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Page One

As

It

Was In the Beginning

The extent

to which industrial and commercial purhave been developed in Bloomsburg, the character
and efficiency of its local government, and the degree of
interest manifested in public improvements, combined in
establishing its claim as the most progressive town in the
lower valley of the North Branch of the Susquehanna.
Contemporary with its growth in population and material
wealth, it soon became the educational center of this sec-

suits

tion of the state.

There was little m its early history to indicate that it
would reach its present prominence in this respect.
George Vance taught an English school in a log building
on the site of the Episcopal Church, Main and Iron Streets,
in 1802, and about the same time Ludwig Eyer taught a

German

school in a building at the northeast corner of
Streets. Among the immediate successors to these two men were Robert Fields, William
Ferguson, Murray Manville and Joseph Wordan.
On the introduction of the public school system in
1842, school houses were built in various parts of town.
There was no system of grading, nor any general supervision by anyone. Consolidation was begun in 1870, when
the Fifth Street school building was erected at a cost of
twelve thousand dollars. F. M. Bates was the first principal of this school. Five years later, the Third Street
school building was erected. 1. E. Schonover was the first
principal of the schools of West Bloomsburg, after the
building was occupied. In 1885 it was decided to place
all of the schools of the town under one superintendent,
and D. A. Beckley was elected to that office. A regular
course of study had been prepared, and the conditions of
the schools improved in various ways under his admin-

Second and Market

istration.

The generally unsatisfactory condition of the public
schools in the early days led to many ventures, on the part
of teachers of more than ordinary acquirements, in establishing private schools. An effort of this kind was made
in 1839, when the building at the corner of Third and
Jefferson Streets was first occupied for school purposes.
The standard of instruction was elevated, if judged by
the advertisement of the first teacher, to give instruction
in the Hebrew language, which was not extensively purTHE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

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Two

sued at that early day in Bloomsburg. But the teacher’s
literary reputation dwindled when, on looking at a copy
of Shakespeare, he inquired whether this was the celebrated author of that name, and what were his principal
works, and expressed his astonishment in the question,
“What, these dialogues?”
This teacher left in the same year (1839), and by the
efforts of the citizens, Mr. C. P. Waller, a graduate of
Williams College, and subsequently a President Judge in
the courts of this state, was induced to come to Bloomsburg to found an academy. He remained two years, and

The farleft the academy in a flourishing condition.
reaching results of this effort may be traced in all the later educational history of the town. The memory of the
Centennial celebration in 1939, to observe the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the academy
which, in the course of its development, came to be the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is still fresh in the
minds of

all

those

The existence
1841 was more or

who were

present.
for

academy

some years after
nominal. Teachers in the public
schools during the winter months opened subscription
schools during vacation. Joel E. Bradley, one of the most
successful teachers who ever made teaching a profession,
restored, to some extent, the high character and advanced
standard of the course of study prepared by Mr. Waller.
About the year 1854, P. F. Eaton opened a classical
school in the Primitive Methodist church building (afterwards purchased by the parish of St. Columba’s church).
It was continued the following year with such success that
its friends began to consider measures for making it a perof the
less

institution. D. J. Waller prepared a charter, and
William Robinson and others circulated it; after obtaining the signatures of A. J. Sloan, M. Coffman, E. Mendenhall, A. J. Evans, William McKelvey, J. J. Brower, B. F.
Hartman, S. H. Miller, J. M. Chamberlain, Philip Unangst,
Jesse G. Clark, A. Witman, Michael Henderson, J. G.

manent

Freeze, Levi L. Tate, Peter Billmeyer, W. C. Sloan, Jonathan Mosteller, A. J. Frick, E. B. Bidleman, Robert F.
Clark, A. M. Rupert, R. B. Menagh, W. J. Bidleman, Robert Cathcart, A. C. Mensch and H. C. Hower, it was submitted to the court and confinned at the September term
in 1856.

The charter provided
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for establishing and maintain-

January, 1943

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ing a school, to be known as the “Bloomsburg Literary
Institute,” and the object of the corporation was defined
as ‘‘the promotion of education, both in the ordinary and
higher branches of English literature and science, and in
the ancient and modern languages.” Under the articles
of incorporation, the Rev. D. J. Waller, William Robison,
Leonard B. Rupert, William Snyder, Elisha C. Barton,
William Goodrich, D. J. Waller, Joseph Sharpless, John
K. Grotz, and I. W. Hartman were constituted a board of
trustees.

Mr. Eaton’s school was continued for several years in
the building it had occupied, and was later removed to
the old academy building, and was there conducted successfully by a Mr. Lowry, D. A. Beckley, Henry Rinker,
and others. There was no connected succession of teachers, nor does it appear that the board of trustees exercised control over the management of its affairs. As a
consequence, the character of the school depended altogether upon the attainments and ability of the teachers.
In some of these executive ability was not a characteristic,
with the result that the prospects of the so-called “Literary Institute” were not always encouraging.
As in the case of all pioneer work, progress was at
From this small beginning,
first slow and spasmodic.
however, there evolved, in the course of time, an institution whose reputation is world-wide, with nine thousand
graduates scattered all over the earth, many of whom
have attained high distinction. Bloomsburg owes much to
those who laid the foundations.
(The historical sketch printed above was taken from the “Passing Throng” column of the Bloomsburg Morning Press, to whom the
Editor acknowledges his indebtedness.
in later issues of the Quarterly).

Similar sketches will appear

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The accelerated calendar year plan adopted by the
College last spring attracted approximately one hundred
students, who continued their work during the summer
sessions of twelve weeks. This will make teachers available for the public schools of Pennsylvania one year earlier than under the four-year plan. According to Prof.
Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training, the list of
available teachers has been exhausted, and numerous requests are received every day.

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Dr. George E. Pfahler
Few, if any, graduates of Bloomsburg have received
the honors that have been bestowed upon Dr. George E.
Pfahler, of Philadelphia. The Bloomsburg State Teachers College is proud to have on the list of its alumni the
name of a man who has a world-wide reputation among
the members of his profession.
Dr. Pfahler, who celebrates his sixty-ninth birthday
January 29, is Vice Dean for Radiology at the Graduate
School for Medicine, the Medico-Chirurgical College, at
the University of Pennsylvania.
He has served as President of the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Electrotherapeutic Association, and the American Radium Society. He was the
first president, in 1922, of the American College of Radiology. He has served on the Board of Chancellors of the
latter organization ever since 1922, with the exception of
one year. He has been made Honorary Member of the
British, the French, the German, the Scandinavian, the
Austrian, and the Russian Radiological Societies, as well
as Honorary Member of the Radiological Society of North
America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the

New York Roentgen

Society.

He was appointed

the first Clinical Professor of Radiology in this country in 1919, and in 1912 was made the
first full Professor in the Medico-Chirurgical College. He
has been Professor of Radiology in the University of
Pennsylvania since 1916, and still holds that title, as well
as that of Vice Dean in charge of the Department of Radiology in the Graduate School of Medicine. He has written more than three hundred scientific articles.
On January 25, 1940, his colleagues gave him a testimonial dinner, at which there were almost three hundred present from all over the country. In 1926, he was
given an honorary degree, D. M. R. E., from Cambridge
University, England, and in 1930 he received the honorary degree of Sc. D. at Ursinus College. He has served on
the Board of Directors of Ursinus College since 1935. He
was further honored by Ursinus College in October of last
year, when the college named their new science building
for him. The principal speakers at the dedication of this
building were Dr. William D. Coolidge, Vice-President
and Director of Research of the General Electric Corpor-

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ation, of Schenectady, New York, and Dr. Harvey Rentschler, who is Director of Research in the Lamp Department of the Westinghouse Electric Company.
In 1928, Professor Hans Schinz, of Zurich, Switzerland,
Dr. Pfahler had never met, dedicated his
book to the “Pioneers of Radiology,” and named the following as worthy of that honor: Professor Holzknecht,
of Vienna; Professor Albers-Schoenberg, of Hamburg;
Dr. Thurston Hall, of England
Professor Antoine Beclere, of Paris, and Dr. Pfahler. Professor Schinz’s book
consisted of two volumes, and contained 2,182 pages. All
of the men mentioned have been Dr. Pfahler’s personal
friends, and were the recognized leaders in their respective countries. The honor of being named with these men

whom

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in Dr. Pfahler’s opinion, the greatest honor that has
ever come to him.
To Dr. Pfahler was also dedicated a work entitled
“Radiodiagnostico en la Infancia,” by Professor Arce, of
Madrid, Spain. Dr. Pfahler had never met Dr. Arce, and
had never corresponded with him before the latter sent
him a copy of his book written in Spanish. The two men
have been in correspondence with each other ever since.
Dr. Pfahler has received gold medals from the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the American Roentgen
Ray Society, and the American Radium Society. He was
presented to King George V of England, and to King
George VI, when he was Duke of York. He was named
Honorary Vice-President of the Fifth International Congress on Radiology, held in Chicago in 1937.
When asked to comment on all the honors that he
has received. Dr. Pfahler said “Mr. Ford says that the
I think
it is very much the
first million is the hardest.
same with honors. The first one is the hardest to get, and
that came with the honor of being a graduate of the
is,

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Bloomsburg State Normal School.
One of Dr. Pfahler’s most devoted friends is his dog
Prince. Dr. Pfahler says: “Anyone who wants to make
me smile just talks about Prince. It is like a mother with
a first baby, though this is the second Prince that I have
had. When the first one died, we were so lonely, and were
mourning so much, that two days after he died, we started to hunt a puppy. We first found a Brindle Terrier,
which we took because there was no Eskimo, or Semoyed,
available. After two days we got word from the dealer

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Semoyed or White Eskimo, which is Prince
As soon as we arrived, he crawled up and said he
wanted to come home with us. Of course, we took him
and left the other one. Since then we have been close

that he had a
II.

friends.”
Dr. Pfahler, writing to Professor Charles H. Albert,
pays this tribute to Professor Albert and to Bloomsburg
‘‘I attribute much of my success,
probably all of it basically, to my training at the Normal School under you and
the other fine teachers.”
Dr. Pfahler’s grandparents, John and Mary Agnes
Pfahler, came from Germany about 1820. Coming up the
Susquehanna, they settled on a farm near Numidia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Pfahler’s parents, William and Sarah A. Pfahler, lived on the homestead farm
where Dr. Pfahler was bom on the 29th of January, 1874.
After completing the country school training. Dr.

Pfahler attended and was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He then taught school for two
winters near his home. Always striving to obtain more
knowledge, he entered the office of Dr. John Wintersteen,
of Numidia, during his summer vacation, and from that
experience realized that his greatest interest in life would
be the study and practice of medicine.
Dr. Pfahler’s wife was Miss Muriel Bennett, who was
born at Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, but was reared in
Brantford, Canada, where she and Dr. Pfahler were married.
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Announcement has been made

of the marriage of Lt.
Frederick J. Peterson, of Berwick, a former student at
Bloomsburg, and Mary H. Roberts, of Orangeville R. D. 2.
The ceremony was performed Thursday, July 2, at Winchester, Virginia, by the Rev. Mr. Welsh, pastor of the
First Methodist Church at Winchester. The bride is a
graduate of the Orangeville Vocational High School in the
class of 1938. Lt. Peterson, a member of the class of 1935
in the Ferwick High School, has been serving with the
armed forces since February, 1941, and is stationed at
Fort Chafee, Arkansas.
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word from Corporal Robert E. Hopfer,
Bloomsburg, stated that he was in Ireland, and was
Latest

good health.

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Judge William R. Lewis
Former Judge William R. Lewis, one of the state’s
outstanding exponents of jurisprudence, died Thursday,
September

17, at his

home, 614 North Main Avenue,
He was 75 years of age.

Scranton, after a short illness.

Mr. Lewis was endowed with scholarly attainments.
outstanding legal career, the former
judge was prominent in musical and literary activities. A
student his entire life, he satisfied his desire for knowledge with intensive reading, study and exchange of opinions and ideas.
He delighted in maintaining his Welsh tongue and
could, without hesitation, bring out a long polysyllable in
that language for its English equivalent at affairs where
the sons and daughters of Gwalia collected.
Former Judge Lewis reached the top the hard way.
He was born at Carmarthensire, Wales, February 26,
1867, the son of Reese J. and Ann Jones Lewis. He came
to this country as a boy with his parents and settled in
In addition to an

Scranton.
in his boyhood days, Mr. Lewis, like the youngsters
of poor families of the ’70s, picked slate in the breaker
and worked in the mines. He received his elementary education in Scranton and matriculated at Bloomsburg,

where he was graduated in 1886.
While an undergraduate, Mr. Lewis expressed a desire to pursue legal work. Upon graduation in 1886_he
obtained employment as a clerk with Prothonotary Thomas H. Dale. During that period of four years, Mr. Lewis
read law with Judge Frederick Gunster and with William
J. Hand.
He was admitted to the Lackawanna Bar Association
He built up a lucrative practice in criminal and
in 1893.
civil lines in a few years. He became identified with Republican politics in the late ’80’s and retained his interest

He also affiliated himself with banking,
until his death.
commercial and other enterprises then on the march with
Scranton a growing city.
In 1901 he was elected district attorney and continued in that office until 1906. Later he served as county
solicitor.

During his long period of legal practice, public

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and business followings, former Judge Lewis extended
his acquaintanceship far and wide. There were but few
who approached him, whom upon mention of name, he
could not connect directly with their families. On these
occasions he would instantly give the mother’s maiden
name and the names of the person’s grandparents.
On December 10, 1930, following the elevation of
George W. Maxey from the common pleas to the Supreme
Court Bench, Mr. Lewis was appointed by the late Governor John Fisher to fill the vacancy.
In 1931 he was elected on both tickets for a 10-year
term. Both Republican and Democratic parties honored
him with nominations. “It was as high an honor as could
be accorded to any man,’’ Judge Lewis remarked following the 1931 Primary.
While on the bench, Mr. Lewis was noted for his
fairness, impartiality and judicial balance. Young lawyers were given a helping hand by this veteran of the law.
They were called by their first names and imbued with
confidence. In all these years as a jurist, Mr. Lewis added
to his following and gainea the respect of the entire
county.
Two years ago. Judge Lewis underwent a serious operation at the Mercy Hospital. He was away from his
duties for six months before recovering.
Last year it was generally agreed that if he desired
to seek reelection, both parties would bow to the will of
the electorate and present him with both nominations. It
is doubtful if any candidate on either ticket would oppose
him. Early last year. Judge Lewis indicated he would aspire for reelection. Judge M. J. Eagen, then district attorney, announced that if Judge Lewis ran, he would not
enter the race.
Later in the year. Judge Lewis proclaimed his intentions of retiring when the term expired January 1, last.
Judge Eagen became a candidate and won by a large majority.

For more than a half century, he was a prominent
figure in Eisteddfods. He acted as adjudicator in literary
in these affairs. He was always
the forefront of the St. David’s Society and in Welsh
gatherings.
A lover of oratory, Mr. Lewis would often be found
in the front at gatherings where prominent speakers were

and musical competitions
in

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staged. This flair took him to organized labor meetings,
conventions, churches and other centers when prominent
figures spoke.
One of his principal endeavors was support of the
Community Chest, Red Cross and all charitable undertakings.
He was a member of the Lackawanna Bar Association, Hyde Park Lodge of Masons, Knights of Pythias, and
the First Welsh Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mary
and Gertrude, at home, and Mrs. L. D. Richards, Dalton
two sisters, Mrs. Anna Jones, Wilkes-Barre, and Mrs.
John J. Davis, Scranton, and a grandson, William J. Richards, Dalton.
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Course Brings Advancement

Twelve of the twenty teachers who last summer took
the course in pre-flight aviation at Bloomsburg have secured better positions as a result of the work. All but two
of those who took the course are teaching pre-flight instruction in high schools or colleges.
George Kaval, former coach at Mount Carmel High
School, early in the fall accepted a position on the faculty
at Cornell University, teaching ground school subjects in
Civilian Pilot Training. Mr. Kaval took the preliminary
ground school work offered at Bloomsburg and immediately took and passed the A. A. A. ground instructor examinations, receiving ratings in Civil Air Regulations,
meteorology and navigation.
Glenn Manges, who has been teaching at Kulpmont,
succeeded Mr. Kaval at Mount Carmel, and is teaching
pre-flight classes.

Luther Troutman, Trevorton, who had been teaching
Nanty-Glo High School, accepted a position as preflight instructor at the high school at Indiana, Pa., after
completing his course in Bloomsburg.
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Walter S. Rygiel, of the commercial department, addressed the commercial teachers at the morning and afternoon sessions of the seventy-second annual meeting of
the teachers of Luzerne County, which was held in
Wilkes-Barre October 15 and 16.

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Homecoming: Day Reflects War
The prominent part which the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College is playing in the war effort was given
recognition Saturday, October 31, in one of the most outstanding Homecoming Day observances in the history of
the College. All of the activities of the day were centered around the theme: “Bloomsburg Faces War.”
In spite of the difficulties of transportation, the at-

tendance during the day was exceptionally fine. The
presence of several graduates and former students in uniform, the uniforms of the naval cadets, and the patnotic
decorations were a constant reminder that this Homecoming Day was quite different from any Homecoming Day
that had ever been held on the campus.
There was no formal program in the morning. Many
of the visitors had arrived the night before, and as others
began to amve, the period before iioon was spent in happy reunions of friends and classmates. There was a fairly
large attendance at the noon luncheon. The Board of Directors of the Alumni Association held a luncheon meeting during the noon hour.
Featured during the afternoon was a thrilling air
show, put on by several instructors from the Bloomsburg
Airport. The evolutions of the planes in formation and
stunt flying held the close attention of the crowd on the
Athletic Field. In the absence of the Maroon and Gold
Band, which has temporarily passed out of the picture,
the Bloomsburg High School Band of fifty pieces, with its
baton twirlers and flag wavers, added much color to the
occasion.

There was another change from the usual HomecomInasmuch as there was no football
team at Bloomsburg this year, the football game was replaced by a soccer game between the B. S. T. C. soccer
team and the team from Elizabethtown College. The visitors won the game, with a score of 2-1.
Between the halves of the game, the Bloomsburg
High School Band put on a fine exhibition of marching,
which was followed by a review of the navy ensigns and
naval cadets. The reviewing party was composed of the
following: Lieutenant C. L. Claybaugh, navy liaison officer stationed at Bloomsburg Dr. Francis B. Haas, State
ing

Day program.

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Superintendent of Public Instruction; President Harvey
A. Andruss, Reg. S. Hemingway, president of the Board
of Trustees; Richard Beckley, Navy Coordinator for OPT,
and Lt. John C. Koch, coordinator of civilian pilot training at the College. The review was directed by Dr. E. H.
Nelson.
Lieutenant Commander T. T. Ludluni and Lieutenant
E. A. DeWolf, of Philadelphia, flew to Bloomsburg, and
witnessed the climax of the review from overhead. Lt.Commander Ludlum is the senior member of the Aviation
Cadet Selection Board at the Philadelphia Procurement
Office, and Lt. DeWolf is also a member of the same
board.

After the game, there was a tea in the lobby of WalThis was followed by the dedication of a flag to
all the Alumni who are now in the armed service of the
nation. President Andruss presided and extended greetings. Washington’s prayer was read, and President Andruss, in the dedication, used a litany written especially
for the ceremony by Miss Ethel E. Shaw, who retired from
teaching at the College at the close of last year.
Instead of the usual Homecoming Day banquet, a
buffet supper was served in the evening. The formal program usually given at the banquet was replaced by a program in the Auditorium. The program opened with the
National Anthem. President Andruss, who presided, introduced Lieutenant-Commander Ludlum, who told the
audience that the Navy is interested in increasing to two
hundred, and probably to two hundred-fifty, the number
of naval cadets to be trained at Bloomsburg. The audience, led by Miss Harriet M. Moore, joined in singing the
Navy song, “Anchors A weigh.”
Among the guests who were introduced was Richard
Beckley, navy coordinator for CPT, Washington, D. C.,
who explained the contribution being made by the navy
flight instructor schools. He said that there are only nine
such schools, selected in the nation from 400 points of
flight operations, and that only five of the nine have a
rating such as that of Bloomsburg. He said that the Navy
has informed CAA that it is much interested in having
them train as many men as possible, for every time they
ler Hall.

train a pilot instructor, service facilities are released for
the training of a combat pilot.
delightful feature of the evening was presented by

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the Navy Ensigns and Cadets. Led by Miss Moore, they
sang “Don’t Give Up the Ship” and “Wings Over the
Navy.” The songs so delighted the audience that the cadets were obliged to repeat their second song as an encore.

Miss Althea Parsell, of Orangeville, a member of the
class, gave a fine rendition of “God Bless Our
Land,” by Richard Kountz, and “It Is Morning Again,”
by Charles Wakefield Cadman. Her accompanist was
Louise Adams, of the Sophomore class.
Dr. Francis B. Haas was then introduced. In his remarks, he said that Bloomsburg is in the front rank of institutions of higher learning, so far as direct aid to the
war effort is concerned. He stated further that the College was almost the first in the field of aviation, and is
setting the pace.
The program was closed by the singing of “The
Maroon and Gold” and the “Alma Mater.”
Following the program, there was dancing in the
Centennial Gymnasium.

Freshman

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Carl F. Roth, of Kingston, has been appointed Director of the School of Music at the College, and assumed
his duties Friday, October 16, as instructor of piano, organ, and theory. Mr. Roth is a graduate of Wyoming

Seminary Music Department, where he completed full
music courses in piano, organ, theory, and voice. In 1936
he studied organ with Heinrich Zimmler, at Heidelberg,

Germany. He is well known in musical circles in the Wyoming Valley, where he is organist and Choir Director at
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Wilkes-Barre. He has served
as director of the Wyoming Valley Alumni Chorus, and is
now conductor of the Civic Opera Company, which has
gained fame with the presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan
operas, and has a membership of ninety. For several
years he acted as Dean of the Wilkes-Barre chapter of
the American Guild of Organists, and has directed large
combined choirs for their special programs.
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has been born to Mr. and
Mrs. James B. Hess, of Midland, Michigan. Mrs. Hess was
formerly Miss Jean Haas, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, former president of the College and now
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
son,

James Brown,

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Bloomsburg War Activities
In making a survey of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the request of the War Manpower Commission, it was discovered that Bloomsburg State Teachers
College now has an enrollment of 520 students.
According to President Harvey A. Andruss, the faculty and facilities of the college will be offered to the
United States Government for additional programs to be

developed
of the

in

connection with the recent announcements

Army and Navy.

The present enrollment

lows

— Pre-Service Teachers 285, 520
In-Service
of

is

classified

as fol-

Teachers 53,

Special Students in Music 15, Naval Aviation Instructors
107, Naval Combat Pilots 60.
While other colleges are knocking at the doors of the
National Government, seeking ways to bolster their rapidly decreasing enrollment, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has for the past two and one-half years been
gradually widening the scope of its war effoit and at the
present time is not seeking additional contracts with the
National Government but is making its faculty and facilities available if in the judgment of the War Manpower
Commission an additional effoif is deemed advisable.
Since September 1940 over 1,000 persons have been
enrolled in the classes held in Science Hall for students of
the Engineering, Science, and Management War TrainingCourses sponsored by the Office of Education through
Pennsylvania State College and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
The excellent facilities of the Bloomsburg Airport,
made possible through the far-sightedness of Harry L.
Magee, afforded a splendid opportunity for the college to
initiate its Civil Aviation Program in September, 1940,
and since that time 280 persons have completed courses
in Aviation. Of this number, 100 were Civilian Pilots, 20
were Teachers of Pre-Flight Aeronautics for the Public
High Schools of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and
30 were Army Service Pilots, and 130 were Navy Combat
Pilots. Pursuing courses at the present time are over 100
Naval Officers, who will become Flight Instructors, and
60 Cadets.
While the college in normal times has an enrollment

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of between 600 and 700, the increasing number of resident students in the dormitories means that with the present enrollment a bottle-neck in housing is approaching.
In order that some of the experience in wartime aviation may be carried over into the Education System of the
Commonwealth in peace time, when Aeronautics will undoubtedly play an important part in the curriculum of
every high school, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
has requested that it be designated as one of the centers
M'here high school teachers of Aviation may be educated.
It is expected that its pioneer work in having the first
class devoted exclusively to the instruction of teachers of
Pre-Flight Aeronautics will definitely develop into a field
of specialization for all those who expect to become high
school teachers and thus Aeronautics will find a place
along with Mathematics and Science in the curriculum of
the college. It has been necessary to add ten Technical
Assistants in Aviation to the college staff in order to take
care of an increasing Aviation Program.

Among

the Teachers Colleges, Bloomsburg has alsuccessful in placing its graduates and even
before the war conditions developed, made a study of the
ten-year period from 1931 to 1940, which shows that over
92 per cent of those holding Bloomsburg Degrees are
gainfully employed.

ways been

As the year

of 1943 dawns the college is continuing
purpose for which it. was founded, namely,
that of educating teachers, but it is at the same time training instructors in Aviation for the Navy Department, thus
combining in one institution a type of professional work
which contributes to the winning of the war and the peace
to serve the

which

will follow.
o

Members of the Community Government Association
of the College attended the State Teachers College Government Association at the Mansfield State Teachers College Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14. Those

who

Jeanne
attended were Boyd Buckingham, York
Knight, Bloomsburg; Joanna Fice, Athens; Harold MilRuth Ebright, Mifflintown George Miller,
ler, Drums
Wilkes-Barre; Winton Laubach, Benton, and Mary Louise
;

;

;

Madl, Shamokin.

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January, 1943

Page Fifteen

Plan to Certify Teachers of Aeronautics
Bloomsbui'g State Teachers College, a pioneer in
aviation education, has taken steps to include, as a part of
the curriculum, a course which will allow those who successfully conclude the work to become ceitified to teach
aviation courses in the public schools of the Commonwealth.

Encouraged by the federal subsidy made possible
through the sponsorship of Civilian Pilot Training, the
College will become the first school of higher education
in the nation to offer a specialized field leading to ceitification in pre-flight aeronautics for secondary school

teachers.

During the past summer, the College offered a course
secondary teachers. Twenty
took the work, and eighteen of these are now engaged in
such teaching.
Aviation is a coming subject in secondary schools.
Pre-flight instruction is already offered in between two
and three hundred high schools of the Commonwealth,
and Bloomsburg, ever on the alert to provide instruction
in fields required by modern education, is taking another
in pre-flight instruction for

trail-blazing step in the offering of the specialized course.
This comes as an outgrowth of the work sponsored
by Civilian Pilot Training, and the College has petitioned
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Francis B. Haas, to be designated to offer the course. This
field of concentration in aviation will include such courses
as civil air regulations, meteorology, navigation, air dynamics, aircraft and engines, radio code, and related
courses in science, mathematics and geography.
It is planned that all students completing the field of
concentration in pre-flight aeronautics will have flight experience at the Bloomsburg airport, which is equipped
not only to offer courses in elementary flight training, but
also the more advanced courses required by the Army and
the Navy for combat pilots.
The concentrated course, when successfully completed, would give the student a private pilot’s license and
ground instructor’s rating in civil air regulations,
meteorology, and navigation.
It is hoped that the College will be able to offer the

CAA

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January, 1943

Page Sixteen

course at the beginning of the second semester, and the
course will be available as quickly as possible in line
with the existing circumstances.
The twenty who took the first work last summer
have hade a start in the course. It is planned to offer a
course of twenty-four credits and give certificates in aviation in the same way that the College now certifies for the
teaching of business education, mathematics, science, and
other subjects.
It is pointed out that with many of the high schools
in the state now conducting courses in pre-flight aeronautics for Juniors and Seniors, the next step will be to
increase the offerings in this type of instruction. It is considered not unlikely that, sometime in the future, glider
instruction will be offered to high school students, in
which event teachers in aviation must have had thorough
background of aviation theory and flight experience.

full

o

Miss Gitta Sereney, young Hungarian refugee, spoke
at the College Friday, November 13, and gave a thrilling
account of her adventures in various countries in Europe
since the war began. Miss Sereney received her education
in an English private school near London. She also studied in France and Switzerland, and at the time Hitler
marched into Austria, she was studying for the stage
under Max Reinhardt in Vienna. Many thrilling experiences have been met by her in her travels across the continent of Europe. She was living in Paris in the summer
of 1940, and was forced to stay in Paris, where she became a nurse with the “Auxiliare Sociale,” caring for
homeless children. To escape the German Gestapo she
fled from France. Since reaching America, she has filled
many speaking engagements and has served government
agencies in propaganda efforts directed at the enslaved
countries of Europe.
U

Do You Remember?

When matriculants at the Bloomsburg State Normal
School reached the school from the East Bloomsburg station by traveling in a horse-drawn hack?
When the College Homecoming in the Fall was the
annual Thanksgiving reunion of the Philologian Literary
Society?
(From the column in the Morning Press)
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January, 1943

:

Page Seventeen

Don’t Drop Class Reunions!
Dr.

Francis B.

Haas, speaking at the

College on

Home-Coming Day, made the remark that one of the
things that we in this country are fighting for is the right
to come together on such occasions as Home-Coming Day.
The right of public assemblage is one of the rights that
Americans hold most dear. In countries now under the
heel of the oppressor, such meetings as those which take
place on Home-Coming Day and Alumni Day are not permitted.
It has been said many times that, in fighting for our
liberties, we must not lose them in the process. Class reunions and Alumni Days are institutions that are typically
American, and represent one of the foundation stones of
American democracy. Patriotism, which was never as esdevelsential as it is now, is a form of group loyalty.
op this group loyalty through our loyalty to all of the
first learned
smaller groups to which we belong.
group loyalty by learning to be loyal to our family. As our
horizon widened, the experience gained in family life led
to loyalty to other groups of which we became members
our childhood play group, our school, our Scout troop, our
Church, and our College. Let us keep that loyalty alive!

We

We

The way to keep it alive is to meet from time to time
with those with whom we spent two, three, or four happy
years
during a period of life when the cares of the world
had not yet begun to weigh upon us. Those who have
never returned to the College may have been prevented
from doing so by circumstances over which they had no
control, but they have lost something. They have never
experienced the thrill of returning to the Campus and living over experiences which may have long since been forgotten. They have never experienced the thrill of seeing
faces and coming in contact with personalities that once
were a part of their daily life.
If you know the thrill, you need not be urged to attend your class reunion this year. You will be there, if it
is in any way possible. You will also try to tell about this
thrill to those who have never had it.
Let us make the 1943 Alumni Day the biggest ever!
It will be a good thing for us as individuals, it will be a
good thing for our College, and it will be a good thing for
our Country! How about it?

—

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January, 1943

:

:

Page Eighteen

Business Teachers With Business

Experience After the

War

Speaking to administrators and college teachers,
President Harvey A. Andruss, State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, at the Tri-State Business Education Meeting recently, said
“Only half of the graduates in Business Education are
going from college into the classroom. The others are going into offices. Civil Service positions, or the Armed Forces. Numerous smaller high schools, paying minimum salaries, are closing their departments.

The government is now inventorying typewriters and
schools will have to list machines by number and make
and indicate whether or not they are now in use. All this
is a first step which will take typewriters out of classrooms by the same process that a sixth rubber tire is taken off your auto in your garage.
Winning the war means many changes. All of these
adjustments do not lessen the effectiveness of instruction.
Among the heartening situations which emerge are
1. A greater seriousness on the part of teachers and students. The will to do and the will to learn is evidenced
as never before.
2. For a long time we have felt that business teachers
should have business experience. Vocational competency cannot be developed in classrooms with books
and machines alone. After the war, graduates of business teacher institutions will have had business experience. Industry, government service, and private enteachers’ salterprise will not be so attractive as now
aries will be higher; classrooms will be filled with better teachers in that first hand experience has been
added to classroom preparation.
all

;

O

Lieutenant Nelson M. Oman, of Bloomsburg, was
transferred in October from Brooks Field, San Antonio,
Texas, to Key Field, Meridian, Mississippi, where he was
scheduled to spend six weeks in flying observation planes.
Lieutenant Oman is a former member of the class of 1942.
His home address is Third Street, Bloomsburg.

