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Vol. 43-No. 1
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
January, 1942
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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, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 Cents.
H. F. FENSTEMAKER, '12
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Once again the Bloomsburg State Teachers College finds
itself obliged to carry on in the face of wartime conditions.
Even with the beginning of the first semester, world conditions
began to be reflected in the activities of the campus. Along
with
all
the other Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania, the enroll-
ment began to dwindle. The College opened with a student
body of about 400, with many different factors causing the
reduction in enrollment. Many of the young men who would
have returned are in the military and naval forces of our country. Many others are engaged in defense work, doing their
part to build up the material assets of America and her allies.
Many young women also found good positions in offices and did
not return to Bloomsburg.
history will unAs in the days following World War
doubtedly repeat itself in the teaching profession. There is already a shortage of teachers in the elementary grades, and
there will certainly be a shortage of teachers in the junior and
1
,
senior high schools.
The College has been adapting itself to changing condiThe CAA flying courses are now in their second year, and
a large number of pilots have been trained. Every night of the
tions.
week
the streets near the College are parked
have brought
in
full
of cars that
students to take the defense courses offered in
Science Hall.
Now
steps
that the United States are actually
have been taken
to organize the College
engaged in war,
community as a
home defense. A committee headed by Dr. E. H. Nelson
now at work setting up procedures and routines that will
make it possible for everyone to know what to do in case of
unit of
is
emergency.
The spirit of the campus is well set
ment by President Andruss, published
forth in a recent statein
the
“Maroon and
Gold”:
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
i^age
Two
A
kind.
Message From the President
The quest
To make
for certainty
as old as
is
certain an uncertain future
manis
the
problem of every generation. Youth is always
confused by the process of growing up and the
changing of events in the world at large. Life is
made of such things. Change and growth as
part of the continuous adjustment in living leads
each generation to feel that its problems are
more
serious than the previous one.
and Freedom, and Democracy, are
that a century and a half ago
our forefathers fought to get them in a form of
free government. A half-dozen wars in our history indicate that we must ever fight to keep
them. A new generation on the average of
every twenty-five years has had to make the
sacrifice of force to protect and keep Liberty,
and Freedom, and Democracy as we have them
Liberty,
so very precious
in
America.
What tomorrow may bring to college studno one can surely say, but it appears that
democracy may need to make as great an effort
to defend itself AFTER as DURING the present
war period. The first line of defense now and
later lies in the strength of the whole nation,
whereas leadership will undoubtedly come from
ents
the
who
ranks of those
are
now
enrolled in
colleges.
Students
should
make
educational
who
are
every
program
now
effort
as
we
enrolled in colleges
to
continue their
they had
previously
be faced with a
suicide of weakening our minds while strengthening our “arms.” The duty of all good Americans today is to do the best they can, where
they are, with what they have. College students
planned.
Otherwise,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
shall
January, 1942
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Page Three
must continue to fit themselves for situations
which will undoubtedly approach those for
which they are being educated.
The three dates
— 1914-1916-1918—
rep-
,
and
the ending of the first World War. Since 1939
marked the beginning of the second World War
and 1941 the critical period of the entry of
America into the struggle, the question is:
“What are you planning for 1943?” .Are you
looking beyond the next two years?
resent
the beginning,
the critical period,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been given a
quota of twenty student pilots for the first semester of the College year opening September 22.
The quota is of the same size as the second semester of last
year and for the Summer session and is larger than has been
granted numerous institutions with far greater student enrollments.
Bloomsburg has had an outstanding program of CAA since
program was instituted. There have been forty-seven men
and three women who have taken the work. All have completed
the
(he flying.
Of the men who have passed, eighteen are now in aviation
army or navy and around nine others have made
application and are awaiting instructions to report. The work
at Bloomsburg in training men for the service has been a pace
setter the nation over. CAA students entering service on the
average have been one out of ten.
in either the
During the Summer session concluded in early August,
twenty of the sixty-seven men enrolled took CAA work.
More than 500
this
semester.
ents
was
Among
schools are participating in the
the Pennsylvania schools,
Elementary course
:
Bucknell
program
and the quota of stud-
University,
1
0
;
Bucknell
University Junior College, 20; Geneva College, 10; Lafayette
College, 20; Lehigh University, 20; Moravian College, 10;
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Four
Muhlenberg College, 10;
Pennsylvania Sta‘e College, 10;
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, 20; Waynesburg College,
10
.
Secondary course: Bucknell University Junior College,
108; Geneva College, 10; Lehigh University, 10.
Following action of the State Council of Education, the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College is cooperating with Pennsylvania State College in offering defense courses. This project
is made possible through recent legislation which permits the
State Council of Education to request any State Teachers College to participate in this work upon the action of the board of
trustees in favor of expanding the usefulness of the particular
institution to those activities which will enable State Teachers
Colleges to contribute to
national defense.
the
Among
the
courses offered are fundamentals of engineering, engineering
drafting, ordnance inspection,
eering science of
may
management
and any other courses in enginfor which a sufficient demand
develop.
These courses are held in Science Hall and the adminishead is Roy D. Snyder, a member of the Bloomsburg
trative
School Board.
These courses do not bear college credit and the tuition
However, students must buy their books and supplies.
A high school education is the material requirement. However,
persons who have certain types of vocational experience may
be admitted upon the approval of the coordinator.
IS
free.
The experience with
summer
offering such courses during the last
from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of those
who completed the courses have found places in industry, conindicates that
tributing to the national defense.
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College
State Teachers Colleges in the
who
Commonwealth
is
one of the two
of Pennsylvania
are approved for this type of work.
Anna Elizabeth Tugend, of Dalton, and Mark W. Jury, of
in the MethBloomsburg, were married Monday, September
odist Church at Tunkhannock.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
Page Five
Named Director of Elementary Education
Hazen has been appointed director of eleBloomsburg. Miss Hazen has been a memfaculty
since
of
the
1927, and served as director of interber
mediate and rural education. This administrative responsibility
covers the administration and supervision of student teaching in
kindergarten, primary, intermediate, and rural fields, as well as
the special class for the mentally retarded. Miss Hazen will direct the elementary student teaching, both on and off the
Miss Edna
J.
mentary education
at
campus.
Miss Hazen received her education at the State Normal
Pa., Allegheny College, Meadville, and
earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Columbia Uni-
School at Edinboro,
versity.
She began teaching in a rural one-room school, followed
by a year in a consolidated school in Erie County. After graduation from Edinboro, she taught in the elementary schools of
Cleveland, Ohio. After serving for a time in Cleveland, she was
offered a position as a training teacher at Edinboro.
She also served as instructor
in
summer
State Teachers College at Slippery Rock,
of North Carolina.
and
sessions at the
at the University
Later she was appointed assistant superin-
tendent of the Erie County public schools, being responsible for
the direction of the elementary schools.
Miss Hazen brings to her
new
position a
background of
experience in the different phases of elementary education, at
the
same time balanced with
as a teacher
m
the high school
a forward look with experience
and
principal
of a junior high
school.
As a part of the service provided by the College in the
Hazen has addressed county institutes
and contributed to curriculum development. She has served as
a member of a committee appointed by the State Superintendlocal service area, Miss
ent of Public Instruction to revise the course in health education
for elementary schools.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Six
Bloomsburg’s Educational Clinic
The educational clinic of the State Teachers College at
Bloomsburg has started its second year of activity. The purpose of the clinic is to study children from the public schools
who have come to the clinic because of inability to make satisfactory progress in their studies.
remedial work
experienced
is
Analyses of their
disabilities
recommended, and
prescribed by persons who are trained and
are being made, school
in this
adjustments
are
type of work.
The educational
clinic
services of the College.
It
is
one of the recently developed
has been organized to serve the child-
ren of the schools of Bloomsburg’s service area who, for any
reason, are not succeeding in their school work.
is housed in two suites of three exan adjoining classroom which may be
used for demonstration purposes. In these rooms are found a
great variety of tests, examinations, instruments and apparatus
which are useful in appraising the child’s capacities and abilities, in discovering his interests, and in determining the causes
of his disabilities and handicaps. The equipment includes audiometers. both group and individual, a telebinocular, an ophthalmograph, speech recorders, a preamplifier and microphone,
and a variety of intelligence and other tests.
The clinic is under the direction of Prof. John J. Fisher,
who has charge of the psychological service. Other members of
The educational
clinic
amination rooms and
the staff are Miss Alice Johnston, specialist in speech,
Carolyn Welch,
who
has charge of the work
The educational
clinic
Council of Education and
is
and Miss
in reading.
has been approved by the State
serving the
public schools
of Col-
umbia, Montour, Northumberland and Luzerne Counties. There
The clinic repreis no charge for this service by the College.
another
step
policy
sents
in the
of the College to be of greater
usefulness to the school children of the section of Pennsylvania
in
which
clinic
it
is
located.
Anyone wishing
to bring a child to the
should communicate with the director and
pointment.
THE .M.UMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
make an
ap-
Page Seven
New Courses Added
Many new
courses have been added to the curriculum of
the College this semester,
and have already proved
to
be very
popular.
The ground course given to these who meet the requirements of the civil pilot training program included instruction in
civil air regulations, navigation, and meteorology.
For the first time in many years, students have an opportunity to study the Spanish language.
elective
in
and
This
is
offered as a free
be continued as long as students show interest
Those students who are preparing in either the
will
this field.
secondary or business
may
fields
elect Spanish as
an additional
course or as a free elective.
Advanced courses
accounting are being offered to busiThese sources include accounting for
manufacturing concerns, and also auditing, and go toward the
in
ness education students.
requirements for certification to teach
in
the high schools of
Pennsylvania.
Store practice, including a study of store operation as well
as actual selling,
is
again being offered, and students will have
an opportunity to observe and participate
in
the type of mer-
chandising carried on by local stores.
In addition to the courses
named above,
the following
new
courses are offered: Curriculum in elementary science, ethics,
early childhood education, speech correction, play production,
speech problems, creative dramatics, journalism and typewriting
as an elective for non-business education students.
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Miss Betty Pauling, violin instructor at
member
has been elected as a
of Music at Bloomsburg.
Wyoming
ing,
who
in
Department
Miss Pauling has been teaching at
She has studied voice
since 1936.
has been soloist
Wyoming Seminary,
of the faculty in the
in
New
various churches in Wilkes-Barre.
York, and
Miss Paul-
teaches both voice and violin, has twice appeared be-
fore the College assembly,
ability as a singer
and
and has ably demonstrated her
fine
as a violinist.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Eight
Go4fUn(j,
A downpour
dampen
lasting throughout the entire
day could not
many hundreds of returning graduates and friends of Bloomsburg who were present Saturday,
November
at the various activities of the Home-Coming Day
the enjoyment of
1
,
program.
The
features of the
day included the
first
Husky
football
triumph of the year, when Bloomsburg defeated Kutztown by
the score of
1
4-0, the tea in the
Coming Day dinner
dance
in the
in
new gymnasium,
the
Home-
the college dining-room, and the Alumni
new gymnasium.
The outstanding feature of the dinner was the presentatwo memorials to Miss Irma Ward, former
dietitian. One of these was a copy of a fine painting, and the
other was a fund, to be known as the Ward Fund. This is to be
tion to the College of
used to provide small short-term loans to students
who
are in
need of money for special emergencies.
There were about 400 at the tea
and about 650 attended the dinner.
in
the
new gymnasium,
A new feature of Home-Coming Day was an attractive
program booklet published under the direction of Prof. Walter
S. Rygiel.
The booklet contained pictures of the campus, the
various athletic groups, the Maroon and Gold Band, the coaches, and the managers.
There were also greetings from President H. A. Andruss and R. Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association. In order that the guests might not miss any of
the day’s
many
activities,
the
booklet
also
contained a time
schedule, listing the time and place of the day’s events.
MEMORIAL PRESENTED
At the Alumni dinner held on Home-Coming Day, two memorials to the late Irma Russell Ward, former dietitian, were
presented to the College.
mond
T?IE
L.
Hodges
The presentation was made by Ray-
’30, Associate Professor of
ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Dramatic Art
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Page Nine
Richmond Professional
the
Institute of the College of William
and Mary, Richmond, Virginia.
One of the memorials was a painting, which has been hung
in the college
memorial
is
dining-room near the dietitian’s
office.
The other
sums
a fund to be loaned to students needing small
The fund, known as the Ward Fund,
be administered through the treasurer of the Student Loan
Fund of the Alumni Association, and will go into operation as
soon as a few more contributions come in.
for special emergencies.
will
The purpose of the memorials, and the
ed their presentation, are best reflected
spirit
in
which prompt-
the
presentation
speech of Mr. Hodges. The speech follows
For many years before I was graduated from High School, I
had looked forward to college. Upon arriving at Bloomsburg I was
utterly amazed and quite impressed. As I became more accustomed
to the place I began to realize that many young men and women
were helping their college expenses by working in the dining room.
I wanted to apply for a job, but I was really afraid of the woman in
charge, they called her the Dietitian. She was a tall, austere woman with keen eyes and sharp features. Would she have anything to
do with me, a green youngster just out of high school who had never
had a tray in his hand? When I finally screwed up enough courage
to ask her about work I found she was nothing like what 1 expected.
She was all business, and yet vei’y friendly. I got a job and I
—
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found a friend.
For four years, three meals a day, we worked together. She
never lost her business-like attitude, but as we got to know each
other, she injected in a very casual manner sound advice and helpful hints, not on how to run a dining room, but on how to live.
When I was about to graduate from this place it was she who
first suggested that 1 go on and get a graduate degree.
In fact she
sat down with me and worked out a balanced schedule. I had to
study with this professor because he was known all over the world;
this one talked too much. And so it went. Well, I finally got that
Master’s degree; as a matter of fact before she was able to get hers.
Because, you see, I was not an isolated example. There were many
others being helped in this same friendly, unassuming way at the
same time.
Nor did her help end with educational matters.
I can rememthought I was going to
my future wife here for her apwas relieved and happy to know that she felt I was doing
ber very well her remarks when
be married; and when I brought
I
told her
I
proval, I
the right thing.
we were both busy people our visits were less frequent,
she was here, a rock, a mooring place to which I could fly
Because
but
I
felt
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
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necessary. Then on February 25, 1939, Doctor Kehr telephoned
that if I wanted to see my friend alive again I had better come
quickly. I got here early the next morning, but I found that life
was fast ebbing. I had never seen a person die before, and I certainly did not want to see this particular person leave. But I shall
never be afraid of death again. Slowly, ever so slowly, breath left
her body and a serene peace filled her face Ii'ma Russell Ward had
if
—
gone on.
We
alumni who had worked in the college dining room and had
so well wanted her memory to live. We wanted you, the
present undergraduates to know her, and the undergraduates to
come they should not be deprived of a friendship like hers. So we
have tried to do two things.
Miss Ward had long been in the habit of helping worthy people
financially. There are times when a fee is due, or a book must be
bought, and the student feels pretty desperate. But one had only to
go to her and bluntly ask for a loan. It did no good to try “apple
polishing” or fancy phrases. The loan was a business-like arrangement.
To perpetuate this spirit of helpfulness we have gathered some
money and now want to announce the establishing of the Irma Ward
Fund. This will be for small, short-time loans to students, to be
made without the legal procedure necessary for larger loans. The
Fund will be handled by the same Alumni Council which administers the general Alumni Fund. In order to keep the Ward Fund
operative and increasingly useful, we appeal to you for further support. We do not ask for large amounts; anything, even a quarter is
acceptable. Will you please help?
As a second project, and as a mere tangible gift to the College,
we have bought a copy of Adolf Dehn’s “Minnesota in August.” It
was painted near Miss Ward’s home by an artist who also came from
that part of the state. Although she loved Pennsylvania, Miss Ward
never forgot her native state and she had a copy of this pictui’e over
the desk in her office. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to present
this copy of the painting to you, the present college family. As I
look at it I am reminded of Irma Russell Ward, and the words come
back to me which kept running through my mind as I saw her leave
this place: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still
waters. He restoreth my soul
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me.”
known her
—
.
.
e
Mrs. Mary
Bogennef, aged ninety-seven, the
oldest woman in Union County, and mother of Miss Margaret
Bogenrief, former member of the department of Physical Education at the College, died at her home in Mifflinburg late in
September.
Elizabeth
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Eleven
Tells of
Caribbean Defense
Dr. Mina Kerr addressed the students of the college at the
assembly Friday. October 10, on “The Caribbean, Our Sea of
Destiny.” Dr. Kerr, who has traveled in South America and
has made two trips to the Caribbean region, gave an analysis of
the importance of this region to the economic
and
military wel-
She referred to three great water areas
the Mediterranean Sea, the
that are figuring in the world news
China Sea and the Caribbean Sea.
Dr. Kerr called the attention to the fact that important
naval and air bases were held by France, Holland and England
in this territory and pointed out the danger to the United States
if Hitler should win and the possibility of these falling into the
hands of a hostile power. She suggested the importance of
naval bases on islands belonging to the United States and those
acquired from England in recent months.
Dr. Kerr hinted that there was a possibility at closing of
the war that possessions held by certain European powers would
be demanded by the United States in return for aid to these
European countries during the world struggle. This was the
fifth appearance of Dr. Kerr before the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at an assembly period.
fare of this country.
—
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The teachers of northeastern Ohio were addressed Friday,
October 24, by President Harvey A. Andruss. The subject of
the address was “Adapting Learning Experiences to the Needs
and Abilities of Students.” In his discussion. President Andruss
outlined conflicting points of view and offered specific suggestions as to the methods by which administrators and teachers
may revise the offerings on the high school level in such a way
that different learning experiences may be approved for students whose interests, aptitudes, needs and abilities vary according to their social and economic background.
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Hannah Unger is teaching English, French and Latin
Reade High School, Mountaindale, Pa. In addition to her
ing duties, she coaches dramatics and
is
in the
teach-
school librarian.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Twelve
I’age
Miss Hayden Retires
Miss
May
T.
Hayden, director of kindergarten-primary
education and college instructor at Bloomsburg since 1925, retired at the close of the college year last spring.
During her
educational career as a teacher, principal, and supervisor of
elementary schools. Miss Hayden gained recognition
tional circles in
many
in
educa-
states.
She is a native of Minnesota, where she received her elementary and high school education. Her advanced education
was received at the University of Washington, the University
of California, Columbia University, and Washington State College. She received her B. A. degree at Washington State College, and her M. S. degree from Columbia, where she also pursued further graduate work. She began her professional experience
in the
In the Lewiston public
public schools of Idaho.
schools of that state she served as teacher in the elementary
grades and the junior high school, as principal of an elementary
school,
and
as elementary supervisor for the city system.
She taught during summer sessions
m
the southern branch
of the University of Idaho at Pocatello, and entered the field of
and college teaching at the State Normal Colwhere eventually she held the position
of the primary education building and supervisor of
teacher-training
lege at Dillon, Montana,
of principal
kindergarten-primary education.
Sixteen years ago Miss
Hayden came to Bloomsburg as
and college instruc-
director of kindergarten-primary education
tor
m
elementary education.
During the past twenty years she has lectured many times
at teachers’ institutes.
work
in the special field
In
addition,
of reading.
she
Miss
has done extensive
Hayden has had wide
experience on national, state and local committees dealing with
and other phases of educational work.
the curriculum
She
sity
is
affiliated
Women,
Pi
with the American Association of UniverTheta, and the National Curriculum
Lambda
Society.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
;
Page Thirteen
College to Get $1,000 Bequest
A
$1,000 bequest made
College by a
member
to the
Bloomsburg State Teachers
1885 will be paid to col-
of the class of
lege authorities as soon as legal requirements are met.
The attorney
for the estate of Florence J. Cawley, of Mil-
ton, the legatee, advised College President
that the estate has
Harvey A. Andruss
been liquidated.
Miss Cawley was a member of the class of 1885 of the
Bloomsburg Normal School and the legacy was one of many
contained in her will, which was probated shortly after her
940.
death on March
terms
Under the
of this bequest, the $1,000 forms the
Florence J. Cawley Fund to be invested and the income therefrom to be used for any purpose her class of 1885 may be
called upon to aid.
The class of 885 met in their fifty-fifth reunion on Alumni Day,
940, and voted that any income arising from this fund
should be made available for the Alumni Association through
the loan fund, to worthy students. Among the members of this
class now surviving are Mrs. Fred Holmes, Bloomsburg: Harry
1
,
1
1
1
0. Hine, Washington, D. C.
and Mrs.
E. E. Melick,
;
Miss
New York
Anna Fox,
City,
Burlington, N.
who spoke
at the
J.
alumni
dinner that year.
•
Clara
November
Knapp died
home
at her
Bloomsburg Tuesday,
She was born in
William and Sarah Wicht.
in
18, after a long-continued illness.
Bloomsburg, the daughter of the late
She was a life-long member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, being active m the various activities of that church. She attended
the former Academy which later became the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, and was one of the first pupils to be enrolled.
Her husband was Peter E. Knapp, whose father, Christian F.
Knapp, was the father of Masonry in Bloomsburg.
•
from the University of North CaroPaul Green’s play, “The House
the College Auditorium, Friday, October 7.
Carolina Playmakers,
lina,
gave a
fine presentation of
of Connelly,’’ in
1
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
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Page Fourteen
Former Student Passes Away
Within a half hour after he was admitted to the Bloomsburg Hospital Sunday morning, November 6, Robert F. Van1
there at 3 40
was the cause of death.
Mr. Vanderslice was born in Bloomsburg, March 21 1869,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Vanderslice. He was educated in
Bloomsburg’s public schools and the Bloomsburg State Normal
derslice, well
o’clock.
A
known Bloomsburg
resident, died
:
heart attack
,
School.
When
tives for
a young man, he
left
tablished a small community.
Upon
with
his
parents and some rela-
Kansas, locating in Dodge City, where the families es-
He
lived there
about ten years.
Bloomsburg he was employed as station
agent for the D. L. & W. Railroad Company at Lime Ridge.
Subsequently, he served as clerk to the County Commissioners,
then as teller in the First National Bank of Bloomsburg emd for
a number of years was representative for the Barron Collier AdMore
vertising Company, specializing in street car advertising.
Bloomsrecently he has been employed as registry assessor in
his return
to
burg.
He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Frank K.
Laufman, of Concord, New Hampshire, and two grandsons,
Robert and Billie Laufman. Also surviving are a sister. Miss
Helen Vanderslice and a brother, George J. Vanderslice.
Mr. Vanderslice was active in Masonry; was a Past Master
of Washington Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 265; Past Most Wise
Master Evergreen Chapter Rose Croix; Past Commander-in
Chief of Caldwell Consistory A. A. Scottish Rite and a member
He was a member of the First Methoof the Craftsman Club.
dist
Church of Bloomsburg.
Addresses Wanted
Margaret Francis ’32. Mrs. Leo Paulson ’31, Mrs. Albert
Davis, ’29, Ruth Mildred Williams ’25, Evalyn Waters ’25, R.
Thelma Gordon ’27, Priscilla T. Acker
Mrs. Martin Walsh ’16, Mrs. Gerald Gregory ’31.
Ella Bullock ’27,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januarj% 1942
’34,
Page Fifteen
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
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
Hervey B. 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 Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Treasurer
Howard M. Kreitzer, 120
Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa.
—
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—
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-BarEdison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen
re, Pa.; Vice-President
Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Car-
President
—Edna
—
—
—
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.
lisle Street,
—Mrs.
Lester Bennett,
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January, 1942
—
Page Sixteen
Montour County
—
—
President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.;
Vice-President Nellie Bogai’t, Danville, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.
—
Northumberland County
—
President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.
—
—
Schuylkill County
—
—
—
President^ Orval Palsgrove, Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray
Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice-
—
President Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.
—
—
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—
Philadelphia
—
President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council
Mary
Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretaiy
Lilhe Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
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.; Secretai-y Mildred WagMrs. Harold Baker, Market
ner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary
President
—
Mifflinburg,
grove, Pa.
Street,
Pa.;
Treasurer
—
—
— Anna
Troutman, Selins-
Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
—Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene JohnPa.; Vice-President — Susan Jennings Sturman.
Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary — Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.;
Secretary — Mildred Aveiy Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer— Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.
President
son, Hallstead,
Columbia County
—
—
President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-Pi'esident Mrs. Margaret Cole McCem, Benton, Pa.; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.
—
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januai^, 1942
—
Page Seventeen
County Organization Notes
The Cumberland-Dauphin held a fine meeting m the PennMonday, November 7.
Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, on
Luzerne County
Monthly luncheons are held at the Hotel
2 30 on the first Saturday of each
:
Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, at
month.
No
1
1
:
reservations are necessary.
Montour County
This
is
will hold the annual meeting
always a splendid meeting.
The Philadelphia Alumni are on
ly
in the spring.
the job, as usual.
luncheons are held at Strawbridge and Clothier’s.
nual Christmas party
The alumni
of
planning a reunion
was a
MonthThe an-
success.
Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties are
in the spring.
Columbia County
will
undoubtedly hold the annual din-
ner at the College during the early spring.
Lackawanna County has reported no activity for three
We hope that such activities will soon be resumed. Of-
years.
should
ficers
.
make
plans for a spring meeting.
Northumberland County has had no meeting for two
We hope that a meeting can be arranged this year.
years.
Schuylkill County has been inactive for two years.
about a reunion in the spring?
Snyder-Union Counties
should
plan a
meeting
How
for the
early spring.
Let’s get
on the job,
One good meeting
officers,
a year should
and plan an active program.
be the minimum goal.
R. Bruce Albert, President,
General Alumni Association.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
—
Page Eighteen
Philadelphia Alumni Association
The eleventh Christmas party held Saturday, December
was another fine Bloomsburg gathering of about 50, notwithstanding the inclement weather. It was the first time in
eleven years the weather man treated us badly. We have always enjoyed what we call “Bloomsburg weather.” But what
cared we for weather, when in that lovely meeting room on the
sixth floor of the Strawbridge and Clothier store enjoying the
hospitality of the S. and C. management? Our happiness was
indeed coming from within, with our own “Uncle Ned” serving
his Alma Mater again in his most gracious and able manner
leading the carol singing. He gave a very delightful talk on
Christmas and the origin of the Christmas Carols. We are indebted to the John Hancock Insurance Company for the lovely
1
3th,
booklets of Carols.
We had hoped to have with us Annie Miller Melick (85) of
Swarthmore, and Margaret Burke (95) of New York City, but
word was received from both that they found it quite impossible to get here, but promising “Providence permittin’ and the
weather being fitten” they hoped to be with us Saturday, January 0th.
Quite a number came from a distance. James Kinney (06)
and his wife, Agnes Burke Kinney (08) drove down from
Bethlehem. Bess Davis (97) Wilkes-Barre, and four of her
classmates
Jessie Gilchrist, of Atlantic City; Ruth Williams
Henry, of Oak Lane; Eva and Grace Lawrence, of Narberth.
A number from New Jersey, Wilmington and Norristown.
We believe if the weather had been favorable we would
have had a representation of 00. We would extend a cordial
invitation to every member of our Alumni who may be in Philadelphia on the second Saturday of any month to drop in to our
meeting room on the sixth floor of the Strawbridge and Clothier
store and visit with us.
1
—
1
“Might as well be happy,
Let’s take an hour or so
Let’s mingle all together,
And
let
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
our friendship grow.”
January, 1942
Page Nineteen
In the face of
be
“God
is
j
!
in the following
He
it
it
:
The wrong will fail
good will to man.”
sleep.
With peace on earth,
PEACE—Was
i
and believe
not dead, nor doth
the right prevail.
j
the distressing happenings might
all
helpful to think of
not
—
now?
ever so dear as
THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
ANNOUNCE
THEIR SATURDAY MONTHLY LUNCHEON MEETINGS
!
i
i
j
— March 14th
I
February 14th
!
j
!
STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER
!
PRIVATE DINING ROOM
!
i
SIXTH FLOOR
!
!
!
j;
Come and spend
the day.
with your Bloomsburg friends
Come
in at
in
Shop
in the
morning and
<?>
visit
the afternoon.
anytime from 12:00, noon,
to
5:30P.M.,
closing time.
You may order
These
a cup of tea or a
full
course dinner.
gatherings are delightfully informal.
more than
ever.
enthusiastic,
and
friendly contacts today
We
need these
a good
May we have
attendance ?
Be interested and
We
talk
May we have your
without money.
up these meetings.
we cannot
are purely a social group, but
carry on
dues as soon as possible?
$1.00.
Please send dues to Mrs. Nora Woodring Kenney, Treasurer,
(’08), 701
1
Erdick Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, President (’88)
1
1
2 North 50th
Street,
Philadelphia, Penna.
Mrs. Lillian
Irish,
732 Washington
Camden, N. J.
Secretary (’06)
Street,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.
January, 1942
Page Twenty
Harrisburg Alumni
The annual fall reunion of the Cumberland-Dauphin alumBloomsburg State Teachers College was held in the
ni of the
Plantation
Room
of the Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg,
November
evening,
I
Monday
7.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association,
The song leader was
Lemoyne.
toastmaster.
1911, of
was
the Rev. C. Carroll Bailey,
Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Pubhc Instruction,
was the guest speaker, and discussed “Education For National
Defense.” He stressed the value of religious education and of
the importance of the church in national defense and the main-
tenance of democracy.
H. A. Andruss, president of the College, congratulated the
group for the
the College.
to their
fine
program and
He extended an
for
its
and
loyalty
invitation to
all
interest
in
alumni to return
alma mater, particularly on Home-Coming and Alumni
Days.
H. F. Fenstemaker read some interesting items from the
first
ni
issue of the “Quarterly,” published in 1894.
present recalled
The old alum-
many memories suggested by the articles.
905 and Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
N. T. Englehart,
1
Instruction, brought greetings
from the College.
Alumni Day
i
I
i
Saturday,
May
23rd
I
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January, 1942
Page Twenty-One
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r
Alumni ImunalB
• • •
1879
Professor
Charles H.
Albert, one
of the
beloved “Old
Guard” of the College, celebrated his eighty-third birthday
Monday, September 22, and received congratulations from all
The mail was heavy with greetings which came from
sides.
former students and friends throughout the country.
1882
Martha W. Vaughan died June 17, 1941, at her home,
1110 West Elm Street, Scranton. She taught for 49 years in the
Scranton schools and retired in 93
A year following her
retirement she suffered a fractured hip and from that time until
her death, she was unable to walk. She never lost interest in
Bloomsburg and attended alumni meetings and class reunions as
long as she was able to do so. She was very happy in the fact
that she lived to see three nieces and four grand-nieces become
1
members
of the
BSTC
1
.
famliy.
1884
Miss
College,
Anna
Dengler, a retired music supervisor at Smith
and former music supervisor and resident of Shenan-
doah, died Monday, September 29, at her home in Northampton, Mass. A year before her death, she had suffered a stroke of
paralysis, which led to her death.
Miss Dengler was born in Cressona, Pa., and moved to
Shenandoah with her parents when she was a little girl. She
was a graduate of the Shenandoah High School and of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School. She was music supervisor in
the Shenandoah schools for a number of years and in 1911
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januaiy, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
went
to
Newark,
New
same capacity. The
Jersey, in the
her teaching career was spent as supervisor
She retired several years previous
to
in
rest of
Smith College.
her death.
1885
Sarah E. Patterson (Mrs. Charles D. Harrison) is now liv5501 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.
ing at
1889
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Snyder, of Shamokin, observed
their fiftieth
wedding anniversary Sunday, November
9.
1890
Dr. William Clyde Schultz, Sr., died of nephritis at the
Waynesboro Hospital Wednesday, October 29.
Dr. Schultz had
been suffering from arthritis for the past twenty years, and for
several months before his death he had been confined to his
home.
He was born in Jerseytown, Columbia County, and spent
his early life in Columbia County. After his graduation from
Bloomsburg, he taught for two years, and then entered the Jefferson Medical College, where he was graduated in 1895. A
short time afterward he began medical practice in Concord,
Franklin County, and in 1899 he was married to Miss Cora E.
Hockenberry. In 902 he moved to Waynesboro with his family, where he opened offices and continued the practice of medi1
cine until last year.
Dr.
Church.
Schultz
was a member of
He belonged
the
to the Franklin
Methodist Episcopal
County Medical Society,
of which he was a past president, and was chief of staff at the
Waynesboro Hospital for three years. He was also a member
of the Cumberland Valley Medical Association, Pennsylvania
State Medical Association.
fraternity consisted
of
His
affiliations
membership
in
the
with the Masonic
following bodies:
Acacia Lodge, George Washington Chapter, Chambersburg,
Knights Templar, Chambersburg, Harrisburg Council, and
Zembo
Shrine, Harrisburg.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Three
1892
who worked as
among mountaineers in the Carolinas
Tuesday, November 23, at the home of her
Miss Martha E. Robison, Burnsville, N. C.,
a Presbyterian missionary
for
1
7 years, died
Mrs. J. D. Butzner,
sister,
in
Scranton, after a long
illness.
was one-time superand for 25
Union Junior Sunday School Quarterly,
Miss Robison, native of Bloomsburg,
intendent of rural Sunday schools in Pennsylvania
was
years
editor of the
Philadelphia.
Miss Robison, daughter of James Boyd Robison, was born
Bloomsburg, November 7, 1874. At the age of six she moved with the family to the Esther Furnace farm, where she spent
much of her time building up a delicate physique. She possessed the deed to the farm when it was obtained from the Penn
in
1
family.
At the age of ten she returned to Bloomsburg, living there
1893, and then she resided in Espy until her father’s death.
She was educated by her parents and knew the alphabet,
it was said, at the age of two, learning to write at three.
At six
she could easily read anything shown her and for the next ten
years spent much of her time in reading. She attended school
until
but
little until
sixteen years old.
She was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
in 1892, one of the youngest members of a class of 96.
Between 892 and 897 she taught four terms in the graded
schools, one in Union County, one in Luzerne County and two in
Espy. She then returned to school for a year and completed
post-graduate work, receiving the B. P. degree in
898. She
resumed teaching and from 902-04 was employed at Rohrsburg. In 1905-07 she taught in Cornwall, Lebanon County.
School
1
1
1
1
1901 Miss Robison was elected superintendent of the
of the County Sabbath School Association, in
906 added the duties of primary superintendent and in 907
left the Cornwall school and was recalled to Bloomsburg to become field secretary of the county association. She pioneered
In
Home Department
1
in this
1
work
so well that in January, 1908, she
worker of the
state association
and was given
was made
full
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
field
charge of ColJanuary, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
umbia, Montour, Northumberland, Union and Snyder Counties’
organizations along this line.
November, 1913, the State Board of Directors created
which she was made superintendent. She was affiliated with the Baptist Church.
In
the department of rural work, of
1893
Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, at one time acting principal of the
Normal School at Geneseo, New York, and for seventeen years
head of the Department of Education and Director of Teacher
Training at that institution, died September 14, 1941, after an
illness
of several months, at his
An educator
home
in
Harrisburg.
Bucke went to
Normal from Harrisburg, where he had organized
and headed the Harrisburg Technical High School, one of the
first in the United States to institute trades and vocational training as an accompaniment to academic work. He previously had
been head of the Department of Mathematics at Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown, New Jersey, apd principal of
for nearly half a century. Dr.
the Geneseo
the high school at
New
While serving
and became the
Castle, Pa.
at the
first
Geneseo Normal, Dr. Bucke founded
director of the Craig Colony School of Ed-
ucational Therapy, a department of the Geneseo school, for the
training of teachers of mentally
handicapped children. He was
also instrumental in the inauguration of a course for the train-
ing of library teachers.
Prior to his retirement, he served as superintendent of the
public schools of Collingswood,
this
tendents’ Association of
the
New
Jersey.
In connection with
superintendency. Dr. Bucke was chairman of the Superin-
Camden, New
Camden County Teachers’
Jersey,
and a member of
Association.
Bucke was the holder of two Doctor of Philosophy deHe was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1893, and from
Dr.
grees.
1895, subsequently receiving his A. M.
institution. He then became a graduate student
Dickinson College
in
from the latter
Wooster University in Ohio, and completed a course in psychology and education. He took his second Ph. D. at Clark University as a resident scholar and fellow under Dr. G. Stanley
at
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Five
who
at that time was America’s outstanding psychologist.
was an ordained minister of the Methodist
Bucke
Dr.
Church, and was also a lecturer appearing before both religious
and educational groups. He was a member of Geneseo Masonic
Lodge, a past patron of Geneseo Eastern Star, a past master of
Geneseo Grange, a member of the Rochester Consistory, of the
Harrisburg Ministerium, and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Hall,
2410 North Second Street,
check for the Student Loan
Fund, she says “I wish you continued success in this grand and
Mary
E. Sullivan Gilmer lives at
In a letter sending a
Harrisburg.
noble undertaking.”
Miss Alice Fenner, of Allentown,
in
is
spending the winter
San Diego, California.
1894
The Rev. Jonathan W. Buck, husband of Minnie Hehl
Buck, died at his home in Bloomsburg, Friday, September 5.
Mr. Buck attended the country school at Roaring Creek, the
Catawissa High School, the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
Palatinate College, the Theological Seminary of
the
Reformed
Church of the United States at Lancaster, and was graduated
from the latter institution May 4, 896.
In the summer of 896 he was ordained by a committee
from the East Susquehanna Classis, and he was instrumental in
the organization of Christ Reformed Church at McAdoo.
1
1
1
Buck resigned beand later accepted a position with Dodd
Mead and Company, New York. His work took him over the
greater paft of the country. Seven years was spent in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
In 1928 he returned to
Following a successful pastorate, Mr.
cause of
ill
health,
Bloomsburg.
Mr. Buck was of old colonial ancestry, being descended
from Simon Dreisbach, Jr., who was a member of the constitutional convention which in
789 ratified the Constitution of
the United States, and who was one of the signers of the Con1
stitution of Pennsylvania.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
1897
Clarence E. Kreisher, Judge of the courts of the twentysixth judicial district of
Pennsylvania,
died
in
Geisinger
the
Wednesday, September 24.
Death terminated one of the most brilliant legal careers in
the judicial district in which he was a prominent attorney for
forty years, and over which he presided as judge since May 22,
Hospital, Danville,
1940.
judge Kreisher, eighth
jurist
to preside
over the several
now
constituted,
Montour Counties, was the
within the last year and a half.
third of the
courts of the twenty-sixth judicial district as
including Columbia and
eight to die
Judge Clinton Herring, of Orangeville, died m office March
940, and Judge Kreisher was appointed by Governor
James to serve until the first Monday of January, 1942. Judge
22,
1
who
Charles C. Evans,
years and retired
in
presided over the courts for twenty-four
January, 1938, died at his
home
in
Berwick
July 20, 1941.
Judge Kreisher received his appointment May 20, 1940,
and was administered the oath of office two days later. In the
year and four months during which he presided over the courts,
he attained as jurist the same high place which he had as a
''
practicing lawyer.
He was the son of the late George and Mary Bahme Kreishand was born in Cleveland Township, Columbia County, on
the 26th of March, 1874. As a youth he attended the old Furnace school house in Cleveland Township, and later studied at
the Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1897. He was the speaker, at the Alumni Banquet last
May, and delivered a fine address.
er,
For
ied law.
six years,
he taught school and
He was admitted
was
later
trict
courts.
to practice in
at the
same time
September,
1
900.
stud-
He
admitted to practice law before the appellate courts
of the state, and to the United States Supreme Court and dis-
He served
as solicitor for practically all the civic bodies
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
fage Twenty-Seven
South Side of Columbia County. He was president of the
Catawissa borough council three years, and served for a long
in the
time as
its
solicitor,
a position he held at the time of his ap-
pointment to the bench.
As a member of the St. John’s Lutheran Church of CataJudge Kreisher was active in the congregation, serving
years on the church council, and was for a long time chair-
wissa,
for
man
of the church finance committee.
Fraternally he was a member of the Catawissa Lodge 349,
A. M., the Tyrian Club, Caldwell Consistory, Irem Temple
Shrine, and the Catawissa Lodge of Odd Fellows.
F.
&
He organized the Catawissa branch of the Bloomsburg
Chapter of the American Red Cross, and from its inception
served as its president and untiringly gave his services. Through
the first World War he was attorney for the County Draft Board.
He was a charter member of the Catawissa Rotary Club and the
first
president of that organization.
Twice during
he was the Republican candidate
1937, he was the Republican canthe election in which Judge Herring was
his career
for the State Legislature.
didate for judge
in
In
elected.
He was one whose work carried through long hours.
Those who have been associated with him for years estimated
that he has transferred all the property on the South Side of
Columbia County at least three times in his extensive practice.
In the years during which he has served as an attorney, those
who came to him were more than clients. Nothing was too
much to do for any in need, and that spirit of helpfulness also
characterized his service on the bench.
1895
Ada
G. Lewis (Mrs. B. F. Beale) lives at
908 High
Street,
Duncannon.
1898
Miss Mary Smith Knapp, of Bloomsburg, died at the
Bloomsburg Hospital Tuesday, October 22, after an illness of
four weeks. Miss Knapp taught for four years in the Blooms-
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Januai-y, 1942
P.nge
Twenty -Eight
burg High School, and for
ter,
New
York.
When
thirty years
was
a teacher in Roches-
she retired five years ago, she returned
Bloomsburg, her native town.
She was active in sports in her school days, and was recognized as an outstanding athlete at the Normal School. Her interest in sports continued after her graduation, and in Rochester a boys’ baseball team was named in her honor.
She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Bloomsburg. and an associate of the Girls’ Friendly Society in
one of the Episcopal churches in Rochester.
to live in
1899
Harry Yearick
2419 Herr
lives at
Street,
Pennbrook.
1900
Mr. and Mrs. William B.
•Mrs. Miles Killmer, of
recently visited Mr.
Sutliff
New York
City, at the Killmer’s
and
summer
home. Cove Point Farm, on Chesepeake Bay. Mr. Killmer is a
graduate of Bloomsburg in the class of 1900. After leaving
Bloomsburg, he entered the Pennsylvania State College, and
was graduated as an engineer. He was construction engineer
and the Lincoln Tunnel, and is now chief
water supply project in upper New York state.
At present he is vice-president of a construction company which
has many government defense contracts. His firm is now working on a vehicular tunnel from the Battery, New York, to Govof the Holland Tunnel
en.gineer of the
ernor’s Island.
1901
Augusta B. Henkelman
Street, Bethesda, Maryland.
is
now
living
at
114 Southwick
1902
November
Wilkes-Barre schools for
8, at his home, 85 East
on the
Conyngham Farm, near
Harry Wildnck, instructor
many
years, died Saturday,
Vaughan
Street, Kingston.
Mr. Wildrick was born
Dallas.
in the
In addition to being a graduate
from Bloomsburg, Mr.
Wildrick was a graduate of the Lancaster Business and Short-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Nine
hand School and of the Zaner School of Penmanship. He began
Lehman school in the fall
From 1914 to 1916 Mr.
of 1909, and served until 1914.
Wildrick was principal of the Conyngham School in Wilkeshis teaching career as principal of the
Barre, and later served as supervisor of penmanship in the elementary grades of the city schools.
He had been a resident of Kingston for the past twentyHe
five years, and was widely known and highly respected.
was a member of the Dorranceton Methodist Church and of the
Masonic Lodge at Dallas.
1903
Among
names of those members of the Class of 903
whose addresses were requested was the name of Kathryne V.
James. Her sister, Martha V. James, has informed us that Miss
James passed away in 1928.
the
1
1904
Womeldorf (Mrs. A. D. Bentz)
Effie
lives at
1547 West
Princess Street, York, Pa.
1907
Miss
Mary
were married
at Annapolis,
The bride has taught
Since
in Scott Township 22 years.
been
teaching
second grade in the Scott Township
930, she has
22.
1
and Fred C. Colyer, of York,
Maryland, on Monday. September
E. Hess, of Espy,
Consolidated School. Mr. Colyer
His former
Colyer are
is
chef at Rest Cottage in York.
home was in Milheim, Center County. Mr. and Mrs.
now living at 924 Wood and Tioga Streets, Lincoln
Village, York.
Martha V. James
1908
1110 West Elm
lives at
Street, Scranton.
1911
Mrs. Jennie Whitmire Helt has been elected teacher of
second grade
in
the Berwick schools.
1913
The address
of Olive R. Breisch has
been changed
to
5347
College Avenue, Apt. 302, Indianapolis, Indiana.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page
Thirtj’
Mae M. Bymgton
New York.
is
now
living at
1
3 Euclid Avenue, Bing-
hamton,
1915
who
lives at Great Hill, Seymour,
two more books for children.
Her book “Story-Lives of Great Composers,” was published in
September, and her third book “The Birth of a Nation’s Song,”
will be published by Stokes in February.
Mrs. Bakeless expects to spend the winter with her husnbad, John Bakeless, who is now starting his second year’s service on the General Staff Corps in Washington. Mr. Bakeless’
two-volume work on Marlowe, on which he has put many years
of research, is now being printed by the Harvard University
Katherine
Little Bakeless,
R. D. 2, Connecticut, has written
Press.
Zimmerman has changed her address
Lillian
to
1613 Har-
vard Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Harlan Snyder (Lois
grade
in
MacLoughan)
is
teaching second
the schools of Catawissa.
Edith
May
Saricks lives at
933 Birbeck
Street, Freeland,
Pa.
1916
been changed from
25 Wampatuck Road, Quincy, Massachussetts, to 4601 Harvard Road, College Park, Maryland.
The address
of Olive Simons Burrus has
1917
The address
New York City.
of Lillian H. Rifkin
is
30 East 39th
Street,
1919
Mane Guckavan
West Broad
(Mrs. William Turnbach)
lives
at
423
Street, Hazleton, Pa.
1921
J. E.
died at his
Reese Killgore, husband of Edith O’Neill Killgore,
home near Stroudsburg, Wednesday, September 24.
Mr. Killgore was widely
known throughout
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
the state as an edu-
,
Page Thirty-One
having served eight years as superintendent of the schools
At the time of his death he was president
of the Board of Trustees of the State Teachers College at East
cator,,
of Sullivan County.
Stroudsburg.
in Muncy, June 27, 1874, the son of
and Mrs. Anna M. Killgore. His father
was principal of New Columbus Academy and a pastor of the
Shickshinny Methodist Church for years.
Mr. Killgore was born
the late Rev.
James
L.
At an early age, Mr. Killgore went
College and at the age of
1
8 came
to
to
Western Maryland
New Columbus Academy
He became principal
Academy in 892 and taught at the Academy for two
years.
The Academy was then purchased by the local school
board and Mr. Killgore became its principal.
to assist his father as assistant principal.
of the
1
In 1897 he became principal of the schools at Lopez and
1902 he became principal at Dushore. In January, 1905,
Mr. Killgore succeeded the late M. R. Black as County Superintendent of Sullivan County schools and was elected to that post
in April of the same year.
He was re-elected m 908 and 1911,
resigning from the position in 1913.
in
1
That year he became associated with Ginn and Company
its most valuable employes.
and soon became one of
Mr. Killgore was a
F.
&
member
of King
Hiram Lodge, No. 721
A. M., at Wilkes-Barre.
He was
also a
member
of the Stroudsburg Kiwanis Club,
and valued as a member of that organization. He was also an
active worker and director of the Monroe County Tuberculosis
Society.
When
he died he was following his profession as represenGinn and Company, publishers of school and college
textbooks.
In this position he traveled all over northeastern
Pennsylvania and was widely recognized as an outstanding authority on school textbooks of all types.
tative of
Ralph G. Shuman, of Elysburg, has been elected head of
the mathematics department and director of athletics in the
Paradise High School
in
Lancaster County.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.
January, 1942
Page Thirty-Two
1923
Marjorie Gamble (Mrs.
sade Road, Linden,
New
J.
229
Pali-
530
East
Jefferson Drive,
Mt.
Paul Walker) lives at
Jersey.
1924
Mary Dowd (Mrs. Harry F.
Deiterich)
lives at
Third Street, Bloomsburg.
1927
/
Myra
L.
Thomas
is
now
living at
394
Lebanon, Pa.
1928
Miss Eleanor Sands, formerly of Benton, and Ronald Leary
Smith, of Albion,
in
the
home
New
York, were married Sunday, October
of the bride’s
mother
in
1
2,
Benton. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Louis V. Barber, pastor of the Benton
Presbyterian Church. Only the members of the two families
and a few frends were present.
The bride is a member of the faculty of the Brockdale
School in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and is an active member of
the Poetry Society of America. For the past three years, she
has been editor of Unicorn, a magazine of poetry. Mr. Smith
studied at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania,
and
for the past
inet-making business.
few years has conducted his own cabMr. and Mrs. Smith are now living in
Bloomfield.
The address
of
Hugh
E.
Van Aerman
is
R. D.
1,
Dauphin,
Pa.
1929
Louise Roushey, of Shavertown, has been appointed director of the
Columbia County
Girl
Scout Council.
has taught for the past twelve years
in the
Miss
Roushey
Kingston Township
Her education in Girl Scout work was received at
Edith Macy, to which she received a regional scholarship
She was graduated from a professional course which
in 1937.
qualified her to hold a director’s position.
She served for six
years as unit leader at Camp Onandawah, and one year at Camp
Moseywood.
schools.
Camp
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Thirty -Three
who
has been teaching at Factoryville for the
been
elected teacher of English and Latin
past eight years, has
Mary
Laird,
at Mifflinville.
Erma Gold
is teaching in the Junior High School at LewisShe is president of the Susquehanna Valley Branch of the
American Association of University Women.
burg.
Rachel Gething, of Nanticoke, and Cyril Powell, of Youngstown, Ohio, were married Monday, June 2, in the Calvary Baptist Church at Youngstown.
1930
Dorothy M. Foote, formerly of Bloomsburg, and John
Pihlblad, of Jamestown, New York, were married Saturday,
September 6, in the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Pihlblad has been director of Girl Scouts in Jamestown,
where Mr. Pihlblad is a municipal employee.
Raymond Hodges
mond,
lives at
901 West Franklin
Street, Rich-
Virginia.
Samuel W. Kurtz, who has been supervisor of music in
Bloomsburg since 1935, has been elected to a similar position
in
the schools of Stroudsburg, Pa.
1931
William Weaver, who has been teaching in the Madison
High School at Jerseytown, has been elected teacher of mathematics and social studies in the Scott Township High School at
Espy.
1932
Miss Harriet Styer, of Bloomsburg, and Ariel Charles
Boop, of Glen Iron, were married Saturday, September 27, at
Petersburg, Virginia.
Dushore and
School.
is
now
Mr. Boop
Battalion at
Camp
is
Mrs.
Boop taught
teaching
now
in the
for several years at
Mainville
Consolidated
stationed with the Medical Training
Lee, Virginia.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Ridge, and Ezra W. Harris, of Center
Betty Jones, of Lime
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Thirty-Four
Township, Columbia County.
Ridge, and Mr. Harris
is
Miss Jones
is
teacher in the
a
teaching at Lime
Township
Center
High School.
H.
Edmond Smith
school at Fallsington,
has been elected principal of the high
Mr. Smith has been a teacher or
Pa.
science and mathematics at the Fallsington High School for the
past SIX years.
1933
Margaret R. Sandbrook (Mrs. K.
Everett Avenue, Akron, Ohio.
E.
Bristol)
at
50
named
to
lives
1934
James A. Gennaria,
of Bloomsburg, has been
the faculty of the high school at
was
Newtown, Pa.
Mr. Gennaria
for seven years a teacher in Center Township,
and for the
member of the faculty of the Center
Last summer he spent several months in
past five years has been a
Township High School.
the army, being stationed
discharged
at
Fort
when Congress passed
Knox, Kentucky, and was
the law setting the age limit
for service at twenty-eight.
At Newtown, Mr. Gennaria succeeds another Bloomsburg
Kenneth Merrill, who is now teaching in the high
school at Palmyra, New Jersey.
graduate,
Miss
Delphme White,
and Alfred Vandhng,
Wednesday, June 25, at Cumber-
of Nescopeck,
of Mifflinville, were married
Mrs. Vandling is a graduate of Bucknell Unian English teacher in the Nescopeck High School.
She received her Master’s degree from Bucknell. Mr. Vandling,
also a member of the Nescopeck High School faculty, has a Master’s degree from New York University.
land, Maryland.
versity
and
IS
Anna A. Edwards,
of Frackville, and John R. Lindwere married Thursday, November
27, in the Methodist Church at Frackville. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Ward K. Shultz, pastor of the church.
Mrs. Lindermuth has been teaching in the second grade in the
schools of Frackville. Mr. Lindermuth is manager of the Bowe
Miss
ermuth, also of Frackville,
Service Station
in Frackville.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.
.January, 1942
Page Thirty-Five
Irene Giger (Mrs.
James Milroy)
lives
on
Light Street
Road, Bloomsburg.
1935
Gerald C. Harter
lives at
Apartment
1
Darby Court Apart-
,
ments, Darby, Pa.
1936
Rachel D. Beck and Kenneth R. Malick, both of Sunbury,
were married Friday, July
Sunbury.
Mr. Malick has been
Curtis Publishing
Company.
district sales
He
is
now
Infantry.
ta school in
Mrs. Malick
is
distributor for the
stationed at
N. Y., with the headquarters detachment.
Armored
Methodist Church,
John’s
4, in St.
Second
Camp
Pine,
Battalion,, 51st
principal of the Fort
Augus-
Sunbury.
Kenneth Merrill, formerly a teacher at Turbotville, has
accepted a position as teacher of science in the high school at
Palmyra, New Jersey.
1937
Miss Betty E. Thomas, of Jermyn, and Robert T. Fadden,
were married Saturday, May 24, in Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Fadden attended the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg
and was a member of the faculty of the Henry Drinker School at
Moscow. Mr. Fadden, a graduate of the University of Scranton, is employed by the Glenn L. Martin Company, at Baltimore.
They are now living at 1310 Wilson Point Road, Stansburg Esof Blakely,
tates,
Middle River, Maryland.
Victoria Muskaloon, of Peckville, and Luther R.
Hower, of
November 14, in St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Annapolis. Mrs. Hower is teacher of commercial
subjects in the Osceola Mills High School, and Mr. Hower is
Espy, were married Friday,
stationed in office headquarters in the
Amanda Jean Walsh
New York City.
is
living
camp
at
at
New
Cumberland,
255 West 108th
Street.
The address of Ray G. Schrope has been changed to 65
North Sanford Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
:
Page Thirty-Six
Robert Goodman
mg. N. Y.
lives at
229 West Second
Street, Corn-
1938
Sheldon C. Jones
is
with the Lago Oil and Transport Com-
pany, Limited, and is located at Aruba, Curacao.
letter Mr. J ones states
In
a recent
‘Things are really going full blast down this way.
This refinery, the largest capacity refinery in the world,
together with the others, is draining all local sources of
man power
to meet the demands for the vai'ious refined
You have probably read of the tanker short-
products.
and my working in the Mai’ine Department opened
eyes to the speed which can be had by all departments working together. Before the war, a tanker v/ould
sit around the harbor and anchor on the reef for days,
but now they are brought into the dock as soon as a
berth is available, loaded, and sent right out without
moi'e than a few minutes of wasted time.
“While the American consular agent in Ai'uba was
in the States on vacation, I was appointed Acting Consular Agent, and got a big thrill out of it. It sort of inflated the old ego to get these formal letters from the State
age,
my
Department.”
Miss Marjorie Beaver, of Danville, and Jacob Morrison,
formerly of Danville, were
ployed
Light
in
Mrs.
Sunday,
October 5,
State College,
Morrison,
Mr.
employed
is
at
Morrison had been em-
the Danville office of the Pennsylvania
Company.
Company
married
Delaware County.
Springfield,
a graduate
Power and
of Pennsylvania
as a chemist with the Crucible Steel
at Midland, Pa.
Charles H. Henrie has been appointed teacher-coordinator of Distributive
Education at York, and began his new duties
Mr. Henrie has been occupying a simi-
Monday, December
lar position in the
1
.
schools of
ware, and formerly taught
in
Georgetown and Milford, DelaManor High School at Millers-
the
ville.
Neil Ritchie
where he
is
is
at
Maxwell
Field,
Montgomery, Alabama,
training as a flying cadet. Mr. Ritchie took the
flying course at
Bloomsburg.
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January, 1942
CAA
Page Thirty-Seven
Ann Fawcett Campbell
lives at
520 North 8th
Street, Sel-
insgrove.
Laubach (Mrs. James Webster)
Watsontown, Pa.
Lois
Street,
Philip
Frankmore
lives
at 303J/2
lives
on West
First
Lingle Street, Osceola
Mills. Pa.
Anna M. Malloy
is
Dominick Angelo
living in
Moodus, Connecticut.
lives at Pardeesvilie, Pa.
Jean Capwell’s address
is
Box 154,
Factoryville, Pa.
1939
Bloomsburg, and Alfred P. Koch, of
Shenandoah, were married Saturday, June 21, in the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, Iowa. Mrs. Koch has been teaching
in the Portland High School, and has attended the University
of Iowa. Mr. Koch has a Master’s degree from Bucknell, and
has attended the University of Iowa. He taught for a short
time last year in the Camp Hill High School, and then became a
Lois Farmer, of
member
this
of the faculty of West Virginia University, and has for
year accepted a position at Ohio Northern University, Ada,
Ohio.
Betty Savage, of Berwick, and W. Hope Penman, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 14, at Charleston,
West Virginia. For the past two years, Mrs. Penman has been
teaching at Mifflinville. Mr. Penman is Field Scout Executive
for the Charleston Area Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Martha Wright, who has been serving as Girl Scout execuColumbia County, has been appointed head of the Cayuga County Girl Scout Council, with headquarters at Audubon.
tive in
New
York.
Leonard Bailik, of Duryea, and Miss Elizabeth Evans, of
Bloomsburg,, were married Saturday, August 23, at St. Columba’s Church, Bloo-msburg. Mr. Barlik is a member of the
faculty of the
Duryea High School.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
Page Thirty Eight
Lucille Adams, of New York City, formerly of Berwick, and
Waldemar P. Ruemmler, of St. Louis, Missouri, were married in
November at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church in New York.
They are now living at 7126 Clyde Avenue, Chicago, 111.
Margaret Allen Jones, of Kingston, and Sterling
of Luzerne, have announced their recent marriage.
J.
Banta,
Mr. Banta
is
a teacher at Hunlock Creek.
John Mondschine, whose address was 127 South Fifth
been reported as deceased. The Editor
regrets that he has not been able to learn any of the details concerning Mr. Mondschine’s death.
Street, Coplay, Pa., has
The address of William Yarworth is Private William J.
Yarworth, Hq. and Hq. Squadron, 38th Air Base Group, New
Orleans Air Base, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lucille E.
Adams
W.
(Mrs.
Clyde Avenue, Chicago,
P.
Ruemmler)
lives at
7126
Illinois.
Anna L. Orner is teaching
Summer Street.
in
York, Pa.
Her address
31
is
North
Paul A. Paulhamus
is
teaching
in
the high school at Mill
City, Pa.
Martha G. Wright
lives at
Robert R. Williams
lives at
Willard Davies lives at
Harold Coblentz
Letha
Hummel
is
is
25 South
Street,
365 Elmira
Auburn, N. Y.
Street, Troy, Pa.
436 Card Avenue, Wilmerding,
Pa.
teaching at Collingdale, Pa.
teaching at Marietta, Pa.
1940
Cadet Victor Turini, of Wyoming, was killed Monday, October 27, in an airplane accident at Lee Field, Green Cove
Springs, an auxiliary to the United States Naval Air Station in
Jacksonville, Florida.
According
to naval authorities, Mr. Turini
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
and
his instruc-
Page Thirty -Nine
landed their plane after a test flight, and wej-e
toward the hangars., when a plane taxied
behind.
Officials at the field claimed that warnfrom
into them
the men, but because of the noise of
shouts
were
given
to
ing
tor
had
walking
just
off the field
other plane motors around the
The
instructor
was
hit
field,
they were unable to hear.
by the wing and escaped with minor
in-
juries.
Corps upon graduation
With his previous CAA training
course at the College, he advanced rapidly and received his
wings two weeks before his death. He was scheduled to receive his commission in December as an officer in the United
States Naval Reserve Air Corps.
Mr. Turini entered the Naval Air
from Bloomsburg
last
spring
in College, he was well liked by all members
body and the faculty. He served on the College
newspaper, first as make-up editor and during his Senior year
as Editor-in-Chief.
He was president of the Poetry Club and
was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary fraternity.
The body was brought to Wyoming for burial and funeral
services were held at the home of his parents, Saturday, Novem-
While he was
of the student
ber
1.
Announcement has been made of
Louise Moyer, of Briar Creek, and Earl
the marriage of Miss
W. Houck,
of Berwick.
The ceremony was performed Monday, July 7, at Alexandria,
Virginia. Mr. Houck was employed during the past year at the
Berwick Bank.
He
is
now
stationed at the
New
Orleans
Army
Air Base in Louisiana.
Robert Zimmerman, of Nuremberg, and Miss Betty Mummey, of Weston, were married Saturday, August 16, in the
Sacred Heart Church, Weston. Mr. Zimmerman is employed by
the Bethlehem Steel Company.
Theodore R.
Parsell
lives at
101
South Furnace Street,
Birdsboro, Pa.
Charles L. Kelchner’s address
Washington, D.
is
1715 18th
Street, N.
W.,
C.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Forty
Vivian Frey
Hill,
Pa.
ark,
New
Edward
living
is
108
at
H. Bacon’s address
North 23rd Street,
725
is
Clifton
Camp
Avenue, New-
Jersey.
John Plevyak
teaching
is
in the
Mt.
St.
Joseph High School,
Baltimore, Maryland.
1941
Gene Sharkey
lives
35
at
Randolph
Avenue,
Meriden,
Connecticut.
Dorothy Albertson, of Espy, and Howard B. Wodock, of
were married Saturday, October 25, in Frankfort,
Indiana. Mr. Wodock was graduated from the Pennsylvania
State College in the class of 1940. He is a member of Theta
Ch.i fraternity.
For the past year he has been employed in the
engineering department of the Nickle Plate Railroad. Mr. and
Mrs. Wodock are now living at 1897 West 48th Street, Apt. 10,
Orangeville,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Marie Parsell, of Orangeville, has been elected permanent teacher in the Center Township High School. Miss Parsell replaces James Gennaria, of Bloomsburg, who has been
elected to a position in the high school at Newtown, Pa.
Charlotte Gearhart (Mrs. Charles R. Bakey,
at
2570
Jr.)
is
living
University Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Dan Bonham
is
teaching and coaching basketball in the
high school at North Coventry, Pa.
The address of Leo
J.
Lehman
is
Box 395,
Collins,
Georgia.
Thurwald Gommer’s address
is
1711
in
the
18th Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Joseph Hudock is teaching
Marlborough, New York.
Ruth Broadbeck
lives at
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back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the fine program. See the new
buildings. Shake hands with your cla.'.smates and friends.
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limited
number
of
Dormitory Rooms for .\lumni guests
of the College will be available
and
order of application to the Dean of
Men.
will
be reserved in the
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Dean
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State Teachers College
Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania
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Once more your Alma Mater is calling, “Come Home.”
May 23, is Alumni Day for the graduates and friends
of “Old Bloomsburg.” Plan now to spend the day among your
classmates and friends on the Hill.
Saturday,
Classes with numerals ending in two and seven will have
These classes are making preparaCommittees are working. They want to see you on the
campus. An interesting program is being arranged for your
pleasure and entertainment. “Come Home.”
their reunions this year.
tions.
Enjoy your
alumni.
class reunion and attend the meeting for all
Witness the dedication of the new gymnasium. Visit
the airport.
Attend the luncheon, banquet, and dance- Maybe
There will be something
baseball and tennis will interest you.
doing
all
If
the
tim.e.
the tires are ragged and woin. use the train or bus.
the event that these are not
available,
we would
In
suggest the
old gray mare, a wheel barrow, Kiddie-Car, or roller skates.
“Keep ’em
rollin’ ” until
you arrive
Carver Hall.
at
Sincerely yoixrs.
BRUCE ALBERT.
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Published by the Alumni Assoriation of the State Teachers College. Blooms- \
burg. Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter. July 1. 1909, at the Post Office j
Published Four Times .
.at Bloomsburg, Pa.. Under tlie Act of July 16, 1804.
a Tear. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 Cents.
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H. F. FENSTEMAKER, '12
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EDITOR!
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April, 1942*
E. H.
NELSON,
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BUSINESS
MANAGER
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A Ten Year Study of the
Placement of
Graduates
HARVEY
By
ANDRUSS,
A.
How Many
Find Positions ?
Facts foretell the future.
or flounder in our
own
President
Without them
inability to
we
estimate, guess
answer questions. Too many
times the attempt to answer the query:
“How many
graduates
find positions ?”
merely serves
the questioner.
Investigating committees from legislative bod-
ies
demand
seek to find the
propriations
may
to
awaken doubts
in the
mind
of
for teachers in order that future ap-
be increased or decreased according to the
need which then exists. All too frequently, teacher education
institutions do not take a comprehensive or long-time point of
view.
The
its
college must follow the graduate as an individual, for
alumni are
its
greatest
asset.
To look
at
all its
graduates
every decade or so forms a basis for long term planning by the
college sending
young people out
into the profession of teach-
ing.
All
of these considerations and
many more caused
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, to
on a study of
all
graduates upon which the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education has
of 1931
and 1940
been conferred between the years
inclusive.
How Long
The
the
embark
a Period Should be Studied
?
and
be covered
should be long enough to include economic ups and downs and
legislation as effects changing certification standards, tenure
status, etc. From 1931 to 1940 is a period which includes a
depression, an economic recovery, and a pre-war period. This
history of the institution determines the nature
length of a study of
its
graduates.
The period
to
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Two
decade seems
to
include
more
different
and types of
kinds
changes than any other decade in the history of the college.
Other local facts also color the selection of a period. The
was empowered to grant degrees in the fields of Elementary and Secondary
Education in 1927. Students graduating from 1931 were not
products of the four-year curriculum, but represent two years
of additional work completed by normal school graduates of
the two year certificate curriculums which had been in force
since 920 and before. The Business Education Curriculum was
approved in 1930, thus the class of 1934 represents the first
group of commercial teachers completing all their work at
State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
1
Bloomsburg.
Is
It
would seem
the Situation Typical?
that a teachers college educating element-
ary and secondary teachers which also has a special department
commercial teachers represents a situation which cross-cuts
from kindergarten through the elementary
grades to the junior and senior high school. In Pennsylvania
for
the school system
there are thirteen similar state institutions educating teachers
loi
grade and high schools and two others
ness education.
in
the field of busi-
In addition to the state teachers colleges, there
are over sixty private, semi-private, semi-public, and
institutions of higher learning, the large majority of
engaged
in
questionnaire
including the
Situation
letter of
1
,025 degree graduates. The return from the
ing indicated that about
the form
and return
it
70 per cent took the trouble
in
a prepaid envelope.
was
page and
transmittal
carefully constructed so as to be multigraphed on one
sent to
which are
teacher education.
The Bloomsburg
A
endowed
A
first
to
mail-
fill
out
yellow pep
first follow-up was attached to the same quesand was followed by a second with red card attached. The two follow-ups brought in over a hundred more,
llien the files of the Placement Bureau Service were carefully
searched by the Director of Placement Service to supplement
paragraph as a
tionnaire-letter
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Three
questionnaire information previously elicited.
Two
unique ideas had to be developed
reaching the remaining graduates. Several
ulty
who had wide
in the
process of
members
of the fac-
student acquaintances wrote personal notes
Finally the idea of sending the question-
on the questionnaire.
naire to the parents brought in the remainder.
All of the
tables
1
,025 graduates were reached save eight.
shown hereafter include
riving so late they could not
all
but eleven, the
The
three ar-
last
be included.
The questionnaire follows:
To Bloomsburg Graduates:
State Teachers Colleges are being judged solely in terms
of the
number
of graduates placed.
This
number
determin-
is
ed a few months after the Spring Commencement. Such
ures do not reflect the positions secured after that time.
fig-
THE COLLEGE DESIRES TO FIND OUT MANY OF ITS
GRADUATES HAVE TAUGHT AT ANY TIME DURING THE
PAST TEN YEARS OR HAVE ENGAGED IN ANY OTHER OCCUPATION.
Will
you please aid your Alma Mater by
spaces below and returning
envelope.
(Postage already paid).
This
the blank
filling in
this circular to us in
the enclosed
information
will
be
treated as confidential and will aid us in promoting the educational interests of the College in the
Commonwealth
of Pennsyl-
vania.
Your cooperation
will
be deeply appreciated, and we ex-
tend to you the heartiest greetings of your
Very
H. A.
Name
Alma Mater.
cordially yours,
ANDRUSS,
President.
.
Married
women
please give
Maiden and Married Name
Address
Street
City
State
(1)
Please check Curriculum completed:
(2)
Elementary ( )
Secondary ( )
Business ( )
Please indicate fields of certification completed at Bloomsburg:
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April, 1942
Page Four
Secondary
Elementary
(
)
)
English
Latin
(
)
French
(
)
Science
(
)
(
)
Kind.-Pri.
(
)
Inter.
(
Rural
(
)
Special
(
)
Business Education
Commercial Subjects
(
Mathematics
Geography
)
List Other Fields
(3)
(
)
Soc. Studies
(
)
Speech
(
)
Have you ever been regularly employed
(
How
Yes
)
where
you have answered “yes”
long?
as a Teacher?
(
)
Years.
If so,
(4)
If
to (3), please
check the grade and
/
or write subjects taught:
Elementary School
(
)
1,
(
2,
)
(
)
3,
)
9.
(
)
4,
)
(
5,
(
)
6,
(
)
7,
(
)
8
Junior High School
7,
)
(
(
8,
)
(
Subjects
Senior High School
(
(5)
If
)
10,
(
)
11,
(
)
12.
Subjects
you have been otherwise employed, or married, please indi-
cate here
Annual Salary
For Last Year
Date
$
Would Sampling Have Produced
19_._
the
Same
Sampling may have produced the same
the college
wanted
to get in
touch with
all its
Results?
results.
However,
graduates not only
from the point of view of getting information but to complete
its alumni mailing lists.
Even though they had long been placed
m good positions, the tie between the alma mater and its children was thusTrenewed or further cemented.
There is reason to believe that a 60 per cent sampling does
not disclose the facts
VQived.
all
when matters
of personal nature are in-
Salaries are a case in point.
A
person
who answers
the questions but the one involving salary gives rise to the
suspicion that there
is
something that he does not wish to
tell.
Thus
the salaries of the graduates of the secondary curriculum
who
did not enter the teaching profession are probably not a
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Five
sound basis for drawing conclusions.
shown
figure for their earnings as
clusions should not be
in
Over one half gave the
a later analysis, but con-
based on these figures without careful
reservations.
Sampling cannot produce the same accuracy of results as
found in a study where information is available for 99 out
of every 100 who answered the greater part of a list of questhat
tions.
How Many
Graduates Answered ?
Out of ,025 graduates, the questionnaires were returned
by 846 and the placement records were used for 168 others
1
who
did not answer.
As the study progressed the whole faculty became
F. B.
I.
operators in trying to find out the latest address of former students.
College classes were interrogated to
about former students from the same town.
the tentative results
elicit
information
From time
were the subject of general faculty
to time
discus-
and comment.
Without the general direction of Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training and Placement, and the cooperation
of the college and laboratory school faculties, the high percentage of replies and information would not have been possible.
Such a college quest becomes a witch hunt for former students.
sion
The Framing
Care was taken
in
dense the questions to
of the Questionnaire
constructing the
less
than a page.
list
of questions to con-
Writing was kept to a
minimum. To get the FACTS rather than frame the questions
to get some fancy FIGURES to publicize was the prime concern.
Thus care was taken to find if those who had married had ever
taught. Further, the substitute teachers were separated rather
than lumped in with the regularly employed teacher.
Too many studies have included married women who have
never taught in the category with gainfully employed graduates
who
ing.”
are in occupations cleverly phrased as “other than teach-
Too many
substitutes
employed for short periods of time
are counted in with other teachers.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Six
Another consideration affecting the construction of the
was the agreement signed by students in Pennsylvania
State Teachers Colleges to teach two years in lieu of tuition,
dhe average length of service found was six years.
It should also be noted that substitute teachers in Pennsylvania must be certified the same as regular teachers, thus to
a degree they stand ready as a reserve to supply the Commonquestions
wealth.
This reserve
is
now (1942)
Time Element
Beginning
in
mately two years.
exhausted.
in
Study
1940, the study was continued for approxiSince 1941 graduates were affected by de-
fense activities leading to World
War
II,
they were not included.
war period.
to the following were mailed
previous years. Upon being
This avoids the distortion sure to result from the
Each year postal cards
to the classes
similar
graduating the three
returned, these cards were placed in the placement folder kept
Individually, the college knew whether or not
David Williams or Sarah Smith had a position in teaching or in
another occupation, but no one knew how many Davids and
Sarahs were available for teaching positions.
of each student.
SAMPLE OF POST CARD FORM
Name
Home
Address
Please supply the following information:
Year
If
of
now
Curriculum
Graduation
teaching, give
Grade
or Subject
Teaching Address
If
employed otherwise, type
Do you
to
of
work
Are you willing
desire a teaching posiiton
accept a position in any locality?
* Selective
*Added
Service Act Status
since 1940.
The placement
folders might
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
contain as
April, 1942
many
as three
Page Seven
postal cards or
in
none
made
each folder,
at
Yet the correspondence, and cards
all.
it
possible for information to be obtained
supplement the questionnaire study.
To summarize, two years intensive questionnaire circularizing and ten years of postal card circularizing made these reto
sults possible.
Changing Demands
Variations in
demands
for teachers are noted in the years
as follows:
Degree
Graduates
Year
1931
1932
1933
___
1934
1935 ____
_
1936 _
1937
1938 _
1939 _
1940 _
45—100%
60—100%
81—100%
105—100%
-
-
..
,
_
95—100%
99—100%
134—100%
___ 141—100%
_152— 100%
.
_
.
The graduation
lor of
of a
first
Other
Occupations
73%
82%
69%
77%
83%
85%
85%
72%
80%
69%
__113— 100%
.
_
Teachers
16%
15%
21%
15%
12%
12%
14%
21%
12%
15%
class holding the
Total
89%
97%
90%
92i%
95%
97%
99%
94%
92%
84%
degree of Bache-
Science in Education on completing a continuous four-
year curriculum; the effects of the depression and tenure status for teachers all are reflected in the figures
above.
Salaries of Teachers
569
Relative salaries based on
The
interesting comparisons.
of
Class of
775 reporting show some
1934 shows the highest
average salary as follows:
1934
1
Ele.
12
Sec.
62
31
105
Bus.
Total
2
12
42
27
.
3
4
10
31
$ 800.00
5
800.00
1170.00
800.00
22
63
$1950.00
2496.00
2400.00
2496.00
6
81
First column Degree Graduates; second column
ularly; third column
Number Reporting; fourth
Salary; fifth column Highest Salary; sixth column
seventh column
—
—
—
— Average
(column
6
7
$11545.00
44296.00
36425.00
92266.00
$1154
1428
1655
1464
—Teaching Regcolumn —Lowest
—Total Salaries;
divided by column 3).
In accounting for this average, certain conditions recited
before must be recalled.
The Department
of Business Educa-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
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Page Eight
1930 graduated its first class in 1934. The
placement demand being brisk and this group having had a
tion beginning in
longer period to earn have pushed the average salary to
its
highest point.
The average of
the ten-year period
given for compara-
is
tive purposes.
2
164
391
1
Ele.
184
Sec.
568
273
1025
Bus.
Total
—
219
774
3
4
5
6
7
126
282
161
569
$ 800
$2100
2800
2400
2800
$141531
381576
218618
741725
$1123
1353
1357
1303
720
1170
720
First column Degree Graduates; second column
ularly; third column
Number Reporting; foui'th
Salary; fifth column Highest Salary; sixth column
seventh column
—
—
—Average
(column
6
—Teaching Regcolumn—Lowest
—Total Salaries;
divided by column 3).
As experience grows, salaries increase. The minimum preby the State during this period was $800 for elementary teachers and $1 70 to $1200 for secondary teachers.
scribed
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Salaries of Graduates in Other Occupations
On
interesting comparison reveals on cursory examination
that those graduates
cupations are
ing.
The
evaluated
now
figures
who
did not teach but entered other oc-
earning
$80 more per year
than those teach-
must be examinned with care and
in the light of
1
184
273
569
1025
their
worth
surrounding circumstances.
2
3
4
5
6
7
1915
$775
$1140
$ 957
$
21
3600
25827
Bus.
38
677
1229
109
61
360
3500
88843
Sec.
1456
Total
156
84
360
3600
116585
1387
First column Degree Graduates; second column
Other OccupaNumber Reporting; fourth column Lowest Saltions; third column
ary Reported; fifth column Highest Salary Reported; sixth column Total Salaries Reported; seventh column Average (column 6
divided by column 3 )
Ele.
—
—
—
9
2
—
—
—
—
Elementary graduates now teaching seem to earn $1123
compared with $957 earned by those who follow some other
occupations.
the
number
Clearly these figures are subject to question since
is
small, but the continuing
students holding the degree
is
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
demand
evidenced.
Notice
for elementary
was given
five
Page Nine
years ago that
m
1
943 those expecting
to teach in the element-
ary school must hold degrees from approved teacher education
institutions.
ures
are
Based on 61 replies from 109 secondary students, the figseem to show that those graduates not following teaching
earning $103 ($1 456-$l 353) more per year than teach-
ers.
Do
Figures Lie?
Why
go to a teachers college to be a teacher when other
occupations pay more?
Why did only 61 Secondary graduates of the 109 reporting give their salary as earned in occupations other than teaching? Of the teachers, 282 out of 391 gave their salary figures.
A 60 per cent sampling would seem to be a fair criterion
for drawing a conclusion. However, when 109 answer most of
the items on a questionnaire but only 61 answer the salary item,
would it not seem that they do not wish to make the information
available? Can it be that only those who were getting as much
,
or
more than the state minumum salary are the 61 reporting?
One other point. Teachers were asked for their salary
last year. Does last year mean “last school year of nine or ten
months?” If so, can we compare teachers’ salaries for nine
months with the yearly income from other occupations for the
whole year? I think not.
How Many
Graduates Taught?
As shown by the table below, seventy-seven out of every
hundred graduates taught, fifteen were gainfully occupied and
eight were unemployed. In the latter class are married women
who never taught, the deceased and those called into the armed
forces of the United States without opportunity to teach. Substitute teachers comprise
.7 per cent of the 77 per cent quoted
1
as teachers.
1
2
3
Ele.
184
158
Sec.
564
273
1025
100.00
100.00
Bus.
Total
100.00
100.00
404
220
792
6789
45
91.31
71.13
80.58
77.27
10
9
4.89
7
3.80
0
0
109
38
156
19.19
45
7.92
10
1.76
13.92
14
.37
66
5.13
6.44
1
15.22
11
1.07
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April, 1942
Page Ten
—
Degi'ee Graduates First column, Number, second column, Per
Cent; Teaching third column, Number, foui'th column. Per Cent;
Other Occupations— Fifth column. Number, sixth column, Per Cent;
Miscellaneous*—Seventh column. Number, eighth column, Per Cent;
No Information Ninth column, Number, tenth column, Per Cent.
