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PRESIDENT ANDRUSS RETURNS
months spent at Shi’ivenham American UnPresident Plarvey A. Andruss arrived in New York on
the USS Aircraft Carrier “Enterprise” on December 24th and
resumed his duties at the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1946.
The following citation, signed by Brig. C. M. Thiele, of
Shrivenham American University, was written on November 30,
1945, as follows, in appreciation for the services of President
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iversity,

Andruss
“During the past few months you have had a part in a
most important project of the Army Education Program. The
establishment of an education program on the University level
was unique in military history. The planning, selection of staff,
supervision, and operation of Universities on foreign soil created many problems which have been met and solved.
“As Branch Head of the Accounting Department, your
ability, zeal, resourcefulness, loyalty, and devotion to duty reflected credit upon yourself and the military service, and contributed materially to the success of Shrivenham American
University. Your services have been invaluable in the solving
of innumerable problems.
“For an all too fleeting period of four months, we have
been associated in what, by the universal testimony of all participants, has been a thrilling experience. This staff was made
up from the most distinguished teachers and scholars in the
American Academic World. Only a unique project such as this
could attract so high a level of teaching ability and scholarly
attainment. In this group you have taken an active part.

“May I extend my personal appreciation for the wholehearted support and the valuable and loyal service you have
rendered.
“I give you my kindest personal regards and best wishes
for continued success in your professional activities.”

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February, 1946

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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REMINISCENCES
The loUowing appeared in the “Passing Throng" column
burg Morning Press, in its issue of December 4, 1945;

of the

Blooms-

Reminiscent of earlier days at Normal was the visit to the
orhce the other night of Lindley H. Dennis and Howard Fetterolf.

Both graduated from the local institution somewhere
around the turn of the century and it is our recollection that
both taught in the county before seeking broader fields.
The conversation had to do with “Doc” Aldinger, “Bill”
McAvoy, John McGuffey and some of the other well known
school figures of their day. It was all nostalgic.
Lindley recalled the time he sought to make an impression
upon a group of girls by taking them up in the tower of Carver
Hall to get the view from that vantage point.
Everything would have been fine except that he was wearing a derby hat and the wind was strong. To keep it on his
head he pulled it down tight over his ears. To his great chagrin the brim pulled from the hat, and he presented a grotesque
appearance. “1 didn’t leave too deep an impression,” he confessed.

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Then we told him one about the tower of Carver Hall an
incident that occurred the night preceding the annual gymnasium exhibition, when anything could happen on the hill.
were working in our office in the Dentler building
when we heard the patter of feet on the stairs. The door opened and there was “Bill” McAvoy clad in a thin running suit,
bare legged and wearing “gym” shoes. The snow was almost a
foot deep on the ground.
“I got a great story for you,” “Bill” exclaimed as he sought
to get his wind. He had run all the wav down from the school.

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“Yes.”

we

“The college preps, are in the tower of Carver Hall and
are beating up the other classmen as they try to get up to

us.”

How did you get down here?”
made my way down the outThat was easy.
side of the building so you would be sure to have the story in
the morning.”
Nothing like that happens these days.
Through the years the careers of Dennis and Fetterolf
have closely paralleled each other.
Lindley went with the Pennsylvania Department of Education in 1911 and set up the vocational, industrial and home economics program, and called in Howard, a Mifflinville boy, who
“That’s

“Pshaw

fine.

was then teaching
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As he sat in the office the other evening Howard remarked
that he had been with the State’s agricultural program in the
schools for the last thirty-one years. Today, there are something over 200 of these departments in the schools of the state.
There was quite a heavy mortality during the war years because of the requirements of the new law which makes it mandatory there be a minimum of 22 students to each unit. Earlier,
these units were being carried through with 10 or 12 students.
In Columbia County alone it meant the elimination of these departments in Orangeville, Sugarloaf, Centre and Madison.
But Mr. Fetterolf was confident there would be a great
increase in the near future. Many schools are waiting only until they can secure competent instructorship.
It was his impression that one of the great pieces of work
done by the department during the war years was the setting
up of farm machinery repair schools, all of which were very
largely attended and of great practical benefit. In Columbia
County these schools were held in Orangeville, Beaver, Benton,
Mifflinville, Madison, Locust and Millville and were for the
farmers themselves.
After setting up the department and staying with it for
some years, Bindley left to become assistant state superintendent in Michigan. He went from there to Washington, where he
is secretary of the American Vocational Association, which is
supported by the vocational teachers of the nation.

The

following, also taken from the “Passing Throng" column, should be
because of Mr. Wirt’s long association with the College as a member of the Board of Trustees.

of interest

We noted by a New York paper yesterday that Lewis Edson Waterman, Jr., seventy-eight, son of the founder of the
Waterman pen, died at Plainfield, New Jersey, and that the
father “invented the first modern fountain pen.’’
Were Paul E. Wirt alive he would take exception to that
statement because for years Wirt compelled Waterman to pay
a royalty to him on every Watei'man pen sold.
The battle to get a fountain pen that would work had been
on for some years, as George Rosenstock, superintendent of the
Wirt factory for years, recalled yesterday. All these inventors
played with an underfeed. Mr. Wirt came along with a “loop
feeder’’ and it proved a success.
Waterman copied the idea and landed in the patent courts.
After long drawn-out litigation Wirt’s invention was upheld and Waterman’s outlawed. Hence the royalties.
The pen factory of that day is now the home of the Public
Assistance staff, and has been for some years.
In its heyday forty persons were given employment there,
divided between the gold pen, rubber case, assembling and
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shipping departments. When it was the nation’s best known
pen 500,000 yearly were sold.
When the factory was first set up here, the gold pens were
made in New York and sent here for assembly with the feeder
and the rubber case. That eventually proved a headache. Mr.
Wirt was required to advance the gold pen makers money to
keep them in operation, and the time came when they closed
down. That was when A. B. Tyson, who had been associated
with the gold pen company in New York, came here to head
that depaidment, of which Robeit D. Young was later to become the head.
It was then that every part of the pen was made in the
factory, the gold for the pens being received from the mint,
the rubber from South America, and the iridium from which
the pen points were made from Russia. That metal had a value
of $125 an ounce.
Mr. Wilt was not satisfied with his fountain pen invention.
He allowed his interests to become diveited and started out to
develop a new type suspender. Into that his invention cenhe placed great sums of money, but
tered around the buckle
it was a dead loss as were the time and money he invested in
seeking to develop a new type of automobile tire.
It was about that time that modem advertising came into
and that was where Wirt lost out.
the picture
Waterman, in spite of the royalties, went in for modern
advertising in a big way, as did Schaeffer in the mid-West.
Wirt didn’t, and it wasn’t long before his two principal competitors began to absorb the market.
With his markets gradually going out from under him Mr.
Wirt turned to making pens for mail order houses. That was
but another steii on the way out.
He was becoming older his patents were expiring and his
one son wasn’t keen about the business.
In due course of time the plant folded up. It could easily
have been that it would be employing twenty-five times as
many people as it did at its peak. Other competing plants have
gone on until they employ far more.

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(From the “Passing Throng” column

of the

Morning Press)

The departure from Bloomsburg of the last member of the
Waller family, which first became associated with Bloomsburg
in 1888 when Rev. David J. Waller came here as the Presbyterian pastor, supplying all the English Presb.rterian Churches
between Danville and Wilkes-Barre, as well as those in the valleys of Fishing Creek, recalls the part he played in Bloomsburg
development.
For thirty-three years he proved indefatigable in his ministerial work, eventually introducing four additional wmrkers
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the field to care for as many separate charges. In 1848 the
brick place of worship in Bloomsburg, built under his direction
at a cost of $3,100, was dedicated. This stood on the site of the
present Jones residence on Market Street.
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In 1871, when the Bloomsburg Church had reached the
point of self sustenance, Mr. Waller resigned his pastorate,
but still occasionally preached as his health would permit. It
was with considerable reluctance that he laid down the active
work of the ministry, but after the arduous labor of so many
years, having achieved the object of his original mission, he felt
he was the father of
that the demands of his growing family
called upon him to devote his energies to their
ten children
care and education. During the active part of his ministry Mr.
Waller found ample scope for the employment of the energy
and executive ability with which a Divine providence had
blessed him. Notwithstanding the arduous character of his
early missionary work, he interested himself and others in procuring advanced educational privileges for the community. He
was chiefly instrumental in founding a classical school in
Bloom.sburg in 1839, secui'ing his brother, C. P. Waller, as principal. This gentleman, subsequently president judge in Wayne
and Pike Counties, was admirably fitted for the work and laid a
foundation on which the State Normal School was subsequently
erected.
Mr. Waller’s interest in the educational features of
Bloomsburg did not languish with this initial effort, and in all
the history of the growth of secondary instruction in the county seat was found his guiding and supporting influence. His
contribution to the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and Normal
School reached $3,500.
He came to Bloomsburg at the time when the m.ovement
for the removal of the county seat was at its ebb tide and the
most sanguine of its supporters were about to despair. He espoused the sinking cause with undaunted courage, and with the
cooperation of D'r. John Ramsay and William McKelvy succeeded in buoying the stranded movement to the deeper waters
which led to eventual success.
Devoting his attention more exclusively to business matters
his career was remarkable in that, after devoting the active
years of his life to the seclusion of the study, he proved so eminently successful in ventures which have always taxed the
abilities of those especially trained for the particular service.
In all his enterprises Mr. Waller evinced a public spirit, which
has accrued to the highest advantage of the town of his residence.
On leaving the ministry he devoted his attention to farming with eminent success. He soon felt the difficulties which the
community labored under for the lack of transportation facillatent possibilities for Bloomsburg
ities, and discovered the

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which he determined

to develop. In 1859 he bargained for
ninety-five acres that is all now included in the town of Bloomsburg. This tract included the plot of the borough bounded on
the north by the alley between Fourth and Fifth Streets; on
the east by a line a little east of Catherine Street on the south
by Canal Street and on the west by the Irondale Railroad. It
comprised the most substantial residences of town, several of
;

them erected by Mr. Waller, among which were the residence
he built on the corner of Fifth and Market Streets, and the
Sanitarium Building costing upward of $15,000.
He owned 150 acres south of the canal adjoining this plot,
which

later

were included within the corporate

limits of the

town.
In these private ventures Mr. Waller was not neglectful of
public interests, and in spite of persistent opposition, secured
for the town, at his own expense, a broad street, lined with attractive resiclences. In 1861 he secured the location of the railroad depot at an accessible point, and in 1870 began to devise
means to relieve the business intei'ests of the burden which the
railroad monopoly placed upon it. The result of his efforts in
this direction was the construction of the North and West
Branch Railroad, which he constructed by his own efforts and
in spite of the most determined opposition of other corporations. Even his friends felt that it was a foolhardy undertaking
and his success won for him the well merited respect not only
of his fellow-townsmen, but of the railroad magnates who tried
in vain to thwart him. It was that enterprise that largely
proved the foundation of the Waller fortune.
His ambition was to make Bloomsburg a vigorous manufacturing center with railroad facilities second to none in this
section of the State. Every public improvement received his
hearty cooperation, and when the public was slow to proceed
his own judgment would not falter. The lot on which the jail
stands was donated by Mr. Waller, as was the land occupied
by the woolen mills and now owned by Bloomsburg Mills, Inc.
In 1876 he was nominated by the Republican party as candidate for Congress for this district. The hopeless adverse majority gave little hope for his success, but he nevertheless ran
500 ahead of the Hayes electoral ticket.
He was married in 1839 to Julia Ellmaker, of Philadelphia, a daughter of Levi and Hannah (Hopkins) Ellmaker of
that city. Their children were Hannah Ellmaker, born August
30, 1840; Elizabeth, born May 14, 1842; Maria Louise, bom
May 29, 1843, died February 8, 1844; Harriet, born November
16, 1844, died June 13, 1845; David Jewett, born June 17,
1846; William Patterson, boni January 20, 1848, died April 22,
same year; Levi Ellmaker, born July 16, 1851; George Phillips, born April 2, 1854; Julia, wife of Charles W. Hand and

Laura

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From
vember

5,

the “Twenty-Five Years

Ago” column

of the

Morning Press, No-

1945.

The annual reception of the faculty of the Normal School
members of the Board of Trustees of the institution, with
their wives and husbands, was tendered last evening in Philo
Hall. Receiving the guests were Dr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher,
Prof, and Mrs. Hartline and Miss Kingman. A luncheon was
to the

served with Mrs. Goodman and Miss Schools presiding at the
refreshment table. Serving the refreshments were Miss Crittenden, Miss Babb, Mr. V^^erntz, Mr. Hall and Miss Benson. The
guests were A. Z. Schoch, Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Wirt, Judge
and Mrs. John G. Harman, James C. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. R. E.
Miller, Dr. D. J. Waller, Prof, and Mrs. J. G. Cope and Prof,
and Mrs. G. E. Wilbur.
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Miss Martha Hathaway, Danville, was awarded the R.
Bruce Albeit Scholarship Award of $100.00 at a recent assembly program at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Miss
Betty Fisher, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Adda Myers, Hughesville, received special scholarship awards of $50.00 each. Presentation of the awards was made by Dr. T. P. Noith, Acting
President of the College and the candidates were presented by
Dr. Kimber Kuster, Chairman of the Scholarship Committee.
The Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College established a loan fund to aid students some years ago.
Since part of the fund bears interest, the residual interest is being used to provide the recently awarded scholarships.
The Alumni Association has established an annual $100.00
scholarship in memory of the late R. Bruce Albert, President
of the Alumni Association for many years. In addition to this
scholarship this year, the Association made available four additional $50.00 scholarships, two of which have not yet been
awarded. The only stipulation by the Association in making
the awards is that the student be woithy. However, the committee, appointed by Dr. North to make the awards, also considered scholarship, personality, professional promise and financial need. The remaining awards will be made by the committee sometime in the near future.
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Announcement has been made

of the engagement of PaulYork City.
ine E. Egizi, of Berwick, to John Paul Ix, of
Miss Egizi is a graduate of the Berwick High School, class of
1943, and is at present a Junior at the College. Mr. Ix is a
graduate of the George Washington High School, Manhattan,
in 1942, and entered the Navy in August of that year. After
serving sixteen months in the Aleutians, he was transferred to
the V-12 program, and came to Bloomsburg in November, 1944.
He is now at the Pennsylvania State College, where he was

transferred

November

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“Saucered and Blowed”
E. H.

NELSON

Nations warring, seeking power,
Terror chaos blight.
Human souls cheap, disregarded;

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Silent watchers keeping vigil
X ight day night
Breath of heaven, starlight gleaming.

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light.

Great-Uncle John's

poeti'y)

IMany of the boys who left the campus to go to all coiTiers
of the earth to protect The Spirit that is Bloomsburg are back
this semester.
Already their influence is being felt. Matt

Kashuba hustled down to Philadelphia to an indoor championship track and field meet on January 25, and topped the field
with a 6 feet
inch high jump, which incidentally broke the
meet record and left a couple of national stars in second and
third positions. Matt scouted weather in Scotland during the
war, but prefers high jumping to cloud guessing. The New
York Herald-Tribune carried his picture on the first page of
the sporting section on Sunday, January 27.

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Afine response has come in from those interested in an
“All-Alumni Library.” Come back Alumni Day, May 25, and
see the fine display. Included will be paintings, sketches, and
some craft work. We do want your contribution. Won’t jmu
contact us right away? What better place could your work be
on display than at your Alma Mater?

We were thrilled some time ago (January 21) to hear a
musical question on “Information Please” submitted by Mrs. J.
K. Miller. You will remember Mrs. Miller well. For many
years she was instructor in instrumental music at the College.
The pleasing thing about the question was the fact that it
stumped the experts, and Mrs. Miller received a bond. Mrs.
Miller is now retired, living at the beautiful Masonic Home in
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. She will be pleased to hear
from you,

I

know.

Dr. Francis B. Haas, College President from 1927 to 1939,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Pennsylvania,
maintains an active interest in the affairs of the College and is
always pleased to greet Alumni. Pay him a visit when you are
His office is on the third floor of the Education
in Harrisburg.
Building.

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Gamfiu6,

eMci/pLp.enin
The Secondaiy Education Group of Future Teachers of
America at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College organized
at a dinner meeting held in the College dining room Friday,
January 4 and a succeeding meeting held January 9.
The purposes of the organization are as follows: to acquaint students with the purposes and activities of professional
organizations; to stimulate their interest in current educational
problems and issues, and to provide experiences that will induct new teachers into the profession.
The officers of the group are President, Bernice Gabuzda,
Freeland; Vice-President, Fltheda Klingaman, Shumans; Secretary-Treasurer, Lillian Guis, Sheppton; Representative, VioFuture Teachers of
let Weller, Turbotville, to the general
America, Bloomsburg College Group. Sponsor, Mr. Joseph R.
Bailer, Director of Placement and Secondary Education.
The members of the group are as follows: Athamantia
Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Henry Gatski, Bloomsburg; Lola
Good, Wapwallopen Lorraine Fichter, Hazleton; Kathleen
Pless, Dalton; John Hmelnicky, Exeter; Hazel Keeler, Espy;
Virginia King, Dallas; Karliss Kight, Bloomsburg; Ralph McCracken, Danville; Lenore SeybeiJ, Lightstreet; Frances Saunders, Danville; Charles Wagner, Bloomsburg; Violet Weller,
Turbotville and William Wanich, Lightstreet.
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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was well represented at the twelfth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Conference for the education of Exceptional Children held in the
Fifth Street Methodist Church, Plarrisburg, Pennsylvania, November 9 and 10. Clinicians and teachers of exceptional children from the entire state attended. Those attending from the
College were Miss Edna J. Hazen, Director of Elementary Education and Miss Elma Major, teacher of Special Class, of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Students majoring in Special Class who attended are: Mrs. Amy Hinkelman, Williamsport; Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg Renee Paul, Lavelle, and
Martha Stitzel, Hamburg. “Mental Hygiene for Exceptional
Children” was the theme of the Conference.
Dr. Paul Sloane, Temple University, spoke at the dinner
meeting Friday evening on “The Shy Seclusive Child.” Dr. Edgar A. Doll, Director of Research, Vineland Training School,
Vineland, N. J., spoke at the morning session Saturday on “Maturation in Relation to Mental Hygiene.”
Sectional conferences were held for workers in classes for
the blind and partially seeing, the mentally retarded, orthopedic, deaf and hard of hearing, mentally superior and for clin:

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icians. Mr. David Porter, Harrisburg, President of the state organization, presided at the closing session Saturday afternoon
when summaries of the sectional conferences were given by the
chairman. Miss Martha Fisher, Sunbury, was elected president
for the next year.

Members of the Hospitality Committee of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College entertained over a hundred young men
and women recentlj’ on the campus of the local institution. The
guests were attending a youth conference at the local Methodist
Church and were invited to make a tour of the teachers college.
They were taken through the college administrative offices,
dining room, training school, social rooms, the gymnasiums and
given an opportunity to inspect the dormitories. The Hospitality Committee with Ann Williams, Luzerne, Chairman, includes
the following: Jeanne Reitz, Xorthumberland Gloria Galow,
Hazleton; Pauline Kokolias, Matamoras; Jane Niles, Wellsboro; Charlotte Young, Lewisburg; Evelyn Pethick, Milanville;
Eloise Noble, Milanville; Shirley Henley, Taylor, and Madge
;

Fuller, Berwick.

President Harvey A. Andruss attended in Philadelphia a
regional meeting of the Educational Policies Commission of the
National Education Association.
The meeting was attended by the Educational Consultants
of this National Organization from the States of Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Delaware. Among the speakers were Dr. Kenneth Holland of the Inter-American Union Dr. Walter G. Carr,
Executive Director of the Educational Policies Commission of
the National Education Association.
For the last meeting the group of Educational Consultants
adjourned from the Philadelphia Board of Education Building
to the Girls’ High School in order that they might join with a
larger group addressed by Archibald MacLeish, formerly Assistant Secretary of State.
The progi'am was built around the forthcoming publications of the National Education Association and a description
of UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) which was formed in November, 1945, in
London, during the time that President Andruss was stationed
at Shrivenham American University.
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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was host to the
eighty-ninth session of the Columbia County Teachers Institute
held November 28 and 29. The Columbia (bounty School Directors met with the teachers November 28.
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sociation also held a

Saturday,

two-day meeting

at the College

Friday and

November 30 and December 1. Saturday morning a
the House of Delegates was in the auditorium in

session of
Carver Hall.
One of the highlights of the combined sessions was a lecture Friday evening in the College auditorium by Stanley High,
one of America’s best known commentators. Mr. High’s extensive background makes him one of our outstanding authorities
on world affairs. The subject of his lecture at Bloomsburg was
“What Kind of America Do
Want?’’

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Jury, of Bloomsburg, now a staff sergeant in the
Army stationed at Ford Ord, Calif., will become
field executive of the Columbia-Montour Boy Scout

Mark

United States
the new
Council.

Jury expects to be honorably discharged from service in
the near future.
He is a former Eagle Scout and before entering service was
the assistant scout executive at Middletown, Ohio, serving there
a year and a half. Prior to that he completed the national
training program for scout executives. He will enter the local
field as an experienced executive. His experience as a staff
member of Camp Lavigne and the training received in the
armed forces will well qualify him for leadership at Camp La\igne.

The Philadelphia Branch of the B. S. T. C. Alumni held
their annual Christmas party in the Paul Revere room at Gimbles on Saturday, December 8. Following the luncheon, gifts
were exchanged.
Present were Mr. and Mrs.

J. Hubert Price, Miss Geifrude
Miss Mary E. Richard, Mrs. Stella Swenk, Mrs.
Anna Solomen Rubrecht, 1900; Grace Fenstemaker Frantz,
’06; Nora Woodring Kenny, ’07; Kate Seasholtz Morris, ’09;
Anna Sacks Allen, ’10; Luella Burdick Sinquet, ’10; Emelie
Nikel Gledhill, ’12; Lillie Hortman Irish, Ruth Albeit Rach,
’15; Evelyn Wagner Grover, ’20; Ruth Johnson Garney, ’20;
Edith McMichael Dodson, ’24 Lena Oman Buckman, ’24. Visitors were Misses Helen and Janice Kenny, Mrs. Mary K. Riccobono and Myron F. Garney, Jr.

Rinker, ’99

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Mary Moser, Ringtown, and Janet Gilbody, Bloomsburg,
luidergrad nates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, represented the local institution at a three-day Student Christian
Association Conference held at the
at Williamspoit.
Seven colleges were represented at the conference which embodied area five of Pennsylvania.

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Community Government AssociaBloomsburg State Teachers College attended a conference of the Student Government Association of Pennsylvania
Teacher Colleges held recently at the Cheney Training School
Representatives of the

tion of the

for Teachers at Cheney, Pa.
General sessions and panel discussions featured the conference at which student government problems at the teacher
training institutions were discussed.

Attending from Bloomsburg were Ann Baldy, Catawissa
Marcia Patterson, Berwick; Helen Wright, Bloomsburg; Henry
Gatski, Bloomsburg; Helene Brown, West Hazleton and Dean
of Men, John C. Koch.
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Thirty-eight educational leaders on the nine local districts
met at the College Monday, October 29, to conwhich each local branch could aid the “back to
school” movement, secure able recruits for the profession, and
elevate the standards of those now teaching. Miss Hilda Maehling, executive secretary of the organization of classroom teachers, of the National Education Association, was the speaker at
one of the sessions. The presiding officer of the sessions was
Raym.ond Webster, field secretary of the Pennsylvania State
Education Association.
of the PSEA
sider ways in

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College is going ahead
with its football schedule for 1946 and is confident that it will
be set by that time to put an excellent team on the field. Many
GI’s have already stated that they will enroll on the hill top
when the second semester opens in late January.
It appears highly probable that one of the teams to appear
on the Husky grid schedule will be College of the City of New
York, and if that game is booked it may be staged as a night
contest at Athletic Park.
The Huskies are anxious to make contacts in various spoils
in the New York area.
The Freshman Class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College elected ofncei's for the current year at a recent organization meeting. The class of 1949 of approximately one hundred members, selected the following to serve out the year:
President, Harold Miller, Danville; Vice-President, John Guy,
Nesquehoning
Secretary, Elizabeth Lehet, Wilkes-Barre;
Treasurer, Peter Parnell, Hazleton Boy Representative, John
Morgan, Old Forge; Girl Representative, Betty Jane Anella,
Hazleton Historian, Peggy Ann Lewis, Phoenixville Advisor,
Mr. Gehrig.
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The Women’s Chorus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore, presented a musical program at a special College assembly at
10:00 A. M., Monday, December 17. Miss Martha Hathaway,
Danville, was accompanist for the chorus which contains about
eighty-five members.
Officers of the Women’s Choi us are: President, Dorothy
Kocher, Espy; Vice-President, Renee Paul, Lavelle Secretary,
Mae Klinger, Lykens; Treasuier, Janet Gilbody, Bloomsburg;
Librarians, Marjorie Brace, Hunlock Creek, and Doris Gilday,
Springfield.
;

Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has been appointed a member of
the Board of Conti ol representing the State of Pennsylvania,
of the Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for

Teachers.
Part of Dr.

North’s responsibility will include having
charge of intervisitation of students ancl faculty between member colleges. The Spring meeting of the association will be held
as usual, in

New York

at the

Commodore

Hotel.

Mr. Lewis Alber, author, world traveler and businessman,
at a recent assembly of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. Mr. Alber later in the day was the
guest of the Economics class in the college in which Mr. Wil-

was the guest speaker

liam Forney was the instructor.
Dorothy Parrish, talented young pianist, who has presented concerts all over tlie world, pffiyed at che assembly program
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday, November 14, at 10 ;00 A. M.

The following mem.bers of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College undergraduates have been selected for inclusion in
“Who’s Who Among the College Students of America,” Gloria
Comuntzis, Bloomsburg;
Belcastro, Wyoming; Athamantia
Eileen Falvey, Berwick; John Hmelnicky, Exeter; Kathleen Kurilla. Atlas; Althea Parsell, Orangeville; Mary Schroeder, Easton, and Jacqueline Shaffer, Bloomsburg.
Those selected for this honor were chosen because of outstanding qualities of leadership, academic achievement and

campus

activities.

George

Keller, of the College faculty, returned in
animal act
finished at
Wilson. Noi-th Carolina.
Prof.

J.

October after having been on tour with his wild
since May. He started in Windsor, Ontario, and

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Dr. Remain Willard Miller, of Berwick, died Wednesday,
December 5, in the Geisinger Memorial Hospital at Danville.
Dr. Miller had been in ill health since October, but had been
confined to his bed for only two weeks, and had been a patient

the hospital for eight days previous to his death.
He was born in Mainville, and had lived in Berwick since
1904. He was a graduate of the Berwick High School and Temple University, and had practiced dentistry in Berwick since
his graduation from Temple.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church and
served in World War I at Annapolis as a dentist with the rank
of Lieutenant junior grade. He was a charter member of the
Berwick American Legion Post. He was also a member of
Knapp Lodge 462, Free and Accepted Masons, of Caldwell
Consistory, Irem Temple, the Berwick Kiwanis Club, the Berwick Aeronautical Society and the Dentists’ Association.
Dr. Miller was an ardent flier, and was an accomplished
pilot. He worked tirelessly in the interests of aviation in his
in

home community.
He is survived by

his wife

and four children.
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Miss Catherine Minerva Herman, daughter of the Rev. and
Mrs. Mark A. Herman, of Espy, became the bride of Robert
Foster Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg R. D. 4, Saturday afternoon,
December 1, at the Esp.y Evangelical Church. The single ring
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Herman, father of
the bride.
Mrs. Vanderslice is a graduate of the Scott Township High
School, class of 1942, and at present is employed in an office
at the Bloomsburg Court House.
Mr. Vanderslice has been recently honorably discharged
from the Army under the point system. He entered the service
in February, 1941, and served with the expeditionary forces in
England, Africa and Italy since August, 1942. He had been
affiliated with the local National Guard unit from the time of its
organization in November, 1939. At present he is employed at
the Bloomsburg High School.
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Cadet-Midshipman Guild P. Conner, twenty-three, whose
is at Benton, Pa., was graduated from the United States
Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings Point, New York.
Ensign Conner received his license as third mate and re-

home

ceived an ensign’s commission in the United States
Service and the United States Naval Reserve.
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The United States Merchant Marine Academy trains ofthe merchant marine just as Annapolis and West
Point train officers for the Army and Navy. The academy is on
the same basis with respect to the federal government as are
West Point and Annapolis.
Ensign Conner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Conner, of
Benton, and attended the Benton High School and Bloomsburg
ficers for

He joined the United States Marine
Cadet Corps December 7, 1943, and has served eight months at
sea, visiting the Solomon Islands and Australia.
State Teachers College.

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Technician Fifth Grade William W. Hummel, of Espy, has
been attending Shrivenham American University in England,
where the enrollment consisted of more than 4100 students
from all the states of the Union. T^o Hummel majored in geopolitics.
He has returned after having been overseas for over
a year, has three campaign stars, and was a membei- of the 94th
Signal Battalion.

Mr. Hummel resumed his work at the College at the beginning of the second semester.
•

Sgt. David L. Shalfei', of Bloomsburg, Pa., has been honorably discharged from the United States Army Air Forces.
Entering service in August, 1941, Shaffer was overseas 14
months with the 8th Weather Squadron in Canada as a weather observer. A graduate of Bloomsburg High School, he was
attending State Teachers College when called for military duty.
Prior to reporting for separation, he was stationed at Malden Army Air Field, an installation of the Air Forces’ First
Troop Carrier Command, Malden, Mo.
•

Eleanor Elizabeth Benscoter, of Muhlenberg, and Wilson
Scott McCairoll, of Town Line, were married Sunday, October
14, at the home of the bride. Mrs. McCarroll has taught at
Town Line and Koonsville, and is at present teaching in Muhlenberg. Mr. McCarroll is employed in Shickshinny.

Chief Yeoman Paul N. Bakei’, Jr., of Espy, recently spent
furlough with his parents after serving two years in the Pacific Area with the Sea Bees. He is now stationed in California.
ii

•

The Kennedy-Van Saun Male Glee Club and the KennedyVan Saun Girls’ Chorus presented a concert in the auditorium
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Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Friday, December
8:15 P. M.
Alfred Fryer conducted the concert, with Robert Sheffer
as accompanist. Richard Winters, bass-baritone, was guest soof the
7, at

loist.

S. Sgt. Alvin Woodring, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Woodring, of Market Street, Bloomsburg, was stationed for a
year in the Aleutians, during which he was a member of a crew

flying thirty-eight missions against the Kurile Islands, northern
link of the Japanese home islands.
He is the holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross and of
the Air Medal with one Cluster. He was based at Shemya in the
Aleutians.
Woodring was one of a contingent of more than twenty
Bloomsburg College men, all of whom enlisted in the Air Corps
Reserve, who left Bloomsburg in February of 1943.

Miss Pattie Bowman, of Orangeville, and Reginald S. RemBloomsburg, were married Sunday, December 23, at the
home of the bride. The cei'emony was performed by the Rev.
Fred Stiner, pastor of the Orangeville Methodist Church. Mr.
Rerniey has completed eighteen months of duty in the Southwest Pacific aboard the USS W^alter C. Wann. Mrs. Remley is
a graduate of the Orangeville High School and of the Empire
Beauty College in Wilkes-Bari'e.
ley, of

Corporal Robert Hartman, of Bloomsburg, who returned
from overseas, has been ‘discharged from the Army
and has resumed his studies at Bloomsburg.
last fall

•

Captain John E. Schlauch, of Bloomsburg, has returned to
the United States after serving some time with the Air Transport Command. He was stationed in Calcutta, India.

the

Clifton Wright, of Bloomsburg, has been discharged from
after serving for three years in the Pacific Area.

Army

o

SEE

YOU ALUMNI DAY, MAY

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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board
Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
Edward
Hervey B. Smith

of Directors

E. H.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Hubler

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHED
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 Stev^en 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,
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,; Vice^
President Dorothy Sidler, R, D, 2, Danville, Pa,; Secretary Alice
Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treasurer Mildred Auten,
R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.

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Northumberland County

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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

President

— Orval

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Palsgrove, Frackville, P:i.; 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 Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
N. J.; Vice-Pi’esident Mrs. Mary A. Taubel, 1246 Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, 7011
Erdrick Street, Philadelphia 35, 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-Wyoniing 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 Hicks, New Milford, Pa.; Secretary
Pa.; Secretary
Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer Harry 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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1890
Mrs. Robert F. Vamlerslice, nee Hartman, of Bloomsburg,
died Sunday, October 21, at the Bloomsburg Hospital. Her
death was due to an embolism. She was born in Hemlock
Township, Columbia County and spent all her life in the
FJloomsburg area. Hei- husband died in 1941. She is survived
by one daughter, two grandchildren, two sisters and two
brothers.

1899
Mrs. Gertrude Hewitt Hopkins, of 130 West Cliff Street,
Somerville, New Jersey, died Sunday, November 18, in the Middlesex Nursing Home at Metuchen, following a long illness.
Mrs. Hopkins was associated with the Somerville public
school system for twenty-seven years as attendance officer and
substitute teacher.
A native of Zenith, Pennsylvania, she
taught in Pennsylvania before going to Somerville in 1907. She
is survived by her husband and one brother.
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The Somerville “Messenger-Gazette” in its issue of November 22, 1945, had the following editorial comment:
“In the death of Mrs. Charles F. Hopkins, Somerville has
lost one of its most beloved characters. A “beloved truant officer” might seem to be a contradiction in terms, yet Mrs. Hopkins, in her capacity as truant officer and substitute teacher,
was that. True, she could put on a most formidable exterior
when some youngster’s behavior seemed to call for discipline,
and this formidable exterior could be matched with suitable
physical force when the situation got beyond the point where
other means were effective. There was never a time, however,
when Mrs. Hopkins admitted that she was dealing with a “bad
boy.” She was just working on a problem which soon would be
straightened out.

—

“Many generations of Somerville pupils most of whom
were never guilty of truancy (Mrs. Hopkins was highly effective)
knew her as a substitute teacher. She was on call to
teach any grade at any time. She hardly could be expected to
carry on with the regular teaching program in such emergencies, but she could enforce discipline and pass the time of day.
This she did by generous reading periods, with Mrs. Hopkins
as the principal reader. Her selection of stories, and her ren-

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dition of them, will be
alive.”

remembered

as long as her pupils are

Dr. Thomas S. Armstrong, physician and surgeon in McKeesport for more than 40 years, died recently at his home,
1400 Evans Street, at the age of 63.
He was born in Edwardsville, Pa., May 28, 1882, a son of
the late James A. and Mary Armstrong. He received his high
school education there, and later attended Wyoming Seminary
and Bloomsburg State Normal School from which he was graduated in 1899.
After earning his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, in 1903, he interned at McKeesport,
Wilkes-Barre and Pittston City hospitals, then opened his office
in this city.

Armstrong joined the McKeesport Hospital orthopedic
1911 and during World War I served as chief examiner
of McKeesport Draft Board No. 2.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Allegheny
County Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He also belonged
to the Masons and the Benevolent and Protected Order of Elks.
Surviving are his wife, Marion Greenwood Armstrong;
one son. Dr. T. S. Armstrong, now serving in the U. S. Army at
Okmulgee, Okla. one daughter, Mrs. John C. Moon, of Alexandria, Va. one sister. Miss Janet Armstrong, of Los Angeles,
Cal. and one brother. Albeit, of Prospect, Pa.
Dr.

staff in
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1901
Kintner (Mrs. T. D. Panack) lives at Cathedral
Mansions, Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She
h.as retired as teacher of English in the Westinghouse High
School, Pittsburgh. During the war she wrote letters to hundreds of he]’ former pupils, a loving service which was greatly
appreciated. Her son, a lieutenant in the United States Coast
Guard, expects to return soon to resume his work as owner of
a teachers agency in Washington, D. C.

Ruth

C.

1903
Stricken with a heai-t attack while attending a meeting of
the Bloomsburg Rotary Club Thursday evening, October 18,
Elbert A. Roberts, maintenance superintendent in Columbia
County for the State Highway Department, died two and a half
hours later at his home in Rupert, where he had been taken in
an ambulance. He was sixty yeai's of age at the time of his
death.
Mr. Roberts, superintendent in Columbia County since
March 8, 1939, and recognized as one of the most efficient in
the state, was apparently in his usual health, and his death
came as a profound shock to his family and his gi’eat number
of friends and acquaintances.
A native of Montour Township, he was a graduate of
Bloomsburg and taught for some time in the vicinity of Numidia. He was also employed by the Reading Railroad Company, and the Magee Carpet Mill, as well as the Fred Fear
Match Company, and for a time was in the employ of the Rockefeller interests in (Canada.
Mr. Roberts was a member of the Bloomsburg Rotary Club,
Van Camp Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the RupeH Methodist

Church.

1907
Deri Hess, Northumberland County Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture, who organized the teaching of agriculture
in the Northumberland County schools 25 years ago, died in the
Community Hospital, Sunbury, Saturday, Novembei’ 10, 1945,
three hours after suffering a stroke at his home, 103 South
Eleventh Street. He was 61 years of age.
When stricken at three o’clock, he was removed by ambulance to the hospital. His wife and his youngest son, John,
were at his bedside when he died. Steps were taken to reach
his son. Private Joseph W. Hess, United States Army, who had
been at Camp Shanks, N. Y., embarkation point, awaiting orders to sail for foreign sei’vice.
Although he had been in failing health for several years,
he was about his work as usual in the office of County Superintendent C. E. Hilbish, Friday afternoon, and dictated to Cleon
McCreary, clerk in the SUN District, comprising Snyder, Union
and Nortluimberland Counties. The letters, dealing with future
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vocational activities reached their recipients after his death.
Three years ago he snft'ered an asthmatic condition which
undei mined his health. When he had opportunity, he took
brief periods of rest, returning from them almost immediately
to re-enter his activities with renewed vigor.

He was born May 17, 1884, in Sugarloaf Township, Columbia County, Benton, It. D., the son of C. W. and Mary J. Hess.
He attended the township schools, graduated from the high
school and then went to Bioomsbiirg State Teachers College,
graduating in 1907 and from the Pennsylvania State College in
1914. He taught school in Columbia County and then became
principal of the Sonestown High School, Sullivan County. One
of his pupils there was Alice Converse, and some years later
they were married.

and college days he played football, baseball
he retained his love of sports. He was one of
the area’s outstanding fishermen, member of a hunting lodge in
Lycoming County, affiliated vrith various sportsmen’s organizations. He was active in promoting amateur athletic leagues,
and officiated in many contests. He was strongly imbued with
the competitive spirit, and through him his pupils also attained
the “will to win.’’ He also managed Sunbury’s town baseball
In his school

and

in after life

team

in

number of years.
his work and profoundly

the West Branch League for a

He was completely engrossed in
impressed with its importance. His associates said that every
utterance “expressed the faith within him.’’

He was

a

member

of the Pennsylvania Vocational Associa-

and the Pennsylvania State Educational Association.
He joined Lodge 22, Free and Accepted Masons, early in
his career, and served as its master.
He also was a member of
Northumberland Royal Arch Chapter and Mt. Hermon Commandery 85, Knights Templar.
He was an active member of the Masonic Temple Club,
and frequently engaged in billiard games in the club rooms.
He affiliated with the Odd Fellows lodge at Espy early in
his career and retained membership there.
He was outstanding in afc'airs of the First Presbjderian
Ch'urch, an elder and teacher of the Men’s Bible Class.
He is survived by his wife and the following children
Jane Converse Hasek, wife of Carl W. Hasek, Jr., Ridgeway,
N. J. Robert L. Hess, at State College, engaged in research
work; Private Joseph Hess, with the U. S. Army at a port of
embarkation; John M. C. Hess, at home; three grandchildren,
Thomas and Peter Hasek, and Ann Lindsay Hess; one sister,
Mrs. George Follmer, Benton, R. D., now residing at the old
family homestead. Deri Hess, Jr., preceded his father in death
tion,

;

in

1938.
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1910
David R. Moses lives at 1321,4 State Street, Salem, Oregon.
In a recent letter he states that he had an interesting visit with
Miss May T. Hayden, a former member of the college faculty.
1911

Ray

of the schools of Columbia
County, has been re-elected district chairman of the Fishing
Creek Boy Scout District Committee.
E. Cole, Superintendent

1912
Ruth Nuss (Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker) died Wednesday, December 5, at the Bloomsburg Hospital from a complication of diseases. She had been in failing health for several
weeks and had been at the hospital for a week.
A native of Mainville, Pa., she was born November 5, 1893,
the daughter of Mrs. Annie S. Nuss and the late Jere B. Nuss.
She moved to Bloomsburg with her parents in 1906, and lived
in Bloomsburg since that time, except for seven years immediately following her marriage, when she lived in Highland
Park, Michigan.