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January, 1943

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Page Nineteen

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

D. D. Wright
Elizabeth H. Hubler

Nelson

E. H.

Hervey B. Smith

^

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

—Mrs. Jessie D. Hoover, Altoona Avenue, Harrisburg, Pa.;
First Vice-Pi'esident — Mrs. Blanche M. Grimes, 204 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Second Vice-President — Miss Elizabeth
Clancy, 436 North Third Street, Steelton, Pa.; Treasurer —W.
Homer Englehart, 1821 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary — Mrs. Helen Sutliff Brown, 100 North Second Street, Harris-

President

4

burg, 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
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 Aurand,

162 South

—

—

—

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

lisle Street,

—Mrs.

Lester Bennett,

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January, 1943

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Page Twenty

Montour County
President, 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
Mildred Auten, R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.

—

—

Northumberland County

—

President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaiyTreasurer 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.; VicePresident Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-PresiMichael
dent
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T.
Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary- George Sharpe, 414 Center
Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South
Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer
Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.

—

—

—

—

—

—

Philadelphia

—

President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
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, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary— Mildred WagMrs. Harold Baker, Market
ner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary
Anna Troutman, SelinsStreet, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Treasurer

—

—

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.; Treas-

President— Fred Kester, Mill
son, Hallstead,

urer

—

—

—
—Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.

Columbia County

—

C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Larue Derr,
Thur^abert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Beaver; Secretary
Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.

President— A.

—

—

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January, 1943

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:

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DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
C.

The Dauphin-Cumberland County branch of B. S. T.
Alumni Association held a delightfully informal lunch-

eon at the Y.

W.

election of officers

—

C. A. in

An

Harrisburg, October 24.

was held with the following named

:

President
Mrs. Jessie D. Hoover; First Vice-President Mrs. Blanche M. Grimes; Second Vice-President
Miss Elizabeth Clancy; Treasurer W. Homer Englehait;
Secretary
Mrs. Helen Sutliff Brown.
Greetings were extended by Dr. F. B. Haas and interesting information concerning the B. S. T. C. war curriculum was presented by President Andruss, Dr. Kuster and
Dean Koch. Two students from the college, Miss Parsed
and Miss Adams, entertained the group with several fine
musical selections. Those present at the luncheon were
as follows
Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Haas, President Andruss, Dean John Koch,
Dr. and Mrs. Kuster, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. SutliU, Rev. C. Can-oil Bailey, Mrs. Jessie D. Hoover, Mrs. Helen S. Brown, W. Homer Englehart,

—

—

—

Mrs. Margaret Row Englehart, Mrs. J. F. Scheifer, Mrs. Margaret J.
MacCachran, Mrs. Elsiebelle D. Swope, Mrs. C. Carroll Bailey, Mrs.
Bertha B. Martin, Miss Ethel Ranson, Miss Mary Pendergast, Miss
Margaret Dailey, Miss Mary Meehan, Miss Nelle Seidel, Miss Mary
Ellen Miller, Mrs. Blanche Grimes, Mrs. Katherine C. Anwyll, Mrs.
Eleanor W. Reiley, Mrs. Maude B. Shawfield, Dr. W. B. Mausteller,
Miss Margaret Johnson, Miss Dorothy Mensinger, Miss Althea Parsell, Miss Louise Adams.
o

Lieutenant

awarded a

Wayne

L.

Hartman,

of

Benton,

was

silver star for gallantry in the Australian area.

Lieutenant Hartman was cited for bravery in the bombing
of the Japanese base at Lae, New Guinea, July 4, 1942.
“After passing the target, Hartman’s plane was attacked by several Zeroes,” the citation read. “He was
wounded, but for twenty-five minutes he continued to man
his gun, repelling enemy attacks and personally downing
one Zero.”
Lieutenant Hartman is a graduate of the Benton
High School, where he was president of the Hi-Y Club,
Editor of the year book, and president of the Sophomore
class. He attended Wyoming Seminary for one year, and
entered Bloomsburg in the autumn of 1935. He withdrew
from college December 6, 1937, to take a position in Harrisburg.

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January, 1943

Page Twenty-Two

Alumni Pfraonala
1879
Prof. Charles H. Albert observed the eighty-fourth
anniversary of his birth on Monday, September 21. He
was busy receiving the congratulations of his host of
friends.

1880
Mrs. Celeste K. Prutzman, of Huntsville, celebrated
her 88th birthday anniversary recently. She was born in
Kingston Township, near the Wyoming Camp Ground,
December 9, 1854, and married Frank Prutzman in September, 1885, coming to live in Huntsville the following

March.
Mrs. Prutzman was graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1880 and attended Alumni Day each
spring until the last two years. Every five years her class

holds a reunion.

In 1940, only three attended.

She taught school for 16 years. Her first term was
taught in a little red schoolhouse in Dallas Township.
When the new school was built in Dallas Township, Mrs.
Prutzman and John Fuller were the first teachers in the

new

building.

Mrs. Prutzman is a member of the Methodist Church
and Sunday School and has been superintendent of the
Home Department for 36 years. She received a gold
medal from the State Sabbath School Association for 50
years of Sunday School work.
Mr. Prutzman died in 1929. Mrs. Prutzman has one
son, Ray, of Huntsville, and two grandchildren, Philip, a
music teacher in the Connellsville school, and Frank, of
Huntsville.

1881
H. Hartman, (Abigail Robbins), died at her
home in Bloomsburg Tuesday, November 3. She was bora
in Unityville September 20, 1860, being the second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Robbins. When Mrs.
Mrs.

W.

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January, 1943

Page Twenty-Three
quite young, the family moved to BloomsAfter her graduation from the Normal School she
taught two years. Her marriage to the Rev. Mr. Hartman
took place June 20, 1883. Six children were born of the
marriage. Mrs. Hartman is survived by her husband, two
sisters, two brothers and four children.

Hartman was
burg.

1884
has been received of the death of Mrs. O. H.
Bakeless, former Bloomsburg resident, Sunday, November 14, at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Nason, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Bakeless,
widow of Prof. O. H. Bakeless, for many years head of the

Word

department of pedagogy of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and herself a member of the school faculty for a
number of years, had been making her home with her sonin-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Nason, for several
years.
It was known that Mrs. Bakeless had been suffering
with heart disease, but the news received here gave no details.

Mrs. Bakeless is survived by two children, Mrs. Nason and Lieutenant Colonel John E. Bakeless, who has
been stationed at Washington, D. C. It is thought here
that she was the last member of her family.
No information came as to where the funeral was to
be held but it is believed by town friends that the body
M'ill be buried at Mdroy, Pa., where Professor Bakeless

was

buried.

The family resided on East Third Street, Bloomsburg,
Their home there was sold about a year

for many years.
ago.

Mrs. Bakeless was for years an active member of the
Methodist Church and was likewise active in the
town’s literary circles.
First

Mrs. Laura Robbins Paul, highly esteemed resident
of Milton for forty-five years and leader in the movement
to found the Milton Public Library, died suddenly at her

home.
It was while president of the former Milton Civic
Club, now the Women’s Club, that she started the project
for the library and in a short time had created sufficient
interest in the program for its creation. The valuable Milton institution opened its doors in 1923, and since that

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January, 1943

Page Twenty-Four

time Mrs. Paul has been a member of the official board.
She was president at the time of her death.
She was also active in work of the First Presbj^terian
Church and many other civic projects, and through her
extensive community efforts was held in esteem by many
of the town’s residents.
Mrs. Paul was born in Bloomsburg, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Robbins. She later was a resident of
Wilkes-Barre, moving to Milton in 1896 after her marriage to the late Edwin Paul.
Surviving are two nieces. Misses Ruth and Marguerite Benscoter, of Wilkes-Barre.

1885
Mrs. Edith Ent Holmes, of Bloomsburg, was honored
Sunday, September 27, at a recognition service held at
the First Methodist Church in Bloomsburg, when she retired after fifty-nine years of service as organist of the
church.

The record set by Mrs. Holmes is unequalled in any
denomination, and this fact has received widespread recognition, being one of the features in Ripley’s column
“Believe It Or Not.’’ Since her first service, which was on
the first of October, 1883, Mrs. Holmes has seiwed as organist for more than 10,000 services and rehearsals. For
fourteen years, from 1883 to 1897, she played for all services and organization meetings, including young people’s
meetings, church school, prayer meetings, weddings, and
Sunday services. However, since the present church was
built, she has confined her work to the pipe organ for the
church services.
Participating in the recognition service, at which
Mrs. Holmes became Organist Emeritus of the church,
were Dr. A. Lawrence Miller, of Williamspoi’t, and Dr.
Edgar R. Heckman, Superintendent of the Methodist
Home for the Aged at Tyrone, former pastors of the
church. Mrs. Holmes was presented with a golden key to
the organ as a symbol expressing the appreciation of the
church for her many years of faithful service.
1888

START THE BALL ROLLING NOW FOR YOUR
FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR REUNION IN MAY.
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January, 1943

Page Twenty -Five

1893

THE BIG YEAR. THE FIFTIETH-YEAR
REUNION! START NOW TO MAKE IT A BIG ONE.
1943 IS

1898

YOUR FORTY-FIFTH YEAR
UNION. BEGIN NOW TO MAKE YOUR PLANS.
MAY,

1943:

RE-

1903
IN

MAY YOU WILL CELEBRATE THE FORTIETH

ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR GRADUATION FROM
BLOOMSBURG. WHO WILL START THE BALL ROLLING

NOW?

1907
Harry DeWire, a teacher

in

the Harrisburg schools

since 1918, has been elected principal of the William
Penn High School, Harrisburg. Mr. DeWire is a native of
Winfield, Union County, and is a graduate of Bloomsburg
and Bucknell. He received his master’s degree at Susquehanna University, and before going to Harrisburg taught
at Winfield and at Milton. His first position in Harrisburg
was in Technical High School. In 1926, when the William
Penn High School was opened, Mr. DeWire was transferred there, and since that time he has been teaching political science, history, and social studies.

1908

WANTED: A MEMBER OF .THE CLASS OF 1908
TO START NOW TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE THIRTYFIFTH YEAR REUNION, MAY 22, 1943.
1913

DON’T LET THE WAR SPOIL YOUR PLANS FOR
YOUR THIRTIETH YEAR REUNION, MAY 22, 1943.
John Bakeless now holds the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel in the United States Army. He is located in
Washington, D. C. His wife, formerly Katherine Little,
of Bloomsburg, is with him.
1915
Alma M. Baer Llerena lives at Rua Presidente de

Moraes 365, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her son Eduardo
would have graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania

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January, 1943

Page Twenty -Six
last June, but was unable to do so because of the war. At
the time Mrs. Llerena’s letter was written, he was at Fort
Eustis, Virginia. Mrs. Llerena states in her letter “I hope
that it will be possible for me to be in the U. S. A. in 1945
for my 30th class reunion.”

1918

THE CLASS OF 1917 HAD A WONDERFULLY
SUCCESSFUL REUNION LAST YEAR. YOU WILL
HAVE TO START NOW, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A
BETTER TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR REUNION THAN
THEY HAD.
Clyde A. Miller,

who

lives at

336 Sussex

Street,

Har-

New

Jersey, is a oomb inspector in a vital defense
plant in the New York Metropolitan area. He has been
so employed since July, 1941.
rison,

1923

DON’T LET ANYTHING KEEP YOU AWAY FROM
YOUR TWENTIETH-YEAR REUNION, MAY 22, 1943.
BEGIN PLANNING FOR IT NOW.
1928

A LOT OF CHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE AT
BLOOMSBURG DURING THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS.
HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? COME BACK ON ALUMNI
DAY, MAY 22, 1943, AND SEE HOW B. S. T. C. HAS
GROWN.
Thelma Fae Miller, of 101 West Third Street, Nescopeck, has announced her engagement to iLoy Hunsinger,
of Nescopeck. The marriage will take place in the spring.
Miss Miller received her B. S. degree at Bloomsburg in
February, 1942, and has been teaching in the Nescopeck
schools for the past fifteen years. Mr. Hunsinger is employed at the A. C. F. plant in Berwick.
1929

AND

1940

L. Bittenbender, of Nescopeck, and Dale W.
Sitler, of Mifflinville, were married Saturday, September
26, in the Grace Evangelical Church at Lewistown. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. F. Young. Mrs.
Sitler is a teacher in the Nescopeck schools, and Mr. Sitler
is employed in the A. C. F. plant at Berwick.

Jean

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January, 1943

Page Twenty-Seven

1930
Charles F. John is principal of the Leraysville High
School. He teaches science and coaches basketball. He
was formerly teacher of science in the high school at Dimock. His wife was formerly Miss Pauline Grove, of Dimock. Mr. and Mrs. John have two sons.

1931
Miss Jane Fahringer, of Berwick, and Lewis C.
Smith, of Hazleton, were married May 30, 1942, in the
Lutheran Church at St. Johns. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Joseph R. Shuster. Mrs. Smith is a
teacher in the East Berwick schools. She is active in the
Women’s Civic Club, and is the organist at the Berwick
Baptist Church. Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Hazleton
High School, attended the Pennsylvania State College,
and also attended the United States Naval Ordnance
School at Washington, D. C. At present he is attached to
the Philadelphia branch of the United States Naval Ord-

nance Department.
Hilda Yocum, now a member of the WAAC’s, reported for training in December at Des Moines, Iowa.

Dorothy M. Foust
Watsontown, Pa.

lives

at 141

South Main Street,

1932

Desda John (Mrs. Richard Beckley) lives in Washington, D. C., where her husband is Navy Coordinator for
the Civilian Pilot Training program. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley were in Bloomsburg on Homecoming Day, and Mr.
Beckley spoke briefly at the program held in the College
auditorium

in the evening.

J. Fred Berger, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted
from the rank of private first class to that of technician

grade. He is in the Classification Section of the
1301st Service Unit, and is stationed at New Cumberland.

fifth

1933

YOUR TEN-YEAR REUNION, MAY 22, 1943. THIS
OUGHT TO BE A BIG ONE. WHO WILL TAKE THE
LEAD

IN

PLANNING FOR

IT?

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January, 1943

Page Twenty-Eight

Fred W. Fowler, of Espy, is stationed at Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. He is taking a course as radio operator,
and is receiving his basic training there. His address is
Pvt. Fred W. Fowler, 804 Technical School Squadron,
A. A. F., T. T. S., Barracks 1228, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

A

son was born Sunday, November 8, to Corporal
L. Getz at the Memorial Hospital at Syracuse, New York. Mr. Getz, formerly of Bloomsburg, has
been a music instructor in the schools of Johnson City,
New York.
1935
A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. William
Reed, of Hamburg. Mrs. Reed was formerly Miss Betty
Row, of Bloomsburg.

and Mrs. Carl

Theodore Whitenight, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted from Private First Class to Corporal Technician.
He is stationed at the Fitzimmons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado.

Mrs. Leonard Baker (Lauretta M. Foust) is employed at the office of the Piper Aircraft Company at

Lock Haven.
Clyde Kitch has been commissioned a first lieutenant
United States Marine Corps. Mr. Kitch resigned
from the U. S. Secret Service to accept the commission.
in the

1936
of Cleveland Township,
Rhoades,
E.
Margaret
Miss
Columbia County, and Kenneth S. Artley, of Franklin
Township, were married Friday, October 23, in the St.
Paul’s United Brethren Church at Esther Furnace. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. C. Deitzler, pastor of the church. Mrs. AHley has been a teacher in the
Locust Township schools for the past six years. Mr. Aiiley

is

associated with his father in the poultry business

and farming in Franklin Township.
A daughter was born Thursday, October 22, to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Evans, of Long Island City, New York.
Mrs. Evans is the former Katherine John, of Bloomsburg.
Mr. Evans is the grandson of the late Judge Charles C.
Evans, of Berwick, an alumnus of Bloomsburg and a former member of the Board of Trustees.

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January, 1943

Page Twenty-Nine
of Hazleton, a memto graduate from the
school, visited the College recently. Miss Van

Lieutenant Kathryn
ber of the third class of

Des Moines

Van Auker,

W A AC’s

Auker taught for several years in the Mechanicsburg
High School before entering the service.
George E. Kessler, of Locust Dale, is now on a mission to India, Burma, and China. He was recently promoted from the rank of Master Sergeant to that of Second Lieutenant.
1937
Miss Nola Paden, of Berwick, is teaching in the
schools at East Berwick.
1938
OF YOU WILL BE IN UNIFORM, BUT THE

MANY

REST OF YOU SHOULD CARRY ON AND HAVE A
FINE FIFTH-YEAR REUNION, MAY 22, 1943. SOMEONE MUST LEAD OFF. WHO WILL IT BE?
Dan Litwhiler, member of the Phillies National
League baseball team, is teaching this winter at the West
Mahanoy Township High School, Shenandoah. He has
also been serving as assistant football coach and basket-

ball coach.

Aerio Fetterman, of Catawissa R. D. 3, is a private
class in the Army, and is attached to the Intelligence
Office at New Cumberland. He was a teacher in the Locust Township High School before entering the service.
first

1939

James Robert Kantner enlisted in the U. S. Navy
February 26, 1942, at Birmingham, Alabama. He was
sent to the U. S. Naval Training Station at San Diego,
California, for a month’s training, and from there he was
transferred to Treasure Island, California. He was recently promoted from the rank of Yeoman 3rd class to
Yeoman 2nd class. He is now attached to the Personnel
Office of the Armed Guard Center. Mr. Kantner’s address is James R. Kantner Y2/c Personal Office, Armed
Guard Center (Pacific), Treasure Island, San Francisco,
California.

Philip E. Trapane, of Berwick, has been graduated
from the parachute school at Fort Benning, Georgia, as a
qualified parachutist and rigger. He received his wings

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January, 1943

Page Thirty
his sixth jump in connection with the
his graduation, Pvt. Trapane, was appointed instructor in rigging with a Jump-master alternate. He was scheduled to be in this position for two
months, and will then attend an Officers’ Candidate
School in administration personnel to which he has been
appointed. His address is Pvt. Philip E. Trapane, Aca-

and diploma after
course. Following

demic Section Parachute
Fort Penning, Georgia.

School,

Air-borne

Command,

John F. Bower, of Berwick, has been promoted to the
rank of technician fifth grade. He was inducted April 3,
and on July 16 was advanced to private first class. Technician Bower, who took graduate work at Duke University and the Pennsylvania State College, was a teacher in
the Fleetville High School, Lackawanna County, at the
time of his induction. He is stationed at New Cumberland.
1940
Miss Mary Elizabeth Huddy and James F. Hinds,
both of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, October 31,
at the rectory of St. Columba’s Catholic Church in Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Fr. Louis
J. Yeager. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hinds are employed in the

Bloomsburg

offices of the

Grange League Federation.

William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, Aviation Cadet, is
Army Air Force meteorology school at New

attending the

York University, where the Army

is

training

weather ofHigh

in the Scott Township
School, enlisted in the air corps last June.
ficers.

Mr. Hess, a teacher

Corporal Paul Paulhamus, formerly of Bloomsburg,
entered the service last May, and since that time has been
stationed at New Cumberland. His address is Corp. Paul
Paulhamus, Headquarters Company, 1301 Service Unit,
New Cumberland, Pa.
Earl W. Houck, of Berwick, has been graduated from
the Officers’ Training School at Miami Beach, Florida and
has received his commission as second lieutenant in the
U. S. Army Air Force.

Miss Lola K. Brown, of Bloomsburg, and Pvt. Miles
Smith, of Berwick, were married Saturday, October 30, at
Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Private Smith has been

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January, 1943

Page Thirty-One

stationed for some time.
ator in Bloomsburg.

Mrs. Smith

is

a telephone oper-

Aviation Cadet Robert A. Linn entered the service

August

He

now

Monroe, Louisiana, and

is receiva position as teacher
and coach at Doylestown to enter the service.

17.

is

at

ing instruction as navigator.

He

left

1941

WHEN ALUMNI DAY COMES AROUND MAY 22,
1943, TWO YEARS WILL HAVE PASSED SINCE YOUR
GRADUATION. COME BACK AND HAVE THE FIRST
OF A LONG SERIES OF SUCCESSFUL REUNIONS. IT
WILL BE GOOD FOR YOUR MORALE!
Thurwald Gommer, of Nanticoke, has been commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve, and has been
awarded the gold wings of Navy aviation. Ensign Gommer took his preliminary flight under the C. P. T. program while he was a student at Bloomsburg. He completed his elimination flight training at the Naval Reserve
Aviation Base in Anacostia, D. C., before reporting as an
Aviation Cadet at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.

During his training at Bloomsburg, Ensign Gommer
first C. P. T. student to make a “dead stick” landing at the Bloomsburg aii^port. He was at an altitude of
about 4,000 feet when his motor went dead. He had had
four hours of flight instruction at the time. He made a
fine “dead stick” landing, crawled out of the plane,
grinned, and told the onlookers, “When 1 could see the
trademark on the propeller, I figured that things weren’t
just right. So I brought her in.”
Ensign Gommer’s home address is 2 Front Street,

was the

Nanticoke.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Dorothy Savage and Drue Folk, both of Berwick.
Miss Savage is teaching in the commercial department of
the Berwick High School, and Mr. Folk is employed at the
A. C. F. plant.
Gerald D. Fritz, formerly of Berwick, has been proto the rank of Staff Sergeant. He is an instructor in
teletype work. His address is 8th School Squadron, Barracks 325, Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois.

moted

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January, 1943

Page Thirty-Two

Max Arcus, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted to the
rank of Sergeant. He is located at Gunter Field, Montgomery, Alabama.
Barbara Gillette (Mrs. Benjamin Benoski)
1223 Isabella Street, Williamsport.

lives at

1942
Aviation Cadet F. Stuart Straub, of Berwick, completed his basic training at Santa Ana, California, and
was transferred to the Mira-Loma Flying Academy at
Oxnard, California. At Oxnard, Cadet Straub has been
studying primary phases of flying, instruction which leads
to the secondary course, and then to his wings. His address at Oxnard is AC F. Stuart Straub, 7th A. F. T. D.,

Squadron

2,

Oxnard, California.

Paul Baker, Jr., of Espy, a former member of the
class of 1942, has enlisted in the United States Navy, and
is now in training at Camp Allen, Virginia.
His address
is S-2C, U. S. N. C., T. C., N. O. B. Co. A., Platoon 1, Battalion 47, Camp Allen, Norfolk, Va.
Corporal James William Davies, of West Pittston, is
a member of Hq. and Hq. Company, Camp Wheeler,
Georgia, where he has been serving as secretary to several
high ranking officers. He is now awaiting transfer to the
Air Corps.
Private Paul A. Klinger, Jr., of Berwick, has enlisted
the Army Air Corps, and is located at the Beach Hotel,
St. Petersburg, Florida. His mail address is 603TSSRTC
Flight 143, St. Petersburg, Florida.
in

Miss Violet Pataki and Jack Rockwell, both of
Bloomsburg, were married Sunday, October 11, at the
home of the Rev. O. C. Miller, of Shirmanstown. They are

now

living in

Edwin

J.

West

Chester.

Deleski has been promoted to the rank of
Air Corps. He is stationed at Max-

First Sergeant in the
well Field, Alabama,

Carolyn Cole, of Benton,
Sugarloaf, Columbia County.

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MiA-yeGA Qom4ne4^jc^ment
Twenty-two young men and women were graduated
from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College a semester
ahead of the regular schedule, at the commencement exercises held in the auditorium of Carver Hall Sunday afternoon, Januaiy 24.
The commencement speaker was Dr. Carroll D.
Champlin, a member of the class of 1906, and professor
of education at the Pennsylvania State College. Speaking
on the subject “Whose World Is This?” Dr. Champlin
said “The whole world belongs to every trustworthy individual and nation, and nothing helps any one that does
not help everyone some.”
The members of the class were

the following:

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION— Eleanor

Marie Althoff, Mount
Carmel; Elizabeth Julia Bartha, Yeagertown; Frederic M. McCutcheon, Conyngham; Thelma Miller, Nescopeck, and Dorothy Mae Grow,
Shamokin.

SECONDARY EDUCATION— Carl

Berninger, Catawissa, R. D.

Loren Collins, Nanticoke; Joseph W. Koslowski, Mount Carmel;
George E. Miller, Wilkes-Barre; Raymond Perry, Shamokin; Catharine A. Sedlak, Dupont; Robert C. Zimmerman, Nuremberg.
BUSINESS EDUCATION Lee Roy Beaumont, Marcus Hook;
Irving T. Gottlieb, York; David Morley Jones, Shamokin; Jean A.
Langan, Duryea; Eileen Meluskey, Shenandoah; Hugh Spencer Niles,
Wellsboro; George W. Piarote, Lebanon; William H. Selden, Berwick;
Elwood Milton Wagner, Hamburg, and John F. Witkowski, Mount
Carmel.
The entire Senior class, attired in academic robes,
followed the speaker, the trustees and the faculty into
the auditorium during the processional. William B. Sutliff. Dean Emeritus, gave the invocation.
George E. Miller, of Wilkes-Barre, gave the student
oration. This is the first time in many years that a student has had a part in the commencement exercises. His
oration replaced the Ivy Day Oration. Mr. Miller spoke
in part as follows:
“The men of this class will soon take their places in the armed
2;

—

We do not regret this fact, but rather
honored honored to help protect the form of government that
m.ade our education possible.
“The members of this class who go directly into teaching profession will also have a tremendous task to perform. It is one of dynaihic importance. We must teach the young people of our nation
the true value of a democratic way of life. These children are also
the men and women of tomorrow. Our country will be what they
forces of our great nation.
feel

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and we make it. When we teach them to understand democracy,
then and then only will they strive to keep the banner of freedom

waving forever.”

Following Dr. Champlin’s address, H. F. Fenstemaker played an organ solo, “Ave Maria” by Franz Liszt,
and President Andruss conferred the degrees. The exercises closed M'ith the Alma Mater and the recessional.
Music was directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Speaking on “Whose World is This?” Dr. Champlin
said in part
“In youth we all have attitudes and prejudices that need to be
outgrown. This is because of human nature, faulty instruction and
popular gossip. The peace of the world depends on our ability to
keep our vision clear and not to allow obstacles to prevent us from
seeing life fully. Our judgment of other nations is easily erroneous,
hostile and unfair. It is important for us to get the facts and to be
friendly as far as possible. There have always been areas of influence v.^herein the masses of people have been controlled. Royalty,
the wealthy, the higher social classes and men with great political
power have been the traditional masters of the world.
“And yet the world has never belonged to any particular individual or class. Darius, Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon
sought to conquer widely, but each was disappointed in the results of
his effort. The first world war set boundaries and settled claims, and

now we

face a future threatened with prolonged war because there
no answer to this troublesome question ^Whose World is This?
We abhor the thought of Germany over Europe and Japan over
Asia, and for a long time the people of South America and Mexico
seemed to fear the prospect of the United States over all the Americas. Many students of history consider it desirable to break down
the British Empire and to prevent any of the dictatorships from absorbing too much territory or assuming too much authority.
“The present world situation is tragic, and yet we seem to learn
more of geography and history when passing through crucial stages
of our international relations. In recent years there have been numerous experiments in national self-sufficiency. Nationalism, fascism, communism and imperialism have risen and threatened to disrupt completely the world-order that we have already evolved. To
whom does the world belong? This is a question that has haunted
us for generations. We are taunted by the elusive nature of this
perennial problem. It vexes us grievously even as it stimulates us

—

is

vigorously.

“There are good traits in every race. There’s the exceptional
sense of humor of the English, who like to say now that they all belong to one common night club. There’s the unusual hospitality of
the Scottish people and the simplicity and modesty of the Irish.
There’s the musical genius of the Welsh and the fondness for home
of the French and Swiss villagers. It takes aU kinds of people to
make a world, and we have them in our world. It takes all sorts of

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April, 1943

Page Three
nations and individuals to occupy the several continents and to cultivate nature’s many gifts to man. It takes every possible variety of
personality and talent to build a better world and to fulfill our ideal
of man’s manifest destiny.
“The whole world is a neighborhood today. The elements of the
universe have been brought near, and the human episode has been
shown to be relatively recent. The earth has been revealed to be
small, and the human beings who occupy it can be shown to be blood
brothers. The whole world belongs to every trustworthy individual
and nation, and nothing helps anyone very much that does not help
everyone some. Likewise nothing hurts anyone much that does not
hurt everyone some. Perhaps the world belongs to those people who
possess sympathy for all worthy groups and to those who foster the
spirit of fellowship sincerely.
“Ethically the world should belong to people who are willing to
work out the ways and means for securing mutual confidence and
cordial relations around the world. Biblically the first verse of the
24th chapter of the Psalms answers the question for us “The earth
is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell
therein.” Through affiliation with our democratic institutions and
because of our profession of confidence in Christianity we should
be strengthened in our faith that materialism, tyranny, war and
human suffering can be overthrown in our own time. We need a restoration of self-respect the world over in a crusade to produce a

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happy harmonious brotherhood of intelligent, refined human
Religion, education and legislation can all play an important
achieving this high purpose.”
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beings.
role in

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In a message sent to the General Assembly in February, Governor Martin recommended that certain of the
fouideen teacher-training institutions in Pennsylvania be
sold or leased to the United States Army. This would
mean that the institutions so affected would lose their
identity as Teachers Colleges, and be used for any purposes that the Army might desire. The message did not
designate which institutions should be retained, but stated that at least eight should be retained. Up to the time
that the Quarterly went to press, no action had been
taken by the General Assembly.
o

Miss Jeanne Knight, daughter of Mrs. Anna Knight, secretary
to President Andruss, and a Sophomore in the Business Education
Department at the College, was married Saturday, February 6, to
Ensign Myles G. Iverson, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The ceremony
was performed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg, by the
Rector, the Rev. William J. Watts. Ensign Iverson is a graduate of
a high school in Minneapolis, and was attending the University of
Minnesota at the time he was called into service.

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Haccalaunjexite
The Rev.

Dr.

J.

Edgar

Skillington,

pastor of the

Methodist Church, delivering the baccalaureate sermon
at the Teachers College mid-year commencement Wednesday, January 22, told the twenty-two graduates, that
“to decide to cooperate with God, to identify oneself with
flis purposes is the way of self realization.”
The minister took for his text St. Matthew 6 :33,
“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.”
The service opened with the processional, “Ancient
of Days.” The Rev. Dr. Skillington gave the invocation
and the congregation sang the hymn, “Faith of Our Fathers.” President Andruss read the Scripture and following the sermon Miss Althea Parsell sang “Prayer” by
David W. Guion with Miss Louise Adams as the accompanist. The Rev. Dr. Skillington pronounced the benedic-

and the recessional hymn was “Awake, My Soul.”
Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the music with H. F.
Fenstemaker at the console.
tion

The Sermon
In his message, the
part as follows:

Rev. Dr.

Skillington

spoke

in

“The Kingdom of God means the rule of God. Does this mean
seek the place where God rules? No, rather it means seek to establish God’s rule. Does not God rule everywhere? Do not the winds
and the waves obey him? Yes, the winds and the waves do, but do
you, do all men you know? Man is free to do good or evil. God’s
Kingdom prevails wherever men seek above all else to do His will.
“We may think of this as a proposal made by Jesus, as though
He said, ‘If you will make the doing of God’s will by yourself and
others the supreme concern of your life, I’ll guarantee that every
real need you may have personally will be met.’
“What is God’s will and way for our lives? Substantially what
That kind of life can not be
is taught in the sermon on the Mount?
lived under compulsion. In brief it means life lived in accordance
with the two-fold principle of the universal fatherhood of God and
brotherhood of man. The Kingdom of God must be a kingdom of
free men, doing his will in love to Him and one another. It can
never come as a result of force, even on God’s part, as some seem to
suppose.
“Seek this first, before your own comfort and well-being. In
point of time concern for your well being may come first, but in the
final outcome of your life, the thing it is lived for, your comfort and
well being must be only means to an end, the end being the Kingdom. ‘If any man would come after me, let him deny himself,’ said

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April, 1943

Page Five
Jesus.

