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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

JANUARY,

38

NO.

1937

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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

’75

Editor
-

-

Business Manager

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NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK
An exceptionally fine program concerning the various phases of
education was presented November 9, at the Bloomsburg State
State Teachers College in marking the opening of National EducaWeek.
Those participating in the program were Miss Alice Foley, of
Philadelphia; Fred L. Houck, of Catawissa; William J. Yorwarth, of
Centralia; Alex J. McKechnie, of Berwick; Miss Jean Stifnagle, of
Berwick; Miss Dorothy Selecky, of Wapwallopen, and Robert Goodman, of Bloomsburg.
The papers presented by the above students are printed below:

tion

SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATION

WEEK

Robert Goodman, Bloomsburg

The first American Education Week was organized in 1921 by
American Legion and the National Educational Association. In
1922 the United States Bureau of Education recognized the value of
such an observance and gave them aid. Since that time Education
the

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Week

has become a permanent, annual feature of

our

educational

program.

American Education Week

is

observed annually to inform the

public as to the needs, aims, and achievements of the schools.

The

schools belong to the people and they are an expression of the hopes
of the people for the future of their children and of the nation.

not belong to any special
upon all of the people to share the responsibility of
educating the younger generation for participation in government
and public order of tomorrow. If all citizens, and I am including the
children in the schools today, are to have a part in sharing tomorrow’s world, they must not only be educated, they must be inspired to take an active part.
American Education Week is a period each year during which all
citizens may co-operate and participate in planning to promote educational progress. Throughout the nation the attention of citizens is
focused upon schools. The press, radio, pulpit, and the platform
great means of forming public opinion evaluate the opportunities
which American children enjoy, and turn the thought of the public
toward ways of making these opportunities richer for the individual
and more effective in actual life.
Responsibility for the schools does

class. It rests

—

Today practically every part of the country celebrates Education
Week. Official proclamations are issued by the President of the
United States, the governors of the states, and mayors of the cities,
while newspapers and periodicals feature school activities and the
development of education. The churches co-operate by arranging to
have special sermons during Education Week. Chambers of Commerce, labor organizations, Women’s Clubs, fraternal bodies and
other organizations give publicity by providing opportunities to discuss school affairs. Parents are brought into closer contact with

schools by exhibits of pupil's
the children

people a

the

visiting the schools while

are at work. All these activities give the American

new understanding

playing, and

work and by

must play

of the part that Education has played,

in the life of

is

our great democracy.

*****
NEW SERVICES TO

TIIE

COMMUNITY

Alice Foley, Philadelphia

Many
munity

gap there would be in the comthe schools and their services were removed. Every in-

citizens fail to realize the

life if

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stitution of learning

and needs of

its

is

finding

new ways

The school should be the center

many

meet the

social

demands

particular section.

for discriminate use of

has

to

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community and provide
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which

of the

time.

leisure

school buildings open at night, boasts of the lowest juve-

nile delinquency record of

any

America. With the co-opera-

city in

worked out a fine
program which includes the use of school buildings for
its activities. There are approximately five thousand participants
each month in chess, art, handicraft, fencing, boxing, music, dramatics, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, community nights, illustrated lectures and a wide range of other activities. The Inter-Racial Committee, composed of white and colored members, has also secured
recently abandoned school buildings for their activities.
tion of school officials Reading, Pennsylvania, has

recreational

The work

been extended beyond the elemenshown by the establishment of
evening schools for those who are employed and by formulation of
programs for adult education for general citizenship purposes. Public forums, such as those instituted in Des Moines, help promote
adult education by providing community discussion of social, civic,
and economic problems.
of the schools has

tary school and the high school, as

The

makes the comand emotional health of
those in its care. There have been movements inaugurated by
thoughtful leaders to secure more wholesome motion pictures and
more educational and cultural radio programs. Safety campaigns, too,
are sponsored in the public schools and are ably carried out by safeschool, through

munity conscious as

its

contact with the home,

to the physicial, social,

ty patrols.

The nursery school movement

in direct accord with the

is

ing drive for the conservation of the

home through

grow-

parental educa-

tion.

Parent-Teacher conferences

may

develop co-operative studies of

the community, such as those carried on in Springfield, Missouri and

Ann

Arbor, Michigan.

The work

of the

points to a time early in the future

leadership of the
all

its

home and

children to

school, will seek to safeguard the right of

those experiences

healthy development.

parent-teacher associations
the community, under the

when

which favor an all-around

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EDUCATION FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS
Fred L. Houck, Catawissa

We

recognize and appreciate the fact that the school currischolastic abilities, but most of us neither recognize nor appreciate the fact that it also helps us to get maximum
all

culum develops our

The need for physical education
should be apparent to us. We are apt to forget, or perhaps never
knew that forty per cent of the adults and over sixty per cent of the
school children of our country have physical defects that could be
remedied by a proper physical education program. We know that a
physically fit person is more likely to be efficient, happy, and useful,
and that a physically fit nation is better prepared to meet any emergency, but we do not attach the proper importance to this knowledge.
physical ability from our bodies.

The

the World War.

number

was discovered during the
army and navy during

great need for physical education

military examination of
of

men

men

drafted for the

The government refused

to accept a relatively large

as being unfit for service.

As

a

result

of

this

dis-

covery the national leaders of health and physical education met in
Washington in 1918 to discuss plans for developing an adequate
physical education program in the schools, and the necessary legislation to promote and develop the program. This meeting or convention was called the National Physical Education Service. Its purpose is to help to guarantee to every boy and girl, young or old, a
chance for a healthy, active, and interesting life. Its functions are as
follows: to secure adequate state legislation requiring physical education in the schools; to strengthen and improve the existing laws; to
secure state departments of physical education; to secure adequate
appropriations and increased budget support; to bring the message of
physical education to the public and to help improve the status of the
profession of physical education.

Physical education means better citizenship. A physical educaprogram means health and personal and national vitality. It is
not the mere building of muscle. It is the training for bodily health
through periodic physical inspection and examination, personal
tion

hygiene, and a rational program for active play and exercise.
objectives of the true physical

program are

The

health, cleanliness, poise,

vitality, and mental alertness. It encourages mass competimeans periodic physical examinations, and believes in recre-

rhythm,
tion;

it

ational opportunities for the industrial worker. These

programs pro-

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mote good behavior and good behavior is the aim of education.
Through sports and games children develop good sportsmanship and
this means character building in a real sense. Those taking part in
physical education programs learn to smile in the face of defeat, to
be generous in victory, to follow the leader, to hold in line with courage and not give in, and to fight hard. These lessons are the lessons
of life and they cannot be taught nor preached; they must be put into

game

practice in the thick of the

—the game of Life.

*****
FINANCING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Alex

J.

McKechnie, Berwick

The public school system of the United States is one of its greateconomic enterprises. It is the major interest of one-fourth of the
nation’s population including teachers and pupils. Such a far-flung
public service calls for the interest and attention of every thoughtful
citizen if it is to succeed in achieving its purposes in a democratic
society. For this reason American Education Week is an occasion of
est

layman

as well as to the educator.
support in Pennsylvania falls upon
property owners. This source was chosen originally because as a
class, land owners were proportionately able to bear the load and because real estate represented a relatively stable taxable commodity.
We are all familiar with the developments which have led us to be-

special significance, to the

The

chief

burden

of school

lieve that neither of these assumptions

is

quite so true today. It re-

be demonstrated that a tax on real estate is an imposition.
It has become more apparent, however, that the levying of taxes be
more widely distributed over the total population.
In spite of its rapidly mounting cost, education is receiving a
noticeably smaller proportion of total government expenditures than

mains

to

formerly.

To assist the schools, bills and plans constructed by the Federal
Government have been passed to provide for loans, scholarships,
grants, and other expenditures in education. Emergency programs to
provide relief for unemployed teachers and to keep schools open have
furthered education considerably by their timely aid. Contributions
from associations, fraternities, and other councils have made it possible for high school boys and girls to attend school and college. Universal education makes possible stable government without which no

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business or industrial venture can be safely undertaken. The schools
have repaid their cost in money many times if they have done nothing more through the years than to teach people to read and write.
In general, the effectiveness of all educational program depends
upon the adequacy of its financial support. The school finance problem demands continuing attention. The original primary dependence
upon local units is no longer adequate.
Both the State and Federal Government must work to support
education. Some states have taken over this problem, while others
are working toward this end. Increasing numbers of educators and
citizens believe that the Federal government must also participate in
the support of education if it is to continue on the “upward climb.”

THE CHANGING CURRICULUM
William

J.

Yorwarth, Centralia

In the earlier history of the American schools the curriculum
changed little from decade to decade. Then life was relatively simple
and unchanging. Now life is complex, mechanized, moving, changing.
This situation was brought about by inventions, scientific research,
and social changes.
The invention of labor-saving machinery in the late nineteenth
century caused a redistribution of labor and a shift in occupation.
Thus the children incompetent to operate such intricate and involved
machines were thrown out of employment and entered the public
school in large numbers, so large in fact, as to increase the enrollment of fifteen to twenty times during the last three or four decades.
This means that a wholly different type of mind was found in the

high school after the year 1895 than prior to that time. Before 1895
the curriculum in the high school was almost purely academic, abstract in nature, and organized to appeal largely to the pupils pre-

paring to enter college. But, because of a large enrollment of a different type of student, the educational administrators found it necessary to reorganize the curriculum. We have in our high schools today
trade, agriculture, business, commercial and industrial curriculums as
well as the academic curriculum.
The academic curriculum has also had some changes. These
changes have been made to give a more practical education to those
pupils who arc to enter college as well as to those who have no intention of attending institutions of higher learning. The present trend

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apparently to place great emphasis upon the social studies, modern
world history. United States history, economics, problems of democracy and sociology. All this looks toward the student learning about
some of the great movements going on in the world, for example,
those in Germany, Italy, Russia, in the Orient, and in South America;
the student will then be able to understand our commercial relations
with foreign counti'ies; to understand and appreciate the type of government we have in the United States.
The United States has the highest standards of living in the
world; possesses half the wealth of the world; and produces and
consumes more agricultural and industrial products than any other
nation in the world. Our great free public school system serving the
interests of every child in the United States must be given at least
part of the credit. May educational work be organized so as to give
childi'en before they leave our schools an appreciation and understanding not only of our own social, economic, and industrial conditions at home, but also of our economic, industrial and commercial
relations with the nations of the world; and finally the important
part we should play in the peace of the world.
is

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THE STORY OF THE SCHOOLS
Jean Stifnagle, Berwick

theme

young and old the
and their contribution to local,
state, and national life. There is no more challenging story in the history of mankind than the slow upward rise of men to achieve and extend knowledge and I shall endeavor in part to trace it.
The schools of the American colonies closely resembled those of
the European countries and were influenced by the various conceptions of education that were current in each case. In general, where

The purpose

of this

is

to recall to both

inspiring story of America’s schools

the Calvinistic attitude prevailed, the

education; but where the Anglican
cratic ideal of education

was

in

colonies

attempted universal

communion dominated,

evidence.

the aristo-

Three different concep-

tions prevailed: (1) Laissez-faire in Virginia; (2) parochial in New
Netherlands; (3) governmental activity in Massachusetts. The other
colonies followed either the parochial or governmental patterns. The
earliest secondary school was the Boston Latin School founded in
1635, the three hundredth anniversary of which was commemorated

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throughout the United States in 1935.
During the eighteenth century, there appeared the revolt against
absolutism or against repression of intellect. The early treatises of
Rosseau advocated a complete return to nature, but this soon became
a fad.

Next came the period of transition, in which the European instiwhich America began were modified. Many permissive
laws affecting school districts, academies, and common schools were
enacted. Later, Pectalozzi developed modern methods in elementary
tutions with

studies. His schools spread rapidly

throughout the United States.

During the nineteenth century public education was further
democratized and expanded. Horace Mann was one of the chief reformers.

A period of steady growth in universal education followed. Normal Schools were organized during this period. Two more reformers
presented themselves, namely, Froebel and Herbart. There are few
educational practices that cannot be traced back to them.
During the past two centuries many new ideas of education have
Among them were the national sciences, and Spencer urged that science be included in the college curriculum.
developed.

At the present time, there is great progress in industrial, comand agricultural training. Moral and character education is
being organized. Special classes for the blind, the deaf, and the mentally and physically handicapped have been organized. Attempts at
improved methods of teaching are seen in the experimental schools
everywhere. Methods of measuring intelligence and scholastic
achievements in practically all subjects have been devised. Individual
and social aspects of education now prevail in all public schools.
mercial,

America’s unique ideal of universal free public education has
not been easily attained, nor has it been fully achieved in practice.
Every generation must work at the problem of giving each boy and

each
is

girl

an opportunity

to

develop to the limit of his capacity. This

the ideal of education in a democratic society.

THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF EDUCATION
Dorothy Selecky, Wapvvallopcn
Education always has unfinished business. Here are three reasons:

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Each year a new generation of children becomes of school age.
Each individual’s education should continue throughout life.
This, with the first reason, furnishes a never-ending round of business
1.

2.

for education.
3.

Our educational system, although

its credit, still

has

much

it

has great achievements to

to do.

Included in unfinished business are many unsolved problems.
the kindergarten to the university.

They are found from

Great inequalities of educational opportunities exist among the
Even within one state there is great variance. A
rich city school contrasted with a rural school usually shows differences as to teachers, courses, and equipment. How can a child in the
rural school get an education equal to one in a good city school? This
one point contributes two of America’s greatest educational problems,
equalization of educational opportunity and improvement of rural

states of the Union.

education.

The high schools cannot make up their minds whether they are
educating people for life or for college. Hence, they have much the
same muddle of courses for the future laborers and the future professional man. Then after they are out of high school the question asises
as to how can we make further education available to those who
want it when they are out of work. For example, how can we provide
available educational opportunities for upwards of 200,000 boys and
girls who are graduates of high schools in Pennsylvania and out of
work? What kind of school will they enter and what kind of courses
will they pursue?

There are those also among high school graduates who are depursing advanced professional and scientific work. The
question is how can we provide for the needs of these? The Junior
College is the answer, but it must be reorganized to meet their needs,
for as it is now it is merely a continuance of high school work for a
sirous of

smaller group.

Even the higher educational

institutions above the Junior Colsuch as the liberal arts colleges and the professional schools
cannot agree upon their objectives. The work of these schools should
look definitely toward a broad liberal education as toward definite
technical or professional educational. Instead of doing this these
schools provide much the same courses and types of work for all
lege,

Even the universities have the same indefinite policies. According to President Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago,
groups.

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the causes for this confusion are: love of money, confused notion of
democracy, and an erroneous notion of progress. Love of money gives
a service-station conception to the universities. They offer any course
and put on any social activities to the universities. They offer any

course and put on any social activities that public opinion, philanand trustees favor as the necessary constituents of

thropists, alumni,

a good education. In reality none of these sources are reliable. They
have not been educated to know what is a good program. Trustees
who fully appreciate and understand the task should determine the
program.
A probable solution that has yet to be completely solved is to develop a system of general education with due regard to individual
abilities extending from the kindergarten to the Sophomore year in
College. The remaining years of college and university work would
be specifically applied to the needs of professional and technical
workers. But the unsolved portion is what shall constitute a general

—

education?

—

There are many other unsolved problems. One of them is How
can an appropriate program of adult education be developed? President Hutchins suggests that “The state of the nation depends on the
state of education; the state of education depends on the state of the
nation. This forms a vicious circle that can be broken only when we
make it clear to people what higher learning is. As education it is the
single-minded pursuit of the intellectual virtues. As scholarship it is
the single-minded devotion to advancement of knowledge.”
The America of tomorrow will be determined by the kind of
people who live in America tomorrow and manage its affairs. The
kind of people who will live in America tomorrow and manage its
affairs will be determined by the education and training given the
child of today.

o

Fans who attended the Bloomsburg-Mansfield College contest
on Saturday, October 17, when the local institution observed Home
Coming Day, were aided in enjoying the game by the announcing of
participants in plays over an amplifying system.
This is generally used at the College for the big games and is a
service much enjoyed by the fans. Dean John C. Koch always does a
fine job as announcer.

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FRESHMAN

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PARTY STAGED WITH PROGRAM
OF UNUSUAL TALENT

KID’S

The Freshmen, who have been assuming an air of College digniunder way last September were “kids just for
a night” when the Freshmen staged their annual "Kids Party” in the
gymnasium, with costumes suitable and games and refreshments appropriate. The Frosh showed they have some talented members in
the class with the program excellent throughout. Judges had a difficult time making the awards. Prof. George J. Keller, class advisor,
was in general charge of the successful affair.
Miss Margaret Ward, of town, was chairman of the program
committee. The entertainment opened with a selection by the Freshman Girl’s Glee Club. The Baumunk sisters delighted with a dance.
Miss Jean Capwell directed the dramatization which followed:
The Frosh Boy’s Glee Club followed with a number, John Hancock
directing. The Art Choir, composed of section E of the first year class,
sang. Miss Roth did a tap dance and Miss McWilliams and Miss
Postapack gave a reading with a piano accompaniment. More dramatizations followed with Miss Faye Gegring directing. The Ward sisters provided musical numbers and Miss Bartholomew danced. Miss
ty since the College got

Thornton gave a reading.
The Frosh orchestra played for a dance which followed. Games
of childhood were prominent. Refreshments consisted of cider, pretzels and lolly pops.

The prizes were awarded as follows: funniest boy, Lena PostaMcAdoo; funniest girl, Fred Vincentainer, Drums; most beauti-

pack,

Miss Mildred Chelland, Old Forge; most attractive boy, Isaac
girl, Miss Rose Turse, Hazleton;
most original boy, William Kanasky, Shamokin; smallest girl, Miss
Grove McCoy, Harrisburg.
The judges were E. A. Reams, S. I. Shortess, Dr. Marguerite
Kehr, Miss Ethel Ranson, Miss Bertha Rich, John C. Koch.
ful girls,

Jones, of Scranton; most original

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—

o

The Senior Informal dance, sponsored by the Senior class of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was held Saturday, December 12
from 8.30 till 11.30. Roy Miller’s orchestra of Scranton furnished the
music for the affair. This dance was one of the outstanding events on
the social calendar.

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BRONZE PLAQUE PRESENTED AT COLLEGE

A

handsome bronze plaque, bearing the names of each president
Community Government Association of the College since its
organization in 1927, was presented to the institution Friday, October
of the

16th,

by Dr. Francis B. Haas, College President,

at exercises in the

College auditorium on the eve of Home-coming Day.
Five former heads of the College student organization,

Welsko, Edgar Richards, Alfred
Morgan, were present when the
tion. The plaque, which will be
will have bronze plates bearing
each year.

Many Alumni and

friends,

Thomas

Vandling, John Beck, and William
college president made the presentaplaced in the Alumni Trophy Room,
the names of the president added

back for Home-coming Day, were

in

the large audience, which staged a spirited rally in the auditorium

following a dance in the gym.
The Pep Committee of the

Community Government

Association

staged the program which showed the Huskies that the Bloomsburgers of past and present were solidly behind them. John Slaven,
chairman of the committee, presided.

The Maroon and Gold Band opened with selections and William
Leonard Manjone and Albert Watts led the cheering. Greetings were extended by Dr. Hass and Frank Camera, Hazleton, head
Miller,

of the student body.

The College chorus sang “Old Bloomsburg,” motion pictures of
Home-coming days, were shown.
Dean of Men John Koch extended greetings, and the chairman

past activities, including other

presented the football team. Harold Border and Betty Chalfont extended greetings from the student body and the College chorus sang
“My Girl’s a Hullabaloo.”
The coaches, A. Austin Tate, George C. Buchheit and “Whitey”
Moleski spoke. Representing the Alumni were R. Bruce Albert, head
of the organization; Dean William B. Sutliff and Dr. E. H. Nelson.
More movies and a band selection closed the program. H. F. Fenstemaker directed the band and Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the

group singing.

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SINFOINETTA DELIGHTS MANY

The Boston Sinfoinetta, a group of outstanding artists who have
been winning new friends with each appearance, returned to Bloomsburg Friday evening, September 25, and added to the many friends
that they won here in their initial appearance three years ago.
The recital opened the artists’ course of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College and was given in the presence of one of the largest
audiences ever to attend a course opening.
In addition to the regular program, the Sinfoinetta played three
encores, “Dreams” by Wagner, “The Mosquito” by White and “C
String Minuet,” Balzans.

The members of the orchestra are among the outstanding artists
Boston Symphony Orchestra, and are directed by the dynamic

of the

Arthur Fidler.

The program

follows:

Overture to “Barber of Seville”
Symphony in B minor, “Unfinished”

Debussy

Petite Suite

Two Aubades
Air on

G

String.

Rossini

Schubert
Lale

Bach-Wilhelm. Divertissement for chamber orches-

tra

Ibert
o

Alpha Psi Omega, dramatic fraternity of the State Teachers’
“The Bishop Misbehaves,” by Frederick Jackson,
in the College auditorium, Tuesday evening, November 24.
The play was directed by Miss Alice Johnston. It was a delightful whimisical comedy, full of comic situations and never for a moment did it become dull or serious.
The cast follows: Red Eagan, William Strawinski; Donald Meadows, William Schutt; Hester Standam, Miss Anna Jean Laubach;
Guy Waller, Philip Frankmore; Mrs. Waller, Miss Jane Manhart;
The Bishop of Broadminister, John Jones; Lady Emily Lyons, Miss
Cornelia McGinnis; Collins, Jacob Kotch; Frenchy, George Lewis;
College, presented

Mr. Brooke, Alvin Lupinski.

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HOME-COMING DAY

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Home-coming has grown to
such popularity among graduates and friends that it can rise above
stormy weather and be a success.
That was proven on Home-coming Day. The weather man has
been pretty kind over the past decade for the big Fall event, but the
law of averages caught up with things this year. There was a steady
downpour during the morning but the weather did clear sufficiently
in the afternoon so that the football game, which opened amid a few
drops was played in the dry, but not on the field, for that was turned into a quagmire.

The College campus and the business section of the town was in
Maroon and Gold of Bloomsburg and the Red

gala dress with the

and Black of

Many

visiting Mansfield used effectively.

visitors arrived in the

morning and

in time

to

enjoy the

Maroon and Gold band in the gymnasium
Howard F. Fenstemaker directing.

concert given by the

at

eleven o’clock.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the College, and the entire faculty and student body once more proved loyal hosts. They turned the
day over to the visitors and succeeded in making it a very enjoyable
day for them, as was shown by the pleasing comments heard on
every side.

The day centered largely around the football game and the
Huskies gave Maroon and Gold Alumni little to cheer about, for
Mansfield held the upper hand all the way and won handily, 19 to 0.
The game was played on the upper field, constructed less than a
year ago.
The novel feature of having the football used in the game dropped from an airplane opened the game.
The College Band was never heard to better advantage and entertained between halves by serenading both stands, as did the
Bloomsburg High Band, which arrived shortly before intermission.
The grads “chewed soap” by the barrel in the get-together in
the gym following the game. A tea was scheduled and tea was there
together with punch and hot chocolate for those who could stop
greeting College day friends and reviewing College day happenings
long enough to be served.

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There were many friends for lunch, but the alumni for dinner
the dining room to overflow, many having to wait for the

filled

second serving.

The rain started falling again in the early evening, but by that
time activities were concentrated in-doors. The gym was packed
about as tight as sardines in a can for the informal dance in the
evening, but no one in the happy crowd seemed to mind it.
The decorative scheme carried out was excellent. One side of
covered with panels of Maroon and Gold and the other
with the Mansfield colors of Red and Black. Japanese lanterns and
balloons added a finishing touch and Bruce Bell’s orchestra played
behind a background of campus scenes.
the

gym was

Y.

W.

C. A.

HOLD BAZAAR

The Y. W. C. A. sponsored a gypsy bazaar in the College gymnasium Saturday. December 5. The gymnasium and booths were
decorated attractively in a gay variety of color, and the young ladies
assisting with the bazaar were dressed in gypsy costume.
Special features included fortune telling and various games. A
tea garden where tea, coffee, and home made cake were served
throughout the afternoon and evening, plus a musical entertainment
and program were other featured attractions.
Miss Florence Snook, of Millersburg, acted as general chairman
of the bazaar, and was assisted by other Y. W. C. A. cabinet cheers
including: Marie Faust, Milton; Ruth Kramn, Watsontown: Deborah
Jones, West Pittston; Thelma Moody, Sunbury; Helen
Weaver,
Bloomsburg; Alberta Brainard, Susquehanna; Amanda Babb, Summit
Station; Gladys Brennan, Sunbury; Alice Foley, Philadelphia; Ruth
Miller, Forty Fort; Annabelle Bailey, Danville; and Miss Pearl Mason, faculty advisor of the Y.

W.

C. A.
o

On

Friday, October 30, the Shakespearean players presented the
second of the artist course numbers at the State Teachers College,

presenting James Barrie’s “Dear Brutus” in the

afternoon at 3:00

and Shakespeare’s “Mid-Summer Night’s Dream” at 8:15
o’clock in the evening. There were twenty-six talented artists in the
o’clock

troupe.

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WALLER HALL ENTERTAINS CRIPPLED CHILDREN
The Christmas party for the crippled children of the Bloomsburg
Red Cross Clinic given by the girls of Waller Hall was a huge success.

Approximately eighty-five children, accompanied by fifty-one
were guests at the Christmas

older brothers and sisters or parents,

members

community cooperated with the
order that nothing would be left undone to entertain their young guests. The College gymnasium was decorated for
the party with gayly lighted trees and boughs of evergreen. At the
conclusion of the formal program Santa Claus appeared and presented each child with an individual gift and orange and a box of candy.
Refreshments included ice cream and cake.
Miss Betty Chalfont, Scranton, was in charge of the program.
party. All

Waller Hall

of the College

girls in

were Mary Reisler, Oxford, and Mary Palsgrave,
Stage managers included Albina Kirelavage,
Frackville, Chairman; Sally Ammerman, Sunbury; and Sara Dersham, Mifflinburg. Jane Oswald, Allentown, acted as mistress of

Her

assistants

Schuylkill Haven.

ceremonies.

The program opened with

selections

from the Waller Hall

girls’

orchestra.

Jane Oswald, Allentown, gave Christmas verses. John Plevyak,
Carbondale, entertained with his accordian, and Joseph Stamer,
Warrior Run, offered “piano ramblings.” Next the North Hall clowns
including Gene Serafine, Moconaqua; Gene Sharkey, Lattimer; Tom
Davison, Wilkes-Barre; Lamer Blass, Aristes; Willard Davies, Nanticoke; Sheldon Jones, Nanticoke; Frank Camera, Hazleton; John Hancock, Mt. Carmel; Larry Richetti, Philadelphia; and Vince Cinqueranni, Scranton. The clowns were under the direction of Roberta
Lentz, Freeland.
“Pierrot’s Garden,” a clever pantomine directed by Miss Alice
Johnston of the College faculty, included in its cast John Slaven,
Fleetwood, as Pierrot; and Virginia Burke, Sugar Run, as Columbine;
Ruth Langan, Duryea; Mary Hanley, Hazleton, as musician.
“Ike” Jones, Scranton, and Charles Kelchner, Hazleton, put on a
blindfolded boxing match refereed by Vince Cinqueranni, Scranton.
Eleanor Shiffka, Glen Lyon, gave a reading “Between Two Loves” in
Italian dialect. The gingham dog and the calico cat were presented by
Marie Faust, Milton, and Helen Weaver, Bloomsburg.
The big event of the program was the presentation of “Santa’s

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Doll Shop” with a cast of about forty College students, mostly Freshmen, which depicted a toy store in which the dolls came to life and

“Wedding of the Painted Doll.”
Santa Claus, portrayed by Philip Frankmore, Easton, then wound
up the party by distributing presents to all.

participated in the

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THE TIGER MAN
Tiger hunting with only a spear or bow and arrow was described
Friday evening, November 15, by Sasha Seimel, hero of two books
published during the last several years.
Seimel came here in another number of the College Artist course

from ordinary.
were published about a white man in the
jungles of South America hunting tigers with a primitive spear or
arrow, people said they weren’t true; that no such person could exist.
But Sasha Seimel, hero of these books, “Green Hell” and “Tiger
Man,” turned out to be very much alive. In addition to relating to
audiences the dangers of his precarious existence and trade he
showed motion pictures of his jungle exploits.
In addition, he gave an incredibly fast demonstration of the
use of the weapons he employs.
Hunting the South America tiger is a business with this Latvian
who ran away from home at the age of 16 and finally wound up as a
professional hunter of the very valuable tiger skins. When he first
drifted to Brazil and Boliva, he did his hunting with a rifle, but the
natives looked on anyone using a rifle as a “sissy.” Seimel turned to
the primitive weapons of the natives and proved a white man could
beat them at their own game. It is a game in which one never gets a
in a presentation far

When

the two books

second chance.
o

The children

Benjamin Franklin Training School together
with the grade children of the Bloomsburg town schools witnessed
“Jason and the Golden Fleece” presented by the Tatterman Marionettes Friday afternoon, December 18, in the auditorium of the College.
This annual party for the youngsters has always been an outstanding
success which the youngsters look forward to each year.
In the evening the Tatterman Marionettes presented Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” at 8:15 in the College auditorium for
the College community.
of the

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A CAPPELLA CHOIR BUSY
The

A

Cappella Choir of the State Teachers’ College under the

direction of Miss Harriet Moore, a

member

of the

faculty,

made

its

appearance as a vested choir at the Columbia County Institute
November 20. The new gowns worn by the Choir included short
capes of Maroon trimmed with gold braid.
This choir, which has been a feature of musical programs at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is composed of 34 members who
attained membership in the organization on a competitive basis. A
large organization known as the mixed chorus functions as a source
of material from which the A Cappella Choir emerges.
A Cappella means in its modern interpretation, singing without
accompaniment, but its original meaning was a description of shortsleeved capes worn by the monks and priests, who, of course, sang
with instrumental accompaniment. Bloomsburg’s A Cappella Choir,
in the course of its development, studies old Madrigals, or secular
songs of the 1600 period; Motets, or Spirituals of Negro derivation,
and A Cappella music of modern composers.
During the College year Bloomsburg’s A Cappella Choir participates at many College functions, at Rotary Kiwanis dinner, Columbia
County Institute, and in a number of high school assembly programs
first

in this area.

o

At 10.00 o’clock Friday morning, December 18th, an assembly
program by the children of the Benjamin Franklin Training School,
the A Cappella Choir, College Mixed Chorus, College Chorus, and the
College Orchestra was presented in the College auditorium. The
program consisted of Christmas carols and songs presented under the
general direction of Miss Harriet Moore, a member of the faculty.
the direction of Professor Howard

The College orchestra was under
Fenstemaker

of the faculty.

o

On

3, 1936, at the Beachlake M. E. Church,
Miss Mary Alice Budd was united in marriage to Robert Malcolm
Dwyer, of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Dwyer has been teacher of the Beachlake school, while Mr. Dwyer, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State
College, is connected with the Department of Health in the city of

Saturday, October

St. Louis.

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PRESS CONVENTION HELD AT BLOOMSBURG
The Fourth Annual Susquehanna Valley Regional Convention of
was held at Bloomsburg Saturday, October 31. The host of the convention was the Red
and White Press Club of the Bloomsburg High School.
The convention opened in the College Auditorium Saturday
morning. The presiding officer of the meeting was A. L. Pepperman,
principal of the Curtin High School, Williamsport. Greetings from
the convention chairman were extended by Edward T. DeVoe. Following this, Miss M. E. Matthews, secretary of the Pennsylvania
the Pennsylvania Scholastic Press Association

subject “Here’s How in
School Publications.”
The general meeting was followed by a discussion period, during
which the members of the convention divided into five groups, which
held informal discussion in various classrooms. Luncheon was served
at noon in the college dining room. As guests of the College, the press
delegates attended the Bloomsburg-Shippensburg game.
More than thirty schools from the region were invited to attend
the convention. The main speaker for the convention was Reed McScholastic Press Association, spoke on the

Carty, editor of the Danville

Morning News.
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CHANGES

IN

SCIENCE HALL

has begun on extensive alterations in Science Hall. As a
last spring throughout all the
Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania, recommendations were made to
alter the building to conform with the State Fire and Panic Act.
Science Hall has long been recognized as a bad fire trap, because of

Work

result of a fire inspection conducted

the open stairways, that run to the top of the building.

Two
hazard.

enclosed fire-proof stairways will be built to eliminate this
in the rear will go up through the offices adjoining

The one

Room 8 and Room 22. The other will go up through
what was formerly Mr. Hartline’s office, through the office between
the Chemistry and Physics laboratories, and through the offices between Rooms 40 and 43. Office space will be provided in the central

the east side of

portion of the building.

For several months, most of the classes regularly
Science Hall will meet on other parts of the campus.

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be included in the work are the installahose service for all floors, and the further expansion of the present fire alarm system. The change will
remove the present exterior fire escapes from the east and west sides

Other safety factors

tion of a stand-pipe

and

to

fire

of the building.

o

BLOOMSBURG HOST TO RURAL CONFERENCE
Rural teachers of Bloomsburg’s service area met in conference

December 5, at the invitation of President
Francis B. Haas. The theme of the conference was “The Changing
Rural School.” The program of the conference included discussions
of rural education in relation to the needs and problems of country
life, and a consideration of the means for their solution.
A general session was held Saturday morning with Dr. Haas
presiding, and with Dr. J. E. Butterworth, Director of the Graduate
School at Cornell University, speaking on “The Changing Rural
School.” Following the general session, group discussions were held.
Economic aspects of rural life were discussed in one group, with
Superintendent W. W. Evans, of the Columbia County Schools, presiding. Another group, presided over by County Superintendent Fred
W. Diehl, of Montour County, discussed recreational and health asat the College Saturday,

pects of rural

life.

A

luncheon meeting, held at noon in the College dining room,
closed the program. Dr. Butterworth spoke at this meeting on the
subject “State Programs for Rural Education.”
Miss Edna Hazen, Director of the Intermediate and Rural Department of the College, was in charge of arrangements for the day.
The success of the meeting, which was the first of its kind held at
Bloomsburg, was such that it will undoubtedly become an annual
feature of the College calendar.
o

Seven hundred sixty-three students

of Teachers College journeyed to their respective homes in thirty counties of Pennsylvania for
their Christmas vacation beginning Saturday, December 19 at noon.
Bloomsburg students enjoyed a 15-day vacation, returning to College
at noon, January 4. Eighty-five of the total number of students are
teachers in service who have been pursuing academic work on the
College campus Fridays and Saturdays to complete requirements for

their baccalaureate degree.

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STUDENTS ATTEND CONFERENCE

Four

girls

representing the Waller Hall Student Government
Day Women’s Association of the State Teachers’

Association and the

College attended the

Women’s

Intercollegiate Association for student

Maryland. The three day conference discussions of problems pertinent to women’s student government organizations, and the speakers of the conference included
Dr. Kathryn McHale, director of the American Association of Uni-

government held

at the University of

Women and Robert Williams, representing National Youth
Administration, and Miss Lavina Engle, Social Security Board.
Miss Marie Davis, of Wilkes-Barre, president of the Waller Hall
versity

Student Government Association; Miss Deborah Jones, vice-president
of the Waller Hall S. G. A. and a member of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet
represented the dormitory girls; Miss Margaret Graham, Bloomsburg,
president of the Day Girls Association and Miss Muriel Stevens,
Berwick, member of the official board represented the Teachers’
College at the University of Maryland meeting. It was the fourth
convention at which the Teachers’ College has been represented.
Other members of the Intercollegiate Association are: Adelphi, Alfred
U., Allegheny, Bates, Carnegie Tech., Connecticut College for Women,
Duke U., Western Reserve U., Hood, Lake Erie, Miami U., New York
U., Russel Stage, University of Maryland, University of Richmond,
Western College for Women, Wilson, University of N. C., Wooster,
Beaver, and Mt. Holyoke.
o

Alex McKechnie, Berwick, Vice-President of the Bloomsburg
Teachers College Community Government Association and
Peggy Lonergan, Berwick, Sophomore members, attended the annual convention of the National Student Federation Association held
at the hotel Victoria, New York City, December 28 to January 1. This
This College
is the 12th year the Association has been in existence.

State

student organization plays a vital part in the activities of college
students throughout the United States. Questions to be considered at
round table discussions will include: Student government, student

honor system, the under-graduate citizen, military
the United States, and foreign affairs.
rights,

program

of

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COLLEGE STUDENTS HOLD REGIONAL CONFERENCE

The Regional Conference of the Pennsylvania Association of
College Students was held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
on November 21 and 22. Harold Border of Berwick, acting First VicePresident, served as chairman for the central region.
Seventy-five delegates from the thirteen Colleges in this region
to attend this conference, and were guests along with
the State Officers of the Association at the Bloomsburg Teachers
College Saturday and Sunday. The College is represented in this
region by Penn State, Misercordia, Mansfield S. T. C., Lock Haven S.
T. C., Keystone Junior College, Juniata College, Marywood College,
Susquehanna, Dickinson Junior College, and Bucknell Junior College.
The program presented at the conference opening Saturday,
November 21, at 2 P. M. included a few words of welcome from Doctor Francis B. Haas, President of B. S. T. C., and Frank Camera of
Hazleton, President of the Community Government Association of
B. S. T. C.; an address, “Vocation,” by the Reverend Stuart F. Gast,
of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg, which was followed by a
discussion concerning the program and activities of the Pennsylvania Association of College Students. Miss Rose Davies of Cedar
Crest, acting President of the State organization, led this discussion,
and Mr. Harold Border, Berwick, was the presiding officer in the
afternoon program.

were invited

The conference delegates met

in

the

dinner, during which an Informal Toast

College dining

was

given, after

room

for

which the

Student Council of Bloomsburg State Teachers College entertained
the delegates in the Science Hall social rooms.

Sunday morning, November 22

at 9.30 A. M.,

er presiding, Doctor Marguerite Kehr,

Dean

of

with Harold Bord-

Women

at B. S. T. C.,

addressed the delegates on “Student Leadershin.” This talk was followed by another group discussion.

The convention committees of B. S. T. C. included the following:
General Chairmen Norman Henry, Berwick; and Ann Seesholtz,
Tower City; Housing Regina Walukiewicz, Shenandoah; Alice
Snyder, Shamokin; Michael Sofilka, St. Clair; and George Tamalis,
Edwardsville; Hospitality William Yarworth, Wilkes-Barre: and
George Neibauer, Shamokin; Registration Ann Morgan, Plymouth;
Vance Laubach, Berwick; Jean Stifnagle, Berwick; Betty Savage,

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Berwick; Dining Room —Ann Seesholtz, Tower City; Helen Seamen,
Edwardsville; Arrangements for Sessions Willard Christian, Shamoand Earl Hauck, Berwick.

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FRESHMAN ORIENTATION
The scope

of

Bloomsburg State Teachers College’s program for
Freshmen is little realized even by

the orientation and guidance of

Thomas P. North, ProThe progr am for Freshmen includes the imstudy ?chnique‘,, a more economical use of time, a de-

the friends of the College, according to Dr.
fessor of Education.

provement of
velopment of a

t

definite conception oi the needs, nature of,

sons for a College education,

and rea-

with special reference to the pro-

fession of teaching.
is conducting the Freshmen on twenty-eight observagood teaching during the first semester. Observations
are made by the students in all the elementary grades of the Benjamin Franklin Training School, in one-room rural schools, and in
the special fields of the high school.
The main purpose of these observations during the first semester

Dr. North

tion tours of

to enable the members of the Freshmen class to more intelligently
determine whether they should prepare for the teaching profession.
The observations also tend to increase the student’s professional point
of view. The students are definitely aided in the election of a curriculum, that is, whether the students are to select the primary, intermediate, rural, or high school work. The students who decide to prepare for teaching in the secondary schools are also assisted in selecting for certification the special fields of secondary school work for
which they have the greatest interest and aptitude.
is

o

Sigma Phi men’s National Professional Scholastic Fraternity
at the Teachers College, pledged new members at a meeting on the
campus Thursday evening, October 15.
New members are: Donald Blackburn, Wanamie; Ray McBride,
Berwick; Alex. McKechnie, Berwick; Walter Woytovich, Shamokin;
Fred Houck, Catawissa; Willard Davies, Nanticoke, and Clair North,
Pi

Bloomsburg.
Walton Hill, Shamokin, presided and talks were given by faculty
advisors, E. A. Reams, Dr. T. P. North and Dean John C. Koch. Ray
Schrope,

Tower

City,

welcomed the new members.

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
The

steadily increasing

demand

for properly trained

commercial

teachers has prompted the study of the placement of students graduating from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Department of

Commerce

since 1933.

Students were registered for commercial teacher training in
September, 1930, when Harvey A. Andress, Director, Department of
Commerce came from the State Teachers College, Indiana, to organize this type of work at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
A survey just concluded shows the total number of graduates
to be 88. At the present time there are 75 engaged in educational
work. One of this number is a supervising principal, another is the
secretary and business manager of a large city school system, while
still another is employed in the Department of Public Instruction at
Harrisburg. This means that 72 are teaching commercial subjects in
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, and New Jersey.
The following analysis shows the employment status of the
graduates of the Department of Commerce, State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania to be:

Year

Graduates

Education

Business

1933

6

2

1

1

1934

31

27

1

1

1935

34

32

1

1936

17

14

88

75

Married

Unemployed
2
1

2

3

2

4

1

6

Over eighty-five per cent of the graduates are teaching and less
than eight per cent are unemployed at this time.
This growth from forty to over two hundred and twenty students
has caused the faculty to increase from two to five full time teachers
of business subjects.

The December

*****

issues of the

two leading magazines

in the field of

business education contain articles written by Harvey A. Andruss,
Director, Department of Commerce, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

An

article

on “Problem-Point Tests in Typewriting” is found in
is published by the South-Western Pub-

“The Balance Sheet” which

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A method of scoring typewritexplained and illustrated. The state typewriting contest examinations have been so treated for the past five

lishing

Company

of Cincinnati, Ohio.

ten letters objectively

is

years.

The second article in the series running in the “Business EducaWorld” appears under the title of “New-Type Testing in Business Law.” The location and correction of false statements is explaintion

ed in an effort to discover the guessing or chance factor in every-day
school examinations. This series continues throughout the school
year so as to be of service to teachers of law.
*

*

*

*

*

Professor H. A. Andruss, Director, Department of Commerce,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has sent out a thousand letters
to commercial teachers throughout the state regarding plans for the
Seventh Annual Commercial Contest to be held at the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in May, 1937. Because of the
large number of entrants in these contests, early and extensive preparations are

Bloomsburg

made each

to

year. Fifty schools are expected to

compete in the contest

come

to

this year.

The new features of this year’s contest will be the division of the
competing high schools into two groups: Class A consisting of those
schools having three or more full-time commercial teachers during
the school year 1935-36, and Class B, those schools having less than
three full-time commercial teachers during the 1935-36 school year.
The successful high schools in the commercial contest in the past

—
—

include the following winners: 1931 and 1936 Wyoming High School;
1932 Northampton; 1933 Berwick; 1934 Latrobe; 1935 Colling-

—

dale.

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*****

The Mountain Arts Association met in connection with the CenConvention District of the Pennsylvania State Education Association on October 2, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Lock
Haven.
The commercial section was directed by Harvey A. Andress, director of the Department of Commerce, State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, on the subject “The Social Economic Curriculum.”
Teachers of business subjects from fifteen counties were present.
On Saturday, October 10th, Prof. Andress went to Pittsburgh to
address the commercial teachers of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and

tral

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West Virginia on “The Recording, Reporting and Verification of
Business Transactions.” His address was based on magazine articles
published under the monograph title of “Ways to Teach Bookkeeping
and Accounting” after having appeared in four installments of “The
Balance Sheet,” a monthly publication reaching almost all the commercial teachers in the United States.
o

The following appeared recently in the Morning Press,
column headed “Twenty-five Years Ago:”

in

the

Presentations for the annual Philo reunion are rapidly going for-

Bloomsburg State Normal School. The drama “Alabama”
The cast includes: Colonel Preston, an old planter,
Carl Wanich; Colonel Moberly, a relic of the Confederacy, Harry
Ramer; Squire Tucker, Paul Womeldorf; Captain Davenport, Arthur
Lesher; Mr. Armstrong, Clyde Peters; Lathrop Page, Warren Jones;
Raymond Page, Robert Clemens; Decatur, Myron Rishton; Mrs. Page,
Myrtle Belles; Mrs. Stockton, Ruth Nuss; Carey Preston, Nola Pegg;
Alanta Moberly, Miriam Hetler.

ward

at the

will be presented.

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FORMER COACH WEDS
Announcement was made of the marriage of Raber S. Seely, son
Mr. and Mrs. E. Floyd Seely, Hotel Berwick, and Miss Thurley V.
Hicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hicks, former Berwick resi-

of

dents,

now

of Kingston, N. Y.

The ceremony was performed at the bride’s home on Saturday
morning, November 28. The couple will make their home in Collingwood, N. J., where the bride-groom has launched a successful tenture as assistant coach in the high school.

Mr. Seely is a graduate of the Berwick High School and Gettysburg College where he won letters in both football and basketball.
He served as assistant coach of football and basketball at Bloomsburg. The bride is a graduate of Kingston, N. Y. high school, and
of Kingston Hospital nursing school.

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FACULTY ACTIVITIES
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women, Vice-President of the
Pennsylvania Association of Deans of Women, presided at the convention luncheon held at 1:00 o’clock, Friday afternoon, October 30,
at the Penn Harris Hotel, Harrisburg. The meeting was the sixteenth
annual convention of the Pennsylvania Association of Deans of
Women, and had a two day session November 6th and 7th at Harrisburg. The Association has a membership of about 150 deans and advisors in high schools, private schools, junior colleges, colleges, uni-

and professional schools.
At the formal dinner Friday evening President William M. Lewis
Lafayette College, spoke of “The Human Problems in Education.”

versities

of

3f

*

*

*

*

Dr. Thomas P. North, of the education department of the College,
attended a meeting of representatives of the Teachers College and
Liberal Arts Colleges held in Harrisburg in October to outline plans
and policies in adult education in the State of Pennsylvania. The
group appointed a Steering Committee charged with the responsibility

The committee will
near future. In addition to the College
representatives, members of the P. T. A. of Pennsylvania, and various Library Associations had delegates in attendance at the initial
meeting on adult education.
of developing a state council of adult education.

report to the

main body

in the

*****
Several members of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College attended and participated in the annual meeting of the
P. S. E. A. which was held in Harrisburg, December 28, to December
30.

Miss Mabel Oxford of the Commercial Department of the
Bloomsburg faculty addressed the Pennsylvania Round Table on the
subject “The Correlation of Penmanship and Commercial Subjects.”
Miss Margaret R. Hoke, also of the Commercial Department reported on the Constitution and by-laws for a new organization of
commercial teachers in their professional organizations.

*****
Professor Samuel L. Wilson, head of the English Department,
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, addressed the Susquehanna

County

Institute at Montrose,

October

19th.

Professor

Wilson de-

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morning

livered two talks during the day, one in the

and

at the general

the afternoon he spoke to a
sectional meeting composed of teachers from the tenth, eleventh, and
session of the entire institute,

in

twelfth grades. Both discussions covered

modern phases

of the teach-

ing of English.
*

Prof. E. A.

Reams

*

*

*

*

of the Social Studies

Department

at the State

Teachers College, addressed the Merchants Association of Wyoming
County at Tunkhannock on Wednesday, November 11.
Prof. Reams analyzed the present situation in Europe, paying
special attention to the Spanish crisis and its probable effect on political alignment in Europe.

*****

Miss Edna J. Hazen, Director of the Intermediate and Rural Departments of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College addressed the
Montour County Institute in the Court House at Danville, Saturday,
November 7th. Miss Hazen’s subject was “The Philosophy of the Activity

Movement and

Its

Use.”
*

Dr. Nell

members

Maupin

of the

*

*

*

*

of the Teachers College

Bloomsburg Chapter

faculty

addressed the

of the Eastern Star at their re-

cent meeting in the interest of their educational loan fund. Dr. Maupin’s talk had to do with the changing order of educational principles.
*

*

*

*

*

Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the State Teachers College, has
been named a member of the State Advisory Committee of the National

Youth Administration

for the state.
*

Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.

*

Haas

*

*

*

delightfully

entertained at their

home, the members of the trustees and faculty, their wives and husbands, at the annual President’s reception, which was held Tuesday
evening, October 27.
A trio of College instrumentalists provided a splendid program
of music during the evening. They were Miss Ruth Radcliffe, Philip
Moore and Robert Williams. Delicious refreshments were served.

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THE 1936 FOOTBALL SEASON

A

recapitulation of Bloomsburg’s football season reveals 7 losses

the entire story. The
considerably handicapped
through the loss of several outstanding ball-carrying backs from last
year, and had a new inexperienced team representing the Maroon
and Gold this Fall. In the last game of the season with Stroudsburg,
which Bloom won 7-0, the starting line-up contained but three upper-

and 1 victory, which however, does not
Huskies” of 1936 were
Bloomsburg

tell

,-

classmen, which gives some indication of the majority of new men.
In spite of the loss of the majority of games, it is rather interesting to note that

Bloomsburg held the two outstanding Teachers

College teams, Shippensburg and Lock Haven, to the lowest scores
they were confined to during the season. The Bloom-Shippensburg
score was 12-0. Shippensburg defeated all the rest of their opponents
by larger scores. Lock Haven defeated Bloomsburg 14-8, and won the
rest of their games by larger margins. This, along with the fact that
Bloomsburg’s competition all season was of high caliber, shows evi-

dence of the defensive strength of the 1936 “Huskies.”
Opening the season with but a few days practice, Bloomsburg

met Susquehanna September 26, and lost the game to a slightly suThe following week-end Millersville surprised the
“Huskies” with considerable strength and outplayed the home team,
winning 9-0. October 10th, Bloomsburg journeyed to Lock Haven and
amazed their large group of followers by holding a very strong Lock
Haven team to a 14-8 score. During the second half Bloomsburg had
major control of the game.

perior outfit 21-7.

