (Mrs. M. Joseph Mras, Jr.) 81 Orchard Street,
Glen Lyon, Pa.
Sophia Zelinski, 8 Enterprise Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.
Stephina Rasmus, 62 Main Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.
Edith Morris (Mrs. J. T. Rowlands) 545 Front Street, Warrior Run,
Pa.
Jack Rowlands, 545 Front Street, Warrior Run, Pa.
Laura E. Mann, 625 North Church Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Elsa

Gill,

I.

1927

Helen T. Ceppa, 3 West Grand Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Lena Elmer Van Horn, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
Ethel A. Fowler (Mrs. Charles R. Brown) 226 East 15th Street, Berwick, Pa.
1929

Mary Frances Morton,

334 Mulberry Street, Berwick, Pa.

Lucille Martz, 333 East Front Street, Berwick, Pa.

1930

Karleen M. Hoffman, 239 East Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Annie E. Schell, Mainville, Pa.
Jessie E. Cook, 974

W.

West Fourth Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Hanover Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

B. Yeager, Jr., 110

1931

Elizabeth H. Hubler, Gordon, Pa.
Minnie Olschefsky, R. 1, Catawissa, Pa.
Helen M. Walburg (Mrs. Nelson M.

Penman)

544

Iron

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mary J. Concannon, 830 West Chestnut Street, Shamokin.

Street,

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Emily A. Park, 400 McKinley Avenue, Endicott, N. Y.
William H. Weaver, Jerseytown, Pa.
Raymond W. Wiliard, Shamokin Street, Trevorton, Pa.
Eleanor R. Rhoades, 79 Ninth Street, Wyoming, Pa.
Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek, Pa.
Dorothy M. Foust, Brummer Avenue, Watsontown, Pa.
Hilda D. Yocum, 680 Shakespeare Avenue, Milton, Pa.
Lois C. Hirleman, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Marion R. Meixell, Espy, Pa.
G. Keith Witheridge, 170 Ninth Street, Wyoming, Pa.
Robert G. Sutliff, 11 Lincoln Avenue, Baldwin, Long Island.
Clarence R. Wolever, Mill City, Pa.
Mary Gorham (Mrs. Clarence R. Wolever) Mill City, Pa.
Doris E. Empett (Mrs. Tracy Van Buskirk) Pratt Street, New Milford, Pa.

1932

Raymond Latska) Herndon, Pa.
Mildred M. Dimmick, Mountain Top, Pa.
Roy J. Evans, Benton, Pa.
R. Virginia Zeigler (Mrs.

1933

Zela Bardo (Mrs. Donald Black) R. D. 2, Millville, Pa.
Lois Laubach, Sugarloaf, Pa.
Clarissa Hidlay, 421 West Second Street, Berwick, Pa.
Sarah E. Fisher, Selinsgrove, Pa.
1934
Ellen Louise Veale, 319 East

Elm

Street, Hazleton, Pa.

Mercedes Deane, 348 South Third

Street,

Albemarle, N. C.

1935

Reed, Box 230, R. D. 1, Shamokin, Pa.
Elmer J. McKechnie, 300 East Sixth Street, Berwick, Pa.
Helen Merrill, Light Street, Pa.
Fae Meixell, Espy, Pa.
Howard E. Fauth, 43 West Gay Street, Red Lyon, Pa.
Louise Yeany, 712 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helen Frey, 204 West Third Street. Bloomsburg, Pa.
S. C. Ficca, 243 West Saylor Street, Atlas, Pa.
Lauretta M. Foust, 112 East Brimmer Avenue, Watsontown, Pa.
Rosina Kitchener, 164 Girard Avenue, Plymouth, Pa.

William

I.

Veda Mericle,

R. D.

1,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

60

Unora

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B. Mendenhall, Benton, Pa.
Mildred M. Hollenbaugh, 62 Banks Street, Penbrook, Pa.
Naomi M. Myers, 83 Church Street, Pittston, Pa.
Charlotte Hochberg, 639 Lincoln Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Betty Row, 327 College Hill, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Florence Marchetti, 1062 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont, Pa.
Howard E. DeMott, 319 Catherine Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Rosebud Golder, 1014 Spring Garden Avenue, Berwick, Pa.
Dorothy Lane Foster, 223 South 15th Street, Allentown, Pa.

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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

OCTOBER,

37

1936

NO.

4

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July

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

Pa.,

H. F.

MRS.

FENSTEMAKER,
F. H.

JENKINS,

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Editor
Business Manager

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SUMMER

SESSION NOTES

Another Summer Session opened on Monday, June 22, at the
Teachers College with registration.
The College arranged
a curriculum to meet the needs of the students and Dr. Francis B.
Haas, President, also announced an exceptionally fine program of
social and professional meetings during the session.
One of the features was an educational convocation each Tuesday morning, with prominent educators on the program.
It is possible to earn 'six credits at the session and an opportunity for additional work was provided this summer by a three weeks’
post session which opened August third.
The Summer Session was a successful one and one that was
most encouraging to the administration. There was a total enrollment of 375 for the regular six weeks’ session, an increase of 46 over
State

1935.

There were 118 at the special three weeks’ Post Session, the first
was ever offered, and that number was almost twice as large as
the College announced it would consider good for the first year. The
Post Session showed by its fine I'esponse showed that it is something
which is appreciated by the section the institution served and that
it

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a long felt need. It will be continued and it is believed that the
enrollment next year will show a substantial increase.
it fills

SUMMER SESSION CALENDAR
June 22
June

23

—Registration and classification.
— Assembly, Auditorium, 10:20 A.

dents, general

M.,

welcome

to stu-

announcements, sound pictures.

—

June 25 Trustee and Faculty informal reception, dance and
games, gymnasium 7:30 P. M. Demonstration in Room 10 “Teaching of Social Studies,” Miss Anna Garrison, Fifth Grade Training
Teacher, 9:30 A. M.
June 26 Demonstration in Room 17, “Teaching Geography,”
Miss Harriet Carpenter, Seventh Grade Training Teacher.

—

—

—Demonstration

June 29
I.

in

Shortess, Seventh and Eighth

Room

19

—“Teaching of Science,”

S.

Grade Training Teacher.

—Convocation,

Auditorium, Dr. Frank H. Reiter, Chief
Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg
“Special Education For Less Than Average Pupils.” Sound pictures.

June 30

Special Education,

—

—

July 1 Demonstration in Room 19 “Teaching of Mathematics,”
Miss Ethel Ranson, Seventh and Eighth Grade Training Teacher,
11:00 A.

M.

—

July 2— Demonstration in Room 10 “Teaching of English,” Miss
Edna J. Barnes, Fourth Grade Training Teacher.”

—Demonstration Room 19 — “Teaching of English,” L.
July — Convocation, Auditorium, 10:20 A. M.
Sound pictures.
the afternoon
Columbia Park.
Annual Summer Session picnic
July —-Demonstration in Room 17 —“Teaching of Mathematics,”
Miss Ethel Ranson, Seventh and Eighth Grade Training Teacher
11:00 A. M. Demonstration
Room 10 — “Social Studies and CharacJuly

6

in

S.

Wilson, Seventh and Eighth Grade Training Teacher, 9:20 A. M.
7

in

at

9

in

ter Education,”

Miss Mabel Moyer, Second Grade Training Teacher.

—Fall entrance, examinations.
—Demonstration Room 17 —“Teaching of Geography,”
Miss Harriet Carpenter, Seventh Grade Training Teacher.
July
—Convocation, Auditorium, 10:20 A. M.— Dr. George
Roemmert— “The Mico-Vivarium.” Sound pictures.
Room
July 19 — “Teaching of Social Studies” — Demonstration
July 10
July 13

in

14

in

19, E.

A. Reams, Seventh and Eighth

Grade Training Teacher.

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—

—

July 16 Demonstration in Room 10 “Teaching of Nature
Study," Mrs. Etta Keller, Sixth Grade Training Teacher 11:00 A. M.
“The Symphony Singers" Auditorium 8:00.

—

—

—

—

S.

July 20 Demonstration in Room 17 “Teaching of
L. Wilson, Seventh and Eighth Grade Training Teacher.

—

English,”

—

July 21 Convocation Auditorium Dr. Samuel Fausold, Deputy
Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa.
Sound Pictures. Visit to Airport with supper served in Hangar.

—Demonstration

July 22
I.

in

Room 19— "Teaching

of Science,” S.

Shortess, Training Teacher of the Seventh and Eighth Grades.

—

July 23 Mid-Session Dance, including games—Gymnasium
Demonstration in Room 10— “Teaching First Grade Reading,” Miss
Ermine Stanton, First Grade Training Teacher.

—

—

July 27 Demonstration in Room 17 “Teaching of Social Studies,” Seventh and Eighth Grade Training Teacher. Demonstration in
Room 10 “Teaching of Primary Numbers,” Mrs. Lucile Baker, Third
Grade Training Teacher.

—

July 28

—Convocation, Auditorium,

10:20 A.