That means that

does not

mean

I

must say ‘no,’ to every selfish impulse.
To decide to cooperate with God,

self repudiation.

It

to

identify myself with His purposes is the way of self-reaUzation.
“This is not a proposal for one to devote his life exclusively to
v/hat is commonly called religious work. Jesus was a layman, a carpenter by trade. There appears no reason to suppose that even Zacchaess, the tax collector, changed his occupation when he became
converted. The establishment of the Kingdom of God in human life
will require men of every legitimate occupation and calling, pursuing their respective callings with this as their supreme purpose.
lawyer, for example, will charge for his services and may even build
up a fortune as a reserve to insure his continued practice of his profession on the highest plane of efficiency, but his supreme purpose in
all will be to establish the rule of God in the lives of men.

A

“The phychologists have much to say these days about introversion and extroversion. Many a person thinks himself free from the
charge of being an introvert because he has many outside interests,
so-called, but he is really an introvert because he turns them all inward, to serve his own selfish ends. Jesus is appealing to men to
turn all the interests and powers of their lives to getting God’s will
done in the world.
“Did they accept his proposal? Judging from what we know of
life among the earliest Christians, we are led to think they did pretty
generally. Is this the rule among Christians today? By the same sort
of reasoning, viz., observing life as they live it, we are forced to the
conclusion that it is not the universal practice by any means.
“If it be said that this sets a standard of life contrary to human
nature, whose first law is self-preservation, I inquire what is meant
by ‘nature.’ It is the law of life our Creator has made a part of our
very being? Will anyone claim that the way the so-called Christian
world has been living is God’s way? If it is, God is mocking us. But
it is not. Jesus says in effect, T show you a more excellent way, seek
first, last and always at any cost to work with God.’ Whatever God
thinks is worth doing or undertaking to do is surely worth my undertaking to do, if it is within the range of my powers. ‘He hath
showed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require
of thee, but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with
thy God?” And all this Jesus has made more plain in His life and
teaching and especially in this sermon on the mount.”
0

On Thursday evening, January 14, the Bloomsbui’g Players presented the comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace,” by Joseph Kesserling,
in the auditorium of Carver Hall. Miss Alice Johnston directed the
cast. The proceeds were turned over to the College War Council.
Members of the cast were the following; Betty Hagenbuch, Betsy
Smith, Carl Berninger, Reynold Paganelli, Charles Taylor, Kathryn
Sedlack, Boyd Buckingham, John Thomas, Paul Rowlands, Michael
Remetz, Harvey Huber, Irving Gottlieb and Harry John.

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Page Six

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the second of a series of articles on the history of Bloomsburg, reprinted from the Bloomsbui'g Morning Press).

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Fortunately for the educational interests of Columbia County, a new actor appeared upon the scene, when
the condition of affairs seemed to have reached the lowest ebb. This man was Henry Carver, a native of New
York State, a self-educated teacher, whose power of exerting an unconscious influence over the minds of those
with whom he came in contact, was phenomenal. After
serving as principal of an academy in his native state, in

which capacity he displayed marked ability, he was
placed in charge of the preparatory department of the
University of California, and here his faculty of organization was again manifest. He returned to his home in
Binghamton, New York, and while making a pleasure
tour through the valley of the “North Branch,” stopped
for several days at Bloomsburg.
Impressed with the
beauty of its natural surroundings, he made some inquiries regarding the general conditions of the schools, and
was introduced to the Rev. D. J. Waller and the Rev. J.
R. Dimm, and to D. W. Beckley, I. W. Hartman and others who, after becoming acquainted with his character
and learning of his profession, persuaded him to prolong
and open a school.
success surpassed anything in his previous career,
or in the school history of Bloomsburg. After continuing
the school for two years, Mr. Carver declined to remain
any longer unless better accommodations were provided
than the academy building then occupied. There was a
general feeling of confidence in his methods, and measures for securing adequate facilities for unrestricted
growth of the school were vigorously agitated. That the
movement might properly crystalize, the chaiter of the
Literary Institute was revived May 2, 1866. William Snyder, John K. Grotz, L. B. Rupert, 1. W. Hartman and D. J.
Waller met at the latter’s study in the capacity of trustees under the articles incorporating the Institute, and reorganized with the election of D. J. Waller as President,
John G. Fi’eeze, Robert F.
I. W. Hartman as secretary,
Clark, and William Neal as Trustees, to All vacancies
caused by the removal of an equal number of the board.
At the second meeting two days later, a committee
his stay
Its

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was appointed to secure a location for the contemplated
building. The efforts of the finance committee were seconded by Mr. Carver with characteristic energy. This
all-important part of the work progressed to such an extent that, on June 16, 1866, a meeting of the stockholders
in the couilhouse to decide the question of location. After some discussion, the consideration of this
subject was postponed until a week later.
At the next meeting, various portions of the town
were suggested as most eligible for the site of the contemplated building. When the matter was put to a vote,
it was found that the sentiment in favor of the location

was held

proposed by William Snyder was almost unanimous.
This was finally accepted in August, 1866, on the assurance that the owners of the Forks Hotel would, at no distant time, remove it, and extend Second Street to the
front of the Institute grounds. It was formally resolved
to procure specifications and plans, and contract for the
erection of a building at a cost not to exceed fifteen
thousand dollars. This sum was six times larger than
any one except Mr. Carver had thought of spending. The
cost of the building and its furniture amounted to about
twenty-four thousand dollars.
Under ordinary circumstances the project would
have collapsed, but the unremitting exertions of Mr. Carver were equal to the emergency. His faith in its ultimate
success never faltered, and was amply justified when, on
Thursday; April 4, 1867, the completed structure was
dedicated to the cause and purpose of education. The
state of the weather was favorable to the enactment of
the inaugural ceremonies in the most pleasant manner.
That the connection between the old academy and
the Institute in which it was thus merged might be properly indicated, a procession consisting of a band, the
members of the board of trustees, the clergy of the town,
the parents of the pupils, the pupils themselves, and lastly the faculty, formed at the Academy building on Third
Street, and proceeded to the Institute building. The Hon.
Leonard R. Rupert, as president of the board of trustees,
unlocked the door, and the procession entered the building. After music of an appropriate character, and prayer
by the Rev. D. J. Waller, Mr. Rupert briefly outlined the
progress of the work from its inception to the final accomplishment. Professor Moss, of Lewisburg, delivered
the dedicatory address. The exercises of the evening

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were opened with prayer by the Rev. J. R. Dimm, after
which the Hon. William Elwell spoke upon the past history and the future prospect of the Institute, and emphasized the importance of continued effoit on the part of its
friends. Among the pupils who participated on both occasions were many who later rose to positions of honor
and responsibility in the various walks of life.
The initial steps in organizing a corps of instructors
for the Institute were made May 25, 1866, when Prof.
Carver was elected principal by the board of trustees.
The first faculty was constituted as follows: Henry Carver, professor of civil engineering, intellectual and moral
philosophy; Sarah A. Carver, preceptress, teacher of
French, botany, and ornamental branches; Isaac O. Best,
A. B., professor of ancient languages; Martin D. Kneeland, teacher of mathematics and English; Alice M. Carver, teacher of music; and Jennie Bruce, in charge of the

Primary Department.

Two

courses of study were arranged, in one of which
predominated, while the classics were
represented to an equal extent in the other. It was proposed that four years should be ample time to complete

scientific studies

There was also a commercial department, and
catalogue, issued for the school year 1867-68,
makes mention of the fact that lessons would be given in
sewing. The liberal ideas of the principal were manifest
throughout. The number of pupils in attendance, and the
general results of the school for this first terai, were fairly satisfactory. It ceased to be merely a local institution,
and became well known in other sections of the state, and
even beyond its limits.
either.

the

first

o

One

of last year’s

who was helped

graduates

in her

college

course by the Student Loan Fund writes as follows:
“Now that I have a job and am on my own, Bloomsburg, the
Alumni Association, and the college background for teaching mean
a great deal more to me than I ever imagined they could. I certainly appreciate the aid which the Loan Fund extended in attaining these ends. I realize, too, that the best way to show my appreciation is to repay as quickly as possible, in order that some other
student may be helped more rapidly.”
o

Another student who received aid from the Loan Fund writes:
“I want to express my gratitude to the Alumni Association for their
kindness and generosity in making it possible for me to complete

my

education.”

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April, 1943

Page Nine

eMo4>t *7a ^diu:.ato-n>'i- Co-in>lfe^e4UX>

A

large group of educators from Columbia, MonNorthumberland and Luzerne Counties held a oneday conference at Bloomsburg Monday, January 25, on
the general theme “Adjusting Public Schools to a World
at War.” County superintendents, district superintendents, supervising principals, and high school principals
were included in the group. The conference was one of
sixteen that were conducted at various centers in Penntour,

sylvania.

President Harvey A. Andruss opened the conference
M. with a brief address, and illustrated his remarks by the showing of the film “Bloomsburg Faces
War,” produced by Prof. George J. Keller, of the College

at 10 A.

faculty. The film shows how Bloomsburg has adapted
itself to the needs of war, and emphasizes such features
as the aviation training program and the activities of the

College

War

Council.
the program of instructional adjustments presented at the morning session were the following: “Acceleration in Secondary Schools,” presented by Dr. Oliver
Department of Public Instruction,
S. Heckman, of the
“The Victory Corps Program,” discussed by Miss Harriet M. Moore, “Pre-Induction Training and Other Curricular Adjustments,” by Dr. Thomas P. North, “The
Health and Physical Training Program,” by Miss Lucy
McCammon, and “Guidance and Wartime Service Occupations,” by Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr.
The group met at luncheon in the dining room, and
heard Lt. John C. Koch, who spoke on “Implications of
the Air Age.”
At the afternoon session a discussion on “Transpor-

On

and Air Raid Procedure” was led by Prof. W. C.
Forney. Prof. Walter S. Rygiel spoke on “Employment
of Children of School Age.” He was followed by Prof.
Earl N. Rhodes, who led the discussion on “Teacher Supply
A Cooperative Project.” The program closed with
a presentation of the topic “Extending Services to Children of Working Mothers” by Miss Grace Wool worth.
The discussion carried on at the Bloomsburg conference were to be the basis of other group conferences
to be conducted by the various superintendents and prin-

tation

—

cipals in their

own

districts.

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April, 1943

Page Ten

Teacher Supply
By Earl N. Rhodes
Without going into details, the statistical picture
shows that marriages are increasing the birth rate is in;

creasing; infant mortality is increasing; enrollments in
public schools are steadily increasing; Freshmen enrollments in teacher .education institutions have dropped
greatly, in some cases as high as 50 per cent. If there is
a teacher shortage now, what will the situation be next
year or four or five years from now ?
Commentators tell us that even though hostilities
cease within twelve or eighteen months, our armed forces
will not be demobilized for five years. Men returning
from armed services, therefore, cannot be counted upon
to take care of the present demand for teachers.
As a Placement Officer it is necessary for me to advise Supervising Principals almost daily that we have no
available candidates for positions in their schools.
It is penny-wise
and pound-foolish for boards of
school directors to take the position of letting their
teachers go if they so desire. The American people have
quarrelled about taxes since the tea was thrown overboard in the Boston harbor, and public officials have consequently hesitated to levy more taxes. However, the answer to the problem of teacher supply is more money. A
release from the United States Civil Service Commission
dated January 18, 1943, advances the basic salary for
clerical

workers

in

government services from $1440

to

$1752, or an increase of 21 per cent, effective December,
1942. This is $146 per month for 12 months, more than
any teacher in Bloomsburg receives for a year’s work.
Bear in mind only high school graduates are paid these
salaries. Teachers must be college graduates.
Teachers are being drained out of the public schools
for industry, business, and government jobs. They are
moving out of their present positions into higher paid
teaching positions. The answer is more money for
teachers.
At the close of the present year and during the present summer, the golden opportunity for teachers to get a
decent wage will be at hand, and the harvest will be on
to secure teachers. The communities that are willing to
pay the necessary salary will get the services of teachers.
The communities that are unwilling to do so will have to

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April, 1943

Page Eleven

Already there are many rural elementary schools in Pennsylvania closed certain departments in high schools have been closed for lack of teachers. Columbia County has lost thirty teachers since the
schools opened in September; Northumberland County,
sixty-four; Bucks County, one-hundred fifty-five.
Teachers should be paid a decent living wage commensurate with the times. The teachers are entitled to it.
Boards of School Directors should see that they get it,
even if it means increasing taxes and enlighten the public
close their classrooms.

;

for the necessity for doing so.
O

ARMY RESERVES CALLED
men of the College who had enreserve left for active service Sunday
evening, January 14, and were sent to Camp Lee, Virginia. Of the twenty-six, eight were graduates of the
College at the end of the first semester. The others had
been continuing their studies until they were called. The
following were the members of the group: Alvin J.
Woodring, Henry C. Von Blohn, Donald D. Rabb, James
S. Kline, William W. Hummel, Leo J. Hoffman, Jr., Robert H. DeMott, Carl S. Berninger, LeRoy H. Beaumont,
Jr., Loren L. Collins, George H. Gillung, Irving T. Gottlieb, Thomas J. Jones, Ernest D. Kocher, Anthony A.
Twenty-six young

listed in the

army

Krzywicki, Allen C. McCracken, George E. Miller, Reynold D. Paganelli, Clayton D. Patterson, George W. Piarote, Bernard M. Pufnak, Robert F. Schramm, George
Stasko,

John W. Thomas, Mark

C.

Wanich and John

F.

Witkowski.
o

SENIOR BALL
because of the departure of
for the seiwice, the members of the Senior
class held their major social event of the year, the Senior
Banquet and Ball, at the Elks’ Club, Bloomsburg, on
Thursday evening, January 21.
Tables for the banquet were attractively decorated
with red, white and blue crepe paper and a floral centerpiece. Herman Vonderheid presided as toastmaster at
the dinner. Seniors, their faculty guests, and friends
danced from nine to one to the music of Johnny Martin.

Breaking tradition

many men

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April, 1943

Page Twelve

Bloomsburg Honor Roll
Thej^

VICTOR

Gave Their Lives

in the Service of
Their Country.

R.

TURINI

Class of 1941
Class of 1939
Class of 1944

CHALMERS P. WENRICH
WALTER KAMA
JOHN HANCOCK
LIEUTENANT CHALMERS

G.

WENRICH

Lieutenant Chalmers G. Wenrich, of Harrisburg, a
of the class of 1939, was one of ten men to die
in the crash of an army bomber in a southeastern Idaho
canyon, so inaccessible that it took two days to find the
wreckage. Forest Ranger J. B. Bruce, of Montpelier,
Idaho, and William F. Gagon, of Soda Springs, found the
smashed plane near Sherman Peak, which is 9000 feet

member

high.

The plane left on Wednesday, December 2, on a
routine flight, and was not found until several days later.
Air base public relations officer at Pocatello, Idaho, said
that the plane did not carry bombs, and it had not been
determined whether it exploded before or after it struck
the ground.
Lt. Wenrich was the husband of the former Irene
Bonin, of Hazleton, also a graduate of Bloomsburg. After his graduation from Bloomsburg, he received his Master’s degree at Columbia University. He was a member
of the faculty of the York High School before entering
the service.
He was a member of various varsity teams at the
College, and was active on the campus. He was an end
on the football team, forward in basketball, and first
baseman on the baseball team.

WALTER KANIA
City, a former student at
a plane crash while on a routine flight from Minter Field, Bishop, California. The ac-

Walter Kania, of Dickson

the College, lost his

life in

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Page Thirteen

cident occuiTed early in January. Mr. Kania, who took
primary CPT instruction at Bloomsburg, and his secondary on the same field, but under a Wilkes-BaiTe instructor, enlisted July 5, 1942.
His father, Edward Kania, was gassed while serving
in World War 1, and is now in a veterans’ hospital in
Bath, New York.
Walter entered Bloomsburg in September, 1940, and
was a member of the cross-country team. The following
spring, he was a member of the B. S. T. C. mile relay
team which won its class event at the Penn Relay Carnival, and later in the spring he was fourth in the mile
event in the state meet. Last winter he placed third in
the Mid-Atlantic A. A. U. games at Camden, New Jersey.
his

Lieut. John Hancock, of Mount Carmel, was killed
an airplane crash in South Carolina. When Lieut. Hancock was in college he played guard on the football team
and was a star on the wrestling team. After leaving college, about 1939, he entered the State Motor Police and
served in that organization until he entei'ed the Air

in

Corps.

FORMER STUDENT HERO

IN

AIR BATTLE

Anthony Yenalavage, former College student from
Kingston, was mentioned in November in an Associated
Press dispatch from London for heroic conduct in an air
attack over Lorient, France. The dispatch follows
“How Second Lieutenant Anthony Yenalavage, of
Kingston, Pa., a bombardier with only rudimentary flight
training, took over the controls of a U. S. four-motored
Liberator bomber and flew it back to a safe landing after
the pilot and co-pilot both were wounded in a raid on the
German submarine base at Lorient, France, was related
by Eighth Air Force Headquarters.
“The Liberator was sixty miles on the way home
after unloading its bombs, when it was jumped by three
Junkers 88’s. Though badly shot up, Yenalavage’s plane
sent one of the German ships spinning down, and fought
off the other two, one of which
disappeared trailing
smoke.
“Both the

pilot

and

co-pilot,

who were

not identified,

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April, 1943

Page Fourteen

received serious wounds,

but remained conscious and

summoned Yenalavage to take over the controls. With
the two of them giving him a hurried course of instrucbombardier not only flew the big ship the remaining distance to land, but brought it down safely on
a strange held, with onlv an hour’s supply of gasoline

tions, the

left.”
o

Classes in reunion on Alumni Day, Saturday, May
22, are requested to designate some member of their class
to write an account of their class reunion, with a list of
all those present, and leave it at the Alumni desk some
time during the day. In this way, all classes will receive
ample recognition in the July number of the Quaiterly.
o

Miss Margei'y G. North, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P.
North, Dean of Instruction, has announced her engagement to Xen
Seely Hosier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Hosier, of Allentown. Mr.
Hosier, son of the Superintendent of the Allentown schools and a
nephew of Dr. Frank Laubach, world-famous missionary and educator, is a student in the business education department at Bloomsburg,
and has enlisted in the Army Air Corps Reserve.
o
of President Harvey A. Andruss of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College as a member of the Kiwanis Educational
Committee of the State of Pennsylvania has been announced by
Reverend Henry I. Aulenbach, District Governor of Kiwanis International.
President Andruss has been active in the Bloomsburg Kiwanis
Club and has for a number of years been chairman of the local Kiwanis Educational Committee, as well as the Committee of Business

The appointment

Standards.
o

Harry W. Ward, a former employee at the College, died Wednesday, January 6, at the Bloomsburg Hospital, from bronchial
pneumonia. Mr. Ward, who was sixty-three years of age, had served
as

Building Superintendent at Caldwell Consistory Cathedral for
years previous to his death.

many

o

Miss Marilyn Miller, of Bloomsburg, and Pvt. Robert Dean
Smith, of Danville, were married Wednesday, December 1, in the
parsonage of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Smith has for some time been serving as secretary to Dr. Thomas
P. North,

Dean

of Instruction at the College.
o
Frederick Snyder, of Kingston, N. Y., nationally

and platform commentator, spoke
January 18.

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at the College

April, 1943

known

radio

Assembly Monday,

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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
President
Bruce Albert
Vice-President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Secretary
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Treasurer
Harriet Carpenter
D. D. Wright
E. H. Nelson
Fred W. Diehl
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
R.

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OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

— Mrs. Jessie D. Hoover, Altoona Avenue, Harrisburg, Pa.;
First Vice-President — Mrs. Blanche M. Grimes, 204 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Second Vice-President — Miss Elizabeth
Clancy, 436 North Third Street, Steelton, Pa.; Treasurer — W.
Homer Englehart, 1821 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary — Mrs. Helen Sutliff Brown, 100 North Second Street, Harris-

President

4

burg, Pa.

Lackawanna County

—

President W. Archibald Reese, 1154 Cornell Street, Scranton, Pa.;
Vice-Presidents Clinton Weisenfluh, 326 Main Street, Old Foi'ge,
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 Carlisle Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer
Mrs. Lester Bennett,
402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa.

President

—Edna

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Montour County
President, 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
Mildred Auten, R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.

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—

Northumberland County
552 Queen Street, Northumberland,
Pa.; Vice-President— Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.

President

— Claire

E. Scholvin,

Schuylkill County

—

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—

President Orval Palsgrove, Fraokville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray
Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; VicePresident Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael
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.; SecreLillie Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
tary
N. J.; Treasurer Nora Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdrick Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

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Snyder-Union Counties

President

—Harold Danowsky, R.

3,

Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President

—

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

—

—

—

grove, Pa.

Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
President

Fred Kester, Mill City,

Pa.; Vice-President

—

—Arlene John-

Susan Jennings Sturman,
Pa.; Vice-President
Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.;
Secretary Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasson, Hallstead,

—

— Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.

urer

Columbia County

—

—

President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Larue Derr,
Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Beaver; Secretary
Treasurer— Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.

—

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April, 1943

Page Seventeen

Notes From the Philadelphia Alumni
Harriot Lanning Bonham, of the class of 1906, who
has been teaching in Camden and Delair, N. J., for the
past twenty-eight years, has retired. In all that time she
had never been late nor absent. We salute her for her
wonderful record.

*
Nevin E. Funk, vice-president in charge of engineering, Philadelphia Electric Co., Philadelphia, has been
nominated for the presidency of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers.
Mr. Funk, a graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal
School and Lehigh University, was assistant professor at
the Georgia School of Technology before coming to the
company in 1907. He lives at 1520 Spruce Street, and has
been a vice-president of the company since 1929. He is
a member of the Philadelphia Alumni of B. S. T. C.

©

The Philadelphia Alumni extends sympathy to Mrs.
Elizabeth Moran McDonnell on the death of her husband, Dr. Joseph F. McDonnell, Sr., retired pharmacist
and chemist.
Dr. McDonnell, who practiced in Jenkintown for
more than forty years, retired in 1941. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. For more
than a decade he was a member of the Jenkintown Borough Council.
Dr. McDonnell is survived by a widow, Elizabeth,
who was also a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, and two sons, Joseph F., of Alexandria, Va., and
John N., of Meadowbrook, Pa., and Washington, D. C.

The Philadelphia organization also deeply regrets
the passing of Claud Edward Hausknecht, who directed
the music department of the West Chester State Teachers College for the past twenty-two years.
Mr. Hausknecht, lovingly called “Uncle Ned,” was
a graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal School, the Institute of Musical Education, Cornell University, and New
York University.
He was a member

of the Pennsylvania Educational

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April, 1943

Page Eighteen

Association, the National Musical Education Conference,
the In and About Music Educational Association, Phi
Delta Kappa, the Masons and the Chester County Historical Society.

Adams Cool, a grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
G. Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia,
was married in Bloomsburg, during the Thanksgiving
holidays, to Miss Agnes Jane Eunson.
The candlelight service and double ring ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Dr. J. E. Skillington at the
Harold

Norman

home on Market Street.
The bride was attended by Miss Eleanore Althoff, of
Mount Carmel, while the groom was attended by Jerry
bride’s

Lapinski, of Bristol.
Preceding the ceremony. Miss Grace Thomas, cousin
of the bride, sang “Ave Maria,” by Schubeit, and “At
Dawning” by Cadman. She was accompanied by Mrs.
Nevin Englehaid.
The bride was attired in a gown of white taffeta over
blue. Her dress and tulle veil were trimmed with lace
from the gown her mother wore at her wedding. Her
dowers were white carnations and pink rosebuds.
Miss Althoff wore a blue taffeta gown with a coronet
and bouquet of pink carnations.
An informal reception for the guests followed the
ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Cool left for Prescott, Arizona,
their future home, where the groom is a dight instructor

an

at

Army

air held.
o

Announcement has been made
R. Hart, of

Wilkes-Barre,

Washington, D.
the Senior class

C.,

to

September

of the marriage of

Miss Cecelia
Bonn, which took place in
1941. Mr. Bonn is a member of

Leo A.
15,

at B. S. T. C.

o

Miss Lucy McCammon, of the College faculty, was called to
her home in Springfield, Missouri, following the sudden death of her
mother, Mrs. John Purdue McCammon. Mrs. McCammon’s death
occurred Thursday, Becember 17, 1942.
0

Helen E. Laughlin, of Centralia, and Walter H. Reb, of Girardville, were married Thursday, October 29, in the rectory of St. Ignatius Church, Centralia. Mrs. Reb is a teacher in the Centralia
•

schools.

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April, 1943

Page Nineteen

Alunmt pprannala
A

1882
Trustees of the Catasaqua Public Library have arrange;! to place in the librai’y quarters a picture of Jennie Helman in recognition of her great interest and
efforts in the formation of the library. Miss Helman was
recognized by the State as the founder of the Catasaqua
Library, and served as librarian for ten years without
remuneration. In 1934 she tendered her resignation,

which was accepted with reluctance by the trustees.
The library was an outgrowth of a circulating library conducted by the Woman’s Club. As this library
grew, its services were extended to the public. In 1922,
Miss Helman, then chairman of the library committee,
conceived the idea of forming a public library. She applied to the State Library for aid. Under the direction of
the State Librarian, trustees were chosen, and a library
association was formed. By March 1, 1924, the rooms
were in order, books catalogued and indexed, and the
public library had become a reality. In 1928 it had outgrown its quarters and was moved to another location.
Two years later, the property occupied by the library
was purchased by the trustees. A corporation was
formed, and application was made to the courts for a
charter, which was granted.
The Alumni Association extends congratulations to
Miss Helman for the well-deserved honor which has been

bestowed upon her.
,

1883

Cl ass Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

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April, 1943

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Page Twenty

1885
Edith Ent (Mrs. Fred Holmes), of Bloomsburg, died
at her home Saturday, January 31. Death
to a stroke sustained several days before.
in

ill

was attributed
She had been

health for the past three years.

She took an active part in the various organizations
of the First Methodist Church, and was a member of the
Women’s Society of Christian Science and of the Hospital
Auxiliary.

Nowhere in this section of the country had any organist served as many consecutive years. Playing for the
first service on October 1, 1883, Mrs. Holmes had, up to
the time of her retirement, played for over 10,000 services and rehearsals.
Last September a Sunday service was dedicated to
her, and thus she concluded fifty-nine years of continuous
service.

Suiwiving her are her husband, a brother, Edwin H.
Ent, of Bloomsburg, and a niece, Mrs. Marion Adams, of

Bloomsburg.

1886

A

notable service of recognition was tendered Mrs.
Anna Snyder Mausteller by St. Matthew Lutheran Sunday School Sunday, January 31, in honor of her lifelong
membership in the church, and of more than thirty-five
years of teaching in the Sunday School. The happy feature of this service lay in the fact that it was tendered her
on her seventy-sixth birthday. The occasion also marked
her relinquishing in a formal way her office as a teacher
of the Young Women’s class of which she has been the
teacher for twenty-two years.
Dr. Wolf, who has been her pastor for nearly twenty-six years, after speaking appreciatively of what Mrs.
Mausteller has been to him as a personal friend and parishioner, and of the unwavering and efficient service she
has rendered, first displayed a picture of a Young Women’s Sunday School class she taught back in the closing
decade of the last century and of the first decade of the
present century. Calling upon Mrs. Mausteller to identify them, she was able to do so with but one exception.
Dr. Wolf next presented a scroll of recognition, prepared by pen and ink, bearing the following text
“We, the pastor, superintendent, officers and members of St.
Matthew’s Lutheran
and sincere affection
'IHE

to express our Christian appreciation
our friend and associate Mrs. Anna Sny-

desii'e

of

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Page Twenty-One
der Maustellei" for her life-long membership in this church and Sunday School; for her more than thirty-five years as a Sunday School
teacher; do hereby inscribe this certificate of recognition in her
honor on this her seventy-sixth birthday, January 31, 1943, which
also marks her formal relinquishing of her office as a Sunday School
teacher.

“We give thanks to God for her quiet, earnest Christian life; for
the excellence of her unvarying friendship and loyalty to the Kingdom interests committed to our Church and Sunday School, and pray
that her years may be prolonged among us, filled with peace and
Christian contentment.”
Mrs. Mausteller was also presented with a subscripThe Christian Herald for the rest of her life.

tion to

1888
Class Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

1889
August and September of 1942, Mrs. Marne Albertson Adams, of Berwick, visited her sons in Racine,
Wisconsin. Her son Elliott is Chief Engineer for the
Massey-HaiTis Company in Racine. Another son. Garret,
is a staff announcer for the radio station in Racine. Elliott has three daughters and a son, who were kept busy
getting acquainted with their grandmother.
From Racine, Mrs. Adams went to Minneapolis to
visit Mattie Harding ’89, who lives at 5135 Camden Avenue. The two classmates recognized each other, although they had not met for nearly forty years. Miss
Harding taught thirty-two years, twenty-eight years of
that time having been spent in high school work. Her
last years of teaching were done in Duluth, and she reIn

ceived her pension in 1921. After her mother’s death.
Miss Harding and her father became interested in the
real estate business, and they helped in developing the
northern part of Minneapolis, which is called Camden,
Since her father’s death, she and a partner have been
building houses for defense workers. A busy life has
kept Miss Harding young and interested in all the affairs
of her community.

1892

May E. Sherwood (Mrs. John G. Harman) died August 11, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Harman,
who was the widow of the late John G. Harman, Judge
of the 26th Judicial District, spent most of her early life
in Bloomsburg. For several years previous to her death.
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she

made her home

in

Harrisburg, where she was asso-

ciated with her class-mate, Mrs. David H. Martin. She
also spent some time with her sister, Mrs. R. R. Bickel, in
Miami, Florida. She had just concluded a trip to California, with her sister, Mrs. G. E. Emigh, of Huntingdon
Park, California, where she planned to make her home,
when she was stricken with the illness that caused her
death. She was buried in Bloomsburg, August 17, 1942.
Mrs. Harman was the daughter of H. G. Sherwood,
who resided in Bloomsburg while developing his large

lumber

interests at

Jamison

Harman was

City.

woman

of many talents and was
interested in several lines of endeavor. She and Judge
Harman planned their spacious home near Espy, and
landscaped the grounds which gave it such an attractive
setting.
After the death of her husband, she did considerable work as a landscape artist, and for a time was a

Mrs.

florist in

a

Oregon.

Mrs. Harman was active in the sale of Liberty Bonds
during the first World War. In 1922, she was honored by
being appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of
the then Bloomsburg State Normal School. She served in
this capacity until about 1931. During the period in
which she was a member of the Board, many changes occurred at Bloomsburg. The Normal School had become
the property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and
Dr. Waller was succeeded by Dr. Charles Fisher. There
were many changes in the faculty during Dr. Fisher’s administration, and revolutionary changes were made in
the curriculum. During the administration of Dr. G. C. L.
Rienier, the Normal School became a Teachers College,
and with the coming of Dr. Haas in 1927, the curriculum
was again revised, and many fine improvements and additions were made to the buildings, grounds and equipment. Mrs. Harman therefore served as Trustee during
one of the most eventful periods in the history of the
College.

For a time, Mrs. Harman, after leaving Bloomsburg,
served as a House-Mother at the University of Oregon.
An event which she greatly enjoyed was her attendance and participation at the fiftieth reunion of her class
last May, when twenty-one members of the class were
present.

Mrs. Harman was buried
metery, which lies near the

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New Rosemont

home where she and

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Judge had spent so many hours in planning and developing the lovely grounds surrounding their spacious home.

