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frie)ids of John Bakeless will i-ecall his
Marlowe” and “Daniel Boone, Master of

Wilderness.”
His newest book “Lewis and Clark, Partners in Discovery,”
has been published by William Morrow and Co., of New York.
The new “Lewis and Clark” is just another story of the expedition, but a “double-header” biography, telling the story of
two of the most interesting lives in American history, with
many new adventures, both before and after the expedition,
which have never hitherto appeared in book form.
To get the quantities of new and unpublished material that
appears in the book. Dr. Bakeless and his wife, the former
Katherine Little, of Bloomsburg, traveled a total of 18,500
miles, ransacking the cellar of a county courthouse in Tennessee in their search for material, hunting up old settlers who had
listened to Indian legends of Lewis and Clark in Idaho, digging
through packing cases of ancient records in Oregon, persuading
Kentucky and Virginia families to open treasured family papers, and searching patiently in great libraries and small and
specialized historical collections from coast to coast. Twice
they were stuck by blizzards. Once the snow in the Rockies got
so bad they had to turn around and wait for better weather.
“Lewis and Clark hit just the same sort of thing. That’s the advantage of getting on the ground to see things for yourself.”
Dr. Bakeless began his new book in 1939, immediately after the publication of his life of Daniel Boone. He had already
completed his first research trip, covering as far west as Nebraska, when he was ordered to active duty as a general staff
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College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsbui'g, Pa., under the Act of March 3,
1879. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
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officer in 1940. Until Pearl Harbor, he continued his studies in
the Congi-essional Library and the National Archives in Washington. But after the Japanese attack, the manuscript had to be
laid aside entirely during Di-. Bakeless service in this country,
Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. The author found later, however,
that his experience as an infantry officer had been more useful
in writing his biography than he had expected. Lewis and
Clark were both infantry officers and Clark had done a good
deal of secret intelligence which, the author says, “was exactly
the kind of thing I was doing myself nearly 150 years later.”
“1 had one advantage in writing about William Clark’s intelligence and espionage that I didn’t have in my own,” he adds.
“In studying Clark’s sleuthing, I had the enemy’s reports to
read as well as the American ones. The Germans were not
nearly so accommodating.”
The book is unique among biogi'aphies in that it tells the
life stories of two men at once. The author says that he doubts
where there are any more chances in history to do a doubleheader biography of this sort, except the dramatists, Beaumont
and Fletcher, and the French writers, the Brothers Goncourt.

“David and Jonathan would have made a fine biography
adds. “But there isn’t enough information.
However, Lewis and Clark were as much like David and Jonathan as any two modern men could be, and in their cases my
wife and 1 dug out so much infoimation that the main problem
was how to get it all in.”
To write the book, the author was granted his second Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to resume work as
soon as he was released from the army in 1946. This is his
seventh book. Mr. Bakeless is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
Of much interest locally was the review of the book which
appeared in the book section of the New York Herald Tribune.
The review was written by Bernard DeVoto and appeared
on the first page of the Sunday section.
“The jacket of Mr. Bakeless’s book says that he ‘brings insight and much new material’ to his study of Lewis and Clark,
and this time the blurb is right. The amount and the importance
of the new material he has dug out must instantly impress any
one who has worked in the field, and he has enormously lessened the labors of whoever may work in it hereafter. He has
worked so tirelessly at the job which to all students has seemed
endless that, so far as biography goes, one of these students is
here willing to call it ended. He has made his way to the ultimate forgotten attic and into the ultimate locked chests there
he has beaten all the rugs and shifted all the dust. The value of
what he has found varies from his presumptive (presumptive
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tion) demonstration that Merriwether Le^ds did not commit
suicide but was murdered, which has the greatest possible importance, to the amusing revelation that one of Lewis’s collateral descendants is famous today under the name of Dorothy
Dix.

“Mr. Bakeless’s book is primarily a biographical study it
an enterprise in joint or dual biography. That fact must be
emphasized else objection be made to the book that it is not, as
it was clearly not intended to be, a full history of the Lewis and
Clark expedition. Mr. Bakeless does indeed give us a tolerably
long narrative of the expedition, but that is the less important
part of his book and it deals with the material most familiar to
every one. His principal effort has been, first, to find out all
that he could about the two great captains as persons, and then,
in the light of their personalities and experience, to examine
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“Mr. Bakeless has enormously increased our knowledge of
Lewis and Clark and so has important things to say about their
careers. The first result is to enlarge our conception of both of
them, but especially of Lewis, as military men as frontiersmen.
When he adds up the sum he shows that, before the expedition
started, both had had more experience in the Army than has
been realized Clark more experience of command and of what
Mr. Bakeless treats in modei'n terms as intelligence work, and
Lewis more experience of wilderness life. Mr. Bakeless’s own
military experience leads him to emphasize Army training,
methods, procedures and habits of mind in his account of the
expedition. On the whole this is a valuable emphasis, though
occasionally it results in his obscuring, or at least undervaluing,
frontier behavior and thinking. His acquaintance with the military mind makes him relish a number of highly informal, even
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martial or when captains invite all the members of the party,
including Sacagawea (whom he insists on spelling that way in
defiance of all the monument makers outside South Dakota), to
vote on an important decision. An occasional faint contamination from that institutional mind still clings to him
in spite of
his declaration that the procurement invoices have mostly vanished, he sometimes writes as if he must hold to what those still
on file say; if I can add, the party gave away more Indian goods
than the invoices show it had in its possession, including beads.
“He makes absolutely clear that the unique success of the
expedition was due to the unique partnership in joint command.
Repeatedly and with reference to specific events, he points out
how the two commanders supported each other, complimented
each other, and frequently thought alike. “Lewis seems to interest him more, as a person than Clark, though the small od-

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dities of both delight him. He makes
ian, and not only a Virginian brought

Lewis not only a Virginup with a love of horses,

hunting and the outdoors, but also an eighteenth-century romantic in his love of the wilderness. And this, he thinks, may
in part account for the inconclusiveness of Lewis’s obvious romanticism about women. In the idiom of the time, the channs
of the fair were undeniable, and a gentleman must acknowledge
them repeatedly, but the far side of the hill and the forest in
which no tree yet wore a blaze had a charm that proved far
more powerful. Lewis was an introvert; he was something of a
hypochondriac (though not the melancholiac Jefferson thought
him) perhaps in his attachment to his mother. (Mr. Bakeless
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other members of the family).
“Clark, on the other hand, a Kentuckian and by training
more of a frontiersman, was bluff, hearty, untroubled by introspective fantasies, not in the least neurotic. (In some of his furtrade transactions he showed a greater capacity for anger than
Mr. Baker admits). Both were men of direct action, great ingenuity and inventiveness, quick to size up a situation and of
remarkable rapidy of analysis and association in finding the
right answer. It is important to have these things said. Mr.
Bakeless has established that Jefferson’s selection of Lewis to
command the expedition was made for objective, thoroughly
justified reasons, and that Lewis’s selection of Clark to share
the command resulted from knowledge equally empirical.
“I must, however, protest one bit of infatuated favoritism.
Mr. Bakeless picks out Lewis’s spelling to admire. It has its
beauty, but it is uninspiring compared to the magnificant viruosity of Clark’s.

“Mr. Bakeless also supplies a currently much-needed appraisal of Sacajawca, whose name 1 must insist on spelling that
way in defiance of him. An astonishing sentimentality about
her has been piling up in amateur history and even in more serious scholarship, not to mention the lush gyneolatry expressed
by women’s clubs, chambers of commerce and the organized
descendants of Western pioneers. A good many women and
some men have written in obvious identification of themselves
with her, and from about Bismarck on, in monuments and trial
markers, it is hardly the Lewis and Clark expedition, at all, but
the Sacajawea expedition. Well, she was a remarkable woman
and since she charmed William Clark, a charming one, too. But
it is silly to regard her as anything but one of the more useful
members of the party as a more useful one than, for example,
her husband. She rendered intelligent, loyal and helpful service, and as interpreter when the expedition met the Snakes she
did something that no other member could have done. (Her
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But as Mr. Bakeless points out, she nowhere saved the
she was its guide only in that she recognized a few
landmarks in her own country, and the exaltation of her during
the last generations is justified by no facts whatever.
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“It would seem that Mr. Bakeless has fixed the biography
for good there is no reason why any one should work that field
again. That is what he set out to do, and in doing it he has put
scholarship, history and the reading public permanently in his
debt. He has also written a good narrative account of the expedition which any one can read with pleasure and from which
specialists will derive some light, many interesting sidelights,
and a good many useful con-ections and reinterpretations. If
1 now go on to reproach him, the reader must understand that 1
am reproaching him for not doing things which he deliberately
decided were outside his purpose.
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little cavalier towards some of the history
His treatment of the Whiskey Rebellion, for instance, is fairly tlippant for an episode so serious in itself and of
so formative an effect on our institutions. But he ignores too
much history. He does not set the expedition in its historical
context. He either disregards or undei'estimates important historical energies out of some of which the expedition was projected, others of which were at work on it when it was undei'
way (beneath the surface of that meeting with the Sioux, for
instance, there was more than Mr. Bakeless analyzes), and still
others of which it either accelerated or first set in motion. Also
1 would be willing to forego some of the military emphasis in
favor of geography, both actual geography as it affected events
and theoretical geography as it influenced the captain’s conception of them. Finally, though the sexual hospitality of Indian
tribes interest him to the extent of a full chapter, he could profitably go deeper than he has gone into other aspects of the
plains Indians, their place in the economy of nations and the
struggle of empires, and their part in the exigent problems with
which the travei-se of Levvis and Clai’k at once confronted the
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some minute errors of fact and interpretation. Of course he
does; every book that works with the materials of history does;
yours would mine will and so do those of people who rebuke
in reviews. Mr. Bakeless makes fewer of them than a calculation of probabilities would sanction him. My criticism of his
book is in the paragraph immediately preceding this. Bear in
mind that, like the criticism of too many books, it is a reviewer’s
impudent notification to a writer that he would have been wise
to consult the reviewer’s notions and to write some other book
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Anne Northup (Mi's. Morris A. Greene) lives at Apartment 406, 2331
Cathedral Avenue, N. W., Washington 8, D. C. Her husband, an Australian,
was formerly on the staff of the Australian Embassy in Washington until
1946, when he joined the staff of the Food and Agriculture Organization,
affiliated with the United Nations. Mrs. Greene accompanied her husband
a year ago on a trip to Europe, and has sent the Quarterly her impressions
of Europe. Her article follows:
said that distant pastures always look greener and pertrue however, it was my privilege to visit some of
these distant pastures last Fall and, upon returning to the United States, my heart leaped up and 1 said, “God Bless America.”
Yes, 1 saw many wonderful things and had many interesting and enriching experiences and the trip gave me a better understanding and, I hope, helped to breed a deeper feeling of
tolerance for other peoples, their problems and their opinions.
On the other hand, it also made me more aware of the glories
of my own country and the richness of her blessings.
Leaving LaGuardia Airport by Constellation, we flew to
Paris. It had always been a dream of mine to see Paris some
day and although the “City of Light” was very scantily lit because of the shortage of electricity, still it presented a thrilling
picture with its “Tour Eiffel” and its “Arc de Triomphe.” Under the “Arc de Triomphe” rests the Unknown Soldier and over
his grave burns the eternal light of freedom. This was extinguished by the marching Nazi soldiers as they passed under the
Arch upon capturing the city of Paris. The light has been rekindled since the war and it burns brightly and steadily over
the grave as in the hearts of the French people. Nevertheless,
in spite of the wonders of the Louvre and the ornate splendor of
the Palace of Versailles, the extravagant showings of the couturiers and the gayety of Montmartre, there was a drabness and
a sadness and a desolation reflected in the faces of the city and
Black mai'kets floiu'ished and prices were inflated
its people.
to the point of being ridiculous and one quickly realized that,
while a wealthy few of the residents of Paris enjoyed life similar to the life of a pre-war level, the majority of the French
people starved while working harder than ever. People once
again walked freely down the Champs-Elysees and admired the
lavish displays in shop windows but few people were dressed
in the styles made famous by the “Fashion Capitol of the
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“lean look” rather than the “new look,” and showed scars of
undernourishment, war fatigue and weariness. Hot water was
available only a few hours of each day due to the fuel shortage
gasoline was scarce and expensive and motor transpoitation
consisted of pre-war cars which rattled up the streets and gave
one the feeling that they might not get there. Bread, which
forms the greater part of the Frenchman’s diet, was black and
hard being made of maize and, 1 feared, a large poition of sawdust. It was baked in long loaves about half the length of a
broom handle and having an equal diameter and presented similar difficulty for mastication. Coffee as such was unknown and
the substitute was unpalatable and depressing rather than stimulating. As I walked about the streets of Paris, a city given over
to the enemy before it was destroyed but nevertheleess scarred
by the bullets of street fighting, I rebelled at the evidence of the
unfair lot of the people. There was something wrong with the
system which allowed those with money to buy more than their
fair share of food and goods available while others could get
barely enough to keep body and soul together. Under such a
system how can France ever again hope to become great?

Geneva, Switzerland, presented a very different picture.
Being a neutral country it had benefitted by trade with both the
Axis and Allies while being virtually a prisoner of the Germans.
It had enjoyed a steady import and export trade during the war
and had been a playground and rest home and its currency had
remained hard. Its travel facilities and tourist trade were
Although food was somewhat scarce, it was fairly
thriving.
distributed and the system of rationing ensured all enough to
build strong bodies and contented minds. Food and goods were
very expensive, rents high and all in all things were half again
as dear as in our most expensive city. In spite of this, everyone
seemed to have the enei’gy and opportunity to earn a livelihood
and the people looked strong, clear-eyed and happy. Switzerland was a beautiful country with its red tile-roofed houses, its
green valleys and its majestic mountains towering always above
one.

Leaving Switzerland I went down into Italy where I sawreal ravages of w-ai- and extreme poverty. Bombed
cities, strafed railway trains and dirty beggars gave an air of
desolation to the country. Everyw-here w-ere the marks of a defeated and w'ar torn nation. Entering the railway station at
Milan I saw- the holes in the roof left by the bombings and beggars lay on the w-aiting-room benches sleeping the sleep of exhaustion. As my husband and I waited in line for the purchase
of tickets, tiny barefooted Italian children scantily and dirtily
clad held out thin little hands and mumbled the only w-ords of
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new figures looked strange and pale beside the weather
darkened figures placed there so long ago. As 1 journeyed
through the streets to view “The Last Supper,” 1 was stunned
by the evidence of destruction and poverty spread around me.
St. Maria delle Grazie, the chapel which houses Da Vinci’s masterpiece, had two of four walls destroyed during the war. These
had been replaced recently and the temperature of the room
was regulated to preserve the magnificient oil painting which
decorated the end wall left standing by some miracle. Artists
were at work retouching the painting in an effort to preserve it
for posterity. To me this was symbolic. The war-weary Italians,
although weighted down by poverty and exhaustion, nevertheless are using their meagre resources to preserve and guard
their glorious works of art. This shows their appreciation of the
beautiful and the finer things of life has not been destroyed by

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the war.

After winging my way to London I spent some days visiting the historic buildings and points of interest in England.
Here the full impact of the war was brought to me. Whole city
blocks, where once tall buildings stood, had been reduced to
ruins and were now used for car parking lots. The thought of
the number of people whose lives had been snuffed out with
those falling buildings gave a startling realization of the great
loss of life suffered in London. This gave me a better understanding of the sad, shabby, weary-looking people I met everywhere. Women in well worn suits and moth eaten furs hurried
along the streets stopping now and again to admire the poor
grade merchandise in the shop windows. (Britain is exporting
her best products to retain her export trade). Merchandise was
all marked with coupon values as well as price tags and most
of the British people spent their few idle moments deciding who
needed the coupons most in the family and how to get the most

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Women stood in long lines for long hours to buy their small
food rations. A speaker on a soap box in Hyde Park said that
the British women had become insensible to pain and fatigue
otherwise they could never live through the torture necessary
1 visited
an English home
to secure the weekly food rations.
where the week’s ration of meat for three people measured six
inches in diameter and was no more than three inches thick.
However, the system of rationing employeed in England was
fair and ensured equal rations for rich and poor alike. A man
with ten pounds could buy only as much food in an expensive
restaurant as a man with one pound could order in a cheap one.
Each was allowed three courses and bread and dessert were
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ous but at least all were assured of a little. Scotland was much
the same as London although there was no destruction and the
people had a less tired and sad expression. Rationing was the
same, however, and food was scarce here also. Ireland had a
less strict system of rationing and at the same time less just,
This country presented a picture of poverty and dirt and was
not the beautiful Emerald Isle I’d anticipated.
I did not visit a large numbei- of cities or towns in any one
country nor did I stay long in any one country except Switzerland, where I spent five weeks, so these observations may not
be representative of conditions all over the country. However,
these are the things which impress the stranger most strikingly
as he visits these countries. It seemed to me that everywhere
were death and destruction and the living seemed to be sustained only by the memories and traditions of the past. Yet, as
before landing from my transatlantic
I flew over New York
flight, an air of exhiliration and anticipation was wafted up to
me and I felt here was a living, breathing nation. Yes, there is
much to be done to put our own house in order but, when I
stepped off the plane and looked into the faces of the people
around me, that strange look of war-weariness and tension was
absent. As I walked into the warm airport, was offered refreshment in the form of white bread sandwiches and cool orange
juice (both of which I had not seen for months) I breathed a
sigh of appreciation and said, “Truly, how green is my valley!’’
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Dr. E. H. Nelson, secretary of tiie Caldwell Consistory, has
accepted the chairmanship of the Bloomsburg area in the
$1,000,000 Geisinger Diagnostic Clinic Campaign, it was announced by General Chairman George H. Jones.
Dr. Nelson became secretary of the Caldwell Consistory
last July 1, after having served two years as chief of the division
of Health and Physical Education for the State Department of
Public Instruction, with offices in Harrisburg. From 1924 to
1945, he was director of health education at the State Teachers
College here. He was baseball coach fi'om 1934 to 1945 and
director of Military and Physical Fitness for V-5; A. V. (P)
and V-12 programs at the Teachers College during the war
years. He was also a lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol.
A past chairman and member of the executive committee
of the Bloomsburg chapter of the American Red Cross, he is
also a member of both the Boy Scout and Girl Scout councils of
Columbia County and past lecturer and member of the Pleasant
Valley Grange. Past president of the Kiwanis Club, he also belongs to the Bloomsburg Country Club, the American Legion
and the Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-thii’d degree
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heart attack.

Mr. Morton had been receiving medical treatment for the
past several years for a heart condition and was admitted to the
hospital.

He was born in Mahanoy City, February 17, 1878, and
moved to Berwick with his parents in 1890 when his father purchased the hotel which is now known as the Morton Hotel.
He was a member and elder of the First Presbyterian
Church, Berwick, and also an active member of the Church
Brotherhood. Fraternally Mr. Morton was a member of the
Berwick Rotary Club, Knapp Lodge, F. and A. M., Berwick and
the Caldwell Consistory, of Bloomsburg.
He was president of the Berwick Band, and member of the
Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and director of the Berwick cemetery association. He was president of the board of education of the Berwick schools and was
re-elected to the board in the general election, having both major party nominations. He has served on the board many years.
Mr. Morton was also treasurer of the Hotel Berwick association, and a former member of the Berwick council, and
served as council president for a term. He was a member of the
Berwick hospital board and had also served as its president. A
trustee of the Berwick library when it was originally founded,
he later served as its treasurer.
Mr. Morton had been local auditor of the Berwick plant of
the American Car and Foundry Company from March 1, 1919,
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retirement August 1, of last year. He began his experience with the A. C. F. Company in the auditing department
April 15, 1901, after having been employed for some time with
the Berwick Store company. He was a graduate of the Berwick
High School and the Williams Business College of Sunbury.
He is survived by his widow, the former Sarah Williams,
and one daughter. Miss Mary Frances Morton, at home; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Sutlitf, of Sunbury; and a brother, George
Morton, of Binghamton, N. Y.
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of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Class of
1886 and long a trustee of the local institution, died Saturday,
Januaiy 17, at his home from a heart condition. He had been
ill several months.
He was in Bloomsburg in the Spring of 1946 to attend the
sixtieth year reunion of his class. He was first appointed a trustee at the time the institution was a Normal School and a half
of the trustees were selected by the school and half named by
the state. He remained on the board until around 1930 and after it had become a Teachers College. He was one of the board
present when the first degree of Bachelor of Science in Education was presented in 1927 and he was serving at the time that
Dr. Francis B. Haas, now Superintendent of Public Insti’uction
in the Commonwealth, was chosen president at Bloomsburg.
He was born in Hartleton on Decembei’ 17, 1866, the son
of the late Robert V. and Helen Gellman Glover. He was a
grandson of John Glover, pioneer settlei- in Buffalo Valley, who
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Blairstown Academy, New York, before matriculating to
Bloomsburg. He received his bachelor’s degree at Lafayette in
1890 and his master’s degree in 1893.
He studied law in the office of his brother, Horace P. Glover, and was admitted to practice before the Union County bar
in 1893. He practiced with his brother until 1914 in the law
firm of Glover and Glover and then, following the brother’s
death, continued practice alone. He was a member of the Union County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.
He served as district attorney of Union County from 1896
to 1908. For fifteen years he was solicitor of Mifflinburg and
for more than twenty yeais president of the school board in his
home community. In 1898 he organized the Mifflinburg volunteer hose company and served as its president for twenty years.
He served on the visiting committee of the Lafayette College alumni and was a trustee of the Presbyterian Central Pennsylvania home at Newville. He served the Mifflinburg Bank and
Trust Company as its trust officer, director and president and at
the time of his death was chairman of the board.
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of the Presbyterian Church of Mifflinburg, serving as a trustee and elder for over thirty-five years.
He was also superintendent of the Sunday School. He served as
a trustee of the Delta Upsilon fraternitj', being a member of the
Lafayette chapter. He was a member of the Mifflinburg Lodge,
F. and A. M. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Church
Glover, a daughter, Mrs. Louise Glover Goerhing, Wexford,
and three grand children.
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Haines Yost, ninety-five, of Benton, well-known county
school teacher and Cleveland Township justice of peace for a
long period, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital Wednesday, January 6. Complications following an illness of several months
caused the death of the educator.
Born in Columbia County on December 21, 1852, he was
the son of the late Henry and Elizabeth Huey Y^’ost. Reared in
the Esther Furnace section, he was a member of the St. Paul’s
Evangelical United Brethren Church of that community.
Mr. Yost will be remembered by many of the older county
residents who were his students during his thirty-eight years of
service in that profession. His first post was the Pocohontas
school in Ralpho Township where he began his teaching career
in 1876. He subsequently taught at the Cleveland, Franklin
and Catawissa Township schools.
Retiring from the profession in 1914, he managed his small
farm until 1936, when he removed to Benton.
Ml-. Yost was a member of the Goodwill Lodge, No. 310,
of Odd Fellows, Numidia, for fifty-two years. Justice of Peace
of Cleveland Township for twenty-five years. He was secretary
of the Locust Mutual Fire Insurance Company for thiry years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertie Yost, at home; a
daughter, Mrs. Guy Miller, of Benton; three grandchildi-en and
five great grandchildren.
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The magic

of clay on the swiftly-whirling potter’s wheel
was revealed to students of Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Tuesday, January twenty-seventh, when the Polememe Potters
offered a graphically-gripping and descriptive lecture of an ait
that has all but vanished, and they helped their listeners visualize the craft with an actual demonstration of pottery making.

In addition to describing the history and uses of pottery
over the centuries, the Polomemes displayed their famous collection of pottery which includes clay objects from prehistoric
times and unique vessels of interesting design and origin.

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Bloomsburg’s alumni body includes everyone who has attended the college and has received credit for courses passed.
Alumni
It includes also present and former faculty members.
represent a growing and vital power in education, not only
through their abiding interest in their Alma Mater, but in their
contributions to its progress and welfare.
The Alumni, in eff ect, may be regarded as an end product
of the college’s educational effort. In the eyes of the state and
nation, the alumni become in a real sense the representatives of
their college, which is largely judged on the record they make.
In 1933, the Bloomsburg Alumni Group, feeling the need of
a more efficient organization, became incorporated under the
Pennsylvania State Laws. The charter calls for a governing
body of nine trustees three elected each year who in turn
organize and set up an officer organization of President, Vice
President, Secretary and Treasurer. It selects from its number
a Treasurer of the Alumni Loan Fund, money set apart from the
general fund for the special purpose its name designates.
Four times each year the “Quarterly” is published. So far
the expense has been borne out of the all inclusive one dollar
($1.00) fee paid annually as alumni dues. Since classes meet
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dues from “reunion to reunion” is strongly urged. This keeps
the alumni in closer touch with the college and its development,
and obviates any break in continuing active membership.
The support given their college by Bloomsburg Alumni has
been noteworthy. The present substantial Alumni Loan Fund is
possible through the personal efforts of the late R. Bruce Albert
during his term as President, and the generosity of loyal graduates and friends. Frankly, however, the total alumni support
as compared to that given and expected in other educational
institutions is almost negligible. A nearby college is now conducting a campaign for $500,000. Another Pennsylvania college has recently completed a successful drive for $1,250,000.
Still another eastern Pennsylvania college expects $50,000 from
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teachers college but THE teachers college in Pennsylvania then
they need to give serious heed to her needs in the way of substantial financial support to her scholarship funds.
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“Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.” Miss Richard, who will receive her degree
in May, 1948, is in the secondary curriculum at Bloomsburg and
has majored in speech correction and French.
She has been active in campus activities during the past
four years and holds membership in a large number of college
clubs and organizations. She served as a member of the editorial board of the Maroon and Gold, the college newspaper, for
a number of years, and as its editor for three semesters. A
member of the Day Women’s Association, she served as girl
representative to the Community Government Association Council during her freshman year. She is a member of the Dramatic
Club and participated in a number of plays presented by the
Bloomsburg Players. Miss Richard is also a member of the Women’s Chorus, as well as president of the Lutheran Student Asedition of

sociation.

She has been active in women’s athletics and is a member
“B” Club. She also holds membership in the Athaeneum
Club, of which she is vice-president. She is secretaiy of Alpha
Psi Omega Fraternity and social chairman of Kappa Delta Pi,
national honorary educational fraternity. She is also an active
member of the Social Service Club. Miss Richard plans to teach
in her chosen fields after graduating.
Miss Anne Baldy, daughter of Mrs. Christine G. Baldy, of
Catawissa, is included among the nine students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College who have been recognized by
“Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and
of the

Colleges.” This publication annually selects outstanding members of the senior class of American schools and colleges for
recognition on a nation-wide scale.
Active in numerous campus and extra-curricular activities.
Miss Baldy is enrolled in the secondary education curriculum at
the college, majoring in science. She will receive the bachelor
of science degree in May, 1948, and expects to make teaching
her life work. An outstanding student, she has been on the
dean’s honor list since her freshman year in college.
Miss Baldy served as president of the freshman class and
held various executive posts on the College Council. She is a
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of the College Dramatic Club and the “B” Club. Because of her interest in the field of science, she holds membership in the Science Club where she has been active as chairaian
of the program committee.
She has played an active role in the Women’s Chorus for
four years and at the present time is serving as president of that
organization. She is also vice-president of the Athaeneum Club,
a society devoted to the study of classical music. Miss Baldy
has been a member of the staff of the Maroon and Gold, the
college newspaper, as well as a member of the Future Teachers
of America and Kappa Delta Pi National honorary education

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fraternity.

Betty L. Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Fisher,
222 West Third Street, Bloomsburg, has been selected as one of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College students in the current

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Miss Fisher, who will receive her Bachelor of Science Degree in
Business Education in May, 1948, has been very active in campus and extra curidcular activities at the College.
She has been one of the few students to be honored with
election as an officer of the Community Government Association
for more than one year. At the present time, she is treasurer of
the general student body, a position she is holding for tlie second consecutive year. Miss Fisher is also president of the Day
Women’s Association and during her college career has served
as secretary of the sophomore class and treasurer of the Pi
Omega Pi, National honorary education fraternity. Especially
active in women’s athletics, she is a member of the “B” Club
and served a term as president of that active organization. She
also was general chairman of the student committees for the
1947 retail sales conference and was appointed as a delegate to
the conference of the Eastern States Association of Professional
Schools for Teachers. At this conference she presented the
topic “Musical Milestones
The Negro’s Gift to American Culture.”
Miss Fisher is also a member of the Poetry Club, Student
Christian Association, Business Educational Club, and Social
Service Club. For the past three years she has been a member
of the staff of the Maroon and Gold, the college newspaper.
She was also editor of the Business Education Club Annual.
Miss Fisher, who is majoring in accounting in the Department of Business Education, has had extensive experience in the
field of business. For a while she was employed by the Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service in
Washington and Philadelphia. She was also employed by the
Girton Manufacturing Company, Millville, as well as the Retail
Credit Company and J. C. Penny Company of Bloomsburg.
During the past year she has been woi'king as typist in the office
of President Harvey A. Andruss at the State Teachers College.
Miss Fisher plans to make teaching her career.

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The football and soccer squads of the Teachers College ate
themselves right under the table at the Dutch Hill Church the
other evening and everyone voted the banquet tendered the athletes a complete success.
The most important development, it appears to this column, however, was the declaration of Harvey A. Andruss, the
president that “we are looking forward to better days for athletics and better days for Bloomsburg.”
To those who heard the statement some years ago that
football was going to be revived on a basis that would produce
winning teams, this latest assertion was taken as a pronouncement that the policy is to be continued.
For Bloomsburg has made good on that earlier declaration.
In the two football campaigns that have come and gone since,
the Huskies have compiled a record of ten wins, five losses and
one tie and that is a good record for an eleven which is playing
in its class.

The administration has fulfilled its plan for a good start in
the Fall sport and now comes the assertion, in the wake of the
finest football season the Maroon and Gold has enjoyed in modern football history, that “we are looking forward to better days
for athletics and better days for Bloomsburg.”
That is given added meaning
me light of the fact that
the earlier statement concerning the sport was made good.
It was a timely assertion for the benefit of the program for
skeptics were of the opinion that
it came when some of the
Bloomsburg College football had reached the peak. This was
accompanied by the assertion that the fall from glory would be
abrupt.
Now such a thing can come to pass even in the face of the
College president’s statement. We don’t believe that it will,
however, for the administration has shown its interest and it is
reasonable to believe that now that the graduate body has something to tie to, it will get busy, and that the community will also
do its share.
Football, whether you like it or not, is pi'etty much the display window of an institution of higher learning. You have to

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school but an up and coming eleven swings many a student to
your campus, all other things being equal.
The grads like to cheer a victorious team and tell of the
prowess of the gridders representing the alma mater, and the
community likes to have a winning combination representing it.
But these groups will have to pitch in and do their part if they
want to continue to have enjoyable Fall seasons in the future as
they enjoyed during the season recently concluded.
There have been ups and downs in football on the hill as in
just about every institution. There will be such experiences in
the future. Bear in mind, however, that if the grid sport should
in the future ever sink to the all-time low it experienced in the
days immediately prior to World War II, it is extremely doubtful that it will ever be brought back.
In the “football depression” the sport went off the list because the Husky institution didn’t have material that would
cope with other Teachers Colleges. That was true largely because we weren’t on the alert and thinking about building good
teams. The depression couldn’t be given as the reason for Lock
Haven and other schools in our class were turning out top elevens at the time.
The G. 1. bill of rights primed things to get football rolling
here last year. But that isn’t going to keep providing talent.
However, there are plenty of good boys, who are gentlemen as
well as athletes, coming from the high schools each year.
Bloomsburg has in its program what many of them wish to
study to get ready for life. Oui’ job is to see that they know
about it and to keep constantly on the job in this regard.
There are many of the old timers who will tell you of the
great achievement of Noi'mal School teams in the day of Dr. A.
K. Aldinger, later long head of physical education of the schools
of the City of New York and who was back foi' the local college centennial.
Others who arrived a little later on the scene will tell you
of what was accomplished under the excellent direction of John
Weimer, the York product.
It is much nicer to dwell on those periods than it is to tell
of the decidedly drab days following World War 1 and then the
earlier referred to cellar dwelling of the late thirties.
Through part of the period when we were getting tarred
on the football field it was not the coaching that was to blame.
It was simply lack of material.
At the moment the hilltop institution has a splendid coaching setup. Bob Redman has proven himself in his first year and
is competent.
Recent reports from the hill are that Bloomsburg Teachers
College now has the largest business education enrollment of
any of the Teachers Colleges of the Commonwealth.

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That department is the most recent addition to the curriculum and it has come a long way. It is particularly attractive to
men and a good portion of its enrollment is male.
Strides forward are being made, also, in the elementary
and secondary fields. The school has something to offei’ in a delightful setting. Let’s keep on in every regard and let’s see that

made in football is continued.
every one pitches in and does his or her part then we
can rest assured that the president’s statement that the greatest days for Bloomsburg, both in education and athletics, truly
lie ahead is going to be realized.

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Education World conwhich is described by the editor as “one of the
deepest, sharpest, probing analyses of the eternal battle between the classicists and vocationalists that we have ever read.’’
He advises teachers “to be on their academic toes and ready to
take on comers by reading this article.’’
Under the title of “The Dilemma of Education in a Democracy,’’ President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, explains why he believes that the classicists
and vocationalists must cease “either-or’’ arguments and seek
to share common ground in which both contribute to the education of all citizens, striking out the evil of choosing one of two
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alternatives. Liberal arts education is characterized as education for the classes, from which leaders will emerge, and vocational education an education for the masses, who are faced
with the problem of making a living.
The real problem is not a choice between these two kinds
of education, but is how shall we combine these two types of
education so that we may be able to fit all citizens of a democI'acy for complete living where universal, oi‘ compulsory, education is required by law.
This situation has never existed before in the world and
has existed for such a short time that the problem is not one of
competition between two types of education, but requires the
cooperation of the two and development of a type of education
for those who graduate from high school, become employees
and full fledged citizens, and learn the duties of their occupations and citizenship after they are on the job.
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The “Ambassador Quartet,’’ a unique musical group of
Swiss bell ringers from New Yoi'k City, presented a varied program of instrumental and vocal music as a feature of the assembly program of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
the Carver Hall auditorium Thursday, December 11. Included
in the group were Frank Armand, first tenor; Lloyd King, second tenor; Bert Lang, bass, and Robert Dell, baritone.
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Twenty-two seniors of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwere presented for the degree of Bachelor of Science in

Education at simple but impressive graduation exercises held
Thursday, January 15 in the Carver Hall auditorium. All of the
sixteen men who received their diplomas upon completion of
the current semester are veterans of World War II and most of
them attended Bloomsburg before entering the armed forces.
The convocation, climaxed by the presentation of the candidates for degrees by Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction at the College, was featured by a timely address by President Harvey A. Andruss.
Speaking on the subject, “Dilemmas of Today,” President
Andruss claimed that one of the marks of an educated man is
his ability to look beyond the over-simplifications of ready-made
thinking of news commentators and newspaper headlines and
take the long view in order to make this world a better place
in which to live. He urged his audience to avoid being forced
dilemmas set up with the
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During his address, the College head warned his listeners
of the dangers of over-simplification and in choosing alternatives, either of which would cause us to supplant what we have
with something new or untried rather than supplement it with
something better. He indicated that many times we do the right
things for the wrong reasons, but if the eventual effect is wholesome, one should not question the motives if the means is offered
improve the world in which we live.
During the program. President Andruss read the Scripture
lesson which was chosen from the twenty-fifth chapter of St.
Matthew and Joseph Curilla, Mt. Carmel, sang a baritone solo,
“Ask For Nothing More” by Deis-Swinbui ne. His accompanist
was Miss June Keller, Benton. Audience singing “America the
Beautiful,” which opened the convocation and the College Alma
Mater, which closed the exercises, was under the direction of
Miss Harriet M. Moore. Howard F. Fenstemaker, Sr., was at
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the console of the organ.

Graduates who completed the requirements for the degree
were: Paul Baker, Bloomsburg, Business; Edward Bollinger,
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Secondary; Rosanna Broadt, Bloomsburg, Secondary; Joseph Chesney, Mt. Carmel, Secondary; Anna Cumberland, Hunlock Creek, Secondary; John Davis, Kingston, Business; Doris
Hosier, Bloomsburg, Business; Clement Koch, Shenandoah, Business Lewis Kohn, Wilkes-Barre, Business; Ellen Moore Lipski, Edwardsville, Secondary; John Longo, Sheppton, Business;
Frank Molinaro, Pittsburg, Cal., Secondary; Anne Noithrup,
Dalton, Elementary; Clem Novak, Nanticoke, Business; Clayton Patterson, Nescopeck, Secondary; Theodore Radai, West
Hazleton, Secondary; Michael Remetz, Swoyerville, Secondary;
Donald Rishe, Bloomsburg, Business; Lawrence Ritmiller, Danville, Secondary; James P. Rooney, Philadelphia, Secondary;
Robert Schram, Pottsville, Business; Dorothy Winkleblech,
Woodland, Elementary.
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State Teachers College is the principal goal of a new campaign
by the General Alumni Association of the lo1 ‘ecently launched
cal college, according to an announcement made recently by
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the alumni group. Dr. Nelson
said that the General Alumni Association would stage a strenuous campaign to raise funds for the Husky Club, an organization of alumni and friends of the college who are interested in
Husky

athletic teams.

Although

final

plans have not yet been completed, the club

has decided to place a memorial

scroll,

honoring alumni

who

World War 11 and Husky Club members, in
the foyer of Centennial Gymnasium or some other suitable
place on the campus. Memorials or memberships in the Husky
Club are fifty dollars and already a number of memberships
have been secured. More are expected by Alumni Day in May.
gave their

lives in

Classes have been asked to sponsor memorials for classmates who made the supreme sacrifice in World War 11, and
Dr. Nelson said that quite a few class officei's have expressed

an interest

in

the plan.

of directors of the General Alumni Association
also considered a plan that would grant life-time passes for athletic events to Bloomsburg College athletes who, through their
participation in sports, have earned the College key. This has
been recognized at contests, but the alumni group feels that the
lifetime pass will be a suitable recognition in addition to the
key.
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One of the spectacular virtuosos of the American music
world was presented to a Bloomsburg audience when the State

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Teachei’s College presented Miss Louise Meiszner, accomplished
pianist, in a recital in the Carver Hall auditorium. Miss Meiszner is the first of several nationally-famous
artists listed on the College Artists Course program for 1948.

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Six students of Bloomsburg State Teachers College were
honored for high scholastic achievement in appropriate ceremonies held Tuesday, December 16 in the Carver Hall auditorium at the college. Announcement of the winners of the R.
Bruce Albeit Memorial Scholarship and the Irma Russell Ward
Scholarship as well as recipients of four general Alumni Association awards, was made by Di'. Kimber C. Kuster, chairman
of the faculty Scholarship Committee.
Miss Nerine Middlesworth, Troxelville, was given the
Bruce Albeit Memorial Scholarship which carries with it a
grant of one hundred dollars, while Miss Adda Myers, Hughesville, was presented the Irma Russell Ward Scholarship, an
award of fifty dollars. Winners of the four awards made by the
Alumni Association of the College were Miss Alberta Funk,
Danville; Miss Lillian Milkvy, Palmerton
Marvin Meneeley,
Aristes, and Leon Messner, Wisconisco. These grants were for
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Association, preceded the granting of the awards. Dr. Nelson
described the background of the Alumni Loan Fund and told
how the present fund is administered. He also described the excellent piece of work done by the late R. Bruce Albeit and the
story of the creation of the Memorial Scholarship which bears
his name. During his remarks. Dr. Nelson emphasized the need
of interested alumni and the importance of fund-raising in the
promotion of better relations between alumni and the College.
The Ii'ma Russell Ward Scholarship was presented by Dr.
Marguerite V. Kehr, dean of women.
Pi’esident Harvey A. Andruss presided over the Awards
Assembly and introduced Dr. Nelson. Brief devotional exercises preceding the ceremonies were in charge of Miss Ruth Von

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A distinctive program of piano music was presented in the
weekly assembly program on Thursday, December 4, by Joseph
Battista, noted American concert pianist. Mr. Battista, whose
artistry has thrilled thousands of Americans from coast to coast
in recent months, demonstrated flawless style and a colorful
technique in his well-arranged progi-am of works from composers, old and new.
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The Teacher Education and Ceitification Division of the
Depaitment of Public Instruction has released figures covering
the enrollments in the Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges as
of October 15, 1947. Bloomsburg occupies third place, being
surpassed only by West Chester and Indiana. This standing is
based upon the regular teacher education students, both on a
full-time and part-time basis.
It is worthy to note that Bloomsburg now has the largest
extension program of any State Teachers College in Pennsylvania, class enrollments I'eaching 261 while Edinboro has 218

and Indiana 139.
The Bloomsburg Department of Business Education is the
largest among the Teachers Colleges, with an enrollment of 376,
as compared with Indiana 324, and Shippensburg 216.
There is still a great scarcity of elementary teachers, since
all fourteen of the Teachers Colleges will gi-aduate less than
300 elementary teachers with the degree of Bachelor of Science

who

be available for service in September,
for September, 1949, will be
less than 100 greater than the 1948 group.
With contracts for repairs and renovations which are expected to cost $150,000 during the coming year, the facilities at
Bloomsburg are approaching their maximum use, and it is not
expected that the enrollment can be increased much beyond the
present total of 1,012, students, without marked changes in
policies and the use of more facilities and faculty than are now
in

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will

number expected

available.

Over 11,000 teacher education students are now enrolled
Teachers Colleges, and with a cooperative agreement with
Pennsylvania State College, about 1,200 freshmen are being acin

commodated, bringing the total to a figure well over 12,000
which is 50 per cent more than the enrollment ten years ago.
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Lois Evans, Morrisville, a freshman at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, is continuing her studies at the College
as the holder of the Mary Schuyler Scholarship. This scholarship has been established by the Morrisville Teachers Association in memory of the late Mary Schuyler, a native of Bloomsburg who seiwed in the Armed Eoi’ces dui'ing World War II.
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you are out motoring one of these days in the vicinBloomsburg and see a zebra gaily pulling a two-wheeled
cart along the highway or over the fields, with a young lady
handling the reins, you are not seeing a mirage but you are witity of

nessing the only sight of its kind in the world.
At least insofar as it is known, after considerable inquiry,
Gonga, the two-year-old zebra of George J. Keller, widely
known animal trainer, is the only zebra that works in harness
and does so as easily as a gentle pony.
Evidence that the animal is gentle and not of the tempermental type is provided by the fact that Keller allows his two
daughters. Misses Jane and Katie, to drive the zebra around
through the area. And the animal appears to enjoy these trips
as much as the two young ladies.
The zebra was born in the African jungle. It was purchased by Keller from a New York importer. The purpose at
is to school the zebra
in fact it remains so today
that time
so that a black panther will ride on its back.
Now that is something that no other animal trainer has
ever attempted. Everything natural is against it for in the jungle the members of the cat tribe use zebras as one of the items

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But Mr. Keller,

who has worked six different species of the
in the cage at the same time,
all natural enemies
cat tribe
believes that it can be accomplished. Thus far, in his patient
manner he has managed to get the zebra and panther together
in the cage without any “fireworks” and he I’egards that as a

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good beginning.

The zebra has been with Keller only since March and the
trainer says that the major portion of the credit for Gonga’s
progress to date goes to Ken Johnson.
Johnson and the animal get along like oldtime fiJends.
There were a couple of rough periods at the start, such as last
spring when Johnson and Norman Boyle took Gonga out for a
run and the zebra and his handlers temporarily parted company.

Upon
for

that occasion the zebra trotted down the highway
as passing motorists stared pop-eyed and

some distance

open-mouthed.
That was the time,

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Gonga without

success and then decided he would just wait
zebra was ready to call it a day. That method worked.
The animal came up to Johnson, much in the manner of a hound
dog to his master, and the two walked home together.
Now Johnson or Keller handles the zebra with the ease
that many handle ponies. The two-wheeled cart was secured
with the idea of aiding in the gentling program and Gonga has
proved to be a splendid pupil.
Perhaps the zebra was removed from the jungle before it
had time to decide whether it likes the natural surroundings or
not. But it has been domesticated for a long enough period to
until the

learn that

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participation

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the

“Bloomsburg Guidance

Plan” by members of the faculty of the State Teachers College
has meant much to the success of the unique counseling plan
inaugurated by the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club with the cooperation of Radio Station WCNR. Under the chairmanship of L. P.
Gilmore, supervising principal of the Bloomsburg Public
Schools, a committee consisting of President Harvey A. Andruss
and Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction at the College,
planned an extensive program of broadcasts based on vocational information asked for by pupils in the Bloomsburg High
School.

Ralph S. Herre, instructor in Social Studies at the College,
launched the 1947 program with an address on “Vocations,”
while a number of other faculty members including Dr. North
and Miss Della M. Thayer, College dietician, have taken part in
recent programs. The broadcasts feature a guest speaker who
presents the particular “Vocation of the Week” and a discussion group of high school students who ask questions regarding
the opportunities within that vocation and problems relating to
the occupation or profession.
While the broadcast is taking place, a larger group of boys
and girls is listening to the program which is piped directly to
a conference room at the high school. This group is in charge
of the vocational guidance counseioi' who leads a round table
discussion regarding the program immediately following the
broadcast.
The broadcasts have aroused considerable interest throughout the College service area, and listening groups have been
formed in a number of aj’ea high schools. Needless to say, the
College feels pride in the part it is playing in extending its service to high school students in the problem of selecting a vocation.

