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1949

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Mid-Year Commencement
“We must control atomic energy with a higher power than
physical force,” Dr. Donald Hatch Andrews, noted Johns Hopkins University scientist, told the mid-year graduating class of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in Commencement exercises held Thursday, January 13, in the Carver Auditorium.
Dr. Andrews, chairman of the Chemistry Department at Johns
Hopkins and director of the Cryogenry Laboratory there, and
also a member of a research group aided by the Atomic Scientists Emergency Fund, spoke on the subject, “Atomic Energy
and the Faith of a Scientist.”
During the exercises, which wer well attended, President
Harvey A. Andruss awarded degrees
a cV seniors, one of the largest January bacc
ifeate classes in the
recent history of the institution. Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean
of Instruction, presented the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education.
In introducing his subject, Dr. Andrews indicated that the
present generation holds more physical power than any other
generation preceding it. He said that scientists estimate this
at more than a billion horsepower, thousands more than any
other previous generation has possessed. “What are we going
to do with this power?” he asked.
One solution, he suggested, is to use it in order to turn the
world into a wonderful place where the “good life” can be experienced, while another possibility is to use it destructively
and force civilization into a war that would destroy it.
Dr. Andrews continued by stating that if atomic power is
added to this enormous physical power and directed towards destruction, it could well mean the end of everything. He asked
what the chances were of directing it towards good or worthwhile ends.
He
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said that man had tried to control the power at his finby the “balance of power theory” and adjust matters

by balancing forces against each other.

This attempt, he

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Vol. 50, No. 1

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March, 1940

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
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.

Colleye, Bloomsburg, Pa.

H. F.
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Berlanda, Bloomsburg; Robert J. Blew, Mahanoy City; Leo C.
Carter, Throop; Verna G. Cope, Berwick; Alfred G. Davis, Dallas; William R. Deebel, Shenandoah; Nancy M. Fisk, Danville;
Ray C. Fry, Danville; Francis A. Hantz, Duryea; Theodore I.
Harwood, Bloomsburg; Richard C. Hess, Bloomsburg; Irma C.
Kapp, Northumberland; Ernest Kastelic, Wilkes-Barre; Matthew J. Maley, Pottsville; James E. Marion, Harrisburg; Barbara R. McNinch, Bloomsburg; Robert T. Millard, Spring City;
Charles K. Moore, Millville; Josephine E. Padula, Easton; Peter
Parnell, Hazleton; Lawrence V. Pekala, Fern
Glen;
George
Remetz, Swoyerville; Stanley Semic, Steelton; Paul Slipetz,
Swoyerville; Nancy M. Snyder, Stillwater; Leo J. Speicher,
Bloomsburg; Merrill W. Troutman, Bloomsburg; Carson L.
Whitesell, Hunlock Creek; Elisabeth Anne Wright, Bloomsburg;

William Mooney, Wilkes-Barre.
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A program of unusual musical balance and beauty was presented at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Tuesday, November 23, by Charles Latterner, gifted young American tenor.
Mr. Latterner offered a versatile program which not only tested
the fine range of his voice, but revealed a rare smoothness and
sweetness and depth of feeling which seemed to make the composer and artist, one in thought and expression. Robert
Sheffer, well-known Watsontown pianist and choral director,
was the accompanist throughout the program,
dicated, was hopeless. Another possibility is to control this vast
power by using physical force and control it by using a power
equal to or greater than it. This, also, is not possible, and there
is no hope for the next fifty years unless we use a higher power
a moral force to achieve the things we think most desirable.
The faculty in academic costumes and the graduating class
entered the auditorium in a colorful processional. The invocation was pronounced by Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff. President Harvey A. Andruss introduced the speaker and indicated
that Dr. Andrews was now working with the atomic problem in
company of other scientists aided by a fund, of which Dr. Albert
Einstein is chairman.
Following Dr. Andrews’ address, Ralph Wire, Harrisburg,
sang “The Lord’s Prayer” by Malotte. He was accompanied at
the piano by Miss Delphine Buss, Watsontown.
Howard F. Fenstemaker presided at the console of the organ for the Processional and Recessional while Miss Harriet M.
Moore led the assembly in singing the Alma Mater at the close of
the exercises.
The list of those who received the Degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education follows: Joseph A. Adamonis, Pittson; Edwin M. Allegar, Stillwater; William Benson, Moosic; Mario L.

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Study Reveals Graduate Placement
A study of 1,790 of the 1,818 graduates of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, from the years 1931 to 1948, shows that
93 per cent have been employed 81 per cent teachers and 12
per cent in other occupations. These figures were released by
President Harvey A. Andruss, and are based on a study previously made by Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Placement Service, and his successor, Mr. Joseph R. Bailer, now Professor of
English in the American University, Cairo, Egypt.
The eighteen-period is divided into three studies, as follows:
Ten-Year Survey 1931- 1940; Five-Year Survey 1941 1945;

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Three-Year Survey 1946—1948.
During this period, salaries of graduates teaching have increased from $1,303 in 1941, to $1,876 in 1945, and to a present
salary average of $2,378 in 1948.
While secondary and business teachers earned $200 more
than elementary teachers, on the average, in 1941, and $150

more

in 1945, salaries are practically the same for
business and elementary graduates in 1948.

all

secondary,

Bloomsburg State Teachers College graduates are not going
to other States to teach in as large a number as in former years.
During the war years from 1941 to 1945, 25 per cent of the secondary and business graduates either taught outside of Pennsylvania or were employed outside of Pennsylvania, while less than
5 per cent of the elementary graduates went outside the borders
of the State.

With the attractiveness of salaries, 12 per cent of the elementary graduates in the last three years have gone outside
Pennsylvania to teach, while 23 per cent of the secondary graduates have taught elsewhere, and an additional 8 per cent are
employed outside Pennsylvania; 70 per cent of the business
graduates are now teaching in Pennsylvania schools, 8 per cent
are teaching elsewhere, and 15 per cent have other employment
than teaching in Pennsylvania.
Another important trend is noted in addition to the effect
of the s.ingle salary schedule on graduates in different curriculums, i.e., the salary paid men and women teachers had a difference of $200 in 1945 in the secondary and business curriculums. This has gone to $300 in the secondary curriculum in
1948. However, the number of cases are not large enough in the
elementary curriculum to justify a statement to consider it a
trend.

Based on the comparisons made in 1940, it is evident that
more Bloomsburg graduates are being employed at higher salaries than ever before.
The single salary schedule is causing
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gardless of whether they teach in the elementary or secondary
school. There are still differences existing between salaries paid
men teachers and salaries paid women teachers.
Elementary graduates sent the college more complete information, have a greater number of years of experience, and
stayed in Pennsylvania to teach or work in larger numbers than
did secondary and business graduates.
These trends will be used in counseling students in the
choice of curriculum at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
and will be given wider publicity through the educational journals to encourage other colleges to carry on similiar studies so
that comparisons may be made to determine whether the trend
existing at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is common
at all other colleges, or peculiar to this one institution.

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ALUMNI ORGANIZED IN WASHINGTON
The Alumni

living in the Washington, D. C., area, recently
organized, held a very successful dinner at the New Colonial
Hotel on Saturday evening, January 29.
The College faculty and Alumni Association were represented by President Plarvey A. Andruss, Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of the Alumni Association, and H. F. Fenstemaker, Editor
of the Alumni Quarterly. Charles Kelchner, ’40, served as toastmaster, and Lillian Zimmerman, ’15, welcomed the guests.
The officers of the group are Lillian Zimmerman, ’15, President; Charles Kelchner, ’40; Vice-President; Harriet Kocher,
’39, Secretary; Anna Rusk Fitzpatrick, ’16, Treasurer.
Alumni who would like to have their names on the mailing
list of this group are requested to communicate with the Secretary, Miss Harriet Kocher, New Colonial Hotel, 15th and
Streets, Washington, D. C.
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Miss Beverly Cole, Bloomsburg, a student of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, recently represented the College at the
Regional N. S. A. Officers Conference which was held at Swarthmore College.
The N.S.A., a national organization, accepts representatives
from all accredited colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. As
a result of this policy, the noteworthy association is able to
count among its members, delegates from many educational
centers of the state. In view of this setup, Bloomsburg is justly
honored in having one of its students holding a responsible position on the administrative staff of this affiliation. Miss Cole is
the secretary of the Pennsylvania branch of the N.S.A.

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Margaret A. Taylor, 159 State Street, New London, Connecticut, has informed the Quarterly of the death of Dr. J. C.
Taylor, which occurred July 14, 1948.
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Asks Teachers Aid Profession
Dr.

Thomas

P. North,

dean of instruction at the Blooms-

called upon teachers to make more
personal contributions to the profession in an address given
Tuesday, January 11, at Hotel Sheraton, Washington, D. C. The
plea was based on recommendations of delegates to the middle
Atlantic states district conference on teacher education and professional standards. The meetings were under the sponsorship
of the National Education Association.
The Bloomsburg educator was one of three speakers at the
round-up session of the two-day conference.
Dr. North said that it is essential that teachers show enthusiasm for their work and constantly strive to better their
ability if they are to gain many of the benefits sorely needed
by the profession.
Pie said that groups he represented were opposed to emergency certificates but considered them a necessary evil to aid
in overcoming the present shortage of tutors.
He suggested
that such practices be kept at a minimum by adequate salaries
and better working conditions.
The college dean also recommended refresher courses for
persons reentering the teaching field and the need for administrators to consider reassigning qualified persons from the secondary to elementary fields without demotion as a means of alleviating the critical shortage in the grade schools.
Speaking at the general assembly of the Pennsylvania State
Education Association at Harrisburg December 28, Dr. North declared that the days when high school graduates without professional preparation can qualify for teaching in the elementary
schools of the state may return in Pennsylvania. He warned
of the critical shortage of qualified elementary teachers.
Dr. North, chairman of the State Commission on Teacher
Education and Professional Standards, was one of the principal
speakers at the assembly. About 2,500 educators packed the
auditorium in the second day of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association’s annual convention.
In speaking of the work of the commission, Dr. North emphasized the critical shortage of elementary teachers in Pennsylvania, and the seriousness of the situation.
“It means,” he
said, “that many school districts in Pennsylvania will be forced
to employ teachers with emergency certificates.”
Dr. North also warned the educators of “the backwardness
of the situation as it reflects the days prior to Superintendent
Finnegan’s administration, when high school graduates without
professional preparation could qualify for teaching in the elementary schools of the state.”

burg State Teachers College,

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Andruss Awarded Doctorate
The Graduate School of Pennsylvania State College conferred the Degree of Doctor of Education on President Harvey
A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, on January 31, 1949.
Doctor Andruss came to the Indiana (Pa.) State Teachers
College in 1928 from Northwestern University School of Commerce, Chicago, 111., where he had been an instructor for several years.
In 1930 he organized, and became the Director of
the Department of Business Education of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
After having been Dean of Instruction for
two years, he became President of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1939, suceeding Dr. Francis B. Haas, who was appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Over the period of the last two decades, Doctor Andruss
has taught or lectured at the following Colleges and Universities: University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma A. and M. College,
New York University, and Pennsylvania State College.
In 1945 he was given a leave of absence to aid in the organization of the First

American

Army

University,

located

at

Shrivenham, Berkshire, England.
Doctor Andruss holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts, University of Oklahoma, and Master of Business Administration,
Northwestern University. He also was awarded the certificate
in Pubkc and Private Business at the University of Oklahoma
and was Research Reader at the Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford, England. His writing, chiefly in the fields of Business
Education, include two Workbooks and over fifty magazine
articles, monographs, and Yearbook contributions.

DON’T

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Alumni Day
Saturday,

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Scholarships

Awarded

Awards were granted Tuesday, December 14, to four students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at special exercises held during the weekly college assembly in Carver Auditorium. Dr. Kimber C. Kuster. chairman of the Faculty Scholarship and Awards Commitee
presented the students with
checks totaling $250, and President Harvey A. Andruss congratulated the winners who were announced by Dr. Kuster.
Miss Lillian Milkvy, daughter of John Milkvy, Lehigh street,
Palmerton, was presented the Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship of $100. Miss Milkvy, who is a sophomore in the Business
Education department, has been active in campus activities and
husband an excellent scholastic record.
Three awards of $50 each were presented by the General
Alumni Association of the College. These awards were given
to Miss Barbara Ann Frederick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd
A. Frederick, Green Street, Mifflinburg; Miss Ruth Shupp,
daughter of Mrs. Mona A. Shupp, Cameron Street, Plymouth,
and John Klotsko, son of Mrs. Charlotte Klotsko, Water Street,
Philadelphia.

