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NUMBER ONE

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Charles H. Albert
Professor Charles H. Albert, scholar, educator, churchman, died

Bloomsburg Hospital at 8:03 P. M., Monday, December 27,
He was eighty-five years of age at the time of his death.
One of the beloved “Old Guard” of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and identified with the College as student and teacher for almost half a century, he slept peacefully away. Exceedingly active
throughout his life. Prof. Albert was confined to his room from last
June, and from mid-October was confined to his bed. He was removed to the hospital December 0, and his condition remained critical to
in the

1943.

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the end.

Surviving are five children: Keller B. Albert, of Reading; Mrs.
Jesse Y. Glenn, of Berwick; Charles L. Albert, of Wilkes-Barre; R.

Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Dallas

A

C..

Baer, of Selinsgrove.

was born September 22,
community until he was four-

native of Selinsgrove, Professor Albert

1838, and attended the schools of that
when he transferred his studies to the Lutheran Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna University, and continued his studteen years of age,
ies five years.

He was

closely

associated with the Bloomsburg

State

Normal

School, as student and teacher, for forty-five years. During that time
he had a prominent part in the progress of the school. He came to

autumn of 1877, the same year that
began his first term as principal.
Before his graduation from Bloomsburg, Professor Albert taught
three terms in the rural schools of Snyder and Union Counties, and following his graduation he taught two years in the schools of Selinsgrove
under the late Prof. John G. Cope, who was also a member of the
Bloomsburg “Old Guard.”
Bloomsburg as a student
David Jewett Waller,

Dr.

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45—No.

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February, 1944

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16,
1804. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,

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NELSON,

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EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER

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Following his service at Selinsgrove, he became principal of the
For
Catawissa schools and opened the first high school there is 1881
four years he served as superintendent of schools at Waynesboro, Pa.,
and in the autumn of 887 returned to Bloomsburg as a member of the
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upon the

faculty,

He served

invitation of Dr. Waller.

efficiently

through Dr. Waller’s

first

term, for

years during the administration of Dr. Judson Perry Welsh,
years during the second term of Dr. Waller,

three years

thirteen

fourteen

under Dr.

Charles H. Fisher, and then under Dr. G. C. L. Riemer until his retire-

ment from the faculty in 926.
His field was geography, and in this field he was profoundly interested, and a splendid teacher.
In order to secure the best possible
preparation for the field, he took special work at Teachers College,
Columbia University, and at the University of Chicago, and also with
Dr. Davis at Harvard.
He was a recognized authority in geography,
and in 1912, at the request of Rand, McNally, and Company, he prepared a geography of Pennsylvania that was incorporated in a widely1

used text book.

During much of

his career as a teacher,

and

in the

years following

retirement from the faculty, he gained a wide reputation as a platform speaker at teachers’ institutes, and had more calls for such lechis

tures than

gram

in

was

it

possible for

ferent states,

him

to accept.

He has been on

the pro-

Pennsylvania and has spoken in eighteen diffrom Maine to Alabama, and as far west as Illinois and

every county

in

Nebraska.

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His retirement from the faculty of the College

meant only

retire-

ment from that particular field, for throughout the years he continued
active.
His mind was exceptionally keen, his viewpoint that of the
present day, and his interest and faith in youth unwavering.
A vigilant dry, he was for years active in the work of the AntiSaloon League. He was an exceptional Bible student, and for many
years was the recognized head of the Men’s Bible Class of the First
Methodist Church, largest in membership in the town, and also taught
classes in

many

A work

other churches.

which Professor Albert gave unstintirgly throughout
Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.
He was a close friend of the negro educator. Dr. Booker T. Washington, and of Dr. Moton, the latter’s successor.
For many years he made
an annual visit to the Institute.
His work there was recognized and was well under way, when he
was introduced to the late Dr. George Washington Carver, the greatest
negro scientist the world has ever known. From the first meeting, the
his life

was

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two men began a friendship that lasted

Carver’s death, and

until Dr.

they continued a correspondence throughout that friendship.
Professor Albert was a teacher

were

the college days
classes

at

were dedicated

the College in

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to him.

939, the class of

who was never

forgotten

In the Centennial observance held
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members

at

924, of which he had been the class

advisor, gave its contribution to the Centennial Loan Fund as a
monial to Professor Albert.
In 1938,

when

Several yearbooks of graduating

an end.

of the class of 1893, in

their

testi-

forty-ninth

re-

union, presented a plaque to the College in honor of Professor Albert

The
as “a Christian scholar, inspiring teacher, and uplifting lecturer.”
plaque was accepted by Dr. Francis B. Haas. President of the College,
and now serving his second term as Superintendent of Public Instruction. The plaque was placed on the wall in the corridor outside of Professor Albert’s old classroom,

now

the

ed on behalf of the class by Samuel

Alumni Room.

J.

It

was present-

Johnston, a life-long friend of

Professor Albert.
His birthdays were always remembered with showers of cards
and expressions of good will, and from the beginning of his illness it
was a real task for the family to keep answering all the queries which
came from all over the nation, as former students expressed their concern over his condition, and their earnest hope for his recovery.
Not only was he the possessor of a rich life, but he was endowed
with an exceptional memory. He seldom forgot the name of a student,
regardless of the lapse in years between meetings, and he could relate,
with minute detail, history of the institution which he alone possessed.
Funeral services for Professor Albert were held Thursday afternoon, December 30, at the Dyke Funeral Home. Three ministers took
part in the service. They were the Rev. Lloyd Bomboy, of the Buckhorn Circuit, Lutheran Church; the Rev. Carl Anderson, of the First
Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Harry Franks, of the Bloomsburg
Church of Christ. Burial was made in Rosemont Cemetery.
The Bloomsburg Morning Press had the following editorial comment on the death of Professor Albert:
Last of the “Old

The death

Guard”

of Professor Charles H. Albert last evening at the ripe

removes from the scene the last of the ‘‘Old
Guard” of the Bloomsburg State Normal School that group of fine instructors that stuck to the institution through thick and thin and which
included Professors Noetling, Wilbur and Cope, all of them associated
with the school until their teaching days were over.
old age of eighty-five,

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Professor Albert,

work

who

upon the town of

pression

at B. S. N. S.

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outlived the others, left a very definite im-

Not only was that true of his
Bloomsburg S:ate Teachers College, but

his adoption.

later the

in his civic activities as well.

Professor Albert gave liberally of his time and effort to practicalevery civic activity launched during the years he was physically able
to assist. He was a fine citizen, a devoted husband and parent and a
good neighbor. He will be missed, as he has been missed during re-

ly

when

cent years

made

his health

impossible

it

for

him

to labor as

he

once did.
Professor Albert had one outstanding characteristic and one more
might well emulate he never carried water on both shoulders and
everybody always knew where he stood on every issue.
:

o

Install Cafeteria
The War Production Board recently approved
cafeteria equipment in the College dining room.
of this project, the

awarded

equipment has been

The

all

the

Department of Property and Supplies

Company
now in use.

the contract to the Arbycraft

lege to feed

the installation

After

installed

and

is

at

of

approval

Harrisburg

of Philadelphia.

The

This enables the Col-

students on a self-service basis.

and the addition of
some new equipment, new gas ranges, cereal cookers, griddles, and
pan warmers. The cafeteria counter is made of stainless steel and porIt contains coffee urns, a steam
fcelain and is thirty-one feet long.
table, ice cream cabinet and counter space wi:h guard rails, tray tabA back bar and refrigerator are
les, silver boxes, and water coolers.
situated

installation included kitchen renovation

back of the counter

The V- 12 Navy boys
first in physical

fitness, in

schools in the area.
fact that

when

This

to expedite the service.
o

at

Bloomsburg, numbering

a recent check-up, over

was

the tests of the

162,

all

ranked
V- 1

of the

particularly outstanding because of the

men were made when

they entered, the

Bloomsburg was near the bottom of the list.
The gain at Bloomsburg was nineteen points, making the average
Closest to the men at Bloomsburg were the 36 in the Unisixty-five.
versity of Pennsylvania NROTC with 63.37, and the 187 at Ursinus
with 63. Other schools included in the tabulation were Penn State, 364
University of Pennsylvania
students; Swarthmore, 290 students;
V-12. 384 students; Bucknell, 533 students, and Franklin and Marshall, 5 2 students.
average

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Daniel S. Hartline
Professor Daniel
er of nature, a

S. Hartline,

member

teacher, counselor of youth, and lov-

Bloomsburg State Teachand organizer of the Department of
the Bloomsburg Hospital at 2 20 P.

of the faculty of the

ers College for almost forty years,

Biology at Bloomsburg, died at

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December 28, 1943.
Taken ill Sunday, December 26, with an abdominal condition.
Professor Hartline was removed to the Bloomsburg Hospital. His condition showed improvement at first, but he later sustained a heart attack, which was the cause of his death.
He was conscious until the
M., Tuesday.

end.

A

recognized authority

ceptional teacher.
that his

ed to

Professor Hartline was an exto explore the

vast

horizon

knowledge was impartcame
students
who
under his competent
of
the thousands

work opened

all

in his field,

He was always eager

of

to him,

and

his thirst for

hands.

From

the early days of Scouting, and even before the formation

and Montour Council in 1923, he was interested in this
youth movement and following his retirement from teaching in 1935,
he devoted much of his time to this program. While deriving much
satisfaction from this work, he at the same time made one of the great
contributions to the program.
Professor Hartline was one of the first
of the Columbia

men

in

the council to receive the Silver Beaver

award

for

outstanding

service to boyhood.

Professor Hartline’s death

came but

sixteen hours after the death

of Professor Charles H. Albert, his colleague

much

of his

He
member
ter,

and close friend through

life.

survived by his wife, a son, Dr. Keffer Hartline, of Media, a
of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and by a sisis

Mrs. Matilda Blankenhorn, of Holmesburg.

A native of Reading, he was born September 16, 1863, and attended public school in Reading, as well as in Oley, Earl and Douglass
Townships. He then entered the Pottstown High School, and later he
taught school four years in Berks and Chester Counties. He was graduated from the West Chester State Normal School in June, 1890, and
the following September came to Bloomsburg, where he organized the
manual training department.
In September, 1893. he began a course at Lafayette College, and
Returning to Bloomsburg, he remained on
was graduated in 897.
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the faculty until his retirement,

He organized

the

May

31, 1935.

Department of Biology and continued

as the

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head of

that department as long as he remained on the faculty.

Dur-

and 1902, Professor Hartline gave considerable
time to study abroad at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, taking up work necessary to obtain a doctorate. He was recalled to
Bloomsburg near the completion of his studies, his return being hastened by the illness of another faculty member.

ing the years 1901

An
was

evidence of the place 'he held

the unveiling of his portrait at the

College in October, 1937.

A

in the

former student. Dr. Ida

of biology at Hollins College, Virginia, a

mer

hearts of former students

Home-Coming

assistant of Professor Hartline,

activities of
Sitler,

the

professor

Bloomsburg alumna and

for-

arranged for Miss Belle Warsham,

Richmond, Virginia, to paint the portrait at the Hartline home.
At the unveiling exercises, three of his former students were the
speakers. They were Dr. Peter Castellani, of Philadelphia; Dr. W. W.
Preston, of Montrose, and Dr. Stuart Wiant, of New York City.
Professor Hartline was always active his viewpoint was that of
the present, and his thirst for knowledge was as keen at the close of
Because of these qualities, those who
his life as it ever had been.
knew him best never associated age with Professor Hartline. That factor makes his passing all the more of a shock.
Those who were in his classrooms through his years on College
;

His teaching was the
Hill, never forgot many of those experiences.
magic which made the student think things through and indelibly imprinted on the mind the fallacy of accepting things at their face value.
A lover of nature, a keen student of astronomy, and a most interesting speaker fortified by a rich background, he went everywhere in

much as being in the out-of-doors,
At the time he was stricken, one of
his projects was the bringing back to health of one of his favorite trees
on the College campus.
Professor Hartlme was responsible
In the days of World War
for the Memorial Pinery on the front campus of the College.
This
stands as a tribute to students and alumni of Bloomsburg who gave
his activities.

and

He loved nothing

his interest

so

never wavered.

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their lives in that conflict.

He

now

Bloomsburg the gray squirrels, which are
life. The little animals were
the campus and soon migrated through the town. They re-

also introduced to

recognized as a part of the community

brought to
main today as another evidence of

his

successful

efforts to

introduce

the joys of nature to the public.

Because he always had the view-point of the young, he was an
expert teacher and guide of youth. Scouting appealed to him from the
first.

He was

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and Montour Scout Council was formed in 1923. Only a week prior
to his death he was discussing, with his characteristic enthusiasm, the
plans for the coming year.
From the inception of the organization he served on the executive committee of the Council. He was for years chairman of the campThe exceptional nature program of the Boy Scouts
ing committee.
was planned and put into effect by Professor Hartline. He planned the
tree house, the nature trail, and the nature building that were the basis
for so many rich and delightful hours for hundreds of boys at Camp
Lavigne. Always a highlight for any camping season were the star
study hikes.

As merit badge counselor in nature work, he spent countless
hours with Scouts, working on their requirements in bird study, astronomy, botany, forestry, and conservation. His tree hours in the yard of
his residence

was a mecca

for youth.

was always keen. When there was a
danger of the town’s beauty being marred by ruthless cutting down of
trees, he drew up the park commission’s requirements and headed that
commission until the plan to retain the natural beauty of Bloomsburg
His interest in Bloomsburg

was operating

efficiently.

in many communities, and was
Bloomsburg
Rotary Club, retiring two
for a long time a member of the
years ago after an illness which made in unwise for him to retain all of
He was a member of the Lutheran Church, the
his former activities.
Pennsylvania Academy of Science, the Columbia County Historical Society, the various bodies of the Masonic fraternity, Caldwell Consistory
and the Pennsylvania Park Commission.
While he was continually finding new interests, he never neglected old ones. His life was centered in the College, to which he gave the
richest years of his life, and no gathering was complete without “Daddy” Hartline, as he was affectionately known and will always be remembered by his thousands of “boys and girls.”
Funeral services for Professor Hartline were conducted on the
afternoon of New Year’s Day at the Dyke Funeral Home in Blooms-

Professor Hartline participated

During the impressive rites the Rev. Norman S. Wolf, pastor of
Matthew’s Lutheran Church, read Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar,”
selections from the Scriptures, and Dr. Henry Van Dyke’s “Ode to the
Outdoors.” There was a profusion of floral tributes and many were
in attendance at the service.
Burial was made in the Rosemont Ceme-

burg.
St.

,

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tery
n

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!

The Bloomsburg Morning Press had the following
ment concerning the death of Professor Hartline:

editorial

com-

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Professor Hartline Passes

*

The death of Professor Daniel S. Hartiine yesterday removed the
second figure within two days who left the imprint of his ability and
personality

School and

upon the

upon the student body of the Bloomsburg State Normal
successor, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and

—

its

institution itself.

For almost forty years Professor Hartline was a commanding
ure at the institution upon the

Back

hill.

in the old

course and was one

leader in developing the school’s pre-medical
the group that

standing

made

ever

of

the school’s College preparatory department out-

in the East.

Professor Hartline was an instructor

who

fig-

days he was the

came under

his influence

marked

of

ability.

None

ever forgot him nor the ambition he

instilled in their lives.

Not only was he outstanding
ion enabled

who

him

in

the classroom; his breadth of vis-

to instill a love for nature in the hearts

never entered

his classroom.

He

has for

many

of

thousands

years been this

area’s leader in a finer appreciation of nature’s wonders.

As he added years and the oppor:unity to broaden his field of
work as a naturalist reached out farther and farther. A
leader in Boy Scout work in this area for many years, thousands of
boys came under his influence in that field of activity. It was a work
he loved and one that was engrossing his thoughts only a few days beservice his

fore he passed from the scene.

Bloomsburg’s

civic activities

always found a loyal supporter

in

Professor Hartline. The fact is, he gave freely of himself to every
worthwhile community undertaking.
and Bloomsburg and
There was only one Professor Hartline
the surrounding area for many miles will mourn his passing. To know
him well was to appreciate his true greatness the more.

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column headed “The Passing Throng,’’ Paul R. Eyerly,
editor of The Morning Press, had the following comment concerning
In the

Professor Hartiine:
Friends were leaving the funeral home Saturday following the
S. Hartiine when one remarked to another:

funeral of Professor Daniel

“Those services really marked the closing of an epoch.” There was
much truth in what he said.
Just as Professor Albert in his day filled a niche in community
It was the latter’s fortune to have been
life, so did Professor Hartiine.
shortly before his passing and when he
until
vigor
with
on
carry
able to
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passed, so far as this area

is

concerned, there was none to take his

place.

Through these many years Professor Hartline’s telephone number
was one that was frequently sought in The Morning Press office. There
was so much he knew that nobody else knew and he was always so

—

gracious in imparting the knowledge.
But we are not thinking of that so
of the love of nature he implanted

and

is

much

at the

the minds

of

moment

through the years. The Boy Scouts and the

girls

as

we

are

thousands of boys
Girl

Scouts

know

they have lost a friend.
It remained for Ricketts Glen to bring Professor Hartline and the
Nobody followed the lengthy negotiawriter more closely together.

upon which depended the future of the glen with more concern
than he. He was a happy man, indeed, when the glen’s future passed
out of the realm of uncertainty and he was assured that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would see that it would forever remain in its
tions

pristine state.

we were

through the glen it was with Professor
later in the day to address informally
scheduled
Hartline.
He was
Parks
Association on the glen as he knew
members of the Pennsylvania
before
when there was brought to
it.
He had done that several years

The

last

time

the glen practically every important travel editor of the East.

Upon

on those huge rocks just below the main
highway at the lowest falls and gave them an extemporaneous talk
such as they united in declaring was the finest thing of the kind they
ever heard. He was to repeat that performance the day he addressed
the members of the Pennsylvania Parks Association.
No one knew
Ricketts Glen as did he; we dare say not even the members of the
the latter occasion he stood

—

—

Ricketts family.

Upon the day that we hiked together down over the falls he
brought to our attention oddities of nature here and there that made
us realize the

more how

little

much we had to learn.
It was during the days

we knew

of nature’s

wonders and how

of the meeting of the Pennsylvania Parks

Association at Wilkes-Barre that district forester Wible was a member
of the party that made the trip from Bloomsburg.
Those two days
e

spelled the beginning of a friendship

between the two men that con-

tinued through the remaining years of Professor Hartline’s

life.

Time and again Forester Wible took Professor Hartline along
with him when he had to travel throughout part of his territory into
That was when Professor Hartline was
the wilds of Sullivan County.

v

!

in his

element.

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we merely sat back, drinking in what the
each other as they talked their own language.
Many a Passing Throng column was developed in that wise. We know
Ralph Wible is going to miss him.
Strangely enough, the two men outstanding in the East in their
Upon

several occasions

two men had

to say to

knowledge of nature have been men well advanced in years. They
had much in common, although it is our recollection they had only met
casually—and how much each missed because their contact was not
more intimate.
Of course, we are referring to Professor Hartline and to Dr. J.
Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, whose love of the area to which
Bloomsburg is the gateway is as deep and abiding as was Professor
Hartline’s.

Dr.

McFarland

is

well into his eighties, but,

Professor Hart-

like

he was never satisfied until he had reached
line on
from which nature’s glories could be the
point
vantage
the topmost
similar excursions,

best appreciated.

We

have seen both of them climb to the topmost platform of a
fire tower to revel in the view while men younger in years were conThey were having the time of
Not them
tent to go part way up.
and they weren’t going to miss a thing.
their lives
It was a privilege to have sat at their feet, so to speak, and to
have thus caught something of their inspiration.
Strangely enough, it was Ricketts Glen that likewise brought Dr.
McFarland and the writer together. If the years’ efforts to see that
Ricketts Glen was perpetuated for the future had no other compensaand there have been many the fact that our common interest
tions
brought us closer to Dr. McFarland, would have been compensation
!

—

—

—

more than adequate.
But the

men of whom we write today were old
we are writing. Who will there be to

in

time of which

years

carry on

at

the

when

they fade from Life’s picture?

Nava! Cadet Killed

in

Naval Aviation Cadet George H. Sholl,
Media,

who was

Crash
Jr.,

aged nineteen, of

taking his training at the Bloomsburg State Teachers

was instantly killed Wednesday,
wing of his plane struck a tree. It was the
the Bloomsburg airport in 48,000 hours of ser-

College and the Bloomsburg airport,

November 24, when
first

fatal accident at

the

vice pilot flight training.

Cadet Sholl came to Bloomsburg

in

September, after completing

a preliminary course at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Home-Coming Day
Because of war conditions, a stream-lined version was offered to
returned graduates and friends of the College on Saturday, October
Considering all conditions, the day was a very successful
16, 1943.
one.

The

first

was presented

feature
at

took place on the

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:

was a dress review by the Navy V- 2 unit. This
00 A. M., and was well attended. The event

new

1

athletic field.

The main event on the day’s schedule was a football game between two squads of the V- 2 unit. The “Red” team was coached by
Chief Specialist Llewellyn, and the “White” team was coached by
1

Because of the death of the latter’s father,
however, the “White” team was taken over at the last minute by Lt.
John Boyd, former Atlantic City High School coach, now attached to
The participants were all men with
the aviation unit at the College.
Chief Specialist Franklin.

one or more years of college football experience. A considerable number had been members of football teams of other Pennsylvania State
Teachers Colleges. The hard-fought game ended in a scoreless tie.
Following the football game, there was a tea in the Day Women’s
Lounge, and the day’s events ended in the Centennial Gymnasium at
8:30 P. M., with an informal dance.
Because of wartime restrictions, dining-room service was not
available as it had been in the past, but coffee was served at noon in
the Science Hall social room to those who brought box lunches.
The Bloomsburg High School Band was on hand to provide music
for the game, and one of the features of the afternoon was the baton
twirling of one of the V-12’s, Harold M. Bush, of Indiana, who was
runner-up last year in the state baton-twirling contest.
o

Navy Men Entertained
One of the most unusual and entertaining programs ever staged
Bloomsburg was that presented Friday evening, December 7, when
employes of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania gave a
in

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men of the United States Navy stationed at the
The Navy men and Bell Telephone employes presented a
musical entitled, “A Sailor’s Dream,” and revealed outstanding talent
Following the program in the auditorium a
in several of the numbers.
social period was held in the old gymnasium, where the art of eating
became of foremost importance and dancing secondary. Santa Claus
made his visit, and a large tree provided the background for his activiChristmas party for
College.

ties.

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Don Jenkins Dies

Lt.

in

Action

Donald Jenkins, of Forty -Fort, reported missing in action foloil fields in Rumania on August 1, 1943,
has been officially reported by the War Department as “killed in action” on that date. Lt. Jenkins, a hurdling and sprint star of the Bloomsburg state
champion track and field teams, was the brother of Captain Harry D.
Lt.

lowing the raid on the Ploesti

Jenkins, U.

S.

Army

Air Forces,

who

recently received the Distinguish-

ed Flying Cross for outstanding service
Africa and the Middle East.

in

pioneering air routes across

The formal message from Adjutant General Ulio stated in part:
“Report received from the Rumanian government, through International Red Cross, states that your son, Lt. Donald Jenkins, who was prein the
viously reported missing in action, was killed in action August
1

,

Middle Eastern Area.”
and in the
The last letter from the air officer was written July 3
letter Lt. Jenkins suggested that his mother keep her fingers crossed,
He stated that
as he was going on an important mission the next day.
1

,

he was unable to give the nature of the mission, but later press reports
listed the air raid on the Rumanian oil fields as having occurred August

1

A graduate of the Forty-Fort High School, class of 1939, he was
outstanding both in the class room and on the athletic field, and continued this record at Bloomsburg. He left college in his Junior year,
Army

He completed the Civilian
Bloomsburg. Interested in the Boy Scouts, he
attained the rank of Eagle Scout in that organization. At the time he
left College, he was Vice-President of the Community Government Asenlisting in the

Air Corps in 1942.

Pilot Training course at

sociation.
o

Mrs. Susan Elliot Dennis, wife of the late Prof. Joseph H. Dennis,

died suddenly Sunday,

November 21

,

at the

home

of her

daughter,

Mrs. Samuel Anderson, of Falls Church, Virginia.

Mrs. Dennis came to Bloomsburg from Boston, and was a member of the faculty of the Model School. Her late husband, Professor
Dennis, was for

many

years a

member

of the faculty at

Bloomsburg as

teacher of Latin.
Falls

Mrs. Dennis is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Anderson, of
Church, Virginia, and by two sons, J. Elliot and James.
The body was brought to Bloomsburg for burial.

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Aviator Returns
Commander Nelson Oman, of Bloomsburg, former student
member of the first squadron of A-36 “Invader” fighter bombers to go into action in the Mediterranean theatre, and who
has seen well over 250 hours of aerial combat duty in Africa, Sicily,
and Italy, arrived in New York Sunday morning, November 7 on his
way to visit his wife, the former Betty Dawson and his parents, Mr.
Flight

at B. S. T. C.. a

and Mrs. Ernest M. Oman, East Third Street, Bloomsburg.
Lieutenant Oman went into action in that theatre of operations
immediately upon his arrival in Africa last April and was active in the
American landings of Sicily and Italy, including the Salerno campaign.
The officer was a student at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College when he enlisted in the Army Air Force Reserve. While a student
he completed CPT training. He was called to active duty in December, 1941 shortly after Pearl Harbor and got his wings at Brooks
Field, San Antonio, Texas.
“I’m still wondering how I came through alive,” he said, in one
“It’s pretty
of the public addresses he made while in Bloomsburg.
plane
down
and
shot
you come back
tough to see the fellow in the next
,

alive.

I guess my time just wasn’t up.”
Oman was the flight leader of his group

of twelve A-36 fighting
bombers, each of which carries two 500 pounds bombs and after the
loads are released, are used as fighters.
Speaking of his start in flying, Oman related, “I was commissioned on September 6, 1942, at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas. After
my preliminary training we took a six-weeks special course and was

then assigned to a dive bombing outfit at

“We were

shipped from

rived at Oran, Africa.

moved

A

this

Key

Field, Meridian, Miss.

country by convoy and

finally

month’s training was behind us

Our
and after

into northern Tunisia.

Pantelleria, a small island,

first

ar-

when we

bombing missions were on
we turned our bombs on

this fell,

Sicily.

work in co-operation with the ground forces.
and run. We have plenty of speed and everything happens in seconds. Starting from around 10,000 feet into a
power dive and traveling at over 500 miles an hour, you don’t have
“Our job was

Our

too

to

tactics are to hit

much time
we could

gets

to think.

If

we

weren’t over so-called dangerous tar-

use the air brakes and

come down around 375

miles an

hour.”

Returning to the topic of the invasion of

“Our forces covered the landing of

the Fifth

Italy,

Army

Oman

continued:

at Salerno

and the

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
air superiority and the job our medium
was to come down on the air field near
Salerno if the proper markings were visible, but the Germans were
close to the field and we were ordered back to our take-off bases.
Some of our boys tried to land. However, the British Eighth Army finally came up from the east and we were able to take over the field.
“The A-36 bombers are used in demolishing bridges and strafing
troops, convoys, and work of that type. All our flying is done at low
altitude, and there wasn’t a plane that could touch us for speed and
climbing. We worked on targets around Rome and often dropped
both instantaneous and delayed bombs. We found the latter did a
beautiful job after the Germans started to reconstruct the bridges we
had destroyed.
“One day we really did a good job in the Rome area. Every half
hour groups of our planes took off for the scheduled sweeps, and at
four airports over fifty planes were destroyed, while on a lake above
Rome thirty sea planes were spotted and destroyed. For this work all
members of the bomber group received a citation.”
Asked about the reception received from the Italians, Oman continued, “Boy, were they glad to see our troops!
Every one was happy to be freed from the Germans. Our forces fed and cared for them,
and they really appreciated it. And in actual combat it was the Italians who stayed in the longest when the going was tough.”
Oman had a twenty-three day leave and has been assigned to a

only thing which saved us

bombers

did.

field in this

Our own

was

outfit

country as an instructor.
o

The first group of major league baseball stars to visit one of the
December 3, to
nation’s war fronts arrived in Anchorage, Alaska,
bring service men a bit of second-hand World Series atmosphere.
The five-man U. S. 0. baseball unit is headed by Frankie Frisch,
manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the playing idol of many of the
men now in uniform. The players are Stan Musial, the National League
batting star, and

Hank Borowy,

Danny

Litwhiler,

New York Yankee

both of the St. Louis Cardinals
and Fred Walker, Brooklyn

pitcher,

Their equipment included a film of the World Series, uniballs.
and
forms, bats
three months tour is expected to take them to disor
two
Their
It is a long way from baseball season in the North,
bases.
tant Aleutian
that the major league players might get in a bit
said
but Army officers
and
fly chasing where hard packed snow or other
of outdoor hitting

outfielder.

ground conditions would allow.
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Leonard Bowers Dies at Sea
Leonard Bowers, of Mount Carmel, a graduate of B. S.
was killed in a crash at sea, according to
news received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowers. Of those
who took their Civilian Pilot Training at Bloomsburg, Lt. Bowers is the
fifth to make the supreme sacrifice.
Lt. Bowers entered the Navy in August. 1941, and among the
places where he took training were Norfolk, Virginia and Florida. He
was on coastal patrol and then was engaged in ferrying planes before
Lt.

(jg.)

T. C. in the class of 1941,

being assigned to the

field of action.

Other Bloomsburg students who took CPT at the Bloomsburg
airport in connection with their College course, and have given their
lives in service were Aviation Cadet Victor Turini, Forty-Fort, who

was

killed

when

struck by the propellor of a plane as he

across an air field in Florida after completing a

was walking

Chalmers
Wenrich, of Harrisburg, killed when a bomber on a training flight exploded; Lt. Walter Kama, Dickson City, killed in a crash during a night
flight in California,

successful

American

and

Lt.

flight

;

Donald Jenkins, Forty-Fort,
Rumania.

Lt.

killed in

the

raid on the Ploesti fields in
;

0

539

Bloomsburg State Teachers
Saturdays have
College, now
announced
November
Andruss
6.
opened, President Harvey
The enrollment is about equally divided between the college war
program and the regular teacher education courses. Bloomsburg stands
There

is

an enrollment of
that the teachers

at the

in service

courses for

1

among

third

the fourteen Colleges of the

Commonwealth

in the enroll-

ment of teacher education pupils, according to figures recently announced by the State Department of Education.
There are seventy teachers in service who are enrolled at the local institution, this number being higher than for the preceding two
years.

The

total enrollment includes

the

students

Hospital Training School of Nursing as well as

the

the Bloomsburg
Navy- 12 and V-5

in

While some of the Navy men will leave the last of the month
is not expected to be nearly as large as the forty-five V-5
expected to arrive on Saturday, November 27.

units.
this

men

number

O

The Women’s Chorus

of the College presented a program at

the

assembly exercises held Friday, November 19. Their program included the suite “A Day in Venice,” by Nevin. Miss Harriet Moore directed the chorus in the fine program.
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V-5’s Hosts at

House Party

V-5 Navy Air Cadets of the Teachers College were hosts at a
house party at the College over the New Year week-end with the program opening New Year’s Eve with a dinner and New Year’s Eve party, the latter in the basement of Navy Hall.

The invitations were issued in the form of Navy orders and the
program was in Navy style. The guests came “aboard” between three and six o’clock Friday afternoon, December 31 and those
from a distance had accommodations in Waller Hall. Dinner was serventire

ed at seven.

The programs were

style and entitled “Ship’s Log.”
were President Harvey A. Andruss,
Harry L. Magee, Lt. John C. Koch, E. A. Reams, Dr. Marguerite Kehr,
Miss Bertha Rich, Frank G. Carter, Lt. Glenn Steely, Lt. John J. Boyd,
Lt. J. F. McGovern, Lt. (jg.) W. I. Prendergast.
Dinner music was provided by Gordon Keller and the decorations
for the party which followed were built around Navy signal flags and
other Navy insignia.

Patrons,

known

as

in aviation

“check

pilots,”

o

Lt.

The present physical director of the Navy V-5’s at Bloomsburg is
He replaces Lt. James LaLanne, former North
J. F. McGovern.

Carolina University football star,

who

has been transferred to the Pre-

Flight School at the University of Iowa.
Lt.

coach

at

McGovern is no stranger to Bloomsburg. He is a former
both West Chester and Kutztown and did fine work at both

places.
o

Major Howard Klair, of Berwick, officer in charge of ordnance
in the district of which Bloomsburg is a 'part, spoke at the College assembly Friday, October 8. The audience was given an enlightening
picture, not only

as to

production capacity, but also

which the Army and Navy are cooperating

to

munitions that are so important to the war

effort.

O

of the

way

in

produce weapons and

7

President Harvey A. Andruss addressed the Harrisburg chapter
of the National Office Management Association Wednesday evening,
October 20, in the Y. M. C. A. in Harrisburg.
o

Professor Wilbur J. Abell, former member of the commercial department faculty at Bloomsburg, is a member of the faculty of the U.
S. Naval Training School at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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

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.

—

—

—

—

Lackawanna County

—W.

Archibald 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.