* Includes married graduates who never taught, graduate students still in college, army and navy volunteers and selectees who
never had an opportunity to teach and the unemployed which accounts for 3.2 per cent of the 6.44 per cent in this column.
—
—
Findings
The study did more than answer the question, “How many
teach?” The figure results are probably of less importance than
the common interest of the faculty in our graduates. Then, too,
alumni of ten years realize that their alma mater continues to be
interested in them.
This phase of the study cannot be valued
objectively, but mailing
lists
are
more accurate because of the
study.
Among
1
.
A
larger
the objective findings are the following:
number
of placements
were discovered than by a
previous method.
2.
A
comprehensive look over a decade discloses certain trends
such as the effect of tenure and increasing industrial activity.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Average period of teaching service of
Figures relating to salaries
six years
was obtained.
and
non-teaching
of teaching
groups were made available for further study.
Demonstrated value of individual placement records as a
supplement to the questionnaire method.
Furnished basis for guidance of present and future students
who expect to be teachers.
Definite information
eration
when
is
now
available for legislative consid-
appropriations are being considered.
Those outcomes justify the time, effort, and money of a
two-year study of one thousand graduates.
DDN^T FORGET
2>a^ Maif, 3.3^
0
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
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April, 1942
Page Eleven
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at
summarizing the Defense and War Activities of this colpresent under the following captions the activities
which have come to this campus since September, 939.
In
lege,
we
1
Civil Pilot Training
Program For Aviation
Instruction
Over 100 college students have had an opportunity to
program sponsored by the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College using the Bloomsburg Airport under
the plan developed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. At
the present time twenty men are enrolled in the Elementary
Course and ten in the Advanced Course, with all indications that
learn to fly under the
these quotas will be increased in the near future.
This program enabled the town of Bloomsburg to reopen
Bloomsburg Airport and it now is approved for offering the
following Aviation Courses
Elementary, Advanced, Cross Country, Instructor, and Instructor Refresher Courses. The first two
named are sponsored by the college for college students, while
the last three are carried on at the Airport for those people who
are giving full time to the more specialized courses of Aviation.
Such a program is in existence in only four other colleges in the
the
—
United States.
Out of the
tion
first
50 students completing
the
Primary Avia-
Course over one-half have already found their
the Aviation Branch of our
Armed
Forces and several
way
now
into
hold
commissions.
Free
War
The
Courses
college
is
in
Engineering,
Management and Science
furnishing classrooms and
laboratories
for
courses sponsored by the United States Office of Education and
in Pennsylvania through Penn State College. The first
program reached 200 students, using ten classrooms, and the
second program is using fourteen classrooms to house over 300
students.
Two of these classes are being taught by college instructors and a third instructor is traveling forty miles to another
developed
center to offer a course.
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April, 1942
:
t’age
Twelve
Contributions of College Faculty, Students and Employees
During the Year
Members
to the
of the college
community have made contributions
United Service Organizations, the Regular Red Cross Roll
and the Red Cross War Relief Drive. The amounts are given
here and speak for themselves.
United Service Organizations
$125.00
Red Cross Roll Call
157.00
Red Cross War Relief Drive
_ 548.00
Call
Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds
Every faculty member and employee either now owns Defense Saving Stamps or Bonds or has pledged themselves to purchase regularly
in
the future.
Defense Saving Stamps are sold at the College Retail Store
and also from a booth placed in the corridor.
The figures for the College community are herewith given
Bonds held to date
$18,743.75
Bonds pledged for year
13,300.00
Stamps pledged for year
,596.00
1
$33,639.75
College Council of Defense
The college community has been organized as a unit of the
Columbia County Council of Defense and the following committees are actively engaged in the duties which their names
suggest
Air Raid Warning, Fire Protection, American Unity,
—
First Aid,
Conservation of Defense Materials, Men-in-Service.
These
activities are the basis for the sixth in the series of
college films entitled
First
The College
Aid and
the
Red
Home
“Bloomsburg Faces War.”
Aid and
is
Home
Nursing Courses
continuously furnishing classrooms for First
Nursing Courses sponsored by Boy Scouts and
Cross* and a large
number
of students
are enrolled in these courses.
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April, 1942
and town people
:
Page Thirteen
Bloomsburg in World War I
History
is
repeating
itself.
In these critical times,
young
men and women at Bloomsburg are facing problems like those
faced by the young men and women at Bloomsburg in 1917
and 1918.
Undoubtedly
the minds
of
many graduates and
former students at Bloomsburg turn back to those days, and
World War
are being lived over again.
The following article, which recently appeared in the
Bloomsburg Morning Press, is a brief statement of war activithe experiences of
1
Bloomsburg twenty-five years ago. It is interesting to
note that the article appeared in the issue of December 6, 1941,
the day before Pearl Harbor.
“With another war in the offing, it is not without interest
to recall the part played in the World War by “Old Normal,”
now the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. That contribution
was not only in the young men and women it sent into the service, but also its work in all the various war drives.
ties
at
“In the
Third Liberty
Loan, the
quota
assigned to the
was $3,500, and a total of $10,500 was subscribed.
Tlien came the Fourth Loan, and the quota looked large indeed
indeed so soon after the Third Loan had been put across, but
before the campaign ended, a total of $12,300 had been subscribed, and a fifth star was won for the Liberty Loan honor
school
fiag.
“But ‘Old Normal’ did not alone contribute of its funds
gave of its graduates and under graduates by the hundreds, as the following roster of those who went forth to battle
for democracy and to minister to those who were wounded so
but
it
strikingly illustrates
Roll of
Honor
Andres, Harry, Lieutenant Medical Department.
October 4, 1917.
Kunkle, John Ray, ’ll. Died
Died
at
El Paso, Texas,
at
Base
Hospital,
Camp
Greene.
Krum, Howard
’ll.
Died of influenza.
Camp
Lee, Virginia.
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April, 1942
Page Fourteen
Newberger, George M. ’00. Lieutenant M.
C.
Navy.
Died
Navy Yard, Philadelphia.
Omsted, Hawley ’ll. Died of pneumonia in France.
Red Cross Nurse, Jefferson Hospital
Phillips, Meryl ’ll.
died of pneumonia in New York.
of influenza at the
Unit
;
Robbins, Earl ’15.
Died of influenza
Sergeant.
at
Camp
Meade, Md.
Straub, Max, died of
Williams,
in
Dave
’00.
wounds
in
France.
Captain; died
in
army
training
camp
Minnesota.
Military Honors
Kennedy, Anna
U., citation for bravery,
French govern-
ment.
Straub, Max, Croix de Guerre with star, Medaille Militaire,
Croix de Guerre with Palm, Corps citation for bravery.
Faculty
Leroy Anderson, George D. Cronin, Harry Fausel,
Maud
Kimber Kuster, William V. Moyer.
Students and Graduates in Army and Navy
Rebecca Allen, Elbert Knorr, Jean Andres, Sinclair Kilgore, Bruce Albert, Reece Kilgore, Joseph Armstrong, Roy Kindig, Norman Aten, Ralph Kindig, Warren Anstock, Bruce Kindig, Harry Barton, Ronald Keeler, Fisk Brill, Fred Keeler, William G. Brill, George Keller, Bruce Blackman, Lewis Kreiger,
Hugh Boyle, Myron Kocher, Guy Brunstetter, Gardner Kelchner, Reno Bush, John Knittle, J. R. Brobst, William Fred KesK. Fish, Aldus E. Keggeris,
ter,
Clarence Brobst, William
F.
Kelchner, Lester Burlingame,
Anna
A. Kennedy, Harry Bierman, Guy Kitchen.
John E. Bakeless, Bernard Kelly, Frank Brink, Sue Knelly,
George Bednarek, G. Eugene Kemp, Alan Benson, Theodore
Krumm, Mark
Bennett,
Roy Koontz, Raymond Bucher, John
Long, Charles Butler, Rupert Laub, George Barrow, Ray Leidich,
Anthony Balchunas, Harry Lear, John
bach, Richard Brooke, Josiah
Little,
T. Brooks, Earl Lau-
Harold Bomboy, Samuel
Longstreet, Alvah Burlingame, William Lazarus,
Malcolm Leonard, Benjamin Baer, North Leidy,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
J.
J.
Becker,
Ercell
Bidle-
Page Fifteen
man, Ethelbert Moon, Myron Byers, Ray Mausteller, Rush
Boone, Harold Moyer, Weston Miller, Herman J. Capello, David
Miller, Peter Castellani, John K. Miller, Harold Cooper, Marion
Morley, Harold Cool, Arthur Morgan, Carrol D. Champlin, A.
C. Morgan, Ruth Clark, Joseph Cherry, Alfred C. Miller.
Paul M. Champlin, Paul Milnes, Hurley Crevehng, James
Musgrave, Daniel Close, William McAvoy, Harold Creasy, Kin-
ney Mears, John W. Cressler, Anthony McDonald, Frank B. Cotner, Margaret McKelvy, William J. Conyngham, Frank J. Meenahan, Claude Durlin, Maxwell Mauser, William H. Davis, Harold
Mensch, Warren Dollman, Maxwell Noack, Harry Dollman, Elna
H. Nelson, Albert Demaree, Charles Oman, Joseph Demaree,
Francis O’Neil, Francis Dobson, P. Clive Potts, Harry Derr, Walter
Page, Thomas Derr, Joseph Pace, George W. Dodson, Har-
old Pegg, Albert
W. Duy, Myron
P. Rishton,
Idwal Edwards,
J.
Rehm, Boon Eckman, Charles
Robbins, Edith Eckman, Lawrence Ryman, Homer Englehart,
Glennis Rickert, Orville Eveland, Russel Ramage, Michael J.
Egan, Harry Rinker, Homer Fetterolf, James Richards, David
Foye, Howard R. Rarig, Gordon Frye, H. E. Rawhnson, John
Feinour, Warren Shobert, Howard F. Fenstemaker, Michael
Boyd
Rutter, Harold Eves, Robert
Skwier, Harry Fortner, Robert Schooley, Charles Fritz, Theo-
dore Smith, Ralph D. Fry, Burrel Swortwood.
Reuben Stevens, Raymond Fought, Roland
Edward Smoczinski, Albert Foster, William Gorham,
Isaac Fought,
Stevens,
John H. Shuman, Anthony Gorham, Bruce Shearer, Maurice
Owen Serene, Percy W. Griffiths, George Smith, Jay H.
Grimes, George Supplee, Joseph Griffiths, Dana Sharpless, William Gordon, Harry A. Smith, George Gress, Albert Solleder,
Harold Hidlay, Edward C. Shuman, Eugene C. Hidlay, Albert
F. Symbal, Clair Hower, William Taylor, Earl B. Hartman, Peter
Twilk, Paul Hummel, Dayton Terwilliger, Earl Hess, William A.
Thomas, M. D. Hippensteel, Richard Thomas, Oswald Hutton,
Gertrude Thomas, John H, Harter, Edward Tustin, John Hodder, Joseph Tustin, C. T. Hodgson, Paul Trembley, Edwin Heller, Frank Titman, Paul Hoffnagle, John Vavalo. Charles Wiant,
Girton,
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April, 1942
Page Sixteen
Frank Hutchison, John Hayhurst, Emerson D. Wiant, Lee Roy
Hall, T. E. Williams, Gilbert Hagenbuch, Fred Weaver, W. 0.
Holmes, Warner Werkheiser, Fred Holmes, Thomas Williams,
H. V. Hower, Ray V. Watkins, Harry C. Hubler, George Wilner, G. Hemingway, Paul D. Womeldorf, Reginald Hemingway,
Edwin Woodward, Scott Hoaglan, J. K. Wagonseller, Donald
Ikeler, R. V. Wolf, Kenneth Ikeler, Karl West, Arthur Ives,
Frank Williams, Arthur Jones, William Weiss, James A. Joyce,
Joseph White, Joseph Joyce, Thomas Walsh, Fred Johnson,
Clark H. Yeager, Edwin G. Jenkins. G. Jenkins, Corson Zeliff,
Guy Knorr, David Zehner.
o
The brutal savagery of war seemed far removed and almost unbelievable for a couple of hours Friday evening, March
20, to a near capacity audience
enjoyed the spring musical
in the
college auditorium as
festival of the
it
Women’s Chorus and
Men’s Glee Club.
This year’s presentation was Charles Gounod’s “Faust”
and it was an exceptionally fine piece of work, winning merited
commendation from the audience.
Five young and talented artists from New York City,
where all are now studying voice, were the guest soloists and
their fine voices and splendid interpretation of their roles blended with almost professional perfection with the chorus work of
the 50 Bloomsburg students directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Miss Louise Adams, a Freshman from Shamokin, was the ac1
companist.
Guest soloists were Donald Loring Rogers, tenor; Judith
Margaret Wilson, contralto; Howard Woods,
and Robert Schnabel, baritone.
Music lovers of the community remembered Miss Wilson
and Mr. Rogers for their fine work here last spring as guest soloists in von Flotow’s “Martha” and welcomed them back with
enthusiasm while the other guests quickly won and held their
audiences. Rogers just recently returned to New York from a
successful tour during which he won acclaim at Cleveland, Detroit and other American cities.
West, soprano;
tenor,
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April, 1942
Page Seventeen
Defense Set-Up at the College
Dr. E. H. Nelson, director of the
department of physical
head of civilian defense for the
college community. His appointment by President Andruss came
promptly after the rise of a national emergency and a necessity
education at the College,
is
also
for civilian preparedness.
It will
be Dr. Nelson’s job
to coordinate
and expedite the
various activities connected with civilian defense, as they apply to the college
may
community, in such a manner that the students
when an emergency arises on this campus
act intelligently
or elsewhere.
After determining what activities were of paramount importance, Dr. Nelson designated the following committees and
committee chairmen to become active immediately an air raid
committee is headed by William C. Forney, who is assisted by
Earl N. Rhodes. Mr. Forney, the College air raid warden, has
attended classes for air raid wardens in Harrisburg. The fire
protection committee is headed by N. T. Englehart and Miss
:
Ruth Hope,
Miss Lucy
Coatesville.
The
ents to take care of accidents
Classes for
advanced
added to
had been
The
first
aid committee,
McCammon and Donald Rabb,
first
and
will
headed l^y
prepare the stud-
casualties.
aid training are already in progress,
course for the training of
first
and an
aid instructors has been
and standard first aid courses, which
conducted for some time.
Welfare Committee, headed by Irving Gottlieb, concerns itself with the interests and welfare of college men who
are in military service. The American unity committee, directed by Miss Harriet Moore and Miss Joyce Lohr, will be rethe beginning
sponsible for parades, patriotic singing, entertainment or any
ether activities which will encourage morale and higher spirits
college community. The conservation committee, headed
by Frank Valente, head waiter in the dining room, and assisted
by the Social Service Club, will be responsible for such items
in the
as the conservation of electricity, prevention of waste,
and sav-
ing of food.
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April, 1942
Page Eighteen
Plan
l/jeoA. Btidxhf,
Students of the Pennsylvania State Teachers College will
be able to complete the regular four-year curriculum leading
to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education in three calendar years, according to plans recently approved at Harrisburg
by the Board of Presidents. For some students this will be possible by attending three regular years and two twelve-week
summer
sessions.
The new plan adds a three-week pre-session to the existing regular six-week summer session and the three-week postsession. Freshmen will be accepted at the beginning of any
semester or any summer session.
Students
who do
not desire to follow this three-year cur-
liculum will be allowed to continue their college education on
the four-year basis which has been in operation since the state
teachers colleges were
granted the right to confer the degree
of Bachelor of Science
m
Education
in
1
926.
The three-year plan will enable students to begin teaching a year earlier and will reduce the present cost by approximately $200. This saving, when added to the possibility of
earning a salary of $1,200 per year, results in a net gain of
$1,400 for those who seek to enter the teaching profession un•
der the three-year state teachers college plan.
A
study of
demand
the teacher
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
for
graduates
of the
for the past ten years indi-
its graduates have obtained
Of 1,025 graduates granted degrees from 1930 to
1940, seventy-seven per cent actually taught, and fifteen per
cates that ninety-two per cent of
figures.
cent obtained positions in other occupations.
The new plan will enable high school graduates to begin
work at the pre-session June 8, and will provide
their college
an opportunity for students
to
fore being called into service
complete a college education be-
in
the
armed
forces of the United
At the same time, the state teachers colleges
better able to meet the present shortage of teachers.
States.
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April, 1942
will
be
Page Nineteen
Requests
school
able
officials
lists
are received
for teachers
almost
daily
from
throughout eastern Pennsylvania, and the avail-
have long been exhausted.
The college calendar for 1942-43 provides for two semesters of eighteen weeks each, beginning September 14 and
ending May 25. Two weeks later, the pre-session begins on
ending June 27. During this session, the student will be
able to complete one three-credit course. Following the plan
June
8,
meet three hours a day,
The regular summer session will
begin June 29 and end August
The regular session will be
followed by a post-session beginning August 3 and ending Auused
in the post-session, the classes will
except Saturday and Sunday.
1
.
gust 22.
A
three
summer
iai
weeks vacation intervenes between the end of the
and the beginning of the fall semester. Regu-
sessions
vacations approximately like those of previous years will be
given at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
Upper classmen
will
be able
graduation by attending the
that
Sophomores now enrolled in
work in one semester
plete their
under the four-year curriculum.
No reduction has been made
required for graduation.
be no reduction
in the
to
summer
shorten their
less
m
the
than the time required
number
of hours credit
This means definitely that there will
standards
now
prevailing.
the student will be required to complete as
work
time for
and it is possible
college may be able to comsessions,
In other
words,
many semester
hours
by attending college more time during
the calendar year, he will be able to complete the same amount
of work in less time.
of
as before, but
^
O
0 -”
Q
DDN^T FORGET
Alumni
Mcuf. 3.3nA
6
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty
Play Presented at College
It
was
a great surprise to Mr. Fuller to find that the house
near the Potomac that he bought had not had George Washington as an
all-night guest
—
instead,
it
was Benedict
Arnold.
was only one of the many amusing situations which arose
“George Washington Slept Here,” the play presented Friday
evening, January 30, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
by the Alpha Psi Omega dramatic fraternity with the Bloosmburg Players.
This comedy, written by Moss Hart cind George S. Kauffman, centered around the trials and tribulations of the Fuller
family, who moved into a house that had been built before
This
in
Revolutionary days.
Elwood Beaver,
as
Newton
Fuller,
por-
man who wants to live in the country. Rachel
\arrowsky, as Mrs. Fuller, who was definitely city-bred, kept
trayed a city
the audience laughing with her skeptical, and cynical remarks.
George Miller, as Mr. Kimber, the hired man, provided amusement with his presentation of a “hick.” Dave Nelson, as Uncle
Stanley, played the part of a rich, fussy uncle
be poor.
Other characters included: Madge
who
turns out to
Fuller, Betty
Bierman;
Steve Eldridge, Reed Buckingham; Katie, Mary Jane Mordan;
Mrs. Douglas, Roberta Hastie; Clayton Evans, Irving Gottlieb;
Rena
Leslie, Stella Williams;
Hester,
Edna Zehner; Raymond,
John Thomas; Ligett Frazer, Tony Kravitsky; Sue Barrington,
Mary Lou Fenstemaker; Jane Barton, Jeanne Knight; Tommy
Hughes, Kenneth Morse, and Mr. Prescott, Lee Beaumont.
— o—
now Scout
Monday eve-
Robert Goodman, formerly of Bloomsburg,
Executive at Corning,
New
York, was the speaker
ning, January 12, at the nineteenth annual meeting of
the Col-
umbia and Montour Boy Scout Council, held in Catawissa. Mr.
Goodman is one of three Bloomsburg men who started their
scouting experience in the Columbia County Council, and now
are executives in the movement.
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April, 1942
Page Twenty-One
“Keeping Ahead of the Auditor’’
The leading
March, 1942, issue of the Balance Sheet, a magazine on Business and Economic Education
was written by President Harvey A. Andruss, President of the
article of the
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, under the
title
of “Keeping
Ahead
President Andruss
of the Auditor.”
bookkeeping down
brings
to
present
requirements by saying:
“This gradual development of an ever-widening of view
in
business has been reflected
keeping.
When
by our learning processes
book-
the vocational record keeping attitude prevail-
began the learning progress
ed, students
in
in
bookkeeping with
With the
the journal, ledger, or account orders of presentation.
shift of
emphasis to the economic employer-managerial point
of view, there
was developed
ders of presentation.
We
more
of presentation giving
in relation to
come
all
the balance sheet or equation or-
now have
shall
to
develop an order
attention to the needs of society
personal records so as to provide a basis for
tax returns.
in-
These records must be made so as to furnish
information for income tax returns which are subject to re-
view by federal revenue agents.
“With the increase of the number of individuals filing income tax returns, our record keeping must recognize the Government as a representative of society. Thus, our records must
be made so that summaries or reports can be constructed periodically, and they should also form the basis for making yearly
income tax returns to the Federal Government. Otherwise, the
individual earning from $750 to $1,000 a year will have no
basis for explaining his income and the deduction figures to
auditors
and tax review
investigators.”
o
Addresses Wanted
Ivor L. Robbins ’32,
James Cullen
’33,
Roy Garman
’34,
Sylvester Ficca ’35, Marguerite Lonergan ’39, Robert C. Diehl
’38, Arthur
Knerr ’34.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
Mid-Year Graduates
Eleven students met the requirements for the degree of
in education at the conclusion of the first
bachelor of science
semester at the Teachers College.
There were three
education, two
m
m
business education, five in secondary
intermediate, and one in kindergarten-pri-
mary education.
now employed. Seven are teachtwo are employed by the Middletown air
Nine out of the group are
ing in public schools,
depot.
These students will be eligible to take part in the commencement exercises which will be held in May.
Members of the January graduating class follow: John
W. Betz, Danville, secondary, teaching at Curwensville; Laura
Bonenberger, Barnesville, intermediate, teaching Ryran township;
Howard Brochyrus, Bloomsburg,
bert R. Davis,
Jr.,
business education; Al-
Tilbury Terrace, West Nanticoke, secondary,
teaching at Plymouth township; Dorothy Dean, Washingtonville,
kindergarten-primary,
tonville;
Middletown
education,
air
teaching at
Edmunds,
William
depot;
Middletown
Haven, secondary,
DeLong
Nanticoke,
ate, teaching at
education,
Robert Miner, Tunkhannock, business
air
depot;
LaPlata,
Margaret Robeson, Beach
Maryland;
Jennie
Berwick, secondary, teaching at Bloomsburg;
Canadensis, secondary;
Washing-
School,
business
Trivelpiece,
Collin
Vernoy,
Harriet Young, Nescopeck, intermedi-
Spring township, Berks county.
—
o
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Hilda Reeves, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and Joseph K. Layos,.
of Mainvillc, a sergeant in the United States
Fort Meade, Maryland.
Sergeant Layos,
Army, stationed
at
who was graduated
from the Bloomsburg High School, attended the College for
two years, and then joined the National Guard. Miss Reeves
IS employed in the
office of the Bell Telephone Company in
Washington, D.
C.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Three
Rotary-Kiwanis-College Evening
The fifteenth annual Kiwanis-Rotary-College night program presented to some 350 guests at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Thursday evening, March 12, proved most entertaining, illustrating to a large extent the part
lege
is
which the
col-
playing during the present emergency.
program were the premiere of a new mo“Bloomsburg Faces War,” filmed by Prof. George
of the faculty, and the appearances of Edmund Hard-
Highlights of the
tion picture,
J. Keller,
ing,
Washington, D.
C.,
humorist.
R. B. White, president of the Kiwanis Club, presided and
introduced Mr. and Mrs. Horace Williams, the former being the
R. S. Hemingway, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey A. Andruss, the Rev. R. 0. Musser, who gave the invocation; Dr. Willis E. Pratt, president of the Lock Haven
State Teachers College, and Mrs. R. B. White.
Others who were present were
State Senator John G.
Snowden, and Mrs. Snowden, of Williamsport; John F. Stank,
of Ranshaw; Joseph P. Bradley, of Mount Carmel; Mr. and
Mrs. W. Clair Hidlay and Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Cole, of Bloomshurg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Croop and Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
Houck, of Berwick; and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, and Dr. and Mrs. Gosse.
president of the Rotary Club
;
:
Mr. Harding was song leader^ providing accordion accom-
paniment with that of Gordon Keller
at the Solovox.
Following the dinner the group adjourned to the auditor-
ium where Elwood Beaver, president of the community governm.ent association, extended greetings.
Miss Betty Pauling, accompanied by Robert Morgan, sang
“Three
Little
Fairy Songs,”
Free,” while Mr.
In
and “A Heart That’s
selection, “Ballade
F Minor.”
“That’s where
we come
interludes of Mr. Harding.
of
“Clouds,”
Morgan presented a piano
humorous
stories
in” proved the theme of dramatic
Through an almost endless current
was woven
a serious note to that effect
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
that
“now we’re
in
it
do our
let’s
part.’’
bution to the program was one which
will
Mr. Harding’s contrilong be remembered.
Following a group of patriotic selections by the college
chorus, under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, the sixth in
a series of college films, “Bloomsburg Faces War,’’ offered sub-
lege
many
proof of the
stantial
directing
is
The
phases of activities to which the col-
its efforts.
film dealt
with such activities as civilian pilot training,
safety in the classroom, defense courses, defense bonds and
stamps and the boys
in service.
The pictures, executed in colored film by Prof. George J.
Keller, were characterized by their completeness in scope and
timeliness.
The singing of the National Anthem concluded the audiin the gym-
torium program after which dancing was enjoyed
nasium.
O
Among
many
men
training at Randolph
The four are John Maksimuk, of Wilkes-Barre, who is taking advanced flying there,
Anthony Yenalavage, of Kingston, Donald Hausknecht, of Montoursville, and Walter Reed, of Shillington. Mr. Hausknecht is
the
service
in
Field, Texas, are four B. S. T. C. boys.
in the
flying.
finance office, but the other three are taking courses in
Mr. Maksimuk and
Mr. Reed
Bloomsburg
took the
Civilian Pilot
Hausknecht
and Mr. Reed are graduates, while the other two entered the
service before their college courses were completed.
It is interesting to note that a Bloomsburg alumnus is commandant at the field. He is Colonel Idwal Edwards ’13.
Training course of
last
Mr.
spring.
o
Miss Martha
Krum, of Bloomsburg, and Franklin F.
were married Friday, January 23, at the
Schultz, of Danville,
parsonage
of
Trinity Methodist
Schultz has been working
Mills,
and Mr.
m
Church,
in
the office of the
Schultz, a former
Bloomsburg student,
ployed as a surveyor by the State Highway Department.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Mrs.
Danville.
Bloomsburg
is
Silk
em-
.
Page Twenty -Five
College Honor Roll
The following Bloomsburg
State Teachers College students
have a rating of 2.5 or better for the first semester, 1941-42,
and an accumulated rating of 2.0 or better for all of their college work:
Freshmen
Poletime Comuntzis, Secondary, Bloomsburg.
Mary
L.
M. Jane
'
Fenstemaker, Secondary, Bloomsburg.
Miller, Business Education,
Jermyn.
Sophomores
Mary
F.
Harold
DeWald, Elementary,
Turbotville.
E. Miller, Business Education,
Drums
R. D.
1
Juniors
Lee Roy Beaumont, Business Education, Marcus Hook.
Boyd F. Buckingham, Secondary, York.
Thomas
H. Cannard, Secondary, Danville.
Joanna J. Fice, Business Education, Athens.
Ruth B. Hope, Elementary, Pomeroy.
John Hubiak, Business Education, Forest City, R. D.
Virginia Lawhead, Elementary, Pottsville.
Joyce M. Lohr, Secondary, Berwick.
1.
Seniors
Elwood H. Beaver, Business Education, Catawissa.
Mary A. Davenport, Elementary, Berwick.
Earl
J.
Harris, Secondary, Bloomsburg, R. D. 5.
Roberta Hastie, Business Education, Avoca.
Jean E. Lantz, Elementary, Berwick.
Richard Nonnemacher, Business Education, Allentown.
Dawn Osman,
Elementary, Shamokin.
Idajane Shipe, Secondary, Berwick.
M. Claire Sirrocco, Business Education, Pottsville.
H. Ruth Snyder, Business Education, Bloomsburg.
Erma Wolfgang, Business Education, Shamokin.
David M. Young, Secondary, Danville.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
Alumni
The
officers of the
in
Service
Alumni Association are very desirous
Bloomsburg Alumni who are in
of being kept informed of the
the
armed
forces of the United States.
It is
very desirable, for
the purposes of the historical record, that this
The
plete as follows.
of those concerning
list
whom we
have information.
the Alumni will render a great service
of
Bloomsburg graduates
all
list
be as com-
published below contains the names
Members
of
by informing the Editor
in the service.
Captain John Q. Timbrell, Fort Benning, Georgia; Private
\Voodrow Aten, Fort Totten, New York; Private Nicholas
fin,
Camp
Wheeler, Georgia;
Wheeler,
Georgia;
Private Alfred H. Miller,
Lieutenant
Edmund
Villa,
Camp
Jaf-
Camp
Bulks,
Texas.
Neil
est V.
M. Richie, Squadron
8,
Maxwell
Field,
Alabama; Ern-
Lau, Co. A, 3rd Ordnance Mg. Bn. 0. R. T. C., Aberdeen,
Cadet Thomas Grow, Naval Air Station, JacksonPrivate Harry Zavacky, Camp M. A. A. R. Bar-
Maryland;
Florida.
ville,
stcw, California; Private Theodore Radai, Coast Artillery, Fort
Lewis, Washington; Cadet Walter Reed, Class 42E, Kelly Field,
Texas
;
Private Leon Greenly,
Army
Air Base, Savannah, Geor-
gia; Cadet Paul Kellogg, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Flori-
da; Private David
nute Field,
Englewood,
111.
;
L. Shaffer, Jr., First
School Squadron, Cha-
Private Jay Sponseller, Teaneck Armory, West
New
1st. cl. Frank Pettinato, SerMeade,
South Dakota.
vice Troop, Fourth Cavalry, Fort
Jersey; Private
o
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Serafine, of Grant Street, Shickshinny,
have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jeanne, to
Private Bernard Ciampi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ciampi, R. D.
Berwick. Miss Serafine, a graduate of the Shickshinny High
School in 940, is employed as a typist in the War Department
at Washington. Ciampi is a graduate of the Teachers College
and formerly taught in the Conyngham township school district.
Later he was employed at the Berwick plant of A. C. F. He is
1
,
1
now
stationed at
Camp
Lee, Va.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Seven
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
Bruce Albert
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
R.
D. D. Wright
Hervey
B.
Smith
^55
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 Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Treasurer
Howard M. Kreitzer, 120
Lincoln 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 Coimty
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 Car-
President
—Edna
—
—
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.
lisle Street,
— Mrs.
Lester Bennett,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
—
Page Twenty-Eight
Montour County
—
—
President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.,
Vice-President Nellie Bogart, Danville, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.
—
Northumberland County
—
President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer 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-Presi-
President
—
Palsgrove,
—
—
dent
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
—
Main
Street,
Mahanoy
—
—
City, Pa.
Philadelphia
—
President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary
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
—
Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President
Eugene Keefer, R. Ij Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen
Keller, Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market
President
—
Mifflinburg,
grove, Pa.
Street,
Pa.;
Treasurer
—
—
— Anna
Troutman, Selins-
Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
—Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene JohnPa.; 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
son, Hallstead,
Bell,
Columbia County
—
—
president ^A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Margaret Cole McCem, Benton, Pa.; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.
—
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
—
Page Twenty-Nine
The Philadelphia Alumni
We have been having delightful monthly luncheon meetwhich have been very well attended. Owing to the present
day situation due to the war, we decided not to have our usual
annual reunion and banquet in April this year, but we hope to
continue our luncheon meetings on the second Saturday of each
month, at Strawbridge and Clothier’s store, 6th floor. We extend a most cordial invitation to all Alumni and Bloomsburg
friends to drop in at any of these meetings and visit with us
for the afternoon. The meetings last from 2 30 to 5 30 P. M.
We should keep our colors flying and prove our loyalty
and gratitude to our Alma Mater by giving untiring and unselfish effort to widen the sphere of the help and influence of
Bloomsburg.
We are sorry to note the passing of Edward A. Eyer and
Edna Wilson McClintock.
ings
1
FLORENCE
O
H.
:
COOL,
—
:
President.
Columbia County Alumni
On
Friday evening, March 20, Columbia county alumni of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College heard from the adminisand saw through motion pictures what the college is doing in defense and was informed of the manner in which the
graduates can aid their alma mater in these days of crisis.
The Spring session, held in the college dining hall, was attended by 76. Arthur C. Morgan, of Berwick, the president,
as toastmaster kept the program moving at a rapid rate.
Officers chosen for the coming year are A. C. Morgan,
the
tration
1
president; Larue Derr, Beaver, vice president; Miss Thursabert
Schuyler, Bloomsburg, secretary, and Paul L. Brunstetter, Catawissa, treasurer.
The evening opened with the singing of America and the
Dean W. B. Sutliff. Group singing was in charge
Miss Maree E. Pensyl with Howard F. Fenstemaker at the
invocation by
of
piano.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty
President Morgan spoke of the real value of returning to
alma mater and expressed his thanks for the fine attendance,
particularly to thirty-one Berwick grade school teachers who
were present despite the Berwick-Pottsville basketball game at
Hershey.
membership, asserting
growing rapidly with ,200 paid up mem-
Dr. Nelson presented the matter of
that the association
is
1
bers.
S. Hemingway, Fred W.
and Frank D. Croop, Berwick, trustees; Mrs.
President Andruss presented Reg.
Diehl, Danville,
Diehl and Mrs. Croop;
Miss Helen Carpenter, former
and the three “Old Guard,” Prof.
Sutliff and Prof. D. S. Hartline.
of the faculty,
Dean W.
B.
member
C. H. Albert,
President Andruss said he did not wish to appear pessimistic but
It
is
blind and useless to figure that just because
we
it is impossible to lose one.
He spoke of the
having a part m aiding the nation in this crises
and he briefly sketched the many activities of the college community that have a part in the war effort.
never
lost a
necessity of
war
all
R. Bruce Albert, president of the general alumni body,
mentioned that all institutions have a difficult time in a war period and urged that alumni be on the alert to call to the attention
of the institution prospective students.
The addresses
sired.
of college graduates in the service are de-
Plans are well along for Alumni Day,
May
23, with Dr.
Francis B. Haas, superintendent of the Public Instruction of the
Public Instruction, and Governor Arthur H. James expected to
attend.
The dining room program concluded with the showing of
the newest motion picture on Bloomsburg college life, “Bloomsburg’s Part in the War,” and the singing of the Alma Mater.
Alumni were then guests at the presentation of the musical and
vocal score of the opera “Faust” by the College students, featuring guest artists from
New
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
York.
April, 1942
Page Thirty -One
DAUPHIN COUNTY ALUMNI
The
hold
Dauphin County Alumni Association
B. S. T. C.
will
spring dinner meeting at the Y. M. C. A. in Harrisburg
its
May
on Monday,
A
4th at
7:00
moved
into the vicinity
cept this invitation to
meet your old
P.
is
extended
friends.
The dinner
M.
to any alumnus who has
and has not been contacted. Please accome and join in the school spirit and
cordial invitation
—
—
be informal no speakers, just remarks
and a social hour is planned so that you may enjoy your visit.
Dinner 85 cents. Drop a card to Helen E. Sutliff, 00 N. Second
will
1
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
o
LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
The Luzerne County Alumni Association
State Teachers College held a reunion
25,
in
of the
Monday
the Hotel Sterling at Wilkes-Barre.
Features of the program were a puppet
Miss
Bloomsburg
March
evening,
Anne
Westfield,
and the motion
show given by
“Bloomsburg
picture,
Faces War.”
Attending from Bloomsburg and responding were: President H. A. Andruss, Dr. T. P. North, Dr. E. H. Nelson, H. F. Fenstemaker, and R. Bruce Albert.
o
A
reception was given Tuesday evening, February 4, by
Harvey A. Andruss to members of the
Board of Trustees, the faculty, and members of the Board of
Education of the Bloomsburg School District. Music was provided by Robert Morgan, pianist, and Miss Bettv Pauling, violinPresident and Mrs.
i.'t,
of the college faculty.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Two
Alumni Irraunala
1874
A
from Dr. G. V. Mears, of Jacksonville Beach,
two members of the class of 1874 died in
March. One of these was J. K. Bittenbender, who died March
7, and the other was the Doctor’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Perkins Mears,
who died March 9. Dr. Mears closes by saying “I am the last
remnant of ’74.”
brief note
Florida, states that
1880
Horace G. Supplee, a native of near Jerseytown, and a
prominent Bloomsburg business man around the turn of the
century, died Thursday, April 2, in a Chicago nursing home
where he was convalescing following a cold when his condition
became
A
critical.
sister,
because of
Mrs. Annie Nuss, of Bloomsburg, was
his condition
and was enroute
to
summoned
Chicago when the
death occurred.
His death severs a marital union of fifty-three years.
wife was the former Elnora B. Bryfogle.
to
Surviving
in
His
addition
her and Mrs. Nuss are two children, George Supplee, a mis-
sionary in Assam, India, and Miss Mabel Supplee, of Chicago,
and four grandchildren.
Mr. Supplee was for many years a real estate salesman
and remained active until about two years ago. He was last
here in the spring of 1940 when he attended the sixtieth reunion of the class of 1880 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Three
for years in the eighties and nineties, manager of
Produce Exchange, a farmers’ cooperative which
erected the building at Market and Sixth Streets, now owned by
the Leo A. Schneider Company. Following the dissolution of
that business, he engaged in business there for himself and
He was
the Farmers
later
retail
was
member
a
of the
Supplee-^Mather Company, the
last
business to operate there.
Mrs. Margaret Kavanaugh Bigley, widow of J. C. Bigley,
and a former teacher in Shenandoah and Philadelphia, died
Friday, January 16 at her home, 3727 North Park Avenue,
Philadelphia.
After leaving the teaching profession for a time,
was
by the Philadelphia Board of Education to resume teaching in 1918, and she became a member of
the teaching staff of the McClure School until she retired.
Mrs. Bigley
C.
recalled
Mae Meixwell
lives at
225
East Second Street, Berwick.
1885
Mrs. Charles
Hampshire Avenue,
is now
living at 5051
New
Apartment 102, Washington, D. C.
D. Harrison
N. W.,
1883
Miss Kate E. Harvey, of Milroy, Pa., has been reported as
Miss Harvey was a sister of Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless.
deceased.
1886
William
L.
Williams has been reported as deceased.
1888
Mrs.
Mary Bynon Jones, wife
January
vious to
Hill,
of the late Bruce Jones, also
1888, died at her home
Monday,
months preher death. Mrs. Jones was born and reared in Summit
of the class of
5,
1942.
and moved
She had been
in Pottsville
failing for nine
to Pottsville thirty-three years ago.
The account of the death of Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, apin the January Quarterly, was erroneously listed under
the class of 1893. The editor regrets this error.
pearing
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Four
1892
five sons who have foland two more who plan to be
physicians, died Monday, February 23, while visiting at the
home of his son Dr. Clement Hanlon, of Bethlehem. Death was
due to a heart attack.
Dr. Hanlon was born near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
He was brought to the United States by his parents when he
was six months old. The family settled near Freeland, Pa.,
where Dr. Hanlon taught for thirteen years after his graduation
from Bloomsburg. He completed his medical course at the Jef-
Dr.
Edward
lowed him
F.
Hanlon, father of
into medical practice
ferson Medical School in 1908.
1897
Amy
V. Beishline (Mrs.
W.
F.
Thomas) has changed her
address from Hazleton to R. 2, Bethlehem.
190Q
lanthe Snyder (Mrs. Palmer P. Wiand)
Pa., has
of Williamsport,
been reported as deceased.
1901
A letter has been received from Miss Louise Larrabee, who
lor the past several years, has been teaching in Honolulu. The
letters were dated December 8, and December
and contained little information other than that Miss Larrabee was safe.
Both letters had been opened by the censor, but nothing had
been taken out.
1
Dr.
1
,
Frank Laubach, who has spent many years as a miswas the speaker at the college assem-
sionary in the Far East,
bly Friday, January 9.
1904
Harry A. Dollman has been reported as deceased.
1905
Charles L. Maurer,
Collingswood,
New
who
Jersey,
is
lives at
1
30 East Linden Avenue,
Cam-
Director of Guidance in the
den High School, Dean and Vice-President of the College of
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Five
South Jersey, Camden, and Director of the Psychological and
Vocational Guidance Clinic at the same institution.
1906
Salt
W. Raymond Girton, who is employed by the International
Company, Ithaca, New York, has built a new home, and is
now
living at R.
1
Lake Road, Ithaca.
1907
Edwin M. Barton, Elizabeth, New Jersey, edited the Review Book Council page of the January, 1942, issue of the New
Mr. Barton gave brief reviews of
Jersey Educational Review.
many
of the latest text-books in Social Studies.
presiding officer at the Conference of the
tion of
New
Teachers of Social Studies. Northern
He
was
also
the
Jersey Associaheld at
District,
the Montclair State Teachers College on Saturday,
March
14.
1909
W. Garrison (Mrs. C. H. Danforth)
Avenue, Stanford University, California.
Florence
Cabrillo
lives at
607
1910
A daughter was born February 7, 1942,
Bernard Williams, of Waymart. Mrs. Williams
of Harold Box, of South Canaan, Pa.
1
Mrs.
living at
1
Anna Girton, who formerly
740 Orange Street, Berwick.
to
Mr. and Mrs.
is
the daughter
lived in Dallas,
is
now
1911
Ethel
J.
County, Pa.
“Mr.
Owen
Paisley
lives in Ottsville,
In a recent letter, Mrs.
Owen and
I
Owen
R. D.
1,
Bucks
states:
purchased the Ferndale Telephone Com-
1941 We moved from Nesquehoning to
Bucks County. We are located on route
611, between Easton and Philadelphia. It was with regrets
that I gave up teaching, but my physical condition just would
pany on September
Ottsville, R. F. D.
not allow
me
1
,
.
1,
to return.”
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942-
,
Page Thirty -Six
Miriam Vannatta
Freas lives
at
4035
Chestnut Street,
Philadelphhia, Pa.
1912
Edith G. Cole
trial
is
a
member
of the staff of the State Indus-
School for Girls at Mount Morrison, Colorado.
1913
Margarete Crossley (Mrs. F. Earle Gooding)
North Winsor Street, Bound Brook, New Jersey.
The address of Margie
Alabama.
Phillips Barnett
is
lives at
Box
1
534
0, R. D.
1
Greenville,
Mary
E.
Heacock
lives at
2879 Catawba Avenue, Memphis,
Tennessee.
1914
573 Warren Avenue, Kingston,
Pauline Sosper lives at
Dr. V.
J.
1916
at 215 North Shamokin
Baluta lives
Pa.
Street, Sha-
mokin. Pa.
Louise Carter (Mrs. C.
'
W. Dickman)
lives at
430 Maine
Street, Peckville, Pa.
1917
Dr.
J.
Loomis Christian
lives
at
3632 Rutherford
Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Rachel McHenry
lives at
1315 Market
Street, Harrisburg,
Pa.
Effie
Main
Benscoter
(Mrs.
Edwin H. Kinbuck)
lives
at
752
Street, Peckville, Pa.
Eidith
Dennis
lives at
1
1919
006 North
Sixth Street, Harrisburg,
Pa.
1923
Miss Marian Williams, of Shickshinny, and Richard Mani-
Berwick, were married at West Chester, Wednesday, December 24, 194). Mrs. Manival is a teacher in the elementary
val, of
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
,
Page Thirty-Seven
and Mr. Manival, a graduate of the
Automotive Engineering, is employed as
the Ford Garage m Berwick.
{grades in Shickshinny,
[’ittsburgh School of
a
mechanic
at
1924
Mervyn Norton (Mrs. Frank W. Walp) died Tuesday,
March 3, at her home at 84 Oak Street, Forty Fort, Pa., following a heart attack. Mrs. Walp was born in New Albany,
Pa., and attended the public schools there. After her graduaIn 1925
tion from Bloomsburg she taught for several years.
she and Mr. Walp were married, and lived in Picture Rocks
until 1933, when they moved to Forty Fort, where Mr. Walp
is Supervising Principal of the schools.
Mrs. Walp is survived
by her husband and one son, Barry, aged twelve.
1925
Helen
Mullica
Richie (Mrs.
Hill,
New
Padgett)
Russell
lives
at R. D.
1
Jersey.
1927
Miss
Danville,
and Edmund Miller, also of
were married Wednesday, December 24, at the home
Mary
of the bride.
Danville,
Dietz, of Danville,
Mrs. Miller
and Mr.
is
a teacher in the grade schools of
Miller operates a dray business in Danville.
1928
Announcement has been made
engagement of Miss
of the
Bloomsburg, and Harold G. Rogers, also
of Bloomsburg. Miss Giger is an instructor in special education
Fvlary Arzella Giger. of
at the
Tressler
Orphans’ Home,
Mr. Rogers
Bloomsburg.
Pa.
Loysville,
employed by the Magee Carpet Company,
in
is
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miltona
of Plymouth, and Goodwin Klinetob, of Foundryville,
Bolen,
near Berwick.
Mrs. Klinetob
is
a
member
junior high school at Plymouth, and Mr.
of the faculty of the
Klinetob
is
employed
by the State Highway Department.
The address
of Marjorie Vanderslice
is
Balboa Heights,
Canal Zone.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Eight
Ruth A. Webber (Mrs. Linn
Franklin Avenue, Tunkhannock, Pa.
B.
Sherwood)
lives
at
72
1930
Clarence R. Wolever
now connected
is
with the Extension
Service of the Pennsylvania State College, being attached to
what is known as ESMDT (Engineering, Science and Management of Defense). He is teaching Industrial Psychology, Industrial Economics, Industrial Relations and Industrial Safety in
His office address
various centers in the state.
is
Engineering
“F,” Central Extension Service, Pennsylvania State College,
State College, Pa.
their
Mrs. Wolever (Mary E.
Gorham ’30) and
daughter Sherrell are living at 1801 Sanderson Avenue,
Scranton.
Leatha Mericle, of Bloomsburg, and Carroll H. Matson, of
Baltimore, Maryland, were married at Mt. Pleasant Friday, No-
vember 28. Mrs. Matson
Consolidated School, and
is
is
Mr. Matson, a graduate of
as an engineer
a teacher at the
Madison Township
president of the Girl Scout Leaders.
New York
by the Glenn
L.
University,
is
employed
Martin Aircraft Company,
in
Baltimore.
1931
A. Marie Foust (Mrs.
Pa.,
where her husband
is
W.
Cletus Merrill) lives in Dimock,
principal of the schools.
Retha Noble (Mrs. Douglas Burgess)
Street,
New
lives
on Montrose
Milford, Pa.
1933
Leo Yozviak
has been teaching
Priscilla
lives at
in
31 Main Road, Buttonwood, Pa.
the Hanover Township
Acker McPhilomy
He
schools.
lives at Macgill Village,
No. 5-F,
Place Pulaski, Virginia.
Walter Stier lives at 44 Green Street, Ashley, Pa. He has
been teaching in the Hanover Township schools.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Nine
1934
Henry Rishe,
became the bride of Lieutenant Louis W.
Buckalew, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Buckalew, West Fifth
Street, both of Bloomsburg, in an impressive ceremony SaturMiss
Mary ruth
Rishe, daughter of Jonathan
of Catherine Street,
day, February 2
1
m
,
St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg.
The ceremony was performed by Archdeacon Squire
B.
Schofield, of Christ Episcopal Church, Danville.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Lieutenant Buckalew
is a graduate of the local high school and Mercersburg Academy.
He has for years been prominent as an amateur radio operator.
He has been in the federal service more than a year and is now
based at Fort George G. Meade, Md., with Company A, 105th
lank Destroyer
Battalion.
1936
Shuman, of Bloomsburg, and Norman E.
Keppley, of Robesonia, were married Saturday, December 27,
Mrs. Keppley has
in St. Paul’s Reformed Church, Robesonia.
been teaching in the schools of Robesonia, and Mr. Keppley is
a junior machinist at the Middletown airport.
Miss
Sara M.
Thomas
ton, Virginia.
ment
F.
Davis
He
of the U. S.
is
lives at
3821 Wilson Boulevard, Arling-
a civilian employe in the Medical Depart-
Army.
Mercedes W. Deane
West Chester, Pa.
is
now
437 South Hyde
living at
Street,
1937
Miss Dorothy Hess
and Sergeant
Bloomsburg, were married
New
Year’s
George Linn,
Day
at the
both of
home
of the
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. J. E. Skillington, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. Mrs.
bride.
Smith
is
employed
in the office of the
and Sergeant Linn has been stationed
The present address of Robert
Magee Carpet Company,
at Fort
Hill is
Meade, Maryland.
Route
2,
Annandale
Road, Fairfax, Virginia.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty
1938
Paul G. Martin has reported to the naval training station
at
Newport, R.
I.
Martin, son of the Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Martin, of Catawissa, recently enlisted in the naval reserve as second class officer store
He
keeper.
is
graduate
a
of the
Catawissa High
School class of 1934, Bloomsburg State Teachers College class
of 1938.
He took
ing
1940 and
a course in the American Institute of Banking dur’41
and
also
completed a
CPT
course, graduat-
ing last year with a private pilot license.
He has been head bookkeeper
Bank
at
at the
Farmers’ National
Bloomsburg for the past eighteen months.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Diettenck, of Berwick, announce
engagement of their daughter Bette to Maclyn Smethers,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Smethers, of Second street. The announcement was made at a dinner Saturday evening at the Lucille Tea Room.
Miss Dietterick is a graduate of Berwick High School in
the class of 1936 and attended B. S. T. C. for one year. Mr.
Smethers is also a graduate of the Berwick High School, class
of 1934 and of B. S. T. C. in the class of 1938. Both young
people are employed at the A. C. and F. Company.
the
Raymond W.
Williard
is
now
located at Seven Springs.
North Carolina.
Ann Evans
lives at
Jean Campbell
Mary A.
is
328 South Main
teaching
Allen’s address
Factory ville. Pa.
in
is
Street, Taylor, Pa.
221
Garfield Street, Kennett
Square, Pa.
1939
Miss Mary Aikman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Aikman, of Bloomsburg R. D. 5, has assumed her duties as teacher
in the Bethany Orphans’ Home Schools, located in Heidelberg
township. Miss Aikman is a graduate of the Berwick High
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-One
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and holds a
bachelor of science degree
in
I
elementary education, with train-
She was placed in charge of
one of the opportunity schools and was released from a Columbia county position to accept this type of work in Berks county.
She took the place of Mrs. Evelyn Jenkins O’Donald, who reing in the special education
field.
signed recently.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Harand Miss Bette Elaine Dent, both of Berwick.
Miss Dent is a graduate of the Berwick High School and of the
Pennsylvania State College. She is a member of the Kappa
Alpha Theta Sorority. Mr. Border was head football coach at
Blairsville before coming to Berwick as a member of the Berold L. Border
I
wick High School faculty.
Announcement has been made
I
Kathleen Kohan, of Brooklyn,
of the
engagement of Miss
York, and Frank Patrick,
Miss Kohan is a graduate of Columbia Univeremployed with the Chinese News Service, a subsidiary of the Trans-Pacific News. Mr. Patrick is employed in the
ordnance engineering department of the A. C. F. Company at
Jr.,
sity,
!
New
of Berwick.
and
is
Berwick.
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C.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Jean
Shuman, of Mainville and Claude Zehner, of Mountain Grove.
Shuman is teacher of commercial subjects in the Fairview
High School, Mountain Top. Mr. Zehner is employed by the
Farmers’ Cooperative Dairy in Hazleton.
Miss
I
1
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The address of Glenn F. Ranch has been changed
Maple Street, Allentown, Pa.
Miss Annabelle Bailey
were married
at
5:45
1940
and Willis
E. Jones,
to
1
345
of Danville,
o’clock Friday evening, February 6, in
the Baptist parsonage at Lewisburg.
The bride
is
the daughter of Mr.
East Market Street, Danville.
She
is
and Mrs. Suel
C. Bailey,
a graduate of the Danville
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-Two
High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher in the Shickshinny High School.
The groom is a son of Mrs. Martha Jones, of Elyria, Ohio.
He is a graduate of Bucknell University and is a member of the
faculty of the Danville High School.
They have taken up their residence in the Ammerman
apartment on East Market Street, Danville.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Josephine Brown, of Johnstown, and James L. Johnson, of Milton. The single ring ceremony took place at the parsonage of
the A. M. E. church
m
Bloomsburg, with the Rev.
L. E.
Latimer
The couple was unattended.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
of 1936, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
of 1940. The bridegroom was graduated from Milton
officiating.
class
class
High School,
class of
1933.
The young couple are residing in Philadelphia, where
bridegroom is employed at the navy yard.
Miss Christine Grover, of Berwick,
is
the
the latest addition to
the faculty of the Millersburg High School.
Miss Grover, a graduate of Berwick High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1940, succeeds Mrs.
Phyliss Heckman Masteller, who recently was married. The
new faculty member will teach commercial subjects and act as
secretary to Supervising Principal F. Douglas Beidel.
Phillip
W. Moore, a member
school at Delmar, Delaware,
is
of the
faculty
of the high
the author of an article entitled
‘The Challenge of Social-Business Education” appearing in the
January-February number of the Delaware School Journal.
Miss Jean Smith, of Catawissa, and William White,
Jr.,
of
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, were married at Elizabeth City
Sunday, December 21, 1941.
Mrs. White has been teaching
the schools of Elizabeth City for the past
White
IS
manager of
two years, and Mr.
a chain of theatres in that city.
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April, 1942
in
Page Forty-Three
Charles Girton,
who
enlisted in the Naval Air Corps shortly
was located at Noffett Field,
news was received from him.
after graduation,
last
time that
California, the
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
F^egina Lettiers, of FFazleton, and Nicholas Mitchell, of Everdale.
Mr. Mitchell is employed in Baltimore, Maryland.
1941
George R. Lewis, of Bloomsburg, has been added to the
national staff of the American Red Cross as a special instructor
in first aid. Mr. Lewis will be assigned to teach special instructors’ courses in first aid throughout the Eastern Area, which include the twenty-four states east of the Mississippi River.
The
instructprs trained in these special courses will take over the
teaching of standard and advanced
first aid classes arranged
by local Red Cross Chapters. The public demand for first aid
knowledge brought on by the war and the increased emphasis
on national defense.
Mr. Lewis, who has been a member of the First Aid, Water
Safety and Accident Committee of the Bloomsburg Red Cross
Chapter for the past five years, was educated at the Peddie
School, Highstown, New Jersey, and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
He attended
four
Red
Cross national aquatic
and has taught water safety and first aid at summer
camps. Boy Scout camps, and C. C. C. camps. In addition, he
has been active in Boy Scout work in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and for two years was counselor at Camp Lavigne,
schools,
Benton, Pa.
ceremony. Miss Victoria Krum, of Bloomsburg,
Roy Roberts, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Roberts, of Catawissa, Sunday, February 10.
The ceremony took place in the St. John’s Reformed
church, Catawissa, with the pastor, the Rev. L. M. Martin, performing the nuptials and using the impressive ring ceremony.
In a quiet
became
the bride of
The bride
class of
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
1939, and was employed by the Bell Telephone Com-
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April, 1942
Page Forty -Four
The groom is a graduate of the Catawissa High School,
class of 936, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class
of 1941, and is employed at the Middletown airport. After a
brief wedding trip to Philadelphia they will make their home
pany.
1
at Harrisburg.
Miss Doris M. Curl, of Wilkes-Barre, and Dr. Carl T. Warhurst, of
the
First
Bloomsburg, were married Friday, November 28, in
Welsh Presbyterian Church, in Wilkes-Barre. Mrs.
member
Warhurst, a
teaching
in the
of last year’s graduating class, has been
Portland High School.
Dr. Warhurst
is
a grad-
uate of the Bloomsburg High School and of the Temple University
Dental School.
and Miss Clara C. Rambo,
were married April 26, 1941, at Winchester,
Announcement of the marriage was made in Decem-
Reber R.
Fisher, of Catawissa,
of Bloomsburg,
Virginia.
ber.
Mrs. Fisher,
Nursing,
Hospital.
of the
is
a graduate
employed
Mr. Fisher
of the
Williamsport
School of
as a supervisor in the Williamsport City
is
teaching in the commercial department
Lower Paxton Township High School, Harrisburg.
Stuart Edwards,
who
has been
serving
as a
substitute
teacher in the Catawissa High School, has accepted a position
as biology teacher
Military
Academy,
and
in
athletic supervisor in the Florida Boys’
St.
Petersburg.
Florida in January to begin his
work
Mr. Edwards went to
in the
new
Miss Helen Kent Dixon, of Benton, and
Jr.,
position.
Edward Karnes,
of Orangeville, were married Saturday, January 3, in the
Mrs. Karnes is teaching
and second grades in Orangeville, and Mr. Karnes is employed at the American Car and Foundry Company plant in
South Williamsport Methodist Church.
first
Berwick.
Private
J.
Rutter Ohl,
Jr.,
of Bloomsburg,
graduated from the Chanute Field Branch,
I’echnical School.
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April, 1942
was recently
Army
Air Corps,
Page Forty-Five
1942
William H. Hagenbuch,
of Bloomsburg, one of the B.
Jr.,
who last year took CAA training at the Bloomsburg airport, was among a large class of cadets who received
silver wings and commissions as second lieutenants, U. S. Army
Air Corps, early this year. He has been assigned to active duty.
S. T. C.
students
The
wings were presented during the last graduaBarksdale Field, Louisiana.
silver
tion exercises for pilot trainees at
This
was
the second
and
final class of
war-time
uate at the air base, pending a change of the
to grad-
pilots
field’s status
from
a pilot training school to a base for pursuit squadrons.
Lieutenant Hagenbuch was appointed an aviation cadet
the
army air corps
flight training at
his basic flying at
last
June.
He
in
received his primary school
Parks Air College, East
St. Louis, Illinois,
and
Georgia Aero Tech, Augusta, Georgia, before
going to Barksdale Field for his advanced training.
assigned to active duty with the
Army
He has been
Air Corps.
Miss Ruth Weitz, of Duryea, and Albert H. Warhurst, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, October 4, in the CatheBoth the bride and groom
dral of the Incarnation, Baltimore.
were former students
at the
Nelson Oman,
Mr. Warhurst
Bloomsburg.
at the College.
Magee Carpet Company,
in
is
employed
who would have been a member of the
is now an army aviation cadet, and is
Senior class this year,
receiving instruction in a training center in Texas.
Mr.
Oman
successfully completed the civilian pilot training course given
at the College last year.
DDN^T FORGET
Alumni
Moif
3.3nxt
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-Six
Mme. Chu Shih-ming spoke before the college assembly
Wednesday morning, March 18, at ten o’clock, on the general
subject of China’s effort to safeguard human welfare in time of
war.
Mme. Chu came to the United States from Chungking dursummer and spoke from first hand knowledge of
conditions there. She is the wife of General Chu Shih-ming,
ing the past
Military Attache to the Chinese Embassy, Washington, D. C.
She studied at McIntyre High School in Shanghai and spent a
year at Ginling College, Nanking.
Coming
to the United States,
she graduated from Wellesley College and also from the Hygiene and Physical Education Department of that college. After
returning to China she taught Physical Education and English
at the high school
Nanking, National
and college she had attended and also at
Central, National Peiping, and Provincial
Cheking Universities.
She served on the Y. M. C. A. Board in several cities and
was a member of the National Committee for China and
of the World Committee. Mme. Chu was twice a representative
of the Y. W. C. A. of China at world conventions in Geneva,
Switzerland. She represented the China Amateur Athletic Federation in the 1936 Olympic Games at Berlin.
aiso
Mme. Chu
is a Soroptimist and was Chairman of the NanShe was an officer of the International Women’s
Nanking and Chungking.
king Chapter.
Club
in
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April, 1942
Page Forty-Seven
Lane K. Newberry, native-born American artist and interAmerican scene, was presented Friday, February
27 to the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Newberry, an lowian, brought with him a collection of his
own oils, presented in large electrically lighted cabinets which
preter of the
“How
Get That Way.”
concerned with the historical and pictorical side of that great American epic, the Mormon migration across the plains to the chosen land in Salt Lake
he uses to
An
Valley.
illustrate his subject,
important part of his display
A
Artists
is
great deal of his paintings deal with historical
ma-
which Mr. Newberry gathered in his travels. For example
he traveled 20,000 miles while completing twenty-one new
terial
including
paintings of the passing historical spots in Illinois,
such places as the
Opuka Court House where both
Stephen A. Douglas spoke,
kia,
home
of U.
S.
house
Illinois’ first state
Grant, and other
Lincoln and
at
Kaskas-
famed landmarks.
•
Miss Ellen Eudora Hosier and Dr. Robert
J.
Kuhl, both of
Berwick, were married Wednesday, December 24, in St. Louis,
Missouri. Mrs. Kuhl is a teacher m the Ferris Heights Building
in
Dr. Kuhl
Berwick.
lege,
is
a graduate of Pennsylvania State Col-
where he was a member of the Theta Upsilon Omega
fra-
Last spring. Dr. Kuhl received his degree of Doctor of
ternity.
Medicine from
St.
Louis University, and at the
same
time, he
received his commission as a reserve officer in the United States
Army. He
is
a
member
honor fraternity
hi.^
of the
Apha Omega Alpha, professional
He has been serving
at St. Louis University.
interneship at the St. Louis City Hospital,
and expects a
call
with the armed forces.
to service
The Department of Music of the College presented a facby Robert Morgan, pianist, Thursday evening, December
Mr. Morgan presented the following program to an
Chaconne, by John Sebastian Bach,
enthusiastic audience:
Sonata, Op. 8, No. five, by Chopin, Etude, by Scriabin, The
Fountain, by Ravel, Minstrels, by Debussy, Intermezzo, Op. No.
one, by Brahms, and the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, by Liszt.
ulty recital
1
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April, 1942
Paeg Forty-Eight
The fourth In the series of entertainment program given
at the College was presented Friday evening, January 9, when
Robert Kitain, Russian violinist, appeared in a recital that was
greatly enjoyed by the entire audience. Mr. Kitain studied at
the Imperial Conservatory in Lenigrad, then
ersburg.
first
He has appeared
in
recitals all
American appearance was
in
known
as St. Pet-
over the world.
His
1939.
•
Dr. Nell Maupin, of the social studies department of the
State Teachers and councilor of
Gamma
Beta chapter of Kappa
Delta Pi, honor society in education, attended the convocation
of
Kappa Delta
Pi
which was held
in
San Francisco, California,
February 23, 24, 25, Doctor Maupin was a delegate
meeting, and represented her chapter.
at this
•
Miss Edith
Berwick,
Friedberg, of
a former
student at
Bloomsburg, and Elliot R. Mesnick, of Brooklyn, were married
Wednesday, December 24, at Hagerstown, Maryland. The bride
is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College.
•
Perry D. Evans, of Bloomsburg, died at his
home
Friday,
January 16, following an illness of fifteen months. Mr. Evans
\vas born in Fishing Creek Township, and spent most of his life
in Bloomsburg.
For sixteen years he was employed as a fire-
man
at the College.
•
Miss Jean Eisenhauer, of Mifflinville, and James Gingher,
have recently announced their engagement. Miss
employed in the supply department of the American Car and Foundry Company and Mr. Gingher is employed in
the mechanical department of the same company.
of Berwick,
Eisenhauer
is
o
o
DDN^T FORGET
AUufuU
^cuf, Meuf. 3.3n>d
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April, 1942
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BalhetLall Sco4e4,
December 13
Alumni 20
B. S. T.
C.51
January 10
Lock Haven 33
B. S. T. C.
39
B. S. T. C.
52
B. S. T. C.
44
B. S. T. C.
58
B. S. T. C.
45
B. S. T. C.
59
January 16
Millersville
48
January 17
Shippensburg 32
January 23
Mansfield
46
January 30
Shippensburg 32
January 31
Millersville
63
February 7
Lock Haven 37
B. S. T. C. 41
February 13
East Stroudsburg
48
B. S. T. C.
47
B. S. T. C.
43
B. S. T. C.
30
B. S. T. C.
44
February 14
Mansfield 5
February 21
East Stroudsburg 55
February 27
West Chester 40
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ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
3000
Send check for
$1.00 to Dr. E. H.
Bloomsburg, Penna.
Nelson, Business Manager,
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DI-
RECTORY.
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Send news items
to
Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker, Editor, Bloomsburg,
Penna.
A COMPLETE ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED
UTTH THE APRIL, 1939,
NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR AD-
IN THE QUARTERLY, STARTING
ISSUE.
DRESS.
EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETHING TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT
LOAN FUND. DO YOUR P.ART. WE NEED THE HELP OF
EVERY GRADUATE.
Send
checks to Mr. D. D. Wright,
Treasurer,
Bloomsburg,
Penna.
ALU3INI ON THE CAMPUS FOR ALUMNI DAY. Come
1000
back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the line program. See the new
buildings. Shake hand.s with your classmates and friends.
f
A
limited
number
of the College will he
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
av'ailable
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In one of the most impressive exercises in the history
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the new $300,000.00 gymnasium, to be known as the Centennial Gymnasium, was dedicated Saturday afternoon. May 23.
Participating in the exercises in the presence of a
large audience of alumni, members of the graduating
class and friends were Governor Arthur H. James, Dr.
Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. A. K. Aldinger, New York City, who stalled
the physical education program at Bloomsburg and coached some of its greatest athletic teams.
President Harvey A. Andruss presided at the exercises which followed a processional of dignitaries, members of
Capella Choir, the class and graduates. Music
was by the Bloomsburg High School Band, T. Holland
Paist, Jr., directing.
The invocation was given by William B. Sutliff, dean
emeritus of the college. David H. Diehl, executive director of the general State Authority, was unable to attend
because of the illness of a son in a Pittsburgh Hospital.
President Andruss made the presentation of the gymnasium and asserted that “in the commemoration of a
century of higher education at Bloomsburg this building
A
accordingly named ‘The Centennial Gymnasium’.”
In his acceptance Reg. S. Hemingway, president of
the Trustees, asserted “In erecting this structure you are
not only preserving the ancient landmarks which your
forefathers have set, but you are establishing new landmarks for our prosterity to preserve and improve upon.
We see in this Centennial Gymnasium not only the emblem of an intelligent Commonwealth, but a memorial to
the educational progress of its people.”
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“Let US in our fight for the freedom of the world
sure that we preserve the liberties of our own nation,” Governor Arthur H. James asserted in the dedicatory address of The Centennial Gymnasium.
Speaking before the exceptionally large audience,
considering the curtailment of travel in the emergency,
the chief executive of the Commonwealth addressed many
of his remarks to the members of the graduating class
who attended in a body attired in caps and gowns.
He told them, “Why fear? The same sun is shining;
we have the same good earth. It all depends on what we
have in the heart and whether we have the courage.”
make
Accompanied to Bloomsburg by his wife. Governor
James and other principals in the day’s program reached
the College dining hall for luncheon about 1 :00 o’clock
and left there immediately afterward for the exercises at
the gymnasium. Governor James and President Andruss
headed the procession.
Presented by Reg. S. Hemingway, President of the
(College Trustees, the Governor praised the work of Dr.
k'rancis B. Haas and of President Andruss of the College
and recalled that his earliest teacher, a Miss Wilkins, was
a Bloomsburg graduate.
“Bloomsburg has always stood out among the Teachers Colleges and is high on the roster of the institutions of
the Commonwealth. An institution exceeded by none is
Bloomsburg in the realm of education in the state.”
He said that the residents of the Commonwealth upon the receipt of a building such as was being dedicated,
should receive it not in the spirit of receiving something
from the government but of the government recognizing
the institution’s worth in the establishment of happiness
and the advancement of the welfare of its people.
“There is too much prevalence given to the view that
we get something from the government. Let me emphasize that no government is ever higher than the people.”
Speaking to the class he said “When you go out in
life remember T am a sovereign in myself.’
There is no
one in authority so high that he represents anything else
but being the servant of our people.
“If we would measure up we must see that the people have the finest advantages that they, such as you
members of the class, may go out into life determined to
maintain the ideals instilled in you in such institutions as
:
this.
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August, 1942
Page Three
“Do not lag in life. May there ever be the spirit of
competition and ambition. If we stop moving forwai’d,
either physically or in the heait, we dry up and rot.
When the machine lags the machine begins to fall apart.
“You are going out into the world at a time when it
IS most unsettled.
Do not be afraid. The world in a great
measure is no different today than it has ever been. Think
of life in the terms of adventure.
“Our ancestors traveled 3,000 miles to this country.
They had no fear, only a spirit of determination. They
have founded here a government that is the finest conception man has ever realized. It is founded on the Bible
and the philosophy that all men are born free. They
were willing to sacrifice their lives, fortunes and sacred
honor for
this.
“Now we see a force coming in the world that is
denying this philosophy. This force takes the position
that there must be a master that the ordinary man or
V Oman does not know how to handle his or her life.
“When the power of the democratic peoples gets
lolling we know that the democratic nations will prevail
and that the democratic way of life based on the Bible
;
will continue.
“We will give up everything in this emergency bui
our liberties of telling our government what to do. We
v;ill allow the government to enroll its man power and ration sugar, tires, gasoline or anything with the understanding that when this emergency is over regimentation
is
over, too.
“Don’t get the idea that because the government says
right. Tell any of the officials, including the Governor of your state, what you desire. That is your right.
“With strong minds, bodies and hearts we can preserve our liberties and those of the rest of the world.’’
The A Capella Choir, with Miss Harriet M. Moore directing and Miss Louise Adams as accompanist, led in
so,
it is
singing patriotic songs.
Speaking on “One Hundred Years of Education at
Bloomsburg,’’ Dr. Francis B. Haas, reviewing the contribution of the institution, observed “Could these men and
women, who through devoted service in the century past,
be with us today, with what astonishment they would
This
gaze upon the present realization of their dreams
magnificent gymnasium, equipped to produce sound
.
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August, 1942
Page Four
minds
in
sound bodies,
in this
time of great national need
The roar of ‘Wings over Bloomsburg’ as the College
makes its contribution to the vital necessity for trained
.
.
.
aviators. This and a host of other current projects are
beyond their fondest dreams.
“You have heard it said that the first hundred years
ai’e the hardest.
Those of us who have been privileged to
have a part in the development of this institution pass on
the torch with understanding of the difficult problems to
be faced and with confidence that the torch will be held
high and earned on.
“We dedicate the ‘Centennial Gymnasium’ of this institution to the service of democracy, the immediate objective of which is the winning of the ‘World Freedom
War’.’’
Dr. Aldinger asserted that he got most personal satisfaction from the development of the men who were
under him in his daj’s at Bloomsburg at the turn of the
century and not in the development of winning teams.
V\‘’ inning, he said, came from offensive plaj*
and through
the practice of first aid, through necessity, for material
He was presented by Dean Sutliff.
\.-as limited.
The program concluded with the National Anthem.
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A recent count has revealed that Bloomsburg now
has over 9,000 graduates. Of this number, about 1,050
are deceased, about 7,000 are on the active list, and about
1,300 are on the inactive list. The term “inactive” means
that mail addressed to these people has been returned,
and that the college does not have their correct addresses. Graduates of Bloomsburg can render great assistance
by keeping their class lists up to date. The class of 1917,
in making plans for their twenty-fifth year reunion this
year, were able to reduce the number on the inactive list
of their class to less than ten. What they have done, other
classes can do. All that is necessary is that someone be
willing to assume the responsibility.
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The faculty of the college enteitained President and
Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss at a dinner Wednesday evening,
April 15, in the college dining room. Trustees of the college were also guests of the faculty.
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August. 1942
Page Five
Commencement
A kind of education is needed which has for its focus
community and the relationship of every man to his
community, Dr. Ambrose L. West, President, New Jersey
State Teachers College, Trenton, told the 115 members of
the graduating class at the Teachers College, Tuesday
the
morning.
May
26.
By the “community”
the speaker said he meant “not
but his state, his nation, and
now his world” and he warned that “when this war is
over, we shall be tempted again to withdraw into our own
contented isolationism instead of cooperating with other
nations in establishing conditions of social and economic
justice under which nations can j^rosper. Such isolationism will lead only to another conflict some time in the futhe place where a
man
lives,
ture.”
The procession of the class included the paiticipants
the exercises, trustees and faculty with the processional
“Marcia Religosa,” played by H. F. Fenstemaker. The
invocation was by William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus. Following the address, Mr. Fenstemaker pleased with an organ selection, “Adoremus, Melodie Religieuse, Op. 72.”
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the College, conferred the degrees. All joined in singing “Alma Mater”
and the class left the auditorium as Mr. Fenstemaker
played as the recessional “Te Deum Laudamus.” Miss
Harriet M. Moore directed the music for the program.
Dr. West during his address said
in
:
“Society has a right to expect that graduates of colleges will have
the attributes of ‘educated men.’ What are the qualities of such people? Professor Whitehead defines an ‘educated man’ as one ‘with
wide knowledge, a disciplined intelligence, and a discriminating
taste.’ Each of these attainments is essential for a person to be truly
educated. A person with only wide knowledge, but without disciplined intelligence, would be useless in the present world. He would
be ‘all dressed up’ but ‘with no place to go.’ A person with wide
knowledge and a disciplined intelligence, but without discriminating
taste, might be a successful gangster or some other type of menace to
society. More of the same kind of education which has been current
in many American communities will not solve our problems. A different kind of education is needed. This education must have as its
focus the community and the relationship of every man to his community. And, of course, we mean by the community not the place
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Six
man
where
a
cation
must teach men
lives,
but his state, his nation and now his world. Eduto understand the world in which they live
and to adjust their social, economic and political policies to this real
world and not to some woi'ld which has been dead for many years.
“In 1919 we failed to understand our world. We were still living
under the illusions created by the nineteenth century. We failed to
realize that the American frontier had disappeared and that many
other conditions which had given us prosperity and peace had likewise changed. We expected to take advantage of the scientific additions to our life without taking responsibility for helping to create the
li^nd of world in which an industrialized and mechanized civilization
could exist. So we refused to listen to Woodrow Wilson when he appealed to us to help organize a society of nations wliich might have
prevented the catastrophe in which we now find ourselves.
“One hundred years ago Emerson in a famous essay reminded
the
oui'
American people that ‘inaction is cowardice.’" A philosopher
own time, Ralph Barton Perry, has expi'essed the same idea
of
in
In other words, we cannot escape the
consequences which come to a people which allows indifferences to
get the better of positive action. Our concepts of peace have always
been negative. We have thought of peace as the absence of war and
have thought that we could keep peace by declaring that we would be
neutral in a struggle between other nations. We should have learned
that peace is a product of cooperation and justice. It is not an end in
itself but comes as a by-product of positive international relationships. When this war is over, we shall be tempted again to withdraw
into our own contented isolationism instead of cooperating with otlier nations in establishing conditions of social and economic justice
under which nations can prosper. Such isolationism will lead only to
another conflict sometime in the future.
the phrase, ‘inaction
is action.’
“Every educated man must try to understand the currents of human developments which persist through the years for the improveof decent living. As Justice Holmes once said, he must be attempting to live so that ‘a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men will still be moving to the measure of his thought.’ If we
look back over the world’s history, we can find men of whom that
can be said. Jefferson was such a man. He fought for political democracy, religious freedom and educaitonal opportunitj’. Horace
Mann was such a man in his fight for the establishment of the common school and the proper education of teachers. Pasteur was such
a man as he struggled to understand and conquer the germs of disease. The Wright brothers were such men as they experimented to
give us a new form of transportation. Wilson was such a man as he
fought to make us see that cooperation between nations is the only
possible way to avoid slaughter and ruin every few years. The ‘wave
of the future’ depends on how many people are willing to be loyal to
t’lese eternal values for which man has been struggling for generations. Educated men must lead in this struggle.”
ment
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August, 1942
:
Page Seven
liaxxxU(ui^i^jcUe
Sen^mcm
Whether we are witnessing the bankruptcy of the
race or the birth throes of a new and more glor-
human
day will be determined largely by that which the
world sees and that which it seeks, Rev. Gladstone P.
Cooley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Berwick, told the members of the graduating class of the
State Teachers College at the baccalaureate services in
ious
the College auditorium, Sunday afternoon. May 24.
The minister asserted that “This Kingdom of God, as
outlined by Jesus, ought to flash upon the war weary eyes
of our generation like a gem unsurpassed and as a priceless reward for those who truly seek the highest good.”
The services opened with the processional, “Ancient
of Days” and the invocation by the Rev. Mr. Cooley. The
congregation sang “Faith of Our Fathers” and President
Harvey A, Andruss, of the College, read the Scripture.
Following the sermon, “Bless the Lord, O My Soul,” was
sung by A Capella Choir, Miss Hannet M. Moore director,
and Miss Jeanne Moll, pianist. The Rev. Mr. Cooley pronounced the benediction and the recessional was “Awake,
My Soul.” H. F. Fenstemaker was at the console ancl
Miss Moore directed the music.
Using as his subject, “Pearl of Great Price,” and basremarks on the Parable of Jesus by the same name,
his
hig
tlie Rev. Mr. Cooley said in part
“You are being graduated at a time when you may find it difficult to decide whether you are witnessing in the world today, the
of the human race or the birthroes of a new and more
own feeling is that potentially it may be either
glorious day.
bankruptcy
My
upon what we do with it. And what we do with it,
going to be determined largely by that which the world sees and
one, depending
is
that
which
it
seeks.
“When we
human
today, a struggle
certainly it seems
It takes imagination and faith to be
to
able to visualize the possibilities of the future in the piles of debris
ir:
look at the struggling
which most of you are soon
be coming down in ruins.
race
become involved,
to
created by this war.
“But
ways two
we need
to
remember
sets of factors.
the ‘Possibilities.’
It is
in
every situation in
These may be called the
the actualities that
we now
life
there are al-
‘Actualities’
see.
The
and
possi-
must be imagined first and then faithfully pursued. If you
concentrate on the present actualities you will become cynical and
bilities
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August, 1942
Page Eight
If, however, you can even imagine the possibilities you
have the basis for an attempt at something better. These
potentialities, conceived by the imagination but obtained by constant
eifort, sometimes by ‘blood, sweat and tears,’ I am calling in this address, ‘Pearls of Great Price.’
discouraged.
can
at least
“Jesus in His fascinating story of treasure hunting is suggesting
is in this life a highest good.
And that this highest good
can only be obtained by an unremitting quest. To this search we
must bring our critical intelligence, our highest sens^ of values and
our unremitting efforts. It is by such critical and discriminating intelligence and effort that we can see the joyous possibilities in the
that there
drab
actualities.
you are tempted to feel that you are about to inherit a bankrupt world, it might do you good to take inventory of your assets.
