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BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

Volume Forty-Two

No. One

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Home-Coming Day was

a wonderful event. Were you
There was a fine crowd and every friend of the college
had reason to be happy. Believe it or not, we won the Football
Game with the boys from Shippensburg. What a game it was!
Shippensburg was expected to be the winner. They had a fine
and powerful team. But the Bloomsburg team played heads up
football all the time and deserved the joyful victory.

there?

The Banquet' in the evening was well attended and the
room was filled. The coaches and team were given an
ovation. Dr. and Mrs. Haas were guests of honor. Dr. Haas
was the speaker of the evening and was at his best. The dance
was very popular, and the old gymnasium was packed with
happy graduates and students.
dining

Cumberland-Dauphin, Susquehanna-Wyoming had fine rePhiladelphia held the annual Christmas party at Strawbridge & Clothier on December 14. What
about the other county organizations? We hope each one will
have a reunion prior to Alumni Day in May. Officers and committees must get on the job.
unions during the Fall.

The Alumni Loan Fund continues to do splendid work for
worthy students who meet the eligibility requirements. Many
graduates have joined the Alumni Association, but we need
many more. Have you joined?
Best Wishes For 1941,
R.

Vol. 42-No. 1

BRUCE ALBERT.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

January, 1941

Published by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Entered as Second-Class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburfe, Pa., Under the Act of July 16, 1804. Published four times a year.

H.

F.

E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,
NELSON, ’ll

EDITOR

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.

BUSINESS

MANAGER

Page One

Ou^i

Neui Pbelidesd,

HARVEY

H

ARVEY

A.

A.

ANDRUSS, dean

ANDRUSS
of instruction

and acting head

of the institution since September, 1939,

is

dent of the B'oomsburg State Teachers College.

Haas, Superintendent

of Public

Instruction,

the

new

Presi-

Dr. Francis B.

who

resigned

the

presidency at Bloomsburg to enter the cabinet of Governor

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

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January, 1941

Page Two
has announced the appointment, stating
Governor had approved the election of Mr. Andruss b>
the newly appointed Trustees of the College.

James

at Harrisburg,

that the

The new president, who

for

more than

a

year has

filled

the

two positions of acting president and dean of instruction, and
efficiency, has been a member of
the faculty since
930, coming to Bloomsburg to organize the
department of business education.
has guided the College with
1

President Andruss was chosen at a meeting of the

Board
Wednesday, January 8, but announcement of the
action of the Board was withheld until announcement was made
of Trustees on

in

Harrisburg of the approval of the Governor.

In addition to his activity at the College, Mr. Andruss has
been identified with many phases of Bloomsburg civic life, and
was one of those most active in bringing about the reopening
of the Bloomsburg airport and the securing of C. A. A. for the

College.

Mr. Andruss was graduated from the University of Okla-

homa and

holds a degree as Master of Business Administration
After teaching in Oklahoma
from Northwestern University.
Northwestern,
he
served
on
the faculty of the Indiana
and at
State Teachers College for three years, and then came to
Bloomsburg as director of the Department of Business Education, which he organized.

There were forty-nine enrolled in the department in 1931,
and the enrollment has increased each year, with 324 students
enrolled last fall. By 1939, the number of graduates from the
department was 222. Of this number, 209 have been placed,
with thirty in business and 79 in teaching positions.
1

President Andruss
directories:

“Who’s
in

Who

listed in three national biographical

“America’s Young Men,”
in

Pennsylvania,” published

Education,” published
In addition to the

year’s

is

work toward

his

in

published
in

in

1938;

1939, and “Leaders

1940.

degrees mentioned above, he has one
degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Three
holds a certificate
versity of

public and private business from the Uni-

in

Oklahoma.

His experience includes that of instructor in the North-

western University School of Commerce, and superviso£ of the

department of commerce

at the

Indiana State Teachers College.

During 1939 he served as special lecturer

New York

at

University and at the University of Oklahoma, and because of
lecent changes in position, the following invitations to teach in

summer

State College of Washsessions had to be declined:
1937; University of Oklahoma, 1940; Boston Univer1940 and 1941, and Bucknell University, 1941.

ington,
sity,

In professional
activities he
of the Alpha
is president
Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa of Pennsylvania and
previously was vice-president; he is consultant in the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association; he has served as president and vice-president of the College Instructors Division of the National Commercial Teachers’

Federation, vice-president of the College Instructors

in the

Na

Commercial Teachers’ Federation; he is also a member
of the Terminology Committee of the National Council of Busitional

ness Education.

He

has given professional addresses before a

number

of

Educational organizations, speaking before the State Education
Association at Harrisburg and Williamsport;
cation Association at
tion Association

Association at

at

New York
Pittsburgh;

New York and

Educa-

Eastern Commercial Teachers

Boston;

Professional Schools for Teachers at
lina State

the National Edu-

City; Tri-State Business

Eastern Association

New York;

Education Association at Raleigh; Western

State Commercial Teachers Association at Rochester,

vention district meetings of the P.

S. E.

of

North Caro-

New York
and conLock

A. at Allentown,

Haven, Stroudsburg and Lebanon.
President Andruss

is

advisor on

civil

service examinations

Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Department of Labor and Industry. He was formerly chairman of the
Bloomsburg Chapter of the American Red Cross during the two
for the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Four

when over $5000 was raised by
He is now a member of the executive committee.
former member of the board of directors of the Blooms-

years of the Mississippi floods,
the chapter.

He

is

a

now chairman of the club’s education
chairman of the Bloomsburg Salvation

burg Kiwanis Club, and

He

committee.

is

Army Committee.
He is a member
He

well Consistory.

membership
ternity in

in

is

also

of the Presbyterian

is

America, Beta

education. Beta Alpha

Omega

Pi,

He

also holds

Phi Beta Kappa, oldest honorary scholastic fra-

administration fraternity.

Pi

Church and of Cald-

married and has one son.

Gamma
Kappa

Psi.

Sigma, professional business
Delta

Pi,

honorary society

in

professional accounting fraternity,

professional business education fraternity for men,

the Acacia Club, social fraternity for Masons, National Education Association,

and the Pennsylvania State Education Associa-

tion.

He has completed

three research studies in the field of

public and private finance, and

was research consultant of the

business problems committee of the Investment Bankers Association.

His article, "Accounting for the Depletion of Oil Lands,”
originally submitted to

degree
ancy,

at

official

New York
published

meet the requirements

Northwestern, appeared

in

for a master’s

the Journal of Account-

organ of the American Institute of Accountants,
His “Cost Accounting for Bond Houses,” was

City.

in the bulletin of the

of America,

and

later in the

Investment Bankers’ Association

Journal of Accountancy.

He has written many text-books, bulletins, articles, and
monographs. His books published are as follows
“Business
Law Cases and Tests,” 1934; “Ways to Teach Bookkeeping
and Accounting,” 1937; “Workbook to Accompany Commercial Law.”
1937; “Pennsylvania Supplement to Commercial
Law,” 1937. Books now being prepared are “Better Business
Education,” “Our Economic Citizenship,” and “Our Community
:

Citizenship.”

Forty monographs, articles, and courses of study have ap-

peared

in

the following magazines, yearbooks and bulletins:

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Five
Bulletin

102, Department of Public Instruction, Yearbooks of
The Balance
Association.

the National Commercial Teachers’

Sheet, Business Education World, the Journal of Business Education, the Kiwanis Magazine, the Pennsylvania School Journal,

Review, the bulletin of the
Association,
The National BusiEducation
Commercial
State

the School Journal, the Kadelphia
Tri

ness Education Contest Quarterly, the Business Education Digest,
the Account Ledger, the

Commercial Teacher, and the Journal

of Accountancy.

Under the administration

of Mr. Andruss as acting presi-

moving forward. Improvements have been made to the buildings and grounds, and the
plant has been kept in the fine condition that was maintained
under the administration of Dr. Haas. The services of the College have been increased by the expansion of the Educational
Clinic, which will be of great value to the schools of the service

dent, the College has been steadily

area of the College.

Mr. Andruss has had the hearty support of the faculty,
the student body,

and the maintenance

staff,

and he

will

con-

tinue to receive this support.

The members of the Alumni Association may be assured
that in Mr. Andruss, the College has a president

ed

in

the

Alumni and

who

is

interest-

realizes the value of the support of the

graduates of the College.

The Quarterly therefore extends its
to the new President, and wishes

most hearty congratulations

him a successful administration.

Satuldouj,,

May,

2.4-tli

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Six

lbomc=ComtnQ 2)a^
Bloomsburg State Teachers College observed
nual

Homecoming Day amid

day and the

Added

its

14th An-

the splendors of a perfect October

largest turn-out

of “old

grads’’

in

recent years.

to nature’s riot of color at this time of year, the college

campus and

the business section of the

town were

also in gala

dress for the occasion

Many

visitors arrived in the

morning

in

time for the con-

cert by the Maroon and Gold Band of the college in the gymnasium at
o’clock with Howard F. Fenstemaker, directing.
The sporting events are always one of the high lights of
Homecoming Day, and this year the grads were treated to a
double v.ctory when Bloomsburg defeated Shippensburg 24-14,
1

1

football victory of the season, and the “Husky’’ hartriumphed over West Chester in cross country 25-30.
Prior to the game, the Bloomsburg High School musicians entertained the crowd with their program which featured the larg-

the

first

riers

any high school in the nation. Between
of Bloomsburg and the Red
and Blue of Shippensburg serenaded both stands, each one makest flag

waving

halves, the

unit of

Maroon and Gold Band

ing a splendid showing.

The “Huskies” really out-d d themselves in playing a remarkable game of football. The fine playing and the scoring
of a touchdown in the first three minutes of the game filled
everyone with a spirit of gayety which prevailed throughout
and was quite evident at the tea in the gymnasium following the game and later at the dinner in the college
the rest of the day,

dining room.

A

dinner as 6:

30

P.

M. was well attended.

Over 700

people were served.

Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was Master
of Ceremonies, and W. B. Sutliff, former Dean of Instruction,

gave the invocation. During the dinner, music was furnished by
the college orchestra under the direction of William Booth,

and the group singing was led by Miss Harriet Moore, faculty
instructor of music.
Those seated at the speakers’ table

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.

January, 1941

Page Seven

were:

Howard Fenstemaker,

Sutliff,

Mrs. Kimber Kuster, Mrs.

Mrs. Francis B. Haas,

Homecoming Day

Dr.

Mrs.

Harvey A. Andruss, Dean

W. B. Sutliff, Bruce
Kimber Kuster, chairman

activities, Mrs.

Albert,
of the

Bruce Albert, Dr. Francis B.

Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Howard
Fenstemaker, Dean Harvey A. Andruss, Acting President of the
college.

A

message of welcome was delivered by Dean Harvey A.

Andruss

those present.

to all

and

college trustees

their wives,

He also presented the six new
who are: Mr. and Mrs. Fred W.

Diehl, Danville, Superintendent of

and Mrs.
Mrs.

W.

Montour County Schools; Mr.

Frank D. Croop, Berwick, insurance man; Mr. and
Claire Hidlay,

Bloomsburg, business man; M. Jackson

banker; R. S. Hemingway, Bloomsburg, attorney; Milton K. Yorks, Bloomsburg, manufacturer.
A rousing demonstration of cheers greeted the presentaCrispin, Berwick,

tion of

George

Coach, and

C. Buchheit,

the

members

Coach and Frank Kostos, Assistant
football and cross country

of the

teams.

was Dr. Francis B. Haas,
and former President
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Dr. and Mrs. Haas
are also known as the father and mother of Homecoming Day
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Dr. Haas spoke on
the “Relationship of Homecoming to National Defense and
Philosophy of Government.” The program in the dining room
was concluded with the singing of the Alma Mater.
The festivities of the day were concluded with a dance in
the gymnasium, which was decorated in the national colors.
Dancing was enjoyed to the music of the Maroon and Gold
Dance Band. The vocal soloist was Miss Reba Henrie, Berwick,
a student of the college. A special feature was a vocal duet by

The main speaker

of the evening

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

the

Hope twins.
Dean Harvey

A. Andruss, Acting President of the college,

and student body once more proved to be
loyal hosts. They turned over the day to the visitors, and that
they succeeded in making it an enjoyable day for them was
shown by the pleasant comments heard at every hand.

and the

entire faculty

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Eight

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from Washington authorizing the Civil
Primary College Program has been
received at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The preliminary physical examination program was carried out and first
steps in the actual program started Monday, October 7. Mr.
William Reber, Jr., of Bloomsburg. is in charge of ground school
Final authorization

Pilot Training Fall Private

instruction;

Mr.

Sam

Bigony, operator of the local airport,

is

and John C. Koch, Dean of Manilas been named Coordinator and will represent the college.
Over 75 boys at the college evidenced their interest by
signing up for preliminary examinations. Those who passed
these took a final examination conducted by an authorized medical representative of the C. A. A. The successful candidates
began work October 7. A unit of 10 is being given the instruction each semester and efforts are under way to increase the

in

charge of

flight instructions,

present quota to

20 per

semester.

Mr. Reber, ground school instructor, had charge of the

same work

and Marshall College, Lancaster, during
In 1937 Mr. Reber organized the first
flying club on the campus of Franklin and Marshall. The organization has grown until at the present time, its membership is
at Franklin

the past college year.

limited to 30.
at the

Mr. Reber, one of the

first

to take instructions

Bloomsburg Airport under the present operator, Mr. Sam

Bigony, has held a private

pilot’s license for the past six years,

including the passing of the commercial physical

Mr. Reber also served as laboratory assistant

in

examination.
physics while

attending Franklin and Marshall.

The work presented by Mr. Reber opened with a course
in

the history of aviation, civil air regulations, the theory of

flight,

navigation, meterology, engines, instruments, parachutes

and the use of the radio. This course material will total 72
hours and can be applied toward graduation.
Mr. Bigony, in charge of flight instruction, was one of the
early instructors when the Bloomsburg Airport first opened
some years ago. This is no new undertaking for Mr. Bigony, as

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Nine
he participated

in

a similar

program

at

Wilmington, Delaware,

year when a unit of 10 college students from the University
Delaware and two non-college units passed through his hands.
Mr. Bigony holds both commercial and flight instructor’s lilast

of

censes

in

addition to a mechanic’s license.

In the physical examinations given at the Geisinger

morial

Hospital by Dr.

examiner,

all

Stainsby,

approved

Me-

A. medical

C. A.

of the applicants passed the test, which

was

re-

garded as unusual.
Students receiving instruction are: George Lewis, Merrill

and Miss Eleanor Beckley, of Bloomsburg; Gerald
and Bruce Miller, of Berwick; Frederick Pressler, of Lime

Deitrich
Fritz

Ridge;

William Herbert, of Kingston;

Scranton; Victor

Turim,

of Imperial,

Howard

Williams,

and David

of

Nelson, of

Hazleton.

Forty students were given a preliminary examination by

Included in the ten were Juniors and Seniors,
which are from the latter class. Freshmen and Sophomores will be given an opportunity later of taking the course.
The basis of selecting the ten was on account of free time
the students had, scholarship attainment, and the purpose to
which the training would be put to.
Dr. C. B. Yost.

six of

FORMER NORMAL TEACHER
Miss
in

Mary Rachael

Harris died at the

Dallas township, Fuzerne county.

A

DIES

home

of her sister,

heart attack caused her

death.

She was former head of the pedagogy department of the
Bloomsburg Normal School, after which she served in a similar
capacity at Shippensburg Normal.
She leaves two sisters, Bertha Butts, deaconess in St.
Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre, and Miss M. Ethel
Harris, of Wilkes Barre.

Funeral services were held from the Fong
Barre, with burial in

home

in

Wilkes

Mauch Chunk.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Ten

“Burned Bridges,” a musical comedy written by Eda BesMuncy, and Richard Foote, Bloomsburg. was presented Thursday and Friday evenings, November 15 and 16, in
the college auditorium by an exceptionally strong cast of 12
Many
players and a singing and dancing chorus of 38 people.
people in the audience expressed the opinion that the show was
even better than “Fumbles Forgotten,” the show that was the

sie Beilhartz,

highlight of last year’s college winter series.

The play centered upon a young engineer, played by Bill
Hagenbuch, who hated women, especially an old childhood
friend, played by Ruth Hope, who insisted upon calling him
“Bobby dear” at every opportunity.
The comedy of the show was supplied by Betsy Alden, as
the

tempermanetal mother; Ralph McCracken, as her hen-peck-

ed husband; Virginia Hughes, as the sarcastic daughter; Helen

Johnson, as the helpful girl-friend, and Walter Mohr and Virginia

Dean

as the colored servants.

Don Jenkins

stole the

show

who imagined himself a second Fred Astaire.
The music to the fourteen song hits were written by Richard Foote and the lyrics were written by Eda Bessie Beilhartz.
A microphone set was used by Mr. Foote during the play
to direct the boys at the spotlight and the lights on the stage.
The fourteen catchy tunes, written by Foote were “In
Summertime,” chorus; “I Don’t Know Why I Just Sing,” Don
Jenkins; “You’ve Made a Mess of Things Now,” William Hagenbuch; “I’m For You,” Ruth Baird, Virginia Hughes, Helen
Johnson; “I Always Call You Dear,” Ruth Hope; “Won’t You
Come Down the River,” Walter Mohr and sextet; “Remember
the Time and the Place,” Betsy Alden and Ralph McCracken;
“It Just Can’t Be,” Ruth Baird; “Waltz Clog,” Dancing Chorus;
“He’s the Man She’s booking For,” Virginia Hughes and Helen
Johnson; “Fair Weather Friend Farewell,” William Hagenbuch;
“Keep Your Heart Wide Open to a Song,” chorus; “You’re the
“Let’s Dream
Kind of Person,” Helen Johnson and Joe Madl
as the twelve-year-old kid brother

;

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

;

Page Eleven
Awhile,” Ruth Baird and William Hagenbuch.

The singing chorus was composed of Edith Benninger,
Helen Dixon, Mary Driscoll, Betty Hawk, Reba

Irene Diehl,

Henrie, Catherine Jones. Jessie Probst, Marjorie \oung, Michalene Zuchoski, William Barton,

Elwood Beaver, Carl Bermnger,

Joseph Malinchoc, Angelo Melito,
Jack Shortess, Jack Silvan and Bruce Miller.
The dancing chorus was composed of Marguerite Barlow,
Shirley Beers, Hazel Chappell, Evelyn Flagg, Dorothy Johnson,
Loren

Collins,

Gerald

Fritz,

Ruth Shank and Hazel O’Brian.
The pianist was James Deily; prompter, Florabelle Schrecongast; property manager, Edith Benninger; stage committee,
Boyd Buckingham, Stewart Yorks Charles Robbins; typists,
Anne Sabel, Betsy Aiden and Erma Wolfgang.

A

The Fool,” by Channing Pollock, was preOmega Fraternity of Bloomsburg State
leachers College on December 17, 1940, in the college audiplay entitled

‘

sented by the Alpha Psi

torium.

The

part in the play:
Marie Parsell
Yarowsky, Pottsville; Betiv Katerman
Bloomsburg; Carl Bermnger, Catawissa; Marian Murphy, Kingston; Stewart Hartman, Danville; George Menarick, Exeter;
Betty Lou Kepner, Sunbury; Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Herbert Schmeder, Hazleton;
Stewart Edwards, Edwardsville
Jack Rockwell, Bloomsburg; Jack Mertz, Northumberland;
Boyd Buckingham. York; Gerald Fritz, Berwick; Isabella Olah,
Berwick; Jerome Lipikinsky, Coal Township; Waher Mohr,
Scranton; Barbara Straub, Bloomsburg; Lois Gruver, Mifflin

following

Orangeville;

ville;

Betty

The

took

Rachel

Griffiths,

Scranton.

officers of the fraternity are:

President, Stewart Ed-

wards, Edwardsville; Secretary, Eda Bessie Beilhartz, Muncy;
Treasurer, Jack Shortess, Bloomsburg.
Inler-Fratern.ty Council:

Representatives to the

Florabelle Schrecongost, DuBois,

and

David Nelson, Hazleton.
Miss Alice Johnston of the college faculty

is

the sponsor

of the fraternity.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Twelve

Students Hell of Education
The opportunities offered by the American system of education and the responsibilities of those who avail themselves of
these outstanding opportunities, were dealt with Friday morning. November 15, by Bloomsburg State Teachers College students at an assembly period devoted to

observance of

the

American Education Week.
Various phases of the general theme were ably developed

by Miss Betty Hawk, Miss Eda

B. Beilhartz,

Richard

Catherine Oplinger, C. Grant Brittingham, Ruth

H

Foote,

Brandon and

L.

Jack R. Shortess.
Musical features were provided by the A Cappella Choir
and College Chorus, with the music directed by Miss Harriet
Moore and with Mrs. John K. Miller at the piano. Songs used
in the program were “America the Beautiful,” “I Am An American” and “America.”
The program opened with Stewart Edwards reading the
message of President Roosevelt regarding education week. Miss
Hawk read the Scriptures and the College Chorus sang “America the Beautiful.”

Miss Hawk then related the origin and significance of
American education week. The first education week was in
1921 and regarding the week she said “Estimates indicate that
eight million parents and other citizens visit their schools each
November during this observance. They learn about modern
school practices and consult with teachers concerning the progress of their children.

Millions

of

through newspapers, magazines,

messages sent into homes.

other citizens
radio,

public

Better schools,

are

reached

meetings and

better

understood,

are the result of these activities.”

“Strengthening Civic Loyalties” was the theme developed
by Miss Eda Bessie Beilhartz. She described the loyal citizen as
one who “believes in democracy.” Even though all goals are
not attained, he has unwavering fanh in our democratic ideals.
What is more, the loyal citizen tries to understand his government
He tries to keep himself informed on issues that arise

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Thirteen

be settled by public opinion and the ballot, He
no nation can remain free unless the citizens understand their government and act individually and collectively to
make it effective.” She spoke of the school as “the proving

which are

to

realizes that

ground of citizenship.”
Richard H. Foote spoke on “Perpetuating Individual Liberties” and observed that “in a civilized nation, liberty does not
mean freedom to do entirely as one chooses. There are rights
We find true liberty by denying
of others each must respect.
ourselves smaller privileges in order to secure great basic rights
lor

all.

Education perpetuates individual

by develop-

liberties

govern themselves and determined that
remain the land of the free and the home of a

ing a people able to

America

shall

people unafraid of the duties that liberty entails.”

The vital part of human resources m development of the
nai.on was taken up by G. Grant Brittingham, who said: “People ordinarily think of the Federal Government as a distant mechanism set up to perform remote functions of lawmaking and
taxing with

little

or no relation to the daily

life

of the individual

The fact is the Federal Government is a great service
agency. Through its activities it promotes the use of human
and physical resources in ways of most vital importance to individuals.
There is no asset that should be more highly prized

citizen.

by a human than his ability to use
his physical and mental energies.”

The matter

to the

maximum advantage

was dealt with by
She spoke of the cost of education rising
“because more and better schools and school services have been
provided to more pupils and because the purchasing power of
of financing public education

Miss Ruth Brandon.

the dollar has

been greatly reduced.

cline in the birth rate, enrollment in

Although, due to the de-

elementary schools

fall-

is

secondary schools, where costs are considerably higher, have increased sharply because of the lack of employment of youth.”
In summarizing Miss Brandon stated
ing.

enrollment

that “it

is first

in

evident that costs are increasing both

nation because better education

is

in state

and

being provided and because

more students are attending secondary schools which

cost

more

per person.”

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Fourteen

The concluding address was by Jack Shortess, who in dealEconomic Security" asserted "We are not

ing with "Building

dealing with just the children of

We

school age.

with the whole of the American people.

You

all

personal experience, that the students carry their

home

dealing

and herein lies our
task.
We must plant the ideas of economic security in these
fertile young minds.
"We teachers must develop skilled rmnds and hands; teach
and encourage healthful living; provide vocational guidance
and training; develop intelligence on economics problems; provide consumer education and promote scientific advance."
The program concluded with the singing of "America."

ideas

to their parents

and

are

know, from
thoughts and

relatives,

TEACHERS ENJOYED BANQUET AT W1M0DAUSIS CLUB
The program
tive force of the

at the

banquet of the faculty and administra-

Teachers

Club, Tuesday evening,

College,

November

held

at the

Wimodausis

12, turned out to be a

"first

initial showing of motion
and of Homecoming Day in late

nighter," as the features included the
pictures of a faculty meeting

October.

The program was informal in nature and opened with a
Cards and other games followed the showing

delicious dinner.

of the movies.

R. S.

HEMINGWAY TO HEAD TRUSTEES

The trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College organized Monday, November 8, by the election of R. S. Hemingway, president; Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, vice-president,
and W. Clair Hidlay secretary and treasurer.
Also present at the meeting were Milton K. Yorks, of
Bloomsburg, and Frank Croop, of Berwick. The sixth member
recently appointed, M. J. Crispin, of Berwick, was ill and un
1

able to attend the meeting.

Routine business was handled following the organization.

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January, 1941

3

Page Fifteen

£titesitaitiedl

GlulA'iett

The Christmas Party given annually for the crippled children of Bloomsburg and vicinity was held Saturday, December
Cooperating
14, at 2: 30 o’clock in the college gymnasium.
with the girls were the Rotary Club and the North Hall and Day
students of the college.

The other
General Chairman.
were as follows:
The Financial Committee with Sara Bailey as chairman and
Saramarie Dockey. Helen Kotch, Peggy Holoviak, Jean Barr,
Sara Hottenstein, Joanne Spaid, Kay Jones as assistants, had
Miss Jessie Schiefer was

committees

charge of

who

all

assisted

the finances of the party.

The Invitadon Committee with Ludmilla Matamn

man and

as chair-

Ruth Shay, Marjorie Young, Geraldine Bitting, Rita Simpson, Jesse Hackenberger, Grace Richardson as
assistants, made and sent out to members of the clinic, faculty
families and a few other special friends attractive invitations in
Aleta

Stiles,

keeping with the Christmas

spirit.

Erma Wolfgang, chairman of the Publicity Committee,
worked with Ruth Henry, Stella Chilek, Betty Hoagland and
Dawn Osman to let everyone know about the party.
The Decorations Committee with Irene Diehl as chairman
and Edith Lundin, Stella Williams Marian Murphy, Emma Hutchinson, Grace Richardson Eleanor Althoff and Marie Wert as
assistants, worked hard to give the gymnasium an atmosphere
typical of the holiday season.
Evergreen trees and sprays and
huge candles were featured in the decorations.
The Welcome Committee with Ruth Rhys as chairman an
Ruth Weitz, Eleanore Curran, June Oplinger, Jennie Leone, Lucretia Shaffer, Edith

Whitesell, Joe

Marinko,

Mary Middleton,

John Lavelle, Virginia Hughes and Dora Taylor as assistants,
had charge of welcoming the children and their parents to the
College.
They were stationed at the door to the gymnasium to
handle the entrance and exit of guests.
The Hospitality Committee with Jean Langan as chairman
and Betsy Smith, Ruth James, Jane Rutledge, Mary Whitby,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Sixteen

Margaret Jones, Carmel Siriani, Rachel Yarawsky, Jean Tregellas, Mary Reilly, Ruth McFee, Joanne Spaid, Mary DeWald and
Mary Heimbach as assistants, met the guests at the door and

gym and seated them.
The Transportation Committee consisting of Ruth Schield,
chairman, Edna Snyder, Betty Griffiths, Bette Singley, Eleanore
Curran and Ruth Brodbeck had charge of providing transportation to and from the College.
Peggy Neece was put in charge of the check room. Her
committee consisted of Jean Barr, Eileen Melusky, Peggy Holoviak, Betty Coll and Sara Wagner.
The Gift Committee with Mary Bretz as chairman and Ruth
Shay, Mary Middleton, Helen Dixon, Margaret Robeson, Agnes
took them to the

Alastick, Valaire Buchanan, Betsy Alden, Florence Faust as
sistants,

provided a small

gift for

Mantana Williams, chairman

each

as-

child.

of the Refreshment

with Geraldine Bitting. Edith Benmnger,

Commit-

Young,
Miriam Mensch, Saramarie Dockey, Nellie Deily, Mildred Eaton,
Jesse Hackenberger, Louise Seaman and Ludmilla Matamn as
her assistants, provided refreshments for each guest and a surprise for each child.
The S. 0. S. Committee with Kay Jones as chairman and
Rowena Girton, Ruth Sluman, Joanna Fice, Betsy Alden, Doris
Musselman, Irene Kornaski, Rita Simpson and Margaret Kane as
assistants, was on hand to help wherever they were needed.
A delightful and varied entertainment was given. The program closed with a visit from Santa Claus, who distributed the
tee,

Marjorie

gifts to the children.

A CAPELLA CHOIR SINGS AT KUTZTOWN
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College

A

S.

T. C.

Capella Choir,

under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, journeyed to the
Kutztown State Teachers College Wednesday, October 23, and
there it presented a program during the Kutztown chapel period.
Last year the Kutztown State Teachers College visited the

pus here and entertained.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

cam-

Page Seventeen

College Z'lfLCMtd'l Clinic
The State Council of Education, at its meeting on December 6. 1940, in Harrisburg, Pa., approved the Educational Clinic
of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pa., according

the

announcement of Dean Harvey A. Andruss, Acting

to

Presi-

dent.

be of service

This Clinic will enable the College to

work

all

in

and Luzerne Counties.
Reading and General Scholarship,
diel

to

Columbia, Montour, Northumberland,
Deficiencies in Speech, Vision, Hearing,

public schools located

will

be diagnosed and reme-

prescribed. At the present time the Educational Clinic

has four divisions, as follows

—

Psychological, Reading, Speech,

and Health. Other divisions will be added as the need arises.
There is no charge for this service by the College, as it represents another step in the policy of the institution to be of greater service to the school children of the
in

which

it is

section of

Pennsylvania

located.

Recently a contract was awarded to

remodel

offices

in

Noetling Hail to provide a suite of three rooms for the Speech
This building change will provide quar-

Division of the Clinic.
ters similar to those

now occupied by

the Psychological Division

Equipment has been purchased, the most recent
additions being that of the Individual Audiometer and Portable
Recording Machines.
The Educational Clinic is under the direction of Professor
John J. Fisher, aided by other members of the faculty. It is
housed in two suites of three rooms each adjoining a class room
which may be used for demonstration purposes when groups of
of the Clinic.

students rather than individuals are involved.
ship,

modern

adapted

equipment and housing

to clinical use, justify the

now being

Vera

Capable leaderparticularly

facilities

approval of

this

new

service

offered by the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg.

L.

Baer (Mrs. John Steely)

Street, East Rochester,

New

lives at

901 South Main

York.

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January, 1941

Page Eighteen

'li/Uat

Ale

Qla&nuJxuAxj, Q'iaduate'1 ^boi+Uf ?

As you know, the Bioomsburg State Normal School bea Teachers College in 1926.
The first class of students to
complete the four-year college curriculum and receive the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education was graduated in 1930.
During the decade from 1930 to 1940 there have been
more than 100 degrees conferred. These graduates represent
a large part of the contribution which the College has made to

came

1

the teaching profession in the

The following
about February

1

,

letter

1941

,

Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania.

and questionnaire are
to

to

degree graduates of the

be sent out
last

decade.

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
To Bioomsburg Graduates:
State Teachers Colleges are being judged solely in terms of
the

number

This number is determined a
Commencement.
Spring
Such figures do

of graduates placed.

few months after the

not reflect the positions secured after that time.

THE COLLEGE DESIRES TO FIND OUT HOW MANY OF
GRADUATES HAVE TAUGHT AT ANY TIME DURING THE
PAST TEN YEARS OR HAVE ENGAGED ANY OTHER OCCUITS

PATION.
Will

you please aid your Alma Mater by

spaces below and
envelope.

returning this

circular to

(Postage already paid).

the blank

enclosed

be
promoting the educa-

This information will

treated as confidential and will aid us
tional interests of the College in the

filling in

us in the

in

Commonwealth

of Pennsyl-

vania.

Your cooperation

will

be deeply appreciated, and

tend to you the heartiest greetings of your

Name
Married
Address

Year

women

of

please give Maiden and Married
Street

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

City

January, 1941

we

Alma Mater.
Graduation

Name
State

ex-

Page Nineteen
SecondPlease check curriculum completed: Elementary ( )
ary ( )
Business (
)
(2) Please indicate fields of certification completed at Bloomsburg:
Elementary
Business Education
Commercial Subjects
Kind.-Pri
(
)
)
(

(1)

Inter.

(

)

Rural

(

)

Special

(

)

Other Fields

Secondary
Mathematics
(
)

English
Latin

(3)

List

(

)

(

)

Geography

(

)

French

(

)

Soc. Studies

(

)

Science

(

)

Speech

(

)

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN REGULARLY EMPLOYED AS A
Yes.
How Long
Years.
TEACHER?
(

)

(

)

where?
If you have answered “yes” to (3),
please check the grade
and/or write subjects taught:
Elementary School Grade
Subjects
—
Junior High School Grade
Subjects
Senior High School Grade
If you have been otherwise employed, or married, please indiIf so,

(4)

—
—
—

(5)

cate here

Annual Salary

On

we

shall

taught

be

in

in the

are gainfully

married.

For Last Year

$

Date

the basis of the information received

a

position

from

19
this

survey,

say that a certain number have
Commonwealth, a certain number
the present time, and that others are

to

schools of the

employed

at

This will give a

definite idea of

the occupations

fol-

lowed by graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The results of this survey will appear in some future issue of the
Alumni Quarterly.
If you received your degree during the last ten years, will
you please help your college to help you by answering all the
questions and returning your questionnaire promptly?
Cordially yours.

Acting President.

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January, 1941

Page Twenty

&

HORXEOGS
— 1940

Football

The season opened on September 28th against a surpristeam which went on through the

ingly strong Millersville team, a

season without losing a contest with other Pennsylvania Teachers Colleges.

was

Considering the

opponent, a

strong

12-0 score

and the squad gave indications of
better things to come. The climax of strength and spirit was
evidenced on Homecoming Day, October 26, when an inspired
eleven defeated Shippensburg 24-14 before a record breaking
a rather fair beginning,

crowd, including Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Francis B.

Haas, former President of the college.

was the only victory of the seven-game schedule, but
was a success at the college by virture of this one particular victory.
Coach Buchheit has the satisfaction of knowing that the boys gave a good account of themselves throughout
the season.
He was assisted by Frank Kostas, of Mt. Carmel, a
This

football

former Bucknell player.
Lost to the squad next season will
tackle; William Kerchusky, end;

Lehman, half-back,

all

of

whom

spite of the departure of these

squad remains and

1941

the football fortunes of the

be Grant Brittingham.

Joe Wesley, center, and Leo
will be graduated in May.
In

boys from the college a large

should see

further

advancement

in

Maroon and Gold.

Sport awards for football, soccer and

cross-country were

granted to nearly 60 Bloomsburg State Teachers College athleletes following a

meeting of the College Athletic Committee.

Both junior-varsity and varsity awards are
the committee.

The awards are

—

listed in the report of

Football (Varsity) Quick, Shalanta, Mer-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.

January, 1941

.

Page Twenty-One
cer,

Troutman, Maksimiuk, Herr, Lehman,

Dormer,

Menarick,

Walinchus, Kerchusky, Atkinson. Brittingham, Moyer, Maslow-

Donachy and Robinson; (Jayvees) Hal-

sky, Schminky, Wesley,
pin, Pettinato,

Koslowsky, Gatski,

Horvath,

Chesney,

Magill,

Rabb, Conte, Sponseller, Algatt, Murphy, Jurasik and Deleski
(junior-manager)
Soccer

—

(Varsity) Colley, Conner, Deaner, Edmunds, Kos-

Thomas,
Davies, Hartman, Hons,

tenbauder, Housknecht, McHenry, Patterson,

Wagner, Wanich, Yeany; (Jayvees)

Slusser,

Robbin, Watkin, Webb.
Cross-Country

—

(Varsity)

Kama,

Niles,

Tomlinson and

Jenkins; (Jayvees) Egroff and Hubiak.

HUNDRED PART-TIME STUDENTS AT COLLEGE
vice,
1

With more than 100 part-time students, teachers in serenrolling at the Teachers College on Saturday, September

4, the total

enrollment,

550 pursuing
650 mark.

Dean Harvey A. Andruss, Acting President,
enrollment, pointed out

the

including

college courses, exceeded the

that the part-time

in

giving

the

who

are

students,

leachers-in-service from the college's service area,

regular

would have

an opportunity of taking the following courses during the semester:
Social and industrial history of the United States, E. A.
Reams; world literature, S. L. Wilson; physical science II, S. I.

Shortess; child phychology III, Dr. E. H. Nelson; educational
measurements, John J. Fisher; evolution of American public
schools. Dr. T. P. North; school law, Dr. North; biological
science I, Dr. Kimber Kuster; economic geography. Miss Rich;

—

teaching of health. Miss Lucy McCammon; American
government. Miss Mary Whitenight.
Although the uncertain conditions concerning the recent
legislation of Congress relating to selective military service has
had an effect on the size of the entering class at the college,

hygiene

these conditions
the service area,

interested

in

do not seem

who

to

have affected the teachers of

although employed during the week, are

attending college on Saturdays.

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January, 1941

Page Twenty-Two

Dean Andruss Writes

Article

The Business Education World, published m New York
its November Issue, includes the question "What Can
Business Education Do That It Is Not Now Doing To Aid Our

City, in

National Defense?”

Among

those answering this question

is

Dean Harvey A.

Andruss, Acting President of the State Teachers College, of

Bloomsburg, Pa., whose answer reads as follows:
"With the depression, we developed an apologetic philosophy around a nebulous thing called 'social values.’ With
the outbreak of the

European war and the subsequent military

now being made by our country, there will be an
increasing demand for people who can do things, rather than
talk about doing them. We are returning to a period when the
preparation

Our
communication and record keeping must be as efficiently handled in our offices and stores as the machine gun
is handled by its crew of citizen soldiers.
practical nature of business education should be stressed.
facilities for

“The renaissance

of business education

is

at

hand.

An edu

grow wi:h the expansion of our military
and navy preparation. A heavy responsibility, therefore, rests
on the teachers of business subjects to train young people to
cation for this field will

the

maximum

will not

play

of efficiency; otherwise the machinery of business
its

important part

in

the production of those

chines that at this time seem to be as important as

ma-

man power

itself.

the

“The airplane and the tank cannot be manufactured, and
oil to propel them cannot be produced, unless business is

efficient.

creasing

With the expansion of business, there

demand

for

young people trained

departments of our high schools.

In time of

in

be an incommercial

will

the

unemployment, our

product was not tested, since students never enjoyed an opportunity to

and

work on

real jobs, but

now

high school graduates

their ability to function in business will

be scrutinized caie-

f u lly.

“Let us measure up to

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

this

increasing responsibility!"

January, 1941

Page Twenty-Three

Six Trustees of College Are
Six of the nine trustees of the

Named

Bloomsburg State Teachers

College have been appointed by Governor Arthur H. James, five

them residents of Columbia County and one of Montour.
They are M. Jackson Crispin, of Berwick, banker, succeeding Judge Charles C. Evans, of Bewick; Frank D. Croop,
insurance man, Berwick, filling a vacancy created by the death
Fred W.
last March of Judge Clinton Herring, of Orangeville;
Diehl, Danville, Superintendent of the Montour County Schools,
succeeding Thomas G. Vincent, Danvilie; R. S. Hemingway,
Bloomsburg attorney, succeeding Grover C. Shoemaker, Bloomsburg; W. Clair Hidlay. Bloomsburg business man, succeeding
Mrs. Ethel Noecker, Schuylkill Haven, and Milton K. Yorks, of
of

Bloomsburg, manufacturer,

to

fill

a vacancy.

The other three when named are expected to be from
counties other than Columbia and Montour but in counties included

in the service

area of the college.

Of those named to the board, Mr. Diehl, an alumnus of the
college, is a former trustee, having served under appointment of
former Governor Pinchot.
Of the retiring board, three were active until successors
were named. They were Judge Evans, Mr. Shoemaker and Mr.
Vincent and they served well over the period of their appointment, being prompted in their faithfulness by their genuine interest in the college.

The
while

retiring

in office,

board during

its

tenure had five

the most recent death being

Henry

members

die

T. Meyer, of

Lewisburg,

The

board was composed of Dr. H. V. Hower, of
much of the time until he resigned; W. W. Evans, former superintendent of the Columbia
County Schools, who died while in office and was succeeded by
Berwick,

H.

original

who

served as president

Mont Smith, Bloomsburg attorney, whose death also occurin office; Mr. Shoemaker; Judge Evans who was nam-

red while

ed president after Dr. Hower resigned; William
Wilkes-Barre,

who

died while

in office;

P. Gallagher, of

Mr. Meyer; Mrs. Ethel

Noecker, of Schuylkill Haven.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

/

Page Twenty-Four

Speaks on Profession of Teaching
Cameron Beck, former personnel
Exchange, speaker

at the College

director of the

Friday,

New York

November 22,

told

students of the College that that they were preparing for the

and challenged them

greatest field of service for humanity

to

be

ready whenever opportunity comes.

No amount

can carry an incapwork, he said, he never had
heard of influence, “drag” or “pull” being used to get a person
a job on the New York Stock Exchange.

able

man

of training, he asserted,

to success in

Mr. Beck said

life.

that

In his

America

must return

foundation, or the hope of the world
colorful

and

is

to a religious

gone. His talk was

alive with illustrations of life successes of

made

which he

had personal knowledge.

Many

persons, he said, are waiting for things to

come

to

them without sending out anything in the way of ability and aggressiveness which will attract opportumy to them.
He classified individuals in three classes: Those who do
not as they are told, those who do just as they are told, and
those who do things without being told. In the third class leadership

is

developed.

There are still opportunities on every hand if one is ready
and prepared to take them, Mr. Beck told the students. In this
connection he spoke of one experience when two stenographers
were needed. It required six weeks, during which many were
interviewed to

fill

those positions.

Four fundamental things are needed

They are: plan your
presevering, and keep always with you
can go places.

Shan't

osiyet- -

May
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

life,

in the individual

who

have a purpose, be

a passion for right living.

Uwuxi Ibay

7

3.4-tU

January, 1941

Page Twenty-Five

Police School at College
Dean Harvey A. Andruss, Acting President

of the Blooms-

burg State Teachers College, announces that the “Police School”

numbers among its
from the following localities: Williamsport, Muncy, Montoursville, Hughesville, Milton, Shamokin,
Plymouth, Hazleton, Wilkes Barre, Park Summit, Nanticoke,
Kingston and Bloomsburg.
which

is

being conducted

at the college

registrants representatives

The class in “Police Science” meets in Science Hall at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College every Friday afternoon from
one to four o’clock. There will be a total of twenty-four class
sessions of three hours each or seventy-two hours of instruction.

The “Police Science” course deals with
date methods and techniques

of

scientific

the

modern up-toThe

investigation.

“Police School of the Public Service Institute” has been en-

two years. During that time, twenand twelve advanced zone classes have been conducted with representatives from 225 departments participating.
In two years, 559 officers have received Certificates of
Attainment for completing the advanced course which offered
for the first time in 1939-1940.
gaged

in police training for

ty-six basic

A

course

in

small arms instruction

is

offered throughout

the state after the close of the regular courses.

record firing to Expert, Sharpshooter and

The

are

instructors

Pennsylvania, and

S.

:

Edgar

ratings.

from Hershey,
Bloomsburg State Teach-

T. Strange,

Shortess, of the

I.

This includes

Marksman

ers College faculty.

The cooperating agencies are: Pennsylvania Chiefs of
Motor Police, Institute of Local

Police Association, Pennsylvania

and State Governments, (University of Pennsylvania), Institute
of Local Government (Pennsylvania State College), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Public Instruction,

Bureau of Instruction, Paul

L.

Cressman, Director.

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January, 1941

Page Twenty-Six

(Eampus
PRESIDES AT STATE DEANS OF

Nntra...
WOMEN

ASSOCIATION

Deans of Women, composed of about 150 members from junior and senior high schools.,
private schools, professional schools, colleges and universities,
held a two-day conference November
and 2, at Harrisburg.
Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, of Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
Pennsylvania Association

of

1

is

president of the association.

The

member

which was founded

association,

the only

woman dean

in

1922, has as a

of a medical college in the west-

Through its legislative committee, the assocworks with the Legislative Council of Pennsylvania on

ern hemisphere.
iation

matters of legislation touching the interests of schools.
practices, and
and their influences in
education were discussed by the speakers and a special committee reported on “What Will Be the Effect of National Preparedness For Defense Upon Students
Especially Women and

Racial hatreds, safeguards for democratic

causes and treatments of

delinquency

—

Girls

?”

Among
Harris Hotel

the guests present at the dinner

were

Dr.

and Mrs. Francis

Bloomsburg State

B.

held

in

the Penn-

Haas, of Harrisburg.

College, which started its
noon Wednesday, held a program

Teachers

Thanksgiving Day vacation
appropriate to the holiday

at
in

the auditorium at ten o’clock

Mon-

day morning, November 25, under the auspices of the mixed
chorus.

The program opened with “Oh God, Beneath Thy Guiding
Hand,” by the chorus, and the Scripture lesson was read by
Dean Andruss.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Twenty-Seven

The program continued as follows: “Harvest Home,”
words by Paul Hastings, chorus; “Songs of Praises,” words by
W. Williams and F. Havergal, music arranged by G. Jones,
chorus; “The Landing of the Pilgrims,” Hemans-Brown, mixed
chorus; “Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem,” music by T. L. Maunder, “Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow,” Ken-Bourgeois, college chorus.

The officers of the chorus are: Jack Shortess, president;
Walter Mohr, v.ce president; Sara Masteller, secretary; Cath
erine Ophnger, treasurer, William Barton

and Jack

Silvan,

li-

brarians.

Miss Harriet M. Moore

is

the director

and Miss Nancy Pat-

terson accompanist, with Mrs. John K. Miller accompanist for
the college chorus.

PROF. ALBERT

HONORED UPON

HIS

BIRTHDAY

Prof. Charles H. Albert observed his eighty-second birth-

day, Sunday, September 22, and was kept busy receiving con-

The member

“Old Guard” received
and telegrams of greeting.
At the First Methodist Church during the morning where
he has for years been an efficient and popular teacher of the
Men’s Bible Class, he was presented with a cane. During the
worship service which followed he offered prayer and the Rev.
Dr. J. Edgar Skilhngton, the pastor, on behalf of the entire congregation, extended congratulations.
gratulations.

many bouquets

of the College

as well as cards

The annual Freshman class “Kiddie Party” at which
Freshmen dressed as children under teen age was held in the
gymnasium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Friday
night, October 18. Over 150 were present.
Games appropriate to the costumes of the “children” were
played. Dancing was enjoyed and refreshments of cider, cookies and lollipops.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Twenty-Eight

KAPPA DELTA

PI

FRATERNITY INITIATES

The following students were initiated recently into the
Kappa Delta Pi Fraternity of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
Joseph

College:

Barchock,

Wilkes

Barre;

Elwood Beaver,

Catawissa; Wilfred Conrad, Benton; Mary Davenport, Berwick;

Candace

Kutztown; James Dorsey, Bloomsburg; ReRuth James, Taylor; Jean Lentz, Berwick; Sara Masteller, Pottsville; Ralph McCracken, Allentown;
Bruce Miller, Berwick; Richard Nonemacher, Allentown; John
Schlauch, Bloomsburg; Jessie Schiefer, Sieelton; Mary Jane
Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Ida Jane Shipe. Berwick; Frank Shope,
Berwick; Aleta Stiles, Red Lion; Mary Sweigart, Lancaster;
Francis Thomas, Troy; Grace Thomas, Bloomsburg; David
Young, Danville; Ralph Zimmerman, Berwick; Ruth Brandon,
Dietrich,

ber Fisher, Catawissa;

Berwick.

STUDENTS HOLD STRAW VOTE
Students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College cast a

straw presidential ballot as one of the civic features of the college program, under the sponsorship of the Phi

Sigma

Pi,

men’s

professional fraternity which last spring sponsored the successful “presidential

convention.’’

Preliminary to the voting a program was given

John

Lavelle, of Girardville,

dents

in

in

which

represented the Democratic stu-

an address for President Roosevelt and Ellwood Beaver,

of Catawissa, acted as

spokesman

for the supporters of

Wendell

L. Wilkie.

Other members of the fraternity participating were Richard Nonnemaker, Boyd Buckingham, Walter Mohr, and

Thomas

Cannard.

Members

of

the

fraternity

Prof. E. A.

Reams, sponsor of the

man

program.

at the

acted as

Mary Dodson (Mrs. Layton Gearhart)
Street, Berwick, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

an election board.

fraternity,

January, 1941

presided as chair-

lives

on West Front

Page Twenty -Nine

Senior Informal
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
the college gymnasium, Saturday
evening, December 7, 1940. The gymnasium was beautifully
decorated for the occasion and a capacity crowd danced to the

The Senior Class

of

held an informal dance

in

tunes of Marconi’s orchestra.

The various committees appointed were

General Chairman, Walter Reed, Shillington; Orchestra Committee,
Chairman, Richard Foote, Bloomsburg; Charles Robbins,
Bloomsburg.

as follows:

Decorating Committee, Chairman, Grant Britting-

Marie Parsell,
Jane Dyke, Mt. Carmel; Michalene Zuchoski, Wilkes Barre. Publicity Committee,
Chairman, Isabella Olah, Berwick; Jack Shortess, Bloomsburg;

ham, Wilkes Barre;

Orangeville; Sara

Joe

Luzerne;

Wesley,

Masteller,

Pottsville;

Program

Betsy Miller, Park Place; Marie Parsell, Orangeville.

Committee, Chairman, Catherine Ophnger, Nanticoke; Virginia
Dean, Shenandoah. Refreshment Committee, Chairman, Virginia
Hughes, Wilkes Barre; June Eaton, Galeton; Marian Murphy,
Kingston.

MISS ZEHNER
Mrs.

S.

R. Zehner. East Third Street, has

engagement of her daughter,
uel, of

ENGAGED

Mary

Christine, to

announced the
John F. Sam-

Bedford.
graduation

Following her

from

the

Bloomsburg

High

School, Miss Zehner attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers

College for a year and a half before she transferred to Bucknell
University.

She was graduated from that

with a bachelor’s degree

in English.

institution

Since that

in

1939

time she has

been employed by the university. At present she is assistant to
the alumni secretary and assistant editor of the Bucknell Alumni
secretary and assistant editor of the Bucknell Alumni Monthly.
Mr. Samuel is a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, in
the class of 1937.
Electric

Company

He was employed
in

Schenectady, N.

the Gettysburg Theological Seminary.

for a year
Y.,

by the General

before he enrolled

At present he

is

a

in

mem-

ber of the Senior class of that institution.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Thirty

DR.

OSUNA

VISITS

COLLEGE

Dr. Juan Jose Osuna. who graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1906 and who is now the Dean of the School
of

Education of the University of Puerto Rico, recently ad-

dressed the Bloomsburg State Teachers College assembly.

Dean

Andruss read a poem written by Claire Sirrocco, under the pen
name of Mario, which appeared in the Home-coming issue of the
“Maroon and Gold” college publication, by the way of introduction for Dr. Osuna.
Doctor Osuna spoke on the nations of North and South

He also explained the relationship which exists between the United States and the various countries of South
America. He discussed the influence we have in the South
American countries and gave several data showing that we have
the best foothold in South America. However, he pointed out
that the Axis powers are steadily taking that foothold from us.
An American (U. S.) man would never think of going down
there to marry. Instead he comes home for his girl. However.,
the Axis powers go there and intermingle and marry the natives.
In this way, he said, they are steadily advancing to the point
where they will be able to string all of the countries together in
America.

a solid front against the United States.

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College has shown its inBloomsburg Athletic Park modernization plan by
gifts amounting to over $400.
The Community Activities Association, which sponsors
athletics at the college, contributed $250, and the faculty either
terest in the

paid or pledged over $175.
Dr.

Kimber

C.

Kuster was chairman of the committee which

reported the amount contributed by the faculty at the

last

meet-

ing of the drive committee.

was announced by Dean Harvey A. Andruss, acting
new facilities by tne
College, in the event of inclement weather, would be a basis for
the mutual cooperation with the Bloomsburg School District.
It

president of the college, that the use of the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Thirty-One

CHOIR PRESENTS PROGRAM
The

A

Cappella

Choir of the

Bloomsburg Sta.e Teachers

College, under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, presented an

impressive Christmas program on

Monday morning, December

10:00 o’clock during the assembly period.
The program was as follows: “0 Come All Ye Faithful,”
College Chorus; Scripture reading, by Mr. H. Fenstemaker.
‘‘Blow Winds, Gently
Three songs by the A Cappella Choir
16, at

—

Blow,” by Mueller; “0 Po’ Little Jesus,” a negro spiritual, arranged by Jones; “A Russian Cherubim Hymn,” by BortmanThe male quartette from the choir, consisting of William
sky.
Barton, James Deily, Joseph Mahnchoc and Walter Mohr, sang

“0

Little

Town

of Bethlehem.”

Miss Marie Johnson, a

fifth

grade pupil of the

Benjamin

Franklin School, also sang a carol, entitled “Long, Long Ago.”

The program was concluded with
Night,” by the choir and the college

the singing of

chorus.

Miss

“Silent

Jane

Rut-

ledge was accompanist for the choir and Mrs. John K. Miller for
the college chorus.

Robert Kazmayer, writer, news commentator and lecturer
on world events, delivered an address on ‘The Challenge of a
Changing World” during the Armistice Day program at the
State Teachers College. Mr. Kazmayer, who has spoken at local
teachers’ institutes, is one of the most popular of the commentators on the platform today.
The program opened at ten o’clock with “God Bless
America” by the college chorus, followed by Scripture reading
by Dean Harvey A. Andruss. Edward A. Reams, of the social
studies department, presented the speaker.

There was a

silent

period at eleven o’clock with “Taps”

and the
program concluded with “The Star Spangled Banner.” Group
singing was under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore with
Mrs. John Kenter Miller as the accompanist.
sounded.

Dr. E. H. Nelson led in a salute to the flag

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

:

Page Thirty-Two

STUDENT LOAN FUND
dents

The following letters have been received from former stuwho were helped to finish their college courses by the loan

fund

“Here is my fifth and final payment on the loan I received
from the Alumni Loan Fund.
T wish to offer my sincere thanks for the aid given me
while attending Bloomsburg College.

“When

circumstances

allow,

I

shall

be glad to contribute

something toward the fund.

“With best wishes,

I

remain,

One who
“I enclose

my

check as payment

shall not forget.”

in full for the loan

Alumni Association.
“Thank you very much for this loan, as
very much at a time when I needed it badly.”

from

the

Miss Beth Stearns, a

field

it

helped

representative of the

Temperance Union, spoke

me

out

Women’s

Bloomsburg State Teachers College during a recent assembly period.
She explained the new course being offered on Education in
the different colleges. She also explained the effects of alcohol
on a person and the problems that confront the teachers when
presenting the subject of alcohol and its effects. Her lecture
was illustrated by means of charts. She stressed the point that
the teaching of the effects of alcohol should be started in the
early grades and continued on into high school.
Christian

to the students of

A. Jackson Rhodes, prothonotary and clerk of the courts of

Columbia County from 1924 to 1926, died at the Geisinger
Memorial Hospital, Danville, Sunday, November 3, following a
stroke of paralysis. Mr. Rhodes was a teacher for twenty-five
years in Cleveland and Franklin Townships, Columbia County.

He was

a

member

of the United Brethren Church at Esther Fur-

nace, of the Catawissa Lodge, F.
sistory.

one

He

is

&

A. M., and of Caldwell Con-

survived by his wife, two sons, three brothers and

sister.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.

January, 1941

Page Thirty-Three

Three faculty members of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College took part in the program of the 16th annual convention
of Northeastern District of the P. S. E. A., held at Wilkes Barre,

November 15 and 16.
Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of intermediate and rural education, was a delegate and a member of the Legislative Committee,

ment

for Depart-

and acted as secretary for the session held
and Teacher Training.

of Colleges

Herbert McMahan, of the Business Education Department,

was on

the Resolutions Committee.

E. N.

was

Rhodes, director of the Ben Franklin Training School,

also a delegate to the convention.

The Third Annual Conference

of the Cooperative Associa-

Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges was held November 7-8-9 at Indiana State Teachers College. The delegation
tion of

which represented Bloomsburg
lows: Ida Jane Shipe, Berwick
Valente, Hazleton;

Elwood

conference was
Anna Tugend, Dalton;

at this
;

Beaver,

Catawissa,

as fol-

Frank
and Howard

Newton, who is the president of the Association.
Dean John C. Koch accompanied the students to the Conference.
Tomlinson,

was organized
1938-39 school year.

This Association

The
tion of

at

S.

during the

T. C.

third annual conference of the Cooperative Associa-

Pennsylvania State Teachers College was held

State Teachers College at Indiana,

delegation which

was

the B.

as follows:

November

represented Bloomsburg at
Ida Jane Shipe. Berwick;

ton; Frank Valente, Hazleton

;

and

7, 8,

this

at

9.

the

The

conference

Anna Tugend,

Dal-

Elwood Beaver, Catawissa, and

Howard Tomlinson, Newton, who is the president of the association.
Dean John C. Koch accompanied the students to the conference.
ing the

This association was organized
1938-39 school year.

at the B. S. T. C. dur-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Thirty-Four
Included

in the

new

camnewly organ-

extra-curricular activities on the

pus of Bloomsburg State Teachers College

is

the

Group This group, under the acuity sponsorship of Miss Mabel Oxford, has been organizec lor the purpose of rendering service to the local communis \ and will cooperate with the Red Cross
relief work for It e peoples of
ized Social Service

1

i

i

Europe.

The

officers of the

dent; Claire Sirrocco,

group are: Ruth Baird,

Mill City, Presi-

Vice-Presidtnt

Pottsville,

Sophie Ko-

;

kora, Mocanaqua, Secretary.

Harvey A. Andruss. Acting President
State Teachers College,

the author of an

is

Auditors Taught Bookkeeping”

Commercial Teacher.
torial

in the

This periodical

Society of the City College of

treatment of

more about

this subject

the business

is

of the
article

November
is

New

Bloomsburg
entitled, “If

issue of

The

published by the Edi-

York.

a plea for teachers to

Dean Andruss’
come to know

w orld.
r

This contribution represents further w'riting on the part of

Dean Andruss

in

the field of his

work on “Ways

keeping and Accounting,” which

IIIINT

w as
r

published

to
in

Teach Book1937.

FORGET ALUMNI DAY

Saturday,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.

Meuj,

January. 1941

24 tit

Page Thirty-Five

All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of
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

&£

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

R. Bruce Albert
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

E. H.

Smith

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
D. D. Wright

Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland-Daupliin Counties
Louise Downin Laubach
317 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Vice-President
Mrs. C. W. Hoover
Enola, Pa.
Second Vice-President
Blanche Miller Grimes
204 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Secretary
Elizabeth V. Clancy
436 North Third Street, Steelton, Pa.
Treasurer
Howard M. Kreitzer
120 Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa.
President

Lackawanna County
Herbert

President

S.

Jones

707 North Rebecca Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

Vice-President

Thomas

R.

Rowland

822 Richmont Street, Scranton, Pa.

Secretary

Adeline Williams
810 Archbald Street, Scranton, Pa.

Lydia A. Bohn

Treasurer
227 Stephen Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Thirty-Six
Luzerne County

Edna Aurand

President

162 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Vice-President

Edison Fischer

>

30 Market Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.

Vice-President

Alberta Nichols
61 Lockhart Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Secretary

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
67 Carlisle Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Treasurer

Mrs. Lester Bennett
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.

Montour County
Ralph McCracken

President

202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.
Alice Smull

Secretary
312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.

Treasurer

Neil Ritchie
Danville, Pa.

Northumberland County
Claire E. Scholvin

President
552

Queen

Vice-President
Secretary

Northumberland, Pa.
Joseph Shovlin
Kulpmont, Pa.
Helen Latorre

Street,

Atlas, Pa.

Treasurer

S. Curtis

Yocum

925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.
Schuylkill County

Orval Palsgrove

President
Frackville, Pa.

Ray Leidich

Vice-President
33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.

Kathryn M. Spencer

Vice-President
113 South

Main

Street,

Mahanoy

City, Pa.

Anthony

Vice-President

J.

