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HARTLINE

The above is a reproduction of the painting now hanging in the
Biology Laboratory. The painting was presented to the College on

Home-Coming Day by

Prof. Hartline’s former students.

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JANUARY,

Vol. 39

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July

1, 1901',

1938
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Post Office at Bloomsburg,

Under the Act of July 16, 1894.
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Tribute Paid Dr. Hartline as
Portrait is Unveiled
A

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The unveiling

of a life-like portrait of Dr. D. S Hartrespected and beloved member of the “Old Guard”
of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was the feature of
a program in his honor held on Home Coming Day at the
line,

College.
Friends, former students and faculty associates filled a lecture room in Science Hall to hear addresses by
former students and associates and to see the first presentation of a large portrait by Miss Bell Worsham, of Richmond, Va., on behalf of friends and former pupils.
Dr. Kimber C Kuster, chairman of the program committee, presided and introduced the speakers on the pro-

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gram. In extending greeting to the audience, he made
special mention of Dr. Ida Sitler, professor of Biology,
Hollins College, Virginia, whose inspiration, initiative
and energy were the primary inspiration for the gift of
the portrait. He read telegrams from Dr. Sitler and also
from Dr. Charles H. Fisher, Bellingham, Wash., State
Teachers College, president and former principal of the
Normal School here.
Dr. Peter Castellani, M. D., physician and surgeon, of
Philadelphia, outlined to the group Dr. Hartline’s influence as a teacher of medical preparatory students, explained that the standards set by the local teacher had
been unsurpassed by any other under-graduate school in
the country.
“I feel hon ,red to be known as one of his students,”
he continued. “He built character in students and did
not limit himself to the school or the classroom. He was
truly the greatest teacher in all my student life.”
Deeply imbued in his memory ar** the few hours
which he spent alone with Dr. Hartline just efore leaving for the World War when the professor e>.nlained to
him the dangers at home and abroad. In concluding, he
noted that Dr. Hartline inspired him ar.d many other
students to pass on to others the great ideal which are so
much a part of his work.
A man of determination but one who 1 willing to
see another’s argument was the characterization given
Dr. Hartline by the next speaker, Dr. Warren W. Preston,
D., a physician of Montrose.
Having worked in the labnatory with the biologist,
Dr. Preston came to know his leacher as a man who was
always helpful and always pointing to a higher source of
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inspiration.

He described Dr. Hartline further as a man who saw
“tongues in trees, books in running brooks and sermons
in

the stones.”

He has an unquestionable
“He was not only

continued.

faith in God and man,” he
a teacher but a friend of

all.”
J. S. Wiant, Ph. D., plant pathologist, Bureau of
Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, New
York City, reminisced a bit in observing that the occasion

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keeping with the character of the guest
Creek Falls or around

of honor if it were held at Kitchen’s
a fireplace at North Mountain.

There were few among the 7,000 graduates who
went out from this place during the years when Dr. Hartline served who did not get something directly or indirectly from the biology teacher,” he declared.
The intellectual honesty of Dr. Hartline, according
to Dr. Wiant, allowed no compromise with truth but led
him fearlessly on to new concepts unfettered by the
taboos and outworn superstitions of years past.
of us believe that he taught us how to think,”
did not believe there were many separate
compartments of knowledge but that there was one subHis is truly an immortality of learnlife.
ject matter
ing.”
He noted the fact that Dr. Hartline continues his

“Many

he said.

“He

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He shares
in no formal classes.
and enthusiasm with other groups who ask
him for instruction and leadership.
Dr. Kuster presented to the guest of honor two
attractively bound volumes containing letters and reA basket of roses was presented
prints of his students.
as an expression of appreciation to Mrs Hartline.
Following a short address by Dr. J. W. Bruner, he
and Superintendent Maurice Houck, of Berwick, drew the
screen of gold satin before the portrait, which shows Dr.
Hartline in a customary pose, seated at a desk with the
familiar, small black notebook before him.
The portrait was received by Dr. Frances B. Haas,
work today, although

his interest

president of the College, who described Dr. Hartline as
one of the great teachers of the institution, explaining
that the distinction between an institution and a passing
organization or activity was in fact that the institution
carries the persistence of an ideal.
He read a letter from Norman H. Steward, professor
of zoology, department of biology, Bucknell University,
commending Dr. Hartline for his inspired teaching.
Superintendent W. W. Evans, vice president of the
Board of Trustees, accepted the portrait on behalf of the
board and declared that it was Dr. Hartline who gave him
his

first

insight into the

wonders of science and the

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mysteries of life. The portrait will be appropriately placed in the laboratory at Science Hall.
Several of the addresses are printed in full

WARREN

ulty

men

W. PRESTON, M.

D., ’99

Mr. Chairman, Honored Guest, Members of the Facand Trustees, Fellow Alumni, Ladies and Gentle:

For more than thirty years I have been looking for an
opportunity to publicly express my sincere appreciation
to a man who has had more to do with the shaping of my
career than any other person. If that life has been anything of a success this man deserves much of the credit;
if it has been a failure he likewise deserves to be shouldered with the responsibility; and God knows I hope it has
not been entirely void of good.
At commencement time of old B. S. N. S. in 1899, I
was handed a diploma signifying that I had more or less
successfully completed the prescribed work in the College
preparatory course.
After spending a winter at teaching in the “little red
school house’’ in Susquehanna County at $25.00 per
month, with the privilege of providing my own board and
doing my own janitor work, I returned to B. S. N. S. just
as the Spring term was about to open. For some reason,
unknown to me, 1 was invited by Professor Hartline to
come back and work in the biological laboratory. Just
why he asked me I never did know. I was too anxious to
accept the offer to even think of whys and wherefores.
Some day I shall ask him.
But, then and there, began a friendship of immeasureable help to me.
It was not only a help for my
college work, but it was an attempt on his part at character development as well.
During the years that followed he tried to impart to me some of the attributes that
marked him as a successful teacher and leader of youth.
He started off with a lesson in patience. One of my first
jobs was to skin a ground hog whose funeral should have
been held several days prior. The animal had been dead
for some time, but Professor Hartline wanted the carcass
for class demonstration. At odd times I had worked at the

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task until it seemed to me it would be a matter of poor
taste to place that too aged carcass before a group of
young ladies who had a delicate sense of smell. So I
mentioned to Professor Hartline my impressions, but
they seemed to conflict with his impressions so I resumed
my task and it had become a task. Later, I again protested on behalf of the students, as well as in my own interest, and received the same reply as before. Finally, I
suggested that he come and take a look at, and a smell
That was convincing to, even him, and
of that subject.
he said, “Well, that is rather ripe. You may bury it.” I
mention this to show that he possessed a determination to
accomplish that which he set out to do, and yet, if wrong
he was not too determined to be convinced. The lesson
of the wood-chuck was also one of determination for me
I determined to never ask any one to denude a too long

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dead ground-hog.
Professor Hartline meant more in

He meant more

mere teacher.

my

life

me than many

than a

fathers
chiding, never impatient with my many short-comings, always helpful, always fighting my battles, always trying to lift my soul to
a higher plane.
found the Divine Creator in Emerson’s essays under the hemlocks at East Bloomsburg; we
found Him in the song of the rosebreasted grosbeak at the
foot of North Mountain; we found Him as we slept on a
bed of hemlock boughs at the edge of Lake Canoga under the star lit canopy of the blue sky we found Him as
we were lulled to sleep by the roar of the falls of Kitchen’s Creek where we slept in a cave we found Him when
we listened to that bird which crawled into the world
where earth and sky were so close together than the bluebird scraped some of the brown earth off on his belly and
some of the blue sky off on his back we found Him as we
wallowed snow in Dillon’s glen and we found Him where
we studied His expression of beauty in the flowers everywhere we found Him as we talked and talked while I
“walked a mile” with him.

mean

to

their children.

to

Never

We

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who

A

Along
comrad

walk a mile with me
merry way?
blithe and full of glee,

will

life’s

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Who

dares to laugh out loud and free,
fancy play
Like a happy child, through flowers gay
That fill the field and fringe the way
Where he walks a mile with me.

And

let his frolic

will walk a mile with me
Along life’s weary way?
A friend whose heart has eyes to see
The stars shine out o’er the darkening lea,
And the quiet rest at the end o’ the day.
A friend who knows and dares to say
The brave, sweet words that cheer the way
When he walks a mile with me.

And who

With such a comrade, such a friend,
I fain would walk till journey’s end,
Through summer sunshine, winter rain,
And then? Ah well, we shall meet again.

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—Henry

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VanDyke.

Professor Hartline, a man with habits above reproach, has unquestionable faith in God and man, and
lie was ever seeking God’s manifestions every where in
Nature and pointing his students to a higher plane of living trying to show them the Divine hand in all that is
beautiful and worth while.
we workI saw him under all circumstances of life
ed together; we played together; we climbed the mountains and walked the valleys; we lived together one
whole year besides the several school years we spent together, and his courage, character and devotion to his
work revealed to me some of the reasons for his success
as a teacher and as a mentor of youth. He was not only a
teacher, he was a friend to all, because he wanted to help
all, and what more can there be to friendship than a desire to help
;

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“Life

And

is

sweet because of the friends

the things in

We want

common which we

we have made,
share;

because of oui'selves,
But because of the people who care.
It’s giving and doing for somebody else;
On this all life’s splendor depends;
And the joy of the world when you sum it all up,
Is found in the making of friends.”
to live on, not

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wonder if we are sufficiently appreciative of our
?
I wonder if we show our appreciation as we
Do we give them the warm hand-clasp of
should?
friendliness? Do we greet them with a smile whether the
sun shines or whether it’s cloudy with us ? I am sure I do
I

friends

not.

do not say this in a complaining way, but do you
that during my student days in B. S. N. S. no one
gave me that bit of encouragement which 1 so much
1

know

needed. No one said to me, “Do you need some help with
your work?” “May I show you how to spend your study
hours to the best advantage?” Just one man took me to
his heart and helped “put me on my feet.” That is the
man we are honoring today. How greatly 1 did need that
help! You educators can do and probably are doing, just
the things I have so often failed to do, and the thing that
somebody failed to do when I so needed a friend give
a word of encouragement give a smile call that boy by
his first name. Don’t wait until it is too late. Nobody has
yet reached the place where he does not need a friend.

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Charles Hanson

;

Towne wrote

:

“Around the corner

I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend’s face;

For

life is

a swift

and

He knows

I

As

day when

in the

like

him

terrible race.
just as well
I rang his bell

mine. We were young then;
are busy, tired men
Tired with playing a foolish game;
Tired with trying to make a name.
“Tomorrow,” I say, “I will call on Jim,
Just to show that I’m thinking of him.”
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes
And the distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner! yet miles away.

And he rang
And now we

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“Here’s a telegram, sir.”
“Jim died today!”

And

that’s

Around the

what we

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get and deserve in the end
corner, a vanished friend.”

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suppose few of you have reached the reminiscent
But I like to live over and over my teaching
days at Bloomsburg, for they were among the happiest
days of my life. The association with such folks as the
I

age, yet.

Hartlines, the Sutliffs, the Alberts, the Copes, the Jenkins and all the rest could mean but one thing
a soul
Living with such friends is an inspiration to
uplift.
better, cleaner, more wholesome living and I cannot let
this opportunity pass without saying that I appreciate
the opportunity of having worked and lived with such
friends who loved the best in men and things.
Warren W. Preston, M. D., ’99.

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JAMES

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WIANT, PH.

D., ’17

Professor Hartline, and you his friends

who

are

met

here

Today is Home-Coming Day. What could be a more
appropriate time for us to return and honor him who has
been our teacher and our friend of long standing? Yet I
feel that it has been a friendly concession on his part to
permit us to make of this reunion a more or less formal
occasion. So much more in keeping with his spirit would
it be for us to meet in hiking clothes at Arbutus Park or
gather with him about a campfire on North Mountain.
But Professor Hartline has become such an integral part
of this institution that today he belongs to its student
body, he belongs to its faculty, and he does belong to its
alumni. It is therefore proper that on this day we should
pause to consider some of those things for which we, the
alumni and our associates, hold him in esteem.
Dr. Preston has told you some of the reasons why we
think of Professor Hartline as a great teacher. May I add
to this. Has it occurred to you that during the forty-one
years of his activity on the teaching staff over seven
thousand students have graduated from this institution?
Few indeed there were among those seven thousand who
left Bloomsburg without taking with them something that
has made their lives a little finer something which they
got either directly in the class room or indirectly on the

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One reason, I believe, for this profound influence
upon students was the fact of his intellectual honesty. He
then knew and he today knows no compromise with truth.
Fearlessly to point out that truth no matter whether it
was the hard or the easy thing to do. Fearlessly to expose the falsity of idle pretense. Fearlessly to truly educate by leading his students on to new concepts of truth
concepts unfettered by outmoded taboos and beliefs. That
indeed takes courage. His teachings indeed has been a living example of that command to “Know the truth and the
truth will make you free.”

Another reason why we regard so highly his place
as a teacher is the fact that he taught many of us really
to think. Not content with having his students routinely
accept the spoken or the printed word, he ever encouraged them to seek beyond for the motive of the act and the
meaning of the fact. Perhaps his success in this respect
was due to the fact that he was so firmly set against the
idea of departmentalization of knowledge. Not for him
does there exist separate water-tight (and thought-tight)
compartments of learning. Rather for him there has always been and there will always be but one subject
matter life. Those of us who are privileged by the fact of
having been his students realize how as a teacher he
stimulated our thinking not only in biology, geology and
astronomy, but in history, world affairs, ethics, literature
and philosophy as well.

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Professor Hartline’s greatest contribution to the
cause of education in Pennsylvania has of course been in
the field of the biological sciences. When he joined the
faculty here in 1890, botany and zoology, in other than
their descriptive phases
taxonomy may be considered
to have been in only their early youth.
Not for many
years had the new biology, based upon the experimental
method, been under way in this country, following its introduction from Europe. Recognizing the importance of
the newer trends in this science of life he left his duties
here to study for four years at Lafayette. There under
Professor Porter, Dr. Peck and Dr. Alvin Davison he
strengthened the foundations of his training in biology.
Not content with this, however, a few years later he left
for a year in Germany, then for the biological sciences,

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the educational and research center of the world. There
he studied at Heidelberg University and at the University of Bonn with Professor Strasberger. Later as student
and instructor at the Biological Laboratories at Cold
Springs Harbor, New York, he came into contact with the
geneticist and eugenicist, Dr. Charles Davenport, and
with many others in varied branches of biological research.
Although thoroughly familiar with the methods and
ideals of research, early in his career he decided not to
specialize but rather to devote himself to the teaching
of several different branches of biology. The alternative,
that of entering a career of specialized research would
soon have led him permanently from Bloomsburg. As
alumni of this College we are glad that he chose as he did.
By this choice he was able to maintain a breadth of
teaching that would have broken lesser men. For his
curriculum during many busy years included botany,
zoology, physiology, comparative anatomy, histology,
agriculture, astronomy and geology. Dr. Castellani has
told you what it has meant to him and others to have
begun their premedical training with one so familiar with
the many different branches of biology. Those of us who
have entered other specialized fields see today more
clearly than ever before the distinct advantage of the
broad fundamental training upon which later specialization can be built.
An important feature of Professor Hartline’s teaching was that of stimulating certain individuals who
showed particular interest or aptitude in biology to take
advanced work, first with him, and later at other institutions. I like to think of the pre-medical students as belonging in this group. The extent to which this phase of
his work was quietly and unassumingly carried out perhaps not generally realized. May 1 therefore state that
nearly eighty students have been so influenced by this
one teacher. Nearly eighty men and women scattered
through the field of medicine and through the fields of
botany, zoology and agriculture, engaged in teaching or
research in institutions of higher learning have only this
one man to thank for starting them out in their careers.
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immortality of learning.
Let us not forget however that this group represents
only a small part of that larger group of students who although they did not make biology their life career, were
nevertheless similarly inspired by Professor Hartline’s
teaching. A group represented by students from all his
classes throughout the years, who today are found in
offices, on the farm, in the class room and in the home.
Men and women who, fired here by a spark of inspiration, have carried within themselves a burning flame from
which they in turn have in their own way quietly ignited
similar fires in friend, student and child. Their number
we do not know, nor does it matter. Who they are each
alone knows. But I say to them individually, whether they
be here today or whether they be absent, you it is who
gave this teacher encouragement to continue his work by
the knowledge that his efforts were not in vain. You it is
who by your response have reflected back the flame that
has helped to keep the original fire burning.
During the course of these remarks I have had
occasion to refer to the past. “What then of the present?”
you may ask. I reply, “No different than from the past.”
You who know Professor Hartline so well would not of
course expect otherwise. True, no longer need he meet
with regular and formal class. But informally as various
groups on campus and in town request, he continues to
share with them his interests and his enthusiasms. With
hikes and other trips into the open he continues to enjoy
the out-of-door like, close to the nature whom he interpreted so richly for you and for me. Today he has time to
do those many things that crowded teaching hours formerly prevented. Today he and Mrs Hartline continue to
meet with old friends and to make new ones at Sunnyslope. Today they have time to read your letters
letters
in which you can express in your way that which I have
here tried to express in my way.

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speak not only for those who
reunion. 1 speak not only for
those whose careers date back to their contacts with you.
But I speak as well for all of your former students in
whom the spark has caught and flamed anew. And in
speaking I say this we recognize what you have done,
Professor Hartline,

have participated

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in this

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we are grateful
we thank you.

you for having enriched our

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Wiant, Ph. D.

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RESPONSE— PROFESSOR HARTLINE PICTURE
Someone has said that the benign influence of any
great institution of learning is but the lengthening shaHowr especially
dow of its really great teachers.
applicable this fine sentiment is to the Bloomsburg State
As we grow older, we appreciate
Teachers College
more and more how deeply we are indebted to the great
teachers with whom we came in contact in this institution.
Professor Hartline is one to whom we feel especially
grateful today. To many of us he gave our first insight
into the wonders and mysteries of Science. He created in
his students a scientific attitude tow'ard life. He enriched
and enlarged our horizons. By example he taught us to
love Nature. His life among us has been and is an in!

spiration.
It is most fitting that his beloved
students should,
through this fine presentation, seek to perpetuate the
esteem and love they feel for this great teacher. It will
symbolize a spirit of devotion to truth during the years to
come. It w ill be one of the school’s precious possessions.
On behalf of the Trustees of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College, I accept this picture with our grateful
appreciation of its significance and a pledge that we shall
cherish this gift as one of our most valued possessions.
T

Supt.

Wm. W.

Evans,

’94.

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Harvey A. Andruss, dean of instruction at the
Teachers College, on September 27, delivered an address
in Harrisburg before the Pennsylvania Business Educaand
tors’ Association at a conference on certification
curriculum. Dean Andruss spoke on “Progressive Requirements For Commercial Teacher Training in the Com-

momvealth

of Pennsylvania.”

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In connection with American Education Week being celebrated at the present time a chapel program devoted to American Education was put on by the undergraduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
under the direction of Professor Earl N. Rhodes, Director
of Teacher Training at the College. The program opened
with a Bible reading, followed by announcements, after
which brief papers were presented by the following
students “The Significance of American Education,” by
William Thomas, Scranton, who also acted as presiding
officer “Our American Youth Problem,” Vivian Frey, of
Mifflinville “Life Long Learning,” Robert Linn, of Catawissa “School Open House Day,” Joyce Dessen, Hazleton “Schools and the Constitution,” Frank Kocher, of
Espy; “Horace Mann Centennial,” Catherine Walp, Berwick, and “Buying Education Service,” Charles Girton, of
Dallas. The program concluded with the singing of two
little-known stanzas of “America,” under the direction of
Miss Harriet Moore of the College faculty.
The papers read by the participating students are
printed below
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SIGNIFICANCE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION

WEEK

By William Thomas

The period from November 7th to 13th inclusive
marks the Sixteenth Annual celebration of American
Education Week. Sponsored during the first few years by
the American Legion, the National Education Association,
and the United States Office of Education, American Education Week has developed into a nation-wide movement,
extending into every local community.
The theme of this year’s program is “Education and
Our National Life.”
It might be interesting to call attention to the change
which has come about regarding the place of Education in
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In 1670 Governor Berkeley of Virginia expressed the
belief of his time when he said, “I thank God there are no
free schools and no printing, for learning has brought
disobedience and heresy into the world, and printing has

divulged them.”
This sentiment was generally held throughout the
world until the time of the formation of our Constitution.
A change of thought was definitely necessary to insure
the success of kind of democratic government which was
proposed. Washington said, “As government gives force
to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened,” and Madison strengthened his statement by
adding “A popular government without popular information is but the prologue to a farce or a tragedy or
perhaps both.”
The beliefs of these men are especially applicable to
the complicated affairs of today. It rests upon all of the
people to share the responsibility of educating the younger generation for participation in government and public
order of tomorrow.
As organized education turns to the future, it discards the theory of automatic democracy. It recognizes
that rights to life, liberty, property, work, and the pursuit
of happiness are shadows, unless those who claim the
rights are competent and have the moral power necessary
to the creation and maintenance of the social arrangements in which rights may be realized.
National Education Week is celebrated this year to
call attention of the American people to the importance
of Education in our National life.

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OUR AMERICAN YOUTH PROBLEM
By Vivian Frey

Our American youth problem can be stated in one
word unemployment, for the various other evils have
grown out of this. Statistics show that out of 20,000,000
young people in America between the ages of sixteen
and twenty-four years, nearly 5,000,000 are now unemployed and seeking employment, while only 7,800,000
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5,000,000 young people constitute the most important
issue facing American democracy. These youths will be
the citizens and leaders of tomorrow. Therefore we cannot afford to neglect them.

These young Americans need guidance through the
period between leaving school and finding employment.
This can best be accomplished by the individual home
and community. The preparation of the student who is
going on to college should differ from that of the boy who
intends to leave at the end of the year, or the girl who
leaves to get married. To offer this specialized program,
the whole community must cooperate with the school.
The home, the church, the youth agencies, summer
camps, juvenile court, labor unions, and local factories
are all powerful forces in the development of youth, although their power is practically unexplored.
Youth, through education, must realize that although conditions have changed, opportunity has not
lessened. As a result of the advances of modern life, new
opportunities, unknown yesterday, are presented. New
professions and types of woik constitute our modern
frontier. Although it is no longer a geographical frontier
along a vast wilderness contair ing acres of land waiting
to be cultivated, it is full of opportunity. This new frontier
whenever young people
is virtually limitless; it begins
learn to apply imagination and resourcefulness.
Another youth problem is the need for considering
how schools and colleges can best help youth meet issues
of modern life. Education must be realistic, and to be
realistic it must be based on the needs of young people
and on the needs of democracy. If our schools are to meet
these needs, they must be reorganized completely. Many
of our school practices do not contribute to individual
growth which is required for self-adjustment, and rapidly
self-adjustment is necessary in a civilization such as ours.
Therefore our educative program should be revised to
offer opportunity for adjustment. Living essentials must
replace the academic ghosts which haunt the classrooms of today.

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LIFE-LONG LEARNING
By Robert Linn

Education is a life-long process, and great is the
responsibility of the public school and other educational
agencies in facilitating education at all levels.
Life-long learning is intended to cover downward exkindergarten
tension of schools into the nursery school
area and upward into the field of adult education.
Educators today agree that in home and in school,
the child must have tasks and projects to awaken and
exercise his powers learning activities must be suited to
his interests and aspirations. For the child to gain continuous individual growth, the school must be brought
close to his life. School years are happy years because of

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youth, friendship and enthusiasm. Therefore, subsequent
years will be as happy if learning has not ceased to function. Fortunate is the child who leaves school with an unsatisfied curiosity to know more about the world. Rich
satisfactions are likely to be his.
The success of democracy depends on finding a way
to keep adults fit, intellectually and emotionally.
should not think of adult education as a luxury or isolated
thing desirable only when there happens to be money
enough. It is a necessity because it holds the promise of
continued educative growth instead of an arbitrarily
arrested education.
The lack of schooling of a large proportion of the
heads of relief families appears to be one reason for their
being on relief, inasmuch as the least trained tend to be
the first to be dropped and the last to be employed. Education trains minds, and trained minds are of untold bene-

We

to all mankind. Trained minds create, discover, and
invent. They save labor, material, time, and land. They
lesson the waste of disease, deterioration, and decay.
They produce more serviceable and attractive articles,
fit

and help make life more complete and happy.
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 live in
America tomorrow and manage its affairs will be deter-

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mined by the education and training given the child

of

today.

The next step forward in American public education
must be an organized movement for continuous life-long
education
political

in

and

the realities of our

common

life,

economics,

cultural.
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SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
By Joyce

R. Dessen

“Visit your schools” is the invitation which will be
extended to citizens this week by thousands of administrators.
do this? Because better schools are found
in communities where parents visit them to keep in touch
with their children’s work. In this way they can encourage the teachers by showing a willingness to cooperate

Why

in learning at first hand the conditions under
which their children spend several hours each day.
To understand and appreciate changes in courses of
study, parents must gain an accurate idea of the objectives of modern education by taking advantage of visiting
days. “Open house” programs are handled in a number
of ways: (1) School is conducted as usual, but parents

with them

are specially invited to visit on a particular day; (2) New
school services or phases of the school program are
planned so that parents may follow them through and get
first-hand information as to just how the child spends his
school day. Often such schedules are carried out in evening sessions at which the parent goes through a schedule
of classes in the place of his child, hears the teacher discuss the work, and asks whatever questions he wishes.

The American Education Week observance

in Oklaone of the most important events during the
year. A cooperative program is carried out with many
organizations participating.
The schools, American
Legion, churches, civic clubs, women’s clubs, newspapers,
young peoples organizations and the parent-teacher
association all work in this great program of interpreting
the school to the public and stressing the importance of
education in building citizenship and the community.
On Monday of American Education Week the first
interpretive literature is taken home by the children. The

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assemblies are usually held on Wednesday, Thursday or
Friday. The parent-teacher association “back to school
nights” are held the latter part of the week. On these
nights each patron is given his child’s schedule card and
the parents attend classes of their children for a short
period in which the teacher explains the work done by
the pupils. In some schools the children themselves demonstrate the work done by the school. After the “classes”
a general assembly program is presented by the children.
Last year nearly seven million people accepted the
invitation to visit their schools during American Education Week. The success of this plan depends entirely upon the turnout of the parents, and it is hoped that as
many as possible will take advantage of this opportunity
this year.
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THE SCHOOLS AND THE CONSTITUTION
By Frank Kocher
Since this year is the Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States, the subject “The Schools and
the Constitution” is particularly appropriate at this time.
The Constitution nowhere mentions the schools, but
the general welfare clause in Article 1, Section 8, gives
Congress ample power to provide money for the support
of public education. By this power Congress has passed
the National Land Grant Act, the Morrill Acts to aid
certain types of education, the Hatch Act, for scientific
research, the Smith-Lever Act for agriculture and home
economics, and the Smith-Hughes Act for vocational

education.

However, education is still mostly state controlled, so
the constitution has not affected the schools as much as
they have affected the constitution.
It is the duty of the schools to give young people the
ideas and ideals of good citizenship, and to teach them
about civic problems. One of our foremost American
problems is that our democratic government must be
courageously adapted to present day needs. Only thus
can we progress toward true democracy. In preparing
citizens to take part intelligently in this task, the service
of the schools is indispensable.

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of the schools toarising from its

relationship with present day life? Should we follow the
constitution blindly, giving it a strict interpretation
or
should we let it stand as it was written and interpret it
broadly, or should we make wide changes in it?
Undoubtedly, the schools should teach all the facts,
present all the viewpoints about civic issues, and then
let the young people
make their own decisions. The
teaching profession is unalterably opposed to restrictions
on the presentation of facts about all aspects of our
American government, or any other government.
Without education there can be no union; justice
cannot prevail domestic tranquility becomes a futile
dream the common defense is thwarted by the monster,
ignorance and the general welfare falls victim to the
exploitation of the many by the few.
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HORACE MANN CENTENNIAL
By Kathryn

L.

Walp

The Horace Mann Centennial commemorates the
hundredth anniversary of the year in which Horace Mann
gave up the prospects of a lucrative law career to become
secretary of the newly created Massachusetts State Board
of Education.

Horace Mann was born

in Franklin, Massachusetts,
1796. His early education was such as Massachusetts gave her sons a century ago. Until he reached the
age of sixteen, he had never been to school more than
eight or ten weeks in a year. In his twentieth year young
Mann fell in with a fine college preparatory teacher, and
began at once to study for college. In six months he fitted
himself for admission to the Sophomore class of Brown
University. On his graduation in 1819, Mr. Mann entered
a lawyer’s office at Wrenthan, to fit himself to be a
lawyer. In 1823 Mr. Mann was admitted to the bar.
He took a keen interest in public affairs, which led to
his election, first to the State House of Representatives,
and then to the Senate. Near the close of his legislative
term, Mr. Mann signed a bill entitled, “An Act Relating

May

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Common Schools,” advising the appointment of a
Board of Education. The first board was made up with
peculiar care. Horace Mann was chosen Secretary of the
Board. The Board of Education was a reform and the
Board wisely chose a member of a profession so foreign
to teaching that he would be able to consider every question from a new point of view. That Horace Mann, at the
age of forty-one, should be willing to give up law and
accept the secretaryship of the new Board of Education,
to

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naturally excited much surprise. Mr. Mann served as
Secretary for twelve years. As soon as he was appointed,
he set up a campaign that was educational in a double
sense. It looked into the future to the children and youth
of the State, but immediately it looked to the people of
the State. He know that if a nation is going to have great
men, it must have great people to inspire and support
them. He saw that there could be no real equality or
democracy unless people have the opportunity of developing their talents and tastes.
Horace Mann maintained that ‘‘no man is worthy the
honored name of statesman who does not include practical education of the people in all plans of administration.” He further stated in his writing, “if there ever was
a cause, if ever there can be a cause worthy to be upheld
by all of the toil or sacrifice that the human heart can
endure, it is the cause of education.”
Because Horace Mann knew the needs of his people
and had everlasting faith in a noble cause, this nation
owes him both gratitude and honor.
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BUYING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
By Charles

L.

Girton

The school is our greatest public institution. Nearly
cue person out of every four in the United States is directly

involved

in

the business of education. In the

public

elementary and secondary schools there are more than
26,000,000 pupils enrolled and more than 871,000 teachers employed.
With these facts in mind it is easy to understand why
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lay and professional groups. There is no subject more
bedirectly touching the interests of citizens generally
cause they desire good shools for their children and because of the so-called “tax burden” required to support
schools. But this term “tax burden” when used with reference to school taxes does not correctly describe them.
Through a cooperative endeavor, the public school, people buy educational services far more economically than
they could be secured from private agencies. Thus school
taxes should be looked upon not as a “tax burden,” but as
a “tax opportunity.”
The estimated national income for the United States
for 1934 (the most recent year for which figures are
available) was $50,170,000,000. Of this amount, $1,940,000,000, or about $26.00 for every person over 21 years of
age in our population, was expended for public education.
Nationally this amounted to 22.7 per cent of the total tax
collections of federal, state and local governments combined. It is apparent, therefore, that greater sums of
money can be spent for education.

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Until recently public schools were supported primarily through the resources of local communities with
the land-tax providing the chief source of income. But as

a result of the rise of industralization and the tendency
for wealth to be concentrated in certain sections come the
development of plans for state participation in the support of education. In 1934, local government assumed
about 75 per cent of the cost of public schools; the state
governments provided about 25 per cent and the federal

government slightly more than 1 per cent.
from these percentages that there is plenty

It is

of

evident

room

for

the expansion of state support; but, while such expansion
would help a lot, it is not the best solution of the school
finance problems, for the reason that the states vary
widely in their respective ability to support the public
schools. Whereas New York provides $124 for each pupil
enrolled, Mississippi provides only $19, and the other
states are somewhere between these extremes.

The result of this inequality of opportunity of the
school children in the various states has been the introduction of the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill in Congress.
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provides for an appropriation from the federal govfirst year to be distributed
among the states to help finance their public school systems. States most badly in need of help would receive
the largest amounts, thus tending to equalize the standards of the several states. The bill provides for an annual
increase of appropriations until they reach the sum of
$300,000,000. Whether or not this bill becomes a law will
depend upon the support given it by the people of the
nation. As a nation we can have good schools for our
children if we want them it is largely a matter of what
we spend our money for. No doubt George Washington
was right when he said “In a country like this, if there
cannot be found money for education, there is something
amiss with the ruling powers.”
tion,

ernment of $100,000,000 the

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Seven new members have been initiated into the
Omicron Cast of Alpha Psi Omega, honorary
dramatic fraternity on the campus of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. This dramatic fraternity is the
largest of its kind in the United States. Members of the
“Bloomsburg Players,” the college dramatic club, who by
reason of outstanding dramatic work and service to the
college community in dramatics were honored by admit-

Alpha

tance.

Miss Alice Johnston of the college faculty is sponsor
of the organization and Phil Frankmore, Easton, is president. The new members include Virginia Burke, KingsWillard Christian, Shamokin Margaret Johnson,
ton
Shamokin; Jane Lockard, Berwick; John Slavin, Fleetwood, William Strawinski, Harrisburg, and Ben Singer,
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Hazleton.
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Professor M. E. Curtis, Department of Commerce,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, attended the meeting of the
Tri-State Commercial Teachers Association at Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Friday, October 8 and 9. Professor Curtis
has been very active in the association for a number of
years and is at present treasurer of this group of commercial teachers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

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Building Program Started
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Bids were opened Tuesday, January

4,

by the Gen-

eral State Authority for the erection of four new buildings and enlargement of another at the Bloomsburg State

Teachers College. Ground-breaking ceremonies are scheduled to take place some time in January.

There will be erected a new gymnasium, Junior
High School, men’s dormitory, and a shop and storage
building. There will also be an addition to the power
plant, including enlargement of the steam lines.
The ground-breaking ceremonies will initiate a
building program of almost $600,000
the largest single
building program of its kind ever attempted at the College. Its major purpose is the modernization of the var-

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ious units of the present plant, in order that the state may
improve the opportunities available for the education of
teachers for the public schools of the state.

The General State Authority has allocated $577,000.00 for Bloomsburg. This amount, when reduced by
the necessary overhead items, including architects’ fees,
interest charges, and a reasonable reserve for contingencies, leaves
approximately $465,500.00 for the direct
building costs.
The gymnasium will be a new building, and will inswimming pool, offices, and classrooms for the

clude a

Health Education Department. It will be located on Second Street, facing, in the rear, the new recreation field
now being developed. It will be completely equipped, and
will make possible the development of a modern health
education program.

The Junior High School will be a new building
which, with the Benjamin Franklin Training School, will
make available complete student teaching, observation,
demonstration, and practice facilities. This building will
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part of the new building will
athletic field.

be on the present varsity

When the building is completed, the College will be
equipped with all modern facilities for demonstration,
observation, and participation at all the levels needed for
student practice from the kindergarten up to and including the ninth grade. The building will make provision
for the best modern Junior High School practice, including a library, home economics room, industrial arts room,
general science room, and a small auditorium.

The new men’s dormitory will be a new building to
supplement the present dormitory facilities for men in
North Hall. It will provide additional facilities for men
not living at home. The project is planned to be the first
unit of a building to provide such facilities for all men
students not living at home. For some years, students
from out of town could not be accommodated on the
campus, and many have been quartered in private homes
under the supervision of the College. The new dormitory
will be erected on Second Street between the present college plant and the new gymnasium.

The shop and storage building will be a new structure replacing the present barn used for shop and storage purposes. It will make it possible to concentrate the
present maintenance equipment and services. This building will balance the present laundry in location and appearance.

There

will be an addition erected to the present
to provide for the increased needs of the new
buildings. Included in this project is an enlargement of
the present steam lines from the new power plant, and
the continuation of these lines to the new buildings.

power plant

The General

State Authority of Pennsylvania, which
the grant for the extensive enlargement of the
local College, is an instrumentality set up by an act of
assembly in order that Pennsylvania might participate in
Federal Public Works Administration grants in the program to modernize the mental, penal, correctional, health,
military, and educational departments of the Commonwealth.

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Sixty-five million dollars was estimated to be the
for these purposes. Of this amount
ten million dollars is an outright grant from the Public
Works Administration to the General State Authority.
further provisional grant of ten million dollars in contingent upon the use of labor certified from the public
relief rolls.

minimum sum required

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The General State Authority, which has so ably
handled the many difficult problems in this large program, follows
Governor George H. Earle, president; Auditor General Warren R. Roberts, vice-president; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Thomas A. Logue, secretary; Secretary of
Welfare, Arthur W. Howe, Jr., assistant secretary; State
Treasurer F. Clair Ross, treasurer; Harvey Huffman, of
Stroudsburg, president pro tern of the State Senate Roy
F. Furman, of Waynesburg, speaker of the House of
;

Representatives; Herbert Cohen, York; Austin E. McCullough, editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal;
Arthur Colesgrove, secretary of the Department of Property and Supplies; Col. Augustine S. Janeway, executive
director of the General State Authority; and James P.
Kelly, assistant executive director of the General State
Authority.

The ground-breaking ceremonies will mark a significant point in the progress of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. All interested in the College and its development have been invited to participate in the significant
event. Those invited will include representatives of the
General State Authority, the Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Property and Supplies, the
architects and engineers responsible for the plants, the
college student body, Alumni, and interested citizens.
o

Friday evening, November 5th, Edwin Strawbridge
and Lisa Parnova, exponents of the dance, entertained in
the auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The program was sponsored by the Community Govern-

ment Association

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Guidance Program

at

Bloomsburg
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During the past seven years the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has been slowly but progressively developing what it considers to be a sensible and fundamental
program of orientation and guidance for its new students.
This program, under the special direction of Dr.
Thomas P. North of the Education Department, and
Director of Freshman Week Activities, is based on the
point of view that students entering college for the first
time should immediately upon entrance to college be
given assistance in making those adjustments necessary
for success in college. It has been definitely determined
that many fine young men and women fail, especially
during their first year in college not because of a lack
of capacity, but due to a lack of preparation for making
certain necessary social, mental, physical, and moral

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adjustments. Failure to

may

make

result in partial success

—

these adjustments, which

— or even more

serious, dis-

missal from college
is not only of the greatest economic
concern, but may affect the destinies of the individuals
concerned more than the average person might realize.
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College program for
orientation and guidance of Freshmen includes getting
information to and securing information from the students. This program begins with Freshmen Week and continues especially throughout the first semester. During
Freshmen Week this year three general meetings and a
number of group meetings were held, at which the Fresh-

men had an opportunity to become acquainted with each
other, to meet members of the administrative staff and
faculty, and to become acquainted with the college rules
and regulations. One of the methods used for helping

new

students get acquainted with each other was by

in-

viting all Freshmen to dinner in the college dining room
on their first evening in college. The upper-classmen
who returned to college early in order to assist in the
Freshmen Week program as big brothers and big sisters
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then drew a table number as they entered the dining
room. In this way each table had two upper-classmen as
host and hostess, and six Freshmen as guests. The mixing
process was quite thorough, and under the direction of
the upper class hosts and hostesses the guests soon became satisfactorily acquainted. Following this dinner the
Community Government Association sponsored a party
in the gymnasium. Games, entertainment, and dancing
featured the program.

The information given the Freshmen at their special
meetings included customs, rules and regulations, fire
drill, explanation of extra curricular requirements, class
rules and regulations, explanation of the Community
Government Association, and other information of
immediate value to new students, and especially those
students away from home and more or less on their own
responsibility for the first time.

men

The work in the orientation and guidance of Freshat the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is proceed-

ing at this time rapidly and nicely. In addition to the
Freshmen Week program, the Freshmen have had several
meetings with the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women
relative to the proper conduct of college men and women.
In this work, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women, has
been responsible for the women, while Professor John
Koch, Dean of Men, has had charge of the men. Their discussions were centered largely around such topics as
Personal Appearance, Table Manners, Proper Manner of
Making Introductions, How to Carry on Conversation
With New Acquaintances, and many other important considerations in etiquette.

Regular classes are conducted for the purpose of
considering the techniques of good study. By the use of a
number of bulletins, books, and lectures on the subject,
the Freshmen are given a thorough knowledge of the
principles underlying how to study efficiently.
In the improvement of study techniques, Freshmen
are assisted in improving their reading efficiency from the
standpoint not only of faster reading, but also of increasing their ability to understand what they have read. Furthermore, a study is made of each student’s study conditions, physical condition,
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affect his ability to do efficient college work. For
instance, each Freshman makes a survey of his time for a
complete week of 168 hours which, of course, includes
every day and hour of the week. On the basis of what he

which

has learned concerning good study techniques, the student
then develops a weekly time schedule to best fit his individual needs and conditions. A summary of this schedule,
filed in the office of the student’s advisor, indicates not
only the number of hours he studies a particular subject,
but when he studies it. This summary indicates the time
and amount of sleep, physical exercise, reading for pleasure, listening to the radio and other forms of leisure. This
summary also tells the advisor when and how much the
student works for remuneration. This is an important
factor in many of the college students’ lives. Students who
are earning their way through college by working during
spare hours during the college day, in the evenings, and
on Saturdays must have special attention. Considerable
planning must be done in some of these cases in developing an efficient time schedule especially where the student
is not too capable.
In such cases, especially bad habits of
study must be broken and substituted by scientifically

developed methods.
In addition to these facts secured by the survey, the
advisor also has at his disposal the results of the psychological and aptitude test made by the college department
of psychology. When this date is amassed it affords the
advisor and instructors an excellent opportunity not only
to diagnose the difficulty of individuals, but to be able
to give useful guidance to the end that the individuals in
question may utilize their capacities to the utmost. As a
result, many students are saved from failure. It is not unusual for students to save five or more hours per week,
while at the same time raising their scholarship rating.
Thus additional time is had for tennis, inter-mural sports,
for hiking or other forms of leisure, or time that may be
put back into their college work with the result of additional improvement in scholarship.

North stated “Even though
the surface in the matter of
orientation and guidance of college Freshmen, we are
gratified with the results. New students are better able to
In a recent interview, Dr.

we have merely scratched

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its resecure a general view of teaching as a profession
quirements, its advantages, and its disadvantages. A student is placed in a better position to weigh his own characteristics over against the requirements of the profession
and decide more intelligently as to whether he should
continue preparation for the profession of teaching.”

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Nine students and two faculty members of the Lock
State Teachers College recently spent a day and a
half on the campus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers

Haven

Community Government AssociaThe Lock Haven visitors reached the Bloomsburg
campus shortly before 10:00 A. M. Monday morning,
November 1, and heard Bernard Floud, son of the British
High Commissioner in Canada, speak on the topic “Great
Britain’s Relation to Conditions in Europe.” The Lock
Haven delegation met with their Bloomsburg hosts for
lunch in the college dining room, after which the afternoon was spent in visiting and conferences on the Bloomsburg campus. In the evening the Lock Haven group was
entertained at dinner by the Student Council of the Community Government Association at Bloomsburg, after
which a joint meeting was held in the alumni room on the
College as guests of the

tion.

campus. After an excellent discussion of mutual student
problems, the group adjourned to the social rooms of
Science Hall where a social hour was held consisting of
dancing, cards, and refreshments.
The Lock Haven guests included Genevieve Poole,
of Women; W. Max Bossert, Dean of Men; Geraldine Mertz, Northumberland; Helen E. Nichols, Reading;
D. June Freed, Williamsport; Ruth I. Baughman, Lewisburg; Jack Yohe, Jersey Shore; Helen Eyerly, Berwick;
George M. Hoffnagle, Williamsport; Harvey Smith, Jersey Shore; Walter W. Montague, Clearfield. The Bloomsburg committees included party, Martha Dreese, Florence Stefanski, and William Yarworth; dinner, Helen

Dean

:

Mayan, Mary

Ann

Driscoll,

Sheesholtz,

Thomas,

Mary

and James DeRose

;

hospitality,

Paul McHale, Virginia Roth, Mason
Hamer, Robert Borneman
conference
;

chairmen, Clyde Klinger, and Margaret Graham.

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Home-Coming Dag
4

4.

Despite rainy weather, the annual Home-coming
Day observance at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was attended by one of the largest groups of “old

grads”

in recent years.
Football, with a strong showing by the Huskies, was
one of the chief drawing cards, but the unveiling ceremonies in Science Hall Saturday morning of a portrait of
Dr. D. S. Hartline, former faculty member, drew many of
the present and past affiliates of the College to pay him

honor.