President

—

—

Luzerne County

—

President Edna 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,
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Carlisle Street, WilkesPa.; Secretary
Barre, Pa.; Treasurer Mrs. Lester Bennett, 402 North River Street,
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— Claire 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
President— Orval Palsgrove, Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President— Ray Leidich,
33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer,
113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice-President Anthony
J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President— A. Symbal, Shenandoah,
Pa.; Vice-President
Michael 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 City, Pa.

—

—

—

Philadelphia

—

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

—

Snyder-Union Counties
Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Eugene
Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President— Helen Keller, Maple
Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.;
Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary
Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Treasurer Anna Troutman, Selinsgrove. Pa.

— Harold

President-

—

—

—

Susquehanna- Wyoming Counties

—

—

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

—

—

—

Columbia County

—

—

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

—

1875
Miss Sadie T. Vannatta, of Bloomsburg, died Tuesday, September
28, following a heart attack. She would have been eighty-nine years
of age if she had lived until November 20.

Bloomsburg and for the past sixty
She was a teacher in the
Bloomsburg schools before entering the insurance business, which she
Miss Vannatta was born in

years had lived in her

continued

until the

home on

Iron Street.

time of her death.

She was an active member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the W.
C. T. U., and the Columbia County Historical Society.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1886

A

what American troops in Africa were
forced to face in their daily routine has been given Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Kline, the former a native of the Benton section and a graduate of the
class of 1886 of the Bloomsburg State Normal School.
Mr. and Mrs.
Kline now live at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The letter was from their son,
Allan, who has been in the army since last June.
“I wrote to you, mother, and Glenn (a son) a few days ago but
since then I’ve had a long letter from you and seeing things are at a
stand still at the present I’ll endeavor to answer some of your requests.
Your letter is postmarked February 12, and I received it on March 7.
On some of my letters the date is not correct but is usually within three
or four days. Out here we lose all track of time. Most of the time we
do not even know what day it is, let alone the day of the month.
“Yes, I happened to be among the soldiers who saw and paraded
Roosevelt looked very haggard and
for Roosevelt and Churchill.
worn. He looks very poor but then he has a tremendous load of reYou also ask about the V letters. I besponsibility on his shoulders.
lieve that all air mail reaches us about the same time although the V
Anyway, you write longer letters and
letters are supposed to be first.
News of home is what, we all want
I do not mind waiting a day or so.
and you can’t get much on one page of V mail.
“I’m glad to hear any war news you can send me. We used to
hear radio reports but for a long time now we haven’t heard any reports unless it is a gun report.
I agree with you that the fight for Tunisia will be a major battle.
“We also heard the report about Rommel but it was the first we
have heard about Adolph taking it on the lam. As for the Japanese
and the war in the Pacific we receive very little news. If I could have
my say we would wipe their kind completely off the map.
“You mention that it must be rather disagreeable over here. It’s
worse than that, it is plain miserable. We cannot write of weather or
good conditions but I can say I haven’t slept in a bed for over five and
The ground is where I park my old carcass to sleep
a half months.
and I’ve been on some pretty rocky beds. A bath is an unknown
of
I cannot say when I had my last shower but it has been all
thing.
but had a chance the other
I had quite a beard
six or seven weeks.
day and hacked it off. My biggest trouble has been the lice and the
Boy, they really eat me up. My body is covered from head to
fleas.
foot with bites and I seem to get a new batch about once a week. Most
of the fellows in the outfit are much younger than I am.
In fact, I’m
the second oldest and I honestly believe that I can take more than half
descriptive picture of

1

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
of them. Don’t misunderstand

me

that

it

isn’t

a

good

outfit.

can say we are as rough and tought an outfit as
anyone could expect to see. Not only that but we are here to fight for
our country’s freedom and you can wager your last penny that when
all is over the outfit will have quite a name for itself.
“Try to keep from worrying about me. I’ve always been pretty
handy at keeping care of myself in fights and feel I can do the same
over here. Mother is also such a firm believer in the Bible that you
might tell her that my time is not up. God will take care of me. If it
does happen that He shall call me just remind her of the quotation,
‘greater love has no man than he give his life for another.’ Also tell
her that I pray each day and night for guidance and have a Testament
which I read whenever I have a chance. Impress upon her that my
duty at the present is to God and my country and that I am serving
them faithfully and truthfully and whatever the outcome, whether win
or lose, I’ve played the game fair.”
“In

sincerity

all

I

1902
Kearns, whose wife was formerly Miss Carol Space ’02,
of Wyoming, died Friday, October 15, 1943, at Packer Hospital,
Sayre, following an operation. He was a resident of Wyoming at the
time of his death.' In 1898, Mr. Kearns entered the employ of the

John

J.

Lehigh Valley Railroad as a freight trainman and he had been continin the employ of that company until stricken with the illness
which proved fatal. He was a member of St. Cecilia’s Church and its
uously

Holy

Name

Society,

and was

affiliated

Railroad Trainmen at Pittston.
daughters, a brother, and two

He

with Lodge
is

89, Brotherhood of
survived by his wife, three
1

sisters.

1906
issue of the “Pennsylvania

The December

following article concerning R. A. McCachran,

Game

News’’ had the
husband of Margaret

Jenkins:

“

‘Mac,’ as he

is

affectionately

known

to his host of

was

friends,

recently elevated to the position of Assistant Executive Director of the
Pennsylvania Commission, a job for which he was drafted in 1941 He
handled the position by assignment until just recently, when his pro.

motion was announced.
lengthy and interesting career in the field of engineering, together with his long experience with the commission, fits him admirably for his new responsibility which is actually in charge of all field

“A

units

and operations.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
“Mr. McCachran graduated from Dickinson Preparatory School
with the degree of Civil Engineer, in which profession he was registered.
During summer vacations he worked in this capacity with the
Pennsylvania Railroad and immediately following graduation contin-

ued

1

in this service

during the construction of the tunnels under the

East River, New York. Later he was employed by the Pennsylvania
Department of Highways as a party chief, assistant district engineer,
and superintendent of highway, following which he was associated for
several years with a highway construction company. Subsequently he
entered private engineering practice with headquarters at Bloomsburg,
Pa.

“On August 1, 1930, he entered the employ
Game Commission in the capacity of Game Land

of the Pennsylvania

Engineer,

later be-

coming Assistant Director of the Bureau of Refuge and Lands and Assistant Chief of the Division of Lands.

“He

is

a

member

of several

engineering societies,

and service groups, and

fraternal or-

many years
has been connected with the Boy Scout organization.
“
‘Mac’ is married and at present is living in Camp Hill. He has
two sons, one serving in the Aleutian area with the
th Bomber Comganizations,

is

active in civic

1

mand, and the other

in the

Radio Branch of the

for

1

Army

Air Forces, Kan-

sas City.’

1912
John F. Boylan) lives at 77 Spruce
Her daughter, Margaret, is a teacher
in the Bloomfield Junior High School, and her son Jack is a Senior in
the Bloomfield High School.
Elizabeth Connor

Street, Bloomfield,

(Mrs.

New

Jersey.

1914
Major General Idwal H. Edwards, of Bloomsburg, Chief of Staff
of the American Army in England, has been awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal. Last spring Major General Edwards was promoted to
the position of Chief of Staff of the American Army in England after
having served on the General Staff in Washington.
Adelia D. Fagan

(Mrs.

Redfield Street, Philadelphia.

lives at 1464 North
She was married December 30, 1939,

James

F.

Colder)

at 'Hazleton, Pa.

1916
George W. Dodson, of Harrisburg, died Sunday, December 5, as
the result of an accident in which he fell down a flight of stairs. The
accident occurred while he was visiting a friend in Camp Hill.
Mr. Dodson was born in Fairmount Springs, Luzerne' County.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
After his graduation from Bloomsburg, he became principal of the
Schwenksville High School, and left that position to enter the First

World War.
in

After the war, he became principal of the Garrett public schools
Somerset County, and also was assistant cashier of the First National

Bank

He left Garrett to enter the insurance business in
He went from Benton to Harrisburg during the administraGovernor James, and was assigned to the Insurance Department

of Garrett.

Benton.
tion of

of Internal Affairs.
cipal Affairs as

its

In

1942 he was transferred

to the

Bureau of Muni-

director.

He was a member of the Methodist Church and of the Masonic
He is survived by his wife, one son, his mother, a brother,

fraternity.

and a

sister.

1927

A letter received from Kenneth E. VanBuskirk indicates that he
has the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and that he has taken part in the
North African campaign and

in the

invasion of Sicily.

1928
Announcement has been made

engagement of Miss Betty
Rutter, of Bloomsburg, and Corporal Moses M. Hartman, of Richmond
Furnace, Pa. Miss Rutter is at present employed as County Supervisor
by the Department of Public Assistance. Corporal Hartman is a graduate of Gettysburg College and was associated with H. J. Heinz and
Company prior to entering the service. He has been taking a premedical course at the University of Vermont and expects to complete
his medical training at Temple University.
of the

Miss Mary Josephine Phillips, of Bloomsburg, and Lt. Christopher
Huntington Dole USNR, of Wellesley, Mass., were married Saturday,
October 6, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg. The bride
attended Skidmore College and the National College of Education at
Evanston, Illinois, and is a graduate of Bloomsburg. The bridegroom
was graduated from Boston University, and has been stationed at the
United States Naval Air Station at Anacosta, Virginia.
1

Miss Mabel Albertson, of Benton, R. D. 3, and Thomas Robert
Yaros, of Newburgh, N. Y., were married Saturday, October 24, in St.
John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. The bride

has been teaching

in the

schools of Freeport, N. Y.

New York

She holds a grad-

Mr. Yaros attended Alliance
the
Fawcett
School of Fine Arts.
graduated
from
and
was
Academy,
uate degree from

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1929
Wilhelmina Elder (Mrs. Robert Hartman), formerly of Berwick,
December
at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,

died Wednesday,

New York

1

,

City.

Mrs. Hartman, whose husband

is

serving

in

Africa,

was not considered

for a short time, but her condition

had been ill
An em-

serious.

bolism was the cause of her death.

A

graduate of the Berwick High School, the Bloomsburg Teach-

and of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, she
Salem Township schools before becoming instructress of
Memorial Hospital at Wilmington, Delaware. She left the

ers College,

taught

in the

nurses

in

become a nurse in the eye hospital at New York.
She was a member of the Bower Memorial Evangelical Church of
Berwick. She was married two years ago. Her husabnd is a technical
sergeant with the Army Engineering Corps in Africa.
latter position to

1929-1941
Miss Sara Ermish, of Berwick, and Sgt.

Otis L.

Adams,

of Spar-

at the
tansburg. South Carolina, were married Tuesday, December 2
Adams
been
successful
Mrs.
has
a
Berwick.
Church,
Lutheran
Grace
teacher in the Berwick schools. Sergeant Adams is stationed at Westover Field, Massachusetts, with an Army Air Force squadron.
1

,

1930
Cpl. J. Fred Berger, of Bloomsburg, given a physical discharge
from the Army of 'the United States after a year and a half of service,
part of that in Africa, declared recently that “every dollar that is giv-

en to the

USO does triple
who arrived

Berger,

placement depot

in

duty.”
in

Africa

last

May, was assigned

to

a re-

French Morocco.

The corporal, who spent two afternoons on a personally conducted tour around Casablanca with his classmate, Sam Kurtz, as his guide,
has much of interest to relate concerning that country.
The city of Casablanca, he described as beautiful, with the architecture

modern and with the buildings

All of the buildings are of a buff

of stone, covered with stucco.
shade but the window frames are of

various colors.

the city.

who

the Army, was Red Cross director in
and Berger said they have three fine centers in
“Red Cross is certainly a godsend to the soldiers,” he assert-

Kurtz,

Casablanca

later entered

at the time

ed.

The replacement depot was

in

the country.

The natives were
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
friendly but

some

tered in an oats

He
els

of

them “long fingered.”

His

battalion

was quar-

field.

was crude but effective. Cammost of the farm work. He saw but two

said the irrigation system used

and horses are used

for

country. The wealth of a native is generally
gauged by the number of horses he owns.
The irrigation made one think of farming in some parts of Pennsylvania.
The farms were in rolling hills and but for the fact that all
the farm homes were of stone and that there were no shade trees one
might think he was back in the Commonwealth.
Fruit trees bear dates, pears, almonds and crab apples.
He said
he saw some splendid cabbage, potatoes and corn crops. Harvest season is earlier in Africa than here and oats harvest was over before he
tractors while in the

arrived.
Flails, similar to

those used in the pioneer days in

this

country,

and horses are brought into service in the threshing of the grain which
takes place at a community threshing center.
Corporal Berger entered service April 3, 1943, and for ten
months was an interviewer and classifier at New Cumberland replace-

1933
Miss Ida Arcus, of Bloomsburg, and Sgt. Bernard

ment

center.

training

He was

S.

t

attman, of

then transferred to Butner, N. C., for infantry

and from there to New Orleans where he was a
he went to Africa last May.

classification

specialist until

1931
has been receiving training in the Army
Corporal Robert
Air Force Officers’ Candidate School at Miami Beach, Florida. He entered the service in February, 1942, and took his first training at Camp
Sutliff

Claiborne, Louisiana, and

was then transferred

to Mitchell Field, N. Y.

New York City, were married in October at Gunter Field Chapel, Montgomery, Alabama. The bride is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha
During the past few years
Psi Omega, and the Woman’s Civic Club.
she has been associated with her father

in business.

Mrs. Mae Mantz Kreiss lives at 33 North
She has one son, born November 22, 1942.

Street,

Slatington, Pa.

Major John Q. Timbrell is stationed with the 16th Detachment,
Second Army, Camp Tyson, Tennessee.

Sp. Troops,

1934
Ensign Miriam G. Eroh, USNR, of Nescopeck, and Lt. Roger W.
Hatch, USN., of Santa Maria, California, were married Saturday, October 24.

in

Miami, Florida.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
honorary education
is a member of Kappa Delta Pi,
She received her M. A. degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. While in Nescopeck she was a member of the Berwick
Theatre Workshop and the Women’s Civic Club. Before entering the
Navy, she was teacher of Latin and English in the Nescopeck High
Mrs. Hatch

fraternity.

School.

Hatch

Lt.

and

is

a

a graduate of the University of Southern California

is

member

of the

Sigma Nu

From 1936 to 1939 he
50 and 00 yard free style
Navy, he was Junior accountant in a
Fraternity.

held the Pacific Coast championship for

swimming.

Before entering the

1

Pacific Coast firm.

Both

and Mrs. Hatch are stationed

Lt.

at

the Naval

operating

base at Key West, Florida.
Miss Donna Chappell, of Memphis, Missouri, and the Rev. Ronald
Minnesota, were married Saturday, September 5,

F. Keeler, of Nevis,

at the Christian

Church of Memphis.

is a graduate of the
Memphis High School and was
beauty operator. She was very active in church work.
Mr. Keeler is a graduate of the Minnesota Bible College, and later received his A. M. degree from the University of Minnesota. He is now
a teacher in the Minneapolis Bible College and pastor of the Christian
Church at Nevis.

Mrs. Keeler

employed

as a

Announcement has been made

of the

engagement of Miss Mild-

red Auten and William E. Ferry, both of Mooresburg. Miss Auten is
now teaching in the third grade in the First Ward School at Danville.

Mr. Ferry

is

a graduate of Pennsylvania State College

as an electrical engineer in the test
Electric

A

Company

laboratories

and is employed
Westinghouse

of the

at their plant in Sharon.

son was born Tuesday, October 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D.
Mrs. McFadden was formerly Miss Esther
of Hazleton.

McFadden,

Evans, of Bloomsburg.

1935
Miss Virginia Longenberger and George

W. VanSickle, both of

Catawissa, were married Wednesday, September 29, in the Methodist
Church at Catawissa. The bride is a graduate of the Catawissa High
School, in the class of 1939.
of the Scott

Mr. VanSickle

Township High School

is

a

member

of the faculty

at Espy, Pa.

Gerald Harter, the
ball history,

son.

He

was

also

is

'finest place-kicker in recent Bloomsburg footcoach at Darby High School during the 1943 seacoaching basketball at the same school.

line

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1936

i

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Florence 0. Smgley, of Shumans, and Lieutenant Charles P. Michael, of
Quakake. Miss Singley is now a Senior in the home-making department

at

Mansfield State Teachers College.

the

Lieutenant Michael

taught in the Beaver Township High School before

He

vice.

now an

is

Army, and

entering the

instructor in the chemical warfare division of

ser-

the

stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

is

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Anne
Quigley ’35, of Mount Carmel and Samuel Green '36, of Berwick. Mr.
Green who
with the
in

a sergeant in the army,

is

Army

stationed in North Carolina

is

The marriage took place

Air Force.

in

North Carolina

August.

“Bernie” Cobb

Cobb was

now coach

High School. Mr.
In one season in
the Texas League, he was judged the most valis

which he played
uable player

in

at Shickshinny

baseball for several years.

in professional

in that league.

1939
J. McKechnie, Jr., of Berwick, was graduated
from the Advanced Sound School at San Diego, California.

Ensign Alex

fall

last

1940
Miss Muriel Rinard, of Catawissa, and Lt. Leon Hartley, of Easton, were married Christmas Day in St/Matthew’s Lutheran Church in
Catawissa. Mrs. Hartley has been teaching in the Steelton schools.

Before entering the service, Lt. Hartley was a certified public accountant.
He is now attending civil affairs training school at Cleveland College, Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. Eleanor Beckley Martin, whose husband, Lt. John
Flight

a

Commander

month

U.

S.

after their marriage,

CPT

complete the

Army

in the

Army
is

Air Forces, Flying Training

Lt.

tenant.

Earl

He

Field,

now

,

Charles Bakey,

BSTC

to

to

the rank

of First Lieu-

Moyer, Briar Creek.
and has been located for the past

the husband of the former Louise

the service in July, 1941
seven months with the European wing of the
Lt.

first girl

a

Sweetwater, Texas.

He entered

has met

Martin,

member of the 318th
Detachment, Army Air Forces School
is

W. Houck has been promoted

is

J.

killed a little over

Mrs. Martin,

carrying on.

course at the College,

(women). Avenger

was

Air Corps,

Jr., is

stationed

Army

Air Force.

“somewhere

in

England” and
Mrs. Bak-

graduates Neil Ritchie and Earl Houck there.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
ey,

who was

Charlotte E. Gearhart

41, lives at 1424 Euclid Street, N.

W., Washington, D. C.

Second Lieutenant Charles S. Girton, of Bloomsburg, entered the
Army September 23, 1940. He is an instructor in the department of
physics-meteorology at the University of Los Angeles, California.

ant.
tion

Byron D. Shiner has been promoted to the rank of First LieutenHe has been stationed at Courtland, Oklahoma, since his graduafrom Officers’ School at Miami, Florida.
Lt.

William Wertz,

who received his commission August 21,
the Army Air Force.
His wife, the former

1943, is an instructor in
Kathryn Walp, is living in Berwick.

Ruth Boone, of Bloomsburg,

teacher of mathematics

is

and

science in the Danville High School.

1941

When two Navy

blimps collided

coast at Barnegat Inlet about

tember

18,

a Berwick

“Ted” Wenner was one

who

scene

aided

in

10:00

mid-air off

the

New

Jersey

Saturday morning, Sep-

Coast Guardsman, Pharmacist’s Mate Edwin
the

of

three

Coast Guardsmen

first

on the

bringing ashore the one survivor of the crew of

nine from one of the blimps which
eight

in

o’clock

crashed

into the sea.

The other

were lost.
The one blimp crashed

into the sea 200 yards, off shore as
other crippled airship reached port safely with its crew intact.

the

Only fishermen were witnesses of the collision that occurred in a
heavy fog, Wenner states. They saw one body fall into the sea as
pieces of the wrecked airship fell all about.
Fishermen swam to him
and affected the rescue.

Word

of the collision

was received

at

the

Seaside,

Lakehurst,

Coast Guard station just as he was about to set out for Berwick. A
physician and two pharmacist’s mates were sent out and he was one of
the party,
lision,

Wenner

the rescued

their clothing, the

stated.

As they reached

the shore opposite the col-

man was being brought ashore.
three waded out and assisted in

Doffing most of
bringing the

man

ashore.

Miss Arlene Anne Swinesburg, of Hazleton, and Sergeant Edward
Andrews, of Bethlehem, were married Wednesday, October 6, at St.
John’s Evangelical Church, Stroudsburg.
Mrs.

Andrews was active in sports while in College, and was one
“Maroon and Gold.” She was one of the three

of the editors of the

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
chosen to take the Civilian Pilots’ Training Course in 1941, and
was Link instructor at Aircraft Services Consolidated at
Bloomsburg.
Sgt. Andrews attended the Allentown Preparatory School, Muhlenberg College, and was attending Lehigh University at the time of his
induction into the armed forces. He is now in the Medical Corps.
girls

for a time

First

to the

Lieutenant John D. Young, of Catawissa, has been promoted

rank of Captain and

company

is

now

command

in

of a

reconnaissance

Key Field, Meridian, Mississippi. Captain Young was
ducted into the armed forces October
1941 and was assigned to
Army Air Corps. In his training he was at Officer Candidate School
at

1

,

,

in-

the
for

three months and served similar periods of instruction in the weather

bureau, public relations, and quartermaster schools. He served as personnel and liaison officer before being given his present command.
Liberal, Kansas, and Lt. Robert
Berwick, were married October 7, 1943, in the PresThe bride is a graduate of Liberal High
byterian Church of Liberal.
School and is employed in the Office of Price Administration at Liberal.

Miss Ardis Vernette Rollins, of

Bruce

Miller, of

1

received his wings and commission June 26, 1943, and was
then sent to the Liberator B-24 Transition School at Liberal. He finished that training September 5, and was scheduled to remain there for a
Lt. Miller

time as Flight Instructor.
Pfc.

Benton,

is

Edward Karns,

of Forks,

with an artillery unit

in

husband of Helen Kent Dixon, of

England.

He

is

a veteran of the in-

vasion of North Africa and the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns.
tered the service in April, 1942, and
Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

received his

Mr. and Mrs.

ward Dixon Karns, eleven months

entire

He

training

enat

Dixon have one son, Ed-

old.

Lieutenant William H. Hagenbuch, Jr., of Bloomsburg, was
a member of the twelfth class of Liberator B-24 pilots to be graduated
from the AAF Pilot School at Fort Worth, Texas. Lt. Hagenbuch won
First

his

wings and commission

ing preliminary

at

Barksdale Field, Louisiana, after complet-

flight training at

East

Sr.

Louis,

Illinois,

and Augusta,

Georgia.

Betsy Miller (Mrs. James O’Hara) is living at 43 Franklin Street,
Newport, Rhode Island, where her husband, an Ensign in the Navy, is
stationed.

Arcus, of Bloomsburg, has recently been promoted to the
rank of Technical Sergeant. He is stationed at Gunter Field, Montgom-

Max

ery,

Alabama.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Mary

Donald Sherwood) is teaching in the high
She was married in October, 1942.

E. Keesley (Mrs.

school at Damascus, Pa.

is teaching in the Coudersport
Allegheny Avenue, Coudersport.

Alice Kiryluk

address

is

1

High School.

1941-1942
was commissioned a second

Harriet Roan, of Bloomsburg,

Women’s Army Corps on Saturday, October

tenant in the

16,

Her

lieu-

upon

completion of the eight weeks’ officer training course at the Third
WAC Training Centre, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

1942
Lt. F. Stuart Straub, pilot in

North Africa, has been on several

missions over the enemy lines with his bomber, according to word received by his parents several months ago.
Lt. Straub was taken ill in August with a fever that threatened
malaria, and he

was

in the hospital for

seventeen days.

Sergeant Ralph Zimmerman, who has been an instructor at
School at Fort Logan, Colorado, has been selected for officer
training in Air Corps Administration, and has been assigned to a four
months’ course of training at Miami Beach, Florida. He was recently
home on a short leave. His wife, the former Jeanne Noll, of PalmerStaff

the

ton,

Army

is

teaching at Slatington.

Miss Mary Davenport and Yeoman 2/C Frank Shope, Jr., of Berwick, were married Thursday, November 25, in the Presbyterian ChapMrs. Shope is a teacher at the Ferris Heights School
el at Baltimore.
in

Yeoman Shope

Berwick.

is

stationed at Curtis Bay, Maryland, with

the Coast Guard.

USNR, has been promoted to the rank
and has been made executive officer of a
Lt. Hartman and Mrs. Hartman (BarJ.

Ensign Stuart L. Hartman,
of Lieutenant Junior Grade,
patrol ship at

Cape May,

N.

bara Straub ’42) recently spent a five-day leave at the

home

of their

parents.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Idajane
and Sergeant Joseph M. Madl, of Shamokin. Miss
Ship is a teacher in the Berwick Junior High School. Sgt. Madl is staShipe, of Berwick,

tioned with the Air Transport

Command

at the Fairfield-Suisern

Army

Air Base, Fairfield, California.
Merrill Deitrich, of

of First Lieutenant.

on duty

He

Bloomsburg, has been promoted to the rank
is a pilot in the Marine Air Corps and is now

in the Pacific area.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Sophia KoKora, of Mocanaqua,
partment at Shickshinny.

Helen Berfuss

Her address

is

is

teaching

teaching in the Nanticoke

46 West Green

Irene Lendoskey, of
leton

is

in the

commercial de-

High School Annex.

Street, Nanticoke.

West Hazleton,

is

teaching in the West Haz-

High School.

1943
S.

Miss Pauline M. Garey, of Honesdale, and Aviation Cadet Hugh
Niles, of Wellsboro, were married New Year’s Day in the First Meth-

Church of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The ceremony
was performed by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hooton. Mrs. Niles is a
member of the February, 1944, class at BSTC. Cadel Niles was graduated from Bloomsburg in January, 1943, and left with the BSTC Air
Corps contingent in February, 1943. He has received training at
Miami Beach, Florida, Rock Island, Illinois, San Antonio, Texas, Mustang Field, El Reno, Oklahoma, and is now stationed at Gordon City,
odist Episcopal

Kansas.
Pvt. William H. Barton, of Bloomsburg,

gan, Colorado.
Flight

1,

address

His

is

stationed at Fort
T. S. S.,

Lo-

Class 12,

Fort Logan, Colorado.

Yeoman Joyce

Knorr, of Wapwallopen,

with the SPARS, auxiliary to the U.

at

is

33609529, 23rd

S.

John Hubiak has been training as a
San Antonio, Texas.
George Spontak

Pa.

Page Thirty-Two

is

is

serving

in

Louisiana

Army

Air Forces

Coast Guard.
pilot in the

teaching in the high school at Downingtown,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Former Students
First

the United

Lieutenant Stacey M. Search, of Berwick, has returned to
States after serving for fourteen months in England and

North Ireland with a heavy armored division. He was recently transferred to the Army Air Corps as a volunteer for pilot training.
Lt.

Search went into the service as a sergeant of

Company M,

109th Infantry, when the Berwick companies were called into service in February, 1941 and has been in the service almost three years.
He was commissioned at Indiantown Gap as a Second Lieutenant and
,

was with the 28th Division

in its

southern training.

He

received a

three months’ course at Fort Benning, Georgia, Officers’ Training Cen-

and while the division was in Louisiana, attended a special school
Some months later he was transferred to an armored division at Bowie, Texas, and went with it overseas.
ter.

in

Texas.

Skuba has been appointed supervising principal of the
Wilkes-Barre Township schools. Mr. Skuba was formerly principal of
the Nicholson Street school in Wilkes-Barre Township and of the Ash
John

J.

Street school in Georgetown.

Determined to seek an education, Mr. Skuba, who was a breaker
boy. was finally graduated from high school at the age of twenty-eight
and from college at thirty-five. He now holds degrees from New York
University and Susqeuhanna University and holds credits from BuckJunior College, the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania State College and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
nell

He worked in the Hollenback Colliery at the age of eleven. Later
he entered the mines and worked there about fifteen years. He went to
high school and worked nights. Upon his graduation from the WilkesBarre Township High School, he entered Susquehanna University and
received his A. B. degree in 935. He received the A. M. degree from
New York University, his major subjects being administration and sup1

ervision of education.

•
of Bloomsburg, and Pfc. Charles
Miss Mary
Eagen Pierce, of Key West, Florida, were married Tuesday, September
21 in the First Method st Church at Belleville, Illinois. Mrs. Pierce
was. until recently, employed at Rea and Derick’s Drug Store, Bloomsburg. Pfc. Pierce is a graduate of the Key West High School, of the
University of Florida, and also studied in Cuba. He enlisted as a cadet
m the Army Air Forces January 9, 1942. Prior to that time, he was
associated with his father in the hardware business at Key West. He

Jane Hippensteel,

,

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
has been stationed at Scott Field,

A/C John

Illinois.

Schlauch, of Bloomsburg, was

recently

awarded the

gold bars of a Second Lieutenant after completing a course at the Air

Command

School at Yale University.

Lt. Schlauch
charge of maintaining
the communications of his outfit. He is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
High School, class of 938, and attended Bloomsburg, where he was
on the Dean’s list for three years. Prior to entering the service in August, 1942. at Middletown, Pa., he was employed as a tank inspector at
the American Car and Foundry Company at Berwick.
He was stationed for a time at Boca Raton Field, Florida.

Forces Training

was assigned

to a tactical unit,

where he

is

in

1

Jack Remley, of Berwick, received his commission as second
and his wings as a pilot Sunday, December 5, on completion
of training at the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at
course
a
of
He enlisted August 6, 1942, for pilot training,
Blytheville, Arkansas.
February 3, 1943. His first training was at
camp
called
to
and was
and he was then sent to Walnut Ridge, ArAlabama,
Field,
Maxwell
period
of training. When he was graduated at
second
kansas, for his
assigned
to Blytheville Field for advanced trainwas
he
Walnut Ridge
lieutenant

ing in flying

bombing

planes.

•
Aviation Cadet John Lawrence Hower, of Bloomsburg, was reArmy Air Forces Advanced Flying School

cently graduated from the
at

Yuma. Arizona.

The graduates were commissioned

tenants and Flight Officers in the

Army

as

Second Lieuand were

of the United States

given the silver wings, symbolic of the aeronautical rating of

pilot.

Be-

and advanced training course at Yuma Air Field,
Lt. Hower completed his primary and basic training at Sequoia Field,
Visalia, California, and at Lemore Army Flying School, Lemore, Califore entering the final

fornia.

•
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Smith, of Light Street Road, Bloomsburg,
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Monday, October 1 1 Mr.
and Mrs. Smith were married October 11,1 893, by the Rev. W. D.
.

Donat, pastor of the Wapwallopen Church. They resided in Nuremberg for twenty-nine years prior to taking up residence in Bloomsburg.
Mr. Smith attended schools in Nescopeck Township and also attended
the

Bloomsburg State Normal School.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Aviation Cadet Philip R. Yeany, of Bloomsburg, writes

the fol-

lowing from Stamford, Connecticut:
“The last couple of days I have been having final tests in ground
school and also flight checks in my flying. Last week I finished with
my flying here at primary. At the present time I have sixty-five hours
to

my

credit, plus five hours of Link

basic flying school.

It is at

training.

Tomorrow

I

leave for

Sherman, Texas.”

Miss Hazel Chappell, of Danville, and Lt. Charles M. Guyler, U.

Army

Air Corps, also of Danville, were married in October,

Presbyterian Church at Dalhart, Texas. Mrs. Guyler
office of the

Chief of Ordnance at Washington.

merly stationed at the

Army

is

employed

at

S.

the

in the

Guyler was forAir base at Dalhart, Texas, but has been
Lt.

transferred to the air base at Grand Island, Nebraska.

Miss Doris Elizabeth Hanna, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Norman
Yeoman 1/C, United States Coast Guard, were married
Sunday, November 28, at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Baltimore. The

Austin Yeany,
bride

is

a graduate of Eastern High School, Baltimore, and of St. Josis now attached to the staff of the U. S.

eph’s Hospital, Baltimore, and

Marine Hospital, Baltimore.

Harry G. John, Jr., of Bloomsburg, R. D. 3, was graduated September 25 in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command at
Colorado State College, Fort Collins, Colorado. He was then transferred to the Army Air Base at Salt Lake City, and from there was sent to
Wendover, Utah.

•

Word

has been received that Paul N. Baker,

rived safely in Hawaii.

He

is

Jr.,

of Espy, has ar-

located on the island of

Oahu near Hon-

His address is Paul N. Baker, Jr., Y. 2/C, 99th Construction
Battalion, care of Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California.

olulu.

Jack W. Simpson, of Bloomsburg, is in training as an aviation caHe attended Bloomsburg two years and the University of Pittsburgh one year. He was employed as an electrician at the American
Car and Foundry plant in Berwick for the past two and a half years.
det.

•
Aviation Cadet Donald A. Schlieder, of Catawissa,

is

stationed at

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Ellington Field. Texas.