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Mansfield was the Home-coming Day attraction at Bloomsburg
on October 17, and the large Home-coming Day crowd was some-

what disappointed when a rather close game up to the third quarter
became a rather complete rout for Bloomsburg, with Bloomsburg being on the short end of a 19-0 score. The “Huskies” were the Homecoming Day guests at Indiana, October 24, and fell victim to Indiana’s
desire for revenge because of last year’s defeat, to the tune

On

of

26-7.

championship Shippensburg team was held
to a 12-0 score which was considered a remarkable feat and was
quite unexpected. November 7, Slippery Rock furnished Bloomsburg’s last home game and the tall rangy western team were held to
a 10-0 score. The power and versatility of the Slippery Rock team indicated that they would run up many points, but the rugged defense)
of the “Huskies” kept the score low.
The wearers of the Maroon and Gold journeyed to East Stroudsburg to wind up the season on November 14 and emerged 7-0 victor
in their last game. Both teams fought on rather equal terms, but
Bloomsburg’s first period score proved to be the margin of victory.
Coach A. Austin Tate and his assistants George Buchheit and Walter
Moleski feel that the ground work has been laid for a favorable season next fall.
October

31, last year’s

o

BASKETBALL
Head Coach George

C. Buchheit, has issued a call for basketball

candidates at the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
First to report were those who were members of last year’s squad,
including five lettermen. These boys are: Captain Ruckle, forward,

Wanamie; Smethers, forward, Berwick;

Blass, center, Aristes; Banta,

guard, Luzerne; Withka, guard, Simpson. Additional candidates from
last year’s squad include Slaven, forward, Fleetwood; Giermak, forward, Edwardsville; Blackburn, guard, Wanamie, Wenrich, forward,

Harrisburg; Snyder, center, Bloomsburg; Litwhiler, guard, Ringtown;
Parker, guard, Kulpmont. New candidates included two Berwick
boys who have contributed to basketball history in Berwick, Pa.
Kirk, a center, and Harrison, a guard.
will not comment much about the season’s prosadmits that things look fair with the advantage of having
more reserve material than last year. The Bloomsburg “Huskies”

Coach Buchheit

pects, but

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opened their court season with an alumni team Friday evening, December 4, composed from the following players: Forwards Blackburn,
Wanamie; Krauss, Bloomsburg; Varetski, Glen Lyon; Valiente, HazlePhillips, Wanamie; Jaffin, Berwick; Washaleski, Simpton; Guards
son; Shepella, Alden; Reed, Shamokin; Shakofski, Swoyersville; Cen-

—

—

— Kafchinski,

Scranton; Kundra, Eckley; Malone, Cumbola.
Last year the “Husky Basketeers” won 9 games and lost 5. This
year they play a 16 game schedule which follows:
ters

December
December
December

4

..

Alumni

11

..

Ithaca

17

..

January 9
January 15
January 21
January 23
January 29
January 30
February 6
February 12
February 13
February 19
February 20
February 26
February 27

..

Susquehanna
Susquehanna

.

..

Millersville

.

..

Mansfield

.

..

Lock Haven

.

..

Shippensburg

.

..

Millersville

.

!.

East Stroudsburg

..

Shippensburg

..

Lock Haven

..

..

..

Indiana
East Stroudsburg
Mansfield
Ithaca

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

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Members

of the Y.

M.

C. A.

of the

College under the sponsorship of Mr. S.

Bloomsburg State Teachers
I.

Shortess,

entertained a

group of under-privileged boys ranging from 5 to 10 years of age at
a Christmas party held at the College Wednesday evening, December
16. Each individual boy in attendance received a Christmas gift from
a

member of the organization.
The Day Women’s Association

aided the local chapter of the Red
Christmas program by contributing and distributing toys,
food, and clothing to the needy of the community. Each girl was
pledged to contribute at least one article to the committee in charge
Cross in

its

of the project.

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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
the address on our files.

at

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

’06

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

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

•

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Bloomsburg

is

“tops” not only in Pennsylvania, but in the coun-

once again proven by the facts below.
is proud of its connection
with the town and college of that name, “Bloomsburg.” What makes
us still more joyous is the fact that both winners of the first and second prizes in the recent “Name the Presidents Contest” conducted
by the Philadelphia Inquirer for $50,000 in cash prizes are active
and interested members of our Philadelphia Association.
Mr. Sterner, winner of the $10,000, is one of the most loyal suptry at large. This statement

And

the Philadelphia

is

Alumni Association

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porters and Miss Klein, winner of $5,000, class of 1917, also a member
of our group. Our heartiest congratulations go out to these two

“Bloomsburgers.”

The following excerpts are taken
quirer of Dec.

Now

fi'om

Philadelphia

the

In-

2:

just sit

down for a few minutes and chat with Mr. Sterner,
man who snared that treasure which thousands

the top winner, the

upon thousands hoped

to find

some bright morning

at their doors.

You’d like Mr. Sterner. For 73, he’s remarkably vigorous, both
mentally and physically. He’s a man of medium build with a benign
and scholarly air. He has sparse white hair, glasses, and a quiet, deliberate way of speaking. He celebx-ated his birthday on Election Day.
Excited? Not Mr. Sterner.
“I am not the excitable type,” he explains. “In this case, I just
turn all my excitement into appreciation.” Mr. Sterner is a retired
superintendent of schools of Bloomsburg, Pa.

Born on a farm in Columbia County, eight miles from Bloomsburg, he attended Lafayette College and then started to teach school.

He

taught a

number

of schools

and was principal

at three different

academies before he became superintendent of the public schools of
Bloomsburg.
After 40 years of service with the Bloomsburg schools, he rewhen his wife died a year later, came here to
make his home with his son, Dr. Robert Fulton Sterner, at 9 Ryers

tired in 1928, and,

Avenue, Cheltenham.

He

has another son, Dr. James H. Sterner,

who

is

employed

in

the research department of a Rochester, N. Y., camera company, and
a daughter, Miss Alice Sterner, who teachers English in Baringer

High School, the oldest high school in Newark, N. J.
Mr. Sterner had never been in a contest before when he began
the Inquirer’s “Name the Presidents” Contest. Because of its educational and historical connections, this one attracted his attention.
He never dreamed that he’d win!
And now that he has
“Well,” he says, “those fellows that have gold bricks to sell
needn’t come around to see me!”
Mr. Sterner can’t say just what he’s going to do with $10,000,
but he is certain that he is going to spend it usefully. He isn’t really
used to so much money.
“I was never a great lover of money,” he relates. “All the money

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ever had I spent for the education of my children.”
Celebrating? No, I don’t think I’ll do any celebrating.
change that for just thankfulness.
I

I’ll

ex-

—

Mr. Sterner submitted two entries in the contest two sets of
two pairs of subscriptions, and two letters telling which
President he thought had done the most for his country. Which President did he choose?
puzzles,

“George Washington! In both my letters
“He was too good to give up.”

I

wrote on him,” he

smiled.

who

lives at 113 Chestnut Street, Haddonfield, and
elementary grades of Haddonfield Public School,
hasn’t a plan in the world for spending her prize of $5000 all because she didn’t expect to win anything.

Miss Kline,

teaches in the

—

Oh-h, she’s been in contests before and she’s won prizes, too, but
never anything like this! Maybe $5 or $10, but $5000 whew!

—

Miss Kline was away for the week-end and when she came home
she found a telegram waiting. It informed her that she was to be at
the Inquirer contest offices Monday at 3:30 P. M. She thought maybe
it was another $5 or $10 and was thrilled aplenty at that! But $5000!
Well, by 3.35 P. M. Monday you could hardly see Miss Kline for
smiles!

She submitted only one entry and her choice was Washington.
It isn’t to be wondered at that we are proud of our distinguished

members? Many others

of our Association

won

smaller prizes in this

contest.

The meeting of our Philadelphia Association have been well attended and highly successful during the present season, and deep interest in our growth and development was shown as always.
We were glad to greet so many new members at our November meeting which was also attended by Miss Marion Garney who
celebrated her birthday anniversary by sharing with us a huge cake
with Happy Birthday and shining candles on it. Marion is only eight,
but already she is one of our sub juniors for Bloomsburg.
Once again we invite all who are interested in Bloomsburg to attend our luncheon meeting which are always interesting.
A Christmas party was planned for the December meeting on
December 12. Miss Genevieve Klein, second prize winner in the Inquirer contest will be with us and we hope will give us a little instruction on “How she earned that wonderful prize.” Mr. Sterner
hopes to attend on January’s meeting and

we

are certain that both

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these meetings will be well attended to see and hear our two

“cele-

brities.”

Extensive plans are being formulated for our luncheon meeting

and the banquet in April which will be held as usual in the Bellevue Stratford on the last Saturday. Our reason for choosing this date
as most of you no doubt know is because of daylight saving mixups which are avoided by holding this annual affair before daylight
saving begins.

MISS FLORENCE HESS COOL, President.
MRS. JENNIE YODER FOLEY, Secretary.
In

Memoriam

The Philadelphia Alumni Association deeply

regret the passing

and most loyal member of their group, Mandilla
Hartline Yeager. Mrs. Yeager attended our October meeting and it
was with great sorrow we learned of her death. We have lost a loyal
member and a sincere friend.
of a well loved

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,

B. S. T. C.

o

TO THE ALUMNI
asked the Editor the other day if I might have a personal page
and he said I might if I didn’t make it too personal or
brag too much about the class of 1911. His attitude in the matter
hurt considerably, but a page is a page so here goes.
Last week I was down and called on Mrs. Jenkins Anna Bittenbender to you of 1875. She is carrying on in splendid style. Think
how many years of excellent service have been given to the school
by the Jenkins family! Really we should send her another 100 Alumni Memberships before the next issue of the “Quarterly.”
For a retired man Prof. Hartline is about the biggest fraud that
ever lived. He is either climbing a mountain, or listening to 17 year
locusts sing, or buzz, or hum (I have forgotten which), or you will
find him out with a bunch of scouts on a nature study jaunt. He can
out-hike about 99 per cent of the people in Bloomsburg today.
Prof. Bakeless’ dream has about come true. I was checking up
I

in this issue

—

the other day and these are the facts.

Room

The furnishings

cost exactly $3871.70. This has all

tion of $99.55.

Think

of that

in the

Alumni

been paid with the excep-

and be proud.

If

our 8000 Alumni could

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amount between now and Alumni Day, May 22, what
announcement could be made in the general meeting! I
noticed in today’s “Harrisburg Evening News” that an alumni of
Cornell gave $100,000 to her Alma Mater to provide athletic scholarships. Did it ever occur to you that if $5,000 could be added to our
Alumni Loan Fund it would be of untold worth to the College? Durscare up that
a corking

ing these depression years the present loan fund

—

small as it is
has been of sufficient help to keep many students in school who
otherwise would have had to drop out. “As you prosper, think of
Bloomsburg.”
Speaking of the Alumni Room, we are collecting there a lot of
worth-while things old pictures, old publications, old programs, a
dozen silver plaques and cups, catalogue files, etc. If you have anything to contribute, send it along. It will be well cared for.
See you in May.
E. H. NELSON.

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o

ATTENTION REUNION CLASSES

Brief reminders of the coming class reunions are printed

Alumni
Alumni Day

among

under the dates of the classes concerned.
is becoming bigger and better every year; let us make
this one bigger and better than ever!
Get in touch with your class officers and start making plans for
your class reunion. If you can get no action from them, appoint
yourself chairman of the Reunion Committee, and get something
started. The pages of the April issue of the QUARTERLY are open
to you; we shall be glad to print any communication that you may
send us. The dead-line for the April number is March 15; let us have
your copy before that date.
In accordance with our custom, we shall also print a supplement
to the Quarterly in March. We shall be glad to publish your communications in the supplement also. Copy should be in the hands of
the Editor by March first. The supplement will be sent to every
Bloomsburg graduate whose correct address is on file.
Last year, over 1000 Alumni were on the campus on Alumni Day.
Is there any reason why we should not have 1500 on May 22?
the

personals,

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1872

CLASS REUNION— MAY

22, 1937

1877

CLASS REUNION— MAY

22, 1937

1881

Torrence B. Harrison, 77, prominent in educational circles of the
state for more than fifty years, died Thursday afternoon, January 23,
1936, at his home in Upper Town Line, near Shickshinny.
He was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School and
served successively as teacher or principal in Heyburn, Plymouth
Township, Wilkes-Barre, Ashley, Hazleton, and Huntington Township. He retired about nine years ago.
Miss Dora Marr, one of Bloomsburg’s best known and most
esteemed residents, was instantly killed Friday evening, October 9,
while crossing the street. Miss Marr, protected from the light rain by
an umbrella, walked into the path of a machine.
Miss Marr had spent her entire life in Bloomsburg, and for more
than thirty years has been employed as a stenographer in the Farmers’ National Bank. She was also an active member of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church. Years ago, she taught school in the vicinity of
Bloomsburg.
1882

CLASS REUNION— MAY

22, 1937

1886

Mrs. Adelle Shaffer Broughall has
ware, where she is living with her two
mington is 500 West 14th Street.

moved
sisters.

to

Wilmington, Delain Wil-

Her address

1887

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1888

home in Pottsville Sunday, Novon Thanksgiving night, and died the
following Sunday morning. After his graduation from Bloomsburg,
he taught for two years, and then started to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was employed at East Bloomsburg, Monanaqua,
Bruce Jones passed away

ember

29, 1936.

He was taken

at his

ill

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Shenandoah, St. Clair, and Pottsville. He worked for the railroad
until two years ago, when he retired. When death came, he, with his
wife,

Mary Byron

’88,

lived in Pottsville.

1892

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1897

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1898

Mary Mendilla Hartline Yeager
the family home in Holmesburg,

Mrs.
1936, at

On Wednesday,

died on Sunday, October

18,

Pa.

a busy day, near retiring time, she enwith her husband and one of the children, and
then went upstairs to her room. Later one of the girls went there to
say good-night, and found her lying in her bed, rapidly sinking into
a coma, in which she passed to her end on Sunday morning.

gaged

after

in conversation

Up to this time she had been in usual good health, except admitting unusual continued weariness. This, she said, was much relieved by a happy visit to her brother, Prof. D. S. Hartline, and Mrs.
Hartline, at Bloomsburg.

She was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in
She taught two years in Lackawanna County, near Moscow, Pa.
Following this she taught in the Philadelphia schools until her marriage with Mr. Charles Yeager, a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor on
passenger trains between Philadelphia and New York.
She became the mother of five children, two girls and three
boys: Esther, recently graduated from B. S. T. C., now teaching in
the Philadelphia schools; Charles, Jr., recently graduated from
Frankford High School, and now an undergraduate student in Botany in the University of Idaho; Daniel and James, twins, the former
a student in Diesel engineering and the latter at home; and Mary,
now president of this year’s graduating class at Frankford High
1898.

School.

Her community activities were of the neighborhood sort that
grew out of church relations, and were much appreciated.
A great throng from the neighborhood, and many from distant
communities where she was known, attended the funeral and contributed to the massive floral decorations for home and grave.
She was warm in her loyalty to the B. S. N. S. of her day, and

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now

B. S. T. C., attending every Philadelphia

39

Alumni banquet, from

one on, and frequently running to the city to the Bloomsburg luncheon meetings at Gimbel’s. She was eagerly looking forward to the 40th reunion of her class this coming May.
the

fii'st

The family heartily appreciates the floral tributes, especially the
one sent by the Philadelphia Alumni Association. Mrs. Foley, secretary of the Philadelphia Alumni, represented that body, and her
classmates were represented by Miss Mary Seely.
1900

Mrs. Henry C. Hoffman, nee Helena Edwards, passed away on
October 9, 1936 at Elmhurst, Pa. She was graduated from Bloomsburg in the class of 1900. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Elmer Treverton, and three sons, Robert, Edward and Henry C., Jr. She was 56 years old.
1901
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, missionary of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions among the Moros of the Philippine Islands is the author of a very interesting little book entitled
“The Philippines’ Literacy Method,” in which he describes the
method by which he teaches the natives to read their language. He
speaks of the campaign against illiteracy as an important factor in
missionary work, because of the fact that it is an excellent avenue of
approach through which natives may be reached to receive the missionary message. Dr. Laubach and his family have been in America
on furlough during the past year, spending much of their time in
Benton, Pa. They expect to return soon to the Philippines to take up
their work.
1902

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1904

Emma

Berry Motter will be interested in the following, clipped from a recent issue of the Reading Eagle:
United Air Lines have upwards of 10,000 applications on hand
for hostess positions, but a Reading girl landed one of the jobs. She
is Miss Helen L. Motter, daughter of Mrs. Emma B. Motter,
112 N.
Eleventh Street, who is a graduate of the Reading Hospital Training
School for Nurses and the Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre.
Miss Motter is serving as a stewardess on planes operating between
New York and Chicago. Air line officials prefer nurses for the work
Classmates of

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because they

know what

to

do in case of emergency. The Reading

won

the appointment after a personal interview in Chicago.
Officials of the company said that applications come into their offices

girl

for the positions

on the average of 15

to 20 daily.”

1907

CLASS REUNION— MAY

22, 1C37

Mrs. Blanche Wingert Lucas, art supervisor at Allentown, has
returned after spending a year as an exchange teacher in Europe.
The following article, clipped from an Allentown newspaper, tells of
the exhibit of art work which Mrs. Lucas has brought back with her:
Declaring that English art and vocational school work is “not
more advanced but more thorough” than that now prevailing in
American schools, Mrs. Blanche Lucas, this city, who served for a
year as an exchange teacher in England, addressed a large gathering

Allentown art teachers and school principals.
Mrs. Lucas gave her address in the art gallery of Lehigh University, where she has her private collection of art and vocational
work of England and other European countries on display.
Her lecture was also graced by the presence of several prominent school officials of the Allentown district, including Acting Superintendent of Schools, C. F. Seidel and members of the school board.
The lecture and exhibition marked one of the final chances
Lehigh Valley residents will have to see this interesting collection
for some time to come, inasmuch as next week Mrs. Lucas and her
collection will go on a tour which will result in the exhibit being
shown in various cities and communities throughout Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Ohio and Massachusetts.
In prefacing her remarks to the art teachers and principals assembled, Mrs. Lucas said that the collection is “an honest representation of what was going on daily in the 574 school rooms I visited in
of

England, not including the foreign schools

I

visited.”

She asserted that the examples were “not the

best, neither

were

they finest” that she saw.
Included in the exhibit are pencil drawings, applied design, linoleum prints, block prints, potato prints, free illustrations, history of
weaving, history of book binding and water color illustrations.
It is an interesting group that followed Mrs. Lucas about the
room as she explained the various exhibits and their history. Possessed of a charming personality and an accurate knowledge of her

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Lucas held the rapt attention of the large group for
an hour. Following her talk she conducted an informal hour,
during which she explained in detail various exhibits to intei'ested

subject, Mrs.
fully

groups.

EngUsh school system is that all
work fundamentals are included before the child
has decided on his life’s vocation. She also declared that the work of

Her

special observation of the

of the vocational

the English children in their school

is

characterized by “great care

more meticulous” than that of our American children.
She warmly praised the exchange system, which she declared
was “the outstanding experience” in her life and added that if the

and

is

exchange system develops

it

will

be a strong feature toward promot-

ing world peace.
In addition to the months she spent in English schools, both public

and

private, Mrs.

Lucas spent much time visiting the European

schools.

In Paris she was personally escorted by Sabine Saloma, art
supervisor of Paris schools. In Germany, Mrs. Lucas was the special
guest of Dr. Jonas Rapp, who is in charge of the exchange students

between England and Germany. In Switzerland, Mrs. Lucas was the
guests of Frau Professor Pestalossi, head of the museum in Zurich.
1911

(Some personals submitted by D. D. Wright).
Harry Bogert has taught in the

vicinity of his

home

at Rohrs-

burg, Columbia County, since graduation.

Mae Chamberlain married

the Rev.

an ordained minister. They

live at Olyphant, Pa.

also

J. J.

Sherman, and she

is

Sharadin spent the 1935-36 College year at the SpringEducation, and was awarded his
master’s degree at that institution in June, 1936. Abe reported at the
1911 class reunion that he is now a grandfather. His wife in Georgina
A.

field,

J.

Mass., College of Physical

McHenry,

of the class of 1910.

George Landis is located at the Landis family homestead near
Pa., and is engaged in the business of growing plants for
farmer neighbors, and in raising a family of three sons and a

Rock Glen,
his

daughter.

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Edna Lewis Robinson was present at the 1911 twenty -five year
reunion with a son several inches taller than she is. Her present address is Long Meadow, Mass.

Homer Englehart married Margaret Row, of the class of 1912.
They are located at Harrisburg, where he is a public accountant.
They have three sons and a daughter.
H. F. Baker, Muncy, Pa., Donald McHenry, Danville, Pa., J. R.
Brobst, Bloomsburg, Pa., H. A. Smith, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Loren L.
Collins, Chicago, 111., Harry Fortner, Maywood, 111., James A. Corri-

Wyoming, Pa., are all M.
H. A. Smith enjoys a wide reputation as a bone surgeon. His
specialty is the correction of deformities in children, resulting from
infantile paralysis. James A. Corrigan has a private hospital in
Hazleton.
gan, Hazleton, Pa., and Freas B. Klinetob,

D.’s.

Carlton T. Creasy
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

is

a Doctor of Dental Surgery,

practicing in

Eliza Goldsworthy, Hazleton; Lydia Koehler, Scranton; Jennie

Wardan, Dallas; Grace Johnson, NorthumberBerwick; Ethel Paisley, Nesquehoning; Mary
Ferrio, Dickson City, anjl Margaret Fraser Johnson, New York City,
are some of the members of the class who remain loyal to the
Barklie, Ashley; Clara

Ruth

land;

Harris,

teaching profession.

The following members of the class of 1911 are reported to have
died in the twenty-five years since graduation: John Boyle, America
Barletta, Lucy Hawk, Amanda Hawk, Margaret Gaffney, Mary Heller,

Cormac Kennedy, John Ray Kunkel and Creola

Anna Kline Kocher,

now

of Espy, has a son

Harter.

and a daughter who are

students at B. S. T. C.

Edgar B. Landis is trust officer of the personal trust department
Chemical Bank and Trust Co. of New York City. He married
Ruth Kendall, of the class of 1912. They live in Scarsdale, N. Y. Mrs.

of the

Kendall, Ruth’s mother, lives with them.

George Ferrio,

Jr.,

is

one of the leading members of the legal

profession in Bridgeport, Conn.

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C. Carroll Bailey

is

pastor of the Grace Evangelical

43

Church

in

Baltimore, Md.

Addresses of the following members of the Class of 1911 are not
the Alumni list. If any one can supply any of these addresses, he is requested to send same to the Business Office, State
Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Ethel Adamson Sturgis, Harriet
Armstrong, Nellie C. Barrett, Jacob J. Becker, Mary Z. Burke, Irene
Campbell Getty, Anna C. Condron, Thomas H. Keiser, Amanda
Knauss Palmer, Marie McGall, Mary E. Myers, Miriam A. Reed,
Gertrude Marie Roney, Agnes R. Tigue, Edwin L. Yocum, Joseph
Lorenzetty, Elmira Guiterman Letner, Anna Wiant.

on

file in

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1912

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

aged forty-eight. President of Creasy & Wells,
known business men and esteemed
citizens, died suddenly Friday, October 9, at his home on West Third
street from angina pectoris.

Edward

Inc.,

one of

C. Creasy,

this section’s best

Mr. Creasy was stricken about 10:00 o’clock in the evening, but
medical aid was unavailing, and his death occurred two hours later.
Word of his passing came as a profound shock to his legion of friends

and wide

A

circle of his acquaintances.

native of Bloomsburg,

resided here throughout his
tional

where he was born on May 24, 1888, he
and was a director of the First Na-

life,

Bank.

He prepared

at the

Bloomsburg State Normal School, now the

Teachers College, and at Dickinson College where he studied three
years before becoming associated with his father, the late S. C. Creasey, in the business which he was prominently indentified for the
remainder of his life. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.

Mr. Creasy was a member of the Bloomsburg Rotary Club, Caldwell Consistory, the Shrine, Washington Lodge and Bloomsburg
Lodge and Bloomsburg Lodge of Elks and was an active member of
the First Presbyterian Church.

He

is

survived by his wife, the former Lydia Andres,

daughter, Louise.

’12,

and a

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1915
Lillian

Zimmerman

lives

1910 K. Street, N.

at

W. Apt.

301,

Washington, D. C.
1916

New Hancock Street, WilkesWiegand was graduated from Susquehanna University at the close of the 1936 summer session. She served as Dean of
Women there for two summers.
Elizabeth Wiegand lives at 279

Barre, Pa. Miss

1917

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1922

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1927

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

1929

On

Saturday, June 20, Miss Ruth Shannon, of Berwick, became
the bride of Theron R. Rhinard, of Berwick, R. D., at the home of the
bride’s parents, with the Rev. M. S. Kitchen officiating.
Both young people are graduates of the Berwick High School and
the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College. For the past several years
the bride has been a teacher in the East Berwick schools. The groom
is employed as principal of the East Berwick schools.

Miss Elizabeth Halupka and Stephen Charnitski, both of Mocanaqua, were married Thursday, June 18, in a pretty wedding ceremony
performed in the Church of the Ascension, Mocanaqua, by the Rev.
Father Baloga. The bride, a graduate of Shickshinny and B. S. T. C.,
is

Mocanaqua
management

a teacher in the

mother

in

the

schools.
of

The groom,

associated with his

the Charnitski store,

which

has

branches in Shickshinny and Mildred.
1930
Miss Sarah R. Albright, of Williamsport, died Tuesday, October
22, at the home of her parents. She is survived by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Albright, two sisters, and three bi'others. Before
coming to Bloomsburg, Miss Albright was graduated from the Williamsport High School. She taught for two years at Westover. She
was a member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Williamsport.

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1932

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

Miss Mae Berger, teacher in Pine Township schools, had a narrow escape from serious injury Monday, September 28, when the car
she was driving and which carried the fair exhibit of the Pine Township school, had a front tire blow-out. It left the highway and turned
over one and a half times as it went down the bank.
Miss Berger kept hold of the steering wheel and her presence of
for her escape with a bruise on the head and
scratches. Much of the carefully planned exhibit was destroyed.

mind was responsible

Edward DeVoe, of Berwick, teacher of Sophomore English in the
Bloomsburg Senior high school since the beginning of the 1935-36
term, has been elected to the faculty of the Thaddeus Stevens Junior
High School, Williamsport, and took up his duties November first.
Mr. DeVoe has charge of printing in Williamsport, and is faculty
manager of the student publications. He is secretary of the Susquehanna Scholastic Press Association, and was instrumental in bringing
the annual meeting of this organization to Bloomsburg in October.
1933

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

Miss June Mensch became the bride of Stanley Strauser, Saturday, October 31, at one o’clock in the Epihany Episcopal Church,
Niagara Falls, N. Y. The ring ceremony was performed by the Rev.

David Weeks, pastor of the church. They were unattended.
The groom is employed in Niagara Falls, N. Y.
The bride has been a teacher in the Montour Township Schools
of Columbia County.
Evelyn M. Smith

is

teaching at Womelsdorf, Pa.

1934

CLASS REUNION—MAY
at

Robert H. VanSickle
Harrisburg.

is

22, 1937

employed in the Department

of

Revenue

Edith Blair, of Jenkintown, was married to Elison C. Shute, of
Philadelphia, July 18, 1936, in the garden of her home. Kathryn Benner and Dorothy Jones, both of the class of 1932, were two of the

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attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Shute are

now

living

at

3615

North 21st

Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Althena Marshman (Mrs. A. R. Adey)

lives at 417

Alvin Street,

Freeland, Pa.

Miss Anna Gillaspy, of Sunbury, and Bertram Raker, Jr., of Sunbury, were married Saturday evening, September 26, in the Lutheran
Church at Danville by the Rev. E. L. Leisey.
1935

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ash Yeany, of East Third Street, announced the marriage of their daughter, Louise, to Frances Kenneth Bittenbender, son of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Milnes Brittenbender, of
Bloomsburg.
The ceremony was performed on Saturday, October 31, at four
o’clock in the Zion Lutheran Church, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., by the
Rev. E. C. Kraeling. Members of the immediate families attended the
ceremony.

The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, 1929,
Swarthmore Preparatory School, Swarthmore, Pa., and the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1935, where he
belonged to the Sigma Pi fraternity. He is employed in the City Bank
Farmers’ Trust Company, New York City.
The couple will make their home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
the

Joseph Visotski, of Merriam, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1935, and Miss Jane Boyce, of Merriam, were
married in St. Anthony’s Church at Brady by the Rev. Father Bartol.
Visotski was a member of the undefeated College baseball team of
1935.

Albert Hayes has been serving as a substitute teacher in the
schools of Briar Creek.

1936

CLASS REUNION—MAY

22, 1937

Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, director of teacher training, recently an-

nounced the list of the members of the 1936 graduating class who
have obtained positions in the teaching profession. The list includes

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their B. S. in Education

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and those teaching under a

State limited certificate.

The graduates and the places where they ai'e employed are:
Kathryn Brobst, Bethel; Sara Shuman, Robesonia; Mervin Mericle,
Galeton; Ernest Lau, Dimock; Woodrow Litwhiler, Woodstown, N. J.;
Kenneth Merrill, Orangeville; Dorothy Johnson, Mainville; Robert
Abbott, Mifflintown; Violet Brown, Yardley; Samuel Green, Salem
Township; Daniel Jones, Nescopeck; William Morgan, Newport
Township; Frank Rompalo, Blythe Township.
Rachel Beck, Sunbury; Gladys Rinard, Bristol; Mildred Auten,
McEwensville; Gertrude Dermody, Canton; Helen Latorre, Locust
Gap; David Mayer, Wilkes-Barre; Margaret Schubert, Spring Township; Francis Vinisky, Baltimore, Md.; Howard Waite, Quakertown;
John Sandel, Forest Hills; Marian Cooper, Northumberland; Janet
Davis, Clifford; Michael Marshalek, Marion Heights; Earl Palmatier,
Martinsburg.
Eleanor Bingaman, McClure; Elizabeth Dunn, Greenfield; Mary
Enterline, Limestone Township; Audrie Fleming, Sunbury; Eleanor Hess, Upper Augusta Township; Mary Lorah, Pleasant Valley;
Marian Sudimak, Luzerne; Amy Smethers, Berwick; Grace Baylor,
Lewisburg; Alice Harry, Berwick; Phylis Hechman, Millersburg;
John Yurgel, Enola; Beulah Beltz, Locust Township; Julia Bruggler,
Tomhicken; Esther Welker, Hershey.

Lou

William Ditty, Dornsife; Norman Falck, Upper Mahoney TownRuth Gessner, Leek Kill; Myrtle Heidenrick, Moreland Township; Lucinda Vought, Locust Township; Jessie Wary, Helfenstein;
Josephine Zeigler, Washington Township; Louise Linder man, Hazel
Township; Anna Gillespie, Centralia; Francis Garrity, Englewood, N.
J.; Mary Kuhn, Gilberton; Larue Derr, Center' Township; Vernice
Pooley, Hummelstown; Verna Jones, Jerseytown; Kathryn John, East
Mauch Chunk; Sarah Pauline Ranck, Bloomsburg; Betty Harter,
Bloomsburg; William Karshner, Tunkhannock; Jenna Mae Patterson, Mt. Pleasant; Elizabeth App, Monroe Township.
ship;

Harold Hyde, of town, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School,
and of the Teachers College last spring, was elected
teacher of the tenth grade English in the High School, succeeding
Edward DeVoe, who was granted his release that he might accept a
position in the Williamsport schools.
class of 1932,

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(Note:

The address

QUARTERLY

lists

published from time to time in

names

include only the

of

active

members

of

the

the

Alumni Association).
1880
Bridget A. Burns, 105 North Main Street, Shenandoah, Pa.
1889

Margaret A. Stephens Taylor, 159 State

Street,

New

London, Conn.

1890

Daniel Rinehart, 124 North Grove Street, Waynesboro, Pa.
1891
Belle Werl (Mrs. R. B. Grotz) 3240 81st

St.,

Jackson Heights, N. Y.

1899

Avon Road,

F.

Herman

J.

Grant Kehler, Mount Carmel, Pa.

J.

H. Oliver, Glen Alden Coal Company, Scranton, Pa.

Fritz, 201 East

Chester, Pa.

1900

1907
Mrs. Blanche Wingert Lucas, 236 South 14th
J.

A. E. Rodriguez, P. O.

Box

708,

St.,

Allentown, Pa.

San Juan, Porto

Rico.

1908

W. D. Watkins, National Exchange Bank Building, Wheeling, W. Va.
1911

Maurice

J.

Girton, Dallas, Pa.

1912
Clarence E. Barrow, Ringtown, Pa.

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Laura Williams, 13115 East Jefferson Avenue,

49

Detroit, Mich.

1913
L. R.

Appleman, Benton, Pa.

(B. S. 1932)

1914
P. L. Brunstetter, 111

Main

Street, Catavvissa, Pa. (B. S. ’34)

1916

Genevieve

Hammond

(Mrs.

B. Craven,

J.

Penn Avenue,

1542

Jr.)

Scranton, Pa.
1917

Clyde R. Luchs, 118 West First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
S. Dayton Beishline, Huntington Mills, Pa.
1918

Edna M. Davenport (Mrs.

J.

Rutter

Ohl)

512

Jefferson

Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa.
1919

Grace Cleaver (Mrs. H.

E.

Hartman) Elysburg, Pa.
1921

Marion A. Dennis (Mrs. Clarence Polk), 304 Church

street,

Milford,

Delaware.

Mary

E.

Brower, 337 College

Hill,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1922

Warren A. Dollman, R. D.

4,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1923
Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock, Pa.
E. R. Haupt, 343 Price Street, West Chester, Pa.
1924

Editha West Ent (Mrs. M. T.

Adams)

118

West

Street,

Pa.

Marion

T.

Adams, 118 West

Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Arlene Johnston, Hallstead, Pa.
1926
Jessica C. Trimble, 125

W. Vaughn

Street, Kingston, Pa.

Bloomsburg,

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1928

Helen Jenkes, 20 Cemetery

Mary

Street, Pittston, Pa. (B. S. 1936)

Woodlawn Avenue, Sunbury.
McManimen, 437 West Saylor Street,

Youtz, 714

Elizabeth

Atlas, Pa.

1929
Florence Drummond, 93 Centre Street, Pittston, Pa.
Charles Poole, Kelly Apts., Chalfont, Pa.
1930

Haven W.
Edgar

Fortner, 311 Stone Street, Osceola Mills, Pa.

E. Richards, 205 Tatnall

Raymond

T. Hodges, 1214

Avenue, Glenolden, Pa.

Gradview

Street, Scranton, Pa.

Leona Sterling, 490 West Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Margaret L. Davis, 420 North Maple Avenue, Kingston.
Dorothy Keith, 1636 West Gibson Street, Scranton, Pa.
Stacia Audelevicz, 326 West Main Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Dorothy M Foote, Girl Scout Headquarters, City Hall, Jamestown, N.
Y.

1931

Naoma Edwards,
M.

5

West Green

Street, Nanticoke, Pa.

Violette Williams, 317 Miller Street, Luzerne, Pa.

Dawn Townsend,

257 East Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Bowman,

382 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Harriet Roan, 594 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Elizabeth

193?

Margaret Hendrickson, 118 East Front Street, Danville, Pa.
Kathryn Benner, 425 Logan Street, Lewistown, Pa.
Ezra W. Harris, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dorothy J. Jones, 813 Rutter Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Harriet A. Levan, R. D. 3, Catawissa Pa.
Genevieve M. Omichinski, 73 Orchard Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.
Edith C. Strickler, 8th Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.
1933

Marion De Frain, Sugarloaf, Pa.
Frances Austin, 319 Bennett Street, Luzerne, Pa.
Thomas H. Beagle, 333 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Melba Beck, 607 Park Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mary Betterly, 3664 Derry Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

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Thomas Coursen, 224 East Poplar Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Frances L. Evans (Mrs. Robert B. Parker,) Millville, Pa.
Dorothy F. Gilmore, 414 E. Second Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Pearl L. Halkowicz, 108-110 Girard Street, Atlas, Pa.
Bessie M. Hummel, 206 Eleventh Street, Sunbury, Pa.
Iva Jenkins, Newton, 36 East Main Street, Galeton, Pa.
Marjorie L. Jones, Box 65, R. D. 1, Wapwallopen, Pa.
Eva Krauss, 463 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Daniel Malone, 195 Main Street, Cumbola, Pa.
Anna McGinley, 401 Locust Avenue, Centralia, Pa.
Robert P. Morgan, 262 Gardner Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Irene Naus, Fern Glen, Pa.
Robert B. Parker, Millville. Pa.

Grace Radel, R. D. 3, Sunbury, Pa.
Margaret R. Sandbrook, 335 Peach Street, Catasaqua, Pa.
Louise Shipman, Route 1, Sunbury, Pa.
Helen R. Smith, Lily Lake Avenue, Wapwallopen, Pa.
Violet I. Snyder, Box 57, Montandon, Pa.
L.

1934

Nora Bayliff, 613 Clinton Street, Vandling, Pa.
Thelma Bonshock, 1527 Pulaski Avenue, Shamokin, Pa.
Roberta Conrad, 250 Eleventh Street, Northumberland, Pa.
Fortunato Falcone, Lattimer Mines, Pa.
Grace F. Foote, 423 East 3rd Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Blanche Garrison, 911 Mulberry Street, Berwick, Pa.
Anna M. Gillaspy (Mrs. B. E. Raker, Jr.) 341 Race St., Sunbury, Pa.
Joseph Gribbon, 1051 Delaware Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa.
Ruth Hemon, 270 West Main Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Marion E. Hinkel, 251 North Third Street, Columbia, Pa.
Blanche Kostenbauder, 534 Center Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mary C. Langan, 102 Church Street, Jessup, Pa.
Sarah E. Lentz, Georgetown, Delaware.
Jane Lewis, 169 Reynold Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Marjorie McAlla, Clifford, Pa.
Betty McGoldriek, 126 Shoemaker Avenue, Dunmore, Pa.
Joy Morris, 941 East Northampton Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Pauline Ranck, 17 West Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Pierce Reed, R. D. 5, Danville, Pa.
Phyllis Rubright, 37 South Nice Street, Frackville, Pa.

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Maryruth Rishe, 629 Catherine Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dorothy Semic, 2503 South Fourth Street, Steelton, Pa.
Grace Swartwood, R. D. 1, Pittston, Pa.
William H. Thompson, 901 Archbald Street, Scranton, Pa.
Marie Wilkinson, Dornsife, Pa.
Gerald M. Woolcock, Millville, Pa.
1935

Walter B. Buggy, 823 West Chestnut, Shamokin, Pa.
Edwin R. Creasy, 324 Center Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Kathryn Doyle, 1049 Pine Street, Kulpmont, Pa.
Joseph Evancho, Ebervale, Pa.
L. Irene Frederick,

A.

Route

1,

Milton, Pa.

Euphemia Gilmore, 414 East Second

Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Elvira James, 155 S. Nice Street, Frackville, Pa.

Clyde C. Kitch, 129 North 7th Street, Columbia, Pa.
Peter Kundra, 100 Main Street, Eckley, Pa.
John J. McGrew, Mahanoy Plane, Pa.

McManimen, 437 W. Saylor Street, Atlas, Pa.
Bruno A. Novak, 1024 Alder Street, Scranton, Pa.
Thelma K. Uplinger, Brower Avenue, Oaks, Pa.
Mabel Oxford, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
William Pietruszak, Mocanaqua, Pa.
Claire

Michael Prokopchak, Dallas, Pa.
Flora Robinholt, 149 East Main Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
A. J. Shakofski, 311 Shoemaker Street, Swoyerville, Pa.
Theodore Smith, 622 Chestnut Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.
Dorothy Tigue, 9 Carnelia Street, Pittston, Pa.
George W. Van Sickle, Catawissa, Pa.
o

Saturday,

November

bride’s parents, Rev. C.

7,

Miss Lucille Marion Gilchrist, of Lake

at the home of the
Duane Butler performed the ceremony. The
wedding trip through Pennsylvania and New

Como, became the bride

of Dr. Carl H. Kindig,

young couple left on a
York and upon their return will reside at Troy, N. Y.
The bride is a graduate of the Preston High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and was a successful teacher at
Lititz. The groom is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Rensselner Polytechnic Institute, where he is an instructor.

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THE AMERICAN TEACHERS COLLEGE

The paramount problem

in public education

in this

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every classroom for every
group of children a competent teacher, a leader, a companion, a foreman who can create worthy ideals, right attitudes, and permanent life interests, who can help them to
find worth-while work to do, who knows how to promote cooperation and to develop the team spirit, who as an expert
workman himself is able to direct the efforts of others to suecessful achievement.
To find young men and women of good health, of fine
intellectual capacity, of high moral purpose and to educate
and train them for this leadership, the Teachers’ Colleges of
America, by whatever names they may be known, have been

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beloved country and for the welfare and happiness of our
people. May her friends be multiplied and may her enemies
be converted or confounded.
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proudly of our million-dollar public school teachers as we
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The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

APRIL.

38

Entered as Second-Class Matter. July

1.

NO.

1937

1909, at the

2

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

THE SPIRIT OF BLOOMSBURG
W.

B.

SUTLIFF

(A Radio Address Broadcast from

WKOK,

Sunbury)

doubtless know that the chief interest of my life has been
the guidance and training of promising young people for
the profession of teaching.
Each year we have the pleasure of announcing the names of
those members of our Freshmen Class who have by excellent
scholastic attainment and good citizenship, reached the standards set
for attaining a place upon our Honor Roll.
I shall now read the
names of this fine group of Freshmen at the College, together with
the name of the high school responsible for the Secondary School
training of each student.

You

and

still is

Name
Helen Brady
Joyce Dessen
Vivian Frey
Charles S. Girton
Veronica Grohal
Roberta Hagenbuch

High School
Kingston
Hazleton
Mifflinville

Dallas Twp.

Black Creek Twp.

Montgomery

—Clinton

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Earl

W. Houck

Berwick

Gladys Jones
Gertrude Kadtke
Charles L. Kelchner

Scranton Central
Shickshinny
West Hazleton

Thelma Klinger
Frank Kocher

Sunbury
Twp.

Scott

Paul B. Kokitas
Eunice J. Laubach
Albert Leonzi

West Hazleton
Berwick

__

Summit

Betty J. Lerew
Abigail Lonergan

Berwick

Powell
Betty M. Roberts
Lorraine C. Snyder

Helen

Hill

East Berlin

F.

Myers

—

Nanticoke
Wilkes-Barre

_

Pottsville

Jennis E. Tewksbury
H. Elnora Unger
Frances Ward

Meshoppen

Margaret L. Ward
Jane B. Yeager

Ray

O.

Danville

Summit
Summit
Shamokin
Nuremberg

Clark’s

Clark’s

Zimmerman

.

We

are proud of the fine student body now in attendance, but as
many years service and contacts with students, we realize
that the real, vital institution exists in the work, character and
reputation of that greater body of students known as graduates or
alumni. In their hands lie the reputation and perpetuity of our
College. This is true not only of Bloomsburg, but of every institua

Dean

of

From high

we

are judged by
scholarship is
not the only test of a school’s success. Honesty, refinement, possession of the social graces and the fixed determination to do one’s best
under all circumstances mark the genuine and valid results of proper
tion of learning.

school

to university

what our students can and do accomplish.

Brilliant

training.

Let it be understood, however, that we are not merely looking
backward. Society establishes schools to insure its own continuance.
We are not content simply to pass on the social inheritance which we
have received. The idea of social progress gives each teacher a new
motive for his work. Change is inevitable. Today people are taking
thought for the future. We are setting up goals toward which organized effort seeks a better, finer, and happier social structure. This
of learning, churches, and schools; sa
is why we have institutions
that we may carry this culture forward from generation to generation.

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Good classroom teaching is the heart, the vital part of organized
education. Good classroom teaching has a two-fold purpose first
to
to meet the needs of the growing, developing child, and, second
meet the needs of a changing society in which the child must live: If
“Education (in this case teaching) is the stimulation and direction
of thinking;” if teaching leads to learning,, then the well trained
teacher, the teacher with a thorough knowledge of child development
and a broad view of societies needs is the only safe director of this
learning process.
In the hands of these teachers who make the daily contacts with
our children lie the destiny and progress of society. College students
preparing to teach must get this point of view. By this a Teachers
College justifies its existence. This is why we are proud of that great
company of our students of yesteryear who are now daily exemplifying in their classrooms the fact that they have caught the vision.
I salute you and extend my greetings.

—

My

interest in

youth has led

me

to

—

be deeply concerned in main-

taining those national and international relations which will insure
them an opportunity to live a useful life without encountering the

alarms and perils of war.
We have heard much of the Youth Movement and the activities
Great efforts are being put forth
in their behalf in central Europe.
by government edict and planning to produce a generation strong in
body, alert in mind, and devoted to the fatherland. What is the
purpose of all this gymnastic training, hiking, building of over-night
camps and special training of youth? The answer may be found by
reading the ominous sign placed over the gateway to these camps.
Where every boy may read as he enters is a large sign bearing these
words: "You were born to die for your country.” What a sad commentary on national ideas! Remember the fact also that those who
die in war are the young, the strong, the promising citizens.
On the campus at the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg
there stands a flag pole, where each day the stars and stripes float
proudly 80 feet above the ground. Grouped about this pole in star
foundation, 16 memorial pine trees keep green the memory of sixteen of our students whose lives were sacrificed in military service
during the World War. I knew each one of them. Allow me to read
a short poem which I have written, lest we forget. It’s title is:

The Flag Pole Speaks
Each morn they come and deck my head
While at my feet the pines speak of the dead.
They softly whisper of the gallant crew

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Those youths who walked these halls like you.
Hopes high and voices always gay
They worked and danced thru their short day.
Pray God that War with horrid leer
Shall never in your time appear
For those whose names are at my feet
Shall nevermore their comrades meet.
At eve the flag is gone, the moon rides overhead;
But the pines below keep whispering of the dead.

PROF. HARTLINE

HONORED

The highest award for leaders in scouting, that of the Silver
Beaver, was presented Monday evening, January 25th, to Prof. D. S.
Hartline, of Bloomsburg, at the fourteenth annual meeting of the
Columbia-Montour Council at Hotel Berwick. This coveted award
was given in recognition for noteworthy service of exceptional character to boyhood, at one of the most spirited meetings ever held by
the local council.

“By-Products of Life” was the subject of a fitting address by the
Rev. P. K. Emmons, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Scranton,
one of the many features of a varied program.
The citation was given by Dr. E. A. Glenn, of Berwick, included
in his record of exceptional service to boyhood, Prof. Hartline’s
services as a member of the executive board since the formation of
the council in 1922, chairman of the council camp committee from
1926 to 1930, a merit badge counselor from 1923 to 1936, chairman of
the Senior Scout Committee in 1926, an active participant in scouting before the organization of the council, and of being the first
scoutmaster in Bloomsburg, a charter member of the executive
board since 1923. In addition to his effective work as a committeeman in various offices he has filled, he has always helped others and
was a pioneer in scout work in Bloomsburg.
Prof. Hartline’s record of service in the community including his
professorship at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, for fortyfive years, superintendent of the St. Matthew Lutheran Sunday
School and a leader in various College activities.
The Silver Beaver award was a miniature Silver Beaver suspended by a blue and white ribbon, to be worn around the neck.

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ROTARY-KIWANIS COLLEGE NIGHT
were on parade Thursday evening,
Bloomsburg Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs and several hundred guests were entertained at the College.
The tenth annual affair proved one of the most successful in the
history of the club programs, as it depicted what goes on behind the
scenes of College life. A varied entertainment program that touched
College

March

11,

life

and

activities

when members

of the

on practically every phase of extra-curricular clubs brought together the College student body and guests in the auditorium following the dinner.
,
The guests assembled in the dining room where Frank Hutchison,
T6, president of the Rotary Club, presided and expressed his appreciation for the cooperation of the faculty and the school in making
possible such a delightful affair.
Dr. Haas extended a welcome to the guests, and said that the
purpose of the occasion was to spread knowledge about the College
activities and atmosphere.
He introduced M. P. Whitenight and L.
W. Welliver, members of the State Legislature; Congressman A. G.
Rutherford; Dr. H. V. Hower, president of the Board of Trustees,
and W. W. Evans, Judge C. C. Evans, Clinton Herring, and Grover
C. Shoemaker, members of the Board.
“There are a few facts,” Dr. Haas stated, “which I feel you
would like to know about the school. We have a total of fifty-five
acres, of which thirty are devoted to campus. The school property is
valued at approximately one and one-half millions of dollars. The
student enrollment in 1936 was 717, and today is 778. The percentage of men in relation to women has also risen in the past year,
with 338 men and 440 women now registered.
There are thirty-one on the faculty. One hundred, eighty-five
students are in some way working their way through College.
We hope that next year the results now under consideration in
the way of a building program will be realized.
“One of the greatest assets,” he concluded, “is the cooperation
between this College and the community.”
The principal speaker at the dinner was Dr. J. Edgar Skillington,
pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, and a member
of the Bloomsburg Rotary Club.
Following the dinner the guests went to the auditorium where
they found the students already assembled.
The varied program was opened by Frank Camera, ’37, president
of the Community Government Association, who extended greetings

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from the College. The student body and guests then sang “Maroon
and Gold.” The College Chorus, which consists of the entire student body, then sang “The Heavens Resound,” by Beethoven. They
were directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore, with Mrs. John K. Miller
at the piano.

The Maroon and Gold Orchestra played,
from “The Barber

the program, the overture

as

its

contribution

of Seville,”

to

by Rossini.