Flennery

Lost Creek, Pa.
A. Symbal

Vice-President

Shenandoah, Pa.
Michael Walaconis

Vice-President

Ringtown, Pa.
Mrs. Marion T.

Vice-President

Adams

Nuremberg, Pa.
George Sharpe

Secretary
414 Center Street, Ashland, Pa.

Frank

Treasurer
93 South

Main

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

Street,

Mahanoy

January, 1941

City

J.

Meenahan

Page Thirty-Seven
Philadelphia
President

Florence Hess Cool

,

112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lillie Hortman Irish
Camden, N. J.
Nora Woodring Kinney

Secretary
732 Washington Street,

Treasurer

7011 Ei'drick Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mary Moore Taubel

Chairman Alumni Council
1246 West Main

Street, Norristown, Pa.

Snyder-Union Counties
Lewis Pursley

President

Lewisburg, Pa.

Margaret R. Lodge

Vice-President

Green

Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.

Mrs. Carson Wetzel

Secretary

115 South Third Street, Lewisburg, Pa.

Harold Danosky

Treasurer
R. D.

2,

Lewisburg, Pa.

Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
Fred Kester

President
Mill City, Pa.

Vice-President

Arlene Johnson

,

Hallstead, Pa.

Susan Jennings Sturman

Vice-President

Tunkhannock, Pa.
Catherine Bell

Secretary

New

Milford, Pa.

Mildred Avery Love

Secretary

North Mehoopany, Pa.

Harry Schlegel

Treasurer
Montrose, Pa.

Columbia County
Maurice

President

E.

Houck

Berwick, Pa.
Vice-President

Larue Derr

,

R. D., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Elisabeth White

Secretary

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Treasurer

Mrs. Harlan R. Snyder

,

Catawissa, Pa.

Luzerne County Alumni

The Luzerne County Branch
hold monthly luncheons on the
the

main dining room of the Hotel

luncheons are held at
vations

in

1

2 30.
:

of the

first

Alumni Association

Sterling, in Wilkes Barre.

It is

will

Saturday of each month,

not necessary to

make

in

The

reser-

advance.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Thirty-Eight

Cumberland-Dauphin Alumni
A

very successful meeting of the Alumni of Dauphin and

Cumberland Counties was held

Monday

evening, October 21.

W.

at the Y.

C. A., in Harrisburg.

Sixty guests

were present.

Before turning the meeting over to the toastmaster, Jesse

Shambach, Mrs. Martha Selway Schiefer, of Steelton, presentto the group.
Those introduced included Miss Mary Mickey ’85, Mrs. Rebecca Nye Lowry ’87, Miss
Molern, of Reading; Mrs. Beale, of Duncannon Mr. and Mrs.
jack Beck, of Hershey, and Mrs. Effie Womeldorf Bentz, of

Y.

ed several of the guests

;

York.
Mr.

Shambach

called

upon the following members of the

college faculty for brief remarks:

maker, Dr. T.

P. North,

Nevin H.

Nelson, H. F.

E. H.

Englehart,

Fenste-

and Acting

Presi-

dent Harvey A. Andruss.

Alumni Association, was

R. Bruce Albert, president of the

unable to be present because of a death

An impromptu men’s
C. Bailey ’ll,

in the

family.

chorus, organized and led by Rev. C.

sang three selections.

The speaker of the evening was Dr. Francis B. Haas, former president of the College and now State Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
Dr. Haas spoke on the topic “National Defense and Education.” Dr. Haas discussed the principles which
Americans are trying to defend, and showed the relationship
between education and the program of national defense. He
made an appeal for public support of education and showed that
education forms an extremely important link

in

the chain.

At the business session which followed, the following offiPresident, Mrs. Louise
cers were elected for the ensuing year
Downin Laubach 31 Vice-President, Mrs. Clyde W. Hoover;
Second Vice-President, Blanche Miller Grimes; Secretary, Eliz-

—

;

abeth V. Clancy; Treasurer, Howard M. Kreitzer.
Following a motion
pressed

its

made by Paul

Englehart, the group ex-

appreciation for the work done by the retiring pres-

ident, Mrs. Schiefer.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

,

Page Thirty-Nine

1880
The address
Carter Avenue,

of Ernest

St.

W. Young has been changed

to

2345

Paul, Minnesota.

1884
William H. Brower, of Bloomsburg, died at his
day, October 27. Although he had been
years, he
the

had been able

day before

to

his death.

attend to

in

ill

home Sun-

health for several

carpet business until

his

Mr. Brower was born February

1

and became associated in business with his
grandfather in 1888. In 1889 he assumed control of the business with which he was to be associated for the rest of his life.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth
Brower, and a brother Jay J. Brower, of Bloomsburg.
1867, at

Millville,

1888
Ella Kitchen

(M rs. Harry

G. Sands)

three months.
dist

Mrs. Sands

was

a

member

illness of

of the Benton

U

in

over

Methoand the

Church, the Order of Eastern Star, the

W.

She is survived by her husband,
and one brother.

a daughter, four sis-

D. A. R.
ters

home

died at her

Benton, Pa., Wednesday, October 23, after an

Harriet

Richardson

(Mrs. John

C. T.

Gordon)

lives

,

at

602

Sproul Street, Norwalk, California.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Forty

1890
Foster U. Gift has changed his address to 2611

Garrison

Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland.

1891
Jennie M. Sheep

329

lives at

East Street, Bloomsburg.

1893
E. McNinch lives at 346 Catherine Street, BloomsShe has retired from her position as secretary with a
patent firm in New York City, af,er living there for 33 years.

Mary

burg, Pa.

1894
Mollie Mandeville Wilsey, R. D. 3, Franklin, Pa., has in-

formed us of the death of Laura Wenner Smith, which occurred
three years ago.

Mrs. Wilsey regrets that she

is

unable to give

more details. If any graduate can supply the Quarterly with
more information we should be very glad to publish a more detailed obituary.

1894
in

Euphemia M. Green died September
Englewood, Florida.

16,

1939

at her

home

1896
William

Shemmory

lives in

Bismark, North Dakota.

1900
M. Caroline Strawinski, Second Lieutenant, Army Nursing
Corps (Retired) lives at The Acobo, Apt. 9, 1480 High Street,
Denver, Colorado.

1902
Marie
in a

L.

Diem, 914 Taylor Avenue, Scranton, participated

panel discussion

in the

English section of the Northeast Dis-

trict

Convention of the Pennsylvania State Education Associa-

tion

held at Wilkes-Barre

'Remedial Reading

Ada

in

in

Noveber.

Miss Diem spoke on

the Elementary Grades.”

D. Harrison has been teaching in

sey, since 1907.

Her address

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.

in

Newark

January, 1941

is

Newark, New Jer103 Fouth Avenue.

Page Forty-One
Mrs. Emily Richardson, Santiago, has for several years
been employed by the Western Costume Company, Hollywood,
where costumes are designed for the use of the various motion
picture companies.

Hazel

Walper Moore

at

lives

2032 Huntington

Street,

Bethlehem, Pa.

Edward Bacon

538 Walnut

lives at

Street, Kingston. Pa.

1917
The address of Agnes Warner (Mrs. Davis Smales)
lewood Farm, Laceyville, Pa.
Mildred Avery (Mrs. Charles Love)

lives in

is

Map-

North Mehoop-

any. Pa.

1919
Hester Barndt Sessions lives at 891 7 South Street, Andrews
Place, Los Angeles, California.

1920
Florence Moran Grady

lives at

1330 T

Wash-

Street, S. E..

ington, D. C.

Jeanne Stroh Walsh

lives in

York Springs, Pa.

1921
Evelyn

Z.

Smith (Mrs. Lyman Cunningham)

Detroit Avenue,

Cleveland, Ohio.

She

lives at

has two

sons

2703

and a

daughter.

is

The address of Edith B.
Box 230, Stroudsburg, Pa.
Mildred

L.

O’Neill (Mrs. J. E.

Downing (Mrs. Elmer Major)

Reese Killgore)

lives

on Davis

Street, Trucksville, Pa.

Marion Owen (Mrs. Ralph Sutton) who lived at Lynn, Susquehanna County, died August 13, 1939, at the Pittston Hospital.

Edna Sterner

is

teaching

in

Scranton.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Forty-Two

1906
Stiner Mitteldorf

Elizabeth

New

Elizabeth,

lives at

61

I

Franklin Street,

Jersey.

1910
Hazel Longenberger (Mrs.
Street,

Jackson Heights,

New

F. B. Steig) lives at

35-15 84tn

York.

1911
Ethel

127 East Catawissa Street, Nesquehoning,

J. Paisley,

has been unable to teach

when

she

fell

as she

this

year because of injuries sustained

was coming out

of a dentist’s office last July.

was necessary for her to undergo an operation after the accident, and she was confined to the hospital for seven weeks. For
a time it was feared that she might not be able to walk again,
but, as she states in a letter written in October, she was beginning to walk about on crutches.
It

Priscilla \

Jamaica,

New

oung McDonald

169-16

lives at

110th Road

York.

1914
Lieutenant Colonel Idwal H. Edwards has been placed

command of Randolph Field, one
in the Army Air Service.

in

of the most important schools

1915
Lois G. Freas (Mrs. Leo Stahl)

The following

is

is

living in

Dayton, Ohio.

her present address: Sales Educational Depart-

ment, National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio.

Alma Baer Llerena
Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil.

lives at

Wharton School, University
The address

of

Rua Prudente de Moraes 365,
Eduardo is a junior at the

Her son

of Pennsylvania.

Ralph Culver

is

Clover Ridge Farms, Lac-

eyville. Pa.

Roy

H. Koontz lives at

9 Shagbark Drive, Orange, Con-

necticut.

1916
Frank J. Meenahan has moved to 93 South Main Street,
Mahanoy City. Mr. Meenahan’s wife was Margaret Dailey, also
a member of the class of 1916.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Forty-Three

1923
10 Bank Street.

Montrose, Pa.

the proprietor of a drug store in Montrose.

Mrs. Schlegel

Harry D. Schlegel

He

is

was formerly Helene

lives at

Lowe, of the

E.

Harry D. Schlegel

is

class of 1931.

the proprietor of a drug store in

Mon-

trose, Pa.

W.

Cletus Merrill

is

principal of

the high

school

at

Dim-

ock, Pa.

1924

A
given

fine presentation

in

of Bernard

25, by the

Hedgerow

Players.

Shaw’s

Monday

“Candida” was

November
The play was presented as part

the College Auditorium

evening,

of the College Entertainment Course.
lives at

324

Doris Morse lives at 5 Franklin Avenue, White Plains,

New

Violet Naugle (Mrs. William P. Patterson)
Fairmount Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey.

York.

ville,

Raymond E.
New Jersey.

Gallagher lives at

400 Sumrmt Avenue, West-

1925
Helen

Olver (Mrs. Earl Erdner)

E.

nue, Smedesboro,

New

lives at

107 Helms Ave-

Jersey.

Emilie Zydanowicz (Mrs. Bernard A. Sage) lives at 2001

North Second Street, Harrisburg.

Dr.

and Mrs. Sage have a

daughter, Elaine, born July 22, 1940.

1926
Pauline

S.

Mensch died December

6,

1939, at her home

in

Mifflinburg, Pa.

Helen
Street,

L.

Dunn (Mrs.

Allan Earnhart) lives at

307 Berwick

White Haven, Pa.

Pearl Gearhart (Mrs. William

McCollum)

lives

on Cherry

Street, Danville.

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January, 1941

Page Forty-Four

Emily Davies

10 38th Street, Irvington,

lives at

New

Jer-

sey.

Esther Lloyd (Mrs. Clifford Bound) lives

in

New

Greene,

York.

1927
Mildred Crothamel

917 Ridge

William McCullough)

(Mrs.

lives

at

Street, Scranton, Pa.

1928

Anna

L.

Benmnger (Mrs. Edward

T.

Bush)

lives in

South

Montrose, Pa.

1929
Mildred Matthews, of Berwick, and Allen Parr, of

were married

Mifflin-

Church in Berwick,
luesday, October 15, with the Rev. P. G. Cooley as the officiating minister.
Mrs. Parr taught in Mountain Grove, Rock Glen,
ville,

Presbyterian

in the

Conyngham and Salem Township, and

for the past several years

has served as bookkeeper for the Dent Motor Parts store
wick.

Mr. Parr, a graduate of Bloomsburg

ployed

in the

in

1933,

is

in

Ber-

now em-

ordinance department of the American Car and

Foundry Company.
Grace Kivler (Mrs. Curtis Hoover) lives in Bloomsburg,
where her husband is employed by the Pennsylvania Power and
Light Company. She has a son, Harry William Hoover. This
item is published to correct an error appearing in the August
number of the Quarterly, in which the statement was made that
the new member of the Hoover family was a daughter. The
Editor offers his apologies.

1930
Jennie L. Reitz (Mrs. Lawrence Mattern)
Derry Street, Harrisburg.

Edgar Richards
Norwood, Pa.

is

teaching

in

lives at

2407

the Glen-Nor High School at

1931
A. Marie Foust (Mrs.

W.

Cletus Merrill)

Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

lives in

Dimock,

Page Forty-Five

1932
and Fred Lyons, of Mahanoy
were married last May in Our Lady of Holy Souls Church,
Philadelphia, by the Rev. John Lynch, a cousin of the bridegroom. Mrs. Lyons taught for several years in the English department at the Lincoln Building of the Mahanoy Township
School District. Mr. Lyons is in the insurance business in Mahanoy City.

Alma Coakley,

of Ellengowan

City,

ArDorothy N. Hartman (Mrs. James Moore) lives at
New Jersey. She has two daughters,
Dorothy Susan, four years old, and Carol Anne, six months.
1

1

lington Place, Radburn,

1933
Miss

Mae

S.

Amos

Mantz, of Slatington, and

F. Kreiss, also

of Slatington, were married Wednesday, August 14. by the Rev.
T. H. Bachman, uncle of the bride. Mrs. Kreiss has for several
years been teaching in the Upper Saucon Township schools.

Mr. Kreiss, a graduate of the State Teachers College at Kutz-

town,

is

teaching

in

Heidelberg Township.

Mercedes Deane lives at 146 West Ridley Avenue, Norwood, Pa. She is librarian in the Glen-Nor High School in Norwood.
1935
John J. Gress is a member of the faculty of Hofstra College, Hempstead, Long Island, with the rank of Assistant Professor.

1936
Frances Riggs, of Bloomsburg, and Bernard

Young, of
Matthews
Lutheran Church. Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. C. S. Rudisill, of Turbotville. Mrs. Young has been
teaching in the high school at Turbotville, and will continue
teaching there until the end of the present school year. Mr.
J.

Berwick, were married

Friday, October

Young

schools of Hubley Township, Schuylkill

is

teaching

in the

1

1

,

in St.

County.

1937
Announcement has been made

of the

engagement of Mary

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Forty-Six

Helen Mears, of

Bloomsburg,

and John Henry Northrop,

oi

Miss Mears is now teaching in the Hamburg
High School, and Mr. Northrop, a graduate of the University of
Chicago, has a position in the main office of the Vermont Marble

Proctor, Vermont.

Company,

at Proctor.

Miriam Hart (Mrs. Edward Kitchen) lives at 21 East Fifth
Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen announce a new arrival, Roland Edward.

Street,

Ruth Smethers, of Berwick, is teaching French, English
and Latin in the Shickshinny High School.

Manhart

Jane

Wanamie,

Morgan

27

East

West Broad

Street,

lives

at

Mam

Street,

Pa.

Lamar

Blass lives at

1

1

I

New

Holland.

1938

A

in their home community of Ringwedding of Daniel W. Litwhiler, promising outfielder of the Phillies and Miss Dorothy Lynch, former
student at the local Teachers College of which Litwhiler is a

school-day romance

town, culminated

in

the

graduate.

The wedding was solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Munlay at
Ellen Gowan, near Shenandoah, at 7:30 o’clock. Their attendants were Miss Marie Lynch, of R ngtown, a sister of the bride,
and Michael Waiichonis, of Ringtown, a close friend of the Litwhiler family.

The

bride, the daughter of Mr.

Ringtown, was

in

and Mrs. William Lynch, of

her junior year at the Teachers College.

Mr.

and Mrs. S. L. Litwhiler. of Ringtown. The couple will spend the winter in Alexandria, Louisiana, where Mr. Litwhiler played baseball two years ago, and
lor a time was a member of the high school faculty.
Litwhiler

is

Donna

the son of Mr.

R. Lockhoff, of Bloomsburg, and H. Frank Latch-

were married Saturday evening. November 16,
by the Rev. J. C. Moore, pastor of the Grove Presbyterian
Church in Danville. The bride has been teaching at Ellenton,
ford, of Danville,

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January, 1941

Page Forty-Seven
Pa.,

and the groom

Company

Light

is

employed by the Pennsylvania Power and

at Williamsport.

Margaret Graham, of Bloomsburg, is now a member of the
After her gradu
faculty in the schools of Boydton, Virginia.
ation from Bloomsburg, Miss Graham attended the State Teacners College at

Kutztown, where she extended her certification

to

include library science.

Bowman, of Orangeville, and Albert Watts, ol
were married Saturday. October 26, at Milesburg. Mr.

Miss Gladys
Millville,

Watts,

who

this

year received the degree of Master of Arts at

Bucknell University,

principal

is

of

the high

school

at

Potts-

grove.

Maude

New

Williams

is

teaching

first

grade

in

the schools of

Milford, Pa.

1939

Mary

E.

Long, of Bloomsburg, and Nevin R.

Ranch, of

Espy, were married Friday, September 27, at the Reformed

The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. B. R. Heller. Mrs. Ranch has been employed at Sears,
Roebuck and Company, in Bloomsburg, and the groom is a
teacher in the commecial department of the Fountain Hill High
Church

School

in

in

Bloomsburg.

Bethlehem.

Martha E. Thomas, of Bloomsburg, and Howard Pursel,
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, August 24. by the
Rev. J. E. Skillington, pastor of the First Methodist Church of
Bloomsburg. Mrs. Pursel has been teaching the primary grades
at Buckhorn, and Mr. Pursel is employed by the Magee Carpel
Company.

also of

Robert J. Kantner is now teaching at Munson, Florida
where he has charge of the commercial department. Last summer he was one of a group of six business teachers selected to
write a bulletin on business education. The project was carried
on by the State Department and the University of Florida.

Norman C. Henry and Margaret Irene Harman, of Berwick,
were married Saturday, September 14, in the First Evangelical

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

January, 1941

Page Forty -Eight

and Reformed Church

The

of Berwick.

Knoebel, pastor

the Rev. A. D.

graduate of the Berwick High School

been employed
is

in the First

officiating minister

of the church.

National

The

1937, has

in the class of

Bank

in

was

bride, a

Berwick. Mr. Henry

assistant superintendent of the Baltimore Business College.

Paul Kokitas lives at 14 East Clay Avenue, West Hazleton, Pa.

1940
is

Gwladys Jones lives at 212 Wilson Avenue, Dubois.
teaching in the Sandy Township High School.
Frederick D. Coleman

lives

at

7

1

6 Spruce

She

Street, Phila-

delphia.

Evahne Rieben

is

teaching

the high school at State Col-

in

lege.

William W. Wertz lives at the
falo,

New

Downtown

Y.

M.

C. A., Buf-

York.

Jean Smith
high school at

is

teaching

in

the commercial department in the

Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Catherine Bell

is

teaching

first

grade

in

the schools of

New

Milford, Pa.

James Pugh

is

teaching

in the

Rock Grammar School, Hun-

lock Township, Luzerne County.

Rosemary Hausknecht
Temple University.

jba+t't

is

doing graduate work

oAxjet- -

A/tay

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

this

AUun+ii jbay

2.4- tU

January, 1941

year at

Page Forty -Nine

Hlumni Directory
1923-1333

The following list of graduates is recorded from the information contained in our Alumni files. There are more than 1400 graduates for
whom we have no address. Please help us correct the Alumni Directory.
The list of graduates will continue serially in the Quarterly
until completed. Where State is omitted in the address, it is understood to be Pennsylvania.

—

Addresses Wanted Class of 1929 (Continued)
Ruth R. Sidler (Mrs. Harry Krum) 615 Bloom Street, Danville:

Walter Michael Siesko, Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.
C.; Grace L. Simmons, 407 Mary Street, Old Forge; Jessie A. Simonovich, 427 Carver Street, Plymouth; Catherine Sinconis, 677 Main
Street, Sugar Notch; Kathi'yn A. Skwarek, 149 River Street, Mocanaqua; Vera M. Stauffer, Ringtown; Harold J. Stoddard, Dalton; Mary
K. Storosko, 134 Well Street, Nanticoke; Mildred H. Stryjak, 150
East Union Street, Nanticoke; Stella A. Stunger, 1420 North Lincoln
Avenue, Scranton; Anna J. Taby, Second and Walnut Streets, Shamokin; Muriel R. Taylor, 43 Rice Avenue, Kingston; Florence Thomas, 358 West Main Street, Plymouth; Laura Thomas, R. D. 6, Bloomsburg; Lenore A. Thomas (Mrs. Don Savidge) 145 South First Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York; M. Betty Thomas, 65 Penn Avenue,
Exeter; Ruth E. Titman (Mrs. Rollin Deitrick) 140 North Market
Street, Bloomsburg; Anna M. Troutman, 122 Independence Street,
Selinsgrove; Margaret Unbewust (Mrs. Stanley Soroka) Haverhill,
Massachussetts; Verna E. Valence, 5504 Grandview Avenue, Eldorado; Theodore E. Vital, 97 Newport Street, Glen Lyon; Marie M.
Walsh, Locust Gap; Marion A. Walsh, Dushore; Mary G. Walsh,
Locust Gap; Margaret M. Ward, 117 East Diamond Avenue, Hazleton; Meltha E. Warmouth, 119 Thomas Street, Kingston; Anna M.
Wasley, 37 North Jardin Street, Shenandoah; Helen M. Watts, Eagles
Mere; Helen M. Wheaton, 116 Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre; Alberta Williams Green, 75 Vs Rock Street, Pittston; Dorothy E. Wil-

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January, 1941

Page Fifty
liams (Mrs. Alan S. Major) 74 Atlantic Avenue, Edwardsville; Myfanwy G. Williams, R. D. 1, Wilkes-Barre; Kathryn M. Wilson, 220
North Bromley Avenue; Scranton; Esther F. Wright, 325 Mulberry
Street, Berwick; Esther K. Wruble, 1227 Main Street, Swoyersville;
Marion E. Young, R. D. 3, Wyoming; Beatrice L. Zarr, Benton; Stella
E. Zatavetski, 65 Downing Street, Plymouth; Anna Ziemba, 715 Main
Street, Simpson; A. Leslie Zimmerman, Trevorton; Eleanor M. Zy-

danowicz (Mrs. David Cooke) 16234 Lamphere Road, Detroit, Michigan. DECEASED; George E. Banford, Edith F. Blud (Mrs. D. H.
Saoni) Fannie I. Hill, Sarah E Pearce, Elizabeth H. Williams Dennington, Kenneth E. Yocum. ADDRESSES WANTED; Margaret A.
Benfield, Helen L. Blackwell, Clara L. Cadwalader, Althadell B.
Carpenter, Amelia M. Connelly, Jessie E. Cornwell (Mrs. W. B. Patterson) Esther O. Dallackeisa, Dorothy M. Davis, Ruth A. Davis,
Lester R. Devine, Bessie M. Dougherty, Lawrence W. Ford, Bernard
Gallagher, Mildred A. Goodwin, Ida Hensley, Louise F. Hewitt, Margaret Higgins, Doris A. Johnson, Agnes Krum (Mrs. Elmer R. Eveland) Fannie A. Linskill, Dorothy A. Lord, Viola Lubinski, Anna E.
Miller (Mrs. Mead Kean) Audrey H. Moore (Mrs. Jacob L. Cohen)
Margaret C. Peifer (Mrs. Wilbur Hower) Charles E. Poole, Pauline H.
Reece. Edna M. Reynolds, Margaret A. Riley, Mildred I. Ruck, Ruth
A. Scanlon, Sarah H. Seely, Sara E. Spangler (Mrs. Robert Walters)
Charles Surfield, Margaret J. Thcmas (Mrs. M. Beidleman) Alice I.
Veety, Margaret E. Wickizer, Elizabeth L. Williams, Jane Williams,
Mary Helen Wolfe.

CLASS
OF

Catherine Astleford, 654 North Locust Street, Hazleton; Stacia P. Andelevicz, 326 North Main Street, Ply1930
mouth; Leroy A. Baer, McGraw, N. Y.; Florence E.
Baker, R. D. 4. Tunkhannock; Helen M. Beach, 110 Maple Street,
Lebanon; Mrs. Florence Beishline Corbett, 100 San Carlos Avenue,
El Cerrito, Calif.; Ruth L. Bennage, 134 Arch Street, Milton; Anna E.
Bernatonis, 420 East Lloyd Street, Shenandoah; Mabel C. Biggar,
Unity ville; Frona H. Bingman, R. D. 1, Beavertown; Luther W. Bitler, George Street, Dalmatia; Florence I. Fogle, 201 Hepburn Street,
Milton; Sabina Bogut, 850 Chestnut Street, Shamokin; Mrs. Helen
Bond Berk, 225 South Third Street, Sunbury; Margaret M. Bone, 651
Bedford Street, Forty Fort; Irene M. Borkowski, 573 Orchard Street,
Peely, Luzerne; Mary M. Boylan, 72 Spring Side, Locust Gap; Aurelia
C. Boyle, 628 Main Street, Freeland; Mary E. Bradley, Byrnesville
Street, Centralia; Catherine A. Branigan, Main Street, Ebervale; Dorothy G. Brobst, 308 East Fourth Street, Berwick; Edith M. Brunner,
2024 North Fifth Street, Harrisburg; Frances H. Bubb, 114 East 14th
Street, Berwick; Henrietta M. Cabo, 1315 Prospect Avenue, Scranton; Mary E. Carpenter, R. D. 1, Hazleton; Grayce R. Carr, 32 East
Broad Street, West Hazleton; Clare T. Cavanough, Brackney; Amelia
L. Ceppa, 3 West Grand Street, Nanticoke; Anna Chehansky, 511
Academy Street, Peckville; Helen W. Chudzinski, 632 Lackawanna
Street, Forest City; Margaret R. Conahan, Beaver Brook; Jennie A.
Contini, 434 Green Street, Freeland; Jessie E. Cook, 974 West Fourth

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January, 1941

Page Fifty-One
Helen C. Cott, 303 Keyser Avenue, Taylor; Virginia
Cruikshank, 20 South Seventh Street, Sunbury; Mrs. Alda Culp Guyer, R. D. 2, Mifflinburg; Mrs. Grace D. Curtis, 1543 Capouse Avenue,
Scranton; Margaret E. Davis, 420 North Maple Avenue, Kingston;
Mrs. Margaret DeCosmo Wachowiak, 526 Seybert Street, Hazleton;
Teresa M. DeFort, 173 Elizabeth Street, Pittston; Wallace E. Derr,
Hatboro; Robert S. Dew, Nescopeck; Mrs. Lavere Dieffenbach Hayt,
R. D. 2, Shickshinny; Dorothy K. Diesing, 524 Birch Street, Scranton;
Sarah M. Donahue, Lost Creek; Frank Dushanko, Jr., Jeddo; Eleanor
M. Dwyer, 610 Alter Street, Hazleton; Vivian J. Dymond, R. D. 3,
Dallas; Llewellyn Edmunds, 163 West Broad Street, Nanticoke; Elizabeth M. Edwards, 109 South Thomas Street, Kingston; Miriam Edwards, R. D. 5, Benton; Mrs. Anna Erwin Faux, 161 East Fifth Street,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Dorothy H. Erwin, Schoeberlein, River Edge, N.
J.; Mrs. Blanche Fahringer Newell, care of State Hospital, Blossburg;
Elvira B. Farrow, 407 Hill Street, Peckville; Larene C. Feister, 817
Mulberry Street, Berwick; Estella B. Fenwick, 39 Dean Street, Scranton; Gertrude M. Ferry, 1012 Washington Street, Freeland; Donald E.
Fester, Main Street, Ringtown; Kathryn L. Fleming, 1240 Wyoming
Avenue, Pittston; Loretta A. Fleming, 1240 Wyoming Avenue, Pittston; Mrs. Lola Follmer Creasy, 240 Penn Street, Bloomsburg; Dorothy
M. Foote, 423 East Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mariam R. Forsythe, R.
D. 2, Lewistown; Haven Fortner, 709 Stone Street, Osceola Mills; A.
Belle Foulds, 9th and Market Streets, Trevorton; Cora M. Foust, R.
D. 4, Danville; Mark I. Fowler, Box 107, Espy; Phyllis M. Fowler, 412
East 6th Street, Berwick; Jasper M. Fritz, Osceola Mills; Richard D.
Frymire, 371 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg; Andrew O. Furman, R.
D. 1, Northumberland; Gertrude G. Furman, 923 Madison Avenue,
Scranton; Mary L. Gallagher, 13 Main Street, Lost Creek; Gertrude
R. Gavey, 5 Orchard Street, Glen Lyon; Mrs. Mabel Gearhart Miller,
R. D. 3, Sunbury; Antoinette J. Gentile, 134 Parsonage Street, Pittston; Mary C. Gibbons, R. D. 1, Northumberland; Beatrice E. Girton,
394 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg; Dorothy M. Gorrey, 247 West
Street, Bloomsburg; Gilbert Gould, 10 John Street, Alden Station;
Frances B. Grow, R. D. 1, South Montrose; Mary E. Guenther, 695
North Locust Street, Hazleton; Dorothy I. Haen, 200 Allen Street,
West Hazleton; Dorothy M. Harris, 717 South Main Street, Old Forge;
Mrs. Kathryn Hause Everitt, R. D. 2, Lewisburg; Nancy R. Hayne,
313 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre; Marjorie T. Hemingway, 1023 Fisk
Street, Scranton; Harold H. Hidlay, Orangeville; Mrs. Dorothy Hileman Hummer, Robbins Apts., Bloomsburg; Raymond T. Hodges, 813
West Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia; Karleen M. Hoffman, 239
East Street, Bloomsburg; Josephine M. Holuba, 511 LaSalle Street,
Berwick; Mrs. Mildred Hoover Morgan, 323 Sussex Street, Old Forge;
Jennie T. Hauser, Ringtown; Margaret M. Hull, 41 Bank Street,
Smethport; Anna E. Isenberg, 226 North Ninth Street, Sunbury; M.
Evelyn Jenkins, 616 North Hyde Park Avenue, Scranton; Charles
A. John, Box 1, Dimock; Mary D Johnson, 1131 Birbeck Street,
Freeland; Elfer Harold Jones, 95 Elizabeth Street, Wilkes-Barre;
Florence M. Jones, 442 Cherry Street,. Milton; Gladys E. Jones, 1520
Street, Hazleton;

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January, 1941

Page Fifty-Two
Schlager Street, Scranton; Mrs. Kathryn Fritz, Osceola Mills; Margaret R. Jones, 1059 Water Street, Moosic; William M. Jones, 117
Main Street, Pendham, Old Forge; Albert C. Kalweit, 337 E. Broad
Street, Nanticoke; Irma C. Kapp, 374 East Third Street, Bloomsburg;
Mi's. Bessie K. Tucker, 140 Thomas Street, Edwardsville, Kingston;
Mrs. Dorothy Keith Harris, Clifford; Mrs. Thelma C. Kelder, New
Albany; Armond G. Keller, 109 Miller Avenue, Bloomsburg; Myrtle
E. Klisher, Wilburton; Norma J. Knoll, 658 Dewey Park, Nanticoke;
Joseph T. Krafehik, 9 Engle Street, Glen Lyon; Alex J. Kraynack,
166 Connord Street, Plymouth; Mrs. Eleanor Kreamer Derr, Hatboro;
Ruth J. Krebs, 444 Front Street, Northumberland; Veronica V. Kupstas, 35 Woodbury Street, Wilkes-Barre; Margaret P. Lavelle, Centralia; Sara M. Lavelle, North Street, Centralia; Ruth M. Lewis, 42
S. Welles Avenue, Kingston; Mary A. Lindman, Milnesville; Truman
Litwhiler, Newport, Michigan; Mrs. Grace Lord Young, 897 Chalker
Street, Akron, Ohio; Adeline MacKinder, 151 E. Main Street, Nanticoke, Helen F. McCormac, 136 Cemetery Street, Archbald; Hazel R.
McMichael, Stillwater; Helen E. Mackie, 1005 N. Webster, Avenue,
Scranton; Eugene J. Macur, 14 Line Street, Glen Lyon; Mrs. Mildred
Manbeck Houseknecht, 435 W. First Street, Bloomsburg; Gertrude
M. Marshalec, 355 Railroad Street, Nanticoke; Florence T. Matelski,
67 Walnut Street, Plymouth; Leatha A. Meriele, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg;
Nola Merrell, Rohrsburg; Teresa L. Merrick, 11 Perkins Street
Plains, Parsons; Arthur L. Michael, Shickshinny; Isabella H. Miller,
R. D. 1, Catawissa; Louise A. Miller, R. D., Jermyn; F. Geraldine
Moi’gan, Coal Street, Trevorton; Daniel D. Minor, Church Street,
Kelayres; Helen M. Morgan, 754 East Market Street, Danville; Sara
R. Morgan, 428 E. Main Street, Nanticoke; Anna H. Morgis, 7 Orchard
Street,

Glen Lyon; Elma

L. Morris, 155

Washington

Street,

Edwards-

Kingston; Mary Frances Morton, 334 Mulberry Street, Berwick;
A. Elizabeth Myrick, 522 Academy Street, Peckville; Marie F. Nelson,
305 Fourth Street, Catawissa; Genevieve M. Norbert, 257 Slocum
Avenue, Kingston; Margaret E. Neel, Natalie; Edna E. Novak, 1024
Alder Street, Scranton; Maudrue O'Connell, 10 Hill Street, Ashley;
Clare M. O’Donnell, 502 South Tamaqua Street, McAdoo; Mrs. Margaret Oswald Gordon, 408 Sixth Street, New Cumberland; Jason S.
Patterson, 704 Pardee Street, Easton; Congetta M. Pecora, 34 E.
Broad Street, West Hazleton; Warren E. Pennington, 71 N. Green
Street, East Stroudsburg; Mrs. Capitola Pennington Reece, R. D. 1,
Orangeville; Julia Petroff, 1306 Freas Avenue, Berwick; Mary L.
Phillips, Chinchilla; Olive N. Phillips, 1230 Wyoming Avenue, Forty
ville,

Leo Polniaszek, 88 Newport Street, Alden Station; Genevieve
M. Ransavage, 17 Eno Street, Kingston; Mary R. Reagan, Lost Creek;
Edith L. Rees, 747 Pleasant Avenue, Peckville; John M. Reese, Tidbury Terrace, West Nanticoke; Lillian N. Reese, 901 Centre Street,
Freeland; Muriel E. Reese, 1 Church Street, Audrenried; Mrs. Grace
Reichard Gardner, 202 W. Penn Street, Muncy; Catherine D. Reilly,
25 East Broadway, Plymouth; Grace V. Reinbold, Nuremberg; Mrs.
Jennie Reitz Mattern, 2407 Derry Street, Harrisburg; Myrtle L.
Richard, Elysburg; Gladys Richards, 130 Elm Street, Shamokin; Mrs.
Mary Rishel Casey, 54 East Main Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Caroline
Fort;

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January, 1941

Page Fifty-Three
Bowen, R. D. 4, Danville; Myrtilla E. Rood, Laketon; Clarence A.
Ruch, 1011 Market Street, Berwick; Mrs. Elizabeth Samuels Winters,
153 Price Street, Kingston; Mrs. Hazel Sanders Glancy, Pine Road,
Fox Chase Farm, Fox Chase; Mrs. Annie E. Schell, 361 Fair Street,
Bloomsburg; Magdalene Schild, 501 W. Taylor Street, Taylor; Mary
A. Schnure, R. D. 2, Milton; Gertrude R. Schraeder, 2 Tamrock Street,
West Hazleton; Marie H. Schultz, 6 Eagle Avenue, Shamokin; Thursabert Schuyler, 273 East Street, Bloomsburg; Myra S. Sharpless, 366
Center Street, Bloomsburg; Mary Agnes Sharpless, 483 Mill Street,
Catawissa; Clara J. Shenoski, 94 Regent Street, Wilkes-Barre; Laura
M. Shultz, 60 S. Wyoming Street, Hazleton; Richard T. Sibly, R. D.
6, Benton; Susan E. Sidler, 615 Bloom Street, Danville; Anna E.
Skladany, 89 West Broadway Street, Plymouth; Mrs. Marion Slack
Knauer, 1105 Taylor Avenue, Dunmore; Delmar L. Smith, 422 East
Eleventh Street, Berwick; Mary M. Smith, Main Street, Lattimer
Mines; Sara E. Smith, P. O. Box 82, Vicksburg; Helen E. Snyder,
1059 East Market Street, Sunbury; Mrs. Shirley Snyder Sedam, 926
Washington Street, Huntington; Margaret R. Spalone, 530 Seybert
Street, Hazleton; A. Nevin Sponseller, Hatboro; Mai'garet J. Sredenschek, 619 Main Street, Forest City; Mae E. Stanton, Nicholson; Mrs.
Ruth Starick Chides, 1021 Monacacy Street, Bethlehem; Mrs. Leona
Sterling Brunges, 490 W. Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Kathryn
Stineer Hufnagle, R. D. 1, Catawissa; Cyril W. Stiner, Susquehanna;
Anna C. Strausner, R. D. 2, Box 1, Danville; Mrs. Mildred Stroud
Wilson, 162 New Mallery Place, Wilkes-Barre; Orva A. Swank, Ringtown; Mrs. Margaret Swartz Bitler, George Street, Dalmatia; Elizabeth L. Talbot, 17 East Butler Street, Shickshinny; John D. Taylor,
R. D. 1, Box 213, Wilkes-Barre; Lydia M. Taylor, P. O. Box 9, Dushore; Virginia M. Tedesco, 332 Keystone Avenue, Peckville; Mrs.
Marion Thomas Jones, 1131 West Locust Street, Scranton; Ruth Vandermark, 221 Hanover Street, Nanticoke; Violet Vezo, 1548 Tioga
Street, Shamokin; Catherine W. Vollrath, 63 East Poplar Street,
Nanticoke; Mildred A. Wagner, 10 North Front Street, Selinsgrove;
Stephen A. Waurin, 69 Jefferson Street, Simpson; Ruth A. Weaver,
Ash Street, Watsontown; Georgiena L. Weidner, Main Street, Trucksville; Mrs. Dorothy Welker DeWire, 273 East Broadway, Milton;
Myron R. Welsh, Orangeville; Mrs. Mary White Bittenbender, 246
West First Street, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth M. Williams, 401 Hickory
Street, Peckville; Mrs. Jane Williams Perry, 609 Mam Street, Edwardsville, Kingston; Mrs. Dorothy Wilson Kroh, 126 Plum Street,
Bolivar, New York; Isabelle C. Witkoski, 301 Ferdinand Street,
Scranton; Eva J. Wojcik, Higgins Street, Forest City; Hilda R. Wolf,
R. D. 1, Shamokin; Hazel V. Yeager, R. D. 2, Catawissa; Ruth A.
Yeager, 359 West Broad Street, Hazleton; W. Brooke Yeager, Jr., 110
Hanover Street, Wilkes-Barre; Frances Yetter, Hotel Huntington,
Easton; Mary Yetter, Hotel Huntington, Easton; Janetta M. York,
238 Hickory Street, Peckville; Ethelda C. Young, 324 East Eighth
Street, Berwick; Marion G. Young, 213 North Bromley Avenue,
Scranton; Lottie M. Zebrowski, 359 Main Street, Kingston; Mrs.
Mary Zehner Foose, Sugarloaf; Kathrine M. Zimmerman, Nuremberg. DECEASED
Sarah R. Albright, Alva Jane Fetterman. ADR.

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DRESSES WANTED — Rachael M. Bowen,

Mrs. Lucile Brehin

Row-

land. Gladys T. Clark, Rebecca C. Davis, Phillip de Karcher, Lucy
M. Keller, Earle R. Miller, Charles Roberts, Catherine W. Robbins,
Minnie J. Rowe, Kathryn I. Schooley, Mildred M. Stainsy, Margaret
F. Struck, Clara M. Thompson, Kazimer C. J. Wadas, Mrs. Sara Welliver Edwards, Mrs. Mary Williams Watkins, Mrs. Regina Williams

Walker, Elizabeth E. Witowski, Amelia Wonsavage.

CLASS
OF

Helen M. Appleman, R. D. 2, Danville; David H. Baker.
942 Locust Street, Columbia; Josephine M. Balas, 21
1931
North Walnut Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Helen Bangs
Ritchie, R. D. 1, Orangeville; Mrs. Helen Banta Latham, New Bedford, Mass.; Mrs. Catherine Hayes Baum. 1244 Market Street, Sunbury; Mrs. Beatrice Beale Letterman, 413 East Street, Bloomsburg;
Myfanwy M. Beynon, 1241 S. Main Avenue, Scranton, Mrs. Mae Bitler Bennett, Millville, Mrs. Florence Blythe Kitchen, 22 Columbia
Avenue, Bloomsburg; Louise H. Bombe, 688 East Main Street, Nanticoke; Fannie M. Bonham, 1427 Pine Street, Berwick; Barbara M.
Booth, Eagles Mere; Mrs. Esther Bower Bailey, Bircher St., Chinchilla; Elizabeth C. Bowman, 226 Fair Street, Bloomsburg; Edith E.
Boyer, R. D. 2, Selinsgrove; Lulu E. Boyer, 233 Logan Street, Lewistown; Mary P. Boyle, 623 North Laurel Street, Hazleton; Theresa
D. Carpenter, R. D. 1, Hazleton; Mae R. Cavanaugh, 169 Second
Street, Coaldale; Elizabeth M. Challenger, 415 Fifteenth Avenue,
Scranton; Nicia M. Chiavacci, 295 Parsonage Street, Pittston; Minnie
S. Clark, R. D. 2, Dornsife; Elizabeth M. Cochran. 438 East Sixth
Street, Berwick; Mary J. Concannon, 830 West Chestnut Street, Shamokin; Phyllis Coopey, 360 East Noble Street, Nanticoke; Lewis L.
Creveling, R. D. 2, Orangeville; Helen C. Cunningham, 61 South
Welles Avenue, Kingston; Mrs. Mary Davies Thomas, 13 Hillside
Avenue, Edwardsville; Creta M. Davis, Zion Grove; Mary F. Davis,
227 South Hanover Street, Nanticoke; Naomi C. Davis, 529 Hickory
Street, Peckville; Rose E. Delliquanti, 1 Griffith Street, Pittston; LaRue C. Derr, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg; Edna M. Derrick, 127 N. Sixth
Street, Sunbury; Edward T. DeVoe, 321 E. Fifth Street, Berwick;
Mrs. Gladys Dildine Whitmire, Orangeville; Stella F. Dobrowolski,
Duryea; Kathryn M. Dougherty, Tuscarora; Mrs. Louise Dowin
Laubach, 317 North Front Street, Harrisburg; Mrs. Catherine Dugan
Emrick, 1722 Wood Street, Shamokin; John W. Dyer, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Florence M. Dunn, Jermyn; Mrs. Naoma Edmunds Eble, 339
East Third Street, Bloomsburg; Elva M. Ellis, 202 Green Street, Edwardsville; Mrs. Doris Empett Van Buskirk. Pratt Street, New Milford; Isabel Eshleman, 607 East Fourth Street, Berwick; Peter Evancho, 6 South Street, Eckley: Eloise J. Evans, St. John’s Hospital,
Lowell, Mass.; Clara E. Fahringer, R. D. 2, Catawissa; Jane L. Fahringer, 915 East Front Street, Berwick; Ruth E. Fairchild, R. D. 3,
Lewisburg; Frank V. Faus, 419 East Main Street. Bound Brook, N. J.;
Florence E. Fawcett, 603 East Front Street. Berwick; Mildred E.
Ferry, East Grant Street, East McAdoo; Mary C. Fisher, Front Street,
Freeburg; Mary M. Flick, 313 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Dorothy
J. Fortner, 332 North Lincoln Avenue, Scranton; Mrs. Lydia Rauch

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Fortner, 232 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg; Dorothy M. Foust, 112
East Brimmer Avenue, Watsontown; Mrs. A. Marie Foust Merrell,
Dimock; Anna L. Fowler, 26 Union Street, Shickshinny; Kathryn H.
Fowler, 128 East Front Street, Berwick; Beatrice K. Francis, 1315
Main Street, Peckville; Rose A. Frank, Gordon; Gladys M. Frantz,
204 Lower Mulberry Street, Danville; Harold J. Freeman, 820 East
Northampton Street', Wilkes-Barre; Anna E. Frew, 218 Third Street,
Olyphant; Dorothy J. Frick, 127 Parke Street, West Pittston; Helen
C. Galazin, 280 East Union Street, Nanticoke; Mrs. Helen Gibbons
Edson, 736 Eagle Rock Avenue, West Orange, N. J.; Evelyn E. Gilbert, Ringtown; Mrs. Rebecca Gilmore Troy, Nuremberg, Dora R.
Gitlovitz, Box 78, R. D. 1, Wilkes-Barre; Frank J. Golder, 474 W.
Third Street, Bloomsburg; Kathryn Graybill, Box 48, Paxtonville;
Regina B. Haggerty, Maryd; Irene Harris, Hickory Corners; Ada F.
Harrison, Glen Park, Bridgeton, N. J.; Margie P. Harrison, R. D. 2,
Hunlock Creek; Mrs. Miriam Hartt Kitchen, 21 East Fifth Street,
Bloomsburg; Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek; Ellen M. Hegarty, 62
Bow Street, Tamaqua; Mrs. Romaine Emaline Henrie Hess, 213 High
Street, Pottstown; Thomas L. Henry, Windfall, Indiana; Corinne A.
Hess, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Lois Hirleman Quick, Almedia; Julia
M. Hopkins, 117 E. Coal Street, Shenandoah; Elizabeth H. Hubler,
14 West Birdie Street, Gordon; Esther A. Hutchings, Uniondale; Mrs.
Ila Ivey Robbins, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Lois Ivey Davis, MounL
Carmel; Ethel E. Jacoby, R. D. 1, Barnesville; Nicholas E. Jaffin, Box
2115, 1125 Fourth Avenue, Berwick; Mary E. Johnstone, Box 27, R.
D. 1, Buttonwood, Wilkes-Barre; Dorothy J. Jones, 330 Chestnut
Street, Berwick; Dorothy K. Jones, 632 North Main Avenue, Scranton; Esther C. Jones, 80 Short Street, Edwardsville; Alice H. Kasaczun, 609 Cherry Street, Scranton; Grace R. Kauffman, 40 Locust
Street, Milton; Milda R. Kazunas, 38 South Jardin Street, Shenandoah; Mrs. Hazel Keefer Ashworth, Espy, Mabel M. Kehler, Locust
Dale; Erma V. Kelchner, 78 Union Street, Shickshinny; Mrs. Mary
Kelly Dew, Nescopeck; Marie W. Kelly, 516 Locust Street, Bloomsburg; Sue O. Kepner, 124 East Thirteenth Street, Berwick; Mrs.
Esther Kile Edwards, Light Street; Thomas J. Kirker, Mifflinville,
Dorothy B. Kisher, 19 East Water Street, Muncy; Marion E. Klinger,
Nuremberg; Harriet Klingman, 106 South Eleventh Street, Sunbury;
John Klotz, 148 Chestnut Street, Wanamie; Robert Knierim, 801
Prospect Avenue, Scranton; Eva Krauss, 463 East Third Street,
Bloomsburg; Charleen B. Kreigh, 348 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg;
Eugene Krolikowski, 200 East Main Street, Glen Lyon; Luella Frances Krug, 349 Market Street, Berwick; Samuel L. Kurtz, Bloomsburg,
Harold Lanterman, 210 Mulberry Street, Berwick; Theodore Laskowski, Trucksville, R. D. 1; Dorothy R. Levers, 143 Center Street,
Milton; Kaom Mae Lewis, Drums; Mildred E. Liddell, 535 East Center Street, Mahanoy City; Ruth McDonald, 511 Chestnut Street, Dunmore; Arthur Charles McKenzie, 1621 Willow Street, Norristown;
Margaret McNealis, Rear 282 East Broad Street, Nanticoke; Charlotte
Mack, 54 Filbert Street, Forty Fort; Dorothy Maines, 423 Keystone
Avenue, Peckville; Mrs. Lillian Mann Kintz, Pittston; Nellie Masluski, 76 Franklin Street, Edwardsville; Helen Maynard, Burcher

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Street, Chinchilla; Marion Meixell, Espy; Mrs. Cleo Merrell Tubbs,
Rohrsburg; Mary C. Miles, 1225 West Center Street, Shenandoah;
Jean M. Mileskay, 618 Main Street, Forest City; Harold R. Miller,
52 North Iron Street, Bloomsburg; Mildred R. Miller, 312 West Third
Street, Nescopeck; Rachael F. Miller, 220 West Ninth Street, Berwick;
Annie T. Morgan, 117 West Green Street, Nanticoke; Elizabeth M.
Morgan, Larksville; Sara Morgan, Atherton Street, Kingston; John
Morris, 81 Yeager Avenue, Forty Fort; Theodore Morrissey, Wanamie;
Anne C. Murtha, 601 Fourth Avenue, Scranton; Mrs. Retha Noble
Burgess, Montrose Street, New Milford; Anna Ollendick, Chinchilla;
Minnie Olschefsky, R. D. 1, Catawissa; Agnes Ondovchak, 267 Poplar Street, Plymouth; Orval Palsgrove, West Pine Street, Frackville;
Emily Park, 400 McKinley Avenue, Endicott, N. Y.; William Pelak,
134 Hillside Avenue, Edwardsville; Anna Rabb, 200 East Mahoning
Street, Danville; Mary Raiewski, 33 Orchard Street, Glen Lyon; Mrs.
Eleanor Rhoades Witheridge, 79 Ninth Street, Wyoming; Marjory
Roachford, R. D. 1, Box 213, Wilkes-Barre; Harriet Roan, 594 East
Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Jeanette Roberts Williams, 3505
O’Dell Avenue, Scranton; Eva W. Robbins, Millville; Bernard Roan,
Espy; Mrs. Winifred Robbins Keener, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg; Frank
Roman, 31 Main Road, Wilkes-Barre; Alice K. Roush, 709 North

Market Street, Selinsgrove; Mary S. Rozanski, 207 East Main Street,
Plymouth; Mrs. Doris Sechrist Polynasik, 236 Robert Street, Nanticoke; Martin Sekulski, 86 East Main Street, Glen Lyon; Grace Shear,
407 Mill Street, Coudersport; Eleanor Sheridan, 35 East Poplar Street,
Nanticoke; Marion L. Shook, Pittston; Gladys M. Shotsberger, Market Street, Freeburg; Winifred S. Shultz, R. D. 1, Berwick; Estelle
F. Simonvitz, 29 East Broadway Street; Plymouth; Lydia A. Smith,
R. D. 4, Dallas; Mrs. Ruth Snyder Clifford, 1718 Twelfth Avenue,
Altoona; Anna Solonski, 485 Keating Street, Wilkes-Barre; Ruth Sonner, 1418 West Street, Honesdale; Catharine Stackhouse, Huntington
Mills; Margaret P. Stewart, R. D. 4, Catawissa; Helen Stryjak, 150
East Union Street, Nanticoke; Robert Sutliff, 11 Lincoln Avenue,
Baldwin, N. Y.; Ruth Sutter, 139 East Main Street, Glen Lyon; Anthony Timony, 120 Fern Street, Freeland; Dawn E. Townsend, 257
East Street, Bloomsburg; Anna Urban, 30 Montgomery Avenue,
Pittston; Anna I. Uzdilla, 214 Boland Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Mary
E. VanBuskirk, 71 South Thomas Avenue, Kingston; Earl H. Van
Dine, 322 Jordan Avenue, Montoursville; Cora M. Wagner, 24 South
Shamokin Street, Shamokin; Mrs. Helen Walborn Penman, 544 Iron
Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Beatrice Waples Creasy, Espy; William H.
Weaver, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg; Aria P. Weikel, R. D. 1, Box 52, Shamokin; Leona M. Werchok, 21 Fifth Street. Plymouth; John J. Wilkes,
76 Laurel Street, Alden Station; Mrs. Ann Williams Lewis, 1721
Swetland Street, Scranton; Catherine Williams, 102 East Broad
Street, Nanticoke; Ruth M. Williams, 317 Keystone Avenue, Peckville;
M. Violette Williams, 317 Miller Street, Luzerne; Raymond W. Williard, 620 Hepburn Street, Milton; Robert Wilson, 232 Maclay Street,
Harrisburg; Keith G. Witheridge, 170 Ninth Street, Wyoming; Genevieve G. Wolfe, R. D.

1,

Alderson; Pauline Womer, 1221 Railroad
Street, Dickson; Lois

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M. Wyandt, 1423 East Elm Street, Scranton; Mary G. Yabroski, 44
Ridge Street, Ashley; Joseph J. Yacabonis, 433 West Mahanoy Avenue, Mahanoy City; Esther Yeager Castor, 8062 Crispin Street,
Holmesburg; Hilda D. Yocum, 680 Shakespeare Avenue, Milton; Albina M. Zadra, 401 Center Street, Freeland; Chester Zimolzak, 174
East Main Street, Glen Lyon. DECEASED Mrs. Amy Bittner Rar-

ADDRESSES WANTED: — Fred

—

Aten, Florence Bettens, Beatrice
Bowman, Hannah Cease, Aileene Cole, James B. Davis, Mrs. Margaret Eck Shoemaker, Mrs. Mary Gorham Wolever, Florence C.
Hochberg, Catherine R. Ingram, Bessie A. Jenkins, Dolores E. Keating, Winifred Keen, Grace S. Linskill, Margaret Maddox, Mrs. Maude
Michael MacCreary, Garfield J. Miller, Marjorie R. Mills, Norman S.
Morgan, Lenore R. Murko, Mrs. Ida Preuhs Hodge, Pearl M. Quoos,
Helen C. Rosser, Emilie L. Sides, Reba E. Williams, Clarence R.
Wolever.
ig.

CLASS
OF

C. Adamson, Fountain Springs; Mrs. Lesta Applegate Bangs, Millville; Leslie R. Appleman, Benton;
1932
Ida A. Arcus, 140 West Street, Bloomsburg; Woodrow
W. Aten, R. 3, Bloomsburg; Pearl L. Baer, Shickshinny; Reta T.
Baker, 316 Warren Street, Nescopeck; Mi's. Vera Baker Thompson,
1429 Church Avenue, Scranton; Monica M. Barauskas, 202 East Centre Street, Shenandoah; Kathryn M. Benner, 425 Logan Street, Lewistown; E. Mae Berger, 115 South Fourth Street, Steelton; Gladys R.
Boyer, Pillow; Mrs. Mary Louise Breisch Miles, 450 East Main Street,
Catawissa; Helen L. Brennan, 1116 Race Street, Shamokin; Catherine
M. Brobst, Nuremberg; Elizabeth M. Brooks, 40 South Second Street,
Lewisburg; Robert A. Brown, 31 North Ninth Street, Columbia; Ida
M. Bubb, 114 East Fourteenth Street, Berwick; Mrs. Grace Callender
Henry, Windfall, Indiana; John R. Carr, 49 Ryman Street, Luzerne;
Dora M. Cecchini, 425 Sperling Street, West Wyoming; Wilhelmina
M. Cerine, 1417 Pine Street, Scranton; Anna L. Chevitski, 117 Wilson
Street, Larksville, Kingston; Eleanor B. Clapp, East Market Street,
Danville; Mary E. Cole, 135 Center Street, Waymart; M. Lillian Connor, 25 Franklin Street, Edwardsville; Congetta A. Contini, 434 Green
Street, Freeland; Catherine A. Curry, Haddock; Mary E. Davis, 19
Parsonage Street, Pittston; Morris D. De Haven, R. D. 1, Box 252,
Wilkes-Barre; Lois M. DeMott', Millville; Almeda L. Derby, 1216
Oram Street, Scranton, Thelma C. Derr, 135 East Broad Street, West
Hazleton; Eleanor D. Devine, 229 East Second Street, Mount Carmel;
Mrs. Marie Devine Sewell, Locust Avenue, Centralia; Mildred M.
Dimmick, Chestnut Street, Mountain Top; Irene T. Draina, 143 East
Liberty Street, Ashley; Betty J. Dunnigan, 213 South Wyoming Street,
Hazleton; Frank Dushanko, Jr., R. D. 1, Freeland; Jemmima Eltringham, 343 South Vine Street, Mount Carmel; Roy J. Evans, Benton;
Mrs. Mary Eves Cox, 428 Broad Street, Nescopeck; Earl T. Farley,
419 Pennsylvania Avenue, Rochester; Ethel M. Felker, Beaver
Springs; Frances P. Fester, R. D. 2, Berwick; Ruth M. Foulke, 2
Green Street, Danville; Phyllis M. Fowler, 412 East Sixth Street,
Berwick; Helena J. Fowles, 63 Susquehanna Street, Tunkhannock;
Margaret J. Francis, 418 Northampton Street, Kingston; Mrs. Kath-

John

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arine Fritz Gillen, 2134 North 28th Street, Philadelphia; William C,
Furlani, Atlas; Emma A. Gasewicz, 56 Coal Street, Glen Lyon; Frank
Pittston; Mrs. Lorna Gillow Doyle,
J. Gerosky, 29 Welsh Street,
Lakewood; Beatrice E. Girton, 394 Lightstreet Road, Bloomsburg;
Dorothy M. Gorrey, 247 West Street, Bloomsburg; Florence H. Gruver, 155 Center Street, Pittston; Mary R. Guman, 63 Patriot Hill,
Mahanoy City; Saul Gutter, 19 Cherry Street, Plymouth; Elizabeth
G. Hafer, 55 Green Street. Muncy; Mrs. Ruth Haggy Baker, 253 Walnut Street, Mifflinburg; John A. Hall, 326 Montgomery Avenue, West
Pittston; Ann P. Harris, 108 East Taylor Street, Taylor; Ezra W.
Harris, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Dorothy Hartman Moore, Apartment F 22, Abbot Court, Radburn, N. J.; Gerald C. Hartman, 462
Main Street, Catawissa; Mrs. Helen Keefer Hartman, R. 2, Danville;
Mrs. Sarah E. Hartt, 225 Catawissa Avenue, Sunbury; Margaret M.
Hendrickson, 118 East Front Street, Danville; Alys Henry, 115 N.
Main Street, Hughesville; Mrs. Lois Heppe Rosenberger, 2128 Greenwood Street, Harrisburg; Wilbur J. Hibbard, 26 Union Street, Shickshinny; Ann L. Howells, 114 East Grove Street, Taylor; Minnie E.
Howeth, 4001 Dorchester Road, Baltimore, Md.; Marie S. Hoy, 24
Germania Street, Ashley; Clarence L. Hunsicker, 218 Carbon Street,
Lehighton; Mrs. Marie Hunsinger Kirker, Mifflinville; Mrs. Florence
Isaacs Reid, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs.
Desda John Beckley, 128 Iron Street, Bloomsburg; James J. Johns,
507 N. Ninth Street, Scranton; Dorothy G. Jones, 208 Pond Street,
Taylor; Dorothy J. Jones, 813 Rutter Avenue, Kingston; Helen Elizabeth Jones, 229 Gardner Street, Plymouth; Mrs. Ruth Jones Miller,
754 Hyde Park Avenue, Scranton; Margaret V. Kane, Locust Avenue,
Centralia; Anthony E. Kanjorski. 48 Corner Hill and Spring Streets,
Glen Lyon; Phyllis M. Keirman, 615 Main StreeLJJickson City; Helen
R. Kellam, 637 White Horse Pike, Oaklyn, N_ J.; Mrs. Ethel Keller
Long, Berwick; Helen M. Keller, 222 Maple Street, Mifflinburg; Alice
C. Kimble, 587 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Fred W. Kistler,
River Drive, Bloomsburg; Paul B. Knoll, Trevorton; Blanche I. Kostenbauder, 534 Center Street, Bloomsburg; Oliver H. Krapf, Conyngham; Rhea A. La France, Auburn Susquehanna Co., Springville;
Jessie F. Laird, Sonestown; Irma Lawton, Millville; Lois E. Lawton,
Millville; Emma M. Lehman, Wilburton; Harriet A. Levan, R. D. 3,
Catawissa; Gwendolyn E. Lewis, 620 Walnut Street, Freeland; Jean
Lewis, 62 East Main Street, Bloomsburg; Marjorie R. Lewis, R. D.,
Box 148, Drums; Mildred H. Lowrey, 515 O’Hara Street, Scranton;
Grace E. McCormack, 314 North Irving Avenue, Scranton; Ruth E.
McCormack, 314 North Irving Avenue, Scranton; Joseph D. McFadden, 137 South Pine Street, Hazleton; Alice Lucille McHose, 679
Grant Street, Hazleton, Alice B. MacMullen, 2 West Commerce Street,
Shamokin; Eleanor I. Materevicz, 69 Orchard Street, Glen Lyon;
Catherine G. Meade, 164 Searle Street, Pittston; Carmella G. Milazza,
838 Shoemaker Avenue, West Wyoming; Claude E. Miller, Wapwallopen; Russell F. Miller, 1517 West Walnut Street, Shamokin; Bernard E. Mohan, Centralia; Ellen L. Monroe, 318 Keystone Street,
Peckville; Mrs. Blanche Mordon Evert, Arbutus Park Road, Bloomsburg; Harold M. Morgan, 815 Landis Street, Scranton; Jeanne L.