Mary E. Booth (Mrs. W. C. Chapman) died February 19, at her home in Eustis, Florida, following a long
illness. Mrs. Chapman was born in Catawissa, Pa., October 2, 1872, and moved from Catawissa to Shamokin
many years ago. She served as a teacher in the primary
grades in Shamokin, until her marriage to Benjamin F.
Wragg. After Mr. Wragg’s death, she was married to
Mr. Chapman, and moved to Eustis, Florida, where she
lived until the time of her death.
1893

The reunion committee, consisting of Samuel J.
Johnson, Minnie Penman, Elizabeth McINinch, Martha
Powell and Mrs. Irene Girton Johnson, are preparing to
the fifty-year reunion of the class of 1893 an outstanding one. It is hoped that the members of the class
will be there in full force. The reunion will begin with a
dinner Friday evening. May 21, at the Magee Coffee
Shop.
1896

make

Nellie Harding, who lives at 5135 Camden Avenue,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her sister, Mattie Harding
’89, taught for forty-four years. Thirty-three years were
spent in Minneapolis, and many friends have enjoyed
their hospitality, and have talked over the days at

Bloomsburg.

May
rick

27, 1942, was “Miss Harding Day’’ at the PatHenry High School in Minneapolis. Classes were

dismissed at 2 P. M. in honor of Nellie B. Harding, teacher of mathematics. It was estimated that she had taught
over four thousand pupils. At a tea held that aftenioon,
the following songs were sung by the sixty-five teachers
of the school
:

Time: “The

Man

on the Flying Trapeze’’

Nellie kept school with the greatest of ease
She juggled her figures around as she’d please.

Though problems were crowded on blackboard and
The pupils still clamored for more.
We wondered just what made this magic,
So one morn we hid on the stair.
And saw Nellie put on her war-paint
With real old theatrical flare.

door.

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Twenty-Four

O, Nellie kept school with the greatest of poise
Which charmed all the girlies and hypnotized the boys,
Because she knew how to look sweet as a rose
By the way she powdered her nose.

Tune: “Reuben, Reuben”
one and only.
No technique with yours compares.
No one else dares slap the culprits,
Call them tramps and yank their hairs.
Nellie, Nellie,

Tune: “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here.”
Hail, Hail, the whole gang’s here,
Nellie, to salute you
All your pals and pop, too;
Health, wealth, and lots of cheer.
Best of luck your whole life through.

Miss Harding is now receiving her pension and enjoying a merited vacation.

1898
Cl ass Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

1902

Mary McGourty

(Mrs. William D. Roche) died at
her home, 1508 Gibson Street, Scranton, on Saturday,
March 6. She was a former teacher in Wilkes-Barre, but
had lived in Scranton since the time of her marriage. She
is survived by her husband, William D. Roche, former
Superintendent of Mails in the Scranton postoffice, now
retired. She was a member of St. Peter’s Cathedral in
Scranton, and was active in its various women’s societies.
The funeral was held in Wilkes-Barre.

1903
Class Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

May

22.

May

22.

1908
Cl ass Reunion, Saturday,

1913
Cl ass Reunion, Saturday,

Verna A. Miller (Mrs. Arthur D. Hunsberger) lives
1228 Oakwood Avenue, Norristown, Pa. Mrs. Hunsberger’s elder daughter, Edith Mae, was Valedictorian of
the class of 1941 at the Norristown High School, there
at

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Page Twenty-Five

She

being 502 in the class.
son College.

is

now

Sophomore

a

at Wil-

1914
Idwal H. Edwards, president of the class of 1914,
has been promoted to the rank of Major General, the
third highest rank in the United States Araiy.
General Edwards spent his boyhood in Taylor and
attended the public schools of that borough. When the
United States entered World War 1 in 1917, General Edwards enlisted in the army and obtained a commission as
second lieutenant. When the Army Air Corps was organized, he transferred to that branch of the service, and
has remained there since.
Last June, General Edwards was given high recognition by the 'War Department, when he was named assistant chief of staff in charge of organizations and training for the entire army. He is a veteran pilot and fonner

commander

of Randolph Field, Texas, the “West Point
of the Air,” and the largest army flight training center
in the nations.
General Edwards served in the Phillipines, Hawaiian Islands, and practically all the air stations in the continental limits of the United States. He is a graduate of
the Army Staff and Command School at Leavenworth,
Kansas, and the Army War College in Washington.
His wife was the former Katherine Biennan, of
Bloomsburg. General and Mrs. Edwards have two children, Ann Louise, who was bom on Corregidor Island, and

Katherine, born in Washington.
E.

Fem

Pritchard

lives

at 646

Madison Avenue,

Jermyn, Pa.
1918
Class Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

May

22.

May

22.

1923
Class Reunion, Saturday,

1928
Class Reunion, Saturday,

Announcement has been made of the engagement
of Miss Betty Eckenrode, of Wilkes-Barre, and James H.
Williams, of Edwardsville. Mr. Williams, a former member of the high school at Edwardsville, has been attending Officers’ Candidate School at Miami Beach, Florida.
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Page Twenty-Six

Miss Thelma Miller and Roy Hunsinger, both of Nescopeck, were married Wednesday, February 10, at the
Nescopeck Methodist Church. Mrs. Hunsinger, a teacher
in the Nescopeck schools, received her Bachelor’s degree
at the Mid-Year Commencement at Bloomsburg on Sundav, January 24.

1928-1936
Miss Beulah Fairchilds, who has been teaching in
the Salem Township district, Luzerne County, has been
elected to a position on the faculty of the Nescopeck
High School. Miss Fairchilds is a certified teacher of
Latin, English and social studies. She took graduate
work at the Pennsylvania State College and Bucknell,
and has had thij'teen years of teaching experience.

1929
Laird is now doing guidance work in the Junior High School at West Chester, Pa.

Mary

1930
Clarence A. Ruch, of Berwick, has been sworn in as
a Lieutenant Junior Grade, in the United States Naval
Reserve, and reported for active duty, February 11, at
Princeton, New Jersey. Lieutenant Ruch was elected a
teacher in the Berwick schools in 1930. A year later he
was named as a teacher in the high school, and has been
teaching courses in European and American History.
1931

Samuel W. Kurtz, formerly director of music in the
Bloomsburg schools, and later director of music in
Stroudsburg, is now a club program director for the
American Red Cross. He reported for duty January 18,
at Washington, D. C. After receiving a short training
course, he was to be sent immediately into foreign service.

Harold Lanterman, former teacher in the Berwick
High School, has been promoted to the rank of corporal.
Cpl. Lanterman is stationed at Miami Beach, Florida, and
is in charge of the aerial gunnery department in the offices there. He was recently congratulated by his commanding officer for some innovations that he introduced
in the office system.

1933
Class Reunion, Saturday,

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May

22.

Page Twenty-Seven

Inez E.

Edwards and Fred

\dlle,

were married

Aten

is

a teacher

T. Aten, both of Mifflin-

in November, 1940, in Berwick. Mrs.
in the Mifflinville schools. Mr. Aten,

also a graduate of B. S. T. C., taught at Mifflinville until
this year, when he resigned in order to devote full time to
the operation of a poultry farm in Mifflin Township.
Pvt. Fred W. Fowler, of Espy, is stationed at Barracks 804, 1228, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

1934
Miss Miriam Eroh, of the Nescopeck High School
and selected for
faculty, has been approved as a
officer training. She is in Smith College receiving training with others who have been selected to become officers. Miss Eroh has attended Columbia University and
Bucknell University, and has a Master of Aits degree.
She has been teaching Latin, English and reading in the

WAVE

Nescopeck High School.
1935
Gilbert L. Kline, of Catawissa, and Harriet J. Canouse, of Berwick, R. D. 1, were married Wednesday, November 25, at Mr. Kline’s home in Catawissa. Mrs. Kline
is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and was formierly employed as a beautician in Catawissa. Mr. Kline,
who has taken post-graduate work at the University of
Pennsylvania, is a member of the faculty of the Catawissa High School.

Theodore S. Whitenight, of Bloomsburg, enJuly 11, 1942, and is now stationed at Schick General Hospital, Clinton, Iowa, Medical Depaifment.
Cpl.

listed

1936
Miss Bernice Sitler and Howard P. Bevilacqua, both
of Berwick, were married Monday, December 21, in a
ceremony performed in the rectory of St. Mary’s Roman
Catholic Church in Berwick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Charles Allen. Mrs. Bevilacqua is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and has
been employed as head bookkeeper at the Berwick store
of the Montgomery Ward Company. Mr. Bevilacqua attended New York University after his graduation from
Bloomsburg. He is a partner in the Keystone Publishing
Company in Berwick.

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Page Twenty Eight
Lt. Kathryn Vannaucker, of the WAAC’s is stationed at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she is Assistant
Director of Training, in charge of the testing program.
Lt. Vannaucker received her training at Des Moines,
Iowa, and was then sent to Florida to assist in the opentraining center. After spending
ing of the second
some time there as an instructor in the Administrative
Section, she was transferred to her present post.

WAAC

Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Miss Betty Harter and Harold Wertman, both of Nescopeck. Mrs. Weitman is teacher of commercial subjects
in the Nescopeck High School. Mr. Wertman, a graduate
of the Nescopeck High School, is employed at the ACF
plant in Berwick.

A son was born Thursday, January 8, to Lt. and
Mrs. Clarence Sober, of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Sober was
formerly Miss Sue Morgan, of Edwardsville. Lt. Sober,
a former Bloomsburg dentist, has been taking a special
course at Carlisle, Pa
Pvt. Samuel Green, of Berwick, has been attending
a training school for aviation mechanics at Goldsborough. North Carolina.

1937
Earl Gehrig, of Danville, has been appointed to a
position on the faculty at Bloomsburg, in the Department
of Business Education. Mr. Gehrig assumed the duties of
his position at the beginning of the second semester, and
is

teaching accounting, law, mathematics, and related

subjects, filliug the position of Lieutenant Commander
Herbert E. McMahan, who is now serving with the U. S.

N avy
Mr. Gehrig has taken graduate work

at Bucknell

University. He had five years of teaching experience in
the Danville High School. During the past two and onehalf years, he has acted as co-operating teacher, supervising the work of college Seniors who do practice teaching in Danville. In addition, he has acted as administrative head and instructor in corporation and manufacturing accounting in the Danville center of Pennsylvania
State College in their engineering, science, management,

and war-training program.
Mr. Gehrig is married and has a daughter, Barbara,
eight months old. Mrs. Gehrig was formerly Miss Anna
I

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Jean Laubach, of Berwick, also a member of the class of
1937.

Corporal Luther P. Hower, of Espy, was selected in
to attend Quartermasters’ Candidate School at
Camp Lee, Virginia. Before his entrance into the Army,
he was employed by the Bureau of Employment and Unemployment Compensation in Berwick.

January

John L. Andreas, of Bloomsburg, entered military
service in October, 1941. He is now stationed in the Pan-

ama Canal Zone; He was
rank of technician

fifth

recently promoted from the
grade to that of staff sergeant.

1938
Class Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

Lt. John F. Slaven is now out of the country on active duty. He was inducted in August, 1941, spent four
months in Camp Croft, South Carolina, where he completed his basic training, and then went to Fort Benning,
Georgia, where he attended Officers’ Candidate School.
He then was sent to Camp Roberts, California, where he
spent six months before being sent overseas. After his
graduation from Bloomsburg in 1938, Lt. Slaven taught
for three years in Busslem High School, near Phila-

delphia.

Aerio M. Fetterman, of Catawissa R. D. 3, has been
promoted from the rank of Private First Class to that of
Technician Fifth Class. He is in the classification and assignment section of the 1301st Service Unit, at New Cumberland, Pa. Before Cpl. Fetterman entered the army,
he served as teacher in the Locust Township High School
at Numidia.
Aviation Cadet Vance Laubach, of Berwick, is now
in Miami, Florida, and has started training. Previous to
his entrance into the service he taught at Waynesboro
and was assistant football coach there.

1939
Miss Barbara Ann Irons, of Melrose Highlands,
Massachusetts, and W. Alfred Keibler, of Kingston, were
married Saturday, January 2, in the Forty Fort Methodist Church. Mrs. Keibler is a graduate of the Melrose
Highlands High School and attended the Massachussetts
School of Art. She had been employed as secretary at

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the J. T. Byerson Steel Company, Boston. Mr. Keibler is
instructor of commercial subjects at Belleyille High
School, New Jersey.

Technician Fifth Grade John B. Bower, of Berwick,
has been promoted to the rank of corporal in the classification section of the 1301st Service Unit at New Cumberland, Pa. Cpl. Bower was formerly an instructor and
basketball coach in the high school at Fleetville, Pa.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Mary Aikman, of Bloomsburg, to Pvt. Sheldon Hess,
Miffiinville. Miss Aikman is a teacher in the schools

Miss
of
at

Womelsdorf,

ville,

Pa.,

and Pvt. Hess

is

stationed at Nash-

Tennessee.
Pvoy J. Evans, of Benton,

December

10, 1942,

and

is

now

entered military service
stationed at New Cum-

berland, Pa.

1940

Announcement has been made of the marriage of
Miss Elizabeth Hart, of Berwick, and Roy E. Bower, of
the U. S. Navy. The ceremony was performed Thursday,
June 11, 1942, in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Bower is a
teacher in the Salem Township school district, Luzerne
County. Mr. Bower, a graduate of the Berwick High
School, is stationed at Staten Island, New York.
Ensign

Norman Maza has been taking

ation course at
the course, he

where he
will

will

his indoctrin-

Dartmouth College. After completion of
was transferred to Princeton University,
receive two months’ fuither training. He

then be assigned to his duty station.

Leonard Stout, of Nescopeck, an air cadet at Chanute Field, 111., recently completed two courses while stationed there, and is now taking an advanced course in
meteorology at the University at Chicago.
Lieutenant Charles R. Bakey, Jr., of the Engineer
Corps, has been assigned to foreign service. Mrs. Bakey,
who was formerly Charlotte Gearhart, of the class of
1941, lives at 1424 Euclid Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.
Miles G. Smith, of Berwick, has been promoted to
the rank of sergeant. He is stationed at the Atlantic Basic

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Page Thirty-One

Training Center,

Command,

Army

Air Forces Technical Training

at Atlantic City.

Byron Shiner, of Berwick, has been attending

of-

candidate school at Palm Beach, Florida. At the
time he entered the school, he held the rank of Staff
Sergeant.
ficers’

Ben Hancock has been commissioned as a second
army on completion of the officers’ canCamp Davis, North Carolina.

lieutenant in the
didate course at

1941
Class Reunion, Saturday,

May

22.

Miss Jean Greenly and Aviation Cadet Charles Robboth of Bloomsburg, were married in January at the
chapel at Mather Field, Sacramento, California. Mrs.
Robbins is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
and attended B. S. T. C. and Thompson Business College
at Harrisburg. She has been employed in the business
office of the Bell Telephone Company at Harrisburg, for
the past three years. Cadet Robbins took the CPT course
at the Bloomsburg Arpoit, and upon his entrance into the
Army Air Corps was sent to Santa Ana, California. At
present he is undergoing instructors’ training at Mather
bins,

Field.
Staff Sergeant Gerald D. Fritz, of Berwick, and Miss
Betty Eileen Walters, of Champaign, Illinois, were married recently at Effingham, Illinois. Mrs. Fritz is a graduate of the Champaign High School and is now Technician at the Station Hospital at Chanute Field, Illinois. Sergeant Fritz has been stationed at Chanute Field since
August, 1941. He is now supervisor of instructors in the
Teletype school. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz are now living at

1709 Park Drive, Champaign,

111.

Edwin Wenner, of Berwick, a member of the U. S.
Coast Guard, has been tiansferred from his training station at Manhattan Beach to permanent duty at Atlantic
City, N. J. His address is Edwin D. Wenner, A. C. (R)
U. S. Coast Guard, 24 South Vermont Avenue, Atlantic
City, N. J.
Lt.

at

Howard

South Plains

T. Williams, of Scranton, is stationed
Flying School, one of the largest

Army

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April, 1943

Page Thirty-Two

glider pilot training centers. Lt. Williams received his
commission in May, 1942, upon completion of his course
at Officers’ Candidate School.

Miss Win McBride and Lt. Edward D. Sharretts,
both of Berwick, were married Tuesday, December 8, at
Miami Beach, Florida. The wedding occurred the same
day that Lt. Sharretts received his commission in the
Army Air Force.
ton,

Joseph Hudock
Maryland.

is

teaching

in

the schools of Cecil-

1942
Robert Bruce Miller, of Berwick, enlisted August 6,
1942, and received his call to report September 8 for
training as an Aviation Cadet. He was classified for pilot
training and was then sent to the Pre-Flight School. He
has successfully completed this part of his training, and
also primary flight training. He has just started his basic
flying training, and has been located in Texas during the
entire time. His address is Av/C Robert Bruce Miller,
Aviation Cadet Detachment, Major’s
Greenville, Texas.

Army

Air Field,

Miss Helen Jean Klingerman, of Berwick, and Ralph
McCracken, Jr., of Allentown, were married Christmas Day at the Grace Lutheran Church in Berwick. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. R. Shipe. Mr.
E.

McCracken is a U. S. Navy inspector at the Federal Shipbuilding Company, in Kearney, New Jersey. Mrs. McCracken

is

a teacher in the Coopersburg High School and
Allentown Business Col-

also teaches night school at the
lege.

Barbara J. Straub, of Berwick, and Ensign Stuart L.
Hartman, of Danville, were married Thursday, November 21, at the home of the bride. Mrs. Hartman is teaching at the Shickshinny School in Salem Township, Luzerne County. Ensign Hartman, has completed training
courses at Dartmouth College, and at Boston, Mass.

The present address of Francis P. Thomas is 47 East
83rd Street, New York. He has been employed by the
Southern Railway System since June, 1942. In a recent
letter he says: “Now that 1 am an alumnus of B. S. T. C.,
1 am extremely proud of it!

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Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Ruth Dent, of Espy, to Pvt. William Wanich, of
Light Street. Miss Dent is a graduate of the Scott Township High School, and is employed in the office of Bloomsburg Mills, Inc. Pvt.
Wheeler, Georgia.

Wanich

is

stationed

at

Camp

Eleanor M. -Johnson, formerly of 129 Locust Avenue,
Centralia, is now living at 10 Jefferson Street, Bradford,
Pa. She is teaching in the Custer City Consolidatecl
School, near Bradford.

John F. Carlin is a member of the faculty of Girard
College in Philadelphia. His address in Philadelphia is
2015 Spring Garden Street.
Aviation Cadet F. Stuart Straub, of Berwick, has
graduated at the Army Basic Flying School at Minter
Field, near Bakersfield, California.

Raymond Chandler,

Pvt.

for a time at the

Army

of Bloomsburg, who was
Air Forces Basic Training Center

now in foreign service.
Ralph Zimmerman, of Berwick, is an

at Kearns, Utah,

is

Pvt.
at Fort Logan, Colorado.

Harold Swisher, of Shickshinny,
the

Army

is

instructor

in training

with

at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

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I’age Thirty-Four

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Former Students in

’^^

*

Service

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^

Lt.

William Kirk, who took pait

in

the

initial

U.

S.

bombing raids on Nazi-occupied France has been in Africa for several months and has also been taking part in
the blasting of Axis troops and installations there. His

home

is

in

Berwick.

The Flying Fortress

pilot,

of things for a half-year,

who has been

manages

steady correspondence with his

in the thick

keep up a fairly
parents and his wife, who
to

now

visiting in Florida.
In a recent letter to his parents, the flier jokingly
commented, “I’m getting awfully dark and I don’t know
whether it’s from the African sun or the dirt, for there is
not much water for washing.’’ In another he told of the
eating of a box of Christmas candy, sent by the parents
along with other gifts, “after returning from a mission.”
When first in North Africa Lieut. Kirk and his flying
companions slept in their planes and had their meals
from field kitchens. Later they began sleeping under
is

canvas.

Captain James Harman, of Catawissa, flight comin the Army Air Corps, has rejoined his squadron
in Africa, after having been interned for a time in Portugal, following a forced landing in Lisbon November 15,
1942, while flying from England to the North African
battle front. It is not known how Captain Harman was
able to get back into action.

mander

It was last December that the War Department sent
notice to Captahi Harman’s wife, the former Mary Brunstetter, that he was missing in action.
week later a
letter told of his being interned in Portugal.

A

S. Cooper, who is now in the employ of the
Department, has been transfeiTed from the Phila-

Gilbert

War

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April, 1943

Page Thirty-Five

delphia area to be the civilian training specialist at the
quartermaster’s depot at New Cumberland. Mr. Cooper,
a native of Newport Township, has been a teacher in the
Coatesville schools for a number of years. Mrs. Cooper
is the former Thalia Kitchen, of Catawissa, and has also
been a teacher in the Coatesville schools.

Miss Hazel Suit and Sgt. Garwood Gaumer, both of
Berwick, were married in December in the Central Methodist Church at Meridian, Mississippi. Mrs. Gaumer attended Bloomsburg for a time, and then was employed
in the office of the plant engineering department at the
American Car and Foundry Company at Berwick. Sgt.
Gaumer is serving in the Army Air Force, and is located
at Meridian, Mississippi.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Florence E. Downing, of Benton, to Claude Brooks, of
Kansas City, Missouri. Miss Downing is employed in the
Pantagon Building of the War Department, Washington.
Mr. Brooks is now a sergeant in the Army Intelligence
Service,

and

is

located in Alabama.

Cameron, of Berwick, refrom Camp Carson, Colorado,

First Lieutenant Harrison

turned

home

recently

where he has been on duty with a training unit. He reported again for duty on February 5 at Fort Benning,
Georgia. After a month of special duty at Fort Benning,
he was scheduled to be sent to Camp Blanding, Florida.
Miss Helen Letterman and John E. Schlauch, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, January 31, at St.
in
Bloomsburg.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church
Mrs.
Schlauch is employed by the Letterman Baking Company. Mr. Schlauch is employed as an ordnance inspector at the A. C. F. plant in Berwick.

Miss Lorraine Hunsinger and Aviation Cadet Robert
H. Thompson, both of Nescopeck, were married Tuesday,
January 13, in the chapel of the Santa Ana, Califoniia,

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Page Thirty-Six

Air Base. The bride was for some time employed

in the

the Berwick Store Company.

office of

Pvt. Mickey Gaydosh, of Berwick, and Miss Verna
Barney, of Swoyerville, were married Saturday, November 21, 1942, at Tulare, California. Pvt. Gaydosh is now
attached to 462nd Base Headquarters and Air Base
Squadron at Marfa, Texas.

Joseph C. Gillespie, of Bloomsburg, former student
at B. S. T. C., is now ent’olled as an aviation cadet in the
Army Air Force Pre-Flight School for Pilots at Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, Alabama.

Private Gilbert Henrie, of Bloomsburg, a former
student at the College, has been attending mechanics’
school at Gulport Field, Miss. He was inducted into the
service

August

15,

1942.

Robert Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, is now with
in North Africa. He had been stationed in
England for several months.
Pvt.

the

Army

Yeoman 2nd Class Carl Robbins, of Cambra, entered
the service October 21, 1942, and is stationed at Washington, D. C.
Sgt. Charles C. Harmony, of Bloomsburg, entered
the service August 28, 1941, and is now at Camp Adair,

Oregon.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of
Miss Florence A. Drumm, of Wilkes-Barre, and Pvd.
Lewis A. Kohn, of Kingston.

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Address Delivered at the 1943 Commencement by
Theodore A. Ditzler, President of Franklin and Marshall College.

We hear much about “conditioning” these days. In high schools
and colleges throughout the land, boys and even girls are being put
through rigorous courses of physical development and hardening, in
preparation for the strenuous labors of war, both on the fighting fronts
and at home. In training camps and naval bases all the emphasis is
upon “conditioning.” Especially is this so where men are being traininfinitely exacting work of commando
upon enemy-held territory, and other work requiring
“Conditioning” is one of
strength, endurance, and mental quickness.
the watchwords of the present day.
I wonder, though, how many of us have thought of the need for
conditioning in another sphere. I am thinking of the intensive program
we need for our roles as world citizens, once victory has been won.
Are our mental muscles, our sympathetic spirits, as flabby and indifferent as our physical bodies have been shown to be? As American citizens, the world citizens of the future, we must subject ourselves to a
rigorous program of intellectual and psychological conditioning before
we are truly ready to assume our grave responsibilities.
We need first of all to rid ourselves of what I might call psycholo^the isolationism of indifference, which is the remgical isolationism^
nant, still tough and impermeable, of the complacency we exhibited so

ed for the highly specialized,
raids, landings

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widely before Pearl Harbor.

We are vitally interested in winning the war; of that there is not
the slightest doubt. And at the same time we speak vaguely of “winning the peace.” But the signs have been multiplying lately that that
Drew Middleton, the noted war
is as far as most people’s thoughts go.
correspondent of the New York Times, reported to his readers several
weeks ago that the most fearful apathy existed among our soldiers in
England and North Africa

in

regard to conditions after the armistice.

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“The average American soldier in these theatres,” he said, “has a
aim To get home to his job and his family and forget
about the rest of the world and the war. The possibility that, in twenty years or so, some part of the rest of the world may follow him home
has occurred to very few.” “The soldiers,” he continued, “want to go
back to ‘the same kind of work’ they knew in 939. Very few of them
realize that it never can be the same kind of world again ... In the orsingle peace

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ganization of the world after victory

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they are not interested

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About the conditions of our enemies and allies
they are uninformed
and indifferent. No one has told them that, although they win the war,
they can lose the peace by indifference and complacency
This may
seem a harsh and gloomy picture of my own generation, but it is a fac.

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tual picture.”

Whether we share Mr. Middleton’s pessimism without reservaI do know there is a host of evidence
I am not prepared to say.
which supports his conclusion. Side by side with ignorance and indiftions.

ference walks cynicism. At the very time that Mr. Middleton’s article
appeared, a national magazine reported that in a poll conducted at a
very well known eastern liberal arts college of 535 men students, half
declared that they did not expect the world to be any better as a result
of the war thev themselves would presently be fighting. No war in the
history of the world has ever been won bv cvnicism. Nor
and this is
more important has the peace following any war made the war worth

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fighting,

by a

if

the victors

spirit, either

and therefore the peacemakers were governed

of indifference or of downright hopelessness.

Indications
I have asked, “Are we ready for world citizenship?”
are increasing that we are not. Everyone wants to see some tangible,
lasting good emerge from this terrible bath of blood we are now enduring; but relatively few have either the faith or the concrete knowledge without which an allied victory will be the most desperate kind
of mockery.
It is

not that there

war settlement among
unity and cooperation

is

a dearth of

certain circles.

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reports that there are so

interest in

The

air

is

the

full

matter of post-

of plans for world

a recent issue of “International Conciliation”
many plans, so diverse in their methods and

be grouped under no less than six heads.
can be a fatal trouble if we do not do someis that too few people are interested.
thing about it
Too many
people, including those in the front lines, have as their ultimate objective in winning the war the ability once again to enjoy night baseball
games, go driving on Sunday afternoon, buy electric refrigerators, and
implications, that they can

—and
soon —

The whole trouble

it

eat two-inch steaks.

Far too

many

in

our nation share

for the terrible responsibilities that will
ful,

the least exhausted nation

about

it?

among

this
fall

the

prevalent unpreparedness

upon

us as the

allies.

What

most power-

are

we

to

do

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Some years ago a very famous, charming, and misguided lady
wrote a book called “The Wave of the Future,” in which she conceived
of history as an irresistible force carrying nations on to their destiny.
This is a very sound concept but what made trouble for her was that
she saw the wave traveling in the wrong direction. Her wave led to
fascism totalitarianism; whereas all the evidence suggests that recorded history, ever since its dawning five or six thousand years ago, is the
story of the continuous and irresistible development of the democratic
For if anything is plain in the recorded history of man, it is that,
ideal.
despite all the cruelties and stupidities and retrogressions m the past
milleniums, there has been a net gain an ever-increased respect for
the dignity of the individual, which after all is the essence of democ;

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racy.

But that net gain has not been accomplished by indifference or
lack of faith. On the contrary, all man’s progress is due to the very
the active, energetic seeking for knowledge of self
opposite qualities
and of others; the constant belief that, aided by that positive force in

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man can, with the help of God, determine his own destiny.
And allied with this understanding of the evolutionary nature

history,

of

democracy must be an appreciation of the heritage of the past. In the
sixth chapter of the book of Deuteronomy you will find a striking
speech of Moses to the children of Israel upon their return to the homeland after long exile. In effect Moses said, “Here is a beautiful country, with cities created largely by others, wells dug and vines planted
and storehouses filled by other men. But it is you who now may take
over and reap the benefit of other men’s toil.”
This is exactly the situation of every generation of man which has
History

ever lived.

is

not only evolutionary,

it is

cumulative as well.

which we now enjoy, the men of all the other nations of the earth have contributed. The miraculous new healing agent,
sulfanilimide and its derivations, is the product, not of one man or of
among whom there is no race or
one nationality, but of scientists
working cooperatively all over the world, with no thought
nationality

And

to that heritage

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of the political differences of their respective nations. And so with
every benefit we enjoy, in science, in industry, in the fine arts we are
:

Without that knowledge, we
cannot possibly make a lasting and just peace. The 1920 concept of
America as a creditor nation solely a creditor in terms of dollars
was largely instrumental in bringing the Second World War. This time
the reigning idea must be of debts we owe to others
and they are
the debtor of

all

nations and

all

races.

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many.
spoke a few moments ago of knowledge of self and others.
past decade or so, spurred by the depression and by tragic
events abroad, has America begun to examine itself, to try to discover
The result was a flood of
just what it is and where it wants to head.
vivid and interesting books about America, the America of the present
I

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in the

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July, 1943

WPA

state guides, for instance, and the host of sensitive
on various sections of the country, and the books of
photographs, capturing as never before the peculiar flavor of America.
Only by steeping ourselves in such material by reading about America
and above all by thinking seriously about it, can we achieve this selfknowledge which is so indispensable. Only then can we fully understand the vast gulf that exists between the aims of our present enemies,
and our own desires. They exalt the state over the individual, ruthless
power over justice we assert and defend the sacredness of the individual, as the peoples who have molded history have done for many centuries.
They would impose a war-time discipline and restraint upon
people in peace time when peace is achieved, we would throw down
the sword and take up again the book of law and equity.
But we must also understand the virtues of other nations, and it
IS not only our allies who have positive and admirable virtues. We need
to understand the very new and different England that will emerge.
We need to understand Russia, a nation which, whatever its errors have
been, has been the most progressive and imaginative country of modern times. We need to understand China: not the China to which we
send occasional missionaries, but the China of immemorial civilization,
whose culture is far older than, and in many senses just as rich as, our
own. We need to understand Germany, with its magnificent scientific
intellects which, if diverted into the proper channels, could help us produce a brave new world of material comfort, convenience, and health.
We need to understand Italy and Japan if we are to rescue them from
the moral and cultural bankruptcy into which long years of authoritarian rule have thrown them.

day

the fine

travelers’ reports

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Above all, however, we need to find within ourselves the selflessness which will enable us to make the sacrifices required of it if we are
Will we be willing to give up the food
to lead in world reconstruction.
to feed starving millions m other nations?
Will we be willing
send our best scientists and educators and engineers to rebuild the
world? Will we be willing to endure wartime taxation into peacetime years, for the sake of aiding financial rehabilitation?
Few people, indeed, have considered all these aspects of our
national responsibility. Yet these, and many more, are inevitable re-

needed
to

quirements.
Let us talk less vaguely about peace and justice and freedom and
Let us instead concentrate upon the actual qualificareconstruction.
upon, that is, the concrete
tions and conditions of the peace to come
The blood and sweat and tears which this
price of world citizenship.
war has involved so far will have their ample counterpart in the econo:

mic

sacrifices

and the brain work

that the

making of a workable peace

will entail.

As college people, ours

is

And
we renounce fu-

a major share of the job to come.

since our responsibilities are so grave,

it

is

time that

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tile yearning for the good old days when war was still a cloud upon the
our dedicahorizon and all realists were looked upon as Cassandras
Nothing is needed
tion must be to progressive thought and action.
more today and tomorrow than militant liberalism in our viewpoint as
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individuals

And

and

as the

body

politic.

must be founded upon a conviction that
Emerson expressed more than a hundred years ago, in days that we
how erroneously f to regard as serene and untroubled.
are inclined
“If there is any period one would desire to be born in,” said Emerson,
“is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side
by side, and admit of being compared, when the energies of all men
are searched by fear and hope when the historic glories of the old can
be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era. This time,
like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
“If-we but know what to do with it.” That is the crux of the
matter. If you and I and countless thousands over the world understand, believe in, and work for world citizenship, we can create a new
that

liberalism

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order.