These are a part of the actualities of the moment.
“If
“There is for example your health, your youth and your training.
These are all ‘goodly pearls.’ But one of the finest goodly pearls that
you possess is your heritage. This heritage is manifold but one of the
most important segments of it is your national heritage. This nationIt is
al' heritage that comes to you has been produced at great cost.
now being challenged and because of the challenge we have come to
appreciate it anew, and we are now risking our all to defend it. It is
a heritage that some of you will soon be called upon to defend. You
will do it more willingly and with better grace if you are aware what
this national heritage really
is.
“It is partly natural. That is to say the heritage which comes to
us from nature, or ‘the good earth’ of this great land of ours. It is
made up of the absolutely inexhaustable physical forces of this
American
earth, of the riches of our mines,
and our
oil
wells,
and
cur forests, and our streams.
“It is also human heritage; a heritage of a great people remarkably united in their agreement to establish a continental brotherhood
on this hemisphere on the basis of national understanding and coop-
eration.
“It is also a spiritual heritage.
The
spiritual forbears of this na-
our American ideals of liband freedom and a host of institutions that went with these
ideals. This wedding of culture and faith is the true ‘American way
tion, Christian in thought,
gave birth
to
erty
of
life.’
“All these are goodly pearls we already possess. But like the
pearl merchant of the parable we cannot be content with the possession of mere goodly pearls. We must ever be on the search for the
‘Pearl of Great Price.’ This pearl of great price, let us call ‘Destiny.’
Our heritage we possess; destiny we must yet achieve.
“This ‘Pearl of Great Price,’ Jesus, in his parable, identified
v/l'th the Kingdom of Heaven. Heritage and destiny come together in
God who is ‘the same, yesterday, today and forever more.’ As Dr.
John MacKay has put it, ‘In the measure in which we can see no fu-
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August, 1942
Page Nine
ture apart from Him, so that the destiny to which we aspire and
God’s purpose in Christ for our lives become one; in the measure in
which God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ is the beginning, the
center, and the end of our existence. He in whom heritage and desin that measure
shall we be able to look forward to a
tiny meet
worthy tomorrow and receive strength for the road to reach it.’
“This Kingdom of God as outlined by Jesus, ought to flash upon
tne war weary eyes of our generation like a gem unsurpassed and as
a priceless reward for those who truly seek the highest good, “The
Pearl of Great Price.’’
The speaker said in closing, “Young ladies and gentlemen of the
graduating class, I congratulate you on the goodly pearls you possess. I pray God’s blessing on you in your quest for pearls of greater
price, and may you find great satisfaction for time and eternity in
‘The Pearls of Great Price,’ even our Father’s Kingdom.”
—
—
PRE-SESSION
An
NEW FEATURE
unanticipated enrollment of 150 registered at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the pre-session,
which opened Monday, June 8.
This program was the first in the history of the college and was the largest enrollment for any summer session of the same length in the history of the institution.)
There were eighty dormitory students and seventy
day students, and those residing at the college fifty-five
were women and twenty-five men.
Of those enrolled a small group were Freshmen who
were starting the three calendar year plan.
President Harvey A. Andruss stated that if present
indications continue the streamline program would produce numbers for the, six-week session which will exceed
that of last year. He continued that the present tendency
of larger summer sessions is the manner in which colleges
are meeting the present shortage of teachers.
Courses offered at the three-week session were economic geography. Dr. H. H. Russell; elementary botany.
Dr. Kimber H. Kuster; present day social economic problems, E. A. Reams; children’s literature, Samuel Wilson;
;
,
biological science. Dr. E. H. Nelson;
stemaker; salesmanship and retail
Forney.
ethics, Howard Fenselling, William C.
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August, 1942
Page Ten
Alumni Meeting,
T. F. Chroswaite, Hanover attorney, responding for
the class of 1892, stole the show at the general alumni
meeting when Mrs. C. C. Housenick, R. Bruce Albert, of
Bloomsburg, and Fred W. Diehl, Danville, were re-elected directors for three year tenns.
Responding for the fifty year class which had twenty
members back, he told of the many professions to which
members had devoted their lives. “We haven’t had a
judge but we’re young yet. We haven’t had a president
cither, but we hope to, that is if there is ever a vacancy.
“Back in our day we thought a blackout was the
plunging of the building into darkness at ten o’clock. We
associated sabotage with desecration of the Sabbath.
“We thought only of mythical sirens and if a cricket
so much as chirped at night we went to the windows to
see what it was all about. One member of our faculty of
that day showed good judgment, Prof. Hartline married
one of our class. I wish to say to the members of this
year’s class that you have joined a society of scholars and
I am ceitain you will maintain the standards that have
been established.’’
The 1942 class marched into the meeting in a body
and Earl Harris, treasurer, presented a check for membership of the class. R. Bruce Albert, alumni president,
presided.
Dr. E. H. Nelson and Howard Fenstemaker reported
for the Alumni Quarterly and the report of D. D. Wright,
Treasurer of the Student Loan Fund, showed the fund
totalling over $10,000 with 60 persons now borrowers.
The group stood in silent tribute to the memory of
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus, whose death occurred June, 1941. Miss Edna Aurand, of the Luzerne
county group, presented the balance of its $100 pledge to
the student loan fund. President Andruss welcomed the
graduates on behalf of the college. Dr. A. K. Aldinger
spoke briefly and said the good teams of his day were the
result of cooperation.
Oldest living graduate present was Prof. C. M. Albert, class of 1879. Miss Mary Petty, Berwick, reported
for 1887, Mr. Chroswaite for the fifty year class; O. Z.
Low, Orangeville, for 1897 Miss Marie Dean, Scranton.
;
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August, 1942
Page Eleven
for 1902; Miss Bertha Lovering, Scranton, 1907; Ercell
Bidleman, Bloomsburg, 1912; Allen Cromis, Bloomsburg,
1917; Miss Cleora McKinstry, Bloomsburg, 1922; Verna
Medley Davenport for 1927; Mrs. Betty Jones Harris,
1940.
A
large audience enthusiastically received the presentation of “Pride and Prejudice” by the Bloomsburg
players Thursday evening, April 30, in the college auditorium. The characters of the play, written by Helen
Jerome, were portrayed by B. S. T. C. students with Charlene Margie having the lead as Elizabeth and Boyd Buckingham as Mr. Darcy.
The setting was England in the early century and centered
around a family living in a small town. The flighty mother, who
above everything else wanted husbands for her three daughters, was
portrayed by Stella Williams; Jane, the prettiest of the sisters, was
played by Betty Katerman; Lydia, the youngest, by Betty Hagenbuch; Mr. Bennett, the father, Lee Beaumont; Mr. Bingley, Paul
Rowlands; Mr. Collins, George Miller; Charlotte, Catherine Sedlack;
Mr. Wickham, Irving Gottlieb; Miss Bingley, Jean Kuster; Forbes,
Carl Berninger; Mrs. Lucas, Betsy Smith; Maggie, Sara Jean Eastman; Lady Catherine, Anne Shortess; Mrs. Gardiner, Ella Shargo;
Colonel Fitzwilliams, Gerald Demaree.
The play was divided into three acts and seven scenes. Music
between the acts was presented by Howard Fenstemaker. George
Miller, as Mr. Collins, the simpering cousin of the Bennets, and Betty Hagenbuch, as Lydia, the giddy young sister who was mad about
uniforms, especially amused the audience. Mr. Bennett, with his dry
humor and martyred way of putting up with his wife, also drew
many laughs. Miss Margie and Mr. Darcy and Miss Katerman and
Mr. Rowlands provided the romantic interest for this adaptation of a
classic novel.
iti
Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Miss Margaret McCulla, of Freeland, and Walter Lash, of
The ceremony was performed May 30, 1940,
Middleport, with the Rev. Mr. Orzeck officiating. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Lash are graduates of Bloomsburg, Mrs.
Lash is a substitute teacher in the Foster Township
schools, and Mr. Lash is a teacher in the commercial department of the Frackville High School.
Frackville.
at
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August, 1942
Page Twelve
Alumni Banquet
Early developments of the Teachers College which
ground work for the splendid institution of today
were interestingly related at the Alumni Banquet by Prof.
Charles H. Albert, a member of the class of 1879, and
one of the beloved “Old Guard.”
The other two living members and their wives, the
latter also former members of the faculty. Dean and Mrs.
B. Sutliff and Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, were also in
attendance and all were given an ovation by the gradlaid the
uates.
Despite the
crisis
and
its
rationing the
attendance
was almost as large as that of a year ago and appearing
on the program wdth Prof. Albert were Dr. Francis B.
Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and former Bloomsburg president Dr. A. K. Aldinger, head of
;
the physical education department of the schools of the
City of New York, and coach of some of Bloomsburg’s
greatest teams around the turn of the century R. Bruce
Albert, president of the graduate body, and President
Harvey A. Andruss, who welcomed the graduates on behalf of the College.
A number of alumni in the service were on the campus during the day and were recognized. Among those at
the banquet were Lieutenant George Houseknecht, class
of 1941, and his bride, the foimer Joyce Letterman, of
Bloomsburg; Sergeant Dick Foote, 1941, of Camp Croft,
S. C., a son of the late J. C. Foote, for years head of the
English department; Sergeant Joseph Sworin, and Ensign
Rostand Kelly, the latter at Fort Schuyler, New York.
Singing during the evening was in charge of Miss
Harriet H. Moore with G. Gordon Keller at the solovox.
;
Dinner music wms by Mr. Keller.
The program opened with the singing of America
and the invocation by the Rev. L. V. Barber, pastor of the
Benton-Orangeville Presbyterian church.
Trustees and wives present were Reg. S. Hemingway, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Croop, of
Berwick, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville.
Alumni officers introduced in addition to the president were Mrs. C. C. Housenick, secretary, and Miss Harriet Carpenter, treasurer and former faculty member, of
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August, 1942
Page Thirteen
Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Ruth Speaiy Griffith, WilkesBarre, vice president. Edward F. Schuyler presided.
Prof. Albert, who taught Spring terms at the college
from
his
graduation
in
1879
until
1887 and then devoted
of his time to teaching at the institution until his retirement in 1926, held the closest of interest as he told of
the school as it was when he enrolled and traced its progress.
classmate and life-long friend of the late Prof. Oliver H. Bakeless, Prof. Albeit, now eighty-four but with
a memory as keen as ever, contrasted the various changes
in educational methods and lauded many of the faculty,
past and present, for their contributions to Bloomsburg.
His definition of education, emphasized repeatedly
in the class room and long since adopted as a pattern for
life by many of his former pupils who were in the banquet hall, formed the basis for some of his most pertinent
remarks. The definition is “Education is that which enables us to do what we should at the right time and
whether we want to or not.’’
all
A
Following the banquet, which concluded with the
the group adjourned to the new gymnasium.
Entertainment there included dancing and the showing
of all of the six motion pictures which have been made of
college life at Bloomsburg.
Alma Mater,
COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT OFFICERS
At a recent chapel meeting of the Community Government Association on the campus of the Teachers College, the newly elected members of the College Council
were inducted
into office with a formal ceremony.
El wood Beaver, Catawissa, president for 1941-42
term, opened the meeting and immediately turned it over
to the vice-president, Ralph McCracken, Allentown, who
inducted the members of the new College Council for the
1942-43 college term.
The members of the new council are: Boyd Buckingham, York,
president; Joanna Fice, Athens, vice-president; Harold Miller, treasui-er, Drums; Jeanne Knight, secretary, Bloomsburg; John Witkoski,
Mt. Carmel; Carl Berninger, Catawissa; Sara Jean Eastman, Bloomsburg; George Smith. Shamokin; Stella Williams, Luzerne; Donald
Babb, Benton; Bernard Kane, Centralia; Margaret Dean, Kulpmont;
Robert Bunge, Catawissa; Louise Madl, Shamokin; Ruth Ebright,
Mifilintown; Winton Laubach, Benton.
,
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August, 1942
:
Page Fourteen
Ivy
Day
Seniors had their day at the Teachers College MonMay 25, with traditional Ivy Day exercises in the
grove in early evening followed by a party on the campus
at which faculty, parents and friends were guests.
Walter Mohr, of Scranton, Ivy Day orator, speaking
from the pergola in the grove, a memorial of the class of
1916, dealt with the realities which the class faces as it
goes into the world and pointed out “The chaotic condition of the world today brings to us a clearer, more distmct picture of our obligations.”
Following the processional to the grove the College
day,
Chorus sang “Maroon and Gold.” Ralph Zimmerman,
class president, presented Mr. Mohr.
Plant Ivy at New
Following the oration, the class
Gym
proceeded to the
for the Ivy planting. The presentation of the spade was by Senior Class President Zimmerman and the acceptance by John Witkoski, presidentelect of the class of 1943. The program concluded with
the singing of “Alma Mater” by the College Chorus. The
party followed immediately. Mr. Mohr’s oration follows
“The Bible teaches us that the early Christians used ivy to symbolize everlasting life; we of the class of 1942 hope sincerely that the
planting of this ivy today will also be an everlasting one; a way of
life that will include prosperity, tolerance, peace, and international
good will; one that will see an end of intolerance, servitude and dicCentennial
Gymnasium
domination throughout the world.
“This class is faced with more problems and more uncertainty
than probably any other graduating class in the history of the school.
Nevertheless, we are determined to face the future with a definite
cC'Ufidence because we feel that here at Bloomsburg we have received the necessary education to cope with the problems and the
uncertainty facing all graduates in all schools. All of us are quite
aware that within a short time we will be called upon to contribute
more in the defense of our country. Here again we have confidence
in our class; we know that we are as ready to serve as were those
members of our class who entered the service during the past school
tatorial
year.
“The chaotic condition of the world today brings to us a clearer,
more distinct picture of our obhgations. As trained teachers, it will
be our duty to aid in developing a more liberal educational plan, to
break down the barriers of ignorance, and to bring
common good and brotherhood.
into channels of
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August, 1942
human
thought
Page Fifteen
“Let us place our ivy in growing and let the spread of our teaching be infinitely wider and more significant than the spread of this
ivy. As the ivy is a living, growing plant, let the fruits of knowledge
we have gathered here in the past four years become a light to others,
let it become a spiritual and educational guide to both ourselves and
cur future associates. The ideas we acquired here are not to become
stagnant, nor allowed to lie dormant. We must make them live and
keep them as forcefully dynamic as they are at present. To fail to
utilize what we have received from the relationships we have had
with our instructors and fellow students, is to admit that we are in-
competent to meet our obligations.
As a member of the class of 1942,
I
should like to voice the
opinion of all its members that we appreciate what has been done
for us here at Bloomsburg, and that this appreciation will be manifested in the future actions of the class, collectively and individually.
It is with the utmost confidence that I say that this class, with the
guidance it has received, is well fitted to carry on the fine tradition
set up by the preceding classes. I speak for the class when I say that
we will do everything in our power to maintain our way of life. We
r.'ust and we will, with the help of God, keep our freedom and our
—
Democracy.”
Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Frances E. Houck, of Berwick, to Robert B. Miner,
of Tunkhannock. Miss Houck is a graduate of the BerMuck High School and attended the Bloomsburg Hospital
School of Nursing. Mr. Miner is employed by the U. S.
Army Air Corps as an instructor in the Supply School,
Olmsted Feid, Middletown, Pa.
AUuH4^i
/Iddxiciatlcut
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August, 1942
Page Sixteen
May Day
The beauty of the May Day pageantry of the TeachCollege is a magnet to draw the populace whether the
time is in days of tranquil peace, or, as at present, in a
period of war.
That was evident when townspeople were joined
vdth others of the section to enjoy the presentation of the
annual May Day, staged on the beautiful rolling stretch
of campus between Science Hall and the main buildings.
Unquestionably more than the usual number walked
to the scene of the pageantry and fewer, because of transportation cuitailments, were able to come from out of
town but the crowd, as always, was entirely too great for
the seating accommodations, numerous though they were,
and hundreds sat on the lawn in front of the bleachers or
stood in the rays of a warm sun for the hour and a half
of the program.
Miss Catherine O’Neil, of Freeland, College Senior,
made a charming May Queen and was crowned as a climax of the brilliant processional, by Elwood Beaver, of
Catawissa, president of the Community Government Asei’s
sociation.
There was never a more glorious day provided for
the frolic on the greensward for the entertainment of the
queen and her court. It was unquestionably warm, and
many of the women in the waiting throng, used parasols
in the elTort to keep off some of the heat and, quite probably, to endeavor to keep the freckles from multiplying.
The Processional
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College Band, which
provided the music for the program, opened with the processional “Triumphal March from Aide,” Verdi.
The flower girls were Donna Reice, Margaret Shoemaker, Kathryn Baker, Susan Leiby, Dora Shultz, Ruby Moyle, Nancy Brink,
Anne Marie Church, Gloria Masteller and Sue Buchheit.
Tom Lockard was the crown bearer. The Queen’s attendants
v/ere Misses Doris Guild, Ruth Baird, Eleanor Twardzik, Ruth James,
Ida Jane Shipe, Jeanne Noll, Roberta Hastie and Grace Thomas.
Pages were Terrie Roberts, Ralph Dillon, Dick Vial, Charles
Stout, Edward Keefer, Bill Nast, Gordon Fairchild, Alan Rippey,
Donald Nungessor, Tony Johnstone, Doyle Bright and Donald Shultz.
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August, 1942
Page Seventeen
The Queen was crowned by Elwood Beaver, Catawissa, president
Community Government Association.
oE the
Children’s Presentations
All of the grades of the Ben Franklin School and the girls of the
Freshman class of the college participated in the festivities for the
e/'.tertainment of the Queen.
The Kindergarten presented “At the Circus,” under the supervision of Miss Grace H. Woolworth, with Miss Hazel O’Brien as the
student assistant.
—
“Walking in the
grade dramatized its own work
The cast was; Trees Bill Nast, Edward Keefer, Charles
Stout, Donald Nungessor, Donald Shultz, Doyle Bright, Tony Johnstone, Dick Vial; fiowers
Katherine Baker, Susan Leiby, Dora
Shultz, Ralph Dillon, Joanne White, Anne Church, Gloria Masteller,
Aian Rippery; butterflies Margaret Shoemaker, Terry Roberts,
Ruby Moyle and Donna Reice; boy Gordon Fairchild; girl Nancy
The
first
—
Spring.”
—
—
—
—
Brink.
The clever presentation was supervised by Miss Carolyn M.
Welch with Misses Bernice Stout and Helen McGonigle as the stude,nt assistants and Miss Catherine Jones as accompanist.
Children of the second grade presented “The Palm Tree,” featuring “Little Brunette,” by Richardo Romero, with original rhythmic
interpretation and the Guianeze folk song, “There’s a Pretty Girl in
a Ring,” an original dance game. Miss Mabel Moyer was the supervisor and the assistants were Miss Lydia Rappella, Martha Wright,
Lois Gruver, Doris Sears, Isabelle McIntyre, Jean Ackerman.
'
Australia Setting
third gi-ade children presented “Chichester,” an English folk
dance often used in Australia.
The college girls participated in the “March of the Toy Soldiers”
fx'om “Babes in Toyland” by Victor Herbert. Miss Virginia Lee Lawhead was the student director.
Fifth grade students supervised by Mrs. Anna Garrison Scott
gave “Picadilla;” sixth grade students under the dii'ection of Mi's.
Etta Keller and with student assistants. Misses Kathryn Hess and
Ruth Hope, gave “Minuet” and fourth grade children were seen in
The
“Ostendaise,” supervised by Miss Edna J. Barnes. The dance was
taught by Miss Mary Whitenight, assisted by Miss Patricia Ferguson.
Then followed the Maypole winding for the group with the accompanists, Louise Adams and Janet Shank.
George J. Keller designed the throne and Misses Bernice Blaine
Stout and Mary Lou Fenstermaker executed the plan. The band
music was under the direction of Howard F. Fenstemaker. Dillon
greenhouses provided all of the fiowers tor the queen’s court. General direction of the program was capably handled by Miss Lucy
McCammon and Miss Mary Whitenight.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Eighteen
The program, in keeping with the times, was developed around folk dances of the United States allies.
While Miss Lucy McCammon said in advance that the
pageantry would be on less elaborate lines this year. Nature saw to it that the setting was exceptional and the participants did their pait to make it one of Bloomsburg’s
May
finest
Days.
Sixty-five high school girls
from throughout the
ser-
vice area of the Teachers College were guests of the College Wednesday, June 13, at the ninth annual play day
with the program in charge of the B Club, girls’ athletic
organization.
The program opened
at nine o’clock with the regis-
and a meeting in the auditorium. Girls were then
divided into squads and a fine program of sport was en-
tration
joyed until the Maj" Day festivities late in the afternoon.
Guests were entertained at lunch at the college. Miss
Grace Thomas, of Bloomsburg, was the general chairman,
and scores of college
most enjoyable day.
girls
saw that
their guests
had a
Herbert E. McMahan, member of the faculty of the
now on leave of absence, is now LieutenantCommander McMahan, of the United States Naval Reserve. He has recently been made Officer in Charge of
the Outgoing Stores Group of the Supply Department at
the United States Navy Yard in Philadelphia. He is living at 170 West Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa.
College,
AUumti
A^Axiclailo.^
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
:
Page Nineteen
Dr. A. K. Aidinger
Dr. A. K. Aldinger, one whose name looms large
the history of athletics at Bloomsbiirg, paid a visit to
the College on Alumni Day, and was one of the speakers
at the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium. The following excellent summary of Dr. Aldinger’s career appeared in “Fanning,” the sport column of the Morning
Press
To many who for years have heard of the great accomplishments of Dr. A. K. Aldinger at the Teachers College there was prone to be some thought if whether some
of the tales about him were not built up through the
in
years.
When we saw
Alumni Day
the
activities
man and
on the
hill
talked with him at the
we were
willing to be-
anything about him that has to do with accomplishment, with the moulding of men.
The calendar which dates his various activities,
shows that Dr. Aldinger is now well along in life. But
that alone puts the years on his shoulders. He carries
lieve
them
lightly
and graciously.
He came to Bloomsbiirg around the turn of the century when the local institution had a fine new gymnasium.
Now it is referred to as “the old one.” He was here for
many years and started a program that through the years
has become recognized as one of the
finest in
any
insti-
tution of this size.
It was built on the foundation laid down by Dr. Aldinger and it is now in such capable hands as Dr. E. H.
Nelson, George Buchheit, Miss Lucy McCammon and Miss
Mary Whitenight.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-
Speaking before the graduates at the alumni meeting he said “my twelve years in Bloomsburg did more to
give me a background than any other twelve years of my
life.
had to develop the program from scratch and it
enlisted my best efforts.
“I am known best here for the fine teams of those
years but I am more proud of the work I did with all of
the boys who came under me.” Smilingly, he added, “I
had to have good teams to stay. They were the product
of fine cooperation.”
You hear much about offense these days. It’s the one
topic that during the crisis is the basis of more conversa-
We
any other.
But “offense” has been the plan of Dr. Aldinger’s
life. “I always believed and always will that the way to
win is by offense, not defense. When we had baseball
practice we fielded fifteen minutes and batted forty-five.
“We were always pulling the unexpected but we
practiced that. Some of our opponents said we were
tion than
lucky. I don't think we were.
a carefullj' arranged plan.”
Dean Emeritus William
It
was the carrying out
B. Sutliff,
who was
of
closely
associated with Dr. Aldinger at Bloomsburg and who presented him as the gymnasium dedication exercises voiced
the sentiments of all when he said, “His greatest contribution was in the work with the boys of that generation.
His name will alwaj^s live as an inspiration in all of
Bloomsburg’s athletic endeavors.”
This was Dr. Aldinger’s first trip to Bloomsburg in
years but he called his “boj^s” by name when he met
them on the campus. He chatted with “Pop” Ent and
Tom Moore and others and he didn’t have to be introduced.
He rattled off the names of the boys on those teams
of four decades ago as though they were members of the
squad he was coaching at the present.
He observed that during his firet years at Bloomsburg they had played Wyoming in football twice, losing
40 to 0 and 36 to 6. At the close of the season he said he
asked Prof. Detwiler, working with him, if he thought
“Normal” would ever be able to give Wyoming a good
game. Prof. Detwhiler said that with organization and
morale he believed this could be accomplished. They
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Twenty-One
must have got it. The teams tied the next year and then
Bloomsburg won every football game with Wyoming for
nine years.
“You hear lots about first aid nowadays. We learned
then from necessity. We did not have many boys and
we could not afford to lose them. So we learned to take
care of them. We never lost any one with a broken collar bone nor by a dislocated shoulder.”
Some of the boys in this era don’t take training too
seriously and often get tired of practice. But they had
it
drills
and more
those days.
Aldinger, “When
drills in
we had a stop between trains we walked through signals. Each night after
supper we met and walked through signals. We took inRecalled Dr.
pains to practice for every situation.
that one time Berwick had been
ajixious to meet Normal in a post season game. That was
the day of the Harry boys and other fine Berwick athfinite
He commented
letes.
Aldinger thought the Normal team too light but he
agreed to the game. They played one half with
fformal in front 20-0. Berwick didn’t continue. Not because the boys did not want to. They had played themfinally
selves out in the first half.
He recalled that no such thing as dancing was allowed on the hill in those days. Dr. Aldinger, however,
had the thought that it had a part in the program. “So
we called it aitistic steps” and it was put in the program.
Dancing wasn’t permitted but dancing was the same
thing.
“The accomplishments of forty years are exempliby the type of work done here today. 1 agree with the
Governor that there must be competition in life. Without
it you would not need seats in this gymnasium. You could
not have the athletic fields.
“The building of good health is of paramount importance. Prevention and correction in health education
has a definite part in this crisis.”
Bloomsburg isn’t the only place that appreciates Dr.
fied
Aldinger. He was for thirty-five years in the New York
City system. Then he retired on length of service and
went to his alma mater, Vermont University. At the end
of three years he returned to the head of the physical education department in the schools of the world’s largest
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
New York had
held the office open for him that
Thej" couldn’t find any one that satisfied them. He
could carry on in Dr. Aldinger’s footsteps. So they got
Dr. Aldinger back. He’s still there and looks capable of
many more years of outstanding service.
city.
long.
•
Athletes
Honored
Bloomsburg State Teachers College recognized the
athletic achievements of its sons and daughters at “honor
day’’ exercises Wednesday, May 20, those awards shar-
ing the spotlight with others made for leadership and academic attainments.
The program served to emphasize again that if the
emergency necessitated, for the duration, the curtailing
intercollegiate
competition in sports,
or eliminating
Bloomsburg has a fine intra-mural setup which can carry
on with few adjustments and accommodate
all
who wish
to participate.
The athletic awards for some years have been presented at an athletic banquet but this year the dedication
of the new gymnasium, a feature of Alumni Day replaced
this fete.
SENIORS
Senior awards in athletics went to six athletes and two student
managers. The number is not high and one of the principal reasons
is that men who would ordinarily have completed their work this
year are now in the service.
One of those who has completed a standout career on the hill is
Leonard Herr, of Coal Towmship. Herr was a member of the varsity
three years and would probably have made the club his Freshman
year but for a fractured hand sustained in an accident. He was honorary co-captain of the 1941-42 team. In addition Herr was an end
on the football team the past two years.
Others who are graduating are Harold Trethaway, three years a
\ arsity outfielder and honorary captain of this year’s team; John
Shlenta, football two years; Edward Solack, soccer and baseball
each two years; Frank Valente, basketball two years, and William
Wanich, baseball two years and soccer one year. The student managers were Edwin Deleski, football, and Walter Mohr, basketball.
AWARDS TO WOMEN
The Women’s athletic program is confined entirely to intra-mural
activities. A model program in this regard has been developed and
under the rating system the women have plenty of incentive to work
toward certain
goals.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Three
Chevrons are the highest awards and the two who have earned
the largest number are Kathryn Hess, of Bloomsburg, 3,589, and Lois
Slopey, 2,571, also a Bloomsburg resident. Others getting chevrons
vi^ere Lillian Baer, Fleetwood; Florence Faust, Ambler; Doris Sears,
Shamokin; Edna Zehner, Nescopeck, and Carmel Sirianni, Hop Bottom.
Before the Women can obtain chevrons they must win letters and
that requires 1,000 points. Letters this spring went to Emma Hutchinson, Yardley; Mary Louise Scott, Bloomsburg; Betty Burnham,
Frankford; Helen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Virginia Lawhead, Pottsville;
Ruth Ebright, Mifflintown; Reba Henrie, Betty Hagenbuch, Bloomsburg; Sylvia Feingold, Souderton; Patsy Ferguson, Shenandoah.
Earning from 500 to 1,000 points are given numerals and were:
Julia Welliver, Bloomsburg; Peggy Holoviak, Nesquohoning; Norine
Miles, Shenandoah; Margaret Dean, Kulpmont; Politime Comuntzis,
Marjorie Sharretts, Bloomsburg; Alda Hunter, Hunlock Creek.
FOOTBALL
Emphasis of the small squad with which the Huskies had to operate on the gridiron last fall is shown in the number of awards in
that sport. There were fourteen varsity letters awarded and, looking
over the list, it is easy to see that every one on the squad qualified
for one or the other.
Four local men won varsity letters.
They were Donald
Bitler
and
Stanley Schuyler, Berwick; Charles Bomboy, of Bloomsburg; and
Don Rabb, Benton. Other winners of the varsity award were: Mario
Conte, of Sayre; Leonard Herr, Shamokin; Vincent Husovsky, Swoyerville; Andrew Magill, Sugarloaf; Walter Maslowsky, Wilkes-Barre;
George Menarick, honorary captain, Exeter; Clem Novak, Nanticoke;
Donald Schminky, Shamokin; John Sclanta, Mayfield, and William
Swinesburg, West Hazleton.
BROADENING OUT
Soccer came into the college athletic program some years ago as
a direct result of the sport being played in many county high schools.
In fact, the first year of soccer it operated on an unofficial basis. Fred
(Feg) Houck, of Catawissa, now in the service, was the student
coach. Later Pete Wisher, of the high school faculty, was obtained
as coach and the sport was recognized. Pete is now in the Navy.
The first teams were composed almost entirely of local boys but
there were not so many getting varsity awards this year as in seasons past. Those from the immediate vicinity awarded letters were
Carl Diltz, Benton; Clayton Patterson, Nescopeck; Collins Wanich,
Light Street, and Leon Hartman, Elysburg.
w
tagiBf
tile
Jerry Russin is stationed at
Medical Corps.
Camp
Lee, Virginia, in
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
Big,
Demand
for Teachers
The placement service of the State Teachers College,
under Ihe direction of Earl N. Rhodes, had the opportunthirty-six positions after the public schools openSeptember, 1941. These requests for teachers
came in throughout the school year from September to
May. In practically all cases, the vacancies occurred because men were leaving the profession for service in the
army or navy. The public schools thus faced a difficult
problem, as efficient teachers were not available.
ity to
ed in
fill
Due
to the fact that practically all
members
of the
the service,
only five of the thirty-six po-
1941 graduating class were employed or
in
the college was able to fill
sitions reported since September, 1941; one commercial,
and four academic positions in high schools, and none of
the elementary school positions.
The demand for teachers of mathematics and science
in high schools stands out as one of the real needs. Young
n.en as well as young women, prepared in these two fields,
readily find employment in industry at attractive salaries,
thus creating a shortage of teachers.
The college has had requests for forty-seven teachers to begin work in September, 1942. The major proportion
is
in
commercial work
in
high schools. The remain-
ing positions are about equally divided between the academic positions in the high school and the elementary
school. Practically all recommendations made by the college are awaiting action by school officials.
In view of the fact that a relatively small number of
school officials have made decisions concerning their
needs for teachers for the coming year, according to
President Harvey A. Andi’uss, the members of the 1942
graduating class of the Teachers College have an excellent opportunity to find positions. In fact, it is likely the
college will not be able to meet the demand for teachers
in its service area.
w
President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss entertained
the board of trustees, faculty and children of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at a buffet supper Saturday
afternoon. May 16.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Five
TWELVE SENIORS HONORED
Twelve members of the Senior class were given keys,
emblems of outstanding service during their college careers, at the Honor Day program held Wednesday, May
20. At the same assembly the dean’s honor list and the
athletic awards were also announced.
Those receiving keys were the following; Rutlr Baird, Mill City;
Taylor; Mary Jane MorLion; Grace Thomas, of
Bioomsburg; Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Robert Borneman, Sanatoga; Wilfred Conrad, Benton; Earl J. Harris, Bioomsburg; Walter
Mohr, Scranton, and David Nelson, Hazleton.
Earl J. Harris was on the dean’s honor roll all four years. Those
on the list for three years were; Mary Davenport and Jean B. Lantz,
both of Berwick, and Aletha Stiles, Red Lion. Those on the list two
years were Jack Mertz, of Northumberland; M. Claire Sirocco, Pottsville, and Erma Wolfgang, Shamokin. Those on the list for one year
were Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Roberta Hastie, Avoca; Leonard
Herr, Shamokin; Richard Nonnemacher, Allentown; Ralph McCracken, Allentown; Adrian Masanotti, Berwick; Dawn Osman, Shamokin;
Josephine Rinard, Berwick; Mary Jane Sharpless, Bioomsburg; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; H. Ruth Snyder, Bioomsburg, and David M.
Young, Danville.
The program opened with the processional, played
by H. F. Fenstemaker, and “America,” sung by the College Chorus. President Andruss read the Scripture, and
Miss Joyce Lohr ’43, with Miss Louise Adams ’45 as ac-
Mary Davenport, Berwick; Ruth James,
dan, Northumberland; Aletha Stiles, Red
companist, sang “None But the Lonely Heart,” Tschaikowsky, and “Clover” by Wintter Haynes Watts.
Dean Marguerite W. Kehr made the explanation of
the academic award system. Senior keys were presented
by President Andruss, and Dr. Thomas P. North read the
dean’s honor list.
The explanation of the athletic awards system was
made by Dean John C. Koch. Keys and chevrons were
presented by Dr. E. H. Nelson, chairman of the faculty
athletic committee. Miss Lucy McCammon made the
awards to the women and George C. Buchheit those to
the men. The program concluded with the Alma Mater
by the audience, and the class marched out to the music
of the recessional.
IHM
E. Mae
Steelton, Pa.
Berger lives at 115 South Fourth Street,
She is a teacher in the Steelton schools.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
COLLEGE ACCREDITED WITH NAVY RESERVE
SYSTEM
Bloomsburg has been accredited for the navy’s much
publicized V-1 Program, which is an officers’ training program for college freshmen and sophomores between the
ages of 17 and 20. Under this plan, students may enlist
as apprentice seamen in the Naval Reserve, but will be on
inactive duty until they have completed the college period of their training. After enlistment, such students will
carry on their college life as usual. They may continue
their favorite sports, and carry on their regular course of
study, with the added requirement that they must take
certain courses in mathematics, science, and physical education.
Young men
enlisting in this
program
will be given a
examination after completing one and onehalf calendar years of college work. Those making a
good record and volunteering for aviation will then go on
active duty in training to become flying officers. Bloomsburg already has a well-organized pilot training program which is definitely allied with the aviation program
of both the navy and the army air corps.
For those who made a good record in the examination, but are not interested in aviation, an opportunitj’
will be given for them to complete their full college curriculum, obtain their degree, and then go on active duty
in training to become deck or engineering officers.
The V-1 plan has many advantages in that it is designed to help young men render that type of service for
which their college work will best train them. It offers
young men in the Bloomsburg College area an opportunity to obtain at least two years of cultural education before specializing, and at the same time stay in college to
be of service to their country, and to have made a start
toward an officer’s commission.
classification
Catherine Moore, of Danville R. D. 5, and Staff Sergeant Raymond Wertz, of Danville R. D., were married
Saturday, June 6, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The
bride is a teacher in the schools of Rush Township, Northumberland County. Sergeant Wertz is a graduate of the
Danville High School, and was formerly employed at the
Danville National Bank.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Seven
ANNUAL HE-SHE PARTY
Coeds of Bloomsburg State Teachers College proved
once again that they can have a wonderful time same as
the boy-friend when they staged the annual He-She party.
Given the opportunity to “dress up and play” these women left no stone unturned in their originality and ingenuity.
Following the grand march prizes were awarded for
the handsomest couple, funniest couple, most original
couple.
Handsomest couple: Margaret Latsha, Star Route,
funniest couple, Jean
and Ann Boyer, Selinsgrove
Schrader, Shamokin, and Louise Madl, Shamokin most
original couple, Meda Cavello, Weston, and Ella Shargo,
;
;
Fottsville.
The judges for the prize winners were: Mrs. Clarence W. Sober, Mrs. Carl T. Warhurst, Ruth Brandon,
,Ruth Peeler, Betty Harris, Marie Parsell.
Dancing was enjoyed and delicious refreshments
vcere served.
The climax of the paity was reached when the retiring officers and members of the Day Women’s Official
Board and the Waller Hall Governing Board presented
the newly elected officers and members with corsages.
Following are the new officers of the Day Women’s Association:
President, Louise Madl, Shamokin; vice president, Anne Shortess,
Bloomsburg; Senior representatives: Dorothy Johnson, Berwick; Irene
Kulock, Mt. Carmel; Junior representatives: Ella Shargo, Pottsville;
Flaine Kreisher, Berwick; Sophomore representives: Nelena Pope,
Northumberland, Carol McCloughan, Riverside.
Retiring officers are as follows: President, Grace Thomas,
Bloomsburg; vice president, Louise Madl, Shamokin; Senior representatives: Mary Jane Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Jean Lantz, Berwick;
Junior representatives: Joyce Lohr, Berwick; Mary Trump, Danville;
Sophomore representative: Mary Louise Scott.
New officers of the Waller Hall Association include: President,
Ruth Ebright, Miffiintown; vice president, Sara Hottenstein, Milton;
secretary Joyce Hay, Easton; treasurer, Sara Wagner, Pine Grove,
Senior representative, Betty Singley, Lewisburg; Anna Doberstein,
West Nanticoke; Joanna Fice, Athens; Elizabeth Bartha, Yeagertown;
Junior representatives, Florence Faust, Ambler; Helen Kotch, WilkesBarre; Irene Kornaski, Mt. Carmel; Sophomore representatives: Betty Zong, Milton; Anita Behler, Kingston; Joan Ackerman, Harburg.
Officers who have served this year are: President, Ruth James,
Taylor; secretary, Joanna Fice, Athens; vice-president, Ruth Hope;
t.easurer, Candace Dietrich, Kutztown.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty -Eight
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
Bruce Albert
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
R.
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Hervey
B.
Smith
LACKAWANNA COUNTY ALUMNI
Alumni of Bloomsburg held a largely attended rennion Saturday, April 18, at the Scranton Club. Judge
William R. Lewis ’86, presided as toastmaster. Dr. Hollinshead, president of Scranton-Keystone Junior College,
and President Andruss, of Bloomsburg, were the speakers.
H. L. Morgan ’81, was the oldest graduate present.
given an ovation by his many friends. Nearly
every class from 1897 to 1942 was represented. The class
of 1923, with ten members present, had the largest rep-
He was
resentation.
Miss Janet M. Shank ’44 sang two vocal numbers,
and was accompanied by Miss Louise Adams ’45. Group
singing was led by R. Bruce Albert.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Nine
MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
held a dinner meeting in the Shiloh Reformed church at
Danville. There were over 100 attending.
Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, was toastmaster.
Miss Nellie Bogart, vice president of the county
alumni group, presided over the short business meeting
in the absence of Lieutenant Ralph McCraken, president,
who is serving in the armed forces. The nominating committee presented its report which was accepted by the
group. The new officers of the county association are
Lieutenant Ralph McCraken, president; Miss Dorothy
Sidler, vice president; Miss Alice Smull, secretary, and
Miss Mildred Auten, treasurer.
Mr. Diehl announced that following the meeting the
association would send a telegram to Lieutenant McCraken informing him of his re-election and of the annual
meeting.
Mr. Diehl introduced President Harvey A. Andruss,
who in turn presented to the group the nineteen faculty
members and their wives in attendance. Mr. Andruss
pointed out that today in America education the three
“R’s” distinctly stressed are rationing, resistance and reconstruction. He told the audience that resistance does
not necessarily mean of military nature but rather with
regards to thinking. “We should preserve the things that
we are fighting for,” the college president commented.
Miss Marjorie Gass, Danville High School student
and district winner in the forensic contests, played piano
selections. Miss Janet Shank, accompanied by Miss
Louise Adams, gave two fine vocal numbers while Miss
Adams also played a selection. Both these girls are students at the college.
Prof. Charles Albert, former instructor at the old
Normal School, and father of Bruce Albert, president of
the general alumni association, told the group that he had
“Kept school for fifty-one years.” He spent forty-one of
those years teaching at the Noiinal School and declared
his happiest moments were experienced in the classroom.
Bruce Albert, president of the General Alumni Association, called the attention of the alumni and friends
to the Alumni Day celebration being held at the college
on May 23.
The film, “Bloomsburg Faces the War,” showing the
Alumni
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August, 1942
Page Thirty
\arious ways and means that B.
the national crisis, was shown.
by singing the Alma Mater.
S.
T. C.
is
taking during
The meeting was closed
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Despite the unusually stormy weather, the Philadelphia group was well represented at the college on Alumni Day. The outstanding event of the day was the dedication of the new gymnasium, for which an outstanding
program was given. It was a big day in every respect.
The monthly luncheon meetings which the Philadelphia group have been holding at the Strawbridge and
Clothier Store will be discontinued for the months of July,
August and September, but will be resumed on the second
Saturday of October.
There will be three picnics this summer:
If conditions are favorable, the second Saturday in
July at Valley Forge.
The second Saturday in August a Garden Party at
the residence of Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main
Street, Norristown, Pa.
The second Saturday in September at the Brouse
Farm (Edwina Wieland Brouse) Maple Avenue, just off
Germantown Road.
We extend a cordial invitation to all Alumni to meet
v/ith us at these picnics, and at our regular luncheons
which are held on the second Saturday of the month.
Florence Hess Cool (’88) President.
Lillian Hortman Irish (’02) Secretary.
Nora Woodring Kenney (’09) Treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool (Norman G. ’86-Florence Hess ’88), 112 North 50th Street, West Philadelphia,
Pa., will be at home to their friends August 6th-5 to 10
P.
M.
This daj^ and date marks a great event in their
It is
their fiftieth
wedding day
—
their
lives.
Golden Wedding
Anniversary.
The Philadelphia group of the Bloomsburg Alumni
take pleasure in making this announcement, and hope
their many friends will take occasion to greet them either
in person or by message.
Lillian
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Hortman
August, 1942
Irish, Secretary.
Page Thirty-One
SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING ALUMNI HOLD DINNER
Graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwho reside in Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties
held a dinner in May in the Methodist Church at Tunkhannock with thirty-five in attendance.
Fred W. Kester, of Mill City, presided and attending
from Bloomsburg were H. A. Andruss, college president;
Dean W. B. Sutliff, of the college “old guard
R. Bruce
Albert, president of the general alumni, and Miss Janet
Shank, vocalist, and Miss Louise Adams, pianist, of the
lege
student body,
Dean
who
entertained.
and President Andruss spoke during the
program. The college film, “Bloomsburg Faces War” was
shown. Bruce Albert led the group singing.
Sutliff
LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
The regular monthly luncheons of the Luzerne CounAlumni will be discontinued during the summer
months. They will be resumed on the first Saturday in
ty
October.
A summer
outing
is
being planned, and will be held
home of Mrs. Guy Evans, of West Pittston. All
members and friends are invited.
Edna Aurand, President.
at the
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August, 1942
Page Thirty-Two
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1880
Friends and classmates of Ernest W. Young, 2245
Carter Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, will regret to learn
of the death of Mrs. Young, who passed away April 23.
Mr. and Mrs. Young had been married almost 54 years.
Mrs. Young was born and grew up in Mt. Carmel.
1882
Mrs. Esther Evans Jarvis died at her home in Brandon, Texas, Saturday, January 31. She was born at
Bloomsburg August 19, 1861. When a girl she united
with the church and had been a member of the Presbyterian Church at Brandon for many years. After attending Bloomsburg, Mrs. Jarvis attended Valparaiso University, where she met Mr. Jarvis. When her school work
v. as completed she returned to her home in Pennsylvania,
and Mr. Jarvis went to Texas and located at Brandon.
They were married in 1891, and went to Brandon to live.
Mr. Jarvis passed away April 4, 1917. Mrs. Jarvis is surMved by two children, J. R. Jarvis, of Dallas, Texas, and
Mrs. Sadie Gilmore, of Whitney, Texas, and by one brother, L. W. Evans, of Denver, Colorado.
1883
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Conner, of 8 Belmont Circle,
Trenton, New Jersey, spent the past winter in Florida.
After graduating from Bloomsburg, Mr. Conner went to
Lafayette College, where he was graduated in 1887. He
of West Nottingham Academy, Maryland, for fifteen years, and is still a member of the board
of trustees. He is also a member of the board of trustees
of Lafayette College.
was headmaster
It is not too early to begin planning for your sixtyyear reunion next May.
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August, 1942
:
Page Thirty-Three
1885
Harry O. Hine, 3204 Highland Place, Cleveland
Park, Washington, D. C., sent the following letter of
greeting to President Andruss on Alumni Day
“Best wishes to the “Homecomers” and to you for a fine comin 1942 and all the years that follow.”
mencement occasion
1888
Start the ball rolling
now
for your fifty-fifth year re-
union next May.
1892
Members of the fifty year class of the Teacher Colmade merry May 23 at the home of Prof, and Mrs.
lege
D. S. Hartline as the
opening feature of their reunion.
in the sharing of experiences of
Delicious refreshments were served by the
The evening was spent
school days.
hosts.
Members
of the class attending were; Mrs. Harriet Keffer HartBloomsburg; Mrs. Harriet Ringrose Knies, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Mabel Westover Huff, Forty Fort; Mrs. Eva Faus McKelvy, Montoursville; Mrs. Katie Becker Read, Pittsburgh; Dr. W. B. Mausteller,
li.ne,
of
Harrisburg.
Guests were: President and Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Prof. C. H.
Albert, R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, and
Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Gertrude Kyte, Earl N. Rhodes, director of teacher
training, and Mrs. Rhodes, Dr. and Mrs. Kimber Kuster and Miss
Jane Kuster, Dean and Mrs. Thomas P. North.
1893
1943
now
the big year.
to make it a big one.
is
The
fiftieth-year reunion
!
Start
Alice Fenner, 2439 Walnut Street, Allentown, has
returned after spending the winter at San Diego, California.
1896
A
testimonial dinner was given Monday evening,
June 8, at the Hotel Redington in Wilkes-Barre, in honor
of Miss Celia Cohen, who is retiring after an outstanding
career as a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools. The affair was arranged by the Carey Avenue Parent-Teachers
Association. Miss Cohen has a record of teaching for
forty-five years, thirty-eight of which were spent in the
Carey Avenue School. Her sister. Miss Rose Cohen, also
a graduate of Bloomsburg, retired last year after teaching fifty years.
Principle addresses were given by Judge Valentine,
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August, 1942
Page Thirty-Four
who
stressed the importance to the community of such
persons as Miss Cohen, who devote their lives to the cause
of training others.
Other speakers w'ere Rabbi Wolk,
Rabbi Marcus Salzman, A. E. Bacon, superintendent of
schools, Thomas Mackin, member of the Board of Education, George Horst, and Walter Black.
Gifts were presented to the honored guest and to the
officers of the association.
day,
Edna Wilson (Mrs. William L. McClintock) died FriMarch 26, in Philadelphia. She is survived by her
husband and one
son.
Charlotte H. Stark, of Lehman, Pa., retired in July
1941, after teaching forty-three years and four months.
1897
Activities of the class of 1897 w^ere confined to the
college campus during the week-end.
Among those present were; O. Z. Low, Orangeville; Bertha Kelly, Scranton; Eva Martin, Hazleton; Mrs. George Curran, Plymouth;
Ella Benedict, Trucksville; Mrs. Dora Huber Ely, Hazleton; Mrs. E.
S. Gething, Nanticoke, and Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg.
1898
1
Daniel N. Dieffenbacher, superintendent and
supervising principal of the Danville Public Schools for
twenty-one years and an outstanding educator, churchman axid citizen of that community for more than half a
century died at his home, 406 Bloom Street, Tuesday,
April 21, 1942.
Mr. Dieffenbacher, w'ho had been in failing health
Mr.
more than a year, was aged seventy-nine. He had
been bedfast for one week. Death w^as due to infirmities
for
of old age.
The deceased, widely-known throughout the county
and
served as superintendent and later supervising
principal of the Danville Borough Schools from 1907 until
1928, when he retired.
He made many worthwhile contributions to the borough school system during his 21 -year term in office.
Born in Washington ville in 1863, the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Dieffenbacher, the deceased came
to Danville in 1890 and spent the rest of his life in that
state,
community.
Prior to accepting the position of principal of the
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty-Fiva
Second Ward Grammar School in Danville in 1890, Mr.
Dieffenbacher taught in Union County, and in the rural
schools of
Montour county.
From 1901 through 1907 he held
the position of professor of mathematics and science on the Danville High
School faculty. In 1907 he accepted the position as superintendent of Danville schools, filling the role very successfully. He became supervising principal of the Bor-
ough Schools when the change in title came into effect in
1920. He performed his responsible duties until retirement in 1928.
He served as an educator from 1885 until the time of
his retirement.
Mr. Dieffenbacher graduated from Bloomsburg State
in 1898, and later took special work at
Normal School
Grove City College.
On August 29, 1894, he married Margaret
Phillips,
a Danville girl, who survives him.
He was active in the affairs of the Shiloh Evangelical
and Reformed Church for many years, serving as an elder for a long period of time.
He belonged to the Mahoning Lodge No. 516, Free
and Accepted Masons, the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and the Consistory at Bloomsburg.
May, 1943 your
:
to
make your
forty-fifth
year reunion. Begin
now
plans.
1900
The name
of Miles 1. Killmer should have been
cluded in the list of those who served in World War I.
served as a captain in the 28th Engineers.
in-
He
1901
Lela Shultz (Mrs. Infred T. Modsen) entertained
Ada Harrison ’02, Edith Curtis ’99 and Gertrude Follmer
Lowry ’01 and ’03, at her home in Plainfield, New Jersey,
over the week-end of June 6.
\
1902
1902 opened its forty-year reunion Friday evening. May 22, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. N.
Keller, of Orangeville. A buffet supper and an evening
of reminiscences were thoroughly enjoyed. President and
Mrs. Andruss met with the group.
The
class of
Those attending were: Essene Hollopeter Martin, Palmyra, New
Mary Croop Fairchild, Berwick; Florence Crow Heber and
Jersey;
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August, 1942
Page Thirty-Six
son, Liverpool; Harriet D. Fry, Danville; Alice Guest, Danville;
Mar-
Edwards Morris, Edwardsville;
Camille Hadsall Pettybone,
P"orty Fort, Marie L. Diem, Scranton; Blanche Austin Gibbons,
Wilkes-Barre; Ada D. Harrison, Newark, N. J.; Effie M. Vance,
Orangeville; Amy G. Smethers, Berwick; Mary E. Francis Gendall,
Cnalfont; Marne E. Clark Myers, Wilkinsburg; Harriet Hitchcock
McMurray, Mehoopany; Bessie Long, Bloomsburg; Marion Johnson
Skeer, Northumberland, and Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller.
The activities of the class were continued Saturday on the camgaret
pus.
Present were: Marie L. Diem, of Scranton; Mrs. Etta H. Keller,
Orangeville; Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock, Mehoopany; Bess M. Long,
Bloomsburg; Essene Holopeter Martin, Palmyra, N. J.; Harriet E. Fry,
Danville; Marne Clark Myers, Wilkinsburg; Amy B. Smethers, Berwick; Jennie Williams Cook, Hazleton; Mrs. Mary Francis Gendall,
of Chalfont; Ada D. Harrison, Newark, N. J.; Mrs. Harriet Edwards
Morris, Edwardsville; Mrs. Marion Johnson Skeer, Northumberland;
Mrs. Adde Altmiller Burthardt, Hazleton; Alice Guest, Danville;
Blanche Austin Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Florence Crow Hebei, Liverpool; Effie Vance, Orangeville; Mary Croop Fairchild, Berwick and
Camille Hadsall Pettebone, of Forty Fort.
1903
Next
May
you will celebrate the fortieth anniversary
of your graduation from Bloomsburg. Who will start the
ball rolling
now ?
1904
John B. Boyer, of Sunbury, assistant superintendentof Northumberland county schools, was the recipient of
a special medal given by the Pennsylvania Forensic and
Music League at the fifteenth annual state contests at
Bloomsburg, in recognition of his outstanding service as
Northumberland county and northeastern district director of the league for fifteen years.
Mr. Boyer, a Bloomsburg State
Teachers College alumnus, has been responsible for the direction and participation of thousands of young people in bands, orchestras, choruses, ensembles, solos, debate teams, and in
speech events, for fifteen years. The medal was presented for the league by C. Stanton Belfour, executive secretary. Mr. Boyer is also observing his twentieth anniversary in the county office in Northumberland County. The
young people in music and speech organizations in northeastern Pennsylvania high schools owe much to him for
his untiring leadership and devotion for the continuation
of these contests.
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August, 1942
Page Thirty-Seven
The Rev. Harry S. Dollman, a resident of Pinegrove,
Schuylkill County, died early in March after a short illness. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg, and taught for
some time before entering Gettysburg College, after
which he entered the Seminary. His first charge was at
the Lutheran Church at Worthington, near Pittsburgh.
P'rom there he went to Pinegrove in 1912. In 1918 he
went overseas as a chaplain and after the war returned
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
Mention of the Rev. Mr. Dollman’s death was made in the
April Quarterly, but no other details were known at that
to Pinegrove.
time.
1905
Ezra
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, has been
tour for the Townsend National Recovery
B. Gruver, of
on a lecture
Plan, Inc.
1906
Hazel B. Allen, supervising principal of the Loveland Street School in Westmoor, died Thursday, April 16,
at her home in Kingston. Miss Allen was born in Lake
'Township, Luzerne County, and resided for many years
in Dallas before moving to Kingston. She was a member
of the Wyoming Avenue Christian Church. The funeral
was held at her late home Saturday, April 18, with a
great many teachers and students attending. The body
was taken to the Wardan Cemetery in Dallas for interment.
of the Rev. W. E. Jones, now' of Watershould be added to the list of those who
served in the first World War. He served as an army
chaplain both with the Aidillery and Transport.
The name
ford, Ohio,
The
class of
1907
1907 held an enjoyable reunion
follow'-
ing the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium.
In the absence of their class president, Harry DeWire, Miss Bertha Lovering acted as chairlady. Members
of the class enjoyed seeing familiar faces in the class picture which was brought by Mrs. J. M. MacCullough, Lodi,
N. J.
The following members were presented: Edith Campsie (Mrs.
George Dreisbach), Lehighton; Florence Corley (Mrs. Henry Sippel),
Wilkes-Barre; Elizabeth Dreibelbis (Mrs. L. T. Orner), Bloomsburg;
Mary E. Hess (Mrs. Fred C. Colyer), York; Miriam E. Jones (Mrs.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty -Eight
Evan Whitby), Edwardsville; Bertha Lovering, Scranton; Sadie
Moyer (Mrs. J. M. MacCullough) Lodi, N. J.; Irene Reimard (Mrs.
John W. Cressler), Wilkes-Barre; Laura Rittenhouse (Mrs. William
,
H. Yohey), Berwick; Bertha Sterner (Mrs. F. L. Richards), WilliamVance (Mrs. L. V. Barber), Orangeville; Myrtle
M. Brobst), Bloomsburg; Alice Shaffer (Mrs.
Charles Harry), Berwick.
sport) Gertrude
Vv^anich (Mrs. D.
;
Pearl A. Anstock (Mrs. Arthur Holt)
Royal Avenue, Hawthorne, New Jersey.
lives
at
21
1908
Wanted
make plans
:
to
a member of the class of 1908 to start now
for the thirty-fifth year reunion, May, 1943.
1909
Fred W. Diehl has been re-elected to serve a fouryear term as Superintendent of the Schools of Montour
County. This will mark the beginning of his seventh term.
Mr. Diehl is also a member of the board of trustees of the
college and a member of the board of directors of the
General Alumni Association.
Emma
D.
3,
Eaton (Mrs. William
P.
Perrego)
lives at R.
Dallas, Pa.
1911
Margaret Fraser (Mrs. V.
Providence,
New
L.
Johnson)
lives in
New
Jersey.
1912
1912 began its thirtieth year reunion at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg, Friday evening. May 22. During the course of the
evening a telephone call was received from George Bar-
The
class of
row, Nutley, New Jersey, a member of the class.
The following were present: Theresa Dailey Bachinger and
daughter Ruth, Bloomsburg; Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyersgrove; Margaret Byerly Morrison, Danville; Florence Blecher Crouse, Danville;
Trivelpiece, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. Ray. Masteller and
daughter Gloria, Bloomsburg; Harriet Hartman Kline, Bloomsburg;
Ona Harris Henrie, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Ercell D. Bidleman,
Bloomsburg; Edith Campsie Dreishbach ’07, Lehighton; Lucille
Wakeman Rair, Laceyville; Dr. K. C. Kuster ’13 and Mrs. Kuster,
Dr. E. H. Nelson ’ll. President and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mr. and
Mrs. H. F.^ Fenstemaker, Mrs. Annie S. Nuss ’88, and Mary Louise
Anne Reice
Fenstemaker
’45.
Harriett E. Graves (Mrs. Raymond Marsh) reports
that her first grandson, John Carter Marsh, was bom
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty -Nine
February 27, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Marsh, Jr.
Her second son, William Graves Marsh, was graduated
from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, this
year, and was married to Miss Clare Montague Friday,
May 22. Mrs. Marsh’s address is 210 Sedgwick Drive,
Syracuse,
New
York.
Several letters from members of the class of 1912
at the class reunion. Extracts from these letters will be published in the next number of the Quarter!
were read
ly.
The following telegram was received on Alumni Day
from Mrs. Charles Widman (Anna G. Stevens), of Freeland, Pa.
“Unable to attend. Greetings and best wishes
to teachers and classmates.”
—
Louise W. Vetterlein owns and manages a tourist
home, the Vetterlein Homestead, at Paupack, Pike County. She spends her winters at Miami, Florida.
C. B. Fisk Brill is now a major in the Ordnance Department, and is stationed in New York City. His home
address is 333 East 68th Street, New York.
A telegram of greetings to the class of 1912 was sent
on Alumni Day by Martha Goulden Weitzel, of Myerstown. Pa.
The address of Bina W. Johnson
Avenue, College Park, Maryland.
is
7506 Hopkins
1913
World War 1, it was possible to state that a person
was “Somewhere in France,” but in the case of Captain
In
Nellie M. Dennison, a member of the Army Nursing Corps,
all that it is possible to say in that she is “Somewhere.”
Her address is Captain Nellie M. Dennison, A. N. C., Station Hospital, A. P. O. 851, care Postmaster, New York
City, N. Y.
Helen Smith Beardslee
nue,
Bound Brook, New
lives at
106 Beech wood Ave-
Jersey.
Don’t let the war spoil your plans for your thirtieth
year reunion next May.
1914
Paul H. Brunstetter, who has for several years been
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty
supervising principal of the schools of Catawissa, has
been appointed Assistant Superintendent of the schools of
Columbia County. He began his four-year term on July 1.
1916
William Gregg
Brill
is
a lieutenant-colonel
in
the
Air Corps, Personnel Division, stationed in Washington,
D. C. Mail will reach him at the Army-Navy Club, Washington.
tist
Maxwell R. Noack is Minister of Music at the BapTemple in Philadelphia. Dr. Daniel Poling is pastor
of the church.
Blanche Robbins Damon lives at 373 Main Street,
Concord, Massachussetts.
V.^'est
1917
week-end was
largest representations during alumni
that of the class of 1917, with fifty-eight
taking paid
the various activities.
One
ing
of the
in
The group met together at the college Friday evenand had breakfast the next morning at the Annex.
Those attending were: A. C. Morgan, Berwick; Geraldine Nyhart Thomas, Glen Lyon; Lucy Padagomas, Glen Lyon; Grace M.
Davis, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Dorothy Miller Brower, Allentown;
Elsie Jones Green, Wilkes-Barre; Effie Benscoter Kinback, Peckville;
Mary Kahny Arnold, Saltsburg; Arline Nyhart Kemper, Moorestown,
1\. J.; Ruth Smith, Bellefonte; Allen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Helen G.
Lippert, Dalton; Anna M. Carter, Scranton; Margaret P. Foss, Mildred Milcham, Kingston; Mary Moss Dobson, Plymouth; Agnes Maust
D-effenbacher, Bloomsburg, R. D. 1; Florence Atherton Shaffer, Kingston; Clyde R. Luchs, Bloomsburg.
W. F. Kester, Mill City; Helen Lord Bulla, Bloomsburg; Nan R.
Jenkins, Nesquehoning; Lillian Gensemer Moyer, Kathryn Row Mc-
Namee, Mabel
E.
Maust Duck, Bloomsburg; M.
Lillian
Johnson
Frantz, Mt. Aetna; Clara O’Donnell, Chester; Rose Monahan, Ashland; Blanche Caswell Plymouth; Bertha Broadt, Mary Schaller,
Margaret McHugh, Hazleton; Marie Cromis, Philadelphia; Dorothy
Dodson, Luzerne; Alice B. DeRonde, Forty Fort; Pauline L. Isaacs,
Forty Fort; Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke; Mrs. Howard Greish, Kingston;
Gertrude C. Lecher, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. W. E. McGuown, Ashley;
Mrs. Edwin I. Eyerl 3% Sunbury; Mrs. Margaret Cox McGrath, Lost
Creek; Mrs. Nellie Sutliffe, Nanticoke; Mrs. Amelia Thomas, Nanticoke; J. Frank Brink, Benton; Frederick H. Shaffer, Kingston; Hugh
E. Boyle, Hazleton; Mrs. Reuel S. Burr, Cyn Wyd; Mrs. Hope Dennis
Anderson, Falls Church, Va.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-One
Margaret Barnum Bredbenner, of Wilkes-Barre; Agnes Warner
Smales, Laceyville; Dorothy Decker Swetland, Pittsburgh; Mildred
Avery Love; Mehoopany; E. A. Zimbel, Jr., Pottsville; Mabel Dymond Bell, Dallas, R. D. 3; Nora Berlew Dymond, Dallas, R. D. 3;
Caroline Ryne Harrison, Nanticoke; Freda Jones, Kingston.
The
class of 1917 started the festivities in observance
twenty-fifth year reunion with a social evening in
the social rooms of Science Hall, Friday evening, May 22,
v/ith about twenty-five in attendance. Dr. and Mrs. K. C.
Kuster and President and Mrs. Andruss paid the class a
visit during the evening,
of
its
Mary C. C. Kahny (Mrs. C. L. Arnold) is teaching at
Kiskiminetas Springs School, at Saltsburg, Pa.
I
1918
class of 1917 had a wonderfully successful reunion this year. You will have to start now, if you want
The
to
have a better twenty-fifth reunion than they had.
1919
P. Evans, of Scranton, Pa., was recently installed as the Worthy Matron of Martha Washington
Chapter, Order of Eastern Star.
Edwina
This honor holds more significance inasmuch as the
Chapter celebrated its fiftieth or Golden Anniversary on
during her term of office.
April 25
—
1921
Evelyn Z. Smith (Mrs. Lyman E. Cunningham) lives
at 2703 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. She has two
sons and a daughter.
1922
There were over twenty members of the class of 1922
in attendance and they had a splendid time during the
day.
Present included; Clarissa Sharretts Welliver, Berwick; Cleora
McKinstry, Bloomsbui'g; Bett Gilbert Vincent, Danville; Stanlea
Henry Sliwinske, Kingston; Catherine E. Payne, Shamokin; Little
Harter Cameron, Nescopeck; Martha Y. Jones, Scranton; Eva M.
Morgan, Scranton; Valere Sypniemski, Nanticoke; Margaret Murray
Luke, Mahanoy City; Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton; Arline Tosh
Bohn, Wilkes-Barre; Adelle Cryder Raymond, Coatesville; Nan
Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre; Edna S. Harter, Nescopeck; Mrs. Theresea
K. Shenanski, Nanticoke; Gertrude S. Miller, Bloomsburg; Stella
Wheeler Kern, Harrison, N. J.; Laura Miller Goodman, Center Valley; Lucille Jury Wise, Berwick; Gladys E. Ramage, Pittston.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Two
Laura Miller (Mrs. S. D. Goodman) has moved from
Bloomsburg to Center Valley, Pa.
1923
Miss Helen Elizabeth Sutliff, 100 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, daughter of Dean and Mrs. William
Loyd Sutliff, became the bride of Robert F. Brown, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Robert F. Brown, of 5011 Walton Avenue,
Philadelphia, Saturday, May 16, in the First Presbyterian
Church of Germantown.
The ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Rev. Dr. John Clark Finney, in the chapel of the church,
a?id the bride was given in marriage by her brother, Robert G. Sutliff, of Tuckerton, N. J.
Mrs.
Brown was educated
in the Bloomsburg schools
from Bloomsburg State Teachers Colthe third grade teacher at Forney
School, Harrisburg, for some years.
Mr. Brown, an investigator with the State Department of Revenue, attended Penn Charter School, in Philadelphia, and Wenonah Military Academy.
Grace I. Williams has been teaching English and Art.
ajid was graduated
lege. She has been
high school at Hackettstown, New Jersey, since her
graduation from Susquehanna University in 1928. She
has taken graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia
University. Her address is 119 High Street, Hackettstown.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Mary M. Flick, of Bloomsburg, and A. Edward Neuhard,
of Bloomsburg R. D. 2. The wedding took place at Sonestown June 3, 1939. The bride is a teacher in the Mainville
Consolidated School and Mr. Neuhard is employed at the
U. S. Army Air Depot at Middletown.
in the
Don’t
let
anything keep you away from your twenMay. Begin planning for it now.
tieth-year reunion next
1927
Ten members
of the class of 1927 registered during
alumni activities at the college.
They were Dorothy Dodson, Luzerne; Alice B. DeRonde, Forty
Fort; Pauline Lloyd Isaacs, Forty Fort; Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke;
Verna Medley Davenport, Plymouth; Margaret E. Lambert, Loysville; Ruth Davies Aston, Wilkes-Barre; Pauline Vastine Snyder,
Sunbury; Mrs. Manta Ruth Steele, Trucksville, and Mrs. Florence
Williams Thomas, of Scranton.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Three
1928
Miss Ruth E. Yost, of Bloomsburg, and Lehman J.
Snyder, of Turbotville, were married at the home of the
bride Saturday, June 6. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. The bride is a graduate of Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, of the Merrill
palmer School, Detroit, Michigan, and has her master’s
degree from Columbia University. She has been teaching
in Curtin Junior High School, Williamsport. Mr. Snyder
has done graduate work at the Pennsylvania State College, and is teaching in the schools of Port Allegheny.
A
changes have taken place at Bloomsburg
fifteen years. Have you seen them?
Come back on Alumni Day next May and see how
Bloomsburg has grown.
1929
Miss Eleanor Amos, of Wilkes-Barre, and Albert
Steiner, of Bloomsburg, were married July 15, 1939, at
the parsonage of the Lutheran Church in Allentown. Mrs.
Steiner is teaching in the Wilkes-Barre schools, and Mr.
Steiner is an inspector in the York Safe and Lock' Comlot of
during the
past
pany.
Muriel
29, at her
Sachs, former teacher in the Wright
Luzerne County, died Sunday, March
Albert, Pa. She is survived by her hus-
Thomas
Township schools
home
in
in
band and three children.
Dorothy Lord Pagent
is teaching in the Union ville
Joint Consolidated School, Unionville, Pa. Her husband
is a naval officer, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia.
1930
baseball and football star in
former
Jasper Fritz,
both Bloomsburg High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has been named principal of the Osceola Mills High School, where he has been a member of the
faculty since he graduated from Bloomsburg institution
around 1930.
Fritz, a native of Bloomsburg, resided in Main township for some years and came to Bloomsburg to conclude
his high school course. He played on the line for the eleven and was a good pitcher on the nine.
It was at the Teachers College, however, that Fritz
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty-Four
developed as an outsanding athlete. He was a varsity
tackle throughout his college career and also a first string
pitcher on the baseball team.
From the time he became connected with the Osceola Mills High School he has been connected with the
football team and has coached some of the finest not only
in the history of that school but in that section of the
state.
His elevens, competing year after year against teams
from larger schools, have won more than their full share
of the spoils and a losing team is something that has not
marked Fritz’s coaching career. In addition he has been
boxing coach at the school.
He is the teacher of chemistry and physics and in
being named principal succeeds Albert Hobba who recently was chosen supervising principal of the schools.
Miss Nancy Ruth Haynes, formerly of Wilkes-Barre,
now of Livingston, Tennessee, and the Rev. Ray Ferris
Brown, of Livingston, Tennessee, were married Saturday,
May 30, in Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George C.
Westberg. The bride, a graduate of Coughlin High
School, Wilkes-Barre, and
of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, taught for some time in Parsons, and
then went to Tennessee to engage in missionary work in
the mountain section of that state. The Rev. Mr. Brown
is a pastor of the Mayland and Falling Springs Baptist
Churches, near Livingston, where he and Mrs. Brown will
establish their residence.
1931
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Williams, 317 Miller Street, Luzerne, announce the marriage of their daughter, Violette,
to Wilson B. Sterling, Allentown, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Sterling, Catawissa. The ceremony took place at
Fogelsville, April 14, 1941.
Mrs. Sterling is a graduate of Luzerne High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is a teacher
in the Luzerne schools.
Mr. Sterling is a graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and Danville State Hospital School of
Nursing. He is day supervisor of male nurses and attendants at Allentown State Hospital.
Rosa D. Hill is teaching fourth grade in the consolidated school in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pa.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Five
1932
Sara Irma Lawton, of Millville, and Mans D. Eyer, of
Eyersgrove, were married Thursday, May 28, at the
Church of Christ in Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the church, the Rev. H. K.
Franks. The bride has been teaching first and second
grades in the Millville schools for several years. Mr. Eyer
is a gi’aduate of the Millville High School and spent three
years with Fairchild Funeral Directors in Brooklyn, New
York. He is a member of the firm of Altman and Eyer,
morticians, at Millville.
1933
son was born Thursday, May 7, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Brown, of Bloomsburg. Mr. Brown, a member of
the class of 1937, is a teacher in the commercial department of the Bloomsburg High School. Mrs. Brown was
formerly Grace DuBois, of Bloomsburg.
A
Milton Krauss, of Bloomsburg, enlisted in the army
January 10, and is now a member of an ordnance company and is located at Langley Field, Virginia.
Your ten-year reunion next May. This ought
big one.
Who
will take the lead in
Melba Beck has completed the
year course
burgh.
in social
service
at the
planning for
to be a
it?
year of a twoUniversity of Pitts-
first
1934
Lorraine W. Henry, of 50 Cedar Street, WilkesBarre, and Charles L. Rishel, of Pottsgrove, were married September 21, 1940, at the home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas
Henry ’31, of Palestine, Illinois. Mrs. Rishel, before her
marriage taught two and a half years in the Montour
County Schools and three and one-half years in WilkesBarre. Mr. Rishel, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State
College, is a merchant and also postmaster at Pottsgrove.
They have been living in Pottsgrove since their marriage.
1935
Rostand Kelly, formerly of Bloomsburg, has been
commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy, and
has been assigned to Porf Schuyler, New York. Mr. Kelly, who has a master’s degree from Columbia University,
has been an instructor in the Stevenson private school for
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Six
boys in New York City. He was present at the Alumni
meeting on Alumni Day and spoke briefly.
Anthony Conte, teacher of commercial subjects in
Lafayette Junior High School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, received his Master’s degree from Rutgers University in
May.
1936
Verna Jones (Mrs. D. J. Jones) served as substitute
teacher in the Nescopeck High School for several months
last year. Her husband, also a member of the class of
1936,
is
a
member
of the faculty of the
same
school.
Pvt. Charles P. Michael is a member of Company C,
176th Infantry, and is located at Anacostia, D. C. He
states “We are here primarily to guard government buildings and places of, vital strategic importance.”
1937
Miss Eddia Fanti, of Swoyerville, and Ensign George
K. Tamalis, of Edwardsville, were married June 9 in the
chapel of the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. The bride
is a graduate of College Misericordia.
She also attended
East Stroudsburg and the University of Scranton. She is
a member of the faculty of the Swoyeiwille High School.
Ensign Tamalis, before his enlistment in the Navy, was a
teacher at the Edwardsville High School. He has done
graduate work at New York University.
Several friends enjoyed a luncheon given recently
the Cathay Tea Gardens which announced the engagement of Ethel M. Bond, of Shickshinny, to Robert J. Woolston, of Germantown, Philadelphia.
Miss Bond is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and is now teaching in junior high
school, Bristol. Mr. Woolston attended business school
and is employed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
at
A daughter was born Monday, June 1, to Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Gehrig, of Danville. Mrs. Gehrig was formerly
Anna Jean Laubach
’37.
The Quarterly has been informed that Thomas Reaga lieutenant in command of a company of Military
Police at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davison live on Route 2, Annandale Road, Fairfax, Virginia. Mrs. Davison was Marie
an
is
Davis
’37.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Seven
1938
Announcement has been made
of the engagement of
Miss Elizabeth Levan and Paul G. Martin, of Catawissa.
Miss Levan is a member of this year’s graduating class of
the Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing, and Mr. Martin is stationed at Reading as a second-class petty officer
in the construction company known as the “Seabees.”
Miss
Mary Arzella Giger and Harold
G. Roger, both
were married Sunday, April 5, in the First
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, with the Rev. Dr. J. E.
Skillington officiating. Mrs. Roger is an instructor of special education at the Tressler Orphanage, Loysville, Pa.
Mr. Roger is employed at the Magee Carpet Mill in
of Bloomsburg,
Bloomsburg.
Miss Olga Kathleen Kohan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and
T. Patrick, Jr., of Berwick, were married Saturday, April 18, at Russian Holy Trinity Orthodox Church,
Clenmore and Pennsylvania Avenue, in Brooklyn. The
Rev. Mrs. Kizitsky, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Dzwonchik, of Whitestone, New York, performed the ceremony.
The bride is a journalist for the Chinese News Service at Rockfeller Center, New York City, and her husband is employed in the Berwick A. C. F.
Frank
Dorothy Edgar has, for the past year, been taking
a course in Medical Technology at the laboratory of the
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, and has recently accepted a position in the bacteriology department there.
A great many of you will be in uniform, but the rest
you should carry on, and have a fine fifth-year reunion
next May. Someone must lead off. Who will it be?
of
The address
of Robert
W.
Hill
is
Route
2,
Annan-
dale Road, Fairfax, Virginia.
at
George Williard taught last year
Seven Springs, North Carolina.
in the
high school
1939
Announcement was recently made of the marriage of
F)’ances Donnabelle Smith and James T. Smith, both of
Sunbury. The ceremony was performed June 2, 1941, at
Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mrs. Smith taught for some
time in the Elysburg High School. Mr. Smith, a graduate
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Page Forty-Eight
01
the University of Pittsburgh,
is
employed
at Johns-
town.
Miss Bette Barbara Dietterick and Maclyn P. Smethboth of Berwick, were married Saturday, June 20, in
Christ Episcopal Church in Berwick. Mrs. Smethers has
been employed in the auditing; department of the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick, and Mr.
Smethers is employed in the sales department of the same
ers,
company.
Robert Kantner, of Danville, a member of the Naval
Reserve, is located at San Diego, California, where he is
taking a course of training. He enlisted as a yeoman,
third class. He has been teaching in Florida for the past
two years.
James
R. Kantner, Yeoman 3c, is stationed at the
Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco,
Armed Guard
California.
1940
Miss Mary Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Evans, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Michael Chism*ar, of Jeddo, Saturday, May 16, at St. Columba’s
Church, Bloomsburg with the Rev. Fr. Louis J. Yeager
officiating.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1936. The groom is a graduate of Hazle
Township High School and a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
“Individual Instruction in Typewriting” was the titwhich appeared in the May, 1942, issue
of The Business Education World. It was written by Clayton H. Hinkel, who is working for his Ed. M. degree at
Temple University. Mr. Hinkel lives at 621 Pardee Street,
Easton, Pa.
le
of an article
Miss Mary Catherine Sands, of Bloomsburg and Robof Catawissa, were married Saturday, May 23,
Linn,
ert
Mrs. Linn has been employat Charlottesville, Virginia.
ed by the Bell Telephone Company in the Bloomsburg office and Mr. Linn is a teacher in the Doylestown High
School.
M. Royce Masteller, a member of the U. S. Naval Rebeen a student at the Naval Reserve Midship-
serve, has
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Nine
man School
Room 4256.
at Annapolis.
His address at the school
is
Hazel Ruth Gotshall, of Catawissa, and Corporal
Melbourne Davis, of Danville, were married Monday,
May
25, at the Baptist Parsonage, Alexandria, Louisiana.
Isaac Jones has enlisted in the navy and is rated yeoman, second class. He is stationed with Company 415,
Newport, Rhode Island.
Edward H. Bacon enlisted in the army in March and
stationed with the Field Artillery, R. T. C., Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
is
1941
The engagement
of Miss Isabelle C. Riegel and Lieutenant Harrison J. Cameron, Jr., of Berwick, has been announced. Lt. Cameron was promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant this spring, and is now at an officers’ training
school at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he is in line for
promotion to a higher rank. After linishing his work at
Fort Benning, he expects to go to Camp Carson, Colorado.
Miss Riegel is employed in the auditing department of
the American Car and Foundry
Company
in
Berwick.
Lieutenant George B. Houseknecht, of Hughesville,
and Miss Joyce Letterman, of Bloomsburg, were married
May 23, at the home of the bride’s parents.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. E. Johnson,
Saturday,
pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Bloomsburg. Lt.
Houseknecht is stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.
June Eaton (Mrs. William H. Hess) of Bloomsburg,
died at the Bloomsburg Hospital Thursday, April 9, death
being caused by pulmonary embolism. She is survived by
her husband, a son, William Eaton Hess, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. F. Eaton, of Galeton, and two sisters, Dorothy and Peggy, also of Galeton.
Pvt. Max Arcus, of Bloomsburg, is a member of the
875th Quartermaster’s Corps, and is located at Gunter
Field, Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Arcus entered the service in October, 1941.
When Alumni Day comes around next
years will have passed since your graduation.
Come back
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
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and have the first of a long series of successful reunions.
be good for your morale
It will
Private William G. Kerchusky has been taking a
course of training in meteorology. His address is First
School Squadron, Barracks 193, Chanute Field, Rantoul,
Illinois.
ber,
Howard Williams enlisted in the army last Novemis now attending the Air Corps Odicers’ Candi-
and
date School at Miami Beach. Florida.