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Morgan, Bacon Street, Jermyn; Florence A. Mowery, Nescopeck;
Ruth H. Myers, 507 Emmett Street, Scranton; Mildred D. Naryauckas, 207 East Centre Street Shenandoah; Glenn A. Oman, 311 East
Elm Street, Dunmore; Genevieve M. Omichinski, 73 Orchard Street,
Glen Lyon: Ramona H. Oshinsky. 532 Brady Street, Ranshaw; Mrs.
Gertrude Oswald Beck, 347 West Chocolate Avenue, Hershey; Nola
E. Paden, 230 East Third Street, Berwick; Edith H. Peterson, 517
Union Street, Taylor; Mrs. Helen Piatt Greenly, Millville; Alvina E.
M. Picarella, 1046 Arch Street, Shamokin: Venita C. Pizer, 741 Main
Street, Peckville; Mrs. Doris Price Magerum, Pottstown; Paul Reichard, Light Street; Helen F. Rekas, 1208 First Avenue, Berwick;
Theron R. Rhinard, R. D. 2, Berwick; Hope G. Richards, Elysburg;
Mrs. Mabel E. Rinard Turse, King Street, Northumberland; George
S. Rinker, Eldredsville; Mrs. Eldora Robbins Young, R. D. 2, Berwick; Ivor L. Robbins, R. D., Shickshinny; Lillian M. Roberts, 255
West Main Street, Plymouth; Pauline E. Romberger, Pitman; Alice
M. Rowett, 320 Charles Street, Luzerne; Nicholas O. Rudawski, 44
West Kirmer Avenue, Alden Station; Esther A. Saylor, Beavertown;
Mrs. Sara Schilling Bartges. Nescopeck; Adam L. Schlauch, Nuremberg; Francis H. Shaughnessy, Susquehanna Street, Tunkhannock;
Mrs. Mary Shaw Colyer, 18 South Main Street, Lewistown; Mercedes
E. Shovlin, 223 West Third Street, Mount Carmel; Verna Pauline
Showers, 31 First Street, Milton; Mrs. Margaret Shultz Harrison, R.
D. 1, Shickshinny; Joseph A. Slominski, 55 Main Street, Mocanaqua;
Mrs. Hazel Small Rumble, R. D. 3, Catawissa; Catherine A. Smith,
733 Wyoming Avenue, Kingston; Catherine Hoff Smith, 142 Fairmount Avenue, Sunbury; Helen J. Smith, 733 North Lincoln Street,
Scranton; H. Edmond Smith, 323 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg;
Grace R. Smith, 142 Fairmount Avenue, Sunbury; Blanche Standish,

Hudson Street, Forest City; C. Seymour Stere, Millville; Mrs.
Ruth Stine Lindemuth, R. D. 1, Elysburg; Edith C. Strickler, Eighth
Street, Mifflinburg; Louis G. Strunk, 92 John Street, Kingston; Carolyn Sutliff, Shickshinny; Daniel E. Thomas, 173 Green Street, Edwardsville, Helen M. Van Buskirk, 47 South Atherton Street, Kingston; Mrs. Sara Vanderslice Wallace, 52 Juniper Avenue, Mineola,
Long Island, N. Y.; Mary A. Vollrath, 63 East Poplar Street, West
Nanticoke; Mrs. Myrtle Wagner Swartz, Cowan; Ruth L. Wagner,
98 Regent Street, Wilkes-Barre; Hazel M. Walters, Freeburg; William
Gordon Wanbaugh, Camp Hill; Henry J. Warman, 1618 Pine Street,
Norristown; Leo I,. Washeleski, 615 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Mrs.
Arlene Werkheiser Traub, 172 Pine Street, Bloomsburg; Alma E.
White, 515 Altamont Boulevard, Frackville; Mrs. Virginia Zeigler
Latsha, Spring Glen; Estelle F. Ziemba, 719 Main Street, Simpson;
Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman Smith, 417 Fowler Avenue. Berwick; Mrs.
Emily Zydanowicz Sage, 2001 North Second Street, Harrisburg.
ADDRESSES WANTED: Margaret E. Arnold, J. Fred Berger, Mrs.
Mary Bray Smith, Mrs. M. Carrie Williams, Louise R. Gon, Chester

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C. Hess, Doyle C. Keller, Elsie V. Keller, Inez Keller, Vivienne T.
Lewis, John A. Long, Thelma Erb Valente, Mrs. Hester Slusser
Leiby, Marie M. Standish, Muriel E. Thomas.

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CLASS
OF

Kathryn

Abbott, 240 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg;
418 Centre Street, Ashland; Berthia
1933
Allen, Aldersen; Mrs. Marjorie Allen Bowman, 533
East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Ruth Appleman Pealer, R. D.,
Stillwater; W. Edgar Artman, 213 Main Street, Yeagertown; Bertha
E. Astleford, 654 Locust Street. Hazleton; Anna Austin, 319 Bennett
Street, Luzerne; Donald Bangs, Rchrsburg; Mrs. Zela Bardo Black,
R. D. 2, MillviPe; Alice Barrall, Mifflinville; Thomas Beagle, 333 Light
Street Road, Bloomsburg; Samuel D. Beishlir.e, Huntington Mills;
Mabel Belles, 42 West Hollenback Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Eleanor E.
Benscoter, R. D. 1, Hunlock Creek, Howard Berninger, Mifflinville;
Martha Berriman, 31 Green Street, Muncy; Mary E. Bet'.erly, 63 East
Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Lucy Bitetti, 936 Street, Freeland; James
Bittenbender, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Homer S. Bixler, 1111 West Walnut Street. Shamokin; Mildred Bixler, 5 East Chestnut Street, Shamokin; Edward Bohr, R. D. 2, Box 176, Shamokin; Tosca M. Borsi,
945 Shoemaker Avenue, Wyoming; Mrs. Elizabeth Boyle Church, 143
West First Street, Bloomsburg; Louise K. Brislin, 360 Miller Street,
Luzerne; George J. Brueckman, 124 Normandy Road. Upper Darby:
Mary L. Buckley, 824 Washington Street. Freeland; Elynor G. Burke,
95 William Street, Pittston; Mary E. Burns, 119 North Chestnut
Street, Mount Carmel; Florence M. Byerly, Herndon, R. D.; Chester
W. Byers, King Street, Northumberland; Mary M. Carl, 109 Bloom
Street, Danville; Anthony F. Carroll, Beaverdale, Mount Carmel;
Mrs. Helen Chapman Berkheiser, 328 Locust Avenue, Centralia;
Dorothy A. Connors, Jeddo; Thomas S. Coursen, 224 East Poplar
Street. Plymouth; Charles N. Cox, Nescopeck: Edna G. Creveling, 423
Water Street, Hughesville; Mrs. Dorothy Criswell Johnson, Mazeppa;
James Gordon Cullen, 120 Orchard Street, Berwick; Berenice E.
Cuthbert, 502 Avenue E, Riverside; Harold M. Danowsky, R. D. 3,
Lewisburg; Ethel M. Davis, Nuremberg; Joseph P. Davis, R. D. 1,
Box 2883, Wilkes-Barre; Rita A. Dean, 1244 West Coal, Shenandoah;
Mrs. Marion DeFrain Danowsky, R. D. 3, Lewisburg; Wallace E.
Derr. Hatboro; Margaret E. Donaldson, 121 Academy Street, Plymouth; John J. Drennan, 148 South Main, Carbondale; Mrs. Grace
DuBois Brown, 540 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Frances E. Dymond, R. D. 3, Dallas; John A. Early, 21 Bristol Street, Plymouth;
Inez E. Edwards, Mifflinville; Ruth L. Enders, 159 Pine Street, Millersburg; Mrs. Frances Evans Parker, 120 Rutgers Street, Bellville,
N. J.; Ralph Evans, 102 Waller Street, Wilkes-Barre; Sarah E. Fisher,
R. D. 2, Selinsgrove; Fred Fowler, Espy; Ruth P. Fowler, 205 Jackson Street, Berwick; Helen F. Furman, 387 East Noble Street, Nanticoke; Mary E. Furman, R. D. 1, Northumberland; Catherine A. Gallagher, Rappahannock, Girardville; Larue E. Gass, Paxinos; Mrs.
Anna Gearhart Wise, 611 Butternut Street, Berwick; Karl L. Getz,
317 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg; Alda M. Giannini. 812 Shoemaker
Street, Wyoming; Dorothy E. Gilmore, 414 East Second Street,
Bloomsburg; June R. Good, Aristes; Dilys E. Griffith, 356 Church
Street, Slatington; Thomas J. Griffiths, Locust Avenue, Centralia.

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ISSUE. NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR ADDRESS.

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ALUMNI ON THE CAMPUS FOR ALUMNI DAY, MAY
Come back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the fine program. See
new buildings. Shake hands with your classmates and

friends.

©

A

limited

number

of the College will be

order of application to

Men.

Dormitory Rooms for Alumni guests
and will be reserved in the
the Dean of Women and the Dean of

of

available

THE
ALUMNI
QUARTERLY

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBUEG, PENNSYLVANIA

Volume

fyosdy-^wo.

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All

Alumni....

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MAY 24 Alumni Day for
S ATURDAY,
and friends of Blcomsburg. Do you plan

all

is

campus
back?

Why

happy occasion?

for this

Come on

roller-skates,

the graduates
to return to the

not decide

now

to

come

by horse and buggy, automobile,
have available. Your pleasure

or any other method you may
during the day will make the trip worthwhile.

The classes whose numerals end in one or six will hold
their reunions this year. Is your class organized for this event?
Send your plans to the college so that we may give them publicity.
If the President or any member of a class in reunion
would like to send a letter to each member of the class, it may
be done in this manner. Write the letter and send it before
May 1, so that it may be mimeographed and mailed out with the
Quarterly Supplement. These letters will be mailed and there
will be no expense invclved for the member of the class, who
has written the

letter.

The program will start with a band concert at 10:00 o’clock.
The general Alumni meeting will be held at 11:00 in the auditorium. The class reunions will begin with the luncheon at
12:30 and be continued during the afternoon. Baseball, tennis,
and track will provide outdoor entertainment. In the evening,
there will be the banquet and dance. The fun will end around
midnight. Come back for Alumni Day, May 24. We want you.
Sincere good wishes,
R.

Vol. 42-No. 2

BRUCE ALBERT.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

April, 1941

Published by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsbury. Pa.
Entered as Second-Class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsbury, Pa., Under the Act of July 16, 1804. Published four times a year.
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H. F.

FENSTEMAKER,

E. H.

v

NELSON, Tl

EDITOR

.

BUSINESS

MANAGER

Page One

Orientation &f tyn&iiune+t
During the past ten 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.
P. North of the Education Department, and Di-

Thomas

rector of

Freshman Week

year by Mr. Joseph Bailer,

Activities,

and

assisted

this

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 adjustments.
Failure
to make these adjustments, which may result in partial
success
or even more serious, dismissal 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
the orientation and guidance of Freshman includes getting information to and securing information from the
students. This program begins with Freshmen Week and
continues especially throughout the first semester. During
Freshman Week this year three general meetings and a
number of group meetings were held, at which the Freshmen had an opportunity to become acquainted with each
is

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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 acted as
hosts and hostesses at the tables. The Freshmen then
drew a table number as they entered the dining room. In

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April, 1941

Page

Two

way each table had two upper-classmen as host and
hostesses, and six Freshmen as guests.
The mixing process was quite thorough, and under the direction of the
upperclass hosts and hostesses the guests soon became
satisfactorily acquainted. Following this dinner the Comthis

munity 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
drills,

explanation of extra curricular requirements, class

and regulations, explanation of the Community
Government Association, and other informations of immediate value to new students, and especially those students away from home and more or less on their own re-

rules

sponsibility for the

first

time.

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 and other
important factors
which 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
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 subThis summary indicates the
jects, but when he studies it.
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 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.

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April. 1941

Page Three

FORMER NORMAL STUDENT HIGH

IN

ARMY

A

former student at the Bloomsburg Normal School,
a State Teachers College, is now in command of the
basic flying school at Randolph Field, U. S. army base in

now

Texas.

He is Lieutenant Colonel Idwal H. Edwards, ’13, sonin-law of Mrs. Henry Bierman, former resident of Bloomsburg and the late Dr. Bierman.
A veteran air corps pilot with a background of nearly 3,000 flying hours in his log book he succeeds Brig.
General John B. Brooks, transferred to the fourth bombardment wing at Westover Field, Chicopee, Mass., as

commandment

of Randolph Field.
The “West Point of the Air’s” new commander

stall-

ed his military career early in 1917, when he attended
the first officers’ training camps. He was commissioned as
a second lieutenant of infantry on October 26, 1917.
Within a few months he had requested transfer to the air
service and got his pilot’s wings in April, 1918, at Rockwell Field, Cal. He was immediately assigned to duty as
flying instructor at that station and remained there until
1919, when he transferred to Love Field, near Dallas, as
adjutant.
Colonel Edward’s first command was in the Philippine Islands in 1921 where he was commanding officer
of the Second Observation Squadron for two years. Returning from foreign service he was assigned to the Mid-

dletown Air Depot,

in

Pennsylvania, where he was supply

two years.
Colonel Edwards’

officer for

first of three assignments to duty
the nation’s capital came in 1925 when he served until
1927 as assistant executive officer of the office of the chief
of air corps.
From 1927 to 1930 he served as executive
officer at March Field, Cal., going from that station to the
air corps tactical school from which he graduated in 1931.
His second tour in Washington was from 1931 to
1933 when Colonel Edwards served in the office of the assistant secretary of war for air as assistant executive officer.
He was then assigned as student at the Command
and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kas. After
graduation from there in 1935 he went to the Hawaiian

in

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April, 1941

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Page Four

Department for his second tour of foreign service. He
commanded the 72nd Bombardment Squadron of the
Fifth Bombardment Group in the islands until 1937 when
he returned to the states to attend the Army War College
for one year, September, 1937, to June, 1938.
His last assignment before assuming command of
Randolph Field was as a member of the general staff in
Washington. Colonel Edwards was appointed second
lieutenant of infantry on October 26, 1917, first lieutenant on September 8, 1919, captain on July 1, 1920, major
on August 1, 1935 and lieutant colonel on June 17, 1938.
Colonel Edwards came in the largest of the flight instruction stations in the air corps with an excellent background of training methods. His service as flying instructor at Rockwell Field in the early days of his military career were augmented by his tour of duty at March Field
from 1927 to 1930 as executive officer, which was operating as both a primary and basic flying school in those
years.

OUTSIDE

MY WINDOW

God sends so many joyful things!
One flush of dawn and a robin sings

A flash of blue and a whistling song
Outside the window all day long.
One crocus peeps from underground,
And soon a host of them abound,
(Even before the grass is green),
In yellow, blue and purpling sheen.
The wind lulls in a cool refrain
To April’s music, the dripping rain.
I watch the daffodils unfold
In sunlight tints brighter

than gold,

Spicy odors drench the air,
For buds are bursting everywhere;
The smell of freshly ploughed-up earth
Presages the year’s rebirth
Till resurrection of the Spring.
Awakens my own heart to sing.
;

— Hilda Clark

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Fairchild

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Page Five

Go-+iA.iA.ucti+t(j, a+uJl f^e*nxy
Op&siatiQ+ii.

During the past few months a number of major reand remodeling operations have been completed or
have been started on the way of completion.
During the Christmas vacation the 7,000 square feet
pairs

of

hardwood

iloor in the college dining

room was

resur-

faced and refinished.

New lights of a modern design have been installed in
the fourth floor of Science Hall. One of the four class
rooms there has been rewired in conduit for use as an office machines laboratory for students in the department
of Business Education.
Four new shower baths have been installed on the
second floor of North Hall, the Men’s Dormitory. This
modernizes the equipment there and makes the plumbing
fixtures uniform.
The remodeling of the two rooms adjoining Room E
in Noetling Hall for use as a Speech Clinic is almost completed. This will provide a suite of two rooms and office
in Noetling Hall for the Speech Division of the Educational Clinic, which will be similar to the quarters now occupied by the Psychological Division in another section of
this building.

The plumbing

in Science Hall has been modernized.
1906, it has been replaced by fixtures of a
design for use by the men who attend classes in

Installed in

modern

Science Hall.
During the Christmas holidays the suite of offices
used by the Business Manager, Bookkeeper, Mimeograph
Operators and Community Store, were painted, as well as
the offices occupied by members of the staff of the Department of Health Education.
New floors have been laid in the office adjoining
Room H, at the rear entrance to Waller Hall and at the
main entrance to the long porch.
Under the General State Authority program using
W. P. A. labor the extension of Spruce Street has been
completed with a macadamized surface and concrete
curbs. This extends the road running in front of the Benjamin Franklin School to the new Junior High School.
Thus access to the new building and athletic field is improved.

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April, 1941

Page Six

Teachers Colleges
(An

Editorial Appearing in the

Morning

Press,

February 24)

In these days when there are those who make it a
constant practice to attack teachers colleges, it might be
interesting to recall that the development of these institutions within the last twenty-five years constitutes a remarkable chapter in the history of American education.
The first normal school was founded in 1839. From being weak and isolated institutions in the first seventy-five
years, the teachers colleges have grown to be a major influence in American education during the last quarter
century.
Their physical resources have quadrupled. The typical institution in 1915 had a physical plant worth about
$300,000.00. Today the typical plant is worth a million
and a quarter. Twenty-five per cent of the institutions
have plants worth $2,000,000.00 or more.
The number of students has doubled. Twenty-five
years ago 80 per cent of the graduates had only two years
of college work. In 1915 in a hundred institutions 412
degrees were awarded. In 1940, 80 per cent of the graduates had four years of preparation and in a hundred institutions more than 17,000 were graduated with the
bachelor’s degree.
The typical library in 1915 had 7,000 volumes. In
1940 the typical library had 28,000 volumes.
The change in the preparation of members of the
staff reflects the development in curricula and the new
standards. In 1915, 43 per cent of the staffs had no degrees; 35 per cent had a bachelor’s degree; 17 per cent
the master’s degree, and 5 per cent the doctor’s degree.
In 1940 8 per cent had the bachelor’s degree; 66 per cent
the master’s degree, and 25 per cent the doctor’s degree.
The number of staff numbers has doubled.
These institutions sprang out of the basic needs of a
young democracy. Their primary purpose is the education of leaders to facilitate the transfer and improvement
of the national culture for all the people. Their substantial growth and development in the last twenty-five years
Their responsibility to the common people
is fortunate.
makes them at this time especially significant institutions
in the continuance of the democratic process.

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April, 1941

Page Seven

The Luzerne County Alumni group
luncheons on the

will hold

month-

Saturday of the month

in the
Wilkes-Barre. The
luncheons are at 12:30. It is not necessary to make reservations in advance. Come and bring others.

ly

first

main dining room the Hotel Sterling

in

The Philadelphia Alumni Association will hold the
eleventh Annual Banquet at the Bellevue Stratford Saturday evening, April 26. All friends and graduates of
Bloomsburg are cordially invited to attend.

Alumni membership reached a total of thirteen hundred during the Centennial year of the college. We are
sorry to state that our membership is now around one
thousand. There has been a net loss of three hundred
memberships since 1939. Unless we have more members,
it will be impossible to continue the Quarterly in its present form. The entire Alumni program must be reduced.
The Association is in debt to the tune of two hundred dollars.
Are you a member? We need your help.

Montour County Alumni are planning to hold the annual “Get Together” Tuesday evening, April 22, in the
Shiloh Reformed Church of Danville. The dinner will be
served at 6:30 and the usual fine crowd of loyal Alumni
is expected.

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April, 1941

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Page Eight

The Alumni Student Loan Fund continues to do a
splendid service for worthy students, who meet the necessary requirements. As a result of the Centennial Campaign, nine thousand, two hundred twenty-three dollars
and one cent have been paid in cash to date. Subscriptions and contributions continue to be received. It is never
too late to do a good deed. Have you contributed ?
The next

will contain a comTestimonials and Memorials established
by contribution to the Centennial Student Loan Fund.
The names of the donors will be included. It is not too
late to make additions to the list.

plete

list

of

issue of the Quarterly

all

The Philadelphia Alumni Association has contributed two hundred dollars to the Alumni Student Loan Fund
to be designated as follows:
A Testimonial in honor of Mrs. Florence Hess Cool,
President of the local organization.
A Testimonial in honor of Dr. David J. Waller, Jr..
President Emeritus of the college.
The faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Tuesday evening, February 11, held a dinner at the
college in honor of Harvey Andruss, newly elected President of the college, and Mrs. Andruss.
Prof. Howard Fenstemaker delivered the invocation.
Following the dinner Dr. Kimber Kuster, chairman of the
program, introduced Prof. William C. Forney, director of
the Business Education Department, who expressed the
sentiments of the faculty, students and the personnel toward the new President.
President Andruss expressed, in behalf of Mrs. Andruss
and himself, their deep appreciation for the honor and
courtesies extended to them. President Andruss also
thanked the faculty and the personnel for the fine spirit
of cooperation shown to him during the past eighteen
months.
Miss Bertha Rich, assistant dean of women, presented Mrs. Harvey Andruss with a bouquet of flowers.
Following the program in the dining room the faculty assembled in the Alumni Room where cards and other
games were enjoyed.

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April, 1941

:

Page Nine

MORE

PILOTS TRAINED

Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been granted 1941 Civil Aeronautics Administration sanction for civilian pilot training of twenty.
Thus the way is open for the providing of the instruction to just twice as many during the present semester as
during the past semester, and unquestionably the fine
work of the original ten played a major part in the C. A.
A. decision to double the number permitted to take the
course.

The doubling

of the college quota came, at a time
the quota for this district had been cut, as further
evidence of the high regard held by C. A. A. authorities
for the training program as it functions through the college with Sam Bigony, operator of the local airport.
The first ten have already passed their C. A. A. physical tests and now hold a student’s pilot certificate

when

Thurwald Gommer, Nanticoke; Walter Reed, Stony
Creek Mills; Clark Renninger, Trumbarsville Daniel
Bonham, Forty Fort; Miss Arline Swinesburg, West Hazleton; Howard Tomlinson, Newtown; William Kerchusky, Ringtown; Joseph Wesley, Kingston; Joseph Swonn,
Dunmore, and Ralph Crocamo, Hazleton.
The second ten will be selected for the following
Miss Michalene Zuchoski, Ashley; Thomas
thirteen:
Grow, Ringtown; Robert Webb, Pine Grove; Stewart
Yorks, Dallas; Nelson Oman, Bloomsburg; Elwood Wagner, Hamburg; Hugh Niles, Wellsboro; John Maksimiuk,
Bethlehem; Boyd Buckingham, York; Nevin Slusser, Espy; William Horvath, Allentown, and Theodore Radia,
;

—

McAdoo.
There are two

group, the government regirl in a quota of ten.
William McK. Reber, Jr., of Bloomsburg, has charge
of the ground subjects, as during the past semester. The
course is one of seventy-two hours and can be used toward graduation. The subjects are meterorology, navigation and civil air regulations.
Operator Bigony is the supervisor of the flight instruction with one instructor for each ten students. One
of the flight instructors will be Robert Guss, who did a
creditable piece of work with the first unit.
strictions being not

girls in the

more than one

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April, 1941

Page Ten

SERVICE CLUBS ENTERTAINED
The fourteenth annual Kiwanis-Rotary-College Evening was held recently at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Over five hundred attended the affair. The
festivities began with a banquet in the college dining room
at 6:30 P. M., followed by a program in the college auditorium, and concluded with a dance in the gymnasium.
Opening the program in the auditorium, James

Community Government Associagreeted the guests in behalf of the student body.
Four selections were featured by the orchestra under the
direction of Professor Howard Fenstemaker.

Deily, president of the
tion,

“Wings Over Bloomsburg,”

a

motion picture, direct-

ed and filmed by Professor George J. Keller, dealt with
the story of the present war in Europe, the preparedness
program of the United States and finally the establishment and workings of the C. A. A. program at the Bloomsburg Airport sponsored by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

The singing of “America the Beautiful,” with Miss
Harriet Moore directing and Mrs. John K. Miller at the
Dancing folpiano, concluded the auditorium program.
lowed in the gymnasium.
Ten students met the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education at the conclusion of the
first semester at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Half of the group are now employed. Three are
teaching in public schools, one is connected with the Civilian Conservation Corps and one has accepted a position
in business.

These students

will be eligible

to

take part

in

the

commencement exercises which will be held in May.
Members of the January graduating class are Avonell A. Baumunk, Muncy, Business Education; Victoria

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Helene Edwards, Bloomsburg, Business Education William Heupcke, Sugarloaf, Business Education; Anna L.
Korengo, Shenandoah, Business Education; Jerome G.
Lapinski, Shamokin, secondary; George Randolph Lewis,
Bloomsburg, secondary; Jean Winifred Moss, Plymouth,
intermediate Agnes Pinamonti Casari, Mt. Carmel, intermediate John Elwyn Vaughan, Nanticoke, Business
Education.
;

;

;

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April, 1941

;

Page Eleven

DEAN’S

HONOR

LIST

President Harvey A. Andruss, of Bloomsburg State
Teac-hers College, announced recently the following students have earned a place on the dean’s honor roll for the
first semester of the present school year:
Freshmen Helen Cromis, Business Education, of

—

Bloomsburg; Mary Hagenbuch, secondary, Bloomsburg;
Anne Shortess, secondary, Bloomsburg; Marjory Strauser, secondary, Bloomsburg.
Sophomores Thomas Cannard, secondary, Dan-

—

ville;

James Davies, Business Education, West

Pittston

John Hubiak, Business Education, Forest City; Joyce
Lohr, secondary, Berwick Harriet Love, Business Education, Waterville, Jersey Shore High School.
Dorothy Grow, Elementary, Shamokin
Juniors
Earl Harris, secondary, Scott Township; Betty Lou Kepner, Elementary, Sunbury; Aleta Stiles, Business Education, Red Lion.
Seniors
Ruth Brandon, secondary, Berwick; June
Eaton, Business Education, Galeton Ruth Schield, Elem;

—

—

;

entary, Taylor;

Claraline Schlee, secondary, Danville;
Howard Tomlinson, Business Education, Newtown Edmund Villa, Business Education, Berwick.
;

BOARD OF TRUSTEES CONFIRMED
The state senate has confirmed the present six members of the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, appointed last Fall by Governor James.
All confirmations are for four year appointments from
October, 1940.
The college trustees confirmed are Reg. S. Hemingway, W. Clair Hidlay and Milton K. Yorks, of Bloomsburg; M. Jackson Crispin, Frank D. Croop, Berwick, and
Fred W. Diehl, of Danville.
The Eva Jessye Choir, singing

stars of opera, Broadconcert hall, motion pictures, and radio,
presented an excellent concert at the College Thursday
evening, February 20.

way

theatres,

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April, 1941

Page Twelve

DENTAL CLINIC INAUGURATED
A dental clinic has been inaugurated at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Benjamin Franklin Training
School. Miss Elizabeth Feinour is in charge of the work.
She is a graduate from the school of oral hygiene of Temple University. She was an interne in the Allentown General Hospital for one year and has had three years experience in dental hygiene in the Millville Public School.
In the dental clinic the oral hygienist will examine
the children’s teeth for cavities and abnormal conditions
of the mouth, particularly of the gums and clean the teeth
when it is desirable. When cavities or conditions of the
mouth needing attention are discovered, the parents will
be advised so that they may take their children to a family dentist to have the teeth filled or the mouth otherwise
taken care of.
The health room of the school has been equipped
with a dental chair, dental unit, sterilizing apparatus and
all necessary instruments to clean
teeth. All of this

equipment

is

in excellent condition.

The foregoing services will be provided free of
charge and taking advantage of them is purely a voluntary matter. The continuance of the service will be determined by the interest shown.

The Shamokin High School Band, under the

direc-

George Anderson, gave an excellent performance before the student body at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College on Friday, February 7. This welltrained outfit consists of more than eighty members who
occupied every inch of the college stage, and kept every
member of the audience deeply interested for more than
tion of Mr.

one hour.

Women students at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College recently organized the Social Service Club, which
has functioned in preparing, in conjunction with the Elks
Club and Bloomsburg Chapter, American Red Cross, a
number of baskets of foodstuffs which were given to
needy families

at

Christmas time.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Page Thirteen

Howard T.
of Millville, were united in marriage on December 24 at the home of the bride’s parents. The single ringMiss Catherine Rice, of Trucksville, and

Mordan,

ceremony was performed by the Rev. Harry Savacool,
pastor of the Trucksville Methodist church.
The bride is a graduate of Kingston Township High
School and Mansfield State Teachers College. She has
done graduate work at Misercordia College, Dallas, and
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. For the past seven years
she has been supervisor of home economics in the Millville High School.
The groom is a graduate of Millville High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He is a former
teacher and business man of that section.

Alonzo A. Stagg, Sr., forty-one years coach of football at the University of Chicago, and now coach at the
college of the Pacific, was a visitor at the college in Jan-

He was accompanied by Mrs. Stagg, and by their
Alonzo A. Stagg, Jr., coach at Susquehanna Univer-

uary.
son,
sity.

Under the title, “The Changing Emphasis on Business Papers,” President Harvey A. Andruss has written
one of the leading articles in the current issue of the National Business Education Quarterly, a magazine published by the Department of the Business Education of the
National Education Association.

Mr. Ray Cole, Superintendent of the Columbia County Schools, was guest speaker of the Business Education
Club of Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the assembly exercises on Monday morning, March 24.
Mr. Richard Nonnemacher, President of the Club,
introduced the speaker, who spoke on “Why some people
can secure a position and hold on to it, while others can
not.” Mr. Cole stressed that “personality” which is made
up of two or three hundred elements played an important
role in securing a position. He illustrated his points with
practical situations which he encounters in his position as
superintendent.

He was

guest of the

Business

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April, 1941

also the

Education Club at lunch.

Page Fourteen

The Maroon and Gold Orchestra, of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, under the direction of Professor
H. F. Fenstemaker, presented a concert on Monday, January 13, during the assembly period.

—

The following program was presented
Entrance
and March of Peers, from “Iolanthe,” Sullivan Hungarian Dance, No. 5, Brahms; Triumphal March, from “Sigurd Jorsalfar,” Grieg; Valse Op. 64, No. 2, Chopin; Coronation March, from “Le Prophete,” Meyerbeer; Dance
of the Moorish Slaves, from “Aida,” Verdi; Procession of
the Sardar from “Caucasian Sketches,” Ippolitow-lwanow Marche Hongroise, from “Damnation of Faust,”
;

;

Berlioz.

America’s housing problem was presented

in

an

il-

lustrated lecture by Dr. W. L. Husband during the chapel
period of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Fri-

day morning, March

With

21.
his subject, “How

band described housing

in

America Lives,” Dr. HusAmerica from the landing of

the Pilgrims to the present.
edifices in cities such as

Pictures

included

historic

Cambridge, Alexandria and Wil-

liamsburg.

“What Next in the Far East” was the subject of his
evening’s address as a feature of the entertainment
Pictures taken in the Far East were effectively
course.
used to supplement his talk. Dr. Husband spoke of the
problems of the Far East and showed these conditions
were the result of Japan’s linking herself with the Axis
powers.

The Apollo Boys’ Choir, of Birmingham, Alabama,
under the direction of Coleman Cooper, presented a program Tuesday evening, December 10, in the State Teachauditorium before a large audience.
The voices of the boys were perfectly blended
throughout the entire program, which consisted of twelve
numbers by the choir, two solo numbers and a costume
number based on songs of the “Gay Nineties.”
Throughout the first part of the program, the choir
sang Christmas songs and church music. The rest of the
program was devoted to semi-classical and folk songs.
ers’

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April, 1941

Page Fifteen

The A Cappella Choir of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, under the direction of Miss Harriet
Moore, presented an impressive Christmas program Monday morning, December 16, during the assembly period.
as follows: “O Come All Ye Faithful,”
College chorus; Scripture reading by H. F. Fenstemaker;
three songs by the A Capella Choir: “Blow Winds Blow,”
by Mueller; ”0 Po’ Little Jesus,” a negro spiritual, arranged by Jones; “A Russian Cherubim Hymn,” by Bortniansky. The male quartette from the choir, consisting
of William Barton, James Deily, Joseph Malinchoc, and

The program was

Walter Mohr, sang “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”
Miss Marie Johnson, a fifth grade pupil of the Benjamin Franklin School, sang a carol entitled “Long, Long
Ago.”

Sunbury High School won first honor in the eleventh
Annual Play Tournament which was held at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College on Friday, March 14. The other
schools taking part in the contest were Tunkhannock and
Hanover. Judges were Mrs. Clarence Sober and Maynard Pennington, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Elizabeth Feinour, of Millville. The contest was sponsored by the Alpha Psi Omega, a national honorary dramatic association.

The Kappa Delta Pi of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College inducted into their fraternity the following pledgees:
James Davies, West Pittston Burnis Fellman, Allentown; Mae Grow, Shamokin Earl Harris, Bloomsburg Betty Lou Kepner, Sunbury
Lawrence Myers,
Pottsville; Dawn Osman, Shamokin; Josephine Rhinehard, Berwick Margaret Robeson, Beach Haven
Frances Rowe, Shamokin; Betty Sell, Gordon; William Smith,
Bloomsburg; Ruth Snyder, Bloomsburg; Dora Taylor,

—

;

;

;

;

;

;

West Grove Collin Vernoy, Canadensis; Zoe Whitmire,
Berwick; Erma Wolfgang, Shamokin. To be eligible for
membership in the fraternity, a student must be in the up;

per quartile of his

class.

In response to President Harvey A. Andruss’s invitation to the mothers of the Waller Hall girls to spend
the week-end of March 22-23 with their daughters, about
fifty mothers accepted and were the guests of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and their daughters.

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April, 1941

Page Sixteen

All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of
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

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board
R.

of Directors

Bruce Albert

Dr. D.

J.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
D. D. Wright

Waller, Jr.

Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

E. H. Nelson

Smith

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

^
OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

—

President Louise Downin Laubach, 317 North Front Street. Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. C. W. Hoover, Enola. Pa.; Second
Vice-President Blanche Miller Grimes, 204 North Second Street,
Harrisburg. Pa.; Secretary Elizabeth V. Clancy, 436 North Third
Howard M. Kreitzer, 120 LinStreet. Steelton, Pa.; Treasurer
coln Street, Steelton, Pa.

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—

—

—

Lackawanna County

—

President Herbert S. Jones, 707 North Rebecca Avenue. Scranton,
Thomas R. Rowland. 822 Richmont Street,
Pa.; Vice-President
Scranton, Pa.; Secretary Adeline Williams. 810 Archbald Street.
Scranton, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia A. Bohn, 227 Stephen Avenue,
Scranton, Pa.

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—
—

Luzerne County
Aurand, 162 South Washington Street. Wilkes-BarEdison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen
re, Pa.; Vice-President
Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street,
Wilkes-Ban'e. Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Car-

President

—Edna

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—

—

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville. Pa.
lisle Street,

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April, 1941

— Mrs.

Lester Bennett,

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Page Seventeen

Montour County
President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.;
Secretary Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treas-

—

—

urer—Neil

Ritchie, Danville, Pa.

Northumberland County

—

President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; Secretary
Pa.; Vice-President
S. Curtis Yocum, 925
Helen Latorre, Atlas, Pa.; Treasurer
Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.

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—

Schuylkill County

— Orval

—

Fraekville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray
Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice-

President

Palsgrove,

—

—

President Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-PresiMichael
dent
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer

—

—

Main

Street,

Mahanoy

—

—

—

City, Pa.

Philadelphia

—

President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Mary
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council
Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; SecreLillie Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
tary
N. J.; Treasurer Nora Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdrick Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

—

—

—

Snyder-Union Counties

—

Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President
Eugene Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen
Keller, Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred WagMrs. Harold Baker, Market
ner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary
Anna Troutman, SelinsStreet, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Treasurer

President

—

—

—

—

grove, Pa.

Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties

—

City, Pa.; Vice-President
Arlene JohnPa.; Vice-President
Susan Jennings Sturman,
Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.;
Secretary Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.

President—Fred Kester, Mill
son, Hallstead,

—

—

—

—

Columbia County

—

—

President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Margaret Cole McCern, Benton, Pa.; Secretary
Thursabert Schuyler,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.

—

—

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April, 1941

Page Eighteen

^lUe

PluAa<&elplu& Alusnsti

Our summer season closed with a picnic at the lovely
Norristown home of Mr. and Mrs. Brouse (Edwina Weiland). Their specious lawn is ideal for a real picnic and
we have an invitation to come again next summer.
Mr. Brouse is Forester for this district and in the
evening he showed us moving pictures that he had taken
of the beauty spots in this part of Pennsylvania, including
the “Valley Forge Dogwoods.” The pictures were indeed
a revelation and enjoyed by all.
The first luncheon of the autumn season in October
was held in our new quarters
“The Private Dining

Room”

sixth

floor

—

—

of the

Strawbridge and Clothier

Store.

At the November luncheon, Geraldine Hull Krauscr
brought with her Nora Hankee McGuffie '98 and her
mother, Mabel Yost Hull ’96, of West Pittston, Pa.
Grace Kisbaugh Miller brought her sister Charlotte
Gordon, of Flourtown, Pa.
We are indeed glad to welcome all of these out-oftown guests to our luncheons at any time they are in our
vicinity.

A few friends attended an “Hour of Sacred Song” in
the Phillips’ Memorial Hall of West Chester State Teachers College, Sunday, November 24, 1940, conducted by
Dr. Claude Hausknecht, one of our Alumni,
tor of music at the college.

who

is

direc-

The Annual Christmas Party this year was held in
our lovely new meeting place the Private Dining Room
of the Strawbridge and Clothier Store.
The party was outstanding in every particular with
an attendance of 60 all happy and enthusiastic “Blooms-

—

—

burg Boosters.”
Dr. Claude

singing from the

Hausknecht (Uncle Ned)

led us in carol

books contributed each year by the
John Hancock Life Insurance Co. We are always assured a good time with “Uncle Ned” at the helm.
little

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Page Nineteen

We

note, by the Quarterly, that the

Luzerne County

Alumni have instituted monthly luncheons.
The Philadelphia group wish to extend

their congratulations and feel sure that they will enjoy these old
associations to the utmost.

Mrs. Marguerite Nearing has moved to her
in Liftwood, Wilmington, Pi. D., Delaware.

new

home

Nellie

Coffman McDermott

’94, of

died very suddenly in Philadelphia,

Fawn

Grove, Pa.,

December

5,

1940.

Aunt Mintie Wilson, known and loved by the Philadelphia group, passed away and was taken to Bloomsburg for interment.
Clare Hedden, of Ardmore, spent the Christmas vahome in Benton, Pa.

cation at her

son

Marie Cromis, of Philadelphia, spent the Yule SeaBloomsburg, Pa.

in

Dr. and Mrs. Earl Creveling, of Germantown, have
announced the engagement of their daughter Helen,
Dwight McKinney, of Ohio.

.just

to

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frantz have just built a new
at 1766 Hillcrest Avenue, Merchantville, N. J. Mrs.
Frantz will be remembered as Grace Fenstemacher.

home

Florence Hess Cool, President.
Lillie

Hortman

Irish, Secretary.

Alumni Day
Saturday, May 24th
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April, 1941

Page Twenty

1880

The correct address
ter

Avenue,

St.

of Ernest

W. Young

is

2245 Car-

Paul, Minnesota.

1885

Word has been

received by Columbia County friends
of the death in a Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital of
Charles Ernest Dechant, 74, a retired business man of
that city and a former resident of Catawissa.
He was the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. George Dechant and his Catawissa residence was during the period
his father was pastor of the Reformed Church in that
town. He graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
School in 1885; attended the Mount Hermon School at
Mount Hermon, Mass., to the endowment of which he
later contributed liberally. He graduated from Princeton
University in 1895 and was superintendent of the schools
of Haddonfield, N. J., for twelve years. He moved to
Charlotte twenty-three years ago.
Mr. Dechant was for many years active in the life of
Charlotte. He was greatly interested in church activities
and was an elder in the Evangelical and Reformed church
for

many

years.

1886
1886 will hold its fifty-fifth year reunion
on Alumna Day, May 24. On Friday evening, May 23,
the class will hold an informal social meeting at the Ho-

The

tel

class of

Magee.

1894
Coffman McDermott died in Philadelphia of a
heart attack Saturday morning, November 2. She is survived by two daughters, Sara L McDermott and Mary E.
McDermott and a son, Dr. William Coffman McDermott,
all living in Philadelphia.
The son is professor of archNellie

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Page Twenty-One

oology

in

the graduate school of the University of Penn-

sylvania.

1899

At a wedding ceremony solemnized Saturday, November 30, in the Pan-American Room of the Hotel Mayflower, Washington, D. C., Miss Dorothy E. Arrison, formerly of Trevorton, became the bride of Dr. Lindley H.
Dennis, of Washington, D. C. The Rev. A. C. Shearer,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington,
performed the ceremony.
The bride was graduated from the Trevorton High
School, and from Beckley College, Harrisburg. For several years she was employed as a secretary in the Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg, but recently was engaged as a private secretary to Mr. Dennis, executive secretary of the American Vocational Association.
1902
Prethynia Curtis (Mrs. Frederick MacIntyre) died
Saturday, March 22, at her home in Bellingham, Washington. Mrs. MacIntyre was a former teacher in the Nanticoke schools.

1907

Announcement has been made

of the engagement of
Miss Frances Elizabeth Holt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Holt, of Hawthorne, New Jersey, to Albert J.
Crowley, of Paterson, New Jersey. Miss Holt’s mother
will be remembered as Miss Pearl Anstock. Mr. Crowley
is a graduate of the Fastside High School, Paterson, N. J.,
and is employed in the office of the Wright Aeronautical
Corporation in Paterson. Miss Holt is employed in the
office of the F. W. Wool worth Company.

Edwin M. Barton, Elizabeth, New Jersey, presided at
the meeting of the New Jersey Association of the Teachers of Social Studies, held at the Montclair State Teachers
College in March. Mr. Barton also reviews text books in
the Social Studies for high schools and elementary grades
in the New Jersey Educational Review.
David T. Meisberger has been elected superintendent
of Coal Township schools to complete the unexpired term
of P. F. Brennan, deceased. Mr. Meisberger, the son of a
pioneer family, was born and raised in the coal fields. He
attended the

Coal

Township elementary schools and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Page Twenty -Two

graduated from

its

high school.

He

is

a graduate of the

Normal School
sity

and

at Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Univerearned his master’s degree at Bucknell Univer-

sity.

Superintendent Meisberger taught mathematics and
science in Coal Township High School and was superintendent of schools in Coal Township from 1924-1930.
On September 7 he was re-elected to the superintendency.

1003
Ida M. Dreibelbis (Mrs. William C. DeLong) died on
Sunday, January 12, following a heart attack. She had
been ill for five weeks previous to her death. After graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. DeLong taught in schools
of Columbia County for nine years. She was a member
of the First Reformed Church of Berwick, a life member
in the Women’s Missionary Society, and a teacher in the
Sunday School. She is survived by her husband, William
C. DeLong ’03, a daughter, Louise, and a son, Perry.

1917
Theodore Paul Smith, forty-three, former principal
of the Bloomsburg High School, died Wednesday, March
4, in a hospital at Columbia, near Lancaster, following
an emergency operation. A heart condition led to his
death.

Mr. Smith had been principal at Columbia for six
years, previously serving in Philadelphia and Sunbury
teaching posts. He was graduated from the Teachers College, then the Normal School, in 1917, when he was only
nineteen. Then he enlisted in the army and had a notable
career in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
He attended Kelly Field, Texas, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in aviation. He served for fifteen months in France and, upon returning to Bloomsburg, matriculated at Gettysburg College, from where
he was graduated.
He taught in a number of Pennsylvania communities
before returning to Bloomsburg to teach, ultimately becoming high school principal.

1921

The Quarterly has been informed of the death of
Marion Owen (Mrs. Ralph Sutton) which occurred at the
Pittston Hospital August 13, 1939.
She was living at
Lynn, Susquehanna County, at the time of her death.
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April, 1941

Page Twenty-Three

Mildred L. Downing (Mrs. Elmer Major)
Davis Street, Trucksville, Pa.

The address of Edith B. O’Neill (Mrs.
is Box 230, Stroudsburg, Pa.

J.

lives

E.

on

Reese

Killgore)

Correcting an error printed in the Directory of the
Class of 1931, a member of the class has informed the
Editor that Edna Sterner is teaching in Scranton.

1923
Miss Rachel Evans, of Orangeville, became the bride
of Blake Kline, of Bowman’s Mill, near Orangeville, in
the Reformed parsonage at Orangeville. The Rev. George
Smith, pastor, performed the ceremony.

The bride was graduated from the Benton High
School in 1923 and taught in the schools of the county for
seventeen years.
Miss Helen E. Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry P. Campbell, of Catawissa, became the bride of
Ted E. Renaud, son of L. E. Renaud, of Jackson Heights,
Long Island, at 6 :00 o’clock Sunday evening, December
8, in the Community Church in Jackson Heights.

Aletha B Allen
mokin, Pa.
Mildred Zerbe

1924
228 West Arch Street, Sha-

lives at

lives at

Weigh

Scales,

Shamokin, Pa.

1926
Miss Helen

Dale, and Charles
Grad well, of Shenandoah, were married at noon Wednesday, December 31, in the living room of the bride’s home

Kehler, of Locust

at Locust Dale.

The ceremony was performed in the presence of the
immediate families by Rev. Ronald Kehler, pastor of the
Christ Congregational Church, Fountain Springs, and an
uncle of the bride.
Mrs. Gradwell is a graduate of Ashland High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is a teacher
of art in the grade schools of Butler.
Mr. Gradwell conducts a gas station at Locust Dale.

1928
Miss Matie Hawley Townsend, daughter of Lee S.
Townsend, of Light Street, became the bride of Ernest

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Page Twenty -Four
L. Carson, of Hartford, Mich., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. It.
Carson, of Bryson City, N. C., in a double ring ceremony
performed at 8:00 o’clock, Thursday evening, February
13, at the parsonage by Rev. D. L. Bomboy.
The bride is a graduate of Scott Township High

School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
is a teacher in the Scott Township school.
The groom is a graduate of the Almond High School,
North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina.

He is employed as sales manager of
of America, Hartford, Mich.

Cookware Company

1330
Jennie Reitz Mattern has moved to Trenton, New
Jersey. Her address is 840 Berkeley Avenue, Trenton,

New

Jersey.

Irene Harris, of Hickory Corners, is among the deShe died shortly after she

ceased of the class of 1931.
was graduated.

Pauline E. Romberger (Mrs. Norman Borsius) lives
Pitman, Pa., and is teaching there. She has one son,
five years old.

in

Erma Reiner (Mrs. Forrest Snyder) is teaching
Klingerstown, Pa. She has one son, three years old.

in

1932
Miss Margaret R. Stewart, of Cleveland Township,
and Howard A. Hartman, son of James Hartman, of Catawissa, were married Saturday afternoon, December 14, at
3 :00 o’clock in the Esther Furnace Church. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. -J. H. Dunham, of Aristes.
The bride was graduated from the Locust Township
High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Foi
the past nine years she has taught in the county schools.
Mr. Hartman was graduated at the Catawissa Pligh
School and is employed at the Bloomsburg Silk Mill.

1333
Bloomsburg, and A. Kenneth
Maiers, of Philadelphia, were married Saturday, January
18, in the rectory of St. Columba’s Church, Bloomsburg.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Louis J.
Yeager. Mrs. Maiers, a teacher in the Paxtang school,
has a master’s degree from Pennsylvania State College.

Mary

E. Betterly, of

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April, 1941

Page Twenty-Five

Mr. Maiers, a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, is
chief inspector in the Philadelphia office of the Retail
Credit Company. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity.

The marriage of Miss Mary Nicolodi, daughter of
Mrs. Peter Nicolodi, of Brockton, and Charles Paulus, of
Kaska, took place Wednesday morning, November 25,
in St. Bartholomew’s Church, Brockton.
The Nupital Mass was celebrated by Rev. Felix C.
Fink, pastor.

Mrs. Paulus is a graduate of Tamaqua High School
and Kutztown College and has taught the primary grade
in the Tuscarora school for several years.
Mr. Paulus, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J.
Paulus, of Kaska, is a graduate of Blythe Townshsip High
School and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a
member of the Blythe High School faculty.

1934
H. Rishe has announced the engagement of his
daughter, Miss Maryruth, of Bloomsburg, to Louis Walter
J.

Jr., of West Fifth Street, Bloomsburg.
Miss Rishe, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, is affiliated with the Pennsylvania
Power and Light Company.
Mr. Buckalew is in the employ of the Evans Electric
Co. He is a graduate of Mercersburg Academy. He recently received his commission as second lieutenant in the
National Guard.

Buckalew,

Mary H Fagley, a Mount Carmel school teacher,
was married Friday, February 21, in Washington, D. C.,
to Chester K. Humphrey, formerly of Mt. Carmel, and

now

of Buffalo,

New

York.

1935
Mildred Deppe and Roderick Hines, of Berwick,
were married in July, 1940, at the First Presbyterian
Church of Williamsport, by the Rev. Ganse Little. Mrs.
Hines has been teacher of French and Latin in the high
school at Howard, Pennsylvania, for the past five years.
Mr. Hines is a draftsman in the mechanical department
of the American Car and Foundry plant at Berwick.

On Thursday, December 20, at Buffalo, N. Y., occurred the wedding of Miss Dorothy Olheium, of Buffalo and
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

April, 1941

Page Twenty-Six

Bennett Dry, of Mifflinville. The marriage took place in
a Lutheran Church in Buffalo.
The bride is a graduate of the Rochester University,
Elmira College, where she took a course in dramatic art;
she also attended the University of Chicago. For the past
two years she has been teacher of dramatics in the high
school at Gowanda, N. Y.
Miss Anita E. Dix, of Nicholson and Edwin R. Creasy,
were married Saturday, December 21,
at Nicholson. The Rev. Mr. Whitten, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiated.
The bride attended Hood College, Frederick, Md.,
and was in training at the Geisinger Memorial Hospital in
of Blocmsburg,

Danville.

Mr. Creasy was graduated from the Bloomsburg
High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
Bucknell University. He has been teaching at Tannersville.

1936

Announcement has been made of the marriage
Miss Mary L. Enterline, daughter of W. G. Enterline,

of
of

Turbotvilie, to Robert C. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Miller, Bloomsburg. The single ring ceremony was
performed Saturday, February 8, at the parsonage of Rev.
Harvey Sell, pastor of the St. John’s Lutheran church,

Allentown.

The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, and at the present time is teaching at
the Limestone Consolidated School in Montour county.
The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School and for the past six years has been employed in
the office of the Magee Carpet Company.
Ruth E. Gessner and Clarence W. Reitz, of Leek Kill,
were married December 24, 1940, at St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Leek Kill. The ceremony was performed by the
pastor, the Rev. Samuel F. Stauffer.
Mrs. Reitz has for
the past five years been teaching in the Upper Mahanoy
Township schools. Mr. Reitz is employed on his father’s
poultry farm.

1937

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Beatrice Thomas, of Berwick, to Donald Brader, of
Sweet Valley. Miss Thomas is a teacher at Orangeville.
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April, 1941

Page Twenty-Seven

1938
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Potter, of Center Street, Bloomsburg, recently announced the marriage of their daughter,
Margaret, to Henry C. Steiner, of Harrisburg.
The wedding was solemnized on Christmas morning
at 9 :00 o’clock in the Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg.
The Rev. Dr. Winfield Herman officiated at the singlering ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
She is now teaching
Teachers College, class of 1938.
French and English at West Fairview High School.
The groom is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College
Conservatory of Music. He is supervisor of music at West
Fairview Schools.
The couple are residing at their newly furnished
apartment at 522 Schuylkill Street, Harrisburg.

1939
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Ward, formerly of Bloomsburg, announce the marriage of their daughter, Margaret
Mary, to Private Gerard Francis Robinson, son of Mrs
Anna Robinson, of Carbondale, on Saturday morning,
February 22, at 6:00 o’clock in the St. Columba’s CatholicChurch, Bloomsburg. The Reverend Father Louis Yeager

performed the ceremony and officiated at the nupital
mass which followed immediately.
The bride is a member of the faculty of the Orangeville Vocational School and formerly lived in Bloomsburg.
The groom is a member of the Pennsylvania Motor
Police and is stationed at Somerset, Pa., on the new super-highway.

1940
Clayton H. Hinkel lives at 621 Pardee Street, Easton,
Pa. He is teaching English in the March Junior High
School in Easton.
Clara Louise Hauze, of Sugarloaf, and Carl Welliver,
were married at Rohrsburg Wednesday,
November 13. They are now living with Mr. Welliver’s
of Bloomsburg,

parents.

MX
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

24

April, 1941

Page Twenty-Eight

The following
tained in our

whom we

list

is lecorded from the information conThere are more than 1400 graduates for

of graduates

Alumni

files.

have no address.

Please help us correct the Alumni Direcserially in the Quarterly
until completed. Where State is omitted in the address, it is understood to be Pennsylvania.

The

tory.

list

of graduates will continue

Class of 1933

— Continued

Hagenbuch, Espy; Pearl L. Halkowicz, Atlas; Naomi R. Harris,
1510 Schooley Avenue, Exeter; Thomas G. Hartman, 430 East Fourth
Street, Berwick; Vida H. Hartman, 343 Miller Avenue; Bloomsburg;
James W. Hartzel, 72 Iron Street, Bloomsburg; Adelaide C. Hausch,
Noxen; Mary A. Hauze, Cressona; Evelyn M. Heiser, Mount Pleasant
Mills; Dorothy N. Heller, Fern Glen; Clarissa B. Hidlay, 421 West
Second Street, Berwick; Mrs. Nan Higgins Buckley, 211 North George
Street, Pottsville; Mrs. Dorothy Hileman Hummer, Robbins Apartments, Bloomsburg; James L. Hinckley, 2000 Spring Garden Avenue, Berwick; Irene E. Hirsch, 307 Gay Street, Tamaqua; Anna M.
Homiak, 337 Webster Avenue, Ranshaw; Gertie R. Homberger,
R. D. 2, Box 720, Shamokin; Creda F. Houser, Market Street, Shepp-

Jay

P.

Mrs. Bessie Hummel Stahl, Garrett; Woodrow W. Hummel.
Rupert; Ruth L. Jackson, Alderson; William L. James, Main Street,
Wanamie; Mrs. Iva Jenkins Newton, 36 East Main Street, Galeton;
Mary L. Jenkins, 101 Chamber Street, Taylor; Aldwin D. Jones, 1404
Washburn Street, Scranton; Marjoi'ie L. Jones, Wapwallopen; Albert
J. Kafka, Haddock; Eugene M. Keefer, Selinsgrove; Hazel F. Keefer,
R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Laura Kelley Bollinger, 646 King Street,
Northumberland; Fred W. Kester, Mill City; Sheldon C. Kingsbury,
401 East Tenth Street, Berwick; Mrs. Harriet Hartman Kline, 138
West Street, Bloomsburg; Eva C. Krauss, 463 East Third Street,
Bloomsburg; Milton L. Krauss, 463 East Third Street, Bloomsburg;
Catharine C. Kreischer, 210 East 13th Street, Berwick; Walter M.
Kritzberger, 203 Courtdale Avenue, Luzerne; Martha M. Lachowicz,
248 West Third Street, Mount Carmel; Mrs. Edna Lamoreaux Albertson, R. D. 2, Berwick; Emily Landis, 321 South Market Street,
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Mechanicsburg; Lois Laubach, 301 Raseley Street, Berwick; Lois
Lawson. 644 East Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Anna Mary Leiser
Ritter, 57 Locust Street, Milton; Ruth Lesser, 936 Schuabe Street,
Freeland; Wm. Letterman, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Lewis, 114 Parke St.,
West Pittston; John Lewis, 79 Lee Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Ruth
Lewis, 42 South Welles Street, Kingston; Maurice Liptzer, 540 Mill
Street, Catawissa; Mrs. Frances Litzenberger Krum, 1419 Porter
Stoeet, Philadelphia, Pauline Long, Briar Creek; Mrs. Mary McCawley Ryan, 1251 Wyoming Avenue, Pittston; Helen McDonnell, 324
Main Street, Locust Gap; Mrs. Anne McGinley Maloney, East Wood
Street, Centralia; John McHugh, 514 Depot Street, Scranton; Emily
Malkames, 609 North Vine Street, Hazleton; Mary V. Maloney, 82
West End Street, Lost Creek; Mae Mantz, 421 East Washington Street,
Slatington; Martha Marr, 431 West Front Street, Berwick; Calvin
Menges, R. D. 3, Watsontown; Mrs. June Mensch Strausser, R. D. 2,
Bloomsburg; Lena Middlesworth, Troxelville; Amos Miller, 1428

Shamokin; Anne Monaghan, Brynesville, Centralia;
Gardner Street, Plymouth; Mary Moyer, 410
Arch Street, Milton; Sabina Murzenski, 263 Main Street, Duryea;
Clair Musgrave, Main Street, Sheppton; Mary Naples, 320 William
Street, Pittston; Irene Naus, Fern Glen; Mrs. Martina Neiss Moran,
400 High Street, Ashland; Mrs. Phyllis Newman Albertini, Main
Street, Locust Gap; Matilda Olash, 362 Walnut Street, Luzerne; Margueretta Partridge, Market Street, Trevorton; Charles Paulus, Kaska;
Julia Petekofsky, 2066 North Main Street, Scranton; Stephen Petrilla,
Hazle Brook; Ruth Pooley, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg; Andrew Potson, 16
Froble Street, Simpson; Lencre Potter, 721 Main Street, Old Forge;
Miles Potter, Old Forge; Marion Pyle, 327 Dean Street, West Chester;
Catharine Quirk, 17 Main Street, Locust Gap; Mrs. Grace Radel Hartman, R. D. 1, Island Park, Northumberland; Anna Rambis, 64
Miner Street, Hudson; Mrs. Pauline Reng Turek, Retreat; Carl Riggs,
R. D. 1, Northumberland; Kenneth Roberts, 607 East Third Street,
Bloomsburg; Isabell Rough, 308 West Second Street, Berwick; Charles
Rovenolt, Turbotville; Samuel Sacus, 517 Webster Street, Ranshaw;
Margaret Sandbrook, 335 Peach Street, Catasauqua; Dorothy Schild,
501 West Taylor Street, Taylor; Mary Schuyler, 506 Stockham Avenue, Morrisville; Mrs. Margaret Shaffer, 259 West Main Street,
Bloomsburg; Alice Shanno, 422 East Fourth Street, Berwick; Alex
Shepela, Alden Station; Louise Shipman, Route 1, Sunbury; Margaret Sitas, 3 Luzerne Street, Wilkes-Barre; Evelyn Smith, R. D. 1,
Weatherly; Arthur Snyder, 310 Grand Street, Danville; Mary Stahl,
Riverview, Berwick; Stanley C. Strausser, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg;
Gertrude O. Strien, 202 West Taylor Street, Taylor; William G.
Strouse, R. D. 1, Turbotville; Catherine C. Strunk, 1334 Spruce Street,
Ashland; Raymond Stryjak, 150 East Union Street, Nanticoke; John
L. Stush, 586 Washington Avenue, Larksville; Harriet A. Styer, R. D.
1, Bloomsburg; Alexander J. Swalinski, Excelsior; Emma J. Thomas,
213 Gardner Street, Plymouth; Mrs. Edna Timbrell Metzger, 125
Eldred Street. Williamsport; Clair E. Troy, Nuremberg; Mrs. Marion
VanHorn Fray, Hastings; Emily D. Wagner, 619 West Eighth Street,

Walnut

Street,

Robert Morgan, 262

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Mary M. Walsh, Centralia; Amelia A. Wary, 411 Packer
Shamokin; Warren Watkins, R. D. 4, Catawissa; Kathryn E.
Wenner, Drums; Mary L. Wildoner, 114 Park Street, W. Pittston;
Mrs. Lorene Wilkinson Ward, John Street, Kingston; Sarah A. Williams, 38 Miner Street, Hudson; James H. Williams, 136 Summit
Street, Edwardsville; Mary H. Wolfe, 722 East Market Street, Danville; Grace Worrall,
701 Cherry Street, Shamokin; Anna Mae
Wright, Box 33, Factoryville; Walter Yaretski, 57 Ridge Street, Glen
Lyon; Mrs. Vivian Yeany Nachod, Jr., 5 1/: Beverly Place, Wilmington, Del.; Leo Yozviak, 28 Luzerne Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Margaret Hauze Zeigler, Sugarloaf.
DECEASED: Ward McHenry.
Hazleton;
Street,

ADDRESSES WANTED: — Mrs.