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declared Baron
is not only undesirable, but unwise,”
Hans DeMeiss-Teuffer, a Christian who lived with both Jews
and Arabs in Palestine, in an address delivered before a large
audience Thursday evening, January 22, at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
Speaking at a pi'ogram sponsored by the International Relations Fonim of the local branch of the American Association
of University Women, he added that were such a force to move
in, we were duty bound to include Russian troops, but diplomats
the world over have no idea of the price required by Russia to
get those troops home, once the partition has been consum-

Palestine

mated.
During his address, the speaker described the Arab frame
of mind and the historical background of the present JewishArab dispute over the Holy Land. He indicated the innumerable difficulties in the 'way of a peaceful settlement, pointing out
that the members of the Ai'ab League have already informed the
United Nations five-man committee that they may not expect

any Arab support.
Mrs. Marion T. Adams presided ovei' the meeting, and the
Bai’on was introduced by President Harvey A. Andruss.

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and secondary schools and State Teachers Colleges must go
hand in hand,” stated Harvey A. Andruss in a recent interview
as to the purpose and scope of the curriculum revision which is
under consideration for the public schools of Pennsylvania.
Two years ago, under the direction of Dr. Leversia Powers,
Chief, Elementary Education, Department of Public Instruction,
the first meetings in the elementary field were held. Administrators from all over the state were asked for their suggestions.

To aid in this problem, the Curriculum Committee of the
Board of Presidents for State Teachers Colleges, under the leadership of Dr. Robert M. Steele recently began a series of meetings to which each State Teachers College sends one representative. These hearing committees will suggest and discuss the
suitable changes in their resj^ective fields. From Bloomsburg
Mr. Wilson, English; Miss Waldron, mathematics; Mr. Lanterman, chemistry; and Miss Johnston, speech, have already attended these meetings for the other fields. Bloomsburg representatives will be George Keller, art; Dr. H. Russell, geography;
Peter Wisher, health and physical education; Dr. K. Kuster,
biological science; H. Lante)'man, physics; John Fisher, psychology; Edward Reams, social studies; Howard F. Fenstemaker, languages and Dr. Noith, education.
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The distinction of being the only institution of its kind participating in the nationwide testing program of the American
Institute of Accountants belongs to the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Sixty-seven leading universities
colleges
throughout the United States are participating in the A. I. A.
program which has as its primary purpose the promotion of better education among institutions which are preparing persons
for the accounting profession.
Bloomsburg is the only State Teachers College on the 1948
list of cooperating institutions which includes such nationallyfamous schools as the Harvard University School of Business,
Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania,
and Schools of Business and Commerce at the University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, University of Southern California and others.

and

The American Institute of Accountants, the national organization of certified public accountants, inaugurated this project
a number of years ago in order to improve the education of
students in the field of accounting. An improvement in instruction in public school accounting courses has been another important outgrowth of the program.
All students majoring in accounting at Bloomsburg will
take the examination which consists of a prognostic or general
accounting aptitude test and two comprehensive achievement
tests. The tests are given at the end of the third and sixth semesters of the accounting course. Results are interpreted in
terms of nationwide norms or standards, and Bloomsburg students can measure their progress and ability with comparable
scores in the sixty-six cooperating colleges.
Earl A. Gehrig, instructor in accounting in the Department
of Business Education, administers the local program. Mr. Gehrig stated that Bloomsburg students rate well in comparison
with hundreds of other accounting students who have taken the
tests during the past year.

John Purcell, Shenandoah, and Marie Stadts, Plymouth,
represented the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the National Student Association Conference held at the Pennsylvania
State College on December 19, 20 and 21.
Harry Reitz, Shamokin, President of the Community Government Association, also attended the conference as one of the
state officers of the organization which was formed during the
past summer at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Purcell is
treasurer of the Community Government Association while
Marie Stadts, is class dues treasurer. Both are very active in

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principals attended the annual Elementary Education Conference held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and heard
a frank discussion of problems in the field by Dr. Paul W. Bixby Associate Professoi', School of Education, Elementary Division, the Pennsylvania State College, and President Harvey A.
Andruss, of the local College. Included in the day-long session
were a series of demonstration lessons by members of the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin School, round table discussion
groups, a general conference assembly in the Carver Auditorium, and a luncheon in the College dining room.
Observers stated that the conference attracted the largest
crowd ever to attend a function of this kind “on the hill,” while
the crowd of more than three hundred persons who heard Dr.
Bixby deliver the feature address of the conference in the general assembly were enthusiastic about the affair. Dr. Bixby cfiscussed the subject, “Can the Teacher Change the Curriculum?”
while President Andruss, speaking at the conference luncheon
used as his topic “The Six Stages of Elementary Education.”
Miss Edna J. Hazen, director. Elementary Education, of the College, was general chairman of this very successful conference.
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in the town of Bloomsburg was made by students of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, and an attractive display of the gifts
was set up in the lobby of Waller Hall where it received much

favorable comment.

The collection was sponsored by the Student Christian Association for the Child Welfare Agency, Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Miss Mary Moser, Ringtown, and Miss LaFerne
Shirk, Richfield, headed a student committee which included
Harry Reitz, Shamokin Philip Joseph, Easton; Henry Crawford, Bloomsburg; Miss Martha Teel, Bloomsburg; and Miss
Patricia Taylor, Dushore.
A number of gifts were bought by individual students while
more expensive gifts were purchased by the committee from a
fund made up of cash contributions from the student body.
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A delegation from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
attended the funeral services of the late Alan C. McCracken,
Danville, at Gettysburg National Cemetery in November. The
former Danville man was killed during World War II in action
in the drive on the Ruhr River Valley in Germany on February
14, 1945. He was a student at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College when he enlisted in the armed forces in 1943.
Dean John A. Hoch represented the College faculty, while
the student body was represented by Henry Kulick, Mt. Carmel,
Millard Ludwig, Millville, and John Magill, Fern Glenn.
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Recognition for outstanding accomplishment in the field of
athletics at Bloomsburg State Teachers College was accorded three freshmen women at a get-together of members of
the “B” Club and intramural athletic teams held recently at the
home of Miss Lucy McCammon, director of physical education
for women at the College. Miss McCammon announced that
point requirements for numerals had been met by Lois Evans,
Morrisville; Mary Ellen Grube, Bethlehem, and Hildegarde
Hurm, Tacony.
The three numeral winners won their award in less than a
semester, accomplishing what is usually a year’s work in fifteen
weeks. Miss McCammon stated that few women in recent years
have been able to earn the numeral award in such shoit time,
and the achievement of these freshmen women is praiseworthy.
During the evening. Miss Eloise Noble, Milanville, was presented the “B” award for successful accumulation of the points
necessary to win the coveted monogram. There were fifty-three
women present at the party.

women

Reviving a practice which was abandoned during the war
years, fifteen seniors in Business Education at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College are doing practice teaching in the Williamsport Public Schools. A number of the Bloomsburg students
are teaching in the Williamsport High School, while others are
teaching in the various junior high schools in the city.
The following students left the campus at the end of the
current month to begin their new duties: Sarah Graham,
Bloomsburg; John Guy, Nesquehoning William Benson, MooCarolyn Hower, Bloomsburg; John O’Donnell, Coaldale;
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Francis Hantz, Duiyea Raymond Popick, Forest City; Henry
Crawford, Bloomsburg; Alfred Davis, Dallas; Jack Furman,
Wyalusing; Shirley Henley, Scranton; George Stasko, WilkesBarre; Dorothy Mitten, Camptown Sam Pleviak, Carbondale
Theodore Harwood, Plymouth.
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Constance and Hai’mon Helmericks, authors of the best
seller “We Live in Alaska,’’ spoke at the regular weekly assembly program at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Tuesday, January 13.
The couple, which lived in the Arctic wastes for tWenty-six
months came to Bloomsburg less than four weeks after leaving
their home in the Arctic Circle.
The Helmericks presented a fascinating story of their
sti'uggle against natui'e in a rare documentary film of exquisite
color pictures. Mr. Helmericks related the story of their adventures during the showing of the pictures. Many new and interesting revelations of life in the Alaskan country were made by
the noted travelers who are prepai-ing to return to their northern home early this spring.
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Dr. Thomas P. Noith, Dean of Instruction at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, attended the Regional Conference
on Teacher Education, Certification and Professional Standards
held at Washington, D. C., on December twelfth and thirteenth.
Dean North, who is president of the Department of Higher Education of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, is also
advisor to the National Commission on Teacher Education and

Professional Standards.
Participation in this year’s conference is limited to fifty
key officials of state departments of education, state educational
associations, regional accrediting associations, national professional organizations and institutions of teacher education. Dr.
North said that the purpose of the 1947 conference was to plan
for action in the states on current educational problems, particularly in the fields of certification standards and professional
standards for teachers.
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has been received of the death of Mrs. Nora Supplee,
widow of the late Horace G. Supplee, both former
Bloomsburg residents, in a Chicago hospital. She had been ill

eighty-one,
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living on the Bryfogle farm, near River

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Her husband was associated in a grain store business, for
some years and later operated a furniture store.
The couple later moved to Chicago where they resided for
several years. Her husband preceded her in death about five
years ago.
Mrs. Supplee

was a former member of the Bloomsburg
Baptist Church.
She is survived by two children, George W. Supplee, a missionary to Assam, India, and Miss Mabel G. Supplee, of Chicago:
four grand children and one great grandchild.
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Nine students at the Teachers College have been chosen to
appear in the 1947-48 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students
in American Universities and Colleges.’’ This honor has been
conferred upon these students because of their outstanding
achievements in scholarship, campus activities, and leadership
as evidenced by service to the college. The following are the
students from the college who have been honored with a place
in

the annual publication:

Anne Baldy, Catawissa; Betty

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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

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Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

Edward

F.

Schuyler

Smith

H. F. Fenstemaker

Elizabeth H. Hubler

1883

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1888
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22
CLASS REUNION

On January 4, 1946,
called to her reward.

Anna M.

Hine, of

Conyngham,

Pa.,

She was a member of the Class of
1888 and had been looking forward expectantly to another reunion of her class in May, next.

was

Her contribution to education covered a period of fortyseven years of teaching, nearly all of which was given in one of
the schools in Conyngham. In 1938 a retired status was accepted. She took pride in commenting that many in her later classes
were pupils representing the second generation of those previously under her instruction. The pall bearers that canned her
casket were her former pupils.
Miss Hine was a life-long member of the Methodist Church.
She was also a chailer member of the local Rebekah Lodge, a
sisterhood of the Odd Fellows.
Her only survivor is a brother, Harry O. Hine, also a
Bloomsburg graduate, of the Class of 1885, now residing in
Washington, D. C., as the retired Secretary of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia.

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Samuel James Johnston, seventy-four, Bloomsburg civicand businessman for over a half century, who
made many outstanding contributions to the community of his
adoption, died at 6:30 o’clock Monday, December 22, in the
leader, educator

Geisinger Hospital, Danville.

He made his own arrangements for his removal to the Geisinger Hospital, his death occurring a short time later fi’om a
heart attack.
While his health was not of the best, he continued active
and his death came as a profound shock to his family and his
legion of friends. His death severed a marital union of fiftytwo years last June 26.
A native of Light Street, he was born July 17, 1873, the
son of Robert Charles and Martha Grimes Johnston. He attended the schools of his native village and matriculated at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, from which he graduated
with the class of 1893. In 1943 he was the moving spirit in the
fifty-year reunion of his class.
For two score years he was an able educator. He began
his teaching in the Grovania School, Montour township, and
then taught in Scott township, 1895-1896, and was assistant
principal at Nescopeck, 1897-98. He was principal of the Millville High School, 1899-1904, and principal of the Third Street
school, here from 1904 to 1914.
It was at that time that he turned his abilities to other
walks of life. In 1915 he became business manager of the Daily
Sentinel, then an afternoon daily, here. Two years later he went
with the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company as business
manager of its Danville, Berwick and Bloomsburg plants, remaining in that position from 1917 to 1919.
In April 10, 1919, the Hotel Magee was incorporated and
Mr. Johnston accepted the position of manager and treasurer.
In 1923 the hotel was purchased by Harry L. Magee, Mr. Johnston and the late Willie Law and John W. Knies and he then became comptroller-treasurer. He occupied that position at the
time of his death.
He was for many years comptroller and treasurer of the
Leader store, owned and operated by the same company from
1921 until its liquidation in 1940.
In addition to serving his home community in many positions, such as being president of the Retail Merchants Association for two years, he was also president of the National Industrial Stores Association, a far-fiung organization of 2,000 members operating 4,100 stores. He served as its head for two
terms, the only man in the history of the oi-ganization to be reelected to the post.
His interests were many and these included Susquehanna
University which he was serving as a trustee at the time of his
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death. He was a member of the American Hotel Association,
and the Pennsylvania Hotel Association.
Fraternally he was a member of Caldwell Consistory, Irem
Temple, Shrine, Wilkes-Barre, and the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He was a charter member of the Rotary Club and
long an active member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church and
served as the head of about all of its committees, councils and
organizations.
In the erection of the present splendid edifice he served as
the chairman of the finance committee. He was also secretary
of the church council for five years and its treasurer many years.
He was ever responsive to appeals for the betterment of
Bloomsburg and had a commanding part in the successful campaigns for the boulevard lights, the public library and the
Bloomsburg Hospital, serving as a division manager in both the
hospital and library drives.
Throughout his life he had a great interest in youth and
in sports, with baseball his first love in athletics. He numbered
many of the leading figures in the national pastime as his
friends. His favorite team in professional baseball was the
Philadelphia Athletics. He was a close friend of venerable Connie Mack, leader of the A’s, and through much of his life was
acquainted with many of the leading stars on the roster of the

Mackmen.
Surviving are his wife, the former Irene Girton, whom he
married June 26, 1895; two nieces, Mrs. George Frees and Mrs.
Robert Ikeler, of Rupert one grand nephew and five grand
nieces and two great grand nephews and two great grand
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educators, Calvin P. Readier,
Hobbie. He had been ill for two
weeks and bedfast for ten days of that time.
Mr. Readier was born in Hollenback Township and spent
his entire life in the Briggsville and Hobbie area. He was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal school in 1893 and for fifty
years he served as a teacher in the Nescopeck, Hollenback and
Conyngham Township schools. He retired from teaching three
years ago while serving the Pond Hill school.
His wife, the former Mary Bloss, joined with him in celebrating their golden wedding anniversary last August 11.
The deceased man was a member and ardent supporter of
the St. Peter’s Reformed Church, Hobbie. He was a member
of the Consistory, a Bible Class teacher and held office in the
Church Council of that church for the past thirty years.
Survivors include his wife, two sons, Douglas, of Hobbie,
and Harold, of Philadelphia; a brother Lyman, of West Pittston, and eight grandchildren.
of the region’s

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1898
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DAY — MAY 22
1903
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22
1908
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22
1913
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22

CLASS REUNION

1915
Helen Harris (Mrs. G. W. Aleton) lives at Orange Square,
Poll Jervis, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Aleton recently announced the engagement of their daughter, Emily, to Mr. Wilbur Pv,. Lain, also of Port Jervis. Miss Aleton is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina, with the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Pharmacy. She is associated with her father in
business.

1918
— ALUMNI
DAY — MAY 22
1923
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22
1928
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22
1933
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY — MAY 22

CLASS REUNION

J. Ernest Nachod, Jr., nee Vivian Yeany, of Newark,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Yeany, East Third Street,
died Tuesday, December 2 in the Wilmington General Hospital,
where she had been a patient for three weeks. Death was due

Mrs.

Del.,

to complications.

A native of Steelton, where she was born December 23,
1911, she was a graduate of the Steelton High School, class of
i929, and also of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class
of 1933. Prior to her marriage on August 22, 1936, she had
taught in the high school at Hickory, Pa. She had resided in
Newark for the past three years and had been ill for a year.
Her condition was critical three weeks.
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John Hendler, president of the class, is now teaching busHigh School, Newark, New Jersey.
Since graduation Mr. Hendler taught at the Coughlin High
School, Wilkes-Barre, and was in the Army for approximately
iness subjects in East Side

four years.
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Mr. Hendlei’ as president, has started to make plans for a
reunion on Alumni Day. Since this class has never had a reunion because of the war years, plans are being made for a
large ten-year reunion.

1940
In a candlelight setting in Trinity Lutheran Church, Pottsville. Miss Lorraine C. Snyder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Snyder, Pottsville, became the bride of Eugene L. Jones, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jones, Humboldt, Kansas, at six o’clock
Saturday evening, December 27.
The bride is a graduate of Pottsville High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and attended summer sessions at
Temple University, Philadelphia, and the University of Michigan, at Ann Harbor. At present she is teaching in the training
school at B. S. T. C.
Ml-. Jones attended a Kansas City high school and is at
present majoring in music at the University of Wichita, Wichita.

Kansas.

1941
son was born on December 3, 1947, to Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Shughaif, of New Bloomfield, Pa. Mrs. Shughart was the
former Mary L. Bretz. Mr. Shughart is employed at the Naval
Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pa.

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CLASS REUNION
CLASS REUNION

1947
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The engagement of Miss Evelyn Hirt to Edward J. Hollis,
Hazleton, was announced at a party at the home of the for-

mer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hiit, Berwick R. D., foiTner-

Bloomsburg, recently.
Miss Hilt is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School, class
of 1944, and both are graduates of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, class of 1947. Miss Hirt is a member of the faculty of
the Wernersville High School.
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1948
Clease R. Collins, of 125 E. 13th Street, Berwick, has announced the engagement of his daughter, Betty June, to J. Gilbert Henrie, Jr., of Grovania.
Miss Collins graduated from the Berwick High School,
East Stroudsburg State Teachers College (1943) and recently
received her Masters Degree from Columbia University. She
taught for two years in the Berwick Senior High School before
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tion at Frances Shimer College, Mount Carroll, Illinois. This is
Miss Collins’ third year of teaching at Frances Shimer College.
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Mr. Heni'ie graduated from the Bloomsburg High School
with the class of 1938. He served with the Seventh Air Force
during World War 11. He is now completing his senior year at

Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
1949
Miss Nancy Carol McHenry, of Stillwater, and Donald
Earl Snyder, of Milton, were married recently. Both are now
students at Bloomsburg.
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C. Orvey Long, sixty-six, of Benton, foi-mer professional
baseball player, died in Harrisburg Sunday, January 4, following an acute heart attack.
The son of the late Bradley and Evaline Long, he was born
in Sugarloaf Township April 16, 1881, where he made his home
until recent years. He had attended the public schools of Sugarloaf and Benton. Later matriculating at the Bloomsburg State
Normal School and Gettysburg College, he was active in athletics, especially baseball and football.
Mr. Long entered upon a professional baseball career in
1905. He was a pitcher for the Raymond, Virginia, and the
Greensboro, Noith Carolina, clubs for many seasons.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie McHenry Long, of
Benton; one brother, Hany E. Long, and a nephew, Harvey O.
Long, both of Sugarloaf.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gleason Girton, of Iron Street, town, have announced the engagement of their daughte)’, Meryl, to William
J. Tiddy, Jr., of Shamokin.
Miss Girton is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
class of 1945, and is employed as bookkeeper-secretary to Joseph C. Neibeid, local hardwareman.
Mr. Tiddy is a graduate of Shamokin High School, class of
1944, and served in the army air corps during World War 11.
He is now a student at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mercer, of West Third Street,
town, announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia J.
Mercer, to K. Rodney Morgans, of WilliamspoH.
Miss Mercer is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School,
class of 1947, and is now attending the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where she is enrolled in a business course.
Mr. Morgans is a graduate of the South Williamspoit High
School, class of 1944 and is taking a secondary education course
at B. S. T. C., where he is also a member of the football team.
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served thiity-two months in the Marine Corps, radar dividuring World War II, with fifteen months spent on the
island of Ulithi near the Philippines.

sion,

Mrs. James Mclver, of Pittsburgh, has announced the marher sister, Miss Dorothy R. Berninger, of Mifhinville,
and M. Lee Hippensteel, well known Bloomsburg man. The
ceremony was performed at noon, on Wednesday, December 31,
in the Center Street Methodist Church of Cumberland, Md.
The Rev. Walter Michael performed the ceremony, at
which the couple were unattended.
The bride, a graduate of Mifflinville High School and of
B. S. T. C., is teacher of the second grade in the Mifflin school.
The groom, son of Mrs. Eber Remley, of Bloomsburg, is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and a former student at B. S.
T. C. He served with the Medical Corps of the Army in World
War 11. He was for a time director of veterans affairs in this
county but resigned to become a rural mail carrier for BloomsI'iage of

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Mrs. C. Clark Fuller, of Berwick, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Madge Fuller, to Robeit F. Jones,
son of Mrs. Daniel F. Jones, of East Third Street, Nescopeck.
Miss Fuller is a junior at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and Mr. Jones is engaged in the coal and trucking business.

Collins Wanich, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Collins Wanich,
Light Street, recently received serious injuries in a jeep accident near Cairo, Egypt, where he is a teacher in the high
school for American childi'en. He was reported to be recovering from brain concussion which caused temporary blindness.
Information received by his parents of the accident, which
occurred November 2, was in a lettei' from a fellow teacher and
was dated three days after the accident occurred. Wanich was
at the time, slowly regaining his sight at the Anglo-American
Hospital in Cairo.
The injuries, which included shock and concussion, were
sustained when the jeep in which he was riding skidded into a
calf and then into a tree during a torrential rainstorm. Wanich
was returning with a friend to Cairo from Maadi.
Mr. Wanich has been teaching math and physical education at the American school since the Fall of 1946.
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body of an Orange man believed to have been dead for ten days.
Dr. L. S. Reese county coroner, said James Shaw died as a
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newspaper

to

have been taken into

the December 5 date.
Mr. Shaw, at one time principal in Wyoming Borough
schools, was well known in the Orange section, and his disappearance was noted by many residents.
When he did not appear for a week. State Police and Dr.
Reese were notified and they went to the home.
The deceased was well known as an educator, having
taught not only in Wyoming, but in Philadelphia, New York
and elsewhere.
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Donald E. Bangs, of Greenwood Township, has accepted a
position as rural improvement representative with the First National Bank of Millville.
Mr. Bangs was born and reared in a farm family in Green-

wood Township, was graduated from the Greenwood schools
and from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
He taught in the public schools of Pine and Greenwood
Townships seven years and for the past seven years sold dairy
equipment and dairy supplies in Columbia and other counties
west of Millville for the Girton Sales Company.
Mr. Bangs entered this new field the first week of December. He and his family reside in Greenwood Township.

The following article, which appeared in a recent issue of
a Noith Carolina newspaper, tells of the recent death of the
husband of Jeanne Knapp Ames:
Funeral services for Leslie Russell Ames, .57, Raleigh business man and former chief engineer of the State Highway Department who died at Rex Hospital Sunday, were conducted
from Brown’s Funeral Home, Monday afternoon.
The Rev. Ray Holder, rector of Christ Episcopal Church,
had charge of the services and was assisted by the Rev. J. M.
Dick of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Burial was in Oak-

wood cemetery.
Pallbearers were George Harris, Roy Flynn, Atlas Griffis,
Rudolph Harris, Oscar Murray, Garland Broadwell, W. B.
Duke, W. M. Ross, Shade Reardon, Roger Bailey, L. A. Johnson
and Pete Rivers, all associates of Mr. Ames in the Ready Mix
Concrete Company.
Mr. Ames had been in ill health for several weeks and was
under treatment at the hospital at the time of his death. He was
a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Ames, of Morristown,
N. Y., and was educated in the Morristown public schools, Cornell University and Clarkson College at Potsdam, N. Y., where
he received an honorarv B. S. degree in Civil Engineering in
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He moved to North Carolina to become associated with the
Southern Power Companj- at Bridgewater and joined the State
Highway Commission in 1919. He was appointed chief engineer in 1927 and resigned in 1937 to become chief engineer of
the Louisana highway division under the late Governor Huey
Long. However, he returned to his old position in North Carolina after a few months.
He remained as chief engineer in this state until 1933 when
he resigned to form a partnership with S. C. Webb in the AmesWebb general contracting firm. He opened a branch of the
firm in Norfolk, Va., during the war and returned later to become general manager of the Ready Mix Concrete Company.
He was vestryman of Christ Church, a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, was a 32nd degree Mason
and formerly served as president of the North Carolina Road
Builders’ Association.
Sui'viving are his wife, former Jeannie Knapp, one brother,
Leland Ames, of Buffalo, N. Y. and one nephew. Dr. Wendell
Ames, of Olean, N. Y.
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William McKelvey Rutter, forty-foui’, chief counsel for the
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission at Harrisburg and a
native of Bloomsburg, died at Reading Friday, December 19, a

few mirrutes after

sufferiirg a heart attack.

Mr. Rutter was a former’ Reading solicitor, a former state
deputy attorrrey general and a former Republican county chairman for Ber-ks County.
It was durirrg a coirfererrce that he sustairred the attack. A
physician was called and his removal to a hospital advised.
Death occur*red before reaching the institution.
Mr. Rutter* was born in Bloomsburg June 13, 1903, the sorr
of the late Johrr C. Rutter, Jr., and Harriet N. McKelvey RutHe atterrded public schools here and was gi’aduated from
the Bloomsbui*g High School in 1920. Following graduation
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from the Bloomsbui'g Normal School he entered Hobart College
arrd received his A. B. in 192.5 and the Bachelor of Law Degree
from Harvard University in 1931.
On July 14, 1931, he was mai'ried to the former Elizabeth
N. Pappe, of Cleveland, Ohio. One son, David, was born of that
mari*iage.

Mr. Rutter was a member of the Berks County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Association. He was admitted to practice before the state and supreme courts.
From 1933 to 1937 the deceased was assistant city solicitorin Berks Couirty, resigning that position to campaign for the
judgeship of Berks Courrty.
In 1939 he joined the Pennsylvania legal staff as deputy
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attorney general and in January, 1947, resigned to become chief
counsel for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
During 1940 and 1941 Mr. Rutter was Republican county
chaii'man of Berks County.
Surviving are his wife, two sons, William McKelvey Rutter,
Jr., of Bloomsburg, son of a prior marriage, and David, of Reading; and four brothei’s, Louis N., of Bloomsburg; George M., of
Ai-mond Beach, Fla. Capt. James B., of Bethany Beach, Calif.,
and Robeit C., of Huston, Texas.
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Ronald F. Keeler, a native of Bloomsburg, and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Malan A. Keeler, who now reside at Stillwater, is the
author of the handbook entitled “Suggestions for Socials,’’ it
was learned recently.
Keeler, who is now a member of the Minnesota Bible College faculty, in addition to ministerial duties at Nevis, Minnesota, was active in youth woi'k in Columbia County prior to his
move to the midwest. In his book, recently published by the
Standard Publishing Company, of Cincinnati, the author expresses his appreciation to the youth of Pennsylvania and Minnesota for aiding him in experimenting with his new ideas.

The book, dedicated to his parents, incorporates many new
features to be used at social gatherings. Primarily designed
for young people’s groups, the manual is acceptable for any social function.
“Suggestions for Socials’’ is Keeler’s first book, but not his
first published work. At the age of twelve one of his articles appeared in a weekly publication of large circulation. Since then
he has had numerous articles and short stories published.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where
he was an editor of the College Yeai' Book, Keeler was also
graduated from the institution at which he now teaches. He received his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota, where
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All the dash and color of a full-scale election campaign and
the excitement of election day went on parade Thursday, April
8, when students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College voted for officers of the Community Government Association for
1948-49. In fact, veteran observers on the campus stated that
no other election held at this hilltop college ever attracted tlv-e
interest and enthusiasm of the College community as did this
year’s exciting contest.
Huge, glaring posters in brilliant color created great splashes of color in the various areas where students congregate. The
walls of the newly refurnished Waller Hall gymnasium and corridors of campus buildings and dormitories bore the evidences
of hard work and planning by campaign committees eager to
see their candidates elected.
Visitors to the campus were surprised to see several spotlighted banners hung from dormitory windows urging students
to “Vote for Swiggy,’’ while cleverly-designed placards posted
near the electric water fountains in dormitory lobbies advised
drinkers to “Quench Your Thirst and Satisfy Your Mind with
a Vote for Purcell.’’ Other humorous posters spelled the name
of the candidates for student government offices with each letter standing for the candidate’s best qualities.
One enterprising candidate for the office of vice-president
passed out toothpicks to students passing through the cafeteria
line in the College dining room, while his opponent retaliated
with colorful packages of paper matches.
Gifts of chewing
gum and cigaretes were much in evidence as enterprising committeemen sough to sway voter opinion.
More than eight hundred students went to the polls to elect
their officers for the coming school year after having heard
each of the candidates for office review his qualification in a
special pre-election mass meeting held in the Waller Gymnasium.
These campaign speeches officialy wound up an intensive campaign, and each candidate urged the students to turn out and
vote, continuing the “democratic way of life’’ at Bloomsburg.
The election procedure, patterned after public elections, was
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set up by an election board of which John Morgan, Old Forge,
and Julia Pichel, Hellertown, were the co-chairmen. This board
and the election officials were advised by Robert Van Sickle,
deputy treasurer for Columbia county, in a special meeting held
earlier in the week.
Other members of the board were: Eloise
Noble, Milanville; June Saxton, Mauch Chunk; Robert Reitz,
Shamokin; Frank Dean, Lost Creek; eKnneth Wire, Harrisburg;
Jack Gillung, Brock way.
Election officials were sworn in by Charles Schieffer. Steelton .in special ceremonies observed in the weekly assemblv program held in Carver Hall auditorium. Students who served as
judge of election were Edward Baker, Spring City; Donald Maietta, Williamsport, and Mildred Palumbo. Mt. Carmel.
Majority
inspectors were Gloria Galow, Hazleton Charles Boyer, Pottsville; Matt Maley, Pottsville. and Berdine Logar, Weston,
Minority inspectors were Rose Thompson. Towanda; Marcella Evasic, Luzerne, and John Morgan.
Those who helped as minority
clerks were Mary Ellen Grube, Bethlehem; Joe Sopko, Carbondale; Philip Joseck, Easton, and Shirley Donnelly. Willow Grove.
Santo Prete. Hazleton, and Alfred Marchetti, Tamaqua. acted
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as constables.

Members of the watchers’ staff follow: Carol Stair. Wapwallonen; Dorothy Mever. Nanticoke; Hidegard Hurm, Taconv;
Ruth Doody, Canadensis: Charles Kazm.erovicz, Plains; Kenneth
Borst. Equ'unk; John Klotsko, New Philadelphia, and Shirley
Boughner, Trevorton.
During the balloting, the election board put on a series of
demonstrations to show the students election procedure in unusual s tuations. Joseph Vincent, Ashley, portrayed the part of
a man with two broken arms. George Remetz, Swoyerville. assisted him through the voting procedure and helped him cast
his ballot.

The part of the blind man who wanted to vote was plaved
bv Robert Llewellvn, Wilkes-Bare. He was aided by Shirley
Walters, Factory ville. Several students had their right to vote
challenged by election officials and other students acted as witnesses to certifv as to them eligibility.
Thaddeus Swigonski. of Nanticoke, a member of the junior
class, will serve as president of the Community Government Association during the college year of 1948-49.
Other officers chosen along with him were Frank Lucknick,
Mount Carmel, sophomore and a member of the varsity football
squad, vice president; Miss Dorothy Lovett, sophomore, Nanticoke, secretary and Joseph Curilla, of Shamokin, treasurer. All
of the men are World War II veterans.
Thus ended the most heated election in the history of the
local institution, one in which the ballots were counted thrice.
The last count was made by the legislative committee of the
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versy was placed.
While additional ballots were invalidated as the count progressed, the final results placed in office those who had received
majority votes on each of the tabulations.
There was only one vote separating the candidates for president when the election board made the count the day of the election.

This count was started before the polls closed. Included in
the allegations at that time were that those who had no right to
be present at the count were in attendance and that rival campaign managers who rush out from time to time to round up
voters.

When

the second count was made two ballots were invaliThen the matter was turned over to the legislative committee which made a re-check. It was reported that the committee invalidated about fifty ballots because of check marks instead of crosses, erasures or other illegal marks of identification.
At any rate the student body, which was considerably “hepped up” both by the strenuous campaign and the repercussions
that followed can settle down to the current term. The election
is history.
Tales which have the campaign as a basis, however,
dated.

many

a discussion for years to come.
in the history of American education, the three leading national teacher organizations have begun functioning as a single, unified organization to
be known as the American Association of Colleges for Teacher
will feature

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what was acclaimed as a milestone

Education.

Among

the 260 colleges and universities affected by the
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, which is represented in the new association by President Harvey A. Andruss.

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Lieutenant General Idwal H. Edwards, of the Army Air
Force, was the principal speaker at the thirtv-eighth annual
banquet of the Saint David’s Society, held at the Hotel Jermyn,
Scranton, on Monday evening, March 1, 1948.
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Dr. Leon H. Bryant, who has had his offices at 908 Chimes
Building, Syracuse, New York, will be located at 712 University
Block, Syracuse.
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Bloomsburg State Teachers College was repi’esented at the
Seventh Annual Vocatioal Guidance Clinic sponsored by the
Kiwanis Club of Pittston and held Friday, April ninth, at the
West Pittston High School. John A. Hoch, dean of men, served
as Counselor for Teaching during the morning sesion.
There
was an attendance of 1800 juniors and seniors from the schools
or the Greater Pittston area for the affair, which has become
one of the largest of its kind in the state of Pennsylvania.
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DAVID L 6LOVER
David Livingston Glover, eighty-one, of Hazleton, a member of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Class of 1886 and
long a trustee of the local institution, died Saturday, January 19,
at his home from heart trouble.
He had been ill several
months.

He was in Bloomsburg in the Spring of 1946 to attend the
sixtieth year reunion of his class.
He was first appointed a
trustee at the time the institution was a Normal School and a
half of the trustees were selected by the school and half named
by the state. He remained on the board until around 1930 and
after it had become a Teachers College.
He was one of the
board present when the first degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education was presented in 1927 and he was serving at the time
that Dr. Francis B. Haas now Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Commonwealth, was chosen president at Bloomsburg.
He was born in Hazleton on December 17, 1886, the son of
the late Robert V. and Helen Gellman Glover. He was a grandson of John Glowr, pioneer settler in Buffalo Valley, who served
in the Revolutionary War.
He studied law in the office of his brother, Horace P. Glover, and was admited to practice before the Union county bar in
1893. He practiced with his brother until 1914 in the law firm
of Glover and Glover and then, following the brother's death,
continued practice alone. He was a member of the Union County
Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.
He served as district attorney of Union county from 1896 to
1908. For fifteen years he was solicitor of Mifflinburg and for
more than twenty years president of the school board in his
home community. In 1898 he organized the Mifflinburg volunteer hose company and served as its president for twenty years.
He served on the visiting committee of the Lafayette College alumni and was a trustee of the Presbyterian Central Pennsylvania home at Newvdlle. He served the Mifflinburg Bank and
Trust Company as its trust officer, director and president and
at the time of his death was chairman of the board.
He was a member of the Council of National Defense in
World War I and active in the war loand drives. He had similiar
duties in

World War

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a member of the Presbyterian Church of Mifflinburg, serving as a trustee and elder for over thirty-five years.
He was also superintendent of the Sunday School. He served
as a trustee of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, being a member of
the Lafayette chapter. He was a member of the Mifflinburg
Lodge, F. & A. M. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth
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services were held in the First Presbyterian
Church, Mifflinburg. The Rev. J. C. Moore, retired Presbyterian
pastor, and the Rev. Dr. William Rearick, retired Lutheran minister, officiated. Burial was in West Side Cemetery, Mifflinburg.
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stiring appeal for a Christian outlook in a troubled world

8, by Norman S. Horner, missionary
and special representative of the National Student Service Association in an assembly program held in the Carver Hall Auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Horner,
who is on furlough from a Presbyterian mission in Cameroon,
South Africa, spoke on the subject, “The Challenge of Foreign

was made Thursday, April

Missions.”

Mr. Horner, in a most interesting fashion, told the college
audience that people have too long confused and ignored the
command of Christ to His disciples to go into all the world and
preach the gospel to all nations. He then classed Christians according to their outlook on the problem of world missions. Some
he caUede amateur anthropologists. These are the people who
question the ability of foreign people to comprehend the Christian message. Others he termed spiritual
myopics, who are
nearsighted and argue that “charity should begin at home.”
Mr. Horner admitted that their claim is probably true, but asked whether it has to stop there.
Many Christians can be termed “businessmen” because they
are vitally concerned about investments in the mission field.
Rather than question the wisdom of the investments, these people, Mr. Horner said, should learn more about foreign lands and
their tremendous economic possibilities. He called some church
workers “Mr. Worldly Wise.” These are the people who question the practice of taking the Christian religion to a people
already have one. The speaker stated emphatically that
people in most of the mission fields have no organized religion
to begin with and should be given an opportunity of hearing the

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Christian message.
In conclusion Mr. Horner pointed out the great need in the
world of an intelligent and informed outlook toward the foreign
missions and pointed out that in this field there are opportunities for Christian service that should not go unnoticed by college

men and women.
He was introduced by

E. A. Reams, chairman of the faculty
assembly committee while President Harvey A. Andruss pi'esided over brief devotional exercises.
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“Variations,” a series of original dramatic sketches by Miss
Elissa Landi, noted stage and scren star, featured the famous
actress’ appearance at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Monday evening, March fifteenth.
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business and fraternal lilfe of the community for almost a haif
century, died Thursday, February 12, in the Geisinger Hospital,
Danville, from complications following an operation.
Critical since the preceding Saturday, when he was returned to the hospital from his home on East street, he was rational
almost to the end.
Mr. Townsend had been ill for about seven weeks. He improved rapidly following the operation and was convalescing at
his home and apparently v/ell on his way to recovery when he
sustained a relapse.
Two years ago he sustained a heart attack and was confined to his home for a time. His recovery, however, allowed
him to return to his duties and he appeared in his usual health
until the final illness.
A lifelong Republican and active in the councils of the party
for many years, he was elected county auditor last November
but his illness prevented him from ever assuming that office.
He served as county treasurer, by appointment from 1933
to 1935 and was deputy prothonotary for two years during the
administration of his brother, Harry W. Townsend, and the Republican candidate for that office in 1943. For four years and
until just prior to the election last Fall he was county registration clerk.

He was

active in the civic affairs of his community, serving
council, 1911-1915, and was
a member of the school board for twelve years.
For eighteen years he served as a trustee of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and throughout his life took a keen
interest in the school program here.
He was a member of the Bloomsburg board of of health for
more than a quarter of a century and was serving as its president at the time of his death.
graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and of a tailoring school in New York, he was long identified with his father,
the late John R. Townsend, and later with his brother in the
operation of a men’s clothing store at the corner of Main and
Center streets, the site of the present Martha Washington Hotel,
until that business was discontinued about eighteen years ago.
Following that and until he entered public life he was soliciting director for the First National Bank and was serving as
a director of that institution at the time of his death.
He was active on the civilian front during the periods of
both Warold Wars I and II. During the conflict of 1917-18, he
served as one of the “Minute Men” that had an active part in

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Mr. Townsend in October, 1940, was chosen chairman of
District No. 1 draft board, Bloomsburg, and continued in that
office for several years, resigning to become deputy prothonotary.

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member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, he was
of the vestry for twenty-five years and in recognition
of his service last j^ear was named an honorary member of the
vestry.
His interest in all phases of the life in Bloomsburg was
broad and through the years he was secretary or treasurer of
numerous organizations.
He was a prominent member of the Masonic bodies and was
honored at Cincinnati in 1932 when he was crowned a Thirtythird Degree Mason.
He was commander-in-chief of Caldwell
Consistory from 1942 to 1945 and during a period when the
Consistory made many strides forward.
member of Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M., he
was a past worshipful master of that body.
He was also a
member of Bloomsburg Royal Arch Chapter, No. 218, and Crua

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Red Cross of Constantine; a member and past president of the
Craftsman Club; a member of Irem Temple Shrine, WilkesBarre, and of the Bloomsburg Shrine Club.
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of the country’s top-flight musical groups, the Rus-

sian Operatic Quartet, presented the final number on the 1948
Artists Course program at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursda yevening, April eighth, at 8:15 o’clock.
Organized in 1945, the “Russian Stars of Opera’’ have made an enviable reputation in appearances throughout the United States

and Canada.

The talented group appeared in a summer session concert
here last year, and a large and appreciative audience enjoyed a
highly interesting progra mof Russian music. A demand at that
time for a later appearance led college authorities to secure
these distignuished artists for an entertainment course number.
The group was under the direction of Dr. Antin Rudnitsky,
famous composer and conductor.
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Mrs. Louise

Adams Bachman and

Paul H. Trescott, both of
Philadelphia, were married Wednesday, March 10, by the Rev.
Howard J. Bell at the manse of Carmel Presbyterian Church in
Glenside, Pa. The bride, a graduate of the Berwick High School,
the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and of the Philadelphia
School of Industrial Art, is advertising director for Deweed, one
of Philadelphia’s leading women’s specialty stores.
Mr. Trescott is an editorial writer for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
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Noetling Hall To Be Remodeled
Remodeling of Noteling Hall, one of the oldest buildings on
the campus of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, will be undertaken in the near future according to an announcement made
by President Harv^ey A. Andruss who disclosed that there is
$35,000 available for the job. Priority will be given to a day
m.en’s lounge that will be suitable for the large number of commuting male students now enrolled at the College.
Although the plans for remodeling are quite indefinite, for
as yet an architect has not been employed, it is believed that the
new lounge will be placed on the second floor of the hall. Alumni
of the College will recall that bookkeeping classes were once
located in the room where the new lounge may be located. Steel
lockers will be built into the walls, and extensive renovation and
refurnishing will make the quarters not only comfortable but
attractive.

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time, the day men’s lounge is located in
Hall, but the site of the lounge has been shifted many
It was once in the former men’s locker room in the
times.
basement of Carver Hall. Then it was moved to the first floor
of the building, from there to the basement of North Hall, and
then to the Industrial Arts room of the Junior High School building which is popularly known as Navy Hall.

Navy

New lavatories v/ill be incuded in the remodeling of Noetling
Hall, and one of the second floor rooms will be made the center
for visual education with central projectors and slide macnines
installed.
Six faculty offices are planned for the second floor.
At the present time, no plans are being made for remodelling the
first floor which contains the speech and psychology clinics and
the day women’s lounge.
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A program of one act plays was presented by the Bloomsburg Players Friday night, April sixteenth, in the Carver Hall
auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The college dramatic club, under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston,
selected a varied repertoire of plays as its spring presentation.
The first play was presented at 8:15 o’clock, and for the
curtain-raiser the Bloomsburg Players presented “First Class
Matter,’’ a comedy by Pcachel Field, one of the country’s outstanding authors and short story writers. The second play was
“The Monkey’s Paw,’’ an adaptation from a well-known classic.
The authors of this dramatic hit are Louis N. Parker and W. W.
Jacobs. As their final effort, the Bloomsburg Players enacted
“Wild Hobby Horses’’ by John Kirkpatrick, eminent New York
dramatist, producer, and writer. Twenty-one members of the
Bloomsburg Players were given part in these three productions.
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Exciting new fabrics and brilliantly-designed consumer
goods, many of which have not yet reached retail store counters
throughout the United States were revealed to a crowd of almost
five hundred persons who attended the second annual Retail
Sales Training Conference held in February in the Carver Hall
Auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Recent
advances in the field of women’s accessories, woolen fabrics, and
textiles were discussed by four speakers representing nationallyfamous retail stores and promotional agencies.
Under the direction of Charles H. Henrie, retail selling instructor of the Department of Business Education, the conference sessions attracted a capacity crowd of interested persons.
Among those present were owners and manager of a number of
retail stores in Bloomsburg and the surrounding area, managers
of chain store outlets, business educators and teachers, and college students interested in consumer education. Loyal D. Odhner, managing director of the Pennsylvania Chain Store Council, who assisted the College in planning the session, was present along with a large number of members of the state-wide
organization.

The general conference session was nreceded by a luncheon
President Harvey A. Andruss and
members of the faculty of the Department of Business Education acted as hosts to the conference speakers and guests.
Luncheon was served to twenty-five persons. President Andruss
in the College dining I’oom.

later

opened the conference with a brief address of welcome.

Pie

was introduced by Charles H. Henrie who served as conference
leader.

Among the speakers were Miss Dorothea Kenna, stylist and
buyer for the Kenney Shoe Company; Harry A. Barth, assistant director of store operations, W. T. Grant Company; and
Miss Helen Harper and Miss Peg O’Grady, of the International
Wool Secretariat. Miss Kenna spoke on the topic, “Handbaks,
Gloves and Nylon Hose,” while Mr. Bartha used as his topic
“Fabrics of the Future.” Both Miss Harper and Miss O’Grady
developed the subject “What’s New in Wool.” The speakers
demonstrated a number of items showing recent advances in
the field. New woolen dresses were modeled by: Marie Mack,
Shenandoah; Madelyn Schalles, Nescopeck, and Mrs. Louise
Dunham Riefski, New Abany.
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Robert Johnson

Conners, Montana. Mr. Johnson,
who specialized in music, took up song writing as a hobby, and
is the composer of “God Night, Soldier,” “Have You Ever Seen
Montana,” and “In the Heart of the Bitter Root Mountains.”
lives in

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Secondary Education Conference
A varied program of educational interest featured the annual conference on Secondary Education held Saturday. April
tenth, in the Carver Hall auditorium of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Over one hundred teachers and school administrators had signified their intention of attending the conference, which is one of the services the college gives to high
schools in its service area.
The morning program was

especially interesting

and

in-

cluded two addresses, one by Mr. George Salt, English Department, Grade School, New York University. Mr. Salt discussed
the problem “Language as an Instrument of Thought.”
The
second speaker was Dr. Frederick Pond, Bureau of Secondary
Education, Department of Public Instruction. Dr. Pond developed the subject “Activities for Education for Effective Citizenship.”