At 11 :00 A. M. the Maroon and Gold Band of forty
pieces presented a much enjoyed concert in the gymnasium.
Following the football game, a banquet was held in
the college dining room. Seven hundred persons were
served and extra tables were installed for the occasion.
Dean of Men John C. Koch was master of ceremonies and Howard F. Fenstermaker directed the College
orchestra in providing dinner music. A trumpet duet was
rendered by Phillip Moore, Bloomsburg, and Fred Worman, Danville, with Frank Kocher, Espy, at the piano.
Among their numbers was “Rendezvous.”
Miss Ethel Ruth, Reading, played two xylophone
solos,
“At Dawning” and “Sparklets.” As an encore
number she played “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia.”
Called upon to introduce guests, Dr. Francis B. Haas,
College president, presented three of the trustees and
their wives, Clinton
Herring, Orangeville; H. Mont.
Smith and W. W. Evans, of town. The latter is vice
president of the board.
Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association,
was introduced. Professor Charles H. Albert, former faculty member and father of the Alumni Association president, was also presented.
Dr. Haas also introduced former Dean of Instruction and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff and the diners stood and applauded in tribute. Following the ovation, Dr. Haas read

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poem written by Mr. Sutliff about campus life. The
poem, “Alma Mater,” was written in the past year. Miss
Harriet Moore, faculty instructor of music, led the group
in singing “Alma Mater” as the banquet ended.
Saturday night’s program was featured by a dance in
the gymnasium. Four hundred and fifty couples were
present, dancing in a gymnasium decorated in the maroon
and gold colors of the College and the maroon and gray
of Lock Haven State Teachers College, football opponents. The decorations formed a canopy effect that converged above the orchestra in a diamond sunburst.
First steps to organize a Columbia County subdivision of the Alumni Association came Saturday evening when W. W. Evans, Dennis Wright, Dr. E. H. Nelson,
faculty member and graduate in 1911, and Bruce Albert,
Alumna Association president, planned to hold an organization meeting January 7.
a

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The December issue of the Business Education World
contains the last installment of a series of three articles
and ten tests on Business Law written by Dean Harvey A.
Andruss of State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Since September, 1937, thirteen issues of this
magazine have contained monthly articles or tests and
newer developments in class room instruction and evaulation procedures. During this time, several innovations
have been suggested by Dean Andruss in the form of a
recognition test based on actual illustrations of legal
forms and the true and false-correction test as a device
for discovering the element of chance present in modern
objective tests. These articles have attracted sufficient
interest to cause several writers of textbooks to request
permission to use these new ideas.
Another contribution on “Commercial Law
Social
or Business Subject” by Dean Andruss will appear in the
1938 Yearbook of the National Commercial Teachers
Federation which meets during the Christmas holidays in
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois. At the present time,
Dean Andruss is Vice President of the College Instructors’
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One of the distinctive contributions of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College to the teachers of its service
area is the Rural Education program sponsored by the
College in the Fall. This meeting, held for the first time
last year, is now considered an annual affair, and brings
to the campus the rural teachers of the area.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College, opened
the program at 10:00 A. M. on November 13, in the
auditorium of the Teachers College by extending greetings to an unusually large group of rural teachers. Dr.
Haas then presented Professor Howard F. Fenstemaker,
of the College faculty, who rendered a selection at the
console of the electric organ. Dr. Haas next introduced
the speaker of the general session, Mr. R. William Kerns,
Professor of Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State College.
Mr. Kerns said, “A teacher should be interested in
the total well-being and total life that is lived in his community. A teacher who is no larger or bigger than his
school room is one who is rather small. We think of the
rural school room as being the community, so it is to you
as community leaders rather than you as simple school
teachers that 1 want to make my remarks.”
Dr. Haas next introduced Mr. Hoyt E. Heller, Assistant Superintendent, Luzerne County Public Schools. Mr.
Heller then introduced the following speakers who each
gave five-minute discussions: Mrs Elizabeth MacNeal,
Luzerne County, spoke on a character building program
as helping to better the school child and the whole classroom Miss Miriam Welliver, of Montour County, spoke
on methods of developing courtesy and consideration for
others in the school room Mrs. Blanche Everett, Columbia County, spoke of ways in which one could create
happy learning situations; Miss Viola Blue, Montour
County, discussed methods of securing parent cooperation Miss Eva M. Hornberger, Northumberland County,
discussed the advantages and use of the Block program in
rural schools; Miss Chloe T. Frey, Luzerne County, spoke
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on the part health does and should play in the school
P. Edward Bohr, Northumberland County, discussed the importance of field trips in the rural school,
and Miss Bessie Mordan, Columbia County, spoke on the

room; Mr.

necessity of self-control.

At 12:30 P. M. luncheon was served in the College
dining room. During the luncheon, music was furnished
by the College orchestra under the direction of Professor
Howard F. Fenstemaker of the College faculty. A
Woman’s Trio consisting of the Misses Lorraine Snyder,
Pottsgrove, Betty Collett, Wilkes-Barre, and Miriam Utt,
Bloomsburg, sang three delightful selections under the
direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore of the College faculty.
Miss Moore also directed the group singing. Dr. Haas
presented Miss Hazen, Director of Rural Education at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, who introduced the
speaker of the luncheon meeting, Miss Margaret Durkin,
Elementary Education Adviser, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg.
The luncheon meeting was closed with group singing under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore.
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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was represented at the convention of the Women’s Intercollegiate
Association for Student Government held in November at
West Hampton College, University of Richmond, Virginia.
Miss Anna Malloy, Shenandoah, President of Waller Hall,
and Miss Dorothy Sidler, Danville, President of the Day
Women’s Association represented the Bloomsburg institution. The theme of the convention was “Progressive
Trends in Student Government” and 23 colleges were
represented. Outstanding educators addressed the convention and discussion groups on various aspects of student government were held.
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Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College, addressed the third institute meeting
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Training School Group Student
of Education
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Since 1922, the Parent-Teacher Association of the

Benjamin Franklin Training School has been actively engaged in studying the trends of education and supporting
various civic projects in the community.
Although the main object of the group has been to
keep parents in close touch with the work of the school
and to aid in coordinating the work of the home with that
of the school, the organization has also proved to be able
to help in enterprises of a charitable nature.
When the group became affiliated with the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers in 1933, they naturally
adopted the objects which have been set up by that organization first, to promote the welfare of children and
youth in the home, school, church and community; to
raise adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth second, to bring into closer relation the
home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child, and to
develop between educators and the general public such
united efforts as will secure for every child the highest
advantages in physical, mental, social and spiritual edu-

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Of the 198 families represented by the attendance
the Benjamin Franklin Training School, over fifty
per cent of them are included in the membership of the

rolls of

Parent-Teacher Association.
As a member of the Pennsylvania Congress, the organization has been working to achieve eleven goals,
among which are the following: every member an active
participant in some conference or study group within the
organization the entire year’s prog-ram planned in advance study groups in subjects relating to childhood and
youth from infancy to maturity.
Among the speakers who have appeared before the
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fields. Mrs. E. E. Kierman, former state
president of P. T. A., addressed the group on the origin of
the Parent-Teacher Association in its nation-wide aspect.
A representative of the State Department of Health,
Miss Miller, spoke to the group on health work as carried
on in health centers, pre-natal clinics and pre-school age
and infant welfare and the advisability of conducting a
campaign for the use of toxin-anti-toxin. Dr. Harold L.
Halbrook, a specialist in child’s guidance, spoke on
“Youth Child and Its Future.”
Mrs Lois Owen, supervisor of school nursing, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, talked on “Health
of School Children,” at an American Education Week program. Dr. A. W. Castle, of the State Department of Education, gave an instructive discussion on “Preventive Edu-

and professional

cation.”

Sponsoring of the play “Pocohontas,” by the Children’s Theater of New York, was one of the organization’s projects in 1934.
Professor Earle N. Stock, of the Bellefonte schools,
year on “Parents as
Teachers.”
A benefit play, “The Little Princess,” under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, was an important event on
last year’s calendar.
Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings are as
follows: Home-making education, kindergarten, social
hygiene and adolescence. The leaders for such discussions
are usually obtained from local institutions and offices
since they are more familiar with the problems peculiar

spoke before the local body that

to this section.

Collections are taken at each meeting. The offering
given to the room which is represented by the greatest
number of parents. Study groups, following a plan recently organized, are set up according to the rooms in which
the children of the members are taught.
Hobbies and the use of leisure time are the keynotes
of the present study groups. A year’s program has been
scheduled following out this general theme.
Demonstrations are given by the grades at each
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successfully undertaken are the purchase of two pianos
for the Training School, the purchasing of play-grouncl
equipment, the setting up of a magazine library and the
purchasing of eye glasses and clothing for needy children.
One of their important accomplishments has been the
buying of milk for children who cannot afford to drink it
otherwise.
The P. T. A. was organized in 1922 at the instigation
of Miss Azadorian, a kindergarten teacher. Presidents
since its inception have been
Mrs. McKelvey Reber,
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1922-23; Mrs. C. C. Housenick, 1923-24; Mrs Frank
Zaner, 1924-25 Mrs. S. I. Shortess, 1925-26; Mrs. Jesse
Webster, 1926-27 Mrs. Charles Dillon, 1927 Mrs. John
Strausser, 1927-28; Mrs. Elizabeth Fortner, 1928-29; Mrs.
Howard Fortner, 1928-29; Mrs. Howard Fenstemaker,
1928-29; Mrs. F. B. Haas, 1929-31; Mrs. Dale Guthrie,
1931-32 Mrs Roy Snyder, 1932-34; Mrs. John Fisher,
1934-36; Mrs. Clair Hidlay, 1936-37. Mrs. Kimber C.
Kuster is the president at the present time.
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Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently attended
the convention of the National Association of Deans of
Women held in New York City in conjunction with the

National Education Association.
Part of the program included a broadcast over W. J.
Z. and the blue network of N. B. C. in which Dr. Kehr
participated. Dr. Kehr propounded questions on the
broadcast which were answered by others on the program representing youth, justice and morality.
Dr. Kehr was also a participant on the program
conducted by the Pennsylvania Association of Deans of
Women held at the Penn Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa.
On this program, Dr. Kehr took part on a round-table discussion on the topic “Guidance in the Teacher Training

Program.”
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Marionettes and their capers were a part of the pro-

gram presented Tuesday evening, December 21, by Tony
Sarg, nationally known artist and entertainer.

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Schoch One of Oldest

Active Presidents

The following story concerning Mr. A. Z. Schoch,
for many years President of the Board of Trustees, was
printed in the Morning Press
Probably the oldest bank president in the United
States in active service will be at his desk today as Ammon Z. Schoch quietly celebrates the ninety-third anniversary of his birth.
He probably won’t get much work done, however,
because of congratulations that will be pouring in upon
him. Even so, he’ll be taking his work in stride as though
he were a man thirty years his junior.
At that, he has a brother-in-law, Dr. David J. Waller,
Jr., now in his ninety-second year who only recently re:

turned from his summer home at Windermere, Canada,
and who on practically every fair morning was to be
found taking his morning swim in the lake facing his
cottage. Now, that’s another record at which to shoot.
Unless history fails to repeat itself, Mr. Schoch will
get in his daily walk this afternoon, with his large German shepherd dog at his side.
Keenly interested in business affairs of the day, Mr.
Schoch is well-read on current events. Until several
months ago, he read a great deal, especially the newspaper columns. Recently, however, failing eyesight has
caused him to abandon this pleasure except for occasional
periods during which he follows the printed line with a
large magnifying glass. His daughter, Mrs. M. S. McKelvey, reads to him at regular hours throughout the
day.

After his afternoon walk, which ranges from two
to five blocks, he returns home usually for a few games
of solitaire. After an evening of reading and conversation, he retires about 9 :00 o’clock.
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many men much younger than he.
Mr. Schoch first came to Bloomsburg, fiftysix years ago, the Forks Hotel stood at East Street across
from town hall. The town boasted no factory and Market
Street below Third was only half as wide as it is at present. The home of Miss Matty Wells stood out almost in
the middle of the street.
Broken down in health, he came to Bloomsburg to
enjoy the hunting and fishing and to take care of the
affairs of his father-in-law, Mathias Appleman.
His birthplace was on his father’s farm in Franklin
Township, Snyder County, then part of Union County.
Thirteen miles from Selinsgrove, the family made occasional trips to the college center by wagon and Mr.
Schoch recalls that such a visit was really “a good day’s
trip.” Traveling then was often done by packet-boats on
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rival that of

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the canals.

He attended the public schools of the county. At that
time his grandfather was a school director and was eager
to get the best teachers that could be hired.
When he was a mere boy, sixteen years old, he began
to teach for the ‘‘magnified salary” of twenty dollars a
month. For three years he continued in the teaching profession. Then he enrolled at Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna University, in Selinsgrove. He went to Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, in 1861, graduating in 1863.
During Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania, he belonged
to the thirtieth regiment. In 1865 he went into the general merchandising and flour and feed business in Selinsgrove.
He was married on February 6, 1868, to Sara MargAppleman, daughter of Mathias S. Appleman, of
Bloomsburg, and came to Bloomsburg in 1882. He was
made president and general manager of the Bloomsburg
Steam Heating Company in 1888 and served in that
capacity until 1898. He became president and general
manager of the School Furniture Company in 1892 and
continued in that position until 1899.
From 1885 until 1913, he was director in the
Bloomsburg Water Company and from 1895 until 1899
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Bank and its president from August 1, 1899 to February
of 1926, when it was merged with the Columbia County
Trust Company, as the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust
Company.
His name has been linked with that of the Bloomsburg Hospital since it was organized and opened as the
Joseph Ratti Hospital in 1905. He was president of the
board of managers

until 1914 and has since been vicepresident.
In 1890 he was made a trustee of the Bloomsburg
State Normal School and four years later became president of the board. For forty-seven years until about two
years ago, he served on the board, acting as president for
all but three or four terms.

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Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, attended the Educational Congress held in Harrisburg, September 22 and
23. While in attendance at the conference, Dr. Haas was
a guest at the speaker’s table at a special dinner tendered Mr. Audrey Williams, Federal Director of the National

Youth Administration.
Dean Harvey Andruss, Professor William Forney,
head of the Commercial Department, and Professor McMahan of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.,
attended a meeting of the Pennsylvania Business Educators’ Association held in Harrisburg, Saturday, September
25. Dean Andruss of Bloomsburg addressed a group, discussed the subject, “Teacher Probation For Adequate
Teacher Certification.”
Dr. Thomas P. North of the Education Department
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College attended the
Educational Congress in Harrisburg, September 23.
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Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, addressed the morning session of
the Columbia County Federation of Women’s Clubs,
Wednesday, October 20. Dr. Haas discussed the question
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FOOTBALL
The football season opened very auspiciously with a
20-6 victory over the Millersville State Teachers’ College.
The boys had a forward-passing attack that their opponents could not break up with enough effectiveness to
ward off defeat. The following Saturday Indiana State
Teachers’ College came to Bloomsburg to open up the
home schedule, and succeeded in beating the Huskies
26-6 by means of an aerial attack that could not be any
more effectively broken up than had the Millersville attempt against Bloomsburg the week previous. Following
this game came successive defeats from Mansfield (12-0)
Lock Haven (14-6) on the annual Home-coming Day; and
Shippensburg (20-0). A word should be said about the
Lock Haven game. The Havenites brought over a great
team that was later to be crowned Teachers’ College
champions of the state for 1937. The large group of
alumni on the campus that day, who witnessed the game,
went home feeling that they had seen a good Bloomsburg
team give its very best for the school, and the 14-6 score
indicates what an excellent game it was.
In the last two games of the season, Susquehanna
University and the East Stroudsburg Teachers College
were turned back on successive Saturdays by scores of
7-0 and 12-0. For these games, two boys who had been
ineligible the first quarter through scholastic difficulties,
met the necessary requirements and added materially to
the strength of the team. Graduation will take five from
the squad, three of whom were first string players. This
list includes John Maczuga, Norman Henry, Vance Laubach, Alphonse Finder, and John Sircovics. At the close
of the season, Vance Laubach, of Berwick, was elected
by his fellow lettermen as honorary captain for the 1937
season. His consistent good playing throughout the year,
climaxed by brilliant scoring performance in the last two
games of the season, made him a worthy and deserving
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play were Frank Pogozelski, of Shamokin, and Leo Lehman, of Hanover Township.
In keeping with the policy to provide ample opporall who cared to participate in football, a fourgame schedule was arranged for the Junior Varsity.
Keystone Junior College and the National Farm School
furnished opposition that was a bit too severe, but the

tunity for

boys took it with a smile. Northumberland High School
and the Osceola Mills High School furnished good, balanced competition, and the team broke even here, winning the former game and losing the latter in the last
four seconds of play.
The squad at its peak during the fall numbered over
53 members, and more than 40 boys received some type of
award for faithful service during the entire season. An
enthusiastic group of boys will be ready to carry on next
year.

CROSS-COUNTRY

Two meets were arranged

The
for the Freshmen.
with Mt. Carmel High School, ended in a 27*/j271/9 point tie. In the second
contest, Kulpmont High
School was nosed out by the narrow margin of one point
22-23. The first varsity meet was held with the Indiana
State Teachers College, and Bloomsburg won handily,
15-40. At West Chester, the boys dropped a close one,
26-29, to the collegians there. A telegraphic meet with
Slippery Rock gave another one-sided victory to Bloomsburg, 16-39. Coach Buchheit feels very well pleased with
the Fall showing, and has reason to believe that the experience gained here will prove of real worth in developing another championship track team in the Spring.
first run,

SOCCER
To meet an increasing demand for graduates who are
able to coach soccer in connection with their teaching
responsibilities, soccer was added to the Fall list of sports.
Several of the nearby high schools kindly arranged
matches with the college team to help its development.
Some of these matches were won, and some lost, but
eventually the boys felt able to try college competition.
Two games were scheduled with Susquehanna University.
Tha first one was lost by a 3-2 score, and the second was

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won by a score of 2-0. Next season a more comprehensive
schedule will be arranged and better facilities afforded.
Fred Houck, of Catawissa, a college Junior, did much
pioneer work with the team this fall, and deserves much
credit for getting the sport well established.

BASKETBALL
The 1937 varsity basketball squad is shaping up
rapidly under the direction of Coach George Buchheit,
and was in readiness for their opening game with the
Alumni December 3rd played at Bloomsburg. The 1937
“Huskies” squad is composed of the following candiWithka, guard,
dates Ruckle, forward, Newport Twp.
Simpson Banta, guard, Luzerne Smethers, guard, Berwick; Kirk, guard, Berwick, Giermak forward, EdwardsSnyder, center,
ville
Slaven, forward,
Fleetwood
Bloomsburg; Zimmerman, guard, Cumbola; Rowlands,
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forward, Plymouth Twp.; Van Devender, center, Shamokin; Bonham, center, Forty-Fort; Kerchusky, guard,
Ringtown Edwards, guard, Edwardsville Luckenbill,
center, Freeland; Wesley, center, Luzerne; Crocomo, forward, Hazleton Barrall, guard, Mifflin; Marsh, guard,
Tunkhannock; Jury, forward, Bloomsburg; Tomlinson,
forward, Newtown.
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Bloomsburg schedule for the

includes

December
December
December

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8

17

January 8
January 13
January 21
January 28
January 29
February 4
February 5
February 11
February 12
February 18
February 25
February 26

Alumni
_ Home
Susquehanna
_ Away
Susquehanna __ _ Home
Lock Haven
_ Home

Home
Away
Shippensburg _ Away
Millersburg
_ Away
West Chester _._ Home
E. Stroudsburg _ Home
Lock Haven
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Indiana
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Millersville
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Shippensburg _._ Home
E. Stroudsburg _ Away
Mansfield
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Romance Frowned Upon
College Days

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Romance, however innocent, seemingly innocent
was frowned upon back in the post-Victorian period in
1876, the “Regulations” of college decorum set forth in
“Pennsylvania State Normal School, Sixth District” catalogue
now the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College

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catalogue.

Up in the well furnished Alumni Room at the College
are display cases in which books, papers, letters, pennants, checks, catalogues, sports trophies and paraphernalia contributing to Collegian are filed. “Regulations”
governing students for that college term of a half century
ago specifically point out that:
“1. The young ladies and gentlemen are not allowed to
pause and loiter for intercommunication in the Halls,
Society Rooms, Dining Rooms or Parlors, unless by
special permission.
Neither are they permitted to
walk, ride or correspond with each other.”
“5. In the time intervening between the close of the afternoon study hours and the supper hour, the boarding
students have the privilege of leaving the grounds
and walking in the neighborhood of the School.”
“6. After evening Chapel exercises, the students are to
repair immediately to their rooms for study the study
hour ending only with the first retiring bell, at quarter before ten P. M. During this time no visiting of
rooms or loud talking allowed, and no student is permitted to leave his floor without permission from the
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teacher

in

charge.”

“8.

The use

“9.

Nothing should be thrown from the windows. Students will be held responsible for any damage to their
rooms or furniture. No nails are to be driven into the
walls without permission of the steward. No change
of rooms is to be made without permission of the Prin-

of tobacco, in any form, is not allowed in the
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cipal.

Rooms

will be frequently inspected.”

In that day and time, the College location was considered available with ease
as the catalogue points out:
“It is easy of access from various directions, being situated directly on the Bloomsburg Division of the D. L. and
W. R. R., connected by ferry with the N. C. W. B. R. R.,
and but two miles from Rupert on the Catawissa R. R.
Omnibuses run daily between Rupert and Bloomsburg.”
In addition, Bloomsburg at that time had “Churches,
Hotels, Banks, Stores and Telegraphic, Telephonic, and
Railway communications that conduce to the convenience
and comfort of the students and relatives visiting them.”

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More important, the College of that day was located
town that was “The center of a rich agricultural district. The climate of its beautiful valley justly noted for
healthfulness, and its scenery for unusual picturequeness,
Bloomsburg is most favorably situated for an extensive
educational institution
The school grounds are ample,
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comprising fully ten acres, pleasantly laid out in lawns,
play grounds and promenades.”
Pertinent note found in the catalogue is the following appearing under the sub-head, “Application For
Teachers
Those desiring to secure the best teachers
should apply early in the season. They should also remember that competent teachers do not expect to teach
for the lowest wages, and that we can be responsible for
the work of our graduates only.”

Another stipulation that the College of a half century ago was that “every student should be provided with
an umbrella, and lady students with overshoes. Each one
is allowed twelve articles of clothing in the weekly washing.” In this modern day of “a shirt a day,” twelve articles
wouldn’t go

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far.

and board, including washing and heating for the school year of forty-two weeks, amounted to
only $200. But the College stipulated that a break-down
of costs would establish the tuition at $5 per week for
students who took less than the forty-two week course.
Things classed as “extras” consisted of the following Instrumental music, piano or organ, per term of
twelve weeks, $12; vocal music, private lessons, $12;
Lessons in Class, two per week, $3
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piano or organ, per term $3 oil painting, per term, $12;
drawing, penciling, linear, per term, $3 drawing, penciling, perspective, $12; crayoning, $6.
May 23, 1936 was Alumni Day at the College and
Judge C. C. Evans, of Columbia and Montour Counties
gave to Dr. Francis B. Haas, College president, a copy of
the December issue of “The Normal Mentor.” The 1876
copy was compiled by the Philogian Literary Society.
In that issue, J. P. Welsh, writing on “Education in
General,” brought up a question that is still under debate
“Of course there are other
fifty years later. Wrote he
things which man should know, but they may all be said
either to grow out of or cling to (theories advanced heretofore). Now it is evident, when we are thrown into the
society of the uncultivated, that the great mass of our
aim too high. Forgetting that the support of
educators
our institutions of learning and in fact nearly all other
institutions, depends upon the common people, they seem
to ventilate obscure subjects and advance theories which
this class of people cannot appreciate.”
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Dr. Newland, special consultant in special education
of the State Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, visited the State Teachers College
at Bloomsburg, Tuesday, October 5. Dr. Newland met
with different groups of the faculty at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College which has as one of its specialties the preparation of teachers for opportunity classes.
At one of the meetings Dr. Newland met with Professor E. N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, Miss
Edna Hazen, Director of Intermediate and Rural Education, and Miss Amanda Kern, special teacher of opportunity class at the training school of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
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The Senior Informal Dance of the class of 1938 was
held in the college gymnasium Saturday, December 18, at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Committees appointed by the President of the class, John Hendler, made
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FRESHMEN HOLD KID PARTY
Members of the Freshman class at the Teachers
College put aside their college dignity Friday evening,
October 15 and in their first social function as college
students were children once more at the annual Frosh
Kid Party held in the gymnasium.
Practically all of the class was in attendance, each
dressed in the garb of a youngster. Three of them went
in for the long dresses of infants.
The first hour of the delightful evening was spent in
playing games of childhood, including “Farmer in the
Dell” and such.
Then came the grand march and after considerable
deliberation the judges, Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, George C. Buchheit and Dean and Mrs. John
C. Koch made the following awards:
Naughtiest boy, Frank Taylor, Berwick, bag of
marbles; honorable mention, Therwald Gomer, Nanticoke most original, Miss Irene Diehl, Bethlehem, false
face; honorable mention, Joe Hudock, Berwick; nicest
couple, Howard Williams, Scranton, and Miss Ethel
Lauer, Bloomsburg, bag of lolly pops; honorable mention,
Ed. Sharretts, of Berwick and Miss Aldona Maskowsky,
Wilkes-Barre; prettiest girl, Miss Mildred Palumbo, Mt.
Carmel, doll; honorable mention, Miss Arlene Swiresburg, West Hazleton; Miss Thelma Millin, St. Clair;
Miss Dorothy Savage, Berwick
most handsome boy,
Stuart Marsh, Tunkhannock, windmill on stick; honorable mention, Howard Tomlinson, Newtown; Bynoth
Bird, Berwick Bob Myers, York; special award, Cecil
Stover, Sayre and Floyd Van Antwerp, Williamsport,
ping pong paddle with ball
honorable mention, Eddie
Clewell, Berwick.
The exceptional talent in the class was shown in the
fine program of vocal and instrumental selections and
dance numbers. Dancing and refreshments concluded the
evening.
Miss Barbara Gillette was mistress of ceremonies.
Cecil Stover was general chairman of the party and Miss
Dorothy Thomas the program chairman.
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT FORMED BY WOMEN
The women of Waller Hall Student Government Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have
been active in getting their organization in motion. The
governing board of the group made up of the president
and vice president elected by all the women and three
members from each class elected by the class has already
held several meetings and serves as a legislative, executive and judicial body for the Waller Hall group.
new

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Senior member, Alberta Brainard, Susquehanna, has recently been elected to the group. Helen Pesansky, Sheppton, and Irene Knapp, Kingston, are acting Senior members taking the place of girls doing student teaching at
Williamsport.
The governing board has announced the following
appointments of committee chairmen for the college year
1937-38, and the committees are now organizing and
undertaking the year’s work. Chairmen are
Florence
Park, Dallas recreation, Alice Finnerty, Dunmore fire
drill,
Florence Snook, Middleburg; social, Deborah
Jones, West Pittston house judging, Jennie Lesser, Ringtown; clans, Hannah Kulp, Dallas.
The Waller Hall women for years have had a BigSister Committee which welcomes and takes care of the
Freshmen girls. This year a new committee welcomed new
upperclass girls at a tea tendered recently by the new
committee. About a dozen girls have transferred to
Bloomsburg from other colleges or returned to Bloomsburg after teaching and will take their places in the
upper classes. They were the honored guests at the tea.
Hostesses for the social include Anna Rech, Southampton, chairman Emily Arcikosky, Mount Carmel
Olga
Fekula, Frackville and Agnes Ryan, Dunmore.
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The Bloomsburg State
scene, Friday and Saturday,

Teachers College was the
19 and 20, of the

November

Columbia County Institute. All sessions of the Institute
were held in the college auditorium except the dinner
meeting Friday evening at 6 :15 which was held in the
college dining room.

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Y.

W.

C. A.

of October 3 the Y. W. C. A. Cabiannual Retreat at the home of Martha Zehner
of Nuremburg for the purpose of planning the program
for the Y. W. C. A. for the year 1937-1938. Attending this
retreat were Helen Weaver of Bloomsburg; Annabelle
Bailey, Danville; Ruth Miller, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Derr,
Kingston; Florence Park, Dallas; Helen Brady, Kingston;
Alberta Brainard, Susquehanna Florence Snook, Middleburg; Florence Tugend, Dalton; Catherine Bell, Drums;
Marie Foust, Milton and Miss Pearl Mason, Faculty

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net held

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Advisor.

Recently the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. were represented at a State Teachers College Retreat sponsored
by the Student Christian movement, at Lock Haven State
Teachers College by Helen Weaver of Bloomsburg,
President of the Y. W. C. A. and Charles Kelchner, of
Hazleton, Vice-President of the Y. M. C. A. and Prof. S.
I. Shortess, Faculty Advisor of Y. M. C. A. The
program
at this two-day conference centered around “The Place
and Function of the Christian Teachers in the Community.”
On Sunday, October 10th, the Y. W. C. A. was
represented at the North Central Area meeting of the
Student Christian Movement at Susquehanna University
by Miss Catherine Bell of Drums and Miss Helen Brady of
Kingston. This will be an important meeting for the work
of the local college associations. The Y. M. C. A. will be
represented at this meeting by John Mondshine of Coplay,
Charles Kelchner of Hazleton, and Jack Shortess of

Bloomsburg.
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Dean Harvey A. Andruss of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, participated in the panel discussion in
the evening meeting of the joint conference of secondary
and higher education administrators held in the Education Building, Harrisburg, Pa. J. D. Whitney of the State
Department of Education was chairman of the panel
which included educators from the state of Pennsylvania.

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COLLEGE DEAN AIDS CURRICULUM REVISION

A series of meetings has been concluded by a curriculum revision committee of the Kingston High School,
under the supervision of Dean H. A. Andruss, of the College. Of the 1,600 students now enrolled there, over fifty
per cent are engaged in preparing for business and commercial positions. The major part of the committee’s attention was devoted to the formation of a commercial
curriculum which will be put into full force over a period
A special course in office practice will train
future bookkeepers and stenographers to do actual operations in a business setting. The committee was composed
of the heads of the various departments of the high
school, as well as the commercial teachers, who have been
carrying on this work under the local direction of L. W.
Krieger, ’13, principal, an alumnus of the College.
of four years.

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The girls of the Waller Hall dormitory of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently s_ent a gift
box of wearing apparel and toilet articles to the girls of
the fire-razed women’s dormitory of the Slippery Rock
State Teachers College.
At a house meeting, Miss Alberta Brainard, of Susquehanna, was introduced as acting president, succeeding
Miss Anna Mallory, of Shenandoah, who is doing student

teaching at Williamsport.

Announcement was made that Miss Ruth Shay, of
Progress; Miss Stella Johnson of Forty Fort; and Miss
Mildred Johnston, Tunkhannock; members of the Freshmen class, had been named to represent their class on the
Dormitory Students’ Governing Board.
Miss Virginia Roth, of Vera Cruz, was named chairman of the Christmas party, December 18. Miss Virginia
Burke, of Sugar Run, was appointed chairman of the
program committee. Miss Anna Seesholtz, of Tower City,
will be chairman of the Spring assembly program.
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John C. Koch, Dean of Men at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College addressed the teachers in Hanover
Township Thursday afternoon, October 28.

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REVISION OF COMMERCIAL

LAW TEXTBOOK

Dean Harvey Andruss, of the State Teachers College,
has recently contracted to aid in the revision of a commercial law textbook which is now in use in over 5,000 high
schools in the United States.
The

third edition of the textbook

known

as

“Com-

Law” by

Peters and Pomeroy is published by the
South-Western Publishing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The two authors are P. B. S. Peters, Manual Training
High School, Kansas City, Missouri and Dwight L. Pomeroy, Professor of Law, University of Chicago, Chicago,

mercial

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Dean Andruss

will revise the

study guides, objective

and other materials contained in the workbook
which accompanies the fourth edition of the textbook.
Having written “Business Law Cases and Tests” for Prentice-Hall Inc., New York City in 1934 and a series of tests
which have been running in the “Business Education
World” during 1936 and 1937, he has attracted wide attests

tention in these teaching devices as applied in the field of
commercial or business law.

At the present time only three states have commerlaw contests in their annual spring tests. They are
Pennsylvania, New York, and Colorado. The faculty of
the Department of Business Education of the College
make the annual examinations for the two first mentioned states. This has given a “proving ground” for
further experimentation with high school students drawn
from all corners of the two most populous states in the
cial

Union.

The fourth edition of the commercial law textbook
expected to be off press and ready for distribution in
January, 1938, so that second semester classes will have
a new book available for use. Recent national and state
is

legislation makes revision necessary. A supplementary
digest of law for each state will be made for the use of
teachers. The Pennsylvania supplement is being made by
Professor William C. Forney, Director, Department of
Business Education at the College.

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GYMNASIUM

A “Kampus

Karnival” was the theme of the annual
Christmas event held in the College Gymnasium Saturday, December 4, from 11 :00 A. M. until 10 :00
Y.

W.

C. A.

M.
To carry out this theme, the following committee
chairmen were appointed Helen Derr of Kingston, General Chairman, assisted by Ruth Miller of Wilkes-Barre;
Helen
Florence Park of Dallas, Publicity and Bingo
Brady of Kingston, Candy and Candy Making; Alberta
Brainard, of Susquehanna, Tea Room Annabelle Bailey
Florence Snook of
of Danville, Decorations and Booths
Middleburg, Program and Floor Show; Catherine Bell of
Drums, Fortune-Telling; and Florence Tugend of Dalton
and Maude Williams of Olyphant, Pet Shop. Every member of the Y. W. C. A. was assigned to a committee and
had some part in the Karnival.
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decorated in true carnival spirit, offered
useful and attractive gifts to the Christmas shopper.
Distinctive stationery, stationery accessories, desk novelties, handkerchiefs and a new line of Korean. Chinese and
Japanese novelties were on sale.
Booths,

many

A Pet Show was a new feature of the Karnival, and
college and faculty women were invited to enter any
pet (cotton, fur, glass or metal) that they may have for
exhibition with Florence Tugend or Maude Williams before December 1.
all

Four fortune-telling booths were provided.
Another attractive feature of the Karnival was the
Flower Show, under the direction of Florence Snook,
scheduled for 2, 3 and 4 o’clock and 7, 8 and 9 o’clock in
the evening.

The entertainment consisted of musical numbers,
dancing, readings, and other attractions. Among the
entertainers were Jane Oswald of Allentown; John
Plevyak, Carbondale Stasia Zola, Hazleton; Betty Collett, Edwardsville
Anne Curry, McAdoo Mary Quigley,
Shenandoah Francis Ward, Margaret Ward, Kenneth
Merrill, William Hagenbuch and James Deiley of Bloomsburg, and Irene Diehl, Bethlehem.
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CONCERT BY UNITED STATES NAVY BAND

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College sponsored
an evening concert by the United States Navy Band of
Washington, D. C. in the Bloomsburg High School auditorium, Friday evening, October 8. This concert was of
particular interest to those fond of music and to those who
have followed with pride the interesting career of the
United States Navy Band.
Special afternoon concerts were arranged, the first
being held at 2 :30 P. M., with music appropriate for the
elementary school pupils and a second afternoon concert
at 4 P. M. which contained music of interest to secondary
school pupils. By drawing on its huge repertoire in this
fashion the United States Navy Band through the three
concerts provided outstanding entertainment for both
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children and adults.
Lieutenant Benter, former student of John Phillip
Sousa, directed the famous musical organization. Lieutenant Benter presented several of his own compositions in
the October 8th concert. A number of nationally and internationally known soloists who are members of the
United States Navy Band presented individual contributions at various times during the three concerts.
Music lovers in the vicinity of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College had been looking forward for some
time to the concerts. The event was one of the outstanding musical event in this area.
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The Delaware County Institute was held on October
25 and 26, and Dean Harvey A. Andruss, State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, acted as institute instructor for the commercial teachers of that county. The
topics for the four sessions are as follows: (1) Legislature
Affecting Business Education, (2) Administration of
Business Education, (3) Curriculum Building in Business
Administration, and (4) Classroom Problems in Business
Administration. The meetings were held at Media, the
county seat. This is one of the largest groups of commercial teachers in the state, outside of Philadelphia, held in
the counties.

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EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE AT BUCKNELL
An interesting innovation in the panel discussion
technique was worked out recently by Dean of Instruction, Harvey A. Andruss, and Dean of Men, John C.
Koch, both of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, at
a recent educational conference sponsored by Bucknell
University. The general theme of the conference was
“Guidance” and Deans Andruss and Koch combined their
groups which dealt with counseling and the gap between
high school and college. The combined panel included
the following educators: Nicholas Bianco, Old Forge; R.
T. Carvolth, Principal, Blakeley; Dorothy Critz, Dean of
Girls, Pottsville
Edith Heffelfinger, Dean of Girls, MilE. B. Long, Principal, Millersburg; A. E. Paulhamus,
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Beatty, Principal, Wayne R. L. Sutherland, Dean of Men,
Bucknell, Lewisburg.
Dean Andruss and Dean Koch served as co-chairmen
of the panel discussion, which ran for about one hour’s
time, after which the audience joined in the general discussion by questioning members of the panel or making
contributions of their own. The usual panel technique includes but one chairman.
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The following graduates of Bloomsburg recently
paid a visit to the College. They were delegates from
Bloomsburg in 1912 at a Y. W. C. A. Conference held at
Eagles Mere
Miss Mae M. Byington, 46 Mill Street, Binghamton,

New

York.
Miss Ruth Nicely Sterner, Dewart, Pa.
Miss Nelle Seidel, 1618 State Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Miss Elizabeth Sturgis, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miss Blodwen Evans, Moosic, Pa.
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A special Armistice Day program was held at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Thursday, November
11th at 10 :00 A. M. Dr. George Earl Raiguel was the
speaker. Dr. Raiguel has spoken frequently at the college.
He is one of the most popular lecturers who comes to
Bloomsburg.

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SENDS DELEGATES TO GOVERNMENT CONCLAVE
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was represented at the convention of the Women’s Intercollegiate
Association for Student Government held recently at
West Hampton College, University of Richmond, Va.
Miss Malloy, Shenandoah, president of Waller Hall, and
Miss Dorothy Sidler, Danville, president of the Day
Women’s Association, represented the Bloomsburg institution. The theme of the convention was “Progressive
Trends in Student Government” and 23 colleges were
represented. Outstanding educators addressed the convention and discussion groups on various aspects of
student government were held.
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An enthusiastic group of Bloomsburg students and
alumni living in Hazleton and vicinity, organized as the
Education Council last summer, and held several interesting meetings. The officers of the organization are President, Edward Matthews; vice-president, Harry T. Nelson;
corresponding secretary-treasurer, Doris Von Bergen;
recording secretary, Minnette Rosenblatt; scribe, Ben
Singer.
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Mrs. Francis B. Haas of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College tendered a reception in honor of
Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff of Bloomsburg. Dean Sutliff
is former Dean of Instruction at the college. Over 150
were included on the guest list for the reception which
was held in the social rooms of Science Hall on the college
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campus.
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Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College, addressed the teachers of Lycoming County at their institute held Friday, October 8, in

Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Dr. H. H. Russell, of the Bloomsburg faculty was reelected treasurer of the National Council of Geography
Teachers, at the meeting held in Ann Arbor, Michigan,

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KEHR ATTENDS CONFERENCE

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women of the Bloomsburg College, recently attended the convention of the
National Association of Deans of Women held in New
York City in conjunction with the National Education Association.

Part of the program included a broadcast in which
Dr. Kehr propounded questions which were answered by
others on the program representing youth, justice and
morality.
Dr. Kehr was also a participant on the program conducted by the Pennsylvania Association of Deans of
Women held at the Penn Harris Hotel, Harrisburg. On
this program, Dr. Kehr took part in a round-table discussion on the topic “Guidance in the Teacher Training

Program.”
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Dean Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, participated in the panel discussion in
the evening meeting of the joint conference of secondary
and higher education administrators held recently in the
Education Building, Harrisburg. J. D. Whitney, of the
State Department of Education was chairman of the
panel which included educators throughout the state,

November

3, 1937.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, president of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College, and Dean of Instruction H. B.
Andruss, attended the Fall meeting of the Association
of Liberal Arts Colleges of Pennsylvania for the Advancement of Teaching. The meeting was held in the education
building at Harrisburg.

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Miss Lora Snyder of Exchange, a member of the
class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College who received honors in penmanship at the institution
last year, was recently honored through the publication of
a specimen of her penmanship in “The American Penman” in the October, 1937, issue.

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MANY GRADUATES OBTAIN

POSITIONS

Graduates of the Department of Commerce of State
Teachers Colleges are having little difficulty in obtaining
positions. Of the thirty who graduated in May, only four
are unemployed at the present time and it is believed that
these will be placed within the near future. The graduates are either teaching or have found employment in
other fields. The State Department of Public Instruction
at Harrisburg reports the greatest shortage of Commercial teachers in years. This status of affairs is contrary to
the belief that the Teacher Tenure Law would prevent a
large number of teachers from obtaining employment.
The graduates of this year’s class who have found employment in the teaching profession are Amanda I. Babb,
Mohnton, Pennsylvania; Joseph W. Bartish, Coughlin,
Pennsylvania; Harold L. Border, Barnesboro, Pennsylvania; Gladys M. Brennan, West Lampeter, Pennsylvania; Edward J. Brown, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania;
Randall F. Clemens, Woodbine, Pennsylvania; Anna S.
Ebert, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Edward P. Garvey,
South Fork, Pennsylvania; Earl A. Gehrig, Danville,
Pennsylvania; Anna Jean Laubach, Muncy, Pennsylvania; Mary Helen Mears, Mt. Top, Pennsylvania; Thelma I. Moody, Maryville, Pennsylvania Florine L. Moore,
Berwick, Pennsylvania Victoria M. Muskaloon, Osceola
Mills,
Pennsylvania; Harry T. Nelson, E. Smithfield,
Pennsylvania; Joseph S. Ollock, Swoyerville, Pennsylvania, George John Plesk, Eldred, Pennsylvania; Thomas W. Reagan, Winber, Pennsylvania; Mary Reisler,
Soudertown, Pennsylvania Blaine J. Saltzer, Slatington,
Pennsylvania, Julia I. Schlegel, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania;
William L. Shutt, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania; Amanda
Jean Walsh, Dallas Township, Pennsylvania.
Miss Dorothy Hower is employed in the Department
of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Mr.
Edward L. Webb is employed in the Department of Labor
and Industry, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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PEP MEETING BROADCAST

A football pep meeting dedicated to the 1937
“husky” squad of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was broadcast Wednesday evening, October 6, over
WKOK, Sunbury, from 7 :00 to 8:00 P.M. The Bloomsburg State Teachers College presented its fourth broadcast of the current semester and it was very appropriate
that this broadcast be tendered in honor of the 1937
Maroon and Gold football squad which defeated Millersville State Teachers College 20-6, and which met the
Indiana State Teachers College at Bloomsburg opening
their home season Saturday, October 9.
It is believed that this broadcast of a college pep
meeting was the first of its kind attempted on the air. The
coaching staff of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
including head coach A. Austin Tate, and assistant
coaches George Buchheit and Klembara were heard on
the program. Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Athletics at
Bloomsburg, reviewed football at the Teachers College.
The Maroon and Gold Band of the College under the
direction of Professor Howard Fenstemaker contributed a
number

of stirring selections in the

way

of football songs

and interspersed throughout the program was organized
cheering directed by the college cheer leaders, and
college songs sung by the student body. Mr. Alex McKechnie, new Berwick chairman of the Pep Committee,
introduced a number of members of the 1937 Bloomsburg
squad. The program was directed and announced by Dean
John C. Koch.
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Members

of Phi Sigma Pi of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, participated in a broadcast from the
college campus December 3rd from 7 :30 to 8:00 P. M.
The Phi Sigma Pi is an honorary men’s professional fraternity and is sponsored on the Bloomsburg campus by Dr.
T. W. North and Professor E. A. Reims.
The program had as its theme “The Constitution of
America.” Professor Reims discussed some phases of the
Constitution as did William Stawinski, Harrisburg; William Yarworth, Centralia, and William Smith, Berwick.
During the broadcast the entire personnel of the organization sang some of the fraternity songs.

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DEATH OF MRS. SARAH JANE DYKE
Mrs. Sarah Jane Dyke, mother of James A. Dyke,
local mortician and grandmother of Miss Jane Dyke, a
student at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died
at the family residence, Fifth and Hickory streets, Mount

Carmel. Her age was 78 years.
Complications caused her death, following an extended illness. During the month of August her condition
was aggravated when she fractured her left arm in a
fall down a short flight of steps outside her home. Even
from that injury, however, she recovered to a certain extent but, lately, she suffered a relapse and her condition
turned serious.
She was born at Blina, Wales, a daughter of the late
Thomas and Amelia Fearn. More than 60 years ago she
came to the United States, resided in Centralia about 25
years, in Ashland a few years, and in Mt. Carmel the
past 34 years.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church
and of the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans.
Her husband, David D. Dyke, preceded her in death
12 years ago. The survivors number two sons, James A.
Dyke and Thomas D. Dyke, associated in the undertaking
business; a daughter, Mrs. Harvey Schwamlein, Mount
Carmel; one granddaughter, Miss Jane Dyke, a student
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and one brother,
William Fearn of Gertletree, Maryland.
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Mr. Bernard Floud, 22, son of Sir Francis Floud, K.
High Commissioner, Canada spoke twice at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, October 31 and
November 1. Mr. Floud is a graduate of Wadham College,
Oxford University and has studied at the University of
Berlin, Grenoble and Toronto. He is Secretary General of
the International University Federation for the League of
Nations and in England is a member of the Executive
Committee of the British Youth Peace Assembly. Last
year he was the British delegate to the World Youth
Congress in Geneva. He is now in America on a short lecC. B., British

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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

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

J.

Executive Committee

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

Mr. Frank Dennis,

’ll

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

Mahoney,

’09

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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YVyoming-Susquehanna Counties
Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock
Stewart Button, Susquehanna
Fred Kester, Mill CityMrs. Susan Sturman, Tunkhannock

President
First Vice-President
Second Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Lena

Hillis

March, Tunkhannock

Montour County
Harriet Fry, Danville
Pierce Reed, Danville, R. D. 5
Alice Smull, Danville
Ralph McCracken, Riverside

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Philadelphia

Mrs. Norman G. Cool
Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley

President
Secretary and Treasurer
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THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
From

the President

:

We have entered the eighth year of our existence,
and they have been happy years. The monthly luncheon
meetings began Saturday, October 9, and are held the
second Saturday of each month until April. We are indebted to the kindly generosity of the Gimbel management for a very lovely room in white to hold our meetings. It is an ideal arrangement because it takes care of
our Alumni from far and near. The number who set
to
aside this day
the second Saturday of each month
shop, lunch, and visit, is growing. We would urge more to
get the habit, and thus keep in touch with old school
friends
friends of our youth, and most precious. Come
and bring another, and tell others how fine these meetings are. No finer group meets anywhere. We would have

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this

year one big success. Don’t forget, the second SaturRoom, Seventh Floor,

day of each month, the Club
Gimbel’s.

The Christmas luncheon of the Philadelphia Alumni
Association of B. S. T. C. was held in the Club Room of the
Gimbel Store Restaurant Saturday, December 11, 1937.

What

a delightful affair it proved to be, and what a
faces as well as old ones
were particularly happy to greet Aunt Mintie

joy to see

We

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89 years of age, who was graduated when
Bloomsburg was a Literary Institute. Uncle Ned Hausknecht was in his usually cheerful mood, and kept us all
amused, especially the “Bronse Brothers,” aged eight
and nine respectively, who had some sort of Christmas
wager with Uncle Ned about a pair of skis and Santa

Wilson,

Claus.