—

Catherine Albertson Fuller, Joseph
Arey, Charles Artman, Melba Beck, Anna Busch, Helen Deppen,
Thelma Evans, Mary Gallagher, Violet Gemberling, Frank Greco,
Arthur Harrison, Charles F. Hensley, Wilbur L. Hower, Martha
Kressler, Josephine Pack, Mrs. Violet Snyder Hoffman, Walter Stier,
John Timbrell, Mrs. Anna Wagner Kramer, Edward R. Williams.

CLASS
OF

Sunbury; Elbert W. Ashworth, Espy;
Aten, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg; Genevieve I.
1934
Bach, Atlas; Mrs. Mable Bower Baer, 316 East Sixth
Berwick; Paul J. Baker, 317 East Broad Street, West Hazleton; Mrs.
Gladys Bakey Davis, 17 South Hickory Street, Mt. Carmel; Leonard
Balehunas, 1016 East Chestnut Street, Shamokin; Marion E. Ballamy,
412 West Fourth Street, Nescopeck; Thalia L. Barba, 1515 Marion
Street, Scranton; Eleanor J. Baron, 26 Wilson Street, Larksville; Nora
M. Bayliff, 613 Clinton Street, Vandling; Rachael D. Beck, 1017 East
Market Street, Sunbury; Arden H. Blain, Benton; Mrs. Margaret
Blaine Cooper, Main Street, Tui'botville; Stephen G. Bodnar, Market
Street, Tresckow; Thelma D. Bonshock, 1527 Pulaski Avenue, Shamokin; James A. Boylan, Main Street, Locust Gap; John I. Boylan, 72
Springside Street, Locust Gap; Rebecca M. Briesch, Ringtown; Anna
M. Breya, 47 West Sixth Street, Wyoming; Paul Brock, 413 13th
Street, Honesdale; Irene Buranich, R. D. 2, Clarks Summit; Walter S.
Chesney, 312 North Oak Street, Mt. Carmel; Roberta C. Conrad, 250
Seventh Street, Northumberland; William T. Creasy, 240 Penn Street,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Ella Crispell Cobleigh, R. D., Alderson; Mrs. Letha
Crispell Schenck, Noxen; Bernice J. Curwood, 38 Furnace Street,
Shickshinny; Felicia M. Czarnecki, 78 East Main Street, Glen Lyon;
Esther E. Gagnell, Mainville; Albert R. Davis, 67 McDonald Street,
West Nanticoke; Mercedes I. Deane, 146 West Ridley Avenue, Norwood; Mrs. Mary DeWald Elder, Williamsport; Rose A. Dixon, Lost
Creek; Edward F. Doyle, Box 259, Mt. Carmel; Madalyn G. Dunkelberger, 217 East Second Street, Berwick; Longina Y. Dutchak, 922
Pine Street, Scranton; Anna A. Edwards, 114 East Oak Street, FrackPriscilla T. Acker,

Woodrow W.

Maude Mae Edwards, 150 West Second Street, Bloomsburg;
Robert T. Ellis, Myer Street, Centralia; Edith J. Eltringham, Mt. Carmel Junction; Marion M. Engle, Nuremberg; Charles D. Enterline, 106
Church Street, Danville; Miriam G. Eroh, 821 East Third Street, Nescopeck; Lawrence C. Evangelista, 572 Hayes Street, Hazleton; Esther
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Evans, Annville; Mrs. Jean Eyer Bredbenner, 234 East Eighth Street,
Berwick; Mary H. Fagley, 122 North Oak Street, Mr. Carmel; Grace
V. Feather, 1057 Queen Street, Pottstown; Agatha J. Ficca, 243 Saylor Street, Mt. Carmel; Mrs. Grace Foote Conner, 104 West Main
Street, Bloomsburg; Mary S. Freas, 1209 Market Street, Berwick;
Evelyn R. Fries, 1037 Wheeler Avenue, Scranton; Roy S. Garman,
Trevorton; Blanche M. Garrison, 911 Mulberry Street, Berwick;
James A. Gennaria, 235 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Irene
Giger Milroy, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Anna Gillaspy Raker, 139
North River Avenue, Sunbury; Joseph Gribbin, 1051 Delaware Avenue, Bethlehem; Mary M. Groody, Lost Creek; Gertrude M. Harris,
1510 Schooley Avenue, Exeter; Florence S. Hartline, R. D. 2, Danville;
Elwood H. Hartman, 11 Rock View, Shickshinny; Charles Reynold
Harvey, Huntingdon Mills; Laura M. Hauze, 4 Main Street, Sandy
Run; Mrs. Margaret M. Hawk, 15 South Market Street, Shenandoah;
Robert A. Hawk, Bear Creek; Lorraine W. Henry, 50 Cedar Street,
Wilkes-Barre; Ruth E. Henson, 270 West Main Street, Nanticoke;
Alice M. Herman, Beaver Springs; Dorothy M. Hewitt, 232 Washington Street, Pittston; Bertha I. Hornberger, R. D., Shamokin; Alice U.
Hornung, 1734 Walnut Street, Ashland; Helen L. Houser. Ringtown;
Pauline M. Houser, 223 North Third Street, Catawissa; Frank Hudock,
98 South Wyoming Street, Hazleton; Agnes M. Hummel, Kreamer;
Robert M. Hutton, 158 Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg; Fred T. Jaffin,
1125 Fourth Avenue, Berwick; Sarah E. James, 32 North Gate Street,
Kingston; Anna E. Johnson, Lewisburg; Dorothy K. Johnson, 623
East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Mary M. Kane, 139 Locust Avenue,
Centralia; James E. Karnes, Espy; Mrs. Alice Kealy Coyne, Mam
Street, Locust Gap; Edith C. Keefer, R. D. 2, Danville; Ronald F.
Keeler, 1507 University Avenue, S. E., Minneapolis, Minn.; Deborah
H. Kehler, Locust Dale; James J. Kelly, 37 Plymouth Street, Edwardsville; Patrick J. Kilker, Lost Creek; Mrs. Alice Kimbel Bowman, 587
East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Eleanor Klingerman Johnson,
Light Street; Thelma L. Knauss, 36 Green Street, Nazareth; J. Wesley Knorr, 249 Railroad Street, Bloomsburg; Julia D. Kokora, Mocanaqua; Roman D. Koropchak, 100 Girard Street, Atlas; Blanche I.
Kostenbauder, 534 Center Street, Bloomsburg; Charleen B. Kriegh,
548 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Jessie Dersheimer Hoover, 24
Altoona Avenue, Enola; Howard M. Kreitzer, 120 Lincoln Street,
Steelton; Ivan John Krepich, 8 Parkway, Goshen, N. Y.; Elizabeth R.
Krumanocker, 401 Berwick Street, White Haven; Olwyn K. Laird, R.
D. 1, Muncy; Mary C. Langan, 102 Church Street, Jessup; Joseph L.

Beulah M. Lawrence, R. D. 1, Sunbury;
214, Clarks Summit; Jane E. Lewis, 169
Reynold Street, Plymouth; Miriam F. Losch, Richfield; Marjorie McAlla, Clifford; Ralph A. McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside;
Jos. J. McEneany, New Albany; Catherine B. McGlynn, Jeanesville;
Elizabeth L. McGoldrick, 126 Schumaker Avenue, Dunmore; Daniel
J. Malone, 146 Wood Street, Cumbola; Josephine A. Markovich, R. D.
I, Berwick; Mrs. Althine Marshman Adey, 609 Clinton Court, Hazleton; Mrs. Geoi'gia Martha Sittman, 149 North LeClaire Avenue, AusLarish, R. D., Orangeville;

Mrs. Sarah Lentz Eynon,

Box

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111.; Margaret R. Meade, 164 Searle Street, PittsMenapace, 210 West Girard Street, Atlas; Alfred H.
Miller, R. D. 1, Catawissa; Kerr I. Miller, 1921 Apple Street, Williamsport; Margaret T. Moran, 437 West Main Street, Girardville; Genevieve G. Morgis, 7 Orchard Street, Glen Lyon; Joy K. Morris, 941
East Northampton Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Dorothy Moss Lipnik,
3726 Belfield Blvd., Baltimore, Md.; Paul Mudrick, 91 Prospect Street,
Simpson; Joy I. Munson, 119 West Street, Bloomsburg; Zigmund B.
Nejako, Shickshinny; Clifford A. Nelson, 24 Willow Street, Mt. Carmel; Anna I. Northup, R. D. 2, Dalton; Frederick C. Nyhart, 9 Oxford

tin Station,

ton;

Chicago,

Richard

Street,

S.

Wilkes-Barre; Mary R.

O’Donnell, Main Street, Evervale;

Margaret M. O’Hcra, 319 Ward Street, Dunmore; John W. Partridge,
Market Street, Trevorton; Mary E. Peifer, Mifflinville; Dorothy Jane
Phillips, Chinchilla; Dorothy M. Phillips, Eighth and Center Streets,
Bloomsburg; Jean A. Phillips, 1105 West Locust Street, Scranton;
Mrs. Florence Pieri Drucis, 428 West Fourth Street, Mt. Carmel; Olga
Pregmon, Clarks Summit; Mildred M. Quick, 126 Middle Street, Ashland; Pierce M. Reed, Mifflinville; Jeanette M. Reese, Church Street,
Audenried; Erma M. Reiner, Pitman; Janet R. Reisenweaver, Drums;
Joseph Richards, 384 Chestnut Street, Warrior Run; Maryruth Rishe,
629 Catherine Street, Bloomsburg; Gladys A. Ritter, Drums; Arden B.
Roan, Espy; Lillian V. Robenolt, 535 Hepburn Street, Milton; Nevin
W. Rovenolt, Broadway, Turbotville; Robert J. Rowland, 36 North
Main Street, Shenandoah; Phyllis W. Rubright, 37 Nice Street, Frackville; Dorothy G. Runyan, 305 West Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Anna
M. Ryan, 781 Butler Street, Dunmore; Pearl L. Savage, 238 Ida Street,
Berwick; Irvin P. Scheib, R. D. Box 113, Shamckin; Dorothy L.
L. Schmidt, 318 Maple Street, Scranton; Mrs. Sarah Schnure Mack,
R. D. 1, Milton; Bolish C. Scliraeder, 61 Coal Street, Glen Lyon; Dorothy A. Semic, 2503 South Fourth Street, Steelton; Myrlynn T. Shafer,
1432 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mary E. Shantz, 42 Italy
Street, Mocanaqua; Carmer P. Shelhamer, Mifflinville; John P. Shellenberger, R. D. 3, Danville; Mildred M. Shiner, 425 West Fifth Street,
Nescopeck; Mrs. Freda Shuman Laubach, Mainville; Richard T. Sibley, Benton; Clara M. Singelmann, 180 Rock Street, Pittston; Fred R.
Sonnenberg, 36 Woodbury Street, Wilkes-Barre; Michael P. Sopehak,
67 Froble Street, Simpson; Harriet K. Spotts, R. D. 2, Box 40, Shamokin; Basil V. Steele, Sweet Valley; Wilson B. Sterling, 490 West Main
College Hill
Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Harriet Sutliff Herr, 412
Bloomsburg; Helen E. Sutliff, 25 South Front Street, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Grace Swartwood Embleton, R. D. 1, Pittston; John D. Taylor. R. D.
1
Box 213, Wilkes-Barre; Laura Thomas, R. D. 6, Bloomsburg; Richard J. Thomas, 30 East Butler Sti'eet, Shickshinny; William FI.
Thompson, Coby Junior College, New London, N. H.; Rocco N. Turse,
Valente, 597 Carson
12 Front Street, Northumberland; Ernest J.
Street Hazleton: Alfred L. Vandling, Mifflinville; Robert H. VanSicEast Main Street, Catawissa; Ellen L. Veale, 319 East Elm
G. Wanich, Light Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Ruth Welliver Seely, 568 Mohawk Avenue, Norwood; Gladys M.
Wenner, 235 East Sixth Street, Berwick; Kathryn M. Wertman, Seckle, 421

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71 Ashley Street, Ashley;
Street, Watsontown; Albert T. West,
Mrs. Marie Wilkinson Sweppenheiser, Bloomsburg; Jane S. Williams,
12 Rice Avenue, Edwardsville; Ruth V. Williams, 30 South Regent
Street, Hanover; William C. Williams, Locust Dale; Carrie A. Williard, Herndon; Mrs. Alma Seybert Wilson, Light Street, Bloomsburg;
Viola V. Wilt, McAlisterville; Dorothy I. Wolfe, R. D. 3, Lewisburg;
Margaret A. Wolfe, 141 Awl Street, Sunbury; Gerald M. Woolcock,
State Street, Millville; Kathryn E. Yale, 352 First Street, Slatington;
Mrs. Louise Yeager Flesher, East Third Street, Berwick; William H.
Young, 23 South Regent Street, Wilkes-Barre; Frank J. Zadra, 401
Center Street, Freeland; John Zavarich, 1710 Railroad Street, Shamokin; Ella E. Zukauskas, 116 East Norwegian Street, Pottsville. DECEASED Gertrude M. Tannery, Emmanuel M. Thomas, Mrs. Elsie
Yeager Rhodes. ADDRESSES WANTED C. Homer Artman, Mrs.
Mary T. Beierschmitt Willin, Edith M. Blair, Frank J. Chudzinski,
Elizabeth S. Hake, Mrs. Marion Hinkle Cristopher, Arthur J. Knerr,
Adeline M. Layaou, Helen E. Minier, Mrs. Mary Taylor Seeley.

ond

—

—

CLASS
OF

Mrs. Laureen M. Ackerman, Nuremberg; Ellen C. Anderson, 4 South Tenth Street, Reading; Pearl L. Baer,
1935
R. D. 1, Shickshinny; Lee W. Banghart, 425 East Eleventh Street, Berwick; John T. Beck, 347 Chocolate Avenue, Hershey;
Mae E. Berger, 115 South Fourth Street, Steelton; Charles E. Blackburn, 13 East Main Street, Wanamie; Mrs. Genevieve Bowman McKelvey, 226 Fair Street, Bloomsburg; Gladys R. Boyer, Pillow; Thelma A. Bredbenner, 268 East Eighth Street, Bloomsburg; Woodrow G.
Brewington, Benton; Paul L. Brunstetter, Catawissa; Walter B. Buggy, 823 Chestnut Street, Shamokin; John J. Butler, 410 Fourth Street,
Dunmore; Anthony E. Conte, 1018 Louisa Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; Edwin R. Creasy, 324 Center Street, Bloomsburg; Helen I. Culp, 281 Plymouth Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Thomas F. Davis, 1744 Lanier PL, N.
W., Washington, D. C.; Howard E. DeMott, Box 96, Warren Center;
Mildred E. Deppe, 1217 Dewey Street, Berwick; John S. Deppen, Trevorton; Howard E. Fauth, Box 522, Lewistown; Sylvester C. Ficca,
243 Saylor Street, Atlas; Madeline D. Fiorini, Espy; Ruth R. Flanagan, 142 High Street, Plymouth; Mrs. Mildred Ford Rakocy, 1018
Spruce Street, Kulpmont; Dorothy Lane Foster, 223 South 15th Street,
Allentown; David W. Foust, Washingtonville; Mrs. Laurella Foust
Baker, 112 East Brimmer Avenue, Watsontown; Irene Leila Frederick, Route 1, Milton; Mrs. Helen Frey Markley, Box 413, Wynnewood,
Okla.; Mrs. Euphemia Gilmore Yeager, 587 Wilbur Court, Hazleton;
Mrs. Rosebud Golder Ungemach, 1014 Spring Garden Avenue, Berwick; John J. Gress, Hofstra College of N. Y. U., East Fulton Avenue,
Hempstead, N. Y.; Ruth Harris, 1324 Market Street, Berwick; Gerald
C. Harter, 460 South Fourth Street, Colwyn; Helen Hartman, R. 4,
Danville; Albert A. Hayes, Berwick; Stanley P. Heimbach, 712 East
Second Street, Birdsboro; Harold C. Henrie, 323 Eighth Street, New
Cumberland; Walter G. Hiney, 1123 West Front Street, Berwick; Mrs.
Charlotte Hochberg McKechnie, 300 East Sixth Street, Berwick; Mild-

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red M. Hollenbaugh, 62 Banks Street, Penbrook; Thomas J. Howell,
10 John Street, Sheatown, Nanticoke; Donald C. Hower, Pennsgrove,
N. J.; Elvira J. James, 155 South Nice Street, Frackville; Joseph D.
Kane, 84 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre; Annie R. Kealy, 200 East
Center Street, Centralia; Rostand Kelly, 344 East 48th Street. New
York City, N. Y.; Clyde C. Kitch, 129 North Seventh Street, Columbia; Rosina Kitchener, 164 Girard Avenue, Plymouth; Sam Krauss,
463 East Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Santina La Brutto Conte,
1018 Louisa Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; Susanne Lehman, Espy; Erla G.
Long, Briar Creek; Anne B. McCann, 1632 Webster Avenue, Dunmore; Sadie M. McDonnell, Centralia; John J. McGrew, Main Street,
Mahanoy Plane; Elmer J. McKeehnie, 300 East Sixth Street, Berwick;
Albert A. Makowski, 22 Coal Street, Glen Lyon; Florence E. Marchetti, 1062 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Mrs. Marian Marshall Beisel, 845
Anthracite Avenue, Kingston; Mrs. Fae Meixell Diseroadt, 235 Market Street, Bloomsburg; Eunora B. Mendenhall, Benton; Catherine
A. Mensch, 521 Shuman Street, Catawissa; Veda K. Mericle, R. D. 1,
Bloomsburg; Helen H. Merrill, Light Street; Mrs. Lucille Miller
Peifer, Mifflinville; Mary E. Miller, Centralia; Mrs. Velma Mordan
Kerstetter, Millville; Forrest R. Morgan, Trevorton; Mrs. Erma
Moyer Angstadt, 26 South Seventh Street, Lewisburg; Naomi May
Myers, 83 Church Street, Pittston; Bruno A. Novak, 504 Brisbin
Street, Houtzdale; Harold J. O'Brien, Locust Gap; Mabel Oxfred,
B. S. T. C., Bloomsburg; Camilla K. Pennica, 208 Amity Street,
Elizabeth, N. J.; Roy C. Peterman, Salladasburg; Adeline M. Pfeiffer,
100 East Houston Avenue, Montgomery; Michael Prokopchak, Dallas;
Anne M. Quigley, 45 North Chestnut Street, Mt. Carmel; William
I. Reed, 111 South Fourth Street, Hamburg; Flora A. Robinholt, 149
East Main Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Isabell Rough Bittenbender,
124 West Front Street, Berwick; Mrs. Elizabeth Row Reed, 111 South
Fourth Street, Hamburg; Donald A. Ruckle, 35 Fourth Street,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Laura Burger Schell, 237 West Main Street,
Bloomsburg; Olive Scott, 263 Pierce Street, Kingston; Francis D.
Sell, Littlestown; Anthony Shakofski, 311 Shoemaker Street, Swoyerville; Clarence S. Slater, 2717 Fairmont Avenue, Atlantic City, N.
J.
Loretta R. Smack, 144 East Philadelphia Street, York; Jean E.
Smith, 1140 Market Street, Berwick; Mrs. Hannah Steinhart, R. D. 2,
Bloomsburg; Harriet A. Styer, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg; Nellie M. Sweppenhiser, 254 Mary Street, Berwick; Charles G. Thomas, R. 5, Danville; Dawn E. Townsend, 257 East Street, Bloomsburg; Warren C.
Ulshafer, 75 East Mill Street, Nesquehoning; Mrs. Clara Vanderslice Thomas, 2410 Banker Street, McKeesport; George W. Van Sickle, Catawissa; Mrs. Edna Wagner Stevens, 365 East Third Street,
Bloomsburg; Walter Washelski, 50 Froble Street, Simpson; Theodore S. Whitenight, 82 Knapp Avenue, Bloomsburg; Marvin G. Wojcik, 502 Higgins Street, Forest City; Gerald J. Wolfson, 417 Penn
Avenue, Scranton; Mrs. Louise Yeany Bittenbender, 300 Eighth
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. ADDRESSES WANTED:— Helen G. Bray,
Mrs. Lucille Gilchrist Kendig, Ernest E. Line, Margaret S. Manhart, John Warren Utz, Frank S. Zubris.
;

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Helen E. Ammerman, 126 East Dewart Street, Shamokin; Anna A. Apichell, 552 Spruce Street, KulpCOIIRSE
mont; Louis R. Bei'toldi, Weston; Agnes T. Boran, 201
South Jardin Street, Shenandoah; Elizabeth R. Boran, 201 South
Jardin Street, Shenandoah; Bernard A. Champi, Railroad Street,
Mocanaqua; Dorothy A. Chelosky, 138 Willow Street, Plymouth; Joe
P. Concannon, 803 West Chestnut Street, Shamokin; Hannah Court,
77 Green Street, Edwardsville; Honora M. Dennen, R. D. 3, Danville;
Hazel P. Derr, 94 North Second Street, Hughesville; Thelma R. Dilliplane, 816 North Cherry Street, Shamokin; Pauline H. Ditty, R. D. 2,
Shamokin; Bernard J. Dormer, 911 West Spruce Street, Shamokin;
Mrs. Kathryn Doyle Malone, 146 Ward Street, Cumbola; Charles R.
Dressier, 1519 Wabash Street, Shamokin; Bernice M. Eckrote, 2 Main
Street, Conyngham; Dorothy L. Ermish, 1668 West Front Street, Berwick; Joseph J. Evaneho, Ebervale; Anne J. Fawcett, 331 West Front
Street, Berwick; Elizabeth M. Feinour, Main Street, Millville; Myrtle
B. Fox, 1009 Sterling Street, Scranton; Bernard A. Galganowicz, 36
Green Street, Edwardsville; Thomas L. Gara, 428 Webster Street,
Ranshaw; Max*y T. Gawat, 3 DeHaven Street, Plymouth; Genevieve
M. Haley, 5125 Hazel Avenue, Philadelphia; Ell'rieda M. Hartung,
262 Cottage Avenue, Tamaqua; Edna B. Herb, Pitman; Martin J.

YEAR

Hess, Stillwater; Arvilla Howell, 73 West Main Street, Nanticoke;
Edith Dillis Justin, 838 North Main Avenue, Scranton; Kathryn M.

Keener, Strawberry Ridge; Carl Otto Keil, Hudson; Talma S. Koppenhaver, Elizabeth ville; Winifred E. Koppenhaver, Elizabethville;
Nellie A. Kramer, 549 Foote Avenue, Duryea; Armina M. Kreischer,
210 East 13th Street, Berwick; Peter P. Kundra, 100 Main Street,
Eckley; Daisy J. LeVan, R. D. 3, Danville; L. Ward Lichtel, 28 South
Market Street, Shamokin; Betty G. McGeehan, 703 North Locust
Street, Hazleton; Mary M. McHugh, Church Street, Locust Gap;
Dorothy I. McMichael, Stillwater; Margaret Jean Magill, R. D., Sugarloaf; Helen Masley, Market Street, Kelayres; Alma M. Melchiori,
802 West Fifth Sti'eet, Mt. Carmel; Mabel Irene Mensch, R. D. 2,
Catawissa; Pearl A. Miller, Berrysburg; Rosemary A. Mitchell, 192
Elizabeth Street, Pittston; Eleanor M. Morris, 117 Harrison Street,
Taylor; Thelma C. Ophnger, 556 Strawbridge Street, Norristown;
Agnes A. Pakutka, 612 Stevenson Street, Duryea; Iris M. Payne, R.
D. 2, Dallas; Helen E. Persing, R. D. 1, Elysburg; Harry A. Phillips,
Urban; William Pietruszak, Main Street, Mocanaqua; Helen T. Plotts,
Main Street, Turbotville; Ethel E. Race, Tunkhannock; Kathryn E.
Rarig, R. D. 1, Catawissa; Jean Reese Walton, 407 East Fifth Street,
Berwick; Ruth Irene Rhodes, R. D. 1, Catawissa; Lucille M. Rich,
1267 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Charles W. Rokosz, R. D. 3, Hunlock Creek; Lewis W. Rovenolt, R. D. 2, Watsontown; Samuel S.
Rowlands, 522 West Shawnee, Plymouth; Carmelita G. Schoppy,
Locust Gap; Mary Catherine Seiler, 28 West Lincoln Street, Shamokin; Aileen Emma Shearn, 247 Sixth Street, Northumberland;
Helen Romaine Smith, Wapwallopen; Irene J. Smith; 609 Main Street,
Forest City; Alma A. Steinruck, 329 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg;
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Ann (Wesley) Weslotsky, 1042 Spruce Street, Kulpmont; Marqueen
V. White, 225 East 14th Street Street, Berwick; Isabel Williams, 136
Summitt Street, Edwardsville; Virginia Pauline Williams, R. D. 1,
Catawissa; Gertrude E. Wilson, Kis-Lyn; Marion E. Wolfe. Fairmount
Springs; Willis E. Zeiss, 456 Willow Street, Wilkes-Barre; Eda M.
Zerby, Herndon.
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Receptions, dinners, breakfasts and talking contests were
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

July, 1941

Published by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College, BloomsburU Pa.
Entered as Second-Class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., Under the Act of July 16, 1804. Published four times a year.

H.

F.

E. H.

FENSTEMAKER, T2
NELSON, ’ll

EDITOR
.

BUSINESS

MANAGER

.

David Jewett Waller,

Jr.

1846-1941
T"\ R. David Jewett Waller,
of the State Teachers

Jr.,

President Emeritus

College

at

Bloomsburg,

home Saturday morning, June 28, 1941
Funeral services were held at his home Monday after-

died at

his

noon, June 30.

Inasmuch

as Dr.

the July issue of the

Waller’s

death occurred when

Quarterly was on the press,

was deemed advisable

to insert this brief notice,

it

and

dedicate the October number of the Quarterly to Dr.

Waller as a Memorial Issue.

All

who wish

to write a

tribute to Dr. Waller are invited to send their contri-

butions to the editor.

—
Page One

Gosttmesvcesttetit
By WILLIAM

Ad&ieAA,

MATHER LEWIS

President of Lafayette College
Director of Selective Service For Pennsylvania

Mr. President, members of the Board of Trustees, members
of the faculty,

When

members

the world’s

filled to

the

list

last line,

of the graduating class,

of heroes
far

is

and friends:-

completed, when the

up on that

scroll

will

roll

is

be found the

names of those who each spring sit in auditoriums of this kind
and listen to what is known as the Commencement Address. It
have nothis to you who have suffered that my heart goes out.
give
you
which
will
alleviate
the pain,
to
ing today which I can
and so, if I may, I would like to forget, without any discourteousness, you of the audience.
in the place
I feel it a very great honor to come to speak
where Dr. Waller has made such a mark on education, to speak
where other alumni of Lafayette have contributed so greatly and
1

so unselfishly. Nothing that

what they have done

I

can say

will

mean anything

after

As a matter of fact, it is almost impossible, it seems to me, in this day of critical situations to say
anything that will be of great value to you. The air is full of
voices today

—

here.

there are so

many

conflicting

opinions.

Events

are coming about so rapidly that it is almost impossible to keep
up with them.
I heard the other day of the president of a college out West
who, after saving for years, had the ambition of his life satisfied.
He bought a car. It was a third-hand Ford that rattled along.
There were no rings in the cylinders, and it was in rather bad
condition.
One cold day he drove up to a service station, and
not wanting to chill himself, yelled through the closed window,
“Fill ’er up.”
Because it was so cold, he kept the engine running.
Pretty soon the service man came around from the back
and shouted through the window, “Brother, you’ll have to shut
off the engine
she’s gaining on me!” That is the way it is
these days. Events are gaining on us so fast that is is very difficult to say anything on an occasion of this kind.

—

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July, 1941

Page

Two

I
say to you at this
any commencement means
anything this year, it means something in a place that is preparing young people for educational leadership, because if America
at this time does not realize her educational responsibility and

It’s

a very

time, with

all

because

great chalienge,

earnestness,

that

if

her educational opportunity, then
that the dark ages are going to

I

think

come

it

is

perfectly evident

again, not only in Europe

The New York Times had a statement
in the United States.
emanating from Germany that the German youth are showing a
Their schooling has been
lack of training, a lack of education.
neglected and they are beginning to show it, and the thoughtful
German people are becoming concerned. The ancient University
but

of Athens

two

is

closed today.

universities of Holland

ish professors insisted

Only a few years ago they closed the
because of the fact that certain Jew-

upon teaching the

truth.

I

was

talking

gentleman from England the other evening, and he told me
the boys
that Oxford and Cambridge are practically depleted
have gone out of them to the service of their country. In Gerto a

—

many. where the great scholars of the world have been produced, where our young people went for so many years to get their
doctorate in Philosophy
most of those institutions are still open
but all of them are propaganda institutions. Freedom of speech,
truth
the things of the mind
are out. So it goes in the world.
The great University of Poland is absolutely destroyed. That is
what is going on. And those millions of pitiful little children
they’re not thinking
along the roadsides in France and Poland
of school, they’re just thinking today of keeping body and soul
together. And so I repeat, that you who are going into teaching
have a responsibility greater than any generation ever had, and
m optimistic enough to believe that we are going to face these
issues squarely by ways of intensifying educational processes in

—

—

—

—

I

It is obvious that we must
stop thinking in terms of
and years of time, of diplomas we must stop thinking
of the form of education and get down to its substance.
America has always changed its front to meet the challenge of a new epoch. Go back to the time the discoverers began to settle on our Atlantic seaboard and began to build villages in the wilderness. They discovered that they had no mtei-

America.

—

credits

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July, 1941

—
Page Three

no clergymen,

lects,

demand

who were

the teachers of the time,

and out

came the answer in Harvard College
founded a little over 300 years ago. It was the law of supply
and demand working. Then there followed the other colleges
Princeton, William and Mary, and others. The Revolution came
and the greatest propagandist of the Revolution was the Presiof

that

there

We

dent of Princeton College.
there

came

that great

movement

secured our liberty and then
to the

West.

The covered wa-

new

type of institution.

gons started out, and then there came a

Wherever these wagon
tutions to supply the

demand working

trains settled, there

demand

for leaders

—

grew up small

insti-

the law of supply

and

Easton where Lafayette Colfrom New Jersey, and across that old
bridge between New Jersey and Pennsylvania there came in one
year thousands of covered wagons, thousands who wished their
children to have educational advantages, and almost everywhere
they went there sprang up a small denominational college. They
needed teachers, and they needed preachers, and the} needed,
essentially, surveyors and others to conquer the wilderness.
Then came the Civil War. During that time Europe was in the
throes of the Industrial Revolution. After the war, we were out
We
of step. We didn’t have the engineers or the machines.
lege

is

again.

live in

I

just across the river

started the soldiers laying the rails of the

we

transcontinental

rail-

have men to maintain those roads. The vast
industrial schools sprang up in answer to the call of the Industrial Revolution.
Industry became very strong and we needed
scientific agriculture very greatly.
Thus grew our agricultural
colleges.
We began to have women demand political equality
with the men and there grew up the women’s seminaries. Then
came the city colleges in answer to the demand for education
close at hand for a large majority. Why? Because science was
advancing so rapidly that people had to run to keep up to it, and
people wanted to go to college and couldn’t run away
they had
to do it right there.
I’m saying these things as rapidly as I can,
to say to you that you go out to a challenge in America schools
road, but

didn’t

—

to save civilization.
Isn’t

it

a peculiar thing that at a time

when

a million people

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July, 1941

Page Four

want peace

to

every one

who wants

war, that we’re having war?

Those who wish war are organized, intelligent, are willing to pay
the price. Those who want peace are unwilling to pay the price,
are unorganized. We re not going to get peace that way. We re
only to get it by teaching in the schools of America year after

Human

jear after year.

relationships in the family, in the town,

That

in the nation, internationally.

to us today.

cracy.

How

In the

The challenge
then can we do
place,

first

policy which

all

comes
and save demo-

the challenge that

this?

we have

we have had

is

to save civilization

got to

stop

these years

this

get-rich-quick

and begin

to

teach

weigh the evidence. It is very distressing to hear public men calling each other names.
That is
no way to settle great subjects. The way to settle them is
through calm thought. Bruce Barton once suggested in one of
thinking, to teach people to

his editorials that in addition to all the other holidays

we

have,

added a “Grandfather’s Day,” and on that day
he would have everybody in the United States go out on a hillside with a pine board and a knife, and if the ladies will pardon
me, a corn-cob pipe, and just sit still and whittle, thinking and
keeping quiet for 24 hours. He said that would revolutionize
America, and I am sure he is right. That is what is needed— the
power, the capacity, the desire for thought. You and I often see
in the national magazines a time budget of how you ought to
there should be

spend your time

—

so

many

hours for work, so

many hours

for re-

many hours

for sleep, and yet I challenge you to
which there was 5 minutes a day for thought,
meditation, and for weighing evidence. And that is what you
must teach your pupils. I know in my own college we can be
open to criticism because we have so many classes, so many lab-

creation, so

remember one

in

oratory periods, so

1

much

extra-curricular

activity that

there

is

what he has been subjected to.
successful
democracy
in the world that is based on
There is no
mental laziness. You and I are sure that ours is the finest type
of government yet devised, by the thoughts of man, and because
no time for the student

it

is

we

the finest type

it

is

to digest

the most difficult type to administer.

don’t think intelligently and calmly and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

If

take a courageous

Page Five
is on its way out, and
beg of you when you go
into an educational career to see that those whom you teach
have time to think things over and to grasp what the thing is

stand about
that

its

how

just

is

problems, then democracy
serious education

is.

I

about.
In the

second place, we’ve got to broaden our vision of ed-

ucation and we’ve got to teach history

way than

in a different

we have done before. Defeatism is rising
we need sound thinking so much. When

America today when
I went to college I took
small sections of history at a time. There was no unity in it.
started up in the air and ended up in the air. There was no conone way of teaching histinuity.
I believe that there is only
tory
beginning with man when he came out of the mud and the
slime of prehistoric times, from that day right direct to the presin

I

—

ent.

That long process teaches us something.

down

going to go

after each trial

it

in defeat.

has always

Civilization

come

is

Civilization

always on

out just a

little bit

is

trial,

not

and

ahead. But

what about Hitler and the rest? Well, what about them? If you
will go back along that procession a little further you will find a
Napoleon Bonaparte, who said the same
skeleton in uniform

—

thing Hitler

saying today

is

nearly had the world
little

XIV,

new order
is

who went

the marshes of the

—

Nero. Caesar

— each

the world, but not quite.

him reach too

far.

I

tory will repeat itself
victories

is

history

We

That

And

all

the

the

Because, his great ambition has
I

have

and what we look upon today
his defeat.

must stop

this

made

faith to believe, that his-

Civilization

is

as

Hitler’s

not going out

defeatism idea and

realize

teaching.

is

What we
ica.

finally

dictator has always almost conquered

prophesy,

going to be

of the picture.

what

Fate

Danube and then

do him any good.

Divine rights of kings didn’t
rest

murdered thousands

out and conquered his country.
in

a

who drove my

talked about the Divine right of kings;

caught up with him

man on

another skeleton, Louis

ancestors, the Huguenots, out of France and
of them;

He

Europe.’’

for

grasp, but he died a lonely

Along further back

island.

who

in his

— “A

need, again,

faith

is

a great faith in the future of

must be moral, must be

spiritual.

Amer-

At a time when

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Six
immorality

is

no more a personal matter,

it

is

a matter of inter-

national importance. When they use murder to reach their ends
and lying and murder and dishonesty and immorality are so rife,
isn’t it up to us to teach our oncoming generation again the simple, humble American virtues?
I
believe that just as the athlete has to be trained, that we cannot have moral strength if we
don’t tram those moral elements in any thing.
There’s been a
great change.
A man once told me recently that he had nevei
lasted the white meat of a chicken.
When he was young his
mother wouldn’t let him eat it, and now that he has grown older
There’s been a great change in
his children won’t let him eat it.
the discipline of America in a few years. And don’t forget: while
America was growing soft, Germany was growing strong. She
was building up her youth to hardness. We must do the same
thing in a finer

means

way

if

this

country of ours

is

to

survive.

Thai

means standing for something
France was beaten from within the community that isn’t soft.
not
from
without.
Belgium
went
down from propaganda
in,
from within; from those who had lived and enjoyed the Belgium
way of life for years. “Trojan horse,” “Fifth Column” are simply new and soft terms for age-old crimes. There was a leader
of the fifth column among the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth.
There was a leader of the fifth column in the armies of General
Washington who would betray his country. They called them
traitors then, and such we should call people today who are not
loyal to the American way of life, who are attempting to tear
down the greatness of this country. It is for you as young leaders to prevent and overcome this.
loyalty of teaching; that

And
eration.

finally, the spiritual

Religion

is

element must be taken into consid-

out of the window.

we

We

ask

if

a just

God

The great
of that kind when He was sent
to the most humiliating death that any man has ever known.
There must be something in faith that will cause those Jews and
Protestants in Germany to stand up and tell Hitler that he is
I would challenge anyone to prove
wrong. Spiritual strength
to me that religion has not been the great moving force in the
would allow such things to go on
Founder of our faith said nothing

as

see

today.

world; not the denominational creeds of our world, but the per-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Seven
sonal contact of the Individual with his God.

And

that

is

a ques-

Are you going to
tion you have got to answer when you go out.
laugh God out of your life ?
Let me repeat again that we are coming through this thing.
We have a great example of unity. We people in selective service
looked with amazement

last fall

when thousands

of

people

in

Pennsylvania and throughout the United States came out enthus-

even though some of them did not apThat was a day of great disappointment for
the Totalitarian powers who had hoped we would have a great
deal of trouble. America is united today in soul, and is going to
iastically for registration,

prove of the plan.

see this thing through.

think

I

we

will follow, as

we need

to fol-

low, the example of Great Britain in unity and courage and
the rest, whether

it is

the battlefield or in the school

in

all

room or

in

politics.

The story

is

told of

the

tourist

doing some mountain climbing.

in

He and

Switzerland
his

who was

guide climbed

for

some distance and then took refuge for the night in a cave. Suddenly, there came a tremendous crashing and rumbling.
The
traveler awoke and was frightened.
He wakened his guide and
asked, “What is this
to an end?”
is the world coming
The
guide very calmly said, “No, the sun touches the snow and loosens it and some of it comes tumbling down. It touches the face
of the glacier and it cracks.
No, the world is not coming to an

—

end

—

it is

And

the
I

dawn

of a

new day.”

say to you young people this morning that

the end of the world.

It is

a

dawn

this

is

not

new day if you and I in
am sure we do, and know
of a

America want to make it so, and I
I
you are going to contribute your part in the school rooms of
America to bring about a finer civilization than we have ever
had. That is the challenge
to make a finer civilization than
we have ever had.

—

President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss entertained the faculty

and

trustees

and

their families at the

the College Residence on Saturday

Annual Lawn Party at
May 10. Over

afternoon.

one hundred people were present.

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July, 1941

Page Eight

The 1941 Commencement
A class of 126 received the degree of Bachelor of Science
Education at the commencement exercises held in the auditorium in Carver Hall Tuesday morning, May 27.
in

Following the traditional procedure, the members of the

and trustees marched from the gymnasium to the
The members of the faculty and members of the
class, attired in academic costume, made an impressive picture
as they came down the walk and entered the auditorium. They
entered to the music of the organ as the processional march
“Jeanne d’Arc,” by Theodore Dubois, was played by H. F. Fenclass, faculty,

auditorium.

stemaker.

The invocation was offered by former Dean of Instruction
William B. Sutliff. The speaker of the morning, William Mather
L.ewis, president of Lafayette College, and Director of Selective
Service in Pennsylvania, was introduced by President Andruss.
At the conclusion

of Mr.

Lewis’s

address,

Mr.

Fenstemaker

played the “Ode to Sainte Cecile,” by Gounoud.
Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, then pre-

sented to President Andruss the names of the members of the

who

class,

then

filed

by President Andruss

to receive their di-

plomas, a handshake and words expressing good wishes for their
future success.

President Andruss then spoke informally to the class, after

which the audience sang the Alma Mater, and the class marched
out to the music of the recessional march “Sigurd Horsllfar,” by
Greig.

A mystery play, entitled, “Through the Night,” by Florence
Ryerson and Colin Clements, was presented Friday, May 2, by
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Players under the direction of Miss Alice

Johnson

in

the college auditorium before a ca-

pacity crowd.

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July, 1941

Page Nine

Baccalaureate Sermon
“A

foursquare

Rev. Earl M.

said the

life,”

Honaman,

in

Baccalaureate sermon to members of the graduating class of

his

the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Sunday, May 25,

one wherein there

is

“is

a job to live by, people to live with, a coun-

and a Christ to die for.”
The Rev. Mr. Honaman, now on leave from

try to live in

St.

copal parish while serving as a chaplain, with the

Paul’s Epis-

rank of cap-

103rd Quartermaster Regiment, stationed at Indianas his theme, “The Foursquare Life” and chose
for his text Revelations 21:16, “Foursquare lieth the city.”
During his message the minister asserted: “As you are
about to start a new phase of your lives, I believe that you will
find that there are four great necessities if those lives are to be
of any value to yourselves, to your fellows and to your Maker.
“A job to live by. Work is not a curse as the ancient world
considered it but a great blessing. Only in work can man find
a proper place for the expenditure of his energy. Our Lord says
‘My Father worketh until now and I work,’ and we must follow
the plan of our Maker. Any honest job is Christian if the holder
tain of the

town Gap, used

makes

it

so.

People to
opportunity to
ships of
all

life.

Man

live with.

does not

make wholesome and
Man is a social being.

live

valuable

alone.
all

It is

our

the relation-

Family, friends, neighbors

provide opportunities for us to ennoble our relationships with

our fellow-men. These relations are sacred and

them

“A

country to

Our nation

life.

is

Our

live in.

dear to

us.

God would have

are sacred and

we

do

political life

Some

defend that nation even with our
that

we need

to

keep

so.

of us are

lives

if

is

an essential
preparing

now

necessary.

We

in

to

believe

These glorious relationships
are prepared to give the utmost to preserve
us

that.

them.

“A
in

of

Christ to die for.

This

is

life.

and greatest wall
Here is the final goal

the fourth

the building of a foursquare character.

This gives a point and meaning to

all

the other factors.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Ten
I

say ‘die for’ instead of

which we are willing

‘live for’

because only those causes for

supreme devotion. Mr.
and sweat and
disaster.
They will follow him. Our Lord calls us to take up
our cross and follow Him, knowing that only thus can we win to
that perfection of character which He would have us achieve.
“This is the foursquare life, and it alone will bring us hapHappiness is never found when sought; it is the result
piness.
of a character built on these foundations.
May God give you
courage to build well.’’
The class, attired in caps and gowns, entered the auditorium during the college processional hymn, “Ancient of Days.”
The Rev. Mr. Honaman gave the invocation. The congregation
sang “Faith of Our Fathers” and President Harvey A. Andruss
read the Scripture. Following the sermon the A Capella Choir,
Miss Harriet M. Moore directing, and with Miss Jeanne Noll as
The recessional
pianist, sang “Go Not Far From Me, 0 God.”
was “Wake, My Soul.” Miss Moore directed the music for the
program with Mrs. John K. Miller at the console.
to die will call forth

Churchill has called the people of Britain to blood

The Senior

class held

its

banquet and

mont, Hazleton, Thursday evening,

May

ball at the Hotel Alta-

22. Reber Fisher, pres-

ident of the class, acted as toastmaster for the evening.

vocation was offered by Prof. Walter

S.

The

in-

Rygiel.

The honor guests were President and Mrs. Harvey A. Anand Mrs. George Buchheit, Prof, and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Prof, and Mrs. John C. Koch, Prof, and Mrs. Walter S.
Rygiel, Dr. and Mrs. Kimber C. Kuster, Miss Bertha Rich and

druss, Prof,

Miss Ethel Ranson.

Addresses were made by President Andruss. Dean Koch,
Dr. Kuster

and Miss Rich. Group singing was led by James

Deily,

with Richard Foote as the accompanist.

The
Lavelle,

officers of the class are

vice-president;

Mary

Reber

L.

Sweigart, treasurer.

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Fisher,

Bretz,

July, 1941

president; John

secretary,

and Mary

Page Eleven

9mf 2)ay
grove that has been the setmost of the traditional Ivy Day exercises of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College graduating classes, members of 1941
gathered in the twilight Monday evening, May 26.
The grove was never more beautiful. The ball of fire in
the western heavens, unhampered by clouds, sent its rays penetrating through the foliage of the giant oaks which have stood
In the slumbering quiet of the

ting for

sentry to so

The

many

of these exercises.

black robes and caps

class, attired in the

with college commencements, formed a semi-circle

associated
in

front

of

Back of them were several score relatives, friends
and faculty members.
It was one of those setting such as gave inspiration
for
the pergola.

“God’s

in His

heaven,

all’s right

with the world.”

The college chorus sang that stirring color song of Bloomsburg, “Maroon and Gold” and Reber Fisher, president of the
class, came forth and presented the orator of the day, Stuart Edwards, of Edwardsville.

The orator chose
setting

remarks the reality of the day
would be on the utopian plane of the

for his

rather than something that

and unmindful of the world beyond.

He touched on

the responsibilities of the

government and

“the execution of a war-time policy” and then as he continued
his discussion there

came an accompaniment

day

to his treatment of

drone of an airplane overhead.
The quiet of the setting was broken. Before them one
youth was dealing with facts through speech and overhead arched an airplane, probably piloted by a college classmate completthe realities of the

in the

ing required hours of a

men

already accepted

CAA

in

Yes, the group thought,
things that are about us.

course.

In the

the air corps of the

class stood young
army and navy.

you cannot even here escape

And

the

then developing that thought one

glanced as the inscription on the overhead structure of the pergola from which the orator spoke.
It

read “Memorial of the Class of 1916.” Class and friends

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July, 1941

Page Twelve

—

1916. That was a period just a quarter cenpondered that
tury ago when much of the world was at war, when the class
then going out from the same institution was wondering about
the future in much the same manner as the class of 1941.
Prophetic, that airplane overhead and that class inscription
of ’16? Probably not.
Rather just an association of thoughts
in line with the temper of today’s speculations. But there it was,
and those observations fought for a place in one’s mind.
The oration was brief and to the point. Concluded, it won
the applause of the hearers, and then the class led the procession
It was beside a building yet to
to the new Junior High School.
be actively associated with the college program that a class yet
to win its spurs in the world outside had appropriately chosen as
the place to plant the ivy.

More

tradition

had

program at this point with
1942 by President
acceptance by Ralph Zimmerman,

a place in the

the presentation of the spade to the class of

Fisher of the graduates and
president-elect of 1942.

its

The

exercises concluded with

“Alma

Mater.’’

Later

in

the evening the class entertained the faculty, par-

and friends at a lawn party on the college campus, followed by a dance in the gymnasium.

ents

The Oration
In spite of the tradition, the symbolism and the apparent sameness of this occasion, each Ivy Day is particularly significant. And,
actually, no other single Ivy Day could hardly approach this one in
importance.
Today we plant life at the walls of one of our college buildings;
we start the root of an ivy coat. Outwardly, it seems such an unimportant and little thing, but with reflection and a bit of directed
thinking, it can be made large in our heart. It can be made to assume its proper dimension in our existence.
Young men and women of our generation have burdens to carry
which are inconceivably wide in scope and vast in significance. Upon
us shall fall the responsibility of government; the execution of a wartime policy; and the task of reconstruction both moral and physiafter this cloud has passed. As educated men and women, our
cal
responsibilities are greater, more important than those of the people
around us. We cannot shrug our shoulders when problems arise
which need clear thinking and subsequent quick action. No, we are
the men and women who must take the initiative in all things per-

—

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taining to

common

walfare.

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July, 1941

Page Thirteen
and attaining this momentary goal in our educaautomatically place ourselves in a position to assume
these burdens which inevitably fall in our way.
So, from today on, let us determine to grow as our ivy grows. Let
us start from our root in the educational resources of Bloomsburg,
and, like ivy, branch out, climb upward; looking ahead; finding the
niche in life best suited to our individual talents. Like ivy, some of
us may find our optimum after but a short growing period; some of us
may not even take an additional season to mature, but will remain
static in our present sphere.
Then, without much trouble, I can see
some of us ceaselessly pushing toward God’s sun striving, climbing,
ever upward and onward. These are the fruit of the plant of education which our teachers have nurtured through favorable and adverse
growing conditions with the hope in their hearts that some of us will
fan that spark instilled in us and burst forth into the ruddy glow of
success- spiritually as well as materially.
Our turn will soon come. We shall have the opportunity to become cultivators of the thoughts of men. That is why it is so important that we I'ealize the significance of the guidance and philosophy to
which we have been exposed while here in college. Although we may
not fully realize it now, this influence will be basic in whatever we
do in life. So, before we are any older, let us take an inventory of
our spiritual assets of those things that will make us good teachers.
Let us discard the undesirable and cultivate the useful. It is blessed
to give only if what we give will prove to be a blessing. And the education we give should always be a blessing.
Some of us have chosen military, some economic, and various
other fields of endeavor seemingly foreign to education. But the responsibility is still there
the obligation to our college and teachers
that we will progress and advance with firmness in the right as it has
here been planted in our hearts.
Remoteness is no obstacle; neither is the environmental confinement of our talents. With determination we can all climb above
petty hindrances, make our place where it should be, and by so doing
fulfill the spiritual promise to ourselves and those close to us.

By

tional

striving for

life,

we

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—

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•

Faculty members and former faculty members of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently tendered a testimonial dinner to two veteran faculty members. Miss May T. Hayden
and Mrs. J. K. Miller, for many years head of the music depart-

ment.
Miss Edna Hazen presented a

gift

on behalf of the faculty

Hayden and Miss Harriet Moore presented a faculty gift
to Mrs. Miller.
About 70 guests were in attendance.
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster was toastmaster. Short remarks were
made by President Harvey A. Andruss, of the college and former
Dean W. B. Sutliff, retired.
to Miss

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July, 1941

Page Foui’teen

Named Dean of Instruction
Thomas

Dr.

P. North, a

member

of the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College faculty for the past 12 years, has been named

Dean

of Instruction.
Dr. North takes over the position

held from the retirement of

Dean W.

which President Andruss
he was nam-

B. Sutliff until

ed President of the college.

The new Dean
is

of Instruction

is

a native of Punxsutawney,

aged 48 years and has been active

1917.

In addition to his

identified with

many

He prepared

work

in

educational work since

at the college, he

is

prominently

community.
the schools of Punxsutawney and received

activities in the

in

degree at the Pennsylvania State College in 1917, his
from the same institution in 1927 and his Ph., D. majoring

his B. S.

M.
in

S.

administration and supervision, from Cornell
Dr. North

in

1

was science

al

education

91 7-1 8, supervisor of vocational

woods Vocational School

in

1929.

instructor at Brookville High School

the next year

in

the

Beech-

and director of vocation-

education and supervising principal of the Umon-Corsica Con-

solidated Schools at Corsica, Pa., 1919-26.

He was

a

member

1926-27 and
came to Bloomsburg in 1929. At the latter college his major
courses were philosophy of education, school law and administration, oriental and guidance of Freshmen and educational and
of the staff of

education at State College

rural

vocational guidance.

He

is

a

member

of Caldwell Consistory

and has member-

ship in the National Education Association, P. S. E. A., National

Vocational Guidance Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Sigma

Gamma

Sigma Delta, and the Honorary National Society

in

Pi,

Rural

Education.
Dr. North

is

a

member

of

the

Legislative

Committee

for

State Teachers College of Pennsylvania, president of the Blooms-

burg Kiwanis Club, and

local safe driving school, ruling elder of

the Presbyterian Church,

first

vice-president of the Men’s Broth-

erhood of that church, member of the Executive Committee of
the Columbia-Montour Scout Council, of the Fishing Creek District Council, chairman of the District Advancement Committee

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

,

Page Fifteen

and Court of Review of the Council Advancement Committee.
He is a member of the Bloomsburg Hospital Corporation and was
recently made a member of the Pennsylvania Committee for

Highway Safety Education.
•

A concert arrangement of the opera “Martha,” by Flotow,
was presented by the Mixed Chorus, Tuesday evening, April
under the direction of Harriet M. Moore. This was the fifth program in the college 1940-41 Entertainment Course Series. The
Mixed Chorus, which has a membership of 160, sang the chorus
1

parts of the opera.

A

Roberta Anderson, soprano soloist at the First Baptist Church, White Plains,
New York, was “Lady Harriet.” “Nancy” was sung by Margaret
guest quartet sang the principal roles.

Wilson, contralto, a student at the Institute of Musical Art,

New

York, and soloist at the First Baptist Church, White Plains.

Miss

Wilson

is

a pupil of George Hubbard,

and has been selected

to

sing in an opera to be presented at the Julliard School of Music.

Two

years ago she

Contest held in

won

a First Division Ration

New York

in

the

National

City.

Sandy McPherson, baritone, sang the parts of “Sir Tristan,” “Lionel,” and the “Sheriff.”
Mr. McPherson is a student
at the Institute of Musical Art, New York, and is soloist at the
Community Church in Westport, Conn.
Donald Rogers, tenor, has had extensive concert experience.
He has had many radio broadcasts over Stations WLWL,
WOR, and WINS in New York. He has toured twice with composer Geoffrey O’Hara April 4, he started another mid-west
tour with Mr. O’Hara. Mr. Rogers studies with George Hubbard
and is soloist at the Broadway Tabernacle and at St. Thomas
Chapel, New York City.
The solo parts of Maid Servants and Farmers were sung by
members of the Mixed Chorus Joyce Lohr, Berwick; Mary
Jane Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Ruth Baird. Mill City; Ruth Hope,
Poneroy; Grace Thomas, Bloomsburg; Joseph Malinchoc, Nes
1

—

quehoning; Walter Mohr, Scranton; Rutter Ohl, Bloomsburg,
and William Barton, Bloomsburg.

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July, 1941

Page Sixteen

With the smiles from happy, carefree youth supplying sunshine during those intervals when the sun was hidden behind the
clouds, Bloomsburg State Teachers College staged its most spectacular May Day pageantry Wednesday, May 4.
1

Before a crowd that observers described as by far the
greatest ever to witness this colorful,

Spring, Miss Aldona Maslowsky,

traditional

event of the

Senior

from Wilkes-

college

was crowned Queen of the May by James Deily, president
of the Community Government Association.
From her throne, banked with greens, the queen then viewed with the townspeople the most brilliantly costumed program
ever to be presented in connection with May Day and climaxed
Barre,

with the old but ever thrilling winding of the

On

the greensward before

May

poles.

Her Majesty scampered children

of the Training School, each attired in the bright colors of Spring

and each executing with the ease and thoroughness that comes
many dances which went to make up the
hour and a half program.
While nothing entered upon the scene to indicate that these
are times of stress with much of the world at war, the solidarity
of the Western Hemisphere Republics was reflected and the
melting pot which is America emphasized in the presentation of
with long practice the

the afternoon.

McCammon, of
many

Department of Physical EduMay Days of
the institution, was again in charge and the crowds which applauded the presentation remained to acclaim it her finest
achievement in pageantry.
The Maroon and Gold Band of the college entertained for
Miss Lucy

cation,

who

has directed

the

of the outstanding

an hour as the crowd assembled. Then, staged with the attention to detail that always is attendant with ceremonies having to

do with

regality, the coronation procession started.

Scattering roses into the path over which the queen would

pass were daintily attired flower
bearer.

girls,

followed by the crown

Preceding their queen were the ladies

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July, 1941

in waiting.

Page Seventeen

No sooner had Mr.

May Queen and

the

crown upon the head of

Deily placed the

she was comfortably settled upon her throne

than the kindergarten took over for a presentation of the Mexi-

can

torilla

(pancake) man and a dance of the Republic

to

the

south.
First

graders did a splendid interpretation

rhymns “Curley Locks,”

“Little

Tommy

nursery

of the

Tucker” and “Georgie

Porgie.”

Nothing more colorful was presented during an afternoon
its brilliance than the interpretation of Ameriby the second grade children.
For action the third graders had a natural in a birthday
party for twins “Rastus and Dinah,” the blackface youngsters
making the most of their opportunities and proving splendid en-

that startled with

can Indian

life

tertainers.

The three upper grades
pooled their talents

by

and

Ben Franklin Training School

presentation of a bull

handled

fight,

and supported by dances by children

sixth graders,

fourth, fifth

in the

of the

of

Fourth graders gave the Los Matlanchines dance, and
graders were equally effective

in a

fifth

Los Sombradores presenta-

Sixth grade girls gave a colorful dance after the boys

tion.

the

sixth grades.

exhausted their energies earlier as the toreadors

had

who matched

their skill against ferocious Ferdinand.

As a climax
dinand returned

to this series of rapidly

to the scene

moving episodes Fer-

during a flower dance by college

girls.

College groups took over at this point

in

the presentation of

dances of countries from which their ancestors came. They were
all

splendid pieces of

soms,” an

Irish jig;

work and included “Blackberry

Reel; the Old Mole, an English dance
Jibi-di

;

the

Tarantella;

and Farnadole and Kopak Kolom, a Ukrainian

Then came

the winding of the

May

poles,

a bright, cheerful sight that will long be a

Jibi-di,

folk dance.

some 15

ber and with the poles so placed on the sloping campus

was

Blos-

Bavarian folk dance; the Scotch Four Hand

in

num-

that

happy memory

it

to

the thousands of spectators.

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July, 1941

Page Eighteen

Co^tutued

/location Pnxuyiam

Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the Summer seshave a class of 20 for training in flying under the Civil

sion will

Aeronautics Authority.
Permission for this number was announced May 24 by
Frank Cummings, of Harrisburg, ground school supervisor in this
region, to John C. Koch, coordinator between the college and the
Bloomsburg airport in the carrying out of the program.

The early granting of permission to the local college for
members each, is evidence of the satisfaction of
CAA authorities with the program as carried on in Bloomsburg.
One of the changes made for the Summer classes is that no
CAA instruction will be given women. Of the 30 taking the work
during the college session now closing three were women.
The granting of two units to Bloomsburg is particularly
two

units of ten

gratifying in light of the retrenchment anticipated in
ing.

Unquestionably the

fine

CAA

record of the college had

train-

much

to

do with the grant.
Of the 27 men who have taken the work,

16 have either

taken the examinations for entrance to the air corps of army or

navy or expected

One

to

do so

as soon

as the

who completed the course
now in the army corps.

of those

Herbert,

is

the

college
first

term closed.

“Bud”

semester,

completed the work.
The 20 taking CAA training have received their examination mground work. All have cross-countried and flight tests have
been completed.
All ten in the first class

The Summer

CAA

successfully

training will really be available to

24

as

present requirements call for two alternates or auditors of each
unit

who

will

take the ground course and remain

in the

classes

have passed stage A, which is eight hours of
flying.
This is being done so that if some of the origmal members fail in their work the auditors can step in and take their
places and full classes will complete the work.
until the regulars

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July, 1941

Page Nineteen

Alumni

Meeting,

Presentation to the college of a photographic portrait
G. Cope, a

member

of the faculty from

of

1920
college and

1885

John
and addresses by President Harvey Andruss, of the
Dr. Francis B. Haas, former president and now Superintendent of
Prof.