College life on parade continued with the modern interpretation
popular songs by Frances and Margaret Ward and Frank Patrick.
Bloomsburg was formally introduced to the new Hammond organ recently installed in the auditorium through the efforts of the
student body, alumni, and friends. The “Largo” from the “New
World Symphony,” by Dvorak, was played by Howard F. Fenstemaker.
Attired in maroon gowns, with gold cord trimmings, the A Cappela Choir made its appearance and sang “The Nightingale,” and
“Tell Me Not of a Lovely Lass.”
The School of Music was represented by Harriet and Frank
Kocher, who played two selections for four hands.
They played
“Anitra’s Dance” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the
Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg.
“Alma Mater,” the beautiful colored film taken by Prof. George
J. Keller, depicted numerable phases of College Life, and showed
many beautiful scenes on and near the campus. The musical setting
was provided by Mr. Fenstemaker at the organ.
The Maroon and Gold Band played two numbers, and the program concluded with the singing of the Alma Mater by the audience.
of

Harvey A. Andruss, director of the Department of ComBloomsburg, has signed a contract with the South Western
Publishing Company, Cincinnatti, Ohio, to write a book on “Ways to
Teach Bookkeeping and Accounting.” The book is expected to appear about July 1, and is a textbook for teachers of Bookkeeping in
high schools, Colleges and universities.
During the past seven years, Professor Andruss has written
numerous articles having to do with the techniques of teaching
bookkeeping. These articles have appeared in such magazines as the
Balance Sheet, Business Education World, and the year books of
both the Eastern Commercial Association and the National CommerThe material has been revised and mimecial Teachers Federation.
ographed five times, and has been used by students at the College
who are enrolled in commercial teacher training courses.
Prof.

merce

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BLOOMSBURG ON THE AIR
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been presenting a half
hour broadcast from 8:15 to 8:45 every Wednesday evening over Station WKOK, located at Sunbury, Pa., at 121 K. C. The programs have
been arranged and announced by Dean John C. Koch, Director of
Publicity. Eleven broadcasts have been given so far, and seven more
will complete the semester series.
In general, the programs have followed rather similar patterns
with variations every few weeks. A typical program opens with the
theme song, the Bloomsburg Alma Mater, followed by six minutes of
music from some College organization after which some member of
the College faculty gives a brief address of seven to ten minutes on
some subject related to his professional field. At this point in the
program an effort has been made to bring into the picture a representative from some high school in our service area, usually a high
school student who sings or plays, sponsored by one of the Bloomsburg alumni teaching in that high school, after which a minute or
two has been allotted to some undergraduate from the College to extend greetings from the organization which he happens to represent,
and the program winds up with six minutes more of music from the
College organization and news flashes of College interest by the announcer as time will permit, and again the Alma Mater theme song.
To vary the broadcasting routine from time to time the program
has been turned over exclusively to a high school in the service area
as, for example, Superintendent Millward, of Milton, was the speaker
and all the music was furnished by the Milton High School. On another occasion Superintendent Evans, of Columbia County, was the
speaker and music was furnished by the Bloomsburg High School.
The April 7th broadcast included Superintendent Paul E. Witmeyer,
of Shamokin, as the speaker and the music was furnished by the high
school. The April 14th program was devoted entirely to a one-ac^
play presented by the Dramatic Club of the College under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston. These variations represent the attempts
to vary the broadcasts from their regular routine.
So far eleven broadcasts have taken place and

it is

rather inter-

esting to note that 135 people have participated from the College,
High Schools, etc.
Speakers on previous broadcasts included Dr.

Francis B. Haas, Dean William Sutliff, Dean Marguerite Kehr, Professors Edward A. Reams, E. H. Nelson. Harvey A. Andruss, George
J. Keller, A. A. Tate, and T. P. North, also County Superintendent W.
W. Evans and District Superintendent Carl Millward, of Milton.

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Speakers on future programs will include Superintendent Paul Witmeyer, of Shamokin; Miss Lucy McCammon, Professor Howard Fenstemaker, Professor George Buchheit, Mr. Bruce Albert, President of
the Alumni Association who will speak immediately preceding
Alumni Day, and Dr. Francis B. Haas who will conclude the series.
It has been the attempt of the director of the broadcasting proto bring into the picture faculty members of the College and
professional men from off-campus for short but emphatic talks; as
many of the undergraduates of the College as it was possible to use
so as to spread microphone experience among those who are going to
teach; to give talented high school youngsters who are working under

grams

the supervision of graduates of Bloomsburg teaching in this area, an
opportunity to get microphone experience; and lastly to insert in
the broadcasts as frequently as possible interesting news items concerning College activities for the benefit of alumni, parents, and

—

friends of

Bloomsburg

in this area.

Twenty-two new students have enrolled at Bloomsburg for
the second semester of the College year. Five were transfers from
other Colleges. The list released by Dean W. B. Sutliff follows:
Mary Barnett, Scranton; Miss Elizabeth Fresho, Wilkes-Barre, transfers from East Stroudsburg State Teachers’ College; Edward McDonald, Connerton, coming from the University of Pittsburg; Miles
Smith,

Mary

Jr., Berwick, transfer from Pennsylvania State College; Miss
Davis, Kingston, formerly at Bucknell Junior College.

Miss Liva Baker, Espy; Jennie Baldwin, Scranton; Miss Josephine Brown, Bloomsburg; John Comely, Nanty-Glo; Miss Mary
Evans, Scranton; Robert Glennon, Freeland; Miss Grace Guers,
Orwigsburg; Frederick Houser, Sheppton; Frederick Worman, Danville; Miss Dorothy McMichael, Stillwater; Edward Phillips, Wanamie; George Reimsnyder, Beach Haven; Andrey Strahosky, Excelsior; Frank Van Devender, Shamokin; Arthur Ziller, Nuremburg;
and Miss Jean Moss, Plymouth.

A

large and appreciative audience heard the Boston Light

Company

Opera

present a fine program Friday evening, February 26, in
the College auditorium. The members of the company were Gertrude Ehrhart, soprano; Harriet Price, contralto; Wesley CoppleCarmody, bass and Reginald Boardman,
tenor; Hudson
stone,
pianist.

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SPECIAL CLASSES AT THE COLLEGE
The State Teachers’ College has been designated by the State
Council of Education as a center for the education of teachers of
special classes. All the requirements of certification may be satisfied at the College. Work in this department was begun during the
Summer Session under Miss Helen O'Donnell, of Scranton, who
taught the special class of children and conducted some of the
College courses. Other courses in this department were taught by
Prof. Fisher and Prof. Keller.
The College is further developing the work of the department
by beginning immediately the organization of a special class which
will be conducted during the regular school term by Miss Amanda
Kern, of Slatington. Miss Kern has a fine background of training
and experience for this work. She has had ten years experience in
the public schools of Northampton, eight of which have been as
teacher of special classes. Miss Kern holds a baccalaureate degree
from Ursinus College and has been doing advanced work in special
education and psychology at Rutgers University.
The purpose of the work in special education is primarily to
readjust children who through no fault of their own need help to
make the educational program of the school. The work of the
special classes includes manual activities as well as the work of the
regular classes.
In addition to the practice teaching and courses available under
Miss Kern, the special education curriculum includes courses by
other members of the faculty. The general work of the department
of Special Education will be under Prof. Fisher, who for a number
of years has been adding to his qualifications by special training in
The special class of children itself will be organized as
this work.
part of the training school program under the direction of Prof.

Rhodes.

The Inter-Fraternity Ball, one of the big social affairs at the
was held in the gymnasium Saturday evening, March 6, and
was largely attended, with many Alumni present.
The decorations were elaborate and striking. The ceiling was
College,

in blue

with silver

stars,

supported by white

pillars.

Keating’s

orchestra, of Pittston, furnished a fine program of music, and
was served. The unique programs were designed by Miss
Justin.

punch
Edith

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GUIDANCE FOR FRESHMEN
The scope

of

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College program

for

orientation and guidance of Freshmen is little realized even by the
friends of the College, according to Dr. Thomas P. North, Pro-

The program of Freshmen includes the improvement of study techniques, a more economical use of time, a
development of a definite conception of the needs, nature of, and
fessor of Education.

reasons for a College education, with special reference to the profession of teaching.

Dr. North conducted the Freshmen on twenty-eight observation
Observations are
tours of good teaching during the first semester.
made of all the elementary grades of the Benjamin Franklin Training School, in one-room rural schools, and in the Bloomsburg High

School.

The main pui'pose of these observations in the special fields of
the high school during the first semester is to enable the members of
the Freshmen class to determine more intelligently whether they
The observations also
should prepare for the teaching profession.
tend to increase the students’ professional point of view. The students are definitely aided in the election of a curriculum, that is,
whether the students are to select the primary, intermediate, rural,
or high school work. The students who decide to prepare for
teaching in the secondary schools are also assisted in selecting for
certification the special fields of secondary school work for which
they have the greatest interest and aptitude.

Bloomsburg students carried

off honors in a nation-wide bookthe Business Education World, and
which had entries from thirty-nine states.
Miss Mary R. Grosek, of the College, a student teacher under J.
Wesley Knorr, ’34, of the high school faculty, won first College

keeping contest sponsored by

student of five dollars.
Miss Helen I. Keefer, high school student under Miss Betty
Harter, ’36, was awarded superior merit and Miss Violet Pataki, student under Mr. Knorr, received honorable mention in the contest.
The project was conducted in the bookkeeping classes of the
Bloomsburg High School, with Mr. Knorr as the supervising teacher
and Miss Grosek the student teacher.
In the issue announcing the awards, the publication carried an
article written by Mr. Knorr, dealing with the benefits of such a
contest to both students and teachers.

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HONORED

The Washington, D. C. Star told recently of the establishment
of a Charles Clinton Swisher prize by George Washington University in honor of its professor emeritus of history upon the occasion
of Dr. Swisher’s 90th birthday anniversary.
He attended
Dr. Swisher was born and reared in Jersey town.
the old Academy on Third street in Bloomsburg and the Bloomsburg
Literary Institute at the time Dr. Henry Carver headed both institutions. Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., George E. Elwell, Charles Unangst, and
others were among his fellow students.
The Star had the following story on the prize announcement:
"Establishment of a Charles Clinton Swisher prize was announced by George Washington University in honor of its professor emeritus of history, who was celebrating his 90th birthday anniversary.
“The prize will be awarded annually to a student who has done
distinguished work in the field of medieval history, the subject in
which Dr. Swisher, who retired from active work in 1927, was best
known, and which he taught at the university 31 years. It will be a
monetary award and was created by the Swisher History Club.
“Dr. Swisher, who organized the university’s history department
in 1896, and for ten years taught all the courses from ancient to
modern history, will be honored at a reception this afternoon in the
Cosmos Club by members of the staff of the history department.
Discusses European Situation
“Since leaving his active duties on the university faculty, Dr.
Swisher has maintained a keen interest in world affairs and discussed
the European situation, which has brought several nations to the
brink of war as a result of events in Spain.
“Much of the turmoil in Europe could have been averted if
France, Italy and Spain had adopted the American system of government, with its fixed term of years for an administration, instead of
the British system, with ministries rising or falling according to the
issues of the moment, Dr. Swisher believes.
“The peoples of France, Italy and Spain are not fitted by temperament for the British system of government. In many cases, ministries have fallen on some issue which was forgotten after a few
months or a year, when it could have carried on effectively if it had
had a definite term of office, as in America or Switzerland. The rise
of Mussolini, for example, was largely due to a succession of weak
ministries, which led to a lack of faith in democratic government.
“Dr. Swisher graduated from Yale University in 1876, and later

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studied extensively in Europe. He spent 13 years in Mexico studying cultivation of the coffee plant and eucalptus for the Mexican
government. He received degrees from the Columbia Law School
in 1881, from Cornell University in 1885, an honorary degree from
the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1890, and an honorary
LL. D. from Mount St. Mary’s College in 1905 from the late Cardinal
Gibbons. He is the author of several books.

Mountain Climbing Pastime
Dr. Swisher devoted a great deal of
time to his favorite pastime, mountain climbing.
He numbered
among his acquaintances Queen Victoria, William II of Germany,
Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson. As late as 10 years ago, he
was still seeking out strange places and one of his most vivid recollections is of a camel ride in the Sahara Desert, after which he
needed the assistance of two men even to walk.

“During

his trips abroad,

“Dr. Swisher was best known for his work in medieval history
and was referred to by Woodrow Wilson, when he was president of
Princeton University, as the best interpreter of medieval history in
Among his former students are Dean William C. Van
this country.
Vleck of the university law school, Prof. De Witt C. Croissant of the
English department, Prof. Warren Reed West of the school of government, and Dean Elmer Louis Kayser and Prof. George M. Churchill of the history

department.”

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College is planning to cooperate
with the program set-up for American Education Week November
7-13, 1937 by Dr. Lester K. Ade, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The program is built around two special observances of
nation-wide interest and certain educational issues of vital concern
at the present time. They are the Horace-Mann Centennial and the
Constitutional Sesqui-Centennial.

American Education Week which is sponsored annually by the
National Education Association, the American Legion, and the
United States Office of Education will have for its general theme this
year, “Education and Our National Life.”

Miss Helen Lahr, a former student of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and Herman Kimble, both of Sunbury, were married in November, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Sunbury by the
Dr. C. B. Foelsch.

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One of the finest features of the teachers institute in November,
was an address on the European situation by Prof. E. A. Reams, of
the social studies department of the Teachers College, and a keen
student of national and international affairs.
Dr. H. Harrison Russell, Head of the Geography Department at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently addressed the
The meeting was well
Parents-Teachers Association at Millville.

the

attended, and Dr. Russell discussed the subject “Geography in Education Today.”
color film “Alma Mater” depicting all phases of Colthe Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been produced under the direction of Professor George J. Keller, head of the
art department at the College. Professor Keller took indoor night
shots 01 the boys’ dormitory, pictures of the wrestling and basketball

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lege

life at

teams, pictures of the College dining room with the student body “in
and pictures and scenes of the day girls’ rooms. Professor
Keller had the film complete and ready for use by Thursday, March
11th, to be shown at the tenth annual Kiwanis-Rotary-College even-

action,”

ing.

A daughter, Sue Carolyn, was born Monday, March 1, to Mr.
and Mrs. George Buchheit, of the College faculty. Mr. Buchheit is
coach of basketball and track, and assistant coach of football.
Miss May T. Hayden, director of the primary department of the
Teachers College delivered two addresses, February 4th, at the
Exeter Institute. The institute was under the direction of Superintendent Campbell and he arranged for Miss Hayden to address the
general assembly at 10:00 A. M., on the topic “Arithmetic in the Revised Curriculum.” In the afternoon Miss Hayden spoke on “Desirable Habits and Skills and Some Pitfalls in Elementary Arithmetic,” to a large number of elementary teachers.
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and a member of the National Advisory Commit-

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tee of the

American Youth Congress, was

a speaker at a recent staff

Dr. Kehr discussed the
American Youth Congress. Dr. Kehr also addressed a dinner meeting of the Business and Professional Girls’ League of the Harrisburg
Y. W. C. A.

luncheon of the Harrisburg Y. W. C. A.

The Commercial teachers of Northumberland County were addressed Monday, February 8th, by Harvey A. Andruss, director Department of Commerce, at the College. Professor Andruss spoke on
“Atesting Program in Commercial Education” which has grown out
of his ten years experience with commercial contest examinations in
Pennsylvania.
Teachers from Shamokin, Locust Gap, Kulpmont, Sunbury, Watsontown and Trevorton were in attendance.
Dr. Nell Maupin of the Social Studies Department of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, spoke to the Fort McClure Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Friday afternoon,
March 5th. The meeting was held in the home of Mrs. Frank Hutchinson. Mrs. Edward A. Reams is Regent of the local chapter.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, Head of the Health Department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College spoke to the Home and League group of
the Limestone Township Consolidated School of Montour County,
Friday evening, March 5. Dr. Nelson showed a movie during the
evening and addressed the group on the topic “Play Grounds and
Play Ground Equipment.”

Professor Harvey A. Anduss, Director, Department of Commerce, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is acting as curriculum
consultant for the Mifflinville Board of Education and the Memorial
High School, Kingston, Pa.
With the building of a new high school the Mifflinville Board
of Education is considering the addition of a commercial curriculum
to the present vocational curriculum which includes shop and home
economics work.

At the present time approximately one-Hblf of the students in
the Memorial High School, Kingston, are enrolled in the commercial
curriculum. In keeping with the forward progress of business it is
thought desirable to revise the curriculum so that students may
specialize in at least two fields within the commercial curriculum.
The problem at present is to provide an offering of commercial subwill allow students to major in bookkeeping or in stenoThis will allow the school to better meet the needs of the
individual and produce more efficient business employees.

jects

which

graphy.

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The Eastern Commercial Teachers Association met

in the

Hotel

Staffer in Boston during the Easter holidays. Harvey A. Andruss,
Teachers
Director, Department of Commerce, Bloomsburg State

College, appeared as one of the three

members on

the panel to dis-

cuss “Problems of Teaching Bookkeeping and Accounting.” This is
the second year that Professor Andruss has acted in this capacity.

Professor E. A. Reams of the Social Studies Department of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was speaker at the monthly
meeting of the Parent-Teachers Association of Sunbury on Thursday
Mr. Reams discussed “The Importance of
evening, February 18.
Democracy in Our Educational Program.” The A Cappella Choir,
under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore of the Music Department of the College, also took part in the program.
the Department of Social Studies at the
Lewisburg Professional Women’s Club Tuesday evening, March 9th, at a dinner meeting at the Lewisburg Inn,
on the subject “Woman Faces the Future.”
Dr. Nell Maupin, of

College, addressed the

A new Colonial bungalow is being built for Miss Margaret
Hoke, a member of the Teachers College faculty. The residence is
being erected on East Second Street, adjoining the E. H. Nelson
home.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, re-

Community Musical Organization of Millville
speaking on the subject “Community Relationships.” The meeting
cently addressed the

at Grange Hall in Millville and was well attended.
Dr. Nelson also recently addressed the Kiwanis Club of Danville,
where he discussed different phases of the question “Learning From
Others.”

was held

On Thursday, February 11th, Dr. Nelson addressed the Scout
Leaders’ organization at a meeting held in Espy. Scout Activities were
the topic under discussion at the meeting which was held in the Espy
High School.
Professor George J. Keller of the Art Department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College presented his film “Human Heritage”
and addressed the Bradford County Institute Friday, February 19th.
This meeting was a general session of the institute and the picture
presented by Professor Keller was a color film developed by the Art
Department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College last year, and
portrays many of the activities of the youngsters from the Benjamin
Franklin Training School on the campus of the Teachers College.

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The True and False-Correction test, first originated to deter
guessing in the Pennsylvania Commercial Contests, is receiving
recognition from the National Education Association.
An article written by Harvey A. Andruss, Director, Department
of Commerce, State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, will appear in
one of the early issues of “Educational Method,” the official organ of
the Department of Supervisors and Directors of Instruction. “Educational Method” is published in Washington, D. C., under the editorship of Dr. James F. Hesie.
title of “The True and False-Correction Test,” ProAndruss gives a summary of the weaknesses of objective tests,
a new proposal, and then presents an illustration of the cor-

Under the
fessor
states

English Literature.
By using the field of
English it is hoped that the use of this new device will be realized in
other academic fields. The uses of this test among commercial subjects has been explained and illustrated in such magazines as “The
Balance Sheet” and “The Business Education World” and has thus
reached the teachers in this field.
rections of mistakes in

“Planning for Retirement,” written by Dr. E. H. Nelson of the
Health Department at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, published last May in the National Education Association Journal, has
been reprinted in the December issue of the Arkansas State Education Monthly. The article deals with preparation on the part of
teachers for the retirement era.
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster of the Science Department, Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, has received reprints of his recent paper
published in Volume 21 of the “Papers of the Michigan Academy of
Science Arts and Letters.” The paper deals with Dr. Kuster’s personal research on the Distributional Variation of the Ganglionic

Trachea

in the

Larvae of Odontomyid Acincta.

Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Dean of Women of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College has accepted an appointment to membership
on the National Advisoi'y Committee of the American Youth Congress. The American Youth Congress is a national federation of
youth organizations political, labor, student, religious, recreation,
and other types. The Congress includes about 1200 such organiza-

—

tions with a

izations plan

combined membership of over 3,000,000. These organand work together on a program devoted to the in-

youth of America.
chief undertakings of the Congress at present include sponsorship of an American Youth Act to be presented to the United
terests of

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States Congress; a pilgrimage to Washington, Februery 19-21 to present to the federal government the needs of youth; and contact with
youth movements of other countries through World Youth Congree.

Dean of Women at the State Teachers ColBloomsburg, who attended the National Student Federation
Congress at New York City as a guest of the Commission on StudentFaculty Relationships, composed of representatives from the University of Wyoming, Hood College, Alabama College, South Western
Louisiana Institute, RandolDh-Macon Womens College, and Greensboro College; was also the guest of honor at a commission luncheon
during the conference.
Dr. Marguerite Kehr.

lege,

Reams addressed the Moses Van Campen ChapDaughters of the American Revolution of Berwick at their
annual banquet. The banquet and program was held at the Hotel
Berwick. Mr. Reams spoke on the question “Has the American
Democracy a Chance For Survival?”
Professor E. A.

ter of the

A

Robert Howard, was born Sunday, March 14th, to Mr.
Mrs. Bixler was formerly
S. Bixler, of Norristown.
Miss Alice Small, of Norristown.
son,

and Mrs. Homer

Professor George J. Keller, head of the Art Department of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, addressed the Sunbury Cinema
Club, Sunbury, recently at the Strand Theatre in Sunbury. Professor
Keller discussed “The Art of the Colored Motion Picture.”

Professor Harvey A. Andruss, Director, Department of Commerce, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, conducted the Bookkeeping Contest which was held in connection with the Bucks County
Scholastic Meet on April 10. This is the fourth consecutive year that
Professor Andruss has had charge of the bookkeeping contest in
Bucks County. Several of the schools participating will come to
Bloomsburg for the State Contest which will be held on May 1 and 8.
This year the Newton High School, Newton, Pa., is the host to the
other schools of the county. Thirty students are expected to participate in the bookkeeping contest, representing ten high schools.

lege

The gymnasium building of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwas used by the Boy Scout organization of this district every

Tuesday at 7:30 for a period of six weeks. A course of instruction
under the direction of District Scout Leader, Earl Blake, was given
for Boy Scout leaders in this vicinity.
Approximately thirty-five
leaders were enrolled in the course.

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ON THE CAMPUS

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High school students from twelve counties in the North Eastern
Pennsylvania Music and Forensic League convened at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Saturday morning, April 10,
at 9:00 o’clock. The counties include Bradford, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan,
Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming. Assistant County Superintendent John B. Boyer, of Sunbury, is director for the North Eastern District.
Contests were held in debating, declamation, Shakespeare
reading, original oration, extempore speaking, poetry reading. All
varieties of music contests also featured the day.
This district contest is one of the nine which will determine winners who will compete in the state final contest at Altoona Friday
and Saturday, April 22 and 24.
District of the

Members of the Senior classes of the Dallas Borough Senior High
School and the Elysburg High School were guests of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College recently when they attended an assembly
program at the College and were shown through all the College
buildings. The guests visited the Benjamin Franklin Training School
on the campus and were also entertained at lunch. The Dallas group
were in charge of Miss Alice Culbert, and the Elysburg Seniors were
accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Duncan. Mrs. H. S. Tennyson, wife
of the Supervising Principal of the Borough Schools, also accompanied the party.

Friday, April 9, Seniors from the Bloomsburg High School were
guests of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and Monday, May
10, members of the Senior classes of Huntington Township, Millville,

and Shickshinny High Schools will be entertained

at the College.

Miss Stasia Zola, Junior secondary student of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, was elected editor of the Maroon and Gold,
College newspaper, for 1937-38, in a recent election held in the College auditorium.
Miss Zola is a graduate of the Hazleton High School and has
this year’s Maroon and Gold, and a member
past three years. She is also a member of the
Press and Poetry Clubs at the College.

been Managing Editor of

of the stalT for the

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A recent meeting of the Lutheran Student Organization of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was recently held at St. Matthews
Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg, for the purpose of planning for the
programs and permanent organizations through the entire College
year. It was decided that the program shall follow those generally
adopted by the International Christian Movement. Jay Pursel, of
Bloomsburg, is the President of the local group. Miriam Utt, of
Bloomsburg, is Secretary, and Jacob Kotsch, Egypt, is Treasurer.
Miss Utt was recently elected Secretary of the North East Student
Association Conference held in Allentown at Muhlenburg College.
Northumberland High School won the Class A Division of the
Annual Scholastic Play Tournament, sponsored by the Alpha Psi
Omega dramatic fraternity of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
by their capable presentation of “Dust of the Road," by Kenneth S.
Goodman. Miss Laura Kelly, a Bloomsburg alumnus, directed the
play. The cast follows: Peter Steel. William Kelly; Prudence Steel,
Miss Lillian Snyder; Uncle, John Renninger; tramp. Robert Bostian.

The Catawissa High School presenting “Enter the Hero,” by Te-

won the Class B Division. Gerald Hartman, Bloomsburg alumnus, was the director. Honorable mention for individual
performances went to Miss Barbara Burns, of North Scranton, and
Miss Joan McCormick, of Coal Township, in Class A, and to Bartie
Reese, of Hughesville, and Miss Mary Betty Conner, of Orangeville,

ressa Helburn,

in Class B.

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was represented at the
Government which had its fourth annual meeting in Harrisburg on April 16, 17 and 18. More than 35

Intercollegiate Conference on

colleges indicated their intention

of sending

representatives

to this

which time a model legislative session was held with
representatives from the various colleges acting as representatives.
Walton Hill, Shamokin, and Charles James, Danville, were the representatives from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
•conference at

Clyde Klinger, Nuremberg, has been elected President of Community Government Association at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College for the school year 1937-38. Miss Margaret Graham, Bloomsburg, has been elected Vice-President; Alice Auch, Easton, was elected Secretary; and Norman Henry, Berwick, was elected Treasurer.
The newly elected officers will be installed in a future Community
Government Association meeting and serve during next year.
General Smedley D. Butler, of Marine Corp fame, and Private

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who went to France with the First Canadians, gave a soldier’s
answer to the imperative question “How Can We Wipe Out War,” at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Friday evening, April 9, at
8:15.
The discussion which was held in the College auditorium, has
aroused a great deal of comment through the country wherever these
two famous soldiers appear. Their discussion is not exactly a debate
but General Butler, the noted marine, and Private Peat, probably
the most famous private of the World War, present two diametrically opposite view-points in regard to the elimination of war.
These
two men know what war is from first hand experience. The deeds
of General Butler’s “Devil Dogs” in wiping out machine gun nests
during the World War are known to all. Private Peat was in France
with the First Canadians when gas was first used. Wounded, wrecked, he was invalided home to become one of the greatest orators of
Peat,

the war.

This double-barrelled discussion coming from two great soldiers
of the regular entertainment program of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College as scheduled by Professor E. A. Reams.

was part

G. Cope, one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteemed woThursday evening, March 18, at her home on Light
Street Road after an illness of five weeks with complications following influenza. She was in her eighty-seventh year.

Mrs.

J.

men, died

at 8:15

Widow

of one of the

most widely known former teachers

at

the

Normal School, she had been a resident of town for more than half a
century, and an active member of the Presbyterian Church.
She was born near West Chester, and her maiden name was Sallie A. Woodward.
Her marriage to Prof. Cope was solemnized in
1874, and the couple came to Bloomsburg in 1885, Mr. Cope having
taught in Lewistown before coming to Bloomsburg. He retired in
1920,

and

his death occurred several years ago.

Few Bloomsburg women had

a wider circle of friends than Mrs.

Cope.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Hettie Cope Whitney, a granddaughter, Mrs. W. N. Butterworth, of Buffalo, N. Y., and a great
granddaughter. Her twin sister died two years ago.

Funeral services were held at the Dyke Funeral Home at 3:30 on
Saturday afternoon, March 20, in charge of the Rev. S. A. Harker, of
the Presbyterian Church, and interment was made in the Friends Cemetery, West Chester.

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“BISHOP MISBEHAVES” GIVEN BY DRAMATIC FRATERNITY

An exceptionally competent cast, ably directed by Miss Alice
Johnston, delighted with the presentation Tuesday evening, November 24, in the College auditorium, of “The Bishop Misbehaves.”
The production was presented by Alpha Psi Omega, National
dramatic fraternity and thoroughly enjoyed by the audience. The
College orchestra, directed by Howard Fenstemaker, provided a
program of music during the evening.
The cast follows: “Red,” William Strawinski; Donald Meadows,
William Shutt; Hester Grantham, Miss Anna Jean Laubach; Guy
Waller, Philip Frankmore; Mrs. Waller, Miss Jane Manhart; the
Bishop of Broadminister, John Jones; Lady Emily, Miss Connie
McGinnis; Collins, Jacob Katsch, Jr.; Frenchy, George Lewis; Mr.
Brooke, Alvin Lapinski.
I. C. I. E., I. C. S., former prime minisKashmir, spoke Friday, February 19, on “India To-Day” at
the Teachers College.
Sir Albion is one of India’s outstanding statesmen. He has held
offices rather in the native states than in British India, although he
has been a distinguished member of the Indian Civil Service and was
Knighted for that service. For seven years he was prime minister
of the states of Cochin and Mysore. He won fame for his administrative ability. He infused new blood and vigor into every branch of
the administration and put down corruption and intrigue with a
strong hand.
He has been speaking before some of the most prominent of
American clubs and his message has attracted much attention.

Sir Albion Benerji, C. S.

ter of

Fifty-two teachers have signed up for courses leading to the degree of bachelor of science in education, given Friday evening and
Saturday morning at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Dormitory accomodations have been made available for those who wish
to take evening classes and remain for Saturday work, which makes
available the advantage of the library at the College.
Courses which are offered for teachers in service include: Literature II; History and Philosophy of Education; Mathematics III;
Trends in Curriculum Construction (giving 3 semester hours credit
in student teaching) and the Pre-School Child.

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DEGREES AWARDED AT MID-YEAR PROGRAM
Baccalaureate degrees and degrees in Bachelor of Science were
given January 20, at ten o’clock at a special program for students
completing their courses at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

er,

Miss Dorothy Berninger, of Millville; Miss Armina M. Kreischand Miss Catherine E. Kreischer, of Berwick, received bacca-

laureate degrees in the field of intermediate education. Ray E.
Hawkins, of Galeton, received the Bachelor of Science degree in the
field of secondary education, and Miss Camille R. Schalis, of West

Hazelton, in the commercial field.
speaker.

Dean William

B. Sutliff

was

the

Miss Peggy Lonergan and Alec McKechnie, both of Berwick, who
attended the National Student Federation of America conference
held in New York City reported to the under-graduates of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College at assembly held in the College
auditorium.
Miss Lonergan was a member of the commission on the Federal
program for Youth which recommended that the National Youth
Movement and the C. C. C. plan be continued by the Federal Government. Mr. McKechnie served as chairman of the commission on
College Newspapers which recommended non-censorship of College
newspapers and better editorial cooperation among intercollegiate
institutions.

The meetings of the National Student Federation were well
attended and included a number of outstanding speakers among
whom was Dr. Walter Kotschnig, former executive secretary of the
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women of the Bloomsburg
I. S. S.
State Teachers College also attended the conference as the guest of
the commission on Faculty-Student Relationships.
The convention decided to hold their next meeting at Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1937.

Forty-nine men who were enrolled in a Scout Leaders Training
course held in the Bloomsburg State Teachers College gymnasium
during the month of March have completed their work. The meetings were conducted five Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 in the
College gymnasium and ran from March 2 to 30th, inclusive. Mr.
Earl Blake, Scout Executive, conducted the course.

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The winter sports season saw plenty of activity in basketball and
The varsity basketball team played a 17-game schedule,

wrestling.

winning nine and losing seven.

In Pennsylvania State Teachers
College competition, we won six and lost five. We divided games
with Millersville, Mansfield, Lock Haven, Shippensburg and East
Stroudsburg, and defeated Indiana in the only game scheduled with
them this season. All of our opponents played high grade ball and
there was keen competition throughout the entire season. We feel
that the boys gave a good account of themselves.

The Junior Varsity squad completed their second undefeated
They played a series of 1 1 games and won them all. Included in the schedule were the Jayve teams of Susquehanna University
and Lock Haven State Teachers College.
season.

The sixteenth annual invitation High School Basketball Tournament was held on Saturday, March 13, and Friday and Saturday,
March 19 and 20. Twenty teams competed in the three different
classes based

on the high school enrollment. Freeland won the Class

"A” Division, Wilkes-Barre Township Class “B” and Pulaski Junior
High School, of Shamokin, Class “C.” The tournament was conducted under the auspices of the Student Government Association and the
boys did a fine job in making the visit of the various high schools a
pleasant one.

Due to the interest
was provided for

of about forty boys in wrestling an opportun-

participation in this sport.
Mr. Kenneth
Horner, the successful coach of the Shamokin High School team,
came to the College three nights a week and produced a squad that

ity

made

a good

showing for the

first

year.

Three Intercollegiate match-

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were held, two with Mansfield and one with East Stroudsburg.
The matches were all won by the more experienced opponents, yet
the Bloomsburg boys had some individual falls to their credit. Walter Woytovich won all of his three bouts and was the outstanding

es

performer for the College squad.

The spring sports program is opening up in fine shape and it
looks like a good year. Thirteen baseball games are on the schedule,
all with Teachers Colleges except games with Bucknell and Susquehanna.

Practically the

same schedule holds true

for tennis teams.
dual meets in addition to
participation in the Penn Relays and the State Teachers College meet
at Harrisburg.

The track squad

will participate in four

When you come back for the Alumni gathering on the 22nd of
I am sure all these squads will have records to present that will

May,

make you proud

of

your Alma Mater.

Dr. E. H. Nelson, faculty director of athletics and baseball coach
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has announced the spring
schedules for baseball and tennis. Twelve games for both the
diamond and court squads have been included although there will
probably be further additions to the present schedule. In baseball a
game with West Chester is tentatively under consideration early in
of the

April and the tennis team under the direction of John C. Koch,
coach, has tentative dates with Bucknell, Villinova, and St. Thomas.

The schedule as announced:
Saturday, April 17
Monday, April 19
Saturday, April 24
Friday, April 30
Saturday, May 1
Tuesday, May 4
Saturday, May 8
Tuesday, May 11
Thursday, May 13
Saturday, May 15
Wednesday, May
Saturday,

May

22

19

Miliersville

Susquehanna
Susquehanna
Lock Haven
Indiana

Shippensburg
East Stroudsburg
Shippensburg
Mansfield

Kutztown
Mansfield

Lock Haven

There
Here
There
There
There
There
Here
Here
There
Here
Here
Here

Dr. Baruch Braunstein, noted lecturer, author, and traveler, addressed the College assembly Friday morning, February 26.

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PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
written that he said: “Keep your
so, since again we are looking
forward to another worth-while foregathering with all the friends
and alumni of “Old Bloomsburg,” with Dr. Haas, the faculty, and the
young students who so well represent the present day activities of
our beloved Alma Mater.
And so, with our banquet and reunion April 24, in the North
Garden of the Bellevue-Stratford, we are about to complete another
successful and eventful year for the Philadelphia Alumni Association.
We shall be delighted once again to hear the young musicians of
the College, both vocalists and instrumentalists, under the capable
direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore and the baton of Prof. Howard

Of the great Dr. Johnson it
friendships constantly in repair.”

is

And

Fenstemaker.
Old students love Bloomsburg because of the associations with
that image which comes in its very name. What is the image invoked in your mind when your old school is named? The subjects studied? We must admit that, in coping with the hydra of fundamental
subjects, each time that we pupils removed a head, several more formidable ones were reared up. Science, Art, Literature offered, to be
sure, avenues toward beauty and self-improvement.
But these,
somehow, do not spell the word “school.”
The significant thing in the image evoked, as Dean Sutliff said
at one of our reunions, is “the human contacts cherished.” The warm
and vivid friendship of youth to youth, the joyous and generous giving of talent to those less quick and keen, were part of the contacts.
And more important was the teacher. The other student gave
you, as a young student, the gift of his or her personality, character,
and talents. The teacher gave you all these, and, at the same time,
helped you to find your own. And the teacher did this with the idea
of building consciously the best that is YOU. He asked nothing more
than the happiness and self-understanding, the self-realization that
you might attain. He asked less than any friend, to whom you gave

—

yourself in return. The teacher gives you yourself.
Out of our memories of days at Old Bloomsburg, we recall some
of the great men whom it was our high privilege to know and to love,
Dr. Waller, Professor Bakeless, Professor Wilbur, Professor Cope,
Professor Dennis, Professor Hartline, Professor Albert, and Professor
Sutliff, who is still at the College.
We remember them as teachers of
Methods, Mathematics, Physics, Latin, Biology, Geography; the subjects they taught have little to do with the teaching they gave us.
They taught us to live, by the lives they lived.

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Mr. G. Edward Elwell, of Bloomsburg, will be our toastmaster at
the banquet. Mr. N. Elwell Funk, Vice-President of the Philadelphia
Electric Company, a member of the Class of 1901, will be our guest
speaker. An enjoyable evening is in store for all who attend.

ASSOCIATION NOTES

A

very enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Hadden Heights, N. J., Saturday evening, February 27.
Mrs. Irish is the former Lillian Hartman, of the Class of 1906. Cards
were the feature of the evening, and many beautiful prizes were won.
T. J. Irish, of

The two booby prizes consisted of a lemon and a pound of sugar, and
were won by two of our younger members. Some one suggested that
lemonade would be in order. Refreshments were served, and the
guests departed at a late hour, voting Mr. and Mrs. Irish ideal hosts.

At the March luncheon meeting, it was decided to hold chain
card parties at the homes of various members who volunteered to do
Our monthly luncheon meetings have been very successful.
so.
Dr. George E. Pfahler, Vice Dean and Professor of Radiology at
the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, who
was injured in an automobile accident, is again in pursuit of his duties as usual, we are happy to report. Dr. Pfahler, Class of 1894, lives
at 6463

Drexel Road, Overbrook.

Dr. F. E. Gilpin, 1895, of Cranford, N.

J.,

Mrs. Lizzie Church Search, 1882, 292 St.
delphia, died during the past year.

passed away

last year.

Mark’s Square, Phila-

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,

Secretary.

The “Maroon and Gold” bi-weekly College newspaper of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was signally honored during the
Pennsylvania State Education Association meeting held in Harrisburg. The press division of the conference which judges newspapers
and annuals of colleges, professional schools, high schools, and private schools, named the “Maroon and Gold” as the outstanding College newspaper among the Teachers Colleges.
Miss Marjorie Beaver, Danville, is the efficient editor of the
“Maroon and Gold.” The faculty advisors include Miss Pearl Mason,
Miss Ethel Shaw, and Mr. Samuel Wilson, all of the College faculty.

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Invitations have been extended to the Senior classes of the high
schools in the service area of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
to visit the institution at their convenience some time during the

present Spring semester. Acceptances have been received from the
Benton, Orangeville and Nescopeck High
Senior classes of the
Schools who visited the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
March 22. They arrived at the College in time to attend the assembly program when the Berwick High School band gave a concert. The
Senior class of the Bloomsburg High School visited the College April
5th when the Junior Chamber of Commerce was in charge of the
assembly program. On May 10th when Dr. Raiguel of the University of Pennsylvania will speak on International Affairs, the Senior
classes of Millville and Huntington Mills High Schools will be guests
Additional acceptances will be announced in the
of the College.
future. Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women, and John C. Koch,
Dean of Men, will be in charge of the visitors to the College.

of a Hama cooperative project
on the part of faculty, students, Alumni, and interested friends. It
was initiated by a gift of S100.00 made by Dr. H. V. Hower, President of the Board of Trustees, on the condition that this be matched
by an equal amount. This offer was promptly accepted when the

Arrangements have been completed for the purchase

mond Organ

for the College.

The purchase

is

Student Council, from their budget, raised the sum
officers of the

Alumni Association are

to

enthusiastically

$200.

The

supporting

the project and have agreed to enlist the aid of the General Alumni
Association. The Student Council, representing the whole student
body is planning a College entertainment during the Spring for the
benefit of the organ fund.
It is believed that this is the first installation of an organ of this
type in a State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. This modern instrument has untold musical possibilities and opens for the College
an additional opportunity for educational and entertainment ser-

vices.

All

Alumni are earnestly requested

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, ’06
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., ’67
Mr. Edward Schuyler, ’24
Miss Harriet Carpenter, ’96

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

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

UNION COUNTY ALUMNI

A

meeting of the alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in Union County has been scheduled for Friday evening, April
Miss Helen M. Keller of Union County will be in charge of the
23.
arrangements for the meeting. A number of the College faculty are
planning to attend this gathering of Bloomsburg alumni.

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
A

luncheon was held on February 27th at the Hotel Redington,
Wilkes-Barre. A business meeting was held and officers were

The following officers were elected: President, Mary
Emanuel Brown; Vice President, Frank Dennis; Secretary, Marion

elected.

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Roat Hartman; Treasurer, Irene Draina. There were 175 present at
The Luzerne County group are planning a dinner
dance, to be held some time in April.
the meeting.

1882

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

1877

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 22.

1937

1887

CLASS REUNION

A member

of the class

of '87,

— MAY 22.
later a

1937

member

of

has sent the following communication to the Quarterly.
is withheld, but doubtless her classmates will
be able

the faculty,

Her name
to

identify

her.

Albemarle, N. C., February 27, 1937.
nearly 600 miles from our front door to the Bloomsburg
fountain. And the load lies along the Shenandoah Valley via the
"It is

—

Sky Line Trail a most beautiful vista. So on May 22, or thereabouts, when the class of '87 is in the midst of its festivities, one
member of that class will wend her way to the Bloomsburg campus.
This member was familiarly called “K. M. S.” by the model school
children a few years back. Fifty years ago, said member sang a
.solo on Class Day, entitled “The Coming of May.”
This was written
and published by Mr. Harry Pettit and presented to the singer by our
beloved Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr. Now, if the voice holds out, the same
singer will render the solo May 22, 1937.
"Do you want to hear her? If so, be present for the big day for
our Class Reunion.”
1892

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

1893
Charles H. Guscott, sixty-six, of Wilkes-Barre, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg Normal School, died in January of a heart attack while
driving near Wilkes-Barre.
1897

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

1900

Hartman (Mrs. Mark Landis) died suddenly at her home
Waynesboro, Sunday, January 17.
Death was due to a heart
Ethel

in

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She is survived by her husband, her parents, the Rev. and
Mrs. W. H. Hartman, of Bloomsburg, one sister, and three brothers.
Mrs. Landis was a graduate of the academic and music departments of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and later was graduated from the Ithaca Conservatory of Music.
attack.

1902

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

esteemed Berwick
Wednesday, February 10th, at his home on West Second
Street. Pneumonia was the cause of his death after an illness of one
week. Despite an extremely serious condition, he was apparently
winning the fight against the disease when a serious infection developed and resulted in his death.
To hundreds who had known him in relations of family and
physician and for the entire town, the feared word that death had
ended a useful and valued life came after the end at 8:30 o’clock.
His friends had realized his critical condition but knowledge of
imminence of death eased but little the depth of shock and deep
sense of loss that came with the word that ended hopes for his reDr. Joseph Cohen, prominent physician and

citizen, died

covery.
Dr.

Cohen had been a practicing physician and surgeon in Berwick for nearly thirty years. It was after completing his interneship
at the Scranton Hospital, following his graduation at University of
Pennsylvania, that he came to Berwick to practice. Later and for
ten years he was surgeon for the American Car and Foundry Company.

A

physician of ability and service and of the personal qualities

that did honor to his profession and to his life as a citizen, the tone
of voices expressed their feeling of sorrow and shock constituted the

highest tribute to him. These expressions came from everyone, in all
walks of life, and there was an inexpressable feeling that was universal. A man with thousands of friends, and there was a personal
feeling of friendship that had come through ministrations during
the years, and in acquaintanceships that some quality has made true

and

heartfelt.

Cohen was born in New York City and his parents moved to
Bloomsburg when he was nine months of age. Joseph Cohen attended the Bloomsburg schools and graduated from high school at
the age of 16. He was graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and in 1902 entered the University of Pennsylvania in his
Dr.

preparation for the practice of medicine.

Graduation

at

Pennsyl-

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vania was followed by a year of interneship at the Scranton Hospital.
He came to Berwick in August, 1907, to take up the practice of
medicine and surgery. The ten years during which he was surgeon
for the American Car and Foundry Company at the Berwick plant
were those before the era of safety and of improved machinery and
when the plant was teeming with men on day and night shifts. The
accident cases were almost a continuous succession in a manner that
would now be considered impossible and required the services of a
surgeon almost continuously. After he resigned his position with the
A. C. F. Dr. Cohen devoted his time to general practice. Quiet in his
life and ministrations, although unusually active and zealous, there
was so much of humanitarian service in his profession that only the
hundreds of families who have occasion to appreciate it will know
its

extent.

a member of the County and State Medical
Interested deeply in the Berwick Hospital, he devoted

He was

Associations.

much

effort to its interest throughout his life and had been repeatedpresident of the staff of the institution.
A charter member of the Berwick Lodge of Elks, he filled the
chairs and was one of the oldest past Exalted Rulers in point of
service. He continued actively interested in the lodge. He was a
member of the Knapp Lodge of Masons and the Consistory and
Shrine and was a member of Temple Beth-El at Danville.
During the World War he served as one of the three members of
the board that administered the selective service draft in the Berwick district and received from the War Department a distinguished
service citation for his service.
Born in 1882, Dr. Cohen was aged 54 years. His marriage to
Miss Grace Vaughn, of Carbondale, but then a resident of Berwick,
took place in 1911. She survives as does his father, Lewis Cohen, of
Bloomsburg, one sister, Esther, at Bloomsburg, and two brothers,
ly

Eugene and

Isidore, of Detroit, Mich.
Funeral services were held from the home and were private to
the family and intimate friends. At 9 o’clock, the Berwick Lodge of
Elks held a memorial service at the home. Dr. M. Stalzman, of the
Reformed Temple, Wilkes-Barre, officated and interment was made
in the Hebrew cemetery at Danville.

Evan J. Williams, mayor, of Nanticoke, died January 24th, on
the eve of his fifty-third birthday. He was a member of the Caldwell Consistory of Bloomsburg.
1904
in

Harvey W. Seesholtz, aged fifty-two, passed away January 30th,
the Bloomsburg Hospital. Mr. Seesholtz has been in ill health for

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a

number

of years

and several times in the past had been a patient
His death was entirely unexpected and was

in the local hospital.

due

to a heart condition.

He was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and for a number of years was a teacher in the public schools. Later
he held the position of registrar in a New Jersey Hospital.
Mr. Seesholtz is survived by one brother and two sisters. He
was a member of the Orangeville Reformed Church. Burial was
made in the Laurel Hill cemetery at Orangeville. Funeral services
were held in the Orangeville Reformed Church.
1907

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

1908

Margaret Aikman Creasy ’38, of
Bloomsburg, and Vincent Edgar Lind, of Newport, R. I., and Townshend, Vt., has recently been announced. Miss Creasy, a Junior, is
a member of Gamma Theta Upsilon, Kappa Delta Pi, and secretary
Mr. Lind, a graduate of Rhode
of the Day Women’s Association.
Island State College, took graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his master's degree at Boston University.
He is now head of the Science Department at the Bordentown Military Institute, Bordentown, N. J. Miss Creasy is a daughter of Hazel Row (Mrs. J. Clarence Creasy), of Bloomsburg.

The engagement

of

Miss

1910
indebted to Mrs. Agnes Freas Keiser, 123 Haddon
Avenue, Collingswood, N. J., for the following personal items. Mrs.
Keiser, who is secretary of the class, requests her classmates to send
her their own corrected addresses and those of their friends.

The Editor

is

Frank Adams
Vermont.

He

is

is Superintendent of School
married and has three children.

at

St.

Johnsbury,

Marie Beach Newman is manager of the Metaline Falls Light
and Water Company in Washington.
Blanche Brown has been teaching

in

Akron

for the past twenty-

four years.

Robert Cole has been teaching

in

the

University of Michigan

since 1919.

Irene Curtis is the wife of Dr. Norton, a veterinarian.
three children, and lives in Meridan, Mississippi.

She has

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McGowan

Kathryn Evans

She has

lives at 49

Green

33

Street, Ashley, Pa.

five children.

Helen Hess Terhune lives at Apple Acres, Newfoundland, N. J.,
where they have an 1800 tree apple orchard, about forty miles from
New York City. She has a son attending Rutgers University.
S.

Frank Hess

School.

He has

is

teaching mathematics in the

Berwick High

a daughter, aged seventeen.

Charles Keeler has been teaching in Mauch Chunk for twenty
He reports that he weighs 205 pounds, and has a son twentythree years old.

years.

Anna Kleintob Edwards
She has

lives

at

Freeport,

a daughter, Gay, thirteen years old,

Long

Island,

N. Y.

and a son, Bert, aged

nine.

Hazel Longenberger Stieg lives
at Lehigh University.

at Flushing,

Long

Island.

She has

two sons

Ida Reber Otwell, wife of a Methodist minister, lives in Maumee,
Ohio. She has three fine sons, and says that she is well, happy, and
very busy.

Mabel Smith Ward's health

is

much improved

a recent

after

•operation.

Burton Shuman taught for seven years, and now operates a
farm near Honesdale. He has six daughters, and is Superintendent
of the Sunday School in his church.
Harold Bomboy is married and has two sons.
with the Ralph E. Weeks Company at Sunbury.

He

is

associated

Reay Milnes is a director of the Oneida Community, and has
charge of the hardware department. He is married, has a daughter
at Vassar, and a son thirteen years old.
David Moses has a prune ranch

at

Woodburn, Oregon.

Howard Fetterolf has been in charge of the administration of
Agricultural Education in Pennsylvania for the past twenty-one
.years.