Mr. Ellis Gimbel was presented by Mrs. Cool. He
gave a short talk on how much better the world is today,
and how much better we are today for having lived yesterday; we shall be better tomorrow than we are today,
if we have love and charity for our neighbor, and religion
in our hearts.
A drawing was held for a beautiful hooked rug,
which was presented to the Association by Mr. and Mrs.
Myron Garney.
A grab bag table was arranged for the occasion,
and there was great merriment as the members opened
their packages. Fred and Frank Bronse, the two promising sons of Mrs. Edwina W. Bronse, were the salesmen
at this table, and the articles were sold in short order.
Mrs. Vera Fox Steimayer’s lovely little daughter
Mary, four years old, had a grand time with a large
colored doll which she drew from the grab bag. It was a
great source of pleasure to her all through the luncheon.
Janice and Helen Kenney, daughters of Nora Woodring Kenney, Esther and Mary Yeager, daughters of the
late Mandilla Hartline Yeager, and Mary Alice Foley, a
student at Bloomsburg during the past two years, served
in a very capable manner as Junior hostesses. Miss Esther
Yeager, class of 1930, and Miss Alice Foley, daughter of
our Secretary, are the youngest active members of the
Philadelphia group.
Marion, the interesting young daughter of Paith
and Myron Garner, had just passed her ninth birthday,
and as she is a very loyal junior member of our group, she
always celebrates at our luncheons. As we all have learned to love her since she was a tiny tot, Marion was the
recipient of gifts and the good wishes of the Association,
and accepted them with her usual graciousness and

charm.

Our Christmas luncheon was

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fifty-five present. The spirit of Bloomsburg was present,
as always. This meeting celebrated our sixth year of

luncheon meetings. Our first annual banquet
was held in May 1931.
With best wishes to all for a Happy New Year, we
say with Tiny Tim “God bless us every one.”

monthly

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Mrs. Florence Hess Cool,
President.

Per Lillian

Irish,

Secretary Pro. Tern.
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MEMBERS AT COLLEGE ALUMNI PARTY

More than 250 members and friends of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Alumni Association of Luzerne
County attended a masquerade dance and card party
held in Hotel Redington Wednesday evening, October 27.
Dancers enjoyed old and new dances. Prizes were
awarded to winners in the grand march and for spot
dances. Prizes were awarded card winners at twenty
tables.

Dance prize winners were
Edison Fisher,
Eleanor Roderick, Miss Dilys Rowlands, Miss Eva
Harold Hirner, Harry Dorght, Guy Evans,
tay,
Charles Moore, Miss Irene Draina, Miss Louise Gori,

Miss
RusMrs.

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Sam-

uel Oliver.

The Bloomsburg Alumni Association of Luzerne
County held a semi-formal dance on Tuesday, December
28th. This affair was held at the Redington Hotel,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and gave the students an
opportunity to see their friends during the holidays.

1874

A life-long resident of Bloomsburg, Miss Mary M.
Unangst, eighty-one, died at her home on East Third
Street, Bloomsburg, Thursday, September 23 from complications. She had been in ill health for some time, being
confined to her bed since June 26.
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daughter of the late Phillip and Sarah Unangst, pioneer
Bloomsburg residents.
Miss Unangst enjoyed a wide circle of friends and
throughout her life was active in the St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church. She taught Sunday School for some years,
was president of the Missionary Society and secretary of
the synodical Missionary Society. A graduate of the
Bloomsburg Normal School, Miss Unangst taught school
for twelve years in Bloomsburg, Espy and Rupert. For
years she served on the Public Library Board, and was
secretary of that body for twenty-three years. She was
also a member of the Century Club.
Surviving are a sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Unangst,
of

New York

City.

Miss Mary A. Thomas, 81, Bloomsburg, died Monday, November 8, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles
L. Fairchilds, of Broad and Hanover Streets, Nanticoke.
Miss Thomas, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel R. Thomas, of Bloomsburg, was a native of that
community and a graduate of B. S. T. C. in the class of
1875. She later taught in the Dahl school, in Hemlock
Township, the Lance Private School in Plymouth, the
Hancock Street school in Wilkes-Barre, the White House
school in Nanticoke and the State Street school in Nanticoke.

many

years of teaching, Miss Thomas beher uncle, J. B. Stone, manager of the
Acme Oil Company at Reading. On her retirement she
went to Bloomsburg to live for a few years and then went
to Nanticoke 12 years ago. She was a member of St.
George’s Protestant Episcopal Church of Nanticoke.

After her

came secretary

to

1876

A

fine tribute was paid to Judge Charles C. Evans on
the occasion of his retirement from the bench after havingserved in that capacity for almost a quarter of a century.
Tears welled in the eyes of the Judge Friday afternoon, December 31, when immediately following adjournment of his final session of court, he heard prominent citizens of the county speak words of praise for his
work as a jurist.

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The high esteem that the community holds for the
Judge was distinctly shown in the impressive ceremonies
following the close of the court session the motorcade
which escorted him to Berwick, the great number of citizens who met the procession there and went to the Evans’
home.
The work of the Judge also merited praise in messages from Governor George H. Earle, from former Governor Gifford Pinchot, who once appointed him to the
bench, from Chief Justice John W. Kephart of the State
Supreme Court, and from Judge Evans’ successor, Judge
Clinton Herring, who started his term Monday, January
;

3

.

the adjournment of the court, Major
Barton, of Bloomsburg, asked and received permission to speak. Mr. Barton said that, as the curtain was
ringing down on the outstanding career of Judge Evans,
built through almost a quarter of a century of service on
the bench, he as a layman wanted to speak in appreciation of the fine treatment he had received at the hands of
the retiring Court. He said that he was speaking for all of
the citizens of the district when he spoke of gratitude for
the Court’s services. He thanked the Court for the many
times boys had been parolled in his custody, and observed
that in only one case, did the boy fail to make good.

Following

Harry

S.

Dr. E. A. Glenn, of Berwick, followed Major Barton.
said that there was present to escort the Judge to Berwick a small group who represented a legion who admired him. He then read commendation of Judge Evans’
work from men high in public life. They follow

He

Governor George H. Earle

:

— “As Governor

of Penn-

regret deeply the retirement of President
Judge Evans from the bench after nearly a quarter of a
century of service to the people of Columbia and Montour
Counties.
“Judge Evans has served his Commonwealth faithfully, and 1 regret not to be able to attend the ceremony
marking his retirement.”
sylvania,

1

—

Former Governor Gifford Pinchot: “My respect
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years, and I value his friendship, and I congratulate him
on a career which has won for him the affection of his
fellow-citizens, and the admiration of his community. In
common with his host of friends, I wish him long life

and every happiness.”
Chief Justice John W. Kephart, Pennsylvania Su“It is with great regret that the Supreme
Court witnesses the retirement from the Bench of the
Honorable Charles C. Evans, president judge of the Court
of Columbia and Montour Counties.”
“In reviewing the cases before the Court wherein
Judge Evans presided, we note with pleasure his profound knowledge of the law, his ability to grasp the real
issues of the case, and the clarity in which he forcefully
expressed his views of the law. It will be difficult for
these counties to replace him he had set such a high
standard of excellent judicial work that it makes the
road for his successor extremely hard, but we wish for

preme Court:

—

;

him success.”

“We

Judge Evans our hope
be prolonged, and that he may enjoy to the
fullest degree that holiday of the later years of his life
that his hard earned labors have won for him.”

that

life

all

join in expressing to

may

—

Judge Clinton Herring: “You have been on the
bench nearly, if not quite, a quarter of a century in the
twenty-sixth Judicial district of Pennsylvania, and, as
you leave the same, 1 am sure you have the highest respect from the public. You have discharged your duties
faithfully, well, and expeditiously as Judge, and I wish
for you a Happy New Year, and many more of them, and
all the prosperity that you richly deserve.”

1882
Miss Blanche Search, daughter of the former Lizzie
Church, has returned, after a year’s furlough, to resume
her work as a missionary in China.
1885
Dr.

Thomas Bruce

Birch,

world-famous scholar, au-

thor and professor of philosophy at Wittenberg College, died in his home at 910 Woodlawn Ave., at 7 :25 P.

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M. Monday, December
He was 71 years old.

20, following a three

week

illness.

Dr. Birch attained international recognition as a
scholar with the publication in 1930, of “De Sacramento
Altaris,” by William of Ockham, in a critical Latin text
and in an English translation.
The work was the result of years of preparation and
research by Dr. Birch and was hailed throughout the
world as a monumental achievement. It created a sensation among scholars of Medieval Latin and is now in use

everywhere.
For 15 years, Dr. Birch spent

in universities

his time, energies and
in the preparation of the volume. He was forced to
learn to read Medieval Latin written and printed in the

money

puzzling abbreviations of the 14th century. To solve the
problem of sources, Dr. Birch used photostatic copies of
manuscripts from European universities. The authorship
of the book cost him several thousands of dollars.
Dr. Birch had held the John W. Book waiter chair of
Philosophy at Wittenberg College since 1908 and for
many years was director of the College Summer School.
He was a familiar and beloved figure on the campus and
was respected and admired by the student body as well
as fellow members of the faculty.
As the result of his achievements, Dr. Birch was one
of the few Ohioans to have been honored with a membership in the Authors’ Club of London. He also was a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, the British Institute of Philosophy
Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Dr. Birch was born at Bloomsburg, Pa., on September
He prepared for teaching at the Normal School
11, 1866.
there and later studied at Susquehanna University. In his
Junior year, he entered Gettysburg College, from which
he was graduated in 1891. Three years later he was graduated from the Theological Seminary of Gettysburg.
The famous scholar began his career as a teacher at
Gettysburg Academy and later taught in Irving College
from 1896 to 1902, and at Susquehanna University from
1903 to 1905. He was a Harrison Foundation scholar
from 1905 to 1906 and a Harrison Research Fellow from

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1906 to 1908, when he received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and became professor of philosophy at Wittenberg.
In 1926, he was awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity by Gettysburg College and in 1984, he
received an invitation from England to cooperate with an
international group of scholars in the preparation of a
dictionary of Medieval Latin.
Considered Wittenberg’s most eminent scholar of the
20th century, Dr. Birch has been listed in “Who’s Who”
for a number of years. He also was a contributor to various publications on psychological and philosophical sub-

and had lectured extensively throughout Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan on religious subjects.
Fishing and the collection of rare books were his
hobbies. He owned one of the four known copies of “Corpus Juris Canonici of 1514,” the other three being located
in Rome, Paris and Venice. He also owned several other
rare 16th and 17th century volumes.
jects,

Despite his achievements, Dr. Birch had a quiet and
unostentatious personality around the campus. He was
interested in athletics and was a familiar figure at practice sessions of the college football team with his everpresent stick of whittling wood.
In 1931, Dr. and Mrs. Birch were honored by being
chosen honorary members of the Senior class which was
graduated in June of that year, and Dr. Birch was the
principal speaker at services commemorating the 90th annual Founders’ Dav of Wittenberg College in March of
1935.
He was a member of the Fourth Lutheran Church, of
Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., and of the Scotish
Rite of Dayton.
Dr. Birch was the third of 15 members of the

“Grand Old Guard”
this

autumn. Dr.

J.

of

Wittenberg

taken by death
Keyser preceded

to be

A. Ness and Dr. L.

S.

him.
Dr. Rees Edgar Tulloss, president of Wittenberg College issued the following statement in connection with
Dr. Birch’s death

“The passing of Dr. T. Bruce Birch takes from the
faculty of Wittenberg College another of those strong

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make

the college

known

and respected in the academic world. His scholarly ability and achievements have received literally world-wide
recognition. To a superior ability as a student and teacher
of philosophy, he added a knowledge of abbreviated
Latin possessed by only a few men in America. His volume on ‘William of Ockham,’ to the preparation of which
he devoted more than a quarter-century of persistent
work, is recognized as an authoritative contribution to
the world’s knowledge of this important figure of the
early 14th century.

References to it in scholarly publicaworld attest its worth and

tions in almost every part of the
its enduring significance.

“After a successful teaching experience elsewhere,
Dr. Birch came to Wittenberg College in 1908 as professor of philosophy and education. He developed Wittenberg’s specific teacher-training program, and thus laid
the foundation for the present strong department of education. As a teacher of psychology, he strengthened the
offerings in this important modern science, and led in the
inauguration of another separate department. It was,
however, in his chosen field of philosophy that he made
his greatest contribution. For 29 years he carried all or a
major portion of the courses in this department. In his
classes he came into contact with great numbers of Wittenberg students, exerting a profound influence upon their
thought and attitude. He will be remembered as an able
scholar, an enthusiast for his subject, a teacher always
deeply interested in his students.
“Profoundly convinced of the value of liberal arts
education under Christian auspices, he joyfully devoted
his energies to a life-long service in this field. He chose
his work deliberately, and gave himself to it with wholehearted devotion. It is of such men that it can truly be
said that ‘multitudes rise up and call them blessed’.”

1888
Stricken with a heart attack as he was about to pour
some gasoline into his parked automobile on Bloom Road,
Danville, Richard Franklin Colley, aged sixty-eight, of
Market Street, Bloomsburg, died almost instantly.
The veteran salesman, widely known throughout this

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section, had not been in good health recently but his condition was not considered serious and his death came as a
profound shock to his family and a legion of friends.

Mr. Colley, the son of the late Robert Lafayette and
Stiles Colley, of Benton, was a member of
one of the county’s pioneer families, and a descendant of
Jonathan Colley, of Chester County, who settled in what
is now Sugarloaf Township in 1790.

Martha Jane

Born
his early

in Benton on June 3, 1869, Mr. Colley obtained
education in the schools there and later attend-

ed Bloomsburg State Normal School. He began work as a
clerk for I. W. Hartman and later entered the employ of
W. H. Moore, of town. After gaining some merchandising
experience locally, he was four years in the employ of
Gimbel Brothers at Philadelphia.

Returning to Bloomsburg in 1898, he devoted most
remainder of his life to that of a traveling salesman, with his territory in central and north eastern
of the

Pennsylvania.

On September

6,

1899, he claimed Miss Ella

Maude

Runyan as his bride, the couple observing their thirtyninth wedding anniversary less than two weeks before his
death.

Mr. Colley, a lover of music, was the possessor of a
splendid tenor voice. For many years he was a member of the choirs of the First Presbyterian Church and
Caldwell Consistory, serving on both organizations at the
time of his death.

He was

a

member

of the First Presbyterian Church,

and well known in Masonic circles, being a member of
Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M.; Royal Chapter
No. 218; Crusade Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar
and Caldwell Consistory, in town, and Irem Temple
Shrine, Wilkes-Barre.

are his widow
three daughters, Miss
R. Colley, of New York City; Mrs. E. E. Howard,
of Millersville and Miss Beth Colley, at home
two
grandchildren, Susan and Beth Howard, of Millersville
a sister, Mrs. Josephine Beckley, of East street, and three
nephews, residing in Wilkes-Barre.

Surviving

;

Martha

;

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Miss Margaretta T. Shaw, of Lewistown, died recently at her home, after an illness lasting two months. Miss
Shaw had retired from teaching some time before her
death. The editor regrets that he has not obtained further information, and wishes to state that he shall be glad
to print a more detailed obituary in the next number of
the Quarterly, if one of Miss Shaw’s classmates will send
him the necessary information.

1894
Funeral services were held at the Seriff Funeral
Home for Boyd Robison, Berwick, whose death followed
an illness of pneumonia that was the direct result of exposure suffered when he fell and broke a leg while fishing
near Wyalusing.
Rev. A. W. Smith, pastor of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Robison was a member, conducted the service, and read two poems, “Crossing the
Bar” and “Abide With Me.” Rev. Mr. Smith took the funeral sermon text from the 90th Psalm.
Interment was made in the Pine Grove Annex.
Rev. David E. Robison, a son, came to Berwick from
Madison, Wisconsin, where he is associate pastor of Lutheran Memorial Church, to attend the services, and Miss
Martha Robison, a sister, came from Higgins, N. C., where
she is a Presbyterian moderator and has charge of a

mountain mission.
Mr. Robison was born

in

Bloomsburg on October

19,

1876. He was observing his sixty-first birthday the day of
the accident.
He was the eldest son of the late James Boyd and
Jennie Breece Robison, the former for many years an attorney in Bloomsburg. Through his paternal grandmother, he was the great grandson of Elisha Barton, early
settler of this section, and an ancestor of many persons in
this locality.

He was the grandson of Daniel Breece, another of
the older residents of this area. He was a nephew of Miss
Hannah Breece and Mrs. Charles E. Kesty of Bloomsburg.
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the county, then in the West, and later in southwestern
Canada. On his retrun to the East, he established resi-

dence

in

Berwick.

1909

For his excellent missionary work among Phillippine
natives during the past ten years, the Rev. Robert F.
Wilner has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of the Phillippine Islands. His appointment was announced at a
convention of the House of Deputies of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, held in Cincinnati in October.
Bishop Wilner had been headmaster, and his wife,
Alfa Stark Wilner ’12, has been principal of the Easter
School at Baguio, for ten years. They are both loyal members of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association.

1922

Announcement has been made

of the engagement of
Miss Ruth Sober, of Bloomsburg, to Mr. Warren Evans
Fairbanks of Wakefield, Mass. Miss Sober is the art instructor in the Doylestown schools. Mr. Fairbanks is a
graduate of Tri-State College of Indiana, and is employed
as Safety Engineer by the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co.

1924

Sad circumstances marked the death of James Wilson Benscoter, aged thirty-three, of Hunlock Creek, R. D.,
who died at the Nanticoke Hospital on the day of his
father’s burial and on the eleventh anniversary of his
wedding.
He was the son of Mrs. Florence Benscoter and the
late W. B. Benscoter, of Fairmount Springs. Besides his
mother, he is survived by his wife, Gertrude Quick Benscoter and two daughters, Alice and Marjorie.
A graduate of Huntington Township and Shickshinny High School, he also attended Bloomsburg State
Normal School. During the year 1924-25, he taught school
in Fairmount Township. Since then, he had been employed by Milton Pollock, of Hunlock Creek.
He was a member of Hunlock Creek P. O. S. of A.,
secretary of the Pleasant Valley I. O. O. F., 788, and was
president of the Booster Association.

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Mr. and Mrs. John M. Evans, of Kingston, announce
the marriage of their daughter, Alma, a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, to Walter Kramer,
of Orange, N. J. Mrs. Kramer has been teaching at West
Wyoming and Mr. Kramer is affiliated with the Western
Electric

Company

at

Orange.

1925
William Coffman, successful teacher

in

the Fleming-

High School, for the past nine years, has been
elected principal of the Millville High School.
Mr. Coffman, a World War veteran, is a graduate of
Bloomsburg Normal School and Bucknell University.

ton, N. J.

1926
Miss Elizabeth Anne Thomas, a teacher at Kingston
and a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
and Edmund Berry, of Kingston, were married in the
First Baptist Church, Kingston.

The marriage of Miss Mary Gallagher, of Plymouth,
a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
Edmund Jenkins, of Plymouth, was solemnized in St.
Vincent’s rectory, Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Jenkins is a teacher
in the Plymouth schools and Mr. Jenkins is employed in
the composing room of the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader.
1927
Miss Alberta Gasewicz, a teacher at Glen Lyon and a
graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, and
Leon Grala, of Hazelton, were married on Thanksgiving
morning in St. Adalbert’s Church, Glen Lyon.
of Bloomsburg,

and Miss Septa
were married on Saturday,
September 18. Mrs. Ritter is a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and has been teaching at Old
Forge. The bridegroom is a graduate of Bloomsburg High
School and is employed with his father, prominent
Bloomsburg business man.
Leslie

T.

Thornton, of

Ritter,

Old Forge,

1929
In one of the prettiest weddings of the season, Miss
Elizabeth
Miller, of Riverside, became the bride of

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George Harrison Miller, of Danville.
The single ring ceremony was performed Saturday,
October 2nd, in the St. Peter’s M. E. Church in Riverside
by the pastor, the Rev. C. A. Bickell. The bride is a
graduate of the Danville high school and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and has been a member of the
faculty in the Danville schools for several years.
The groom is a foreman in the printing department
of The Morning News, Danville.

Following a series of complications, Miss Fannie Hill,
thirty-three, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died at the home of her parents in Minersville.

Twins, a boy and a girl, were born Sunday, October
and Mrs. J. L. Cohen, of Wichita, Kansas. Mrs.
Cohen is the former Audrey Moore, of Berwick, and is a
former member of the teaching staff in the Berwick
24, to Mr.

public schools.

1931

Mary Elizabeth Morgan, daughter

of Mrs. Richard
Morgan, of Larksville, was elected at a school board
meeting to teach fifth grade there and also to serve as
girls’ basketball coach. She attended Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and at present is teaching at the HillF.

side School, Trucksville.

Announcement

of the

engagement

Monell Wallace, of Baldwin, L.
son of Dean and Mrs. W. B.

of Miss Vera
to Mr. Robert Sutliff,
Sutliff, of East Second
I.,

was made by the former’s mothMrs. Joseph Ward, of 11 Lincoln Avenue, Baldwin,

Street, at a bridge party
er,

Long Island.
The Misses Harriet and Helen Sutliff,
Sutliff attended the announcement party.

sisters

of Mr.

Miss Wallace attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.
and the New York School of Interior Decorating. She
now associated with the firm of Frederick Loeser in

Y.,
is

Garden

City, L.

I.

Mr. Sutliff, one of Bloomsburg’s best known men,
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in tennis. He received his degree at the
Bloomsburg
State Teachers College where he played on the varsity
tennis team. He is now a member of the faculty in the
social studies department at Baldwin. The marriage will
take place in the spring.

1933
Miss Ella Corrigan, of Wilkes-Barre, a former student at Bloomsburg, and Robert McNamara, of Parsons,
were married Saturday morning, November 6, in St.
Dominic’s Church, Wilkes-Barre, with the Rev. J. J.

White

officiating.

Woodrow W. Hummel,

son of Mr. and Mrs. H. N.
of Rupert, married Miss Helen M. Krape,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira D. Krape, of Renovo, at
ten o’clock Thursday, November 25, in the Reformed

Hummel,

Church, Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. B. R. Heller, pastor of the church.
The bride was graduated from Renovo High School
in the class of 1930 and from Lock Haven State Teachers
College in 1934. The groom graduated from the Bloomsburg High School in the class of 1929 and from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in the class of 1933. The
bride is a teacher in Renovo High School and the groom
is employed by the E. R. Beers Electric Company.

1934
Before an altar banked with ferns and chrysanthemums, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Lentz, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Lentz, of East Fifth street, and Thomas
Franklin Eynon, Jr., son of Mrs. Nora Eynon, of Hazleton, and Thomas F. Eynon, of Scranton, were united in
marriage by the Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Harker at the Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Aldwin D. Jones, of Scranton, was matron-ofhonor; Miss Naomi Meredith, of Lewistown, maid-of-honor, and Thomas F. Eynon, of Scranton, was best man. The
ushers were William Graver Lentz, brother of the bride;
William Henry McGarrah, and Robert Eynon McGarrah,
cousins of the groom, and Joseph Creasy Connor.
Following the wedding, a reception of 125 guests
was held at the bride’s home on East Fifth street. The

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home was

attractively decorated in fall garden flowers.
In the receiving line were the bride’s mother, Mr. and

Mrs. W. G. Lentz, the groom’s mother, Mrs. Nora Eynon,
the groom’s father, Thomas Eynon, the bridal couple, the
maid of honor and the matron of honor.
Mrs. Eynon is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School
and State Teachers College. She taught for two years in

Georgetown, Del. The groom graduated from Mercersburg Academy and Lafayette College and is a member of
Sigma Nu fraternity. Their residence is 237 Arthur Ave.,
Scranton.

Friends have just been informed of the marriage of
Miss Ruth Magill, Danville, Pa., to Robert Owen, of
Cody, Wyoming, which was performed in the Trinity
Lutheran Church in Danville on Christmas night, 1936,
by the pastor, Rev. E. L. Leisey. They were attended by
Mr. and Mrs. Ard Mader, cousins of the bride. The bride
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Magill. She is a
graduate of the Danville high school, class of 1932, and
attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Owens is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Owens,
East Market Street. He is a graduate of the Danville High
School and Pratt Institute School of Art. He is employed
at Cody, Wyoming.
Mrs. Owens will join her husband in the next few
weeks.
1935
Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Lauretta M. Foust, of Watsontown, and Leonard R. Baker, also of Watsontown. The marriage took place Saturday, October 23, at Frederick, Md.

1936

Announcement has recently been made of the engagement of Miss Dorothy Hopple, of Mechanicsburg,
and Ernest Lau, of Dimock. Mr. Lau is a teacher in the
Dimock High School.
Miss Carmelita J. Suit and Harold L. Border, both
of Berwick, were married Christmas Day in the Presbyterian Church at Bel Air, Maryland. Mr. Border is
teaching at Barnesboro, Pa.

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The engagement of Miss Eleanor Rhoades, of Wyomand Paul T. Witheridge, also of Wyoming, has been
announced. Miss Rhoades is a teacher in the Wyoming
ing,

Schools.

Elizabeth Feinour has been elected teacher in the
schools at Millville, Pa.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Gladys Rinard, of Catawissa, to Dr. Alfred S.
Ruesch, of Great Neck, Long Island. Miss Rinard is
teaching music and history in the Bristol schools. Dr.
Ruesch is a graduate of Lafayette College, and Bellevue
Medical School, New York City.
1937
Miss Catherine Durkin, of Ashland, a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1937, has
accepted a teaching position in the rural school at Womelsdorf, Heidelberg township, Berks county.

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
APRIL, 1938

Vol. 39

No. 2

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

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July
Pa.,

H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,
NELSON,

Editor

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is

Bloomsburg State Teachers College

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is

more

than that, for economically speaking, it gives employment to upwards of 95 persons who earn better than
$191,455.00 each year.
That sum is a considerable one one that has a
widespread effect on the county economic life. In addition, some 172 students are employed part time in the
various tasks that the College is able to provide, such as
work attendant feeding the student body, and that group
earns approximately $12,000.00.
Student hours worked totalled 40,203 between June
1, 1936 and May 31, 1937, from which period the figures

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above were derived. The hours, of course, of the instructional staff are not clearly defined, since students do not
learn nor prepare within certain defined limits and faculty members have been noted for their devotion to their
profession, carrying it so far that they have been known
to be willing to drop almost any personal task at hand to
discuss the problem that vexes the students.
Summed up, the statement of the College expenses
for labor reaches the staggering total of $193,605.00 paid
out to 267 individuals at one time or another.
Of the 95 non-students employed at the College, 45
maintenare instructional and 50 are non-instructional

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Of the 172 students given employment at the ColThey w ork over
lege, 107 are men and 65 are women.
forty thousands hours each year.
Meanwhile, ground w as broken for the new' gymnasium at the College, a program that launches the biggest building scheme in the history of the local institution.
Excavation w'ork has progressed daily since last January
19, w hen Dr. H. V. Hower, of Berwick, President of the
Board of Trustees, turned over the first spadeful of earth.
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“highwater mark in the history of the institution,”

as the

which will be enlarged by the nearly $600,000.00 providContracts for the
ed by the General State Authority.
work already has been let.
The General State Authority, first called unconstitutional, then constitutional when the supreme court of the
State reversed itself, has allocated $577,700.00 for the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College project, with this
amount including architects’ fees and contingencies.
The following bids were awarded by the State agenStofflet and Tillotson, Philacy: General construction
Hayden
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Benni Electric
Sherry, Hazleton, $38,769.00; electrical
Company, Inc., Philadelphia, $25,854.00.
The gymnasium will be a new building and will include a swimming pool, offices and class rooms for the
Health Education Department. It will be situated on
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now being developed. It will be equipped completely and
make possible the development of a modern health educaprogram.

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The Junior High School will also be a new building,
which, with the recently erected Benjamin Franklin
Training School, will make available complete student
teacher observation, practice and demonstration facilities.
The building will balance the present Training
School in its location and general appearance and part of
the new building will be on the present varsity athletic
field.

College authorities point out that when the building
will be equipped with all modern facilities for demonstration, observation and participation at all the levels needed for student practice work
from the kindergarten through the years of Junior High
School.
The building will make provision for the best modern Junior High School practice, including a library,
home economics room, industrial arts room, general
science room and a small auditorium.
The College is situated on an eminence of 150 feet,
overlooking the town of Bloomsburg and the Susquehanna river. The buildings are grouped to give easy access
from one another.
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completed the College

A mid-year dance was held at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Saturday evening, January 22. The affair was sponsored by the Community Government Association of the College.
Music was furnished by Fairchild’s orchestra of Northumberland.
The dance took the form of an informal reception in
honor of the new students enrolling for the second semester of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Earl Spicer, baritone,

presented

Auditorium Friday evening, March

a

concert in

the

numbers of the Artists’ Course. His program was made up of
old English and American ballads, in both old and modern arrangements. With his fine voice and pleasing stage
presence, Mr. Spicer gave a program that was received
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General State Authority Building projects at Bloomsburg State Teachers College were held in the College auditorium at 2:00 P. M., January 19.
The building program to be undertaken following
the ground-breaking exercises includes: a new gymnasium, a new Junior High School, a new shop and storage building, and an addition to the present power plant
to provide for the increased needs of the new buildings.
It is expected that a new boys’ dormitory will be included
at a latter date.

The program held in the College auditorium was as
follows
Presiding __ Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College
Audience

“America”

Invocation
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.
Greetings by Representatives of
The Student Body
Mr. Clyde Klinger
President, Community Government Association.
The General Alumni Association
Mr. Fred W. Diehl

Member, Board of Directors.
The College
President, Board of Trustees.
The Department of Public Instruction

Dr. H. V.

Hower

Dr. Carl Morneweek
Chief, Division of Child Accounting and Research.

The Community
President,

The

Mr. Nathan Krauss

Town

Council.
General State Authority

Mr. Joseph A. Cunningham
Administrative Assistant.
Selections

Direction

“Alma Mater”
Group Singing

Maroon and Gold Band
Fenstemaker
Audience
Direction, Miss Harriet Moore

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Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker
Mr. John C. Koch
Broadcast
Following the program, adjournment was made to
the proposed site of the gymnasium building where brief
ground-breaking exercises were held.
The building program at the present time includes a
new gymnasium with swimming pool, offices, and classrooms for the Health Education Department. It will be
completely equipped and make possible development of
the modern health education program. A second part of
the program will be a new Junior High School on the
campus, which with the present Elementary Training
School, will make available complete student teaching,
observation, demonstration, and practice facilities. This
building will balance the present Benjamin Franklin
Training School in location and general appearance.
When complete the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
will be equipped with all modern facilities for demonstra-

At the Console

and participation at all levels needed
for student practice work from the kindergarten through
the Junior High School. The building will make provision for the best modern Junior High School practice including: Library, Home Economics, Industrial Arts room,
tion, observation,

General Science room, Commercial Education room, and
a small Audit room.
third building will be a new shop and storage construction replacing the present barn used for shop and
storage purposes. It will make possible the concentration of maintenance equipment and services.
There will
be an addition to the present power plant to provide for
the increased needs of the new buildings.

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John Bower, Berwick, was recently elected President of the Public Relations Forum, an undergraduate organization at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Eleanor Beckley, Bloomsburg, is Vice-President and Abigail Lonergan, Berwick, is Secretary.
The Student Council is sponsoring this organization in order to give students at Bloomsburg an opportunity to discuss and learn
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letter and circular of information,
recently sent to Bloomsburg graduates, are published
here with the hope that readers of the Quarterly will assist the members of the Class of 1938 in securing positions
for next year. The services of the Placement Bureau are
available also to all Bloomsburg graduates who are seeking teaching positions.

To Our Graduates:
The purpose of

this letter to our graduates is to elicit
your assistance in placing the members of our Senior
Class in teaching positions.
If available positions in
which you are not personally interested come to your attention, we shall greatly appreciate it if you will advise
us relative to the grade if in the elementary school, or
subject if in the high school, and the proper school authority to whom to write. Such information will materially assist us in placing our graduates and in serving the

interests of school officials.
Below you will find a statement relative to our 1938
candidates for teaching positions and the kinds of positions they are qualified to fill
Receiving State Standard Limited Certificates:

Kindergarten-Primary
Intermediate

25
49

Rural

17

91

Receiving Bachelor of Science Degree in Education:

Elementary
Rural
Secondary
Commercial

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4

54
47
114

205
Total Available For Teaching Positions
is an analysis of the fields covered by those prepared for secondary school work:

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Social Studies and English
Social Studies, Geography, and English
Social Studies, Mathematics, and English
Social Studies, Science, and English
Social Studies, Science, eGography, and English
Science, Mathematics, and English
Science, Mathematics, Social Studies and English
Science, Geography, and English
Geography, English, and Social Studies

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Geography, Mathematics, and English
Latin, English, Geography, and Social Studies
Latin, Science, Social Studies, and English
Latin, Mathematics, Social Studies, and English
Latin, French, and English
French, Geography, Social Studies, and English
French, Mathematics, and English
French, Social Studies, Geography, and English
French, Geography, Mathematics, English, and Social Studies
French, English, and Geography
French, English, Geography, and Social Studies
Geography, Biological Science, and English
Business Education
Business Education and Social Studies
Business Education, English, and Social Studies
Business Education and English

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Every member of the graduating

class has particisuch as the various
athletic organizations, dramatic clubs, music clubs, or-

pated

in extra-curricular activities,

chestra, student

government association, science

clubs,

etc.

Our Placement

Service

(Bell

phone Bloomsburg

charge of Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of
Teacher Training, is organized to give prompt service
and complete information regarding our graduates.
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Very sincerely yours,

FRANCIS
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President.

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A CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION
The Placement Service aims

to assist school officials

competent teachers for their school systems.
In performing this service information of a professional
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When

an employer requests the Placement Service

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name candidates, it is desirable that he state
The name and address of the school where the

2.

employed.
The address of the employer.

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description of the position
grade or grades in an
elementary school; the subjects to be taught in high

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Professional requirements
degree, experience.
Personal requirements
age, sex, etc.
6. The salary to be paid.
7. When employment begins.
The Placement Service in complying with employer’s requests gives confidential information relative to the
preparation, experience, scholarship, personality, character, and health of candidates.
The Placement Service nominates candidates and
sends confidential information only on request by an employer. It desires to be fair, honest, and helpful in its
contacts with every employer and every registrant.
Communications should be addressed to Mr. Earl N.
Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training.
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Thirteen students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College completed their work leading to a B. S. degree in
education Friday, January 14, the end of the first semesA special assembly was held at 10:00 A. M. Thurster.
day, January 13, in honor of those completing their work.
Dr. Henry Klonower, Director, Teacher of Education and
Certification of the Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Pa., was the guest speaker. The following-

candidates received the B. S. degree in education: Commercial
Mary A. Allen, Oxford Alex Kupstas, WilkesBarre Ruth E. Langan, Duryea Mary Ellen Miller, Berrysburg; Anthony L. Salerno, Old Forge; Frances M.
Sell, Allentown; Hilda Edra Tinney, Berwick; Dorothy
Frances Pearl
Intermediate
Wenner, Stillwater.
J.
SecFester, Bloomsburg; Mary Edna Girton, Berwick.
ondary Harold John Freeman, Wilkes-Barre; William
John McKell Reese, West NanT. Pelak, Edwardvsille

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picture of College life could have been given than that presented during the eleventh annual
Rotary-Kiwanis-College Evening staged at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Thursday evening, March
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The College proved itself a real host, presenting one
of the most varied and entertaining programs in the history of the delightful affair.
One of the most noteworthy features was the initial
showing of a colored motion picture depicting the work
from the time the student enters the Freshman class until
graduation. The picture had been filmed by Prof. George
Keller, requiring the greater part of a year.
At the dinner, the invocation was given by Dr. D. J.
Waller, former Principal of the College. Toastmaster W.
B. Sutliff, President of the Kiwanis Club, stated that Dr.
Waller “was President when 1 came in as a green country boy and Dr. Haas was President when 1 walked out.”
In responding, Dr. Francis B. Haas remarked that it
was hard to believe that a second decade for the meet.

had come.
The affair, he continued, started first as a small
group of two clubs and has now developed into a larger
affair. He took occasion to thank members of the faculty,
employees and the student body who had co-operated in
making the dinner such a great success.
During the dinner group singing was lead by John
Lyle and Clarence Sober, song leaders of the service clubs
and at the close of the program Leo Schneider, President
of Rotary, presided. The College orchestra, under the
ings

direction of

Howard Fenstemaker,

furnished the dinner

music.

The program presented in the College auditorium
Greeting from the Community Government Association, President Clyde Klinger; “Maroon and Gold,”
selection, audience and College chorus; one-act play,
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“The

Eligible Mr. Bangs,” featuring Gerald Fritz, FloraSchrecongos, Margaret Potter, Philip Traupane
with Miss Alice Johnston the directress; overture “Light
Cavalry,” the Maroon and Gold orchestra; selections on
the xylophone, “Nola” and “Indian Love Call,” by Miss
Ethel Paith, accompanied by Miss Margaret Ward; selection “A Spring Song,” by the mixed chorus; organ selection, “Romance,” by Howard F. Fenstemaker; selections
by the Cappella Choir, “To the Old Pine Tree” and “O
Morn of Beauty,” with Miss Harriet Moore directing;
piano solo “Danse Negre,” by John Young; College film,
“Education For Teaching”; selection by band, “Aida,”
and the singing of the “Alma Mater.”
Mrs. John K. Miller was the accompanist for the
group singing.
bella

Plans for the Eighth Pennsylvania Commercial Conproject sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, have been
completed. Because of the large number of high schools
participating in the Contest, the schools will be divided
into Class A and Class B competition. The Contest will
be held two days, April 30 and May 7. Examinations for
the Contest will be prepared by the following faculty
members of the Department of Business Education
Gregg Shorthand, Miss Margaret Hoke; Bookkeeping,
Mr. Herbert McMahan; Typewriting, Miss Marguerite
Murphy; Business Arithmetic, Miss Mabel Oxford; Business Law, Mr. Walter Rygiel.
To compete for the Commercial cup, a Class A school
must enter five students in at least three events. Winners
of the Class B schools will be awarded a plaque. The successful high school teams of the past are: William Penn,
Harrisburg, 1937; Wyoming, 1931 and 1935; Collingsdale, 1936; Latrobe, i 934 Berwick, 1933; Northampton,
1932. Forty schools, from which fifty teachers, and over
200 students and visitors attended the Contest last year.
The Contest will be managed by William C. Forney, Director o‘f Business Education at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, and inquiries regarding the Contest
should be referred to him.
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J1R. E. H.

NELSON,

Director of Health Education at the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has announced
the Spring sport schedules for baseball, tennis and track.
George Buchheit the
Dr. Nelson coaches the baseball
track, and John C. Koch, tennis. Miss Lucy McCammon,
of the Health Department, is in charge of the May DayPlay Day which has been announced for Wednesday,
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May

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on the College campus.
sports schedules are as follows:

The Spring

Baseball

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Western Maryland University
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20 — University
Pennsylvania
27 — Lock Haven
30 — West Chester
May — Shippensburg
May — Bucknell University
May — East Stroudsburg
May 12 — Indiana
May 13 — Kutztown
May 14 — Mansfield
May 16 — Susquehanna University
May — Bucknell University
Tennis
April 13 —
April 21 — University
Pennsylvania
April 27 — Lock Haven
April 30 — West Chester
May — Shippensburg
May — Bucknell University
May — East Stroudsburg
May 13 — Kutztown
May 14 — Mansfield
May 16 — Susquehanna University
May 17 — Bucknell University
May 20 — Indiana
May 21 — Open
April
April
April
April
April

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Millersville S. T. C.
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Track

April 39-30

May
May
May
May

— Penn Relays

—Shippensburg
— East Stroudsburg
14 — State Meet
17 — Susquehanna University

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Philadelphia

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There
Shippensburg
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Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Athletics at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has announced the 1938
varsity football schedule.
new-comer on the schedule
will be Kutztown State Teachers College, replacing Susquehanna University from last year. Other colleges on

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the schedule include those who have met the “Huskies”
over a considerable period of time.
The schedule as set up at present stands: October 1,
Millersville, Home; October 8, Indiana, Away; October
15, Mansfield, Home; October 22, Lock Haven, Away;

October 29, Shippensburg, Home; November 5, Kutztown, Away; November 12, Stroudsburg, Away; November 19, Panzer College, Home.

The 1937-38 basketball season proved to be very
goes.
The team won six games

erratic, as basketball

and lost nine during the season. Although beaten by
Susquehanna and Mansfield, two very weak teams,
Bloomsburg showed enough fight to beat such state
championship contenders as West Chester, Indiana,
and Millersville. The following boys won their varsity
Ruckle, Withka, Bantam, Smethers, Bonham,
letters:
Wenrich, Slavin, Germack and Davison, manager.
The scores are as follows:
26 B. S. T. C.
44
Alumni
28
Susquehanna
35 B. S. T. C.
54
34 B. S. T. C.
Susquehanna
34
37 B. S. T. C.
Lock Haven
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Mansfield
Mansfield
Shippensburg
Millersville

West Chester
Stroudsburg

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18 B.

S. T. C.

22 B.
40 B.
43 B.
36 B.
39 B.

S. T. C.

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Indiana
Millersville

Shippensburg
Stroudsburg
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B.
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The J. V. team had another very successful season,
although their record of victories for three successive
years was broken. They won eight games and lost two.
The boys showed plenty of spirit, and a wealth of
material will show up for next year’s squad.

The Annual High School Basketball Tounament
was played March 12, 18 and 19, with the largest number
of competing schools in its history. The winners are as
follows
Class
Class
Class
Class

A
B

Freeland
Warrior Run

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CC

Pringle
Scott

Township

The Milton Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of E. Hart Bugbee, gave a concert Friday evening,
March 25, as the final number of the 1937-38 Entertainment Course. The program was devoted entirely to Russian composers, and delighted the audience.
William Strawinski, of Harrisburg, was recently
elected President of the Dramatic Club of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. Peggy Johnson, Shamokin, was
elected Vice-President, and Jean Capwell, Factoryville,
Secretary. New members of the club are: Ruth Bishop,
Lake Arial Jane Dyke, Mt. Carmel; Mildred Johnston,
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Tunkhannock; Dorothy Englehart, Bloomsburg; Annabelle Bailey, Danville; Thorwald Gomel Nantieoke; Bernard Ziegler, Ashley; Murray Barnett, Scranton; Ray
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The Freshman class at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held their annual Freshman Hop Saturday,
March 26. This event is always one of the outstanding
social activities of the first-year class.
The Mixed Chorus of the Milton High School, under
the direction of Professor Confer, broadcast a program
of chapel music from the auditorium of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, Wednesday evening, March 23,
from 7 :00 to 7 :30 P. M. The program was heard over
WKOK, Sunbury, and was one of the regular Bloomsburg
State Teachers College broadcasts.
Four undergraduates of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College accompanied by Prof. E. N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, attended the student conference on Secondary Education recently held at Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pa.

Kathryn Walp, Berwick; Joyce Dessen, Hazleton;
Miles Smith, Berwick, and

Howard Barnhart,

Danville,

accompanied Prof. Rhodes and participated in the Temple University program.
The conference was held to discuss curricular problems in Secondary Education, particularly those arising
as a result of the new compulsory attendance law which
raises the attendance

age to eighteen.

The Milton Symphony Orchestra presented a conBloomsburg State Teachers College on Friday
evening, March 25. This event brought to a close the
College entertainment program for 1938. Previous Milton Symphony concerts given at the Bloomsburg State
cert at the

Teachers College have always been well received, and
another enjoyable evening of music was provided this
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The names of upperclass students at the Bloomsburg
olate Teachers College who attained scholastic honor
during the first semester of the current College year have
been released by Harvey A. Andruss, Dean of Instruction
Those listed
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Alice
include: Seniors
Mary Allen, Downingtown

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Auch, Easton; Marjorie Beaver, Danville; Bernice Bronson, Athens; Anne Curry, McAdoo; Robert Diehl, Easton Martha Evans, Shamokin Philip Frankmore, Easton Dorothy Frick, West Pittston
Margaret Graham,
Bloomsburg; Anne Crosek, Plains; Jacob Kotsch, Egypt;
Ruth Langan, Duryea; Ruth Leiby, Danville; Helen Pesansky, Hazleton; Margaret Potter, Bloomsburg; Ellen
Rhinard, Berwick; Anthony Salerno, Old Forge; Florence Snook, Middleburg. Juniors Lucille Adams, Berwick; Annabelle Bailey, Danville; Ruth Dugan, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Englehart, Bloomsburg; Evelyn FreehafAbigail Lonergan, Berwick
er, Reading
Betty Savage,
Berwick; William Yorworth, Ashland.
Sophomores
Ruth Boone, Nuremberg; Joyce Dessen, Hazleton; Clay;

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Kelchner, West Hazleton; Frank Kocher, Espy; Eunice
Laubach, Berwick Betty Roberts, Wilkes-Barre; Miles
Smith, Berwick Elnora Unger, Danville.
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Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women, has been recently honored as the second woman to be appointed to
the National Board of Advisors of the National Student
Federation of America. Others added to the Board at
the same time were Dr. Ambrose L. Suhrie, Professor at
N. Y. U., School of Education; Dr. James Shotwell, Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
and Mr. Thomas F. Neblett, former President of the Federation.
Continuing as members of the Board are Dr.
Frank P. Graham, President of U. of N. C. Dr. George F.
Zook, President of the American Council on Education;
Dr. S. Ralph Harlow, Professor at Smith College; Mr.
John A. Lang, former President of the Federation; Chancellor Earnest H. Indley, U. of Kansas; Mrs. Lena M.
Phillips, Associate Editor of Pictorial Review, and Dr.
Homer P. Rainey, Director of the American Youth Commission.
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Dr. Kehr has written an article on “Extra-curricular
College Life in America,” which was published in the
March issue of the International Student Service Bulletin
published at Geneva. Dr. Kehr, who was a member of
the National Advisory Board of the American Youth
Congress, shows in the article how college life in America
has reached the point where it provides for all types
of students and enables each to pursue his own line of development. The I. S. S. bulletin is the monthly organ of
International Student Service and reaches over 34 countries in the world.
Prof. E. A. Reams, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, spoke on International Relations before the Junior Women’s Club of Bloomsburg on Thursday evening,

March

3.

The Annual Inter-Fraternity Ball was held SaturMarch 5, and was sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma Gamma Theta Upsilon, Pi Omega Pi, Alpha Psi Omeday,

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and Phi Sigmi

Pi.

Thirty new students and transfers enrolled at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the second semester.