Julia C.
Hagenbuch, of R. D.
1,
Danville,
Pa.,
is
teaching commercial subjects in the high school at Wiconisco. Pa.
Ralph Crocomo
olina.
He
is
is located at Fort Bragg, North Carwith the Field Artillery, R. T. C.
William Pegg taught
Eureka, North Carolina.
Walter Reed
is
last
year
in
the high school at
a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Corps.
1942
The following are the newest members
of the
Alumni
Association
Dorothy A. Austin, Danville; Ruth Irene Baird, Mill City; Albert
Peter Barrouk, Wilkes-Barre; Elwood Harland Beaver, Catawissa;
Helen Wanda Berfuss, Nanticoke; Gei'aldine E, Bitting, Ringtown;
Bernice E. Blaine, Berwick; William E. Booth, Shamokin; Robert
Urffer Borneman, Sanatoga; George Alvin Butler, Cressona; John P.
F. Carlin, Summitt Hill; Edward Banta Carr, Luzerne; Helen Anne
Carroll, Mt. Carmel; Herbert R. Chandler, Jr., Bloomsburg; Stella
Clare Chilek, Avoca; Carolyn Catherine Cole, Benton; Wilfred Harold Conrad, Benton, R. D. 2; Mary A. Davenport, Berwick; James
William Davies, West Pittston; Merrill A. Deitrich, Bloomsburg; Edwin John Deleski, Wilkes-Barre; Chester L. Derolf, Wilkes-Barre;
Candace Lila Dietrich, Kutztown, R. D. 2; Viola W. Disbrow, Forty
Fort; Mildred Ruth Eaton, Lehighton; Margaret Mae Eroh, Nescopeck; Sylvia B. Feingold, Souderton; H. Burnis Fellman, Allentown;
George J. Griffith, Wilkes-Barre; Doris M. Guild, South Waverly;
Alexander Hardysh, Mt. Carmel; Earl Joseph Harris, Bloomsburg,
R. D. 5; Stuart L. Hartman, Danville, R. D. 4; Roberta L. Hastie,
A-voca; Leonard L. Herr, Shamokin; Bertha A. Hindmarch, Mt. Carmel; Elizabeth Edna Hoagland, Elysburg; Bernice E. Honicker, St.
Clair; Dale Wesley Hoover, Dalmatia; Francis Elizabeth Hull, Shamokin; Ruth A. James, Taylor; Robert Lee Johnson, Ickesburg; Mar-
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August, 1942
Page Fifty-One
Jr., Berwick; Helen Jean
Klingerman, Berwick; Helen Sophie Kokora, Mocanaqua; Jean Elizabeth Lantz, Berwick; Mrs. Margaret McCulla Lash, Freeland; George
Dayton Leiser, Watsontown; Linda lone Lord, Minersville; Irene
Theresa Lendosky, Hazleton; Walter R. Lewis, Danville, R. D. 3; Harriet Anna Love, Waterville; Mary Charlene Margie, Wilkes-Barre.
garet Marie Jones, Taylor; Paul A. Klinger,
Adrian Masanotti, Berwick; Ludmilla Matanin, Mountaintop, R.
D. 1; Richard O. Matthes, Reading; Frank Joseph McAloose, Kelayres; Ralph Earl McCracken, Allentown; Helene J. McGonigle,
Shenandoah; Jack Lee Mertz, Northumberland; Adelaide M. Mesh,
Gten Lyon; Walter H. R. Mohr, Scranton; Mary Jane Mordan, Northumberland; David Nelson, Hazleton; George Noel, Natalie; Jeanne
L.ucille Noll, Palmerton; Richard C. Nonnemacher, Allentown; Joseph A. Olshefski, Mt. Carmel; Catherine M. O’Neill, Freeland; June
E. Op linger, Norristown; Dawn Harriet Osman, Shamokin; James
Daniel Pape, Hazleton; Dominic Robert Pino, Hazleton; Peter George
Podwika, Wyoming; Gladys Elaine Raby, Ephrata; Lydia B. Repeha;
Minersville; Josephine Miriam Rhinard, Berwick; Ruth Janet Rhys,
V.'arrior Run; Roy Lee Rishel, Danville; Katherine Louise Ruck,
Gouldsboro; Stanley T. Schuyler, Berwick; Louise Eleanor Seaman,
Hamburg; Doris L. Sears, Shamokin; R. D. 2; Mary Jane Sharpless,
Bloomsburg; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; John Anthony Shlanta, Mayfield; Alberta Cynthia Sincavage, Kulpmont; M. Claii'e Sirrocco,
Pottsville; Lois E. Slopey, Bloomsburg; William Elmer Smiih,
Bloomsburg, R. D. 2; Carl David Snyder, Catawissa; Helen Ruth F.
Snyder, Bloomsburg; Edward D. Sloback, Wilkes-Barre; Aleta Phyllis Stiles, Red Lion, R. D. 2; Barbara Jane Straub, Berwick; Frank
Stuart Straub, Berwick; Dora K. Taylor, West Grove; Francis Paul
Thomas, Troy; Grace Jean Thomas, Bloomsburg; Harold Paul TrethWilkes-Barre; Eleanor Marie Twardzik; Shenandoah; Frank
Francis Valente, Hazleton; William Powell Wanich, Light Street;
Robert W. Watkins, Numidia; Eva L. Watters, Mifflinville; Robert
Joseph Webb, Pine Grove, R. D. 1; Mary Ellen Whitby, Edwardsville;
Erma Marie Wolfgang, Shamokin; Rachel M. Yarowsky, Pottsville;
Stewart C. Yorks, Trucksville; David Marion Young, Danville; Edna
Mae Zehner, Nescopeck, R. D. 1; Ralph H. Zimmerman, Berwick.
av.’ay,
The engagement of Helen Klingerman and Ralph
McCracken was announced at the Senior ball of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College held at the Hotel
Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, Thursday evening, May 21. Burnis
Fellman, roommate of Mr. McCracken, told the classmates of the engagement during dancing.
Miss Klingerman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris R. Klingerman, of Berwick. During her four years
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College she was active in
the college band and orchestra, the Business Education
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Page Fifty-Two
Club, and has this year served as secretary of the Senior
She was graduated from the Berwick High School
with the class of 1938.
Mr. McCracken, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCracken, of Allentown, was graduated from the Allentown High School in 1933. At Bloomsburg he is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Sigma Pi educational fraternities, the Business Education Club, and vice president
of the Community Government Association.
class.
Bernice E. Blaine and Hurley C. Stout, Jr., both of
Berwick, were married Saturday, April 4, at the First
Methodist Church in Berwick. Mr. Stout is employed by
the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick.
Miss Joan Wenner, of Bloomsburg, and Edwin Deleski, of Wilkes-Barre, were manned Saturday, April 4,
in the rectory of St. Columba’s Church in Bloomsburg.
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new buildings. Shake hands with your classmates and friends.
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Summer
Twenty-six
who completed
their work for degree of
Education at the Bloomsburg State Teachsummer were told at a dinner at the college in
Bachelor of Science
ers College this
their
School
in
honor by Dr. Morris Smith, president of Susquehanna Uni-
upon you, the teachers of the coming generation,
power that comes with nature, the
strength that comes from friendship and by the strength, power
and vitality which comes from the Book of Books the Bible.”
E. A. Reams, of the college faculty, was the toastmaster
and Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff gave the invocation. G.
Gordon Keller entertained during the dinner with selections on
the solovox and Miss Harriet Moore led the singing with Howard
F. Fenstemaker at the piano. A musical feature was a vocal
solo by Miss Peggie Beach.
President Harvey A. Andruss in presenting the academic
awards based his remarks on Henry Van Dyke’s ‘To the Unknown Teacher.” The program closed with Dr. Smith’s address
and the national anthem.
Those completing their work for degrees and who were
honored at the dinner were
versity, “I call
to fortify yourself with the
—
Elementary
—Anna
Shamokm
Frances Austin, Luzerne;
Mildred P.
Rose Elizabeth Bott, Nuremberg; Jemima
Eltringham, Mt. Carmel; Sara I. Ermish, Berwick; Ann J. Evans,
Taylor; D. Pauline Franklin, Shickshinny R. D. 3; Dorothy Eileen Kreiger, Mahanoy City; Jane E. Lewis, Plymouth; Marian
Diana Long, Northumberland; Helene T. McGonigle, Shenandoah; Anna Ixes Northrup, Dalton R. D. 2; Harriet Elizabeth
Roan, Bloomsburg; Doris L. Sears, Shamokin R. D. 2; H. DoroBixler,
;
thy Selecky, Wapwallopen
;
Florence A.
Traub,
Luzerne; Jos-
ephine Yocum, Danville R. D. 3 J. Corrine Zeigler, Herndon.
Secondary
Edith Margaret Behr, Lopez; Joseph Anthony
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;
Olfshefski, Mt. Carmel;
Agnes A.
Pakutka,
Duryea; Luther
Troutman, Nanty-Glo.
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Business Education
—
Esther
Lillian
Edward
Claire Sirrocco, Pottsville;
Speaking on the theme “Education
Dr. Smith spoke in part as follows
“I looked
Curtis,
Duryea; M.
D. Solack, Wilkes-Barre.
in a ‘Crackpot’
World,”
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up the work
‘crackpot’ in the dictionary and
found that it means a ‘lunatic.’ The
more I began to think about it the more I said, ‘That’s the kind
of a world we have been living in for the last number of years.’
1 think I can demonstrate
something of the accuracy of that
statement. Take for example the godlessness of Russia, the allsupreme states of Germany and Italy. States that are supreme
over individuals in every phase of life. ‘Totalitarianism,’ it is
called. I call all these brands of lunacy.
strange as
it
may
seem,
I
“Consider the dark background of teaching
in the latter
There is Charles Darwin’s statement
that you could account for this world and for man and for all
the developments of different species without postulating a
deity. Then there is the basic materialistic fundamentals of the
theories of Karl Marx
that life lies in the abundance of ma-
half of the 19th century.
—
terial things.
Consider, too, the fostering of pagan deities in the
liberettos of
Richard Wagner and the theory of Friedrich Nietweak should perish and the sooner they are got-
sche
—
that the
ten rid of the better for
m
this
going on
of the
all
concerned.
War
is
the glorious thing
philosophy. These are the kinds of things that have been
1
in literature,
music, and philosophy during the last part
9th century and as
Wagner and
much
as
we admire
the general theory of evolution,
a great deal of lunacy about the teaching of
I
the music of
hold that there
men
is
like that
you three sources of strength in this ‘crackpot’ world. First, I suggest that you go out in the midst of unspoiled nature and renew your faith with Him who is behind
“I suggest to
nature.
Friendship,
I
suggest, with stimulating people will bring
you power. And then I suggest to you above everything else
that you keep in close contact with that great spiritual textbook,
the Bible. The truth is that you only build spiritual power by
spiritual instruments. As you would build a garage with ma-
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October, 1942
Page Three
terial things, you build spiritual power with spiritual instruments.
The spiritual instrument of all spiritual instruments is the Bible.
If you want to lift the atmosphere of your classroom, if you want
your pupils to see in you a light which never was on land or
you’ve got to use the spiritual instruments, you’ve got to
familiar with this Book. I call upon you, the teachers
sea,
become
power
comes with nature, the strength that comes from friendship
and by the strength, power and vitality which comes from the
Book of Books the Bible.”
of the coming generation, to fortify yourself with the
that
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Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the opening of the
six-weeks’ term offered a course in pre-flight aeronautics for secondary teachers, men and women.
The course was one of seventy-two hours work for the
term and included civil air regulations, meteorology and naviga-
summer
tion.
The
the
first
was
would equip high school teachers
College, already a pioneer in aviation education,
to plan a course that
to instruct in aviation and in May of this year sent out letters to
county superintendents and high school principals in the service
what the state wanted with regard to aviation
and what the college was prepared to offer.
The response was so encouraging that a number of other
institutions in the area quickly fell in line and plan to offer the
same type of work.
The instructors were Dr. H. H. Russell, meteorology;
George C. Buchheit, navigation, and Dean John C. Koch, civil
area, explaining
instruction
One novel
air regulations.
feature
of
the course
offered at
Bloomsburg was at least an hour in the air to give them practical
knowledge of flight to correlate with the ground school work.
The flight was optional with the student but was available, without cost, to
all
taking the course.
Four hours college credit were given for each the elementary and the advanced course. These were in the
ematics, science
and geography. They were
fields
of math-
also used to
make
a college certificate permanent.
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of the College Board of Trus-
and industrial life of
Bloomsburg, and since 1913 president and treasurer of the
Bloomsburg Silk Mill, more recently the Bloomsburg Mills, Inc.,
died at his home on Market Street, Monday, June 22.
On March 30, 1940, Mr. Yorks sustained a stroke, from
which he never fully recovered.
tees, for
years a leader
in the civic
He was born January 23, 1888,
at Paterson, N. J., the son
of the late Frederick G. Yorks and Frieda Kohlhass Yorks, and
came
Bloomsburg with his parents in the early 1890’s. At
that time his father was an experienced silk man who became
associated with Joseph Ratti, who established the Bloomsburg
to
889
as a silk throwing plant.
Yorks became president and general manager of the
company and upon the death of Mr. Ratti in 1906, purchased
plant in
1
F. G.
control.
The local plant was converted into a silk weaving plant
and operations were extended to Lock Haven.
Upon the death of his father in 1913 the management of
the plants was taken on by Milton K. Yorks, and the Duryea and
Reynoldsville plants were added to the company.
Mr. Yorks was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School and after taking special summer work at the Bloomsburg
State Normal School entered Lafayette College, from which he
was graduated in 1910.
Under Mr. Yorks’ management operations were expanded
and sales offices were established in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Los Angeles.
He served Bloomsburg both as a member of town council
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Five
and the school board. He was for many years a director of the
Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company and served as a director of the Bloomsburg Hospital.
At one time he was a member of the board of managers of
the National Federation of Textiles.
Mr. Yorks took an active interest
in the First
Presbyterian
taken ill served on the church board.
he was identified with the Republican party
throughout his life, and an outstanding figure in the party’s
council in the county. He served as delegate to the Republican
National Convention in the year Alfred Landon was nominated
church and
until
Politically,
for president.
Fraternally, he
was
affiliated
with the Consistory, Wash-
Royal Arch Chapter No. 218 and
Crusade Commandery No. 12, all local Masonic bodies.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. W. Potts Jones, and a niece.
Miss Patricia Jones, both at home.
Funeral services were held at the Dyke funeral home with
the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker in charge. Burial was made in
the family plot at the Old Rosemont cemetery.
ington Lodge, Bloomsburg
•
ADDITIONS TO
WORLD WAR
The following Alumni
of
1
ROSTER
Bloomsburg served in the United
World War in 1917-18,
States Naval Reserve Force during the
and were the
States.
first
enlisted
women
in
Their military records are on
the history of the United
file
in the
Department of
Military Affairs, Harrisburg.
Katherine Waters, Catawissa, Pa.
Hazel M. Hartman Koehler, 473 Wilde Avenue, Drexel
Hill,
Pa.
Sadie Crumb, 1232 You Street,
S. E., Washington, D. C.
Adele Mead Kendrick ’04, 1453 Seventh Avenue, S. W.,
Miami, Florida.
Lillian M. Kearney, 82 Market Street, Pittston, Pa.
Blanche Miller Grimes ’05, 204 North Second Street, Har-
risburg, Pa.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Six
Athletic^
The following article, from the “Fanning” column of the
Morning Press, is such a good summary of the history of track
athletics at Bloomsburg, that we are pleased to publish it in this
issue
of-
the Quarterly.
Across the desk the other evening came a story about Ern-
Lau being named a second lieutenant and thoughts turned
back to what the local boy and others have done in the past decade to develop track and field sports on the Hill.
While in the past half dozen years it has been track above
all other sports that has brought the Husky into the athletic sun,
est
the sport, with the exception
of soccer,
is
the newest
on the
Bloomsburg athletic program if you count from the last time it
was put on the calendar.
They had track and field sports on the hill in the old days
and they did pretty well in their competition and put up some
marks that stood for long periods, although all have now been
blotted out in the successful strides of the Huskies who have
been undefeated in dual meets since 935 and were four straight
times champions of Pennsylvania.
Of course, that is all well known history to followers of
1
college sports, but many times it is overlooked that those track
crowns are the only ones that have come to the Maroon and
Gold since the baseball title of 1935. Many times the court fives
have been leading challengers but never have they come through
to the
title.
In the
days immediately after the
World War the male
and if there were
the fates had been more
first
college population often did not exceed sixty
seventy boys on the
hill
the coach felt
than kind to him.
From
this
meagre supply of material they developed some
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Seven
good
football, basketball
and baseball teams, but
of some of the boys being all-round performers.
it was a case
Under such a
was no place for track because the boys could not
play baseball and perform on the cinders at the same time.
During the spring, around 1924, George M. Meade, now
head of the department of physical education for the city of Detroit, had enough good boys in the various events that he did
set-up there
revive the sport.
A triangular track and field meet was arranged with Wyoming Seminary and Dickinson Seminary, then leading Husky
rivals, in the Nesbitt Memorial Stadium in Kingston.
George
Schwall and a handful of other Bloomsburg specialists gave the
Maroon and Gold more firsts in that event than went to either
of the other schools but Wyoming had more performers and took
the
title.
From
George Buchheit came into the college
coaching picture, track and field had no place in the athletic
scheme of things.
that time until
Buchheit, although
standout performer for
he’d
be the
Illinois in his
last to
tell
college days
you, was a
and he loves
the sport.
Bloomsburg had just before that felt that something should
be done in this regard and had started an invitation scholastic
track and field meet, something on the plane in which the schoolboy basketball tourneys were conducted.
kies
These were helping to bring in some talent and the Husfrom this beginning started organizing a team.
At the outset of this reconstruction era the local collegians
were carried along largely by their distance runners. Probably
they did best
in
these events because of cross county in the
fall.
Lau and Jimmy Karns were among the first of these good distance men and they were followed by Ken Hippensteel, of Espy,
and Dan Kemple, of Cumbola.
West Chester, down in suburban Philadelphia where there
was plenty of opposition, had been dominating the State Teachers Colleges in the annual meet. In fact. West Chester was dom-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
!
Page Eight
were getting
inating the sport to a point that the other schools
tired of
doing nothing but providing the scenery.
It
looked
like
monoply killing off the event.
When Bloomsburg started going to those state meets the
Huskies had no hope of winning. They were just in there trying
to make a showing. We recall one year they were after 20
points and got 30 and were they happy
Buchheit early realized he had to get his charges confident
and Bucknell was added to the list. It was about 934 that the
Bucknellians came to town and the Huskies, through their superiority on the cinders, won from the Bisons.
Many who hadn’t been following the local team’s progress
thought it was an upset. But just to prove it wasn’t, the Huskies
a case of
1
continued domination over Bucknell
until
this
year
when
the
meet was cancelled by Bucknell for the duration, because of a
shortened spring term.
While the team has achieved outstanding success it has always been a case of quality and not quantity. There never has
been a year that the Huskies had as many as a dozen first rate
performers. The fact is that when all eleven boys in the state
meet contributed to the score this year they set a record in that
regard.
The
product
first
who
big
all
round man was Lamar Blass, the Aristes
taught at Catawissa for a year or two after grad-
uating and then went to
Blass, a big
size,
New
scored two points
in
agile for
one of
his
dual competition with Susquehanna at
Selinsgrove one afternoon.
We
Holland.
chap who was decidedly
The Crusaders never got over
that.
don’t believe they ever tackled the Huskies after that.
When
was graduated
howl about
Shamokin
came
to
start
ringing
up
points
as
did
sprinter,
in
Eddie Mulhern
and Kemple. After Van Devender departed it was Kemple who
was the big point-getter. Then came the Jenkins brothers, Don
and Harry, who are now both flying for Uncle Sam, and after
them came the two present aces, George Spontak and Mat Kasthe
Blass
team going
the boys started to
to pot, but Frankie
Van Devender,
uba.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
the
,
Page Nine
In order to act as a spur for better accomplishments, they
got out the old record book, in the days before World
War
1
and the lads of the past decade took a look and went to work.
Last of the old
for a
marks
to
go was a 4 38 mile that had hung on
:
good many years.
But
of the old
all
marks have been erased npw a number
of years and the continued improvement of the sport on the
new ones
allowed most of the
hasn’t
to last
hill
much more than
a
year or two.
Track and
field
are most likely to go out for the duration
but they have added some thrilling pages to Bloomsburg history
and
who
it
has brought to the Husky athletic front some
are
now making good
them every day
—
in
fine
and
Uncle Sam.
teaching, coaching
in the front lines for
chaps
—more
of
FOOTBALL DROPPED THIS YEAR
no varsity football team at Bloomsburg this fall.
drop the sport for the time being came as a reof the conditions growing out of the war. With the numThere
is
The decision
sult
ber of
men
to
students at the College greatly reduced, there are
not enough experienced players to
and rubber
rationing, the
furthermore,
made
it
make up
difficulties
difficult, if
of
a team.
With gas
transportation have,
not impossible, to maintain a
schedule.
Consequently, the attention
other directions for the duration.
sports has
m
athletics will
A program
be turned
in
intra-mural
of
been developed during recent years, and
this
pro-
gram will now
A soccer team is to
be formed, and the regular varsity basketball schedule will be
carried out this winter.
No official announcement has been
made with regard to baseball and track next spring.
receive increased attention.
Lois Yaple, of Benton,
ville, is
now
who
has been teaching
in Mifflin-
teaching in the high school at Benton.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Ten
MEN
To
see
IN
WALLER HALL
somewhat of a shock to
at the windows in the third and fourth floors of Waller
To those whose memory goes back to two or three destudents of recent years,
it
is
men
Hall.
cades ago, the sight
is
quite familiar.
In the days of Dr. Waller, the third
and fourth
Waller Hall were the regular quarters of the
men
floors of
The
from the west end of the library wing around to what
is now the lobby, were occupied by men.
If the walls of all of
these rooms could speak, what stories they could tell! They
could tell of one student, now a member of the faculty, who
saw a man prowling around on the front campus one evening.
The student, thinking that the man was a suspicious character,
poured a pitcher of water on the head of the unfortunate individual. What was the student’s consternation when he was later
called into Dr. Waller’s office and asked to explain why he had
the temerity to duck a member of the Board of Trustees!
Another room could tell of another student, who liked to
smoke his pipe in his room. Knowing that this was against the
rules, he would watch his window-shade, and when the shade
blew outward, he knew that it was safe to smoke, as the smoke
would go out of the window, and not into the corridor.
Another room could tell of a student, in scanty attire, who
was being hunted by a near-sighted hall teacher. The said
teacher came into the room where the student was, looked under the table, right at the student, and never saw him.
Another room could tell of a student who spent so much
two
students.
floors
time at his girl-friend’s house
down
ents decided that he might as well
when
the
his trunk
young man
left his girl’s
town, that his fellow-stud-
move down.
Consequently,
house one evening, he found
on the front porch.
The change that has taken place this year has been caused
by the presence on the campus of a large number of navy cadets
who are taking special courses at the College, and are being
trained in flying at the airport. The cadets are now housed in
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Eleven
North Hall, which has been a men’s dormitory for many years,
and the students have been moved to Waller Hall. Partitions
have been placed in the corridors, and other adjustments will
be made
later.
PRESIDENT ANDRUSS DELIVERS ADDRESS
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Teachers College, delivered the address at the annual dinner of the Beta Chapter,
Oklahoma Agriculture and
Oklahoma, Monday evening,
July 13. This fraternity is composed of graduate students in
the field of business education. Their annual dinner was originally scheduled for July
but was postponed in order that
President Andruss might deliver the address before beginning
two weeks of lectures in the graduate school.
Delta Pi Epsilon fraternity,
at the
Mechanical College, Stillwater,
1
President Andruss
1
used
subject
as his
“Better Business
Education” and in outlining the problems of today he said “anyone who reads today realizes after a time that thinking in both
business and education
often
it
is
isolated
remember
rather than relearn the hard
“The biggest business
cation
IS
and inconclusive.
appears to review fundamental principles
in the
won
world
is
Every so
order to
in
lessons.
but edu-
business;
the biggest business of this generation, in the
racies as well as in the dictatorship of the world.
If
democ-
we
are to
preserve the best of the vocational, economic, and social phases
of business education for those students
these experiences,
we must
try to
who need one
apply,
through
of or
all
guidance,
what we already know.
“When we are able to avoid the danger of dualistic thinkwhen we cease assuming that what is, is necessarily right,
and when we are able to distinguish true progress from mere
change, we can consolidate our gains and move on to our righting,
ful place in the
education of the youth of America.
Then we
shall have better business education.”
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twelve
LARGE ENROLLMENT
Bloomsburg State Teachers College’s three-week post seshad an enrollment of 141, the largest since this was made
a part of the college calendar. The number, which did not include forty men in the enlisted army air reserves, was well
above the previous high of 128.
The summer attendance was good throughout. For the
first time a pre-s6ssion of three weeks was presented and the
attendance of 49 was the third largest of any teachers college
in the state. The summer session attendance of
70 was five
above last year and fourth among the Commonwealth’s teachers
sion
1
1
colleges.
Included
in the
post sesion curriculum was a course in en-
tomology which was offered for the first time as an elective in
the science field and was given by Dr. Kimber Kuster.
Other courses and the instructors were
Arts and Crafts
economics I, E. A. Reams economics
II, Mrs. Amanda Thomas
:
;
II,
;
Miss Bertha Rich; modern trends
in
education, H. F. Fenste-
maker; chemistry I, S. I. Shortess; psychology II, J. J. Fisher,
and English I, S. L. Wilson.
There were more aviation students at Bloomsburg than all
of the other teachers colleges of the state combined. The preaeronautics course given during the
flight
tended by a
full class
of twenty,
summer
was the only one
session, at-
of
its
kind
given in the teachers college as a separate course.
It
had
for
its
purpose the preparation of secondary teachers
instruction in high schools
to give such
and was so success-
ful that at a meeting of teachers college presidents at Harrisburg
President Harvey A. Andruss, of Bloomsburg, explained the
program in a discussion which he headed. This is in accord with
the new policy of the government in aviation education.
Donald
1937,
in the
is
B.
now
army
Moyer, who attended Bloomsburg m 1936 and
Randolph Field, Texas. He enlisted
February, 1941.
in training at
in
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirteen
TEACHERS
Demand
expressed a desire to
there are
armed
DEMAND
been
Every member of the class of 942
teach has been placed. However,
for teachers throughout Pennsylvania has
particularly great this year.
who
IN
1
many who are awaiting notification to serve in the
and who consequently have not sought positions.
forces,
There have been instances where students have been given
have not received certification to teach.
In this case, emergency certificates are issued to the person who
positions, although they
is
lacking several credits for graduation.
accept teachers of
this
School
districts
which
type do not secure financial aid for the
some
emergency teachers.
A demand has also been shown for men and women who
taught during the first World War, and who since that time have
not been following the profession.
particular individual, but, because of the lack of teachers
schools have been obliged to hire
Mrs.
W.
Potts Jones (Elsie Yorks) sister of the late Milton
K. Yorks, of Bloomsburg, has been appointed to succeed her
brother as a
member
of the Board of Trustees of the Blooms-
burg State Teachers College. The appointment of Mrs. Jones
completes the six-member board. The other members are R. S.
Hemingway, president; Fred W. Diehl, Danville, vice-president;
W. Clair Hidlay, Bloomsburg, secretary-treasurer; Frank D.
Croop, Berwick, and M. J. Crispin, Berwick.
President Harvey A. Andruss, with the cooperation of the
members
Department of Business Education at the Colbook “Better Business Education,”
which came from the press of the Gregg Publishing Company
in July, The book of 390 pages covers exhaustively the field of
Business Education, in which President Andruss has been a leadlege,
is
er for
of the
the author of the
many
years.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
—
Page Fourteen
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
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
Hervey
B.
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 Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second
—
—
Street,
Harrisburg,
—
Pa.;
Treasurer
—Howard
M.
Kreitzer,
120
Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa.
Lackawanna County
—
President W. Archibald Reese, 1154 Cornell Street, Scranton, Pa.;
Vice-Presidents Clinton Weisenfluh, 326 Main Street, Old Forge,
Pa.; Eva Morgan, 2139 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Marie
Cabo Lesniak, 1315 Prospect Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Secretary
Florence Dunn, Jermyn, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia Bohn, 227 Steven
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 Car-
President
—Edna
—
—
—
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.
lisle Street,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
—Mrs.
Lester Bennett,
—
Page Fifteen
Montour County
Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.;
Vice-President Dorothy Sidler, R. D. 2, Danville, Pa.; Secretary Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treasurer
President,
—
—
Mildred Auten, R. D.
Danville, Pa.
1,
Northumberland County
—
President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Sti'eet, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer 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-Presi-
President
—
Palsgrove,
—
—
dent
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
—
Main
Street,
Mahanoy
—
—
City, Pa.
Philadelphia
—
President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary
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
President
—Harold Danowsky, R.
3,
Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President
—
Eugene Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen
Keller, Maple Street, MiffUnburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary
Mrs. Harold Baker, Market
—
—
Street,
MiffUnburg, Pa.; Treasurer
— Anna
Troutman, Selins-
grove, Pa.
Susquehanna-Wyoming Coimties
—
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 Larue Derr,
Beaver; Secretary
Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.
—
—
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Sixteen
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI HONOR MR. AND MRS. COOL
A
assemblage gathered at the home of Mr. and
2 N. 50th Street, Philadelphia, when
the Philadelphia Alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held open house for them August 6th on the occasion of
their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and which continued throughout the week.
The house was beautifully decorated with dozens of bouquets of flowers sent in by friends and relatives.
The wedding cake was a gift from friends.
There were over a hundred and fifty guests, many of them
from out of town, Wilmington, Del., Shenandoah, Bloomsburg,
Norristown, Union City, N. J., Camden, Haddonfield, Westmont,
Collingswood, N. J., and Atlantic City, and from the smaller
towns near the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Cool received many and rare gifts of dozens
of telegrams with good wishes.
The Philadelphia Alumni presented them with a white satin
book of “Memories” into which was pinned a one hundred dol-
Mrs.
brilliant
Norman
G. Cool,
1
1
The presentation was impressive, and was made by
Nevin Elwell Funk, in which he eulogized the lives of both Mr.
and Mrs. Cool and the good work they have done for the orlar bill.
ganization.
It
who
was Mrs. Cool who founded
has been
its
the Philadelphia group, and
president for eleven years.
Both Mr. and Mrs.
Cool responded to the presentation.
A
buffet lunch
was served by the Philadelphia Alumni.
Mr. and Mrs. Cool have hosts of friends and relatives
in
Bloomsburg and are well known up on College Hill. Mr. Cool
was a graduate of the class of 886 and Mrs. Cool of the class
of 888, when the college was still a State Normal School.
They have one son, Harold, of Culver City, Calif., and four
1
1
grandchildren,
is
in the air
all
of California.
A
grandson,
Norman
G. Cool,
corps in Arizona.
Mr. and Mrs. Cool are taking a week’s vacation and a
ond honeymoon at Mt. Gretna.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
sec-
Page Seventeen
Hlumru personals
1886
Judge William R. Lewis, of Scranton, Pa., passed away
about September 0. Judge Lewis was a prominent jurist, and
was always a loyal alumnus of Bloomsburg. He served as toastmaster of the Lackawanna County alumni reunion held at Scranton last October. The news of Judge Lewis’ death reached the
editor’s desk just as the Quarterly was about to go to press. It is
A
editor’s desk just as the Quarterly was about to go to press.
will
published
the
next
issue.
more detailed obituary
be
in
1
1888
Start the ball rolling
now
for your fifty-fifth year reunion
next May.
Margaret
ettstown.
New
Pell Petty (Mrs. H. D.
Jersey,
is
now
Beaty) formerly of Hack-
living at
215 West Second
Street,
Berwick, Pa.
1893
1943
now
to
is
make
the
it
big year.
The
fiftieth-year
reunion!
year reunion.
Begin
Start
a big one.
1898
May, 1943: Your
make your plans.
forty-fifth
now
to
1902
A. N. Keller, husband of Mrs. Etta Connor Keller, of the
College faculty, has retired after fifteen years of service as supervisor of
wood-working and sheet metal work
in
the Shick-
shinny High School.
Mr. Keller, one of the most widely travelled
was
men
in the
Marines from 1901 to 1905, and during
that time visited points along the coast of North and South
state,
in the U. S.
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October, 1942
Page Eighteen
America. Since that time he has made extensive trips that have
taken him to all parts of the world.
From 905 to 908, Mr. Keller was a wood-worker at the
1
1
Orangeville Agricultural Works,
m
1
and from 1909
1914 was
From
924 he was steward and deputy game warden at the
to
the cabinet shops of the U. S. Treasury at Washington.
9 4
1
to
1
North Mountain Club House.
Mr. and Mrs. Keller have at Orangeville one of the finest
homes in the state, with (the features including a 50,000-gallon
indoor swimming pool.
Ada
D. Harrison lives at 103 4th Avenue, Newark,
New
Jersey.
1903
Next May you will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of
your graduation from Bloomsburg. Who will start the ball rolling
now?
1904
Mrs.
Avenue,
Emma
Seattle,
Berry Motter is now living at 2717 Franklin
Washington. Her daughter Helen, a former
United Airline stewardess,
is
the wife of Lieutenant
Commander
James Thwing, and lives in Seattle. Lt. Thwing is with the Naval Reserves. Her son, Ensign George Motter, is also with the
Naval Reserves in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremeston,
Washington. Mrs. Motter will be glad to hear from her Bloomsburg friends, and will also be glad to see any one who may visit
Seattle.
1905
Shambach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Y. Shambach, of Camp Hill, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
Junior Grade in the Naval Reserve at the United States Naval Air
Station, Jacksonville, Florida.
He has been on duty as a squadron instructor and assistant flight officer at the Jacksonville Air
Lieutenant Shambach, a graduate of the Camp Hill
Station.
High School and of the Pennsylvania State College, was employed in the Locke Insulator Corporation at Baltimore before he enHarold
L.
listed in the service.
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October, 1942
Page Nineteen
1906
Miss Dorothea
May
Zecher, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Wil-
liam E. Zecher (Ethel Titus), of 1415 Clearview Street, Phila-
Henry Melson, of
The ceremony took place in
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Lebanon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Melson are graduates of Duke University, in the class of 939.
delphia, recently
became
the bride of Robert
Philadelphia and Forty Fort, Pa.
1
Lois DeWitt (Mrs. Charles G. McBride) lives at
1
644 Guilmember
Her husband has been a
ford Road, Columbus, Ohio.
of the faculty of Ohio State University.
The address of Ethel
Maxwell
»M.
is
P. 0.
Box
1908
to
Lehman,
8,
Pa.
1908
Wanted:
make
A member
of the class of
plans for the thirty-fifth
now
start
to
year reunion, May, 1943.
1910
8 at his home near Burbank, Califrom business for about two years,
and had bought a chicken farm. His wife and mother are living
Merrill
fornia.
Smith died April
He had been
1
retired
in California.
1911
Mrs. Miriam Vannatta Freas, formerly of Bloomsburg,
teaching at the Sharwood School
in
is
Philadelphia.
1912
Myrtle B. Belles (Mrs. Robert
J.
George)
lives
on Rutter
Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Mary
Fruite (Mrs. Lloyd Puder) lives in
Maplewood, New
Jersey.
Lena Severance (Mrs. Ray Roberts)
lives
at
R. D. 2,
Nicholson, Pa.
The address
of Lucile
Wakeman
(Mrs. K.
J.
Rair)
is
Box
75, Laceyville, Pa.
1913
Don’t
let
the war spoil your plans for your thirtieth-year
reunion next May.
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October, 1942
Page Twenty
1914
Brigadier General Idwal H. Edwards has been appointed As-
United States Army. From the time
he entered the armed forces in the days of World War I, General Edwards has been identified with the Air Corps, and for
some time was the commandant at Randolph Field.
During the spring he was called to Washington, and not
long after, it was announced that he had been advanced from
the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier General, and was placed
in charge of the entire training and organization program of
the army.
He is a native of Lackawanna County, and his wife is the
former Katherine Bierman, of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Edwards is
the daughter of the late Dr. Henry Bierman, of the class of
1882.
sistant Chief of Staff of the
days of the first World War, General Edwards was a
mate of Brigadier General James Doolittle, who led the
highly successful surprise attack on Japan last April.
In the
flying
He
many
is
the son of the late Rev. D. T. Edwards,
dent of Pittsburgh.
Anne
His mother
years in Taylor and Scranton.
He
the father
is
of
who lived for
now a resi-
is
two daughters, Miss
and Miss
Louise, a student at the University of Texas,
Katherine,
now
wards and
his family live at Fort
attending school
in
Washington.
General Ed-
Meyer, Virginia.
General Edwards made an outstanding scholastic record
Bloomsburg, and was active in athletics. He played varsity
football, and was quarterback of two Bloomsburg teams in
games against Wyoming Seminary, which at the time was
at
Bloomsburg’s leading
James
F.
rival.
Gearhart, of Montgomery, Pa., passed
the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Friday, August 7.
been
in the hospital since
May
1
0,
hart wrote a cheerful letter to the
1
938.
In
members of
away at
He had
May, Mr. Gearhis class,
meet-
ing in their thirty-year reunion. His letter said in part:
“Last summer I was hoping to become well enough to attend
our thirty-year reunion, but since then I have had two more opera-
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October, 1942
Page Twenty-One
and although my condition is somewhat better, I very rarely
sit in a wheel chair, and am far from being a well person.
“At the time of our twenty-five year reunion, 1 was suffering
considerably from my spinal injury, but at that time did not realize
tions,
the real nature of the injury.
“Mrs. Gearhart has my position as teacher of science
Montgomery-Clinton High School, and has been teaching since
at the
I
came
to Philadelphia.
“Our eldest daughter graduated in the commercial course at
B. S. T. C. in 1941, and soon after that secured a position in the F.
B. I. She and Mr. Charles Bakey, Jr., of the class of ’40, were married last October. He has a position in the Department of Agriculture, and leaves for camp May 21.
“Our younger daughter Geraldine hopes to finish a course in
nursing at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, next October. Our son
graduates at Dickinson Junior College May 25, and is finishing his
course in aviation near that date. He is applying for entrance into
the Navy Aviation course.
“Do you remember when some of the fellows lubricated the hinges of the fire-escape door, so that their late entrance would not be
detected? No, certainly not they were not members of the class of
1912! And do you remember when third floor played fourth floor in
football and paraded at night or attempted to parade?
—
—
name should be added to the list of those
World War I. He served from May to November
in the 22nd Company, Land Replacement Troops, Medical
Corps, and in the Central Officers’ Training School at Camp Lee,
Mr, Gearhart’s
who
served
in
Virginia.
<
William H. Davis lives at
ton,
New
York.
He expressed
attend his class reunion
1
85 Washington
Street,
his regrets at not
Bingham-
being able to
this year.
Charlotte Peacock Holmes lives at 875 Yosemite Avenue,
Mountain View, California. The following is a part of a letter
that she sent to the members of her class, meeting in their thirty-year reunion:
am
“I
cisco but
Service, i.
—
still
I
e.
living in the
same place
am now engaged
the Purchasing
—
fifty
miles from San Fran-
in a different branch of Government
Department of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics. Our office is located on the very edge
of a flying field and across the road from the big dirigible hangar
which is now housing the “blimps” used for Coast Patrol duty. We
have had several alerts due to unidentified planes over our vicinity,
but so far all have proved to be friendly.
“I send you all greetings from California and 1 wish to express
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
my
regrets in not being able to be with you.
to oui' 40th reunion in 1952.”
Louise
W.
Here’s looking forward
Vetterlein, of Paupack, Pa., sent the following
letter of greeting to
her classmates on Alumni Day
:
“Greetings to you ajl from Pike County! This is to tell you that
I’m verj' sorry that I can’t be with you, but I am there in spirit. I
trust you have many fellow-classmates back to ‘Dear Old Normal’
for our thirty-year reunion. God willing, I hope to be with you for
our 35th.”
1917
M.
Dunlap (Mrs. William 0. Week) lives at Mountain
She is a substitute teacher in the Wright Township
Mountain Top.
Elsie
Top, Pa.
School at
M.
Elsie
Dunlap (Mrs. William 0. Wesk)
lives in
Mountain
Top, Pa.
1918
The
1917 had a wonderfully successful reunion
have to start now, if you want to have a
class of
this year.
You
will
better twenty-fifth year reunion than they had.
1921
Miss Jeanne Miller, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of
Warren
L. Fisher, of
August
1
9, in the
Kelchner
Port Jervis, N.
Y.,
Wednesday evening,
The Rev. H. C.
Lutheran Church at Ephrata.
officiated.
The bride
is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
1926, and the Geisinger Memorial Hospital School of
Nurses, 1930. She took post-graduate work at the Elizabeth
Steel Magee Hospital, Pittsburgh, and attended the teachers
class of
college of Columbia University,
employed
New York
as supervisor at the Geisinger
ville,
for the past twelve years.
class
The bridegroom is a graduate
of 1918, and the Bloomsburg
of 1921.
He
City. She has been
Memorial Hospital, Dan-
of the Mainville High School,
State Teachers College, class
received his A. B. degree from the Pennsylvania
State College in
1926 and
Columbia University
in
his
M. A. degree
1927.
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October, 1942
in
education from
,
Page Twenty-Three
He was
Township Consolidated
1925 and for the past fifteen years and
headed the mathematics department of the Port Jervis High
School, where he has taken an active part in community life.
the principal of the Main
schools from 1921 to
He
a past president of the
is
Port Jervis
exalted ruler of the Port Jervis Elks,
and a member of
local draft
Kiwanis
Grand
board 307. He
Tall
is
Club, past
Cedar 1942,
also a past presi-
dent of the Port Jervis Teachers Association and was a member
of the House of Delegates of the State Teachers Association for
four years. At present he is chairman of the Kiwanis state vocational guidance committee.
Mr. Fisher was inducted into the service of the U.
August 4 and is now stationed at Camp Upton.
S.
army
1
1923
Don’t
let
anything keep you
year reunion next May.
away from your
Begin planning for
it
twentieth-
now.
Miss Genevieve Meixell, of Espy, and Elwood F. Langer,
of Cornwells Heights, were
home
of the bride.
The
Gotshall, of Catawissa.
at the
married Sunday, June 2
was the Rev. Harvey
1
,
officiating minister
Mrs. Langer has been teaching in the
schools of Bristol, Pa.
1924
is the new supervising prinHe succeeds T. J. Kirker ’3
Marion T. Adams, Bloomsburg,
cipal of the Mifflinville schools.
who
Mr.
1
resigned to take a position in a defense industry in Detroit.
Adams
the past thirteen years has been teaching at
Nurem-
A
graduate of the Pennsylvania State College, he holds
the B, A. and M. A. degrees, and has four summers’ work
berg.
toward
his doctor’s degree.
Clara Abbett, of Bloomsburg,
sion school at Ethetta,
is
teaching in an Indian mis-
Wyoming.
1925
Miss Arlene Ruckle, of Bloomsburg, died at the Bloomsafter an illness that had
burg Hospital Tuesday, September
lasted several years. Miss Ruckle had been a successful teacher in the schools of Columbia and Lackawanna Counties.
1
,
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October, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
1927
Margaret Shaffer, of Bloomsburg, has been elected to a
Township High School, Columbia County.
position in the Center
1928
A
lot
of changes have taken place at Bloomsburg durmg
the past fifteen years. Have you seen them? Come back on
Alumni Day next May and see how B. S. T. C. has grown.
Ruth Zimmerman, of Berwick,
is
supervisor of reading in
the Berwick schools.
1929
Corporal Jack Fortner,
Battalion,
is
located at
Company A, 805th Tank Destroyer
Camp Hood.
Fortner went into the service
Bloomsburg National Guard
Temple, Texas.
1941,
February,
in
Corporal
with the
unit.
The engagement of Florence Mae Drummond, of Pittston.
and Harvey W. Wolfe, of Newport Township, was announced
in
June.
Mrs. David L. Cooke (Eleanor M. Zydanowicz)
16234 Lamphere Road, Detroit, Michigan.
lives at
1930
Haven W.
an
Fortner, formerly of Bloomsburg. has accepted
office position
with a coal company at Indiana, Pa. Mr. Fort-
ner has been teaching
in the
Osceola Mills School since his grad-
uation from Bloomsburg.
Richard B. Sibley
is
teacher of
fifth
and
sixth grades in the
school at Sugarloaf, Columbia County.
1932
Miss Louise T. Downin,
of
and Edward
Harrisburg,
P.
Clayton, of Washington, were married last spring on the front
campus of the Harrisburg Academy and Junior College where
the bride had been a teacher since December, 940. The bride
was for a time the president of the Dauphin-Cumberland Branch
of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association. Prior to her affiliation
1
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October, 1942
Page Twenty-Five
with the Harrisburg Academy, she was a substitute teacher
in
the Harrisburg schools.
Mr. Clayton,
who
is
a Chief Petty Officer
States Navy, spent several years as a seaman,
the
Navy
in Asia.
in
the
United
first class,
with
1937 he was graduated from the Deep Sea
In
Washington, where, at the time of his marriage,
he was stationed as an instructor in diving, and as a student in
Diving School
in
Mine Retrieving at the Advanced Mine School. After his graduation he was attached to the U. S. rescue ship S. S. Falcon as
chief metalsmith and diver first class, and for his rescue and
salvage work for the submarine Squalus he was awarded the
Navy Cross by President Roosevelt.
Ensign Ezra W. Harris, United States Naval Reserve, has
been assigned as an instructor to teach the W. A. V. E. S., women’s auxiliary of the United States Navy, at Smith College,
Northampton, Massachussetts. Ensign Harris spent the summer
studying at the naval training school at Harvard. For the past
ten years, he has been a member of the faculty and athletic
coach at the Center Township Consolidated Junior High School,
Columbia County.
Captain and Mrs. Bernard A. Sage (Emilie V. Zydanowicz)
A son was born
They now haveitwo
are living in Denver, Colorado.
Mrs. Sage
March
14, 1942.
to
Captain and
children.
Private Ariel C. Boop, husband of the former Harriet Styer,
of Bloomsburg,
is
with the American Expeditionary Forces
in Ireland.
1933
Your ten-year reunion next May. This ought
one.
Who
will
take the lead in planning for
Miss Melba Beck, of
July at the
home
be a big
H. Hyde,
were married
Bloomsburg, and Harold
formerly of Bloomsburg and
in
to
it?
now
of Philadelphia,
of the Rev, William Hyde, brother of the
The Rev. Mr. Hyde officiated at the ceremony. Since
her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. Hyde was for some time
employed by the Department of Public Assistance in Bloomsgroom.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
burg, and later attended the School of Social
Work
at University
of Pittsburgh. Mr. Hyde, a
member
ployed by the
Company. They are now
J.
G. Brjll
of the class of
1
936,
is
at
em-
4913
Cedar Avenue, Philadelphia.
is with the 369th Infantry, 93rd
Hauchuca, Arizona, where the first
all-colored division of World War II was organized. He was an
employee of the State Department of Public Assistance before
Captain John Q. Timbrell
Division, stationed at Fort
He entered Federal service as commandCompany M, 09th Infantry, 28th Division.
going into active duty.
ing officer of
1
Private Karl L. Getz, of Bloomsburg,
who
has for several
years been teaching in the high school at Johnson City,
New
York, was inducted into the army March 23 at Fort Niagara, N.
y., and was at that time transferred to Fort Jackson, South
Carolina,
m
an infantry company.
July from the officers’ training school at Fort Benning, Georgia.
He was a teacher at Hop Bottom High School and
Summit High School before entering the army.
Thomas Hartman
is
at Clark’s
teacher of general science in the Ber-
wick High School.
1934
Woodrow W.
Aten, of Mifflin Township, was commissioned
ordnance department of the U. S.
August st at the Officers’
Candidate School at Aberdeen, Md.
Lt. Aten entered the service May 12, 1941, and served
four months at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He was later
transferred to Fort Totten, N. Y., where he was in charge of a
a second
Army
lieutenant in the
at the graduation exercises held
1
supply depot.
When
the nation
began enlarging the army program, he
was selected to attend the ordnance officers’ candidate school
and was sent again to Aberdeen. Here he attended school for
3 weeks, specializing in the repair of tanks.
Lt. Aten is a graduate of Mifflin Township Vocational High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Before en1
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October, 1942
Page Twenty-Seven
tering the service he
lic
was employed by the Department
of Pub-
Assistance.
Miss Blanche Irene Kostenbauder, of Bloomsburg, and
Harold A. Millington, of Lime Ridge, were married Saturday.
June 20, at the First Reformed Church of Bloomsburg. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
church.
Mrs. Millington
is
B. R. Heller, pastor of the
a teacher in the Third Street School
Bloomsburg, and Mr. Millington is an inspector at the A. C. F.
Company in Berwick. They are now living at 53 Center Street,
in
Bloomsburg.
Joy K. Morris and Burton J. Thomas, both of Wilkeswere married Saturday, July 5, in the Grant Street Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Walter Moore, assisted by the Rev. John H. Craven.
Mrs. Thomas has been teaching in the Laurel Run schools, and
Mr. Thomas, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Extension School, is employed by the R. B. Wall Company.
Barre,
Sergeant Pierce M. Reed, of Danville, R. D., and and Miss
Elizabeth R. Auvil, of Noxen, were married June 25 in the chapel
at
Camp
Robinson,
Little
Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Reed is a
Before entering the army, Mr.
teacher in the Noxen schools.
Reed served
as teacher of agriculture in the
Mam
Township
High School.
Lieutenant Gerald Woolcock, of Millville, has been with
the 28th Division at Fort Livingston, Louisiana.
1935
Ruth E. Maust, of Bloomsburg, and Robert J. Turick, of
Bloomsburg R. D., were married Saturday, September 2, at the
home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. D. L. Bomboy. Mr. Turick was employed as an operator in the shear department at the A. C. & F. plant in Berwick,
and is now in the army.
1
Miss Dorothy Ermish
Berwick schools.
is
teaching
in
the
fifth
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grade
in
the
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Eight
1936
Second Lieutenant Ernest V. Lau, formerly of Bloomsburg,
officers’ training school at Aberdeen, Maryland, and is now serving as an instructor there. Lieutenant Lau
was for several years a member of the faculty of the Dimock
High School. He was married Sunday, June 4 to Betty Jane
is
a graduate of the
1
Davis, of that vincinity.
Samuel Green, of Berwick, who was inducted
in
August,
is
now
New
stationed at Atlantic City,
into the
army
Jersey.
1937
Edward
Miss Janice Everett and G.
Deily, both of
Blooms-
burg, were married Sunday, August 2, in the First Methodist
Church, Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Dr.
Edgard
ployed
in
Skillington, pastor of the church.
the office of the Bell Telephone
Mr. Deily,
burg.
office of
who
The bride
Company
in
is
em-
Blooms-
has been employed until recently in the
Creasy and Wells,
Inc.,
has enlisted
in the
Army.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Hannah Keller, of Danville, and Bruce M. Rhawn, of Catawissa.
The ceremony was performed December 18, 1941, by the Rev.
Mrs. Rhawn has been teaching
Second Ward School in Danville, and Mr. Rhawn has been
employed at the Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Danville.
Miles B. Smeltz, of Pottsgrove.
in the
Miss Elda Fanti, of Orange, and Ensign George R. Tamalis,
were married Wednesday, June 10 in the NaThe ceremony was performed
by Chaplain John K. Wharton.
of Edwardsville,
val Chapel at Pensacola, Florida.
John Gering
is
teacher
of science
Woodmere, Long Island. Mr. Gering has
Temple University.
his
high
school at
M. A. degree from
at 74 Mary Day Avenue, Pontiac,
On the 22nd of August, 1941, Mr. Schrope married
Hildred Mae Dobbyn.
Ray
G. Schrope lives
.Michigan.
Miss
in the
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Nine
Jay Pursel, of Bloomsburg,
is
a teacher of the faculty of
He
is
teaching social studies, and
the Nescopeck High School.
also serving as librarian.
Corporal Luther P. Hower,
of Espy,
is
located
at
New
Cumberland.
The present address
Street,
New
of Luther A.
Peck
is
226
East 75th
York, N. Y.
1938
you will be in uniform, but the rest of you
should carry on and have a fine fifth-year reunion next May.
Someone must lead off. Who will it be ?
A
great
many
of
M. Richie and Catherine Simpson, both of BloomsColumbus, Mississippi. Lt. Richie was a member of the second class of cadets to
graduate from the Columbus Army Flying School, near Columbus, Miss. He was appointed for pilot training in the Air Corps
Lt. Neil
burg, were married Wednesday, April 29, at
last September. He received his primary flight training at Helena Aero Tech, Helena, Arkansas, and his basic flying at the
Greenville
Army
Flying School, Greenville, Mississippi.
Before his aviation cadet appointment, Lieutenant Richie
was a member of the Danville High School faculty for two
and taught at the Matamoras High School one year becoming to Danville.
Mrs. Richie is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and was a student at the College for some time.
Lt. Richie has been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and has been stationed at Bangor, Maine.
years,
fore
Dorothy
J.
Frick, of
West
Pittston,
and Sheldon A. Mac-
Dougall, of Chester, formerly of Berwick, were married Friday,
August 21, in the First Methodist Church of West Pittston. The
Rev. Richard J. Davey performed the ceremony. Mrs. MacDougall taught for several years in the high school at West Pittston.
Mr. MacDougall, a graduate of the Berwick High School,
is
employed by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, of
They are now living at 1132 Potter Street, Chester.
Chester.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty
Second Lieutenant Adolph M. Zalonis has graduated from
a coast artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
ing at Trout
Run
at the time
He was
teach-
he was called into the service.
Anna Malloy, of Maple Hills, and Eugene Sharkey ’40,
were married Saturday, August 29. They are living in Moodus,
Connecticut.
Carrie Livsey, of Bloomsburg,
and geography
in the
Edna Girton
is
is
teacher of social studies
Nescopeck High School.
supervisor of special education in the Ber-
wick schools.
Elizabeth
J. Gilligan is living at
the Y.
W.
C. A. in Scranton.
1939
Miss Nancy Burkholder, of Quarryville, and Isaiah D.
Bom-
boy, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday afternoon, August
1
5, at the
home
of the bride’s parents.
The Rev. D.
L.
Bomboy,
father of the bridegroom, officiated.
Miss Burkholder is a graduate of Quarryville High School
and the Pennsylvania State College and did graduate work at
Columbia University. She taught home economics at Estella and
Dallastown.
Mr.
Bomboy was graduated from
the Bloomsburg
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and did
uate work at Duke University and at the Pennsylvania
He has been teaching at the Estella High School.
High
grad-
College.
Following the ceremony a reception was held on the lawn
many
for
to
New
guests, after
which the couple
left for
a wedding trip
York.
Mr. and Mrs. Bomboy are now living in Huntington Mills
where the former has accepted a position on the Huntington
Township High School faculty.
Miss Margaret Mary Lonergan and John Winston Smethers,
were married Saturday, July
in St. Mary’s Cath-
of Berwick,
olic
Church, Berwick.
1
1 ,
The ceremony was performed by
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October, 1942
the
Page Thirty-One
Mrs. Smethers has been employed
Rev. Father Charles Allen.
as a secretary in the offices of the A.
tC. F.
Company, and Mr.
same
plate department of the
is employed in the armor
company. They are now living at 329 East Front
Smethers
Street, Ber-
wick.
Miriam
tary to the
Bloomsburg, has been appointed secreat Bucknell University, Lewisburg.
L. Utt, of
Dean
of
Women
For the past year Miss Utt has been employed as bookkeeper
and associate revenue agent by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the Laurelton State Village, Laurelton, Pa. Before going to Laurelton, she
was
two years a teacher
for
in the
com-
mercial department of the high school at Phillipsburg, Pa.
Miss Helen M. Derr, of Kingston, and Robert Price, former-
were married Saturday, June 6, in the parsonage of
The Rev. A. G. Kurtz offiThe bride attended Duke University, and has been teach-
ly of Plains,
the Kingston Presbyterian Church.
ciated.
ing in the Kingston schools.
Mr. Price, a graduate of Blooms-
He was a
burg, attended the University of Pittsburgh.
in the
Wyoming High
sition as flight instructor
tion,
and was located
teacher
School for a time, and then accepted a poat
under the
Mayes
Civil
Aeronautics Administra-
Field, Huntington,
Miss Catharine M. Jennings and William
S.
West
Virginia.
Strawinski, both
of Harrisburg, were married Saturday, June 13, in the chapel of
Wilson College, Chambersburg.
was the
officiating minister.
The Rev.
Dr.
Mrs. Strawinski
Wilson College, and has been teaching
in
the
Warren N. Nevius
is
a
graduate of
Camp
Curtin Jun-
High School. Mr. Strawinski is with the Civil Service Board
in Middletown.
He was formerly a teacher in the William Penn
School,
High
Harrisburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Strawinski are now living at 1818 North TTiird Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
ior
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Melva
M. Carl and Fenwick D. Douthat, of Nescopeck. The ceremony
was performed October 24, 1937, in the Methodist parsonage
at Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Douthat has been a member of the
faculty of the Dallas High School, and Mr. Douthat is employed
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty -Two
in the
Ordnance Department of the A.
C. F.
Company,
in
Ber-
wick.
Miss Betta Barbara Diettenck and Maclyn P. Smethers, of
Berwick, were married Saturday, June 20, at Christ Episcopal
Church, Berwick. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High
School, and has been employed in the offices of the A. C. F.
Company
in
Mr. Smethers has also been employed
Berwick.
the offices of the
in
same company.
Aviation Cadet William
J.
Yarworth
is
a
member
of the
Aviation Cadet Detachment at Lowry Field, Colorado, where he
is
training to
A. C. William
become an
J.
aerial photographer.
His address
is
Yarworth, Aviation Cadet Detachment, Barrack
330, Lowry Field, Colorado.
Robert Ohl, of Lime Ridge, a radio instructor in the Army
who was recently promoted to the rank of sergeant,
has been transferred from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Chicago.
His new address is Sgt. Robert A. Ohl, Hq. and Hq. Squadron,
A. A. F. Technical School, Congress Hotel, Chicago, 111.
Air Corps,
1940
Clayton M. Hinkel has been elected head of the depart-
ment of Business Education and Director
of the Placement Bureau in the high school at Easton, Pa. Mr. Hinkel was an honor
graduate of the Easton High School in 1931, and before entering college he had five years of private teaching and business
experience. Mr. Hinkel began teaching in the Easton schools in
July, 1940,
sion.
He
when he
summer sesMarch Junior High
taught during the high school
taught English for a semester
in the
School, and for the past year and a half has been in charge of
Business Education in the Shull Junior High School.
Elizabeth M. Chalfant and Elmer
were married Thursday, July 16.
E. Patton, of Scranton,
Cadet Robert A. Linn, of Catawissa, has entered the army
center at Nashville, Tennessee. At the
classification center Cadet Linn took psychological and physical
air forces classification
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Three
examinations to determine for which branch of air crew service
he is best fitted. He is taking courses of physical training, academic study, and military drill, which will prepare him for the
work which lies before him. Cadet Linn left a position as teacher and coach at the Doylestown High School to enlist in the
service.
Ray P. McBride, Jr.,
939, were married SunBaptist Church of Berwick. The cere-
Miss Edna Keller, of Nescopeck, and
of Berwick, a
member
day, June 21
in the First
,
of the class of
mony was performed by
Rees.
1
the pastor of the church. Rev.
Haydn
Mrs. McBride has been teaching in the Coopersburg High
School, and Mr. McBride
is
a
member
wick High School. They are now
of the faculty of the Ber-
living at
1
20 Eleventh
Street,
Berwick.
Mrs. Samuel
member
J.
Mercer
(Josephine
Richard)
a former
of the class of 1940, died suddenly Friday, July 24,
following an operation at the City Hospital, Akron, Ohio.
Mrs.
Mercer was born in Bloomsburg, attended the Bloomsburg public school, and attended the College for two years.
She was
married November, 1938, and lived in Akron until the time of
her death. She is survived by her husband and one son.
Miss Betty Andreas, of Bloomsburg, and Corporal Paul F.
were married Thursday, June
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. B. R. Heller. Mrs. Weatherill has been teaching in the Main Township schools.
Corporal
Weatherill, also of Bloomsburg,
25, at the First Reformed Church of Bloomsburg.
Weatherill
delphia,
is
and
a graduate of the Pierce Business School in Philais
stationed at
Camp
Wheeler, Georgia.
Miss Martha McHenry, of Benton, and Charles Wenner, of
were married Saturday, June 20, at the parsonage of
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles Phillips. Mr. Wenner, who is a pri-
Stillwater,
the Methodist Church at Honesdale.
vate
first
class in the
North Carolina.
Mrs.
army,
is
Wenner
stationed at Morris Field Air Base,
is
a teacher in the school at Ben-
ton.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty -Four
The College has received a “V” letter from Corporal Edward H. Bacon, stating that he and Corporal Ralph C. Crocamo
have arrived in England.- They expressed the desire that their
friends and classmates write them. Their address is A. P. 0.
887, care of the Postmaster,
Mary
in
York.
and Harold Rarig,
were married Monday evening, June 22,
the Numidia Reformed Church. Mrs. Rarig has been teaching
the Locust Township schools, and Mr. Rarig is employed on
Miss
Stine, of Elysburg, R. D.
of Catawissa, R. D.
m
New
1
1
,
,
his father’s farm.
Charles L. Kelchner,
in
an
624 Peace
officers’ training school.
Street, Hazleton,
His address
is
is
now
Officer Candidate
Company E, 3rd Platoon, Ordnance OfCandidate School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
Charles L. Kelchner,
ficers’
Byron Shiner, of Berwick, was introduced
into the army July 23, 1941, and is stationed with a bombardment group at March Field, California. Before entering the
army he was a teacher in the Berwick High School.
Staff Sergeant
First
Sergeant Earl Houck, of Berwick, has been appoint-
ed to the Army Air Force Administrative Officers’ Candidate
School at Miami Beach, Florida. He has been serving for a year
and
a half at
Private
March
first
Field, California.
class
Kenneth
J.
Hippensteel, of Espy, enlisted
United States Air Corps April 2, 1941, and is now stationed at Curacao. He was previously in Georgia and Puerto
in the
Rico.
Gwladys Jones, 334 North Sumner Avenue, Scranton, has
been elected to a position in the high school at Lewisburg, Pa.
For the past two years she has been teaching in the high school
at DuBois.
Leonard E. Stout, of Nescopeck, is in a technical school
squadron at Canute Field, Illinois. Before entering the service
he was a teacher in Girard College, Philadelphia.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Five
Frank Kocher, of Espy is teaching mathematics in the Conshohocken High School. Mr. Kocher taught for two years in the
high school at McVeytown.
Cadet William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, has been taking a
meteorology course at New York University.
Rosemary Houseknecht,
Swedesboro,
New
Bloomsburg,
of
teaching
is
in
Jersey.
Vivian Reppert, of Espy,
is
teaching in the high school at
Dalmatia, Pa.
Catherine Reppert, of Espy,
is
teaching at Manheim, Pa.
1941
When Alumni Day comes around next May, two years will
have passed since your graduation. Come hack and have the
first of a long series of successful reunions. It will be good for
your morale!
John Rutter Ohl,
Jr.,
has graduated from the
Force Officers’ Training School at Miami Beach,
Army
Fla.,
Air
and has
been commissioned a second lieutenant.
He enlisted in the air corps October 28, 1941, and received
his basic training at Keesler Field, Miss.,
before being trans-
ferred to the air corps technical school at Chanute Field,
a course
Lieutenant Ohl was graduated from that school
ary of
this
111.,
for
teletype maintenance.
in
year and was assigned to McClellan Field,
later to the
in
Febru-
Calif.,
San Francisco Bay airdrome. He was chosen on
and
May
become a candidate for a commission.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, he was a member of the varsity
wrestling team at the college.
1
1
to
Mary M.
Brunstetter and Lieutenant James Harman, of
Catawissa, were married in July in the chapel of
St.
John’s Pro-
The bride is teacher of science
the Beaver Township High School.
testant Church, Bangor, Maine.
and speech
at
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Six
Shortly after the marriage, Lieutenant
seas with his unit,
Harman went
and word has since been received
over-
that he has
been promoted to the rank of Captain. He is a flight commander in the 94th Pursuit Squadron, and is stationed somewhere in
England. His address is Capt. James Harman, A. P. 0. 873,
care of the Postmaster,
New
York.
John D. Young, of Catawissa, has graduated from Officer
Fla., and has been commissioned a second lieutenant and made personal officer of an observation squadron based at Tullahoma, Tenn.
Lieutenant Young has been in the service more than a
year and graduated from officer training school on August 5.
Candidate School, Miami Beach,
He held
school.
the rank of corporal at the time of admittance to the
He
is
a graduate of the Catawissa High School
and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Lieutenant Robert Joy, a former member of the class of
is now in the Pacific zone of action with an infantry regi-
1941,
ment.
He
is
attached to the headquarters troop.
Lieutenant Joy
when
it was formed
November, 1939, and went into Federal service with that
unit in February, 1941. He went to Fort Benning, Georgia, for
joined the Bloomsburg National Guard unit
in
a three-months course in the
in
Company Command
1942, he was transferred to another
School.
Early
unit.
Miss Edith Benninger, of St. John’s, and Karl Balliet, of
Drums, were married Saturday, June 13, at the home of the
bride’s brother-in-law and sister, the Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Williams, of Hazleton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Mr. Williams. Mrs. Balliet has been teaching in the Fairview
School at Mountain Top. Mr. Balliet is a graduate of the Hazleton High School and of Franklin and Marshall College.
Miss Sara
Anne Garthwaite and
Sgt. Paul
Letterman, both
were married Saturday, June 27, 1942, at the
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. The Rev. J. Edgar Skill-
of Bloomsburg,
First
ington performed the ceremony.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Mrs. Letterman
October, 1942
is
a graduate
Page Thirty-Seven
Bloomsburg High School and is employed in the Rea and
Sgt. Letterman has been stain Bloomsburg.
of the
Derick Drug Store
tioned at
Camp
Robinson, Arkansas.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Jean Greenly, formerly of Bloomsburg, and now of Harrisburg,
to Charles Robbins, of Bloomsburg.
Miss Greenly is a graduate
of the Bloomsburg High School and attended the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and Thompson’s Business College. She
office of the Bell Telephone Comis employed in the business
pany
Harrisburg.
in
Charles Robbins, of Bloomsburg,
a
to
camp
in California,
Mather
course
Field,
who
has been located at
has been selected from his squadron to go
Sacramento, California, to take a 24 weeks’
Following the course, he will be commis-
in aviation.
sioned and assigned his wings.
Miss Dorothy Savage, of Berwick,
teaching in the com-
is
mercial department of the Berwick High School. She served
last year as a substitute teacher for Byron Shiner ’40, who is
now
the service.
in
Samuel Frederick Worman, of Danville,
is
teaching in the
Harris High School, Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
He
is
teaching
Latin and directing the high school band.
The address of Jane Dyke
ment
1
,
ernment
is
A
611
Washington, D. C. Miss Dyke
is
Street N. E., Apart-
employed by the Gov-
at the nation’s Capitol.
Miss Lois Gruver has been elected teacher in the schools
of Briar Creek Township,
and has been assigned
to the school
at Foundryville.
Edwin Wenner, of Berwick, has joined the Coast Guard,
and reported for duty September 24.
Isabella Olah, of Berwick,
is
a teacher of fourth grade at
the Ferris Heights Building in Berwick.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty -Eight
1942
Sergeant Richard H. Foote,
member
Foote, former
the service August 4,
Corps at
Camp
son of
the late
Prof. J. C.
of the faculty at Bloomsburg, entered
1941, and was stationed
Lee, Virginia.
in the
Medical
Later he was transferred to
Camp
where he was in charge of the hospital
He has recently been located in the registrar’s office at
Croft, South Carolina,
library.
Camp
Croft.
Richard Matthes, of Reading, and Miss Anne Boyer, of
Selinsgrove, were married in New York City Tuesday, SeptemMrs. Matthes, a
ber 8.
member
of the class of 1944, has re-
turned to her studies at Bloomsburg.
army September
1
Mr. Matthes entered the
7.
Merrill A. Deitrich, of Bloomsburg, has been graduated
from the U. S. Navy pre-flight school and has been transferred
from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to a reserve aviation base at
Chicago,
Illinois.
who has been teaching for
Township, Northumberland County,
has been elected to a position m the elementary grades in SunBetty Lou Kepner, of Sunbury,
the past
two years
in Point
bury.
Corporal Robert Hartman, of Bloomsburg, a former
ber of the class of 1942,
Field, Virginia.
He
is
enlisted
in the
mem-
Personnel Section at Langley
December 28, 1941.
Private Robert Hopfer, a former athletic star at the College,
is
in
a field artillery battery at
Camp
Sutton, North Caro-
lina.
Elwood Beaver has been receiving
his basic
training at
Keesler Field, Mississippi, the replacement training center of the
Army
Air Force Technical Training
Edward
Bloomsburg,
Deleski,
is
now on
who
Command.
received his aviation instruction at
active duty with the Air Corps.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Nine
Collin Vernoy is teaching
demy, near Washington, D. C.
at
Charlotte Hall Military Aca-
Miss Edna Zehner, of Nescopeck, R. D.,
is
a
member
of the
faculty of the Nescopeck High School.
Miss Idajane Shipe, of Berwick,
in
is
teaching seventh grade
the Fourteenth Street Building, Berwick.
Mary Jane Mordan,
in the
of Northumberland,
is
teaching Science
high school of the joint Turbotville-Lewis school
district.
Stuart Hartman, of Danville, R. D., has received his
com-
mission as Ensign in the United States Navy.
Ruth Snyder
is
teaching
in the
commercial department
in
the high school at Jelferson, Pa.
The present address of Robert
Hickham Housing, Honolulu, T. H.
Carolyn Cole
arloaf,
is
B. Miner
is
1
63
1
9th Street,
teacher of third and fourth grades at Sug-
Columbia County.
David Snyder
is
teaching science
in the
high school at Cata-
wissa. Pa.
Ruth Snyder, of Bloomsburg, is teaching in the commercial
department of the high school at Jefferson, Pa.
Adrian Masanotti, of Berwick,
is
teaching at Brockway,
Pa.
Josephine Rhinard, of Berwick,
is
teaching in the schools
of Lewisburg, Pa.
Jean Lantz
is
teaching in the schools of Berwick, her
home
town.
ship,
Barbara Straub, of Berwick,
Luzerne County.
Lois Slopey, of Bloomsburg,
Township, near Harrisburg.
is
is
teaching in Salem
teaching
in
Town-
Lower Paxton
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Forty
Mary Jane
Sharpless, of
Bloomsburg,
is
teaching
in the
Locust Township High School, Columbia County.
Aviation Cadet Stuart Straub, of Berwick,
Santa
Ana
stationed at
is
Field, California.
The class of 1942, as part of its class memorial,
buted $150.00 to the Alumni Loan Fund.
Helen Klingerman, of Berwick,
contri-
teaching in the high
is
school at Coopersburg, Pa.
C.
David Snyder
Grace
J.
is
Thomas
Jean Lantz
is
Jeanne Noll
is
is
teaching in the Catawissa High School.
teaching at Williamstown, Pa.
a substitute teacher
teaching
in the
of Berwick,
the Berwick schools.
high school at Lehighton, Pa.
Margaret Eroh, of Nescopeck,
Mary Davenport,
in
is
is
teaching at McClure, Pa.
teaching in her
home town.
Ex-42
Lieutenant Nelson M.
class
who were
trained
Oman,
of Bloomsburg,
at Ellington
was one of a
and were
Texas,
Field,
graduated from the advanced flying school of the
Army
Air
Forces.
1943
Miss Sidnea Baker, of Espy, and Pvt. Harold Zeisloft, of
Bloomsburg, were married Friday, August 14, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr.
Schofield. Mrs. Baker is now employed at the A. C. F. Com-
pany, Berwick.
Private
been based
of
first
Company
Robert Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, has
George G. Meade, Maryland, as a member
class
at Fort
A, 805 th Tank Destroyer Battallion.
Merrill A. Deitrich, of Bloomsburg,
United States Navy.
at
Chapel
Hill,
He
is
in the U. S.
North Carolina.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
is
now
Navy
October, 1942
serving in the
Pre-Flight School
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Thirteen additional planes to be used in student training
were purchased in August by Ailor Sales, Inc., operators of the
Bloomsburg airport. The planes are Wacos and Piper Cubs.
make
This will
A
a total of forty-five airplanes in use at the air-
—
—
men and women mostly men is
now required to handle the airport work. With eighty or more
men now in training there, it is expected that the number will be
port.
personnel of sixty
considerably increased in the future.
o
The annual picnic of the summer session of the College was
held on the campus Thursday, July 30. Usually it is held in a
park near Bloomsburg, but this year it was held in the grove
and on the campus. The afternoon was spent in athletic activiA picnic lunch was
ties, including swimming in the new pool.
served in the dining-room, and in the evening there was a ball
game between the College team and the Shickshinny team.
Later in the evening, there was dancing in the gymnasium.
o
Erma E. Crawford, of Millville, and Herman E. BordMount Pleasant Township, were married Wednesday,
Miss
er,
of
June 24,
at the
home
of the bride.
Mrs. Border served for four
years as matron at the Danville State Hospital and later was em-
ployed by the Milco Undergarment Company, in Bloomsburg.
Mr. Border taught for several years, and is now employed in
the F. P. Pursel store, Bloomsburg.
o
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Arlene Masters, of Danville, R. D. 4, and William H. Barton, of
Bloomsburg. Miss Masters is employed by the E. R. Beers Electric Company, of Bloomsburg, and Mr. Barton is a Senior at the
College.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Forty-Two
Prof. George J. Keller had a very successful season at
Pier, Atlantic City, during the summer.
His animal
Hamid’s
show was
the feature of the pier, and was seen by thousands.
Before opening at Atlantic City, Mr. Hamid booked Mr. Keller
New York State after
While at Atlantic City,
Prof. Keller not only staged his own act, which was the big pier
attraction, but also acted as master of ceremonies in introducing
the remaining acts on the pier program.
in Baltimore.
The show
also
appeared
in
the close of the Atlantic City season.
o
Donald C. Mercer, technician fifth grade, of Bloomsburg,
has been chosen to take a tank mechanic’s course at the Ar-
mored Force School at Fort Know, Kentucky. He is a member of
the 40th Armored Regiment, conunanded by Col. Richard B.
Wheeler, and has been based at Camp Polk, Louisiana. Mr.
Mercer is a former student at Bloomsburg, and was prominent
in athletics.
o
First Lieutenant N.
William Kirk, of Berwick, and a former
student at Bloomsburg, flew the leading plane in the
first American mass attack on France this summer. Lt. Kirk was commissioned in the Air Corps at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, late in
February.
o
Prof. Charles F. Dewire died Friday, July
1
1 ,
in the
Lewis-
burg Evangelical General Hospital, following a year’s illness. He
was a teacher in the schools of Union County for twenty-five
years, and supervising principal of the Lewisburg schools for a
long period.
o
George Earle Raiguel, of New York, a publicist and
who is well known in Bloomsburg, was the assembly
speaker at the College Tuesday, July 4. Dr. Raiguel spoke on
“The Significance of July 4 and July 14.’’
Dr.
economist
1
o
Second Lieutenant Stacy M. Search, a former student
Bloomsburg, is located at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, as
structor in a school for sergeants.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
at
in-
.
Page Forty -Three
Anne Yuran,
and Lt. James M. Catron, of
sometime
Kingston, were married
in September. Mrs. Catron is
a member of the faculty of the Luzerne High School. Lt. Catron
Miss
is
a
member
of the
of Luzerne,
Army
Air Force.
o
There were two hundred students enrolled
Franklin Training School
This figure
is
slightly
when
it
in the Benjamin
opened Monday, August 3
below that of
1
last year,
when
the enroll-
ment was 208.
o
Miss Mary M. Whitenight, of Bloomsburg,
a
a
member
member
who
has been
of the College faculty for the past four years,
is
now
of the staff in the Physical Education Department at
Bucknell University.
o
The Luzerne County Alumni held an afternoon and evening
garden party at the home of Mrs. Guy Evans, 106 York Avenue, West Pittston, on Wednesday, September 2. Supper was
served at 6 30, and the evening was spent in playing cards.
:
o
and Ensign Thomas Grow, both of
Ringtown, were married Sunday, June 14 at St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Ringtown. Ensign Grow was commissioned in June at
Miss Blanche Long
the United States Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.
O
M. Ella Andrews, aged ninety-six, a native of Fishingcreek
Township, Columbia County, and for forty-nine years a teacher
in that
county, died Friday, August 28, at the Tyrone Methodist
Home.
o
Private
Raymond
Algatt, of Berwick,
is
attached to the
weather observation school at the U. S. Army Base Weather Office, Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
o
Thomas
Kenney, of Byrnesville, and Miss Catherine M.
Ryan, of Centralia, were married Thursday, August 27. Mr.
Kenney is a teacher in the Conyngham Township School.
F.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
:
^
Page Forty-Four
The Tatterman Marionettes presented a program
College assembly Tuesday morning, July 28.
at the
o
Miss June Hoagland, of
and
fifth
Mifflinville,
teaching
is
fourth,
Conyngham Borough schools.
o
Danville, a member of the class of 1943,
sixth grades in the
Alex Foster, of
entered the army September 4.
o
James Ritter, of Riverside, is teaching in the Mahoning
Township consolidated schools, in Montour County.
o
Austin Yeany, of Bloomsburg,
in the
United States Coast Guard.
Ensign William Booth
for service as
Deck
is
Officer.
Training Station, Newport,
duty Monday, September
is
He
o
now
a petty
is
taking a two-months course
His address
Rhode
officer, third class,
stationed at Curtis Bay.
Island.
Co.
is
He
2004, Naval
reported there for
7.
o
Centennial Loan Fund
The following
who was helped
in
letter
“Enclosed please find a
payment of my loan. I wish to exAlumni for all that the loan has meant
believe, will constitute full
This,
I
press
my
to
was received from a former student
Fund
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College by the Student Loan
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September 16
,
Registration and Classification of Other Classes.
September 17
Classes Begin.
September 19
Reception of
New
Students.
November 24
Thanksgiving Recess Begins After Last Class.
November 30
C.
Thanksgiving Recess Ends 12 M.
December 19
Christmas Recess Begins After Last Class.
January 4
Christmas Recess Ends 12 M.
January 23
First Semester Ends.
January 25
Second Semester Begins.
February 5
G. A. Reception and Dance For New Students.
February 20
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April 17
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April 27
Easter Recess Ends 12 M.
May 14
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May 22
Alumni Day.
May 23
Baccalaureate.
May 24
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
January, 1942
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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, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 Cents.