Obed Pursel
Johnstown. He
iour.

is

with the Pennsylvania Electric Company at
married and has two daughters, aged seven and

is

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According

members

to the records of

the

class

secretary,

the

following

of the class are deceased:

Ethel Andrews (Mrs. W. A. Rutland), Jules Farrell, Orval Fetterman, Elizabeth Gulick, Regina Harnan, Kimber Hartman, Hattie
Hawk, Alma Jones, Lucy Malinowski, Leonina Seasholtz, John
Steckroth, Marie Stohner, Charles Mann, Mabel Pellett, Mary
Katherine Gearhart.

Mrs. Keiser would like
following.

Anyone

able

great favor by forwarding

secure the correct addresses of the
supply the information will render a

to

to
it

to her.

Margaret Cain, Hubert Gleason, May Klase, Warren
Klopp, Ada Maxwell, Anna Muir, Ida Mummey, Margaret Ratchford,
Josephine Reynolds, Sarah O’Malley, Abraham Zinkoff, Abraham
Zwenigorodsky, Theodore Krum. Franklin Kurr, Florence PenningSai'a Bond,.

ton,

Ada

Lore.

Henry K. Hartman,

of

Bloomsburg, and Miss Thelma

Jane

Rosensteel, of Saltsburg, were married at six o’clock Friday evening,
February 12th, at Woodland Presbyterian Church Manse in Philadelphia, by the Rev. Ramsey McDonald Swain.

Mr. Hartman is the son of the late Kimber and Elbe Hartman.
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School in 1928 and attended State Teachers College for one year. He graduated from BuckAt Bucknell he was a member of Phi
nell University in 1933.
Lambda Theta fraternity. At present he is a member of the Senior
class of the Medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, where
he is a member of the Phi Alpha Sigma Medical Fraternity.
The bride is a native of western Pennsylvania. She graduated
from Saltsburg High School in 1924 and Slippery Rock State Teachers College in 1931. She has been employed as a teacher in the
Indiana County Schools for the past five and a half years.
The couple will reside at the Commodore Apartments, 4207
Chester Ave., in Philadelphia, until July, when Mr. Hartman will begin his interneship in McKeesport Hospital, McKeesport, Pa.

He

is

1911
Dr. Harry C. Fortner has been transferred to the United States
Veterans’ Sanatorium at San Fernando, California, after serving
for two years with the United States Veterans’ Bureau at Chicago,
Previous to coming to Chicago, he spent two years at the United
111.
States Veterans’ Hospital at Santa Monica, California.
Dr. Fortner

is

a graduate

of

the

Catawissa

High School, the

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35

of Michigan.

the Pennsylvania State College. He
taught at Rupert, Strawberry Ridge, the University of Tennessee,
and the University of Vermont. After graduation from the University of Rochester, where he received his M. D., Dr. Fortner serv-

He

also took special

ed an enlistment
War.

work

at

in the U. S.

Medical Department during the World

He is much interested in bird lore, having taught the subject at
the University of Tennessee, as well as writing a number of articles
He was State Ornithat were published in bird lore magazines.
thologist of Vermont during the last two years of his residence there.
J.

Thomas
He is an

H. Keiser lives at 123 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, N.
instructor at the Pierce School, Philadelphia.
1912

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

Mrs. Earl Laubaeh, esteemed Benton woman who would have
observed her forty-second birthday soon, died in the Danville Hospital December 30th from pneumonia.

A native of Greenwood Township, Mrs. Laubaeh was the
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Parker. She attended
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and taught several years. Mrs.
Laubaeh was a member

of

the

Christian

Church and active

in

church work, being much interested in music.
Surviving are her husband and two children, John Herbert and
Winton, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Elmer Van Horn, of Hershey and
Mrs. Harry D. Hess, of Berwick, and a brother, George Parker, of
Derrs.

Jean Bachinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bachinger
(Teresa Dailey), of Market Street, Bloomsburg, died at the home of
her parents, Wednesday, February 24th. She was aged twelve and
was a student in the seventh grade. She was a member of St.
Columbia Catholic Church, and was a member of the Girl Scout
troop of that church.
1914

Major Idwal Edwards, now of Hawaii, son-in-law of the late Dr.
Henry Bierman, of Bloomsburg, has been advanced to the War College at Washington, D. C.
Major Edwards has been a frequent
Bloomsburg visitor and was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal
School and Bucknell University.

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1917

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

Miss Geraldine Nyhart, a graduate of the Teachers College here,
and Norman R. Thomas, both of Glen Lyon, were married Thursday
morning, November 1, at the home of the bride.
1918
Mrs. Russel Kostenbauder (Mary Catherine Rhodes), of Aristes,
died in the University Hospital at Philadelphia, Thursday, February
She had been a
25th, from complication following a week’s illness.
patient in the Geisinger Memorial Hospital at Danville, and was removed to Philadelphia a short time before her death.
Mrs. Kostenbauder was graduated from the Locust Township
School in 1915, and from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
1918. For six years she taught in the Locust Township schools, and
on November 27, 1924, was married to Russel Kostenbauder, principal of the Aristes High School.
She was an active member of the

Aristes and taught a

Sunday School

United Brethren Church of

class.

On Wednesday afternoon, November 25, at four o’clock in the
York Spring Methodist Episcopal Church, Miss Lola Gotshall, formerly of Bloomsburg, Became the bride of Edward C. Fetterolf. The
ceremony was performed by the bride’s father, Rev. Harvey O.
Gotshall. The bride and groom will reside at Dauphin.
1919
Muriel Griffiths (Mrs. Bruce M. Shearer), died at her home in
Connellsville, Pa. The editor has no information as to the date of her
death.

1922

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

1927

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

1928

Mr. and Mrs. Rees S. Davies, 64 Green Street, Edwardsville, announced the engagement of their daughter Martha R. Davies,
teacher in the Edwardsville schools to William G. Watkins, of Detroit, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William G. Watkins, of Kingston.
Miss Davies was graduated from the Edwardsville High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Watkins, a graduate of Shickshinny High School, is employed by the Ford Motor Company at Detroit.

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1930

An

eleven pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John SchoeberMrs. Schoeberlein
lein of River Edge. N. J., on Tuesday, March 16.
was formerly Miss Dorothy Erwin.

Announcement of the marriage of Miss Grace E. Reichard, of
Milton, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
Meredith Gardner, of Muncy, on June 14, 1936, has been made. The
groom is employed at Muncy.
Announcement has been made

of the marriage of Miss Ella B.
daughter of Alden Sutliff to Henry C. Brittain, of
Huntington, son of Almira L. Brittain and the late Chatfield Brittain.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. R. Austin at Hopbottom, Pa.,
on November 21, 1936. The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and has taught a number of years at Edicott.
Sutliff, of Edicott,

Mrs. John McCarthy, Sr., of town, announced the marriage of
her daughter, Florence L. Beishline, to Freemont T. Corbett, of Beckley, California, and formerly of New York. The couple were married
in San Francisco, October 28, 1936, by Judge Ames, a classmate oi
the groom. The double ring ceremony was used.
Mr. Corbett is a graduate of the University of California in
electrical engineering and has also studied chemical engineering in
Paris, France. At present he is affiliated with the electrical department of the Certaineed Products Cooperation of Richmond, California.
Mrs. Corbett is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and the Teachers College of town. The young couple are at home at
100 San Carlos Ave., El Cerrito, California.

Miss Mary Margaret Rishel, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy

L.

Rishel of Ferry Street, Danville, and Francis Thomas Casey, of Iron
Street, were united in marriage Wednesday evening, December 23 in
the rectory of St. Columbia's Church by The Rev. Father Louis J.
Yeager.

One of Danville’s most popular young women, Mrs. Casey was
graduated from the Danville High School in 1928, from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1930 and has been teaching school in
the Danville public schools.
The groom is one of Bloomsburg’s best known business men and
for the past two years has conducted the Bloomsburg Maytag Company. He recently took over in addition the management of the
Wilkes-Barre Maytag Company. He was graduated from the Bloomsburg High School in 1927.
The couple are now at home in their newly furnished apartment
at 54 East

Main

Street.

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Announcement has been made of the wedding of Miss Helen D.
Bond, of Sunbury, and Leslie Berk, a Senior law student at Dickinson College.
1931

A

recent article in the Morning Press has the following to say

about Arthur McKenzie ’31 and Henry Warman ’32:
“If Arthur McKenzie and Henry Warman can keep going at the
pace they have started, there ought to be room on Broadway for
the pair.

“Mr. McKenzie has for a number of years been a successful
teacher in the Rittenhouse Junior High School, Norristown. Mr. Warman joined the faculty a year later. The two arranged most of the
show “Ship Ahoy; All Visitors Ashore,” which was presented by the
Ritts Royal Rascals, of the Junior High School.
“The show played to capacity houses three nights and on opening
night, special police were called out to allow those fortunate enough
to have seats to get through the crowd outside clamoring for tickets.
It is planned to give the show in several cities in that section.”
1932

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

Announcement was made of the wedding at Niagara Falls on
September 3, 1936, of Miss Enid McCarrol, of that city, and Thomas
G. Hartman. Mr. Hartman is an eighth grade teacher in the Orange
Street school building. The wedding took place in the parsonage of
the Baptist Church in Niagara Falls and the ring ceremony was
Miss McCarroll is a
performed by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Osborne.
graduate of the 1935 class of a Rochester, N. Y. high school, having
resided in that city until recently. The couple will make their home
with the bridegroom’s mother at 132 East Seventh Street.

Announcement has been made of the wedding of Arthur Kramer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hunsinger, of East First Street, and Miss
Anne Wagner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Wagner, of Mt. Carmel.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Arthur Faus, Methoon June 5th, 1935. The bride
graduate of the Mt. Carmel High School and the Bloomsburg

dist pastor of Hughesville, at that place

is a
State Teachers College, Class '33, and is well known here. Mr.
Kramer is the projectionist at the Capitol Theatre, Danville, and the
young couple have started house-keeping on Mill Street in that

borough.

Each enjoys

a

wide

circle of friends.

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1933

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 22,

1937

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van Horn at Register was the
scene of a pretty wedding Tuesday, December 29, 1936, at 11 o’clock,
when their daughter Marian, became the bride of Rev. Alfred C.
Fray, son of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Fray, of Carlisle. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Allen C. Shue, District
Superintendent of the Sunbury District of Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the M. E. Church, assisted by the bride’s pastor, the
Rev. George C. Spurr, of Town Hill.
Mrs. Fray is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1933, and is now a teacher of the Cambra school. Rev.
Mr. Fray is now pastor of the Orangeville Charge. He is a graduate
of Dickinson College and the Boston University of Theology, 1936.
1934

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Shuman, of Mainville, have announced
the marriage of their daughter Freda to Clyde E. Laubach, son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. C. Laubach, Sunbury. They were married Wednesday
evening, December 23, at Elkton, Maryland, by the Rev. M. E.
Wheatley, pastor of the Methodist Church.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has been instructor in the
Commercial Department of the Fairview High School at Mountain
Top the past three years.
The groom is a graduate of the Sunbury High School and attended Bucknell University and the University of Pennsylvania and
is now with the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

The marriage of Max E. Sweppenheiser, son of E. G. SweppenBloomsburg R. D. to Miss Marie Wilkinson, of Dornsife, on

heiser, of

July 4, 1936, at Lyons, New York, by the Rev. V. S. Bitter, of the
Methodist Church, has been announced.
Mrs. Sweppenheiser was a graduate of the Trevorton High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the groom,
a graduate of the Mifflinville High School, is employed at the

Bloomsburg Silk Company. The couple will reside at the home of
the groom’s parents but will take up their residence in Bloomsburg
in the near future.

Carmer Shellhamer was elected February 7, to succeed Gordon
Fry on the faculty of Mifflinville High School when the directors

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in monthly session and received the resignation of Mr. Frey.
Mr. Shellhamer, a graduate of Mifflinville High School and of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has an excellent scholastic
record at each institution. He also holds a good record in athletics
and is popular in the community.

met

Miss Margaret Beard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Beard, of

Main Street, Catawissa, and Robert Van Sickle, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Emery Van Sickle, of Catawissa Township, two of the South Side’s
most popular young people, were united in marriage, December 25th,
surprising their legion of friends by advancing the time of the ceremony approximately twenty-four hours.

The wedding was performed

in the Fourth Street Methodist
Williamsport by the Rev. W. M. Young, former pastor at
The bride was graduated from the Catawissa High
Catawissa.
School, and the groom was graduated from the Catawissa High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He is employed
in the Department of Revenue at Harrisburg.

Church

at

1935

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

The engagement of Miss Betty Row, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Shamokin, has been
E. F. Row, College Hill, to William Reed of
announced. Miss Row, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and
Teachers College,

is

teacher of French and Latin in the Millville High

School.

Mr. Reed is now head of the commercial department at Hamburg
High School. During his College career, he was active on the campus,
and a member of the varsity basketball team.

John J. Gress, of the commercial department of the Bloomsburg
High School, was awarded third prize in an essay contest conducted
among commercial teachers of the nation by the Business Education
World. The essays were on original class room procedures.

The April

issue of the Business Education World contains an aron “The Students’ Classroom,’’ by John J. Gress, of the Commercial Department of the Bloomsburg High School, who is a graduate of
the Bloomsburg Teachers College. This article was the third prize
winner in the Business Education World essay contest and represents
a description of a classroom situation in which students are made responsible for the general discipline and learning situation.
ticle

1936

CLASS REUNION

— MAY

22, 1937

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Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fink, of Conyngham, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Mary Jane Fink, to Frederick M.
McCutcheon, of South Mountain, Pa. Both Miss Fink and Mr. McCutcheon attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Miss Fink
is a teacher in the Sugarloaf Township schools, while Mr. McCutcheon teaches in a school in South Mountain.

On

Saturday, March

20, at the First Baptist

Church

of

Blooms-

burg, Miss Sue D. Morgan, of

Edwardsville, and Dr. Clarence W.
Sober, of Bloomsburg, were united in marriage by the Rev. Enoch
Hughes, pastor of the Congregational Church at Edwardsville, assisted by the Rev. E. J. Radcliffe, pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Bloomsburg. Since completing the two year course in 1936, Miss
Morgan has been employed as assistant secretary to the superintendent of the Scranton Spring Brook Water Supply Company at
Wilkes-Barre. She has also done substitute teaching. Dr. Sober is
a graduate of the Dental School at the University of Pittsburgh, and
has a successful practice in Bloomsburg.
I. Riggs, of Bloomsburg, has been elected teacher
and English at Turbotville. She was elected to fill
a vacancy caused by the resignation of a member of the faculty of

Miss Frances

of French, Latin,

that school.

At the Methodist parsonage in Berwick on Saturday evening,
January 21, Miss Elsie Mae Runyan, of Bloomsburg. was united in
marriage to Woodrow Wilson Litwhiler, of Woodstown, N. J. The
ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Robert J. Allen, pastor of the
church. They will make their residence at Woodstown, N. J., where
the bridegroom is a teacher.

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ADDRESSES

I

Frank Adams,

St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Hilda Altmiller, (Mrs. J. R. Taylor) Rear 598 North Church
Hazleton, Pa.

Anwyl

Lila

(Mrs. Harold E. Davis), 73

St.,

Worcester Lane, Waltham,

Mass.
Anita Barletta (Mrs.

Ana de Fernandez), Box

1550,

San Juan, Porto

Rico.

Mary Barrett, 31 Eppirt Street, East Orange, N. J.
Marie Beach (Mrs. A. N. Newman), Metaline Falls, Washington.
Harold Box, South Canaan, Pa.
Julia Brill, 128 East Nittany Avenue, State College, Pa.
Bertha Brobst, 301 East Fourth Street, Berwick, Pa.
Blanche Brown, 66 Kuder Avenue, Akron, Ohio.
Fannie Brown, 52 South Sherman Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
La Rue Brown, 48 North First Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
Louella Burdick (Mrs. L. H. Sinquett), 722 Redman Avenue, Haddonfield, N. J.

Robert Cole, 507 Walnut Street, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Edith Corse (Mrs. R. C. Tingley), Harford, Pa.
Irene Curtis (Mrs. Eliven Norton), 2307 28th Avenue, Meridan, Miss.
Anna Davis (Mrs. William D. Weir), 45 West Bedford St., Forty Fort,
Pa.

Anna Donovan,

23 Lynde Street, Boston, Mass.
Beatrice Dunkerly (Mrs. Frank Yoch), 609 Walnut Street, Freeland,
Pa.
Effie

Edwards (Mrs. Charles

Potter), 402

Burke

St.,

Jersey Shore,

Pa.

Mary Edwards

(Mrs. Clarence Miles), 294 Charles
Michael Egan, Plains, Pa.

Kathryn Evans McGowan, 49 Green

Maude Evans,

1215

Belle Eves (Mrs.

Howard

Oram

St.,

Street, Ashley, Pa.

Street, Scranton, Pa.

James Brewer), Muncy, Pa.

Fetterolf, 40

Luzerne, Pa.

North 27th Street,

Camp

Hill, Pa.

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Agnes Freas (Mrs. Thomas H. Keiser),
wood, N.

123

43

Haddon

Ave., Collings-

J.

Ruby Gearhart, Evergreen Avenue, Larchmont, Pa.
Nora Geise, 115 Queen Street, Northumberland, Pa.
Grace Gilner (Mrs. Fred Zane), Sterling, Pa.
Anna Hanks (Mrs. Phil Higgins), 619 West 140th St., New York, N. Y.
Florence Heitsman, Dallas, Pa.
Helen Hess (Mrs. Gilbert Terhune), Newfoundland, N. J.
S. Frank Hess, 330 Vine Street, Berwick, Pa.
Josephine Holland (Mrs. R. W. Greenwood), Tunkhannock, Pa.
Maurice Houck, 606 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Nan Hourigan, 361 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Florence Huebner (Mrs. Raymond Buckalew), 17 West 5th St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Margaret Jones, 1735 Monsey Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Charles Keeler, 124 Center Street. Mauch Chunk, Pa.
Anna Kleintob (Mrs. Herbert G. Edwards), 251 Smith St., Freeport,
N. Y.

Josephine Koser Fairchilds, 139 East Main Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Olive Kresge (Mrs. Jared Montanye), 23 W. Hollenback Ave..
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Grace Krumm (Mrs. B. Savidge), Turbotville, Pa.
Vivian Laubach, 425 West Oak St., Hazleton, Pa.
Leila

Lehman,

Mifflinville, Pa.

Richard Lewis, 307 N. Sumner Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Sara Lewis, 26 East Pettebone St., Forty Fort, Pa.
Hazel Longenberger (Mrs. Fred Stieg), 140-71 Ash Avenue, Flushing, N. Y.
Zora M. Low (Mrs. William Gemmil), 7th and Schoonmaker Ave.,
Monessen, Pa.

Mary Lowry (Mrs. J. Y. Shambach), 2315 Page Street, Camp Hill, Pa.
Anna McBride (Mrs. Maurice Girton), Overbrook Ave., Dallas, R.
D., Pa.

Emma

McFarlane, 627 West Diamond Ave., Hazleton, Pa.
Rosa McGill. 3853 Asten St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Georgena McHenry (Mrs. Abraham Sharadin), Danville, Pa.
Bella

McMenamin,

Cecelia

West Elm Street, Hazleton, Pa.
(Mrs. Arthur Gilmore), 541 E. Chelton Ave.,

125

McMenamin

Germantown, Pa.
Gertrude Mackin (Mrs. James McHale), 657 83rd

St.,

Brooklyn, N.

Y.

Mary Maddock

(Mrs. Raymond Berger), Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Blanche Mertz (Mrs. John Bergen), Belle Mead, N. J.

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Robert Metz, 23 Manhattan

Anna Monahan

(Mrs.

J.

St., Ashley, Pa.
A. Corrigan), 330 West Broad

St.,

Hazleton.

Pa.

Sara Montelius (Mrs. Ira Mitterling), Hollidaysburg, Pa.
Charles Morris, 5 Olive St., Lee Park, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Irene Murray (Mrs. J. F. O’Brien), 140 Dana Street, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.

Marion O’Connor, Bacon St., Palo Alto, California.
Margaret Oliver (Mrs. Fred Walton), 310 East 2nd St., Berwick, Pa.
Bertha Polley (Mrs. James Oakes), Union, R. D. 2, N. Y.
Charles Potter, 402 Burke St., Jersey Shore, Pa.
Rena Pursel, 6733 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Emory

Rarig, R. D., Catawissa, Pa.

Ida Reber (Mrs.
Ohio.

Thomas

H. Otwell), 124 West Broadway,

Maumee,

Elizabeth Reeder (Mrs. Clarence Fisher), Frenchtown, N. J.
Mary Robb, 122 East Water Street, Muncy, Pa.
Tracy Roberts, Clarks Green, Pa.

Eleanor Ryan (Sister Margaret),

161

S.

Washington

St.,

Wilkes-

Barre, Pa.
Anna Sachs (Mrs. William Allen), 214 Highland Ave., Darby, Pa.
Kate Schooley (Mrs. Karl Stock), Harris Hill Road, Trucksville, Pa.
Jennie Scott (Mrs. S. T. Herberg), 1216 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix,
Ariz.

Mary

Shovlin, Washington Street, Freeland, Pa.
John Skweir, 300 South Tamaqua St., McAdoo, Pa.
Burton Shuman, Tyler Hill, Pa.
Ida May Smith (Mrs. H. S. Conrey), 214 E. Meade

St.,

Chestnut

Hill,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Mabel Smith (Mrs. Bruce Ward), Tunkhannock, Pa.
Mildred Snell Boston, 221 Delaware St., West Pittston, Pa.
Enola Snyder (Mrs. Morris Evans), 1225 Market Street, Berwick,
Pa.

Helen Thompson, 48 Nafus Street, Pittston, Pa.
Jennie Tobin, 832 Stokes Avenue, Collingswood, N.
Laura Tompkins (Mrs. Irving Cease), Jermyn, Pa.
Helen Trescott (Mrs. Lee Perry), New Lyme, Ohio.

J.

Raymond Wertman, Wuakake, Pa.
Marion Williams 29 E. Shawnee Avenue, Plymouth,

Pa.
Lois Yost (Mrs. H. G. Weston Smith), 813 West Marshall
town, Pa.

Harold Bomboy, 711 Catawissa Avenue, Sunbury, Pa.

St.,

Norris-

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OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
VOL.

JULY.

38

NO.

1937

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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.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER.
NELSON,

’ll

DEAN

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Editor

Business Manager

SUTLIFF RETIRES

IYEAN
”

of Instruction William B. Sutliff retired at the close of this
college year after more than forty years of outstanding service
to his Alma Mater, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Dean Sutliff is the last of the “Old Guard” of the College to
leave active service. He has been Dean of Instruction since 1921, being the only member of the faculty to hold that position.
Serving under five heads of the institution, Dr. Judson Perry
Welsh, Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Dr. Charles H. Fisher, Dr. G. C. L.
Riemer, and Dr. Francis B. Haas, the Dean has seen the College go
steadily forward, and in that progress he has played a prominent
part.

The esteem
class

of 1937

in which he is held is shown by the fact that the
dedicated the Obiter to him. The dedication in the

volume is as follows:
“To him who has followed with eager eyes the changing scenes,
the growth of new, the enrichment of old traditions; to him who has
taught more than the physical aspects in the movement of the
swinging pendulum; to him who has caught the soul of the campus
and set it fast to rhyme and rhythm; to him whose interest in poetry
was indirectly responsible for the selection of it as the theme of the

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1937 Obiter; to “Q” this book is reverently dedicated.”
The “Q” referred to in the dedication is the Dean. Many of his
poems with the above signature had been published in the Maroon

and Gold, and

it

was revealed.
Dean Sutliff

was not

until this year that the identity of the writer

when he was a small
attended the grade schools
there, and later attended the Huntington Mills Academy. He taught
in the country schools for a time, and then entered the Bloomsburg
State Normal School, from which he was graduated in the two-year
course. He served as a member of the faculty for a short time, and
then entered Lafayette College, from which institution he holds both
the A. B. and the A. M. degrees.
child, his family

is

a native of Stillwater, but

moved

to

Town

Hill.

He

For many years, Dean Sutliff served as instructor of mathematics at Bloomsburg, and hundreds of students have received inspiration

from

his fine instruction.

The Dean has always been keenly interested in sports. For a
number of years he was faculty manager of athletics. A collection of
pictures of baseball teams of the past will always show Mr. Sutliff
with the familiar score book under his arm.

When

Dean

the office of

Sutliff

was appointed

since.

He

of Instruction

was created

in 1921, Prof.

which he has ably

filled ever
has been responsible for the preservation of the records of
the more than 8,000 students who have gone out from the College.
He has been charged with the making out of class schedules, assigning classes to instructors, seeing that the credentials of all entering
students are in order, and a multitude of other details that cannot
be enumerated. Students and faculty have always felt free to go to
him with their problems, and have come out of his office, leaving
their troubles behind them.
He has been active in civic life, as well as in the life of the
College. He is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church,
F. & A. M. and Caldwell Consistory, and the Bloomsburg Kiwanis
Club.
He was married August 10, 1898, to Miss Ella Stump, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, and at
that time a teacher at the Normal School. They have resided for
many years on College Hill, just off the campus.
Their three children are graduates of Bloomsburg, and are
Robert is a teacher at Baldwin, Long Island. Helen is a
teachers.
teacher in Harrisburg, and Harriet has been teaching in Wernersville.
Dean Sutliff was honored Alumni Day by the largest gathering

of

to the position,

Bloomsburg Alumni

in

the history of the College.

Dean

Sutliff

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was presented with a deluxe copy of his own poems on the College
and on College life. The presentation was made on behalf of the
Alumni by President Haas.
The dedicatory page reads “To William Boyd Sutliff, gentleman,
scholar, friend of youth, a beloved member of the faculty for fortyfour years,

this collection

of

his

poems

is

presented to him by a

grateful alumni.”

During the general meeting of the Alumni Association, at which
time the main floor of the auditorium was filled, and little room remained in the balcony, Dean Sutliff was summoned from the audience by Dr. Haas, and advanced to the platform during an ovation
by the Alumni. He was greeted by Dr. Haas with the assertion, “I
take the hand of my personal friend, and a friend of every one interested in Bloomsburg.” The President then informed the Alumni
that the Dean was retiring “formally” at the end of the College
year.

observed that many were unfamiliar with the fact
being an able mathematician and administrator he is a
“poet of parts.” As a fitting tribute to the Dean, he said that the
Alumni had decided on issuing a limited number of poems written
by Dean Sutliff concerning the College, and to presen a deluxe copy
to the Dean.
He then read the dedication and the first volume of the poem
Dr. Haas

that, besides

in the

volume

entitled,

“Alma Mater” and

in that is written,

stated

you know it, and as it must be
living in the hearts of all interested in Bloomsburg.”
The Dean was given another ovation as he arose to accept the
volume. Copies were made available to members of the association,
and there was a great demand for them throughout the day.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, in resuming his duties as presiding officer, commented on the gift by saying
“it was the least we could do to hold the memory of his love and
service, and I believe the volume will be a delight and joy to all of
Dr. Haas, “the College as

it is

as

us.”

o

The Department of Music at the State Teachers College is offertwo new courses beginning with the Summer Session voice and
organ. Instruction in organ has been made possible by the installation of the new Hammond organ in the auditorium. Instruction in
voice is being resumed after a lapse of several years.
With the installation of the organ, a new field of ensemble
work will be added to those that have been offered the pupils in
ing

past years.

—

Procession

Commencement

the

Leading

Suhrie

Dr.

and

Haas

Dr.

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COMMENCEMENT
« /UNLESS

you are as willing to learn as to teach, unless you can
retain or regain the spirit of youth and unless you are agreeable with your position, you will never be great teachers.”
That

U

was the message that Dr. Ambrose L. Suhrie, professor of Teachers
College and Normal School education of the New York University,
left with members of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

Hundreds of friends and relatives of the eighty-one Seniors attended commencement exercises in the auditorium.
The processional “Aida” was played as the students and faculty
members entered the auditorium and took their places at the front.
The invocation was given by Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., president
emeritus of the College.
Following the selection "Kamennoi-Ostrow” by H. F. Fenstemaker on the organ, Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College,
conferred the degrees and urged the class “to organize your lack of
knowledge.” Before the recessional the assembly sang “Alma Mater”
with Miss Harriet M. Moore directing.
“It was thirteen years ago,” Dr. Suhrie remarked, “that I delivered an address here. Then the voice of Dr. Waller fell on the
audience as it has this morning. There are also others who have taken their proper places on this platform who were here thirteen
years ago.
“This is a

commencement program and it should be the happiest
your youth, for there is no other occasion which holds as
high ideals. I never attended a wedding without the one wish of giving the bride away, and today I am just as jealous of the one who

moment

of

gives out the diplomas.
“It wasn’t so many years ago that twelve or more students on
such occasions talked on how to save the country and would sit down
in the applause of their parents.
“To day we are more democratic. There are larger classes and
it is no easy task for a speaker to approach his task lightly.
“For many it has been a practice to cover topics of our government. Many presidents make a prophecy each year. I recall almost
twenty-five years ago I spoke at Rawlins and made the statement
that we were too wise to engage in international conflict. A month
later men in Europe were responding to the drum beats and were
ready to slaughter each other. Later we were drawn in the same
conflict. So today no man can prophesy about the future.

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of

“I should speak of a more intimate theme and about the future
your profession.

“In the early years of education Ben Rush clearly saw if we
wanted ideals, there was a necessity of having a democratic system.
He gave expression to these ideals.
“A hundred years ago Horace Mann made a defense of the same
type of education. John Dewey meant much when he said ‘what the
best and wisest men want for their children we should all strive
for.’
Men of power and eloquence have given large possibilities in
education and Democratic parties. Henry Barnard, Henry Wickersham and John Sweat are among those not forgotten in the history
of education.

“Horace Mann pleaded for a normal school. Finally the Massachusetts legislature authorized it.
On the first day of school only
three students applied for admission. But the underlying difficulty
was that Mann did not have the people in the right frame of mind.
And also those who were admitted into that school had no early

we have today.
“Normal schools were no competition for the colleges. It required a century to build up a system, and today we have a high
school education as a prerequisite and four years of residence.”
Continuing the development of normal schools, Dr. Suhrie said:
training from early schooling such as

required to raise the standard of
teaching as for one year of academic work. We have made great
progress in lifting the level of teachers and the task has not been an
easy one.
“thirteen to fourteen years are

“Normal schools of the United States have a checkered career.
They are most inadequately financed of all our institutions and yet
have the tremendous task of carrying on education. There are more
persons engaged in teaching than in the legal, medical, dental, ministerial professions, and the turn-over in teaching is greater than
those groups. We find that, on an average, teachers continue to serve
less than half as long as any of those professions.

“During the depression we heard of such an over-supply of
But perhaps I might add there was too great a supply of
underprepared. In the near future we shall have a shortage of
teachers, and from my contacts many schools fall short of their obteachers.

jectives.

“The vast majority of people holding office have no idea of the
inadequacy of various schools and the tremendous task which is
placed upon such institutions.
“In the early days because of the curriculum, emphasis was

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placed on methods. The situation has changed today and the cultural
aspect of our schools compares favorably with our leading academic
colleges of the country. In fact some of our best normal schools are
superior to many academic colleges along this line.”

Speaking along the line of service, Dr. Suhrie told of an experience of Colonel Parker of Massachusetts near the close of the last
century. The colonel was called upon to open a school at Quincy,
Mass. During his address he challenged the group with “when you
have a good idea come to me.” He returned to his office and a short
time later was confronted by a student who handed him a card
reading, “Not what we take from this school but what we bring to it
helps us.”
The address, packed with experiences from life, included the
story ot a Mr. Bailey, who visited a small Massachusetts school, with

was a school, the speaker remarked,
where the kids could do all the teacher could.
One boy named Antonio, Dr. Suhrie continued, played his violin
and the other twelve students applauded. The teacher had taught
them to applaud in appreciation. Another member of the class was
an orator, another an artist. Each was called upon and each was
applauded. There was one boy, a chalk talker, who made the mountains rise. Finally, one boy was left. His name was Peters. When the
teacher was questioned regarding his particular ability, the reply
was that Peters was the window opener. He was the tallest and was
applauded for his ability for opening windows.
a total enrollment of thirteen. It

Referring to the story, Dr. Suhrie urged that “in your leadership
his cards. Give every one
a
chance.”
“It is important that we should maintain an atmosphere in the
classroom as a challenge for the children. Maintain the spirit of youth
and work with them so that there is a natural understanding.
“You will not be great teachers unless you have the art of encouragement. I remember the day when I was in school and had
the impulse to draw. I drew something on the black board and the
teacher commanded that I rub out my drawing and stay after school.
If that teacher had had some patience I might have been a great
give every child his chance to play

artist.

“Unless you are agreeable to your position,

come

to

you

children

will

not

for counsel.

“You will not be a great teacher unless you are as willing to
learn as to teach and unless you can retain or regain the spirit of
youth.”
Dr. Suhrie’s

wishes to the class were “I hope you

may have

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courage and success and win the

crown

of

a

rich

and

abundant

life.”

Termed as an informal chat with the class of 1937, Dr. Francis
B. Haas, President of the College, said “the time has come when you
are ready to leave, when some of us cannot help but wonder if we
have done all we could for you. We hate to see you go, and we would
like to tell you all we knew if it would be of any help to you.
“If some of you have lost anything, perhaps these few remarks

some

will be of

help.

“This regards my advice on how to prepare for classes. Some
years ago I applied for a teaching position. The president of the institution asked me to call for an interview. He told me I was to teach
logic, psychology, philosophy and in my spare time the history of
education. I told him I knew little about those subjects.
“It was his reply which I want to pass on to you. ‘I know you
don’t know much about those subjects but your lack of knowledge
is more organized than the student’s.’
“The story also arises in my mind,” Dr. Haas continued, “of a
situation in a class room. There was one pupil who knew all the
answers. He was always one step ahead of me. I thought I had prepared my lesson thoroughly and was always about to come to the
most important point when this one particular pupil would lean over
to another and give out the answer. This continued for some time.
“One day I realized the same situation was arising. My lesson,
I was
about to reach the
1 thought, had been properly prepared.
biggest point when I saw the student, seated in the back of the room,
lean over to give the answer to his neighbor.
“I called out ‘I don’t want you to be a footnote to all I say.’
“The following morning I walked into the classroom and in
large, bold chalk type on the black board was this, “Some times the
footnote is more illuminating than the text.’ ”

“And

so,

members

of the class of

your lack of knowledge and do not

remember to organize
remember you have many

1937,

fail to

footnotes.”

THE CLASS
Secondary Field
John L. Andreas, Bloomsburg.
Maria S. Berger, Bloomsburg.

Lamar K.

Blass, Aristes.

Ethel M.
D. 3.

Bond,

Glenn

C.

Shickshinny,

Brown, Bloomsburg.

Barbara Marie Booth, Eagles
Mere.
Frank A. Camera, Hazleton.
Beatrice E. Corle, Espy.
Cordelia Marie Davis, WilkesR.
Barre.
Philip J. DeFrank, Kelayres.
G. Edward Deily, Bloomsburg.

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Leon R. Dixon, West Hazleton.
Marie E. Foust, Milton.
Ray R. Hawkins, Galeton.
Dorothy L. Hess, Bloomsburg.
Walton B. Hill, Shamokin.

John R. Gering, Berwick.
Robert R. Goodman, Bloomsburg.
Nola E. Paden, Berwick.
Helen B. Seesholtz, Bloomsburg,

Earl T. Hunter, Ashland, R. D.
Alvin S. Lapinski, West Hazleton.

William E. Zeiss, Clarks Summit.

R. D.

Commercial Field

Josephine M. Magee, Jermyn.
Jane G. Manhart, Berwick.
James L. Marks, Catawissa R. D.
Walter E. Moleski, Ranshaw.
John M. Owen, Wilkes-Barre.

Mary

E.

Palsgrove,

Amanda Babb, Summit

Haven.
Luther Andrew Peck, Scranton.
Jay H. Pursel, Bloomsburg.
Ruth E. Radcliffe, Bloomsburg.
Minette

S.

R. D.

Randall F. Clemens, Berwick.
Anna E. Ebert, Fleetwood.
Elizabeth R. Evans, Bloomsburg.
Edward P. Garvey, Dunmore.

Rosenblatt, Hazleton.

Ray G. Schrope, Tower

Station.

Joseph W. Bartish, Wilkes-Barre.
Harold L. Border, Berwick.
Gladys M. Brennan, Sunbury.
Schuylkill Edward J. Brown, Bloomsburg,

Earl A. Gehrig, Danville.
Mary R. Grosek, Plains.
Dorothy E. Hower, Espy.
Luther P. Hower, Espy.

City.

Ruth H. Smethers, Berwick.

Lehman

J. Snyder, Turbotville.
Muriel R. Stevens, Berwick.
John B. Supchinsky, Edwardsville. Anna Jean Laubach, Berwick.
George R. Tamalis, Edwardsville. Mary Helen Mears, Bloomsburg.
Beatrice H. Thomas, Berwick.
Thelma I. Moody, Sunbury.
Rosetta F. Thomas, Taylor.
Floi'ine L. Moore, Berwick.
Mary Agnes Trembly, Blooms- Victoria Muskaloon, Peckville.

Harry T. Nelson, Hazleton.
Joseph S. Ollock, Swoperville.
George John Plesko, Ashley.
Elementary Field
Thomas W. Reagan, Lost Creek.
Dorothy R. Berninger, Mifflin- Mary Reisler, Oxford.
ville.
Theresa M. Ritso, Shenandoah.
Mary Glenda Conner, Benton.
Blaine J. Saltzer, Bloomsburg.
Eudora E. Hosier, Berwick.
Camille R. Schalis, Hazleton.
Edith D. Justin, Scranton.
Julia I. Schlegel, Fleetwood.
Armina E. Kreischer, Berwick.
William H. Shutt, Bloomsburg.
Catherine C. Kreischer, Berwick.
Amanda Jean Walsh, Plains.
Marian L. McWilliams. Danville.
Edward L. Webb, Pine Grove.
burg, R. D. 5.
Albert D. Watts, Millville.
Jessie M. Webber, Scranton.

o

Mrs. Claude Smith (Theresa Miller), of Middletown, died some
time in May. She was formerly a teacher in the schools at Glen Lyon,
Pa.

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BACCALAUREATE SERVICE
“WHE LAST step

in the accomplishment of your mission consists in
imparting to others the life and truth received from God,” the
Rev. A. C. Paulhamus, pastor of the Good Shepherd Evangelical
Church, exhorted members of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, on Sunday, May 23.
A capacity audience participated in the baccalaureate exercises
at 2:30 o’clock in the College auditorium. Members of the class and
faculty entered the auditorium to the processional, “Ancient of Days,”
played by Mrs. John K. Miller.
Members of the board of trustees in attendance were Judge C. C.
Evans, Grover Shoemaker and W. W. Evans.
Following the invocation by the Rev. Mr. Paulhamus, the audience sang “Faith of Our Fathers” and the Scripture was read by Dr.
Francis B. Haas, President of the College.
The A Cappella Choir,
under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, sang “Bless the Lord, O

My

Soul.”
The text

was taken from Luke 12 “A man’s life consisteth not in
the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Let your light so
shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify
your Father which is in Heaven. I am the life.”
“I think that there is little danger that America will ever declare,
as many other countries have, that Christianity is an evil. The most
dangerous type of resistance is the man who is very indifferent. A
spinning wheel is a relic. The Bible and religion have been classified
with the spinning wheel, as ornaments. A generation ago people
needed their Bible and religion, while today the danger is that religion be classified unnecessary to life. Experience over a period of
years will speak differently.
“When Lindbergh flew to Paris he carried with him an indicator
compass, so accurate that he reached the coast of England, just two
miles from the point for which he aimed. Religion does the same for
It sets the goal, it gives us direction; it indicates clearly to us
life.
when we have drifted or taken the wrong road.
“Many a man loses his soul in the trickery and dishonestly of
He later finds that there is something
scrambling after things.
missing; that he has the wrong scale of values. Religion gives him a

new

direction for his life.”

The speaker continued, “When men are discouraged, hopeless,
afraid or defeated, religion gives them new energy and new power to
conquer.”

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“During the past few years American citizens have been in the
money. There is only one cure

grip of fear on losing their job or their
and that is faith and religion.

“Many people have been bothered with

the fact that

man

could

find no scientific proof that God exists. The answer is clear, for
Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.”

“Religion refines a life.
It assures him that the things that
abide are not subject to the stock market or bank failures, and history shows that although Christianity has not been able to eliminate
warfare, it has refined man’s method of dealing with the enemy.
“Religion gives a companion for lonely, suffering and fearful
that is closer than a brother. When the hour comes when he has to
give up, we know that there is only one thing that can help us and
be close to us and that is Christianity.
“There has been only one physician in the world who said, T
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.’ You know who that was. It
satisfies the need and that is enough.
“The last step in the accomplishment of your mission consists in
imparting to others the life and truth received from God. I say this
because distribution is a law of growth. Your treasures of life will
increase or diminish accordingly as you give it or hoard it. The more
liberal you are the more abundant your stock in life will be.
“Let your life so shine before men. It is Divine to make spiritually disconcerned, somebody needs you and you need somebody.
“The growing principle of life is recorded, ‘And whatsoever ye
do in word or deed, do all in the name of Lord Jesus, and whatsoever
ye do, do it neatly, as to the Lord, and not unto men.’
“Now your second great commencement day is the time when
you are born unto the estate of manhood in which you are to perform
the practical duties of life, and learn how to perform the part belonging to soul life.
“When you leave your Alma Mater, may all the varied and
changing experiences through which you will pass in life from a
golden ladder upon which you shall climb to the palace royal of the
King eternal and then on your next graduation and last, may God
hand you your diploma and confer the degree of life eternal while
angelic choirs shout psalms of victory. Success to you all.”

—

o

Florence
schools for

Kramer,

of

several years,

—

Dewart, a teacher in the Watsontown
and Roscoe Rhone, of Sunbury, were

married Saturday, June 5th, at Hollidaysburg.

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IVY DAY EXERCISES
IN THE

picturesque setting of the college grove at sunset, exercises
traditional to Ivy Day were held Monday evening, May 24. Just
as the sun was sinking, the gowned and capped members of the

*

graduating class marched from the gymnasium to the grove to participate in a brief period of song and to hear Walton Hill, of Shamo*
kin, the Ivy Day orator, declaim the importance
of integrating

and generalization.
Attendance at the program was considerably smaller than usual
because of the fact that those completing the two-year course no

specialization

longer participate in the commencement activities, thus reducing
the number of graduates to less than a hundred, as compared with
classes that numbered over two hundred.
Then, too, there was no class night program following, an innovation of last year. Instead, there was a concert by the Bloomsburg High School band and a reception to parents and friends of
the class on the front campus.
At the conclusion of the brief exercises in the grove, the class
marched to Noetling Hall, where Lamar Blass, the president of the
class, officiated at the planting of the ivy, and presented the spade to
William Thomas, of Scranton, the president of the Junior class. When
the ivy planting ceremony was completed, the students joined in
singing the Alma Mat.er.
Strings of Japanese lanterns illuminated the front campus for the
which attracted a large number of relatives and friends of

reception,

the class.

In his discussion of the importance of giving both specialization
and generalization their proper places, Mr. Hill spoke of the two as
standing for different ways of living, and declared that we must accomplish the proper integration and correlation of the two is we
are to expect a full and happy life. He stated that mental illness is
largely due to two reasons: either patients fix their attention too
firmly on one subject, or refuse to fix their attention on any subject
for a sufficient time. “History,” he said, “is replete with examples of
outstanding specialties in morals and religion.” He cited the Quakers,
Dunkards, Mormons, and Seventh Day Adventists as examples.

the other hand, he said, “we have those who are too general
and morals. They admit no creed, cult, or belief, subscribe to no set standard of morals, and base their sociological relationships on their individual desires and tendencies.
Having no

On

in their religion

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principles or theories on spiritual and moral living, they sooner or

from the manner of living which society has prescribed
in so deviating, they must be judged by the representachosen by society, and are required to pay the penalty for then-

later deviate

for us.
tives

And,

error.

He spoke

briefly of the specialized training required in indus-

commerce, business and the professions.
In conclusion, he said, “it is altogether possible for us to have
specialties in moral life, which we designate as ideals and principles,
without rendering ourselves reprehensible and undesirable’ to
others by an aggressive defense of those morals.
“Our specialties are a part of ourselves a part which is to be
lived and practiced, not by word of mouth, but by deed and action.
“They are the particular interpretations which we ourselves
place on life, and since no two people put exactly the same meaning
on any certain thing, it behooves us to guard our ideals, lest they
be damaged or altered by contact with others. Let us hold to our
ideals, be they moral, social, professional, physical, or mental— let us
hold fast to them, using them as goal posts toward which we may
try,

—

climb.

“Let these ideals be our specialties,

be cherished and cared for
our contacts with other
people, let us in no way force these ideals and specialties on their
personalities and characters.
We should designate them to our
inner self to our soul and feelings and, by means of generalities,
reconcile them with the ideals of others.”

But

as green seedlings in a hot house.

—

to

in

—

o

At an assembly held Friday, May 7, Kappa Delta Pi, honorary
national scholastic fraternity, honored the memory of Horace Mann,
noted educator, by presenting a bronze plaque of Mann to the Col-

The entire assembly program was in charge of the members
Kappa Delta Pi. Harry Nelson of Hazleton, read excerpts from
the life of Mann. These readings were followed by interludes depicting various scenes from the life of Mann, showing how he became
lege.

of

interested in education and followed it throughout his life. At the
conclusion of the pi'ogram, Luther Peck, of Old Forge, president of
the Bloomsburg Chapter, on behalf of Kappa Delta Pi, presented the
plaque to the College. The plaque was accepted for the College by
Dean William B. Sutliff, who made an appropriate speech of acceptance. Dr. Nell Maupin, of the faculty, is sponsor of the Bloomsburg
chapter of the fraternity.

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PROF.

ANDRUSS APPOINTED DEAN
/CHANGES

in the faculty of the College, fol-

lowing the retirement of Dean William B.
Sutliff, have been announced by
President
Haas.
Prof. Harvey A. Andruss, who had been
head of the Department of Commerce for the
past seven years, will succeed Mr. Sutliff as

Dean

of Instruction.

W. C. Forney, who has been a
teacher in the Commerce Department, will
succeed Prof. Andruss as head of the departProf.

ment.
Mr. Andruss
Prior to his coming to Bloomsburg, Prof. Andruss was instructor
and lecturer at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois and supervisor in the Department of Business Education, at the State Teachers College at Indiana, Pa. Five years of public school teaching preceded this college teaching experience.
After receiving the A. B. degree from the University of Oklahoma, with the certificate in public and private business, he received the degree of Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University, and continued to study another year toward the
Ph. D. degree. During this time he was a special investigator for
the Investment Bankers' Association of America, and visited the
largest bonding houses in the country.
Membership in the following professional fraternities bespeak
the character of the scholarship of Prof. Andruss: Phi Beta Kappa,
Beta Gamma Sigma, Kappa Delta Pi, Gamma Rho Tau, Beta Alpha
Psi, Pi Omega Pi, and Phi Sigma Pi. At the present time, he is vicepresident of the College Instructors’ Round Table of the National
Commercial Teachers Federation, and of the Lewisburg Phi Beta
Kappa Alumni Association. Being a member of the Advisory Committee on Examination for the Unemployed Insurance Board of Review, he is engaged in setting up policies for the civil service examinations which will be given to over 30,000 persons in Pennsylvania.

During the past eight years, Dean Andruss has written over
magazine articles and monographs on educational and business
School Journal,
subjects in such magazines as the Pennsylvania
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Education Quarterly, The Journal of Business Education, The Journof Accountancy, Educational Method, The Kadelphian Review,
and many others. Two books, entitled “Business Law Cases and
Tests” and “Ways to Teach Bookkeeping and Accounting” are now
used in many high schools in Pennsylvania and other states.
Under the guidance of Prof. Andruss, the Department of Commerce at the College has grown from an enrollment of forty students taught by two teachers to its present size of over two hundred

al

students, requiring the services of five teachers.
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newly
PROF. FORNEY,Department

appointed dithe
of Commerce,
rector of the
was for a number of years the head of the
Commercial Department of the Easton High
School.

After graduating from the Danville High
School in 1916, Prof. Forney received the degree of Bachelor of Science from Temple
University, and later the degree of Master of
Arts from New York University.

He has been president of the Commercial
Section of the Pennsylvania State Education
Mr. Forney
Association, and is now a member of the
executive council of the Business Educators’ Association of Pennsylvania.
For the past five years, Prof. Forney has been a teacher and
supervisor in the Department of Commerce, which he has now been
selected to direct.

FACULTY MEMBERS PARTICIPATE IN

P. S. E. A.

Professor Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, addressed the Department of College and Teacher Training at the Twelfth
Annual Convention of the Northeastern District of the P. S. E. A.,
held at Sunbury Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17. Professor
Rhodes spoke on the topic “What Significant Changes are Necessary
in Our Present System of Training Teachers?”
Dr. Kimber Kuster was secretary of the department of College
and Teacher Training.
Prof. H. A. Andruss of the Department of Commerce, addressed
the commercial section on the subject “Curriculum Construction by
Contests.”