M.

Sound

Pictures.

North Hall Smoker.

—

July 30 Annual Summer Session Dinner and Dance in Honor of
Students completing courses.
July 31

—Summer Session closed.

Individual events: In addition to the

events listed above a fur-

men and women
was developed. Such events included arrangements for swimming,
horseback riding, hiking and camping trips, and the usual athletic
ther recreation and social program, with events for

events.
o

Miss Eleanor Morris has been engaged as a teacher at Ransom Township, Lackawanna County. Miss Edith Phillips and Miss
Audrey Powell, also graduates of the same school, have been engaged to teach at Spring Brook and Daleville Public Schools, respectively.

o

enrollment for the Summer Session of the Benjamin
Franklin Training School was 291. Of this number 57 children were
present every day that Summer School was in session.

The

total

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COLLEGE DAY AT THE AIRPORT

Students and faculty members of the State Teachers’ College
Session enjoyed Tuesday, July 21 at the Columbia Airways,
the day being made possible through the whole-hearted cooperation
of Harry L. Magee, who for the past three years has been instrumental in making the visit to the airport one of the high lights of
the year.
The party reached the airport early in the afternoon and during
the next few hours there were 118 flights in the three planes.
In late afternoon J. T. Hand, of Easton, demonstrated the manner in which a parachute is packed and then made a leap. The College served a delicious supper to 350 in the airport hangar.
Band, C. Gordon Keller directing
During the afternoon the
provided a splendid concert from 3:00 to 4:30 o’clock and also played following the supper. While the meal was served there were accordion selections by Messrs. Costa, Malinoski, and Sprangrial, of

Summer

WPA

Mt. Carmel.
Dr. E. H. Nelson was master of ceremonies. Mr. Magee extended
a cordial invitation and Dr. Francis B. Haas, College President, responded. Miss Harriet M. Moore, of the College, led in group singing.

Robert Leroy, technical advisor of the division of aeronautics,
Harrisburg, spoke of the use of the radio in aviation and of how
great a safety measure this was.

Andrew
manager

B.

of the

Newcombe, New York City, assistant district sales
American Air Lines, Inc., spoke of the progress of

aviation, mentioning the increased travel by air

marks such

travel.

He gave

creasing popularity of travel by plane.
lets

were

and the safety which

company showing the inSouvenir air maps and book-

figures of his

distributed.

o
Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., President emeritus of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College and a former State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, celebrated his ninetieth birthday, Wednesday, June 17

and received the

felicitations of his

joying excellent health, and

may be

many

friends. Dr. Waller

is

en-

seen daily walking about town.

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POST SESSION

A

three weeks

Post Session, in which students secured three
toward the baccalaureate degree of Bachelor of Science in
education, opened at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College August
credits

3rd.

This is a new procedure at Bloomsburg but the enrollment was
encouraging with seventy-six signifying their intention of taking
courses in the field of Business Law, Bookkeeping and Accounting,
Latin, Introduction to Teaching, Health and Hygiene, Contemporary
Sociology and Economic Problems, Geography of Europe and the
Western Hemisphere, Literature and English Composition. In the
special education department, courses were offered in Artcraft and
Mental Tests.
Classes were held from 8:00 o'clock until 9:30 and from 10:30 to
noon, and were scheduled so that two ninety-minute periods per day
for five days per week constituted a three semester hour course, except where adjustments for laboratory courses were needed. The
training school facilities were not offered during the Post Session.
In speaking of the summer work at the institution, Dr. Francis
B. Haas, the President, said: “The Summer Session courses are designed especially for the teachers-in-service who desire advanced
certification, or

who

in addition for

undergraduates

are candidates for the baccalaureate degree, and

who

desire to take additional

apparent
that the

in

work

has become
Pennsylvania, as well as throughout the United States,

in a particular field. Dui'ing the past twenty-five years

minimum academic

it

qualification for the profession of teach-

rapidly becoming to be the baccalaureate degree. In Pennsylvania teachers with less than this degree already find themselves at
a disadvantage with applicants who have completed the four year

ing

is

course and secured the degree. The three weeks session offers an exceptional opportunity to secure additional advanced preparation.
The Post Session is particularly attractive to those who wish to
get more than the credits that can be secured at the regular six
weeks' session and also to those who require only a few credits to
f

obtain certification or secure a degree.
c

Miss Edna J. Hazen and Miss Edna Barnes, of the College faculty left Tuesday, July 31 for New York City where they boarded the
Bremen for a trip to England, Scotland and Ireland.

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SUMMER

SESSION DINNER

who completed their work for degrees of BachSummer Session, were guests Thurs30, at the annual Summer Session dinner of the

Sixteen students

elor of Science in Education at

day evening, July

State Teachers College, attended by 450 in the College dining room,

and featured by a splendid address by Strickland Gillilian, Washington, D. C., nationally known humorist, and a delightful program
of music by the popular Pennsylvania Railroad Keystone Quartet from
Philadelphia. Dr. E. H.

Nelson in his annual role as toastmaster,

opened the evening’s program, introducing each member with

his

usual easy wit. Miss Harriet Moore, of the College faculty

the

singing.

Three accordion solos

led

were then played by Miss

Nellie

Kramer.
Sixteen students, ten women and six men, had the baccalaureate
degree conferred upon them by the President of the College, Dr.
Francis B. Haas. They were: Miss Mabel Francis Belles, Lawrence
Richard Coolbaugh, Margaret Irene Crouse, Beatrice M. Eisenhauser, Beulah Lorraine Fairchild, Hannah Madeline Fetterman, Anna S.
George, Mabel Swineford Gordon, Samuel Green, Harold H. Hyde,
Helen L. Jenkes, Gilbert L. Kline, Sue H. Longenburger, Blanche G.
Moore, Robert Joseph Rowland, and Archibald Boyd Turner.

Dean W. B. Sutliff read the list of students receiving their
Bachelor of Science degree in education, and presented two women
who have played an active part in the history of the institution: Mrs.
P. L. Drumm, and Miss Vida Bowman, who taught in the College
about ten years, and Mrs. Judson P. Welsh, the widow of the principal of the Normal School, who served from 1890 to 1906.
Henry Klonower, Chief of the Teachers Division of the Department of Public Instruction, was a guest at the dinner and was introduced by Dr. Haas. He addressed a few words to the group, declaring “there is always something new at Bloomsburg” and applauded the

fine spirit

Dean John

which

is

shown at the institution.
humorous presentation, awarded

C. Koch, in a

a tin

loving cup to the winners of the quoit tournament at the school. The
cup, he announced, will be known as the President’s Cup and will

have the winners’ names engraved on it.
A large wooden bowl was presented
his active participation in

inski

was once

a

member

Summer
of the

School

to

Edward Brominski for
Since Mr. Brom-

activities.

Columbia University

football team,

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once played
riate

at the

memento

Rose Bowl

of his

in California, the

Summer

7

bowl was an approp-

School Session here.

He was

also

presented with a miniature celluloid doll of himself catching as he
was catcher on the student team which played against the faculty
during the school picnic.
Mr. Gillian introduced the Keystone Quartet, whose rich, full
voices brought forth many demands for encores. The numbers which
they sang included “The Three Musketeers,” “We Saw the Sea,”
“Beautiful Lady in Blue,” “Something About a Soldier,” parody on
the quartet from Rigoletto, and “Lights Out.”
Anecodes and stories colored Mr. Gillian’s lively address, and a
sparkling humor ran through his talk, which, he explained, was an
accumulation of his thoughts and experiences since his last visit in
this vicinity.

The evening’s program was concluded with the following groups
of numbers by the Keystone Quartet: “Until,” by Sanderson; “Old
Man River,” “That Old Gang of Mine” a parody on “Coming Through
the Rye,” “Women,” and “Traveling.”
Following the dinner, a dance was held in the gymnasium and
attended by a large number of the faculty, students and friends.
o

SUMMER
Summer

SESSION STUDENTS PRESENT PLAYS

Session students interested in dramatics and known as
Summer School Players, delighted the student body

the Bloomsburg

Tuesday evening, July 28, with the presentation of three plays,
“Thursday,” “Are Men Superior?” and “Share Holders in Spain.”
Miss Alice Johnston of the faculty directed. The casts did excellent
work.
Following the program, the students adjourned to the quadrangle of Waller Hall, bordered on one side by Long Porch. This
was decorated prettily by Japanese lanterns. Lemonade was served.
The evening concluded with a smoker held at North Hall by the
men of the student body, with many members of the male faculty as
.guests.