A series of group meetings was held immediately following
the auditorium program. These meetings were in charge of outstanding teachers in the field and school administrators. One
group was in charge of Dr. Oliver C. Kuntzlenian, superintendent
of schools, Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
This group discussed the
question “How Shall a School Develop Functional Objectives?”
A second group under the leadership of Miss Maree Pensyl,
Sociall Studies Department, Bloomsburg High School, and Mr.
Frank Camera, English Department, Hazleton High School, was
assigned the question “How can tool subjects be taught so as to
facilitate the student’s functioning effectively as a member of
democratic society?” A third group, of which Mr. Leonard Best,
Coordinator of Integrated Program, Hazleton High School, was
the chairman, probed into the rather interesting question “What
are the nature and need of a core curriculum?” Mr. Richard
Abbott. Social Studies Department, Sunbury High School, served as chairman of a fourth group which was assigned the nuestion “How shall the activities of a high school faculty be organized for curiculum study and revision?”
At the conclusion of the group meetings a cafeteria luncheon was served in the College dining room. Reports by the
chairmen of the group meetings featured the after dinner program.
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Kenneth

Burns, Oregon, has been preparing to go
to Venezuela as a government agent to establish good neighbor
relations between North and South America. After being graduated from Iowa State College, he remained as a member of
the faculty, and later went to Utah State to become Dean of
the College of Agriculture and Forestory. He next became manager of the Ogden Live Stock Market, and from this position he
took a position in the Department of the Interior.
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Announced

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College announces “The
President’s Scholarship” to be awarded during the Second Semester of each year to a deserving student.
This scholarship is unique in that it will be given to a student who demonstrates his need and ability during the first
semester of the college year and for any reason is not eligible
for the other scholarships offered by the college or the Alumni
Association.
Based upon the income from a book written by President
Harvey A. Andruss titled “Business Law Cases and Tests” and
originally published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., of New York City,
it is expected to reach $50 the first year and will increase in the
future.

Since there are no royalties to the author or profit to the
College Retail Book Store, the income from sales will be available for the scholarship after a small handing charge is paid.
The book will be used in connection with Business Law I and II
classes in the Department of Business Education.
Assembled under the direction of Professor Walter S. Rygiel, the new edition will be available immediately.
A special committee composed of Dr. Kimber Kuster, Professor Walter S. Rygiel and President Harvey A. Andruss will
make the award to worthy students.
No hard and fast policy will be developed as the “President’s
Scholarship” is intended to i-ecognize students who may not, on
account of special circumstances, be able to qualify for other
scholarships offered by the Alumni Association.
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President Harvey A. Andruss served as a member of a
committee to conduct an evaluation of the G.A.R. Memorial High
School in Wilkes-Barre on March 9, 10 and 11.
This committee
has been selected by the Middle State Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools to determine the ability of schools to be
placed on the accredited list of the Association.
Graduates of high schols holding membership in the Middle States Association will be admited to colleges who are members of the Association without examination. Schools that are
placed on this list are ubject to re-examination from time to
time to determine whether or not they have continued to meet
the requirements set up by the accrediting group. The WilkesBarre school is in this category, and the school plant, personnel
education, and school practice will be scrutinized by the Association committee.
President Andruss will be responsible for the evaluation and
arrangements of administration, staff, and business education.
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E. H. NELSON, ’ll
Largely through the efforts of Hervey Smith and his committee the Husky plaque is now a reality.
The lower part is
locked on and can be removed easily for the addition of more
names. We are hoping that classes with representatives in the
list of honored head will sponsor their names in
the bronze
plaque. For example:
* Sponsor
Class of 1943
If the class sponsors more than one name, an additional star
is added for each one.
Sponsoring 3 classmates would read
*** Sponsor
Class of 1943
We hope interested Alumni will subscribe to the Husky
Club, either as sponsors or as graduates. Then, too, we believe
that branch alumni groups will want to be represented, appear-

ing as follows:
1

*

Branch

Friends of the sports program on the

hill will

Sponsor
be included

as follows:
*

Club

Sponsor

And when

the list gets too long for the present plaque a
new one will be ordered. Continued interest will provide needed
help in promoting good athletic teams of which we are proud.
“Years to come will find us ever true to Bloomsburg still.”
nameplate costs the donor $50.00^

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A few weeks before her death we received a $50.00 check
from Miss Stella Lowenberg to be applied to the 1886 Scholarship Fund.
Just yesterday we received a $20.00 check from
her niece. Miss Elsie Lowenberg, enclosed with the following
letter;

885 West End Avenue,
25, N. Y.
April 22, 1948

New York

Dr. E. H. Nelson, President
Alumni Association, State Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Penna.
Dear Mr. Nelson;

The enclosed money was given to us for a gift “In Memory
of Stella Lowenberg.” It is made by Roe Dreifus, Milton, Pa.;
Arthur Dreifuss, Philadelphia; Florence and Lillian Ullman,
Camden, in place of funeral flowers.
Since Aunt Stella was so interested in the college, we are
giving it to the Class of 1886 Scholarship Fund.
Very truly yours,
Elsie Lowenberg
It is expressions such as this that give us the determination
and desire to carry on for the College on the hill.
See you on May 22nd.
good program is being arranged.

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Mid-Year Commencement
lege

Twenty-two seniors of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwere presented for the degree of Bachelor of Science in

Education at simple but impressive graduation exercises held
Thursday, January 16, in the Carver Hall auditorium. All of
the sixteen men who received their diplomas upon completion of
the semester were veterans of World War II and most of them
attended Bloomsburg before entering the armed forces.
The convocation, climaxed by the presentation of the candidates for degrees by Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction
at the College, was featured by a timely address by President
Harvey A. Andruss.
Speaking on the subect, “Dilemmas of Today,” President
Andruss claimed that one of the marks of an educated man
is his ability to look beyond the over-simplifications of readymade thinking of news commenators and newspaper headlines
and take the long view in order to make this world a better place
in which to live.
He urged his audience to avoid being forced
to choose between two alternatives
dilemmas set up with the
thought that in the choice we will reach a predetermined opinion.
During his address, the College head warned his listeners
of the dangers of over-simplification and in choosing alternatives, either of which would cause us to supplant what we have
with something new or untried rather than supplement it with
something better. He indicated that many times wo do the right
things for the wrong reasons, but if the eventual effect is wholesome, one should not question the motives if the means is offered to improve the world in which we live.
During the program, President Andruss read the Scripture
lesson which was chosen from the twenty-fifth chapter of St.
Matthew and Joseph Curilla, Mt. Carmel, sang a baritone solo,
“Ask for Nothing More.” by Deis-Swinsburne. His accompanist
was Miss June Keller, Benton. Audience singing of “America
the Beautiful.” which opened the convocation, and the College
Alma Mater, which closed the exercises, was under the direction
of Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Howard F. Fenstemaker, Sr., was

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at the console of the organ.

Graduates who completed the requirements for the degree
were Paul Baker, Bloomsburg, Business Edward Bollinger,
Erie, Secondary; Rosanna Broadt, Bloomsburg, Secondary; Joseph Chesney, Mt. Carmel, Secondary; Anna Cumberland, Hunlock Creek. Secondary; John Davis, Kingston, Business; Doris
Hosier, Bloomsburg, Business; Clement Koch. Shenandoah,
Business; Lewis Kohn, Wilkes-Barre, Business; Ellen Moore Lipski, Edwardsville, Secondary; John Longo, Sheppton, Business;
Frank Molinaro, Pittsburg, Cal., Secondary; Anne Northrup,
Dalton, Elementary; Clem Novak, Nanticoke, Business; Clayton
Patterson. Nescopeck, Secondary; Theodore Radai, West Haz;

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Secondary; Michael Remetz, Swoyerville, Secondary; Donald Rishe, Bloomsburg, Business; Lawrence Rittmiller, Danville,
Secondary; James P. Rooney, Philadelphia, Secondary; Robert
leton,

Schramm,

Pottsville, Business;

Dorothy Winkelblech, Woodland,

Elementary.
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High school students of this area had a chance to select
their caz’eers when the Future Teachers of America, a pre-professional organization at the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, sponsored a “Career Day,” Friday, April
twenty-third, for their benefit.
The facilities of the College were made available to youngsters from Bloomsburg, Catawissa, Scott Township and Beav^»

Township.
President Harvey A. Andruss welcomed the students atid
Maupin was the principal speaker. A film “Choosing
Your Career” was shown in Carver Hall Auditorium and immediately after the film, members of the Future Teachers of
America interviewed and counseled the students. A luncheon
was served in the college cafeteria, followed by enteitainment
Dr. Nell

and swimming.

Members in charge of this program were Robert Llewellvn,
Wilkes-Barre, chairman; James Tierney, Bloomsburg; Mildred
Palumb, Mt. Carmel; Barbara McNinch, Bloomsburg; Charles K.
Moore, Millville; Helene Brown, West Hazleton; Marjorie Brace,
Hunlock Creek; Carson Whitesell, Hunlock Creek; Mrs. Ann
Boyer, Catawissa; Janet Gilbody, Bloomsburg, and William
Troutman, Bloomsburg. The sponsor of the Future Teachers
of America is Mr. Joseph R. Bailer.
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Reynold D. Paganelli, Guidance Director, Wilkes-Barre Public Schools, was the guest speaker at the Friday evening, February 27, 1948, meeting of the Future Teachers of America,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Paganelli is a graduate
of the local College as well as the Cathoic University, Washington, D. C., and is now engaged in graduate study at Columbia
University. Before becoming guidance counsellor in the WilkesBarre Public Schools, M. Paganelli was a teacher at the National
School for Boys, Washington, D. C. The National School for
Boys is operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to care
for juvenile delinquents.
o

The marriage of Miss Margie Wright, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Wright, of town, and Leo Speicher, son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Speicher, of Kingston, took place at 6:30 o’clock Tues-

da yeevning, January 22, at St. Columba Rectory, Bloomsburg,
with the Rev. Father William J. Burke performing the single
ring ceremony.
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1948 Commencement
The speaker at the 1948 Commencement, to be held MonMay 24, will be Robert Kazmayer, author, lecturer, world
traveler, and radio commentator. He is the publisher of a news
letter for American and British businessmen, “Things to Watch
For.”
He conducts the Kazmayer European Seminar Tours
over Europe each summer. He is one of the youngest men listed in “Who’s Who.”
He was in Berlin when World War II
began, and was in almost the same spot in Berlin when it ended.
He is one of the few United States platform personalities having
an international reputation, and has made repeated lectures in
England, France, Canada, and Mexico.
At the Baccalaureate exercises to be held Sunday, May 23,
will be the Rev. G. Douglas Davies, whose topic will be “The
Changing Horizon.”
day,

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Mr. and Mrs. 0. S. Johnson, of Bloomsburg R. D. 3,
nounce the engagement of their daughter, Betty Mae, to Paul
D. Slusser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Slusser, of Bloomsburg
R. D.

3.

Miss Johnson, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School, class
of 1945, is now employed as a burler in the finishing department
of the Magee Carpet Co.
Mr. Slusser is a graduate of Mifflinville High School, class
He is a veteran of
of 1942, and is now attending B.S.T.C.
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Dean North Chairman

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Commission

Bloomsburg State Teachers College was signaly honored
during the past week by the appointment of Dr. Thomas P.
North, dean of instruction, as chairman of the newly-created
Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards
for Pennsylvania. The appointment, authorized by the Executive Council of the Pennsylvania State Education Association,
was made by N. Eugene Shoemaker, president of the state-wide
organization.

The appointment was said to have ben made largely as a
result of Dr. North’s general knowledge of teacher education
in the state and nation and his relationship to the National
Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards.
During the past year. Dr. North served as advisor to the national
group.

For the past three years, he has been chairman of the Pro'
Standards Committee of the Association of State
Teachers College Faculties. In his relation to the national committee, the Bloomsburg dean was not only invited to attend the
first general meeting held by the commission at Lake Chautauqua in 1946 but also represented Pennsylvania at the Oxford
Conference last July and the regional conference held in Washington in December.
The work of the state commissio will likely parallel that of
the nafonal commission with the same title.
This group is
charged with the responsibility of being the voice of the rank
and file of the organized teaching profession in such matters as
recruiting, selection, and preparation of teaching standards.
fessional

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Dr. Guido C. L. Riemer, president of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College from 1923 to 1927, has announced that he will
seek the RepuWican nomination for State Representative in the
fourth district of Berks county.
Dr. Riemer is a former member of the faculty at Kutztown
State Teachers College and before going there was from 1928 to
1937 president of the State Teachers College at Clarion. He
also served as a faculty member of Bucknell University.
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Judge

William Kreisher, of Catawissa, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, with the announcement made in Harrisburg by Governor James H. Duff.
The jurist will fill a vacancy which was created by the death
of Thomas Morton, of Berwick.
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CAMPUS EVENTS
The “inside story’’ of the Mt. Palomar telescope, its construction and operation, was the interesting background of an
infonnative talk given Thursday, March 18, at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College by Robert B. Edgar, well-known American astronomer and scientist. Mr. Edgar, whose father was one
of the men associated with the designing and building of the
great instrument now being tested and adjusted at Mt. Palomar,
featured the last assembly program before the start of the
Easter recess.

He told of the origin of the idea to construct a huge 200inch mirror and suggested that the story of the “big glass” was
really the story of the late Dr. George E. Hale, who built the
Mt. Wilson telescope, which was the largest in the world until
the Mt. Palomar instrument was designed. Much of Dr. Hale’s
success in building the big telescope was due to the Rockefeller
General Education Board which gave a gift of six million dollars to launch the project.
Through demonstrations with a number of scale-size models,
Mr. Edgar illustrated the working and functionings of telescopes
One paras well as problems involved in their construction.
ticularly interesting exhibit was a scale model of the mirror itself, the manufacture and grinding of which he described in deHe also told of the role played by his father in the inventail.
tion and design of a special mounting for the huge reflecting
mirror.
Mr. Edgar described the Mt. Palomar instrument as a “preHe said that
like your best wrist watch.”
cision instrument
the griding and polishing job was the most accurate vere done
in the history of lens manufacture, indicating that tbe face of
the giant mirror was polished to an accuracy of two-one millionths of an inch. It required eight years of expert craftsmanship to finish the job.
o
President Harvey A. Andruss has accepted an invitation to
become a member of an advisory group to assist the United
States Office of Education in making a Basic Business Education Research Study. As a business educator, President Andruss
has long been concerned about the future of general or basic
business education and he brings to his new position a wealth of
experience as a teacher, supervisor and administrator in the

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field.

The United States Office of Education has put

all

of

its

faciities at the disposal of M. Herbert Freeman, Senior Specialist
Mr. Freeman
in Business Education, who will direct the study.

has projected an ambitious program for a five-month period,
hoping to achieve success by drawing upon the experience and
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cooperation of leading business educators throughout the country.

“We seem to be about fifteen or twenty years behind academic education in our applications in the Business Field,” stat“Business teachers and department
ed President Andruss.
heads, who are rapidly declining in number and authority, have
been entirely too modest in stating their case. This is partly
due to their lack of understanding of the basic trends in secondary education as it affects academic subjects ,and those areas
of business education subsidized by federal funds.”
It is hoped that this new study will result in improvement
and integration of materials in the field of business education,
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is honored to have
a share in the overall development of the program.
o
the tower of Carvel Hall, Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, has been ticking away for more than a
haf century with little or no thought as to what makes it go or
strike each hour and half hour. Like the old tower clock, few
persons have been aware that the driving power for the clock
movement has been the presence of a small cable upon which is
suspended a five-hundred pound iron weight, while the striking
device is energized by another cable of weights, weighing five
hundred pounds.
The cables are wound on separate drums, and the weights
travel vertically a distance of approximately fifteen fet. Oddly
enough, in this mechanical age, the winding has been done by
hand, by means of a large crank, three times a week.
All this now has been changed. Under a program of rebuilding the interior stairs at Carver Hall, a rewiring contract
has also been in progress which has resulted in improvements
to the old tower clock. Foley and Son, Harrisbug, general electrical contractors, engaged Tower Clock Service Company,
Springfield, Ohio, to handle the improvements.
o
The presentation of the personality of Abraham Lincoln
through a Lincoln talk and impersonation was given by George
J. Lehre at the weekly asembly program of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College held Thursday, February 12, in Carver
Auditorium. Mr. Lehre’s dignified and realistic manner portrayed the great character of our sixteenth president in a gripping and inspiring manner.
An actor and stage director with thirty-five years experience, Mr. Lehre presented a moving interpretation of the personality, patriotism and devotion of the great emancipator
before giving a biographical narrative of Lincoln’s life.
His
impersonation of Lincoln was given in costume, and he told news
items of that era and details of bitter wrangling of the cabinet

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members during the Civil War. He climaxed his presentation
with a dramatic rendition of the Gettysburg Address. Its dignified solemnity was most impressive and added a superb touch
to an inspiring program.
President Harvey A. Andruss presided over the assembly
and spoke briefly on the significance and character of the life
He pointed out
of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
that underlying the principles of self government is the need for
governing self. Mr. E. A. Reams, chairman of the faculty program committee introduced Mr. Lehre.
o
Dr. J. Almus Russell, member of the English Department
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is the author of a
revealing article in the February issue of Frontiers, a magazine
devoted to natural history. Dr. Russell’s latest article, which
has its setting in central New York State, is entitled, “Land of
Dr. Russell is the author of more than one hundred
Hops.’’
articles published in educational and public magazines.
o

The world-famous Russian Operatic Quartet appeared at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Thursday evening,
April eighth, as the final number of the 1948 Artist Course. The
internationally-known singers thrilled a large audience here last
June when they presented a program for summer session students, and persons who heard the quartet at the time asked
College officials to arrange a return engagement.
A varied group of numbers was presented, including a number of selections in English. The quartet also sang several rousing Red Army songs and Russian folk ballads.
o

“We had

better find a way to understand and be understood if we are to have peace in our time,’’ was the realistic
advice given students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College by E. C. Ramsey, globe-trotting reporter and world traveller, in a stirring address that feature the regular Tuesday assembly held in the Carver Auditorium. Speaking on the topic,
“The International Mess,” Mr. Ramsey discussed recent international developments in view of his extensive experiences
abroad and intimate contacts with many of the leaders who are
helping shape world affairs today.
o
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association has
embarked on a strenuous campaign to raise funds for the Husky
Club which has for its principal interest a well balanced program
of athletics at the local college.
The club has decided to place a roll of memorials of club
members at the entrance of the Centennial Gymnasium or some
other suitable place on the campus. Memorials or memberships
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expected to reach substantial size by Alumni Day.
of the work was discussed at a meeting of
the board of directors of the General Alumni Association with
Most of the members
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president, presiding.
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were

in attendance.

One

of the aims is to have the classes sponsor as memorials
the placing on the roll the names of their classmates who made
the Supreme Sacrifice in World War II.
Another thing which was given consideration, and which
will be submitted to the College authorities for action, is the
granting of a lifetime pass for athletic events to the Bloomsburg
College athletes who through their participation in sports have
earned the College key. This emblem has been recognized at
contests but the alumni believes that the lifetime pass will be a
suitable recognition in addition to the key.
o
One of the leading articles in the January. 1848, issue of
the Balance Sheet, a magazine of Business and Economic Education, was written by President Harvey A. Andruss, of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, with the title of “Where

Do We Go from

Here.”
This article was originally an address delivered during the
1947 summer session in Pennsylvania State College at the Business Education Conference, and deals with Basic Business Education for all the children of all the people.
By answering three question (1) Where are we? (2)
Where do we want to go ? ( 3 ) How do we get there ? a general
philosophy of Business Education is explained in relation to Consumer Education, and the proposals that are being made to increase the effectiveness of Economic Relations of all Americans.
High Schools are preparing 25% of their students for college, from which they emerge with professional training; 25%
are being trained for skilled occupations or trades but they need
to educate for the remaining 50% for living, since they will have
to learn to make a living at jobs, the duties of which they will
learn after they obtain the jobs.
High Schools must not only prepare students for college
and train them for jobs, but must also educate them for life.
Basic Business Education has an important part to play in this

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picture.

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Eight students from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College participated in the first intercollegiate State

Band

Festival

sponsored by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association
which was held Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3, at Lock
Haven State Teachers College. Participants in this event included students from most of the colleges and universities in
Pennsylvania.
About 135 college students participated in this festival
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which closed with a band concert in the Lock Haven State
Teachers College auditorium. Mr. Erich C. Leidzen, of New
York City, was the guest conductor. Mr. Leidzen is famous
for his arrangements of popular and classical music for the
band.

During the three-day festival the students and directors
had rehearsals and clinics in the various instrumental fields. On
Friday afternoon a student concert was given which was broadcast from the Lock Haven station. A number of people from
Bloomsburg attended the Saturday evening concert. The program included the Finale from the New World Symphony,
“Rhapsody in Blue,” “Hora Staccata,” “Caribbean Fantasy,”
“William Tell Overture,” “Headlines Overture,” “My Hero” and
a number of classical and semi-classical numbers including
marches.
Mr. Thomas E. Bowman, 326 East Fourth street, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, a junior at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, was selected soloist for the concert rendered at the
Intercollegiate State Band Festival, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. The Bloomsburg musician
was accorded this honor in competition with more than 130
instrumentalists representing seventeen universities and colleges
throughout the state.
The students going to the festival from the College with
the director of the Maroon and Gold Band, Charles H. Henrie,
were as follows: Thomas Bowman, Bloomsburg; Carleton Ermish, Berwick: Ruth Von Bergen, Hazleton; John Brown, Harrisburg; Francis Hantz, Duryea; Luther Jones, Wilkes-Barre; Kenneth Wire, Harrisburg, and Robert Holman. Kingston.
o

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College played host to the
lecturers of the Pennsylvania State Grange in a series of meetings held March 22, 23 and 24. The sessions, which attracted
a crowd of more than four hundred men and women, was held
Carver Auditorium and classrooms in Waller Hall. Noetling
and Navy Hall.
Preliminary plans for the annual meeting were made after
a conference with Dr. Lester H. Dimit, Lecturer, Pennsylvania
State Grange, from Indiana, Pa. Dr. Dimit, a member of the
faculty of the State Teachers College, Indiana, met with Dr.
Thomas P. North, who served as general chairman in charge
of arrangements; Dean John A. Hoch, Dean Marguerite V. Kehr,
C. M. Hausknecht. Business Manager; Miss M. Beatrice Mettler,
College nurse. Along with President Andruss, the local committee worked with Dr. Dimit to make final arrangements to
handle the large affair.
Dormitory accommodations were provided for 200 women
in Waller Hall, while one hundred men were housed in the men’s
in

Hall, Science Hall,

section of the

same

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Dean

s List

Q U A R T E R L Y

Announced

The names of sixten seniors at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College lead the list of forty students who have been placed
on the Dean’s Honor list for the first semester, 1947-48, according to an announcement made by Dr. Thomas P. North, dean of
instruction at the College. Ten juniors and seven members of
the freshman and sophomore classes are named on the firstsemester honor roll.
In order to be named on the list, students must have a
quality point average cf 2.5 or better for the semester or a
cumulative average of at least 2.0. Included in the list are the
following;

Freshmen
Robert Balent, 928 Spruce St., Kulpmont; Roosevelt Mem. H.
Rose C. Eifert, 644 Fiot Ave., Bethlehem; Liberty H. S.,
Bethlehem.
Lois J. Evans, 38 East Trenton Ave., Morrisville;
Morrisville H. S.
Muriel F. Marks, 1328 Lancaster Ave., Reading; Shillington H.
Corinne D. Mittelman, 238 Wright Ave., Kingston;
Kingston H. S.
Janet R. Rosen, 2215 Gordon St., Allentown, Allentown H. S.
Eloise M. Symons, 4 Atlantic Ave., Edwardsville
Edwardsville H. S.

S.

S.

Sophomores

Thomas M. Donan,

Columbia; Columbia H. S.
M. Louise Lohr, 331 East Second St., Berwick; Berwick H.
Nerine Middleswarth, Troxelville; Beaver Springs H. S.
Stephen F. Sakalski, 158 West Main St., Bloomsburg;
Berwick H. S.
William A. Stimeling, 343 Mary St., Berwick, Berwick H. S.
Martha L. Teel, 240 West Fourth St., Bloomsburg;
Bloomsburg H. S.
John Richard Wagner, 716 East Third St., Nescopeck;
Nescopeck H. S.
R. D.

2,

S.

Juniors
Herbert H. Fox, 408 Pine St., Danville, Danville H. S.
George Gera, 94 Main St., Eckley; Foster Twp. H. S., Freeland.
Daniel E. Kelly, 520 S. Anthracite St., Shamokin;
Coal Twp. H. S., Shamokin
Wilmer F. Nester, 1442 Shimerville Road, Emmaus;
Emmaus H. S.
John M. Purcell, 18 East Lloyd S.t, Shenandoah;
Shenandoah Catholic H. S.
Joseph J. Putera, 198 Main St., iKngston; Kingston H. S.
John H. Reichard, R. D. 4, Bloomsburg; Bloomsburg H. S.
Emory S. Riefski, 18 Coal St., Glen Lyon;
Newport Twp. H. S., Wanamie
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Ruth

C.

Von Bergen, 551 North Wyoming

Hazleton H. S.
Joseph R. Yakoboski, 248 S. Shamokin
Shamokin H. S.

St.,

St.,

Hazleton;

Shamokin;

Senior.s

Mrs.

Anne Baldy

South Third
Catawissa H. S.

Bo}^er, 127

St.,

Catawissa;

Helene L. Brown, 238 North Broad St., West Hazleton;
West Hazleton H. S.
Elroy F. Dalberg, 1106 Somerset Ave., Windber; Windber H.
Blodwen P. Edwards, Briar Creek; Hanovr Twp. H. S.,

S.

Wilkes-Barre.

Theodore Harwood, 1021 West Main St., Plymouth;
Plymouth Twp. H. S.
Martha A. Hathaway, 207 Grand St., Danville; Danville H. S.
Mrs. Doris G. Hosier, 139 East Eighth St., Bloomsburg;
Berwick H .S.
Elizabeth Lehet, 34 Kulp St., Wilkes-Barre;
James M. Coughlin H. S., Wilkes-Barre
Harold L. Miller, 32 Cherry St., Danville; Bloomsburg H. S.
Lawrence J. Pekala, 269 Main St., Fern Glen;
Black Creek Twp. H. S.
Charlotte R. Reichart, Light Street; Scott Twp. H. S., Espy.
Reginald S. Remley, 208 West Main St., Bloomsburg;
Orangeville H. S.
H. Jean Richard, 391 Lightstreet Road, Bloomsburg;
Bloomsburg H. S.
Robert F. Schramm, 1326 Mahantongo St., Pottsville;
Pottsville H. S.
Hazel S. Sigworth, 19 Hinkel St., Warren; Berwick H.
E. Anne Wright, 58 East Fifth St., Bloomsburg;
Bloomsburg H. S.

S.

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Miss Elizabeth Anne Baldy, daughter of Mrs. Christine G.
Baldy, of South Third street, Catawissa, became the bride of
Captain Lea M. Boyer, son of Mrs. Jessie M. Boyer, South street,
Catawissa, in a candlelight ceremony at eight o’clock on the
evening of Februiry 18 at the home of the bride’s mother. The
Rev. Carl W. Weber, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, officiated at the single ring ceremony which was attended by the
immediate families of the couple.
The bride attended Catawissa High School and is in her
senior year at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. 'The groom
attended Bucknell pre-dental school and was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Captain Boyer served in the U. S. Army during World War
II, with eighteen months overseas in the European Theater of
Operations. At present with the regular army dental corps, he
left San Francisco March 1 for the Philippines.
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THE ALUMNI
<;e> khai,

am mm

assomation

Board of Directors
E.

President
Vice-President
Secretary

H. Nelson

Ruth Siieary Griffith
Mrs. C. r. Housenick
!Mrs.

Harriot Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

Treasurer

Edward

F.

Schuyler

Smith

H. F. Fenstemakei
Elizabeth H. Huber

•k

1883

CLASS REl NION

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY

22, 1948
1885
Miss Sally C. Watson, of Jerseytown, a school teacher for
fifty years and sister of the late John Watson, former prothonotary and clerk of courts, died at her home in Jerseytown at 5:45
Aged eighty-three
o’clock on February 2 from complications.
years, she had been ailing four years and bedfast two years of

that time.
A native of Jerseytown, she did all of her school teaching in
New Jersey, being a member of the faculty at Keyport for thirty-three years. All of the other years of her life were spent in
this county.
She was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church,
Keyport, N. J. Surviving is one sister. Miss Ella Watson, at

home.

CLASS REUNION

1888
— ALUMNI
DAY, MAY

22, 1948
1890
Daniel Rinehart, of Waynesboro, died at his home Wednesday, January 6, and his death was followed forty-one hours later by that of Mrs. Rinehart. Double funeral services were held
Saturday, aJnuary 9, at the home.
Mrs. Rinehart, the former Meta Walter, of the class of
1891, had been in failing health for the last several years and
confined to her bed since October.
Her husband had been failing since last March and had been
confined to his bed for about six weeks prior to his death.
Mr. Rinehart was a native of Ringgold, Md., the son of John
and Susanna Rinehart. He attended the grade schools at Ringgold and then came to Waynesboro to high school. He was the

member of the Class of ’88.
continued his education at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and then returned to this section to teach school. He
last living

He

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served five years in the Washington Township one room school
and his last years saw Mount Vernon school grow from a one
to a two room institution of learning.
Mr. Rinehart had some 70 pupils in his one-room school at
Mount Vernon and implored the School Board to enlarge the
building and add another room.
This was done and Mr. Rinehart was promoted to principal
when a second teacher was hired. In those days, Mr. Rinehart
often reminisced, teachers received $37.50 a month and principals $42.

During his brief school teaching career he became associated with C. H. Snively and in 1892 joined him in forming the
firm

— Snively

and Rinehart

— and

opened a general merchand-

ising business at Ringgold.

He continued in business there until ’95 when he sold his
interest to Mr. Snively and came to Waynesboro where with E.
S. Rinehart, a cousin, and A. F. Rohrer, they purchased the busiThe present store has been the site
ness from S. C. Plank.
of a hardware business for nearly 90 years.
In 1904 Mr. Rinehart became the sole owner of the business
and several years later acquired the business block which bears
his name.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church and the First
Bible Class of the Sunday School. He had served on the Church
Council for many years.
Mr. Rinehart was a director of the First National Bank and
Trust Company, Waynesboro Ice and Cold Storage Company,
Y.M.C.A., Waynesboro Hospital, Franklin County Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
He had been president of the Waynesboro Building and
Loan Association for more than 35 years.
Mr. Rinehart served also on the Waynesboro school board.
He served three terms as president of the Pennsylvania and
Atlantic Seaboard Hardware Association. He was also a member of the Kittochtinny Historical Society, Waynesboro Rotary
Club, Acacia Lodge F. & A. M., and the Shrine.
In January, 1944, Mr. Rinehart sold the business to W. L.
It is today Waynesboro’s oldest hardware store.
Mrs. Rinehart was born in Greencastle the daughter of C.
Luther and Amanda (Funk) Walter and moved with her parents
to the Rock Forge section when a small girl.
Her father operated a farm and quarry there.
After her manage to Mr. Rinehart, in June of 1900, she

Harbaugh.

came

to Waynesboro.
She was a member of the Lutheran Church, the First Bible
Class of the Sunday School and had served as president of the
Annie E. Sanford Missionary Society and Monday Reading
Circle.

She had also served as president and secretary of the AuxY.M.C.A. and was Annuity Secretary of the Wom-

iliary of the

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Maryland Synod of the Lutheran Church.
Surviving is a daughter, Miss Margaret, at home.
Mrs. Margaret E. McNelis, widow of Dr. Anthony J. McNelis, died recently at her home, 819 S. 49th st., Philadelphia.
She was 78 years of age.
Mrs. McNelis was for many years a member of the BVM
Sodality of the St. Francis de Sales Church and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association. Surviving are
a daughter, Mrs. William L. Barrow, and a brother, John A.
Moran, both of Philadelphia.
1893
CLASS REUNION
ALUMNI DAY,
22 1948
1898
CLASS REUNION
ALUMNI DAY, >IAY 22 1948
1900
Samuel L. Miller, cashier of the Farmers National Bank
since 1931 and affiliated with the institution for forty-seven
years, died at 7:55 o’clock on the evening of February 9 from a
coronary occlusion. He was aged sixty-nine years.
The esteemed Bloomsburg resident had been at the bank as
usual earlier in the day and his death came as a profound shock
to the family and a legion of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller were driving with friends on West Main
street in early evening. Some cross links out of a rear tire chain
caused a bumping that annoyed him and he stopped the car at
the side of the street. He had some difficulty in getting the car
started and after re-entering the machine a second time, after
looking over the situation, he collapsed. He was rushed to the
Bloomsburg Hospital but w'as dead upon admission.
Mr. Miller sustained an attack in the Spring of 1946 and
was hospitalized a week at that time but since then had been
able to go regularly about his duties at the local banking house.
A native of Lime Ridge, he was the son of the late John
W. and Julia Miller. The family later removed to Espy where
he resided until coming to Bloomsburg in 1919. He was a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School, class of 1900, and at the
age of eighteen started to teach. He was employed in the Center
Township schools for three years and then accepted a position
in the Farmers Bank, Bloomsburg, and advanced steadily, being
appointed cashier of that institution in 1931.
In 1911 he married the former Miss Grace E. Robert, of
Plymouth, who survives him. He is also survived by a son. Dr.
John J. Miller, of Bloomsburg, and by a daughter. Miss Roberta
an’s Society of the

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—

MAY

,

,

home.
Mr. Miller was a member of the First Methodist Church of
Bloomsburg, being a member of the official board of the Men’s

Miller, at

Bible Class. He was a member of the Espy Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M., and of Caldwell Consistory.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Myers, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, and
burial was in the Creveling cemetery, Almedia.
1903
CLASS REUNION
ALUMNI DAY, MAY 22 1948
1907
Mrs. W. J. Burke, of 150 37th Street, Union City, New Jersey, has sent the QUARTERLY the following poem, written by
D. T. Meisberger, Superintendent of the Coal Township schools.
The poem was read during the reunion of the class of 1917, on

—

Alumni Day

,

last year.

When your bones begin to ache.
And your knees begin to shake.
And you shy away from things
Quite risky.

When your

belt no longer fits,
hair has mostly flit.
Those, brother, are the signs
That you’re sixty.

And your

When your

figure, then lithesome, fair.
Gets bulbous spots, with rolls to spare.
And dreaming dreams of long ago

When you were frisky
The children crawl upon your

lap.

Disturbing grandma’s pleasant nap.
Those, sister, are the signs
That you’re sixty.

We

answer now the old roll call.
In rising tones that rise and fall.
With weary eyes, we gaze, we stare
At each and other, and wonder where
Is gone the youth, the glory of Heaven,
That walked these halls in nineteen-seven
Helen Roat (Mrs. J. Elmer Harrison) lives at Qtrs, 104-C,
MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida. Mrs. Harrison wrote recently,
expressing her appreciation of the very enjoyable time she had
at her class reunion last year.
1908

CLASS REUNION

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY 22

1948
1909
Stewart E. Acor, teacher of Manual Training in the York
High School, died Monday, October 20, 1947, at his home in
York. His health had been failing for several months, and he was
stricken at school three days before his death, and one month
after his sixty-third birthday. He is survived by Mrs. Acor and
a son, Charles. Mr. Acor entered the York school system in
1926 and served in the Hannah Penn Junior High School. He
became a member of the William Penn faculty in 1932.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
His teaching career began in Montour County, and he
then taught in Clarion and Franklin Counties and in Ontario
County, New York. He was a member of the First Methodist
Church of Canandaigua, New York.
1911
Joseph L. Lorenzetty lives at 2434 Willow Avenue, Niagara
Falls, New York.
1912
Frankie Davis lives at 23 Rector Place, Red Bank, New
Jersey.

Mrs. Helen Fuller has been chosen by the School Board for
a permanent position as a teacher for the Berwick school disShe had been teaching as a substitute for a number of
trict.
months. The new teacher will instruct children in the first
grade.

1913

CLASS REUNION

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY

22, 1948
Eizabeth K. Scharf lives at 7 West Pine Street, Selinsgrove,
Pa. She is teaching fourth grade in the Selinsgrove schools.
1915
Alma M. Baer (Mrs. Eduardo D. Llerena) lives at Rua
Prudente de Moraes 947, Rio de Janeiro.
Her eldest son Eduardo is the proud father of a daughter ‘Nancy Lee’ born January 5, 1958, at Panama City. Eduardo, Jr., is connected with
Kodak Panama Ltd.
Juan, the second son, graduated from
Wharton College (University of Pennsylvania) June, 1946. He
is now working for the Moore McCormack Steamship Lines in
Rio de Janeiro. Paul, the third son, is now a student at Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania.)
1916
The many Bloomsburg friends of Mrs. F. Alex Nason, the
former Katharine Bakeless, daughter of the late Prof, and Mrs.
O. H. Bakeless, unquestionably will enjoy this article concerning
her which was written by Cornelia Curtiss, feature writer for a
Cleveland, Ohio, paper:
Her friends have always said of Mrs. F. Alex Nason, “Yes,
she plays a musical instrument, the victrola.’’
But Mrs. Nason, who describes herself as the “laziest person in the world’’ is about to blossom forth as a drummer, thus
giving the lie to her own characterization and also proving to
her pals that she can beat out a rhythm with her own hands.
David, the Nason son, recently acquired the drums. They
occupy a conspicuous spot in the living room of their domicile
at 15814 Oakhill Rd., East Cleveland. His mother hasn’t been
able to resist them. She gave me a small demonstration, and it
sounded as if she has already caught the trick of manipulating
the sticks and the various pedals and cymbals.
As for her record player, it’s no wonder she’s an expert
disc jockey.
She owns volume after volume of recordings of

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the world’s best music.

Her

self-styled laziness is a debatable question, too.

She’s

always doing something and laughingly remarked that sometimes she has to be restrained.
During the war she joined the Red Cross Motor Corps,
drove thousands of miles all over the community and has kept
up her vounteer stint ever since. “I consider it a really worthwhile piece of work,” she explains.
She was born in Bloomsburg, Pa., “which is just about in
the center of the state.” Then she was Katharine Bakeless and
she reversed the custom of going east to college by coming
“west” to Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University.
“f had intended to stay a year

“but I loved
big city that I just
Along the way
of Technology, and
called,

and then transfer,” she reMather so much and Cleveland was such a

stayed.”
she met Mr. Nason, then at Case Institute
another of those Case-Mather romances be-

gan.

David, returning from war service, followed his father to
Case and that presents a strained atmosphere in the Nason
menage on Thanksgiving Day. Then, as any Cevelander knows,
the annual Reserv'e-Case football game is played in the morning.
She reflected:
“Reserve usually wins and that means thick gloom from
David and his father all the rest of the day. And I don’t dare
gloat over the Reserve victories. Often I’ve watched the game,
just praying Case will win.”
It has reached the point now where Mrs. Nason refuses to
go. It’s not quite so bad listening over the radio, she thinks.
While her name is Katharine, no one ever calls her that
except on rare occasions when they want to impress her. Otherwise she has always gone by the nicknames of “Bakey” or

“Biddy,” the latter being her brothers’ pet designation for her.
When David was 10, he one day fondly referred to “Bakey”
as “my good old mother.”
“Well,” declares she, “I immediately decided I had better pep
myself up.” She did, by going back to Reserve and obtaining
her master’s degree in fine arts.
“This involved a part in a play a week, almost like a stock
company. After a year I had had enough of acting.” Since
then she has kept in touch with the drama by being a pillar of
the Play House, a first-nighter and member of the women’s con mittee.

A collector of pressed glass, figurines, bells from Java and
odd pieces of brass, Bakey displays them all prominently and
even uses the glasses for table service.
Via the phonograph and linguaphone records, she is brushing up on her French. There’s possibility she may go to EurPage Thirty

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ope this year with Mr. Nason. They had a similar journey
a year ago and while he was engaged in business, Bakey went
sight-seeing tirelessly.

They “got away from it all” by going to Nassau over the
holidays. Staying a month at the Country Club and home only
a fortnight ago, Mrs. Nason has a sun-tan deep enough to make
any sun lover pale with envy.
1918

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY
1923
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY, MAY
CLASS REUNION

22,

1948

22,

1948

Plans are underway for our
Attention, Class of 1923!
twenty-fifth reunion. We are planning a get-together for BYiday evening, Mav 21, at the home of Minnie Mellick Turne'’.
There will also be a six-o’clock dinner Saturday evening, May
Watch for
22, for class members and their husbands or wives.
your notice and give it your prompt attention.

1928

CLASS REUNION

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY

22,

1948

Ray E. Hawkins, formerly
former member of the faculty

of Newport Township, and a
of the Scott Township High
School, has been promoted to the position of superintendent of
the Barcalo Manufacturing Company, Buffalo, New York.

1929

A

son, William August, was born Friday, November 21,
1947, to Mr. and Mrs. August Kern, of 1509 Bavis Street, Philadelphia. Mrs. Kern was formerlv Anna Mary Wasley.
1930'^

The “Sunday Independent” recently published the

follow-

ing concerning Elfed H. Jones:
“Besides handling his daily duties as principal of the 'Dodson school, Wilkes-Barre, one of the largest grade schools in
Northeastern Pennsylvania, Elfed H. Jones finds time for other
activities.
He is the newly-elected superintendent of the Junior
Department of the Westminster Presbyterian Sunday School,
and he has served as president of the Men’s Sunday School Class
of that church.
“He was recently named an instructor in the Extension
School of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He is teaching classes at Kingston High School and Coughlin High School.
“He is known to thousands of sports fans as the former
coach of basketball at Nanticoke and Coughlin High Schools,
and he has been one of the leading football officials of Northeastern Pennsylvania for many years.”
Mr. Jones lives at 95 Elizabeth Street, Wilkes-Barre.

A

1932
daughter, Ruth Ann, was born to Dr. and Mrs. Chester C.

Hess, of Bridgeville, Pa., on January

1,

1948.

1933

CLASS REUNION

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY 22, 1948
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McCaffrey, of Hazleton.
The couple were married on September 5, 1947, in St. Gabriel’s Church, Hazleton.
Mrs. McCaffrey is teaching in the Allentown schools. Mr.
McCaffrey has been attending Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a veteran of World War II.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay C. Clossen of Bloomsburg R. D. 5, recent’/
announced the engagement of their daughter, Paulina Vee, to
H. Paul Lauderman, son of Mrs. Estella White, of McNair street,
Hazleton.
a graduate of Scott Township High School
She is a secretary in
the office of the Dean of Instruction at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Mr. Lauderman, a graduate of Hazleton High
School and B.S.T.C., is now teaching at Lititz High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Miller, of Bloomsburg, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Lavona, to Richard W. Rowlands, son of Mrs. William Rowlands, of Reading.

Miss Clossen

is

and the Wilkes-Barre Business College.

1935
Reed, teacher in the Bloomsburg High School,
was elected president and secretary of the Columbia County
Chapter of the Pennsylvania Division of the American Cancer
Society at a meeting held in the main court room as the program for 1948 was formulated.
Howard Berninger, of Mifflinville, was graduated from the
Dickinson Law School at exercises held at Hotel Hershey Friday, February 6.
Mr. Berninger, a graduate of the Mifflinville High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, received his master’s degree at Bucknell University.
He served four and a half
years in the armed forces, being attached to the 20th Air Force
at the time of his discharge.
1938
William

I.

— ALUMNI DAY, MAY 22, 1948
1943
CLASS REUNION — ALUMNI DAY, IVLAY 22, 1948
CLASS REUNION

Sally Hottenstein (Mrs. Robert C. Dix,
where her husband is practicing medicine.
have a daughter, Virginia Jill.

Jr.) lives in Milton,

Dr. and Mrs. Dix

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Three Honored

On Alumni Day

Three men, two graduates of the institution and one a forpresident, were honored by the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College for “distinguished service”, with the presentations one
of the features of a history making day for Maroon and Gold
Alumni.
The awards were made to John Gilbert Conner, of Trenton,
N. J., a member of the class of 1883; Dr. Francis B. Haas, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to Daniel Webster Litwhiler, of Bloomsburg, a member of the class of 1938.
Mr. Conner, now eighty-four years of age, and Dr. Haas
were present to reseive the awards. Litwhiler, playing with Cincinnati, in Philadelphia, was unable to attend and his certificate
was accepted by his son, Danny, Jr.
The Distinguished Service Awards, suggested by Dr. E. H.
Nelson, active head of the graduate body, and approved by the
directors, are to be an annual feature, with not more than three
to be made each year.
Mr. Conner, a native of near Berwick, is also a graduate of
Lafayette College, class of 1887, where he was named to Phi
Beta Kappa. He was for fifteen years headmaster of West Nottingham Academy, Md., and then for forty- two years headed the
Conner Millwork Company, Trenton, retiring in 1944. His service in civic and church affairs has continued for many years
and he holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters

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from Lafayette.
In his response he spoke of his appreciation for the honor
and particularly for the good will which prompted it. “You will
find that the commodity of good will is almost limited today at
home and abroad,” he said. “Any school program that will develop a sound body, proper ambitions and ideals, some skills and
ability to get along with your fellowman and develop the spirit,
is

is

a school worthwhile.”
Dr. Haas, president of Bloomsburg for a number of years,
recognized as one of the outstanding educators of the day and

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Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
Colle/e, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of March 3,
1879.
Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
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DANNY LITWHILER

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has held his present post as head of the schools of the
wealth longer than any other man.