Public Instruction, featured the general alumni

urday,

May

24,

first

to

meeting on Sat-

scheduled event of a day that brought hun-

dreds of graduates back to their alma mater.

The presentation of the portrait of Prof. Cope was made by
Cope Whitney, his daughter, a member of the class
of 1896 and a former faculty member, and was accepted for the
college by President Andruss with the comment “What he gave
to students will ever live in the hearts of men. His memory shall
Mrs. Hettie

be revered so long as these walls

shall stand.”

Reports showed the increasing activity of the alumni organ-

Bruce Albert, president, was in charge and Mrs. C.
Housenick gave the reports of the secretary and Miss Harriet
ization. R.

C.
F.

Carpenter that of the treasurer.
D. D. Wright,

Loan Fund Treasurer, reported a

total in the

alumni’s student loan fund of $9,758.75, of which $3,664.40

is

loaned to 48 students.

The
through

class of

its

1941 attended the early part of the session and

president,

Reber

dues of the entire class

in

Fisher, presented a

check

for the

the association.

President Andruss in his address paid tribute to the institu-

“Old Guard,” who he said have served following retireon the faculty without thought of self, symbolizing the spirit of Bloomsburg.
He was confident the future
would benefit as had the past through the spirit “emulated by
these grand people.” He spoke of the college as facing the problems of the day and mentioned as an illustration the successful
CAA program being conducted. Dr. Haas, presented by President Andruss and given a standing ovation by the alumni, said
that in these days of stress much has been said with regard to
teachers colleges and their future.
He urged that no drastic
tion’s

ment

as they served

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Twenty

changes be made

up

in the

present program of the

institutions

Commonwealth.
could be done in these

set

for the training of teachers for the

He

believed that two things

the authorization of the trustees for

needed, that could be operated within the

and the

times,

vocational courses, where
limit of the

specific authorization of the teachers college

to

budget,

cooper-

ate with local, state and federal agencies for any project for the

advancement of government

service.

He urged that “we move
moment to change the

carefully rather than on the spur of the

purpose and plan of these institutions.”
Mrs. S. C. Creasy, of Bloomsburg; Dr. H. V. Hower, of Berwick, and Henry Morgan, Scranton, were recognized as members
of the oldest class in reunion, the class of 1881.

The Rev. Mr.

Sanner, of Pittsburgh, responded for the class of 1896, with 23
of

39

living

members back

for the fifty-fifth year reunion

introduced Marion Kline, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,

Other classes

ance.

in

who was

in

and

attend-

reunion were recognized.

The graduates were informed that Dr. David J. Waller, Jr.,
was unable to be in attendance because of
his health but that he sent word “I will be on hand next year.”
Harry S. Barton, of the class of 1896, reported that Dr. Waller
will be 95 on June
7.
Tribute was paid to the memory of John MacGuffie, one of
Bloomsburg’s greatest athletes. The Luzerne County group reported a $25.00 contribution to the Student Loan Fund.
The alumni luncheon, entirely informal and with no program, followed. Classes got together, many of them in novelty
hats and made merry. There was quite a contest for cheering
president emeritus,

1

honors.
•

Cass Township High School, Minersville, with eleven points

topped Hamburg and Springfield, with ten points each, to
win the Class B scholastic commercial contest of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, held Saturday, May 3, and attracting
32 contestants from 26 high schools.
Teams following the first three in the scoring were Arendtville Vocational and Edwardsville five each, Slatington four, Plymouth Township three and Forty Fort two.
just

1

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July, 1941

Page Twenty-One

Alumni Banquet
A

plea for

today into a
live

all

fine

through

to join

hands

in the

moulding of the youth of

moral structure which “will make this nation
and go on to greater attainments was

this crisis”

made by Judge

C. E. Kreisher, a

member

of the class of 1897, in

a ringing address on conditions of the day which was delivered
at the annual

Alumni Day dinner

Saturday evening,

May

The dinner was one
followed by a program
nasium.

at the State

Teachers College on

24.

in

of the concluding

features of the day,

and dance

the auditorium

in the

gym-

R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni, presided and

during a brief interval of business Dr. D.

J.

Waller,

Jr., Dr. E.

H.

Nelson and Hervey B. Smith were re-elected to the Board of Di-

The college orchestra presented a
music with Miss Harriet Moore
singing and Howard F. Fenstemaker at the piano.

rectors for three year terms.

delightful

program

leading the

of dinner

The Rev. Mr. Sanner, of Pittsburgh, a member of the
1

class ot

886, gave the invocation.

The toastmaster read a

letter

member of
members of

from Dr. George

B.

Mears, of

With him
there are two other
that class, Mrs. Mears and J. K.
Bitcenbender. Dr. Mears wrote that the ages of the trio were
from 85 to 88 and that at the latter age he still drives an autoJacksonville, Fla., a

the

class of

1874.

mobile.

Mr. Albert said that
college should prepare

its

it

had long been

own volume

of

his

thought that the

“who’s who,”

listing

aiumm who have made definite contributions in life. One of
those, he said, who have brought honor and distinction to themselves and their alma mater was the speaker of the evening,
Judge Kreisher.
The jurist observed that he has lived through an age that
scientific
for
research and invention is unparalleled in history.
But he asserted conditions have grown up which require the best
in all of us to build men and women of tomorrow able to cope
with the problems they will face.
He spoke of the overcrowded conditions in institutions for

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Twenty-Two
the care of minors

ed for by the
to capacity

taken care

who come into the courts and have to be carHe mentioned various institutions all filled

state.

and with waiting

lists

almost to the number of tnose

of.

"The time has come where this matter requires the attention of all of us in bringing up America and we must face this
fact.
If America is to be saved it must be saved by our influnece
in rearing those of tomorrow.
We must give to these young people something more than just protection and education.
"The generations past have been productive of many fine
things, the paved road, the airplane and the automobile but witn
these have come the road houses and the dance halls and a morality problem that must be faced.
We must act now to instill in
the youth that which will fit them for their places of responsibility.”

He spoke

of the present selective

the fact that the health of the

service

young men

law uncovering

called to serve

is

not

good on the average as it should be. He was confident that
those who have gone out and are going out from the institution
realize the task which they face.
"We understand out duty and
we will go out and do it.”
The program in the auditorium opened with an organ solo,
"Romance,” Wieniawski, by Howard F. Fenstemaker, and a play
Ada, Betty Kat‘First Class Matter," with the following cast
erman; Bessie, Elizabeth Feinour; Jerry, Richard Foote; Mr.
as

—

Binks,

Edward

Sharretts

;

Miss

Hammond, Jean

Kuster.

Miss

Alice Johnson directed.

There were several selections from "Burned Bridges,” colby Eda Bessie Beilhartz and Richard Foote,
of this year’s class.
Those selections were sung by the follow"Let’s Dream Awhile," Miss Ruth Baird and William Haging
enbuch; "Won’t You Come Down to the River?” Walter Mohr;
"I’m For You,” Misses Ruth Baird, Virginia Hughes and Helen
lege operetta written

—

The accompanist was James Deily.
There were several selections by Richard Foote, James
Greenly, William Hagenbuch and Dayton Greenly with incidental
comment by Stewart Edwards. Miss Helen Johnson was the
Johnson.

soloist

and James Deily the conductor.

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July, 1941

Page Twenty -Three

Athletic Banquet
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, honoring its men and
athletes at the Eleventh Annual Athletic Dinner held in
college
dining hall, heard Dr. Elbert K. Fretweil, professor of
the
education. Teachers College, Columbia University, assert that we
must adjust ourselves to a new world and express the belief that
in that new world “the old spirit of team play and sportsmanship

women

is

going along.”

of the track and field team, who performed in the
Shippensburg during the afternoon and took second place along with many individual honors, were accorded an

Members

State

Meet

at

ovation by the

560

diners as they entered the dining hall.

Scores of students were presented with various awards during the evening, emphasizing

gram

of the institution

the

ever-increasing

which gives opportunity

athletic

to all

who

pro-

desire

to participate in sports.

Highest awards of keys to

made by

men and chevrons

President Harvey A. Andruss.

to girls

were

Other awards were pre-

men by Dr. E. H. Nelson, chairman of the Faculty
Committee on Athletics, and to the girls by Miss Lucy McCammon, of the Department of Physical Education.
Honorary captaincies announced were Leo Lehman, Hanover Township, football; William Kerchusky, Ringtown, basketball; Daniel Bonham, Forty Fort, track.
sented to the

Splendid entertainment features during the evening includ-

ed vocal solos by Miss Janet Shank, “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,”

and “The Blue Room” and violin solos by Jack Schlauch, “Romance,” by Wieniawski and “From the Canebrake,” by Gardner.
Their accompanist was John Young. The Maroon and Gold Orchestra provided a fine program of dinner music and group singing was under the capable direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore
with Howard F. Fenstemaker at the piano.
The invocation was given by W. B. Sutliff, one of the institution’s beloved “Old Guard” and dean emeritus of the college.
Edward F. Schuyler, of Bloomsburg, presided.

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July, 1941

Page Twenty-Four

feloo4tvihu>Uf Seca+uJt 9*t

State Meet

West Chester’s track and field legions swept back into the
title at Shippensburg by defeating the Bloomsburg Huskies,
holder of the diadem since 1937, by 76'/2 to 59 J/2
Trailing along were Cheney with 27, East Stroudsburg and
Shippensburg with 2\/i each, Millersville with three and Lock
Haven with one.
While team honors went to the suburban Philadelphia institution, individual honors were gained by the Huskies with Dan
Bonham, Forty Fort, making his last collegiate appearance, setting meet history by sweeping the weight events and establishing
new state records in the shot and discus.
High scoring honors were snared by Don Jenkins, Forty
Fort, Bloomsburg Sophomore, who raced to victory in the 440
and low hurdles and was third in the javelin and high hurdles for
16 points. Thus he and Bonham contributed 31 points, more
than half of the Husky total.
state

.

Bloomsburg, which had 3 boys entered against the 30
from West Chester, got the lion’s share of the first place honors.
Bonham took the discus shot, and javelin; Jenkins the 447 and
low hurdles, and Egroff, Forty Fort, a Freshman, the half mile.
West Chester and third place Cheney each took three firsts
and Bonner, East Stroudsburg distance star, was a double win1

ner.

Bonham won

the discus with a heave of 141 feet,

5^4 inchnew
He also put a
mark
of 46 feet, 6^4 inches,

es, raising his old mark set a year ago.
on the books in the shot put with a toss
just 34 of an inch over the record set by Zalonka, of Shippensburg, two years ago.
McCloud, Cheney star, set the other new mark with a broad
jump of 22 feet, 6'/4 inches, raising by six inches the old mark

he

set last year.

Ella C. Ritchie,

former librarian

day, April 27, at Framington, Mass.

Philmont,

New

York, for burial.

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July, 1941

at

Bloomsburg, died Sun-

The body was taken

to

—
Page Twenty-Five

All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of
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

—

<?=£

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

R. Bruce Albert
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

.'

E. H.

Nelson

D. D. Wright

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

Smith

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

—

President Louise Downin Laubach, 317 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. C. W. Hoover, Enola, Pa.; Second
Vice-President Blanche Miller Grimes, 204 North Second Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Elizabeth V. Clancy, 436 North Third
Howard M. Kreitzer, 120 LinStreet, Steelton, Pa.; Treasurer
coln Street, Steelton, Pa.

—
—

—

—

Lackawanna County

—

President Herbert S. Jones, 707 North Rebecca Avenue, Scranton,
Pa.; Vice-President
Thomas R. Rowland, 822 Richmont Street,
Scranton, Pa.; Secretary Adeline Williams, 810 Archbald Street,
Scranton, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia A. Bohn, 227 Stephen Avenue,
Scranton, Pa.

—

—
—

Luzerne County
Aurand, 162 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Vice-President
Edison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen
Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President- Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Carlisle Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer—-Mrs. Lester Bennett,
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.

President

—Edna

—

—

—

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July, 1941

—
Page Twenty-Six

Montour County

—

President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.;
Vice-President Nellie Bogart, Danville; Secretary Alice Smull,
312 Church Street, Danville; Treasurer Jean Capwell, Danville.

—

—

—

Northumberland County

—

President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President
Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; Secretary
Helen Latorre, Atlas, Pa.; Treasurer
S. Curtis Yocum, 925
Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.

—

—

Schuylkill County

— Orval

—
—

Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray
Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; VicePresident Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President— A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President Michael

President

Palsgrove,

—

—

—

Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer

Walaconis,

—

Main

Street,

Mahanoy

—

City, Pa.

Philadelphia

—

President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Mary
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council
Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretary
Lillie Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
N. J.; Treasurer- Nora Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdrick Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

—

—

—

Snyder-Union Counties
President

— Harold Danowsky, R.

3,

Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President

—

Eugene Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen
Keller, Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred WagMrs. Harold Baker, Market
ner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary

—

Street,

Mifflinburg,

Pa.;

Treasurer

—

— Anna

Troutman, Selins-

grove, Pa.

Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties

—Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene Johnson, Hallstead, Pa.; Vice-President — Susan Jennings Sturman,
Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary — Catherine
New Milford, Pa.;
Secretary — Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer — Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.

President

Bell,

Columbia County

—A.

—

Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Margaret Cole McCern, Benton, Pa.; Secretary— Thursabert Schuyler,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.

President

C.

—

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July, 1941

Page Twenty-Seven

The Philadelphia Alumni

Another delightful reunion and banquet of the Philadelphia
Alumni Association (the eleventh) was held in the North Gardens of the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford Saturday April 26th.

With

C. E.

Houseknecht, of West Chester,

we knew

would not be a

as Master of

moment. The
meeting was opened by the singing of America, and Dean Sutliff delivered the invocation.
We especially honored our newly
elected President, Harvey A. Andruss, and pledged anew our
loyalty to our Alma Mater and our new leader. We were honored by the presence of Dr. Haas, to whom we give all honor
and praise for the present high status of our College. It was
fine to have him and Mrs. Haas upon this occasion. We feel they
will always belong to Bloomsburg, for they have won for themselves a big place in the hearts of the students, the faculty, and
Ceremonies,

there

dull

the townspeople.

Mr. Andruss was given a

fine ovation.

He brought

a school

picture on Aviation, and gave a most interesting talk on this

new

We

were pleased to have with us Mrs. Allie Dillon Furman, the grandmother of the first girl graduate of this coure.
Mr. Houseknecht now brought out his famous book of “Excuses,” a most unique collection, gathered in his many years of
teaching, and of course no one can read into these “Excuses”
as much fun and laughter as he.
Again there was singing, and we had the flower presentation by Mr. Houseknecht.
Flowers were given Mrs. Andruss,
Mrs. Haas, Mrs. Sutliff, Mrs. Bruce Albert and Mrs. Bernard
course.

Kelly.

Mr. N. Elwell Funk, a Vice-President of the Philadelphia
Electric

Company and

a loyal Bloomsburg Alumnus, was obliged
owing to a previous engagement, but we did apcoming and staying as long as he could.

to leave early

preciate his

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Twenty-Eight

Then Mr. Houseknecht called on Bernard Kelly, ’13, a
prominent Philadelphia Attorney, who is loyal to Bloomsburg
and everything it means. His most treasured experiences, he
were those he had at Bloomsburg.
is a real joy to have these splendid men remember the
friends of their youth, and attend these gatherings, thus testifying to a very real and sincere interest in their Alma Mater.
Bruce Albert spoke on finances of the Association, and
urged support of the Alumni Quarterly, a very interesting publication, brimful of news of the activities of the College, and instated,

It

Do your bit
Howard Fenstemaker any news you may have,

teresting items concerning your old school friends.

by sending

to

come to your notice, concerning former students.
What a pleasure it is to have the wives of our faculty members come with them! We are happy to see them. Mrs. Sutliff
was called on to make a bow in honor of her work as Music Instructor. It was nice to see Misses Oxford and Nason.
We missed Howard Fenstemaker and his musicians, and
Miss Moore and her vocalists, as they have contributed much in
or

enthusiasm and color to these occasions.

These annual gathernigs bring together a large number of
Alumni from Pennsylvania and neighboring states. We are indebted to the untiring efforts of our President (Mrs. Florence
H. Cool) through these years for this opportunity of meeting

our old school friends and teachers. Five members of the Wilkes-

We

Barre Association drove down.

and hope they

will

come

were pleased

to see

them,

again.

LILLIAN

HORTMAN

IRISH, ’06,
Secretary.

•

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND ALUMNI
Resolutions on the Death of Mrs.
It is

Mary

Seitz Nolan.

with a deep sense of sympathy that the Dauphin-Cum-

berland Bloomsburg State Teachers’ Alumni Association records
their

sorrow

at the loss of

the passing of Mrs.

Mary

one of

its

Seitz Nolan,

outstanding members.

1428

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

In

North Sixth Street.
16,

1941,

this

As-

Page Twenty -Nine
sociation has lost a loyal, constant

and dependable

friend.

Mrs. Nolan was a product of the Harrisburg Schools to the
degree of graduation, and prepared for teaching by completing
the course at Bloomsburg Normal School (now Bloomsburg

She taught in the Harrisburg District
and was Principal of the Downey Building in a community which
was dear to her. Her activities in that community were by no
means confined to her profession alone. She gave untiringly
of her time, her talents and her means to serve the best interests
of that locality and her service in that office, marked by clear
insight, keen wisdom, and unswerving loyalty, effectively contributed to the solution of many troublesome promlems. Her
gentle, kind manner to the teachers under her supervision and
the memory of her devoted and inspiring life will be cherished
by all who knew her.
Mrs. Nolan was the widow of the late George Nolan, who
passed away last August. She was a member of St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and a member of the LadBenevolent Association, No. 1202, and “The
ies’ Catholic
Queen’s Daughters ’—an Association connected with the Sylvan
Heights’ Orphanage.
We bow in humble submission to the Divine Will and fully
realize that the inspiration, patience and influence of this noble
life can never die and we can say with the poet
“To live in
hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
State Teachers College).

—

BE IT RESOLVED That this tribute of regard and devobe entered upon the minutes of this Association and that a
copy be sent to H. F. Fenstemaker, to be published in the next
:

tion

issue of the

“Alumni Quarterly.”

ELIZABETH

V.

CLANCY,
Secretary.

•

Luzerne County Alumni
Bloomsburg Alumni Association, of Luzerne County, reat Wilkes-Barre.
The president. Miss
Edna Aurand, was in charge.
H. A. Andruss, new President, announced that he sent out

cently held a luncheon

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Thirty

1419 questionnaires
certain

how many

to

graduates during the

last

are or have been teaching

10 years to as-

in this

state.

He

pointed out the importance of building current projects on faith
instead of fear.

Announcement was made
conducted

added

at

of a civilian course in flying to be

Bloomsburg airport during the year.

to the curriculum

is

Also to

Bruce Albert, president of the State Alumni Association,
ported that the

from 20

new

be

a class in speech correction.

educational fund

is

making

it

possible

re-

for

25 students to complete their education.
Mr. and Mrs. Sutliff. long associated with the school, were
to

introduced.
Pictures of the centennial celebration
S.

I.

were shown by Prof.

Shortess.
•

SNYDER-UNION COUNTIES
The Snyder-Union Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Alumni Association held a reunion in the Lewisburg Reformed
Church March 29. R. Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg, President
of the Alumni Association, was toastmaster.
Harvey Andruss, President of the College; Dean W. B. Sutliff, Dr. Thomas P. North, S. I. Shortess and Miss Margaret Bogcnreif, a former faculty member, responded to toasts.
After the banquet, “Wings Over Bloomsburg.” a motion
picture of campus life, was projected by George Keller, of the
Singing of the alma mater followed.
faculty.

MONTOUR COUNTY
The Montour County Alumni Association
College, held
Danville,

its

annual reunion

at the Shiloh

Tuesday evening, April 22.

One hundred and twenty were
ance

of the Bloomsburg
Reformed Church,

in the history of the

present, the largest attend-

organization.

Ralph McCracken, a lieutenant stationed
Gap, was toastmaster.

Dean W.

B. Sutliff

He

is

gave the invocation.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

at

Indiantown

President of the organization.

July, 1941

President

H.

A.

Page Thirty-One

Andruss extended greetings from the college and told of the new
courses available, including that of aviation.
R. Bruce Albert, President of the Association, extended an
invitation to the

group

to return for

Alumni Day on May 24.

Vocal solos were given by Elwood Beaver, of Catawissa and
Janet Shank, accompanied by John Young, of Catawissa.
solo

was

A

vocal

by Mrs. Isabel Snyder, of Danville.
Readings were given by Mrs. Sarah Free, of Danville and
also given

Irene Diehl, of Bethlehem.

The DeLong Male Quartette, consisting of John ShellenW. Foust, Ray Christ and Frank Strine, sang sevselections.
Group singing was in charge of Mr. Shellen-

berger, David
eral

berger.

The motion picture, “Wings Over Bloomsburg,” was shown.
The meeting closed with the singing of the alma mater. Thirteen
faculty members and sixteen college students attended.

Groups of high school

girls

from

1

3

high schools of

area, the most ever to be represented at a Play

Day program

the
at

Wednesday, May 14, were entertained by
day-long
a
program which concluded with May

the Teachers College,
the college in

Day.
Schools represented at the delightful day were Mifflin, CenBloomsburg, Benton, Scott, Orangeville, Locust, Mam, Sugarloaf, Millville, Berwick, Beaver, Catawissa.
tre,

The girls and the accompanying faculty members register9 00 o’clock and were shown around the college with a
program of entertainment also provided. Following lunch in the
college dining hall the girls were divided into eight groups with
relays, cageball, tug-of-war and baseball enjoyed.
Individual
events of the morning had included ping pong, shuffle board,
darts horse shoe pitching, broad jumping and tennis.
The program was entirely in charge of students with Miss
Mary Jane Sharpless, of Bloomsburg, as general chairman. Officials for the various events were Dorothy Savage, Arlean Swinesburg, Barbara Gilette, Ruth Schields, Mary Jane Evans, Hazel
Chappell, Lois Gruver, Dawn Osman, Betty Sell.
ed

at

:

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July, 1941

Page Thirty-Two

1874
The following
1611 Ionia Street,

was received from Dr. G. V. Mears,
Jacksonville, Florida, and was read at the
letter

—

Alumni banquet:
“I see 1874 is not on the list, but three of us are in Florida.
They are J. K. Bittenbender, Mrs. Mears and myself. I am
the Senior at 88, and all are over 87. We are sorry, but the
past holds the most for us. We are too feeble to travel, though
1 do drive a car a little.
“I entered the Normal under Professor Carver 70 years ago
and was there through those years of trial, but the memories of
those days are recalled with great pleasure.

“Fortunately time

chills, in

for the present, but the past

is

some degree, our

sensibilities

as bright as ever.”

1880

207 North Coal Street, Shenanhome Friday, February 28. She was a resident
Shenandoah for many years and was an Americanization
Mrs. Ellen Golden Lally,

doah, died
of

at

her

Shenandoah schools

She retirfor twenty years.
She was a member of the Annunciation Church, the Catholic Daughters of America, the Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. 0. H., and of the Church Sodality.
Mrs. Lally, with Mrs. Celeste Prutzman, of Trucksville, and
teacher

in the

ed from teaching two years ago.

Horace

G. Supplee, of Chicago,

were

in

Bloomsburg

last

year

to

attend the sixtieth year reunion of their class.
Mrs. Prutzman’s son writes that his mother has been very

She was in the hospital almost two weeks, and
had four blood transfusions. Her strength is returning slowly,
and she is able to move around in a wheel chair.
ill

this Spring.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Thirty-Three

The address
1205 North La

Horace G. Supplee has been changed

of

The correct address
Avenue,

St.

2345

en as

W. Young
The address was

of Ernest

Paul, Minnesota.
in

to

Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.

2245 Carter

is

incorrectly giv-

the April Quarterly.

1881
The oldest class

members back
ed of Mrs.

in

reunion was

S. C.

of

1881

The

trio

that

with three

was composHeisler V. Hower, of

for their sixtieth reunion.

Creasy, Bloomsburg; Dr.

Berwick, and Henry Morgan.

1885

Myron Geddes died

Friday, January

daughter, Mrs. George Atherton,

in

1

1

at the

,

Glen Alden, Pa.

home of his
He is sur-

vived by two sons and two daughters.
William
writes that he

Community

Conner, 120 Cypress Street, Madera, California,

S.

is “still

a useful citizen, serving as Treasurer of the

Madera Chapter

Chest, the

of the

Red

and the

Cross,

Presbyterian Church.”

1886
William

May

1

7,

Williams, of Madera, California, died Saturday,

L.

after an illness of five weeks.

two daughters,

He

is

survived by his wife,

a brother, seven grandchildren,

and one great-

grandchild.

Mr. Williams was born July 25,

With

South Wales.

when he was

five

his parents,

I860, at Milford Haven,

he came to the United States

years old, the family settling

in

Nanticoke.

As

worked

the

a boy, he picked slate in a coal breaker, and later

mines of the Susquehanna Coal Company.
Miss

Mary Hughes, who died

in

he entered the Normal School
uation he taught for a

He was

coke.
at the

number

at

1927.

1882, he married

Following his marriage,

Bloomsburg and

after his grad-

of years in the schools

of

elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate

in

Nanti-

1884,

age of 24.

In

1891, Mr. Williams moved to California, and after teach-

ing in the elementary schools for a time, he
the

In

in

Madera

schools.

When

became

principal of

William McKinley became President,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Thirty-Four
he was appointed postmaster of Madera, and served under Theodore Roosveelt and William H. Taft.

1913, Mr. Williams again became principal of the MaLater he served nine years as county superintend-

In

dera schools.
ent.

He was admitted

bar

in

1901, but never engaged

member

of

Madera Lodge

to the

in

the practice of law.

Mr. Williams was a

and Madera Camp,

the Order of Eastern Star,

He was

World.

a

member
who

&

A. M.,
of

the

of the Baptist Church.

1929 he was married

In

Cove, Massachusetts,

F.

Woodman

to

Miss Janette Jones, of Glen

survives him.

Elfleda Barnes (Mrs. E. H. Gottschal)

is

now

living at

931

Washington Avenue, Tyrone, Pa.
Mrs.

Emma

Fisher

Thomas has been reported

as deceased.

Jameb Maurer. 2827 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, died
home Thursday, February 19. Dr. Maurer, a graduate of

Dr.
at his

Bloomsburg State Normal School, Lafayette College, and the
Philadelphia. Dental College, practiced denistry for
til

his retirement three years ago.

He

is

33 years, un-

survived by his wife,

three daughters, and a son.

One

of the

most active classes

in the history of the college,

886, had twenty of its thirty-nine living members back
for the fifty-fifth reunion and several were present the next day.
that of

1

The members were entertained Friday evening, May 23, by
Bloomsburg classmates at an informal reception at the Hotel MaOne of the members, M. A. Kline, was present from Chegee.
yenne, Wyo., with Mrs. Kline. It was the first trip east for Mrs.
President Harvey A. Andruss and Mrs. Andruss were
Kline.

among

the guests.

There were sixty-seven
living.
Members and guests

in

the

class

with thirty-nine

still

in attendance were:
Rev. and Mrs. N. S. Sanner, Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Cool, Mrs. Belle Monie Jones, Philadelphia; Mrs. Dell Shaffer, Graceful, Delaware; Mrs. Flora Jones Fetterolf, Pottstown; Mrs. Annie S.
Nuss, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Grace Laycock, Kingston; Mrs. Melle
Long Dickson, Berwick; Miss Enola Guiye, Catawissa, one of the two

living faculty

members

of the

days

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

when

July, 1941

the class

was

in college; Miss

Page Thirty-Five

New

Jersey, a guest; Mrs. Dora Kesty, Miss Stella LowenColley, Mrs. Annie Snyder Mausteller, Bloomsburg; Miss Margaret Brennan, Shenandoah; Mrs. Lettie Moyer White,
Mrs. Joseph B. Dyer, Bloomsburg; Miss Elizabeth Low, Lime Ridge;
Jerome Felker, David Glover, Mifflinburg; Mrs. Mary Schoch McKelvey, Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Freda Barnes Gottshall, Tyrone.

Anna

Fox,

berg, Mrs. R.

Frank

Rev. Nolan H. Sanner

spoke for the

class,

lives at

1250 Peermont

Street, Dor-

Rev. Sanner attended the reunion of

mont, Pittsburgh, Pa.

and offered invocation

class,

at

the

his

Alumni

meeting.
Mrs. Ellen Geiser Seip, of Easton, died Saturday,
8,

1940, at the

home

December

of her daughter, Mrs. Earl C. Sherman,

of

She had come
to spend the Christmas holidays with her daughter and retired
apparently in good health the evening of Friday, the 27th. DurRutledge, Pa.

Death was due

ing the night she

to a heart attack.

was seized with a heart attack and died

Mrs. Seip had been very active
U.

1:25

in

the

work

of the

W.

C. T.

She was president of the Northampton County reunion

many
in

at

*

Saturday morning.

years,

was a delegate

1920, and attended

to the

many

state

for

World Convention in London
and national conventions.

1891

Mary A.

Spratt (Mrs. Allen A. Orr) lives at

She sent greetings

ket Street, Lewistown, Pa.

and expressed her

210 West Mar-

to her classmates

regrets at not being able to attend the fiftieth

year reunion of her

class.

1893
Alice Fenner,

2439 Walnut

from spending the winter

at

Street, Allentown, has returned

Tampa,

Florida.

1899
John A. MacGuffie, president of the Luzerne County Board
of Commissioners, and remembered in Bloomsburg as probably
the greatest athlete of all time to attend Bloomsburg, died suddenly at his home in West Pittston, Friday, May 2.
Prominent in local, county and state politics, he was well
known in Bloomsburg, where he shone in every field of sports.
A four-letter man, he was brilliant alike in football, basketball,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

Page Thirty-Six
baseball and track.

At one time he held practically every field
Alma Mater was made
closer by the fact that he married a fellow-student, who was
graduated in 898.
lecord on the

Hill.

His allegiance to his

1

Mr. MacGuffie was born
in Pittston

and West

Pittston.

in Pittston,

He was

and spent

his entire life

Anthony

the son of the late

and Margaret MacGuffie, natives of Scotland. He spent
hood in Pittston, where he received his early education.
After his graduation at Bloomsburg, he continued

his

boy-

his

edu-

Following the completion of

cation at Dickinson College.

his

college training, he returned to Pittston and served for a time as

physical director of the Pittston Y. M. C. A.

On June

who

25, 1902, he married Miss Nora Hankes,

sur-

vives him.

He served
salesman

fof:

ager of the

a period of approximately twenty-five years as a

the

Penn Tobacco Company, and later became manPaint and Roofing Company, of Wyoming.

Wyoming

He launched

his political career in 1920, when he was
membership on the West Pittston Borough Council. He
served one term as councilman and in 1927 was appointed to

elected to

the office of burgess to

fill

an unexpired term. At the completion

and was elected. He served only
when he was appointed county commissioner in

of the term he ran for the office

three months
1

930.

He was returned

to that office

tion since that time. In addition to

Board

was

of Commissioners, he

with each successive elec-

being president of the County
also president of the Pennsyl-

vania Commissioners’ Legislative Committee at the time of his
death.

In the later capacity

Capitol during the past

He was

a

member

he spent

much

time at the State

few months.
of the Presbyterian Church, and, over a

period of forty years, he served as trustee of the Pittston Presbyterian Church and later

in

the

same

office

with the West

Pitts-

He was affiliated with the Jr. 0. U. A. M., and was
member of the Wyoming Valley Automobile Associa-

ton Church.

an active
tion.

He was keenly

interested in the welfare of his

and was especially concerned about the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

interests of

community
the

county

Page Thirty-Seven

which he served for more than eleven years.
He is survived by his wife, five children, a
brother and four grandchildren.

sister,

a

half-

1889
E. Albertson Adams lives at 137 East Sixth Street, in
With her daughter, Louise Adams Bachman 18, she
attended the banquet of the Philadelphia Alumni, held at the

Mary

Berwick.

Bellevue-Stratford Saturday, April 28.

1891

The

fifty

year

class, in

golden anniversary year reunion, had

It opened with a reception
at
Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff and continued with a
breakfast the next morning at the Wimodausis Club. All of the
general activities were entered into, with special tables for the
class at the luncheon and dinner.
Guests at thf reception included President and Mrs. H. A. Andruss. Members of the class
and guests in attendance were:
Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Bloomsburg; Warren S. Kreise,

an exceptionally busy program.
the

home

of

Johnstown; Miss Rose A. Cohen, Wilkes-Barre; Frone Schrader BenJohnstown; Miss Elizabeth A. Smith, Mt. Carmel; Miss Jennie M.
Sheep, Mrs. Alice Dillon Furman, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Phoebe Shew
Creasy, Bloomsburg; J. P. Costello, Hazleton; W. A. Turnbach, E. J.
Gormley, Hazleton; Elmer Levan, Numidia; Miss Margaret Bogenrief,
Mifflinburg, 1893; Mrs. Elizabeth Stiver Mitteldorf, 1906; Mrs. J. P.
Costello, Hazleton, 1894; Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Rinehart, Daniel Rinehart, Margaret W. Rinehart, Waynesboro; Rev. A. Costello, Drums;
James P. Costello, Jr., Hazleton; Meta Walter Rinehart, Waynesboro.
nett,

1896
The

896 had

a fine turnout for a busy day at its
Those in attendance included members from
Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Penn-

class of

1

forty-fifth reunion.
five states

sylvania.
es

—

Alfred Houtz, of Elizabeth, N.

which the

class

for this purpose

wore.

money for roswas more than ample

C., sent

His contribution

and the balance was given

to the Student

Loan

Fund.

A check of the class showed that nine members had served
on the faculty of the institution and another had served as trustee. Greetings were sent to the class from Rear Admiral Charles
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July, 1941

:

Page Thirty-Eight

M. Oman, Medical Corps, U.

S. Navy, Washington, D. C., and
from J. Shuman Best, Idaho. Those who taught at the college
were: Hettie Cope Whitney, Helen F. Carpenter. Geraldine Conner Dennis, Myrtle Swartz Van Wie, Veda Bowman Drum,
Sharpless Fox, Arthur Crossley, Archie L. Smethers and Harriet
Carpenter. Harry S. Barton served as trustee. Those attending
were

Charles I. Boyer, Lewisburg; Mrs. Frank H. Strouss, Mt. Carmel;
Mrs. D. W. Arndt, nee Lins, Lock Haven; Mary Cope, Mt. Carmel; H.
P. Gable, Auburn; Mrs. Samuel F. Pratt, Mrs. Edward S. Gething, of
Nanticoke; Mrs. M. J. Yetter, Harrisburg; Mary Moore, Baltimore,
Md.; Grace McLaughlin, Harrisburg; Mrs. Myrtle Swartz Van Wie
and the Rev. F. E. Van Wie, Burdette, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. D. S. HartWilkes-Barre; Mrs.
iine, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Vera Bowman Drum,
Harry Polhamus, Kingston; Minnie L. Gernon, Scranton; Helen F.
Carpenter, Harry S. Barton, Bloomsburg; Jane Rosser, East Orange,
N. J.; Hettie Cepe Whitney, Cleveland, Ohio; Martha Jones Saums,
Mabel Yost Hall, West Pittston; Elizabeth McKane Campbell, Wyoming; Rachel Mbyer, Sunbury; Margaret R. Lodge, Milton; Helen F.
Carpenter, Bloomsburg, and F. W. Neyhard, Wilkes-Barre.

1898
phia.

Mary Louise Rorer lives at 4035 Spruce Street, PhiladelMiss Rorer was injured in a fall last September, a circum-

stance which prevented her from coming to Bloomsburg Alumni

Day.

1901

The

class of

1901 of the college held a dinner meeting

the Light Street Hotel, Friday evening.
six,

May

23.

A

at

committee of

Keller Albert, Reading, chairman; Adele Altmiller Burkhart,

Hazleton; Miss Virginia Vought, Elysburg; William Lams, Al-

lentown; Mrs. Evelyn Creveling Shumans, Sunbury and Jacob
Maust, Bloomsburg, were

A

former Bloomsburg boy, Elwell Funk, Vice-President of

the Philadelphia Electric
class of

charge.

in

1901 was the

whose Senior

Company, was

first

class

in

the

The

toastmaster.

history

the

of

the

school

was a woman and she was Mrs.
She was introduced.

class president

Gertrude Morgan Northy, of Akron, Ohio.

There are only three teachers

now and were
pointed out.

teaching

when

They were Dean W.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

at the college

the class

who

are living

was graduated,

it

was

B. Sutliff, Prof. Charles H. Ai-

July, 1941

:

Page Thirty-Nine
bert and Prof. D. S. Hartline, who, with Mrs. Hartline

and Mrs.

were
Each member was furnished with a favor, souvenir and
badge with his name. Mr. Funk called upon each class member
Sutliff,

to give short

guests.

remimscenses.

women who were
who made brief talks.

Several of the
their

husbands,

class

members introduced

Joseph Albertson, co-publisher of the Peekskill, N. Y..
Evening Star, a member of the class, spoke on his observations
as a person who has traveled the world three times.
Those in
attendance were
Fred S. Cook, Arnold; Mrs. Adele Altmiller Burkhardt, Hazleton;
Mrs. Helen Lishen Frederick, Pottsgrove; Mrs. Mary Shoemaker Valentine, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Gertrude Morgan Noetling, Akron, Ohio;
Martha A. Jones, Bloomsburg; Sara R. Hamlin, Catawissa; Mrs. Mary
C. Ratsjski, Alden Station; Margaret F. Grant, Harrisburg; Arthur D.
Templeton, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Mary Ebner Groff, Harrisburg; Virginia E. Vought, Elysburg; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marie, Shamokin; Mrs
Evelyn Creveling Shuman, Sunbury; Miss Sue Turner, Wellsboro; Mr.
and Mrs. E. Joe Albertson, Peeksville, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Keller B.
Albert, Reading; Miss Ida B. Gilbert, Hazleton; Mrs. Mary Thomas
Joseph, Wilkes-Barre; Miss Augusta B. Hinkelman, Bethesda, Md.;
Miss Harriet A. Bittenbender, Berwick; Mrs. Lela Shultz Madison,
Plainfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Lams, Allentown; Gertrude M.
Follmer, Port Washington, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Y. Glenn, Berwick.

Gertrude Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T. Lowry) lives at 10 MadAvenue, Port Washington, Long Island. The month of June
was an eventful one for Mrs. Lowry, as one of her daughters was
graduated from Oberlin College, and another daughter was married during that month.
ison

1902
Prethynia Curtis (Mrs. Frederick MacIntyre)
day, March 22, at her

was formerly a teacher

home
in

in

Bellingham,

died Satur-

Washington.

the schools of Nanticoke,

her native

She is survived by her husband, three children, two
and two brothers.

town.
ters

Grace Bradbury

(Mrs.

Charles

W. Everett)

She

lives at

sis-

19

South Sixth Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.

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July, 1941

Fage Forty

1904

Anna Goyituey

Canfield,

who

has been teaching at Haskell

Lawrence. Kansas, sends

Institute,

message

this

her

to

class-

mates of ’04:
“I

and

am now
move

will

I

home

there and

and in a few years my good husband
Albuquerque, New Mexico. We bought a
any of you come west, be sure to stop and say

retired,
to
if

‘Hello.’

“We
in July.

I

go west for summer school and vacation the

my

shall visit

first

Box 449, Route

children at

week

4, North

Fourth Street, Albuquerque.
04, died a few years ago.

“Mrs. Luzena Tibbitts Isham
Louise Rogers Warren ’04,
she

is.

Her husband

“I surely wish
sible, so best

is

is

still

living,

but

I

cannot

could attend Alumni Day, but

I

tell

where

the Indian Service.

in

wishes to you

is

impos-

East Fall Street,

Ithaca.

it

all.”

1906

W. Raymond Girton

New

York.

For

many

the International Salt

John
nora, Pa.

E.

lives at

1

1

1

years, Mr. Girton has been connected with

Company.

Shambach

is

superintendent of the schools of Do-

In a letter to his classmates,

he states:

—

have been thinking very much
Hill.
There
was G. Stanley Hall, looking at us from the walls of Daddy BakeRemember? His philosophy may be out-modless’ classroom.
“During the past few days,

of the glorious days

we

I

spent together on Normal

was a giant in his day.
I’m still trying
“Those field trips with “Danny” Hartline
to figure out what law of nature caused the candle-light to fail,
cut there in the old iron mine in Buckhorn.
“Those literary society programs in chapel! The Kaffir
Boy Choir in duplicate! The debate on the subject “Resolved.
That Good is as Bad as Bad, and Bad is as Good as Good.” J. P.
W. (Dr. Welsh) had those two programs recorded in his little
black book as disgraceful.”
ed, but he

!

W.

E. Jones, of

Waterford, Ohio, expressed

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

in a

recent

let-

:

Page Forty-One
ter His regrets at not

being able to attend his class reunion

—

this

The following is an extract from his letter:
“For the last eight years I have been unable to do any public work, so have spent my summers here in the country and the
However, by Fall, I hope to be
last three winters in the South.
able to attend gatherings of my fellow-men, even if I do not take
year.

an active part

in their

programs.”

1906 had a get-together in the Alumni Room
The class was together at the luncheon
and at the social room in Noetling Hall with thirty attending.
Many photographs of days as “Old Normal” recalled many memThe class roll was called and reports made. Addresses
ories.
Novelty
of members were corrected or added to the active list.
features were used at the uncheon.
The class numbered 40 at graduation with about a score
deceased. Of the class two died during service in the World War,
Dr. Harry Andreas, of Bloomsburg, and Thomas W. Truner, also
of Bloomsburg, who went down with the Princess Sophia off the
Alaskan coast. Those attending were
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rjden. Shippensburg; Mrs. Maud Boust
The

class of

with a dozen present.

1

Shawfield, Harrisburg; Mrs. Helen D. Terwilliger, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Nellie Durbin Batey, Plymouth; Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish, Camden,
N. J.; Mi's. Laura Aurand Witmer, Collegeville; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Zarr, St. Clair; Mrs. Elizabeth Stiner Mitteldorf, Elizabeth, N. J.; Mrs.
Isabel Cosper Kelley, Kingston; Elwell P. Dietrick, Adeline Williams,
Dr. Homer H. Snyder, Scranton; Maude Evans Taylor, Mrs. Myrtle
Longenberger Messersmith, C. P. Messersmith, Westifle; Mrs. Edith
Shuman Grimes, Catawissa; Mrs. Edna Averill Apperman, Philadelphia; Mrs. Lulu Buddinger Mershcn, Pottsville; Miss
Levan,
Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Albert, Bloomsburg; Josie Lee Mershon, Pottsville; Eleanor Shawfield, Harrisburg; Sara E. Buddinger,

Amy

Emma

Kelminski, Mt. Carmel.

1907
Wendt (Mrs. George

Harris Webber) lives
Hancock Street, Milledgeville, Georgia. For
the past two years she has been a librarian in the Baldwin County Library in Milledgeville.
Her address is Box 376.
Lillian

Bakeless

at the Ennis Hotel,

1910

Anna Donovan,
Board of Health,

is

a

consultant

nurse of

the

Massachusetts

living in Boston.

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July, 1941

Page Forty -Two
Elizabeth

Frenchtown,
“I

J.

New

Reeder (Mrs. Clarence N. Fisher)
Jersey.

lives

in

In a recent letter, Mrs. Fisher states:

hope you can continue

to publish the Quarterly, for

I

en-

joy reading of the wonderful things being done at Bloomsburg,

and wish

I

could get back oftener to take part

in the

reunions.”

Frank P. Mansury, son of Alma Vetterlein Mansury, is a
radio announcer at Station WRAL, Raleigh, North Carolina. He
was graduated from the University of Scranton in 1940, with
honors. Mrs. Mansury’s son, Paul, is a junior at Lafayette Coliege.

1911

The

class of 1911

began

its

thirty

year reunion with a din-

ner at the Bloomsburg Country Club.

Guests of honor were Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, Rev.
and Mrs. Frank E. Van Wie, Mrs. Wie being better known as
Miss Myrtle Swartz, a former member of the Normal School faculty, Mrs. J. K. Miller and President Andruss.
Brief addresses were made by Prof. Hartline, Mrs. Van
Wie, Mrs. Miller and President Andruss.
A most enjoyable time was had by the group. Each member of the class spoke briefly in answer to the roll call of the
class, this feature being conducted by Dr. E. H. Nelson in his
usual happy manner.
Four members of the class were attending their first reunion since graduation. They were, Mrs. Roy Ash, St. Louis,
Mo.; Mrs. Cecelia Hofer Bartle. Bound Brook, N. J.; Mrs. Catherine Jameson Burr, Troy, Pa., and Mrs. Elmira Ginterman LinThe following were present:
ner, Philadelphia.
Rev. C. Cari'ol Bailey, Lemoyne; Jennie Barklie Small, Ashley; C.
Merril Boust, Sunbury; Irene Campbell Getty, Riverside; Rev. Mae
Chamberlin Sherman, Olyphant; Ray M. Cole, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. J. Frank Dennis, Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and Mrs. W. Homer Englehart, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. Russel Lanterman, Bloomsburg; Mr.
and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Danville; Elmira Guiterman Linner, Philadelphia; Ruth Harris, Berwick; Rev. and Mrs. F. L. Artley, Elizabeth,
N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cortright, Shickshinny; Paul Z. Hess,
Bloomsburg; Cecila Hofer Bartle, Bound Brook, N. J.; Ethel Hower
Fairchild, Elmira, N. Y.; Donald F. Ikeler, Peekskill, N. Y.; Catherine
Jameson Burr, Troy; Grace F. Johnson, Northumberland; Dr. and
Mrs. F. T. Koeher, Espy; Lydia Kocher, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. G. B.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

July, 1941

:

Page Forty-Three
Landis, Rock Glen; Edna Lewis Robinson, Springfield, Mass.; Dr. and
Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg; Ethel Paisley, Nesquehoning; Myrtle
Rice Singley, Lewisburg; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sharadin, Danville; Pauline Sharpless Harper, Grace Shuman John, Bloomsburg; Irene Snyder Ranck, Lewisburg; Jennie Tucker Williams, Wilkes-Barre; Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Ash, St. Louis, Mo.; Miriam Vannatta Freas, Philadelphia; Mabel Van Reed Layton, Franklin, N. Y.; Elizabeth A. White-

Bloomsburg; Jennie Whitmire Helt, Berwick; Elsie Winter
and Mrs. D. D. Wright, Bloomsburg;
Helen Hofer Sauerwine, Bound Brook, N. J.; Mrs. Ralph Kuster, Jean
Kuster, Bloomsburg; Marion Landis, Rock Glen; Catherine Harper,
Bloomsburg; Daniel Williams, Wilkes-Barre; Prof, and Mrs. D. S.
Hartline, Bloomsburg; Thomas D. Owen, Nesquehoning; President and
Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Bloomsburg; Rev. and Mrs. Frank E. Van Wie,
Watkins Glen, N. Y.; Helen Hess Terhune, Newfoundland, N. J.; Mrs.
J. K. Miller, Bloomsburg.
night,

Stevens, Tunkhannock; Mr.

Dr. H. F. Baker, a lieutenant-colonel in the Medical Corps

of the

Army, has been appointed

director of the school for enlist-

ed technicians at the Walter Reed Hospital

He

in

Washington, D.

C.

has been located at Carlisle, where he took a review course.

1913
M. Denison is stationed at the Station Hospital, Post
of San Juan, Porto Rico. In her letter, dated May 6, she writes
“I have been in Puerto Rico a little over four months.
I
Nellie

am

assigned as a Captain, Army Nurse Corps to the Puerto Rican
Department with headquarters at San Juan. I am in charge of
the nursing services in the Department Hospitals.
The majority
of the nurses are stationed at San Juan.
The hospital at Ponce
Air Base, about sixty miles south, was opened in April and the
one at Borinquen, about eighty miles east, is ready to open. I
make the trip to both hospitals weekly by airplane the trip to
Ponce is across the mountains and very beautfiul; the Borinquen
flight goes along the coastline and is not as interesting.
“The country here is simply beautiful, the roads are narrow with the trees meeting overhead, very often a solid mass of
bloom. At present the brilliant flamboyant trees are starting to
bloom. The first couple of months I was here big trees full of
deep orange colored blossoms were scattered all over in the vicinity of Henry Barracks.
It has flowering trees and shrubs
in
abundance and tall stately cocoanut palms every place one looks.
The bluest ocean imaginable is below one side of our quarters
;

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July, 1941

:

Page Forty -Four

and the bay with mountains beyond on the other side. The winter climate is ideal and I am hoping the real summer months will
not be uncomforable.”

1916
1916 in twenty-five year reunion held a breakfast at the Hotel Magee to open their activities with forty-six in
attendance. Corsages in class colors of purple and white were
used as favors. There were fifty-eight members at the luncheon
at the college and the class meeting which followed.
Those
present were
Helen V. McHugh, Dr. V. J. Baluta, Frank J. Meenahan, Jennie
The

class of

Mayers Evans, H. Ethel
Fritz,

Maud

Searles, Margaret Hidlay Potter, Dorothy M.
Miller, Catherine Mason Hagenbuch, Sara Cook Young,

Siegel Tyson, Harriet McAndrews Murphy, Nan Shovlin Eagen,
Victoria Suwalski O’Connell, Margaret Dailey Meenahan, Kathryn
Gabbret Thomas, Hilda Clark Fairchild, Cora G. Hill, Louise Carter
Dikeman, Hazel Walpre More, Jessie U. Jones, Miriam Manley O’Mal-

Mary

ley,

Scranton; Lorena E.

Thomas, Mountain Top; Hilda Wosnock

Anna Line Bowersox, Hilda Depew Giegony, Ruth Graves
Edwards, Dalton; Olive Simons Bums, Quincy, Mass.; Joanna Powell
Welliver,

Lorenz, Forty Fort; Mrs. James P. Murray, Mrs. William Heath, Cora
Funk, Mrs. Niva Zehner Frey, Elsie Hagenbuch Robison, Helen
Shaffer Henrie, Martha Yettei Rider, Blanche Robbins Damon, Concord, Mass.; Ruth Fuller Gregory, Weatherly; Clara Hartranft Hopkins, Ray D. Leidich.

S.

The address of Margaret Hidlay (Mis. Edson A. Potter)
Box 131, Glen Gardner, New Jersey.
Ruth Warg Clark (Mrs. John W. Gummere)

is

living at

is

619

South Samuel Street, Charlestown, Jefferson County, West Virginia.

Blanche Robbins (Mrs. Kennan
Street,

Damon)

lives at

373 Main

West Concord, Mass.

Hazel A. Walper (Mrs. Edgar A. More)

lives at

2032 Hunt-

ington Street, Bethlehem, Pa.

Margaret Ferrio,
City, has

who

lived at

648 Main

Street,

Dickson,

been reported as deceased.

1919
Priscilla

Young McDonald

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

lives at

July, 1941

169-16,

110th Road,

:

Page Forty-Five
Jamaica,

New

York.

Mrs. McDonald’s

in the New York
January issue of the Quarterly,

She has been teaching

City schools since 1923.

In the

name was

incorrectly listed with

the

class

of

1911.

1921

One of the large reunion classes was that of 1921 and the
members had a splendid day on the campus. Those attending
were
Sara M. Sutchffe, Irvington, N. J.; Chloe Cole, Bloomsburg; Lydia Bohn, Lydia Green Klumpp, Scranton; Myrlnn T. Shafer, WilkesBarre; Helen Berry Quinn, Scranton; Mai-garet Baldouski, Wyoming;
Katherine Gronka Wilski, Bear Creek; Frank Klem, Glen Lyon; Emma Seltzer, Ratzburg; Edna M. Pursel Blickley, Ringtown; Frances
Martin Van Sciver, Lansdowne; Elenora S. Kaiser, Schuylkill Haven,
R. D.; Maree E. Pensyl, Bloomsburg; Helen Eisenhauer Kocher, Hester Henrie Aten, Mifflinville; Margaret Brady, Louise M. Austin,
Wilkes-Barre; Alice Manley Hannon, Scranton; Mickey McShea Kesler, Danville; Helen Weiss Lastowski, Alden Station; Anna Swanberry, Alden Station; Beatrice Williams Eichner, Philadelphia; Jennie
Cooke Ellis, Scranton; Helene Lowe Schlegel, Montrose; Angeline

Evans Beavers, Scranton; Anna Thomas Unangst, Catawissa; Downing Major, Trueksville; Helen Phillips White, Light street; Olive
Scott, Kingston; Martha Cole Honstrater, Belleville, N. J.; Anna Garrison Scott, Bloomsburg; Margaret Hines, Berwick; Miriam Kehler,
Locust Dale; Eleanor Grith, Shamokin; Anthony McDonald, Centralia; Mary E. Brower, Bloomsburg; Margaret S. Manhart, Berwick; K.
S. Kernert, Lansford; Helen Welliver Girton, Sunbury; Ralph G. Shuman, Elysburg; T. Edison Fischer, Glen Lyon; Caroline Jervis Mead,
Scranton.

1926

One
class, for

of the busy classes on the

1926 had

campus was

the fifteen-year

a real representation in attendance.

Those

back included the following;
Mrs. Arch Turner, Nanticoke; Mrs. Fred Walker, Glen Lyon; Mrs.
Carl M. Davis, Orangeville; Mrs. E. N. Taylor, Philadelphia; Mrs. Andrew Najaka, Glen Lyon; Stephenia Rasmus, Glen Lyon; Sophia Z.
Kozlowski, Glen Lyon; Mrs. Josephine Withers, Mrs. Helen Burnozzi,
Glen Lyon; Miss Jessica C. Trimble, Kingston; Mrs. Francis Conner
Mensinger, Mrs. Mae Gable Everson, Mrs. Helen Kehler, Cradwell;
Mrs. Thalia Kitchen Cooper, Gilbert Cooper, Coatesville; Miriam Hippensteel Goss, Danville; Helen L. Daniels, Taylor; Helen M. Spare,
Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Ida Fisher, Sunbury, R. D. 2; Edith Morris Rowlands, Peely; John T. Rowlands, Peely; Gordon P. Johnson, Shamokin,
R. D.; Alice Morgan Yaple, Dallas; Ethel D. Baker, Watsontown; Marjorie Davey, Honesdale; Thelma M. Naylor, Scranton; Anna Madden,
Pittston; Arline Hartwigzen Jablonski, Ashley; Verna Fetterman,

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July, 1941

Page Forty -Six
Sunbury; Martha Lingertt, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Dunn Earnhart,
White Haven; Alice Budd Dwyer, St. Louis, Mo.; Pearle Gearhart McCollum, Danville; Eleanor Roderick, Wilkes-Barre; Leona V. Souder,
Nescopeck; Mrs. Ruth Meixell, Shickshinny.

1928
Sara Lawson (Mrs. James Dockeray) lives at 103 West

Columbus

Street,

Shenandoah. She has three children.

1929
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Stauffer (Elsie Lebo) and children,

Dorothy, aged
at

five

and Laddie, aged

39 Lower William Penn.

three, will

welcome

friends

Post Office address Box 404, Shaft,

Pa.

1930
The address of M. Augusta Schnure
Kathryn

I.

Allenwood, Pa.

Pa.

L.

R. D. 2, Milton, Pa.

Schooley (Mrs. Donald Waltman)

lives at R. D.,

She has one daughter.

Ruth A. Weaver (Mrs. Jay Muffly)
She has one son.
Myrtle

is

lives in

Richard (Mrs. Melville Kerr)

Watsontown,

Elysburg,

lives in

Pa.

Miriam R. Forsythe (Mrs. John
She has one daughter.

Gilliland) lives at

Oak

Hall

Station, Pa.

Lucille

loe Avenue,

Brehm (Mrs. Robert Rowlands)
Dunmore, Pa. She has one

lives at

1

737 Mon-

son.

Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Harris (Dorothy Keith) are living

in

Clifford, Pa.

Marjorie

Hemingway

(Mrs.

1023J/2 Fisk Street, Scranton, Pa.

year

Robert Kellerman)

lives

at

She has one son, Robert, a

old.

1931

The ten-year class had a splendid time reviewing college
days and renewing college friendships. Included in those back
were
G. Keith Witheridge, Erma V. Kelchner, Charlotte Mack Kepner,
:

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July, 1941

Page Forty-Seven
Winifred Keen Howell, Ruth Sutter Fi'anklin, Eleanor Rhoades WithRetha Noble Burgess, Doris Empett VanBuskirk, Elizabeth H.
Hubler, Helen Walborn Penman, Gladys Shotsberger, Mary Fisher,
Minnie Olschefsky, Clara E. Fahringer, Lydia Smith Seida, Jeanette
Roberts Williams, Mabel Kehler, Kenneth E. Hawk, Raymond W.
Williard, Earl VanDine, Marion Meixell, Helen Maynard Lake, Helen
Gibbons Edson, Esther Yeager Castor, Doris Sechrist Paulson, Orval
C. Palsgrove, Anna Isenberg, Edna Mae Derrick, Louise Downin Laubach, Helen Galazin Yenchek, Helen Stryjak, Evelyn Gilbert Spancake, Catherine Williams, Phyllis Coopey, Anna Frew Evans; Catharine Stackhouse, Huntington Mills; Helen Bangs Dichie and daughter
eridge,

Patricia

Ann,

Millville;

Helen Appleman, Danville, R. D.

2.

Dorothy M. Foust lives at 141 South Main Street, WatsonShe has been teaching for nine years and in a recent
letter she expresses her pride in her profession and in her Alma
town. Pa.
Mater.

Ruth

E. Fairchild (Mrs.

Robert Kling)

near Lewis-

lives

burg. Pa.

1934
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Madalyn Dunkelberger, of Berwick, and Flarry W. Stephens, of
Palmyra. The ceremony was performed September 27, 1940,
at Tyrone, Maryland.
Mrs. Stephen has been teaching at the
Orange Street School in Berwick. Mr. Stephen, a graduate of
Palmyra High School and Lebanon Business College, is now a
representative of the Berger Manufacturing Division of the Republic Steel Corporation.
in

Hackettstown,

New

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen are

now

living

Jersey.

Norma Boyer,

of Mt. Carmel, and John Shellenberger,
were married Saturday, May 7, in the Reformed Church at Boalsburg. The bride is a graduate of the Mt.
Carmel High School and the Geisinger Hospital School of Nursing and is in charge of the Men’s Surgical Ward of the Geisinger

Miss

of Danville, R. D. 3,

Hospital.

I

Mr. Shellenberger

DeLong High School

in

is

a

member

of the

faculty of

the

Washingtonville.

1934

New

Edith Blair Shute lives at 91 7 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca,
York.

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July, 1941

Page Forty-Eight
Lillian V.

Robernholt (Mrs. Irvin Coldren)

on Center

lives

Street, Milton, Pa.

1935
The

class of

1935, which has met

reunion each year

in

number back and included in the features a luncheon at the Hotel Magee Coffee Shop.
The class will
meet again next year with Miss Veda Mericle as chairman of the
luncheon. The members had a splendid day telling of their work
and of what other members are doing. Attending were:
since graduation,

had

a

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Yeager, Hazleton; Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.
Diseroad, Bloomsburg; Dr. and Mrs. H. Harrison Russell, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. William Ungemach, Berwick; Mrs. Mark E. Piter, Mifflinville;
Veda Mericle, Bloomsburg; Harriet Styer, Bloomsburg; Helen Merrill,
Light Street; Unora Mendenhall, Benton; Irene Frederick, Milton;
Florence Marcketta, Kulpmont; Violette Marcketta, Kulpmont; Dorothy Gilmore, Bloomsburg.

The address of Helen Frey Markley

is

Box 413, Wynne

Wood, Oklahoma.
Lucille Gilchrist Kindig lives at

226 Gen Gardner

Street,

Lafayette, Louisiana.

1936
In a quiet

Lee Nichols, of

wedding Friday morning, April 1, Miss Janice
Coudersport, became the bride of Randall Fred1

erick Clemens, of Columbia.

The bride

is

a graduate of Berwick High

School,

Blooms-

burg State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College.
She is a teacher in the Coudersport High School. Mr. Clemens,
in the Columbia High School, is a graduate of Berwick
High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

a teacher

1937
James

L.