Miss Frederick is a sophomore in the Department of Business Education, while Miss Shupp is enrolled as a junior in the
field of Secondary Education.
All the awards were made on the basis of scholastic attainment, character, personality, campus activities and professional
promise.
A faculty committee made the selections. Prior to the presentation of the Bruce Albert Scholarship to Miss Milkvy, Howard F. Fenstemaker, Sr., told of the work and contribution of the
late alumni head in quadrupling the principal of the Alumni
Loan Fund. The three Alumni awards were authorized by the
governing board of the Alumni Asociation from interest that
has accrued from the fund, while the Bruce Albert Scholarship
is an alumni grant memorializing the person who developed the
alumni organization to its present status.
Thaddeus Swigonski, Nanticoke, president of the Community Government Association, presided over brief devotional exercises, while President Harvey A. Andruss spoke briefly after
the award winners had been presented to the college audience.
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Miss Ethel A. Ranson, of the B.S.T.C. faculty, attended a
conference of the National Council of Mathematics Teachers
held on the campus of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
during the Christmas vacation. Representatives were present
from thirty-two states and Canada.
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Noelting Hall Renovated
One of the oldest buildings on the campus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Noetling Hall, is now ready for occupancy, following the completion of an extensive program of
remodeling and renovation. A sum of $50,000 was spent to complete the work of transforming the old brick structure at the
west end of Waller Hall into a well-appointed and modern classroom building.
The first floor

two large classday women’s lounge
Ceilings of all the rooms

of the building contains

rooms, the speech and psychology

clinics,

and kitchen, and two new lavatories.
have been entirely reconstructed and covered with acoustic tile,
while the room walls and corridors have been replastered and

painted in pastel colors. Inlaid linoleum with a two-tone tile
pattern forms a most attractive floor covering.
Visitors to the day women’s lounge have been impressed
with the improvements made, and a fully-equipped kitchen, complete with built-in cupboards, sink, refrigerator, and electric
range, will provide much-needed accommodations. The lounge
is most atractively finished in grey and the woodwork is of a
darker shade of grey.
On the second floor is the new visual aids laboratory, which
will house the College Film Library, slide-making equipment and
projectors used in visual education, a small classroom, six facuty offices, a day men’s lounge and two lavatories.
The day men’s lounge occupies the large room once used for
bookeeping classes, but remodeling and redecorating has transformed the area into attractive and comfortable quarters for
men students who commute to school daily. New furniture has
been ordered and will be placed in the lounge as soon as possible.
Older graduates will remember this as Prof. Bakeless’ room.
Like the first floor, the quarters on the second floor have
been completely refinished and have new ceilings of acoustic
and newly-painted
tile, inlaid floor covering, new plastering
walls and woodwork.
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In a double ring ceremony performed recently at Laneytown, Md., Edith Nuss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nuss,
became the bride of Thomas Beyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Beyer, of Danville. The Rev. Arthur W. Garvin, pastor of the
Evangelical Church, performed the ceremony at the parsonage.
Mrs. Beyer was a student at Bloomsburg High School, and
the groom is a graduate of Danville High School. He served
with the Navy during World War II and is now a senior at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He is employed part-time
at W. T. Grant and Co.
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Library Staff

Miss Catherine Zealberg, of Mahanoy City, Pa., has taken
up her duties as librarian. Miss Zealberg received her B.S. from
Kutztown S.T.C. and her Masters Degree from the George Peabody College for Teachers. Miss Zealberg is a member of Kappa
Delta Pi, the A.A.U.W., and a number of other professional organizations. Last year Miss Zealberg taught library science at
Western Illinois State College, Macomb, 111. She also compiled
statistics for Teachers College Libraries which appeared in the
July issue of “College and Research Libraries.” In addition to
her duties as librarian, Miss Zealberg is acting as sponsor of the
Poetry Club, is teaching a class in Children’s Literature, and assisting Dr. Kehr and Miss Waldron as assistant dean.
The appointment of Miss Mathilda G. Muyskens, Red Bank,
N. J., as assistant librarian of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has been announced by President Harvey A. Andruss.
Miss Muyskens comes to Bloomsburg from Coatesville, where
she has been serving as librarian of the Scott Senior High
School.

The new library assistant is a graduate of the Iowa State
University where she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of
Library Science, Columbia University.
Miss Muyskens has had thirteen years of experience in
public school library work, serving in various capacities in a
number of school systems throughout the country, including
high schools at Strom Lake, Iowa; Oyster Bay, N. Y., and McGehe, Arkansas. Her background also includes twelve years
of service in various public and institutional libraries, including
county libraries in Ohio and the Veterans’ Hospital at Coatesville.

The appointment of Miss Muyskens fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Miss Dorothy Gilmore, whose marriage to J. H. Lovett took place during the past summer. Mrs.
Robert B. Redman assisted Miss Katherine Zealberg, College librarian, during the first semester.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI
De Voe, a member of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College faculty, was elected president of the Columbia
County Branch of the Teachers College at a dinner meeting held
at the College on Alumni Day. He succeeds Arthur C. Morgan,
of Berwick, who had held that office for the past seven years.
Other officers named were Donald Rabb, Benton, vice president; Edward Sharretts, Berwick, secretary; and Paul L. BrunEdward

T.

Stetter, Catawissa, treasurer.

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Saucered and Blowed
ELNA

H.

NELSON

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Bloomsburg Alumni through the length and breadth of our
land have an important stake in the affairs and welfare of the
College. In the past this fine old school has produced many of
the nation’s leading citizens, Bakeless, the author; Edwards, the
General; Dennis, the Vocational Leader; Griffiths, the Congressman; Waller, the Educator; Oman, the Admiral; Litwhiler, the
major league ball player; Kilmer, the Engineer, and many,
many others, representing all fields of endeavor.
Years ago Henry W. Grady said
tion”

in the “Atlantic Constitu-

:

“The man who kindles the fire on the hearthstone
of an honest and righteous home burns the best
incense to liberty.”

To paraphrase we might say:
“The Alumnus who kindles the fire on the hearthstone of his beloved Alma Mater burns the best incense to increased usefulness for himself and his
school.”

The product on the hill is summed up in one word “Alumni.”
is the month when it might be well for us to ponder carefully the words of Lincoln:
“God bless my mother. All that I am or ever hope
to be I owe to her.”
Let’s pay homage next May 21st.
Your active interest,
This

your material

help,

your presence

will

be

much

appreciated.

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Thfe Oscar Hugh Bakeless Chapter of the Future Teachers
held a formal ceremony for the first time since 1946 in Navy
Hall Auditorium.

The

officers of the organization, Margaret Suchy, Forest
chairman of the affair, and Mr. Richard Hallisy stood
around an altar on which was placed a bouquet of yellow and
white flowers. Candle light provided an appropriate atmosphere.
Miss Suchy presented the purposes of the F.T.A., and Mr.
Hallisy, sponsor of the organization, led the group in repeating
the pledge and introduced the speaker, Mr. Clair Moser, of the
Pennsylvania State Education Association. Mr. Moser’s topic
City,

was “Professional

Responsibilities of Teachers.”
Betty Bolig. Richfield, was chairman of the
committee.
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College Calendar
Easter Recess Begins, 12:00
Easter Recess Ends, 8:00

May Day
Senior Assembly and Ivy

ALUMNI DAY
Baccalaureate Sermon

Commencement

Day

April 7
April 20
May 11
May 19

May
May
May

21
22
23

Pre-Session Begins
June 6
Pre-Session Ends
June 24
Regular Summer Session Begins
June 27
Regular Summer Session Ends
August 5
Post Session Begins
August 8
Post Session Ends
August 26
First Semester 1949-1950
Registration for Freshmen
Sept. 12
Registration for Upperclassmen
Sept. 13
Classes Begin
Sept. 14
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An outstanding program of Christmas music was presented
by the Women’s Chorus and the Men’s Glee Club of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College as a feature of the annual Christmas Assembly of the College held in the Carver Auditorium.
Miss Harriet M. Moore, director of the two large choral groups,
arranged the program.
The Women’s Chorus, an organization of one hundred
voices, presented two groups of numbers under the direction of
Miss Moore. In the first group were “Within the City,” “Sleep,
Holy Babe,” and “We Adore Thee, Lord Jesus.” A Ukranian
Carol, the familiar “Carol of the Bells,” and “Now Let the
Heavens Sing” were the final selections sung by the large chorus
group.
Making their first appearance of the year, the sixty-five
members of the Men’s Glee Club made an impression upon their
listeners when they presented Beethoven’s “Worship God in Nature,” ’“Silent Night,” “A-Rockin’ All Night,”
and Reading’s
“Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful.” Baritone soloist for the Glee Club,
William Trego, Milton, also sang “O, Holy Night,” by Adam. His
accompanist was John Reitmeyer, Milton.
Accompanists for the Women’s Chorus were Margaret Rose
Roberts, Revloc; Anita Webb, Bloomsburg,, and Gloria Dawn
Long, Briar Creek. Mrs. June Keller Jacobs, Bloomsburg, was
the accompanist for the Men’s Glee Club.
President Harvey A. Andruss presided over brief devotional
exercises and read the Christmas story as found in the second
chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke. Howard F. Fenstemaker presided at the console of the organ during the exercises.
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Wayne Von Stetten, Columbia, editor of the 1949 Obiter,
yearbook of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College recently announced his staff for the 1949 edition.
Kay Chapin, Berwick, is assosciate editor, and Frank Luchnick, Mt. Carmel, is the business manager. Others appointed to
key positions are: Muriel Marks, Reading, copy editor; Grace
Smith, Mt. Carmel, senior editor; Nancy Swartz, Forty Fort, art
editor; Curt Miller, Berwick, sports editor; Robert Walther, Columbia, photography editor; James Boyle, Shamokin, and Robert Williams, Shamokin, advertising managers;
and Joseph
Sopko. Carbondale, staff secretary.
The editorial staff includes: Joseph Putera, Wilkes-Barre;

Charles Moore, J. Eddinger, Barbara Johnson, Berwick; and
Paul Slobozien, Johnstown. On the business staff are: Edward
Sheehy, Bloomsburg; John Czerniakowski, Plains; Barbara
Sherman, Benton; Jean Stewart, Philadelphia; William Miller,
Plymouth; Glenn Von Stetten, Columbia; Joan McDonald, Ringtown, and William Homisak, Forest City. Ruth Elder is staff
typist, and George Kearney, Shamokin, is a member of the art
staff.

The

publication, of

the faculty advisers,

ruary

which Mr. Devoe and Mr. Wilson are
to go to press about Feb-

was scheduled

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Margaret Daum, glamorous star of “Album

of Familiar
broadcast over the N. B. C. Network every Sunday night, appeared in a joint song recital with Stephen Kennedy, young American baritone, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Friday night, January 7. Miss Daum and Mr. Kennedy are two of the nation’s top-flight recitalists, and their appearance in Bloomsburg was welcomed by music lovers of Central Pennsylvania.
The recital was a presentation of the College’s 1949 Artist Course series.
Miss Daum is one of that small, select group of presentday singing artists who has attained stardom in every field of
professional music. After more than four years on the “Album
of Familiar Music,” Miss Daum’s radio voice is literally known
to everyone in America. Critics have been lavish in their praise
of her as a grand opera, light opera, and concert star.
Stephen Kennedy’s rich baritone voice has also won universal acclaim from critics and concert-goers, and his versatile
programs have been the hit of the concert stage. The music
critic of the New York Herald Tribune said of him: “Mr. Kennedy is a singer of uncommon sensibility, whose voice and lyric
style were most advantageously heard in the German lieder and
in
‘Chansons Villageoises’.”

Music,” which

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B.S.T.C. Athlete

Tom Donan, brilliant tackle and captain of the undefeated
and untied Bloomsburg Huskies, has brought outstanding recognition to his team by making a clean sweep of post season honors.
Donan has been voted by coaches and writers to a first
string tackle post on the Associated Press All-Pennsylvania
team, marking the first time a Bloomsburg gridder has been so
honored in at least the modern history of the sport here.
Earlier Tom received the highest number of votes cast in
the All-Teachers College poll and he was also given honorable
mention in the AP’s All-Eastern team, being listed among the
ten outstanding tackles among all eastern colleges.
Coach Bob Redman says Donan, an honor student, “would
be a star player on any team in the country.”
Other coaches and writers apparently share Redman’s
opinion. The Bloomsburg star polled more votes for state honors than previously more publicized stars as Negley Norton, of
Penn State, and Mike Bolkovac, of Pitt, who engineered the upset of Penn State.
On the third team, ranking as one of the six best ends in
state competition was Elmer Kreiser, stalwart Husky terminal.
Donan and Kreiser are both from Columbia and both were mentioned on the all-state selections a year ago.
Joe Apichella, flashy Hazleton back, and Frank Luchnick,
guard from Mt. Carmel, drew honorable mention in the balloting
as the result of their outstanding play on the Husky eleven.
Donan and Luchnick are seniors but Apichella and Kreiser
will help Redman form a nucleus for his 1949 outfit.
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Mrs. Edna Patton, of Riverside, died Friday, October 28, at
her home, 202 Gearhart Street, after an illness of five years, in
which she suffered several strokes. She died without knowing
that her youngest son, Allen, had been killed in Germany in
1945.
She was born in Roaring Creek, the daughter of the late
Clarence and Mary Cleaver, on December 29, 1883. She was
graduated from the Catawissa High School and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and taught school in Catawissa and Riverside.