Common-

In his acceptance Dr Haas spoke of the two opposing government idealogical objectives. He said that in support of the
democratic philosophy we must support institutions which will

help others to achieve democratic ideals. To accomplish this purpose vital programs are the education of teachers and the public
schools. He said a need today was to “produce fanatics for publie education and teachers of education.”
Litwhiler, who went into professional baseball shortly after
his graduation, has played with Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston

and Cincinnati in the National League. He played with The Cardinals in two World’s Series and is regarded by players and fans
as one of the finest men in the majors. As one who has spread
will and extended the helping hand he has made a splendid
contribution to the lives of many.
Mrs. Litwhiler exnressed
thanks on behalf of her husband.
Reg. S. Hemingway, Bloomsburg attorney and president of
the Board of Trustees of the College, presented Mr. Conner and
read his citation; Fred W. Diehl, superintendent of the Montour
schools, presented Dr. Haas, and Edward W. Schuyler, a member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, presented Mr. Litwhiler. Following the presentation of each candidate, Dr. Nelson awarded the certificates and life-membership
cards.
At the opening of the meeting Dean Emeritus W. M. Sutliff
gave the invocation. Members of the fifty year class were seated on the platform. The class of 1948 marched into the auditorium and through Miss Estelle Friday presented a check for dues
for all members. Harry John, class president, presented a Bible
as the memorial of the class. It will replace one used for eighty
years and that volume has been turned over to the alumni.
Reports were received of Miss Harriet M. Carpenter, treasurer and H. F. Fenstemaker, treasurer of the student loan fund
which now totals $12,571.20.
President Andruss spoke of the $135,000 expended during
the past year on interior improvements. He observed that the
institution, which was granted the right to award degrees in
1927, has now become of age. He said that at the end of the
first seven years the program was changed so that only fouryear courses were offered. At the end of the second seven-year
period the war program started and, he said, there are now further changes looming.
He spoke of the Penn State freshmen being on the campus
for the first year of their courses and of their courses and of the
proposal that the teachers colleges be the centers for vocational
supervision.
President Andruss spoke of probable changes in
the program in the future and said the institution stands ready

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youth

in

such fields as

its

faculty and facilities will per-

At the wish of the late Dr. Nolan H. Sanner, the class of
1886, Mrs. Sanner has provided $500 for scholarships which are
to be given as memorials to the class of 1886. Other members
of the class have added to this fund. Dr. Nelson also reported a
fifty dollar gift from the estate of Miss Stella Lowenoerg and
twenty dollars given by her nieces and nephews.
Directors re-elected for three year terms are H. F. Fenstemaker, Mrs. C. C. Housenick and fYed W. Diehl.
Dr. Nelson spoke of the Husky Club which has ben formed for the purpose of providing scholarships for worthy students
who are athletes. He said the alumni does not demand that its
teams win all the games but it is the aim to always have good
teams. He spoke of the activity of Hervey B. Smith, a member
of the board of directors, in getting the project organized. Luzerne county alumni presented a fifty dollar scholarship for some

student from that county.
Among those who responded for classes in reunion were:
1893, Philip Drumm, Wilkes-Barre; 1898, Miss Alberta Nichols,
Wilkes-Barre; 1903, H. W. Riland, Scarsdale, N. Y.; 1908, William Watkins, Wheeling, W. Va. 1913, Dr. K. C. Kuster; 1918,
Charles Wolfe, Gettysburg; 1923, Stephen Lerda, Wanamie and
Andrew Lawson, Williamsport; 1938, Charles H. Henrie; 1943,
William Barton.
The following comment on Alumni Day at Bloomsburg appeared in “The
Passing Throng” column of The Morning Press:
;

It’s difficult to

name

good time
College

a spot where so many have such a
short space of time as up on

in such a comparative
Hill on Alumni Day.

Of course when you
of enjoying yourself

it is

start out on a mission with the thought

highly probable that you will and it is
and friends come

in that spirit that the graduates, their famillies

back to the Alma Mater.
While the majority get back to the campus only once each
five years when their classes are in reunion, there are many, especially those residing close to the college, who seldomi miss on
Alumni Day.
There never was a snappier meeting of the general body
than that held on Saturday. You can tell in the first five minutes of a session how things are going to go. You knew in an
even shorter space of time that this was going to be a real session.

who has

carried on most ably the fine
graduate body by the late R. Bruce
Albert, w’as never in better form as the presiding officer and
the genial doctor is pretty good even on a bad day.

Dr. E. H. Nelson,

work that was started

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He has

labored long and earnestly in the graduate body and
up of the

his guidance has been a big factor in the building
event.

Early in his administration he decided that the fifty year
class should be especially recognized.
it is customary that
the members of this golden anniversary group be guests at a
dinner on the eve of Alumni Day; that they occupy a place of

Now

honor on the platform during the general meeting and receive
copies of diplomas such as were issued to them a half century
earlier.

The whole plan has worked out well. It has become a highand one that is looked forward to as much
by other returning alumni as by the members of the fifty year
light to be expected
class.
It was most fitting that one of the three men first to receive
the “Alumni Distinguished Award” was Dr. Francis B. Haas,
now long the State Superintendent of Public Instruction but who
did such an outstanding job as president of Bloomsburg that the
college will always claim him for its own.
When Dr. Haas came to Bloomsburg from Harrisburg,
where he had been filling the important educational post he is
again filling, the graduate body was a loosely organized affair.
It was pretty much hit and miss in getting the graduates to return to the campus and the program, when they did come back,
was fashioned on the same pattern.
The alumni association was truly at a low ebb. The educator not only gave a sympathetic ear to the alumni who came to
him with the thought of creating a more active unit, but he
worked right along with them to fashion such an organization.
It was around that time that Bruce Albert began his tenure
as president. He was active in setting up alumni branch organizations in all of the counties in the Bloomsburg service area.
The plan under which the branches continue to operate was
inspired by Mrs. Florence Hess Cool who was the inspiration
back of the organization of the Philadelphia Alumni, the first
branch group and one that still functions.
The big thing when alumni return to the campus is to meet
clasmates and friends of college days. The second thing is to
look over the physical improvements and to hear of the progress
being made.
In both of those latter elements there is plenty to view and
plenty to hear of. Bloomsburg College is going forward, now
under the leadership of President Andruss, and its graduates are
proud of it as the college is of its graduates.
Upon such a firm foundation has been built the graduation
organization. We feel confident that its support of the institution is just now beginning to assert itself.

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1948 Commencement
The degree of Bachelor of Science in Education was granted
to ninety-six men and women at the annual commencement exercises held in Carver Hall Auditorium Monday morning, May
The graduates were presented by Dr. Thomas P. North,
of Instruction, and the degrees were conferred by President Harvey A. Andruss. The following program was presented:
Processional: “Marche”
F. dela Tombelle
In.ocation
Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff
24.

Dean

Address

Organ

Select on: “Cantabile Sacre”
Conferring of degrees _
President

Alma Mater

Robert Kazmeye^'
J.

Lemmens

Harvey A. Andruss
The Assembly

Recessional: “Scherzo-Finale”

Clement Loret
Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the music and H. F. Fenstemaker was at the organ.
If America is “strong enough to stand behind what we
stand for” for the next fifteen years this nation has a chance to
fashion a durable peace, Robert Kazmayer, author, lecturer and
commentator, declared in a graphic survey of world conditions
and problems and their cause, which was delivered in a ringing
thought-provoking address.
He observed that if we are strong enough to stand back of
our democratic way of life for a decade and a half, we will have
time to have the principles we stand for accepted and understood.

But the world traveler was not optimistic about this. He referred to the warnings of our leaders about our small armed forHe spoke of the little attention that
ces: our limited air arm.
these warnings get from the rank and file Americans.
Speaking of World War II, he declared it did not start when
Hitler sent his armies into Poland. It started, he told his audience, when Japan went into Manchuria in the early thirties and
It started, he
Plitler and J^Iussolini followed with conquests.
emphasized, when it became apparent to the dictators that the
democracies were not prepared to stand behind what they stood
for.
It was his opinion that Germany is not a beaten nation that
the English are “magnificent” and will continue to stand and
that America has “over mothered” its young.
Speaking of the high number of mental cases in the American arm.ed forces, he said v.’’e excuse that with the observation
that the war was terrible. But, Kazmayer asserted, “it was no
more terrible for us than the British where the percentage was
only half as high or for the Russians where it was only one per;

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of his talk, Kazmayer went back over the hapthe world since the early days of the century “to see
just what is happening in the world today.” He said large groups
of the human family have been breaking away from the old way
of life and attempting to build a new life with new ideals.

At the outset

penings

in

He spoke of the Russian communist state created in 1917,
the Fascist state which came into being in Italy in 1923 and the
Nazi organization that took over in Germany a decade later.
Even before that, back in 1910, Japan developed an ideal of national theocracy.
It all adds up, he said, to totalitarianism, one of the historic
forces of our time. It is still with us and we are going to have to
live with it or fight against it.
“It has shot something into the
bloodstream of human beings.”

Second to communism, he continued, there is a second historic force at work and that is the “awakening East.” He spoke
of the great populations and the largely undeveloped resources
of China, of the leadership of China under Chiang Kai Chek,
India under Nehru and Russia under Stalin and the Politburo.

Chaotic, troubled Europe is the third factor influencing us
today and most of our national wars have been largely the result
of Europe’s tangled troubles. Out of the thirty-two nations in
Europe, Germany has been the keystone. “Our understanding
and sympathetic attention to the German problem are keystones
of future European peace and unity,” the observed said.
He said that to Germans all visitors are “conquerors” but if
the ‘wall” is broken down there is an interesting revelation of
the German of today. The Teuton attitude is “sure we were defeated, but look what it took to defeat us ... it took the whole

world.”

The German people, he told his hearers, do not believe their
defeat was inevitable. They regard Hitler as “dumb” because
he tried to fight two wars at once and because he kicked out the
Jews who had the brains. They feel that had the Battle of the
Bulge gone in their favor, which might well have been the case,
it would have resulted in a negotiated peace and that would have
been a victory for Germany.
Kazmayer spoke of Germany as not a broken nation; its
spirit is not broken and its morale has not cracked.
He spoke of Germany today as a leader of the masses and
as master of mass psychology. Kurt VonShumacker he termed
a second Hitler, with the same frenzied appeal to the German
masses and the same acceptance, “Yes, he is right.”
Germany, said Kazmayer, is not Hnished and potentially it
remains the pivotal point around which all Europe and world
history revolves. “What happens to Germany depends upon
what is done with Germany by the Allies from here or in,” he
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declared.

While he said that if there was any prejudice in his makeup
anti-British, he still had nothing but praise for the British
people whom he called “magnificent.” He said the end of the
war did not mean for them the loosening of the belt, but rather
it

was

tightening.

its

“They are not finished or done although the British Empire
done as the dominant factor of the seven seas. I hope we do
all we can do for them because a free England, with its dogged
is

determination,

is

a big asset in international crisis.”

He termed Russia geographically powerful enough to operate against the nations to both the east and the west.
Kazmayer didn’t know what is going on behind the iron
curtain” but he did state that it is easy to see things from the
outside which indicate what’s going on. “Although Germany and
Japan are gone, Russia is still there. Rusia has usurped the role
of a world bully.”
‘

He expressed

the hope that this country would not become

hysterical over the situation, although he felt that

appears inevitable.

sia
it

might come

war with Rus-

He saw no immediate war

in three, four, five, six or ten

but said that
years from now.

But, he declared, the fact that there is no immediate danger
makes the danger greater.
“If we’re pulling out of Europe, Russia is moving in,” and
he pointed out that the Soviets have two million trained men
under arms on the Continent of Europe and we have 200,000.
“With our troops are their wives and families and we couldn’t
use the atomic bomb if we wanted to.”
He declared that the Rusians fought their way up in the
face of world-wide hostility and stressed the fact that this country did not recognize the USSR until the thirties and Canada
didn’t until 1941. He said that in those years they became suspicious of every one.
Kazmayer pointed out that the twelve to fourteen members
of the Politburo are over sixty, most of them over sixty-five. The
younger Soviets are known to lack the selfish, one-sided nationalism of the present leaders. The philosophy of communism, he
burns
asserted, is slowly dying out as the “revolutionary fire
out. He thinks the “overly-intense” communists will be pone in
twenty-five years and as an example said that even leaders like
Molotov are becoming extremely “capitalistic” in outlook.
There are three roads to face. One is the “long, long road”
to world government and permanent peace.
second is some
kind of workable world federation as an intermediate sten and
the third is to learn to get nations to get along together in some
United Nations scheme until something better comes along.
“As long as we have dynamic, free economy we have an ef’

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Communism.”

fective safeguard against the subversive type of

He

indicated that the United States has nothing to fear from
this type of government.

One reason, he sa'd, is that the Communists want control of
the police and in America “there is not a chance.” They want
control of education and he saw no way in whichc they can realize that, even though there are educators and teachers who do
not teach “orthodox things.”
“Every organization (in a free country) has its right to its
quota of screwballs. Don’t worry about youth. The Communists
want control of production and there is no chance there, either.”

Communism in labor unions, Kazcriticism is justified. He termed the
Taft-Hartley labor law a step in the right direction but only a
step. “Give American labor a square deal with honest, aemocratic labor unions, and the American future is secure.”
Despite the threats of

mayer does not think the

“If we are going Lo remain great, we must reaffirm
principles that made us great.”
He criticized the “age of
common man,” as a levelling and retarding influence.

the
the

He declared that America was built by uncommon men who
got an uncommon reward for doing the uncommon thing or job.
The speaker emphasized the great need for teaching civic responsibility and pointed out the need for self-discipline. He declared that what is generally termed juvenile delinquency is parental laziness.

“The floor of the workshop of Almighty God is littered with
broken nations. Through their failure to beat the weight of
responsibility, they were discarded.
The laws of the God of
history apply to al Inations equally.
We must prove ourselves
fine and great enough to build our nation and its relations on the
Fatherhood of God and the brotherhod of man
or we will go
the way of the nations that preceded us.”
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The Governoring Board for the Waller Hall Association of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has appointed the following members to serve as chairmen of important committees
for the 1948-49 school year: Social Committee Frances Cerchiaro, Nesquehoning; Gay Palutis, Scranton. House Committee
Genevieve Krzywicki, Drums; Helen Brae, Hunlock Creek;
Helen Romanezyk, Forest City.
Customs Committee Sarah
Fause, Weatherly; Carolyn Vernoy, Canadensis.
Waller Hall
Handbook Shirley Boughner, Editor; Trevorton; Grace Smith,
Carmel.
Assistants Ruth Doody, Canadensis; Nancy
Powell, Scranton. Freshman Counsellors
Jean Stein, Shenandoah; Virginia Reimensnyder, Milton. Telephone Duty Mary
Fox, Quakertown.

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“In the measure of our faithfulness to revealed truth we
tomorrow/’ the Rev. G. Douglas Davies, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, told the members of the
graduating class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at
baccalaureate services held in the Carver Hall auditorium Sunday, May 23. His theme was “The Changing Horizon.’
shall build a better

The

service opened with the prelude “Entree,”
Theodore
The processional was “Ancient of Days,” Jeffreyand the invocation was given by the Rev. Mr. Davies.

DuBois.

Doane
The congregation sang the hymn “Faith Of Our Fathers” and
the Scripture reading was from the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians.
Following the sermon Joseph Curilla sang “Great
Peace Have They Which Love Thy Law,” Rodgers. Miss June
Keller was accompanist. The Rev. Mr. Davies pronounced the
benediction and the recreation was “Awake My Soul,” HandelDoddridge. The postlude was “Sortie,” Dubois. Miss Harriet M.
Moore was the director of music, with H. F. Fenstemaker at the
console.

his

The text for this sermon
sermon he observed:
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is

found

in

In the last address of Moses, the

Deuteronomy 29:29. In

Book

of

Deuteronornv,

which has been called “the highest flight to which homan eloquence has ever risen,’ there is a verse of peculiar significance.
The words are these: ‘The secret things belong unto the Lord
our God: 'out those which are revealed belong unto us and to our
(

hildre

forever.

“Moses sets a profound truth before us

in this verse,

and he

was fully qualified to do so. In his epitaph it is written that the
Lord knew him face to face. Any honest study of his life will
reveal that* he was a man of unusual gifts. He was endowed
with singular powers and magnificent vision, a vision which encompassed the ends of history in one grand sweep.
“The words of the prophet point to the curtain of the horizon which bounds all of life. We may extend its radius, but we
cannot abolish it. God has His secrets, and He has set the horizon as a limitation, which paradoxically is limiting and limitless,
changing and constant, humbling and challenging.
“There are insoluble problems and undiscoverable secrets in
every form of life and of creation. We can never attain to a perfect knowledge of finite things, and much less to a perfect comprehension in the realm of the Infinite. Modern science, we are
‘We see
told, now doubts whether it is in though with reality.
through a glass, darkly,’ as St. Paul expressed it centuries ago.
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ence, or the mysteries of pain and suffering, or the sublimity of
the love of God for man in Christ, we must necessarily proceed
on the sole grounds of faith. In the language of the apostle, ‘O
the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of

God! how unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past
finding out.’

We may

be certain that mystery will remain, both in things
and in that which is Infinite. The horizon has been set by
the hand of God, and the secret things belong unto Him.
“The horizon is constant, and yet it undergoes continual
change. Moses indicated this when he said the revealed things
‘belong unto us and to our children forever.’ We live in an expanding universe. History and experience unite to teach us a
growing body of truth, and we ought never to fear coming to
finite

grips with ideas.

“Yet we are properly concerned with the changing horizon,
because the morrow hinges upon what we do today. The destiny
of nations is in the making. In this process there is the voice
of authority: God has spoken. The treasury of Scripture and
the matchless examples of faithful followers over many generations belong to us. God has given the true worth of man and
the dignity of Divine sonshin.
In the measure of our faithfulnes to revealed truth we shall build a better tomorrow.
“The purpose of change, the meaning of God’s continuing
revelations, is to direct us into the real Way of Life. Moses tells
us that God reveals Himself in order ‘that we may do all the
words of this law.’ Knowledge is always in order to practice and
truth in order to goodness. Unless we strive to live according to
the best light we possess the changing horizon will bring the
glowering clouds of certain disaster.
“Science today

is

returning to an appreciation of an old con-

cept, that man is the possessor of a free will. It is within man’s
power, in the hands of individuals like ourselves, to shape the

future for good or ill. God’s supreme purpose is to bring men
into a conscious fellowship with Himself through the redemptive
work of Christ. He has shown the more excellent way and revealed the secret of life.’’

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Ivy

Day

“We must

not only be teachers of education for merely our
direct our educational endeavors toward the goal of international betterment,’’ was the
challenge given the members of the 1948 graduating class of the
BloomsDurg State Teachers College by Reginald Remley, Orangeville, at the traditional Ivy Day Exercises held Thursday, May
20 on the campus near the main entrance of Waller Hall. Remley, who has been prominent in athletic and extra-curricular activities on the campus during his four years
at Bloomsburg,
spoke on the general theme of the responsibillity of teachers to
provide leadership in a confused world.
The Ivy Day orator urged his classmates to use the skills
and knowledge acquired at Bloomsburg. He said that the Class
of 1948 would attack their responsibilities v/ith the utmost confidence so as to be constructive participants in better education
and a better world.
Harry John, Bloomsburg, president of the Senior Class,
presided over the ceremonies which were attended by several
hundred guests of the College. After planting the ivy, he handed the spade to Alfred Lampman, Kingston, president of the
Jnuior Class, expressing the hope that next year’s class would
carry on the tradition of planting the ivy. Lampman responded
briefly and pledged his classmates to the task.
During the exercises, Martha Hathaway, Danville, led the
assembly in “America” and the Alma Mater.
Looking backward a few years, the writer of “The Passing
Throng” column of The Morning Press indulged in the following reminiscence:
On Thursday, May 20 the members of the graduating class
of the Teachers College observed Ivy Day, a traditional feature
of Commencement on the h'll.
The thought back of the event has never changed and the
orators, without exception, entreat the members of their class to
grow in stature and wisdom as the ivy will grow against the wall
of one of the college buildings.
But the presentation of the program is different now. Ivy
Day used to be an early evening feature, the only event of the
day. Now it is a part of senior day, the program also including
a banquet and ball. We don’t say that the change isn’t for the
better. What position it has in the activities rests with the members of the class.
Back in the days before the institution became a college and
was given the right to grant degrees, the classes were considerably larger than they are now. Three hundred or better was not
unusual.

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the cap and
It was also a custom at that time to have
gowned seniors march two abreast, flanked on either side by a
laurel chain. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania later stepped
in to protect the laurel which looks much more beautiful in the

woods, than tied to a rope, and lasts

much

longer in

its

natural

spot.
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But the making of the laurel chain provided a good time
and many pleasant memories for i.hose who worked on the creation of the chain.

What they now term “the old gym,”
hill the only gym in the town,

day on the

the Presbyterian church,

was the work

but which was in our
from the one at

aside
shop.

It was strung from wall to wall with more clothes line than
you find on the roof of many a metropolitan tenament. You
could always get more to help tie the laurel on the rope than you
could to forage in the woods for the required material.
The first thing was to borrow trucks. The college had a
team of horses and a wagon and that didn’t move rapidly enough
I

for the purpose.

Trucks were always available although they were not the
newest and more powerful of the motorized vehicles and, looking back, one wonders how they ever were taken
over the
course without breaking down. Once in a while all hands would
pile out to help the truck over a grade but we don’t recall of any
accidents.

The big disappointment would come to the harvesters when,
after bringing in the load they had secured for “good measure”
they were bluntly informed that they would need at least as
much more as had already been picked.
When it came to Ivy Day there was always a race to see
whether the chain would be completed by the hour of the ceremony. It always was, but once in a while this was accomplished by closing up the ranks so that one grad would be continually
stepping on the heels of the one immediately ahead. It was fortunate that the pace from the gym to the appointed spot was a
slow one or else there would have been so much tumbling around
the dignified seniors would have resembled nothing so much as
a set of ten pins.
While in more recent years the ivy has been planted along
side one of the main buildings, for years the planting was at the
pagoda in the grove. That was a memorial of one of the classes
and those that followed planted ivy galore in an effort to get it
covered with the plant. The success was meagre.
We had one feature in our Ivy Day that few classes had on
their program. The exercises were in early evening and what
few breezes were blowing all came directly frfom the smoldering town dump, then located on Light Street Road. The guests
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were most

polite.

They

didn’t appear to notice

.

But some of

the c lass weren’t quite so well read on Emily Post. They kept
their ears open but closed their noses by the practical method
of using a finger on either side of the proboscis.
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ROBERT

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Robert E. Clark, sixty-nine, who for several years in the
and early thirties was the director of the Bloomsburg Civic Chorus and who through his life traveled most of the
United States as a musical director and soloist, died at 7:30
o’clock Monday, March 22 in the Bloomsburg Hospital from a
cerebral hemorrhage.

late twenties

Prof. Clark came into this section in 1928 as the musical
director for Evangelist White who conducted evangelistic services at the First Presbyterian church. He remained in town
and the vicinity for the rest of his life. For a time he taught
voice at the College and was director of the Men’s Glee Club.
During the years that he directed the Civic Chorus it did some
outstanding work, with the presentations including Handel’s
“Messiah”; “Chimes of Normandy” and the “Mikado.”
The
group was also heard in a number of concerts.

Most of his life was devoted to music. He studied at Simpson Conservatory of Music; was a violin student at the University of Iowa; received private instruction from a number of outstanding instructors, and also studied at the Chicago Musical
College. He was a pupil of Mr. Luther and the late Victor Herbert in operatic dramatics at New York City.
During World War I he was with the National War Works
Council and with the Y.M.C.A., bein gone of a corps of directors
who trained soldiers to march to music. He was associated for
some time with the late John Wanamaker in evangelistic work in
Philadelphia and for five years was director of music for Evangelist G.

W. Anderson.

An excellent baritone, he made many recording for the Edison Phonograph Company. In his youth he was a fine athlete,
both in high schools and college ,and for years was a coach of
various sports. An accident in athletics, which resulted in a stiffening of his wrist, made it necessary for him to discontinue his
studies on the violin. A native of Indianolo, Iowa, he is survived
by a brother. Dr. V. J. Clark, Salt Lake City and a sister, Mrs. J.
O. Watson, Indianola, Iowa.
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Students Hold

Mock Convention

The affable gentleman from Minnesota, Harold A. Stassen,

who has been going

quietly about the business of getting himself
Republican presidential picture, probably got some inspiration from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College “takeoff”
of the Republican National Convention held Thursday, May 13,
in the Carver Hall auditorium. Stassen, pre-convention favorite,
waltzed away with the G.O.P. nomination after an exciting battle with New York’s Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 Republican nominee.
Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, was never in the running. Governor Earl A. Warren, of Callifornia, was named as
Stassen’s running mate.
in the

Thomas W. Lewis, Northumberland senior, was the selection of the Stassen forces to put the name of the former governor of Minnesota in nomination, and it was an ideal choice. He
was the last nomination speaker of the morning and he virtually
woke up the covention with first pleading, then shouting and
arm waving in a frenzied display of emotionalism for the Republican glamor boy candidate. Lewis challenged his rivals to produce a candidate of equal statesmanship or patriotism and
stressed Stassen’s abilities to handle critical problems on either
the domestice or foreign fronts.
The woman’s touch was provided by Mrs. Ann Baldy Boyer,
Catawissa senior, whose seconding speech was to the point and
devoted largely to Stassen’s sparkling personalilty and appeal.
She surrendered the floor to the wildest celebration of the session led by a blaring band and a parade of shouting supporters
carrying banners and state signs. Hundreds of Stassen buttons
were showered on the rival delegations as well as a blizzard of
confetti which minutes before had been newspaper.
Stassen was named before the end of the first ballot after
little Rhode Island cast the deciding votes to insure his nomination.
Up to that time, Stassen had polled 544 votes to Dewey s
183. Joseph A. Martin, the Massachusetts’ favorite, was given
36 votes, trailing California’s Earl Warren, who received 53.
Taft, pre-convention favorite, was far behind with 33 tallies.
James Dormer, Hatboro, was the national chairman of the
party and opened the convention. The only quiet of the morning was during the invocation which was pronounced by Carson
Whitesell, Hunlock Creek, and the singing of the Star Spangled
Banner by Ralph Wire, Harrisburg.
Robert Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre, was named temporary
chairman and keynoter as the business of getting the machinery
of the convention moved at a rate that would take the breath of
the most seasoned campaigner.
Robert Millard was then elected permanent chairman and
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charged the convention to do all in its power to send its nominee
White House in November. Richard Hess, Sea Isle, N, J.,
presented the Republican platform which pledged the party to a
pollicy of world peace, Pan-American cooperation, maintenance
of present high standards of business, reduction of the national
debt, and perpetuation of agriculture as the nation’s basic in
to the

dustry.

Nominations for the presidential candidate were openev.' by
Joseph Curilla, Shamokin, who placed the name of Senator Robert A. Taft before the convention. Joseph Putera,
Kingston,
nominated Governor Earl E. Warren, of California, while Philip
Joseph, Easton, made a striking appeal for the nomination of
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York.

John

Purcell,

Shenandoah, nominated Joseph Martin, Mas-

sachusetts. The seconding speech for Martin
Charles Schiefer, Steelton.

was

made

by

Miss Rose Marie Kreiser, Horsham, nominated Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Julia Pichel, Hellertown, seconded his
nomination in an effective manner.

These speeches paved the way for the climatic speeches by
Lewis who had the honor of nominating the convention
choice and Mrs. Ann Baldy Boyer who seconded Stasscn’s nom-

Tom

ination.

The convention was sponsored by Phi Sigma Pi, national
social science fraternity, and was under the personal
direction of Edward A. Reams, of the College faculty. It was the
first mock convention held at Bloomsburg since 1940 when College students nominated Taft and Vandenberg.
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Spencer E. Roberts, of Catawissa, has accepted a position in
the diplomatic service of the United States State Department.
He will be sent in the near future to serve in the American Embassy with the rank of attache.
Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Bucknell University, class of
1942, and has done graduate work in Northwestern University,
the University of Colorado, and has just completed two years of
work in the Russian Institute of Columbia University, New York.
During his work at Columbia Mr. Roberts broadcast in Russian
and wrote scripts for the Voice of America’s daily programs to
the Soviet Union and taught Russian at Queens College, L. I.
He is a graduate of the Catawissa High School with honors,
and attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College for a time
before transferring to Bucknell. Roberts is well known for his
He is a veteran of World War II.
abililty in the field of music.
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May Day
Against a brilliant backdrop of gaily festooned maypoles,
the annual May Day exercises of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College were held Wednesday, May 19 before an overflow
audience of 1500 persons. Campus observers said that the crowd
was the largest ever to witness the traditional ceremonies at the
College.
The festivities were postponed four times because of
unfavorable weather, but the delay only meant a greater tinal
success.

Mrs. Anne Baldy Boyer, Catawissa, who was crowned May
Queen by Harry Reitz, Shamokin, president of the Community
Government Association, presented a striking picture as she led
her court and entertainers through the grove near Science Hall.
Attended by eight lovely young women, the Queen was <^scorted
to a picturesque throne placed on a terrace in the rear of Waller
Hall.
From this point of vantage the Queen reviewed the procession of several hundred Benjamin Franklin School pupils and
College students who provided an interesting and entertaining
program. Crown bearers were Sally Thomas and Barbara Urehrig, while pupils of the Benjamin Franklin kindergarten served

as flower bearers and pages.
Miss Grace Woolworth.

The kindergarten

is

taught by

The scene of the festivities was a day at the Olympics. In
Greece the Olympic games were celebrated once every four years
as a national festival to the gods. Tha athletic events consisted
chiefly of races and pentathlon. The prizes were crowns of wild
olive or laurel, no Greek hoping to win greater honor than one
of these wreaths.

Because the Olympics have been resumed this year, the
College May Day was planned to simulate the ancient Greek
celebration and countries winning the Olympic events paid homage to the Queen with traditional dances.
The festivities in front of the Queen’s throne were opened
with the traditional lighting of the Olympic torch by a runner,
Albert Kelley, from the Benjamin Franklin School. The Women’s
Chorus of the College, under the direction of Miss Harriet M.
Moore, sang two numbers as a greeting to the May Queen. Their
first presentation was “Haste Ye Nymph” by S. Arnold and “Tell
Me Mamma,” a French Bergerette. More than 100 women were
in the chorus. This was followed by a Greek sacrificial dance by
the sixth grade girls from the Benjamin Franklin School. Miss
Edna J. Barnes is the teacher in charge of this group. Following an Olympic running event in which a number fo sixth grade
boys competed, a large group of College women presented a series of English country dances.
Miss Lucy McCammon, director
of health education for women at the college, was the director of
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this portion of the

program.

The

pupils of the first grade of the Benjamin Franklin
School then played a German folk game, “Going to the Fair,”
under the supervision of Mrs. Lucile J. Baker, while the fourth
grade pupils, taught by Mrs. Anna G. Scott, did a colorful Irish
dance. The fifth grade, taught by Mr. Harry N. Gasser, was featured in a lovely Dutch dance, while second grade boys and girls,
under the direction of Miss Iva Mae Van Scoyoc, were seen in a
traditional country square dance of the United States.
very
colorful hula dance by the third grade pupils of Mrs. Lorraine

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Jones concluded the dances and games.
A College quartet composed of Marion Lake, Carbondale;
Ralph Wire, Harrisburg; Jean Richards, Bloomsburg and Joe
Cur.lla, Shamokin, was heard in a series of two songs which
concluded the entertainment. This talented music group sang
“Spring Song” and “Sylvia.”

Perhaps the most colorful feature of the entire festivities
of the Maypoles by pupils of the Benjamin
Franklin School and a group of College women. Fifteen poles
complete with brilliantly colored streamers were used in the traditional ceremonies and presented a gala conclusion to the afternoon’s program.
The entire May Day program was under the general direction of Mrs. Peter R. Wisher and Mrs. Robert B. Redman. Mrs.
Wisher directed last year’s activities which successfully revived
one of the college’s most colorful springtime festivities. Besides
the teachers of the various grades that participated in the danassisce3. Miss Elma J. Major and Miss Edna J. Hazen gave
tance. The Queen and her court were in charge of Miss Lucy
McCammon, while property and stage settings were designed by
George Keller and built by the College grounds and nuildings
nie college
staff under the direction of Nevin T. Englehart.
band, directed by Charles H. Henrie provided music during the
ceremonies while the Olympic athletes v/ere supervised by Peter
R. Wisher. Flowers were provided by the Dillon greenhouse. Accompanists for the program were: Miss Martha Hathaway, Danville; Mrs. Anna G. Scott, Mrs. Lucile J. Baker, Miss Delphine
Buss, Watsontown and Miss Ruth Von Bergen, Hazleton. The
Queen attendants were: Miss Mary Moser, Ringtown; Estelle
Friday, Phoenixville; Fern Shellenberger, Bloomsburg; Mildred
Palumbo, Mt, Carmel; Barbara Greenly, Bloomsburg; Rose Marie Kraiser, Plorsham; Charlotte Reichart, Light Street and Matilda Patrick, Dupont.

was the winding

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Students Receive Awards
The presentation of service award keys and other college
hono rawards featured the Senior Honor Assembly of tne Teachers College held Thursday, May 20 in the Carver Autdiorium. It
was the final convocation of the spring semester, and it was a
memorable one for the Senior Class whose members began a
busy weekend of activities which culminated in the annual Commencement Week Exercises on Monday, May 24.
’Nine seniors were presented Service Keys which arc presented annually to those members of the graduating class w'ho have
rendered outstanding services to the College community. Participation in extra-curricular activities is rewarded on the basis
of a sliding scale of points.

Seniors who won the coveted gold keys were: Heien Jean
Bloomsburg; Betty
Richard, Bloomsburg; Barbara Greenly,
Fisher, Bloomsburg; Harry Reitz, Shamokin; Millard Ludwig,
Milville; Harold Miller, Danville;
Harry John, Bloomsburg;
James Tierney, Bloomsburg and Mary Moser, Ringtown.
President Harvey A. Andruss made the presentation of the
nine Service Keys as well as nine “Who’s Who’’ shingles.
The
latter are certificates granted those members of the graduating
class whose names were selected for
the annual publication,
“Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.’’
Certificates were presented to: James P. Roonev, Philadelphia; Helen Jean Richard, Bloomsburg; Michael John Remetz, Swoyerville; Harry Reitz, Shamokin; Harold William Reinert, Slatington; Ann Fuller Northrup, Dalton;
Martha Alice
Hathaway, Danville; Betty L. Fisher, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth
Ann Baldy Boyer, Catawissa.
Peggy Lewis, Phoenixville, was the recipient of a special
College Council citation for outstanding service in promoting
College social life. The award was made by Harry Reitz, retiring president of the College Council of the Community Government Association.
Harry John, president of the Senior Class presided over the
exercises which also included the installation of the new officers
of the Community Government Association. Thaddeus SwigonCarmel, vice
ski, Nanticoke, president; Frank Luchnick, Mt.
president; Dorothy Lovett, Nanticoke, secretary; and Joseph
Curilla, Shamokin, were sw rn into office by the retiring president of the Association, Hai ry Reitz. Mr. Reitz also installed the
newly-elected members of tlie College Council.
The Senior Class, robed in the traditional caps and gowns,
marched into the auditorium to the strains of “Festival ProMr.
ces.sion’’ by Maryot, played by Howard F. Fenstemake’"
Fenstemaker also played Jie recessional, “Cum Sancto.’’ Miss
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Ellen Clark, Bloom^barg, was the student director of
music and led the College assembly in singing “God of Our Fathers” during the program.

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Athletics
The following summary of the past year in athletics at
Bloomsburg appeared in the “Fanning” column of The Morning
Press

Another athletic year at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College is coming to a close and looking back the student body
and the alumni generally will term it a good year in sports. The
reason is that the Huskies had a good football season and by and
large that is the measuring stick of athletic success in American
colleges today.
a product of the post-war era. It has been the barothey started dressing up the pigskin sport into Fall pageantry, and selling out the pasteboards
for the largest stadia in the nation, even before the competing
clubs started drilling for the contest, is now a common place
football occurrence.
Passing by the football season of ’47 with the observ'ation
that it was one of the finest in the history of the hilltop Alma
Mater, let’s take a look at the other accomplishments in the athletic world.
The basketball team split even. It was one of those unusual combinations that could click on the hostile hardwood and
then fail to do good before the home folks. Now a 50-50 basketball season is decidedly commonplace for the Maroon and Gold.
They generally do better; sometimes considerably better.
After shirfting around considerably to accommodate the
whims of a weepy weatherman, they have won three games and
Two others were rained out. As for track and field,
lost five.
without any star performers and in a year when some Teachers
Colleges were endowed with thin-clad talent such as they never
had before, the Huskies did better than expected. They won two
of six dual meets.
They used to call Bloomsburg the “Springtime College”
Reference
when they were speaking of the athletic program.
was made, of course, to the manner in which the institution dominated the sports picture at that time of the year.
The thirties provided a depression nationally but up on the
Dr. Nelson had his
hill it was a boom neriod in Spring sports.
George Buchheit built the
undefeated baseball team in ’35.
track and field team into a position of State prominence, and
John C. Koch turned out some fine tennis teams.
On the spur of the moment some may point out that we
It isn’t

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aren’t doing as well in a balanced program as we used to do.
They will be right. Let’s, however, analyze the situation.
Back in the days when we were winning in other sports

and getting kicked around on the gridiron without cereiuony, the

was “let’s get a football team.’’
It was announced by the administration in
the post-wai
program of sports that football was to be emphasized and the
administration has made good in that regard.
We haven’t put cross country back on the Fall program or
cry

ng sports lay-out, but otherwise we have
things running along on a pretty good plane and the years
ahead should see the other sports coming back. All things considered, the nine in ’49 should be a good one and with some new
blood the track team can get moving.
But, on the whole, the alumni will write off the 1947-48
year at the College as an outstanding one in athletics. That, of
course, will be based on the fine achievements of the football
team.
Some
That reasoning isn’t limited to Bloomsburg, either.
years ago when Lafayete was tarring Lehigh in football, the
sports public by and large was placing its pity on the “poor engineers,’’ whereas, the records showed that in one year the only
thing the boys from Easton did win and the arch rivals met
in all sports
was the football game.
Whether you like it or not, the football team has been built
up to a point where the eleven is the display window of ^he institennis on the Spr

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tution.

We

don’t believe any substantial number selects a college
has a snappy eleven, but we are convinced that if the
choice lies between two schools, all other things being equal,
the one with a good eleven, more frequently than many will admit, gets the nod of the prospective student.

because

it

And we have to have students to keep an institution going.
Bloomsburg and every other institution is filled to overflowing
now

as the

Uncle

Sam

men who interrupted their education to do battle for
are catching up in preparation for their life’s work.

But in another year this is going to drop off to a marked
degree and each institution will have to be on the alert. Those
who know and who look upon the situation impartially say that
Bloomsburg has as much to offer in the fields in which it specializes as any other institution.
That being so, it behooves all to do what they can to let the
world know about it. We now have a football team we don’t
have to apologize for and the alumni are finally getting active,
under the leadership of Dr. E. H. Nelson, the president of the
graduate body, and are going to do something to see that the
sport is kept up to a high standard.
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Career Day In Bloomsburg
Sixty high school seniors from Bloomsburg, Mifflin town-

Beaver township and Rmgtown
were guests of the Teachers College Fri.lay, April 30, as the
College Chapter, Future Teachers of America, sponsored their
first annual Fligh School Career Day.
ship, Catawissa, Scott township,

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full program of events v/as participated in by tiie guests
of the day, including an auditorium program, interviews during
the morn mg and entertainment and a swim in the afternoon. Dr.
Nell Maupin, a member of the College faculty, and President
Harvey A. Andurss spoke to the guests in a special assembly in
Carver Hall. President Andruss welcom.ed the high school students, and Dr. Maupin spoke concerning the planning of a career.
film describing vocational opportunities was shown following the address, and a series of vocational conferences, in
charge of the members of the Future Teachers, were held in
classrooms in Carver Hall.

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College students conducted a tour of the campus and campus buddings prior to the luncheon in the College dining room at
12:30 o’clock. Immediately after noon a special entertainment
was presented. Included on the program were musical numbers
and comedy sketches by College students. The swim, concluding the program, opened at 2:30 o’clock.

Members of the College faculty who assisted in the program
were Miss Edna J. Hazen, director, elementary education; Joseph R. Bader, director secondary education and Richard G. HallThey interisy, director, department of busmess education.
viewed students who are interested in teachihg careers in the
field of elementary, secondary and business education.
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Dr. Horace Victor Pike, of Danville, a pioneer in mental
health education in Pennsylvania, died Wednesday, March 31, at
11:20 o’clock in the Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville.
Death was attributed to a heart attack following a brief illness.
He came to the Danville State Hospital in 1919 and started
the first mental health clinic in state hospital service in Pennsylvania and was the first clinical director in the Commonwealth
under the bureau of mental health. State Department of Welfare. He retired as clinical director of the hospital in 1937 to reenter private practice.
In the years of his service at the hospital, he gave courses
of lectures on health education at the Teachers College. He was
widely knov/n throughout this section, as well as in this part of
the nation, for his work in his profession.
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Prom Queen Named
In a colorful ceremony in the Centennial Gymnasium, of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, on Saturday evening. May
8, Miss Mane Mack, of Shenandoah, was crowned Queen of the
Junior Prom. She was attended by Miss Louise Wenner, of
Stillwater, and Miss Helen Pond, of East Orange, N. J.
The queen and her attendants were chosen by A. Anderson
and his orchestra, of Kingston, who provided the dance music
for the evening. The girls were judged on their appearance and
All girls attending the prom were eligible to be
personality.

chosen as queen.
A1 Zimmerman, of Hazleton, and a crew of helpers created
a beautiful background by the use oi crepe paper drop ceiling in
The band stand was located at one end of tire
pastel colors.
gymnasium, while the other end was devoted to the queen’s
throne, decorated in silver and blue.
Three hundred balloons

were released from the

Immed

ceiling shortly before the intermission

John Lydon, of Upper
Darby, began the ceremony by presenting the crown or flowers
Lydon then presented the
to the chosen queen. Miss Mack.
queen and her attendants with orchid corsages and gifts from
the local merchants.
The Class of ’49 under faculty advisor Edward De Voe, believe their idea of selecting a queen of the prom w'Jl become an
annual tradition at the college. Dance chairman, Philip Joseph,
of Easton, and his committee members put much effort and ingenuity into preparations for the dance.
ately following the intermission,

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wedding at two o’clock Saturday, May 8, at the
Greenwood Methodist Church, Miss Ruth Ellen Dreibelbis became the bride of Donald E. Beyer, of Hatboro. The Rev. Earl
E. Kerstetter performed the double ring ceremony. The bride is
a graduate of Millville High School, class of 1946 and the Thompson Business College, of Harrisburg. She is now employed at
the First National Bank, Millville. The groom graduated from
Scott Township High School in 1943, and served thirty-two
months with the U. S. Navy during World War II. Of this time,
twenty-two months were spent in the South Pacific. He is now
attending Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
In a pretty

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A concert by Sunbury High School’s fine eighty-five piece
band featured the weekly assembly of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College held in Carver auditorium. The band, under
the direction of Charles Coleman, dellighted a large audience
of students and faculty with a varied and well-balanced program
of marches and concert music.
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Bloomsburg High School came through with the honors in
the annual scholastic commercial contest held Saturday, May 1,
by the Business Education Deparement of the Teachers College.
One hundred thirty-five students from thirty-three Pennsylvania high schools participated.
Miss Nancy Rumer, of Bloomsburg, won in business arithmetic as the local school won the
keenly contested event for the second time in history.
Others who represented Bloomsburg were Miss Nancy Fry,
sixth in arithmetic; Miss Carol Wanich, sixth in shorthand; Miss
Helen Shaffer, twelfth and Richard Cromley, nineteenth in
bookkeeping.

Team scoring was based on the individual showings made
by a team of five members entered in three or more contests.
Inasmuch as Bloomsburg and Canton were the only teams
entered winning a first place, in order to break the tie the contest officials used the statistical procedure of ranking.
The
scoring was similar to that used in cross country running, low
score deciding. Northampton placed second with forty-nine and
Easton High third with eighty-four.