Cadet Schlieder is taking bombardier training
and is awaiting shipment to gunnery school. His address is A. S. N.
13068799, Sqd. “00,” Bks. 13771 Ellington Field, Texas.
,

Robert

Bunge, of Catawissa, is at Pre-Flight School, San Anis A/C Robert L. Bunge, A. S. N. 13068556,
Class 44-E, Grp. S., Sqdn. 262, A. A. F., P. F. S. S„ A. C. C., San Antonio, Texas.
L.

tonio, Texas. His address

•
Aviation Cadet

Wayne

Deaner has been stationed

E.

having undergone training
Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Field, Texas, after

at

the

at Corsicana

Aviation Cadet

Miss Violet M. Laubach and Sgt. Leonard Harmon, both of Berwick, were married Friday, September 3, in the Methodist parsonage
at Bellville, Illinois.

Miss Betty Carey, of Mifflinville,
the

is

now employed

American Car and Foundry Company

in

in the offices of

Berwick.

The address of Aviation Cadet Robert H. DeMott is A/C Robert
DeMott, Squadron B, Group 7, Sec. 103, A. A. F. R. F. S. (P.) Class
44 G., Maxwell Field, Alabama.

•
Corporal George Edward Horne entered the army in June, 1943.
Battery No. 86, Anti-Aircraft Artillery,
is Headquarters

His address

Automatic Weapons Battalion,

Camp Haan,

California.

•
Aviation Cadet Henry VonBlohn has been transferred to Maxwell
Field

from Nashville, Tennessee

Bynoth R.
ers, Florida, to

Bird, of Berwick, has been transferred from Fort MyLas Vegas, California, where he is an instructor in na-

val gunnery.

Lt.

Donald N. Rishe

Page Thirty-Six

is

stationed at

Camp Hood,

Texas.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Three Years of Transition-1940-1943

From Peace

to

IVar In a Teachers College

HARVEY

A. ANDRUSS, President
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

By

Before the passage of the

first

selective service act in 1940,

was evident that the enrollment in technical and professional
curriculums of colleges and universities would be affected.
First, by the call to the colors of the National Guard Units, then
by the upsurge in manufacturing of heavy equipment for those
European nations later to be our Allies.
An increasing wage level and the possibility of war turned
the minds of high school graduates away from preparation for
it

peace time activities to that of war. No matter how we abhorred the prospect of conflict the obligation of the American College to meet the challenge for the national defense became
real.
Those who persisted in doing the same thing as before
hoped that “education as usual” would be able to carry on, although it was clear that “business was NOT as usual” family life was NOT as usual”
and “America could NOT be as
usual in a world gone mad with war.”
All these factors and many others resulted in decreased
enrollment in colleges. It was futile to try to offset this force.
One could not plan for the future when the present task of defending our country was becoming more pressing.
Looking beyond the campus of the college, some college
administrators saw that a transition must be made. If changes
were made gradually there would be need of less adjustment
on the part of the faculty and students; and alumni would have
time to understand just what was happening at their Alma
Mater.
So as early as 1939, some colleges began to teach First Aid
courses to larger numbers and there was some talk about teach-

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Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16,
1804. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
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ing undergraduates to fly. However, not until September, 1940,
was the stirring of change being felt. There were some institutions who looked askance at others who were experimenting with new activities, partly from inertia
disinclination to
change and mostly from the feeling that pointing the colleges
toward national defense would in itself influence young people
toward war. These institutions today, denuded of civilian students, are seeking ways to aid the war effort but the staid of
three years on the part of institutions beginning the transition
in 1940 is too much to overcome.
Confronted by all these confusing forces, the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, on learning of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, began in June, 1940, to explore the possibilities of
reopening the Bloomsburg Airport, then closed, after having
been pioneered twelve years before by Harry L. Magee and a
number of other far-seeing citizens.
On the basis that aviation would be taught in Pennsylvania
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times past, this activity was considered an important opportunity for an institution training teachers.
From September, 1940, until July, 1942, over 100 college
undergraduate students were taught to fly at the Bloomsburg
Airport. Instruction in Civil Air Regulations, Navigation, Meterology, and related subjects were taught at the college.
Since these courses were a part of the college curriculum
for future teachers of Mathematics, Physics, and Geography,
little change was necessary in plant, equipment, or instructional
personnel.
However, seeing a possible need for more classroom and
activity space, the equipping of the Centennial Gymnasium and
Navy Hall (then called the Junior High School) was continued
with the idea that expansion would be possible if facilities were
available. With that thought in mind, Spruce Street was extended and curbs were placed on either side of the road to provide for parking of more cars.
Regular college faculty members formerly teaching Geography, Physical Education, and Social Studies, Mathematics
and Science, learned to teach the subjects required in ground
school instruction. Due to the early influence of the Bloomsburg Airport, there were still experienced aviators in the community who were able to fill in the gaps which could not be carried by college faculty.
The idea of training teachers of Aeronautics was born in
1941 and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was designated in April, 1943, as the first college in Pennsylvania (and possibly in the United States) to offer a specialized field for teachers in Aeronautics, leading to a Bachelor’s Degree.
Although the effect of the oncoming war was reflected in
the lessening number of male students in 1941 there were still

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100 men living in the town and only 70 in the college dormitory.
Plans were made to use a portion of the women’s dormitory, not
then needed, to house men.
In July, 1942, all aviation instruction was restricted to
those who were in the Army and Navy. For the first time uniformed men were housed in college dormitories along with civilian students.

Then changes began

to

come thick and

fast.

After training 40 Army and Navy Aviation Cadets, Bloomsburg
was designated as a Navy Aviation Center, in September, 1942.
On November 15, 1942, the Naval Flight Instructors’ School
was begun to meet the demand for teachers of Aviation in the
Navy. Along with five other institutions (Chicago, Georgia,
Purdue, Texas Christian University and Arizona) Bloomsburg
continued this program for one year.
Building and plant changes were necessary to meet these
new requirements. Travel being curtailed, a larger number of
resident students lived in college dormitories. Army and Navy
Cadets and Officers had to be housed in quarters formerly occupied by women students. Along with all these new developments attention must ever be kept attuned to the expanding
needs of a college educating young people to be teachers in the
public schools of Pennsylvania.
During the year 1940-1941 there was provided from the
college funds over $40,000 worth of improvements, such as
Hot Water Tanks for all dormitories; Toilet Rooms for Men in
Science Hall, where Engineering, Science and Management Defense Training Courses were taught in the evening and much
new equipment and machinery to handle new courses offered
for the first time. An athletic fence and sidewalk in front of
the Centennial Gymnasium was also completed, although the
building itself could not be opened since electric current for
power and light was not then available. During the year, however, the General State Authority let contracts for over $60,000,
designed to put the Junior High School and Gymnasium into
operation. These contracts provided equipment for both buildings unification of all power and light lines so that a single
meter would give control and result in economies of operation;
correction of certain construction changes; and additions to the
boiler room equipment. The blackouts which were to follow
would have required the pulling of seven switches in as many
different places if these contracts had not been completed.
Thus, during the college year of 1940-1941, over $100,000 was
added to the college plant and equipment.
The trend of equipping to meet new needs was continued in the college year 1941 with an expenditure of $25,000.
The college spent over $5,000 on new Flourescent Lights,
furniture, machines and gymnasium floors, while the General
State Authority continued with its program to put the new
buildings in shape to be operated, spending over $20,000 as
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Concrete steps and

balustrade

for

the

Centennial

Gymnasium, movable equipment for the Junior High School
and Gymnasium, and alterations and additions to better meet
the needs for which the buildings were designed.
With an expanding program in Navy Aviation, the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College filled out and returned a
questionnaire to the War Manpower Commission, outlining
available faculty and facilities.
Feeling that the college
war participation was substantial, no request was made for
other war programs for men.
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania
School Code had been amended so as to permit the cooperation of State Teachers Colleges with national, state, and local
agencies in promoting the defense effort until 1945.
In Apnotified that
ril, 1942, certain colleges and universities were
they were eligible for inspection for the Navy V-12 (Officer
Candidate) Program. Two State Teachers Colleges were inspected and Bloomsburg was chosen to accommodate a complement of 175 men.
its

Thus the gradual conversion of housing space from wodormitories was stepped up to meet the increased
need. From a housing capacity of 70 men the space was increased to accommodate 350 men. At the same time care
was taken to reserve enough space to house ALL women students, the number of which had increased slightly in 1943
men’s

over 1942.

The change of dormitory accommodations from 70 men
and 350 women to accommodations for 350 men and 100 wonecessitated an expenditure of over $30,000, including
replastering and relighting of North Hall (Men’s Dormitory)
conversion of Waller Hall through new toilet facilities and
faculty apartments; new slate roof for Waller Hall along
with new furniture, double deck beds and bedding. In addition, certain major repairs and additions were made by the
installation of new coal and ash handling equipment in the
boiler house, the exterior painting of all wood work on
Science Hall, Waller Hall (including old gymnasium), North
Hall, and Carver Hall. This brought the total improvement beyond the $50,000 mark.
During this period the needs of the college after the war
have not been forgotten. All remodeling and renovations of
dormitory facilities will give balanced accommodations for
men and women. Equipment procured for aviation, science,
and nursing courses is adaptable for teacher education cours-

men

es.

The most recent addition to the cooperative war programs has been in the field of Nursing Education. Instruction in physical, biological and social sciences is given to stuCollege credit is
dent nurses of the Bloomsburg Hospital.
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outline of the Pennsylvanfollowed.
By way of summary, the new developments in curriculum offerings in the period of transition from Peace to War
are

awarded for these courses and the

ia

Nurses Association

is

Teacher Education Developments
Field of Speech Correction as a part of the curriculum
for the education of Teachers of Mentally Retarded Children.

Field of Aeronautics as a part of the curriculum for the
education of Secondary Teachers.
Field of Spanish as an elective for Business Education
students and later as an elective field for Secondary Students.

War Programs
Civilian Pilot Training of one hundred (100) college students.
Engineering, Science, and Management War Training
Courses housed in Science Hall have reached 1,500.
Aviation Cadets for the Army and Navy to the number of
120. July, 1942 to January, 1943, resumed August, 1943.
Naval Flight Instructors (250) from November, 1942 to

November, 1943.
Navy V-12 Unit began July

1,

1943.

Present complement

175.

Navy Aviation Cadet Program resumed August,

1943, with
of 100 men.
Science Instruction for Nurses of the Bloomsburg Hospital (22).
All these changes have made it necessary that the Dining
Room be transformed into a cafeteria. Contracts to the amount
of $17,000 have been let to renovate the kitchen and install
self-service for 450 persons now being fed at the college.
While the additions to plant, renovations, and major repairs during the period from 1940 to 1943 have aggregated
more than $200,000, a far greater adjustment has been made
by the faculty. Facilities merely make it possible for the faculty to serve in new needs. When a musical director and language instructor becomes a mathematics teacher, a dean of men
becomes an aviator, a coach learns to teach navigation, a physical education director becomes a drill master and a geography instructor becomes a weather man, we have a campus
revolution, while not so obvious as the building changes, it nevertheless is truly revolutionary. If education is an adjustment
to changing conditions, then our faculty are continuing to be
a

complement

educated.

Now that a teachers college has made the transition from
peace to war there remains the problem of transforming it
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lenges which will come with the return of peace. A faculty
committee is studying the problems of planning for post war
education as it affects teachers and pupils in the public schools
of Pennsylvania.
All these changes in a time of sudden shifts in man-power
have been possible only through the vision of the Board of
Trustees, the cooperation of the faculty, the confidence of the
student-body, and the interest of the public-spirited citizens of
Bloomsburg, along with the continued support of the 9,000

Alumni.

THE STUDENT LOAN FUND
The following is an extract from a letter recently received
from a Bloomsburg graduate who was enabled to complete her
college course because of a loan from the Student Loan Fund
“I am happy to enclose my check in the amount
of $25.00, twenty dollars of which will pay the
balance of the loan from the Association.
“The other five dollars I wish to be added to the
general Loan Fund in appreciation of the good
fellowship and help given me while a student at
the College.”
letter contains the following

Another
tion

word

of

apprecia-

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“I cannot tell you how much I appreciated this
loan. It made it possible for me to finish my
last year of college.”

William B. Wilson, son of Prof, and Mrs. Samuel L. Wilson, of the College faculty, enlisted in the Naval Reserve in
July, 1943, and after completing his basic training at Sampson, N. Y., was sent to electrician’s school at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.
He was graduated from there with the rating of “qualified striker” for electrician’s mate. While there he
was one of thirty men selected from seventy volunteers to be
assigned to the submarine base at
London, Connecticut,
where he is now enrolled in submarine school. His address is
William B. Wilson, F 1-c, Box 7, Submarine Base, New London,

New

Connecticut.

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Herbert E. McMahan, member of the College faculty, has
been promoted to the rank of full commander in the United
States Navy. He is stationed in the Pacific theater of operations.

©
Mrs. Dorothy Fuldheim, of Cleveland, Ohio, spoke at the
College February 9, during the assembly period. Mrs. Fuldheim, who has traveled extensively each year in Europe and
in America, spoke on “The Mistakes of Hitler.”
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Bloomsburg, Graduate Fights Illiteracy
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, of Benton, is attracting world-wide
attention by the outstanding work he has been doing in his campaign to eradicate illiteracy from all the peoples of the world.
The Hon. A. S. Mike Monroney, of Oklahoma, speaking recently in the House of Representatives, made the following statement about Dr. Laubach
“Dr. Laubach has done a colossal work of importance to the world in giving to the people of
eighty different languages an alphabet by which
they have been taught as individuals to read their
own language in a few hours.”
Mr. Monroney then called the attention of the House to
the review of Dr. Laubaeh’s recent book “The Silent Billion
:

Speak.” The review was written by the Hon. Robert L. Owen,
first United States Senator from Oklahoma.
Senator Owen’s
review of Dr. Laubach’s book follows:

WORLD LITERACY CAMPAIGN —THE

SILENT BILLION

SPEAK
The Silent Billion Speak, written by Dr. Frank C. Laubach,
the most wonderful epic I can recall. It represents the work
of a consecrated, loving, humble, faithful soul, rejoicing in the
service of the poorest of the poor and of the most helpless human beings in the world.
It represents the overwhelming demonstration of the truth
that an illiterate man anywhere in the world can be taught
within a few days to write and read his own language in a text
he had never seen but which delights his heart and for which
is

he shows at once a deep desire.
This book is of eight chapters, published by the Friendship
Press, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, which outlined the scope
of this tremendous human experience in serving mankind. The
story is simple in the extreme.
It begins with teaching the Moros of Mindanao Island,
the inveterate foes of the white race, who were taught, to their
great delight, to read and write their own language in a very
simple phonetic alphabet. Some of them learned to read this
alphabet in a few hours. One of them is recorded as havinglearned it in less than an hour. Dr. Laubach got their attention
through unaffected loving kindness where he invited their Moslem leaders to teach him the truth of their faith as Moslems.
He discovered that they cherished the principles taught by
Jesus of Nazareth. In 10 years, under the guidance of this servant of God, the great majority of Moros could read and write
their own language, and from fierce, inveterate enemies of the
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white race they became dependable friends and co-operated

in

establishing better conditions of government and of life.
Listen to what Dr. Laubach says in his book.
“These countries had a simpler problem than ours, however. They can teach reading in half the time it takes us, because their alphabets are regular and phonetic, while our English alphabet is ‘confusion worse confounded.’ * * *

“Mr. Galia says that he taught nine Moros to read in a half
That is better than any record that 1 have thus far made
with a large group. A half dozen Moros interrupted this letter.
They came in and said they could not wait until tomorrow, but
had to be taught right away. They had only an hour to spare
and wanted all the education they could get in that time. So I
have stopped this letter to teach them. While I concentrated
on one of them, the rest listened. They have just left the house.
I do not expect you to believe me, but here is the fact
This man
had finished reading three pages of our newspaper, and could
read everything I put before him with fair speed. One hour.
Every time that happens I feel as though a miracle had happened. It is possible only because these people are hungry
mentally and spiritually.
“Nine-tenths of our job is sitting close beside the people
who flock to us and getting thrills of delight with them as they
emerge from ignorance.”
On page 38 he describes 60 Moros coming 20 miles in a
launch to be examined by him. They had just learned to read
and write from other teachers and wanted to be examined and
hour.

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to express their delight.

“In the 10 years following the opening of the Lanao Station the attitude of the Moros toward Christianity swung from
one pole to the other. It was unmitigated hatred when we ar* * *.
rived love, good will, and cooperation when we departed
;

asking, ‘Do you suppose we can
lessons as easy as these in other languages?’
knew it could not be done in English with its hopeless spelling.
But what we were all eager to know was how many of the languages of the world were spelled regularly enough to be taught

“Our Moro teachers kept

really

make

We

by our method.”
This doubt has been fully answered by the subsequent experience of Dr. Laubach for he has applied his simple phonetic
method to 80 other languages in Asia, India, Afghanistan, Persia, Arabia, East Africa and Latin America and has started a
literacy movement by this simple method of phonetic writing
which was used by Moses 2,700 years ago when he spoke the
words of Genesis transcribed in writing by 22 letters. The
meaning of the Book of Genesis has come down to us through
many translations from language to language with the meaning
recorded by the 22 letters originally used and with the meaning unchanged, intelligible, and convincing as spiritual truth.
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Dr. Laubach has illustrated in his work the truth of words spoken and recorded in like manner by a disciple, John (ch. 14)
“He who hath My Commandments and keepeth them, he it is
that loveth Me and he shall be loved by the Father and I will
love him and will manifest Myself unto him.’’ Dr. Laubach recites the Moro experience of 10 years, where hate is converted
into love. Is not this a manifestation of the spiritual power of
the words recorded by John?
In 1937 the National Christian Council held a meeting in
Nagpur, India, and endorsed the work of making the people of
India literate, and subsequently Dr. Laubach held 226 conferences in different places of India teaching the natives to write
in their own tongue their own languages with phonetic letters
adopted for each as seemed expedient. The great poverty of
the Indian people and their terrible illiteracy and the necessity
of teaching literacy by word of mouth was a serious obstacle
and at first prevented Mahatma Gandhi from giving support to
the fight for literacy. Later he endorsed it.
The phonetic system of writing these languages showed
how closely akin many of them were to each other. In some
cases a high percentage of the common words were the same
and which were discovered when put into phonetic letters.
Commenting on the difficulty of word-of-mouth teachinghundreds of millions of people scattered over the continent, Dr.
Laubach says
“It is impossible to go around and explain the principles to
345,000,000 men and women by word of mouth, but it would
be easy to enlist cooperation if only the people could read.”
The literacy campaign proceeds steadily in spite of the
World War which broke out in 1939.
Indeed, the fight on illiteracy was not confined to the tremendous work done by Dr. Laubach because the Russans under
the guidance of Lenin had made it a governmental policy to
teach the Russians to read and write with the phonetic alphabet in their 58 languages, and in 20 years the Russians have
conquered illiteracy, and this is a major factor in their ability
to resist the long-prepared attack of the Germanic power.
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The fame of Dr. Laubach in conquering illiteracy led to an
urgent invitation to go to Africa, which he accepted, and in 50
days located many centers of instruction of different African
languages showing them how to conquer illiteracy. This the
Africans received with great delight and showed the same facility in learning to read and write their own language as the
Moros had done and the Malays and the people of India. This
method is now being used in more than 50 African languages.
“The greatest need of the whole world is to break down
all the walls that separate us, of race and religion and nationality and class, so that the pure love of God can tie the world together.

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“ * *

* If

of humanity,
history.
“ * * *

that terrible load is lifted from the illiterate half
will be one of the most glorious liberations in

it

The

terrible eagerness of India’s educated young
holds the promise of the making of a new nation
one of the mightiest on earth and India’s wonderful
young women will have an immense part to play.
“By the end of two weeks our committee had prepared one
set of lessons in Hindi and another in Urdu, unlike any we had

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ever done elsewhere. It is marvelous how working creatively
on literacy lessons ties silver threads about our hearts.”
Fortunately, the government at last gave its supporting
hand to publishing lessons prepared by Dr. Laubach and his
friends, to which he makes reference as follows:
“ * * *
The government agreed to publish all of the new
lessons in Marathi, Gujerati, Hindi, and Urdu. They began that
afternoon to lay the foundation for what was two years later to
be one of the most gigantic literacy campaigns in any city in
all

history.”

Throughout this book from beginning to end there is manifested humility, love of man and love of God by the author in
seeking to obtain the divine guidance in all that he does or tries
to do for the service of man. His pledge to God written in his
diary January 1, 1937, page 130, and on April 30, 1937, page
137, should touch the heart of every human soul that worships
and reveres and truly loves his divine Creator. On May 21,

made the following entry on his diary:
“Yesterday and today have filled my heart with boundgratitude to God. The new charts are working like magic!
have tried them on twelve or more persons with uniformly

1937, he
less

We

striking success.”
as saying to him
ask of you whites is to give us your backing and financial help, and we will do the rest.”
Dr. Laubach recites one voice of opposition in the person
of an official of a gold mining company and he wrote it down
“I have nothing whatever against you personally, but I
will tell you frankly that professionally you are my enemy. If
you teach these savages to read, they will soon think they are
as good as we are. Can’t you see that you will start unrest and
labor troubles all over Africa?”
The fears of the official of the gold mining company are
completely answered by Dr. Laubach’s experience with the
Moros, converted from fierce, dangerous enemies to loving
Dr.

Laubach quotes the African leaders

“All

we Africans

friends.
Dr. Laubach’s African campaign was a great success, short
as it was, and he makes this observation at the close of it
“Eight men have reached the reading stage this week. One
young fellow was learning the syllables when suddenly he dis-

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covered that he could pronounce new words alone. With victory gleaming in his eyes, he shouted ‘Give me a book. I can
read.’ And he did, as elated as Columbus was when he first
sighted the coast of the New World.”
Dr. Laubach quotes the words of one of the strongest leaders, Mr. Martin Kyamba, who said
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have watched you day by day teaching my countrymen,
am convinced that this is the greatest hope that has come

‘‘I

and

I

to Africa since Livingstone.”

The concluding chapter of Dr. Laubach’s book is headed
“Literacy and a good-neighbor policy.” On his tremendous
back-ground of experience he wisely urges the teaching of the
illiterates of Asia and Africa, the lessons of Christian civilization in their own tongue.
Dr. Laubach said in the beginning of his book, page 3
“They will bless or blast the world. That is why the church
must step to the front and take a leading share in the mighty
upsurge of the sunken half.”
The English speaking people of the world should realize
the supreme importance of this message of this consecrated
man who converted the warlike Moros into peace-loving cooperating friends. It has given me a deep thrill of pleasure to
hear this book read to me and I wish to commend it to the attention of the people of the United States and their Representatives in Congress and in the executive offices.
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COMMENCEMENT

ACTIVITIES

will not close until the end
activities will take place
during the last week in May. The date of Alumni Day is set
for Saturday, May 27, when the classes for the years ending in
4 and 9 will hold their reunions. The Baccalaureate sermon
will be held Sunday, May 28, and the Commencement exercises
will be held on Monday, May 29.
Four Seniors completed their work at the end of January,
and will return to take part in the Commencement activities.

Although the present trimester

of June, the

usual

Commencement

They are Helen Behler, Leona Oakes, Edward Manley and
Samuel Trapani.
Five more completed their work at the end of February.
They were Joanne Spaid, Stella Williams, and Marjorie Shar-

who specialized in the elementary field; Janet Shank,
specialized in Speech and Spanish in the secondary field,
and Mrs. Pauline Garey Niles, who is certified in French, Spanish, and English.

retts,

who

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Julian Zinzarella was elected President of the Community
Government Association, succeeding Edward Manley, who
completed his work at the College in January.
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HAROLD
Harold G. Teel,

fifty-three,

G.

TEEL

prominent member of the Col-

umbia County Bar and for eight years District Attorney of Columbia County, died at his home on West Fourth Street, Tuesday, January 25, from a heart attack.
His death came about thirty-six hours after he had suffered the first heart attack Monday morning. Rallying from that
attack, he drove his automobile, accompanied by Mrs. Teel, to
the Geisinger Hospital. There he was advised that rest was
the one thing necessary and that he could rest as well at home
as at the hospital.
He was ill for three weeks about a year ago and following
that siege of illness attempted to reduce the number of activities in which he was engaged.
Associates said that for some
time he had complained of not feeling well and frequently
mentioned indigestion as the probable cause of his illness.
Active in all fields of law practice, he was especially in demand as a solicitor for school districts and had served, or was
serving at the time of his death, all the districts in the area. He
had been solicitor for most area districts who adopted consolidation and was recognized as an authority on school law.
Aside from the practice of his profession, he was active in
many phases of civil life was constantly in demand as a speaker at dinners and programs and was exceptionally active in
church work and recognized as an outstanding Sunday School
;

teacher.

Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Martha Louise, and his
mother, Mrs. L. P. Teel, all of Bloomsburg.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 o’clock Friday afternoon, January 26, at the Dyke Funeral Home, with the Rev.
Edwin E. Staudt, pastor of the Reformed Church, officiating.
Burial was made in the New Rosemont Cemetery.
A native of Easton, he spent some of his youth in Michigan
and as a young man resided at Shippensburg. He came to
Bloomsburg around 1915 as a member of the faculty of the
Teachers College, then the State Normal School, where he was
instructor in Latin.
It was while there that he decided to study law and went
Dickinson Law School, although during that time he retained
residence in Bloomsburg. He was a graduate of Dickinson College, of Heidelberg College, where he studied for the ministry;
Columbia University and Dickinson Law School, and held the
degrees of A. B., A. M., and LL. B.

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Mr. Teel last year observed his twentieth anniversary in
the practice of law. During that time he had maintained law
offices with H. Mont Smith, until the latter’s death then with
Captain Hervey B. Smith, until he entered the services, and
also for some years with E. Eugene Eves.
During the years the late Harry R. Stees was District Attorney, Mr. Teel was, for some time, his assistant. Then he was
elected to the office in 1932 and again in 1936, each time polling exceptionally heavy majorities.
;

Aside from an extensive

work

addition to his
his pracextensive despite his efforts in the past
office practice, in

as solicitor for scores of civic

tice in

the courts

was

and private bodies,

year to curtail his activities.
He was throughout the years an active member of the Reformed Church and a lay minister in that congregation. Never
did he allow any other activities to interfere with the work of
the church in which he was thoroughly interested, and to which
he devoted much of his time and energy.
He was a member of the Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. &
A. M. the various bodies of Caldwell Consistory and the
Craftsman Club; the Columbia County Bar Association, of
which he was secretary for some years vice president and a director of the Farmers National Bank; the Bloomsburg Kiwanis
Club, Chamber of Commerce, Bloomsburg Lodge of Elks, Rescue Hose and Ladder Co., Bloomsburg Firemen’s Relief Assoc;

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and the Almedia Social Club.
His activities in the field of school law is shown in the number of school districts he was serving as solicitor at the time of
his death.
These districts included Mt. Pleasant, Scott, Hemlock, Madison, Mifflin, Main, Beaver, Orange, Orangeville,
Pine, Center, Montour, Sugarloaf and Jackson in this county;
Valley and Cooper in Montour County, and Huntington in Luzerne County.
The last public address he gave was in November when he
spoke at the dedication of the Mount Pleasant Consolidated
School. Recently his condition had shown some improvement
and he returned to Kiwanis Club meetings after an absence of
almost a year.
In the present crisis he was serving as a member of the
District No. 1 War Price and Rationing Board. In World War
I he was active as one of the Four Minute Men, an organization
in support of the various civic drives of that period.
The “Morning Press” had the following editorial comment
on Mr. Teel’s death
“A devoted husband and father, a loyal citizen, a man devoted to his church and a leader in his profession passed from
the scene yesterda,y in the sudden death of Harold G. Teel.
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“News of his death as it spread throughout the town and
county late yesterday brought sorrow to everybody. The end
came with tragic suddenness. He had been on the street as recently as Monday of this week.
“Mr. Teel’s association with the town of his adoption goes
back many years. He was a member of the faculty of the
in World War 1 days.
It was
the years of full maturity that he decided to
change his life-work, and studied law.

Bloomsburg State Normal School

when he reached

“As District Attorney of Columbia County for two terms
conduct of that important office was such has to inspire complete confidence, with the result that in recent years Mr. Teel
had been one of the leaders of the Bar.
“His death leaves a tremendous vacancy in the county’s
legal profession, and one that under existing conditions will not
be filled.
“The community suffers an irreparable loss in his passing,
for his community interests were wide-spread and his desire to
be of service unlimited. Only in recent months had ill health
made it necessary for him to withdraw from many activities in
which his counsel was always sought.
“Not only Bloomsburg, but the entire countryside suffered
heavy loss in Harold G. Teel’s passing.”
his

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES
The class of 1944 held its annual class banquet Wednesday evening, February 2, at the Elks’ Club. The president of
the class, Miss Louise Madl, of Shamokin, presided at the banquet. Group singing was led by Miss Marjory Sharrets, with
Miss Louis Adams at the piano. Brief remarks were made by
various members of the faculty. Guests of honor were Mrs. H.
A. Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. T. P. North, Dr. Marguerite Kehr,
Mrs. John C. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rygiel, Mr. and Mrs. H.
F. Fenstemaker, and Lt. and Mrs. W. D. Greulich.
The Senior Ball was held Saturday evening, February 5, at
the Wimodausis Club rooms. The dance was largely attended.
Music was provided by Eddie Calhoun, of Sunbury.
The officers of the class are President, Louise Madl; VicePresident,

Anne

Shortess; Secretary, Anita Biehler; Treasurer,

Margaret Latsha. Miss Stella Williams was general chairman
of the banquet and ball, and Miss Janet Shank was chairman
of the banquet.

Of the group that entered Bloomsburg as Freshmen in
1940, over fifty per cent are now serving in the armed forces of
the United States.
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Hartline Memorial Planned
At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association last May
was proposed that the grove on the campus be beautified and
supplemented by the addition of trees, shrubs and flowering
The proposal included the suggestion that the project
plants.
be in honor of Professor Hartline and known as the Hartline
Memorial Arboretum. Without Professor Hartline’s opinion
regarding the proposal, President Andruss gave his hearty assent and the Alumni members voted unanimously in favor of it.
The class of ’13 volunteered to sponsor the project for the
it

Association.
Members of the class immediately established a
fund of $25.00 to which contributions have been added. Bruce
Albert and Kimber Kuster presented the general plan to Pro-

With his characteristic vision and enthusiasm to have the campus beautiful and useful, he accepted the
honor and offered to assist in every way possible. Before his
death he completed a chart of the grove and northern portion
of the campus which will serve as a guide for those in charge of
planting.
He personally engaged a professional tree-surgeon
and directed the repair of the Columbia Elm on the terrace
west of the tennis court.
The work in the grove and some of the plans have been
delayed because the grove has been used for an obstacle-course
by the Navy. Until the grove ceases to be used for this purpose the committee appointed to do the planting, hesitates to
accept trees and shrubs for the Hartline Memorial Arboretum.
When conditions are suitable, the committee will be glad to receive trees and shrubs suitable for this project from interested
Alumni. President Andruss has graciously offered the service
of Campus Maintenance Department with equipment and labor
whenever possible. The committee is considering the service
of a professional landscape achitect to perfect the plans.
Alumni are urged to send contributions for this fund to R.
Bruce Albert or Kimber C. Kuster.
fessor Hartline.

Each

class in reunion

is

requested to appoint some-

one to write an account of their reunion.
terly will go to press
in

June

10,

and

all

The July Quar-

material should be

the editor’s hands by that date.

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Takes

Command

of

Navy V-12 Unit

Jordan arrived here Wednesday, March 8 to take
commanding officer of the Navy V-12 unit of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, succeeding Lt. W. D.
Greulich, who has been in command here since the unit became
part of the local institution’s program. Lt. Greulich has gone
to Muhlenburg to take charge of the V-12 unit there.
The new commanding officer is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and in the twenties was a coach at Colgate
University. For twelve years and until he entered the service
of his country, Lt. Jordan was head football and basketball
coach at Amherst.
Lt. L. P.

up

his duties as

He was assigned last May as commanding officer of the V12 unit at Iowa State College and later was transferred to the
work at the University of Pennsylvania. Since last September
he was

Muhlenburg.
Jordan is married and has two sons, both in the United
States Marine Corps. One son, Robert L., is at Parris Island, S.
Mrs. Jordan
C., and the other, John H., at San Diego, Cal.
plans to join her husband in Bloomsburg in the near future.
Lt. Greulich came to Bloomsburg on May 31, 1943, and
was in charge of getting the organization ready for the V-12
program which opened here in July. During the time of his
command the unit has upon several occasions won recognition
and has always cooperated fully with the community program
in support of the war effort. Both the officer and Mrs. Greulich
have made a number of friends in Bloomsburg.
At a meeting of the V-12 unit in the auditorium of Carver
Hall, Lt. Greulich read his orders transferring him to Muhlenburg and Lt. Jordan his orders assigning him as commanding
officer of the Bloomsburg unit.
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at

Lt.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
The Philadelphia Alumni meet on the second Saturday of
each month in the Tea Room at Gimbel’s.
The officers are the following President, Mrs. Lillian
Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden, New Jersey; Vice-President, Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown,
Pa. Secretary-Treasurer, Nora Woodring Kinney, 7011 Erdrick Street, Philadelphia 35, Pa.

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;

Mr. and Mrs.