H. F. FENSTEMAKER, '12
EDITOR
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Once again the Bloomsburg State Teachers College finds
itself obliged to carry on in the face of wartime conditions.
Even with the beginning of the first semester, world conditions
began to be reflected in the activities of the campus. Along
with
all
the other Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania, the enroll-
ment began to dwindle. The College opened with a student
body of about 400, with many different factors causing the
reduction in enrollment. Many of the young men who would
have returned are in the military and naval forces of our country. Many others are engaged in defense work, doing their
part to build up the material assets of America and her allies.
Many young women also found good positions in offices and did
not return to Bloomsburg.
history will unAs in the days following World War
doubtedly repeat itself in the teaching profession. There is already a shortage of teachers in the elementary grades, and
there will certainly be a shortage of teachers in the junior and
1
,
senior high schools.
The College has been adapting itself to changing condiThe CAA flying courses are now in their second year, and
a large number of pilots have been trained. Every night of the
tions.
week
the streets near the College are parked
have brought
in
full
of cars that
students to take the defense courses offered in
Science Hall.
Now
steps
that the United States are actually
have been taken
to organize the College
engaged in war,
community as a
home defense. A committee headed by Dr. E. H. Nelson
now at work setting up procedures and routines that will
make it possible for everyone to know what to do in case of
unit of
is
emergency.
The spirit of the campus is well set
ment by President Andruss, published
forth in a recent statein
the
“Maroon and
Gold”:
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
i^age
Two
A
kind.
Message From the President
The quest
To make
for certainty
as old as
is
certain an uncertain future
manis
the
problem of every generation. Youth is always
confused by the process of growing up and the
changing of events in the world at large. Life is
made of such things. Change and growth as
part of the continuous adjustment in living leads
each generation to feel that its problems are
more
serious than the previous one.
and Freedom, and Democracy, are
that a century and a half ago
our forefathers fought to get them in a form of
free government. A half-dozen wars in our history indicate that we must ever fight to keep
them. A new generation on the average of
every twenty-five years has had to make the
sacrifice of force to protect and keep Liberty,
and Freedom, and Democracy as we have them
Liberty,
so very precious
in
America.
What tomorrow may bring to college studno one can surely say, but it appears that
democracy may need to make as great an effort
to defend itself AFTER as DURING the present
war period. The first line of defense now and
later lies in the strength of the whole nation,
whereas leadership will undoubtedly come from
ents
the
who
ranks of those
are
now
enrolled in
colleges.
Students
should
make
educational
who
are
every
program
now
effort
as
we
enrolled in colleges
to
continue their
they had
previously
be faced with a
suicide of weakening our minds while strengthening our “arms.” The duty of all good Americans today is to do the best they can, where
they are, with what they have. College students
planned.
Otherwise,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
shall
January, 1942
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Page Three
must continue to fit themselves for situations
which will undoubtedly approach those for
which they are being educated.
The three dates
— 1914-1916-1918—
rep-
,
and
the ending of the first World War. Since 1939
marked the beginning of the second World War
and 1941 the critical period of the entry of
America into the struggle, the question is:
“What are you planning for 1943?” .Are you
looking beyond the next two years?
resent
the beginning,
the critical period,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been given a
quota of twenty student pilots for the first semester of the College year opening September 22.
The quota is of the same size as the second semester of last
year and for the Summer session and is larger than has been
granted numerous institutions with far greater student enrollments.
Bloomsburg has had an outstanding program of CAA since
program was instituted. There have been forty-seven men
and three women who have taken the work. All have completed
the
(he flying.
Of the men who have passed, eighteen are now in aviation
army or navy and around nine others have made
application and are awaiting instructions to report. The work
at Bloomsburg in training men for the service has been a pace
setter the nation over. CAA students entering service on the
average have been one out of ten.
in either the
During the Summer session concluded in early August,
twenty of the sixty-seven men enrolled took CAA work.
More than 500
this
semester.
ents
was
Among
schools are participating in the
the Pennsylvania schools,
Elementary course
:
Bucknell
program
and the quota of stud-
University,
1
0
;
Bucknell
University Junior College, 20; Geneva College, 10; Lafayette
College, 20; Lehigh University, 20; Moravian College, 10;
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Four
Muhlenberg College, 10;
Pennsylvania Sta‘e College, 10;
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, 20; Waynesburg College,
10
.
Secondary course: Bucknell University Junior College,
108; Geneva College, 10; Lehigh University, 10.
Following action of the State Council of Education, the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College is cooperating with Pennsylvania State College in offering defense courses. This project
is made possible through recent legislation which permits the
State Council of Education to request any State Teachers College to participate in this work upon the action of the board of
trustees in favor of expanding the usefulness of the particular
institution to those activities which will enable State Teachers
Colleges to contribute to
national defense.
the
Among
the
courses offered are fundamentals of engineering, engineering
drafting, ordnance inspection,
eering science of
may
management
and any other courses in enginfor which a sufficient demand
develop.
These courses are held in Science Hall and the adminishead is Roy D. Snyder, a member of the Bloomsburg
trative
School Board.
These courses do not bear college credit and the tuition
However, students must buy their books and supplies.
A high school education is the material requirement. However,
persons who have certain types of vocational experience may
be admitted upon the approval of the coordinator.
IS
free.
The experience with
summer
offering such courses during the last
from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of those
who completed the courses have found places in industry, conindicates that
tributing to the national defense.
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College
State Teachers Colleges in the
who
Commonwealth
is
one of the two
of Pennsylvania
are approved for this type of work.
Anna Elizabeth Tugend, of Dalton, and Mark W. Jury, of
in the MethBloomsburg, were married Monday, September
odist Church at Tunkhannock.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
Page Five
Named Director of Elementary Education
Hazen has been appointed director of eleBloomsburg. Miss Hazen has been a memfaculty
since
of
the
1927, and served as director of interber
mediate and rural education. This administrative responsibility
covers the administration and supervision of student teaching in
kindergarten, primary, intermediate, and rural fields, as well as
the special class for the mentally retarded. Miss Hazen will direct the elementary student teaching, both on and off the
Miss Edna
J.
mentary education
at
campus.
Miss Hazen received her education at the State Normal
Pa., Allegheny College, Meadville, and
earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Columbia Uni-
School at Edinboro,
versity.
She began teaching in a rural one-room school, followed
by a year in a consolidated school in Erie County. After graduation from Edinboro, she taught in the elementary schools of
Cleveland, Ohio. After serving for a time in Cleveland, she was
offered a position as a training teacher at Edinboro.
She also served as instructor
in
summer
State Teachers College at Slippery Rock,
of North Carolina.
and
sessions at the
at the University
Later she was appointed assistant superin-
tendent of the Erie County public schools, being responsible for
the direction of the elementary schools.
Miss Hazen brings to her
new
position a
background of
experience in the different phases of elementary education, at
the
same time balanced with
as a teacher
m
the high school
a forward look with experience
and
principal
of a junior high
school.
As a part of the service provided by the College in the
Hazen has addressed county institutes
and contributed to curriculum development. She has served as
a member of a committee appointed by the State Superintendlocal service area, Miss
ent of Public Instruction to revise the course in health education
for elementary schools.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Six
Bloomsburg’s Educational Clinic
The educational clinic of the State Teachers College at
Bloomsburg has started its second year of activity. The purpose of the clinic is to study children from the public schools
who have come to the clinic because of inability to make satisfactory progress in their studies.
remedial work
experienced
is
Analyses of their
disabilities
recommended, and
prescribed by persons who are trained and
are being made, school
in this
adjustments
are
type of work.
The educational
clinic
services of the College.
It
is
one of the recently developed
has been organized to serve the child-
ren of the schools of Bloomsburg’s service area who, for any
reason, are not succeeding in their school work.
is housed in two suites of three exan adjoining classroom which may be
used for demonstration purposes. In these rooms are found a
great variety of tests, examinations, instruments and apparatus
which are useful in appraising the child’s capacities and abilities, in discovering his interests, and in determining the causes
of his disabilities and handicaps. The equipment includes audiometers. both group and individual, a telebinocular, an ophthalmograph, speech recorders, a preamplifier and microphone,
and a variety of intelligence and other tests.
The clinic is under the direction of Prof. John J. Fisher,
who has charge of the psychological service. Other members of
The educational
clinic
amination rooms and
the staff are Miss Alice Johnston, specialist in speech,
Carolyn Welch,
who
has charge of the work
The educational
clinic
Council of Education and
is
and Miss
in reading.
has been approved by the State
serving the
public schools
of Col-
umbia, Montour, Northumberland and Luzerne Counties. There
The clinic repreis no charge for this service by the College.
another
step
policy
sents
in the
of the College to be of greater
usefulness to the school children of the section of Pennsylvania
in
which
clinic
it
is
located.
Anyone wishing
to bring a child to the
should communicate with the director and
pointment.
THE .M.UMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
make an
ap-
Page Seven
New Courses Added
Many new
courses have been added to the curriculum of
the College this semester,
and have already proved
to
be very
popular.
The ground course given to these who meet the requirements of the civil pilot training program included instruction in
civil air regulations, navigation, and meteorology.
For the first time in many years, students have an opportunity to study the Spanish language.
elective
in
and
This
is
offered as a free
be continued as long as students show interest
Those students who are preparing in either the
will
this field.
secondary or business
may
fields
elect Spanish as
an additional
course or as a free elective.
Advanced courses
accounting are being offered to busiThese sources include accounting for
manufacturing concerns, and also auditing, and go toward the
in
ness education students.
requirements for certification to teach
in
the high schools of
Pennsylvania.
Store practice, including a study of store operation as well
as actual selling,
is
again being offered, and students will have
an opportunity to observe and participate
in
the type of mer-
chandising carried on by local stores.
In addition to the courses
named above,
the following
new
courses are offered: Curriculum in elementary science, ethics,
early childhood education, speech correction, play production,
speech problems, creative dramatics, journalism and typewriting
as an elective for non-business education students.
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Miss Betty Pauling, violin instructor at
member
has been elected as a
of Music at Bloomsburg.
Wyoming
ing,
who
in
Department
Miss Pauling has been teaching at
She has studied voice
since 1936.
has been soloist
Wyoming Seminary,
of the faculty in the
in
New
various churches in Wilkes-Barre.
York, and
Miss Paul-
teaches both voice and violin, has twice appeared be-
fore the College assembly,
ability as a singer
and
and has ably demonstrated her
fine
as a violinist.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Eight
Go4fUn(j,
A downpour
dampen
lasting throughout the entire
day could not
many hundreds of returning graduates and friends of Bloomsburg who were present Saturday,
November
at the various activities of the Home-Coming Day
the enjoyment of
1
,
program.
The
features of the
day included the
first
Husky
football
triumph of the year, when Bloomsburg defeated Kutztown by
the score of
1
4-0, the tea in the
Coming Day dinner
dance
in the
in
new gymnasium,
the
Home-
the college dining-room, and the Alumni
new gymnasium.
The outstanding feature of the dinner was the presentatwo memorials to Miss Irma Ward, former
dietitian. One of these was a copy of a fine painting, and the
other was a fund, to be known as the Ward Fund. This is to be
tion to the College of
used to provide small short-term loans to students
who
are in
need of money for special emergencies.
There were about 400 at the tea
and about 650 attended the dinner.
in
the
new gymnasium,
A new feature of Home-Coming Day was an attractive
program booklet published under the direction of Prof. Walter
S. Rygiel.
The booklet contained pictures of the campus, the
various athletic groups, the Maroon and Gold Band, the coaches, and the managers.
There were also greetings from President H. A. Andruss and R. Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association. In order that the guests might not miss any of
the day’s
many
activities,
the
booklet
also
contained a time
schedule, listing the time and place of the day’s events.
MEMORIAL PRESENTED
At the Alumni dinner held on Home-Coming Day, two memorials to the late Irma Russell Ward, former dietitian, were
presented to the College.
mond
T?IE
L.
Hodges
The presentation was made by Ray-
’30, Associate Professor of
ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Dramatic Art
in
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Page Nine
Richmond Professional
the
Institute of the College of William
and Mary, Richmond, Virginia.
One of the memorials was a painting, which has been hung
in the college
memorial
is
dining-room near the dietitian’s
office.
The other
sums
a fund to be loaned to students needing small
The fund, known as the Ward Fund,
be administered through the treasurer of the Student Loan
Fund of the Alumni Association, and will go into operation as
soon as a few more contributions come in.
for special emergencies.
will
The purpose of the memorials, and the
ed their presentation, are best reflected
spirit
in
which prompt-
the
presentation
speech of Mr. Hodges. The speech follows
For many years before I was graduated from High School, I
had looked forward to college. Upon arriving at Bloomsburg I was
utterly amazed and quite impressed. As I became more accustomed
to the place I began to realize that many young men and women
were helping their college expenses by working in the dining room.
I wanted to apply for a job, but I was really afraid of the woman in
charge, they called her the Dietitian. She was a tall, austere woman with keen eyes and sharp features. Would she have anything to
do with me, a green youngster just out of high school who had never
had a tray in his hand? When I finally screwed up enough courage
to ask her about work I found she was nothing like what 1 expected.
She was all business, and yet vei’y friendly. I got a job and I
—
—
found a friend.
For four years, three meals a day, we worked together. She
never lost her business-like attitude, but as we got to know each
other, she injected in a very casual manner sound advice and helpful hints, not on how to run a dining room, but on how to live.
When I was about to graduate from this place it was she who
first suggested that 1 go on and get a graduate degree.
In fact she
sat down with me and worked out a balanced schedule. I had to
study with this professor because he was known all over the world;
this one talked too much. And so it went. Well, I finally got that
Master’s degree; as a matter of fact before she was able to get hers.
Because, you see, I was not an isolated example. There were many
others being helped in this same friendly, unassuming way at the
same time.
Nor did her help end with educational matters.
I can rememthought I was going to
my future wife here for her apwas relieved and happy to know that she felt I was doing
ber very well her remarks when
be married; and when I brought
I
told her
I
proval, I
the right thing.
we were both busy people our visits were less frequent,
she was here, a rock, a mooring place to which I could fly
Because
but
I
felt
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
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Ten
necessary. Then on February 25, 1939, Doctor Kehr telephoned
that if I wanted to see my friend alive again I had better come
quickly. I got here early the next morning, but I found that life
was fast ebbing. I had never seen a person die before, and I certainly did not want to see this particular person leave. But I shall
never be afraid of death again. Slowly, ever so slowly, breath left
her body and a serene peace filled her face Ii'ma Russell Ward had
if
—
gone on.
We
alumni who had worked in the college dining room and had
so well wanted her memory to live. We wanted you, the
present undergraduates to know her, and the undergraduates to
come they should not be deprived of a friendship like hers. So we
have tried to do two things.
Miss Ward had long been in the habit of helping worthy people
financially. There are times when a fee is due, or a book must be
bought, and the student feels pretty desperate. But one had only to
go to her and bluntly ask for a loan. It did no good to try “apple
polishing” or fancy phrases. The loan was a business-like arrangement.
To perpetuate this spirit of helpfulness we have gathered some
money and now want to announce the establishing of the Irma Ward
Fund. This will be for small, short-time loans to students, to be
made without the legal procedure necessary for larger loans. The
Fund will be handled by the same Alumni Council which administers the general Alumni Fund. In order to keep the Ward Fund
operative and increasingly useful, we appeal to you for further support. We do not ask for large amounts; anything, even a quarter is
acceptable. Will you please help?
As a second project, and as a mere tangible gift to the College,
we have bought a copy of Adolf Dehn’s “Minnesota in August.” It
was painted near Miss Ward’s home by an artist who also came from
that part of the state. Although she loved Pennsylvania, Miss Ward
never forgot her native state and she had a copy of this pictui’e over
the desk in her office. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to present
this copy of the painting to you, the present college family. As I
look at it I am reminded of Irma Russell Ward, and the words come
back to me which kept running through my mind as I saw her leave
this place: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still
waters. He restoreth my soul
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me.”
known her
—
.
.
e
Mrs. Mary
Bogennef, aged ninety-seven, the
oldest woman in Union County, and mother of Miss Margaret
Bogenrief, former member of the department of Physical Education at the College, died at her home in Mifflinburg late in
September.
Elizabeth
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Eleven
Tells of
Caribbean Defense
Dr. Mina Kerr addressed the students of the college at the
assembly Friday. October 10, on “The Caribbean, Our Sea of
Destiny.” Dr. Kerr, who has traveled in South America and
has made two trips to the Caribbean region, gave an analysis of
the importance of this region to the economic
and
military wel-
She referred to three great water areas
the Mediterranean Sea, the
that are figuring in the world news
China Sea and the Caribbean Sea.
Dr. Kerr called the attention to the fact that important
naval and air bases were held by France, Holland and England
in this territory and pointed out the danger to the United States
if Hitler should win and the possibility of these falling into the
hands of a hostile power. She suggested the importance of
naval bases on islands belonging to the United States and those
acquired from England in recent months.
Dr. Kerr hinted that there was a possibility at closing of
the war that possessions held by certain European powers would
be demanded by the United States in return for aid to these
European countries during the world struggle. This was the
fifth appearance of Dr. Kerr before the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at an assembly period.
fare of this country.
—
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The teachers of northeastern Ohio were addressed Friday,
October 24, by President Harvey A. Andruss. The subject of
the address was “Adapting Learning Experiences to the Needs
and Abilities of Students.” In his discussion. President Andruss
outlined conflicting points of view and offered specific suggestions as to the methods by which administrators and teachers
may revise the offerings on the high school level in such a way
that different learning experiences may be approved for students whose interests, aptitudes, needs and abilities vary according to their social and economic background.
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Hannah Unger is teaching English, French and Latin
Reade High School, Mountaindale, Pa. In addition to her
ing duties, she coaches dramatics and
is
in the
teach-
school librarian.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Twelve
I’age
Miss Hayden Retires
Miss
May
T.
Hayden, director of kindergarten-primary
education and college instructor at Bloomsburg since 1925, retired at the close of the college year last spring.
During her
educational career as a teacher, principal, and supervisor of
elementary schools. Miss Hayden gained recognition
tional circles in
many
in
educa-
states.
She is a native of Minnesota, where she received her elementary and high school education. Her advanced education
was received at the University of Washington, the University
of California, Columbia University, and Washington State College. She received her B. A. degree at Washington State College, and her M. S. degree from Columbia, where she also pursued further graduate work. She began her professional experience
in the
In the Lewiston public
public schools of Idaho.
schools of that state she served as teacher in the elementary
grades and the junior high school, as principal of an elementary
school,
and
as elementary supervisor for the city system.
She taught during summer sessions
m
the southern branch
of the University of Idaho at Pocatello, and entered the field of
and college teaching at the State Normal Colwhere eventually she held the position
of the primary education building and supervisor of
teacher-training
lege at Dillon, Montana,
of principal
kindergarten-primary education.
Sixteen years ago Miss
Hayden came to Bloomsburg as
and college instruc-
director of kindergarten-primary education
tor
m
elementary education.
During the past twenty years she has lectured many times
at teachers’ institutes.
work
in the special field
In
addition,
of reading.
she
Miss
has done extensive
Hayden has had wide
experience on national, state and local committees dealing with
and other phases of educational work.
the curriculum
She
sity
is
affiliated
Women,
Pi
with the American Association of UniverTheta, and the National Curriculum
Lambda
Society.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
;
Page Thirteen
College to Get $1,000 Bequest
A
$1,000 bequest made
College by a
member
to the
Bloomsburg State Teachers
1885 will be paid to col-
of the class of
lege authorities as soon as legal requirements are met.
The attorney
for the estate of Florence J. Cawley, of Mil-
ton, the legatee, advised College President
that the estate has
Harvey A. Andruss
been liquidated.
Miss Cawley was a member of the class of 1885 of the
Bloomsburg Normal School and the legacy was one of many
contained in her will, which was probated shortly after her
940.
death on March
terms
Under the
of this bequest, the $1,000 forms the
Florence J. Cawley Fund to be invested and the income therefrom to be used for any purpose her class of 1885 may be
called upon to aid.
The class of 885 met in their fifty-fifth reunion on Alumni Day,
940, and voted that any income arising from this fund
should be made available for the Alumni Association through
the loan fund, to worthy students. Among the members of this
class now surviving are Mrs. Fred Holmes, Bloomsburg: Harry
1
,
1
1
1
0. Hine, Washington, D. C.
and Mrs.
E. E. Melick,
;
Miss
New York
Anna Fox,
City,
Burlington, N.
who spoke
at the
J.
alumni
dinner that year.
•
Clara
November
Knapp died
home
at her
Bloomsburg Tuesday,
She was born in
William and Sarah Wicht.
in
18, after a long-continued illness.
Bloomsburg, the daughter of the late
She was a life-long member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, being active m the various activities of that church. She attended
the former Academy which later became the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, and was one of the first pupils to be enrolled.
Her husband was Peter E. Knapp, whose father, Christian F.
Knapp, was the father of Masonry in Bloomsburg.
•
from the University of North CaroPaul Green’s play, “The House
the College Auditorium, Friday, October 7.
Carolina Playmakers,
lina,
gave a
fine presentation of
of Connelly,’’ in
1
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
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Page Fourteen
Former Student Passes Away
Within a half hour after he was admitted to the Bloomsburg Hospital Sunday morning, November 6, Robert F. Van1
there at 3 40
was the cause of death.
Mr. Vanderslice was born in Bloomsburg, March 21 1869,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Vanderslice. He was educated in
Bloomsburg’s public schools and the Bloomsburg State Normal
derslice, well
o’clock.
A
known Bloomsburg
resident, died
:
heart attack
,
School.
When
tives for
a young man, he
left
tablished a small community.
Upon
with
his
parents and some rela-
Kansas, locating in Dodge City, where the families es-
He
lived there
about ten years.
Bloomsburg he was employed as station
agent for the D. L. & W. Railroad Company at Lime Ridge.
Subsequently, he served as clerk to the County Commissioners,
then as teller in the First National Bank of Bloomsburg emd for
a number of years was representative for the Barron Collier AdMore
vertising Company, specializing in street car advertising.
Bloomsrecently he has been employed as registry assessor in
his return
to
burg.
He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Frank K.
Laufman, of Concord, New Hampshire, and two grandsons,
Robert and Billie Laufman. Also surviving are a sister. Miss
Helen Vanderslice and a brother, George J. Vanderslice.
Mr. Vanderslice was active in Masonry; was a Past Master
of Washington Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 265; Past Most Wise
Master Evergreen Chapter Rose Croix; Past Commander-in
Chief of Caldwell Consistory A. A. Scottish Rite and a member
He was a member of the First Methoof the Craftsman Club.
dist
Church of Bloomsburg.
Addresses Wanted
Margaret Francis ’32. Mrs. Leo Paulson ’31, Mrs. Albert
Davis, ’29, Ruth Mildred Williams ’25, Evalyn Waters ’25, R.
Thelma Gordon ’27, Priscilla T. Acker
Mrs. Martin Walsh ’16, Mrs. Gerald Gregory ’31.
Ella Bullock ’27,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januarj% 1942
’34,
Page Fifteen
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
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
Hervey B. 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 Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Treasurer
Howard M. Kreitzer, 120
Lincoln 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-BarEdison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen
re, Pa.; Vice-President
Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Car-
President
—Edna
—
—
—
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.
lisle Street,
—Mrs.
Lester Bennett,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
—
Page Sixteen
Montour County
—
—
President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.;
Vice-President Nellie Bogai’t, Danville, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.
—
Northumberland County
—
President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.
—
—
Schuylkill County
—
—
—
President^ Orval Palsgrove, Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray
Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice-
—
President Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.
—
—
—
—
—
Philadelphia
—
President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council
Mary
Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretaiy
Lilhe Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
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.; Secretai-y Mildred WagMrs. Harold Baker, Market
ner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary
President
—
Mifflinburg,
grove, Pa.
Street,
Pa.;
Treasurer
—
—
— Anna
Troutman, Selins-
Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
—Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene JohnPa.; Vice-President — Susan Jennings Sturman.
Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary — Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.;
Secretary — Mildred Aveiy Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer— Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.
President
son, Hallstead,
Columbia County
—
—
President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-Pi'esident Mrs. Margaret Cole McCem, Benton, Pa.; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.
—
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januai^, 1942
—
Page Seventeen
County Organization Notes
The Cumberland-Dauphin held a fine meeting m the PennMonday, November 7.
Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, on
Luzerne County
Monthly luncheons are held at the Hotel
2 30 on the first Saturday of each
:
Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, at
month.
No
1
1
:
reservations are necessary.
Montour County
This
is
will hold the annual meeting
always a splendid meeting.
The Philadelphia Alumni are on
ly
in the spring.
the job, as usual.
luncheons are held at Strawbridge and Clothier’s.
nual Christmas party
The alumni
of
planning a reunion
was a
MonthThe an-
success.
Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties are
in the spring.
Columbia County
will
undoubtedly hold the annual din-
ner at the College during the early spring.
Lackawanna County has reported no activity for three
We hope that such activities will soon be resumed. Of-
years.
should
ficers
.
make
plans for a spring meeting.
Northumberland County has had no meeting for two
We hope that a meeting can be arranged this year.
years.
Schuylkill County has been inactive for two years.
about a reunion in the spring?
Snyder-Union Counties
should
plan a
meeting
How
for the
early spring.
Let’s get
on the job,
One good meeting
officers,
a year should
and plan an active program.
be the minimum goal.
R. Bruce Albert, President,
General Alumni Association.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
—
Page Eighteen
Philadelphia Alumni Association
The eleventh Christmas party held Saturday, December
was another fine Bloomsburg gathering of about 50, notwithstanding the inclement weather. It was the first time in
eleven years the weather man treated us badly. We have always enjoyed what we call “Bloomsburg weather.” But what
cared we for weather, when in that lovely meeting room on the
sixth floor of the Strawbridge and Clothier store enjoying the
hospitality of the S. and C. management? Our happiness was
indeed coming from within, with our own “Uncle Ned” serving
his Alma Mater again in his most gracious and able manner
leading the carol singing. He gave a very delightful talk on
Christmas and the origin of the Christmas Carols. We are indebted to the John Hancock Insurance Company for the lovely
1
3th,
booklets of Carols.
We had hoped to have with us Annie Miller Melick (85) of
Swarthmore, and Margaret Burke (95) of New York City, but
word was received from both that they found it quite impossible to get here, but promising “Providence permittin’ and the
weather being fitten” they hoped to be with us Saturday, January 0th.
Quite a number came from a distance. James Kinney (06)
and his wife, Agnes Burke Kinney (08) drove down from
Bethlehem. Bess Davis (97) Wilkes-Barre, and four of her
classmates
Jessie Gilchrist, of Atlantic City; Ruth Williams
Henry, of Oak Lane; Eva and Grace Lawrence, of Narberth.
A number from New Jersey, Wilmington and Norristown.
We believe if the weather had been favorable we would
have had a representation of 00. We would extend a cordial
invitation to every member of our Alumni who may be in Philadelphia on the second Saturday of any month to drop in to our
meeting room on the sixth floor of the Strawbridge and Clothier
store and visit with us.
1
—
1
“Might as well be happy,
Let’s take an hour or so
Let’s mingle all together,
And
let
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
our friendship grow.”
January, 1942
Page Nineteen
In the face of
be
“God
is
j
!
in the following
He
it
it
:
The wrong will fail
good will to man.”
sleep.
With peace on earth,
PEACE—Was
i
and believe
not dead, nor doth
the right prevail.
j
the distressing happenings might
all
helpful to think of
not
—
now?
ever so dear as
THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
ANNOUNCE
THEIR SATURDAY MONTHLY LUNCHEON MEETINGS
!
i
i
j
— March 14th
I
February 14th
!
j
!
STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER
!
PRIVATE DINING ROOM
!
i
SIXTH FLOOR
!
!
!
j;
Come and spend
the day.
with your Bloomsburg friends
Come
in at
in
Shop
in the
morning and
<?>
visit
the afternoon.
anytime from 12:00, noon,
to
5:30P.M.,
closing time.
You may order
These
a cup of tea or a
full
course dinner.
gatherings are delightfully informal.
more than
ever.
enthusiastic,
and
friendly contacts today
We
need these
a good
May we have
attendance ?
Be interested and
We
talk
May we have your
without money.
up these meetings.
we cannot
are purely a social group, but
carry on
dues as soon as possible?
$1.00.
Please send dues to Mrs. Nora Woodring Kenney, Treasurer,
(’08), 701
1
Erdick Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, President (’88)
1
1
2 North 50th
Street,
Philadelphia, Penna.
Mrs. Lillian
Irish,
732 Washington
Camden, N. J.
Secretary (’06)
Street,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.
January, 1942
Page Twenty
Harrisburg Alumni
The annual fall reunion of the Cumberland-Dauphin alumBloomsburg State Teachers College was held in the
ni of the
Plantation
Room
of the Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg,
November
evening,
I
Monday
7.
R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association,
The song leader was
Lemoyne.
toastmaster.
1911, of
was
the Rev. C. Carroll Bailey,
Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Pubhc Instruction,
was the guest speaker, and discussed “Education For National
Defense.” He stressed the value of religious education and of
the importance of the church in national defense and the main-
tenance of democracy.
H. A. Andruss, president of the College, congratulated the
group for the
the College.
to their
fine
program and
He extended an
for
its
and
loyalty
invitation to
all
interest
in
alumni to return
alma mater, particularly on Home-Coming and Alumni
Days.
H. F. Fenstemaker read some interesting items from the
first
ni
issue of the “Quarterly,” published in 1894.
present recalled
The old alum-
many memories suggested by the articles.
905 and Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
N. T. Englehart,
1
Instruction, brought greetings
from the College.
Alumni Day
i
I
i
Saturday,
May
23rd
I
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-One
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r
Alumni ImunalB
• • •
1879
Professor
Charles H.
Albert, one
of the
beloved “Old
Guard” of the College, celebrated his eighty-third birthday
Monday, September 22, and received congratulations from all
The mail was heavy with greetings which came from
sides.
former students and friends throughout the country.
1882
Martha W. Vaughan died June 17, 1941, at her home,
1110 West Elm Street, Scranton. She taught for 49 years in the
Scranton schools and retired in 93
A year following her
retirement she suffered a fractured hip and from that time until
her death, she was unable to walk. She never lost interest in
Bloomsburg and attended alumni meetings and class reunions as
long as she was able to do so. She was very happy in the fact
that she lived to see three nieces and four grand-nieces become
1
members
of the
BSTC
1
.
famliy.
1884
Miss
College,
Anna
Dengler, a retired music supervisor at Smith
and former music supervisor and resident of Shenan-
doah, died Monday, September 29, at her home in Northampton, Mass. A year before her death, she had suffered a stroke of
paralysis, which led to her death.
Miss Dengler was born in Cressona, Pa., and moved to
Shenandoah with her parents when she was a little girl. She
was a graduate of the Shenandoah High School and of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School. She was music supervisor in
the Shenandoah schools for a number of years and in 1911
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januaiy, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
went
to
Newark,
New
same capacity. The
Jersey, in the
her teaching career was spent as supervisor
She retired several years previous
to
in
rest of
Smith College.
her death.
1885
Sarah E. Patterson (Mrs. Charles D. Harrison) is now liv5501 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.
ing at
1889
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Snyder, of Shamokin, observed
their fiftieth
wedding anniversary Sunday, November
9.
1890
Dr. William Clyde Schultz, Sr., died of nephritis at the
Waynesboro Hospital Wednesday, October 29.
Dr. Schultz had
been suffering from arthritis for the past twenty years, and for
several months before his death he had been confined to his
home.
He was born in Jerseytown, Columbia County, and spent
his early life in Columbia County. After his graduation from
Bloomsburg, he taught for two years, and then entered the Jefferson Medical College, where he was graduated in 1895. A
short time afterward he began medical practice in Concord,
Franklin County, and in 1899 he was married to Miss Cora E.
Hockenberry. In 902 he moved to Waynesboro with his family, where he opened offices and continued the practice of medi1
cine until last year.
Dr.
Church.
Schultz
was a member of
He belonged
the
to the Franklin
Methodist Episcopal
County Medical Society,
of which he was a past president, and was chief of staff at the
Waynesboro Hospital for three years. He was also a member
of the Cumberland Valley Medical Association, Pennsylvania
State Medical Association.
fraternity consisted
of
His
affiliations
membership
in
the
with the Masonic
following bodies:
Acacia Lodge, George Washington Chapter, Chambersburg,
Knights Templar, Chambersburg, Harrisburg Council, and
Zembo
Shrine, Harrisburg.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Three
1892
who worked as
among mountaineers in the Carolinas
Tuesday, November 23, at the home of her
Miss Martha E. Robison, Burnsville, N. C.,
a Presbyterian missionary
for
1
7 years, died
Mrs. J. D. Butzner,
sister,
in
Scranton, after a long
illness.
was one-time superand for 25
Union Junior Sunday School Quarterly,
Miss Robison, native of Bloomsburg,
intendent of rural Sunday schools in Pennsylvania
was
years
editor of the
Philadelphia.
Miss Robison, daughter of James Boyd Robison, was born
Bloomsburg, November 7, 1874. At the age of six she moved with the family to the Esther Furnace farm, where she spent
much of her time building up a delicate physique. She possessed the deed to the farm when it was obtained from the Penn
in
1
family.
At the age of ten she returned to Bloomsburg, living there
1893, and then she resided in Espy until her father’s death.
She was educated by her parents and knew the alphabet,
it was said, at the age of two, learning to write at three.
At six
she could easily read anything shown her and for the next ten
years spent much of her time in reading. She attended school
until
but
little until
sixteen years old.
She was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
in 1892, one of the youngest members of a class of 96.
Between 892 and 897 she taught four terms in the graded
schools, one in Union County, one in Luzerne County and two in
Espy. She then returned to school for a year and completed
post-graduate work, receiving the B. P. degree in
898. She
resumed teaching and from 902-04 was employed at Rohrsburg. In 1905-07 she taught in Cornwall, Lebanon County.
School
1
1
1
1
1901 Miss Robison was elected superintendent of the
of the County Sabbath School Association, in
906 added the duties of primary superintendent and in 907
left the Cornwall school and was recalled to Bloomsburg to become field secretary of the county association. She pioneered
In
Home Department
1
in this
1
work
so well that in January, 1908, she
worker of the
state association
and was given
was made
full
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
field
charge of ColJanuary, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
umbia, Montour, Northumberland, Union and Snyder Counties’
organizations along this line.
November, 1913, the State Board of Directors created
which she was made superintendent. She was affiliated with the Baptist Church.
In
the department of rural work, of
1893
Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, at one time acting principal of the
Normal School at Geneseo, New York, and for seventeen years
head of the Department of Education and Director of Teacher
Training at that institution, died September 14, 1941, after an
illness
of several months, at his
An educator
home
in
Harrisburg.
Bucke went to
Normal from Harrisburg, where he had organized
and headed the Harrisburg Technical High School, one of the
first in the United States to institute trades and vocational training as an accompaniment to academic work. He previously had
been head of the Department of Mathematics at Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown, New Jersey, apd principal of
for nearly half a century. Dr.
the Geneseo
the high school at
New
While serving
and became the
Castle, Pa.
at the
first
Geneseo Normal, Dr. Bucke founded
director of the Craig Colony School of Ed-
ucational Therapy, a department of the Geneseo school, for the
training of teachers of mentally
handicapped children. He was
also instrumental in the inauguration of a course for the train-
ing of library teachers.
Prior to his retirement, he served as superintendent of the
public schools of Collingswood,
this
tendents’ Association of
the
New
Jersey.
In connection with
superintendency. Dr. Bucke was chairman of the Superin-
Camden, New
Camden County Teachers’
Jersey,
and a member of
Association.
Bucke was the holder of two Doctor of Philosophy deHe was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1893, and from
Dr.
grees.
1895, subsequently receiving his A. M.
institution. He then became a graduate student
Dickinson College
in
from the latter
Wooster University in Ohio, and completed a course in psychology and education. He took his second Ph. D. at Clark University as a resident scholar and fellow under Dr. G. Stanley
at
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Five
who
at that time was America’s outstanding psychologist.
was an ordained minister of the Methodist
Bucke
Dr.
Church, and was also a lecturer appearing before both religious
and educational groups. He was a member of Geneseo Masonic
Lodge, a past patron of Geneseo Eastern Star, a past master of
Geneseo Grange, a member of the Rochester Consistory, of the
Harrisburg Ministerium, and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Hall,
2410 North Second Street,
check for the Student Loan
Fund, she says “I wish you continued success in this grand and
Mary
E. Sullivan Gilmer lives at
In a letter sending a
Harrisburg.
noble undertaking.”
Miss Alice Fenner, of Allentown,
in
is
spending the winter
San Diego, California.
1894
The Rev. Jonathan W. Buck, husband of Minnie Hehl
Buck, died at his home in Bloomsburg, Friday, September 5.
Mr. Buck attended the country school at Roaring Creek, the
Catawissa High School, the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
Palatinate College, the Theological Seminary of
the
Reformed
Church of the United States at Lancaster, and was graduated
from the latter institution May 4, 896.
In the summer of 896 he was ordained by a committee
from the East Susquehanna Classis, and he was instrumental in
the organization of Christ Reformed Church at McAdoo.
1
1
1
Buck resigned beand later accepted a position with Dodd
Mead and Company, New York. His work took him over the
greater paft of the country. Seven years was spent in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
In 1928 he returned to
Following a successful pastorate, Mr.
cause of
ill
health,
Bloomsburg.
Mr. Buck was of old colonial ancestry, being descended
from Simon Dreisbach, Jr., who was a member of the constitutional convention which in
789 ratified the Constitution of
the United States, and who was one of the signers of the Con1
stitution of Pennsylvania.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
1897
Clarence E. Kreisher, Judge of the courts of the twentysixth judicial district of
Pennsylvania,
died
in
Geisinger
the
Wednesday, September 24.
Death terminated one of the most brilliant legal careers in
the judicial district in which he was a prominent attorney for
forty years, and over which he presided as judge since May 22,
Hospital, Danville,
1940.
judge Kreisher, eighth
jurist
to preside
over the several
now
constituted,
Montour Counties, was the
within the last year and a half.
third of the
courts of the twenty-sixth judicial district as
including Columbia and
eight to die
Judge Clinton Herring, of Orangeville, died m office March
940, and Judge Kreisher was appointed by Governor
James to serve until the first Monday of January, 1942. Judge
22,
1
who
Charles C. Evans,
years and retired
in
presided over the courts for twenty-four
January, 1938, died at his
home
in
Berwick
July 20, 1941.
Judge Kreisher received his appointment May 20, 1940,
and was administered the oath of office two days later. In the
year and four months during which he presided over the courts,
he attained as jurist the same high place which he had as a
''
practicing lawyer.
He was the son of the late George and Mary Bahme Kreishand was born in Cleveland Township, Columbia County, on
the 26th of March, 1874. As a youth he attended the old Furnace school house in Cleveland Township, and later studied at
the Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1897. He was the speaker, at the Alumni Banquet last
May, and delivered a fine address.
er,
For
ied law.
six years,
he taught school and
He was admitted
was
later
trict
courts.
to practice in
at the
same time
September,
1
900.
stud-
He
admitted to practice law before the appellate courts
of the state, and to the United States Supreme Court and dis-
He served
as solicitor for practically all the civic bodies
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
fage Twenty-Seven
South Side of Columbia County. He was president of the
Catawissa borough council three years, and served for a long
in the
time as
its
solicitor,
a position he held at the time of his ap-
pointment to the bench.
As a member of the St. John’s Lutheran Church of CataJudge Kreisher was active in the congregation, serving
years on the church council, and was for a long time chair-
wissa,
for
man
of the church finance committee.
Fraternally he was a member of the Catawissa Lodge 349,
A. M., the Tyrian Club, Caldwell Consistory, Irem Temple
Shrine, and the Catawissa Lodge of Odd Fellows.
F.
&
He organized the Catawissa branch of the Bloomsburg
Chapter of the American Red Cross, and from its inception
served as its president and untiringly gave his services. Through
the first World War he was attorney for the County Draft Board.
He was a charter member of the Catawissa Rotary Club and the
first
president of that organization.
Twice during
he was the Republican candidate
1937, he was the Republican canthe election in which Judge Herring was
his career
for the State Legislature.
didate for judge
in
In
elected.
He was one whose work carried through long hours.
Those who have been associated with him for years estimated
that he has transferred all the property on the South Side of
Columbia County at least three times in his extensive practice.
In the years during which he has served as an attorney, those
who came to him were more than clients. Nothing was too
much to do for any in need, and that spirit of helpfulness also
characterized his service on the bench.
1895
Ada
G. Lewis (Mrs. B. F. Beale) lives at
908 High
Street,
Duncannon.
1898
Miss Mary Smith Knapp, of Bloomsburg, died at the
Bloomsburg Hospital Tuesday, October 22, after an illness of
four weeks. Miss Knapp taught for four years in the Blooms-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Januai-y, 1942
P.nge
Twenty -Eight
burg High School, and for
ter,
New
York.
When
thirty years
was
a teacher in Roches-
she retired five years ago, she returned
Bloomsburg, her native town.
She was active in sports in her school days, and was recognized as an outstanding athlete at the Normal School. Her interest in sports continued after her graduation, and in Rochester a boys’ baseball team was named in her honor.
She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Bloomsburg. and an associate of the Girls’ Friendly Society in
one of the Episcopal churches in Rochester.
to live in
1899
Harry Yearick
2419 Herr
lives at
Street,
Pennbrook.
1900
Mr. and Mrs. William B.
•Mrs. Miles Killmer, of
recently visited Mr.
Sutliff
New York
City, at the Killmer’s
and
summer
home. Cove Point Farm, on Chesepeake Bay. Mr. Killmer is a
graduate of Bloomsburg in the class of 1900. After leaving
Bloomsburg, he entered the Pennsylvania State College, and
was graduated as an engineer. He was construction engineer
and the Lincoln Tunnel, and is now chief
water supply project in upper New York state.
At present he is vice-president of a construction company which
has many government defense contracts. His firm is now working on a vehicular tunnel from the Battery, New York, to Govof the Holland Tunnel
en.gineer of the
ernor’s Island.
1901
Augusta B. Henkelman
Street, Bethesda, Maryland.
is
now
living
at
114 Southwick
1902
November
Wilkes-Barre schools for
8, at his home, 85 East
on the
Conyngham Farm, near
Harry Wildnck, instructor
many
years, died Saturday,
Vaughan
Street, Kingston.
Mr. Wildrick was born
Dallas.
in the
In addition to being a graduate
from Bloomsburg, Mr.
Wildrick was a graduate of the Lancaster Business and Short-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Twenty-Nine
hand School and of the Zaner School of Penmanship. He began
Lehman school in the fall
From 1914 to 1916 Mr.
of 1909, and served until 1914.
Wildrick was principal of the Conyngham School in Wilkeshis teaching career as principal of the
Barre, and later served as supervisor of penmanship in the elementary grades of the city schools.
He had been a resident of Kingston for the past twentyHe
five years, and was widely known and highly respected.
was a member of the Dorranceton Methodist Church and of the
Masonic Lodge at Dallas.
1903
Among
names of those members of the Class of 903
whose addresses were requested was the name of Kathryne V.
James. Her sister, Martha V. James, has informed us that Miss
James passed away in 1928.
the
1
1904
Womeldorf (Mrs. A. D. Bentz)
Effie
lives at
1547 West
Princess Street, York, Pa.
1907
Miss
Mary
were married
at Annapolis,
The bride has taught
Since
in Scott Township 22 years.
been
teaching
second grade in the Scott Township
930, she has
22.
1
and Fred C. Colyer, of York,
Maryland, on Monday. September
E. Hess, of Espy,
Consolidated School. Mr. Colyer
His former
Colyer are
is
chef at Rest Cottage in York.
home was in Milheim, Center County. Mr. and Mrs.
now living at 924 Wood and Tioga Streets, Lincoln
Village, York.
Martha V. James
1908
1110 West Elm
lives at
Street, Scranton.
1911
Mrs. Jennie Whitmire Helt has been elected teacher of
second grade
in
the Berwick schools.
1913
The address
of Olive R. Breisch has
been changed
to
5347
College Avenue, Apt. 302, Indianapolis, Indiana.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page
Thirtj’
Mae M. Bymgton
New York.
is
now
living at
1
3 Euclid Avenue, Bing-
hamton,
1915
who
lives at Great Hill, Seymour,
two more books for children.
Her book “Story-Lives of Great Composers,” was published in
September, and her third book “The Birth of a Nation’s Song,”
will be published by Stokes in February.
Mrs. Bakeless expects to spend the winter with her husnbad, John Bakeless, who is now starting his second year’s service on the General Staff Corps in Washington. Mr. Bakeless’
two-volume work on Marlowe, on which he has put many years
of research, is now being printed by the Harvard University
Katherine
Little Bakeless,
R. D. 2, Connecticut, has written
Press.
Zimmerman has changed her address
Lillian
to
1613 Har-
vard Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Harlan Snyder (Lois
grade
in
MacLoughan)
is
teaching second
the schools of Catawissa.
Edith
May
Saricks lives at
933 Birbeck
Street, Freeland,
Pa.
1916
been changed from
25 Wampatuck Road, Quincy, Massachussetts, to 4601 Harvard Road, College Park, Maryland.
The address
of Olive Simons Burrus has
1917
The address
New York City.
of Lillian H. Rifkin
is
30 East 39th
Street,
1919
Mane Guckavan
West Broad
(Mrs. William Turnbach)
lives
at
423
Street, Hazleton, Pa.
1921
J. E.
died at his
Reese Killgore, husband of Edith O’Neill Killgore,
home near Stroudsburg, Wednesday, September 24.
Mr. Killgore was widely
known throughout
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
the state as an edu-
,
Page Thirty-One
having served eight years as superintendent of the schools
At the time of his death he was president
of the Board of Trustees of the State Teachers College at East
cator,,
of Sullivan County.
Stroudsburg.
in Muncy, June 27, 1874, the son of
and Mrs. Anna M. Killgore. His father
was principal of New Columbus Academy and a pastor of the
Shickshinny Methodist Church for years.
Mr. Killgore was born
the late Rev.
James
L.
At an early age, Mr. Killgore went
College and at the age of
1
8 came
to
to
Western Maryland
New Columbus Academy
He became principal
Academy in 892 and taught at the Academy for two
years.
The Academy was then purchased by the local school
board and Mr. Killgore became its principal.
to assist his father as assistant principal.
of the
1
In 1897 he became principal of the schools at Lopez and
1902 he became principal at Dushore. In January, 1905,
Mr. Killgore succeeded the late M. R. Black as County Superintendent of Sullivan County schools and was elected to that post
in April of the same year.
He was re-elected m 908 and 1911,
resigning from the position in 1913.
in
1
That year he became associated with Ginn and Company
its most valuable employes.
and soon became one of
Mr. Killgore was a
F.
&
member
of King
Hiram Lodge, No. 721
A. M., at Wilkes-Barre.
He was
also a
member
of the Stroudsburg Kiwanis Club,
and valued as a member of that organization. He was also an
active worker and director of the Monroe County Tuberculosis
Society.
When
he died he was following his profession as represenGinn and Company, publishers of school and college
textbooks.
In this position he traveled all over northeastern
Pennsylvania and was widely recognized as an outstanding authority on school textbooks of all types.
tative of
Ralph G. Shuman, of Elysburg, has been elected head of
the mathematics department and director of athletics in the
Paradise High School
in
Lancaster County.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.
January, 1942
Page Thirty-Two
1923
Marjorie Gamble (Mrs.
sade Road, Linden,
New
J.
229
Pali-
530
East
Jefferson Drive,
Mt.
Paul Walker) lives at
Jersey.
1924
Mary Dowd (Mrs. Harry F.
Deiterich)
lives at
Third Street, Bloomsburg.
1927
/
Myra
L.
Thomas
is
now
living at
394
Lebanon, Pa.
1928
Miss Eleanor Sands, formerly of Benton, and Ronald Leary
Smith, of Albion,
in
the
home
New
York, were married Sunday, October
of the bride’s
mother
in
1
2,
Benton. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Louis V. Barber, pastor of the Benton
Presbyterian Church. Only the members of the two families
and a few frends were present.
The bride is a member of the faculty of the Brockdale
School in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and is an active member of
the Poetry Society of America. For the past three years, she
has been editor of Unicorn, a magazine of poetry. Mr. Smith
studied at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania,
and
for the past
inet-making business.
few years has conducted his own cabMr. and Mrs. Smith are now living in
Bloomfield.
The address
of
Hugh
E.
Van Aerman
is
R. D.
1,
Dauphin,
Pa.
1929
Louise Roushey, of Shavertown, has been appointed director of the
Columbia County
Girl
Scout Council.
has taught for the past twelve years
in the
Miss
Roushey
Kingston Township
Her education in Girl Scout work was received at
Edith Macy, to which she received a regional scholarship
She was graduated from a professional course which
in 1937.
qualified her to hold a director’s position.
She served for six
years as unit leader at Camp Onandawah, and one year at Camp
Moseywood.
schools.
Camp
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Thirty -Three
who
has been teaching at Factoryville for the
been
elected teacher of English and Latin
past eight years, has
Mary
Laird,
at Mifflinville.
Erma Gold
is teaching in the Junior High School at LewisShe is president of the Susquehanna Valley Branch of the
American Association of University Women.
burg.
Rachel Gething, of Nanticoke, and Cyril Powell, of Youngstown, Ohio, were married Monday, June 2, in the Calvary Baptist Church at Youngstown.
1930
Dorothy M. Foote, formerly of Bloomsburg, and John
Pihlblad, of Jamestown, New York, were married Saturday,
September 6, in the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Pihlblad has been director of Girl Scouts in Jamestown,
where Mr. Pihlblad is a municipal employee.
Raymond Hodges
mond,
lives at
901 West Franklin
Street, Rich-
Virginia.
Samuel W. Kurtz, who has been supervisor of music in
Bloomsburg since 1935, has been elected to a similar position
in
the schools of Stroudsburg, Pa.
1931
William Weaver, who has been teaching in the Madison
High School at Jerseytown, has been elected teacher of mathematics and social studies in the Scott Township High School at
Espy.
1932
Miss Harriet Styer, of Bloomsburg, and Ariel Charles
Boop, of Glen Iron, were married Saturday, September 27, at
Petersburg, Virginia.
Dushore and
School.
is
now
Mr. Boop
Battalion at
Camp
is
Mrs.
Boop taught
teaching
now
in the
for several years at
Mainville
Consolidated
stationed with the Medical Training
Lee, Virginia.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Ridge, and Ezra W. Harris, of Center
Betty Jones, of Lime
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Thirty-Four
Township, Columbia County.
Ridge, and Mr. Harris
is
Miss Jones
is
teacher in the
a
teaching at Lime
Township
Center
High School.
H.
Edmond Smith
school at Fallsington,
has been elected principal of the high
Mr. Smith has been a teacher or
Pa.
science and mathematics at the Fallsington High School for the
past SIX years.
1933
Margaret R. Sandbrook (Mrs. K.
Everett Avenue, Akron, Ohio.
E.
Bristol)
at
50
named
to
lives
1934
James A. Gennaria,
of Bloomsburg, has been
the faculty of the high school at
was
Newtown, Pa.
Mr. Gennaria
for seven years a teacher in Center Township,
and for the
member of the faculty of the Center
Last summer he spent several months in
past five years has been a
Township High School.
the army, being stationed
discharged
at
Fort
when Congress passed
Knox, Kentucky, and was
the law setting the age limit
for service at twenty-eight.
At Newtown, Mr. Gennaria succeeds another Bloomsburg
Kenneth Merrill, who is now teaching in the high
school at Palmyra, New Jersey.
graduate,
Miss
Delphme White,
and Alfred Vandhng,
Wednesday, June 25, at Cumber-
of Nescopeck,
of Mifflinville, were married
Mrs. Vandling is a graduate of Bucknell Unian English teacher in the Nescopeck High School.
She received her Master’s degree from Bucknell. Mr. Vandling,
also a member of the Nescopeck High School faculty, has a Master’s degree from New York University.
land, Maryland.
versity
and
IS
Anna A. Edwards,
of Frackville, and John R. Lindwere married Thursday, November
27, in the Methodist Church at Frackville. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Ward K. Shultz, pastor of the church.
Mrs. Lindermuth has been teaching in the second grade in the
schools of Frackville. Mr. Lindermuth is manager of the Bowe
Miss
ermuth, also of Frackville,
Service Station
in Frackville.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY.
.January, 1942
Page Thirty-Five
Irene Giger (Mrs.
James Milroy)
lives
on
Light Street
Road, Bloomsburg.
1935
Gerald C. Harter
lives at
Apartment
1
Darby Court Apart-
,
ments, Darby, Pa.
1936
Rachel D. Beck and Kenneth R. Malick, both of Sunbury,
were married Friday, July
Sunbury.
Mr. Malick has been
Curtis Publishing
Company.
district sales
He
is
now
Infantry.
ta school in
Mrs. Malick
is
distributor for the
stationed at
N. Y., with the headquarters detachment.
Armored
Methodist Church,
John’s
4, in St.
Second
Camp
Pine,
Battalion,, 51st
principal of the Fort
Augus-
Sunbury.
Kenneth Merrill, formerly a teacher at Turbotville, has
accepted a position as teacher of science in the high school at
Palmyra, New Jersey.
1937
Miss Betty E. Thomas, of Jermyn, and Robert T. Fadden,
were married Saturday, May 24, in Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Fadden attended the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg
and was a member of the faculty of the Henry Drinker School at
Moscow. Mr. Fadden, a graduate of the University of Scranton, is employed by the Glenn L. Martin Company, at Baltimore.
They are now living at 1310 Wilson Point Road, Stansburg Esof Blakely,
tates,
Middle River, Maryland.
Victoria Muskaloon, of Peckville, and Luther R.
Hower, of
November 14, in St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Annapolis. Mrs. Hower is teacher of commercial
subjects in the Osceola Mills High School, and Mr. Hower is
Espy, were married Friday,
stationed in office headquarters in the
Amanda Jean Walsh
New York City.
is
living
camp
at
at
New
Cumberland,
255 West 108th
Street.
The address of Ray G. Schrope has been changed to 65
North Sanford Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
:
Page Thirty-Six
Robert Goodman
mg. N. Y.
lives at
229 West Second
Street, Corn-
1938
Sheldon C. Jones
is
with the Lago Oil and Transport Com-
pany, Limited, and is located at Aruba, Curacao.
letter Mr. J ones states
In
a recent
‘Things are really going full blast down this way.
This refinery, the largest capacity refinery in the world,
together with the others, is draining all local sources of
man power
to meet the demands for the vai'ious refined
You have probably read of the tanker short-
products.
and my working in the Mai’ine Department opened
eyes to the speed which can be had by all departments working together. Before the war, a tanker v/ould
sit around the harbor and anchor on the reef for days,
but now they are brought into the dock as soon as a
berth is available, loaded, and sent right out without
moi'e than a few minutes of wasted time.
“While the American consular agent in Ai'uba was
in the States on vacation, I was appointed Acting Consular Agent, and got a big thrill out of it. It sort of inflated the old ego to get these formal letters from the State
age,
my
Department.”
Miss Marjorie Beaver, of Danville, and Jacob Morrison,
formerly of Danville, were
ployed
Light
in
Mrs.
Sunday,
October 5,
State College,
Morrison,
Mr.
employed
is
at
Morrison had been em-
the Danville office of the Pennsylvania
Company.
Company
married
Delaware County.
Springfield,
a graduate
Power and
of Pennsylvania
as a chemist with the Crucible Steel
at Midland, Pa.
Charles H. Henrie has been appointed teacher-coordinator of Distributive
Education at York, and began his new duties
Mr. Henrie has been occupying a simi-
Monday, December
lar position in the
1
.
schools of
ware, and formerly taught
in
Georgetown and Milford, DelaManor High School at Millers-
the
ville.
Neil Ritchie
where he
is
is
at
Maxwell
Field,
Montgomery, Alabama,
training as a flying cadet. Mr. Ritchie took the
flying course at
Bloomsburg.
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January, 1942
CAA
Page Thirty-Seven
Ann Fawcett Campbell
lives at
520 North 8th
Street, Sel-
insgrove.
Laubach (Mrs. James Webster)
Watsontown, Pa.
Lois
Street,
Philip
Frankmore
lives
at 303J/2
lives
on West
First
Lingle Street, Osceola
Mills. Pa.
Anna M. Malloy
is
Dominick Angelo
living in
Moodus, Connecticut.
lives at Pardeesvilie, Pa.
Jean Capwell’s address
is
Box 154,
Factoryville, Pa.
1939
Bloomsburg, and Alfred P. Koch, of
Shenandoah, were married Saturday, June 21, in the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, Iowa. Mrs. Koch has been teaching
in the Portland High School, and has attended the University
of Iowa. Mr. Koch has a Master’s degree from Bucknell, and
has attended the University of Iowa. He taught for a short
time last year in the Camp Hill High School, and then became a
Lois Farmer, of
member
this
of the faculty of West Virginia University, and has for
year accepted a position at Ohio Northern University, Ada,
Ohio.
Betty Savage, of Berwick, and W. Hope Penman, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 14, at Charleston,
West Virginia. For the past two years, Mrs. Penman has been
teaching at Mifflinville. Mr. Penman is Field Scout Executive
for the Charleston Area Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Martha Wright, who has been serving as Girl Scout execuColumbia County, has been appointed head of the Cayuga County Girl Scout Council, with headquarters at Audubon.
tive in
New
York.
Leonard Bailik, of Duryea, and Miss Elizabeth Evans, of
Bloomsburg,, were married Saturday, August 23, at St. Columba’s Church, Bloo-msburg. Mr. Barlik is a member of the
faculty of the
Duryea High School.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
.January, 1942
Page Thirty Eight
Lucille Adams, of New York City, formerly of Berwick, and
Waldemar P. Ruemmler, of St. Louis, Missouri, were married in
November at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church in New York.
They are now living at 7126 Clyde Avenue, Chicago, 111.
Margaret Allen Jones, of Kingston, and Sterling
of Luzerne, have announced their recent marriage.
J.
Banta,
Mr. Banta
is
a teacher at Hunlock Creek.
John Mondschine, whose address was 127 South Fifth
been reported as deceased. The Editor
regrets that he has not been able to learn any of the details concerning Mr. Mondschine’s death.
Street, Coplay, Pa., has
The address of William Yarworth is Private William J.
Yarworth, Hq. and Hq. Squadron, 38th Air Base Group, New
Orleans Air Base, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lucille E.
Adams
W.
(Mrs.
Clyde Avenue, Chicago,
P.
Ruemmler)
lives at
7126
Illinois.
Anna L. Orner is teaching
Summer Street.
in
York, Pa.
Her address
31
is
North
Paul A. Paulhamus
is
teaching
in
the high school at Mill
City, Pa.
Martha G. Wright
lives at
Robert R. Williams
lives at
Willard Davies lives at
Harold Coblentz
Letha
Hummel
is
is
25 South
Street,
365 Elmira
Auburn, N. Y.
Street, Troy, Pa.
436 Card Avenue, Wilmerding,
Pa.
teaching at Collingdale, Pa.
teaching at Marietta, Pa.
1940
Cadet Victor Turini, of Wyoming, was killed Monday, October 27, in an airplane accident at Lee Field, Green Cove
Springs, an auxiliary to the United States Naval Air Station in
Jacksonville, Florida.
According
to naval authorities, Mr. Turini
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
and
his instruc-
Page Thirty -Nine
landed their plane after a test flight, and wej-e
toward the hangars., when a plane taxied
behind.
Officials at the field claimed that warnfrom
into them
the men, but because of the noise of
shouts
were
given
to
ing
tor
had
walking
just
off the field
other plane motors around the
The
instructor
was
hit
field,
they were unable to hear.
by the wing and escaped with minor
in-
juries.
Corps upon graduation
With his previous CAA training
course at the College, he advanced rapidly and received his
wings two weeks before his death. He was scheduled to receive his commission in December as an officer in the United
States Naval Reserve Air Corps.
Mr. Turini entered the Naval Air
from Bloomsburg
last
spring
in College, he was well liked by all members
body and the faculty. He served on the College
newspaper, first as make-up editor and during his Senior year
as Editor-in-Chief.
He was president of the Poetry Club and
was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary fraternity.
The body was brought to Wyoming for burial and funeral
services were held at the home of his parents, Saturday, Novem-
While he was
of the student
ber
1.
Announcement has been made of
Louise Moyer, of Briar Creek, and Earl
the marriage of Miss
W. Houck,
of Berwick.
The ceremony was performed Monday, July 7, at Alexandria,
Virginia. Mr. Houck was employed during the past year at the
Berwick Bank.
He
is
now
stationed at the
New
Orleans
Army
Air Base in Louisiana.
Robert Zimmerman, of Nuremberg, and Miss Betty Mummey, of Weston, were married Saturday, August 16, in the
Sacred Heart Church, Weston. Mr. Zimmerman is employed by
the Bethlehem Steel Company.
Theodore R.
Parsell
lives at
101
South Furnace Street,
Birdsboro, Pa.
Charles L. Kelchner’s address
Washington, D.
is
1715 18th
Street, N.
W.,
C.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
January, 1942
Page Forty
Vivian Frey
Hill,
Pa.
ark,
New
Edward
living
is
108
at
H. Bacon’s address
North 23rd Street,
725
is
Clifton
Camp
Avenue, New-
Jersey.
John Plevyak
teaching
is
in the
Mt.
St.
Joseph High School,
Baltimore, Maryland.
1941
Gene Sharkey
lives
35
at
Randolph
Avenue,
Meriden,
Connecticut.
Dorothy Albertson, of Espy, and Howard B. Wodock, of
were married Saturday, October 25, in Frankfort,
Indiana. Mr. Wodock was graduated from the Pennsylvania
State College in the class of 1940. He is a member of Theta
Ch.i fraternity.
For the past year he has been employed in the
engineering department of the Nickle Plate Railroad. Mr. and
Mrs. Wodock are now living at 1897 West 48th Street, Apt. 10,
Orangeville,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Marie Parsell, of Orangeville, has been elected permanent teacher in the Center Township High School. Miss Parsell replaces James Gennaria, of Bloomsburg, who has been
elected to a position in the high school at Newtown, Pa.
Charlotte Gearhart (Mrs. Charles R. Bakey,
at
2570
Jr.)
is
living
University Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Dan Bonham
is
teaching and coaching basketball in the
high school at North Coventry, Pa.
The address of Leo
J.
Lehman
is
Box 395,
Collins,
Georgia.
Thurwald Gommer’s address
is
1711
in
the
18th Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Joseph Hudock is teaching
Marlborough, New York.
Ruth Broadbeck
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Once more your Alma Mater is calling, “Come Home.”
May 23, is Alumni Day for the graduates and friends
of “Old Bloomsburg.” Plan now to spend the day among your
classmates and friends on the Hill.
Saturday,
Classes with numerals ending in two and seven will have
These classes are making preparaCommittees are working. They want to see you on the
campus. An interesting program is being arranged for your
pleasure and entertainment. “Come Home.”
their reunions this year.
tions.
Enjoy your
alumni.
class reunion and attend the meeting for all
Witness the dedication of the new gymnasium. Visit
the airport.
Attend the luncheon, banquet, and dance- Maybe
There will be something
baseball and tennis will interest you.
doing
all
If
the
tim.e.
the tires are ragged and woin. use the train or bus.
the event that these are not
available,
we would
In
suggest the
old gray mare, a wheel barrow, Kiddie-Car, or roller skates.
“Keep ’em
rollin’ ” until
you arrive
Carver Hall.
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A Ten Year Study of the
Placement of
Graduates
HARVEY
By
ANDRUSS,
A.
How Many
Find Positions ?
Facts foretell the future.
or flounder in our
own
President
Without them
inability to
we
estimate, guess
answer questions. Too many
times the attempt to answer the query:
“How many
graduates
find positions ?”
merely serves
the questioner.
Investigating committees from legislative bod-
ies
demand
seek to find the
propriations
may
to
awaken doubts
in the
mind
of
for teachers in order that future ap-
be increased or decreased according to the
need which then exists. All too frequently, teacher education
institutions do not take a comprehensive or long-time point of
view.
The
its
college must follow the graduate as an individual, for
alumni are
its
greatest
asset.
To look
at
all its
graduates
every decade or so forms a basis for long term planning by the
college sending
young people out
into the profession of teach-
ing.
All
of these considerations and
many more caused
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, to
on a study of
all
graduates upon which the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education has
of 1931
and 1940
been conferred between the years
inclusive.
How Long
The
the
embark
a Period Should be Studied
?
and
be covered
should be long enough to include economic ups and downs and
legislation as effects changing certification standards, tenure
status, etc. From 1931 to 1940 is a period which includes a
depression, an economic recovery, and a pre-war period. This
history of the institution determines the nature
length of a study of
its
graduates.
The period
to
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Two
decade seems
to
include
more
different
and types of
kinds
changes than any other decade in the history of the college.
Other local facts also color the selection of a period. The
was empowered to grant degrees in the fields of Elementary and Secondary
Education in 1927. Students graduating from 1931 were not
products of the four-year curriculum, but represent two years
of additional work completed by normal school graduates of
the two year certificate curriculums which had been in force
since 920 and before. The Business Education Curriculum was
approved in 1930, thus the class of 1934 represents the first
group of commercial teachers completing all their work at
State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
1
Bloomsburg.
Is
It
would seem
the Situation Typical?
that a teachers college educating element-
ary and secondary teachers which also has a special department
commercial teachers represents a situation which cross-cuts
from kindergarten through the elementary
grades to the junior and senior high school. In Pennsylvania
for
the school system
there are thirteen similar state institutions educating teachers
loi
grade and high schools and two others
ness education.
in
the field of busi-
In addition to the state teachers colleges, there
are over sixty private, semi-private, semi-public, and
institutions of higher learning, the large majority of
engaged
in
questionnaire
including the
Situation
letter of
1
,025 degree graduates. The return from the
ing indicated that about
the form
and return
it
70 per cent took the trouble
in
a prepaid envelope.
was
page and
transmittal
carefully constructed so as to be multigraphed on one
sent to
which are
teacher education.
The Bloomsburg
A
endowed
A
first
to
mail-
fill
out
yellow pep
first follow-up was attached to the same quesand was followed by a second with red card attached. The two follow-ups brought in over a hundred more,
llien the files of the Placement Bureau Service were carefully
searched by the Director of Placement Service to supplement
paragraph as a
tionnaire-letter
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April, 1942
Page Three
questionnaire information previously elicited.
Two
unique ideas had to be developed
reaching the remaining graduates. Several
ulty
who had wide
in the
process of
members
of the fac-
student acquaintances wrote personal notes
Finally the idea of sending the question-
on the questionnaire.
naire to the parents brought in the remainder.
All of the
tables
1
,025 graduates were reached save eight.
shown hereafter include
riving so late they could not
all
but eleven, the
The
three ar-
last
be included.
The questionnaire follows:
To Bloomsburg Graduates:
State Teachers Colleges are being judged solely in terms
of the
number
of graduates placed.
This
number
determin-
is
ed a few months after the Spring Commencement. Such
ures do not reflect the positions secured after that time.
fig-
THE COLLEGE DESIRES TO FIND OUT MANY OF ITS
GRADUATES HAVE TAUGHT AT ANY TIME DURING THE
PAST TEN YEARS OR HAVE ENGAGED IN ANY OTHER OCCUPATION.
Will
you please aid your Alma Mater by
spaces below and returning
envelope.
(Postage already paid).
This
the blank
filling in
this circular to us in
the enclosed
information
will
be
treated as confidential and will aid us in promoting the educational interests of the College in the
Commonwealth
of Pennsyl-
vania.
Your cooperation
will
be deeply appreciated, and we ex-
tend to you the heartiest greetings of your
Very
H. A.
Name
Alma Mater.
cordially yours,
ANDRUSS,
President.
.
Married
women
please give
Maiden and Married Name
Address
Street
City
State
(1)
Please check Curriculum completed:
(2)
Elementary ( )
Secondary ( )
Business ( )
Please indicate fields of certification completed at Bloomsburg:
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April, 1942
Page Four
Secondary
Elementary
(
)
)
English
Latin
(
)
French
(
)
Science
(
)
(
)
Kind.-Pri.
(
)
Inter.
(
Rural
(
)
Special
(
)
Business Education
Commercial Subjects
(
Mathematics
Geography
)
List Other Fields
(3)
(
)
Soc. Studies
(
)
Speech
(
)
Have you ever been regularly employed
(
How
Yes
)
where
you have answered “yes”
long?
as a Teacher?
(
)
Years.
If so,
(4)
If
to (3), please
check the grade and
/
or write subjects taught:
Elementary School
(
)
1,
(
2,
)
(
)
3,
)
9.
(
)
4,
)
(
5,
(
)
6,
(
)
7,
(
)
8
Junior High School
7,
)
(
(
8,
)
(
Subjects
Senior High School
(
(5)
If
)
10,
(
)
11,
(
)
12.
Subjects
you have been otherwise employed, or married, please indi-
cate here
Annual Salary
For Last Year
Date
$
Would Sampling Have Produced
19_._
the
Same
Sampling may have produced the same
the college
wanted
to get in
touch with
all its
Results?
results.
However,
graduates not only
from the point of view of getting information but to complete
its alumni mailing lists.
Even though they had long been placed
m good positions, the tie between the alma mater and its children was thusTrenewed or further cemented.
There is reason to believe that a 60 per cent sampling does
not disclose the facts
VQived.
all
when matters
of personal nature are in-
Salaries are a case in point.
A
person
who answers
the questions but the one involving salary gives rise to the
suspicion that there
is
something that he does not wish to
tell.
Thus
the salaries of the graduates of the secondary curriculum
who
did not enter the teaching profession are probably not a
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Five
sound basis for drawing conclusions.
shown
figure for their earnings as
clusions should not be
in
Over one half gave the
a later analysis, but con-
based on these figures without careful
reservations.
Sampling cannot produce the same accuracy of results as
found in a study where information is available for 99 out
of every 100 who answered the greater part of a list of questhat
tions.
How Many
Graduates Answered ?
Out of ,025 graduates, the questionnaires were returned
by 846 and the placement records were used for 168 others
1
who
did not answer.
As the study progressed the whole faculty became
F. B.
I.
operators in trying to find out the latest address of former students.
College classes were interrogated to
about former students from the same town.
the tentative results
elicit
information
From time
were the subject of general faculty
to time
discus-
and comment.
Without the general direction of Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training and Placement, and the cooperation
of the college and laboratory school faculties, the high percentage of replies and information would not have been possible.
Such a college quest becomes a witch hunt for former students.
sion
The Framing
Care was taken
in
dense the questions to
of the Questionnaire
constructing the
less
than a page.
list
of questions to con-
Writing was kept to a
minimum. To get the FACTS rather than frame the questions
to get some fancy FIGURES to publicize was the prime concern.
Thus care was taken to find if those who had married had ever
taught. Further, the substitute teachers were separated rather
than lumped in with the regularly employed teacher.
Too many studies have included married women who have
never taught in the category with gainfully employed graduates
who
ing.”
are in occupations cleverly phrased as “other than teach-
Too many
substitutes
employed for short periods of time
are counted in with other teachers.
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April, 1942
Page Six
Another consideration affecting the construction of the
was the agreement signed by students in Pennsylvania
State Teachers Colleges to teach two years in lieu of tuition,
dhe average length of service found was six years.
It should also be noted that substitute teachers in Pennsylvania must be certified the same as regular teachers, thus to
a degree they stand ready as a reserve to supply the Commonquestions
wealth.
This reserve
is
now (1942)
Time Element
Beginning
in
mately two years.
exhausted.
in
Study
1940, the study was continued for approxiSince 1941 graduates were affected by de-
fense activities leading to World
War
II,
they were not included.
war period.
to the following were mailed
previous years. Upon being
This avoids the distortion sure to result from the
Each year postal cards
to the classes
similar
graduating the three
returned, these cards were placed in the placement folder kept
Individually, the college knew whether or not
David Williams or Sarah Smith had a position in teaching or in
another occupation, but no one knew how many Davids and
Sarahs were available for teaching positions.
of each student.
SAMPLE OF POST CARD FORM
Name
Home
Address
Please supply the following information:
Year
If
of
now
Curriculum
Graduation
teaching, give
Grade
or Subject
Teaching Address
If
employed otherwise, type
Do you
to
of
work
Are you willing
desire a teaching posiiton
accept a position in any locality?
* Selective
*Added
Service Act Status
since 1940.
The placement
folders might
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
contain as
April, 1942
many
as three
Page Seven
postal cards or
in
none
made
each folder,
at
Yet the correspondence, and cards
all.
it
possible for information to be obtained
supplement the questionnaire study.
To summarize, two years intensive questionnaire circularizing and ten years of postal card circularizing made these reto
sults possible.
Changing Demands
Variations in
demands
for teachers are noted in the years
as follows:
Degree
Graduates
Year
1931
1932
1933
___
1934
1935 ____
_
1936 _
1937
1938 _
1939 _
1940 _
45—100%
60—100%
81—100%
105—100%
-
-
..
,
_
95—100%
99—100%
134—100%
___ 141—100%
_152— 100%
.
_
.
The graduation
lor of
of a
first
Other
Occupations
73%
82%
69%
77%
83%
85%
85%
72%
80%
69%
__113— 100%
.
_
Teachers
16%
15%
21%
15%
12%
12%
14%
21%
12%
15%
class holding the
Total
89%
97%
90%
92i%
95%
97%
99%
94%
92%
84%
degree of Bache-
Science in Education on completing a continuous four-
year curriculum; the effects of the depression and tenure status for teachers all are reflected in the figures
above.
Salaries of Teachers
569
Relative salaries based on
The
interesting comparisons.
of
Class of
775 reporting show some
1934 shows the highest
average salary as follows:
1934
1
Ele.
12
Sec.
62
31
105
Bus.
Total
2
12
42
27
.
3
4
10
31
$ 800.00
5
800.00
1170.00
800.00
22
63
$1950.00
2496.00
2400.00
2496.00
6
81
First column Degree Graduates; second column
ularly; third column
Number Reporting; fourth
Salary; fifth column Highest Salary; sixth column
seventh column
—
—
—
— Average
(column
6
7
$11545.00
44296.00
36425.00
92266.00
$1154
1428
1655
1464
—Teaching Regcolumn —Lowest
—Total Salaries;
divided by column 3).
In accounting for this average, certain conditions recited
before must be recalled.
The Department
of Business Educa-
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April, 1942
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Page Eight
1930 graduated its first class in 1934. The
placement demand being brisk and this group having had a
tion beginning in
longer period to earn have pushed the average salary to
its
highest point.
The average of
the ten-year period
given for compara-
is
tive purposes.
2
164
391
1
Ele.
184
Sec.
568
273
1025
Bus.
Total
—
219
774
3
4
5
6
7
126
282
161
569
$ 800
$2100
2800
2400
2800
$141531
381576
218618
741725
$1123
1353
1357
1303
720
1170
720
First column Degree Graduates; second column
ularly; third column
Number Reporting; foui'th
Salary; fifth column Highest Salary; sixth column
seventh column
—
—
—Average
(column
6
—Teaching Regcolumn—Lowest
—Total Salaries;
divided by column 3).
As experience grows, salaries increase. The minimum preby the State during this period was $800 for elementary teachers and $1 70 to $1200 for secondary teachers.
scribed
1
Salaries of Graduates in Other Occupations
On
interesting comparison reveals on cursory examination
that those graduates
cupations are
ing.
The
evaluated
now
figures
who
did not teach but entered other oc-
earning
$80 more per year
than those teach-
must be examinned with care and
in the light of
1
184
273
569
1025
their
worth
surrounding circumstances.
2
3
4
5
6
7
1915
$775
$1140
$ 957
$
21
3600
25827
Bus.
38
677
1229
109
61
360
3500
88843
Sec.
1456
Total
156
84
360
3600
116585
1387
First column Degree Graduates; second column
Other OccupaNumber Reporting; fourth column Lowest Saltions; third column
ary Reported; fifth column Highest Salary Reported; sixth column Total Salaries Reported; seventh column Average (column 6
divided by column 3 )
Ele.
—
—
—
9
2
—
—
—
—
Elementary graduates now teaching seem to earn $1123
compared with $957 earned by those who follow some other
occupations.
the
number
Clearly these figures are subject to question since
is
small, but the continuing
students holding the degree
is
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
demand
evidenced.
Notice
for elementary
was given
five
Page Nine
years ago that
m
1
943 those expecting
to teach in the element-
ary school must hold degrees from approved teacher education
institutions.
ures
are
Based on 61 replies from 109 secondary students, the figseem to show that those graduates not following teaching
earning $103 ($1 456-$l 353) more per year than teach-
ers.
Do
Figures Lie?
Why
go to a teachers college to be a teacher when other
occupations pay more?
Why did only 61 Secondary graduates of the 109 reporting give their salary as earned in occupations other than teaching? Of the teachers, 282 out of 391 gave their salary figures.
A 60 per cent sampling would seem to be a fair criterion
for drawing a conclusion. However, when 109 answer most of
the items on a questionnaire but only 61 answer the salary item,
would it not seem that they do not wish to make the information
available? Can it be that only those who were getting as much
,
or
more than the state minumum salary are the 61 reporting?
One other point. Teachers were asked for their salary
last year. Does last year mean “last school year of nine or ten
months?” If so, can we compare teachers’ salaries for nine
months with the yearly income from other occupations for the
whole year? I think not.
How Many
Graduates Taught?
As shown by the table below, seventy-seven out of every
hundred graduates taught, fifteen were gainfully occupied and
eight were unemployed. In the latter class are married women
who never taught, the deceased and those called into the armed
forces of the United States without opportunity to teach. Substitute teachers comprise
.7 per cent of the 77 per cent quoted
1
as teachers.
1
2
3
Ele.
184
158
Sec.
564
273
1025
100.00
100.00
Bus.
Total
100.00
100.00
404
220
792
6789
45
91.31
71.13
80.58
77.27
10
9
4.89
7
3.80
0
0
109
38
156
19.19
45
7.92
10
1.76
13.92
14
.37
66
5.13
6.44
1
15.22
11
1.07
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April, 1942
Page Ten
—
Degi'ee Graduates First column, Number, second column, Per
Cent; Teaching third column, Number, foui'th column. Per Cent;
Other Occupations— Fifth column. Number, sixth column, Per Cent;
Miscellaneous*—Seventh column. Number, eighth column, Per Cent;
No Information Ninth column, Number, tenth column, Per Cent.
* Includes married graduates who never taught, graduate students still in college, army and navy volunteers and selectees who
never had an opportunity to teach and the unemployed which accounts for 3.2 per cent of the 6.44 per cent in this column.
—
—
Findings
The study did more than answer the question, “How many
teach?” The figure results are probably of less importance than
the common interest of the faculty in our graduates. Then, too,
alumni of ten years realize that their alma mater continues to be
interested in them.
This phase of the study cannot be valued
objectively, but mailing
lists
are
more accurate because of the
study.