The list of new students include the following: Clair
Baum, Nuremberg; Margaret Berninger, Bloomsburg;
Arlene Fetter, NorthumberPeter De Rose, Peckville
land; Mrs. Deborah Griffith, Bloomsburg; Thomas Grow,
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Ringtown; Eleanor Haines, Catawissa; William Hess,
Bloomsburg; Fayette Honicker, St. Clair; Donald Karnes,
Bloomsburg; Alexander Carpelenia, Bethlehem; Beatrice
Kirchman, Danville; Kathryn Lanciano, Kulpmont; Betty
McCawley, Old Forge; Catherine McCord, of Plymouth;
Kenneth Miller, Nescopeck; Joseph Monaghan, Lost
Creek; Janice Nichols, Berwick; Thelma Oplinger, Norristown Leonard Philo, Kingston Eleanor Reilly, Shenandoah Mary Savage, Benton; Herbert Schneider, West
Hazleton; Virginia Shambach, Troxelville; Grant Thomas, Lee Park; James Watts, Millville; William Wanich
Light Street; Robert Walker and Thelma Walker, Sha;

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Dean Harvey A. Andruss, State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, has been invited to address the Commercial
teachers of New York and Pennsylvania at their spring
meetings. The Philadelphia Commercial Teachers Association, which met in connection with School Men’s Work
at the University of Pennsylvania on March 30, and the
Commercial teachers of Western New York, who will
meet at Rochester, N. Y., on April 30, in the John Marshall High School, are the two groups to be addressed by
Dean Andruss. The subject of these addresses will be
“Some Problems in the Administration of Commercial
Education.” This caption was used as a title by Dean Andruss in writing the leading article for the bulletin of the
Commercial Education Association meeting in
Pittsburgh last Spring, and a reprint will appear in the
April, 1938, issue of The Balance Sheet.
Tri-State

Dr. Martha Downs of the State Teachers College at
Newark, New Jersey, representing the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, recently spent a day on the campus of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Dr. Downs,

who has

visited many Teachers Colleges throughout the
East and who came to Bloomsburg immediately after a
tour of Maryland and Connecticut, met with various
groups on the campus of the local institution.
A luncheon meeting was held with administrative officers and departmental heads after which Dr. Downs
discussed some of the problems she has been encountering in various teacher training institutions. Later in the
day, Dr. Downs met with the Student Council of the Community Government Association and still later with the
faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Honor

roll of

the

Freshman

Class, 1941, for the first

semester of the current College year has just been released by Dean of Instruction Harvey A. Andruss of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The list includes: Business
Education Murray Barnett, Scranton; Robert Borneman, Pottstown; Mary Bretz, New Bloomfield; June
Eaton, Galeton Barbara Gillette, Hanover Township
Elizabeth Hawk, Milton; Mildred Johnston, Tunkhannock Ethel Lauer, Bloomsburg Robert Lewis, Danville

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Clark Renninger, Pennsburg; Howard Tomlinson, NewSecondary Education Ruth Brandon, Berwick
Josephine Brown, Bloomsburg; Francis Early, Plymouth;
Gerald Fritz Berwick; Carl Grauer, Nescpeck; Joseph
Dudock, Philadelphia; Robert Miller, Berwick; Victor
Turini, Wyoming.
Elementary Education Eda Beilhartz, Muncy; Mary Davis, Kingston, Marian Long, Northumberland; Jean Moss, Plymouth; Marjorie Young,
Kingston.

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ton.

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Bloomsburg “Husky” baseball team for 1938 has
been taking advantage of warm weather for outdoor
workouts at Athletic Park and on the College field. Coach
E. H. Nelson’s proteges opened their season on April 13
with Millersville at Bloomsburg.
Whitey Moleski, pitching main-stay of Bloomsburg
“Huskie” for several seasons back, and recently graduated, was on the campus working with the pitchers to help
Coach Nelson. Moleski later reported to Draper, North
Carolina, as he is under contract with the organization
for the 1938 season.
With continued favorable weather Coach Nelson expects fine results on a Spring trip to be held during the
Easter vacation when a number of College teams will be
met, including the University of Pennsylvania on April
20
.

Gamma

Theta Upsilon meeting of March 17,
year 1938-39 were elected. William Yarworth, Centralia, was chosen to lead the group. Ruth
Dugan, Bloomsburg, will be Vice-President; Mildred
Hart, Wapwallopen, Recording Secretary; Sara Tubbs,
Bloomsburg, Corresponding Secretary, and Annabell

At the

officers for the

Bailey, Davnille,

was

elected Treasurer.

The representa-

tive to the Inter-Fraternity Council will be Lillian
er,

Yeag-

Centralia.

Under the general chairmanship of William StrawHarrisburg, the Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Fra-

inski,

ternity sponsored

ment on April

1

its

and

annual High School Play TournaThe judges, chosen from local

2.

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alumni of this fraternity, presented loving cups to the
groups of actors eligible for awards. The high schools
participating were Catawissa, Hazleton, Scranton and
N orthumberl an d
Mr. Walter S. Rygiel, of Wyoming, Pa., has been appointed to the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College as a member of the Commercial Department.
Mr. Rygiel is 32 years old, married, has two children, was graduated from the Commercial Teacher Training Course at Temple University, Philadelphia, with a
In 1936 he received his MasB. S. degree in Education.
ter’s Degree. He possesses a High School Principal’s Certificate.
He taught 12 years at the Wyoming Memorial
High School, Wyoming, Pa., where, under his supeiy
vision, students of the high school won the Silver Cup
twice in the Eastern Pennsylvania Commercial Contests,
held at the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg. His
Pennsylvania Permanent College Certificate certifies him
to teach Bookkeeping and Accounting, Typewriting, Law,
Shorthand (Gregg-Pittman-Graham)
Junior Business
Training, Office Practice, Commercial Mathematics, Social Studies, French, English and Guidance.
He has had
experience in the following school activities Thrift Adviser, Senior Class Adviser, Faculty Athletic Manager,
Sponsor of School Paper, Gregg Club Adviser and Sponsor of the Gregg Club Annual, and Business Manager for
School Plays.
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John C. Koch, Dean of Men, and Dr. E. H. Nelson, of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, jointly addressed
the Father and Son Banquet of Christ Church, in Williamsport, Thursday evening, January 27, at 6:30.
The
film regarding College life at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, all in color, known as “Alma Mater,” was shown
in connection with the joint talks.
The Reverend Canon Stuart F. Gast, formerly of
Bloomsburg, is rector of the Christ Church, Williamsport.

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When the Inter-Fraternity Council at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College organized in January, under
the sponsorship of Prof. W. C. Forney, the following officers were elected: President, Norman Henry, Berwick;
Vice-President, Edward Matthews, Hazleton; SecretaryTreasurer, Willard Christian, Shamokin
Chairman of
Professional Affairs, Ruth Dugan, Bloomsburg; Chairman of Social Affairs, William Thomas, Scranton.
;

Mr. James R. Gillette, organist, and the Gillette
Chamber Orchestra appeared as part of the entertain-

ment program at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
Friday, February 11.
Mr. N. Birss Curtis has resigned from the faculty of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in order to organize the new Department of Business Education at State
Teachers College at Shippensburg, Pa.

Educators from the Bloomsburg area joined with
the students of Bloomsburg to hear Dr. Lester K. Ade,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in an address
given in the College Auditorium Tuesday afternoon,
April 7. Dr. Ade’s subject was “The New Education.”

The program, which was broadcast through WKOK,
Sunbury, also included selections by the A Capella Choir
and the Maroon and Gold Orchestra. Following the
broadcast, the

new

all-color picture of the College,

“The

Education of a Teacher,” was shown. The picture was
filmed under the direction of Prof. George J. Keller.

Harvey A. Andruss, Dean of Instruction, State
Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, attended
the meeting of the Eastern Commercial Teachers Association at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia
during the Easter holidays. During the past several
years Dean Andruss has appeared on the program of this
Association twice, has contributed to the Year Book in
1932 and 1936, and has served as Pennsylvania State
Membership Chairman of the Eastern Commercial
Teachers Association, which is the largest group of com-

mercial teachers

in

the United States.

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Northumberland won the Class A division of the
Tenth Annual One-Act Play Tournament sponsored by
the Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Fraternity at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Northumberland presented the play “Vengeance Height.” The Scranton Junior
High School, competing in the same class presented the
play, “Submerged.”
Catawissa, presenting the farce,

“Sham” won the Class B contest over Millville who presented, “Faith and Works.” Judges of the contest were
Miss Carlene Hoffman, Mrs. Clarence Sober and Maynard Pennington.
Officers of Alpha Psi Omega are
Philip Frankmore, Easton, President; Martha Dreese, Quakertown,
Secretary; Jacob Katsch, Egypt, Treasurer, and Miss
:

Alice Johnston, Director of the Fraternity.
Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College were guests of honor at a dinner
tendered by the College Faculty Tuesday evening, April
5, at the Homestead Tea Room, Sunbury. Following the
dinner Dean Harvey A. Andruss, representing the faculty,
spoke briefly and presented Mrs. Haas with a
bouquet of flowers. The committee in charge of arrangements for the dinner included Miss Edna Barnes, Miss
:

Amanda

Miss Marguerite Murphy, Miss Pearl
Mason, Dr. T. P. North, Mr. E. A. Reams, Mr. William
C. Forney, Dr. E. H. Nelson, and Mr. John C. Koch,
chairman.
Kerns,

The Bloomsburg Players

of the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College presented a play “The Silver Thread,”
under the sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher Association
of the Benjamin Franklin Training School associated
with the Teachers College. The play, which was presented on two consecutive days, was well received, and
was under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College faculty.

Mrs. Stella Hostenbader Weinman, of Filer,
recently paid a visit to the College.

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A group of ten students from Shippensburg State
Teachers College was entertained at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College over the weekend of April 8 and
9.
The visiting students were guests of the musical
organizations and community government association
at the Spring Concert and Dance held Friday evening,
April

8.

Dr.

H. H. Russell, of the Bloomsburg State
in charge of the visitors.

Teachers College was

Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Dean of Women, has writan article on “Extra-Curricular College Life in
America,” which was published in the March issue of
the International Student Service Bulletin published at
Geneva. Dean Kehr, who was a member of the National
Advisory Board of the American Youth Congress, shows
in the article how college life in America has reached
the point where it provides for all types of students, and
enables each to pursue his own line of development. The
1. S. S. Bulletin is the monthly organ of the International
Student Service, and reaches over thirty countries in the

ten

world.

Miss Annabelle Bailey of Danville has been elected
editor of the Obiter, year book of the graduating class of
the Teachers College, for the volume to be published
next year by the class of 1939. Miss Abigail Lonergan,
of Berwick, has been named business manager.
Miss Bailey is a student in the Department of Secondary Education, and Miss Lonergan a student in the

Commercial Department.

John Mondschine of Coplay, has been named President of the North Hall Student Government. Edward
Mulhern, Forty-Fort, was named Vice-President; Clark
Renninger of Pennsburg, member of the Freshman class,
was elected Secretary, and Norman Maza, Nanticoke,
was elected Treasurer. The newly elected officers will be
installed at a future meeting of the North Hall Student

Government

Association.

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Twenty-seven under-graduates of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College attended the thirteenth annual
Spring Conference of the Eastern States Association of
Professional Schools for Teachers held recently at the
Pennsylvania, New York City. The conference
two days and a half, during which time the
Bloomsburg representatives attended a student-faculty
banquet, and various group meetings, where various
Hotel

lasted

types of Teachers College problems as affecting undergraduates were discussed.
Miss Ruth Dugan, Bloomsburg, R. D., represented the local College in a panel
discussion on “Guidance in Teacher Education.”
Dean Harvey A. Andruss and Dean Marguerite W.
Kehr were in charge of the group which included the
following: Clyde Klinger, Nuremberg; Margaret Graham, Bloomsburg; Alice Auch, Easton; Norman Henry,
Berwick; John Maczuga, Anna Malloy, Shenandoah;
Dorothy Sidler, Danville; John Hendler, Martha Dreese,
Quakertown
Jacob Kotsch, Egypt; James DeRose,
Helen Mayan, Danville; William Yarworth, Ralph Baker, Floren Stefanski, Wilkes-Barre
Howard Tomlinson,
June Eaton, Galeton Thurwald Gommer, Jack Fiorini,
Espy; Richard Nolan, Mt. Carmel; James Deily, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth Gilligan, Dunmore; Annabelle Bailey,
Danville;
Ruth Kleffman, York; Eleanor Beckley,
;

;

;

Bloomsburg.

Ray McBride, member of the Junior class at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been elected
President of the Community Government Association;
Florence Stefanski, Wilkes-Barre, also a Junior, was
Vice-President; Abigail Lonergan, of Berwick, a
Junior, was elected Secretary; Margaret Lonergan, Berwick, also a Junior, was named Treasurer. All officers are
enrolled in the Commercial Curriculum.

named

Ray

Zimmerman, Nuremberg, has been elected
Day Men’s Association of the Blooms-

President of the

burg State Teachers College. Victor Ferrari, Kulpmont,
was named Vice-President; Leonard Bowers, Mt. Carmel,
was named Secretary; and Walter Woytovich of Shamokin, will be Treasurer.

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Eighteen Seniors from high schools throughout
the service area of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College were entertained recently at the College as individual guests of members of the present Freshman class
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. While at
Bloomsburg the young ladies visited and inspected all
parts of the institution, including the new building projects now in process of construction including a new
gymnasium and new Junior High School. They also attended a play tournament conducted by Alpha Psi
Omega, honorary dramatic fraternity of the Bloomsburg
campus. The following young ladies acted as general
hostess committee for the visiting group: Marjorie
Young, Kingston; Mary Bretz, New Bloomfield; Helen
Johnson, Galeton; Marian Murphy, Kingston, and Virginia Dean, Shenandoah, Chairman.
The young ladies who were guests and their personal hostesses are as follows: Mary Meers, guest of
Agnes Alastick, both of Shanandoah Catherine Malloy,
Mahanoy City, guest of Mary Reilly, Scranton; Janette
Broxton, Shenandoah,
guest of Valaire Buchanan,
Reading; Julia McClure, Quarryville, guest of Margaret
Burkholder, Quarryville; Charollette Ferguson, Quarryville, guest of June Eaton, Galeton; Helen Finley, Plymouth, guest of Mary Driscoll, Plymouth; Sovilla Rowe,
Selinsgrove, guest of Sarah Gaugler, Port Trevorton;
Charline Margie, Wilkes-Barre, guest of Martha HergBetty Fisher, Catawissa, guest of
ert, Wilkes-Barre;
Lucille Hower, Shaft; Dorothy Culp, Dallas, guest of
Johnson, Forty-Fort; Betty Curnow, Taylor,
Stella
guest of Ruth Shield, Taylor; Anne Sweigart, Willow
Street, guest of Mary Sweigart, Willow
Street; Jane
Bishop, guest of Dorothy Thomas, both of Wilkes-Barre;
Hazel Jones, guest of Marjorie Young, both of Kingston;
Marian Davis, Mahanoy City, guest of Ruth Brodbeck,
Douglasville
Lois Richards, guest of Grace Richards,
both of Wilkes-Barre; Marilyn Sword, guest of Betty
Roberts, both of Wilkes-Barre; Anna Mary Mumma,
York, guest of Ruth Shay, Progress.
;

;

Two hundred
Concert

students participated in the Spring
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evening, April 8, when the A Capella Choir, the Mixed
Chorus, and Maroon and Gold Orchestra presented a
fine program of vocal and instrumental music. Soloists
on the program were Miss Harriet Kocher, pianist, and
Miss Isabel Miller, soprano. The choir and chorus were
under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore, and the
orchestra was conducted by H. F. Fenstemaker. The
concert was followed by a dance in the gymnasium.
Proceeds were turned over to the Organ Fund.

The April issue of the Journal of the American
Association of University Women published an article
written by Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Dr. Kehr’s article is
entitled, “American Youth Organization,” in which Dr.
Kehr discusses the problem of how young people’s
groups consider the world’s problems and their own.
Dr. Kehr points out that four national organizations
of young people stand out at the present time. They
include the National Student Federation of America,
which services some 400 members; the American Student
Union which has about 225 chapters; the National Intercollegiate Christian Council made up of Y. W. and Y.
M. C. A. groups in colleges and universities, and the
American Youth Congress, a federation of national,
regional, state and local youth organizations representing over ten million young people in the nation.

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Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson
changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at
the address on our files.
All

of all

THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

R. Bruce Albert
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.

Edward Schuyler
Harriet Carpenter

Board
Fred W. Diehl
H. Mont Smith

E. H.

of Directors

D. D. Wright
Frank Dennis

Nelson

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Dauphin County
To be Organized in May

Lackawanna County
Not Organized
Luzerne County
President

Mi's.

Vice-President
Secretary

Treasurer

Mary Emanuel Brown

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
J. Frank Dennis, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Mrs. Marion R. Hartman
282 Sprague Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Irene Draina

River Road. R. D.

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Lycoming -Sullivan
Not Organized

Montour County
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Harriet Fry, Danville
Pierce Reed, Danville, R. D. 5
Alice Smull, Danville
Ralph McCracken, Riverside

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Northumberland County
John R. Boyer, Herndon
Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont
Miss Ethel Fowler, Watsontown
S. Curtis Yocum, Shamokin
Philadelphia

Mrs.

President

Norman G. Cool

112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley

Secretary
Schuylkill County

Not Organized

Snyder-Union Counties
Helen Keller

President
222

Maple

Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.

Margaret Lodge
Louis Pursey
Ruth Fairchild

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

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

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
To

All

Alumni

:

It is a real pleasure to greet the Alumni and Friends
of the College in this issue of the Quarterly. The Old
College is making real progress. New buildings are now

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under construction. The enrollment stands third among
the Teachers Colleges of the State. The future of our
Alma Mater is assured. Every graduate will continue to
give loyal support and cooperation.
Alumni Clubs are active and doing fine work. Columbia County had a splendid reunion at the College
Spring meetings have been definitely
January 7th.
planned as follows: Montour County, April 8; Luzerne
County, April 22; Dauphin County, April 28; Philadelphia Club, April 30. All Alumni are most cordially invited to attend these meetings. You will have a good
time.
We are glad to see Dauphin County again forming an Alumni Club. Who will be next?
Plans are being made for meetings by Snyder-Union,
Susquehanna-W.voming and Northumberland. We hope
Lackawanna and Schuylkill will soon catch the spirit and
form active clubs.
Some Alumni Objectives: (1) Increase the Membership. We should have 4000 members. Be a Booster.
Join the Association. Send one dollar to E. H. Nelson,
Treasurer, Bloomsburg, Pa. (2) Increase the Scholarship Loan Fund. We have only about $3000.00 in this
fund. Many worthy students are refused because of

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lack of funds. $50,000.00 could be used in helping students complete their education. (3) Boost the 1939 Centennial Celebration. This will be a red letter day in the
history of the institution. Every graduate should plan
now to attend.
Don’t forget Alumni Day, May 21st. Come back and
recall the pleasures of College Days.
will be looking
for you.
Sincerely yours,

We

R.

BRUCE ALBERT,

President.

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER
With this issue of the Quarterly a great many
subscriptions expired.
know that you will not want
to miss the Quarterly next year, so do not neglect to pay
your Alumni dues right away. Why will next year be so

We

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Let me tell you. Next year is Centennial
Year. It will be a year marked by outstanding activity of
the Alumni body, climaxed by a centennial program in
May, 1939, that will be long remembered. New buildings
will be dedicated, another Alumni contribution, that will
make us all proud, will be made to the Loan Fund, and
every class will be in active reunion. During this coming
year, every issue of the Quarterly will carry up-to-theminute information concerning the development of the
year’s program. You will not want to miss a single copy.

important?

Sincerely,

Business Manager,

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ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVES MEET
A

representative group of Alumni, consisting of
of the Board of Directors of the General Association, officers of the local groups, and members of
the Faculty, met at the College Friday, March 4. The
group enjoyed a dinner in dining-room at 6:00 o’clock;
this was followed by a meeting in the Alumni Room.
Following the adjournment of the meeting, the members of the group were the guests of the College at the
concert given by Mr. Earl Spicer, baritone.
The purpose of the meeting was to present certain
plans that had been proposed by the Board of Directors
of the General Association.
The plans proposed had to
do with the observance of the Centennial of the College,
which will take place during the year 1939. Dr. Haas,
in his remarks, called attention to the fact that, in 1939,
several events important in the history of the College
will occur at the same time.
As stated above, the year
1939 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute. Under
various names, the College has had a continuous existence since that time. Next year will also see the com-

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extensive building program now under
“The year 1939,” stated Dr. Haas, “Will be a

pletion of the

way.

milestone in the history of the College. It will look back
one hundred years of progress, and will also look forward to another period of increased opportunity.”
Mr. H. Mont Smith then presented a plan for increasing the Alumni Student Loan Fund, further particulars about which will be presented to the Alumni this
spring. At least this much may be said at the present
time The program is a very ambitious one, but not beyond the reach of possibility. It is the most worthy
project that the Alumni Association has ever undertaken,
and will prove a great blessing to hundreds of future
to

:

students.

The members of the group all expressed their ideas
concerning the project, and all gave their approval, and
promised their hearty support.
President II. Bruce Albert called upon the representatives of the various organizations to state their plans
for the future. At present, there are seven active branch
organizations Columbia, Luzerne, Philadelphia, SnyderUnion, Montour, Susquehanna-Wyoming and Northumberland. A new organization will be formed in Dauphin
County, at a dinner to be held in Harrisburg, Pa. It
is hoped that active organizations will be made in Lacka:

wanna,

Schuylkill,

Lycoming

and

Sullivan

Counties.

Plans are being made for dinners to be held by all of the
active organizations before Alumni Day.
Who will start the ball rolling in Lackawanna,
Schuylkill, Lycoming and Sullivan Counties?

COLUMBIA COUNTY BRANCH
Members of the Columbia County branch of the
Bloomsburg College Alumni, holding a dinner meeting at
the College Friday evening, January 7, were told by Dr.
Francis B. Haas, President of the College, of the
sive building program about to be started.

exten-

Harold Hidlay, of Orangeville, was elected president of the group with Maurice E. Houck, of Berwick,
Vice-president; Mrs. Grover C. Shoemaker, of Blooms-

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and Mrs. H. R. Snyder of Catawissa,
Wesley Knorr made the report of the
Nominating Committee, which was accepted. Other
members of the committee were Miss Karleen Hoffman,
Miss Rebecca Ikeler, Miss Cleora McKinstry, of town,
and P. L. Brunstetter, of Catawissa.
D. D. Wright, retiring President, presided, and the
Maroon and Gold orchestra, with Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker, directing, provided a program of music. Major
Harry S. Barton of town, led the singing. The meeting
was opened with the singing of Maroon and Gold and

burg, secretary
treasurer. J.

;

concluding with the “Alma Mater.”
Judge Charles C. Evans, of Berwick, who recently
retired from bench, and his successor, Judge Clinton
Herring, both in attendance, and each a member of the
Board of Trustees of the institution, were introduced by
Superintendent W. W. Evans of County Schools, also a
trustee.

Miss Ethel Ruth, of the student body entertained
with xylophone solos and Mrs. Marion Adams of Nuremberg, accompanied by Mrs. Fred Holmes, sang with a
solo.
Bruce Albert, president of the general Alumni
body, spoke during the meeting.

LUZERNE COUNTY BRANCH MEETS
The spring luncheon of the Luzerne County Branch
Alumni Association was held in Wilkes-Barre
Saturday, February 26. There were ninety-four present,
of the

it

being a very representative group, starting with twelve

from the “Gay Nineties,” and on up to the present. All
were enthusiastic about the work of the Association, and
pledged their support to the activities of the coming
year. Nine tables of bridge were formed at the close of
the luncheon. Officers for the coming year were elected
and are as follows President, Mrs. Mary Emmanuel
Brown; First Vice-President, Samuel Oliver; Second
Vice-President, John McGuffie; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Marion Roat Hartman; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Emily Lawrence Treasurer, Mrs. Irene Draina.
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;

MRS.

MARION ROAT HARTMAN,

Recording Secretary.

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ALUMNI

LIST

TO BE PUBLISHED

One of the projects of the Alumni Association relative to the observance of Centennial Year will be the
publication of a complete list of all Bloomsburg graduates.
This will be the first time in many years that this
has been clone. The annual catalogue of the College
formerly contained such a list, but the number of graduates is now so large that such a project is no longer
feasible. The proposed Alumni list will be issued as a
supplement to the Quarterly, and will be sent to all
members of the Alumni Association.

card file of Bloomsburg
kept in the office of the President, there are
hundreds of graduates who cannot be reached, because
the cards bearing their names do not have the correct
addresses. This circumstance has given rise to many
embarrassing situations, especially in connection with
Many graduates,
class reunions and local organizations.
feeling that they have been slighted, have made complaints because they have not been informed of the

Although a complete

graduates

is

various activities of the Association.
The officers of the Association are therefore asking
for the assistance of all graduates in making the Alumni
They are
list as nearly complete and correct as possible.
asking that the Alumni send in copies of any lists that
they may have, and that they send in the addresses of
any classmates whose correct addresses may not be in
the Alumni file. During the coming year, there will be
published in the Quarterly the names of all the gradPlease
uates who cannot be reached by the College.
read these lists carefully, and send to the Editor of the
Quarterly any information which you may be able to
supply. This is Census Year for the College; let every
one be a census-taker.

o

o

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1878
Mrs. Elizabeth Wright Diehl,

of Danville, died in
the Reading Hospital, Monday, February 28. Her death
was due to complications resulting from a fall, in which
she broke her hip. She was born in Hemlock Township,
Columbia County, attended the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and taught in Columbia and Montour Counties. She was seventy-three years old at the time of her
death. She was a member of the Grove Presbyterian
Church, of Danville, a member of the Danville chapter
of the Eastern Star, and had been a member of the
Mothers’ Pension Board. She is survived by three children.

1888

Changes

the 1888 list are as follows:
Bruce Jones, deceased.
Lizzie Lewis (Mrs. Hugh Price), 38 East
Plains, Pa.
in

Main

St.,

1894
Judge Clinton Herring began

his ten year term as
the sixteenth judge of this judicial district at 10 o’clock

January

4.

He was

escorted to the bench by his predecessor,
Judge Evans. As he took up the duties of his office the
front of the court room resembled a flower garden. There
were eight baskets of flowers on the bench and various
tables and some of the baskets were exceedingly large.

William W. Evans has been re-elected Superintendent of the schools of Columbia County, an office which he
has held since 1902. Mr. Evans is also a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
1895

The following clipping, taken from the Lewistown
Sentinel of February 22, gives an account of the tribute
recently paid to the late Melissa B. Shaw by the schools
of Burnham, Pennsylvania, where Miss Shaw taught for
so many years
“The February meeting of the Burnham P. T. A. was
made a memorial to the late Melissa S. Shaw. The ses-

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was held in the auditorium of the new high school
Thursday evening. The vice president, Mrs. Charlotte
Bell, was in the chair and presided over the exercises. It
became her duty as presiding officer to present the picture that was purchased by the association to Freedom
building. This picture will grace the room where Miss
sion

many

years as a teacher in Burnham School
her short address so appropriate to the
occasion, Mrs. Bell said it was the aim of the association
to do something worth while each year. It was a happy
thought when one of the school patrons suggested that
this year something outstanding be done as a memorial
“This thought was acted upon favorto Melissa Shaw.
ably and a committee appointed to determine what the
memorial shall be.
Tonight that thought has been
worked out and the picture is before you on the platform,” said Mrs. Bell, who acknowledged that she herself was a pupil in
Miss Shaw’s room when she was
teaching in the three-room frame building that stood
east of the site of the present Freedom building.
John F. Pandel, secretary of the board of education,
who was associated with Melissa Shaw as a teacher in
the old Freedom Independent District and later in the
Burnham Borough district, made the address of the evening.
He said that Miss Shaw taught in a unique period
She taught in this district
of Burnham’s school history.
when as yet Burnham owned not even the building in

Shaw

spent

District.

In

its
schools were held. She saw the Freedom
building erected in 1906, and was given the east room
on the first floor. She saw the high school portion erected in 1914. She threw out one of the first shovels of
earth when the ground was broken for the present
spacious building in which the high school is now
housed. Mr. Pandel emphasized four words as indicative
of the life of this great teacher. These words were loyal,
obedient, victorious and eloquent, the initials which

which

spell

LOVE.

Miss Florence P. Edward, teacher in the room
formerly occupied by Miss Shaw, followed with a
description of the picture and an account of the author.

She told of the place that pictures occupy in teaching,
especially in the primary grades. The picture “The Little

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Sheperdess” by Jean Francois Millet, portrays the
shepherd watching and caring for the sheep, even as
Miss Shaw was wont to do with her little pupils through
her many years as a teacher in Burnham’s primary grade.
The picture is set in a beautiful frame with a bronze
plate bearing inscription “In Memory of Melissa S.
Shaw.’’

The memorial

in

the high school building is the
designated the

now being built. This will be
“Melissa S. Shaw Memorial Library.”
library

1893
concerning Eleanor Williams
Roderick, of Wilkes-Barre, recently appeared in one of
the newspapers published in that city:
Eleanor Williams Roderick, 362 North Main Street,
a native of this valley, is loved by many for her untiring
work in various local organizations, and is esteemed for
her indefatigable and helpful service in this community
over a period of more than a score of years.
Mrs. Roderick was born on Northampton Street,
and attended the Meade Street public school. She was
graduated from Wyoming Seminary and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. She taught for five years in the
Plymouth schools, and two years in New York. In 1908
she married Richard Roderick. They will celebrate their
fortieth wedding anniversary in June.
They have three
children Mrs. Gail B. McCollum, of Remsen, N. Y., Edward E. Roderick, supervisor of music in the public
schools at Chicora, Pa., and Eleanor Roderick, a teacher
at the Dodson School.
Mr. Roderick is sub-assessor of
Luzerne County.
During the war, Mrs. Roderick explained the franchise to local women. She was on the board of the
Emergency Hospital during the influenza epidemic, and
for her invaluable services received a medal from President Wilson, and a certificate which read, “Pro Patria.
The American Red Cross to Mrs. Eleanor Williams Roderick, in recognition of service faithfully performed in
behalf of the nation and her men at arms. Signed, Woodrow Wilson.” Mrs. Roderick also served on the Plains
Library Loan Committee.

The following

:

article

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She was one of the organizers of the Cambrian
Club of Wyoming Valley, and was its president for two
years. She is president of the State Federation of Welsh
societies, and is corresponding secretary and recording
secretary on the Board of the Young Women’s Christian
Association. For a number of years she was corresponding secretary and recording secretary of the Luzerne County Federation of Women’s Clubs, and was
one of its first members. Mrs. Roderick is a member of
Memorial Presbyterian Church and teaches a Sunday
School class there.
She was president of the church
missionary society for a number of years. She is a member of the Woman’s Association, and of the King’s
Daughters.
Greatly interested in politics, Mrs. Roderick was a
candidate for Representative in the Legislative several
years ago, and received a fine complimentary vote. She
was the first woman to serve on the jury in Luzerne
County.
Mrs. Roderick’s hobbies are church and club work,
and she plays a big part in each organization of which
she is a member. She is fond of music, and plays the
piano well.

1887
Harris E. Snyder, of 1316 Walnut

Street, Harrisburg,
1937. The editor will be glad to print a
more detailed obituary, if one of Mr. Snyder’s friends
will send him the information.

died

May

1,

1900
Edith M. Alexander (Mrs. William Talbot) died at
her home in Shickshinny on Monday, March 21. She is
survived by three children, Elizabeth and Margaret Talbot, teachers in the Shickshinny schools, and William E.
Talbot, of Allentown. Mrs. Talbot was born in Nanticoke,
and was a graduate of the Nanticoke High School. After
her graduation from Bloomsburg, she taught for several
years in Nanticoke.

1902
Paul C. Snyder, former member of the Danville
High School faculty died suddenly at his home in Brad-

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Saturday, January 29, after having been in ill
health for some time. Prof. Snyder taught in the Danville High School from 1918 to 1922, at which time he
accepted a position in the Bradford High School. He
served as instructor in chemistry at the latter school
until his death. Mr. Snyder attended the Bloomsburg
State Normal School, Bucknell University and Columbia
ford,

University. He had a masters degree from Columbia.
He was a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows. He is
survived by widow and sister, Mrs. Mary Fisher, of Milton and brother, Clark Snyder, Lewisburg.
;

1902
Miss Marie L. Diem, 994 Taylor Avenue, Scranton,
Pa., has requested information concerning the following
members of the class: Mary Close, Mary McCarty, Genevieve Reilly, Rose I. Shields, Bess Gottfried Seamon,
Henry J. Spencer, W. E. Worthington. The editor requests that anyone having the information please send
it to him. He will correct the addresses in the alumni file,
and pass the information on to Miss Diem.
Miss Marie L.
Scranton, Pa.

Diem

lives

at

944 Taylor Avenue,

1904
Miss Mary C. Orth, teacher of English at the John
Harris High School, Harrisburg, died Tuesday, March 22,
at the Harrisburg
Hospital, where she had been a
patient for about a week. A lifelong resident of Harrisburg, Miss Orth had resided alone for the past eight
years, following the death of her mother, who was a
native of

Germany.

After acquiring her bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago, she was given her master’s degree at
the University of Michigan. She took further graduate
work at the University of Prague, and at Columbia
University. Her entire career was devoted to the teaching
of English.

Miss Orth traveled extensively during summer vaand made at least ten trans-Atlantic crossings.
On one trip with a classmate. Miss Anne U. Wert, (’04),
she studied at Oxford. On this same trip she and Miss
cations,

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Wert were visiting Spain when the Civil War began.
They were forced to cancel the rest of their visit in
Spain, and enter Portugal. Last summer she traveled
through Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic States.
Active in numerous organizations in Harrisburg,
Miss Orth was a member of the Board of Directors of the
Harrisburg Chapter of the American Association of
University Women. She was chairman of the Student
Loan Committee, with which the Association provided
scholarships to worthy young students desiring to attend
College. She was also a supporter of the Harrisburg
Community Theatre, and was a member of the Author’s
Club and the Natural History Society. Her church affiliation was with the Westminister Presbyterian Church.

Mary Taylor (Mrs. Lawrence W. Seeley) lives in
Perrysburg, Ohio.
1908
The following is an announcement of a book by
Mabel Wilkinson Walton, published by Dorrance and
Company, Philadelphia. The book is entitled “A Little
Bit of Everything For the Home.” Mrs. Walton was VicePresident of the class of 1908.

“A Little Bit of Everything for the Home”
Bv Mabel Wilkinson Walton, Class of 1908
Your friend Mrs. Walton has gathered a veritable
gold mine of useful information for the housewife. For
years she clipped and saved these household hints from
current periodicals until she had enough gathered for a
book-length collection. Compiled in convenient groups
you will find valuable information on the home, the care
of children, the sick room, etiquette, the toilette, sewing,
gardening and flowers, entertainment, poise and deportment, food hints, the family medicine chest, fabric tests,
stain removers, and countless other things to make your
home more comfortable and a better place in which to
live.

Sent by Jennie Yoder Foley, V. P. Class of 1908.

Jacob Becker

lives

Angeles, California.

1911
1105 Thayer

at

Avenue,

Los

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1912
Ernestine Rees (Mrs. E.
Main Street, Old Forge.

T.

Davis)

lives

on

South

The editor has recently been informed of the death
Ruth Samson (Mrs. Royce Carter), which occurred
July 23, 1932. She was survived by her husband and one
of

daughter.

1914
Beulah Fowler (Mrs. Ralph Thomas) died Monday,
March 21, at Colorado Springs, where she had been
undergoing treatment in a sanitorium. Before her marriage, Mrs. Thomas had taught for several years in the
vicinity of Berwick.
She is survived by her husband,
Ralph B. Thomas, of St. Louis, Missouri, and by one son.
The body was brought to Berwick for burial, and funeral
services were held in the North Berwick Evangelical
Church on Friday, March, 25.
1923

Helen M. Keller

lives

at

259

Wyoming Avenue,

Kingston, Pa.

1924

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Schwab, of Detroit,
Michigan, a daughter, Carole Elaine, on Friday, February 18. Mrs. Schwab is the former Helen B. Zydanowicz, of Glen Lyon, Pa. Her present address is 14376
Rutland Road, Detroit, Mich.
1927

Announcement has been made

of the wedding of
Brace, to Mr. George C. Duffy, of Bristol,
performed on Saturday, March 5, at the Presbyterian
Church of Bristol. Mrs. Duffy is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Brace of Tunkhannock, formerly of

Miss

Moby

Bloomsburg.

The bride was graduated from Bloomsburg High
and from Bloomsburg State Teachers

School in 1925
College in 1927.
School since her
accountant with

She has taught in Bristol Grammar
graduation. Mr. Duffy is employed as an
a prominent Bristol firm and is a grad-

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uate of Bristol High School and
Training School.

Following a wedding trip to

a

Brooklyn

New York

are residing in their newly furnished
roe Street, Bristol.

home

Manual

the couple
at

242 Mon-

1929
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Cooke, Detroit, Michigan, a son Peter David, on Saturday, February 12. Mrs.
Cooke is the former Eleanor M. Zydanowicz, of Glen
Lyon. Her address is 16234 Lamphere Road, Detroit,
Michigan.

Born

to

1930

Announcement has been made

of the engagement
Miss Anna Erwin, of Bloomsburg, to Mr. Burgess
Faux, of Conyngham.
Miss Erwin is now employed by the Hazle Ice Cream
Company. Mr. Faux is an employee of the Coxe Stoker
Engineering Company of Hazleton.

of

Miss Norma Knoll, of N anticoke, has been appointed
Assistant Executive Director of Public Assistance in Luzerne County.

1931

Frank Colder, who this past winter coached the
Bloomsburg High School basketball team to the first
league title in the school’s history, will remain on the
faculty next year.

Mr. Colder has been a successful teacher of social
studies at the high school. He coached Hughesville to
West Branch basketball titles before coming to Bloomsburg and giving the Panthers a Susquehanna League
winner.

Miss Vera Monell Wallace, of Baldwin, Long Island,
and Robert Sutliff, formerly of Bloomsburg, were married Friday, April 15, at the Baptist Church in Freeport,
Long Island. Mrs. Sutliff attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., and the New York School of Interior Decorat-

Mr. Sutliff is a member of the faculty in the Department of Social Studies in the schools of Baldwin,

ing.

Long

Island.

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1932
Emilie V. Zvdanowicz, of Glen Lyon, Pa., and Dr.
Bernard A. Snesavage, of Tower City, Pa., were married
August 18, 1937. Dr. Snesavage is a graduate of Pennsylvania State College and Jefferson Medical College. They
are living in Tower City.

1933
Miss Grace DuBois and Edward J. Brown, both of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, March 26, in Westminister, Maryland. Mr. Brown is a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School. He was graduated
from the commercial curriculum at Bloomsburg in 1937.

1934

Announcement has been made

of the engagement of
Harriet Sutliff to Harold H. Herr, of Palmyra.
The bride-to-be is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, class of 1934. She has been a
teacher in the public schools of Wernersville and Annville, Pa.
Mr. Herr received his education in Lebanon Valley
College and Lehigh University and is now employed in
the Palmyra Bank and Trust Company.

1936

Announcement has been made

of the marriage of
Hower, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Helen Irene
Weitzel, of Greenwood. The marriage took place Thursday, February 24, at the Methodist Church in Greenwood, Virginia. Mr. Hower, formerly Supervisor of
Music in Danville, Pa., is now Music Supervisor at the
Dupont Regional High School at Pennsgrove, N. J. Mrs.

Don

Hower

is

a graduate nurse of the Philadelphia

Women’s

Hospital.

1937
John Andreas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Andreas,
and formerly a student at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, has made the dean’s list at West Chester State
Teachers College. That means he has earned an average
of

B

or

more

for the last semester.

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Robert Goodman has been selected by the SchuylCounty Council as assistant scout executive. Mr.
Goodman has taken up his many duties, and has his
kill

headquarters at Pottsville.
He enrolled as a scout in
March, 1929, and reached the high attainment of Eagle
Scout in February, 1932. He was at one time a member
of the staff at Camp Lavigne. He studied at the National
Scout Training School at Mendham, N. J., which graduated him December 18, 1937.

Mr. and Mrs. John Keating, of Edwardsville, have
announced the engagement of their daughter, Bessie, to
Cecil Tucker, of Edwardsville.
the wedding.

No

date has been set for

1939

The

engagement

Danville, to Mr. Paul
been announced.

of Miss Regina McWilliams of
F. Hartzell of Bloomsburg, has

The bride-to-be is a graduate of Danville High
School in the class of 1934 and attended Beaver College
for one year. She is now a Junior at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
Mr. Hartzell was graduated from Bloomsburg High
School in 1934, and is now employed at the Buckalew
garage.

BOOST
the

CENTENNIAL

Class Reunions
~ zsi

Program
S

Commencement
Schedule
r:i

Greetings

Hill.

SATURDAY, MAY 21, is
Alumni Day on College
Mark this date on your calendar and make

every effort to be present.
pleasant surprises for you.

There

will

be some

COME!

Last year the attendance of Alumni was perhaps the largest in the history of the College. The
Auditoriupi was filled, and the Dining Room was
packed. Extra tables were placed|n the lobby.

pack the lobby this time.
The College has arranged a fine program of
entertainment. The baseball team will entertain
Bucknell and the spectators. See the team in action. Coach Nelson will probably w’ear his green
(?) hosiery as an added attraction.
Let's

CLASS REUNIONS
1878
1883
1888
1893

1898
1903
1908
1913

1918
1923
1928
1933

1934
1935
1936
1937

Those graduates who claim membership in any of the above
are reminded that their classes will have reunions this
year. Plan now to attend the reunion of your class. Your friends
will be there.
Don't miss this opportunity to talk things over with
them. Everybody is welcome at the College. It is a day for friends

listed classes

and parents as well as alumni. COME.
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c e Iw t e n
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Ml

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E L E B R
<1

—

ALUMNI DAY! Our Alumni
Association and the entire
College Community are cooperating to make
Saturday, May 21, 1938, an outstanding Alumni
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'J

On this occasion, the Board of Directors of

Day.

the Association

and

the College will complete

arrangements for our Centennial Celebration in
1939. The beginnings of our College are rooted
in a little Private Academy opened in Bloomsburg in 1839. Today our College presents a picture of continued progress
terest in

and community

education from the Private

in-

Academy

in

We

1839 to thef present Teachers' College.
want
you, regardless of class affiliation, to join us on

May

21, 1938, in

planning

for this

outstanding

occasion in 1939.
Sincerely yours,

ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM
Class Reunions

9:00 A.M.

General Assembly

11:00 A.M.

Alumni Banquet
Baseball

-

1:00 P.M.

Bloomsburg vs Bucknell

2:30 P.M.

COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULE
Baccalaureate Sermon
Senior Day
Commencement

Sunday,

May

22, 2:30

P.M.

Monday, May 23
Tuesday,

May

24, 10:00

A.M.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

year
THERE ARE

— oar aoat

GRADUATES
OF BLOOMSBURG. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NOW HAS
ONLY 1400 MEMBERS
8000

what the Alumni Association
can do with four thousand dollars:

This

is

1.

2.

The Quarterly
Student Loan Fund

$1,000.00
3,000.00

Whether you plan to come to Bloomsburg on
or not- We need Your Support!

May 21

Pay

your dues for ig^8-ig^g

1938
I pledge my support as a loyal Bloomsburg Alumnus by enclosing one dollar, as dues to the Alumni Association, for the period
ending one year from the above date.

Name
Address

Name

While

in

School

Class
(Send this coupon to Dr. E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg, Pa.)

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
JULY, 1938

Vol. 39

No. 3

1, 1901), at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year.

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July
Pa.,

H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,
NELSON,

’ll

Editor

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Business Manager

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Dr. Waller Rings the Bell
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W

HEN THE

hundreds of returning graduates of
Bloomsburg were called into their annual meeting
on Alumni Day, it was in response to the sound of the old
chapel bell in the tower of Carver Hall. It is in that
manner that they will be summoned each Alumni Day.
Pulling the rope for the call to the Alumni was none
other than Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of

now ninety-two years of age.
No more appropriate selection of the one

the College,

to

handle

the rope for the occasion could have been chosen, for it
was Dr. Waller, as a member of the first-year class of
the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, who insisted in raising
the fund to buy the bell.
Another member of the student committee which
raised the money was George E. Elwell, whose father,

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Judge Elwell was President of the Board of Trustees for
eighteen years, and who was a trustee himself for twenty
years. The other member was Charles Unangst, who
became a prominent attorney in New York City.
The bell cost $1,200, and the fund was solicited entirely by them in 1866. It weighs 2,171 pounds. It was
a great day for the three young men when they had
reached their goal, and the bell was purchased.
In the years to come, the ringing of the old bell once
year will be a reminder of the sacrifices that
Bloomsburg citizens made to make possible the College

each

on the

hill.

In addition to the money for the bell, the citizens of
Bloomsburg, then a town of 2,500, contributed $24,000
for buildings, and in the following year, contributed

$70,000 more.
Dr. Waller’s ringing of the bell is a fitting symbol of
another call that is now going out to the Alumni. The
drive is now on to raise the Centennial Loan Fund up to
$50,000. Dr. Waller joins with the officers of the Alumni
Association in calling to the Alumni to participate in the
most ambitious and the most worthy project that the
Alumni Association has ever undertaken. It is certain
that graduates of Bloomsburg will respond to the call
with the lovalty that they have always showr in the past.

The Misses Harriet and Helen Carpenter have returned to their home on Center Street, Bloomsburg, after
a two-months stay in Florida.

Miss Catherine Bernadette Hoffran, of Luzerne, and
Robert Higgins, of Wilkes-Barre, were married Thursday,

May

5,

at Kingston.

The Junior Prom, sponsored by the Junior Class of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was held in the
College gymnasium Friday, May 13. The officers of the
Junior class include: James DeRose, Scranton, President;
John Bowers, Berwick, Vice-President; Annabel Bailey,
Danville, Treasurer. Roy Evans, Scranton, served as General Chairman of the Prom.