The members of the commercial faculty of the Bloomsburg
high school are William I. Reed, director; Miss Harriet Rhodes,
William Shutt, Robert Williams and William H. Barton.
The first three in each of the four events were: Business
arithmetic— Nancy Rumer, Bloomsburg, first; Dolores Spadt,
Slatington, second; Theresa Pail, Northampton, third.
Typewriting- -Ruth Weisberger, Edwardsville, first; Arlene Grencavage. Coal Township, second; Kathryn P. Smith, Mifflinburg,
third.
Short hand Eleanor Stone, Canton, first; Nancy Dieruff, Easton, second; Arlene Gutshall, Marysville, third.
Bookkeeping Doris Leo Kaufman, Wyoming, first; Charles Simpson,
York, second; Dorothy Smolick, Northampton, third.

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Dr. Halden Hartline, of the Johnson Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, has been awarded the
Howard Crosby Warren Medal and a gift of $250 by the Society
of Experimental psychologists. Dr. Hartline is the son of the
late Prof .and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, and is a native of Bloomsburg.
Presentation of the medal, given in recognition of a “distinguished contribution to the field of experimental psychology”,
was made by Dr. Harry Nelson, professor of that subject at
Bryn Mawr and chairman of the conference. Leading psychologists from leading colleges and universities throughout the country were in attendance.
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Summer School

Safety Course

Under the leadership of the State Department of Public Instruction, a program of training for teachers in safety education has been set up in a few teacher-education institutions, and
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is cooperating in making
this training available to its students during the regular Sum-

The program is available to
mer Session, beginning June 28.
those desiring to become qualified to feach safety education at
either the secondary or elementary school level.
Arrangements have been completed to offer a course in
“Driver Education and Training” which will carry three semester house of credits, and if there is a demand, an additional 3
semester hours of work will be offered in safety education leading to permanent certification in that field. Temporary certification may be earned by taking three semester hours of credit
instead of six.
Dr. Thomas P. North, dean of instruction at the College
stated that the courses are designed to meet fully the needs of
those seeking to equip themselves to teach safety education and
train secondary students as automobile driveis. The Department
of Public Instruction also indicated that the course can be used
to make a teaching certificate permanent and can be taken as
an elective course in social studies. Robert B. Redman has been
named to handle the work in safety education here. Redman
has had much preparation for this work and attended the recent
special training program conducted at Harrisburg foi- instructors
courses in safety education.

m

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Hervie G. Beishline, aged

County school teachcer, was
his

home

April

in

fifty-six,

well-known Columbia
by a heart attack at
township Wednesday,

fatally stricken

Bendertown, Fishingcreek

9.

Born April 7, 1892 in Fishingcreek township, he was the
son of the late Nathan and Alverna Weaver Beishline. He had observed his fifty-sixth birthday shortly before. The death severed a marital span of twenty-six years.
He had instructed in the Fishingcreek and Benton township
schools for thirty-six years and for the past four years had been
a member of the Bendertown faculty.
A graduate of the Fishingcreek High School, he had attended Summer sessions at the Bloomsburg Normal School. He also
attended the Franklin and Marshall Theological Seminary at
Lancaster and held a local minister’s license for several years.
He was a member of the St. James Evangelical and Reformed
Churcch. He was also a member of the Integrity Lodge, No. 234
I.

O. O. F. of

New

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'"Saucered and Blowed''
E. H.

NELSON

Again our thanks to Mrs. Sanner and the Class of 1886. A
has been added to the Scholarship Fund to aid
worthy students through their effort and generosity. Mrs. Sanner contributed $500.00 in memory of her husband, Mr. Nolan
Sanner, always a loyal alumnus.
total of $615.00

The Class of 1903 was in fine form Alumni Day. Leave it
“Tod” Albert, Abe Rarich, Grace Housel Bales and all the
others to produce an exciting time. And they say their activities were just a “tune up” for the celebration they will put on in
1953. Other classes take note.
There are enough new sponsors and contributors to add a
sizeable section to the beautiful bronze plaque you saw on display Alumni Day. How can one better invest $50.00? You do
honor to one who made the supreme sacrifice, you help a worthy
student secure an education and you have the satisfaction of being on permanent record as one interested in the welfare of the
College. Why not add your name to the list and see your name
on the plaque by Homecoming Day?
to

We

had good “outpost” meetings during the Spring.
We
have more another year. Columbia county will have a
dinner the night of Homecoming Day. A Luzerne county meeting in the Hazleton area is being planned.
Northumberland
county and the Union-Snyder organizations are getting ready
for action again. Schuylkill county will have a report for us in
the near future. Philadelphia has engaged already the place for
a dinner meting next Spring. Bloomsburg Alumni are on the
move.
hope

to

Our thanks for the many letters we have received relative
to your College visit on Alumni Day. The College administration did everything possible to show us a good time, and if we
didn’t have a good time it was our fault. The planning was so
well done that some of us had the same dormitory rooms we occupied in student days.
See you Homecoming Day!
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1946

A daughter was born Wednesday, March 31 to Mr. and Mrs
Donald Rabb, of Benton, at the Geisinger Hospital.
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Summer

Session

The State Teachers College, cognizant of the needs of the
teachers of its area, has a wide program of offerings during its
1948 summer sessions. During the past three years, a workshop
in Elementary Education has been maintained in connection with
the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School in Elemetary Education.
This summer, during the regular six-weeks session, the
program of v/orkshops has been enlarged to include a wide variety of opportunities for in-service and pre-service teachers in
the areas of Elementary, Business and Secondary Education.
Bloomsburg’s workshops in education provide modern methods of work on a high plane to meet the varied needs of teachers
jof experience. Laboratory School classes are available on the
campus on the Elementary and Secondary levels for observation
and study. Observations are a required part of the work. The
program is not only interesting and invigorating, but will result
in a greater degree of self-realization and personal satisfaction
in teaching for those enrolled.
A partial list of cooperating educators includes the names
of men and women prominent in the field of education in Pennsylvania and the United States. For example, students in the
Consumer Education workshop have heard Miss Sylvia Shiras,
Household Finance Company, Chicago, Illinois, during the third
week of the session develop the topic, “Money Management,”
while Lester N. Meyer, Chief Special Education, Department of
Public Instruction, Harrisburg, has assisted in the Elementary
Workship. Outstanding teachers from New York University and
Ohio State University were scheduled to appear on the Secondary Education Workshop program. All in all, more than eighteen outstanding educators have cooperated in this year’s workshops.
o

Pete Wisher, now on the faculty of the Teachers College,
is coaching basketball and track, was selected as one
of the judges, for the final United States Olympic try outs held
by the Natiohal AAU at the Pennsylvania State College on Saturday, May 1. Wisher is a gymnastic expert. He was on such a
team in his undergraduate days at East Stroudsburg. While he
was on the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School he developed
gymnastics and within a short time Re‘d and White teams were
bidding for prominence in State competition among schoolboys.

where he

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Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Rodgers are parents of a son born
Friday, April

9.

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Day

Alumni

1898
on

OF

CLASS

Honored

Class

Fifty-Year

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THE ALUMNI
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

President
Vice-President
Secretary

E.

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

Hervey

B.

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.

Treasurer

Edward

Smith

Did you Have

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemakei
Elizabeth H. Huber

A Good Reunion?

To one who has observed class reunions on Alumni Day for
the past twenty years or more, certain facts reveal themselves.
It has been seen that, in recent years, the fifth, tenth and fifteenth reunions have been, in general, the most poorly attended.
Enthusiasm does not seem to reach its climax until the time for
the twenty-fifth reunion.
In the days of Doctor Waller, the picture was quite different.
large number of alumni returned two years after graduation, because it was at that time that the permanent Normal
Diplomas were presented to those who had completed two years
of teaching. The writer recalls one such reunion, at which the
number returning was so large that the graduates filled the old

A

gymnasium.
This initial enthusiasm furnished the momentum for very
successful reunions at the end of the fifth year and the tenth
year, and after some thirty or more years, the enthusiasm has
not abated.

Back of all this, however, lies another important factor
which must not be ignored. A glance at what the class of 1923
did this year will serve as an illustration. The factor tnat made
this reunion so successful was a small group of, persons who did
some planning, and followed the planning by much hard work.
The secret of a successful reunion is a small group of members of the class living in or near Bloomsburg—-a group that
takes upon itself the responsibillity of planning an interesting
program of activities, of communicating with all of the members of the class, and of seeing that the program is carried out.
Such groups usually get together early in the year to lay
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dresses are known. Personal letters are then sent out to classmates, with the request that the receivers of the letters write
to others. An attempt is made to find out the addresses of those
whose addresses are not known. The committee sometimes asks
for contributions to supply a small operating fund.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, don’t wait for anyone
else to start the ball rolling. Your class officers may be too far
away, and may even be entirely out of touch with the College.
Write to some of your classmates now!

1911
Charles Merrill Boust, assistant cashier of tjie First Nationof Sunbury and a veteran of World War I, died unexpectedly in his home, 634 North Fourth street, Monday, April 12
a short time after he suffered a heart attack. He was aged 56
years, 8 months and 27 days.
He was born July 24, 1891 in Monrore township, Snyder
county the son of Isaac Boust and Emma Jane Wolf Boust. In
young manhood he entered the teaching profession and was engaged as assistant principal in the Selinsgrove high school at
the time of the outbreak of World War I.
Entering the United States army he was assigned to the
Field Artillery Central Officers’ School at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., where twenty other Sunbury soldiers were
trained.
He was still a student at the termination of the war November
11, 1918, the school being disbanded before the end of the war.
On his return to civilian life in 1919 he entered the employ
of the Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit Company as bookkeeper
in the loan department.
At the same time he establisaed his
residence in Sunbury.
In the post-war years the bank expanded and built a business building at the northeast corner of Fourth and Market
streets, which it occupied until after its merger with the First
National Bank in 1932.
After the merger Mr. Boust continued in the loan department until several years ago when he was appointed assistant
cash’er.
For 20 years he was a director of the Susquehanna
Building and Loan Association, rising to the presidency three
years ago.
He entered the Masonic fraternity at Selinsgrove befoie
World War I. Shortly after the war he and a group of others
organized Sunbury Lodge 713, Free and Accepted Masons. He
became a charter member and continued active in the fraternity
ever since.
He was former president of the Masonic Temple Association and a member of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
He was one of the founders of the Milton Jarrett Norman
Post 201, American Legion and one of its early past commandHis sound counsel was helpful to the post througtout the
ers.
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29 years of its history, particularly in its early years, when financing was difficult and in the flood year of 1936 when the home
v/as two-thirds destroyed and the property was salvaged only

by the greatest efforts.
He was throughout his life a member of Zion Lutheran
Church and active in its Sunday school. During the war, in addition to very heavy banking duties, he served in the air watch
maintained by Post 201, east of Sunbury, to detect possible attack by hostile planes. He is survived by his wife, the former
Katherine Leighow, of Northumberland; one son, Charles L., of
Middletown; two daughters, Mrs. E. L. Lindemuth, of Willow
Grove; and Miss Ann Boust, at home; two sisters. Miss Mae
Boust, of Shamokin Dam and Mrs. Maud Shawfield, Harrisburg.
Mr. Boust was a man of high integrity, sound judgment,
great business abililty, whose opinions were sought and respected by associates in all enterprises with which he was connected.
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Luzerne County Alumni
A

delightful dinner meeting of the Luzerne County Branch
of the Alumni Association was held Thursday evening, April 29,
Harvey A. Andruss,
at the Hotel Redington, Wilkes-Barre.
president of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, speaking on
the advancement of the school, said that prior to World War II
much consideration was given to a fifth year of teacher education.
Present salary schedules provide for the minimum salaries for the Master’s degree or the equivalent, he said. “New York
has the five-year program in effect. Will Pennsylvania be far
behind? What part will teachers’ colleges play in a fifth year
of education for teachers?’’ the speaker asked.

“In view of the expansion of activities of teachers’ colleges
development of their programs in teacher education of
youth in fields of general and teachnical education,” the ^Oilege
head went on, “the Pennsylvania teachers’ colleges, and Bloomsburg is one of them, can hardly ignore these trends as they appear in other institutions throughout the nation.”
Dr. E. H. Nelson presented a plan now being introduced at
the college to memoralize graduates who have died. Friends,
realtives or organization may pay $50 to have the name of a deceased graduate engraved on a large bronze plaque. Eight names
of Bloomsburg graduates who gave their lives in World War II
already have been placed on the plaque, he said.
Dr. Nelson reminded the alumni that the associations can
not be static but must have a definite objective, such as scholarships. In addition to his office with the Alumni Association,
Dr. Nelson is secretary of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg,
Miss Edna Aurand, of Wilkes-Barre, president of Luzerne
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County Chapter, announced that the local group decided at its
meeting to award a $50 scholarship at Alumni Day. A committee from the college will make the award to a worthy secondyear student from Luzerne County.
Howard F. Fenstemaker, editor of the Alumni Quarterly,
spoke briefly. Norman Thomas, toastmaster, introduced the
speakers. Mrs. Mary Strange Dreisbach, of West Pittston, gave
a reading “On the Bargain Counter.” Theodore Keen, principal
of Wyoming High School, entertained with two tenor solos, accompanied by Mr. Fenstemaker.
Maroon and gold flowers, suggestive of school colors, were
used in decorations. Committee had as members Mrs. Charles
Hensley and Miss Elizabeth Pugh. Alumni dues should be paid
to Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, secretary-treasurer of the county
chapter. Miss Aurand announced.
last

Attending also were Mrs. Jennie T. Williams, Mrs. Betty Heiisley, Mrs.
Marion Hartman, Ada Wolfe, Bessie Coughlin, C. Alberta Nichols, Leonore
Pettebone, Mrs. Emma Starr, Gertrude Garrison, Mrs. Eva Speary Mrs. Etta
Evans, Mrs. Ruth Griffith, Edison Fischer, Mrs. Edison Fischer, Mrs. Anna
H. Everett, Thomas Flaherty, Chester Wojeck, Mrs. Ruth Harris, Mrs. Jean
Read, Mrs. Leonore Williams, Mrs. Leonore Beers, Eleanor Haines, Margaret Reynolds,' Mrs. Ruth Bond, Mary Davis, Mrs. Marion Stumpf, Anne
Jones, Dan Mahoney, Mrs. D. J. Mahoney, Theo4ore Keene, Mrs. Theodore
Keene, IMrs. iMary Gething, Mrs. Ellen Phoebe Gray, Mary Rieley, Margaret
Berlew, Mrs. Camille Pettebone, Esther Boone, Mrs. Mabel Hawke Anthony,
Mrs. Rachel Winter Pratt, Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mrs. W. Alfred Valentine and
Mrs. Lester Bennett.
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Dauphin-Cumberland Alumni
Officers of the Dauphin-Cumberland Counties Alumni Association of Bloomsburg State Teachers College were elected at
the annual dinner meeting May 5, at the Magnolia Tearoom.
They were: Miss Mae Berger, Steelton, president; Mrs. R.
A. MacCachran, Camp Hill, first vice president; Mrs. Charles G.
Gilmer, Harrisburg, second vice president; W. Homer Englehart,

Harrisbur, treasurer and Mrs. Blanche H. Grimes,

Harrisburg,

secretary.

Miss Berger,

who

spent a year teaching in Germany, spoke

of her experiences abroad and teaching methods in Germany.
Members of the college faculty present were President Harvey

A. Andruss, John A. Hoch and Miss Harriet M. Moore.
The committee on arrangements consisted of Mrs. Ralph
Gardner, Miss Nellie Seidel, Harrisburg; Miss Margaret Dailey
and Mrs. J. G. Schiefer, of Steelton.
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Seventy-five were in attendance Friday evening, May 14, at
a dinner meeting of the Montour County Branch of the
Bloomsburg Teachers College Alumni Association which was
held at the Riverside Methodist Church. There was group singing, led by Charles R. Henrie and with H. F. Fenstemakcr at the
piano. Gerry Kessler played as a piano solo “Moonlight Sonata,” Beethoven, and Miss Barbara Fiedler gave a reading from
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”
“The Piper from Over the Way” was sung by Misses Barbara Gulick, Lola Jean Deibert and Janet Landau, with Mrs.
Foster Kirkner as the accompanist and Donald Vanman, with
Mrs. Kirkner at the piano, sang “The Hills of Home.”
Ralph Wire, Harrisburg, a College freshman, sang “I Hear
a Forest Praying,” Peter DeRose and “Homing,” Teresa del
Riego. Guests from the college were Dr. H. R. Russel, Dr. E. H.
Nelson, President Harvey A. Andruss, Miss Edna Hazen, Miss
Iva Mae VanScoyoc, Dr. T. P. North, H. F. Fenstemaker, Charles H. Henrie and Peter Wisher. Fred W. Diehl, superintendent
of the Montour county schools and a trustee of the College, and
Mrs. Diehl were also in attendance.
Ralph McCracken was chosen president with Mrs. Donald
Kessler, vice president; Miss Alice Smull, secretary and Miss

Susan

Sidler, treasurer.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the Alumni Association,
spoke of the Alumni Day program on May 22, and ot the formation of the Husky Club in support of College athletics. President Andruss spoke on “A Teachers College Comes of Age,”
and Mr. Fenstemaker spoke of the class reunions planned for
the commencement season.
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WHERE ARE THEY?
Mail from the following has been returned unclaimed. The
College authorities and the officers of the Alumni Association
v/il be very greatful if their friends send their present addresses
to the Editor.

1934

Acker (Mrs. McPhilmoy) C. Homer Artman;
Elbert W. Ashworth, Gladys L. Bakey (Mrs. Thomas Davis),
Mary T. Beierschmitt Willin, Edith M. Blair (Mrs. E. F. Shute),
Frank J. Chudzinski, Ella E. Crispell (Mrs. Edward Cobleigh),
Madalyn S. Dunkelberger (Mrs. Harry W. Stephens), Charles D.
Enterline, Esther Evans (Mrs. Joseph D. McFadden), Roy S.
Garman, Anna M. Gillaspy Raker, Elizabeth S. Hake, Ruth E.
Henson, Bertha I. Hornberger, Alice U. Hornung, Fred T. Jaffm, Anna E. Johnson, Howard M. Kreitzer, Joseph L. Larish,
Beulah M. Lawrence (Mrs. Roy D. Masser), Adeline M. Lavou,
Priscilla T.

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Georgia E. Matha (Mrs. E. Dale Sittman), Helen E. Minier.
Genevieve G. Merges, Dorothy H. Moss (Mrs. David A. Lipnick),
Paul Mudrick, Mary R. O’Donnell, Mark E. Peifer, Florence Cl.
Pieri (Mrs. John Drucis), Pierce M. Reed, Jeanette M. Reese
Hartig, Anna M. Ryan (Sister Mary Sebastian), Carmen P. Shelhammer, Freda H. Shuman (Mrs. Clyde Laubach), Harriet K.
Spotts Leitzel, Wilson B. Sterling, Mary E. Taylor (Mrs. Robert
M. Seely), Marie G. Wilkinson (Mrs. Max E. Sweppenheiser)
William C. Williams, Dorothy I. Wolfe, Elsie L. Yeager (Mrs.
Charles Rhodes), Louise Yeager (Mrs. John B. Fesher), Frank
Zadin.

1939

Annabel Bailey (Mrs. Willis E. Jones), Leonard E. Bariik,
Isaiah D. Bomboy, James V. DeRose, Lois E. Farmer (Mrs. Alfred KochR Morgan F. Foose, Shedon C. Jones, Thomas O. Lewis, Edward J. MacDonald,
Helen M. McGrew, Wilhelmina F.
Potter, Anne M. Seesholtz, Jean C. Shuman, Joseph M. Stamer,
Philip Traupane, Miriam Utt (Mrs. Samuel R. Frank, Jr.)
1944
Pauline Garey (Mrs. Hugh Niles), Mary Eila Parr.
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1885

The death of Miss Anna M. Fox, eighty-two, whose teaching
span covered forty-four years

in the school system of Bloomsburg, occurred at the Bloomsburg Hospital recently, from complications.
The daughter of the late Frederick and Sophia Beidleman Fox, she was Dorn in Bloomsburg September 23, 1866. She
had made her home with Miss Mary Kline, of Bloomsburg and
was a patient in the Bloomsburg hospital for twelve days with
a heart condition. Miss Fox graduated from the Bloomsburg
Normal School on July 2, 1885 and applied for a position in the
Bloomsburg schools the following fall.
The first school she taught was in the library of the Fifth
Street building. There were sixty-four pupils in a room about
twelve feet wide and twenty-four feet long. The desks were so
high that the children’s feet did not touch the floor when they
were seated and there was no place where they could keep books.
Later in the year the school was moved to the first floor of an
old building in the rear of the home of Mrs. Mary Caswell on
Fifth street where she finished the year.
From that year on Miss Fox acted as assistant to several
teachers until 1892 when she was sent to the Fifth Street school
as an instructor where she taught until 1896. In the fall of that
year she was not elected to a school but later was elected as an
assistant to Samuel Pursel and in the spring she became the
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time until the fall of 1922 she remained at the Fifth street
school as a primary teacher and was then transferred to the
Third street school. She retired from the teaching profession
in 1929.

ing
or

The editorial column of The Morning Press had
comment at the time of the death of Miss Fox:

the follow-

Many, many persons in Bloomsburg, the majority grown into manhood
womanhood experienced a deep sense of sorrow in the death of Anna

M. Fox.

She possessed tlie qualities of an outstanding school teacher, a friend
As a student we never had “Annie,” as she was known, in the
Yet
classroom. Our first years were spent at the Third street school.
every child knew of her through association.

of children.

Her philosophy both of life and teaching was a rich and sincere one.
She was convinced children must learn to help themselves. That thought
even time has not altered. “Annie” was always noted for her promptness
And once asserted, “it is much easier to be
in reaching the classroom.
there a little ahead of time than just on time.” It is no wonder “Annie”
was the student’s friend. She portrayed all the qualities one associates
with the teaching profession.

The “Passing Throng” column of the same newspaper also
had the following comment:
The hundreds and hundreds of persons who “had” the late Miss Anna
M. Fox, of Bloomsburg, as their teacher possess memories of early school
days, incidents which made her so popular with children. Today we’ll turn
to an issue of The Morning Press in one of the Christmas issues that contain a feature story of Miss Fox, who at that time had completed 40 years
Her philosophy of the profession
of teaching in the publis school system.
and life itself is portrayed in the following:
“She said her pupils have turned out to be editors, lawyers, chemists,
druggists, merchants and ministers and she was proud of most of them.
When asked if any of them had turned out to be politicians, she said she
thought not and was glad of it. Miss Fox has a record of practically every
pupil ttat has gone to her in those forty years and she also has the age of
each pupil. Pictures of most of her schools are in her possession and the

records and pictures are priceless possessions of the veteran teacher.
“Sh< has never been tardy at a session of institute and was only absent
a few sessions when she was forced to remain at home following a fall in
which sie suffered a fractured rib.
All through her years of service she
has alwaj’s followed the practice of getting to school early. She may not
be needed at the school so early, she says, but she has formed that practice and it is much easier to be there a little ahead of time Uv.n just on
time.
Besides, it is a real joy to be at the school early so that she can
welcome her children. Miss Fox said. Speaking of the changes in the
schools Sliss Fox says that the children today do not seem to bo as obedient as tley were years ago.
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primary grades but there are times when you must have their attention and
then you want them to obey,’ she said.

“When asked to what she attributed her success she said sho was not
sure she was a success, but it she was it must be because of her love for
children. She talked of the changing methods and said many of the changes were for the better though she did not think all were. Children must
learn to help themselves or no one can help them and I always endeavor to
teach self-reliance,” she said.
"Miss Fox is a firm believer in conducting the school room in a uniform manner but she thinks there is so much system along certain lines
of school work that it hinders the progress of the children. She spoke of
the play methods no^v used to teach the children and said she was much in
favor of that method, mentioning particularly the sand table and other
school room articles as a great help to the teacher. She smilingly asked
‘Do you know what I got when I started to teach school?’ and when she
received an answer in the negative, she said with another smile ‘$30.'
One
of the leading factors in her success, Miss Fox said, is the unfailing cooperation which has always been given her and all of the other teachers of
the school by Prof. L. P. Sterner.”
1886

Sue Derr McAlister died Friday, October 29, 1947 at her
in Blue Rapids, Kansas. She was eighty-two years old at
the time of her death. She had been ailing for several years as

home

a result of a stroke suffered in July, 1945.

Miss Stella Lowenberg, seventy-eight, teacher in the local
schools for nine years and last of a prominent Bloomsbvrg family, died at her home, 36 East Main street,
Monday, April 12.
Death was the result of complications and followed a long illness. She had been ill for some years and bedfast for the past
year. Miss Lowenberg had been totally blind for the past fourteen years.
A native of Bloomsburg, she had spent all her life here. She
was the daughter of the late David and Sara Lowenberg. Her
father had been prominent in Bloomsburg business life.
Miss Lowenberg attended Mrs. Wynnecoop’s private school
in town, and was a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School,
of the class of 1886. She graduated from the latter schooi at the
age of sixteen and then taught in Center township for two years.
She subsequently taught at the Bloomsburg Third Street school
for seven years and at the Fifth Street school for two yaars.
She was a charter member of the Ivy club, a member of the
Hospital Auxiliary, the Red Cross, the Columbia County Historical Society, and of the B’nai Zion Temple, Danville.
1888

Three members of the class were present to attend the sixThe following were on the campus on Alumni

tieth reunion.

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Day:
Mrs. Mary Taylor Jones, of Scranton; Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss,
Bloomsburg and Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose Shuman, Catawissa.

of

1893
Elizabeth Moran (Mrs. Joseph F. McDonnell) lives at the
Fairfax Apartment 417, Locust at Forty-third street, Philadelphia.

The

class of 1893,

back for

its fifty-fifth

a very enjoyable time renewing friendships
student days at Bloomsburg.

year reunion, had

made during

their

Attending were; Mrs. Eleanor Williams Roderick, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.
Irene Girton Johnston, Bloomsburg; Burton Williams, Mehoopany.; John C.
Hart, Wilkes-Barre; Philip L. Drum, Kingston; Ena Cole Echenbach, Wilkes-Barre; Edith Harden Coon, Kingston; Edna Santee Huntzinger, Cleveland, Ohio; Norma Nicholas Davies, Scranton; Margaret M. Bogenrief, Mifflinburg,; Anna Burke Flanagan, Wilkes-Barre; Minnie P. Penman, town.

1898

Almost two score members of the class of 1898 of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, with a number of guests,
held a dinner at the College as a forerunner to the Alumni Day
activities.

Those attending the dinner of the fifty-year class were; Dean nd Mrs.
town; Mrs. Frederick Chictenav, New York City,; Miss Anne
Burke, New York; Miss Sarah Russell, Watsontown; Miss Elizabeth Foresman, Montgomery; Mrs. M. E. Conner, Benton; Janice Conner, camden, N.
J.
Mrs. Sherman L. Richards, Weston, W. Va.; Elmer Levan, Ira Cherrington, Catawissa R. D. 3,; Mrs. J. W. Biddle, Millville; Miss Elsie E. Hicks,
Espy; Mrs. Laura Shaffer, Mrs. D. R. Daniels, Forty Fort; Mrs. Mabel WestW.

B. Sutliff,

;

over Huff, Town Hill; C. Alberta Nichols, Wilkes-Barre; Amos E. Shipe,
Sunbury; Maude E. Giles, Overbrook, Philadelphia; Cora T. Burgess, Hazleton; Margaret E. Burke, New York City,; Mrs. Mabel Anthony, Nanticoke;
Clara M. Swank, Wapwallopen; Mary B. Pitner, Washington, D. C
Kather;

Coleman Anwynn, Flora B. Bentzel, Harrisburg.
Sara Moyer Bray, Bethlehem; Deborah Lewis Riley, West Crazy, N. Y.
Sarah H. Teller, Eleanor M. Weaver, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Gertrude Noss
Austin, West Pittston; Galen L. Oplinger, Allentown,; Mrs. Charles H. Weaine

Mrs. J. J. Behney, Jonestown, R. D. 2; Bertha Seely,
Oren E. Kreisher, Lewisburg; Gertrude Rinker, Prospect
Park; Henry F. Broadbent, Washington, D. C.; Edward S. Smith. Northumfcerland,; Philip L. Drum, Wilkes-Barre; Ednga Santee Huntzinger, John G.
Conner, Trenton, N. J.; class of 1883; Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, Mrs. Laura
Brader Staffer, Verda N. Geist Hass, ohn C. Hart, Wilkes-Barre; Mary B.
Conrey, Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss.
ver, Wilkes-Barre;

Berwick R. D.

1;

The class of 1898 were the guests of honor at a dinner held
in the college dining room Friday evening,
21.
Thev also

May

had seats of honor on the stage at the Alumni meeting.
Attending were;

Amos

E. Shipe,

Sunbury; Mrs.

H.' C.

Anywll, Harris-

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Charles E. Austin, M’est Pittston; Mrs. D. R. Daniels, Forty Fort;
Mrs. F. D. Burgess, Hazleton; Mrs. Mary B. Pitner, Washington, D. C.; Mrs.
S. Moyer Bray, Bathlehem; Mrs. Deborah Lewis Rile.v, West Chazy, N. Y.
Mrs. Josephine P. Conner, Benton; Gertrude Rinker, Prospect Park; Clara
M. Swank, Wapwallopen; Maude F. Giles, Mrs. Mabel Hawke Anthony, Nanburg-; Mrs.

ticoke;

Oren

E.

Krisher, Lewisburg;

Hankee Brandon, West

Pittston,;

Galen L. Oplinger, Allentown; Mae
Bertha Seely, Berwick R. D. 1; Mrs. Sher-

man Richards, Weston, W. Va. iMrs. J. W. Biddle, Millville; Mrs. Verda N.
Tass, Elizabeth E. Forisman, Montgomery Sarah H. Russell, Watsontown;
Alberta Nichols, Wilkes-Barre.
;

1901
Dr. Walter J. Lowrie, 300 Jones Avenue, North Braddock,
died Saturday, November 10, 1947, after a short illness.
Dr. Lowrie had a notable medical career. In 1901 he was

graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School where he took his
college preparatory course.
He attended Lafayette College befor entering Medico Chirurgical, now merged with the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, where he received his
doctor’s degree. After serving his internship in Pittsburgh, he
located in North Braddock. For 36 years he was the Bethlehem
Steel surgeon as well as the government’s district surgeon, besides carrying on his medical practice in Braddock. He was a
member of the Presbyterian church of that place.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Anne Lilley Lowrie; his younger brother. Dr. Robert N. Low'rie, also of North Braddock; and
the following sisters: Mrs. Willilam E. Moore, Mrs. William E.
Murray, Mrs. James I. Higbee, Miss Banche E. Lowrie, Mrs. T.
Clayton Welles, Watsontown; Mrs. Olin G. A. Barker, Johnstown and a number of nieces and nephews.
1903

Weekend activities
Char-Mund Inn.

of the class of 1903 included a breakfast

at the

Included were: IMrs. A. L. Chase and Mrs. Warren Smith, Carbondale;
Mary M. Hayes, Freeland; Max G. Dillon, Kingston; Ella L. Heim, Schuylkill Haven; yir. and Mrs. Frank Berkenstock, Renovo,; Mr. and Mrs. Frank

Humphreys, Birmingham, Ala; Grace Church, Bloomsburg; i\Irs. E. D.
Schnure, Milton R. D. 2; Mrs. Sarah Ellen Mark, Augusta Schnure, E. D.
Schnure, IMary A. Good, Wapwallopen; IMargarel M. Bogenrief, Milflinburg;
Edith Patterson, East Orange, N. J,; Jean Robison McCoughlin, Fort Washington; Mary Edith Kitt, Milton; Abraham Rarich, Scranton; Mr. and ^Irs.
C. L. Albert, Dallas R. D. 2; Mr. and Mrs. John R. Miller, Scranton; William
Rilrnd,
C. DeLong, Louise DeLong Sands, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Scarsdale, N. Y.,; Mr. and i\Irs. W. B. Sutliff, Mrs. Housel, Mrs. J. J. Behney,
Jonestown R. D. 2; i\lrs. Etta S. Horlacher, ^Irs. Arthur Hilbert, Mrs. Charles Robertson, Inkerman; Robert V. Glovner, Mifflinburg; L. Ray Hawk,
Plymouth; Mrs. Warren Smith, Carbondale.
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1906
Florence Landis (Mrs. Clarence Shepherd) died Saturday,
April 10 and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Baltimore. She is survived by her husband, who is a teacher in the
Baltimore city schools.

1908

The members of the

were well represented at
their fortieth year reunion. Those returing to the campus were:
Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Hazleton; Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Watkins, Wheeling,
W. V.; Pearl H. Jones, Bloomsburg; Mrs. O. N. Pollock, Wyoming; S. Rebecca Appleman, Danville; Mrs. Lloyd WTlson, Kis Lyn; Laura E. Boone,
Hazleton; Mrs. George S. Westfield, Chester.
class of 1908

1912
In a beautiful Spring wedding which took place Monday
morning, March 29 at Saint Columba’s Catholic Church, Bloomsburg, before an altar banked with Easter lilies. Miss Ruth Irene
Bachinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A.
Bachinger,
(Theresa Daily), became the bride of Stanley John Freeda, of
Wyoming, Pa. The Very Reverend William J. Burke, pastor, officiated at the ceremony and head the high nuptial mass.
Mrs. Freeda is a graduate of the Bloomsburg Hign School,
class of 1946, and is now employed in the bookkeeping department of the Farmer’s National Bank. Mr. Freeda is a graduate
of the Wyoming High School. He is a veteran of World War
II and served four and one-half years with the U. S. Navy in the
Pac fic. He is now a student at B.S.T.C.

1913
breakfast at the Char-Mund and in informal reception
at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Kimber Kuster were highlights of
the activities of the class of 1913.

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Returning from the class were John Bakeless, Lillian Fischer
Moore, Lena H. Marsh, Alma Fertig Bergstresscr, Ruth Altmiller Jones,
Ethele Altmiller, Elizabeth Pugh, Margaret C. Horn, Sarah H. Pohr, Nelle
M. Seidel, Nellie M. Denison Edith K. Tallman, Ruth N. Sterner, Mae M. Byington, Marion Roat Hartman, Mildred Stemples Landsay, Estella Callender
Wright, Annei Cassel Keller, Katherine M. Williams, Ray V. Watkins, State
College; Jacob Wetzel Centre Hall; Edna Runyan Cherrie, Nanticoke; Irene
Boughren Mock, Hazleton; Messina Patterson Daley, Erie,; Elizabeth K.
Scharf, Selinsgrove; Lillian Sturges, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Ann Atkinson, Augusta, Michigan.

1918
breakfast was held by members of the class of 1918 returning for the activities on Alumni Day.

A

Those included: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lohman, of Nanticoae;
IMrs.
Rose Gronka Nielar, Glen Lyon; Oliss Helen G. Syniewski, Nanticoke; Edna
Deily Blecher, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Florence Altmiller Walters, Hazleton;
OIrs. Muriel Jones Peffer, Audenried; L. E. Brace, Westfield, N. J.; Bruce M.

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Charles R. Wolfe, Gettysburg; Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Edwina Wicland Teal, Norristown; Mrs. William D.
Vannan, Danville,; Mrs. Haydn Williams, Hazleton; Mary M. Gillespie, Hazleton; Janet Musgrove, Scraneon; R. D. Stephens, Washington, N. J.
Mrs. Esther Conety Bell, Mrs. Ruth Baird Bond, Mrs. Carrie Keen Fischer, Edison Fischer, Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, Miss Edna Aurand, J.
Claire Patterson, Mrs. Edna Davenport, Mrs. Freda Snyder, Hughey, Lora
Wallace Pegg, Harold J. Pegg, Martha E. O'Brien, Thomas Pursel, Dorothy
Creasy, H. Dana Young, Sara Cook Young.
Sheadt, Connellsville;

Trescott, Philadelphia;

1922

Evadne M. Ruggles, whose home address is Box 660, R. D.
Hunlock Creek, Pa., is a teacher in the Montgomery-Clinton
High School at Montgomery, Pa.
1,

1923
There were 118 present at the banquet of the class of 1923,
whicch had the largest number in reunion, held at the CharMund on Saturday evening as the concluding feature of a busy
weekend.
The reunion program opened on Friday evening when
eighty-one gathered at the home of Mrs. Minnie Melick Turner,
Bloomsburg R. D., for a get-together.
Included on the program that evening were selections by an
accordion trio, composed of Beverly Eveland, Hannah Terwilliger and Helen Turner; piano duets by Jean and Helen Turner and
a reading by Sister Edna McVicker.
Mrs. Turner was toastmistress at the banquet. Guests of
honor were Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Miss Hariet M. Moore,
Miss Ethel Ranson and Mrs. Theresa Holmes. Regrets were received from Miss Elizabeth Gill, Seattle, Wash.;
Miss Pearl
Mason, Adams, Mas., and George J. Keller, of town.

Many of the class unable to attend sent greetings. The member coming the farthest was Mrs. Emilene Fritz Clemson, Mission, Kansas.
The program opened with the invocation by Miss Elma
Major, a member of the class now on the CoU^ge faculty. Ten
members have passed away and the memorial prayer was by
the Rev. Clifton Dawson, Binghamton, N. Y., husband of the
former Edith Hill, a native of Berwick, who is a member of
the class.
Arlene Hart Brown, of Wilkes-Barre, presented a gift to
Mrs. Turner from the class.
The group included: Norma Agnew Stauffer, Upper Darby; Frances R.
Kathryn Griffith Nichols, Kingston; Helen M. Keller,
Kingston; Cecelia J. Furman, Nanticoke; Marie McGrath, Scranton; Elizabeth Robinson Roland, Harrisburg,; Anna Price Snyder, Milton; Josephine
Kistler Vanderslice, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Lynn Tiley, Lewisburg R. D. 1; Sara
Levan Leighow, Catawissa R. D. 3; Emily E. Craig, Catawissa R. D. 3; Mary
Keeler, Kingston;

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Kline Johnson, Millville R. D. 2; Mrs. Howard Moore, Simsbury, Conn.; Mrs.
Derr Kline, Orangeville R. D. 1; Geraldine Hall Krauser, Philadelphia,; Arline Hart Brown, Kingston; Betty Kessler Kachner, Bloomsburg;
Ruth Robbins Creasy, Briar Creek; Margaret Butler Minner, Prospect Park"
Maude Welliver Karre, North Tonawanda, N. Y. Myrtle Epler Mertz, Northumberland R. D. 1; Ruth McNertney Smith, Harleigh; Anna Ozelka Kohler, Clifton, N. J.
Marion George Evans, Moosic; Ruth Geary Beagle, Danville R. D.
Rhoda Wesley Burlingame, Berwick.
Lillian

;

;

5;',

Edith Hill Dawson, Sayre; Marie Cabo Lesniak, Scranton; Marion WatLouise
Elizabeth Thomas Chelson, Drexel Hill;
Davies Colwell, Dallas; Adelia Jones Pendleton, Warren Center; Lucy Weikel Coughlin, Dunellen, N. J.; Charlotte F. Caulston, Spring City. Isabel
Lukasytis Chimleski, Hazleton; Elma L. Major, Bloomsburg; Emeline Fritz
Clemson, Mission Kansas; Elizabeth Rueppel Hahn, Harrisbuig; Rachel
Benson, Springville; Rachel Evans Kline, Orangeville R. D. 2; Elizabeth
Benfield
Benfield, Bethlehem,; Ruth Barton Budinger, Jersey Shore; May
Watts, Bethlehem; Florence Breisch Drake, Light Street; Elsie Oplinger
Shanghnessy, Tunkhannock; Stephen A. Lerda, Westminster, Md.; Ann Jarrett, Taylor; Margaret Hughes, Wilkes-Barre.
kins Evans, Morrisville;

Lola Kocher Seward, Berwick; Evelyn Thompson Reid, Camp
Hill;
Kathryn Naylis Pelak, Edwardsville,; Dilys P. Rowlands, Trucksville R. D.
2; Verna Compers Ondash, Kingston; Minnie Melick Turner, Bloomsburg R.
D. 4; Robina Batey, Plymouth; Dorothy Barton Cherrington, Bloomsburg;
Jennings Welliver, Berwick; Andrew B. Lawson, Williamsport; Helen E.
Japling,
Sutliff, Harrisburg,; Gladys B. Snell, Scranton; Beatrice Berlew
Scranton; Edith E. Hampton, Frackville; Mrs. Stewart Gaugler, Rhoda
Young, Northumberland; Mrs. Robert Dean, St. Clair; Mrs. Trace Seeley,
Elizabeth, N. J.; Mrs. Alva Diehl Wentzel, Milton; Mrs. Thelma Jeremiah
Geise, Sunbury; Kathryn Campbell, Danville R. D. 6,; Mary Flick Neuhard,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Helen Eike West, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Alice Lutz, Ashley;
Mrs. Elizabeth Evans West, Wilkes-Barre; Leroy A. Richard, Trevorton;
Fred B. Phillips, Glen Lyon; Ruth Keen, Glen Lyon.

Members of the rural group of the Class of 1923 at B.S.T.C.
and their families celebrated their twenty-fifth reunion at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Blake Kline, of Orangeville R. D., on Saturday evening following the class banquet at the Char Mund
Inn.
The evening was pleasantly spent recalling memories as
students at the old Normal School.
Letters of remembrance were sent to two members of the
group who were unable to attend. They were Mrs. Helen Hower
MacNaught, of Apponaug R. D., and Mrs. Annie Bronson Seely,
of Drums R. D.
The group was extended an invitation to meet at the home
of Rachael Benson Mitchell, of Springivlle R. D., in June, 1949.
Delicious refreshments were served to Mrs. Leona Williams
Moore,
Simsburg R.

D., Conn.,;

Mr. and Mrs. Benton Mitchell and daughter, Louise,

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Leighow and son Dale, and David Fredand Mrs. Ralph Beagle and daughter, Ann,
ad sons, Donald and David, of Danvillel R. D.; Mr. and Mrs. John Kline of
Millville R. D.; ;Miss Elma Major, Bloomshurg; Miss Emily Craig, Calawissa R. D. and Mr. and Mrs. Blake Kline, Orangeville R. D.

of Spring\'ille; !Mr.and Mrs. David

Catawissa R. D.

erick,

3;

INIr.

1928

The following were present at the twentieth year reunion

of

the class of 1928:
Beatrice Sanford Miller, Ethel Roberts Stafford, Ruth E. Guest, Leona
Reichenbach Epler, Mae Berghauser Miller, Loretta Faatz Rhodes, Mary
Walzer Zebrowski, Harriet E. Adams, Fay Appleman Dendler. Sarah Lawson Dockeray, Alma Pullen Barnum, Margaret Keller Riehl, Dorothy Mil-

more Gunton.

1929

Members

of the class of 1929 who were present in Bloomsburg on Alumni Day were the following: Laura Benfield, Centralia; Mrs. Kathryn Bingaman Reese, Gordon; Mrs. Elizabeth M.
Miller and her daughter Alice, Riverside; Mrs. Arline Frantz Covert, Dallas and Mrs. Elsie Lebo Stauffer, Shaft.

Charlotte Lord, of Walkes-Barre, was recently a member of
the cast of “Ten Nights in a Bar Room”, presented by the Little
Theatre at the Irem Temple in Wilkes-Barre.
recent issue of
the Wilkes-Barre Evening News contained a picture showing
Miss Lord in one of the scenes of the play.
1930
Mrs. Dorothy Keith Harris attended the meeting of the Alumni Association on Alumni Day.

A

The

1933
meeting for

its fifteenth year reunion,
twentieth reunion in 1953. Miss Lois Lawson,
of Bloomsburg, will act as chairman of the reunion committee.
The following were present for Alumni Day:
Mary McCawley Ryan, Exeter; Lois Lawson, town,; Edna Creveling
Whipple, Hughesville; Nance McGinley Matoney, Centralia; Betty Boyle

made

class of 1933,

plans for

its

Church, Bloomsburg; Clarissa B. Hidlay, Berwick; Dorothy E. Gilmore,
Bloomsburg; J. George Brueskman, Upper Darby; Raymond Stryjak, Nanticoke; Lois l. Frances Austin, Luzerne; Helen Furman Bence, New York City,; T. J. Griffith, Jr., West Chester; Charles F. Hensley, Wilkes-Barre.

1931
Mr. Kerr Miller, Director of Business Education at WilliamsBusiness
port, was elected vice-president of the Pennsylvania
Educators’ Association at the Harrisburg meeting last December.

he

Because of his broad educational and business background,
well qualified to make a real contribution to the orgam/a-

is

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tion.
He holds a B.S. degree from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, and an M.S. degree from Bucknell University. He has
taught at Palmerton and Williamsport high schools, and has
been a co-operative training teachers for both Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and Penn State.

He has had accounting experience with various companies
during vacation periods and on a part-time basis.
Professionally, he is a member of the PBEA, NEA and
PSEA. He has served twice as president, and three times as
secretary of the Commercial Section of the Central Convention
District of the PSEA. He is also a member of Pi Omega Pi and
Kappa Phi Kappa. Mr. Miller is married and the father of one
child.
We extend a hearty welcome to him as one of our new
officers.