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MRS. FRANCIS H. JENKINS
7MRS. FRANCIS H. JENKINS, aged eighty-one, one of Bloomsburg’s most esteemed women, died suddenly Friday, May 7, at
4:40 o’clock at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. McCachran, of Camp Hill, where she was visiting.
Her death, the result of a heart attack, came as a profound shock
to the family and a legion of friends, for she had been enjoying good
health for a woman of her years,
bright and happy Thursday.

and apparently

exceptionally

A

guest in the McCachran home since Monday, May 3, she had
to return to her home here. She awoke about 4:15 o’clock
Saturday, May 8, coughing and the family physician was summoned
and reached the home promptly. A heart attack, however, caused
her death. It came peacefully and with little suffering. She was ill

planned

with grip for
covery.

some weeks

in

January but had made a complete re-

Born in Almedia, the daughter of the late Conrad and Lavina
Bittenbender, February 16th, 1856, Mrs. Jenkins spent practically all
of her life in Bloomsburg. Her husband, Prof. Francis H. Jenkins,
one of the beloved “old guard” of the Teachers College, died September 30th, 1933.
A member of the class of 1875 of the Teachers College, she never
lost her interest in that institution. For many years she assisted her
husband in the publication of the Alumni Quarterly and continued
active in this work following his death.
She was a devout and active member of the St. Matthew Lutheran Church and for many years was the untiring president of the
Woman’s Missionary Society. She resigned this office about a year
ago. Mrs. Jenkins was a member of the Bloomsburg Chapter of
Delphians and the Fort McClure Chapter, D. A. R.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. R. A. McCachran, Camp Hill;
two grand sons, Robert F. and Russell A. McCachran, Jr., Camp Hill,
and a brother, John K. Bittenbender, Winter Park, Fla.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, May 10, at, 2:00
o’clock at the Dyke funeral home. Dr. Norman S. Wolf, pastor of St.
Matthew Lutheran Church officiated. Burial was made in Rosemont
cemetery.
Dr. E. H. Nelson of the College faculty, has been appointed to fill
the position of Business Manager of the Quarterly, made vacant by
the death of Mrs. Jenkins.

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RESOLUTIONS
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Our Heavenly Father in His Infinite Wishas called to their reward Mrs. Catherine Noetling, wife of Professor William Noetling, Mrs. Sallie
A. Cope, wife of Professor John G. Cope, Mrs. Anna
B. Jenkins, wife of Prof. E. H. Jenkins, who for
many years was the efficient Business Manager of
the Alumni Quarterly,
And Whereas: The loyalty and devotion of these former faculty members and their wives are a cherished memory in the hearts of many Alumni of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College; Therefore,
Be it Resolved: That we bow in humble submission
to the Divine Will and fully realize that the influence of their lives upon us can never die. Graduates who were fortunate to have known them, will
always owe a debt of gratitude and love to our departed friends.
Be it Further Resolved: That we extend our deep
Whereas:

dom

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sympthy to the immediate families
their bereavement and that a copy
tions be spread upon the minutes

in

the hour of

of these resoluof

the

Alumni

Association.

Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES
W.

B.

D. S.

The above

H.

ALBERT, Chairman.

SUTLIFF.

HARTLINE.

resolutions, relative to the death of the

wives of three former faculty members, were presented and adopted at the Alumni meeting, held on
Alumni Day.

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THE SENIOR BALL
SENIOR BALL of the Class of 1937 was held Friday evening,
May 21, at the Hotel Berwick, and was largely attended by members of the class and guests. This is the first time in many years

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that the Senior Ball has been held off the campus.
Patrons and patronesses were Dr. and Mrs.

Dean and Mrs. W.

B.

Sutliff,

Francis B. Haas,
C. Koch, Dr.
Buchheit, Miss Ethel

Dean and Mrs. John

Marguerite Kehr, Mr. and Mrs. George C.
Ranson, and Prof and Mrs. S. I. Shortess.

of the class were Lamar Blass, president; J. Blaine
vice-president; Miss Jane Manhart,
secretary;
George
Tamalis, Ire: surer; and Prof. S. I. Shortess, class advisor.
Officers

Saltzer,

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SENIOR BANQUET
to members of the graduating class who have
given outstanding service in all fields of college life, were presented to nine members of the class of 1937 at the Senior banquet in
the College dining hall Thursday evening, May 20, the opening
feature of the commencement season.
The coveted awards went to lour girls and five men. They are:
Miss Jane Manhart, Berwick; Miss Marie Davis, Wilkes-Barre; Miss
Julia Schlegel, Fleetwood, and Miss Anna Jean Laubach, Berwick;
Luther Peck, Old Forge; Frank Camera, Hazleton; Lamar Blass,
Aristes; Roy Shrope, Tower City an.1 Harold Border, Berwick.
The banquet is the one event ol It: commencement season that
with a few invited guests.
is confined to members of the das'
Guests were President and Mrs. Francis If. Haas, Dean and Mrs. William B. Sutliff, Dean and Mrs. John C. Koch, Dr. Marguerite Kehr
and Prof, and Mrs. S. I. Shortess.
Lamar Blass, president of the class, presented Blaine Saltzer, of

1/fERIT KEYS, given

Bloomsburg. who was toastmaster. Prof. Shortess, class advisor, and
Dean Sutliff responded briefly. Dr. Haas presented the merit keys.
The banquet concluded with the singing of the Alma Mater.
A theatre party at the Capitol followed the dinner program.
o

Haas was one

of the speakers at the 51st district
Dr. Francis B.
conference of Rotary International, held at Buck Hill Falls, during
the week ending May 8. Dr. Haas spoke on the subject “Rotary Re-

sponsibility in the Field of

Youth Service.”

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MAY DAY
\ GAINST

a background of colorful streamers, fluttering with the
caprice of Spring breezes, and on a living carpet of green,
Bloomsburg had its own coronation Wednesday, May 12, as students

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and college presented their annual May Day procrowd of 2,500 on the Teachers College campus.
Stretching up the slope toward North Hall were the twenty May
Poles and on the level campus before Science Hall were presented
of training school

gram before

a

the folk dances that tradition couples with May Day ceremony.
The royal purple and golden throne on which presided Miss
Muriel Stevens as Queen of the May, was a bower of green on the
bank by the gymnasium, facing the bleacher seats that ranged the

cross-campus walk and were far inadequate to accommodate the
crowd, the largest ever to witness the Spring-time festival on the
hill.

Dances by each of the six grades of the Benjamin Franklin
Training School and by the College girls themselves comprised the
program that climaxed the fourth annual play-day in which 150
students from twenty high schools in this vicinity participated. Those
students also were guests at May Day.
Highlighting the dances was an original presentation by the
College girls in evening gowns, which led up to the winding of the

May

Poles.

The Maroon and Gold orchestra, directed by Howard Fenstemaker played the Grand March from Aida as the processional.
Flower girls were children of the first grade in white, carrying
baskets of Spring flowers and streamers of purple. They were Rose
Ann Bachinger, Isabelle Berninger, Rosebelle Carl, Nancy Cox, Joan
Frye. Marie Johnson, Joanne Lewis, Xenia Lychos, Elaine McMahan,
Barbara Moyer, Peggy Parker, Helen Paules, Mary Katherine Shoemaker, Nancy Ann Shuman, Delores Stewart, Hannah Terwilliger,
E'sie Toledo and Nancy Trembley.
As they neared the throne they formed an aisle through which
came the crown bearer, Ernest Bitler; the queen in white and carrying flowers, and her long robes of royal purple and gold carried by
Richard Dillon, Stuart Gast, Billy Howell, Clark Patterson, Robert
Perotti, Richard Shaffer and Fred Trescott, wearing capes and hats
of lavender.

Attired in pastel shades were the
flowers that harmonized with their

queen’s

gowns.

carrying
were: Mary

attendants,

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Grosek, Ethel Bond, Anne Grosek, Ruth Leiby, Jane Oswald, Virginia
Burke, Caroline Champi and Roberta Hagenbuch.
The coronation ceremony itself was far from as long as its
counterpart in London earlier in the day, and was marked by none
of the speechmaking.
Crown Bearer Bitler handed the crown to Dean of Men John
Koch, who placed it on the Queen’s head.
Songs by training school pupils followed, including “Robin
Hood and Little John,” “The Maypole Dance” and “Strawberry
Fair.”

The kindergarten followed with a brief dance. Grade two presented “Bridge of Avignon,” “Point Lightly Partner” and several
games. Grade four presented “The Vineyard Frolic” and “Captain
Jinks,” and college girls all in white, gave “The Parson’s Farewell”
and “The Fine Companion.”
Grade three gave “For It’s a Jolly Good May Day,” and grade
six “Irish Lilt.” Grade five gave “French Reel” and grade one
a musical play, the story of which was written by Fred Trescott, a
It depicted
children enroute home from school, a
first grader.
meeting with their mothers and play in neighborhood groups.
College girls in evening gowns then climaxed the program of
dances on the green and the winding of the score of May Poles followed.
Directing the kindergarten children were: Misses Virginia Breitenbach. Leah Reese, Kathryn Lanciana and Glenda Conner, and
accompaniment for the dances was provided by Margaret Ward and
Gerald Hartman.
The folk dancing and May Pole winding by the children of the
training school were directed by the training school teachers with
the assistance of their student teachers.
They were Miss Grace
Woolworth, Miss Ermine Stanton, Miss Mabel Moyer, Miss Lucile
Baker, Miss Edna Barnes, Miss Anna Garrison, Mrs. Etta Keller and
Miss Amanda Kern.
Directing the second graders were Misses Ruth Kramm, Elizabeth Jenkins and Glena Conner; directing grade four were Miss
Irene Bokoski and Lottie Shook; directing the third grade was Miss
Gladys Wenner; directing grade six were Misses Rachel Jones and
Domona Adams; grade five, by Eudora Hosier; and grade one, Miss
Wilhelmina Peel.
Miss Lucy McCammon was in general charge of the day’s program and various phases of the work were directed by Miss Harriet
Moore and Miss Alice Johnston, and the throne was the design of

George

J.

Keller.

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(Morning Press Photo)

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At the Speakers’ Table Left to Right: Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., R. Bruce
Albert, Mr. Kipke, Mrs. E. H. Nelson, W. W. Evans, Mrs. R. Bruce
Albert and Dr. Francis B. Haas

ATHLETICS
Athletes Honored
‘It’s

It’s

WHE

at

Banquet

the spirit of Old Bloomsburg,
the end of a perfect day.”

LAST lines of the college song “Old Bloomsburg” best convey
the spirit in evidence at the Seventh Annual Athletic Dinner held
at the College, Saturday evening, May 15.
The winning, by the

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husky track team, of the state championship during the afternoon set the stage for the finest affair of its kind that has ever been
held.

Harry G. Kipke, football coach at the University of Michigan,
was the speaker of the evening, but the Lion’s share of the honors
were heaped upon the championship team that did not arrive at the
College until the program was half over, and who were given an
ovation as they entered the dining room led by their happy coach,
George C. Buchheit.
The dining room was filled for the dinner, at which R. Bruce
Albert, ’06, president of the Alumni Association, was toastmaster.
The Maroon and Gold Orchestra provided a program of music during the serving of the dinner. Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., President Emerigave the invocation.
Guests of the evening were presented, including W. W. Evans,
vice-president and Grover C. Shoemaker, secretary of the Board
tus,

of Trustees.

Dr. Haas, a loyal supporter of the athletic program, presented
chevrons to girl athletes and a gold key to Lamar Blass, Aristes, who
was soon to conclude four years of brilliant athletic achievement,
during which he won four letters in track, three in basketball, and
one in football.
Julia Schlegel and Anna Ebert, both of Fleetwood, were given
This honor has in the past
the outstanding girl athlete awards.
been given to but one girl each year. Past holders of the honor
include Mary Betterly, Euphemia Gilmore, Beatrice Girton and
Blanche Kostenbauder, of Bloomsburg, and Norma Knoll, and Helen
Seely, of Berwick.

Dr. Haas, in speaking of the key to be presented Mr. Blass, declared that it was his honest opinion that Blass represents one of the
very finest types of college men with whom he had ever come in
contact. “He is just a good all-around man,” he said, “and I wish to
pay tribute to him both as a fine student and a fine athlete. He

graduates this year, and we want him know that we appreciate not
only his athletic qualities but his fine qualities of manhood as well.”
The speaker of the evening, Mr. Harry Kipke, was then introA young man with eleven years of successful football
duced.
coaching at the University of Missouri, Michigan State College, and
the University of Michigan. Mr. Kipke has coached at the latter
university, his Alma Mater, since 1929, and in that time Michigan has
had four Big Ten Conference titles. Michigan alumni living in the
vicinity of Bloomsburg were guests at the College for the dinner.
Speaking fluently, and with little effort, Mr. Kipke had a very

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which he used with

interesting group

periences, and

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them gleaned from

of

telling effect

to

drive

his

home

exhis

He

held his audience so closely that there was genuine regret
that he did not speak longer.
The track team entered just as Mr. Kipke concluded, and received a ringing ovation.
Football awards were announced by Coach A. Austin Tate, and
Miss Lucy McCammon gave out the awards to the girls.
A College trio, composed of Miss Frances Ward, Miss Margaret
Ward and Frank Patrick, delighted with three popular selections
dedicated to various athletic teams.
Coach Buchheit presented the basketball awards, and Dean
John C. Koch presented the track, baseball and tennis awards.
Dr. Haas accepted from Coach Buchheit the trophy that was
symbolic of the State track and field title, and which may be retained for one year.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, head of the Department of Health Education,
told of the basis of athletic awards, and of the adding of wrestling
and bowling to the College program. These have been added as
minor sports, but there are indications that these sports will in the
future take a more prominent part in athletics at Bloomsburg. He
also spoke of the fine work of Kenneth Horner, of the Shamokin
High School faculty, who coached the wrestling team, and of the
splendid work of Miss McCammon in staging May Day.
Earlier in the program Dr. Haas had declared that one of the
most pleasing developments during the past year has been that of
the intra-mural program, and that it is planned to develop this furpoints.

ther.

The dinner closed with the singing of the Alma Mater, and
dancing followed in the gymnasium.
The following received awards during the night.

AWARDS FOR WOMEN
Chevrons
Julia Schlegel,

Anna

Anna

Ebert, Sara
Reichley, Helen

Orner, Eva
Dorothy Sidler, Florence Snook.

Ellen Dershem, Ruth Miller,
Derr, Sarah A. Ammerman,

Letters

Sara Ellen Dersham. Ruth Miller, Anna Orner, Eva Reichley,
Helen Derr, Sarah A. Ammerman, Dorothy Sidler, Joy Andrews,
Helen Mayan, Donnabelle Smith, Leona Aberant, Florence Park,
Grace Killeri, Lucile Adams, Beatrice Corle, Margaret Smith,
Roberta Lentz.

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Numerals
Lctha Hummel, Esther Sutherland, Helen Lowry, Lorraine
Liehenwalner, Irene Bonin, Avis Wesley, Evelyn Freehafer, Lois
Farmer, Margaret Blecher, Eunice Laubach, Mary Grosek, Jean
Brush, Mary Pesansky, Martha Wright, Betty Savage, Ruth Zimmerman, Carrie Yocum, Cecile Sheets, Dorothy Derr, Dorothy Selecky, Jane Scott, Katherine Moore, Marion Landis,
Grove McCoy,
Muriel Rinard, Alice Finnerty, Betty Lerew, Sara Altland, Cora
Baumer, Helen Seman, Alberta Brainard, Guladus Jones, Louise
Zandie.

AWARDS FOR MEN
Football

— Varsity

Alfie Angeli, Lamar Blass, Frank Camera, Leon Dixon, Alphonse Finder, Andrew Giermak, Norman Henry, Francis Johnson,
Sheldon Jones, William Kirk, Vance Laubach, Alvin Lipfert, Donald
Mercer, Andrew Posvack, Lawrence Rositi, Gene Serafine, John
Sircovics,
Luther Troutman, Chalmers Wenrich, William Zeiss,

Stanley Zelesky.

Jay Vees— Ralph Baker, Joseph Champi, Joseph Conahan, William Forsyth, John Hancock, Dean Harpe, James Hinds, Robert
Hopfer, Clark Kreisher, Walter Lash, Norman Maza, Clair Miller,
Cyril Monohan, Frank Patrick, Winfield Potter, Frank Roll, Stanley
Schuyler, Richard Shirley, Michael Stenko, Richard Strauser, John
Supchinsky, Charles Weintraub, Clark Welliver.
Track

Lamar

Gerald Burke, Leon Dixon, Michael Gonshor,
Chester Harwood, Kenneth Hippensteel, Robert Hopfer, Donald
Karns, Daniel Kemple, Vance Laubach, Paul Martin, Edward Mulhern, Joseph Ollock, Robert Parker, Michael Sofilka, Frank Van
Devender, Stanley Zelesky.
Blass,

Basketball

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Varsity Sterling Banta, Lamar Blass, William Kirk, Alvin Lapinski, Irving Ruckel, Malcyn Smethers, Walter Withka.
Jay Vees Donald Blackburn, Thomas Davison, Daniel Litwhiler,
John Slaven, Philip Snyder, Frank Van Devender, Ray Zimmerman,

Robert Zimmerman.
Cross Country

Varsity— Kenneth Hippensteel.
Jay Vees Michael Gonshor, Donald Karnes, Daniel Kemple,
Robert Parker, Ralph Jones.

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Baseball
Banta, Thomas Davison, Alphonse Finder, Morgan
Foose, William Forsyth, Andrew Giermak, Charles Girton, Charles
Glass, James Hinds, Fred Houck, Donald Hausknecht, Carl Hower,
Sheldon Jones, Frank Koniecko, Paul Kotch, Daniel Litwhiler, John
Sterling

Maczuga, George McCutcheon, Norman Maza, Frank Noville, Stephen
John Slaven, Harold Trembley, Chalmers Wenrich.

Pavlick,

Tennis Squad

John Gering, Robert Hopkins, Maclyn Smethers, William Strawinski, Walter Withka, Adolph Zalonis.
Senior Varsity Records

Lamar

Blass

—Football

1936-37;

Basketball

1934-35;

1936-37;

Track 1933-34; 1934-35 (Capt.) 1936-37 (Capt.)
Harold Border—Football 1933-34; 1934-35; 1935-36.
Frank Camera Football 1933-34; 1935-36; 1936-37.
Leon Dixon Football 1935-36; 1936-37; Track 1935-36.
John Gering Tennis 1933-34; 1935-36; 1936-37.
Alvin Lapinski Basketball 1936-37 (Mgr.)
Joseph Ollock Track 1936-37 (Mgr.)
Luther Peck Baseball 1936-37 (Mgr.)
Ray Schope Football 1933-34.
John Supchinsky Football 1934-35.
William Zeiss Football 1936-37 (Mgr.)

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REVIEW OF ATHLETICS
^HE

SPRING program at the college was most satisfactory, both
from the point of view of number of participants and accomplishment. A pleasant spring afternoon would find squads busy at
track, tennis, spring football, and baseball.
In addition, the women
carried on an extensive intra-mural program of activity.
Articles
on the May Day program and the Athletic Banquet will be found
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elsewhere in this issue.
Since that state championship in track was won by Mr. Buchheit’s undefeated track team, we believe that a short description
of that big day in Harrisburg would be in order before we add the
1936-37 spring sports records.
A brilliant 1937 Husky track team put up a spirited scrap in the
State Teachers College meet at Harrisburg Saturday, May 15, to
snatch top honors with a score of forty-nine points, eight more than

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the nearest rival, West Chester. With this victory the Huskies close
an undefeated season of five meets.

Led by Captain Blass and Frank Van Devender, who together
garnered over half of the Husky points, the Maroon and Gold boys
took four firsts the quarter mile, 220 low hurdles, two mile run,
and 880 yard dash. Other individual first placers were Zelesky and
Hippensteel. In addition they placed three seconds, three thirds, and

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six fourths.

In this meet Captain Blass scored twelve points and ended one of
the most outstanding careers ever seen on Bloomsburg soil. He sent
his grand total up to 306 points for four years of track competition.
He was second in the shot put, high jump, and 120 yard high hurdles,
third in the broad jump, and fourth in discus.

Another Maroon and Gold runner deserves just as much credit
Frank Van Devender earned thirteen counters and two first places to carry off individual honors for
for his outstanding performance.

the meet.

The Shamokin

lad raced to

victory

and the 220 low hurdles, setting a record

for

the quarter mile

in

the

latter

clipping two-tenths of a second off the mark set by
the meet last year. Frank went the distance in 25.5.
second place in the 220 yard dash.

event by

Van Gorden in
He also took

Zelesky gained seven points, among which was a victory in the
speedy freshman, raced to victory in the two mile
event in 10:26.5 for another Husky record.
Kemple, a class-mate of Hippensteel’s, took two seconds, while
Karnes, also of the class of ’40, was second in the two mile and
second in the mile run. Milhurn, with a fourth in the 100, and
Harwood with a fourth in the javelin, each picked up a point to
880. Hippensteel,

swell the Bloomsburg score.
Three new records were set during the afternoon in the shot put,
the 220 and the discus. Bloomsburg garnered points in every event
but the pole vault. West Chester counted in eleven events, Shippensburg in nine, Lock Haven in five, Slippery Rock in three and East

Stroudsburg

in four.

SPRING SPORTS RECORDS
Baseball

Bloomsburg 7
Bloomsburg 22
Bloomsburg 6
Bloomsburg 4
Bloomsburg 7

Millersville

2

Susquehanna
Lock Haven

7

Indiana

5

4

Shippensburg 12

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Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
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6

East Stroudsburg

7

3

Shippensburg
Mansfield
Mansfield

4
4

19
9

Summary: Won

5;

Lost

5

4.

Track

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

95

Susquehanna 31

88
65

East Stroudsburg 38

Shippensburg 61
Susquehanna 27

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Summary: Won

4;

Lost

0.

places)
—Scranton
—Placed third in Teachers
Competition.
State Teachers College Meet —

Medley Relay
Penn Relays

(3 1st

College

First.

Tennis

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

Shippensburg
Shippensburg

4

6
6

Lock Haven

3

9

Millersville

0

5

4

8

Villanova

1

9

Susquehanna

0

5

Shippensburg

4

2

East Stroudsburg
Indiana
Mansfield
Bucknell

7

2

5
3

Summary: Won

7;

Lost

7

4
6

3.

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was held Tuesday evening, April 13th,
Bloomsburg, when the faculty and administrative personnel of the College tendered a dinner to President and Mrs.
delightful dinner party

at the Elks’

Home

in

Francis B. Haas. Special recognition was made of the fact that Dr.
Haas has this year completed ten years as President of the College.
More than fifty attended. The committee in charge was Prof. George
J. Keller, chairman; Mrs. Lucille Baker, Miss Edna Hazen and Miss
Irma Ward. An interesting feature of the program was the presentation of a poem written and read by Dean W. B. Sutliff, who paid a
fine tribute to Dr. and Mrs. Haas. Mrs. Haas was presented with a
corsage, and Dr. Haas responded briefly.

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ALUMNI MEETING
rp HE Bloomsburg

State Teachers College

Alumni Association en-

thusiastically voted its support to the purchase of an electric organ which has been installed in the College auditorium and which

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by various groups connected with
Another feature of the almost two hour session
of a motion picture in natural color of various
College and scenes of the campus. It was directed
J. Keller, of the art department, assisted by all
will be paid for

the institution.

was the showing
activities

of

the

by Prof. George
agencies of

the

College.

Dr.

the

Haas

first, if

in giving a forward, stated that the picture was one of
not the first of its kind ever made. It delighted the grad-

uates.

A
a

on the

recital

member

electric

of the faculty

and

organ by Prof. Howard F. Fenstemaker,
of the class of 1912, was enjoyed as the

alumni assembled at 11:00 o’clock for the meeting.
R. Bruce Albert, president, presided and seated on the platform
were three members of the board of trustees, Dr. H. V. Hower, of
Berwick, the president; Superintendent W. W. Evans, of town, the
vice-president, and Judge Charles C. Evans of Berwick, all alumni;
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus of the College and a member of the institution’s first graduating class in 1867; G. Edward
Elwell, Prof. C. H. Albert, Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, former
members of the faculty, and Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the
College.

Members

of the graduating

class,

attired

in

of the class,

and Lamar Blass, of
presented by Dr. Haas, gave a check

covering the

first

marched

He

into the auditorium

year’s dues for every

members

member

caps

and gowns,

Aristes,
to the

president
association

of the class of 1937.

were “more than pleased”
to become members of the organization and would “try to uphold
the high standards you have set.”
declared the

of the class

In his response President Albert expressed thanks to the class
with the comment that “a good start usually indicates a good finish.”
Speaking of Blass, he declared him to be “one of the finest college
men and athletes Bloomsburg has ever produced.” The class sang
“Maroon and Gold,” Miss Harriet M. Moore directing and Prof.

Fenstemaker at the organ.
Frank Camera, of Hazleton, president of the Community Government Association, explained how that organization works and on

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behalf of the students expressed to the graduates “a cordial welcome
to this College which was yours not so long ago, and which is yours
again today.” The class left the auditorium immediately for an early
lunch.
The first floor of the auditorium was filled by that time and the

balcony was filling rapidly.
Miss Hari’iet F. Carpenter, treasurer, presented her report showing a total of $1,321.86 and a balance of $229.21.
Howard F. Fenstemaker, editor, reported on the Alumni Quarterly and Dennis D. Wright, treasurer of the student loan fund, reported the fund totalled $3,483.11 with $3,200.13 outstanding in
loans.

was reported

that the Bakeless Memorial Room, furnished at
had been paid for by the alumni. Prof. Albert presented resolutions, which were adopted, on the deaths of Mrs. Catherine Noetling, wife of Prof. William Noetling; Mrs. Sallie A. Cope,
wife of Prof. John G. Cope and Mrs. Anna B. Jenkins, wife of Prof.
It

a cost of $4,000

F. H. Jenkins, who died during the past year. He observed that Mrs.
Noetling was ninety-four at the time of her death, Mrs. Cope eightyseven and Mrs. Jenkins eighty-one. Other members of the resolutions committee were W. B. Sutliff and D. S. Hartline.

Miss Harriet F. Carpenter and D. D. Wright, of town, and Frank
Dennis, Wilkes-Barre, were re-elected members of the board of
directors of the association for three year terms. S. J. Johnson made
the report for the nominating committee of which Miss Mabel Moyer
and G. Edward Elwell were members.
Introduced as the man “who has done more to build up the
alumni spirit than any other man on the campus.” Dr. Haas observed that the alumni body he was addressing was the largest he
had seen at the institution in the ten years of his presidency.
Any developments at the College in that time, he declared, were
surely due to the cooperative efforts of those interested in the institution. He expressed greetings on behalf of the trustees, faculty,
students and employes. He hoped that the local units within the
general organization would become centers for more than just the
counties in which they were formed and expand to serve larger
areas.

An

educational institution, Dr. Haas said, is nothing more nor
than the cooperative effort of those interested in it. “It stands or
falls on its graduates.”
The College has a fine board of trustees, he told the graduates,
and despite busy lives three of them had found it possible to attend
the activities of the day. He said the board had insisted that no move
less

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be

made

unless

it is

for the

best interests of

the

institution.

This

was greeted with applause.
Dr. Hower, in speaking

briefly for the trustees, declared the
College is headed “by a man we believe is the greatest educator in
the state.” That statement also provoked applause.

Classes Report
Dr. Waller, only living member of the class of 1867, was presented and given an ovation that made the hall ring.
The class of 1887 had five members present, Miss Mary Petty,
Berwick; Mrs. Clark Kashner, Bloomsburg; Mrs. J. W. Creasy, Mifflinville; Mrs. J. D. Lowry, Watsontown and
Mrs. Mary Mathias
Hermany, Mahanoy City. Greetings were telegraphed to them by another member, Maude K. Smith Fasold.
Harry U. Neyhart, Glen Lyon, reported eighteen members of the
class of 1892 back. Thirty of the class of ninety-three have died.
O. Z. Low, Orangeville, reported thirty-five of the class of 1897
in attendance. He said the class has members scattered all over the
nation with one of the members, Mrs. Charles Miller, coming from
California for the reunion.
George C. Baker, Moorestown, N. J., said the class of 1892 had
about fifty-five attending and gave credit for the reunion program,
opening with a dinner Friday night, to Miss Mabel L. Dean, Scranton, and Mrs. Alfred Keller, of town.
Harry DeWire, reporting for the class of 1907, reported twentyeight of the 106 members back. He declared the class happy to note
the splendid progress of the institution.
Laurence D. Savidge, of the class of 1912, said 49 had attended
a get-together Friday night and 74 at a breakfast Saturday morning. They, too, had a member attending who came from California.
Mr. Savidge claimed that his class was self sustaining and could
exist without aid from any other source, roll call during the morning having shown one member of the class “in the wholesale cracker
business and another in the wholesale banana business. So you see
we could live on crackers and bananas.”
The class of 1917 had sixty-five of its 181 members back. Clyde
L. Luchs, of town, reporting for the class, said that its members’
health would be well taken care of, two of the class being physicians.
Thomas I. Hinkle, of Hazleton, reported thirty-five of the 138
members of the class of 1922 in reunion with tentative plans made
during the day for the reunion in 1942.
Miss Dabler, Plymouth, spoke of the class of 1927 as the first to

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graduate from the institution as a Teachers College and that one of
the 338 members, Arthur Jenkins was the first to get a degree from
Bloomsburg. Sixty-one of the class were present.
Roy Evans, Benton, reported twenty-one of the class of 1932
back. There were five in attendance from 1933; ten from 1934;
twenty-five from 1935 and twenty from 1936.
More than a score were present who graduated prior to 1890
and Miss Hannah Breece, of town, reported for the class of 1879

which had five members back.
o

Professor Harvey A. Andruss, has been appointed as a member
Committee on Examinations for the Unemployment
Insurance Board of Review. All employees in the Department of
Labor and Industry at Harrisburg are to be placed on a civil service basis not later than January 1, 1938. The Advisory Committee
on Examinations will set up the general policy regarding the instruction, administration and grading of examinations given to employees
in the unemployment compensation division. The initial meeting of
this committee will be held at Harrisburg on April 28. Its members
are composed of the outstanding educators in Pennsylvania in the
field of business, administration, accounting and general commercial
of the Advisors

subjects.

o

Business Manager of the Quarterly, has sent out
over five hundred letters to those who were members of the Alumni
Association last year, but had failed to pay their dues for this year.
Up to June 14, seventy-five had responded. The greatest problem
confronted by the officers of the association has been the great loss
each year of those who fail to pay their dues from year to year. Their
numbers are always replaced by those who come to the reunions, but
this circumstance keeps the membership static, and makes growth
difficult, if not impossible. Please keep this in mind next year, when
your dues expire. Let us all join in and help the association to grow,
and we shall have an organization that can really do something.
E. H. Nelson.

o

Prof. H. A. Andruss addressed ten members of the Pennsylvania
Business Educators’ Association at their first annual commercial
education exhibit in the John Harris High School, Saturday, May 15.
Prof. Andruss discussed “The Relationship of Commercial Education
to General Education.”

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ALUMNI LUNCHEON
VALUE of living in a country where one has freedom was emphasized by Laurence D. Savidge, a member of the Class of 1912,
who made the address at the Alumni Day luncheon at the College.
Around 1,000 attended with the large dining room unable to accommodate all and many having lunch in the lobby adjoining.
The College Orchestra provided the music during the luncheon
and Peter Jaffin, of Berwick, accompanied by Gerald Hartman,
Catawissa, pleased with two bass solos.
Membei's of the various branches of the association represented
and President R. Bruce Albert urged an active group in each county
in this section. The invocation was given by Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,
president emeritus.
Mr. Savidge in his address said that alumnus meant “foster child”
and Alma Mater “nourishing mother” and that it was certainly
fitting that the graduates, as foster children, come back to Bloomsburg, the nourishing mother of them all.
He spoke of Ivy Day of his class of a quarter century ago, in
which Prof. J. H. Dennis, had declared “go out and dream and
make your dreams come true.” Mr. Savidge said that has always
remained a challenge to the class and always would remain one.
Reference was made to the contributions Bloomsburg has made
and will make to American citizenship. America today, he said, was
“what parents have done for children and what the teachers have
HT HE
-*

done

to those children.”

He spoke

of America as very likely being at the cross roads of
Democracy is still young as a type of government. He
did believe communism and fascism would ever gain a foothold in
this nation. It was his opinion that sort of government was on the
downward path and democracy in the ascendancy but the danger is
its

existence.

not yet passed.
Preservation of our nation as one that will always be a country
of liberty was urged. He declared that the government has been set
up as one of three branches with each to act as a check against
tyranny on the part of another and he urged that this never be

changed.
o
of the Research Committee
Educators’ Association, which is a
sub-division of the Department of Vocations and Arts of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Prof. William C.

for the Pennsylvania

Forney

is

Business

chairman

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ALUMNI DAY REFLECTIONS
Bloomsburg State Teachers College will
and the board of trustees has already
arrangements be made for the observance.
made by Dr. Haas when he spoke to the
Alumni Day.
1939,

observe its centennial in
authorized that proper
This announcement was
returning graduates on

He asked that the president of the graduate organization appoint a committee of alumni to assist in the preparation of the program, which, he said, would take two years to plan. Graduates gave
hearty approval to the centennial observance.
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Graduates from Luzei'ne County, making the trip to Bloomsburg
in a motor-car with a motor pati'ol escort, had more than fifty cars
in the procession. They were met by the Maroon and Gold Band
and escorted to the campus.
******

The WPA Band, G. Gordon Keller directing, added a feature to
program with concerts throughout the afternoon. The band played during the ball game.
the

4c 4; 4c 4c 4; 4c

hear the Alumni comment during the
showing of the colored film “Alma Mater.” When a new building
would flash on the screen, one graduate would lean over to another
and say, “Where’s that? We’ll have to look that up right after this.”
It

was

interesting

to

44^^^^

—

many of them memories by
Somebody was murmuring all the time at some point in
the auditorium: “We didn’t do that when we were here. I guess we
came too soon.” Or one would say, “We should have been campused
if we had tried that.”
At many times one heard the expression:
Memories were revived by the film

contrast.

“Bloomsburg

is

certainly growing.”
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4s

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3s

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Despite the fact that many had lunch down town, the number in
attendance at the Alumni luncheon was so large that tables had to
be set up in the lobby. All of the lobby space was required for the
overflow.

******
Students have always been royal hosts to the Alumni. College
was over for all but the graduates, but a large number of students
remained to assist in caring for the Alumni.

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It did not make much difference about weather conditions, so
long as the reunion classes could talk over old times. While checking up in class reports, the reporter traced the members of the
class of 1907 to the front of the building.
They had adjourned to that point to take some snap shots. The
sun was particularly hot there, but they were so busy talking over
experiences of the past that they stood around much of the afternoon in the warm glare of the sun without complaint.
Inside was a much cooler class room reserved for the use of ’07.
The girls forgot all about that.
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Peter Jaffin, of Berwick, a member of the class of 1924, and
possessor of an excellent bass voice, delighted with two solos during
the luncheon. He made a decided hit with the Alumni. Gerald
Hartman ’32, supervisor of music in the Catawissa schools, was his
accompanist.
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sj:

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Every one of those connected with the College trustees, faculty,
students and employes was at the service of the graduates. They did
everything to make the day a happy one. Comment on every hand
was that it was Bloomsburg’s greatest Alumni Day.

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* * ** **

The “Old Guard” received a fine ovation from the former
students. They included Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus;
Prof. C. H. Albert, Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, and Dean William
B. Sutliff.

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meeting of the board of directors of the Alumni Association
were re-elected, with R. Bruce Albert,
Bloomsburg, president; Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., vice-president; Miss
Harriet Carpenter, treasurer; and Edward F. Schuyler, secretary.
Other directors at the meeting were D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg;
Fred W. Diehl, Danville; and Frank Dennis, Wilkes-Barre.
Representatives of group organizations, members of the advisory council in attendance were Orval Palsgrove, Frackville, for
Schuylkill
County; John Boyer, Herndon, for Northumberland
County; Homer Englehart, Harrisburg, for Dauphin County.
Mr. Wright represented Columbia County; Mr. Diehl, Montour,
and Mr. Dennis, Luzerne. A drive will be made to organize counties

At

in the

not

now

a

afternoon officers

now

organized, in order to inject

active.

life into

some organizations not

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The hospitality of the College to returning graduates is evidenced
by the fact that they served a thousand luncheons, without one cent
of cost to the Alumni. The dues receipt was the admission ticket to
the luncheon, but every cent of the dollar dues collected from each
member was retained by the Alumni Association to defray expenses
of publishing the Quarterly, and for use on other Alumni projects.
******
Several of the local branches of the Alumni Association took advantage of the new policy, whereby twenty-five cents are returned
to the local branches for every general membership that they
send
in. These groups now have a fine nest-egg to help defray expenses
for their activities next year.
Other branches desiring to profit in
the same manner should write for further information to Dr. E. H.
Nelson, at the College.
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HELP US GET NEW MEMBERS

You who are receiving this issue of the Quarterly are considered
members of the Alumni Association, and are entitled to all
the privileges attached to such membership. You may be interested
to know what these privileges are. When you paid your dues of one
active

dollar,

you became

entitled to the following:

Four numbers

of the Quarterly
copy of Dean Sutliff’s poems
Admission to the Alumni luncheon
Admission to the baseball game

A

game (Home-coming Day)
Alumni Dance (Home-coming Day)
Football

$1.00
.50

.50
.50
.50
.50

Total
$3.50
you believe that you are getting your money’s worth, why not
tell your friends and classmates about it? Many of your classmates
who did not come to Bloomsburg Alumni Day will want to know
about their reunion. They will want to know who was there, where
they live, what they are doing. Get their subscriptions now, there
will be extra copies of the July number printed, and your friends will
receive them. If you went home Alumni Day filled with “the spirit
If

that

is

Bloomsburg,” you will not need to be urged to work for the
your Alma Mater. Keep that Bloomsburg spirit alive!

interests of

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HE-SHE PARTY HELD APRIL 26
The He-She party, one of the social highlights of student life at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was held Friday night,
April 26, in the college dining room at six o’clock.
Miss Margaret Sidler of Danville, was elected president of the
day students and Miss Anna Malloy

of Shenandoah, president of the
boarding students as features of the evening’s program.
The five past presidents who returned to the College for the
affair were Mrs. Ruth Appleman Pealer, of Benton; Misses Louise
Yeager and Jean Smith, of Berwick; Kathryn John, of Bloomsburg,
and Mrs. Margaret Bitler, of Pottsgrove.
Guests of the affair were girls of the College, wives of the
board of trustees and faculty wives.
The costume ball in the evening provided such celebrities as the
Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson and Mr. and Mrs. Rubinoff, Mrs.
Clarence Sober, Eva Krauss, Betty Harter, Beatrice Kirchman and
Betty Malloy served as judges.
Present officers in turn named their successors and presented
them with a corsage.
Day-student officers named were: Dorothy Sidler, Danville,
president; Vivian Frey, Mifflinville, vice president; Jane Lockard,
of Berwick, and Marie Savage, of Shamokin, senior representatives;
Dorothy Englehart, and Miriam Utt, of Bloomsburg, junior representatives; Rosemary Housknecht, of Bloomsburg, and Martha McHenry, of Benton, sophomore representatives.
Miss Marie Davis, of Wilkes-Barre, present president of the
boarding students, had charge of the naming of the new officers
which were: president, Anna Malloy, of Shenandoah; vice president,
Martha Dreese, of Middleburg; three senior representatives, Alice
Auch, of Easton; Bernice Bronson, of Rummerfield; and Billy Hayes,
Ruth Miller, of Forty
of Parsons; three junior representatives,
Fort; Margaret Deppen, of Trevorton; and Evelyn Freehafer, of
Reading; three sophomore representatives, Catherine Bell, of Drums;
Florence Stefanski, of Wilkes-Barre and Dorothy Miller, of Taylor.
The dinner committee was headed by Edith Justin, of Scranton,
with Jean Temple and Martha Wright as her assistants. The general
committee was in charge of Mary Quigley, of Shenandoah. Assistants
were Betty Savage, of Berwick; Anne Curry, of McAdoo and Florine
Moore, of Berwick.
Miss Vivian Frey, of Mifflinville, was in charge of the finance
committee. Her assistants were Bernice Blaine, of Berwick, and

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Misses Marian Elmore and Bernadette Reynolds. Members of the invitation committee were Virginia Walukiewicz, Anne Grosek, Miriam
Utt and Dorothy Englehart.

Miss

A welcome was extended
Emma Jean Laubach, of

by the hospitality committee of which
Berwick, was chairman. Jane Lockard

and Ruth Dugan were her assistants.
Costume prize awards were presented by the following committee: Ruth Leiby, of Danville; Jane Manhart, of Berwick and Alice
Auch and Jane Oswald.
Prize awards were made as follows: most original couple, Anna
Jean Laubach and Jane Lockard, of Berwick; funniest, Betty Fritz, of
Orangeville, and Helen Biggar, of Unityville; handsomest, Vera
Follmer and Josephine Richards, of Bloomsburg; cutest couple, Anna
Rech and Kathryn Leedom, of Southampton; cutest girl, Dorothy
Karschner, of Dallas; best dressed man, Louise Shipman, of Sunbury;
funniest individual, Thelma Moody, of Sunbury; best group, Dorothy

Audrey Reed, of Mansfield, Joycelyn Andress, of
Sonestown, and Margaret Smith, of Sterling.
During the evening, dancing was enjoyed, with Deily’s Orchestra
furnishing the music. Members of the refreshment committee were:
Alaoque Burns, Virginia Burke, Helen Pesansky and June Good, and
members of the flower committee were: Mary Palsgrove, Josephine
Magee, Marian Metcalfe and Margaret Graham.
Sidler, of Danville,

o

The combined music clubs of the College held their annual
spring concert and dance Thursday evening, April 22. Organizations
cooperating were the Mixed Chorus, the A Capella Choir, and the
Maroon and Gold Orchestra. The dance following the concert was
in charge of Frank Camera, president of the Community Government
Association. Proceeds from the concert and dance were turned over
as a contribution to the

organ fund.
o

The student council

College visited the Pottsville High
School Friday, April 16, and were the guests of the student council
of the school. An inspection of the school was made, and during the
assembly period Frank Camera, president of the Bloomsburg Council,
and Dr. Kehr, Dean of Women, spoke briefly. After lunch, a class
visitation was made, and a joint meeting of the two councils was
held. Those who made the trip were: Frank Camera, president;
Clyde Klinger, Norman Henriem, Earl Hunter, Alvin Lapinski, Isaac
Jones, Roy Evans, Robert Price, Alex McKechnie, Ray McBride,
Jane Manhart, Alice Auch, Peggy Lonergan, Grace Guers, Lorraine
Snyder and Dr. Marguerite Kehr.
of the

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PARENTS ARE GUESTS AT OPEN HOUSE
The girl dormitory students at the Teachers College held open
house Sunday afternoon, May 3, from two to five o’clock. The feature was new but so successful that it is sure to become an annual
one.

Parents, relatives and friends visited the girls and the dormitory
and College buildings were open for inspection during the afternoon

with Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of

A

was

Women,

in charge.

program

in the auditorium
during which Miss Mary Foust, Milton, a member of the board of
governors, extended welcome and the motion picture “Alma Mater,”
showing college life at Bloomsburg, was shown by Dr. H. H. Russell
with Howard F. Fenstemaker at the electric organ.
Miss Sallie Ammerman, Sunbury, was general chairman with
Miss Irene Bonin, Hazleton, and Miss Ruth Zimmerman of Sunbury,
in charge of invitations. The house committee was headed by Miss
Alberta Brainard, Susquehanna.
Hostesses were Misses Grace Killeri, Pittston; Helen Lowry,
Forest City; Florence Tugend, Dallas; Evelyn Ricken, Allentown;
Jane Darrow, Kingston; Sara Louise McCreary, Northumberland;
Mary Miller, Berrysburg; Anne Northup, Dalton; Cora Bauman,
Lewisburg; Carrie Yocum, Milton; Helen Mayan, Annabelle Bailey,
Danville; Helen Derr, Kingston; Ruth Miller, Forty Fort; Lorraine
Litchtenwalner, Allentown; Ruth Bishop, Lake Ariel; Pauline Riegle,
Northumberland; Mary Boyle, Wilkes-Barre; and Virginia Roth, Vera

delightful

feature

a short

Cruz.
o

Students of the College, on Friday, April 23, presented a peace
program which was sponsored by the Student Council in order to
provide an opportunity for the College to participate in the general
collegiate peace movement.
The program presented follows:
Bible reading, Dr. Francis B. Haas.
“The National Collegiate Movement for Peace” Clyde Klinger.
“The Attitude of the Women of B. S. T. C. Toward the Peace
Movement” Miss Helen Weaver.
“The Attitude of the Men of B. S. T. C. Toward the Peace
Movement” Roy Evans.
“The Universal Longing for Peace” E. A. Reams.
Group Singing “America.”
Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the singing, with H. F. Fenste-

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maker

at the console.

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BUILDINGS PLANNED

FJEPRESENTATIVES

of Gandes and Gandes, architects selected to
design buildings for the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, went
over the College grounds recently to select tentative sites for such
buildings as may be erected under the $56,000,000 building program
for state institutions.

The

allocation of $577,000

announced for Bloomsburg

is

suffi-

gymnasium and
which were recommended some

cient to cover a junior high school, boys’ dormitory,

building for workshop and storage,
time ago. The carrying out of the project
of Federal funds.

Governor

Earle’s

announcement

is

that

dependent on the grant
an outright grant of

$20,000,000 looked promising, was encouraging news for the building
program. The remainder of the money would be obtained as a loan

from the Federal government
handle the construction work.

to

the State authority,

which would

o

COLLEGE STUDENTS JUDGE CONTESTS

A number of Juniors and Seniors, under the direction of Miss
Alice Johnston, of the Speech Department of the College, acted as
judges of plays and poetry contests through the service area. Helen
Bloomsburg; Miriam Utt, of Bloomsburg; and Mae Weikel,
High School, at the request of Mr. James Davis, principal.
Bernice Bronson, of Athens, Betty Chalfont of Scranton, and
Carrie Livsey, of Bloomsburg, judged poetry contests at the Mifflinville High School, held under the sponsorship of Prof. Thomas Kir-

Weaver,

of

of Milton, acted as judges at the Mainville

ker, principal.

Margaret Potter, of Bloomsburg; Alice Auch, of Easton; and
Dorothy Sidler, of Danville, at the request of Prof. Kenneth Merrill,
judged plays at the Orangeville High School.
John Supchinsky, of Edwardsville, was the sole judge at a debate held at Leek Kill, and Frank Camera, of Hazleton, judged a debate held at Pottsgrove. Ray Schrope, of Tower City, functioned in a
similar capacity at a debate held in the Northumberland High School.
o

Natalie Green Keach
N. Y.

1913
lives at 88 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn,

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Alumni are earnestly requested

to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson
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

Many

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, TO
Mr. Daniel J.

Mr. Frank Dennis,

’ll

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

Mahoney,

’09

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Northumberland County

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President John R. Boyer, Herndon.
Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont.
Secretary Miss Ethel Fowler, Watsontown.
Treasurer S. Curtis Yocum, Shamokin.

Luzerne County

— Mrs.

President-

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Mary Emanuel Brown, Wilkes-Barre,
Union County

President Helen Keller, Mifflinburg.
Vice-President Margaret Lodge.
Secretary Louis Pursey.
Treasurer Ruth Fairchild.

Pa.

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Wyoming-Susquehanna Counties

—

President Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock.
First Vice-President
Stewart Button, Susquehanna.
Second Vice-President Fred Kester, Mill City.
Secretary Mrs. Susan Sturman, Tunhannock.
Treasurer Lena Hillis March, Tunkhannock.

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Montour County

President Harriet Fry, Danville.
Vice-President Pierce Reed, Danville, R. D.
Secretary Alice Smull, Danville.
Treasurer Ralph McCracken, Riverside.

5.

Philadelphia

—

President Mrs. Norman G. Cool.
Secretary and Treasurer Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley.

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WYOMING-SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY ALUMNI
Bloomsburg State Teachers College alumni of Wyoming-Susquehanna Counties held a meeting of that branch of Bloomsburg
graduates at the Hotel Graham, Tunkhannock, Tuesday evening, May
18, and it was a delightful affair with thirty-six present. R. Bruce
Albert, president of the general association, led in the group singing.

A

delicious chicken dinner

Howard

was

served.

Fenstemaker extended greetings of the College and
spoke of the advantages of joining the Alumni Association, explaining
the plan recently adopted by the general body in which the branch
organizations share in the receipts from dues and the branches are
knit closer to the main body.
F.

Shortess, official representative of the College, expressed the
Haas who was unable to be present. He
spoke of the year around program of activities carried on by the
S.

I.

regrets of Dr. Francis B.

Luzerne County branch.
Mr. Albert spoke of the revival of alumni interest since Dr. Haas
has been head of the College and urged the members of the group to
visit the College on Saturday, Alumni Day.
Officers
chosen were: President, Francis Shaughnessy, 1924,
Tunkhannock; vice-president, Stewart Button, 1917, Susquehanna;
second vice-president, Fred Kester, 1919, Mill City; secretary, Mrs.
Susan Sturman, 1914, Tunkhannock; treasurer, Lena Hilles Marsh,
1913, Tunkhannock. Mr. Shaughnessy presided during the business
session. Pictures of College activities were shown by Mr. Shortess.