She was a graduate of Ihe Bloomsburg High School, in the
class of 1910, of the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1912,
and of Drexel Institute in 1917. Following her graduation from
the Normal School, she taught for one year in Mordansville and
for two years in Montour Township, and, after her graduation
from Drexel, she was instructor in home economics at the Ben-

•

ton Vocational High School.
She was married July 23,' 1919, and went with her husband to Highland Park, Michigan, where the latter was an instructor in the Highland Park High School and Junior College.
Mrs. Fenstemaker was a member of the choir of the First
Baptist Church during all the years of her residence in Bloomsburg. She was the teacher of a young married women’s class
which, in her honor, was named the Ruth N. Bible Class. She
was sponsor of the World Wide Guild and a member of the Wo-

men’s Missionary Society.
At the time of her death, she was serving her second year
as regent of the Foil McClure Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. She was also a member of the Ivy Club.
She was active on the home front through World War II,
and was a member of the consumers’ panel of the Office of
Price Administration. She headed the Red Cross home nursing
courses through the war, and served on the nursing committee
of the Bloomsburg Hospital. She was a member of the executive board of the Bloomsburg Chapter of the American Red
Cross, and for years was active in the Girl Scouts. For a long
period she provided transportation for the Red Cross crippled
children’s program, taking scores of children to the clinics held
in

the area.

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Surviving are her husband and two children Howard F.
Jr., honorably discharged from the Army after
serving with the armed forces in the European theatre, and
Miss Mary Louise Fenstemaker, who has been serving as a secretary with the Pennsylvania Central Airlines at the National
Airport, Washington, D. C. She is also survived by her mother,
Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss, of Bloomsburg, and by a brother,
Preston S. Nuss, who lives in Wayne, Michigan.
Funeral services were held Saturday, December 8, at the
First Baptist Church, and were very largely attended. Services
were in charge of the pastor, the Rev. Malcolm C. Hunsicker,
assisted by the Rev. L. M. Fetterolf, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Pottsville. Burial took place in the New
:

Fenstemaker,

Rosemont Cemetery.
1913

Announcement has been made by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation that a fellowship, valued at $2,500,
has been awarded to Lieutenant Colonel John Bakeless, associate professor of journalism at New York University. Mr. Bakeless plans the preparation of a biography of Lewis and Clark.
This is the second fellowship awarded by the Foundation to
Lieutenant Colonel Bakeless. The first resulted in the writing
of the biography of Daniel Boone.
1919
Morgan, of Berwick, after an excellent record
of services in the Pennsylvania Guard, has resigned his commission as major because of the press of other activities. Major
Morgan, who is assistant principal of the Berwick High School,
chairman of the Draft Board, and secretary of the American

Arthur

C.

Home Association, commanded the battalion that inCompany D at Pottsville, Company E at Williamspoit,
Company F at Bei-wick, and Headquarters Detachment at Sun-

Legion
cludes
bury.

Major Morgan’s military career began when he enlisted in
the Army in May, 1917, at Fort Slocum, New York, and went
overseas. He saw action in all the engagements of the Eightieth Division, and returned to this country in June, 1919. He
was commissioned a first lieutenant and commander of Company F in May, 1941, and became captain in August of the
same year. While he commanded Company F, it had a strength
of 120 m.en, with many more in the reserve list. In the first
year the company was called out to guard bridges of the area
for six weeks, providing valuable guard service during the
emergency.
In June, 1949, he became acting executive of the battalion,
and was made commanding officer of the battalion in December, 1943, with the rank of major. Since that time, the battalion has been outstanding in state and federal inspections, and

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was

the best of the regiment at

Indiantown Gap

last

year.

1930
Kaiieen M. Hoffman, of Bloomsburg, received the degree of Master of Science in Education from Bucknell UniverPdiss

sity at the fall

commencement

in

October.

1931
Robeit C. Wilson, Harrisburg, a former resident of Bloomsburg, and teacher at the Bloomsburg High School, received his
honorable discharge from the Army Tuesday, November 7.
Prior to entering the service, he was employed at the State Department of Public Instruction. Mr. Wilson served eighteen
months in the E. T. O. and participated in five campaigns while
serving with the Military Police Escort Guard Company of the
First Army in England, France, Holland, Belgium and Ger-

man v.
1932
Pfc. Ariel C. Boop, of Glen Iron, husband of Harriet
Styer, has been discharged from, the Army, after more than
four yeais of service. He entered the service July 23, 1941, and
received his basic training at Camp Lee and Foil Bragg. He
joined the expeditionary forces in April, 1942, serving overseas
for three and a half yeai's in Ireland, England, and France, as
an ambulance driver with a general hospital. He wears three
battle stars for the participation in the campaigns of Normandy, Appenines, and the Central Ardennes.

1933
Captain Howard Berninger, of Mifflinville, and Miss Helen
M. Pvoberts, of Nicholson, were married Saturday, December
15, in the Nicholson Methodist Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Hugh Klinetob, pastor of the church.
Captain Berninger served for twenty-eight months with
the Army Air Force in the Pacific theatre as a ground officer.
He was in the Army more than four years. He is a graduate of
the Mifflinville High School, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and studied for his master’s degree at Bucknell
University. Prior to entering the service, he taught in high
schools in Hopboltom and Clark’s Summit.
Mrs. Berninger is a graduate of the Hopbottom High
School and the Robert Packer Hospital School of Nursing,
where she has been a member of the hospital staff since her
graduation.

At an informal wedding on Friday, November 9th, Miss
Jean Dallas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dallas, of O’Fallon, 111., became the bride of Robert A. Ohl, son of Mrs. John J.
Farrell, of Berwick. Rev. Percy Ray, of Collinsville, performed
the double ring ceremony at the Baptist Church, O’Fallon, at
2 o’clock in the afternoon.

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The bride is a graduate of O’Fallon High School and was
employed in the offices of Independent Engineering Company, of O’Fallon. Mr. Ohl, recently discharged from
until recently

the Army Air Corps with the rank of first lieutenant after serving for five years, one of M'hich was spent in India, is a graduate
of Berwick High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.

Technical Sergeant Carl Getz, formerly of Bloomsburg,
has been discharged from the Army after serving as leader of
the 40th Infantry Band. He served in New Britain, the Philippines, and the occupation of Korea.

William Letterman, who has been teaching in the Bloomsburg High School, has resigned his position to enter the insurance business.
1935
Sergeant Woodrow Brewington, who has been in the service for three years and overseas for two years, was recently
discharged from the Army. He served in England, France and
Belgium.
A son was born Saturday, October 20, to
Gerald Harter, of Holmes, Pennsylvania. Mrs.
former Helen Mericle, of Bloomsburg.

and Mrs.
Hailer is the

Mi‘.

1937
Jay H. Pursel, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Ella May Murray,
of Philadelphia, were mai'ried March 24, 1945, in Roxborough.
Mrs. Pursel, a graduate of Roxborough High School, attended
Temple University, and is a teacher in the Philadelphia schools.
Mr. Pursel, a former member of the Nescopeck High School
faculty, and more recen-ly a teacher at the high school in

Woodbury, New Jersey, is now a member of the staff of SulMemorial Library, Temple University. Mr. and Mrs.
Pursel are now living at 412 Lyceum Avenue, Roxborough,

livan

Philadelphia 28, Pennsylvania.

1939
Robert A. Ohl, of Lime Ridge, has been discharged from
the Army after over four years of service. He enlisted July 7,
1941. After being promoted to the rank of sergeant, he was an
instructor in the Army Air Force Technical School at Scott
Field, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and at the Stevens Hotel in
Chicago. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant at Yale
University in July, 1943, as a communications officer. After attending Radar School at Boca Raton, Florida, he was sent overseas in April, 1944, where he served as a radar operator aboard
a B-29 Super-Fortress in the China-Burma-lndia area. Among
his awards are the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, four
battle stai’s, and a unit citation. Last serving at the Army Air
Field at GulfpoH, Mississippi, he held the rank of First Lieutenant and was also an instructoi’ in radar.
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1940
Robeit A. Linn, of Catawissa, has been elected to a position in the Catawissa High School. Mr. Linn was a navigator
in the Air Forces for three years, and served twenty-seven
months overseas. Before entering the service, he was a teacher
in the high school at Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Lorene Feister, of Berwick, and Wilson Whitmire, of Espy,
were married Saturday, December 22, in the First Methodist
Church in Berwick. The ceremony was perfonned by the Rev.
E. B. Davidson, pastor of the church. Mrs. Whitmire has been
teaching in the Orchard Street Building in Berwick, and Mr.
Whitmire is employed in Espy. They are living on East Fi’ont
Street, Berwick.

A

daughter, Jo Anna, was born October 13, 1945, to Lt.
S. Giiton, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lt. Girton is
a meteorologist at the Weather Station Municipal Airport, in

and Mrs. Charles
Tulsa.

Mrs. Eleanor Beckley Martin, of Bloomsburg,

is

assistant

program director at the Roosevelt Red Cross Club in Manilla,
the largest Red Cross Club in the world. She writes of meeting
many men from Pennsylvania at the club.
Frank Kocher, of Espy,
ragut

Academy

is

teaching

in

the Admiral k"ar-

at St. Petersburg, Florida.

1941
Carl T. Warhurst, of Bloomsburg, husband of the
M. Curl, has been released to inactive duty from
Doris
former
the Naval Service. He has served forty-two months in the Navy.
His last duty station was Tsingtao, China. He plans to resume
Mr. and Mrs. Warhurst have one daughhis dental practice.
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ter

and one son.

Edith Benninger (Mrs. Karl Balliet) lives in Passaic, New
where her husband is employed by the United States
Rubber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Balliet have a six-months-old
Jersey,
son.

ti-oit

Marjorie Young Broderick lives at 4344 Coplin Street, De13, Michigan. Her husband is stationed at an air depot in

Deti'oit.

A son, Kenneth Edward, was born July 25, 1945, to Mr.
and Mrs. Karl E. Balliet. Mrs. Balliet was formerly Miss Edith
Benninger, of

St.

Johns.

1942
Miss Carolyn Cole, of Benton, and Willard Fritz, also of
Benton, were married Friday, November 9, in the Benton Methodist Church. The cei’emony was performed by the Rev. Mr.
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John A. Heri'itt. Mrs. Fritz is a member of of the faculty of the
Benton schools. Mi‘. Fritz was recently discharged from the

Army

after serving in the Pacific area for forty-two months.

A daughter, Mariellen, was born October 14, 1945, to Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Latshaw (nee Erma Wolfgang), at Shamokin. Mr. and Mrs. Latshaw were married at Essex, Maryland,
September 2, 1942. Mrs. Latshaw taught for twelve months at
Muncy High School before moving to Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs.
Latshaw are living at 216-A Woodvale Road, Baltimore 21,
Maryland.
William Davies, of West Pittston, who was a prisoner of
for a year in Germany, has been serving as a substitute
teacher in the high school at Manchester, Pennsylvania.
J.

war

1943
Miss Betty Mae Katerman, of Bloomsburg, and Raymond
A. Algatt, of Berwick, were mai'ried Saturday, October 20, at
the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. The cei'emony was
performed by the Rev. Samuel W. Strain, pastor of the Church.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg Fligh School and of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Prior to her marriage,
she was a teacher in the high school at Atlantic Highlands,
New Jersey. Mr. Algatt was graduated from the Berwick High
School in the class of 1987, and attended Bloomsburg for over
two years. He then entered the Army, in which he served for
three and a half years. He recently returned from over two
years’ service in the Middle East, Africa and Italy. He served
with the Air Force as meteorologist and in the office of Strategic Services in the Paratroop Division. He is now a student
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he and Mrs.
Algatt are living in Cambridge.

William H. Barton, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted to
He is serving with the Eighth Air Force on Okinawa
and his address is 33,609,529, 316th T. C. Sq., APO 180, c-o
Sgt. Barton is the son of Mr. and
P. M., San Francisco, Calif.
Mrs. Caleb Baifon, West Third Street, and husband of Arlene
Masters Barton, West Street. They have a seven-month-old
daughter whom he has not seen.

sergeant.

1944
Miss Sara Marie Dockey, daughter of Mrs. Sallie Dockey
and the late Elmer E. Dockey, and Mr. Fredrick J. Edwards,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Edwards, Berwick, were united in
marriage at 12:00 noon, on Saturday, November 17, in the St.
John’s Lutheran Church, at Berwick. The Rev. E. A. F. Kallenbach performed the double ring ceremony before an altar
prettily decorated with palms, calla-lillies, white chrysanthemums and candlebra.
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Mrs. Edwards is a graduate of the Berwick High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is employed
as a teacher in the Manchester Borough School District, York
County, and is at present on a leave of absence. Mr. Edwards
is also a graduate of the Berwick Eligh School and previous to
his honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps
on November 8th, was stationed in the Pacific Theater of Operations for twenty-nine months.

1945
Miss Althea Parsell, of Orangeville, recently participated
in a concert given by the Orpheus Club, of Cincinnati. She sang
Christmas music with the “Pops” Orchestra in Philadelphia in
December, in a program that was broadcast over station KYW.
She also appeared on the Strawbridge and Clothier program.

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SATURDAY,

MAY 25

1946

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Priority For Veterans

At Teachers

College

Letters are going out to 700 veterans of World War 11 who
are graduates or who attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, explaining that they will be given a priority at Bloomsburg if they wish to continue their education here.
The letter is being mailed out under the signature of President Harvey A. Andruss. Only veterans who are former students at Bloomsburg will be granted priority, and the letter is a
frank statement of the situation, explaining the number of
students which the local college can accommodate.
The letter follows:
“Upon my return to Bloomsburg after six months in the
European Theatre of Operations, 1 am gratified to find that we
have more than one hundred entering students for the second
semester, which began January 23, 1946. Three-fouifhs of this
number are returned veterans who are taking advantage of the
educational provisions of the G. 1. Bill of Rights.
“A feeling of gratification is now followed by a feeling of
some anxiety as to the ability of the college to admit all those
who may want to return.
“We have the names of more than 700 Bloomsburg students and graduates who have served in the armed forces, and
this letter is being sent to each name on our list at the last address, asking that you help us to hold a place for those veterans
who want to return to Bloomsburg to complete their college education. This group will be given an A-1 priority on our list,
subject to our housing limitations. Married veterans will be admitted as long as adequate housing exists in the town of
Bloomsburg. However, it will be necessary for each veteran to
let us know, well in advance, when he intends to return and if

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April, 1946

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.

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FENSTEMAKER,
NELSON,

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EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER

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live in the college dormitory or reside in the town
Bloomsburg as a married veteran.
“Graduates of high school are going to college in larger
numbers since the war is over and employment is slackening.
“We also have an opportunity to cooperate with Pennsylvania State College in accepting some of their students for a
limited time, after which they will transfer to Pennsylvania

he intends to
of

State College.
“It seems at this time there will be more students seeking
entrance to colleges and universities in America than can be accommodated. We do not want to refuse any former student
the opportunity to continue his education at Bloomsburg. However, we shall begin immediately to compile a list of those who
expect to return. These reservations will be closed on April 1,
1946, since our high school contacts begin after the Easter vacation. After April 1, 1946, we shall open our enrollment to
worthy high school Seniors.
“Since our housing accommodations are limited to 400 resident students, we will of necessity close our registration when
that number is reached. Registration for married veterans will
be closed when adequate housing accommodations in or near
the town of Bloomsburg are exhausted. Day students living at
home may be accepted above that number. Women students
attending this college are expected to live in the college dormitories unless they live at home, or are working in Bloomsburg

for their board and room under approved conditions.
“Please fill out the enclosed card and return to us immediately, indicating whether or not you expect to return to
Bloomsburg. Your complete mailing address for future use will
be appreciated.
“It will also be necessary for you to make immediate reservation by drawing a check payable to the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania or securing a money order drawn on the Postmaster at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for $10.00 and mailing immediately to Harvey A. Andruss, president State Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Alumni Day

— May

25, 1946

Plans are well underway for the largest Alumni Day celebration in years. The day’s activities will begin with the annual
Commencement Exercises, which will be followed by the Alumni meeting. A full program has been planned for the afternoon
and evening, but detailed announcement cannot be made at the
time of going to press. Notice will be sent to all graduates
whose correct addresses are on file. There is no need of urging
the Alumni to come back to Bloomsburg on May 25; they will
miss something if they stay away.
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Fifty Taking,

CAP

Training,

The war is over, but the Civil Air Patrol is carrying on,
with approximately fifty boys of fifteen to eighteen years fitting
themselves for the advancement of peace-time aviation and elementary military training.
The work, which covers various subjects, is taken at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Bloomsburg Airport.

The cadet program of the civil air patrol covers a broad
The movement started with the training of
young men before they were called for army service, giving
them many of the fundamentals before they entered the service
as air cadets. It continues to promote the advancement of peace
time aviation as well as to insure a flow of young men who are
field in aviation.

ready to go into military aviation should the need again rise.
Five years ago the nation-wide program was launched
originally to fulfill flight missions that the army and navy had
neither the machines nor the men to divert to that type of work.
This included coastal patrol, border patrol and courier service.
As soon as the armed forces became fully equipped, this program was taken from CAP to a great extent.
During the war CAP provided training for thousands of
boys before entering the service. At the present time this traincontinued with peace-time objectives.
Navigation, meteorology, engines and maintenance, theory of flight, first aid, use of controls, map reading, communications, military drill, field maneuvers and concealment are the
major subjects covered in the program.
A boy may enter at the age of fifteen and continue the instruction three years during which he would have taken up the
ing

is

above mentioned subjects.
The local program is under the direct supervision of Lieut.
Frank P. Pursel, Jr., who has been associated with the work
two years. His assistants include Executive Officer Lieut. Eugene Yurkovsky; adjutant. Warrant Officer Lester Hart; intelligence officer, Lieut. George Buchheit; supply, Lieut. E. A.
Reams; training officer, Lieut. James Gillespy; communications
:

officer, Lieut.

H. Woods; operations

officer,

Capt.

Roy

D. Sny-

Joseph Gillespy, Serg. Robert Nietz, Serg. William
Vought, William Forney, J. Clair Patterson are serving as instructors and are members of the Senior organization. Clifford
Luthod, manager of the Bloomsburg Airport, has given much
der.

Lieut.

valuable assistance.
Meetings are held every Thursday evening, and the attendance is unusually good. The boys are uniformed, with each
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cadet required to purchase the uniform. Classes get underway
at seven o’clock and continue for two or two and a half hours.
The work is scheduled, with the time allotted for each subject
dependent upon the scope of the work to be learned.

The

unit

is

set

up for emergency mobilization, which might

occur in the event of a

lost plane, lost persons, forest fire

or dis-

aster of any kind.

The only funds received from either state or federal governments are those for training equipment which includes each
items as training turrets, code training sets, navigational trainer and manuals. Supervision is all voluntary, nor do the members of the unit receive pay.
It is the hope of the Civil Air Patrol to enlist into membership any returned war veterans interested in aviation, regardless if the person served in the air corps forces.
To date flight instruction has not been made available except where the cadet pays for this work. However, it is hoped
in the future to offer flight scholarships to outstanding cadets.

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Elementary Group Organized
The Elementary Education Group of the Future Teachers
of America was organized at a dinner meeting held in the college dining-room Wednesday, December 12. The officers of the
club are as follows: President, Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg;
Secretary, Lon’aine Utt,
Vice-President, Dora Brown, York
Orangeville Treasurer, Mrs. Carl Shultz, Benton
Sponsor,
Miss Edna Hazen, Director of Elementary Education.
The club was fortunate in having two guest speakers since
its organization. Mrs. Charles Beeman demonstrated art work
dealing with nature study. At a later meeting. Miss Dorothy
Schmidt, a former missionary teacher in Japan, told of her experiences as a teacher of the Japanese people.
The club is planning a meeting for teachers in service who
are graduates of Bloomsburg. It is to be a social get-together.
Members of the group are Dora Brown, York; Jean DickMarian Creveling, Bloomsburg
Margaret
inson, La Plume
;

;

;

;

;

Kane, Shenandoah; Dorothy Kocher, Espy; Marie Krum, Espy;
Joy Propst, Archibald; Mrs. Carl Shultz, Benton; Phyllis
Schrader, Lewisburg; Jacqueline Shaffer, Bloomsburg; Betty
Smith, Catawissa; Martha Stitzel, Hamburg; Marjorie Stover,
Lewisburg; Lorraine Utt, Orangeville; Stephen Hotz, WilkesBarre; Charles Harmony, State College; Robert Welliver, Nescopeck Anna Pappas, Danville; and Frank Novell!, Mauch
Chunk.
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(le4fU4ii6jceHC>e6>
Long Commencement programs have gone out of fashion.
Proof of this fact may be established by comparing the usual
program of today with that presented June 24, 1886. The pro-

gram began
ticipants

lows

and it is a question whether the partime for lunch. The program was as fol-

at 9 :30 A. M.,

were out

in

:

OVERTURE— CALIPH OF BAGDAD
Piano, Misses Curran, Peterman,

HAROLD
Owen, Courson;

Clarinet,
lemen; Violin, Miss Niles, Mr. Pannebaker; Cornet, Prof. I.

REV.

PRAYER

Harry Esh-

W.

F. B.

Niles.

RIDDLE

THE PROGRESSIVE TEACHER

essay

Jennie M. Stiles

THE TEACHER’S RESPONSIBILITIES

essay

Hattie A. Hoffa

STEPPING STONES TO SUCCESS

ORATION

Marion A. Kline

THE BELLS

ESSAY
Anne

Maize

E.

GREGH

VOCAL SOLO— OPEN THY LATTICE
Jennie M. Stiles

EDUCATION OF THE TEMPER

essay

Mary A. Meixell

ESSAY

ESSAY

THE TRUE WOMAN
Emma W. Murphy
MEANS AND ENDS OF SCHOOL GOVERNMENT
Isabelle N.

Monie

OBJECTS OF RECREATION

ESSAY
Ellen L. Geiser

INSTRUMENTAL QUINTETTE— THE DYING POET

GOTTSCHALK

Piano, Misses Owen and Courson; Clarinet, H. Eshleman; Violin, Miss
Niles; Cornet, Prof, I. W. Niles.

THE PRESENT A PROGRESSIVE AGE

ESSAY

Rey Shultz

ESSAY

INTELLIGENCE AN ELEMENT OF SUCCESS
Hughes

Bessie

ORATION

PUBLIC OPINION AS A CRITERION OF RIGHT
J.

Claude Keiper

Messrs. Bidleman, Sterling, Sanner, Zeiders, Lewis, Geiger, Nissley.

MOES OF SECURING ATTENTION

ESSAY

Marne A. Reilly

ESSAY—THE MOTIVES THAT SHOULD CONTROL A STUDENT
TAINING AN EDUCATION
Allie

Donley

THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

ESSAY
Mary

ORATION

IN OB-

L.

Schoch

EDUCATION THE KEYSTONE OF THE REPUBLIC
William L. Williams

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INSTRUMENTAL SEPTETTE— TRES JOLIE WALTZES
Piano, Misses Montgomery,

Harry Eshleman;

ESSAY

Violin,

_

WALDTEUFEL

Harvey, Ent, and

Thompson; Clarinet,
Miss Niles; Cornet, Prof. I. W. Niles.
VOCAL MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Myrtle G. Yost

ORATION

THE PRACTICAL MAN
Nolan H. Sanner

POEM

THE WEARY TEACHER
Nan

Sylvia Coughlin

QUARTETTE

OLD FOLKS AT HOME
Misses Peterman, Hoffa, Jones and Barnes.

CONFERRING OF DEGREES
CHORUS—WE ROCK AWAY ON THE BILLOWS GAY

EMERSON

Sixteen Voices

BENEDICTION
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:!«*:}!

Those who were students

*

at the

Bloomsburg State Normal

School during the administration of Dr. Waller will recall that,
once a year, Dr. Waller would make remarks to the students,
warning them of the dangers of going from one room to the
next by way of the windows. His remarks found their source
in a fatal accident that occurred in 1884, the details of which
are related in an old copy of the Columbia County Republican,
dated January 31, 1884. There are many alumni still living who
remember the accident.
The newspaper account is as follows
“On Fi’iday morning of last week, a frightful accident occurred at the Normal School, and resulted in the almost instantaneous death of one of the students. Soon after breakfast, or
about a quarter before eight, a young man named George W.
Suplee, Jr., a son of Squire Suplee of Jerseytown, as he was
getting ready for school, left his room and went to another portion of the dormitory for his hat. It seemed he had been calling
the evening before, and left his hat in a friend’s room on the
third floor. He found the room locked and the occupants out.
The door of the adjoining room was open, although its occupant was also out. Young Suplee went into this room, hoisted
the window, and proposed to climb around the outside into the
window of the adjoining room.
“As he was leaning out and stooping to raise the window,
his feet slipped on the ice-coated window sill and he fell to the
ground below. In his fall, he first struck upon his head on the
frozen snow and ice. The young man who saw him fall, speedily informed Mr. Wells, the steward. He was picked up and
carried into the building, and Dr. Reber was summoned. The
doctor found his skull crushed and his neck broken.
“J. M. Clark, Esq., was notified. He summoned the following jury: J. C. Brown, J. R. Townsend, I. W. Niles, William
Chrisman, F. C. Eyer and M. C. Woodward, who, after examPage Six

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ining the body and calling a few witnesses, rendered a verdict
of accidental death in accordance with facts above related.
“Mr. Suplee’s father was notified. He came about noon
and had his son’s body removed to his home in the afternoon.
Mr. Suplee had a sister in school at the same time.

“The funeral was held at the residence of Mr. Suplee’s
parents near Jerseytown on Sunday, January 27. The sympathy
of the public for the bereaved family was seen in the unusually large attendance upon the obsequies. Over six hundred
persons were in the solemn procession. Some of the professors
and many of the students were among the number. The services were held in the Baptist Church at White Hall, and were
conducted by Rev. H. C. Munro, assisted by Rev. Dr. D. J. Waller and Rev. Prof. Curran. Prof. Noetling and the students very
feelingly sang appropriate music for the occasion. The deceased was a young man of more than ordinary promise. Apt
and diligent in study, with a disposition and character that
command the respect of all who knew him.’’
At a meeting of the students of the Bloomsburg State Normal School held January 26, 1884, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted
“Whereas, In the dispensation of His all-wise providence,
God to remove from our midst our esteemed fellow-student, George W. Suplee, Jr., an earnest student, a genial companion, and an ambitious and promising young
man, therefore be it
“Resolved, That while we bow in humble submission to the
divine will of our Heavenly Father, yet it is befitting and proper that we place on record a testimonial of high regard for
him, and
“Resolved, That while we deeply mourn the loss which we
have sustained, we sincerely hope that this loss of ours will
prove an eternal gain to our departed associate.
“Resolved, That we send our tenderest sympathy to the
bereaved family of the deceased in this, their sad affliction.
“Resolved, That we attend in a body the funeral service of
our, late friend and companion.
“Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded
to the family of the deceased and also be published in the
Bloomsburg Columbian and in The Republican.’’
it

has pleased Almighty

MICHAEL
F.

H. McANIFF,
PIERCE HOPPER,

CHARLES KENNEDY,
JEAN T. MacCULLOUGH,
MADGE MacDONOUGH.
Committee on Resolutions.
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F. T. A.

Chapter Organized

The Bakeless Chapter of Future Teachers of America was
formally inducted at a dinner meeting on the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College campus Monday evening, March 4, 1946.
Miss Eileen Falvey, President of the local chapter of F. T. A.,
introduced Mr. Raymond C. Webster, Assistant Executive Secretary of the P. S. E. A. who presented the charter to the group.
Webster administered the pledge, which was followed by
group singing of “I Would Be True.”
“A Teacher, Oscar Hugh Bakeless” was the theme of an
enlightening and interesting talk delivered by President Harvey A. Andruss.
Mr. Webster then paid tribute to the impressive plaque
and decorations, which were in charge of Miss Marjorie Stover,
Lewisburg. He also outlined the activities, duties and work of
the P. S. E. A. and N. E, A.
The newly initiated members of F. T. A. include Mark
Wanich, Lightstreet; Dora Brown, York; Eileen Falvey, BerMargaret Kane, Shenanwick Lorraine Fichter, Hazleton
doah Helen Fehl, Reading Lola Good, Wapwallopen; Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg; Kay Kurilla, Atlas; Bernice Gabuzda,
Karliss Knight,
Freeland; Rose Cerchiare, Nesquehoning
;

;

;

;

;

Bloomsburg; Martha Stitzel, Hamburg; Evelyn Witman, Shillington; John Hmelnicky, Exeter; Hazel Keeler, Espy; Reed
Buckingham, York; Frances Saunders, Danville; Mary Longo,
Sheppton Athamantia Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Isabel Gehman, Ephrata; Marian Creveling, Bloomsburg; Vincent Hus;

Lorraine Utt, Orangeville James LaBaiT,
Wilkes-Barre; Stephen M. Hotz, Hudson; Dorothy Kocher,
Espy; Jacqueline Shaffer, Bloomsburg; Betty Shultz, Benton;
Betty Smith, of Catawissa Anna Pappas, of Danville
Marie
Krum, Bloomsburg; Mary Schroeder, Easton; Kathleen Hess,
Dalton; Anna Bucinell, Forrest City; Lillian Guis, Sheppton;
Eltheda Klingman, Shumans; Violet Weller, Turbotville; Martha Donahue, Shippensburg Ralph Tremato, Mt. Carmel Betty Lingle, Lewisburg; Paul Rowlands, Nanticoke; Frank J. Novelli, Mocanaqua; Gloria Gillis, Duryea; Janet Shultz, Philadelphia and Ann Williams, Luzerne. Other guests included
Shirley Keiser, Dalton; Frances Mylet, Sugarloaf; Mae Klinger, Lykens
Betty Adams, Dalmatia Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Edith Fling, Glenside; Florence S. Hartline, Bloomsburg.
Faculty guests were: Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. T.
P. North, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Forney, Joseph R. Bailer, Miss
Edna J. Hazen, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gehrig, Bertha Rich, Anna
G. Scott, Miss C. C. Van Scoyoc, Iva Mae Van Scoyoc, H. Harrison Russell, Ethel A. Ranson, Grace Wool worth, Elma L. Maovsky, Swoyersville

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

jor,

;

Edna Barnes, Dr. and Mrs. Kimber
Raymond C. Webster.

speaker,

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Students Complete

Work

Thirteen students completed the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.

A

convocation was

in the College Auditorium to
and the graduating class was addressed by President Harvey A. Andruss, who spoke on the
topic of “So You’re Going to Teach.”
The part of education in the world weary of war, so as to
promote peace, was in the light of the meetings of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization,
which met in London, November 1 to 16, 1945. President Andruss, who was stationed at Shrivenham as Head of the Department of Accounting in the American Army University there, attended some of the sessions.
The place of education in the new world order for peace
can be realized from the statement that “war is made in the
minds of men and it is there that the defenses of peace must be
constructed.” Each generation must be educated to understand
that race, color, and creed must cooperate and understand one
another to the end that they live together in this world where

commemorate the

held

event,

made everyone the neighbor of everyone
the next generation
is, thereof children
fore, in a strategic position to build for the peace of the world
of tomorrow.
The graduates included Linda Culver, Elementary, Wyalusing; Edwin Deleski, Business, Bloomsburg; Doris Dickinson,
Elementary, LaPlume; Elizabeth Ertel, Business, Williamsport;
Henry Gatski, Secondary, Bloomsburg; Wanda Kehler, Business, Ashland; Virginia King, Secondary, Dallas; Norine Miles,
Audrey Althea Parsell, Secondary,
Business, Shenandoah
Orangeville; Winifred Romberger, Elementary, Elizabethville
Phyllis Schrader, Elementary, and Special Ed., Lewisburg;

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Elementary, Selinsgrove.

Mary

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New officers of the local Kappa Delta Pi Chapter are announced as: President, Eileen Falvey, Berwick; Vice President,
Mary Schroeder, Easton Recording Secretary, Athamantia
Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Corresponding Secretary, Shirley
Keiser, Dalton, and Treasurer, Kathleen Hess, Dalton.
Recent initiates in Kappa Delta Pi who are Juniors and
Seniors at Bloomsburg in the upper quartile of their classes include Alberta Naunas, Karliss Knight, Helen Wright and Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Reed Buckingham, York; Kay Kurilla. Atlas; Anna Bucinell, Forest City, and Isabel Gehman,
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Speaks on G.

I.

Problems

Kimball Young, grandson of Brigham Young, was the
speaker at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Wednesday morning, January 30, 1946, at 10:00 o’clock. This was the
first convocation of the second semester.
Doctor Young was Head of the Department of Sociology
at Shrivenham American “Army” University, Shrivenham,
Berkshire, England, at the same time President Harvey A.
Andruss was stationed there as Head of the Department of Accounting.
As President of the American Sociological Society, and
having twice been selected by the War Department to act in a
research capacity in the European Theatre of Operations, Doctor Young can draw upon a background of rich contacts in discussing the subject “The Veteran and the Post-War World.”
Over a period of years he has been on the faculty of University
of Oregon, University of Wisconsin, and Clark University. He
is the present Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Queens College, Flushing, New York, and Lecturer
in Social Psychology at the New School of Social Research,

New York

City.

Doctor Young

is also the author of numerous books in his
and is editor of the Sociology Series of text books published by the American Book Company.

field

this
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In his address. Dr. Young pointed out that the veteran of
war averaged two years of high school education, which is
years more than averaged in the last war. One phase of the

problem concerning the returning veteran concerns the fact
that in the eyes of his family and friends in the community he
returns the same boy they saw enter the service, while actually
his military experience has caused him to age far beyond his
years.

The veteran

according to recent surveys, opendentistry, medicine, architecture, teaching at all levels, librarians, county agents, sports
directors, social workers and all phases of construction work.
Unfortunately many veterans would like to enter the fields of
radio, photography, aviation, pharmacy, engineering, auto mechanics and draftsmen, in which there are few vacancies. The
veteran is very much interested in an attempt to maintain world
peace through international organizations but he is reluctant to
see this nation give up its complete sovereignty. Four out of
ten veterans expect another world war in twenty-five years.
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was elected Vice-President of the Department of Higher Education of the Pennsylvania State Education Association at the

meeting held
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Reception To

New

Students

Representatives of different groups, including former sermen, were introduced at the reception held Friday evening, February 15, for entering students at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. The affair opened in the college auditorium,
where Helen M. Wright, President of the Community Government Association, welcomed the new students on behalf of the
student body. President Harvey A. Andruss spoke briefly and
introduced the following as representatives of various groups
now attending the college Shirley Evans, Forty Fort, who previously attended the Benjamin Franklin Training School at the
college; James Tierney, New York City, a former Navy V-12
student at Bloomsburg who had seen service in the Mediterranean and England
Nancy McHenry, Stillwater, transfer
from Penn State; Dorothy Snyder, Bloomsburg, representing
the Waves; Helen Arment, Bloomsburg, representing the Wacs;
William Miller, Hummelstown, who wi^th his brother, were the
only twins to fly in the same bomber over Japan Jay Scarcella,
Hazleton, who served in the Merchant Marine in the Meditervice

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Representing the young married couples at Bloomsburg
were Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Dalberg, of Windber, Pa. Among the
former Bloomsburg Service men who have returned to college
here were Army, Royal Conrad, Benton, who served in Germany; Air, Andrew Magill, Sugarloaf, who wears R. A. F.
wings as well as A. A. F. and flew in India; Marine, Vincent
Coast
Husovsky, Swoyersville, who served at Guadalcanal
Guard, Robert Martin, Edwardsville, who was a photographer
on a troop ship; Navy, Walter Kritzberger, Courtdale, who
was an instructor.
A short play under the supervision of Miss Alice Johnston
and student direction of Gloria Mainiero, Hazleton, concluded
the auditorium program. The cast included Betty Jane AnShirley Boughner, Trevorton Ruth Swartz,
ella, Hazleton
Millerstown; Betty Bolig, Richfield; June Hontz and Jean
Hooper, both of Shickshinny.
Refreshments were served in the Social Rooms after a
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Mrs. A. Park Orth died Sunday, January 13, at her home
Harrisburg. She had been confined to her bedroom for six
weeks previous to her death. She is survived by her husband,
a former member of the faculty at Bloomsburg, by two daughters, and her mother.

in

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Receives Air Agency Certificate
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College has received their
Agency certificate No. 2911 from the Civil AeronauAdministration in Washington, D. C. The college holds this

joint Air
tics

with Columbia Aircraft Service operating at the
Bloomsburg Airport.
The Air Agency certificate entitles the college to offer
complete ground school courses from primary through commercial and flight instructor ratings. Five members of the regular
college faculty are licensed under C. A. A. to offer ground
certificate

school courses in Civil Air Regulations, Navigation, Meteorology, Theory of Flight, Engines and General Service of Aircraft.
A great deal of technical equipment, including instruments,
maps, weather charts, movies, etc., used by the college in its
military aviation programs remain available for present use.
Also included among the equipment at the college is a complete
airplane, three types of wing structure and three motors.
Available at the airport for practical flight work are three
primary trainers, three secondary planes and a Fairchild and
Vultee for advanced work. A Grumman twin-engine amphibious is available for training and charter work. Twelve new
ships have been ordered, including five amphibians.
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COLLEGE ENROLLMENT INCREASED
Returning from service
hundred veterans of World

the world, over one
entered Bloomsburg at the
beginning of the second semester, effecting a marked increase
in the College enrollment. The enrollment had reached its lowest point in November, after the close of the V-12 program.
For the first time in several years. North Hall, the men’s
dormitory, is filled, and there is an overflow of men students
who have secured rooms in town. About thirty of the veterans
are married, and apartments were secured for them through
the cooperation of the Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce.
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yearbook of the Bloomsburg
The
State Teachers College, has been announced. The class of 1946
which sponsors the year-book has selected the following to
serve on the staff Co-editors, Rose Cerchiaro, Nesquehoning
and Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg; Business Manager, Ann Bucinell, Forrest City; Photography Chairman, Isabel Gehman,
Ephrata. Kay Kurilla, Atlas, originally appointed editor, had to
relinquish the position because of illness.
Individual and group pictures are being taken at the present time for the year-book which will be published later in the
Spring.
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Former Students
Faculty, school directors and employes of the Conyngham
School District held a testimonial dinner Thursday evening,
January 25, at Meg’s Restaurant, Aristes, in honor of Miss Mercy E. Gottshall, retired teacher who recently completed 29
years of teaching in the Conyngham Township High School.
John J. Reilly, supervising principal of the Conyngham
township schools, acted as toastmaster. During the dinner he
presented Miss Gottshall with a gift on behalf of the district.
Speakers included Ray M. Cole, superintendent of Columbia county schools; Russel M. Kostenbauder, principal of Conyngham Township High School; and Daniel Weller, Guy Beaver, Clarence Tilmont, Violetta Rupeit and Martha B. Martz,
members of the faculty.
Miss Cecelia R. Brennan led the group singing.
On Friday morning, January 26, the students of Conyngham Township Junior and Senior High School presented a farewell program dedicated to Miss Gottshall.
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Miss lone Hendershott, of West Chester, formerly of
Bloomsburg, and Rodney C. Williams, Sp. A 2-c, of Margate
City, New Jersey, were married in February at the Methodist
Church in West Chester. The bride is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and of the West Chester State Teachers College. Mr. Williams was graduated from the Atlantic
City High School and the Pennington Preparatory School. He
attended the East Stroudsburg State Teachers College until he
was called to the service. He was a member of the V-12 unit
at Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are now living in Astoria, Oregon, where the former is stationed at the Naval Air
Station.
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Miss Loretta Anne Clancy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin N. Clancy, Alderton Street, Forest Hills, Long Island, N. Y.,
and William G. Lentz, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lentz,
East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, were united in marriage Saturday afternoon, March 2, at 3 :30 o’clock in the Ascension
Church, Forest Hills. The Rev. Andrew J. McKeon, pastor of
the church, performed the ceremony.
The bride was a doctor’s secretary in the Medical Center,
New York City. Mr. Lentz is a graduate of Bloomsburg High
School and attended Gettysburg Academy and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. He entered the service in 1942 and
served in Ceylon, Burma, India and China as a photographer
with the British Army. He received his discharge in December,
1945.
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Word has been received of the recent election of George
A. Getty, president of the Brookville Bank and Trust Company,
Brookville, Pa., as president of the Thrift Plan of Pennsylvania.
Born at Numidia in 1888, son of George W. and Matilda
(Hoffman) Getty, he was educated in the public schools and
at the Bloomsburg Normal School. He began his career as a
worker in the car shops at Berwick.
After leaving this area, he held positions in Nomstown,
St. Benedict and Summerville. He was president of the Union
National Bank in Summerville from 1921 until 1927, and in
1936 was elected to his present position in Brookville.
In 1925, Mr. Getty was instrumental in having the Hanley
Company of Bradford locate at Summerville, its brick plant
now one of the most modem plants of its kind in the United
States.