1937

Although the class of 1937 was not having a regular reunion year ths year, plans were made for the fifteenth reunion
in 1952:

Attending the reunidn were William Shutt,
Philadelphia; G. Edward Deily, Bloomsburg;
and Earl Gehrig, Bloomsburg.
sel,

Bloomsburg;

Jay PurFlorence Piatt, Berwick

1938

A

luncheon at the Char-Mund was held by members of the class of
1938 in reunion. Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Neil M. Richie, Yardley R.
D. 1; Betty Gilligan, Peterson, N. J.; Mr. and yirs. Edward Deily, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Faust, Middleburg; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Fetterolf, Germantown; Mrs. Maria Fetterolf, Margare Graham,
Springfield;
Mary T. Quigley, Harrisburg; Anne G. Gurry, McAdoo; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Maynard, Montrose; Paul Martin, Bloomsburg; Ario M. Fettennan, Cat.awissa R. D. 3; Mr. and IMrs. Robert R. Williams, Bloomsburg|; Mv. and Mrs.
Clyde Dickey, Starrucca; Arabele Reed, Columbus, Ohio; Dorothy Edgar
Cronover, Bloomsburg; Joseph Zalewski, Shamokin; Mrs. Barney Robins,
IMrs. Martba Evans Greenwood. Pottsville; Bernadette Reynolds, Pottsville
R. D. 2; Charles Henrie, Bloomsburg,; Ellen C. Rhinard, Dorothy Mensinger,

Lancaster.

1941

John Reynolds Shortess, aged twenty-eight, died at the
of his parents. Prof, and Mrs. S. I. Shortess, Saturday
morning, April 19. Death was the result of complications attendant with a long illness. Ill for a year and a half, he had

home

been bedfast for twenty-two weeks.
He was born in Lewisburg, August 24, 1919.
A graduate of Bloomsburg High School, class of 1937, he
was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
1941.
“Jack,” as he was affectionately known to a host of
friends, had been exceptionally active in college activities. During his matriculation he was manager of the dramatic Oub and
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mixed chorus.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and had
been active in Scouting. He was also a member of the Washington Lodge, F. and A. M. Following his graduation from college
he was associated with the local Sears and Roebuck store. He
had also served as a cost inspector for the U. S. Navy at the
Brewster Aircraft Plant and more recently was employed in the
operational headquarters of Colonial Air Lines,
La Guardia
Field, New York.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by one sister, Anne
Louise Shortess, of New York City; the maternal grandmother,
Mrs .Louise Reynolds, of town, and the parental grandfather.
Dr. J. D. Shortess.
C. Stuart Edwards, Kane High School basketball coach and
former star at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was honored
recently at a testimonial dinner tendered him and members of
his championship high school squad in the Kane Armory. The
popular and successful young mentor has tutored four championship schoolboy teams at Kane since his graduation here in

1941.

The testimonial dinner was a spontaneous development that
grew out of increasing public interest in the work of Coach Ed-

who carries a full-time teaching load in addition to his
athletic duties.
Voluntary contributions swelled a fund to underwrite the affair, which wjas climaxed when grateful fans presented the Bloomsburg alumnus with a purse of $800 in apprechampion basketball
ciation of his efforts towards creating
teams and the all-around good he has done for the community.An editorial in the Kane Daily Republican said in part:
“Coach Edwards has performed successfully in his endeavors in
this community.
He teaches algebra as meticulously as he
trains a basketball team. Both he and his wife take their places
wards,

in community life on a high plane of usefulness and good citizenship. They are assets to this community in every way.’

Mrs. Edwards is the former Eda Bessie Beilhartz, of Mungraduate of Bloomsburg with the class of 1941.
1942
S. Frederick Worman, formerly of Danville, is a member of
the faculty at the Milton High School, Milton, Florida. The Editor recently received a program given by the Milton High School
Band, of which Mr. Worman is the director. Mr. Worman’s address in Milton is 304 Oak street.
cy, a

A daughter, Lyn Elaine, was born October 15, 1947, to William E. and Doris Taylor Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Smith live at 301
Barlow Avenue, Merchantville, New Jersey.
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HE ALUMNI QUA

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1945
Jeanne Keller (Mrs. C. W.- Epley, Jr.) lives at 257 Highland
Avenue, Gettysburg. Mr. and Mrs. Epley have a son, Billy, born

May

29, 1947.

1946
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Schupp, of Powell, Wyoming, are the parMrs.
ents of a daughter, Judith Ann, born March 15, 1948.
Schupp was formerly Miss Karliss Right.
Miss Hazel Elizabeth Keler, of Espy, and Garmon W.
Brooks, of Elkton, Maryland, were married Sunday, March 20
Mrs. Brooks is a graduate of the
at the home of her parents.
Bloomsburg
Scott Township Consolidated School and of the
State Teachers College. For the past two years she has been a
Mr.
teacher in the Dublin Consolidated School in Maryland.
Brooks is a veteran of World War II, and is now on escort duty
for the U. S. Army E. R. C., stationed at Philadelphia, where he
and Mrs. Brooks are now living.
1948

The following are the new members

of the

Alumni Asso-

ciation:

Paul Newton Baker,
Elizabeth

Ann Baldy

Jr.,

Pottstown High School, Pottstown, Pa.

Boyer, Catawissa, Pa.

Rosalyn L. Barth, 534 West Shawnee Avenue, Plymoutn, Pa.
Loie C. Bickert

Edward L. Bollinger, 958 West Eighth St., Erie, Pa.
Marjorie F. Brace, Hunlock Creek, Pa.
J. Rosanna Broadt, 385 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helene L. Brown, 238 North Broad St., Hazleton, Pa.
Joseph J. Chesney, 420 West Fourth St., Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Mary Ellen Clark, 160 1-2 Spruce St.. Bloomsburg, Pa.
Harold O. Clemens, 125 West Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Doris M. Condor, 619 Wyoming St., Hazleton, Pa.
Henry N. Crawford, R. D. 4, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Anna Doberstein Cumberland, Hunlock Creek, Pa.
Elroy F. Dalberg, 1106 Somerset Ave., Windber, Pa.
John S. Davis, 89 East Vaughan St., Kingston.
Frederick J. DeBell, Jr., 128 East 5th St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
James J. Dormer, 314 West Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Blodwen P. Edwards, Rotary Gas Gardens, Briar Creek, Pa.
Nancy Evancho, 6 South Street, Eckley, Pa.
Betty L. Fisher, 222 West Third St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Nancy M. Fisk, 304 West Mahoning St., Danville, Pa.
Estelle O. Friday, 455 Mahoning St., Danville, Pa.
Jack O. Furman, Wyalusing, Pa.
Joyce E. Gass, Bloom Road, Danville
Janet E. Gilbody, 121 North St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Jack A. Gillung, 722 Broad St., Brockway, Pa.
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Barbara J. Greely, 153 East Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
John F. Guy, 659 East Center St., Nesquehoning, Pa.
Martha A. Hathaway, 207 Grand St., Danville, Pa.
Gilbert Henrie, Jr., R. D. 4, Danville, Pa.
Doris G. Hosley, 16 North Prince St., Millersville, Pa.
Harry G. John, Jr., 500 East Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Clement G. Koch, 332 South Jardin St., Shenandoah, Pa.
Lewis A. Kohn, 41 Carey Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Rose Marie Kraiser, Meetinghouse Road, Horsham, Pa.
Henry S. Kriss, 130 Main Street, Kingston, Pa.
Stanley C. Krzjrwicki, 158 West Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Henry A. Kulik, 145 South Vine St., Mr. Carmel, Pa.
Elizabeth Lehet, 34 Kulp St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Peggy A. Lewis, 133 Fourth Avenue, Phoenixville, Pa.
Thomas W. Lewis, 671 Queen St., Northumberland, Pa.
Ellen Moore Lipski, 143 Meyers St., Edwardsville, Pa.
Robert M. Lllewellyn, 53 S. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
John A. Longo, Sheppton, Pa.
Millard C. Ludwig, Center St., Millville, Pa.
John F. Magill, Jr., 136 Main St., Fern Glen, Pa.
Gloria C. Mainiero, 641 Seybert St., Hazleton, Pa.
James F. Marion, 2128 North 5th St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Howard H. Master, Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pa.
George E. Menarick, 72 Mason St., Exeter, Pa.
Harold L. Miller, 32 Cherry St., Danville, Pa.
Dorothy J. Mitten, Box 126, Camptown, Pa.
Frank L. Molinaro, 611 Duquesne Ave., Canonsburg, Pa.
Mary A. Moser, Ringtown, Pa.
Anne F. Northrup, R. D. 2, Dalton, Pa.
Clem E. Novak, 25 East Ridge St., Nanticoke, Pa.
June V. Novak, Shepp Street, Sheppton, Pa.
William S. Orner, 528 East Third St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mildred R. Palumbo, 217 South Oak St., Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Matilda L. Patrick, 303 Penn Ave., Dupont, Pa.
Clayton D. Patterson, Jr., 442 West Third St., Nescopeck, Pa.
Samuel D. Pleviak, 110 Honesdale Road, Carbondale, Pa.
Theodore J. Radai, 16 North Broad St., West Hazleton, Pa.
Michael J. Remetz, 357 Slocum Street, Swoyerville, Pa.
Reginald S. Remley, Mill Street, Orangeville, Pa.
Abert D. Rickmers, 130 West Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Helen Jean Richard, 391 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Donald N. Rishe, 629 Catharine St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Lawrence A. Rittmiller, 319 Front Street, Danville, Pa.
Bernard F. Rodgers, 227 West Main St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
James P. Rooney, 325 East Chandler St., Philadelphia 11, Pa.
Mary E. Rush, 340 Center St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Donald A. Schlieder, 614 Mill St., Catawissa, Pa.
Robert F. Schramm, 2167 12th St. South, Arlington, Virginia.
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Seltzer, Espy, Pa.
G. Severn, 213 Leonard St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Louise C. Sharpless, 233 South Street, Catawissa, Pa.
Fern N. Shellenberger, 252 East 5th St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Hazel E. Smith, 317 East 11th St., Berwick, Pa.
George Stasko, 107 N. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Bertha M. Sturman, 42 Slocum Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.
James G. Tierney, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Nadine E. Tracy, R. D. 2, Hanover, Pa.
William M. Troutman, 716 Park St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Ralph E.

Mary

Michael P. Walaconis
Leonard R. Wearne, 314 Main

St., Archibald, Pa.
Elaine Williams, 31 Price St., Kingston, Pa.
Marion E. Wilson, Kis-Lyn, Pa.
Dorothy E. Winkelblech, Woodland, Pa.
Robert L. Yerger, Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pa.

Thomas W. Lewis, Northumberland, a senior at the State
Teachers College, was awarded the Pennsylvania Congress of
Parents and Teachers scholarship at the assembly held Thursday, May 13 in the Carver Hall auditorium. The annual award
of fifty dollars is one of fourteen given by the state organization
to outstanding seniors in the fourteen State Teachers Colleges,
and the Northumberland man is the second recipient of the
scholarship which was presented for the first time last year.
Mr. Lewis, who is quite active in campus affairs at Bloomsburg, served as one of the Huskies’ assistant football coaches
during the 1947 season and capably tutored the varsity baseball
team last spring. He has had extensive experience in all athletics, playing during his four high school years at Sunbury High
School and later at Susquehanna University. His playing experience also includes a number of seasons in amateur,
semi-pro
and professional baseball. At the present time, Lewis is umpiring in the Central Pennsylvania region.

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graduate of the Sunbury High School with the class of
1933, Mr. Lewis attended Susquehanna University before entering the armed forces.
He served forty-three months with the
United States Air Forces, holding the rank of first sergeant
when separated from the service at Westover Field, Mass. During his army career, he coached the athletic teams of the U. S.
Army Air Forces at Olmstead Field, Middletown, Pa.
Mr. Lewis, who resides at 671 Queen street in Northumberson of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Lewis, Sr., who are
with him at the Northumberland address. He is a
member of the Oscar Hugh Bakeless Chapter, Future Teachers
of America, and served as its program chairman for the
past
year. He is also a member of the following organizations: Phi
Sigma Pi, honorary social science fraternity, and Kappa Delta
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honorary education fraternity.

Henry Crawford, of Bloomsburg, has been elected to a position in the high school at Hughesville, Pa.
Harold Miller, of Danville, expects to teach in Virginia next
year.
Harry G. John, Jr., of Bloomsburg, has accepted a position
in the Farmers National Bank of Bloomsburg.
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Bloomsburg Hanks Third
Bloomsburg State Teachers College ranks third among the
fourteen Pennsylvania State Teachers College in total number of
students, according to latest enrollment figures released by the
Department of Public Instruction. The local College had 907
students enrolled during the second semester, while West Chester headed the list with a total enrollment of 1680 and Indiana
was second with 1430. The figures did not include Penn State
freshmen students attending the State /Teachers Colleges under
the cooperative agreement with the Pennsylvania State College.
Although Bloomsburg holds third place among the schools
in total enrollment, it is interesting to note that its Department
of Business Education ranks first in enrollment. At the present
time 344 students are pursuing work in the business field at
Bloomsburg as compared with 301 students at Indiana. Shippensburg is in third place with 205 students.
Of the 907 students enrolled at Bloomsburg, 730 were regular students and 177 were part-time or extension students. This
latter group was the largest number ever registered tor that
type of work at the local College and represented a new high
for Bloomsburg.
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Miss Ruth Janet Rhys, daughter of County Assessor and
Mrs. Benjamin H. Rhys, died Friday, May 14, at her home, 374
Chestnut street. Warrior Run, following a year’s illness. She
was a former commercial teacher in Dallas Township Schools.
Miss Rhys was born in Warrior Run. Her father was former
State Representative at Harrisburg and at present is secretary
of the Luzerne County Board of Assessors. Deceased was graduated from Warrior Run High School and Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. She was a member of Welsh Presbyterian
Church of Warrior Run.
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Arline Werkheiser) lives at 189-02 64th
Avenue, Flushing, New York. She is teaching first grade in the
schools of Williston Park, Long Island. Her husband is connec-i
ted with the New York office of Mitchell and Walker, of Phila-

Mrs. Myron Traub

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Hotel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, was the scene of the annual
Senior Ball of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Thursday evening. May 20. More than 150 seniors and guests attended the function, which was the biggest social event on the Com-

mencement Week program.
An interesting program was planned by the various commitees headed by James Dormer, Hatboro, who was general
chairman. He was assisted by Harold Reinert, Slatington, chair-

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of the banquet, and Jean Richard, Bloomsburg, chairman of
the ball. Johnny Martin’s orchestra furnished the music for
dancing.
The following members of the faculty were guests of the
Andruss,
class at the function: President and Mrs. Harvey A.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. North, Dean and Mrs. John A. Hoch,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Gehrig, Dr.
Marguerite V. Kehr, Dr. Nell Maupin and Mr. and Mrs. Walter

Rygiel.
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Mr. Rygiel was adviser for the commencement week
and Dr. Maupin was the class adviser.

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Alfred Lampman, Kingston, has been elected president of
next year’s senior class at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College it was announced by college officials. Mr. Lampman, who
is active in campus affairs, is also senior manager of the varsity
football team. Other officers elected are: Vice president. Jack
Purcell, Shenandoah; secretary, Mary Fox, Quakertown; Treasurer, Leonard Lipski, Edwardsville boy representative, Santo
Prete, Hazleton; girl representative, Jane McCullough, Lewisburg and faculty adviser, Mr. Gehrig.
;

Elmer Kreiser, Columbia, was elected president of the Sophomore class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the
College year beginning September, 1948. During the past year
the former Columbia High School football and basketball star,
who won varsity letters in football, basketball and baseball in
Bloomsburg, served as president of the FreshOther Sophomore class officers are: Miss Ruth
Doody, Canadensis, vice president; Miss Patricia Taylor, Dushore, secretary; Jay Cortright, Berwick, treasurer.
Romeo
Danni, Allentown, and Miss Delphine Buss, Watsontown, were
elected to represent the class on the College Council, the legislative body of the Community Government Association.
his first year at

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Gamma Beta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi Fraternity,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, pledged thirty-three students to membership in the organization at a meeting held recently in Navy Hall auditorium. This was the first pledge ceremony held by Gamma Beta Chapter since before World War II.
Dr. Nell Maupin, Counsellor of Gamma Beta Chapter, welto the meeting. In a brief review of
Pi, Dr. Maupin explained that there
has been a local chapter on the campus since 1931. The fraternity seks to encourage high professional and personal standards
and to recognize outstanding contributions to education.
It
wishes to maintain a high degree of professional fellowship
among its members and to quicken professional growth by honoring achievement in educational work.

comed prospective members
the history of Kappa Delta

Mr. Elroy F. Dalberg, Windber, president of the local chapconducted the pledge ceremony. Students who were pledged to the fraternity had all demonstrated high scholarship and
professional interest.
To be eligible to membership the prospective students had to be members of the junior or senior classes and have high academic standing.
ter,

Students pledged were: Wayne C. Creasy, Bloomsburg;
Frank Dudzinsky, Glen Lyon; Blodwen Edwards, Briar Creek;
Ruth P. Elder, Berwick; George Gera, Eckley; Donald A. Kessler,

Danville; Alfred

Lampman, Kingston; Thomas W.

Lewis,

Northumberland; Francis Luchnick, Mt. Carmel; John Magill,
Fern Glen; Dale Mantz, Slatington; Leon Messner, Wiconisco;
Wilmer Nester, Emmaus; Mildred Palumbo, Mt. Carmel; Santo
Prete, Hazleton; Joseph Putera, Kingston; John Purcell, Shenandoah; Reginald Remley, Bloomsburg; Emory Riefski, Hazleton; Carl Robbins, Cambra; Stanley Semic, Steelton;
Charles
Schiefer. Steelton; Fern Shellenberger, Bloomsburg; Richard C.
Stout, Berwick; Rose Thompson, Towanda; Ruth Von Bergen,
Hazleton; Anita Webb, Bloomsburg; Robert E. Williams, Shamokin; A1 Marchetti, Tamaqua; William Hahn, Plymouth; MarJohn
io Berlanda, Bloomsburg; Joseph Yakaboski, Hazleton;

Reichard, Bloomsburg.
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Paul Plevyak, Carbondale, will preside over the junior class
Bloomsburg State Teachers College next year. Mr. Ple-

of the

vyak was elected at junior class elections held recently. The following students were also elected to class posts at the same
time: Genn Koplin, Vice President. Easton; Secretary, Peggy
Kearkuff, Benton; Treasurer, Aleki Comuntzis, Bloomsburg;
boy representative, James Boyle, Shamokin; girl representative,
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The Bloomsburg Players tried something new Friday, April
and judging by the acclaim with which the novel idea was
received, it would not be surprising if the Bloomsburg
State
Teachers College dramatic group would again present three oneact plays in lieu of their customary three-act production.
The
curtains were raised on a comedy, “First Class Matter,” by
Rachel Field. All members of the cast, Betty Jane Anelia, Hazleton; Ann Wahl, State College; Louise Pecora, Hazleton and
Charles Roberts, Slatington turned in outstanding performances
and the audience knew it was in for an evening of good acting,
combied with the added pleasure of seeing ingenious stage sets.
A tragedy by Louis Packer and W. W. Jacobs followed. The
scene of “The Monkey’s Paw” was laid in a humble cottage on
the outskirts of London. Through the combined efforts of Owen
Diehle, Philadelphia; Richard Gloeckler, Forksville; Aleki Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Charles Schiefer, Steelton and Robert Wire,
York, those who watched the drama unfold were held in sus16,

pense as the story developed in its full meaning.
Swinging back again to a lighter vein, “Wild Hobby Horse”
closed the evening and permitted the members of the audience
to return to their homes smiling. Gladys Kuster, Bloomsburg;
Harry Reitz, Shamokin; Robert Wise, Berwick; William Stimeling, Berwick; Zita Spangler, Sunbury; Audrey
Terrel,
Waymart and Nancy Powell, Scranton, all gave commendable performances, building up those in the audience to expect dire calamity, only to send them away greatly relieved.
All of the players
turned in excellent jobs, and were roundly applauded by a large
audience.

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 17 or 18

Wilkes College

Home

or

Berwick
Sept. 25

Mansfield

Oct. 2

Lock Haven

Oct. 9

King’s College

Oct. 16

Millersville

Oct. 23

Shippen sburg

Oct. 30

Kutztoum

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Here

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Homecoming Day
Nov. 6

Lycoming College

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Nov. 13

East Stroudsburg

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Miss Shirley Henley, Scranton, will head the Waller Hall
Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the
College year beginning September, 1948, according to an announcement made by Dean Marguerite V. Kehr.
Miss Henley,
who at the present time is vice-president of the association
which administers the affairs of all dormitory women, is practice teaching in the Williamsport High School.
Other officers elected to serve during the next term are
Marjorie Fanzo, Bethlehem; Grace Smith, Mt. Marmel; Peggy
Kearkuff, Benton. Miss Fanzo was elected vice-president, while
Miss Smith and Miss Kearkuff were chosen for secretary and
treasurer respectively.
Senior representatives chosen for 1948-49 were Marjorie
Fuller,

Berwick; Joan McDonald, Ringtown; Adda Myers, Bea-

ver Springs and Julia Pichel, Hellertown. Members of the junior
class elected as representatives were Betty Ridall, Town Hill;
Madeline Schalles, Nescopeck and Alice Smolski, Archbald.
Shirley Ashner, Lehighton; Ruth Doody, Canadensis and
Eloise Symons, Edwardsville, will be the sophomore representatives.

The elections were in charge of a committee headed by Miss
Laureen Rees, Nanticoke. Others on the committee were Mary
Shoemaker, Hallstead; Dorothy Karpinski, Shamokin; Shirley
Donnelly, Willow Grove; Evelyn Pethick, Milanville; Loir Evans,
Morrisvile; Betty Bolig, Richfied and June Klinger, Winfield.
According to a time-honored custom at College, corsages
were presented the newly elected officers and representatives by
Mary Moser, Ringtown, retiring president of the association.
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Miss Carolyn H. Hower became the bride of Robert E. WilDecember 5, in Sunbury. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles B. Almond in the Sunbury Presbyterian Church Mrs. Williams is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School, class of 1945. The groom is a veteran
of World War II, having served two and one-half years, part of
which time in the European theatre. He is a graduate of the
Shamokin High School, class of 1942. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams are attending Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
liams, Jr., of Shamokin, on

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The Philadelphia branch of the Alumni Association held
and dinner at McCallisters’, 1811-17 Spring
Garden street, on Saturday, April 3. Lillie Hortman Irish is
president of the group, and Mrs. Nora Woodring Kenney is secretary and treasurer.

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Huskies Complete Perfect Season
The

football

team that

Bloomsburg

represented

State

Teachers College on the gridiron this season is the most outstanding in the history of the College. This powerful eleven,
which tied California Teachers for the mythical conference
title, boasts an unblemished record of nine victories without a
defeat.

Under the leadership of Coach Robert Redman, who has
recorded an outstanding record of fifteen victories in seventeen
starts since taking over the coaching duties at Bloomsburg, the
single-winged eleven rose to heights never before achieved by
a Husky football squad.
The Huskies opened their schedule against a heavy Wilkes
College eleven at Berwick. Although no one was amazed at the
outcome of the tilt, the Husky squad gave indication of the pow'er they were to show throughout the season.. “Dapper Dan”
highlighted this
Farrell’s plunging and Steve Kriss’ passing
opening contest.
A week later “Redman’s Wreckers” avenged 1946’s defeat
by Mansfield with a stinging 7-0 victory. The powerful charging of the Husky forward wall, led by Tommy Donan, paved the
way for Bloomshbrg’s victory No. 2.
At Lock Haven, the Huskies defeated the Bald Eagles in
a rough contest, 6-0. Joey Apichella skirted his own right end
in the final period for the only score of the game.
B.S.T.C. welcomed King’s College on their schedule with
a decisive 26-0 defeat. The complete Husky squad saw action
in this one-sided affair.
At this stage of the season, before the Millersville game, the
Huskies were undefeated, untied ,and unscored upon.
It’s history now, but the Millersville game, played at Columbia, was the Maroon and Gold’s first real test of the year.
True, the previous games were hard-fought, but M.S.T.C. was
the first team that made the “boys from Bloom” come from behind, and the Huskies did just that with a 20-12 victory. South-

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ern Pennsylvania people are still talking about the brilliant running of I-Iazleton’s Dan Farrell, that led the Bcomsburg Teachers to their fifth straight win.

Next, the Maroon and Gold traveled to Shippensburg to
face a powerful Greyhound team that held one of the two defeats of B.S.T.C. in 1947. The Huskies faced a stubborn outfit
that rainy day, but Georgie Paternoster pulled the game out of
the fire with just four minutes to go with a beautiful running
catch of a Kriss-throvv^n pass. The score: Bloomsburg 13, Ship-

pensburg

7.

The Huskies powered to their seventh straight victory over
Kutztown before a Homecoming Day crowd of 3,000. Scoring
in each of the four periods ,the Teachers showed great reserve
power by swamping the Golden Avalanche, 27-0.
The squad had a real breather in L-vcoming. The lads from
Williamsport were never in the game. Coach Bob Redman used
his first outfit only in the first quarter, but the Maroon and
Gold showed as much power as the varsity by scoring in every
period to mount the score to 47-0.
The Huskies completed their undefeated season by overpowering East Stroudsburg, 14-0. It was quite evident again
that the Teachers Conference teams had no line to match that
of the Huskies. Tommy Donan was brilliant in his final game as
a Husky and will be long remembered as one of the greatest
tackles in Bloomsburg history.
Four other top-notch gridmen
played their last and best game for Bloomsburg that day
Angie Albano, George Paternoster, Larry Mussoline and Frank
Luchnick.
As the season drew to a close, there was much discussion
among fans and sports writers as to the possibility of a post-season game with California State Teachers College, to decide the
championship of the State Teachers Colleges in Pennsylvania.
That the Huskies would play no post-season football game,
with the exception of a bowl game “under favorable conditions,”
was the decision made by the team and coaching staff. After
the Huskies attained an undefeated, untied record for the 1948
season to tie the once-defeated California Teachers for the mythical title
i’ennsylvaia Teachers College competition, sports
entnus'asLs felt that these two schools should meet to decide the
championship.
In a statement to the press. Dean Hoch, Director of Public
Relations and assistant coach, claimed that Bloomsburg should
be the unchallenged champion.
He stated that California’s
team is really a freshman team, made up largely of Penn State
players, and is, therefore, not to be classed with the teams in
a four-year curriculum.
In a telegram to E. H. Cubbons, Athletic Director at the

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Left to riglit; Matt Maley, assistant baekfield; Robert Redman, head
coiu'h; Richard Hallisy, line coach; John Hoch, assistant coach.

Western Pennsylvania college, Hoch, as a spokesman for the college, said that “B.S.T.C. feels that nothing will be gained by a
post-season

game with

California.”

Concerning the controversy, a Penn

State

official said,

“Freshman students are sent

to the different colleges according
to their curriculum. California caters to physical education students and, therefore, the majority of athletes are sent there.”

Through Dean Hoch’s releases to the Associated Press,
B.S.T.C. and its championship ball club has received the attention of many metropolitan nevt^spapers and various other papers
throughout the nation.
During the week before the East Stroudsburg game, the
question was “Eight down and one to go could the Huskies do
it?” After the curtain fell on the 1948 season ,the question was

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answered.
The powerful Huskies of Bloomsburg have received much
attention throughout the sporting world, and they have been
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Any team that has the grit, determination,
it all.
and ability to defeat nine consecutive opponents of the caliber
of East Stroudsburg is worthy of any laurels that may be heaped upon it.
deserving of

We

should not, however, forget the old Qhinese proverb:
man there are always able men.” Behind our
gridiron squad, we have one of the most capable coaching staffs

“Behind an able

in little collegiate football.
In Coach Bob Redman, who came
from Ne wYork State to take over the helm of the Husky squad
two years ago, B.S.T.C. has a shrewd and capable tactician who
is well deserving of any credit that may be bestowed upon him.
In Dean John Hoch, Assistant Coach, one finds a well-liked and
capable assistant who not only proved his worth on the coaching
spread the fame and fortune of
staffs but has also helped

B.S.T.C. in the sporting world through his postion as Publicity
Director of the College. Rounding out the staff are R'cha’cd
Hallisy and Matt Maley, backfield and line coach, respectively,
for the Huskies.
Though the latter are newcomers to the
Husky staff, they deserve much praise for their diligence and
efforts in helping to Bloomsburg the first undefeated season in
the history of the College. President Andruss and his administrative staff have been of great assistance in the writing of
this chapter of Bloomsburg athletic history.

Over a span of two years of Redman-Hoch leadership, the
Huskies have made an enviable record of fifteen victories, with
only two defeats. This is a record that any institution would be
proud of, just as are all Bloomsburg alumni.
Additional honors are being garnered by varsity gridders of
unbeaten an untied football team of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, 1948 champions of the Pennsylvania State
Teachers College loop. Leading the Huskies in garnering laurels
is Tommy Donan, Columbia senior and tackle on the only undefeaied and untied college club in the state. Donan, who picked
up More votes than any other player named to the All-State
Teachers College team, was also selected as first team tackle on
ine

the All-Pennsylvaia team picked for the press associations. He
was tie only Teachers College player to grace the AP All-East
squad, and has been nominated for a Little All-American honors.

A fellow townsman, Elmer Kreiser, was named to an end
post on the All-State Teachers College first team and picked up
a spot oi the All-Pennsylvania third team while Joe Appichella,
Hazleton, and Frank Luchnick, Mt. Carmel, won spots on the
All-Statfc Teachers eleven and honorable mention on the AllPennsylvania selections.
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Homecoming Day
Alumni and friends of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College returning for Homecoming on Saturday, October 13, were
certain to get the warmest welcome in the history of the annual
event for plans had been completed to make the Twenty-First
Annual Homecoming Day a “Happy Homecoming.” Students
and faculty spared nothing to make the day’s program as full
of interesting things as a freshman’s wardrobe trunk.
President Harvey A. Andruss served as host for the gala
occasion and welcomed “home” a large crowd of alumni. The
occasion is the high spot of the college year, and the Board of
Trustees, the faculty and student committees made every effort
to offer the visitors every opportunity to renew old friendships
and make new ones.
Although the Homecoming Day’s activities unofficially got
underway Friday night with a gigantic bonfire and pep rally for
the college’s unbeaten and untied football team, the annual
Homecoming Day assembly in Carver auditorium Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock was the official curtain raiser. The Maroon and Gold Band, under the direction of Charles H. Henrie,
presented a short program of snappy band music as a feature
of the program. During the exercises. Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the General Alumni Association, spoke, and a new color
film, “Living and Working at Bloomsburg” was shown for the
first time.

A cafeteria luncheon was served to alumni and visitors in
the College dining room at 11;30 o’clock. Miss Della M. Thayer,
College dietician, planned and executed colorful and unusual decorations, featuring a football theme for the annual event.
Of course, the annual Homecoming Day football game was
the focal point of sports interest at two o’clock when the uidefeated eleven of Coach Bob Redman tangled with the Kulztown aggregation of Coach Joe Patton on Mt. Olympus. The
Maroon and Gold gridders were seeking their seventh successive victory of the season at the expense of the visitors who had
been victorious twice in five starts, one game having been a
scoreless tie. The Huskies played on the Mt. Olympus grdiron
for the first time since 1946 when they toppled another Kutzown club, 19-0. The fans left the game happy becatse of
Bloomsburg’s 27-0 victory.
The Gabfest began directly after the game in the newlyrenovated Waller Recreation Room and Lounge. Here alumni
found their friends, refreshments and music. The a,nnual
Homecoming Dance was held in the Waller lounge, beghning at
nine o’clock. Bob Clemens and his Central Pennsylvanians provided the music for the dancing.
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New Members

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Harry F. Garner, of Pittsburgh, has been appointed director of secondary education at the Teachers College, here, to fill
the vacancy which was created when Joseph R. Bailer left the
college in October to assume his duties as professor of English
at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Mr. Garner is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh,
with the Degres of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education,
and is a candidate for the Doctor of Education Degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. He also attended Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana.
For the past two years he has been head of the Department
of Education and Director of Student Teaching at Lafayette College, Easton, and before that time gained teaching experience at
Indiana University; Butler, Pa., Senior High School; Benjamin
Franklin Junior High School, Uniontown, Pa., and Schenley High
School, Pittsburgh.
While in the Navy, Garner had the unique experience of
teaching, in French, the operation of radar equipment to officers
and enlisted men of the French Navy.
He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, and Kappa Phi Kappa
fraternities, and is also connected with the National Education
Association and American Association of University Professors.
Miss Marcella M. Strickler of Roaring Branch, Lycoming
County, has accepted a position at the State Teachers College,
here, teaching and supervising in Grade III of the
Benjamin
Franklin Training School. From 1940 to 1948, Miss Strickler was
an elementary principal in the Otto Township schools in McKean
County. Previous to 1940, Miss Stickler was director of the nursery school at the State Teachers College, Mansfield. Miss Stickler received her Bachelor of Science degree from the State Teachers College, Lock Haven and her Master of Science degree
from St. Bonaventure College, Olean, New York. She has taken
graduate work at the Pennsylvania State College, where she has
worked with problem cases in reading in the reading clin'c at the
Pennsylvania State College. She brings an excellent background
of training and experience for her present position in the Teachers College.

Miss Mariorie A. Keller, Savre, Pa., has b^en appointed to
the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The new
faculty member, who has been employed by the Pennsylvania
State College Extension Service during the past year, is teaching in the Department of Business Education.
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Miss Keller has had a varied and interesting background
of experience in teaching, having taught speed dictation and
transcription and Business English since January of this year
to a large group of twenty stenographers and junior secretaries
of the G. C. Murphy Company in McKeesport. This work has
been under the supervision of the Pennsylvania State College.
Prior to that time she taught for a year at the Pennsylvania
College for Women in Pittsburgh. While on the faculty there,
she was an instructor in secretarial science. At one time she
was an instructor on the faculty at Westminster College.
Miss Keller is a native of Sayre, Pa., where she attended the
public schools and graduated from high school in 1936. She received her Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education from the
State Teachers College at Indiana, Pa., where she was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, honary education fraternity; Pi Omega
Pi, and Theta Sigma Upsilon. She received a Master of EducaAt
tion Degree from the University of Pittsburgh
in
1945.
Pittsburgh she was elected a member of Delta Pi Epsilon, honorary graduate fraternity. Following her graduation from college, she worked on the secretarial staff of the
Pennsylvania
State Motor Police in Harrisburg, but she resigned that position in order to accept a teaching position at South Whitehall
High School near Allentown. In 1942 she was elected commerteacher in Sayre High School where she taught two more
commercial
In September, 1944, she was elected
a
teacher at Butler High School where she taught for one year.
The following fall Miss Keller moved to Indiana, Pa., where she
taught commercial subjects and served as supervisor of student
teachers at the State Teachers College.
Included in her work experience she worked as a secretary
for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation at Pittsburgh. As
a result of this experience, she wrote an article “My 1945 Summer Experience” which was widely published in various business
journals. Miss Keller brings to the College a background of valuable contacts in commercial activities as well as classroom excial

years.

perience.

Mr. Edward D. Sharrets, Berwick, has been named instituBloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr.
Sharretts, who graduated from the College in 1941, is serving
as an assistant to Nevin T. Englehart, superintendent of grounds
and buildings, and is assigned to the office of the Business Manager, C. M. Hausknecht.
A graduate of the Berwick High School, Mr. Sharretts is a
veteran of World War II, having served in the Army Air Forces
as an administrative officer. During his army career, he attended and also graduated from three army service schools. He was
tional secretary of the

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separated from the armed forces in April, 1946, with the rank
of captain. Following his separation, he was employed in the
auditing department of the American Car and Foundry Company, but in September, 1946, he was named office manager of
the Benscoter Memorials Company in Berwick.
A native of Berwick, Mr. Sharretts is married and has one
child.
He assumed the duties of his new position in June.
o

Professor Bailer

Goes To Egypt

Joseph R. Bailer, director of secondary education, at
B.S.T.C. has accepted a position as professor of English at the
American University at Cairo, Egypt. He and his family will
reside in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo.
Professor aBiler has studied and taught abroad before,
having spent a year in Istanbul ,Turkey, as instructor in English and phoentics at Robert College.
He came to the local Teachers College in January, 1940, and
has in recent years served as director of secondary education,
director of placement and director of extension.
He is secretary-treasurer of the Association of State Teachers College Faculties, a member of the Secondary School Principals Association, Kappa Delta Phi, Pi Omega Pi, Phi Sigma
Pi, and the Caldwell Consistory.
He was listed in the 1948 volume of “Leaders in Education.’
Born in Athens, Pa., Mr. Bailer was educated in the public
schools there in 1925 was graduated from the University of
Pittsburgh.
While employed with the Butterick Publishing
Company, New York City, he traveled in Europe and in South
America. From 1929 to 1939, he was instructor at Robert College, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Upon his return to America, he became head of the English
department at the High School in Point Pleasant, N. J. In 1934,
he was head of the social studies department at the high school
in Metuchen, N. J.
Mr. Bailer engaged in graduate studies at the University
Camof Grenoble, Grenoble, France; Cambridge University,
bridge, England; Columbia University and New York University.
He received his Master of Arts degree from New York
University where he is now completing his work for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy.
The American University at Cairo, where he will teach, is
an American institution consisting of the College of Science,
College of Education, of College of Oriental Studies and College
of Liberal Arts.

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Dean and Mrs. Sutliff Observe
Golden Wedding
“We took our bicycles with us on our honeymoon to Asbury
Park and had a wonderbul time exploring the countryside for
cycling was a popular pastime fifty years ago,” Dean William
B. Sutliff, of College Hill, reminisced on the eve of the half-century observation of his marriage to Mrs. Sutliff.

Few couples on their golden wedding day can boast the
presence of the minister that married them but the Sutliffs can.
Dr. G. H. Hemingway, the Presbyterian minister who married
Dean and Mrs. Sutliff on the tenth of August, 1898, was present for the festivities that marked the anniversary.
“I

remember

in^ay
rainy.

it

was a very merry wedding

party,” Dr.

Hem-

day was grey and
The retired minister, who appears far younger than his

recalled, “in spite of the fact that the

’

ninety years ,took great pleasure in recalling with the Sutliffs
the flurry of activity on that far-distant day.
Seventy-five guests attended the simple wedding which
took place at noon at the home of Mrs. Sutliff’s parents, in
Stauchburg, a small town in Berks county. Mrs. Sutliff, then
Miss Ella Stump, wore a white voile gown for the ceremony,
which took place in the living room of her home before the fireplace.

Yes. she still has the dress, but fifty years have taken their
she says, and it hasn’t been out of the trunk in which it has
been carefully preserved for some time.
The marriage book, filled with the signatures of the wedding guests and clippings of wedding anniversary observations
of the past fifty years, brought many memories to the Sutliffs
and Dr. Hemingway. Between the pages was a carefully written page containing the words spoken by Dr. Hemingway at the
toll,

wedding.

“We wanted Dr. Hemingway to write it out in his own
hand,” Mrs. Sutliff smiled, and she pointed also to where he had
signed his name fifty years later below his signature on the marriage certificate.
After the honeymoon, the couple went to live in an apartment in Waller Hall which was just over the main entrance.
Dean Sutliff, at that time, had just completed work for his degree at Lafayette College and had returned to the Normal

School to teach mathematics.
Mrs. Sutliff, a graduate of the New England Conservatory
of Music, at Boston, had been teaching piano at the Normal
School for several years before her marriage and continued for
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several years after.

After six years, they went to live at 412 East Second street,
where they have made their home for the past forty-four years.
Mr. Sutliff became the dean of instruction at the school in 1921
and was in that position when the Normal School became the

Teachers College

The

in 1926.

He

retired in 1937.

have three children, Robert G. Sutliff, who is
with federal civil service in Baldwin, L. I., N. Y. Helen E., who
is a teacher in Harisburg, and Harriet, who is Mrs. Harold H.
Herr, of Palmyra. They have one granddaughter, Marcia Herr,
Sutliffs

;

three years old.
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Henry L. Scott, the originator of Concert Humor, and hilarious artist of the piano, engaged in a three-round bout with
the grand piano on the stage of Carver Auditorium at Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday evening, October 7, and
came off the winner as usual.
Scott reduced a packed house to a mild semblance of hysteria with a new form of art never before seen locally.

—

During his concert, he not only played classical musical
with an artistry all his own, but he gave a series of humorous
impressions of musicians at their best and worst. The props
used during the performance incuded an orange, a wig and his

famous brown mittens.

He played compositions by Chopin, Liszt and Scarlatti, with
boogie-woogies and ballads.
His lectures included “The History of the Lost Chord,”
“Chopin in the Citrus Belt” and “Rhythm at Any Cost,” and
“How to Play a Piano.”
A crowd of almost eight hundred persons attended the first
number of the 1948-49 Artists’ Series Course.
o

The culminating social event of the Summer Session of the
Bloomsburg State 'Teachers College was the anual Summer
Dance held in the Waller Hall Lounge and Recreation room on
August 3. Many students and friends of the College were present at the gala affair.

A committee headed by Thaddeus Swigonski, Nanticoke,
president of the Community Government Association, transformed the recently-renovated room into a veritable summer
fairyland with pastel colors and cool green palms.
Others on
the committee were Miss Carmen Tarole, Bethlehem; John
Brovm, Harrisburg; Lois Datesman, Bangor; Wilmer Nester,
Eminaus; Henry Kulik Mt. Carmel and Frank Luchnick, of Mt.
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Driver Education at

B. S. T. C.

The popular belief that little preparation for driving a car
needed by high school students was denied by R. B. Redman,
instructor, Driver Education, Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Redman, whose Summer Session course in Driver
Education and Training had an enrollment of 37 students, stated
that unrealized and undesirable accident-breeding habits have
been passed from one individual to another by parents who have
taught the r sons and daughters to drive.
Youthful drivers of high school age have a bad traffic
fatality record according to studies made recently by the American Automobile Association, and this record offers a challenge that has been successfully met by the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College which has made its services available to the immediate community and society as a whole.
Because careful planning and training are necesary to deIS

velop the “best method’’ of instruction of prospective drivers,
Mr. Redman organized his course into a classroom-laboratory
plan of teaching correct driving habits and testing driving skills.
For example, during the first week of instruction, classroom
lectures, moving pictures, and discussions developed the topic
of automotive mechanics and the functioning and maintenance
of the automobile.
Laboratory demonstrations then gave the
class enrollees practical experience in that phase of the work.
In order to test the behind-the-wheel skills enabling drivers
to meet any driving situation, the College set up a standard
A.A.A. driving course near Navy Hall, where students were required to pass certain standard tests for driving skill. The
course included barriers for “weaving tests’’ and turns, stalls
On
for checking parallel and diagonal parking, and steering.
this course, a number of volunteer “guinea pigs’’ were given the
opportunity to maneuver the car in close limits under the personal supervision of one of the regular class enrollees.
Mr. Redman brought to the College a number of authorities
in the field of Highway Safety Education and related fields of
endeavor. Jack Housenick, of the Housenick Motor Company,
Bloomsburg, spoke to the Driver Education class on the “Functioning and Maintenance of the Automobile.’’
Another who addressed the group was Ivan J. Stehman,
Chief, Division of Highway Safety Education, State Department
of Public Instruction, in a two-day conference. Mr. Stehman not
only addressed the class, but he brought with him the psychophysical testing devices which are useful in discovering physical
limitations of drivers, most of which can be compensated for if
the driver is properly trained.
In addition to Mr. Stehman, Lieutenant Albert L. Flick,
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State Motor Police, visited the campus Tuesday, July 13, and
discussed the general subject of the “Pennsylvania Vehicle Code
and Its Enforcement.” P. B. Muff ley, Pennsylvania State Department of Highways, was here Thursday, July 15, and informed the class on the topic, “Highway Signs, Signals, Markings,
and Traffic Engineering.”
At the present time, six semester hrours in Highway Eduction and General Safety Education are required for state certification to teach Driver Education in the schools of Pnensylvania.
The Bloomsburg course may be used to obtain temporary certification in the field and meet one-half the requirements for per-

manent

certification.

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The largest summer session enrollment in the history of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was announced by President
Harvey A. Andruss who revealed that 568 men and women had
completed registration requirements at the end of the first day.
Tne enrollment was nearly one hundred greater than last year’s
record-breaking total of 484 students.
Veterans of World War II led in the registration figures
with 304 ex-G.I.’s enrolled for six-week courses in the fields of
Business, Secondary and Elementary Education. Boarding studeius totaled 22u men and women. Teachers-in-service, who returned to the campus to complete their requirements for the degree of Bachelru of Science in Education or to make their certificates pv^rmanent, boosted the non-veteran enrollment to nearly
250. New worRshops in consumer education and secondary education as well as the popular Elementary Education Workshop
attracted capacity enrollments.
Among the new courses being offered this summer was a
course of study in Driver Education and Training.
Robert B.
Redman, instructor, reported an enrollment of forty students of
whom half were “guinea pigs” who were taught safe driving
habits by members of the class during the six weeks.
o
The Connie Mack Baseball School travel unit of the Philadelphia Athletics, held a three-day session of instruction and
tryouts at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the
last week in August.
Classes opened Monday morning, August
,

23,

and

and were resumed again on Fridav and Saturday, August 27
28.