She was married to Bruce McCracken in 1925 and, following his death, she married Charles Patton in 1931. He died in
1936. She was a member of St. Peters M. E. Church and taught
the Women’s Class for twenty years. She was a member of the
Order of Eastern Star, Daughters of America and the American
Legion Auxiliary.
She is survived by two sons, Ralph and Bruce McCracken,
and a brother, Leon Cleaver, of Reading.
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board of Directors
H. Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

E.

Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

President
Vice-President
Secretary

Treasurer

Edward

F.

Schuyler

Smith

H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Huber

1896
P. Gable, of Hamburg, died September 12, of a heart
attack.
Since his retirement as outside superintendent of the
Brookside Colliery, Tower City, he had been operating a service
station in Hamburg. He is survived by one daughter, Tina (Mrs.
Robert Jacks), of the class of 1924, who lives in Bethlehem. His
daughter, Mae (Mrs. William Everson), of the class of 1926,

Harry

died three years ago.

1897
Mrs. Minnie Prutzman Robinson, of Allentown, died Thursday, August 25, at the Allentown Hospital. She was a member
of the Asbury Methodist Church, and for many years had been
a director of the Lehigh County Humane Society. She is survived by her husband, two daughters and one grandson.

1903
Elizabeth Hosking (Mrs. C. R. Raup) of Port Arthur, Tex.,
died January 4, 1949, at her home after a lingering illness.
Surviving Mrs. Raup are her husband, a son, C. R. Raup,
Bradley McCoy, Port
Jr., Austin, Texas; one daughter, Mrs.
Arthur, Texas; two grandchildren, and two sisters.
Mrs. Raup was a former Scranton young woman and had
been a teacher in that vicinity for five years before her marriage.

Dr. Gideon L. Howell, 63, a graduate of Bloomsburg Normal School and a man prominently identified with the medical

Wyoming Valley for many years, died Thursday,
his Trucksville home.
at
13,
Dr. Howell had, after his graduation at Bloomsburg, taught
at Kingston Township and was the principal of the school there.
He became interested in medicine and went to University of
Pensylvania medical school, from which he was graduated in
1912, and later became a prominent physician.
profession in

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Surviving are his wife, the former Jessie Boyer; a son, WilTampa, Fla., a daughter, Mrs. Robert N. Davenport, of
Kunkletown, and a brother, Seth, of Shavertown.
liam, of

1909
Mrs. Alice G. Burnett lives in New Vernon, New Jersey.
Mrs. Burnett is now mourning the loss of her husband, who
passed away July 22, 1948.
1911
Dr. E. H. Nelson, of Bloomsburg, is serving this year as
Lieutenant-Governor of Kiwanis District No. 9. He is a former
president of the Bloomsburg Club.

1913

(From “The Passing Throng” column of The Morning
Press, December 10, 1948)
Our attention was directed to an article appearing in “The
Scroll,” publication of Phi Delta Theta, concerning a native of
Bloomsburg, Albert L. Demaree.
He was the son of W. L. Demaree, who many years ago conducted a lumber yard on West Fifth street, and has frequently
visited here, being the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutchison,
of Chestnut avenue.
Mr. Demaree was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal
School with the class of 1913 and taught one year at Grovania
before entering Dickinson College. Soon after World War I was
declared he enlisted in the Navy, and after the war returned to
civilian life and Dickinson for his degree.
After trying a hand
at business in New York, where he was an assistant purchasing
agent, he decided to return to the books and secured his masters
degree from Columbia University.

The story follows:
“Dartmouth College

ground for a
is proving the testing
course in the history of sea power which may later become standard for the many thousands of students in the 52 American
colleges with NROTC units.
“Back of it are Captain Roger E. Nelson, USN, Professor
of Naval Science and Tactics at Dartmouth, and Albert L. Demaree, Dickinson, ’23, Ph.D., Professor of History; and the course
Naval Science 101 (a), is now being given on an experimental
basis at Dartmouth with Captain Nelson and Professor Demaree
doing the bulk of the lecturing.
“The intellectual groundwork of the course was planned
in Washington recently when nine naval captains met to listen to
Captain Nelson expound his educational theory and to outline
a course which he believes to be ot only desirable but also necessary fo? all young men who are to receive commissions in the
Navy.
“In working out the details and the administration of the
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course, Captain Nelson availed himself freely of the academic
experience of Brother Demaree, who is author of a book called
‘Naval Orientation’ (1945) now used throughout the United
States at NROTC centers.
Professor Demaree busies himself
in his spare time revising and rewriting this book, which was
compiled under pressure during the war when he was stationed
in Washington with the rank of Commander.
He began revamping it last summer and is utilizing experts in the Navy for
special chapters. Part of his Christmas vacation he spent working on it in Washington, and he plans to do more on it there during his free week in April and devote next summer to it. By early
September it should be in press.
“Professor Demaree’s naval experience dates back to 1917
when he began serving as Ensign in the regular navy with four
years of duty on destroyers, fleet supply ships, and submarine
chasers. He also taught at the Naval Academy, in 1920 he was
on the Olympia, Dewey’s old flagship, which brought back the

Unknown

Soldier.

“In World War II Professor Demaree left Dartmouth to
enter the Navy as a lieutenant and rose to the rank of Commander with duty in Washington and on the USS Boxer on which
he served as training officer for six weeks to get both practical
and theoretical experience on which he could draw for his book.
When Japan surrendered, he was en route to Guam. After the
war the Chief of the Bureau awarded him a commendation for

and writings.
Professor
schedule,
at Dartmouth on a full
Demaree lectures twice a year at Columbia University to leaders of industry at civilian orientation groups sponsored by the
Navy.
“So useful has he proved that the Navy asked him last year
to return for two years’ further duty in connection with his research and writing, but owing to pressure of work in the Department of History, he declined.
his lectures

“Now back

“A Dickinson

College graduate, class of 1923, Professor
received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1940 after writing a dissertation on the American Agricultural Press, 18181860.”
From Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Demaree

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1915
Mrs. H. A. Post (Frances M. Zarr) died at her home in
Langhorne Manor August 18, 1948. Mrs. Post graduated at
Kingston High School in class of 1913, and had taken several
summer courses at Columbia and State College. She taught in
Forty Fort High School sixteen years, removing to Langhorne
in August, 1947.
She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Zarr, of
Bristol, two sons, Zarr A. and John M., of Washington, and two
brothers, George, of Hulmville, and Robert, of Ridley Park. She
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was much beloved by her

pupils

and many

friends.

Zimmerman, 1613 Harvard Steret, NW, Washingpresident of the Washington Branch of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association.
Lillian

ton,

D

.C., is

1916

Anna

Rusk (Mrs. Paul

J. Fitzpatrick), 4119 13th Place,
N. E., Washington, D. C., is treasurer of the Washington Branch
of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association.

F.

1923
Mrs. Isabel Snyder Kirkner, of Danville, died Wednesday,
December 21, at her home. After graduation, Mrs. Kirkner
taught for several years in Sunbury, and for the past fourteen
year's'taught in the Danville schools. She was a lifelong member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church and took an active part in
all of the activities of the congregation.
She had been organist,
soloist, and choir leader in the church until her illness forced her
to give up these duties. She was a Past Matron of Danville
Chapter 186, Order of Eastern Star, and in 1942 she was the fraternal correspondent of the Grand Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star in Pensylvania. In the latter office she did such a fine
piece of work that she was invited to give her report to the National Grand Chapter at Miami, Florida.
Mrs. Kirkner is survived by her husband, one son and one brother.
1924
Ruth Jenkins (Mrs. Merrill K. Boone) lives at 6902 Florian
N. Woods, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Boone have three
children.

1925

Marion Hale Trethaway
Forty Fort Pa.

lives at

1175

Wyoming

Avenue,

1931
Glenn Oman, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Oman, of East Third
street, manager of stores and traffic at International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, has been advanced to staff assistant to Vice President Lawrence T. Tice, Ralph E. Weeks, president, has announced.
Oman has been active in the Scranton Chamber of Commerce. He is a director, vice president of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and chairman of the junior committee on budget and
the senior committee on transportation.
The Bloomsburg native is a graduate of Bloomsburg High
School and Teachers College and has taken graduate work at
New York University. He joined the I. C. S. in June, 1937, and
has been manager of stores and traffic since April, 1940. Prior
to going to Scranton he was a teacher in the schools at Orangeville.

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The remans

of LI. Col. Woodrow W. Hummel, one of the
highest ranging officers in this section to make the Supreme
Sacrifice during World War II, arrived in Bloomsburg Tuesday,

November

1.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Hummel, of Rupert, Col.
Hummel was a resident of Bloomsburg prior to assignment on
active duty.

Among

his survivors are his

wife,

Mrs.

Helen

Krape Hummel, of Renovo, and a son, John Norman Hummel,
who was born after his father’s death. Other survivors include
two brothers, Edwin N., of town, and Earl F., of Rupert, and
two sisters, Mrs. Mary John, of Rupert, and Mrs. Alberta Harvey, of Sylvan Beach, N. Y.

The officer lost his life in action in Belgium on September
1944, within a month following his arrival in the Euopean
Theater of action. He was thirty-one years old at the time of
death.

9,

Weil

known

in

Bloomsburg and

vicinity,

he was a gradu-

ate of both the Bloomsburg High School and the Teachers College.
Prior to assignment to active duty, he had been employed
at the E. R. Beers Electric Company.
He was a member of the Reformed Church, the Washington
Lodge, F. & A. M. and the Caldwell Consistory, and the local
Camp, P. O. S. of A.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, November
the Rev. M. Edward Schnorr, Reformed pastor, officiating. There were no military rites, but veterans participated as
pall-bearers. Interment was made at New Rosemont Cemetery.
3,

w ith
r

1937
Virginia F. Cruikshank, of Sunbury, has been awarded first
prize of three hundred dollars in the 1948 Travel Contest of
“The Instructor.” Miss Cruikshank’s article appeared in the
February number of the magazine. The article, describing a
Canadian cruise, was entitled “Historic River Highways the
Miss Cruikshank is teacher
St. Lawrence and the Saguenay.”
Last
of Grade Five in the Fourth Ward School at Sunbury.
summer she received the Master of Arts degree from Bread Loaf
School of English at Middlebury College, Vermont.

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Jay Blaine Saltzer received the degree of Master of Arts in
Education at the commencement exercises held November 11,
1938, at The George Washington University, Washington, D. C.
Miss Beatrice Englehart, a teacher in the Third Street
School, Bloomsburg, was elected vice-president of the kindergarten-primary group of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, at the convention held in Harrisburg in December.
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1936

Bernard Young

member

of the faculty at Western I11L
nois State College, Macomb, Illinois.
His wife is the former
Frances Riggs, ’36, of Bloomsburg.
is

a

1939
Secretary of the Washington Branch of
the Bloomsburg Alumni Association. Miss Kocher is Secretary
of the New Colonial Hotel, 15th and
Streets.
Harriet Kocher

is

M

1940
Charles L. Kelchner is treasurer of the newly organized
Washington Branch of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association. His
address is 3501 Minnesota Avenue, S.E., Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Withey, of Emporia, Kansas, spent
the Christmas holiday season at their homes in New York City
and Drums, Pa. Mr. Withey is Director of Dramatics in the Kansas State Teachers College and Mr&. Withey is a teacher in the
schools in that city.
The latter was formerly Miss Gertrude
Wilson and is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers ColThey live in an apartment at 1005 Constitution.
lege.
1941
Marjorie Young (Mrs. Frank Broderick) lives near Philadelphia, where her husband is employed with the Crane Plumbing
Company. Her address is 508 Washington Avenue, Manoa

Havertown, Pa.
is now living in Bedford, Virginia,
a chemist in a large plant located in

Edith Benninger Balliet
R. D. 5. Her husband
that area.

is

1948
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wilson, of Drums, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Marion, to Conrad A. Balliet, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad A. Balliet, Sr., of Drums.
Miss Wilson, a graduate of Hazleton High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Class of 1948, is teaching
in the Allentown Public Schools.
Mr. Balliet, also a graduate of Hazleton High School, is attending the Hazleton Undergraduate Center of Pennsylvania State College. He served with the United States Occupation Forces in Germany.
1949
William S. Orner and Miss Adria Kathleen Wenner, both of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, January 1, at the St. James
Reformed Church, Bendertown. Mr. and Mrs. Orner are living
at 1227 West Market Street, Pottsville, where the former is in
charge of the engraving department of the Pottsville Journal.
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Address

Stanley
Wengert, Assistant Director of Pennsylvania
Teacher Certification, was guest speaker at a meeting of the
F.T.A. held in Navy Hall Auditorium, February 21.
In his address, “Opportunities in the Public Schools,” Mr.
Wengert stated that the already critical shortage of elementary
teachers is becoming increasingly more so. Many of the teachers now in that field are teaching only on emergency certificates, which are not issued if a permanently certified teacher
is available.
A lack of interest in the elementary field is evidenced by the fact that few students are studying in that
field.
Bloomsburg has only 19 Juniors in the elementary curriculum at present. Salaries for elementary teachers have been
raised to compare with those of the secondary field, however,
and it is hoped that this will create a wider interest in the ele-

mentary curriculum.
In the secondary field, Mr. Wengert reported that although
there are shortages in some subjects, there is no critical dearth
of teachers. English and social studies as subject fields nearly
reached the saturation point. Business Education subjects are
not far behind, although some teachers in those fields hold only

temporary certificates. The geography field is comparatively
wide open, and there are many opportunities for teachers for
There are
the mentally retarded, according to Mr. Wengert.
also numerous positions available for teachers in the vocational
guidance, psychology, deaf and blind, and speech correction
fields.