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THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
Members

of the Philadelphia Branch of the Alumni Association
Teachers College at Bloomsburg held their seventh
annual banquet and dance in the North Garden of the BellevueStratford, Philadelphia, Saturday evening, April 24, with N. Elwell
Funk, of the class of 1901, vice-president of the Philadelphia Electric

of the

State

Company

as the speaker.
College organizations and representatives of the student body
and faculty took part in the program. Music for the dinner and the
dance was provided by the Maroon and Gold Orchestra.
The program opened with the pledge of allegiance to the flag,
and Dean William B. Sutliff read the invocation. G. Edward Elwell,
of Bloomsburg, presided as toastmaster.
The A Capella Choir attired in traditional gowns and capes,
maroon trimmed with gold, and with Miss Harriet M. Moore directing, entertained the guests by singing “Marianina,” Italian popular
song, “Bless the Lord O My Soul,” by Ippolitof-Ivanof, and “Neighbours of Bethlehem,” by Gavaret.
A pleasing feature of the evening was the reading of letters and
telegrams from members unable to attend.
Mrs. Norman G. Cool, president of the Philadelphia organization,
was introduced, and extended greetings to the guests. Miss Mollie
Thomas of the class of 1875, and Miss Bridget Burns, of the class of
1880, were also presented. Flowers were presented to Mrs. Cool, and
also to Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, who was celebrating her birthday.
Mr. Funk, the speaker of the evening, chose as the subject of his
address “What Science Has Done For Us.” Mr. Funk spoke in an interesting manner about the achievements of science, and their effects
upon modern life. He repudiated the idea that science was responsible for unemployment, stating in refutation of this that science has
brought about greater opportunities for employment.
Mr. Elwell announced the coming retirement of Dean Sutliff,
and presented the Dean to the guests, and referred to his long and
distinguished career as an educator. Mr. Sutliff responded briefly.
Mr. L. P. Sterner, former principal of the Bloomsburg schools,
and recent winner of a $10,000 prize awarded by the Philadelphia
Inquirer, was also introduced to the guests.
The A Capella Choir then sang a second group of numbers,
which included “Lullaby” by Brahms, “Nightingale,” by Tschaikowsky, and “Tell Me Not of a Lovely Lass,” by Forsythe.
Robert Sutliff, of Baldwin, Long Island, read a poem written by

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and entitled “The Pine Tree Speaks.”
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College, extended the
greetings of the institution to the Philadelphia Alumni, and presented Frank Camera, of Hazleton, president of the Community Government Association. Mr. Camera briefly described the purpose of the
organization, and its relationship to national and state federations.
Miss Marie Davis, president of the Waller Hall Association, told
of the activities of the women students at the College.
The dinner was followed by dancing in the adjoining ball room.
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UNION-SNYDER ALUMNI
Louis Pursey, a

member

of the

class

of

1922,

April

24th,

was

Union-Snyder Counties Branch of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association at an enthusiastic and delightful dinner meeting in the Mifflinburg Hotel.
Other officers elected were: Miss Margaret Lodge, vice president;
Miss Pauline Bennage, secretary and Harold Donowsky, treasurer.
Retiring officers were: Miss Helen Keller, president; Miss Margaret Lodge, vice-president; Louis Pursey, treasurer and Miss Ruth
elected president

of

the

Fairchild, secretary.

Dr. E. H. Nelson, of the College, was the capable toastmaster.
those speaking were D. L. Glover, a graduate and former
trustees; Dr. H. H. Russel, Prof. J. J. Fisher and Prof. S. I. Shortess,
of the College faculty; the new president, Mr. Pursey; Miss Mar-

Among

member of the faculty, and Dr. R. L.
Matz, a Bloomsburg alumnus, 1909, and now a member of the faculty
at Bucknell.
Prof. Shortess showed some excellent motion pictures of the
College activities. A delicious chicken dinner was enjoyed.
Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Pursey; Mr. Harold
Walters, Carthage, N. Y.; S. I. Shortess, Bloomsburg; Sara E. Heiser,
Lewisburg, R. D. 2; Edith C. Strickler, Mrs. Rachel Long Sauers,
Mifflinburg. John J. Fisher, Dr. H. H. Russell, E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg; Helen M. Keller, Myrtle I. Wagner, Fenton A. Swartz, Mrs.
Floyd Cole, Mifflinburg; Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Matz, Lewisburg; Dr.
Thomas P. North, Bloomsburg; Theodore C. Smith. Pauline L. Bennage, Charles E. Blackhorn, John S. Sondel, Kathryn Graybill, Paxtonville; Thelma Erb, Middleburg; Edith Boyer, Selinsgrove; John
garet Bogenrief, a former

W.

Criswell,

Ruth

E. Fairchild,

Dorothy Criswell, Harold M. DanowMargaret M. Bogenrief,

sky, Lewisburg, R. D. 3; Margaret R. Lodge,
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Glover.

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MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
Montour County Alumni
their annual banquet,
in

which a number

of

Bloomsburg Teachers College held
and enjoyed a splendid program
College students and faculty members partici-

named

of

officers

pated.

The event was held in Shiloh Reformed Church, Danville, and
Maroon and Gold trio, composed of Miss Ruth Radcliffe, Philip
Moore and Robert Williams, provided dinner music. Superintendent
Fred W. Diehl was at his best as toastmaster.
Pierce Reed greeted the guests happily and Frank Patrick, a
student, delighted with “Dark Eyes” in Russian and “Sweet Mystery
of Life.” Mr. Diehl observed that every Montour County district but
one was represented.

the

Dr. Haas, President of the College, complimented the alumni on
the fine spirit, invited them to come to the College alumni day and
brought greetings from the College. Frederick Worman, a student
gave “Adagio” from Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” and “The

World is Waiting For the Sunrise,” as violin solos. Miss Winifred
Bobb read “The Critic on the Street Car,” and John Shellenberger,
teacher at DeLong school, sang “The Sunshine of Your Smile” and
“Mother Machree.”
Dean Sutliff, Dr. T. P. North, H. F. Fenstemaker, editor of the
Quarterly, and Bruce Albert, alumni president, spoke briefly.
Harriet Fry was elected president; Pierce Reed, vice-president;
Alice Smull, secretary, and Ralph McCracken, treasurer.
Attending were: Winifred Evans, May L. Evans, Paul M. Pooley,
Viola M. Blue, Mary Moser, Margaret Hendrickson, Harriet K. Toland, Miriam E. Welliver, Jessie L. Soars, Isabel Boyer, Pierce Reed,
Alice Smull, Harriet E. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Clark W.
Heller, Mrs. Helen Gateman, Rebecca Appleman, Sarah Pritchard,
Mrs. C. T. Trivelpiece, Pearle G. Lewis, Julia M. Warner, Mi's. Roy
W. Gass, Ruth Sidler, Susan Sidler, Winifred McVey, Mabel Carl,
Helene Morgan, Ruth M. Foulke, Dorothy Newman, Elizabeth Peifer,
John Shellenberger, Mrs. G. M. Leighow, Helen Wolfe, Helen M.
Appleman, Edith Keefer, Honora Dennen, Beryl Hartman, Charles
Hartman, Nell Tooey, Helen Pegg, Nellie Bogart, Mrs. Calvin Walter,
Mary C. Welsh, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bobb, Winifred Bobb, Huldah
Rentschleer, Alice J. Guest, Mrs. S. K. Worman, Betty Beyers, Frederick Worman, Danville.
Frank Patrick, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Sutliff, R. Bruce Albert, Thomas P. North, Ruth Radcliffe,

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Philip Moore, Robert Williams, H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg;
Daisy Levan, Howard Girton, Catawissa; Ralph McCracken, Riverside; Lehman Snyder, Mary
Enterline, Turbotville; Florence
S.
Hartline,
Strawberry Ridge; Mildred Umstead, Washingtonville;
Mrs. Grace Murray, Watsontown.

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THE LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
The Luzerne County branch
delightful banquet at the Hotel

of

the

Alumni Association held a
Wilkes-Barre, Tuesday

Redington,

evening, April 27.
Mrs. Edward Brown presided and presented the officers and
members of the committees in charge of the successful affair. Brief
addresses were made by R. Bruce Albert, president of the general
Alumni Association, and by William B. Sutliff, Dean of Instruction.
Motion pictures of the activities of the class of 1929 were shown by
Prof. S. I. Shortess. Cards and dancing followed the banquet program.
Representing the College at the banquet were Dr. and Mrs.
Francis B. Haas, Dean and Mrs. William B. Sutliff, Mr. and Mrs. N.
T. Englehart, S. I. Shortess and R. Bruce Albert.
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LUZERNE ALUMNI

IN

MOTORCADE

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association of Luzerne County staged an unusual demonstration on Alumni Day, when
they came to Bloomsburg in a motorcade.
The motorcade formed at the Nanticoke Bridge at 7:30, and
arrived in Bloomsburg about 9:30. It was headed by an automobile
equipped with a loud speaker, and all cars in line were decorated
with the Maroon and Gold. The Maroon and Gold Band met the
motorcade at the corner of East Street and Berwick Road, and escorted the graduates to the campus.
o
Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Dean of Women, has been appointed
chairman of the Publicity Committee of the National Association of
Deans of Women for 1937 and 1940. The United States is divided into nine districts, with a sub-chairman in charge of each. The association at the present time has a membership of one thousand, with
national headquarters in the N. E. A. building in Washington.

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NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY ALUMNI
Despite

the

Alumni held the

inclement

weather,

the

Northumberland County

largest dinner meeting in

its history, 108 attending
the delightful affair at the Sunbury Elks’ Club.
The College was represented by Dean and Mrs. William B.
Sutliff, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. North, Prof, and Mrs. S. I. Shortess,

Harvey B. Andruss, and Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker.
The presiding officer of the evening was John

Prof.

R.

Boyer, of

Herndon, assistant superintendent of the schools of Northumberland
County. Mr. Boyer was re-elected president of the Northumberland
County group. In his opening remarks, Mr. Boyer presented the plan
whereby local associations soliciting memberships in the general body

may

share in the financial returns.

Mr. Fenstemaker, as a representative of the College, extended
greetings on behalf of the College and the Alumni Association. He
spoke on the subject “Why Alumni Associations?”
Mr. Boyer paid a fine tribute to Dean Sutliff, who has given
splendid and outstanding service to the College.
Entertainment features were provided by students of the health
and music departments of the Sunbury schools, assisted by students
in the Startzel School of the Dance, Sunbury.
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THE CLASSES
1881

Berwick Rotarians, Kiwanians, and physicians joined Friday
evening, April 30, in a testimonial dinner for Dr. H. V. Hower, who
has completed fifty years of medical service.
A certificate expressing congratulations and appreciation for
half a century of service was presented by the State Medical Society,
and Berwick physicians presented Dr. Hower with an inscribed gold
watch fob. On the table was a bouquet of roses from the nurses and
personnel of the Berwick Hospital.
Dr. Hower’s fine record of service is of interest to Bloomsburg
graduates, not only because he is an alumnus of the College, but
also because he is President of the Board of Trustees.
1885
Louis B. Bierly, 227 Montgomery Avenue, West Pittston, Pa.,

former principal of the West Pittston schools, is mourning the
Sarah Woodring Bierly, who died November 7,

of his wife, Mrs.

loss

1936,

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pneumonia. Mrs. Bierly was born April 30,
She was married to Mr. Bierly in 1888, and
for ten years thereafter, she and Mr. Bierly lived in Hazleton. They
then moved to West Pittston, where they were living at the time of
her death. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, and four
after a week’s illness of
1864, in

Conyngham,

Pa.

sons.

W.

S.

states that

Conner, writing from his home in Madera, California,
he and Mrs. Conner have recently returned from a trip

around the world. He states further:
“On our way across the Pacific we had as companions a young
couple by the name of Shaddock, who were on their way to Kobe,
Japan. Mrs. Shaddock was one of your graduates of a few years
back.”
1886

Jeremiah Reeder, prominent retired school principal, and active
churchman, died at his home, 909 Sunbury Street, Shamokin, Thursday, March 25, from shock and injuries suffered from a fall at his
home. Mr. Reeder was passing through a hallway at his home when
he became ill, and plunged down a stairway. He suffered fractured
vertebrae, severe back and internal injuries, and his condition became serious immediately following the accident.
He was the son of the late Joseph T. and Elizabeth Davidson
Reeder, and was born in Montour County August 24, 1860. He received his early education in the schools of his home community, and
age of 18, became a teacher in the Franklin Township School
Columbia County. He later attended the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and was graduated in 1886. He continued teaching in Columbia County until 1891, when he was elected principal of the
Elysburg schools. In 1892, he taught at Snydertown, and in 1893 was
named principal of the Penrose School in Shamokin. He continued
as principal there for several years, and then was transferred to a
similar position in the Garfield School. He held that office until he
was retired under the state pension retirement fund in June, 1930.
During his long career as a teacher, Mr. Reeder became widely
known throughout the community in which he lived. He was a painstaking instructor, and was interested in the progress of those who had
received instruction under him as a teacher.
Mr. Reeder was an active member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Shamokin, and served as an elder since 1901. He was also
active in other church organizations. His only fraternal affiliation
was with the Royal Arcanum, of which he was a local officer for
at the

in

many

years.

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Belle Monie Jones and her husband spent last winter at
Petersburg, Florida.

Ellen Geiser Seip, 824 Meixell Street, Canton, Pa.,
the recent death of her husband.

is

St.

mourning

Adella Shaffer Broughall, 124 Oley Street, Reading, Pa., returned this spring after spending her fifth winter at Clearwater, Florida.
1887
to Bloomsburg to participate
and had a fine time. One of the delightful

Five of the class of 1887 returned
in their fiftieth reunion,

features for the class was the talking over of old times at the Literary Institute with Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the
College,

who was

a

member

of

the

faculty

when members

of

the

year class graduated. Members of the class attending the reunion were: Miss Mary Petty, Berwick; Mrs. Clark Kashner, Bloomsburg; Mrs. J. W. Creasy, Mifflinville; Mrs. J. D. Lowry, Watsontown, and Mrs. Mary Mathias Hermany, Mahanoy City.
fifty

1891

Miss Nora Myers, of the class of 1891, died at the home of her
sister in Mifflinburg, Tuesday, April 16, 1937. After graduation, Miss
Myers taught for a few years, and then took up nursing. For the
past ten years or more, she has been the House Mother at the Evangelical Home in Lewisburg.
1892

showings of an outstanding day was made by
the class of 1892, which had nineteen of its members back for the
forty-fifth reunion. It was a delightful and busy day as friendships
were renewed and college days reviewed.
The class made one of the remarkable showings of the day. It
numbered ninety-three at graduation and thirty are now dead. Almost a third of the living returned for the reunion.
Those in reunion were: H. U. Nyhart, president of the class,
Glen Lyon; Mrs. Hattie Ringrose Knies, secretary of the class; Louise
Petty Smith, Berwick; Sue Creveling Miller, Weatherly; Mary Booth
Wragg, Caldwell, N. J.; Bertha Burrow Martin, Harrisburg; Ellen
Doney, Shamokin; Cady I. Hawk, Plymouth; Flora Ransom, Kingston; Louise Young Vanhouse, Mount Larkes, N. J.; John A. Kerns,
Fall River, Mass.; Marie G. Dempsey Ford, Pittston; Katie Dougher
Fleming, Exeter; Hallie Keffer Hartline, Bloomsburg; Eudila Seiwell
Bierly, West Pittston; T. F. Chrostwaite, Hanover and G. W. B. Tif-

One

of the best

fany, Kinsley.

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H. U. Nyhart, of Glen Lyon, who has been superintendent of the
Newport Township School district for thirty-five years, and who has
held the presidency of the Glen Lyon National Bank for all of the
twenty-five years of its existence, was honored by the Newport
American Legion, Post 539, at a banquet held in his honor Thursday
evening, April 15, at the Legion Home, Glen Lyon.
Superintendent Nyhart was chosen by the Legion to be the re-

honor
bestowed by the American Legion only to outstanding persons.
Mr. Nyhart was thus chosen, because of the faithful services rendered by him in the capacities of bank president and school superintendent. He has been a resident of Newport Township for the past
cipient of the Legion Distinguished Service Certificate, a high

that

is

forty-five years.

Sue Creveling (Mrs. G. W. Miller, Jr.) lives at 315 Second Street,
Weatherly, Pa.
1893

At

a recent meeting

of

the board

of

trustees

of

Susquehanna

University, Samuel J. Johnston, of Bloomsburg, was named a member of the board of trustees for a four-year term. Mr. Johnston has
long been an active layman in the Lutheran Church, and prominent
in the councils of the

church

at large.

1897

The forty year class, ’97, reported thirty-five of its members
back for the reunion, Mrs. Grace Leaw Miller, with her husband,
Charles W. Miller, coming from Riverside, Cal.
Among those attending were: O. Z. Low, president of the class,
Orangeville; Elmer Levan, Catawissa R. D.; Mrs. W. F. Thomas,
Hazleton; R. C. Welliver, Berwick; Eva Martin, Hazleton; John S.
Brace, Tunkhannock; Mae Meixell, Berwick; Mrs. E. S. Gething Williams, Nanticoke; Mrs. F. L. Scott, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Blanche P.
Balliet, Williamsport; Bess Davis, Wilkes-Barre; Bertha Kelyl, Scranton; Mrs. George Curran, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Sands,
Hawley; Dora Huber Ely, Hazleton; Mrs. Thomas H. Probert, Hazleton; Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg; Harvey Gelnett, Middleburg; Mrs.
Florence Taylor Waters, Catawissa; Lenora L. Pettebone, Forty Fort;
Mrs. Martha Brugler Creasy, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Grace Leaw
Miller and Charles W. Miller, Riverside, Cal.; C. E. Kreisher, Catawissa.

1902

The

class of

1902

opened

its

thirty-five

year reunion with a

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banquet at the Elks’ Club Friday evening, attended by thirty-two of
the members. Guests of the class included Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline. Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas called during the evening. Including wives and husbands and children
there were fifty-five in this reunion group, one of the most active on
the

hill.

of the New Jersey Board
Orange, is a member of that
board and is also president of the board of education at East Orange
and credited with building the fine public school system now in use
there. He is a member of the board of directors of American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The other member of the state
board is George B. Baker, head of the Moorestown, N. J. schools and

Two members

of the class are

of Education. Charles Heiss,

of

members

East

president of a band there.

Members in reunion included: George C. Baker, Mrs. Lillian
Gordner Baker, Ruth Baker, Moorestown, N. J.; Mrs. Etta Hirlinger
Keller, Orangeville; Bess M. Long, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Blanche Austin
Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Florence Crow Hebei, Liverpool; Marie
Bailey Smith, Thomas W. Smith, Benton; Camille Hadsall Pettebone,
Forty Fort; Marie L. Diem, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Drumheller,
Sunbury; Helen Reice Irvin, Philadelphia; Estella Leighow Lewis,
Germantown; Gertrude Dress Jacobs, Steelton; Margaret Edwards
Morris, Edwardsville; May Reichard, Wilkes-Barre; Anna Gildea
McHugh, Alice J. Guest, Danville; Florence Dewey, Wilkes-Barre;
Harriet E. Fry, Danville; Gertrude Rawson, Scranton; Eunice F.
Spear, Bethlehem; Margaret Hoffa Henninger, Shamokin; Hadassa
Balliet, Genevieve L. Bubb, Williamsport; Essene Hollopeter Martin,
Carol Space Kearns, Eleanor Gay Northrup, Grace Bradbury Everitt;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heiss, East Orange, N. J.; Odele Altmiller
Burkhardt, Hazleton; Jennie Williams Cook, Hazleton.
1906

The distinction of having been retained as dean of the normal
school in Porto Rico, regardless of political changes belongs to Dr.
Jose Osuna. Dr. Osuna was graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, continued his studies at State College, and later received his doctor’s degree from Columbia University. About twelve
years ago, Dr. Osuna became Dean of the University of Porto Rico,
and has recently been named acting chancellor during the absence
The University
of the chancellor, who is engaged in other work.
has an enrollment of 1100 students. Dr. Osuna has returned to
Bloomsburg several times since his graduation, once about ten years
ago, and last year, during a leave of absence.

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1907

Twenty-eight members of the class of 1907, coming from five
states, gathered at the College for their thirty year reunion. Six came
from New Jersey, two from New York and one each from Georgia
and Ohio.
Those in reunion were: Bertha D. Lovering, Scranton; Lee Lesser
Burke, Union City, N. J.; Nellie Lesser Culp, Verona, N. J.; Blanch
Johns Lawrence, Port Washington, L. I.; Ruth Coolbaugh, WilkesBarre; Ada Mitchell Bittenbender, Wilkes-Barre; Marne Barrow Anderson, Plainfield, N. J.; Arvilla Kitchen Aunson, Bloomsburg; Margaret O’Brien Henseler, Weehawken, N. J.; Mrs. Henry Seppel,
Wilkes-Barre; Genevieve Todd Brennan, Kingston; Mrs. Miriam
Jones Whitby, Edwardsville; Paul H. Englehart, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Irene Reinard Cressler, Wilkes-Barre; Anna Chamberlain Howell,
Binghamton, N. Y.; Mary E. Hess, Espy; Mrs. George Harris Webber,
Milledgerville, Ga.; Mrs. Foster Magill, Sugarloaf; Mrs. Norma Jones
Johns, Asbury Park, N. Y.; Mrs. A. B. Eister, VanWert, Ohio; Mrs.
L. T. Orner, Bloomsburg; Mrs. G. S. Westfield, Mrs. Laura Yohey,
Berwick; Mrs. D. B. Brobst, Bloomsburg; Harry DeWire, Harrisburg;
Mrs. Arthur Holt, Hawthorne, N. J.; Mrs. Bertha Sterner Richards,
Williamsport; Harry Dewire, Harrisburg.
Miss Esther A. Wolfe died Saturday, April 24, at her home in
Meeker, Pa. Miss Wolfe, who had been ill for two months previous
to her death was a teacher in the Lehman Township schools for more
than thirty-one years. During that time, she missed only six days of
teaching. She was a member of the Meeker Methodist Episcopal
Church, the order of the Eastern Star, the Ladies’ Aid Society and
the

W.

C. T. U.

1909

The Rev. Robert

Wilner is rector of the Easter School, at
Baguio, Philippines. Mr. Wilner (Alfa Stark, ’12) is principal of the
school. The Easter School is a mission school for ignorant boys and
girls, founded in 1906 by Bishop Brent, and incorporated in 1934. Rev.
Wilner is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Trustees.
J.

1911
Rev. C. Carroll Bailey, 2614 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.,
in a recent letter states:
“I have just finished reading the recent Quarterly from cover to
cover. It is certainly a credit to the College. The College has a varied and well-balanced program. It is indeed a joy and an honor to
be an alumnus.

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I frequently recall with much delight the many inspirations received at Bloomsburg on Alumni Day last year.”

member of Wyoming school board for twelve
and a prominent leader in borough affairs, died in the Pittston Hospital, Sunday, June 6, following a three days’ illness. Following graduation from Bloomsburg, Dr. Klinetob attended the Jefferson
Medical College, where he was graduated in 1916. He has been practicing medicine in Wyoming for the past twenty years. Surviving are
his wife, the former Beatrice Morris of Kingston, two daughters,
Janet and Lois Jean, and two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Dymond, of West
Pittston, and Mrs. Bert Edwards, of Freeport, L. I.
Dr. F. B. Klinetob,

years,

1912

Emily Nikel (Mrs. John
She has two sons, and is still teaching.
Gledhill)

lives

Annabelle Hirsch (Mrs. Edgar Wade)
Street,

in

lives

Collingswood,

at

104

J.

Broad

Tamaqua, Pa.

Frankie Elizabeth Davis teaches in Red Bank, N.
is

East

N.

J.

Her address

28 South Street.

There are a great many of the class of 1912 who cannot be
reached by mail. Mail sent to them has been returned, because their
correct address is not in the Alumni file. If you can supply the addresses of any of the following, please write to the editor: Beulah
Anderson, Anna Barr, Myrtle Belles, Hulda Bohlin, Grace Boyer,
Robert Cole, Norma Collins, Lera Farley, Ruth Fox, Mary Fruite,
Huldah Gethman, Winifred Hart, Margaret Hayes, Edith Hodgson,
Marie Johnson, Wanda Keeler, May P. Keller, Clare M. Kennedy,
Ianthe Kitchen, Florence M. Lowry, Edith Martin, Florence Day, Agnes McClane, Emily Nikel, Ernestine Rees, Ruth Samson, Marguerite
Seibel, Frances Westgate, Anna Whitaker, Anna Maude Williams.

Members of the class of 1912, meeting in their twenty-fifth reunion, were the guests of Prof, and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, when an
open house was held at the Fenstemaker home.
The evening was spent in reviewing school days and in renewing acquaintances. Refreshments

were served.

Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Ercil Bidleman, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Mausteller, Mrs. J. Webb Wright, Bloomsburg; Mary M. Watts, Mr.
and Mrs. John Hughes, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Mary Hidlay Eisenhauer,
Mifflinville; Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Helen Fodder Ream, Scranton; Mrs. Ona Harris Henrie, Bloomsburg;

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Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bachinger, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Jay Demott,
Eyersgrove; Mrs. Frank Crouse, Danville; Mrs. Margaret Morrison,
Danville.

Charlotte Peacock Holmes, Mountain View, Cal.; Laura Houghton Peacock, East Stroudsburg; Lydia Andres Creasy, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Martha Schiefer, Steelton; Mrs. Beatrice Foose McBride, Rock
Glen; William H. Davis, Binghamton, N. Y.; F. Elizabeth Davis, Red

Bloomsburg; Carmelita Davis,
J.; Helen F. Carpenter,
Neath, Pa.; Harriet F. Carpenter, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Isabelle G. Harper, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. W. Homer Englehart, Harrisburg; Dr.
and Mrs. K. C. Kuster, Bloomsburg; Mrs. O. H. Bakeless, Bloomsburg.
Bank, N.

Mrs. Helen Smith Beardslee, Bound Brook, N. J.; Margaret
Smith, Bound Brook, N. J.; Mrs. Annabelle Hirsch Wade, Tamaqua;
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Fetterolf, Spring Mills; Mrs. Harriet Hartman
Kline, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Anna Reice Trivelpiece, Danville; Mrs. J.
C. Foote, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Arnold, Glenside; Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. A. Strausser, Collingswood, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. George
Barrow, Newark, N. J.

The twenty-five year class had more man a big reunion. The
members had a big week-end. They started with a get-together
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker on Friday night
and followed with a breakfast Saturday morning which was attended
by seventy-four. Members attended from all parts of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Charlotte Holmes Peacock came from Mountain View, Cal., and
others were present from New York, New Jersey and District of
Columbia. Various house parties were held over the week-end.
Among those attending were: Mrs. Mary Eckert, Kingston; W. Homer Englehart, Harrisburg; Margaret Row Englehart, Harrisburg;
Ona Harris Henrie, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Helen Fetter Ream, Scranton;
Mrs. Annabelle Hirsch Wade, Tamaqua; Mrs. Helen Smith Beardslee, Bound Brook, N. J.; George Barrow, Nutley, N. J.; Emily Barrow, Ringtown; Roxie H. Smith. Verna M. Smith, Trucksville; Mrs.
Harriet Graves Marsh, Syracuse, N. Y.; Mrs. James T. Davison,
1912

Scranton; Mrs. LeClaire Schooley Fetterolf, Spring Mills; Clarence
Barrow, Ringtown; Floyd Tubbs, Shickshinny; Mrs. Charles Remensnyder, Nescopeck; Mrs. Helen Zehner Fuller, Berwick; Mrs.
Hazel Henrie Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mausteller, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Frank Crouse, Danville; Mrs. E. R. Eisenhauer, Mifflinville; Mrs.
Anna Reice Trivelpiece, Danville; Mrs. Lydia Andres Creasy, Bloomsburg; Frankie Elizabeth Davis, Red Bank, N. J.; William H. Davis,
Binghamton. N. Y.; Charles H. Albert, D. S. Hartline, Bloomsburg; L.
D. Savige, Scranton.
E.

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Lucille Wakeman Rair, Mountain Top; Mrs. Grace Derrick Boat,
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Beatrice Foose McBride, Rock Glen; Mrs.
Adele Grimes Meecham, Trucksville; B. J. Swortwood, Mrs. Eva
Weaver Swortwood, Mountain Top; Mrs. Edna Klinger Rhinehart,
Mrs. Mary Zerbe Leister, Sunbury; Mrs. Mayme Derrick Zeigler,
Herndon; E. D. Bidleman, Helen F. Carpenter, Mrs. Bertha Harner
Bidleman, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Emma V. Hartranft Tyler, Irwin; Mrs.
Grace Wolfe Arnold, Glenside; Mrs. Lena G. Leitzel Streamer, Collingswood, N. J.; Mrs. Theresa Dailey Bachinger, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Harriet Hartman Kline, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Charlotte Peacock Holmes,
Mountain View, Cal.; Mrs. Ruth Nuss Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Isabel Graham Harper, Harrisburg; Mrs. Martha Selway
Schiefer, Steelton; Mrs. Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyers Grove; Mrs.
Laura Houghton Peacock, East Stroudsburg; Isabel Thomas, West
Pittston; Helen S. Walp, Kingston; Ruth Jones Hughes, WilkesBarre; Frances Pachnicke Fetterolf, Blanche Strayer Reigel, Freeburg; Florence Merritt Dixon, Kingston; Jessie Doras, Daleville.

1915

Mrs. Helen Parks Hutchinson died Friday, May 7, at the Searcy
Hospital at Mt. Vernon, Alabama. After graduation from Bloomsburg,
Mrs. Hutchinson went to Tuskegee, Alabama, where she taught for
several years. She later married Captain Conrad Hutchinson, a member of the faculty of the Tuskegee School. She is survived by her husband, two sons, and two daughters.

Helen

George W. Aliton) lives at 4 North Broome
She has one daughter, Emily, eleven years

E. Harris (Mrs.

Street, Port Jervis, N. Y.
old.

1917

Marie Cromis, Philadelphia;
included:
James S. Wiant, Westfield, N. J.; Clyde R. Luchs, Bloomsburg; Hugh
E. Boyel, Hazleton; Herman E. Wiant, Haddonfield, N. J.; Bertha H.
Schnerr, Peckville; Anna Tripp Smith, Oxford, N. Y.; Gertrude C.
Lecher, Wilkes-Barre; Nan Jenkins, Nesquehoning; Mrs. E. H. Kin-

Those

at the

reunion

back, Peckville; Nellie Sutliff, Nanticoke; Amelia Suwalski Thomas,
Nanticoke; Mrs. Elizabeth William Greish, Ringtown; Mrs. Harriet
Shuman Burr, Merion; Ruth Smith, Bellefonte; Allen Cromis,
Bloomsburg; A. C. Morgan, Berwick; Georgia F. Arnold, Zareta
Good White, Alice Snyder Guthrie, Florence Atherton Shaffer, Frederick H. Shaffer, Edward A. Zwibel, Jr., Fred Jones, Margaret Barnum Bredbenner, Esther Wagner Rager, Gertrude Lord Blanch,
Anna Pursel, Mary A. Reichard, Ruth V. Silvius; Arline Nyhart Kem-

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Margaret McHugh, Hazleton;
Broadt, Hazleton; Mrs. Beatrice Reichart, Hazleton.

per, Scotch Plains, N. J.;

Bertha E.

Agnes Maust Deiffenbacher, Bloomsburg R. D. 1; Harriet Ethel
Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Hester Faus Fogle, Bloomsburg R. D. 1; Lil-

Gensemer Moyer, Bloomsburg; Anna Richards Carter, Peckville;
Mary Moss Dobson, Plymouth; Marion Brown Evans, Brooklyn, N.
Y.; Agnes Frew Davis, Olyphant; Mabel Dymond Bell, Dallas, R. D.

lian

Mrs. Helen Gregory Lippert, Dalton; Mrs. Mildred Avery Love,
North Mehoopany; J. Loomis Christian, Harrisburg; W. Fred Kester,
Mill City; Helen Lord Bulla, Bloomsburg; Kathryn Row McNamee,
Bloomsburg; Mabel Maust Duck, Bloomsburg; Lucy Padogomas,
Glen Lyon; Arline Smith, Ashley; Elsie Jones Green, Wilkes-Barre;
Florence Greener, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Powell Wiant, Westfield, N. J.;
Myrtle Bryant Henshall, Trenton, N. J.; Nora Berlew Dymond, Dallas, R. D. 3; Agnes Warner Smales, Laceyville; Mildred F. Mileham,
Kingston; Anna L. James, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Fisher Eyerly, Sunbury; Dorothy Miller Brower, Allentown; Mary Schaller, Hazleton.
3;

Ruth Smith, 116

E. Curtin Street, Bellefonte, Pa., secretary of the

class of 1917, sends the following report of the tenth

reunion of the

class:

“Without an exception, everyone said it was the best reunion we
had up to this time. Each one of us is proud to be an alumnus of
such a growing institution. Each time we return, we see such fine
changes.

Our reunion began with the usual “How do you do?” “Sure, I reyou.” “I know your face, but what is the name?” “You don’t
look a day older.” Nothing was said aloud about the bald heads and
the gray hair, but there were some phispers. About sixty-five of our

member

reunion. After all the greetings and handthe usual business meeting and roll call. Before the
meeting adjourned, we decided to meet again in the afternoon.

class returned for the

shakes,

we had

We attended the general meeting, and then did our bit at the
luncheon. During the afternoon, many of the class met in an informal
gathering. Most of the discussion was concerning plans for our next
reunion, as well as a review of happenings twenty years ago. There
were many promises to return in 1939 for the one hundredeth anniversary of the College.
Let every member of the class return as often as he can. He’ll
not regret it, and he may make some one else happy, too. Let us have
a fine response in 1942.”
Dorothy Miller (Mrs. W. R. Browers)
Allentown, Pa.

lives at 1801

Cedar

Street,

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1918

Theodore B. Wallin) is a missionary
Belgian Congo, Africa. She has been at her present post for the
past five years. Her classmates can reach her by addressing her at
1305 Prescott Avenue, Dunmore, from which address her mail will
be forwarded.
1922
Ella Charlotte Butler (Mrs.

in

There were thirty-five of the 138 members of the Class of 1922
on the hill. Most of them were on hand when the program started at 9:00 o’clock and the group did not break up until late
in the day. During the day they made plans for an even bigger and

in reunion

better reunion in 1942.

Among those attending were: Valeria Sypniewski, Mrs. H. L.
Knoll Shemonski, Nanticoke; Mrs. Stella Wheeler Kern, Catawissa;
Cleora McKinstry, Bloomsburg; Thomas L. Hinkle, Hazleton; Genevieve Bahr Morrow, Endicott, N. Y.; Dorothy Dyer, Scranton; Ruth
McIntyre Lenhart, Bloomsburg; Gertrude S. Miller, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Helen Hess Strauch, Benton; Miss Nan Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre;
Mrs. Arline Tosh Bohn, Wilkes-Barre; Lucile Snyder, Hazleton; Dorothy Faust, Reading; Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton; Laura H. Miller, Bloomsburg; Martha Y. Jones, Scranton; Lillie Harter Cameron,
Nescopeck; Stanilea Henry Slevinske, Kingston; Catherine E. Payne,
Shamokin; Mattie L. Luxton, Minersville; Edgar B. Sutton, Wyoming! Bess B. O’Donnell, Wilkes-Barre; Edna Harter, Nescopeck; Henrietta Rhoads Ramage, Wyoming; Helen R. Lees, Wilkes-Barre;
Annette K. Friel, Wilkes-Barre; Zelma Thornton Tiegg, Duryea;
Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton; Clarissa Sharretts Welliver, Berwick.
1924

Among
7,

the graduates of the Pennsylvania State College on June
T. Adams, formerly Miss Editha Ent, of Blooms-

was Mrs. Marion

Mrs. Adams was awarded the degree of Master of Arts,
majoring in English Literature. Mrs. Adams’ thesis, which was devoted to a study of the life of Charles Hart, an English actor living
between 1625 and 1683, was completed under the direction of Dr. W.
On May
S. Dye, Jr., head of the Department of English Literature.
12 Mrs. Adams was initiated into the Pennsylvania State College
chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national honor society.
burg.

Miss Matilda Mensch, of Bloomsburg, and J. Russel Waples, of
Espy, were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents on
Friday, May 28. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. H.

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Mrs. Waples has been teaching in the Hughesville High

School.

1926

The marriage

George Sack and Miss Louise Brink, both of
Catawissa, has recently been announced.
The ceremony was performed at Dushore, by the Rev. Carl Gunther, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sack has for the past seven years been a teacher
in the Catawissa schools, and has been coach of baseball and soccer.
of

Mrs. L. B. Epler (Elizabeth Keller) lives at Northumberland,
She has one daughter, six years of age.

Pa., R. D.

1927

Betty Button has left the teaching profession. She is nursing in
Binghamton, N. Y.
Mildred Lowry Marcy has a daughter. Their home is in FleetPa.
Rosella Hastings, 24 E. Carey Street, Plains,

ville,

in

is

doing social work

Wilkes-Barre.

Mary Morgan is teaching in Plains.
Esther Chapin Laubach is married
Her husband

is

an

official of the Atlantic

and

lives in Philadelphia.
Refining Company. She has

one child.
Esther Welker teaches kindergarten in Hershey, Pa.
Helen Schaefer is teaching music, art, and penmanship in Hazle
Township.

Lena Van Horn is a nurse in Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Stella Murray is teaching third grade in Scranton.

Mary E. Jones is teaching third grade in Scranton.
Edith Sweetman teaches in Taylor.
Oce Williams is now Mrs. Archie Austin.
Verna Medley Davenport, Vice-President, lives in Plymouth. She
has two children. She is now doing social work with the State Emergency

Relief.

Adele Chapley teaches in Shenandoah.

Mary Rowland teaches penmanship in Butler Twp.
Dorothy Rowland teaches in Philadelphia.
Jennie Dixon has been advanced to a position in the new High
School in Lost Creek, W. Mahoning Township.
Minerva Bossard is teaching first grade in Wilkes-Barre.
Mary Morgan is teaching fifth grade in Plains. Her address
109 S.

Main

Street.

is

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Mary Cope

is

married and

lives

in

Parsons. She

is

now

Mrs.

Mackieson.
Doris Palsgrove attended Bucknell University for six summers,
obtained B. S. in Education degree in 1933. In 1934 took 10,000 mile
tour in U. S. She is teaching second and third grades in Frackville.

Edna Berkheiser Sylvester lives in Pottsville. She is married and
has one child.
Edith Phillips is teaching fourth grade in Chinchilla.
Mrs. Marion Thomas, Raudenbush, taught for five years in the
Bethlehem Elementary School, and has been married for the remaining five years. She has a daughter, Beverly, who is four years old.
Myra Thomas is teaching in Bethlehem.
Martha Tasker teaches third grade in Shamokin.
Ruth Oswald is teaching music, in the new Mahoney Township
Elementary School, in the third to seventh grades.
Mary Fahringer Newell lives in New York State.

She has one

child.

Hazel Hoff

is

teaching in Elysburg.

Eva Hoffman Putnam is living in Sunbury.
Helen Howells Wagner lives in Scranton.
Hattie Everett Skinner spends her time in St. Petersburg, Florida
City, Pa.

and Mahanoy

Catherine Gruber is married. She lives in Philadelphia.
Esther Welker, ’27, was graduated again last year, 1936. She received a B. S. Degree in Education from her Alma Mater.
Allinda Krause

is

Mrs. George Allardyce, S. Grant Street, Miners

Mills.

Mary Kock is Mrs. Leeland Mackinson, Oliver St. Parsons.
Ann Clarke is Mrs. Stewart Watkins, Woodward St. Parsons.
is Mrs. James McCollough, New St. Hudson.
Catherine P. McHugh is teaching in Mt. Carmel.
Helen Dunleavy is teaching in Mt. Carmel.
Lillian Horicker is teaching in Locust Gap.
Helen Mulligan is teaching in Plains.
Irene Feeney is teaching in Scranton.
Margaret Finnerty is teaching in Scranton.
Edith Quinn is now Mrs. Jakolson and is teaching in Spring-

Alice Carter

field,

N. Y.

is married and is living in Mt. Carmel.
Margaret Williams is married and is living in Mt. Carmel.
Marian McHugh married a man connected with the Standard Oil
Company. She is now in China.

Mary Weldon

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—

Class Reunion Mildred
Minerva Blossard, Elsie Bower, Alice Burdon, Margaret T. Caswell, Helen Ceppa, Adele A. ChapDodge, Irene
ley, Margarette Crouse, Concepta D. Minco, Orici
Feeney, Margaret Finnerty, Alberta D. Gasewicz, Emily Foldsmith,
Jessie M. Hastie, Rosella M. Hastings, Mae Leona Healey Aston, Geraldine Hess, Edythe Hartman, Mary E. Jones, Mary C. Kutz, Mildred
Lowrey, Amelia Makowski, Mary Jane Morgan, Stella Murray,
Marjorie Newton Hughes, Ruth A. Oswald, Doris A. Palsgrove,
Frances Pettebone, Edith Phillips, Edith Quinn Jacobson, Ruth
Rockwell, Mary E. Rowlands, Hopes Schalles Rosser, Mary L. Shunk,
Martha Tasker, Marian Thomas Raudenbush, Myra Thomas, Septa
Thornton, Lena Van Horn, Esther Welker, Florence A. Williams
Thomas, Oce Williams Austin, Verna Medley Davenport, Betty Button, Pauline Vastine Sudgen, Helen M. Schaefer, Vivian Pitt.
Deceased members Celia Beldowicz, Elizabeth Fahringer, Evelyn Harris, Catherine Ferry, Agnes Tate, Marvin Thomas, Lillian

The following were present

Adams McClougher, Frances

at

the

E. Blank,

—

Robertson.

Miss Marie Rose Corcoran of New York, formerly of Plains, and
Michael J. Hastings, of Harrisburg, were married Thursday, June 4,
in the Church of Notre Dame, New York City.

Mabel Albertson

is

1928
teaching in Red Bank, N.

J.

1929
Miss Rachel Winter Pratt, of Nanticoke, and George W. Thomas,
of Plymouth, were married recently in the Nebo Baptist Church, in
Nanticoke. The bride has been a teacher in the schools of Hunlock
Township, Luzerne County.
Alice Pennington has been elected teacher of English in the
Roosevelt High School at Williamsport. After taking post graduate
work at Columbia University this summer, Miss Pennington will
take up her duties in the fall. She has received her master’s degree
from Columbia University. Miss Pennington has taught music and
English in the Millville High School for the past three years.

1931

Miss Cleo M. Merrell, of Greenwood, and Millard E. Tubbs, of
Benton, were married at the Methodist parsonage at Waver ly, N. Y.
Saturday morning, May 15. The bride has taught for several years
in Columbia County and the groom is employed at the Magee Carpet
Company in Bloomsburg.

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Jack Eble of Bloomsburg, and Miss Naomi Edmunds, of Nantiwere married Saturday, June 12, in the Pittman Methodist
Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, by the Rev. Willard F. Edmunds,
a cousin of the bride. The bride has been teaching for several years
in the schools of Hunlock Township. Mr. Eble is employed by the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Danville. They will live on East
Fifth Street, Bloomsburg.
coke,

Miss Gladys Frantz and Ralph R. Baylor, both of Danville,
were married in Shiloh Reformed Church, Danville, Sunday, April
Washington,
11, by the Rev. Clark W. Heller. They will live in
where they are both employed.
1932

gymnasium on Alumni Day, with
twenty-four members present. The group decided to appoint a comThe

class of 1932

met

in the

composed of representatives from the various sections, to
have charge of future reunions. The committee is composed of the
following: Catherine Hoff Smith, 142 Fairmount Avenue, Sunbury,
chairman; Roy J. Evans, Benton; Irene Braina, 143 East Liberty
Street, Ashley; Betty A. Haffer, 55 Green Street, Muncy; Mildred
D. Naryauckas, Shenandoah; Helen Keller, 222 Maple Street, Mifflinburg; Pauline Showers, First Street, Milton, and Edmond Smith,
mittee,

Fallsington, for the Philadelphia section.

All members of the class are asked to contact one of the committee members in the near future, as a special meeting is being

planned for Home-Coming Day.
Following the business meeting, the group was entertained by
motion pictures of school events of the year 1931-32, presented by
Prof. S.

I.

Shortess.

reunion, with their
is a list of those present at the
present place of residence:
Theo Catherine Smith, home address, Mifflinburg, Pa. Teaching
at Strawbridge, Pa.
Edith Strickler, teaching at Mifflinburg.
Elizabeth Jones, teaching at Plymouth.
Mildred Dimmick, teaching at Mountain Top, Pa.
Oliver H. R. Krapf, Methodist pastor at Conyngham, Pa.
Catherine Hoff Smith, teaching at Sunbury, Pa.
Esther Saylor, teaching at McClure, Pa. Home address, Beaver-

Following

town.

Kathryn Benner, teaching

at

Lewistown. Address, 425

Logan

Street.

Mrs. Mable R. Turse (Mable Rinard) Northumberland, Pa.

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Ruth Smith, teaching at Northumberland, Pa.
Sunbury.
Betty A. Haffer, teaching at Muncy, Pa.
Glen A. Oman, teaching in Orangeville, Pa.
Bloomsburg.
Myrtle I. Wagner, teaching in Mifflinburg, Pa.
Helen Keller, substitute teacher in Mifflinburg.

Betty Brooks, teaching in Lewisburg, Pa.

Home

Home

address,

Home

address,

address,

Dalma-

tia.

Louise Gori, teaching in Wilkes-Barre.
Emma Gasewicz, substitute teacher in Glen Lyon, Pa.
Irene Draina, Ashley, Pa. Teaching at Hanover Green.
Dorothy Hartman (Mrs. James W. Moore) Apt. F-22, Abbott
Court, Radburn, N. J.
Ezra W. Harris, Bloomsburg R. D. 3. Teaching in Center Township High School, Columbia County. Received M. A. degree at New
York University this year.
Wilbur Hibbard, teaching in Shickshinny, Pa.
Clarence Hunsicker will be teaching at Elizabethtown next year.
Roy J. Evans, Benton, Pa. Employed by the Pennsylvania De-

partment of Highways.

Other Class Addresses
Ida Arcus, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Woodi'ow W. Aten, Relief Inspector, Mifflinville, Pa.
Donald Bangs, Millville, Pa., R. D. Teaching in

Greenwood

Township, Columbia County.
Robert A. Brown, 31 North Ninth Street, Columbia, Pa.
Lois DeMott, teaching in Millville, Pa.
Mary Alice Eves (Mrs. Charles Cox), Nescopeck, Pa.
Saul Gutter, Church Street, Plymouth, Pa.

John A. Hall, West Pittston, Pa.
James J. Johns, 507 North Ninth Street, Scranton, Pa.
Anthony E. Kanjorski, Glen Lyon, Pa. Teaching at Newport
Township High School.
Jessie F. Laird, teaching at Sonestown.
Jean Lewis, teaching at Sonestown.
Bernard E. Mohan, Centralia, Pa. Teaching
ship High School, Columbia County.

Ivor L. Robbins, Coudersport, Pa.

Joseph A. Slominski, teaching

Foreman

in

Conynham Town-

at C. C. C.

Camp

134.

Mocanaqua, Pa.
R. D. Teaching at Greenwood

at

Seymour Stere, Millville, Pa.,
Township High School, Columbia County.
Ruth L. Wagner, teaching in Dushore, Pa.

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Ethel Keller (Mrs. Lewis Long), Danville, Pa.
Sarah C. Zimmerman, 447 East 5th Street, Berwick, Pa.
Katherine Fritz (Mrs. James M. Gillen), 2134 North

28th

Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dorothy M. Gorrey, teaching in Bloomsburg, Pa.
Gerald C. Hartman, teaching in Catawissa, Pa.
Desda E. John, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1933

Miss Anna McGinley and John Maloney, both of Centralia,
were married at St. Ignatius Church, Centralia, Wednesday, June 9,
with the Rev. Fr. D. J. Phelean, rector of the church, officiating at the
high nuptial mass. The bride has been a successful teacher in the
Centralia schools.

Company. They

The groom

is

employed by the Centralia

will reside on East

Wood

Collieries

Street, Centralia.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Harold DanowWest Milton and Miss Marion DeFrain, of Sugarloaf.

sky, of

Announcement has recently been made of the marriage on
February 27th, of Alice Louise Barrall to Arthur S. Hunsinger. Both
bride and groom are residents of Berwick. Mrs. Hunsinger has been
a teacher in the Mifflinville schools for the past three years. Mr.
Hunsinger is a linotype operator for the Berwick Enterprise. The
wedding took place February 27th at the parsonage of the Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church, in Berwick. The ring ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev. A. W. Smith.
1934

Miss Grace Elizabeth Foote, of Bloomsburg, and Joseph C. ConBloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 12, in the
First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg, the officiating minister
being the Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Harker, pastor of the church. The
bride has been teaching for three years at Hop Bottom, Pa. The
groom is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, and is employed by the Berwick Enterprise.
ner, also of

1935

The most active of the younger classes in reunion was the class
The two year class held a breakfast at the Wimodausis Club
at 9:00 o’clock with the meeting in charge of Elmer McKechnie, class
president, and a reunion committee composed of Howard DeMott,
Euphemia Gilmore and Flora Robinholt.
A permanent alumni organization of the class was continued

of 1935.

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with these officers chosen for 1937-38: Chairman, William Reed,
Hamburg; secretary, Betty Row, Bloomsburg. The class voted to
have another reunion breakfast in 1938.
Those attending were: L. Irene Frederick, Northumberland;
Euphemia Gilmore, Flora Robinholt, Bloomsburg; Unora B. Mendenhall, Benton; Naomi M. Myers, Pittston; Woodrow G. BrewingPlymouth; Mrs. W. C. Forney,
ton, Benton; Rosina Kitchener,
Bloomsburg; Dr. and Mrs. H. Harrison Russell, Bloomsburg; Fae
Meixell, Espy; Helen Culp, Wilkes-Barre; Lauretta M. Foust, Watsontown; Albert A. Hayes, Berwick; R. D. 3; Edwin R. Creasy,
Bloomsburg; Helen M. Hartman, Danville, R. D. 4; Betty Row,
Bloomsburg; William I. Reed, Hamburg; Howard E. DeMott, Warren
Center; Jean Smith, Berwick; Genevieve Bowman, Bloomsburg;
Doris Johnson, Berwick; J. Wesley Knorr; John J. Butler, Northumberland; Mildred Deppe, Veda Mericle, Bloomsburg; Mildred Ford,
Kulpmont; Charlotte Hockenberg, Hazleton; Elmer J. McKechnie,
Shickshinny.
Miss M. Irene Mensch, of Locust Township, Columbia County,
and Paul R. Levan, also of Locust Township were married Saturday,
June 5, at the home of the bride’s parents. Immediate members of the
family attended the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. A.
Levan Zechman. Mrs. Levan was a teacher in the Locust Township
schools, and the groom is engaged in farming with his father. They
will reside at Mr. Levan’s parents until their new home is completed.