All players in this area wishing to receive instruction in

and fielding or desirous of a chance to play professional
ball were invited to attend. The instructors were Ira Thomas
and Jack Coombs, famous A’s battery in the 1910 era, assited
by Charlie Gault, scout. The staff taught how to hit and field
correctly by means of a public address svstem set up for the
benefit of all attending the school.
Youths sixteen and over
were eligible to enroll.
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Secondary Education Workshop
The means of building habits and attitudes necessary to
American life were investigated during the past six weeks in
the Junior High Summer School sponsored by the Teachers ColTaking its mandate from the State Legislature, which relege.
cently appropriated $100,000 to carry out its order that democracy become a way of life rather than a list of items learned
from a textbook, the College undertook the study as a project
secondary education workshop.
Along with leading educators and public school leaders, the
Commonwealth has become increasingly concerned about the
in its

building of citizenship in the public schools as well as the quality
of the products of those schools. Because of a growing awareness of the importance of proper habits and attitudes in the development of “the American Way,” many educational institutions are re-examining their methods and the results of their
teaching.
The College discovered that the children in its Summer Junior High School have become increasingly competent in learning situations when the activity developed from their interests.
Also, the basic attitudes and habits of conduct improved as the
various individuals and groups met, discussed and recognized
their needs.
One of the surprising discoveries of the session was that
the needs of young people are not necessarily met in traditional
school situations. Johnny is not stupid just because he doesn’t
do his math lesson everyday. He may very likely prefer to spend
his study time in playing with an airplane motor or some other
item which is more real to him.

By discovering with what things Johnny spends his spare
time, teachers can find new ways to develop deeper and broader
interests in him. This led observers during the past six weeks
to carefully study the interests and needs of the Summer School
children in order to get at basic pupil drives. In that way they
discovered new pupil responses as well as the fact that pupils
are willing to accept responsibilities.
This fact is important in the formation of democratic attitudes and hbaits because the privileges extended citizens in
a democracy by its ‘way of life” mean nothing unless those citizens also accept the responsibilities that go with them. Thus,
the school program can contribute effectively to education for
democratic

living.

o

1934

Madalyn Dunkelberger (Mrs. Harry W. Stephens)
Union Deposit, Pa.
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Elementary Education Conference
When

the fii'st atomic bomb cast its pall of death over Hirthe final days of World War II, few persons anticipated that its implications would be felt in the elementary school,
but the whole problem was considered at the annual conference
on Elementary Education held Saturday, December 4, at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Conference theme was
“How Can Science Fit the Child for Better Living in the Atomic

oshima

in

Age?”t
Following registration in the Benjamin Franklin School at
9:15 o’clock, a series of interesting demonstration lessons was
taught by the Benjamin Franklin School faculty. From the
kindergarten class to the Special Class, vitally-significant topics
were presented by the regular teachers of the campus laboratory
school.

Round-table discussions of the lessons followed the class
and a number of outstanding personalities in the field of
education consented to serve as discussion leaders. Included in
the group v/ere the following: Mr. J. Fred Jones, Superintendent
of Schools, Nantlcoke, Pa., Kindergarten; Grade I Mrs. E. Victoria Bundens, Elementary Teacher, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania;
Grade II Miss Anna Troutman, Elementary Teacher, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania; Grade III Mr. Fred W. Diehl, Superintendent of Schools, Montour County, Danville, Pennsylvania; Grade
IV Miss Robina Batey, Principal, Elementary School, Plymouth, Pennsylvania; Grade V Mr. Paul N. Brunstetter, Asst.
Superintendent of Schools, Columbia County, Bloomsburg;
Grade VI Mr. Ralph D. Felton, Elementary School Principal,
White Haven, Pennsylvania.
An interesting program was presented in the Carver Auditorium at eleven o’clock, featuring an address by Dr. Gerald S.
Craig, Porfessor of Natural Science, Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York. Dr. Craig had chosen as his subject
“Science in the Education of Our Children.’’ The Men’s Glee
Club, under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore, presented
a short musical program prior to Dr. Craig’s address.
Conference guests were served a luncheon in the College
dining room at 12:45 o’clock. Dr. Craig and President Harvey
A. Andruss spoke during the after-dinner program, while William Trego and John Reitmeyer, both of Milton, presented sevDr. Craig used as his topic, “Bloomseral musical selections.
burg Then and Now,” while President Andruss spoke on
“What’s Happening to Our Elementary Education?”
Invitations were sent to more than 1500 elementary teachers and administrators throughout Central Pennsylvania.
periods,

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B. S. T. C.

Students in 'Who's Who'

Seven students at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
have been accepted for recognition in the 1948-49 edition of
Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
This publication is an official annual publication of distinguished students selected from colleges and universities
throughout America.
Scholarship, leadership and cooperation in educational and
extra-curricular activities, general citizenship, and professional
promise were considered by those making the nominations for
this year’s selections.

Included in this year’s list are the following students; Edwin M. Allegar, Stillwater; Ruth P. Elder, Berwick; Shirley
Henley, Scranton; John Purcel, Shenandoah; Margaret Suchy,
Forest City; Ruth Von Bergen, Hazleton; Carson Whitesell,
Hunlock Creek.
Allegar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Allegar, R. D. 1,
Stillwater, is an all-around athlete at the College having starred
on the Husky soccer and baseball teams during the past four
years. He was president of the Junior Class and has been prominent in college dramatics as a member of the Bloomsburg Players.
He is a member of Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dramtic
fraternity, and Phi Sigma Pi, national honorary men’s education
fraternity.

Miss Elder, daughter of Mrs. Mary Elder, 600 East Third
Street, Berwick, has been active in the affairs of the Business

Education Club and the Day Women’s Association. She has
served on the staff of the Maroon and Gold, the College weekly
newspaper, and is a member of the Athenaeum Club and Pi
Omega Pi, national honorary business education fraternity.
Miss Henley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Henley,
2031 Luzerne Street, Scranton, has also had an active college
career.
She is treasurer of the Business Education Club and
vice president of the Waller Hall Association as well as a member of the governing board of the latter group. During the past
two years, she has been an active member of the Women’s Chorus and the Student Christian Association. As Sophomore girl
representative she was a member of the College Council. She
also served as secretary of the Junior Class. Miss Henley holds
membership in Pi Omega Pi, national honorary business education fraternity, and Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary education
fraternity.
Mr. Purcell,

who resides with Miss Mae F. Purcell and Miss
Marie Kehl, 18 East Lloyd Street, Shenandoah, is one of the busiest seniors on the Bloomsburg campus.
The young man, who
was treasurer
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is an active member of the Business Education Club and
Student Christian Association. He is a member of Phi Sigma
Pi, national honorary education fraternity, and is president of
the Oscar Hugh Bakeiess Chapter, Future Teachers of America
During the past two summers Mr. Purcell assisted College authorities with the general direction of the recreational program.

year,

Miss Suchy, daughter of Mrs. Julia Suchy, 355 Main Street,
Forest City, is another busy senior at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. At the present time she is treasurer of the
Business Education Club; secretary-treasurer of the Women’s
Chorus, and secretary of the Dramatic Club. Along with these
duties, she manages to find time to serve as staff reporter for
the Maroon and Gold, the College’s weekly newspaper. She is
also one of the College cheerleaders. During the past two years,
Miss Suchy has been fashion coordinator for the very successful Spring Fashion Show and is responsible for a great deal of
the success enjoyed by that affair. She is a member of the Anenaeum Club, Pi Omega Pi, and Kappa Delta Pi.

Homer E. Whitesell,
His
active in campus affairs at Bloomsburg.
many activities include membership in the Bloomsburg Players,
Phi Sigma Phi, and the College Council of the Community Government Association. He serves as vice president of the Student
Christian Associat'on and secretary-treasurer of the local chapter of Future Teachers of America. During his junior year, he
was boy representative for the Junior Class. Whitesell is an
Mr. Whitesell, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Hunlock Crek,

is

Elementary Education major.
Miss Von Bergen, the daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Edwin Von
Bergen, 551 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton, has been very
active in College music circles. Her talent for music has given
her an opportunity to appear in many assembly programs
where she has been featured as a piano soloist and an accompanist for vocalists.
She is a member of the Maroon and Gold Band
and is a member of the College Council of the Community Government Asociation.
o

An

outstanding program of choral music was presented to
the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday, June 9, in the Carver Hall auditorium by the Princeton Theological Seminary Choir as a feature of the first convocation of
the pre-summer session. The twenty-four men of the nationally famous organization were on a transcontinental tour which
carried them into Canada and northwestern United States.
Carl Berninger, Bloomsburg, a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College with the class of 1943, is a student at the
Seminary and a member of the famous choir.
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Saucered and Blowed
By E. H. NELSON, ’ll
All at once just like that, only quicker, we have an active,
vigorous Alumni Branch in Washington, D. C. At the All-State
College Dinner, held in the Hotel Statler, Washington, D. C., last
fall about 20 Bloomsburg Alumni were present.
(Sorry we can’t
show you a picture of the whole group but the photographer
made good on only one table.)
temporary organization was
effected immediately after the dinner. Since then ten more memberships have come in from the Branch Treasurer, Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
A meeting of the group was held at the home of the
President, Lili an Zimmerman, ’15, on November 19th last. With
youngsters like Pauline Lattimore Douden, ’92, and Harry O.
Hine, ’85, giving guidance and advice with the eagerness of a
couple of ambitious 30 year olds, along with the enthusiastic interest of all concerned, what a vital unit that D. C. Branch is,
and wll continue to be! Hazleton, Williamsport and Sunburv
will have organization meetings in the near future.
All of this
points to a wonderful reunion and homecoming next May. Plan
now to bo there. Plenty of surnrises in store fo reveryone. The
50 year class already has big plans underway.

A

Our hats

off to Redman, Hoch, Hallisey, the squad and all
contributed to that State Championship football tea"^ this
year. What a pride and joy to see those boys in aePon
Champions all.

who

!

Wandering around the corridors we find Noetling Hall (the
old training school building) closed off entirely. It is getting a
complete renovation and

v/ill

be thoroughly up-to-date

in its

new

dress.

The old town is getting dressed up for Christmas. The College contributes her share by having “B.S.T.C.” stand out in
large electric letters on the Carver Hall tower. Which reminds
me that years ago Professor J. H. Dennis had a circle of electric
This
lights placed around one of the cupolas on Waller Hall.
“crown” was lighted on special occasions. He said someday he
was going to write a poem “Normal Wears Her Crown Tonight.”
I guess he never got it done.
Today the t’tle of such a poem
might be “The College Adorned is by Her Tiara This Eventide.”
But who could wax poetic with a start like that, so here’s to a
Merry Christmas. May the New eYar bring to you much Health
and Happiness.
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Freshman Customs
The following, which appeared in the “Passing Throng”
column of the Morning Press, may bring back memories to some
of the Alumni:
They are having Freshman Customs up on College Hill,
part of the college year which the town takes for granted. The
frosh walk about, some of them rather gaily decorated with
signs and other items, and draw few second looks.
But in the days following the time when the College, back

was granted the right to grant degrees of Bachelor of
Science in Education, the Customs Week program was something new and got the attention from the town’s folk that is always aroused in a presentation that is out of the ordinary.
Customs Week didn’t come immediately after the institution was advanced from a Normal School to a College. It took
a little time for the College to get accustomed to the new role.
Once things settled down somewhat they decided that
Bloomsburg was going to be a college in all the aspects befitting
an institution of such rank and the freshman customs were inaugurated.
The customs, as we recall, always included the girls, too, but
the fellows made the most of the situation. Perhaps that was
because of the fast that the male population at that time, unlike
the present, was definitely in the minority and that the men saw
customs as an opportunity to step into the spotlight.
Whether that was the reason or not they certainly did become the center of attention. They started off the evening with
a pajama parade that drew lots of attention from feminine population of the student body as well as the town’s folks.
One look at the pajama garbed fresshmen always gave you
the impression that every fellow was wearing the pajamas of
some other chap. At least no one was garbed out in a suit that
came even close to a near fit. That, of course, added to the fun
of the night.
The first stop for a main event of the evening was at the
fountain at the entrance to the college. There wasn’t much water
in the shallow bowl of the fountain to start with, and by
the
time the last freeshman had had a chance to do his stuff it was
certainly a dry place, or more accurately a dry concrete swim.
The climax was always in the court off faculty porch. 'The
court is bordered on three sides by Waller Hall which in those
days gave over the use of its upper floors solely to the housing
of girl students.
in 1927,

The freshmen, with all proper ceremony, were marched into
the court yard and instructed to pray for rain. Then the girls,
who were watching from the windows, would dump water from
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sorts pf containers upon the first year men. Everyone had a
good time.
But the “prayer for rain” brought so many protests from
some of the townspeople that the president of the college issued
a decree that the Lerm could no longer be used. The institution
committee got its heads together on the grave problem.
The feature was one, they felt, that had to stay on the program or the entire night would bee ruined. So from they on when
the night’s activities got around to that part of the program the
freshmen “petitioned” for rain. That brought no protests and
all

everything was fine again.
Back
the later days of World War II some of the Navj'^
V-5 boys decided to put on a little demonstration of their own at
the fountain on Market Square. Some of the V-5 lads had just
arrived at the school and fellow gobs decided that would be a.
splendid time to throw them into the fountain. The residents of
the town got a real kick out of that but the commandant didn’t
think such maneuvers were befitting the dignity of the naval
branch of the armed services, ind some of those fellows who
had such a happy time that night didn’t see Main street for a
considerable period thereafter.

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“Sketches from Fairyland,” a dramatization of five of childhood’s favorite stories, was presented by first and second
grade pupils of the Benjamin Franklin School of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Thursday and Friday mornings, July 29
and 30. Mrs. Lucile J. Baker, training teacher of the first and
second grades, directed the program. The plays, an outgrowth
of a unit of study in Children’s Literature, was staged and dramatized under the supervision of a number of students who were
doing their practice teaching at the Benjamin Franklin School
this

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men and women

set a new record
for Post Session registration at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Of this total, 261 were veterans of World War II. The
three weeks session began Monday, Augusst 7, and continued
until noon, August 27.
full program of activities was planned
for the large student body, including the annual softball championship series and a tennis tournament.
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Dr. Thomas P. North, dean of instruction, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, attended a national conference on
Higher Education held in June at Bowling Green Universitv.
Bowling Green, Ohio. The Boomsburg dean is one of several
delegates from Pennsylvania who attended the sessions. He is
also chairman of the Pennsylvania Commision on Teacher Education and Professional Standards.
total enrollment of

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Secondary Educators At Conference
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thorough survey of local problems before the setting up
of course was recommended by secondary educators of the area
in their summations of a two-day secondary curriculum revision
workship which concluded at the Teachcers College on Saturday,

June

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The findings

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ing as the headquarters for the Secondary Principals Association of Pennsylvania, a part of the national organization, in its
studies of the secondary curriculum.
The plan being devised with the help of those in the field is
to have the work in the high schools built around the problems
of the co^imunities rather than to have the state lay out a plan
of work for all schools of the Commonwealth.
The educators
were thoroughly in accord with the plan but insisted that to
make it a success there must be clear thinking.
Educators of five area counties attended, the sessions being
exceptionally well attended. There was a continuance of discussions on Saturday morning, with the summations being delivered at the luncheon program.
The conference committee included J. Frank Dennis, principal, Elmer L. Meyers High School, Wilkes-Baire; Dr. Fred
L.
Bond, supervising curriculum consultant, Harrisburg; Joseph R.
Bailer, Director of secondary education. Teachers College; Kenneth L. Terry, superintendent and David Shuman, high school
pincipal, Berwick; Earl E. Davis,
supervising principal
of
Scott Township schools L. C. Dubeck, principal. Forty Fort high
school; Ray M. Cole, county superintendent of schools; R. E.
Kuhnert, supervising principal, Dallas, and Miss Iva Mae Van
Scoyoc of the laboratory school of the Teachers College.
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Eight hundred and sixty-seven full-time students are now
registered at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, comprising
The
the largest enrollment in the history of the local college.
figure surpasses the enrollment for the fall semester of 1947 by
thirty-seven. Of the total enrollment, 376 are living on the campus, and 391 are registered as day students.
President Andruss announced that the College is maintaining extension centers this fall at Kingston, West Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Shamokin and Watsontown. The enrollments at these centers bring the total registration of the College
to considerably more than a thousand. Extension instructors are
Shanno, Hazleton;
J. Claire Patterson, Bloomsburg; George
ing, Nescopeck Mrs. Charles Beeman, of Bloomsburg, and Elfad
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Freshmen Enteitain Upper-Classmen
Another outstanding Freshman Show was written into the
books as a talented cast presented the “Frosh Varieties of 1948”
in the Carver Auditorium of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers
College Thursday, Ocober 21. Ben Burness, Atlantic City, N. J.,
served as Master of Ceremonies for the program which was produced under the direction of George Thear, Nesquehoning and
Jane Keller, Bloomsburg.
The range of talent surprised even the most optimistic upperclassmen who are annually entertained by the incoming
freshman class. The opening number, a monologue “Boy Crazy”
by Lila Savage, Catawissa, set a high standard for the balance
of the program. James Crawford, Bloomsburg, entertained with
two organ solos “Romance” by Arthur Rubenstein and “Autumn
Noctturne.” Phil Search, Wilkes-Barre, was next introduced in
a var'ety of musical novelties, whistling Gounod’s “Ave Marie”
and “Without A Song.” During his act Search played several
original piano compositions and his own arrangement of
“St.
Louis Blues.” Morris Krap, Shenandoah, gave a series of impersonations with the assistance of a quartet composed of Bud
Tepper, Wilkes-Barre, Bob Miller, Wilkes-Barre, Vince Boyer,
Lewisburg, Donald Reese, Mauch Chunk and Edward Gunther,
Towaiida. A blackface skit by Nancy Trembly and Bill Kuster,
both of Bloomsburg, was one of the big hits of the show. Miss
Trembly imitated a radio torch singer and Kuster a song and
dance man. Martha Rapp, Warnersville, played Elgar’s “Pomp
and Substance” for a well-received piano selection, while Donna
Long, Berwick, entertained with the “Sabre Dance” and Chopin’s
“Minute Waltz” in another series of piano solos.
Three baritone solos by Harry Coleman, Bloomsburg, literally “brought down the house.” Mr. Coleman sang “Danny Boy,”
“There’s Music in the Land” and “Old Man River.” Pie was accompanied by Jean Ruckle, Bloomsburg.
Two lovely soprano
solos were presented by Marion Pollock. Sunbury.
She sang
“My Heart is Aching” and “Indian Love Call.” Final number on
the show was the eyefilling chorus number. The Frosh Follies,
presented by a group of freshmen girls. They were dressed in
vivid costumes of the Gay Nineties and sang and danced to the
music of the period.
Martha Rapp accompanied the chorus
which included the following: Cathy Aagard. Raubsville; Saya
Silverman, Pittsburgh; Lois Pulver, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Transue, Easton; Peggy Savage, Shirley Fobzen, Kingston; Patricia
Barfield, Northumberland; Patricia Sv/ee'ev, Rochester; Margaret McDowell, Reading; Ann Geibel. Northumberland: Maryaret
Roberts, Pevloc; Jenny Knauer, Ruth Finklestein, Wilkes-Barre
and Betty Koploviz, Lewistown. The program was among one of
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the finest ever presented in the Carver Auditorium by a freshman class. Mary Ann Stewart, Dermont, presided over devotional exercises. During the program Robert Lang, Milton and
James Whitney, Sunbury, appeared in novelty acts.
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Jennet and Ferris Robins, two charming and dynamic personalities in the entertainment world, presented their
unique
program of popular songs and music of the nations of the world,
at the regular weekly assembly program of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in the Carver Auditorium on Tuesday
morning, September 28. He is a French lad and she a Scotch
lassie, with a most interesting background, who, with the assistance of the unorganized underground, after being trapped during the Battle of Dunkirk, made their escape through the Nazioccupied countries.
The program is a fast-moving sequence of popular songs
and music from all countries of the world. Ferris, a headliner on
the radio and continental stage, is a versatile personalilty singer,
who uses a guitar to accompany himself. His wife is a product
of the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, England. She is a
solo accordionist and enhances the program by Irish and Scotch
dances, including the Highland Fling.
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Theodore Swigonski of 361 Ridge street, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, represented the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at
the first Congress of the National Student Association held at
Madison, Wisconsin, August 23-28. He was one of the six hundred delegates representing nearly 750,000 students from 230
public, private and sectarian colleges, universities, and technological schools in all parts of the country. Also attending the conference as observers were student leaders from France, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece and Czechoslovakia.
Designed to aid student governing bodies in solving problems on their campuses, there were flexible workshops on such
national problems as economic aid to students, discrimination,
cultural activities, relief drives on campus, travel and reconstruction abroad. On hand for consultation were students, faculty members, and businessmen versed in the topics under discussion.
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One of the largest post-session enrollments in the history
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was reported Monday,
August 9, as 340 men and women students registered for classes.
Of the enrollment, 261 post session students were veterans
of World War II. Me nand women dormitory students number
153 with the balance of students commuting from their homes.
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SUSANNE

E.

LEHMAN

The body of Miss Susanne E.
of special education at the College,

Lehman, of Espy, instructor
was found in her car Friday
morning, October 29. Death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning, Coroner John M. Evans, of Orange township, reported
following an investigation.

N. T. Englehart, superintendent of buildings and grounds at
the College and also a resident of Espy, saw the morning newspaper on the front porch of the Lehman home when he left his
residence in the morning. When the teacher did not later report
for classes it was felt that something was wrong. He returned to
Espy. The house was locked and, fearing that she was ill, he
summoned her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Lyons, of Riverside.

They reached Espy in a short time. Investigation showed
in the home and everything in order.
Lyons then went
to the garage and found that it was locked from the inside. He
forced a door, secured by a hook, and found the body in the car,
the machine also locked. The engine was not running at the
time and the indicator showed that the gasoline tank was empty.
An extra set of keys, secured from the home, allowed the openno one

ing of the car.

A physician was summoned and it is believed that death had
occurred some time before and probably around 7:30 o’clock.
Miss Lehman resided with her father, Charles S. Lehman, eighty-five ,an employe of the Magee Carpet Company. He left for
work at 6:45 o’clock and did not see his daughter before leaving.
Miss Lehman was widely known in this area as a result of
her teaching. She held a Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education from the local institution. She also studied at the Pennsylvania State College, Maryland School of Fine and Industrial
Arts and Johns Hopkins University. She did graduate work in
the School of Handicrafts, Penland, N. C., and studied at the
Pennsylvania Folklore Industries, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. Prior
to joining the college faculty she taught at Moscow, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore, Md., and in Berwick.

Miss Lehman was a member of Si". John’s Lutheran church.
Espy, and of the Moses VanCampen Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Berwick.
Her father and sister, Mrs.
Lyons, survive.
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The 1948 Enrollment
Enrollment of 1,002 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwas annouced recently by President Harvey A. Audruss.
This number includes 870 regular students and 132 who are taking extension work. The enrollment at the five extension cenlege

ters at the present follows Hazleton, forty-nine
ty-eight; Shamokin, nineteen; Sunbury, moved
town, thirteen and Wilkes-Barre, thirteen.
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Kingston, thir-

from

Watson-

The

total represents an increase of forty students over the
There are 422 World War II veterans and 348 others in
the regular student body. There are exactly twice as many men
as women students, v/ith the male enrollment 580. In the extension course the women out number the men, 114 to 19. Among
the veterans in the regular college are two women.
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College will accept approximately eighty new students for the semester beginning January
19, 1949. This action is taken by the college authorities because

year.

of the critical sshortage of teachers. Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean
of Instruction and also Chairman of the Pennsylvania State
Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards,
points out that a study just made by the National Commission
reveals that, in the light of the recent increase in birth rate and
the present enrollment ofo prospective elementary teachers, a
most critical shortage will exist for at least the next ten years.
In fact, it is doubtful that the shortage can be met in that time
if the present enrollment of college students preparing to be elementary teachers were to be increased by three or four times, especially when consideration is given to the number of new teachers as they die, retire or leave the classrooms for other reasons,
and in the replacement of part of the large number of teachers
now holding emergency licenses. Although the increase in birth
rate will later seriously affect the high schools, there are existing shortages of teachers in the high schools at the present
t’me. One of these areas is in the field of business education.
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Clayton H. Hinkel ,of the business education department, is
the author of an article appearing in the October, 1948, issue of
the United Business Education Association Forum. The article is
entitled “What Shall We Teach in Our General Clerical Classes?”
and is based on the author’s experience as a high school department head, teacher, and college instructor. Hhis is Mr. Hinkel’s
first contribution to this magazine, but his articles have appeared in other professional magazines of the past seven years. He
is also the author of a monograph, “Business Education,” which
was developed to interest high school students in teaching business subjects.
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ON THE CAMPUS
A distinctive program of music was presented at the weekly
assembly program of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
Thursday, October 28, in Carver Auditorium by the Utah Centennial Chorus of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. This group of twelve ordained ministers appeared in
Bloomsburg during the eighth week of their Eastern tour, which
will conclude a two-year mission. The Chorus presented a varied group of religious and secular music featured by unique arrangements an doutstanding solo numbers.
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of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College represented the College at the Eighth Annual College Hour
of the Willilam Penn High School, York, Pennsylvania, held in
November. Representatives from sixty-three colleges and universifes were present for the annual affair which attracted
more than 1600 high school seniors and their parents from York
county schools. Dean Hoch was accompanied to York by HarScience Department, who
old H. Lanterman, of the College
showed several conference groups the College’s new color film,
“Living and Learning at Bloomsburg.”

Dean John A. Hoch

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program

of dramatic sketches from
famous Broadway plays featured the first assembly program
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held in Carver Auditorium.
Vivid bits of comedy and moving dramatic scenes
marked with interludes of fantasy were portrayed by Miss Ruth
Enders, lovely young Broadway actress. Miss Enders portrayed
each part with a subtlety of infection, accent and gesture which
brought a colorful bit of Broadway to the local stage.
Her first interpretation was a scene from the Broadway
comedy “One Sunday Afternoon,” while her second role was
that of Joan of Arc from George Bernard Shaw’s masterful “St.
delightfully varied

Joan” created a vivid impresion on the College audience.
For her third number. Miss Enders did an excellent job of
a scene from Robert Sherwood’s “Idiot’s Delight.” In this scene
she portrayed the role of a phony Russian adventuress. Perhaps the most dramatic presentation was her next selection
taken from “Mary of Scotland” by Maxwell Anderson. Here
Miss Enders created the personality of Mary, Quen of Scots and
Queen Elizabeth of England. It was brill’antlv tione.
For her final characterization she picked GeorP’e Bernard
Shaw’s brilliant comedy ‘Pygmalion” and gave a series of vivid
characterizations of the dowdy English flowe rgirl
transformed into a lady by a professor of phonetics.

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Proving conclusively that talent is often found in one’s own
backyard, upperclassmen of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College staged the first part of a double-barreled entertainment
program in the Carver Auditorium Thursday, November 4. Their
efforts were stimulated by the success of the annual freshman
show held several weeks before, and campus observers are still
unable to figure out which show packed the biggest entertainment value. .John Lydon, Upper Darby, seryed as Master of
Ceremonies for a fast-moving show that was opened on a musical note when Isabel Bolinsky, Hazleton, sang two popular numbers “Just For Now” and “I Don’t Know Why.” Ruth Von Bergen, Hazleton, served as accompanist for all the musical numbers. Miss Von Bergen combined her efforts with the talent of
Dick Wagner, Berwick, in a series of three piano duets featuring
novel arrangements of “Pavanne,” “Stormy Weather” and “Kitten on the Keys.”
In the next number Charles Edwards, Shamokin, who also
directed the entertainment, sang three tenor solos
“Bluebird of
Happiness,” “Maybe You’ll Be There” and “One Alone.”
note
of comedy was added in a black-face skit “Sonny Boy” featuring
the smging of John Czerniakowski, Plains and Johnny Lydon.
Czernaikowski presented a perfect imitation of A1 Jolson. the
jazz singer. The final act provided a brilliant climax to ihe unusual nrogrami.
gav ninet’es trio composed of Max Kaplan,
Port Chester, N. Y. Norman Kline, McClure and Andrew Macieko, Nanticoke, entertained with a variety of musical selections.
Macieko’s accordian playing w'as terrific, while the soft shoe
and dance routine of Kaplan and Kline brought dowm the house.
Donald Maietta, Williamsport, presided over' brief devotional exercises preceding the revue.

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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College was represented at
the Twelfth Annual Conference of Student Government Associations held recently at Kutztown by Dorothy Lovett, Nanticoke
and Arlene Pope, Danville. Miss Lovett is the secretary of the
Community Government Association at Bloomsburg. Miss Ethel
A. Ranson, a member of the local faculty, accompanied the
Bloomsbvrg representatives to the conference whicch was attended by representatives from each of the state’s fourteen teacher-education institutions. This year’s conference reached
agreements on four major problems concerning student publications, athletics, social programs, and budgeting for student acRecommendations were made to secure improvement
tivities.
of social activit’es, less censorship of student newspapers and
yearbooks and more efficient means of controlling student finances.
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The boards of trustees of all the Teachers Colleges have auand the State Superintendent of Public Instruction has
approved, an increase in the housing rate for students from
thorized,

$16.00 per semester to $180.00 per semester. Student food service, if secured separately from room and laundry, has been increased from $117 to $144. The contingent and community activities fees will not be increased at this time.
Mounting food and labor costs have made this increase absolutely necesary and a comparison of these revised rates, which
went into effect in September, 1948, indicates that they are
much lower than the costs of other institutions of higher education, since it is the policy of the state to operate its housing facilities on a self-sustaining non-profit basis.
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An oustanding assembly programs featuring some of America’s leading entertainers and concert artists made the summer session of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College a memorable one for the largest student body in recent college history.
More than 650 students concluded their studies after six-weeks
session.

Perhaps the finest entertainment of the session was provided when Dr. March Babbitt, noted psychologist, spoke to a
capacity audience in the Carver Auditorium. Using as his topic,
“Scientific Advances in Hypnotism,’’ the famous New York scientis presented an unusual series of experiments using a group
of twenty student volunteers.
Audience reaction to the presentation was moth enthusiastic with the average student terming th eperformance “the best ever staged here.”
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Miss Norma Ruth Robinson, of Council Bluff, Iowa, and
Thomas P. North, Jr., of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday,
October 9, in the Grace Presbyterian Church, Council Bluffs.
Mrs. North is a graduate of Grinnell College, Iowa and completed here work for her master’s degree at the Pennsylvania State
College.
Mr. North was graduated from Bloomsburg High
School in 1938 and attended B.S.T.C. for two years.
He later
received his degree in journalism from the Pennsylvania State
College. During World War II he served with Army Intelligence
in both the European and Pacific Theatres
At present he is
city editor of The Morning Press.
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Miss Cora M. Seely, of Bloomsburg, and Delbert J. Snie^el,
of Esny, were married Saturday, October 9. at the Esnv Methodist church. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School
and Mr. Spiege is a graduate of the Scott Township high school
and is at present a student at Bloomsburg. He served \viih the
Armv during World War II, and was stationed for thirteen
months in Korea.
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Because of the current interest in improving the teaching
Americanism and in curriculum revision, the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College sponsored a Secondary Curriculum Reof

vision Workshop as the culminating feature of the pre-session
summer school Friday and Saturday, June 25 and 26. A large

number

of high school principals and school administrators attended the workshop, which will be the first of its kind sponsored by the College.
J. F. Dennis, principal, Meyers High School, Wilkes-Barre,
served as co-chairman of the conference. Joseph R. Bailer, director of Secondary Education of the College, was secretary of

the v/orkshop.
A large number of problems dealing with materials of interest to v/orkers in the field of Secondary Education, were presented for discussion. The subject of “Functional Objectives”
was handled by L. C. Bubeck, high school principal from Forty
Fort, while Ray M. Cole, county superintendent of schools, Columbia county, served as consultant in the field of “Making The
Learning of Americanism Effective.” Miss Iva l^.Iae Van Scoyoc,
a member of the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin School, served as cha'rrnan of the group in its consideration of “General
W'orkshop Procedures,’ and R. E. Kunhert, supervising principal
of schools, Dallas Township, was the consultant in the field of
“Curriculum for Ncn-College Youth.”
A number of outstanding national authorities in the feld of
Secondary Education served as consultants during the two-day
workshop conference. Dr. Robert Kennedy, American Education Press, Columbus, Ohio, was present and led the discussion
group in the problem of “Social Studies and Current Affairs.”
The headm.aster o fthe Erie Day School, A. N. Zechiel, directed
discussion on the subject “Organizing the High School Faculty
for Curriculum Study and Revision.” General consultant for the
conference was Dr. FredericK Pond, curriculum consultant. Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg.
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Mrs. Charlotte Whipple, aged ninety-one, one of Mnotour
county’s oldest residents, died at her home in West Hemlock
township Monday m.orning, June 6. She had been in good health
until Saturday when she suffered a heart attack.
She was the daughter of the late Charles and Nancy Herr
Saul, and spent her entire life in Montour county.
She taught
school in West Hemlock and Derry to\vnships for fourteen
years.
Her husband, William, preceded her in death sixteen years
ago.
She was a member of the Strawberry Ridge Reformed
Church, the ladies aid society of the church and servde as a Sunday School teacher for many years.
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One of America’s outstanding educators, Dr. Rose Lammel,
of Columbia University, spoke to several hundred Summer Session students at the Teachers College Monday, June 26. Dr.
Lammel, who is an expert in the field of curriculum construction
and a curriculm consultant at the New York school, addressed
a session of the Secondary Education Workshop on “Development of Scientific Habits and Attitudes in the Classroom.”
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The Rev. Clyde B. Snyder, of R. D. 1, Hunlock Creek, pastor
of Roaring Brook Baptist Church, died of a heart attack in Nanticoke State Hospital Friday afternoon, June 11.
He was born at Hughesville, graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School and then taught school and acted as loca Iminister at Hughesville for several years.
In 1905, he was ordainin the Evangelical ministry but later changed to the Baptist
ministry.

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He had served churches at East Point, Tioga county;
Quiggleville, Lycoming county; Millheim, Center county; Nescopeck, Scrancoii, Mlton and Jackson, the latter in Pike county.
His pastorate at Roaring Brook had covered eleven years and
included charge of a Baptist church in Plymouth.
He was a past master of the Center Hall Lodge, F. & A. M.,
and v/as a former oficer of the Baptist Associations in Luzerne
and other counties where he had ministered.
Surviving are his wife, the former Clara McClintock, of
Berwick! two daughters, Mrs. Clinton A. Sullivan, of California,
and Mrs. E. T. Weaver, of Lewistown, and two grandchildren.
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Miss Lenore Marie Rarig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Rarig, of Numidia, and Charles A. Savage, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert C. Savage, of Leonard street, Bloomsburg, were united
in marirage Friday, June 4, in the Methodist parsonage.
The
Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay Myers performed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of the Harisburg General Hospital,
Harrisburg, Pa. The groom is a veteran of three years service
in the Infantry and at present is a business student at B.S.T.C.
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In a pretty ceremony performed at four o’clock Saturday,
June 5, in the Shiloh Evangelical and Reformed Church, Danville, Miss Pauline Edna Adams and Howard Raymond Hartzell,
Jr., son of Mr .and Mrs. Howard Hartzell ,were united in marriage by the Rev. Ernest Andrews.
Both are graduates of the Danville High School, the groom
a graduate of the class of 1945 and the bride of 1946. The bride
is employed at the Geisinger Memorial Hospital.
The groom is
a student at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. During
World War II he served with the air Corps.
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More than

fifty school building custodians attended a two-

day training conference held in August at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. The custodians represented various schools
Under the general supervision of
in the College service area.
Alfred S. Holt, principal, Public School Institute, Department of
Public Instruction, the conference began with lectures and demonstrations which proved of vital interest to those attending.
Fred Diehl, superintendent of schools, Montour County, spoke
Following Superinon “The School Plant and the Custodian.”
tendent Diehl’s lecture Sherman Eicke, chief custodian, Wyoming Borough Schools, spoke about and demonstrated the proper
maintenance and care of wood floors.
Following a lunch the group again were given a demonstration of “Housekeeping Practices” by Mr. Eicke. Schuyler Kase,
Olyphant, addressed the conference on the subject of “Fire Prevention and School Safety.” A demonstration by Mr. Eicke on
techniques of sweeping concluded the day’s session.
Others appearing before the conference were E. J. Finn, Anthracite Institute, Philadelphia, who discussed the subjects of
“Fuels and Firing Methods” and “Care and Operation of the
Heating Plant,” and H. Prather, assistant principal. Public Service Institute, Department of Public Instruction, who presented
the topic “Care of Electrical Wiring and Appliances.” A demonstration of the storage of mechanical equipment and care of
ventilating systems was given during the session. The concluding address of the conference was made by Ray M. Cole, superintendent of schools, Columbia County, who discussed “The
Custodian and the New Look.”
At the conclusion of the conference sessions certificates of
attainment issued by the Public Service Institute were presented
to conference members by Mr. Holt.
The College made its facilities available for the conference
which was under the general supervision of Nevin T. Englehart,
superintendent of grounds and buildings.
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In an informal ceremony in the Presbyterian Church Friday, May 28, Miss Patricia V. Moyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William V. Moyer, of Center street, Bloomsburg, became the
bride of Edmund L. Parker, Jr., son of Mr and Mrs. Edmund
L. Parker, of East Orange, N. J. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. G. Douglas Davies, pastor of the church, before a
background of ferns, lilies and snapdragons.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
of Syracuse University, N. Y. The groom attended Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and is a veteran of four years service
with the United States Navy, twenty-seven months of which
were spent in the Central and South Pacific Theaters.
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M. Beatrice Mettler, College Nurse, Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, was selected to teach a course in School Nursing at the Pensylvania State College during the 1948 Summer
Session. Miss Mettler worked in collaboration with Miss Mildred
S. Coyle, School Nursing Advisor, Department of Public Instruction, and Dr. Willis E. Pratt, Director, Department of Education, the Pennsylvania State College, in presenting the course
entitled, “Principles of Teaching in School Nursing and Advanced School Nursing.”
A number of persons from the Department of Public Instruction and the Pennsylvania Department of Health were
guest speakers during the six-weeks’ course which is required
for permanent certification in the field of school nursing. Miss
Mettler, however, organized and planned the complete course
of study which had a capacity enrollment of undergradutes as
well as school nurses.

Miss Mettler, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard
K. MeP»er, Elysburg, is well qualified for her position. She is a
graduate of Bucknell University, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Last Summer she received the degree of Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition she has
completed work in the Graduate School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.
Miss Mettler resumed her duties at the College at the beginning of the Post Session. During her abence. Miss Marie Lee,
R. N., Light Street, served as College Nurse.

The romantic history legends and dramatic stories behind
the folk songs and ballads of America were presented by Paul
Arnold, American folk song balladier, at the regular weekly assembly program of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
Thursday, August 19. Mr. Arnold, who starred in the Army Air
Force “Flying Varieties” during the war, sang a number of folk
songs of the Mississippi river valley as well as varied collection
of ballads, two chanteys and romantic tunes from his collection
of five hundred melodies.
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A diversified program of distinctively-styled melodies, including booming versions of “Wagon Wheels” and “St. Louis
Blue,” by the “Ebonaires” thrilled a large Summer Session audience at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday,
August 11. The nationally-famous male quartet, formerly
known as the “Deep River Singers,” offered a program that included everything for which colored singers and entertainers
are noted.
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One of the radiant personalities of the concert stage, Miss
Eileen Borwell, thrilled a large and appreciated audience at the
Bloomsburg States Teachers College, Wednesday, July 28,
a
brilliant interpretation of the folk songs and ballads of South
Africa.
Miss Borwell presented an unusually interesting and
varied program of scintillating, romantic and humorous songs
from the “other U. S. A.” Union of South Africa.
Before presenting her recital, the South African singer described the melodies and historical background of the songs
which were brought to the country by the early pioneers. These
songs, explained Miss Borwell, have the rare power of romantic
suggestion.
Her interpretation was not only impressive, but
artistic.
He rvoice disclosed genuine musicianship as well as
natural gifts.

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“Around the World in Music” was the subject of an unusual program of entertainment presented at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Friday, July 8, by Dudley Glass, a wellknown Australian pianist and composer in the Carver Hall Auditorium. Mr. Gass, who is currently making a tour of American schools and colleges, gave a lecture which was well interspersed with music illustrating countries on the imaginary tour.
o
“Get busy now and do your part to prevent the spread of
anti-American doctrines and propaganda,” was the advice given
students at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday,
July 22, by Major Paul Cyr, one of General “Wild Bill” Donovan’s “Cloak and Dagger Boys” whose wartime record in the Office of Strategic Services won him the nation’s highest military
honors. Major Cyr urged the creation of a Central Intelligence
Agency ot counteract the activities of agents of other countries
in America today.
In a remarkably interesting address entitled, “The Adven^
tures of An American Spy,” the personable young American officer related his wartime experiences in occupied Europe.
He
was the first American to be parachuted behind the enemy lines
in France during World War II, and he recalled many of the
thrills and adventures he had during his four years of service
with the most colorful branch of the American Intelligence Services.

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Eighty-seven sophomores at the Pennsylvaia State College
were initiated into Phi Eta Sigma, national scholastic honor society.

Among
D.

5,

the initiates is Robert J. Eshleman, Bloomsburg R.
a student at Bloomsburg during his Freshman

who was

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Bloomsburg State Teachers College was singularly honored
summer by an inspection tour of its campus and facilities
by members of the Pennsylvania Commision for Post-High
School Study. Dr. W. Earl Armstrong, dean of the School of
Education, University of Delaware, and Dr. George Works, formerly of the University of Chicago, visited the College, which
was one of two teacher-education institutions in Pennsylvania
this

included in the state-sponsored survey.
Dr. Works, who is probably the outstanding expert in the
United States in making surveys of facilities for education, has
had a long and distinguished career in the educational world,
while Dean Armstrong is one of the younger leaders in the field
of teacher education in the nation today. The two men spent the
day in a series of inspection visits, conferences, and meetings,
and their findings will be incorporated in a report which is
scheduled to be made late this year.
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An ambitious schedule of sixteen basketball games for the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Huskies has been announced by John A. Hoch, chairman of the College Athletic CommitThe Huskies, who are coached by Peter R. Wisher, will
tee.
play ten Teachers College Conference tilts as well as six games
with three area colleges Wilkes College and Kings College,
Wilkes-Barre, and Lycoming College, Williamsport.
The Maroon and Gold courtmen will pry off the lid of their
1948-49 schedule on the Centennial Gymnasium court Saturday
evening, December 11, when they entertain Coach John Pucillo’s
Millersville Teachers.
The strenuous campaign will close Feb-

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ruary 26, 1949, when the Huskies travel to Williamsport for a
tussle with Coach Bob Smith’s Lycoming dribblers.
The complete card follows:

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February 19 — Shippensburg, away.
February 22—Mansfield, home.
February 26 — Lycoming College, away.

Decemer 11 Millersville, home.
December 17 Lock Haven, away.
December 20 Wilkes College, home.
January 8 East Stroudsburg, away.
January 11 King’s College, away.
January 22-— Lock Haven, home.
January 26 Wilkes College, away.
January 29 Shippensburg, home.
February 1 King’s College, home.
February 3 Mansfield, away.
February 10 Lycoming College, home.
February 12 East Stroudsburg, home.
February 18 Millersville, away.

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It was “picnic time” for more than four hundred students
and friends of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday, July 14, and the Summer Session crowd made merry during
the afternoon and evening hours at Rolling Green Park, near
Sunbury. John A. Hoch, dean of men ,who was in general

charge of the outing, said that the picnic was one of the largest
ever held by the College.
Four busses were used to help transport the students to the
Central Pennsylvania amusement resort, although hundreds
made the trip to the park in private cars. During the afternoon,
a croquet tournament was staged along with the annual softball
game between the married men and the single men. Despite an
early deficit, the unmarried team rallied to defeat their older
rivals by a slim 6 to 5 score. Lionel Livingston, Courtdale, was
in charge of the recreational activitiess.
A delicious picnic supper was served at 5:30 o’clock under
the direction of Miss Della M. Thayer, College dietician. The
day’s program was climaxed by a “Lollypop Dance” in the park’s
“Rainbow Ballroom.”
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A

dramatization of the whole field of mathematics was given students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday, June 17, by Alfred Hooper, noted British educator, author
and lecturer. Speaking on the subject, “The River Mathematics,”
Dr. Hooper made interesting a subject that, for most people, is

and uninteresting.
The English educator, who served for a number of years as
Headmaster of the Hillstone School in Malvern, England, wrote
a best selling non-fiction book “Mathematics Refresher” as well
as the “River Mathematics.” A third book will be published
this year. Mr. Hooper is also the editor of a mathematical film
that has been produced by the American Council of Education.
In his lecture at the College, Dr. Hooper indicated that
mathematics is the key that opens up
the treasure-house of
modern science. It is bringing closer and closer to us the power
lifeless

beyond our present
imagination.
To understand the part plaved by mathematics
in the rapidly unfolding tale of human endeavor is esential for
men and women of today, and even more so for men and women
of tomorrow.
n
Miss Elizabeth Esaias, of Danville, and Clayton Pollard, of
Allentown, were married Sunday, June 27, in the Grove Presbyterian Church, Danville. The bride has been employed in the office of the Bell Telephone Companv. in Danville: the groom, a
graduate of Pennsylvania State College, is emploved as a project engineer by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company in
Allentown.
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Two of America’s most brilliant exponents of Theatre
Dance, Jan Veen and Adele Hooper, thrilled a capacity Summer Session audience at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday, July 15, with a dramatic performance that left
little to be desired.
Mr. Veen, who is director of the Dance Department of the Boston Conservatory of Music, and Miss Hooper, who is his asociate, fused their talents with a dramatic quality seldom seen outside the metropolitan areas.
o

Miss Beverly Cole, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Harry E. Cole,
100 Leonard Street, Bloomsburg, and a student at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was honored recently when she was
elected secretary of the Pensylvania Branch of the National
Student Association. Miss Cole, who is a sophomore, has been
extremely active in campus activities, and during last year served as freshman representative on the College Council ,the governing body of the Community Government Association.
o

pre-summer session at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College were broken by the heavy
All attendance records for a

registration of 467 students

weeks.