Over 5,000 emergency certificates have been issued in this
Every effort
state, with most of them in the elementary field.
will be made by the Department of Public Instruction to alleviate this siituation, according to Mr. Wengert. It may be inferred from this statement that graduates with degrees will be
given first choice at teaching positions in the State.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Vol. 50, No. 2

May, 1949

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

1941, at the
1879.

H. F.

FENSTEMAKER,

E. H.

NELSON,

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The 1949 Commencement
Harrison Wood, distinguished newspaper correspondent
and author, and the Rev. Henry I. Aulenbach, pastor of the St.
Andrew Reformed Church, Allentown, will be the speakers at
Commencement exercises of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College this month.

They will address members of the 1949 graduating class,
expected to be one of the largest classes in the history of the
institution.

The Rev. Mr. Aulenbach, pastor of the Allentown Church
is a former pastor of the First Reformed Church,

since 1931,

Berwick.

He

will

deliver the Baccalaureate

Carver Auditorium on Sunday afternoon,

May

address

in

the

22.

A graduate of the Franklin and Marshall College, the Reverend Aulenbach has had an outstanding career in the Christian ministry. In 1948 he was awarded the Franklin and Marshall College Alumni Medal for meritorious service to his Alma
Mater. He is also active in Kiwanis Club affairs, having served
as president of the Allentown Club and District Governor of the
Pennsylvania District of Kiwanis. At the present time he is an
accredited representative of Kiwanis International.
The Rev. Aulenbach has been president

of various minis-

groups during his pastorate at Allentown. In 1935 he
headed the Minister’s League at Allentown, while in 1937 and
1938 he was named to the presidency of the Allentown Community Religious Leadership Training School and taught classes
terial

Muhlenburg College. He later accepted the position of president of the Minister’s League of Lehigh county.
at

During his ministry, the Rev. Aulenbach served as pastor
of the First Reformed Church, Berwick, from 1927 to 1931. He
is well known in the Columbia county area.
Mr.

Wood

will deliver the

Commencement address on May

American Broadcasting Company’s ace news
analysts and commentators, he will speak on the subject “This
Changing World.”
23.

One

of the

A correpondent for over thirty years with great American newspapers and various international press services, Wood
will project his address against the background of his long experience and intimate contacts in European and Asiatic affairs.
He is the author of “India Tomorrow,” “The Orient Looks
Ahead,” and “China Tomorrow.”
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Secondary Conference
The annual Secondary Education Conference was held at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Saturday, March 26,
and attracted several hundred high school teachers and principals from the College service area.
Eleven well-known area teachers, administrators and school
men participated in the discussion group meetings. On the panel
which discussed, “What Are The Urgent Needs of Adolescents?”
were Dr. J. L. Hackenburg, superintendent of schools, Shamokin; Mrs. Sarah S. Free, Danville High School, and Mrs. D. Walter Seitz, school board member, Williamsport.
Participants in
the discussion “What are the Implications of Rapid Technological Advanice for the Secondary School Program?” were Ivan
G. Stahman, chief, Plighway Safety Education, Department of
Public Instruction, Harrisburg; George Shanno, assistant principal, Hazleton High School, and Miss Jennie
Birth,
Berwick
High School. Those who took part in the discussion “What
Opportunities Can Be Provided for Democratic Action in the
Secondary Classroom?” were Robert D. Smink, principal, Curtin
Junior High School, Williamsport, and Miss Maree Pensyl,
Bloomsburg High School. The leaders for the panel group
which discussed “What are Elective Means of Evaluating AdoDiehl,
superintendent,
lescent Development?” were Fred W.
Montour County Schools; Miss Margaret C. Fairchild, social
studies, Milton Junior High School, and Gerald Hartman, supervising principal, Catawissa.
The discussion groups followed a general meeting of the
conference in the Carver Auditorium. During the general session Dr. Ralph R. Fields, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, spoke on “Organizing the Secondary
Curriculum for Meeting Pupil Needs,” and Mr. Stewart C. Husdiscussed
lander, Counselor-Teacher, University of Michigan,
“Organizing Guidance Service to Meet Pupil Needs.”
o
Mrs. Zarina Soule Kukde, traveling secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Christian Missions, Inc., was a
recent guest of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Born in Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India, and daughter
of a Methodist minister, Mrs. Kukde received her education in
the Isabella Thoburn College at Lucknow, and at Lady Irwin
Several years ago, she came to
College, New Delhi, India.
Michigan State College in East Lansing, where she received her
M.

S. in

Mrs.

Home

in

the Alumni Room,

their inquiries about her native land
of the church work which is being done there.

answering

them

Economics.

Kukde met students informally
all

and

telling

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Coach Redman Honored
Mr. R. B. Redman, coach of BSTC’s undefeated and untied
football team, received a notable tribute recently when he was
named “Coach of the Year’’ by the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
This organization, one of the largest national social groups
the United States today, has more than 100 chapters scattered through the American college world.
in

The news of the selection reached Bloomsburg on Sunday,
6, by a telegram which was sent by Dr. John Davis,

February
Jr.,

fraternity secretary.

The record of the BSTC Huskies’ football team, with which
campus students are well acquainted, was the only perfect one
among colleges in this state. The Huskies now boast a 12 game
streak that extends back into 1947.

Mr. Redman was initiated into the fraternity during his
undergraduate days at Swarthmore College. He graduated from
that institution in 1930.

The mentor began coaching at the Sayre (Pa.) High
School, where he produced four loop championship teams in six
Moving to Binghamton, N. Y., he coached the North
years.
Senior High School there until 1942.
After serving as an administration officer in the Navy for
four years during World War II, he joined the faculty of the
Triple Cities College for the 1947 term, where he directed the
entire athletic program, consisting of four sports.
Mr. Redman began teaching at BSTC in the Summer of
1947, and took over his duties in the Fall of the same year.
Bill Glassford, successful coach at New Hampshire, won
the same award last year.
o

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the State Teachers
Colleg at Bloomsburg, addressed a convocation held Thursday,
February 10, at Triple Cities College, a Branch of Syracuse
University, Endicott, New York, on the subject of “What Business Men Expect of College Graduates.” This convocation was
a part of Business Administration Day, which was followed by
a Business Show in the afternoon and a dance in the evening.
These arrangements were under the direction of Professor
Bertram Broder, Chairman of the Department of Business Administration, who was a member of the Accounting Department
located at
in the Shrivenham American (Army) University,
was
Andruss
Doctor
which
of
England,
Shrivenham, Berkshire,
1944.
during
head
the
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"Saucered and Blowed"
E. H.

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As I start writing this page a quick glance at the account
book shows that 98 Alumni have sent $167.00 in response to
the “Husky” letter mailed out a few days ago. Fine and thank
you, but there are about 6200 graduates yet to be heard from.
We appreciate very much the messages of loyalty and cheer
that some of you included with your contributions.
Again
thank you most sincerely.
Another thing occurs to me. When the college teams encounter difficult seasons, as far as wins are concerned, there
usually comes to me much in the way of criticism and expansive advice. Not as much now, of course, as when I was actively connected with the college athletic program.
Would you be
surprised to learn that the Husky Fund has not had a single
reply from any of those critics? You shouldn’t be. Ever try
dealing with human nature with thousands involved? Anyway,
our gratitude to those who have responded, and our hope that
all will keep in mind that YOU can keep Bloomsburg in an enviable position among the Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges.
Will you send your contribution right away. Incude a few extra
dollars when you renew your membership. In spite of increased
including a subscription
costs everywhere, your Alumni dues
to the “Quarterly”
have remained $1.00.
We do hope that many of you will visit the college Alumni
Day, May 21. Something doing every minute. Renew friendships and enjoy a day on the campus. Arrangements are well
underway to show you a good time. A member of the class of
1879 will honor us with her presence. The class of 1899 is on
the move.
1904 is planning a wonderful time, even though
1924 9Taduaces say the da. is theirs. Every reunion class is
busy planning for a real program. A phone call from a member
of the 1919 reunion committee gives the information that other
classes may talk, but give heed to the fine report they will present at the General Alumni Meeting, showing their true worth
and loyalty. Thanks to all of you for the fine spirit being shown.

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Sorry that Dean Sutliff won’t be with us May 21st but he
be up in Buffalo as a Commissioner from the Northumberland Prebytery attending the Presbyterian General Assembly.
But Nevin Englehart will be there and Prasper Gager and Ida
Sitler and Lindley Dennis and Pauline Lattmore Dauden, and
General Edwards and the College Cheer Leaders in uniform
(mostly girls) and you, too. See you Alumni Day.
will

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Basketball Tournament
The most successful cage tournament in the history of
was closed March 22 at Centennial Gymnasium, with record crowds attending every game. The tourney was characterized by high scores and spectacular play, definitely the fans’
type of basketball.
Newport Township High School took top
honors by shellacking Mt. Carmel High in the Class A final,
B.S.T.C.

B

Swoyerville crushed Shickshinny,
a clean sweep for the Wyoming
Valley representatives by taking Class C honors with a hardfought 46-46 thriller over Freeland M. & M. I. that was not decided until the last second of play.

62-46.
51-26.

In the Class

tilt,

West Wyoming made

it

Highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Allto Stan Pawloski, Newport Township scoring ace, who proved to be the outstanding player in the twentysecond cage tourney. The high school senior’s play throughout
the tournament left no doubt in the minds of basketball fans as
to who would receive the award. His shooting ability was supplemented by a marvelous floor game and a spirit of teamwork.
Pawlowski was earlier chosen on the All-Wyoming Valley basHonors were also bestowed on nine
ketball “dream team.”
other tourney performers in the form of a B.S.T.C. tournament
“dream team.” They were 6’5” John Holup, Swoyersville Leo
Welebob, Wilkes-Barre Township, both All-Wyoming Valley
seections; Bucky Richards, Berwick, the smallest player in the
tourney; George Hughes, St. Mary’s High School, of WilkesBai’re; Danny Bovchuk, Shamokin; Leo Gribbon, St. Edward’s
High, of Shamokin; Glen Adams, Mt. Carmel; Hugh Fisher,
Freeland M. & M. I., and Bloomsburg High School’s Steve Trudnak. Fisher was the only Class C competitor to take this
honor.

Tournament Award

;

John Hoch, faculty director of the annual event, announced that over 1500 basketball specators witnessed the final
games, while about 600 fans had to be turned away from the
doors due to lack of adequate seating. The tournament, which
started March 7 with ,a round of Class C qualification games,
saw 32 teams participating, 16 of these in Class C, and 8 each
in Classes A and B.
Stan Pawlowski led his Newport team in another of their
overwhelm Mt. Carmel 62-46. Typical of
every other game, they played in the tournament, the up-river
team was behind by two points at the half-way mark, coming
back strong to take the Class A trophy in a breeze. Stan led
his teammates with 28 counters, with his “basketball twin”
Danny Craehoski chipping in with 14 points and a fine exhibilast half rallies to

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tion of cool playing under pressure.
The floor work of the enNewport club, and especially their fast break and passing
attack, were indicative of the brand of ball played throughout
the tournament.' Glen Adams was outstanding for the losers,
collecting a total of 25 tallies.
In the Class B final, Swoyersville hit the basket consistently from outside the foul circle to take a 51-26 decision from
Shickshinny. The losers had the Holup brothers tied up under
the basket, so the Wyoming boys just “popped ’em up” from
outside. About as fine an exhibition of set shooting as has been
tire

witnessed in Centennial Gym in recent years was staged by Joe
Veratis (last year’s All-State football halfback incidentally) put
up six beautiful looping shots from well out, four of them coming consecutively.
Four of the winners’ team scored in the
double digits, with none exceeding 13. Bennet gathered
12

markers

in losing causing.

most exciting

finish of the tournament, Freeland M.
short in a last second rally, losing a 46-45 verdict to
West Wyoming High School. Little Jackie Durso, tournament
high scorer, put up a long a long one hander as the buzzer ended
the contest only to look at the scoreboard to see his team was
In the last minute and a half Freeland
stili on the short end.
waived three foul shots and missed two others in an attempt to
overtake the winners, who had built up an uncomforatable, but
sufficient margin. Durso set the all-tournament scoring record
earlier against Factoryville, tallying 45 times, partially as a
result of his teammates, who fed him with an eye on the record.
Charney and Care led the winners well-balanced attack with 14
and 13 counters, respectively.
Mr. Hoch was ably assisted in the duties as tournament
who presented all
director by Joe Curilla, student director,
awards. The tourney contests were broadcast through the fa-

In the

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M.