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ANOTHER YEAR OF TRAINING NEEDED
William W. Evans, County Superintendent of Schools, has been
by the State Department of Public Instruction that beginning
January 1, 1937, teachers will be required to have another year of
preparation for the State Standard Limited Certificate.
This certificate is now issued where the applicant has completed two years of
preparation for teaching in the elementary schools.
This certificate will be valid for three years, renewable for another period of three years upon a rating of “low” or better and the
satisfactory completion of twelve semester hours of further approved
preparation, subsequent renewals to require a rating of “middle” or
better on a State Teacher’s rating score card, together with twelve
semester hours or further approved preparation.
Teachers who have begun their additional work will not be required to do this additional work so that the regulation is not retroactive, nor does it apply to teachers in service at the present time.
notified

o

ONE CHANGE

IN

FACULTY THIS YEAR

Plans are being continued in the development of the department
for the training of teachers of special classes at the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College. This work was inaugurated during the Summer
Session under the direction of Miss Helen O’Donnell, who is supervisor of this work in the Scranton public schools.
The faculty for the second semester of the 1935-36 term is practically intact for the present semester.

Miss Ruth Eismann, the assistant librarian, however, has resigned to accept a position as chief librarian of the new high school
library at Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Miss Ethel E. Shaw, of the English Department, has returned to
the College after an absence of a year and a half.
o

Plans are underway to strengthen and develop the orchestra, the
band, and the mixed chorus. The A Capella Choir, which is developed from the mixed chorus, will be costumed this year. Each term the
musical organizations are playing more and more of a vital part in
College

life.

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FRESHMAN WEEK SCHEDULE
A

fine program for Freshmen Days, opening the Teachers Colwas arranged by Dr. Thomas B. North, of the College faculty,
who was in charge of the work.
Those who desired to enter the College and had not graduated in
the first half of their high school class were required to take academic entrance examinations. Some took them during the summer.
Others had an opportunity to take them on Tuesday, September 8.
The examinations continued through the morning until 12:05,
when those taking them were the guests of the College at lunch. At
1:00 o’clock in the afternoon the examinations continued.
Freshmen
living in the dormitories were served dinner at 6:00 o’clock Tuesday
evening, the first meal of their College careers.
Freshmen enrolled in the gymnasium from 8:45 until noon and
from 1:00 until 3:00 in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 9.
The Freshmen met in the auditorium at 3:00 o’clock that afternoon with Dr. North in charge. Announcements were made and administrative officers together with the officers of the Y. W. C. A. and
Y. M. C. A. were presented, and the Freshmen were invited to attend
programs of the two campus organizations. For an hour following

lege,

the auditorium sessions those organizations provided entertainment

Freshmen.
There was a dinner program in the dining hall at 5:30 o’clock
Wednesday evening. Dr. North presiding, followed by a program in
for the

in charge of the Community Government AssociaGuests included all Freshmen, student officers of Waller Hall
Women, Day Women, North Hall Men, Day Men, Y. W. C. A. and Y.
M. C. A. The program concluded at 9:00 o'clock. The rest of the
evening was “home hours" at Waller Hall and North Hall for dormitory students only. Arrangements were in charge of Dr. Marguerite
Kehr, Dean of Women, for the Waller Hall program, and in charge of
John C. Koch, Dean of Men, for the North Hall program.
All Freshmen met in the auditorium at 10:30 o'clock on Thursday
morning, Dr. North presiding. Announcements were made concerning the election of Freshmen officers, requirements for participating
in extra-curricular activities, and requirements of uniform accounting
system. There was open house Thursday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock
followed by a meeting with the Deans and Assistant Deans.
Classes started at 8:00 o’clock Friday morning. At 2:00 o’clock

the

gymnasium

tion.

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Saturday afternoon there was a program for girls by the “B” Club
and for the men by the Lettermen’s Club. At 8:00 o’clock there was
a Trustee-Faculty-Community Government Association party for
Freshmen in the auditorium, followed by a reception and dance in the

gymnasium.

——o
1936 REGISTRATION

The Alumni

will be interested to

know

that the registration for

very satisfactory to all concerned with the progress of the institution. When the enrollment at an institution, without solicitation other than the ordinary distribution of bulletins within the service area, increases over that of the previous year, there is a
feeling that the work of the institution is recognized as of value to
the public and to the profession and that the type of work done is of
such character as to warrant the enrollment of students for their College work at Bloomsburg.
Our present enrollment is 688. Of these 302 are men. The enrollment is divided into 286 boarding students and 402 day students.
The enrollment by classes is as follows:
the Fall semester

is

Freshmen
Sophomores

270

Juniors

122

Seniors

83

College Graduates

208

5

This being the last year for certification of students at the end of
two years of work there will be, hereafter, a less noticeable difference
between the size of the Sophomore and Junior classes. That is, students entering hereafter cannot be certified until the end of three
This, of course, applies only to the elementary
Secondary and Commercial students are required to spend four
years in preparation for the Bachelor of Science Degree and Cer-

years of preparation.
field.

full

tification.

The enrollment in the Department of Commerce has a total of
221 students for the four classes. This department has had a very remarkable growth within the last few years.

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CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER

—Final Date For Entrance Examinations.
Wednesday — Registration and Classification of All Freshmen.
Thursday 10 — Registration and Classification of All Upperclassmen.
Friday 11 — Classes Begin.
Saturday 12 —Faculty and Trustees Reception.
Monday 14 —Church Receptions.
Tuesday 15 — Church Receptions.
Wednesday 16 —Customs Begin —General and Special.
Thursday 17—Stunt Day and Pajama Parade.
Tuesday 22 — Meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Friday 25 — Boston Sinfonietta.
Saturday 26 — Football—Susquehanna—Away.
Tuesday

8

9

— Bloomsburg Fair.

Tuesday

29-

Saturday

3

No

Classes in Afternoon.

OCTOBER

—Football—Millersville—Here.

Junior Chamber of

Com-

merce Dance.
Friday 9 Freshman Kid Party.
Saturday 10 Football Lock Haven

—
—
—
—Away.
Friday 16 — End of Special Customs.
Saturday 17 — Football—Mansfield— Here. Homecoming Day.
Wednesday 21 —Nomination of Freshman Class
Saturday 24 —Football— Indiana—Away.
Monday 26 — Dr. George Earle Raiguel, Chapel.
Tuesday 27 —President’s Reception For Faculty and Trustees. Meeting of Executive Committee of Board of Trustees.
Friday 30 — Shakespearean Players in Afternoon and Evening.
Saturday 31 —Football — Shippensburg — Here. Hallowe’en Dinner and
Officers.

Dance.

Press Conference.

NOVEMBER

—Election of Class
Saturday 7—Football — Slippery Rock— Here.
Wednesday
—Stanley Osborne, Chapel.
Friday
— Sasha Siemel, “The Tiger Man”— (Evening)
Saturday 14 —Football— East Stroudsburg— Away. Rural
Day.
Tuesday 17 —Faculty Party.
Wednesday

4

Officers.

11

13

Education

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—

Friday 20 Alpha Psi Omega Play.
Saturday 21 Regional Convention of Pennsylvania Association of

—
—
—
Wednesday 25 — Thanksgiving Recess Begins at 12:00 Noon.
General Customs.
Monday 30 — Thanksgiving Recess Ends 12:00 Noon.

College Students.
Sunday 22 Regional Convention of Pennsylvania Association of College Students.
Tuesday 24 Meeting of Executive Committee of Board of Trustees.

End

of

DECEMBER

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Friday 4 Basketball Alumni Here.
Saturday 5 Y. W. C. A. Winter Festival.
Friday 1 1 Basketball Ithaca Here.
Saturday 12 Annual Christmas Party For Crippled Children.
ior Informal Dance.
Tuesday 15 Meeting of Board of Trustees.
Thursday 17 Basketball Susquehanna Away.
Friday 18 Tatterman’s Marionettes.
Saturday 19 Christmas Recess Begins at 12:00 Noon.
Thursday 31 President’s New Year Party For Faculty.

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Friday —-Pomona Grange in Auditorium—Afternoon and Evening.
Monday 4 — Christmas Recess Ends 12:00 Noon.
Friday 8 —Upton Close, Chapel. Basketball—Susquehanna — Here.
Friday 5 — Basketball— Millers ville— Here.
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—Dr. George Earle Raiguel, Chapel.
— Special Chapel For Students Completing Work the
Close of First Semester.
Thursday 21 — Basketball — Mansfield —
Friday 22 — First Semester Ends 12:00 Noon.
Saturday 23 — Basketball —Lock Haven—Away.
Tuesday 26 — Second Semester Begins 12:00 Noon. Meeting of Executive Committee of Board of Trustees.
Commander George
Friday 29 — Basketball — Shippensburg— Away.
O. Noville (Evening).
Saturday 30 — Basketball —Millersville—Away.
Monday

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Wednesday 20

at

Hei'e.

FEBRUARY
Friday

5— Mid-Year

C. G. A. Party.

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6— Basketball —East

Stroudsburg — Here.
—Obiter Elections.
Friday 12 — Basketball— Shippensburg— Here.
Saturday 13 — Basketball — Lock Haven — Here.
Friday 19 — Chapel, Sir Albion Benerje. Basketball — Indiana— Here.
Saturday 20— Basketball —Stroudsburg — Away. Sophomore Cotillion.
Tuesday 23 — Meeting of Board of Trustees.
Friday 26 —Basketball — Mansfield — Away. Boston Opera.
Saturday 27 —Basketball — Ithaca —Away.