The

total

who attended

classes

for three

was more than 100 greater than

last year’s

registration which broke

all previous enrollments.
Nearly 200
students were living on the campus, but men students exceeded
the women students by a large margin. The session continued
until Thursday noon, June 24.

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Miss Eleanor Ruth Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
W. Hess, of Kingston, and Allen Wood Austin, son of Mrs.
Letitia Austin, also of Kingston, were married Saturday eve
ning, July 17, at the summer home of the bride’s parents, on
Waller Road, Benton.
Mrs. Austin is a graduate of Benton High School, Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, attended Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and the University of Pennsylvania. She
has been on the staff of the West Side Visiting Nurse Association, Kingston ,for the past fou ryears.
Mr. Austin is a graduate of Luzerne High School, served four years with the Marine
Corps with two years overseas, and is at Baird’s Kingston
Dairy.

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Miss Hilda Schmidt, of Danville R. D. 2, and Hurley Baylor, Danville R. D. 4, were married Saturday, September 11, at
the rectory of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Mr. Baylor is a
graduate of the Berlin High School, Berlin, New Hampshire, and
served thre years as a radio operator in the Navy.
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Hit tunes from the current musical successes “Brigadoon”
and “Song of Norway’’ as well as familiar melodies from Gilbert
and Sullivan featured an unusual costumed recital by Wesley
Boynton, distinguished tenor of concert and stage, at the
Bloomsburg States Teachers College Tuesday, June 24. The
recital was the feature of the closing assembly program of the
pre-summer session.
o

Miss Florence M. Kunkle, Dean, Maryland College for Women, Lutherville, Maryand, served as acting dean of women at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the regular Summer Session. Miss Kunkle, who served in a similar capacity at
the College last summer, was on the local campus for six weeks
during the absence of Dr. Marguerite V. Kehr, who was enjoying a vacation with relatives in Washington, D. C.
o

Miss Olga Forster, of Barneesville, and Joseph V. Murdock,
of Keiser, were married Thursday, August 19, at St. Columba’s
Church in Bloomsburg. The Very Rev. William Burke officiated.
The bride is a graduate of The Immaculate Heart of Mary Academy, Mountain Springs, and attended B.S.T.C. Mr. Murdock
is a graduate of the Mt. Carmel Township High School, and is
at present a student at Bloomsburg.

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Miss Betty Johnson and Paul D. Slusser, both of Bloomsburg R. D. 3, were married Saturday, September 4, in St. John’s
Reformed Church, Catawisa. The bride is employed at the
Magee Carpet Company, and the groom is a student at Bloomsburg.

Miss Helen Yedinak, of Berwick, and Ralph Ande, of
Bloomsburg. The groom, now a student at Bloomsburg, served
three and one-half years with the Air Corps during World War
II.

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Frank Marhefka, a former V-12 student at Bloomsburg,
is serving as health and physical education teacher in the High
School at Catawissa. Mr. Marhefka was graduated this year
from the East Stroudsburg State Teachers College. While in the
Navy ,he served as an athletic instructor.
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A

short program of music by the Men’s Glee Club of the
Bloomsburg 'Teachers College featured the regular weekly assembly of the College held Thursday, April 22, in the Carver
Hall auditorium. The splendid organization, under the direction
of Miss Harriet M. Moore, presented four numbers which were
favorably received by the audience.
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“Democracy is founded on sacrifices. That is the destiny of
those who have made the sacrifices,” the Very Reverend William
J. Burke, Rector, Churchc of Saint Columba, told the students
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in a special Armistice
Day program held in Carver auditorium. Father Burke’s address was entitled “Destiny of a Main Who Believes in SacriDuring his inspiring talk, Father Burke indicated that
fices.”
we do well to stand here and recall our dead. “Remember,” he
said, “the graves of our hnoored dead are altar shrines of liberty.” He warned his listeners to be on guard for those groups
that want to change the American way of life. As for the leaders of boys and girls, his listeners were told that they would
have to sacrifice and give up many things. He pointed out that
future teachers must not be afraid to go out and live the princiAmerican democracy.
During the program the college audience sang “America”
and “America the Beautiful” v/ith Miss Harriet M. Moore directing the group singing. Howard F. Fenstemaker w’as at the
console of the college organ and President Harvey A. Andruss
presided over che devotions. President Andruss also read Governor Duff’s proclamation setting Armistice Day as an official
holiday. Classes were dismissed after the assembly period for
ples of

the balance of the morning.
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Dr. J. Almus Russell of the English Department, Bloomsburg State Teachecs College, is mentioned in Roger Butterfield’s
new book “The American Past”- A History of the United States
from Concord to Hiroshima, 1775-1945, as one of saveral authorities who furnished information, pictures and assistance in the
preparation of this pictorial volume. “The American Past” is
told with the aid of a thousand pictures, reproduced from original photographs, paintings, cartoons, lithographs,
engravings,
especially selected and arranged to illuminate and illustrate the
politics, personaities, wars and peaceful progress of American

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The implications of atomic power, the story of its development, and the spectacular Bikini experiment “Operations
Ci'ossroad” featured two motioii pictures shown the weekly assembly program of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, held
April 15 in the Carver Hall auditorium. The films, brought to
the College through the kindness of Mrs. Marion T. Adams,
chairman of the International Relations Group of the American
Association of University Women, were enjoyed by the students.

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Prior to the showing of the pictures, Harold H. Lanterman, instructor in the Science Department of the College, gave
^hort
but informative talk on the latest developments in the field of
atomic energy.
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Charles H. Henrie, retail selling instructor at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has been appointed Membership
Chairman for the United Business Education Association m
Pensylvania. The UBEA is a division of the National Education
Asociation and boasts a membership of 6000 business teachers.

Thirty associations of business teacliers are affiliated with
UBEA, while three national groups aie supported by the UBEA
the Research Foundation, Administrators’, and BusinessTeacher Education. Another of its activities is the sponsorship
of the Future Business Leaders of America.
The national membership goal of the Association for 194849 is 7000 business teachers, or one member for every five business teachers in high schools and colleges. The goal for Pennsylvahia has been set at 500 and is only surpassed by New York
State which has given a goal of 891 and California with 529. Dr.
Hamden L. Forkner, Director of Business Education, Columbia
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University, is president of the UBEA, which Dr. J. Frank Dame,
former director of Business Education at this College, is Forum
Editor.
o
Litwhiler joined the fourth National League team of
his big league career when he played right field for the Cincinnati Reds against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Cincinnati club
acquired Danny’s services in a reported straight cash deal from
the Boston Braves.

Danny

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President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Teachers College, was
the principal speaker at the testimonial dinner tedered the superintendent-elect of the Potsville Public Schools, Dr. H. H. Lengel, at a meeting of the Pottsville Kiwanis club held at NeccoAllen Hotel Monday, May 10.

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A letter from Ralph Tremato, of Easton, stated that he had
accepted a position wit hthe Texas Oil Company, and expected
to fly to Bogota, Colombia on April 12. His address is Relph
A. Tremato, care of the Texas Petroleum Company, Bogota, Colombia, South America.
o

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Deitterick, of Bloomsburg R. D., announce the engagement of their daughter, Julia, to Paul Sholley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Deitterick of Lewisburg.
Miss Deitterick is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School with the class of 1947 and is now attending B.S.T.C.
Mr. Sholley served three years in the European theatre of
war and is now employed as a mechanic at Lewisburg.
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THE ALUMNI
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board of Directors
E.

H. Nelson

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriot Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler

Hervey

B.

Smith

President
Vice-President
Secretary

Treasurer
H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Huber

1887
Miss Anna S. Kurtz, of West 111th Street, New York City,
died Sunday, August 29, at her home. Miss Kurtz was born in
Berwick and was a member of the first graduating class of the
Berwick High School. After graduation from Bloomsburg, she
taught in the public schools of Freeland, Catawissa and New

York

City.

1889
Brower, seventy-nine. East Main Street, Bloomsburg,
died at the nursing home on Mill street, Danville, at 2:30 o’clock
Thursday, June 17. He had undergone an operation in 1942 and
had been in ill health since that time. However,, his condition
had not been serious and his death came suddenly.
He was born in Bloomsburg and lived here all of his life except for five years that he taught in Steven Institute, a preparatory school, Hoboken, N. J.- He graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School, class of 1889, and was graduated from

Jay

J.

Harvard University, class of 1901, and from the Philadelphia
Business College.
Surviving are a niece, Miss Mary Brower ,and sister-in-law,
Mrs. W. H. Brower, of town.
He was a member of Washington Lodge, F. and A. M. No.
He was a
265, the Caldwell Consistory and affiliated bodies.
member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
1892
Sue Creveling (Mrs. G. W. Miller, Jr.) lives at 315 Second
Stret, Weatherly, Pa.
1894
On May 19, 1948, Dr. George E. Pfahler was honored, together with 22 other physicians of Pennsylvania by the presentation of a Certificate for 50 years Service in the Practice of
Medicine, given by the Pennsylvania State Medical Society at a
testimonial dinner.
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In 1930, he received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science; in 1942, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, from
Ursinus College, and the new Science Building was named
“Pfahler Hall of Science.”

1896

Rear Admiral Charles Maiden Oman, seventy, a native of
Light Street, died at his home in Beacon, N. Y., Monday, November 1, three years after retiring as one of the Navy’s top
medical officers. He had been in the service of his country for
forty-four years.

The officer, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Oman, was
a brother of the late Rear Admiral Joseph Wallace Oman, whose
death occurred in London shorttly after the outbreak of World
War II in 1939. The brothers were the only two in the history
of the United States Navy to attain the rank of Rear Admiral.
His last post before retirement was commandant of the U.
He was the auS. Naval Convalescent Home, Harriman, N. Y.
thor of two books, “Minor Surgery” and “Doctors Aweigh.” He
was commissioned in the Navy Medical Corps in 1901 and served
in the Philippines, Cuban and Mexican campaigns before World
War I. Admiral Oman commanded the Navy Base Hospital at
Brest, France, during the First W^orld War and served later in
China. He also served in the Messina, Sicily, earthquake relief
in 1909. He was an American Red Cross delegate during 1937 to
During
the Geneva Congress to revise the Hague convention.
World War II he commanded the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., before his transfer to Harriman. Suviving
are his wife, the former Helouise Brinkerhoff; a sister, Mrs.
Clara Oman Lecher, of Wilkes-Barre and a brother, Joshua T.

Oman,

of Riverside.

During his youth he attended school in Light Street and
then removed with his family to Wilkes-Barre.
He graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1901 and
in December of that year he was commissioned a
lieutenant,
junior grade. In March, 1902, he was assigned to the Asiatic
theatre and was stationed in the Philipnines and with the Asiatic fleet.
He was transferred to the Naval Hosnital, Norfolk,
Va.. in 1905 and in 1906-08 he served on the battleships Ohio,
Arkansas annd New Hampshire.
For three years, from 1909 to 1912, he was at the Naval
Hospital, New York, and then for three years medical officer on
the flag ship Wyoming. From 1915-18 he was at the Naval
Hospital, N. Y., and was assigned to the hosnital shin Comfort
from March to October, 1918. While serving in Brest. France
as the officer in charge of Naval Base Hosnital No. 1 he was
awarded the Navy Cross for meritorious service. For two years
he was aide and field surgeon for the Atlantic Fleet. From 1920
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to 1924 he was commandant of the Naval Hospital, Washington
and for three years following was with the Marine detachment
of the American legation, Peking, China. He then was named
head of the Naval Medical School and president of the board of
Naval Examiners. In 1931 he became commandant of the Naval
Hospital at Anapolis and in 1935 was transferred to commandant of the Naval Hospital at New York.

He

served as medical officer of the Third Naval District
1, 1937 to June, 1939, when he was named inspector of the medical department activities on the Atlantic
Coast. From 1941 to 1943 he was commandant of the National
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., and from 1942 until his retire-

from September

ment he was commandant at Harriman. Admial Oman was a
of the Amrican College of Surgeons and a member of
the National Board of Medical Examiners, a Fellow of the American Medical Association, an Episcopalian and a thirty-second

member

degree Mason.

Arthur L. Crossley, of Hicksville, L. I., N. Y., a graduate of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1896, and a
former member of the faculty, died Sunday morning, June 6, at
his

home.

A

native of Columbia county, he taught school for a time
after completing his work here and then secured a degree at
Lafayette.

Later he was a member of the local College faculty for a
number of years, being in the English department. After he became affiliated with the school system of New York City, holding that position until his retirement about five years ago.
Mr. Crossley was here for the fiftieth year reunion of his
class in 1946.

1900
Mrs. Miles Kilmer died August 25, 1948, at her home hi
South Orange, New Jersey. Florence Stump, as her classmates
knew her, was graduated in 1900 and returned to take the College Preparatory Course, which she completed in 1903. Having
specialized in music, she was for many years in charge of the
music in the public schools of Haddonfield, New Jersey. Shortly
after the close of World War I, she was married to Miles Kilmer,
whom classmates will remember as a fine baseball and basketbal player, under the coaching of Dr. Aldinger. After graduation at State College, Mr. Kilmer has spent many years as a construction engineer, working on the various tunnels leading into

New York

City.

1901

Mayer (Mrs. Clarence W. Keck) of Town House,
424 West Broard steet, Hazleton, whose husband died on July 8,
1947, succumbed to a short illness at her home Saturday, June
Elizabeth

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She was stricken with a heart attack a week before her
Mrs.
death and two trained nurses had been in attendance.
Keck was a member of a pioneer family of Hazleton, and spent
practically her entire life there. Her father was superintendent
of the Hazleton Gas Company, which has since been absorbed
After graduating from
by the Luzerne Gas and Electric Co.
Hazleton High School she entered the Bloomsburg State Normal
School and after graduation, taught school in Hazleton and
Shickshinn. Mr. and Mrs. Keck were wed thirty-nine years ago
last December. Their only son, Joseph Winfield died at the age
of seven years. Mrs. Keck was a member of Trinity Lutherar.
26.

church.

1902
Mrs. Helen Reice Irvin has retired from teaching in Philadelphia, and is living in Florida with her brother, Stephen Reice.
formerly of Bloomsburg. Her address is 915 South 15th Street.
Fort Pierce, Floria.
1901
Irwin Cogswell, who lives at R. D. 3, Montrose, Pa., is employed as a machinist and machme tool operator with the Beach
Manufacturing Company, Montrose. His son, Howard Cogswell, who graduated with honors at Whittier College, California,
entered the University of California at Berkley this fall ,for
post-graduate studies in Biology. During the past summer, he
taught in a nature camp operated by the Audubon Society.
Mrs. Adele Mead McKendrick is National Commander of the
“Yeomen F,” organized in September, 1926, at the national convention of the American Legion. The organization is composed
of women who enrolled in the United States Naval Reserve
Force during World War I. Mrs. McKendrick’s address is 2929
S. W. 7th Street, Miami 35, Florida.
Ann Challes Thompson lives at 7 Peter Cooper Road, New
York 10, N. Y. She is teaching in the Washington Irving High
School, 40 Irving Place, New York City. She taught in the Physical Education Department at Bloomsburg
from September,
1904, to February, 1906. Mrs. Thompson would like to get in
touch with other members of ’04, to plan for the 45th reunion
of the class on Alumni Day, May 21, 1949.
1905
Mary A. Mitchell (Mrs. Charles K. Vermorel) lives at 690

Summit Avenue, Hackensack, New

Jersey.

1906
Mary F. Mitchell (Mrs. William H. Bean) of Riegelsville,
died July 27, 1948, at her home, after an illness of eight years.
A resident of Riegelsville for the past twenty-four years, Mrs.
Bean was the daughter of the late William and Ellen Mitchell.
She was formerly a teacher in Nockamixon Township for many
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years.

She was a member of the

St.

Lawrence Catholic Church,

Durham.
1907
Mrs. Mary Hess Colyer lives at 924

Wood

Street, York, Pa.

1909

Alma Wallace

Papago Indian children at a
school in Ajo, Arizona, where she has been working for the past
seven years. She has been spending her summers in Los AnShe regeles, attending the University of Southern California.
ports a delightful visit this summer with Norman H. Cool ’86,
and Florence Hess Cool ’88, and says that they are still as enthusiastic as ever about Bloomsburg and its progress, as well
as the welfare of its alumni.
Scholl teaches

1913

FIGHTING FRONTIERSMAN: The

Life of Daniel Boone,

by John Bakeless, was published by William Morrow and Company, New York, on September 27. Based on Dr. Bakeless’ distinguished biography, Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness
(published in 1939) this new version for young people is elaborately illustrated by Edward Shenton.
Like Boone, Dr. Bakeless was born among the Indians in
Pennsylvania. His early playmates were almost entirely Indian
boys, and he was the only white student ever to attend Carlisle
Indian School.
For years prior to the writing of Daniel Boone, Dr. Bakeless studied every available Boone document.
With his wife,
Katherine E. Little (’15), he traveled the Boone country extensively and talked with antiquarians on the spot, and corresponded with everyone likely to have Boone material. The original
work contains many facts and documents never before printed:
the first authentic detailed story of Boone’s escape from the Indians; the first accurate story of Boone’s depatrure from Kentucky; the first completely documented study of the three carvings all things of absorbing interest to young readers.
In the rewritten version, nothing of the flavor, excitement
and authenticity of the original has been sacrificed; the pace of
the book has been quickened by the omission merely of material
that while of intense interest to the adult reader, would pall on
the teen-ager.
Elizabeth L. Pugh lives at 54 Manhattan Street, Ashley, Pa.
Elizabeth K. Scharf lives at 7 West Pine Stret, Selinsgrove,

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Pa.
is

The address of Gertrude Thomas (Mrs. Albert S. Leonard)
Route 5, Box 153, Evansville, Indiana.
Myrtle Keefer (Mrs. Harry Brumbach) lives at 100 Little

Street, Belleville,

New

Jersey.

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1916

Martha Yetter (Mrs. Harry E. Rider) died

suddenly on
Sunday, June 27, at her home on East Third Street, Bloomsburg. Mrs. Rider was a graduate of the Bloomsb'urg High
School, the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and Bucknell University. For a number of years she w'as a very successful teacher in the Bloomsburg High School. She was an active member
of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg throughout her
For many years she was a member of the choir, and also
life.
served as superintendent of the Intermediate Department of the
Cnurch School. She was also a member of the Bloomsburg
Branch of the American Association of University Women. She
is survived by her husband and one daughter.
1917
William Reade Brower, husband of Dorothy Miller Brower,
passed away Friday, July 9, at the home of Mrs. G. W. Miller, Jr.
1919
Lucia Hammond (Mrs. Robert L. Wheeler) lives at 269
Washington Avenu..,, Providence 5, Rhode Island. Mrs. Wheeler
IS teaching at a school for officers’ children
at the Quonset
Naval Air Base. The school is a part of the North Kensington
school system. Mi. Wheeler is a. feature writer and columnist
for the Providence Sunday Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler have
four children: a son recently udisica
the Air Corps, another
son in iiigh school ,anol.hcr son eleven years old, and a daughter,
six years old.
1924
Helen Zydanowicz (Mrs. Joseph Schwall) lives at 14378
Rutland Road, Detroit 27, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Schwall have
one daughter, Carole Elaine, who will soon be eleven years old.
1926
Marjorie Sick Fassett, class of 1926, passed away Sunday,
October 24, 1948, at the General Hospital, Wilkes-aBrre, Penna.
Diagnosis of her illness placed the cause of death as an infection in the blood stream. Prior to her passing Marjorie made
her home in Tunkhannock, where she was co-owner, with her
husband Harry D. Fassett, of two department stores located at

m

Tunkhannock and

Laceyville, respectively.

Marporie’s passing leaves a spirit of sadness among her
many classmates and friends at Bloomsburg.
1927
Mary Elliott Jones, of Scranton ,is now living at 4302 EastWest Highwav, eBthesda, Maryland. Miss Jones, who taught
last year in Rockville, Maryland, has been transferred to the
Lynnbrook School in Bethesda. Miss Jones has a master’s degree in elementary science from Columbia University.
Edwin Barton was selected by the Superintendent of
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Schools of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a three weeks’ conference on curriculm planning, held at New York University this

summer.
Clara Zydanowicz (Mrs. Herbert Peterfreud) lives at 535
East 14th Street, Apartment 8-C, New York City. Her husband
teaches law at New York University. Mrs. Peterfreud received
her bachelor’s degree at Pennsylvania State College in 1935.
1931
In a ceremny whic htook place Tuesday, June 1, at the Grace
EUB Church, at Lemoyne, Pa., Miss Corrine A. Hess, daughter
of Claude H. Hess, of Bloomsburg R. D., became the bride of Don
E. Miller, son of Mrs. Altha Miller, of Mill Hall, Pa. Rev. A. H.
Houseal, pastor, performed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and resided for a time in Berwick.
She taught school at
Bloomsburg, later attending the Palmer Schdol of Chiropractry
at Davenport, Iowa. She now has a practice at Lewistown.
The groom served three and one half years as a lieutenant
in the Navv, hi;; tour of duty covering service in Pacific Theatre
of Operations. He is now a student at the Palmer Chiropractic
School.

Helen M. Walborn (Mrs. Nelson M. Penman) lives at 160
Street, Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Penman have two
children ,a son ten years old, and another son, Richard Lee, born

West 8th
March

13, 1948.

Donald Karnes is a teacher in the schools of Lamar, Colorado. He and Mrs. Karnes are rejoicing over the arrival of a
daughter, Nell Marie, born Monday, July 12
1932
Emilie Zydanowicz (Mrs. Bernard Sage) lives at 317 N. Reginald, Dearborn, Michigan. Dr. and Mrs. Sage have two children.
1933
Wallace Derr, of Bloomsburg R. D. 1, at Jerseytown, was
one of the men and women receiving the Degree of Master of
Science in Education at Bucknell University’s ninety-eighth
Commencement exercises Saturday, June 5. His majors were
administration and supervision. Mr. Derr also hold a Master’s
Degree in Education awarded by Temple University in 1936,
with a major in history. He holds a minor in education from
.

graduate work pursued.
Mary Stahl is teacher of first grade in the Berwick schools.
She taught for several years in Salem Township before being
elected to her present position.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Gilmore, of East Second
Street, town, was the scene of a quiet wedding Saturday, August 7, when their daughter, Dorothy Evangeline, became the
bride of James H. Lovell, son of Mrs. G .L. Lovell, of Salem,
Oregon, and the late Reverend Lovell.
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Mrs. Lovell is the former assistant librarian of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. Mr. Lovell has been with the merchant
marine since 1942. During World War II, he saw active duty
in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of war.
He returned from

Belgium and Holland

in July.

The couple are now
15,

living at 711 S. E. 3rd street, Portland

Oregon.

1934

Dorothy I. Wolfe (Mrs. William C. Williams) lives at R. D.
3, Bloomsburg.
Gladys Bakey (Mrs. Thomas Davis) lives at 3306 Highland
Place, N. W., Washington 8, D. C.
Bartha Hornberger (Mrs. Walter Powers) died in April,
1947, and is survived by one son.
Beulah M. Lawrence (Mrs. Roy D. Masser) lives in a suburb
of Reading.
Her husband conducts the Roamer Tours out of
Reading.

The address of Freda Shuman (Mrs. Clyde Laubach)

is

Box

172, Elysburg, Pa.

1936

Bernard J. Young, formerly of Berwick, is assistant professor and director of guidance at the Laboratory Training School,
Western Illinois State College.
He and Mrs. Young, who was
formerly Miss Frances I. Riggs, of Bloomsburg, live at 603 West
Calhoun Street, Macomb, Illinois. They have one son, four years
old.

1937

Hower, of Bloomsburg, was found dead in his car
in Bloomsburg on Saturday, January 31, 1948, when the late
chief of police, Ben Jacoby, made an investigation to determine
why the car was halted in a traffic lane on busy East Street.
Luther

P.

him was his three-year-old daughter, Vicianne.
Mr. Hower’s death came as a profound shock to his family
and friends. He had left his home a few minutes earlier to do
some errands in the business section. Evidently forewarned of
the heart attack which caused his death, had pulled the car to
the left, so that it was partly out of the main line of traffic, and
stopped the machine. The car was noticed there, and the little
girl was seen by passersby.
Mr. Hower was slumped over, so
that his body was not visible. Those who first noticed the car
believed that the driver was in a nearby store or in a physician’s
In th car with

office.

During World War II, Mr. Hower was a second lieutenant in
the Quartermaster Corps, serving from April 16, 1943, until
April 1, 1946, and during two years of that time he was in the
expeditionary forces. He was a resident of Espy at the time he
entered the service, being with the 667th Quartermaster Truck
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the 66th Infantry. He served in the campaigns
on Northern France and the Rhineland, and held the American
Defense Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Service Ribbon with two bronze stars, the American Theatre Service Medal
and World War II Victory Medal.

Company with

He was a native of Bloomsburg. After graduation from
the Scott Township High School in 1933, he entered Bloomsburg
Teachers College and received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1937. He
was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Espy.
Surviving are his wife, the former Victoria Muskaloon ’37,
his daughter, Vicianne, his mother, Mrs. Mary Hess Colyer ’07,
and a sister, Mrs. John German.
Miss Marie E. Foust, of Milton, Pa., has been named Execu-

Lebanon and Lebanon County
and assumed her duties there at the Completion of one month

tive Director of the Girl Scouts in

of special training at National Girl Scout Headquarters, WashMiss Foust graduated from Milton High School
ington, D. C.
education
in 1933, received her Bachelor of Science degree in
from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1937, where she majored in French and English and minored in social studies. She
also took graduate work at Bucknell University.

She has taught

in Pennsylvania schools for nine years.
to 1943 she taught in a consolidated country high
Her duties
school in eBaver Township, Columbia County.
there included the teaching of English, art, music, health, physical education and history. She also coached dramatics and girls’
bisketbal land served as librarian. From 1944 to 1945 she taught
French and English at Milton High School, after which she
spent two years with the American Red Cross as a hospital recreational worker, training at the American University, Washington, D. C., and taking extension training at the station hospital.
Camp Croft, S. C.

From 1938

Her work with the Red Cross took her to Manila, Japan and
Korea over a 14-month period, and she spent eleven months in
Korea as a club and recreational worker at an “on post” club.
She was on duty with the occupation army. For the past year,
M’ss Foust has been a teacher-librarian at Benton. Columbia
Countv. Her interests include literature, music, crafts, outdoor
She has
activities, phototgranhv and many scouting activities.
had ten vears’ experience as counselor at a state Sundav School
camp and had her own Girl Scout troop of intermediates while
teaching at Milton. She trained at Camp Edith Macy, a nation-

Amone Miss
al Girl Scout training camp, Pleasantville. N. Y.
Foust’s duties will be the training and supervision of adult volunteer workers, the organization of troops, program administramembership
tion, camping, public realtions, financing, council
selection, statistical analysis, keeping records
and reporting
staff

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1938

Dorothy Frick (Mrs. Sheldon A. MacDougall) lives on a
farm near Benton, Pa. Her addres is R. D. 1, Benton. Mrs.
MacDougall was graduated in the two-year course in 1931, and
returned to Bloomsburg to complete her work for the aBchelor’s
degree.

1939

James R. Kantner is Employment Superintendent at the
U. S. Naval Ammunition Depot, Shumaker, Arkansas. He is
living in the Billkitts Housing Area at the Naval Ammimition
Depot, at 314 Ingram.
Lucille E. Adams (Mrs. W. P. Ruemmler)
has moved to
1117 West 156th Street, Calumet City, Illinois, where her husband is employed as a metallurgical engineer. Mr. and Mrs.
Ruemmler have two sons, Thomas Richard, born February 21,
1948, and W. Philip Ruemmler II, who was four years old No-

vember

14.

Miss Pearl E. Poust, of Pine

street, Orangeville, teacher in
the Orangeville Elementary School, Orangeville, was selected by
Ray M. Cole, Columbia County Superintendent of Schools, to
participate in the second Health Education Workshop at the
Pennsvlvania State College, June 28 to July 17.

1940
Paul Paulhamus, of the Millville Joint Junior-Senior High
School, has resigned from the Millville faculty, where he taugh
seventh grade English, mathematics and art. He is now principal of the Wyalusing Senior High School with a staff of ten
teachers and an enrollment of 160 from grades ten through
twelve.

Mrs. Honora Dennen Barr, wife of Herbert Barr, 417 Water
street, died in the University Hospital, Philadelphia, on Saturday, June 12. She had been a patient in the hospital since June
Death was the re4, and had been ill for the past three weeks.
sult of cerebral hemorrhage.
Mrs. Barr was born December 7, 1916, in Anthony TownMrs. James
ship, Montour county, the daughter of Mr. and

Dennen. She attended the Anthony township school and was
a graduate of Sacred Heart Academy, Danville, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She was employed as a teacher of the first and second
grades of Anthony Township Consolidated School, and was
united in marriage to Herbert Barr on October 9, 1947. Since
that time she resided in Danville. Mrs. Barr was a member of
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Danville; president of the Sacred
Heart Academy Alumnae Association in the Danville area, and
a member of the Living Rosary Society of the St. James CathShe was vice president of the Turbotolic Church, Exchange.
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Surviving are her husband, her parents, a sister and two
brothers.

Charles S. Girton has received the appointment as supervisor of the Los Angeles office of the U. S. Weather Bureau’s
Flight Advisory Weather Service.
This is one of twenty-six
such units located in Airway Traffic Control Centers for the purpose of providing short range detailed weather information and
forecasts for airway traffic controllers and other aviation interests.
Mr. Girton has had two and one-half years’ service

with the weather bureau in Fort Worth, Texas, and Los Angeles,
and five and one-half years’ service with the American Air Forces.

1941

The present address

of

Ruth Shay

is

Mrs.

Richard A.

Biery, Care of T-Sgt. R. A. Biery, 2030048, 20-6 Air Weather
Department, Itazuke Air Base, APO 929, Care of Postmaster,
San Francisco, California. In a recent letter she writes:

“We have now
here quite well.

been in Japan eight months, and we like it
There are now over three hundred American

families living at Itazuke Base, so our own little community is
just like any at home. I have a Japanese girl who lives in our
home with us and does all the housework and takes care of the
children.
She speaks very little English. I have learned to
speak some Japanese, and we talk with a mixture of the two lan-

guages.
“I find aJpan most interesting, because their customs are so
different from ours. In June we visited Nagasaki and even after
three years there is still much evidence of ruin and destruction.

“We buy all our food at the Army Commissary, the food being sent over from the States. We use no native food at all. Except for fresh milk, which we never get, our supply and variety
are quite good. In spite of the lack of milk, my children are
healthier than ever.’’
Miss Claraline F. Schlee and Kenneth A. Baylor, both of
Danville, were married Friday, July 23, at St. Paul’s Methodist
Episcopal Church in Danville. The Rev. Glenn Mowrer performed the ceremony. The bride is a graduate of the Danville High
School and B.S.T.C. The groom was graduated from the Bloomsburg High in 1940, after which he served three and one-half
years in the Navy. He was graduated from Marshall College,
Huntington, West Virginia, in 1948. He is now a member of the
staff of the Williamsport Sun.
Mrs. Michalene Zuchoski Bowen is teaching in the Anthony
Township Consolidated School. She taught last year in the
schools of Hanover Township, Luzerne County.
Jane Rutledge

lives at

1942
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ton, Pa.

Edith E. Bartha is a teacher in the Chester High School and
taught courses in Marketing at Temple University during the
summer session of 1946 and 1947. During the past summer, she
worked in Philadelphia as a marketing research assistant.
Stanley T. Schuyler has begun his fifth year of teaching at
the Muncy High School. He teaches commercial subjects, is var^
sity wrestling coach, and has assisted two years in football. His
address is R. D. 1, Turbotville, Pa.
Spencer Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Roberts, Catawissa, who ome months ago was assigned as an attache at the
American Embassy, Moscow, by the State Department, recently wrote an interesting letter of a few of his early experiences
in the Soviet capital.

The letter was written to President Harvey A. Andruss, of
the Teachers College, where Roberts was a student for some
time. He speaks highly of the Russian theatre but “each day I
thank God that I was born in our little spot on the Susquehanna,
where the people at least have shoes and the opportunity
-ake
a bath when they want it.”
In his letter he observes “There was such a mad rush to buy
all the things I would need here for my
two-year assignment
here in Moscow things that are unavailable here, and that one
really neds to make life comfortable. You can imagine the supply I had to bring with me However, I am now setled quite happily in a Soviet apartment building
four rooms, a wonderful
grand piano, several excellent painting and two efficient Russian
maids.
“i\Iy job as an attache here in the Embassy, of course ,is
proving to be extremely exciting especially since I must have
a lot of contact with the Soviet officals and people thus using
my Russian every day to great advantage. The theatre, ballet,
and concerts are on a level that New York could never hope to
reach ,and the fine thing about the theatre is that at least half
of the repertory consists of the classics. Here for the first time
I am seeing Sheridan, Moliere, Lope de la Vega, etc. The acting,
sets and costumes, and, of course, the direction, are unbelievably
wonderful. I am wasting no time practically every night is
theatre night for me tickets are fabulously cheap.
“However, that is about the only thing I can find that is
superior to dear, old New York. Each day I thank God that I
was born in our little spot on the Susquehanna, where the people at least have shoes and the opportunity to take a bath when
they want it.”
The body of Second Lieutenant Earl J. Harris, U. S. Army,
was interred with appropriate funeral services held at the Hidlay Church Saturday, September 18.

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Lt. Harris was killed in action on March
1945, while
28,
participating in the invasion of Cebu Island in the Philippines.
He was aged twenty-four and was a graduate of the Scott
Township High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, being awarded his degree of Bachelor of Science Education in 1942.
He received his basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., where
he was commisioned, and joined the expeditionary forces in December, 1943.

The officer was severely wounded in action on July 8, 1944,
on Bouganville Island in the Solomons. After recovering from
his wounds he participated in the invasion on Leyte and was
wounded a second time. He was killed by Japanese mortar fire
while leading his platoon against an airfeld on Cebu.
Dawn Osman, of Shamokin, and Robert J. Trewella, of
Kulpmont, were married Saturday, June 19, in the Chestnut
Street Methodist Church in Shamokin. Mr. Trewella is a graduate of Gettysburg College. Mr. and Mrs. Trewella are living
at Market and Walnut Streets, Shamokin.
1943
Miss Marjorie Ruth Coombs, of Wapwallopen, and Clyde C.
Deets, also of Wapwallopen, were married Saturday, June 26, in
The bride has been serSt. Stephen’s Church, Wilkes-Barre.
ving as a teacher in the schools at Nuangola. Mr. Deets, a
graduate of the Newport Township High School, and a veteran
of World War II, is employed by the American Car and Foundry

Company.
Eleanore Althoff (Mrs. Jerome G. Lapinski) lives at 811
South Ogden Street, Baltimore 24, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs.
Lapinski welcomed their first child ,a baby daughter, born May
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Announcement has recently been made of the engagement
of Miss Janet R. Shultz to Fred A. Ungerman, an engineering
student at the Drexel Institute of Technology. Miss Shultz is
teaching in the Crispin School in Philadelphia. Her address is
5951 Belden Street, Philadelphia 24.
Dorothy L. Schmidt sailed in October from San Francisco
resume her missionary work in a school in Japan. Her address in Japan is “Hokusei Jo Gakko, Sapporo Hokkaido, Jap-

to
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Harold J. O’Brien received the degree of Master of Arts at
the 16th Post Sessions Commencement held at the Pennsylvania
State College September 18, 1948.
An innovation in June manages was consumated here when
a local minister officiated at the wedding of his son.
The event took place Monday, June 14, as Miss Mars:aret
P. White, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Charles H. BomPage Fifty-three

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boy, son of the Rev. and Mrs. D. L. Bomboy, 744 Market street.
The Rev. Bomboy .pastor of the Buckhorn Lutheran Parish,
performed the impressive double ring ceremony at the Market
street residence.
The bride has been employed at Sneidman’s jewelry store.
The groom is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School, the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and Columbia University.
During World War II he served thirty months with the Eighth
Air Force. For the past two years he has been an instructor at

Wilmington, Del.
John Witkoski has been in Alaska for the past two years.
He is manager of the McKinley Park Hotel, McKinley Park,
Alaska. The hotel, which is operated by the Department of the
Interior, is situated halfway between Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Elizabeth Bartha Nunziato is a teacher in Public School 99
in New York City. Her address is 1391 West 6th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1944
Anne T. Sabol is instructor of Secretarial Studies at Hood
College.

Mrs. Bette Fuller Smith, of Berwick, has been elected teacher of the first grade in the Greenwood lementary school of the
Millville cooperative district.
Mrs. Smith is a gi’aduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, class of 1944, holding the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education.
She taught the kindergarten for one year in
Yardley, Bucks county, and for two years was teacher of the
first grade there.
Margaret Latsha (Mrs. Walter M. Smiley) lives at 506 West
Fifth Street, Lewistown, Pa. Mrs. Smiley is a first-grade teacher in Lewistown, and her husband, a graduate of Ithaca College,
is in charge of instrumental music in the elementary schools of
Lewistown, directs the Junior High School orchestra, and assists
with the direction of the high school band. He is a member of
Phi Mu Alpha fraternity and the Lewistown Kiwanis Club.
Stella Williams (Mrs. James N. Fulton) is teaching in Connecticut.
Her addres is Unionville Road, Farmington, Conn.,
care of Robert I. Sperry.

1946
Miss Jacqueline Shaffer, of Bloomsburg, and Charles W.
Creasy, Jr., of Catawissa R. D. 1, were married Saturday, June
The
19, in the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge.
couple was united in marriage by the Rev. John Robbins Hart,
rector of the chapel. Mrs. Creasy is a teacher in the Bloomsburg schools.
Wanda Kehler is teaching in Butler Township. During the
summer she worked as a secretary with the Sun^Oil Company in
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Gradyville, Pa.

Henry

who has been teaching in
now a member of the faculty

Gatski, of Bloomsburg,

the Scot Township High School,
of the Danville High School.

is

“It felt pretty good to get back,” Mark Collins Wanich, of
Light Street, home from two years’ abroad, stated after his return. “That 3,000 miles that lies between you and security
if anything
goes
well, its good to know you can walk home
wrong.”
.

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.

Mr. Wanich returned in August from England where, on
the last leg of his return journey across the European continent, he had witnessed part of the Olympic games. He had been
a member of the high school faculty at the Cairo School for Americans located at Maabi, about fifteen minutes from Cairo,
Egypt. During his overseas teaching assignment, he had visited
twelve different nations.
border patrol in Switzerland had
permitted him to step on German territory briefly to add to the

A

total.

Returning from Egypt with Wanich was Barret Weeks, a
seventeen-year-old former student at the school at which the
Light Street man taught. Weeks, the son of a U. S. War Department employe presently stationed in Egypt, will enter the University of Pennsylvania this fall. The youth was born in Paris,
France, and spent most of his early life in Italy.
Concerning the economic situation, Mr. Wanich said that
living was expensive over there.
Americans are more fortunately situated, however, “because the dollar is God” and has a
high exchange value.
Little Russian influence has been felt in Egypt although
the native at times remark “Why not let the Russians come in
no one else does anything for us.” But the remarks, Wanich
believes, are spoken purely in the spirit of jest.
Concerning the State of Israel, Wanich reports that newspaper accounts of the situation emphasize the excitement. The
Egyptians do not favor the state, but rioting reports are exaggerated. At the time that President Truman reconized the
state of Israel, the American University in Cairo, was a secondary target for a few stones. As a result, the University, with
which Wanich’s school was affiliated, closed for a day. “They
were really throwing at a building across the street,” Wanich
believes.

A graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Mr.
Wanich completed his education here the Summer of 1946. On
August 25, the same year, he left for New York, and two days
he sailed for Naples on the first leg of the journey to Cairo.
During vacation periods and other brief periods, he visited
many countries. One summer he was employed as a machinist

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England. His tours included a visit to Palestine during the
Christmas season, and a plane trip with students to Luxor on a

in

o the tombs of the old kings of Egypt before Christ.
The climate is wonderful, he reports, although during the
summer the mercury rises to 115 degrees in the shade. Rain
occurs perhaps four or five times a year, Wanich confirmed.
A few Egyptian students were members of Wanich’s classes.
The Light Street man instructed in science, mathematics
and physical education of the secondary curriculum of the
school.

1947
Miss Frances C. Mylet, of Sugarloaf, and Anthony Kopuschinsky, of Harwood, were married Saturday, July 31, at the
Holy Trinity Slovak Church in Hazleton. The bride is a graduate of the Rock Glen High School and of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. She had been teaching in Lewistown. Mr.
Kopuschinsky attended the Hazle Township High School, and
is employed by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company in
Hazleton. During the war, he served fo rtwo years in the Pacific Area with the Army.
Miss Eltheda M. Klingaman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Klingaman, of Shumans, became the bride of Robert L. Smith,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith, Troy, in an impressive ceremony performed by the Rev. Mr. Rhody in St. Peter’s Lutheran
Church Saturday evening, June 12. The bride was given in marriage by her father.
The bride is a graduate of the Beaver Township High
School, 1943, and Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1947.
She served last year as teacher of mathematics and science in
the Catawissa Junior High School. The groom spent four years
in the Navy, during World War II, being stationed in the Pacific
and is now employed by Remington Rand in Elmira, N. Y.
Miss Harriet Rhodes, of Bloomsburg, and James W. Hantin St.
jis, of Berwick, were married Saturday, September
25,
Matthews Lutheran Church in Bloomsburg. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of the church.
Mrs. Hantjis is a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg High
School, and Mr. Hantjis is a senior at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

1948

Donald Rishe, of Bloomsburg, is a teacher of commercial
subjects in the Scott Township High Sphoool. Mr. Rishe who
was graduated at the end of the first semester, taught during
the second semester at Dalmatia.
In a lovely ceremony at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, of
town. Miss Jean Richard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H.
Richard, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of John Zagoudis, son
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Church, Danville. The ceremony was performed by the pastor,
the Rev. Ernest Andrews. Mr. Barnhart is employed asa linotype operator on the Danville Morning News.
Miss Betty June Collins, of Berwick, and J. Gilbert Henrie,
Jr., of Grovania, were married Saturday, June 19, in the Bower
Memorial EUB Church in Berwick. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Adam C. Ruth, pastor of the church. The bride
is a graduate of the East Stroudsburg State Teachers College,
and received her Master’s degree at Columbia University. She
served last year as director of health and physical education at
Frances Shimer College, at Mount Carroll, Illinois. Mr. Henrie
served three and a half years in the Army Air Force.
Miss Mary Gertrude Severn and Francis X. Brennan, both
of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 26, at St .Columba’s Catholic Church. The Very Reverend William J. Burke officiated at the double ring ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Brennan are
living in Chicago, where the former is a student in journalism
at Northwestern University.
Miss Ethel A. Benninger, of St. Johns, and Albert C. Zimmerman, Jr., of Hazleton, were married Saturday, August 14, in
The bride was graduSt. John’s Reformed Church, St. Johns.
of Mr .and Mrs. Peter Zagoudis, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The double
ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of the church, at 2:30 o’clock Saturday, June 12.
The bridegroom served three and one-half years in the
Navy, having been stationed in the South Pacific and as a member of the V-12 program, later attended Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. He is a graduate of Pennsylvaia State College and is employed as a junior engineer with the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Co., in Akron.
Miss Joyce Gass, of Danville, and Howard Barnhart, Jr., of
Sidler Hill, were married Saturday, July 24, at the Shiloh Evangelical and Reformed Church. The bride is teaching in the Sunbury schools, and the groom is employed as a linotype operator
on the staff of the Danville Morning News.
Harry G. John, Jr., of East Second street, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry G. John, Sr., of Main township, has accepted a position with the Farmers National Bank of Bloomsburg.
Miss Martha Hathaway has accepted a teaching position in
Carlisle.

Miss Fern Shellenberger and Robert C. Baker, Jr., both of
Bloomsburg, were married Friday, August 20, in the First BapThe ceremony was performed by
tist Church of Bloomsburg.
the Rev. Malcolm C. Hunsicker, pastor of the church. Mr. Baker is a student at Bucknell University.
Miss Joyce Gass and Howard Barnhart, Jr., both of Danville, were married Saturday, July 24, in the Shiloh Reformed
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ated from the Hazleton High School, and of the Allentown
School of Nursing. She is a member of the nursing staff at the
Berwick Hospital. Mr. Zimmerman served in World War II,
and at present is employed as display and decorating manager
at the Sears Roebuck store in Bloomsburg.
Miss Jean Licthenwalner, of Orangeville, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. H. A. Lichtenwalner, has accepted a position with the
Cairo School for Americans, affiliated with the American University, at Maabi, Egypt.
Miss Lichtenwalner sailed from New York aboard an Egyptian steamer on September 3, for Naples, Italy. From there she
will travel by boat to Alexandria.
A graduate of Bucknell University, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree. Miss Litchenwalner received
her elementary teaching certificate at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College last January. Her appointment with the Egyptian school was received through the local college placement
service.

She will be assigned to elementary instruction at the Cairo
school with which she has a three-year contract. Students of
the system are Americans and the children of government ofLocated at
ficials, air line, oil company, and other personnel.
Maabi, the school is about fiften minutes drive from Cairo.

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