Among
1
.
A
larger
the objective findings are the following:
number
of placements
were discovered than by a
previous method.
2.
A
comprehensive look over a decade discloses certain trends
such as the effect of tenure and increasing industrial activity.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Average period of teaching service of
Figures relating to salaries
six years
was obtained.
and
non-teaching
of teaching
groups were made available for further study.
Demonstrated value of individual placement records as a
supplement to the questionnaire method.
Furnished basis for guidance of present and future students
who expect to be teachers.
Definite information
eration
when
is
now
available for legislative consid-
appropriations are being considered.
Those outcomes justify the time, effort, and money of a
two-year study of one thousand graduates.
DDN^T FORGET
2>a^ Maif, 3.3^
0
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
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April, 1942
Page Eleven
/lciiiUtle4.
at
summarizing the Defense and War Activities of this colpresent under the following captions the activities
which have come to this campus since September, 939.
In
lege,
we
1
Civil Pilot Training
Program For Aviation
Instruction
Over 100 college students have had an opportunity to
program sponsored by the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College using the Bloomsburg Airport under
the plan developed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. At
the present time twenty men are enrolled in the Elementary
Course and ten in the Advanced Course, with all indications that
learn to fly under the
these quotas will be increased in the near future.
This program enabled the town of Bloomsburg to reopen
Bloomsburg Airport and it now is approved for offering the
following Aviation Courses
Elementary, Advanced, Cross Country, Instructor, and Instructor Refresher Courses. The first two
named are sponsored by the college for college students, while
the last three are carried on at the Airport for those people who
are giving full time to the more specialized courses of Aviation.
Such a program is in existence in only four other colleges in the
the
—
United States.
Out of the
tion
first
50 students completing
the
Primary Avia-
Course over one-half have already found their
the Aviation Branch of our
Armed
Forces and several
way
now
into
hold
commissions.
Free
War
The
Courses
college
is
in
Engineering,
Management and Science
furnishing classrooms and
laboratories
for
courses sponsored by the United States Office of Education and
in Pennsylvania through Penn State College. The first
program reached 200 students, using ten classrooms, and the
second program is using fourteen classrooms to house over 300
students.
Two of these classes are being taught by college instructors and a third instructor is traveling forty miles to another
developed
center to offer a course.
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April, 1942
:
t’age
Twelve
Contributions of College Faculty, Students and Employees
During the Year
Members
to the
of the college
community have made contributions
United Service Organizations, the Regular Red Cross Roll
and the Red Cross War Relief Drive. The amounts are given
here and speak for themselves.
United Service Organizations
$125.00
Red Cross Roll Call
157.00
Red Cross War Relief Drive
_ 548.00
Call
Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds
Every faculty member and employee either now owns Defense Saving Stamps or Bonds or has pledged themselves to purchase regularly
in
the future.
Defense Saving Stamps are sold at the College Retail Store
and also from a booth placed in the corridor.
The figures for the College community are herewith given
Bonds held to date
$18,743.75
Bonds pledged for year
13,300.00
Stamps pledged for year
,596.00
1
$33,639.75
College Council of Defense
The college community has been organized as a unit of the
Columbia County Council of Defense and the following committees are actively engaged in the duties which their names
suggest
Air Raid Warning, Fire Protection, American Unity,
—
First Aid,
Conservation of Defense Materials, Men-in-Service.
These
activities are the basis for the sixth in the series of
college films entitled
First
The College
Aid and
the
Red
Home
“Bloomsburg Faces War.”
Aid and
is
Home
Nursing Courses
continuously furnishing classrooms for First
Nursing Courses sponsored by Boy Scouts and
Cross* and a large
number
of students
are enrolled in these courses.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
and town people
:
Page Thirteen
Bloomsburg in World War I
History
is
repeating
itself.
In these critical times,
young
men and women at Bloomsburg are facing problems like those
faced by the young men and women at Bloomsburg in 1917
and 1918.
Undoubtedly
the minds
of
many graduates and
former students at Bloomsburg turn back to those days, and
World War
are being lived over again.
The following article, which recently appeared in the
Bloomsburg Morning Press, is a brief statement of war activithe experiences of
1
Bloomsburg twenty-five years ago. It is interesting to
note that the article appeared in the issue of December 6, 1941,
the day before Pearl Harbor.
“With another war in the offing, it is not without interest
to recall the part played in the World War by “Old Normal,”
now the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. That contribution
was not only in the young men and women it sent into the service, but also its work in all the various war drives.
ties
at
“In the
Third Liberty
Loan, the
quota
assigned to the
was $3,500, and a total of $10,500 was subscribed.
Tlien came the Fourth Loan, and the quota looked large indeed
indeed so soon after the Third Loan had been put across, but
before the campaign ended, a total of $12,300 had been subscribed, and a fifth star was won for the Liberty Loan honor
school
fiag.
“But ‘Old Normal’ did not alone contribute of its funds
gave of its graduates and under graduates by the hundreds, as the following roster of those who went forth to battle
for democracy and to minister to those who were wounded so
but
it
strikingly illustrates
Roll of
Honor
Andres, Harry, Lieutenant Medical Department.
October 4, 1917.
Kunkle, John Ray, ’ll. Died
Died
at
El Paso, Texas,
at
Base
Hospital,
Camp
Greene.
Krum, Howard
’ll.
Died of influenza.
Camp
Lee, Virginia.
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April, 1942
Page Fourteen
Newberger, George M. ’00. Lieutenant M.
C.
Navy.
Died
Navy Yard, Philadelphia.
Omsted, Hawley ’ll. Died of pneumonia in France.
Red Cross Nurse, Jefferson Hospital
Phillips, Meryl ’ll.
died of pneumonia in New York.
of influenza at the
Unit
;
Robbins, Earl ’15.
Died of influenza
Sergeant.
at
Camp
Meade, Md.
Straub, Max, died of
Williams,
in
Dave
’00.
wounds
in
France.
Captain; died
in
army
training
camp
Minnesota.
Military Honors
Kennedy, Anna
U., citation for bravery,
French govern-
ment.
Straub, Max, Croix de Guerre with star, Medaille Militaire,
Croix de Guerre with Palm, Corps citation for bravery.
Faculty
Leroy Anderson, George D. Cronin, Harry Fausel,
Maud
Kimber Kuster, William V. Moyer.
Students and Graduates in Army and Navy
Rebecca Allen, Elbert Knorr, Jean Andres, Sinclair Kilgore, Bruce Albert, Reece Kilgore, Joseph Armstrong, Roy Kindig, Norman Aten, Ralph Kindig, Warren Anstock, Bruce Kindig, Harry Barton, Ronald Keeler, Fisk Brill, Fred Keeler, William G. Brill, George Keller, Bruce Blackman, Lewis Kreiger,
Hugh Boyle, Myron Kocher, Guy Brunstetter, Gardner Kelchner, Reno Bush, John Knittle, J. R. Brobst, William Fred KesK. Fish, Aldus E. Keggeris,
ter,
Clarence Brobst, William
F.
Kelchner, Lester Burlingame,
Anna
A. Kennedy, Harry Bierman, Guy Kitchen.
John E. Bakeless, Bernard Kelly, Frank Brink, Sue Knelly,
George Bednarek, G. Eugene Kemp, Alan Benson, Theodore
Krumm, Mark
Bennett,
Roy Koontz, Raymond Bucher, John
Long, Charles Butler, Rupert Laub, George Barrow, Ray Leidich,
Anthony Balchunas, Harry Lear, John
bach, Richard Brooke, Josiah
Little,
T. Brooks, Earl Lau-
Harold Bomboy, Samuel
Longstreet, Alvah Burlingame, William Lazarus,
Malcolm Leonard, Benjamin Baer, North Leidy,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
J.
J.
Becker,
Ercell
Bidle-
Page Fifteen
man, Ethelbert Moon, Myron Byers, Ray Mausteller, Rush
Boone, Harold Moyer, Weston Miller, Herman J. Capello, David
Miller, Peter Castellani, John K. Miller, Harold Cooper, Marion
Morley, Harold Cool, Arthur Morgan, Carrol D. Champlin, A.
C. Morgan, Ruth Clark, Joseph Cherry, Alfred C. Miller.
Paul M. Champlin, Paul Milnes, Hurley Crevehng, James
Musgrave, Daniel Close, William McAvoy, Harold Creasy, Kin-
ney Mears, John W. Cressler, Anthony McDonald, Frank B. Cotner, Margaret McKelvy, William J. Conyngham, Frank J. Meenahan, Claude Durlin, Maxwell Mauser, William H. Davis, Harold
Mensch, Warren Dollman, Maxwell Noack, Harry Dollman, Elna
H. Nelson, Albert Demaree, Charles Oman, Joseph Demaree,
Francis O’Neil, Francis Dobson, P. Clive Potts, Harry Derr, Walter
Page, Thomas Derr, Joseph Pace, George W. Dodson, Har-
old Pegg, Albert
W. Duy, Myron
P. Rishton,
Idwal Edwards,
J.
Rehm, Boon Eckman, Charles
Robbins, Edith Eckman, Lawrence Ryman, Homer Englehart,
Glennis Rickert, Orville Eveland, Russel Ramage, Michael J.
Egan, Harry Rinker, Homer Fetterolf, James Richards, David
Foye, Howard R. Rarig, Gordon Frye, H. E. Rawhnson, John
Feinour, Warren Shobert, Howard F. Fenstemaker, Michael
Boyd
Rutter, Harold Eves, Robert
Skwier, Harry Fortner, Robert Schooley, Charles Fritz, Theo-
dore Smith, Ralph D. Fry, Burrel Swortwood.
Reuben Stevens, Raymond Fought, Roland
Edward Smoczinski, Albert Foster, William Gorham,
Isaac Fought,
Stevens,
John H. Shuman, Anthony Gorham, Bruce Shearer, Maurice
Owen Serene, Percy W. Griffiths, George Smith, Jay H.
Grimes, George Supplee, Joseph Griffiths, Dana Sharpless, William Gordon, Harry A. Smith, George Gress, Albert Solleder,
Harold Hidlay, Edward C. Shuman, Eugene C. Hidlay, Albert
F. Symbal, Clair Hower, William Taylor, Earl B. Hartman, Peter
Twilk, Paul Hummel, Dayton Terwilliger, Earl Hess, William A.
Thomas, M. D. Hippensteel, Richard Thomas, Oswald Hutton,
Gertrude Thomas, John H, Harter, Edward Tustin, John Hodder, Joseph Tustin, C. T. Hodgson, Paul Trembley, Edwin Heller, Frank Titman, Paul Hoffnagle, John Vavalo. Charles Wiant,
Girton,
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April, 1942
Page Sixteen
Frank Hutchison, John Hayhurst, Emerson D. Wiant, Lee Roy
Hall, T. E. Williams, Gilbert Hagenbuch, Fred Weaver, W. 0.
Holmes, Warner Werkheiser, Fred Holmes, Thomas Williams,
H. V. Hower, Ray V. Watkins, Harry C. Hubler, George Wilner, G. Hemingway, Paul D. Womeldorf, Reginald Hemingway,
Edwin Woodward, Scott Hoaglan, J. K. Wagonseller, Donald
Ikeler, R. V. Wolf, Kenneth Ikeler, Karl West, Arthur Ives,
Frank Williams, Arthur Jones, William Weiss, James A. Joyce,
Joseph White, Joseph Joyce, Thomas Walsh, Fred Johnson,
Clark H. Yeager, Edwin G. Jenkins. G. Jenkins, Corson Zeliff,
Guy Knorr, David Zehner.
o
The brutal savagery of war seemed far removed and almost unbelievable for a couple of hours Friday evening, March
20, to a near capacity audience
enjoyed the spring musical
in the
college auditorium as
festival of the
it
Women’s Chorus and
Men’s Glee Club.
This year’s presentation was Charles Gounod’s “Faust”
and it was an exceptionally fine piece of work, winning merited
commendation from the audience.
Five young and talented artists from New York City,
where all are now studying voice, were the guest soloists and
their fine voices and splendid interpretation of their roles blended with almost professional perfection with the chorus work of
the 50 Bloomsburg students directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Miss Louise Adams, a Freshman from Shamokin, was the ac1
companist.
Guest soloists were Donald Loring Rogers, tenor; Judith
Margaret Wilson, contralto; Howard Woods,
and Robert Schnabel, baritone.
Music lovers of the community remembered Miss Wilson
and Mr. Rogers for their fine work here last spring as guest soloists in von Flotow’s “Martha” and welcomed them back with
enthusiasm while the other guests quickly won and held their
audiences. Rogers just recently returned to New York from a
successful tour during which he won acclaim at Cleveland, Detroit and other American cities.
West, soprano;
tenor,
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April, 1942
Page Seventeen
Defense Set-Up at the College
Dr. E. H. Nelson, director of the
department of physical
head of civilian defense for the
college community. His appointment by President Andruss came
promptly after the rise of a national emergency and a necessity
education at the College,
is
also
for civilian preparedness.
It will
be Dr. Nelson’s job
to coordinate
and expedite the
various activities connected with civilian defense, as they apply to the college
may
community, in such a manner that the students
when an emergency arises on this campus
act intelligently
or elsewhere.
After determining what activities were of paramount importance, Dr. Nelson designated the following committees and
committee chairmen to become active immediately an air raid
committee is headed by William C. Forney, who is assisted by
Earl N. Rhodes. Mr. Forney, the College air raid warden, has
attended classes for air raid wardens in Harrisburg. The fire
protection committee is headed by N. T. Englehart and Miss
:
Ruth Hope,
Miss Lucy
Coatesville.
The
ents to take care of accidents
Classes for
advanced
added to
had been
The
first
aid committee,
McCammon and Donald Rabb,
first
and
will
headed l^y
prepare the stud-
casualties.
aid training are already in progress,
course for the training of
first
and an
aid instructors has been
and standard first aid courses, which
conducted for some time.
Welfare Committee, headed by Irving Gottlieb, concerns itself with the interests and welfare of college men who
are in military service. The American unity committee, directed by Miss Harriet Moore and Miss Joyce Lohr, will be rethe beginning
sponsible for parades, patriotic singing, entertainment or any
ether activities which will encourage morale and higher spirits
college community. The conservation committee, headed
by Frank Valente, head waiter in the dining room, and assisted
by the Social Service Club, will be responsible for such items
in the
as the conservation of electricity, prevention of waste,
and sav-
ing of food.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Eighteen
Plan
l/jeoA. Btidxhf,
Students of the Pennsylvania State Teachers College will
be able to complete the regular four-year curriculum leading
to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education in three calendar years, according to plans recently approved at Harrisburg
by the Board of Presidents. For some students this will be possible by attending three regular years and two twelve-week
summer
sessions.
The new plan adds a three-week pre-session to the existing regular six-week summer session and the three-week postsession. Freshmen will be accepted at the beginning of any
semester or any summer session.
Students
who do
not desire to follow this three-year cur-
liculum will be allowed to continue their college education on
the four-year basis which has been in operation since the state
teachers colleges were
granted the right to confer the degree
of Bachelor of Science
m
Education
in
1
926.
The three-year plan will enable students to begin teaching a year earlier and will reduce the present cost by approximately $200. This saving, when added to the possibility of
earning a salary of $1,200 per year, results in a net gain of
$1,400 for those who seek to enter the teaching profession un•
der the three-year state teachers college plan.
A
study of
demand
the teacher
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
for
graduates
of the
for the past ten years indi-
its graduates have obtained
Of 1,025 graduates granted degrees from 1930 to
1940, seventy-seven per cent actually taught, and fifteen per
cates that ninety-two per cent of
figures.
cent obtained positions in other occupations.
The new plan will enable high school graduates to begin
work at the pre-session June 8, and will provide
their college
an opportunity for students
to
fore being called into service
complete a college education be-
in
the
armed
forces of the United
At the same time, the state teachers colleges
better able to meet the present shortage of teachers.
States.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
will
be
Page Nineteen
Requests
school
able
officials
lists
are received
for teachers
almost
daily
from
throughout eastern Pennsylvania, and the avail-
have long been exhausted.
The college calendar for 1942-43 provides for two semesters of eighteen weeks each, beginning September 14 and
ending May 25. Two weeks later, the pre-session begins on
ending June 27. During this session, the student will be
able to complete one three-credit course. Following the plan
June
8,
meet three hours a day,
The regular summer session will
begin June 29 and end August
The regular session will be
followed by a post-session beginning August 3 and ending Auused
in the post-session, the classes will
except Saturday and Sunday.
1
.
gust 22.
A
three
summer
iai
weeks vacation intervenes between the end of the
and the beginning of the fall semester. Regu-
sessions
vacations approximately like those of previous years will be
given at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
Upper classmen
will
be able
graduation by attending the
that
Sophomores now enrolled in
work in one semester
plete their
under the four-year curriculum.
No reduction has been made
required for graduation.
be no reduction
in the
to
summer
shorten their
less
m
the
than the time required
number
of hours credit
This means definitely that there will
standards
now
prevailing.
the student will be required to complete as
work
time for
and it is possible
college may be able to comsessions,
In other
words,
many semester
hours
by attending college more time during
the calendar year, he will be able to complete the same amount
of work in less time.
of
as before, but
^
O
0 -”
Q
DDN^T FORGET
Alumni
Mcuf. 3.3nA
6
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty
Play Presented at College
It
was
a great surprise to Mr. Fuller to find that the house
near the Potomac that he bought had not had George Washington as an
all-night guest
—
instead,
it
was Benedict
Arnold.
was only one of the many amusing situations which arose
“George Washington Slept Here,” the play presented Friday
evening, January 30, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
by the Alpha Psi Omega dramatic fraternity with the Bloosmburg Players.
This comedy, written by Moss Hart cind George S. Kauffman, centered around the trials and tribulations of the Fuller
family, who moved into a house that had been built before
This
in
Revolutionary days.
Elwood Beaver,
as
Newton
Fuller,
por-
man who wants to live in the country. Rachel
\arrowsky, as Mrs. Fuller, who was definitely city-bred, kept
trayed a city
the audience laughing with her skeptical, and cynical remarks.
George Miller, as Mr. Kimber, the hired man, provided amusement with his presentation of a “hick.” Dave Nelson, as Uncle
Stanley, played the part of a rich, fussy uncle
be poor.
Other characters included: Madge
who
turns out to
Fuller, Betty
Bierman;
Steve Eldridge, Reed Buckingham; Katie, Mary Jane Mordan;
Mrs. Douglas, Roberta Hastie; Clayton Evans, Irving Gottlieb;
Rena
Leslie, Stella Williams;
Hester,
Edna Zehner; Raymond,
John Thomas; Ligett Frazer, Tony Kravitsky; Sue Barrington,
Mary Lou Fenstemaker; Jane Barton, Jeanne Knight; Tommy
Hughes, Kenneth Morse, and Mr. Prescott, Lee Beaumont.
— o—
now Scout
Monday eve-
Robert Goodman, formerly of Bloomsburg,
Executive at Corning,
New
York, was the speaker
ning, January 12, at the nineteenth annual meeting of
the Col-
umbia and Montour Boy Scout Council, held in Catawissa. Mr.
Goodman is one of three Bloomsburg men who started their
scouting experience in the Columbia County Council, and now
are executives in the movement.
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April, 1942
Page Twenty-One
“Keeping Ahead of the Auditor’’
The leading
March, 1942, issue of the Balance Sheet, a magazine on Business and Economic Education
was written by President Harvey A. Andruss, President of the
article of the
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, under the
title
of “Keeping
Ahead
President Andruss
of the Auditor.”
bookkeeping down
brings
to
present
requirements by saying:
“This gradual development of an ever-widening of view
in
business has been reflected
keeping.
When
by our learning processes
book-
the vocational record keeping attitude prevail-
began the learning progress
ed, students
in
in
bookkeeping with
With the
the journal, ledger, or account orders of presentation.
shift of
emphasis to the economic employer-managerial point
of view, there
was developed
ders of presentation.
We
more
of presentation giving
in relation to
come
all
the balance sheet or equation or-
now have
shall
to
develop an order
attention to the needs of society
personal records so as to provide a basis for
tax returns.
in-
These records must be made so as to furnish
information for income tax returns which are subject to re-
view by federal revenue agents.
“With the increase of the number of individuals filing income tax returns, our record keeping must recognize the Government as a representative of society. Thus, our records must
be made so that summaries or reports can be constructed periodically, and they should also form the basis for making yearly
income tax returns to the Federal Government. Otherwise, the
individual earning from $750 to $1,000 a year will have no
basis for explaining his income and the deduction figures to
auditors
and tax review
investigators.”
o
Addresses Wanted
Ivor L. Robbins ’32,
James Cullen
’33,
Roy Garman
’34,
Sylvester Ficca ’35, Marguerite Lonergan ’39, Robert C. Diehl
’38, Arthur
Knerr ’34.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
Mid-Year Graduates
Eleven students met the requirements for the degree of
in education at the conclusion of the first
bachelor of science
semester at the Teachers College.
There were three
education, two
m
m
business education, five in secondary
intermediate, and one in kindergarten-pri-
mary education.
now employed. Seven are teachtwo are employed by the Middletown air
Nine out of the group are
ing in public schools,
depot.
These students will be eligible to take part in the commencement exercises which will be held in May.
Members of the January graduating class follow: John
W. Betz, Danville, secondary, teaching at Curwensville; Laura
Bonenberger, Barnesville, intermediate, teaching Ryran township;
Howard Brochyrus, Bloomsburg,
bert R. Davis,
Jr.,
business education; Al-
Tilbury Terrace, West Nanticoke, secondary,
teaching at Plymouth township; Dorothy Dean, Washingtonville,
kindergarten-primary,
tonville;
Middletown
education,
air
teaching at
Edmunds,
William
depot;
Middletown
Haven, secondary,
DeLong
Nanticoke,
ate, teaching at
education,
Robert Miner, Tunkhannock, business
air
depot;
LaPlata,
Margaret Robeson, Beach
Maryland;
Jennie
Berwick, secondary, teaching at Bloomsburg;
Canadensis, secondary;
Washing-
School,
business
Trivelpiece,
Collin
Vernoy,
Harriet Young, Nescopeck, intermedi-
Spring township, Berks county.
—
o
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Hilda Reeves, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and Joseph K. Layos,.
of Mainvillc, a sergeant in the United States
Fort Meade, Maryland.
Sergeant Layos,
Army, stationed
at
who was graduated
from the Bloomsburg High School, attended the College for
two years, and then joined the National Guard. Miss Reeves
IS employed in the
office of the Bell Telephone Company in
Washington, D.
C.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Three
Rotary-Kiwanis-College Evening
The fifteenth annual Kiwanis-Rotary-College night program presented to some 350 guests at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Thursday evening, March 12, proved most entertaining, illustrating to a large extent the part
lege
is
which the
col-
playing during the present emergency.
program were the premiere of a new mo“Bloomsburg Faces War,” filmed by Prof. George
of the faculty, and the appearances of Edmund Hard-
Highlights of the
tion picture,
J. Keller,
ing,
Washington, D.
C.,
humorist.
R. B. White, president of the Kiwanis Club, presided and
introduced Mr. and Mrs. Horace Williams, the former being the
R. S. Hemingway, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey A. Andruss, the Rev. R. 0. Musser, who gave the invocation; Dr. Willis E. Pratt, president of the Lock Haven
State Teachers College, and Mrs. R. B. White.
Others who were present were
State Senator John G.
Snowden, and Mrs. Snowden, of Williamsport; John F. Stank,
of Ranshaw; Joseph P. Bradley, of Mount Carmel; Mr. and
Mrs. W. Clair Hidlay and Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Cole, of Bloomshurg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Croop and Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
Houck, of Berwick; and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, and Dr. and Mrs. Gosse.
president of the Rotary Club
;
:
Mr. Harding was song leader^ providing accordion accom-
paniment with that of Gordon Keller
at the Solovox.
Following the dinner the group adjourned to the auditor-
ium where Elwood Beaver, president of the community governm.ent association, extended greetings.
Miss Betty Pauling, accompanied by Robert Morgan, sang
“Three
Little
Fairy Songs,”
Free,” while Mr.
In
and “A Heart That’s
selection, “Ballade
F Minor.”
“That’s where
we come
interludes of Mr. Harding.
of
“Clouds,”
Morgan presented a piano
humorous
stories
in” proved the theme of dramatic
Through an almost endless current
was woven
a serious note to that effect
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
that
“now we’re
in
it
do our
let’s
part.’’
bution to the program was one which
will
Mr. Harding’s contrilong be remembered.
Following a group of patriotic selections by the college
chorus, under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, the sixth in
a series of college films, “Bloomsburg Faces War,’’ offered sub-
lege
many
proof of the
stantial
directing
is
The
phases of activities to which the col-
its efforts.
film dealt
with such activities as civilian pilot training,
safety in the classroom, defense courses, defense bonds and
stamps and the boys
in service.
The pictures, executed in colored film by Prof. George J.
Keller, were characterized by their completeness in scope and
timeliness.
The singing of the National Anthem concluded the audiin the gym-
torium program after which dancing was enjoyed
nasium.
O
Among
many
men
training at Randolph
The four are John Maksimuk, of Wilkes-Barre, who is taking advanced flying there,
Anthony Yenalavage, of Kingston, Donald Hausknecht, of Montoursville, and Walter Reed, of Shillington. Mr. Hausknecht is
the
service
in
Field, Texas, are four B. S. T. C. boys.
in the
flying.
finance office, but the other three are taking courses in
Mr. Maksimuk and
Mr. Reed
Bloomsburg
took the
Civilian Pilot
Hausknecht
and Mr. Reed are graduates, while the other two entered the
service before their college courses were completed.
It is interesting to note that a Bloomsburg alumnus is commandant at the field. He is Colonel Idwal Edwards ’13.
Training course of
last
Mr.
spring.
o
Miss Martha
Krum, of Bloomsburg, and Franklin F.
were married Friday, January 23, at the
Schultz, of Danville,
parsonage
of
Trinity Methodist
Schultz has been working
Mills,
and Mr.
m
Church,
in
the office of the
Schultz, a former
Bloomsburg student,
ployed as a surveyor by the State Highway Department.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Mrs.
Danville.
Bloomsburg
is
Silk
em-
.
Page Twenty -Five
College Honor Roll
The following Bloomsburg
State Teachers College students
have a rating of 2.5 or better for the first semester, 1941-42,
and an accumulated rating of 2.0 or better for all of their college work:
Freshmen
Poletime Comuntzis, Secondary, Bloomsburg.
Mary
L.
M. Jane
'
Fenstemaker, Secondary, Bloomsburg.
Miller, Business Education,
Jermyn.
Sophomores
Mary
F.
Harold
DeWald, Elementary,
Turbotville.
E. Miller, Business Education,
Drums
R. D.
1
Juniors
Lee Roy Beaumont, Business Education, Marcus Hook.
Boyd F. Buckingham, Secondary, York.
Thomas
H. Cannard, Secondary, Danville.
Joanna J. Fice, Business Education, Athens.
Ruth B. Hope, Elementary, Pomeroy.
John Hubiak, Business Education, Forest City, R. D.
Virginia Lawhead, Elementary, Pottsville.
Joyce M. Lohr, Secondary, Berwick.
1.
Seniors
Elwood H. Beaver, Business Education, Catawissa.
Mary A. Davenport, Elementary, Berwick.
Earl
J.
Harris, Secondary, Bloomsburg, R. D. 5.
Roberta Hastie, Business Education, Avoca.
Jean E. Lantz, Elementary, Berwick.
Richard Nonnemacher, Business Education, Allentown.
Dawn Osman,
Elementary, Shamokin.
Idajane Shipe, Secondary, Berwick.
M. Claire Sirrocco, Business Education, Pottsville.
H. Ruth Snyder, Business Education, Bloomsburg.
Erma Wolfgang, Business Education, Shamokin.
David M. Young, Secondary, Danville.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
Alumni
The
officers of the
in
Service
Alumni Association are very desirous
Bloomsburg Alumni who are in
of being kept informed of the
the
armed
forces of the United States.
It is
very desirable, for
the purposes of the historical record, that this
The
plete as follows.
of those concerning
list
whom we
have information.
the Alumni will render a great service
of
Bloomsburg graduates
all
list
be as com-
published below contains the names
Members
of
by informing the Editor
in the service.
Captain John Q. Timbrell, Fort Benning, Georgia; Private
\Voodrow Aten, Fort Totten, New York; Private Nicholas
fin,
Camp
Wheeler, Georgia;
Wheeler,
Georgia;
Private Alfred H. Miller,
Lieutenant
Edmund
Villa,
Camp
Jaf-
Camp
Bulks,
Texas.
Neil
est V.
M. Richie, Squadron
8,
Maxwell
Field,
Alabama; Ern-
Lau, Co. A, 3rd Ordnance Mg. Bn. 0. R. T. C., Aberdeen,
Cadet Thomas Grow, Naval Air Station, JacksonPrivate Harry Zavacky, Camp M. A. A. R. Bar-
Maryland;
Florida.
ville,
stcw, California; Private Theodore Radai, Coast Artillery, Fort
Lewis, Washington; Cadet Walter Reed, Class 42E, Kelly Field,
Texas
;
Private Leon Greenly,
Army
Air Base, Savannah, Geor-
gia; Cadet Paul Kellogg, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Flori-
da; Private David
nute Field,
Englewood,
111.
;
L. Shaffer, Jr., First
School Squadron, Cha-
Private Jay Sponseller, Teaneck Armory, West
New
1st. cl. Frank Pettinato, SerMeade,
South Dakota.
vice Troop, Fourth Cavalry, Fort
Jersey; Private
o
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Serafine, of Grant Street, Shickshinny,
have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jeanne, to
Private Bernard Ciampi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ciampi, R. D.
Berwick. Miss Serafine, a graduate of the Shickshinny High
School in 940, is employed as a typist in the War Department
at Washington. Ciampi is a graduate of the Teachers College
and formerly taught in the Conyngham township school district.
Later he was employed at the Berwick plant of A. C. F. He is
1
,
1
now
stationed at
Camp
Lee, Va.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Twenty-Seven
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
Bruce Albert
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
R.
D. D. Wright
Hervey
B.
Smith
^55
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 Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Treasurer
Howard M. Kreitzer, 120
Lincoln 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 Coimty
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 Car-
President
—Edna
—
—
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.
lisle Street,
— Mrs.
Lester Bennett,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
—
Page Twenty-Eight
Montour County
—
—
President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.,
Vice-President Nellie Bogart, Danville, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.
—
Northumberland County
—
President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer 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-Presi-
President
—
Palsgrove,
—
—
dent
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
—
Main
Street,
Mahanoy
—
—
City, Pa.
Philadelphia
—
President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary
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
—
Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President
Eugene Keefer, R. Ij Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen
Keller, Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market
President
—
Mifflinburg,
grove, Pa.
Street,
Pa.;
Treasurer
—
—
— Anna
Troutman, Selins-
Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
—Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene JohnPa.; 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
son, Hallstead,
Bell,
Columbia County
—
—
president ^A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Margaret Cole McCem, Benton, Pa.; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.
—
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
—
Page Twenty-Nine
The Philadelphia Alumni
We have been having delightful monthly luncheon meetwhich have been very well attended. Owing to the present
day situation due to the war, we decided not to have our usual
annual reunion and banquet in April this year, but we hope to
continue our luncheon meetings on the second Saturday of each
month, at Strawbridge and Clothier’s store, 6th floor. We extend a most cordial invitation to all Alumni and Bloomsburg
friends to drop in at any of these meetings and visit with us
for the afternoon. The meetings last from 2 30 to 5 30 P. M.
We should keep our colors flying and prove our loyalty
and gratitude to our Alma Mater by giving untiring and unselfish effort to widen the sphere of the help and influence of
Bloomsburg.
We are sorry to note the passing of Edward A. Eyer and
Edna Wilson McClintock.
ings
1
FLORENCE
O
H.
:
COOL,
—
:
President.
Columbia County Alumni
On
Friday evening, March 20, Columbia county alumni of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College heard from the adminisand saw through motion pictures what the college is doing in defense and was informed of the manner in which the
graduates can aid their alma mater in these days of crisis.
The Spring session, held in the college dining hall, was attended by 76. Arthur C. Morgan, of Berwick, the president,
as toastmaster kept the program moving at a rapid rate.
Officers chosen for the coming year are A. C. Morgan,
the
tration
1
president; Larue Derr, Beaver, vice president; Miss Thursabert
Schuyler, Bloomsburg, secretary, and Paul L. Brunstetter, Catawissa, treasurer.
The evening opened with the singing of America and the
Dean W. B. Sutliff. Group singing was in charge
Miss Maree E. Pensyl with Howard F. Fenstemaker at the
invocation by
of
piano.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty
President Morgan spoke of the real value of returning to
alma mater and expressed his thanks for the fine attendance,
particularly to thirty-one Berwick grade school teachers who
were present despite the Berwick-Pottsville basketball game at
Hershey.
membership, asserting
growing rapidly with ,200 paid up mem-
Dr. Nelson presented the matter of
that the association
is
1
bers.
S. Hemingway, Fred W.
and Frank D. Croop, Berwick, trustees; Mrs.
President Andruss presented Reg.
Diehl, Danville,
Diehl and Mrs. Croop;
Miss Helen Carpenter, former
and the three “Old Guard,” Prof.
Sutliff and Prof. D. S. Hartline.
of the faculty,
Dean W.
B.
member
C. H. Albert,
President Andruss said he did not wish to appear pessimistic but
It
is
blind and useless to figure that just because
we
it is impossible to lose one.
He spoke of the
having a part m aiding the nation in this crises
and he briefly sketched the many activities of the college community that have a part in the war effort.
never
lost a
necessity of
war
all
R. Bruce Albert, president of the general alumni body,
mentioned that all institutions have a difficult time in a war period and urged that alumni be on the alert to call to the attention
of the institution prospective students.
The addresses
sired.
of college graduates in the service are de-
Plans are well along for Alumni Day,
May
23, with Dr.
Francis B. Haas, superintendent of the Public Instruction of the
Public Instruction, and Governor Arthur H. James expected to
attend.
The dining room program concluded with the showing of
the newest motion picture on Bloomsburg college life, “Bloomsburg’s Part in the War,” and the singing of the Alma Mater.
Alumni were then guests at the presentation of the musical and
vocal score of the opera “Faust” by the College students, featuring guest artists from
New
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
York.
April, 1942
Page Thirty -One
DAUPHIN COUNTY ALUMNI
The
hold
Dauphin County Alumni Association
B. S. T. C.
will
spring dinner meeting at the Y. M. C. A. in Harrisburg
its
May
on Monday,
A
4th at
7:00
moved
into the vicinity
cept this invitation to
meet your old
P.
is
extended
friends.
The dinner
M.
to any alumnus who has
and has not been contacted. Please accome and join in the school spirit and
cordial invitation
—
—
be informal no speakers, just remarks
and a social hour is planned so that you may enjoy your visit.
Dinner 85 cents. Drop a card to Helen E. Sutliff, 00 N. Second
will
1
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
o
LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
The Luzerne County Alumni Association
State Teachers College held a reunion
25,
in
of the
Monday
the Hotel Sterling at Wilkes-Barre.
Features of the program were a puppet
Miss
Bloomsburg
March
evening,
Anne
Westfield,
and the motion
show given by
“Bloomsburg
picture,
Faces War.”
Attending from Bloomsburg and responding were: President H. A. Andruss, Dr. T. P. North, Dr. E. H. Nelson, H. F. Fenstemaker, and R. Bruce Albert.
o
A
reception was given Tuesday evening, February 4, by
Harvey A. Andruss to members of the
Board of Trustees, the faculty, and members of the Board of
Education of the Bloomsburg School District. Music was provided by Robert Morgan, pianist, and Miss Bettv Pauling, violinPresident and Mrs.
i.'t,
of the college faculty.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Two
Alumni Irraunala
1874
A
from Dr. G. V. Mears, of Jacksonville Beach,
two members of the class of 1874 died in
March. One of these was J. K. Bittenbender, who died March
7, and the other was the Doctor’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Perkins Mears,
who died March 9. Dr. Mears closes by saying “I am the last
remnant of ’74.”
brief note
Florida, states that
1880
Horace G. Supplee, a native of near Jerseytown, and a
prominent Bloomsburg business man around the turn of the
century, died Thursday, April 2, in a Chicago nursing home
where he was convalescing following a cold when his condition
became
A
critical.
sister,
because of
Mrs. Annie Nuss, of Bloomsburg, was
his condition
and was enroute
to
summoned
Chicago when the
death occurred.
His death severs a marital union of fifty-three years.
wife was the former Elnora B. Bryfogle.
to
Surviving
in
His
addition
her and Mrs. Nuss are two children, George Supplee, a mis-
sionary in Assam, India, and Miss Mabel Supplee, of Chicago,
and four grandchildren.
Mr. Supplee was for many years a real estate salesman
and remained active until about two years ago. He was last
here in the spring of 1940 when he attended the sixtieth reunion of the class of 1880 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Three
for years in the eighties and nineties, manager of
Produce Exchange, a farmers’ cooperative which
erected the building at Market and Sixth Streets, now owned by
the Leo A. Schneider Company. Following the dissolution of
that business, he engaged in business there for himself and
He was
the Farmers
later
retail
was
member
a
of the
Supplee-^Mather Company, the
last
business to operate there.
Mrs. Margaret Kavanaugh Bigley, widow of J. C. Bigley,
and a former teacher in Shenandoah and Philadelphia, died
Friday, January 16 at her home, 3727 North Park Avenue,
Philadelphia.
After leaving the teaching profession for a time,
was
by the Philadelphia Board of Education to resume teaching in 1918, and she became a member of
the teaching staff of the McClure School until she retired.
Mrs. Bigley
C.
recalled
Mae Meixwell
lives at
225
East Second Street, Berwick.
1885
Mrs. Charles
Hampshire Avenue,
is now
living at 5051
New
Apartment 102, Washington, D. C.
D. Harrison
N. W.,
1883
Miss Kate E. Harvey, of Milroy, Pa., has been reported as
Miss Harvey was a sister of Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless.
deceased.
1886
William
L.
Williams has been reported as deceased.
1888
Mrs.
Mary Bynon Jones, wife
January
vious to
Hill,
of the late Bruce Jones, also
1888, died at her home
Monday,
months preher death. Mrs. Jones was born and reared in Summit
of the class of
5,
1942.
and moved
She had been
in Pottsville
failing for nine
to Pottsville thirty-three years ago.
The account of the death of Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, apin the January Quarterly, was erroneously listed under
the class of 1893. The editor regrets this error.
pearing
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Four
1892
five sons who have foland two more who plan to be
physicians, died Monday, February 23, while visiting at the
home of his son Dr. Clement Hanlon, of Bethlehem. Death was
due to a heart attack.
Dr. Hanlon was born near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
He was brought to the United States by his parents when he
was six months old. The family settled near Freeland, Pa.,
where Dr. Hanlon taught for thirteen years after his graduation
from Bloomsburg. He completed his medical course at the Jef-
Dr.
Edward
lowed him
F.
Hanlon, father of
into medical practice
ferson Medical School in 1908.
1897
Amy
V. Beishline (Mrs.
W.
F.
Thomas) has changed her
address from Hazleton to R. 2, Bethlehem.
190Q
lanthe Snyder (Mrs. Palmer P. Wiand)
Pa., has
of Williamsport,
been reported as deceased.
1901
A letter has been received from Miss Louise Larrabee, who
lor the past several years, has been teaching in Honolulu. The
letters were dated December 8, and December
and contained little information other than that Miss Larrabee was safe.
Both letters had been opened by the censor, but nothing had
been taken out.
1
Dr.
1
,
Frank Laubach, who has spent many years as a miswas the speaker at the college assem-
sionary in the Far East,
bly Friday, January 9.
1904
Harry A. Dollman has been reported as deceased.
1905
Charles L. Maurer,
Collingswood,
New
who
Jersey,
is
lives at
1
30 East Linden Avenue,
Cam-
Director of Guidance in the
den High School, Dean and Vice-President of the College of
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Five
South Jersey, Camden, and Director of the Psychological and
Vocational Guidance Clinic at the same institution.
1906
Salt
W. Raymond Girton, who is employed by the International
Company, Ithaca, New York, has built a new home, and is
now
living at R.
1
Lake Road, Ithaca.
1907
Edwin M. Barton, Elizabeth, New Jersey, edited the Review Book Council page of the January, 1942, issue of the New
Mr. Barton gave brief reviews of
Jersey Educational Review.
many
of the latest text-books in Social Studies.
presiding officer at the Conference of the
tion of
New
Teachers of Social Studies. Northern
He
was
also
the
Jersey Associaheld at
District,
the Montclair State Teachers College on Saturday,
March
14.
1909
W. Garrison (Mrs. C. H. Danforth)
Avenue, Stanford University, California.
Florence
Cabrillo
lives at
607
1910
A daughter was born February 7, 1942,
Bernard Williams, of Waymart. Mrs. Williams
of Harold Box, of South Canaan, Pa.
1
Mrs.
living at
1
Anna Girton, who formerly
740 Orange Street, Berwick.
to
Mr. and Mrs.
is
the daughter
lived in Dallas,
is
now
1911
Ethel
J.
County, Pa.
“Mr.
Owen
Paisley
lives in Ottsville,
In a recent letter, Mrs.
Owen and
I
Owen
R. D.
1,
Bucks
states:
purchased the Ferndale Telephone Com-
1941 We moved from Nesquehoning to
Bucks County. We are located on route
611, between Easton and Philadelphia. It was with regrets
that I gave up teaching, but my physical condition just would
pany on September
Ottsville, R. F. D.
not allow
me
1
,
.
1,
to return.”
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942-
,
Page Thirty -Six
Miriam Vannatta
Freas lives
at
4035
Chestnut Street,
Philadelphhia, Pa.
1912
Edith G. Cole
trial
is
a
member
of the staff of the State Indus-
School for Girls at Mount Morrison, Colorado.
1913
Margarete Crossley (Mrs. F. Earle Gooding)
North Winsor Street, Bound Brook, New Jersey.
The address of Margie
Alabama.
Phillips Barnett
is
lives at
Box
1
534
0, R. D.
1
Greenville,
Mary
E.
Heacock
lives at
2879 Catawba Avenue, Memphis,
Tennessee.
1914
573 Warren Avenue, Kingston,
Pauline Sosper lives at
Dr. V.
J.
1916
at 215 North Shamokin
Baluta lives
Pa.
Street, Sha-
mokin. Pa.
Louise Carter (Mrs. C.
'
W. Dickman)
lives at
430 Maine
Street, Peckville, Pa.
1917
Dr.
J.
Loomis Christian
lives
at
3632 Rutherford
Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Rachel McHenry
lives at
1315 Market
Street, Harrisburg,
Pa.
Effie
Main
Benscoter
(Mrs.
Edwin H. Kinbuck)
lives
at
752
Street, Peckville, Pa.
Eidith
Dennis
lives at
1
1919
006 North
Sixth Street, Harrisburg,
Pa.
1923
Miss Marian Williams, of Shickshinny, and Richard Mani-
Berwick, were married at West Chester, Wednesday, December 24, 194). Mrs. Manival is a teacher in the elementary
val, of
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
,
Page Thirty-Seven
and Mr. Manival, a graduate of the
Automotive Engineering, is employed as
the Ford Garage m Berwick.
{grades in Shickshinny,
[’ittsburgh School of
a
mechanic
at
1924
Mervyn Norton (Mrs. Frank W. Walp) died Tuesday,
March 3, at her home at 84 Oak Street, Forty Fort, Pa., following a heart attack. Mrs. Walp was born in New Albany,
Pa., and attended the public schools there. After her graduaIn 1925
tion from Bloomsburg she taught for several years.
she and Mr. Walp were married, and lived in Picture Rocks
until 1933, when they moved to Forty Fort, where Mr. Walp
is Supervising Principal of the schools.
Mrs. Walp is survived
by her husband and one son, Barry, aged twelve.
1925
Helen
Mullica
Richie (Mrs.
Hill,
New
Padgett)
Russell
lives
at R. D.
1
Jersey.
1927
Miss
Danville,
and Edmund Miller, also of
were married Wednesday, December 24, at the home
Mary
of the bride.
Danville,
Dietz, of Danville,
Mrs. Miller
and Mr.
is
a teacher in the grade schools of
Miller operates a dray business in Danville.
1928
Announcement has been made
engagement of Miss
of the
Bloomsburg, and Harold G. Rogers, also
of Bloomsburg. Miss Giger is an instructor in special education
Fvlary Arzella Giger. of
at the
Tressler
Orphans’ Home,
Mr. Rogers
Bloomsburg.
Pa.
Loysville,
employed by the Magee Carpet Company,
in
is
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miltona
of Plymouth, and Goodwin Klinetob, of Foundryville,
Bolen,
near Berwick.
Mrs. Klinetob
is
a
member
junior high school at Plymouth, and Mr.
of the faculty of the
Klinetob
is
employed
by the State Highway Department.
The address
of Marjorie Vanderslice
is
Balboa Heights,
Canal Zone.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Eight
Ruth A. Webber (Mrs. Linn
Franklin Avenue, Tunkhannock, Pa.
B.
Sherwood)
lives
at
72
1930
Clarence R. Wolever
now connected
is
with the Extension
Service of the Pennsylvania State College, being attached to
what is known as ESMDT (Engineering, Science and Management of Defense). He is teaching Industrial Psychology, Industrial Economics, Industrial Relations and Industrial Safety in
His office address
various centers in the state.
is
Engineering
“F,” Central Extension Service, Pennsylvania State College,
State College, Pa.
their
Mrs. Wolever (Mary E.
Gorham ’30) and
daughter Sherrell are living at 1801 Sanderson Avenue,
Scranton.
Leatha Mericle, of Bloomsburg, and Carroll H. Matson, of
Baltimore, Maryland, were married at Mt. Pleasant Friday, No-
vember 28. Mrs. Matson
Consolidated School, and
is
is
Mr. Matson, a graduate of
as an engineer
a teacher at the
Madison Township
president of the Girl Scout Leaders.
New York
by the Glenn
L.
University,
is
employed
Martin Aircraft Company,
in
Baltimore.
1931
A. Marie Foust (Mrs.
Pa.,
where her husband
is
W.
Cletus Merrill) lives in Dimock,
principal of the schools.
Retha Noble (Mrs. Douglas Burgess)
Street,
New
lives
on Montrose
Milford, Pa.
1933
Leo Yozviak
has been teaching
Priscilla
lives at
in
31 Main Road, Buttonwood, Pa.
the Hanover Township
Acker McPhilomy
He
schools.
lives at Macgill Village,
No. 5-F,
Place Pulaski, Virginia.
Walter Stier lives at 44 Green Street, Ashley, Pa. He has
been teaching in the Hanover Township schools.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Thirty-Nine
1934
Henry Rishe,
became the bride of Lieutenant Louis W.
Buckalew, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Buckalew, West Fifth
Street, both of Bloomsburg, in an impressive ceremony SaturMiss
Mary ruth
Rishe, daughter of Jonathan
of Catherine Street,
day, February 2
1
m
,
St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg.
The ceremony was performed by Archdeacon Squire
B.
Schofield, of Christ Episcopal Church, Danville.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Lieutenant Buckalew
is a graduate of the local high school and Mercersburg Academy.
He has for years been prominent as an amateur radio operator.
He has been in the federal service more than a year and is now
based at Fort George G. Meade, Md., with Company A, 105th
lank Destroyer
Battalion.
1936
Shuman, of Bloomsburg, and Norman E.
Keppley, of Robesonia, were married Saturday, December 27,
Mrs. Keppley has
in St. Paul’s Reformed Church, Robesonia.
been teaching in the schools of Robesonia, and Mr. Keppley is
a junior machinist at the Middletown airport.
Miss
Sara M.
Thomas
ton, Virginia.
ment
F.
Davis
He
of the U. S.
is
lives at
3821 Wilson Boulevard, Arling-
a civilian employe in the Medical Depart-
Army.
Mercedes W. Deane
West Chester, Pa.
is
now
437 South Hyde
living at
Street,
1937
Miss Dorothy Hess
and Sergeant
Bloomsburg, were married
New
Year’s
George Linn,
Day
at the
both of
home
of the
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. J. E. Skillington, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. Mrs.
bride.
Smith
is
employed
in the office of the
and Sergeant Linn has been stationed
The present address of Robert
Magee Carpet Company,
at Fort
Hill is
Meade, Maryland.
Route
2,
Annandale
Road, Fairfax, Virginia.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty
1938
Paul G. Martin has reported to the naval training station
at
Newport, R.
I.
Martin, son of the Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Martin, of Catawissa, recently enlisted in the naval reserve as second class officer store
He
keeper.
is
graduate
a
of the
Catawissa High
School class of 1934, Bloomsburg State Teachers College class
of 1938.
He took
ing
1940 and
a course in the American Institute of Banking dur’41
and
also
completed a
CPT
course, graduat-
ing last year with a private pilot license.
He has been head bookkeeper
Bank
at
at the
Farmers’ National
Bloomsburg for the past eighteen months.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Diettenck, of Berwick, announce
engagement of their daughter Bette to Maclyn Smethers,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Smethers, of Second street. The announcement was made at a dinner Saturday evening at the Lucille Tea Room.
Miss Dietterick is a graduate of Berwick High School in
the class of 1936 and attended B. S. T. C. for one year. Mr.
Smethers is also a graduate of the Berwick High School, class
of 1934 and of B. S. T. C. in the class of 1938. Both young
people are employed at the A. C. and F. Company.
the
Raymond W.
Williard
is
now
located at Seven Springs.
North Carolina.
Ann Evans
lives at
Jean Campbell
Mary A.
is
328 South Main
teaching
Allen’s address
Factory ville. Pa.
in
is
Street, Taylor, Pa.
221
Garfield Street, Kennett
Square, Pa.
1939
Miss Mary Aikman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Aikman, of Bloomsburg R. D. 5, has assumed her duties as teacher
in the Bethany Orphans’ Home Schools, located in Heidelberg
township. Miss Aikman is a graduate of the Berwick High
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-One
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and holds a
bachelor of science degree
in
I
elementary education, with train-
She was placed in charge of
one of the opportunity schools and was released from a Columbia county position to accept this type of work in Berks county.
She took the place of Mrs. Evelyn Jenkins O’Donald, who reing in the special education
field.
signed recently.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Harand Miss Bette Elaine Dent, both of Berwick.
Miss Dent is a graduate of the Berwick High School and of the
Pennsylvania State College. She is a member of the Kappa
Alpha Theta Sorority. Mr. Border was head football coach at
Blairsville before coming to Berwick as a member of the Berold L. Border
I
wick High School faculty.
Announcement has been made
I
Kathleen Kohan, of Brooklyn,
of the
engagement of Miss
York, and Frank Patrick,
Miss Kohan is a graduate of Columbia Univeremployed with the Chinese News Service, a subsidiary of the Trans-Pacific News. Mr. Patrick is employed in the
ordnance engineering department of the A. C. F. Company at
Jr.,
sity,
!
New
of Berwick.
and
is
Berwick.
I
j
C.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Jean
Shuman, of Mainville and Claude Zehner, of Mountain Grove.
Shuman is teacher of commercial subjects in the Fairview
High School, Mountain Top. Mr. Zehner is employed by the
Farmers’ Cooperative Dairy in Hazleton.
Miss
I
1
1
The address of Glenn F. Ranch has been changed
Maple Street, Allentown, Pa.
Miss Annabelle Bailey
were married
at
5:45
1940
and Willis
E. Jones,
to
1
345
of Danville,
o’clock Friday evening, February 6, in
the Baptist parsonage at Lewisburg.
The bride
is
the daughter of Mr.
East Market Street, Danville.
She
is
and Mrs. Suel
C. Bailey,
a graduate of the Danville
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-Two
High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher in the Shickshinny High School.
The groom is a son of Mrs. Martha Jones, of Elyria, Ohio.
He is a graduate of Bucknell University and is a member of the
faculty of the Danville High School.
They have taken up their residence in the Ammerman
apartment on East Market Street, Danville.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Josephine Brown, of Johnstown, and James L. Johnson, of Milton. The single ring ceremony took place at the parsonage of
the A. M. E. church
m
Bloomsburg, with the Rev.
L. E.
Latimer
The couple was unattended.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
of 1936, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
of 1940. The bridegroom was graduated from Milton
officiating.
class
class
High School,
class of
1933.
The young couple are residing in Philadelphia, where
bridegroom is employed at the navy yard.
Miss Christine Grover, of Berwick,
is
the
the latest addition to
the faculty of the Millersburg High School.
Miss Grover, a graduate of Berwick High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1940, succeeds Mrs.
Phyliss Heckman Masteller, who recently was married. The
new faculty member will teach commercial subjects and act as
secretary to Supervising Principal F. Douglas Beidel.
Phillip
W. Moore, a member
school at Delmar, Delaware,
is
of the
faculty
of the high
the author of an article entitled
‘The Challenge of Social-Business Education” appearing in the
January-February number of the Delaware School Journal.
Miss Jean Smith, of Catawissa, and William White,
Jr.,
of
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, were married at Elizabeth City
Sunday, December 21, 1941.
Mrs. White has been teaching
the schools of Elizabeth City for the past
White
IS
manager of
two years, and Mr.
a chain of theatres in that city.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
in
Page Forty-Three
Charles Girton,
who
enlisted in the Naval Air Corps shortly
was located at Noffett Field,
news was received from him.
after graduation,
last
time that
California, the
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
F^egina Lettiers, of FFazleton, and Nicholas Mitchell, of Everdale.
Mr. Mitchell is employed in Baltimore, Maryland.
1941
George R. Lewis, of Bloomsburg, has been added to the
national staff of the American Red Cross as a special instructor
in first aid. Mr. Lewis will be assigned to teach special instructors’ courses in first aid throughout the Eastern Area, which include the twenty-four states east of the Mississippi River.
The
instructprs trained in these special courses will take over the
teaching of standard and advanced
first aid classes arranged
by local Red Cross Chapters. The public demand for first aid
knowledge brought on by the war and the increased emphasis
on national defense.
Mr. Lewis, who has been a member of the First Aid, Water
Safety and Accident Committee of the Bloomsburg Red Cross
Chapter for the past five years, was educated at the Peddie
School, Highstown, New Jersey, and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
He attended
four
Red
Cross national aquatic
and has taught water safety and first aid at summer
camps. Boy Scout camps, and C. C. C. camps. In addition, he
has been active in Boy Scout work in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and for two years was counselor at Camp Lavigne,
schools,
Benton, Pa.
ceremony. Miss Victoria Krum, of Bloomsburg,
Roy Roberts, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Roberts, of Catawissa, Sunday, February 10.
The ceremony took place in the St. John’s Reformed
church, Catawissa, with the pastor, the Rev. L. M. Martin, performing the nuptials and using the impressive ring ceremony.
In a quiet
became
the bride of
The bride
class of
is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
1939, and was employed by the Bell Telephone Com-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty -Four
The groom is a graduate of the Catawissa High School,
class of 936, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class
of 1941, and is employed at the Middletown airport. After a
brief wedding trip to Philadelphia they will make their home
pany.
1
at Harrisburg.
Miss Doris M. Curl, of Wilkes-Barre, and Dr. Carl T. Warhurst, of
the
First
Bloomsburg, were married Friday, November 28, in
Welsh Presbyterian Church, in Wilkes-Barre. Mrs.
member
Warhurst, a
teaching
in the
of last year’s graduating class, has been
Portland High School.
Dr. Warhurst
is
a grad-
uate of the Bloomsburg High School and of the Temple University
Dental School.
and Miss Clara C. Rambo,
were married April 26, 1941, at Winchester,
Announcement of the marriage was made in Decem-
Reber R.
Fisher, of Catawissa,
of Bloomsburg,
Virginia.
ber.
Mrs. Fisher,
Nursing,
Hospital.
of the
is
a graduate
employed
Mr. Fisher
of the
Williamsport
School of
as a supervisor in the Williamsport City
is
teaching in the commercial department
Lower Paxton Township High School, Harrisburg.
Stuart Edwards,
who
has been
serving
as a
substitute
teacher in the Catawissa High School, has accepted a position
as biology teacher
Military
Academy,
and
in
athletic supervisor in the Florida Boys’
St.
Petersburg.
Florida in January to begin his
work
Mr. Edwards went to
in the
new
Miss Helen Kent Dixon, of Benton, and
Jr.,
position.
Edward Karnes,
of Orangeville, were married Saturday, January 3, in the
Mrs. Karnes is teaching
and second grades in Orangeville, and Mr. Karnes is employed at the American Car and Foundry Company plant in
South Williamsport Methodist Church.
first
Berwick.
Private
J.
Rutter Ohl,
Jr.,
of Bloomsburg,
graduated from the Chanute Field Branch,
I’echnical School.
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April, 1942
was recently
Army
Air Corps,
Page Forty-Five
1942
William H. Hagenbuch,
of Bloomsburg, one of the B.
Jr.,
who last year took CAA training at the Bloomsburg airport, was among a large class of cadets who received
silver wings and commissions as second lieutenants, U. S. Army
Air Corps, early this year. He has been assigned to active duty.
S. T. C.
students
The
wings were presented during the last graduaBarksdale Field, Louisiana.
silver
tion exercises for pilot trainees at
This
was
the second
and
final class of
war-time
uate at the air base, pending a change of the
to grad-
pilots
field’s status
from
a pilot training school to a base for pursuit squadrons.
Lieutenant Hagenbuch was appointed an aviation cadet
the
army air corps
flight training at
his basic flying at
last
June.
He
in
received his primary school
Parks Air College, East
St. Louis, Illinois,
and
Georgia Aero Tech, Augusta, Georgia, before
going to Barksdale Field for his advanced training.
assigned to active duty with the
Army
He has been
Air Corps.
Miss Ruth Weitz, of Duryea, and Albert H. Warhurst, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, October 4, in the CatheBoth the bride and groom
dral of the Incarnation, Baltimore.
were former students
at the
Nelson Oman,
Mr. Warhurst
Bloomsburg.
at the College.
Magee Carpet Company,
in
is
employed
who would have been a member of the
is now an army aviation cadet, and is
Senior class this year,
receiving instruction in a training center in Texas.
Mr.
Oman
successfully completed the civilian pilot training course given
at the College last year.
DDN^T FORGET
Alumni
Moif
3.3nxt
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-Six
Mme. Chu Shih-ming spoke before the college assembly
Wednesday morning, March 18, at ten o’clock, on the general
subject of China’s effort to safeguard human welfare in time of
war.
Mme. Chu came to the United States from Chungking dursummer and spoke from first hand knowledge of
conditions there. She is the wife of General Chu Shih-ming,
ing the past
Military Attache to the Chinese Embassy, Washington, D. C.
She studied at McIntyre High School in Shanghai and spent a
year at Ginling College, Nanking.
Coming
to the United States,
she graduated from Wellesley College and also from the Hygiene and Physical Education Department of that college. After
returning to China she taught Physical Education and English
at the high school
Nanking, National
and college she had attended and also at
Central, National Peiping, and Provincial
Cheking Universities.
She served on the Y. M. C. A. Board in several cities and
was a member of the National Committee for China and
of the World Committee. Mme. Chu was twice a representative
of the Y. W. C. A. of China at world conventions in Geneva,
Switzerland. She represented the China Amateur Athletic Federation in the 1936 Olympic Games at Berlin.
aiso
Mme. Chu
is a Soroptimist and was Chairman of the NanShe was an officer of the International Women’s
Nanking and Chungking.
king Chapter.
Club
in
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
April, 1942
Page Forty-Seven
Lane K. Newberry, native-born American artist and interAmerican scene, was presented Friday, February
27 to the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Newberry, an lowian, brought with him a collection of his
own oils, presented in large electrically lighted cabinets which
preter of the
“How
Get That Way.”
concerned with the historical and pictorical side of that great American epic, the Mormon migration across the plains to the chosen land in Salt Lake
he uses to
An
Valley.
illustrate his subject,
important part of his display
A
Artists
is
great deal of his paintings deal with historical
ma-
which Mr. Newberry gathered in his travels. For example
he traveled 20,000 miles while completing twenty-one new
terial
including
paintings of the passing historical spots in Illinois,
such places as the
Opuka Court House where both
Stephen A. Douglas spoke,
kia,
home
of U.
S.
house
Illinois’ first state
Grant, and other
Lincoln and
at
Kaskas-
famed landmarks.
•
Miss Ellen Eudora Hosier and Dr. Robert
J.
Kuhl, both of
Berwick, were married Wednesday, December 24, in St. Louis,
Missouri. Mrs. Kuhl is a teacher m the Ferris Heights Building
in
Dr. Kuhl
Berwick.
lege,
is
a graduate of Pennsylvania State Col-
where he was a member of the Theta Upsilon Omega
fra-
Last spring. Dr. Kuhl received his degree of Doctor of
ternity.
Medicine from
St.
Louis University, and at the
same
time, he
received his commission as a reserve officer in the United States
Army. He
is
a
member
honor fraternity
hi.^
of the
Apha Omega Alpha, professional
He has been serving
at St. Louis University.
interneship at the St. Louis City Hospital,
and expects a
call
with the armed forces.
to service
The Department of Music of the College presented a facby Robert Morgan, pianist, Thursday evening, December
Mr. Morgan presented the following program to an
Chaconne, by John Sebastian Bach,
enthusiastic audience:
Sonata, Op. 8, No. five, by Chopin, Etude, by Scriabin, The
Fountain, by Ravel, Minstrels, by Debussy, Intermezzo, Op. No.
one, by Brahms, and the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, by Liszt.
ulty recital
1
1
.
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April, 1942
Paeg Forty-Eight
The fourth In the series of entertainment program given
at the College was presented Friday evening, January 9, when
Robert Kitain, Russian violinist, appeared in a recital that was
greatly enjoyed by the entire audience. Mr. Kitain studied at
the Imperial Conservatory in Lenigrad, then
ersburg.
first
He has appeared
in
recitals all
American appearance was
in
known
as St. Pet-
over the world.
His
1939.
•
Dr. Nell Maupin, of the social studies department of the
State Teachers and councilor of
Gamma
Beta chapter of Kappa
Delta Pi, honor society in education, attended the convocation
of
Kappa Delta
Pi
which was held
in
San Francisco, California,
February 23, 24, 25, Doctor Maupin was a delegate
meeting, and represented her chapter.
at this
•
Miss Edith
Berwick,
Friedberg, of
a former
student at
Bloomsburg, and Elliot R. Mesnick, of Brooklyn, were married
Wednesday, December 24, at Hagerstown, Maryland. The bride
is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College.
•
Perry D. Evans, of Bloomsburg, died at his
home
Friday,
January 16, following an illness of fifteen months. Mr. Evans
\vas born in Fishing Creek Township, and spent most of his life
in Bloomsburg.
For sixteen years he was employed as a fire-
man
at the College.
•
Miss Jean Eisenhauer, of Mifflinville, and James Gingher,
have recently announced their engagement. Miss
employed in the supply department of the American Car and Foundry Company and Mr. Gingher is employed in
the mechanical department of the same company.
of Berwick,
Eisenhauer
is
o
o
DDN^T FORGET
AUufuU
^cuf, Meuf. 3.3n>d
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April, 1942
1
w
BalhetLall Sco4e4,
December 13
Alumni 20
B. S. T.
C.51
January 10
Lock Haven 33
B. S. T. C.
39
B. S. T. C.
52
B. S. T. C.
44
B. S. T. C.
58
B. S. T. C.
45
B. S. T. C.
59
January 16
Millersville
48
January 17
Shippensburg 32
January 23
Mansfield
46
January 30
Shippensburg 32
January 31
Millersville
63
February 7
Lock Haven 37
B. S. T. C. 41
February 13
East Stroudsburg
48
B. S. T. C.
47
B. S. T. C.
43
B. S. T. C.
30
B. S. T. C.
44
February 14
Mansfield 5
February 21
East Stroudsburg 55
February 27
West Chester 40
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3000
Send check for
$1.00 to Dr. E. H.
Bloomsburg, Penna.
Nelson, Business Manager,
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UTTH THE APRIL, 1939,
NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR AD-
IN THE QUARTERLY, STARTING
ISSUE.
DRESS.
EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETHING TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT
LOAN FUND. DO YOUR P.ART. WE NEED THE HELP OF
EVERY GRADUATE.
Send
checks to Mr. D. D. Wright,
Treasurer,
Bloomsburg,
Penna.
ALU3INI ON THE CAMPUS FOR ALUMNI DAY. Come
1000
back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the line program. See the new
buildings. Shake hand.s with your classmates and friends.
f
A
limited
number
of the College will he
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
av'ailable
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In one of the most impressive exercises in the history
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the new $300,000.00 gymnasium, to be known as the Centennial Gymnasium, was dedicated Saturday afternoon. May 23.
Participating in the exercises in the presence of a
large audience of alumni, members of the graduating
class and friends were Governor Arthur H. James, Dr.
Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. A. K. Aldinger, New York City, who stalled
the physical education program at Bloomsburg and coached some of its greatest athletic teams.
President Harvey A. Andruss presided at the exercises which followed a processional of dignitaries, members of
Capella Choir, the class and graduates. Music
was by the Bloomsburg High School Band, T. Holland
Paist, Jr., directing.
The invocation was given by William B. Sutliff, dean
emeritus of the college. David H. Diehl, executive director of the general State Authority, was unable to attend
because of the illness of a son in a Pittsburgh Hospital.
President Andruss made the presentation of the gymnasium and asserted that “in the commemoration of a
century of higher education at Bloomsburg this building
A
accordingly named ‘The Centennial Gymnasium’.”
In his acceptance Reg. S. Hemingway, president of
the Trustees, asserted “In erecting this structure you are
not only preserving the ancient landmarks which your
forefathers have set, but you are establishing new landmarks for our prosterity to preserve and improve upon.
We see in this Centennial Gymnasium not only the emblem of an intelligent Commonwealth, but a memorial to
the educational progress of its people.”
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“Let US in our fight for the freedom of the world
sure that we preserve the liberties of our own nation,” Governor Arthur H. James asserted in the dedicatory address of The Centennial Gymnasium.
Speaking before the exceptionally large audience,
considering the curtailment of travel in the emergency,
the chief executive of the Commonwealth addressed many
of his remarks to the members of the graduating class
who attended in a body attired in caps and gowns.
He told them, “Why fear? The same sun is shining;
we have the same good earth. It all depends on what we
have in the heart and whether we have the courage.”
make
Accompanied to Bloomsburg by his wife. Governor
James and other principals in the day’s program reached
the College dining hall for luncheon about 1 :00 o’clock
and left there immediately afterward for the exercises at
the gymnasium. Governor James and President Andruss
headed the procession.
Presented by Reg. S. Hemingway, President of the
(College Trustees, the Governor praised the work of Dr.
k'rancis B. Haas and of President Andruss of the College
and recalled that his earliest teacher, a Miss Wilkins, was
a Bloomsburg graduate.
“Bloomsburg has always stood out among the Teachers Colleges and is high on the roster of the institutions of
the Commonwealth. An institution exceeded by none is
Bloomsburg in the realm of education in the state.”
He said that the residents of the Commonwealth upon the receipt of a building such as was being dedicated,
should receive it not in the spirit of receiving something
from the government but of the government recognizing
the institution’s worth in the establishment of happiness
and the advancement of the welfare of its people.
“There is too much prevalence given to the view that
we get something from the government. Let me emphasize that no government is ever higher than the people.”
Speaking to the class he said “When you go out in
life remember T am a sovereign in myself.’
There is no
one in authority so high that he represents anything else
but being the servant of our people.
“If we would measure up we must see that the people have the finest advantages that they, such as you
members of the class, may go out into life determined to
maintain the ideals instilled in you in such institutions as
:
this.
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August, 1942
Page Three
“Do not lag in life. May there ever be the spirit of
competition and ambition. If we stop moving forwai’d,
either physically or in the heait, we dry up and rot.
When the machine lags the machine begins to fall apart.
“You are going out into the world at a time when it
IS most unsettled.
Do not be afraid. The world in a great
measure is no different today than it has ever been. Think
of life in the terms of adventure.
“Our ancestors traveled 3,000 miles to this country.
They had no fear, only a spirit of determination. They
have founded here a government that is the finest conception man has ever realized. It is founded on the Bible
and the philosophy that all men are born free. They
were willing to sacrifice their lives, fortunes and sacred
honor for
this.
“Now we see a force coming in the world that is
denying this philosophy. This force takes the position
that there must be a master that the ordinary man or
V Oman does not know how to handle his or her life.
“When the power of the democratic peoples gets
lolling we know that the democratic nations will prevail
and that the democratic way of life based on the Bible
;
will continue.
“We will give up everything in this emergency bui
our liberties of telling our government what to do. We
v;ill allow the government to enroll its man power and ration sugar, tires, gasoline or anything with the understanding that when this emergency is over regimentation
is
over, too.
“Don’t get the idea that because the government says
right. Tell any of the officials, including the Governor of your state, what you desire. That is your right.
“With strong minds, bodies and hearts we can preserve our liberties and those of the rest of the world.’’
The A Capella Choir, with Miss Harriet M. Moore directing and Miss Louise Adams as accompanist, led in
so,
it is
singing patriotic songs.
Speaking on “One Hundred Years of Education at
Bloomsburg,’’ Dr. Francis B. Haas, reviewing the contribution of the institution, observed “Could these men and
women, who through devoted service in the century past,
be with us today, with what astonishment they would
This
gaze upon the present realization of their dreams
magnificent gymnasium, equipped to produce sound
.
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August, 1942
Page Four
minds
in
sound bodies,
in this
time of great national need
The roar of ‘Wings over Bloomsburg’ as the College
makes its contribution to the vital necessity for trained
.
.
.
aviators. This and a host of other current projects are
beyond their fondest dreams.
“You have heard it said that the first hundred years
ai’e the hardest.
Those of us who have been privileged to
have a part in the development of this institution pass on
the torch with understanding of the difficult problems to
be faced and with confidence that the torch will be held
high and earned on.
“We dedicate the ‘Centennial Gymnasium’ of this institution to the service of democracy, the immediate objective of which is the winning of the ‘World Freedom
War’.’’
Dr. Aldinger asserted that he got most personal satisfaction from the development of the men who were
under him in his daj’s at Bloomsburg at the turn of the
century and not in the development of winning teams.
V\‘’ inning, he said, came from offensive plaj*
and through
the practice of first aid, through necessity, for material
He was presented by Dean Sutliff.
\.-as limited.
The program concluded with the National Anthem.
W
A recent count has revealed that Bloomsburg now
has over 9,000 graduates. Of this number, about 1,050
are deceased, about 7,000 are on the active list, and about
1,300 are on the inactive list. The term “inactive” means
that mail addressed to these people has been returned,
and that the college does not have their correct addresses. Graduates of Bloomsburg can render great assistance
by keeping their class lists up to date. The class of 1917,
in making plans for their twenty-fifth year reunion this
year, were able to reduce the number on the inactive list
of their class to less than ten. What they have done, other
classes can do. All that is necessary is that someone be
willing to assume the responsibility.
i
The faculty of the college enteitained President and
Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss at a dinner Wednesday evening,
April 15, in the college dining room. Trustees of the college were also guests of the faculty.
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August. 1942
Page Five
Commencement
A kind of education is needed which has for its focus
community and the relationship of every man to his
community, Dr. Ambrose L. West, President, New Jersey
State Teachers College, Trenton, told the 115 members of
the graduating class at the Teachers College, Tuesday
the
morning.
May
26.
By the “community”
the speaker said he meant “not
but his state, his nation, and
now his world” and he warned that “when this war is
over, we shall be tempted again to withdraw into our own
contented isolationism instead of cooperating with other
nations in establishing conditions of social and economic
justice under which nations can j^rosper. Such isolationism will lead only to another conflict some time in the futhe place where a
man
lives,
ture.”
The procession of the class included the paiticipants
the exercises, trustees and faculty with the processional
“Marcia Religosa,” played by H. F. Fenstemaker. The
invocation was by William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus. Following the address, Mr. Fenstemaker pleased with an organ selection, “Adoremus, Melodie Religieuse, Op. 72.”
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the College, conferred the degrees. All joined in singing “Alma Mater”
and the class left the auditorium as Mr. Fenstemaker
played as the recessional “Te Deum Laudamus.” Miss
Harriet M. Moore directed the music for the program.
Dr. West during his address said
in
:
“Society has a right to expect that graduates of colleges will have
the attributes of ‘educated men.’ What are the qualities of such people? Professor Whitehead defines an ‘educated man’ as one ‘with
wide knowledge, a disciplined intelligence, and a discriminating
taste.’ Each of these attainments is essential for a person to be truly
educated. A person with only wide knowledge, but without disciplined intelligence, would be useless in the present world. He would
be ‘all dressed up’ but ‘with no place to go.’ A person with wide
knowledge and a disciplined intelligence, but without discriminating
taste, might be a successful gangster or some other type of menace to
society. More of the same kind of education which has been current
in many American communities will not solve our problems. A different kind of education is needed. This education must have as its
focus the community and the relationship of every man to his community. And, of course, we mean by the community not the place
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Six
man
where
a
cation
must teach men
lives,
but his state, his nation and now his world. Eduto understand the world in which they live
and to adjust their social, economic and political policies to this real
world and not to some woi'ld which has been dead for many years.
“In 1919 we failed to understand our world. We were still living
under the illusions created by the nineteenth century. We failed to
realize that the American frontier had disappeared and that many
other conditions which had given us prosperity and peace had likewise changed. We expected to take advantage of the scientific additions to our life without taking responsibility for helping to create the
li^nd of world in which an industrialized and mechanized civilization
could exist. So we refused to listen to Woodrow Wilson when he appealed to us to help organize a society of nations wliich might have
prevented the catastrophe in which we now find ourselves.
“One hundred years ago Emerson in a famous essay reminded
the
oui'
American people that ‘inaction is cowardice.’" A philosopher
own time, Ralph Barton Perry, has expi'essed the same idea
of
in
In other words, we cannot escape the
consequences which come to a people which allows indifferences to
get the better of positive action. Our concepts of peace have always
been negative. We have thought of peace as the absence of war and
have thought that we could keep peace by declaring that we would be
neutral in a struggle between other nations. We should have learned
that peace is a product of cooperation and justice. It is not an end in
itself but comes as a by-product of positive international relationships. When this war is over, we shall be tempted again to withdraw
into our own contented isolationism instead of cooperating with otlier nations in establishing conditions of social and economic justice
under which nations can prosper. Such isolationism will lead only to
another conflict sometime in the future.
the phrase, ‘inaction
is action.’
“Every educated man must try to understand the currents of human developments which persist through the years for the improveof decent living. As Justice Holmes once said, he must be attempting to live so that ‘a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men will still be moving to the measure of his thought.’ If we
look back over the world’s history, we can find men of whom that
can be said. Jefferson was such a man. He fought for political democracy, religious freedom and educaitonal opportunitj’. Horace
Mann was such a man in his fight for the establishment of the common school and the proper education of teachers. Pasteur was such
a man as he struggled to understand and conquer the germs of disease. The Wright brothers were such men as they experimented to
give us a new form of transportation. Wilson was such a man as he
fought to make us see that cooperation between nations is the only
possible way to avoid slaughter and ruin every few years. The ‘wave
of the future’ depends on how many people are willing to be loyal to
t’lese eternal values for which man has been struggling for generations. Educated men must lead in this struggle.”
ment
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August, 1942
:
Page Seven
liaxxxU(ui^i^jcUe
Sen^mcm
Whether we are witnessing the bankruptcy of the
race or the birth throes of a new and more glor-
human
day will be determined largely by that which the
world sees and that which it seeks, Rev. Gladstone P.
Cooley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Berwick, told the members of the graduating class of the
State Teachers College at the baccalaureate services in
ious
the College auditorium, Sunday afternoon. May 24.
The minister asserted that “This Kingdom of God, as
outlined by Jesus, ought to flash upon the war weary eyes
of our generation like a gem unsurpassed and as a priceless reward for those who truly seek the highest good.”
The services opened with the processional, “Ancient
of Days” and the invocation by the Rev. Mr. Cooley. The
congregation sang “Faith of Our Fathers” and President
Harvey A, Andruss, of the College, read the Scripture.
Following the sermon, “Bless the Lord, O My Soul,” was
sung by A Capella Choir, Miss Hannet M. Moore director,
and Miss Jeanne Moll, pianist. The Rev. Mr. Cooley pronounced the benediction and the recessional was “Awake,
My Soul.” H. F. Fenstemaker was at the console ancl
Miss Moore directed the music.
Using as his subject, “Pearl of Great Price,” and basremarks on the Parable of Jesus by the same name,
his
hig
tlie Rev. Mr. Cooley said in part
“You are being graduated at a time when you may find it difficult to decide whether you are witnessing in the world today, the
of the human race or the birthroes of a new and more
own feeling is that potentially it may be either
glorious day.
bankruptcy
My
upon what we do with it. And what we do with it,
going to be determined largely by that which the world sees and
one, depending
is
that
which
it
seeks.
“When we
human
today, a struggle
certainly it seems
It takes imagination and faith to be
to
able to visualize the possibilities of the future in the piles of debris
ir:
look at the struggling
which most of you are soon
be coming down in ruins.
race
become involved,
to
created by this war.
“But
ways two
we need
to
remember
sets of factors.
the ‘Possibilities.’
It is
in
every situation in
These may be called the
the actualities that
we now
life
there are al-
‘Actualities’
see.
The
and
possi-
must be imagined first and then faithfully pursued. If you
concentrate on the present actualities you will become cynical and
bilities
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August, 1942
Page Eight
If, however, you can even imagine the possibilities you
have the basis for an attempt at something better. These
potentialities, conceived by the imagination but obtained by constant
eifort, sometimes by ‘blood, sweat and tears,’ I am calling in this address, ‘Pearls of Great Price.’
discouraged.
can
at least
“Jesus in His fascinating story of treasure hunting is suggesting
is in this life a highest good.
And that this highest good
can only be obtained by an unremitting quest. To this search we
must bring our critical intelligence, our highest sens^ of values and
our unremitting efforts. It is by such critical and discriminating intelligence and effort that we can see the joyous possibilities in the
that there
drab
actualities.
you are tempted to feel that you are about to inherit a bankrupt world, it might do you good to take inventory of your assets.
These are a part of the actualities of the moment.
“If
“There is for example your health, your youth and your training.
These are all ‘goodly pearls.’ But one of the finest goodly pearls that
you possess is your heritage. This heritage is manifold but one of the
most important segments of it is your national heritage. This nationIt is
al' heritage that comes to you has been produced at great cost.
now being challenged and because of the challenge we have come to
appreciate it anew, and we are now risking our all to defend it. It is
a heritage that some of you will soon be called upon to defend. You
will do it more willingly and with better grace if you are aware what
this national heritage really
is.
“It is partly natural. That is to say the heritage which comes to
us from nature, or ‘the good earth’ of this great land of ours. It is
made up of the absolutely inexhaustable physical forces of this
American
earth, of the riches of our mines,
and our
oil
wells,
and
cur forests, and our streams.