Saturday

Wednesday

10

MARCH

—Maroon and Gold Elections.
Saturday 6 — Inter-Fraternity Ball.
Thursday
—Kiwanis-Rotary-College Night.
Saturday
— High School Basketball Tournament (Afternoon
Evening)
Friday 19 — High School Basketball Tournament (Evening).
Saturday 20 — High School Basketball Tournament (Evening).
Tuesday 23— Meeting of the Executive Board of Trustees.
Thursday 25 —Easter Recess Begins After Last Class.
Tuesday 30 — Easter Recess Ends 12:00 Noon.
Wednesday

3

11

13

and

APRIL
Satui'day 3

—Freshman Hop.

—General Butler-Private Peet Debate; Y. W. C. A. ConferSaturday 10 — Y. W. C. A. Conference.
Sunday 11 — Y. W. C. A. Conference.
Friday 16— Combined Musical Clubs’ Concert.
Saturday 17 —Junior Chamber of Commerce Banquet.
Thui-sday 22 — Waller Hall Room Drawing Begins.
Friday 23 —He-She Party.
Tuesday 27 —Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees.
Wednesday 28 —Nomination of Sophomore, Junior and Senior Class
Thursday 29 — Waller Hall Room Drawing.
Friday 30 — Commercial Contest.
Friday

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ence.

Officers.

MAY
Saturday

1

—Commercial

Contest,

Class

A

(A.

M.).

Inter-High

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School Track and Field Meet, 1:00 P. M.
5
Election of Sophomore, Junior and Senior Class Offi-

Wednesday

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cers.

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Friday 7 Junior Prom.
Saturday 8 Commercial Contest Class B (A. M.). President’s Lawn
Party For Trustees and Faculty.
Wednesday 12 May Day Play Day.
Saturday 15 Athletic Banquet.
Thursday 20 Senior Banquet.
Friday 21 Class Work Ends After Last Class. Senior Ball.
Saturday 22 Alumni Day.
Sunday 23 Baccalaureate Sermon.
Monday 24 Senior Day, Ivy Day.
Tuesday 25 Commencement 10:00 A. M. Meeting of the Board of

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LARGE ENROLLMENT OF FRESHMEN THIS YEAR
Freshmen to the number of 225, forty-one per cent men, enrolled
Wednesday, September 9, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The opening day enrollment for Freshmen is 22 larger than last
year and is most encouraging to the College authorities.
The ninety-three men compose the largest male percentage of
any class since back in the days before the war when the institution
was a Normal School with College Preparatory and Pre-Medical
Courses.
filled. The first year Commercial secwere filled more than two weeks before the College opened.
The day found the College ready for the students, and the program went off without the slightest confusion. Automobiles brought
most of the students from out-of-town, with most of the students accompanied by their parents.
The day was given over to getting the Freshmen off on the right
Registration was in the gymnasium, and upper classmen were
foot.
on hand to show the new-comer about and do all that was possible to
make them feel at home.
Dr. Thomas P. North, in charge of the Freshman Day activities,

All departments are well

tions

presided at a meeting in the College auditorium during the afternoon,

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various

members

of the faculty

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were presented.

Dr. Francis B. Haas, College President, spoke of the adjustments
the Freshman will have to make during the year. He spoke of the
aims of the institution and welcomed the students.
Dean W. B. Sutliff spoke of the opportunities the students have
of broadening their education. Others presented were Earl N. Rhodes,
Director of Teacher Training; Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women;
Miss Ranson and Miss Rich, Assistant Deans of Women; John C.
Koch, Dean of Men, Director of Secondary Education, and Tennis
Coach; A. A. Tate, Coach of Football; George C. Buchheit, Line Coach
of Football and Coach of Basketball and Track; Miss Irma Ward,
Dietitian; Miss Kline, School Nurse; C. M. Hausknecht, Business
Manager; N. T. Englehart, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds,
and S. I. Shortess, of the Science Department.
Miss Marie Foust, Milton, President of the Y. W. C. A., and Jacob
Kotch, President of the Y. M. C. A., were presented and told of the
parts these organizations played in assisting the Frosh to get started.

GIRLS' ACTIVITIES
Upperclassmen of Waller Hall arrived at the school Tuesday,
September 9, to be on hand for the Freshmen when they arrived.
Those in charge were Miss Marie Davis, Wilkes-Barre, President of
Waller Hall; Miss Deborah Jones, Vice President; Betty Gilligan,
Treasurer.

was in charge of Miss Mary Palsgrove,
Members of the committee were: Misses Thelma
Moody, Edith Justin, Anna Malloy, Marian Elmore, Rosetta Thomas,
Bernadett Reynolds, Mary Reisler, and Florence Snook.
It is the duty of the committee to see that every Freshman in the
girl's dormitory has a ‘‘big sister,” a member of the Junior or Senior
The

big sister committee

Schuylkill Haven.

classes.

The Day girls have a similar committee under Margaret Graham,
Bloomsburg, their President. Other members of the commitee are:
Misses Ruth Leiby, Jane Lockard, Muriel Stevens, Martha Wright,
Margaret Creasy, Betty Savage and Maria Berger.
The Y. W. C. A. gave a tea in Science Hall social rooms for all
Freshman girls and upper class girls who were also on the campus.
Miss Marie Foust, the President, was in charge. Assisting were
Misses Florence Snook, Ruth Miller, Helen Derr, Ruth Kramm, Helen
Moody, Helen Weaver, Amanda Babb, Alberta Braynard, and Annaof

bell Bailey.

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The Y. W. C. A. also placed flowers and a note of welcome in
room of each Freshman girl in the dormitory.
Frank Camera, of Hazleton, President of the Student Government Association, was in charge of the party given for the Frosh.
It was informal in nature with games, dancing, music, and a
grand march as features. Refreshments were served.
Those in charge were Ruth Langan, chairman, Frank Patrick,
Ray Schrope, Miss Regina Walukewicz and Vincent Cinquegrani.
the

Waller Hall concluded a busy day with parties on the third and
Mary Risler, Rossetta Thomas, Marian Elmore and Anna Malloy.
fourth floors. The parties were in charge of Miss
o

Miss Helen C. Hegert, of Wilkes-Barre, was married on June 30
J. Guyler, also of Wilkes-Barre. Miss Hegert is an instructor in the Calvin Building of the Wilkes-Barre City schools and Mr.
Guyler is employed by Luzerne County.
to

Harry

o

Miss Edith Reimensnyder, of Milton, has
position

County.

in

the

Ramsey

school

in

accepted

a teaching

White Deer Township, Union

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survey of the College athletic records of the past decade,
all competition have turned in 195 victor-

shows that the Huskies in
ies against 115 defeats and

11 ties.

In football alone the Huskies have failed to
than defeats. In that sport the ledger shows 28
number of defeats and eight tie contests.

show more triumphs
victories, the same

In basketball the records show 63 victories, 43 defeats; in baseand 23 setbacks; tennis 39 triumphs and 14 loses and
two ties; in cross country 10 victories and one defeat; and in track
and field athletics 11 victories and three defeats. Wrestling, which
ball 43 victories

was attempted on

a minor scale during part of the decade showed
two defeats and one tie.
The records show clearly that since the school became a Teachers' College a number of the old rivals are no longer on the schedule.
There are no academies or seminaries on the Husky schedule and
there have been none for the past five years. Likewise special groups

one

victory,

are missing.
Schedules, nowdays, if not composed entirely of Teachers’ Colleges of this and adjoining states, include contests with liberal arts
Colleges. The Huskies back in the days of “Old Normal” met the best
of Collegiate ranks in the East. They seemed headed at least for a
spot in the sports sunlight of institutions in the same class. Bloomsburg has never been accused of picking “soft” schedules and there
will be no basis for such accusations if the present policy is continued.

The Huskies never have trouble
ers’

Colleges

particularly

clamor

filling their schedules.

for

a

place,

Teach-

recognizing

that

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Bloomsburg above all Teachers’ Colleges in Pennsylvania plays the
most representative schedules. If they can drop the Huskies they
have taken a step toward recognition.
Lock Haven is the one institution that Bloomsburg has met on
the football field every year during the past ten. The Huskies have a
slight edge in the series, having five victories to four defeats and a
tie, four wins, four loses and one tie. In the same number of contests with Mansfield, Bloomsburg is trailing in the series with three
victories, a tie and five defeats.
Shippensburg has been defeated four times and triumphed over
Bloomsburg thrice. Millersville has been defeated three times, triumphed once and tied twice. Kutztown was turned aside four times out
Huskies three out of four. Califortied once. Clarion has been defeated and tied. In two meetings with Slippery Rock the honors are
even. West Chester holds a three to four edge.
of five. Indiana has defeated the

nia has

won

twice, lost once

and

Mansfield has not defeated the Huskies once in the past decade
and during that time has been defeated fifteen times.
Lock Haven has been beaten sixteen times out of nineteen times, East
Stroudsburg has won eleven and lost six, Indiana has trimmed the
Huskies six times in nine meetings while Bloomsburg has defeated
Kutztown five times out of eight meetings. Millersville has been
tough to get along with on the basketball coui't, defeating the Huskies nine times in twelve meetings. Two of those court triumphs came
last year and were cherished as the first court triumphs over Millersin basketball

ville since 1929.