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cilities

fell

of

WISL, Shamokin.

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Health problems of a two-county area were discussed Wednesday afternoon, March 9, at a School Health Institute held at
Science Hall, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and attended
by doctors, dentists, nurses, school officials and persons from all
organizations and agencies in Columbia and Montour counties
interested in the health of children.
The conference was held under the joint-sponsorship of the
Berwick borough, Montour and Columbia county schools.
Officials of the State Department of Health were present
to clarify the procedures to be followed in carrying out the
school health programs as provided in acts passed by the GenAlso included were requirements for the emeral Assembly.
ployment of school nurses, the establishment of Advisory
Health Councils and for medical aid for the needy.

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Session Features Workshop

Increasing evidence of the popularity of workshops in the
education of in-service teachers is indicated by an announcement made by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College which
will again feature Summer Session workshops in the fields of
Business, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Dr. Thomas
P. North, Dean of Instruction, said that the workshop procedure has been developed to assist mature and experienced teachers, and this summer’s workshops will be designed to include
group discussions, field trips, lectures by nationally-noted authorities, and observations in the campus laboratory schools.
Dr. North said that the 1949 Summer Sessions would again
include a pre-session of three weeks, a regular six-weeks session and a post-session of three weeks. The first three weeks
of classes will begin Monday, June sixth, while the regular
summer session is scheduled to begin Monday, June twentyseventh.
The final three weeks of classes will start Monday,
August eighth, and continue until Friday, Auguest twenty-sixth.
The regular summer session schedule includes the necessary
six hours for the certification of teachers in Safety Education.
Three semester hours of credit will be given for a new course
in “Safety Education,’’ while the course in “Driver Education
and Training,’’ which proved popular in the 1948 Summer SesDr. North pointed out that “Safety
sion, will again be offered.
Education” may be used as an elective in the Elementary Education curriculum but either of the two related courses can be
used towards making the certificate nermanent.
o

hand-woven coverlets,
and dotted with spinning machines, Mrs. C. R. Beeman, art instructress at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, spun a
yarn of the old-time textile industry, in a recent assembly program in Carver Hall.
Mrs. Beeman demonstrated a number of the machines necessary to the spinning of threads and yarns to be woven into
iabrics for clothing and linen. Life, according to Mrs. Beeman,
must have been much less expensive for the father of a pros(“one who
pective bride, since the young maid, or spinster
and fill a
trousseau,
own
her
make
to
required
spins”), was
chest with linens for her new home, out of nothing but a supply
the
of raw flax and wool. The art instructress, who is adept in
almost-lost art, demonstrated several types of spinning wheels,
of
a swift, and a wheel timer. She also explained the process
washing and carding wool, eventually following the method
used up to the point of converting the wool fibers into spinning

On

yarns.
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a stage draped with colorful

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Preparing State Manual
Richard F. Hallisy,

director

of

Busines

Education

at

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is a member of a committee
which is rewriting a manual for Business Education for Pennvania high schools. The committee on which Mr. Hallisy is serving, is one of a number of groups currently engaged in revising
the Pennsylvania Secondary School Manual. Dr. D. D. Lessenberry, University of Pittsburgh, and John R. Haubert, Chief,
Commercial Education, Department of Public Instruction, are
the co-chairmen of the Business Education section.
Tentative outlines of the manual were set up at a recent
meeting of the group, and assignments for the development of
a Business Education program for the larger high schools were
made to teachers and educational leaders throughout the state.
These persons will prepare the specific material that will be
published in the completed manual.
Mr. Hallisy atended a meeting in Harrisburg to help review the material which had been submitted. The committee
planned to begin work on a revised business education curriculum for medium and small high schools.
The Student Handbook and Course of Study Manual in
Business Education will contain a chapter on “Objectives and
Philosophies of Business Education,” by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
This publicaPresident, Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
tion will go to press during the month of May so as to be available for distribution prior to the beginning of the next school
in September.
This is the first publication by the Department of Public
Instruction since 1937, when Bulletin No. 102, bearing the title
of “Organization and Administration of Commercial Education
efforts of a
in Secondary Schools,” was issued through the

year

committee of which Doctor Andruss was a member.
Other chapters will be written by prominent educators
throughout the State, and several faculty members of the Department of Business of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College will contribute, among them are Mr. Richard Hallisy and
Mr. Walter S. Rygiel.
The new publication is being compiled under the direction
of Mr. John R. Haubert, Chief of Commercial Education, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Some worthy Bloomsburg High School student

will receive

a four-year scholarship to BSTC next Fall, according to final
plans made recently by the Woman’s Civic Club, of Bloomsburg.
Details of the selection for the new scholarship offered by
the club will be announced later.
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Announced

Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction,
Bloomsburg
State Teacners College, has announced the Dean’s Honor List
for the first semester, 1948-49.
As announced by Dr. North, forty-eight students attained
this high honor.
Seniors, with twenty-one students qualifying,
dominated the honor list; Freshmen followed, placing twelve
sudents, followed by Juniors with eight students and Sophomores with seven students.
In order to attain this high honor, a student must have a
quality point average of 2.5 or better for the semester and a
cumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance at the
College.

The Dean’s Honor List, separated by classes follows:
Seniors: Edwin M. Allegar, Stillwater; Verna G. Cope, Berwick; Ruth P. Elder, Berwick, Berwick; Herbert H. Fox, Danville; Grace Alberta Funk, Elysburg; Sara A. Graham, Bloomsburg; Theodore Harwood, Bloomsburg; Donald C. Hauck, Berwick; Donald Maietta, Williamsport; Dale Mantz, Slatington;
Alfred J. Marchetti, Tamaqua; John M. Purcell, Shenandoah;
Emory S. Riefski, Hazleton; Arthur C. Riegel, Catawissa; Helen
M. Romanczyk, Berwick; Stephen F. Sakalski, Bloomsburg;
Charles R. Schiefer, Steelton; Richard C. Stout, Bloomsburg;
Ruth C. Von Bergan, Hazleton; Robert E. Williams, Jr., Shamokin; E. Anne Wright, Bloomsburg; Francis Luchnick, Mt. Carmel, and Roy Brandau, Nescopeck.
Juniors: Robert A. Baylor, Danville; Walter Guy James,
Frackvide; Edward F. Messa, Easton; Nerine M. Middleswarth,
Emory Rarig,
Troxelville; Andrew E. Palencar, Bethlehem;
Catawissa; Martha L. Teel, Bloomsburg, and John R. Wagner,
Berwick.
Sophomores James A. Kleman, Ashland; Muriel F. Marks,
Reading; Lillian Milkvy, Palmerton; Dorothy Pichel, Hellertown; Charles E. Roberts, Slatington; Jane F. Scheetz, M. Eloise
Symons, Edwardsville.
Freshmen: Priscilla Abbott, Lehman; Lois E. Dzuris, Nanticoke; Hugh H. Elliott, Shickshinny; Geraldine M. Funk, Danville; Ruth Glidden, Susquehanna; Faythe M. Hackett, Glenside;
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Barbara E. Harman, Lykens; Adda L. Keller, Dallas; David M.
Pellnitz, Nescopeck; Lois J. Pulver, Wilkes-Barre; Barbara F.
Smith, Holtwood, and Maryann Stewart, Dormont.
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Alumni Day May 21
[

a?e Ten

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President's Scholarship

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Award

Miss Mary Jane Dorsey, Bloomsburg, and Benjamin Burness, Atlantic City, N. J., were honored at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers Colllege when they were named the first recipients of
the President’s Scholarships.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College and donor of the unique awards, presented
each winner with a check for fifty dollars. Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, chairman of the Scholarship Commitee, presided over the

exercises held recently in the Carver Auditorium.
The “President’s scholarship,” created last year by Dr.
Andruss, is given to a student who demonstrates his need and
ability during the first semester of the college year and for any
other reason is not eligible for the other scholarships offered
by the college or the Alumni Association. The grant is based
upon the income from a book written by President Andruss
titled “Business Law Cases and Tests” and originally published
by Prentice-Hall. The text is used in connection with Business
Law classes at Bloomsburg and other colleges.
Miss Dorsey, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dorsey,
708 Berwick Road, Bloomsburg, is a sophomore in the Secondary Education Department, while Burness, son of Mrs. Eva Durness, Atlantic City, N. J., is a freshman in the
same department. The former Atlantic City High School football star was
a fullback on the undefeated and untied Bloomsburg Teachers
eleven during the past season.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College was represented at the
annual Intercollegiate State Band Festival held March 24, 25 and
28 at the Indiana State Teachers College. More than 125 musicians representing twenty-two colleges and universities in the
state of Pennsylvaia attended the three-day session, beginning
Thursday, March 24, and continuing until Saturday night,

March 26.
Morton Gould, noted New York composer and world-famous
authority on band music, was the guest conductor of the AllState Band.
Gould, whose most famous composition is
“Pavanne,” conducted the band in a radio broadcast as well as
the Saturday night concert which climaxed three days of intensive practices.

Accompanying Mr. Charles H. Henrie, Band Director, to
the annual event were the following Bloomsburg Students: Thomas Bowman, baritone, Bloomsburg; Carlton Ermish, first trombone, Berwick; Anna Belle Russell, second flute, Bedford, and
John Reitmyer, second clarinet, Milton.
A regional rehearsal was held on the Bloomsburg campus
with musicians from Bucknell University, Susquehanna University and Bloomsburg represented.
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Philadelphia Alumni
Almost fifty graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College who now live in the Philadelphia area were present Saturday evening, April 2, at the annual dinner of that branch and
enjoyed a novel program in charge of Major Harry S. Barton,
the master of ceremonies. The dinner was held at the McAllister, Philadelphia.

Hortman Irish, of
Philadelphia Branch, of which Lillie
J., is the president, and Mrs. Nora Woodring Kenney, Philadelphia, the secretary-treasurer, is one of the most
It holds monthly meetings and each Summer has two
active.

Camden, N.

picnics.

Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the general alumni body,
Alumni Day plans for Saturday, May 21, and of the
projects which the graduate body now has underway.

told of the

By wire recording Major Barton presented greetings from Dr.
Francis B. Haas, President Harvey A. Andruss and Dean W. B.
RecordSutliff and also a program of the College Glee Club.
ings of many in atendance were made and will be played back
members

of the local faculty.
Present: Edwin Wieland Teal, Percy P. Teal, Kathryn M.
Spencer, Ralph L. Hart, Margaret E. Hart, Mary Laird, Martha
Laird. Kathryn A. Hess, Claire Hedden, Lillian B. Buckalew,
Jban S. Andres, H. D. Frantz, Grace F. Frantz. Irene Hortman,
Grace Kishbach,
J. G. Morris, G. E. Kenney, E. H. Barnard,

for

Ruth Johnson Garney, Myron Garney, Lena Oman Buckman, George R. Buckman, Adda Brandon Westfield, Stella Shuman Swank, Willie Morgan Stein, Blanche Mertz Bergen, Louella
Burdick Surquitt, Marie Cromis, Robert C. Barton.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuel S. Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Trescott,
Mrs. Mary A. Taubel, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Rieder, Lillie Hortman
Irish, Dr. Elna H. Nelson, Nora Woodring Kerpey, Kate Sea-

Miller,

sholtz Morris.

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and
J. Crouse, of Plainfield, New Jersey, retired tea
Tea
Union
Grand
the
by
employed
formerly
salesman,
coffee
Company for many years, died Friday, March 25, after a long
His age was 90.
illness.
^
Born in Mountain Grove, (Pa.) he was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg (Pa.) State Normal School.
Davenport Giddes
Ella
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
of North PlainKrouse,
J.
John
Mrs.
daughter,
Crouse, and a

John

,

field.