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T

Commencement
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WTN A WORLD

of turmoil and preparation for war, we
must be on our guard to protect democracy. We in
America have no place for dictatorships, for regimentation, for enslavement of the mind,” declared Dr. Jesse H.
Newlon, of Columbia University, at the Commencement
Exercises held Tuesday morning, May 24, in the auditorium. Dr. Newlon was the speaker at the exercises
held in the presence of the class of one hundred twentyfour, the faculty, and the friends and relatives of the

A

graduating

class.

In their last appearance as a body on the College
campus except as an Alumni group, the students marched into the auditorium following the faculty, speaker,
and representatives of the Board of Trustees. Following
tradition, the members of the faculty wore their Academic
robes, with hoods showing the colors of the colleges and
universities from which they had received their advanced
degrees. As a processional, H. F. Fenstemaker presided
at the organ, playing “Grand Choeur in A Flat,” by Wil-

liam Faulkes.
Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the
College opened the program with the invocation. He was
followed by Dr. Newlon, an extract of whose address is
printed elsewhere in this number of the Quarterly. Dr.
Newlon’s address was followed by “Valse Triste,” by
Jean Sibelius, played on the organ by Mr. Fenstemaker.
The members of the class were then presented to Dr.
Haas by Harvey A. Andruss, Dean of Instruction. As
the members of the class filed past Dr. Haas, they were
each congratulated by him, and received their diplomas.
Then came a moment filled with solemnity and a
touch of sadness. Under the direction of Miss Harriet M.
Moore, the graduates arose and sang the “Alma Mater,”
knowing that, when the last notes of the song died away,
their College days would be ended.
As a recessional the “March in A Major,” by John
A. West, was played, and the audience and faculty re-

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mained standing until the class had withdrawn from the
auditorium. The usual scenes on the campus followed.
Scattered about over the campus were little groups, the
nucleus of each one being a graduate, showing to his admiring relatives and friends the diploma which represented four years of time and effort.

The women of Waller Hall have already made plans
for taking care of new women who will enter the College
next Fall. The following have been appointed as the
Freshman Advisers’ Committee: Donabelle Smith, chairman, Sunbury; Claire Buchanan, Reading; Jane Oswald,
Allentown; Eva Reichley, Sunbury; Helen Powell, Nanticoke.

This committee has charge of the “Big Sister” activiEach Freshman girl will be assigned an upper class
“Big Sister.” The committee will plan the dormitory activities which will take place during Freshman Week.
Jennie Tewksbury, of Meshoppen, is chairman of the upper-class advisers, who take care of the new upper-class
women, and Dorothy Thomas, of Wilkes-Barre, is chairman of the Waller Hall Customs Committee.
ties.

Officers of the

year

Day Women’s Association

will be the following: President,

for next
Vivian Frey, Mif-

fllinville;
Vice-President, Sara Mausteller, Pottsville
Senior Representatives, Martha Wright, Bloomsburg, and
Edna Keller, Nescopeck; Junior Representatives, Martha
McHenry, Benton, and Dorothy Long, Benton Sophomore Representatives, Betty Andreas, Bloomsburg, and
Mary Betty Connor, Orangeville.
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women, spoke on the
question “Self-Rating For the Advisor,” at the joint meeting of the Guidance Round Table and the Round Table
for Deans and Advisors for Girls at the recent meeting of
the Northeast District of the P. S. E. A. held at East
Stroudsburg. Miss Bertha Rich, Assistant Dean of Women, was elected Secretary of the Round Table for Deans
and Advisors of Girls.
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The Teacher and the America
of Tomorrow
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JESSE

Commencement

H.

NEWLON

Address, Bloomsburg

State Teachers College,

HE VOCATION
T
today than
dependent upon

May

of the teacher

our country

is

24, 1938

more

ever before.

significant to

Democracy

is

education.
There is no more characteristic American Institution than our great system of education. The Fathers of
the Republic understood the importance of education.
They knew that the success of popular government
would always be dependent upon an intelligent citizenship. This was the view of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and many of the great statesmen of that
period. They gave much thought to the problem of the
schools. George Washington said in his Farewell Address
“In proportion as the structure of government
gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public
opinion be enlightened. Promote, then, as an object of
primary importance, institution for the general diffusion
of knowledge.”
It is the glory of our American schools that they seek
to provide equality of opportunity for all children and
youth. Our schools should give boys and girls appreciation and understanding of our history and of the problems
:

which our democracy faces today.

We

time of great social stress and strain.
will be called upon in the years
that lie ahead to make some of the most important decisions that they have made since the establishment of
the Republic. The most critical problem which confronts
us is the maintenance of our democratic institutions.
Democracy is under attack today. In some countries it is
fighting with its back to the wall. In other countries
democracy has been replaced by the totalitarian state.
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find in this situation the challenge to the teacher of

today.

The age calls for a teacher who will carry on the
finest traditions of a noble profession. The responsibilities
which will rest upon you will be greater than the responthat any generation of teachers has ever been
called upon to assume. The teacher of tomorrow must be
a scholar, a clear-headed thinker. He must be competent
in his own field, a master of the techniques of his profession. Above all, the teacher must have a clear vision of
the role of education in a democracy. It is not the function of the school to teacher the blue prints of a new
social order, but is the function of the school to give
youth understanding of the world in which they live, and
to inculcate in them devotion to the principles and institutions of democracy.
I welcome you into the ranks of the teaching profession.
You are entering upon the adventure of creating the America of tomorrow through the education of
the citizens of tomorrow.
sibilities

Dean Harvey A. Andruss has been

selected as a
of the Terminology Committee of the National
Council of Business Education, which is cooperating with

member

the Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity in standardizing the terminology used in the various fields of education.
All of the current terms in the field of education will
be defined, compared, and contrasted, so that some such
uniformity of practice will emerge from this study as is
now found in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, which
has been in the process of completion for a number of
years.

Harvey A. Andruss, Dean of Instruction, was the
speaker at the thirty-second annual commencement exercises of the

Bloomsburg Hospital.

held in the College auditorium
25 1938
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Ivy Day
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A NOTHER IVY Monday

plant will send its tendrils creeping
over the brick walls of Noetling Hall as a result of
evening, May 23, in the prethe exercises held
sence of the Senior class and two hundred friends and
relatives.

The class of 1938 carried on the College tradition
established and upheld by foregoing classes in the planting of the ivy vine at the corner of Noetling Hall facing
the rear entrance to Carver Hall. The simple, dignified
ceremony was conducted in the out-of-doors, beginning
in the grove and continuing at the spot where the ivy was
placed in the ground.
Despite overcast skies and a moisture-laden breeze,
the audience gathered rapidly at the opening of the ceremonies and lingered about the College campus following
the reception which closed the day’s schedule. The
Bloomsburg High School Band played throughout the
latter part of the program.
The class, wearing the black academic caps and
gowns, marched in pairs from the gymnasium to the
grove, and formed a triangle in front of the white pergola.

Frank Patrick led in singing two selections, “Maroon
and Gold” and “Gift of Roses.” Miss Carrie Livsey was
the accompanist.

The audience was grouped about under the trees as
John Hendler, President of the class, introduced Clyde
Klinger, Ivy Day orator, and President of the Community
Government Association.
Following Mr. Klinger’s address, the

ceremonies

were transferred to Noetling Hall, where the ivy was
planted. The spade used in planting the ivy was handed
to James DeRose, President of the Class of 1939, who
responded briefly, expressing the hope that his class
would prove worthy of the traditions that have been built
up in the past. The class then joined in singing the “Alma
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The ceremonies were followed by an informal reception on the front campus, which, lighted by Japanese
lanterns, presented a beautiful scene. A fine program of
music was provided by the Bloomsburg High School
Band, while the members of the class and their guests
stood about the campus. Punch was served by the Student
Hospitality Committee.
Mr. Klinger’s address follows:
We, the class of 1938, have gathered here this evening for the observance of an impressive and time-honored
ceremony the planting of the ivy. For many years departing classes have planted on this campus a sturdy ivy
to perpetuate their memory and to be a living memorial

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name.

qualities of the ivy which make it so suitable a
parting gift to the school are well known to you. It is
beautiful as well as strong, combining grace with power
and perseverance. It has tenacity. It clings to the oak tree
or to the stone wall so closely that it is almost impossible
to detach it; once given a hold, it never lets go.
It is sturdy and strong. Its green leaves never fade,
but remain a symbol of strength, a living example of the
power of nature. Nations may rise and fall, great works
may disappear as the ages pass, the seasons come and go
as they have since time began, but the ivy still spreads
luxuriantly over the crumbling ruins of the past.
The ivy is not, as the term “clinging vine” connotes,
a parasitic growth, taking shelter and support and giving
nothing in return. On the contrary, it adorns whatever
and ancient towers are
it touches. Ragged tree trunks
made more beautiful by the ivy that hides the scars of
battle and the ravages of time.
People speak of the clinging vine that needs the
support of the sturdy oak in order to exist. That is not an
accurate idea. True, the ivy clings to the oak, but the oak
is merely a convenience, not a necessity. If it were not
there, the ivy would still grow and raise its glossy leaves
to the sky. If no lofty tree or wall is near, the persistent
ivy spreads over the ground making a luxuriant and farreaching carpet of green leaves. Its arms reach outward
instead of upward, and its leaves are far from the sun;
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spreads on and on over the monotonous level of
it encounters something
by which it can
lift itself up to a place in the sun. It may be years, it may
be centuries that the ivy trails its graceful length upon
the ground, but at last it finds its opportunity and rises.
It is our hope that this ivy we plant today will send
its roots deep into the soil and grow with a vitality that
neither wind or weather shall have the power to dim.
May it cover with a soft green mantle the walls which
have sheltered us so long and for which we have so deep
and abiding an affection, protecting them from the sultry
suns of summer and the icy blasts of winter.
May our Alma Mater grow in power and fame as the
ivy reaches upward her loyal students be as numerous
as the leaves on the vine her teachings as firmly rooted
in the truth as the ivy in this soil. May her ideals and aspirations be as lofty as the tendrils that ever push their
way upward and as the leaves that lift themselves to the
blue sky. May she cling as firmly to her righteous convictions as the ivy clings to her walls.
We who plant this ivy today are common branches
of our vine
our College. As we take our separate ways
into the great world, may we show the tenacity and perseverance of the ivy branches, growing constantly, unchecked by adversity and reaching ever upward to the
light.
May we be as constant to our friends, our school,
and our purposes, as the ivy to the oak. As the vine will
adorn the walls of our Alma Mater, let us, the class of
1938, by the integrity of our lives, the quality of our
achievements, and earnestness of our endeavor, add a
little to her honored traditions, and never detract from
her fame.
So long as her walls shall stand, so long as her
towers point to the sky, may this ivy that we plant today
grow sturdy and strong and its green leaves never fade.
Long after we have departed, may it keep alive the memory of the Class of 1938.
It

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The wedding of Myles William Edwards, of Edwardsville, and Miss Ruth Ethelda Cook, of Lake Ariel,
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Baccalaureate Sermon
between
T HE DIFFERENCE
knowledge” was
vertical

—

“horizontal knowledge and
stressed by the Rev. Nor-

man

S. Wolf, D. D., of the St. Matthew Lutheran Church
of Bloomsburg, at the impressive baccalaureate services
held in the auditorium of Carver Hall Sunday afternoon,

May

22.

making the distinction between the two types of
knowledge, Dr. Wolf stated that horizontal knowledge
leads into a maze of uncertainty and in effectiveness
even to darkness and nothingness, while vertical knowledge pierces through the time-spaced world into infinity
and eternity.
At the opening of the program, the members of the
graduating class, with the A Capella Choir, marched
down Senior Walk and filed into the auditorium to take
their places. A large audience of friends and relatives
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stood as the class entered, singing the processional hymn,
“Ancient of Days.” This hymn has been sung at every
baccalaureate service for the past thirty years.
Following the students came the members of the
faculty and the speaker, who took their places on the
stage.

After the invocation by Dr. Wolf, the audience joined in singing “Faith of Our Fathers.” Mrs. Miller was at
the organ and Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the singing. The Scripture was read by Dr. Haas and the sermon
was delivered by Dr. Wolf. The A Capella Choir, directed
by Miss Moore sang “A Voice to Heaven Resounding,”
by Bortniansky-Tschaikowsky. Mr. John D. Young was
at the piano.
After the Benediction by Dr. Wolf, the class marched out to the music of the recessional hymn “Awake, My
Soul,” by Handel.
Some extracts from Dr. Wolf’s sermon follow
“We are rapidly coming to the end of an epoch of
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spell of Francis Bacon’s dictum, “Knowledge is Power.”
can easily understand why he was inspired to utter

We

such a saying three and a half centuries ago, when the
Western world stood in the morning hour of the Renaissance, which gave birth to the world of today. But it contains a grand truth only partially expressed.
“Knowledge is no more useful as power than are
the waters of the Tennessee River, until they are impacted behind huge concrete barriers and sent through channels which make turbines whirl for the manufacture of
power. To make this dictum safely true, both skill and
the will are needed to direct the harnessing of facts to
the highest good.
For too long a time we have gone on piling up a
storehouse of facts in an irresponsible fashion. We did
not mean to err, but nevertheless the unpardonable offense committed against society has been the discovery
of facts, truth, and laws in a physical universe where
men must live under God and with one another, under the
spell of the hope that facts, once discovered, would take
care of themselves and work Utopia in an unhappy world.
They did not do so. So long has this hopeless position
been maintained that the world now hangs dangling on a
precipice, and is on the verge of being dashed to pieces.
“But a new note is being sounded in the modern,
scientifically thrown together world. Coming from the
President of the American Association of Science, Professor E. G. Conklin, it deserves most careful attention “The
greatest problems that confront the human race are how
to promote social cooperation
how to increase loyalty
and truth; how to promote justice and brotherhood; how
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expand

ethics until

it

shall

embrace

all

mankind

these are the problems conjointly of science, government,
education, and religion.”
“There is a difference between knowledge horizontally and vertically sought. Once the sky was a vast maze
of mystery, scanned only by the human eye; distances
were unknown, and laws far from being gathered together into mathematical formulas; the nature and constitution of the sun, moon, and stars were undreamed of;
the movements of the heavenly bodies were inexplicable.
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understanding of the universe as ought to make us sing
with the psalmist everywhere and at all times: “The
heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
showeth His handiwork.” This is an example of horizontal knowledge. It has been duplicated in many a field of
study and discovery. If you wish to be impressed with a
description of vertical knowledge, you will find none
better than that suggested by Professor Conklin
an
integration of the four vast fields of human knowledge
science, government, education, and religion.
“Knowledge may be divided into three levels. First,
is the area of consciousness into which is being
poured
the stream of interaction between a living mind and a
material world. It is indeed a mysterious something that
is going on from day to day, through the interplay of
mind and outer world.
“Second, we rise, because we have been so largely
fascinated and dominated by it, into the less evident
world of cultural activities and achievements, in which
the scientific urge has established a technique for the
discovery and interpretation of facts little known, or entirely unknown, to the special and primary senses of men.
“The third is a still higher level of knowledge. It is
of a different kind altogether; that of self-consciousness
and its twin sister, that of knowing one another. In this
realm all the methods and formulas of the second phase
of knowledge profit nothing, for we do not subject persons to the test tube, the blow pipe, nor place them beneath a microscope, nor project them into space that they
may be surveyed through a telescope.
find and use
other means of knowing.
“There is still a higher realm of knowledge. It lies
in the domain of personality, and not in the handling of
things. It belongs to the vertical, not the horizontal kind
of knowledge. In a word, it deals with the discovery, the
learning to know, and the associating of ourselves with
God, for the completion of the life process, and the safeguarding of life unto a destiny which alone is worthy of
God, of the universe, and of man.”
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Senior Banquet
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of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College reviewed four happy years around the banquet board
Thursday evening, May 19, and saw twelve of their number awarded keys for outstanding activity on the campus.

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The occasion was the class banquet, held in the College dining room as the opening event of the 1938 Commencement season.
John Slaven, of Fleetwood, was the toastmaster,
and Edward Mathews, of Hazleton, spoke of “Four Years
at Bloomsburg.” William B. Sutliff, former Dean of Instruction, spoke of the spirit that is Bloomsburg, and gave
a few words of advice to the graduating class. The service
keys were presented by Dr. Francis B. Haas. At the close
of the program there was a theatre party at the Capitol.
Guests of the class were Mr. and Mrs. John J. Fisher,
Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.
Haas, Dean and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Dr. Marguerite
Kehr, Dean and Mrs. John C. Koch, and Dr. and Mrs. H.
H. Russell.

George Sharp and John Hendler, editor and business
of the 1938 Obiter, were presented and received
a round of applause for the fine piece of work that they
have done.
Service keys were presented to twelve members of

manager

the graduating class for outstanding activity during their
College careers. Those receiving keys were as follows:
Marjorie Beaver: Editor Maroon and Gold; Managing Editor, Maroon and Gold; Editor of Handbook, Hospitality Chairman, Community Government Association
Treasurer of the Senior Class; Official Board, Day
Women’s Association; Mixed Chorus; Secretary of the

Sophomore Class.
Margaret Graham Student Council Vice-President
of the Community Government Association Treasurer of
the Day Women’s Association; President of the Day
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Women’s

Association;

Vice-President of the

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Club;

Member

of the Dramatic Club, three years; Editor

Handbook.
Jane Lockard

of the

Member of the Dramatic Club, three
years; Secretary of the Dramatic Club; Reporter, Maroon
and Gold, two years; Editorial Staff of the Maroon and
Gold, two years; Social Chairman, Day Women’s Associa:

Entertainment Course Chairman, Community Government Association; Mixed Chorus, two years; Treas-

tion

;

urer of the

Day Women’s

Association.

Anna Malloy: Member of the Mixed Chorus; Secretary of the Mixed Chorus; Treasurer of Mixed Chorus;
Committee Chairman, Waller Hall Association; Supervisor and Governing Board, Waller Hall Association;
President of the Waller Hall Association; Member of the
Student Council.
Margaret Potter: Hospital Chairman, Community
Government Association Social Chairman, Community
Government Association; Entertainment Course Chairman, Community Government Association; Member of
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the Dramatic Club, four years; Treasurer of the Junior
Class; Reporter, Maroon and Gold.
Dorothy Sidler: President of the Day Women’s Association Member of the Student Council Secretary of
the Day Women’s Association; Member of the Dramatic
Club, four years; Chevrons, B Club, three years; Member
of the Mixed Chorus, two years.
Thomas Davison: Member of the Track Team, two
years; Manager of Basketball, two years; Cross Country,
two years; Baseball; Basketball; Junior Editor of the
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;

Obiter.

John Hendler: Football, Member of the Student
Council; Editorial Staff of the Obiter; President of the
Senior Class; Business Manager of the Obiter; Committee
Chairman, Day Men’s Association, two years.
Jacob Kotsch Member of the Dramatic Club, three
years; President of the Dramatic Club; Treasurer of the
Freshman Class; Reporter, Maroon and Gold; Member of
Mixed Chorus, three years; A Capella Choir, three years;
Hospitality Chairman, Community Government Association Secretary of the North Hall Government Associa:

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Manager

;

Football

of

;

Member

of the

16

Student

Council.

Norman

Henry: Football, four years; Reporter,

Maroon and Gold Secretary, Day Men’s Association
Chairman of Committee on Relation to Other Colleges;
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Member of the Student Council.
Clyde Klinger Football Treasurer of the Sophomore Class; Treasurer of the Community Government
Member of Maroon and Gold Band, two
Association
years Member of the Dramatic Club; President of the
Editorial Staff, Obiter;
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Community

Government

Association

;

Member

of the

Bowling Team.
Daniel Litwhiler: Football; Basketball, two years;
Track, Baseball, four years; Assistant Manager of Football President of the North Hall Government AssociaMember of the Student
tion; Manager of Football:
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Council.

The College was represented at the thirteenth annual convention of the Northeastern Convention District
of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, by several members of the faculty. The meeting was held at
East Stroudsburg, May 6 and 7.
Miss May T. Hayden, Director of Kindergarten-Primary Education, spoke to the department of graded
schools on “The Need For Guidance in Reading.’’
Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, spoke
at a joint meeting of the Department of College and
Teacher Training and the Department of County Superintendents and Supervising Principals on the subject, “Improving the Product of the State Teachers Colleges.”
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, presided at the Department of
Colleges and Training Schools.
1933
Grace Radel, of Sunbury, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and Bryon Hartman,
of Harrisburg, were married on Sunday afternoon, June
Mrs. Hartman is a teacher in the Sunbury
4, at Sunbury.
Miss

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CLASS

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Commencement

Fifty Years

Ago

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T HE FOLLOWING

account of the commencement exer1888 appeared in the Columbia
County Republican, in its issue of July 5, 1888.
The 19th annual commencement exercises of the
State Normal School of the Sixth District began with the
Baccalaureate Sermon preached in the M. E. Church on
Sunday, the 24th of June, by the Rev. John Lanahan, D.
D., of Baltimore. His theme was “The Hand of God in the
cises of the Class of

Affairs of Men,” and was founded upon the words in the
last verse of the eighth chapter of Ecclesiastes. For an
hour and a quarter, notwithstanding the heat, which was
excessive, and the crowded condition of the building, the
audience listened with rapt attention.

MONDAY EVENING—JUNIOR EXERCISES
The

class of ’89 supplied its
ence that filled Institute Hall on

members and the audiMonday evening with a

handsomely printed program, which will be preserved as
a souvenir by many who were present. Want of space forbids a detailed account of the exercises. This class showed that it contains material out of which good teachers
can be made.

TUESDAY EVENING
The Literary

Societies assembled in
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Hall

Institute

The members of the Class of 1888 as shown in the
cut are as follows:
Front Row, Norman H. Cool, ’86;
Mrs. Norman H. Cool, ’88; Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., ’67 Mrs.
Ella Kitchen Sands, ’88
Mrs. Mary Taylor Jones,, ’88.
Second Row, Rev. J. F. Bucke, ’88 Mrs. J. F. Bucke Mrs.
Minnie Kitchen Faus, ’90; Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss, 88;
Rev. H. I. Crow, ’88. Back Row, William Magee, ’88;
Miss Annie Hine, ’88; Mrs. Lizzie Lewis Price, ’88; O. F.
Maurer, ’88; Mrs. O. F. Maurer, ’88.

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together with a large number of visitors at 8 :00 o’clock,
to listen to the annual address. As a prelude, a charming
song and chorus was rendered by a choir of six male and
nine female voices, after which Frederick Corss, M. D.,
of Kingston, Pa., was introduced to the audience as the
orator of the occasion. The subject of his discourse was
Literature. The Doctor’s address was a scholarly presentation of a subject which the studies of the Seniors had
been prepared them particularly to enjoy. It consisted
largely of sketches showing a thoughtful appreciation of
ancient and modern literature, its scope and limitations.
It was evident that Homer and Shakespeare are
among
his daily studies. The address throughout held the close
attention of the audience.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE

27,

10:00

A.

M.— MODEL SCHOOL

A composition by Clara Bachman, in which she gave
the boys good advice, a piece read by Master Jay Allen,
a composition on trees by George Ivey, a recitation by
Nora Girton, one by Maggie Williams, and a composition
on coffee well read by Mabel Waller preceded a series of
lively marches and evolutions of the school to the time
of “Way Down Upon the Swanee River,” and kindred
pieces of music. These evolutions showed a careful and
thorough training. Essays, music, and dialogues made up
a varied and interesting program, at the conclusion of
which Dr. Waller stepped upon the platform, and calling
before him Alice Dillon, Emma Townsend, Claire Whitmoyer, Alex. Cohen, Bartie John and Guy Rawlings, announced their promotion to the sub-junior class in the
Normal Department.

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large number of this class which has upon

its

roster sixty-six names, were present at the hour appointed. Since their graduation, two of the members have become principals of schools, one is a member of the State
Normal Faculty, one a clergyman, one a student at Dickinson College, one a student of law, and another of medicine, while the balance are teachers, with two exceptions.
Miss Dora Niles, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Florence
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Night’s Dream,” and were followed by a cordial address
of welcome to the class from Prof. G. E. Wilbur. The Professor, after referring to the opportunities afforded by
the last two years and the heroism often found in private
station, closed by saying “In Switzerland they have a
tune so popular that it is prohibited in other countries
where Swiss soldiery are hired, because it leads the Swiss
to desert and seek their native land. So I would have you
remmber this school, so that if you should stray into an
alien camp, we may win you back.”
Mr. Marion A. Kline, of Plymouth, made a happy
response. The motto of the class “Not Finished But Begun” was the theme of an oration by J. Claude Keiper, of
Shenandoah, which did the young man great credit.
This was followed by a splendid essay from Miss
Lucetta Moyer, the text of which was “What have you
gleaned ?”
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ly

CLASS EXERCISES

“We Work

for the Children” is the motto of the class
and headed their program of class exercises. After
an instrumental solo by Miss Montgomery, the exercises
were started with a neat and appropriate address of
welcome from Mr. F. Myers, following which Miss Carrie
of ’88,

McNiff’s favored the audience with a well conceived, well
and well read essay on “Sculpture”. After a
charming duet by Misses Rinker and Chrisman, Mr.
James R. Lewis discussed “Character Makes the Man.”
Mr. B. Frank Myers rendered a vocal solo, and was followed by the class historian, Miss Lizzie Jones. The history was ingeniously planned. The poet of the class, Miss
Mary Taylor, read a well written poem. A quartette,
Misses Rinker and Ringler, and Messrs. Crow and Myers
favored the audience with a delightful song, and then
Miss Jessie Hassinger began to cast the horoscope of her
class-mates. After the prophesy was ended, Miss Mary L.
Wendt, in a few well-chosen words, presented to the
school a set of anatomical models as a memorial of the
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half of the school, after which the class song, composed
by Fowler Bucke, a member of the class, was heartily
sung, and the exercises of the class of 1888 were ended.

CALLIEPIAN REUNION

At 8 :00 o’clock Institute Hall was crowded. The
exercises were opened with a violin and piano duet by
Alex. Cohen and Charles Ferree.
U. S. Dodson read a well written address entitled
“The Duty of Our Day,” and was followed with a piano
solo by Otto Ikeler.
After the remainder of the interesting program, consisting of tableaux, a recitation by Miss Zua Guye, and
vocal instrumental music, was completed, the Society
adjourned to the school parlors.

THURSDAY, JUNE 28— 19TH COMMENCEMENT
all night Wednesday, and was still raining
on Thursday morning, when at 9 :30 the exercises of the
It

19th

rained

Commencement began.

Institute Hall, the

gallery,

were crowded with relatives, patrons, and
friends of the school and class. Rev. Dr. S. M. Frost, of
the M. E. Church, opened with an appropriate prayer,
after which Haydn’s Surprise Symphony was executed
in a masterly manner upon the piano, organ and violin by
Prof. Niles, and the Misses Geiger and Niles. “The Correlation of Man and Nature” was the subject of U. Grant
and the

aisles

Dodson’s oration. Man is provided with five avenues
each has a special work to do. Man’s spiritual nature also
has its correlation in nature. The great responsibility resting on every one is to keep the body in perfect accord
with nature, to have the conscience clear, and allow the
feelings to be influenced only by right and
proper
motives.

Miss Margaret R. Keifer read an essay on “Pestathe Father of Popular Education.” John Henry
Pestalozzi was born in 1746, and was one of the chief
movers in the change of popular education. Although to
many his life may have seemed a failure, his devotion
and self-sacrifice were not in vain. His motives were his
love for man, and his strong desire for the elevation of
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Charles H. Bates laid down the proposition that the
teacher should be progressive. All must be progressive in
this age The duty of making men so devolves upon the
teacher. Progress, progress, progress is the alarm that
should ever sound with the heart beat of the aspiring
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teacher.

“Old Black Joe,” a piano solo by Otto Ikeler, was
well played, and elicited hearty applause. “The Teacher
Must Love Her Work” was the subject of Mary A. Connelly, in which, among other things, she said
Love for
the profession draws forth all energies. Teachers must
have the approbation of their pupils, or they cannot expect success. Love stimulates the teacher to duty. Where
the teacher is indolent, the pupil will be so. The teacher
must look not to money for her recompense, but she must
look for it in leading her pupils up the ladder from darkness and ignorance. Let us honor, revere and cherish the
teacher’s profession.
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“Why Education Should Be Progressive,” by William M. Kitchen, was an able oration. The teacher who
disregards nature and seeks only to teach knowledge
from books to his pupils allows most of their powers to
lie dormant. God has implanted in all His works the law
of true development. As we find in the seed an embryo
tree, so in the child we find an undeveloped man. The
duty of a teacher as the child grows is to supply knowledge in just such amounts and of such kind as the child
is able to receive.
M. Hassinger read an essay on “The Uses of
in Education.” Without the power of imagination, many of the scientific truths would have remained as obscure as if they were in the bowels of the earth.
By this power, the weary humdrum of life can be gilded.
Every one whose taste for the beautiful has been cultivated can enjoy the creations of poetry. A truly good man
is
good only in proportion as he has cultivated his
Jessie

Imagination

imagination.
“Silence and the Sea,” a vocal solo by Miss Barnes,
of Harrisburg, showed the possession of a sweet voice
and careful culture. “Effect of Cheerfulness,” an essay by
Miss Annie Supplee, of Bloomsburg, was replete with
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nature requires it. If they do not have
home, they will seek cheerfulness elsewhere.
When the merchant or professional man returns home at
night jaded and worried, and is met with cheerful faces,
his load is lightened. The cheerful teacher looks upon the
bright side of the future and expects success for her
efforts. The pupils animated by her cheerfulness learn to
love her and strive to gain knowledge for her sake.
“Characteristics of Good Teaching” was the subject
of an address by W. Fowler Bucke. Every object in nature
is governed by the will of the Divine Being. Every act of

something

in their

a cheerful

man

is

as truly subservient to the laws of the

universe as

any sequence is the result of a cause. Our powers must be
developed by exercise, just as the snin/i strengthens his
arm by exercise. To a child who has been properly taught,
the world is a school, and nature the teacher.
A trio, composed of Prof. Niles, Miss Montgomery,
and Miss Niles executed the “Magic Flute” by Mozart. A
truly original essay was “The Hunter” by Miss Hannah
Reese. No sight, she said, is more pleasing than that of a
hunter as he starts out on a spring morning. The successful hunter must be an early riser. He hunts because he
loves to, but this alone would not secure success. The
model hunter knows the exact region and time when to
find game and he must have a true and steady aim. The
model hunter should be an example to the model teacher.
The model teacher is an early riser and physically, intellectually, and morally, fully equipped.
This essay was followed by one upon “The Life and
Educational Views of Comenius,” by Miss Florence
Montgomery. The subject of this essay came into the
world in the year 1592. His education was limited. At one
time, he was banished from his native country, losing all
his possessions and even his wife. He believed that things
to be done should be learned by the doing of them. He
says that to instruct the young is to unfold the understanding of things.

from

We

are

now reaping

rich

harvests

his labors.

“Education, the Mainspring of Happiness” was the
subject of an essay by Miss Minnie Rinker. One of the
most powerful means by which happiness can be created is education. Ignorance is blind to all that is beautiful.

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Education not only multiplies the sources of enjoyment,
but also creates a greater capacity for it. Education conduces to true morality and religion.
The exercises were, after this essay, varied by a
chorus of eleven female voices, entitled “The Rustic
Dance,” following which Miss Carrie McNiff read an
essay upon the theme “Education, the Keystone of Our
Republic.” Education is the bond of our Union; the ward
and keeper of our Constitution. All have admitted that a
well instructed people can alone be a free people. The
essay was well written and well read.
“The Influence of the Press,” by Miss Mary Taylor,
was a well written practical essay. She said that the newspaper frequently sets forth the ideas of men. It scatters
these ideas broadcast. The great number of papers edited
prevents any one set of men from influencing the people
to any great extent.
The topics are almost innumerable
which the daily papers suggest at the breakfast table. A
child becomes delighted with a newspaper, because he
reads of persons and things with which he is acquainted.
A newspaper read for one year is worth a quarter’s
schooling.

The closing oration by
“The Relation of Education

B. Frank Meyers was one
to Government.” The speaker reverted to the annals of the past and, contrasting
ancient forms of government with those of the present

age, declared that great change had been wrought. He
then divided the forms of government into the patriarchal, monarchial, aristocratic and democratic. From
these, he said, had sprung the greatest government of all
The Republic. Then the speaker, in eloquent language,
showed the relation that education sustains to government.
Following this oration, Miss Elva Garrison and the
orchestra played “The Princess,” after which Miss Mary
Young read a regular granger’s essay upon “The Advantages of Education to the Farmer.” The farmers are beginning to realize that, if they would be successful, they
must be educated. He must feed the land, and it will feed
him. The educated farmer knows when to sow seed
he
sees the value of machinery; he keeps blooded cattle and
horses and is able to give a good reason for what he does.
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soil with which we as teachers work is the human
mind, and we sow the seed of knowledge.
Next Miss Lizzie Jones discussed “The Work of the
True Teacher.” Someone has said, first of all, that man is
an animal. As a nurseryman planting a tree, in order that
it may bring forth fruit,
protects it from the heat and
storm, so the teacher must guard the pupil. The good
teacher aims at a strong mind in a strong body; mental
culture must keep pace with physical culture. The true
teacher knows that the foundation of all knowledge is in
representing sensible objects to the senses. He instills the
importance of the habit of careful investigation. He endeavors to inspire his pupils with high and noble thought.
He surrounds them with things that are beautiful and
good. By his example, he teaches them to be gentle, neat,
humble, patient, truthful and persevering.

The

The audience, at the conclusion of this essay, were
favored with the rendition of “Love’s Return Waltzes,”
by Fannie Adams, Alice Eyerly, Ida Geiger and the orchestra, after which the whole class, fifty-two in number,
were called upon the stage by Dr. Waller to receive their

diplomas.
After each of the class had received a diploma, a
diploma was given to Howard Bidleman, who was graduated in the Elementary course in 1885, and has now completed the Academic Course. R. M. Davis, having passed
a thorough examination, was given a Teacher’s State
Certificate. The Degree of Master of Elementary Didactics was then conferred on those graduates who have
taught for two years successfully. After the degrees had
been conferred, Dr. Waller called attention to the fact
that Prof. J. W. Ferree, a member of the faculty from
the founding of the school, had resigned, and spoke of
him as an able mathematician and courteous gentleman
with whom it is delightful and beneficial to associate. He
is a man whose character in the community as a Christian gentleman is recognized, and whose worth is equalled only by his modesty.
The exercises closed with a Benediction pronounced
by the Rev. Fred L. Hiller.
After the commencement exercises, a reunion of the
alumni was held in the dormitory chapel. The alumni,

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faculty and Board of Trustees then proceeded to the CenHotel, where a generous banquet was spread, of
which all partook with enjoyment. When the wants of
the physical man had been supplied, Dr. Waller, as the
toastmaster, called the guests to order, and proposed
“The Board of Trustees,” and called for a response from
its youngest member, N. U. Funk, Esq.
Mr. Funk began
his reply in a witty and humorous manner, claiming that
the fore-knowledge that one is predestined to make a
postprandial speech has the effect of impairing his appetite.
He harbored the idea that the committee thought
he was possessed of great gastromical powers, and took
this method of impairing their exercise.
He then paid a
tribute of praise to the Trustees for what they have done
in the past, spoke eloquently of the destruction of the
former building by fire, and the rapid rise of the present
one, and took his seat amid great applause. The next
toast “The Faculty” was responded to by Prof G. E. Wilbur, who, after a few humorous remarks, spoke of the fact
that there had been an almost unbroken faculty for 11
years, but now the bond was broken in the resignation of
Prof. Ferre e; of the latter’s long and faithful service,
Prof. Wilbur spoke in feeling terms. After the applause
elicited by these remarks had subsided, “The Class of ’88”
was given, and responded to in a happy manner by Mr.
Frank Myers. John M. Garman, of the Class of ’71, was
called upon to respond to the toast “Woman,” which he
did in such an inimitable manner as to keep his hearers
in a chronic state of laughter during the entire course of
tral

his

remarks.

In the evening, the exercises of the week were closed
with a reception given by the Seniors in the school parlors.

1900
Mrs. William Ludwig, of Bloomsburg, died at her
home Monday, May 2. The former Lydia E. Maust, she
was graduated from the Bloomsburg High School and the
Bloomsburg State Normal School, and taught for several
years.
She was a member of the Bloomsburg Reformed
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-fr

May Day
+

Hp

and
wide expanse
B LUE SKIESbackground

of green lawn provida
ed the
for the brilliant May Day ceremonies held at the College Wednesday, May 11, in the
presence of one of the largest crowds in the history of the
institution.

The coronation of the May Queen, Miss Anne Groswas performed and the students of the Ben-

ek, of Plains,

jamin Franklin Training School and of the College danced on the campus, as a vast crowd of students from the
neighboring schools, with parents and alumni, gathered
on bleachers which had been erected in front of the terraces on the campus. The crowd overflowed the bleacher
accommodations until there were people seated upon
folding chairs and on the grass in a great semi-circle
about the central arena. The chilly wind detracted little
from the enjoyment of the spectacle.
The throne and dais of the Queen occupied the prominent place where it has stood for several years. Between
a flowering chestnut tree and a mulberry tree, in front of
the gymnasium, the platform stood against a background
of spruce. Intertwined in the spruce bower were tulips,
iris and snapdragons.

Two tall urns, of a light blue color, stood at the front
corners of the dais, which was five steps high. A green
carpet covered the platform. Along the center was a strip
of maroon and gold leading to the throne.
Seventeen May poles were scattered about the terraces of the campus between Carver Hall and Science
Hall. The streamers, red, blue, yellow, pink and white,
were stretched out to their full length and attached to the
ground, forming a tent-like appearance.
At 3 :30, the long procession started to move. The
Maroon and Gold Orchestra played a processional as the
flower girls advanced slowly from the grove. Sixteen
small girls were grouped together in two long rows. On
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scattered in the path of the Queen. They were followed
by Philip Doran, bearing the crown.
Attention was focused upon the Queen, Miss Grosek,
as she walked behind the diminutive crown-bearer. Miss
Grosek wore a becoming gown of heavy white silk, with a
short long-sleeved jacket. Her bouquet was of lilies, roses, yellow daisies, and greens. Seven boys carried her long
train of white, purple and orange.
Next came the cortege of ladies-in-waiting, clad in
pastel-colored evening frocks, and carrying bouquets of
varied blossoms tied with wide ribbons.
Pupils of the
Benjamin Franklin Training School formed the rest of the
procession.
As the Queen approached the platform, the crownbearer placed the circlet of yellow daisies tied with silver
ribbons in the hands of Clyde Klinger, President of the
Community Government Association. With appropriate
remarks he addressed the sovereign of the month, and
with the words, “I crown you Queen of the May,” placed
the crown on her hair.
The center of interest then returned to the procession, as the Training School pupils, under the direction of
Harriet M. Moore, sang three folk songs.
The children of the kindergarten then played two
circle games, in which they wound in and out in simple
formation and followed the words of their songs by kicking, turning about, and shaking their heads.

The A Capella Choir marched on the
maroon and gold robes and sang a song

field in their
reflecting the

gaiety of the season.

A traditional country dance was next performed by
over a hundred college women.
Their dance was followed by two Chinese dances, given by the pupils of the second grade.
The dances given by the first grade were “Picking
the Stars,” “Greeting the Sunrise,” “Noonday Frolic,” and
“Lighting the Candles at Sleepytime.”
Two groups of College girls followed with dances,
the first being a pirate dance and the second the “Hobby
Horse Hop.” These were followed by “Indian Braves,”
by the boys of the third grade and “Flower Dance,” by
the third grade

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Bernice Blaine next appeared in a solo tap dance.
in blackface, overalls and plaid blouse.
A
folk dance, “Rig-a-Jig,” was given by the fourth grade,
and the fifth grade then presented a folk dance, “Money

She appeared

Musk.”

The sixth grade closed the individual grade presentations with a folk dance by the girls, “If All the World
Were Paper,” and an exhibition of tumbling by the boys.
College girls and Training School pupils then gathered about the May poles and wove interesting patterns
with the streamers, while the Maroon and Gold Orchestra p’ayed “Shepherd’s Hey,”

and “Country Gardens.”

1912

James F. Gearhart underwent an operation on the
spine in April, at the Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia. Following the operation, he has been paralyzed
from the waist down, but the paralysis is gradually disappearing and he is now able to sit up. He has been
transferred to the U. S. Naval Hospital.
A group of the Class of 1912 at the Philadelphia
banquet, hearing of Mr. Gearhart’s condition, sent him a
bouquet, and a letter from Mrs. Gearhart to the Editor expresses thanks for the kind remembrance.
Should any of the Alumni be in Philadelphia during
the Summer, it would certainly give him a happy hour to
have them call on him at the new Naval Hospital, 16th
Street and Pattison Avenue, near the Navy Yard.
Mr. Gearhart hopes to be able to resume his duties
in the Fall as Principal of the Montgomery-Clinton High
School at Montgomery, Pa.

The Luzerne County branch of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Alumni Association held a picnic at
Fey’s Grove on Saturday, June 18.
Games, races and
dancing were enjoyed by all. There were members present from Pittston, Freeland, Glen Lyon, Nanticoke, Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.

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ITH THE

track team again setting the stage for a deby retaining the state championship
during the afternoon, Bloomsburg State Teachers College
honored its men and girl athletes at the eighth annual athletic dinner held Saturday evening, May 14.
The speakers were Miss Anne F. Hodgkins, of New York City, and
Ira Thomas, of Philadelphia, who has been in professional
baseball for thirty-one years as player, coach and scout.
The well-rounded athletic program of the College
was reflected in the hundreds of awards made during the
evening. These awards had been earned by participation
in intramural and intercollegiate contents.
lightful night

The dinner, always an outstanding event of the College year, was featured by a varied program that provided fine addresses and excellent entertainment.
Mr. Thomas, adept at telling stories, many of which
were gleaned from his rich experience, drove home forcefully the joy that comes to those living clean lives, while
Miss Hodgkins had much of value to leave with her hearers as she developed the theme, “Living For the Fun of
It.”
Miss Hodgkins is the director of leisure time activities and education for the Girls’ Service League of America, and chairman of the executive division of the Women’s Division, National Amateur Athletic Federation.
Entertainment was provided by J. Henry Morgans,
baritone, Thomas C. Roberts, tenor, and Prof. William R.
Reese, accompanist, of Wilkes-Barre, who so pleased the
audience that they were obliged to give several encores.
Dinner music was provided by the Maroon and Cold Orchestra, under the direction of H. F. Fenstemaker, and
group singing was directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore.
R. Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association,
presided, and the invocation was given by William B. Sut-

former Dean of Instruction.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, President of the College, made
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ing spirit in the development of the athletic program.”
Dr. Haas announced that the Bloomsburg Track
Team had won the State Teachers College track meet,
held that afternoon at Shippensburg. He also called attention to the Centennial that the College is planning for
1939.
He explained that in intercollegiate athletics, varsity
winners the first year receive pins, the second year “B”
sweaters, the third year gold emblems in the sport in
which they compete, and in the fourth year gold keys and
certificates.

Six keys were presented, having been awarded to the
following: Alphonse Finder, Coal Township, a member
of the football team two years, of the baseball team for
four years, and captain of baseball one year; Daniel Litwhiler, a member of the baseball team for four years, and
football manager for one year; Irving Ruckle, a member
of the basketball team for four years, being captain in
1936-37 and honorary captain during the past season;
John Sircovics, a member of the football team for four
years and captain in 1936; Walter D. Withka, a member
of the basketball team for three years and of the tennis
team two years, and Adolph Zalonis, a member of the
tennis team for four years.
Miss Lucy McCammon, head of the Department of
Physical Education for girls, presented the awards for
participation in girls’ athletics. The awards for basketball and track were presented by Coach George C. Buchheit, those for baseball and tennis by Dean John C Koch,
and those for football by Coach A. Austin Tate.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, who spoke on ‘‘Athletics at Bloomsburg,” told of the starting of a soccer team last Fall, thru
the efforts of Fred Houck, of Catawissa, and of the placing of wrestling on the varsity sports calendar.
Dancing in the gymnasium followed the dinner pro-

gram.

Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas entertained Tuesday
evening, April 26, the members of the Student Council,
and the officers and faculty advisors of the four classes,
the Maroon and Gold and the Obiter staffs.

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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC RECORDS
1937-1938

FOOTBALL
Varsity

—
— Indiana
— Mansfield
— Lock Haven
— Shippensburg
— Susquehanna
—East Stroudsburg

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

Millersville

Summary

Won

20

6

6
0
6
0
G

25

12
3; Lost 4

12
14

28
0
0

Junior Varsity

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

—National Farm School
— Northumberland H.
— Keystone College
— Osceola Mills H.

0

S.

Jr.

1

S.

Won

Summary

52

12

6

0
0

52
7

1; Lost 3

BASKETBALL
Varsity

— Alumni
— Susquehanna
— Susquehanna
—Lock Haven
— Mansfield
— Mansfield
— Shippensburg
—
— West Chester
— East Stroudsburg
—Lock Haven
— Indiana
—
—Shippensburg
—East Stroudsburg

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

44
28
54
34
35
21

36
36
40
35

Millersville

19

48
37
39
34

Millersville

Summary

Won

26
35
34
37
18
22
40
43
36
39
35
25
36
48
46

6; Lost 9

Junior Varsity

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

—Susquehanna
— Susquehanna

J.
J.

V.
V.

32
38

29
20

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Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

_54
— McCann’s Business
M.
— Freeland A.
38
Hazleton _30
— McCann’s Bus.
— Danville A.
50
41
— Dickinson Seminary
— Dickinson Seminary
29
Col.,

R.

42
42

C.

S. S.

16

Col.,

35
38
44

C.

Won

Summary

6; Lost 2

CROSS COUNTRY
Varsity

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

— Indiana
— West Chester
— Slippery Rock

40
26
39

15

29

Won

(Low Score Wins)

16
2; Lost

1

Freshmen

— Mt. Carmel
— Kulpmont
— Kulpmont

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
(Low

271/2

271/2

Score Wins) _

Won

2

;

Lost 0

;

20
22
Tied

35
33
1

SOCCER

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

— Susquehanna
— Susquehanna

Summary

2
2

Won

1; Lost

3
0
1

WRESTLING

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

— Mansfield
— Keystone
— Brooklyn Poly. Tech.
— Keystone

13
13

Jr. Col.