The only

May God

alternative is chaos.
give us strength to build a

new and happy

world.

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COLLEGE BACCALAUREATE
The Rev. William

J.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
Teachers College auditorium
22, in opening the Seventy-

Watts, rector of

delivered the baccalaureate sermon
at 2 30 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
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in the

May

Fourth Annual Commencement.
Processional, “Ancient of
The program for the service follows
Days”; Invocation, the Rev. Mr. Walts; Hymn, “Faith of Our Fathers”; Scripture Reading, President Harvey A. Andruss; sermon, the
Rev. Mr. Watts; solo, “Trust In Him,” Bernard Hamblew, Miss Joyce
Lohr, vocalist accompanied by Miss Louise Adams Benediction, the
Rev. Mr. Watts; Recessional, “Awake, My Soul.” Miss Harriet M.
Moore directed the music with H. F. Fenstemaker at the console.
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The ban on pleasure driving reduced the number of Alumni who
were able to return to Bloomsburg on Alumni Day. Inasmuch as a
large percentage of the Alumni Association membership is drawn from
those who attend class reunions, the membership of the Association is
much smaller than usual. As a result of the reduced income, it will be
necessary to issue a smaller Quarterly than has been customary, in
order to remain within our budget. If the Alumni wish the Quarterly
to be kept at its former standard it will be necessary to secure more
members. If each member will assume the responsibility of securing
just one member, we can bring our membership up to what it was last
year. Will you help?

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July, 1943

COMMENCEMENT
A

class of sixty-three, ten of

whom

Armed

are in the

Services of

and were granted their degrees in absentia, were
graduated Tuesday, May 25 from the Bioomsburg State Teachers College, with Dr. Theodore A. Distler, president of Franklin and Marshall
the United States

College, delivering the address.

There was a further military note to the commencement for eighofficers who completed their work at the Navy Department
CAA-WTS Special Flight Instructors Course at the college and were
presented certificates of completion by Lieut. John Boyd, USNR.
The officers receiving the certificates were Ensign Roland F. Anderson, N. Y.
Ensign William D. Barwick, Philadelphia; Lt. (jg.)
Samuel P. Conrad, Harrisonburg, Va.; Ensign Joseph Durnin, Mauch
Chunk, Pa. Ensign John J. Gallagher, R. I.
Ensign Luther E. Glasgow, Oakland, Calif. Ensign Samuel H. Hirshberg, McKeesport. Pa.
Ensign Robert H. Holben, Washington, D. C. Ensign James McCorteen

Navy

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mick, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ensign Edwin Packer, Trenton, N. J.; Lt. (jg.)
Jack W. Roney, Washington, D. C. Ensign Edward Sellers, Roanoke,
Va.; Ensign Robert Shreve, Arlington, Va. Lt. (jg.) Gene D. StrickLt. (jg.) Robert L. Wagaman, Hagerstown, Md.
ler, Alexandria, Va.
Lt. (jg.) Daniel K. Watson, Philadelphia;
Ensign James R. Werner,
Pittsburgh, Pa., and Ensign Charles Weyhenmeyer, Hazleton.
The exercises opened with the processional, “Heroes’ March,”
Volkmann; invocation, William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus; address. Dr.
Distler; “Andante Molto Cantabile,” First Movement Sixth Symphony,
Tschaikowski, H. F. Fenstemaker at the console; presentation of cerconferring of degrees. Presitificates of completion, Lt. John Boyd;
“Alma Mater.” the assembly, recessional.
dent Harvey A. Andruss
Miss Harriet M. Moore was director of music with Mr. Fenstemaker at
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The
John M.

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Apple, 113 North Street, Keiser; William

H. Barton, 500 West

Third Street, Bioomsburg; Mary Elizabeth K. Biermann, 48 Denison Street,
Wyoming; Charles Bomboy, 744 Market Street, Bioomsburg; June Helen
Bramble, 4 West Fifth Street, Bioomsburg; *Boyd Buckingham, 381 West
Market Street, York; Mary Kathryn Campbell, 335 West Fourth Street,
Bioomsburg; Marjorie Ruth Coombs, River Street, Wapwallopen; *Wayne
Deaner, 680 South 26th Street, Harrisburg; Carl E. Diltz, Third Street, Benton; Leo Alexander John Bonn, 73 Second Street, Kingston; Sara Jean Eastman, 545 West Main Street, Bioomsburg; Ruth Arlene Ebright, 332 Washington Street, Mifi'lintown; Joanna J. Fice, 115 Pennsylvania Avenue, Athens;
Lois E. Godlewski, 138 West Third Street, Mt. Carmel; Ruth Mahala Hartman, Orangeville, R. D. 2; Reba Maxine Henrie, Bioomsburg, R. D. 3; Kathryn Alice Hess, Orangeville, R. D. 2; Peggy R. Holoviak, Nesquehoning, R.
D. 1; Ruth Barr Hope, Hopedell Farm, Coatesville; Sara Elizabeth Hotten-

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stein, 330 Broadway, Milton; *John Hubiak, Forest City, R. D. 1; Dorothy
Ruth Johnson, 301 Walnut Street, Berwick; Catherine L. Jones, 101 Union
Street, Shickshinny; Beatrice M. Katerman, 814 Market Street, Bloomsburg;
Mary Katherine Kelly, 457 East Street, Bloomsburg; Betty Lou Kepner, 133
Race Street, Sunbury; Joyce Whilma Knorr, River Street, Wapwallopen;
*Ernest Kocher. Espy; Irene Anne Kornaski, 222 North Locust Street, Mt.
Carmel; Helen Ruth Kotch, 29 Loomis Park, Wilkes-Bai're; Elaine Luella
Kreischer, 202 13th Street, Berwick;, Irene Martha Kulik, 145 South Vine
Street, Mt. Carmel; Jean M. Kuster, 130 North Street, Bloomsburg; Margaret
Elizabeth Lambert, Elysburg; Winton Laubach, Main Street, Benton; Virginia Lee Lawhead, 835 Water Street, Pottsville; Sara Elizabeth Lebengood,
1750 Elk Avenue, Pottsville; Joyce Marie Lohr, 210 East Second Street, Berwick; *Andrew Magill, Sugarloaf; Gertrude Makowski, 342 Melrose Street,
Keiser; Elizabeth J. McCulla, 144 South Centre Street, Freeland; Helen Marie Miller, 4 North Avenue, South Enola; Pearl A. Miller, Berrysburg; Hazel
R. O’Brien, Benton; *Reynold Paganelli, 58 Orchard Street, Wilkes-Barre;
*Bernard Pufnak, 7482 McClure Avenue, Swissvale; Eleanore Marie Reilly,
30 South White Street, Shenandoah; Rosemary Frances Reilly, 30 South
Wliite Street, Shenandoah; Barbara Ann Rick, 118 North Street, Keiser;
Martha Lillian Roan, Second Street, Espy; Jane Rutledge, 16 Montgomery
Avenue, West Pittston; Nan B. Sidari, 222 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton;
Jean Claire Sidler, 416 Water Street, Danville; Rita E. Simpson, 96 New
Street, Wilkes-Barre; Ruth Edna Sluman, Honesdale; George Spontak, 562
Peacock Street, Pottsville; Mary Elizabeth Trump, 118 Spring Street, Danville; Anthony J. Valente, Jr., 599 Carson Street, Hazleton; Josefina E. Valladares, Puerto Rico; *Edwin Vastine, Danville, R. D. 5; *Herman Vonderheid, Wapwallopen, R. D. 2; Sara Kathryn Wagner, Pine Grove, R. D. 1;
Marion Wilma Wallace, 115 Kosek Street, Swoyerville; Martha Helen
Wright, 700 West Front Street, Berwick; *Philip Yeany, 712 East Third

Street,

Bloomsburg.

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WARING REVIEWS ENSIGNS
One thousand persons filled the Centennial Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon, March 27, for the review of the naval aviation officers attending the flight instructors’ school, in Bloomsburg, with Fred
Waring, national known orchestra conductor, as the honored guest.
The ceremony attracted the largest indoor crowd in the history
and was exceptionally well executed and under

of the instructor school

the direction of Dr. E. H. Nelson, of the college faculty.

2 30 o’clock, with all members
Following the National Anthem
opened ranks for the review with Waring escorted by Lt.

The program opened promptly

at

:

of the instructor school participating.

the officers

Hoyt on the inspection tour.
Waring spoke briefly, commending the men on the work being
accomplished.

The

m

review and then Ensign Miller was in comin which the men used rifles and did an
outstanding piece of work. The entire contingent left the gymnasium
to the strains of “Anchors Aweigh’’ and the applause of the large
crowd.

mand

officers

passed

of the precision

drill

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July, 1943

ALUMNI DAY
crisis and the strict ban on private transpormore than 350 graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College were back on the campus Saturday, May 21. for a reunion that in
its very spirit stamped it as one of the finest in the history of the local

Despite the present

tation,

institution.

The main floor of the auditorium was comfortably filled for the
general meeting, opening at 1 0 30 o’clock and presided over by R.
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Bruce Albert, class of

1

906.

President Harvey Andruss gave the invocation, and the class of
1943, attired in caps and gowns, entered the auditorium and presented
a check for membership in the Alumni Association. The class sang the
College color song, under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore, and
was officially elected into active membership.

The alumni loan fund has a total of $11 ,480.74. Many of the
most distinguished graduates of the institution as students were able to
complete their courses because of this fund. D. D. Wright presented
the report.

Howard
manager of

F.

the

Fenstemaker, editor, and Dr. E. H. Nelson, business
Alumni Quarterly, made reports as did Miss Harriet

Carpenter, treasurer of the Alumni.
Miss Carpenter, of Bloomsburg; Mrs. Ruth S. Griffith, of WilkesBarre, and D. D. Wright, of Bloomsburg, were re-elected directors for
three year terms.
Miss Althea Parsell, of Orangeville, accompanied by Miss Louise
Adams, of Shamokm, sang, “To a Hill Top” and “The Lord Has Given
Me a Song.” Both are students at the college.
President Andruss gave a brief history of the development of the
program as part of the institution’s war effort and stated that
eighteen Navy men will be graduated in connection with the regular
college commencement.
He extended a most cordial welcome to the
alumni and said that their unfaltering interest has been a leading factor in the progress of the institution.
A letter was received from Mary P. Hunt, McAlisterville, class of
876, in which she extended greetings and expressed regret at being
aviation

1

unable to attend.
Prof. Albert
class of

1

was not present

879 during

the afternoon

meeting but represented the
and was warmly welcomed by the

at the

alumni, the majority of whom were his former pupils.
Mrs. Sarah Richards Daniels responded for the class of 883 with
a splendid talk. There were five back from the class of, 1 888 with
Mrs. Norman G. Cool, Philadelphia, representing the class and extending greetings from the Philadelphia alumni group.
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The class of 1893 had twenty-two in attendance. S. J. Johnston,
Bloomsburg responded as d;d Miss Kate Bowersox, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Then just to show they have the same spirit of college days
the group sang “The Old Grey Mare.”
The class of 898 had ten back with Miss Alberta Nichols of
Wilkes-Barre, responding. Other responses were: Class of 1903, nine
back, William C. DeLong, Berwick'; class of 1908, three back, John
Piatt, Wyoming; class of 1913, sixteen in reunion. Dr. Kimber Kuster,
Bloomsburg; class of 1918, thirty-five, Mrs. Roy D. Snyder, Bloomsburg; class of 1923, eighteen back, Mrs. Lawrence Cherrington, of
Bloomsburg. Other representations were 1928, seven; 1933, three;
942, four.
938, two 1931, three
The class of 1913 announced that it is sponsoring an arboretum
as a testimonial to Prof. D. S. Hartline of the “Old Guard.” This will
probably be placed in the grove. Prof. Hartline, at the invitation and
insistence of the sponsoring class, will assist in drawing the plans. Dr.
Kuster is chairman of the committee.
The alumni decided to start a history of the college, to be compiled during the coming year under the direction of Dean Marguerite
Kehr, of the faculty, as chairman, with the assistance of President Andruss and the faculty.
Dr. Kehr gave a bnef account of the activities of the college
which include keeping in touch with 306 graduates now known to be
of

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in military service.

The luncheon was served cafeteria style, and the reunion classes
were allowed to arrange their own luncheon programs as they saw fit.
They then adjourned to the campus for the Navy review and spent the
balance of the day in the class reunion rooms.
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Miss Beulah Beltz, of Freewill, and Samuel Hewlitt, of Waynesburg, were married Tuesday, March 30. in the Baptist parsonage at
Waynesburg. The bride has been a teacher in the Locust Township
schools for the past six years. Mr. Hewlitt is serving in the army.

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July, 1943

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One hundred and seventy-five Navy V-12 students have been assigned to the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg and were scheduled to start instruction on or about July
This will be in addition to the Naval Flight Instruction School,
now being successfully carried on by the local college and airport,
while the regular college program will also be continued with indications that the summer pre-session, regular session and post-session will
be more largely attended than last year. The pre-session opens June
8 under the accelerated program of the college.
The V-12 program, by which naval officer candidates will be developed from the best available pool of high school and college students. was inaugurated nationally m
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July

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The process of selection of colleges by the Army and Navy for
program began by having ,650 institutions answer a questionnaire sent to them by the War Manpower Commission. From this
group of institutions, 500 were selected by the Army and Navy for inspection. One hundred and fifty colleges and universities were approved after visitation by a committee from the armed services.
A commanding officer to have charge of the work here is expected to be on the local campus around June
He is one of a class which
just completed eight weeks of intensive training at Columbia University. Most of them are school men.
The V-12 program will replace previous V-1, V-5 and V-7 plans
for stimulating the flow of young men into the naval service as officerclasses were selected from
candidate material. Candidates for July
a pool examined in April. Others who passed their April examination
will be sent to college at a later date, possibly on November
scheduled date of the starting of the second V-12 group.
Of the first group to be trained under V-12, eighty per cent will
use

in the

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be inactive Naval Reservists already in colleges who will be permitted
to complete additional terms of instruction under existing academic
programs. High school graduates and men selected from the fleet will
make up the remaining twenty per cent of the July quota.
Students will receive apprentice seaman ratings with pay of $50
a month and will wear apprentice sea uniforms. Thos.e coming to
Bloomsburg will be uniformed after they arrive here. Contracts between the Navy and the colleges will absorb tuition, housing, food and
medical costs of each student.
November
The semesters will start July
and March
with a
comprehensive examination each Spring.
The average course will be completed in two and two-third cal1

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endar years, but the average student will pass about one and one half
years in school. Those studying medicine, denistry and theological
courses will be allowed to remain in college until they receive their degrees. Other V-12 men who survive the academic grind will be taken
in the Navy upon conclusion of the course. A period of actual naval
training must be completed before they receive commissions as ensigns.

Eligible for the program are high school graduates or students
having equivalent formal education, seventeen through nineteen years

old at the time of their enlistment or induction, and enlisted men seventeen through twenty-two years old who meet the educational re-

quirements and are recommended by their commanding

officer.

O

COLLEGE TO TRAIN TEACHERS OF AERONAUTICS

in

The state education department recently approved establishment
Pennsylvania teachers colleges of an educational program for high

school instructors in the field of aeronautics.
The Bloomsburg teachers college was the first approved to set up
the course. Applications are pending from colleges at Lock Haven,
Indiana, Edinboro, Clarion and California. They will be authorized to

program when facilities are approved.
The preparatory program was developed by

join in the

the board of presi-

dents of state teachers colleges “to provide competent teachers in high
schools making available courses in aeronautics,” explained Board
Secretary Dr. Henry Klonower.
“The courses will be made available,” he said in an interview,
“in a limited number of the 4 state teachers colleges where facilities
are adequate to carry on the program. This is another effort on the
part of the colleges to meet one of the many additional demands being
made for teachers who can teach certain fundamental principles that
must be known by fliers or those entering this field.”
The education courses cover such subjects as aviation mathemat1

ics,

aircraft

communication and regulation,

aerial navigation,

meteor-

ology, theory of flight, history and identification of aircraft, aircraft
engines and climatology.
.

Announcement has been made

o
of the

engagement

of

Miss Kathryn Wal-

burn, of Bloomsburg, a former student at B. S. T. C., and James K. Fox, of
Catawissa. Miss Walburn is now employed in the spinning mill office of the
Magee Carpet Company. Mr. Fox is a graduate of the Catawissa High School
and the Eckles Embalming School in Philadelphia. He is now serving his
apprenticeship at the Adams Funeral Home in Catawissa.
o

John Sircovics has been commissioned a second lieutenant in
the U. S. Army, after attending Officer Candidate School at Fort BenLt.

ning, Georgia.

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IVY

July, 1943

DAY

Light rain and threatening weather forced the shifting of the traDay exercises of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College

ditional Ivy

graduating class from the pergola to the auditorium, where Winton
Laubach, of Benton, gave the oration.
Class Night activities followed with a program in Carver Hall,
dancing and cards in the old gymnasium and refreshments.
Mr. Laubach was presented by George Spontak, Pottsville, president of the class, and following the oration, Mr. Spontak presented the
spade to the class of 1944 with the acceptance by Miss Louise Madl,

Shamokin, president of that class.
In the oration Mr. Laubach commented that “According to an old
proverb ‘it is an ill wind that blows no good.’ Our class bowing out
here tonight stands as an animate example of this thought. When we
entered college we could see the clouds of war hovering over us. Since
then the storm has burst, and many of those once with us have been
swept into its path.
“The wind has not yet spent its evil force, but for the majority of
for us who feel only the breeze
it
us who remain
has brought opportunity hammering. Probably never before have their been such
opportunities for prospective teachers to get a start in their chosen

—

—

profession.
“I

do not wish

to leave the impression that

—

we

are jubilant over

from it. As Americans we cannot be that unthinking of others. We merely recognize that the situation exists and
we intend to make the most of it. It is our duty to our parents who
have sacrificed in order that we may be here. It is our duty to the
classmates and others who are fighting to make it possible for us to enjoy such opportunities. It is our duty to God, country and self to render service such that the world will be a better place for our having
been a part of it.
“As the ivy grows, so grows our class. Both have their roots
Both will branch out and
firmly anchored in these hallowed grounds.
Progress will be slow at first until they have
start climbing upward.
become acclimated to their new environment. Then each will shoot
out in search of new heights. Some branches will have better natural
equipment to cope with obstacles and disease. These will go highest.
But whatever happens every part will be integrated into a thing of
beauty and utility that will be long remembered.”
this state of affairs

far

o
Lt. John D. Young is a group officer of the 75th Air Corps Observation Group, and is located at Northern Air Field, near Asheville,
Tennessee.

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COLLEGE UNDERGOES ALTERATIONS
In

meeting die increased demands for housing of the Navy per-

sonnel and the college students, the Teachers College has contracted
for building changes, repairs, replacements and additions to the

amount

of approximately $50,000.
According to President Harvey A. Andruss these include general
construction changes to transform the major part of Waller Hall from
a womens’ dormitory to a men’s dormitory, $12,000; plumbing and
heating in that building, $6,000 coal and ash handling equipment in
the power plant, $5,000; replastering North Hall, men’s dormitory,
$10,000; exterior painting of Waller Hall, Carver Hall, Science Hall,
North Hall and the Benjamin Franklin School. $8,000; equipment to
meet Navy needs, $2,000. Re-roofing of Carver Hall, $7,000.
Work started immediately after commencement on all contracts
;

except the exterior painting of the college building.
let May 26.

Women

will

This contract

was

be housed on the third and fourth floor of that wing
and on a portion of the second floor if

of Waller Hall over the library

the number of women students warrant. It is estimated that these
building changes will accommodate 180 Naval officers, 175 V-12
Naval students and 100 women students in Waller and North Halls.
Plans are being made to convert a part of the dining room to
cafeteria service, which is required by the Navy V-12 program.
Waller Hall, in the days prior to World War I and in the years

immediately following, was used for a dormitory for both men and
women with the men boarding students of such number at that period
that the fourth floor over the library was sufficient to house them.
North Hall, at one time having the school laundry and conservatory, was converted into a men’s dormitory in mid-twenties, housing
seventy men. The male enrollment started to increase about that time
and the building was never able to house all of the men boarding students

and frequently

as

the college dormitory.

many

or

more men boarded

In fact in the years

present emergency there were as

many men

in the

town as

in

immediately before the
as

women

students en-

rolled in the college.
all of Waller Hall was made available
number of girls boarding at the institution fell
because more and more started to commute, many doing

Shortly after

students, the

to

women

drastically

so

from a

distance of forty miles.
o

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Edna
Zehner, of Nescopeck, and Aviation Cadet William Pietruszak, of Mocanaqua. Miss Zehner is teaching in Nescopeck, and Cadet Pietruszak,
a former teacher in the Mocanaqua schools, is stationed at Cambridge,
Mass., where he is studying to be a meteorologist.

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July, 1943

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

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

Hervey

B.

E. H.

D. D. Wright
Elizabeth H. Hubler

Nelson

Smith
^

^

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ill

1881
James Lamon Evans, of Berwick, died
6, after a lengthy illness.

at his

Mr. Evans, a prominent

lumbia County Bar, was born

home Sunday, June
member of the Col-

Creek Township, and lived

in Briar

in the

He was eighty-two years of age at the
time of his death. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church
of Berwick, served as a member of the official board for many years,
vicinity of

Berwick

all his life.

and was a former superintendent of the Sunday School.

1885
concerning Mrs. Edith Ent Holmes, appearing in the
April number of the Quarterly, the statement was made that she was a
member of the Women’s Society of Christian Science. This should be
corrected to read “The Women’s Society of Christian Service.’’
In the article

The address of Harry 0. Hine has been changed to
land Place, Cleveland Park. Washington, D. C.

3204 High-

1886
William T. Broughall, son of Mrs. Adella Shaffer Broughall, died
in Wilmington, Delaware, Sunday, May
6.
Mr. Broughall, former Deputy Judge of Municipal Court in Wilmington, was graduated from the
Wilmington High School in 1917, and from the University of Delaware
92
He received his law degree from Harvard Law School and
in
was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 924. He served as attorney for
the State House of Representatives in 1927, and was appointed City
Solicitor the same year.
He served as Deputy Judge from 1928 to
1941.
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painting of the late Judge William R. Lewis, ’86, has reThe painting was prein the court room in Scranton.
sented by Mrs. Lewis.
oil

cently been

hung

Adelle Shaffer (Mrs. Thomas
14th Street. Wilmington, Delaware.

J.

Broughall) lives at

500 West

1888
There were five members present from the class of 1888, with a
get-together on Friday evening at the home of one of its members, Mrs.
Annie Supplee Nuss. Meeting with the class was Mrs. Sara Richards
Daniels, Milwaukee. Wis., lone member of the class of 1883 back for
the sixty-year reunion. Those present from the class of ’88 were Mrs.
John Jones, nee Mary Taylor, Scranton; Mrs. Hugh Price, nee Elizabeth Lewis, Plains; Miss Annie Hine, Conyngham; Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Cool, Philadelphia, and Mrs. J. B. Nuss, nee Annie Supplee, of
Bloomsburg.

1891
Mrs.

Mary A. Orr

lives at

210 West Market

Street,

Lewistown, Pa.

1893
Alumni Day honors were carried off by the fifty year class. It was
by such a decisive margin that the other classes simply called it “no
’93.’’
contest’’ and paid tribute to the “boys and girls of
The class, opening its reunion with a dinner at the Hotel Magee
on Friday evening, had an exceptionally busy day on Saturday and
provided

The

many
class

features during the general alumni meeting.

numbered 13 at graduation a half century ago. There
known to have died and there are twelve members
1

are fifty-three
whom the class has lost trace of.
Twenty-two of the remaining
union.

Two were

unable to

make

forty-eight

were back for the reban on pleas-

the trip because of the

ure driving and two others had to give up their plans at the last minute
to attend funerals.
Of those present, eight have attended each five-year reunion since
graduation. Those are Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Johnston, of Bloomsburg;
Philip Drum, Wilkes-Barre; Miss Minnie Penman, Miss Martha Powell,

Bloomsburg; I. A. DeWitt, Sunbury; Miss Alice Fenner, Allentown,
and Mrs. Norman Nichols Davies, Scranton.
The class had nineteen present at its twenty-five year reunion in
the war year of 1918. Since then six of those have died and of the remaining thirteen, eleven came back for the fifty-year program.
S. J. Johnston, president of the class and in charge of the successful reunion, responded at the general meeting and presented Miss Kate
Bowersox, of St. Petersburg, Fla., who returned to the campus for the
first

time since she was graduated.

Immediately after completing her course here she had gone

to the

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July, 1943

where she was recommended by the late 0. H.
After fourteen years at Carlisle, where she was principal
the last five years, she went to Berea. Ky., College in the Blue Ridge
Mountains to serve for thirty-two years as dean of women, resigning in
939 and going to Florida to make her residence.
Another of the class. Miss Elizabeth McNinch, now residing in
Bloomsburg, was attending her first reunion except for the visit she
made back to the campus two years following graduation to get her

Carlisle Indian School,

Bakeless.

1

permanent

certificate.

Mrs. Elizabeth Fister Martin, of Orangeville, who taught in Atlantic City and later resided in Philadelphia, was present for her third reunion in the past fifty years.
It

was the class of 893 which started the student loan fund and
been active in adding to that fund through the years.
1

the class has

Miss Alice Fenner, of the class of ’93, spends her winters in TamShe is so interested in the fund that she aroused similar interest in a Tampa friend. Miss Bertha M. Schlickte.
The latter said she
wanted to be reminded of the reunion of the class so that she would
send a check to the fund. It was presented at the meeting and was
pa, Fla.

for one

hundred

Joseph

F.

dollars.

McDonnell, husband of Elizabeth Moran McDonnell, of
43d and Locust Street, Philadelphia, died Sat-

the Fairfax Apartments,

urday, January 9.

1896
M. Cohen, who retired

June after an outstanding record
died Wednesday, April 21.
Her death followed an illness of ten months. Educated in the schools
of Wilkes-Barre and at Bloomsburg, Miss Cohen began her teaching
career in 1901 as a member of the faculty of Hill Street School, now
the Doron Building. In 1905, she was transferred to the Carey Avenue grade school, where she taught until her retirement. The end of
her career as a teacher was observed June 8, 1942, with a testimonial
dinner given for Miss Cohen by the Carey Avenue Parent-Teachers’
Celia

as a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre

last

schools,

Association.

1897

who since 924 has been principal of the GerSchool, retired from active teaching in April.
Dr. Seely taught in Luzerne and Snyder Counties after his graduation from Bloomsburg, and served as assistant instructor in physics
and chemistry at Bloomsburg. He later went to Haverford College and
Dr. Leslie B. Seely,

1

mantown High

was graduated from that institution. For the year 1905-1906, he was
Headmaster at Friends’ Institute, Chataqua, New York, and then became teacher of physics at Northeast High School in Philadelphia. In
91 5 he was appointed head of the science department at Germantown High School. In 923 he was elected principal of Roxborough
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High School, but a short time afterward was elected principal

mantown High

at Ger-

School.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy was conferred upon
him by Ursinus College in 926. He has been a lecturer in physics at
1

Wagner Free Institute of Science since 1912. He has published a
number of articles in the field of physics.
A testimonial dinner was giv^n him April 28 at the Germantown
the

Cricket Club.

1898
898 in forty-five
There were fourteen members of the class of
year reunion. They were Verda M. Geist Haas, Mt. Carmel; Elmer
1

Ira Cherrington, Catawissa, R. D. 3
StewNorthumberland; 0. E. Kreisher, Lewisburg; A. Cameron Bobb, Danville; Edith Eves Biddle, Millville; Elizabeth C. Roresman, Montgomery; Sarah H. Russell, Watsontown; Clara M. Swank,
Wapwallopen; Mabel Hawke Anthony, Nanticoke; Gertrude Rinker,
secretary. Prospect Park; Auber J. Robbins, Bloomsburg, and Alberta

Levan, Catawissa, R. D. 3

;

;

art S. Sweet,

Nichols, Wilkes-Barre, president.

1900
Benjamin Fry Kashner died Tuesday, April 6, at his home
He is survived by a brother and two sisters.
Seattle, Washington.

Mrs.
Scranton.

1902
Mary McGourty Roche passed away

recently at her

in

home

in

1903
There were eleven back for the reunion of the class of 1903.
They were Mrs. E. D. Schnure, Milton R. D. 2 Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Chase, Carbondale; Mrs. H. G. Kitt, Milton; Mrs. Ila Reid Robertson,
Pittston; Mrs. Mary Wilson Hilburt, Plains; Max G. Dillon, Kingston;
Grace Housel Church, Bloomsburg; Charles Albert, Dallas R. D.
William D. DeLong and Louise DeLong. Berwick.
;

1

;

Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock McMurray ’04, of Philadelphia, wired
greetings to her friends in the class of 1 903 at the time of their class

Alumna Day.

reunion on
F.

A.

Humphreys

lives at

5705 South

Fifth

Avenue, Birmingham,

Alabama.

1905

Emma

in Washington, D.
draftsman with the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Cortright Shelley

is

C.,

serving as a

1907
Miss Elizabeth V. Clancy, of Steelton, died at her home Saturday,
April 0, after a two-day illness following a heart attack. Miss Clancy
served for many years as a teacher in the Steelton schools and was active in the affairs of the Dauphin-Cumberland branch of the Alumni
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Association.

July, 1943

Following her death, the following resolutions were pass-

ed by the Association
“With a feeling of deep regret, the Dauphin-Cumberland County Alumni
Association of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, must record the passing,
in April, 1943, of one of our respected and most active and devoted members, Miss Elizabeth Clancy.
“After graduating from Bloomsburg in the class of 1907, she began her
teaching career in Londonderry Township schools, and continued this efficient work in Steelton until her death.
“She was an ardent and untiring w'orker in school activities and many
community organizations. Her interest in her church was most commendable and unfailing.
“Whereas, she was not only an inspirational member of our Alumni
group, but was Secretary for many years, and as a former Vice-President of
the P. S. E. A., she was well known throughout the organization,
“Therefore, be it resolved. That we inscribe upon our records her
thoughful benevolent deeds, the highest respect and esteem in which she
was held, and,
“Be it further resolved. That copy of these resolutions be sent to the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and to her family, together with assurance of our sincere sympathy.”
(Signed)

HELEN SUTLIFF BROWN,

Chairman.

MARTHA SCHIEFER.
MARGARET DAILEY.
The

Class of

1908
908 met in reunion Saturday, May 22nd,
Though few in number, due to the ban on
1

in

Room

Noetling Hall.
pleasure
We spent the time remindriving, there was no lack of enthusiasm.
iscing.
Two of our members have passed away since our last reunion,
Ida M. Dreibelbis (Mrs. William DeLong) and Merril W. Smith. The
following were present and designated themselves as a committee to
make arrangements for our next reunion:
J,

John

E. Piatt,

Wyoming,

Pa.;

Adda Brandon

Mae

Westfield,

Calledar Wilson and Lloyd Wilson, Kislyn, Pa.; Hazel
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Mabel Clai'k Pollock, Wyoming, Pa.

Kingston, Pa.;
Rowe Creasy,

1910
A. S. Paul Mansuy, son of Alma Vetterlein Mansuy, is in the Flying Squadron, 54th College Training Detachment, Wittenberg College,
He received his basic training at Miami Beach, FlorSpringfield. Ohio.
ida.
He was a senior at Lafayette College when he was called into the

army.

He

holds a

private pilot’s

license,

which he received three

years ago.
Elizabeth Reeder (Mrs. Clarence N. Fisher) lives on a farm near

Frenchtown,

New Jersey.