Marks, of Catawissa, and Miss Irene Potts, of

Pine Grove, were married cn Saturday, April 26,

in

St.

John’s

Lutheran Church, Pine Grove, by the Rev. Harry S. Dollman,
The bride is a graduate of the Pine Grove High School
D. D.

and

of the Central Pennsylvania Business

Mr. Marks

anon

is

a state

motor policeman and

Station.

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July, 1941

College,
is

Harrisburg.

located at the Leb-

Page Forty^Nine

The engagement of Miss Helen May Hartman, of Danville,
and Robert John Rhawn, of Catawissa, has been announced.
Miss Hartman is now teaching in the Montour Township Schools.
Mr. Rhawn has played professional baseball since 1938 and is

now owned by the St. Louis
interrupted when he entered

Cardinals.

was

His baseball career

the United States

Army.

He

is

stationed at supply headquarters of the recruiting center at

now
New

Cumberland.

1938
Marion Klinger (Mrs.

Clair

Troy)

is

living in

Nuremberg, Pa.

1939
Mildred Hart, of Wapwallopen, and George

E.

Bond,

of

in Frederick, Md.
two years been teaching in the
Mr. Bond is employed at the A. C.

Nescopeck, were married Saturday, April 19,
Mrs.

Bond has

for

the past

schools of Lake Township.

&

F.

Company
The

in

class of

Berwick.

1939 held a reunion

in

the

gymnasium with

those back including the following:

Sara Tubbs, Letha Hummel, Bloomsburg; Marguerite Lonergan,
Berwick; Donnabelle Smith, Sunbury; Margaret Deppen, Trevorton;
Mary Boyle, Wilkes-Barre; Wanda Stinson, Briar Cliff, N. Y.; John
Monschine, Coplay; Elizabeth Jenkins, Edwardsville; Helen M. Derr,
Kingston; Wilhelmina Peel, Carlisle; Megan Griffith, Edwardsville;
Win R. Potter, Cortez; Walter F. Lash, Frackville; Leonard Barliek,
Duryea; Margaret Johnson, Harrisburg; Frank M. Ferguson, Honesdale; Dorothy Englehart, Bloomsburg; Miriam L. Utt, Laurelton;
Melva M. Carl, Nescopeck.

Richard

J.

Nolan

may now be addressed

as Pvt. Richard

Nolan, Battery D, 8th Battalion, 3rd Regiment,

J.

A. R. C.. Fort

F.

Bragg, North Carolina.

1940
Miss Frances Corlin and Stanley Kotzen,

were married March

1

8

at St. Joseph’s

Church

Summit
Summit

of
in

Hill,
Hill.

Temple University, has been teaching
High School. Mr. Kotzen is employed
as an auditor for the Raymond Concrete Pile and Construction
Company in New York City.
Mrs. Kotzen, a graduate of
Latin in the

Summit

Hill

Miss Marian Patterson, formerly of Berwick,

Baker, of Newton, were married Sunday, June

I,

and Donald

at the

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July, 1941

:

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Baptist Church.

The ceremony was performed by

the groom’s

Mrs. Baker taught during the past

father, the Rev. H. J. Baker.

year at Springtown, and Mr. Baker has been teaching at Narrows, Virginia.

1941
the

The Quarterly is pleased
Alumni Association

to present the

new members

of

SECONDARY
Joseph Ronald Aponick, 18 East Poplar Street, West Nanticoke;
Ruth Lenore Brandon, 325 East Third Street, Berwick; C. Grant Brittingham, 212 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mary M. Brunstetter, 441
East Main Street, Catawissa; Mary Frances Crosby, Bridge Street,
Mahanoy Plane; Edward Victor Dobb, 38 Carey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Jane Dyke, 150 South Hickory Street, Mt. Carmel; Charles Stuart
Edwards, 252 Church Street, Edwardsville; Richard Holt Foote, 423
East Third Street, Bloomsburg; Gerald Dugan Fritz, Berwick; Leon
Harold Greenly, 517 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth L.
Griffiths, Scranton; Lois K. Gruver, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3; Geoi'ge B.
Houseknecht, Hughesville, R. D. 1; Joseph Edward Hudock, Philadelphia; Mary Elizabeth Keesler, Callicoon, N. Y.; William G. Kerchusky,
Ringtown; Jerome G. Lapinski, Shamokin; Leo Joseph Lehman, Ashley, George Randolph Lewis, 309 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg;
Lewis F. Long, Berwick; Alice M. Kiryluk, Hop Bottom; Paul Russel
Letterman, 225 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth E. Miller,
Park Place; Robert Bruce Miller, Berwick; Marian Lucille Murphy,
Kingston; Zigmund M. Musial, Nanticoke; John Rutter Ohl, Jr., 512
Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg; Isabella Maria C. Olah, Berwick; Olive
Marie Parsell, Orangeville; William Foster Pegg, Llanerch; Mary
Frances Reilly, Scranton; Jerry S. Russin, Plains; Claraline E. Schlee,
Danville; Herbert Edward Schneider, West Hazleton; Helen Jane Soback, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3; Victor Richard Turini, Wyoming; Floyd
Van Antwerp, Williamsport; Edwin Dresher Wenner, Berwick; Joseph
Franklin Wesley, Luzerne; George DeWalt Willard, Danville; Samuel
A. F. Worman, Danville; John Diemer Young, Catawissa.

ELEMENTARY
Eda Bessie Beilhartz, Muncy; Edith R. Benninger, St. Johns; Marie Myers Blizzard, Danville; Sara A. Breslin, Lattimer; Agnes Pinamonti Cesari, Mt. Carmel; Helen Kent Dixon, Benton; Mary Davis,
Kingston; Mary Vera Foust, Danville, R. D. 4; Virginia Ruth Hughes,
Wilkes-Barre; Alice M. Meiss, Nescopeck; Jean Winifred Moss, Plymouth; Helen Faith Powell, Nanticoke; Maude Lavona Pursel, 37
Brugler Avenue, Bloomsburg;

Jessie

Theressa Schiefer,

Steelton;

Ruth Harriet Schield, Taylor; Helen W. Shank, Ringtown; Nellie Foster Shuntill, Pittsburgh; Mae Rebecca West, Danville, R. D. 1; Mantana Sarah Williams. Slatington; Marjorie Clark Young, Kingston;
Michalene Ann Zuchoski, Peely.

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July, 1941

Page Fifty-One

BUSINESS EDUCATION
Agnes A. Alastick, Shenandoah; Eleanore Dorothy Albertson,
Espy; Max Arcus, 140 West Street, Bloomsburg; Avonell A. Baumunk, Muncy; Daniel Henry Bonham, Forty Fort; Leonard Maximillian Bowers, Mt. Carmel; Mary L. Bretz, New Bloomfield; Ruth E.
Brodbeck, Douglasville; Valaire K. Buchanan, West Lawn; Ralph
Clarence Crocamo, Hazleton; Doris Margaret Curl, Wilkes-Barre; S.
Virginia M. Dean, Shenandoah; James Howard Deily, Jr., 518 West
Third Street, Bloomsburg; Irene J. Diehl, Bethlehem; Mary Louise
Driscoll, Plymouth; June Lorraine Eaton, Galeton; Victoria Helene
Edwards, 266 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Reber R. Fisher, 205
North Street, Catawissa; Drue Wilmer Folk, 423 Broad Street, Berwick; Lois E. Fullmer, Allentown; Charlotte

Gearhart,

Elizabeth

Montgomery; Barbara Edith Gillette, Wilkes-Barre; Thurwald Gommer, Nanticoke: Julia C. Hagenbuch, Danville, R. D. 1; Elizabeth
Eleanor Hawk, Milton; Elda M. Henrie, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3; William
Smith Heupcke, Sugarloaf; Charles O. Horn, Ringtown; Vincent
Thomas Hullihan, Locust Gap; Helen L. Johnson, Galeton; Relda
Kerstetter, 421 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Lawrence Herman
Klotz, Neffs; Anna L. Korengo, Shenandoah; John Edward Lavelle,
Girardville; Jennie Leone, Philadelphia; Joseph John Malinchoc, Nesquehoning; Joseph George Marinko, McAdoo; Aldona S. Maslowsky,
Wilkes-Barre; Sara B. Masteller, Pottsville; Raymond G. Myers,
York; Catherine Ann Oplinger, Nanticoke; William M. Reager, Shamokin; Walter Howard Reed, Shillington; Clark Revere" Renninger,
Pennsburg; Charles Arthur Robbins, 512 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Roy Roberts, Jr., 224 Main Street, Catawissa; Nicholas L. Saras,
Hazleton; Dorothy Jean Savage, 238 Ida Street, Berwick; Florabelle
Schreeongost, DuBois; Lucretia Mae Shaffer, Wilkes-Barre; Edward
Delmar Sharretts, 1919 West Front Street, Berwick; Ruth Louise
Shay, Lebanon, Marie P. Sloboski, Ashley; John Reynolds Shortess,
426 East Main Street, Bloomsburg; Mary B. Sweigart, Willow Street,
R. D. 1; Arlene Anne Swinesburg, West Hazleton; Joseph Sworin,
Dunmore; William W. Tannery, 139 East First Street, Bloomsburg;
Dorothy Janet Thomas, Wilkes-Barre; Hoard Tomlinson, Newton;
John Elwyn Vaughan, Nanticoke; Howard Thomas Williams, Scranton.

Announcement has been made
June
burg.

L.

of the

Eaton, of Galeton, to William H.

Mr. Hess

is

a teacher in the Scott

engagement

of Miss

Hess ’40, of Blooms-

Township High School.

•

Miss Helen Kehler, of Locust Dale and Charles Gradwell, of
Shenandoah, were married Wednesday, January 1, at the home
of the bride.
Mrs. Gradwell is a graduate of the Ashland High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Gradwell operates a gas station at Locust Dale.

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July, 1941

Page Fifty-Two

The following list of graduates is recorded from the information contained in our Alumni files. There are more than 1400 graduates for
whom we have no address. Please help us correct the Alumni DirecThe list of graduates will continue serially in the Quarterly
tory.
until completed. Where State is omitted in the address, it is understood to be Pennsylvania.
v

•

CLASS
OF

Robert D. Abbott, 240 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg;
Mildred E. Auten, R. D. 1, Danville; Elmira Bankes, 403
1936
East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Edward Henry Baum,
Nuremberg’, Grace Elizabeth Baylor, Montandon; Rachel D. Beck, 347
West Chocolate Avenue, Hershey; Mabel Frances Belles, 42 W. Hollenback Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Howard P. Bevilacqua, 200 E. 11th
Street, Berwick; Peter Bianco, 48 Newport Street, Glen Lyon; Kathryn E. Brobst, 383^ Light Street Road, Bloomsburg; Violet V. Brown,
40 South Main Street, Yardley; Evelyn B. Campbell, 335 West Fourth
Street, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth M. Chalfont, 740 Harrison Avenue,
Scranton; Samuel Cohen, 594 Main Street, Edwardsville; Bernard J.
Cobb, 1530 Irving Street, Scranton; Margaret Irene Crause, 1126
Orange Street, Berwick; Gertrude E. Dermody, 1711 Roselyn Avenue,
Scranton; LaRue Charles Derr, Shuman; Joseph Dixon, 208 North
Street, West Hazleton; Mrs. Beatrice Eisenhauer Siegel, Ruffs Dale;
Hannah Magdalene Fetterman, Route 2, Catawissa; Mrs. Mary Fink
McCutcheon, Conyngham; Mary Alice Frantz, R. D. 5, Lancaster;
Evelyn R. Fries, 1037 Wheeler Avenue, Scranton; Francis Garrity,
212 St. Nicholas Avenue, Englewood, N. J.; Anna George, 20 Alexander Street, Wilkes-Barre; Anna M. Gillespie, 210 South Locust
Avenue, Centralia; Mabel Swineford Gordon, 249 Market Street, Sunbury; Samuel Green, Ida Street, Berwick; Mrs. Alice Shaffer Harry,
110 East 8th Sti'eet, Berwick; Betty I. Harter, 532 Broad Street, Nescopeck; Phyllis E. Heckman, Nuremberg; Harold H. Hyde, 9th and
Railroad Street, Bloomsburg; Helen L. Jenkes, 20 Cemetery Street,
Pittston; Mrs. Kathryn John Evans, Woodside, N. Y.; Dorothy K.
Johnson, East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Daniel J. Jones, 908 East
Third Street, Nescopeck; Mrs. Verna Jones Jones, Nescopeck; Florence E. Keating, 115 South Fourth Street, Steelton; George E. Kessler,

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July, 1941

Page Fifty-Three
Center Street, Locust Dale; Mrs. Matilda Kirticklis Kasalec, 426 E.
Street, Tamaqua; Gilbert L. Kline, Pine Street, Catawissa;
Mary C. Kuhn, Tuscarora; Ernest V. Lau, Diminock; Helen Frances
Latorre, 229 West Taylor Street, Atlas; Woodrow R. Litwhiler, Main
Street, Woodstown, N. J.; Sue H. Longenberger, 301 East Eighth
Street, Berwick; Stanley A. Marcinkavicz, 426 Webster Street, Ranshaw; Mrs. Mary Matthews Denn, 900 Laucks Avenue, Scottsdale;
Alfred David Mayer, 92 Elizabeth Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mervin William Mericle, 21 East Main Street, Galeton; Kenneth Charles Merrill,
Turbotville; Charles P. Michael, Shumans; Verna Morawski, 966 West
Fourth Street, Hazleton; William L. Morgan, 28 East Main Street,
Wanamie; Anna B. Nash, Box 204, Wilkes-Barre; Leota A. Nevil,
Reservoir Hill, Bloomsburg; Janice Nichols Clemens, 429 East Second
Street, Berwick; Stephen J. Petrilla, Hazle Brook; Edward Richard
Phillips, Main Street, Wanamie; Jean A. Phillips, 1105 West Locust
Street, Scranton; Florence J. Piatkowski, 825 Main Street, Forest
City; Vernice Pooley Cousart, Market Street, Danville; Pauline S.
Ranck, 17 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Frances Riggs Young,
287 East First Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Gladys Rinard Ruesch, Ashwood Apartment 3-E, Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y.; James S. Rit-

Broad

Mill Street, Danville; Frank A. Rompalo, 41 Mine Street, Cumbola; Robert Joseph Rowland, 36 North Main Street, Shenandoah;
B. Donald Sands, 500 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Robert William
Savage, 242 Pine Street, Catawissa; Margaret E. Schubert, 808 Elizabeth Avenue, Laureldale; Sara M. Shuman, 912 Catherine Street,
Bloomsburg;
B. Smethers, 305 East 11th Street, Berwick; Marjorie A. Thomas, 367 East Green Stieet, Nanticoke; Andrew J. Thornton, Simpson; Myrtle Trembley, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Archibald Boyd
Turner, 9 14 East Kirmar Street, Alden Station; William F. Tumow,
607 Monument Street, Wyoming; Kathryn May Vannauker, 131 East
Green Street, Hazleton; Joseph Visotski, Merriam Street, Mt. Carmel;
Mrs. Ruth Wagner LeGrande, 126 Oak Street, Hazleton; Howard O.
Waite, 41 Sixth Street, Quakertown; Esther M. Welker, Route 2,
Hummelstown; Mrs. Mae Willis Deitrich, 601 East Fifth Street,
Bloomsburg; Frank P. Wojcik, 502 Higgens Street, Forrest City; John
ter, 6

Amy

Yeager, 587 Wilbur Court, Hazleton; Bernard J. Young, 324 East
Eighth Street, Berwick; John Yurgel, 15 Frank Street, Buttonwood,
Wilkes-Barre. ADDRESSES WANTED Mrs. Laureen Ackerman,
Lawrence Richard Coolbaugh, Beulah Lorraine Fairchild, William A.
Kashner, Mrs. Lillian Kershner, Mrs. Alice Shaffer Harry, Frank Hudock, Earl Oscar Kershner, Francis V. Vinisky. DECEASED Blanche
G. Moore.

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TWO

B. Apichell, 552 Spruce Street, Kulpmont;
Elizabeth M. App, R. D. 1, Selinsgrove; Beulah M.
Beltz, Catawissa; Eleanor W. Bingaman, Beavertown;
Laura A. Bonenberger, 135
Street, Barnesville; Rose E. Bott, Main
Street, Nuremberg; Julia E. Brugger, 434 Main Street, Tomhicken;
Catharine L. Bush, R. D. 1, Ashland; Marian M. Cooper, R. D. 2, Danville; John C. Comely, 1199 Lloyd Street, Nanty-Glo; Anne G. Curry,
662 South Tamaqua Street, McAdoo; Elizabeth Olga Davies, 798 Main

Eleanor

J.

YEAR
COURSE

A

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July, 1941

Fage Fifty-Four
Street, Edwardsville; Ruth I. Davies, 533 Bennett Street, Luzerne;
Janet E. Davis, 20 Archibald Street, Carbondale; E. Christine Diehl,
R. D. 1, Northumberland; William Wayne Ditty, R. D. 2, Shamokin;
Helen A. Dixon, 18 South Broad Street, West Hazleton; Josephine V.
Dominick, R. D. 1, Box 110, Ridgewood, Plainsville; Elizabeth Olver
Dunn, 427 Main Street, Jermyn; Catherine M. Durkin, 1200 Spruce
Street, Ashland; Stephen Dushanko, R. D. 1, Freeland; Mary Lou
Enterline, R. D. 1, Turbotville; Martha H. Evans, 112 Elm Street,
Shamokin; Mary C. Evans, 1169 West Elm Street, Scranton; Norman
O. Falck, Rebuck; Fortunate Falcone, Lattimer Mines; Olga H. Fekula, 125 South Lehigh Avenue, Frackville; Audrie M. Fleming, 134
South Fourth Street, Sunbury; Blanche S. Gearhart, Ringtown; Ruth
K. Gessner, Leek Kill; Wainwright H. Harmon, 187 Schuylkill Street,
Shenandoah; Evelyn E. Harrity, 1273 Snyder Avenue, Scranton;
W'ilhelmina I. Hayes, 219 Laurel Street, Parsons; Ruth May Hazel, R.
D. 4, Dallas; Mrs. V. Eleanor Hess Crim, 132 South Fourth Street,
Sunbury; Myrtle E. Heydenreich, Eleanor M. Johnson, Locust Avenue, Centralia; Kathryn N. Keener, Strawberry Ridge; LaRue Anne
Kleese, Natalie; Frances C. Kordish, McAdoo Heights; Martha J.
Krick, 301 South Front Street, Milton; Dorothy E. Krieger, 921 East
Mahanoy Avenue, Mahanoy City; Louise Mary Lindeman, Main
Sti'eet, Milnesville; Donna R. Lockhoff, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg; Mary A.
Lorah, Sonestown; Bernice C. McBride, R. D. 4, Bloomsburg; Donald
M. McDade, 1419 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre; Claire P. McManimen, Michael J. Marshalek, 507 Melrose Street, Keiser; Mary H.
Merrix, 618 Sanderson Street, Thrcop; Mrs. Sue Morgan Sober, 232
West Main Street, Bloomsburg; George Neibauer, 20 Eagle Avenue,
Shamokin; William F. North, 212 Taft Street, Wilkes-Barre; Eleanor
T. Olshefski, 541 West Third Street, Mt. Carmel; Earl L. Palmatier,
34 Butler Street, Shickshinny; Jenna M. Pattei'son, Orangeville; Edith
E. Phillips, 124 East Taylor Street, Taylor; Mrs. Agnes Pinamonti
Casari, 528 Pine Street, Kulpmont; Mary D. Pizzoli, 315 Saylor Street,
Atlas; Joseph M. Plevyak, 54 Whites Crossing, Carbondale; Helen T.
Plotts, Main Street, Turbotville; Audrey Evans Powell, 503 Park
Street, Taylor; Edythe A. Reimensnyder, 228 South Front Street, Milton; Margaret E. Rhodes, R. D. 3, Catawissa; Anne Frances Rutter,
130 King Street, Northumberland; John S. Sandel, Winfield; Anita T.
Santarelli, 966 Shoemaker Street, West Wyoming; Helen W. Shank,
Ringtown; June Sharpe, St. Johns; Catherine D. Sheridan, 441 West
Main Street, Girardville; Thelma L. Stevens, Moscow; Marian Sudimak, 86 Kooper Street, Luzerne; Grace E. Templin, 2022 Elk Avenue,
Pottsville; Mrs. Catherine Tighe Oswald, Girardville; John Joseph
Tilmont, 74 Middle Street, Locust Dale; Rowena V. Troy, Mifflinville;
Clara B. Tuloshetski, R. D. 1, Berwick; Lucinda K. Vought, Numidia;

Mary C. Wagner, R. D. 1, Danville; Jessie R. Wary, Helfenstein;
Grace M. Welliver, Tomhicken; Robert A. Welliver, Tomhicken; Rachel N. Williams, 74 Atlantic Avenue, Edwardsville; Evan L. Wolfe,
55 Hillside Avenue, Edwardsville; Adolph Mark Zalonis, 74 Hillside
Avenue, Edwardsville; Josephine Corrine Zeigler, Herndon. DECEASED LaRue Kathryn Wagner.

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July, 1941

Page Fifty-Five

CLASS
OF
1937

Harriet E. Adams, 409 West

Main

Street,

Bloomsburg;

L. Andreas, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Bertha Andrews,
Stepler, 233; Burrwood Avenue, Collingswood, N. J.
Babb Fegley, Summit Station; Joseph W. Bartish, 63

John

Mrs. Amanda
Jones Street, Wilkes-Barre; S. Maria Berger, River Road, R. D. 2,
Bloomsburg; Dorothy R. Berninger, Mifflinville; Lamar K. Blass, 111
West Broad Street, New Holland; Ethel M. Bond, R. D. 3, Shickshinny; Barbara M. Booth, Box 74, Eaglesmere; Harold L. Border, Berwick High School, Berwick; Gladys M. Brennan, 902 Fort Augusta
Avenue, Sunbury; Bertha M. Brobst, 301 East Fourth Street, Berwick; Edward J. Brown, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg; Glenn C. Brown, 620
West Main Street, Bloomsburg; Frank A. Camera, 600 Hayes Street,
Hazleton; Randall F. Clemens, 1254 Lancaster Avenue, Columbia;
Mary G. Conner, Main Street, Benton; Beatrice E. Corle, 211 East
Park St., Lock Haven; Mrs. Marie Davis Davison, 3422 Columbia Pike,
Arlington, Virginia; Philip J. DeFrank, Center Street, Kelayres; G.
Edward Deily, 243 Barton Street, Bloomsburg; Leon A. Dixon, 188
South Wyoming Street, Hazleton; Anna S. Ebert, Bellefonte; Mrs.
Elizabeth Evans, 6 Crane Street, Danbury, Conn.; Marie E. Faust, 668
East Mahoning Street, Milton; Edward P. Garvey, 725 East Drinker
Street, Dunmore; Earl A. Gehrig, 108 Iron Street, Danville; John R.
Gering, 1238 W. Front Street, Berwick; Robert R. Goodman, 229 West
Second Street, Corning, N. Y.; Mary R. Grosek, 103 Merritt Street,
Plains; Ray E. Hawkins, Espy; Dorothy L. Hess, 316 West Street,
Bloomsburg; Edythe E. Hartman, 300 East 11th Street, Berwick; Walton B. Hill, Pottsgrove; Eudora E. Hosier, 1703 Walnut Street, Berwick; Mrs. Dorothy Hower German, Annapolis, Md.; Luther P. Hower, Espy; Earl T. Hunter, R. D. 1, Ashland; Helen E. Hutton, 158
Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg; Edith D. Justin, 85 Fort Street, Forty
Fort; Armina M. Kreischer, 210 East 13th Street, Berwick; Catherine
C. Kreischer, 210 East 13th Street, Berwick; Alvin S. Lapinski, 704
West Green Street, West Hazleton; Helen F. Latorre, 229 West Saylor
Street, Atlas; Mrs. Anna Laubach Gehrig, Danville; Margaret L.
Lewis, 1105 V2 West Locust Street, Scranton; Arthur F. McLaughlin,
6 West Oakdale Street, Freeland; Mrs. Marian McWilliams Cohen,
200 East Front Street, Danville; Eugene C. Macur, 14 Line Street,
Glen Lyon; Joseph M. Magee, 540 Jefferson Avenue, Jermyn; Mrs.
Jane Manhart Morgan, 27 East Main Street, Wanamie; James L.
Marks, R. D. 3, Catawissa; Mary H. Mears, 49 East Fifth Street,
Bloomsburg; Gertrude S. Miller, 708 Poplar Street, Bloomsburg; Walter E. Moleski, Ranshaw; Thelma I. Moody, Marysville; Florine I.
Moore, 407 East 10th Street, Berwick; Victoria M. Muskaloon, 110
Ontario Street, Peckville; Harry T. Nelson, 120 South Laurel Street,
Hazleton; Joseph S. Ollock, 54 Sidney Street, Swoyersville; Rev. John
M. Owen, 795 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre; Nola E. Paden, 230
East Third Street, Berwick; Mary E. Palsgrove, 121 Parkway Street,
Schuylkill Haven; Luther A. Peck, Route 1, Dalton; George J. Pleske,
17 Ridge Street, Ashley; Jay H. Pursel, 592 West Main Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Ruth Radcliffe Dickerman, 1143 Regent Street, Schenectady, N. Y.; Thomas W. Reagan, Lost Creek; Mrs. Jean Reese Walton,
511 East Fifth Street, Berwick; Mary Reisler, Souderton; Harriet

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Rhinard, 413 Pine Street, Berwick; Martha E. Rider, 200 East Front
Street, Berwick; Theresa M. Ritzo, 609 West Penn Street, Shenandoah; Minette E. Rosenblatt, 64 North Church Street, Hazleton; Violetta Rupert, Aristes; Blaine J. Saltzer, 230 Church Street, Slatington;
Camille R. Schalis, 427 Allen Street, West Hazleton; Julia I. Schlegei,
508 East First Street, Birdsboro; Ray G. Schrope, 65 North Sanford
Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan; Helen B. Seesholtz, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg;
William L. Shutt, 404 West Main Street, Bloomsburg; Ruth H. Smethers, 229 East Eighth Street, Berwick; Lehman J. Snyder, Turbotville;
Mary A. Stahle, Riverview, Berwick; John B. Supchinsky, 42 Grove
Street, Edwardsville; Adeline E. Swineford, 506 West Front Street,
Berwick; George R. Tamalis, 178 Hillside Avenue, Edwardsville;
Martha M. Taylor, Ridley Manor, 204 B, Ridley Park; Beatrice H.
Thomas, 312 East 14th Street, Berwick; Rosetta F. Thomas, 136 East
Grove Street, Taylor; Mary A. Trembley, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg;
Amanda J. Walsh, 97 Maffett Street, Plains; Albert D. Watts, Pottsgrove; Edward L. Webb, R. D. 2, Pine Grove; Jessie M. Webber, 1306
Academy Street, Scranton; Miriam E. Welliver, 14 Walnut Street,
Danville; William E. Zeiss, R. D. 2, Box 75, Clark Summit. DECEASED Mrs. Muriel Stevens Bream.

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J. Aberant, 837 Shoemaker Avenue, West Wyoming; Ramona M. Adams, 414 East Sixth Street, Mt.
Carmel; Mary F. Aikman, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Marie
E. Baker, Corner Fourth and Market Streets, Mt. Carmel; Sterling
Banta, 565* Bennett Street, Luzerne; Clair A. Baum, Nuremberg; M.
Emily Baum, Nuremberg; Helen B. Biggar, Unityville; Donald Blackburn, 13 East Main Street, Wanamie; Mary E. Boiwka, R. D. 1, Benton; Reba Bransdorf, 281 Academy Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Virginia Breitenbach Saltzer, Slatington; Louise K. Buck, 87 Warren
Street, Montgomery; Gerald F. Burke, Sugar Run; Virginia Burke,
Sugar Run; Alacoque M. Burns, Main Street, Sheppton; Joseph E.
Champi, Box 148, Railroad Street, Mocanaqua; Albert A. Clauser,
1200 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Joseph Conahan, Beaver Brook;
Anna R. Contini, 434 Green Street, Freeland; Helen M. Derr, 284
Reynolds Street, Kingston; Hazel L. Durlin, R. D. 2, Milton; Peter J.
Eshmont, 731 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Ann J. Evans, 328 South
Main Street, Taylor; Victor Ferrari, 1234 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont;
Vera Gambal, 516 Hickory Street, Old Forge; Charles F. Glass, Freeburg; Megan B. Griffith, 170 Summit Street, Edwardsville; Andrew
Grohal, 414 Winter Ave., West Hazleton; Eleanore E. Haines, R. D. 2,
Catawissa; Elizabeth J. Hart, 513 East Fourth Street, Berwick; Helen
M. Hartman, R. D. 4, Danville; Miriam L. Hepner, Herndon; Rachel
M. Jones, 214 Pond Street, Taylor; Dorothy E. Karschner, R. D. 2,
Dallas; Hannah E. Keller, R. D. 4, Danville; Bridget C. Koscavage, 6
Bradley Street. Plymouth; Paul R. Kotch, 200 North Street, Keiser;
Mrs. Ruth Kramm Moser, McEwensville; Dorothy E. LaBar, 734 N.
Main Avenue, Scranton; Jean E. Lawton, Millville; Roberta R. Lentz,
510 Johnson Street, Freeland; Bessie Levine, 515 Main Street, Edwardsville; Ruth E. Lilley, 93 Broad St. Montgomery; Helen L. Low-

Leona

YEAR
COURSE

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July, 1941

Page Fifty-Seven
Forest City; Sara L. McCreary, 455 Fourth Street, Northumberland; Margaret McCulla, 144 South Centre Street, Freeland;
Helene T. McGonigle, 113 Jardin Street, Shenandoah; Anne Magera,
18 Main Street, Mocanaqua; Leonard A. Manjone, Weston; Howard H.
ry, R. D.,

Master, Mount Pleasant Mills; Ruth H. Miller, 404 West Main Street,
Wilkes-Barre; William R. Moratelli, 1317 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont;
Frank Novelli, 38 Italy Street, Mocanaqua; Stephen E. Pavlick, 525
Hemlock Street, Freeland; Edith M. Payne, 1504 Mai'ket Street, Ashland; Wilhelmina E. Peel, 330 West Main Street, Girardville; Irene
M. Rakoski, 223 Main Street, Brady (Ranshaw) Eleanore M. Reilly,
30 South White Street, Shenandoah; Rita P. Roan, 159 East Main
Street, Plymouth; Mrs. Marie Savage Hill, 132 South York Road, Hatboro; Helen D. Selecky, Wapwallopen; Joseph L. Shaloka, 142 West
Melrose Street, Keiser; Cecile F. Sheets, Sonestown; Joseph Sheptock, 301 Melrose Street, Keiser; Lottie C. Shook, 100 New Street,
Muncy; Alice L. Snyder, 229 South Market Street, Shamokin; Marguerite M. Somers, 659 North Locust Street, Hazleton; Michael Strahosky, 1071 Pine Street, Kulpmont; Elizabeth M. Thomas, 212 Bacon
Street, Jermyn; Jane F. Thomas, 1639 North Washington Avenue,
Scranton; Charlotte E. Trommetter, McKnight Street, Gordon; Luther Troutman, Market Street, Trevorton; Mabel L. Troy, Nuremberg;
Ronald D. Wolfe, Main Street, Mahanoy Plane; Alice M. Zehner, R.
;

D.

3,

Bloomsburg.
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CLASS
OF

Mary

2801 West Sixth Street, Wilmington,
Joycelyn M. Andrews, P. O. Box, 53, Sonestown;
1938
Irma R. Anselmi, 9 Susquehanna Avenue, Wyoming;
Eleanor J. B. Apichell, 552 Spruce Street, Kulpmont; Emily T. Arcikosky, 247 South Beach Street, Mount Carmel; Alice W. Auch, 1806
Northampton, Easton; Byron L. Beaver, Aristes; Marjorie H. Beaver,
110 Mulberry Street, Danville; Margaret L. Besecker, 76 Church
Street, Kingston; Josephine D. Bott, Main Street, Nuremberg; Hester
L. Bowman, Mifflinville; Alberta H. Brainard, 5 East High Street,
Susquehanna; Mrs. Virginia Breitenbach Saltzer, Slatington; Bernice
Bronson, Box 83, Wyalusing; Adaline Burgess, R. D. 3, Wyoming;
George R. Casari, 150 South Market Street, Mt. Carmel; Mrs. Helen
Chapman Berkheiser, 328 Locust Avenue, Centralia; Sylvia M. Conway, Harford; Anne G. Curry, 662 South Tamaqua Street, McAdoo;
Robert G. Diehl, 529 Northampton Street, Easton; Martha B. Dreese,
Middleburg; Anne N. Dzury, 27 East Elm Street, Wilkes-Barre; Dorothy L. Edgar, Stillwater; Marion T. Elmore, 1715 Green Ridge Street,
Dunmore; Beatrice W. Englehart, 740 Market Street, Bloomsburg;
Martha Evans, 440 Spring Garden Street, Pottsville; Anne J. Fawcett,
331 West Front Street, Berwick; Olga H. Fekula, 125 South Lehigh
Avenue, Frackville; Frances P. Fester, R. D. 2, Berwick; Freda P.
Fester, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg; Aerio M. Fetterman, R. D. 3, Catawissa;
Andrew L. Fetterolf, 98 North Main Street, Sunency, Ga.; John E.
Fiorini, Espy; Mrs. Vera Follmer Baker, 345 College Hill, Bloomsburg; Philip Frankmore, 704 Walnut Avenue, Easton; Iris R. Freas,
R. D. 1, Danville; Harold J. Freeman, 718 East Northampton Street,
Wilkes-Barre; Dorothy J. Frick, 127 Parke Street, West Pittston;
A. Allen,

Del.;

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July, 1941

Page Fifty-Eight
Grace I. Gearhart, 358 Iron Street, Bloomsburg; Mary A. Giger, 438
West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth J. Gilligan, 958 Drinker
Street, Dunmore; Mrs. Mary Edna Girton, 508 West Front Street,
Eerwick; Michael L. Gonshor, 168 Pine Street, Alden; Helen I. Goretski, 642 Pine Street, Kulpmont; Margaret G. Graham, Boydton, Virginia; Anne J. Grosek, 103 Merritt Street, Plains; Elmer B. Havalicka,
97 East Liberty Street, Ashley; Robert T. Heckenluber, Arendtsville;

John F. Hendler, 269 Poplar Street, Wilkes-Barre; Charles H. Henrie,
115 Kready Avenue, Millersville; Norman C. Henry, 5206 Norman
Avenue. Baltimore, Md.; Robert H. Hill, 2454 North Washington Avenue, Scranton; Cleo M. Hummel, R. D. 2, Millville; Charles P. James,
315 Water Street, Danville; Dorothy J. Jones, 333 East Fourth Street,
Berwick; Frank J. Klem, 58 Coal Street, Glen Lyon; Michael Klembara, 212 South Fifth Street, Shamokin; Clyde L. Klinger, Nuremberg; Marion E. Klinger, Nuremberg; R. Irene Knapp, 265 North
Sprague Avenue, Kingston; Jacob Kotsch, Jr., 119 North Fourth
Street, Lemoyne; John E. Kovaleski, Main Road, Glen Lyon; Willard
S. Kreigh, 348 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg; Alex Kupstas, 35 Woodbury Street, Wilkes-Barre; John J. Kushman, 100 St. John’s Drive,
Drifton; Mary C. Kutz, 50 West Main Street, Glen Lyon; Ruth E.
Langan, 87 South Main Street, Duryea; Lois E. Laubach, R. D. 5,
Bloomsburg; Vance S. Laubach, 546 East Eighth Street, Berwick;
Ruth E. Leiby, 19 West Mahoning Street, Danville; Daniel W. Litwhiler, Ringtown; Carrie M. Livsey, 336 Chestnut Avenue, Bloomsburg: Clyde R. Luchs, 18 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; John J.
Maczuga, Box 226, Eldred; Anna M. Malloy, Moodus, Conn.; Paul G.
Martin, 215 Third Street, Catawissa; Edward M. Matthews, 125 South
Wyoming Street, Hazleton; Florence Melson, 50 Meyers Street, FortyFort; Cyril F. Menges, Watsontown; Dorothy A. Mensinger, Nuremberg; Mary E. Miller, 273 Second Street, Highspire; George J. Neibauer, 20 Eagle Avenue, Shamokin; Ted S. Papciak, 100 West Main
Street, Glen Lyon; Herbert E. Payne, 723 East Sunbury Street, Shamokin; William T. Pelak, 134 Hillside Avenue, Edwardsville; Helen
Pesansky, Main Street, Sheppton; Frank T. Patrick, 1107 Third Avenue, Berwick; Mrs. Margaret Potter Steiner, 522 South Schuylkill
Street, Harrisburg; Robert Price, 377 South River Street. Plains;
Purcell, 418 Washington Street, Frackville; Mary T. QuigFrancis
ley, 117 South White Street, Shenandoah; Anna B. Rech, Southamp-

D

ton; Mary A. Reed, 176 South Main Street, Mechanicsburg, Ohio;
John McKell Reese, 66 Allen Street, West Nanticoke; Bernadette T.

Reynolds, R. D. 2, Pottsville: Ellen C. Rhinard, McVeytown; Llewellyn C. Richards, 3 South Eighth Street, Shamokin; Neil M. Richie, 19
West Mahoning Street, Danville; Cyril J. Rowland, Connerton; Robert
J. Rowland, 981 West Locust Street, Scranton; Irving Ruckel, Wanamie; Agnes L. Ryan. 701 Butler Street, Dunmore; Anthony Salerno,
202 Barber Street, Old Forge; Rose S. Saluda, 49 West Second Street,
Mt. Carmel; Mrs. Mary Savage Dietterick, Box 95, Beach Haven;
Esther A. Scott, 17 West Ludlow Street. Summit Hill; Frances M.
Sell, 2003 Livingston Street. Allentown; Eleanor L. Sharadin, State
Hospital, Danville; George T. Sharp, 6012 Locust Street, Philadelphia;

Dorothy

E. Sidler, R. D.

2,

Danville;

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Singer, 186 North

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Street, Hazleton; John J. Slaven, 38 Locust Street, Fleetwood; Margaret M. Smith, Sterling; Mrs. Florence Snook Luhrman, Middleburg;
Genevieve R. Stellar, 1329 Poplar Street, Kulpmont: William Thomas,
1739 Adams Avenue, Scranton; Hilda E. Tinney, Box 244, Berwick;

M. Von Bergen, 551 North WyRegina A. Walukiewicz, 118 North Chestnut
Street, Shenandoah; Jack C. Wanich, Light Street; Arthur K. Wark,
440 East Third Street, Berwick; Mrs. Helen Weaver Ditty, R. D. 3,
Sunbury; Charles H. Weintraub, 46 Mallery Place, Wilkes-Barre;
Doi'othy J. Wenner, 218 South York Street, Pottstown; Robert R.
Williams, 365 Elmira Street, Troy; Edward Williams, 275 East Green
Street, Nanticoke; Walter D. Withka, 29 Rittenhouse Street, Simpson;
Mrs. Kathryn Yale Graham, West Street, Bloomsburg; Joseph E.
Zalewski, 819 Chester Street, Kulpmont; Adolph M. Zalonis, 74 HillMary E. Hamside Avenue, Edwardsville. ADDRESSES WANTED
Jane L. Lockard.
er, Stasia Zola, Thomas A. Davison. DECEASED

Rowena
oming

V. Troy, Mifflinville; Doris

Street, Hazleton;

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Dominick Angelo, Lattimer Mines; Ralph G. Baker,
418 East Third Street, Bloomsburg; Ruth L. Baker, 715
Wilson Street, Dickscn City; Cora L. Baumer, R. D. 2,
Lewisburg; Mary Eleanor Beckley, Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Catherine E. Bell, Drums; Gertrude A. Bird, 138 Church Street, Plymouth;
Ruth M. Bishop, Lake Ariel; Bernice E. Blaine, R. D. 2, Berwick;
Hilda F. Bredbenner, 51 East Poplar Street, West Nanticoke; William
C. Brennan, 1116 Race Street, Shamokin; Marlin E. Brosius, Mt.
Pleasant Mills; Anna M. Buck, 113 South Market Street, Shamokin;
Jean L. Capwell, 610 Bloom Street, Danville; Mildred R. Chelland,
293 Oak Street, Old Forge; Michael Chismar, Jr., 25 Swamptown
Street, Jeddo; Mary E. Collett, 185 Hillside Avenue, Edwardsville;
S. Gladys Compton, 29 Brown Avenue, Milton; Hannah Culp, R. D. 4,
Dallas; Dorothy M. Curtis, 1718 Quincy Avenue, Scranton; Joseph J.
D’Angelo, 112 North Street, Keiser; Betty Deitrick, 94 Montgomery
Street, Montgomery; Stanley F. Esmond, 238 West Front Street, Atlas; Evelyn N. Everard, Summit Street, Edwat'dsville; Pauline D.

YEAR
COURSE

Franklin, R. D. 3, Shickshinny; Charlotte Goldsmith, R. D. 3, Dallas;
Hazel R. Gotshall, R. D. 3, Catawissa; Anna H. Grandis, 4 South Second Street, Frackville; Veronica B. Grohal, 414 Winters Avenue, West
Hazleton; Grace M. Guers, R. D. 1, Orwigsburg; Ben E. Hancock, 1147
Walnut Street, Shamokin; Mildred M. Hart, Wapwallopen; Alice I.
Hennemuth, 276 Main Street, Archbald; Alice G. Justin, 806 Ash
Street, Clark’s Summit; Gertrude J. Kadtke, Railroad Street, Mocanaqua; Anna E. Kokora, Main Street, Mocanaqua; Bertha V. Kravitski, Box 39, Drums; Carrie M. Kreiger, Washington Street, Sheppton;
Josephine J. Leczkosky, 193 Grove Street, Edwardsville; George D.
Leiser, R. D. 1, Watsontown; Jennie G. Lesser, 352 Main Street, Ringtown; Joyce M. Long, R. D. 4, Benton; Doris M. Marr, 417 North Main
Street, Watsontown; Olga Mecolick, 108 Morse Avenue, Simpson;
Dorothy E. Miller, 728 Main Street, Taylor; Barbara Mischisen, 33
Main Street, Sandy Run; Nicholas R. Mitchell, Ebervale; Cyril G.

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Monaghan, Lost Creek; Kathryn L. Moore, R. D. 5, Danville; Ann R.
Morgan, 50 Academy Street, Plymouth; Florence M. Naylis, 23 Rice
Avenue, Edwardsville; Anne F. Northup, R. D. 3, Dalton; Helen F.
Powell. 407 East Church Street, Nanticoke; Walter Prokopchak, R. D.
3, Dallas; James G. Pugh, 44 Green Street, Edwardsville; Pauline T.
Reigle, 347 Orange Street, Northumberland; Grace E. Richards, 34
Orchard Street, Wilkes-Barre; James N. Rim, Lattimer Mines; Betty
M. Roberts, 45 Bradford Street, Wilkes-Barre; Clarence C. Rowlands,
522 Shawnee Avenue, Plymouth; William H. Rowlands, 997 West
Main Street, Plymouth; Helen Seman, 60 Church Street, Edwardsville; Eugene F. Sharkey, 45 Main Street, Lattimer Mines; Mildred J.
Simon, Hunlock Creek; Lora M. Snyder, Turbotville, R. D. 2; Mary
A. Stine, R. D. 1, Elysburg; Stanley S. Stozenski, 46 Steele Street,
Wilkes-Barre; Andrew Strahosky, Excelsior; Julia A. Tadrick, 1744
Railroad Street, Shamokin; Alma H. Thornton, 322 Bridge Street, Old
Forge; Joseph A. Tridnak, Nicely Street, Mocanaqua; Florence Tugend, Dalton; Fred F. Visintainer, Drums; Mrs. Frances Ward Merrill,
Turbotville; Avis B. Wesley, R. D. 2, Dallas; Maude L. Williams, New
Milford; Richard J. Wixson, 1700 West Pine Street, Shamokin; Joseph A. Yadock, 16 Nicely Street, Mocanaqua; Helen D. Yanosik, R.
D. 2, Shickshinny; Robert L. Yerger, Mt. Pleasant Mills; Carrie I.
Yocum, 401 Chestnut Street, Milton; Fern B. Yost, Rock Glen; Margaret Youtz, 714 Woodlawn Avenue, Sunbury; Ruth A. Zimmerman,
1293 Highland Avenue, Sunbury; Louise A. Zondlo, 403 Bear Creek
Road, Dupont. ADDRESSES WANTED Margaret Ward Robinson.

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The Junior
nasium, Friday,

class held their Junior

May

Prom

in the

college

gym-

9.

The following committees cooperated
for the affair: Orchestra

to

complete the plans

—William Booth, Shamokin, chairman;

Robert Webb, Pine Grove Shirley Tobin, Harrisburg. PublicWalter Mohr, chairman, Scranton; Francis Thomas, Troy;

ity

;

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David Nelson, Hazleton. Programs
Mary Davenport, chairman, Berwick; Jean Langan, Duryea
William Smith, Bloomsburg.
Decorations- Jack Schlauch, Bloomsburg, chairman;
Earl Harris, Bloomsburg; Wilfred Conrad, Benton.
Refreshments
Dora Taylor, West Grove, chairman; Bernis Fellman,
Allentown; Aleta Stiles, Red Lion.
;

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ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

3000

Send check

H. Nelson, Business Manager,

for $1.00 to Dr. E.

Bloomsburg, Penna.

YOU WILL WANT THE ALUMNI

DI-

RECTORY.

EVERY MEMBER A REPORTER FOR THE QUARTERLY.
Send news items

to

Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker, Editor, Bloomsburg,

Penna.

A COMPLETE ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED
WITH THE APRIL, 1939,
ISSUE. NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR ADIN THE QUARTERLY, STARTING

DRESS.

EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETHING TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT
LOAN FUND. DO YOUR PART. WE NEED THE HELP OF
EVERY GRADUATE.
Send

checks to Mr. D. D. Wright,

Treasurer,

Bloomsburg,

Penna.
1000
24.

the

ALUMNI ON THE CAMPUS FOR ALUMNI DAY, MAY
Come back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the fine program. See
new buildings. Shake hands with your classmates and

friends.

O

A

of Dormitory Rooms for Alumni guests
be available and will be reserved in the
application to the Dean of Women and the Dean of

limited

number

of the College will

order of

Men.

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Alumni

All the Alumni:

The graduates and

friends of

President Emeritus David

Grand Old Man

J.

Bloomsburg mourn the

Waller,

Jr.,

Class of

of Bloomsburg” has passed

will miss his smile and friendly greeting.

to his

But

loss of

‘The

1867.

Reward.

We

his spirit will live

on through the years. As an Alumnus, public servant and citibeen an inspiration and blessing to all fortunate enough to have known him. The sympathy of the Alumni
Association is extended to the Waller family in their hour of
bereavement.
zen, his life has

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Home-Coming Day will be celebrated on Saturday, November 1. Why not plan now to come “Heme.” It will do you good
to spend a day on the campus with friends and classmates.
There will be a fine program for the entire day and evening.
You will enjoy it.
Come!

We

want you.
Sincerely yours,
R.

BRUCE ALBERT.

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*Vol. 42-No. 4

October, 1941

Published by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office
at Bloomsburg, Pa., Under the Act of July 16, 1804. Published Four Times
a Year. Yearly Subscription, $1.C0; Single Copy, 25 Cents.
:

H.

F.

E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,
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1846-1941

Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., one of Bloomsburg’s most
revered and distinguished residents prominently identified with the Bloomsburg of the past and the Bloomsburg
died peacefully in his sleep at 3 :15 A. M.
ot the present
Saturday, June 28.
The veteran educator, who twice had been head of
the Bloomsburg State Normal School and served a term
as State Superintendent of Public Instruction, had been
critically ill for over a month at his residence at 539

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Market

Street,

Bloomsburg.

Dr. Waller observed his ninety-fifth birthday on
Tuesday, June 17 the first one on which he was unable
and his acquaintances
to be about and greet his friends

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were numerous, not only

in

Bloomsburg, but throughout

the state.
On Dr. Waller’s ninety-fifth birthday, the following
editorial appeared in the Morning Press:
“Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., is today celebrating the
ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth.
“In congratulations on that occasion, the entire
countryside will be happy to join.
“Until recently, Dr. Waller retained the vigor of a
man many years his junior, but in recent weeks Time has
been taking its toll. His ninety-fifth anniversary will not
find him enjoying the remarkable health that has been
his.

—

“It was probably a few weeks ago
but it seems only
the other day that we met him as he walked down Main
Street, greeting friends as he passed along and patiently
waiting for the traffic light to change before crossing
Market Square. That was all very remarkable for a man

—

of his years.

“Even though this birthday anniversary may find
the role of an invalid
one he has seldom filled
his legion of friends will be hoping that he may be spared
for many years to come.”
His daughters, Miss Elizabeth Waller, Miss Marga-

him

in

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October, 1941

Dr. Waller ringing old bell

Alumni Day,

1938, ushering in Centennial

Year

Page Three
ret Waller, who resided with him, and Mrs. James W.
Mack, of Indiana, Pa., were at his bedside when death
occurred. Robert P. Waller, a son, was on the way to
Bloomsburg, but did not arrive until after Dr. Waller’s

death.

During his long career, his personal life was in some
respects almost Spartan. He was a devotee of a daily
walk and often told his friends that this kept him feelingyoung. Until a few years ago, he spent the summer at a
cottage in Wildemere, Ontario, and it was his custom to
take a daily plunge in the lake on the bank of which the
cottage was located.
In Bloomsburg Dr. Waller was a Rotarian, identified
with the Boy Scout movement, and was a member of the
Presbyterian Church. Projects for the advancement of
Bloomsburg interests always found a hearty supporter in
Dr. Waller.
One of the proudest moments in his life came when
he was ninety-two. The former principal of the Normal
School attended the general session of the Alumni Association, composed of graduates he had known both as
a fellow-student, then as a teacher and principal and finally as the Grand Old Man of the campus. That was the
occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
In addition to three daughters and a son, Dr. Waller
is also survived by seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.
Dr. Waller was the present day Bloomsburg State
Teachers College’s oldest link with the past that began
as the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and flowered through
successive stages of a private high school, preparatory
school, normal school, and college.
Dr. Waller became principal of the school in 1877,
when he was thirty-one years of age. History records that
his administration was a successful one. The model school
building and the east wing of the dormitory, now known
as Waller Hall, were built during that period. Dr. Waller
had succeeded Dr. T. L. Griswold, who left in June, 1877,
two years after the fire which destroyed the boarding hall,
a blow that was a heavy one, because the loss was only
partly covered by insurance.
Dr. Waller served as principal until 1890, when he
became State Superintendent of Public Instruction. At
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that time, the institution was in a fine financial condition.
At the time of his death Dr. Waller was one of the three
surviving Superintendents of Public Instruction.
The
other two are Dr. Lester K. Ade, until recently president
of the Mansfield State Teachers College, and Dr. Francis
B. Haas, former president at Bloomsburg, and now, for
the second time, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Dr. Judson P. Welsh succeeded Dr. Waller in July,
1890. and when he left to teach at the Pennsylvania State
College, Dr. Waller, who had retired as Superintendent
of Public Instruction in 1893, and had become principal
of the Indiana State Normal School, was re-elected principal at Bloomsburg, and assumed that office in the fall
of 1906.
In January, 1907, after Dr. Waller had returned to
Bloomsburg, the following appeared in the Alumni Quar“Dr. Waller has again come to his own. He was
terly
royally welcomed, first by the trustees and faculty, by
whom a reception was held in the school parlors, and
subsequently by the students, who gave a reception in the
gymnasium. The affairs throughout reflected the splendid feeling that prevails between the newly elected old
principal, the trustees, faculty, and students. The same
hearty sentiment prevails throughout the town and vi:

cinity.”

The Quarterly then quoted from an article in the
November, 1906, number of the Normal “Herald,” published at Indiana. Dr. Waller’s administration at Indiana
little known to most of the graduates of Bloomsburg,
but the article shows that Indiana people agree with us
in our opinion of Dr. Waller. The article follows:
“After thirteen years of service at Indiana, Dr. Waller has left us. And never did a Principal leave a school
more deeply regretted by trustees, faculty, students, and
townspeople.
hesitate to say even a small part of
is

We

toward the great and good Principal whom
we have loved and followed.
“During these thirteen years he has stamped his own
noble nature upon the character of thousands of youths
who have assembled here, and he won the admiration,
gratitude, and friendship of all the teachers who ever
worked w ith him. We approve his efficiency as an ad-

what we

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teacher, his public spirit as a citizen but above all we
love and venerate him as a man. His kindness of heart,
his strict sense of justice, his reserved and gentle speech
are to his students an abiding memory.
One of last year’s class in writing of him says “When
you saw him for the first time, with his quick, firm step,
his easy poise, and his clean-cut features, you recognized
a man of refinement, culture, and power. Although dignified in bearing, still in his position as head of the school,
he was the best friend a student could have. Did any one
ever find him too busy or too deeply engaged to answer a
question, furnish information, or give advice? Though he
put you at ease in his presence under all circumstances,
yet there was a firmness and reserve which we all respected and feared. To the student his slightest known wish
was law.
His home and social life was fascinating to his students. Always gentle and courteous, thinking of the enjoyment of others before himself, he sacrificed his own
pleasures for his friends. To be with Dr. Waller was an
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education.”

Another writes: “We shall miss him in his dear accustomed places his prayers in chapel, his Bible classes,
his instructive and stimulating talks in prayer-meeting
his pervading presence everywhere.”
Dr. Waller came to us in 1893, fresh from his four
years of the State Superintendency. Before that he had
been for thirteen years Principal of the State Normal
School in Bloomsburg. While with us, he completed four
of the large buildings on our campus and more than doubled our attendance; but above all he elevated the standards of the school and greatly advanced its scholarship.
He has returned to his old friends in Bloomsburg,
who were able to offer him inducements that Indiana
could not meet. They have known him always, and would
stop at no honorable means to secure his return to his old
place among them. But in love and appreciation of him
who was our Doctor Waller, now theirs, we will “set our

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feet as far as his who goes farthest.”
Dr. Waller remained at Bloomsburg until 1920, when
he retired after having given the school a total of twentyseven years of service. The Morning Press, in its issue of
June 6, 1941, announced the retirement of Dr. Waller,

and made the following comment:

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The Commencement Week program now on at the
Bloomsburg State Normal School marks the last over
which Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., will preside as principal
of the school.

His resignation is in the hands of the trustees of the
school, and with the close of this term his active connection with the school will cease, although his interest will
be as great as during the years in which he made it one
of the best known educational institutions of the East.
Although it is he, more than any other man, who has
been responsible for the success of the institution, his interests have not alone been confined to the school which
is largely the creature of his own brain and his own progressiveness. “He is the youngest old man I have ever
known,” remarked a friend yesterday, but even the suggestion that Dr. Waller has passed the allotted three
score and ten will come as a surprise to many.
Bloomsburg has few men very, very few whose
time has been so unstintingly at the call of every movement for town betterment. Altogether foreign to him is
the conservatism of age. He is today a leader in every progressive movement; he grasps the situation and gets into
action, while most men, many years his junior, deliberate.
Yet so sound is his judgment that any movement with
him as its sponsor is assured of success. Those who have
come to know him intimately know how literally true
every word of this is. In that his retirement from the onerous duties of the principalship of the Bloomsburg State

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Normal School does not imply his retirement from town
activities, Bloomsburg is fortunate.
As an educator, his work speaks for itself. With the
exception of the years when he was State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and those spent as principal of the
Indiana State Normal School, his life work has been linked with the Bloomsburg State Normal School. The fact
that stands out the most prominently is the unanimous
expression of opinion that “you can’t help doing the
square thing when Dr. Waller puts it up to you. He’s
square himself.” You will go far and not find finer praise
than that from students. It speaks volumes.
As outstanding as his ability, as those qualities which
stamp the true leader and the Christian gentleman, is his
modesty, as many know. But the severance of his connection with the institution in whose success he played such

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able corps of faithful co-workers, all with exalted ideals
of what a Normal School should be and do for its pupils.
That principal at once won my respect, confidence,
and affection as a teacher, because of his love for the
work, his skill as a teacher, his personal interest in each
student, and his exalted standards of character. He won
the esteem and affection of the pupils because of his fairness to them, his absolute confidence in their integrity,
and his honesty of purpose. When they stumbled, because of their want of maturity, or weakness, his keen
understanding grasped the situation, his sympathy enfolded and helped them to firmer ground, and to better
character development. And thus through all these years
of the old regime, under his efficient management, the
Bloomsburg school has stood more and more for character and steadfastness of purpose of the men and women
whom it sends out. The world has been keen to recognize
this in our pupils and quick to avail itself of them as superior workers.
The boys told the truth and “did the squaie thing”
because “Hawk Eye” (their familiar title for this beloved
principal) expected it, trusted them, and would not tolerate a lie. And so the quiet influence of his life, his living,
his standards, became the ideals of those living under
him, subtle influence that continued to transform the lives
of his pupils long after school days had ceased. He lived
his ideals, and his pupils, catching the vision, grew like
unto their dreams. Many are boys that he helped by his
kindly encouragement, where he found them at their
work after their Bloomsburg days, and the grime of toil
and sordidness of the world had disheartened them from

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further effort, and with a few inspiring works of hope and
cheer he set them again toward the goal with new vision
and determination to make good. Many went on to college, who had almost sunk under burdens too great for
them to bear. Many are the boys without opportunity, but
ambitions, to whom he made possible the way to usefulness, honor, and service.
What a privilege it has been all these years to work
side by side with him in the school we love so well, because its policy, its work, its workers, have in a great
measure been shaped by his wise counsel and generous
spirit. His keen mind and sympathetic heart always enabled him to grasp the principles involved in any problem
of administration, instruction, or discipline, and apply it
in such a way as to make for the betterment of all concerned.
Bloomsburg has been favored among institutions, in
that for twenty-five vears it has had as its principal D. J.
Waller, Jr.
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By George

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E. Elwell

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., retired from the principalship
of the State Normal School after many years of admirable service in that capacity, and after an intimate acquaintance with the institution as a student, as a friend,
and twice as its official head. He has known the school
and displayed keen interest in it from the time when the
corner-stone of the first building was laid, when it was
the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, up to the present moment. What Dr. Waller and his co-workers have done for
the school, the school has done for the town of Bloomsburg, which is now regarded as one of the strongest educational centers of the state. While his resignation is re-

gretted by all, it is universally admitted that he has well
earned the right to be relieved from cares and anxieties
of the position, and it is a matter of congratulation that
we shall still enjoy the privilege of having him in our
midst, his home town. The school will indeed be fortunate if the trustees will find another Principal who can fill
the place of David J. Waller, Jr.
Through the years, Dr. Waller remained firm in his
belief that the college on the hill stood as a monument to
Professor Henry Carver more than to any other man.

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This was a sincere token of his modesty.
He credited Henry Carver, a pioneer in establishing
the Bloomsburg Literary Institute on a firm basis, both
scholastically and financially, with influencing his early
career more than any other individual, as he did many of
the young men whose lives he touched.
The forerunner of the school itself was established in
a building at Third and Jefferson Streets in 1839, seven
years before Dr. Waller was born, but its life and his began to link together within a few years, and Dr. Waller
iived through the century when its pioneering work was
done.
The first teacher left little mark, and C. P. Waller,
an uncle of Dr. Waller, was the first one under whose
guidance the school began to grow. After several years,
during which the guiding hand was indifferent, Dr. Waller’s father, the Rev. D. J. Waller, sent him first to a Mrs.
Drake, whose name was Snyder before her marriage.
“Her school,” he once recalled, “was situated on
Main Street, where Snyder’s Run crossed the street. The
run had not been covered in that day, and an open bridge
spanned the street.
“Jim Ramsey, Dr. Ramsey’s son, Bill Abbott, and
Bill Snyder I recall as other pupils,” he continued. “The
seats faced the wall. I recall that when I went there the
first day, I had not the least idea what to do.”
“Mrs. Drake gave me a slate on which were rows of
figures running into five numbers, and almost a foot long.
She told me to add them up.” I did not know the first
thing about addition. One of the boys did the problem,
and I confess that I came off with flying colors on that first
day. It was probably a bad start,” he chuckled with re-

membrance.
His first recollection of corporal punishment in the
school was of the occasion when the teacher gave Bill
Snyder a licking. Dr. Waller did not remain in the school
long, but was next sent by his father to a classical school
founded by B. F. Eaton in the Primitive Methodist Church
at the corner of East Third and Iron Streets, now the site
of St. Columba’s Church.