The wedding of Miss Alma Steinruck and Olen Watts, both of
Bloomsburg, has recently been announced. The marriage took
place Christmas morning, December 25, 1936, in Hyattstown, Maryland. The bride taught for several years in Mt. Pleasant, Columbia
County, and during the past year was a teacher in the Forks
school, near Easton. Mr. Watts has been employed by the Magee Carpet Company, in Bloomsburg.
Elmer J. McKechnie, of Berwick, and Charlotte A. Hochberg, of
Hazleton, were married Monday, June 14, in the Bower Memorial
Evangelical Church at Berwick. The officiating minister was the
Rev. H. M. Buck, pastor of the church. Mr. McKechnie is a member
of the faculty of the Shickshinny High School. Mrs. McKechnie has
been an instructor in the Markle Private School in Hazleton. Aftea
their wedding trip they will reside temporarily at Lewisburg where
Mr. McKechnie will attend the summer session of Bucknell University in completing work for his master’s degree in education.

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Miss Euphemia Gilmore, of Bloomsburg, and John Yeager, of
Hazleton, were married Saturday, June 12, in the United Evangelical
Church in Hughesville. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. S.
Mummey, grandfather of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Yeager will live in
Lock Haven, where Mr. Yeager is an investigator for the Retail Company.
Miss Minnie Boudman, of Bloomsburg, and Joseph Dixon, of
West Hazleton, were united in marriage Saturday, June 12, by the
Rev. Fr. Louis J. Yeager in the rectory of St. Columba’s Church,
Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon will live in Hazleton, where the

former

is

employed.

Miss Genevieve Bowman, of Bloomsburg, and Vincent E. McKelvey, of Montoursville, were united in marriage Saturday, June
5, at the bride’s home. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E.
E. McKelvey, father of the groom, assisted by the Rev. John McKelvey, of Philadelphia, brother of the groom. The bride is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, and for the past two years, she has been
teaching in Franklin Township. Mr. McKelvey is a graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, and Syracuse University, where he
received departmental honors in geology. In September, they will
go to Madison, Wisconsin, where they will continue their studies in
the graduate school of the University of Wisconsin, where Mr. McKelvey has a research fellowship in geology.
Miss Betty Row, of Bloomsburg, and William Reed, of Hamburg,
were united in marriage Wednesday, June 9, at the Bloomsburg
Reformed Church, with the pastor, the Rev. B. R. Heller, officiating.
Mrs. Reed has been teaching for the past two years in the Millville
high school. Mr. Reed is head of the commercial department in the

Hamburg

high school.

The April issue of the Business Education World contains an
on “The Students’ Classroom” by John J. Gress, of the commercial department of the Bloomsburg high school. This article was
the third prize winner in the Business Education World essay contest,
and represents a description of the classroom situation in which
students are made responsible for the general discipline and learnarticle

ing situation.

1936

Kenneth
High School, has

member of the faculty of the Orangeville
been named a counselor for Camp Susquehanna,

C. Merrill,

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New

Milford, Pa., which will open for two months this summer. Mr.
Merrill will have charge of all the music, vocal and instrumental, and
will also have charge of some of the sports.

Miss Betty Harter has been elected teacher of commercial subjects in the

Nescopeck High School.

Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg, was the scene of a
wedding Friday evening, April 9, when Jean B. Stiffnagle, of
Berwick, became the bride of A. David Mayer, of Wilkes-Barre. Miss
Stiffnagle was a member of the class of 1939 at the College. Mr.
Mayer is a teacher in the commercial department of the Elmer M.
Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre.
St. Paul’s

quiet

1937
Earl Gehrig has been elected teacher in the commercial department of the Danville High School.

Miss Ruth Radcliffe, of Bloomsburg, has been elected teacher
French and English in the Watsontown High School.

Anna Jean Laubach has been elected a teacher
department in the Muncy High School.

The pages

of the Quarterly are

open

to

For information, write Dr. E. H. Nelson,

Pa.

in the

of

commercial

advertisers.

Bloomsburg,

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ADDRESSES
1879

Mrs. William C. Bond

(Ella

M. Allen),

148

East

Main

Street,

Bloomsburg.
Louise Robbins, 50 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg.
Hannah E. Breece, 220 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg.
1884

Mary

L. Sharpless,

Anna M.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1885
Fox, High and Union Streets, Burlington, N.

J.

1886
J.

O. Felker, 112 East

Market

Street,

Lewistown, Pa.

1887

Mary Mathias Hermany,

Mrs.

75 South

Main

Street,

Mahanoy

City,

Pa.

Mrs. Lizzie Foulke Creasy, Mifflinville, Pa.
Petty, 213 West Second Street, Berwick, Pa.

Maiy

1888
Mrs. H. G. Sands (Ella M. Kitchen), Benton, Pa.
1890
Mrs. George W. Faus (Minnie L. Kitchen), 61 West First

Street,

Bloomsburg.
1892
Mrs. David Martin (Bertha W. Burrow), 3527 Rutherford, Harrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Booth Wragg, 253 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, N. J.
Mrs. Ralph Huff (Mabel Westover), Town Hill, Pa.
Mrs. Willard Smith (Louise Petty), 215 West Second Street, Berwick, Pa.
Hattie Ringrose Knies, 40 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. T. F. Fleming (Katie Dougher), 1240 Wyoming Avenue, Exeter,
Pa.

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Mrs. Marie Dempsey Ford, 60 Church Street, Pittston, Pa.
Mrs. D. S. Hartline (Hallie Keffer), 603 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
G. W. B. Tiffany, Kingsley, Pa.
Mrs. Edward B. Vanhorne (Louie Young,) 36 Boulevard, Mountain
Lakes, N. J.
Mrs. C. C. Bierly (Eudelia A. Seiwell), 612 Fourth Street, West
Pittston, Pa.

John A. Kerns, 213 Academy Building,

Fall River, Mass.

1893
Johnston, 217 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. S. J. Johnston (Irene Girton), 217 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Laura Gilbert Kline, Catawissa, Pa.
Eunice Titus, Sunrise Terrace, Binghamton, N. Y.

Samuel

J.

1894

William W. Evans, 500 College

Hill,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1896

Mrs. H. C. Whitney (Nettie Cope), 305 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg.
1897

Mabel Moyer, 370 West Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Blanche P. Balliet, 310 High Street, Williamsport, Pa.
Bertha Kelly, 911 West Elm Street, Scranton, Pa.
Grace Leaw Miller, 5173 Hallmond, Riverside, California.
O. Z. Low, Orangeville, Pa.
Mrs. Jean Menzies Scott, 380 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.
J. B. Robinson (Minnie E. Prutzman), 634 West Penn
Street,
Allentown, Pa.
Eva Martin, 93 North Church Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. W. F. Thomas (Amy V. Bieshline), 602 Locust Street, Hazleton,

Mrs.

Pa.

Mary

E. Veale (Mrs. Thomas H. Probert), 334 East Elm Street,
Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. Dora Hubert Ely, 510 West Diamond Avenue, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. John B. Waters (Florence Taylor), 215 Main Street, Catawissa,
Pa.
Mrs. George Curran (Lizzie Dailey), 6 Gaylord Avenue, Plymouth,

Pa.

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Mae

Meixell, 135 East Second Street, Berwick, Pa.
Ralph W. Sands, 307 Maple Avenue, Hawley, Pa.
Blanche Nye Kay, Watsontown, Pa.
Mrs. Ralph W. Sands (Orra Rollison), 307 Maple Avenue, Hawley,

Pa.

Fourth Street, Berwick, Pa.
Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

R. C. Welliver, 230 East

Bess Davis, 24

S.

Harvey Gelnett, Swineford, Pa.
W. C. Burns, 145 Orange Street, Northumberland, Pa.
Mrs. H. B. Creasy (Martha Brugler), 139 Spring Street, Saratoga
Springs, N. Y.

1898

Elmer Levan, R. D.

3,

Catawissa, Pa.
1899

Bessie L. Reynolds, South Gibson, Pa.

1900

Mrs.

J.

Y. Glenn

(Mary Ellen Albert), 308 East Front

Street,

Ber-

wick, Pa.
1901

Mrs. G. F. Burkhardt (Adele Altmiller),
Hazleton, Pa.

154

South Cedar Street,

1902

Mrs. Fred G. Northrup (Eleanor Gay), Mehoopany, Pa.
Mrs. George W. Jacobs (Gertrude Dress), 157 South Fourth Street,
Steelton, Pa.

Less M. Long, 323 East First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Grace Bradbury Everitt, 19 South Sixth Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
Fred Drumheller, R. D. 3, Sunbury, Pa.
Eunice F. Spear, 105 Crest Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa.
Mrs. W. E. Hebei (Florence Crow), Liverpool, Pa.
Essene Hollopeter Martin, 14 East Charles Street, Palmyra, N. J.
Marie L. Diem, 944 Taylor Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Estelle Lewis Leighow, 505 Brinton Street. Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

George C. Baker, 265 West Main Street, Moorestown, N. J.
Margaret Hoffa Henninger, 533 South Market Street, Shamokin,
Pa.
Mrs. John Kearns (Carol Space), 27 East Seventh Street,
Pa.

Wyoming,

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Charlotte V. Heller, 17 Ross Street, Williamsport, Pa.
Helen Reice Irvin, 4035 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Hadassa F. Balliet, 310 High Street, Williamsport, Pa.
1903

Mrs. S. K.

Worman

(Nellie

Schvveppenheiser)

,

209

West Market

Street, Danville, Pa.

1904

Leona Kester Lawton, Millville, Pa.
Mrs. David G. Martin (Ruth T. Turner), 1724 Santa Clara Avenue,
Alameda, California.
1905

Blanche Miller Grimes, 294 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Emma Smith, 13 East Broad Street, West Hazleton, Pa.
Bessie K. Grimes, 415 East Main Street, Catawissa, Pa.
Mrs. R. K. Le Brou (Clarissa Peacock), Langley Field, Virginia.
1907

Pearl Anstock Holt, 21 Royak Avenue, Hawthorne, N. J.
Mary E. Hess, Espy, Pa.
Mrs. D. M. Brobst (Myrtle Wanich), Bloomsburg, Pa.
Norma Johns Jones, 126 Bridleman Avenue, Asbury, Pa.
Laura Rittenhouse Yohey, 1802 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Paul H. Englehart, 1820 Forster Street. Harrisburg, Pa.
Blanche Johns Lawrence, 23 Carlton Avenue, Port Washington, N. Y.
Edith Campsie Dreisbach, 338 Cypress, Lehighton, Pa.
Mrs. Ralph Howell (Anna J. Chamberlain), 663 Chenango Street,
Binghamton, N. Y.
Lu Lesser Burke, 148 37th Street, Union City, N. J.
Alice Shaffer Harry, P. O. Box 14, Berwick, Pa.
Elizabeth Dreibelbis (Mrs. L. T. Orner), 528 East Third Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bertha D. Lovering, 816 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Mrs. Nellie Lesser Culp, 25 Mt. Prospect Avenue, Verona, N. J.
Arvilla Kitchen Eunson, 398 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Margaret O'Brien Henseler, 35 Sixth Street, Weehawken, N. J.
Blanche Hoppe (Mrs. H. M. Chrisholm), Nicholson, Pa., R. D. 1.
Blanche Westbrook (Mrs. N. C. Fetter), 33 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Mary Elizabeth Gregg, 97 East Clifton Avenue, Tenafly, N. J.
Margaret O’Brien (Mrs. Albert Henseler), 300 18th Street, West
New York, N. J.

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Miriam Smith (Mrs.

R. L. Walter), 309 Spruce Street, Altoona, Pa.

Ella Best, 527 Eighth Street, Irwin, Pa.

Mabel Dexter, Waymart, Wayne County, Pa.
and Mable Tucker, Deposit, N. Y.

Nellie

Bessie Cogswell (Mrs. P. N. Taylor), Volant, Lawrence Co., Pa.
Esther Wolfe, R. D. 2, Dallas, Pa.
Gertrude Vance, 603 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, Pa.
Blanche Letson (Mrs. H. C. McAmis), Box G, Tusculum College,
Greenville, Tenn.
Mrs. Caroline Muth Rose, 2324 Ringo Street, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rosa Volrath (Mrs. E. C. Buchheit), 471 South Seventh Street,
Indiana, Pa.

Edna Brundage Pentecost, 826 East 16th Street, Chester. Pa.
Alma Noble Leidy, 1100 Larchmont Avenue, Penfield, Del. Co., Pa.
1908

Boonem, 587 James Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. O. N. Pollock (Mabel Clark), 39 Atherton Avenue, Wyoming,
Laura

E.

Pa.

1909
Mrs. Dennis Wright (Ethel Creasy), 58 East 5th Street, Bloomsburg,
Pa.

Raymond Buckalew

Mrs.

1910
(Florence Heubner), 17 West 5th. Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa.
M. MacFarlane, 627 West Diamond Avenue, Hazleton, Pa.
M. E. Houck, West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.

Emma

1911

W. Homer Englehart,

Market

Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Sharadin, R. D. 5, Danville, Pa.
Dennis D. Wright, 58 East 5th. Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Ray M. Cole, Bloomsburg, Pa.

A.

1821

J.

1912
Ercell Bidleman, 321 East First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Bidleman (Bertha Harner), 321 East First Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. James Davison (Harriet Davis), 2221 Capouse Avenue, ScranMrs. Ercell

ton, Pa.

Emily Barrow, Ringtown, Pa.
Isabelle Thomas, 708 Wyoming Avenue, West Pittston, Pa.
Frankie Elizabeth Davis, 28 South Street, Red Bank, N. J.

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William H. Davis, Y. M. C. A., Binghamton, N. Y.
Florence Merritt Dixon, 116 Park Place, Kingston, Pa.
Jessie Doran, Daleville, Pa.
Mrs. E. R. Eisenhauer (Mary Hidlay), MifTlinville, Pa.
Mrs. Lester B. Harper (Isabel Graham), Harrisburg State Hospital,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyersgrove, Pa.
Mrs. W. Homer Englehart (Margaret Row), 1821 Market Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. William Henrie, Jr. (Ona Harris), 639 East 5th. Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Allen C.

Ream

(Helen Fetter), 843 Monroe Avenue, Scranton,

Pa.

Mrs. J. F. Schiefer (Martha Selway), 7 S. Fourth Street, Steelton, Pa.
Mrs. Charlotte Peacock Holmes, Moffett Field, California.
George M. Barrow, 105 Hillside Avenue, Nutley, N. J.
Mrs. F. A. Bachinger (Theresa R. Dailey), 833 South Market Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. H. F. Arnold (Grace Wolfe), 221 E. Oakdale Avenue, Glenside,
Pa.

Mrs. C. Hayden A. Streamer (Lena G. Leitzel),
Knight Avenues, Collingswood, N. J.

Anna Whitaker,

Haddon

and

W.

4636 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. Paul D. Womeldorf, 1101 Avenue B, Dodge City, Kansas.
Mrs. Homer Fetterolf (Le Claire Schooley), Spring Mills, Pa.
Laura Houghton Peacock, 143 Ridgway Street, East Stroudsburg, Pa.
Mrs. J. Webb Wright (Hazel Henrie), 8 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Ray Mausteller, 403 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
148 W.
Mrs. Lydia A. Creasy (Lydia Andreas),
Third Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
James F. Gearhart, 27 Penn Avenue, Montgomery, Pa.
Mrs. Charles Remensnyder (Ellnora Seeley), Nescopeck, Pa.
Mrs. C. L. Tyler (Emma V. Hartranft), 309 Walnut Street, Hazleton,
Pa.
Mrs. Harold Kline (Harriet Hartman), 138 West Street, Bloomsburg,
Pa.
L. D. Savige, 501-502 Mears Building, Scranton. Pa.
Roxie H. Smith, Trucksville, Pa.
Mrs. Clark Fuller (Helen Zehner), 341 Mulberry Street, Berwick,
Pa.
Mrs. D. E. Fetherolf (Frances Pachnicke), Freeburg, Pa.
P. Clive Potts, Cochranville, Pa.

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O. N. Pollock, 39 Atherton Avenue,

Wyoming, Pa.

1913

K. C. Kuster, First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helen Smith Beardslee, 106 Beechwood Ave., Bound Brook, N.
Homer W. Fetterolf, Spring Mills, Pa.
Sue H. Longenberger, 301 East Eighth Street, Berwick, Pa.

J.

1914

Pauline

J.

Cosper, 573

Warren Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
1916

Maud

Miller, 42 Cinderella Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Mrs. J. G. Hopkins, Jr., 949 West Third Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. C. W. Dikeman (Louise Carter), 546 Keystone Ave., Peckville,
Pa.

Hilda G. Wosnock, 565 Lincoln Street, Hazleton, Pa.
1917

Ruth V.

Silvius, 206 9th. Street,

Sunbury, Pa.

J. Rager (Esther C. Wagner), P. O. Box 22, Milroy, Pa.
Bertha Hacker Schnerr, 430 Main Street, Peckville, Pa.
Mrs. E. H. Kinback (Effie Benscoter), 752 Main Street, Peckville,

Mrs. Richard

Pa.

Agnes Warner Smales, Laceyville, Pa.
Anna Pursel, Box 341, Burnham, Pa.

Hugh E. Boyle, 147 East Chestnut Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. L. D. Henshall (Myrtle E. Bryant), 986 Parkway Ave., Trenton,
N. J.
Mary A. Reichard, Box 346, Milton, Pa.
Arthur C. Morgan, 218 East Fifth Street, Berwick, Pa.
Mrs. Dale S. Guthrie (Alice Snyder), 325 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Catherine Row McNamee, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. W. C. Lippert (Helen Gregory), Dalton, Pa.
Mrs. George R. Blanch (Gertrude M. Lord), 514 West Arch Street,
Pottsville, Pa.

Mabel Dymond Bell, R. D. 3, Dallas, Pa.
Ruth Smith, 116 East Curtin Street, Bellcfonte, Pa.
Herman E. Wiant, 100 Windsor Avenue, Haddonfield, N.

Anna Tripp Smith, Box 514 Oxford, N. Y.
Agnes Frew Davis, 414 Susquehanna Avenue, Olyphant,
Bertha Broadt, 104 S. Poplar Street, Hazleton, Pa.
A. L. Cromis, 411 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

J.

Pa.

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Beatrice Youngman Reichart, 179 S. Wyoming Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Arline Nyhart Kemper, 361 Stout Avenue, Scotch Plains, N. J.
Nan R. Jenkins, 209 West High Street, Nesquehoning, Pa.
Marie Cromis, Hotel MacAlpine, 40th and Walnut, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. James S. Wiant, 533 Edgar Road. Westfield, N. J.
Mary Schaller, 180 S. Cedar Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Margaret McHugh, 415 West 7th. Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. J. H. Evans (Marion Brown), 796 Westminister Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mary Moss Dobson, 14 Prospect Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Nora Berlew Dvmond, R. D. 3. Dallas, Pa.

1918

Mrs. Donald C. White (Zareta Good), Jackson Drive, Lancaster, Pa.
Margaret Smith, 525 Wahnetah Drive, Bound Brook, N. J.
Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 S. Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.
Blanche Moore, 439 East 10th. Street, Berwick, Pa.
Mrs. James S. Wiant (Mary Powell), 533 Edgar Road, Westfield, N.
J.

1919

Margaret Dyer, 414 Jackson Street, Scranton, Pa.
Edwina Evans, 133 S. Lincoln Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Meta Warner Kistler, 929 West Second Street, Hazleton, Pa.
1921

Maree

Mary

E. Pensyl, 261

West Main

Street,

Elizabeth Brower, 337 East

Main

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Street,

1922

Edna Harter, Nescopeck, Pa.
Margaret Murray Luke, 534 East Pine

Street,

Mahanoy

City, Pa.

Lucille J. Wise, 509 East Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Mrs. Mahlon Strauch (Helen Hess), Benton, Pa.

Gladys

E.

Ramage,

181

Rock

Street, Pittston, Pa.

Mrs. Joseph Cameron (Lillie Harter), Nescopeck, Pa.
Martha Y. Jones, 632 N. Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Mrs. Sterling D. Goodman (Laura H. Miller) 752 Poplar Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Menrietta Rhoades Ramage, 79 Ninth Street. Wyoming, Pa.
Edgar D. Sutton, Wyoming, Pa.
M. Dorothy Faust, 405 North Fifth Street, Reading, Pa.
Mattie L. Luxton, 203 N. Second Street, Minersville, Pa.
Lucile Snyder, 119 West Walnut Street, Hazleton, Pa.
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Mrs. Herbert Lugg (Zelma Thornton), 700 Main Street, Duryea, Pa.
Mrs. G. W. Kuschel (Anna Naylor), 1017 Fairfield Street, Scranton, Pa.
1923

Helen E. Sutliff, 1934 Chestnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. Minnie Melick Turner, Route 4, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Leona Williams Moore, R. D. 4, Dallas, Pa.
1924

Clara D. Abbett, 240 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Lawrence Jones (Sarah Jones), 831 S. Main Street, Old Forge,
Pa.

William H. Hess, Winfield, Pa.
Edward Schuyler, 236 West Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Miriam R. Lawson, 644 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1925

404 S. Main Street, Old Forge, Pa.
Edith M. Eade, 101 East Center Street, Nesquehoning, Pa.

Mary M. Hennigan,

1926

Letha M. Jones, Noxen, Pa.
Dorothy Newman, 201 East Mahoning Street, Danville, Pa.
1927

Ruth Oswald, 927 West

Mary

Centre Street,

Mahanoy

City, Pa.

Schunk, 923 Birch Street, Scranton, Pa.
Irene Feeney, 319 S. Irving Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Linda E. Culver, Wyalusing, Pa.
Elizabeth Button Evenden, State Hospital, Binghamton, N. Y.
Geraldine E. Hess, 301 Arch Street, Berwick, Pa.
Ruth Rockwell, Wyalusing, Pa.
Edith Quinn Jakobsen, 25 Henshaw Avenue, Springfield, N. J.
Elsie Bower, 217 Jackson Street, Berwick, Pa.
Hope Schalles Rosser, 81 Welles Street, Forty Fort, Pa.
Marjorie Newton Hughes, 47 Manhattan Street, Ashley, Pa.
Mary J. Morgan, 109 S. Main Street, Plains, Pa.
Minerva Bossard, 125 Conyngham Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Rosella H. Hastings, 24 East Carey Street, Plains, Pa.
Margaret Finnerty, 316 Cameron Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Vivian C. Pitt, Lattimer Mines, Pa.
Helen M. Schaefer, Milnesville, Pa.
Florence Williams Thomas, 616 N. Bromley Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
L.

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Verna Medley Davenport, 14 Ransom Street, Plymouth, Pa.
Mrs. James E. Sugden (Pauline Vastine), 318 N. Eleventh Street,
Sunbury, Pa.
Mrs. E. J. McCloughan (Mildred Adams), R. D. 5, Danville, Pa,
Edythe Hortman, 300 East 11th Street, Berwick, Pa.
Esther E. Dierolf, 107 Kidder Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Doris Palsgrove, 117 N. Lehigh Avenue, Frackville, Pa.
Stella M. Murray, 1123J W. Locust Street, Scranton, Pa.
Mary Elliott Jones, 632 N. Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Lena E. Van Horn, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
Alice Burdon, 1014 Madison Ave., Scranton, Pa.
Helen Ceppa, 3 West Grand Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Margaret Caswell, Wyalusing, Pa.
Margaret I. Crouse, 1126 Orange Street, Berwick, Pa.
Chloe T. Frey, 429 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Jessie M. Eves, 1015 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
M. Edna Girton, 508 West Front Street, Berwick, PaSepta Thornton, 229 Morton Street, Old Forge, Pa.
Jessie Hastie, 1305 North Main Street, Avoca, Pa.
1928

Kathryn M. Abbett, 240 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Margaret E. Hill, 115 South Hyde Park Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
1929
Arline Frantz, R. D. 1, Trucksville, Pa.
Mrs. Luther W. Bitler (Margaret Swartz), Pottsgrove, Pa.
1930

Karleen M. Hoffman, 239 East Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Alda E. Culp, R. D. 2, Mifflinburg, Pa.
Myra Sharpless, 366 Center Street. Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dorothy M. Keith, 1036 West Gibson Street, Scranton, Pa.
1931

Orval Palsgrove, West Pine Street, Frackville, Pa.
Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek, Pa.
Elizabeth H. Hubler, 14 West Biddle Street, Gordon, Pa.
Robert C. Sutliff, 11 Lincoln Avenue, Baldwin, N. Y.
Esther R. Yeager, 8058 Crispin Street, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa.
Genevieve Wolf, Alderson, Pa.
Dorothy M. Foust, 112 East Brimmer Avenue, Watsontown, Pa.
1932

Roy

J.

Evans, Benton, Pa.

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Mrs. James Moore (Dorothy Hartman), Apt.
Radburn, N. J.
Esther A. Saylor, Beavertown, Pa.
Elizabeth M. Brooks, Dalmatia, Pa.

F-22 Abbott

Irma Lawton, Millville, Pa.
Helen Piatt, Millville, Pa.
1933

Mae

Martz, 421 East Washington Street, Slatington, Pa.
Mrs. Robert B. Parker (Frances L. Evans), Millville, Pa.
Larue Glass, Paxinos, Pa.
Lois Lawson, 644 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Arthur Snyder, 310 Grand Street, Danville, Pa.
Thelma F. Evans, 431 W. Washington Street, Slatington, Pa.
S.

1934
Ellen L. Veale, 319 East Elm Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Gladys M. Wenner, 235 East Sixth Street, Berwick, Pa.
John W. Partridge, Market Street, Trevorton, Pa.

Robert A. Hawk, Bear Creek, Pa.
Irene Giger, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Esther N. Evans, 500 College Hill, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Harriet Sutliff, 412 College Hill, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Wilson B. Sterling, State Hospital, Danville, Pa.
Sarah James, R. D. 3, Dallas, Pa.
Laura Thomas, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Elwood H. Hartman, 11 Rock View, Shickshinny, Pa.
Esther E. Dagnell, Mainville, Pa.
J. Wesley Knorr, 249 Railroad Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dorothy K. Johnson, 623 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1935

Sylvester Ficca, 243 West Saylor Street, Atlas, Pa.
Mildred Deppe, 1217 Dewey Street, Berwick, Pa.
Catharine A. Mensch, 521 Shuman Street, Catawissa, Pa.
Helen Merrill, Light Street, Pa.
William I. Reed, 153 North Fifth Street, Hamburg, Pa.
Elmer J. McKechnie, Union Street, Shickshinny, Pa.
Howard E. DeMott, Box 96, Warren Center, Pa.
John J. Butler, 1615 North Webster Avenue, Dunmore, Pa.

Lauretta M. Foust, 112 East Brimmer Avenue, Watsontown, Pa.
Naomi M. Myers, 83 Church Street, Pittston, Pa.
Euphemia Gilmore, 414 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

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Unora B. Mendenhall, Benton, Pa.
Veda Meriele, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Rosina Kitchener, 164 Girard Avenue, Plymouth, Pa.
Flora Robinholt, 149 East Main Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Woodrow G. Brewington, Church Stxeet, Benton, Pa.
Fae Meixell, Espy, Pa.
Betty Row, 327 College Hill, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Box 84, Northumberland, Pa.
Margaret Manhart, 213 Iron Street, Berwick, Pa.

L. Irene Frederick,

1936

Matilda Kirticklis, 426 East Broad Street, Tamaqua, Pa.

LaRue

Frances

Verna

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Road. Bloomsburg, Pa.
Riggs, 287 East First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

C. Derr, R. D.

Kathryn

1,

E. Brobst, 383 Light Street
I.

E. Jones, Centralia, Pa.

Gilbert L. Kline, Catawissa, Pa.
Marjorie A. Thomas, 367 East Green Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
Daniel J. Jones, 908 East Third Street, Nescopeck, Pa.
Howard Bevilacqua, 200 East 11th Street, Berwick, Pa.

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of the Quarterly are

open

to

advertisers.

For information, write Dr, E, H. Nelson, Bloomsburg,

Pa.

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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
OCTOBER,

Vol. 38

Entered as Second-Class Matter. July

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No. 4

1937

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Post Office at Bloomsburg,

Under the Act of July 16, 1894.
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SUMMER SESSION DINNER
“Mass insanity” is responsible for the wars involving
nations of Europe and the Orient, according to Don Rose,
Philadelphia columnist, who spoke before an audience of
about 300 at the Summer Session dinner Thursday evening, July 29, in the dining hall of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
In a presentation which worthily upheld the reputation of the College for presenting entertaining and informative programs, seventeen students received informal
notice of completion of their work and the six weeks of
Summer School activity were brought to a pleasant climax.

The following students are candidates for the Bachelor of Science Degree
Harriet Elizabeth Adams, 409
West Main Street, Bloomsburg, intermediate Bertha Ada
Andres, 483 West Main Street, Bloomsburg, secondary;
Bertha May Brobst, 301 Fourth Street, Berwick, kindergarten Robert Goodman, 608 East Third Street, Blooms:

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burg, secondary; Helen Elizabeth Hutton, 158 Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, intermediate Helen Frances Latorre,
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Arthur Frances McLaughlin, Freeland, secondary; Eugene John Macur, 14 Line
Street, Glen Lyon, secondary; James L. Marks, R. D. 3,
Catawissa, secondary; Jean Bower Reese, 407 East Fifth
Street, Bloomsburg, kindergarten Harriet Edith Rhinard,
413 Pine Street, Berwick, kindergarten; Martha E. Rider,
200 East Front Street, Berwick, intermediate Adeline
Elizabeth Swineford, 506 West Front Street, Berwick, in-

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termediate Mary Agatha Stahl, Riverview, Berwick, kindergarten Rosetta F. Thomas, Taylor, secondary.
“Strange delusions sweep nations against each other,”
the speaker declared, urging an individual freedom from
the insanities which have always disturbed and are still
disturbing the peace of the world.
“If we can maintain our inherited aptitudes for getting along with people, we will have won a great victory,”
he added.
In his “Confessions of a Columnist,” Mr. Rose explained humorously that newspapermen, in affecting a
sort of omniscience, devote their time to writing learnedly
on subjects which they know nothing about.
He declared that columnists frequently get qualms
of conscience and ask themselves how they get that way,
occasionally blaming it on their ancestors. He quoted the
words of Bernard Shaw, “I don’t want you to think that
because I am a journalist, I never tried to earn an honest
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living.”

Then reverting to serious vein, he stressed the importance of education in journalism and the instructive
and informative value of the newspaper.
“News,” he explained, “is a partner, for better or for
worse, of the great task of education.”
The duty of teachers, parents and journalists is that
of interpreting to another generation the events and lessons of a very muddled world, he said. He compared the
teaching profession with the newspaper profession and
depicted them both as “living” professions, joined by a
definite

bond of union.

Fresh news each day causes the editorial writer to
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This growing process he believed to be typical of
both education and journalism.
Congratulating the graduating class, he told them:
“Never have we had so much cause to face the future with
optimism and courage. The dark days are over. We see
may evidences that the future is bright; the depression
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just

seems

to

have drifted away.”

He continued

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with the observation that education
permits us to discover the one great fact of life
“that the
world was an old story before you and 1 came and it will
be a going concern long after we are gone.”
“Our lives,” he went on, “are just important incidents in this tremendous calvacade.”
The present generation is privileged to live in this
vibrant and tremendously important time, he avowed,
continuing with the remark that Americans are especially privileged to be living in this country.
Front pages of the newspapers deal in unpleasant
unrealities of life, he declared, characterizing them as
“the things that are not really us.”
The columnist pictured as closer to truth in dealing
with the tremendous trivalities of which our lives are
made up. He portrayed the small, every-day incidents of
life as “inconsiderable but tremendously important.”
Statistics have shown that fifty-three per cent of our
population is under thirty years of age, he reported. He
theorized that therefore it is the mood and character of
these younger people that is the most important. It is
their courage, optimism and appetite for adventure that
must be appealed to by leaders in every field.
A columnist’s philosophy he described as a “day by
day” philosophy. Nobody cares what he wrote last Tuesday. He has made the helpful discovery that “happiness
is a flower that grows beside the dusty road of life and not
beyond some dusky horizon.”
Dean W. B. Sutliff gave the invocation. As toastmaster, Prof. E. A. Reams introduced a male quartet,
composed of Llewellyn Richards, Charles Maurer and
Harry Hendricks, of Shamokin, and Harold Steinhart, of
Bloomsburg. Their numbers included “Song of the Jolly
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“Kings of the Road Are We,” and “Riding on a Gravel
Train.”
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President, introduced the following who were seated at the speaker’s table Dean and
Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Dean and
Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Mrs. Rose and Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Reams. Grover Shoemaker, secretary-treasurer of the
Board of Trustees, and Mrs. Shoemaker, were introduced.
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Paul Trescott, of The Morning Press, who has left to
accept a position on the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
was presented. Other introductions were Melvin Lahr
of Station W. K. O. K., Sunbury; Mrs. Skeer and Miss
Curtis, of Westfield, N. J., who taught at Bloomsburg
Normal School thirty-five years ago.
Dr. Haas remarked that this year’s number session
attendance was seventy or seventy-five greater than for
He expressed his favor of the teacher
several years.
tenure legislation and declared that he believes that the
profession will profit by it.
Following the address, a dance was held in the College gymnasium and a recital in the auditorium. Included on the program of the latter was a colored motion picture of College activities and selections on the organ by
Music throughout the
Prof. Howard F. Fenstemaker.
dinner hour was played by James Deily’s orchestra.

Mrs. Mary Margaret Hoke, mother of Miss Margaret
Hoke, a member of the College faculty, died Friday, July
9, at the home of her daughter on East Second Street,
Bloomsburg.
She was the widow of the late Edward Hoke, former
owner of the Central Pennsylvania Business College and
the Lebanon Business College. Mrs. Hoke was a member
of the Bloomsburg Reformed Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Margaret Hoke, of Bloomsburg, a son, Roy, of Emory, Va. three brothers, Dr. L. V.
Rhodes, of Lewistown the Rev. E. T. Rhodes, of York,
and George Rhodes, of York; a sister, Mrs. J. M. Wentz,
of Lancaster, and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Elmer Hoke, of
Lancaster, whose husband was a former president of Catawba College, Salisbury, N. C.
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CLASS PROGRESS UP TO TEACHER
Responsibility for the success or failure of the napublic schools was placed upon the classroom
teacher by W. B. Sutliff, retiring dean of education of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, speaking at the Summer Session convocation Tuesday, July 27.
“A course of study,” he declared, “becomes what the
forceful, original thinker, who is the instructor in that
course, makes it. My enthusiasm for and belief in teachers’ colleges is based upon the firm conviction that the
classroom teacher is the final arbiter of the success or the
failure of our public schools.”
He called for men and women not only trained in the
techniques of teaching and masters of subjects, but also
men and women of fine character with “clear ideas of the
aims and objectives of our public schools and filled with
belief in and enthusiasm for the work which they are to
do.”
The first normal school in the United States, which
opened at Lexington, Mass., on July 3, 1839, included
courses in human physiology, mental philosophy, natural
philosophy, music, astronomy, natural history, principles
of piety and morality and the science and art of teaching.
“One of the great objectives in the work of Horace
Mann,” he continued, “was to improve the public schools
that there should no longer be the odious class distinction
that existed between the private schools then patronized
by those who had money and the public schools attended
by those whose parents afford nothing better.”
Mr. Sutliff’ pictured Horace Mann as an evangel facing the difficulties of a low salary, long hours of work, opposition of politicians, unprogressive school men and even
sectarian preachers. All these failed to dampen his spirit
but rather his ambition to place the public schools on a
plane where every boy and girl could secure an education’s

tion.

Early normal school curriculums were largely a continuation of high school work, he explained. “The lack
of good high schools and the influence of the arts colleges
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Pennsylvania Normal Schools. Practically all students
preparing to teach pursued the same studies.”
The catalogue of 1916 states that graduates of approved four-year high schools could be admitted without
examination to the third year of the four year normal
course. The four-year course was really only two years
post high school training.
In closing, Mr. Sutliff challenged the teachers in his
audience with the statement: “Let me repeat my belief
that in your hands lies the destiny of our public school
system.”
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President, introduced Mr. Sutliff by expressing appreciation for him as a personal
friend, as a member of the faculty and as a distinguished
member of the teaching profession. He read three selections from the poetry of Mr. Sutliff, which the latter has
used as a medium in expressing many aspects of college
life at Bloomsburg.

Miss Janet Irey, of Danville, accompanied by her
mother, gave a number of selections on the cello. Group
singing was led by Miss Harriet Moore with Howard F.

Fenstemaker

at the console.
Pictures taken at the 1937 Summer Session picnic by
George J. Keller, were shown in color. A short reel of
current events, narrated by Lowell Thomas, was present-

ed.

The marriage of Miss Dorothy M. Ritter, of Milton,
and William C. Hartman, of Rohrsburg, has just been announced. It took place February 27, 1937, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, of North Castle, N. Y., suburb of
White Plains. The Rev. David U. Soper officiated. They
were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Black, of Stamford, Conn.
Mrs. Hartman is a teacher in the Milton public
She attended Bucknell and Duke Universities.
Mr. Hartman is principal of the Buckhorn Schools. He
attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
They are now living at 937 North Front Street, Mil-

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LARGE NUMBER ATTENDED SUMMER
SESSION
A large number of graduates of other Colleges attended the 1937 Summer Session at Bloomsburg. Some
completed work for College provisional certificates, others took work to make their certificates permanent, and
others took work to include additional fields of subject
matter on their certificates. The students who were in
named in the following list:
Cherrington, East Main Street, Catawissa,
Bucknell University, A. B., college provisional certificate,
permanent; Sarah R. Hamlin, 541 Mill Street, Catawissa,
Susquehanna University, B. S., college permanent, extra
credits in art; John H. Lobach, Carnegie Institute, college
provisional certificate; Fannie M. Rupp, Catawissa, R. D.

this classification are

Ruth

Wilson College, B. S., college provisional, permanent
George F. Scott, Mt. Carmel, American
University, A. B., provisional, permanent; William Saye,
Nanticoke, Susquehanna University, A. B., provisional;
Anthony J. Thomas, Kulpmont, St. Francis College, A. B.,
provisional, permanent; Percy Wilson,
1302 Market
Street, Berwick, Dickinson College, Ph. B., provisional,
permanent: Isabel Boyer, 215 Grand Street, Danville,
Bucknell University, B. S., provisional extra credits in art;
Peter Evancho, Eckley, Muhlenberg College, Ph. B., college provisional, adding mathematics field Florence Fenstermachei’, Ashland, Juniata College, A. B., college provisional certificate Mary E. Langen, Pittston, Trinity College, A. B., college provisional certificate; Margaret Lorah, Sonestown, Penn State College, B. S., college permanent, extra credits in English
Zigmund Moleski, Kingston, Mansfield, B. S., in Music, State Limited Certificate;
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Frank T. Otto, Sayre, Mansfield, B. S., college provisional,
permanent certification Marguerite Portland, St. Jos;

eph’s, Md., A. B., college

provisional,

elementary

certi-

fication.

Cinderella Pysher, Montgomery, Temple University,
(Dental Hygiene) standard temporary, permanent certification John A. Schoffstall, Leek Hill, Susquehanna Uni;

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versity, A. B., college provisional, permanent certification Winifred Shallenberger, McAllisterville, Elizabethtown College, B. S., commercial college provisional, per;

manent; Mary Shaughnessy, Scranton, Maywood College,
B., college provisional, special education; Thelma
Shirk, Laury’s Kutztown, B. S., college provisional, spec-

A.

Leah Souders,
Kutztown, B. S., college provisional, special
education and permanent certification; Lillian Yanoshat,
Scranton, Marywood College, B. S. in Home Economics,
emergency, special education.
ial

education and permanent certification

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Pottsville,

Several students of Bloomsburg served during the
summer as nurses’ assistants at the Seaside Hospital
at New Dorp, Long Island. This is the tenth summer that
a group of Bloomsburg students have served in that capacity. The hospital takes care of children charity patients from New York City. The students who served this
summer are as follows: Victoria Muskaloon, Maria Berger, Helen Cunningham, Leota Nevil and Eleanor Rhodes.
past

Charles E. Hippensteel, of Light Street, for twentyfour years an employe at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, has been placed on the retirement list. Dr. Lester K. Ade, State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
has announced. The esteemed Light Street resident is
among the twenty-one teachers and employes in educational institutions to go on retirement this year.
Dean of
Instruction W. B. Sutliff of the Teachers College, is the
other local man to be retired.

Jack Eble, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Naomi Edmunds, of Nanticoke, were married at noon on Saturday,
June 12, in Pittman M. E. Church, Philadelphia, by the
Rev. Willard F. Edmunds, a cousin of the bride.
The bride is a graduate of Nanticoke High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has been a
teacher in Hunlock Township School District for several
years.

Mr. Eble was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School and attended the Teachers College. He is employed at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Danville.

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ENROLL FOR POST SESSION

Over 102 students settled down for another three
weeks of summer study at the post session of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Classes were held only in the morning from 8 :0C
o’clock until 12:00. Courses were offered to teachers m
service qualifying for advanced state certification, the Degree of Bachelor of Science in education and the permanent college certificate.
The courses were as follow Literature, S. L. Wilson
arithmetic, Howard F. Fenstemaker; hygiene, Dr. E. H.
Nelson; mental tests, John J. Fisher; economics and sociology, E. A. Reams; American government, Dr. Nell
Maupin; chemistry, S. I. Shortess; geography, Dr. H.
Harrison Russell business mathematics II or III, William
C. Forney; English, Miss Alice Johnston; Junior-Senior
High School, John C. Koch.
Altogether, 102 students from various sessions of the
state matriculated for the post session at the College. The
list of matriculants follows: Mary A. Allen, Oxford
Dominick Angelo, Lattimer Mines
Eleanor Apichell, Kulpmont; Frances A. Austin, Luzerne; Joseph Baraniak,
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Pauline Burrows, Jersey Shore; Byron
Beaver, Aristes; Louis R. Bertoldi, Weston; Margaret
Besecker, Kingston; Donald Blackburn, Wanamie; Mary
A. Boyle, Beaver Meadow Sylvia Conway, Shamokin
Jane Darrow, Kingston; Honora M. Dennen, Danville, R.
D. 3 Sara Ellen Dersham, Mifflinburg; Helen A. Dixon,
West Hazleton; Florence L. Dunn, Jermyn; Clara E.
Fahringer, Catawissa R. D. 1 Morgan E. Foose, Sugarloaf Ruth Fowler, Danville R. D. 3; Vera Gambel, Old
Forge; Doretta George, Berwick; Adam F. Garlak; Dupont; Irene M. Giger, Bloomsburg R. D. 2; Charles Glass,
Freeburg.
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Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek Robert T. Heckenluber, Arendtsville Norman C. Henry, Berwick; Hattie
W. Hess, Alderson, Edythe B. Hortman, Berwick Bessie
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Keener, Danville
Alfred Keibler, Kingston Blanche
Kostenbauder, Bloomsburg; Joseph Kundla, Dupont;
Mary C. Kutz, Glen Lyon; Nellie K. Lack, Harrisburg;
Mary Langan, Pittston Ruth Langan, Duryea Walter F.
Lash, Duryea; Lois Laubach, Sugarloaf; Vance Laubach,
Berwick Katie Levan, Bloomsburg Robert C. Lewis,
Danville R. D. 3 Pauline M. Long, Briar Creek; H. Grant
Lunger, Lairdsville Anthony Lukereski, Luzerne Robert
Luzerne; Helen M. McGrew, Mahanoy
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Margaret J. Magill, Sugarloaf; Elma L. Major, DalMartha F. Marr, Berwick Mildred Martin, Jermyn
Cyril F. Menges,
Calvin W. Menges, Watsontown R. D.
Watsontown; Glenn F. Menges, Mt. Carmel; Gertrude S.
Miller, Bloomsburg; Rosemary A. Mitchell, Pittston; Jean
W. Moss, Plymouth Grace Mumay, Hazleton; William T.
William Pietruszak, Mocanaqua;
Pelak, Edwardsville
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City; Harold Roche, Old Forge; Lewis W. Roueold, Watsontown Margaret M. Ruddy, Scranton Rose Saluda, Mt.
Carmel; John S. Sandel, Winfield; Adam Schlauch, Nuremberg; Alice B. Schriber, Allentown; Helen W. Shank,
Kingston Vera F. Sheridan, Nanticoke Eleanor M. Shiffka, Glen Lyon.
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Philip L. Snyder, BloomsAlice L. Snyder, Shamokin
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Warrior Run; Martha Taylor, Bloomsburg; Laura Thomas, Bloomsburg R. D. 4 Hilda Tinney, Berwick; William
F. Trimble, Lee Park; Charlotte E. Trommetter, Gordon;
Mabel L. Troy, Nuremberg; Marjorie Vanderslice,
Bloomsburg Dorothy E. Ward, Lake Ariel; Miriam E.
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Welliver, Danville; Chester F. Wojcik, Wilkes-Barre;
Robert L. Yerger, Mt. Pleasant Mills; Mary Zehner,
Bloomsburg; Louise A. Zondlo, Dupont; Mary Lou EnterOlga Mecolick, Simpson; Ethel Race,
line, Turbotville
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Catherine Reppert, of Espy, has been teaching for
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AWARDED DEGREES
Five students from this section, including two from
Bloomsburg, received degrees of Bachelor of Science at
the Post

Summer

Session held

at the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College.
At the same time, four students, including one from
Danville R. D. 4, received State Standard Limited Certificates at the end of the session.
Those receiving degrees were Edythe B. Hortman,
300 East Eleventh Street, Berwick Gertrude S. Miller,
708 Poplar Street, and Martha M. Taylor, 40 East Third
Street, both of Bloomsburg; Miriam Edith Welliver, 14
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Street, Danville; Violetta Rupert, Aristes.

Standard certificates were awarded to: Vera Gambel, Old Forge Helen May Hartman, Danville R. D. 4;
Charlotte E. Trommeter, Gordon; Mabel L. Troy, Nurem;

berg.

Miss Alda Cotner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Cotner, Washingtonville, became the bride of Harold Arner, of Milton, at a wedding ceremony performed by the
Rev. S. R. Frost at the Washingtonville Lutheran Church
Saturday, July 31. The ring ceremony was used.
The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has been employed as teacher at the DeLong Memorial High School, Washingtonville, since 1931.
The groom is employed at the Susquehanna silk mill, Milton.

Mr. and Mrs. Aimer are

now

living in

Washington-

ville.

Pennsylvania Elks, marching in Lancaster, elected
Grover C. Shoemaker, of the Bloomsburg Lodge, as president of the Pennsylvania Elks’ Association. Edward D.
Smith, Lewistown, was named vice-president, and Charles
V. Hogan, Pottsville, was elected to the Board of TrusMr. Shoemaker was vice-president of the Associatees.
tion last year.

Mr. Shoemaker is .also a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

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NEW MEMBERS

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FACULTY
Herbert E. McMahan, supervisor of commercial education of Wilmington, Delaware High School, has been
named to the faculty of the commercial department of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Dr. Francis B. Haas,
president of the College announced.
Harvey A. Andruss, head of the Department of Commerce, since a commercial department was installed at
the local institution, was named dean of instruction some
months ago, succeeding Dean William B. Sutliff, retired.
William C. Forney, a member of the faculty for some
years, succeeded Mr. Andruss as head of the commercial
department.

The new member of the faculty is a graduate of Morton High School, Richmond, Ind., 1921 received his Bachelor of Science degree from Temple University, Philadelphia, 1926 attended the School of Education, Penn State,
from 1926 to 1930 was awarded his degree of Master of
Education at Temple University in 1930.
Mr. McMahan, married and the father of two children, had been supervisor of commercial education at
Wilmington High School since 1935.
He served as head of the commercial department, Altoona Senior High School, during the year of 1927-28;
was head of the commercial departments of Central and
Congress High Schools, Bridgeport, Conn, 1930; head of
the commercial department, Wilson High School from
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Norman Birss Curtis, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
named to the faculty of the Department of Commerce in
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The appointment was announced by Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of
the College.
Mr. Curtis has a wide experience record that embraces fifteen years of teaching, eight in Iowa and seven
Holder of a College certificate in this
in Pennsylvania.
State, he is qualified to teach shorthand, typewriting,
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Mr. Curtis received the Degree of Master of EducaPreviously he comtion at the University of Pittsburgh.
pleted work for his Degree of Bachelor of Arts at Iowa
State Teachers College. Since receiving the master’s degree, he has studied in addition at the University of Iowa,
University of Southern California, and the University of
Pittsburgh.
After serving as head of the commercial departments in numerous school systems in Iowa, he became a
member of the faculty at Westinghouse and Peabody
High Schools in Pittsburgh. His service record also includes membership on the faculty and summer lecturer at
Mid-Western College.
He is a member of the Tri-State Commercial Education Association and is a past vice president of the group,
made up of members from Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Ohio. He is also a member of the Eastern Commercial Teachers Association and a Phi Delta Kappa, national
education fraternity.

At 11 :00 o’clock Saturday morning, June 20, in the
Christian Church at Millville, Miss Helen Piatt, of Millville, became the bride of Truman R. Greenly.
Rev. M. S. Rogers, pastor of the Christian Church at
Bloomsburg, performed the beautiful and impressive ring
ceremony in the presence of a number of relatives and
friends.

Mrs. Greenly is a graduate of Millville High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has taught in
the Millville schools for three years.
Mr. Greenly graduated from the Jerseytown High
School and is employed by the State Highway Depart-

ment.

There were 310 pupils enrolled in the Ben Franklin
Training School at the College for the Summer Session.
Grades one to eight inclusive were conducted at the College during the summer. The enrollment by grades follows First, 39 second, 44 third, 40 fourth, 43 fifth,
34 sixth, 42 seventh, 38 eighth, 20 and special class, 10.
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DEAN ANDRUSS AUTHOR OF
COLLEGE TEXT
The South-Western Publishing Company, of Cincinannounced for publication September 15, a

nati, Ohio,

new books

for commercial teachers, entitled “Ways to
Teach Bookkeeping and Accounting.” The author is Dean
Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers

College faculty.