Harold C. Box has finished his thirty-third year of continuous
His home is in South Canaan, Pa.
in South Canaan Township.

teaching

1911
Mrs. Edith

DeLong Tyson,

of Selinsgrove, died Sunday, April 18,

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19

Memorial Hospital, Danville, where she had been a
three weeks. Mrs. Tyson, a native of Lewisburg,
taught in her home community for fifteen years. She taught later in
the schools of Washington Township, Dauphin County.
at the Geisinger

patient for over

1913
1913, opening its program with a

The class of
nounced that it is sponsoring a drive

for

get-together, an-

an arboretum, probably to be

Among
in the grove, as a testimonial to Prof. D. S. Hartline.
those back for the reunion were
Ralph E. Kuster, Helen J. Pegg, Edna R. Cherrie, Lillian F. Moore, Elizabeth L. Pugh, Annie E. Keller, Ann Keller, Sarah H. Park, Marion R. Hartman, Merle D. Stookey, Irene B. Mock, Sadie Thompson, Ruth N. Sterner,
Mildred Stemples; Jessie Dersheimer Hoover, Enola; Luther Hess, Espy;
Catherine Malloy, Estella Callender Wright, Kingston; Renna Crossley Masteller, Bloomsburg; Olive V. Herr, Sunbury; Ada Davis Crawford, Elizabeth
S. Hicks, Berwick; Sylvia Gross Freeman and Kimber C. Kuster, Bloomsplaced

burg.

1914
The appointment of Major General Idwal H. Edwards as chief of
staff of the European theater of operations was announced early in May
General Edwards succeeds Brigadier General
by the U. S. Army.
Charles H. Barth, who was killed m an airplane accident in Iceland that
also took the lives of Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and twelve
others.
Ella E.

Baden (Mrs.

J. T.

Minnis) lives at

249 North Ninth

Street,

Plainfield, N. J.

1915
William

J.

Gress,

M.

D.,

is

located at

318 West Market

Street,

Pottsville, Pa.

1917
Russell

The

Ramage

lives at Prescott,

1918
1918 had one of the

Arizona.

busiest programs of the reunion
get-together on Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy D. Snyder was followed by a breakfast at St. Paul’s parish house
on Saturday morning and a day-long program on the Hill. Among
those back were
Ella Butler Wallin, Dunmore; Esther Conety Bell, Mountain Top; Hannah Law Groner, Bloomsburg; Helen Lord Powell, Kingston; Criddie Edwards Berninger, Pittston; Florence Packham Sampson, Clark’s Summit;
Genevieve Healy, Pittston; Nell Brotherton Geary, White Plains, N. Y.; Dorothy Edgar Creasy, Espy; Sarah Fritz Williams, Bloomsburg; Mary R. Orndorf, Sunbury; Kathryn Gaffney Meade, Pittston; Mildred Edwards Daron,
Luzerne; Zareta Good White, Johnstown; C. Dewey Harris, Bloomsburg;
Freda Snyder Hughey, Dallas; Rose A. Gronka, Glen Lyon; Helen G. Sypniewski, Nanticoke; Edna Davenport Ohl, Martha E. O’Brien Pursel, Bloomsburg; Miriam E. Wellivei’, Danville; James T. Musgrave, Scranton; J. Claire
Patterson, Bloomsburg; Edna Aurand, Wilkes-Barre; Carrie Keen Fischer,
Glen Lyon; Ruth Speai'y Griffith, Wilkes-Barre.
classes.

A

class of

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July, 1943

1923
The class of 1923, in twenty year reunion, had twenty-two members and two guests in attendance.
Mrs. Minnie Mellick Turner was
appointed historian and she is to compile a class history to be made
available to all members of the class. Attending were:
Mary McNinch Davis, Berwick; Edith Hampton, Frackville; Emily Craig,
Sarah Levan Leighow, Catawissa; Ruth Geary Beagle, Danville; Leona Williams Moore, Dallas; Dorothy Barton Cherrington, Bloomsburg; Betty Kessler Kashner, Bloomsburg; Geraldine Hall Krauser, Philadelphia; Margaret
Hughes, Wilkes-Barre; Helen M. Keller, Margaret E. Jones, Kingston;
Cecelia J. Furman, Nanticoke; Leroy A. Richard, Trevorton; Andrew B.
Lawson, Williamsport; Michael H. Kohler, Anna Ozelka Kohler, Clifton, N.
J.; Vera Parker Shultz, Berwick; Florence Breisch Drake, Light Street;
Helen Smith MacDougall, Berwick; Minnie Melick Turner, Bloomsburg;
Lola Kocher Seward, Berwick.
Mrs. Minnie Melick Turner, of Bloomsburg, has been appointed
To assist her in compiling a history of the class,
any members having information concerning class members will please
Copies of the history will be available to all
get in touch with her.

historian of the class.

class

members.
Capt. Elmer E. Haupt is stationed at the Chemical Warfare School,
Arsenal, Maryland.

Edgewood

1927
Helen E. Ceppa, 3 West Grand Street, Nanticoke, received in
1941 her B. S. degree in Elementary Education at Columbia University.

1928
Mrs. Ronald Leary Smith (Eleanor Sands) attended the reception
and dinner for Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay at Sherry’s, New York City,
The occasion marked the annual banon the evening of January 31
Miss Millay received the soquet of the Poetry Society of America.
ciety’s medal presented every year to the poet whose work for the art
has been most outstanding.
Mrs. Smith is an active member of the Poetry Society of America,
and contributes to verse magazines and newspaper publications. Recently she retired from the teaching profession to edit the Unicorn, a
.

Magazine of Poetry,

at Bloomfield.

New

Jersey.

Those attending the reunion of the class of 928 were Mrs.
Charlotte Mears Davis, Miss Karleen Hoffman, Miss Kathryn Abbett,
Miss Betty Rutter and Miss Harriet Adams, of Bloomsburg; Alice
Evans, Margaret Hill and Nancy Zorkas, Scranton.
1

1929
Machung and Captain Anthony Diska, of Nanticoke,
were married Monday, April 26, at St. Stanislaus Church, Nanticoke.
Miss Alice B.

Mrs. Diska is a teacher in the Pulaski School at Nanticoke. Captain
Diska is a graduate of the Nanticoke High School and Western Mary-

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land University. Before entering the service, he was a teacher in the
Nanticoke High School. He is now stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, with
the military police.

Miss Eleanor L. Wilson, of Johnstown, and Lt. Jack B. Fortner, of
Bloomsburg. were married Friday, May 14, at Camp McCoy. Wisconsin.
Mrs. Fortner is a graduate of the Jefferson Hospital School of
Nursing, in the class of 1939. Lt. and Mrs. Fortner are living at Camp
McCoy. Their address is 2nd Lt. and Mrs. Jack B. Fortner, A. U. S.,
1650th U. S. 6th Serv. C. L. C., Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.

1931
Samuel W. Kurtz is a program director for the American Red
Cross, and is stationed some where in North Africa. Mr. Kurtz, former
music supervisor in the Bloomsburg schools, left a similar position in
Stroudsburg to enter the service. He received his M. S. degree at the
Pennsylvania State College in 940.
1

is

James Davis, former principal of the Main Township High School,
teaching in the Mechanicsburg High School.

now

1932
The address of Corporal J. Fred Berger is A. S. N. 3316821 7,
Hd. Det., 30th Replacement Btn., A. S. F., Unit Training Center, New
Orleans, La.

1933
Captain John Q. Timbrel! has been assigned to Detachment 16,
Special Troops, Second Army, at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Captain
Timbrell was in command of one of the Berwick National Guard companies when it was called into service. He was transferred from the
28th Division at Camp Livingston and was sent to Fort Huachuca, Arizona and later to Little Rock, Arkansas.

24 Normandy Road, Upper DarJ. George Brueckman,
on special assignment that takes him throughout the country.

Captain
by, Pa.,

is

1

1934

Anna

Northup, of Glenburn, Pa., and Morris A. Greene, of Sydney,
C., were married December 31,
1942.
They are living in Washington, D. C., where Mr. Greene is a member of
I.

and Washington, D.

Australia,

the staff at the Australian Legation.

Gerald M. Woolcock, of

Millville, has recently been advanced to
Capt. Woolcock entered the service in February,
stationed at Camp Gordon, Florida, with the 109th

the rank of Captain.

1941, and

is

now

Infantry.

Ellen L. Veale lives at

319 East Elm

Street, Hazleton, Pa.

1935
The

class of

1935 held

its

eighth annual breakfast at the Hotel

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July, 1943

Magee Coffee Shoppe. Letters and post card responses were received
from many members, including several in the armed forces. Those attending were: Veda Mericle Stewart. Faye Meixell Diseroad, Harriet
Styer Boop, Mildred Deppe Hines. Helen Merrill, Unora Mendenhall,
Mildred Ford Wesner, Irene Frederics, Rosebud Colder Ungemach, and
Dr. H. H. Russell, class advisor,

and Mrs.

Russell.

The graduating

exercises of the 3rd Chemiical Warfare Servic*=
Course was held at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland,
on Saturday, February 13. The course is an advanced study of chemical warfare general tactics.
Members of the class are Army officers of
Among the graduates was Lt. Charles
the Chemical Warfare Service.
In civilian life, Lt. Michael taught in the
P. Michael, Quakake, Pa.
Beaver Township High School at Shumans, Pa.
•

Command and

Staff

Private Joseph Dixon, of West Hazleton, has been admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the courts of
Luzerne County. Pvt. Dixon is now stationed at Greenville, Pa. He

received his degree of LL. B. from Dickinson Law School, Carlisle, in
January. 1943. His wife is the former Minnie Boudman, of Bloomsburg, a former student at B. S. T. C.

Mary F. Schuyler of Bloomsburg, formerly a teacher in the William E. Case School at Morrisville, Pa., is now a member of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Miss Schuyler has taken graduate work
at

Duke and Rutgers

Universities.

The address of Corporal Woodrow G. Brewington is A. S. N.
33348500, 47th T. C. Squadron, 313th T. C. Gp., A. P. 0. 3930, care
of Postmaster,

New York

City, N. Y.

David Foust has been elected principal of the DeLong Memorial
School at Washingtonville.

1936
Ensign Miriam G. Eroh, of Nescopeck, recently received her commission in the WAVES. She began active duty on May 4th.

Leota Nevil, of Bloomsburg,
School at Washingtonville.

is

teaching

in the

DeLong Memorial

Sarah Pauline Ranck, of Bloomsburg, was awarded the degree of
Master of Education at Temple University Monday, February 15.

1937
Private First Class Clair A. Baum, of Nuremberg, who in January
was reported as missing in action
Africa, is now a prisoner of the
Italians, according to news recently received by relatives.
Clair was

m

inducted into the army February 3, 1942, and was stationed at camps
Georgia and Florida, and at Indiantown Gap, before leaving for

in

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overseas duty. He was a teacher
before he entered the army.

in

the

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Sugarloaf Township schools

1938
Dreese (Mrs. William Graybill) lives at 20 Rutland
Square, Boston, Mass. Her husband is located at the U. S. Maritime
Service Training School for Radio Operators, Gallup’s Island, Boston.

Martha

Captain Neil M. Ritchie has been somewhere in England and is
ground training. He was a member of the faculty
of the Danville High School at the time he entered the service.
assistant director of

Betty Gilligan, Paterson, N.

J.,

and Anna Malloy Sharkey, Shen-

andoah, were back from the class of 1938.

1939
Miss Miriam Louise Utt, of Bloomsburg, and Samuel Roy Frank,
Jr., of Phillipsburg, Pa., were married Sunday, April 25, in St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Bloomsburg. Following her graduation from
B. S. T. C., Mrs. Frank taught in the Phillipsburg High School for two
Following this, she was bookkeeper and associate revenue
years.
agent at Laurelton State Village. She has recently been serving as secretary to the Dean of Women at Bucknell University. Mr. Frank, who
is a graduate of the Phillipsburg High School, was graduated this year
from Gettysburg College. He will enter Gettysburg Theological Seminary this fall.

The address

I

of Sgt. Philip E.

Traupane

is

1

st

Academic Company,

Parachute School, Airborne Command, Fort Penning, Georgia. In a
recent letter he says “I am with the Parachute School at Fort Pen:

ning, Georgia,

where

I

am

Training and Parachuting.
altitudes

both

teaching classes of officers in Jumpmaster
I have made 22 day and 3 night jumps in

from 600 feet to 3,000
and interesting.”

feet,

and have found

my work

to

be

thrilling

Ensign Alex. J. McKechnie, of Berwick, has completed a course
of instruction at Dartmouth College, and more recently has been taking
a course at the Boston Navy Yard. Ensign McKechnie, a former teacher in the schools of Shickshmny and Columbia, was at Rome, New
York, airport for a year

in a Civil

Service capacity.

Miss Sara Tubbs, of 47 West Third Street. Bloomsburg, has been
teaching during the past year at the DeLong Memorial High School at
Washingtonville, Pa.
1

Corporal John E. Bower, of Berwick, has been advanced to the
rank of Technician Fourth Class. He has been stationed at the reception center at New Cumberland, Pa.

The address

Paul J. McHale is Hq. 2nd
254, care Postmaster, Los Angeles, Cal.

of Technical Sergeant

Btn., 51st A. T. F., A. P. 0.

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July, 1943

1940
Gertrude E. Wilson, of Drums, and Joseph A. Withey, of Bordentown, New Jersey, were married Saturday, April 24th, in the St. Paul’s
Methodist Church, Drums, with the Rev. Frank W. Kimper officiating.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mrs. Withey also attended West Chester State Teachers College and
Duke University. Mr. Withey, a graduate of the New York State College for Teachers. Albany, New York, is teaching in the Bordentown
Military Institute and is also enlisted in the Signal Corps Reserve.
William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, was recently commissioned a
second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces during ceremonies which
marked the end of an intensive course in meteorology taught at New
York University’s College of Engineering, under the direction of the
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. Lt. Hess was a teacher in the Scott Township School District, Espy, Pa., before he enlisted
942.
in the Army Air Forces June
2,
1

1

Clayton H. Hinkel is the author of an article, “Our Contribution
Corps Program,’’ which appears m the April issue of the
Business Education World. This is the second article that he has written for the magazine.
Mr. Hinkel is Director of Business Education
and head of the Placement Bureau in the Easton Public Schools. He
will complete his work for the Master’s Degree at Temple University
to the Victory

this

summer.

Staff Sergeant Byron D. Shiner, of Berwick, having successfully
completed his course at the Air Force Officer Candidate School at
Miami Beach, Florida, has received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. His duties will be to direct administrative and
supply operations of the Air Force ground forces, thus relieving train-

ed pilots for

full

time flying duty.

Stella M. Herman (Mrs. William A. McCleary) lives at 24 Oak
Knoll Drive, Oakwood, Dayton, Ohio. Her husband is serving in the
U. S. Army Air Forces.

1941
Miss Valma Gilman, of Spokane, Washington, and First Lieutenant J. Rutter Ohl. Jr., were married Thursday, March 4, in St. Matthew
Lutheran Church at Bloomsburg. The bride is a graduate of the North
Central High School in Spokane and of the Kelsey-Baird Secretarial
School, Spokane. She was employed in the Spokane business office of
Lieutenant Ohl entered the service Octhe Bell Telephone Company.
tober 28, 1941 and is stationed at Failmount, Nebraska.
,

Attending from the class of 1941, with teaching address given,
Mary B. Hartman,
were: S. Frederick Worman, Spruce Pine, N. C.
Beaver Township; Isabelle Olah, Berwick; Marie Parsell, Center
;

;

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Township; Elda M. Henrie, Strasburg; Lois K. Gruver, Foundryville
Marian L. Murphy, Kingston George D. Willard, Danville, and Eliza;

beth E. Hawk, Milton.

made

the engagement of
James H. Deily, Jr., of
Bloomsburg. Miss Otthofer is a' graduate of the Millersville High
School and is employed in the office of the Key News Agency. Mr.
Deily has for the past two years been teaching in the Millersville High

Announcement has

Miss Dorothy

Mae

recently been

of

Otthofer, of Lancaster, and

School.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Pharmacist’s
Mate Edwin Wenner. of Berwick, and Ruth Hess, of Pond Hill. Mr.
Wenner is now stationed in the Medical Offices of the United States
Coast Guard Recruiting Building in Philadelphia.
of Berwick, who has been located at AtGuard, has been transferred to Philadelphia
where he is engaged in examining recruits.

Seaman Edwin Wenner,
lantic City with the Coast
at the recruiting office,

Department at the Brewis working for the Navy
Corporation, Hatboro, Pa. His address in Hatboro

Jack Shortess
ster Aeronautical
is

133 Byberry Avenue.

Lieutenant Richard H. Foote
Air Forces.

is

stationed in Florida with the

Army

1942
The “baby” class in reunion, the class of 1942, reported that the
eight back for the reunion are all teaching. They are: Ida Jane Shipe,
Berwick; Mary Jane Mordan, Northumberland; Mae Grove. Betty
Hull, Doris Sears, Shamokin; Josephine Rhinard. Jean Lantz, Mary
Davenport, Berwick, and Ludmilla Matanin, Mountain Top.
Edwin

J. Deleski has been commissioned a second lieutenant in
Air Forces and was awarded the silver wmgs at Craig Army
Air Field, Selma, Alabama. A few days after Lt. Deleski received his
commission, a son was born to him and Mrs. Deleski at the Bloomsburg
Mrs. Deleski was formerly Miss Joan Wenner, of BloomsHospital.
burg.

the

Army

Miss Ruth Elaine Dent, and

William Powell Wanich, both of
were married Monday, May 3, in
the Espy Methodist Church. Mrs. Wanich attended B. S. T. C. and is
now employed in the office of Bloomsburg Mills, Inc. Lt. Wanich was
recently graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia,
and is now stationed at Camp Croft, North Carolina.
Lt.

Scott Township, Columbia County,

Cpl.

The engagement of Miss Dora K. Taylor, of West Grove, Pa., and
William E. Smith, of Bloomsburg, has been announced. Cpl.

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Smith has been stationed at the

Army

July, 1943

Air Field at Walnut Ridge, Ar-

kansas.

Wilfred F. Conrad, of Benton, has been commissioned a second
upon successful completion of the Officer Candidate Course
at Fort Benning.
He served with the 30th Btn., I. R. T. C., Camp
Croft, S. C., before going to Officer Candidate School.
lieutenant

Auxiliary First Class Harriett E. Roan, of Bloomsburg, was one of
hundred members of the
to complete the course in
army administration at the East Texas State Teachers College at Commerce, Texas.

WAAC

the three

Aviation Cadet F. Stuart Straub, of Berwick, was a member of the
graduated April 2 from the Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School at Yuma, Arizona. At the time of his graduation he receiv-

class that

ed

his

1

commission as second lieutenant.

Ensign Stuart L. Hartman, of Danville R. D. 4, received his commission in July, 1942, and has been serving as Third Officer of the
Training Ship for Officers at Camp May, N. J.
Aviation Cadet R.

W. Watkins has been taking a special course of
He received his basic training at

technical training at Yale University.

Boca Raton,

Florida.

Bloomsburg, was graduated recently from
School at Corpus Christi, Texas, and has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Air Corps.
Merrill A. Deitnch, of

Officers’ Training

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Margie
Jones, of Taylor, and Glenn R. Letterman, of Bloomsburg. Miss Jones
served last year as a teacher in the Port Carbon High School.
Earl

J.

Harris, of Orangeville, received his

lieutenant at Fort Benning
cers’

Georgia,

in

May,

commission as second

after completing the Offi-

Candidate course.

Linda I. Lord has been teaching during the past year at the PhilHer home address is 210 Oak
ipsburg High School, Philipsburg, Pa.
Street, Minersville.

She

Geraldine E. Bitting lives at 29 Avenue B, Claymont, Delaware.
teaching in the Ridley Park High School, Ridley Park, Pa.

is

Sergeant Ralph H. Zimmerman, of Berwick,
Logan, Colorado.

is

located at Fort

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Frances
Shamokm, and Russell Burrows, of Bloomsburg.

E. Hull, of

Aleta P. Stiles lives at R. D. 2.

Red

Lion, Pa.

She

is

teaching.

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Ex-42
promotion to the rank of Captain has been received by Harrison Cameron, Jr., of Berwick. Word of the promotion came from
Camp Blanding, Florida, where Captain Cameron is in command of C
Captain Cameron entered the
Rifle Company of the 264th Infantry.
army when the Berwick National Guard companies were inducted m
February, 1941.

A

1943
Miss Joyce M. Lohr and Staff Sergeant Herbert F. Kleckner, both
were married Wednesday morning. May 26, in the Bower
Memorial Church in Berwick. Sergeant Kleckner is stationed at Leesof Berwick,

burg, Florida.

Miss Dottie F. McHenry, of Benton, and Pfc. Donald D. Rabb,
A. A. F. T. T. S., were married Saturday, April 24, at Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Pfc. Rabb is attending Weather Observers’ School at Grand
Rapids.

William H. Barton, of Bloomsburg, and Arlene Masters, of Danwere married Saturday evening, June 5, at the First Methodist
Church in Bloomsburg. The bride has been working in the office of
the E. R. Beers Electric Company in Bloomsburg.
ville,

o

FORMER STUDENTS
John Sahaida, of 73 Carleton Avenue, Hazleton, Pa., has been
commissioned an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve after completing
flight training at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida.
Ensign Sahaida. a native of Hazleton, attended the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, for two years where he participated in varsiety baseball. He received his preliminary flight training
at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Philadelphia, before reporting to
Pensacola last November.
1

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Captain James Harman, of Catawissa, has been missing in action
7.
This is the second time that the officer has been reported missing in action. The first time was in November, when he
was forced down in Portugal while flying from England to Africa. For
a time. Captain Harman was interned in Portugal, but two and a half
months later he was able to rejoin his squadron in Africa, at which
time he was advanced from flight commander to squadron commander.
Captain Harman served three years in the Army in the Philippines
after his graduation from high school.
He later returned home and attended B. S. T. C., after which he went to the Parks Air College at St.
since April

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July, 1943

He has been in the Air Corps for over two years and with the
Expeditionary Forces for a year. He is the husband of Mary Brunstetter, of the class of 1941.
Louis.

Jack Hower, Aviation Cadet,
Mexico.

is

stationed

in

Albuquerque,

New

w
James
His address

of Benton, is stationed at Miami Beach, Florida.
A. A. C., 410 T. G., B. T. C. No. 4, Flight N, Miami

S. Kline,
is

U.

S.

Beach, Florida.

W
Norbert
illiam Kirk, of Berwick, now with the United States
Air Forces in action in North Africa, has been decorated with the
Distinguished Flying Cross. The decoration was the fifth citation that
Lieutenant Kirk has received. He received national attention some
months ago, when he was co-pilot of the leading bomber on the first
all-American bom.bing raid over occupied France. Lt. Kirk in Africa
received the air medal that is given for valorous services beyond the
call of duty, and three times since received oak leaf clusters for similar
citation, to be worn with the air medal.
Lt.

Army

Yeoman 2nd

Martha A. Knorr, of Bloomsburg, and Seaman
were married Sunday,
Both are
April 8, in the St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg.
employed in the Naval Procurement Office in Philadelphia.

2nd

class

class William S. Wilson, Jr., of Philadelphia,
1

Jack G. Rockwell, of Bloomsburg, is at the University of Akron
taking a five-months’ course prior to his appiointment as an aviation
cadet.

fP
Clifton S.

Skow, who is stationed at Camp McCall, Hoffman, North
advanced to the rank of corporal. He is a member

Carolina, has been

of the

1

88th Glider Infantry.

w
First

Lieutenant Stacy M. Search, of Berwick,

is

stationed with

U. S. troops in North Ireland.

f
Aviation Cadet Harry G. John,

been receiving
Illinois.

He

is

pre-flight training at

now

of Bloomsburg, R. D.
Augustana College, Rock
Jr.,

training in San Antonio, Texas.

3,

has

Island,

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College Plays Leading Role in

Directing

defense

energies to

its

war

clouds of

in

I

War

Effort

days when

the

the storm

started to gather on the national horizon, Blooms-

first

burg State Teachers College has- increased the tempo of its activities
in that regard and intends to continue doing so until victory is won.

The

story of the local institution

along with the continuance of

its

and

its

war connected

regular college program

and a record of accomplishment
the community are justly proud.

cinating one

of

services

—

a fas-

is

which the college and

it seems to have been some time since Civil
1940,
Bloomsburg but it was only September

Just looking back
Pilot Training

and

was

that

came

to

1

,

than three years ago.

less

had been opened but a month when the
CPT work and filled it immediately
with nine men and a girl. When that semester’s work was concluded
the college and airport together had turned out such a fine job that
the Bloomsburg quota was doubled.

The Bloomsburg

airport

college got a quota of ten for the

This

work continued

for

two years during which time

took the training here, three of them women.

days more than

per cent of the

fifty

men volunteered

vice, a record without parallel in the nation.

Now,

a 100
Harbor

just

In Pre-Pearl

for military serpractically

all

of

them have entered service.

They are scattered
and

in all

branches of

instance, has

went

V

.>

over the fighting fronts of the world today
Lt.

been a member of the

Walter Reed, of Shillington, for

First

Montgomery in the
experience in CPT. He is now

into action with

first flight

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all

air service.

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College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., imder the Act of July 16,
1804. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.

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2,000 Courses

program was getting rolling the enginand management training course, under the National Office
of Education and sponsored in the Commonwealth by the extension
service of the Pennsylvania State College, opened at the Teachers
Just as this phase of the

eer, science

College.

Since that time there have been 2,000 individual courses given
these schools.

At the

work were men.
became about equal as to men and

start the majority taking the

As they progressed

the enrollment

women

course opening has seen classes

but the

inately of

last

in

made up predom-

women.

The courses, in fact, have taken the
and womanpower on the home front.

barometer of manpower

role

The CPT program during the summer of 942 was removed and
in its place the college and airport were recognized for the training of
laision, service and glider pilots for the Army and combat pilots for
the Navy. Tlie Army sent thirty here m its first quota and the Navy ten.
1

Then Bloomsburg got outstanding recognition when

it

was named,

along with Colgate, as exclusive flying schools for the Navy, the only

two

so recognized in the East.

The Navy immediately offered a program here of primary and
secondary aviation for combat pilots and Bloomsburg was soon selected as one of the five Navy Flight Instructor Schools in the nation.
Others named were Northwestern, Purdue, Georgia and Texas Christian.

Since then Arizona has been added.

V-12 Program Added
Latest addition to the
lege as a

Navy

officer

program has been the naming

candidate school with around

to begin that training.

Bloomsburg

Commonwealth named
Navy Flight Instructor

School.

is

for this work.

of the col-

200 men

reporting

the only teachers college in the
It

is

entirely separate

from the

President Harvey Andruss has been at the helm of the college

during these history-making days, and

many

of the

faculty have

been

qualified to instruct in the various subjects definitely alligned with the

war program.
At the present time improvements are underway at the college to
add to the facilities and provide accommodations for the housing of
all Navy men on the campus.
Aside from its direct war work, the college has introducted pre-

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the first being given last summer
which
flight aeronautics courses
have had a definite appeal to secondary teachers and in this field
Bloomsburg is laying the ground work at the present to step out on a
broader scale when peace comes again.

o

Lt.

Kirk Guest of College

Lieutenant William Kirk, five times decorated for gallantry and

veteran of

fifty

bombing missions over Axis held

student at the Bloomsburg State
of honor at a special assembly

Teachers
at ten

territory,

College,

o’clock,

former

was the guest

Thursday morning,

July 15.

President Harvey A. Andruss, of the college, presided and Frank

member of the board of trustees of the college
and a close personal friend of Lieutenant Kirk, presented him to the
D. Croop, of Berwick, a

college body.

With the decoration of the Distinguished Flying Cross that he reskill as a pilot and his steadfast
courage in combat,” the Air medal with eight separately awarded oak
leaf clusters and the purple heart decoration for wounds received in
combat. First Lieut. William Kirk arrived from North Africa at the
home in Espy of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kirk, former residents of Berwick. The wife of Lieut. Kirk had joined him in New
York City and spent two days there while Lieut. Kirk was undergoing
examinations and checking out for his leave and arrived with him for
the happy dinner party that was awaiting at the Kirk home. The officer’s wife is the former Regina Connor, of Bloomsburg.
With the completion of fifty bombing missions, Lieut. Kirk was
“grounded” and sent on leave to America. After the visit with his
wife and parents, he will be engaged for a time as instructor at an
ceived for his “superior professional

airfield in the States.

In

Thick of Bombings

The typewritten record of his fifty missions, which was given him
by the Squadron command as he left for the States, reads like newspaper headlines of the past few months and contains the names of
nearly every spot of the Tunisian campaign that resulted in the complete defeat and surrender of the Axis army and of bombing flights
over Sicily, Sardinia and Italy that have filled the papers since the
African campaign.

At Kasserine Pass, the port of Sousse, Bizerte repeatedly, Medjez

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bombings that were told
in newspaper headlines as the air force worked in co-operation in the
victories that made a chapter in American history and cleared Africa
el

Bab, Djededia,

Lt.

Kirk had a part

in the

entirely of Axis forces.

The record of missions includes also the Italian island of Pantelnext to fall, and bombings of many of the points that have given
newspaper headlines as his Fortress joined in the smashing bombing
leria,

visits to

Palermo, Agriento, Catania, Marsala, Messina

in Sicily,

Cag-

lands.

Prior to going to Africa, Lt. Kirk

had figured

in

overseas as co-pilot of the leading plane of the

dispatches from

first

all-American

bombing expedition that had gone out to bomb Axis objectives in
France, Rouen having been visited. The bombing trips from England
before going to Africa included Nazi bases

The General Orders of the European

in the

command

Distinguished Flying Cross, most prized of
ticularly beautiful

cross

of

Netherlands.

all

air

that

awarded

the

honors and a par-

gold with ribbon outline the feat that

brought the avvard of the Cross and read as follows
“Noi'bert

William

Kirk,

First

Lieutenant

Air

Corps

—Squadron,

Bombing Group.
the

“For extraordinary achievement while participating
European and North Africa theatre of operations as

in aerial flight in

pilot of type

aircraft.

“On May 19, 1943, while approaching
airdrome, his plane was
badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire and Lt. Kirk, his co-pilot and his navigator were wounded. The number two engine caught fire and the aircraft
Rather than salvo his bombs, Lt. Kirk made a
lost altitude and formation.
lone bomb run in the face of desperate enemy fighter attacks and accurately
bombarded his target, displaying utmost flying skill. Lt. Kirk maneuvered
his aircraft underneath his own formation and with the protection thus afHis superior professional
forded was able to work a safe landing at
skill as a pilot and his steadfast courage in combat reflect the highest credit
to himself and the armed forces of the United States.
“Residence at time of appointment, Berwick, Pa.’’
Thrill

With

enemy

his

Over Vesuvius

amazing experiences including repeated

fighter planes that at times

came

at the Fortress in

battles with
swarms, and

the crew of the Flying Fortress fighting them off to reach its objective
and unload its bombs, and the plane frequently penetrated by pieces
of shells fired from fighter planes, these were passed over by Lieut.
Kirk to the party of relatives who gathered for his arrival as he related
the thrill that was given when he flew over Mt. Vesuvius near Naples.
Taking a course five miles or so up, the volume of belching smoke and

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fire

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as the Fortress passed over the volcano

made

it

5

seem immediately

dangerously close below the plane.

The experience

that brought the

ing Cross followed

damage

anti-aircraft shell.

The wound

a piece of another shell.

went back

award

of the Distinguished Fly-

by a direct hit of an
head that he received was from
He recovered rapidly in the hospital and
to the plane scored
to his

into service.

While the “flak” (anti-aircraft shells) bursting near the plane
became a regular experience, it remained for the final mission to provide one of the exceptional experiences with the shells bursting close

enough

to see the fire of the shells blaze

out as they

exploded

in the

daylight raid.
Lt.