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Much favorable attention throughout the United States has
ben directed towards the Bloomsburg State Teachers College as
a result of the publication of an article by Dr. Thomas P. North,

Dean of Instruction, of the College, in a recent publication of the
National Education Association. The article, “The Selection
of Students for Teacher Preparation,”
appears in a volume
titled, “The Education of Teachers,” which
has been sent to
more than ten thousand educators and schoolmen in the nation.
Dr. North, who is chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards, states
that the selection of students for teacher preparation is a contiguous process and is most essential to the adequate education
of the child as well as necessary for the functioning of the colleges preparing teachers. His views on the subject are not only
timely but interesting to laymen as well as educators.
Criteria for selection, Dr. North states, will be contingent
upqp the institution’s concept of a successful teacher, but various competencies which are needed in the total work of the
teacher must be made standards in the selection of teacher material.
He lists the following standards: scholastic capacity
and competence, physical and mental health, personal and social
competence, and vocational and avocational interest.
The complexity of factors demanded in successful teaching, Dr. North declares, requires that a variety of selective procedures be applied at the time of admission. Included in these
techniques are reliable and valid tests for initial selection; personal interviews to obtain additional information; and selection
and counseling while in preparation.
The article is concluded with a number of recommendations
to the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards which is currently engaged in a long-term program for the improvement. of instruction and establishing better
and more satisfactory programs for the education of teachers.
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A variety program featuring a number of talented student
musicians and actors was presented bv the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College as a feature of assembly programs at the Shamokin High School on Tuesday afternoon, March 29. Joseph
Curilla, Shamokin, was the director of the programs which are
being given as one of the services of the College’s public relations program.
Included in the show are production numbers
featuring an all-girl chorus and several outstanding musical attractions.

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The second edition of the “Stardust Follies,” all-college amateur show, was presented to students of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Thursday, January 27, in the first assembly
program of the new semester. Prepared and produced by Charles
Edwards, Shamokin, the show was a fast-moving combination of musical talent and side-splitting comedy.
Joseph Curilla, Shamokin, opened the program with
two baritone solos,
“Wagon Wheels” and “Desert Song.” He was accompanied on
the piano by Delphine Buss, Watsontown. A series of sparkling
piano novelties by Ruth Von Bergen, Hazleton, and Dick Wagner, Berwick, featured the “twin pianos” numbers that followed
“Blue Moon” and Morton Gold’s “Pavanne” were especially
well applauded.
A new musical group, “The Campus Four,” made its debut
in a series of musical selections including “Behold The Bridegroom Cometh,” “Marjorie” and “Jordan.” Included in the
quartet were Jack Wintersteen, Bloomsburg; Charles Edwards,
Tamaqua; Dick Wagner and Emory Rarig, Catawissa. Miss
Eleanor McClintock. Nesconeck, was then heard in a series of
soprano solos. She chose the ever popular “Strange Music,”
“Four Leaf Clover” and “None But The Lonely Pleart.” Her
accompanist was Dick Wagner. Miss McClintock was followed
by Terrv Cierlitsky, Tamaqua, who presented a series of accordian solos. She played “Jalousie,” “Tico Tico” and a medley of
popular favorites. The program was brought to a hilarious finish
with a cowboy duo featuring Frank Luchnick, Mt. Carmel, and
John Trimble, Jersey Shore. Attired in typical hillbilly costume, the two entertainers gave their impressions of a number
of currently popuular hillbilly and cowboy tunes.
Joe Kulick, Mt. Carmel, presided over brief devotional exercises prior to the presentation of the program.
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Miss Edna Hazen, Director of Elementary Education at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, recently reported in an
interview that there is much interest being shown among stufor
freshmen.
dents concerning a college reading program
Whenever college students are found to be failing in the general
question
their
invariably
subjects course, their instructors
When tests, such as the
ability to read and study properly.
Iowa Silent Reading Test, or the Ohio State Psychology Examination are administered, it is generally found that the subject
Some colleges
is deficient in specific reading abilities and skills.
encourage the student to enroll in a non-credit course. This instruction improves his reading ability, usually with the result
that satisfactory adjustment and achievement in the regular
college channel of work is increased.
Miss Hazen, commenting on the semantic approach to readng, said, “We are all accustomed to the use of the radio in our

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many teachers have used the radio in the classto aid reading.
Mrs. Ruth Weir Miller, University of
Pennsylvania radio lecturer, presented ways in which the radio
is a road to reading, and proved beyond doubt that ‘radio, used
with wisdom and intelligence can widen reading horizons.”
Miss Hazen further added, “It must be the mission of the school
to direct the listener to worthwhile programs and to capitalize
on listening for school attainment. Teachers have found that
homes, but not

room

radio-listening increases demand for reading materials,
a strong incentive for more reading.”

and

is

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Robert B. Redman, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was one of a group of thirty college instructors in Safety
Education who attended the Safety Education curriculum held
March 24 at Harrisburg. Dr. Henry P. Klonower, Director,
Division of Certification, Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, and Ivan G. Stahman, Chief, Safety Education, Department of Public Instruction, were in charge of the annual
meeting. Most of the Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges
were represented along with faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Bucknell University and Penn State.
Discussion of the 1948 program of Safety Education and
Driver Education and Training featured the conference. In addition to discussing problems that arose in planning and presenting Safety Education courses in the colleges and universities
addition of new
last year, the college instructors considered
courses for the Safety Education curriculum. The meeting was
not only worthwhile and helpful but was encouraging from the
standpoint of interest aroused in this field of study.
Mr. Redman is the instructor in Safety Education and Driver Education and Training. Courses in these two fields will be
offered during the 1949 summer session.
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The Oscar Hugh Bakeless Chapter of the Future Teachers
American, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was represen-

of
ted at the first annual convention of the Pennsylvania Future
Teachers of America held recently at Millersville. The local

was represented by Miss Nerine Middleswarth, TroxelDoyle Johnson, Bloomsburg; Richard Grimes, Harrisburg,
and Emory Rarig, Catawisa, and Miss Edna J. Hazen, Director
of Elementary Education, Sponsor.
Principal speakers were Mrs. Wilda Faust, National Secretary of the National Education Association, Doctor Eugene
Berlin, Assistant Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania State
Education Association, and Doctor Charles E. Swope, President
of the State Teachers College at West Chester.
An interested group of about 150 college and high school
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students from FTA chapters throughout the State of Pennsylvania discussed problems of organization, activities and projects.
One of the most interesting topics of discussion was the
organization of FTA clubs in high schools. A notable feature
was the large number of high school students in attendance,
the largest delegation coming from Pittsburgh. Faculty sponsors and student counselors offered valuable suggestions as to
methods of arousing enthusiasm in local FTA chapters.
Teachers colleges represented were Shippensburg, West
Chester, Clarion, East Stroudsburg and Indiana. Other schools
included Albright, Juniata, Ursinus, Franklin and Marshall,
Elizabethtown College, Thiel College and Duquesne University.
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BASKETBALL SCORES

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January 26 — BSTC
January 29 — BSTC
February — BSTC
February 3 — BSTC
February 10 — BSTC
February 12 — BSTC
February 18— BSTC

December 11 BSTC
December 17 BSTC
December 20 BSTC
January 8 BSTC January 11 BSTC _
January 22 BSTC 1

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February
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Lycoming

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Lock Haven
Wilkes
East Stroudsburg
Kings
Lock Haven
Wilkes __ __
Shippensburg
Kings

East Stroudsburg
Millersville

Shippensburg
Mansfield

Lycoming

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Mansfield

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22— BSTC
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A varied program of musical entertainment was presented
by the Men’s Glee Club of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at an assembly program held March 31 in the Carver Auditorium. Under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore, director, the Glee Club made a tremendous hit in its first public appearance of the year. During the program the Campus Four,
a newly organized musical group, and the Andy Mack Trio, featuring three boys and an accordian, presented several groups
of novelty tunes.
In the Glee Club

numbers were included “May Now Thy
“Roadways,” “Aura Lee” and a Fred Waring arrangement of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” They also sang a
series of selections from Broadway musicals including “Carousel,” “Brigadoon” and “Rio Rita.”
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May Day
Senior Assembly and Ivy

Day

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Baccalaureate Sermon

Commencement

May
May
May
May
May

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Pre-Session Begins
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June 6
Pre-Session Ends
June 24
Regular Summer Sessions Begins
June 27
Regular Summer Session Ends
August 5
Post Session Begins
August 8
Post Session Ends
August 26
First Semester 1949-1950
Registration for Freshmen
Sept. 12
Registration for Upperclassmen
Sept. 13
Classes Begin
Sept. 14
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An all-day meeting was held at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, Wednesday, May 4, for the distribution and
discussion of the new Elementary Course of Study for Pennsylvania schools.
Edna J. Hazen, Director of Elementary Education, is local
chairman and was in charge of arrangements for the meeting.
Greetings were extended by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College, at 9:15 a. m. to the superintendents, superare who
visors, and supervising principals from this service

were present.
This meeting was one of a series of sixteen being held
throughout the state for the specific purpose of launching the
new curriculum for elementary schools. Dr. Leversia L. Powers,
Chief, Elementary Education, Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, is in charge of these meetings throughout the state
and brought with her a group of specialists for discussion leaders.

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of America’s great plays,

“The Late George Apley,”
was presented by the Bloomsburg Players, the dramatic club
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, in Carver Auditorium
Friday evening, April 8, at 8:15 o’clock. Directed by Miss Alice
Johnston, whose work in past productions has achieved
sional perfection, “The Late George Apley” is a brilliant portrayal of life and manners in a middle class American family.
Adapted by George S. Kaufman from the best-selling novel
by John P. Marquand, the stage version of Marquand’s satire
on American family life had a long and successful run on Broadway. Under Miss Johnston’s direction, the Bloomsburg Players

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revived its delightful dialogue, intriguing plot, and the colorful
stage settings. The result was a production of moving force and
dramatic impact.
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Madge Fuller, Berwick senior, was chosen May Queen of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and will preside over the
the traditional May Day exercises to be held on the campus
Wednesday afternoon, May 11. Miss Fuller, whose twin sister,
Marjorie, will be a member of the Queen’s Court, is the daughter of Mrs. C. C. Fuller, 341 Mulberry Street, Berwick.
She is
enrolled in the Business Education Department and is majoring
in Sales and English.
Students at Bloomsburg voted for the May Queen and her
attendants in a general election, and Miss Fuller won the 1949
honors in a close battle of the ballots. For the first time in the
history of the College, a voting machine was used to record the
student’s choices. The machines, loaned to the College by the
Luzerne County Commissioners, was the same one used in the
recent Community Government Association elections.
Eight senior women were chosen to serve as attendants to
the May Queen. The attendants will be: Jane McCullough, Lewisburg; Martha Jane Sitler, Bloomsburg; Joan McDonald, R. D.
Towanda; Zita Spangler
1, Ringtown; Mary Helen Morrow,
Cortright, Hummel’s Wharf; Marjorie Fuller, Berwick; Doris
GildayT Springfield, and Eloise Noble, Milanville.
This year’s ceremonies will be directed by Mrs. Robert B.
Redman, who will be assisted by Miss Lucy McCammon and
members of the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin School. The
theme of the exercises has not yet been announced, but the program is now being planned by Mrs. Redman and her assistants.
o

The annual Bloomsburg State Teachers College Fashion
Show was held this year Friday evening, April 29, at eight
o’clock, in Carver Hall Auditorium. Twenty models were selected and were trained during the month.
The Fashion Coordinator was Nancy Wesenyak, Duryea, and Chairman of Store
Coordinators was Betty Ridall, Town Hill.
Because a number of last year’s models had ben graduated
or left school for various reasons, new models were chosen
on the basis of appearance, personality, poise, size and color of
hair.
The models were Nancy Swartz, Forty Fort; Mary Ann
Stewart, Pittsburgh; Madelyn Schalles, Nescopeck; Helyn Burlingame, Berwick; Barbara Sherman, Benton; Dorothy Thomas,
Bloomsburg; Yerdis Ellison, Philadelphia; Margaret Chambers,
Bedford; Lois Dzuris, Nanticoke; Norma Lee McCormick, Corapolis; Kathleen Mitchell, Mahanoy City;
Susan Dreibelbus,
Boomsburg; Geraldine Hess, Catawissa; Mary K. Shoemaker,
Bloomsburg; Joyce McDougal, Berwick; Joanne Vanderslice,
Boomsburg; Doris Gilday, Springfield; Zita Cortright, HumSnyder, Mill
mel’s Wharf; Joan Grazed, Shenandoah; Diane
Hall; Margaret Kashuba, Berwick; Dorothy Cedar, Berwick;
Delphine Buss, Watsontown and Jane McCullough, Lewisburg.
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THE ALUMNI
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board
Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
Edward
Hervey B. Smith

E.

of Directors

H.

President

Vice-President
Secretary

Treasurer
F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Elizabeth H. Huber

1893
Miss Mercy E. Gotshall, seventy-five, esteemed Columbia
county teacher who retired about two years ago, was the victim
of a heart attack Saturday, March 19, at the Bloomsburg Hospital.

Miss Gotshall devoted most of her life to teaching in South
Side schools.
graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, she was also a graduate of Susquehanna University,
Selinsgrove.
She was associated with the Locust and Centralia school
systems for several years, but most of her teaching career was
spent in service in the Conyngham school district. Miss Gotshall was in charge when that district opened its “one teacher”
high school at Aristes.
Her devotion to her profession was best illustrated in her
deferment of plans to retire, until faculty members, who were
serving in World War n, could return. Hundreds of her former
students and associates paid her homage when she formally retired, about January of 1946.
Since that time, however, she
had offered her services in a substitute capacity as needs arose.
Miss Gotshall was the daughter of the late Henry and
Amelia Kostenbauder Gotshall. She was a member of the Catawissa Methodist Church, the Marweda Rebekah Lodge No. 16,
Catawissa; and was secretary of the Catawissa WCTU.