Baseball has staged a real comeback after being off the athletic
calendar in 1933. Since it has been reinstated it has been a growing
sport on the hill with three winning teams and one State Title. Tennis is also a growing sport with the teams that are becoming increasingly active and winning a majority of their games. Track and field
athletics are another branch being brought along with real credit to
the institution.

A promising squad of thirty-nine, the majority of them Frosh,
reported to head coach A. Austin Tate at the College as another
football campaign of the Huskies got underway.
The

calibre of the

field

new comers

is,

of course,

unknown on

a Col-

but there is an air of business about the upper athletic
that bids well for the Huskies and ill for their eight opponents.

lege scale

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THE CANDIDATES
Boys reporting were:
Captain

J. Sircovics,

Berwick, 115 pounds,

1-2 inches,

5 feet, 6

center.

Vance Laubach, Berwick, 170 pounds,

Lamar

5 feet, 10 inches, full

Blass, Aristes, 192 pounds, 6 feet,

1

inch,

Joseph Conahan, Beaver Brook, 160 pounds,

back.

back or end.

5 feet,

11

inches,

•end.

Chalmers Wenrich, Harrisburg, 180 pounds,

Norman

six feet,

1

inch, end.

C. Henrie, Berwick, 185 pounds, 5 feet, 9 inches, guard.

Frank Camera, Hazleton, 170 pounds, 5 feet,
Joseph Champi, Mocanaqua, 172 pounds, 5

11 inches, guard.
feet, 6 inches,

half

back.

Sheldon Jones, Nanticoke, 160 pounds,

Mike Stenko, Berwick, 215 pounds,
Alphonse

E. Finder,

5 feet, 10 inches, back.

6 feet, 2 inches, tackle.

Shamokin, 164 pounds,

5 feet, 10 1-2 inches,

quarter back.

Frank Patrick, Berwick, 185 pounds,

6 feet, guard.
Charles Weintraub, Wilkes-Barre, 180 pounds, 5 feet, 8 inches,
guard.
Andrew J. Giermak, Edwardsville, 183 pounds, 6 feet, 1 inch,
end and back, Bucknell.

FRESHMEN
Stanley T. Schuyler, Berwick, 180 pounds, 5
Watsontown, H. S.
Howard Barnhart, Danville, 150 pounds, 6

H.

S.

H.

S.

Charles Price, Glen Lyon, 185 pounds, 6

Dean Harpe, Tunkhannock,
Tunkhannock H. S.
Gene Serafine, Mocanaqua,
Shickshinny H.

Frank
wick H. S.

Roll,

feet, 9 inches, tackle,

feet,

feet,

end,

Danville,

Newport Township

150 pounds, 5 feet, 8 inches, guard,
168

pounds, 5

feet,

8 inches,

and

S.

Berwick, 200 pounds,

Andrew Posnack, Bethlehem,

5

feet, 8 inches, tackle,

Ber-

170 pounds, 5 feet, 10 inches, guard,

Bethlehem H. S.
James Hinds, Bloomsburg, 160 pounds,
Bloomsburg H. S.

5 feet,

11 inches, center,

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Alfie Angeli, Plains, 143

pounds,

5

feet,

half

inches,

4

back,

Plains H. S.

William Rittner, Harrisburg, 140 pounds,
ference, William

Penn H.

Don Hausknecht,

5 feet, 6 inches,

no pre-

S.

Montoursville, 177 pounds,

6 feet,

half

back,

Montoursville H. S.

Lawrence Rosati, Bethlehem, 165 pounds, 5 feet, 9 inches, back,
Bethlehem H. S.
Ralph Baker, Bloomsburg, 156 pounds, 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches, end,
Bloomsburg H. S.
Donald Mercer, Bloomsburg, 190 pounds, 5 teet, 9 inches tackle,
Bloomsburg H. S.
Winfield Potter, Old Forge, 175 pounds, 5 feet, 11 inches, center,
Old Forge H. S.
William Kirk, Berwick, 180 pounds, 6 feet, 1 inch, tackle, Berwick H. S.
Frank Shugars, Shamokin, 185 pounds, 5 feet, 10 inches, center,
Coal Township H. S.
Cyril Monahan, Lost Creek, 172 pounds, 5 feet, 6 inches, J. W.
Cooper High, Shenandoah.
Clair Miller, Bloomsburg, 155 pounds, 5 feet, 10 inches, guard,
Bloomsburg High School.
Clark Kreisher, Catawissa, 155 pounds, 5 feet, 9 inches, back or
end, Bloomsburg High School.
Francis Johnson, Mt. Carmel, 164 pounds, 5
Mt. Carmel H. S.
John Hancock, Mt. Carmel, 165 pounds, 5

Mt. Carmel H. S.
Richard W. Shirley, Forty

feet, 11 inches,

feet,

8

inches,

end,

end,

Fort, 150 pounds, 5 feet, 8 1-2 inches,

half back, Forty Fort.

Carl Welliver, Bloomsburg, R. D.
Bloomsburg H. S.

5,

154 pounds, 5 feet, 10 inches,

half back,

Richard Nolan, Mt. Carmel, 165 pounds,

5 feet, 11 inches, guard,

Mt. Carmel H. S.

TATE NAMED GRID COACH
been named head football coach at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
This announcement was made in connection with that of a board
of coaches which will be composed of Dr. E. H. Nelson, coach of baseA. Austin Tate has

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George C. Buchheit, coach of basketball and track and Dean
C. Koch, coach of tennis. Buchheit will also assist in football,
having charge of the line.
In the announcement Dr. Francis B. Haas, College President,
stated that “The interest of the College in its athletic activities will
be developed by a further segregation of responsibilities for coaching in the various fields and the formation of a board of coaches.”
The board will survey the present athletic situation and make
recommendations to the athletic committee in the fields of intercollegiate and intermural sports, covering such items as awards, selection of assistant managers, rules and regulations governing competition and other phases of the program.
Mr. Tate who had considerable success as a scholastic coach in
Bethlehem and as head coach at Lehigh University for a number of
years, came to the local College last year and was one of the staff of
football coaches. He was a star at Lehigh in his college days.
Tate knows the game, has the ability to impart his knowledge
and is popular on the campus. With Coach Buchheit to assist with
ball;

John

the

line,

the Huskies' coaching combination for 1936

is

a strong one.

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Miss Margaret M. McDonald, of Olyphant, became the bride of
Joseph A. Motley, of Carbondale on Saturday, July 25.
The ceremony was performed in the Sacred Heart Church,
Wilkes-Barre, by the Rev. William J. Higgins, assistant pastor of the
church, who also read the nuptial mass, which followed the cere-

mony
Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served for the
bridal party, in the Hotel Mallow-Sterling, Wilkes-Barre.

Miss McDonald is a graduate of St. Patrick’s Academy, Bloomsburg State Teacher’s College, and attended Penn State College. She
was a member of the Olyphant Junior High School faculty.
Mr. Motley, independent coal operator, was former superintendent of the Erie Colliery of the Pittston Coal Company.
Following the wedding breakfast, the couple left for a wedding
trip to Atlantic City, and upon their return spent the remainder of
the summer at Elk Lake. They are now living at 76 Seventh Avenue,
Carbondale.

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SINGERS PLEASE LOCAL AUDIENCE
Brought back for many encores by enthusiastic applause, the
Singers, a group of artists who are considered the best
quartet ever to appear in Bloomsburg, gave a recital Thursday even-

Symphony
ing,

July 16 in the College auditorium.
In his second appearance before the local audience,

Hudson Car-

mody, whose bass voice has unusual fullness and resonance, sang as
an encore the popular favorite “Old Man River.” Gertrude Ehrhart,
soprano, has also appeared previously in Bloomsburg and her performance that night did ample justice to the impression which she
had made on her first visit. The other members of the quartet whose
voices blended in harmony, and who are also delightful soloists,
were Harriette Price, contralto, and Wesley Copplestone, tenor. The
accompanist was Robert Wilkins.
A group of three selections from Brahms and the quartet from
Rigoletto by Verdi were two of the highlights of the program. “Der
Abend,” the first Brahms number, related a beautiful story in word
and melody of the ride of the Sun-god as he approaches the horizon
and sinks into the west in a glorious blaze of color. “Nachtens,” the
second selection, depicts the ghost dreams brought by the shadow of
night and the tears which are left when the morning light dawns.
The last group was in a lighter vein, “Fragen,” and gave an animated conversation between a boy in love and his companion.
,

The program was

as follows:
I

Garden”
Sun who Scatters

Selections from the “Persian

“Awake

for the

into Flight,”

Lehmann
“A

Book

of Verse underneath a Bough,” “Alas, that
Spring should Vanish with the Rose,” Ah! Moon of
my Delight,” “They say the Lion and the Lizard.”
II

Dinite de Styx, Gluck

Miss Price
Miss Price

In Italy
III

Der Abend, Brahms

Quartet

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Nachtens, Brahms
Fragen, Brahms

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Quartet
Quartet

IV

La

Ci

Darem

la

Mano (Don Giovanni)

Mozart

Miss Carmondy and Miss Price
Tutti Fior

(Madame

Puccini

Butterfly)

Miss Ehrhart and Miss Price
Nuit d’Hymene,

Romeo and

Juliette

Gounod

Miss Ehrhart and Mr. Copplestone

Verdi

Rigoletto

Quartet

V

Drum Major Song, Lai
Old Man River, Kern

Mr. Carmody
Mr. Carmody

Cadi

VI

Come All Ye Lads and Lasses
Gentle Dawn
The Country Dance
Spring, the Sweet Spring

Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Ireland

Quartet

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Alumni are earnestly requested

to inform Mrs. F. H. Jenkins
copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at
the address on our files.