Norman

G. Cool have been spending the win-

ter in California. Mrs. Cool has been our President for ten
years, and is greatly missed by our local group. She has been
made Honorary President for life. Her address is 4115 Irving
Place, Culver City, California.

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Walter Reed Killed

in

Crash

Capt. Walter Reed, of the IJ. S. Army Air Force, was killed Tuesday, March 21, when his plane crashed into the bank of
the Red River, north of the Municipal Airport at Shreveport,
Louisiana. Captain Reed had taken off a short time before
from Barksdale Army Air Field for a test flight. Authorities
said that he was to have ferried the plane to a base on the west
He was the fifth Bloomsburg alumnus who is known to
coast.
have given his life in this war.
Captain Reed came home from the African campaign last.
June, after nine months of combat duty. He was credited with
bringing down four enemy planes. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Oak Leaf clusters for participating in
over fifty missions, and the Purple Heart for injuries sustained
while abroad. Once his plane was struck by anti-aircraft
shells, and he parachuted safely to earth less than a hundred
yards away from the enemy lines.
He was later ordered home, and was assigned to Randolph
Field, Texas, and entered the Flight Instructors’ School there.
On Saturday, July 24, 1943, he and Miss Ruth Baird, of
Mill City, were married in the chapel at Randolph Field. Mrs.
Baird had been with him since that time.
Captain Reed was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1941.
He was a member of the C. A. A. group at the College that year
and then enlisted in the Army Air Force and received his wings
in the first war-time graduating class at Kelly Field.
A brief service in memory of Captain Reed was held as a
part of the assembly exercises held at the College Friday,
March 24. Funeral services were held at his late home in Shillington.

O

COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
Enrolled at B.

S. T. C. at

the

present time are over five

Approximately half of these are teachereducation students. Of these, sixty are teachers in service, who
attend Saturday classes. The other half is composed of men in
service, 78 of whom are Navy V-5’s (aviation cadets) and 177
of whom are Navy V-12 student officer candidates. These figures do not include between 50 and 60 boys who are given instruction by instructors of the Civil Air Patrol one night per
week.
According to the records of the Department of Public Instruction, Bloomsburg ranks third in terms of full-time student
enrollment in the State Teachers Colleges. A comparison of
figures for February 15, 1943 with February 15, 1944, shows
that Bloomsburg had the smallest percentage of decrease of
any of the State Teachers Colleges in Pennsylvania.

hundred students.

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Closing a trimester of college activity, the Bloomsburg
Players, under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, presented
the popular Broadway play “Junior Miss” in Carver Hall auditorium Thursday evening, February 17.
The comedy, by Chodoriv and Fields, tells the story of an
adolescent problem child with an imagination and wisdom that
solves the romantic and financial problems of an average New
York family.
Miss Karliss Right, a Freshman at the College, appeared
in the title role, playing it with all the professional ability called for in characterizing the loveable “in-between” Judy Graves.
The male members of the cast included six members of the
College V-12 program: Rash Ashcom as Harry Graves, the
father; Harold Bush as Barlow Adams, one of Judy’s bashful
acquaintances Guy Zerf oss, the romantic Uncle Willis, and
Letcher White, Ralph Dille and Sanford Nicol, three forward
boy friends of Lois Graves, played by Lucille Martino.
Betsy Smith played the understanding mother, Grace
Graves; Ruth Fortner, Judy’s intimate friend, Fluffy; Marylou
Fenstemaker and Sam Mazzeo, Ellen and J. B. Curtis, and Bob
Megargle, another boy friend. Anita Behler did the character
role of Hilda, a Swedish cook.
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ALUMNI
SATURDAY,

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MAY

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

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OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland -Dauphin Counties

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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. Archibald 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-President Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street, Wilkes-Barre,
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Carlisle Street, WilkesPa.; Secretary
Barre, Pa.; Treasurer Mrs. Lester Bennett, 402 North River Street,

President

—Edna

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Plainsville, Pa.

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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

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

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

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Philadelphia

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

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Snyder-Union Counties

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

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Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties

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

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trose, Pa.

Columbia County

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

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o
1880
Mrs. Celeste Kitchen Prutzman, of Huntsville, was guest
of honor on her 89th birthday at a dinner served by the WSCS
in the Methodist Church. She has been a member of the church
for more than fifty-seven years.

1886

The Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church dedicated its chapel
to Dr. and Mrs. N. H. Sanner Sunday evening, January 30.
Dr.
Sanner was the pastor of the Mt. Lebanon church from 1917 to
1925, and will have been a

ence for fifty years
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in

member

October of

of the

this year.

Pittsburgh ConferAmong other par-

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ishes, he has served the churches of
onier, Swissvale, Rock Avenue, Mt.

Blawnox, City Mission, LigLebanon and Mifflin Ave-

He was superintendent

of the Blairsville district for six
Since his retirement from the ministry he has served as
treasurer of the Centenary Fund Society of the Pittsburgh Conference, which is charged with responsibility for all the trust
funds of the Pittsburgh Annual Conference.
Dr. Sanner’s father was a blacksmith.
His mother died
when he was five. The father expressed the hope, when the
lad was only eight, that his son would study for the ministry.
Dr. Sanner recalls overhearing a discussion between his father
and a minister on the subject of the boy’s career. Dr. Sanner
was in his teens when he made the decision to become a minisHe worked toward this goal through the teaching profester.
sion.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, he taught for several years, and was at one time Superintendent of Schools in Som-

nue.
years.

erset County.

Dr. and Mrs. Sanner were married in Ursiana, Pennsylvan6, 1898, following a romance that began in childhood.
He was principal of the schools at the time and his wife was the
organist at the local church.
Dr. Sanner was largely instrumental in the building of the
Mt. Lebanon church, which was dedicated in 1924. When he
came to Mt. Lebanon in 1917, the church had a membership of
about 250, but when he left it in 1925 it had increased to approximately 950.
ia,

May

1903

Raup (Mrs. Howard Lloyd) of Matawan, New Jersey, died recently at her home. She was sixty-two years of age
at the time of her death.
She was a former resident of TurbotJessie

ville and Watsontown, Pa.
She taught for several years before her marriage. She is survived by her husband, her father,
a daughter, Mrs. Harry Pitcher, of Matawan, a son, Howard,
Jr., who is serving in North Africa, and by a brother, Ralph R.
Raup, of Kingston.

1910

Agnes Freas Reiser is employed
Federal Street, Camden, New Jersey.
Louella Burdick Sinquett
Gibbsboro, New Jersey.

Anna Sachs Allen

is

in

the

teaching

Army
in

Air Force,

the schools of

teaching in the Darby schools.
1912
Mi's. Lean Leitzel Streamer, of Collinswood, New Jersey,
who has been teaching in the Audubon High School, was severely injured in an automobile accident October 5, 1943, near
Paradise, Pa. In a letter written February 2, she states that
she has just been able to go down her apartment steps for the
first time in sixteen weeks.
is

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1913

M. Denison, who

serving as a nurse in the Army,
has been transferred to the Gardiner General Hospital, 1660
East Hyde Park Avenue, Chicago 15, Illinois. Before being
transferred, she served for some time in an army hospital in
Puerto Rico.
1923
Elizabeth Ransom is teaching in the Stonehurst Hills Public School, Upper Darby, Pa.
Nellie

is

1928

Announcement has been made

of the engagement of Miss
Staff Sergeant Floyd I. Garrison, both of
Berwick. Miss Zimmerman is a graduate of the Berwick High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and received her Masters Degree at New York University. She is the principal of the Fairview Avenue Building in Berwick and is supervisor of reading in the Berwick school district. Sergeant Garrison is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and was affiliated with the firm of H. L. Garrison and Bro., in Berwick. He
returned recently from service in the Caribbean area and is
now located at Kelly Field, Texas.

Ruth Zimmerman and

The November 7, 1943 issue of P. M. had a very interesting story concerning Sterling Strauser, formerly of Bloomsburg, now of East Stroudsburg. Mr. Strausser had an exhibit of
paintings at the Twenty Dollar Ait Gallery, at 880 Lexington
Avenue, New York City. The story mentions the fact that Mr.
Strausser studied the principles of art at Bloomsburg under
Prof. George J. Keller.
Marguerite Zimbalist, who owns the Twenty Dollar Gallery, is quoted as saying, “He doesn’t know how terrific he is.
I’ve sold nine of his paintings already.
As soon as he sent in
his stuff 1 decided to make this an all-Strausser show.’’
Elizabeth S. Colley and William F. Tyson, both of Bloomsburg, were married Friday evening, February 25, at the home
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Carl
of the bride.
E. Anderson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Bloomsburg.

1929
Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Steiner are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Linda Jane, at the York HospiMrs. Steiner, the former Eleanor G.
tal, Tuesday, January 11.
Amos, taught in the Wilkes-Barre schools for several years. Mr.
and Mrs. Steiner are living at 159 East Philadelphia Street,
York, Pa.
1930
Ruth Sonner has been in the Navy for over a year, and is
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now

She expects

cers’

work

a Second Class Petty Officer.
Training soon. Her present
training and drill to trainees.

is

to go into Offiteaching physical

The address of Richard D. Frymire, of Bloomsburg, is Pvt.
Richard D. Frymire, 33609467, Battery B, 572 AAA (AW) Bn.,
S. P., Camp Edwards, Mass.
1931

Dorothy A. Foust, of Watsontown, and Sgt. Samuel A.
Wright were married July 2, 1943, in the Evangelical Reformed Church at McEwensville. Sgt. Wright is a Staff Sergeant in
the Army Air Corps, and is stationed at Fresno, California.
Mrs. Wright is teaching Geography and History in the elementary grades in Watsontown.
1936

ceremony at 4 :30 o’clock Thanksgiving
evening, in the Hargers Church of Beaver Township, Miss Florence C. Singley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose A. Singley,
of Beaver Township, became the bride of Lieutenant Charles
P. Michael, son of Mrs. Effie Michael, of Quakake.
The single
ring ceremony of the Methodist Church was used by the Rev.
In a candlelight

Lester A. Schoff, pastor of the

New

York,

who

Methodist Church, of Elmira,

officiated.

The bride is a graduate of the Beaver Township High
School, class of 1940, and is now a Senior in the home economics department at Mansfield State Teachers College, where
she will finish her studies.
Lt. Michael is a graduate of Delano High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Previous to his induction
into the service, Lt. Michael taught Science in the Beaver
Township High School.
of

Grace Irene Gearhart, of Bloomsburg, received the degree
Master of Education at the mid-winter commencement held

at

Temple

at

1937
John Gering has been doing Job Analysis and Evaluation
Columbia Aircraft Corporation, Valley Stream, New York.

He expects

University.

to enter the

Navy

soon.

1938
Pvt. Charles Henrie, of Bloomsburg, is a member of the
440th AAR Band, and is located at the Army Air Base, at Venice,

Florida.

Clyde Klinger, now teaching at Doylestown, received the
degree of Master of Education at the mid-winter commencement held at Temple University.
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Lt. Vance S. Laubach, of Berwick, received his commission
and wings as a member of the twenty-second class to be graduated from the New Columbus Army Air Field in Mississippi.

1939

The address

of Lt. Richard J. Nolan is Battery A, 154th F.
A. Battalion, A. P. O. 980, Care of Postmaster, Seattle, Washington.
letter received from Lt. Nolan states that he is some-

A

where

is

Alaska.

Lt. (jg.) Robert J. Reimard, of Bloomsburg, enlisted in the
in November, 1942, and was graduated from communication school at Harvard University in May, 1943. At the present
time he is on active duty in the Southwest Pacific.

Navy

William

J.

Yarworth, of Centralia, has been promoted to
At present he is an instructor in

the rank of First Lieutenant.

photography

at

Lowry

Field, Colorado.

1940
First Lieutenant Byron D. Shiner, of Berwick, and Miss
Elizabeth Mae Hill, of Leighton, Alabama, were married Friday, February 4, in the Courtland Army Air Field Chapel,
Courtland, Alabama. Lt. Shiner is assistant post adjutant at

Courtland.

Sergeant William H. Penman, of Bloomsburg,

is

stationed

at Camp Haan, California, with the anti-aircraft artillery, and
at the present time is taking special work in the intelligence
service.
He entered the service June 17, 1943.

1941

The marriage of Miss Mary Lucille Bretz, daughter of Mr.
Mrs.
and
C. D. Bretz, New Bloomfield, to William Franklin
Shughart, Mo. M. M. 1/c, U. S. N., son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Shughart, of Loysville, Pa., was solemnized Sunday, January
30, 1944, in Christ Lutheran Church, New Bloomfield.
The bride, a graduate of the New Bloomfield High School,
class of 1937, and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class
of 1941, is now head of the Commercial Department of the Juniata Joint High School, Mifflintown, Pa.
The groom graduated from Tressler Orphans Home High
School, class of 1937. Before enlisting in the Navy he was Assistant Parts Manager at the Francis Auto Sales Co., Harrisburg. He enlisted in the Navy in October, 1941, took his basic
training at Melville, Rhode Island and additional training at
Jacksonville Naval Air Station and Packard Marine Engine
School, Detroit, Michigan. He has just returned from 18
months active duty with a Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron in the
South Pacific.
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Miss Marjorie Lunsford, of Springfield, Ohio, and Lt. Richard Foote, of Bloomsburg, were married Thursday, January
20, in Springfield. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s
brother, the Rev. Dwight Lunsford. Lt. Foote is stationed at
Boca Raton Field, Boca Raton, Florida.
Pvt. Peter J. Eshmont, of Mt. Carmel, is now stationed at
Fold Eustis, Virginia, with Battery B, 14th AART Battalion. He
has completed the course at Observers’ Fire-Control School at
Fort Eustis, one of the nation’s largest Anti-Aircraft Replacement Training Centers.
S. Frederick Worman, of Danville, is teacher of Latin and
Director of the high school band at Spruce Pine, North Caro-

lina.

1942
Lt. Stuart Straub, of Berwick, has arrived home on a furlough and was a recent visitor at the College. Lt. Straub wears
the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf Clusters and the African
Campaign Ribbon. Word of his accomplishments is given in a
release by the 15th Army Air Force.
The release states Lt. Straub began combat flying August
17, 1943, with an attack on Istres Le Tube airdrome in Southern
France and flew his 58th mission on January 30, when he attacked the Maniago airdrome in Italy. In other bomber sweeps
he was over Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and
Greece.
Lt. Straub flew his toughest mission on September 6 over
Bologna, Italy. When flak knocked out one of his ship’s engines and forced it out of protective formation, nine enemy
fighers jumped the crippled ship in a 20-minute running battle.
“Our gunners got three and chased the rest,” Lt. Straub’s
report to his headquarters read. “We sweated out the propellor on the damaged engine, which was threatening to fly off.
It would
It did fly off, but sailed down underneath the plane.
have been tough on us if it had hit the ship.”
Lt Straub was graduated from Berwick High School in
1938 and in 1942 received a B. S. degree in social sciences from
B. S. T. C. Unmarried, he went immediately into the AAF and
won his wings at Yuma, Arizona, April 12, 1943.
.

Cpl. Robert Johnson, of Ickesburg, is attached to the 10th
Air Force in India. He received his basic training at
Camp Lee, Virginia, and attended the Quartermaster School
His address is
there. He has been overseas since May, 1943.
Cpl. Robert L. Johnson, 33241257, Hq. and Hq. Sqd., 10th U. S.
Air Force, A. P. O. 465, care of Postmaster, New York, N. Y.

U.

S.

Miss Elizabeth Hoagland, of Elysburg, and Private First
Edward Dobb, of Wilkes-Barre, were married in Feb-

Class

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ruary at the Elysburg Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Dobb
are both graduates of Bloomsburg. The former was a teacher
of Science in the Ralpho Township
before entering the service. Mrs.
Mount Union School, at Overlook.

High School,

Dobb

is

at

Elysburg,

a teacher in the

Lt. ( g ) Stuart L, Hartman and Mrs. Hartman (Barbara
Straub) spent several days at the homes of their parents in
.i

.

Berwick and Danville, R. D.
Cape May, N. J.,

ferred from

Lt.

to

Hartman was

recently trans-

Miami, Florida.

1943
Miss Nan Cronin, of Bloomsburg, and S 1/c Walter McCloskey, of Wilkes-Barre, were married Saturday, February 12,
in the chapel of the Navi Air Base, Jacksonville, Florida, where
Seaman McCloskey is stationed. Mrs. McCloskey is a graduate
of the Bloomsburg High School and has been employed by the
Bell Telephone Company in Bloomsburg.
1944

Announcement has been made

of the

engagement

of Miss

Helen M. Cromis, of Bloomsburg, and Cpl. Robert Warrington,
of Sunbury. Cpl. Warrington was graduated from the Sunbury
High School in the class of 1938, and attended the University
of Cincinnati and B. S. T. C. At the present time he is stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia, where he is an instructor in the Master Gunners’ School.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Marjorie Gene Sharretts, of Almedia, and Leon E. Grant, AMM.
3/c, of Patton, Maine.
Seaman Grant is a graduate of the Patton Academy, Patton, Maine, and has served in the Navy since 1942.
He was
formerly a member of the V-12 unit at Bloomsburg, and is now
stationed at Norfolk, Virginia.
Miss Janet Shank, of Catawissa, has joined the WAVES.
She reported for duty immediately after her graduation at the
end of the first trimester.

o
The Navy V-12 contingent, which completed its second
trimester at Bloomsburg February 25, held a farewell dance
Friday evening, February 18, at the Elks’ Club.

©
Several

members

of the

Community Government Associa-

tion attended the convention of the Eastern States Association
of Teacher Training Institutions held at the Hotel Commodore,
New York City, March 28 and 29.

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Former Students
Pvt.

with the

Mary M. Edwards,

of Bloomsburg,

is

serving in Italy

WAC.

©
The address of Sam Cohen, of Bloomsburg, is Pfc. Sam
Cohen 33115731, Hq. Co. Post Band, A. P. O. 937, care of Postmaster, Seattle, Washington. Pfc. Cohen is located somewhere
in

the Alaskan area.

©
Lt.

Nelson Oman,

Army

fifty mislocated at Washington,

Air Forces, veteran of

sions in the Mediterranean area,
D. C., as a flight commander.

is

now

©
Second Lieutenant James Cannard, of Danville,
ed at Mitchell Field, New York.

is

station-

©
Technician 4th Grade Robert E. Hartman, of Bloomsburg,
was recently awarded a Good Conduct Medal while serving
with a signal construction battalion on the Mediterranean
front.
The battalion is under the 12th Fighter Command, the
American section of Mediterranean Allied Costal Air Force.

©

A

promotion to the rank of Staff Sergeant was received
some time ago by Raymond Algatt, of Berwick, who has been
in Egypt and Persia during the present war.

©
Aviation Cadet Wayne Deaner, of Mainville,
Enid, Oklahoma, in the final phase of his training.

is

now

at

©
Air Cadet Joseph M. Linville, of Berwick, has completed a
course of training at Courtland, Alabama, and has been assigned to Maxwell Field.

©
Aviation Cadet Xen
transferred to the Enid

Hosier, of Allentown, recently was
Army Air Field, Oklahoma, for the
nine-week basic flying course. He had previously been stationed at Corsicana Field, Corsicana, Texas, where he finished the
primary training course.
S.

©
John Whitby, of Edwardsville, was the first member of the
Bloomsburg V-12 unit to receive his commission. After three
and a half years as a student at Bloomsburg, he entered the V12 program at Bloomsburg July 1, 1943. He was sent to Norfolk, Virginia, November 1, and then to Northwestern University, where he received his commission as ensign January 20.

He

later reported to Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Miss Louise Lunger and William B. Frye, both of Danville,
were married Saturday, February 26, in the Shiloh Evangelical
and Reformed Church in Danville. The bride is employed in
the office of the Glen Martin Company in Baltimore. Mr. Frye
has been in the army for the past four years, and has received
a medical discharge. He is employed in the Glen Martin plant.
Mr. and Mrs. Frye are living at 829 North Charles Street, Baltimore.

©
Circovics, of Berwick, has been wounded in Italy,
where he has been serving for several months with the United
States forces. Lt. Circovics has been serving in the army for
three years. He went out with the Berwick companies of the
National Guard in February, 1941, as a sergeant. He was later
Lt.

John

commissioned and has been with an armored

division. His wife

lives in Louisiana.

©
Albeit D. Knittle,

who was

recently elected chancellor of
Schuylkill County Bar Association, died Friday, March 3, at his
home in Pottsville, at the age of seventy-one.
He was one of the county’s leading lawyers and was a
member of the Bar since 1895. He was educated at Bloomsburg and Pennsylvania State College.
He is survived by his wife, one son, three sisters and two
brothers.

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY,

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27

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COMMENCEMENT
“If you are willing to pay the price for victory and for the
kind of world in which you want to live, you can have it,”
James R. Young, of New York, foreign correspondent and author of “Behind the Rising Sun,” declared in an address which
featured commencement exercises at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Monday morning, May 29.
“But the price,” he added, “must be paid for in lives and
the path to Tokyo will be a long and hard one. Japan will lose
the war, but not until we have gone farther in our difficult task
of overcoming Japan’s strength built up over many years with
the aid of American production methods and appeasement from
the state department.”
The program, in which fifty-seven persons received the
baccalaureate degree, eight having completed their work at the
conclusion of the mid-year period, opened with the processionWilliam B. Sutliff, dean
al played by Howard F. Fenstemaker.
emeritus, offered the invocation.
In introducing the speaker Harvey A. Andruss, President
of the college, remarked that the commencement exercises differed from previous ones in that few men were in cap and gown
while many were in the white of the United States Navy. He
pointed out that Mr. Young resided in Japan thirteen years
and was imprisoned sixty-one days before his return to this
country.
Speaking in part Mr. Young stated, “Japan has spent three
generations preparing for this war. She is well fortified, and
let us not forget there are still some 18,000 Americans suffering
in solitary confinement, the majority of whom can hold little
hope for freedom.
“There are three types of warfare which we shall experience in conquering the Japanese. We have already read much
of the jungle and beach offensive, but as yet we have not had

Vol. 45

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September, 1944

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16,
1804. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,

’12

NELSON,

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’ll

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EDITOR
BUSINESS

MANAGER
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any mountain fighting. We can not expect an early defeat of
Japan. In two years of warfare in the Pacific we have recovered about 400 square miles of territory against a total area of
62,000,000 square miles in the Pacific. It took the Navy, in an
amphibious operation, fourteen months to win Kiska. The Marine casualties at Tarawa were 3,200 against 4,000 Japs. So,
against these two island operations, we have yet to seize about
12,211 islands. Japan has not lost much more than three divisions of her army, and she still has intact as a fully equipped
combat force, 11,000,000 men, plus a military reserve organization, the Aihaku Meirinkai, of 7,000,000 men under Col. Kingoro Hashimoto.”
Continuing, he added, “mentally Japan has no plans for a
And here we have another great obstacle to overretreat.
come. We can expect a negotiated peace offensive this year.

The Japanese have cleverly calculated the effect of the Axis’
American public and will launch a peace drive
with American educated Japs at the head in an effort to con-

collapse on the

solidate their gains in the Pacific.”

Touching upon the aid of American production methods
and of Japanese youth trained in our leading colleges and universities, the correspondent spoke of Formosa, on top of which
is a tremendous power plant built by American
engineers for
the production of industrial alcohol. He ironically pointed out
how from 1937 to 1941 Japan purchased one-fourth of America’s production of magnesium, eighty-two per cent of our scrap
iron and ninety per cent of our copper. He added that we sold
New York’s Ninth Avenue overhead railway to the Japanese
and in 1943 tore down the Second Avenue elevated to fire back
at them.
Answering his question, “How did Japan pay for all of
this?” Mr. Young continued, “they went back and forth on the
gold standard. They mined gold from Korea and sold it to us.
What did we do? We buried it at the rate of $60,000,000 a
year. Japan also cleaned up on the narcotic business, and
all of it came right into this country.
don’t let any one tell you Japan didn’t want war.
They wanted it as long as they could have control of the PaciThe
fic, from the political, economic and military viewpoint.
old saying goes that when Japan turns up at a peace table
watch out or she’ll make off with the table. And all this in
spite of the fact we have a large group in this country today
who believe Japan didn’t want war.
“Hirohito, despite his five feet one inch stature, is the spirThat famous raid on Japan was all
itual strength of Japan.
right. Fires burned three days and there were 4,000 casualties,
but our fliers were instructed not to bomb Hirohito’s palace.
In my opinion they should have dropped a block buster right
there. When the day comes for an offensive bombing of Japan

practically

“And

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They are an arroI predict the Japanese will be hysterical.
gant race and play for keeps. If we don’t destroy the emperor
we will not destroy Japan, for to die for the emperor is to live
forever.

“Japan must be stripped of all her possessions. Its army
and navy must be destroyed so that no two parts of anything
can be put together. Only by resolving to take complete control can we hope to live and survive in the Pacific.”
Pointing out the need for an educational program in future
years, Mr. Young added, “the Japs have the jump on us in psychological warfare in the Pacific, with propagandists who are
alert to the ways of influencing the natives. We must get men
in that area who can follow up our military victories with propaganda victories. Education will play an important role in the
future of the Pacific,” he concluded.
Degrees were presented by Harvey A. Andruss, and the

program closed with the Alma Mater.

—

Members of the class were Louise Madl, Shamokin; Helen Martin,
Hazleton; Salvatore Mazzeo, Easton; Harold Miller, Catawissa; Florence
Mills, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Oyer, Emmanus; Helen Parangosky, Shenandoah; Mary Parr, Wapwallopen; Effie Jean Patterson, Orangeville; Nelena
Pope, Sunbury; Virginia Roberts, Gradyville; Anne Sabol, Phoenixville;
Ella Schargo, Pottsville; Jean Schrader, Shamokin; Mary Louise Scott,
Bloomsburg; Marjorie Sharretts, Almedia; Anne Shortess, Bloomsburg; Carmel Sirianni, Hop Bottom; Elizabeth Smith, Wyalusing; Mary Edna Snyder,
Canton; Harriet Sterling, Bloomsburg; Julian Zinzarella, Mt. Carmel; Jean
Ackerman, Hamburg; Louise Adams, Shamokin; Lillian Baer, Fleetwood;
Anita Behler, Kingston; Lois Bryner, Danville; Meda Calvello, Weston;
Poletime Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Helen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Margaret
Dean, Kulpmont; Frederick Dent, Bloomsburg; Mary DeWald, Turbotville;
Sara Marie Dockey, Berwick; Hazel Enama, Weston; Dorothy Ermish, Berwick; Elizabeth Ertel, Williamsport; Wanda Farnsworth, Muncy; Mrs. Lois
Williams Farr, Bloomsburg; Florence Faust, Ambler; Bette Fuller, Beach
Haven; Mary Elizabeth Hagenbuch, Bloomsburg; Joyce Hay, Easton, Edward Hendricks, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Heimbach, Sunbury; Melva Kocher,
Light Street; Mrs. Ruth Bishop Jones, Lake Ariel; Margaret Latsha, Dornsife; Mary Ruth Lovering, Scranton.
Mid-Year Graduates Helen Behler, Kingston; Edward Manley, WilkesBarre; Pauline Niles, Honesdale; Leona Oakes, West Hazleton; Janet Shank,
Catawissa; Joanne Spaid, Mifflinburg; Samuel Trapani, Easton; Stella Williams, Luzerne.

—

John Whitby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Whitby, of Edwardsville, and a former student at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, is the first member of the V-12 Navy program at the college to receive his commission.
Whitby spent three and a half years as a student at the
college, later being stationed there in the V-12 program.
On
November 1 he was sent to Norfolk, Va., and then to Northwestern University, receiving his commission as an ensign January 20.
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IVY
The

traditional Ivy

Day

DAY
exercises

were held Sunday, May

28, outside the Centennial Gymnasium, following the Baccalaureate services. The Ivy Day orator was Miss Betty Hagenbuch,

Miss Hagenbuch’s oration follows:
orations have always reflected the spirit of the
day. It is significant that the orators of the twenties stressed
the sturdiness of this tiny ivy plant. The speeches of the early
thirties reflected the state of the nation economically, for then
securing an education was a struggle for both parents and stuGradually emerging from the depression, the complacdent.
ency of the talks gave an insight into the thought of the late
thirties.
Not until three years ago did a new note make itself
heard. Here, for the first time, was acknowledged the responWith the orations of
sibility of the class to wartime conditions.
1942 and 1943, war was the main topic. So it is with the 1944
Ivy Day oration.
We, as the class of 1944, have spent our college days amid
uncertain times times that will never be forgotten, for they
have been history-making times.
of Bloomsburg.

Ivy

Day

—

As freshmen, we followed the tense news of the bombing
London and the heroic struggle at Dunkirk. As sophomores,
we were stunned and indignant at the news of Pearl Harbor. As
juniors, we were thrilled to hear of the invasion of Africa. As
seniors, we wait with the rest of the nation for the news of Dof

Day.

But not all of us have waited. Many of our classmates
have been helping to make that history. So we may say that
this ceremony today is merely the formal planting of something
that has been growing for three years.
We do not, however, have just a job in winning this war.
We have a challenging part in the post-war world.
At probably no other graduation time has the need for
teachers been so great. We, therefore, who are fortunate
enough to be graduating as a class have a real debt to pay for
that privilege. How best may we repay this debt ? I feel that
we can do it best by carrying out the principal duty of the
teacher that of making boys and girls into useful citizens.
We, together with millions of others, make up this present
wartime generation. Ours will be the task of recreating the
world of the future. The task ahead has never been greater.
But with a pride in ourselves and in the schools and colleges
that have helped make us efficient individuals, we accept the

—

challenge in the manner that
mature, to endure.
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we

plant this ivy

—

to

strive, to

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ALUMNI MEETING
Resolutions in tribute to the memories of Prof. Charles H.
Albert and Prof. D. S. Hartline, two of the “Old Guard” and
Harold G. Teel, Bloomsburg attorney and for some years an
efficient member of the faculty, were passed Saturday, May 27,
at the general meeting of the Teachers College Alumni Association.

The main floor of the auditorium was well filled for the
meeting and the attendance was considerably better than last
year.

The meeting was the first of the scheduled events of the
day, being followed at 11 :30 o’clock by a Naval review on the
There were 400
athletic field by units training at the college.
guests at the cafeteria luncheon at one o’clock and classes in reunion were in session through much of the afternoon.
The sports feature of the day was a baseball game with
Olmstead Air Field, Middletown, which the aviators won, 4 to
1, and in the evening there was a dance in the Centennial Gymnasium. In addition to the dance the latest motion picture of
the college activities was shown.
President Harvey Andruss, of the college, gave the alumni
a hearty welcome and told of the program carried on at the institution in this period of crisis.
“The spirit of the alumni is
the college,” he said, and such a fine spirit as the graduates of
Bloomsburg display buoys the officials of the college to greater
efforts to meet the educational needs of its students.
R. Bruce Albert, President of the Association, presided and
President Andruss gave the invocation.
The

class of 1944, attired in caps and gowns, marched
the auditorium and through its president presented a
check covering the membership of the class in the Alumni Association.
The class will give any balance remaining in its
treasury to the student loan fund as a memorial.
Reports were received from Miss Harriet Carpenter, treasurer; D. D. Wright, treasurer of the student loan fund; Howard F. Fenstemaker, editor of the Alumni Quarterly, and Dr.
E. H. Nelson, treasurer of the publication.
The loan fund now totals $11,999.35 and the major portion
of the fund not in use is in government War Bonds. Dr. Nelson
stated that last year returning alumni had provided eighty-four
memberships for graduates in the armed service. This year
five-year memberships were offered and when a member purchased one, a year’s subscription of the Quarterly went to some
service man graduate. A number took such memberships.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, Miss Elizabeth Hubler, of Gordon, and
Captain Hervey B. Smith, Bloomsburg, were re-elected directors of the Association.
into

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Representation of the classes at the meeting and those reporting for the classes were class of 1879, two present, Mrs.
Ella Bond and Miss Lou Robbins, Bloomsburg, only two in the
class now living; class of 1880, Mrs. Celeste Kitchen Trutzman,
of Trucksville; class of 1888, two, Mrs. Annie Nuss, Bloomsburg; class of 1890, the Rev. J. K. Adams, Bloomsburg; class
of 1894, thirteen, Curtis Yocum, Shamokin class of 1896, Mr.
Gable, Shenandoah; class of 1898, two, Miss Alberta Nichols,
Wilkes-Barre class of 1899, eighteen, Lindley H. Dennis, of
Washington, D. C. class of 1904, fourteen, John Boyer, Herndon; class of 1909, eight, Dr. Leon D. Bryant, Syracuse, N. Y.
class of 1914, seventeen, Malcolm S. Leonard, Wilkes-Barre;
class of 1919, forty, R. U. Nyhart, Honesdale; class of 1924,
forty-seven, Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock; class of 1929,
ten; class of 1934, six; class of 1939, one; class of 1942, eight,
including three service men, and class of 1943, four.
The Luzerne County branch of the Alumni Association reported a five year membership purchased for servicemen.
;

;

;

CORONATION OF COLLEGE MAY QUEEN
Miss Betsy Smith, of Wyalusing, a member of the senior
class of the Teachers College, was crowned Queen of the May,
at coronation ceremonies which featured a dance held Saturday evening, May 20, in the Centennial gymnasium.