A

1896
Miss Mary Cope, retired teacher and former postmistress
of Mount Carmel, died February 13, at the George F. Geisinger
Memorial Hospital, Danville. Bronchial pneumonia, resulting
from a cardiac failure, was the immediate cause of death.
Miss Cope was born September 12, 1878, in Mahanoy Plane,
the daughter of the late George H. and Margaret Evans Cope.
She was a young girl when her family moved to Mount Carmel
from Centralia. Her father served as County Commissioner
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ing position to become his assistant postmistress and upon his
death served as acting postmistress until his successor was
named. She later returned to teaching and retired several years
ago.

The Mount Carmel Item had the following comment on
Miss Cope’s death:
“With Miss Cope’s death, the community loses one of its
finest woman whose friendship and influence had been felt, not
only among her friends, her church, to whose interests she had
ben unselfishly devoted, but also by the youngsters, now grown
up, who had been her pupils in the grade schools.
A retired
teacher of the Mount Carmel public schools, she had taught in
the fourth grade of the old William Penn Building. She would
speak of these children in her quiet gentle way, fondly and kindly, and when reminiscing, seemed to choose to remember them
as they were in her classroom, rather than as the young man or

woman

of today.

“Miss Cope was as fine a woman as one is ever
to know, and it is a shock to realize that she is dead.
ness, her gentle humor, and her womanly qualities
her to all, and made her a welcome guest wherever
to

privileged
Her kind-

endeared
she chose

call.

“Her church, the First Methodist Church, will miss her infuence and good deeds. She belonged to the Ladies’ Auxiliary,
the Women’s Society of Christian Service, and the Gleaner’s
Bible Class.
Her charitable work as welfare secretary of the
former Woman’s Home Missionary Society and later with the
Women’s Society of Christian Service, made her known and
loved with people of other faiths besides her own.”
1900
G. Bernard Vance, 66, well known local resident and former
manager of the Berwick Store Company for two years, died
Wednesday, February 16, at his home, 338 East Tenth street,
Berwick. He had been in ill health several years.

Mr. Vance, who was associated with the Berwick Store
for 39 years, served as general manager, as bookkeeper for 19 years, and credit manager for 18 years.
Mr. Vance throughout most of his life was active in the
work of the Berwick YMCA. He served as trustee of that organization for 40 years and during most of that period was secretary of the group.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1900,
Mr. Vance taught at the college while taking special courses
there. He began his teaching here in the Fiester School, Briar
Creek.
The local resident was Berwick school director for 18 years
and served as recording secretary of the school board for 14

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at the ACF during World War II.
Rohrsburg, July 21, 1882, Mr. Vance was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the IOOF, the Knights of
Malta and the Defender Fire Company.
Survivors include his wife, one sister, nieces and a nephew.
1904
Mrs. Ann Challis Thompson is acting chairman of the
Health Education Department in one of the New York City Districts, having administrative responsibility for 5,000 students.
1905
J. Lee Tiffany, 67, died in his home on
Chestnut Street.
Montrose, Thursday, February 10. Mr. Tiffany had been in ill
health for some months. In his early life he taught school in
a number of communities in Susquehanna county and was also
for some years engaged in the retail meat business in Montrose.
For a number of years he had been manager of the Lee furniture

years.

He was employed

Born

in

He is survived by his
He was a member of Blue

store.

wife.

Lodge, Chapter and Commandery
Masonic Order in Montrose. He sang in the choir of the
Presbyterian Church for many years and was also a member of
the Symphony Male Chorus.
of the

1911
Mrs. A. K Nangle (Erma Miller) recently underwent serious surgery in the General Hospital, Elizabeth, New Jersey,
but is recovering nicely at her home at 119 Dalton Street,
Roselle Park, N. J.
1914
The response for our big reunion day is very gratifying.
The following plan to arrive Friday evening, May 20: Mary
Emanuel Brown, Mary Strange Driesbach, Marguerite Tonrey
Ruane, Bess Winters Maddy, Stella Buckley, Fern Pritchard,
Olwen August Hartley, Bertelle Laubaugh Lamont, Edith Jamison Zarr, Elsie Morgan Swank, Catherine Glass Koehler, Irene
Fulmer, Martha White, Ruth Hidlay, Martha Mras Kobeschat,
Salome Hill Long, Sabilla Shobert Camobell, The Hon. and Mrs.
P. W. Griffith, Olive Miller Cook.
Be sure to be ready for that big day, Saturday, May 2 \,
when not one classmate of 1914 will be absent. Anyone desiring room reservations will please write to Dr. Marguerite Kehr,
Dean of Women, BSTC, Bloomsburg. Those arriving Friday
evening will meet at the College Lounge at 7:00 P. M. However,
a notice will be posted on the bulletin board, giving information
as to the whereabouts of any Nineteen-Fourteener.
On Saturday morning, as soon as possible, the class of 1914
will meet in the assigned classroom to learn of the schdule of
the day’s activities. They will then adjourn to the auditorium
a class. Arrangeto attend the general Alumni meeting as
ments are underway for a class dinner to be held in the college
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room at 6:00 P. M. During this
members unable to attend will be read.
dining

time, letters

Make your

from
plans

class

now

to remain for the entire day.

The class is grateful to the following for formulating reunion plans: Malcolm Leonard, acting president; Adah Weyhenmeyer, and Mary Emanuel Brown. Thanks are also due to
the members of the correspondence committee, who have written to every member of the clas whose address is known.
The following are the members of the committee: Adah
Weyhenmeyer, Mary Aston, Fern Pritchard, Malcolm Leonard,
Catherine Bone, Olwen August Hartley, Marguerite Tonrey
Ruane, Mary Strange Driesbach, Bessie Winters Maddy, Stella
Buckley, Edith Jamison Zarr, Bertelle Laubaugh Lamont, Catherine Glass Koehler, Irene Fulmer.
The following addresses are unknown. Anyone knowing
the addresses of any on the list are urgently requested to send
them to one of the member of the Correspondence Committee.
The list follows: Vera Pauline Colvin (Mrs. C. B. Gorham), William J. Conyngham, Osborne Dodson, Hester Eisenhauer (Mrs.
Kerst), Sara Elliott (Mrs. Kenneth Cain), Margaret Hill Evans,
Lillian Claire Gleanson, Frances Harpel (Mrs. Howard Councilman), Charles Hendershott, Daisy Hummel, Russel Keller,
Plenry Rupert Laub, Hariet O. Mensch, Lawrence L. Ryman,
Lavisa Sheard, Charles Smith.

Miss H. Pauline Lloyd, a member of the Stevens Junior
faculty, died early Saturday morning, February 19,
1949, at her home, 815 Nichols Place, Williamsport.
Miss Lloyd, an instructor in the Williamsport school system
since 1914, taught her classes Friday, but has been in ill health

High School

some time.
She was a graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary,
class of 1910, and of Bloomsburg State Normal School, 1914. In
recent years she also had attended New York University, New
York City, for extension courses, compiling 72 credits. She was
awarded her supervisors certificate in music in 1928.
Her initial assignment in Williamsport schools was at Jef-

for

ferson Building. She served for a while at Transeau School and
was later at Stevens Grade School, where the Lose Building is
now located. When Stevens Junior High School was opened in
1928, Miss Lloyd became a member of the first faculty there.

The members of the class of 1914 express their deep sympathy to the family of Pauline Henrietta Lloyd, 815 Nicholas
Place, Williamsport, who passed away February 19, 1949. Death
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According to information received, Pauline taught school
on Friday, February 18, and was felling well. She passed away
during the early hours of aSturday morning. The following has
been submitted in memory of Miss Lloyd:
UNTIL THOU WAKEST
Chester Allen Holt

Come,
Hands

and weary traveler, lie down.
that have loved thee have prepared thy bed.
faint

Find here a kindly pillow for thy head,
Until thou wakest and receive thy crown.
This dust shall be a cover, and the stars

Thy myriad candles burning in the
No cry shall trouble, and no cruel

night;

Inform thee of earth’s labors and

its

sight

wars.

Grief cannot touch thee here, no any hurtful things
Distress thy quiet heart, nor make afraid.

The marble of our love is o’er thee laid;
Above thee greater love spreads forth his wing.

Thy course is
God fold thee

finished,
in the

and the race

is

run.

bosom whence thou came;

Inscribe thy legend and thy secret name.

Thou

art His child,

and child “Thou has well done.”

1923
Christine E. Smith, of Catawissa, received her master’s degree at the mid-winter graduation exercises held Saturday, January 29, at Bucknell University.

1927
Victoria Smith Bundens, of Bloomsburg, received her master’s degree at the mid-witer graduation exercises held Saturday, January 29, at Bucknell University.

1947
William W. Hummel, of Espy, was a candidate for the degree
of Master of Arts at Bucknell University’s annual mid-winter
Commmencement exercises Saturday, January 29.
Mr. Hummel, who holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was one of eleven candidates
for advanced degrees at Bucknell.
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Linville, of Berwick.

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Commencement
“We

we remain solvent
and economically,’’ Harrison Wood, correspondent,
commentator and author, told one hundred eighty-six members
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College graduating class at
the Commencement exercises held before an overflow audience
are on the path to peace provided

spiritually

Carver Hall.
Speaking on “The Changing World,” Wood observed that
the world is on its way to the desired peace and predicted that
when it comes it can be kept. He observed that the overthrow
of the present Russian government will come “in our time” and
that a new group of Russian leaders will make its appearance
and will “play ball” with the U. N. “The world is not suffering
from Communism as an ideology, but from Kremlinism as a
fact,” the speaker declared.
The class entered the auditorium, filled with relatives and
friends of the members, to the processional “March,” by John
Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, vice president of the
S. Camp.
board of trustees of the College, gave the invocation.
Following the address and an organ selection, “Andantino,”
in

Dean of Instruction Dr. Thomas

P. North presented the class,
largest ever to receive decrees at a commencement here, to Dr.
Harvey B. Andruss, president of the College, who conferred the
degrees.
The program concluded with “Alma Mater” and the
recessional. “Postlude in C.”
Speaking in a manner that commanded full attention
throughout, he opened his talk by saying that there is a great
all over the world, a change from nationalism,
the old sense, to a world nationalism but not to a world government.
He divided his address into three parts, “Where we are?”
“How did we get where we are?” and “Where are we going?”
As to where we are he declared we are in another chapter
of a global war between us and the Soviet Union.
“We must
win this war as a coalition of nations or face another ‘shooting
war.’
There is no change of heart in the masters of the Kremlin, only a change of tactics.
The lifting of the Berlin blockade

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was evidence

of tlrs change of strategy.
change of heart or desire for peace.

There was no

real

“This is a third chapter of the global war. We have never
been at peace since 1914. Both the ‘shooting wars’ were un
necessary. We have no peace today. At least, following 1914
18, we did have the Versailles Treaty.
“We can get this desired peace. We’re well on our wav.
When it comes it can be kept, but for a while force through the
U. N. will be necessary.” Reemphasizing that we are in a “cold
war,” Wood spoke of it as “a cold, coalition war. That is where

we

i

are today.”

Turning his attention to how we got to where we are he
declared “Yalta was the turning point of modern world history.”
No reporters were allowed at Yalta, but Wood said he got all
the facts right after the session, at a resort spot only thirty
miles from Yalta, by one who was there.
He declared “We were sold down the river by Stalin” and
then added that “Roosevelt, with his great heart and trusting
faith in man, took the word of Stalin that Russia would be our
allv in peace as well as in war.” George Marshall and Churchill
both warned Roosevelt that Stalin could not be trusted that his
word was not reliable nor could his signature be honored, Wood
continued, but FDR took Stalin’s word. “That was the start of

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Russia and her satellites,” he said
Speaking of the United Nations charter and of the San
Francisco meeting, he said Molotov came to San Francisco only
because President Truman telephoned and insisted to Stalin that
k
he send Molotov. Wood observed that, “As Molotov signed the
U. N. charter, he knew that Russia would not live up to one
iota of its charter commitments.
“Our hope that U. N. would lead to peace therefore faced
That’s how we got there. We
its first Russian blockade.
trusted our Russian allies whose definition of diplomacy is ‘best
diplomat is the biggest liar’.”
Posing the ouestion “What did Stalin want?” he answered
that it was all the industrial area of Europe and Manchuria for
this would enable Russia to become the world’s greatest industrial power.
“It was then we determined to out-coalition Stalin.
The answer was the Marshall Plan which was set up to first aid x
Europe to get on its economic feet and then stand erect politi- li
coalition No. 1

to;

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cally.”