Jr. Col.

Summary

Won

1

;

15 1/2
13
Lost 3

23
25
141/2

25

BASEBALL
Varsity

—
—Lock Haven
—West Chester
— Shippensburg
— Bucknell
— Indiana
— Kutztown
— Susquehanna Univ.
— Mansfield

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

Millersville

TJniv.

6

12
1

5
3
4

12

1

9

10

4
15
13

6
2
2
6

1

T

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

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E

— Bucknell Univ.
— West. Maryland
— Univ. Penna.
— Univ. Delaware

34

11
6

2

12
10

of
of

9
3

1

Won

Summary

7

;

Lost G

Junior Varsity

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

— Bucknell
— Dickinson
— Bucknell

22

Jr. Col.

Sem.

4

Jr. Col.

15
Lost 0

Won

Summary

3

;

TENNIS
Varsity

— Mansfield
— West Chester
— Shippensburg
— Bucknell Univ.
— West. Maryland
—Kutztown
— Indiana
— Bucknell
— Univ. Penna.
—West. Maryland
Summary

Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg

STATE MEET

2
6
6
1

2
9
4
3
0
2

of

Won

4

;

Lost 6

— PENNSYLVANIA TEACHERS

COLLEGES
— Championship;15i/
West Chester 45; Lock

Bloomsburg, 55
Haven, 24i/2
Cheney, 4.

;

Shippensburg,

TRACK SEASON
Scranton Indoor Meet

Won

7
O
3
8
7
0
3
4
9
7
O

eight-lap

2

;

Slippery Rock 10;

— 1938

—

April 13
relay; team

composed

of

Zelesky,

Karnes, Mulhern, and VanDevender.

Frank VanDevender won special sixty-yard dash and
Stanley Zelesky

won

half-mile run.

April 28

Defeated Lock Haven

— 70

14 to 55!/2-

Penn Relays
Relay team, composed of VanDevender, Kemple, Mul-

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hern and Zelesky, won College Relay.
Kenneth Hippensteel placed eighth

Time

—

3 :25.8.

3000 meter

in

steeplechase.

May

3

Defeated Shippensburg

Second Indoor Meet

at

—

851/2 t°

40 l/g.

Scranton

Won

the eight-lap relay; team composed of VanDcvender, Kemple, Mulhern and Zelesky.
Also ran two races in the sixty-yard dash against
Johnson of Columbia University and two of our boys
Mulhern and VanDedefeated him in the first race
vender but lost to him in the second race.

—

—

May

14

Won

State Teachers College Meet at Shippensburg
with 55 points; West Chester second with 45; Lock
Haven third with 241/2; Shippensburg fourth with
15i/> Slippery Rock fifth with 10, and Cheyney sixth
with 4.
Frank VanDevender was high scorer in the Meet,
winning three first places 220-yard dash and both
hurdle events.
;

—

Susquehanna
Closed the Varsity season against Susquehanna by
taking all the first places and scoring 100 1/2 to Sus-

quehanna’s

251/2.

The following boys made new records
the following events

—

this

year

in

—

Throw Daniel Bonham, Freshman 199 ft., 2 in.
High Jump Cecil Stover, Freshman 5 ft., 10 in.
100-Yard High Hurdle Cecil Stover, Freshman 14.1

Javelin

—

—

—
—
120-Yard High Hurdles — Captain Frank VanDevender,
Junior— 16 seconds.
220- Yard Low Hurdles — Frank VanDevender, Junior
24.8 seconds.
80-Yard Run — Daniel Kemple, Sophomore — minutes,
seconds.
440-Yard Run — Stanley Zelesky, Junior— 50.7 seconds.
seconds.

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Frank VanDevender
the 100-yard

tied Harry VanGordon’s record in
dash and 220-yard dash, namely 9.9

seconds and 22.1 seconds, respectively.
Relay team, composed of Stanley Zelesky, Edward
Mulhern, Frank VanDevender and Daniel Kemple,
broke our one-mile relay record when they ran it in

Penn Relays.
The following boys were awarded the Varsity letter
in Track
Frank VanDevender, Captain Chester Plarwood, Donald Karnes, John Lavelle, Robert Parker, Cecil
Stover, Daniel Bonham, Kenneth Hippensteel, Daniel
Kemple, Edward Mulhern, Walter Reed, Stanley Zelesky,
and Paul Martin, Varsity Manager. No Seniors were on
3 :25.8 at the

—

;

the squad. Three seasons undefeated in dual meets.
A Junior Varsity Track schedule was arranged this
Spring.
The meets were held against Berwick High
School, Wyoming Seminary, Kulpmont High School and
Bloomsburg High School.
Against Berwick High our JayVees scored 66 points
At Wyoming our JayVees were defeated by
to their 47.
the narrow margin of 58 to 57 points by Wyoming VarKulpmont then defeated the Junior Varsity by
sity team.
a score of 69 to 48 and the College defeated Bloomsburg
High School in their last meet by a score of 55 5.6 to 48
1

.

6

.

The following boys were awarded the JayVee
awards Leonard Bowers, Charles Horn, George Hausknecht, Robert Joy, Joseph Malinchoc, Joseph Marinko,
Joseph Sworin, Howard Tomlinson, Ralph Baker.

—

1925
Miss Lucy Evans and Charles F. Unold, both of Elmira, N. Y., were married Thursday, December 9, 1937,
in the parsonage of the German Evangelical Church at
Elmira by the Rev. R. Viewig. Mrs. Unold is a graduate
of the high school at Dushore, Pa., and of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. She has been connected with the
circulation department of the Star-Gazette, in Elmira.
Mr. Unold is employed by the Stempfle Electric Company.
They are now living at 325 Roe Avenue, Elmira.

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ENTERTAINED
Almost four hundred high school Seniors from the
Bloomsburg, had a glimpse of college life on
Tuesday, May 3, when they were entertained on the campus as the guests of the College community.
Three of the schools arrived in the morning, and
were guests of the College at lunch. The hospitality aides
at lunch were in charge of Catherine Oplinger and Jacob
vicinity of

Kotsch.

John C. Koch, Dean of Men, arranged a diverauditorium program for the afternoon’s schedule,
and Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Dean of Women, was at the
head of the Hospitality Committee. Dean Harvey A. Andruss was in charge of the assembly, and Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker presided at the organ. Welcome to the guests
was extended by Clyde L. Klinger, President of the Community Government Association, and by Marjorie Beaver, chairman of the Hospitality Committee.
A brief address was given by Dr. Francis B. Haas,
and a play was given by the dramatic fraternity, directed
by Miss Alice Johnston, of the faculty. The presentation
was a farce, “Common Clay,” by George M. Cohan, with
Willard Christian, of Shamothe following in the cast:
Prof.

sified

—

kin Margaret Potter, of Bloomsburg; Philip Frankmore,
of Easton; Jacob Kotsch, of Allentown; Bernice Bronson,
of Athens; William Strawinski, of Harrisburg; Alex McKechnie, of Berwick, and Ben Singer, of Hazleton.
The College Co-Eds, a group consisting of the Misses
Frances and Margaret Ward, Hannah Culp, Ruth Bishop,
Helen Seman, Pauline Riegle, and Eleanor Cooper, sang
a medley of college songs.
;

The motion picture, “Alma Mater,” produced by
George J. Keller, was then shown.
Dinner was served to the students with the hospitalaides in charge of Anne Grosek and Charles Kelchner.
The following high schools were represented
Mill-

Prof.
ity

:

—

twenty-seven; Nescopeck, thirty-five; Shickshinny,
sixty; Elysburg, sixteen; Turbotville, eighteen; Bloomsburg, one hundred
twenty-five; Orangeville, twenty;
Huntington Mills, twenty-three; Benton, forty, and Catawissa, twenty.
ville,

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.

THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
R. Bruce Albert
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Edward Schuyler
Harriet Carpenter

Board
Fred W. Diehl
H. Mont Smith

E. H.

of Directors

Nelson

D. D. Wright

Frank Dennis

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Dauphin County
To be Organized in May

Lackawanna County
Not Organized
Luzerne County
President

Mrs. Mary Emanuel Brown
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
J. Frank Dennis, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Mrs. Marion R. Hartman
282 Sprague Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Irene Draina

River Road, R. D.
Vice-President
Secretary

Treasurer

1,

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Lycoming -Sullivan
Not Organized

Montour County
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Harriet Fry, Danville
Pierce Reed, Danville, R. D. 5
Alice Smull, Danville
Ralph McCracken, Riverside

Northumberland County
John R. Boyer, Herndon

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont
Miss Ethel Fowler, Watsontown
S.

Curtis

Yocum, Shamokin

Philadelphia

Honorary President
112 North 50th

Mrs.

Norman

C. Cool

Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley
8134 Hennig Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Vice-President and Corresponding Sec’y. __ Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish
736 Washington Street, Camden, New Jersey
Recording Secretary
Esther Yeager
Treasurer
Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney
President

Schuylkill County

Not Organized

Snyder-Union Counties
President

Helen Keller

_

222

Maple

Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Margaret Lodge
Louis Pursey
Ruth Fairchild

,

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

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40

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI
To

All the

Alumni

:

Alumni Day was a grand success. The weather was
The largest crowd of graduates in the history of
the Alumni Association was present for the program.
Everybody had a good time and decided to come back
perfect.

next year for the Centennial Celebration.
The auditorium was filled for the Annual Meeting.
The Association gave hearty approval of the plan of the
Board of Directors to increase the Scholarship Loan Fund
to Fifty Thousand Dollars.
This sum will be contributed
by graduates, former students, and friends of “Old
Bloomsburg.’’
You will be asked to share in the successful completion of this worthy project. It will be the Alumni Contribution to the success of the Centennial Celebration. It can
and will be done, if every former student will do his or
her part.
Contributions will be recorded by classes. Which
class will head the list with the largest per capita contribution ? The class of 1924 has already started to work.
What class will be next to plan and organize for a real
campaign? Who will volunteer to act as a leader for his
or her class ? Send in your name to me at once.
County organizations will be asked to help. The officers of each local group will be asked to act as leaders
in the respective counties.
Everybody must be willing to
help and give of their time and money to this worthy
cause.

Be a Booster for the Centennial and the College.
Help make the Scholarship Loan Fund a real asset to
boys and girls trying to secure a college education. Plan
to attend the Centennial Celebration in 1939. Everybody
will have a reunion and a fine time.
Plan now to come/
Sincerely yours,
R.

BRUCE ALBERT.

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*

+

The Alumni Meeting
+

4*

A DRIVE Fund was

for not less than fifty thousand dollars for the

started Saturday, May 21, by the
Loan
Alumni Association at a record-breaking Alumni Day,
and will culminate at the ceremonies in 1939 which will
mark the One Hundredth Anniversary of the College.
H. Mont Smith, ’93, prominent Bloomsburg attorney,

presented the project at the general meeting in the auditorium, and it was enthusiastically endorsed by those
present.
Dr. Haas informed the audience that the unveiling of
a plaque to Prof. C. H. Albert, one of the “Old Guards”
would be another feature of the Centennial.

The Loan Fund has been gradually

now

built

up

until

it is

excess of $3000.00. However, that amount is inadequate to meet the requests for aid from worthy students of the College. The loans have been made without
interest and the appreciation of aid is shown in the fact
that not one student has defaulted. Many of the leading
graduates have received aid from the fund.
The assembly convened shortly after 11 :00 o’clock
and was opened by the invocation, given by Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.
R. Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association, presided.
Seated on the stage were Dr. Waller,
Dr. Haas, I. A. DeWitt, Sunbury Attorney; Miss Margaret
Bogenrief, Mifflinburg; Philip Drum, Wilkes-Barre; Prof,
and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, Dean W. B. Sutliff, Miss Helen
Carpenter, D. D. Wright, E. H. Nelson, Dr. H. V. Hower,
and Judge Charles C. Evans.
The Class of 1938, its members attired in caps and
gowns, marched into the auditorium, were voted into the
Alumni Association, and sang “Maroon and Gold.” Clyde
Klinger, President of the Community Government Association, extended greetings from the student body, and
spoke of the building program now under way on the
campus.
John Hendler, President of the graduating
class, presented the check for dues, and declared that the
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class “stood ready and willing to cooperate in all of the
efforts of the Alumni Association.”
President Albert spoke of what could be accomplished with an active membership of five thousand. There
are approximately eight thousand graduates. Dr. E. H.
Nelson urged support of the Alumni Quarterly, of which

he

is

Business

Manager and H.

F.

Fenstemaker, the Edi-

tor.

The report of the Treasurer, Miss Harriet Carpenter,
showed receipts of $1,806.66 and a balance of $312.33.
D. D. Wright, Treasurer of the Student Loan Fund, said
that the fund amounted to $3,483.11, with all but $112.28
of that amount outstanding in loans made to forty-eight
students, ten of whom are members of the graduating
class.

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Dr. E. H. Nelson, and H. Mont
Smith were re-elected members of the Board of Directors
by unanimous vote. The names were presented by a nominating committee, with the report given by Dean Sutliff.

President Albert said that there are three objectives
coming year: A membership of four thousand, the
strengthening of the county organizations, and the increasing of the Student Loan Fund. He also announced
that all classes would be in reunion next year.
Dr. Haas, presented as a leader and sincere friend,
said that there is an indefinite something known as the
spirit of an institution.
It is the spirit of human beings interested in the institution. A good institution needs good
traditions. He spoke of the founding of the school which
has become the College, and said that a century of progress and cooperation in the field of educational service
will be observed next year.
The trustees have given Dr.
Haas authority to cooperate with the directors of the
Alumni Association in arranging the program.
for the

“The spirit of an institution,” he said, “depends to a
large extent on the teacher-pupil contact through the
years.” He asked that the observance of the Centennial
be marked by some concrete project.
In connection with these festivities, he said, another
outstanding member of the faculty, Prof. Charles H. Albert, who retired in 1926, would be honored.
Dr. Haas
spoke of Prof. Albert’s long and honorable career in the

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A
education, with forty-six years of service.
plaque honoring him will be unveiled during the Centenfield of

nial exercises.

Prof. Albert, in a brief response, said that he was
his thousands of student friends
He recalled
in his class rooms.
that the late Prof. O. H. Bakeless and he entered the
school as students the year that Dr. Waller joined the
faculty. Prof. Albert was given a warm welcome by the

most happy, and spoke of
who has “endured much”

graduates.
H. Mont Smith, delegated by the Board of Directors
of the Alumni Association to present the Student Loan
project, was then introduced. He stated that some years
ago there was a serious crisis faced by Bloomsburg. At
that time, there was a plan underway to reduce the number of Teachers Colleges in Pennsylvania. Bloomsburg
was greatly alarmed. That crisis passed, and the Commonwealth has assured the continuance of Bloomsburg,
and has under way an extensive building program.
Progress, he pointed out, must not only be material,
but spiritual as well. He referred to the good will which
the institution now enjoys, and also to the work of Dr.
Haas. He declared that there is a real need for $50,000.00
in the Student Loan Fund and said, “We are going to have
it pledged or delivered by next Commencement.”
He spoke of his class starting the fund in 1893, and
of the aid it has given to many deserving students. Because of its size, however, the fund has been able to aid
only a small percentage of those worthy of assistance. He
said that there had never been a real campaign among the
alumni, and was confident that graduates would rally to
the support of this worthy cause.
There are 6,674 graduates of whom the College has
definite records. If each of these would give a dollar for
each year since graduation, it would amount to $138,219.
“Certainly,” he said, “what we have gained at this fine institution has been worth at least a dollar a year to us since
we left it. But we are not asking half of that. I am sure
that you will put it well over the top.”
Marion T. Adams, of the Class of 1924, which will
meet in its fifteenth reunion next year, said that his class
had, during the day, launched the drive and that what it

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contributes will be given as the “Albert Memorial Fund,”
in honor of Professor Albert, the class adviser.
Dr. Waller, as the only surviving member of the class
of 1867, the first class, received a standing ovation when
he was presented. Dr. Waller rang the bell summoning
the alumni to the meeting. As a student, he had helped
to raise the money to purchase the bell that is still hanging in the tower of Carver Hall.
William Chrisman, Esq., was present to represent the
Class of 1878. The other surviving member, Mrs. Ida
Kistler Mausteller, of Columbus, Ohio, sent greetings.
Judge Evans reported for the Class of 1876. Mrs. Celesta
Kitchen Prutzman, of Trucksville, was another alumna
whose reunions have passed the half-century mark.

The Rev. H. I. Crow, of Bethlehem, President of the
Class of 1888, reported fourteen in reunion. He said that
the members had succeeded in all professions, with physicians, bankers, ministers and teachers among those on
the class roll. Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, who organized
the Philadelphia branch of the Alumni Association, is a
member of the class and was presented.
Mrs. Bolton Coon, of Kingston, reported twenty-eight
of the sixty-five living members of the Class of 1893 in
reunion. One member has had the same position since
graduation. The class numbered 113 at graduation.
C. Alberta Nichols reported for the Class of 1898,
with forty of the one hundred thirty-five members of the
class in reunion. She spoke of the excitement at the College at the outbreak of the war with Spain, and of the
elaborate decorations in the dining hall that night.
The Class of 1903, numbering fifty-five at graduation, had two-thirds of its forty-three living members in
reunion. This was the first class to graduate from the
three-year course.
W. W. Riland, of Brooklyn, New
York, reported for the class.
The Class of 1908 had twenty-two in reunion. This
class numbered 103 graduates, of whom 10 are now dead.
Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley, of Philadelphia, reporting for
the class, spoke of the success of her classmates in many
professions. One of the members, Mabel Wilkinson Walton, is author of a popular book.

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Bernard J. Kelley, Assistant District Attorney of
Philadelphia, reported sixty-three of the Class of 1913 in
reunion. Friday evening, the class had met at the home
of Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, and had breakfast at the Magee Coffee Shop before starting the program on the hill.
Mrs. Roy D. Snyder, of Bloomsburg, reported fifty
of the Class of 1918 in reunion. The class numbered 167,
and the class rolls now show definite knowledge of the

whereabouts of 130.
Miles Kostenbauder, of Milton, reported 125 of the
Class of 1923 in reunion. The class had 261 members.
Nicholas F. Polaneczky, of Philadelphia, reported thirtysix of the Class of 1928 in reunion.
Members of the later classes were recognized. In
the meeting 1933 had ten, 1934 had five, 1935 had ten,
1936 had seven and 1937 had fifteen.

Following the reports of classes the meeting was adjourned, and the graduates met on the campus, preparatory to entering the dining room for the annual banquet.

Alumni Banquet
Teachers
Alumni turned
B LOOMSBURG
such numbers
alumni luncheon
College

State

for the

out in

May

Satur-

room was inadequate to accommodate them, and one hundred fifty had to be served
day,
in

21, that the dining

the lobby.

The speaker

at the

banquet was Samuel

J.

Johnson,

of Bloomsburg, of the Class of 1893, who told of the fine
things accomplished because of the Student Loan Fund,
and made a plea for the Alumni to lend their aid in increasing this fund to $50,000.00 during the Centennial
year.
Mr. Johnson’s talk dealt largely with his experiences
as a student at Bloomsburg. He recalled that there were
two very important rules No talking in the hall, and keep
Those who boarded at the school could not
off the grass.
go into the business section of the town, nor leave the
campus except to go to church except by special permission.
But there were many pranks played, and Dr. Wal:

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ler is still trying to learn
floor of the dormitory.

When

who

Mr. Johnson was a

in 1892, the school

had

46

put the cow on the third

member

its first

of the Junior class
football team, and it was

coached by Professor Detwhiler, who played with the
boys. Two of that team, J. K. Miller, of Bloomsburg, and
I. A. DeWitt, Sunbury
attorney, were present at their
class reunion on Alumni Day.
Mr. Johnson spoke of the students who had been
helped by the Student Loan Fund. Among them are an
outstanding football coach, several principals in city high
schools, doctors, and one of the most prominent business
men of North Dakota.

The speaker reviewed and praised the work of Dr.
Waller, and observed that Dr. Haas has stepped into Dr.
Waller’s place better than anyone of whom he knew. He
spoke highly of the work of the Board of Trustees, and
urged alumni to contribute generously in boosting the
Centennial Student Loan Fund.
The luncheon brought to an end the formal program
of Alumni Day. The afternoon was spent at the ball game
between Bloomsburg and Bucknell, or in informal reunions at various points on the campus. Many of the
classes returned to the class rooms in which they had met
during the morning, and continued the reminiscences that
had been left unfinished when the bell rang to call the
Alumni to the assembly.

1881

Martin O. Lepley is pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Westbury, New York. His address is 235
Belmont Avenue. He has been a member of the New York
East Conference since 1893, the year of his graduation
from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He
was also graduated from Centenary Collegiate Institute,
Hackettstown, New Jersey, in 1889. The Rev. Mr. Lepley recently presented the College with a copy of Professar Feree’s book on Niagara Falls. The book has been
placed in one of the cases in the Bakeless Memorial Alumni

Room.

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The Philadelphia Alumni
A

W

E

HAVE

lost

Hess Cool,

our beloved President,

who

Mrs.

Florence

retired in April on account

of
health. It was Mrs. Cool who conceived the idea of
having a Philadelphia Alumni Association for those graduates of B. S. T. C. who live in and around Philadelphia.
’88,

ill

efforts, our Alumni Association came into
existence eight years ago, and through her whole-hearted

Through her

self-sacrifice,

hard work and good management,

it

has

come

to a high standard of attainment.
It is much that we, as an organization,

owe

to

Mrs.

Cool, and it is with deepest regret that we accept her resignation. Her work will live on, and we wish her success and the road back to good health in her retirement.
Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley, ’08, has been selected as
our new President. She has worked with Mrs. Cool since
the beginning of the organization, and will be very capable of handling the affairs of the Association.
Lillie Hortman Irish, ’06, was elected Vice-President
and Corresponding Secretary. The Recording Secretary
’31, daughter of Mandilla Hartline
is Esther Yeager,

Yeager, and the Treasurer

is

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kin-

ney, ’09.

Mrs. Cool was elected Honorary President for life,
back the organization as long as her health will
permit.
Our banquet on April 30 was a splendid one. Lindley Dennis, National Secretary of Vocational Work, of
Washington, D. C., and formerly of the B. S. T. C. faculty,
was the Master of Ceremonies and kept things lively all
evening.
Miss Margaret Burke, formerly of Shenandoah, and
now of New York City, was the principal speaker. She
gave steps of her career from the time she left Bloomsburg up to her present position as Superintendent of the
Jane Adams Vocational School for Girls, in New York
City, which is one of the largest and best of its kind in the

and

will

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country. She attained this honored position only by eternal work and persistence. Miss Burke has a most charming personality and every one was proud to know that she
really belonged to us. A large delegation from Shenandoah was down to hear and see her. Miss Burke is planning another visit with us in the near future.
were honored with the presence of Dr. and Mrs.
Haas. Dr. Haas spoke about the College and Student

We

Loan Fund.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, Business

Manager

of the Quarterly,
of the members
members of the Gen-

spoke about the desirability of having
of the Philadelphia Alumni
eral Alumni Association.

become

all

The student body was represented by Clyde L. KlingNuremberg, President of the Community Govern-

er, of

ment Association at Bloomsburg, and by Miss Anna Malloy, of Shenandoah, President of the Waller Hall Government Association. These students extended to those present the greetings of the student groups representd by
also spoke of student activities at the College.
There was a happy reunion of Lindley Dennis and
his niece, Hope Dennis Anderson, of Boston, whom he had
not seen for almost twenty years. Mrs. Anderson will be
remembered as the daughter of Prof. Joseph H. Dennis,
who taught Latin at Bloomsburg for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hosier, now located in the Panama Canal Zone, were among our honored guests.
One of our faithful Alumni members, whose name
cannot be divulged, sent a check for fifty dollars, to help
cover a deficit of long standing. It was a wonderful gesture to help a work that means “always forward.”
are indeed indebted and grateful to this person, for such
a deep feeling for her Alma Mater and to our organiza-

them and

We

tion.

The Maroon and Gold Orchestra, under the direction
of Howard F. Fenstemaker, and the A Capella Choir, directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore, were present, and provided music for the occasion.
Miss Moore and her choir certainly deserve all the
praise that we can give them. The chorus work, and the
solos by Frank Patrick, were more than appreciated, and
the music by the Maroon and Gold Orchestra was equally

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We

well received.
were delighted with the young people.
They give so much life to all occasions, and we hope that
they will continue to come through the years.
Mrs. Cool was presented with a purse in recognition
of loving service, and Mr. Cool was presented with a box
of cigars.

There were many greetings by telegram. One was
from Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, a member of the Board
of Directors of the Alumni Association, and another was
from Nell Kolb Smith, from a hospital bed in Bound
Mrs. Smith
Brook, N. J. Since that time
on May 23
passed away and was buried, on May 26, from the Tag-

—

—

gert Funeral Parlors in Bound Brook.
hope that next year you will plan to be with us.
invite all Alumni of the B. S. T. C. who may be in the
city at any time to come and meet with us in the Club
Room of Gimbel’s Restaurant. Meetings are held here
every month from October to April.
Picnics are held from June to September, inclusive,
on the second Saturday of each month. This year the first
picnic will be held June 11, at Willow Grove Park, Grove
No. 3. The picnics on July 9 and August 13 will be held
at Valley Forge and that of September 10 at Castle

We

We

Rocks.

At the April meeting, a financial statement was read
by Nora Woodring Kenny, the Treasurer. The remainder
of the afternoon was given to cards and social activities.
The new members at this luncheon were Mrs. MatilMrs. Ruth
da Wetteral Pennington, of Trenton, N. J.
Williams Flenry, Oak Lane, Philadelphia; Misses Ruth
and Eve Lawrence, of Narbeth, Pa., and Miss Lillian Fish;

er,

of

Wayne,

Pa.

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,
8134 Hennig

President.

Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

LILLIE HORTMAN IRISH, Vice-President.
736 Washington Street, Camden, N. J.

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4*

•fr

The Luzerne County Branch
*

4*

THE AdvisorywasBoard

of the Luzerne County Alumni Asentertained on June 2 by Mr. and Mrs.
W. Guy Evans at their home on York Avenue, West Pittston. Classmates of Mrs. Evans will remember her as Etta
Buss.
sociation

A

part of the evening

was devoted

to

business,

at

which time Marion Roat Hartman, Secretary, reported
the number of Alumni membership paid to approximate
150.
Our ever-active and interested President, Mary
Emanuel Brown, told of plans for a picnic to be held at
Fye’s Grove on Saturday, June 18.

The remainder of the evening was spent in playing
games and in the presentation of an elaborate program of
entertainment, planned by

Mr. Evans.

Others on the

Program Committee were Henry James, Norman Price
and John G. Davies, of Scranton.
Lunch was served

the following:

to

—

Edison

T.

Fischer, Glen Lyon Carrie K. Fischer, Glen Lyon
Frances M. Hahn, West Pittston Maud Price, Scranton; Norman Price, Scranton; John G. Davies, Scranton; Henry
;

;

;

James, Scranton; Marion Roat Hartman, Kingston; Mrs.
G. S. Westfield, Kingston; Margaret E. Davis, Kingston;
Blanche M. Caswell, Plymouth; Phyllis Coopey, Nanticoke Amelia P. Sheehan, Nanticoke; R. R. Sheehan,
Nanticoke; Bess T. Watkins, Nanticoke; Mylin Watkins,
Nanticoke; Anna L. Bowersox, Wilkes-Barre; Agnes Anthony Silvany, Wilkes-Barre Ruth Speery Griffith, of
Wilkes-Barre; C. Alberta Nichols, Wilkes-Barre; Arline
Tosh Bohn, Wilkes-Barre; Harold Herner, Wilkes-Barre;
Nan Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre; Edna Aurand, Wilkes-Barre; Ellen Phebey, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Emanuel Brown,
Wilkes-Barre; Eleanor Roderick, Wilkes-Barre; Emily
Lawrence, Wilkes-Barre.
;

;

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1867

President Emeritus of the Colof the first class graduated from the
He is the
institution, was the oldest alumnus in reunion.
lone surviving member of his class, and had a busy day,
as every class in reunion claimed him as honor guest.
Dr. D.
lege, and a

J.

Waller,

Jr.,

member

1872

George A. Hartman, of Bloomsburg, who attended
the Bloomsburg State Normal School in the early seventies, died at his home on Friday, March 25. He was eightyyears of age at the time of his death.
A native of Bloomsburg, Mr. Hartman was born January 24, 1853, and attended the public schools of Bloomsburg and the Bloomsburg State Normal School, being enrolled at the latter institution the first year that it became a State Normal School.
He was a clerk for a time, and then began farming
and teaching in Centre Township. Later he devoted all
his time to farming, and for nine years he was a member
of the Centre School Board.
Returning to Bloomsburg
after leaving the farm, he became superintendent of an
ice plant, and three years later gave his attention to the
draying business, which he developed and carried on for
five

many years.
He is survived by

four children, four grand-children,

and one great-grandson.
1876

Judge Charles C. Evans, of Berwick, a member of the
Board of Trustees and of the Class of 1876, was present
on Alumni Day.
1878
William Chrisman, of Bloomsburg, one of the two
surviving members of the Class of 1878, attended his sixty-year reunion.
Greetings were sent by Ida Kistler
Mausteller, the other surviving

Mausteller

is

now

living in

member

of the class. Mrs.

Columbus, Ohio.

1880
Mrs. Celeste Kitchen Prutzinan, of Trucksville, was
among those present on Alumni Day.

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1888
Funeral services for William Lowenberg, whose
death occurred at 2:30 o’clock, June 9, were held at his
late residence on East Main Street, Bloomsburg, at 1 :30
o’clock Sunday afternoon, June 19. Burial was made in
the B’Nai Zion Cemetery, Danville.
Mr. Lowenberg’s death at the age of 66 removes the
last male member of a family that has been prominently
identified with Bloomsburg’s life since 1849.
His only
survivors are three daughters, Miss Elsie Lowenberg, Miss
Clare Lowenberg and Mrs. Murray Stern, of New York
City, and a sister, Miss Stella Lowenberg, of Bloomsburg.
His serious illness dates back to last December and in the
intervening months preceding his death much of the time
was spent in hospitals in New York City and Bloomsburg.
Mr. Lowenberg headed a clothing business which was
established by his father at Bloomsburg in 1849. Following the death of his father, David Lowenberg, in 1887,
his son took over the direction of the business and has
been its head ever since.
The founder of the business which the son carried on
so successfully through many years and which was in the
family for 89 years, opened his business in a small wooden building on the site now occupied by the Lowenberg
building.
The father soon became a factor in town and
county affairs. He was twice elected County Treasurer
and for many years was known as the leader of Democracy in Columbia County. He was a delegate to every
Democratic national convention from Buchanan to Cleveland. During the Civil War he fitted out a company
known as the Lowenberg Guards and was a lieutenant in
that company.
Following his graduation from the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, William Lowenberg was associated with
the store of John Wanamaker and a large retail branch
of the Rochester Clothing Company.
Through his years in Bloomsburg he was active in
numerous civic fields. In both the Bloomsburg Hospital
and Public Library drive he was one of the most enthusiastic workers.
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Eagle, the Royal
bees.

He was

Arcanum and the Knights of the Maccamember of the Bloomsburg Ki-

a charter

wanis Club.

The following is a list
members of the Class of ’88

of

corrected

addresses

of

:

Elizabeth McBride Banks, 910 Bath Street, Santa
Barbara, California.
Sallie Palmer, 430 George Avenue, Parsons, Pa.
Dr. Eva Rawlings, 57 South Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California.
Hannah Reese (Mrs. Robert O’Boyle), 5913 Cobb’s
Creek, Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ada M. Yetter (Mrs. John W. Clapham), 209 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
M. Bertha Chrisman Hoff, Ingle Nook, Pa.
U. Grant Dodson, Shickshinny, Pa.
Carrie McNiff (Mrs. James L. Dougherty), care J.
H. Nrunnell and Co., 215 Fulton Street, New York City.

The following members of the Class of 1888 have
been reported as deceased
Sarah Kelley, Bruce T.
Jones, R. N. Davis, Minnie Rinker Harrison, and Harry B.
:

—

Patterson.

The members of the Class of 1888, meeting; for their
reunion, were entertained Friday evening, May
by Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss, of West Street, Blooms-

fiftieth

20,

burg.

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Guests present were:
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., Prof. C.
H. Albert, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Mr. and Mrs. H.
F. Fenstemaker, Mary Louise Fenstemaker, and Howard
F. Fenstemaker, Jr., of Bloomsburg; W. F. Magee, Bethlehem; Rev. H. J. Crow, Bethlehem; Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool, Philadelphia Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose Shuman, Catawissa; Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Sands, Benton; Miss
Annie M. Hine, Conyngham Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Maurer,
Frackville; Rev. and Mrs. W. Fowler Buck, New Buffalo,
Pa.; Mrs. G. W. Faus, of Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Annie S.
Nuss, of Bloomsburg.
;

;

1890

The Rev. G. W. Faus, husband

of

Minnie Kitchen

Faus, died February 10, following an attack of acute

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digestion. He had retired from the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church four years ago, and was living in
Bloomsburg at the time of his death. He is survived by
his wife and four children. The oldest son is a Methodist
minister at Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh, and another son
is a Methodist minister at Williamsport, Pa.
A daughter,
Mrs. Harrison Taylor, lives at 815 Crestridge Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia.
The youngest son, Keeler, an attache at
the American Embassy in Paris, was home on furlough at
the time of his father’s death. Mrs. Faus will spend the
month of July at the home of her daughter in Atlanta.

9,

1892
Cora B. Parker (Mrs. W. A. Bangs), died November
1937, at her home in Norge, Virginia.

1893

The Class of 1893 provided the speakers of the day
with H. Mont Smith speaking at the general meeting, and
Johnston at the luncheon.
The class, numbering 113 at graduation, has sixtyseven living, and twenty-eight of these were back for
their forty-fifth reunion, coming from Ohio, New York,
and all parts of Pennsylvania.
S. J.

Since the class President had died since the last reunion, S. J. Johnston was chosen President, and J. K. Miller, Secretary.

1895

Mary Helen Pendergast,
tin

civics

teacher at

Camp

Cur-

High School, Harrisburg, has retired after forty-two

years of teaching in the Harrisburg schools.
Miss Pendergast’s teaching career began in the old
Paxtang School. Two years later, she was transferred to
the Penn Building, where she taught for twenty-seven
years.
In 1920, she

went to the Camp Curtin High School to
teach in the Department of Social Studies. At the end of
this year, she completed eighteen years in the Junior
High School field and twenty-four years in the Grammar
School field.
Miss Pendergast was graduated from the Harrisburg
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four Summers at Pennsylvania State College, and took
extension work with Susquehanna University and Lehigh
University.

While at Camp Curtin High School, Miss Pendergast
has been faculty editor of the school scrapbook, faculty
sponsor and founder of the Camp Curtin Gift Club, which
has cooperated with various Harrisburg welfare agencies,
and has supervised the distinguished and high honor
rolls and honor teams for report periods for many years.
Recently, in the Blue and White, the school’s magazine, the present June 9A class dedicated the promotion
number to Miss Pendergast for her “cheerful, untiring,
and helpful service rendered to the countless boys and
girls of the city of Harrisburg during her long, faithful,
and varied teaching career.”
1896
of Bloomsburg’s distinguished sons was claimed
by death this Spring, when Harry Barnes, of Trinidad,
Colorado, passed away at the San Rafael Hospital in that
He had made his home in Trinidad for twenty-five
city.
years, and as an engineer had been identified with the
coal mining business, as county surveyor, as a member of
the state highway department, and also as county chairman of the Democratic Party in Las Animas County, Col.
Mr. Barnes was born at Townline, Pa., December 8,
1878. After attending school there, he came to Bloomsburg and was graduated in 1896, and taught for a short
time in Luzerne County. He went to Princeton in 1901,
and was graduated from that university in 1905, receiving a degree in engineering.
In the same year, he went to Denver, and in 1906 became an engineer with the American Smelting and Refining Company. On various assignments as an engineer he
rendered service with the Denver and Rio Grande Rail-

One

road and the Moffat Railroad.
He spent some time in Alaska, supervising railroad
construction; and in 1910 became mining engineer in
southern Las Animas County, later being promoted to the
position of mine superintendent.
He w'as married August 8, 1911, to Miss
He is survived also by
er, who survives him.

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and a sister, Mrs. Nana Bache, of Nanticoke.
For two or three terms Mr. Barnes was elected as
county surveyor, after which he established an engineering office in Trinidad. He served eight years as County
Commissioner, and after leaving that office, became resident engineer for the State Highway Department. Later
he held the office of city engineer and superintendent of
the city water works.
A Trinidad newspaper pays this tribute to Mr.
Barnes: “Hal Barnes was a loyal and high-minded citizen, as demonstrated in his service as County Commissioner and in city offices, and in his loyalty to his friends.
His death will be greatly mourned by many who knew
him well. He had lived to earn the respect and confidence
ters

of his fellow-men.”
Mail sent to Miss Clara Carr, of

Wanamie, Pa., has
been returned, with the notation “Deceased.” The Quarterly has no further information about the time and place
of her death.
1897
Miss Elizabeth James, has, for the past twenty years,
been a Deaconess in the Presbyterian Church. She is at
present engaged in Deaconess work at the Presbyterian
Hospital, 51 North Thirty-Ninth Street, Philadelphia.

Myrtle A. Swartz (Mrs. F. E. Van Wie), lives in BurNew York. Mrs. Van Wie is a former member of the
faculty at Bloomsburg.
dett,

1898

The Class

had 135 members. At
was found that 105 were
still living.
Forty members were present at their fortieth
reunion. Several had never been back before, and all
of 1898 originally

the roll call on Alumni Day,

voted to return next year,

if

it

possible, to join in the Cen-

tennial Celebration.

Someone produced a picture that revived many old
memories. It was a picture of the old town pump that
formerly stood at the foot of Normal Hill. Members interested may secure copies by sending to Roys’ Jewelry
Store, in Bloomsburg.
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iated.
In April, 1898, war had been declared between
Spain and the United States after the sinking of the
“Maine.” Gale ran away to join the army and the faculty presented the diploma to him by proxy on Commencement Day.
The following were present: Mrs. Mary Hill Clark,
Maud G. Giles and Mrs. Sara Moyer Bray, all of Hazleton Mr. and Mrs. John McGuffie (Nora Hankee) and
Mary McArt, of West Pittston John C. Hart, Margaret
Armstrong Daniels, Florence Bachman and C. Alberta
Nichols, of Wilkes-Barre; Margaret A. Armstrong ParKatherine Coleman Anwyll and
sons, of Pittsburgh
Flora Bell Bentzell, of Harrisburg; Mrs. Magdeline Cross
Morgan, of Wanamie; Bessie G. Deete Gottschall, of
Wilkes-Barre, R. D. Mrs. Edith Y. Eves Biddle, of Millville; Elizabeth C. Foresman, of Lewisburg; Jane
C.
Forsythe, of Northumberland; Verda Geist Haas, of Mt.
Carmel Galen Oplonger, of Allentown Mrs. Oliver Parfitt, of Nantic-oke; Mrs. Josephine Pursel Conner, of Benton; Gertrude M. Rinker, of Prospect Park; Bertha Seeley, of Berwick; Mrs. Minnie Shepher Wertman, of West
Hartford, Connecticut Mr. and Mrs. Amos E. Shipe, of
Sunbury; S. S. Smith, of Northumberland; Mrs. Cora
Thomas Burgess, of Hazleton; Mrs. Mabel Hawk Anthony, of Nanticoke; Mrs. Louise Lamoreux Richards, of
Weston, West Virginia; Mr. Elmer Levan, of Catawissa,
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Beliney (Laura Landis) of
R. D.
Jonestown; Ira C. Cherrington, of Allentown; Sara E.
Buddinger, of Watsontown; Mrs. Mary Williams Gething, of Nanticoke.
The clan first gathered at the Hotel Magee for. breakThey then proceeded up the Hill, passing the spot
fast.
where the “Old Town Pump” once stood. They arrived
at Room K, the class headquarters, where there was so
much to talk about that the meeting was continued after
;

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

lunch.

—

Greetings were read from the following:
Dr. Warren Preston, of Montrose; Daisy Kluttz Brown, of Washington, D. C. Anna G. Seaman, of Honesdale; Joyce Williams Evans, of Wyoming; Henry Broadbent, of Washington, D. C. Ximena Brooks, Sterling Run, Pa. Mrs. Deborah Lewis Reiley, Plattsburg, N. Y. Margaret Barrett,
;

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Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Dr. John Howarth, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
John Thomas, Kingston, Pa.; Nellie Reynolds, WilkesBarre, Pa.; George Hoke, 1260 North-Western Bank
Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
;

C.

ALBERTA NICHOLS,

Secretary.

One of the replies received in connection with the
now being conducted by the Alumni Association

census

brought the account of the death of Daniel A. Mulherin,
His death occurred March 26, 1925. Mr.
Mulherin had taught in the elementary schools of Newport Township, and at the time of his death, was Principal of an elementary school in that district.
of Glen Lyon.

1900
William P. Gallagher, of Harrisburg, a graduate of
Bloomsburg and a Trustee of the College, died Wednesday, May 25, in the General Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, after
a two weeks’ illness of acute Bright’s Disease.
Mr. Gallagher, who was Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives at Harrisburg, was a native of Plymouth.
He lived in Wilkes-Barre for about twenty-five years.
The son of William and Catherine Gallagher, he was
educated in the schools of Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, he attended the

Wharton School

at the University of Pennsylvania,

where

he received his Bachelor’s Degree.
After leaving Bloomsburg, he taught school in Plymouth Township, but later left the teaching profession to
become a reporter for the Wilkes-Barre Leader. Later
he became a reporter for the Times, and then assistant
City Editor of the Leader. He then joined the WilkesBarre Record staff as court reporter and writer. While
still connected with the latter paper, he became Harrisburg correspondent and covered all the sessions of the
Legislature from 1909 to 1919.
As secretary to the late Senator Sterling Catlin, Mr.
Gallagher came in contact with thousands of fellow-citizens in the Wyoming Valley and in Harrisburg. He served first as postmaster of the Senate and later became
reading clerk, assistant chief clerk and finally chief clerk
of the Senate, which office he held until 1927. During the

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two terms of

his close friend, Senator Patrick F. Joyce, of
Pittston, State Senator of the Twenty-First District, he
was one of the most influential men of the Republican

Party.

For ten years, from 1914 to 1924, he worked as pubdirector of the Republican State Committee. He
was particularly close to the late Harry Baker, State Secretary; E. E. Beidleman, Lieutenant Governor, and Wesley Andrews, State Chairman of the Republican Party,
and was an intimate friend and business associate of Govlicity

ernor Sproul.

He became a special correspondent on the staff of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and wrote for several
other metropolitan papers. He also wrote special articles
for the Saturday Evening Post.
Soon after Governor Earle took his oath of office, Mr.
Gallagher became a candidate for the important position
of Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives. He was
renamed to that post in January, 1937, the first time that
any man had been named to that position without opposition.

On February 2, 1938, he became a member of the
State Employes’ Retirement Board, having been named
by the State Democratic Administration. Besides being
a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, he was also a Trustee of College
Misericordia at Dallas.
Mr. Gallagher had achieved prominence in business,
having been associated with other State leaders in a chain
of confectionery stores and of a candy manufacturing
company, and was President of the floral company in
Kingston. He was a member of the Elks, Eagles, Fourth
Degree Knights of Columbus and order of Alhambra, of
Wilkes-Barre, the Americus, of Pittsburgh, the Press Club
and the Harrisburg Club in Harrisburg. He was a communicant of St. Aloysius’ Church. He is survived by two
sisters,

Katherine and Mary

B., at

home.

1903
Gay, frivolous, and forty strong that is, with husbands, wives and children
the Class of 1903 returned
As usual, we seemed to
for Alumni Day, May 21, 1938.

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be growing younger with our years, that is, if actions
speak louder than words or even looks. For we trouped into the dining hall sporting blue and white paper
caps our class colors and we tossed about blue and
white balloons from table to table with the glee and the

—

—

—

abandon

of a host of

happy

children.

But we were just that! Happy to be back to the
scene of so many pleasant memories. Happy to see so
many of our class. Happy to find so many improvements
in the school and to observe such a spirit of good will and
cooperation.

Probably our greatest thrill, however, was in greeting one of our members, Frank Humphries, whom we
hadn’t seen since graduation and who came and brought
his wife all the way from Birmingham, Alabama, just for
this event.
We’re pretty sure that we are entitled to the
prize for the alumnus traveling the longest distance for
a class reunion that day. He seemed the same quiet,
well-poised man that he gave evidence of being when a
student at “Dear Old Normal.’’ And his wife is a charming southerner, quiet of manner and delightful to visit
with and to know.
hope they felt repaid for their
long journey, which they were turning into a travel jaunt
and boat trip on the way back.
Walter Riland, our President, evidencing much of
the vim and spirit he showed as captain of the basketball
team in his Normal days, welcomed the group in our usual
reunion meeting place, Room H. All stood in memory of
those members of the class who had died since the last
reunion
Mabel Neal, Anna Patten, Fred Welch, Edith
Kaufhold and Thomas Dailey.
The minutes of the preceding reunion were then
read by the Secretary, Laura MacFarlane, and the treasurer’s report was given by Abraham Rarich. This showed
that of the $50 pledged at the previous reunion, $31.30
had been collected and paid, $20 being for the Trophy
Room. The remainder, $19.70, and the expenses connected with this reunion, $8.76, were contributed by those
present. It was suggested that the remainder of the
amount due the College be applied to the Scholarship
Fund, which was the theme stressed at both the Alumni
meeting and the luncheon.

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Interesting letters were read from Howard Houtz
and Gertrude Follmer Lowry, and a note from Carrie

Hicks explained regret about not being able to come.
Telegrams were received from Jessie Raup Lloyd, Elizabeth McCullough Moorish and Ella Franey Gallagher.
We were honored by having Prof, and Mrs. Sutliff
and Prof, and Mrs. Hartline as our guests, all of whom
spoke to us in a delightful manner. Prof. Sutliff told
about the plans for the Centennial Celebration which will
take place next year and urged all to return for it.