Kirk

now

IS

stationed at the Columbus, Ohio airfield, as an in-

structor.

o

Miss Cecilia
tenant

Mary

Shamokin, was married

Sullivan, of

Commander Dominick William

Scotti. U. S. N., of

to Lieu-

New York
Holy Name

The ceremony was performed in the Church of the
Amsterdam Avenue and 96th Street, New York City.
The former Miss Sullivan is a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School and the Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. The bridegroom attended Fordham University and the Long Island College of
Medicine prior to his entry into the Navy. He was chief pediatrician

City.

of Jesus,

charge of the French Hospital, associate attending pediatrician at
New York Post Graduate Hospital and assistant clinical professor
of pediatrics of New York Post Graduate Medical School of Columbia
in

the

University,
ican

and

Academy

is

a

member

of the

Board of Pediatrics and the Amer-

of Pediatricians.
()

Miss Clara E. Smith, a former

burg, died Thursday,

May

member of the faculty at Bloomshome in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

13, at her

Miss Smith was a native of Northford. Connecticut.

A

graduate

of Mt. Holyoke with the class of 1902, she received her Ph. D. degree

She taught at Bloomsburg before accepting an apat Yale in 1904.
pointment as assistant in mathematics at Wellesley College in 1908.
She was made Helen Day Gould Professor of Mathematics in
924.
She studied in Germany in 1910 and 1911, and went on a world tour
in 1926 and 1927.
1

at

Wanda Stinson is now
Camp Blanding, Florida.

a

member

of the

WAC, and

is

stationed

;

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Thirty-Five Receive Degrees
Prof. Winifred Clara Cullis, professor emeritus of physiology at
the University of London,

commencement
August

was the speaker

at the

Summer

Session

exercises held in the auditorium Thursday evening.

5.

Prof. Cullis has a distinguished record of service
in medicine, public welfare, and education.

.to

her country,

She was president of the

International Federation of University Women from 1929 to 1932,
and is chairman of the education committee of the English Speaking
Union and a director of the weekly review, “Time and Tide.”
In World War I Dr. Cullis worked for the government in the war
savings campaign, and for the National Council for combating venereal disease. She is a member of the National Institute of Industrial
Psychology, the work of which began as an inquiry into the causes of
fatigue

among

industrial

workers.

who

during the summer sessions at Bloomsburg concluded their work for the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education were honored at exercises.
Thirty-five persons

Evidence of the war

shown

in the roll of

One

men.

upon the regular college

program

was

graduates, which included the names of but three

of these, Frank

M. Taylor,

is

now

in training

as an Air

Cadet.

The following is the list of those who received degrees: June
Helen Bramble, 4 West Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Anna M. Buck, 1 13
South Market Street, Shamokin; Helen A. Dixon, 18 South Broad
West Hazleton; Cora May Foust, R. D. 4, Danville; Andrew V.
Grohal, 414 Winters Avenue, West Hazleton; Kathryn M. Keener,
Turbotville; Ruth Rhodes Klawitter, 24 South Walnut Street, Mt.
Carmel; Frances A. Linskill, 817 Rutter Avenue, Kingston; Gertrude
Adele Makowski. 342 Melrose Street, Keiser; Miriam Elizabeth
Street.

Mensch, North Fourth Street, Mifflinburg; Carl A. Oliver, 617 William
Lora Mary Snyder, Turbotville; Frank Marr Taylor,
1305 Orange Street, Berwick; Mary Alice Yoder, 807 West Front

Street, Pittston;

Street, Berwick.

Post Session Graduates

Hannah

Culp, R. D. 4, Dallas;

Mary Jane Evans, 125 East Ath-

erton Street, Taylor; Arabel E. Hilbush, Dornsife; June E. Hoagland,
Mifflinville; Peggy R. Holoviak, R. D. 1, Box 84, Nesquehoning

Helen R. Kotch. 29 Loomis Park, Wilkes-Barre; Elaine

L. Kreischer,

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202

13th Street, Berwick; Sara E. Lebengood,

1

Potts

Elizabeth McCulla,

e;

1

7

750 Elk Avenue,

144 South Center Street, Freeland;

4 North Avenue, South Enola; Jenna Mae Patterson,
Jane M. Rutledge, 16 Montgomery Avenue, West Pittston;
Betty E Sell, McKnight Street, Gordon; Virginia Shambach, Troxelville; June F. Sharpe, St. Johns; Nan B. Sidari, 222 North Wyoming
Helen

Miller,

Bentoi,

New Street, Wilkes-Barre; Nora
Lewisburg Marion W. Wallace,
15 Kosek Street, Swoyersville, Martha L, Zehner, R. D. 3, Blooms-

Street, Hazleton; Rita E.

1

Simpson, 96

232 North Front

E. Singley,

Street,*

;

burg.

Pre-Session

:

Mabel Troy

Nuremberg.

Heffelfinger,

o

Nurses^ Science Instruction Given at College
Agreement

for the instruction of nurses

m

sciences at the Teach-

ers College has been entered into by the board of directors of the
Cloomsburg Hospital and the College and has the approval of the
State Council of Defense and the State Council of Education. The
agreement is for the 943-44 term. The arrangement is a real step
The arrangement is a real step forward in the program of the
forward in the program of the Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nurs1

ing arts.

The

ph}'^sical,

biological

and

social sciences to

be taught to nurses

classrooms and laboratories are:
by college instructors
Anatomy, physiology, miscrobiology, chemistry, phychology and soCollege credit to the amount of fourteen semester hours will
cilogy.
in college

be granted nurses completing these courses.

A

class of

twenty-hve student nurses reported for duty at the hos-

pital.

By

this

arrangement it is expected that the pre-clinic background
improved by making the laboratories of the college

of nurses will be

available along with the instruction of faculty
ialists in

members who

are spec-

the various scientific fields.

This

program

in

nursing education

is

the fifth

gurated at the Teachers College since 1940.

In

war

activity inau-

September

all

these

They are: Engineering, science and
management war training courses, for industrial war workers, in operation since 1940; Naval Flight Instructor School, started in 1942;
V-5 Aviation Cadet program, resumed in July of this year; V-12
Navy Unit (Officer Candidate School) inaugurated in early July and.
programs were

in

full

swing.

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beginning this Fall, science instruction for the students of the Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing.
There is probably no college of similar size in the United States
which has such a diversified group of war programs and is still maintaining

original function, at the local institution that

its

is

educating

teachers for the public schools.

o

.

Testimonial Luncheon
Tendered

to

DR.

ALBERT

K.

ALDINGER

On Saturday, June 19, 1943, I had the pleasure of attending a
luncheon at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City; the occasion
being a testimonial meeting

in

honor of Dr. A. K. Aldinger upon

retirement as head of the Physical Education Department of the

his

New

York City Schools. Three hundred and sixty-five of his colleagues, city
officials and representatives from Columbia and New York UniTwo institutions outside of New
versities gathered to do him honor.
State
Teachers
College at Bloomsburg,
York were represented, the
Pennsylvania, and the University of Vermont, both being institutions
where his fine leadership and personality have left enduring inspiraschool

tion

and pleasant memories.

Dr. Aldinger came to Bloomsburg m January, 1894, to take
charge of the Physical Education department at the Normal School.
The “new gymnasium” had just been completed and was soon to be

A new era in athletic prowess and organization of physical
was introduced. Basketball was introduced to this section.
Baseball and football teams soon placed Bloomsburg among the leaddedicated.
training

ing contenders for athletic honors.

by continuous study, summer work, and a
Vermont University.
He left here in the summer of 1906 having been elected head of the
Physical Education department of the School of Commerce in New
York City. His excellent work there soon attracted the attention of
the city school authorities and by successive promotion he was advanced to the head of the New York City school’s department of PhyDuring

his stay here,

leave of absence he received his M. D. degree at

sical

Education.

At the end of twenty-five years service he retired and spent three
years reorganizing the equipment and the curriculm of the physical

education department at the University of Vermont.
called

back

to again

head

his

and has now retired on age.

department

in

the

He was then

New York

City schools

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At the luncheon, the toastmaster had arranged the order of the
speakers so that a chronological resume of his services was presented.
Dr. Aldinger responded at some length giving us a word picture
of his life from the time when as a boy of 14 years his decision to

become an
a Y.

M.

instructor in physical education

C. A.

gymnasium

was made while attending

exhibition in his native city of York, Penn-

sylvania, to the time of his retirement.
Dr. Aldinger spoke

He promised

of the

feelingly

come

pleasant

years

spent at

Bloomsburg in the near future
and renew his association with the College and with his many friends
in the community.
Bloomsburg.

to

to

Mrs. Aldinger and their daughter, Mrs. Lenore Aldinger Dunlap,

attended the luncheon.

W.

B.

SUTLIFF.

A dinner meeting of the students at the Temple University Summer Session who were graduates of Bloomsburg was held Friday,
August 4. The following were present: Grace Gearhart. Bristol;
Arden Blaine, Waynesboro; Ellen Rhinard, Bellefonte; Claire Sirrocco. Pottsville; Clayton Hinkel, Easton; Jay Pursel, Bloomsburg;
and Charles Henrie, York. Messrs. Blame, Hinkel and Henrie received
their Master’s

degree

at the close of the

summer

session.

O-

member

Mrs. Margaret Clementine Eck, a

pioneer families, died Sunday, March 2

1

of one of Berwick’s
age of eighty-nine. She
She was educated in the

at the

1854.
was born in Salem Township March
Salem Township schools, the Orangeville Academy and was a student
She taught for several
at Bloomsburg in the school year of 1875-76.
years in the Berwick area. Mrs. Eck was a member of the Kingston
Seventh Day Adventist Church and was for a long time active in the
Moses Van Campen Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu1 ,

tion.
O
Lt.

in

Thomas H. Beagle,

of Bloomsburg, received his commission

the Coast Artillery Corps after finishing his officers’ candiate course

at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery

School at

Camp

Davis, N. C.

Lt.

Beagle

and Miss Catherine Mane Holton, of Locust Gap, were married Wednesday, June 4, in a private ceremony performed in St. Joseph’s Rectory, Locust Gap. The bride is a graduate of the West Chester State
Teachers College, and has been teaching in the Mt. Carmel Township
schools.

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Earl N. Rhodes Retires
Earl N. Rhoades, Director of Teacher-Training at Bloomsburg.
retired at the beginning of the fall semester of the

Benjamin Franklin

Training School, after a period of twenty years of service at the
college.

Mr. Rhodes,

who came

to

Bloomsburg

Teacher-Training, has been active

in

in

1

923

as Director of

several other capacities, such as

director of the placement service, director of secondary education,

and instructor in courses in education and phychology.
Tbe quality of his twenty years of service to the College was recognized by a resolution passed by the Board of Trustees, commending the character of his work and regretting the necessity for the severance of his connections with the College.

began in the Middle West, where
for twenty years he served as principal and superintendent of schools
in Michigan and in Illinois. Previous to his coming to Bloomsburg, he
was for four years Director of Teacher-Training at the Salem State
His active career as an educator

Teachers College, Salem, Massachusetts.
Mr. Rhodes has written a number of articles for educational publications,

and has a chapter

ness” appearing

He

is

entitled “Evaluating

Teaching Effective-

“Better Business Education,” by President Andruss.

in

a graduate of the State

Normal School

at Ypsilanti.

Mich-

igan, received his Baccalaureate degree at the University of Chicago,
his Master’s

degree

at

Columbia University, and took further graduate

work at the University of Chicago, Clark University, Columbia University and New York University.
He is now serving as president of the Pennsylvania Institutional
Teacher Placement Association, an organization of the placement officers of the Universities, Liberal Arts Colleges and Teachers Colleges
of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the legislative committee and
chairman of one of the sub-committees of the Association of Teachers College Faculties in Pennsylvania.

He

is

a

member

of the National

Society for the Study of Education, the National Education Association,
the Pennsylvania State Education Association,

ganization

of

Supervisors

of

and the National Or-

Student-Teaching,

affiliated

with

the

American Association of Teachers Colleges. He is a member of Phi
Delta Kappa, honorary education fraternity, Columbia University
Chapter.

The Morning

Press, of Bloomsburg,

on Mr. Rhodes’ retirement

made

this editorial

comment

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“Announcement

11

of the retirement of Prof. Earl N.

Rhodes as

Di-

rector of Teachers Training at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
many town friends. Foris news that will be regretfully received by
it does not involve his removal from Bloomsburg.
“During the years he directed the work of his department, he
has not only done a good job 'at the College, but has cooperated
through the years in the town’s civic undertakings.”
The following was taken from the Minutes of the meeting of the
Board of Trustees regarding the retirement of Mr. Rhodes:

tunately,

It is with utmost reluctance and regret that the Board of Trustees of
the Bloomsbui'g State Teachers College records on its Minutes the retirement of Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, the Director of Teacher Training over the
period of the last twenty years. His high ethical standards in his relations
with members of the faculty, students, and schoolmen of Eastern Pennsylvania, are to be recognized along with those gentlemanly qualities which
characterized his personal record.
While this Board keenly realizes the great loss which it will sustain
in no longer being able to enjoy his valuable seiwices and wise counsel, the
personal and professional contribution of Mr. Rhodes is herewith noted in
his having raised our student teaching to a level not hitherto attained at
this institution. With originality, vision and courage in thought, speech, and
act, he has laid foundations for the training of youth in the college classI’oom, in the teaching field, and with administrators, which has been a credit
to the college.
As an instructor, administrator, and friend of the college, we herewith
delight to honor him at the time of his retirement from active service and
to wish Mr. and Mrs-. Rhodes all the satisfaction of a life of great usefulness.
Be it resolved that this writing shall be spread upon the Minutes of
the Board of Trustees and shall appear in a subsequent issue of the Alumni
Quarterly.

o

DR.
Dr. Francis B. Haas,

honor because of

HAAS REAPPOINTED
whom

all

sons and daughters of Bloomsburg

his fine contribution to the College

during his

thir-

teen years of service as President, has been reappointed State Superin-

tendent of Public Instruction for another term of four years.

He

im-

mediately pledged his efforts to keep Pennsylvania schools open de-

due to war-time conditions.
Haas previously served as head of the Department of Public
Instruction from 1925 to 1927, when he was appointed president at
Bloomsburg. He was appointed State Superintendent by Governor
James in August, 1939.
spite vicissitudes

Dr.

o

——
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Robert Lewis and Miss Ruth Cope, both of Mausdale, were married Saturday, March 24, in the Normandy Chapel in Long Beach, Califronia.

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New Appointments
Joseph R. Bailer has been appointed Director of Secondary Edin charge of the Placement Service. He has been a
member of the Bloomsburg faculty since 1940. Prior to that time he
was a teacher in Roberts College and Academy, Istambul, Turkey, and
m the high schools of Point Pleasant and Metuchen, New Jersey. He
will have general supervision of all student teaching in the academic
subjects of the secondary field in the high schools of Bloomsburg,
Danville, and Berwick.
He will also operate the college placement
service for graduating Seniors and former students.
ucation and officer

Miss Edna

named

Hazen, Director of Elementary Education, has been
Benjamin Franklin Training School. A mem-

J.

as Principal of the

ber of the faculty since

1

928, Miss Hazen was formerly director of
in geography, educa-

intermediate and rural education and instructor
tion,

and related

subjects.

Prior to her connection with the College,

she was assistant superintendent of the Erie County schools for sev-

and has had experience in the public school system of
Miss Hazen will also have general supervision of all
student teaching in the elementary grades, either on the campus or in
the town schools.
eral years,

Cleveland, Ohio.

Miss Iva

grade

in

Mae Van Scoyoc

the Benjamin

has been appointed teacher of third

Franklin

Training

School,

succeeding Miss

Edna Hazen, who has been named Principal of the school. Miss Van
Scoyoc is a graduate of the Lock Haven State Teachers College, and
is

a candidate for her Master’s degree at the Pennsylvania State Col-

lege.

She comes

to

Bloomsburg from the faculty of the Tyrone public

schools.
o

Martha Yorks, of Yeadon, and Cpl. Eben Sipple, of Philadelphia,
were married Friday, March 19, at the Ninth Presbyterian Church, in
Philadelphia. Mrs. Sipple has been teaching in the Evans school in
Yeadon. Cpl. Sipple was engaged in the wholesale wool business in
Philadelphia prior to joining the army two years ago. He is now attached to the Ordnance Department.
o
Harriet Roan, of Bloomsburg,

located at Fort
sistant to

Monmouth, New

one of the chaplains.

now

Jersey,

a

member

where she

is

of the

WAC,

is

serving as an as-

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Clock Cable Snaps
The cable that for forty-three years has held the five-hundredpound weights which control the striking for the clock in the tower
of Carver Hall, has bowed to the ravages of time and snapped.
As a result, the college clock did not strike on the hour and half
hour, but repairs were made as soon as the necessary materials could
be obtained. A second cable, holding a similar poundage of weights
and controlling the mechanism of the clock, is still intact.
Each cable holds five weights of one hundred pounds each. They
were confined some time ago, and when the one cable broke recently,
the fall of the weights did little damage.
The clock was purchased at the turn of the century as a result
of the earnings of a dinner stand at the Bloomsburg Fair, which was
operated by the faculty and students under the direction of W. H.
Housel, the steward.
This venture earned gross receipts for $823, but the net re-

were not sufficient to purchase the clock. The additional funds
were supplied by donations by the people of the town, and by $175
provided by the school.
President Andruss learned much of the history of the clock from
the minute books of the Board of Trustees of that day. The minutes
are very complete, and set forth in detail all the receipts of the dinner
stand project. When individuals gave chickens or other food items to
aid in the venture,, that fact was duly noted. A. Z. Schoch was president of the Board of Trustees at that time, and Dr. Judson Perry Welsh
was the Principal.
President Andruss and Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff were
discussing the venture recently, and the Dean recalled that many of
the younger members of the faculty of that day worked with students
in waiting on tables and doing other work incidental to the operation
of the stand. The minutes also indicated that the officers of the Fair
Association were giving as much help as possible, by purchasing meals
at the stand. The contractor who placed the clock in the tower was
ceipts

Thomas Gorrey.
o

Mary Parker

Leverett, a former member of the office staff
Thursday, August 12, at the Danville Hospital.
Miss Leverett, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. William C. Leverett,
was born in Newport, Rhode Island, July 23, 1859. She is survived
by one brother.

Miss

at the College, died

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V-12 Program
The United

States

men

with the arrival of 169

being checked

in,

Navy V-12 Program began Thursday, July

1,

from the anticipated quota of 175. After

many

the apprentice seamen,

of

whom

are destined

be navy leaders of tomorrow, were given station regulations and
assigned to quarters on the third and fourth floors of Waller Hall.
to

Friday, July 2,

was

set aside for the issuance of clothing

and the

which began July 5. The subjects taught include mathematics, English, history and the background of the present war, physics, engineering drawing and descriptive geometry, naval
registration for classes,

and physical training.
The purpose of the V-12 program

organization,

preparing the

men

is

provide the

to

for the duties of officers in the

first

step in

Naval service.

It

them the basic facts and principles. It will condition the
men mentally and physically for more strenuous duty, and will lay the
groundwork for proficiency in the art of going to sea.
The officers assigned to Bloomsburg for the program are Lieutenant Greulich, a graduate of Bucknell in the class of 1934, and re’<
centiy registrar at Beaver College; Lieutenant Everett, who came here
from the Great Lakes Training Station, where he completed an indoctrination course in V-12 following active sea duty; Chief Petty

will teach

Officer Llewellyn,

who

The Bloomsburg
in the

has charge of the physical training program.
unit stood at top of

Fourth Naval District

purchase of

War

list

of

such schools

all

in the

Bonds. The unit was 100 per cent cooperation of the

personnel, and of the total pay

be placed

the

percentage of participation

in the

roll, thirty-six

per cent

is

withheld to

men of the unit a
Draemel, commandant of the

Bonds. This fine record earned for the

in

from Vice-Admiral M. F.
District. At ceremonies held in front of the Bloomsburg
the Commandant’s Pennant was
Court House Wednesday, August
presented by Commander Scott G. Lamb.
certificate

Fourth Naval

1

The

1

,

offices of the unit are located in the

which, for the duration of the war, will be
Dr.

Thomas

P. North,

Dean

of Instruction,

is

new Junior High School,
known as “Navy Hall.”

the college coordinator of

the program.

o

The enrollment of the six-week intersession includes the follow190 regular students (including about twenty student-nurses
from the Bloomsburg Hospital) 165 V-12 students, and 100 aviation

ing:

students.

3

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COLLEGE CHANGES CALENDAR
The calendar of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been
changed so that the accelerated program of the college proper will
coincide with the three-sernesters program of the Navy V-12 school.
President Harvey A. Andruss announced the tentative program
for the full-time tri-semester program basis, the first semester opening
and concluding Tuesday, February 26. The
on Monday, November
to June 24 of next year and
will
from March
run
tri-semester
second
1

1

the third

from Wednesday, July 5

to Saturday,

October 15, 1944.

To make the transition a three-weeks’ post session was begun
and ended Saturday, August 28, and was followed by a six weeks’ session for regular college students, which began Monday, September
and ended on October 23.
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o

GRANDMOTHER RECEIVES

B. S.

DEGREE

The following was taken from the Columbus Citizen of September
was the former Helen Masteller. and was born and reared
in Bloomsburg. Her mother, Mrs. Ida K. Masteller, lived in or near
Bloomsburg all her life. Mrs. Edgar McHenry, of 741 Market Street,
3.

is

Mrs. Hile

a sister of Mrs. Hile.

t

“Mrs. W. H. Hile, of 372 East 14th Avenue, a 54-year-old grandmother
with two sons in the armed forces, realized a life ambition today when she
received a B. S. degree in education at Ohio State University.
Her story began 36 years ago when she was graduated from Bloomsburg, Pa., High School. Mrs. Hile’s mother told her then to go to college
and get her degree.
“If you don’t do it now,” Mrs. Hile’s mother said, “you may never obtain a degree.”
Mrs. Hile spent two years in Bloomsburg Normal School, taught three
years in elementary school in Union City, N. J., then mari'ied.
Mrs. Hile raised three children, the family moving to Toledo 15 years
ago and to Columbus 10 years ago. She held fast to her determination to
get her degree. Once on a visit she talked to officials at New York University about the matter. They advised her to give up the idea.
“You have a family to take care of,” they said, “and working for a
degree would be difficult now.”
The children grew older, and when Mr. Hile died eight years ago, Mrs.
Hile was hired to teach in elementary school at Linworth. During the first
summer vacation, she attended Ohio State University. The quest for the
degree began in earnest.
“My children spurred me on,” said Mrs. Hile. “Then, too, I never forgot my mother’s desire that I get a degree.”
So today, when 375 men and women filed past the platform in the
OSU men’s gymnasium during summer commencement exercises, Mrs. Hile
was there in cap and gown.

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Back in the audience were two little girls, Susan, 4, and Lynda, 11
months, grandcliildren of Mrs. Hile.
Mrs. Hile's father, John Wesley Masteller, of the Masonic Home in
Elizabethtown, Pa., was unable to attend the exercises, but he wrote his
daughter a fine letter.
Mrs. Hile was twice married. Two of her three sons are in the armed
forces. They are: Capt. Lawrence S. Teple, 27, a graduate of OSU, who has
two degrees of his own and who is stationed at Camp Mackall, N. C., and
Cpl. Leslie M. Teple, 25, Grand Island, Neb., Air Base, who spent two years
in accounting schools at the university. The third son. Attorney Edwin R.
Teple, 30, lives in Cleveland. He has an AB degree received at Ohio Northern University, Ada, O.
Attoi'ney Teple’s children witnessed Mrs. Hile’s honor today. A third
grandchild, the daughter of Capt. Teple, is with her mother at Fayetteville,
N. C.

You would think one such goal in life would be enough, but not in the
case of Mrs. Hile.
“Now that I have my BS degree,” she said, “I plan to start on my master’s degree.
“I’m sorry I didn’t graduate today with honors, but then I had to keep
house and take care of other dailj' tasks while I was studying for this degree.”
o

ALBERT AUSTIN TATE

Albert Austin Tate, for five years a

member

of the faculty of the

and head football coach of the Maroon and Gold from 1936
through
939, died suddenly at his home m Bethlehem Saturday,

College,

1

•August

A

7.

native of Boston, Mass., he attended the Boston Latin School,

1917 from Lehigh University, where he was a
team and also played lacrosse.
As coach at Bethlehem High School, he developed some outstanding scholastic teams and attracted the attention of his alma mater. He
was head coach at Lehigh from 928 to 934, during which time he
developed some excellent teams.
and was graduated

in

star tackle in the football

1

1

Bloomsburg in the fall of 1935 and served as assistDuring the next four seasons he served as head
coach, and was also dean of men day students. After leaving Bloomsburg, he was director of the N\A resident center at Mauch Chunk, Pa.

He came

to

ant football coach.

o-

ler,

Miss Irene Snyder, of Benton, R. D. 2, and Corporal Fred Fowwere married Tuesday, July 20, at the residence of the

of Espy,

Rev. D.

L.

Bomboy, of Bloomsburg.

tioned at Boca Raton Field, Florida.

Corporal Fowler has been sta-

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

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

Bruce Albert
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

R.

Harriet

Carpenter
Fred B. Diehl

E.

Hervey B. Smith

H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
Elizabeth H. Hubler

O
OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES.
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

—

President Mrs. Jessie D. Hoover, 4 Altoona Avenue, Harrisburg, Pa.; First
Vice-President Mrs. Blanche M. Grimes, 204 North Second Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.; Second Vice-President Miss Elizabeth Clancy, 436
North Third Street, Steelton, Pa.; Treasurer W. Homer Englehart,
1821 Market Street; Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Helen Sutliff
Brown, 100 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

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Lackawanna County

—

President W. Ai'chibald Reese, 1154 Cornell Street, Scranton, Pa.; VicePresidents 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.

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—

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

President

—Edna

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—

—

Plainsville, Pa.

Montour County

—

President Ralph McCracken. 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.; VicePresident Dorothy Sidler, R. D. 2, Danville, Pa.; Secretary Alice
Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treasurer Mildred Auten,
R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.

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Northumberland County

—

President Claii'e E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, -Northumberland, Pa.;
Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer
S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.

—

Schuylkill County

— Orval

—

Palsgrove, Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray Leidich,
33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer,
113 South Main Street, Mahonoy City, Pa.; Vice-President Anthony
J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
A. Symbal, Shenandoah,
Pa.; Vice-President— Michael Waiaconis, 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 Cit 3 Pa.

President

—

—

—

—

—

—

’’,

Philadelphia

—

President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.;
Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary Moore
Taubel, 1246 V\^est Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretary Lillie
Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden, N. J.; Treasurer Nora
Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdick 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, Mift'linburg, Pa.; Secretary
Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.;
Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Treasurer Anna Troutman, Selinsgrove. Pa.

—

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—

Susquehanna -Wyoming Counties

— Fred

—

Mill City, Pa.; Vice-Pi’esident Arlene Johnson.
Hailstead, Pa.; Vice-President Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunkhannock,
Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.; Secretary Mildred
Pa.; Secretary
Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer— Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.

President

Kester,

—

—

—

Columbia County

—

—

President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Larue Derr, BeavThursabert Scluiyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul
er; Secretary
Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.

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LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
H. A. Andruss, president of Bloomsburg State Teachers College;

dean emeritus of the college; H. F. Fenstemaker foreign
language instructor and editor of the alumni publication. The Quarterly, and Dr. F. H. Russell, instructor of geography at the college were
guests of honor at a luncheon given Saturday, April 3, by Bloomsburg
Alumni of Luzerne County at Hotel Sterling, V/ilkes-Barre.
‘Naval Wings Over
Mr. Andruss showed a technicolor him,
Bloomsburg,” portraying the training of commissioned officers who go

W.

B. Sutliff,

to naval training stations to teach aviation.

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19

1879
“Old Guard” of the
Although he has
leave the house on a few occasions, he is obliged to spend

Prof. Charles L. Albert, one of the beloved
College, has been in

been able to
most of the time

health for several months.

ill

in his

room.

M. Allen (Mrs. Wilson C. Bond)
Bloomsburg. She hopes to be present
next Alumni Day.
Ella

Street,

148 East Main
65th year reunion

lives at

at her

1880
Although she is now unable to see, Mrs. Celeste J. Prutzman, of
wrote with her own hand a letter
Fairbank Farm, Trucksville, R. D.
to the Business Manager of the Quarterly, sending her annual Association dues. She says “Hope you can read this. I can’t.” As for the
1

Quarterly, she says that

someone

,

will

read

it

to her.

1881
Miss Annie E. Mansell passed

home

in Bristol,

away October 23, 1942,

at

her

Pa.

1884
Miss Jessie M.

Mansell,

of

519

Radcliffe Street,

Bristol,

Pa.,

would like to know the address of Dr. Mary Mansell McKee. Anyone
knowing the address would render a great favor by sending the address to her.

The Quarterly has received word

of the death of Miss

Dengler, which occurred September 28,

Anna M.

1941.

1891

sey,

Mrs. Frank P. Loughran died at her home in Ventnor, New JerSunday, May 30. The body was brought to Hazleton for burial.

1892
Brower, son of Mrs. Dorothy C. Brower ’17 and
grandson of Mrs. Sue Creveling Miller ’92, of Weatherly, is now in the
Cpl. William C.

Signal Training Regiment at Fort

Monmouth, New

graduated from Lehigh University on June 21, of

Jersey.

He was

this year.

1893
Miss Martha Powell, of Bloomsburg, died Wednesday, June 16,
at the Bloomsburg Hospital, after having suffered a stroke of paralysis.

She was seventy-four years of age at the time of her death.
Immediately following her graduation from Bloomsburg, Miss
Powell accepted a position with the White Milling Company, of

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20

Bloomsburg, and continued In that position until the company went out
of business in 1939.
She was very active in the affairs of the First Presbyterian
Church having taught a Sunday School class for half a century, and
was for years the church secretary, a position which she held at the
time of her death. On May 9 of this year she was honored by the
Sunday School for her faithful service as a teacher.

The name

of Mrs.

omitted from the
the class of

list

Maude Burns

Zarr, of Bristol,

was erroneously

of those present at her fiftieth-year reunion of

1893 on Alumni Day. Since her graduation from Blooms-

burg, Mrs. Zarr has never missed attending a reunion of her class.

1894
The Quarterly has received a booklet
of Sarah Ernst Snyder,”

Woman’s Missionary
is

published by

entitled

“An Appreciation

Pittsburgh Branch

Society of the Evangelical Church.

a fine tribute to the fine character

der.

the

and devoted service

of

the

The booklet
of Mrs Sny-

Extracts from the booklet follow:

“Sarah Ernest was born on a farm near Danville, Pa. Her early
m a one-room township school and in the
Danville High School. A precocious child, she composed poetry before
she was four years old. The family moved to Bloomsburg, and she
was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School. She taught
in a township high school in Chester County, and in the public schools
of Bloomsburg. Later she accepted a position in Albright College,
where she served as Preceptress and Professor of English Literature
for three years. Here she met her husband, George Brady Snyder,
who was also a teacher m Albright College. In the meantime her family had moved to Coatesville, where she was married in the summer
of 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder settled in Pittsburgh, where the former
Mrs. Snyder took her
taught for many years. During World War
husband’s place on the staff of the Pittsburgh Business High School,
while he served in the United States Army.
“Not long after moving to Pittsburgh, Mrs. Snyder became interested in missionary work, and received a definite call to missionary
service. Since, for reasons of health, she would be unable to become
a foreign missionary, she devoted herself to missionary work in the
education was acquired

1

home

,

land.

“Her

among
Frank
against

first

the Italians.

Cannon for
Mormonism.

J.

prompted her to work locally
Early in her career, she worked with Senator
the National Reform Association in their fight

Mission Study

class

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“In 1919, the Pittsburgh Conference honored her by appointing
her Lay Evangelist, and on various occasions she helped the ministers
in special meetings. In the same year she was elected Field Secretary

Woman’s Missionary Society. During that year she traveled
made one hundred forty-seven addresses.”
9,819
Mrs. Snyder, who was the class poet of the class of 1894, continued to make use of her talent, and the booklet is filled with quotaof the

miles and

from her writings.
A letter from her husband, now living at 200 Highland Avenue,
State College, tells us that Mrs. Snyder passed away October 29, 1941.
Her body rests in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh.
tions

Keogh

Bridgett Quinn
to attend

Montana.