All

of all changes of

address.

Many

©

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Mr. R. Bruce Albert,
Dr. D.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

’06

Waller, Jr., ’67
Mr. Edward Schuyler, ’24
Miss Harriet Carpenter, ’96
J.

Executive Committee

Mr. Fred W. Diehl, ’09
Mr. H. Mont Smith, ’93
Mr. Maurice F. Houck, ’10
Mr. Daniel J.

Mr. Frank Dennis,

’ll

Dr. E. H. Nelson, ’ll
Mr. Dennis D. Wright, ’ll

Mahoney,

’09

©

THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
The Philadelphia Alumni Association sends greetings at the benew year of Alumni activities. We had a splendid picnic
September 12 at Castle Rock, Delaware County. The supper was in
the Community House. All present report having a wonderful oldginning of a

fashioned picnic, the prime factor of all these meetings being the
cheerful friendliness of the Alumni to each other, and the leading
spirit, as always, was our President, Mrs. Florence Hess Cool.

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The monthly luncheons will be held on the second Saturday of
each month in the Club Room at Gimbels’. This is a beautiful large
room, and much nicer than the other meeting place. The time will be
12:30 P. M. October 10 will be the date of our first meeting. All
Alumni and friends of Bloomsburg are welcome to attend these affairs at any time. Let us make a good beginning by coming out to
the first meeting. Other meetings will be November 14, December 12,
etc., always the second Saturday of each month, up to and including March.
Of course our banquet is held the last Saturday of April, and
then, on Alumni Day in May we all go back to our Alma Mater. We
are looking forward to a happy year again in our contacts with the
Alumni of Old Bloomsburg, the faculty and Dr. Haas, as well as Dr.
Waller and former members of the faculty.

NOTES
Joseph P. Eehternach is the proud grandfather of a baby boy
born to his daughter, Mrs. J. A. Bishop and Mr. Bishop, of Newark,
Delaware, on the 22nd of June. Prof. Bishop is a member of the faculty of Delaware College as Professor of Chemistry.
1908

Carrie Grey Hurley met instant death in an automobile accident
Scotia in August, when the car in which she was driving
struck a soft shoulder in the road and overturned. She was a teachin

Nova

Camden schools at the time of her death. Carrie was one of
our most faithful members of the Philadelphia group, and we shall
miss her sincere loyalty to our group and to her Alma Mater. She resided in Mammonton, N. J.
er in the

1909

Charles Penman, husband of Marjorie Reese Penman, died at his
home, 8901 West Chester Pike, Kirklyn, Delaware Co., near Philadelphia. Marjorie and their six children survive. Funeral services
were held Monday, September 28, at the home.
86 -‘ 88-‘12
A. Cool, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool,
1886, and 1888, and son of Harold Cool, 1912, returned to his home
in California. Mr. Cool had the honor of delivering the California
’

Norman

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State tribute on California State

ington Memorial

Chapel

for his father’s class at

Sunday

at Valley

Forge

Alumni Day

in

at a service
in

August.

held in

He

also

Washspoke

May.

Jennie Yoder Foley, Secretary
8134 Hennig Street

Fox Chase
Philadelphia, Pa.

1182

The following

is

quoted from the Library Journal, published at

Harrisburg, Pa.

“The resignation June 1 of Miss Jennie Helman, chief librarian
Catasauqua Public Library since its incorporation, brings to a
close a long career of usefulness in behalf of the youth of the community. From a small beginning of a few hundred books under her
leadership the library has grown to a collection of more than seven
of the

thousand volumes. Last year nearly fifteen thousand people used the
library.

This is truly a remarkable showing. While Miss Helman has resigned from active work, her interest will remain with the library.
At the time of her resignation many warm tributes richly reserved
were paid to Miss Helman by her fellow workers, her church and the
local press representing the entire

community.”

The death of Mrs. Rachel Susanna Hower, one of Bloomsburg's
most highly esteemed women, occurred Friday, July 3 at the Bloomsburg Hospital, after an illness that had made her an invalid for five
years. Her condition had been serious a week.
A native of Dorrance, Luzerne County, where she was born
September 27, 1864, Mrs. Hower was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School in 1882. She taught school for a number of years
and was an artist of considerable note.
She was the widow of Henry W. Hower, whose death occurred
several years ago, and was a member of the Reformed Church.
1904

Allan B. Eister (’04) and Helen Warded Eister (’07) are living
at Convoy, Ohio. Their elder son, Allan, was recently graduated from
DePauw University (Greencastle, Ind.) with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
The recipient of the Albert J. Beveridge fellowship from that school,
he will study for the master’s degree next year at the American Uni-

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where he

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also holds a

tuition

scholar-

ship.

1919

Miss Mildred Anderson, of Nantieoke, became the bride of Emerson Maurer, of Nantieoke, Wednesday, June 10.
The groom is a teller of the First National Bank of WilkesBarre.
1921

At the thirteenth annual commencement at State College on August 6, the degree of Master of Education was conferred upon Ralph
G. Shuman, teacher of mathematics and science at the Thomas Ranken Patton Masonic Institution for Boys. Mr. Shuman was one of the
group of 131 students who received advanced degi'ees.
During the Summer Session Mr. Shuman was initiated into the
Alpha Tau chapter of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity. This fraternity is composed of students and professors who are working in education and research and have completed the required work in the
graduate school.

Evelyn

Z.

Smith (Mrs. Lyman

E.

Cunningham) 1704 Ardoyne

Street,

Cleveland, Ohio.
1922
Alice E.

Owens was married Saturday, July

11 to Julius

H. Penn.

The ceremony was performed in Seattle, Washington. The bride was
a member of the faculty of the Robert Morris School in Scranton.
Mr. Penn is a graduate of the Mississippi State College and is employed in government work at Bremerton, Washington.
1923

The Rural Group

of the class of 1923 at the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College held a reunion Sunday, July 26, 1936 at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Johnson, of Millville, R. D. Following a picnic!

was spent recalling college experiences.
The 1937 reunion will be held on the third Saturday in June
the Dimock Camp Grounds.

dinner, the afternoon

at

Those present were:
Elma Major, Leona Williams Moore, Howard Moore, of Dallas,
R. D., Ruth Geary Beagle, Ralph Beagle, Dale, Donald and Ann Beagle of Danville, R. D.; Sarah Levan Leighow, David Leighow, and
Dale Leighow, Emily Craig, Sarah Miller and William Long, of Catawissa, R. D.; Mary Kline Johnson and Clair Johnson, Millville, R. D.

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1924

The following has been clipped from the newspaper

at

Milheim,

Pa.:

The community mourns the passing of one of its most popular
and highly respected residents, Margaret Beatrice Mensch, who died
at her home on Saturday afternoon, September 26 at 5:20 o’clock,
following a lingering illness of ten months’ duration with that most
dreaded of afflictions, internal cancer.
Miss Mensch, who was known to scores of school children and
many others as Miss Margaret, earned that title of respect and endearment as one of the most popular and efficient primary school
teachers in the history of the local schools.

A graduate of the Millheim High School in 1917, she also graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1924. Miss
Mensch taught in the Hartleton grade school for three years and for
twelve years in Millheim, relinquishing her post in her home town
school at the close of the first semester last year, only when her illness necessitated her removal to the Lewistown Hospital.
A life-long member of St. John’s Lutheran Church of Millheim,
she was always deep in Sunday School and missionary work, ever
alert in the interest and care of her pupils. She was also an accomplished musician, playing both the pipe organ and the piano in her
church, as well as being a member of the choir.
Margaret B. Mensch was born in Millheim on January 25, 1900,
daughter of the late George B. Mensch and Della (Boyer) Mensch.
Following the death of her father in July 1930, she continued to
live with her mother, who survives her. Also surviving are one sister and two brothers: Mrs. George P. Mausser, of Lewistown; Harry
B. Mensch of Milton, and Fred C. Mensch, of Millheim.
1925

and John E. Sidler, of
Miss Anna
Derry Township, were married in the Lutheran Church in Reed's
Station Wednesday, June 17 by the Rev. Charles Lambert, pastor of
R. Geary, of Danville R. D. 5,

the church, officiating.