For the past seven years he
Thrift Plan of Pennsylvania, and

ment Corporation and

T.

I.

C.

has been connected with
is

director of Thrift Invest-

Consumer Discount Company.
s

Pfc.

Robeid D. Hopfer, of Bloomsburg, has been

dis-

charged from the Army after serving for three years in the
European Theatre of Operations. He was awarded the Bronze
Arrowhead with five battle stars, and the Good Conduct ribbon. He received his basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. His present home is in Buffalo, New York.

A son was born Tuesday, November 27, to Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Rockwell, of Chalfonte. Mr. Rockwell is principal of the
Chalfonte school. Mrs. Rockwell is the former Violet Pataki,
of Bloomsburg.
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The Elementary Education Club of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College held its regular meeting at the home of Miss
Edna Hazen, Director of Elementary Education.
The program was a particularly enjoyable one, as the Club
was very fortunate in having as its guest speaker. Miss Dorothy
Schmidt, a former B. S. T. C. graduate. She was a former missionary teacher in Japan, having taught in the Philippines,
after which she was forced to hide out for six months in the
jungles. Miss Schmidt is able to speak the Japanese language
fluently.

Refreshments were served to the following: Dora Brown,
York; Marian Creveling, Bloomsburg; Margaret Kane, Shenandoah Charles Harmony, State College Stephen Hotz, Hudson Dorothy Kocher, Espy; Marie Krum, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
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Carl Shultz, Betty Smith, Catawissa; Martha Stitzel, Hamburg;
Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg; Lorraine Utt, Orangeville; Dorothy Schmidt, Scranton, and Miss Edna Hazen.
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CAMPUS NOTES
The work of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg,
Pa., in the field of Aviation Education is favorably commended
in an article published in “National Aeronautics” written by
Dr. Edgar S. Euller, Acting Chief of the Aviation Education Division of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Department of
Commerce, Washington, D. C. Dr. Fuller will soon leave C. A.
Hampshire.
A. to become Commissioner of Education for
In his article in which Dr. Fuller deplores the fact that so

New

S. colleges recognize the importance of Aviation Education, Dr. Fuller points with commendation to the fact that
Bloomsburg has been offering aviation courses for teachers
since 1940. Dr. Fuller notes that Bloomsburg has been approved by the State Department of Public Instruction for the
education of high school aeronautics teachers in Pennsylvania
and that a four year program of courses in aeronautics is available leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education.
Aviation Education courses are also available for elementary

few U.

school teachers.
Dr. Fuller also mentions the aviation workshop and laboratory school which includes both ground school and flight,
which is available in monthly courses in July and August at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College for high school boys and
girls, and teachers of aviation courses.

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President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, recently attended a regional meeting of the
Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association held at Philadelphia, Pa.

This meeting was attended by the Educational Consultants of this National Organization from the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Among the speakers were Dr.
Kenneth Holland of the Inter-American Union; Dr. Walter G.
Carr, Executive Director of the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association.
For the last meeting the group of Educational Consultants
adjourned from the Philadelphia Board of Education Building
to the Girls’ High School in order that they might join with a
larger group addressed by Archibald MacLeish, formerly Assistant Secretary of State.
The program was built around the forthcoming publications of the National Education Association and a description
of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) which was formed in November, 1945, in
London, during the time that President Andruss was stationed
at Shrivenham American University.
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Twenty-five undergraduates of Bloomsburg State Teachhave achieved the Dean’s Honor List for the first
semester 1945-46 as announced by Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean
of Instruction, at the college. To attain the honor list, a high
Quality Point average for the current semester and a high cumulative grade average is required.
The list includes: Ann Bucinell, Forest City; Eileen Falvey,
Berwick Isabel Gehman, Ephrata and Mary Schroeder, Easton,
Seniors in Business Curriculum. Bernice Gabuzda, Freeland
Athamantia Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Lillian Guis, Sheppton;
Karliss Right, Bloomsburg; Ralph McCracken, Riverside and
Althea Parsell, Orangeville, Seniors in Secondary Curriculum.
Doris Dickinson, LaPlume and Jacqueline Shaffer, Bloomsburg,
Juniors
Shirley Reiser,
Seniors in Elementary Curriculum.
Dalton, Elementary; Ellen Moore, Bloomsburg, Secondary and
Sophomores Anne
Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg, Business.
Baldy, Catawissa and Mary Rush, Lewisburg, Secondary; Martha Hathaway, Danville and Dorothy Winkelblech, Berwick,
Elementary.
Freshmen Verna Cope, Berwick, Secondary;
Louise Garard, Lewisburg, Elementary; Elizabeth Lehet, of
Wilkes-Barre, Business Anita Webb, Bloomsburg and Anne
Wright, Bloomsburg, Secondary.
Special Education
Amy
Jacobson, Williamsport.
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Miss Alice Johnston has returned to the speech department of the college after a year’s leave of absence. She was a
member of the speech department at Hunter College for the
semester last Spring and since then has been engaged in rehabilitation work in the hearing program at the Hoff Army Hospital in California.
E. A. Reams, of the social studies departments, is back to
resume his work after visiting in California. He and Mrs.
Reams made the trip across the continent by motor, traveling
Mexico, and East Florida. While in
by way of Arizona,
Georgia they visited with Miss Ermine Stanton, a former mem-

New

ber of the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin School.
The Rindergarten has resumed at the Benjamin Franklin
School and is filled. Miss Grace Wool worth, as in the past, is
the teacher. Miss Harriet M. Moore, for the balance of this
school year, is the teacher of the third grade in the school.

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linoleum-tile flooring has been laid in the first floors
of Noetling, Carver and Waller Halls, the result being a great
improvement in the appearance of the corridors. The project
which was under the supervision of Nevin Englehart, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, included the raising of floor
joists, securing foundations and the placing of a plywood base.
The tile was laid by the Gentzler Tile and Marble Company of

York, Pennsylvania.
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of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colunder the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, presented
their annual play Thursday evening, April 11. The play se-

The Dramatic Club

lege,

lected for presentation this year, “The Man Who Came To Dinner,” was the popular and well known Broadway success which
later enjoyed a profitable movie presentation.
This year’s play was the first in two years because of the
absence of Miss Johnston from the college campus and was the
first all-civilian presentation since the beginning of World War
The cast this year included a number of returned veterans,
II.
some of whom were featured in the last play given by the DraWar-year plays included
matic Club before the war started.
members of the Navy V-12 groups stationed at Bloomsburg.
The cast for “The Man Who Came To Dinner” included
William DeWitt, Schuylkill Haven; John O’Donnell, Coaldale;
Robert Millard, Spring City; James LaBarr, Wilkes-Barre; BerEvelyn Hiit, Berwick Gerry Denice Gabuzda, Freeland
maree, Berwick Harold Swisher, Falls Church, Va.
Helen
Richard, Lightstreet; Isabel Gehman, Ephrata; William Miller,
Hummelstown; Karliss Right, Bloomsburg; Ann Williams, Luzerne, and Harry Reitz, Shamokin.
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Over three hundred students are registered for the second
semester at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College including a
hundred veterans who are resuming or beginning their preparation for teaching in the schools of Pennsylvania. Some college
organizations, which lapsed temporarily during the past several years, will begin to function in normal fashion again. A
college band under the direction of Prof. Howard Fenstemaker,
has begun rehearsals.
The college dramatic club, which continued during last
semester under the supervision of Prof. Bailer and Miss Van
Scoyoc, will continue with increased membership under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, recently returned from a year’s
leave of absence. During that time she was on the faculty of
Hunter College, New York, and a staff member of Hoff Hospital, California, where she was engaged in speech rehabilitation for returned service men.
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Mr. Bertrand Shurtleff, nationally known authority on
wrestling and author, presented a very interesting program at
a recent assembly at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Shurtleff spoke on the many interesting phases of professional and amateur wrestling and illustrated with the aid of
several college students, much of his material.
Shurtleff, former professional football player, drew heavily on his vast experiences as a wrestler, football player and
athlete, for colorful illustrations.
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The Elementary Group of Future Teachers of America at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently organized at
a dinner meeting in the college dining room. Mrs. Charles Beeman was the guest speaker at the meeting.
This club was organized as a means of developing educational ideas and uniting students in the elementary fields. The
officers in the club are: President, Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg;
Vice-President, Dora Brown, York; Secretary, Lorraine Utt,
Orangeville; Treasurer, Mrs. Betty Shultz, Benton, and Sponsor, Miss Edna Hazen, Director of the Elementary Education.
The members of the club are as follows: Marian Creveling, Bloomsburg; Jean Dickinson, LaPlume
Margaret Kane,
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Shenandoah Dorothy Kocher, Espy; Marie Krum, Bloomsburg;
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Phyllis Schrader, Lewisburg; Jacqueline Shaffer,

Bloomsburg;

Betty Smith, Catawissa; Martha Stitzel, Hamburg.

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Undergraduates and faculty representatives of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College attended the Twentieth Annual
Spring Conference of the Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers at New York City, Thursday and
Friday, March 14 and 15. The meetings were held at the Hotel
Commodore, and the theme of the conference was “Education
for a New World.”
Miss Helen M. Wright, Bloomsburg, President of the Community Government Association at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was a member of a panel discussion scheduled for
2 :00 P. M., Thursday afternoon. The panel discussion topic
was “Curricular Needs and Interests of Students.”
The group representing Bloomsburg included
Helen
Wright and Janet Gilbody, Bloomsburg; Eileen Falvey, Berwick; Ralph McCracken, Danville; John Hmelnicky, Exeter;
Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women and John C. Koch, Dean
of Men.
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President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, was reelected Secretary of the Cooperative
Commission on Teacher Education at a meeting held in HanJsburg in February. Other officers are Dr. Arthur Ferguson, Sup:

erintendent of Schools,

York,

Pennsylvania,

President;

Dr.

Frank Kramer, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
Vice-President, and Dr. I. M. Wright, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, reelected as Treasurer.
This organization is a planning body intending to coordinate all teacher education institutions of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Consideration was given to “The Building of Attitudes in
an Atomic Age,” and a discussion with a representative of the
American Council on Education on “Newer Practices of In-Service Teacher Education,” at the two meetings held by this body.
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

Nelson
President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Vice-President
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Secretary
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
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Cumberland-Dauphin Counties

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President Mrs. Blanche Miller Grimes, 204 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; First Vice-President Miss Mae Berger, 115 South Fourth
Dr. W. B. Mausteller, 1422
Street, Steelton, Pa.; Second Vice-President
North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Ti'easurer Mr. Homer Englehart,
1821 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Helen Sutliff
Brown, 100 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

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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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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, !Fa.; Treasurer Mrs. Lester Bennett, 402 North River Street,
Plainsville, Pa.

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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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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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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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President Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
N. J.; Vice-President Mrs. Mary A. Taubel, 1246 Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, 7011
Erdrick Street, Philadelphia 35, Pa.

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

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Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Larue Derr, BeavSecretary— Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer ^Paul

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John J. Conner, former President of the Conner Millwork
Company, Trenton, New Jersey, has retired, but still continues
as Senior Director of the Trenton Trust Company, Vice-President of the Y. M. C. A., member of George Washington Council Boy Scouts of America, Trustee of West Nottingham Academy, Maryland, and of Lafayette College, and member of the
Board of Governors of Carver Center. His address is John J.
Conner, 8 Belmont Circle, Trenton, New Jersey.
1886
Alumni Day, May 25. How many will be there?

1887
William C. Johnston, eighty-five, of East Third Street
Bloomsburg, died February 17 at the Bloomsburg Hospital,
where he had been a patient since February 14. His death was
due to complications.
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He was born

in

Cleveland, Ohio, June 22, 1860, and lived

Jerseytown and

at Bloomsburg.
in the common schools at Jerseytown, at
the Friends Seminary at Millville, the Normal School at Bloomsburg, where he graduated as president of his class in 1887, and

nearly

all his life at

He was educated

Law School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia where he graduated in the class of 1899; he was president of the class in the year 1898, was associate editor of the
Law Journal, won the cash prizes in the 1898 Frazier University debate, and was a member of the debating team from the
university in the Inter-Collegiate Debate with Cornell in 1898.
He started to teach school at the age of seventeen, taught
nine terms and was then elected superintendent of the schools
of Columbia County in 1890 and in 1893 was reelected without
opposition at an increase of salary. He then quit school work
to study law. After graduating at the Law School he opened an
office in Bloomsburg in September, 1899. When in active practice he was engaged in the courts of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Luzerne counties, and in the Supreme and Superior Courts of the state and the Federal District Court at
Scranton.
For more than fifty years he was active in the Democratic
party of the county as committee man from his home township
of Madison, as a member of the executive committee of the
party in the county, for years its treasurer, delegate to state
conventions, and chairman of the last three Democratic County
Conventions under the delegate system.
In 1910 he was a candidate for Representative in the Genreal Assembly and he was defeated by thirty-seven votes.
He was a member of 224 Danville Lodge of Masons, which
lodge gave him a jewel, he having been a member more than
fifty years, was a member of Captain Brockway’s Camp of Sons
of Veterans, a member of the Columbia Bar Association, and of
the First Baptist Church of Bloomsburg.
at the

1888

The students and faculty of Bethlehem Business College
honored their beloved president, William F. Magee, by having
a birthday party in the School Auditorium Friday, February 8.
On Sunday, February 10, Mr. Magee became an octogenarian.
C. H. Bowser, principal of Bethlehem Business College,
was master of ceremonies for the gala event. The festivities
commenced with the singing of “Happy Birthday” by the assemblage. Rev. Harvey I. Crow, pastor emeritus of Bethany
Reformed Church, gave the Invocation. Mayor Robert Pfeifle
extended best wishes and congratulated the founder and president of Bethlehem Business College for the important educational role this institution has had in the community since it
was organized by W. F. Magee, May 17, 1897.
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Brief remarks were made by the following: E. Kenneth
Smiley, vice president of Lehigh University; John W. Hedge,
superintendent of Bethlehem Schools; David H. Brillhart, president of Union Bank and Trust Company, and E. M. Haas, reportorial staff,

Bethlehem Globe-Times.

Woodrow W.

Frable, president of B. B. C.

Alumni Assoc-

conveyed birthday greetings for the thousands of graduates who had the pleasure of their “grand old Schoolmaster’s”
guidance and tutelage.
After the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” by the assembly,
Frederick Zillinsky, faculty member, presented Mr. Magee with
a fountain pen, a gift from the faculty and student body.
Erma A. Musselman, Allentown, a student in the Day Division, presented Mr. Magee with a huge birthday scroll, having the signatures of all students in the Day and Evening Divisions, faculty, and a host of friends.
Mr. Magee acknowledged the gifts and thanked everyone
for their expression of friendship and good will. With the singing of the “Alma Mater,” this part of the program terminated,
after which a social hour was enjoyed in the stenographic department. Refreshments were served. The table was beautifully decorated, a huge birthday cake with 80 candles occupying

iation,

the center. Marianna C. Snyder, of Lehighton, was the piano
accompanist.
Mr. Magee was born February 10, 1866, in Buffalo Township, Union County, the son of Lewis and Ellen (Zellers) Magee. On July 5, 1892, he married Ida L. (nee Boyer) Magee,
who died July 19, 1936.
After completing his public school education, he entered
Bloomsburg State Normal School, (now Bloomsburg State
Teachers College), and was graduated in 1888. Later he took
post-graduate work at Bucknell University. Prior to his founding of B. B. C., May 17, 1897, he taught for three years in Pennsylvania Public Schools, and taught commercial subjects for
seven years in Shamokin Business College, Shamokin.
Mr. Magee belongs to the following organizations: Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Director of Union
Bank and Trust Company, H. Stanley Goodwin Lodge, No. 648,
Tall Cedars of Lebanon; Bethlehem Shrine Club and Lehigh
Consistory S. P. R. S. 32nd degree.
This business educator is affiliated with the following educational organizations: Past President and Member of Pennsylvania Association of Private Business Schools Eastern Commercial Teachers Association, National Council of Business
Schools and National Business Teachers Association. Through
his untiring efforts, B. B. C. has been approved by the Pennsylvania Committee on Standards and Approval for Private Business Schools and the National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools.
;

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He has two sons, Harold Tyler Magee, Somerset, Pa., and
Frank Lynn Magee, Pittsburgh, a graduate of Lehigh University, class of 1917. One grandson, Cuifis Weston Magee (son of
Frank McGee), a discharged Ensign, is taking a refresher
course in Accounting at B. B. C. before resuming his studies at
Lehigh February class. Mr. Magee has one brother, James
E. Magee, of Selinsgrove.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Magee, Pittsburgh, were on hand
to extend birthday greetings. Harold T. Magee, Somerset, was
unable to attend due to illness in his family.

—

1891
Plan to attend your reunion on Alumni Day,

May

25.

1892
Mrs. William B. Mausteller, nee Miss Hattie G. Lamm,
passed away several weeks ago. She was a graduate of the
Milton High School, and taught for several years in the Milton
schools, during the greater part of which time she was principal
of the Hepburn School. It was there that she met Dr. Mausteller, who was a teacher in the same school. They were married
in 1904, and later became the parents of twins
a boy and a
girl. The boy died in 1917, and the daughter, Mrs. Maria C. M.
Putney, has two sons, one in high school and the other in the
Navy. Dr. and Mrs. Mausteller were members of the Market
Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg. Mrs. Mausteller for
many years took an active part in the affairs of the church.
She was also a member of the Wednesday Club and of the Civic
Club in Harrisburg.

—

1896
Saturday, May 25, the class of 1896, at
fifty-year reunion, will be the featured class.
Do not miss

On Alumni Day,

its
it!

1898

Nora E. Hankee (Mrs. John A. MacGufffe) died Wednesday, January 16, at her home, 194 York Avenue, West Pittston.
She had been ill for three years, but her condition did not become serious until December. Mrs. MacGuffie was a former
teacher in the schools of West Pittston.
1900

Mary Albert

(Mrs. Jesse Y. Glenn), of Berwick, was confined for some time in the Coaldale State Hospital as the result
of injuries received in an accident when the car in which she
was riding overturned.

Plan

May

now

to attend

1901
your class reunion on Alumni Day,

25.

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1906

Have you made your plans
Dav,

for your

reunion

on Alumni

May 25?
1907

City Hall, Elizabeth, New Jersey, is
Vice-President of the New Jersey Association of Teachers of
the Social Studies. He recently served as editor of “The Docket,” a publication of the Association. The February issue of
“The Docket” contained a comprehensive report on the character and extent of the teaching of social studies in New Jersey.

Edwin M. Barton, 217

Miss Nellie Bogart, of Riverside, died Saturday, January
Bloomsburg Hospital. She was a graduate of Bloomsburg and also took graduate work at Bucknell University and
Pennsylvania State College. She taught for thirty-five yeare,
over twenty years having been spent in the Danville schools.
She was a member of the Pine Street Lutheran Church of Dan14, at the

ville.

1911
class of 1911 had a wonderful reunion in 1941.
reunion will be better than ever.

The
1946

The

1913

Major Nellie M. Denison is now living at 103 Anne Street,
Takoma Park 12, Maryland. She retired from the Army Nurse
Corps March 31, 1946, after more than twenty-seven years of
service.

1914

Major General Idwal Edwards is now serving in South
Germany, and expects to be in that area for a year. Just before
he left on the assignment he was presented with an Oak Leaf
Cluster by General Dwight D. Eisenhauer in further recognition of his outstanding services.

Come back

to

1916
Bloomsburg to attend your

Alumni Day, Saturday, May

class

reunion.

25.

1917
Dr. J. Loomis Christian, 109 Locust Street, Harrisburg,
specialist in internal medicine, has been chosen to have his
biography printed in the medical section of the Biographical
Encylopedia of the World.
This book of more than 1000 pages is an authenic record
of notable living men and women of the armed forces, art, business, education, engineering, government, law, literature, music, religion and science in addition to medicine.
The book is used as reference in all public libraries, colleges and universities throughout the world.
In 1944, Dr. Christian was chosen to be included in the
of Medicine.
Who’s

Who

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A

graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School,
Dr. Christian interned at the Harrisburg Hospital and was chief
resident for two years.

1918

Edgar

F. Brouse, State Forester for a nine-county district
Including Philadelphia, died Tuesday, February 4 at his home
in

West Norriton, near Norristown,
He was 48.

after an illness of several

months.

District Forester since August, 1927, Mr. Brouse studied
forestry at Boalsburg and Alto State Forestry Schools and at
Pennsylvania State College before entering the State Forestry
Research Department in 1922.
Mr. Brouse’s district covered Philadelphia, Montgomery,
Delaware, Bucks, Chester, Berks, Lancaster, Lehigh and part
of Northampton Counties. His office was in Norristown. An
additional duty was maintenance of the Delaware Canal between Yardley and Raubsville.
He was former president of Norriton Fire Co., a trustee of
the First Presbyterian Church of Norristown, and a member of
the Norristown Lions’ Club, the Montgomery County Fish and
Game Association, the Montgomery County Boy Scout Council
and Perseverance Lodge 21, F. and A. M., Harrisburg.
Surviving are his wife, the former Edwina Wieland two
sons. Seaman Second Class Frederick W., in the Navy, and
Frank W., of West Norriton; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Brouse, of Boalsburg three sisters and two brothers.
;

;

1919
Robert U. Nyhart, member of the faculty of Honesdale
High School, a teacher of consumer’s science and mathematics,
passed away at his home, 603 Park Street, January 24, 1946,
following a prolonged illness. He went to Honesdale in 1937
from Waymart High School. Mr. Nyhail was a capable teacher, and his death will be keenly felt not only by the faculty, but
pupils and friends as well.
A son of Harry U. Nyhart, deceased, and Louella (Romich) Nyhart, he was born October 1, 1900, at Glen Lyon. On
August 10, 1921 he was united in marriage to Mary Mitchell,
at Lewistown, by Rev. N. S. Kressman, pastor of St. John’s
Lutheran Church. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, and received his Bachelor and Master degrees at Penn State College, where he stood high in his marks,
and was a member of the Kappa Phi Kappa. Mr. Nyhart
taught at Trucksville, was principal at Mill City High School,
teacher of science and assistant supervising principal at Wyoming High School for thirteen years. He then went to Waymart, where he remained one year and went to Honesdale nine
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man’s Club and a member of Honesdale Emergency Police. He
was a member of Central Methodist Church and was affiliated
with Pennsylvania State Educational Association. Mr. Nyhart
was musical he played a violin, and gave freely of his talent
;

many

public affairs.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his widow, a
son Pfc. Robert M. Nyhart, with the U. S. Army in Italy, and a
sister, Mrs. Norman Thomas, of Glen Iron.
at

er.

1921
Twenty-five years! This reunion should be a record breakDon’t forget the date Saturday, May 25.

—

1924
Mrs. Laura Hile Eberhard
Street, Pleasantville,

New

is

now

living at

1926
you have never attended one of your class reunions, now
the time to begin. Mark this date on your calendar SaturIf

is

809 North Main

Jersey.

day,

May

—

25.

1928
Mrs. Linn Sherwood (Ruth Weber) lives in Tunkhannock,
Pa., where her husband is serving as Treasurer of Wyoming
Countj^ Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood have two sons, aged seven
and nine. Mrs. Sherwood taught eight and one-half years before her marriage and two years afterwood.

1929

Anna Jones Todd,

of Plymouth, will be interested in the following, which appeared in the Wilkes-Barre
Record under the date line of January 23, 1946:
President Truman learned something today from a 9-yearold Plymouth Cub Scout.
He learned from Bobby Todd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Todd, of 62 Academy Street, that anthracite not only was useful in heating homes and running much of the nation’s industry
but also could be fashioned into attractive gifts.
Bobby presented three such gifts a set of book ends for
the President, a necklace for Mrs. Truman and ear rings for
daughter, Margaret in a White House visit this morning.
They were contributed by Cub Scouts of the Wilkes-Baire and
Wyoming Valley area of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Truman told Bobby he never knew hard coal could be
used for such purposes. He showed the gifts to newsmen and
White House attaches in his office at the time and expressed his
wonder at the highly polished surfaces of the coal used in them.
Bobby displayed no awe at being in the office of the nation’s chief executive.
“He’s a cool youngster,’’ was the comment later of Rep.

Classmates of

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Flood (D.-Pa.), who had awarded Bobby the trip to Washington for selling nearly $10,000 in Victory Bonds.
After the White House call, Bobby had lunch with Flood
and several other congressmen in the House restaurant, visited
the Bureau of Engraving where he met Director Alvin Hall, a
native of Hazleton, Pa., and then went to the Zoo.
Miss Marjorie Orr, of Berwick, formerly of Shickshinny,
C. Tearpock, of Mocanqua, were married Saturday,
December 29, at Hazleton. The bride has been serving as librarian of the Berwick High School, and the groom was recently
discharged from the United States Army after three years of
service in the European and Asiatic theaters.

and Joseph

1931

Come back

25,

Bloomsburg on Alumni Day, Saturday,
and renew the ties broken by the war.
to

May

1932

Ezea W. Harris, of Bloomsburg, who has received his discharge from the Navy, has been elected secretary of the Briar
Creek Farmers Mutual Insurance Company. At the time of his
discharge from the Navy, Mr. Harris held the rank of Lieutenant, Senior

Grade.

1933
Miss Ruth M. Lewis was recently appointed Personnel Assistant for the Eastern area, American Red Cross, according to
an announcement by Ramone S. Eaton, area manager. She received the appointment on her return in July of this year from
Italy, where for six months she had aided in the rehabilitation
of Italian refugees. She was a member of the Red Cross
“Spear Head” unit, so-called since her activities were virtually
within the front lines.
A native of Kingston, Pa., she attended Bloomsburg, State
Teachers College and took her B. S. degree in 1933. She accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Department of Public
Welfare, serving until 1936, when she was loaned to the Red
Cross to assist the Reserve Disastei- Staff on the Pennsylvania
floods. In 1937 she served in the Ohio-Mississippi Valley flood
as supervisor of the Louisville-Central District Office. In 1938
she became a Red Cross itinerant secretary, visiting rural communities in Virginia. She was assigned to executive secretary
in 1939 to the Hancock County Chapter in Findlay, Ohio, and
in 1941 she took the post of executive secretary with the Schenectady, N. Y., chapter. She went overseas in 1943, as an Assistant Field Director in Hospital Service and was one of the
first Red Cross women to go into Italy, where she served with
a 5th

Army

Field Hospital.

She was transferred as Field Representative in July of
1944 to Civilian War Relief and for the six months preceding
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her return to the States, she was liaison for Italian Red Cross
workers, reorganization of the Italian Red Cross services, and
worked in the “Spear Head” unit.
The daughter of Mrs. B. L. Lewis, 120 Lathrop Street,
Kingston, Pa., she makes her present home at 189 “G” Street,
N. W., Washington, D. C.

Howard Berninger, who recently left the Army in which
he held the rank of captain, has begun his study at Dickinson
Law School in preparing for the practice of law. His wife, a
registered nurse, has joined the staff of nurses at Carlisle Hospital for the present. Mr. Berninger was graduated from B. S.
T. C. and then received his master’s degree at Bucknell, after
which he taught in the high schools of Hop Bottom and Clark
Summit before entering the service. He served for twentyeight

months

in

the Pacific

War

Theatre.

Dr. Chester C. Hess lives at 660 Elm Street, Budgeville,
Pennsylvania. He is doing Industrial Medicine and General
Practice in Pittsburgh. He is in charge of the Lawrence Medical
Unit of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, and belongs to the staffs
of Shadyside Hospital, and the Cannonsburg General Hospital.

1934
Captain Gerald Woolcock, of Millville, has received his
honorable discharge from the armed forces. He entered the
service with the Berwick unit of the National Guard and was a
member of the Millville High School faculty.
Miss Dorothy Semic was married to Corporal George FerKnox, Kentucky, April 1, 1945.

.encic at Fort

1936
Bloomsburg on Alumni Day, Saturday, May
and hear some thrilling stories told by your classmates.

Come back

25,

to

1937
Marie E. Foust, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi S. Foust,
Sr., 141 Center Street, Milton, Pa., has arrived in the Southwest Pacific Area to serve the armed forces as an American
Red Cross staff assistant. Until her Red Cross appointment.
Miss Foust taught French and English at the Milton, Pa., High
School. She is a graduate of Milton High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and attended Bucknell University.
1938
Robert R. Williams, formerly of Blakely, was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the Navy.
He taught in the high school at Troy, Pennsylvania, before entering the Navy in 1943. He was commissioned an ensign in
July, 1944, following which he went on sea duty on the USS
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as a deck officer.
Bailey, of Troy.

“West Point”

His wife

is

the former Louise

Neil M. Richie was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He joined the Air Forces in September, 1941,
and spent three and one-half years overseas. He was later discharged from the Air Forces and is now enrolled in the graduate school of Northwestern University.

1939
of Berwick, has been elected to
the faculty of Gettysburg College as an instructor in the department of physics, and took up his duties January 29, at the
beginning of the second semester. Mr. McKechnie served in the
armed forces for three years in both the Atlantic and Pacific
areas, and recently returned from the Philippines. He acquired
the rank of Lieutenant Senior Grade in the Navy, serving as a
specialist in radar and sonar aboard destroyers in the anti-submarine warfare division of the Atlantic Fleet until V-E Day,
when he was transferred to the Philippines for similar duty

Alex

J.

McKechnie,

Jr.,

with the Pacific Fleet.
After V-J Day, he was made a member of the faculty
which was responsible for setting up the instruction program
for GFs in Dewey University, in Manila. Before entering the
service, Mr. McKechnie taught in the schools of Shickshinny
and Columbia. He holds the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education from Bloomsburg and degree of Master of Science
in Education from Bucknell University.

1940
Kathleen A. Myers, of Bethlehem, became the bride of
Clayton H. Hinkel, of Easton, in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church,
Easton, on December 28. The double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. William I. Good.
Mrs. Hinkle is an instructor in the evening school of Bethlehem Business College.
Mr. Hinkel is head of the business education department
and placement bureau at Easton High School and an instructor
in the evening school of Churchman Business College. He received his master’s degree from Temple University. Mr. Hinkle
has received recognition for his writing of magazine articles
and monographs in the field of business education.
Captain Charles S. Girton, of Bloomsburg R. D. 1, has been
discharged from the Army Air Forces. Mr. Girton is a veteran
of sixty-four

months of service as a weather

officer.

1941

There is no need to say why you should come to your class
reunion on Alumni Day, Saturday, May 25. You’ll be sorry if
you miss it.
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Technical Sergeant Max Arcus, of Bloomsburg, has received his discharge from the armed forces and is now engaged
in business with his father. He entered the service October 13,
1941, and was sent to Fort Meade, after which he was transferred to the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee, Virginia.
From there he was assigned to the Air Corps at Gunter Field,
Alabama, and later to the infantry at Camp Howze, Texas. On
May 16, 1945, he landed on Luzon and was attached to the
43rd Division, and later was transferred to Japan. He left
Japan December 24, 1945.
Capt. and Mrs.

J.

Rutter Ohl,

Jr.,

who have been spending

a few weeks with the former’s parents, have moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Capt. Ohl, who has been in the Anny Air Forces four years and four months, was discharged March 10. He
has been accepted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, for post-graduate work for a Master of Arts dgeree
in education.

1942
Lieutenant Stuart L. Hartman has been released from active duty in the United States Navy. He served for nine months
in the Pacific Theatre and for ten months in the Atlantic Theatre, aboard the USS YP 390 and the USS “Purdy.” He participated in the invasion of Okinawa.

A daughter was born Thursday, December 27, to Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Letterman, of Taylor, Pa. Mrs. Letterman was the
former Marjorie Jones, of Taylor.
1943
Miss Mary Kathryn Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mi's.
John Campbell, of East Fourth Street, became the bride of
Charles Lynch, son of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Lynch, of Pittsburgh, Thursday, December 27, at St. Columba’s Catholic
Church, Bloomsburg. The single ring ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Father William Burke.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She has taught
school in Boundbrook, New Jersey, for the past three years.
The bridegroom is a graduate of the Pittsburgh High
School and has recently been discharged after five years of service with the U. S. Army, holding the rate of sergeant at the
time of discharge. He served three years of this time in the
E. T. O.
Mrs. Lynch will finish the term of teaching in Boundbrook,
following which the couple will reside in Pittsburgh.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Hazel O’Brien, of Benton, to Ensign Joseph P. G. Davis, of
Brooklyn,
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New

Jersey. Ensign Davis attended North Carolina State College for two years and is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York. He is now
third officer on the S. S. Cape May, United States Lines.

Miss N. Elizabeth Singley, of Lewisburg, and Mr. Harold
R. Trexler were married Thursday, December 27, 1945, at Lewisburg. They are now living at 82 East Goldengate, Detroit,

Michigan.

1944
Not many years have passed since 1944, but much has
happened since then. Bring yourself up to date by attending
your class reunion on Alumni Day, Saturday, May 25.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Algatt are living at 10 Harvard
Place, Somerville, Massachusetts. Mr. Algatt is a student at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mrs. Algatt was
formerly Miss Betty Katerman, of Bloomsburg.

1945

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Cleo Kinney, of Danville R. D., to Vincent L. Pass, of Export,
Pennsylvania. Miss Kinney is a member of the faculty of the
Millville High School. Mr. Pass is now attending Pennsylvania
State College under the Navy College Training Program.

A daughter was born Sunday, May 2 in the St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Hazleton, to Mr. and Mrs. William Heupcke, Bloomsburg, R. D. 3. Mrs. Heupcke was formerly Alice Mae Zehner,
Bloomsburg, R. D. 3.
1946

Announcement has been made

of the

engagement

of Miss

Dorothy Kocher, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Kocher, Espy,
to Billie D. Pugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pugh, Newtown, Pa. Miss Kocher graduated from the Scott Township
High School in the class of 1943. She is at present a Senior at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Pugh graduated from
the Bloomsburg High School in the class of 1941. He served
three and one-half years with the U. S. Marine Corps and is
now employed at the Housenick Motor Company.

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ALUMNI DAY
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1896

Cla6,6.


Six of the eight “girls” of ’96 who sang “Annie Laurie” at
the Class Day exercises a half century ago did an encore of that
number as one of the many features at the fifty-year reunion
dinner held in the College dining hall. Foify of the class were
in attendance, together with thirty-nine guests.
Han-y S. Barton, of town, was the acting president and
genial toastmaster. The Rev. Mr. VanWie gave the invocation.
Mrs. Marion Chase Newmeyer sang two selections during the
delicious dinner.
Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, said he was
humble and grateful in the presence of such a display of loyalty to Bloomsburg.

The

institution,

he

said,

was

built

by many

people and what it is today is the result of their efforts and
provided for the class being able to be present, a half year after
graduation, to associate with classmates.
In the face of existing conditions, he said it was exceedingly fine that so many could return. “You perhaps are amazed by
the changes that have taken place but that is life. It brings

changes and progress.”
Edith Ent Adams sang beautifully three solos, “A Little
Song of Life,” Mallotte “The Cuckoo,” Lehman; “Friendship,”
Haensche. She was accompanied by Dr. Robert W. Jacobs.
Mrs. Louise H. Llewllyn, of Berwick, accompanied by Mrs.
Melvin Whitmire, also of that borough, provided another feature with two solos, “Music of the Spring” and “Maytime.”
Mrs. Gertrude Miller Postle gave the class poem, after
which a reading, “Make New Friends But Keep the Old,” was
given by Mrs. Gertude Reese Hartman.
Alfred Houtz, of North Carolina; Dr. Smothers, of South
;

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3

July, 1946

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,

E. H.

NELSON,

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BUSINESS MANAGER

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Carolina, and Sharpless Fox, of Chicago, Illinois, added spice
program with reminiscences of events since the time of
graduation.
Each member of the class was presented with a daisy, the
class flower. These were given by a granddaughter of one of
the members of the class. The table decorations carried out
the spring flower theme.
to the

Attending: Mary Bell Ferguson, Scobey, Mont.; Charles
Boyer, Lewisburg; Rachel Winter Pratt, Samuel T. Pratt,
Nanticoke; Mary Williams Gething, Nanticoke; Margaret M.
Bogenrief, Mifflinburg; George H. Bell, Springfield, Ohio; Minnie L. Gemon, Scranton Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Harry S. Barton, Cora Gernon Wynkoop, Isabelle Coburn Mercer,
Marion Chase Newmeyer, Robert E. Neumey, Myrtle A. Swartz
VanWie, Florence Louis Arndt.
Hattie Cope Whitney, Julia S. Fagley, Gertrude Miller
Postle, Vida Bowman Drum, Helen F. Carpenter, Rev. Frank
E. VanWie, Harriet L. Carpenter, Harry P. Gable, Mrs. Marion
T. Adams, Robert W. Jacks, Minnie Capwell Stark Crater, Easton; Mabel Yost Hall, West Pittston; Luella Good Polhamus,
Kingston; E. Gertrude Garrison, Elizabeth McKane Campbell,
Marne E. McCarvilla Yetter, Harrisburg; Jennie C. Arbogast,
Glenside; Helen H. Griffith, Gertrude Morse Strouss, Gertrude
Reese Hartman, Louise Hartman Llewellyn, Mrs. Melvin Whitmire, Mary Cope, Stella Hughes Davis, Martha Jones Saums,
Mrs. Robert Jacks, Auburn; M. T. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Mr. and
Sutliff, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Houtz, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Mrs. Alfred N. Keller, Orangeville; John Sharpless Fox, Chicago, 111. Mida D. Smith, Elmira, N. Y. Millie S. Thomas, Berwick; Charles M. Keefer, Portland, Maine; Dr. A. L. Smethers,
Mrs. Roy Nance Smethers, Laurie Roberta Lizon, Anderson, S.
C. Jane Rosser, East Orange, N. J. Mrs. Ida Miller Masteller,
Marqueen Girton, Mrs. Elizabeth Zehner Keiper, Mrs. John W.
Kistler, Mrs. Bessie Vance DeMott, Mrs. George DeMott, Mrs.
W. C. Keefer, Dr. E. E. Saunders, Elenore Stark Crater, Easton.
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In a pretty candlelight ceremony performed Saturday eveMay 24, in the St. Paul’s Evangelical Luthejran Church,
at Numidia, Miss Margaret Billig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Russel Billig, Rt. 1, became the bride of Earl Long, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur Long, Bloomsburg, Rt. 1. Rev. Walter J.

ning,

Drumm

officiated.

is a graduate of Locust Township High School
and the bridegroom, a veteran of two and one half years service with the Army in the European area, was graduated from
Bloomsburg High School and is now attending Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
The bride is employed by the Magee Carpet Mill.

The bride

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Go‘mme4tcemz4^
no security for any of us until there is moral rethat can begin now if America will throw its
force behind such a program,’’ Henry C. Wolfe, war correspondent and authority on foreign affairs, told the forty-seven
members of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College at commencement exercises held in the Car-

“There

is

armament and

ver Hall auditorium.

Speaking to an audience of around 700, Wolfe asserted
free world wants American democracy to live and grow.
That is true in Europe and it is true to a degree in Japan where
Gen. MacArthur has done outstanding work. The year of 1946
will mark the beginning of a downward trend. The world is
watching. The fighting is over but the most important and
hardest paid is to win the peace. It is a real challenge and a

“The

glorious opportunity.