Henry Carver visited Bloomsburg one day while on
leave from the preparatory department of the University
of California. He was persuaded to stay as principal, and
he brought discipline and built the school to a preeminent

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position in this section.
“That old academy building in Carver’s time,” Dr.
Waller recalled, “had its length running parallel to Third
Street. Of brick and two stories, it had a hall which ran
through the middle of the first floor. In the rooms on that
floor the lower grades were taught. The second floor was
one large room.”
Carver, who had only one arm, told the Board of Dilectors of the school that unless more adequate quarters
were provided, he would not continue as principal. He
planned two buildings.
He came back with his plans. He told them that one
of the buildings could be built for $15,000. They did not
believe his figures. They wanted Carver, but they could
not see that much money,” Dr. Waller said. “I’ll take the
contract to build it myself for that figure,” Professor Carver stated. “They could not get away from that man.”
And build it they did. He was largely responsible
for raising the money. Building and furnishings cost
$24,000. He kept in close touch with the subscriptions,
and vyhen this or that subscription did not come up to the
figure that he thought it ought to be, he would hitch up
his horse, drive out to this or that farm, and raise the subscription. The man had an amazing personal magnetism.
During those months of building, he was frequently
away from the academy, and following devotional exercises he would announce “Mr. So-and-So will hear the
:

Latin class today, or the geometry class, whichever it
might be. And the classes went ahead as systematically
as though he were there with an eye on all proceedings.
I mention that to give you the idea of the spirit with which
he had filled the student body.”
We had a bell on top of the old academy, and this
was always rung for the exchange of classes by a boy employed for that purpose. During all that building period
I never witnessed any disorder
any shoving of shoulders
and that sort of thing during all the class changes.
Clint Swisher, from out near Jerseytown, and for
many years a prominent university professor in Washington, D. C., George Elwell, Charles Unangst, and John
Clark were among the boys then preparing for college.
I recall that on one occasion John Clark thrust a
meerschaum pipe under the nose of Clint Swisher, who
always detested tobacco. He caught the pipe with his

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hand and threw

it out the window.
John walked quietly
from the room, recovered his pipe and took his seat. Professor Carver came to hear of it when he came back to
the Academy. It happened that I was the one who had
been in charge at the time. The others escaped criticism,
which was heaped on me, because 1 had not administered

the proper punishment.
It was a great day when we marched from the old
Academy up the middle of the street trustees, faculty,
and student body, headed by the Bloomsburg Band to
the new building on the hill. It was to be some years later
before it was known as Normal Hill. Even then we all
recognized Professor Carver as the spark plug of the undertaking.
“What about the story of the bell for Carver Hall,
for which Charles Unangst, George Elwell, and yourself
raised the money?” a reporter once asked him.
Dr. Waller laughed. “That was more of the amazing
magnetism of Henry Carver. His philosophy was that the
individual could accomplish whatever he set out to do, if
sufficiently determined. He had all the boys who expected to go on to college imbued with that idea.
“It was just after the new building had been dedicated. The term had closed. Examinations were over. It
was a Saturday morning, and we looked forward to the
opening, on the following Monday, of our last term here
before leaving for college. The three of us were walking
together up Main Street. At the Episcopal Church corner
we met Professor Carver, coming down town.

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“We stopped to talk. There was nothing we enjoyed
more than being with him. “Well, there’s the new building and there’s the tower, boys,” he said. “But there is
and a good one?
bell in it. Now are we to have a bell
want no cheap bell. The court house and the Presbywant one just as good,
terian Church have good bells.
if not better.
Now, hustle along and raise that money
today for the bell. You three can do it. It would cost
$1,200, at least.”
“That was a jolt, just as we thought ourselves tired
and needing relaxation.
took counsel of the father of
one of us. He gave us some good advice.
started out.
began to get subscriptions. It wasn’t long before the
word was nosed about that we were out to raise the money
for the bell in a one-day drive. The little town became in-

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terested.

As the hours wore

on,

everybody wanted to

along. By nightfall we. had
the money.” The bell, weighing 2,171 pounds, came later.
The interviewer mentally pictured the spirit of that
amazing community, a village not much more that a quarter of the size of the Bloomsburg of today, back in the
days when there was very little money a community
giving not only $24,000 to provide educational facilities
for its youth, but topping it with a $1,200 gift in a oneday drive by a trio of boys. And back of it all, as Dr.
Waller emphasized time and again, was the amazing
spirit of this man Carver.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction J. P.
Wickersham, coming from Wilkes-Barre, chanced to note
the beauty of the valley and the first building of the
Bloomsburg Literary Institute on the hill. He stopped
over in Bloomsburg, became more impressed with the possibilities of the school and its location, and took the initiative in suggesting that a normal school be added. That
meant an additional building and more subscriptions. It
was when the board had decided that they needed $70,000 for land and building that Henry Carver came along
and took the contract to erect the building for $36,000.
Again it was Henry Carver who was the mainspring back
of the subscription drive.
“I was in college when he left, but I never forgot the
lessons of common sense and good order he left with me.
“I was to see him later and to learn that he had duplicated in New Jersey the same remarkable things he had
done here. I recall hearing that when he had a board of
trustees there who hesitated to launch an undertaking to
which he was committed, he pledged his word that if
they carried through, he would have President Grant for
the dedication. And he carried out his word.
It was easy to get Dr. Waller to talk to Henry Carver,
but he had little to say of the great part he played
through twenty-seven years in spreading the name and
fame of the Bloomsburg State Normal School.
He had graduated from Lafayette College in 1870,
and tutored there for a year, after which he attended the
Union Theological Seminary, graduating there in 1874.
During the year 1874-75, he became pastor of the Logan
Square Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and there an
epidemic of diphtheria swept through the family, costing

know how we were coming

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the

life

of a child

fection. It

and leaving Dr. Waller with a throat affor a time that he would do no more

was feared

public speaking.

Mrs. Waller and he returned to Bloomsburg to recuperate. His condition improved and he was prevailed upon
to take over the pastorate of the Orangeville, Rohrsburg

and Raven Creek Presbyterian Churches.
It was about a year and a half later that Mrs. Waller
and he were driving to Bloomsburg and had reached the
outskirts of the town,

when

Daniel A. Beckley, driving

toward them, stopped his horse and remarked that he
was on his way to see Dr. Waller at the time. Mr. Beckley
had for a long time been a strong influence in the school.
They arranged to meet at the home of Dr. Waller’s
father, and there Mr. Beckley, on behalf of the board, offered him the principalship of the Bloomsburg State Normal School. There were considerations that inclined him
to accept, but he was not willing to take up the work with
the division then existing on the board. It was then that
Judge Elwell jumped into the breach, and declared that
the matter would be handled. There was submitted to
Dr. Waller a letter in Judge El well’s handwriting, agreeing that if he would accept the principalship there would
never be a line of division on the board. That promise
was kept to the letter. The letter itself is still in existence.
For the next thirteen years Dr. Waller was the principal. These were years which, as history records, were
filled with steady development of the school. Then he resigned to accept the position of Superintendent of Public
Instruction.

The following editorial appeared in the Bloomsburg
Morning Press in the issue of June 30:
The death of the Rev. Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., in his
ninety-sixth year early Saturday morning, removes the
last member of a pioneer Bloomsburg family, and one
that, through its various members, has left an indelible
impress upon the life of the community.
Dr. Waller’s passing was not unexpected. His condition had been serious, even before he celebrated the
ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth on June 17th, an
event he desired to commemorate.
Dr. Waller will be remembered for his fine qualities
as a man, a citizen, and a father, but, possibly more than
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he played in the development of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College of today. Through twenty-seven years,
which spanned both of his administrations here, he influenced the lives of thousands of students with whom he
came in contact. That influence was reflected in later
years, when his presence at the institution on Alumni Day
attracted his former students by the hundreds.
Dr. Waller was a great educator, an outstanding citizen with full appreciation of his responsibilities to others,
and a very fine gentleman. Few have ever been cast in
the same mold.
Funeral services for Dr. Waller were held Monday,
June 30, at the late residence on Market Street. Burial
took place in the family plot in Old Rosemont Cemetery.
The Rev. Harry K. Franks, pastor of the Church of Christ,
Bloomsburg, and the Rev. Dr. Robert Anthony, retired,
of New York, were in charge of the services.

o
column “Twenty-five years ago” in the July 1
Morning Press appears the following item
“The deed for the transfer of the title for the Bloomsburg State Normal School to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was recorded yesterday (June 30, 1916), and
with the recording of that deed the control of the institution passed from the corporation to the Commonwealth of
In the
issue of the

The consideration was $10,000, with the
Commonwealth carrying in addition the nineteen mortPennsylvania.

gages against the institution. Twelve of these were to the
Commonwealth and were given from September 22, 1873,
to September 15, 1893, with the total amount of the mortgages $180,000. Mortgages in addition to these amounted
to $139,200.”

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DAVID JEWETT WALLER
By Ernest W. Young,
ler

’80

David Jewett Waller, Jr., son of David Jewett Waland Julia (Ellmaker) Waller, was born in Blooms-

burg, Pennsylvania, June, 1846. Entering Lafayette College as a sophomore, he was graduated in 1870, then tutored for about a year in his Alma Mater, and was there
given his master’s degree in 1873. In the meantime he
pursued theological studies in Princeton and Union, and
was graduated from the latter in 1874. The same year he

was married to Miss Anna Appleman, of Bloomsburg, and
was also ordained a Presbyterian minister. He served
pastorates in Philadelphia and Orangeville for three
years, until called to the principalship of the Bloomsburg
State Normal School in the fall of 1877. He served as
such until 1890, when appointed State Superintendent of
Public Instruction of his State. After three years of service in that capacity, he became principal of the State

Normal School

at Indiana,

Pennsylvania, and held that

position until 1906, when again called to the Principalship of the Bloomsburg Normal, where he continued until
his resignation in 1920. He served his State as presidential elector in 1908; is a member of the Pennsylvania
chapter of the Sons of the Revolution; of the Phi Beta
Kappa fraternity, and was a trustee of Lafayette College

1891-1919.
Still a resident of his native town, where, as a young
man, he assisted in securing funds for erecting the Bloomsburg Literary Institute building, forerunner of the State

Normal School, he
was from his early

deeply interested in education as he
years. His interest has increased rather than diminished. Not by previous plan, rather contrary
to it, his career has been primarily and essentially that of
is

an educator. He was an educator from the beginning,
though he may not have been conscious of the fact.
As an educational worker he has never been a
drudge. He had difficulties to meet, it is true, and he met
them; he found obstacles, and he overcame or removed

FOOTNOTE — This
Alumni Quarterly
tribute deserves to

biography of Dr. Waller was published in the
August, 1927. We feel that this fine
be reprinted at this time.

in the issue of

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them he met harrassing experiences, and he confronted
them squarely. But his work was never drudgery. He
had the spirit of the real educator, and it was in that spirit that he met events and people.
For his vision was broad enough to make him sym;

pathetic with many and diverse lines in life. Frequently,
and all too true, is the charge made against present-day
college professors that they are narrow, that each sees
only the one subject assigned to him, and that while he
looks at his one specialty the world passes on and he is
On the contrary, Doctor Waller
left standing alone.

found

life in

many

—

directions,

found

it all

about him and

conditions
in the hills and the trees, in the flowers
and the fields and the rivers. But over and above all he
found it in men and women, and chiefly in youth. He well
knew that life’s fullest expression was to be found in all
that goes to make up the individual’s finest activities, and
the community’s well-being in its fullest, most fundamenin all

tal

meaning.

Besides this broad view of life, there was a depth of
it all that was even more animating and which
penetrated the inner recesses of other souls. It gave him
his grip on individuals, on trying situations, on communities.
It was his capacity for seeing things as they are,
rather than as he might think they should be, and making
the most of it, that gave him a reputation for that sanity
which created in the community a full confidence in his
judgment. It was in the school community in the restricted sense that his characteristics shone in greatest
splendor.
Yet so far was he from being puffed up over accomplishment that there was no more humble among all the
soul in

recipients of his largess than he. He would bestow freely, and then forget about it. In these matters his left hand
knew not what his right hand was doing. I speak of intellectual and spiritual matters, though in others he was

abundant.
He had, too, that rare insight into human motives
which enabled him to know human character a prime
requisite for a genuine teacher. Says one who, for many
years was associated with him in educational work “I remember with greatest satisfaction his reverence and respect for childhood and youth (always without sentimentality,) his appreciation of youth’s point of view and spir-

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of fun, always ready to help on with the same
a silent
partner; his readiness to accept a student’s word with

it

understanding and sympathy; his keen and humorous
of his foibles, strength and
weakness; never bitter in his judgments, yet with a Jovelike flash of condemnation when he found an attempt on
the paid of a rogue to impose upon his confidence, that

analysis and appreciation

really awe-inspiring .... You remember the flash of
indignation at untruthfulness, dishonorable conduct and
meanness, especially if it was a ‘bluff’ attempt to defend
the position. Then, too, his readiness to help the culprit
forgiving and forgetting,
out of an anomolous position
when true nobility rose above the deed done in thoughtless push of youth.”
Nor did he fail to encourage every aspiration of every young man or young woman looking toward the field
of wider usefulness. He understood that each stood on
his own merit. He had that intuition which led the great
Thomas Arnold to accept each as an individual he knew
that each had a responsibility that could not be evaded.
He believed in groups but he was too wise to believe that
great or penetrating ideas originate in groups. He knew
the dynamic energy of a worth-while idea and that such
an idea grows in the individual mind originates there,
germinates there, and there fructifies. And in this day of
groups and blocs, it is refreshing to hark back to the yesterday when he grasped the true social theory that the individual mind, and that only, gives initiative to that which
groups may carry to execution. If history teaches anything it is the great fact of individual responsibility for
progress in the race and he never ceased to drive home
to the individual his personal responsibility. It was this
that would lead him to select one of a group who would
naturally influence the group.
For he knew that while the student must be an individualist he must at the same time be something more
must be an important factor in the community of which
he was, and was to be, a part; must labor for and with
that community, not as a consumer of what that community produced, but as a producer of the chief elements vital
to that community’s highest welfare.
Not all of these ideals were present to the eye of the
student while coming into immediate and personal contact with Doctor Waller; but with the lapse of years and

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with the proper perspective which followed, it all became
clear. Nor is it all seen in a single incident, neither in several disconnected incidents. But if one will begin with
the letters he, as a prospective student, received from the
Principal of the Bloomsburg State Normal School beside
these will place in mind the seemingly unimportant incidents of the Normal days in which the Principal figured
then the one or more letters of encouragement received
from the Principal in the doubtful months, perhaps years,
after concluding the Normal work; and then, once more,
will glance back over the intervening years since, whether
they be long or short, and will seek to grasp its full meaning in a short pause in the world’s onward rush
then,
and then only, is Doctor Waller revealed so largely as the
central figure in the whole panorama of the individual’s
;

;

—

life.

He

is

an

idealist,

always has been

— a practical

ideal-

the highest sense. He has always been a builder, a
constructionist in applied education. And in this day of
much loose thinking on nationalism and internationalism,
the recollection of what he has stood for has a steadying
influence. Liberal toward young men and women who
erred in matters of discretion, but not of intent, he never
tolerated a spirit of insubordination
a bright contrast
with that group of thinkers who sneer at history, cast ugly
reflections upon men who have made history, jeer at the
most sacred of memories, and teach that so-called self-expression is the proper substitute for discipline and obedience to law they, alleged liberals, most arbitrary of men
he, a strict disciplinarian, most liberal of men in dealing
with youth; their tendency destructive, his positive constructive with well-laid foundations.
As a teacher he was eager to grow and point the
ist in

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:

way

;

of growth.

He found

relish in

making known

to his

fellow workers his special finds, wh ether of books, papers,
or experiences
evidences of an enlarging teacher to the
end of his teaching career, a real companion to the real
teacher.
He possessed a deep interest in books the best
books and literature and sought to inculcate such interI
distinctly remember four books
est in his students.
which Doctor Waller brought to my attention at periods
covering a year of my course, all high-grade books of
which I previously knew nothing. Another occasion in a

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brief conversation, he related the incident of a gentleman
of some note, who, while waiting for an appointment he
was to meet, picked up a new book at hand and began going through it paragraph by paragraph, and by the time
the other party was ready to see him he had the book’s
contents so well in mind that he gave an intelligent review of it. Then Doctor Waller added: “Some people
read word by word, some by sentences, some by paragraphs, while others almost have to spell it out.’’ It was
all given in such an unsophisticated manner, with no suggestion of an attempt at teaching, that the naturalness of
it all left the deeper impression. Within a year or two he
has called my attention to other books he has read with
zest, which have since found a resting place on my
shelves. Another of his students, later a prominent teacher on the Principal’s staff, writes: “He did more than any
other man or teacher in shaping my entire life’s reading
(in shaping my life, too, for that matter) in a classroom
talk on books, reading, taste, etc., and in a general outline he gave at the time, before our departure from school
in

1879.”

But, lest too great credit be accorded him, it should
be added that he inherited richly himself. Coming down
through a line of educated men and educators Elder
Brewster of Puritan fame, and Harvard, Williams and
Princeton men
he belonged to what is sometimes called
“aristocracy of intellect” some writers
the upper class
enjoy terming it today. We may not credit him with the
inheritance; but we should not omit to credit him with
what he cultivated and developed in himself, and sought
to cultivate and develop in others. For there never came
into his presence one so lowly or crude, if but with proper
aspirations, that he did not reach down to assist; nay, put
himself on the level of the other, gripped and lifted him.
But he never lowered the standard. As the outstanding
distant mountain peak rises to greater height and draws
nearer as the observer takes higher ground, so did Doctor
Waller.
It is the things which he undertook to develop in
others that are highly significant of his single purpose in
life
to bring out the best there was in young men and
women. This he did in no formal, ceremonious manner.
He did it less by precept than by example. He spoke the
word in season, but the more impressive way was always

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to the fore.

perceptible

was the seemingly insignificant, almost imways that the impression was made. The

It

was never peremptory, but the results were momentous; and they were as diverse as the types of individual
with which he had to deal. Said one who had been under
the Principal’s influence for a year: “I went back to the
farm from school at harvest time, and if I missed a stalk
of grain in the reaping I would stop the team, get off the
machine, and get that stalk, believing that Professor Waller would not approve that kind of workmanship.” Others
found themselves imitating his physical movements. All
sought to adjust their own to his erect, manly, dignified
bearing. Indeed, it was no uncommon experience at class
reunions of Bloomsburg Normal graduates to hear them
relate in what particular they found themselves seeking
not seeking, but doing it unto emulate their Principal
consciously.
If these characteristics were so freely followed, these
rather more outward forms, it takes no philosopher to understand that the inner forces were deeply at work creating those secret but more coercive currents of thought
and life which constitute the real individual. It was this,
perhaps, that led one student who sat under the instruction of and came into vital contact with Professor Waller,
and later sat under the eminent Mark Hopkins, to write
that however much the latter meant to James A. Garfield,
the former meant as much to this student.
It was the finest qualities that give life its richness,
which were always flowing from Doctor Waller’s personality.
And when we undertake to gauge a man’s accomplishments and worth in life, we fail utterly if we leave
out of the calculation the imponderables; and these are
not subject to the rules of mathematics. While we are
a part of all we have ever met, we carry with us through
life much more of the aroma of one life than of another.
Indeed, it is the spiritual side of life which leaves the affluence which accompanies ever after. This was the pervasive flavor which was carried away by contact with
style

—

Doctor Waller, who, by his
saying

own

life,

seemed

to be

always

strong, my comrade
that you may stand
Unshaken when 1 fall that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to full melody in yours.”

“Grow

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These incidents suggest a matter of primary significance to the teacher: The overwhelming influence of
one who is balanced in his whole life physical, intellectual, spiritual. Admiration and affection have left their

—

deepest impress upon the

many thousands who came

di-

rectly under Doctor Waller’s influence, and from that influence have gone into the world’s battles for truth and
honor and justice, chiefly through educational channels,
but in practically every line of human endeavor.
The attitude of his former students toward him personally and toward his aims and accomplishments is well
expressed in the words on a permanent tablet placed in
one of the buildings of the State Normal School at

Bloomsburg and unveiled

in

June, 1921:

1920

1870

TRUTH AND VIRTUE
PRESENTED TO THE BLOOMSBURG STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL BY ITS ALUMNI TO COMMEMORATE THE GRADUATION OF ITS 50TH CLASS OF
TEACHERS, AND THE 44 YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICE TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF
DAVID JEWETT WALLER, JR.
AS PRINCIPAL OF THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS
AT BLOOMSBURG AND AT INDIANA, AND AS
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

WITH CULTURE AND EFFICIENCY AS EDUCATIONAL AIMS, HE PLACED CHARACTER, HONOR,
RIGHT LIVING, AND HIGH IDEALS ABOVE EVERY
MATERIAL SUCCESS.
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The student who left the halls of learning where he
was made tougher in his intellectual, moral and spiritual fiber, the more capable of initiating and carrying on.
Gentle as a child, the Principal was bold as a lion in meeting a crisis; nor did his courage lead him into unwarranted paths. With prudence and utter courtesy to all, even
led

provoker of disturbances, he never flinched when
faced by turbulent spirits.
With it all, he held in slight regard the capacity of a
young man who would attempt a prank and had not the
character to give it point. On the other hand, he showed
a winning respect for the man who could work a trick
and turn it well, even if for the moment it placed the
Principal in an embarrassing position. Those who witnessed the event will not forget the calmness which met
the entire school one bright June morning when gathered
in the assembly hall for chapel and all the chairs were
missing
all but one; and the quiet announcement by the
Principal that, since there were no chairs, the school
would stand during worship. It was the writer’s roommate, Norman H. Smith, who had directed the chairs to
their hiding place under the rostrum
a fact made public
after graduation.
Mr. Smith has recently written the present writer:
“Sure, you can have the story of the hiding of the chairs.
It has been so long ago that I thought everybody had forgotten all about it. One afternoon, just before our senior
examination, with nothing much to do, a warm and humid
day, I fell asleep and dreamed. In my dreams I saw the
chairs go marching around the chapel. They came to me
for direction, and were steered to the belfry and out on
the roof surrounding it. There they had a war dance. At
this point I was aroused from my dream by the call for
the closing of the afternoon school. I called a council of
war of trusted advisers. We agreed that we could put the
chairs around the belfry that night. But the belfry door
v/ould not open. It was 1 :30 a. m., and each said he had
left his roommate sound asleep. We put them under the
rostrum instead. We never worked harder in our lives
and at 3 a. m. we were all back in our beds.’’
Diary record shows that six days later Mr. Smith was
taken so ill that he had to go home, whether because of
troubled conscience over the hiding of the chairs or because he was appointed valedictorian of his class is not
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Page Twenty-Four

disclosed in the record but he has done penance for over
forty years since as a Methodist minister.
In referring to the incident many years afterward
Doctor Waller remarked that he knew that the master in
the prank was a man with a sense of honor, for the one
chair allowed to remain was that of a young woman who
was lame. Immediately chapel was over, the engineer
and every other employee were set the task of locating
the chairs, with but negative result, until at the opening
of the afternoon session of the school, as Doctor Waller
was ascending the steps to the platform he observed that
the carpet at one spot was not lying as usual on the platform, and a telltale loose tack “let the cat out of the bag.”
He had the true clue.
Three distinct traits were brought to the front in connection with this single incident: His perfect self-control
in an emergency; his keenness of observation in detecting
the manner in which the small portion of the carpet was
laid
and his appreciation of a trick well planned and
well executed, the severest ever coming to my ears being
“Make N. H. Smith explain at your class reunion how he
got so many chairs into so small a space in so short a
time.”
In practical matters Doctor Waller manifested a
combination of intelligence, common-sense, temper, and
patience that w as fascinating. There came the troop of
new students each year from city, town and farm, from
river valley and back hills, from woods and mines. In
their aims they were about as fine a combination as they
were diverse in their urbanity. The Bloomsburg School,
delightfully located on The Hill, was never advertised as
a “School to Teach Refined Manners.” Rather, announcement in early issues of the catalogue, about a dozen of
which, 1877-1890, the writer has in his library bound in
one robust volume, states in the beginning that “The Normal School is established to prepare pupils for the profession of teaching;” and closes with the statement that
“Thoroughness in discipline and instruction we consider
objects of primary importance,” telling a large part of the
story of the Principal’s eminent success. At the same
time, where is the student who came into contact with
Principal Waller that did not feel the refining and inspiring influence ?
As an administrator he was seldom surpassed. This
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Page Twenty-Five
in part due to a rare insight into human motives that
enabled him to analyze them promptly. If a combination
ot motives complicated a situation, he would unravel
thread by thread the tangled skein until the whole was
laid out in full view. He did not hurry a difficult situation his conclusion was almost invariably unerring. Nor
was any more ready to make reparation for error. His
uniform courtesy was as effective as it was unassuming,
and his tact only strengthened his position. In the little
jarring between groups, as in the literary societies in the
early days, when a dispute was referred to him he discreetly asked the two sides to get together in a compromise when no principle would be sacrificed, making them
feel that the responsibility was theirs. In case they failed
to agree and the responsibility was thrust upon him he
accepted it and met it squarely. It was then clear that
he was then master of a situation which he had not cre-

was

;

ated.
In operation he ran about as true to Nature’s form as
did any man: “Never hasting, never wasting.’’ His opening of a term of school was the starting of the machinery
with the least possible friction; and the smoothness with
which it operated is a satisfaction to remember through
the decades. When his day’s work was done at the school,
he threw off the anxieties and found rest and recuperation
in his own family
wife and seven children. Here, too, he
accepted his full responsibility as one of a community of
social beings. His family life typical of all other relationships, all things worked to perfect a combination that
made him the wise counsellor and efficient administrator

—

he was.

A

constant student of education and affairs, in which
even as an octogenarian, is at top notch, he
had that broad vision which helped him to lay well the
foundations of a wise educational system for his State.
It is difficult to realize that a century ago there was no
such thing as special training for teachers at public expense. Yet it was at the beginning of the second half of
this period that Doctor Waller entered upon his public
duties as a leader in such special training. And his twenty-seven years as Principal at Bloomsburg, thirteen years
as Principal at the Indiana State Normal and his three
years as State Superintendent of Public Instruction gave
him an insight into educational methods and needs that
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Page Twenty-Six

few men

in America have had and his quick grasp and
ready executive capacity enabled him to make effective
application of his knowledge.
While the Bloomsburg School grew large in numbers
and material equipment under his administration, it was
the matter of the deeper concerns of education that mat;

tered most. This latter the rich impress of his character
supplied.
His earnestness was in evidence at every turn. Tall,
slender, erect, of manly but easy bearing, his enunciation
distinct, with a well-modulated voice of strength and carrying quality, it was a pleasure to listen to him at any
time in public. But who that heard, can forget the challenge to richer living and better service in his very reading on Baccalaureate Sunday of the hymn,

Lord of

all being, throned afar,
glory flames from sun and star?

Thy

So much was his heart set upon the thoroughness of
preparation of the teacher for his task, and then the utmost application to that task, that it was a principle of
his to rely upon the product of the school for advertising
the worth of the institution. His ideas as to personal publicity are in the same vein. He has no relish for being advertised, and deprecates rather than enhances his own
accomplishments. When the student wrote him of his
worth to that student as compared with Dr. Hopkins’
worth to Garfield, his sole comment was “I do not deserve
it.”
When he discovered that his sketch was being prepared, he said “It seems to me that the time for publishing anything further concerning me will be after I shall
have passed on.” This is a spirit to be commended, but
one which is rather unique among public men.
A favorite hour each week, remembered by hundreds of students, was that of the Sunday afternoon Bible
class conducted for students resident on the grounds by
Doctor Waller in the dormitory cnapel during the quiet
hour. This was a distinct aid to those students who
taught classes in the Sunday Schools of the town. No record was kept, and it was open to all who chose to attend. In this class was laid the foundation of Christian
principles upon which a considerable number of students,
after a few years of teaching in the public schools of the
State, built for the ministry. As with all his other work,
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Doctor Waller’s effort here was plain, open, without mystery or peremptoriness, and without the slightest tinge of
professionalism. It brought the Principal very close, in
an inspirational way, to those present; it also taught
those who attended a deeper respect for Doctor Waller’s
high purpose in life and for his many-sided capacity.
As a resume of our subject 1 quote the same authority previously quoted
As an administrator he was liberal, moderately aggressive, never unsafe. He would think through a movement or problem, see the end from the beginning, and
when a change was made, it was right. So he rarely or
never needed to go back to rectify mistakes.
:

His co-workers could depend on him and his cooperaPeople who lacked good judgment or were erratic
had to face the effects of their mistakes frankly, but sympathetically. If they could rise to the situation, well; if
not, they knew in their hearts the truth of their weakness,
whether they acknowledged it or not.
His students must absolutely have a square deal, and
a frank, free hearing in the presence of their accusers
a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon procedure. There was usually no appeal from his judgment when given, unless new
evidence came in.
Whatever he taught or prepared for presentation
was worth while, and the latest word. And it was usually
presented with a dignified, yet boyish, simplicity and enthusiasm.
He lived so consistently and pre-eminently what he
taught that one gladly accepted it, and especially was
this true in his student Bible Class and Sunday School
work. His chapel exercise, Bible readings, and talks were
tion.

models of conciseness, and a lasting inspiration

He
made

—

to his

alone
his presence, his participation, his
spirit
the exercises worth while. And back of it
all were his sincerity, earnestness, wise presentation, entire absence of cant or pretense in any form. No man ever
brought out the lessons of the Old Testament with the
power and convincing reality, the humanness, that he did.
His faculty and students hung upon his words and accepted his judgments in matters of morals, manners, habits,
character-building or training in the school, as those of an
expert, who knew “whereof he spoke.”
His grip on the school, community, faculty, lay in

students.

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extreme reasonableness, ever reaching out to find the
principle underlying every situation. His fairness, sincerity, intelligent grasp, his catholicity, his open-mindedness, his tolerance, his steadfastness, his geniality, his
evenness of temper these were powerful factors entering into his grasp of any situation.
Then, in something akin to a postscript, this authority warns the present writer that our subject as a man, a
teacher, a friend, makes the English vocabulary look
rather inadequate, and adds: “Superlatives will spoil the
subject-matter and be in bad taste besides; while ordinary words are tame and weak.” Thus the reader will understand the dilemma which I stated in the opening paragraphs: An agreeable subject, but difficult to avoid adulhis

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ation.
It

has been asked

why Doctor Waller never became

the head of a college. Perhaps it were better to ask
why he should, when he had within his grasp the preparation of those who go out to teach
the finest of the wheat.
And his influence through these prepared teachers going
out into an ever-widening circle, until it touches the farflung reaches of mountain and valley, city and prairie of
this makes a life
the whole land, even to other lands
full and fruitful and melodious to his youthful old age.

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And thousands

rise

up and

call

him

blessed.

“Out where the hand clasp’s a little stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
That’s where the West begins.”

And

that’s

where Doctor Waller begins, but he does

not end there.

Announcement has recently been made of the marriage of Ruth Oswald, of Mahanoy City, and Karl Olson,
formerly of Wilkes-Barre. The marriage took place in
the Holy Century Reformed Church at Winchester, Virginia. Mrs. Olson had been serving as a teacher in the
Mahanoy Township Schools, teaching music in the St.
Nicholas Elementary School. Mr. Olson is employed by
the N. P. Epstein Company, of Scranton. They are living
at

927 West Center Street, Mahanoy City.

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Page Twenty-Nine

“AN APPRECIATION”
Out of the goodness of their hearts, the Editors of
the Quarterly have asked me to prepare for the October
issue, an appreciation of Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., as an
Alumnus of the school and as its Principal for twentyseven years. This is a difficult assignment. For any one to
justly evaluate the many fine qualities that distinguished
him as a leader of young men and women, is no easy task.
His service of twenty-seven years was given in two periods, the first of thirteen years and the second of fourteen
years.

As an Alumnus of the school, graduating in the Class
was ever its most loyal and devoted supporter.
His counsels were always wise, sane and sensible, and had
of 1867, he

as their only purpose, the general upbuilding and betterof the institution.
His first term as Principal began in September, 1877,

ment

and continued until 1890, when he was appointed by the
Governor of the State as Superintendent of Public Instruction. On that same September morning there came
to the school as members of the Faculty, Prof. William
Noetling, Prof. George E. Wilbur, Prof. H. A. Curran and
Miss Mary L. Hastings. On that morning, too, Prof. O. H.
Bakeless and I, together with some dozen other boys came
as students,

coming from Prof. Noetling’s Snyder County

Summer Normal

School in Selinsgrove.
Dr. Waller accepted the State Superintendency, after serving as Principal of our Normal School for
thirteen years, he was succeeded by Dr. J. P. Welsh. Dr.
Welsh served as Principal for sixteen years, when Dr.
Waller was again invited by the Board of Trustees to become its Principal for a second time. This was a most
splendid and well deserved compliment for Dr. Waller
and gladly hailed by every graduate of the institution,
who knew him. When Dr. Waller left the State Superintendency, he became Principal of the State Normal School
in Indiana, Pa., and came from that position to again
serve his Alma Mater. His term of service now was fourteen years. He then resigned because he had attained the
age limit fixed by the state for all teachers.
Almost every phase of education has undergone
many changes and modifications in the past sixty years.
I will note but two and these have to do mainly with the

When

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Thirty-

moral and spiritual welfare of student life. From 1877 to
about 1920 Morning Chapel exercises were held for all
the students. Attendance upon these exercises was not
optional. Every student was to be in his or her seat every
morning unless they could present a most valid excuse.
The faculty too, was expected to be present and occupied
seats on the Chapel platform.
Students were not permitted to attend Sunday evening church services in the town, but an evening song and
praise service was held each Sunday in the Chapel for the
student body. Attendance here was optional, but to the
credit of the student body it should be said that the great
majority attended these services regularly. Then too, Dr.
Waller conducted a Bible Study Class each Sunday afternoon, presenting in his forceful way, some great Bible
truth. These meetings were optional but I can well recall, that there were at times large numbers of students
and teachers who chose to attend.
If a strictly persona opinion is permissible in such an
“Appreciation” as this, I desire to say that Dr. D. J. Waller was in every way a most remarkable man. He was a
kind and indulgent father, a devout and sincere man of
God, a progressive and enthusiastic citizen, and he was
my closest friend. How I do and shall miss him!
1

,

Very

respectfully,

CHARLES
•

•

H.

ALBERT.

•

In reply to your invitation to all who wish to write a
tribute to Dr. Waller for the October issue of The Quarterly, I take pleasure in submitting a few words.
It was at the opening of the school year, August,
1879, at the Bloomsburg State Normal School, that I first
met “Professor” Waller, as he was then designated,

though I had had some correspondence with him leading
up to my entrance at this time.
He, with his family, was then occupying rooms in the
dormitory where out-of-town students roomed and took
meals. He was the head of a dining table. At my first
meal there I was seated at his immediate left and a new
lady teacher directly opposite me. It was my first experience away from home and close relatives; and I was a
green country boy from the Blue Hill farm opposite
Northumberland. It was almost too much for me. I did
not enjoy the meal. But I saw that the head of the table

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was aware
ation

and

of
did.

my timidity

and knew how

to

meet the

situ-

From that hour Dr. Waller never diminished in my
esteem. On the contrary he grew constantly. This was
one of the prime characteristics of the man. An incident
of unusual occurrence brought me closer than ever to the
man. One morning

at

two o’clock he had

to

have

his

team

hitched up and drive away in his carriage, and the day
previous asked me whether I could be up to help him. He
could not well have conferred upon me a greater honor.
He taught a Bible class Sunday afternoons in the
chapel of the dormitory and 1 always made it a point to
be in that class. He was a superb teacher. In the regular normal course of study his subject was psychology.
It was when a picnic for the school was held in an
out-of-door spot, fall of 1879, that his hold on me became
more firm. His informality and readiness to assist in making the event a matter to be remembered through the
years impressed me as I never expected to be impressed
by the head of a great educational institution.
What was the big factor in Dr. Waller’s make-up?
What was it that gave him so large a place in the souls
and lives of those who came under his deep influence?
It was his unruffled, penetrating personality, his readiness
to enter into the lives of others by hearing, with all patience, their problems and personal difficulties, and then,
as if they were his own problems and difficulties, givingprudent advice. He had the genuine Christian spirit.
It was a great privilege I had of sitting under the instruction of the noted teacher and philosopher, Mark
Hopkins; but Dr. Waller exerted upon my life a larger influence than any other person I ever contacted.

ERNEST W. YOUNCx,
•

A

fine Christian

•

’80.

•

gentleman universally loved.

The grand old man of Bloomsburg. He never really
grew old “Old” is used affectionately. As an educator
he ranked among the highest. His influence upon the
lines of hundreds of the youth who attended dear old
“Normal” and the present “Teachers College” is so far
reaching and of such magnitude it can never be compared.

—

NORMAN

G. COOL (1886)
H. COOL, (1888)

FLORENCE

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The scope of Dr. Waller’s splendid influence has been
so far-reaching that we could continue to send you for
years, impressions created by his teaching, because they
stand out nobly by comparison.

My memory picture of Dr. Waller is so often accompanied by these sacred words: “Be strong and of
good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed,
for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou
;

goest.”
I

Waller
words of courage.

feel that Dr.

derful

is

saying to

all

of us those

won-

MARGARET

A. STEVENS, (Mrs. J. C. Taylor)
159 State Street, New London, Conn.
•

©

•

A
own

feeling of loss comes over me as I realize that our
well-loved Dr. Waller has passed over into the great-

er Life.

came

in touch with him fifty-six years ago,
attended the State Normal School, and the
influence of his life has been with me since that time.
I have often marvelled at his great personal kindliness toward us, his students. For instance, he used to
leave his home on rainy Sunday afternoons and come up
the hill to read to us, and I never have forgotten his reading of the life of Jerry McCauley.
Nor could I forget the little incident that occurred on
his return from a trip to Europe. I was a very unsophisticated little country girl, who had been in the school but
a short time. His home-coming was a great occasion, and
the whole student body went to the station to meet him.
Finally an opportunity came for me to take his hand. I
knew he would not remember me, but what was my joy
when he called me by my first name!
I always stood in awe of the dignity and stateliness of
his manner, but he had, too, that great human touch that
cannot fail to carry on in the hearts of his students the
I

when

first

I

first

influence of his beautiful

life,

CLEMENTINE GREGORY HERMAN,
•

•

’90.

•

I cannot call to mind anyone for whom I have greater respect and admiration for those traits of character
that stand for real values in life.

G.

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BLAIR SHAFER,

October, 1941

’ll.

Page Thirty -Three

My sister, Eleanor Hayman and 1, of the class of
1890, were fortunate in having Dr. David J. Waller, Jr.,
as our instructor and principal while we were students in
the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He exerted a cultural, educational, and spiritual influence which entered
into the lives of all the students with whom he came in
contact. As he led the morning chapel exercises in the
auditorium, his unfailing prayer for the assembled students was “Give them high ideals of character and conduct”
a prayer which we shall always remember.
Along with his teaching, he took occasion to give
much valuable advice. He advised us never to send out
a letter which we had written without first having read

—

it

over.

One morning, after two students had almost been
asphyxiated from a leaking gas jet, because they were
not sleeping with their windows open, Dr. Waller admonished us of the necessity of sleeping with open windows, both as a matter of health and of safety.
When the languid days of spring came, he advised
as a remedy for preventing “spring fever,” to drink, each
morning, the juice of a lemon in a glass of cold water.
He constantly advocated neatness and bodily cleanliness. When the school year was drawing to a close, and
many graduates would go out to take up their mission of
teaching, he told us that some would find themselves located in districts where the homes did not have modern
conveniences, but that hindrance should not be allowed
to interfere with the customary frequent bath.
Dr. Waller appeared before his students, not only as
an executive, a firm disciplinarian, but also as an occasional entertainer I recall his giving, one evening, before the student body, a lecture on his recent summer visit
to the Yellowstone National Park. On that occasion, he
wore evening clothes and a boutonniere, in compliment
to his audience, and his charming descriptions
ratives, mixed with humor, delighted all.

and nar-

when la grippe made its appearance
and an epidemic of the disease was
threatened among the dormitory students. One evening,
Dr. Waller came up from his downtown residence to visit
It

as a

was

new

in

1890,

disease,

several students in one hall of the boys’ dormitory, who
were reported to be very seriously ill of the disease.
What was his surprise to find the young men grouped in

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October, 1941

Page Thirty-Four

the
per

room

of one of their

number enjoying an

oyster sup-

!

On Sunday evenings, Dr. Waller taught at the dormitory a Bible class of young men and women who did
not choose to attend evening services in the downtown
churches. In fact, many preferred to remain at the school
for his deep and spiritual interpretation of the Scripture.
At the last of these meetings, just before the commencement season, Dr. Waller, who was also a minister of the
Presbyterian Church, and a Doctor of Divinity, pronounced upon us his benediction.
In those days, autograph albums were a fad. My
sister and I had one, bound in red plush, and in them we
procured the autograph of our B. S. N. S. classmates and
reserved the first pages for the members
the faculty.
page one for Doctor Waller. In my sisof the faculty
ter’s album he wrote
“May the names to be enclosed
awaken only pleasant memories, and a pure and noble
emulation.” D. J. Waller, Jr., March, 1890.

We

—

—

my album

he wrote “And now abideth faith, hope,
but the greatest of these is love.” I. Cor.
XIII :13. This was the text of his baccalaureate sermon
which he delivered to oui graduating class in 1890.
I met Dr. Waller many times afterward
at teachers’
institutes, at regional educational meetings, at commencements, and at alumni banquets, but mostly, I remember
him as principal of the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
where his presence as head of the institution was an inIn

love, these three

;

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spiration.

ADDA DAYMAN,

’90.

Turbotville.
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•

•

We who were privileged to sit in the classes of Dr.
Waller realize that he possessed the characteristics of a
great teacher: patience, sympathy and understanding.
Whether he led us to new heights in the principles of
psychology ours was the first class to use the book by
Dr. James McCosh
or presented each Sunday afternoon
the teachings of the Bible, it was always done with an
understanding heart. That was a labor of love, indeed.

—

—

And when in 1907, the call came to me to be a critic
teacher in the Training School, Dr. Waller had returned
to be our trusted leader and guide. Often through the
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October, 1941

Page Thirty-Five

years have his words, his standards of fairness, his principles of right been passed on to those whose lives have
touched mine. Ours is a great loss.

MAUDE SMITH
•

•

FAUSEL,

’87.

•

It is hard to describe fittingly the unique combination
of elements that constituted the mortal embodiment of
him whom we knew and revered and loved as Dr. Waller.
During his long, active and blessed life, he stood on an
eminence, shedding light upon the paths of his fellowmen, extending to them the warmth of his guiding hand,
and bringing solution to their perplexities. The great
qualities which he possessed can never perish. Indeed, we
may say of him in the words with which Tacitus closes
his beautiful life of Agricola: “The excellencies which
chiefly attracted our love and our admiration will not
perish forever, but they will live for many years in the
memories of his friends and in the records of his fame.”

BERNARD
•

•

Once or twice within the

J.

KELLEY,

’13.

•

last

few years

I

have called

at the residence of the late Dr. Waller and found him out
which was a real misfortune to me because I had a standing invitation to dinner at his home at all times. You see,
that fellow paid my last year’s tuition at Bloomsburg
when I didn’t have a nickel to rub again another al-

—

though he was paid back within one year’s time. He made
the first commencement speech at the first graduating
class in the first high school I taught up in Wayne County
and the first year 1 was married he visited my home and
gave Mrs. Watkins the greatest compliment she could get
that for a newly married woman she made the best
bread he had ever tasted. Dr. Waller is one man among
a million. He has done more for me, I suppose, than any
other human being in this world. But why go on along
this line? What little I could say adds nothing.
I hope you are having a great time at the old school
and I trust that sometime within the next month providence permitting 1 may make a short visit.

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D.

WATKINS.

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October, 1941

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Page Thirty-Six

RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
In the passing of Dr. David Jewett Waller, Jr., the
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, has
lost its most illustrious alumnus.
As the last surviving
member of the first class graduated from the Bloomsburg
Literary Institute, he witnessed and was responsible for
many different phases of the development of the institution now known as the State Teachers College.
If our educational institution is the lengthening shadow of one man, that man was Dr. David Jewett Waller,
scholar, educator and lover of youth.
Jr.
His long service as the President of two of the leading State Normal Schools in Pennsylvania, and as State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, are only a few of
the high points of an educational character that has been
unequalled in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
As Principal of the Bloomsburg State Normal School
for two periods, amounting to twenty-seven years, his
guiding hand was responsible for many of the achieve-

—

ments which have made

this institution

noteworthy.

In the years following his retirement in 1920, he continued ever to be interested in the college, and in his ninety-fourth year attended a meeting of the College Alumni
of Columbia County, where his presence was sufficient to
bring together the largest group of local Alumni that had
assembled in many years.
Mindful of the long association of Doctor Waller with
the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, State Normal School,
and State Teachers College, the Board of Trustees gratefully records its appreciation of his accomplishments and
fine

example by adopting the following:

BE IT RESOLVED, that We, on behalf of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, hereby attest to the inspiration and spirit which Doctor Waller brought to all of the
activities of the college, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this
resolution be spread upon the Minutes of this organization, and that a copy be sent to Doctor Waller’s family as
a testimonial of our sincere appreciation of his faithfulness, not only as an outstanding Educator and Loyal
Alumnus of the State Teachers College, but also as a Citi-

zen of Bloomsburg.

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October, 1941

Page Thirty-Seven

HOME-COMING DAY
The annual Home-Coming Day will take place at the
College Saturday, November 1. Many alumni will arrive
the night before, and during the morning. The first event
of the day’s program will be the luncheon in the diningroom at noon. In the afternoon, the main attraction will
be the football game between Bloomsburg and Kutztown.
Following the game, there will be an inspection of the
new gymnasium, in use for the first time this year. Tea
will be served in the new gymnasium instead of the old
gymnasium a change from the procedure followed in
previous years. In the evening the Home-Coming dinner
will be served in the dining-room and the Alumni Dance
will be held at 8:30 P. M. in the new gymnasium. The
Trustees, faculty, and student body of the College extend
a very cordial invitation to all alumni to return to the
campus, where every effort will be made to make the day
a happy one.
A feature of the Home-Coming Day activities will be
the presentation to the College of a painting “Minnesota
in August,” by Adolph Dehn. This painting is to be a memorial to Miss Irma Ward, former dietitian at the College.
The subject of the painting is very appropriate, as Minnesota was Miss Ward’s native state. The funds for the purchase of the painting were raised by a group of alumni,
most of whom had worked with Miss Ward in the college
dining-room and kitchen. The same group has also raised
a fund to be known as the Irma Ward Fund, the purpose
of which is to provide small temporary loans for special
emergencies. A definite plan for administering the fund
thru the Alumni Association details will be announced later. Any Alumni who wish further information, or
wish to contribute to the Ward Fund, should communicate
with Raymond Hodges, 901 West Franklin Street, Rich-

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mond, Virginia.
o

Kathryn Loose Sutliff, a former member of the College faculty, lives at 228 North 26th Street, Camp Hill, Pa.
o

Matilda Black (Mrs.

J.

O. Matter) lives in Centralia.

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October, 1941

Page Thirty-Eight

COLLEGE OPENING DELAYED
The opening of the College for the first semester, originally scheduled for September 18, was postponed until
September 22, because of the epidemic of infantile paralysis.

Postponement was

in

accordance with an order

issued by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by
which the opening of all the State Teachers Colleges in
Pennsylvania was postponed for two weeks. The Freshman week schedule, planned for the week of September 8, was carried out during the week of September
22, but only a part of the student body registered, as eight
counties were still under the restrictions. The students of
these counties registered Monday, September 29, and the
activities of the first semester were then underway.
For
many reasons, all of which have not been analyzed, there
was a drop in the enrollment, there being about four
hundred students in the College this year.
The annual reception to the Freshmen, sponsored by
the Community Government Association, was held Saturday evening, October 4. The first part of the evening’s
activities was a program in the auditorium. The address
of welcome was given by Elwood Beaver, president of the
Community Government Association. Following the singing of “Maroon and Gold,” led by Miss Harriet Moore,
President Harvey A. Andruss extended to the student
body the greeting of the trustees and the faculty. Prof.
H. F. Fenstemaker then played several selections on the
organ, after which a skit, entitled “Why I
a Bachelor”
was presented by the Bloomsburg Players, under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston. Mr. Robert Morgan, the
successor of Mrs. J. K. Miller, played several selections
on the piano. Following announcements and the singing
of the Alma Mater, the guests went to the old gymnasium
where the reception and dance took place.

Am

o

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
Luncheons are held at 12:30 o’clock the first Saturday of every month in the Main Dining Room of the Hotel
Sterling, Wilkes-Barre.

No

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October, 1941

Page Thirty-Nine

NAMED DEAN OF INSTRUCTION
Dr. Thomas P. North, a member of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College faculty for the past twelve years,
has been named dean of instruction of the State Teachers

College at Bloomsburg.

The new dean
tawney,

is

of instruction is a native of Punxsuaged forty-eight years and has been active in

educational work since 1917. In addition to his work at
the college, he is prominently identified with many activities in the community.
He prepared in the schools of Punxsutawney and received his B. S. degree at the Pennsylvania College in
1917, his M. S. from the same institution in 1927 and his
Ph. D., majoring in administration and supervision, from
Cornell in 1929.
Dr. North was science instructor at Brookville High
School in 1917-18, supervisor of vocational education in
the Beechwoods Vocational School in the next year and
director of vocational education and supervising principal
of the Union-Corsica consolidated schools at Corsica, Pa.,
1919-26. He was a member of the staff of rural education
at State College 1926-27 and came to Bloomsburg in 1929.
At the local college his major courses were philosophy of
education, school law and administration, orientation and
guidance of freshmen and educational and vocational
guidance.
He is a member of Caldwell Consistory and has a
membership in the National Education Association, P. S.
E. A., National Vocational Guidance Association, Phi
Delta Kapp, Phi Sigma Pi, Gamma Sigma Delta, and the
Honorary National Society in Rural Education.
Dr. North is a member of the legislative committee
for State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania, president of
the local Kiwanis Club and local safe driving school, ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church, first vice-president
of the Men’s Brotherhood of that church, member of the
executive committee of the Columbia-Montour Scout
Council, of the Fishing Creek district council, chairman of
the district advancement committee and court of review
of the council advancement committee. He is a member of
the Bloomsburg Hospital Corporation and was recently
made a member of the Pennsylvania committee for Highway Safety Education.

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October, 1941

Page Forty

MRS. MILLER RETIRES

Mrs. John Ketner Miller, who served as Head of the
Department of Music at Bloomsburg over a long period of
years, retired from that position at the close of the college
year in May.
Mrs. Miller was one of the last of the teachers who
formed the faculty that worked with Dr. Waller. Her

name

appears

the catalogue for the school year of
listed as teacher of violin. She first
came to Bloomsburg as a member of a conceit party that
appeared at the Columbia County Teachers’ Institute. It
happened that the late John K. Miller was at that time
County Superintendent. As a result of the acquaintance
that developed, Miss Marian Harter became the wife of
first

1904-05, where she

in

is

Mr. Miller.
Mrs. Miller has served long, faithfully and efficiently
as teacher of piano, violin, organ and theory. It would be
impossible to estimate the service she has rendered to
music in the College, in Bloomsburg, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Her former pupils are scattered
throughout the country, and many of them are making
definite contributions to the musical life in the communities in which they live.
During most of the years that Mrs. Miller has been
at Bloomsburg, she has always been in her place to play
for the assembly singing. It seemed strange not to see her
there when the student body met in its first assembly this
year.

Mrs. Miller is now living at the Masonic Home at
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. She had not been there
long until she was asked to give lessons to children in the
Masonic Orphanage. She gladly consented to do so. It
could not be otherwise music is her life.
In the name of all the Alumni of the College, the
Quarterly extends to Mrs. Miller best wishes for happiness in her new home.
;

o

Margaret R. Sandbrook and Dr. Kenneth E. Bristol
were married Saturday, June 14. Dr. and Mrs. Bristol are
now living at 50 Everett Avenue, Akron, Ohio.

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October, 1941

Page Forty-One

GYMNASIUM WILL BE USED
The new $300,000 gymnasium of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College will be placed in full use with the
opening of the fall term, President Harvey A. Andruss
said in announcing that August would see a half dozen
General State Authority contracts, representing approximately $70,000 worth of work completed.
Contracts have been let and part of the equipment
received for the new Junior High School but not all of the
equipment was received in time to allow this building
becoming part of the active school plant for the coming
term.

The GSA contracts being completed, together with
other improvements, additions and replacements represent an expenditure of more than $100,000. The funds
for the work were made available during the biennium
ending

May

31.

The contracts now nearing completion followed the
original ones of a half million dollars awarded in 1938 by
the GSA for the erection of the gymnasium, Junior High
School, storage building and the enlarging

of the

steam

plant.

The construction about concluded will place all of
the electrical power and light for the college under one
meter and thus materially reduce the operating cost.
The laboratories for industrial arts, home economics
and shop, in the new junior high school building, are being equipped along with the library so that there will be
no more modern junior high school anywhere than will
be found on the campus of the local college.
The concrete steps and brick balustrade in front of
the new gymnasium will furnish a pleasing approach to
the building.
A seven foot steel fence topped by a guard rail of
three barb wires will extend around the athletic field in
the rear of the gymnasium. The excavating and leveling
of the recreation field will continue after the fence is inproject which began during the
stalled under a

WPA

month of August.
The lines of the Bloomsburg Water Company are being extended along Chestnut street to Light Street Road
and

will thus furnish additional water service and
protection for that area of the campus.

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SEVENTEEN RECEIVE DEGREES
Marking the close of the 1941 summer session, the
annual summer session banquet was held in the college
dining room Thursday evening, July 31. Seventeen students who completed their work for the degree of Bachelor of Science, and four others who were to receive their
degrees at the close of the post-session, were the guests of

honor.

The speaker was the Rev. J. W. Dean, of Kulpfor eleven years had been a member of the

who

mont,

British military intelligence service.
Those who completed their work at the close of the
summer session were
Max Arcus, Bloomsburg, business education and accounting sequence Mrs. Leona Sterling Brunges, Bloomsburg, R. D. 2, intermediate; Mary Margaret Brunstetter,
Catawissa, secondary; Mary Davis, Kingston, kindergar;

ten-primary Florence Louise Dunn, Jermyn, intermediate; Peter J. Eshmont, Kulpmont, secondary; George B.
Houseknecht, Hughesville, R. D., secondary; Relda Kerstetter, Bloomsburg, business education; Leo Joseph Lehman, Ashley, secondary; L. Ward Litchel, Shamokin, intermediate; Esther Anne McGinley, Jeanville, kindergarten-primary; Edythe M. Pollock, Wyoming, R. D. 3, kindergarten-primary; Charles Arthur Robbins, Bloomsburg,
business education; Roy Roberts, Jr., Catawissa, business
education; Jerry Y. Russin, Plains, secondary; Helen Jane
Soback, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3, secondary; Marqueen V.
White, Berwick, kindergarten-primary.
Six of the group are teachers in service. They are
Mrs. Brunges, Miss Davis, Miss Dunn, Mr. Litchel, Miss
Pollock, and Miss White.
Those who received their degrees at the close of the
post-session were the following
Elizabeth M. Feinour, Millville, kindergarten-primary Nicholas L. Saras, Hazleton, business education;
John J. Wilkes, Nanticoke, intermediate; Hilda E. Zeisloft, Ardsley, intermediate.
Prof. E. A. Reams presided at the dinner with the invocation by Prof. Howard F. Fenstemaker. Dinner music
was provided by G. Gordon Keller on the piano and Solovox. Entertainment features included accordion selections by Miss Nellie Kramer and two vocal solos by Miss
Janet Shank, of Catawissa, accompanied by John D.
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October, 1941

Page Forty-Three

oung, also of Catawissa.
Mr. Reams presented W. Clair Hidlay, of town, and
Frank D. Croop, of Berwick, trustees, and their wives;
Prof, and Mrs. Fenstemaker, President and Mrs. Andruss,
the Rev. Mr. Brumbach, of Mount Carmel, and Dean John
C. Koch. The latter presented Roy D. Snyder, chairman
of the Bloomsburg airport commission, who has further
assisted the CAA program with instruction in meteorology, and Mrs. Snyder; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bigony, of the
Bloomsburg airport, and the two CAA instructors.
President Andruss in the presentation of awards
spoke of the CAA program at the local institution. There
were eighty-five men among the 285 students enrolled at
the Summer session and almost one out of each four took
CAA training. He mentioned that in many institutions
where thousands were enrolled, there had been trouble in
filling a quota of twenty such as Bloomsburg had.
He
spoke of Dean Koch, college co-ordinator; Roy D. Snyder,
head of the airport commission, and Sam Bigony, operator
of the airport, as making outstanding contributions to the
success of the program.
It was the prediction of the Rev. Mr. Dean that the
current war will be a long one of five or perhaps ten
years. He chose for his theme “To Serve the Present
Age” and spoke principally of the vital contributions
teachers can make to the citizens of tomorrow and used
his background in the British military intelligence only to
illustrate the points he emphasized.
He told the teachers “Unless you have missed the
message of this institution you are going out to serve.
Many do not realize the great importance of teaching.
You must know how to lead and you must ever have in
mind the true goal of your high calling.” He quoted Teddy Roosevelt that “pep without purpose is piffle.”
“We must be alert to changes. Things true a few
years ago are not true today. We must learn to know
about these changes and not let propaganda or prejudice
interfere. We must seek the truth.”
Speaking of his experiences in intelligence work he
observed “Nine-tenths of the success in intelligence work,
he observed of preparation before the task is started.
This age requires preparation. It is an age when men are
likely to forget the real purpose of life. In the high calling of teaching you must never lose sight of the things
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Page Forty-Fcur

which you are called.
“These are critical times. Our country is facing a
grave crisis. This is a day for expanding empires. The
church is being liquidated and the Jew and Christian are
being exterminated. The professions need to unite to
bring new truths to learn the value and beauty of working together and to acquire that vital need, tolerance. We
need to have zeal for things that are right and true. Don’t
be satisfied with just doing a job. Do it the best you can.”
There were students in the summer session who have
graduated from or attended sixteen other institutions of
higher learning. Those institutions were Temple, Buckfor

;

:

Pennsylvania State, Rider, Women’s College of the
University of North Carolina, Kutztown, University of
Pennsylvania, University of California, Lafayette, Immaculata, Susquehanna, East Stroudsburg, Hood, Scranton Keystone, American University and the University of

nell,

Alabama.