The roll call of those attending the reunion showed
twenty-six, as follows:
Charles L. Albert, Frank Bergenstock, Susie Cook Morgan, William DeLong, Max Dillon, Edith Gresh Kitt, Ray
Hawk, Ellen Hottenstern

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Schnure, Grace Housel Church, Frank Humphries, Harold L. Jameison, Mary Kelley, Mildred Krum Barndt,
Laura Landis Behne, Laura MacFarlane, Ella Mengle
Heim, John R. Miller, Edith Patterson, Carrie Poad Smith,
Abraham Rarich, Ella Reid Robertson, H. Walter Riland,
Jean Robinson McLaughlin, Flossie Rundle Chase, Etta
Schatzle Horlacher, Nellie Sweppenheiser Warman.
Though it was cloudy and threatening in the morning, the sun finally triumphed and stayed with us all the
rest of the day, giving the campus a clean fresh look and
making it possible for us to stroll about with comfort and
Right
to enjoy the ball game up on the athletic field.
after the luncheon, we gathered on the campus, under one
of the large trees, and had a group picture taken by
Photographer Phillips who did all that work for us while

we were

at Normal. It surely seemed like old times.
Good-byes were said with regret for the day had
been so enjoyable and the time all too short to recall the
many pleasant and exciting things that had happened
when we were together in our school days. But every
one left with a promise to return next year and help to
celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the founding of our

Alma Mater.

LAURA MACFARLANE,

Sec’y.

1907

Laura R. Essick (Mrs. Robert N. Lowrie)

Hawkins Avenue, North Braddock,

Pa.

lives at

210

Her daughter,

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Betty, was graduated this year from Scott High School,
North Braddock, and was valedictorian of her class. A
Pittsburgh paper states that Miss Lowrie had attained one
of the highest averages on record at the school.

1908

The Class of 1908 had twenty-three members back to
attend their thirtieth reunion. What a wonderful time
we had! So interested were we all in seeing each other
and in reading letters and telegrams from our class-mates
that we spent two hours in the morning and until 4 :30 in
the afternoon in Room C renewing old ties and friendships and in planning for Centennial year.
Those present were: Rebecca Appleman, Danville;
Laura Benscoter Dodson, Shavertown Nellie Bogart,
Riverside; Laura Boone, Hazleton; Adda Brandon Westfield, Kingston; E. Mae Callender Wilson, Kis-Lyn
Effie
M. Conrad, Sunbury; Mabel Clark Pollock, Wyoming;
Margaret D. Coyle, Mt. Carmel Bessie Dent Holabach,
Catawissa Thomas Francis, Scranton Alberta N. Handley, McGowan, Chicago, Illinois; Martha Herring Tomlinson, Weehawken, New Jersey; Martha V. James, of
Scranton Mary Morris Thomas, Larksville Eugene W.
Piatt, Dallas; John E. Piatt, Wyoming; Adda Rhodes
Johnson, Hazleton; Olwen Rosser, Kingston; Helen Seesholtz Burroughs, Belle Meade, New Jersey; Mary Southwood, Mt. Carmel; Jennie Yoder Foley, Philadelphia.
Jennie Yoder Foley and Thomas Francis had charge
of the meeting.
Mrs. Foley read communications from
class-mates as follows:
Agnes J. Burke Kinney, Hotel Bethlehem, Bethlehem, who travels far and wide with her husband, James
Kinney, 1906, a representative of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation. While in Havana, Cuba, last Winter, they
were entertained by Gabrielle Vidal, 1906, and the three
had a glorious time reminiscing about “Old Normal.” Agnes was the author of our class song. A trip to Buffalo
prevented their being at the reunion.
Mertie Cool lives in Hollis, Long Island. We were
happy to get her address, as we have not known it since
graduation.

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;

;

;

James

;

;

Cummings, Mabel Wilkinson Walton

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Sadie Hartman,

all

from Washington, D.

C.,

telegraphed

their greetings.

Since our last reunion, the Deighmiller twins have
passed to their Reward, as has Carrie Gray Hurley, for-

merly of Hammonton, New Jersey, who was killed two
years ago when her car overturned on a motor trip in
New England. Carrie was a loyal active member of our
Philadelphia Alumni Association.
Others who have left us and passed on are
Ida
Dreisbach, Mary Fegley, Helen Hill, Irene Kahler, Daniel
Morgan, Thomas Plank, Elizabeth Wallace, and Lillian
Yeager. God grant that we may all have “The Grand Reunion” in Eternity.
Adda Brandon’s daughter has traveled quite extensively with her puppet show, and we hope to have the
pleasure of seeing it some day soon. Her address is 130
North Dorrance Street, Kingston, Pa.
Rebecca Appleman is a teacher in Danville. Laura
Benscoter Dodson again brought the family to the reunion. Nellie Bogart and Laura Boone are teaching. Mae
Callender Wilson assists her husband at the Kis-Lyn
School for Boys. Mr. Wilson was also at the reunion.
Mabel Clark Pollock and John Piatt are teachers in the
schools at Wyoming, Pa.
Effie Conrad teaches in Sunbury.
Margaret Coyle
was elected Principal of a large school in Mt. Carmel.
James E. Cummings is in the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. Bessie Dent Holabach is a housewife and is
as pretty as she was the day she graduated. Sara Foust
teaches in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Thomas Francis is one of our bright lights and, we
understand, has just had a sizeable increase in salary,
which in these days of recession and depression and all
the other “sions” is a splendid testimonial of his work as
an outstanding educator in Pennsylvania. 1908 is proud
of him and his loyalty to his class and Alma Mater. Tom
has recently received his Doctor’s Degree. May his richly deserved success continue.
Alberta Handley McGowan again came East from
Chicago. She said “I enjoyed the twenty-fifth reunion so
much that I just could not stay away from the thirtieth.”
A letter was received from Ethel Henrie Stevens,
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who

says that she enjoys her church work, hospital aid,
We sympathize with her in the
recent loss of her father.
Sadie Hartman is Industrial Secretary of the Y. W.
Her work is very important,
C. A., in Washington, D. C.
and takes her to all parts of the country.
We were happy to greet Martha Herring Tomlinson

and community work.

May they have
E. J. Tomlinson.
years of happiness as they journey life’s pathways
together.
Martha James, another of our stellar classmates, is
happy in her work as a teacher in the Scranton schools.
Stella Kostenbauder Weinman lives on an irrigated
farm in Filer, Idaho. Her daughter represented her high
school in a scholastic meet at Gooding College, and they
Stella was
came out first in a field of thirteen schools.
one of our mathematical wizards at Bloomsburg.
Olive Major and her sister, Cora, are both teachers.
Olive teaches in the Philadelphia schools, as does Florence Beddall.
We greeted Darwin Maurer and his wife at the Philadelphia Alumni banquet. He is in the Railway Mail
Service on the run between Philadelphia and New York.
Laura Morgan Stein reported that she expected to
and her husband, Mr.

many

see us
self.

all in five

years.

M ary Morris Thomas is still her gay cheerful little
We had not seen her for thirty years, as she attend-

ed earlier reunions,
Bloomsburg. Mary

when we were unable to be prsent
is quite a busy club woman.

at

Eugene Piatt looks the same as he did thirty years
ago, and reported three sons making good in Washington,
and a daughter who is head of the Bronchoscopic Department of the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. Eugene
is a thriving business man and lives in Dallas.
John Piatt is a prominent educator, located at Wyoming, Pa. He is making a name for himself, for 1908,
and for his Alma Mater. William Rarich, his wife and
son William, Jr., sent their greetings to the Class of 1908.
Adda Rhodes Johnson is one of our faithful classmates, who does not miss a reunion.
were happy to
greet her once again. Olwen Rosser was also warmly
welcomed, as we had not seen her since graduation. Her

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was highly appreciated. Clyde
Sanders and Grace Wells Sanders, our class “case,” sent
love and greetings to all classmates. Hazel Row Creasy
helped with the reunion.
Helen Seesholtz Burroughs and her son came from
witty talk at the reunion

We

Belle Meade, New Jersey.
regret that she was unable to get back to the afternoon session. Helen was a
teacher in Somerset, New Jersey, before her marriage.,
Because of illness in the family, Anna Shifter Peters
was unable to be with us, but she sent her best wishes to
all her class-mates and hopes to see us next year.
were happy to greet Mary Southwood, also a
Principal of a large school in Mt. Carmel.
Mary is at
Spruce Mountain Lodge, Lake George, New York, for the
Summer. If any class-mates are in that region she would
like to see them.
A letter came to the writer of this article after the
reunion was over. It was from Edith Sturdevant, of North
Miami, Florida. Edith sends greetings to all. She is the
secretary of the Parent-Teachers’ Association of her

We

neighborhood school.
A letter from Mabel Tucker brought greetings. She
met Irene Mercer Rainey, of Montclair, New Jersey, last
year. Mabel is treasurer of the Board of Education at
Deposit,

New

Jersey.

Laura Boone reported having seen Bess, Ruth, and
Marion Smith Moore, of Freeport, New York. All were
in excellent health.

William D. Watkins, President of the Continental
Publishing Compay, Wheeling, West Virginia, writes that
his son is a graduate of Princeton University this year,
and that his daughter has finished her first year at Wellesley.
Bill was always one of our thorough, hard-working and conscientious class-mates and his deserved success in life, as he says, “was due to the training at Old
Normal under Dr. Waller.” Bill is also an alumnus of
Yale University. He has acquired two farms, where he
intends to spend his leisure time.
And now we come to our author. Mabel Wilkinson
Walton has written a book entitled “A Little Bit of Everything For the Home.” A wonderful book it is, and if 1908
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home-keeping

hints.

66

Wanamaker’s Book Department

should be a very successful book.

Here’s
our hope of success to its author.
Jennie Yoder Foley was elected President of the
Philadelphia Alumni Association in April. She was formerly the Secretary of the group since its organization,
and also acted as Treasurer for several years.
Margaret Coyle, Mary Southwood, Nellie Bogart and
Rebecca Appleman were appointed as a committee to
take care of next year’s reunion.
The committee in charge of this year’s reunion consisted of the following:
Hazel Row Creasy, Anna Shiffer Peters, Mabel Clark Pollock, Martha James, Elsie
Jayne, Laura Boone, Willie M. Stein, Thomas Francis,
and Jennie Yoder Foley.
tells us

that

it

—

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,
Vice-President, Class of 1908.

1913

The home of Dr. and Mrs. Kimber C. Kuster was
open Friday evening, May 20, to the members of the Class
of 1913 and their families, as well as members and former

members
The

of the faculty.

—

Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.
guests present were
Haas, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Sutliff, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Miller, Prof. Charles H. Albert, Miss Mabel Moyer, Sylvia Gross Freeman, Robert
Miller, Helen C. Jones, Elizabeth L. Pugh, Mrs. O. H.
Bakeless, Ruth Nicely Sterns, Mildred Stemples, Sara
Park, May M. Byington, Alma Fertig Bergstresser, Lillian Fisher Moore, Hanna F. Carpenter, Marie Snyder
Pomeroy, Estella C. Wright, Emily Nikel Gledhill, Annie
Castle Keller, Messina Patterson Daley, Edna R. Cherie,
Janet Weir Shimp, Margaret Weir Shimp, Marian Roat
Hartman, Martha Selway Schiefer, Mrs. R. D. Keenlyside,
Elizabeth Schweppenhelser Hicks, Helen Bradbury Mitchell, Ruth Kirkendall Thompson, Mary E. Collins, Helen
J. Pegg, Ray V. Watkins, Bernard J. Kelly, John Bakeless, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Kuster, Mr. and Mrs. D. S.
Hartline, Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Wiant.
:

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1915

ADDRESSES
Marian

E. Miller,

1423 Fillmore, Denver, Colorado.

1918

A

reunion of the members of the Class of 1918 was
held Friday evening, May 20, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Snyder (Ida Wilson), of Bloomsburg. Thirty members attended. On Saturday morning, May 21, the class
had breakfast at St. Paul’s Episcopal Parish House. Their
reunion continued throughout the rest of the day.
Those present at the Snyder home were
Mrs. W.
K. Creasy, of Espy; Mrs. Sarah Brunsetter, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Rutter Ohl, Mrs. Martha Thomas, Mrs. Edna Blecher,
Mrs. Sheldon Groner, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sands, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Claire Patterson, of Bloomsburg; Miss Maime
Richardson, Miss Alice Martin, Miss Catherine Spencer,
of Mahanoy City; Mrs. Robert Berninger and Miss Genevieve Healy, of West Pittston Mr. and Mrs. Knorr, of
Berwick; Mrs. Arthur Powell, of Kingston; Dr. Ralph
Hart, of Philadelphia; David Miller, of Lansdowne; Mrs.
Edwina Brouse, of Norristown Miss Mary Meehan, of
Harrisburg; Mrs. Helen Strohe Maynew, of Harrisburg;
Mrs. Donald White, of Lancaster; Miss Lucille Ryan, of
West Pittston; Charles Wolfe, of Gettysburg; Dr. and
Mrs. J. Stewart Wiant, of Westfield, N. J. Leslie Brace,
of Westfield, N. J. Miss Miriam Welliver, Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Kester, of Danville Paul Cherrington, of Ringtown Mrs. Roy Snyder, of Bloomsburg.
:

—

;

;

;

;

;

;

Criddie Edwards (Mrs. Robert Berninger), 401!/2
Exeter Street, West Pittston, Pa.
L. Funston
Clark, 1520 Almo Avenue, Colorado
Springs, Col.

Margaret Henrie (Mrs. Cralle Henderson), Montgomery, W. Va.
Ruth Hutton Burgher, 405 East Fifth Street, New

York

City.

Lee Harmany, 413 East Second Street, Berwick, Pa.
Dr. J. Stewart Wiant, 533 Edgar Road, Westfield,

New

Jersey.

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Mary Powell

New

(Mrs.

J.

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Stewart Wiant), Westfield,

Jersey.

Hannah Law

(Mrs. Sheldon S. Groner), 5 East Fifth
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Sarah Fritz Brunstetter, 359 Iron Street, Blooms-

Street,

burg, Pa.

Katherine Kase (Mrs. Warren Yeager), Riverside,
Pa.

Katie Levan, Stillwater, Pa.
Laura Maust, 2 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helen Stroh (Mrs. Harry Mayhew), 31 North 20th
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
David Miller, 193 West Drexel Avenue, Lansdowne,
Pa.

1919
Marion Brenner (Mrs. Paul Bredbenner) 222 Hughes
Street, Hazleton, Pa.

1923
Charles Miller, 6012 West Wisconsin Avenue,
watosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Wan-

1924

Mary

Barrett (Mrs. B. J. Dunigan), died at her home
in Woodbridge, New Jersey, December 16, 1937.
She is
survived by her husband and three sons.

isco,

1925
Esther Grim (Mrs. Robert Miller), lives in WisconPa. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one son, Robert, Jr.

1926
Kathryn Boyer Daubert died at the Geisinger Hospital, Danville, Wednesday, January 5, 1938.
Her death
was due to pneumonia.
Marjorie Davey lives at 1414 Westside Avenue,
Honesdale, Pa.

1928

Announcement has been made

of the marriage of
R. Turner of Bloomsburg to Miss Ann D. Muskaloon, of Peckville, on June 12, 1937, at Weatherly, Pa.
The groom Is associated with his father in the groc-

Mark

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ery business in Bloomsburg and the bride was graduated
from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is now
teaching in Peckville High School. Mr. Turner is a graduate of Dwight School in New York.

1929

Announcement has been made

of

the

wedding

of

Miss Charlotte E. Mears, daughter of Mrs. Edith Mears,
of West Main Street, and Dr. N. F. Davis, Bloomsburg,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis, of Danville. The
ceremony took place on July 27, 1937, at the St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Davis is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She taught in
the Bloomsburg High School for several years and from
there went to Dimock and New Jersey. Dr. Davis is a
graduate of Danville High School and of Pennsylvania
School of Optometry in Philadelphia. The couple are now
residing at 104 West Main Street, Bloomsburg.
Miss Kathryn L. Engle, a teacher at Sunbury, and
Jack Winters, of Northumberland, were married Friday,
April 29, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fisher, of
Center Hall, by the Rev. Roy E. Corman, of Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Dennington died at the
of her parents in Edwardsville Thursday, March 24.

home

1931
Miss Eleanor Rhoads, of Wyoming, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was married at the
Wyoming Methodist Episcopal Church on Tuesday, June
14, to Paul T. Witheridge, also of Wyoming.

The engagement of Miss Lillian Mann, of West PittsW. Vernon Kintz, of Allentown, has been an-

ton and

nounced.

1933
Miss Dorothy M. Hileman, and James Stanley Hummer, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday morning,
June 11, at 9 :00 o’clock in the parsonage of the Methodist Church, Bloomsburg.
The Rev. Dr. J. Edgar Skillington, the pastor, performed the ceremony.

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The bride, who is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, has been employed in a silk mill
office.
The groom, who is assistant agent of the Columbia County Agriculture Extension Association, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Hummer, of Titusville, Crawford
County. He was graduated from the Pennsylvania State
There he specialized in
College in the Class of 1929.
dairy husbandry.
The couple plans to reside for the present in an
apartment in the Robbins Building on Market Street,

Bloomsburg.

The engagement
ley, of

of Miss Mary Genevieve
V. Ryan, of Coaldale,

Exeter, to Paul

McCawwas

an-

nounced recently.
1934

A

very pretty wedding was solemnized in the Trinity
Church, Wernersville, at high noon on Sunday, June 12,
when Miss Marian Elizabeth Hinkel, daughter of Prof.
A. M. Hinkel, became the bride of Charles F. Christopher.
The pastor of the church, the Rev. J. W. Lazarus, performed the ceremony in which he used the ring service.
Miss Hinkel is a graduate of Hershey High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She taught

commerce and

finance in the Columbia High School.
is a graduate of the Gadsden, Alabama High School, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia and
Columbia University. He is employed as a construction
engineer by the Arundel Corporation, Baltimore, Md.

Mr. Christopher

1936
of the marriage of Miss Mae Hope
Willis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Willis, East Fifth
Street, Bloomsburg, and Theodore W. Deitrich, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Deitrich, Light Street Road, at Harrisburg, June 10, 1937, was made recently.

Announcement

The bride was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
is employed by the American Stores Company.
Mr. Deitrich was graduated from the Bloomsburg
High School and attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Each has a wide circle of friends.

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71

1937

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Virginia K. Breitenbach, of Tamaqua, and J. Blaine
Saltzer, of Bloomsburg. Miss Breitenbach is a member of
the Class of 1938 and Mr. Saltzer is now teaching in the
schools of Slatington.

1938

The Quarterly is pleased to present the names of the
new members of the Alumni Association. The list includes those who finished their work in January, those
who finished their work at the end of the second semester, and those who will complete their work at the end of
the

Summer

session.

Secondary Curriculum

Andrews, Joycelyn M., R. F. D., Sonestown.
Apichell, Eleanor J. B., 552 Spruce Street, Kulpmont.
Beaver, Byron Leroy, Aristes.
Beaver, Marjorie H., 110 Mulberry Street, Danville.
Bott, Josephine Dora, Main Street, Nuremberg.
Brainard, Alberta H., 5 East High Street, Susquehanna.
Conway, Sylvia M., 315 North Pearl Street, Shamokin.
Curry, Anne G., 662 South Tamaqua Street, McAdoo.
Davison, Thomas A., R. D. 1, Wilkes-Barre.
Dreese, Martha B., Middleburg.

Edgar, Dorothy Louise, Stillwater.
Fetterman, Aerie M., R. D. 3, Catawissa.
Fiorini, John E., Jr., Espy.
Follmer, Vera E., 345 College Hill, Bloomsburg.
Freeman, Harold John, 718 Northampton St., WilkesBarre.

Dorothy Jane, 127 Parke Street, West Pittston.
Gonshor, Michael Leon, 168 Pine Street, Alden.
Graham, Margaret G., 433 Iron Street, Bloomsburg.
Grosek, Anne J., 103 Merritt Street, Plains.
Hill, Robert H., 115 S. Hyde Park Avenue, Scranton.
James Charles Pritchard, 315 Water Street, Danville.
Klembara, Michael, 212 South Fifth Street, Shamokin.
Frick,

Klinger, Marion Elizabeth, Nuremberg.
Kovaleski, John B., Lee Street, Glen Lyon.
Leiby, Ruth Elizabeth, 19 W. Mahoning Street, Danville.

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Litwhiler, Daniel W., Ringtown.
Livsey, Carrie M., 336 Chestnut Avenue, Bloomsburg.

Lockard, Jane L., 315 Front Street, Berwick.
Luchs, Clyde R., 118 West First Street, Bloomsburg.
Matthews, Edward Martin, 34 East Mine Street, Hazleton.
Neibauer, George J., 20 Eagle Avenue, Shamokin.
Payne, Herbert Eddy, 1010 E. Commerce St., Shamokin.
Peiak, William T., 134 Hillside Avenue, Kingston.
Pesansky, Helen, Main Street, Sheppton.
Potter, Margaret Felicia, 367 Center Street, Bloomsburg.
Purcell, Francis D., 418 Washington Street, Frackville.
Quigley, Mary T., 117 South White Street, Shenandoah.
Reed, Mary Audree, 105 Grant Street, Uniontown.
Reese, John McKell, 66 Allen Street, West Nanticoke.
Rowland, Cyril J., Connerton.
Rowland, Robert James, 918 Locust Street, Scranton.
Ruckel, Irving, Main Street, Wanamie.

Commercial Curriculum

Mary A., 130 Penn Avenue, Oxford.
Anselmi, Irma R., 9 Susquehanna Avenue, Wyoming.
Arcikosky, Emily Therese, 247 S. Beech St., Mt. Carmel.
Auch, Alice W., 1806 Northampton Street, Easton.
Bronson, Bernice, Rummerfield.
Casari, George R., 150 South Market Street, Mt. Carmel.
Diehl, Robert C., 529 Northampton Street, Easton.
Dzury, Anne N., 27 E. Elm Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Elmore, Marion I., 1715 Green Ridge St., Dunmore.
Fetterolf, Andrew L., 406 W. Walnut Lane, Germantown,
Allen,

Philadelphia.

Frankmore, Philip, 917 Spruce Street, Easton.
Gearhart, Grace I., 358 Iron Street, Bloomsburg.
Gilligan, Elizabeth J., 1036 Drinker St., Dunmore.
Goretski, Helen Irene, 642 Pine St., Kulpmont.
Hamer, Mary Elizabeth, 42 S. Second St., Easton.
Havalicka, Elmer B., 97 E. Liberty St., Ashley.
Heckenluber, Robert T., Arendtsville.
Hendler, John F., 269 Poplar St., Wilkes-Barre.
Henrie, Charles H., 639 E. Fifth St., Bloomsburg.
Henry, Norman C., 1410 Market St., Berwick.
Klinger, Clyde Emmett, Nuremberg.

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Kotsch, Jacob, Jr., Egypt.
Kreigh, Willard S., 348 Jefferson St., Bloomsburg.
Kupstas, Alex, 35 Woodbury St., Wilkes-Barre.
Kushma, John J., 100 St. John’s Drive, Drifton.
Langan, Ruth E., 87 S. Main St., Duryea.
Laubach, Vance S., 219 W. Sixth St., Berwick.
Maczuga, John J., 200 Boland Ave., Wilkes-Barre.
Malloy, Anna M., Maple Hill St., Shenandoah.
Martin, Paul G., 215 Third St., Catawissa.
Mensinger, Dorothy Arlene, Nuremberg.
Miller, Mary Ellen, Berrysburg.
Patrick, Frank T., Jr., 1107 Third Ave., Berwick.
Price, Robert, 377 S. River St., Plains.
Rech, Anna Barbara, Southampton.
Reynolds, Bernadette T., R. D. 2, Box 532, Pottsville.
Rhinard, Ellen C., 1400 Chestnut St., Berwick.
Richie, Neil Muir, 601 E. Second St., Bloomsburg.
Ryan, Agnes L., 325 Butler St., Dunmore.
Salerno, Anthony L., 202 Barber St., Old Forge.
Saluda, Rose S., 49 W. Second St., Mt. Carmel.
Scott, Esther A., 17 W. Ludlow St., Summit Hill.
Sell, Frances M., 2003 Livingston St., Allentown.
Slaven, John F., 38 Locust St., Fleetwood.
Tinney, Hilda Edna, Box 244, Berwick.
VonBergen, Doris M., 551 N. Wyoming St., Hazleton.
Wanich, Jack C., Light Street.

Wenner, Dorothy

J.,

Stillwater.

Williams, Robert R., 105 Second St., Olyphant.
Savage, Mary E., Benton.
Sharadin, Eleanor L., 428 E. Market St., Danville.
Sharp, George T., 900 Brock St., Ashland.

Dorothy E., R. D. 2, Danville.
Singer, Ben, 186 N. Wyoming St., Hazleton.
Sircovicz, John J., 1136 Fifth Ave., Berwick.
Sidler,

Smith, Margaret Munro, Sterling.

Genevieve R., 1329 Popular St., Kulpmont.
Thomas, William C., 1747 Adams St., Scranton.
Walukiewicz, Regina A., 118 N. Chestnut St., ShenanStellar,

doah.

Wark, Arthur

K., 440 E. Third St., Berwick.
Weintraub, Charles Harrison, 46 Mallery Place, Wilkes-

Barre.

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Williams, Edward, 275 E. Green St., Nanticoke.
Withka, Walter D., 29 Rittenhouse St., Simpson.
Zalewski, Joseph Edward, 819 Chestnut St., Kulpmont.
Zalonis, Adolph M., 74 Hillside Ave., Edwardsville.
Zola, Stasia, 666 Carson St., Hazleton.

Kindergarten-Primary Curriculum
Breitenbach, Virginia C., 209 Main St., Catawissa.
Englehart, Beatrice M., 740 Market St., Bloomsburg.
Evans, Martha Hodge, 112 Elm St., Shamokin.
Knapp, Ruth Irene, 265 N. Sprague Avenue, Kingston.
Kutz, Mary Constance, 50 W. Main St., Glen Lyon.
Snook, Florence Elmira, Middleburg.

Intermediate Curriculum
Fekula, Olga Helen, 125 S. Lehigh Ave., Frackville.
Fester, Frances Pearl, R. D. 2, Berwick.
Giger, M. Arzella, 438 W. Third St., Bloomsburg.
Girton, Mary Edna, 508 W. Front St., Berwick.
Laubach, Lois Emeline, Sugarloaf.
Troy, Rowena Virginia, Mifflinville.

Rural Curriculum
Fester, Freda Pearl, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg.
Freas, Iris E., R. D. 1, Danville.
Hummel, Cleo M., R. D. 1, Millville.
Weaver, Helen E., R. D. 5, Bloomsburg.

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Alumni

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—

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
OCTOBER,

Vol. 39

1938

No. 4

1, 1901', at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year.

Entered as Second-Class Matter, July
Pa..

H. F.
E. H.

I

FENSTEMAKER,
NELSON,

Editor

Business Manager

.

i

The Centennial Loan Fund
!

^

To

...

’12

’ll

All the

Alumni

:

Since the last issue of the Quarterly, Summer Sessions are history. They were marked by fine interest and
a large enrollment. The College year is now in full swing
with a splendid enrollment. These facts are most encouraging and reflect the interest and loyalty of many Alumni.
Plans are going forward for the Centennial Celebration on May 26 and 27, 1939. You will want to be present
for this outstanding event in the history of our College.
There will be something doing every minute. Plan now to
be here and enjoy the entire program.

County Alumni Organizations are planning “Get Together Parties” this Fall. The following dates have been
EDITOR'S NOTE:

—The material on this and the following pages has

been prepared

at the request of the Editor by R. Bruce Albert,
President of the Alumni Association.

2

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Columbia County, College Dining Room,
October 14th. Dauphin and Cumberland Counties, Hotel
Harrisburger, October 22nd. Philadelphia Club, Gimbel’s
Restaurant, December 10th. Other dates will be announced in the near future. County officers get busy and
select your time and place.
The Centennial Student Loan Fund Campaign for
$50,000.00 has passed the $4,500.00 mark on September
21st. This is nearly one tenth of the desired amount.
When you receive your letter and agreement card, don’t
file the card away. Think the matter over carefully. Decide the amount you are able to give to worthy students
attending your Alma Mater. Then mail the card as soon
as you feel satisfied with your decision. This will keep the
ball rolling and put some pep in the campaign.
County Organizations and Classes should take an active interest in promoting the success of the Campaign.
Unless we all pull together and start now, we cannot
reach our goal. Surely we want to pay a debt of gratitude to Bloomsburg on the occasion of the Centennial.
We are counting on your continued loyalty and devotion to the “Old College” on the hill.
established:

Sincerely yours,
R.

BRUCE ALBERT.

STUDENT LOAN FUND AND

HOW

IT

WORKS

The Student Loan Fund is a revolving fund supported and administered by the Alumni and Faculty of the
College for the purpose of aiding worthy students.
The Student Loan Fund Committee realizes the responsibility it has to the Alumni in the administration of
this fund.
Regular business standards and methods are
required and maintained.
Five members of the Alumni Board of Directors constitute the Student Loan Fund Committee. Advisory members of the Committee are the President of the College
and the Deans. No loan can be granted without the approval of the entire Committee.
There are no preferred groups of students. All applicants must meet the following qualifications and requirements.

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(1)

Only Juniors and Seniors are

(2)

All grades must be average or better. Student citizenship standing must have the approval of the
Deans.

(3)

Students who are working in various types of employment about the College or town are given first
consideration. This
financial need.

(4)

(5)

eligible for loans.

employment usually indicates

The applicant is required to fill out a questionnaire
giving detailed information regarding the purpose of
the loan. A real financial need must also be definitely established.

A

questionnaire must be filled out by each of two
prospective endorsers for a required legal note. Each
endorser must own property with satisfactory equity.

When the above requirements have been met and
approved by the Committee, the note is given to the applicant for completion and endorsement. When the legal
note is returned in satisfactory form, a check is drawn in
favor of the applicant. The amount of the check covers
the loan for one semester. The President of the College
presents the check to the student with appropriate com-

ment.

The student assumes

a definite obligation to the
In the note, he or she agrees to refund the money
borrowed at the rate of ten dollars per month. These

Fund.

payments begin the fourth month after having secured
employment.

PLAN

MAY 26th

NOW

TO ATTEND THE
CENTENNIAL
1

9 3 9

MAY

27th

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+

f

f

Alumni Student Loan Fund

—

—

*

MAY
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1900
1901
1902
1905
1907
1909
1910
1912
1921
1924
1931
1933

Amount

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

.
_

_

_$
.

_

.

_

_

_

-

__
_

.

.

_

.

Kramer
Ward

Drum
Y.

W.

C. A.

_

.

.

_

144.00
160.00
150.00
103.00
162.00
150.00
204.00
200.00
150.00
200.00
5.95
32.00
100.00
100.00
122.60
500.00
184.63
150.00
10.00
10.00
100.00
100.00

$3038.18

Totals

NOTE:

1938

18,

Donor

—The

Interest
$

38.79
41.98
38.33
26.62
39.18
35.23
45.12
42.87
31.11
37.36
.02

5.06
15.24

13.87
1.62
28.07
2.57

Total
$ 182.79
201.98
188.33
128.62
201.18
185.23
249.12
242.87
181.11
237.36
5.97
37.06
115.24
113.87

.36

124.22
528.07
187.20
150.58
10.45
10.17
101.33
100.36

$ 444.93

$3483.11

.58
.45
.17

1.33

Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) D. D. WRIGHT, Treasurer.
above report was read an dapproved at the Annual

May 21, 1938.
a period of forty-five years the

Meeting on

Over

than four hundred students.
misplaced confidence.

above fund has helped more
lost because of

No money has been

Martha E. Robison, of Berwick, and Frederick A.
Fawcett, also of Berwick, were married Monday, June
20, at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Berwick. Mr.
Fawcett, a former student at Bloomsburg, is employed in
the Montgomery Ward store in Berwick.

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Facts and Figures
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A Centennial Club has been formed. It consists of
those persons desiring to subscribe one hundred dollars to
the Centennial Student Loan Fund. This is one dollar per
year for each year of the history of the College.
As of September 21, 1938 this Club has a membership of thirty-four including Alumni. Faculty and friends
of old Bloomsburg. We should have about one hundred
and fifty members in this Club. The amount of one hundred dollars may be paid over a period of five years. Join
now and boost the membership in the Centennial Club.
A Fifty Dollar Club has been formed. It consists of
those persons desiring to subscribe fifty cents for each
year of the institution’s history.
As

of

September

21,

1938 this Club has a memberWe should have about

ship of eight among the Alumni.
four hundred members in the Club.

member

A

group?
Twenty-Five Dollar

Who

will be the next

in this

Club has been

formed.

It

consists of those persons desiring to give twenty-five cents
for each year in the history of Bloomsburg.
As of September 21, 1938 this Club has a membership of nineteen among the Alumni. The Club needs a
membership of four hundred. Five dollars per year for
five years will make it possible. Join now.
Dollar Per Year Club. This Club consists of those
persons who are desiring to subscribe one dollar per year
for every year since their graduation. The amounts to
date vary from fifty dollars to ten dollars according to
the number of years involved. If this plan meets your
financial situation best, join now and help boost the Loan

Fund.

Some graduates are not able to join any of the above
Clubs because of financial responsibilities and obligaThey are giving just as much as possible. Every
friend of Bloomsburg must help, if the campaign is to be
a success. Do your best.
The Campaign for a Centennial Student Loan Fund
actually started on July 11, 1938. It required the previous days of July to check files and have the necessary
clerical work and printing completed.

tions.

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To date,
scriptions.

we have

sent out 350 letters requesting subhave had a personal interview with approximately 400 graduates regarding a subscription to
the Fund. Practically everybody is going to help because
they believe in the worthy project. They desire to do
something for the College and the students really in
need of financial help.
However only 85 have taken
definite action and signed on the dotted line. We would
appreciate your prompt attention. “Do it now.” We need

We

the help of every graduate.

REPORT OF CAMPAIGN— SEPTEMBER
Subscriptions

Centennial Club Members
Fifty Dollar Club

34

.

Members

8

One Dollar Per Year Since Grad.
One Dollar Per Year Since Grad.
Twenty-Five Dollar Club
One Dollar Per Year Since Grad.
Class Account Balance
One Dollar Per Year Since Grad.
Boy’s Club Balance

1

1

19

.

Contributions
Contributions
Contributions
Totals

_
_

__

.

_

.

1
1

2
.

_

1

7

7
.

_

1

85

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Amount

Total

$100.00

$3400.00
400.00

50.00
45.00

30.00
25.00
20.00
19.70
15.00
13.00
10.00
5.00
2.00

45.00
90.00
475.00
20.00
19.70
30.00
13.00
70.00
35.00
2.00

$4599.70

The above represents an average subscription in the
amount of approximately $54.11 per person. In many
ways this is fine but it should be a lot better. If all persons holding Agreement Cards will fill them out and mail
them, the report will look much better.
We have received in cash to date $1085.70. This
money is already at work. It has made possible loans to
ten students for the present semester.
All contributions to the Fund are being recorded by
classes. Which class will have the largest total contribution? Which class will have the largest average contribution per class member. At the moment, the Class of 1905
is in the lead with subscriptions amounting to $405.00.
The Class of 1909 is second with $245.00. The Class of
1911 is in third position with $225.00. The report in the

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next issue of the Quarterly may tell a different story.
Classes get on the job. Put some pep in this campaign. Send post cards to your classmates calling the
matter to their attention. Call them on the phone and
urge them to support the campaign by making a liberal
subscription.
Class Officers get busy. Organize a little campaign in
your class. Arouse some of the old class spirit that prevailed, when you were students on the hill. Don’t wait for
George to do it. Take action now. May 27th. will be here

before

we know

Plere

is

Class

1867
1879
1886
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1918
1919
1921
1923
1924

it.

the report by Classes on September 21, 1938:
Contributions
1

1

2
1

5
1

5
2
1

2
2

2
2
1

3
6
3
3

2
7
5
3

4
2
1

3
1
1
1
1

2

Amount
$100.00
100.00
125.00
100.00
218.00
25.00
117.00
105.00
100.00
50.00
50.00
47.00
112.50
19.70
115.00
405.00
160.00
142.50
100.00
245.00
225.00
125.00
145.00
75.00
10.00
55.00
100.00
20.00
100.00
50.00
38.00

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1925
1928
1936

2

Non-Graduate Faculty

8

Friends

4

1
1

Total

25.00
25.00
20.00
750.00
400.00

$4599.70

What

about the Classes not listed in this report?
their absence.
Every Class must get busy and do some real work, if
this campaign is to be a success. Each one can at least be
responsible for classmates living in the same community.
Don’t wait for another invitation. Go to work now. Let us
make the next report worth while for every class.

They are conspicuous by

TESTIMONIALS AND MEMORIALS
On Alumni Day, the Class of 1924 announced that
their contribution to the Centennial Student Loan Fund
would be designated as a Testimonial to Professor
Charles H. Albert.
He was the Class Advisor for 1924 during the Senior
year. In recognition of their admiration and respect for
their former teacher and advisor this Testimonial is
established.
Testimonial in Honor of Professor Charles H. Albert, Class of 1924.
Other Classes should follow the example of 1924
and make similar plans in honor of teachers and friends.
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Ruth Turner Martin, 1904, of Alameda, California,
has joined the Centennial Club with a check for one
hundred dollars. She has requested that the contribution
be designated as a Memorial to her brother, Thomas
Turner, 1906. Tom make the supreme sacrifice in the
service of his country during the World War. This fine
The
gift from Mrs. Martin will therefore be named
Thomas Turner Memorial, Mrs. Ruth Turner Martin.
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The Centennial Student Loan Fund offers a
opportunity to remember and honor former Faculty

fine

mem-

and friends. Classes and individuals will
given every consideration in the establishment of
Memorials within the Fund.
Contributions to the Loan Fund will live in the service of worthy youth through the years. Therefore, they
bers, relatives

be

become most

fitting as

Memorials.
^

The following

letter

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was received from

J.

A. E. Rod-

riguez, 1907. Certified check for one hundred dollars
was enclosed. He therefore is a member of the Centennial
Club. Many thanks Rod, “Old Boy.”
J.

A. E. Rodriguez, C. P. A.
San Juan, P. R.
P. O. Box 708,
Sept.

9,

1938

Mr. R. Bruce Albert, President.

Alumni Association,
State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

My

Dear Bruce

:

It was indeed a pleasure to get your circular of August 18th with your little hand-written personal note at the

bottom and I immediately made up my mind that I would
drop you a few lines and send you my subscription. I
know of no way in which I could make a better investment than to subscribe for such high purpose as the
Students’ Loan Fund. Therefore I am enclosing card and
certified check in the name of Mr. Wright and you will
please have both the card and check reach his hands.
The last time I was in Bloomsburg was in 1912, just
27 years next June and I sure would love to get back for

May

27, 1939.

may surprise you because my only boy is just
going back to U. of P., at Philadelphia, sailing from here
on the 22nd of this month to finish his last year and if I
can possibly get away from here, I am going to be on
hand at his graduation. So I am hoping that I may be
able to plan my visit to the States as to take a little run
I still

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over to Bloomsburg and spend Commencement Week
with the “old folks.” Please note that I say the “old folks”
because 1 presume you are not a spring chicken yourself
any longer and 1 surely would love to see some of the old
friends.

Sometime last winter I had a letter from Harry DeWire, from Harrisburg and it was a real thrill and all
through these years I have managed to keep in touch
with some of our schoolmates.
election as President
I was very happy to note your
of the Alumni, just like I was very happy to hear of Bill
Moyer being elected Mayor of Bloomsburg. I guess all
you boys are big shots by now and a poor stranger like
myself will not know how to act when I get there. But if I
do manage to get there you bet we are going to get together.
If

you happen to run across

them

my

old friends,

please

my

very best regards, and wishing you
kinds of success, I am pleased to remain,
give

all

all

Very sincerely yours,
J.

A. E.

RODRIGUEZ.

QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS
owe a small balance on my loan,
for ten dollars. I want to help.”
“Your letter about the Student Loan Fund received.
It was a good letter and I am glad to enclose my check for
ten dollars.”
“1 am very happy to have a membership in the Centennial Club, both because it will help worthy students
and because the B. S. N. S. meant so much to me.”
“After consulting our family budget in these flush
times during the first month of the school year, it looks
lather discouraging. However, 1 sure want to do my
share. I will contribute one dollar per year since graduaLet’s say thirty dollars.”
tion.
“Fulfilling my promise, it is a real pleasure to enclose my check for one hundred dollars to the Centennial
“Although

please put

I

still

me down

Student Loan Fund.”
“I enclose check that will pay the balance of

my

in-

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debtedness to the Student Loan Fund. Please put me
down for ten dollars in the Centennial Fund. I know what
this Fund meant to me.”

Comments About The Campaign
It

has been a real pleasure to

call

on

many

of the

Alumni in the interest of the Centennial Student Loan
Fund. Every courtesy and consideration has been extended to me.

“Old Grads” take pleasure in recalling their College
have learned of many pranks played on the
days.
faculty. This information would have been most valuable
at the time of the action.
Everybody seems interested in the Centennial and
the Loan Fund. Some subscriptions have been made that
represent a real sacrifice upon the part of the graduate.
But they have the Bloomsburg Spirit and want to help in
a most worth cause.
always invite graduates back for Alumni Days,
May 26 and 27, 1939. All indications point to the biggest
crowd of happy Alumni in the history of the College.

We

We

TRAINING SCHOOL HOLDS PICNIC

A

peanut hunt, movies, and band music combined to
the annual picnic closing the summer session of the
Benjamin Franklin Training School a successful event.
One hundred pupils out of an average attendance of
236 at the training school earned records of perfect attendance during the six weeks’ session. Twenty-one demonstration lessons were presented by the training teachers to College students. The total attendance at the
demonstration lessons was 599.

make

A complication of diseases following an illness of
only a few hours caused the death, on Monday, July 4, of
Mrs. Audrey Strausser, wife of John Albert Strausser, of
Trucksville. She had taught for several years in the
schools at Trucksville.

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The 1938 Summer

Session

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The 1938 Summer Session opened Monday, June

20,

with a registration larger than 1937. For six weeks, the
campus at Bloomsburg was a busy place. In addition to
the regular class work, a fine program of activities was
provided. These activities were both of a social and of a
professional nature. The reader can gain an idea of what
was going on by reading the following list of activities, as
published in a bulletin at the beginning of the Summer
Session.
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The following program

*

the major events that
were developed both for groups and for individuals in
lists

order that the diverse interests of those attending the
Summer Session may be met.
First

Week

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21 — Assembly,

Monday, June 20 Registration and Classification
Andruss administers details.
Tuesday, June

— Welcome
Sound

Students.

to
Pictures.

— Dean

Auditorium, 10:20 A. M.
Announcements.
General

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Thursday, June 23 Trustee and Faculty Informal Reception, Dance and Games, Gymnasium, 8:30 P. M. to
11 :30 P. M. Each student may invite one guest. Secure
Guest Cards from Dean of Women or Dean of Men.
Faculty and Student Committee, Miss Moore, Chairman, in charge of arrangements.
Numbers,”
of Primary
Demonstration “Teaching
Mrs. Lucile Baker, Third Grade Training Teacher,
9:30 A. M.

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Friday,

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Monday, June 27

— D emonstratio n — “Teaching

June 24 Demonstration “Teaching of Geography,” Dr. H. H. Russell, Seventh Grade Training
Teacher, 10:00 A. M.
Second

Week

of

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Kimber Kuster, Eighth Grade TrainingTeacher, 10:00 A. M.
Demonstration “Teaching of Typing,” Mr. W. P.
Rygiel, Seventh Grade Training Teacher, 11 :00 A. M.
Science,” Dr.

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Tuesday, June 28 Convocation Auditorium, 10:20 A.
M. Dr. Paul L. Cressman, Director, Bureau of Instruction, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg,
Pa.

— “Forum

Discussion.” Sound

Pictures.

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June 29 Demonstration in Room 10
“Teaching of Mathematics,” Dr. E. H. Nelson, Seventh
and Eighth Grades Training Teacher, 11 :00 A. M.

Wednesday,

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Thursday, June 30 Demonstration “Teaching of Informal English,” Miss Edna Barnes, Fourth Grade
Training Teacher, 8:30 A. M.
Third Week
July 5
Demonstration “Teaching of English,” Mr. S. L. Wilson,
Seventh and Eighth Grade
Training Teacher, 9 :30 A. M.
Convocation Auditorium, 10:30 A. M., Mr. Clyde
Lytle, State Teachers College, Kutztown, Pa.
“Characters from Shakespeare.” Sound Pictures.

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Tuesday,

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Thursday, July 7
Demonstration “Teaching of Social
Studies,” Miss Mabel Moyer, Second Grade Training
Teacher, 8:30 A. M. Demonstration
“Teaching of
Mathematics,” Dr. E. H. Nelson, Seventh and Eighth
Grades Training Teacher, 11:00 A. M.

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Annual Summer Session

Picnic.

Fourth

Monday, July

11

Week

— Demonstration — “Teaching

of Geography,” Dr. H. H. Russell, Seventh Grade Training
Teacher, 10:00 A. M.

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Tuesday, July 12 Convocation, Auditorium. Mr. Orson
N. Ritzman, Executive Secretary, Pennsylvania State
Publicity Commission, Harrisburg, Pa.
“Pennsylvania
Has Everything.” Sound Pictures.

Wednesday,

July

—
13 — Demonstration — “Teaching

Social Studio,” Mr. E. A.

of

Reams, Seventh and Eighth
Grades Training Teacher, 8:30 A. M.

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Thursday, July 14 Demonstration “Teaching an Introductory Lesson in Geography,” Miss Anna Garrison, Sixth Grade Training Teacher, 11 :00 A. M.
Demonstration “Special Class Arts and Crafts,”
Miss Amanda Kern, Special Class Teacher, 9:30.
Friday, July 15

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— Entrance Examination.
Week
18 — Demonstration — “Teaching
Fall

Fifth

Monday, July

of EngMr. S. L. Wilson, Seventh and Eighth Grades
Training Teacher, 9:20 A. M.
lish,”

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Tuesday, July 19 Convocation Auditorium, 10:20
M. (To be announced). Sound Pictures.

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Wednesday,

A.