Her attendants, all members of the senior class, were MissAdams, Shamokin; Bette Fuller, Berwick; Hazel Enama, Weston; Ann Shortess, Bloomsburg; Melva Kocher, Light
Street; Wanda Farnsworth, Muncy; Betty Hagenbuch, Bloomses Louise

burg; Jean Schrader, Shamokin.
The queen’s ring-bearers were Misses Rose Cerchiaro, Nesquehoning; Betty Bryant, Dallas; Agnes Flaherty, Shenandoah; Gloria Belcastro, Wyoming, and Betty Hess, Benton.
Miss Phyllis Schrader, of Lewisburg, was the crown-bearer and
the queen was crowned by Julian Zinzarella, Mt. Carmel, president of the Community Government Association of the college.
Members of the Navy V-12 unit were the queen’s escort with J. R. Ashcom, Jr., battalion commander and J. E. Kenealy in command of the following: W. C. Baker, S. N. DiFresco, R. A. Bickel, R. T. Fischer, B. Greenberg,
R. K. Hillagass, Jr., D. Riordan, C. A. Albright, C. C. Booth, F. H. Doucette,
G. E. Hare, F. Gawat, A. P. Schwartz, R. E. Stetson, W. J. Bachman, W. C.
Carter, R. R. Ferrulo, L. F. Jenkins, P. L. Marhefka, R. C. Williams, W. C.
Wild, Jr., also of V-12 was the trumpeter.

Miss Lucy McCammon directed the program assisted by
Miss Martha Donahue, Shippensburg Howard F. Fenstemaker
had charge of the music, Lt. J. C. Koch was the grand marshall.
Miss Sallie Dockey, Berwick, was CGA social chairman, with
decorations in charge of Miss Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg, and
Charles Fitzgibbons, V-12.
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Professor Charles H. Albert died on December 27, 1943, at
the mature age of eighty-five years. In this was fulfilled the
statement of the Psalmist relative to the godly man, when he
wrote “With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my
salvation.”
For forty-five years Professor Albert had been associated
with Bloomsburg, as student, teacher and lecturer. During this
period he extended the influence and prestige of our school by
his work in Teacher’s Institutes, and many other educational
and religious gatherings. This important work included not
only all sections of Pennsylvania, but extended into no less than
eighteen states of our country.
As a teacher, lecturer, religious leader and representative
citizen, Professor Albert will live always in the memory of all
who knew him, while his influence through them will extend to

—

many others.
BE IT RESOLVED

therefore that

we extend

to

his inti-

mate family and friends our sincere sympathy, while at the
same time we congratulate his children upon the memory that
is theirs, of a great and good father.

BE IT RESOLVED further that as members of the Alumni
Association, and of the present faculty of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, we will do our utmost to maintain those
standards which were exemplified by Professor Albeit, and
that group of men, his associates, whom we lovingly refer to as
the “Old Guard.”
“Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime;
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.”

Respectfully submitted,

May

27, 1944.

FRED W. DIEHL

’09.

MEMORIAL
WHEREAS,

at mid-day, December 28, 1943, Almighty
God in His Infinite Wisdom, saw fit with startling suddenness to
call to Himself our teacher, philosopher and friend, Daniel S.

Hartline, for almost forty years Professor of Biological Science
in this institution

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NOW, THEREFORE, in acknowledgement of his outstanding qualities and traits of character as a man his personal attributes of kindness, honesty and helpfulness to his colleagues
and neighbors; in recognition of the love and affection of thousands of students who came under the influence of his instruction in respect and esteem for his unfailing devotion to the
welfare of the youth of America, and his loyalty to the principles of truth and beauty as found in communion with “God of
the open air,” and as a tribute to his memory;
;

;

BE

RESOLVED,

that the members of the Alumni AssocBloomsburg State Teachers College in Annual
Meeting assembled, do hereby record his death with a sense of
deep sorrow and great loss, recognizing that in his passing the
Alumni have lost one who inspired confidence, courage, integrity, the love of nature and a will to think independently that
youth as well as persons of mature age have had removed from
their personal touch a great teacher, brilliant scholar and sin-

IT

iation of the

;

cere friend.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we extend to
Mrs. Hartline and her son, Keffer, the expression of our most
heart-felt sympathy and regret; that this Memorial be spread
in full upon the Minutes of this Association and a copy thereof
be sent by the Secretary to Mrs. Hartline.
Respectfully submitted,
KIMBER
May

27, 1944,

C.

KUSTER

’13.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE PASSING OF HAROLD

G.

TEEL

WHEREAS, in the Providence of Almighty God Harold G.
Teel, one of the worthy and highly respected former faculty
members of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was called
to his reward on January 25, 1944, and,

WHEREAS, from 1915 to 1921 he was an outstanding
teacher of Latin and History in our college aiid because of his
thorough knowledge of these subjects and his ability as a teacher, he endeared himself to his associates and students, and,
WHEREAS,

by his integrity of character, his firm convictions and outspoken attitudes on all moral and religious questions in the college, community and church, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Alumni Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in Annual Meeting assembled hereby express our keen sense of loss and record our very
high regard for his splendid Christian character and our sincere appreciation of his work as a teacher and public spirited
citizen, and,

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we humbly bow to the
Divine Will, which has permitted his home-going from among
us and will, with God’s help, strive to bear aloft the torch for
Christian enlightenment and spiritual endeavor, which by his
departure has been passed into our hands, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that these resolutions be
spread upon the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Alumni
Association and that a copy of the same be sent to the bereaved
family.

Respectfully submitted,
JOHN K.

ADAMS

’90.

PENNSYLVANIA WELFARE CONFERENCE
The Pennsylvania Welfore Conference, Region No. 7, (Columbia, Montour, Snyder, Union and Northumberland Counties)
was held Monday evening, June 26, 1944, in the Carver Hall
Auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Some of the post war problems in the field of Education,
Public Health, Recreation, and Re-employment were presented
by those who are working in these fields.
With the theme, “Planning For Present and Post War
Problems,” the following program was presented.

—

Education Public Schools and Colleges
Mr. Ray M. Cole, Superintendent, Columbia County Public
Schools, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Director of Aviation Education,
Lieut. John C. Koch,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
President Harvey A. Andruss, Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.

Public Health and Recreation
Dr. Frederick W. Maroney, Dean of Students, Brooklyn College of the College of the City of New York, Brooklyn, New

York.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Health Education,
State Teachers College.

Bloomsburg

Lieut. Lloyd P. Jordan, Commanding Officer,
Unit, Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Navy V-12

Re-employment
Mr. Mahlon

War

in the Transition Period From
L. Miles, Manager, United States

to

Peace

Employment

Berwick, Pa.
Mr. Earle E. Renn, State Chamber of Commerce, Harris-

Office,

burg, Pa.

Mr. James G. Law, Vice-President,
pany, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Magee Carpet ComPage Eleven

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REPORT OF

B. S. T. C.

ALUMNI FUND AS OF MAY

Original amount of fund before Centennial Campaign
Gross amount received from:
Centennial Campaign
Less expense of same

Net from Centennial Campaign
Reserve, which consists of accumulated receipts

24,

$ 3038.18

$11361.26
3250.54
$ 8111.72

from

of interest

Banks and on Bonds

849.45

Total to be accounted for

Which

1944

$11999.35

distributed as follows:
In unpaid loans
In Government War Bonds
is

On

$1537.60
7500.00
2961.75

Deposit in Banks

Total

$11999.35

Respectfully submitted,
D. D.

WRIGHT,

Treasurer.

REPORT OF HARRIET F. CARPENTER, TREASURER OF
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Balance

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
May 22, 1943 to May 24, 1944
RECEIPTS
$109.21
on hand May 22, 1943

Alumni Dues

711.75

Interest on Savings

Account

.71

$821.67

Total Receipts

EXPENDITURES
$235.20
35.58
28.00
35.57
35.57
120.00

Printing Quarterly, three issues

Postage
Post Cards

Commission
Commission
Clerical

:

to Business
to

Manager

Editor

Work

Safe Deposit Box
(Flowers for Professor Albert and Professor
J. L. Dillon

1.20

15.00

Hartline)

Total Expenditures
Balance on hand May 24, 1944:
Checking Account
Savings Account

$506.12
$242.86
72.69

315.55

$821.67

We

have checked carefully the above report, examined all supporting
records, vouchers, etc., and believe it to be correct to the best of our knowledge and belief.

AULA
C.

May

26, 1944.

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M.

F.

HOLTER.

HAUSKNECHT.
Auditing Committee.

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Aoicitia *i P'KMf'iam GosttinueA
An opportunity to fly and to receive seventy-two hours of
ground school instruction is available to young men between
the ages of fourteen and seventeen, and young women above
the age of fourteen was announced by the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and the Bloomsburg airport.
The flight part of the program consists of ten hours in primary flight. This flight time is given by certified Civil Aeronautics Administration flight instructors as dual instruction.
The instructors are. those who have been handling the naval
flight instructor program and the Navy V-5 program at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Bloomsburg airport.

The ground school work is being taught by regular members of the college faculty, licensed by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration in aeronautical subjects, who have been instructing Navy Flight Instructors and combat pilots as well as
Army combat and service pilots in ground school work.
High school teachers in pre-flight aeronautics also have
an opportunity to take courses in the summer aviation programs at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College which can be
used in making college certificates permanent and credited in
the fields of science and mathematics. They also have an opportunity to teach in the aviation laboratory school.

The college, in conjunction with the Bloomsburg airport, in
the past three years has trained over a thousand Army and
Navy pilots and airline personnel, including Army combat and
The facilities of the college include Navy Hall
service pilots.
for ground school instruction, visual aids accumulated in three
years pilot training, and a new gymnasium, which had been
used for the Army and Navy flight instruction. These were
opened for the summer’s work.
The college faculty members certified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the flight instructors at the airport,
who have been training military personnel, have now been released to supervise all work done by the Bloomsburg Aviation
Laboratory School. Pennsylvania high school teachers of preflight aeronautics also participate in this class-room instruction.
Opportunity for engine air-frame instruction in the college is amplified at the airport in practical instruction.
Advance students will be interested in Link and flight instruction, horse power ratings in Waco’s 330’s, cross country
training, including loop orientation, calculator instruction, and
night flying by qualified CAA flight instructors in the primary
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and advanced

CAA

approved flight school.

All phases of pritraining can be secured.
This type of aviation training opportunity is now available
in its entirety in the eastern portion of the United States to ciBloomsburg Teachvilian students, aged fourteen and above.
ers College, in conjunction with the Bloomsburg airport, was
one of the five schools selected by the United States Navy
through the Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training
Service for Naval flight instructor preparation. The entire facilities of the airport and the college are now available for the

mary and advanced

civilian instruction.

MRS.

E.

GERTRUDE LASHELLE WAGNER

Mrs. E. Gertrude Lashelle Wagner, a native of Catawissa,
and an alumna of the B. S. T. C., class of 1882, died at her
home in Gordon, Pa., September 2, 1943.
She had served with great success as Principal of the
Model School of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, during
the administration of the late Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., and up to
the time of her marriage to William E. Wagner, an alumnus of
Pa.,

class of 1887, who is now deceased.
established their home in Gordon, Pa., and resided
there during their entire married life. There, Mr. Wagner became a successful merchant and business man, and was prominent in the church and civic interests of the town.
Mrs. Wagner took an active part in all Christian movements, as a Sunday School teacher, church worker, and a philanthropic leader in the assistance of the needy. For several
years, until her health failed, she achieved marked results as
president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
Schuylkill County and for many years she was leader of the
Gordon W. C. T. U. as its president.
Mr. and Mrs. Wagner reared a family of four children, all
Misses Helen and
of whom are college graduates. They are
Margaret Wagner, of Gordon; the Rev. Ralph Lashelle Wagner, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, West Philadelphia, Pa.,
and Mrs. Evalyn Wagner Grover, alumna of the B. S. T. C.,
class of 1920, who resides with her husband, Leon R. Grover,
their two sons and little daughter, at Moorefield, West Virginia.
B. S. N.

S.,

They

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Walter Olizki, of New York City, was the guest artist at
the college assembly held on Monday, May 15. Mr. Olizki, a
baritone from the Metropolitan Opera, is known for his participation in Wagner roles.
Aviation Cadet Clayton D. Patterson, of Nescopeck, has
reported to Carsbad, New Mexico, Army Air Field, where he
is receiving advanced training in high-level bombing and deadreckoning navigation.
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SAUCERED AND BLOWED

//

You remember the grove, of course, with its fountain and
pergola and gray squirrels. Its appearance has changed a bit
for the duration. An Obstacle Course is a part of the present
or
layout. If you should go there now for a bit of reflection
perchance a bit of romancing you might be startled if a platoon of Navy boys should suddenly sweep in, start climbing
over a cargo net stretched between two of the trees, then run
through a twisting path to the fountain which is crossed by a
log foot bridge, over some hurdles, up the hill behind the pergola, across the pergola, over a log pile, and then back to the
athletic field. A little change from a Shakesperian pagent, but
after all these are war days.

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it’s tough to know that some of our finest aren’t coming
back, but they died for exactly what their Alma Mater repre-

sents,

“The

Spirit

That

Is

Bloomsburg.”

Dr. W. B. Mausteller, 1892, of 1422 North Second Street,
Harrisburg, Pa., has written a most interesting and scholarly
article, “Historical Sketch on Prosthesis and Operative Dentistry.” It was published in the January and February (1944)
numbers of “Pennsylvania State Dental Journal.” “See your
Dentist,” borrow these particular magazines, and enjoy reading
a worthwhile bit of research, and, when opportunity presents
itself, enjoy a personal visit with Dr. Mausteller.
He is a loyal
and enthusiastic alumnus.

The trophy cases
nirs

in

Room are open for souvecan you bring or send ?

the Alumni

from home and abroad.

What

Years ago Professor Dennis predicted an airport on the
where one is now located, down by the East
Bloomsburg bridge and that was before hardly anyone had
seen an airplane. And do you remember his pioneer work with
radio along about 1909? And do you remember also the eight
electric light bulbs he had placed around the octagonal cupola
on Waller Hall, which were turned on after football victories
and other special occasions? He remarked once that he was
going to write a poem, “Normal Wears Her Crown Tonight,”
but as far as we know he never got it done. He did take the
1911 Class Song and rewrite it for the “Alma Mater,” and it has
stood the test of time. Before that we rallied to “Bloomsburg
identical spot

—

Will Shine Tonight.”

See you

in

the next issue
E. H.

NELSON.
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A TRIBUTE
From Charles L. Maurer. Dean and Vice-President of the
College of South Jersey and the South Jersey Law School, 204
Cooper Street, Camden, New Jersey, comes the following letter to the Editor
Dear

Sir:

am enclosing, herewith, a carbon copy of a letter I had
planned for many years to my ideal teacher, but I never got it
done. If you think this letter, or part of it, is a worthy tribute
to a good teacher while he may still enjoy it, you may use it.
Charles L. Maurer, 1908, 1909, 1910.
I

Professor William B. Sutliff.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dear Professor Sutliff
Perhaps a teacher seldom realizes how a harsh word
thoughtlessly spoken may leave a scar for years or possibly all
through life, or how a kind word may become a relic of joy and
bring pleasant memories all through life.
An incident happened in your algebra class a long time
ago, so long that I venture to say that you do not even recall
1907 which has been a relic of joy to me through all of
it
these years. I was struggling at the blackboard with a problem
You came along and pointed
in algebra and could not get it.
out to me the difficulty. You might have called me a dumb-bell
but instead you put your arm around my shoulders and said, “It
wasn’t as hard as you thought it was.”
This is my classic illustration as to how kind words may be
an inspiration to a student throughout life. I have used this illustration in my classes for more than thirty years. May the
thought of this kindness on your part and your sympathetic understanding bring you pleasant memories for many years to

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come.

Edwin Barton, whom I see from time to time, wrote me recently that he had a pleasant visit with you during the Easter
Holidays. I shall always cherish the memories of the happy
years I spent at Bloomsburg Normal School. My regrets are
that I cannot visit the school and my former teachers more frequently.
With best wishes, I remain,
V ery sincerely yours,

CHARLES

L.

MAURER.

William B. Wilson, son of Prof, and Mrs. S. L. Wilson,
completed his training at the Submarine School, Submarine
Base, New London, Connecticut, for duty with our fleet of underseas fighters.
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THE REV. FOSTER

U. GIFT, D. D.

Dr. Foster U. Gift was called to his heavenly home on Friday, February 4, 1944. The funeral service was held on Monday, February 7, at Calvary Lutheran Church, where he had
been the Pastor for twelve years, from 1910-1922. The service
was conducted by the Rev. James T. Powers, Pastor of the
church, assisted by the President of the Maryland Synod, Dr.
Raymond C. Corrick Dr. M. L. Enders, Pastor of First Lutheran Church
Dr. J. L. Deaton, Pastor of Christ Lutheran
Church, and Dr. John C. Bowers, Pastor of Salem Lutheran
Church, Catonsville, a long-time friend of Dr. Gift. The interment took place in Druid Ridge Cemetery. The pall-bearers
were eight men of Calvary Church with the honorary pallbearers being the ministers of the Synod.
Since Dr. Gift’s retirement as Superintendent of Instruction at the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse on September 1,
1940, he had done supply work in Baltimore and vicinity and
from September, 1941, he had been the Acting Pastor of St.
Stephen’s. Dr. Gift preached his last sermon in St. Stephen’s
early in December, after which time he was confined to his
;

;

home because

of illness.

The Rev. Dr. Gift was widely known over the Eastern
States. He was born May 25, 1871, at Paxtonville, Pa., the son
of William Davis and Ada (Bowersox) Gift. He attended
Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa., graduating with the B. E.
degree in 1890. He graduated from Susquehanna University
in 1900 with the M. A degree and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the same institution in 1917. He was a
graduate of Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He furthered
his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Biblical Seminary
in

New York, Columbia
New York.

University and Union Theological Sem-

inary,

Rev. Dr. Gift married Carrie Nell Swengel February 2,
1898. His wife and only child, Mrs. George F. Lang, and one
grand-daughter, Marian Virginia Lang, survive him.
He was ordained in the Lutheran Ministry in May, 1885.
He served as Pastor of Grace Church, Scranton, Pa., from 189599; St. Matthew’s, Williamsport, Pa., 1899-1904; Calvary,
Philadelphia, Pa., 1904-10; Calvary, Baltimore, 1910-1922;
Pastor and Director of Instruction at the Lutheran Deaconess
Motherhouse and Training School, Baltimore, 1922-1940. He
was a delegate to the General Synod twice, and to the U. L. C.
A. once. He was a member of the Mission Board and Secretary
of the Board of Deaconess Work.
Rev. Dr. Gift was widely and favorably known in the literary world, having been the author of “A Compendium of
Christian Doctrine,” 1924; ‘‘Weekday Religious Education,”
1926; ‘‘Ministry of Love,” 1928; ‘‘Handbook of Psychology,”
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1933. He also played a vital part in the organization and work
of the Inner Mission Society and the Hebrew Lutheran Mission
of Baltimore. He has done supply preaching in practically all
of the United Lutheran Churches in Baltimore during the past
34 years.
Thousands knew him and loved him as Pastor, Friend, Organizer and Educator.
mourn his passing. His memory
shall live in our hearts.

We

WHYNOT?
Why

3

not take out a “V” membership? Your dues
will be paid for five years
from reunion to reunion. And
there will be included a year’s membership to an Alumnus in active Military Service. And all for $5.00.
can you better promote the spirit that is Bloomsburg?
Alumni last year furnished 87 military memberships.
The class of 1918 gave $30.00. Two individuals
$10.00. Several $5.00, and the rest in $1.00 contributions.
That was fine, but we should beat that this year

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How

with the “V” membership plan.

ready

Some

17 or 18 are

3
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are looking for yours!
E. H. Nelson, Business Manager.

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in.

We

;;

ROBERT

D.

YOUNG

Robert D. Young, a native of Williamsport, and a trustee
of Caldwell Consistory, died suddenly at his home, 5923 Latona
Street, Philadelphia.
He was in his seventy-second year.
Mr. Young suffered a light stroke less than a year ago, but
effected a partial recovery and was able to resume his employ-

ment with the Westinghouse Company in Philadelphia.
All his earlier years were spent in Bloomsburg, and it was
He
to his old home town that he wanted eventually to return.
was for years head of the pen-making department for Paul E.
Wirt, and went from there as the first inspector named by the
newly established Department of Labor and Industry for Pennsylvania.
It was while he was thus employed that he came in touch
with officials of the Curtis Publishing Company. They prevailed upon him to take over the position of head of their employment bureau. He remained with the Curtis interests for a number of years and until after the 1929 crash. He was later engaged in insurance with the Aetna Company and continued in
the insurance field until World War II broke. He had since
been with the Westinghouse Company.

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Older Bloomsburgers will remember him as one of the
He played shortstop
best athletes the town ever developed.
for the Bloomsburg team that preceded organized ball here and
was with the team for a number of years. He likewise played
the same position for the Bloomsburg State Normal team in the
early days of Dr. Aldinger as physical director there. For several years he likewise played basketball with the Normal team,
the days when they defeated every contender, including the
University of Pennsylvania. Tom Moore, Detwhiler, Bill Worthington and Ed. Harrar were other members of that aggregaYoung, Moore and Harrar members of
three of them
tion
the night classes in physical education.
Through the years of his residence in Bloomsburg, Mr.
Young was active in many fields, aside from sports and his employment. He early became interested in Masonry and was
eventually honored by having the Thirty-Third Degree conferred upon him on September 15, 1931, at Detroit, Michigan.
He was a member of Washington Lodge No. 265, F. & A.
M., Bloomsburg, of which he was Past Master; of Caldwell
Consistory and the co-ordinate bodies; Bloomsburg R. A. Chapter No. 218; Mt. Moriah Council R. & S. M. No. 10; Crusade
Commandery K. T. No. 12; Red Cross of Constantine and of the
Craftsman Club. He was Past T. P. M. of Enoch Lodge of PerHe was also a member of Irem
fection, Fourteenth Degree.
Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., of Wilkes-Barre.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
during his residence at Bloomsburg was active in the local
church, of which he was an usher for years. He was likewise
active in church work in Philadelphia.
He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Minnie Terwilliger, sister of J. Reber Terwilliger, of Bloomsburg, and by
a sister, Mrs. Lynn Dodge, residing in one of Philadelphia’s
suburbs in New Jersey.
in

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Several Alumni have inquired about the meaning of the
statement on the pink slip notifying members of the expiration
of their subscriptions. The statement reads as follows:
“
hereby apply for membership in
the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa., and enclose one dollar ($1.00) as my annual membership dues, one dollar of which is for a year’s subscription to
,

the

Alumni ‘QUARTERLY’.”
The Business Manager has had some discussions with the

postal authorities regarding the statement to be printed on the
expiration slip, and he finally asked them to dictate the statement to him, worded as they wanted it to be printed. The

above statement

is

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

G
OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

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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

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President W. Archibald 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

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President Edna 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,
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Carlisle Street, WilkesPa.; Secretary
Barre, Pa.; Treasurer—Mrs. Lester Bennett, 402 North River Street,
Plainsville, Pa.

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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,

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Danville, Pa.

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Northumberland County

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

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Schuylkill County

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President- Orval Palsgrove, Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray Leidich,
33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer,
113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice-President Anthony
J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
A. Symbal, Shenandoah,
Michael Waiaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-PresPa.; Vice-President
ident 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

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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.; Seci'etary Lillie
Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden, N. J.; Treasurer Nora
Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdick Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Snyder-Union Counties

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President Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Eugene
Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen Keller, Maple
Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.;
Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary
Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; TreasAnna Troutman, Selinsgrove, Pa.
urei'

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Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties

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

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Columbia County

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

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1877

Medora Ellen Wallace (Mrs.

C. B. Heller) passed away
In a recent letter from Mrs. Heller’s daugh14, 1943.
ter (Mrs. C. M. Jenkins) of Salisbury, North Carolina, the lat-

October

ter says

“Mother always recalled her years at Bloomsburg with
pleasure. The first day she arrived, there was no one from the
school to meet her at the station, so on reaching the campus by
private conveyance, she sat down on her suit case and watched
the dormitory in which she was to room burn down.”
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1885
M. Rearick, retired Lutheran minister and native of
Beavertown, died Thursday, May 4, at his home in Mifflintown.
Rev.

J.

He was eighty-four years old at the time of his death. Rev.
Rearick was educated in the public schools of Beavertown and
was a graduate of Bloomsburg, Susquehanna University and
Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1889
and served charges at Petersburg, Centre Hall, Salona, Williamsburg, Salisbury, and Mifflintown.
1888

Ambrose Shuman,

of Catawissa, prominent Columbia
County physician, recently was one of nine physicians of this
entire area who were honored by the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, meeting at Hazleton, for fifty years of practice of
the profession.
The presentation was made by Dr. Augustus Kech, of Altoona, president of the State Association, at a meeting of districts three, four and twelve, held at the Hazleton Altamont
Hotel.
Dr. Shuman is a past president of the Columbia County
Medical Society and a member of the staff of the Bloomsburg
Hospital. Only recently he attended the fiftieth anniversary of
his class of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Active in his home community, Dr. Shuman has served on
the Catawissa Board of Education for around thirty years and
He is president of the Catawissa
is now president of the Board.
National Bank and of the Catawissa Water Company.
Principal address at the sessions when the testimonials

Dr.

were presented, was by Major Arthur Hyman, Valley Forge
General Hospital, Phoenixville, who spoke on “Cirus Pneumonia.” Other addresses were by Dr. Frank Borzell, Philadelphia,
who spoke on medical services and the relationship of the profession to the public and Dr. Harold W. Brown, Columbia University,

who spoke on “Parasitic Diseases.”
Shuman is a native of Main Township.

He attended
the country schools and the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
now the Teachers College. Following graduation from the latter institution he taught school for two years in Catawissa and
Main Townships and then entered the Medical School of the
University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1894.
He at once began his practice in Frackville and Gilberton.
He then returned to Mainville where he practiced four years
before removing to Catawissa in May of 1900.
He is a member and an official of St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Catawissa; of the American Medical Association as
well as the state and county organizations, of Catawissa Lodge,
F. and A. M., Caldwell Consistory and Irem Temple Shrine, of
Wilkes-Barre.
Dr.

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1889
There were twenty-two members of the forty-five year
class in attendance on Alumni Day.
They opened their program with a banquet Friday evening at the Hotel Magee, and
were active throughout Alumni Day. Those present were Lindley H. Dennis, Washington, D. C.
Bessie Creveling, Bloomsburg; Lillian Hidlay Scott, Bloomsburg; Edna Welliver Fortner, Bloomsburg; Jennie C. Smith Guillot, Bushkill Margaret
;

;

Fineran Histed, Jersey City, N. J. Eugene K. Richard, Elysburg; Emory I. Bowman, Washington, D. C. Carrie Flick Red;

;

John C. Redline, Mifflinville Laura Hughes Lewis, Scranton; Gertrude Morris, Scranton; Mary E. Smith Slusser, Nescopeck Margaret Eves, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. Ben Burns, Northumberland Rush Shaffer, Danville; Curina Hollopeter Persing, Philadelphia; Mabel Heist Clayberger, Shamokin; L. W.
Hart, Martha Dodson, Berwick; Elizabeth Pettebone Gregory,
West Pittston Gertrude Rinker, Prospect Park, Philadelphia,
and Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg.
line,

;

;

;

;

;

Malena C. Rhoods (Mrs. C. F. Gabbert) died January 2,
1944. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Thomas,
of the class of 1916, and a son Gerald, of Philadelphia.
1891

Major Elmer Hess, native
evening, April

1,

at his

home

Union County, died Saturday
Staunton, Va., after an illness

of
in

of six years.

A graduate of Bloomsburg Normal School, he taught in the
public schools and entered Bucknell University in 1898, receiving his A. B. degree in 1900 and his M. A. degree in 1902.
He later taught school at Cross Fork, Coatesville, and Oxford, Pa., before moving to Staunton, Va., as an instructor in
Staunton Academy. He retired from this position seven years
ago after having served 20 years.
1893
Mrs. Laura Romberger Brower died Wednesday, July 14,
1943, at her home in Herndon, Pa. She would have been seventy years old if she had lived until October. Mrs. Brower
taught for two years before her marriage in 1896. She lived
for over forty-seven years in Herndon, where her husband was
a prominent business man until his death in 1940. She was a
leader in the community, and was very active in the Sunday
School and the work of the Seibert Evangelical Congregational

Church.
Mrs. Brower sustained her interest in “Old Normal” all
life and missed very few of her class reunions. At
the fiftieth reunion in 1943, she was one of the most enthusiasShe is survived by her two daughters,
tic members present.
Mrs. Mary Brower Harrington ’15, an Assistant Physicist in the

through her

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Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., and Miss Pauline
Brower, a former teacher in the Sunbury High School.
1894
There were fifteen members of the class of ’94 in reunion,
opening with a dinner at the Hotel Magee Friday evening, May
26, and continuing through the next day at the college. Members present at the dinner were the following:
J. Curtis Yocum, Shamokin, President of the class; Mrs.
Josephine Mahon McGraw, Miss Sara J. Hughes, Miss Minnie
L. Gernon, Scranton; Mrs. Lulu Appleman Brunstetter, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mary Frymire Kirk, Watsontown; Mrs.
Bess Turner Howell, Dansville Mrs. Anna Straw Smith, Kingston
Mr.
Hits Beagle, Williamsport; Mrs. Minnie Hehl
Buck, Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Nell Ent Mears and Mrs. May Evans John, of Bloomsburg, were guests of the class at the dinner. The lovely centerpiece of flowers, in the class colors, was given by Mr. Ralph
Phillips and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Phillips Dole, in memory
of the former class secretary, Mrs. Jessie Ent Phillips.
The five members of the class who arrived Saturday morning for the interesting Alumni program were Harry C. Hubler,
Scranton; Miss Euphemia Monroe, Hazleton; Miss Edith Nesbit, Milton, and Mrs. Hannah Scanlon Dalton, Shenandoah.
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1899

The Quarterly is indebted to Miss Gertrude Morris, of 524
Vine Street, Scranton, Pa., for the following notes regarding
members of the class of 1899
“Sadie O’Malley is Mrs. Thomas F. Hanahue, 530 Clay
Avenue, Scranton. Josie Hammand, of Wilkes-Barre, should
be placed on the list of those who are deceased. She passed
away a short time ago. Nellie Griffiths Gay lives at 53 Vaughn
:

Street, Kingston, Pa.

1903

Abraham

Rarich, of Scranton, secretary of Keystone Consistory, Scranton, was honored at the annual spring reunion of
the Consistory held at the Masonic Temple, March 28, 29, and
30, when the incoming class was named “The Abraham Rarich
Thirty-Year Class.’’ Mr. Rarich completed thirty years of uninterrupted service as secretary of Keystone Consistory and its
affiliated bodies.
One of the most active Masons in the Scranton area, Mr.
Rarich became a member of Union Lodge, No. 291, thirty-five
years ago. In 1910 he received his Scottish Rite degree, and the
thirty-third degree was conferred on him in September, 1920,
at Chicago. He is Past Master of Union Lodge, and also has
held the offices of Junior and Senior Warden in Keystone Chapter of Rose Croix. He is also a member of Lackawanna Royal

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Arch Masons, No. 185, and an honorary member of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and of Irem
Temple.

The death of Mary A. Keller (Mary Correll) occurred at
the Danville State Hospital Wednesday, April 19. Mrs. Keller
taught for several years in Point Township, Northumberland
County, and at Milford, New Jersey. She was a member of the
S Club in Bloomsburg and was active in the affairs of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church.

1904

The

1904 had an enjoyable time together at their
Of the 121 who were graduated forty years ago, there
were fifteen present. The president, Aaron Kilmer, not beingpresent, John Boyer conducted the roll call from the 1904 Class
Day program., Those present responded with news of their activities and reported news of absent ones.
Greetings were brought to the class from Mrs. Maud Davis
Pentecost, the class secretary, who lives at 1000 Richmond
class of

reunion.

by Gertrude Morris, of the class of 1899.
were sorry that she could not be with us on account of illness. Greetings were read from Emma Berry Mattern, of 2717
Franklin Avenue, Seattle, Washington, and from Mr. and Mrs.
Clark Kitchen. Mrs. Kitchen was Mabel Parker ’04. Pictures
of them and their family were shown. Irvin Cogswell, now a
Street, Scranton, Pa.,

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machinist doing defense work, sent greetings to the class.
Among those attending were, Dr. G. L. Howell and Jessie
Boyer Howell, of Trucksville, Pa. Dr. Howell is a practicing
physician and X-Ray specialist at Nesbit Memorial Hospital at
Kingston. He also owns and supervises three farms.
Harry Trathen, of Ashland, Pa., has been city mail carrier
for thirty-eight years. He reported that their son has been corresponding with Anna Goyituey Canfield ’04.
John Boyer, of Herndon, Pa., is Assistant Superintendent
of the Schools of Northumberland County.
Mrs. Mabel Mertz Dixon, of Belle Mead, New Jersey, is a
happy housewife. Mrs. Effie Womeldorf Bentz, of 1547 West
Princess Street, York, Pa., is teaching in the Junior-Senior High
School at Hellan, York County. Sara Buddinger, of Mt. Carmel, is teaching in the Temple School in Northumberland County.