“It is also human heritage; a heritage of a great people remarkably united in their agreement to establish a continental brotherhood
on this hemisphere on the basis of national understanding and coop-
eration.
“It is also a spiritual heritage.
The
spiritual forbears of this na-
our American ideals of liband freedom and a host of institutions that went with these
ideals. This wedding of culture and faith is the true ‘American way
tion, Christian in thought,
gave birth
to
erty
of
life.’
“All these are goodly pearls we already possess. But like the
pearl merchant of the parable we cannot be content with the possession of mere goodly pearls. We must ever be on the search for the
‘Pearl of Great Price.’ This pearl of great price, let us call ‘Destiny.’
Our heritage we possess; destiny we must yet achieve.
“This ‘Pearl of Great Price,’ Jesus, in his parable, identified
v/l'th the Kingdom of Heaven. Heritage and destiny come together in
God who is ‘the same, yesterday, today and forever more.’ As Dr.
John MacKay has put it, ‘In the measure in which we can see no fu-
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August, 1942
Page Nine
ture apart from Him, so that the destiny to which we aspire and
God’s purpose in Christ for our lives become one; in the measure in
which God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ is the beginning, the
center, and the end of our existence. He in whom heritage and desin that measure
shall we be able to look forward to a
tiny meet
worthy tomorrow and receive strength for the road to reach it.’
“This Kingdom of God as outlined by Jesus, ought to flash upon
tne war weary eyes of our generation like a gem unsurpassed and as
a priceless reward for those who truly seek the highest good, “The
Pearl of Great Price.’’
The speaker said in closing, “Young ladies and gentlemen of the
graduating class, I congratulate you on the goodly pearls you possess. I pray God’s blessing on you in your quest for pearls of greater
price, and may you find great satisfaction for time and eternity in
‘The Pearls of Great Price,’ even our Father’s Kingdom.”
—
—
PRE-SESSION
An
NEW FEATURE
unanticipated enrollment of 150 registered at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the pre-session,
which opened Monday, June 8.
This program was the first in the history of the college and was the largest enrollment for any summer session of the same length in the history of the institution.)
There were eighty dormitory students and seventy
day students, and those residing at the college fifty-five
were women and twenty-five men.
Of those enrolled a small group were Freshmen who
were starting the three calendar year plan.
President Harvey A. Andruss stated that if present
indications continue the streamline program would produce numbers for the, six-week session which will exceed
that of last year. He continued that the present tendency
of larger summer sessions is the manner in which colleges
are meeting the present shortage of teachers.
Courses offered at the three-week session were economic geography. Dr. H. H. Russell; elementary botany.
Dr. Kimber H. Kuster; present day social economic problems, E. A. Reams; children’s literature, Samuel Wilson;
;
,
biological science. Dr. E. H. Nelson;
stemaker; salesmanship and retail
Forney.
ethics, Howard Fenselling, William C.
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August, 1942
Page Ten
Alumni Meeting,
T. F. Chroswaite, Hanover attorney, responding for
the class of 1892, stole the show at the general alumni
meeting when Mrs. C. C. Housenick, R. Bruce Albert, of
Bloomsburg, and Fred W. Diehl, Danville, were re-elected directors for three year tenns.
Responding for the fifty year class which had twenty
members back, he told of the many professions to which
members had devoted their lives. “We haven’t had a
judge but we’re young yet. We haven’t had a president
cither, but we hope to, that is if there is ever a vacancy.
“Back in our day we thought a blackout was the
plunging of the building into darkness at ten o’clock. We
associated sabotage with desecration of the Sabbath.
“We thought only of mythical sirens and if a cricket
so much as chirped at night we went to the windows to
see what it was all about. One member of our faculty of
that day showed good judgment, Prof. Hartline married
one of our class. I wish to say to the members of this
year’s class that you have joined a society of scholars and
I am ceitain you will maintain the standards that have
been established.’’
The 1942 class marched into the meeting in a body
and Earl Harris, treasurer, presented a check for membership of the class. R. Bruce Albert, alumni president,
presided.
Dr. E. H. Nelson and Howard Fenstemaker reported
for the Alumni Quarterly and the report of D. D. Wright,
Treasurer of the Student Loan Fund, showed the fund
totalling over $10,000 with 60 persons now borrowers.
The group stood in silent tribute to the memory of
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus, whose death occurred June, 1941. Miss Edna Aurand, of the Luzerne
county group, presented the balance of its $100 pledge to
the student loan fund. President Andruss welcomed the
graduates on behalf of the college. Dr. A. K. Aldinger
spoke briefly and said the good teams of his day were the
result of cooperation.
Oldest living graduate present was Prof. C. M. Albert, class of 1879. Miss Mary Petty, Berwick, reported
for 1887, Mr. Chroswaite for the fifty year class; O. Z.
Low, Orangeville, for 1897 Miss Marie Dean, Scranton.
;
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August, 1942
Page Eleven
for 1902; Miss Bertha Lovering, Scranton, 1907; Ercell
Bidleman, Bloomsburg, 1912; Allen Cromis, Bloomsburg,
1917; Miss Cleora McKinstry, Bloomsburg, 1922; Verna
Medley Davenport for 1927; Mrs. Betty Jones Harris,
1940.
A
large audience enthusiastically received the presentation of “Pride and Prejudice” by the Bloomsburg
players Thursday evening, April 30, in the college auditorium. The characters of the play, written by Helen
Jerome, were portrayed by B. S. T. C. students with Charlene Margie having the lead as Elizabeth and Boyd Buckingham as Mr. Darcy.
The setting was England in the early century and centered
around a family living in a small town. The flighty mother, who
above everything else wanted husbands for her three daughters, was
portrayed by Stella Williams; Jane, the prettiest of the sisters, was
played by Betty Katerman; Lydia, the youngest, by Betty Hagenbuch; Mr. Bennett, the father, Lee Beaumont; Mr. Bingley, Paul
Rowlands; Mr. Collins, George Miller; Charlotte, Catherine Sedlack;
Mr. Wickham, Irving Gottlieb; Miss Bingley, Jean Kuster; Forbes,
Carl Berninger; Mrs. Lucas, Betsy Smith; Maggie, Sara Jean Eastman; Lady Catherine, Anne Shortess; Mrs. Gardiner, Ella Shargo;
Colonel Fitzwilliams, Gerald Demaree.
The play was divided into three acts and seven scenes. Music
between the acts was presented by Howard Fenstemaker. George
Miller, as Mr. Collins, the simpering cousin of the Bennets, and Betty Hagenbuch, as Lydia, the giddy young sister who was mad about
uniforms, especially amused the audience. Mr. Bennett, with his dry
humor and martyred way of putting up with his wife, also drew
many laughs. Miss Margie and Mr. Darcy and Miss Katerman and
Mr. Rowlands provided the romantic interest for this adaptation of a
classic novel.
iti
Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Miss Margaret McCulla, of Freeland, and Walter Lash, of
The ceremony was performed May 30, 1940,
Middleport, with the Rev. Mr. Orzeck officiating. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Lash are graduates of Bloomsburg, Mrs.
Lash is a substitute teacher in the Foster Township
schools, and Mr. Lash is a teacher in the commercial department of the Frackville High School.
Frackville.
at
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August, 1942
Page Twelve
Alumni Banquet
Early developments of the Teachers College which
ground work for the splendid institution of today
were interestingly related at the Alumni Banquet by Prof.
Charles H. Albert, a member of the class of 1879, and
one of the beloved “Old Guard.”
The other two living members and their wives, the
latter also former members of the faculty. Dean and Mrs.
B. Sutliff and Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, were also in
attendance and all were given an ovation by the gradlaid the
uates.
Despite the
crisis
and
its
rationing the
attendance
was almost as large as that of a year ago and appearing
on the program wdth Prof. Albert were Dr. Francis B.
Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and former Bloomsburg president Dr. A. K. Aldinger, head of
;
the physical education department of the schools of the
City of New York, and coach of some of Bloomsburg’s
greatest teams around the turn of the century R. Bruce
Albert, president of the graduate body, and President
Harvey A. Andruss, who welcomed the graduates on behalf of the College.
A number of alumni in the service were on the campus during the day and were recognized. Among those at
the banquet were Lieutenant George Houseknecht, class
of 1941, and his bride, the foimer Joyce Letterman, of
Bloomsburg; Sergeant Dick Foote, 1941, of Camp Croft,
S. C., a son of the late J. C. Foote, for years head of the
English department; Sergeant Joseph Sworin, and Ensign
Rostand Kelly, the latter at Fort Schuyler, New York.
Singing during the evening was in charge of Miss
Harriet H. Moore with G. Gordon Keller at the solovox.
;
Dinner music wms by Mr. Keller.
The program opened with the singing of America
and the invocation by the Rev. L. V. Barber, pastor of the
Benton-Orangeville Presbyterian church.
Trustees and wives present were Reg. S. Hemingway, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Croop, of
Berwick, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville.
Alumni officers introduced in addition to the president were Mrs. C. C. Housenick, secretary, and Miss Harriet Carpenter, treasurer and former faculty member, of
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August, 1942
Page Thirteen
Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Ruth Speaiy Griffith, WilkesBarre, vice president. Edward F. Schuyler presided.
Prof. Albert, who taught Spring terms at the college
from
his
graduation
in
1879
until
1887 and then devoted
of his time to teaching at the institution until his retirement in 1926, held the closest of interest as he told of
the school as it was when he enrolled and traced its progress.
classmate and life-long friend of the late Prof. Oliver H. Bakeless, Prof. Albeit, now eighty-four but with
a memory as keen as ever, contrasted the various changes
in educational methods and lauded many of the faculty,
past and present, for their contributions to Bloomsburg.
His definition of education, emphasized repeatedly
in the class room and long since adopted as a pattern for
life by many of his former pupils who were in the banquet hall, formed the basis for some of his most pertinent
remarks. The definition is “Education is that which enables us to do what we should at the right time and
whether we want to or not.’’
all
A
Following the banquet, which concluded with the
the group adjourned to the new gymnasium.
Entertainment there included dancing and the showing
of all of the six motion pictures which have been made of
college life at Bloomsburg.
Alma Mater,
COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT OFFICERS
At a recent chapel meeting of the Community Government Association on the campus of the Teachers College, the newly elected members of the College Council
were inducted
into office with a formal ceremony.
El wood Beaver, Catawissa, president for 1941-42
term, opened the meeting and immediately turned it over
to the vice-president, Ralph McCracken, Allentown, who
inducted the members of the new College Council for the
1942-43 college term.
The members of the new council are: Boyd Buckingham, York,
president; Joanna Fice, Athens, vice-president; Harold Miller, treasui-er, Drums; Jeanne Knight, secretary, Bloomsburg; John Witkoski,
Mt. Carmel; Carl Berninger, Catawissa; Sara Jean Eastman, Bloomsburg; George Smith. Shamokin; Stella Williams, Luzerne; Donald
Babb, Benton; Bernard Kane, Centralia; Margaret Dean, Kulpmont;
Robert Bunge, Catawissa; Louise Madl, Shamokin; Ruth Ebright,
Mifilintown; Winton Laubach, Benton.
,
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August, 1942
:
Page Fourteen
Ivy
Day
Seniors had their day at the Teachers College MonMay 25, with traditional Ivy Day exercises in the
grove in early evening followed by a party on the campus
at which faculty, parents and friends were guests.
Walter Mohr, of Scranton, Ivy Day orator, speaking
from the pergola in the grove, a memorial of the class of
1916, dealt with the realities which the class faces as it
goes into the world and pointed out “The chaotic condition of the world today brings to us a clearer, more distmct picture of our obligations.”
Following the processional to the grove the College
day,
Chorus sang “Maroon and Gold.” Ralph Zimmerman,
class president, presented Mr. Mohr.
Plant Ivy at New
Following the oration, the class
Gym
proceeded to the
for the Ivy planting. The presentation of the spade was by Senior Class President Zimmerman and the acceptance by John Witkoski, presidentelect of the class of 1943. The program concluded with
the singing of “Alma Mater” by the College Chorus. The
party followed immediately. Mr. Mohr’s oration follows
“The Bible teaches us that the early Christians used ivy to symbolize everlasting life; we of the class of 1942 hope sincerely that the
planting of this ivy today will also be an everlasting one; a way of
life that will include prosperity, tolerance, peace, and international
good will; one that will see an end of intolerance, servitude and dicCentennial
Gymnasium
domination throughout the world.
“This class is faced with more problems and more uncertainty
than probably any other graduating class in the history of the school.
Nevertheless, we are determined to face the future with a definite
cC'Ufidence because we feel that here at Bloomsburg we have received the necessary education to cope with the problems and the
uncertainty facing all graduates in all schools. All of us are quite
aware that within a short time we will be called upon to contribute
more in the defense of our country. Here again we have confidence
in our class; we know that we are as ready to serve as were those
members of our class who entered the service during the past school
tatorial
year.
“The chaotic condition of the world today brings to us a clearer,
more distinct picture of our obhgations. As trained teachers, it will
be our duty to aid in developing a more liberal educational plan, to
break down the barriers of ignorance, and to bring
common good and brotherhood.
into channels of
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August, 1942
human
thought
Page Fifteen
“Let us place our ivy in growing and let the spread of our teaching be infinitely wider and more significant than the spread of this
ivy. As the ivy is a living, growing plant, let the fruits of knowledge
we have gathered here in the past four years become a light to others,
let it become a spiritual and educational guide to both ourselves and
cur future associates. The ideas we acquired here are not to become
stagnant, nor allowed to lie dormant. We must make them live and
keep them as forcefully dynamic as they are at present. To fail to
utilize what we have received from the relationships we have had
with our instructors and fellow students, is to admit that we are in-
competent to meet our obligations.
As a member of the class of 1942,
I
should like to voice the
opinion of all its members that we appreciate what has been done
for us here at Bloomsburg, and that this appreciation will be manifested in the future actions of the class, collectively and individually.
It is with the utmost confidence that I say that this class, with the
guidance it has received, is well fitted to carry on the fine tradition
set up by the preceding classes. I speak for the class when I say that
we will do everything in our power to maintain our way of life. We
r.'ust and we will, with the help of God, keep our freedom and our
—
Democracy.”
Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Frances E. Houck, of Berwick, to Robert B. Miner,
of Tunkhannock. Miss Houck is a graduate of the BerMuck High School and attended the Bloomsburg Hospital
School of Nursing. Mr. Miner is employed by the U. S.
Army Air Corps as an instructor in the Supply School,
Olmsted Feid, Middletown, Pa.
AUuH4^i
/Iddxiciatlcut
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August, 1942
Page Sixteen
May Day
The beauty of the May Day pageantry of the TeachCollege is a magnet to draw the populace whether the
time is in days of tranquil peace, or, as at present, in a
period of war.
That was evident when townspeople were joined
vdth others of the section to enjoy the presentation of the
annual May Day, staged on the beautiful rolling stretch
of campus between Science Hall and the main buildings.
Unquestionably more than the usual number walked
to the scene of the pageantry and fewer, because of transportation cuitailments, were able to come from out of
town but the crowd, as always, was entirely too great for
the seating accommodations, numerous though they were,
and hundreds sat on the lawn in front of the bleachers or
stood in the rays of a warm sun for the hour and a half
of the program.
Miss Catherine O’Neil, of Freeland, College Senior,
made a charming May Queen and was crowned as a climax of the brilliant processional, by Elwood Beaver, of
Catawissa, president of the Community Government Asei’s
sociation.
There was never a more glorious day provided for
the frolic on the greensward for the entertainment of the
queen and her court. It was unquestionably warm, and
many of the women in the waiting throng, used parasols
in the elTort to keep off some of the heat and, quite probably, to endeavor to keep the freckles from multiplying.
The Processional
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College Band, which
provided the music for the program, opened with the processional “Triumphal March from Aide,” Verdi.
The flower girls were Donna Reice, Margaret Shoemaker, Kathryn Baker, Susan Leiby, Dora Shultz, Ruby Moyle, Nancy Brink,
Anne Marie Church, Gloria Masteller and Sue Buchheit.
Tom Lockard was the crown bearer. The Queen’s attendants
v/ere Misses Doris Guild, Ruth Baird, Eleanor Twardzik, Ruth James,
Ida Jane Shipe, Jeanne Noll, Roberta Hastie and Grace Thomas.
Pages were Terrie Roberts, Ralph Dillon, Dick Vial, Charles
Stout, Edward Keefer, Bill Nast, Gordon Fairchild, Alan Rippey,
Donald Nungessor, Tony Johnstone, Doyle Bright and Donald Shultz.
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August, 1942
Page Seventeen
The Queen was crowned by Elwood Beaver, Catawissa, president
Community Government Association.
oE the
Children’s Presentations
All of the grades of the Ben Franklin School and the girls of the
Freshman class of the college participated in the festivities for the
e/'.tertainment of the Queen.
The Kindergarten presented “At the Circus,” under the supervision of Miss Grace H. Woolworth, with Miss Hazel O’Brien as the
student assistant.
—
“Walking in the
grade dramatized its own work
The cast was; Trees Bill Nast, Edward Keefer, Charles
Stout, Donald Nungessor, Donald Shultz, Doyle Bright, Tony Johnstone, Dick Vial; fiowers
Katherine Baker, Susan Leiby, Dora
Shultz, Ralph Dillon, Joanne White, Anne Church, Gloria Masteller,
Aian Rippery; butterflies Margaret Shoemaker, Terry Roberts,
Ruby Moyle and Donna Reice; boy Gordon Fairchild; girl Nancy
The
first
—
Spring.”
—
—
—
—
Brink.
The clever presentation was supervised by Miss Carolyn M.
Welch with Misses Bernice Stout and Helen McGonigle as the stude,nt assistants and Miss Catherine Jones as accompanist.
Children of the second grade presented “The Palm Tree,” featuring “Little Brunette,” by Richardo Romero, with original rhythmic
interpretation and the Guianeze folk song, “There’s a Pretty Girl in
a Ring,” an original dance game. Miss Mabel Moyer was the supervisor and the assistants were Miss Lydia Rappella, Martha Wright,
Lois Gruver, Doris Sears, Isabelle McIntyre, Jean Ackerman.
'
Australia Setting
third gi-ade children presented “Chichester,” an English folk
dance often used in Australia.
The college girls participated in the “March of the Toy Soldiers”
fx'om “Babes in Toyland” by Victor Herbert. Miss Virginia Lee Lawhead was the student director.
Fifth grade students supervised by Mrs. Anna Garrison Scott
gave “Picadilla;” sixth grade students under the dii'ection of Mi's.
Etta Keller and with student assistants. Misses Kathryn Hess and
Ruth Hope, gave “Minuet” and fourth grade children were seen in
The
“Ostendaise,” supervised by Miss Edna J. Barnes. The dance was
taught by Miss Mary Whitenight, assisted by Miss Patricia Ferguson.
Then followed the Maypole winding for the group with the accompanists, Louise Adams and Janet Shank.
George J. Keller designed the throne and Misses Bernice Blaine
Stout and Mary Lou Fenstermaker executed the plan. The band
music was under the direction of Howard F. Fenstemaker. Dillon
greenhouses provided all of the fiowers tor the queen’s court. General direction of the program was capably handled by Miss Lucy
McCammon and Miss Mary Whitenight.
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August, 1942
Page Eighteen
The program, in keeping with the times, was developed around folk dances of the United States allies.
While Miss Lucy McCammon said in advance that the
pageantry would be on less elaborate lines this year. Nature saw to it that the setting was exceptional and the participants did their pait to make it one of Bloomsburg’s
May
finest
Days.
Sixty-five high school girls
from throughout the
ser-
vice area of the Teachers College were guests of the College Wednesday, June 13, at the ninth annual play day
with the program in charge of the B Club, girls’ athletic
organization.
The program opened
at nine o’clock with the regis-
and a meeting in the auditorium. Girls were then
divided into squads and a fine program of sport was en-
tration
joyed until the Maj" Day festivities late in the afternoon.
Guests were entertained at lunch at the college. Miss
Grace Thomas, of Bloomsburg, was the general chairman,
and scores of college
most enjoyable day.
girls
saw that
their guests
had a
Herbert E. McMahan, member of the faculty of the
now on leave of absence, is now LieutenantCommander McMahan, of the United States Naval Reserve. He has recently been made Officer in Charge of
the Outgoing Stores Group of the Supply Department at
the United States Navy Yard in Philadelphia. He is living at 170 West Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa.
College,
AUumti
A^Axiclailo.^
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
:
Page Nineteen
Dr. A. K. Aidinger
Dr. A. K. Aldinger, one whose name looms large
the history of athletics at Bloomsbiirg, paid a visit to
the College on Alumni Day, and was one of the speakers
at the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium. The following excellent summary of Dr. Aldinger’s career appeared in “Fanning,” the sport column of the Morning
Press
To many who for years have heard of the great accomplishments of Dr. A. K. Aldinger at the Teachers College there was prone to be some thought if whether some
of the tales about him were not built up through the
in
years.
When we saw
Alumni Day
the
activities
man and
on the
hill
talked with him at the
we were
willing to be-
anything about him that has to do with accomplishment, with the moulding of men.
The calendar which dates his various activities,
shows that Dr. Aldinger is now well along in life. But
that alone puts the years on his shoulders. He carries
lieve
them
lightly
and graciously.
He came to Bloomsbiirg around the turn of the century when the local institution had a fine new gymnasium.
Now it is referred to as “the old one.” He was here for
many years and started a program that through the years
has become recognized as one of the
finest in
any
insti-
tution of this size.
It was built on the foundation laid down by Dr. Aldinger and it is now in such capable hands as Dr. E. H.
Nelson, George Buchheit, Miss Lucy McCammon and Miss
Mary Whitenight.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-
Speaking before the graduates at the alumni meeting he said “my twelve years in Bloomsburg did more to
give me a background than any other twelve years of my
life.
had to develop the program from scratch and it
enlisted my best efforts.
“I am known best here for the fine teams of those
years but I am more proud of the work I did with all of
the boys who came under me.” Smilingly, he added, “I
had to have good teams to stay. They were the product
of fine cooperation.”
You hear much about offense these days. It’s the one
topic that during the crisis is the basis of more conversa-
We
any other.
But “offense” has been the plan of Dr. Aldinger’s
life. “I always believed and always will that the way to
win is by offense, not defense. When we had baseball
practice we fielded fifteen minutes and batted forty-five.
“We were always pulling the unexpected but we
practiced that. Some of our opponents said we were
tion than
lucky. I don't think we were.
a carefullj' arranged plan.”
Dean Emeritus William
It
was the carrying out
B. Sutliff,
who was
of
closely
associated with Dr. Aldinger at Bloomsburg and who presented him as the gymnasium dedication exercises voiced
the sentiments of all when he said, “His greatest contribution was in the work with the boys of that generation.
His name will alwaj^s live as an inspiration in all of
Bloomsburg’s athletic endeavors.”
This was Dr. Aldinger’s first trip to Bloomsburg in
years but he called his “boj^s” by name when he met
them on the campus. He chatted with “Pop” Ent and
Tom Moore and others and he didn’t have to be introduced.
He rattled off the names of the boys on those teams
of four decades ago as though they were members of the
squad he was coaching at the present.
He observed that during his firet years at Bloomsburg they had played Wyoming in football twice, losing
40 to 0 and 36 to 6. At the close of the season he said he
asked Prof. Detwiler, working with him, if he thought
“Normal” would ever be able to give Wyoming a good
game. Prof. Detwhiler said that with organization and
morale he believed this could be accomplished. They
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Twenty-One
must have got it. The teams tied the next year and then
Bloomsburg won every football game with Wyoming for
nine years.
“You hear lots about first aid nowadays. We learned
then from necessity. We did not have many boys and
we could not afford to lose them. So we learned to take
care of them. We never lost any one with a broken collar bone nor by a dislocated shoulder.”
Some of the boys in this era don’t take training too
seriously and often get tired of practice. But they had
it
drills
and more
those days.
Aldinger, “When
drills in
we had a stop between trains we walked through signals. Each night after
supper we met and walked through signals. We took inRecalled Dr.
pains to practice for every situation.
that one time Berwick had been
ajixious to meet Normal in a post season game. That was
the day of the Harry boys and other fine Berwick athfinite
He commented
letes.
Aldinger thought the Normal team too light but he
agreed to the game. They played one half with
fformal in front 20-0. Berwick didn’t continue. Not because the boys did not want to. They had played themfinally
selves out in the first half.
He recalled that no such thing as dancing was allowed on the hill in those days. Dr. Aldinger, however,
had the thought that it had a part in the program. “So
we called it aitistic steps” and it was put in the program.
Dancing wasn’t permitted but dancing was the same
thing.
“The accomplishments of forty years are exempliby the type of work done here today. 1 agree with the
Governor that there must be competition in life. Without
it you would not need seats in this gymnasium. You could
not have the athletic fields.
“The building of good health is of paramount importance. Prevention and correction in health education
has a definite part in this crisis.”
Bloomsburg isn’t the only place that appreciates Dr.
fied
Aldinger. He was for thirty-five years in the New York
City system. Then he retired on length of service and
went to his alma mater, Vermont University. At the end
of three years he returned to the head of the physical education department in the schools of the world’s largest
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
New York had
held the office open for him that
Thej" couldn’t find any one that satisfied them. He
could carry on in Dr. Aldinger’s footsteps. So they got
Dr. Aldinger back. He’s still there and looks capable of
many more years of outstanding service.
city.
long.
•
Athletes
Honored
Bloomsburg State Teachers College recognized the
athletic achievements of its sons and daughters at “honor
day’’ exercises Wednesday, May 20, those awards shar-
ing the spotlight with others made for leadership and academic attainments.
The program served to emphasize again that if the
emergency necessitated, for the duration, the curtailing
intercollegiate
competition in sports,
or eliminating
Bloomsburg has a fine intra-mural setup which can carry
on with few adjustments and accommodate
all
who wish
to participate.
The athletic awards for some years have been presented at an athletic banquet but this year the dedication
of the new gymnasium, a feature of Alumni Day replaced
this fete.
SENIORS
Senior awards in athletics went to six athletes and two student
managers. The number is not high and one of the principal reasons
is that men who would ordinarily have completed their work this
year are now in the service.
One of those who has completed a standout career on the hill is
Leonard Herr, of Coal Towmship. Herr was a member of the varsity
three years and would probably have made the club his Freshman
year but for a fractured hand sustained in an accident. He was honorary co-captain of the 1941-42 team. In addition Herr was an end
on the football team the past two years.
Others who are graduating are Harold Trethaway, three years a
\ arsity outfielder and honorary captain of this year’s team; John
Shlenta, football two years; Edward Solack, soccer and baseball
each two years; Frank Valente, basketball two years, and William
Wanich, baseball two years and soccer one year. The student managers were Edwin Deleski, football, and Walter Mohr, basketball.
AWARDS TO WOMEN
The Women’s athletic program is confined entirely to intra-mural
activities. A model program in this regard has been developed and
under the rating system the women have plenty of incentive to work
toward certain
goals.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Three
Chevrons are the highest awards and the two who have earned
the largest number are Kathryn Hess, of Bloomsburg, 3,589, and Lois
Slopey, 2,571, also a Bloomsburg resident. Others getting chevrons
vi^ere Lillian Baer, Fleetwood; Florence Faust, Ambler; Doris Sears,
Shamokin; Edna Zehner, Nescopeck, and Carmel Sirianni, Hop Bottom.
Before the Women can obtain chevrons they must win letters and
that requires 1,000 points. Letters this spring went to Emma Hutchinson, Yardley; Mary Louise Scott, Bloomsburg; Betty Burnham,
Frankford; Helen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Virginia Lawhead, Pottsville;
Ruth Ebright, Mifflintown; Reba Henrie, Betty Hagenbuch, Bloomsburg; Sylvia Feingold, Souderton; Patsy Ferguson, Shenandoah.
Earning from 500 to 1,000 points are given numerals and were:
Julia Welliver, Bloomsburg; Peggy Holoviak, Nesquohoning; Norine
Miles, Shenandoah; Margaret Dean, Kulpmont; Politime Comuntzis,
Marjorie Sharretts, Bloomsburg; Alda Hunter, Hunlock Creek.
FOOTBALL
Emphasis of the small squad with which the Huskies had to operate on the gridiron last fall is shown in the number of awards in
that sport. There were fourteen varsity letters awarded and, looking
over the list, it is easy to see that every one on the squad qualified
for one or the other.
Four local men won varsity letters.
They were Donald
Bitler
and
Stanley Schuyler, Berwick; Charles Bomboy, of Bloomsburg; and
Don Rabb, Benton. Other winners of the varsity award were: Mario
Conte, of Sayre; Leonard Herr, Shamokin; Vincent Husovsky, Swoyerville; Andrew Magill, Sugarloaf; Walter Maslowsky, Wilkes-Barre;
George Menarick, honorary captain, Exeter; Clem Novak, Nanticoke;
Donald Schminky, Shamokin; John Sclanta, Mayfield, and William
Swinesburg, West Hazleton.
BROADENING OUT
Soccer came into the college athletic program some years ago as
a direct result of the sport being played in many county high schools.
In fact, the first year of soccer it operated on an unofficial basis. Fred
(Feg) Houck, of Catawissa, now in the service, was the student
coach. Later Pete Wisher, of the high school faculty, was obtained
as coach and the sport was recognized. Pete is now in the Navy.
The first teams were composed almost entirely of local boys but
there were not so many getting varsity awards this year as in seasons past. Those from the immediate vicinity awarded letters were
Carl Diltz, Benton; Clayton Patterson, Nescopeck; Collins Wanich,
Light Street, and Leon Hartman, Elysburg.
w
tagiBf
tile
Jerry Russin is stationed at
Medical Corps.
Camp
Lee, Virginia, in
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
Big,
Demand
for Teachers
The placement service of the State Teachers College,
under Ihe direction of Earl N. Rhodes, had the opportunthirty-six positions after the public schools openSeptember, 1941. These requests for teachers
came in throughout the school year from September to
May. In practically all cases, the vacancies occurred because men were leaving the profession for service in the
army or navy. The public schools thus faced a difficult
problem, as efficient teachers were not available.
ity to
ed in
fill
Due
to the fact that practically all
members
of the
the service,
only five of the thirty-six po-
1941 graduating class were employed or
in
the college was able to fill
sitions reported since September, 1941; one commercial,
and four academic positions in high schools, and none of
the elementary school positions.
The demand for teachers of mathematics and science
in high schools stands out as one of the real needs. Young
n.en as well as young women, prepared in these two fields,
readily find employment in industry at attractive salaries,
thus creating a shortage of teachers.
The college has had requests for forty-seven teachers to begin work in September, 1942. The major proportion
is
in
commercial work
in
high schools. The remain-
ing positions are about equally divided between the academic positions in the high school and the elementary
school. Practically all recommendations made by the college are awaiting action by school officials.
In view of the fact that a relatively small number of
school officials have made decisions concerning their
needs for teachers for the coming year, according to
President Harvey A. Andi’uss, the members of the 1942
graduating class of the Teachers College have an excellent opportunity to find positions. In fact, it is likely the
college will not be able to meet the demand for teachers
in its service area.
w
President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss entertained
the board of trustees, faculty and children of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at a buffet supper Saturday
afternoon. May 16.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Five
TWELVE SENIORS HONORED
Twelve members of the Senior class were given keys,
emblems of outstanding service during their college careers, at the Honor Day program held Wednesday, May
20. At the same assembly the dean’s honor list and the
athletic awards were also announced.
Those receiving keys were the following; Rutlr Baird, Mill City;
Taylor; Mary Jane MorLion; Grace Thomas, of
Bioomsburg; Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Robert Borneman, Sanatoga; Wilfred Conrad, Benton; Earl J. Harris, Bioomsburg; Walter
Mohr, Scranton, and David Nelson, Hazleton.
Earl J. Harris was on the dean’s honor roll all four years. Those
on the list for three years were; Mary Davenport and Jean B. Lantz,
both of Berwick, and Aletha Stiles, Red Lion. Those on the list two
years were Jack Mertz, of Northumberland; M. Claire Sirocco, Pottsville, and Erma Wolfgang, Shamokin. Those on the list for one year
were Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Roberta Hastie, Avoca; Leonard
Herr, Shamokin; Richard Nonnemacher, Allentown; Ralph McCracken, Allentown; Adrian Masanotti, Berwick; Dawn Osman, Shamokin;
Josephine Rinard, Berwick; Mary Jane Sharpless, Bioomsburg; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; H. Ruth Snyder, Bioomsburg, and David M.
Young, Danville.
The program opened with the processional, played
by H. F. Fenstemaker, and “America,” sung by the College Chorus. President Andruss read the Scripture, and
Miss Joyce Lohr ’43, with Miss Louise Adams ’45 as ac-
Mary Davenport, Berwick; Ruth James,
dan, Northumberland; Aletha Stiles, Red
companist, sang “None But the Lonely Heart,” Tschaikowsky, and “Clover” by Wintter Haynes Watts.
Dean Marguerite W. Kehr made the explanation of
the academic award system. Senior keys were presented
by President Andruss, and Dr. Thomas P. North read the
dean’s honor list.
The explanation of the athletic awards system was
made by Dean John C. Koch. Keys and chevrons were
presented by Dr. E. H. Nelson, chairman of the faculty
athletic committee. Miss Lucy McCammon made the
awards to the women and George C. Buchheit those to
the men. The program concluded with the Alma Mater
by the audience, and the class marched out to the music
of the recessional.
IHM
E. Mae
Steelton, Pa.
Berger lives at 115 South Fourth Street,
She is a teacher in the Steelton schools.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
COLLEGE ACCREDITED WITH NAVY RESERVE
SYSTEM
Bloomsburg has been accredited for the navy’s much
publicized V-1 Program, which is an officers’ training program for college freshmen and sophomores between the
ages of 17 and 20. Under this plan, students may enlist
as apprentice seamen in the Naval Reserve, but will be on
inactive duty until they have completed the college period of their training. After enlistment, such students will
carry on their college life as usual. They may continue
their favorite sports, and carry on their regular course of
study, with the added requirement that they must take
certain courses in mathematics, science, and physical education.
Young men
enlisting in this
program
will be given a
examination after completing one and onehalf calendar years of college work. Those making a
good record and volunteering for aviation will then go on
active duty in training to become flying officers. Bloomsburg already has a well-organized pilot training program which is definitely allied with the aviation program
of both the navy and the army air corps.
For those who made a good record in the examination, but are not interested in aviation, an opportunitj’
will be given for them to complete their full college curriculum, obtain their degree, and then go on active duty
in training to become deck or engineering officers.
The V-1 plan has many advantages in that it is designed to help young men render that type of service for
which their college work will best train them. It offers
young men in the Bloomsburg College area an opportunity to obtain at least two years of cultural education before specializing, and at the same time stay in college to
be of service to their country, and to have made a start
toward an officer’s commission.
classification
Catherine Moore, of Danville R. D. 5, and Staff Sergeant Raymond Wertz, of Danville R. D., were married
Saturday, June 6, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The
bride is a teacher in the schools of Rush Township, Northumberland County. Sergeant Wertz is a graduate of the
Danville High School, and was formerly employed at the
Danville National Bank.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Seven
ANNUAL HE-SHE PARTY
Coeds of Bloomsburg State Teachers College proved
once again that they can have a wonderful time same as
the boy-friend when they staged the annual He-She party.
Given the opportunity to “dress up and play” these women left no stone unturned in their originality and ingenuity.
Following the grand march prizes were awarded for
the handsomest couple, funniest couple, most original
couple.
Handsomest couple: Margaret Latsha, Star Route,
funniest couple, Jean
and Ann Boyer, Selinsgrove
Schrader, Shamokin, and Louise Madl, Shamokin most
original couple, Meda Cavello, Weston, and Ella Shargo,
;
;
Fottsville.
The judges for the prize winners were: Mrs. Clarence W. Sober, Mrs. Carl T. Warhurst, Ruth Brandon,
,Ruth Peeler, Betty Harris, Marie Parsell.
Dancing was enjoyed and delicious refreshments
vcere served.
The climax of the paity was reached when the retiring officers and members of the Day Women’s Official
Board and the Waller Hall Governing Board presented
the newly elected officers and members with corsages.
Following are the new officers of the Day Women’s Association:
President, Louise Madl, Shamokin; vice president, Anne Shortess,
Bloomsburg; Senior representatives: Dorothy Johnson, Berwick; Irene
Kulock, Mt. Carmel; Junior representatives: Ella Shargo, Pottsville;
Flaine Kreisher, Berwick; Sophomore representives: Nelena Pope,
Northumberland, Carol McCloughan, Riverside.
Retiring officers are as follows: President, Grace Thomas,
Bloomsburg; vice president, Louise Madl, Shamokin; Senior representatives: Mary Jane Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Jean Lantz, Berwick;
Junior representatives: Joyce Lohr, Berwick; Mary Trump, Danville;
Sophomore representative: Mary Louise Scott.
New officers of the Waller Hall Association include: President,
Ruth Ebright, Miffiintown; vice president, Sara Hottenstein, Milton;
secretary Joyce Hay, Easton; treasurer, Sara Wagner, Pine Grove,
Senior representative, Betty Singley, Lewisburg; Anna Doberstein,
West Nanticoke; Joanna Fice, Athens; Elizabeth Bartha, Yeagertown;
Junior representatives, Florence Faust, Ambler; Helen Kotch, WilkesBarre; Irene Kornaski, Mt. Carmel; Sophomore representatives: Betty Zong, Milton; Anita Behler, Kingston; Joan Ackerman, Harburg.
Officers who have served this year are: President, Ruth James,
Taylor; secretary, Joanna Fice, Athens; vice-president, Ruth Hope;
t.easurer, Candace Dietrich, Kutztown.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty -Eight
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
Bruce Albert
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
R.
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Hervey
B.
Smith
LACKAWANNA COUNTY ALUMNI
Alumni of Bloomsburg held a largely attended rennion Saturday, April 18, at the Scranton Club. Judge
William R. Lewis ’86, presided as toastmaster. Dr. Hollinshead, president of Scranton-Keystone Junior College,
and President Andruss, of Bloomsburg, were the speakers.
H. L. Morgan ’81, was the oldest graduate present.
given an ovation by his many friends. Nearly
every class from 1897 to 1942 was represented. The class
of 1923, with ten members present, had the largest rep-
He was
resentation.
Miss Janet M. Shank ’44 sang two vocal numbers,
and was accompanied by Miss Louise Adams ’45. Group
singing was led by R. Bruce Albert.
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August, 1942
Page Twenty-Nine
MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
held a dinner meeting in the Shiloh Reformed church at
Danville. There were over 100 attending.
Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, was toastmaster.
Miss Nellie Bogart, vice president of the county
alumni group, presided over the short business meeting
in the absence of Lieutenant Ralph McCraken, president,
who is serving in the armed forces. The nominating committee presented its report which was accepted by the
group. The new officers of the county association are
Lieutenant Ralph McCraken, president; Miss Dorothy
Sidler, vice president; Miss Alice Smull, secretary, and
Miss Mildred Auten, treasurer.
Mr. Diehl announced that following the meeting the
association would send a telegram to Lieutenant McCraken informing him of his re-election and of the annual
meeting.
Mr. Diehl introduced President Harvey A. Andruss,
who in turn presented to the group the nineteen faculty
members and their wives in attendance. Mr. Andruss
pointed out that today in America education the three
“R’s” distinctly stressed are rationing, resistance and reconstruction. He told the audience that resistance does
not necessarily mean of military nature but rather with
regards to thinking. “We should preserve the things that
we are fighting for,” the college president commented.
Miss Marjorie Gass, Danville High School student
and district winner in the forensic contests, played piano
selections. Miss Janet Shank, accompanied by Miss
Louise Adams, gave two fine vocal numbers while Miss
Adams also played a selection. Both these girls are students at the college.
Prof. Charles Albert, former instructor at the old
Normal School, and father of Bruce Albert, president of
the general alumni association, told the group that he had
“Kept school for fifty-one years.” He spent forty-one of
those years teaching at the Noiinal School and declared
his happiest moments were experienced in the classroom.
Bruce Albert, president of the General Alumni Association, called the attention of the alumni and friends
to the Alumni Day celebration being held at the college
on May 23.
The film, “Bloomsburg Faces the War,” showing the
Alumni
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August, 1942
Page Thirty
\arious ways and means that B.
the national crisis, was shown.
by singing the Alma Mater.
S.
T. C.
is
taking during
The meeting was closed
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Despite the unusually stormy weather, the Philadelphia group was well represented at the college on Alumni Day. The outstanding event of the day was the dedication of the new gymnasium, for which an outstanding
program was given. It was a big day in every respect.
The monthly luncheon meetings which the Philadelphia group have been holding at the Strawbridge and
Clothier Store will be discontinued for the months of July,
August and September, but will be resumed on the second
Saturday of October.
There will be three picnics this summer:
If conditions are favorable, the second Saturday in
July at Valley Forge.
The second Saturday in August a Garden Party at
the residence of Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main
Street, Norristown, Pa.
The second Saturday in September at the Brouse
Farm (Edwina Wieland Brouse) Maple Avenue, just off
Germantown Road.
We extend a cordial invitation to all Alumni to meet
v/ith us at these picnics, and at our regular luncheons
which are held on the second Saturday of the month.
Florence Hess Cool (’88) President.
Lillian Hortman Irish (’02) Secretary.
Nora Woodring Kenney (’09) Treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool (Norman G. ’86-Florence Hess ’88), 112 North 50th Street, West Philadelphia,
Pa., will be at home to their friends August 6th-5 to 10
P.
M.
This daj^ and date marks a great event in their
It is
their fiftieth
wedding day
—
their
lives.
Golden Wedding
Anniversary.
The Philadelphia group of the Bloomsburg Alumni
take pleasure in making this announcement, and hope
their many friends will take occasion to greet them either
in person or by message.
Lillian
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Hortman
August, 1942
Irish, Secretary.
Page Thirty-One
SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING ALUMNI HOLD DINNER
Graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwho reside in Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties
held a dinner in May in the Methodist Church at Tunkhannock with thirty-five in attendance.
Fred W. Kester, of Mill City, presided and attending
from Bloomsburg were H. A. Andruss, college president;
Dean W. B. Sutliff, of the college “old guard
R. Bruce
Albert, president of the general alumni, and Miss Janet
Shank, vocalist, and Miss Louise Adams, pianist, of the
lege
student body,
Dean
who
entertained.
and President Andruss spoke during the
program. The college film, “Bloomsburg Faces War” was
shown. Bruce Albert led the group singing.
Sutliff
LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
The regular monthly luncheons of the Luzerne CounAlumni will be discontinued during the summer
months. They will be resumed on the first Saturday in
ty
October.
A summer
outing
is
being planned, and will be held
home of Mrs. Guy Evans, of West Pittston. All
members and friends are invited.
Edna Aurand, President.
at the
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August, 1942
Page Thirty-Two
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Alumni
f rraunalB
4
^
1880
Friends and classmates of Ernest W. Young, 2245
Carter Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, will regret to learn
of the death of Mrs. Young, who passed away April 23.
Mr. and Mrs. Young had been married almost 54 years.
Mrs. Young was born and grew up in Mt. Carmel.
1882
Mrs. Esther Evans Jarvis died at her home in Brandon, Texas, Saturday, January 31. She was born at
Bloomsburg August 19, 1861. When a girl she united
with the church and had been a member of the Presbyterian Church at Brandon for many years. After attending Bloomsburg, Mrs. Jarvis attended Valparaiso University, where she met Mr. Jarvis. When her school work
v. as completed she returned to her home in Pennsylvania,
and Mr. Jarvis went to Texas and located at Brandon.
They were married in 1891, and went to Brandon to live.
Mr. Jarvis passed away April 4, 1917. Mrs. Jarvis is surMved by two children, J. R. Jarvis, of Dallas, Texas, and
Mrs. Sadie Gilmore, of Whitney, Texas, and by one brother, L. W. Evans, of Denver, Colorado.
1883
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Conner, of 8 Belmont Circle,
Trenton, New Jersey, spent the past winter in Florida.
After graduating from Bloomsburg, Mr. Conner went to
Lafayette College, where he was graduated in 1887. He
of West Nottingham Academy, Maryland, for fifteen years, and is still a member of the board
of trustees. He is also a member of the board of trustees
of Lafayette College.
was headmaster
It is not too early to begin planning for your sixtyyear reunion next May.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
:
Page Thirty-Three
1885
Harry O. Hine, 3204 Highland Place, Cleveland
Park, Washington, D. C., sent the following letter of
greeting to President Andruss on Alumni Day
“Best wishes to the “Homecomers” and to you for a fine comin 1942 and all the years that follow.”
mencement occasion
1888
Start the ball rolling
now
for your fifty-fifth year re-
union next May.
1892
Members of the fifty year class of the Teacher Colmade merry May 23 at the home of Prof, and Mrs.
lege
D. S. Hartline as the
opening feature of their reunion.
in the sharing of experiences of
Delicious refreshments were served by the
The evening was spent
school days.
hosts.
Members
of the class attending were; Mrs. Harriet Keffer HartBloomsburg; Mrs. Harriet Ringrose Knies, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Mabel Westover Huff, Forty Fort; Mrs. Eva Faus McKelvy, Montoursville; Mrs. Katie Becker Read, Pittsburgh; Dr. W. B. Mausteller,
li.ne,
of
Harrisburg.
Guests were: President and Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Prof. C. H.
Albert, R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, and
Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Gertrude Kyte, Earl N. Rhodes, director of teacher
training, and Mrs. Rhodes, Dr. and Mrs. Kimber Kuster and Miss
Jane Kuster, Dean and Mrs. Thomas P. North.
1893
1943
now
the big year.
to make it a big one.
is
The
fiftieth-year reunion
!
Start
Alice Fenner, 2439 Walnut Street, Allentown, has
returned after spending the winter at San Diego, California.
1896
A
testimonial dinner was given Monday evening,
June 8, at the Hotel Redington in Wilkes-Barre, in honor
of Miss Celia Cohen, who is retiring after an outstanding
career as a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools. The affair was arranged by the Carey Avenue Parent-Teachers
Association. Miss Cohen has a record of teaching for
forty-five years, thirty-eight of which were spent in the
Carey Avenue School. Her sister. Miss Rose Cohen, also
a graduate of Bloomsburg, retired last year after teaching fifty years.
Principle addresses were given by Judge Valentine,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty-Four
who
stressed the importance to the community of such
persons as Miss Cohen, who devote their lives to the cause
of training others.
Other speakers w'ere Rabbi Wolk,
Rabbi Marcus Salzman, A. E. Bacon, superintendent of
schools, Thomas Mackin, member of the Board of Education, George Horst, and Walter Black.
Gifts were presented to the honored guest and to the
officers of the association.
day,
Edna Wilson (Mrs. William L. McClintock) died FriMarch 26, in Philadelphia. She is survived by her
husband and one
son.
Charlotte H. Stark, of Lehman, Pa., retired in July
1941, after teaching forty-three years and four months.
1897
Activities of the class of 1897 w^ere confined to the
college campus during the week-end.
Among those present were; O. Z. Low, Orangeville; Bertha Kelly, Scranton; Eva Martin, Hazleton; Mrs. George Curran, Plymouth;
Ella Benedict, Trucksville; Mrs. Dora Huber Ely, Hazleton; Mrs. E.
S. Gething, Nanticoke, and Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg.
1898
1
Daniel N. Dieffenbacher, superintendent and
supervising principal of the Danville Public Schools for
twenty-one years and an outstanding educator, churchman axid citizen of that community for more than half a
century died at his home, 406 Bloom Street, Tuesday,
April 21, 1942.
Mr. Dieffenbacher, w'ho had been in failing health
Mr.
more than a year, was aged seventy-nine. He had
been bedfast for one week. Death w^as due to infirmities
for
of old age.
The deceased, widely-known throughout the county
and
served as superintendent and later supervising
principal of the Danville Borough Schools from 1907 until
1928, when he retired.
He made many worthwhile contributions to the borough school system during his 21 -year term in office.
Born in Washington ville in 1863, the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Dieffenbacher, the deceased came
to Danville in 1890 and spent the rest of his life in that
state,
community.
Prior to accepting the position of principal of the
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty-Fiva
Second Ward Grammar School in Danville in 1890, Mr.
Dieffenbacher taught in Union County, and in the rural
schools of
Montour county.
From 1901 through 1907 he held
the position of professor of mathematics and science on the Danville High
School faculty. In 1907 he accepted the position as superintendent of Danville schools, filling the role very successfully. He became supervising principal of the Bor-
ough Schools when the change in title came into effect in
1920. He performed his responsible duties until retirement in 1928.
He served as an educator from 1885 until the time of
his retirement.
Mr. Dieffenbacher graduated from Bloomsburg State
in 1898, and later took special work at
Normal School
Grove City College.
On August 29, 1894, he married Margaret
Phillips,
a Danville girl, who survives him.
He was active in the affairs of the Shiloh Evangelical
and Reformed Church for many years, serving as an elder for a long period of time.
He belonged to the Mahoning Lodge No. 516, Free
and Accepted Masons, the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and the Consistory at Bloomsburg.
May, 1943 your
:
to
make your
forty-fifth
year reunion. Begin
now
plans.
1900
The name
of Miles 1. Killmer should have been
cluded in the list of those who served in World War I.
served as a captain in the 28th Engineers.
in-
He
1901
Lela Shultz (Mrs. Infred T. Modsen) entertained
Ada Harrison ’02, Edith Curtis ’99 and Gertrude Follmer
Lowry ’01 and ’03, at her home in Plainfield, New Jersey,
over the week-end of June 6.
\
1902
1902 opened its forty-year reunion Friday evening. May 22, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. N.
Keller, of Orangeville. A buffet supper and an evening
of reminiscences were thoroughly enjoyed. President and
Mrs. Andruss met with the group.
The
class of
Those attending were: Essene Hollopeter Martin, Palmyra, New
Mary Croop Fairchild, Berwick; Florence Crow Heber and
Jersey;
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August, 1942
Page Thirty-Six
son, Liverpool; Harriet D. Fry, Danville; Alice Guest, Danville;
Mar-
Edwards Morris, Edwardsville;
Camille Hadsall Pettybone,
P"orty Fort, Marie L. Diem, Scranton; Blanche Austin Gibbons,
Wilkes-Barre; Ada D. Harrison, Newark, N. J.; Effie M. Vance,
Orangeville; Amy G. Smethers, Berwick; Mary E. Francis Gendall,
Cnalfont; Marne E. Clark Myers, Wilkinsburg; Harriet Hitchcock
McMurray, Mehoopany; Bessie Long, Bloomsburg; Marion Johnson
Skeer, Northumberland, and Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller.
The activities of the class were continued Saturday on the camgaret
pus.
Present were: Marie L. Diem, of Scranton; Mrs. Etta H. Keller,
Orangeville; Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock, Mehoopany; Bess M. Long,
Bloomsburg; Essene Holopeter Martin, Palmyra, N. J.; Harriet E. Fry,
Danville; Marne Clark Myers, Wilkinsburg; Amy B. Smethers, Berwick; Jennie Williams Cook, Hazleton; Mrs. Mary Francis Gendall,
of Chalfont; Ada D. Harrison, Newark, N. J.; Mrs. Harriet Edwards
Morris, Edwardsville; Mrs. Marion Johnson Skeer, Northumberland;
Mrs. Adde Altmiller Burthardt, Hazleton; Alice Guest, Danville;
Blanche Austin Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Florence Crow Hebei, Liverpool; Effie Vance, Orangeville; Mary Croop Fairchild, Berwick and
Camille Hadsall Pettebone, of Forty Fort.
1903
Next
May
you will celebrate the fortieth anniversary
of your graduation from Bloomsburg. Who will start the
ball rolling
now ?
1904
John B. Boyer, of Sunbury, assistant superintendentof Northumberland county schools, was the recipient of
a special medal given by the Pennsylvania Forensic and
Music League at the fifteenth annual state contests at
Bloomsburg, in recognition of his outstanding service as
Northumberland county and northeastern district director of the league for fifteen years.
Mr. Boyer, a Bloomsburg State
Teachers College alumnus, has been responsible for the direction and participation of thousands of young people in bands, orchestras, choruses, ensembles, solos, debate teams, and in
speech events, for fifteen years. The medal was presented for the league by C. Stanton Belfour, executive secretary. Mr. Boyer is also observing his twentieth anniversary in the county office in Northumberland County. The
young people in music and speech organizations in northeastern Pennsylvania high schools owe much to him for
his untiring leadership and devotion for the continuation
of these contests.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty-Seven
The Rev. Harry S. Dollman, a resident of Pinegrove,
Schuylkill County, died early in March after a short illness. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg, and taught for
some time before entering Gettysburg College, after
which he entered the Seminary. His first charge was at
the Lutheran Church at Worthington, near Pittsburgh.
P'rom there he went to Pinegrove in 1912. In 1918 he
went overseas as a chaplain and after the war returned
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
Mention of the Rev. Mr. Dollman’s death was made in the
April Quarterly, but no other details were known at that
to Pinegrove.
time.
1905
Ezra
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, has been
tour for the Townsend National Recovery
B. Gruver, of
on a lecture
Plan, Inc.
1906
Hazel B. Allen, supervising principal of the Loveland Street School in Westmoor, died Thursday, April 16,
at her home in Kingston. Miss Allen was born in Lake
'Township, Luzerne County, and resided for many years
in Dallas before moving to Kingston. She was a member
of the Wyoming Avenue Christian Church. The funeral
was held at her late home Saturday, April 18, with a
great many teachers and students attending. The body
was taken to the Wardan Cemetery in Dallas for interment.
of the Rev. W. E. Jones, now' of Watershould be added to the list of those who
served in the first World War. He served as an army
chaplain both with the Aidillery and Transport.
The name
ford, Ohio,
The
class of
1907
1907 held an enjoyable reunion
follow'-
ing the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium.
In the absence of their class president, Harry DeWire, Miss Bertha Lovering acted as chairlady. Members
of the class enjoyed seeing familiar faces in the class picture which was brought by Mrs. J. M. MacCullough, Lodi,
N. J.
The following members were presented: Edith Campsie (Mrs.
George Dreisbach), Lehighton; Florence Corley (Mrs. Henry Sippel),
Wilkes-Barre; Elizabeth Dreibelbis (Mrs. L. T. Orner), Bloomsburg;
Mary E. Hess (Mrs. Fred C. Colyer), York; Miriam E. Jones (Mrs.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty -Eight
Evan Whitby), Edwardsville; Bertha Lovering, Scranton; Sadie
Moyer (Mrs. J. M. MacCullough) Lodi, N. J.; Irene Reimard (Mrs.
John W. Cressler), Wilkes-Barre; Laura Rittenhouse (Mrs. William
,
H. Yohey), Berwick; Bertha Sterner (Mrs. F. L. Richards), WilliamVance (Mrs. L. V. Barber), Orangeville; Myrtle
M. Brobst), Bloomsburg; Alice Shaffer (Mrs.
Charles Harry), Berwick.
sport) Gertrude
Vv^anich (Mrs. D.
;
Pearl A. Anstock (Mrs. Arthur Holt)
Royal Avenue, Hawthorne, New Jersey.
lives
at
21
1908
Wanted
make plans
:
to
a member of the class of 1908 to start now
for the thirty-fifth year reunion, May, 1943.
1909
Fred W. Diehl has been re-elected to serve a fouryear term as Superintendent of the Schools of Montour
County. This will mark the beginning of his seventh term.
Mr. Diehl is also a member of the board of trustees of the
college and a member of the board of directors of the
General Alumni Association.
Emma
D.
3,
Eaton (Mrs. William
P.
Perrego)
lives at R.
Dallas, Pa.
1911
Margaret Fraser (Mrs. V.
Providence,
New
L.
Johnson)
lives in
New
Jersey.
1912
1912 began its thirtieth year reunion at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg, Friday evening. May 22. During the course of the
evening a telephone call was received from George Bar-
The
class of
row, Nutley, New Jersey, a member of the class.
The following were present: Theresa Dailey Bachinger and
daughter Ruth, Bloomsburg; Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyersgrove; Margaret Byerly Morrison, Danville; Florence Blecher Crouse, Danville;
Trivelpiece, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. Ray. Masteller and
daughter Gloria, Bloomsburg; Harriet Hartman Kline, Bloomsburg;
Ona Harris Henrie, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Ercell D. Bidleman,
Bloomsburg; Edith Campsie Dreishbach ’07, Lehighton; Lucille
Wakeman Rair, Laceyville; Dr. K. C. Kuster ’13 and Mrs. Kuster,
Dr. E. H. Nelson ’ll. President and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mr. and
Mrs. H. F.^ Fenstemaker, Mrs. Annie S. Nuss ’88, and Mary Louise
Anne Reice
Fenstemaker
’45.
Harriett E. Graves (Mrs. Raymond Marsh) reports
that her first grandson, John Carter Marsh, was bom
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Thirty -Nine
February 27, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Marsh, Jr.
Her second son, William Graves Marsh, was graduated
from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, this
year, and was married to Miss Clare Montague Friday,
May 22. Mrs. Marsh’s address is 210 Sedgwick Drive,
Syracuse,
New
York.
Several letters from members of the class of 1912
at the class reunion. Extracts from these letters will be published in the next number of the Quarter!
were read
ly.
The following telegram was received on Alumni Day
from Mrs. Charles Widman (Anna G. Stevens), of Freeland, Pa.
“Unable to attend. Greetings and best wishes
to teachers and classmates.”
—
Louise W. Vetterlein owns and manages a tourist
home, the Vetterlein Homestead, at Paupack, Pike County. She spends her winters at Miami, Florida.
C. B. Fisk Brill is now a major in the Ordnance Department, and is stationed in New York City. His home
address is 333 East 68th Street, New York.
A telegram of greetings to the class of 1912 was sent
on Alumni Day by Martha Goulden Weitzel, of Myerstown. Pa.
The address of Bina W. Johnson
Avenue, College Park, Maryland.
is
7506 Hopkins
1913
World War 1, it was possible to state that a person
was “Somewhere in France,” but in the case of Captain
In
Nellie M. Dennison, a member of the Army Nursing Corps,
all that it is possible to say in that she is “Somewhere.”
Her address is Captain Nellie M. Dennison, A. N. C., Station Hospital, A. P. O. 851, care Postmaster, New York
City, N. Y.
Helen Smith Beardslee
nue,
Bound Brook, New
lives at
106 Beech wood Ave-
Jersey.
Don’t let the war spoil your plans for your thirtieth
year reunion next May.
1914
Paul H. Brunstetter, who has for several years been
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty
supervising principal of the schools of Catawissa, has
been appointed Assistant Superintendent of the schools of
Columbia County. He began his four-year term on July 1.
1916
William Gregg
Brill
is
a lieutenant-colonel
in
the
Air Corps, Personnel Division, stationed in Washington,
D. C. Mail will reach him at the Army-Navy Club, Washington.
tist
Maxwell R. Noack is Minister of Music at the BapTemple in Philadelphia. Dr. Daniel Poling is pastor
of the church.
Blanche Robbins Damon lives at 373 Main Street,
Concord, Massachussetts.
V.^'est
1917
week-end was
largest representations during alumni
that of the class of 1917, with fifty-eight
taking paid
the various activities.
One
ing
of the
in
The group met together at the college Friday evenand had breakfast the next morning at the Annex.
Those attending were: A. C. Morgan, Berwick; Geraldine Nyhart Thomas, Glen Lyon; Lucy Padagomas, Glen Lyon; Grace M.
Davis, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Dorothy Miller Brower, Allentown;
Elsie Jones Green, Wilkes-Barre; Effie Benscoter Kinback, Peckville;
Mary Kahny Arnold, Saltsburg; Arline Nyhart Kemper, Moorestown,
1\. J.; Ruth Smith, Bellefonte; Allen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Helen G.
Lippert, Dalton; Anna M. Carter, Scranton; Margaret P. Foss, Mildred Milcham, Kingston; Mary Moss Dobson, Plymouth; Agnes Maust
D-effenbacher, Bloomsburg, R. D. 1; Florence Atherton Shaffer, Kingston; Clyde R. Luchs, Bloomsburg.
W. F. Kester, Mill City; Helen Lord Bulla, Bloomsburg; Nan R.
Jenkins, Nesquehoning; Lillian Gensemer Moyer, Kathryn Row Mc-
Namee, Mabel
E.
Maust Duck, Bloomsburg; M.
Lillian
Johnson
Frantz, Mt. Aetna; Clara O’Donnell, Chester; Rose Monahan, Ashland; Blanche Caswell Plymouth; Bertha Broadt, Mary Schaller,
Margaret McHugh, Hazleton; Marie Cromis, Philadelphia; Dorothy
Dodson, Luzerne; Alice B. DeRonde, Forty Fort; Pauline L. Isaacs,
Forty Fort; Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke; Mrs. Howard Greish, Kingston;
Gertrude C. Lecher, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. W. E. McGuown, Ashley;
Mrs. Edwin I. Eyerl 3% Sunbury; Mrs. Margaret Cox McGrath, Lost
Creek; Mrs. Nellie Sutliffe, Nanticoke; Mrs. Amelia Thomas, Nanticoke; J. Frank Brink, Benton; Frederick H. Shaffer, Kingston; Hugh
E. Boyle, Hazleton; Mrs. Reuel S. Burr, Cyn Wyd; Mrs. Hope Dennis
Anderson, Falls Church, Va.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty-One
Margaret Barnum Bredbenner, of Wilkes-Barre; Agnes Warner
Smales, Laceyville; Dorothy Decker Swetland, Pittsburgh; Mildred
Avery Love; Mehoopany; E. A. Zimbel, Jr., Pottsville; Mabel Dymond Bell, Dallas, R. D. 3; Nora Berlew Dymond, Dallas, R. D. 3;
Caroline Ryne Harrison, Nanticoke; Freda Jones, Kingston.
The
class of 1917 started the festivities in observance
twenty-fifth year reunion with a social evening in
the social rooms of Science Hall, Friday evening, May 22,
v/ith about twenty-five in attendance. Dr. and Mrs. K. C.
Kuster and President and Mrs. Andruss paid the class a
visit during the evening,
of
its
Mary C. C. Kahny (Mrs. C. L. Arnold) is teaching at
Kiskiminetas Springs School, at Saltsburg, Pa.
I
1918
class of 1917 had a wonderfully successful reunion this year. You will have to start now, if you want
The
to
have a better twenty-fifth reunion than they had.
1919
P. Evans, of Scranton, Pa., was recently installed as the Worthy Matron of Martha Washington
Chapter, Order of Eastern Star.
Edwina
This honor holds more significance inasmuch as the
Chapter celebrated its fiftieth or Golden Anniversary on
during her term of office.
April 25
—
1921
Evelyn Z. Smith (Mrs. Lyman E. Cunningham) lives
at 2703 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. She has two
sons and a daughter.
1922
There were over twenty members of the class of 1922
in attendance and they had a splendid time during the
day.
Present included; Clarissa Sharretts Welliver, Berwick; Cleora
McKinstry, Bloomsbui'g; Bett Gilbert Vincent, Danville; Stanlea
Henry Sliwinske, Kingston; Catherine E. Payne, Shamokin; Little
Harter Cameron, Nescopeck; Martha Y. Jones, Scranton; Eva M.
Morgan, Scranton; Valere Sypniemski, Nanticoke; Margaret Murray
Luke, Mahanoy City; Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton; Arline Tosh
Bohn, Wilkes-Barre; Adelle Cryder Raymond, Coatesville; Nan
Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre; Edna S. Harter, Nescopeck; Mrs. Theresea
K. Shenanski, Nanticoke; Gertrude S. Miller, Bloomsburg; Stella
Wheeler Kern, Harrison, N. J.; Laura Miller Goodman, Center Valley; Lucille Jury Wise, Berwick; Gladys E. Ramage, Pittston.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty-Two
Laura Miller (Mrs. S. D. Goodman) has moved from
Bloomsburg to Center Valley, Pa.
1923
Miss Helen Elizabeth Sutliff, 100 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, daughter of Dean and Mrs. William
Loyd Sutliff, became the bride of Robert F. Brown, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Robert F. Brown, of 5011 Walton Avenue,
Philadelphia, Saturday, May 16, in the First Presbyterian
Church of Germantown.
The ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Rev. Dr. John Clark Finney, in the chapel of the church,
a?id the bride was given in marriage by her brother, Robert G. Sutliff, of Tuckerton, N. J.
Mrs.
Brown was educated
in the Bloomsburg schools
from Bloomsburg State Teachers Colthe third grade teacher at Forney
School, Harrisburg, for some years.
Mr. Brown, an investigator with the State Department of Revenue, attended Penn Charter School, in Philadelphia, and Wenonah Military Academy.
Grace I. Williams has been teaching English and Art.
ajid was graduated
lege. She has been
high school at Hackettstown, New Jersey, since her
graduation from Susquehanna University in 1928. She
has taken graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia
University. Her address is 119 High Street, Hackettstown.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Mary M. Flick, of Bloomsburg, and A. Edward Neuhard,
of Bloomsburg R. D. 2. The wedding took place at Sonestown June 3, 1939. The bride is a teacher in the Mainville
Consolidated School and Mr. Neuhard is employed at the
U. S. Army Air Depot at Middletown.
in the
Don’t
let
anything keep you away from your twenMay. Begin planning for it now.
tieth-year reunion next
1927
Ten members
of the class of 1927 registered during
alumni activities at the college.
They were Dorothy Dodson, Luzerne; Alice B. DeRonde, Forty
Fort; Pauline Lloyd Isaacs, Forty Fort; Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke;
Verna Medley Davenport, Plymouth; Margaret E. Lambert, Loysville; Ruth Davies Aston, Wilkes-Barre; Pauline Vastine Snyder,
Sunbury; Mrs. Manta Ruth Steele, Trucksville, and Mrs. Florence
Williams Thomas, of Scranton.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty-Three
1928
Miss Ruth E. Yost, of Bloomsburg, and Lehman J.
Snyder, of Turbotville, were married at the home of the
bride Saturday, June 6. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. The bride is a graduate of Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, of the Merrill
palmer School, Detroit, Michigan, and has her master’s
degree from Columbia University. She has been teaching
in Curtin Junior High School, Williamsport. Mr. Snyder
has done graduate work at the Pennsylvania State College, and is teaching in the schools of Port Allegheny.
A
changes have taken place at Bloomsburg
fifteen years. Have you seen them?
Come back on Alumni Day next May and see how
Bloomsburg has grown.
1929
Miss Eleanor Amos, of Wilkes-Barre, and Albert
Steiner, of Bloomsburg, were married July 15, 1939, at
the parsonage of the Lutheran Church in Allentown. Mrs.
Steiner is teaching in the Wilkes-Barre schools, and Mr.
Steiner is an inspector in the York Safe and Lock' Comlot of
during the
past
pany.
Muriel
29, at her
Sachs, former teacher in the Wright
Luzerne County, died Sunday, March
Albert, Pa. She is survived by her hus-
Thomas
Township schools
home
in
in
band and three children.
Dorothy Lord Pagent
is teaching in the Union ville
Joint Consolidated School, Unionville, Pa. Her husband
is a naval officer, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia.
1930
baseball and football star in
former
Jasper Fritz,
both Bloomsburg High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has been named principal of the Osceola Mills High School, where he has been a member of the
faculty since he graduated from Bloomsburg institution
around 1930.
Fritz, a native of Bloomsburg, resided in Main township for some years and came to Bloomsburg to conclude
his high school course. He played on the line for the eleven and was a good pitcher on the nine.
It was at the Teachers College, however, that Fritz
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
August, 1942
Page Forty-Four
developed as an outsanding athlete. He was a varsity
tackle throughout his college career and also a first string
pitcher on the baseball team.
From the time he became connected with the Osceola Mills High School he has been connected with the
football team and has coached some of the finest not only
in the history of that school but in that section of the
state.
His elevens, competing year after year against teams
from larger schools, have won more than their full share
of the spoils and a losing team is something that has not
marked Fritz’s coaching career. In addition he has been
boxing coach at the school.
He is the teacher of chemistry and physics and in
being named principal succeeds Albert Hobba who recently was chosen supervising principal of the schools.
Miss Nancy Ruth Haynes, formerly of Wilkes-Barre,
now of Livingston, Tennessee, and the Rev. Ray Ferris
Brown, of Livingston, Tennessee, were married Saturday,
May 30, in Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George C.
Westberg. The bride, a graduate of Coughlin High
School, Wilkes-Barre, and
of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, taught for some time in Parsons, and
then went to Tennessee to engage in missionary work in
the mountain section of that state. The Rev. Mr. Brown
is a pastor of the Mayland and Falling Springs Baptist
Churches, near Livingston, where he and Mrs. Brown will
establish their residence.
1931
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Williams, 317 Miller Street, Luzerne, announce the marriage of their daughter, Violette,
to Wilson B. Sterling, Allentown, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Sterling, Catawissa. The ceremony took place at
Fogelsville, April 14, 1941.
Mrs. Sterling is a graduate of Luzerne High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is a teacher
in the Luzerne schools.
Mr. Sterling is a graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and Danville State Hospital School of
Nursing. He is day supervisor of male nurses and attendants at Allentown State Hospital.
Rosa D. Hill is teaching fourth grade in the consolidated school in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pa.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Five
1932
Sara Irma Lawton, of Millville, and Mans D. Eyer, of
Eyersgrove, were married Thursday, May 28, at the
Church of Christ in Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the church, the Rev. H. K.
Franks. The bride has been teaching first and second
grades in the Millville schools for several years. Mr. Eyer
is a gi’aduate of the Millville High School and spent three
years with Fairchild Funeral Directors in Brooklyn, New
York. He is a member of the firm of Altman and Eyer,
morticians, at Millville.
1933
son was born Thursday, May 7, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Brown, of Bloomsburg. Mr. Brown, a member of
the class of 1937, is a teacher in the commercial department of the Bloomsburg High School. Mrs. Brown was
formerly Grace DuBois, of Bloomsburg.
A
Milton Krauss, of Bloomsburg, enlisted in the army
January 10, and is now a member of an ordnance company and is located at Langley Field, Virginia.
Your ten-year reunion next May. This ought
big one.
Who
will take the lead in
Melba Beck has completed the
year course
burgh.
in social
service
at the
planning for
to be a
it?
year of a twoUniversity of Pitts-
first
1934
Lorraine W. Henry, of 50 Cedar Street, WilkesBarre, and Charles L. Rishel, of Pottsgrove, were married September 21, 1940, at the home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas
Henry ’31, of Palestine, Illinois. Mrs. Rishel, before her
marriage taught two and a half years in the Montour
County Schools and three and one-half years in WilkesBarre. Mr. Rishel, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State
College, is a merchant and also postmaster at Pottsgrove.
They have been living in Pottsgrove since their marriage.
1935
Rostand Kelly, formerly of Bloomsburg, has been
commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy, and
has been assigned to Porf Schuyler, New York. Mr. Kelly, who has a master’s degree from Columbia University,
has been an instructor in the Stevenson private school for
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Six
boys in New York City. He was present at the Alumni
meeting on Alumni Day and spoke briefly.
Anthony Conte, teacher of commercial subjects in
Lafayette Junior High School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, received his Master’s degree from Rutgers University in
May.
1936
Verna Jones (Mrs. D. J. Jones) served as substitute
teacher in the Nescopeck High School for several months
last year. Her husband, also a member of the class of
1936,
is
a
member
of the faculty of the
same
school.
Pvt. Charles P. Michael is a member of Company C,
176th Infantry, and is located at Anacostia, D. C. He
states “We are here primarily to guard government buildings and places of, vital strategic importance.”
1937
Miss Eddia Fanti, of Swoyerville, and Ensign George
K. Tamalis, of Edwardsville, were married June 9 in the
chapel of the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. The bride
is a graduate of College Misericordia.
She also attended
East Stroudsburg and the University of Scranton. She is
a member of the faculty of the Swoyeiwille High School.
Ensign Tamalis, before his enlistment in the Navy, was a
teacher at the Edwardsville High School. He has done
graduate work at New York University.
Several friends enjoyed a luncheon given recently
the Cathay Tea Gardens which announced the engagement of Ethel M. Bond, of Shickshinny, to Robert J. Woolston, of Germantown, Philadelphia.
Miss Bond is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and is now teaching in junior high
school, Bristol. Mr. Woolston attended business school
and is employed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
at
A daughter was born Monday, June 1, to Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Gehrig, of Danville. Mrs. Gehrig was formerly
Anna Jean Laubach
’37.
The Quarterly has been informed that Thomas Reaga lieutenant in command of a company of Military
Police at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davison live on Route 2, Annandale Road, Fairfax, Virginia. Mrs. Davison was Marie
an
is
Davis
’37.
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Seven
1938
Announcement has been made
of the engagement of
Miss Elizabeth Levan and Paul G. Martin, of Catawissa.
Miss Levan is a member of this year’s graduating class of
the Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing, and Mr. Martin is stationed at Reading as a second-class petty officer
in the construction company known as the “Seabees.”
Miss
Mary Arzella Giger and Harold
G. Roger, both
were married Sunday, April 5, in the First
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, with the Rev. Dr. J. E.
Skillington officiating. Mrs. Roger is an instructor of special education at the Tressler Orphanage, Loysville, Pa.
Mr. Roger is employed at the Magee Carpet Mill in
of Bloomsburg,
Bloomsburg.
Miss Olga Kathleen Kohan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and
T. Patrick, Jr., of Berwick, were married Saturday, April 18, at Russian Holy Trinity Orthodox Church,
Clenmore and Pennsylvania Avenue, in Brooklyn. The
Rev. Mrs. Kizitsky, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Dzwonchik, of Whitestone, New York, performed the ceremony.
The bride is a journalist for the Chinese News Service at Rockfeller Center, New York City, and her husband is employed in the Berwick A. C. F.
Frank
Dorothy Edgar has, for the past year, been taking
a course in Medical Technology at the laboratory of the
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, and has recently accepted a position in the bacteriology department there.
A great many of you will be in uniform, but the rest
you should carry on, and have a fine fifth-year reunion
next May. Someone must lead off. Who will it be?
of
The address
of Robert
W.
Hill
is
Route
2,
Annan-
dale Road, Fairfax, Virginia.
at
George Williard taught last year
Seven Springs, North Carolina.
in the
high school
1939
Announcement was recently made of the marriage of
F)’ances Donnabelle Smith and James T. Smith, both of
Sunbury. The ceremony was performed June 2, 1941, at
Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mrs. Smith taught for some
time in the Elysburg High School. Mr. Smith, a graduate
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Page Forty-Eight
01
the University of Pittsburgh,
is
employed
at Johns-
town.
Miss Bette Barbara Dietterick and Maclyn P. Smethboth of Berwick, were married Saturday, June 20, in
Christ Episcopal Church in Berwick. Mrs. Smethers has
been employed in the auditing; department of the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick, and Mr.
Smethers is employed in the sales department of the same
ers,
company.
Robert Kantner, of Danville, a member of the Naval
Reserve, is located at San Diego, California, where he is
taking a course of training. He enlisted as a yeoman,
third class. He has been teaching in Florida for the past
two years.
James
R. Kantner, Yeoman 3c, is stationed at the
Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco,
Armed Guard
California.
1940
Miss Mary Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Evans, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Michael Chism*ar, of Jeddo, Saturday, May 16, at St. Columba’s
Church, Bloomsburg with the Rev. Fr. Louis J. Yeager
officiating.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1936. The groom is a graduate of Hazle
Township High School and a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
“Individual Instruction in Typewriting” was the titwhich appeared in the May, 1942, issue
of The Business Education World. It was written by Clayton H. Hinkel, who is working for his Ed. M. degree at
Temple University. Mr. Hinkel lives at 621 Pardee Street,
Easton, Pa.
le
of an article
Miss Mary Catherine Sands, of Bloomsburg and Robof Catawissa, were married Saturday, May 23,
Linn,
ert
Mrs. Linn has been employat Charlottesville, Virginia.
ed by the Bell Telephone Company in the Bloomsburg office and Mr. Linn is a teacher in the Doylestown High
School.
M. Royce Masteller, a member of the U. S. Naval Rebeen a student at the Naval Reserve Midship-
serve, has
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August, 1942
Page Forty-Nine
man School
Room 4256.
at Annapolis.
His address at the school
is
Hazel Ruth Gotshall, of Catawissa, and Corporal
Melbourne Davis, of Danville, were married Monday,
May
25, at the Baptist Parsonage, Alexandria, Louisiana.
Isaac Jones has enlisted in the navy and is rated yeoman, second class. He is stationed with Company 415,
Newport, Rhode Island.
Edward H. Bacon enlisted in the army in March and
stationed with the Field Artillery, R. T. C., Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
is
1941
The engagement
of Miss Isabelle C. Riegel and Lieutenant Harrison J. Cameron, Jr., of Berwick, has been announced. Lt. Cameron was promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant this spring, and is now at an officers’ training
school at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he is in line for
promotion to a higher rank. After linishing his work at
Fort Benning, he expects to go to Camp Carson, Colorado.
Miss Riegel is employed in the auditing department of
the American Car and Foundry
Company
in
Berwick.
Lieutenant George B. Houseknecht, of Hughesville,
and Miss Joyce Letterman, of Bloomsburg, were married
May 23, at the home of the bride’s parents.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. E. Johnson,
Saturday,
pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Bloomsburg. Lt.
Houseknecht is stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.
June Eaton (Mrs. William H. Hess) of Bloomsburg,
died at the Bloomsburg Hospital Thursday, April 9, death
being caused by pulmonary embolism. She is survived by
her husband, a son, William Eaton Hess, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. F. Eaton, of Galeton, and two sisters, Dorothy and Peggy, also of Galeton.
Pvt. Max Arcus, of Bloomsburg, is a member of the
875th Quartermaster’s Corps, and is located at Gunter
Field, Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Arcus entered the service in October, 1941.
When Alumni Day comes around next
years will have passed since your graduation.
Come back
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and have the first of a long series of successful reunions.
be good for your morale
It will
Private William G. Kerchusky has been taking a
course of training in meteorology. His address is First
School Squadron, Barracks 193, Chanute Field, Rantoul,
Illinois.
ber,
Howard Williams enlisted in the army last Novemis now attending the Air Corps Odicers’ Candi-
and
date School at Miami Beach. Florida.
Julia C.
Hagenbuch, of R. D.
1,
Danville,
Pa.,
is
teaching commercial subjects in the high school at Wiconisco. Pa.
Ralph Crocomo
olina.
He
is
is located at Fort Bragg, North Carwith the Field Artillery, R. T. C.
William Pegg taught
Eureka, North Carolina.
Walter Reed
is
last
year
in
the high school at
a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Corps.
1942
The following are the newest members
of the
Alumni
Association
Dorothy A. Austin, Danville; Ruth Irene Baird, Mill City; Albert
Peter Barrouk, Wilkes-Barre; Elwood Harland Beaver, Catawissa;
Helen Wanda Berfuss, Nanticoke; Gei'aldine E, Bitting, Ringtown;
Bernice E. Blaine, Berwick; William E. Booth, Shamokin; Robert
Urffer Borneman, Sanatoga; George Alvin Butler, Cressona; John P.