Wolfe replaced Royal Arch Gunnison on the program.
had to leave by plane for Holland to cover an assignment or wait three months for another reservation.
The commencement speaker arrived in Paris six hours be-

The

latter

German garrison surrendered. He has made personal
surveys of global developments for twenty-seven years and his
book on Hitler’s Germany, “The Great Octopus,’’ caused him to
be banned from that country prior to the war.
The exercises opened with the processional “Marche
Celebre’’ and the invocation by the Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church. After the address Howard F. Fenstemaker played the organ, selection “Andante. Expressive,” by Dudley Buck. President Harvey A. Andruss conferred the degrees and the commencement concluded with the
singing of “Alma Mater” and the recessional “Finale.” Miss
Harriet M. Moore directed the music with Mr. Fenstemaker at
the console.
The individual, said Wolfe, generally does not realize the
critical period in which we live. We are neither at peace or at
war. But from the present we can generate into peace or degeneration.
“Americans are still in control of our own destiny.” As to
what we are going to do with it, that, too, he said, is up to us.
He pointed out that our enemies could not stop our railroads
but we did. “The only force that can defeat America is that
inside ourselves. We are short sighted in not realizing we are
a team. It is ironic if Ameanca can accomplish miracles only in
time of war.
“We are hovering between communism and the free way
of life and make no mistake about it. What happens in America
is being watched closely by the rest of the world.
fore the

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“There are but two first class nations in the world today,
those whom I talk to in Europe say, one the United States and
the other Russia. One will take the lead and the rest will follow. Europeans are hoping the one to take the lead is the United States. Such things as the coal and railroad strikes discourage the trend toward democracy. It is ironic that we cannot
accomplish in peace things not half so difficult as we accomplished in war. The spirit that won the war is so lacking in
now.
“Looking at

civilian life

it from one
side the situation ahead seems
lined with black clouds. Looking at it from the
it is almost clear. What we can see ahead is largely
in our ovm hands. The spirit of ‘we can do nothing about it’
did not win the war and it will not win the peace.

hopeless.
other side

It is

“We have everything today that we had when we defeatGermany and Japan. America is well off but it is wise to
realize that we cannot live in a vacuum.
“The Russian system will go just as far as it can but we
need have no fear that it will engulf the world if we follow ened

lightened and vigorous policies. I don’t think the Paris Conference was a failure. It accomplished the end of American

appeasement and retreat.
“In our fast moving world there

is only one kind of a policy
that will succeed a'nd that is one rooted and grounded in justice. I don’t feel the economic, diplomatic or military problems
insolvable. The main problem is the moral and spiritual collapse.
leave too much to the government. That is the way
totalitarianism grows. Let those who represent you know how

We

you

feel.’’

o

New officers for the Waller Hall Student Government Association of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have been announced for next year.
Those who will direct the activities of the Girls’ Dormitory for the college
year 1946-1947 are: president, Shirley Reiser, Dalton; vice president, Betty
Lehet, Wilkes-Barre; secretary, Mary Moser, Quakertown; treasurer, Dorothy Mitten, Camp town; Senior representative, Wanda Barth, Silverdale;
Joyce Smith, Sugarloaf; Betty Adams, Dalmatia; Edith Fling, Glenside; Junior representative, Bertha Sturman, Tunkhannock; Helene Brown, West
Hazleton; Marjorie Brace, Hunlock Creek; Sophomore representatives, Shirley Henley, Taylor; Midge Fuller, Berwick; Fern Shirk, Richfield.
Retiring officers of the Waller Hall governing board are: president, Mary
Schroeder, Easton; vice president, Eileen Falvey, Berwick; secretary, Dora
Brown, York; treasurer, Doris Condor, Hazleton; Senior representatives, Ann
Williams, Luzerne; Rose Cerchiaro, Nesquehoning; Jean Dickinson, La
Plume; Mary Longo, Sheppton; Junior representatives, Mae Klinger, Lykens;
Shirley Reiser, Dalton; Gloria Gillis, Duryea; Sophomore representatives,
Rosemary Kaiser, Horsham; June Novok, Sheppton; Mary Pelchar, Kaiser;
Freshman representatives. Midge Fuller, Berwick; Shirley Henley, Taylor;
sponsor. Dr. Marguerite Kehr.
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BACCALAUREATE
Obedience, love for humanity, and growth are the char-

Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church, asserted in the baccalaureate sermon to the members of the graduating class of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The services were held
acteristics of a true Christian, the Rev.

Sunday afternoon. May 19, in the auditorium in Carver Hall
and the theme of the message was “The Marks of a Christian.”
The processional was “Ancient of Days,” and the Rev. Mr.
Ziegler gave the invocation. The audience sang the hymn
“Faith of Our Fathers” and following the Scripture reading the
Rev. Mr. Ziegler delivered the sermon. The Rev Mr. Ziegler
gave the benediction and the recessional was “Awake My
Soul.” Miss Harriet Moore directed the music, with H. F. Fenstemaker

at the console.

The Rev. Mr. Ziegler
lows

in his

sermon spoke

in

part as fol-

:

“The Apostle Paul says that he bore in his body the marks
In a very much more significant manner he
bore in his character the marks of a true Christian. Every true
Christian must bear in his life and character attitudes which
will mark him as a person of real worth.
“Obedience is a mark of a Christian.. If you are to be a
good teacher, you will have to be obedient to truth and to
knowledge. You will have to be obedient to the facts and laws
of the Lord Jesus.

of the physical and scientific world. But there are other truths,
facts and laws to which you will likewise have to be true. The
facts of the moral order are no less law and fact than those of
the physical. You will have to be obedient to these laws which
cannot be violated. To seek to save your life, is to lose it. To
live an out-going, self-spending life is to find it.
“The second mark of character is love for humanity. Human personality is the greatest thing in the world, the only
thing with abiding and eternal value. Today the world is too
much concerned about international economic equation. Yet
the world is going to ruin because of a lack of sympathetic human love. Life is an interdependence, the influence of personcannot stand alone, unmindful of the
ality on personality.
welfare and condition of those around us.
“The third mark of a true Christian character is growth.
Only a growing character can hope to achieve. But growth is

We

always synonymous with sacrifice and surrender. Paderewski
was called a genius but he called himself a drudge to practice.
“Progress is always the fruit of toil. Real character is’
marked by industry and work. True and satisfying happiness
are never to be found except as the interest on invested service
and self-sacrifice. Happiness is the by-product of obedience to
the fundamental laws of life and love.”
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IVY DAY
“If we as teachers lay a strong and stable groundwork for
young America, we shall be helping to pave the way for a
strong and durable peace,” Miss Mary Schroeder, of Easton,
asserted Wednesday, May 15, in the traditional Ivy Day exercise held at Science Hall following a Senior Honor Assembly in
the Carvel Hall auditorium, where awards were announced.
Five of the graduating class. Misses Jacqueline Shaffer and
Athamantia Comuntzis, of Bloomsburg; Miss Mary Schroeder,
of Easton; Miss Eileen Falvey, of Berwick, and Miss Marjorie
Stover, of Lewisburg, were presented with the College Service
Key awards by President Harvey A. Andruss.
The keys are awarded to students for service, with the
basis a point system which covers four years of participation by
the student in extra-curricular activities at the college. The
policy under which the awards are made was developed by the
Community Government Association.

Eight of the graduating class w'ere presented with certificates indicating they have been selected to
appear in the 1945-46 edition of “Who’s

have their names

Who Among

In

Students

American Universities and Colleges.”
Those so honored were Miss Shaffer, Miss Comuntzis, Miss

Schroeder, Miss Falvey; Miss Gloria Belcastro, of Wyoming;
Miss Althea Parsell, of Orangeville; John Hmelnicky, of Exeter, and Miss Kay Kurilla, of Atlas.
The deans of men and women selected candidates for inclusion in the biographical dictionary of college students which
was originally founded in 1943-45 and now represents an authoritive list of names of students whose promise of future
achievement is much above the average.
The activities opened with the honor assembly at ten
o’clock and then the class proceeded to Science Hall for the Ivy
Day exercises. John Hmelnicky, president of the class, presidHe presented the spade to the class of 1947, and the aced.
ceptance was by Miss Alberta Naunas, vice-president of that
class.

Miss Schroeder’s oration follows:
“Once again we gather together to reenact one of the trathe planting of the Ivy.
ditional ceremonies on our campus
Never before has this cmstom been so symbolic of the beginning
new life in a world of peace.
of new life
“Our class has lived through one of the most turbulent
stages of world history. The tempo of war has been the dominant theme of the last few years. Now we are in the transition
period to a just and lasting peace. It will be our duty to contribute what ever we can to this noble cause.
“You have probably heard it said that ‘He is educated who
can best adapt himself to existing situations or circumstances.’

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In view of this statement we might review our stay here at
Bloomsburg and see wherein we have adjusted ourselves to the
existing situations which were never static but always changing.

“On entering college we severed mother’s apron strings
and assumed responsibilities of our own. We welcomed and endeavored to assimilate in our ranks many different types of
students naval aviation cadets, navy V-12’s, naval special
flight instructors and cadet nurses. We changed our living
quarters, attended classes in the summers, held commencements
in January, studied under new faculty members, and made
many other departures from the regular college routine of previous years. The degree to which we made these changes is the
degree to which we may call ourselves truly educated.
“And as educated men and women, as teachers and par-

—

ents, we shall be entrusted with the education of the future
citizens of America. It will be our duty to instill in them the
principle of democracy and freedom so that they may be better
able to cope with the multitudinous problems of living in harmony with their neighbors.
“A house is only as good as its foundation. And so it is
with people. If we as teachers lay a strong and stable groundwork for young America, we shall be helping to pave the way

for a strong and durable peace.
“The ivy, as it climbs steadily upwards and adjusts itself
to the existing situation, is symbolic of our responsibilities as
future teachers and citizens of America. Our source of strength
is not a root, but instead our education. Upon it is a foundation
we must build. Let us also adjust, harmonize, progress, and
strive for new heights of achievement.’’
o

The Bloomsburg Players, dramatic organization of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, presented “The Man Who Came to Dinner” by
George Kauffman and Moss Hart in the college auditorium Thursday, April
11

.

The play, which enjoyed outstanding success on Broadway, was directed by Miss Alice Johnston of the college faculty. The cast and production
staff included: Martha Stitzel, Hamburg; Jean Richard, Bloomsburg; John
O’Donnell, Coaldale; Karlis Kight, Bloom.<^burg; Evelyn Hirt, Berwick; Martha Sitler, Bloomsburg; Gloria Mainiero, Hazleton; Harold Swisher, Falls
Church, Va.; Bernice Gabuzda, Freeland; George Smith and Harry Reitz,
Shamokin; Isabel Gehman, Ephrata; Gerald Demaree, Berwick; William
Millard, Spring City; Ann Williams, Luzerne; James LaBan-, Wilkes-Barre;
William Miller, Hummelstown; Robert Martin, Edwardsville; Philip Joseph,
Easton; Carson Whitesell, Hunlock Creek; Robert Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre;
William DeWitt, Schuylkill Haven; Gloria Galow, Hazleton; Gladys Kuster,
Bloomsburg; Harold Miller, Danville; Jane Wilson, Waymart; Alberta Kaunas, Bloomsburg; Betty Jane Anella, Hazleton; Joan Hooper, Shickshinny;
P’ern Van Sant, Numidia, and Helen Wright, Bloomsburg.
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ALUMNI MEETING
Tribute to the

memory

man, alumni or students

of twenty-four men and one woBloomsburg State Teachers Col-

at the

who made the Supreme Sacrifice in World War II, was
The Rev. C. Carroll Bailey,
paid by the alumni at its meeting
of York, a member of the class of 1911, offered a beautiful memorial prayer.
Those to whose memory tribute was paid were Kenneth
Morse Allen, John L. Atkinson, Jr., Lamar K. Blass, Leonard
M. Bowers, John R. Carr, John Hancock, James Harman, Earl
J. Harris, Leo J. Hoffman, Jr., John L. Hower, Woodrow W.
Hummel, Donald Jenkins, Walter J. Kania, Clyde C. Kitch,
Allen C. McCracken, Paul J. McHale, Thomas W. Reagan, Walter H. Reed, Cyril J. Rowland, Albert E. Rudy, Mary F. Schuyler, Michael Soback, Victor R. Turini, Charles G. Wenrich, Anlege,

.

thony C. Yenalavage.
Around 500 attended the meeting and around 1,500 graduates and friends were on the campus during the day for one of
the most outstanding reunions in Bloomsburg’s history.
The Rev. Mr. VanWie, a husband of a member of the class
of 1896, gave the invocation. The graduates then sang the
school color song “Maroon and Gold” and retired.
Reports of the treasurer. Miss Harriet F. Carpenter, and
of Howard F. Fenstemaker, treasurer of the student loan fund,
the latter now totalling $12,594, were presented.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president, informed the alumni that from
the earnings of that fund the alumni were able to give a $100
R. Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship during the past year and
four $50 special scholarships.
Elected directors for three years were Miss Harriet Car-

Howard F. Fenstemaker, of Bloomsburg, and Mrs.
Ruth Speary Griffiths, of Wilkes-Barre.
Memorial resolutions were adopted on the deaths of Mrs.
Harriet Keffer Haitline, widow of Prof. D. S. Hartline, and
Dennis D. Wright, class of 1911 and long active in alumni ac-

penter and

tivities.

Dr. Nelson spoke of some of the athletic achievements of
Bloomsburg teams and presented George C. Buchheit as “the
best track coach in the country.” Buchheit has had remarkable
success in track and basketball since coming to Bloomsburg in

1932.

Alden J. (Lefty) Danks and John A. Hoch, of Milton, who
have been named football coach and assistant at Bloomsburg,
were presented. Nelson asserted he was sure they will do a
good job but “if you want good sports we want your cooperation. What are we going to do to back them up ? Work for
Bloomsburg all the time and these fellows will produce good
teams.” A new program of “life” memberships in the association

was inaugurated.
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Those reporting for reunion classes were 1886, the Rev,
X. H. Sanner, Pittsburgh; 1891, W. A. Turnbach, Hazleton;
1896, Harry S. Barton; 1901, Geitrude Morgan Xorthy, Akron,
Ohio 1906, John Y. Shambaugh, Camp Hill 1911, George Ferris, Bridgeport, Conn.; 1916, Clara Hartranft Hopkins, Hazleton; 1921, M. T. Shaffer, Hanover Township; 1926, John T.
Rowlands; 1931, Clarence Wolver, Scranton; 1936, Dan Jones,
Millville, N. J. 1941, Joe Malinchoc, Nesquehoning.
;

;

;

;

One hundred and twenty-five boys and girls from the surrounding
area were guests of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently at a
High School Recreation Day. The high school visitors arrived on the campus at 9:00 A. M. and after registration were guests at the regular college
assembly when the Berwick High School Girls’ Chorus gave an excellent
musical program under the direction of Prof. Llewellyn. Mrs. Llewellyn
sang several solo numbers with a choral backgi'ound which were very favorably received.
After assembly the high school visitors, in groups of ten, were escorted
on tours of the college campus bj' undergraduate students of the college.
Following a 12:30 lunch the guests moved to recreation hall, where they
danced and plaj^ed ping-pong. Swimming and softball occupied many of
the visitors until they attended the Bloomsburg-East Stroudsburg baseball
game on the college diamond. They saw Bloomsburg administer a 6-4 defeat to Stroudsbui'g.

The high school visitors came from the following high schools: Locust
Township, Benton, Berwick, Scott Township, Mifflinburg Township, Danville, Catawissa, Beaver Township and Bloomsburg.
The imdergraduates who acted as guides and members of the Hospitality Committee included: Kenneth Wire, Harrisburg; Donald Houck, Berwick; John Longo, Sheppton; John Guy, Nesquehoning; John Cohoat,
Frackville; Harold Reinert, Slatington; Royal Com'ad, Benton; Robert
Bunge, Catawissa; George Smith, Shamokin; Harold Swisher, Falls Church,
Va.; Elizabeth Lehet, Wilkes-Barre; Estelle Friday, Phoenixville; Peggy
Lewis, Phoenixville; Midge Fuller, Berwick; Madge Fuller, Berwick; Martha Sitler, Bloomsburg; Ruth Trimpey, Mt. Wolfe; Pauline Kokolias, Matamoras; Margaret Suchj', Forest City; Mary Fox, Quakertown; Nancy McHenry, Berwick; Betty Evans, Wilkes-Barre; Doris Condor, Hazleton; Lydia
Shirk, Richfield; Rosanna Broadt, Bloomsburg; Mary Moser, Ringtown;
Evelyn Pethick, Milanville; Ruth Swartz, Millertown, Eloise Noble, Milanville, and Phillip Joseph, Easton.
o

New

officers of the

Day

Girls’ Association of the

Teachers College

who

will serve dm'ing the coming Fall semester have been announced. They include: president, Betty Fisher, Bloomsburg; vice pi'esident, Peggy Reichart,
Bloomsburg; Harriet Rhodes. Bloomsburg; Senior representatives, Joyce
Goss, Danville; Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Junior representatives, Louise

Sharpless, Catawissa; Dorothy Hornberger, Elysburg; Sophomore represenGeraldine Hess, Catawissa; Ann Wright, Bloomsbm-g.
Retiring officers of the Day Women’s group are: president, Lorraine
Utt, Orangeville; vice president, Joyce Gass, Danville; Senior representatives, Betty Smith, Catawissa; Betty Krum, Bloomsburg; Junior representatives, Alberta Naimas, Bloomsburg; Fern Van Sant, Numidia; Sophomore

tatives,

representatives, Barbara Greenly, Bloomsburg;
representatives, Verna Cope, Berwick;

Freshman
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LARGE ENROLLMENT EXPECTED
Bloomsbui'g State Teachers College is already assured of
an enrollment of 650 for the term opening in September and
how many more can be accommodated will depend upon
whether students can secure living quarters in the town, President Harvey A. Andruss, president of the college, told the
alumni at the general meeting recently.
He said all of the accommodations for men on the campus
have been taken. These include North Hall and the third floor
in Waller Hall over the library.
The campus is equipped to care for 150 men and 250 women on the campus. It will take flfty girls and fifty men, who
wish to enter the Pennsylvania State College but cannot be accommodated, provided there are living accommodations in the
town for the men.
The graduates were told that Bloomsburg, which was the
first institution of higher learning in Pennsylvania and one of
the nation to be accredited to give courses in aviacontinue in that field.
In addition the college during the coming year will introduce a new course in the business education depaifment in re-

the

first in

tion, will

tail selling.

Within the year the college anticipates the opening of a
radio station so that a course can be offered in radio production,
a new development in the speech department.
“With your interest and loyalty we will go on to bigger
and better things,” the president told the alumni.
In the opening of his address, he spoke of nearing the
close of his seventh year as head of the institution and that “all
organizations at the moment have difficulty in looking through
the cloud that shrouds the future.”
He spoke of the wartime program of the institution when
more than 2,000 service men took instruction here and as many
more persons attended night classes at the institution. Mr.
Andruss is confident that the record of Bloomsburg during the
crisis stands unequalled by any college of its size in the nation.
As to the accepting of some Pennsylvania State students
during the coming year, he emphasized that the courses given
them will be from the regular curriculum. “We are a Teachers
College and we will remain a Teachers College.”
In his address he read these portions of a news dispatch
from Penn State with regards to the cooperative plan between
that institution and the Teachers College. They follow
“Co-operation of the State Teachers Colleges in this plan
was insured when Dr. Francis B. Haas, superintendent of Pubcollege that Governor Edward
lic Instruction, informed the
Martin had authorized these institutions to cooperate in giving
programs designated to take care of Freshmen who cannot be
:

accommodated by Penn

State’s

own

facilities.

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“Teachers Colleges pai-ticipating in the program are
Bloomsburg, California, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown,
Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg and- Slippery Rock. (Not included are West Chester, East Stroudsburg
and Cheney).
“Registrar William S. Hocman, who will administer the
plan, explained that Freshmen when admitted will be informed
of the college to which they will be assigned. He said the selection would depend upon the curriculum elected by the student. It may even be necessary in some instances, he added, for
students living in a city where a State Teachers College is located, to enroll in a Teachers College in another city.
“He explained that students admitted to the State Teachers Colleges by Penn State will be guaranteed transfer to the
campus upon the successful completion of their Freshman year,
but emphasized that the student will be under no compulsion
to transfer if he or she decides to remain at the Teachers College. Students at Teachers Colleges will enjoy the same privileges, such as participation in spoils and other extra-curricular
activities, as other students and also will be subject to the same
rules and regulations as obtain at that institution.”
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Senior Banquet
The Senior Class of the Bloomsburg State Teachere College held their Senior Ball and Banquet at the Hotel Altamont,
Hazleton, Pa., Saturday,

music for the

May

18.

The Serenaders furnished

Ball.

Senior Class officers are: John Hmelnicky, President, ExeBerwick; Bernice Gabuzda,
Secretary, Freeland, and Kathleen Hess, Treasurer, Dalton.
The 1946 class flower is the gladiola and the class colors are
cherry and white.
Lillian Guis, Sheppton, was general chairman of the affair,
Bernice Gabuzda, Freeland, chairman of the Ball and Ralph
McCracken, Danville, Banquet chairman. Frances Saunders,

ter; Eileen Falvey, Vice-President,

Danville, Program Committee; Evelyn Witman, Shillington,
Orchestra Committee; Kay Kurilla, Atlas, Refreshments; Lenore Seybert, Lightstreet, Programs; Mary Longo, Sheppton,
Publicity; Athamantia Communtzis, Bloomsburg, Decorations;
Mary Schroeder, Easton, Investigation Committee and Reed
Buckingham, York, Transportation.
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Professor William C. Forney, Head of the Department of
Business Education, is on the way to recovery after a senous illness, during which time he was a patient at the Bloomsburg
Hospital.
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NEW DEAN OF MEN
Major William E. Landis, World War II veteran and formerly with the Hershey Industrial School, has been appointed
dean of men of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He
succeeds John C. Koch, a member of the faculty for many
years, who has resigned.
Until recently Major Landis was executive officer of the
personnel staff section of the Information and Education
Division,

European Theatre, Frankfort, Germany.

graduate of the Indiana, Pa., State Teachers College m
1934. Landis received the degree of Master of Science in Education in 1939 from the University of Pennsylvania. For eight
years he was head of the department of business education at
the Hershey School, where he was also head football coach.
He enlisted in the Army in June, 1942, and later that year
was commissioned as a second lieutenant. In 1943 he was promoted to first lieutenant; in 1944, captain, and this year to

A

maj or.
While

in the Army he was head of the department of typewriting at the Army Administration School, Austin State Teachers College, Nacogdoches, Texas; commanding officer of the
ASTP unit at Southwestern Medical College, Dallas, Texas;
chief of the orientation branch of the Eighth Service Command,
having charge of Army orientation in Texas, New Mexico, Ok-

lahoma, Arkansas.
Later he was detailed to duty with the Information and Education Divisions, War Department, at Washington; with the
U. S. Armed Forces Institute, Madison, Wisconsin; and served
as an instructor in the College of Commerce in the Army University at Shrivenham, England.
While at Shrivenham he was assistant coach of the university’s football team, and helped develop the ETO championship
team.
Landis is a member of Phi Sigma Pi, Gamma Rho Tau and
Phi Delta Kappa fraternities, and has written articles for the
following magazines: Business Education, World, Jouraal of
Business Education, The Balance Sheet and the Athletic Jour,

nal.

The classroom is not reclaiming as many former teachers
from the ranks of ex-servicemen as has been expected. Dr.
Henry Klonower, of the Depaitment of Public Instruction, reported recently, predicting a teacher shortage for another four
or five years.

Married women teachers are rejoining theii- husbands released from the armed forces and giving up teaching. Many
teachers granted special wartime certificates will give up their
positions unless their is “urgent solicitation” to stay on the job.
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“SuCeSeD and BLOWEir’

I

By

E. H.

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NELSON

As promised in this column of the September “Quarterly,”
Elwood Wagner ’43 got his campus jeep ride. Maybe it wasn’t
as exciting as flying the Himalaya peaks, but we did cover the
route as previously outlined. The jeep carried a crew of seven
four m.ales and three females. Its performance was remark-

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able under the expert guidance of LaPaie Fetzer
Sea Bee. No ditch or terrace blocked the journey.
details consult three campus policemen.

For

To Mrs. Jennie S. Rush, of the class of 1896, goes the honor
of taking out the first life membership in the Alumni Association. Her check for $25.00 was handed in immediately after
the Alumni meeting, Saturday morning. May 25th. Within the
next six months

we should have

twenty-five

more such mem-

at least a hundred of the $5.00 sustaining memLet’s show our loyalty bj^ paying our dues from “reunion to reunion” thereby meeting our own just obligations and
at the same time making possible a working fund that will be
of real worth to the inter-scholastic program of the college. If
you paid $1.00 Alumni Day, send along four dollars more and
have all accounts paid until vour next reunion.

berships,
berships.

and

To 1896:
The association was honored
did yourselves proud
guests your conduct was
platform
host.
As
dinner
your
to be
superb. From here on you will alwaj's be the guests of the 50
year class in reunion. Some more surprises will be worked out
for next year. Don’t miss another single reunion.

You

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The writer may be a trifle prejudiced, but 1911 certainly
was great in reunion as always. Can any other class boast of

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having, in excellent condition, its large class banner, its
class motto (over 10 feet long in twelve inch letters), and a
record of every class meeting from Freshman organization to
Senior graduation? Send us any facts that make your class
outstanding. Your information will be given publicity in this

still

column.

Homecoming Day in the fall is just around the corner.
Francis Rampola ’36 is already getting his famous class in line
for a get together at that time. You will want to come, too,
and see Coach Dank’s football team in action, and also attend
the College dance in the evening. Date and details in the next
issue.

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ATHLETICS
NEW COACH APPOINTED
Aldeii J. (Lefty) Banks, who directed Milton High School
football out of gridiron doldrums and built the Panthers of the
Susquehanna’s Noilh Branch into a scholastic football power,
has been named football coach of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the Board of Trustees announced recently through

President Harvey A. Andruss.
John A. Hoch, assistant to Banks for the past five years as
line coach, has also been named to the College faculty.
Banks has been appointed instructor in the Bepartment of
Business Education. In addition to his teaching experience as
vice principal and commercial instructor of the Milton Senior
High School, he has also been an instructor in extension courses
in accounting for the Pennsylvania State College critic teacher
in the teacher training program of Bucknell University and
supervisor of the Milton play ground.
Hoch, who is an accomplished public relations man as well
as coach and teacher, has been on the Milton faculty for twelve
years, and has been named instructor in English and social studies at the College.
He has been exceedingly active in the community life of
Milton, being one of the leaders in the Junior Brum and Bugle
Corps, a supervisor of the Milton Teen Age Canteen and otherwise identified with civic projects.
Known thi’oughout the region as a stickler for details and
a master strategist, “Lefty” Banks early in his coaching career
won the respect of scholastic rivals by sending hard-hitting,
fighting ball clubs on the gridiron to out-battle opponents from
schools with larger student populations. In fact, Banks-coached
clubs have been so successful that championship calibre elevens
have becbme almost commonplace in Milton.
From the doldrums of the early thirties to the suberb performance of this year’s title-winning, undefeated eleven was a
long, hard climb, but Coach Banks negotiated it successfully
and won the respect of Milton and the entire Susquehanna
Football Conference.
In that thirteen-year period, Banks-coached clubs won 91
games, losing only 27 and tying nine. Seventeen of these losses
came during, his first two seasons, in 1933 and 1934, and in 1944
when the demands of war cut 27 from a squad of 33.
'Fake away those three lean years, and the remaining sparkle as brightly as any in the state for the Panthers dropped
only ten decisions in 98 staids, an average of only one loss a
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year.

His 1935 “team of destiny,” one of the greatest aggregawear the Orange and Black, gained statewide notoriety

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when, after dropping an early-season decision to Bloomsburg,
went on to register a clean sweep against Williamsport, Shamokin, Berwick, Lock Haven, and five other regional opponents
which were supposed to make mince meat of the Panthers.
Two of his 1935 “kids” won fame during the past several
seasons with National Professional League teams Tom Miller,
of the Washington Redskins, and Jack Hinkle, of the Philadel-

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phia Eagles.
His 1939 team was unbeaten and untied and ranked first
in the state offensively and defensively. It clicked off a total of
306 points and held ten opponents to a lone touchdown.
Then, as if it was a perfect swan song to a great career at
the Orange and Black school, the 1945 Panthers wrapped up a
second undefeated and untied record as they steam-rollered
eleven scholastic rivals
one of six school boy clubs in the state
It scored 326 points with the starting eleven
to do the trick.
seeing action little more than half the game, while no club was
able to puncture the hefty line for a score.
With all this to his credit. Coach Banks brought Milton
high five Susquehanna Football League trophies in the eight
years the Panthers competed in the circuit. His teams have always been noted for their precision and careful drilling. Conditioning is stressed, and regional coaches have developed a
healthy respect for his knowledge of the techniques of defen-

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Through all these years, John A. Hoch has been his righthand man. He broke into the athletic picture as publicity head,
but, in 1940, he became junior high school coach and in 1942
varsity line coach. During those seasons, he tutored two chamgaining an intimate knowlpionship lines in 1942 and 1945
edge of line play by working along with Coach Banks.
He has attended coaching schools under Lou Little, Carl
Suavely, George Muriger and Clark Shaughnessy, but the bulk
of his knowledge of the game has come from his intimate as-

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sociation with the newly-elected teachers college coach. His
five-year experience with the Banks system and style of play
should pay dividends with the development of a strong Huskies’
line.

Banks is a graduate of Susquehanna University, where he
received his baccalaureate degree. He received his master’s
degree from Bucknell. Hoch graduated from Penn State in
1933, and he received his master of arts degree from Bucknell
in 1941. Both coaches have taught at Milton High School for
more than ten years, Banks having gone there in 1932 and
Hoch in 1934.
Two years ago. Coach Banks married Miss Maudmae Edwards, of Bloomsburg, who is also a teacher in Milton High
High School. Hoch is married and the father of two children,
Beverly Ann and Carolyn, aged twelve and nine respectively.
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THE OLD SCORE BOARD
(From the “Fanning” Column, Morning News)

There is going to be a new electric scoreboard and timer
operation in the Centennial Gymnasium at the Teachers College when another basketball season rolls around.
That is good news to the fans. It is something that has
been needed ever since the gymnasium was opened in the early
days of World War II. It couldn’t be secured in war-time and
they had to get along with the wooden, manually operated
scoreboard of ancient vintage.
It certainly looked out of place in the $350,000 structure.
If you wanted contrast, all you had to do was look around the
gym and then focus your attention on the little black board
down at the north end. It looked like something an absent
minded collector of antiques had just temporarily misplaced.
But now that the old board is going to pass out of the picture, something we’ve all wanted for so long, it seems a little
like parting with an old friend and you just sort of dislike to
see the thing take place.
We don’t at the moment recall just when it made its appearance on the college scene but it was at least a quarter century ago. Chances are that it was constructed in the days when
George Hall was in charge of the shop and faculty manager of
athletics. They called it “manual arts” in those days. Now its
vocational education.
When it was tacked up on the north wall of the old gym
The fans were going to be kept init was a real improvement.
formed of the score just by spinning a number dial and that
certainly was better than one of those boards where you had to
slide the number in and out of a panel. In a fast scoring game
the scorer was generally a few points in aiTears on the panel
board and the ultimate result was that the fans much of the
time were more confused than if no attempt had been made to
post the tally.
Yes sir, the “old board” was quite something when it made
its debut.
The balcony, with its running track, was then in the old
gym and, of course, if you weren’t on the main floor, where
comparatively few could get, or in the south end you couldn’t
see what was posted. But some of the folks could see the score
board and pass the information around.
What really helped to hasten the construction of the scoreboard was the inauguration of the scholastic basketball tourneys. George M. Meade, then coach, was a real promoter and
he wanted everything just as good for the fans as possible.
The tourney that brought the old board into being is now
pushing it into discard. Some of the receipts from the 1946 revival of the event were placed with a memorial gift of the class
of last May to make the purchase possible.
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But the board hung on tenaciously as part of the college
basketball scene. It stayed after they decided to do away with
the balcony in the old gym for two very good reasons. It was
unsafe and also a nuisance. It stayed on when they knocked
out the east and west walls and put in permanent bleachers for
600 or so. And then, because of the war, it stayed when basketball was moved into the new gym and it was used right along
until the tourney of March. Then they borrowed the electric
scoreboard from the high school.
The progress of games were recorded on that board for
what we believe were Bloomsburg’s greatest teams. That is
sure to raise argument from many veteran fans and could lead
to one of those endless debates that never change the debaters’
opinions but are the source of much fanning.
It was there when George Meade trotted out his great five
of Joe Schwall, Joe Kozlosky, Arch Turner, Louis Lerda and
the late George Sach.
It was still serving when Thornley Booth was head coach
and built a team around Gordon Wambaugh, “Tam” Kirker
and others. The points the late Nick Rudowski piled up were
recorded on the board. Ray Hawkins, Frank Golder, Nick VanBuskark and a host of others who wrote basketball history in
the old gym did it while the board was serving.
Lamar Blass, the all-around athlete from Aristes, who gave
his life fighting in Italy, kept the dial under the marking
“Bloomsburg” spinning plenty.
In more recent years it kept tab of things for the outstanding Navy teams of the war years, those coached by Jack Llewellyn and George Buchheit. And whenever we think of that
period we think of how fortunate Bloomsburg was to have such
excellent basketball through the war years.
The youngsters are going to miss it. There was always a
host of volunteers, for the little fellows considered it quite an
honor to be out there, where all could see, twisting the number
dials.

There are a number of men, some of them now with sons
of their own, who will recall how proud they were to have kept
score for games at the college. But now with the modem, electrically operated equipment the lads of the days ahead will
be denied this honor. It’s just another evidence that the kids
aren’t getting as much of a break in modern living as we like
to feel.
Certainly it is fitting that the old scoreboard get more of a
tribute than being turned into kindling wood. After its long
period of service, it appears only appropriate that some of the
student athletic historians see that it is given a fresh coat of
paint and then has listed upon it some of the outstanding ath-

who played basketball while it was in use. It has earned
place in the trophy room. We’d like to see it there.

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TRACK SPORTS AT BLOOMSBURG
(From the “Fanning” Column, Morning News)
a fellow turns in a good record year after year the
school and fandom gets to taking it for granted. That is particularly true when the coach is an unassuming chap like
George C. Buchheit, of the Huskies, who has molded Maroon
and (dold thin clads into a track and field power and has turned
out many winning basketball combinations since the early thir-

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ties.
It was fitting that Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the college alumni, called attention to Buchheit’s splendid record during the graduate activities of the past commencement season.
He spoke of Buchheit on that occasion as “the best track
coach in the country.” Certainly none has had more success

with what material they had to work with than Buchheit.
Just turning to basketball for the moment, we cannot recall one of his teams that did not win its full share of games
and most of them had many more triumphs than defeats. In
his early coaching regime on the hill he also directed football
and he did a splendid job in that sport.
Track and field events are his first love. When he came to
Bloomsburg the sport was a dead issue. There had been some
such events in the past and the school had a set of records. But
little was heard about track and field.
He got going in 1933 when his team won a dual meet, lost
one and placed seventh in the State Teachers College events of
the state. From then on he was a power. He moved his club up
to fourth in 1934. They were tie for third in 1935 and third in
1936 and then stepped in to break West Chester domination by
taking the event four times running. The Huskies finished second in 1941 and again in 1942, the last time that the state meet

was

held.

There are few schools that have a record in dual meet
competition equal to that of the Huskies. During the seasons
from 1933 to 1942 the Bloomsburg charges of Buchheit turned
in thirty victories and lost two meets. One of those losses was
to Shippensburg when a Cumberland Valley athlete, with a
final desperate heave of a javelin in the last event of the day,
came up from the pack to take first place and get enough
points for his team to eke out a title. That was back in 1935.
For the next seven years the Huskies did not bow in dual competition. Among their victims was Bucknell University.
All of the records now at the school were made by boys
under his coaching. Here they are and as you read them over
some pleasant memories probably will be enjoyed
100-yard dash 9.7 seconds, made by Frank VanDevender, Shamokin, 1939.
220-yard dash 21.7 seconds on a straight stretch, made
by VaiiDevender, 1939; 22.3 seconds on a curve, made by Harry VanGordon, Kingston, 1936.

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440-yard dash
50.5 seconds, set by Edward Mulhern,
Forty Foil, 1939 and equalled by Don Jenkins in 1943. Jenkins,
an Army aviator, lost his life in the first Allied raid on the Polesti oil fields in

World War

880-yard run
1940.

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set

by Daniel Kemple, Cumbola,

Mile run 4:29.2, set by Kemple, 1939.
mile run
9 :43.4, set by Kemple in 1940.
220-yard low hurdles 24.5 seconds on straight stretch,
set by VanDevender, 1939; 25.5 seconds on curve, set by Harry Jenkins, Forty Fort, 1940.
100-year high hurdle
13.7 seconds, Harry Jenkins, 1940.
inches, made by Daniel Bonham,
Shot put 46 feet

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Discus throw
141 feet, 5^k inches, Bonham, 1941.
Javelin throw
199 feet, 2 inches, Bonham, 1938.
Pole vault
10 feet, 7 inches, Gerald Burke, 1937.

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6 feet 4% inches, Mathias Kashuba,
Forty Fort, 1946.
Running broad jump 21 feet, 10 inches, Lamar Blass,
Aristes, 1936. Blass, an artillery officer, was killed in action
while fighting in Italy.
One-mile relay 3.23.2, set by Stanley Zelesky, Edward
Mulhern, Frank VanDevender and Harry Jenkins, 1942.
Bloomsburg Huskies hold more state meet records than
any other institution. They hold seven outright and a tie for
another. West Chester has four records and a tie and Cheyney
and Shippensburg each hold two marks.
The Bloomsburg State meet records are shot put, 48 feet
6% inches, Bonham, 1941; discus, 141 feet, 5% inches, Bonham 1941; 880-yard run, 1.58.4 (four curves) Kemple, 1940;
mile run, 4.33.2, Kemple, 1940; two mile run, 10.5.6, Ken Hippensteel, of Espy, 1940; 220-yard low hurdles, 24.5, Van Devender, 1939; 120-yard high hurdles, 15.4, Harry Jenkins, 1940.
Huskies trained by Buchheit have placed well against the
nation’s best. Bonham took a third in discus in the junior AAU
and fifth in the senior event. George Spontak, of Pottsville,
was third in the 400-meter hurdles in the junior AAU and Kashuba sixth in the high jump. Spontak took fourth in the 400meter hurdles and Kashuba fourth in high jump in senior AAU.
These marks were made in 1941 and 1942.
Kashuba’s record in indoor meets during the past winter
So is his fine work in the Penn Relays.
is well known.
Of the track men of that golden era three made the supreme sacrifice. Don Jenkins and Lamar Blass were mentioned
above. The other was Walter Reed.
Reed, an Anny aviator, flew a combat plane throughout
the African campaign and was numerously decorated. He was
brought back to the United States when the Nazis were forced

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out of Africa and died
country.

some months

later in a crash in this

They were all fine men and their achievements will live
always on the hill. Many of their records will stand for years
and at least until George Buchheit builds another golden era.
He hopes to get those plans in operation next year.
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BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Awards won at the Nineteenth Annual Invitation High
School Basketball Tournament sponsored by the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College were presented May 16 during special
assembly exercises at Edwardsville, West Wyoming, Berwick
and Scott Township High Schools. Edwardsville won Class
“A,” with Berwick as runner-up. West Wyoming finished second in Class “B,” and Scott Township walked off with Class
“C.”
The awards were made by Coach George C. Buchheit and
John C. Koch, Dean of Men, of the college faculty. Colored
movies taken by Professor George Keller during the touniament
were also shown. Winning schools received beautiful plaques
and first and second team members received individual medals.
On May 17 awards were made to Nescopeck, Rock Glen,
Sheppton and Ringtown at similar assembly programs. Nescopeck was runner-up in Class “C,” Rock Glen won Class “B” and
Sheppton captured Class “CC” with Ringtown as runner-up.
The Tournament Committee selected the following boys
on the all-tournament team: Forwards, Ross Hughes, Espy and
Gene Chamberlain, Berwick Center, Leonard Smith, Edwardsville
Guards, Michael Helosky, Rock Glen and Daniel Sachs,
Nuremberg. The committee felt strongly that Honorable Mention should be given to the following boys: Joe Capobianco,
Berwick Frank Shepura, Edwardsville Dominic Dante, Exeter; Eugene Nenstiel, Rock Glen; Joseph Milnick, West Wyoming Michael Fischetti, Shickshinny Robert Morgan, KingJohn Severn, Bloomsburg, and Joe Henger,
ston Township
Berwick.
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The

football schedule of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College for the 1946 season has just been announced by George
C. Buchheit, Acting Director of Athletics. Alden J. Danks and
John A. Hoch, newly elected coaches, will take over their duties
in the near future.
The schedule includes the following games: September
28, Mansfield, home; October 5, Lock Haven, away; October
12, Clarion, home; October 19, Millersville, away; October 26,

Shippensburg, away; November 2, Kutztown,
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BASEBALL
Resuming baseball activities with the first civilian team
since 1943, Bloomsburg ended the 1946 season on Alumni Day,
when it lost to Kennedy-Van Saun, Danville by a score of 9-8.
The team was coached by Ben Pollock, who recently returned
to Bloomsburg High School after serving with the United
States Navy. The following is the record for the season:
April 10
Bloomsburg 9; Lock Haven 0 (forfeit).
April 12
Bloomsburg 3 Millersville 6.
April 25
Bloomsburg 3 Kutztown 10.
May 3 Bloomsburg 7 Kennedy-Van Saun 6.
May 8 Bloomsburg 6; East Stroudsburg 4.
May 11 Bloomsburg 14; Kutztown 6.
May 13 Bloomsburg 10; Millersville 11.
May 15 Bloomsburg 3;; East Stroudsburg 11.
May 22 Bloomsburg 2 Lock Haven 3.
May 25 Bloomsburg 8; Kennedy-Van Saun 9.