The

bride, a graduate of

the Bloomsburg

State

lege has been principal of the Valley Consolidated

Teachers ColSchool

for

the

past eight years.

Mr. Sidler was

graduated from the Danville High School and

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Penn State. He has accepted
Montgomery High School.

27,

29

a position as instructor at the Clinton-

In a pretty wedding at the Valley Forge Chapel Saturday, June
Miss Rosalie Boyer, became the bride of Earl J. Smiley, of Nor-

ristown.

The

beautiful and impressive ring ceremony

the Rev. Mr. Prevost of the chapel before

was performed by
members of the immediate

families of the couple.

The couple are now at home at 209 Westwood St., Norristown.
The bride is a graduate of the Catawissa High School, Class of
1923, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Class of 1925, and has been
a successful teacher of music and art at Upper Merion for the past
five years. The groom is employed by the water company at Norristown.
1928

At the ceremony performed at 9:00 o’clock Thursday, July 9, at
of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Boyer, their
daughter, Miss Catherine, and Clyde Daubert were united in marthe

home

riage.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
the Trinity Lutheran Church, in

E. L. Leisey, pastor of

presence of their immediate

the

They were unattended.
The bride is a graduate of the Danville High School, Class of
1924, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Class of 1926. For

families.

the past ten years she has been a successful teacher in the borough
Ward, Danville.

schools, teaching the second grade in the First

The groom
liamsport, and

is
is

They are now

the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Daubert, of Wila

plumber by

living at the

trade.

home

of the bride's parents

on Foust

Street, Danville.

Miss Martha A. Hague, of Plains, was married Wednesday, July
8 to W. Leroy Welch, of Kingston. Miss Hague has been a teacher in
the Plains schools for several years. Mr. Welch is associated with
the Atlantic Refining Company.

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1929

Miss Kathryn Bingaman, and John E. Reese both of Tamaqua,
were united in marriage at the Brick Church near Montgomery. The
ceremony took place in August. The bride has taught in Tamaqua for
seven years. They will reside in Tamaqua.
1930

August 1, at the home of the bride’s
Nuremburg, and Harold A. Davis, of
Youngstown, Ohio, were united in marriage. The ring ceremony of
the Reformed Church was used. Rev. O. F. Schaeffer, of Berwick,
officiated at the ceremony. Rev. Schaeffer had performed the ceremony of the bride’s parents. Only members of the immediate family

At

12:30 Saturday afternoon,

parents, Grace V. Reinbold, of

attended the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has been a teacher in the Nuremburg School. The groom is
a graduate of Bliss Electrical School, Washington, D. C., and is employed at Youngstown, Ohio, as an electrical engineer for the IndusBusiness Machines Corporation, of

trial

New York

City.

In xhe presence ol the immediate families, Miss Margaret Oswald, of Scranton, became the bride of Walter J. Gordan, Harrisburg.
The ceremony which took place Saturday, September 12, was performed by the Rev. Dr. A. D. Upton, in the home of the bride's parents.

After a small reception Mr. Gordan and his bride left for New
York and Atlantic City. They will reside in New Cumberland.
Mrs. Gordan was graduated from the Technical High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She was a member of the teaching staff of the

Andrew Jackson

The marriage

School, Scranton.

of Miss Violet K. Gemberling, of Milton, to

uel S. Shirk, of Hartleton, has been announced.

Sam-

The ceremony took

place in Frederick, Md., March 28, 1936.
The bride has been teaching for the past two years in the Hartleton schools. The groom is now employed in the C. W. Shirk store'
in Hartleton.

Miss Eleanor Lapinski and George Bodner, of West Hazleton,
whom are graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
were recently married and will make their home in West Hazleton.
both

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Jones Memorial Chapel of the Elm Park Church, Scranton, was
wedding Saturday, September 5, when Miss
Eleanor L. Pugh, Dickson City, became the bride of John G. Wood,
also of Dickson City. The Rev. Eugene Pierce performed the cerethe scene of a lovely

mony.
Mrs. Wood was graduated from Dickson High School and the
Powell School of Business. Mr. Wood is a member of the teaching
staff in the Dickson City Public Schools. They will reside in Dickson
City.

Miss Ruth Foulk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Foulk, Green
was elected teacher of the second grade in the First

Street, Danville,

Wax'd, Danville.

1931

ceremony

Pleasant Mount, Miss Florence M.
Regan, became the wife of Richard J. Mergivern, of Pleasant Mount.
The gi'oom is a graduate of Coi'tland State Teachers College and
Syracuse University. He is a faculty member of the Pleasant Mount
In an impi'essive

at

High School.
Miss Anne Fowler, of Berwick, was married Tuesday evening,
August 26 to Wilbur Hibbard, of Wanamie, in the first M. E. Church
of Conyngham.
The Rev. Oliver Krapf, who is a former classmate of the bride
and groom, performed the I'ing ceremony.
Following the ceremony, which was attended by close relatives
of the bride and groom a buffet luncheon was served at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. Krapf.
The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School and the
Bloomsbui'g State Teachers College. She has been a successful teacher for the past four years in the Briar Creek Township school. Mr.
Hibbard is a graduate of the Newport High School, and the Bloomsburg Teachers College and was a student of Columbia Univei'sity,
holding a master’s degree. He will teach mathematics in Shickshinny
High School this coming term. They are at home to their many
friends at 26 Union Sti'eet, Shickshinny, in their newly furnished
home.
1932

Miss Gertrude Oswald, of Scranton, became the bride of Jack
Beck, of Hershey, Pa., Saturday, June 6. The ceremony was perform-

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ed in the Plymouth Congregational Church. The Rev. A. D. Upton
performed the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Beck left for a motor trip through the New England States, and upon their return they spent the summer at Lake
Winola. They now reside in Hershey, Pa.
The bride is a graduate of the Technical High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, and has been a teacher in the
Elmhurst School. Mr. Beck was graduated from Technical High
School, Scranton, and Bloomsburg, and is a member' of the faculty of
the High School at Hershey.

Wallace E. Derr, of Jerseytown, received his Master’s degree in
Education at the annual commencement of Temple University in
Convention Hall, Philadelphia, in June.
He is a graduate of the Millville High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Class of 1933, and at the present is a
member of the faculty of Hatboro Schools.
Miss Kathryn D. Gemmell, of Scranton, became the bride of
John C. Westpfahl, also of Scranton, Monday, August 3, 1936.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. James Mundy, Milford. Immediately following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Westpfahl
left on a wedding trip through New England and Canada. They are
now living in the Nay Aug Apartments, 1829 Mulberry Street, Scranton.

Miss Gremmell is a graduate of the Technical High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, and was a member of the faculty of the Alexander Hamilton School in Scranton for several years.
Mr. Westpfahl is a graduate of the Central High School and attended Muhlenburg Preparatory School and the University of Pennsylvania. He is engaged in the grocery business, and is associated with
his brother in Westpfahl’s Store, Scranton.

dist

At six o’clock on Saturday evening, July 4, in the First MethoChurch of Berwick, Miss Sarah C. Zimmerman, became the bride

of Oliver E. Smith, also of

Berwick.

The beautiful and impressive ring ceremony of the Methodist
church was used by the Rev. Robert J. Allen, pastor of the First
Methodist church. More than one hundred friends and relatives of
the couple witnessed the ceremony.

Miss

Zimmerman

is

a graduate of the

Berwick High School, Class

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of 1930, and also a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College in the Class of 1932 and has for several years been teaching in
the Berwick schools, and has been elected for the next term.

Mr. Smith

is a graduate of the Berwick! High School, Class of
and Wyoming Seminary, Class of 1932 and has been employed
as a salesman and collector for the Berwick Lumber and Supply

1930,

Company.
Immediately after the ceremony the couple left by auto upon a
wedding trip to Washington, D. C., and points of interest in Virginia.
They are now living in their newly furnished apartment at 339
East Third Street.

Harold M. Morgan, has been appointed boy’s secretary of the
M. C. A. Mr. Morgan was assistant boys’ secretary at the
Scranton Y. M. C. A.
Pottsville Y.

1933

Miss Vivian Annette Yeany, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Ash Yeany, of Bloomsburg and J. Ernest Nachod, of Wyncote, were
married on Saturday evening, August 22. The ceremony was performed at 6:00 o’clock iii the St. Mathew Lutheran Church, by the
Rev. Dr.