Following the publication of fifteen magazine artiand three monographs, Professor Andruss has written a book which is the first one on the American market
seeking to help the teacher of bookkeeping and accounting in high school, college and university to do a better
professional job of teaching a subject which was offered
under the name of “casting accounts” by a Mr. Morton to
the children of Plymouth Colony in 1635.
An idea of the contents of “Ways to Teach Bookkeeping and Accounting” may be gained by examining
the chapter headings A Short History of Bookkeeping,
Aims of Bookkeeping Instruction, The Evaculation of
Bookkeeping, Equipment for Teaching a Course in Bookkeeping, Bookkeeping in the Commercial Curriculum,
The Bookkeeping Cycle, The Managerial Orders of Presentation, Record-Keeping Orders of Presentation, Teaching Classification of Accounts, Teaching Adjusting Entries, Methods of Closing Books, Practice Set Presentation,
Teaching Business Papers and Procedures, Record-Keeping for All High School Students, Problem-Point Tests in
Bookkeeping Contest Examinations, Suggested Contest
Examinations, Suggested Course of Study in Bookkeeping
and Bibliography.
The book is based on eight years of intensive effort
with large groups of high school and college students in
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Oklahoma. The writer realized the need for such a book on how bookkeeping should
be taught most effectively while teaching in the State
Teachers College, Indiana, and Northwestern University
Since coming to
School of Commerce, Chicago, 111.
Bloomsburg as director of the department of commerce
Dean Andruss has spent seven years in perfecting material for the book which is to be distributed by the largest
firm of commercial textbook printers in the United States.
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15

BEGINS

Another College year opened Tuesday, September 7,
a group of Freshmen arrived at Bloomsburg to take
their entrance examinations. This was the beginning of a
series of activities arranged for the Freshmen, with the
idea of helping them to adjust themselves to their new environment. For two days they had the campus very much

when

to themselves, as the majority of the upper-classmen did
not arrive on the scene until Thursday, September 9. Certain of the upper-classmen came on Tuesday, to help
handle the program of activities. These were the officers

of various student organizations which were responsible
for one or more of the scheduled events.
Arrangements for Freshman Week were under the
direction of Dr. Thomas P. North. In order that graduates
of Bloomsburg may see for themselves that the opening
days of the semester were busy ones, the following program of events is being published
:

Tuesday, September 7, 1937
8:45 Freshman Examinations, Room 34, Science Hall.
12:05
All Freshmen taking the written examinations
were invited to lunch as guests of the College.
Written examinations continued.
1 :00
Regular Dinner for Freshmen living in the Dormi6 :00

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—
—

tories.

Wednesday, September 8, 1937
Enrollment of Freshmen in Gymnasium.

—
Dormitory Students Only.
— ——Enrollment
continued
the Gymnasium.
Freshmen
Auditorium — Doctor
Meeting
—
Freshman Week
charge
preNorth,
Announcements — presentation
AdminA. and Y. M.
Officers and Y. W.
A.

8:45 to 12:00
12:05 Lunch
1 :00 to 3 :00
3 :00

in

of all

in

siding.
istrative
Officers,
M. C. A.
5 :30 to 9 :00

in

of

Activities,

of

who

C.
extend invitation for Y.

C.

W.

C. A.

and Y.

Programs.

Program, College
— Dinnerpresiding
— followed

Dining Room,
North
by Gymnasium
Program in charge of Community Government AssoGuests include all Freshmen, Student Officiation.
cers of Waller Hall Women, Day Women, North Hall
Men, Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A.

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9 :00 to

10:00

— Waller

Hall and North Hall at

Home

Hour

for Dormitory Students only. Arrangements in
charge of Dean Kehr and Dean Koch.

Thursday, September 9, 1937
10:30 Meeting of all Freshmen in Auditorium Doctor
North presiding Announcements include information concerning election of Freshmen Officers, requirements for participation in Extra-Curricular Activities, and requirements of Uniform Accounting
System.
12 :05
Regular Lunch for Dormitory Students.
Open House, followed by Meetings with Deans
3 :00
and Assistant Deans immediately responsible, as follows:
Waller Hall Women, Recreation Room No.
319, Day Women in Noetling Hall, Day Women’s
Room; North Hall Men in North Hall Lobby; Day
Men in Day Men’s Room, Basement of North Hall.
Friday, September 10, 1937
Regular College Schedule Begins.
Saturday, September 11, 1937
2:00
Program for Women by “B” Club.
Trustee, Faculty, C. G. A. Party for Freshmen in
8 :00
Auditorium, followed by Reception and Dance in

—

—

—

—
—

—

—
—

Gymnasium.
Sunday, September 12, 1937
W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. preSunday afternoon program in the
Auditorium.
The Dean of Women and her assistants in4 :00 to 5 :00
vited the parents of women students to an Open
House in Waller Hall Dormitory.

—

The Y.
3 :00 to 4 :00
sented a special

—

DR. D.

J.

WALLER,

Jr.

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., of Bloomsburg’s venerable residents, June 17 celebrated his ninety-first birthday and left
for his summer home at Windermere, Ont., where he has
spent the last thirty-four summers.
Dr. Waller, despite his age, enjoys daily walks that
frequently extend to several miles.
As President Emeritus of the Teachers College and a
former State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he has
maintained his keen interest in educational affairs.

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COLLEGE CALENDAR
A full calendar of social, cultural and athletic events
has been prepared for the student body and faculty.
The calendar is as follows:
September

— Reception and dance. Church
Monday 13 — General customs
Tuesday
— Church Board
Friday 17 — Meeting
Saturday 18 — “B” Club Camp.
Wednesday 22 —Stunt Day.
Thursday 23 — Pajama Parade.
Tuesday 28 — Meeting
Executive Committee
Trustees.
Saturday

11

begin.
receptions.
of
of Presidents.

14

receptions.

of

of

Board

of

October

— Football,
away.
Wednesday — General customs end 12
M.
Friday — U.
Navy Band.
Saturday — Football, Indiana, here. Junior Chamber
Commerce Dance.
Friday 15 — Frosh Kid Party.
Saturday 16 — Football, Mansfield, away.
Wednesday 20 — Nomination
Freshman
Friday 22 — Pomona Grange.
Saturday 23 — Football. Lock Haven, here. Homecoming.
Tuesday 26 — Meeting of Board of Trustees.
Wednesday 27 — Election
Freshman
Friday 29 — Cleveland
Grant, Chapel.
Saturday 30 — Football, Shippensburg, away. Hallowe’en
Saturday 2

Millersville,

6

8

:00

S.

9

of

of

Officers.

of

Officers.

P.

Dinner and Dance.

November

—Edwin Strawbridge and Lisa Parnova, DancSaturday — Football, Susquehanna, here.
Saturday 13 — Football,
Stroudsburg, here. Rural Education Day.
Friday 19 — Columbia County
Meeting
Board
Presidents.
Saturday 20 — Columbia County
Friday 5
ers.

6

E.

Institute.

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Institute.

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— Meeting Executive Committee of Board
Wednesday 24 — Thanksgiving Recess Begins, 12:00 M.
Monday 29 — Thanksgiving Recess Ends, 12
M.
December
Friday — Basketball, Alumni.
Y. W.
A.
Saturday — Winter
Wednesday — Basketball, Susquehanna, away.
Thursday 16 — Tony Sarg. Christmas entertainment.
Friday 17 — Basketball, Susquehanna, here, 8:00
M.
Saturday 18 — Annual Christmas Party for Crippled
Children. Senior Informal Dance.
Wednesday 22 — Christmas Recess begins 12
M.
January
M.
Tuesday 4 — Christmas Recess Ends, 12
Friday — George Beale. An evening with the
Saturday — Basketball, Lock Haven, here.
students completing
Wednesday 12 — Special Chapel
Semester.
work
M.
Thursday 13 — Basketball, Mansfield, here, 8:00
Friday 14 —End
Semester, after
Tuesday 18 — Second Semester begins 12:00 M.
the
Friday 21 — Basketball, Mansfield, away. Meeting
Tuesday 23

of

of Trustees.

:00

3

4

Festival,

C.

8

P.

:00

:00

7

circus.

8

for

at close of First

P.
last class.

of First

of

Board of Presidents.
Saturday 22 Mid-Year C. G. A. Dance.
Tuesday 25 Meeting of Executive Committee of Board

—
—

of Trustees.

Wednesday 26

—Nominations

to

fill

vacancies in class

offices.

——
February
Wednesday — Obiter nominations. Election
vacancies
Friday — Basketball, West Chester,
8:00
M.
Stroudsburg,
8:00
M.
Saturday — Basketball,
Wednesday — Obiter
— Basketball, Lock Haven, away. Organ
Friday
Saturday 12 — Basketball, Indiana, away.
here (afternoon).
Friday 18 — Basketball,
Saturday 19 — Sophomore
Friday 28 Basketball, Shippensburg, away.
Saturday 29 Basketball, Millersville, away.
2

to

fill

in class offices.

4

5

9

E.
Elections.

11

here,
here,

P.

P.

recital.

Millersville,
Cotillion.

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—
—
—
—

21
Nomination of Maroon and Gold officers.
(Council). No-Yong Park, Chapel.
Tuesday 22 Meeting of Board of Trustees.
Friday 25
Basketball, Shippensburg, here.
Saturday 26 Basketball, East Stroudsburg, away.

Monday

March

Wednesday

2

— Maroon and Gold

Election.

—
—
—
—
noon and evening.
Monday 14 —Eagle Plume, Chapel.
Friday 18 — High School Basketball Tournament, evening.
Meeting of Board
Presidents.
Saturday 19 — High School Basketball Tournament, evenTuesday 22 — Meeting
Executive Committee
Board
Trustees.
Friday 25 — Milton Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday 26 — Freshman Hop.
April
Friday — High School Play Tournament, afternoon and
evening.
Saturday — High School Play Tournament, afternoon.
Junior Chamber
Commerce Banquet.
Tuesday — Faculty Banquet.
Friday — Musical Clubs Concert and Dance.
Monday — Waller Hall Room Drawing begins. Track
Stroudsburg, away. Nomination
Friday 4 Earle Spicer, Baritone.
Saturday 5 Inter-Fraternal Ball.
Thursday 10 Kiwanis-Rotary-College Evening.
Saturday 12 High School Basketball Tournament, after-

of

ing.

of

of

of

1

2

of

5

8

11

East

of C. G. A. OfC. G. A. Council.
Wednesday 13 Nomination of class officers and Council
Representatives Sophomore, Junior and Senior.
ficers

by

—
—
Thursday 14 —Easter Recess begins
Monday 25 —Easter Recess ends, 12
M.
Executive Committee
Tuesday 26 — Meeting
Board
Trustees.
Class
Wednesday 27 — Election
and Council
Representatives. Election
G. A.
Friday 29 — He-She Party. Penn Relays.
Saturday 30 — Commercial Contest,
A (A. M.). Penn
Relays.
after last class.
:00

of

of

of

of

Officers
of C.
Officers.
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May

—
of new
G. A.
Chapel.
Shippensburg, here.
——Track,
Commercial Contest,
B (A. M.).
High School Field and Track Meet.
Monday —Waller Hall Room Drawings End. May Day
Dress Rehearsal.
Tuesday 10 — Track, Susquehanna, away.
Wednesday 11 — May Day.
Friday 13 — Junior Promenade.
Saturday 14 — State Track Meet. Athletic Banquet.
Thursday 19 — Senior Banquet.
Friday 20 — Class work ends after
Senior
Meeting
Board
Presidents.
Saturday 21 — Alumni Day.
Sunday 22 — Baccalaureate Day.
Monday 23 — Senior Day.
Tuesday 24 — Commencement. Meeting
the Board
Monday

2
Tuesday 3
Saturday 7

Installation

Officers,

C.

class

Inter-

9

of

last class.

Ball.

of

of

of

Trustees.

NEW

BUILDINGS AT BLOOMSBURG

Final approval has been secured for the erection of a
group of new buildings on the Bloomsburg campus. These
will include a new gymnasium with a swimming pool, a
new boys’ dormitory, a Junior High School building, and
a new maintenance building. The plans also include an

addition to the power plant. The dormitory and gymwill be built east of the Benjamin Franklin Training School, and will face on Second Street. The Junior
High School building will be built on the east end of what
is now Mt.
Olympus athletic field. The maintenance
building will replace the barn, an old landmark. The new
football field will be laid out where the new athletic field
is now located. Football games were held on the new field
last year, but the gridiron will now be placed with the
goals at the east and west ends, instead of running north
and south, as is the case at the present time.
The cost of the new buildings will exceed $500,000.
The project has been made possible by Federal funds. A
recent announcement stated that construction would begin in December. It is hoped that the buildings will be
ready for use next Fall.

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CHARLES

MRS.

H.

2

ALBERT

After a lengthy illness, Mrs. Anna K. Albert, wife of
Prof. C. H. Albert, for many years an instructor at the local State Teachers College, died at her home, 146 Market
Street, at 1 :20 o’clock, Sunday, June 27.
She was the daughter of George and Mary Ann Bell,
of Leitersburg, Md., was born May 8, 1857, and was in
her eighty-first year. She was a sister of the late Rev.
Ezra K. Bell, R. D., prominent Lutheran clergyman of
Baltimore, and of the late Mary E. Bell, for many years
an employe in the business office of the Teachers College.
She was the last survivor of a family of nine children.
On July 6, she and Prof. Albert, would have been
married fifty-six years. Mrs. Albert was a life-long member of the Lutheran Church and lived a devout Christian
Many of her acts of kindness and charity will never
life.
be known.
Mrs. Albert is survived by her husband and the following children: Keller B. Albert, Reading; Mrs. Jesse Y.
Glenn, Berwick Charles L. Albert, Wilkes-Barre R.
Bruce Albert, Bloomsburg and Mrs. Dallas C. Baer, Selinsgrove. Also surviving are four grandchildren, Charles
L. Albert, Jr., Mary Elizabeth Albert, Mary Annabell and
Ruth Adele Baer.
Funeral services, in charge of the Rev. L. L. Bomboy,
assisted by Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., were held at the Dyke
Funeral Home Tuesday, June 29 at 2:30, with burial in
;

New Rosemont

;

Cemeteiy.

Francis Johnson, varsity football player at Bloomsburg last year, and Miss Ruth John, both of Mt. Carmel,
were married during the summer at Elkton, Md.
Mr.
Johnson is at the present time employed at the Alaska
Colliery.

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MISS

WALLER

IN

EGYPT

Fears for the safety of Miss Margaret Waller, of
Bloomsburg, who was reported to be in Peiping during
the time when that city was the target for Japanese machine guns, were unfounded, according to information received in Bloomsburg by relatives.
At the time when the State Department issued lists
of persons believed to be in danger in the beleaguered
city, Miss Waller was in Shanghai, then beyond the danger zone. Apprehension concerning her safety arose because of the fact that she had not been heard from for
about a month.
A letter sent later by her to her family, then vacationing in Canada, revealed the fact that, she had left Peiping before the military action between Chinese and Japanese troops endangered the city. At this writing Miss
Waller expected to sail from Shanghai shortly.
After ten days’ silence, she was again heard from in
Colombo, Ceylon. She reported that the ship on which
she had expected to sail from Shanghai had taken off a
day eariler than scheduled and her departure had been
delayed.

From Colombo she went to Bombay,
visited Mrs.

Grace Holt,

sister of Mrs.

India,

where she

Robert Waller, and

formerly of Texas. Mrs. Holt is now living in Bombay.
Miss Waller’s latest letter was mailed from Bombay,
stating that she intended to fly from there to Egypt.
Miss Waller, who is the daughter of Dr. D. J. Waller,
Jr., is expected home this Fall, although no definite date
has been set for her return.
She has been serving for six years as librarian at the
Yen Ching University, and has been issued a long term
ncrmit for residence in China. Her work there has come
to the conclusion of the second three-year period and she
is returning home by a round-about route, visiting many
of the places which she has been eager to see.

Miss J. Marie King, of West Pittston, and Oren L.
Harris, of Portland, Maine, were married Saturday, July
17
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CHILDREN ENJOY PROGRAM
Two hundred and sixty-five children romped through
an exciting program of games and entertainment on Wednesday morning, July 28, at the picnic which was the closing feature of the Bloomsburg Training School Summer
Session.

Motion pictures in the College auditorium opened
the program. From there the youngsters went to the
playground where a full schedule of games awaited them.
There were games for the different grades in charge of
the individual teachers.
Baseball was played by the classes from the third to
eighth year. A tennis tournament, singing games, dodgeball and a peanut hunt in the grove were also features of
the entertainment. The swings and apparatus on the
grounds claimed the attention of a large number.
The Catawissa Band, with a number of martial selections, added to the fun.
A picnic lunch was served, with
ice cream, cake and lemonade provided by the College.
Prof. Earl N. Rhodes, director of the Training School,
had charge of arrangements for the occasion.

The faculty of Bloomsburg State Teachers College
co-operating with the Un-employment Compensation
Board of Review in constructing Civil Service Exams
which will be given to employes of the Social Security division of the Department of Labor and Industry at Harrisburg.
Under the direction of Dean Harvey A. Andruss, a
number of the faculty have compiled material. Among
them are Dean W. B. Sutliff, Professor William C. Forney
and Miss Margaret Hoke.
These examinations are among the group to be given
over 100,000 applicants early in September to qualify
Civil Service employes for all divisions by January i,
1938.
is

Miss Katherine Cadow, of Bloomsburg, was a member of the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin Training
School during the recent Summer Session.

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DR.

KLONOWER SPEAKS AT COLLEGE

Henry Klonower,
Department

director, teacher education and
of Public Instruction, speaking
at the convocation at the State Teachers College Summer
Session, discussed “The Pennsylvania Teacher Looks

Dr.

certification,

Ahead.”

He commented upon the great professional progress
made by Pennsylvania teachers in the past seventeen
years, since the passage of the Edmonds Act, and the opportunities and responsibilities for the future resulting
from the many laws affecting education passed at the re-

cent session of the Legislature.
Dr. Klonower was entertained at luncheon by the
following group of resident faculty members and administration officers Dr. Francis B. Haas, Dean Harvey A.
:

Andruss, Dean Irma Ward,
Maude C. Kline, Miss Edna
Miss Marguerite Murphy,
Rhodes, C. M. Hausknecht,

Dean W.

Dean John C. Koch, Miss
Barnes, Miss Amanda Kern,
Miss Bertha Rich, Earl N.
N. T. Englehart and former

B. Sutliff.

John S. Sandel, of Winfield, has been elected teacher
of reading and art in the West Beaver Township school
at McClure, one of the few consolidated schools in Pennsylvania to use the departmental plan of teaching.
Joseph A. Grave, a teacher in the Scranton Memorial
High School and a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, received his degree of Master of Arts
at Bucknell University at the close of the 1936 Summer
Session.

James Boylan, of Locust Gap, a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Miss Genevieve Dobson,
of Lavelle, were married in August in the St. Mauritius
Church in Ashland, with the Rev. Albert Sutter officiating.

Miss Ruth Iona Davies, of Luzerne, and J. Richard
Lonsinger, of Philadelphia, were married at Luzerne, on
Friday, September 3.

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DEAN ANDRUSS ADDRESSES MEETING
At the September meeting of the Pennsylvania Business Educators’ Association in Harrisburg, Dean Harvey
A. Andruss, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, addressed the group on the “Progressive Requirements For the
Certification of Commercial Teachers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” Professor Andruss was secretary of the Advisory Committee on Certification in 1931
when the present requirements were last revised.
Other speakers will be from the State Department of
Public Instruction, the high schools of Lancaster, Altoona,
and York and the State Teachers College at Indiana, Pa.

The marriage of Miss Beatrice Hartman and Merl
Harrington, which took place on November 30, 1933, at
York, has been announced. The Rev. J. Merrill Williams,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of York, officiated.

Mrs. Harrington is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest C. Hartman, Benton, and is a graduate of the Benton High School, and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She taught for the past seven years in the Sugarloaf
school.

Mr. Harrington is the son of Frank Harrington, Benand is a graduate of Sugarloaf High School. He is
the owner of the largest apiaries in this part of the State.

ton,

Two

graduates of Bloomsburg State Teachers Coltheir Master of Arts Degree at Summer
Commencement at Bucknell University at Lewisburg on
Friday morning.
They are Joseph Grady, of Plains, who is a teacher
lege received

of mathematics and history in Memorial High School,
Plains, and Philip G. Keil, of Plains, who is faculty athletic director at Memorial High School and teaches history
and problems of democracy. The latter was a member of
the B. S. T. C. football team while attending school here.

Miss Emily V. Zydanowicz, of Glen Lyon, a graduate
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was married to Dr.
Bernard A. Snesavage, of Tow'er City, Wednesday Augof

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MARRIED AT EAST STROUDSBURG
Miss Lois Ivey, of Rupert, and George Davis, of Mt.
Carmel, were married Saturday, June 19 at noon in a
beautiful wedding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E.
Gruver, of East Stroudsburg, uncle and aunt of the bride.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Frank
Blatt, pastor of the Reformed Church of Stroudsburg.
The bride was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has
been a teacher in the Montour Township schools.
The groom was graduated from the Mt. Carmel High
School, East Stroudsburg State Teachers College and is
physical education director in Mt. Carmel High School.
Miss Helen R. Becker, of Bethlehem, a graduate of
the Bloomsburg State Normal School, has been engaged
to teach in the Antioch School, a private school associated
with Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Before an arch of pink and white laurel extending
across the front of the church, Miss F. Beatrice Waples, of
Espy, was married to Leroy W. Creasy, also of Espy, on
Saturday, June 19, in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Officiating were the Rev. C. F. Johnstone, M. E.
Church, and the Rev. John J. Weikel, Lutheran Church,
Espy.

The bride is a graduate of the Scott Township High
School and the bridegroom, of Bloomsburg High School.
Both were graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. They will reside on Berwick Road, near Espy.
The groom has been employed in the law office of A. W.

Duy

for

some

years.

Miss Elizabeth K. Marchetti, of Zions Grove, and
William Dagostin, of Sugarloaf, were married Saturday,
September 4, in St. Joseph’s Church in Nuremberg. The
bride has been teaching for several years in the Nuremberg schools. The groom is associated with his brother in
the Mountain View Dairy. They will live in their newlyfurnished

home

Liva Baker

in Seybertsville.
is

teaching in Mainville, Pa.

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Alumni are earnestly requested

to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson
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

Many

address.

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Mr. R. Bruce Albert, ’06
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., ’67

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

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

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Northumberland County
John R. Boyer, Herndon
Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont
Miss Ethel Fowler, Watsontown
S. Curtis Yocum, Shamokin

President

Mrs.

Luzerne County

Mary Emanuel Brown, Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.

Union County
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Helen Keller, Mifflinburg
Margaret Lodge
Louis Pursey

Ruth Fairchild

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Wyoming-Susquehanna Counties
President
First Vice-President
Second Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock
Stewart Button, Susquehanna
Fred Kester, Mill City
Mrs. Susan Sturman, Tunkhannock

Lena

Hillis

March, Tunkhannock

Montour County
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Harriet Fry, Danville
Pierce Reed, Danville, R. D. 5.
Alice Smull, Danville
Ralph McCracken, Riverside

Philadelphia

Mrs. Norman G. Cool
Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley

President
Secretary and Treasurer

1888

William Lowenberg, of Bloomsburg, has returned
from a trip to Europe, where he went this summer, accompanied by his daughter. At a recent meeting of Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club he gave a fine description of some of
the places visited by him during his trip.
1895
C. R. Stecker, sixty-five,

esteemed Bloomsburg

resi-

dent and for thirty-five years an active merchant there,
took his life by firing a .32 calibre bullet into his right
temple.
The lifeless body was found in the bedroom of his
apartment on the second floor of the Stecker-Hartman
building, West Main Street, just below Market.
A nervous ailment, from which he had been suffering
since April first, but from which he was apparently well
on his way to recovery, and loneliness, the latter indicated
in a message found on the bureau in the bed room, are believed by the family to have been the cause of the act.
Word of his death came as a profound shock to the
family and to his wide field of friends and acquaintances
He had been in the grocery store,
in this entire region.
purchased by his son, Earl, about a year and a half ago,
during the lunch hour and had attended the motion pictures in the afternoon.

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A native of Buckhorn, Mr. Stecker as a youth walked from the homestead farm to Bloomsburg and back
each day while attending the Bloomsburg Normal School
from which he graduated in 1895. For several years he
taught school in Hemlock Township.
He came to Bloomsburg in 1900 and opened a grocery store in the H. B. Correll building, West Main Street.
Two years later he moved his business across the street to
the present location of the business now owned bv his son,
Earl.

At that time he entered partnership with J. Warner
and the two operated the business for some years

Mifflin

and then Mr. Stecker purchased his partner’s interest.
Around 1916 he and the late Kimber Hartman purchased
the three-story building in which the business was located.

Mr. Stecker was thrice married, his wives preceding
The third Mrs. Stecker, Nellie Deighmiller,
’08, passed away in early Fall of 1935 and shortly after
Mr. Stecker disposed of his business to his son and re-

him

in death.

tired.

He was a member of Washington Lodge F. & A. M.,
the various bodies of Caldwell Consistory and the Men’s
Bible Class of the Presbyterian Church.
1898
Harlan R. Snyder, for nineteen years supervising
principal of the Catawissa High School, died of uremic
poisoning in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., following an operation.
Mr. Snyder was also supervising principal of West
Berwick High School for sixteen years.
His survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lois Snyder, of
Catawissa, and a brother, Daniel J. Snyder, Bradford.
Mr. Snyder was a native of Hickory Corners, Northumberland County, and graduated from the public
schools and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
He spent three terms in the Dalmatia Summer
1898.
School. After graduating from the Teachers College, he
taught two years in Upper Mahanoy Township and one in
Scott Township.
In 1901 he was elected teacher in West Berwick,
then a part of Briar Creek Township. The district then

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had an enrollment of 121 pupils. In 1902 West Berwick
borough was incorporated and he was elected principal.
During the tremendous growth of that borough in a
few years, he continued to head the schools and had much
to do with the plans and construction of the Orchard
Street, Ferris Heights and Fairview Avenue schools, the
Ferris Heights building for years being used as the high
school.
Enrollment in the schools increased to beyond the
1,200 mark during his tenure. He taught history and civics in the Benton Summer School for four sessions.
He took graduate work at Penn State, University of
Michigan and Columbia University, and was graduated
from Susquehanna and Bucknell Universities.
In 1918 he was elected supervising principal in Catawissa, a position in which he continued at the time of his
death, although his health was such that he was compelled to relinquish active teaching a year ago. Since that
time he had undergone hospitalization several times.
He was several times mentioned as a candidate for
county superintendent of schools.
In West Berwick he was active in Democratic politics
and served both as assessor and auditor for some years.
He was a member of Washington Lodge, F. & A. M.
Royal Arch Chapter, Caldwell Consistory, Crusade Commandery, Irem Temple; Berwick Lodge of Odd Fellows
and the P. O. S. of A. He served as an officer of the
County Teachers Association for several years.

Eunice Spear

is

1902
teaching in Bethlehem.

S. Welsh, of Rochester, New York, died at his
Friday, September 10. Mr. Welsh was the son of
the late Dr. Judson Perry Welsh, former principal of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School. At the time of his death
he was a vice-president of the New York Central Railroad
Company, and superintendent of the Merchants’ Dispatch
Department of the New York Central, with offices in
Rochester, Buffalo, New York and Chicago.

Fred

home

After graduation from Bloomsburg, Mr. Welsh went
from which institution he was also
graduated. He did post-graduate work at the Pennsyl-

to Lafayette College,

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vania State College during the time that his father was
Dean at that college. He was for some time connected
with the United States Department of Agriculture. He
was connected with the New York Central for many years
previous to his death.
He is survived by his wife and two sons and by his
mother, who makes her home in Pleasantville, N. Y.
Edith Patterson
Lillian

1903
teaching

is

Buckalew

Gertrude Vance

is

1904
teaching

1907
teaching

is

in

East Orange, N.

in

in

J.

Ardmore, Pa.

Atlantic City, N.

1910
Helen Hess (Mrs. Gilbert V. P. Terhune)
“Apple Acres,” Newfoundland, New Jersey.

J.

lives

at

1912
Miss Emily Barrow, of Ringtown, and Arthur Hower,
of Pottsville, were united in marriage at Ringtown Friday,
September 3, by the Rev. A. C. Rohrbach. They are now
living in Pottsville.
Mrs. Womer has been teaching for
several years in the schools of Ringtown.

1913
John Bakeless has been named literary editor of the
Digest, which is a recent merger of the Literary Digest
and Review. Mr. Bakeless was formerly editor of The
Living Age.

1914

Martha Vandersliee
Esther Dreibelbis

is

is

teaching in East Orange, N.

1915
teaching

in Connecticut.

1916

Kathryn Waters
Ruth Dreibelbis
Grace M. Davis

is
is

is

teaching

in

Woodbridge, N.

J.

teaching in Mount Vernon, N. Y.

1917
teaching at Mount Vernon, N. Y.

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1921

Maree Pensyl is teaching in the Brookline Junior
High School.
Ruth Sober is teaching in Doylestown.
Annabelle Sober

is

1923
teaching

in

the East Stroudsburg

Junior High School.
Christine Smith

Helen

Sutliff

is

teaching at Moorestown, N.

J.

has returned to her teaching position at

Harrisburg.

Miss Anna W. Pursel, formerly of Bloomsburg, and
Mr. Harvey Broome, of Knoxville, Pa., were married on
Tuesday, June 29, at Shirley Center, Mass. Mrs. Broome
has for several years been secretary to the Dean of the
School of Education at Harvard University. Mr. Broome,
a graduate of the Harvard Law School, is legal assistant
to the Judge of the Sixth Federal District, at Knoxville.
Miss U. May Benfield and Charles M. Watts, both of
Bethlehem, were married Saturday, August 14, at the

home

mother in Centralia. The officiating
was the Rev. G. W. Faus, of Bloomsburg. Mrs.
Watts has been teaching in the Bethlehem schools and
Mr. Watts is employed by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
of the bride’s

minister

1924
Clara Abbott is teaching in the Independent Rural
School in Union County.

Frances Pensyl

Sarah Birch

is

is

teaching

teaching

in

in Westfield,

N.

J.

Merchantville, N.

J.

1925
Shamokin,
and Clarence Rudy,
M.
Dyer,
Miss Ruth
Danville, were married Saturday morning, September 4,
in a quiet ceremony in the parsonage of the Chestnut
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Shamokin.
The Rev. Edmund J. Symons, pastor of the church,
officiated.

Mrs. Rudy is a graduate of Shamokin High School
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in the Stevens public school, Shamokin, during the past several years.
The bridegroom is employed by a Danville con-

ed as teacher

tractor.

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy are now living at 208 Ferry
Street, Danville.

The marriage

of Miss Pauline Hassler, Wilkes-Barre,

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, to
Daniel Kaufman, of Urban, on August 14th, has been an-

a graduate of the

nounced.
Pearl Poust

is

teaching

Helen Hartzell

is

in

Orangeville, Pa.

teaching at Glenside.

1926
Miss Helen Pursel, of Danville and Dr. Robert A.
Walborn, of Sunbury, were united in marriage Sunday
morning, July 11. The single ring ceremony was performed by the pastor, Dr. George M. Humphreys.
Miss Pursel is a graduate of Danville High School,
class of 1924, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1926, and has been a successful teacher in
the Danville schools, teaching in the first grade of the

Second Ward.
Dr. Walborn was graduated from the Sunbury High
School, class of 1924, and the University of Pittsburgh
Dental School, class of 1931 and is a practicing dentist in

Sunbury.

1928
Catherine Abbott is teaching
Township, Columbia County.

Mildred Breisch
Edith Johnson

Helen Eastman

is

is
is

Charlotte Mears

in

the schools of Center

teaching in Milford, Delaware.

teaching

in Milford,

Delaware.

teaching at Lime Ridge, Pa.
is

teaching in Huntington, Long

Island.

Ray E. Hawkins, for seven years supervising principal of the Galeton, Pa., high school, was elected to teach
chemistry and general science at the Scott Township High
School at Espy.

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Mr. Hawkins, who was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1928, served two years as
coach of athletics at Galeton and teacher of biology and
general science. Later he was promoted to the principalship.
He prepared for college at Newport Township
High School.
Miss Helen Pier Stackhouse, of Bloomsburg, was
married to J. Emery Miller, of Benton, at the Fifteenth
and Dauphin Street Reformed Church, Philadelphia, at
noon on Thursday, June 24. The ring ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev. E. H. Finger.
The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has taught for several years in Millville
High School. The groom was graduated from Bucknell
University. He is now a teacher at Benton. The couple
will reside in Bloomsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Davies, of Sheatown, announced the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to
George P. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Miller, of
Shickshinny. The ceremony was performed on Thursday, July 15, at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Whitney Point, N. Y., by the Rev. Robert Howland. The couple are living in Shickshinny.
The bride is a graduate of

Newport High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and taught in the
Dorrance and Ross Township schools.
Mr. Miller is connected with the Shickshinny post
and is a graduate of the Shickshinny High School.

office

1929
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ketcham, of Weatherly, has announced the marriage of their daughter, Margaret, to
Kenneth Michael, of East Stroudsburg. Mrs. Michael has
been teaching in Palmerton and Mr. Michael is a teacher
in

the schools at Chester.

Miss Grace Shade, Nescopeck borough school teacher
became the bride of Glenn H. Young, of East Second
Street, at New York City Saturday, July 3.
The bride has taught in the Nescopeck school system
for the past few years. The bridegroom is employed in
the drafting department of the A. C. & F. Company.
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Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Helen Wheaton, of Wilkes-Barre, and Robert Swank, of
Brooklyn.
The marriage of Miss Doris Augusta Johnson, the
daughter of Mrs. Nevada Johnson, Mulberry Street, Berwick, to J. Frederick Bower, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Bower, East Seventh Street, Berwick, was performed on
Tuesday, July 20, in Bower Memorial Evangelical Church,
Berwick. Rev. H. M. Buck, pastor of the church, performed the rites, using the ring ceremony of the church.
The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School
and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She has
been teaching in the Berwick schools for the past eight
years. The bridegroom is employed at the Corning Glass
Works, Corning, N. Y.
The marriage of Helen Arlene Ash, of Stillwater, Pa.
and Charles H. Stearns, of Hamilton, New York, was solemnized Saturday afternoon, June 12, in the garden of
the home of the bridegroom’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. William O. Stearns.
Mrs. Stearns

is a graduate of Benton
High School,
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Stearns is
a graduate of Hamilton High School, Colgate University,
and Syracuse School of Forestry. He is now in the National Park Service, and attached to the French Creek, Pa.,
project. Thev are living at 328 Hoskins Place, Reading,

Pa.

Miss Myrtle Hoegg and Eugene Hayes, both of
Weatherly, were married during the month of July. Mrs.
Hayes has been a teacher in the Weatherly schools, and
Mr. Hayes is employed in the planning division of the
State Highway Department.

1930
Thrusabert Schuyler is teaching this year in the high
school at Mechanicsburg, Pa. Miss Schuyler has for the
past three years been a teacher in the Bloomsburg High
School.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Miss Alda E. Culp, of Mifflinburg, and Lee B. Guyer, of
Vicksburg. The ceremony took place Friday, May 28, in
the Methodist Church at Centralia.

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Jasper Fritz
Clair

Hower

is

teaching at Osceola Mills, Pa.

is

supervisor of music at Elkins Park,

Pa.

Haven Fortner has been teaching at Osceola
was graduated from Bloomsburg.

Mills

since he

Lawrence Ford, of Nanticoke, and Miss Anna Marguerite Hall, also of Nanticoke, were married WednesMr. Ford is a teacher in the Nanticoke
day, June 16.
schools.

ior

Arthur McKenzie
High School.

is

1931
teaching

in

the Norristown Jun-

Miss Edith Boyer, a teacher in the Penn Township
became the bride of Percy Miller, of Selinsgrove
on Saturday, July 24, at the Middleburg Evangelical and
Reformed Church.

schools,

Lois C. Hirleman, of Almedia, and H. Marcus Quick,
of Bloomsburg, were married Wednesday, June 23, in the
Evangelical Church at Espy, Pa. The ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev. J. A. Corle.

Miss Helen Altheria Banta, of Luzerne, and the Rev.
Robert Latham Weaver, of New Bedford, Mass., were
married Saturday, June 19.

On Saturday, July 17, in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Conyngham, Pa., Miss Ila Ivey, of Bloomsburg,
and Ivor Robbins, of Shickshinny, were united in marriage.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Oliver
H. Krapf, classmate of both the bride and groom. Mrs.
Robbins has been teaching at Holidaysburg, Pa.
Miss Esther Kile, of Millville, R. D. 2, became the
bride of Kenneth Edwards, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 5, in an
impressive wedding ceremony, performed by the Rev. Elmer C. Kile, of Lordstown, Ohio, a brother of the bride, at
the home of the bride’s parents on Tuesday evening, August 3. The ring ceremony was used.
Miss Kile is a graduate of the Millville High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1931.
For the past six years she has been employed as a teach-

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Orange Township school district.
The bridegroom is a graduate of Orangeville High
School. The couple will reside at the home of the bride’s
er in the

parents.

1930-1931
Miss Mary Elizabeth Kelly, of Edwardsville, and
Robert S. Dew, of Nanticoke, were married Wednesday,
August 11, in the rectory of St. Ignatius Church, Kingston, with the Rev. Eugene Caulfield officiating. Mrs. Dew
has been teaching in the schools of Edwardsville and Mr.
Dew is assistant principal of the Nescopeck schools.

1932
Miss Dorothy Blanche Mordan, of Benton, and John
Donald Evert, of Mt. Pleasant, were married August 26
at Century Lodge at the Arbutus Park Road, with Rev.

George W. Faus officiating.
The bride was graduated from Benton High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The groom attended Mt. Pleasant High School, the
Orangeville Vocational School and the National AutomoLos Angeles, California.
an aviation school in Milwaukee, Wis.

tive School of

He

also attended

Saturday morning, July 10, at the Nescopeck Reformed Church there was solemnized the wedding of Miss
Reta T. Baker, of Nescopeck, and Warren E. Myers, also
The ring ceremony of the Reformed
of Nescopeck.
Church was performed by the pastor, Rev. Walter C.
Beck and the couple were attended by Miss Miriam Eroh,
of Nescopeck, and Keith Walker, of Tamaqua.
The bride is a graduate of Nescopeck High School,
class of 1930, and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
class of 1932, and has since been teaching at Mountain
Grove. Mr. Myers is a graduate of the Nescopeck High
School, class of 1927, and of the Wilkes-Barre Business
College, class of 1928. He is employed by A. J. Sordoni
Construction Company as a secretary.
Miss Lillian Haggerty, of West Chester, became the
bride of Thomas Griffith, Jr., supervising principal of the
Centralia High School, Saturday afternoon, August 7, in
the High Street Friends’ Meeting House, West Chester.
The marriage ceremony was read, according to custom, by an uncle of the bride, E. Wharton Shortlidge, of

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West Grove, Pa. Miss Clara Kirk, Port Carbon, played
the wedding march. The bride was given in marriage by
her father.
Following the ceremony, a reception for members of
the bridal party was held at the bride’s home and then
the couple left for a two-week wedding trip to New
Hampshire. Upon their return they will reside in Centralia.

The bride, who is a registered nurse, is a graduate of
West Chester State Teachers College. Mr. Griffith was
graduated from Mt. Carmel High School and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in the class of 1932.

H.

Edmond Smith

Jean Lewis

Mary

is

is

teaching

teaching

Betterly

is

in

in

Paulsboro, N.

J.

Sonestown, Pa.

teaching

in the schools of

Paxtang,

Pa.

Ruth Wagner

is

teaching

in

Dushore.

Miss Ruth Stine, of Cleveland Township, and Daniel
G. Lindemuth, of Locust Township, were married in the

Paul Reformed Church at Numidia, Tuesday, June 22.
The Rev. A. L. Zechman used the ring ceremony.
The bride was graduated from the Locust Township
High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
For several years she has taught in the Cleveland Town-

St.

ship schools.

The groom, a graduate
School,

is

engaged

in

of Locust Township
his father.

High

farming with

Hester Slusser, of Mifflin Township, Columbia Coun25, to Harold Leiby,
of Center Township, by the Rev. Maurice Kelley, of Cassville.
Mrs. Leiby has been teaching for the past three
years. Mr. Leiby is employed by the Wise Potato Chip
Company, in Berwick.
Miss Edna Mae Derrick and William J. Killian, both
of Sunbury, were married in Emmanuel Lutheran Church
at Pottstown on July 4, it has recently been announced.
Mrs. Killian is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and a teacher in the Sunbury city schools.

ty,

was married Wednesday, August

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1933
teaching at Morrisville, Pa.

Melba Beck attended the summer session at New
York University this year. She was enrolled in a special
social service course. Miss Beck is an investigator for the
Mothers’ Assistance Board.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Miss Catherine Strunk, of Ashland, and Clifford Snyder,
of Eldred Township. This marriage took place Saturday,
April 3.
In an impressive ceremony Thursday, June 17, in
Nescopeck Reformed Church, Miss Anna M. Gearhart, of
East Second Street, Nescopeck, became the bride of Herbert Milton Wise, of Berwick. The ring ceremony of the
church was used by Rev. Walter C. Beck, pastor of the
bride, in the presence of relatives and friends.
The bride is a graduate of Nescopeck High School,
class of 1929, and also of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, and has been a successful teacher for the past
three years, having taught at Beach Haven the past term.
Mr. Wise is a popular and well-known Berwick
young man and is employed at the W. F. Kile furniture
store in Berwick.

Following the ceremony a reception and dinner was

home of the bride’s mother after which the
newly married couple left on a wedding trip to Florida,
where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wise, formerly of
held at the

Berwick.

They are now

living at

611 Butternut Street, Ber-

wick.

1934

Announcement has been made

of the marriage of
Miss Lucille Miller and Mark E. Peifer, both of Mifflinville. Mrs. Peifer, a member of the class of 1935, has been
teaching in the Mt. Pleasant schools. Mr. Peifer is employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Assistance.

Gertrude Tannery has resigned her position at Hop
Bottom, Pa., and has taken a position teaching Junior
High School English in the schools of Bernardsville, N. J.
Miss Gladys M. Wenner, of Berwick, has been elect-

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ed to the teaching staff at Allison Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Miss Wenner will teach Latin in the recently built
Junior-Senior High School and will teach part time in the
fifth grade.
She will also assist the supervisor of music.
Miss Wenner was graduated from Berwick High
School with the class of 1930. She was graduated from
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1934, having
received a degree of bachelor of science in education. She
majored in English and Latin and also studied music.
During the past year Miss Wenner became qualified
to teach in the elementary grades as well as in the high
school.

Dorothy Johnson

is

teaching

James Gennaria is teaching
Township, Columbia County.

Maude Mae Edwards
Alice Kimbel

is

is

in Mainville, Pa.
in

the schools of Center

teaching

in Milton.

teaching at Lime Ridge.

Harriet Sutliff has resigned from her position
Wernersville, and has taken a position at Annville.

Velma Mordan

is

teaching

in

at

the Williamsport Busi-

ness College.

Miss Jean Gardner Henning, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Henning, of West Tioga Street, Tunkhannock, and John Krepich, of Goshen, N. Y., were united in
marriage in the Methodist Church, Clayton, N. Y.
The ceremony was performed Wednesday afternoon,
June 30, by the Rev. E. A. Martin, formerly pastor of the
Tunkhannock M. E. Church.
Mrs. Krepich is a graduate of Tunkhannock High
School and Goucher College, Baltimore, Md.
Mr. Krepich was graduated from the Berwick High
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. During
the 1934-1935 school term he was instructor in commerFor the
cial bookkeeping in Tunkhannock High School.
past two years he has taught commercial subjects at the
Goshen, N. Y., High School.

Announcement has been made

of the

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Miss Vernice Poolev, of Danville, and Frank Cousart,

41

Jr.,

also of Danville. The ceremony was performed May 29
at Elliott City, Md., by the Rev. Thomas M. Dickey, of the

Methodist Church. The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1936, and has been
teaching at Hummelstown. The couple will live in Danville.

Charles Blackburn, Jr., of Wanamie, and Miss Ina
New Columbia, were married in July at the
Presbyterian manse in Lewisburg. The groom is a teacher in the New Columbia school.

M. Tarner, of

1935
Miss Elva Griffith and Alfred Davis, both of Sugar
Notch, were married Wednesday, June 30, in the parsonage of the Askam M. E. Church.

Helen

Frey

teaching

is

in

the Pennsburg High

School.

Harriet Styer

is

teaching

in

Dushore, Pa.

Dawn Townsend is teaching at Brookline, Pa.
Edwin Creasy is teaching geography and mathematics in

the consolidated school at Tannersville, Pa.

Don Hower

is

Fern’s Grove, N.

J.

Supervisor of Music in the schools at

Elmer McKechnie has been elected to teach English
Berwick High School.
Mr. McKechnie is a graduate of the Berwick High
School and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and

in the

during the summer attended the Summer Sessions at the
Bucknell University.
Last year Mr. McKechnie was a
teacher in the Shickshinny schools.

David Foust, of Washingtonville, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1935, has been
elected as a teacher of social science in the DeLong Memorial Junior High School at Washingtonville.
Mr. Foust has been employed by the National Youth
Administration since graduation.

1936
Miss Jennie

Mae

Patterson, of Orangeville, has been

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elected to teach in the fourth grade in the Benton Consolidated School.

Gladys Rinard is teaching in Bristol, Pa.
Mervin Mericle is teaching in Galeton, Pa.
Robert Abbott

is

commercial teacher

in

the Mifflin-

town High School.
Sara

Shuman

is

teaching

in

the schools of Robesonia,

Pa.

Miss Betty Harter
peck High School.

is

teaching this year

in

the Nesco-

Kenneth Merril has begun his second year as a teacher in the Orangeville High School.

At 11:00 o’clock Friday morning, June 18, in the
Third Presbyterian Church, Chester, Miss Lillian M. Guyer, of Brook Haven Road, Chester, became the bride of
Earl Kershner, of 1213 West Front Street, Berwick.
Dr. Lathlaham, pastor of the congregation, performed the beautiful and impressive ring ceremony of the
Presbyterian Church.
The bride is a graduate of the Chester High School
with the class of 1932 and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College with the class of 1936 and has been doing
substitute teaching in the Chester High School during the
past term.

Mr. Kershner is a graduate of the Berwick High
School with the class of 1932, of which he had the honor
of being president, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College with the class of 1936. He was associated with
the Retail Credit Company of Reading and for some time
has been in the employ of the Goodrich Tire Company of
Philadelphia.
Miss Leota A. Nevil began teaching Monday, August
She was
23, in the elementary school in Puerto Rico.
graduated from Bloomsburg High School and from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1936. While in
school, she was prominent in musical activities, playing
the trombone in the high school and other organizations.
In her first letter home, she reported her surroundings as “wonderful country” and commented upon the
beauty of the mountains.

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Marion Cooper, of Derry Township, Montour County,
teacher of third and fourth grades in the DeLong Memorial School, at Washingtonville. Miss Cooper has been
teaching in a one-room school in Turbot Township, Northumberland County.
is

Beatrice Eisenhauer has been elected teacher of
and sixth grades in the Mifflinville schools.

Kathryn Brobst
Frances Riggs

is

is

fifth

a teacher in the schools of Bethel.

teacher of French and Latin

in

the

Turbotville schools.

Bertha Andrews
in

is

1937
teaching

in

Camden, N.

J.

Mary Helen Mears is teacher of commercial subjects
the high school at Mountain Top, Pa.

Miss Muriel R. Stevens and C. C. Bream, Jr., popular
and highly esteemed Berwick couple, were united in marriage at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church in New York
City, Tuesday, June 29.
Miss Stevens was graduated from Berwick High
School in the class of 1933 and from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in this year’s class.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Bream, of Gettysburg, and he was graduated from Gettysburg College, where he was prominent in athletics. He
is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity. For
the past nine years he has been physical director and
coach at Berwick High School.
Miss Martha L. Greenly, of Millville was wedded to
E. Smith, of Eyersgrove, Saturday, June 26.
Mrs. Smith is a graduate of Millville High School and
the two year course at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The groom attended Millville High School and is in
business for himself at Eyersgrove.

Maynard

Armina Kreisher, of Berwick, has been elected
position as teacher in the Berwick schools.

to a

Harold Border, of Berwick, has been elected coach
Barnesboro High School.

of football at

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Florine

Moore has been elected teacher
the Berwick High School.

of

commer-

cial subjects in

Dorothy Bernirger has been elected teacher of
and second grades in the MifTlinville schools.

first

Miss Jane Manhart, of Berwick, was elected teacher
and History in the Shickshinny High School.

of English

Ruth Kadcliffe

Watsontown High

is

teaching French and English in the

School.

John R. Gering, Jr., of Berwick, has been elected to a
teaching position in the school system at Somerdale, N. J.
During the past summer he completed a course of advanced work at the Teachers College at West Chester.
Blaine Saltzer

is

teaching at Slatington, Pa.

Miss Marie Savidge, of
Overlook, both students at
College last semester, were
28, in Shamokin Methodist

Shamokin and Walton Hill, of
Bloomsburg State Teachers
married on Saturday, August
Episcopal Church. The Rev.

T. F. Ripple, of Hanover, a friend of the bride’s family,
officiated.
Mrs. Hill was graduated from Shamokin High School
and studied at Slippery Rock State Teachers College and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Hill was graduated from Shamokin High School, spent one year at

Penn State College and was graduated
Bloomsburg.

He has

a teaching

position

last
in

year from
Pottsgrove

High School.
1938

On the twenty-fourth wedding anniversary of her
parents, Miss Margaret Aikman Creasy, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Creasy, Center Street, became the bride of
Vincent Edgar Lind, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Lind, Newport, R. L, in the Reformed Church, Friday, June 25. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Bernhardt Heller.
The bridegroom is a graduate of Rhode Island State
College, has attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his master’s degree at Boston University.
He is head of the science department of Bordentown Military Academy. Following a trip along the east coast and
into Vermont, the couple will live at Bordentown, N. J.