She hopes

lives at R. D. 2,

Bethlehem,

lives in St. Xavier,

her class reunion next year.

1897

Amy

Beishline (Mrs.

W.

F.

Thomas)

Pa. She has five sons in the service:

one

in

the Marines and one

in

two

in the

Army, one

in

the Navy,

the Signal Corps.

1899
L.

H. Dennis, Executive Secretary of the American Vocational

Association, Inc., spent the months of April and

May on

a lengthy

inspection trip along the Pacific coast and in the northern tier states.

Navy yards and war production

His trip involved visits to shipyards,
plants.

1900
Olive A. Lins

Lakewood

7,

is

now

living at

1

2020 Lake Avenue,

Suite 504,

Ohio.

1906
his home in Watmonths of which were spent
in a Veterans’ Hospital at Huntington, West Virginia. His illness was
due to a disability incurred while serving as a Chaplain in World War I.

Rev. William E. Jones has been convalescing at

erford, Ohio, after a year of illness, five

1907
Blanche M. Westbrook (Mrs. Newton
Scarsdale Manor, Garth Road, Scarsdale,

Dr. Charles L. Maurer,

1908
Camden,

C. Fetter)

New

is

now

living at

York.

N. J., the son of the late John
Maurer, Fisherdale, Cleveland township, was awarded the honorary
degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the College of South Jersey
and the South Jersey Law School. Dr. Maurer is dean and vice pres-

ident of the institution.

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He holds

the degree of B. Pd., and M. Pd. from the Bloomsburg

State Teachers College; A. M., from the University of Pennsylvania,

and Ed.

D.,

from Temple University.

He taught in the schools of Cleveland township for three years
and was principal of the Roaring Creek township high school for two
years. Since 1915 he has been associated with the Camden school system, where he

is

director of guidance.

At the college he is Professor of Psychology and Director of the
Phychological Clinic He is educational advisor of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, which employs 32. 000 people.
Until recently he had been secretary-treasurer of the Junior College Council of the Middle States, and also regional vice president of
the New Jersey Guidance and Personnel Association. He served for
a term as a member of the Board of Education of Collingswood, N. J.,

where he

He

resides.
is

the author of Early Lutheran Education

in

Pennsylvania,

and numerous newspapers and magazine articles. He is an Elder in
the Collingswood Presbyterian Church and Superintendent of the
Sunday School.
His name appears in four Who’s Who: Who’s Who in America,
Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who m Education, and Who’s Who in
the World.

1912

210 Sedgewick Avenue, Syracuse,
Her son, Raymond, is in defense w'ork in Syracuse, and
her younger son, William, is making turrets at Landers, Frary, and
Harriet Graves Marsh lives at

New

York.

Clarke
in

in

New

Britain, Connecticut,

November.

1913
Miss Geraldine Yost, of Benton, and Waiter C. Hess, of Scranton,
were married Monday, July 5, in the First Baptist Church at Mt. Vernon. The bride has been a teacher in the Hamilton School for several
years, and the groom is employed by the Temple Coal Company, of

Bethlehem.

1914
The .Quarterly has been following w’lth great interest the rapid
Major General Idwal H. Edwards, who was president of the
class of 1914. The April issue carried the story of his promotion to
the rank of Major General, and the July issue contained the account
of his appointment as Chief of Staff in the European Theatre of Oprise of

erations.

of those

This note

who

is

inserted in the present issue for the information

did not receive those issues.

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1915
The address of Helen K. Mitchell (Mrs. Irwin R. Weaver) is
Box 105, New Holland, Pa. Mrs. Weaver- has a private kindergarten
at her home, and her husband is assistant cashier of the Farmers’ National Bank and Trust Company of New Holland.

1922
Bower, of Berwick, recently returned from England
after having spent six months there.
He was selected for Officer
Training School in the Coast Artillery, and is attending the school at
Fortress Monroe, Virginia.
Sgt. Russel

1924
Miss S. Arlene Johnston, and Elbert S. Banker, both of Hallstead,
were united in marriage at a candle-light service in the Hallstead
Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening, December 23, 1942.
The bride is a member of the Hallstead school faculty, and the groom
is employed by Crowley’s Milk Company, of Binghamton, N. Y.
Mr.
and Mrs. Banker are now living in Hallstead.
Pa.,

1927
Miss Alta George, of Nanticoke, and Corporal Herbert P. Har-

were married April 22

rington, of Knightstown, Indiana,

chapel at Patterson Field, Ohio.

in

the post

Mrs. Harrington has been teaching in

Nanticoke.

Roy Troy

is

a

member

of the faculty of the Scott

Township High

School at Espy. In addition to academic subjects, he is teaching classHe taught for
es in instrumental music and is director of the band.
several years in the

Nuremberg High School.

1929

A

daughter, Veronica Corinne Cooke, was born to Mr. and Mrs.

L. Cooke, of 16234 Lamphere Road, Detroit, Michigan. Mrs.
Cooke was formerly Miss Eleanor M. Zydanowicz, of the class of 1929.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke have two other children: Peter David and Clara

David

Emilie.

Miss Mabel P. Carl and

Dean

F.

Lyon, of Danville, were married
Mrs. Lyon has

Saturday, July 10, at the home of the bride’s parents.
been teaching in the first grade of the Danville First

Mr. Lyon

is

engaged

m

Ward

Building.

the clothing business in Danville.

1930
Dr.

Donald

E. Fetter, native of

as resident physician at the Locust

Ringtown, has assumed his duties
Mountain State Hospital. Dr. Fet-

.

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ter was recently released from active duty in the armed forces, having
served four months of active duty as a first lieutenant in the Medical
Corps in the Caribbean Command. He enlisted in the army in July,

1942.
After his graduation from Bloomsburg, he taught in Friedenburg
and Ringtown and then entered the University of Pennsylvania, where

he received

his

He

A. B. degree in 1937.

then entered Jefferson

where he received the degree of M. D.
internship at the Bryn Mawr Hospital.

ical College,

served his

in

1941.

Med-

He

1931
Clarence R. Wolever ’31, of Nanticoke, has been appointed supervisor of supervisory training for the extension services of the Pennsylvania State College.

new

Wolever will head Penn State’s widespread
key men to work as foremen and supervisors in
various industries. Under the special program, Penn State last year
enrolled 5,025 men in 221 classes in 75 firms m every part of PennIn his

program

job, Mr.

for training

sylvania.

Mr. Wolever comes to
ing

and

College, Bloomsburg, Pa.,

degree

new
He is

his

industrial experience.

job with a background of teacha graduate of the State Teachers

where he received a Bachelor of Science

1931

in

From 1931 to 1933, while teaching public school, he took gradwork at Columbia University and several courses in industrial
engineering under the Penn State extension services. From 1933 to
1937 he was supervising principal of the Falls-Overfield Vocational

uate

school district.

Mr. Wolever

left

teaching

in

1937

to

become

industrial

and pubManu-

lic utility

contact supervisor for the Westinghouse Electric and

facturing

Company.

In

1939 he was made merchandising supervisor
Company. He resigned in 1941 to bepower transmission for the Line Material Com-

for the Westinghouse Supply

come

sales engineer in

pany, Milwaukee.
Since March,

1

942, he has been

instructor in supervisory training.
er,

who

resigned to

He

affiliated

with Penn State as an

replaces Dr.

become personnel

Vernon G. Schaef-

director of R. C. A. at Lan-

caster, Pa.

Mr. Wolever

is

married to the former Mary Gorham, of Scranton.

They have a daughter,

9.

While a student at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Mr. Wolmember of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Sigma Pi, education

ever was a

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
honoranes, was editor of the Maroon and Gold, a
Council and President of the Glee Club.
Pvt. Robert C. Wilson, of Bloomsburg,
ter,

Michigan. His address

is

533

25

member

of Student

stationed at Fort Cus-

is

MPEG Company,

First

Training Reg-

iment, Fort Custer, Mich.
Pfc.

Robert

Sutliff,

of Baldwin, N. Y.,

is

stationed at Mitchell

Field.

She

Emily A. Park lives at McKinley Avenue, Endicott, New York.
working for International Business Machines in that city.

IS

1932
Cpl. J.

Fred Berger,

who

has returned

from service

in

North

Africa, has been undergoing treatment in the U. S. General Hospital

on Long Island, and has returned home.
Ezra W. Harris, of Orangeville, has been promoted to the rank of
He was an instructor for a time
after he entered the service, and is now on active duty in the South
lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy.

Pacific.

1933

Announcement has been made

engagement of Miss Ida
New York City.
Gunter Field, Montgomery,

of the

Arcus, of Bloomsburg, and Sgt. Bernard Fattman, of

Sergeant Fattman has been stationed at

Alabama.

Howard Bermnger, of Mifflmville, has been promoted
He is stationed in the South Pacific area with

of Captain.

to the

rank

the ground

forces of the Air Corps.

Mr. and Mrs. Benedict A. Stem, of Rochester, New York, announce the birth of a daughter, Emily, on Friday, August 20. Mrs.
Stein is the former Charlotte E- Osborne.

1934
Lt.

Woodrow W.

of Toledo, Ohio,

Aten, of Mifflinville, and Miss Leoda Anderson,

were married

in

July

in

the Lutheran Chapel at To-

The bride, a former resident of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a graduate
of the Iowa State Teachers College High School and of the Davis
Business College at Toledo. For the past year she has been employed
by the Union Central Life Insurance Company, of that city. Lt. Aten
has served two years in the army and received his commission at the
Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He is now stationed at Camp Campbell,
Kentucky, with the 2th Armored Division.
ledo.

1

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Captain Gerald M. Wolcock, of Millville, and Miss Ruth N. Ginter,
were married Tuesday, July 13. Captain Woolcock entered the Federal service in February, 1941, then being with Company
M, Berwick, National Guard. He was promoted to the rank of serof Halifax,

geant a short time

later.

of

He

Camp

has been assigned to

Home Economics m

is

now

a coast artillery battalion, and

in

Mrs. Woolcock

Davis, N. C.

is

the teacher

his

commission

the Dushore High School.

1935
Ensign Edwin R. Creasy, of Bloomsburg, received

March

1

1

,

He

1943.

is

now

in

Texas.

Mrs. Faye Meixell Deisroad
sixth

grade

at the Fifth Street

is

serving as substitute teacher of

School

m

Bloomsburg.

1936
Miss Kathryn Elizabeth Brobst, of Bloomsburg, and Paul

LeRoy

Hartman, of Danville. R. D., were married Saturday, July 31, at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church, in Bloomsburg. Mrs. Hartman has taught
at Bethel, Pa., and Shillington, Pa. Mr. Hartman, a graduate of the
Pennsylvania State College, is teacher of vocational agriculture at Towanda. Pa.

1937
S.

sign in

Maria Berger, of Bloomsburg, has been commissioned an enthe U. S. N. R. She has been stationed at Northampton, Massa-

chusetts.

1938
Lt.
ville

husband of Rowena Troy, Mifflinand silver wings Tuesday, July
Dothan, Alabama, after completing nine months

Paul Barrall, of

Mifflinville,

teacher, received his commission

25, at Napier Field,
of training as a fighter pilot with the U.

Robert

May

J.

S.

Army

Air Force.

Rowland, of Shenandoah, has been in the Army since
is Pvt. R. J. Rowland, B-6-2 FA-RTC, Fort Bragg,

29. His address

N. C.

is

Mary A. Allen is teaching
2801 Sixth Street.

Eva Reichley
she was employed

is

in

Wilmington, Delaware.

teaching at Marysville, Pa.

as secretary to the

Her address

During the summer,

Dean of Georgetown

University.

1939
The address
iment,

APO

758,

of 1st Lt. Winfield R. Potter

%

Postmaster,

New

is

Co. B, 27th

York, N. Y.

A

Qm, Reg-

letter recently

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received by Dr. Maupin indicated that he has been stationed
Africa.

He

in

North

writes in part as follows:

“Perhaps you know by now that I am with colored troops and
enjoy the work very much. For some reason, I have made a hit
with them, so all of their family problems come to me. To me it
IS fun to work with these boys, and they are doing a wonderful
job. Recently some of our men played a very important role
under dangerous conditions, and have been recommended for
the soldier’s medal. I’m very proud to be assigned to this type
of outfit and hope that I might remain with them until this mess
Before I came into the army I had the good
IS all cleared up.
fortune of studying the colored race at
School, and

hope

I

my

to continue

Duke

study

in

University Graduate

Sociology

after

the

He was

for-

war.
“Lt.

Leonard Philo and

tunate

m

making a

North Africa.

Both

I

met

for the

successful

second time.

landing during the invasion of

of us send our

regards

to the

Faculty at

”

Bloomsburg.
Miss Beatrice Lydia Miers, of Lehman, and Corporal Kenneth E.

Hawk,

of Bear Creek, were married Monday, July 19, in the Steelton
Methodist Church. Mrs. Hawk, a graduate of the Lehman High School
and of the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital School of Nursing, is operating

room supervisor

at the latter institution.

vious to his entrance into the service,

was an

Corporal Hawk, pre-

instructor in the Steelton

High School.
Miss Lois C. Johnson and Staff Sergeant G. Richard Kitchen, of
Bloomsburg, were married Pnursday, June 3, in the United Brethren
Church of Salinas. California. Mrs. Kitchen taught last year at Mill
Hall. Sgt. Kitchen, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and a for-

mer student

at Tri-State College, Indiana,

of his enlistment at the Piper Aircraft

now

stationed at the Salinas

Army

was employed at the time
at Lock Haven. He is

Company

Air Base. Salinas.

Robert Ohl. of Lime Ridge, was commissioned as a second lieuArmy Air Forces Training
Command School at Yale University. Lt. Ohl was scheduled to be assigned to a tactical unit, where he will be in charge of maintaining
the communications of his outfit. He will lead a group of enlisted men
tenant at the graduation exercises of the

who

are specialists.

Miss Evelyn Freehafer, of Reading, and Lt. Clifford R. Young, of

Windsor, Connecticut, were married June 5, in Alsace Lutheran
Church, Reading. Lt. Young is stationed at Fort Custer, Michigan,

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and Mrs. Young

is

living in Battle Creek.

James R. Kantner has been advanced
First Class.

He

is

now

Yeoman

attending

to

the rank of

Scltool,

and

Yeoman,

his address

is

Everglades Barracks, Submarine Chaser Training Center, Miami, Fla.
Willard A. Christian,
His address

is

Jr., is

156 North Eighth
'

teaching in the Shamokin High School.
Street,

Shamokin.

1940

A V-mail letter from England contains a reproduction of the announcement of the graduation eriercises of the Fifth Officer Candidate
Class, at the American School Center of the Eastern Theatre of Operations.

Included

in the

list

of

members of
name

received their commissions was the

Forty Fort.

the
of

who

graduating class

Edward H. Bacon,

The graduation exeicises were held on Friday, August

Announcement has been made
Rinard, of Catawissa, and

Lt.

Leon

of
13.

of the engagement of Miss Muriel
F. Hartley, of

Easton.

Miss Rinard

and
Montgomery, certified public accountants. He has been attending the Adjutant Generals’ School at Fort Washington, Maryland.
IS

teaching

in Steelton.

Lt.

was formerly a member

Hartley

is

a graduate of Rider College,

of the staff of Lybrand. Ross Bros.

&

William Wertz, of Frackville, was graduated from the San Mar-

Army Air Force School of Navigation on Thursday, August 26, and
He entered the
is now a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Force.
service October 27, 1942, and has now completed his training. He has
cos

been assigned as an instructor to remain at the San Marcos Training
School. His wife, the former Kathryn Walp ’40, of Berwick, is with
him at his new post.
Clayton H. Hinkel
in

is

the .author of

“The Importance of Reading

Business Education,’’ an article which appeared

the Journal of Business Education.

in

the April issue of

Mr. Hinkel received his Master’s

degree at Temple University August 12, 1943. He
Business Education in Easton, Pa., and is an instructor
school of Churchman’s Business College in Easton.
Carl Welliver, of Bloomsburg,
of the Danville High School.

had been teaching

at the

is

now

a

member

Director of

is

in the

evening

of the faculty

Previous to his election at Danville, he

Madison Township High School

at Jersey-

town.

Hannah Unger,
ville

of Danville,

is

teacher of languages in the Dan-

High School. She has been teaching for several years

ern part of the state.

in the

west-

:

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William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, is located at Base Weather
Long Beach Army Field, Long Beach, California.

Lt.

Station on

Robert A. Linn, of Catawissa,

Lt.

forces.

He

is

serving as navigator in a

is

now

with the expeditionary

bomber crew.

1941
Capt. Walter H. Reed, of Shillington, and Miss Ruth Baird ’42, of
Mill City,

were married Saturday, July 24.

in the

chapel at Randolph

Field, Texas.

Captain Reed, veteran of seventy missions
to bail out over enemy lines,

and once forced

trainee at Central Instructors’ School at

Captain Reed,

who was

in
is

Randolph

the African zone

now an

instructor

Field.

a track athlete for the Huskies, started

on his air career by taking Civilian Pilot Training at the college and
airport.

The

officer shortly

after his “bailing out” experience

wrote to

President and Mrs. Andruss of the College and gave his version.

It

follows
“Just a short note to let you know I think of you very often and to say
as the Italian writing on the hankies, ‘greetings from Libya.’
“I know I don’t write often but never a day goes by that I don’t think
So far I have received five copies of the
of the people at Bloomsburg.
Maroon and Gold so I am pretty well up on the college news. It sure is
swell to get that paper every now and then.
“I had a bit of an episode the other day but it would take a book to
write about it, so I’ll just give the few facts. On March 26 while on a strafing mission I was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. I was hit in the engine
and the plane caught on fire. I was able to climb to 500 feet and bailed out.
I bailed out on Jerry’s side but a good wind was blowing and blew me to
our side. I landed 100 yards behind our front lines. I am O. K. and back
on operations again. Sure hope I’ll be able to see you all very soon.”

was awarded numerous decand the Purple Heart.
He also was awarded the “winged foot,” a tiny silver medal that is a
symbol of membership in the “Late Arrivers Club,” a British hiking
“society” which has on its rolls only aviators who walk back from asCapt. Reed, a native of Shillington,

orations including the Distinguished Flying Cross

signment.

The time the captain bailed out he landed to find himself surrounded by curious New Zealanders peering at him from their fox
holes. He had to travel 100 miles back to his base to get medical
treatment and membership in the club. The symbol of the adventure
is now included in two rows of medals on the aviator’s chest.
The Bloomsburg alumnus was
fighter

group attached

in

to the British 8th

combat eleven months with a
Army.

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Joining the British at El Alamein, most advanced point of
mel’s push toward Cairo, Reed’s

bombed

the

Rom-

and diveGermans on a 2,500 mile drive culminating with the final
fought,

outfit

strafed

disorderly rout of the Afrika Korps in Hunisia.

He has

a German JU52 and Messerschmidt
0 to his combat
But the toughest job of all, he recalls, was destroying a JU88,
German’s combination two-motored bomber and night fighter, on the
1

1

credit.

ground.
that

“The airdrome anti-aircraft was sending up a stream of tracers
zoomed by on all sides. But somehow the ship got through with-

out a hole in

it.’’

Captain Reed’s luck was not always good. Six hmes he brought
his ship in riddled with bullets. But he completed 70 missions, some
of them low-range strafing trips just high enough to keep from hitting

ground objects, many big hanging
a

500-pound bomb

fighter sweeps,

in search of stray

enemy

and often carrying

coastal vessels or a Nazi

airdrome tucked among the desert dunes.

The day

that organized resistance collapsed in Tunisia,

ordered to duty

in the States.

His last recollection of Africa

of the mile after mile of weary, beaten
endlessly toward the prisoner

camps

German

Reed was
is

formed
by

troops streaming

of the victorious Allies.

1941
Miss Mary B. Sweigart, of Willow Street, Lancaster County, and
Clair A. Miller ’39, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, August 7,
in the church of the United Brethren at West Willow. Mrs. Miller has

been teaching at the Henry C. Conrad High School, Woodcrest, Wilmington, Delaware, and Mr. Miller has been teaching at Glynn Academy, Brunswick, Georgia.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Lois K.
Gruver, of Bloomsburg R. D. 3, to Oscar F. Gassert, of Catawissa.
Miss Gruver has been teaching in the Briar Creek Township schools,
Columbia County. Mr. Gassert is employed at the Berwick A. C. & F.
plant.

Miss Alice Mae Zehner, of Bloomsburg R. D. 3, and William
in the Black
Heupke, of Sugarloaf, were married Wednesday, July
Creek Methodist Church. For the past six years Mrs. Heupke has been
teaching at the Fairview High School at Mountain Top. Mr. Heupke is
employed in the maintenance office of the A. C. & F. Co., at Berwick.
1

,

Miss Dorothy Mae Ottofer, of Lancaster, and James H. Deily, of
Bloomsburg, were married Sunday, August 15, in the Zion Lutheran

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Church
cy in

in Lancaster.

The bride was employed

31

Kay News Agen-

in the

Lancaster, and Mr. Deily has for the past two years been teach-

ing in the commercial department of the Millersville High School.

Robert Bruce Miller, of 623 Mulberry Street, Berwick, received
his wings and commission as 2nd Lieutenant at Ellington Field, Texas,
on Thursday, June 26. He is now in B-24 Transition School at Liberal,

Kansas.
Elizabeth Miller, of Shickshinny, a teacher

ship for several years,

School

in

is

now

teaching

at the

in

Town-

Briarcreek

Bridge

Shickshinny

Salem Township.

Announcement has been made

of the

engagement of

Lt.

Richard

H. Foote, and Miss Marjorie Lunsford, of Springfield, Missouri.

Lt.

Foote has been stationed at Boca Raton Field, Florida.
Ensign Dan H.

WTS

Bonham

is

Flight Instructors’ School.

attending the University of Georgia

He entered

m

April.

1942
Miss Jeanne Noll, of Palmerton, and Staff Sergeant Ralph Zim-

merman,
ity

of Berwick,

Church

in

were married Wednesday, July 28, at Holy TrinMrs. Zimmerman has been teaching in the

Palmerton.

Slatington High School since her graduation.

been

in the

Air Corps for over a year,

Sgt.

Zimmerman has

and has been serving

as in-

structor in the Administrative Technical School at Fort Logan, Col-

orado.

Word

has been received that Pfc. Paul A. Klinger,

wick. has arrived safely in England.
tober 8, 1942.

He was

He

Jr.,

of Ber-

enlisted in the Air Corps

Oc-

sent to St. Petersburg, Florida, for his basic

and was then assigned

Squadron of Administrative Clerks
He was sent later to Westover,
Mass., and assigned at Headquarters, and was sent later to Groton,
Connecticut, and to Farmongdale, Long Island.
training,

to

of Instruction at Fort Logan, Colorado.

Miss Dorothy Chelosky, of Plymouth, and Cpl. Anthony Janoski,

were married Saturday, August 7, in the Church of the
New York. The bride is a teacher in the Willow
Street School in Plymouth.
Cpl. Janoski is a graduate of the Nanticoke High School and Bucknell University. He has been assigned to
overseas duty after being stationed for some time at Fort Belvoir,
of Nanticoke,

Holy Innocents,

Virginia.

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St. Sgt. Herbert Raymond Chandler, of Bloomsburg, is somewhere in Alaska. His address is St. Sgt. Herbert R. Chandler, Jr., ASN
33350247, XI Airways Communication Squadron, APO 942 c/o Post-

master, Seattle, Washington.

Lydia Repella, of Minersville, and Capt. Harry D. Jenkins, of

May 7. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s father, the Rev. B. J. Repella. Capt. Jenkins
is stationed at New York with the Army Air Corps.
Forty Fort, were married Friday,

Miss Margie Jones, of Taylor, and Glenn R. Letterman, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 26, in the First Methodist Church
at Taylor.

Mrs. Letterman has been serving as a

ulty of the Port

member

of the fac-

Carbon High School.

James William Davies,

West

of

Pittston, has received his

mission as second lieutenant and his wings as a navigator, after
pleting a course of training at Coral Gables, Florida.

He

is

comcom-

now

sta-

tioned in Utah.

Dorothy Edgar (Mrs.

C.

Ray Cronover)

nician in the Stroudsburg General Hospital.

a laboratory tech-

is

Mail addressed to her in

care of the hospital will reach her.
Miss Hazel Reeser, of Salladaysburg, and Stanley Schuyler, formerly of Berwick, were married May 8, at St. Johns Chapel. Mr. and
Mrs. Schuyler are living at Schuyler, Pa.
Lt.

Stuart Straub, pilot of an

Army bomber,

is

now

serving in

the Mediterranean area.

Miss Betty Hull has announced her engagement to Russell Burrows, of Bloomsburg.

Dawn Osman

During the past year she taught at Winfield, Pa.

lives at

216 Sunbury

Street.

Shamokin.

1943
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Air Student
Hugh S. Niles, of Wellsboro, and Miss Pauline Garey, of Honesdale.
A/S Niles has been stationed at the classification center at San Antonio,
Texas,

Frank M. Taylor, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a volunteer
for aviation cadet training.

Corp. Carl

S.

Ernest Kocher, of Espy,
school at Mifflinville.

of Catawissa,

Berninger,

Weather Squadron, Morrison

Field,
is

is

stationed

West Palm Beach,

with the

Florida.

teacher of mathematics in the high

.

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Ruth Hartman, of Orangeville,
partment at Hastings.
Katherine Hess, of Orangeville,
education

is

is

teaching

in the

33

commercial de-

teacher of health and physical

in the schools of Conshohocken.

Miss Joyce Knorr, of Wapwallopen, has enlisted

in the

SPARS,

the auxiliary force of the U. S. Coast Guard.

Reba Henrie, of
Township High School

Mifflinville,

at

is

teacher of English

in

the Scott

Espy.

June Hoagland, of Mifflinville has been elected teacher in the
elementary grades at the Scott Township Consolidated School at Espy.
o

President Harvey A. Andrus delivered three lectures before the

graduate business education division of the Oklahoma A. and M. College at the annual business education conference held at that institu-

The

tion.

lectures

were delivered

in

June.

o

There was a total of 400 students enrolled at the College during
the three-week Post-Session, and the ten-week intersession for V-12
students. The Pre-Session closed on August 28, and the intersession
closed on October 23. A six-week intersession for regular students
began Monday, September 13 and closed at the same time as the V-12
intersession.
The first trimester for all students began November
1

Announcement has been made of the retirement of E. G. Wertman, who was employed at the College for many years. For several
years previous to his retirement, Mr. Wertman was in charge of the
college laundry.

John G. Wagner, teacher of Chemistry and Physics at Bloomsburg High School for several years, has become a member of the faculty of the College, and is now teaching V-12 classes in Physics.

The summer school attendance at Bloomsburg this year was the
became a college. There were over 500
enrolled, including 280 Navy students and about 220 regular college
largest since the institution

students.

Avis Wesley and Dean Kocher were married during the month of

Her address is Lake Township High School, Alderson, Pa.
Spencer Roberts, of Catawissa, is now an Ensign in the Navy,

August.

and

IS

stationed at Chicago,

111.

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Former Students
By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of
Congress approved July 2, 1926 (Bull. 8, WD, 1926), a Distinguished
Flying Cross was awarded by the

named

War Department

to the following

officer:

Captain HARRY D. JENKINS. Air Corps, United States Army. For
extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flights from January, 1942, through March, 1943. As an air transport command pilot, Captain JENKINS flew more than 1,000 houi's in pioneering flghts incidental to
the establishment of air routes across Africa and the Middle East. During
this period, key personnel and large quantities of vital material were transported expeditiously over unmapped terrain where landing facilities and
navigational aids were practically non-existent. Despite the fact that unarmed transport airplanes were on many occasions flown over areas where
the risk of enemy interference was ever present, the entire assignment was
completed without accident or injury. Captain JENKINS’ high devotion to
duty, coupled with outstanding airmanship, contributed materially to the
accomplishment of a mission of extreme importance to the war effort of the
United States, thereby reflecting great credit on himself and the Army Air
Forces. Residence on appointment: Forty Fort, Pennsylvania.
By Order of the Seci’etary of War,
G. C. MARSHALL, Chief of Staff.

O
J. Himmes, of Waterloo, Iowa, and Lt. William H.
Bloomsburg, were married October 23. 1942, in the Immaculate Conception Church at Towson, Maryland. The bride is a graduate
of St. Mary’s High School and Gates Business College, Waterloo, Iowa,
and has been employed for the past eight months in the Office of War
Information at Washington. Lt. Riffel has been stationed at Camp
Hood, Texas.

Miss Loretta P.

Riffel, of

o
Miss Mary Ashmore, of Tallahassee, Florida, and Captain Wayne
Hartman,
of Benton, were married Monday, August 6, in the First
L.
Church
of Tallahassee. Capt. Hartman has been in the army
Baptist
since December, 940, when he enlisted m the Air Corps. After being
stationed at several bases in the United States he was sent to the South
Pacific area, and while there was awarded the Silver Star and Purple
Heart medals. He is now stationed at MacDill Field, Florida.
1

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home on a three-months
Marine Corps early in 1941, and
won his wings. He was in action at Guadalcanal, where he was pilot of
a dive-bomber. During that engagement he was badly burned and was
sent to a Pacific coast hospital for treatment.
Lt.

Paul Kellogg, of Wyalusmg, has been

sick leave.

Lt.

Kellogg enlisted

in the

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Aviation Cadet Donald A. Schlieder. of Catawissa, and Miss Jo
Loreman, also of Catawissa, were married Saturday, May
in the St.
John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Akron, Ohio. Cadet Schlieder
has been taking pre-flight training at the University of Akron. He entered active service February 25, 1943.
1

,

O
Promotion of Private
to Corporal in

Center at

First Class

Company A

New Cumberland,

Cannard has been stationed
in

at the

Pa.,

Thomas

H. Cannard, of Danville,

New Cumberland Army
was announced

recently.

Reception
Corporal

at this post since his entry into the service

October, 1942.

o
Miss Louise Durhn, of Milton R. D. 2, and John C. Clark, Jr., of
in the Turbot-

Danville R. D. 5, were married Saturday, September 2,

Zion Lutheran Church. The bride has been teaching in the schools
Mayberry Township, Montour County. Mr. Clark is engaged in

ville

of

farming with his father.

o
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Hildur
Reeves, of Hyattsville, Maryland, to Lt. Joseph K. Layos, of Pottstown. Mrs. Layos has been employed in the office of the Bell Telephone Company

in

Washington, D. C.

Lt.

Layos

is

located at

Camp

Forrest, Tennessee.

o
Miss Florence Aretta Drum and Pvt. Lewis A. Kohn, Jr., both of
Wilkes-Barre, were married Saturday, June 12, in St. John’s Lutheran
Church in Wilkes-Barre. Pvt. Kohn has been stationed at Miami Beach,
Florida, with the U. S. Air Force.

o
Miss Irene Edwards, of Mifflinville, and Sgt. Harold R. Michael,
of Mainville,
odist Church.

were married Tuesday, August 3, in the Mifflinville MethThe bride is employed by the Magee Carpet Company.

O
Joseph C. Gillespie, of Bloomsburg, was commissioned a second
lieutenant and received his silver wings at graduation exercises held
at Freeman Army Air Field, Seymour, Indiana, August 30.

o
Technical Sergeant

Raymond

Algatt, of Berwick,

is

now

in Persia

as a weather forecaster.

O
Donald G. Bitler, of Berwick, is now with Co. D, 54th Armored Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Pvt.

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Aviation Cadet Donald A. Schlieder, of Catawissa,
Ellington Field, Texas,

where he

is

is

located at

receiving his pre-flight training.

o
Cadet Clifton S. Skow, of Blbomsburg, is stationed at the UniOhio at Athens, taking an Army specialized training course*

versity of

o
his

William E. Duy, of Bloomsburg, has completed the first phase of
Naval Flight Training Course at the University of Pennsylvania.

o
Lt.

Catherine Varner

is

an

Army

nurse at Langley Field, Vir-

ginia.

o
Edith C. Correll, of Bloomsburg, died Thursday, June 10, after
a long illness. She was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.