F. Carlin, Summitt Hill; Edward Banta Carr, Luzerne; Helen Anne
Carroll, Mt. Carmel; Herbert R. Chandler, Jr., Bloomsburg; Stella
Clare Chilek, Avoca; Carolyn Catherine Cole, Benton; Wilfred Harold Conrad, Benton, R. D. 2; Mary A. Davenport, Berwick; James
William Davies, West Pittston; Merrill A. Deitrich, Bloomsburg; Edwin John Deleski, Wilkes-Barre; Chester L. Derolf, Wilkes-Barre;
Candace Lila Dietrich, Kutztown, R. D. 2; Viola W. Disbrow, Forty
Fort; Mildred Ruth Eaton, Lehighton; Margaret Mae Eroh, Nescopeck; Sylvia B. Feingold, Souderton; H. Burnis Fellman, Allentown;
George J. Griffith, Wilkes-Barre; Doris M. Guild, South Waverly;
Alexander Hardysh, Mt. Carmel; Earl Joseph Harris, Bloomsburg,
R. D. 5; Stuart L. Hartman, Danville, R. D. 4; Roberta L. Hastie,
A-voca; Leonard L. Herr, Shamokin; Bertha A. Hindmarch, Mt. Carmel; Elizabeth Edna Hoagland, Elysburg; Bernice E. Honicker, St.
Clair; Dale Wesley Hoover, Dalmatia; Francis Elizabeth Hull, Shamokin; Ruth A. James, Taylor; Robert Lee Johnson, Ickesburg; Mar-
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August, 1942
Page Fifty-One
Jr., Berwick; Helen Jean
Klingerman, Berwick; Helen Sophie Kokora, Mocanaqua; Jean Elizabeth Lantz, Berwick; Mrs. Margaret McCulla Lash, Freeland; George
Dayton Leiser, Watsontown; Linda lone Lord, Minersville; Irene
Theresa Lendosky, Hazleton; Walter R. Lewis, Danville, R. D. 3; Harriet Anna Love, Waterville; Mary Charlene Margie, Wilkes-Barre.
garet Marie Jones, Taylor; Paul A. Klinger,
Adrian Masanotti, Berwick; Ludmilla Matanin, Mountaintop, R.
D. 1; Richard O. Matthes, Reading; Frank Joseph McAloose, Kelayres; Ralph Earl McCracken, Allentown; Helene J. McGonigle,
Shenandoah; Jack Lee Mertz, Northumberland; Adelaide M. Mesh,
Gten Lyon; Walter H. R. Mohr, Scranton; Mary Jane Mordan, Northumberland; David Nelson, Hazleton; George Noel, Natalie; Jeanne
L.ucille Noll, Palmerton; Richard C. Nonnemacher, Allentown; Joseph A. Olshefski, Mt. Carmel; Catherine M. O’Neill, Freeland; June
E. Op linger, Norristown; Dawn Harriet Osman, Shamokin; James
Daniel Pape, Hazleton; Dominic Robert Pino, Hazleton; Peter George
Podwika, Wyoming; Gladys Elaine Raby, Ephrata; Lydia B. Repeha;
Minersville; Josephine Miriam Rhinard, Berwick; Ruth Janet Rhys,
V.'arrior Run; Roy Lee Rishel, Danville; Katherine Louise Ruck,
Gouldsboro; Stanley T. Schuyler, Berwick; Louise Eleanor Seaman,
Hamburg; Doris L. Sears, Shamokin; R. D. 2; Mary Jane Sharpless,
Bloomsburg; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; John Anthony Shlanta, Mayfield; Alberta Cynthia Sincavage, Kulpmont; M. Claii'e Sirrocco,
Pottsville; Lois E. Slopey, Bloomsburg; William Elmer Smiih,
Bloomsburg, R. D. 2; Carl David Snyder, Catawissa; Helen Ruth F.
Snyder, Bloomsburg; Edward D. Sloback, Wilkes-Barre; Aleta Phyllis Stiles, Red Lion, R. D. 2; Barbara Jane Straub, Berwick; Frank
Stuart Straub, Berwick; Dora K. Taylor, West Grove; Francis Paul
Thomas, Troy; Grace Jean Thomas, Bloomsburg; Harold Paul TrethWilkes-Barre; Eleanor Marie Twardzik; Shenandoah; Frank
Francis Valente, Hazleton; William Powell Wanich, Light Street;
Robert W. Watkins, Numidia; Eva L. Watters, Mifflinville; Robert
Joseph Webb, Pine Grove, R. D. 1; Mary Ellen Whitby, Edwardsville;
Erma Marie Wolfgang, Shamokin; Rachel M. Yarowsky, Pottsville;
Stewart C. Yorks, Trucksville; David Marion Young, Danville; Edna
Mae Zehner, Nescopeck, R. D. 1; Ralph H. Zimmerman, Berwick.
av.’ay,
The engagement of Helen Klingerman and Ralph
McCracken was announced at the Senior ball of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College held at the Hotel
Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, Thursday evening, May 21. Burnis
Fellman, roommate of Mr. McCracken, told the classmates of the engagement during dancing.
Miss Klingerman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris R. Klingerman, of Berwick. During her four years
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College she was active in
the college band and orchestra, the Business Education
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Page Fifty-Two
Club, and has this year served as secretary of the Senior
She was graduated from the Berwick High School
with the class of 1938.
Mr. McCracken, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCracken, of Allentown, was graduated from the Allentown High School in 1933. At Bloomsburg he is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Sigma Pi educational fraternities, the Business Education Club, and vice president
of the Community Government Association.
class.
Bernice E. Blaine and Hurley C. Stout, Jr., both of
Berwick, were married Saturday, April 4, at the First
Methodist Church in Berwick. Mr. Stout is employed by
the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick.
Miss Joan Wenner, of Bloomsburg, and Edwin Deleski, of Wilkes-Barre, were manned Saturday, April 4,
in the rectory of St. Columba’s Church in Bloomsburg.
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Twenty-six
who completed
their work for degree of
Education at the Bloomsburg State Teachsummer were told at a dinner at the college in
Bachelor of Science
ers College this
their
School
in
honor by Dr. Morris Smith, president of Susquehanna Uni-
upon you, the teachers of the coming generation,
power that comes with nature, the
strength that comes from friendship and by the strength, power
and vitality which comes from the Book of Books the Bible.”
E. A. Reams, of the college faculty, was the toastmaster
and Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff gave the invocation. G.
Gordon Keller entertained during the dinner with selections on
the solovox and Miss Harriet Moore led the singing with Howard
F. Fenstemaker at the piano. A musical feature was a vocal
solo by Miss Peggie Beach.
President Harvey A. Andruss in presenting the academic
awards based his remarks on Henry Van Dyke’s ‘To the Unknown Teacher.” The program closed with Dr. Smith’s address
and the national anthem.
Those completing their work for degrees and who were
honored at the dinner were
versity, “I call
to fortify yourself with the
—
Elementary
—Anna
Shamokm
Frances Austin, Luzerne;
Mildred P.
Rose Elizabeth Bott, Nuremberg; Jemima
Eltringham, Mt. Carmel; Sara I. Ermish, Berwick; Ann J. Evans,
Taylor; D. Pauline Franklin, Shickshinny R. D. 3; Dorothy Eileen Kreiger, Mahanoy City; Jane E. Lewis, Plymouth; Marian
Diana Long, Northumberland; Helene T. McGonigle, Shenandoah; Anna Ixes Northrup, Dalton R. D. 2; Harriet Elizabeth
Roan, Bloomsburg; Doris L. Sears, Shamokin R. D. 2; H. DoroBixler,
;
thy Selecky, Wapwallopen
;
Florence A.
Traub,
Luzerne; Jos-
ephine Yocum, Danville R. D. 3 J. Corrine Zeigler, Herndon.
Secondary
Edith Margaret Behr, Lopez; Joseph Anthony
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Olfshefski, Mt. Carmel;
Agnes A.
Pakutka,
Duryea; Luther
Troutman, Nanty-Glo.
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Business Education
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Esther
Lillian
Edward
Claire Sirrocco, Pottsville;
Speaking on the theme “Education
Dr. Smith spoke in part as follows
“I looked
Curtis,
Duryea; M.
D. Solack, Wilkes-Barre.
in a ‘Crackpot’
World,”
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up the work
‘crackpot’ in the dictionary and
found that it means a ‘lunatic.’ The
more I began to think about it the more I said, ‘That’s the kind
of a world we have been living in for the last number of years.’
1 think I can demonstrate
something of the accuracy of that
statement. Take for example the godlessness of Russia, the allsupreme states of Germany and Italy. States that are supreme
over individuals in every phase of life. ‘Totalitarianism,’ it is
called. I call all these brands of lunacy.
strange as
it
may
seem,
I
“Consider the dark background of teaching
in the latter
There is Charles Darwin’s statement
that you could account for this world and for man and for all
the developments of different species without postulating a
deity. Then there is the basic materialistic fundamentals of the
theories of Karl Marx
that life lies in the abundance of ma-
half of the 19th century.
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terial things.
Consider, too, the fostering of pagan deities in the
liberettos of
Richard Wagner and the theory of Friedrich Nietweak should perish and the sooner they are got-
sche
—
that the
ten rid of the better for
m
this
going on
of the
all
concerned.
War
is
the glorious thing
philosophy. These are the kinds of things that have been
1
in literature,
music, and philosophy during the last part
9th century and as
Wagner and
much
as
we admire
the general theory of evolution,
a great deal of lunacy about the teaching of
I
the music of
hold that there
men
is
like that
you three sources of strength in this ‘crackpot’ world. First, I suggest that you go out in the midst of unspoiled nature and renew your faith with Him who is behind
“I suggest to
nature.
Friendship,
I
suggest, with stimulating people will bring
you power. And then I suggest to you above everything else
that you keep in close contact with that great spiritual textbook,
the Bible. The truth is that you only build spiritual power by
spiritual instruments. As you would build a garage with ma-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Three
terial things, you build spiritual power with spiritual instruments.
The spiritual instrument of all spiritual instruments is the Bible.
If you want to lift the atmosphere of your classroom, if you want
your pupils to see in you a light which never was on land or
you’ve got to use the spiritual instruments, you’ve got to
familiar with this Book. I call upon you, the teachers
sea,
become
power
comes with nature, the strength that comes from friendship
and by the strength, power and vitality which comes from the
Book of Books the Bible.”
of the coming generation, to fortify yourself with the
that
—
Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the opening of the
six-weeks’ term offered a course in pre-flight aeronautics for secondary teachers, men and women.
The course was one of seventy-two hours work for the
term and included civil air regulations, meteorology and naviga-
summer
tion.
The
the
first
was
would equip high school teachers
College, already a pioneer in aviation education,
to plan a course that
to instruct in aviation and in May of this year sent out letters to
county superintendents and high school principals in the service
what the state wanted with regard to aviation
and what the college was prepared to offer.
The response was so encouraging that a number of other
institutions in the area quickly fell in line and plan to offer the
same type of work.
The instructors were Dr. H. H. Russell, meteorology;
George C. Buchheit, navigation, and Dean John C. Koch, civil
area, explaining
instruction
One novel
air regulations.
feature
of
the course
offered at
Bloomsburg was at least an hour in the air to give them practical
knowledge of flight to correlate with the ground school work.
The flight was optional with the student but was available, without cost, to
all
taking the course.
Four hours college credit were given for each the elementary and the advanced course. These were in the
ematics, science
and geography. They were
fields
of math-
also used to
make
a college certificate permanent.
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October, 1942
Page Four
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of the College Board of Trus-
and industrial life of
Bloomsburg, and since 1913 president and treasurer of the
Bloomsburg Silk Mill, more recently the Bloomsburg Mills, Inc.,
died at his home on Market Street, Monday, June 22.
On March 30, 1940, Mr. Yorks sustained a stroke, from
which he never fully recovered.
tees, for
years a leader
in the civic
He was born January 23, 1888,
at Paterson, N. J., the son
of the late Frederick G. Yorks and Frieda Kohlhass Yorks, and
came
Bloomsburg with his parents in the early 1890’s. At
that time his father was an experienced silk man who became
associated with Joseph Ratti, who established the Bloomsburg
to
889
as a silk throwing plant.
Yorks became president and general manager of the
company and upon the death of Mr. Ratti in 1906, purchased
plant in
1
F. G.
control.
The local plant was converted into a silk weaving plant
and operations were extended to Lock Haven.
Upon the death of his father in 1913 the management of
the plants was taken on by Milton K. Yorks, and the Duryea and
Reynoldsville plants were added to the company.
Mr. Yorks was graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School and after taking special summer work at the Bloomsburg
State Normal School entered Lafayette College, from which he
was graduated in 1910.
Under Mr. Yorks’ management operations were expanded
and sales offices were established in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Los Angeles.
He served Bloomsburg both as a member of town council
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Five
and the school board. He was for many years a director of the
Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company and served as a director of the Bloomsburg Hospital.
At one time he was a member of the board of managers of
the National Federation of Textiles.
Mr. Yorks took an active interest
in the First
Presbyterian
taken ill served on the church board.
he was identified with the Republican party
throughout his life, and an outstanding figure in the party’s
council in the county. He served as delegate to the Republican
National Convention in the year Alfred Landon was nominated
church and
until
Politically,
for president.
Fraternally, he
was
affiliated
with the Consistory, Wash-
Royal Arch Chapter No. 218 and
Crusade Commandery No. 12, all local Masonic bodies.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. W. Potts Jones, and a niece.
Miss Patricia Jones, both at home.
Funeral services were held at the Dyke funeral home with
the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker in charge. Burial was made in
the family plot at the Old Rosemont cemetery.
ington Lodge, Bloomsburg
•
ADDITIONS TO
WORLD WAR
The following Alumni
of
1
ROSTER
Bloomsburg served in the United
World War in 1917-18,
States Naval Reserve Force during the
and were the
States.
first
enlisted
women
in
Their military records are on
the history of the United
file
in the
Department of
Military Affairs, Harrisburg.
Katherine Waters, Catawissa, Pa.
Hazel M. Hartman Koehler, 473 Wilde Avenue, Drexel
Hill,
Pa.
Sadie Crumb, 1232 You Street,
S. E., Washington, D. C.
Adele Mead Kendrick ’04, 1453 Seventh Avenue, S. W.,
Miami, Florida.
Lillian M. Kearney, 82 Market Street, Pittston, Pa.
Blanche Miller Grimes ’05, 204 North Second Street, Har-
risburg, Pa.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Six
Athletic^
The following article, from the “Fanning” column of the
Morning Press, is such a good summary of the history of track
athletics at Bloomsburg, that we are pleased to publish it in this
issue
of-
the Quarterly.
Across the desk the other evening came a story about Ern-
Lau being named a second lieutenant and thoughts turned
back to what the local boy and others have done in the past decade to develop track and field sports on the Hill.
While in the past half dozen years it has been track above
all other sports that has brought the Husky into the athletic sun,
est
the sport, with the exception
of soccer,
is
the newest
on the
Bloomsburg athletic program if you count from the last time it
was put on the calendar.
They had track and field sports on the hill in the old days
and they did pretty well in their competition and put up some
marks that stood for long periods, although all have now been
blotted out in the successful strides of the Huskies who have
been undefeated in dual meets since 935 and were four straight
times champions of Pennsylvania.
Of course, that is all well known history to followers of
1
college sports, but many times it is overlooked that those track
crowns are the only ones that have come to the Maroon and
Gold since the baseball title of 1935. Many times the court fives
have been leading challengers but never have they come through
to the
title.
In the
days immediately after the
World War the male
and if there were
the fates had been more
first
college population often did not exceed sixty
seventy boys on the
hill
the coach felt
than kind to him.
From
this
meagre supply of material they developed some
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Seven
good
football, basketball
and baseball teams, but
of some of the boys being all-round performers.
it was a case
Under such a
was no place for track because the boys could not
play baseball and perform on the cinders at the same time.
During the spring, around 1924, George M. Meade, now
head of the department of physical education for the city of Detroit, had enough good boys in the various events that he did
set-up there
revive the sport.
A triangular track and field meet was arranged with Wyoming Seminary and Dickinson Seminary, then leading Husky
rivals, in the Nesbitt Memorial Stadium in Kingston.
George
Schwall and a handful of other Bloomsburg specialists gave the
Maroon and Gold more firsts in that event than went to either
of the other schools but Wyoming had more performers and took
the
title.
From
George Buchheit came into the college
coaching picture, track and field had no place in the athletic
scheme of things.
that time until
Buchheit, although
standout performer for
he’d
be the
Illinois in his
last to
tell
college days
you, was a
and he loves
the sport.
Bloomsburg had just before that felt that something should
be done in this regard and had started an invitation scholastic
track and field meet, something on the plane in which the schoolboy basketball tourneys were conducted.
kies
These were helping to bring in some talent and the Husfrom this beginning started organizing a team.
At the outset of this reconstruction era the local collegians
were carried along largely by their distance runners. Probably
they did best
in
these events because of cross county in the
fall.
Lau and Jimmy Karns were among the first of these good distance men and they were followed by Ken Hippensteel, of Espy,
and Dan Kemple, of Cumbola.
West Chester, down in suburban Philadelphia where there
was plenty of opposition, had been dominating the State Teachers Colleges in the annual meet. In fact. West Chester was dom-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
!
Page Eight
were getting
inating the sport to a point that the other schools
tired of
doing nothing but providing the scenery.
It
looked
like
monoply killing off the event.
When Bloomsburg started going to those state meets the
Huskies had no hope of winning. They were just in there trying
to make a showing. We recall one year they were after 20
points and got 30 and were they happy
Buchheit early realized he had to get his charges confident
and Bucknell was added to the list. It was about 934 that the
Bucknellians came to town and the Huskies, through their superiority on the cinders, won from the Bisons.
Many who hadn’t been following the local team’s progress
thought it was an upset. But just to prove it wasn’t, the Huskies
a case of
1
continued domination over Bucknell
until
this
year
when
the
meet was cancelled by Bucknell for the duration, because of a
shortened spring term.
While the team has achieved outstanding success it has always been a case of quality and not quantity. There never has
been a year that the Huskies had as many as a dozen first rate
performers. The fact is that when all eleven boys in the state
meet contributed to the score this year they set a record in that
regard.
The
product
first
who
big
all
round man was Lamar Blass, the Aristes
taught at Catawissa for a year or two after grad-
uating and then went to
Blass, a big
size,
New
scored two points
in
agile for
one of
his
dual competition with Susquehanna at
Selinsgrove one afternoon.
We
Holland.
chap who was decidedly
The Crusaders never got over
that.
don’t believe they ever tackled the Huskies after that.
When
was graduated
howl about
Shamokin
came
to
start
ringing
up
points
as
did
sprinter,
in
Eddie Mulhern
and Kemple. After Van Devender departed it was Kemple who
was the big point-getter. Then came the Jenkins brothers, Don
and Harry, who are now both flying for Uncle Sam, and after
them came the two present aces, George Spontak and Mat Kasthe
Blass
team going
the boys started to
to pot, but Frankie
Van Devender,
uba.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
the
,
Page Nine
In order to act as a spur for better accomplishments, they
got out the old record book, in the days before World
War
1
and the lads of the past decade took a look and went to work.
Last of the old
for a
marks
to
go was a 4 38 mile that had hung on
:
good many years.
But
of the old
all
marks have been erased npw a number
of years and the continued improvement of the sport on the
new ones
allowed most of the
hasn’t
to last
hill
much more than
a
year or two.
Track and
field
are most likely to go out for the duration
but they have added some thrilling pages to Bloomsburg history
and
who
it
has brought to the Husky athletic front some
are
now making good
them every day
—
in
fine
and
Uncle Sam.
teaching, coaching
in the front lines for
chaps
—more
of
FOOTBALL DROPPED THIS YEAR
no varsity football team at Bloomsburg this fall.
drop the sport for the time being came as a reof the conditions growing out of the war. With the numThere
is
The decision
sult
ber of
men
to
students at the College greatly reduced, there are
not enough experienced players to
and rubber
rationing, the
furthermore,
made
it
make up
difficulties
difficult, if
of
a team.
With gas
transportation have,
not impossible, to maintain a
schedule.
Consequently, the attention
other directions for the duration.
sports has
m
athletics will
A program
be turned
in
intra-mural
of
been developed during recent years, and
this
pro-
gram will now
A soccer team is to
be formed, and the regular varsity basketball schedule will be
carried out this winter.
No official announcement has been
made with regard to baseball and track next spring.
receive increased attention.
Lois Yaple, of Benton,
ville, is
now
who
has been teaching
in Mifflin-
teaching in the high school at Benton.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Ten
MEN
To
see
IN
WALLER HALL
somewhat of a shock to
at the windows in the third and fourth floors of Waller
To those whose memory goes back to two or three destudents of recent years,
it
is
men
Hall.
cades ago, the sight
is
quite familiar.
In the days of Dr. Waller, the third
and fourth
Waller Hall were the regular quarters of the
men
floors of
The
from the west end of the library wing around to what
is now the lobby, were occupied by men.
If the walls of all of
these rooms could speak, what stories they could tell! They
could tell of one student, now a member of the faculty, who
saw a man prowling around on the front campus one evening.
The student, thinking that the man was a suspicious character,
poured a pitcher of water on the head of the unfortunate individual. What was the student’s consternation when he was later
called into Dr. Waller’s office and asked to explain why he had
the temerity to duck a member of the Board of Trustees!
Another room could tell of another student, who liked to
smoke his pipe in his room. Knowing that this was against the
rules, he would watch his window-shade, and when the shade
blew outward, he knew that it was safe to smoke, as the smoke
would go out of the window, and not into the corridor.
Another room could tell of a student, in scanty attire, who
was being hunted by a near-sighted hall teacher. The said
teacher came into the room where the student was, looked under the table, right at the student, and never saw him.
Another room could tell of a student who spent so much
two
students.
floors
time at his girl-friend’s house
down
ents decided that he might as well
when
the
his trunk
young man
left his girl’s
town, that his fellow-stud-
move down.
Consequently,
house one evening, he found
on the front porch.
The change that has taken place this year has been caused
by the presence on the campus of a large number of navy cadets
who are taking special courses at the College, and are being
trained in flying at the airport. The cadets are now housed in
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Eleven
North Hall, which has been a men’s dormitory for many years,
and the students have been moved to Waller Hall. Partitions
have been placed in the corridors, and other adjustments will
be made
later.
PRESIDENT ANDRUSS DELIVERS ADDRESS
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Teachers College, delivered the address at the annual dinner of the Beta Chapter,
Oklahoma Agriculture and
Oklahoma, Monday evening,
July 13. This fraternity is composed of graduate students in
the field of business education. Their annual dinner was originally scheduled for July
but was postponed in order that
President Andruss might deliver the address before beginning
two weeks of lectures in the graduate school.
Delta Pi Epsilon fraternity,
at the
Mechanical College, Stillwater,
1
President Andruss
1
used
subject
as his
“Better Business
Education” and in outlining the problems of today he said “anyone who reads today realizes after a time that thinking in both
business and education
often
it
is
isolated
remember
rather than relearn the hard
“The biggest business
cation
IS
and inconclusive.
appears to review fundamental principles
in the
won
world
is
Every so
order to
in
lessons.
but edu-
business;
the biggest business of this generation, in the
racies as well as in the dictatorship of the world.
If
democ-
we
are to
preserve the best of the vocational, economic, and social phases
of business education for those students
these experiences,
we must
try to
who need one
apply,
through
of or
all
guidance,
what we already know.
“When we are able to avoid the danger of dualistic thinkwhen we cease assuming that what is, is necessarily right,
and when we are able to distinguish true progress from mere
change, we can consolidate our gains and move on to our righting,
ful place in the
education of the youth of America.
Then we
shall have better business education.”
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twelve
LARGE ENROLLMENT
Bloomsburg State Teachers College’s three-week post seshad an enrollment of 141, the largest since this was made
a part of the college calendar. The number, which did not include forty men in the enlisted army air reserves, was well
above the previous high of 128.
The summer attendance was good throughout. For the
first time a pre-s6ssion of three weeks was presented and the
attendance of 49 was the third largest of any teachers college
in the state. The summer session attendance of
70 was five
above last year and fourth among the Commonwealth’s teachers
sion
1
1
colleges.
Included
in the
post sesion curriculum was a course in en-
tomology which was offered for the first time as an elective in
the science field and was given by Dr. Kimber Kuster.
Other courses and the instructors were
Arts and Crafts
economics I, E. A. Reams economics
II, Mrs. Amanda Thomas
:
;
II,
;
Miss Bertha Rich; modern trends
in
education, H. F. Fenste-
maker; chemistry I, S. I. Shortess; psychology II, J. J. Fisher,
and English I, S. L. Wilson.
There were more aviation students at Bloomsburg than all
of the other teachers colleges of the state combined. The preaeronautics course given during the
flight
tended by a
full class
of twenty,
summer
was the only one
session, at-
of
its
kind
given in the teachers college as a separate course.
It
had
for
its
purpose the preparation of secondary teachers
instruction in high schools
to give such
and was so success-
ful that at a meeting of teachers college presidents at Harrisburg
President Harvey A. Andruss, of Bloomsburg, explained the
program in a discussion which he headed. This is in accord with
the new policy of the government in aviation education.
Donald
1937,
in the
is
B.
now
army
Moyer, who attended Bloomsburg m 1936 and
Randolph Field, Texas. He enlisted
February, 1941.
in training at
in
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirteen
TEACHERS
Demand
expressed a desire to
there are
armed
DEMAND
been
Every member of the class of 942
teach has been placed. However,
for teachers throughout Pennsylvania has
particularly great this year.
who
IN
1
many who are awaiting notification to serve in the
and who consequently have not sought positions.
forces,
There have been instances where students have been given
have not received certification to teach.
In this case, emergency certificates are issued to the person who
positions, although they
is
lacking several credits for graduation.
accept teachers of
this
School
districts
which
type do not secure financial aid for the
some
emergency teachers.
A demand has also been shown for men and women who
taught during the first World War, and who since that time have
not been following the profession.
particular individual, but, because of the lack of teachers
schools have been obliged to hire
Mrs.
W.
Potts Jones (Elsie Yorks) sister of the late Milton
K. Yorks, of Bloomsburg, has been appointed to succeed her
brother as a
member
of the Board of Trustees of the Blooms-
burg State Teachers College. The appointment of Mrs. Jones
completes the six-member board. The other members are R. S.
Hemingway, president; Fred W. Diehl, Danville, vice-president;
W. Clair Hidlay, Bloomsburg, secretary-treasurer; Frank D.
Croop, Berwick, and M. J. Crispin, Berwick.
President Harvey A. Andruss, with the cooperation of the
members
Department of Business Education at the Colbook “Better Business Education,”
which came from the press of the Gregg Publishing Company
in July, The book of 390 pages covers exhaustively the field of
Business Education, in which President Andruss has been a leadlege,
is
er for
of the
the author of the
many
years.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
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Page Fourteen
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
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
Hervey
B.
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 Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second
—
—
Street,
Harrisburg,
—
Pa.;
Treasurer
—Howard
M.
Kreitzer,
120
Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa.
Lackawanna County
—
President W. Archibald Reese, 1154 Cornell Street, Scranton, Pa.;
Vice-Presidents Clinton Weisenfluh, 326 Main Street, Old Forge,
Pa.; Eva Morgan, 2139 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Marie
Cabo Lesniak, 1315 Prospect Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Secretary
Florence Dunn, Jermyn, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia Bohn, 227 Steven
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 Car-
President
—Edna
—
—
—
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.
lisle Street,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
—Mrs.
Lester Bennett,
—
Page Fifteen
Montour County
Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.;
Vice-President Dorothy Sidler, R. D. 2, Danville, Pa.; Secretary Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treasurer
President,
—
—
Mildred Auten, R. D.
Danville, Pa.
1,
Northumberland County
—
President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Sti'eet, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer 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-Presi-
President
—
Palsgrove,
—
—
dent
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
—
Main
Street,
Mahanoy
—
—
City, Pa.
Philadelphia
—
President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary
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
President
—Harold Danowsky, R.
3,
Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President
—
Eugene Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen
Keller, Maple Street, MiffUnburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary
Mrs. Harold Baker, Market
—
—
Street,
MiffUnburg, Pa.; Treasurer
— Anna
Troutman, Selins-
grove, Pa.
Susquehanna-Wyoming Coimties
—
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 Larue Derr,
Beaver; Secretary
Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.
—
—
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Sixteen
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI HONOR MR. AND MRS. COOL
A
assemblage gathered at the home of Mr. and
2 N. 50th Street, Philadelphia, when
the Philadelphia Alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held open house for them August 6th on the occasion of
their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and which continued throughout the week.
The house was beautifully decorated with dozens of bouquets of flowers sent in by friends and relatives.
The wedding cake was a gift from friends.
There were over a hundred and fifty guests, many of them
from out of town, Wilmington, Del., Shenandoah, Bloomsburg,
Norristown, Union City, N. J., Camden, Haddonfield, Westmont,
Collingswood, N. J., and Atlantic City, and from the smaller
towns near the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Cool received many and rare gifts of dozens
of telegrams with good wishes.
The Philadelphia Alumni presented them with a white satin
book of “Memories” into which was pinned a one hundred dol-
Mrs.
brilliant
Norman
G. Cool,
1
1
The presentation was impressive, and was made by
Nevin Elwell Funk, in which he eulogized the lives of both Mr.
and Mrs. Cool and the good work they have done for the orlar bill.
ganization.
It
who
was Mrs. Cool who founded
has been
its
the Philadelphia group, and
president for eleven years.
Both Mr. and Mrs.
Cool responded to the presentation.
A
buffet lunch
was served by the Philadelphia Alumni.
Mr. and Mrs. Cool have hosts of friends and relatives
in
Bloomsburg and are well known up on College Hill. Mr. Cool
was a graduate of the class of 886 and Mrs. Cool of the class
of 888, when the college was still a State Normal School.
They have one son, Harold, of Culver City, Calif., and four
1
1
grandchildren,
is
in the air
all
of California.
A
grandson,
Norman
G. Cool,
corps in Arizona.
Mr. and Mrs. Cool are taking a week’s vacation and a
ond honeymoon at Mt. Gretna.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
sec-
Page Seventeen
Hlumru personals
1886
Judge William R. Lewis, of Scranton, Pa., passed away
about September 0. Judge Lewis was a prominent jurist, and
was always a loyal alumnus of Bloomsburg. He served as toastmaster of the Lackawanna County alumni reunion held at Scranton last October. The news of Judge Lewis’ death reached the
editor’s desk just as the Quarterly was about to go to press. It is
A
editor’s desk just as the Quarterly was about to go to press.
will
published
the
next
issue.
more detailed obituary
be
in
1
1888
Start the ball rolling
now
for your fifty-fifth year reunion
next May.
Margaret
ettstown.
New
Pell Petty (Mrs. H. D.
Jersey,
is
now
Beaty) formerly of Hack-
living at
215 West Second
Street,
Berwick, Pa.
1893
1943
now
to
is
make
the
it
big year.
The
fiftieth-year
reunion!
year reunion.
Begin
Start
a big one.
1898
May, 1943: Your
make your plans.
forty-fifth
now
to
1902
A. N. Keller, husband of Mrs. Etta Connor Keller, of the
College faculty, has retired after fifteen years of service as supervisor of
wood-working and sheet metal work
in
the Shick-
shinny High School.
Mr. Keller, one of the most widely travelled
was
men
in the
Marines from 1901 to 1905, and during
that time visited points along the coast of North and South
state,
in the U. S.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Eighteen
America. Since that time he has made extensive trips that have
taken him to all parts of the world.
From 905 to 908, Mr. Keller was a wood-worker at the
1
1
Orangeville Agricultural Works,
m
1
and from 1909
1914 was
From
924 he was steward and deputy game warden at the
to
the cabinet shops of the U. S. Treasury at Washington.
9 4
1
to
1
North Mountain Club House.
Mr. and Mrs. Keller have at Orangeville one of the finest
homes in the state, with (the features including a 50,000-gallon
indoor swimming pool.
Ada
D. Harrison lives at 103 4th Avenue, Newark,
New
Jersey.
1903
Next May you will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of
your graduation from Bloomsburg. Who will start the ball rolling
now?
1904
Mrs.
Avenue,
Emma
Seattle,
Berry Motter is now living at 2717 Franklin
Washington. Her daughter Helen, a former
United Airline stewardess,
is
the wife of Lieutenant
Commander
James Thwing, and lives in Seattle. Lt. Thwing is with the Naval Reserves. Her son, Ensign George Motter, is also with the
Naval Reserves in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremeston,
Washington. Mrs. Motter will be glad to hear from her Bloomsburg friends, and will also be glad to see any one who may visit
Seattle.
1905
Shambach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Y. Shambach, of Camp Hill, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
Junior Grade in the Naval Reserve at the United States Naval Air
Station, Jacksonville, Florida.
He has been on duty as a squadron instructor and assistant flight officer at the Jacksonville Air
Lieutenant Shambach, a graduate of the Camp Hill
Station.
High School and of the Pennsylvania State College, was employed in the Locke Insulator Corporation at Baltimore before he enHarold
L.
listed in the service.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Nineteen
1906
Miss Dorothea
May
Zecher, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Wil-
liam E. Zecher (Ethel Titus), of 1415 Clearview Street, Phila-
Henry Melson, of
The ceremony took place in
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Lebanon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Melson are graduates of Duke University, in the class of 939.
delphia, recently
became
the bride of Robert
Philadelphia and Forty Fort, Pa.
1
Lois DeWitt (Mrs. Charles G. McBride) lives at
1
644 Guilmember
Her husband has been a
ford Road, Columbus, Ohio.
of the faculty of Ohio State University.
The address of Ethel
Maxwell
»M.
is
P. 0.
Box
1908
to
Lehman,
8,
Pa.
1908
Wanted:
make
A member
of the class of
plans for the thirty-fifth
now
start
to
year reunion, May, 1943.
1910
8 at his home near Burbank, Califrom business for about two years,
and had bought a chicken farm. His wife and mother are living
Merrill
fornia.
Smith died April
He had been
1
retired
in California.
1911
Mrs. Miriam Vannatta Freas, formerly of Bloomsburg,
teaching at the Sharwood School
in
is
Philadelphia.
1912
Myrtle B. Belles (Mrs. Robert
J.
George)
lives
on Rutter
Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Mary
Fruite (Mrs. Lloyd Puder) lives in
Maplewood, New
Jersey.
Lena Severance (Mrs. Ray Roberts)
lives
at
R. D. 2,
Nicholson, Pa.
The address
of Lucile
Wakeman
(Mrs. K.
J.
Rair)
is
Box
75, Laceyville, Pa.
1913
Don’t
let
the war spoil your plans for your thirtieth-year
reunion next May.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty
1914
Brigadier General Idwal H. Edwards has been appointed As-
United States Army. From the time
he entered the armed forces in the days of World War I, General Edwards has been identified with the Air Corps, and for
some time was the commandant at Randolph Field.
During the spring he was called to Washington, and not
long after, it was announced that he had been advanced from
the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier General, and was placed
in charge of the entire training and organization program of
the army.
He is a native of Lackawanna County, and his wife is the
former Katherine Bierman, of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Edwards is
the daughter of the late Dr. Henry Bierman, of the class of
1882.
sistant Chief of Staff of the
days of the first World War, General Edwards was a
mate of Brigadier General James Doolittle, who led the
highly successful surprise attack on Japan last April.
In the
flying
He
many
is
the son of the late Rev. D. T. Edwards,
dent of Pittsburgh.
Anne
His mother
years in Taylor and Scranton.
He
the father
is
of
who lived for
now a resi-
is
two daughters, Miss
and Miss
Louise, a student at the University of Texas,
Katherine,
now
wards and
his family live at Fort
attending school
in
Washington.
General Ed-
Meyer, Virginia.
General Edwards made an outstanding scholastic record
Bloomsburg, and was active in athletics. He played varsity
football, and was quarterback of two Bloomsburg teams in
games against Wyoming Seminary, which at the time was
at
Bloomsburg’s leading
James
F.
rival.
Gearhart, of Montgomery, Pa., passed
the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Friday, August 7.
been
in the hospital since
May
1
0,
hart wrote a cheerful letter to the
1
938.
In
members of
away at
He had
May, Mr. Gearhis class,
meet-
ing in their thirty-year reunion. His letter said in part:
“Last summer I was hoping to become well enough to attend
our thirty-year reunion, but since then I have had two more opera-
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-One
and although my condition is somewhat better, I very rarely
sit in a wheel chair, and am far from being a well person.
“At the time of our twenty-five year reunion, 1 was suffering
considerably from my spinal injury, but at that time did not realize
tions,
the real nature of the injury.
“Mrs. Gearhart has my position as teacher of science
Montgomery-Clinton High School, and has been teaching since
at the
I
came
to Philadelphia.
“Our eldest daughter graduated in the commercial course at
B. S. T. C. in 1941, and soon after that secured a position in the F.
B. I. She and Mr. Charles Bakey, Jr., of the class of ’40, were married last October. He has a position in the Department of Agriculture, and leaves for camp May 21.
“Our younger daughter Geraldine hopes to finish a course in
nursing at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, next October. Our son
graduates at Dickinson Junior College May 25, and is finishing his
course in aviation near that date. He is applying for entrance into
the Navy Aviation course.
“Do you remember when some of the fellows lubricated the hinges of the fire-escape door, so that their late entrance would not be
detected? No, certainly not they were not members of the class of
1912! And do you remember when third floor played fourth floor in
football and paraded at night or attempted to parade?
—
—
name should be added to the list of those
World War I. He served from May to November
in the 22nd Company, Land Replacement Troops, Medical
Corps, and in the Central Officers’ Training School at Camp Lee,
Mr, Gearhart’s
who
served
in
Virginia.
<
William H. Davis lives at
ton,
New
York.
He expressed
attend his class reunion
1
85 Washington
Street,
his regrets at not
Bingham-
being able to
this year.
Charlotte Peacock Holmes lives at 875 Yosemite Avenue,
Mountain View, California. The following is a part of a letter
that she sent to the members of her class, meeting in their thirty-year reunion:
am
“I
cisco but
Service, i.
—
still
I
e.
living in the
same place
am now engaged
the Purchasing
—
fifty
miles from San Fran-
in a different branch of Government
Department of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics. Our office is located on the very edge
of a flying field and across the road from the big dirigible hangar
which is now housing the “blimps” used for Coast Patrol duty. We
have had several alerts due to unidentified planes over our vicinity,
but so far all have proved to be friendly.
“I send you all greetings from California and 1 wish to express
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Two
my
regrets in not being able to be with you.
to oui' 40th reunion in 1952.”
Louise
W.
Here’s looking forward
Vetterlein, of Paupack, Pa., sent the following
letter of greeting to
her classmates on Alumni Day
:
“Greetings to you ajl from Pike County! This is to tell you that
I’m verj' sorry that I can’t be with you, but I am there in spirit. I
trust you have many fellow-classmates back to ‘Dear Old Normal’
for our thirty-year reunion. God willing, I hope to be with you for
our 35th.”
1917
M.
Dunlap (Mrs. William 0. Week) lives at Mountain
She is a substitute teacher in the Wright Township
Mountain Top.
Elsie
Top, Pa.
School at
M.
Elsie
Dunlap (Mrs. William 0. Wesk)
lives in
Mountain
Top, Pa.
1918
The
1917 had a wonderfully successful reunion
have to start now, if you want to have a
class of
this year.
You
will
better twenty-fifth year reunion than they had.
1921
Miss Jeanne Miller, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of
Warren
L. Fisher, of
August
1
9, in the
Kelchner
Port Jervis, N.
Y.,
Wednesday evening,
The Rev. H. C.
Lutheran Church at Ephrata.
officiated.
The bride
is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
1926, and the Geisinger Memorial Hospital School of
Nurses, 1930. She took post-graduate work at the Elizabeth
Steel Magee Hospital, Pittsburgh, and attended the teachers
class of
college of Columbia University,
employed
New York
as supervisor at the Geisinger
ville,
for the past twelve years.
class
The bridegroom is a graduate
of 1918, and the Bloomsburg
of 1921.
He
City. She has been
Memorial Hospital, Dan-
of the Mainville High School,
State Teachers College, class
received his A. B. degree from the Pennsylvania
State College in
1926 and
Columbia University
in
his
M. A. degree
1927.
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October, 1942
in
education from
,
Page Twenty-Three
He was
Township Consolidated
1925 and for the past fifteen years and
headed the mathematics department of the Port Jervis High
School, where he has taken an active part in community life.
the principal of the Main
schools from 1921 to
He
a past president of the
is
Port Jervis
exalted ruler of the Port Jervis Elks,
and a member of
local draft
Kiwanis
Grand
board 307. He
Tall
is
Club, past
Cedar 1942,
also a past presi-
dent of the Port Jervis Teachers Association and was a member
of the House of Delegates of the State Teachers Association for
four years. At present he is chairman of the Kiwanis state vocational guidance committee.
Mr. Fisher was inducted into the service of the U.
August 4 and is now stationed at Camp Upton.
S.
army
1
1923
Don’t
let
anything keep you
year reunion next May.
away from your
Begin planning for
it
twentieth-
now.
Miss Genevieve Meixell, of Espy, and Elwood F. Langer,
of Cornwells Heights, were
home
of the bride.
The
Gotshall, of Catawissa.
at the
married Sunday, June 2
was the Rev. Harvey
1
,
officiating minister
Mrs. Langer has been teaching in the
schools of Bristol, Pa.
1924
is the new supervising prinHe succeeds T. J. Kirker ’3
Marion T. Adams, Bloomsburg,
cipal of the Mifflinville schools.
who
Mr.
1
resigned to take a position in a defense industry in Detroit.
Adams
the past thirteen years has been teaching at
Nurem-
A
graduate of the Pennsylvania State College, he holds
the B, A. and M. A. degrees, and has four summers’ work
berg.
toward
his doctor’s degree.
Clara Abbett, of Bloomsburg,
sion school at Ethetta,
is
teaching in an Indian mis-
Wyoming.
1925
Miss Arlene Ruckle, of Bloomsburg, died at the Bloomsafter an illness that had
burg Hospital Tuesday, September
lasted several years. Miss Ruckle had been a successful teacher in the schools of Columbia and Lackawanna Counties.
1
,
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Four
1927
Margaret Shaffer, of Bloomsburg, has been elected to a
Township High School, Columbia County.
position in the Center
1928
A
lot
of changes have taken place at Bloomsburg durmg
the past fifteen years. Have you seen them? Come back on
Alumni Day next May and see how B. S. T. C. has grown.
Ruth Zimmerman, of Berwick,
is
supervisor of reading in
the Berwick schools.
1929
Corporal Jack Fortner,
Battalion,
is
located at
Company A, 805th Tank Destroyer
Camp Hood.
Fortner went into the service
Bloomsburg National Guard
Temple, Texas.
1941,
February,
in
Corporal
with the
unit.
The engagement of Florence Mae Drummond, of Pittston.
and Harvey W. Wolfe, of Newport Township, was announced
in
June.
Mrs. David L. Cooke (Eleanor M. Zydanowicz)
16234 Lamphere Road, Detroit, Michigan.
lives at
1930
Haven W.
an
Fortner, formerly of Bloomsburg. has accepted
office position
with a coal company at Indiana, Pa. Mr. Fort-
ner has been teaching
in the
Osceola Mills School since his grad-
uation from Bloomsburg.
Richard B. Sibley
is
teacher of
fifth
and
sixth grades in the
school at Sugarloaf, Columbia County.
1932
Miss Louise T. Downin,
of
and Edward
Harrisburg,
P.
Clayton, of Washington, were married last spring on the front
campus of the Harrisburg Academy and Junior College where
the bride had been a teacher since December, 940. The bride
was for a time the president of the Dauphin-Cumberland Branch
of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association. Prior to her affiliation
1
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Five
with the Harrisburg Academy, she was a substitute teacher
in
the Harrisburg schools.
Mr. Clayton,
who
is
a Chief Petty Officer
States Navy, spent several years as a seaman,
the
Navy
in Asia.
in
the
United
first class,
with
1937 he was graduated from the Deep Sea
In
Washington, where, at the time of his marriage,
he was stationed as an instructor in diving, and as a student in
Diving School
in
Mine Retrieving at the Advanced Mine School. After his graduation he was attached to the U. S. rescue ship S. S. Falcon as
chief metalsmith and diver first class, and for his rescue and
salvage work for the submarine Squalus he was awarded the
Navy Cross by President Roosevelt.
Ensign Ezra W. Harris, United States Naval Reserve, has
been assigned as an instructor to teach the W. A. V. E. S., women’s auxiliary of the United States Navy, at Smith College,
Northampton, Massachussetts. Ensign Harris spent the summer
studying at the naval training school at Harvard. For the past
ten years, he has been a member of the faculty and athletic
coach at the Center Township Consolidated Junior High School,
Columbia County.
Captain and Mrs. Bernard A. Sage (Emilie V. Zydanowicz)
A son was born
They now haveitwo
are living in Denver, Colorado.
Mrs. Sage
March
14, 1942.
to
Captain and
children.
Private Ariel C. Boop, husband of the former Harriet Styer,
of Bloomsburg,
is
with the American Expeditionary Forces
in Ireland.
1933
Your ten-year reunion next May. This ought
one.
Who
will
take the lead in planning for
Miss Melba Beck, of
July at the
home
be a big
H. Hyde,
were married
Bloomsburg, and Harold
formerly of Bloomsburg and
in
to
it?
now
of Philadelphia,
of the Rev, William Hyde, brother of the
The Rev. Mr. Hyde officiated at the ceremony. Since
her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. Hyde was for some time
employed by the Department of Public Assistance in Bloomsgroom.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Six
burg, and later attended the School of Social
Work
at University
of Pittsburgh. Mr. Hyde, a
member
ployed by the
Company. They are now
J.
G. Brjll
of the class of
1
936,
is
at
em-
4913
Cedar Avenue, Philadelphia.
is with the 369th Infantry, 93rd
Hauchuca, Arizona, where the first
all-colored division of World War II was organized. He was an
employee of the State Department of Public Assistance before
Captain John Q. Timbrell
Division, stationed at Fort
He entered Federal service as commandCompany M, 09th Infantry, 28th Division.
going into active duty.
ing officer of
1
Private Karl L. Getz, of Bloomsburg,
who
has for several
years been teaching in the high school at Johnson City,
New
York, was inducted into the army March 23 at Fort Niagara, N.
y., and was at that time transferred to Fort Jackson, South
Carolina,
m
an infantry company.
July from the officers’ training school at Fort Benning, Georgia.
He was a teacher at Hop Bottom High School and
Summit High School before entering the army.
Thomas Hartman
is
at Clark’s
teacher of general science in the Ber-
wick High School.
1934
Woodrow W.
Aten, of Mifflin Township, was commissioned
ordnance department of the U. S.
August st at the Officers’
Candidate School at Aberdeen, Md.
Lt. Aten entered the service May 12, 1941, and served
four months at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He was later
transferred to Fort Totten, N. Y., where he was in charge of a
a second
Army
lieutenant in the
at the graduation exercises held
1
supply depot.
When
the nation
began enlarging the army program, he
was selected to attend the ordnance officers’ candidate school
and was sent again to Aberdeen. Here he attended school for
3 weeks, specializing in the repair of tanks.
Lt. Aten is a graduate of Mifflin Township Vocational High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Before en1
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Seven
tering the service he
lic
was employed by the Department
of Pub-
Assistance.
Miss Blanche Irene Kostenbauder, of Bloomsburg, and
Harold A. Millington, of Lime Ridge, were married Saturday.
June 20, at the First Reformed Church of Bloomsburg. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
church.
Mrs. Millington
is
B. R. Heller, pastor of the
a teacher in the Third Street School
Bloomsburg, and Mr. Millington is an inspector at the A. C. F.
Company in Berwick. They are now living at 53 Center Street,
in
Bloomsburg.
Joy K. Morris and Burton J. Thomas, both of Wilkeswere married Saturday, July 5, in the Grant Street Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Walter Moore, assisted by the Rev. John H. Craven.
Mrs. Thomas has been teaching in the Laurel Run schools, and
Mr. Thomas, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Extension School, is employed by the R. B. Wall Company.
Barre,
Sergeant Pierce M. Reed, of Danville, R. D., and and Miss
Elizabeth R. Auvil, of Noxen, were married June 25 in the chapel
at
Camp
Robinson,
Little
Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Reed is a
Before entering the army, Mr.
teacher in the Noxen schools.
Reed served
as teacher of agriculture in the
Mam
Township
High School.
Lieutenant Gerald Woolcock, of Millville, has been with
the 28th Division at Fort Livingston, Louisiana.
1935
Ruth E. Maust, of Bloomsburg, and Robert J. Turick, of
Bloomsburg R. D., were married Saturday, September 2, at the
home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. D. L. Bomboy. Mr. Turick was employed as an operator in the shear department at the A. C. & F. plant in Berwick,
and is now in the army.
1
Miss Dorothy Ermish
Berwick schools.
is
teaching
in
the
fifth
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
grade
in
the
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Eight
1936
Second Lieutenant Ernest V. Lau, formerly of Bloomsburg,
officers’ training school at Aberdeen, Maryland, and is now serving as an instructor there. Lieutenant Lau
was for several years a member of the faculty of the Dimock
High School. He was married Sunday, June 4 to Betty Jane
is
a graduate of the
1
Davis, of that vincinity.
Samuel Green, of Berwick, who was inducted
in
August,
is
now
New
stationed at Atlantic City,
into the
army
Jersey.
1937
Edward
Miss Janice Everett and G.
Deily, both of
Blooms-
burg, were married Sunday, August 2, in the First Methodist
Church, Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Dr.
Edgard
ployed
in
Skillington, pastor of the church.
the office of the Bell Telephone
Mr. Deily,
burg.
office of
who
The bride
Company
in
is
em-
Blooms-
has been employed until recently in the
Creasy and Wells,
Inc.,
has enlisted
in the
Army.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Hannah Keller, of Danville, and Bruce M. Rhawn, of Catawissa.
The ceremony was performed December 18, 1941, by the Rev.
Mrs. Rhawn has been teaching
Second Ward School in Danville, and Mr. Rhawn has been
employed at the Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Danville.
Miles B. Smeltz, of Pottsgrove.
in the
Miss Elda Fanti, of Orange, and Ensign George R. Tamalis,
were married Wednesday, June 10 in the NaThe ceremony was performed
by Chaplain John K. Wharton.
of Edwardsville,
val Chapel at Pensacola, Florida.
John Gering
is
teacher
of science
Woodmere, Long Island. Mr. Gering has
Temple University.
his
high
school at
M. A. degree from
at 74 Mary Day Avenue, Pontiac,
On the 22nd of August, 1941, Mr. Schrope married
Hildred Mae Dobbyn.
Ray
G. Schrope lives
.Michigan.
Miss
in the
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Twenty-Nine
Jay Pursel, of Bloomsburg,
is
a teacher of the faculty of
He
is
teaching social studies, and
the Nescopeck High School.
also serving as librarian.
Corporal Luther P. Hower,
of Espy,
is
located
at
New
Cumberland.
The present address
Street,
New
of Luther A.
Peck
is
226
East 75th
York, N. Y.
1938
you will be in uniform, but the rest of you
should carry on and have a fine fifth-year reunion next May.
Someone must lead off. Who will it be ?
A
great
many
of
M. Richie and Catherine Simpson, both of BloomsColumbus, Mississippi. Lt. Richie was a member of the second class of cadets to
graduate from the Columbus Army Flying School, near Columbus, Miss. He was appointed for pilot training in the Air Corps
Lt. Neil
burg, were married Wednesday, April 29, at
last September. He received his primary flight training at Helena Aero Tech, Helena, Arkansas, and his basic flying at the
Greenville
Army
Flying School, Greenville, Mississippi.
Before his aviation cadet appointment, Lieutenant Richie
was a member of the Danville High School faculty for two
and taught at the Matamoras High School one year becoming to Danville.
Mrs. Richie is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and was a student at the College for some time.
Lt. Richie has been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and has been stationed at Bangor, Maine.
years,
fore
Dorothy
J.
Frick, of
West
Pittston,
and Sheldon A. Mac-
Dougall, of Chester, formerly of Berwick, were married Friday,
August 21, in the First Methodist Church of West Pittston. The
Rev. Richard J. Davey performed the ceremony. Mrs. MacDougall taught for several years in the high school at West Pittston.
Mr. MacDougall, a graduate of the Berwick High School,
is
employed by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, of
They are now living at 1132 Potter Street, Chester.
Chester.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty
Second Lieutenant Adolph M. Zalonis has graduated from
a coast artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
ing at Trout
Run
at the time
He was
teach-
he was called into the service.
Anna Malloy, of Maple Hills, and Eugene Sharkey ’40,
were married Saturday, August 29. They are living in Moodus,
Connecticut.
Carrie Livsey, of Bloomsburg,
and geography
in the
Edna Girton
is
is
teacher of social studies
Nescopeck High School.
supervisor of special education in the Ber-
wick schools.
Elizabeth
J. Gilligan is living at
the Y.
W.
C. A. in Scranton.
1939
Miss Nancy Burkholder, of Quarryville, and Isaiah D.
Bom-
boy, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday afternoon, August
1
5, at the
home
of the bride’s parents.
The Rev. D.
L.
Bomboy,
father of the bridegroom, officiated.
Miss Burkholder is a graduate of Quarryville High School
and the Pennsylvania State College and did graduate work at
Columbia University. She taught home economics at Estella and
Dallastown.
Mr.
Bomboy was graduated from
the Bloomsburg
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and did
uate work at Duke University and at the Pennsylvania
He has been teaching at the Estella High School.
High
grad-
College.
Following the ceremony a reception was held on the lawn
many
for
to
New
guests, after
which the couple
left for
a wedding trip
York.
Mr. and Mrs. Bomboy are now living in Huntington Mills
where the former has accepted a position on the Huntington
Township High School faculty.
Miss Margaret Mary Lonergan and John Winston Smethers,
were married Saturday, July
in St. Mary’s Cath-
of Berwick,
olic
Church, Berwick.
1
1 ,
The ceremony was performed by
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
the
Page Thirty-One
Mrs. Smethers has been employed
Rev. Father Charles Allen.
as a secretary in the offices of the A.
tC. F.
Company, and Mr.
same
plate department of the
is employed in the armor
company. They are now living at 329 East Front
Smethers
Street, Ber-
wick.
Miriam
tary to the
Bloomsburg, has been appointed secreat Bucknell University, Lewisburg.
L. Utt, of
Dean
of
Women
For the past year Miss Utt has been employed as bookkeeper
and associate revenue agent by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the Laurelton State Village, Laurelton, Pa. Before going to Laurelton, she
was
two years a teacher
for
in the
com-
mercial department of the high school at Phillipsburg, Pa.
Miss Helen M. Derr, of Kingston, and Robert Price, former-
were married Saturday, June 6, in the parsonage of
The Rev. A. G. Kurtz offiThe bride attended Duke University, and has been teach-
ly of Plains,
the Kingston Presbyterian Church.
ciated.
ing in the Kingston schools.
Mr. Price, a graduate of Blooms-
He was a
burg, attended the University of Pittsburgh.
in the
Wyoming High
sition as flight instructor
tion,
and was located
teacher
School for a time, and then accepted a poat
under the
Mayes
Civil
Aeronautics Administra-
Field, Huntington,
Miss Catharine M. Jennings and William
S.
West
Virginia.
Strawinski, both
of Harrisburg, were married Saturday, June 13, in the chapel of
Wilson College, Chambersburg.
was the
officiating minister.
The Rev.
Dr.
Mrs. Strawinski
Wilson College, and has been teaching
in
the
Warren N. Nevius
is
a
graduate of
Camp
Curtin Jun-
High School. Mr. Strawinski is with the Civil Service Board
in Middletown.
He was formerly a teacher in the William Penn
School,
High
Harrisburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Strawinski are now living at 1818 North TTiird Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
ior
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Melva
M. Carl and Fenwick D. Douthat, of Nescopeck. The ceremony
was performed October 24, 1937, in the Methodist parsonage
at Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Douthat has been a member of the
faculty of the Dallas High School, and Mr. Douthat is employed
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty -Two
in the
Ordnance Department of the A.
C. F.
Company,
in
Ber-
wick.
Miss Betta Barbara Diettenck and Maclyn P. Smethers, of
Berwick, were married Saturday, June 20, at Christ Episcopal
Church, Berwick. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High
School, and has been employed in the offices of the A. C. F.
Company
in
Mr. Smethers has also been employed
Berwick.
the offices of the
in
same company.
Aviation Cadet William
J.
Yarworth
is
a
member
of the
Aviation Cadet Detachment at Lowry Field, Colorado, where he
is
training to
A. C. William
become an
J.
aerial photographer.
His address
is
Yarworth, Aviation Cadet Detachment, Barrack
330, Lowry Field, Colorado.
Robert Ohl, of Lime Ridge, a radio instructor in the Army
who was recently promoted to the rank of sergeant,
has been transferred from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Chicago.
His new address is Sgt. Robert A. Ohl, Hq. and Hq. Squadron,
A. A. F. Technical School, Congress Hotel, Chicago, 111.
Air Corps,
1940
Clayton M. Hinkel has been elected head of the depart-
ment of Business Education and Director
of the Placement Bureau in the high school at Easton, Pa. Mr. Hinkel was an honor
graduate of the Easton High School in 1931, and before entering college he had five years of private teaching and business
experience. Mr. Hinkel began teaching in the Easton schools in
July, 1940,
sion.
He
when he
summer sesMarch Junior High
taught during the high school
taught English for a semester
in the
School, and for the past year and a half has been in charge of
Business Education in the Shull Junior High School.
Elizabeth M. Chalfant and Elmer
were married Thursday, July 16.
E. Patton, of Scranton,
Cadet Robert A. Linn, of Catawissa, has entered the army
center at Nashville, Tennessee. At the
classification center Cadet Linn took psychological and physical
air forces classification
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Three
examinations to determine for which branch of air crew service
he is best fitted. He is taking courses of physical training, academic study, and military drill, which will prepare him for the
work which lies before him. Cadet Linn left a position as teacher and coach at the Doylestown High School to enlist in the
service.
Ray P. McBride, Jr.,
939, were married SunBaptist Church of Berwick. The cere-
Miss Edna Keller, of Nescopeck, and
of Berwick, a
member
day, June 21
in the First
,
of the class of
mony was performed by
Rees.
1
the pastor of the church. Rev.
Haydn
Mrs. McBride has been teaching in the Coopersburg High
School, and Mr. McBride
is
a
member
wick High School. They are now
of the faculty of the Ber-
living at
1
20 Eleventh
Street,
Berwick.
Mrs. Samuel
member
J.
Mercer
(Josephine
Richard)
a former
of the class of 1940, died suddenly Friday, July 24,
following an operation at the City Hospital, Akron, Ohio.
Mrs.
Mercer was born in Bloomsburg, attended the Bloomsburg public school, and attended the College for two years.
She was
married November, 1938, and lived in Akron until the time of
her death. She is survived by her husband and one son.
Miss Betty Andreas, of Bloomsburg, and Corporal Paul F.
were married Thursday, June
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. B. R. Heller. Mrs. Weatherill has been teaching in the Main Township schools.
Corporal
Weatherill, also of Bloomsburg,
25, at the First Reformed Church of Bloomsburg.
Weatherill
delphia,
is
and
a graduate of the Pierce Business School in Philais
stationed at
Camp
Wheeler, Georgia.
Miss Martha McHenry, of Benton, and Charles Wenner, of
were married Saturday, June 20, at the parsonage of
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles Phillips. Mr. Wenner, who is a pri-
Stillwater,
the Methodist Church at Honesdale.
vate
first
class in the
North Carolina.
Mrs.
army,
is
Wenner
stationed at Morris Field Air Base,
is
a teacher in the school at Ben-
ton.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty -Four
The College has received a “V” letter from Corporal Edward H. Bacon, stating that he and Corporal Ralph C. Crocamo
have arrived in England.- They expressed the desire that their
friends and classmates write them. Their address is A. P. 0.
887, care of the Postmaster,
Mary
in
York.
and Harold Rarig,
were married Monday evening, June 22,
the Numidia Reformed Church. Mrs. Rarig has been teaching
the Locust Township schools, and Mr. Rarig is employed on
Miss
Stine, of Elysburg, R. D.
of Catawissa, R. D.
m
New
1
1
,
,
his father’s farm.
Charles L. Kelchner,
in
an
624 Peace
officers’ training school.
Street, Hazleton,
His address
is
is
now
Officer Candidate
Company E, 3rd Platoon, Ordnance OfCandidate School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
Charles L. Kelchner,
ficers’
Byron Shiner, of Berwick, was introduced
into the army July 23, 1941, and is stationed with a bombardment group at March Field, California. Before entering the
army he was a teacher in the Berwick High School.
Staff Sergeant
First
Sergeant Earl Houck, of Berwick, has been appoint-
ed to the Army Air Force Administrative Officers’ Candidate
School at Miami Beach, Florida. He has been serving for a year
and
a half at
Private
March
first
Field, California.
class
Kenneth
J.
Hippensteel, of Espy, enlisted
United States Air Corps April 2, 1941, and is now stationed at Curacao. He was previously in Georgia and Puerto
in the
Rico.
Gwladys Jones, 334 North Sumner Avenue, Scranton, has
been elected to a position in the high school at Lewisburg, Pa.
For the past two years she has been teaching in the high school
at DuBois.
Leonard E. Stout, of Nescopeck, is in a technical school
squadron at Canute Field, Illinois. Before entering the service
he was a teacher in Girard College, Philadelphia.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Five
Frank Kocher, of Espy is teaching mathematics in the Conshohocken High School. Mr. Kocher taught for two years in the
high school at McVeytown.
Cadet William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, has been taking a
meteorology course at New York University.
Rosemary Houseknecht,
Swedesboro,
New
Bloomsburg,
of
teaching
is
in
Jersey.
Vivian Reppert, of Espy,
is
teaching in the high school at
Dalmatia, Pa.
Catherine Reppert, of Espy,
is
teaching at Manheim, Pa.
1941
When Alumni Day comes around next May, two years will
have passed since your graduation. Come hack and have the
first of a long series of successful reunions. It will be good for
your morale!
John Rutter Ohl,
Jr.,
has graduated from the
Force Officers’ Training School at Miami Beach,
Army
Fla.,
Air
and has
been commissioned a second lieutenant.
He enlisted in the air corps October 28, 1941, and received
his basic training at Keesler Field, Miss.,
before being trans-
ferred to the air corps technical school at Chanute Field,
a course
Lieutenant Ohl was graduated from that school
ary of
this
111.,
for
teletype maintenance.
in
year and was assigned to McClellan Field,
later to the
in
Febru-
Calif.,
San Francisco Bay airdrome. He was chosen on
and
May
become a candidate for a commission.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, he was a member of the varsity
wrestling team at the college.
1
1
to
Mary M.
Brunstetter and Lieutenant James Harman, of
Catawissa, were married in July in the chapel of
St.
John’s Pro-
The bride is teacher of science
the Beaver Township High School.
testant Church, Bangor, Maine.
and speech
at
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Six
Shortly after the marriage, Lieutenant
seas with his unit,
Harman went
and word has since been received
over-
that he has
been promoted to the rank of Captain. He is a flight commander in the 94th Pursuit Squadron, and is stationed somewhere in
England. His address is Capt. James Harman, A. P. 0. 873,
care of the Postmaster,
New
York.
John D. Young, of Catawissa, has graduated from Officer
Fla., and has been commissioned a second lieutenant and made personal officer of an observation squadron based at Tullahoma, Tenn.
Lieutenant Young has been in the service more than a
year and graduated from officer training school on August 5.
Candidate School, Miami Beach,
He held
school.
the rank of corporal at the time of admittance to the
He
is
a graduate of the Catawissa High School
and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Lieutenant Robert Joy, a former member of the class of
is now in the Pacific zone of action with an infantry regi-
1941,
ment.
He
is
attached to the headquarters troop.
Lieutenant Joy
when
it was formed
November, 1939, and went into Federal service with that
unit in February, 1941. He went to Fort Benning, Georgia, for
joined the Bloomsburg National Guard unit
in
a three-months course in the
in
Company Command
1942, he was transferred to another
School.
Early
unit.
Miss Edith Benninger, of St. John’s, and Karl Balliet, of
Drums, were married Saturday, June 13, at the home of the
bride’s brother-in-law and sister, the Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Williams, of Hazleton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Mr. Williams. Mrs. Balliet has been teaching in the Fairview
School at Mountain Top. Mr. Balliet is a graduate of the Hazleton High School and of Franklin and Marshall College.
Miss Sara
Anne Garthwaite and
Sgt. Paul
Letterman, both
were married Saturday, June 27, 1942, at the
Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. The Rev. J. Edgar Skill-
of Bloomsburg,
First
ington performed the ceremony.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
Mrs. Letterman
October, 1942
is
a graduate
Page Thirty-Seven
Bloomsburg High School and is employed in the Rea and
Sgt. Letterman has been stain Bloomsburg.
of the
Derick Drug Store
tioned at
Camp
Robinson, Arkansas.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Jean Greenly, formerly of Bloomsburg, and now of Harrisburg,
to Charles Robbins, of Bloomsburg.
Miss Greenly is a graduate
of the Bloomsburg High School and attended the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and Thompson’s Business College. She
office of the Bell Telephone Comis employed in the business
pany
Harrisburg.
in
Charles Robbins, of Bloomsburg,
a
to
camp
in California,
Mather
course
Field,
who
has been located at
has been selected from his squadron to go
Sacramento, California, to take a 24 weeks’
Following the course, he will be commis-
in aviation.
sioned and assigned his wings.
Miss Dorothy Savage, of Berwick,
teaching in the com-
is
mercial department of the Berwick High School. She served
last year as a substitute teacher for Byron Shiner ’40, who is
now
the service.
in
Samuel Frederick Worman, of Danville,
is
teaching in the
Harris High School, Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
He
is
teaching
Latin and directing the high school band.
The address of Jane Dyke
ment
1
,
ernment
is
A
611
Washington, D. C. Miss Dyke
is
Street N. E., Apart-
employed by the Gov-
at the nation’s Capitol.
Miss Lois Gruver has been elected teacher in the schools
of Briar Creek Township,
and has been assigned
to the school
at Foundryville.
Edwin Wenner, of Berwick, has joined the Coast Guard,
and reported for duty September 24.
Isabella Olah, of Berwick,
is
a teacher of fourth grade at
the Ferris Heights Building in Berwick.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty -Eight
1942
Sergeant Richard H. Foote,
member
Foote, former
the service August 4,
Corps at
Camp
son of
the late
Prof. J. C.
of the faculty at Bloomsburg, entered
1941, and was stationed
Lee, Virginia.
in the
Medical
Later he was transferred to
Camp
where he was in charge of the hospital
He has recently been located in the registrar’s office at
Croft, South Carolina,
library.
Camp
Croft.
Richard Matthes, of Reading, and Miss Anne Boyer, of
Selinsgrove, were married in New York City Tuesday, SeptemMrs. Matthes, a
ber 8.
member
of the class of 1944, has re-
turned to her studies at Bloomsburg.
army September
1
Mr. Matthes entered the
7.
Merrill A. Deitrich, of Bloomsburg, has been graduated
from the U. S. Navy pre-flight school and has been transferred
from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to a reserve aviation base at
Chicago,
Illinois.
who has been teaching for
Township, Northumberland County,
has been elected to a position m the elementary grades in SunBetty Lou Kepner, of Sunbury,
the past
two years
in Point
bury.
Corporal Robert Hartman, of Bloomsburg, a former
ber of the class of 1942,
Field, Virginia.
He
is
enlisted
in the
mem-
Personnel Section at Langley
December 28, 1941.
Private Robert Hopfer, a former athletic star at the College,
is
in
a field artillery battery at
Camp
Sutton, North Caro-
lina.
Elwood Beaver has been receiving
his basic
training at
Keesler Field, Mississippi, the replacement training center of the
Army
Air Force Technical Training
Edward
Bloomsburg,
Deleski,
is
now on
who
Command.
received his aviation instruction at
active duty with the Air Corps.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Thirty-Nine
Collin Vernoy is teaching
demy, near Washington, D. C.
at
Charlotte Hall Military Aca-
Miss Edna Zehner, of Nescopeck, R. D.,
is
a
member
of the
faculty of the Nescopeck High School.
Miss Idajane Shipe, of Berwick,
in
is
teaching seventh grade
the Fourteenth Street Building, Berwick.
Mary Jane Mordan,
in the
of Northumberland,
is
teaching Science
high school of the joint Turbotville-Lewis school
district.
Stuart Hartman, of Danville, R. D., has received his
com-
mission as Ensign in the United States Navy.
Ruth Snyder
is
teaching
in the
commercial department
in
the high school at Jelferson, Pa.
The present address of Robert
Hickham Housing, Honolulu, T. H.
Carolyn Cole
arloaf,
is
B. Miner
is
1
63
1
9th Street,
teacher of third and fourth grades at Sug-
Columbia County.
David Snyder
is
teaching science
in the
high school at Cata-
wissa. Pa.
Ruth Snyder, of Bloomsburg, is teaching in the commercial
department of the high school at Jefferson, Pa.
Adrian Masanotti, of Berwick,
is
teaching at Brockway,
Pa.
Josephine Rhinard, of Berwick,
is
teaching in the schools
of Lewisburg, Pa.
Jean Lantz
is
teaching in the schools of Berwick, her
home
town.
ship,
Barbara Straub, of Berwick,
Luzerne County.
Lois Slopey, of Bloomsburg,
Township, near Harrisburg.
is
is
teaching in Salem
teaching
in
Town-
Lower Paxton
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Forty
Mary Jane
Sharpless, of
Bloomsburg,
is
teaching
in the
Locust Township High School, Columbia County.
Aviation Cadet Stuart Straub, of Berwick,
Santa
Ana
stationed at
is
Field, California.
The class of 1942, as part of its class memorial,
buted $150.00 to the Alumni Loan Fund.
Helen Klingerman, of Berwick,
contri-
teaching in the high
is
school at Coopersburg, Pa.
C.
David Snyder
Grace
J.
is
Thomas
Jean Lantz
is
Jeanne Noll
is
is
teaching in the Catawissa High School.
teaching at Williamstown, Pa.
a substitute teacher
teaching
in the
of Berwick,
the Berwick schools.
high school at Lehighton, Pa.
Margaret Eroh, of Nescopeck,
Mary Davenport,
in
is
is
teaching at McClure, Pa.
teaching in her
home town.
Ex-42
Lieutenant Nelson M.
class
who were
trained
Oman,
of Bloomsburg,
at Ellington
was one of a
and were
Texas,
Field,
graduated from the advanced flying school of the
Army
Air
Forces.
1943
Miss Sidnea Baker, of Espy, and Pvt. Harold Zeisloft, of
Bloomsburg, were married Friday, August 14, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr.
Schofield. Mrs. Baker is now employed at the A. C. F. Com-
pany, Berwick.
Private
been based
of
first
Company
Robert Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, has
George G. Meade, Maryland, as a member
class
at Fort
A, 805 th Tank Destroyer Battallion.
Merrill A. Deitrich, of Bloomsburg,
United States Navy.
at
Chapel
Hill,
He
is
in the U. S.
North Carolina.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
is
now
Navy
October, 1942
serving in the
Pre-Flight School
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Thirteen additional planes to be used in student training
were purchased in August by Ailor Sales, Inc., operators of the
Bloomsburg airport. The planes are Wacos and Piper Cubs.
make
This will
A
a total of forty-five airplanes in use at the air-
—
—
men and women mostly men is
now required to handle the airport work. With eighty or more
men now in training there, it is expected that the number will be
port.
personnel of sixty
considerably increased in the future.
o
The annual picnic of the summer session of the College was
held on the campus Thursday, July 30. Usually it is held in a
park near Bloomsburg, but this year it was held in the grove
and on the campus. The afternoon was spent in athletic activiA picnic lunch was
ties, including swimming in the new pool.
served in the dining-room, and in the evening there was a ball
game between the College team and the Shickshinny team.
Later in the evening, there was dancing in the gymnasium.
o
Erma E. Crawford, of Millville, and Herman E. BordMount Pleasant Township, were married Wednesday,
Miss
er,
of
June 24,
at the
home
of the bride.
Mrs. Border served for four
years as matron at the Danville State Hospital and later was em-
ployed by the Milco Undergarment Company, in Bloomsburg.
Mr. Border taught for several years, and is now employed in
the F. P. Pursel store, Bloomsburg.
o
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Arlene Masters, of Danville, R. D. 4, and William H. Barton, of
Bloomsburg. Miss Masters is employed by the E. R. Beers Electric Company, of Bloomsburg, and Mr. Barton is a Senior at the
College.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
Page Forty-Two
Prof. George J. Keller had a very successful season at
Pier, Atlantic City, during the summer.
His animal
Hamid’s
show was
the feature of the pier, and was seen by thousands.
Before opening at Atlantic City, Mr. Hamid booked Mr. Keller
New York State after
While at Atlantic City,
Prof. Keller not only staged his own act, which was the big pier
attraction, but also acted as master of ceremonies in introducing
the remaining acts on the pier program.
in Baltimore.
The show
also
appeared
in
the close of the Atlantic City season.
o
Donald C. Mercer, technician fifth grade, of Bloomsburg,
has been chosen to take a tank mechanic’s course at the Ar-
mored Force School at Fort Know, Kentucky. He is a member of
the 40th Armored Regiment, conunanded by Col. Richard B.
Wheeler, and has been based at Camp Polk, Louisiana. Mr.
Mercer is a former student at Bloomsburg, and was prominent
in athletics.
o
First Lieutenant N.
William Kirk, of Berwick, and a former
student at Bloomsburg, flew the leading plane in the
first American mass attack on France this summer. Lt. Kirk was commissioned in the Air Corps at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, late in
February.
o
Prof. Charles F. Dewire died Friday, July
1
1 ,
in the
Lewis-
burg Evangelical General Hospital, following a year’s illness. He
was a teacher in the schools of Union County for twenty-five
years, and supervising principal of the Lewisburg schools for a
long period.
o
George Earle Raiguel, of New York, a publicist and
who is well known in Bloomsburg, was the assembly
speaker at the College Tuesday, July 4. Dr. Raiguel spoke on
“The Significance of July 4 and July 14.’’
Dr.
economist
1
o
Second Lieutenant Stacy M. Search, a former student
Bloomsburg, is located at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, as
structor in a school for sergeants.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
at
in-
.
Page Forty -Three
Anne Yuran,
and Lt. James M. Catron, of
sometime
Kingston, were married
in September. Mrs. Catron is
a member of the faculty of the Luzerne High School. Lt. Catron
Miss
is
a
member
of the
of Luzerne,
Army
Air Force.
o
There were two hundred students enrolled
Franklin Training School
This figure
is
slightly
when
it
in the Benjamin
opened Monday, August 3
below that of
1
last year,
when
the enroll-
ment was 208.
o
Miss Mary M. Whitenight, of Bloomsburg,
a
a
member
member
who
has been
of the College faculty for the past four years,
is
now
of the staff in the Physical Education Department at
Bucknell University.
o
The Luzerne County Alumni held an afternoon and evening
garden party at the home of Mrs. Guy Evans, 106 York Avenue, West Pittston, on Wednesday, September 2. Supper was
served at 6 30, and the evening was spent in playing cards.
:
o
and Ensign Thomas Grow, both of
Ringtown, were married Sunday, June 14 at St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Ringtown. Ensign Grow was commissioned in June at
Miss Blanche Long
the United States Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.
O
M. Ella Andrews, aged ninety-six, a native of Fishingcreek
Township, Columbia County, and for forty-nine years a teacher
in that
county, died Friday, August 28, at the Tyrone Methodist
Home.
o
Private
Raymond
Algatt, of Berwick,
is
attached to the
weather observation school at the U. S. Army Base Weather Office, Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
o
Thomas
Kenney, of Byrnesville, and Miss Catherine M.
Ryan, of Centralia, were married Thursday, August 27. Mr.
Kenney is a teacher in the Conyngham Township School.
F.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,
October, 1942
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The Tatterman Marionettes presented a program
College assembly Tuesday morning, July 28.
at the
o
Miss June Hoagland, of
and
fifth
Mifflinville,
teaching
is
fourth,
Conyngham Borough schools.
o
Danville, a member of the class of 1943,
sixth grades in the
Alex Foster, of
entered the army September 4.
o
James Ritter, of Riverside, is teaching in the Mahoning
Township consolidated schools, in Montour County.
o
Austin Yeany, of Bloomsburg,
in the
United States Coast Guard.
Ensign William Booth
for service as
Deck
is
Officer.
Training Station, Newport,
duty Monday, September
is
He
o
now
a petty
is
taking a two-months course
His address
Rhode
officer, third class,
stationed at Curtis Bay.
Island.
Co.
is
He
2004, Naval
reported there for
7.
o
Centennial Loan Fund
The following
who was helped
in
letter
“Enclosed please find a
payment of my loan. I wish to exAlumni for all that the loan has meant
believe, will constitute full
This,
I
press
my
to
was received from a former student
Fund
money order to the amount of $20.00.
College by the Student Loan
sincere thanks to the
me.”
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
1942-1943
September 15
Entrance Examinations.
Registration and Classification of Freshmen.
September 16
,
Registration and Classification of Other Classes.
September 17
Classes Begin.
September 19
Reception of
New
Students.
November 24
Thanksgiving Recess Begins After Last Class.
November 30
C.
Thanksgiving Recess Ends 12 M.
December 19
Christmas Recess Begins After Last Class.
January 4
Christmas Recess Ends 12 M.
January 23
First Semester Ends.
January 25
Second Semester Begins.
February 5
G. A. Reception and Dance For New Students.
February 20
Sophomore
Cotillion.
April 17
Easter Recess Begins.
April 27
Easter Recess Ends 12 M.
May 14
Junior Promenade.
May 22
Alumni Day.
May 23
Baccalaureate.
May 24
Senior Day.
May 25
Commencement.
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HtHtfn!
Alumni Objectives
•
ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
3000
Send check for
$1.00 to Dr. E. H.
Bloomsburg, Penna.
Nelson, Business Manager,
YOU WILL WANT THE
AI.UMNI 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
IN
THE QUARTERLY, STARTING WITH THE APRIL, 1939,
NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR AD-
ISSUE.
DRESS.
EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETIUNG 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 ALUMNI ON THE CAMPUS FOR HOME-COmXG DAY.
OCTOBER 31, 1942. Come back for Home-Coming Day. Enjoy the fine program.
See the new buildings.
Shake hands
with your classmates and friends.
f
A
limited
number
Dormitory Rooms for Aluimii guests
and will be reserved in the
the Dean of Women and the Dean of
of
of the College will be available
order of application to
Men.
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Media of