WILL REPRESENT TEACHERS COLLEGES
The National Youth Administration for Pennsylvania
has appointed President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Teachers College, as a member of the college work council.
This council represents the various types of the collegiate
institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
there is one representative for each of the following
types: state universities, large privately endowed institutions, A. and M. colleges and Catholic colleges.
President Andruss will represent the fourteen Teachers Colleges of the Commonwealth on the college work
council, of which there are sixty members. The organization meeting will be held prior to June 30 so that plans
can be made for the enrichment of the work program in
the colleges and universities of Pennsylvania when they
open in the fall of 1941.

home-coming
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SHORTAGE OF ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

A shortage in elementary teachers, which started to
develop two years ago, when the majority of prospective
teachers turned their efforts to the fields of secondary
and special education, has been causing some school districts concern in their efforts to fill faculties for the new
school year.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, which last year
placed ninety per cent of those graduating in the elementary field, has placed the majority of the 1941 class and
expects to do better than a year ago.
Bloomsburg graduated 126 last May. Of that number, sixty-two were in the department of business education, forty-three in secondary education, and 21 in elementary education.
While only one-sixth of the graduated class was in
the elementary field, there were thirty who completed
three years in that field and were entitled to a limited
license. Most of these have been placed.
This was the last year, however, that the limited license will be issued to those entering teaching in the elementary field. From now on, four years will be required
in that field, as in the field of secondary education.
One reason for the shortage of elementary teachers
is the fact that the legal minimum in salaries in the field
of secondary education in Pennsylvania is higher by two
hundred dollars a year.
Bloomsburg has been exceptionally successful in
placing its graduates. The majority are being placed, not
only in the elementary field, but in the field of business
education, and a goodly number are being placed in secondary education, where competition is very keen.
With four years of college work to be required of
elementary teachers in the future, the shortage will undoubtedly continue for at least another year.
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Page Forty-Six

MARY
Miss

Mary Louise

Bloomsburg
lish

LOUISE HASTINGS

Hastings, a former member of the
and for thirty-seven years an Engthe Hartford Public High School, Hartford,

faculty,

teacher in

Connecticut, until her retirement in 1928, died this spring
at her home, after an illness of two weeks. She was 85
years old.
Miss Hastings was born in Ceylon July 14, 1855, a
daughter of the late Rev. Eurotas Parmele Hastings and
Anna Cleveland Hastings, and was a descendant of an
early Colonial family.
Her father was a missionary,
teaching in Batticotta Seminary in Ceylon, and later
founding Jaffna College there. He was later the first
president of the college. Miss Hasting’s mother was the
sister of the late President Grover Cleveland.
Returning to the United States with her parents in
1869, Miss Hastings later graduated from Houghton Seminary, Clinton, New York, and taught there and at
Bloomsburg before entering the Hartford Public High
School in 1891.
At the time of Miss Hasting’s death, the teachers of
Hartford passed the following resolutions:
“In gratitude of heart, and with warm admiration
for her sterling character, we bear tribute to the memory
of our late friend and co-worker, Mary Louise Hastings,
teacher in the Hartford Public High School from 1891 to
1928, a period of thirty-seven years.
“Mary Hastings was born in the far-away island of
Ceylon, of missionary parents in the service of the Presbyterian Church. Throughout her long life, she exemplified the lofty ideals, courage and deep religious principles which were her natural inheritance from such parentage. At an early age, she came to America for her
education, experiencing that separation from parents and
home which is one of the poignant sacrifices of a missionary family in a foreign field. The close tie which bound
her to this distant land was doubtless a factor in that
breadth of outlook which characterized her in later life.
Her world was never narrow, limited, provincial; it was
spacious and wide in interest.
“Miss Hastings entered upon her work of teaching
in Hartford Public High School just fifty years ago. The
one high school of the rather small and homogeneous

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October, 1941

Page Forty-Seven

Hartford of that day occupied only the southern half of
To this historic
the present Hopkins Street Building.
school, Miss Hastings brought a natural refinement of
manner, a love for the best in literature and music, a wise
sympathy, and a cheerful and loyal spirit, which made
her contribution a highly valued one. The uncompromising honesty and integrity which characterized her uncle,
President Cleveland, was hers also. Devoted to duty, dependable, conscientious in all her relationships, she built
into her work as a teacher in Hartford something of her
cwn strength and firmness of character. May our city
ever be rich in the heritage which comes from the life and
work of its earnest, high-minded teachers.”
Professor Charles H. Albert has written the following about Miss Hastings:
‘‘Miss Hastings came to Bloomsburg as a member of
the faculty in September, 1877. I always looked upon her
as a most excellent and refined woman, and had a very
great respect for her.”
o

Dorothy Englehart, of Bloomsburg, and Ray Zimmerman, of Nuremberg, were married Saturday, July 19, at
Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Zimmerman has been teaching in
Lehman, Pa., and Mr. Zimmerman is employed as bookkeeper in the office of the Gowen Colliery at Fern Glen,
Pa.
o

Evelyn M. Smith and Samuel D. Hoven, both of
Weatherly, were married Saturday, August 2, in the
Evangelical and Reformed Church of Weatherly. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. T. Moyer. Mrs.
Hoven has been teaching in the Garfield Building in
Pottsville. Mr. Hoven is a radio technician.

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October, 1941

Page Forty-Eight

NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY
Robert Morgan, of Nanticoke, a graduate of Syracuse
University, has been named by the board of trustees as
director of the private school of music and instructor in
piano and organ, filling a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs John Ketner Miller.
After a number of years of musical study in WilkesBarre, Mr. Morgan entered a competition and won a
scholarship to study piano at Syracuse. His work at Syracuse began in 1934. In addition to majoring in piano, Mr.
Morgan studied organ, theory of music, and the various
other musical and academic subjects required to obtain
the degree of Bachelor of Music, which he received in
1938. While he was at Syracuse, Mr. Morgan’s public
performances on the piano were rather numerous, including appearances with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
in the Liszt Concerto in E flat. For a time during his undergraduate period, he served as the organist and choir
director of the United Church in Fayettesville, New York.
Following his graduation from Syracuse, Mr. Morgan became an instructor at Elon College in North Carolina, where he taught piano, organ, and history of music
and acted as college organist. This position lasted for
only one year, as he was filling a vacancy caused by the
fact that a regular faculty member was taking a leave of
absence.
He then returned to Syracuse to study as the recipient of a scholarship which had been awarded him when
he received his bachelor’s degree. He pursued the course
leading to the degree of Master of Music, with a major in
piano and a minor in organ. After fulfilling the requirements for this degree, he studied piano with Frank Sheri-

dan

in

Petri,

New York

who

is

City, and then
his present teacher.

began study with Egon

Since November, 1939, he has been employed by the
First Baptist Church in Wilkes-Barre as organist and
choir director. He will continue his connection with that

church during the coming year.
•

Wilbur

J.

United States

Abell,

•

•

who had been employed by

Manufacturing Corporation

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October, 1941

at

the
Decatur,

Page Forty-Nine

has been named to the teaching staff in the Department of Business Education for the college year opening September, 22.
He was named after the trustees granted a year’s
leave of absence to Herbert A. McMahan, an instructor
in the department. Mr. McMahan was called to active
duty as lieutenant, senior grade in the United States Naval
Illinois,

He is now stationed at the Philadelphia
as an assistant to the supply officer.

Reserve.

Yard

Navy

Professor Abell holds a degree of Bachelor of Science
University, Decatur,
Illinois, and the degree of Master of Science in Education
and Accounting from the University of Illinois. He has
attended the University of Akron, University of Washington, and is a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
In addition to his wide experience, he has been a successful commercial teacher as well as a high school principal. During the period from 1938 to 1940, he was a
member of the faculty of the State Teachers College at
Whitewater, Wisconsin.
in

Commerce from James Milikan

O

A

manuscript for a book to be

published

by the

Gregg Publishing Company, of New York City, has been
completed by members of the faculty of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
tion of President Harvey A. Andruss.

under the direc-

This book titled Better Business Education (Ways to
Improve Instruction) is intended for teachers of commercial subjects and includes ten chapters which have previously appeared as magazine articles from the pen of
President Andruss.
Among the members of the faculty contributing to
this publication are: Mr. William C. Forney, Director of
the Department of Business Education
Miss Margaret
Hoke, Mr. Herbert McMahan, and Mr. Earl N. Rhodes,
Director of Teacher Training.
This book represents a project in faculty cooperation
in a field of education in which the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has achieved a national reputation. It
represents a decade (1930 to 1940) of business education
;

at

Bloomsburg.

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October, 1941

Page Fifty

All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of
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

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

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

Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

E. H.

Smith
•

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
D. D. Wright

Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
•

•

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

We are happy to announce that we will enjoy for our
monthly luncheon meetings, the same arrangement we
had last year, they will be held on the second Saturday of
each month beginning October 11, in the private dining
room, sixth floor of Strawbridge and Clothiers.
These gatherings are real Bloomsburg get-togethers
informal. Come in the morning and shop, spend the af-

—

ternoon

in pleasant relaxation, visiting with your old
school friends, and enjoying good food Strawbridge and
Clothiers are noted for. You may order a cup of tea or a
full course dinner at your pleasure
from noon to closing
time.

—

We

would

or send same to
delphia, Pa.

like

very

much

to

have your dues.

Nora Kenney, 7011 Erdrick

Bring

Street, Phila-

Also if you desire the Quarterly will you please send
your subscription of one dollar ($1.00) to Mrs. Kenney.

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-One

You

will be sure to receive the Dr. Waller
to be especially fine.
who love the

number which

We

Quarterly feel
they are all special numbers and well worth the price.
We will appreciate any news item you may have to
give. Do your bit to make our Quarterly an outstanding
is

publication.
Dr. J. F. McDonnell, of Jenkintown, is seriously ill
in the Abington Hospital.
All friends wish him a speedy
recovery.
Rachel Oman Buckman, of Philadelphia, and sister,
Clara Oman, Washington, D. C., have been visiting their
sister, Esther, the wife of Dr. Jemmil, in Western Pennsylvania.
On account of contagious diseases in the community,
our picnics were not held this season. However we hope
to

resume them again next summer.

FLORENCE HESS COOL,
LILLIE

HORTMAN

President,

IRISH, Secretary.

o

WASHINGTON,

D. C.

ALUMNI

A number of graduates of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College are now employed by the government
at Washington, and have formed the nucleus for a Bloomsburg organization there.
An organization dinner was held recently, with the
following in attendance Anne Seesholtz, Sara Altland,
Betty Larew, Charles Kelchner, Thurwald Gommer, Walter Wytovitch, and Willard S Kreigh.
President Bruce Albert is assisting Mr. Kreigh in the
formation of an organization by supplying him with the
names of all graduates of Bloomsburg known to be living:

in

Washington and

vicinity.

OHIO ALUMNI
Alumni living in northern Ohio who are interested in
forming an Alumni group are requested to communicate
with Clarence R Wolever ’31, 17723 Kinsman Road,
Shaker Heights, Ohio.

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-Two
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....Almmtt personals....
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|

i

The Editor regrets that, owing to the necessity of
staying within the limits of our budget, it has been necessary to hold many personal items over until the publication of the next issue of the Quarterly.
•

e

o

1876
Charles C. Evans, eighty-three, president judge of
the courts of Columbia and Montour counties for twentyfour years, died peacefully at his home on West Second
street, Berwick, Thursday, July 10.
Judge Evans was born in Briarcreek township on
January 10, 1858, and spent his entire life in Berwick and
vicinity. He was the son of the late Francis and Jane Lamon Evans.
He received his early education in the public schools
of his home district and in 1874 entered the Bloomsburg
State Normal School. He later served that institution as
trustee, retiring during the past year. Long after his appointment as trustee had expired he served with Thomas
G. Vincent, of Danville, and Grover C. Shoemaker, of
town, until successors were named.
In the winter of 1876-77 he taught the Martzville
public schools in Briarcreek township and in the fall of
1877 matriculated at Lafayette College from which he
was graduated in June, 1881. The next month he became
a law student in the office of Simon P. Wolverton, of Sunbury, with whom he read law, being admitted to practice
in the courts of Northumberland county July 14, 1883.
Subsequently he was admitted to the bar in Columbia and
Luzerne counties and on August 23, 1883, he opened an
office in Berwick. Twice appointed and twice elected to
the bench, he was first appointed president judge of the
twenty-sixth judicial district March 30, 1906.
The esteem in which he was held by the men practicing before him was shown when he was honored at a

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October, 1941

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dinner of the Berwick Rotary Club with practically every
attorney in the judicial district in attendance. In January, 1938, both he and his successor, the late Judge Herring were honored at a dinner given by the Columbia

County Bar Association.
To the young men and women of the section and to
the children the Judge was the symbol of the law. Frequently was the expression coming from those in many
walks of life and of various ages
“Judge Evans certainly looks like a judge.”
The Morning Press of July 11, had the following editorial comment concerning the death of Judge Evans:
The death of Judge Charles C. Evans, for twentyfour years president judge of the Twenty-Sixth Judicial
District, will
to

who came

come as a shock to the many in the district
know and admire him through the years.

Judge Evans held that office longer than any other
twice by election and twice by appointment. When he left
the office it was with the respect of the Bar and the general public. He grew in judicial stature through the years.
The public will best remember him as their president
judge for many years. His home town of Berwick will
likewise remember him for the part he played through
many years in civic affairs.
Judge Evans served the district during the years the
battle was being waged increasingly against the liquor
traffic. He played a part in “drying up” much of the
county even before the days of Prohibition. In the years
that followed he was uncompromising in his attitude toward liquor law violators and toward motorists who drove
their cars while intoxicated. In the latter he was one of
the pioneering judges of the state.
He was a member of one of Berwick’s oldest families
and throughout his life carried on the family tradition. A
devoted husband and father, a fine citizen, a painstaking
lawyer and a judge who was a credit to the Bench, Judge
Evans well lived up to the battle cry of his cohorts in his
first campaign for election
“He looks the judge, he acts
the judge, he is the judge.”

—

1886
Miss Allie Donley, of Wilkes-Barre, died June 12,
1941, at her home, 187 Stanton Street, after an illness due
to complications.
Miss Donley was a teacher in the

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-Four

Wilkes-Barre schools for forty-five years, all but four of
which were spent in the Union Street Building. She retired from teaching in 1932. The majority of her teaching years w ere spent in the first grade of the Union Street
School, and her kindly manner and disposition are remembered by hundreds of former students. She was a
member of the First Methodist Church of Wilkes-Barre.
She is survived by tw o brothers and four sisters.
r

r

1890
Clementine Gregory Herman lives at 1310 North
Beachwood Drive, Hollywood, California.
Carrie T.

Broome

Street,

Mary A.
Market

Moyer (Mrs. Joseph Brumm)

New York

lives at

395

City.

Spratt (Mrs. Allen A. Orr) lives at 210
Lewistown, Pa.

West

Street,

1892
After a teaching career of forty-six years in the
schools of Shenandoah, Miss Nellie L. O’Hara retired at
the close of the last school term. Miss O’Hara’s colleagues
in the Wilson School, Shenandoah, held a dinner in her
honor Wednesday, June 20, and presented her with several gifts appropriate to the occasion.
a

Nellie Lee, a native of Plymouth, and for many years
of the faculty of Plymouth High School, died

member

Thursday, August 7, at her home in New York City. Miss
Lee spent several years in Mexico, and served for a time
as principal of the American School in Tampico. For the
past ten years she lived in New York City, and was manager of the Altora Club there until illness forced her to
give up her position.
1895
Mrs. Mary Downey Sheehy lives at 1324 West Hunting Park Avenue, Philadelphia.

1897

Amy

V. Beishline (Mrs.

from Hazleton

to R. D. 2,

W.

F.

Thomas) has moved

Bethlehem, Pa.

1905

Helen Leibensperger (Mrs. Hal
Warrington, Bucks County, Pa.

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October, 1941

Murray)

lives in

Page Fifty-Five

1909

Almah Wallace

Scholl will be in Ajo, Arizona, during the coming school year, having accepted a position to
teach a group of Papago Indian children who have never
been to school before. In a recent letter she states “I will
teach them English in a very informal way through handicrafts, art, drawing, music, and games. Of course the
first few weeks will be spent teaching them how to keep
clean and presentable. 1 will have two public health
nurses to help me get started. 1 plan to attend the University of Southern California until I receive a B. S. degree.”

1910

Anna
ing at

McBride (Mrs. Maurice Girton)
1740 Orange Street, Berwick.
L.

is

now

liv-

Enola Snyder (Mrs. Morris Evans) lives at 703 West
Ferry Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
1913
Mary E. Heacock lives at 2879 Catawba Lane, Memphis, Tennessee. The officers of the Alumni Association
acknowledge with thanks a gift recently sent by Miss
Heacock to the Alumni Loan Fund.

1916
Blanche Robbins (Mrs. Kennan Damon)
Main Street, West Concord, Mass.

lives at

373

1918
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith lives at 631 Carey Avenue,
Wilkes-Barre.

Marie Colt (Mrs.

J.

1919
Marion Reece)

lives in Millville,

Pa.

1921
Helen E. Edwards (Mrs. Newman Blaisdell)
311 Main Street, Ellsworth, Maine.

lives at

1922
Mattie L. Luxton and Patrick J. Lynch, both of Minersville, were married Wednesday, June 25, in the rectory
of St. Vincent de Paul’s Church, Minersville, with the
Rev. Philip McArdle officiating. Mrs. Lynch, after her
graduation at Bloomsburg, studied at Pennsylvania State
College, and New York University, and holds a Master’s
degree from the latter institution. Mr. Lynch, a graduate

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-Six
of West Chester State Teachers College, has studied at
Ihe Pennsylvania State College. Both have been teaching
in the Cass Township High School. They are now living in
Forrestville.

1923

The members

group of the class of 1923
Emily Craig, Catawissa, R. D., on
Saturday, August 2. The next meeting in 1942 will be
held at the home of Mrs. Sarah LeVan Leighow, Catawis-

met

at the

home

of the rural

of Miss

sa, R. D.

1924

A

daughter, Willa Mae Gibson, was born May 15 to
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gibson, of Union Dale, Pa. Mrs.
Gibson will be remembered by her classmates as Beulah

Downing.
1925
Jennie

P. Jones, of

Edwardsville, and

Clinton H.

Pressler, of Lancaster, formerly of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, July 5, at the home of the bride. Mrs.
Pressler has been a supervisor in the Edwardsville schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Pressler are living in Lancaster, where the
former is credit manager for the Firestone Tire and Rub-

ber Company.

1927

Martha Tasker, of Shamokin, and Theron Cook, of
Mount Carmel, were married Friday, June 20, at the First
Baptist Church of Shamokin. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles B. Bowser, pastor of the
church. Mrs. Cook has been employed as a teacher in the
Grant School, Shamokin, and Mr. Cook is employed at the
Shamokin Dye and Print Works. They are now living at
221 North Vine Street, Shamokin.
Myra L. Thomas lives at 384 Jefferson Drive, Mt.
Lebanon, Pa.
1929
Isabel Chelosky and William M. Hester, both of
Plymouth, were married Saturday, June 21, in St. Stephen’s Church, Plymouth. The Rev. Francis A. Powell
performed the ceremony and read the nuptial mass. Mrs.
Hester has been a member of the faculty of the Franklin
Street School in Plymouth. She is past president of the
Plymouth Junior Women’s Civic Club and is second vicepresident of the Luzerne County Federation of Women’s
Clubs. Mr. Hester is associated with W. G. Downs.

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-Seven

Agnes Cotterman, of Shickshinny, and William Bonham, of Plymouth, were married August 10, 1940, at Valley Forge. Mrs. Bonham has for several years been teaching in Shickshinny. Mr. Bonham, a graduate of the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance, is an accountant
for the Glen Alden Coal Company.

1930
A. Nevin Sponseller, a member of the faculty of the
Hatboro High School, received his Doctor’s degree at
Temple University May 14, 1941. His doctor’s thesis was
entitled “The History and Development of the Public
School in Pennsylvania.” Dr. Sponseller received his master’s degree at Temple in 1935 and also did extra work at
Gettysburg College. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Josephine M. Holuba, of Teaneek, New Jersey, formerly of Berwick, and William C. Hawk, of Clinton, New
Jersey, were married Sunday, June 22, in Trinity Chapel,
Mount Pocono, with the Rev. Thomas Shoesmith, rector
of Trinity Church, Stroudsburg, officiating. Mrs. Hawk
has been a member of the faculty of the Teaneek High
School. She is a graduate of Bloomsburg and of the Bread
Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf, Vermont. Mr. Hawk
a teacher in the Hampton High School, is a graduate of
Lafayette College. He completed his work for the master’s degree at the Bread Loaf School this summer.
1931

Announcement has recently been made

of the marriage of Miss Elizabeth M. Cochran, of Berwick, and
Charles G. MacPortland, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mrs. MacPortland has for several years been teaching in
Berwick. Mr. MacPortland, a graduate of Clark University, Worcester School of Art, and of the Massachusetts
School of Art, is teaching in the schools of West Hartford,
Connecticut.

Lydia A. Smith (Mrs. Joseph C. Seida) lives at 52
Sicard Street, New Brunswick, N. J.
1932
H.

Edmond

Smith, of Bloomsburg, and Mildred Naomi Dotter, of Lehighton, were married in August in a
church ceremony at Lehighton. Mr. Smith is instructor in
mathematics and geography at the Fallsington High

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-Eight

School. Mrs. Smith, a graduate of the East Stroudsburg
State Teachers College, has been teaching in the first
grade in Fallsington.

Ruth L. Wagner, of Wilkes-Barre, formerly of
Bloomsburg, and John H. Hileman, of Dushore, were married Monday, June 23, in the Dushore Lutheran Church.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Harold Deisher.
Mrs. Hileman has for the past nine years been teaching
in the primary grades of the schools of Dushore. Mr.
Hileman is employed by the North Penn Power Company,
Dushore.
Phyllis Fowler and Percy C. Wilson, both of Berwick,
were married Saturday, May 3 in the Calvary Methodist
Church at Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Wilson, at the time
of her marriage was a teacher in Berwick. Mr. Wilson, a
graduate of Dickinson College, is teacher of civics and
history and also assistant coach in the high school at Hanover.

Jeanne Morgan (Mrs. Albeit Hudson) lives at 220
Bacon Street, Jermyn, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson have
two children: a son born March 8, 1941, and a daughter,
Carole, four years old.

1933
Charlotte Osborne (Mrs. Benedict A. Stein) lives in
Churchville, New York. She has been teaching in New
York State for the past six and one-half years, and is now
upper grade teacher and principal of Perinton No. 3
School, Monroe County. For some unaccountable reason,
Mrs. Stein’s name was erroneously omitted from the directory of the class of 1933.

1934
Bernice Bronson, of Lockwood, New York, and
James A. Gennaria, ’34, of Bloomsburg, were married
Sunday, June 1, in the First Presbyterian Church at
Mountain Top. Mrs. Gennaria has been teaching in the
commercial department of the Wyalusing High School.
Mr. Gennaria, who has been teaching in the Center Township Consolidated School, Columbia County, has a master’s degree from New York University.

Esther W. Evans, of Bloomsburg, and Joseph D. McFadden, of Hazleton, were married Tuesday, July 8, in

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October, 1941

Page Fifty-Nine
St.

Peter’s Rectory, Belleville,

New

Jersey.

Mrs.

McFad-

den has been teaching at Annville and Mr. McFadden is
employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Hazleton.

Carmer P. Shelhamer, of Mifflinvil le, received his
master’s degree from Buckneil University at the close of
the summer session this year.
1935
Miss Jean E. Smith, of Berwick, and Robert W.
Pritchard, of Kingston, were married Saturday, June 28,
at the First Methodist Church, in Berwick. The officiating
ministers were the Rev. William Carl Helt, of Montandon,
and the Rev. E. B. Davidson, of Berwick. Mrs. Pritchard
has for several years been teaching in the first grade in
Berwick. Mr. Pritchard is a graduate of Kingston High
School and Wyoming Seminary. He received his Bachelor’s degree at Susquehanna University and his Master’s
degree at the Pennsylvania State College. For the past
few years he has been assistant coach at Susquehanna,
and this year was appointed coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachussetts.

Thelma A. Bredbenner, of Bloomsburg, and Cyril F.
Menges, of Turbotville, were married Thursday, June 19,
in St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg. The Rev.

Norman

S.

Wolf was the

has been a teacher
Menges is a teacher

officiating minister. Mrs. Menges
the Bloomsburg Schools, and Mr.
in the Turbotville Vocational School.

in

1936
Bernard Young received his master’s degree from
Buckneil University at the close of the

summer

session

this year.

1937

Lamar

Aristes, and Miss Marion D.
Hogeland, of Southampton, were married Saturday, Aug-

K. Blass,

of

ust 4, in St. Stephen’s Reformed Church at New Holland.
is a graduate of Temple
University and has
been serving as teacher of commercial subjects in the

The bride

New Holland High School. Mr. Blass is mathematics instructor and physical education coach in the New Holland High School.
Miss Rachel Williams, of Edwardsville, and Joseph

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October, 1941

Page Sixty

H. Ricketts, of Sayre, were married Tuesday, July 29, in
the parsonage of the Edward’s Memorial Church in Edwardsville. Mrs. Ricketts has been teaching in Edwardsville, and Mr. Ricketts is a member of the Pennsylvania

Motor

Police.

Elwood Hartman,

member

a

of the

faculty of the

Shickshinny High School, and Miss Phoebe West, of Nanticoke, were married Saturday, July 26, at Montrose.

1937
Miss Mary Helen Mears, of Bloomsburg, and John
Henry Northrup, of Proctor, Vermont, were united in
marriage in a ceremony performed Saturday, June 14, in
tire First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker.
Mrs. Northrup had been teaching for the past two years
at Hamburg, Pa. Mr. Northrup is a graduate of the Proctor High School, the Green Mountain School, at Poultney,
and the University of Chicago School of Business Administration. He is employed in the main office of the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, Vermont, where he
and Mrs. Northrup are now living.

May Hartman,

of Danville, R. D., and Robert
were married Saturday, August
The ceremony
16, in the Lutheran Church at Grovania.
was performed by the Rev. Bernard W. Krapf. Mrs.
Rhawn is a teacher in the Montour County Schools, and

Helen

J.

Rhawn,

of Catawissa,

the military service, stationed at New
to his induction into the service, he played professional baseball, being under contract with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Mr.

Rhawn

is

in

Cumberland, Pa. Previous

Miss Anna Grandis, of Frackville, and George Yankus, of Philadelphia, were married Saturday, June 28, in
the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in
Frackville. The groom is a graduate of Northeast High
School, Philadelphia, and is in business in that city. The
Philadelphia address of Mr. and Mrs. Yankus is now 2861

North Mascher
day,

Street.

Anne Ebert and E. Munro Darby were married FriMarch 21, in the United Brethren Church, Baltimore.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. K. Reisinger.
They are now living at 37 York Street, Hanover, Pa. Mr.
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October, 1941

Page Sixty-One

Darby

is

assistant

manager

of the G. C.

Murphy

Co.,

at

Hanover.
Rita P. Roan and George F. Temprine, both of Plymouth, were married Saturday, July 12, in St. Vincent’s
Church, Plymouth.
1938
Charles H. Henrie, of Bloomsburg, has recently been
appointed teacher-coordinator in the cooperative parttime programs in distributive education in the schools of
Milford and Georgetown, Delaware. He will have charge
of a group of students who are working in stores part of
the day, and will supervise these students in store work.
He will also have charge of the evening adult classes for
merchants and store clerks in that area. For the past
three years, Mr. Henrie has been teaching business subjects in the Manor High School, Millersville, and has been
head of the commercial department there for the past two
years. Mr. Henrie has taken work at the Research Bureau for Retail Training at the University of Pittsburgh,
and also at Temple University.

Mary A. Allen lives at 2801 West Sixth Street, Wilmington, Delaware.
Anne Fawcett Campbell

lives at

520 North 8th Street,

Selinsgrove.

1939
Miss Elizabeth Fairchild Spragle and Alex J. McKechnie, Jr., both of Berwick, were united in marriage in
a wedding ceremony performed at the First Presbyterian
Church in Berwick Saturday, June 21. Mrs. McKechnie
is a graduate of the Berwick High School and attended
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. McKechnie,
a graduate of the Berwick High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, received his master’s degree
at the close of the summer session at Bucknell University.
He has been teaching for the past two years in Shickshinny, and has recently been elected to a position in the high
school at Columbia, Pa.
Annabelle Bailey, of Danville, has been elected to
teach American History and English in the Shickshinny
High School. Miss Bailey, who has a master’s degree
from Pennsylvania State College, taught last year in the
Mechanicsville Consolidated School, Montour County.

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October, 1941

Page Sixty-Two

Army

Air Corps, and

is

a six month’s course in radio. His address
30th S. Squadron, Barracks 779, Scott Field, Illinois.

is

Robert Ohl

is

in the U. S.

now taking

J. Yarworth’s present address is HQ. SquadBombardment Group, New Orleans Air Base,

William
ron, 30th

New

Orleans, La.

Catherine McHugh, of Mt. Carmel, and Alfred
Marks, of Danville, were married Saturday, May 10. Mr.
Marks, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a
technician at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. They are now
living in Philadelphia.

1940
Marion Patterson, of Nescopeck, and Donald S. Baker, of Newtown, were married Sunday, May 31 in the
Baptist Church at Newtown. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. J. Baker, pastor of the church and
father of the groom. Mrs. Baker taught last year in
Springtown, and Mr. Baker is head of the commercial department at Narrows, Virginia.

Fay Gehrig, of Danville, and Max W. Clark, of Picture Rocks, were married Friday, June 27, in the Trinity
Lutheran Church at Danville. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. B. W. Krapf. Mrs. Clark taught last
year at Picture Rocks, and Mr. Clark is employed at the
Lycoming Motor plant in Williamsport. They are now
living in Picture Rocks.
Esther M. Sutherland died Sunday, July 27, at her
home, 1000 East Northampton Street, Laurel Run Borough, following an illness of several weeks. Miss Sutherland taught during the past year in the Pine Creek School,
Lake Township. She was a member of St. Stephen’s
Church, Wilkes-Barre.

Mary Ellen McWilliams, who has been serving as a
secretary in the surgical department of the Geisinger
Hospital, Danville, will teach in the Danville High School
during the coming year.
Virginia Hughes, of Wilkes-Barre, and

Thomas

Jen-

Plymouth, were married in Montrose, Saturday March 29. Mr. Jenkins is teaching in the schools of
Kingston Township, Luzerne County.
kins, ’40, of
r

,

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October, 1941

Page Sixty-Three

Charles Girton

is

now

located at Moffit Field, Cali-

fornia.

James Deily

teaching

is

in

the High School at Mil-

lersville.

The Quarterly has been informed that Clark H.
Snyder, of Lewisburg, died May 6, 1939.

W.

1941
Savage is serving

as substitute for one
Dorothy J.
in the commercial department of the Berwick High
School. She is substituting for Byron Shiner, ’40, who has
been called to serve in the army.

year

Mae R. West and Marie Blizzard are teaching in the
schools of Danville.
June Eaton, of Galeton, and William Hess, of Bloomsburg, were married Friday, June 20 in the Methodist
chapel at Mount Vernon. Mr. Hess is a member of the
faculty in the Scott Township High School, Espy, and was
employed during the summer in Washington, D. C.
Stuart
School.

Edwards

is

teaching

in

the Catawissa High

o

Miss Anna Kokora and Stephen Caporetti, both of
Mocanaqua, were married Saturday, July 26, at the
Church of the Ascension, Mocanaqua. Mrs. Caporetti has

been serving as a substitute teacher in the Conyngham
Mr. Caporetti is a graduate of Bucknell University, and is employed at the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick. They are now living in Mocanaqua.

schools.

o

The three weeks post session at the College opened
Monday, August 4, with an enrollment of about 100.
This was an excellent showing, in view of the general
decrease in

summer

session enrollments throughout the

The figure was only one or two less than that of
last year. The post session made it possible for students
to earn three additional semester hours of credit toward
country.

their degree.

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October, 1941

Page Sixty-Pour

The following

list of graduates is lecorded from the information conAlumni files. There are more than 1400 graduates for
we have no address. Please help us correct the Alumni DirecThe list of graduates will continue serially in the Quarterly

tained in our

whom
tory.

until completed. Where State
stood to be Pennsylvania.

is

omitted in the address,

it

is

under-

•

Bloomsburg; Sarah A. AmAvenue, Sunbury; Annabel
1939
Bailey, East Market Street, Danville; Sterling J. Banta, 532 Miller Street, Luzerne; Joseph A. Baraniak, 234 South Main
Street, Shenandoah; Lucy M. Barklie, 90 Ashley Street, Ashley;
Leonard E. Barlik, 224 Swetland Street, Duryea; Kathryn M. Benner,
425 Logan Street, Lewistown; Helen B. Biggar, Unityville; Adolph
R. Boguszewski, 10 Lewis Street, Hanover Green, Wilkes-Barre;
Isaiah D. Bomboy, Forksville; Fannie M. Bonham, 1427 Pine Street,
Berwick; Irene F. Bonin, 542 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton; John
E. Bower, Jr., Fleetville; Mary C. Boyle, 523 North Main Street,
Wilkes-Barre; J. Frank Brink, 60 Amhurst Avenue, Wilkes-Barre;
Virginia R. Burke, Sugar Run; Melva M. Carl, 325 Cooper Street,
Nescopeck; Margaret A. Cheponis, 234 Vine Street, Plymouth; John
P. Choawanes, 815 West Coal Street, Shenandoah; Willard A. Christian, Jr., 156 North Eighth Street, Shamokin; Albert A. Clauser, 1200
Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Harold H. Coblentz, 805 Vine Street, Berwick; Tirzah E. Coppes, 305 Market Street, Muncy; Virginia E. Cruikshank, Julia Street, Sunbury; Willard J. Davies, 166 East Church
Street, Nanticoke; Fanny H. DeMott, Main Street, Millville; Margaret
L. Deppen, 807 Shamokin Street, Trevorton; James V. DeRose, 132
South Harrison Street, Easton, Maryland; Helen M. Derr, 284 Reynolds Street, Kingston; Sara E. Dersham, 300 Green Street, Mifflin burg; Ruth L. Dugan, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg; Edith M. Eade, 101 East
Center Street, Nesquehoning; Mrs. Dorothy Englehart Zimmerman,
740 Market Street, Bloomsburg; Roy Evans, 318 West Taylor Street,
Taylor; Lois E. Farmer, 561 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Frank M.
Ferguson, R. D. 2, Lake Ariel; Victor J. Ferrari, 1234 Chestnut Street,

CLASS
OF

Mary

F.

merman,

Aikman,

R. D.
109 Catawissa

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October, 1941

Page Sixty-Five

Kulpmont; Thomas A.

Flaherty, 108

Custer Street,

Wilkes-Barre;

West High Street, Milford; Elva C. Foye, 119
South Fourth Street, Sunbury; L. Evelyn Freehafer, 2252 Northmont
Avenue, Reading; Carol B. Fritz, Sunset Hill Farm, Orangeville;
Andrew J. Giermak, 86 Plymouth Street, Edwardsville; Deborah
Williams Griffith (Mrs.) 114 North St., Bloomsburg; Minnie M. Hahn,

Morgan

E. Foose, 108

110 Prospect St., Wilkes-Barre; A. H. Harrison, R. 5. 2, Dallas, Elizabeth J. Hart, 513 E. Fourth Street, Berwick; Mildred M. Hart, Wapwallopen; Chester J. Harwood, 1021 West Main Street, Plymouth;
Kenneth E. Hawk, Bear Creek; Margaret E. Hines, 247 South Warren
Street, Berwick; Robert P. Hopkins, Lost Creek; Frederick L. Houck,
315 Main Street, Catawissa; Letha E. Hummel, 617 Park Street,
Bloomsburg; Elizabeth M. Jenkins, 192 Church Street, Edwardsville;
Dorothy K. Johnson, 623 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Lois C. Johnson, 623 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Mary M. Johnson, 201 North
Deborah Jones, 544 Delaware
3 1st Street, Paxtang, Harrisburg;
Street, West Pittston; Sheldon C. Jones, Lago Oil and Transport
Company, Aruba, Curacao, Netherland West Indies; Robert J. Kantner, Box 106, Fort Walton, Florida; Mrs. Edith Keefer Hartman, R.
D. 4, Danville; W. Alfred Keibler, 73 Poplar Street, Kingston; L. Ruth
Kleffman, 394 East Maple Street, York; Alfred P. Koch, Faculty Club,
Morgantown, West Virginia; Harriet L. Kocher, 4 Adams Avenue,
Souderton; Walter F. Lash, 131 North Fourth Street, Frackville;
Katherine G. Leedom, 272 Briggs Street, Harrisburg; Thomas O.
Lewis, 221 Mosier Street, Nanticoke; Martha M. Lingertot, 81 Willow
Street, Wilkes-Barre; Alvin G. Lipfert, 19 West Linden Street, WilkesBarre; Elmer Lohman, 154 East Noble Street, Nanticoke; Abigail M.
Lonergan and Marguerite M. Lonergan, 232 East Second Street, Berwick; Dorothy E. Long Hydelson (Mrs.), 545A Green Street, Berwick; Edward J. McDonald, Main Street, Connerton; Michael J.
Marshalek, 507 Melrose Street, Keiser; Laura M. Maust, 26 E. Fourth
Street, Bloomsburg; Helen L. May'an, 60 Cherry Street, Danville;
Ray P. McBride, Jr., 1021 Pine Sareet, Berwick; Emily A. McCall, 86
N. Atherton Street, Kingston; George A. McCutcheon, 22 Adams
Street, Miners Mills; Helen M. McGrew, Main Street, Mahanoy Plane;
Alexander J. McKechnie, Jr., 300 East Sixth Street, Berwick; Mrs.
Ethel May McManiman, 209 West High Street, Nesquehoning; Clair
A Miller, Danville Road, Bloomsburg; Rachael E. Miller, 220 West
Ninth Street, Berwick; John Mondschine, 127 South Fifth Street,
C'oplay; William R. Moratelli, 1317 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont; Edward J. Mulhern, 62 Shoemaker Street, Forty-Fort; Pauline E. Nelson, Starrucca; Richard J. Nolan, 229 South Maple Street, Mount
Carmel; Robert A. Ohl, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Anna L. Orner, 528 East
Third Street, Bloomsburg; A. Jane Oswald, 1913 West Livingston
Street, Allentown; Robert H. Parker, 828 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont;
Wilhelmina E. Peel, 25 South Pitt Street, Carlisle; Dorothy M. Phillips, Eighth and Center Streets, Bloomsburg; Leonard E. Philo, 514
Market Street, Kingston; Winfield R. Potter, Brookside Road, Dalton;
Pearl E. Poust, Orangeville; Charles T. Price, 89 East Main Street,

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October, 1941

Page Sixly-Six
Glen Lyon; Glen L. Rarich, 1330 Linden Street, Allentown; Stephina
H. Rasmus, 62 Main Street, Glen Lyon; Eva P. Reichley, 614 Market
Street, Sunbury; Robert J. Reimard, Main Street, Benton; Thomas P.
Revels, 1215 Main Street, Dickson City; Margaret E. Rhodes, R. D. 1,
Catawissa; Betty Mae Savage, 204 East 14th Street, Berwick; Anne
M. Seesholtz, 120 C Street, N. E. (Apartment 301) Washington, D. C.;
Vera F. Sheridan, 35 East Poplar Street, Nanticoke; Eleanor Shiffka,
Kalinoski (Mrs.), Main Street, Mocanaqua; Jean C. Shuman, Chestnut Street, Mount Top; Joseph P. Siesko, 221 West Main Street, Nanticoke; John J. Sircovics, 1136 Fifth Avenue, Berwick; Maclyn P.
Smethers, 305 East Second Street, Berwick; Donnabelle F. Smith, 45
South Tenth Street, Sunbury; Benjamin J. Stadt, 169 Orchard Street,
Nanticoke; Joseph M. Stamer, North Walnut Street, Nanticoke;
Wanda M. Stinson, 387 Hanover Street. Wilkes-Barre; Michael Strahosky, 1071 Pine Street, Kulpmont; William Strawinski, 1320 State
Street,

Andrew

Harrisburg;

A.

Strohosky,

Excelsior;

Jennis

E.

Tewksbury, 86 East Tioga Street, Tunkhannock; Philip E. Traupane,
9 Bruner Street, Muncy; Dale H. Troy, Mahoney Street, Nuremberg;
Sara E. Tubbs, 147 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Miriam Utt, Hill
Crest, Philipsburg; Frank M. Van Devender, 127 West Sunbury
Street, Shamokin; George Washinko, Jr., 207 Batten Street, Dunmore; Marvin W. Wehner, 38 Clay Avenue, West Hazleton; Chalmers
G. Wenrich, 1312 Herr Street, Harrisburg; Chester F. Wojcik, 12
Casey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Walter Woytovich, 301 South Fifth
Street, Shamokin; Esther F. Wright, 325 Mulberry Street, Berwick;
Martha C. Wright, 58 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; William J. Yarworth, 511 Troutwine Street, Centraiia; William Yates, 3 North
Brown Street, Ashley; Ray O. Zimmerman, Nuremberg. ADDRESS
WANTED Lucille E. Adams.

—

o
Altland, 434 South Fifteenth Street, Harrisburg; Edward H. Bacon, 41 West Walnut Street, Kings-

CLASS
OF

Sara

J.

1940

ton;

Donald

S.

Baker,

31

North

Street,

Murray Barnett, 826 Madison Avenue, Scranton; Grace
East Chestnut Street, Sunbury; Mary E. Beckley, 168

S.

Newtown;
Beck, 1014

Fifth Street,

Bloomsburg; Catherine E. Bell, New Milford; Beulah M. Beltz, R. D.
3, Catawissa; Joseph Benedetto, 16 North Eighth Street, Kulpmont;
Louis R. Bertoldi, House Number 153, Fern Glen; Jean L. Bittenbender, 504 East Third Street, Nescopeck; Margaret L. Blecher, 332 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg; Mildred A. Bonin, 542 North Wyoming
Street, Hazleton; Ruth E. Boone, Millerton, Tioga County; Helen A.
Boyle, 285 East Green Street, Nanticoke; Helen A. Brady, 179 South
Wyoming Avenue, Kingston; Helen E. Brouse, 1317 West Market
Street, Lewisburg; Clark W. Brown, Wapwallopen; Joseph S. Brown,
533 Magee Avenue, Bloomsburg; Jean W. Brush, R. D. 1, Laurel Run,
Ashland; Michael Chismar, Jr., 86 Pine Street, Hi'lsgi’ove; Ernest L.
Christmas, 2468 Reel Street, Harrisburg; Eleanore E. Cooper, R. D. 2,
Wilkes-Barre; Jane C. Darrow, 41 Dorrance Street, Kingston; Arthur
L. Davis, 133 Main Street, Taylor; Honora M. Dennen, R. D. 3, Dan-

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ville; Dorothy R. Derr, R. D. 1, Bloomsburg; Catherine Durkin, 1200
Spruce Street, Ashland; Stanley Esmond, 518 Military Police Battalion, Co. A, Fort Joy, N. Y.; Lorene C. Feister, 817 Mulberry Street,
Berwick; Alice L. Finnerty, 1719 Monroe Avenue, Dunmore; Wilbur
G. Fischer, 9 Cool Street, Glen Lyon; William Forsyth, 395 Water
Street, Northumberland; Vivian J. Frey, Mifflinville; Fay L. Gehrig,

108 Iron Street, Danville; Charles S. Girton, Army Air Corps, Moffet
California; Emily Goldsmith, Star Route, Dallas; Hazel R.
Gotshall, R. D. 3, Catawissa; Christine Grover, 1223 Market Street,
Berwick; Ben Hancock, 1147 West Walnut Street, Shamokin; Mary
E. Hanley, 100 South Pine Street, Hazleton; Helen Harman Conner,
1010 North New Street, Bethlehem; S. Dean Harpe, Englehard, North
Carolina; Elizabeth Jane Hart, 513 East 4th Street, Berwick; Donald
A. Hausknecht, 329 Jordon Street, Montoursville; Rose Mary Hausknecht, 621 East Second Street, Bloomsburg; Virginia M. Heimbach,
302 Front Sti'eet, Danville; Stella Herman, Espy; William H. Hess,
248 Iron Street, Bloomsburg; Margaret E. Hill, 2454 North Washington Avenue, Scranton; James Hinds, 815 Market Street, Bloomsburg;
Clayton H. Hinkel, 621 Pardee Street, Easton; Kenneth J. Hippensteel. Espy; Earl W. Houck, 907 Market Street, Berwick; Albert Houser, 115 South Walnut Street, Lewistown; Thomas H. Jenkins, 24 Hillside Avenue, Plymouth; Gladys E. Jones, R. 5, Bloomsburg; Gwladys
Jones 334 North Sumner Avenue, Scranton; Isaac T. Jones, 609
Twelfth Avenue, Scranton; William F. Kanasky, 116 Willow Street,
Shamokin; Charles L. Kelchner, 624 Peace Street, Hazleton; Edna E.
Keller, Station Avenue, Coopersburg; Daniel T. Kemple, Cumbola;
Lawrence J. Kiefer, Route 2, Box 96, Monroe, North Carolina; Frank
Kocher, Box 102, McVeytown, Pa.; Paul B. Kokitas, 14 East Clay
Avenue, West Hazleton; Frank Koniecko, 163 Ridge Street, Nanticoke; Roman D. Koropehak, 100 Girard Street, Atlas; Margaret Kostenbauder, Aristes; Stanley B. Kotzen, 929 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Carrie M. Kreiger, Seaside Hospital, New Dorp, Staten
Island, N. Y.; Joseph Kundla, 226 Smith Street, Dupont; Marion Y.
Landis, Sugarloaf; Eunice J. Laubach, 301 Raseley Street, Berwick;
George Lehet, Jr., 34 Kulp Street, Wilkes-Barre; Katie E. Levan,
East Street, Bloomsburg; Robert Lewis, R. D. 3, Danville; Lorraine
Field,

Lichtenwalner, Dalmatia; Robert A. Linn, 310 North Second Street,
Catawissa; Elma Major, R. D. 4, Dallas; Mrs. Anne McGinley Maloney, 401 Locust Avenue, Centralia; Royce M. Masteller, 647 Washington Avenue, Bethlehem; Eleanor Materewicz, 69 Orchard Street,
Glen Lyon; Norman Maza, Box 13, Harford, Susquehanna County;
Mrs. Margaret Cole McCern, Benton; Paul McHale, 76 Oxford Street,
Lee Park, Wilkes-Barre; Martha McHenry, 3rd Street, Benton; Mary
Ellen McWilliams, R. D. 1, Danville; Calvin W. Menges, R. D. 2,
Watsontown; Frank Glen Menges, 117 West Fifth Street, Mount Carmel; Marion F. Metcalfe, 1312 Line Street, Sunbury; Mary Louise
Miller, Pottsville Street, Wisconisco; Samuel Miller, 48 V2 South Wyoming Street, Hazleton; William, H. Miller, Nuremberg; Nicholas R.
Mitchell, Ebervale; Philip W. Moore, 608 Jewel Street, Delmar, Del.;

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October, 1941

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Fiorence A. Park, R. D. 1, Dallas; Theodore Parsed, Birdsboro; Marion E. Patterson, Springtown; Paul Paulhamus, R. D. 2, Williamsport;
William Hope Penman, 1116 Kanoba Boulevard E, Charleston, West
Virginia; William Pietrusziak, Main Street, Mocanaqua; John M.
Plevyak, Mount St. Joseph High School, Baltimore, Md.; John L.
Pomrinke, 151 Park Street, Nanticoke; James G. Pugh, 44 Green
Street, Edwardsville; Marie P. Raklevicz, 227 East Main Street, Plymouth; Agnes A. Recla, East Market Street, Sheppton; Paulyne T.
Reigle, 347 Orange Street, Northumberland; Violet T. Reilly, 1058
Mohawk Street, Scranton; Vivian O. Reppert, Main Street, Espy;
Joseph Richards, 384 Chestnut Street, Warrior Run, Pa.; Evaline J.
Rieben, 1809 Union Street, Allentown; Muriel I. Rinard, 67 Chestnut
Street, Lewistown; Louise M. Roushey, 58 East Franklin Street, Sliavertown; Lewis W. Rovenolt, Main Street, Turbotville; Raymond J.
Sanger, Aristes; Adam L. Schlauch, Main Street, Nuremberg; Eugene
F. Sharkey, 45 Main Street, Lattimer Mines; Byron D. Shiner, 1401
Fairview Avenue, Berwick; Christine F. Smith, 105 South Third
Street, Catawissa; Jean D. Smith, Box 227, Elizabeth City, North
Carolina; Miles G. Smith, Jr., 1140 Market Street, Berwick; Lorraine
C. Snyder, 1003 West Laurel Street, Pottsville; Florence T. Stefanski,
31 South Regent Street, Wilkes-Barre; Thelma A. Stellfox, 46 South
Walnut Street, Mount Carmel; Mary A. Stine, R. D. 1, Elysburg;
Blake J. Stokes, 622 West Main Street, Bloomsburg; Leonard E.
Stout, 218 Worcester Street, Nescopeck, Pa.; Margaret Betty Thomas,
65 Penn Avenue, Exeter, Pittston; William F. Trimble, 37 South Regent Street, Lee Park, Wilkes-Barre; Rose M. Turse, 10 West Diamond Avenue, West Hazleton; Hannah E. Unger, State Hospital,
Wernersville; Ferdinand F. Visintainer, Drums; Phylis B. Wagner,
132 East Maple Street, Hazleton; Kathryn L. Walp 305 East Fourth
Street, Berwick; Alfred S. Washeleski, 50 Forble Street, Simpson;
Mae E. Weikel, R. D. 1, Milton; Carl T. Welliver, R. D. 4, Bloomsburg;
William W. Wertz, Downtown Y. M. C. A., Buffalo, N. Y.; Oliver S.
Williams, Box 165, R. D., Wilkes-Barre; Gertrude Wilson, Kis-Lyn;
Lillian A. Yeager, Railroad Street, Centralia; Fern B. Yost, Rock
Glen; Bernard T. Zeigler, 9 Hazleton Street, Ashley; Ruth Zimmerman 1293 Highland Avenue, Sunbury. ADDRESSES
Charles Bakey, Frederick D. Coleman. Philip L. Snyder. DECEASED
Esther M. Sutherland.

WANTED—

—

_o

CLASS
OF

Agnes A. Alastick, 39 East Coal Street, Shenandoah;
E. Dorothy Albertson, Espy; Joseph R. Aponick, 18
1941
East Poplar Stieet, West Nanticoke; Max Arcus, 140
West Street, Bloomsburg; Avonell A. Baumunk, 263 Pepper Street,
Muncy; Eda Bessie Beilhartz, 105 West Water Street, Muncy; Edith
R. Benninger, St. Johns; Marie M. Blizzard, Danville; Daniel H. Bonham, 99 Slocum Street, Forty-Fort; Leonard M. Bowers, 210 South
Walnut Steret, Mount Carmel; Ruth L. Brandon, 325 East Third
Street, Berwick; Sara A. Breslin, 38 Main Street, Lattimer; Mary L.
Bretz, New Bloomfield; C. Grant Brittingham, 212 Madison Street,

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Wilkes-Barre; Ruth E. Brodbeck, Douglassville; Mrs. Leona Sterling
Brunges, 490 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Mary M. Brunstetter,
441 E. Main Street, Catawissa; Valaire K. Buchanan, 2308 Cleveland
Avenue, West Lawn; Mrs. Agnes Pinomonti Casari, 528 Pine Street,
Kulpmont; Ralph C. Crocamo, 48 East Broad Street, Hazleton; Mary
F. Crosby, Bridge Street, Mahanoy Plane; Doris M. Curl, 73 South
Meade Street, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Davis, 89 East Vaughn Street,
Kingston; Virginia M. Dean, 1244 West Coal Street, Shenandoah;
James H. Deily, 518 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Irene J. Diehl,
1304 Moravian Street, Bethlehem; Helen K. Dixon, Box 2, Benton;
Edward Dobb, 38 Carey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre; Mary L. Driscoll,
863 West Main Street, Plymouth; Florence L. Dunn, 427 Washington
Avenue, Jermyn; Jane Dyke, 150 South Hickory Street, Mount Carmel; June L. Eaton, 15 Parsonage Avenue, Galeton; C. Stuart Edwards, 252 Church Street, Edwardsville; Victoria H. Edwards, 226
West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; Peter J. Eshmont, 743 Chestnut
Street, Kulpmont; Elizabeth M. Feinour, Chestnut Street, Millville;
Reber R. Fisher, 205 North Street, Catawissa; Richard H. Foote, 433
East Street, Bloomsburg; Mary Vera Foust, R. D. 4, Danville; Gerald
D. Fritz, 366 Vine Street, Berwick; Lois E. Fullmer, 922 South 8th
Street, Allentowrt; Charlotte E. Gearhart, 25 Penn Street, Montgomery; Barbara E. Gillette, 605 Wilkes-Barre Street, Wilkes-Barre;
Thurwald Gommer, 2 Front Street, Nanticoke; Leon H. Greenly, 517
East 4th Street, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth L. Griffiths, 2215 Brown Avenue, Scranton; Lois K. Gruver, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg; Julia C. Hagenbuch, R. D. 1, Danville; Elizabeth E. Hawk, 224 South Front Street,
Milton; Elda M. Henrie, R. D. 3, Bloomsburg; William S. Heupcke,
Sugarloaf; Charles O. Horn, Ringtown; George B. Houseknecht,
R. D., 1, Hughesville; Joseph E. Huddock, 608 West York Street,
Philadelphia; Vincent T. Huilihan, Locust Gap; Helen L. Johnson,
70 School Street, Galeton; Mary E. Keesler, Callicoon, N. Y.; William G. Kerchusky, 543 West Main Street, Ringtown; Relda Kerstetter, 420 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Alice M. Kiryluk, Box 105.
Hop Bottom; Lawrence H. Klotz, Neffs; Anna L. Korengo, 135 East
Coal Street, Shenandoah; Jerome G. Lapinski, 1746 West Chestnut
Street, Shamokin; John E. Lavelle, 475 West Mahanoy Avenue, Girard ville; Leo J. Lehman, 69 High Street, Ashley; Jennie Leone, 1615
South Rosewood Street, Philadelphia; Paul T. Letterman, 225 West
Fourth Street, Bloomsburg; George R. Lewis, 309 Light Street Road,
Bloomsburg; L. Ward Lichtel, 136 East Chestnut Street, Shamokin;
F. Lewis Long, 132 Iron Street, Berwick; Joseph J. Malinchock, 212
West High Street, Nesquehoning; Joseph G. Marinko, 107 East Blain
Street, McAdoo; Aldona S. Maslowsky, 39 Alexander Street, WilkesBarre; Sara B. Masteller, 821 Pottsville Street, Pottsville; Esther A.
McGinley, Jeanesville; Alice M. Meiss, 537 Broad Street, Nescopeck;
Elizabeth E. Miller, Park Place; R. Bruce Miller, 623 Mulberry Street,
Berwick; Jean W. Moss, 300 West Main Street, Plymouth; Marian L.
Murphy, 395 Schuyler Avenue, Kingston; Zigmund M. Musial, 228
Robert Street, Sheatown, Nanticoke; Raymond G. Myers, 311 Lind-

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b'ergh Avenue, York; J. Rutter Ohl, 512 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg;
Isabella M. Olah, 327 Grant Street, Berwick; Catherine A. Oplinger,
148 East Broad Street, Nanticoke; O. Marie Parsell, Pine Street,
Orangeville; William F. Pegg, 8 West Park Road, Llanerch; Edythe
M. Pollock, R. D. 3, Wyoming; Helen F. Powell, 407 East Church
Brugler Avenue, BloomsStreet, Nanticoke; Maude L. Pursel, 37
burg; William M. Reager, 513 North 6th Street, Shamokin; Walter H.
Reed, 129 Philadelphia Avenue, Shillington; Mary F. Reilly, 1058 Mohawk Street, Scranton; Clark R. Renninger, 431 Main Street, Pennsburg; Charles A. Robbins, 512 West Third Street, Bloomsburg; Roy
Roberts, 224 Main Street, Catawissa; Jerry S. Russin, 139 Maffett
Street, Plains; Nicholas L. Saras, 36 West Broad Street, Hazleton;
Dorothy J. Savage, 204 East 14th Street, Berwick; Jessie T. Shieffer,
7 South 4th Street, Steelton; Ruth H. Schied, 225 Church Street, Taylor; Claraline E. Schlee, 635 East Market Street, Danville; Herbert E.
Schneider, 40 East Clay Avenue, West Hazleton; Florabelle Schrecongost, 404 South Main Street, DuBois; Lucretia M. Shaffer, 213
Taft Street, Lee Park, Wilkes-Barre; Helen W. Shank, Ringtown; Edward D. Sharretts, 1919 West Front Street, Berwick; Ruth L. Shay,
1019 Church Street, Lebanon; John R. Shortess, 426 East Main Street,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Nellie F. Shuntill, 72 Montclair Avenue, West
View, Pittsburgh; Marie P. Sloboski, 64 South Main Street, Ashley;
Mary B. Sweigart, R. D. 1, Willow Street; Helen J. Soback, R. D. 3,
Bloomsburg; Arlene A. Swinesburg, 31 East Green Street, West Hazleton; Joseph Sworin, 922 Throop Street, Dunmore; William W. Tannery, 139 East First Street, Bloomsburg; Dorothy J. Thomas, 86 Hanover Street, Wilkes-Barre; Howard Tomlinson, 31 North Chancellor
Street, Newtown; Victor R. Turini, 250 Susquehanna Avenue, Wyoming; Floyd Van Antwerp, 1876 West Third Street, Williamsport;
Elwyn J. Vaughan, 130 West Broad Street, Nanticoke; Joseph F. Wesley, 384 Charles Street, Luzerne; M. Rebecca West, R. D. 1, Danville;
Marqueen V. White, 225 East 14th Street, Berwick; John J. Wilkes,
138 Robert Street, Sheatown, Nanticoke; George D. Willard, 107
Ferry Street, Danville; Howard T. Williams, 149 South Rebecca Avenue. Scranton; Mantana S. Williams, 222 Chestnut Street, Slatington;
Samuel Frederick Worman, 24 Bloom Street, Danville; John D.
Young, South Third Street, Catawissa; Marjorie C. Young, 27 Price
Street, Kingston; Hilda E. Zeisloft, 548 Jackson Avenue. Ardsley;
Michalene A. Zuchoski, 40 Sobieski Street, Peely, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

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Wednesday, October 22
Friday, October 31
Saturday, November 8
Friday, November 14
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Robert Adams, of the Eagles Mere Players, spoke in
a summer session assembly Wednesday, July 9, on “The
Influence of the Theatre.” His talk was made particularly interesting by the relation of his experiences with many
prominent people of the stage. Mr. Adams has been a
member of the faculty of the University of Michigan.
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Melvin K. Whiteleather, of Philadelphia, was the
speaker at a college convocation Wednesday morning,
July 2. Mr. Whiteleather, analytical writer for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, stationed in Berlin,
and saw at first hand the rise of the National Socialist
Party in Germany and the early days of the war.
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President Andruss has announced that the University
of Pittsburgh, sponsor of the Pennsylvania Forensic and
Music League has accepted the joint and cordial invitation of the trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Bloomsburg School District to hold its 1942
state contest at Bloomsburg. The dates selected will be
April 24 and 25, 1942.

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Jean E. Lawton, of Millville, and Bryan Lee Funk, of
Orangeville, were married Sunday, June 27, in the Grace
Lutheran Church, Berwick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. R. Shipe. Mrs. Funk has been
teaching in the Greenwood Township schools. Mr. Funk,
a graduate of the Benton High School, is employed by the
Cambra Store Company at Cambra.
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Allen Alexander Orr, died at the Lewistown Hospital
Saturday, August 16, following an illness of several days.
He was prominent in political circles, having served as
Mifflin County chairman of the Democratic Party. He also
served as postmaster in Lewistown and as County Commissioner in Mifflin County. For twenty-four years he was
a member of the board of directors of the Lewistown Citizens’ Bank, of which he had been president since 1937.
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Miss Jean Prowant, of Watsontown, and G. Dayton
Leiser, of Watsontown, R. D., were married in June. Mr.
Leiser is a teacher in the consolidated school at Dewart.

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Miss Veronica McCloskey, of Bloomsburg, and
Stephen T. Petrilla, Jr., of Hazleton, were married Saturday, June 28, in St. Columba’s Church, Bloomsburg,
with the Rev. Father Louis Yeager officiating.
Mrs. Petrilla is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School. Mr. Petrilla is a graduate of the Foster Township
High School, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
has received his master’s degree from New York University.
He is now teaching at the Foster Township High
School at Freeland.
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The Editor requests that those sending newspaper
clippings will please indicate the date of the issue from
which the clipping has been taken.
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Twenty more students took the

flying course sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, given at the
College during the summer session. With the thirty who
took the course during the regular college year, this
makes a total of fifty students who have availed themselves of the opportunity to become pilots. A large number of those who have taken the course are receiving further training either in the Army or the Navy.
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of the College faculty were instructors
in defense schools during the past summer. S. I. Shortess
was located at Pottsville, and George C. Buchheit taught
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C. G. A. Program, Reception and Dance.
Football Mansfield (Away).
Carolina Players.
Football Lock Haven (Here)
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Football—Kutztown (Here).
HOME-COMING DAY.
Football—East Stroudsburg (Here).
Address—Senator Gerald P. Nye.

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January
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January
January

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April 25

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Easter Recess Ends, 12:00 M.
State-Wide Contest Forensic League.
State-Wide Contest Forensic League.

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May
May
May
May

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