Mrs. Minnie Finnernan McDonough lives at 28 Riverside
Carbondale, Pa. She is a widow and has been teaching.
Emma Kelminski, of Mt. Carmel, is teaching at the Garfield
School in Shamokin. Harry Rider is in the coal business in
Street,

Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Emma Hinckley Saylor, of Tamaqua, has one daughMrs. Elizabeth Specht Martin lives in Hazleton. Her husband passed away five years ago. Mrs. Nellie Fetherolf Lesher

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lives at

638 Market Street, Lewisburg.

Her husband, Judge

Lesher, died in July, 1941. Mrs. Lesher will be principal of the
South Ward School in Lewisburg for the duration.
Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock McMurray lives at Mehoopany, R.
D. 1. This was her first reunion with her class. While in school
she was secretary to Dr. Welsh. Mrs. Leona Kester Lawton, of
Millville, was also among those present at the reunion.
Visitors at the reunion were Mrs. Harry Trathen, Mrs.
Harry Rider ’15, Mrs. Elizabeth Mertz ’05, Blanche Miller
Grimes ’05, and a sister and niece of Sara Buddinger.

Mrs. Emma B. Mattern is now living at 2717 Franklin AveShe is living with her daughter,
nue, Seattle, Washington.
whose husband is Commander, USNR, on the USS Libra. Her
son is a Lieutenant, USNR, and has been stationed in the South
Pacific.

1905
Lillian Bakeless Wendt (Mrs. George Harris Webber)
lives at the Emmis Hotel, Hancock Street, Milledgeville, Georgia.
Her address is P. O. Box 376. Since 1939, Mrs. Webber
has been librarian at the Baldwin County Library.

1906
The following letters from J. A. E. Rodriguez, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, are of such general interest that they are printed
in full.

April 19, 1944.

Dr. E. H. Nelson,
State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

My

Dear Dr. Nelson:
I have missed the “Quarterly” for
sometime and today,
while I was going through my files, I found a card from you
mailed at Bloomsburg sometime in July, 1943, reminding me
that I should send my dues. Really, I owe you an apology, but
to tell you the truth, I have been so busy attending different
war activities, that I just have not had time to take care of my
Just have a look at my different jobs:
of the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Consulting Board, appointed by Secretary Ickes, of the Interior Department. As a member of this board I have to make trips to
Washington once in a while to meet other members of the board
on all matters relating to shipping of food stuffs, etc., to Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands. I am a member of the Rationing
Board for gasoline, tires, food, etc.
I am Chief of the Fire Warden Corps with 72 men under

personal mail.
I

am

a

member

my command.
I am a member
vice;

A.

I

of the

Appeal Board of the Selective Serof the Y. M. C.
Protection, and

am a member of the Board of Directors
am a member of the Committee For Social
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I have just completed
a campaign as Chairman of the Merchants’ Committee for the Fourth War Loan, with a total subscription of $10,709,000.00 (I think the highest per capita subscription in the United States).
And besides, I am a regular hired man in my own business
and still I have to take time to eat and sleep. So, don’t blame
me if I forgot to answer your card immediately.
Please convey my very best regards to Bruce Albert and
to all my old friends on top of the hill.
Sincerely yours,
J. A. E. Rodriguez.

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*

June

Mr. R. Bruce Albert,
Bloomsburg, Penna.

My

Dear Bruce
The scene which took place

13, 1944.

June, 1939, at the Alumni
called me to address the Alumni, and I distinctly remember, with tears in my
eyes, calling on Professors Albert and Hartline to stand forth
on the platform so that I could render to them the tribute of my
admiration for the inspiration that both of them had been to
me during my entire life since I left Bloomsburg, has been reproduced very vividly at this very moment, under the following circumstances
I have just returned from one of my usual trips to Miami,
Washington and New York, only 48 hours ago, and I found
upon my desk several numbers of the Alumni Quarterly. Going
through them, as I always do, one by one, when I reached the
February, 1944, number on the fourth page, I need not tell you
what I read, but I did read every word that was written thereon, and when I finished on page four, just glanced over at page
five and I saw the headline on that page, and I need not tell

meeting

in the

you what

auditorium,

in

when you kindly

it is.

knew very

well in 1939 that what I said on that platform
the two ideal men was absolute truth and that I
would never see them again in this material world. And I am
glad that I did what I did at that time. But 1 did not realize
that I would see both names linked on the same publication and
at the very instant in which 1 have seen them and for the same
purpose. I really cannot convey to you my feelings at this instant and how it has affected me. To me, these two great teachers are not dead they are very much alive and they are today
and will continue to be as much of an inspiration to me as they
have always been, or perhaps more.
I

in front of

;

Had

known about

this before, you would have heard
do hope that you and the family will receive the
sincere feeling of my belated condolence. Will you also do me
the favor of personally calling on Mrs. Hartline and, in my
I

from me, and

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name, express my sentiment to her and
ily, in the same manner that I am doing
Again with my sincerest sympathy

to the rest of the
to you.
to you all, I am,

fam-

it

Fraternally yours,
J. A. E. Rodriguez.
P. S.
Since the above was written I see in the May number of the Quarterly that a Hartline Memorial has been established. I am enclosing herewith a check in your name with the
request that you kindly turn over half the amount to the Hartline Memorial and the other half to the Albert Memorial, if
there is one if not, let 11 s start one immediately.
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1909
Saturday morning looked dubious but the weather man
was kind, and while “the rains came” they were spaced just
right not to interfere with important events. True to form,
fourteen boys and girls (of yester-year) were present to occupy
room “J” for a while and go over the good old days.
Our heartiest thanks for all who had any part in making
the day lovely and us welcome. Thank you, also, for the splendid cafeteria luncheon we were happy to be apart of the
“over seven hundred” you served and handled so efficiently.
Two o’clock soon came, and we gradually got together in
room “J.” Our first problem was not “how old is Anne” but to
which class did Bruce Albert belong? We got that settled very
nicely, and soon we were joined by our classmate Fred Diehl,
of Danville, and his good wife Pearl Fitch. She is a member of
another good class, the class of 1911. Did you ever hear of
that class? Yes, we did notice the beautiful and well known
picture at the head of the stairs, and we read the inscription
going and coming “with charity to all” but we would like to say
here, what would the class of 1911 have been without our
;

class

?

Mr. Fred Diehl was appointed acting chairman and Ethel
Creasy Wright secretary.
This telegram was handed us from Ajo,

BE WITH YOU. SEE YOU

IN

’59.”

Almah

Arizona

— “SORRY

NOT TO

Wallace.

This card from Stewart E. Acor, 31 North Beaver Street, York, Pa.
“Sorry that I cannot be with you on Saturday for our reunion. The reason,
no gas and tires. I will be there in spirit, if not in body. Hope you will
have a nice time. From your old classmate, Stewart.”
This letter was received:
the Class of 1909, Greetings:

To
Up

until the last

find that to

minute I had hoped to be with you today. Now that I
I do the next best thing and send you all this word

be impossible

of greeting.

Thirty-five years is a long time ago but since we are only as old as we
feel we all can count ourselves still youngsters. I have many fond recollections of those happy days on Normal Hill and regret I
not present to
many good friends of the class of ’09.
greet

am

my

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Like most of us I have had a lot of ups and downs during the past thirty-five years but I think the ups over-balance the downs and I have no complaint.
I never did any teaching, never seemed to warm up to the profession somehow; I have always enjoyed selling something. Have been with
only three concerns during my business career, with the present one ever
since 1920. Our business is printing paper for text books particularly.
I didn’t get married until 1923 when I lead a Scotch girl to the altar

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We

have one son who is graduating from high school in
June and will enter Dartmouth on July first.
Would like to have anyone interested note my address and drop in to
see me any time when in New York. I live at 97 Overlook Road, Upper
Montclair, N. J., where you will be equally welcome.
With best regards to all.
great pal, too.

Sincerely,
L. T.

KRUM.

What a pleasant time we all had chatting over the things
that have happened in between and speaking for those who
could not be with us. Of course, tires and gas and existing conditions kept many away.
One of our big items of conversation

was of our sons and
about where they are and what they are doing for all of us.
A committee was named to make some plans for our next
reunion in five years, and Harold Moyer extended to us an invitation for that time. Hoping that year will find all present
troubles over and the world at peace again, we are looking forward to a large group back at that time.
We are proud of our Alma Mater, what it has done, what
it is doing and what we know it will do in the years to come.
Fred Diehl (and wife, 1911), Danville, Pa.; Anna Kuschke, Scranton,
Harold L. Moyer, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Jennie Birth, Nescopeck, Pa.; John
Klingerman, Bloomsburg, Pa., R. D. 3; Leon D. Bryant, D. D. S., Syracuse,
N. Y.; Florence Priest Cook, Cortex, Pa.; Gertrude M. Meneeley, Peckville,
Pa.; Katharine Martin Klinger, Hazleton, Pa.; Laura Rogers Ander, Aliquippa, Pa.; Kate Seesholtz Morris, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. G. A. Shuman, Edwardsville, Pa.; Mrs. G. A. Shuman, Edwardsville, Pa.; Ethel Creasy Wright,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
ETHEL C. WRIGHT, Acting Sec’y., Pro Tem.
Pa.;

Jeannie Stowell Knapp (Mrs. Leslie R. Ames) lives at 1923
Reid Street, Hayes Barton, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Lt.

1910
Paul G. Mansuy, son of Mrs.

Alma

Vetterlein Mansuy,

of 628 Market Street, Scranton, Pa., and the late Dr. F. P. Mansuy, was commissioned a pilot recently at the No. 1 British Flying Training School at Ternell, Texas. In addition to the wings
of the U. S. Army Air Corps, he was also awarded the Royal
Air Force pilot wings. He recently spent a short leave at his
home, after which he reported for duty at Nashville, Tenn.,
with the Air Transport Command. Lt. Mansuy was a senior at
Lafayette College when he entered the service in February,

1943.
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Elizabeth Reeder (Mrs. Clarence M. Fisher) lives at R. D.

Frenchtown,

New

Jersey.

Blanche Mertz Bergen

is

teaching at Belle Mead,

New

Jer-

sey.

1911
A. K. Naugle, of Roselle Park, New Jersey, took part in
the Alumni festivities and was a guest at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. E. H. Nelson. Mr. Naugle is employed in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City.

1914

The

class of

at 10 :00 A. M.,

meeting

1914 met

May

in

Miss Swartz’s room

27, 1944.

in thirty years.

For many of us

in Carver Hall
this was the first

Such expressions as “Now, who are
“I know you,” were

you?” “Let me think,” and an occasional

the usual exclamations.
After this orientation period, we proceeded to the auditorium for the assembly. The various classes were on the whole
A few of the very first classes were not
very well represented.
represented and that is understandable. This meeting was conducted in the usual Bruce Albert style and left little, if anything, to be desired in the way of good fellowship and entertainment. Mac. Leonard responded for ’14 and, knowing Mac.,
you may rest assured our class did not suffer by comparison.
At 2:30 we again met in Miss Swartz’s room. We found
that Kimber Kuster had been appointed “flowergirl” for our
class and he gave our room some fine flower decorations.
spent the remainder of the afternoon reminiscing one of the
high lights being Mac. Leonard and Idwal Edward’s famous
“We have just begun to fight” defense act with a bed slat for
ammunition. Edith Jamison Zarr reported that she has gone
all-out in politics and is school director in Ridley Park.
A letter was received from Percy Griffiths and read. We were impressed by the fact that Percy is a Representative in Congress
from the 15th Congressional District of Ohio and is a member
of the Flood Control and the Pensions Committees. There were
other letters read from other members of the class, who could
not be present; but the names do not appear to be among the
notes taken.
At 4 :30 we adjourned to meet again at Hotel Magee for a
class supper where we continued our conversations and good
time. After the supper we bade each other good-bye and bon
voyage and went our several ways.
The following “ ’14ers” were present: Malcolm Leonard,
Robert Seltzer, Olwen Agrust Hartley, Kathryn Glass Koehler,
Edith Jamison Zarr, Bessie Lebo Vincent, Bessie Winter Mad-

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dy, Bertelle Laubach Lamont, Martha Mras, Mary Emanuel
Brown, Leah Bogart Lawton, Ethel Farver, Madeline Henry,
Susan Jennings Sturman, Martha Rosenstock, Mabel Hawk

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Owens, Paul Brunstetter, Mary Hendrickson Kiehl.
Mac. Leonard is the president of the class and can be
reached at 364 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
In order that there may be news of the class appearing
regularly in the Quarterly, Paul Brunstetter was appointed reporter. Please send him the news of yourself and of other members of the class. This is the only way we can get the news of
the class to the class members. And, believe me, your item or
items will be interesting, will be read, and will be appreciated.
Address your letters to P. L. Brunstetter, Court House,
Bloomsburg, Pa., or to 441 East Main Street, Catawissa, Pa.
Keep in mind the 35th year reunion in 1949. Plan to attend. You will be well repaid.
And now, friends, just a thought in parting. The following quotation was sent by my son-in-law, Major James Harmon,
to my daughter a short time before he was shot down in the
Mediterranean area:
“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to a fellow
creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for
I shall not pass this way again.”

Robert E. Seltzer, whose home is at 559 West Main Street,
Ringtown, Pa., is a teacher in the Elizabethtown High School.

1915
Helene Mitchell Weaver has been teaching first grade in
the New Holland public schools, helping out during the present
teacher shortage. She formerly conducted a private kindergarten in her home.

The Quarterly has recently been informed of the death of
Paul P. Milnes, of 17 Homewood Drive, Toronto, Canada. His
death occurred January 7, 1940.
The twenty-five year

1919
which opened

its reunion
on
Friday evening with a get-together at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul G. Niesley, followed with a busy Saturday on the

hill.

class,

Thirty-four attended.

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Present were: Marie Guckavan Turnbach, Esther Reiehart Schaffer,
Hazleton; Dari Ikeler Mather, Benton; Mary Harrington McHenry, Stillwater; Mollie Jeremiah Payne, Shamokin; Catherine A. Reimard, Danville;
Pauline Mauser Martin, Danville, R. D. 4; Mary Diemer Myers, Bloomsburg;
Elizabeth E. Fessler, Shamokin; Helen Hill Davis, Berwick; Laura Breisch
Rentschler, Ringtown; Mildred Kline Bartholomew, Fayetteville, Ark.;
Margaret T. Reynolds, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Meixell Bower, Berwick, R. D.
1; Zella Fiester Smith, Springfield; Eva Ferguson Browder, Camden, N. J.;
Martha Birch Cole, Mifflinburg; Rhoda Crouse, Berwick; Marian Troutman
Keller, Shamokin; Arthur E. Hoffman, Nanticoke; Mary Hess, Trevorton;
Grace McCoy, Lewistown; R. U. Nyhart, Honesdale; Falla Linville Shuman,
Catawissa; Martha Knorr Niesley, Bloomsburg; Sadie MacDonnell, Cen-

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A. Marjorie Crook, Minersville; Ruth Doyle Moore, Roselle Park, N.
Meta Warner Kistler, Hazleton; Grace Cleaver Hartman, Elysburg; Edwina Evans, Scranton, Margaret Dyer, Scranton.
tralia;
J.;

Ruth Doyle (Mrs. J. W. Moore) lives at 336 Bender Avenue, Roselle Park, New Jersey.
1920
Grace Mausteller (Mrs. Elwood W. Newhart)
South York Street, Mechanicsburg, Pa.

lives at

429

1922
Sentry, published by the Nashville Army Air
Center, Nashville, Tenn., has the following:
“Now C. O. of the 4027th
Base Unit is Capt. Hervey
B. Smith, who took over his new duties last week when Capt.
Turner R. Milam was retired.
“Capt. Smith formerly commanded the 724th C. C. Squadron here at the Center and before that he was a Tactical Officer
His last assignment before takin one of the Cadet squadrons.
ing over his new command carried him to England as a Shipment Supervisor. He was gone for two months and spent two
weeks in England where he ran into some German air raids in
London. One of those raids was the biggest one since the 1939
He returned to the United States by plane.
Blitz.

The Center

AAF

“The captain was an attorney in civilian life and entered
the Army as a First Lieutenant September 17, 1942. He held
a commission in the Infantry Reserve for ten years. He has
seen service as a Tactical Officer at Napier Field and was Commandmant of Cadets at Norwich University in Vermont.
“Capt. Smith, a native of Bloomsburg, Pa., attended the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Lafayette College, Michigan Law School, and Dickinson Law School.”
1923
Williams, who lives at 119 High Street, Hackettstown, New Jersey, has been teaching in that city since 1928.
She has been teaching English, Art and Social Studies. On the
6th of June she received the degree of Master of Arts at Colum-

Grace

I.

bia University.

1924
Largest attendance of any class in reunion was that reported by the class of 1924 which had forty-seven members

back

in

addition to a

number

of guests.

Roll call

showed

sev-

enteen deaths have occurred among a class of 330 which graduated a score of years ago. The major portion of the class had
taught and the majority of those who reported, or were reported of, are still engaged in some phase of educational work.
Plans were started during the session for the silver anniversary

program

of the class of 1949.

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Attending were Margaret Berlew, Kingston; Edith Brace, Wyoming;
Barnes, West Pittston; Aldona Baldanski Reklartis, Wyoming; Mildred Ridgley Schollenberger, Norwood, N. J.; Margaret Hart Mingos, Monroeton; Lena Oman Buckman, Philadelphia; Faye Kline Sommer,
Bound Brook, N. J.; Laura V. Hile, May’s Landing, N. J.; Miriam R. Lawson, Bloomsburg; Mary Eisenhower Brown, Kingston; Edith Baer, Lopez;
Mrs. Guy J. Moyer, Danville; Adda Lizdas Salsburg, Plymouth; Margaret
Smith Morris, Nanticoke; Maud Mensch Ridall, Berwick; Getha Waples
Shaffer, Williamsport; Hazel Hess Chapin, Nescopeck, R. D. 1; Bessie Singer
Shaffer, Williamsport; Mathilda Mensch Waples, Bloomsburg; Alice Williams Keller, Bloomsburg; Ruth Reynolds Stevenson, Factoryville; Aletha
Bullock Allan, Shamokin; Mildred I. Zerbe, Shamokin, R. D. 2; Arlene
Johnston Banker, Halstead; Catherine Partridge Reinfurt, Scranton; Beulah
Deming' Gibson, Union Dale; Mary Stevenson, Factoryville; Betty Ruth Keller, Bloomsburg; the Rev. Guy J. Moyer, Danville; Mrs. Harold P. Dillon,
Bloomsburg; C. C. Cotner, Williamsport; William M. Hess, Winfield; Ruth
Terry Conway, Union, N. J.; Elizabeth Werkheiser LeVan, Bloomsburg;
Lenore Hart Beers, Wilkes-Barre; Kathryn Schuyler Gaston, Turbotville;
Esther Sitler Seely, Berwick; Laura Kahler Wendel, Forty Fort; Helen Gensemer Kennedy, Kingston; Mildred Fordward Amey, Sunbury; Burdella
Paul Honeywell, Plymouth; Margaret J. Jones, Scranton; Mary Dowd Deiterich, Bloomsburg; Helen Barrow, Sunbury; Editha Ent Adams, Bloomsburg; Christina Gable Jacks, Auburn, Pa.; M. T. Adams, Bloomsburg; F. H.
Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock; Edward F. Schuyler, Bloomsburg.

Anna Sigleman

1929

The class of 1929, in their fifteen-year reunion, had nineteen
members and one guest in attendance. Those present spent a
very pleasant time visiting and finding information about both
present and absent members.
The following were present: Lenore Kocher Williams,
Wilkes-Barre; Anna Jones Todd, Plymouth; Virginia Dawe
Welker, Bloomsburg; Rachel Gething Powell, Youngstown,
Ohio; Lenora Austin Reese, Forty Foil; Margaret Anstett Heltzel, Kingston; Agnes E. Burns, Kingston; Rachel Pratt Thomas,
Nanticoke; Florence Drummond Wolfe, Nanticoke; Alberta
Mildred Manbeck Houseknecht,
Williams Greene, Pittston
Bloomsburg; Mary Hays Harry, Nescopeck; Doris Johnson
Thelma Bommer Stackhouse, Milnesville
Bower, Berwick
Elsie Lebo Stauffer, Shaft; Alice Rabuck Smith, Sunbury; Hortense Evans Hagenbuch, Berwick; Caroline E. Petrullo, Northumberland, and Wilbur J. Fischer, Glen Lyon.
;

;

Miss Antoinette Carmen, of St. Joseph, Mich., and Ralph
A. Decker, of Berwick, were married Saturday morning, April
22 in a ceremony performed in St. George’s Church, of WilkesBarre. The ceremony was performed by Father David Martin,
a great-uncle of the groom.
Miss Carmen, daughter of Mrs. Anna Carmen, of Berwick,
is a graduate of Berwick High School and B. S. T. C.
She has,
for the past 11 years, been in charge of the payroll department
of the 1900 Electrical Appliance Co., at St. Joseph.
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The Berwick businessman, who resides at 201 South Chestnut Street, was in the grocery business for ten years in Glen
Lyon before coming to Berwick.
1930

A service publication in the North African zone carries the
following story on Sam Kurtz, now a warrant officer (jg) and
former music supervisor in the local schools:
“Local boy makes good” is an old gag, but this time it’s
true.
Tomorrow morning at 8:30 T-4 Sam Kurtz, director of
the 310th Army Service Forces Band will officially become
Samuel Kurtz when Lt. Col. A. J. Maxwell, Adjutant General
of ABS, administers the oath.
Seven months ago Sam was a civilian working in the Red
Cross Field Service. Six months ago he was a private.
This has come about through his love for music.
Before joining the Field Service, Sam was supervisor of
music in the schools of Stroudsburg, Pa. His work with the
ARC was confined to mapping programs for the many soldiers
who ranks he joined. However, programs weren’t enough to
make up for his divorce from the field of band music. He followed local Army bands, worked with them and booked many
for appearances at the club. Deciding finally to join the Army
as a bandmaster, Sam went to a meeting with Capt. Thomas
Darcy, Jr., director of the U. S. Army Band.
Certain regulations prevented his entry into the Army as
a band leader and warrant officer. The only other course open
was to join the Army as a private and work up. So Sam, who is
married, gave up his program director’s salary, which is equivalent to that of an Army captain, for the pay of a private,
traded his ABC insignia for an infantry pack and for the duration of the war and six months he agreed to abide by the Ar-

WO

ticles of

War.

Sam went through

the prescribed course in basic training

and eventually worked his way up to T-4. He applied for a
warrant and spent most of the past six months filling out questionnaires, taking physical exams, studying for the board and
wondering if the application would go through.
“It was the fastest six months I ever spent in my life,” Sam
says.

1931

William H. Weaver, of Light Street, a former member of
the faculties of Madison and Scott Township High Schools, Columbia County, has been elected principal of the high school at
Hackettstown, N. J. He has been a member of the faculty of
the school during 1942 and 1943, teaching general science,
plane geometry, aeronautics, and general mathematics. For
the past two years he has been the secretary of the Hackettstown Rotary Club.
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Robert G. Sutliff, of Bloomsburg, received his commission
second lieutenant March 4, 1944, when he was graduated
from the Officers’ Training School at Miami Beach, Florida.
Lt. Sutliff was inducted February 1, 1943, at Camp Upton, Long
as

Island.

He

Camp

received training at

Claiborne,

and Mitchell Field, Long Island, before going

to

Louisiana,

Miami Beach.

1932
M. D., lives at 2404 Chaftmont Avenue, Pittsburgh 5, Pa. Dr. Hess taught for five years following his graduation from Bloomsburg. He received the degree of A. B. at
Susquehanna University in 1938, and the degree of M. D. from
Hahnemann Medical College in 1942.
C. C. Hess,

1934
1934 had a get-together at the home of President and Mrs. Andruss. President Andruss was faculty advisor
of the class when it was in college. The college head and his
wife entertained at a tea and reception with Mrs. H. H. Russell

The

class of

presiding at the tea table. Prof. George J. Keller’s new picture
from peace to war was
“Transition of a Teachers College”
shown for the first time.
Attending were: Mrs. Esther Evans McFadden, Hazleton;
Mrs. Grace Foote Conner, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Helen Sutliff
Brown, Harrisburg; Florence S. Hartline, Danville; Gladys M.
Wenner, Berwick; Jean A. Phillips, Scranton; Mrs. Roberta
Mrs. Patsy Yale Graham,
Conrad Fisher, Northumberland
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, Sunbury; Mrs. Viola
Wilt Linn, Washingtonville Mrs. Irene Giger Milroy, BloomsMrs.
burg; Mrs. Grace Swartwood Embleton, West Pittston
Blanche Kostenbauder Millington, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Harriet
Sutliff Herr, Palmyra; Robert H. VanSickle, Catawissa; Mr.
and Mrs. R. Bruce Albert, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Keller, Dr.
and Mrs. H. H. Russell, President and Mrs. Andruss.

—

—

;

;

;

Pfc.

Woodrow W.

ber of the

Ordnance

Aten, of Bloomsburg, R. D.
Officers

3, is

a

mem-

Candidate School, Aberdeen,

Maryland.
the service May 12, 1941, and was assigned to
Training Center at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground. From January 8 to May 1 he was located at Fort Totten, New York and was a member of an Ordnance Company.
He was then selected to attend the Candidate School and was
transferred back to Aberdeen.
Before his induction into the armed service he was employed by the Department of Public Assistance.

He entered

the

Ordnance

1935

Members

of the class of 1935 held a

breakfast Saturday,
Coffee Shoppe. Plans were made for
next year’s tenth reunion. Those who attended were Dr. and

May

27, at the

Magee

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Mrs. H. H. Russell, Miss May T.
stadt, Irene Frederick, Dorothy

Hayden, Erma Moyer AngMoss Lipnick, Isabel Rough
Bittenbender, Margaret Manhart, Jean Smith Pritchard, Fae
Meixell Diseroad, Dorothy Gilmore, Lauretta Faust Baker,
Veda Mericle Stewart, and Mr. and Mrs. John H. Yeager.

Elmer McKechnie, a member of the faculty of the Berwick High School, has been commissioned an ensign in the U.
He was sworn into the service April 6. He reported
S. Navy.
to Ft. Schuyler, New York, to begin his training.
1937
Luther A. Peck is serving overseas with the armed forces.
His address is Pfc. Luther A. Peck 12154341, 999 Signal Service Company, APO 350, care of Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
A recent V-mail letter received from him by R. Bruce Albert
includes a promise to be present at Alumni Day next year. The
letter was sent from “somewhere in England.”

1938

The following item comes from “an Eighth AAF Composite Station, England”
The promotion of Neil M. Richie, of
Bloomsburg, Pa., from captain to major has been announced by

—

Brig. Gen.

Edmund W.

Hill,

Commanding

General, Eighth

AAF

Composite Command.

Major Richie is Director of Training of this Combat Crew
Replacement Center. Although his work is important much of
it is confidential and cannot be detailed.
In addition, he is a
member of the Flying Evaluation Board and General Courts
Martial Board.

Formerly an instructor at Danville, Pa., High School, Major Richie finds a similarity between that position and his work
as a director of training. “I like to teach,” he explained, “and
Pm really happy to be doing the same type of work I enjoyed
so much as a civilian.”
Major Richie entered the Army three years ago and has
spent twenty-two months overseas. A graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, he also attended Bloomsburg High
School. His wife, Mrs. Catherine Richie, lives at 729 Poplar
Street and his mother, Mrs. Margrete Richie, is living at 601
East Second Street, Bloomsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Miller, of Catawissa, R. D., announce
the engagement of their daughter, Margaret L., to Sgt. Aerio
M. Fetterman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Fetterman, of Newlin.

Miss Miller was graduated from Locust Township
Sgt. Fetterman also graduated from Locust
School and from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
of 1938. Prior to his induction into the service, June 4,
School.

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High
High
class

1942,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Sgt.
S.

in the Locust Township High
the chemical warfare division of the U.
stationed at Camp Rucker, Alabama.

Fetterman taught English

School.

He

Army and

is
is

now

in

Miss Hilda Tinney, former teacher in the Berwick High
School, and now a member of the WAVES, has been promoted
from the rank of ensign to that of Lieutenant, Junior Grade.
She has been assigned to New Orleans, as commander of the
barracks at the Algiers camp. She received her commission as ensign at Mt. Holyoke, Mass., on February 11, 1943.
BarHer address is Lt. (j. g.) Hilda Tinney, USNR.,
racks, U. S. Naval Station, New Orleans (Algiers) Louisiana.

WAVES

WAVES

William Thomas, former physics teacher at Scranton
is serving as depot officer at an engineer
depot at one of General MacArthur’s largest New Guinea basIn the army since 1941, he was commissioned in July, 1942,
es.
and was immediately ordered to the Southwest Pacific.
Lt.

Central High School,

Martha Dreese (Mrs. William Graybill) lives at 46 Bank
New York City 14. She is employed at the Newark of-

Street,

Eastern Aircraft Division of the General Motors CorporHer husband is Chief Radio Operator in the Merchant
Marines, and is now in the South Pacific.

fice of

ation.

Paul G. Martin, of Catawissa, was commissioned an ensign
the U. S. Naval Reserve when he was graduated recently
from the Naval Training School for Midshipmen at Abbott
He completed a
Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago, 111.
three-month course in navigation, seamanship and gunnery.
in

1939
There were three members of the

ance

class of

1939

in

attend-

— Mary Boyle, Wilkes-Barre; Ann Orner, Bloomsburg, and

Margaret Deppen, Trevorton.
Sara E. Tubbs lives at 130 North Pine Street, Lancaster,
She is now employed at the Armstrong Cork Company as
an Ordnance Inspector for the Navy.
Pa.

1940
Mrs. Eleanor Beckley Martin, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D.
W. Beckley, of town, whose husband was killed in action over
Belgium last June was recently graduated after a course of
training in the WASPS at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas.
Mrs. Martin, who has been interested in aviation since girlhood and who was the first Bloomsburg State Teachers College
student to take CPT training, will become the first girl in this
entire area to become a commissioned officer in the Air Corps.
She pluckily decided to carry on after word came that her
husband, Lt. John Martin, of Berwick, bomber pilot and flight
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
commander, had been

killed in action over Belgium last June
while on his first mission. Their wedding had taken place May
14 and he left a week later for expeditionary duty.
The training which the young woman successfully completed to become a WASP (Women’s Air Service Pilot) is as
gruelling as that given to men.
She left Bloomsburg September 27 of last year to become
a member of the 318th Army Air Force Flight Training Division, being sworn in October 4.
Her brother, Captain Robert
Beckley, Medical Corps, is flight surgeon. Her brother is also
a pilot as is her father.
She is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and took post graduate work there. In addition to her
CPT training at the college and airport she had aviation training in Arizona before entering the service.
During her furlough in Bloomsburg, Mrs. Martin spoke
at a college assembly.

Clayton H. Hinkel, Director of Business Education and
head of the Placement Bureau in the Easton High School, is receiving congratulations and inquiries from business educators

throughout the state on a recently published monograph on
“Business Education.” This pamphlet is addressed to high
school students who are interested in becoming teachers of business subjects in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Hinkel is also the author of “Part-Time Jobs An Opportunity” which appears in the June issue of the Business Education World.

—

William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Jean GerDes Moines, Iowa, were married Tuesday, April 25, in
the Chapel by the Sea, California. Lt. Hess is a meteorologist
with the Army Air Corps, and is stationed at Santa Monica,
Lt.

hart, of

California.
Phillip Moore has been elected to a position in the commercial department of the Alexis I. DuPont High School in Wilmington, Delaware. For the past four years Mr. Moore has
been teaching in Delmar, Delaware.

1941

Announcement was made June

6 of the promotion of CapJohn Rutter Ohl, Jr., from first lieutenant. The advancement became effective on December 13th. Captain Ohl is as-

tain

sistant base director of supply.
native of Bloomsburg, Pa., Captain Ohl enlisted on October 28, 1941, and received his basic training at Keesler Field.
He studied teletype maintenance at Chanute Field and later
was assigned to McClellan Field where he advanced to corporal.

A

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The officer attended Officers’ Candidate School at Miami
Beach and received his commission as second lieutenant on
August 5, 1942. Shipped to Fort George Wright at Spokane,
Washington, Ohl was assigned as adjutant of the base squadron.

During

his tenure there,

he held several other posts, among
officer, custodial officer and as-

them being: engineer-property
sistant base S-4 officer.