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Either a thirst for knowledge or an escape from danger
prompted a deer early Sunday moniing, June 2, to leap through
a window in Waller Hall at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, make its way through the hall and down a flight of steps
to the boiler room and then, finding its escape to freedom
blocked, jumped over a six foot wall.

This all occurred while the majority of residents along
East Second Street and at the college were slumbering, for
about 6:30 A. M. the deer, whether it was a doe or buck has
not been determined, was apparently chased down toward the
corner of Waller Hall.
Excited, the deer leaped a height of six feet through one
of the window panes, landing in the main hall. Glass was shattered, attracting the attention of James Tierney, formerly of
the United States Navy and now enrolled at the college.
Tierney tracked the animal from blood spots. The deer
turned into the entrance of the former gymnasium and then
made a sharp right turn down a flight of stairs into the boiler
room.
One of the windows was raised, and the deer leaped
through. But here the level of the ground was at least six feet
higher than the window. The deer had but one chance of escape, and in some manner, having no room in which to get a
running start, leaped over the six foot concrete wall.
The deer was last seen heading for Wood street.
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Miss Martha L. Teel, daughter of the late Harold J. Teel,
former member of the Bloomsburg faculty, was one of the three
high honor students in the graduating class of the Bloomsburg

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Commercial Contest Resumed
Placing contestants in the

first

three of each event, Easton

High School on Saturday, May 4, won the fourteenth annual
Pennsylvania Commercial Contest at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
Twenty-two schools entered in the contest were represented by ninety-seven students and teachers.
Scoring was made on the basis of five points for first place,
three for second and two for third. Although Easton failed to
place an entrant in first place of any event, two second places,
in shorthand and bookkeeping, and a third in typing made a
team score of eight points.
Abington, Edwardsville and Plymouth were tied for second place in the team ratings, each with five points by virtue
of first places in three events.
Mt. Carmel had a team score of three points, while Bloomsburg and Stroudsburg figured with two points apiece.
The winning team was awarded a commercial plaque,
which becomes the permanent property of the Easton school.
Members of the faculty and students of the business education department connected with the contest, which was held
in Navy Hall. The director. Prof. William C. Forney, was unable to attend because of illness.
Earl Gehrig was in charge of the bookkeeping contest,
Waite]’ S. Rygiel conducted the shorthand event, and Miss Isabelle Gehman, a Senior student in the department, took charge
of the typewriting contest.
The individual winners received gold medals, and those
in second and third place were given silver bronze awards, respectively.

Medalists in each event, together with point scores and the
possible total score of each event, follow
Bookkeeping, 281 points Charlotte Kuhar, Plymouth
High School, first, 234 Charles Johnson, Easton, second, 230
Edith Poliak, Bloomsburg, third, 229.
Typing, 310 points Gerard Walko, Edwardsville, first,

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Joyce MacDonald, Easton, third, 269.
Shorthand, 400 points Virginia Tull, Abington, first, 322
Blanche Bogari, Easton, second, 303 Dolores Buck, Strouds-

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The following have been elected
Community Government Association

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for the year:
Vice-President, Robert Martin;
Betty Fisher; Treasurer, Joseph Lyons.

William Horvath

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Mrs. D. S. Haitline, eighty-two, well-known and highly
respected Bloomsburg woman, died decently in the Bloomsburg
Hospital where she had been a patient. Her death was due to
complications.
Mrs. Haitline’s husband, for over forty years head of the
biology department at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
preceded her in death two years ago.
She was born at Lancaster and following her graduation
from the West Chester State Normal School, came to Bloomsburg where she was a teacher in the local college in the English department. She is the last of her family.
Mrs. Hartline was an active member of the St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Church and among her other activities were memberships in the Ivy Club and D. A. R.
She is suiwived by one son, Keffer Hartline, of Philadelphia, and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Hartline’s death came as a profound shock to her
wide circle of friends. She lived a rich life and found relaxation and inspiration in the woods and hills in which she spent
so much of her time with Dr. Hartline.
Quiet and unassuming, Mrs. Hartline both loved and lived
for the richer aspects of life. Her interests likewise centered
in the church and women’s organizations. The eighty-two years
of her life, which concluded following a week’s illness, were
full of accomplishments and steeped in fellowship and happiness.

The annual banquet of the Business Education Club and the Pi Omega
Pi Fraternity was held by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College undergraduates at the local Elks’ Home. Isabel Gehman, Ephrata, presided at the
banquet and group singing was led by Betty Lehet, Wilkes-Barre. Eileen
Falvey, Berudck, Historian, gave a summai-y of the year’s activities and
then presented Professor Walter S. Rygiel, club sponsor, with the historian’s
book.

New club officers installed were; President, Harold Miller, Danville;
vice president, Harold Reinert, Slatington; secretary, Doris Gilday; Springfield; treasurer, Estelle Friday, Phoenixville; historian, Raymond Popick,
Forest City.
New officers for Pi Omega Pi are; president, William Horvath, Allentown; vice president, Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; secretary. Rose Kraiser,
Hatboro; treasurer, Betty Fisher, Bloomsburg; historian, Charlotte Reichert,
Lightstreet.

President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwas the speaker of the evening and Ann Williams, Luzerne, sang several solos. The dinner was followed by informal dancing and cards.
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

E.

Mrs.. C. C.

Housenick

Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

Edward

F.

H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Hubler

Schuyler

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DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND BRANCH
A fine

meeting of the Dauphin-Cumberland Alumni Branch
was held at the William Penn Hotel in Harrisburg on Thursday, May 2. After a fine dinner Dr. William B. Mausteller, of
Harrisburg, presided at the business meeting at which time officers were elected for the coming year.
Dr. Mausteller then turned the meeting to the toastmaster,
W. Homer Englehaii; ’ll, of Harrisburg. Mr. Englehart introduced Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of the Alumni Association,
who spoke of Alumni achievements during the past year, and
plans for the coming year. President Andi’uss then spoke of
affairs at the College, and showed movies taken during his service in England.
Those attending from Bloomsburg were the following:
President H. A. Andruss, Dean John C. Koch, Prof. S. I. Shortess, H. F. Fenstemaker, and Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff.

MONTOUR BRANCH
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the B. S. T. C. Alumni Association, spoke of Alumni Day plans for this year and outlined
the program for the coming year at a meeting of the Montour
Branch of the association, held in St.- Peter’s Methodist Church,
Riverside.

President Harvey A. Andruss spoke briefly, mentioning
the changing conditions in education in the postw^ar period. He
presented a color movie showing scenes of Bloomsburg at
homecoming and Alumni Day, and some of the activities of the
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Army University at Shrivenham, England which he took when
an instructor there last year.
Ralph McCracken, who presided at the meeting, was reelected president for the coming year. E. R. Reams, of the
college faculty, led group singing, with H. F. Fenstemaker at
the piano.

Musical numbers were presented by Randall Bartges, tenor
at Bloomsburg.

who won the district forensic contest recently
He was accompanied by Mrs. Isabel Snyder.

The group passed a resolution of tribute to the families of
the late R. Bruce Albert, his father, Charles H. Albert, and
Prof. D. S. Hartline.
Members of the board of trustees and faculty present were
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Diehl, President Andruss, Dean T. P. North,
Dr. Nell Maupin, E. A. Reams, H. F. Fenstemaker, Earl Gehrig,
Walter S. Rygiel and Dean John C. Koch.
d

PHILADELPHIA BRANCH
The

dinner of the Philadelphia Branch of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni since the war began was a
delightful affair, attended by sixty former Bloomsburg students and their guests, and held at the Women’s Civic Club,
1622 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The toastmaster was Nevin E. Funk, president of the Philadelphia Electric Company. His grandfather, and father were
both trustees of the institution when it was the Literary Instifirst

and Normal School.
Following a delicious dinner. Dr. E. H. Nelson, president
of the general Alumni Association, explained the importance
of continuing interest on the part of those who had been in
Bloomsburg in years gone by, and urged those present to set up
a project, or goal, toward which the group might work, which
would be for the betterment of the college.
President Harvey A, Andruss spoke on the importance of

tute

the Alumni Association, told of college activities in the past and
plans for the future, and commented on colored motion pictures that were shown. These pictures dealt with the last college commencement and homecoming and their comparison
with the activities of Shrivenham American (Army) University,
in which President Andruss was active for a period of six
months while on leave from college duties.
This event, the first of its kind in five years, was attended
by Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool, who were most active in its
original organization, while Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish, Mrs.
Mary Moore Taubel, and other members of the committee were
responsible for this fine affair, which will continue as a yearly
event. The following were present
Anna Solomon Ruflecht, Stella Shuman Swenk, Mary E. Richards,
Philadelphia; Harriette Shuman Burr and Ruell Burr, Cynwyd; Marion
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Havertown; Edith McMichael Dodson, Lena Rachel Buckman, Beatrice Williams Eichner, Mary Laird, Kate Seasholtz Morris, Philadelphia; Ruth Albert Baer, Norwood, Grace Fenstermaker Frantz, Harry
A. Frantz, Merchantville, N. J.; Norman G. Cool, Bloomsburg; Julia Sharpless Fagely, William W. Fagely, Philadelphia; Ruth Johnson Garney, Upper
Darby; Dari Ikeler Mather, Benton; Marie Cromis, Claire Renting, Genevieve Toomey Mowbray, Philadelphia; Dr. Peter C. F. Castellani, Daytona
Phillips Stiller,

Beach, Fla.

Mary Sweeney, Catherine Boyle, Philadelphia; Veronia Kennerly Muldowney. Upper Darby; Lillian B. Buckalew, Claire Hedden, Ardmore; Lillie Hortman Irish, Camden, N. J.; Nora Woodring Kenney, Philadelphia;
Jennie C. Arbogast, Glenside; Emilie Nikel Gledhill, Westmont, N. J.; Louella Burdick Sinquett, Haddonfield, N. J.; Edwina Wieland Brouse, Norristown, R. D. 2; Mary Moore Taubel, Norristown; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A.
Andruss, Bloomsburg; N. E. Funk, Philadelphia; Mrs. Florence Hess Cool,
Bloomsburg; Dr. E. H. Nelson, Harrisburg; Jennie Yoder Foley, Willie Morgan Stein, Philadelphia; Mary Detwiler, Phoenixville; Margaret Butlet
Minner, Prospect Park; Mary A. Allen, Kennet Square; Harriet W. Pilner,
Deans, N. J.; Anna Sachs Allen, Darby; Gertrude Rinker, Prospect Park.

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SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING BRANCH
Repoits on wartime activities of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and plans for the coming Alumni Day reunions were heard recently by members of the SusquehannaWyoming county branch of B. S. T. C. alumni at a meeting held
in Montrose Inn.
Three members of the college faculty who attended the
meeting were the speakers. They were President Harvey A.
Andruss, Dr. Nell Maupin and H. F. Fenstemaker. In addition
to his remarks, President Andruss showed motion pictures of
the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium in 1942, and of the
Army University at Shrivenham, England, of which he was a

member last year.
Stuart Button, ’17, of Oakland Borough, was elected president of the group. Other officers for the coming year who
were elected were Doris VanBuskirk ’31, New Milford, vice
president for Susquehanna; Mrs. Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock,
vice president for Wyoming county; Catherine Bell Hicks ’40,
New Milford, secretary for Susquehanna county; and Mrs.
Lynn Sherwood, Tunkhannock, secretary for Wyoming county.
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, retiring vice president for
Wyoming county, presided at the meeting, which was attended

staff

by twenty-seven members.
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LACKAWANNA BRANCH
Approximately 140 members of the Lackawanna county
branch of B. S. T. C. alumni met at a pre-Alumni Day meeting
the Scranton Club, Scranton.
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the college, spoke on the
coming activities of Alumni Day and commencement, to be held

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May 25, and showed motion pictures of recent college activities
and of the Army University at Shrivenham, England, taken last
summer when he was a member of the staff there.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, of the faculty, now on leave with the
department of public instruction, spoke on projects to be
earned out by the various alumni branches.
The group elected the following officers: Margaret J.
Dyer, Scranton, president Eva Morgan, Gilbert Morgan and
Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton, vice-presidents; Florence
Dunn, Jermyn, secretary; and Lydia Bohn, Scranton, treasurer.
The retiring president, Archibald Reese, presided. The
invocation was given by the Rev. Peter K. Emmons, pastor of

state

;

Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Francis, Lackawanna county superintendent of
toastmaster. In the program several solos were
sung by Helen M. Parris, accompanied by Mrs. Florence Sugarman Settler, and the group sang some numbers.
Attending from the local faculty w'ere Prof. Andruss, Dr.
Nelson, S. I. Shortess and H. F. Fenstemaker.

Thomas
was

schools,

1883
Sarah E. Richards (Mrs. Samuel Daniels), of Wauwatosa,
Wisconsin, died April 10, 1946, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Hugh S. Browm. She was the sister of the late Margaret
Richards Lamb and John M. Richards, w'ho also were graduates of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Daniels came back to Bloomsburg in
1943 to attend her sixtieth year reunion.
The following account of Mrs. Daniel’s death appeared in
the Harvey (Wisconsin) Tribune:
The ranks of this community’s pioneere were further depleted last Wednesday w'hen Mrs. Sarah Daniels died suddenly
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hugh Browm, 2020 Twotree
Lane, Wauw’atosa, Wis. Although 86 years old Mrs. Daniels’
death came as a blow' to members of the family for, despite her
advanced age, she had been in excellent health and was extremely active.
Born in Clifford, Pa., on August 31, 1859, Sarah Richards
spent her early yeai-s in that vicinity. A gi'aduate of Bloorasburg State Teachers College in 1883 she taught school from her
graduation until her marriage to Samuel Daniels, at Clifford, on
November 25, 1891. Immediately thereafter the couple moved
to this community to be among its first residents. Mr. Daniels
became active in the real estate business and remained interested in the vocation until his death in 1918.
Locally Mrs. Daniels wdll be affectionately remembered
for her nine years of association wdth the Haiwey Public Library
small wowhich she served as librarian from 1919 to 1928.
man, the quiet refinement of her character blended perfectly

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with the almost reverend atmosphere of the institution. Mrs.
Daniels was held in high regard by both child and adult borrowers.
An avid church member, she became an active participant
in the affairs of the First Congregational Church. She maintained her interest in church work even after moving to the
Wisconsin community in 1941.
Mrs. Daniels played an important role in the organization
of the Harvey Woman’s club and was one of its charter members.

Her body arrived here from Wauwatosa on Friday afternoon and funeral services under the direction of the Rev. GiaRusso, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Milwaukee, were held at the Powers chapel on Saturday afternoon at
1 :30.
Interment was at Mt. Greenwood cemetery.
Besides Mrs. Brown, the daughter with whom she made
her home, Mrs. Daniels is survived by two sons, Frank, of Chicago, and Rupert, of Union, N. J. A nephew, John Richards, of
this city, who made his home with the Daniels for many years,
also survives as do two grandchildren.
1886
Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Fetterolf, 903 West Market Street,
Pottsville, observed theii' 50th wedding anniversary, Monday,

June

17.

The celebration of their anniversary was held in the First
Refonned Church, when a dinner was served, and a reception
followed. Attending were some of those who were members
of their bridal party.

Mrs. Fetterolf is the former Flora Bell Jones, the oldest
Eli Jones and his wife Lavina Ohl Jones, Bloomsburg, where the father was engaged in the contracting and
building trade. A younger daughter, Lula Jones, has made
her home with her sister and brother-in-law. Rev. and Mrs. Fetterolf, for the past forty years.
Mrs. Fetterolf, as a girl, attended the public schools of her
home town from which she was graduated in 1884. She afterward attended the Bloomsburg State Normal School, now
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was graduated in 1886.
After her graduation she taught for a number of years in the
public schools at Nescopeck and in Bloomsburg until the time
of her mairiage to Rev. Fetterolf on June 17, 1896, in Trinity

daughter of

Reformed Church, Bloomsburg.
The officers of East Susquehanna

Classis, Rev.
C. B.
Schneder, D. D., president of the Classis at the time. Rev, C. H.
Mutchler, the stated clerk of the Classis, together with the pastor of the church. Rev. C. H. Brant, officiating in the ceremony.
Miss Bessie Charles, Brooklyn, N. Y., was maid of honor; the
bridesmaids were. Miss Gertrude Scheep, now Mrs. Joseph
Townsend, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Lula Jones, sister of the

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The flower girl was Miss Hazel Row, now Mrs. Hazel
Creasy, and organist of the Reformed Church at Bloomsburg.
Bruce Jones, who resided for many yeare in Pottsville, now deceased, was best man. The ushers were Clarence B. Fetterolf,
a brother of the bridegroom and Fi'anklin Deaner, a friend of
the bridegroom.
Rev. Fetterolf at the time of his marriage was serving his
first pastorate in what was then known as the Mainville charge,
bride.

of which Berwick and Nescopeck were then supply points. As
a young man, preparing for the ministry. Rev. Fetterolf took
the classical course at Mount Hermon, Mass. In the fall of 1895,
he entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed church,
at Lancaster, from which institution he graduated in 1898. During his entire seminary course he served as a supply preacher
and pastor of the Mainville charge. At the advice of his Classis
and by their unanimous vote, he was ordained to the ministry
after his first year in the seminary in 1896. Thus this year also
marks the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the ministry.
From 1896 to 1898 the newlyweds made their home in Lancaster. After his graduation from the seminary they moved to
Mainville, where they continued their work in the charge for
three more years. In 1902 Rev. Fetterolf accepted a call from
the Lykens and Tower City charge. Living in the town of Lykens and serving also the Tower City congregation for thirteen
years or until 1914, he accepted a call from the First Reformed

Church, Pottsville, where they have resided ever since.
The work in this church has had a steady growth through
the years, the church having been extensively renovated in
1918, when a large pipe organ was purchased and dedicated.
In 1927 and 1928 the whole edifice was practically rebuilt,
enlarged and beautified. The deep chancel with its appointments makes the church one of the most worshipful sanctuaries
in the city.

The maiTiage of Rev. and Mrs. Fetterolf was blessed with
three children, a son, Harold Leroy, who died in early childhood. Gladys Esther, wife of John S. Crossman, of West Norwegian Street, Pottsville Ruth Isabel, wife of Amos J. Goddell,
of Prospect Park, near Philadelphia. A granddaughter, Constance Rebecca, celebrated her second birthday on the day of
this fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the grandparents.
;

Eleven of the thirty-six living members of the class of 1886
attended a reception at Hotel Magee Frtday evening. May 23,
as the sixty-year class opened its reunion activities. The, class
had an original membership of sixty-eight.
Members attending were the Rev. Dr. N. H. Sanner, Pittsburgh; Mrs.
Hill; Mrs. Adelle Broughall, Wilmington, DelaO. Felker, Lewistown; Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool, Mrs. Annie
Snyder Mausteller, Mrs. Lucetta Moyer White, Miss Ida Bernard, Miss
Stella Lowenberg, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Emma Amelia Long Dickson, Berwick.

Belle

Monie Jones, Drexel

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Guests were Mrs. N. H. Sanner, Pittsburgh; S. C. Jones, Drexel Hill;
Henry Fetzer, Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Snyder, Miss Mabel Moyer,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Bloomsburg.
The Rev. Dr. N. H. Sanner, of Pittsburgh, aiTanged the
following enjoyed program for Saturday: Greetings, the president; song, “Long, Long Ago;’’ roll call and communications
from members unable to attend history of events as they concerned the class since its last reunion in 1941 song, “Should
Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot;’’ “Sixty Years of Progress;’’
David L. Glover, of Mifflinburg reminiscences by all attending song “Blest Be the Tie that Binds ;’’ and prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Sanner. All expressed the hope that they may be able to
return for the sixty-fifth year reunion in 1951. There was a
wonderful spirit prevailing with the class still as loyal to the
Teachers College as they have been to the “Old Normal” of
their days in Bloomsburg.
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1888

A

minister of the Gospel for 46 years and pastor emeritus
of Bethany Evangelical and Reformed Church since September
died at 11:15 A. M. Sunday,
15), 1941, Rev. Harvey I. Crow

home, 1716 West North Street, Bethlehem.
February 2, 1865, on a farm near Liverpool, just
across the Susquehanna River from Millersburg, Rev. Crow was
a son of the late Abraham and Mary Crow. He remained on
the farm until he was nineteen years old, then entered Bloomsburg State Teachers College, from which he was graduated
June

9,

at his

Bom

in 1888.

Rev. Crow took up the teaching profession and taught for
three years in one-room countiy schools, then for four years in
Marysville schools, two years in grammar grades and two years
as principal of the high school.
Deciding upon the ministry as a profession, he entered the
Reformed Theological Seminary at Lancaster and was graduated in 1895.
In July of that year he married Anna Kass, of Marysville.
He was ordained and received his first charge at New Hamburg, Mercer County, the same year. Mrs. Crow died in 1931,
the same year in which the new Bethany Evangelical and Reformed Church building at Market Street and 5th Avenue, was
dedicated.
Two children were born to the union, Mary Crow, teacher
of English in Liberty High School, and Emma Crow, who is librarian at Franklin Junior High School.
Rev. Crow served the New Hamburg Church until 1900,
when he was called to the Nittany Valley and Hublersburg
congregation in Center County. He remained there until 1911
and during his pastorate in 1908 built a new church at Howard.
September 14, 1911, he came to Bethlehem as pastor of
Bethany Church, then located on 4th Avenue, at Schaffer
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Street. He remained here for thirty years, building the new
church and otherwise strengthening the congregation. He was

fourth pastor.
He served as president of both the West Susquehanna and
East Pennsylvania classis was a past president of Bethlehem
Ministerial Association served as a member of the Bach Choir
under the late director Dr. J. Fred Wolle; represented the
church as delegate to General Synod when the Evangelical and
Reformed churches merged, and was a member of the board of
trustees of Cedar Crest when the new college was built.
Survivors are the two daughters, Mary and Emma Crow
three brothers, Theodore Crow, Liverpool, Pa.
Rev. H. E.
Crow, Reading; J. C. Crow, Mill Hall, and a sister, Mrs. Jacob
Fortney, Newport.
its

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1890
Richard A. McHale, of Shenandoah, passed away Sunday
morning, March 10, at his home, 212 West Centre Street. His
death was unexpected and came as a shock to his relatives and

was not considered serious.
Born and reared in Shenandoah he was a graduate of the
Shenandoah High School and later the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He was a member of the teaching staff of the borough schools for thirty-one yeai*s and resigned to enter the real
estate business in 1921. He was an auctioneer of exceptional
ability and was known throughout the state in this capacity.
Prominent in sport circles, he was a lover of horses and
was well known in racing and Fair circles throughout this region. Organizer of the Shenandoah Mutual Fire Insurance Company, he was secretaiy of the firm at the time of his death, a
position he held since the creation of the organization. He was
one of the oldest living members of the Shenandoah Elks Lodge.
At the time of his death he was treasurer of the lodge. He

host of friends, as his brief illness

joined the Elks on April 20, 1920.
A member of the Annunciation Church and the Holy Name
Society of the parish, Mr. McHale was very active in the affairs
of the church during his younger life.
Highly revered by his family and friends he was regarded
as a kind and indulgent father and devoted husband. His popularity was greatly due to his congenial disposition.

Surviving are his widow, the former Anne Gallagher; two
sons, R. A. McHale, Jr., and John H. McHale, investigator for
District Attorney’s office in Washington, D. C. one daughter.
Miss Mary A. McHale, vice principal of the Jefferson school in
;

in

Shenandoah.

The funeral took place Wednesday moming, March 13,
his home. Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated in Annunciation Church. Interment was in the parish cemetery.
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1891
Friday evening, May 24, the class of 1891 had a delightful
evening at the home of Miss Jennie Sheep.
There' were twelve back from the class which fifty-five
years ago graduated eighty-two. This class continued the program at the college on Saturday. Attending Elizabeth D.
Smith, Mt. Carmel; Mrs. H. B. Rinehart, Waynesboro; Mrs.
Phoebe S. Creasy, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Anna Clauser Wasley,
Miss Rose A. Cohen, Miss Jennie S. Sheep, Mrs. Alice D. Furman; Hairy B. Rinehart, Waynesboro; Edward J. Gornley,
Hazleton; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Bloomsburg; W. A. Turnbach, Hazleton.
1896
:

The following

letter from Mrs. Myitle VanWie, a former
of the faculty at Bloomsburg and a member of the
class of 1896, expresses very well the sentiments of the members of the fifty-year class, which was the featured class on

member

Alumni Day

My

dear Mr. Andruss
No doubt you have received many expressions of appreciation from the groups holding reunion last week.

My

own word of commendation is for the individual attention accorded us elderly women.
I am referring to the courtesy of the students who took us
to our rooms, and those who carried our trays at the cafeteria
luncheon, or served us in other ways.

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Not only the students, but the employees deserve and
should receive thanks, particularly the gentleman in charge
of the elevator, who treated us with filial consideration, and
the women who served our breakfast.
All these, both students and employees, rendered their services, not, as duties imposed upon them, but with the gracious

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hospitality of hosts and hostesses enteriaining guests. It added
much to our enjoyment.
Such a spirit of cooperation pervading an institution merits
the highest praise, and you are to be congratulated for achiev-

ing

it.

May 1 add that if 1 could have gone out from College halls
with the remembrance of such a prayer as the one you offered
for the graduating class, I think T might have been a better
teacher.
Sincerely,

Myrile A. VanWie.
Barilett H. Johnson, sixty-nine, for a number of years principal of the Third Street school here died Tuesday evening,
April 2, at eight o’clock in the West Side Oithopedic Hospital
at York. He resided at 2104 West Market Street in that city.
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been ailing for three years and a patient in the hospital for two
weeks.
After Mr. Johnson left Bloomsburg he resided in York for
eight years and then accepted the principalship of the prospect
Park schools, which position he held for seven years. He was a
member of the Grace Methodist Church of York.
He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Pauline Johnson, of York; Mrs. George McKee, of Columbus, Ga. Mrs. William Heyneman, Essington, Pa. three grandchildren.
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Charles M. Keefer
Maine.

lives

at 4 Forest

Park,

Portland

5,

1898

Henry

New York

Avenue, N. W.,
have no woith-while
news, except that I am now very much interested in two small
grandchildren, but I would enjoy hearing anything at all about
the other three hundred fifty-five of the class of ’98.”
F.

Broadbent, of 1415

Washington, D.

C.,

writes as follows:

“I

1901

The class of 1901, which had a dinner at the Hotel Kocher,
Light Street, had thirty-one members in attendance. This class
numbered 144. Members attended from Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey, Maryland and Ohio.
Present: George W. Williams, Dallas; Charles V. Heller, Williamsport;
Ida B. Gilbert, Hazleton; Keller B. Albert, Reading; Philip Maue, Shamokin;
Joe Albertson, Peekskill, N. Y.; Mary Albert Glenn, Berwick; Dr. Peter
Fagan, Hazleton; Adele Altmiller Burkhart, Hazleton; Gertrude Follmer
Lowry, Port Washington, L. I., N. Y.; Sara Hamlin, Catawissa; Augusta Henkleman, Washington, D. C.; Martha Jones, Bloomsburg; William Lams, Allentown; Harriet Bittenbender, Berwick; Helen Lesher Frederick, Pottsgrove; Maizy O’Donnell Klein, Wilkes-Barre; Mabel Pennington Wieland,
State College; Minnie Owen Geist, Mt. Carmel; Mary Shoemaker Valentine,
Wilkes-Barre; Lela Shultz Madson, Plainfield, N. J.; Arthur Templeton,
Mary Thomas Joseph, Wilkes-Barre; Virginia Vought, Elysburg; Estelle
White Armstrong, Espy; Gertrude Morgan Northy, Akron, Ohio; Elizabeth
Mayer Keck, Hazleton; Daisy Eggleston, Tunkhannock; Evelyn Creveling
Shuman, Sunbury; Esther Abbot Reist, Catawissa; Ernest Merrell, Light
E.

Street.

1903
informed of the death of Mrs.
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Jessie Raup Lloyd, of Matawan, New Jersey. Mrs. Lloyd
passed away September 30, 1943.
1905
Miss Anna May Fagan, a member of the Hazleton Senior
High School faculty and sister of Dr. P. E. Fagan, city school
medical examiner, died at her home at 593 North Church Street
Sunday, March 10, after an illness of slightly more than a week.
Miss Fagan first became ill in February but had recovered
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and resumed her teaching position at the high school annex,
where she was a member of the commercial depaitment.
Born in Lattimer, Miss Fagan was a graduate of the Hazle
Township High School. She graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and later received her A. B. and M. A.
degrees from Marywmod College. After teaching for several
years in the Hazle Township High School, she took a position
in the Larksville High School where she served as vice-prinShe returned to teaching in Hazleton four years ago as a
of the high school faculty.
Miss Fagan was a member of St. Gabriel’s Church and of

cipal.

member

the Blessed Virgin Mary Sodality of the parish.
Her parents, Robert and Adelia Fagan, died about twelve
years ago, and a brother. Dr. Lawrence Fagan, died six years
ago.
Besides her brother, Dr. P. E. Fagan, she is survived by a
brother, Dr. Gerald Fagan, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, and
three sisters, Elizabeth Fagan and Mrs. Julia O’Rourke, both
local teachers, and Mrs. James H. Calder, a former teacher in
this city, who now resides in Hazleton after several years in
Philadelphia.
The funeral was held from the family residence at 9 A. M.
the following Wednesday, with a solemn high mass of requiem
in St. Gabriel’s at 9 :30.
Interment was made in the parish cemetery.

1906
1906 had more than thirty in attendance.
Present: Bessie M. Long, Bloomsburg; Bessie K. Grimes, Catawissa; Isabel C. Kelley, Kingston; Elizabeth Mitteldorf,
Bloomsburg Pauline Casper, Kingston Amy Levan, Sunbury
Mrs. Lloyd Wilson, Kislyn Mrs. Robert M. MacMillan, Carbondale Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Messersmith, Westfield, N. J. Mrs.
William E. Zbcher, Lebanon Mrs. Edith Shuman Grimes, Catawissa; William E. Zecher, Lebanon; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Girton,
Ithaca, N. Y. Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish, Camden, N. J. Sara
E. Buddinger, Mt. Carmel Mrs. Lu Buddinger Mershon, Pottsville
Mrs. Neil Batey, Kingston; Mrs. Helen Terwilliger,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Mary Butt Klase, Benton; Laura Aurand
Witmer, Collegeville
Mrs. Aleta B. Englehart; Mrs. A. L.
Chase, Carbondale; Bertha D. Lovering, Scranton; Wairen Anstock, Bloomsburg.
1909
of
Schools Fred W. Diehl was reSuperintendent
County

The

class of

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elected for the eighth consecutive term, receiving all thirty-seven votes cast at the election held in the court house recently at
Danville.
Mr. Diehl was the only candidate presented. All districts
of the county were represented with Mahoning and Limestone
Townships having one hundred per cent representation. There
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are only twelve teachers in the county schools who were present
Diehl took over in 1918 and only two county superintendents are still on the job that were on duty at that time,
which is an outstanding achievement for Mr. Diehl, who has
been able to carry on so successfully for almost three decades.
During his administration six new buildings have been
built in the county. When he came into office there were fortynine one room schools while today there are only nine. There
are at the present time twenty-nine buses hauling pupils to
school and all but two of the rural schools have electric lights.
There are only two directors serving today that were in office
when he began as county superintendent.

when Mr.

1911

Ray M.

who has done an outstanding work

as head
of the public school system of Columbia County since 1938, was
unanimously re-elected for a four-year term.
L. C. Mensch, of Catawissa, placed the name of Mr. Cole
before the directors, asseifing that he has proven a man well
qualified for the position and one who is canying on well.
Dean W. B. Sutliff, who was named chairman of the meeting, at the close of the election asserted that he believed he expressed the feelings of all directors when he said that the unanimous choice of Cole for another term expressed the approval
of the directorate for his fine administration during the past
four years.
He extended congratulations to the superintendent and
said the vote was an evidence of the confidence he enjoys. Further, the chairman pledged continued cooperation from the
directors in the advancement of the school program.
The Bloomsburg Morning Press had the following editorial
comment on Mr. Cole’s re-election
“Ray M. Cole yesterday was re-elected superintendent of
the Columbia county schools for a four year term. The vote

Cole,

was unanimous.
“In the years that Mr. Cole has served the educational inbeen outstanding in his field.
“He entered the county system as vocational supervisor in
1921 and held that position until named to the superintendency
in 1938 to fill a vacancy created by the death of William W.
Evans.
“Throughout his quarter century of service in Columbia
county he has been a leader. Always willing to consider any
one’s point of view always clear in his thinking, always guided solely by what he firmly believes is for the betteraient of the
boy and girl today, who will be the man and woman of tomorrow, Cole has given this county a type of service that places
the county in his debt.
“He is in every sense of the term a public servant efficient, energetic, pioneering and friendly.’’
terests of this county he has

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1911

There were forty-three members of the class of 1911 in attendance at a dinner at the Bloomsburg Country Club. Dr. E.
H. Nelson presided at the informal program.
Members and guests attending: Thomas S. Owen, Ethel
Paisley Owen, Ottsville Mrs. J. C. Foote, Bloomsburg; Mrs. J.
K. Miller, Elizabethtown; Bess Hinckley, Danville; Clara WarC. Carroll
dan, Dallas
Annette Osborne Frantz, Luzenie
Bailey, York; Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Kocher, Espy; Mr. and Mrs.
Ario H. Everett, Berwick
Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Dennis,
Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and Mrs. W. Homer Englehart, Harrisburg;
Ethel Hower Fairchild, Arthur C. Fairchild, Elmira, N. Y. Jennie Barklie Small, Drums; Paul Z. Hess, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. George Ferris and family, Bridgeport, Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Danville Dr. and Mrs. E. H.
Nelson, Bloomsburg; Thomas H. Reiser, Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Sharadin, Middleburg; Ruth Harris, Berwick; Bessie Ash Naunas, Grace Shuman John, Bloomsburg; Irene Heimbach Reinhart, Lewisburg; Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson Lanterman, Bloomsburg; Laura Treweek Watkins, Nesquehoning Margaret Simmons Yort, Hazleton; the Rev. Mae Chamberlin Sherman, Olyphant; Mrs. Ralph Howell, Binghamton, N. Y. Mrs. Emily
Spring Monaghan, Joseph J. Monaghan, Hawley; Louisa Hartman Cortright, Shickshinny; Catherine J. Burr, Troy; Jennie
Tucker Williams; Wilkes-Barre; Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Gerhard,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Cole, Bloomsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Tucker, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs. A.
K. Naugle, Rosella Park, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. George Landis,
son David, Sugarloaf Mi*, and Mrs. Clyde B. Myers, Scipio
Center, N. Y. Maurice E. Hauck, Berwick Elizabeth A. White,
Bloomsburg; Mary Lowry Shambach, J. Y. Shambach, Camp
Hill; Paulhre S. Harper, Bloomsburg; Harriet Armstrong Wellington, Garberrsy, Ohio; Harry M. Bogart, Stillwater; Ethel
Creasy Wright, Bloomsburg; Ethel Faust Hagenbuch, Berwick;
Jennie Whitmire Helt, Berwick; Irene Campbell Getty, Riverside Frank W. Hagenbuch, Elsie Stevens Hemck, Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Albert, Chase M. Herrick, Ann F. Hower, Bloomsburg;
Katherine Stunz Rauch, Berwick.
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Miss Catherine Louise Hai-per, daughter of Pauline SharpHarper, of Bloomsburg, was married Sunday, May 5, to G.
Clayton Bassler, of Lancaster, in a ceremony performed in the
parsonage of the Church of God, in Lancaster. The officiating
minister was the Rev. C. H. Lefeber, pastor of the church. The
bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and the
Pierce Business School. Mr. Bassler is a graduate of Franklin
and Marshall College and received his doctor’s degree at the
Pennsylvania State College. He and Mrs. Bassler were formerly employed with the Heyden Chemical Company at Princeton,
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1912
Miss Dorothy Jane Kline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Kline, West Street, Bloomsburg, has been awarded a
Rochester Prize Scholarship of $1500, it was learned recently.
The scholarship is granted to students of exceptional intellectual promise, maturity of purpose, good character, good
health and personal qualities which should enable their possessor to work happily with her associates.
Miss Kline’s application for admission to the Eastman
School of Music, University of Rochester, has also been approved. She will enter the University in the fall.
Miss Kline has been active in school, church and community activities. At the Bloomsburg High School, where she is a
Senior, she is president of Dramatic Club, secretary-treasurer of
the band, in which she is also solo clarinetist and accompanist
for the Girls’ Chorus a member of Tri-Hi- Y, Press Club and
Memorabilia staff. She has studied the work of the academic
course, and in addition has taken three years of shorthand and
;

typing.

had

Recently J. Clair Patterson, principal, announced that she
tied for first honors in the graduating class.
She is assistant organist of the Methodist Church, accom-

panist for the Young People’s Choir and a member of the Senior
Choir of that church. She is also one of the leaders of the Junior Department in the Sunday School and is active in youth activities.

For the past five years Miss Kline has been studying piano
and organ with Elwood Sober.
Harriet E. Graves (Mrs. Raymond Marsh), of 210 Sedgewick Avenue, Syracuse, New York, reports that she has a second grandchild, F. Raymond Marsh III, now two years old.

1913
Miss Jane E. Kuster, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Kimber C.
Kuster, of Bloomsburg, was one of the three high honor students in the graduating class of the Bloomsburg High School.
Francis B. Eveland, who holds the rank of Lieutenant
C.) U. S. N. R., is Dermatologist in the United
States Naval Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee.

Commander (M.

1914
Major-General and Mrs. Idwal H. Edwards announced the
maiTiage of their daughter Ann Louise, to Lieutenant Commander William A. Robie, U. S. N., son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Robie, 43 Zane Avenue, Collingswood, New Jersey, in
an afternoon wedding on Thursday, April 25, at St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, San Francisco, Calif. Reverend John C. Leffler, rector of St. Luke’s, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Robie wore a gown of white satin, enhanced by the
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and Juliette headdress worn by her mother at her wedding,
and was attended by Mrs. Bruce Simonds, matron of honor, of
Washington and San Francisco. Commander Jacob A. Benz,
U. S. N., was best man for Lt. Cmdr. Robie.
Following the wedding a receiDtion was held at the home
of Mrs. Katherine S. Branch, of Pierce Street, San Francisco.
The bride attended Colby Junior College, New London,
New Hampshire, and graduated from the University of Texas at
Austin and Katherine Gibbs School, New York, while Lt. Cmdr.
Robie gi'aduated from Bullis Prep at Silver Spring, Maiyland,
and the U. S. Naval Academy, class of 1942.
The Robies are temporarily living in San Diego, Calif.,
where Cmdr. Robie is awaiting orders after an extended tour
of destroyer duty in the Pacific theater, aboard the U. S. S.
Melvin and Kyes.
The bride was given in marriage by Captain W. B. McHugh, U. S. N., acting for her father, Major-General I. H. Edwards, now in Germany as commanding general of U. S. Air
Forces in the European Theater, where Mrs. Edwards and
daughter Katherine expect to join him in June.
veil

Paul L. Brunstetter, of Catawissa, has been re-elected assistant county superintendent of the Columbia county schools.
He was recommended by Ray M. Cole, superintendent of
schools, and unanimously elected by the county school board at
its May session.
Brunstetter is now starting his second term in this position.
He is well known in county educational circles and has had a
broad experience in teaching.
native of Columbia county, he

A

was supervising principal of the schools of Orangeville and
Catawissa prior to his being
ent in 1942.

named by

the county superintend-

Miss Ruth Hidlay, a successful teacher in the Bloomsburg
schools for the past thirty years and who is retiring at the close
of the present school year, was honored Monday evening, June
3, by teachers and members of the board of education at the
annual Spring get together dinner at the Dutch Hill Church.
Miss Hidlay was presented with a radio.
Laurence J*. Campbell, president of the recently organized
Bloomsburg Teachers Association, presided. He lauded the fine
service of Miss Hidlay as did G. Edward Elwell, president of
the board of education, and L. P. Gilmore, supervising principal
of the schools.