The

Norman

S.

bride,

a graduate of State Teachers’ College, Bloomsburg

is

Wolf.

and has been teaching in Hickory, Penna.
The groom is a graduate of Pennsylvania State College where
he is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi, honorary
Mathematics fraternity and Phi Lambda Upsilon honorary chemical
fraternity. He is employed in the laboratories of the DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware.
Mr. and Mrs. Nachod are now at home at the Lucania Apartments, Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Ralston, 415 East Fair Street, Bloomsburg,
have announced the marriage of their daughter, Martha, to James
L. Hinckley, 2000 Spring Garden Avenue, Berwick.
The ceremony took place in New Bloomfield, July 20, 1935, with
the Rev. Dr. Baldwin officiating. The couple were unattended. Mrs.
Hinckley is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, and for several months was employed in the Governor’s Stenographic Unit of
the Highway Department at Harrisburg, and at present is a clerk in
the county treasurer's office. Mr. Hinckley is a graduate of the Ber-

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wick High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
now employed in the office of the A. C. & F. Co., in Berwick.

is

1934

A

quiet ceremony

was performed at the parsonage of the Rev.
Baughman, of Berwick, Saturday, August 29, when Miss Hester G.
Eroh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Eroh, of Miffiinville, was
married to Carmer P. Shellhamer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shellhamer, of Bloomsburg, R. D.
Classmates throughout their school years, the bride and groom
were both graduated from the Miffiinville High School with the Class
graduated from the Bloomsburg State
of 1929. Mr. Shellhamer
Teachers’ College and is now farming at Bloomsburg, R. D.
1935

Miss Jean Reese, of Berwick, has been elected to fill the vacancy
Shickshinny School.
Arden Roan, of Espy, and Miss Helen Merill, Light Street, were
named to the High School faculty and Mrs. Boyd Tubbs, Espy was
elected by the Scott Township High School Board.
Miss Merill is a graduate of the Teachers College, completing
in the

her work in 1935.
1936

Miss Gertrude E. Dermody, has accepted a position in the
mercial Department of the Canton High School, Canton, Pa.

Com-

Miss Anna McLane, a teacher for the past nine years in the
Scranton Public Schools, died December 10, 1935 in the family home,
907 Quincy Avenue, Scranton, following a brief illness.
Miss McLane was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mai'tin
McLane. After attending the local public schools she attended the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College where she graduated. For the
past several years she taught in the Administration Building.
She was a member of the St. Peter’s Cathedral and the various
women’s organizations of the parish. Surviving are four sisters,
Misses Bessie, Nellie, Catherine and Agnes, also a teacher in the local
schools, and a brother, Martin McLane, D. & H. train dispatcher at

Carbondale.

A

graduate of the Commercial Department of the Bloomsburg

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Beatrice C. Gautsch, of Muncy, was
married Tuesday, July 14, to Vernon Snyder, of Sunbury, in the
Evangelical church of Muncy, before a congregation of invited
State Teachers College, Miss

guests.

now

The newlyweds left on
at home at Sunbury in

a

motor

trip for

New

England and are

was
Bank of Muncy. Mr. Snyder is
Past Commander of the Mt. Hermon Commandery, Knights Templar,
of Sunbury, and is employed as a National Bank examiner.
employed by the

the Snyder residence. Miss Gautsch

Citizens’ National

Robert Abbett, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. B. Abbett, of Rupert,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College here this year, has
been named Commercial teacher in Juniata High School.
a graduate of

Miss Betty Harter, of Nescopeck, has been elected Commercial
teacher in the Bloomsburg High School.
Miss Sara Shuman has accepted a position as teacher in the
Third Grade at Robesonia.

Mervin Mericle,

of

Bloomsburg,

is

a

member

of the

high school

faculty at Galeton, Pa.

Miss Vernice Pooley, of Danville, has been elected a teacher in
the

Hummelstown

schools.

o
Dennis D. Wright,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

I

enclose $

as a contribution to the

Alumni

Student Loan Fund of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg,
Pa.

Name
Address

Class of

Year

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Harry P. Gato, 19 South Fourth Street, Tower City, Pa.
Lauretta Latshaw, Mifflinburg, Pa.
1901

William O. Trevorrow, 83 Third Street, Jeddo, Pa.
1902

Mary

E. Francis

(Mrs. G. H. Gendall) 333

North

Forest

Avenue,

Rockville Center, N. Y.

1904

Pearl E. Brandon, 136 North 11th Street, Reading, Pa.
I

Elizabeth P. Evans (Mrs.

W.

J.

1907
Wilkins) Chinchilla, Pa.

1908

Anna
Willie

Shifter Peters, 30 Miner Street, Hudson, Pa.

Morgan

Stein, 7057 Veronica Road,

Upper Darby, Pa.

1910
Luella Burdick Sinquett, 722 Redman Avenue, Haddonfield, N.
Bertha M. Brobst, 301 East Fourth Street, Berwick, Pa.
Bertha V. Polley, Union, R. D. 2, New York.

J.

1912

Charlotte A. Koehler, 31

Cobb Avenue, White

Plains, N. Y.

1913

Marion Roat (Mrs. Ira G. Hartman)

282

North Sprague Avenue,

Kingston, Pa.
Nellie

M.

Seidel, 1618 State. Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Jessie Dersheimer

Pa.

(Mrs. C.

W. Hoover),

24 Altoona Avenue, Enola,

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1915

Helen E. Harris (Mrs. George W. Ahton),

4

North Broome

Street,

Port Jervis, N. Y.
1916

Anna Rusk

(Mrs. Paul

J.

Fitzpatrick)

4119 13th Place, N.

E.,

Wash-

ington, D. C.

Hazel M. Kreamer (Mrs. John A. Price), 183 Delaware Street, Woodbury, N.

J.

Elizabeth Wiegand, 279

New Hancock

St.,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

1917

Mary

Kahny

(Mrs. C. L. Arnold), Kiski School, Saltsburg, Pa.
Gertrude C. Lechner, 54 Terrace Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
C. C.

1918

Elizabeth

McDonald

(Mrs.

Albert King)

266

South Main Street,

Pittston. Pa.

Mary De Boyle, 535 Hemlock Street, Freeland, Pa.
Miriam E. Welliver, 14 Walnut Street, Danville, Pa.
‘

1916

Margaret Breslin, (Mrs. John A. Gaffney), Ebervale, Pa.
Hilda G. Wosnock, 565 Lincoln Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Annette McCormick, (Mrs. James Murry) 413 Main Street, Forest
City, Pa.

Pauline Knies, (Mrs. Horace Williams), 40 East 5th Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Anna

Line,

(Mrs.

Paul Bowersox), 51

Carlisle

Street,

Wilkes-

Barre, Pa.

Ruth Pope. 228 East Main Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Kathryn Gabbert, (Mrs. Charles A. Thomas), 115 South Main

Mahanoy
Victor

J.

Street,

City, Pa.

Baluta, M. D., 215 North Shamokin, Street, Shamokin, Pa.

Marion Wilson

Ball,

Reading, Pa.

Mary Madden Heath,

93 Dana Street, Forty-Fort, Pa.
Jennie Mayers Evans, 2005 Electric Street, Dunmore, Pa.
Helen Shaffer Henry, 328 East Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Annette Rogers Lloyd, 611 North Somner Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Emma Harrison Myers, Glen Park, Bridgton, N. J.
Joanna Powell Loremy, 1928 Englewood Avenue, Forty Fort, Pa.

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Runge,

Elizabeth Wagonseller

11

Richwood

Street,

West Roxbury,

Mass.
Victoria A. Suwalski, 248 State Street, Nanticoke, /Pa.

Catharine Mason Hagenbuch, 89 Iron Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mamie Higgins, (Mrs. F. G. Thomas), 94 Hatfield Street, Caldwell,
N. J.
Jessie Jones,

Nan

Academy

Street,

Plymouth, Pa.

James Street, Kingston, Pa.
Maxwell Noack, 2045 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ray Leidich, 33 Crescent Street, Tremont, Pa.
Marie Brown Leighton, 230 East Main Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Elsie H. Robison, 545 West Main Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bernice Beishline Robbins, 1000 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.
Shovlin, (Mrs. Joseph Eagen), 160

1919

Gladys

E. Fetterolf, (Mrs. J. S.

Crossman), 1701 Norwegian

Street,

Pottsville, Pa.

Eugene Steward, R.

F. D. 5,

Bloomsburg, Pa.
1923

Grace M. Thomas

Skerritt,

445

Gramatan Avenue, Mount Vernon,

N. Y.

1925

Pearl Poust, Orangeville, Pa.
Margaret M. Fay, 109 John Street, Kingston, Pa.
1926

Margaret E. Lambert, Loysville, Pa.
Maude Fenstermacher, 243 Pine Street, Catawissa, Pa.
1927

Edna M. Brown, Box

49,

Monsey, N. Y.
1930

William B. Jones, 1131 West Locust Street, Scranton, Pa.
Marion J. Thomas, (Mrs. William B. Jones), 1131 West Locust
Street, Scranton, Pa.

1932

Helen M. Keller, 222 Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.
1935
Lucille M. Gilchrist,,

Lake Como, Pa.