Army

Air Base in Geneva, Nean airdrome squadron, Ohl
became first lieutenant on February 24, 1943. He later served
there as base S-4 officer also.
On December 22, Captain Ohl was sent to Wendover Field
as assistant base director of supply and it was upon his arrival
here that he was notified of his promotion to captain.
Transferred to Fairmont

braska, as

commanding

officer of

Captain Ohl graduated from the Bloomsburg State TeachMay, 1941, majoring in English and geography.
While there he was president of the Gamma Theta Upsilon, a
chapter of the National Geographic Fraternity. Captain Ohl
was also president of the intra-fraternity Council member of
the wrestling team; made the junior varsity track team; member of the college mixed choral group and A capella choir; staff
writer of the Maroon and Gold for two years and of the 194041 year book.
Captain Ohl lived with his parents at 512 Jefferson Street
He married
in Bloomsburg prior to his entry into the service.
Miss Valma Gilman, Spokane, Washington several months ago.
At the present Captain and Mrs. Ohl make their home in Wenders College in

;

over.

Miss Dorothy

J.

Savage and

wick, were married Monday,

Drue W. Folk, both of Ber22, in the chapel of the First

Lt.

May

Methodist Church of Houston, Texas. Mrs. Folk is a commerteacher in the Berwick High School. Lt. Folk was graduated May 20 from the Advanced Navigation School at Ellington Field, Texas, at which time he received his wings and was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. His
address is Lt. Drue W. Folk 0-2056574, 4th AAF Replacement
Depot, Hammer Field, Fresno, California.
cial

Lieutenant William H. Hagenbuch, of Bloomsburg,
brought his Liberator bomber safely back to its base after the
hydraulic system was shot out and neither the brakes nor the
wing flaps were in operation. It was Lt. Hagenbuch’s first mission over Germany, and while bombing the airfield at Achmer,
Germany, flak put the mechanism out of commission. He piloted the ship to England, moved the crew to the tail to hold the
nose in the air, came in and landed safely, just managing to
stop before the end of the runway.
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Julia Hagenbuch, of R. D. 1, Danville, is head of the Commercial Department in the high school at Wiconsco, Pa.
She
has been teaching in that school since her graduation from

Bloomsburg.
Miss Elda Henrie, of Mifflinville, and Aviation Cadet
Frank M. Taylor, of Berwick, were married Tuesday, March 14,
in the Mifflinville Methodist Church.
The bride is a teacher in
the Berwick schools, and the groom is in the Army Air Forces.

Richard H. Foote, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted to
the rank of First Lieutenant. He entered the service in August,
1942, and was commissioned at Scott Field, Illinois. He is now
stationed at Asheville, North Carolina.

in

Lt. George Houseknecht, of Hughesville, R. D. 1, has been
the service since August, 1941, and is now in England.

Jane Dyke is teaching
Chester County.

in

the high school

at

Honey Brook,

1942
Miss Edna Zehner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce M.
Zehner, of Nescopeck, R. D. 1, became the bride of Lt. William
Pietruszak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pietruszak, of Main
Street, Mocanaqua, on Wednesday morning, April 12, in a ceremony performed at St. Mary’s Church, Mocanaqua. Rev. Edward S. Manikowski performed the double ring ceremony.
The bride was graduated from Nescopeck High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. At present she is
teaching science in Nescopeck High School.
Lt. Pietruszak was graduated from the Shickshinny High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and took a
post-graduate course at Scranton University. Prior to his enlistment in the Army he taught science and geography in the
schools at Mocanaqua.
He began his military service as a weather observer with
the Eighth Weather Squadron, and was stationed at Presque
Later he became an aviation cadet in meteorology
Isle, Maine.
and completed this training at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. At present he is the Group Weather
Officer for the Navigational Training Group at Ellington Field,
Texas.
Five of the thirteen members of the class of 1942 who were
attendance are now in the armed service of the United States.
Pictures were taken of them and also of the eptire group back
for reunion. Idajane Shipe was chosen class secretary.
in

Present were: Cpl. William E. Smith, Bloomsburg; Dora Taylor Smith,
Sgt. H. Raymond Chandler, Berwick; Mrs. Helen Klingerman
McCracken, Y. 2-c, Ralph E. McCracken, Berwick; Elizabeth Hoagland

Rock Glen;
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Dobb, Elysburg; Mrs. Frances Hull Burrows, Bloomsburg; Mae Grow, Shamokin; Mildred R. Eaton, Gladys E. Roby, Lt. Stuart Straub, Berwick; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; Lt. Wilfred Conrad, Benton.
Lt. James William Davies, of Pittston, was taken prisoner
by the Germans, when the B-24 Liberator, of which he was navigator, was forced down on a mission over Germany on Easter
Sunday. An official announcement from an 8th AAF Liberator
station in England had previously stated that, upon his return
from his second mission to the Berlin area, Lt. Davies was presented by Brig. Gen. Walter R. Peck with the Air Medal in recognition of his first five missions over enemy territory. Lt. Davies became the first officer of his group to receive the award in

the European theater.

W. Davis) lives at 1326 Spring
Mr. and Mrs. Davis were
Street, Philadelphia 23, Pa.
November 24, 1943, at Elkton, Md. Mr. Davis is Civi-

Lois E. Slopey (Mrs. Gilson

Garden

married
lian Personnel Administrator with the Air Corps.
Before her
marriage, Mrs. Davis taught for one year at the Paxton High
School in Harrisburg, and then was appointed Field RepresenHer work
tative for the Middletown Air Service Command.
covered seven states and the District of Columbia.

Ralph Zimmerman, of Berwick, has been commissioned a
Second Lieutenant, after completion of a course of training at
the Officers’ Training School. Lt. Zimmerman entered the service shortly after his graduation from Bloomsburg. He was assigned to Fort Logan, Colorado, and for the greater part of his
service before being named to the Officers’ Training School he
was an instructor at Fort Logan. His wife is the former Jeanne
Noll, of Palmerton.

Red Lion, and F 1-C Nevin L. Ehrhart,
were married Saturday, April 15, in the
Mi’s. Ehrhart is teachUnited Brethren Church at Adamsville.
er of shorthand and typewriting in the Shillington High School.
Mr. Ehrhart is a graduate of the Dallastown High School, and
before entering the service was an apprentice machinist at the
York Ice Corporation, York, Pa. He is now assigned to an airAleta P.

Stiles, of

of Dallastown, Pa.,

craft carrier.
Staff Sergeant

Raymond Chandler,

Army

has been

in

activities

on Alumni Day.

the

for the past
It

was

two

of Bloomsburg, who
years, was present at the

his first visit

home

in

twen-

ty-one months. He has been in Alaska since the beginning of
1943, being stationed in Anchorage for eight months, and then
Sgt. Chandler is serving in the Airways Comat Port Heiden.

munication Service.
Miss Dora K. Taylor, of West Grove, and Cpl. William E.
Smith, of Bloomsburg, were married Friday, April 7, at the
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Prospect Avenue Friends’ Meeting House in West Grove. Mrs.
Smith is head of the Commercial Department in the high school
at Glen Rock, Pa., and Cpl. Smith has been stationed at the
Walnut Ridge Army F'lying Field, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Pinette, of Derby, Maine, have announce the engagement of their daughter, Rolande Adrienne,

Elwood H. Beaver, of Catawissa. Miss Pinette is a
graduate of Milo High School, and attended the Gilman Commercial School. Sgt. Beaver is stationed at Grenier Field, Manchester, New Hampshire.
to T-Sgt.

Lt. and Mrs. William Wanich, of Gainesville, Florida, recently spent a furlough with the former’s parents at Light
Street.
On his return from his furlough, he was assigned to
Camp Atterbury, Indiana.

Katherine Ruck

is

working

in the

Federal Reserve Bank in

New York City. She lives in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Burrows,
Bloomsburg.

of

Mrs. Burrows was formerly Miss Frances Hull.

is teaching first grade in the Benton VocaHigh School.
Elizabeth E. Hoagland (Mrs. Edward Dobb) lives is Elys-

Carolyn Cole

tional

burg, Pa.

1943
Miss Jane Lois Miller, of Sugarloaf, and Lt. Andrew F.
Magill, also of Sugarloaf, were married Saturday, April 22 at
the Christ Reformed Church, Conyngham. The bride is employed by the American Car and Foundry Company at Berwick. Lt. Magill is a pilot in the Air Transport Command,
Army Air Forces, Nashville Municipal Airport, Nashville,
Tennessee.

Youngest class in reunion, that of 1943, had six members
back: Jean Kuster, Bloomsburg; Betty Katerman, Bloomsburg;
Reba Henrie, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3 Sara Jean Eastman, Bloomsburg; Marjorie Coombs, Wapwallopen; Lt. Hugh S. Niles,
Wellsboro.
;

Elwood M. Wagner, of 144 State Street, Hamburg, Pa., received his wings and commission as Second Lieutenant May 23,
1943, at Douglas, Arizona. His present address is Lt. Elwood
M. Wagner D-779733, 349th Airdrome Squadron, Army Air
Base, Syracuse,

New

York.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Tressa Belle Driggers, of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and Ray-

mond

B. Perry, of

Saturday, June 24.
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Shamokin.

The ceremony was performed

The alumni quarterly
FORMER STUDENTS
Raymond A. Algatt, of Berwick, has been promoted to the
rank of warrant officer (JG). He was previously a master sergeant, and has been in the weather service of the U. S. Army.
He was recently in charge of the weather station in Egypt, near
Cairo. He has also served in Persia. The latest word received
from him indicates that he is now in Italy. He has been in the
service more than two years.
•

Lt. Norbet William Kirk, of Espy, has been promoted to
the rank of Captain. He is stationed at the Lockbourne Air
Base, Columbus, Ohio. He is the veteran of fifty bombing missions in the European area, and the holder of thirteen citations
and medals for gallantry in action.

John L. Hower, of Bloomsburg, has been stationed at
Field, California, with the Army Air Forces. He received his wings and commission December 5, 1943, at Yuma, Arizona, after having taken his primary and basic flight training
at Sequoia Field, California, and Lemore Army Flying School,
Lemore, California.
Lt.

March

•

James

Kline, of Benton, has received the
air medal for gallantry in action in Italy.
He is a turret gunner
on a Liberator bomber. The award was for “meritorious achievement in aerial flight while participating in the sustained
operational activities against the enemy.” Sgt. Kline was one of
the twenty-two students who enlisted and were called in February, 1943.
Staff Sergent

S.

Lt. James D. Dorsey, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Catherine
Gibbs, of Little Rock, Arkansas, were married Saturday, April
15, in Little Rock. Lt. Dorsey had completed two and one-half
years at B. S. T. C. when he entered the service with the
Bloomsburg National Guards. He later transferred to the Air
Corps, and is now stationed at Adams Field, Little Rock, as an
instructor in instrument flying.
•

Buddy McHenry Hartman,

of Benton, received the silver

wings of an Army Air Force pilot at graduation ceremonies
held January 7 at Napier Field, Alabama, an advanced singleengine flying school of the Army Air Forces Training Command. Preceding the presentation of the wings he was sworn
is as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces.
Son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Hartman, of Benton, R. D. 3, Lt. Hartman was
a student at Bloomsburg State Teachers College when he entered the armed service April 11, 1943, for flying training.
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Captain Robert D. Joy, of Bloomsburg, was home on furlough in April the first since February, 1942. He has spent
most of the past two years in the Aleutians, where he is an infantry officer, and returned to that base after his furlough. He
joined the Bloomsburg National Guard unit when it was formed in November, 1939, and entered Federal service with that
unit in February, 1941.

—

The marriage of Miss Zoe Carol Whitmire, daughter of
Mrs. Kent Whitmire, formerly of Berwick, and now of Buffalo,
N. Y., to William G. Coppins, Niagara Falls, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gavin Coppins, of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., took place Friday,
January 7, the Rev. Thomas M. Steen of Central Park Methodist Church, officiating.
Chief Specialist

AA

J.

O. Franklin,

who

served as physical

fitness officer in the Navy V-12 program at Bloomsburg, received his commission as Lieutenant Junior Grade at an assembly
held at the college in April. Lieutenant Franklin, whose home
is in Sherman, Texas, entered the service July 13, 1942.
After
being assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, for four months, he was
Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island.
transferred to

Camp

•

and N. A. Yeany, of East Third
Bloomsburg, was commissioned a second lieutenant in
the Army Air Corps at graduation exercises conducted at the
advanced flying school at Ellington Field, Texas.
Lt. Yeany, a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
the State Teachers College, was one of a contingent of twentyHe
six aviation cadets who left the college in February, 1943.
was then in his senior year and a diploma was later awarded
Philip R. Yeany, son of Mr.

Street,

him.

The officer has 282 flying hours to his credit in straight
flying, cross country, Link trainer, formation and night flying.
Most of this flying was done in twin engine planes.
His instruction in this course, valued at $25,000, was taken
at Miami Beach, Fla., Wright Field and Akron University, Akron, Ohio and four Texas fields, Randolph, at San Antonio;
Coleman, at Stanford Perrin, at Sherman, and Ellington, at
;

;

Houston.

The officer in his college days was a member of the varsity
soccer team at the college. He has a brother, Yeoman First
Class Norman A. Yeany, in the United States Coast Guard and
now on sea duty.

Wayne E. Deaner, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 3, was graduated
and received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Army
Air Force, at exercises held at Atlus Field, Atlus, Oklahoma,
Saturday,

May

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And a Child

Shall Fly

Them

By IRVING STONE
From “Aviation”)

(Reprinted by Permission

and novel experiment just completed at Bloomsburg,
Pa., points the way to a potentially broad field of flight school operator
activity in conjunction with an educational trend in aeronautics which

A

successful

indicates nation-wide recognition.

The experiment— an aviation laboratory summer school
nificant in that

as

1

absorb

4, to

proved the

it

school training.

ability of

—

is

sig-

high school students, as young

in addition to academic ground
flight instruction
Conducting the program was the operator-educator

combination of Aircraft Services Consolidated and the 105-year-old
Pennsylvania State Teachers College.
Activities of the former,

under the supervision of

And

an experienced flight organization, were
Ailor, founder of the Ailor Fly-Ur-

Howard

by the college was under the guidance of
Harvey A. Andruss, president, and John C. Koch, director of aviation
Self System.

training

education.

From 1942

to 1944 the two facilities had jointly conducted a
program at Bloomsburg. training over 1000 army and navy
pilots and naval flight instructors. Accordingly, at the cessation of this
activity in July, 1944, the two organizations were admirably fitted by
experience and cooperation to test the aptitudes of teen-age students
for flight and ground school instruction, and also to set a pattern for

WTS

the inclusion of similar training in secondary school curriculum.

Thirteen students were enrolled

summer program. Eleven

in

the

first

class of the

four-week

and girls ranging from 4 to
16 years of age; the other two, 18 and 21, were college students.
The training program was conducted concurrently with the regular

summer course

of these boys

for teachers attending State

1

Teachers College to obtain
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Vol. 45

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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December, 1944

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Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8.
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16,
1804. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
H. F.

FENSTEMAKER,

’12

E. H.

NELSON,

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EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER

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credit for licenses to teach preflight aeronautics in the high schools.

two courses was

Basic instruction in the

identical,

except

that the

teachers received additional instruction concerned with presentation
of subject matter.
rolled

In the

second

class,

12 of the 23 participants en-

were high school students.

Flight instruction, consisting of ten hours of

was

dual-control Fleets,

lowing familiarization with the
Daily flying

primary training

in

started on the second day of the course, fol-

airplane

details of

time varied from 30

to

with an equal amount of time for

check.

preflight

43 minutes per student, coupled

review of maneuvers

performed.

Ratio of students to instructors was four to one, and while one student

was aloft with the instructor, the other students were occupied
day room with ground school problems.
Ground school consisted of 72 hours of combined
navigation, meteorology,
flight.

some

In

civil

the

in

instruction in

engines and theory of

air regulations,

instances, teachers attending the regular

summer

sion of the college to obtain credit towards preflight licenses,

ses-

gave

students under the supervision of the regular

this instruction to the

in-

structors.

The youngest student was a boy of 4 just due to enter high
His enthusiasm was such that he rode a bus for 36 hours all
the way from Maine to satisfy an obsession to fly. It is significant that
he received the highest flight rating, together with consistently good
1

school.

results in other subjects.

By comparison,

the boys

and

girls

achieved fairly equal

In general, the grades indicate a capability to

struction

;

attendance

absorb

this

results.

type of

they compared favorably with those attained by teachers

—and

in

At the completion of the training for the
pilot’s license

CAA. Purpose

first class,

was given

a written ex-

the youngsters through

of this examination

termine whether the curriculum was adequate
location, also

in

some instances bettered them.

amination for private
the cooperation of

in-

was

to help de-

scope and time

al-

whether ground school equipment had been properly

se-

in

and utilized to parallel the introduction to flight.
The grades attained on the CAA examination are generally favThe largest number of failing grades was in meteorology,
orable.
probably because more basic knowledge was required that was possessed by some of these youngsters at their stage of education. Using
the performance of army and navy students who trained at Bloomslected

burg as a basis for comparison,
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Two

supervisory

personnel

felt

that the

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youngsters generally possessed greater enthusiasm and that they more
readily mastered basic flying techniques.

girls,

The reasons underlying
from many localities, to

expected future

interests.

the desire of these
learn to

It is

boys and

teen-age

indicate relationships to their

fly

likely that these reasons are represen-

tative of high school student interest throughout the country.

An

inter-

view with the Bloomsburg students revealed activities expected to be
followed, which included among others, aeronautical design engineering, mining engineering, air freight transport, mechanical servicing,
development work in South America, and the medical profession. All
felt that flying would be an essential adjunct to their work, and aside

from future utilization in connection with business, they considered
most pleasant recreation.
Close on the termination of the first class at Bloomsburg, an aviation conference, sponsored by the State Department of Public Instrucflying a

Pennsylvania was held at Harrisburg, attended by representa-

tion of
tives of

CAA

and

cipals

and the State Aeronautics Commission, high school

representatives of colleges interested

prepared

at this

in

lic

m

aviation education.

and
The plan

feature to

complement

flight

a general

exper-

course

in

the secondary schools.

Pennsylvania
training

in

conference recommended four hours of

ience as the laboratory

aeronautics

prin-

teachers, superintendents of schools, flight operators,

is

not alone

the high schools.

in

the tendency to incorporate flight

The Wisconsin State Department

of Pub-

Instruction has submitted to the local education authorities of that

comprehensive report concerning recommended aviation proIncluded is the suggestion of an operator-education tie-up for
presenting approximately four hours of flight experience as a laboratory phase of an aeronautics course.
It is to be noted, however, that such “flight experience’’ is differentiated from “flight instruction’’ in that it means riding in an airplane piloted by a flight instructor. As stated in the Wisconsin report,

state, a

grams.

this

is

considered a

minimum

definition, for

it

is

anticipated that

many

students will be regarded as capable of operating a set of dual controls

during part of their time

in the air.

Question of Obligations

But there

is

a gap

between being considered capable to fly and
do so. The flight experience

the act of having demonstrated ability to

likely will consist of a cross-country hop. interpretation of

instrument

readings, solution of avigation problems, checking of meteorological
data,

and familiarization with controls

as an incidental feature.

How-

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ever, it is felt in some quarters that such flight experience, though a
commendable contribution to the tempo of the times, stops short of

educational obligations.

considered by

It is

many

every educational community

it is the apparent responsibility of
each state to include, as a contribu-

that
in

tion to a vast national reservoir of potential pilot strength, not only a

general aeronautics course as a vital part of

its

secondary school cur-

complement

riculum, but also flight instruction as a necessary

Compulsory military

training,

the secondary school as

its

if

it

thereto.

comes, would probably designate

focal point for a military aviation screen-

more advanced training. Had there been a national
young boys and girls to fly as a result of primary training

ing process for

capability of

in the high schools, the consequent acceleration of the AAF training
programs and the contribution to the war effort in general would have
been of tremendous value.

And
cators,

when

it

since the importance of flight training
seems uneconomical to allot four hours

“flight instruction” could just as well

is

recognized by edu-

to “flight

be given

experience”

in that time,

and

would require nothing additional over the airplane, instructor,
maintenance, and insurance required for giving flight experience.

fuel,

May Rouse
Furthermore,

it

is

Federal Interest

not improbable that with sufficient initiative

demonstrated by educators. Federal interest may result in financial
aid, and even may make possible the attainment of sufficient increments of flying time up to date of graduation, to enable a student to
be

eligible to qualify for a private pilot’s license.

There is an immediate urgency of educational readjustment to
meet the changes brought by the advances in aviation. There are but
a few fundamental studies in the secondary schools which are not affected or enriched by the field of aviation.
Since the secondary school

is

the highest basic universal

of education, opportunity should be given

there for the

medium

young

stud-

knowledge of aeronautics complete with flight instrucwill
not be financially able to continue with specialized
for
many
tion,
college study or to be able to obtain flight training on their own. Also,
ent to obtain a

since the high school student is at an impressionable age, it may well
be that any characteristic of diffidence would be dispelled and sup-

planted by a sense of

self reliance as a result of flight instruction, for

probably no better way to instill confidence than
youngster discover that he can pilot a plane.
there

is

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to

have a

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Flight instruction

As early

is

not entirely

as 1934, such instruction,

new

in

high school curriculum.

the follow-up

training

of glider

was successfully afforded boys and girls of the
Teaneck, N. J.. high school. However, this training was conducted on
a somewhat small scale and limited by scholarship. Flight instruction
was presented outside of school hours, and time was given for each
three years earlier,

depending on monthly operating
Hangar rent and gas and oil expense
students payments. (See “Tomorrow’s

dollar contribution on a sbding scale

outlay divided into flying hours.

were defrayed at cost by flight
Pilots,’’ page 27, July, 1933, Aviation).
For the

flight

school opera .or, flight instruction in the secondary

schools offers an extensive and lucrative market.

The operator’s

ca-

and logical nomination for such secondary school training
phase has been strikingly demonstrated by the great number of operator-trained army and navy pilots and the safety records achieved
under the WTS programs. High school students will require the same
high teaching standards, and the flight instructor will have to be tempability

peramentally

fitted for the job.

community might entail
However, servicing a coma compensating advantage.

Flight instruction in a small educational

a financial disadvantage for the operator.

bination or such communities would offer
In the

largest

commum.ies, where high school enrollment runs

into

thousands a profitable return is apparent. The educational activity
could complement the usual operator features of flight instruction,

accommodation

renting planes, selling parts, servicing, and
sients.

Additional income would probably

flying resulting

from student

But the situation

is

to capitalize

on

this

of tran-

continuation of

interest created.

not one of

trend seems inevitable, there

come from

is

opportunity

“come and

get

it.”

Though

the

pioneering to be done by the operator

—which

it

is

up

to

him

to

go and

get.

o
Lt. John J. Boyd, USN, one of the staff of the Navy V-5 unit
which has completed i:s work at Bloomsburg, has been assigned to
Pensacola. Florida. Lt. Boyd came to Bloomsburg in January, 1943,
and was well known in Bloomsburg. At Pensacola he has been assigned to water rescue work, on which phase of training he has written several pamphlets for the Navy.

o
Cpl. William Orner, of

Bloomsburg,

is

located at

Camp

Forrest,

Tennessee.

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999 Full Time Students Here In Past Year

W

full time
students at the
There were an equivalent ot
Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the year ending May 31,
1944. it is shown in a report of the institution’s activities which has
been prepared by President Harvey Andruss. The enrollment, with
the college now on an accelerated year-round basis, was the largest in

the history of the institution.

The enrollment of

enrolled in

different students

1,291 and on this basis enrollment follows: Full-time
tion

—

3 3
1

part-time teachers-in-service, 63

;

;

that period

was

teacher educa-

summer and

inter ses-

war programs, 652. The war programs in361
clude 297 Navy V-5 Aviation Cadets, 139 Naval Flight instructors,
sions for teachers,

;

194 Navy V- 2 officer candidates and 22 nurses.
Reduction of this to the equivalent of full time students the figures would be: Full-time teacher education, 313; part-time teachersm-service, 20; summer and inter-sessions teachers, 192; war programs, 474. This is an increase of 311 full-time students over the
1

preceding year.

War Programs
In the past biennium,

which the report covers, there are seven

war programs, some of which are still in progress.
One was civilian pilot training of college students and high school
teachers. There were 130 in this program which ended July, 1942.
The engineering, science and management war training courses
enrolled over ,500 and terminated in January of this year.
The program which included aviation cadets for Army and Navy,
Navy flight instructors, and Navy aviation program was terminated in
different

1

August of

this year.

in airline

personnel,

A

survey of

all

types of aviation instruction given

members

of the

students

brings the

lege undergraduate

armed

forces, teachers

total to

and col1,000

more than

trained at Bloomsburg, the major portion of which
biennium covered by the report.

within the

falls

Navy Programs
The

report, concerning the

Navy program

Tire college, in cooperation

been training
in

1

942

all

civilian,

our

with the

Army and Navy

facilities

Page Six

Bloomsburg

airport, has

aviators since 1940.

were contracted

acting through the Civil Aeronautics

states

for

Beginning

by the Navy Department

Administration;

first,

to train

.

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Navy

and

Flight Instructors,

later

Navy V-5 Aviation Cadets (Combat

pilots)

The Navy Department selected the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College as one of the
in

the

Navy College

1

71 colleges in the United States to participate

training program, generally

program.

known

as the

V-12

1943, a quota of
73 men was assigned to the college. Over half of the first quota was
composed of students from other Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges who were allowed to continue their work in teacher education
(Officer Candidate)

Beginning

in

July,

1

curriculums.

one

Students enlisted while

in

college

were assured of being
were pursuing

to four semesters in college in the curriculum they

Thus the Navy designated our college as the
one State Teachers College in Pennsylvania for the further education
at the time they enlisted.

of students

who had

originally enrolled to

become

teachers.

A Look Forward
committee of the faculty has made a survey of the ways in
which a college can serve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an
educational institution in the years following the war. These suggestions have been refined and are being reviewed by a committee of the
board of trustees.
Now that this Teachers College has made the transition from
peace to war. there remains the problem of transforming it again to an
institution to educate teachers to the new challenges which come with
A

the return to peace.

The experience gamed during the last two years will be the basis
making further adjustments to meet the new challenges of tomorrow and the years that lie ahead.

for

o

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, after a year lay-off, was represented on the gridiron this season by a team composed largely of
Navy V-12 trainees stationed at the college. Scheduling difficulties
have beset Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Athletics. The University of
Scranton was Bloomsburg’s first opponent at Scranton October 7 and

November 4 played

at

Bloomsburg.

“Huskies” on October 14.
Frank Kostas, former Bucknell

Ursinus College

star,

was

in

entertained the

charge of the

1944

Bloomsburg squad.
o
Ensign Jack Llewellyn,

been assigned

to

former member

of the

V-12

staff,

has

Coronado, California.
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Athletics
(From the “Fanning” Column, Bioomsburg Morning

June

Press,

20, 1944)

That four year span of 1937-40 when George Buchheit’s Bioomsburg Huskies ruled .he track and field realm of the Commonwealth s
teachers colleges doesn't seem so far removed, and isn’t, but in the
current crisis five of the boys who had a part of one or more of those
championship clubs have died in the service of their country.
ft is hard to realize that those youngsters, happy, carefree and
enjoying every minute of life and braving it wi;h the confidence that
is a product of athletic championships, have run their last race, put
their last shot and topped their last hurdle.
They have run a good race.
Fifth

Was

Blass

The last of the quintet to make the supreme
Lt. Lamar K. Blass, class of 1937 and captain of
field champions in Bloomsburg’s history.
He had
team

in his

sacrifice

the

First

Junior year.

power

unanimous

was

track and

also captained the

Those who watched Buchheit build Bioomsburg
field

first

in

into a track

and

the years immediately preceding the crisis are almost

in

declaring that of them

ing, all-around

all

Blass

was

the most outstand-

performer.

There were some which the big lad himself would be the first to
admit were more polished in their special performance but when it
came to doing all things well Blass was in a class by himself.

He had competed in as many as eight events in a 14-event dual
meet and he has scored as many as 30 points in dual meet competition.
His name is emblazoned indelibly on the scrolls of Bioomsburg athletic

achievement.
Roll Call

who wore

maroon and gold of the track and
country was Victor Turini, of
Forty Fort. The javelin was his specialty. He was the first local college boy to die in this war. He was taking flying instruction at a Florida base. After he left his ship and was walking to the hangar he was
accidentally struck by the propellor of another plane. That flashing
First of the

field

team

boys

smile of his will live

know

the

to die in the service of

forever

in

his

the

memory

of those

privileged to

him.

Second
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to

go was Waiter Kama, the small, dark friendly distance

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He died

runner from Dickson City.

in a

mid-air collision during night

flying in California.
Lt.

Donald Jenkins, of Forty

combination,

Jenkins,

ian oil fields.

work

one of that well known brother
on the Rumanthe college before completion of his
Fort,

lost his life in the first successful air raid

who

left

to enter the service of his country,

was a

hurdles and one of the most likeable chaps

Captain Walter Reed,

Bloomburg, died
tion

in

many narrow

in

and

star in the sprints

ever knew.
a miler

Shillington,

a plane crash

work. He had returned

bat missions,

of

we

in

days

his

the west while engaged

at

in instruc-

to his country, the veteran of eighty

escapes and numerous decorations.

comHe

had flown with Montgomery’s Eighth Army from the days of El Alamein to the fall of Tunisia and then was returned to this country.
Sports Lover
If

ever there was a

of sportsmanship
first

to aid those

it

was

on the athletic

field

all

loved sports and lived by the code
Excellent in

Lt. Blass.

who were

He had

easy to him.

man who

all

sports,

he was the

striving to achieve perfection that

of the qualities of leadership,

and then by

first

came

so

recognized

his country.

His last letter to his coach and firm friend, George Buchheit,

was

dated on March 30. It was written from the Anzio beachhead and he
noted that he was living underground most of the time. He explained
that to acquire such quarters mean; lots of hard work but observed it
was worth it. He wrote he often thought of sports and hoped some
time to see

some.

He

closed with

“hope to see

you before much

longer.”
His Record
In

1934

Blass participated in four dual meets

and the State meet

with this success: Against Bucknell \3/i points, the result of firsts in
the broad jump and high hurdles, second in the discus and a tie for
third in the high jump; against
broad jump, second in the shot

Lock Haven

17 points,

first

in the

jump and high hurfirst in the shot put and
second in the high jump

put, discus, high

dles; against East Stroudsburg \b/i points,
broad jump and second in the discus, tie for
and third in the high hurdles; against Shippensburg 16 points, first in
the shot put, broad jump and high hurdles and third in the high jump.
He got a half point in the state meet when he tied for fourth in the
broad jump. Bloomsburg won all the dual meets that year and fin-

ished fourth in the state meet.

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Develops

Good as that record was in his first year he continued to develop
steadily. He started off in 1935 with 20 points against East Stroudsburg and what they meant to the Huskies is shown in the fact that they
won the meet by only a 64-62 margm. He had firsts in the high jump,
broad jump and 220-yard dash, second in the 100-yard dash and
third in the discus and high hurdles. Against Lock Haven he had 24
points and against Shippensburg 20.

Bloomsburg lost the latter meet,
meet in Blass’ career in
which the Huskies did not win. In the state meet that year he picked
up five points with thirds in the shot put and 220 yard dash and fourth
00. The Huskies were tied by Slippery Rock for third place.
in the
In his Junior year when he was captain for the first time, he
scored eight points against Susquehanna, competing while injured; 24
against Lock Haven; 24 against Shippenburg and 16 points in a second meet against Susquehanna. While not in good physical condition
for the state meet, due to injuries, he scored two points with a third in
the shot put as Bloomsburg finished third.
Climax of Career
In his Senior year he started out by racking up 30 points in a
dual meet with Susquehanna, grabbed 26 points against East Stroudsburg and 4 points against Shippensburg. In a return meet with Susquehanna he scored 8 points and then led his mates to the state title
to begin a four-year reign in that sport in the Commonwealth.

66 2-3

to 591/2

and

that

was

the only dual

1

1

1

o

Miss Helen Mears, of Bloomsburg, and

Lt. John J. Boyd, of Philawere married Saturday, June 7, at St. Columbia’s Catholic
Church in Bloomsburg. Lt. Boyd has been stationed in Bloomsburg
for over a year, in connection with the Navy flying program at the

delphia,

1

college.

o

Miss Helen M. Chromis, of Bloomsburg, and Sgt. Robert
rington. of Sunbury,

were married Thursday, June

8, in the

W. WarLutheran

Church of the Ascension at Savannah, Georgia. Sgt. Warrington was
graduated from the Sunbury High School in 1938, and attended the
University of Cincinnati and Bloomsburg. He was inducted in June,
942, and is now stationed at Camp Stewart, Georgia.
1

o
Pfc.

Lee Bunge, of Catawissa,

anti-tank division of the infantry.

Page Ten

is

now

serving overseas with an

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"SAUCERED AND BLOWED"
By

E.

H.