1916

The class of 1916, with over forty in attendance, opened
its program with a breakfast at the Elks auditorium. Mrs. Helen Shaffer Henrie was in charge. The class graduated 187.
Among those attending; Dr. V. J. Baluta, Shamokin; Mrs.
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burg Mrs. Thomas O’Connell, Washington, D. C. Cora S.
Funk, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Harry B. Welliver, Hazleton; Mrs. H.
J. (Creasy) Cappello, New York; Mrs. Thomas R. Edwards,
Dalton; Mrs. Paul Bowersox, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. James P.
Murray, Forest City; Helen V. McHugh, Kingston; Mrs. Edgar
More, Bethlehem; Elsie H. Robison, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Wade
W. Gregory, Weatherly; Cora G. Hill, Williamsport; Mari'Madden Heath, Forty Fort; Jessie N. Jones, Plymouth; Joanna
Powell Lorenz, Forty Fort; Catherine Mason Hagenbuch,
Bloomsburg; Olive Simons Barrus, College Park, Md. Helen
Shaffer Henrie, Bloomsburg; Clara Martranft Houkins, Hazle;

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ton.

1918

Many relatives and friends attended the wedding of Miriam E. Welliver and Jay Lee Funk Sunday, March 31, in the
Bloomsburg Baptist Church.
Miss Welliver was the daughter of George W. Welliver,
who for many years was the Superintendent of the Bloomsburg
Water Company. She was born in Bloomsburg and lived there
until graduation from State Normal School. She has taught in
Luzerne, Columbia and Montour counties. Of the nineteen
years teaching in Montour county, the last eight years have
been in Danville Special Class.
Mr. Funk was born in Oklahoma and he was reared in
New Mexico. His professional training has been in the Fine
Arts. For the past year he has been engaged in teaching Northumberland Special Class children. He has organized Art
Groups in Sunbury and Northumberland for those interested in
Painting For Fun.
The Rev.

R. A. Pavy, of the Danville Baptist Church, per-

formed the ceremony. The Rev. M. C. Hunsicker, of the
Bloomsburg Baptist Church, and the Rev. Ralph Hinckleman,
of the Northumberland Methodist Church, offered prayers.
1921
guests were present at the twentyfifth reunion of the Class of ’21 of B. S. T. C.
A general meeting was held in Room A after which a turkey dinner was served at Hotel Kocher.
An impromptu program consisting of class songs, history
and reminiscing ended a very enjoyable reunion day. Plans
were also made for the 30th reunion five years hence.
Members attending were: Chloe McKinstry Cole, Mary E. Brower,
Hazel Zeigler, Maree Pensyl, Larry Cherrington, Anna Garrison Scott,
Bloomsburg; Martha Cole, Honstrater, Belleville, N. J.; Olive Scott, Kingston; May Eyerly George, DanviUe; Ruth I. Gerhard. Tenafly, N. J.; Anna
P’ifty-one

members and

Grace Griffiths, Plymouth; T. Edison Fischer, Glen
Lyon; Mickey McShea Kester, Danville; Helen Welliver Girton, Sunbury;
Bertha Billmeyer Zong, Milton; Lillian Nelson Yerkes, Honesdale; Angeline
Evans Beavers, Scranton; Edith Blossom Hoffman, Hazleton; Oda H. Behr,
T. Unangst, Catawissa;

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Lopez; Helen Lowe Schlegel, Montrose; Jennie Cooke Ellis, Scranton; Elenora Shanno Kaiser, Schuylkill Haven; Emma Seltzer Ratzburg, Ringtown; Ruth Koch, Gladys B. Saul, Hazleton; Mary Gilroy Corgan, Kingston;
Myrlynn T. Shafer, Wilkes-Barre; Sarah Morgan Sutcliffe, Irvington, N. J.;
Margaret Deiterich Martin, Bethlehem; Mr. and Mrs. H. Kocher, Walter
Rhoades, Frank Klein Kline, Wernert; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kile.

1926
There were thirty-three members of the class of 1926 in
attendance for a fine program. They were: John T. Rowlands,
Ruth Monds Rowlands, Elsie Pritzman Woolbert, Mabel Davies
Turner, Betty Ohlman Neuls, Helen L. Daniels, Pearl Gearhart
McCollum, Marjorie I. Davey, Margaret Phillips Walker, Ethel
D. Bafler, Catherine Strine Harman, Mrs. Ruth Mexell Miller,
Leora V. Sounder, Jessica C. Trimble, Alice M. Yaple, Emma
Selecky Mras, Kitty McHugh Najaka, Josephine Gavey Smithers, Sophia Zelinski Hozlowski, Verna E. Fetterman, Arline H.
Jablonski, Martha M. Lingertot, Mary Leiby Fagley, Thelma
M. Naylor, Fannie Hilbert Roberts, Grace Harlos Carr, Bertha
M. Sutliff, Bertha Bisset Baker, Miriam M. Straub, Helen Goulden Sachs, Margaret Coburn Davies, Grace Vail Noble.
1930
Mrs. Thomas Corbett, the former Florence Beishline, and
son John, of California, were recent visitors in Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Corbett operates the Richmond Hill Beauty Salon at Rich-

mond, California.
New Jersey. They are now living in State College, where Dr.
Bassler is engaged in research work for the Pennsylvania State
College.

1931

There were sixteen members back for the reunion of the
fifteen year class and they had a busy and enjoyable day. Attending: Clara E. Fahringer, Williamsport; Emily A. Park,
Endicott, N. Y. Minnie Olshefsky, Catawissa R. D. Dorothy
F. MacDougall, Chester; Florence F. Fowler, Berwick; Earl H.
VanDine, Montoursville Chester Zimolzak, Glen Lyon; Elizabeth Chullinger Davies, Scranton Helen Maynard Lake, Mary
Gorham Wolever, Clarence R. Wolever, Scranton; Doris E.
VanBuskirk, New Milford Rheta N. Burgess, Hallstead Maiy
Rozanski Draper, Nanticoke; Estelle Simonovitz, Larksville;
Elizabeth H. Hubler, Gordon.
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First Lieutenant and Mrs. Robert G. SutlilT were recent
visitors at the home of the former’s parents. Dean and Mrs. W.
B. Sutliff, of Bloomsburg. Lt. Sutliff was recently discharged
from the Air Corps after three years and three months of service. Lt. and Mrs. Sutliff enjoyed a four weeks’ vacation in
Mexico before coming to Bloomsburg. He plans to return to
his peacetime position with Federal service and expects to be
York City.
assigned to investigating work in

New

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Warrant

Army

Officer Samuel Kurtz, assistant conductor of the
Air Forces Band and well known Pennsylvania musician,

was awarded the Army Commendation Ribbon recently. The
award was made for outstanding services in the field of music
for the armed forces, and was presented to Mr. Kurtz by Brigadier General Burton M. Hovey, Commanding General of Bolling Field, present headquarters for the

AAF

Band. Kurtz

is

a former music supervisor in the Bloomsburg and Stroudsburg
High Schools.
The class of ’31 met in reunion this year. The following
officers were elected Chairman, Clarence Wolbiner; SecretaryTreasurer, Helen Maynard Lake. Chester Zimolzak was elected chairman of a committee to arrange for a breakfast or
luncheon for the next reunion. It was suggested a “round robin”
letter be started in the class to create more interest among the
members. It was discovered that four members of the class
have died. After pictures of the class were shown, the meeting was adjourned.
Lydia Smith (Mrs. Joseph C. Seida), is living at 2714 West
37th Avenue, Denver, Colorado. She has two daughters.
:

1933
Lieutenant-Colonel John Q. Timbrell is in charge of
Reserve affairs for the southern half of West Virginia.

Army

1934
Miss Dorothy L. Schmidt, Presbyterian missionary who last
year returned after three years as a refugee and prisoner of the
Japanese in the Philippines, spoke recently in the chapel of the
Bloomsburg Methodist Church.
After graduating from Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and from the Biblical Seminary in New York City, Miss Schmidt
was assigned to serve as a Presbyterian missionary to Japan.
Her first year, 1937, was spent in Tokyo in language study. Following this period of orientation. Miss Schmidt was assigned to
teach in the Hokusei Jo Gakko in Sapporo on the island of

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Hokkaido.
In 1940 Miss Schmidt was forced to leave Japan and go to
Shanghai, China. After spending some time in China, Miss
Schmidt was transferred by the board to the Philippine Islands,
where she was assigned to leach in Silliman University in Duagute on Los Negros Island.
She had hardly begun her new work there when the Pearl
Harbor attack occurred and the Philippines were invaded by
the Japanese. The months of hiding in the hills, part of the
time in deep tropical forest, under the constant strain of imminent danger, ended in capture, and ultimately internment.
Miss Schmidt was forced to endure this experience in the
Santo Tomas camp for three and a half years, until the day of
liberation by the American forces.
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She is hoping to be among those who will be selected to return to Japan at the earliest possible moment to continue the
work and share in the added responsibility and challenge that

—

country

this

now

faces.

Her
tells

old

it

story concerns two countries and two peoples, and she
in a way that captivates the thought and enthusiasm of

and young

alike.

Wilson B. Sterling, of 631 Noith Jerome Street, Allentown,
Assistant Director of Nurses at the Allentown State Hospital.
His wife, the former M. Violette Williams, of the class of 1931,
is now teaching in the Children’s Institute at the same hospital.
is

In addition to his duties as Head of the Commercial Department of the Bloomsburg High School, J. Wesley Knorr is
Secretary of the Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce.

1935

Rostand Kelly, of Bloomsburg, has been awarded the degj-ee of Master of Aits by Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Milton C. Del Manzo, provost, announced. The degree

was conferred Tuesday, June 4, at the 192nd annual commencement exercises of Columbia University.
The graduate is one of 1700 receiving this degree in June
from Teachers College which this year had students from every
state and 315 from foreign countries, the largest enrollment in
its half century of training teachers for all grades and depaitmients of the educational system of our country.

1936
There were eleven members of the class of 1936 on hand
for the tenth year reunion. Present: Edward H. Baum, Nuremberg; Kathryn M. Vannauker, Hazleton; Daniel J. Jones,
Verna E. Jones, Millville, N. J. Jean A. Phillips, Scranton;
Mrs. Evelyn Fries Sunday, Scranton Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick,
Sunbury Mrs. Mary Fink McCutcheon, Hershey R. D. 1 Fi’ank
A. Rampalo, Cumbola Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hassell, Morrisville.
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1937
Elizabeth R. Evans (Mrs. James
Willows,” Glen Burnie, Maryland.

W. Blazek)

lives at

“The

1938
of the National League recently announced the purchase of outfielder Danny Litwhiler from the
St. Louis Cardinals.

The Boston Braves

1939
Lucille E.

Adams

(Mrs.

Waldemar

P.

Ruemmler)

lives at

686 Hartford Street, Worthington, Ohio. Her husband is employed at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus as a research metallurgical engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Ruemmler have
a son, who was born November 14, 1944.
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Miss Sara Tubbs, of Bloomsburg, is serving as full-time
assistant to the secretary of the Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce.

1940
Charles L. Kelchner lives at Apaitment 3, 2831 Que Street,
S. E., Washington, D. C. He was placed on inactive duty March
3, 1946, as a Captain in the Ordnance Reserve, having served
He has now returned to
in the Army since March 18, 1942.
his Civil Service position as Administrative Assistant with the
Rural Electrification Administration. He was marned January
18, 1946, to Miss Geraldine Concoran, of Hartford, Connecticut.

Mrs. Eleanor Beckley Martin, of Bloomsburg, arrived home
recently after serving for some time as Assistant Program Director at the Red Cross Club in Manila. Before entering the
service, she had served with the WAAF.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Elnora Unger, of Danville, and Mr. William Houck, fonnerly of
Berwick. Miss Unger has been teaching for several years in the
Danville High School.

Miss Vivian Reppert, of Espy, and William Gladwin, of
Bloomsburg, were married Monday, April 1, 1946. They are
now living in Bloomsburg.

A son was born March 9, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. John Mascavage, of Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Mascavage is the former Miss
Florence Stefanski.
A son was born September 21, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. W.
White, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Mrs. White is the
former Miss Jean Smith, of Catawissa, Pa.
C.

in

Mary Ellen McWilliams, of R. D.
the Danville High School.

1,

Danville,

is

a

teacher

Charles W. Girton is located at Fort Worth, Texas, with
the United States Weather Bureau.

1941
of the class of 1941 in reunion were Edward
Dobb, Elysburg; Maude Pursel, Bloomsburg; Marjorie Young
Broderick, Sunbury Edith Benninger Balliet and son Clifton,
Robert R. Fisher, Bloomsburg; Isabelle M. C. Olah, Berwick;
Joseph J. Malinchoc, Nesquehoning Jerry U. Russin, Plains;
Barbara Gillette Benoski, Wilkes-Barre.

Members

;

;

Miss Julia C. Hagenbuch, of R. D. 1, Danville, is teaching
commercial subjects in the Mifflinburg High School. Her address in Mifflinburg is 200 East Market Street.
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.

Staff

1942
Sergeant David M. Young,

Jr.,

son of Mr. and Mrs.

Street, Danville, has returned home afterserving for thirty-six months in the Pacific theatre.
While serving in the Pacific, Sgt. Young participated in

David M. Young, Ash

the landing operations of New Guinea, Leyte and Luzon.
He acted as personnel sei*geant major of the 48th Quaiffermaster Battalion, Mobile, and in November, 1945, when eligible
for discharge under the Army point system, volunteered to become first sergeant of the 1361st Engineer Dump Truck Company.
In January, upon inactivation of the unit, Sgt. Young was
transferred as sergeant major of the first battalion of the
1332nd Engineer General Seiwice Regiment, where he also acted as court-martial stenographer.
In reunion from the class of 1942 were James W. Davies,
Gladys Raby, Dora T. Smith, William E. Smith, Barbara S.
Hartman, Stuart L. Hartman, Helen K. McCracken, Ralph E.
McCracken, Louise Seaman Thomas and H. Bumis Fellman.

1943

Members

of the class of 1943 in three-year reunion were
John Hubiak, Mrs. Robert C. Dix, Jr., William H. Barton, Carl
S. Berninger, George Miller, Barbara A. Rick, Mrs. Herbert
Kelchner, Mrs. Leonard Wasco, Joseph M. Madl, Kay Jones,
Elwood M. Wagner, Phil Yeany, Frederic C. McCutcheon, Mrs.

Burnis Fellman.

Miss Elizabeth L. Carey, of Mifflinville, and Lt. Wayne
Deaner, of Mainville, were married Friday, April 12, at the
The ceremony was performed
Mifflinville Methodist Church.
by the Rev. Norman Simmons. Both Mr. and Mrs. Deaner are
graduates of Bloomsburg. Lt. Deaner is a veteran of thirteen
months of overseas service in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.
First Lt. Philip Yeany, United States Army Air Force, has
returned to this country. He was a bomber pilot and a veteran
of twenty-one missions. Lt. Yeany was in the European Theatre
for sixteen months. Since last December he fiew for the European Air Transport, operated by the Army.

1944

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Wanda Farnsworth, of Muncy, to Robert Langdon, of Bound
Brook, New Jersey. Miss Farnsworth has been teaching in
South Bound Brook. Mr. Langdon, a graduate of the Bound
Brook High School, attended Rutgers University before entering the service. He served as a B-29 pilot in the European theatre and as a C-54 pilot in the Pacific Theatre. He is now employed at the Calco Chemical plant at Bound Brook.
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Staff Sergeant Frederick

cently discharged from the

of Bloomsburg, was reafter twenty months of ser-

Dent,

Army

vice. He seiwed on Leyte and Luzon and at the time he was
sent home he was with the occupational forces in Korea. On
his return he saw his daughter, Sandra Lee, for the first time.

Louise E. Adams, of Shamokin, and Harold J. Missner, of
Allentown, were married Thursday, April 18, at the Zion Evangelical Church, Allentown. Mrs. Missner has been teaching in
the schools of Norih Catasaqua, and she and her husband are
living at 809 Linden Street, Allentown.

Mrs. Roberi Warrington and Florence Faust were present
class of 1944.

from the

1945
Miss Mary Louise Fenstemaker, of Bloomsburg, and Harry
G. John, of Bloomsburg R. D. 3, were married Monday, June
10, at the First Baptist Church in Bloomsburg. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Malcolm Hunsicker, pastor of the
church, assisted by the Rev. E. J. Radcliffe, of St. Petersburg,
Florida.

Both bride and bridegroom are graduates of the Bloomsburg High School in the class of 1941. Mr. John served for
three years in the armed forces during the recent war, and is
now completing his work at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Mrs. John is serving as Registrar in the office of the

Dean

of Instruction.

Eight members of the class graduating a year ago were on
They were Marjorie Dawning, Eudora Berlew, Elvira Bitetti, Lois Wintersteen, Carol McCloughan, Joseph Gula,
Evelyn Doney and Mary Lou Fenstemaker.

the campus.

1946

The following are the new members
sociation

of the

Alumni As-

:

Donald Blackburn, 13 East Main Street, Wanamie, Pa.
Dora V. Brown, 495 West King Street, York, Pa.
Anna-Barbara B. Bucinell, 829 Hudson Street, Forest City, Pa.
Reed Buckingham, 381 West Market Street, York, Pa.
Rose Marie Cerchiaro, 2 West Coal Street, Nesquehoning, Pa.
Athamantia D. Comuntzis, 403 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg,
Pa.

Marian
Martha

J.

C.

Creveling, 225

West

First Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Street, Shippensburg,

Donahue, 230 East Garfield

Pa.
Eileen L. Falvey, 413 East Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Lorraine G. Fichter, 719 North Locust Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Bernice R. Gabuzda, 899 Center Street, Freeland, Pa.
Isabel A. Gehman, 215 North State Street, Ephrata, Pa.
Lola E. Good, Wapwallopen, R. D. 2, Pa.
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Lillian H. Guis, East Pine Street, Sheppton, Pa.

«

Kathleen A. Hess, Box 191, Dalton, Pa.

John

J.

Hmelmicky, 73 Mason

Street, Exeter, Pa.

Stephen M. Hotz, 20 North Street, Hudson, Pa.
Vincent F. Husovsky, 239 Kossack Street, Swoyerville, Pa.
Margaret M. Kane, 1261 West Coal Street, Shenandoah, Pa.
Hazel E. Keefer, Espy, Pa.
Karliss L. Kight, 453 East Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Eltheda M. Klingaman, Shumans, Pa.
Dorothy L. Kocher, P]spy, Pa.
Marie L. Krum, Bloomsburg, R. D. 1, Pa.
Kathleen N. Kurilla, 100 West Girard Street, Atlas, Pa.
James L. LaBarr, 47 South Sherman Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Mary E. Longo, Centre Street, Sheppton, Pa.
Ralph A. McCracken, 202 Gearhait Street, Riverisde, Pa.
Anastasia Pappas, 124 West Mahoning Street, Danville, Pa.
Donald D. Rabb, Main Street, Benton, Pa.
Frances J. Saunders, 42 Alton Street, Danville, Pa.
Mary M. Schroeder, 252 West Wilkes-Barre Street, Easton, Pa.
Lenore M. Seybert, Light Street, Pa.
Jacqueline J. Shaffer, 360 Glen Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Betty Hess Shultz, Benton, Pa.
Janet R. Shultz, 5951 Bilden Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Betty J. Smith, 221 Second Street, Catawissa, Pa.
Martha J. Stitzel, 458 South Fouilh Street, Hamburg, Pa.
Marjorie E. Stover, 844 Market Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
Ralph R. Tremato, 1040 Lehigh Street, Easton, Pa.
R. Lorraine Utt, Orangeville, Pa.
Mark C. Wanich, Jr., Light Street, Pa.
Violet L. Weller, Turbotville, R. D. 1, Pa.
Robert A. Welliver, 316 Warren Street, Nescopeck, Pa.
Shirley Anne Williams, 455 Charles Street, Luzerne, Pa.
Evelyn I. Witman, 543 Gregg Street, Shillington, Pa.

Harrison J. Cameron, 823 Susquehanna Avenue, Berwick, Pa.
Linda Estella Culver, Wyalusing, Pa.
Edwin J. Deleski, 81 Graham Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Doris Jean Dickinson, LaPlume, Pa.
Elizabeth R. Ertel, 825 West Third Street, Williamsport, Pa.
Henry J. Gatski, 513 West Third Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Wanda Marion Kehler, 200 Broad Street, Ashland, Pa.
Virginia C. King, Box 208, Dallas, R. D. 2, Pa.
Noi’ine G. Miles, 31 North Main Street, Shenandoah, Pa.
Audrey Althea Parsell, Pine Street, Orangeville, Pa.
Mrs. Winifred K. Romberger, Elizabethville, Pa.
Phyllis M. Schrader, 127 North Fourth Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
Charles L. Wagner, 237 South Vine Street, Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Mary M. Yearick, Selinsgrove, R. D. 1, Pa.

Miss Muriel Anne Matthews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Matthews, of Fort Worth, Texas, became the bride of
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Charles C. Harmany, son of Mrs. C. A. Markell, of State College, in a pretty ceremony performed in the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in State College. The double ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. J. N. Peabodv.
Miss Matthews is a graduate of Noith Texas State College,
Texas. She has completed her third year as a teacher in the
Fort Worth schools.

1948

Announcement has been made
Dorothy Davis, of Bloomsburg,

of the

engagement

of Miss

Robert

L. Bunge, of CatawisMiss Davis is a Senior student nurse at the Bloomsburg Hossa.
pital, and Mr. Bunge is a Junior at the College.

to

1949
Miss Shirley Jean Strauser and William C. Vought, both of
Bloomsburg, were maiTied in April by the Rev. Samuel Williams Strain, jjastor of the First Methodist Church. The bride
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School in the class of 1943,
is employed in the traffic
department of the Bell Telephone
Company. Mr. Vought, a veteran of seiwice as a bottom turret
ball gunner on the Flying Fortress in the European Theatre of
Operations and a former prisoner of war, is now a student at
Bloomsburg.
O

Former Students
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Peggy Beach, of Bloomsburg, to S. Richard Moyer, of GermantowiL Miss Beach, a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
is now living in Germantown, where she is studying voice under
the direction of a private teacher. Mr. Moyer, a graduate of
the Germantown High School, was recently discharged from
the Army Air Forces after three and one-half years of service.
He plans to enter the University of Pennsylvania in the autumn.

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Joseph K. Lay os, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Layos,
Bloomsburg R. D. 3, has been elected president of the Veterans
Club at George Washington University, Washington, D. C., it
has been announced.
Layos,

who

has been active

is enrolled in the
in veterans’ affairs

law school of the university,
on the campus and in Wash-

ington.

A graduate of Bloomsburg High School with the class of
1938, he attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College before
entering the service. A member of the local National Guard, he
was inducted in the Army in January, 1940.
He was commissioned in September, 1942, at Camp Hood,
Texas, and during his military service attained the rank of captain.

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ALDEN

J.

DANKS

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Alden J. (Lefty) Banks, thiity-nine, head football coach
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died suddenly at
ten o’clock Saturday morning, September 21, at the Bloomsburg
Hospital from coronary thrombosis.
The end came suddenly and at a time when it was believed
his condition had improved sufficiently so that he could return
to his home.
It was not only a profound shock to his immediate family,
his wife, the former Maudemae Edwards, of Bloomsburg, and
his mother, Mrs. Leona A. Banks, of Milton, but to the college
and his legion of friends and acquaintances throughout this
area and especially in Milton where during his thirteen year
at the

tenure as football coach he built the Black Panthers of the Susquehanna’s West Branch into a scholastic football power.
While Mr. Banks had apparently not been in the best of
condition in recent weeks, he did not impart this knowledge to
any one. He took ill during the practice of drills and had to be
assisted to the gymnasium by Br. J. Frank Bame, another member of the faculty. Br. Gluchoff was immediately summoned.
Mr. Banks was in a critical condition for a time but rallied
quickly when removed to the hospital. He was in such condition the next day that he wrote out detailed plans for football drills during his absence and turned them over to John A.
Hoch, his chief assistant.
Mr. Banks was a graduate of Susquehanna University
and secured his Master’s Begree at Bucknell. Prior to entering
Susquehanna he was a student at the University of Alabama.
His marriage took place Becember 16, 1944. His father, the
late George U. Banks, died from a heart condition several
years ago. Mr. Banks resided in Elmira, N. Y., until the family
removed to Milton fifteen years ago and upon his appointment
to the Milton faculty.
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1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16,
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Mr. Banks was elected as head coach at the Teachers College during the Spring and after decision was made to emphasize the sport, Mr. Banks was selected and the announcement
was made on April 24.
Mr. Banks, who headed the commercial department at
Milton, was named to the Bepartment of Business Education of
the local institution and as head coach. He immediately started work on his plans for the season, contacting many boys from
the area and taking care of many of the details incident to the
start of the season. He worked long and ardently throughout
the summer and became even busier when the first pre-season
drill in the history of the college started on August 26.
He came to Bloomsburg with a program designed to build
the Huskies, as he had Milton High, into a football power but
stated frankly that his first year was going to be devoted to
getting a good nucleus. He promised, however, a team that
would always wage a good battle.
Known throughout the region as a stickler for detail and a
master strategist, “Lefty” Banks early in his coaching career
won the respect of scholastic rivals by sending hard-hitting,
fighting ball clubs on the gridiron to out-battle opponents, from
schools with larger student populations. In fact, Banks-coached
clubs were so successful that championship calibre elevens have
become almost commonplace in Milton.
In that thirteen-year period, Banks-coached clubs won 91
games, losing only 27 and tying nine. Seventeen of these losses
came during his first two seasons, in 1933 and 34, and in 1944
when the demands of war cut 27 from a squad of 33.
His 1935 “team of destiny,” one of the greatest aggregations to wear the Orange and Black, gained state-wide notoriety
when, after dropping an early-season decision to Bloomsburg,
went on to register a clean sweep against Williamsport, Sha-

mokin, Berwick, Lock Haven, and five other regional opponents
which were supposed to make mince meat of the Panthers.
Two of his 1935 “kids” won fame during the past several
Tom Milseasons with National Professional League teams
ler, of the Washington Redskins, and Jack Hinkle, of the Philadelphia Eagles.
His 1939 team was unbeaten and untied and ranked first
in the state offensively and defensively. It clicked off a total
of 306 points and held ten opponents to a lone touchdown.
Then, as if it was a perfect swan song to a great career at
and Black school, the 1945 Panthers wrapped up a
Orange
the
second undefeated and untied record as they steamrollered
one of six school boy clubs in the state
eleven scholastic rivals
to do the trick. It scored 326 points with the starting eleven
seeing action little more than half the game, while no club was
able to puncture the hefty Milton line for a score.
With all this to his credit. Coach Banks brought Milton

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High five Susquehanna Football League trophies in the eight
years the Panthers completed the circuit. His teams were always noted foi‘ their pi’ecision and careful drilling. Conditioning was stressed, and regional coaches developed a healthy
respect for his knowledge of the techniques of defensive play.
An all-round athlete in his high school and college days,
he was a fine southpaw baseball pitcher, his ability in that
spoil winning him a try-out with the Boston Red Sox.
The body lay in state at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Mahoning Street and Garfield Avenue, Milton, from two to four
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, September 24, and was viewed from
seven to nine o’clock Tuesday evening at the Dale E. Ranck
Funeral Home, Milton.
The entire State Teachers College football squad attended
the services.
Honorary pall-bearers were James Cotner, of Watsontown William McK. Wright, Dr. J. C. Reed, Dr. Carl L. Willward, William J. Wilhelm, George E. Wertz, Harry Dyer,
James C. Tule, Henry Longenberger, Paul Reiser, of Milton;
President Harvey A. Andruss, Dean William E. Landis, Dr. E.
H. Nelson, William Horvath, pi-esident of the College Student
Government Association; Edward F. Schuyler, Bloomsburg;
Charles Baum, Sunbury Ray Singley, Williamspoil Walter
Levine and I. V. Davis, Lock Haven Albert O. Humphreys, of
Bucknell; Jack Hinkle, Philadelphia.
The “Morning Press’’ had the following editoiJal comment
on the death of Mr. Danks
“The sudden death of Alden J. Danks, who came to the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College this fall to take over the
coaching duties of the football squad, came as a profound shock
to the host of friends he won for himself, both at the college
and in the realm of high school spoils.
“Known as “Lefty’’ from his school and college days at
Susquehanna University, his record of ninety-one wins, twentyseven losses and nine ties while serving as Coach of Milton
High School testifies to his ability as a coach.
“He was gifted with that faculty of both winning and
holding the admiration and respect of students with whom he
worked. His death severed what promised to be a new era in
the realLi of football at the Bloomsburg State Teachers Col;

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Prof, and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, of Bloomsburg, attended the
sessions in June of the Synod of Pennsylvania Presbyterian
Church of the United States, held at Wilson College, Chambersburg.
Prof. Sutliff, an elder of the Bloomsburg Presbyterian
Church, attended as a commissioner of the Noithumberland
Presbytery. The Pennsylvania Synod is the largest in the
United States.

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To Teach

In the

Near East

Three county men, all graduates of the Bloomsburg State
College recently, left for teaching positions in widely scattered
cities of the Near East.
They are H. Raymond Chandler, son of Mrs. Ruth Chandler, West First Street, Bloomsburg, who will be an instructor
in the commerce department at the American University of
Beirut, Lebanon Harold J. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Miller, Church Street Catawissa, who will teach Eng;

lish at

Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey; and Mark C. Wanich,

son of Mr. and Mrs. Collins Wanich, Light Street, who has accepted a position as teacher of science, mathematics and physical education at the Cairo School for American Children,
Cairo, Egypt.
The three sailed on the S. S. Vulcania, a former Italian
passenger liner now being operated by the American Export
Lines. The bulk of the passenger list was made up of personnel from this country who will be affiliated with the American
schools and colleges in the eastern Mediterranean region.
The Beirut and Istanbul colleges are included among eight
universities operated by the Near East College Association, a
non-profit organization with headquarters in New York. Operated for eighty-two years, the colleges were kept open during the war.
Courses in the universities are given in England and are
open to all those qualified at university level who have a command of English. The student bodies are composed of members of American, British and French diplomatic families and of
qualified native students.
The Cairo school is a secondary school operated in conjunction with the American University at Cairo and is financed
in part by American business interests in that section. The
school, on a tuition basis, is open only to Americans, including
children of diplomatic officials and American businessmen located there.
All three men will hold their positions for at least three
years.

Chandler will teach commercial subjects at the American
University of Beirut, located on the shores of the Mediterranean near its northeastern corner. The university has an enrollment of about 2,300.
He is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School with the
class of 1938, and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
1942, where he studied in the department of business education.

Last spring he was discharged from the Army Air Forces
more than three years’ service, the greater part of which
was spent in Alaska and the Aleutians.
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graduate of Catawissa High School in 1941 and
majored in commerce and social studies.
For the past three years he has been teaching bookkeeping and
commercial law in the high school at Phillipsburg, Pa.
He will teach English at the academy, or high school, level
in RobeiT College, one of two colleges in Istanbul under the
sponsorship of the near East College Association. The other
Miller, a

B. S. T. C. in 1944,

school there

is

the Istanbul

Woman’s

College.

Wanich, a graduate of Scott Township High School and a

member

War

II.

at Scott.

S. T. C. class of 1946, is a veteran of World
also has coached soccer, basketball and baseball
This past summer he took graduate work at Colum-

of the B.

He

bia University.

At the Cairo school, which

Wanich

is

opening for its second year,
and mathematics at the

will teach education, science

senior high school level.
During the summers Wanich plans to travel in Europe
and may take courses leading to a master’s degree at an English university.

The voyage of the Vulcania across the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean was expected to take about two weeks. A twoday stop was to be made at Naples before the ship started discharging its educator-passengers at their destinations.
Miller and Chandler attended a luncheon in New York
City given for all personnel affiliated with the
lege Association.

Near East

Col-

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Impressive ceremonies to honor a former student of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, who was killed in action
in the Philippines campaign, was conducted recently on the
campus by college officials and members of the Science Club.
Two small California Redwood trees were planted in a small
plot between Carver Hall and Noetling Hall in memory of Earl
Harris, Orangeville, former president of the Science Club.
The trees were obtained from California by Mrs. William
A. Conrad, Benton, who has been visiting in the Far West. She
sent the memorial redwoods to her sons, Wilfred and Royal
Conrad, the latter an undergradute at the college. Both boys
are members of the Science Club, which has as one of its many
projects an extensive tree-planting program.
During the ceremonies, the president of the club, Clayton
Paterson, Nescopeck, spoke briefly and introduced Dr. H. Harrison Russell, who represented President Harvey A. Andruss,
who was unable to attend. A large number of students attended the exercises which were planned by Dr. Kimber C. Kuster,
sponsor of the club. Moving pictures of the planting were taken by Professor S. 1. Shortess. Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Hams
were honored guests at the ceremony.
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Several new members of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College faculty have been announced. Some were engaged in
educational work at the summer sessions.
William E. Landis, newly-appointed dean of men, will
teach commercial subjects in the Department of Business Education.

Following his graduation from the Indiana, Pennsylvania,
State Teachers College in 1934, he taught in the Hershey Industrial High School for eight years and served as head of the
school’s department of business education. He was also head
football coach. He received the degree of Master of Science in
education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939.

Army in June, 1942, and within
commission as second lieutenant.
His promotion to a first lieutenancy came in 1943, and a year
later he received his captain’s bars. At the time of his discharge
he held the rank of major.
Mr. Landis enlisted

a

in

few months he received

the

his

experience was varied as well as extensive. He
of the department of typewriting at the Army Administration School, the Stephen A. Austin Teachers College,
Dallas, Texas; commanding officer of an A. S. T. unit at the
Southwestern Medical College in Dallas, Texas; and Chief of
army orientation branch of the Eighth Service Command, embracing the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, ArkanHis

Army

was head

sas,

and Louisiana.

Before being assigned to overseas duty, Mr. Landis served
brief assignments with the War Department’s Information and
Education Division at Washington, D. C., and the U. S. Armed
Forces Institute at Madison. Wisconsin.
While overseas. Dean Landis was a member of the faculty
of the Army University at Shrivenham, England, where he
served as an instructor in the College of Commerce and helped
coach the university’s football team which won the 1946 championship of the E. T. O.
Just before his discharge he was the executive officer of
staff section of the Information and Education
personnel
the
Division,

European Theatre, Frankfurt, Germany.

Mr. Landis, his wife, the former Miss Ruby Gahagan, of
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and theii' young son. Brooks, are residing in an apartment in North Hall at the college.
Charles H. Henrie, of Bloomsburg, is a graduate of the
college in 1938. He is teaching in the Department of Business
Education, beginning with the fall term in September.
Until recently, supervisor of distributive education in the
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York, Pennsylvania, High School, Mr. Henrie has had considerable experience in high school teaching as well as in supervising classes in distributive education for adults.
He began teaching in the Manor Township High School,
Millersville, and before leaving there he was appointed head of
the business education department. His next position was that
of supervisor of distrubutive education at Milford, Delaware,
and a few years later he moved to a similar position at George-

town, Delaware.
While at York, Mr. Henrie supervised adult classes in the
field of retail selling and management. Sales-people and managers of retail stores attended his classes. He also taught business education to U. S. Army personnel in evening free-time
courses.

A veteran of World War 11, Mr. Henrie has had practical
business experience in retail stores in Bloomsburg, Lancaster
and York, while he became acquainted with the problems of
office management in various offices in the same cities as well
as in the United States Army.
Mr. Henrie received the degree of Master of Education
from Temple University in 1943. He has done considerable
graduate work in the Research Bureau for Retail Selling at the
University of Pittsburgh and the School of Retailing, New
York University.
Harold H. Lanterman, of Berwick, for twelve years a member of the Berwick High School faculty, will teach in the
science department.
Mr. Lanterman was I’ecently discharged from the armed
forces after more than three years of service with the United
States Air Corps.
While in the service of Uncle Sam, he was stationed for
one year at Miami Beach, Florida, and over two years at Gulfport, Mississippi. At Gulfport he was with the medical corps
attached to the Third Air Force. He is an analytical chemist.
His work was of a secret nature, but it involved studies being
made in the field of sanitation and physiological chemistry.
Mr. Lanterman attended the Pennsylvania State College
after graduating from Berwick High School in 1924, but He
left Penn State to come to the Bloomsburg State Teachers College where he graduated in 1931. He did his graduate work at
New York University and received the degree of Master of
Arts in Chemistry and Physics in Education in 1939.
Long interested in music as an avocation, Mr. Lanterman
is a well-known pianist, and his artistry helped pay his way
through college. He played with a well-known Penn State
dance orchestra and traveled abroad with the band in 1929,
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many. While

in

Germany, he was a guest student

at the Uni-

versity of Heidelberg.

Mr. Lanterman has also been associated with the American Car and Foundry Company, having been employed at various intervals as a chemist in the research laboratory at Berwick.
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sfc

Miss Margaret E. Waldron, of Muncy, has been a member
of the mathematics department of the Lock Haven State Teachers College for the past ten years.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College where she received
her Bachelor of Aits Degree in 1920. In 1927 she was awarded
the degree of Master of Aits by Columbia University, while
further graduate study was done at the University of Southem
California and Harvard University.
Miss Waldron has had extensive public school teaching
experience, having taught in the high schools at Williamsport
and Lock Haven. While at Lock Haven she served as supervisor of the junior high school for one year.
She joined the Lock Haven State Teachers College faculty
in 1936 after having taught at the Rhode Island College of Education at Providence for a number of years. During four of
her eight years at Lock Haven, she served as assistant dean
of women. Miss Waldron has moved to Bloomsburg and is residing in Waller Hall.
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Frank Dame, of Drexel Hill, has been named Acting
Director of the Department of Business Education. Professor
William C. Eorney, director of the department since 1937, is
recuperating from a recent illness.
Dr. Dame taught business subjects and served as head of
the Business Education Department of the Upper Darby High
School for seventeen years before moving to a similar position
in the Washington, D. C., Public Schools in 1942. Durtng his
three year stay in Washington, he supervised 140 teachers of
business education in junior and senior high schools as well as
Dr.

J.

vocational instructors.
Eor the past eight years he was associated with the Department of Business Education at Temple University, where
he organized a program of graduate study for teachers of business subjects, and he served as Director of the University’s
Business Education program last year.
A member of the Executive Board of the Eastern Commercial Teachers Association, Dr. Dame is also affiliated with
the Pennsylvania Education Association and the American Vocational Association. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the
national honorary graduate educational fraternity and holds
membership in a number of other state and national professional organizations.
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Dr. Dame has written numerous articles dealing with professional training for teachers of business subjects and he is the
co-author of “Prognosis, Guidance, and Placement in Business
Education, a widely-used textbook for teachers in the commer-

The book has been published by the Southwestern
Publishing Company.
He is a graduate of New York University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1930. In 1934 he was
granted the degree of Master of Education by Temple University and in 1938 the same University conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Education.
Dr. Dame expects to move his family to Bloomsburg. He
is the father of three children, Margaret Ann, Robeit and John.
cial field.

John A. Hoch, assistant to the late Alden J. Danks in the
coaching of a number of Milton teams and who came to Bloomsburg with him as first assistant, has been named coach of the
Huskies for the 1946 campaign. President Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the college, announced recently.
Hoch was a close friend of Danks and no one aside from
the immediate family was more shocked by the passing of the
well-known coach.
For the season Mr. Hoch, who is also in charge of public
relations at the college, was relieved of his work as instructor
in English for the season so that he would have more time to
devote to his task as head coach.
Dean Landis joined the coaching staff for the balance of
the season, teaming with Bob Martin as Hoch’s assistants. Landis had considerable experience in coaching at Hershey Industrial School prior to World War II.
Hoch, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State College, broke
into the Milton athletic picture as publicity head a decade ago
and in 1940 he became junior varsity coach. From 1942 he was
varsity line coach and in charge of the forward walls of the
championship teams of 1942 and 1945.
He possesses an athletic knowledge of line play and also
is well versed in the entire system of football
as coached by

Danks.

Hoch attended coaching schools under Lou
Munger and Clark Shaughnessy.

Little,

Carl

Suavely, George

Married and the father of two daughters, Beverly Ann and
Hoch resides at the College. Hoch has an apartment
Waller Hall.