July 20
Demonstration “Teaching of
Science,”
Dr. Kimber Kuster, Eighth Grade Training Teacher, 10:00 A. M. “Petit Ballet Russe,” Auditorium, 8:00 P. M.
Demonstration “Teaching a Dramatization Lesson,”
Miss Ermine Stanton, First Grade Training Teacher,
8:30 A. M.

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Friday, July 22
Demonstration “Teaching of Typing,”
Mr. W. P. Rvgiel, Eighth Grade Training Teacher,
11 :00 A. M.
Sixth Week
Monday, July 25 Demonstration “Teaching of Social
Studies,” Mr. E. A. Reams, Seventh and Eighth Grades
Training Teacher, 8:30 A. M.
Demonstration “Teaching of Geography,” Miss Edna
Hazen, Sixth Grade Training Teacher, 11 :00 A. M.

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— Convocation, Auditorium, 10:20 A.
North Hall Smoker.
Thursday, July 28 — Annual Summer Session Dinner and
Dance
Honor of Students completing Courses.
Friday, July 29 — Summer Session Classes
Saturday, July 30 — Summer Session Closes 12
Noon.

Tuesday, July 26

M. Sound

Pictures.

in

Close.
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Harriette
at 107

Shuman

(Mrs. Reuel

Lodges Lane, Cynwyd, Pa.

S.

Burr)

is

now

living

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THE COLLEGE CALENDAR
1938-1939

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Final Date for Entrance Examinations.
Sept. 13
Registration and Classification of Freshmen.
Sept. 14
Registration and Classification of other classes.
Sept. 15
Classes begin. Meeting of Board of Presidents.
Sept. 16
Reception and Dance.
Sept. 17
Church receptions.
Sept. 19
Church receptions.
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Meeting, Executive Committee, Board of
Sept.
Trustees.
Football: Millersville, at home. Junior Chamber
Oct. 1
of Commerce Dance.
Jill Edwards: Assembly, 10:00 A. M.
Oct. 7
Football: Indiana, away. J. V. Football: ScranOct. 8

ton-Keystone, at home.
Charles Naegele, Pianist.
Football Mansfield, at home. Rural Education
Day.
Freshman Kid Party.
Oct. 21
Football Lock Haven, away.
Oct. 22
Meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Oct. 25
Nominations for Freshman Class Officers.
Oct. 26
Oct. 28
Pep Meeting.
Football: Shippensburg, at home.
HOMEOct. 29
COMING DAY. Hallowe’en Dance.
Nov. 2 Election of Freshman Class Officers.
Nov. 5 Football: Kutztown, away.
Armistice Day Chapel Program. Siberian SingNov. 11
ers (evening).
Nov. 12 Football: East Stroudsburg, away.
Nov. 15 Faculty Party.
Nov. 18 Meeting of Board of Presidents.
Nov. 19 Football: Panzer College, at home.
Nov. 21
Columbia County Institute.
Nov. 22 Columbia County Institute. Meeting, Executive

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Committee, Board
Trustees.
Nov. 23 — Thanksgiving Recess Begins, 12:00 A. M.
Nov. 28 — Thanksgiving Recess Ends, 12:00 A. M.
A.
Dec.
Winter
Y. W.
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Dec.
—Lew
Oct. 14
Oct. 15

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Dec. 16
Basketball: Alumni, at home.
Dec. 17
Annual Christmas Party for Crippled Children.
Senior Informal Dance.
Dec. 20
Basketball
Susquehanna, away. Meeting,
Board of Trustees.
Dec. 23
Christmas Recess Begins, 12:00 A. M.
Christmas Recess Ends, 12:00 A. M.
Jan. 3
Basketball: Mansfield, away.
Jan. 12
Jitney Players.
Jan. 13
Jan. 14
Basketball: Shippensburg, at home.
Special Assembly for Students
Jan. 20
Completing
Work at the End of the First Semester. Basketball:
Shippensburg, away. Meeting, Board of Trustees.
End of First Semester, 12:00 A. M.
Jan. 21
Meeting, Executive Committee, Board of TrusJan. 24
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Jan. 25 — Second Semester Begins, 12:00 A. M.
Jan. 28 —
G. A. Mid-Year Dance.
— Basketball:
away. Zimmer Harp
Feb.
vacancies: Class
and
Feb. 4 — Nominations
Council members.
— Basketball: East Stroudsburg, home.
Feb.
home.
Feb. 11 — Basketball: Lock Haven,
Feb. 15 — Elections: Class and Council Vacancies. Obiter
Nominations.
home.
Feb. 17 — Basketball: Indiana,
Feb. 18 — Sophomore
home.
Feb. 24 — Basketball: Mansfield,
Feb. 25 — Basketball: East Stroudsburg, away.
Feb. 28 — Meeting, Board of Trustees.
— Maroon and Gold Elections.
Mar.
Mar. 3 — Miriam Marmein and Group: Dance Pantomimes.
— Inter-fraternity
Mar.
— Kiwanis-Rotary College Evening.
Mar.
Mar.
— High School Basketball Tournament, Afternoon and Evening.
Mar. 17 — High School Basketball Tournament, Evening.
Mar. 18 — High School Basketball Tournament, Evening.
Mar. 28 — Faculty Banquet. Meeting, Executive CommitBoard of Trustees.
—Easter Recess Begins, 12.00 A. M.
Apr.
tees.

C.

3
Trio.

Millersville,
to

officers

fill

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Cotillion.

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—Easter Recess Ends, 12 A. M.
—
G. A.
— Freshman Hop.
—Track Meet: East Stroudsburg, home.
— Meeting, Executive Committee, Board TrusApr. 26 — Nominations, Class
and Council RepreApr. 28 — He-She Party.
Apr. 29 — Commercial Contest, Class A.
May
— Commercial Contest, Class
High
School Track and Field Meet.
May —
of New
G. A.
May 12 — Junior Promenade.
May 15 — May Day Dress Rehearsal.
May 17 — May Day.
May 19 — Meeting, Board
Presidents.
May 20 — Athletic Banquet. State Track Meet.
May 23 — Classes End, 12:00 A. M. Senior Banquet.
May 24 — Ivy Day.
Mav 25 — Senior
May 26—

Apr.
Apr.
Apr.
Apr.
Apr.

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15
22
25

:00
Officers.

Election, C.

at

of

tees.

Officers

sentatives.

6

8

B. Invitation

Installation

C.

Officers.

of

Ball.

ALUMNI CENTENNIAL EXERCISES.
May 27— ALUMNI CENTENNIAL EXERCISES.
May
May

28
29

— Baccalaureate Sermon.
— Commencement. Meeting, Board
THE

of Trustees.

1938 POST-SESSION

The 1938 Summer Session was followed by three
weeks’ Post-Session, which opened Monday, August 1.
This session, attended by over a hundred, provided opportunity to earn three extra credits towards the Bachelor’s
degree. Each student enrolled in one course. Classes in
each of the courses met at 8 :00 A. M. and continued until
9 :30. A recess of one hour followed, and the classes met
again from 10:30 until noon. In spite of the heat, no one
suffered, as the classes were over before the hottest paid
of the day.

The following courses were offered: American Government, Business Mathematics, Chemistry, Economics,
History of Pennsylvania, History and Philosophy of Education, Literature I,
Physical Science,
Shakespeare,
Zoology I, and Geography of the Eastern Hemisphere.

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SUMMER

SESSION DINNER

Ten students received the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education at the annual summer session
dinner, which brought to a close the 1938 summer session. The dinner, attended by five hundred people, was
held in the College dining hall, Thursday evening, July
28.

The students who received degrees were as follows:
Hester LorJ. B. Apichell, of Kulpmont; Miss
Miss Helen Marie Chapetta Bowman, of Mifflinville
man, of Centralia; Cyril F. Menges, of Watsontown;
George J. Neibauer, of Shamokin Llewellyn C. Richards,
of Shamokin Mary Elizabeth Savage, of Benton all of
whom completed their work in the secondary curriculum
Eleanor

;

;

;

;

L. Besecker, of Kingston, who completed her
the intermediate curriculum; Miss Iris E. Freas,
completing work in the rural curriculum, and Kathryn E.
Yale, who completed work in the kindergarten-primary
department curriculum.
Prof. E. A. Reams served as toastmaster. William B.
Sutliff, former Dean of Instruction, gave the invocation.
The Maroon and Gold Orchestra provided a program of
dinner music. The speaker of the evening was Dr. Carl
W. Millward, superintendent of the schools of Milton,
who spoke on “The Teaching Profession The Whole Life
and the Whole Problem.” Xylophone solos were given by
Miss Ethel Ruth, and Llewellyn Richards and Harold
Steinhart entertained with a group of solos and duets.
Following the banquet, there was a short organ reThe camcital in the auditorium by H. F. Fenstemaker.
pus was illuminated with Chinese lanterns, and guests
gathered about the punch-bowl. A dance in the gymnasium was enjoyed by many, who danced to the music of
Fairchilds’ Orchestra.
Judge Thomas F. Farrell, of Wilkes-Barre, has been
appointed trustee of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, to fill the place left vacant by the death of William
P. Gallagher.
Judge Farrell, one of Luzerne County’s
leading lawyers, was elected judge in that county last

Margaret

work

in

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The 1939 Centennial

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Under the chairmanship of W. B. Sutliff, ’91, former
Dean of Instruction, plans are being laid for the observance of the one-hundreth anniversary of the founding
of the Academy which has finally become the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College.
Two days have been set aside on the College calendar for the formal observance of the Centennial. These
dates are Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27. Prelimi-

nary plans have included the following events:
1. Business Meeting of the Alumni Association.
2. Alumni Banquet.
Class Meetings.
Exhibition of photographs, old books, manuscripts, etc.
5. Entertainment. Participation by student organizations.
The Centennial Committee will be composed of
representatives from the Alumni Association, the Faculty,
and the student body. The committee will be busy
throughout the year working out the details of the cele3.
4.

bration.

No more appropriate time could have been found for
the observance of the Centennial. By May, 1939, the
first stage of the extensive building will have been completed. It is highly probable that, by the same time, the
second stage of the building program will be well under
way. This will include the construction of the new men’s
and other improvements which will commodernize the College plant.
The Alumni Association has committed itself to
carry out several important projects. The most important
of these is the Centennial Student Loan Fund. Read
President Albert’s message in this issue of the Quarterly,
and plan to do your part.
A study of the Alumni list has shown that the lists
has shown that the lists are very incomplete and inaccurate. This is no fault of the College authorities, as they
watch for any information which will throw any light on
the whereabouts of the graduates of the College. In spite
of this, hundreds of graduates have broken their contacts with the College, and it is impossible to tell what has
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become of them. Every Alumnus who reads this statement
can render great service, if he will make lists of all the
Alumni whom he knows, and send in their correct addresses. Because of the campaign for the Student Loan
Fund, the officers of the Alumni Association wish to reach
every Bloomsburg graduate.
Another worthy project is that of purchasing a
bronze plaque in honor of Professor Charles H. Albert,
who celebrated his eightieth birthday on Thursday, September 22nd. Mr. Samuel J. Johnston, ’93, of Bloomsburg,
is asking graduates to send him contributions of one dollar to aid in purchasing the plaque. A letter addressed to
C. M. Hausknecht, Business Manager of the College, will
cause your dollar to reach its proper destination.
Lest you forget, mark these Centennial dates on your
calendar: Friday, May 26, 1939, and Saturday, Mav 26,
1939.

Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Russell, of Royal Oak, Michigan,
recently visited friends in Bloomsburg on a honeymoon
trip through the East. Mrs. Russell was formerly Miss
Gladys J. Hadley, librarian at the College from 1921 to
1925. After leaving Bloombsurg, she received the degrees
of Master of Arts and Master of Religious Education at
Boston University. In recent years she directed church
school teacher training and young people’s work for a
time, was pastor of a Methodist Church in Minneapolis,
and at the time of her marriage was director of religious
education at the First Congregational Church in Muskegon, Michigan. Mr. Russell is teacher of general science
in the high school at Highland Park, Michigan.

PLAN
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THE BUILDING PROGRAM AT BLOOMSBURG
The extensive building program begun last January
moving along rapidly. Exterior construction work
on the gymnasium, junior high school building, and maintenance building is about completed. Parts of the campus
and

is

have been looking like the trenches in “no man’s land,”
because of the necessity of constructing tunnels to carry
the heating lines from the power house to the new buildings.
this

A

large brick stack

now

stands out on the horizon

;

was completed during the first part of August.
Change of plans in the power house have temporarily
stopped construction there, but this work will be resumed
a short time. It is expected that all of the buildings inin the present project will be completed by the
end of the College year.
The General State Authority has recently approved
another grant of over half a million dollars for further
expansion. The principal part of this project will be a
new boys’ dormitory. This had been included in the first
project, but was dropped, because there was not sufficient
money available. With the new grant of money, the construction of the dormitory will begin soon. The rest of the
money included in the grant just made will be spent in
modernizing the entire plant.
A separate grant provides for the remodeling of the
north end of Carver Hall. This will include the construction of a double tower, giving access to both floors of the
building. The stage in the auditorium will be greatly enlarged, and facilities for complete theatrical equipment
will be provided. The stage has never been able to accommodate large musical organizations, and those responsible for the presentation of plays have always been
hampered by lack of space. The dressing rooms presented
by the class of 1910 have not been used for several years,
as there are no outside exits leading from them. This fact
has caused them to be condemned by the State.
Alumni returning to Bloomsburg will have some
great surprises in store for them. You will not want to
miss any opportunity to come back and see what is going
on. 1939, the Centennial Year at Bloomsburg, will in
many ways, mark the beginning of a new epoch in the
history of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
in

cluded

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WILLIAM W. EVANS
William W. Evans, of Bloomsburg, Superintendent of the Columbia County Schools, died at
his home, Thursday, October 6, after a long illness.
Mr. Evans was a graduate of Bloomsburg, and a
member of the Board of Trustees of the College.
Mr. Evans’ death occurred just as the Quarterly
was going to press; a more extended obituary will,
therefore, be printed in the next issue.

Miss Laura Geisinger, of Bloomsburg, a former
student at Bloomsburg, was married Tuesday, June 28, to
C. Glenn Dieffenbach, of Norristown. The bride has been
employed in the offices of the Pennsylvania Power and
Light Company at Bloomsburg. Mr. Dieffenbach, a graduate of the Danville State Hospital School of Nurses, is
supervisor of male nurses at the Norristown State Hospital.

Miss Margaret E. Blaine and Donald C. Cooper, of
Turbotville, were married Sunday morning, July 31, at
the home of the bride’s mother. The Rev. D. W. Hezner,
pastor of the Williamsport Presbyterian Church, officiated at the ceremony. Mrs. Cooper has been teaching in the
Delaware Township school, near her home. Mr. Cooper
is

employed

at a

hardware

store in Turbotville.

Pauline E. Hughes, of Locust Township, Columbia
County, and Paul D. Peters, of Albany, New York, were
married Saturday evening, July 9, in the Reformed
Church at Elizabethville, Pa. Mrs. Peters has been a
teacher in the Beaver Township Consolidated School for
several years. Mr. Peters is director of the Men’s Lodging
House in Albany, and is directing a study of homeless and
transients in that city.

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Miss Grace Levan, of Lancaster, died in June in the
Lancaster Hospital, where she had undergone an operation. She had been a teacher for many years in the schools
of Lancaster.

Catherine Alyce Conway, of Wilkes-Barre and Chas.
of Plains, were married Saturday, August 27,
in Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Duddy is a teacher in the Plains
J.

Duddy,

High School.

Dean Harvey A. Andruss spoke at the meeting of the
National Education Association in New York City, held in
June. The subject of his address was “Social Values in
the Bookkeeping Course in Secondary Schools.”
Miss Lucy McCammon, instructor in the Departof Health Education at the College, is on a leave of
absence for the first semester of the College year. She is
doing graduate work at Columbia University.

ment

The marriage of Miss Helen E. Ammerman, of Shamokin, and Lewis M. Howells of Kulpmont, has been announced.
Miss Dorothy A. Lyons, of Milton and Levi S. Foust,
of Milton were married Saturday, July 2, at

Jr., also

Cearfoss, Maryland.

The September issue of the Journal of Business Education contained an article on “Law For the Layman,”
written by Dean Harvey A. Andruss.
Clara

Mae Lee and Joseph

were married
August 31.

Merrion, of Berwick,

Hagerstown, Maryland,

Wednesday,

Liva Baker, of Espy, is teaching in the
ship Consolidated School at Mainville, Pa.

Main Town-

at

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HOME-COMING DAY
OCTOBER 29th

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Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson
changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly
have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at
the address on our files.
All

of all

THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
R. Bruce Albert
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Edwai'd Schuyler
Harriet Carpenter

Board
Fred W. Diehl
H. Mont Smith

E. H.

of Directors

Nelson

D. D. Wright
Frank Dennis

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Dauphin County
To be Organized in October

Lackawanna County
To be Organized in November

Luzerne County
President

Mrs. Mary Emanuel Brown
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
J. Frank Dennis, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Mrs. Marion R. Hartman
282 Sprague Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Irene Draina

River Road, R. D.
Vice-President
Secretary

Treasurer

1,

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Montour County
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Harriet Fry, Danville
Pierce Reed, Danville, R. D. 5
Alice Smull, Danville
Ralph McCracken, Riverside

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Northumberland County
John R. Boyer, Herndon
Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont
Miss Ethel Fowler, Watsontown
S. Curtis Yocum, Shamokin

Philadelphia

Honorary President
112 North 50th

Mrs.

Norman

C. Cool

Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. Jennie Yoder Foley
8134 Hennig Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

President

Vice-President and Corresponding Sec’y- -- Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish
736 Washington Street, Camden, New Jersey

Esther Yeager
Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney

Recording Secretary
Treasurer

Schuylkill County

To be Organized

in

November

Snyder-Union Counties
Louis Pursley, Lewisburg,
Helen Keller, Lewisburg,
Mary Lodge, Mifflinburg,
Ruth Fairchild, R. D. 4, Lewisburg,

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Pa.
Pa.
Pa.
Pa.

Wyoming-Susquehanna Counties
Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunkhannock, Pa.
Eva Lloyd, Thompson, Pa.

President
Vice-President
Secretaries:

Lena

Hillis

Marsh

Frances Kinner
Treasurer

Tunkhannock, Pa.
Hallstead, Pa.
Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock, Pa.

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+

4.
!

I

The

Philadelphia

Alumni
+

4.

all

Our picnics this summer were very much enjoyed by
who attended them, but the affair at Castle Rock, with

Mrs. Cooi as our genial hostess, surpassed them all. Good
cheer, good conversation, and good food abounded.
were highly entertained by th boyish enthusiasm
of the Bronse boys, Fred and Jack, two of our faithful
Juniors, aged ten and twelve respectively. They always
take us oldsters back to our own free childhood days.
“Willie,” their dachshund, contributed greatly to our

We

amusement.

We

challenge any other Alumni group to produce
better cooks than those in our Philadelphia Association.
The home-made cakes, relishes and jams, and Mrs. Cool’s
excellent meat loaf, excelled in goodness. Mrs. McDonnell’s ice cream treat was also highly appreciated.
Plans are being made for the fall luncheons.
hope to have an interesting talk on Safety in October.
Miss Saida Hartman and Mabel Wilkinson Walton, 1908,
expect to be with us at the November meeting. Dr. Haas,
Bruce Albert, and Dr. Nelson will speak at our Christmas
hereby invite any alumnus of
party in December.
Bloomsburg to attend any or all of these meetings. You
will be heartily welcomed by our Philadelphia group,
who are always looking out for new friends and old
friends of Bloomsburg.

We

We

Association Notes
Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish, ’06, our Vice-President
and Secretary, is regaining her health and strength after
undergoing a serious operation last Spring. We shall be
happy to see her again at our luncheon meetings.

Our deepest sympathy goes

out to

Nora Woodring

our treasurer, whose father,. Stephen Woodring, of St. Johns, passed to his Heavenly home in July.
Her brother, Ervin, ’10, is also a Bloomsburg alumnus.

Kenney,

’09,

Miss Esther Yeager,

’31,

8058 Crispin St., Philadelwas married Friday, Sep-

phia, our Recording Secretary,

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16th, to Mr. Frank J. Castor, of Philadelphia.
Esther, the attractive daughter of Charles C. and the late
Mandilla Hartline Yeager, is the niece of Professor Haltline. She received her B. S. in Education in 1931, and has
been a substitute teacher in the Philadelphia schools ever
since her graduation. The ceremony was performed in
the Lutheran parsonage at Frankford by the Rev. Francis Miller. Mr. Castor has an important position with the
Richmond Engineering Company of Philadelphia. They
will live at 8056 Crispin Street, Holmesburg, Philadelphia. Our best wishes for a long and happy married life
are extended to the bride and groom by the Philadelphia

tember

Alumni.

JENNIE YODER FOLEY,

President.

NEW MEMBER ADDED TO FACULTY
Andrew Park Orth, chairman of the commercial department of the Edison Junior High School, Harrisburg,
has been appointed a member of the faculty of the Department of Commerce at Bloomsburg, and will begin his
duties at the opening of the first semester.
Mr. Orth is forty-five years of age, is married, and
has two children. He is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania and Drexel Institute, and took graduate
work at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
State College, and Temple University.
He has taught in Camden, N. J., Chester, Pa., Temple
University, and the schools of Harrisburg, and has been a
summer session instructor at the Indiana State Teachers’
College and at Rider College, Trenton, N. J. He has also
had business experience, including accounting, general
work, and selling. He is a member of a large number of national and alumni organizations.
office

Dorothy Emily Williams, of Edwardsville, and Alan
Stratton Major, also of Edwardsville, were married in
Edwardsville, Thursday, August 25.

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1867
Waller, Jr., President Emeritus of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, celebrated his
ninety-second birthday on Sunday, June 19. He continues
in good health, and follows his routine of taking a daily
walk. He spent the summer at his cottage at Winemere,
Dr.

D.

J.

Canada.
1875
Lorena G. Evans lives at the Broker Memorial Home,
Third Avenue and 183rd Street, New York City.

1879
of the class of 1879 are now making
preparations for their sixtieth year reunion next May. The
class list in the College catalogue numbers twenty-six
members, seven of whom are still living. The surviving
members of the class are C. H. Albeit, Ellen M. Allen,
Hannah E. Breece, Emily C. Kern, Lou Robbins, Annie E.

The members

Roxby, and Ida J. Turnbach (Mrs. J. C. Kunkle). Forty
years after the class was graduated, eighty per cent of
the class were still teaching. The members of the class
should and will receive a great ovation when they return
to the campus on Alumni Day.

1880

A

recent issue of a Wilkes-Barre paper has the following about Mrs. Celeste Kitchen Prutzman
:

“Mrs. Prutzman, of Shavertown, who will mark her
84th birthday anniversary on December 9, has been adjudged winner of the medal contest held recently by the
Dallas Union of the Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, and has been presented a silver medal. For fifteen years, Mrs. Prutzman taught school. She has received a medal for fifty years of Sunday School work, and is
interested in a number of church organizations. Mrs.
Prutzman is a leader in the Shavertown W. C. T. U.”

1886

Emma W. Murphy

(Mrs.

Thomas

B.

Main)

lives in

Tryon, North Carolina.

Emma

J.

Witmer

(Mrs. H. B. Felty) lives at 821 N.

Third Street, Abilene, Kansas.

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S.

1904
Hinkley (Mrs. J.

P.

Saylor)

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lives

at

313

Pine Street, Tamaqua, Pa.

1905
Ethel Swank, 7244 Brent Road, Upper Darby, passed
away at her home February 16, 1938, after an illness of
several years.

Mrs. Blanche Miller Grimes is employed with Department of Military Affairs at Harrisburg. She is junior
vice-commander of “The National Yeomen F.” Mrs.
Adele Mead Kendrick, ’04 is historian of the same organization. Mrs. Grimes took the American Legion Pilgrimage in Europe last autumn.

1906

Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon)
Second

lives at

622 N.

Street, Pottsville, Pa.

1908

The following items were contributed by Jennie
Yoder Foley, Vice-President of the class:
Reba Breisch Stephenson lives at 102 West Wanola
Street, Kingsport,

Tenn.

She has been living

in

Tenn-

essee for the past 11 years, after spending some years
in Washington, D. C. Reba is a substitute teacher in the
Kingsport schools since she moved to that city, which
boasts one of the highest ranking school systems in the
South. Her son, Frank, aged fifteen, is a Sophomore in
High School, and is about to become an Eagle Scout.
Reba’s husband is a Certified Public Accountant.
In Washington, D. C., we visited Mabel Wilkinson
Walton and Saida L. Hartman. Mabel, our author, has
written another book, soon to be published, and is busily
taking notes on a third. We are becoming quite expert
home-makers after perusing her book “A Little Bit of

Everything for the Home.’’ Mabel’s son Edward is entering the University of Maryland this fall. Saida is her usual
gay, cheerful self, the same as in her school days. Her
work is concerned with the Girl Reserves and nationality
groups. When we called on her in her office in the Y. W.
C. A. in Washington, we could not help seeing what an
important personage she is, and how well beloved by the

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and women under her

girls
is

jurisdiction. Her official title
W. C. A.’’

“Industrial Secretary of the Y.

Nell

Cox

is

at Fort Sill,

Oklahoma.

Cummings

James

Welfare Bureau

in

is connected
with the Catholic
Washington, D. C.

1909
Jeannie Stowell Knapp (Mrs. Leslie R. Ames) lives
at 1921 Reid Street, Hayes Barton, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Emma
3,

Eaton (Mrs. William Perrego)

lives

at R. D.

Dallas, Pa.

1912
Mr. and Mrs. William Peacock (Laura Houghton)
recently celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary at their home in East Stroudsburg. Their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Smith, entertained in
their honor with open house Friday, June 17. The Smith
home was thronged with guests, and Mr. and Mrs. Peacock received a large number of beautiful gifts.
1913
Olive R. Breisch lives at 7903 East Washington
Indianapolis, Indiana.

Dersheimer (Mrs. Clyde
Altoona Avenue, Enola, Pa.

Jessie R.
at 24

W. Hoover)

St.,

lives

Miss Ethel Simpson, of Upper Darby, and Charles
Granville Raynes, of Baltimore, Maryland, were married
Saturday, May 21. Mrs. Raynes has been serving as
supervising principal of the Espington and Lester School

near Darby.

Lewis W. Krieger, principal of the Kingston High
School, died Friday, July 22nd, at his home, 21 South
Atherton Avenue, Kingston. Mr. Krieger had been ill for
a long time, and was thought to be on the way to recovery,
but a relapse came, and death followed. Mr. Krieger was
born in Shickshinny, February 23, 1891, and attended the
Shickshinny schools. He came to Bloomsburg in the
autumn of 191 1, and was graduated with the class of

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1913. He later was graduated from Pennsylvania State
College, and did graduate work at Columbia University.

He taught at Noxen, Harvey’s Lake, and Wilkes-Barre,
and was then elected teacher of science in the Dorranceton High School. He later was appointed principal of the
Kingston High School, a position which he held for nine
years prior to his death.
Bessie
steadville,

1914
Kimble (Mrs. Charles Young)
Pa. She has one daughter.

lives in

Plum-

1915

Alma Baer

(Mrs. Eduardo Llerena) lives at 365 Paia
Prudente Moraes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her son,
Eduardo, was graduated last spring from Wyoming Seminary, and will enter the University of Pennsylvania this
fall.

Ralph
business

L.

Culver

manager

lives in Laceyville, Pa., where he
of the Dairymen’s League News.

is

1917
Doris Marr has been elected teacher in a school near
Elysburg, Pa.

1918
Gotshall (Mrs. Edward C. Fetterhoff) died at
her home Friday, April 22, 1938. She is survived by her
husband, one son, Carl, her parents, the Rev. and Mrs.
Harvey O. Gotshall, of York Springs, Pa., and a sister,
Grace Gotshall, ’20 (Mrs. F. L. Pannebaker) of McConnellsburg, Pa. Before her marriage, Mrs. Fetterolf taught
for several years, and for the past nine she taught near
Dauphin, Pa.

Lola

I.

1922
Miss Ruth Sober, of Bloomsburg, and Warren E.
Fairbanks, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, were married
Saturday, August 6, in the First Baptist Church, Bloomsburg. The Rev. E. J. Radcliffe, pastor of the church performed the ceremony. Mrs. Fairbanks is a graduate of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and of the Pennsylvania State College, and has been supervisor of art in
the Doylestown schools. Mr. Fairbanks, a graduate of Tri-

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is employed by the Massachusetts
Bonding and Insurance Company as safety engineer.
923
Miss Kathryn R. Grufith and Frederick H. Nicholls,
both of Kingston, were married Saturday, June 18. Mrs.
Nicholls had been a teacher in the Kingston schools.

State College, Indiana,

'i

Winifred Edwards is a teacher in the commercial department at the high school in Irvington, New Jersey.

1924

Announcement has been made

of the marriage of
Margaret Devers, of Avoca, and Peter Samony, of Old

Forge.

Frank Birch

is

teaching

in

Merchantville, N.

J.

1926
Helen

Grammar

M.

Murphy

is a teacher in the
School, Riverside, Pa.

Gearhart

Miss Evelyn Robbins, of Bloomsburg, is head of the
Ait Department of the Dwight Morrow High School,
Englewood, New Jersey. She has been teaching for several years at the State Teachers’ College at Kutztown, Pa.

1929
Miss Lena Serafine, of Mocanaqua, and Michael
Catell, of Pittston, were married in New York, Monday,
June 21. Since her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs.
Catell has been teaching in Mocanaqua. Mr. Catell, a
graduate of the Wharton Extension School at WilkesBarre, owns and operates a gasoline service station at

Wyoming.
Miss Helen R. Olshesky, of Mt. Carmel, and Alex
Darhinski, of Tharptown, were married Saturday, July
23, at Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Miss Ruth Sidler, of Danville, and Harry Krum, of
Danville, were married Saturday, August 20, at the
Trinity Lutheran Church, Danville. Mrs. Krum has been
teaching in the third grade in Danville. Mr. Krum is an
employee of the Magee Carpet Company.
Miss Ethel Laura Moore, of Nescopeck, and William

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W. Harvey,

of Berwick, were married Saturday, July 9,
by the Rev. W. C. Beck, pastor of the First Reformed
Church of Nescopeck. Mrs. Harvey has been a successful
teacher in the Nescopeck schools. Mr. Harvey is employed with a highway construction company at Laurelton.
They are now living in Nescopeck.

1927
Edith Phillips

is

teaching

in

a rural school at Mos-

cow, Pa.

Naomi

Bender

is

teacher of fourth grade

in

the

schools of Sunbury, Pa.

1928
is teacher of fourth grade

Mary

K. Heintzelman
the schools of Sunbury, Pa.

in

1930
Miss Mary E. Williams, of Kingston, and Nelson I.
Watkins, of Parsons, both former students at Bloomsburg,
were married in Wilkes-Barre, Thursday, June 30.
In a wedding ceremony performed at the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg, Saturday, August 6, Miss
Naomi Meredith, of Lewistown, became the bride of William G. Lentz, Jr., of Bloomsburg. The officiating minister
was the Rev. Samuel A. Harker, D. D. Mr. Lentz is employed in the office at the Magee Carpet Company, in

Bloomsburg.

Haven W. Fortner, teacher in the Osceola Mills High
School, received his master’s degree at Pennsylvania
State College at the close of the summer session this year.
Jasper Fritz has returned

to

where he has begun his ninth year
Osceola Mills High School.

Osceola Mills, Pa.,
as a teacher in the

Miss Jean Delahanty and W. Brooke Yeager, Jr., of
Wilkes-Barre, were married at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre, Thursday, August 25.

Myron Welsh

is

teaching

in

Hatboro, Pa.

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1931
Miss Ruth Lucille Martz and Edward Thomas Devoe,
both of Berwick were married Saturday, July 2, at the
home of the bride. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Harry M. Buck, pastor of the Bower Memorial
Evangelical Church, at Berwick. Mrs. Devoe has been a
teacher in the Berwick schools, and Mrs. Devoe is instructor of printing at the Stevens Junior High School in
Williamsport.
Miss Mary J. Williams, of Plymouth, and Theodore
Laskowski, of Trucksville, were married Saturday evening, June 18, in the First Baptist Church of Bloomsburg.
The bride is a graduate of Nesbit Memorial Hospital,
Kingston. Mr. Laskowski is a teacher in Jackson Township school.

They are now

Karl Getz
N. Y.

is

living in Trucksville.

supervisor of music at Johnson

Harriet Roan is a teacher in the Essex
School, Lansdowne, Pa.

City,

Avenue

1932
Dorothy Hartman (Mrs. James W. Moore) lives
Apartment F-22, Albert Court, Radburn, New Jersey.

at

Sara E. Schilling, of Lewistown, and the Rev. Woodrow A. Bartges, of Nescopeck, were married Wednesday
morning, August 12, at the Grace Evangelical Church in
Lewistown. Officiating at the ceremony were the Rev. E.
J. Bayne, pastor of Grace Church, and the Rev. E. C. Bassom, superintendent of the Lewisburg district of the
Evangelical Church. Since her graduation, Mrs. Bartges
had been teaching in Lewistown. Mr. Bartges is a graduate of Albright College, and the Evangelical Theological
Seminary at Reading. He is now pastor of the Evangelical

Church

Nescopeck.

in

Ruth Wagner

is

teaching

in

Frank Gerosky
grades

in

is teacher of
Jenkins Township.

Helen
English,

Dushore.

Van Buskirk

is

fifth, sixth

and seventh

teacher of seventh grade,
in Kingston, Pa.

Geography and Music

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1933
Miss Violet Snyder, of Montandon, and Robert
Hoffman, of Washington ville, were married Sunday,
June 12, at the First Baptist Church in Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Hoffman has been teaching in Montandon,
and Mr. Hoffman, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State
College, is in charge of vocational work in the Montandon
and Pottsgrove schools. They are now living in Milton.

Mildred Bixler
four, five

and

is

doing departmental work

six in the schools of

in

grades

Shamokin, Pa.

John V. Lewis and Ruth L. Swanson, of Curwensville,
were married Thursday, August 4, at Trinity Methodist
Church, Clearfield.

Robert Parker, who has been teaching in the MillHigh School, has accepted a position as teacher of
chemistry at Belleville, New Jersey. Mr. Parker attended
the summer session at Pennsylvania State College this
ville

year.

Mary Schuyler

is

teacher

in Morrisville, Pa.

Chester Byers, who has been coach and teacher at
the Northumberland High School, has been elected to a
position in the schools of Shamokin.
Miss Nan C. Higgins, of Pottsville, and Edgar P.
Buckley, of Mill Creek, were married Monday, August 29,
at a ceremony solemnized in St. Patrick’s Church in Pottsville. The service was read by the Rev. Peter Buckley, of
the Incarnation Church, Philadelphia, brother of" the
bride-groom. Mrs. Buckley has been teaching in the
Pottsville schools. Mr. and Mrs. Buckley are now living at
211 North George Street, Pottsville.

1934
Phyllis Rubright
ville, Pa.

is

teacher of sixth grade

in

Frack-

James Gennaria has begun his fifth year a teacher
the Center Township High School. Mr. Gennaria attended the summer session at New York University this
in

year.

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Esther Evans

is

teaching

Maude Mae Edwards

is

in

Annville, Pa.

a teacher in the commercial

department of the Milton High School.
In the September,
1938, issue of “The Balance
Sheet,” Magazine of Business Education appears the fol-

lowing

:

W.

H.

department

Thompson, formerly head of the commercial
at Matamoras, Pennsylvania, has joined the

of Colby Junior College, New London, New
Hampshire.
Mr. Thompson has an excellent background for his
new work. He obtained his B. S. degree in commercial
education from the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania, and has completed graduate work at New
York University and Syracuse University.
Mr. Thompson has taught in the high school at Dunmore, Pennsylvania, and he has worked for one year with
the Bureau of Recreation, Scranton, Pennsylvania. He

faculty

obtained practical experience with the International Business Machines Corporation and the Maloney Oil and
Manufacturing Company, both of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

1935
Florence S. Hartline, R. D. 2, Danville, Pa., has been
elected a teacher at the Valley Consolidated School,
Mausdale, Pa., where she will teach the fifth and sixth
grades. She has been teaching for several years at the
Jackson School, Liberty Township, Montour County.
Miss Deborah H. Kahler, of Locust Dale, and Harold
Ashland, were married at Locust Dale Wednesday, June 22.
L. Strunk, of

Don Hower has returned to begin his second year as
music supervisor of the schools at Pennsgrove, New Jersey. Mr. Hower is also director of a chorus, an orchestra,
and a band composed of men employed

at the

Dupont

plant at Penn’s Grove.

Pearl Miller

is

teaching

in

a rural school at Enders,

Pa.

Miss Isabel Rough and David H. Bittenbender, both

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of Berwick, were married at six o’clock on the morning of
July 4th in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Berwick.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. W. Smith,
pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Mrs. Bittenbender has been employed in the credit department at the
Montgomery Ward store in Berwick. Mr. Bittenbender is
in business with his father, who is a contractor. They are
now living at 124-A West Front Street, Berwick.

Ward
Arithmetic

Lichtel is teacher of sixth grade History
in the schools of Shamokin, Pa.

and

Sylvester C. Ficca, of Exchange, and Miss Martha
Strong, of State College, were married Saturday, August
6, at State College. Mr. Ficca is a member of the faculty
of the Mt. Carmel Township High School.

Kathryn Doyle Malone
Kulpmont, Pa.
Bernice Eckrote
six at

is

is

teacher of third grade at

teacher of grades four, five and

Tomhickon, Pa.

Alma Melchiori is teaching in the primary grades in
the schools of Mt. Carmel Township.
Dorothy McMichael

is

teaching

in

the elementary

grades at Center Hall, Pa.
Daniel C.

Sallitt, a

teacher

in

the commercial depart-

ment of the Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, was
drowned Tuesday, August 8, while on a fishing trip in
Canada. He had gone, with two companions, to Horseshoe
Lake, Ontario, for a week’s fishing. After coming from
the lake, he played ball with his friends, and then decided

He dived into a deep portion of the water,
and did not reappear. His friends, believing that he had
been overcome with cramps because of his over-heated
condition, dived in and recovered the body. Attempts to
revive him by artificial respiration proved unsuccessful.
While a student at Bloomsburg, Mr. Sallitt was very
prominent on the campus. He was chairman of the Hospitality Committee, member of Bloomsburg Players, the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Maroon and Gold
Band, the Maroon and Gold Orchestra, the Y. M. C. A.,
and the Alpha Psi Omega fraternity.

to take a swim.

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Edwin Creasy has begun his second year as teacher
at Tannersville, Pa. Mr. Creasy spent the summer as a
member of the staff at Sabago Camp in Bear Mountain
State Park at Stony Point, N. Y.
Rostand Kelly is a teacher in the Buckley School, a
private school for boys in New York City. Mr. Kelly has
received his Master’s Degree from Columbia University.
Mildred Deppe

is

teaching

in

the high school

at

Howard.
Harriet Styer

is

teaching at Dushore, Pa.

Miss Mildred R. Palumbo, of Mt. Carmel, and Harold O’Brien, of Locust Gap, were married Monday, July
18, at

Mt. Carmel.

1936
Miss LaRue Kathryn Wagner, of Numidia, died in
the Geisinger Memorial Hospital at Danville, Friday,
June 24, following a brief illness. For the past year she
had been teaching in Pine Township. She was a member
of the St. Paul’s Reformed Church at Numidia.

Charles D. Enterline has been elected teacher of
science and history in the Danville High School. For the
past four years he has been teaching in the Turbotville
High School.
Julia

grades
J.

in

Brugger is teacher of first, second and third
Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne County, Pa.

Corrine Zeigler

is

teaching

in

a rural school in

Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pa.

Anne Rutter
of

is

teacher of sixth grade

in

the schools

Northumberland, Pa.

Laura Bonenberger
Sweet Valley, Pa.

Marian Sudimak

is

is

teaching

in a

rural school at

teacher of third grade at Pringle,

Pa.

Thomas
grades

at

Davis
Ringtown.

is

teacher of seventh

and eighth

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Leon Dixon, of West Hazleton, has been elected
West Hazleton High School.

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to a

position in the

Miss Frances J. Ward, of Bloomsburg, and Kenneth
C. Merrill, of Light Street, were married Saturday, August 20th, at the home of the bride. Mrs. Merrill completed
the two-year course at Bloomsburg last May, and was well
known on the campus for her musical ability. Mr. Merrill,
a prominent member of the Men’s Glee Club while in
college, is a teacher in the high school at Turbotville, Pa.
Miss Janice Nichols, of Berwick, has been elected
teacher of French in the Coudersport High School. After
graduation from Bloomsburg, Miss Nichols attended
Pennsylvania State College, and received her Master’s Degree, majoring in French.

William North, of Lee Park, and Miss Margaret H.
Kane, also of Lee Park, were married Saturday, June 25,
in St. Aloysius Church, Lee Park. Mr. North is a teacher
in Hanover Township.
Miss Dagmar Larson, of Galeton, and Mervin W.
Mericle, of Bloomsburg, were married Friday, August 26,
at the rectory of St. Columbia’s Church, Bloomsburg. The
couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dixon, of
Hazleton. Mr. Mercile is a member of the faculty of the
Galeton High School. Mrs. Mericle, a graduate of Mansfield State Teachers’ College, has been teaching at Harrison Valley.

Kathryn Brobst

is

Sara Shuman

teaching

teaching

in

the schools of Bethel,

Pa.

Frances Riggs

is

is

teaching

in

Robesonia, Pa.

in Turbotville, Pa.

John Hendler has been appointed to a position
the faculty of Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre.

on

1937
Miss Gladys M. Rinard, of Catawissa, and Dr. Alfred S. Ruesch, of Sayerville, N. J., were married at Slatington, on Thursday, August 18. Mrs. Ruesch has been
teaching in the schools of Bristol, Pa. Dr. Ruesch is a

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graduate of Lafayette College and New York University
Medical School. He is practicing at Great Neck, Long
Island.

Mary Van Dine, of Millville, and Joseph Jarasak, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., were married Monday, May 30th. Mr.
Jarasak is employed in the Post Office Department of the
Morgan Annex, Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Jarasak are now
living at 9 McDonogh Street, Brooklyn.
Beatrice Thomas, of Berwick, has been elected to a
position as teacher in the joint Orangeville and Orange
Township High School.

Myles William Edwards, of Edwardsville, and Miss
Faith Ethelda Cook, of Lake Ariel, were married Saturday, June 18, at Lake Ariel. Mr. Edwards is assistant
chemist for the Scranton-Spring Brook Water Service

Company.
Miss Pearl Reese, of Catawissa, and Charles Glass, of
Freeburg, were married Saturday, July 16, at the home
of the bride. Mr. Glass is a teacher in the Snyder County
schools.

Ruth Radcliffe is teaching French and English
high school at Watsontown, Pa.

in

the

1937-38
Miss Virginia K. Breitenbach, of Tamaqua, and J.
Blaine Saltzer, of Bloomsburg, were married Tuesday,
August 2, at Catawissa. Mr. Saltzer is a teacher at the
Slatington High School. They are now living at the Walp

apartment

in Slatington.

1938

A

brief announcement in the Bloomsburg Morning
Press states that Michael G. Klembara, former assistant
football coach at Bloomsburg, was married in June to
Miss Margaret E. Bioletti, of Shamokin.

Charles Henrie, of Bloomsburg, has been elected to a
position in the Millersville High School. In addition to
teaching commercial subjects, he is in charge of the instrumental music in the Millersville schools, and devotes
part of his time to work in the Junior High School on the

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campus

of the Millers''

ille

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State Teachers’ College.

Robert Williams has been elected teacher of comin the high school at Troy, Pennsylvania.
He is also director of the high school band.
mercial subjects

Jacob Kotsch, of Egypt,
school at Lemoyne, Pa.
at

is

teaching

in

the

high

Jane Lockard has been elected to a teaching position
Dimock, Pa.

Vance Laubach is teaching in the commercial department at the Waynesboro High School.
Neil Ritchie is teaching in the commercial
of the high school at Matamoras, Pa.

depart-

ment

Helen Weaver is a teacher in the Main
Consolidated School at Mainville, Pa.

Township

Margaret Potter has been elected to a position
high school at West Fairview, Pa.

the

in

Daniel Litwhiler is teaching science and serving as
assistant football coach in the Bolton High School, Alexandria, Louisiana. Mr. Litwhiler has been playing baseball with the Alexandria team of the Evangeline League
during the past season. He led the league in batting, with
an average of .364.

SUMMER

SESSION STUDENTS, 1938

Dorothy Karschner

is

teacher of

first

and second

grades at Lehman, Pa.
Marieatta Cope is teaching in a rural school
Union Township, Luzerne County, Pa.

Edna

B.

Herb

is

teaching in a rural school at

in

Put-

man, Pa.

Ramona Adams is a fourth grade teacher in the
schools of Mt. Carmel, Pa.

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Thomas W. Anella
grades at Drifton, Pa.

is

teaching

Vera Gambal is teaching
grades at Old Forge, Pa.
Edith M. Payne

is

in

in

the elementary

the seventh and eighth

teaching in a rural school at Put-

man, Pa.
Louise Durlin is teaching in a rural school in Mayberry Township, Montour County, Pa.
in

Viola M. Blue is teacher of grades seven and eighth
the Valley Consolidated School, Danville, Pa.

Leona

Wyoming,

Mary

Aberant

J.

teaching second grade at West

is

Pa.
E.

Dutchburn

is

teaching

in

the third grade at

Blossburg, Pa.

Viola

and three

Mae Doughton

Clara Tuloshetzki
in

is

teacher of grades one, two

at Arnot, Pa.
is

teacher of grades

five to

eight

Beach Haven, Pa.
Gerald Burke
County.

is

teaching at the Golden Hill School,

Wyoming
and

Sara L. McCreary is
six in Point Township,

teacher of grades four, five

Northumberland County.

Alice Mae Zehner is teacher of second grade at the
Fairview Township School, Mountain Top, Pa.

Miss Eleanor Hess, of Sunbury, and Charles Crim, of
Bloomsburg, were married Sunday, July 24, in the Zion
Lutheran Church in Sunbury. Mrs. Crim has been teaching in the Sunbury schools, and Mr. Crim is employed by
the Bloomsburg Silk Mill.

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