NELSON,

’ll

They say Kane, Pennsylvania, has no hay fever. If you should
go up there to keep from a sneeze, or to see the Lebo wolves, you
could add to the enjoyment of your stay by calling on Glennis Rickert,
4 and his wife, Edna Speary, ’15. There also you will find Larry
Kiefer, ’40, and C. Stewart Edwards, ’41 and his wife, Eda Bessie
Beilhartz, ’41.
A real McKean County alumni group in Kane alone.
’

1

Marion A. Kline, of the class of 886, thinks he is the only memwho works every day. The son, who was associated
with him in the practice of law, is now a lieutenant in the Navy. Another son is somewhere in Italy. When in Cheyenne, Wyoming, drop
He will appreciate your visit. Most names apin and see Mr. Kline.
pearing in the “QUARTERLY” these days are strange to him.
1

ber of the class

STUDENT HANDBOOK,

1944-

— “All

girls

have off-campus per-

—

10:30 P. M., by signing out.”
STUDENT HANDBOOK, 1884 “The young ladies and

mission Saturday evenings until

men

gentle-

are not allowed to pause and loiter for intercommunication in the

Halls, Society

mission.

rooms, Dining rooms, or Parlors, unless by special per-

Neither are they permitted to walk, ride, or correspond with

each other.”
Still,

grandpa married grandma

!

!

!

!

Ensign Donald Tenzi, 1937, was a co-passenger with Col. James
Roosevelt as they flew into San Francisco from tours of duly

in

the

They shared the same blanket up in the
stratosphere.
And, Ensign Fred McCutcheon was appointed by his
outfit to represent it by accompanying Ensign Willke when on leave to
attend his father’s funeral. Bloomsburg boys do get around.
Pacific Theatre

of

War.

Did you listen to the World Series broadcasts? At least seven
boys on various battle fronts have written in that they got a thrill out
of hearing Bloomsburg State Teachers College mentioned as Danny
And how Danny did come through for the CarLitwhiler’s school.
dinals and his Alma Mater with that corking home run, and sterling
defensive play

all

Just learned

through the Series.
of

the

death of John Weimer. He was one of
later one of its fine coaches.

Bloomsburg’s great athletes, and

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

G
OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHED
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. Archibald 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, Jerinyn, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia Bohn, 227 Steven Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

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Luzerne County

—

President Edna Aurand, 162 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.;
Vice-Pi esident 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, WilkesBarre, Pa.; Treasurer Mrs. Lester Bennett, 402 North River Street,
Plainsville, Pa.

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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 Claire 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, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice-President Anthony
J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
A. Symbal, Shenandoah,
Michael Waiaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-PresPa.; Vice-President
ident 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.

President

—

—

—

—

—

—

Philadelphia

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

—

—

—

—

Susquehanna- Wyoming Counties

—

—

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

—

—

—

Columbia County

—

—

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

—

—

1879
Mrs. Ella

known
lege on

Bond and Miss Louise Robbins,

among

survivors of their class, were

of Bloomsburg, the only

those present at the Col-

Alumni Day.

1883
John G. Conner, of 8 Belmont
host at a dinner given

birthday.

May

Circle, Trenton,

New

Jersey,

was

22, 1944, on the occasion of his eightieth

There were eighty-five guests, the leading men of the

city.

Mr. Conner was presented with an engrossed and illumined brochure,
signed by

all

the guests.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1884
The Quarterly has been informed

away November

17,

that Mrs.

May

K. Butler passed

1942.

Mrs. Jennie Moore,

of

Bloom

Street,

Danville,

came back

to

Bloomsburg on Alumni Day.

1885

W.

S.

Conner

lives in

Maderia, California.

1891
Dr. Joseph P. Echiernach, of Penfield, prominent Philadelphia

Tuesday, August 22,

dentist, died

at the

Bryn Mawr Hospital, follow-

ing an operation.

A
in

in

graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry

1903, he had practiced in Philadelphia since that time, with offices
the Medical Arts Building.
Dr. Echiernach was a deacon of the Overbrook Presbyterian

member of the Masonic fraternity, the Reciprocity Club, the
100 Club, the Fellowship Club, and XI Psi Phi Fraternity.
He is survived by his wife, a son, Lt. J. P. Echternach, Jr., stationed at Cherry Point, North Carolina, and a daughter, Mrs. John A.
Bishop, of Birmingham, Alabama.
Church, a

1893
Miss Alice Fenner has given the following information legarding

Loan Fund
have very much reason to be thankful for the fund. As far as
I could not have gone
I know, I was the first one to benefit from it.
back to school in ’93, if it had not been for the Fund.
the beginning of the
“I

“The year before, at the close of the term, Dr. Walsh, like a fath-

and asked me what I expected to do the
him I wouid try to ge': a school and teach to earn
money to come back the following year. He said, ‘We do not want you
to do that. We want you to' come back next year. We will see that
you get a school when you have finished, and we will wait until you
can pay." Can you imagine the thrill that I got from that fatherly
er,

took

me

next year.

into the office

I

told

conversation ?

came back in the fall, graduated in ’93, and a second shock
came when the matter of the Loan Fund was suggested to our class.
The way the class responded, the whole matter was a godsend. My
eyes were then really opened. No one but the faculty knew what had
I

happened.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
“I cannot tell you how much pleasure I got out of writing that
check each month until my debt was paid. I still have the letter that
Dr. Welsh wrote when I finally sent my last check and thanked them
for what they had done for me.”

1896
W. H. Lodewick)

Kistner (Mrs.

Charlotte

New

Street, Saratoga Springs,

lives at

85 Court

York.

1897

Amy

W.

Ihomas) lives at R. D. 2, Bethle“It seems that I am kept busy
writing letters to the family. We have all our sons in the service, two
in the Pacific area, two in France, and one in this country.
I also try
to keep in touch regularly with our six daughters.”

hem, Pa.

V. Beishline (Mrs.

f.

In a recent letter she says

:

1899

Emory

Bowman

I.

He

ington, D. C.

is

dealers in that city.

lives at

620 Oglethorpe

who

is

in Shamokin as manBurd and Rogers Store. He
Washington.

a physician in

in the

The Quarterly has been informed
Wilkes-Barre,

is

deceased.

Nellie Griffiths

Wash-

furniture

He spent twenty-three years

ager of the furniture department
has a son

Street, N. W.,

connected with Mayer and Company,

Gay

that

Josie

Hammond,

of

She passed away several months ago.

resides at

53 Vaughn

Sadie O’Malley (Mrs. Thomas
Avenue, Scranton.

F.

Street. Kingston.

Hanahue)

lives at

530 Clay

1900
Josephine M. Cummings, 3652 Brisbane Street, Harrisburg, retired two years ago after teaching forty-one years in the schools of
Harrisburg. She served nineteen years as teacher of Geography at the
Edison Junior High School.

1903
Robert V. Glover has retired from active duty after thirty years
of service with the D. L. & W. Railroad at Scranton and Buffalo.
He
he is head of a Rationing Board,
is now living in Mifflinburg where
and a Director of the Mifflinburg Bank and Trust Company.

1909
Edith Pooley (Mrs. C. M. Griffith) died Friday, June 9, at Cecilton, Maryland. A heart attack was the cause of the death.

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Laura Rogers (Mrs.

W. Ander)

L.

lives

at

106 King

Street,

Aliquippa, Pa.

1910
Bertha V. Polley (Mrs. James
Valley, New York.

L.

Oakes)

is

now

living at

Newark

1911
Myrtle Turney Ash lives

working

New

in

in St.

Her daughter

Louis, Missouri.

York, and her son-in-law

is

is

serving in the South Pa-

cific.

1912
Mary Eckert Andrews lives

at 1146 Walnut Street, Allenemployed by an airplane company. Her son
the Marines, and her son-in-law is in the Army. She has one

Mrs.

town, Pa. Her husband
is

in

is

grandson.

1913
The address of Major
General Hospital,

She

1

660

Nellie

East

M. Denison, A. N.

C.,

is

the Gardiner

Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago,

5,

1

Il-

honor of serving at the only general
be named for an army nurse. The hospital was
dedicated July 9. in honor of Lt. Ruth M. Gardiner, the first nurse to
be killed while actually on duty in this war. She was a flight nurse on
duty in Alaska, and was killed in a plane crash while transporting palinois.

states that she has the

hospital in the

army

to

tients.

1914

Mary Corrigan O’Brien
is

lives

at 71

Indian

a graduate of the University of Toronto, and

pean theatre
ior

Trail,

Mrs. O’Brien’s husband died a year ago.

tario.

year

in

as an artillery officer.

Toronto,

Her oldest
is

son,

OnBill,

serving in the Euro-

Her son Michael,

finished his Jun-

engineering at the University of Toronto, and

is

a sergeant

lege.

army. Her daughter, Mary Patricia is in her second year in colTwo other children are in Junior High School and three others

are

grade school.

in the

in

A
ard,

daughter was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm S. LeonMrs. Leonard is the former Margaret Jones, of

of Scranton.

Wilkes-Barre, a popular Y.

W.

C. A. physical

and swimming

instructor.

1915

Guy and Etta Buss Evans, of 106
York Avenue West Pittston, had the distinction of becoming a physician and an army officer at the same time while graduating recently
Pfc. William G. Evans, son of

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
from Temple University School of Medicine. Sworn into the Army a
year ago, Mr. Evans was permitted to remain in college and complete
his course in medicine. He received his M. D. degree and was also
commissioned a first lieutenant in the U. S. Army Reserve. He began
October
is a graduate of the West Pittston High School and took
pre-medical training at the University of Scranton, where he was an

his interneship
Lt.

his

1

Evans

honor student. He was a member of Phi Rho Sigma fraternity

at

Tem-

ple University.

1917
Loomis Christian, Jr., of 128 Locust Street, Harrisburg,
Pa., has been selected to appear in “Who’s Who In Medicine For
1944.” a publication honoring physicians in the United States. Dr.
Christian is a practitioner in internal medicine in Harrisburg.
He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and later was resident physician
Dr.

at the

J.

Harrisburg Hospital.

5 years he has been active in Boy Scout work and has been
on the medical committee of the Boy Scouts in Harrisburg and Pax-

For

1

tang.
Lt.

William C. Brower, son of Dorothy Miller Brower, has been
Lt. Brower is a grandson of Sue Creveling
315 Second Street, Weatherly, Pa.

stationed in Florida.
’92,

who

lives at

Miller,

1918
Pegg has been promoted from the rank of Captain to
veteran of World War I and a member of the National Guard since that time. Major Pegg has advanced steadily from the
rank of private since he reentered the army on March 5, 1942. An
infantry officer, he is a graduate of the Infantry Weapons School at
Fort Washington, Md., and the Military Tactical School at Indiantown
Gap, Pa. Major Pegg now serves as an executive officer of the 1342nd
Harold

J.

that of Major.

A

Service Unit, Special Training Unit.
Prior to his enlistment for service in
principal of the Junior

High School

World

II.

at Altoona, Pa.,

Major Pegg was
and an instructor

summer sessions at the University of Wisconsin. He prepared
for work at Bloomsburg and at Gettysburg College. He also did graduate work at the University of Washington and the University of Wis-

during

consin.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1920
Grace

(Mrs. Foster

E. Gotshall

Pannebaker)

L.

lives in Morris-

dale, Clearfield County, Pa.

1923
Emily Craig

is

teaching English and History

Locust Town-

in the

ship High School, Numidia, Pa.

Mrs. Lolita

1926
Van Scoy Gregory lives

at

14 Dayton Street, Johnson

City, N. Y.

Marjorie

I.

Davey

teacher of

She

School, Honesdale. Pa.

William B. Jones

is

is

lives at

first

grade

m

1414 Westside

Stourbridge

the

Street.

working with the International Business Ma-

chines Corporation.

1927
Margaret R. Finnerty, of 2311 Jackson
present at the College on Alumni Day.

Scranton, was

Street,

now

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Husband and son Arthur are

2139 Willow
Delma

E.

Street,

Wesleyville, Pa.

Mrs.

Husband

is

the

living at

former

Myers.

1928
and Corporal Moses M. Hartman, of Richmond Furnace, Pa., were married Wednesday, June 14,
in the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Hartman has for
some time been employed by the Philadelphia County Board of Assistance. Cpl. Hartman was graduated from the Metal Township Vocational High School and Gettysburg College. At present he is in the
Army Specialized Training Program, and is stationed at Aberdeen
Miss Betty Rutter, of Bloomsburg,

Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland.
1

Their address

is

3213 North

7th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

1931
Emily A. Park
York.

lives at-

400 McKinley Avenue,

In a recent letter she says, “I like

your

'V'

Endicott,

New

membership idea

very much.”

1932
Miss Margaret Hendrickson,

of Danville, and the Rev. Ralph
were married Saturday, June 24, in
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Danville. The bride has been
teaching in the schools of Danville, and the groom, a graduate of Sunbury High School, Dickinson College, and Drew Theological Seminary,
is pastor of the Methodist Church at Patton.
Shissler Krouse, of Patton, Pa.,

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1933
The home

and Mrs. Charles F. Jones at Slocum was the
wedding on Wednesday evening, August 2, at 6
o’clock when their daughter, Marjorie Lois, became the bride of Pvt.
of Mr.

scene of a pretty

Vincent Russell Harrington, of Detroit, Michigan, son of Mrs. Grace
Harrington, of Detroit.
a teacher in the Slocum Township
Newport Township High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and is employed by RCA at Camden, N.
J. Pvt. Harrington is a graduate of Detroit High School, also a college

Mrs. Harrington, formerly

schools,

is

a graduate of

graduate majoring

in

metallurgy.

He

now

is

with the U.

S.

Army

at

Fort Jackson. South Carolina.

Corporal Mary
in

F. Schuyler, of the

WAC, who

has been working

the United States Postal Directory in England, has been assigned to

move

same work. The Directory has
moving forward to be delivered
to the advancing troops as quickly as possible. Enlisted men and women work night and day in the endless task of sorting and redirecting
mail to keep up with the movement of the troops.
to the continent to continue the

the job of keeping the soldiers’ mail

and Mrs. K. E. Bristol, of Akron, Ohio, announce the birth of
on Friday, August 4, 1944. Mrs. Bristol was the former Margaret Sandbrook.
Dr.

a son

Sergeant Carl Getz, formerly of Bloomsburg,
Pickett, Virginia.

His wife

and family are

is

living

located at

in

Syracuse,

Camp
New

York.

1934
Gladys Bakey (Mrs. Thomas S. David)

lives at

1509 Greenbrier

Street, North, Arlington, Va.

Florence Hartline, of
years has been teaching

Strawberry Ridge,

in the

social studies in the schools of

who

for a

schools of Montour County,

number
is

of

teaching

Weatherly.

1935
Ensign Elmer McKechnie, of Berwick, has completed a course of
training at Harvard University. Mrs. McKechnie, the former Charlotte

Hochberg,

is

teaching

this

year

Berwick High School.

in the

1936
At a 12th
of

529

N.

AAF

W. 19th

B-25 Base, August

Street,

Oklahoma

1

— Captain Robert

City, Okla.,

is

D. Abbett,

serving as adjutant

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
squadron with a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber group someMediterranean theatre of operations.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. B. Abbett, 240 Leonard
Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Captain Abbett attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
graduating in 1936 with a B. S. degree and later was a commercial
teacher at the Mifflintown, Pa., High School.
Captain Abbett was inducted in the Army Air Forces in June,
1941, and he was commissioned in June, 1942.
He has been overseas seventeen months and has been awarded
the European-African Middle-East ribbon with battle stars for the
Tunisian, Sicilian and Italian campaigns.
for his

where

in the

The address of R. J. Rowland is T/5 R. J. Rowland, Sr., 33626033, Adj. Gen. Sec., Hq. Co. 1st U. S. Army, A. P. 0. 230 % Postmaster,

New

York.

Grace Auten has been teaching

in the

schools of Thorofare,

New

Jersey.

Rachel D. Beck (Mrs. Kenneth R. Malick)
Street, Sunbury, Pa.

lives at

1017 Market

1937
First

Lieutenant Lamar K. Blass, thirty, of Aristes, the greatest

round track and field star in the history of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and a former member of the Catawissa High School
faculty, was killed in action in Italy on May 29, the family has been
all

advised.

who was an

mechanized armament, was killed
upon Rome. He had been on
the Anzio beachhead, for some time, going there from North Africa
where he had participated in the United Nations’ offensive.
Word of his death came to his wife, the former Marie Hogeland,
who now resides at Southampton. Pa.
Immediately after his graduation from the local college he beLt. Blass,

in

officer in

the early days of the successful drive

came

a

member

of the faculty at Catawissa, resigning there to accept

a position in the schools at

New

Holland.

He

left that

position to enter

the service in July, 1942.

He took

his basic training at Fort

Bragg, N.

C.,

and then entered

Officers Candidate School, Fort Sill, Okla.. being commissioned in January, 1943. He joined the expeditionary forces in the field artillery

and

later

was transferred

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to

mechanized armament.

He took

part in

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
and then remained in North Africa until going
The last letter from him was dated May 27.
Surviving in addition to his wife, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Blass, of Aristes; two brothers, James, of Aristes, and Odell, in
the Merchant Marine and a sister, Mrs. Beatrice Nonemacher, Allen-

the offensive in Tunisia
to the

Anzio beachhead.

town.
Blass started his athletic career in Conyngham High School. He
then was a student at Lehigh for a year before entering the Teachers

College where he starred

in

basketball and track and

He was

ber of the varsity football team.
but played

were

little

was

mem-

also a

equally good on the

diamond

baseball at the college because track and field sports

his first love in athletics.

On

team he played center on some of the greatest
Husky combinations but it was in track that he excelled. He was
equally good in half a dozen events, both track and field, and in a dual
meet at Susquehanna University personally accounted for 30 points.
He was captain of the Bloomsburg state championship team his Senior
the basketball

year.

A daughter, Janice Rae, was born December 22, 1943,
and Mrs. Ray Schrope., of 74 Mary Day, Pontiac, Michigan.
According
worth

in

is

to

1939
news recently received.

Belgium.

His address

is

First

1st Lieut.

0-835627 3rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, A.
master,

A

New

Lt.

William

William
P. 0.

J.

to Mr.

J.

Yar-

Yarworth,

593,

%

Post-

York, N. Y.

daughter was born Thursday, June 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah
of Huntington Mills. Mr. Bomboy is a teacher in the Hunt-

Bomboy,

ington Mills High School.

1940
Houck, who has spent 7 months overseas at an
England,
returned
airbase in
home on a special assignment here in this
country. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Houck, of Market Street,
First Lieut. Earl

I

Berwick.

The Berwick

officer,

who had been

for three years, said that during the

return to the United States he

areas torn

in

the

service of his country

two weeks before his
London and saw some of the

previous

visited

by robot bombs, a weapon causing concern

for the Allies.

During the time he spent at the England airbase he met Lieut.
Jack Remley, Lieut. William Kirk and Sgt. William (Bill) Hess. These
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Berwick service men were al! met sometime during his stay there.
A classmate of Houck’s is also stationed at the same (base in
England. He is Robert Linn, a classmate at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Houck was sent
Houck

Newark

to a station in

for special training for

married to the former Louise Moyer, a gradSchool
of
Berwick
High
in the class of 1939.
uate
three months.

is

Miss Ruth Leone Becker, of San Francisco, California, became
the bride of First Lieutenant
in a

Charles

S.

Girton,

ceremony performed Sunday, July 23,

Church

in

ifornia,

School.

Phoenix.

Mrs. Girton

is

Lt.

is

Arizona,

Lutheran

Grace

a graduate of the University of Cal-

and has been employed as
Girton

of Phoenix,

at the

a teacher

the son of Mrs.

Anna

in the

Glendale High

L. Girton, of Bloomsburg,

and the late Prof. Maurice J. Girton. He is a graduate of the Dallas
Township High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He
is instructor in Meteorology at Luke Field, Phoenix, having recently
been transferred from the University of California, where he taught
physics and meteorology for two years. Lt. and Mrs. Girton are living
at

2235 North 13th

Street, Phoenix.

Moore has been elected to a position in the DuPont High
Wilmington, Delaware. For the past four years he has been
teaching in the high school at Delmar, Delaware.
Phillip

School

in

1941

Mary

L. Driscoll

lives at

409 Adelia

Street,

Middletown, Pa.

work at the Middletown Air Service Command in
January, 1942. From that time until January, 1944, she was the secMiss Driscoll began

retary to the Administrative

Officer in

the Training

Depot.

She has

taught several courses in Military Correspondence, and spent a
in

month

North Carolina, teaching Correspondence and Filing at one of the

sub-depots there. She has been transferred to a newly activated office
under the War Manpower Commission, and is secretary to Colonel

Hollywood, who

is

the Director of

Manpower

for the entire

command.

Miss Victoria Edwards, of Bloomsburg, has been elected teacher
of commercial subjects at the Scott

Township High School

at Espy, Pa.

1942
Miss Frances Elizabeth Houck, United States Naval Reserve, of
Berwick, daughter of Maurice E. Houck ’10, became the bride of Robert B.

Miner, of Tunkhannock,

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in a

ceremony performed

at the

Navy

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Chapel at Anacostia, District of Columbia, on Saturday, July 10. The
ceremony was performed by Charles Ehrhardt, chaplain, URNR. The
bride is a member of the WAVES, stationed at Communication Office,
Navy Yard, Washington D. C. The groom recently returned from two
years of service as a civilian employee with the Army Air Forces in
the Hawaiian Islands.
Lieutenant Earl E. Harris, of Orangeville, was seriously

wounded

on July 8. Lt. Harris enlisted immediately after his graduation. He took his training at Fort Benning,
Georgia, where he was commissioned. He joined the expeditionary
forces in December, 1943. A letter was received by his parents, stating that he had been wounded in the left arm and right foot, and that
at Bougainville, in the

South

Pacific,

he had been flown by plane to a hospital base

in

the Pacific theatre.

John W. Betz, of Danville, Pa., has been in Italy for several
is Cpl. John W. Betz, 33349394, 724th Bomber
Squadron, 431st Bomber Group, A. P. 0. 520, % Postmaster. New
York City, N. Y.
Cpl.

months.

His address

Corporal William E. Smith has arrived safely overseas.
cated somewhere

Smith

1

master,

He

is

lo-

European area. His address is Cpl. William E.
7100867, 32nd SCU, Hq. 9th Air Force, A. P. 0. 696, % Post-

New

in the

York.

Elwood H. Beaver,
of Master Sergeant.

of Catawissa, has been

He has been

promoted

at Grenier Field,

to the

rank

Manchester,

New

Hampshire, since December 21, 1943.

A

promotion

rank of Staff Sergeant was received on April

to the

18 by Paul A. Klinger,

Jr.,

He has been

of Berwick.

He

the Air Forces for over a year.

Military Address: Sgt. Frank J. McAloose,

Section, 189th Infantry, A. P. 0. 451,
Military Address:

581

SAW

Ralph McCracken
port,

Staff

Bn., A. P. 0. 965,

Rhode

is

Camp

England with

3336824, Personnel

Breckinridge, Ky.

Sergeant Richard

%

in

enlisted October 9, 1942.

0. Matthes,

Co. C,

Postmaster, San Francisco, California.

stationed at the Naval Training Station,

New-

Island.

Military Address:

Sgt.

Stat. Cont’l. Unit, A. P. 0.

Harvey

650,

%

B.

Fellman,

Postmaster,

New

33186242,

23rd

York, N. Y.

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Miss Margaret Eroh, of Nescopeck, has been elected an elementary teacher at the Scott Township Consolidated School at Espy, Pa.

Among

1943
members of the largest Freshman class
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

the

history of the

in the recent
is

Miss Irene

M. Kulik, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kulik, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Miss Kulik is a graduate of Mt. Carmel High School, Mt. Carmel,
Pa., and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College where she received
her B. S. degree in 1943.
The Woman’s Medical College is the only institution in the United
States devoted exclusively to the education of women in medicine.

The engagement

of Miss

who

Henrie,

taught

last

Reba Henne,

of Allentown,

Sergeant Burnis Fellman,

year

in

Sergeant Fellman

is

and

Staff

been

announced. Miss
the Scott Township High School at

Espy, Pa., has been elected to a position
Staff

of Mifflnville,

has

in

the Danville High School.

a present serving overseas.

Miss Jean Kuster, of Bloomsburg and Aviation Cadet Henry Von-

were married Friday, June 16, in St. John’s Evanand Reformed Church, Vincennes, Indiana. Mrs. VonBlohn has
been teaching in the high school at Steelton. Cadet VonBlohn is enrolled in the Advanced Training School for Pilots, George Field, 111.

Blohn, of Danville
gelical

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Jean
James E. Smith, R. M. 2/c USNR, of Nesco-

Lantz, of Berwick, and

a teacher in the Chestnut Street

peck.

Miss Lantz

wick.

Petty Officer Smith

is

is

s.ationed

at

the

Building in Ber-

Naval Air Station

at

Chatham, Mass.
at

June Bramble is teaching commercial subjects in the high school
Yeadon, Delaware County, Pa. Her address is 1015 North 64th

Street, Philadelphia.

Joanna Fice Buckingham

lives at

1

1

3 Pennsylvania Avenue, Ath-

ens, Pa.

1944
Miss

Mary Ruth Lovering, daughter

of

Lovering, of Greenwood, and Captain Robert

Mr. and Mrs.
L.

Thomas

Gunter, son of Mr.

were married Saturday, July 23,
The double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev.
H. C. Weld. They were attended by Miss Hazel Enama, of Weston, as
bridesmaid and Dr. Fred W. Reese, of Danville, as best man. Precedand Mrs. W.
in

E. Gunter, of Danville

Scranton.

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and during the ceremony. Miss Louise Adams, a classmate of the
bride at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, gave a recital, playing “0 Promise Me,” “1 Love You” and “The Rosary.”
The bride is a graduate of the Technical High School of Scranton,
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and is teaching this year
in the schools of Glen Rock, Md. The groom is a graduate of the Danville High School, Valley Forge Military College and Bucknell University.
He has just returned from two and a half years of service in the
ing

South Pacific theatre of operations as a member of the 13th Fighter
Command of the Thirteenth Air Force and is entitled to wear the

American Defense Ribbon with bronze star denoting foreign service at
the time of Pearl Harbor and the Asiatic Theatre Ribbon with the battle star for his participation in the Northern Solomons campaign.

President Harvey A. Andruss has recently mailed an announce-

ment which

He

forces.

in session

will
first

be of considerable interest to members of the armed
announced that the college, for the duration, will be

throughout the entire year, thus providing three terms of
48 weeks. Servicemen may enter on the first day

instruction totaling

November and March.
Undergraduates on leave of absence for war service are to get in
touch with the Dean of Instruction for an interview to determine
whether the war training of educational experiences can be evaluated
in determining his academic statue.
Servicemen whose education was interrupted by the war are
eligible to enter Bloomsburg under government subsidy under the
terms of the new “G. I. Bill.” President Andruss says that the college

of July,

will give full

consideration to such aspects of military service as are of

an educational nature. Full Academic credit for such experiences will
be given as generously as is compatible with the best educational interests of the individual and with the integrity of the Bloomsburg Degrees.

All

Navy

flight trainees,

including

took C. A. A. courses at the college
receive college credit.

work completed
is

at

Credit for flight

Bloomsburg

all

Flight Instructors,

who

such work evaluated and
experience may be granted for

in elective field

a part of the secondary curriculum.

help

Navy

may have

of aeronautics, which

The college pledges

itself

to

servicemen continue their education.
o

Harold

Miller,

Philipsburg, Pa.

of Catawissa,

His address

is

is

teaching

507 Spruce

in

the high

school at

Street.

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Former Students
Promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Commander has been received by Lt. (s. g.) Benjamin Cook, of Berwick. Lieutenant Commander Cook is in charge of the U. S. Naval Air Station at Bunker Hill,
The
Illinois, as the head of a force of twelve officers and 500 men.
station, all of Navy personnel, repairs the training planes used in the

Navy

training fields.
Lt. -Commander

After one year at Bloomsburg,
to

Oswego

State Teachers College,

New

York.

His

Cook transferred
position was

first

Lebanon High School, and then

assistant principal of the

at Barbeth.

He went from Barbeth to Swarthmore High School as head of shop
courses and was there thirteen years when he entered the Navy with a
commission as Lieutenant Junior Grade. He was trained at West Point
and then at Navy schools in Washington. Chicago and Harvard.
His first assignment with the Navy was with the Navy personnel
at the Pratt Whitney plant. Later he was assigned to Bunker Hill
Naval Air Station, and for several months has been

in

command

of the

station.

The present address of
ron, A. P. 0.

cent

Pfc.

Mario Conte

292, %
from the Southwest

is

13th Airdrome Squad-

Postmaster, San Francisco, California.

letter, sent

Pacific,

In a re-

and dated, September

944, he says
"I wish to extend many thanks and appreciation
Craig, of Catawissa, for the gift membership.

8,

1

to Miss

Emily

“There is very little news that I could tell you in this letter, although I may say that the war is progressing well. Soon I’ll be eligible
for returning home. I have been in the Southwest Pacific almost fif-.
teen months. I am very anxious to return home.
“I plan to visit the school and, unless
will

change
“I

my

wish

plans,

to give

I

my

intend to finish

my

something comes up which
college course.

best regards to the Alumni Association.”

The marriage of Carl Herbert Robbins, USNR,

of

Cambra. and

Miss Marie Fredericks, of Wahpeton, North Dakota, was scheduled to

take place Saturday, July
Miss Fredericks

is

1,

at the

Naval Chapel, at Anacostia, D. C.

a graduate of the

State School of Science, and has been

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Wahpeton High School and the
employed for the past four years

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
in

the executive office of the secretary,

Mr. Robbins
his

is

a graduate of

Navy department, Washington.

Wyoming Seminary, and was

enrolled in

Junior year at Bloomsburg at the time of his enlistment.

tioned

He

is

sta-

the Office of Naval Operations at Washington.

in

Robert H. DeMott, of Eyersgrove, Pa., has received his commission as second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces. Lt.
DeMott entered the Army Air Forces last year as an Aviation Cadet
and was sent to the classification center at Nashville, Tennessee, where
he was chosen as potential pilot material. From there he went to a
pre-flight school, where he underwent toughening exercises and study.
He received his primary and basic flying training at various fields in
the Eastern Flying Training

Air Forces

Command, and was

Advanced Flying School

The engagement

at

then sent to the

Army

Marianna, Florida.

Miriam Marqueen Hartzel and Pvt.

of Miss

ton S. Skow. both of Bloomsburg, has recently been announced.

Hartzel

is

in

Bloomsburg Hospital. Pvt.

He was

March, 1943.

cialist

Training Program, and

is

is

with the Eleventh Air-borne Divi-

in training

sion in North Carolina, attended

Miss

employed
Skow entered the army

a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, and

in the office of the

Clif-

Ohio University under the Army Spestationed at Camp Crowder, Mis-

now

souri.

Lt.

tive

list,

William
but

is

Riffel, of

Bloomsburg, has been placed on the inac-

subject to immediate recall to active service.

He

en-

Bloomsburg National
Guard Company. He left that unit at Fort Meade and was in Texas
for a year. In Oklahoma for about eight months, then on maneuvers
on the Arizona desert and then at Camp Cooke, California. He was
commissioned in 1942.
tered the service in February.

1941, with

the

ir
Bloomsburg has been promoted from the rank
of first class private to that of corporal. He is a mechanic with a 7th
AAF heavy bombardment squadron operating against Japanese bases
Gilbert Henrie, of

in the

Central Pacific.

sissippi,

and went

He received

to the Liberator

army training at Gulfport, Misbomber specialist school at Ford’s

his

Willow Run bomber plant.
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Wayne
tember

7,

E.

1944

a unit of the

Deaner, of R. D. 3, Bloomsburg, was graduated Sepas a

AAF

ceived previous

B-24 bomber

pilot at Fort

Central Flying Training

flight

Worth Army Air

Command.

and

training at Corsicana. Texas,

Field,

Deaner

Ft.

re-

Altus, Okla-

homa. He was commissioned May 23, 1944.

Miss Betty A.

Krum and

Pvt. Charles Barton Scott, of Blooms-

burg, were married Thursday, July 13, by the Rev.

S.

W.

Strain, pas-

Church of Bloomsburg. The bride is employed at the Wise Jewelry Store in Bloomsburg. Pvt. Scott is located
at Cadet Center, San Antonio, Texas.
tor of the First Methodist

by

The Air Medal for
Sergeant James

Staff

gallantry in action
S. Kline,

ner on a Fiberator bomber.

The

m

Italy

has been received

of Benton. Sgt. Kline

is

a turret gun-

official citation states that

was made “for meritorious achievement

in aerial flight

ipating in sustained operational activities against the

the

award

while partic-

enemy.”

Naval Aviation Cadet Robert Freas Keller, of Berwick, has succompleted the eleven-week course at the Navy Pre-Flight
School at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was advanced to primary
cessfully

flight training at the

Naval Air Station

at

Grosse

Isle,

Michigan.

Aviation Cadet Clayton D. Patterson, of Nescopeck, has been
commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces after completing bombardier training at the Army Air Field at Carlsbad, New

Mexico.

Cpl. Alvin J. Woodring, of Bloomsburg, was graduated in June
from the Fiberator bomber mechanics school at Keesler Field, Biloxi,

Mississippi.

A
on the

Mark Jury. Sgt. Jury is
charge of rehabilitation and conditioning at Ford Ord,
Mrs. Jury was formerly Miss Anna Tugend, of Dalton, Pa.

son was born July 4, to Sgt. and Mrs.
staff in

California.

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