Carolyn,
in

Stephen R. Hopkins, of New York City, has been appointed by the Board of Directors as director of the private school of
music at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Coming from the position of professor of music of William
Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mr. Hopkins brings to the colPage Nine

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lege a broad range of experience and training in the field of
music, graduating from the Yale University School of Music
with the degree of bachelor of music, with major in piano and
minor in the history of music.
Mr. Hopkins has also studied at the Royal Academy of Music, the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School, and the Delcroze
School, all of London, England.
Professor Hopkins is giving private lessons in voice and
piano, and if enough interest is shown in violin and other form
of instrumental music, there will be arrangements made for an
additional staff to take cai'e of the demand.
All members of the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin
Training School, who were in charge last year resumed iheir
places this term. Miss Gi'ace Wool worth is in charge of the kindergarten Mrs. Lucille Baker, grade one; Miss Iva Mae Van
Scoyoc, grade two Mrs. Anna Scott, giade four, and Miss Edna
J. Barnes, grade six.
Miss Thelma L. Major is special class in;

structor.

Two new members have been added to the Benjamin
Franklin School faculty. They are Miss Lorraine Snyder, Pottsville, who will teach grade three and Leonard Gasser, Norristown, who has been assigned to grade five.
Miss Snyder has been an elementary school teacher in
Pottsville since her graduation from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College several years ago, while Gasser is a graduate
of the Kutztown State Teachers College and holds an M. A. degree from Penn State. He has been pursuing graduate work at
Temple University. He has been a teacher in the upper elementary grades in the Norristown public schools.
Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education at
the college, is principal of the school and directs the various
activities there as well as the student teachers assigned to that
building.

Miss Harriet Smith, head of the commercial department of
Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio, has been named instructor in
the Department of Business Education at the Teachers College

and N. Harvey Deal, Greenville, N. C., a World War 11 veteran,
has been appointed librarian of the institution, President Harvery A. Andruss announced recently.
These two appointments go toward the completing of a
faculty that will provide instruction during the coming year for
a student body of 750 students, the largest in the history of the

institution.

Miss Smith lias completed all the woik of her Ph. D. degree at Indiana University, with the exception of the thesis and
examination.
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Miss Smith is a graduate of the Bloomington, Indiana, High
School, and the Bedford, Indiana, Business College. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University
in 1935 and the degree of Master of Science from the same university in 1936.
She taught commercial subjects at Beaver College, Jenkintown. Pa., in 1936 after receiving her master’s degree, but
in 1937 she moved to Beech Grove, Indiana, where she taught
for six years in the Beech Grove High School.
In 1943, Miss Smith was appointed to the Naval Training
Staff at Indiana University where she was an instructor in disbursing and typing, but a confidential assignment in 1944 took
her to Washington, D. C., where she was a special teacher for
the U. S. Signal Corps.
Following her work in the nation’s capitol, she was appointed to the faculty of Findlay College where she taught various business subjects and acted as head of the commercial department. While at Findlay, she was employed by the Ohio
Oil Company to teach review courses in shorthand to employees.
Miss Smith has had extensive experience in the business
world, having worked on different jobs for the New York Central Railroad, stores department. Beech Grove, Indiana. While
a student at Indiana University, she had gained valuable practice in secretarial and clerical work, serving in the offices of
various members of the accounting department of the School of
Business. In 1934 and 1935 Miss Smith was private secretary
to E. J. Unruh, executive secretary of the Indiana Council on
International Relations.
Always interested in educational affairs, she is a member
of a large number of educational organizations, including National Business Teachers Association, American Association of
University Professors, American Associaton of University Women and other state and national business and professional
groups.
N. Harvey Deal, Greenville, North Carolina, the new Librarian, is a graduate of the East Carolina State Teachers College, Greenville, North Carolina, in 1940. He received his Master of Arts Degree from the George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1941.
A World War II veteran. Deal served with the United
States Army from July, 1941, to December, 1945. He is a veteran of the Pacific campaigns and saw extensive service in the
Philippine Islands and Japan.
At the present time Deal is completing work for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Library Science at the George
Peabody College at Nashville.
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Wisher,

education instructor in the
to his entry in
the U. S. Navy in the Spring of 1942, has accepted a position on
the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, succeeding George C. Buchheit who resigned to continue as an engineer
for the Illinois State Department of Highways.
Mr_ Wisher is now completing his studies for his doctorate
degree at the Pennsylvania State College and also has been doing part time work as an instructor at both Penn State and
Bucknell University.
Mr. Wisher is in charge of the floor work of physical education for men he is instructor at the swimming pool, varsity
basketball coach and coach of one of the minor sports.
The new Husky hard court mentor is a graduate of the
East Stroudsburg State Teachers College and taught a year at
Girardville before coming to Bloomsburg in the Fall of 1935.
He continued as a member of the local high school faculty
until April, 1942, when he was granted a leave of absence to
enter the Navy of the United States.
During his period of service, which he entered with the
rank of chief petty officer, he was in charge of physical education and much of that time was at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
He served for a time in California and concluded his serof lieutenvice at the base at Sampson, N. Y., holding the rank
list.
inactive
the
on
placed
ant iunior grade, when he was
During the time he was at the local school he was varsity
basketball coach for one year, revived track and field athletics
and had exceptional success in gymnastics. He introduced the
into a
latter sport in the Panther school and built his teams
sevtitle,
Pennsylvania
Eastern
one
taking
power into the state,
titles and
eral state and some Eastei’ii United States individual
being a leading contender for state scholastic team honors upon
Peter R.

physical

Bloomsburg High School for seven years prior

;

’

several occasions.

.

.

following the
his doctorfor
school
return
to
to
decided
he
war,
the
of
close
ate and not resume teaching until this coming Fall.

Upon

his being placed

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HOME-COMING DAY
Homecoming at the College, on Saturday, November 2,
took on the color of the pre-war days in the first full-scale celebration of the day since 1941. Many alumni returned to the
campus, a large number of them for the first time since before
the war. They found the College in gala attire for the occasion,
with the faculty and student body working together to make
the day an enjoyable one.
The celebration opened with an assembly in Carver Auditorium at ten o’clock. The Maroon and Gold Band, under the
direction of Prof. Charles Henrie, was on the stage, and played
selections before and during the program. The band has been
revived after having been inactive for almost four years.
There were a number of cheers and songs, and the band featured its efficient corps of baton twirlers. The speaker was Edward Schuyler, editor of the Morning Press and a member of
the board of directors of the Alumni Association. Mr. Schuyler, an enthusiastic
supporter of athletics at the College,
spoke of the formation of the “Husky Club,’’ composed of
alumni of the College who make contributions to the support of
the athletic program.
The 19-0 victory over Kutztown at the football game in
the afternoon added to the enthusiastic spirit of the day. The
game was well attended, and the fans left the game knowing
that the efforts to bring football up to the standard of the old
days had not been in vain. Between halves the Maroon and
Gold Band and the Bloomsburg High School Band worked together in a very effective routine, in which the two bands
formed the outline of Carver Hall, with the baton twirlers representing the hands of the clock, and the glockenspiels striking the hour.
In the dining hall, for the evening dinner, the table decorations were very attractive. There were orange tapers on the
tables, and the centerpiece on each table was a pumpkin holding a lighted candle. On one wall were photographs of all the
members of the team, and many slogans were displayed, the
one attracting most attention being, “A team that won’t be
licked, can’t be licked!’’
The day closed with the Homecoming Dance in the Centennial Gymnasium, with Daryl Stull and his “Collegionaires’’
furnishing the music. This organization, composed largely of
Bloomsburg students, number about fifteen men, and also has
several fine vocalists.
Following the complete success of Homecoming Day, the
College and the Alumni Association are now turning their attention to Alumni Day, to be held Saturday, May 24, 1947.
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FOOTBALL

1946

Closing the season with the record of four victories, one

and three defeats, the 1946 football team at Bloomsburg
made a good start in its post-war revival. Plans had been made
last spring to revive the sport, and to make every effoit to
bring to Bloomsburg a good coaching staff and as many good
players as possible. The first move was to bring to Bloomsburg
the late Alden J. Banks, head coach at Milton High School,
and his line coach, John A. Hoch. Mr. Banks and Mr. Hoch
tie,

much time during

spent

the

summer

in

interviewing promising
and trying to

football players in the eastern part of the state,

induce them to come to Bloomsburg.
When preliminary practice opened

late in

August, their

work produced good results. A large group of players responded to the call, and were on hand to begin practice.
The season opened with a night game at Athletic Park on
Monday evening, September 30, when Bloomsburg met a hardfighting team from Mansfield. The game ended with the score
of 0-0. On Saturday evening, October 5, Bloomsburg went to
Jersey Shore and met the strong team from Lock Haven. This
was the first of Bloomsburg’s three defeats, with Bloomsburg
losing to the score of 20-12.
On a water-soaked field, Bloomsburg met its second defeat
in a night game played against Clarion State Teachers College.
The score was 6-0. The third and last defeat was the game

with Millersville, played Saturday evening, October 19.
score

was

The

13-0.

Betermined to break its losing streak, the team accompanied by the band, went to Shippensburg on Saturday, October 27, to help that institution celebrate Parents’ Bay. On a
pleasant autumn day, but with the field soaked with the heavy
rain of the night before, the Huskies began their series of four
victories by defeating Shippensburg by a score of 12-7. The
following Saturday was Home-coming Bay at Bloomsburg, and
Bloomsburg enteiiained the heavy Kutztown team by defeating them, 19-0, before a large and enthusiastic crowd of spectators.

The game played at East Stroudsburg on Saturday, November 19, was expected to be a hard one, and there were
doubts in the minds of many as to whether Bloomsburg would
be able to continue its record of victories. However, in a brilliantly played game, the Huskies came home with a 7-6 victory.
The final game of the season was played under the lights at
Athletic Park, when Bloomsburg met Puder College, Trenton,
New Jersey. As a fitting close to the season, the Huskies administered a decisive defeat to their opponents, defeating them
with a score of 41-6.
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Thus ended a season that had promised to be a successful
one, but also a season in which hopes were blighted by the
death of Coach Banks, who passed away before the first game
was played. At the request of the members of the team, line
coach Hoch was appointed Head Coach to carry on the work
begun by Coach Banks. Coach Hoch is to be greatly commended for the results attained under difficult conditions. He was
ably assisted by the assistant coaches, who were Bean of Men
William F. Landis and Robert Martin, of the student body.

()•

The nation’s elementary teachers received a long-overdue
pat on the back recently by Miss Margaret E. Crowley, reading
specialist from the Educational Bepartment of the Readers’
Bigest, who claimed that they have been more successful than
teachers in any other phase of public school education. Speaking before a well-attended session of the Elementary Education
Workshop at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Miss
Crowley praised the oft-overlooked primary teachers for the
admirable job they have accomplished in teaching children to
read.
Throughout the educational world leaders are beginning
importance of reading in school progress and in

to realize the

eastern United States, alone, ten leading colleges this year are
opening a specialized department in which college students will
be taught to read in order to be successful in their undergraduate work.
Miss Crowley claimed that the trend today is to encourage
oral reading at all levels in the school program, and the junior
and senior high schools must be included as well as the elementary school. Only when the teacher works wisely and is
willing to spend extra time in developing reading skills in her
pupils will older children and adults learn to read satisfactorily.

“Bevelop vocabulary,” Miss Crowley urged, and recom-

mended Norman Lewis’ “How to Read Better and Faster” and
‘‘Building Your Vocabulary Power” by John Gilmartin to
teachers, as well as the person at home, in business,
professions who wish to improve their vocabulary.

Miss Crowley

appeared

at

the

Elementary

and the

Education

of the Readers’ Bigest and was
most enthusiastically received by the teachers present. Although there are 51 members enrolled in the workshop, many
students from the college and out-of-town guests were present
to hear Miss Crowley discuss a subject that is one of the most

Workshop through the courtesy

challenging in elementary education today.
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Buchheit Leaves Bloomsburg
George C. Buchheit, coach of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College athletic teams since the Fall of 1932, has tendered his
resignation to the college in order that he may continue his
present position in the engineering department of the Illinois

Department of Highways

at Springfield, 111.
In a letter to President Harvey A. Andruss, of the College,
Buchheit mentions that for a number of years he has wanted
to get away from the coaching of basketball and expressed the
belief that with his present position he feels now is the time to

make

the change.

In another letter to college authorities he spoke of his
present position with the state of Illinois and the hope that his
resignation will be accepted so that he can continue in that

work.

While he has been in coaching practically all of his life,
Buchheit holds a B. S. Degree in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky. His Master of Arts Degree from the University of

Kentucky

is

in

physical education.

In addition to his outstanding vrork at the

lege

Teachers Col-

has developed many winning teams
— where he some
most
of the

produced

in basket-

colorful football
elevens and, in pre-war days, built the Huskies into a power in
he was also active in many civic aftrack and field athletics
ball,

school’s

—

fairs.

A member
tor of that club.

of the

He

Bloomsburg Rotary Club, he was a direcwas a member of the council of St.

also

Matthew Lutheran Church, being

a past president of the coun-

and for many years the church treasurer.
Mrs. Buchheit was also active, and the family will be generally missed in the community in which they had many

cil

friends.

Buchheit is a native of Bardstown, 111., and Springfield is
located not far away. Mrs. Buchheit’s parents reside in Springfield,

est

Mo.

The Husky coach, whose tenure here was one of the longin the institution’s athletic history, was not only a good

coach but won the respect and friendship of the athletes under
him.
Hillside, Mich., College, the Uniof Kentucky, graduating
University
the
and
Illinois
of
versity
from the latter institution. His record of scoring more than 20
points in a Big Ten dual meet while at Illinois still stands as a
record for that institution. He was an end on the football team.
He was coach of the University High School team at Kentucky and a coach at the University in football and basketball.
He later ioined the coaching staff at Duke University, being an

As a youth he attended

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assistant to

Wallace Wade. From Duke he came

to

Blooms-

burg.

When he began his work here, succeeding Thornly Booth,
he was head coach of football, basketball and track. His football teams met with fair success and one of them in the late
thirties, which included on its roster “Rip” Mericle, “Doc” Harter and “Whitey” Moleski, was outstanding and among the
most colorful elevens ever to wear the maroon and gold.
Bloomsburg basketball teams under Buchheit, almost
without exception, were winning teams and in the thick of the
He

built track and field from scratch
Bloomsburg took four state titles. Records now on the college books in that sport were all made
under his tenure.
Buchheit was relieved of football coaching shortly prior to
the war, when the late Austin Tate was appointed, but he was
back in the harness a few years later and when the school had
football through some of the crucial years he was identified

battles for state titles.
and under his guidance

with the club. Basketball continued without interruption. One
year during the war Jack Llewellyn, on the staff of the local
Navy V-12 unit, coached the quintet but in all other seasons
over the long tenure of Buchheit he was head coach of the
sport.
O

Mrs. Elsie Belle Swope, wife of Walter M. Swope, died on
Friday morning, August 23, following a heart attack at her
home, 1823 Regina Street, Harrisburg. She was a member of
Pine Street Presbyterian Church, the Adult Education Board,
the YWCA, the Mothers^ Circle of the YMCA, the auxiliary of
the Railway Mail Association and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Committee.
Surviving, in addition to her husband, are two daughters,
Mrs. Manley M. Chaffee, Woodbury, N. J., and Miss Eleanor
M. Swope, Princeton, N. J. a brother, Harry A. Dobbs, Akron,
Ohio; two sisters. Miss Mabelle Dobbs and Miss Josephine
Dobbs, both of Harrisburg, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, August 27,
The Rev. C.
in the Snyder Funeral Home, 1720 Regina Street.
Ralston Smith, pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, officiated. Burial was made in Shoop’s Cemetery.
;

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Miss Doris Utter and Thomas Hildebrand, both of Danville, were married Saturday, August 24, in the Trinity MethoThe ceremony was performed by the
dist Church, of Danville.
Rev. David Long, pastor of the church. The bride has been employed at the Danville State Hospital and the groom is a former student at Bloomsburg. He was recently discharged after
serving three years with the Army, two of which were spent
overseas in the European Theatre of Operations.
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Changes

at

Bloomsburg

With a successful summer session completed and a good
sized post season afterwai’d, the Teachers College began to look
ahead to the I’ecord breaking fall term and making a number
of plans.
The Department of Business Education, which started
moving into “Navy” Hal! last April after the Navy V-12 program concluded at the college, has been operating there
through the summer and by the opening of the fall term on
September 9 had all of its instruction centered there, except
for office practices.
This building, erected just prior to the war, was originally
intended for a junior high school. It lends itself, however, to
the needs of the rapidly growing Department of Business Education which already had a capacity enrollment of 300.
The business courses are on the second floor, where the
office had recently been redecorated for the use of Dr. J. Frank
Dame, the acting head.
There is one suite of three rooms which are used for the
typing classes. It is possible to move into any of the rooms
without going into the corridor and the suite is of much convenience in this held of instruction.
There are other rooms equipped with pedestal tables and
these can be well used in the various business courses. For the
present the work in the office practice will continue in Science
Hall. This is necessary for it is impossible at this time to lay
conduit to the junior high school building to provide current
for the electrically operated machines used in this work.
The room on the first floor, originally intended to be used
for industrial arts, is given over to a lounge for day men students. This group is exceptionally large and the present day
lounge in the basement of North Hall was not adequate.
It appears probable that the home economics room will be
turned into a cafeteria and used at noontime only so that day
men students may be served lunch.
The college is now considering the possibility of so arranging its program that the table service can be provided for the
evening meal in the main dining hall, where the boarding students will be served.
During the war years, when it was difficult to get help,
meals were served cafeteria style all of the time. Breakfast
will continue to be served that way but, if the help can be secured, it is possible that for dinner in the evening and perhaps
lunch, too, there will be table service.
There are a number of returned veterans who have been
working at the college during the summer, in addition to taking
classroom work, and they have done an excellent job. When
there are a sufficient number of students who are interested in
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it appears likely that table service
provided for at least some of the meals.
One of the things definitely planned for the future, President Harvey A. Andruss said recently, was the remodeling of
the old gymnasium into a day men’s lounge.
This building once the center of all indoor athletic activities and physical education floor work, has not been needed
for these purposes since the Centennial Gymnasium was opened
in 1942. Since then it has been the scene of some social events
but has been used comparatively little.
There is a real need for an adequate lounge for the day
men, who number hundreds during the year ahead. Because
of the war, no alterations could be made but as soon as conditions now permit this change will be made. The building is so
located on the campus that the site would be a most conven-

jobs

ill

the dining hall then

will be

ient one.
O

An entertainment course of unusual interest will be presented during the coming months by the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College which has announced the securing of five
major attractions. The Clare Tree Major Players opened the
1946-47 course Tuesday evening, October 15, when they presented William Shakespeare’s MERCHANT OF VENICE in
the Carver Hall auditorium at 8:15 P. M.
Other outstanding ailists to appear during the season are
Roland Hayes, famed Negro tenor and radio and stage artist,
who sang on Sunday afternoon, November tenth; Ernest Levy,
pianist, composer and conductor, who presented an unusual
concert Friday afternoon, December sixth; Francis James, versatile Canadian soprano, who will give a brilliant recital Friday, February twenty-first; and Samuel Marti, outstanding
Mexican violinist, who will be presented in a unique program
of Latin-American music early in March.
Although the college course at present lists only five major attractions, there is a possibility of adding other artists to
the course, and they will be announced later.
In order to give music lovers of Bloomsburg and vicinity
an opportunity to share in the program, college officials are allotting two hundred season tickets to the public. This bloc of
tickets is on sale at the present time and is in the hands of
students of the college. The cost of the ticket is $4.00 plus the
Federal Tax of 80 cents.
O

Five Bloomsburg graduates were members of a class in the
summer session at the graduate school of the University of
Pennsylvania last summer. They were Frank Koniecko, Philip
Yeany, Florence Faust Yeany, Andrew Fetterolf, and Elwood

Wagner.
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Summer

ScKool Notes

One of the most successful regular Summer sessions in the
history of the Teachers College terminates in August. With an
enrollment twice that of last year, more than 350 regular college students completed their six weeks work. Besides this
large group, there were approximately 140 teachers-in-service
enrolled in the session.
The summer recreation program featured several outings,
an informal dance, weekly “Open House” nights, a full program of sports activities, and a Summer session picnic. Dean
William E. Landis and Acting Dean of Women Iva M. Van
Scoyoc directed the extensive program of activities.
The elementary education workshop, under the direction
of Miss Edna J. Hazen, was one of the features of the six-week
session.
Elementary teachers displayed an unusual degree of
interest in the program which developed and demonstrated
newer procedures and techniques for use in the elementary
schools.
Guest speakers spoke to the workshop each week,

while special demonstrations in speech correction and the
teaching of elementary subjects were presented from time to
time. Pupil directed activities were one of the highlights.
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Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education at
the Teachers College, announced July 1 that demonstration lessons would be presented at the Training School. Various subjects in the elementary field were taught by regular members of
the laboratory school staff in the large room on the first floor
of the school.

Members of the staff of the training school this past summer were Mrs. Lucille J. Baker, Miss Harriet M. Moore, Mrs.
Edna T. Barnes and Mrs. Amanda K. Thomas. Miss Alice Johnston, of the college faculty, presented

sons

in

two demonstration

les-

speech correction.
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convocation of the Teachers College regular
summer session was held in the College auditorium. It was the
Presifirst of six assemblies planned for the summer program.
dent Harvey A. Andruss presided over the program which was
highlighted by a colored motion picture, “The Shrines of Yuca-

The

first

tan.”
briefly on the problem attending the present
session at the college. President Andruss called attention to the fact that the six-weeks period was not a “summer session” in the regular sense but the beginning of a new
school year. In past years, Mr. Andruss said, teachers-in-service made up the greater pait of the school’s enrollment, but

Commenting

summer

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the phenomenal increase in the number of regular and accelerated students registered this year has materially changed the
character of the session.
A brief devotional period was led by President Andruss,
who also called attention to the fact that outstanding speakers
and aitists will appear in the remaining convocations. Dean of
men, William E. Landis, conducted the session and outlined
plans for various social and recreational activities during the
next few weeks.

Over three hundred students of the Teachers College sumsession enjoyed a brilliant violin recital as a feature of the
third summer session assembly program.
Miss Joyce Renee,
conceit violinist whose aitistry thrilled hundreds of convalescent war veterans in a recent nation-wide tour of army hospi-

mer

presented the attractively-arranged program. Her accomwas Miss Irene Engle, of Bloomsburg.
For her first group of selections. Miss Renee played the
beautful “Sanate in E Major,” by G. F. Handel. The haunting
strains of the adagio movement blended delightfully with the
light-heaited allegro to form an enchanting background for the
deep-throated music of the largo. She concluded with the

tals,

panist

movement theme of the presto.
The soloist next selected a

colorful

group of numbers from

the pens of noted Spanish composers. DeFalla’s “Jota” introduced the sprightly set while other selections included “Span-

Serenade,” by Chaminade; “Tango,” by Albeniz; and
“Dance Espagnole,” by DeFalla. These last three selections
were arranged for violin by Fritz Kreisler.
Miss Renee concluded her program with a group of five
familiar melodies, “Songs of Home,” by Smetana the “Old Refrain,” by Fritz Kreisler; David Rose’s lilting “Holiday For
Strings,” “Poeme,” by Fibich, and the “Ghost Dance,” by Ellis

ish

;

Lew.

The artist was introduced by E. A. Reams, head of the colPresident Harvey A. Andruss
lege social studies department.
presided over the assembly, which was held in Carver Hall.
s5«

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12 when stuIt was swing time “up on college hill’ July
dents of the summer session of the Teachers College danced to
the rhythms of Art Wendell’s orchestra. The occasion was the
Community Government Association’s Summer Dance, which
was held in the Centennial Gymnasium. The committee in
charge planned to entertain more than three hundred students
and their guests during the evening.
A backdrop of tall, green palms and lacy fems provided
a cool setting for the mid-summer function which was informal.
Refreshments were served during the evening.
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Earle Spicer, noted New York baritone and singer of balwas the featured ailist on the fourth assembly program
of the regular summer session of the Bloomsburg State TeachPresenting an unusual proers College, held in Carver Hall.
gram of folk songs and ballads, Mr. Spicer captivated his large
audience with a personalized technique that invested his program with high entertainment value.
The noted aitist dramatized his songs, acted them out, and
spiced them with a flavor all their own. In his first number,
“A Cornish Dance,” he imparted the rollicking air of the countryside of Cornwall while the lilting mood of Southern England
was evident in his rendition of an old English folk song. Tragic
love was the theme of “Lord Rendel,” an old Scotish ballad.
Ptelating the story of his ballads before presenting them,
Mr. Spicer added much to the listeners’ enjoyment. His presentation of the oft-related Barbara Allen, of which there
are no fewer than ninety versions, was an accomplishment of
distinction and it demanded a type of versatility of voice and
distinction possessed by few artists.
Mr. Spicer’s accompanist was Meii Freeland, a veteran of
World War 11 and an accomplished artist in his own right. Mr.
Freeland’s own arrangement of the “Arkansas Traveler” was
used during the program.
President Harvey Andruss presided over the assembly and
conducted a brief devotional period. E. A. Reams, of the social
studies depaitment, introduced Mr. Spicer.
lads,

s|e

sk

*

blame for much that is wrong in the world
today. Dr. Leslie Pincney Hill, president of the Cheney State
Teachers College and one of the nation’s foremost educators,
Education

is

to

asserted in an outstanding address before the students of the
Bloomsburg Teachers College summer session. Many from the
town joined with the students to hear the message.
He told the students that as they go into the world as
teachers, their mission will be to inform their pupils what is
wrong and to introduce to them what is right. Recognized as
an outstanding poet, he closed with one of his writings and
which dealt with the brotherhood of man.
At the opening of his address he asked the question, “How
are we going to live in this world of ours?” He said there are
two definite answers. One is by doing the things that are right
and living in peace and the other is by doing the wrong things
and creating war.
He said that education is to blame for many of the present
day evils and he mentioned as some of them the elections of
Bilbo in Mississippi and Talmadge in Georgia and the current
rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
5ft

Rolling Green Pai’k
Pirge

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Bloomsburg State Teachers College as the site for their sumThe
session picnic which was held Wednesday, July 24.

mer

affair was once the highlight of every regular summer session
at the college but was discontinued several years ago because

of the war.

John Longo, of Sheppton, and Betty Lingle, of Lewistown,
were co-chairmen of the social committee of the Community
Government Association which planned the event. Aiding Longo and Miss Lingle was a student committee which included
the following: Robei't Willard, Spring City; Jane Wilson, Waymart; Robert Martin, Edwardsville, and Larry Doster, Hazleton.

Besides the picnic supper, a complete program of activiwere planned and included swimming, dancing, games and
a soft-ball game between two of the college’s league teams.
The event was the highlight of the recreational program
of the last half of the regular six weeks’ summ.er session. Dean
William E. Landis and Miss Iva M. Van Scoyoc, acting dean of
women at the college, were in general charge of this program.

ties

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An

enrollment of 225 was reported for the post session of
three weeks at the Teachers College. This was 25 above expectations.
I

j

That brought the total enrollment for the Summer sessions
There were 250 at the pre-session and 350 at the reg-

to 825.

I

!

ular

Summer

session.
In the enrollments at each session there

were around 200

war veterans who took accelerated work toward degrees.
Eight courses

wei'e

offered

at

the

post-session.

They

were American government, E. A. Reams sociology. Dr. Nell
Maupin; economic geography. Dr. H. H. Russell; botany. Dr.
Kimber E. Kuster; arts and crafts. Miss Elma Major who
returned from the University of Michigan where she took graduate work during the Summer; mental tests, John J. Fisher;
economics. Dr. J. Frank Dame, and business law, Walter S. Rygiel.
Dr. Marguerite Kehr resumed her duties as dean of wo:

men

at the session.

;

All of the administrative staff continue.

Miss K. Allene Cromis and James A. Krum, both of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, August 24, in St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of the church.
Miss Krum is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
the Nurses’ Training School of the Geisinger Memorial Hospital
She is employed as a general staff nurse at the
at Danville.
Bloomsburg Hospital. Mr. Krum, now a student at B. S. T.
C., served in the Army for twenty-eight months, nine of which
were spent in the European theatre.
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Bloomsburg, In “Who’s

Who

’’

Two former presidents of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, Dr. Fi’ancis B. Haas and Dr. Charles H. Fisher, are included in the 50th anniversary edition of Who’s Who in America. Dr. Haas served as president of the college from 1927 to
1930, while Dr. Fisher was president from 1920 to 1923.
One of the most widely known and best loved educators
Pennsylvania, Dr. Francis B. Haas, has been State Superintendent of Public Instruction since 1939.
Following his graduation from the Philadelphia School of
Pedagogy and Temple University, Dr. Haas taught for a number of years in various public and private schools in Philadelphia before becoming the assistant director of the Teachers
Bureau of the State Department of Public Instruction in 1920.
Two years later he was appoinced the director of the Administration Bureau of the department. In 1925 he was commissioned deputy superintendent of public instruction, and later that year he became superintendent.
He came to Bloomsburg in 1927 and served twelve years
as president of the college, resigned in 1939 to become State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, a position he has filled
capably ever since.
Dr. Haas is a member of many state and national comthe field of education, and his work with the Pennsylmittees
vania State Education Association has been outstanding. In
recognition of his service in the field, the state association presented him with a distinguished service medal in 1928.
in

m

A number of colleges and universities have honored Dr.
Haas with honorary degrees. Bucknell University lately followed the example set by Temple University, Juniata College,
and the University of Pittsburgh

in

paying tribute to his work.

Dr. Haas is a member of the Schoolmen’s Club, of Philadelphia, the Consistory, of Bloomsburg; and the Irem Temple
Shrine, of Wilkes-Barre. He is also a member of a large number of professional educational fraternities and societies.
Long interested in educational affairs. Dr. Fisher is a
graduate of Lebanon Valley College where he received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904 and the Union Theological
Seminary. He received the degree of Master of Arts at the
University of Pennsylvania and did further graduate study
there and at Columbia University.

After graduation from Union Seminary, Mr. Fisher served
two years as secretary of the New York City T. M. C. A. before
accepting a position in the York, Pennsylvania, High School.
From York, he moved to Trenton, New Jersey, where he was
head of the history department for foui' years.
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In 1912 he became the head of the Department of Education of the West Chester State Teachers College and served a
part-time role as acting professor of education at Swarthmore
College. From West Chester he went to Han-isburg where he
was assistant director of the Teachers Bureau of the State Department of Public Instruction, a position he held until 1920
when he came to Bloomsburg.
Mr. Fisher resigned his post here in 1923 to accept the
presidency of the Western Washington College of Education
at Bellingham, Washington. He remained in that post until
1939 when he was appointed a lecturer in education at
York University, but in 1941 he left the university to become
Dean of Instruction at Huron College, Huron, South Dakota.

New

Since 1945, Dr. Fisher has been business

Washington State Schools For the

Blind.

He

manager

of the
resides in Van-

couver, Washington.

Another Bloomsburg graduate in “Who’s Who’’ is Rear
Admiral Maiden Oman, one of the outstanding medical officers
of the United States Navy, who has had a long and distinguished career in the service. Following his graduation from
the college in 1896, he attended the University of Pennsylvania.
He was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Medical
Corps, in 1902 one year after he received his M. D. degree from
the University of Pennsylvania.
He advanced through all
grades to rear admiral, receiving that distinction in 1936.
Oman served in the Pacific in the early years following the
turn of the century but returned to this country in 1905 to serve
at the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. A tour of sea duty followed,
and in this period, he distinguished himself during rescue operations at Messina following the great earthquake of 1909.
During the first part of World War 1, he commanded the
hospital ship, Comfort, but he later was placed in charge of
the Navy Base Hospital at Brest, France. In the years immediately following the war. Admiral Oman was fleet surgeon on
the staff of Admiral Henry B. Wilson and after that, held a

number

of distinguished posts in the

Navy Hospital

Seiwice.

At the present time, Admiral Oman is commanding officer
of the U. S. Naval Convalescent Hospital at Harriman, New
York, a post he has held since 1942.

Admiral Oman wears a number of decorations, including
the Navy Cross and the Italian Red Cross medal, which he received for work during the Messina earthquake.
In addition to his naval duties, he has found time to write
several books including, “MINOR SURGERY’’ and “DOCTORS

AWEIGH.’’
:|s

sj:

One

of America’s foremost authorities in the field of vocational education is Dr. Bindley H. Dennis, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College with the class of 1899.

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Since 1934 the executive secretary of the American Vocational Association, Dr. Dennis was associated with the State
Department of Public Instruction for more than twenty years.
During that time he was an expert assistant in agricultural education. He left Pennsylvania in 1939 to become Assistant
State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan, but the
following year he resigned the position to assume the position
he now holds.
Dr. Dennis holds degrees from the Pennsylvania State College and Cornell University. He is a member of a large number
of fraternities and professional organizations.

His

home

is

in

Chevy Chase, Maryland.

An enviable and distinguished career in the held of education and journalism has been compiled by Dr. John E. Bakeless, of New York State, for whose father the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College chapter of Future Teachers of America is
named.
graduate of the Normal School in 1913, Dr. Bakeless
holds two degrees from Williams College. Harvard University
conferred upon him the Ph. D. degree.
After teaching in the public schools of Pennsylvania for a
number of years following his graduation from Bloomsburg, he
entered the held of journalism and rose from a position as literary editor of the Living Age to become its editor in 1928.
While with the Living Age, Dr. Bakeless became a lecturer on journalism at New York University in 1927, and in
1940 was named assistant professor in journalism.
A veteran of World War I when he served as an instructor
in the Officei's’ Training School at Camp Lee, Virginia, Dr.
Bakeless was commissioned a captain in the Infantry Reserve
in 1934.

A

He was called to active duty with the outbreak of war in
1941 and served in various capacities since that time. Entering
the service with the rank of a major, he was commissioned a
lieutenant colonel in 1942. In 1944 he served as an assistant
military attache to Turkey, and in 1945 became a member of
the American section. Allied Military Control Commission for
Bulgaria with the rank of colonel.
Dr. Bakeless is an author of a number of widely-read
books, including “THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF

MODERN

WAR,” “CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, THE MAN AND HIS
TIMES;” “DANIEL BOONE, MASTER OF THE WILDERothers. He has also contributed numerous articles
Dictionary of American History, the Encyclopedia of
Social Sciences, and other similar publications. His magazine
articles have been widely published.
He is a member of the editorial board of the American
Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa quartei'ly, JUid a consultant and

NESS,” and
to the

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literary editor for a
publications.

Dr.

number

of nationally

famous educational

and Mrs. Bakeless are now in the West, gathering maforthcoming book on the Lewis and Clark

terial for the former’s

Expedition.

M. Jack Crispin, a former trustee of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and prominent Berwick industrialist and
financier, is included in the fiftieth anniversary edition of
Who’s Who in America. Mr. Crispin, who served on the Board
of Trustees of the college from 1940 to 1944, has been the president of the First National Bank of Berwick since 1909.
Long identified with civic affairs in Berwick, Mr. Crispin
was associated with the American Car and Foundry Company
for a number of years both in Berwick and New York City.
During the first World War, he served as director of purchase
of materials used in the manufacturing of arms for the Allies,
and in the years immediately following the war he was engaged
in

making investments for the company.
One of his proudest accomplishments was

his

work with

the committee in charge of research to compile and complete
the Falaise Roll of seineurs of William the Conqueror. He later
compiled and published the roll and was signally honored by
France in 1937 when he was decorated and made a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor.
Mr. Crispin has always been intensely interested in doing
things that would make Berwick a better town in which to live.
In 1929, he donated to Berwick High School the Crispin Memorial Athletic Field and he also gave land for the Berwick
Hospital and Nurses Home. For these and many other generous
gifts, Mr. Crispin was officially cited by the Department of
Pennsylvania, American Legion, in 1938 for distinguished public

service.

He became

interested in staging a Berwick Sesquecenten1936 and enlisted the active interest of Berwick-on-theTweed, England, for which Berwick is named. He served as
General Chairman of the Sesque-Centennial Committee and
the pait he played in making the affair a tremendous success,
nial in

the English

town named Crispin Road

after him.

During the war years, he served as chairman of the War
Savings Staff, Victory Loan Committee, and United Service
Organization drives in Berwick. He was also Columbia County
chairman of the third and sixth War Loan Drives. An active
clubman, he is a member of many patriotic and fratenial organizations.

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Saucered and Blowed
(By

E. H.

NELSON)

As predicted at the General Alumni Meeting last May,
Coach Hoch has built a good football team. We hope you were
present on Home-Coming Day, when the squad competed with
Kutztown.

A note from Miss Louise Robbins is heartening. She writes
that she enjoys reading the Quarterly. May we say to Miss
Robbins that she has the honor of being our oldest active alumna in point of years since graduation. Miss Robbins is a member of the class of 1879.

We are pleased to include in this issue a page of business
cards of Bloomsburg Alumni. If you want to be represented in
the next edition, send a dollar to E. H. Nelson, Business Manager, in payment for the entire year.
John C. Koch, Dean of Men from 1927 to 1946, is now
Educational Consultant for the Civil Aeronautics Administration. He is assigned to Region 1, which embraces the thirteen
original states. His office address is CAA, 385 Madison Avenue
(6th Floor), New York City. Any time you are in New York
look him up. He will be glad to see you. In case you do not
have time for a call, give him a ring at Plaza 5-5662, Extension
119.

The jeep in which we enjoyed a campus ride on last AlumDay was furnished free of charge by the dealer, Mr. Ney.
Our sincere thanks to him for the fine service.
ni

We

are wondering if George Buchheit isn’t giving an occasional thought to the cross-country course, and how fast some
of the boys might be able to cover it. It used to be a common
sight to see Bloomsburg colors come on the football field between halves, leading the harriers in. Our comment to you,
Mr. Buchheit is “pleasant memories of teams well coached.”
of “Highlights for Children,” June, 1946, came
a remarkably fine piece of work. This monthly publication will become a “must” in all up-to-date libraries
for children. The managing editor is our own Caroline Clark

Volume

to our desk.

Myers

’05.

1

It is

Her husband, the noted Garry Cleveland Myers,

the Editor.

See you on Alumni Day.
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Plan Revision of Curriculum
A meeting was held to revise the

Pennsylvania state

ele-

mentary curriculum recently in the Benjamin Franklin school.
There v^as a splendid attendance at this opening meeting, with
nearly 100 present.

Attending were county and
sistants superintendents,
principals, supervisors of

district superintendents,

supervising

principals,

as-

elementary

elementary education, supervisors of
and classroom teachers.
The welcome to the school officials was given by President
Harvey A. Andruss, who emphasized the importance of this
group and the need for good elementaiy schools in the entire
educational program in Pennsylvania.
The opening address was given by Dr. Leversia L. Powers,
chief of elementary education. Department of Public Instrucspecial education

tion,

Harrisburg.

Dr. Genevieve Bowen, elementaiy supervisor of Bucks
county and a member of a committee for the entire state, assisted in placing the whole problem before the group. Both
Dr. Powers and Dr. Bowen were here to assist school officials
from Central Pennsylvania in organizing the local teachers and
all interested in education in revision of the elementary education curriculum for Pennsylvania.

Those attending from Bloomsburg were L. P. Gilmore,
supervising principal
Superintendent Ray Cole, Columbia
county schools; Miss Edna J. Hazen, Miss Grace E. Woolworth,
Miss Iva May VanScoyoc, Miss Lorraine C. Snyder, Mrs. Ann
G. Scott, Mrs. Lucille J. Baker, Miss Edna J. Bames, Miss Elma
L. Major, and Harry Gasser, of the Benjamin Franklin school.
Fred Diehl, superintendent of Montour county schools,
was elected chairman of the group representative of elementary education in county schools. Thomas Hinkle, superintendent of public schools, Hazleton, was elected chaii’man of the
group, representing independent districts.
;

Lieutenant Colonel Terry G. Hutton, of Bloomsburg, is attached to the Headquarters of the European Air Transport Service as chief of current operations. His headquarters are located at Wiesbaden, Germany. Prior to his entry into the Ai*my
Air Forces in March, 1941, Lt. Col. Hutton was employed by the
United States Government with the civil service. Since his arrival in the European theater in September, 1943, he has been
awarded the DFC, the Air Medal with two clusters, and a unit
citation for his participation in battle.
o

The Editor acknowledges

receipt of a large number of personal items, which cannot be included in the present issue of
the QUARTERLY, because of circumstances beyond our control. These items will receive priority in the next issue.
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1946 Enrollment Establishes Record
When the enrollment at Bloomsburg closed

in October,
the College had the largest enrollment for full-time and paittime students in the more than a century of its existence.
The total was 843, with 7S8 full-time students and 105
part-time students. -Of the full-time students, seventy-six were
freshmen assigned to Bloomsburg by the Pennsylvania State
College for their first year of college work. The Penn State
transfers comprised thirty-eight girls and the same number of

men.

There were 662 full-time students in teacher-education
work. The largest department was the Department of Business
Education, with 310 enrolled.
The previous record for regular students was in 1926,
when 712 were enrolled. The highest over-all enrollment previously was 824 for the 1938-39 term.
During the war years, when thei'e were numerous night
classes, there was a total enrollment of 999. Many of the fulltime students in that period were in military service. The night
classes were large, and consisted of residents of the area who
were taking courses that would qualify them for work in war
plants.
It is planned to admit two new sections at the beginning of
the second semester, each section numbering forty. This will
require the addition of two faculty members.
There are 403 veterans of World War II, including six women, who are taking full-time work.
There are nine extension courses, with a total enrollment
of 134. These classes are being conducted at Sunbury, Kingston, Danville, Mount Carmel and Hazleton.

o

Selected as one of 105 teachers to instruct children of the
American occupational forces in Germany, Miss E. Mae Berger,
of 112 North Harrisburg Street, Steelton, sailed for Germany in
September. She has taught the intermediate grades in the
Only
Steelton High School Building for the past eight years.
two of the teachers are from Pennsyh ania.
She reported at Frankfort-on-Main with the possibility
of re-assignment to some other school. While she will have a
civilian status, she will be quartered at the military center. The
foreign assignment is for one year, and she has been granted
a leave of absence by the Steelton school district.
0

Miss Shirley McCarty, of Nescopeck, and Donald Houck,
of Berwick, were married Sunday, August 18, in the Nescopeck
Evangelical Church. The double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Melvin Whitmire, pastoi’ of the church. Mr.
Houck, who was recently discharged after a long period of service in the Army Air Corps, is now a student at Bloomsburg.
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Five

New Courses Approved

Keeping in step ^'ith the problems created by the rapid
mechanization and industrialization of modern living, the
Teachers College has five courses approved by the State Department of Public Instruction for offering in the near future.
All foil]' new courses are designed to afford the students a close
and intimate contact with the tremendous factors that influence economic and social life today.
Because of the confusion that exists among many educators and business men, and government officials, as to the status
of the single owner business, and the need of a special course
of study in the field, the college has had approved a course in
problems of small business.
The course is designed to help the student with definite
ideas of starting his own business, develop the organization
and plans for his own enterprise and assist him in determining
the kind of business he should start and where it can best be
started.

The course is also set up to help the student orient himself in the changed business economy of the nation and assist
him in developing a prospectus of his business for use in getting it launched successfully. An opportunity will be afforded
the student to learn of federal and local agencies, trade associations, and other organizations that vitally affect his business,
and in this way, prospective store owners may know of the
functions and limitations of such organizations.
Along with this course is another up-to-the-minute presentation in personal finance. Based on a definite need for information in the present battle against rising prices, housing
shortage, and the problems of investing and saving, the course
is designed to deal with the pressing problems of taxation, insurance, buying and owning a home, starting a business, and
all other phases of personal financial planning.
Personal finance advice to students who need immediate
aid as well as preventative medicine for younger students who
have yet to face financial problems are goals which the course
will attempt to achieve.
Another popular course is radio broadcasting in the public
schools. Here, too, is a brand new offering that fits into the
modern scheme. Designed to present a thorough survey of
problems incident to the development of short radio programs
by teachers and pupils in the public schools, the course will give
special attention to script, diction, and timing. It will also
stress the general terminology of the radio in industry and give
an oppoifunity for directing productions and the management
of such programs.

Approved and already in operation is a course in aerowhich is being conducted by the col-

nautics, flight experience,

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Bloomsburg Airport. Three students took flight experience during the post-session, and after fifty-four thirtyminute classes, each was allowed three credits towards graduation in his field of concentration.
The course is part of the pre-flight aeronautics curriculm
for high school teachers instituted by the college in 1940. The
curriculum leads to certification of teachers in aviation to instruct in the high schools of Pennsylvania in pre-flight aerolege at the

nautics.

Also approved is a course in biography and autobiography, for the English department.
The course is a survey of the leading biographers and also
includes a study of outstanding autobiographers of history. It
begins with Plutarch and other classical writers, including Vasari, Pepys, Swift, Walton, Boswell, Johnson, Gibbon, Carlyle,
and others among the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
century writers, and emphasizes Steffens, Maurois and other
modern and contemporary authors.
A comparison of current and older biographical methods
is included to show the gradual development of biographical
writing, while an attempt will be made to trace important social and political trends by shoMung the achievements of men
and women who typify those developments.
o

President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
in the 50th Anniversary Edition of
The extensive volume contains biographical sketches of over 40,000 prominent American men and
women. It has just been published and is recognized as the
most outstanding compilation of its kind in the world today.
President of the college since 1939, Mr. Andruss has had a
long and distinguished career in the field of education. He is
a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he received
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1924, and two years later he
was awarded the degree of Master of Business Administration
by Northwestern University. Further graduate study was done
at Northwestern in 1928.
After having served as a high school principal in Oklahoma from 1921 to 1924, he became head of the commerce department of the Ponca City Oklahoma High School and served
there until 1925 when he became a lecturer in the Northwestern University School of Commerce. From North westeni he
came to Pennsylvania and was supervisor of the Department of
Commerce at the Indiana State Teachers College from 1927 to

Teachers College, is listed
“Who’s Who In America.”

1930.
His

work at the college attracted considerable attention,
and he was called here in 1930 to organize the Department of
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Business Education for the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
He served as head of the depaifment until 1937 when he became dean of instruction at the college, and in 1939 he was appointed president of the institution.
Long interested in the field of business education, President Andruss has lectured at various colleges and universities,
including New York University, Oklahoma University, and the
Oklahoma A. and M. College.
During World War II he was commissioned a colonel and
served as education consultant and head of the department of
accounting at the Army University at Shrivenham, England.
He returned to the college late in 1945.
President Andruss has served as consultant and advisor
for a number of the nations well-known business groups.
Among them are the Business Problems Committee, Investment
Bankers Association of America, Department of Labor of Industry, Cooperative Commission on Teachers Education in
Pennsylvania, and the Education Policies Commission of the
National Education Association.
Active in community affairs, Mr. Andruss is a director of
the Bloomsburg Hospital a member of the executive committee
of the Bloomsburg Chapter of the American Red Cross and the
Salvation Army; Kiwanis Club, Acacia, Bloomsburg Country
Club. He is a Mason (32) and a member of the Wilkes-Baire
dinner club.
His prominence in the field of education is extended by
the large number of professional education organizations of
which he is a member. He is president of the Alpha Alumni
Association of Phi Beta Kappa, national and state associations
and many business groups, including the National Business
Federation. Mr. Andruss is also a member of a large number
of honorary professional fraternities.
Along with all his many activities in the educational world.
President Andruss has found time to write a number of books.
TESTS,”
He is the author of “BUSINESS LAW, CASES
;

AND

“WAYS TO TEACH BOOKKEEPING,”

and

“BETTER BUS-

INESS EDUCATION.”

In addition to these three books, Mr.
Andruss has also written many articles and educational monographs for year books, business magazines, and educational

journals.

Under his administration, the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has grown larger and developed rapidly, and its contribution to education throughout the state and nation is being
felt as its graduates go out into the world better prepared for
the tremendous job that lies ahead.

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The marriage of Miss Sarah R. Doty, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Doty, of West Third Street, and Robert E. Neitz, son
of Mrs. Reba V. Nietz, of Anthony Avenue, both of Bloomsburg,
was solemnized Friday, September 6, at 4 :00 o’clock in the
Baptist Church. The Rev. M. C. Hunsicker performed the ceremony.

The bride was graduated from Bloomsburg High School
with the class of 1943 and from the Geisinger Memorial Hospital School of Nursing with this year’s class. Her husband is a
graduate of Bloomsburg High School with the class of 1941. A
veteran of three years and four months service with the Army
Air Corps, including much overseas service in England with the
Eighth Air Force, he is now attending Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
•O'

Spencer Roberts, of Catawissa, has been playing one of
the leading roles in “Angel Street,” production of the New London Players, New London, New Hampshire. He has spent several seasons with summer stock companies.

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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Vice-President
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Secretary
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
E.

•
1883

John G. Conner, who

lives at 8

Belmont

Circle, Trenton,

New

Jersey, has served fifty years as an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian
Church at West Nottingham, Maryland, in 1896, while he was
serving as Headmaster of the West Nottingham Academy. At
present he is the senior elder in the Prospect Street Presbyterian Church in Trenton.

1885
Conner, Route 1, Box 4, Madera, Calfornia, sends us
the following concerning one of his classmates:
“Walter A. Moore, of Sunbury, came to California in 1888.
He spent five yeai's in Ventura County, near the home of Ramona, and then came to Madera County, where he was in the
grocery business until recent years. He was an active member
of the Prsebytei'ian Church.”

W.

S.

1886
Claud Keiper, of Washington, D.

C., died November 19,
Belated news of his death was recently received in a
letter from his sister, Mrs. Maud Keiper Hough. Mr. Keiper
was a graduate of the Columbia Law School. He was a prominent Mason, and at the time of his death was secretary of the
Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, and was secretarytreasurer of the George Washington Memorial Association at
Alexandria, Virginia. There is a special memorial for Mr.
Keiper in the beautiful edifice on Shooter’s Hill, Alexandria.
Funeral services for Mr. Keiper were held in the Scottish Rite
Temple, Washington, on the 22nd of November, 1944.
J.

1944.

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Miss Margaret Brennan, who taught in the schools
Shenandoah for foity-six years, passed away Friday, July

of
19,

1946.

1888
Dr.

Eva Rawlings died recently

in St.

Petersburg, Florida.

She taught for one year in a medical school in Philadelphia,
then took up the actiye practice of medicine for a time, and later did research

work

in California.

1892
Dr. William B. Mausteller, who practiced denistry since
1902, died October 17, 1946, at his home, 1422 North Second
Street, Harrisburg. Death was due to complications resulting
from a lingering illness.
He was born April 11, 1872, in Milton, the son of the late
John and Catherine Mausteller. Following his graduation from
the Milton public schools, and the Bloomsburg State Noraial
School, he taught for a number of years in Sunbury and Milton.
He was graduated from the Pennsylyania Dental School in
1902.
In 1904, while liying in Milton, he married Miss Harriet
27, 1945.
Dr. Mausteller was a deacon of the Market Square Presb>i:erian Church and yice-president of the J. Heniy Spicer
Bible Class, of the Sunday School.

G.

Lamm, who passed away December

A member of Milton Lodge No. 256, Free and Accepted
Masons, since 1907, he was a past officer of the following organizations: Perseyerance Chapter No. 21, Harrisburg; Harrisburg Council No. 7, Pilgrim Commandery No. 11, Knights
Templar, and the Harrisburg Consistory. He was a member of
the Zembo Shrine Temple.
One of the organizers, recorder, and past soyereign of
Conclaye No. 4 of the Red Cross of Constantine, he was a member of the Royal Order of Scotland and Grand Herald of the
Grand Commandery of Knights Templer in 1943 and 1944.
He was a member of the Harrisburg Dental Society, the
Pennsylyania Dental Society, and the American Dental Association. He was secretary-treasurer of the Fifth Dental Disthe past seyeral years.
is suryiyed by a daughter, Mrs. Maria C. M. Putney,
and by two grandsons, Lester M. McClure and Willard L. McClure, all of Harrisburg.

trict for

He

1894
prominent radiologist and a former resident of Numidia,
Pennsylyania, George Edward Pfahler graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1894 and received his
College in PhiladelM D degree from the Medico-Chirurgical
from Ureinus Coldegree
Science
of
Doctor
a
phia. He holds
lege which also honored him with an LL. D. degree in 1942.

A

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Following his graduation from medical school, Dr. Pfahler
served his internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital and
for a time was assistant chief resident physician at the hospital.
In 1909 he became clinical professor of roentgenology at
the Medico-Chirurgical College, and a little later was elevated
to a full professorship. Following a period of service therd, he
left the college to accept a similar assignment at the University
of Pennsylvania, a position he still holds. He is also director of
the radiological department of the Misericordia Hospital in
Philadelphia.
Dr. Pfahler is a member of the board of trustees of Ursinus College and is associated with a large number of national
and international radiological societies. He has served as president of the American Roentgen Ray Society, American Electrotherapeutic Association, American Radium Society, and the
American College of Radiology.
In addition to his work in the field of radiology. Dr. Pfahler has found time to contribute to a number of medical journals and professional periodicals. His home is in Drexel Hill,
Philadelphia.
Edith M. Nesvit, of 131 Maple Avenue, Milton, Pa., has
been an active member of the Alumni Association for fifty
years.

1895
N. W. Bloss was one of two veteran educators who were
saluted by their collegues with the announcement by James
Martin, president ’of Luzerne County Supervising Principals
Association, of the adoption of a resolution praising their long
and faithful service and wishing them happiness as they enter
retirement.
The resolution, signed by Mr. Martin and by Gail B
Young, chairman of the resolutions committee of the Supervising Principals’ Association, points out that both men have served the students and citizens of their communities faithfully and
efficiently for many years as “excellent administrators and wise
and kind counselors to youth,’’ declares they have “faithfully
discharged their duties as members of one of the noblest of all
.

professions.’’

“Their colleagues in the profession congratulate them as
they retire and extend to them the best wishes for good health
and true happiness in the yeai's ahead,’’ the resolution reads.
Mr. Bloss began to teach in 1893, two years prior to his
graduation from Bloomsburg Normal School, serving in Slocum
Township in 1893-94. He taught in Hollenback Township the
following two vears and returned to Slocum Township in
1896-97.
Ml-. Bloss, a resident of Pond Hill, was born October 24,
1874, in Hollenback Township, the 10th of 11 children born to
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Daniel and Esther (Snyder) Bloss. He received his early education in the Hollenback Township Schools and following his
graduation from Bloomsburg Normal School in 1895 took extension courses in Wilkes-Barre.
Twice during his long career he left his profession. Around
the turn of the century he entered the grocery business and operated a general store at Pond Hill for eight years. During
World War I, he worked for two years at the Sheldon Axle

Works.
In all, he served Conyngham Township School District 35
years, as a teacher for 15 and as supervising principal for 20.
His last 16 years as supervising principal were continuous.
Members of his faculty honored him at a testimonial dinner at
Rushin’s Forest Hills Inn, Alden, following the close of school.
He entered retirement August 31, just prior to the reopening of schools. Disdaining “rustiness,” he has arranged for
employment in the office and yard of Sutter Lumber Company,

Nescopeck.

A member of Supervising Principals’ Association of Luzerne County, Mr. Bloss was a charter member of the Schoolmen’s Club of Luzerne County which was organized when
Frank P. Hopper was county superintendent of schools. He
also was a member of Council 96, Knights of Malta, since disbanded. He is a member of the Jr. OL^AM and of St. Mark’s
Lutheran Church, Pond Hill, and is treasurer of the church
council.

His wife
Hill.

is

the formei'

They have two

Mary Elizabeth Ruckel,

sons, Harold, of

Pond

Hill,

of

Pond

and Ray, of

Ringtown.' There are two granddaughters.

1896
Charles M. Keefer, 4 Forest Park, Portland, Maine, was
among those who were present at the fiftieth reunion of the
class on Alumni Day.
1898
Harry Leeds Anwill, 121 Pine Street, Harrisburg, husband
of Katherine Coleman Anwill, died Saturday, August 24, following injuries received on August 21, when he was sti'uck by
an automobile.
Born on October 14, 1867, son of the late James and Mary
Anwill, he started work April 16, 1886 as an office boy for the
Great Southern Dispatch, a freight line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and was promoted to clerk in 1887. He was chosen
as a traveling agent m the following year and in July, 1903, became Harrisburg agent of the Great Southern Dispatch.
From May 1, 1918, until his retirement on January 16,
1941, Mr. Anwill served as local representative of the Philadelphia Division freight agent’s office of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Tribute was paid him for the prominent role he played in
obtaining many large contracts for the railroad company, at a
dinner in the Engineers’ Club rooms of the station annex on April 16, 1936, when a 50-year button was presented to him by V.
C. Kline, now an assistant general freight agent in the railroad’s Philadelphia offices.
Mr. Anwill retired voluntarily after the railroad had retained him in its sei'vice beyond pension age.
Mr. Anwill held membership in Robeit Burns Lodge, No.
464, F. and A. M.; the Harrisburg Consistory, Pilgrim Commandery of the Knights Templar, Zembo Shrine, Zembo
Luncheon Club, the Dauphin County Historical Society and the
Engineers Society of Pennsylvania. He formerly served as a
chairman of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. He was a communicant of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral.

1905

Mary

New

sack,

A. Vermorel lives at 690
Jersey.

Summit Avenue, Hacken-

1906

From

Dr. Carroll D. Champlin, of the School of Education
at the Pennsylvania State College, comes the following:
“Thanks for the July issue of the Alumni Quarterly, which
I always read with
a gi-eat deal of interest. Also the Association membership certificate, which is a friendly gesture for all
of us.
“In your next issue you might include under the 1906
classification my recent trip to Europe
my fourth trip to Europe since 1934
“44 days in Europe, 7390 miles flown, 4 countries visited:
England, Wales, Ireland and France; 50 schools visited, 20 interviews with prominent educational leaders.
“Attended the sessions of the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers in London.
“Made a special survey of the evacuation of 1,300,000 British school children, invalids, cripples, expectant mothers.
“Just returned from the University of Pittsburgh where 1
had 100 graduate students in the Post-Session. My course was
Comparative Education, in which I used much of the fresh ma-

—

:

tei'ial

acquired on

my

trip.

“During the summer I taught 11 weeks, in three different
locations; and now 1 am scarcely able to take a vacation owing
to several engagements for service clubs and churches. Since
the third of June I have addressed the Kiwanis Club of Bellefonte, Lewistown, Williamsport and State College; and I am
now scheduled for Reading and Allentown and the Erie Rotary Club. Addressing religious conferences September 13, 14,
15 and several women’s clubs this fall.
The topics have been using are
“European Food for Thought,” The European Scene,”

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“England’s Cultural Revolution,’’ “Our Changing Attitude Towards World Peace,” “Our American Interest in the Post-war
World,” “Our World Horizon,” “Education and National Greatness,” “Health Needs in Europe.”

A prominent Latin American educator and now Dean
Emeritus of the College of Education of the University of Puerta Rico, Dr. Juan Jose Osuna graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 1906.
Erom Bloomsburg Dr. Osuna returned to his native Puerta
Rico and taught in the public schools of Mayaguez for two
years before returning to the United States to complete his college studies. He received his A. B. degree from Penn State in
1912 and a diploma from the Princeton Theological Seminary
in 1915. In 1920 he was granted his M. A. degree by Columbia
University, and three years later the same university conferred
upon him his Ph. D.
During the period of his gi’aduate study at Columbia, he
was appointed professor of education and director of training
at the University of Puerto Rico. He was also named director
of the university’s summer school.
In 1928 Dr. Osuna became Dean of the College of Education, a position he held until 1944 when he became Dean Emeritus. During his period of service. Dr. Osuna served as acting
chancellor of the university for several years.
Always interested in international education. Dr. Osuna
served as an exchange professor of education at the Pennsylvania State College and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, furthering the interests of various educational associations. He is a member of a large number of

and international organizations.
Dr. Osuna is the author of “Education in Puerto Rico” and
the present time is an assistant editor of “World Education.”

state, national

at

He has also contributed a number of articles on Puerto Rico
education to professional journals and periodicals.
He and his family are now residing in South Arlington, VirThe many friends

of

J.

A. E. Rodriguez,

who

is

a Certified

San Juan, Porto Rico, will be pleased to
see the following extract from a letter recently received from
him
j
“It was indeed a pleasure to get your card, the other day,
Public Accountant
:

in

,

,

.

,

with reference to the July number of the “Quarterly.”
“Due to the fact that regular mail between continental
United States and Puerto Rico is rather irregular at the present
time, your card was rather late in reaching me. However, I
hurry to send you my subscription to the “Quarterly” and hope
I will be getting the July number soon.
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“The other day I received a letter from Dr. J. J. Osuna,
who, for many years, was Dean of the Teachers College at the
University of Puerto Rico, but who left two or three years ago.
“I understand that Dr. Osuna is connected with the InterAmerican organization that was set up by the United States
Government unde)’ the leadership of Mr. Rockefeller during the
war and that Dr. Osuna has been retained by that organization
and is lecturing thru Centi’al and South America. It has occurred to me that it would be a good idea to have Dr. Osuna as one
of the commencement speakers on some subject like ‘InterAmerican Solidarity.’ And I am just passing the idea to you in
case you wish to take it up with the Boai’d at Teachers College.’’
1909
Far from the ivy-covered walls of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College are the shell-shattered ruins of Manila in the
Philippine Islands, but a famous alumnus of the college is helping rebuild the shattered

life

of the one-time Pearl of the Phil-

That alumnus is Bishop Robert Franklin Wilner, who
graduated here in 1909.
ippines.

Bishop Wilner, a native of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, attended Temple University and the Philadelphia Divinity School
before being ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1928 and a priest in 1929.
Prior to that, he was engaged in secretarial work in
Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia but an appointment as a missionary to China by the Board of Missions of the Episcopal
Church came to him in 1915. Foi’ the next ten years he served
as assistant treasurer of the China Mission, Shanghai, and later
at

Hankow.
He became

a member of the staff of the St. Stephen’s Mission to the Chinese at Manila in 1928 and in 1929 was named
assistant priest of the Church of the Resurrection at Baguio.
While at Baguio, he was elected suffragan bishop and in 1938
he was consecrated bishop of the Philippine Islands, a post he
holds today in the wai’-toi’n islands. His home is in Manila.

1913
Assistant Chief of staff, U. S. Army since 1942 Major General Idwal H. Edwards is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College with the class of 1914. The prominent
Bloomsburg Alumnus, a gi’aduate of the Air Corps Tactical
School, Command and General Staff School, and the Army War
College, saw service in both World War I and II.
He saw action with the infantry during 1917 and 1918
after having been commissioned a lieutenant in August, 1917.
Sensing the future significance of the airplane as a weapon in
modei’n warfare, the young officer transfei’red to the Air Service in 1920 and rapidly rose through all the grades to become
a brigadier general in May, 1942.
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He became a major general in 1943, and from 1938 to
1940 he served on the General Staff Coi'ps.
1914
The Normal Teachers’ Certificate of Margaret Myers,
1914, has been found in some old files in the office of the County Superintendent’ of Schools, Bloomsburg, Pa.
If Margaret will send her mairiage name and address to
P. L. Brunstetter, Assistant Superintendent, this certificate and
a health certificate filed with it will be forwarded to her.
1916
Congressman P. W. Griffiths, a native of Taylor, Pennsylwas a student at the college from 1913 to 1916. He received his B. S. degree from Penn State in 1921 and his M. A.
degree from Columbia University in 1931.
A veteran of World War 1, Congressman Griffiths served
vania,

as director of athletics at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, in
the early ’20’s and from 1927 to 1936, he coached football at
several Ohio colleges. During this period he became a partner
in the Griffiths Motor Car Company of Marietta, and since
1934, he has been president of the company as well as the Atlas
Chemical Company, of Marietta.
Griffiths was elected mayor of Marietta in 1938, and in
1943 he was elected a member of the 78th Congress of the
United States. He was re-elected in 1945.

A

prominent clubman. Congressman

active interest in civic affairs.

His

home

Griffiths has

is

in

taken an

Marietta, Ohio.

1917

The following was received last spring from Elva Brobst
Ramage and Russell A. Ramage, who live in Prescott, Arizona
“We received the card announcing commencement exercises and other events at Bloomsburg on Saturday, May 25. We
are sorry that we shall not be able to attend. In truth we never
have been able to attend. Our schools here never close until

May or early in June. We have been back there a
few times, but when we get there the old campus is not like it
is at commencement time, and there are very few people around
whom we know.
“We wish you to give our kindest regards to the Alumni,
and to express our regrets because we are unable to be there to
greet them in person.’’
1924
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Clare Lowenberg, formerly of Bloomsburg, to George Reger, of
Midvale, N. J., Friday afternoon, September 6. The bride is
the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Lowenberg and
The wedis a niece of Miss Stella Lowenberg, of Bloomsburg.
ding took place in New York City and was attended only by the
immediate family. The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg State

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New York University. Since her graduation from Bloomsburg she has been employed in New York
City in hospital research work, with the exception of a year on
Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Reger is a
an exchange fellowship
builder and has a home nearing completion on West Brook
Road, Wanaque, Midvale, N. J., where the couple will reside.
Teachers College, and

m

Miss Edith Behr, of Lopez, and Randall Shuman, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, August 24, in the Episcopal Church at Eagles Mere. The ceremony was performed by
Bishop Thomas J. Heistand. Mrs. Shuman has been teaching
in the Lopez High School. Mr. Shuman, also a graduate of
Bloomsburg, holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
the University of Wisconsin.

1928
Miss Florence L. Campbell, of Berwick, and Walter F.
Vorbleski, of Shickshinny, were m.arried Saturday, July 6, at
the Derr Memorial Methodist Church in Wilkes-Barre. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Robert Gruver. The
bride served for several years as a teacher in the Berwick
schools, and the groom, a graduate of the Shickshinny High
School, is an inspector at the American Car and Foundry in
Berwick. He recently returned from three years of service as
a staff sergeant in the Eighth Air Force in the European Theatre of Operations. Mr. and Mrs. Vorbleski are now living at
31 East Front Street, Berwick.
Doyle W. Ivey was elected president for 1946-47 of tire
Steelton Branch of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Kenneth E. Hawk, also a Bloomsburg graduate, was
elected vice-president.
James Davis, retiring president of the Mechanicsburg
Branch of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, presided at the annual faculty luncheon for teachers of the high
school and elementary grades of the Mechanicsburg School District.

1930
Harold N. Hidlay, a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School, was recently initiated into the Bucknell Univeisity Chapter of Kappa Phi Kappa, national education fraternity for men. Mr. Hidlay was one of thirty-eight teachers
and high school administrators enrolled in the summer school
at Bucknell who were initiated into the honorary society. He
received the degree of Mastei^of Science in Education at the
Summer Commencement held Friday, August 30.
1931

Rosa D.

Main

Street,

Arthur Smith) lives at 587 West
Bloomsburg. Mrs. Smith taught in the schools of
Hill (Mrs.

S.

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Columbia until four years ago. For the past four years she has
been employed as a fourth grade teacher in Berks County.
1933
Charles N. Cox, successful head coach at Northumberland
High School for several seasons, has been elected a teacher in
the Bloomsburg High School, and will also serve as assistant
football coach.

Thelma Evans (Mrs. Thomas Williams) lives at 111 White
Pond Drive, Akron, Ohio. Her husband is a tire design engineer with the B. F. Goodrich Company. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
have three children, two girls and a boy.
Margaret Sandbrook (Mrs. Ken E. Bristol), formerly of
lives at 50 Everett Avenue, Akron,
Ohio. Her husband is a research chemist with the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Bristol have two
children, a girl and a boy.

Catasaqua, Pennsylvania,

1935
Charlotte Hochberg (Mrs. Elmer McKechnie)
Latin in the Junior High School in Berwick.

is

teaching

1937
Miss Betty Marie Kuster, of Bloomsburg, and Paul G.
Martin, of Catawissa, were married Saturday, August 24, in the
First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Samuel W. Strain, pastor of the church.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
the Thompson Business College in Harrisburg. She was employed for a time as a secretary in the office of the Benjamin
Franklin Training School, and later was employed in the Child
Welfare office in the Columbia County Court House. Mr. Martin is a veteran of four years of seiwice in the Navy, two and a
half years of which were spent overseas.

William E. Zeiss was recently elected vice-principal of the
School, R. D. 2, Clark’s Summit, where
he has been teaching for the past seven years.

Newton-Ransom High

1938
Dorothy Edgar (Mrs. Ray Cronover) lives at 240 Leonard
Street, Bloomsburg. After being discharged from the Navy,
her husband has resumed his duties with the Pennsylvania
State Police.

1939
Mrs. Eleanor Beckley Martin, of Bloomsburg, was one of
the one hundred fifty former WASP pilots who participated in
“Operation Fifinella,’’ a mass flight of 150 Piper Cubs from
Lock Haven to Cleveland, Ohio, August 20, to mark the opening of the National Air Races.
The flight was the finale of a three-day reunion at Lock
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Haven

Order of

post-war organization of woAir Forces. The planes were
Corporation and were bound
for delivery to western and southwestern points after the National Air Races.
of the

Fifinella,

men pilots who flew for the Army
made available by Piper Aircraft

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Betty Fritz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fritz, of Orangeville, to Ross Tyree, of Plainfield, N. J.
Miss Fritz is a graduate of the Benton High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is at present teaching
in the Bridgewater Township schools, Maitinsburg, N. J.
Mr.
Tyree was graduated from the University of Illinois and is employed at Ingersoll Rand Co., and New York City. No date has
been set for the wedding.
Miss Christine Grover, of Berwick, and Joseph Bruskie, of
Renovo, were married August 27 in St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church at Renovo. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Peter Bruskie, brother of the groom. Mrs. Bruskie taught in
the Carlisle High School for three years, and Mr. Bruskie is
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

James F. Hinds, of Bloomsburg, has been elected assistant
football coach at Sunbury, and is teaching social science. He
was discharged from the Army last March after thirty-nine
months of service, fifteen months of which were spent overseas
in both the European and Pacific theatres.
John Sircovics, of Berwick, was recently named captain
and company commander of Company I, National Guard, with
headquarters at the Armory in Berwick.
1940
Miss Sara Ann Strickland, of Coleman, Texas, and Frank
T. Kocher, Jr., of Espy, were married in July in the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, St. Petersburg, Florida. The bride is a
graduate of Coleman High School Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton, Texas, and Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Fort Wortli, Texas, where she received a master’s degree. She is a member of Alpha Chi and Pi Gamma Mu honorary societies, and has been director of religious education at
the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in St. Petersburg. Mr. Kocher
He taught
is a member of Phi Sigma Pi and Kappa Delta Pi.
at MeVeytown and Conshohocken, and at the Admiral Farragut Academy. In March he went to DuBois where he is instructor of mathematics at the DuBois Undergraduate Center
of the Pennsylvania tStae College.
;

Miss Ellen Mae Waterbor, of Easton, and Don Alan Hausknecht, of Montoursville, were married Saturday, July 27, in
the First Evangelical and Reformed Church in Easton. The
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bride, a graduate of Syracuse University, studied at Juilliard
School of Music in New York City, and will serve this year as a
member of the faculty of Penn Hall School for Girls in Chambersburg. Mr. Hausknecht, who is a teacher in the Chambersburg High School, served as a captain in the Intelligence Department of the Twelfth Air Force for thiify-two months. This
summer he received the degree of Master of Science at Bucknell University.

The War Depaitment has advised Edward H. Bacon of his
appointment as captain. Staff and Administrative Reserve, Officers Reserve Corps, Army of the United States, on an inactive
basis.

Mr. Bacon enlisted in the Army as a private in March,
was discharged in December as a captain in the
Quartermaster Corps, having attained that rank in June, 1945.
He served 38 months in the European theater and was commissioned in that theater. He holds the Bronze Star Medal,
ETO ribbon with three battle stars, ATO ribbon. Good Conduct
Medal, Victory Medal, and Ceitificate of Merit.
Christine F. Smith, of Catawissa, is teaching in the schools
of Bloomsburg. She has been teaching for eighteen years in
the Moorestown grade schools.
1942, and

1941
H. Jean Barr and the Rev. Daniel Newhait, of Treickless,
Pennsylvania, were married November 10, 1945, at the Muhlenberg Chapel at Allentown. They are now living in Conyngham. Pa., where the Rev. Mr. Newhait is pastor of the Christ

Lutheran Church.
1942
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Holoviak, of Nesquehoning, has received, prior to her departure to Ft. Dix Separation Center, N. J., during a formal ceremony in her honor, a letter of appi’eciation for supeiior performance of duty. The letter was personally signed by General
Reuben E. Jenkins, Chief of the Plans and Operations Division,
War Department General Staff.
S. Sgt.

Peggy

R. Holoviak,

The letter stated
“Your service at

partially as follows:

times has been characterized by your
and faithful perfoimance of
conscientious
superior, efficient,
duty and contributed materially to the efficiency of the Plans
and Operations Division, WDGS, in solving problems involving
I wish to
logistical, political, and military-political operations.
express the appreciation of this division for yoiii’ outstanding
work, and to wish you continued success in civilian life.”
WoS. Sgt. Holoviak spent one and one-half years in the
at
Ft.
stationed
was
times
she
which
during
Corps,
men’s Army
Des Moines, Iowa; Camp Davis, N. C. Indiantown Gap Military
Reservation, Pa., and Washington, D. C. During her assignall

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ment

at

Washington she has taken tours throughout the United

States and

Canada concerning operations on matters

of highest

She has also served as social secretary replying to
congressmen, general’s wives, religious leaders and businessmen concerning conditions in Europe, and has visited embassies
and chanceries in Washington relative to political matters.
Miss Holoviak received her B. S. degree in business education at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She will resume
her civilian status in New York where she will attend Columbia
University for the purpose of completing her master’s degree.
classification.

Miss Margaret Ann Robeson, of Bei'wick, and William
Augustus Fowke, Jr., of Martinsville, Virginia, w'ere married
Saturday, June 29, at the First Presbyterian Church in Berwick.
The bride taught in Berwick and La Plata, and the groom is
connected with the DuPont Company. He attended Charlotte
Hall Military Academy and Washington College, and was recently discharged from the Army Air Corps.

A daughter, Gail Patricia, was born September 5, 1946, to
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wagner, River Road, Bloomsburg. Mrs.
Wagner is the former Mary Jane Sharpless.
Nan Sidari (Mrs. Ted Jurasek) lives at 22 Noilh Wyoming
Street, Hazleton. Mi',
March 20, 1946. Mr.
sume his studies after
forces.

and Mrs. Jurasek have a son, born
Jurasek returned to Bloomsburg to rehaving been discharged from the armed
1943

In a beautiful June wedding. Miss Martha Lillian Roan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albeit B. Roan, of Espy, became the
bride of Bruce Dunn Starr, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dunn
Starr, Hughesville. The ceremony was performed in St. John’s
Lutheran Church, Espy, the Rev. J. J. Wiekel, former pastor,
officiating.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
Mrs. Starr is a graduate of the Scott Township High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and she is a member of the faculty of the Hughesville High School.
The groom is a graduate of the Hughesville High School
and entered college this PTill. He served for twenty-six months

Army

Air Corps and for ten months was in the European
veteran of foily-five bombing missions, he was honorably discharged from service on October 1, 1945.
in

the

theatre.

A

Saia E. Lebengood and Herman E. Vonderheid were married April 27, 1946, in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Pottsville,
Pa. They are now living at 1203 Markley Street, Norristown.
Mr. Vonderheid is teaching general science and biology at Con-

shohocken High School, and Mrs. Vonderheid is teaching in the
commercial department of the West Conshohocken High
School.
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Frank M. Taylor, of Berwick, is teaching commercial suband shop at the Mifflin Township Consolidated School.
During the war he served as a fighter pilot with the Army Air
Force. Since his discharge from the Army, he has been employed in the maintenance department of the American Car
a^ul Foundry Company plant in Berwick.
1944
The Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, Ambler, was the
scene of a beautiful wedding Saturday afternoon, June 23,
when Miss Florence Elizabeth Faust, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry K. Faust, of Ambler became the bride of First Lieutenant Philip R. Yeany, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Yeany, of
Bloomsburg.
The double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Thomas Atkinson, pastor of the church, before an altar decorated with ferns and bouquets of white lilies and carnations.
The bride is a graduate of Amber High School and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and was a teacher in the West Reading High School.
Lieutenant Yeany is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He enlisted in
the service in February, 1943, and recently returned after seizing sixteen months in the European Theatre of Operations
where he was a pilot of a B-26 Bomber.
Miss Mary Louise Scott, of Bloomsburg, is teaching commercial subjects in the Catawissa High School. Miss Scott
taught for one year in the Montgomery-Clinton High School at
Montgomery, and taught last year in the South Whittier School
jects

in

Whittier, Califoniia.

Raymond and Betty Katerman Algatt are living at 27
Westgate, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the fomier is attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Miss Florence Mills, who taught last year in the Catawissa High School, has accepted a secretarial position in Cleveland, Ohio.

Marjorie Sharretts (Mrs. Leon Grant) will teach again in
Jersey this year. Her husband, a former V-12 at Bloomsburg, intends to enter Rutgers University this fall.

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Miss Jeanne Keller, of Culver, Indiana, and Clarence William Epley, Jr., of Gettysburg, Pa., were married Saturday,
August 24, in the memorial building of Culver Military Academy. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Hardigg Sexton, minister-in-residence at the Academy. The bride taught
last year at Bremen, Indiana. Mr. Epley was graduated from
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from where he was called to the service. He served four
and one-half years with the Army in the European Theatre
and won the Purple Heait and the Croix de Guerre. Mr. and
Mrs. Epley are now living in Gettysburg, where the former is
lege,

associated with his father in the automobile business.

Marilyn D. Sailer, formerly of 733 Weiser Street, Reading,
and Douglas G. Jackson, former V-12 at Bloomsburg, were
married June 25, 1945, in “The Little Church Around the Corner” in New York. The marriage was announced in June of
this year. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are now living in State College,
where Mr. Jackson is continuing his studies in the School of Engineering. Mrs. Jackson is teaching commercial subjects in the
State College High School.
Miss Cleo Kinney, of Danville, and Vincent L. Pass, of Exwere married Saturday, August 24, in St. Columba Catholic Church, Bloomsburg. The Rev. William J. Burke officiated.
The bride has been teaching in the Millville High School, and
the groom, who served for three and one half years in the
Navy, part of the time as a V-12 at Bloomsburg, plans to resume his studies in architectural engineering at Pennsylvania
port,

State College.

1946
Miss Dorothy Kocher, of Espy, and Billie D. Pugh, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, were married Monday, August 19, in the
First Baptist Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Malcolm C. Hunsicker, pastor of the
church. Mr. Pugh was recently discharged from the Marine
Corps after three years of service in the Pacific area.

Donald Rabb, of Benton, has accepted a position as teachAllentown schools. He will teach classes of
GI students who have returned from the service to complete
er of science in the

their high school training.

Miss Lenore Seybert, of Lewisburg, and Reed Buckingham, of York, were married Monday, August 26, in Elkton,
Maryland. They will live in St. Michaels, Maryland, where
both are teaching.

John Hmelnicky, of Exeter, has acepted
teacher and coach at Cari-abelle, Florida.

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Miss Peggy Mae Beach, of Bloomsburg, and S. Richard Moyof Philadelphia, were married Friday, June 28, in the Reformed Church, of Bloomsburg, by the Rev. John C. Brumbach, pastor of Christ Reformed Church, Littlestown, assisted
by the Rev. M. Edward Schnorr, pastor of the church. The
gi'oom is a graduate of Germantown High School and is attending the University of Pennsylvania. He served three and onehalf years in the Army Air Force. Mr. and Mrs. Moyer are
living at 6369 Sherman Street, Germantown, Philadelphia.
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In an impressive ceremony before an altar banked with
palms, white gladioli, asters and chrysanthemums, the marriage of Miss Emily C. Long, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Long, of Glen Rock, New Jersey, and Paul N. Baker, Jr., of
Glen Rock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Baker, Sr., of Johnson
City, New York, former residents of Espy, was solemnized recently in the chapel of Christ Episcopal Church, Midland, New

Jersey.

The Rev. George S. Bowden, pastor of the chuich, officiated at the double ring ceremony. Both rings were heirlooms of
the bride’s family.
The bride was graduated from Paterson Central High School
with the class of 1941. She attended Ursinus College, where
she was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu sorority and at present
is a senior cadet nurse at the Lenoz
Hill Hospital, New York
City.

The bridegroom, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School in
1938, attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Last Spiing
he was discharged from the U. S. Navy after service of more
than three years, most of which was spent in the Pacific theaHe is now taking a pre-dentistry course at Newark Unitre.
vei'sity.
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Announcement has been made of the marriage on Saturday, August 3, of Miss Elizabeth A. McCrory, of Belfast, Ireland, and Robeif D. Hopfer, of Buffalo, New York, formerly of
Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed in the Grace Episcopal Church in Buffalo, with the Rev. G. Napier Smith officiating.
The bride arrived in this country on Sunday, July 21. The
couple met when the groom was stationed in Ireland in 1942
and 1943. Mr. Hopfer entered the armed forces in April, 1941,
and was discharged in Septembei’, 1945, after participating in

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