“We

are trying to create a great political power, thereby,
We’re winning. We’re
in Europe so Russia will have to give up.
well on our way.”
Wood stressed that Russia is dominated by Stalin and the
thirteen other members of the Politburo, graphically describing
the little which the Russian people have to say about affairs in
the Soviet Union. He observed that Communism died a long
time ago, but that in the “handful who have the power in Russia
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find the threat to world peace.”
Wood said that Stalin’s plans are to kill the Marshall Plan
at any cost and that lifting of the Berlin blockade gave the men
The speaker observed
in the Kremlin a “new face of peace.”
that even Stalin’s mother called her son “an evil man,” but the

speaker warned that he
today.

Wood

is

the second smartest

man

in

Europe

classified Churchill as the smartest.

The North Atlantic pact was America’s answer to Stalin’s
plans for future aggresion and Wood said, “Stalin’s howls over
it convicted himself of aggressive ambitions.”
Other pacts similar to the Atlantic Treaty are pending, such as Mediiterranean
and Pacific pacts. These pacts, he said, are entirely unnecessary but were forced on us by the present Russian government.
Looking forward to the day when he believes Russia will
have leaders who will “play ball” with the U. N., he predicted
a peace that will last, a disarmament race and the last time for
rearming, provided “we keep on our present policy of setting up
regional pacts to confine Communism. He defined Kremlinism
as “pure, simple military aggression.”
As a “Where we are going?” he declared it is “right ba'ck
to the United Nations without the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic
Charter and the other regional pacts if we in the United States
remain solvent and strong. Our government, however, has to
continue to put first things first. One-half of our national income is now being spent to ‘pay for peace.’ When peace finally
comes, then we can turn to the lesser important domestic problems and other less pressing affairs of state.”
He made an appeal for financial and spiritual solvency and
indicated that the rest of the world looks to us for spiritual
leadership. Wood asserted that we must teach the youth of the
country to put first things first for the world looks to us to continue to provide spiritually in both growth and development.
In his brief message to the class prior to conferring degrees, Dr. Andruss used Henry VanDyke’s, “To The Unknown
Teacher.” It follows:
“I sing the praises of the Unknown Teacher.
Great generals win campaigns, but it is the Unknown Soldier who wins
the war. Famous educators plan new systems of pedagogy, but
it is the Unknown Teacher who delivers and guides the young.
He lives in obscurity and contends with hardship. For him no
trumpets blare, no chariots wait, no golden decorations are decreed.
He keeps the watch along the borders of darkness, and
makes the attack on the trenches of ignorance and folly. Patient in his duty, he strives to conquer the evil powers which
are enemies of youth. He awakens sleeping spirits. He quickens the indolent, encourages the eager, and steadies the unstable. He communicates his own joy in learning and shares with
boys and girls the best treasures of his mind. He lights many
candles, which in later years, will shine back to cheer him. This
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“Knowledge may be gained from books but the love of
knowledge is transmitted only by personal contact. No one
has deserved better of the Republic than the Unknown Teacher.
No one is more worthy to be enrolled in a Democratic Aristocracy, ‘King of himself and servant of mankind’.”
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President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has received plans and specifications for Project No. 831 drawn through the Department of Property and
Supplies covering roof repairs repairs to President’s residence
replacement of long porch on Waller Hall. The architect is Mr.
John A. Schell, 200 West Main street, Bloomsburg, Pa., and the
bids were opened on this project May 18, 1949.
The chief exterior addition to the appearance of the college
is in the construction of a porch connecting the two wings of
Waller Hall and extending within the present court. This construction will consist of fifteen brick archways facing Second
Street and seven brick archways extending in the Court. The
roof of the new porch will be slate with copper gutters and
spouting, and wooden cornice. The columns will be brick with
metal banisters and quarry tile floor. Access to Second Street
will be by means of two sets of steps at the end of a platform
leading to the street level instead of the present broad stairs.
Five of the arch wav spaces extending in the court will be covered with leaded plate glass. The present long porch, of wood
construction, is approximately fifty years old and has been a
characteristic landmark used by all those coming to the college
administrative offices. The new porch is more in keeping with
architecture of Waller Hall.
Roof repairs and repairs to spouting and gutters will be
made on Navy Hall, Waller Hall, Old Gymnasium, Carver Hall
and Laundry. This includes the recovering of the deck on the
clock tow er. removal of the dormer window on Waller Hall and
other repairs that have accumulated. There will also be repairs
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Bloomsburg State Teachers College was represented at the
regional conference of the National Student Association held recently in Philadelphia.
Students from most Pennsylvania colleges and universities attended the sessions which were planned to consider problems that college students have faced during the past year.
Attending from the local college were: Richard Wagner.
Nesconeck: Bernard Zelinski. Mt. Carmel; Audrey Terrel, Waymart; Lois Dzuris, Nanticoke, and Norman Kline, McClure.
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Baccalaureate Sermon
An appeal only to not accept the Golden Rule, the Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the principle of the Brotherhood of man, but to really put them into practice, was made
by the Rev. Henry I. Aulenbach, pastor of the St. Andrew Reformed Church, Allentown, at the baccalaureate service at the
College.

The clergyman observed that “there are still great areas
which you can do some real pioneering” and asserted “We
know how to make and manipulate the most intricate mechanical devices but we still have not earned the art of living toin

gether.”

The service, attended by a large number, opened with the
Prelude “Braver,” Alfred Pollings, and the processional, “Ancient of Days.”
The Rev. Mr. Aulenbach gave the invocation
and foPowin" the h^mn “Faith of Our Father,” President Harvey A. Andruss, of the College, read the scripture. The minister
chose for his theme, “The Great Adventure” and used for his
text “speak to the children of Israel that they go forward,” Exodus 14:15.
Miss Eleanor McClintock, accompanied by Richard Wagner,
sang “To a Hill Top.” The Rev. Mr. Aulenbach pronounced the
benediction and the recessional was “Awake My Soul,” with the
postlude, “Allegro,” E. R. Kreoger.
In his message the Rev. Mr. Aulenbach spoke in part as follows:

“Referring to an incident in the history of the Hebrew peowhen they were pursuaded by Moses to throw off their bondage to Egypt and become a free people, it was not long after
they had started out to make a place for themselves in the world
before they came to the Red Sea, a seemingly impassable barrier
before them and the pursuing Egyptian army behind them. It
was then that God instructed Moses to ‘speak to the Children of
ple

go forward.’
“So likewise, young men and women, graduating from our
institutions of learning and going out into the world to make a
place for themselves, will soon face impassable barriers—Red
Seas. To you, the challenge of God, of your teachers and of the
world is that you go forward. But how go forward? With so
many inventions and discoveries, there seems to be little possibility of advance along this line. All this is part of that Red Sea
which confronts you. Still the challenge comes to you becomes
a part of that great Modern Advance.
“Some of you will go out into the world and soon be absorbed by the world. The result will be that the world will remain
in its present disturbed turmoil.
Some of you will take such a
concerted step forward that the world will feel the impact of
Israel that they should

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your efforts and become a much better place to live in. There
are still great areas in which you can do some real pioneering.
Maybe we have come to the saturation point in the invention
and discovery of material things. But the field is still wide
c-'en in the field of social sciences
sociology, psychology and
psychiatry. Man knows so miwh about the things about him
but so little about himself. We know how to make and manipulate the most intricate mechanical devices but we still have not

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learned the art of living together. Back in Colonial days, the
idea of a United States of America was but a dream of our forefathers. They went forward to make that dream a reality. Today, the idea of a whole world at peace a United Nations
is but a dream.
If the young people of today advance together,
that dream can be made into a reality.

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“Perhaps the sphere
for pioneering

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which the greatest opportunities

exists today lies in the area of the spirit. It
is an accented fact that spiritual progress always lags behind
our scientific and material progress. Too long, we have placidstill

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ly accepted the Golden Rule: the Two Great Commandments;
the Beatitudes; and the principle of the Brotherhod of all mankind.
But we must do more than just accept them, we must
really put them into practice.

:

“Winston Churchill in his recent visit to America to sign
the Atlantic Charter, addressed some 14,000 people in the Boston Garden at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MidCentury Convocation and his closing words were ‘let us then
move forward together in the discharge of our mission and our
dutv. fearing God and nothing else.’ That is the challenge that
comes to you graduates and the world.”
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Another Bloomsburg State Teachers College “First” was
recorded this year when the first all-college magazine, “The
Olympian,” was issued. According to Editor William A. Stimeling. Berwick, the initial issue of the new publication met with
the overwhelming sales approval of students and faculty. The
magazine, the first of its kind on the campus, contained short
stories, literary and feature articles, poetry and cartoons.
Members of the staff include: Junior L. Eddinger and RobEleanor Todaro,
ert C. Canouse, Berwick, associate editors;
Hazleton, business manager; Howard Hartzell, Danville, art editor; Robert Hiney, Berwick, and Nancy Powel, Scranton, humor
Berwick,
editors; Ruth Shupp, Plymouth, Joyce MacDougall.
and Gloria Dawn Long, Briar Creek, advertising staff; Shirley
Walters, Factorvville, Joseph Curilla, Shamokin, and George!
Chebro, Beach Haven, sales staff and Richard Harner, Berwick, typist. Dr. J. Almus Russell is the faculty adviser.
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Alumni Meeting
Miss Ida Sitler, of town, professor emeritus of biology,
Hollins College, Va., and Dr. Lindley H. Dennis, of Washington,
D. C., executive secretary of the American Vocational Association, were honored by fellow alumni of the Bloomsburg Teachers
College when they were presented with certificates for meritori-

ous service.

The presentation

to Miss Silter was made by Mrs. Gary C.
Mills, a classmate, who told of Miss Sitler’s great
contributions in the field of education and of her great interest
in persons.

Myers, Boyd’s

The following

is

Miss

Sitler’s citation:

In recognition of her scholarship, distinguished services as
teacher of biology and related sciences, and her inspiration to
American youths in high ideals of scientific pursuits and useful
living.

Howard F. Fetterolf, of Harrisburg, made the presentation
to Dr. Dennis, a member of the fifty year class in reunion, observing that the present system of vocational education of Pennsylvania was set up bv Dr. Dennis.
Dr. Dennis’s citation read as follows:

THE CITATION
Great as a Vocational Leader and Organizer; his counsel
is sought by Education from every part of the Continent.
Mrs. Ellen Allen Bond, of town, who graduated from the
institution seventy years ago, won the hearts of all the alumni
in her gracious response to the fifty dollars presented to her.
Mrs. Bond, still young in spirit, observed that she taught
fifty-seven years and wishes she could return to the classroom,
“although I am hardly young enough now.”
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the alumni, who presided
at the general meeting in Carver Hall during the morning, made
f he presentation to Mrs. Bond, on behalf of the association, as
he returned to her the certificates she had been awarded almost
three quarters of a century ago.
President Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, extended welcome and said that the year just concluded was the
biggest in the history of the institution. He also stated that
preparatory work here in special fields is recognized by other
institutions of learning.

Referring to the General State Authority, he spoke of the
in which such funds would aid in the repairing and rebuilding of the College plant. A survey has shown that a larger
percentage of graduates in recent years is going into teaching
and he spoke of the higher salaries now being offered educators.
Fred W. Diehl, superintendent of the Montour county
schools and a member of the board of dierctors of the Alumni

manner

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Association, has served the College for a longer period as trustee than any other person, President Andruss stated.
The session opened with the invocation by the Rev. Dr. G.
H. Hemingway who had participated in the baccalaureate service of the class of 1899.
Reports of various officials were
given. Renamed to the board of directors for three-year terms

were Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffiths, Wilkes-Barre, and Miss Harriet Carpenter and Edward F. Schuyler, of town.
Robert Redman, coach of the undefeated College football
and baseball teams of the term now closing, was introduced and
given a warm round of applause. The Luzerne County Branch
of the

Alumni Associiation presented

fifty dollars to the

Husky

Fund.

The alumni, without dissenting voice, voted to raise the
dues, except for members of the graduating class, and with
fhe additional revenue to go into the alumni athletic scholarshin
fund.
T he roll call of the classes followed, with each reporting on
luncheon in the dining hall at neon, resome of its activities.
unions during the afternoon, the baseball game and the dance
were other features.
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Collingdale High School took first place honors and the
winner’s bronze plaque in the Seventeenth Annual Business Education Contest of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
Saturday, April 30.
Danville was co-runner-up in the team rating with Sunbury.
Berwick placed fourth. Bloomsburg, contest winner of last
year, placed fifth, and Nescopeck, ninth
Individual winners were:
Bookkeeping Frances Jacobs, York; second, Harris LaVerne, Berwick, and Marie Rebinski, Plymouth.
Business mathematics Betty Hoover, Millersburg; John
Finnegan, Collingdale; Betty Ruth Keller, Bloomsburg.
Shortland Lois Thompson, Sunbury; Leah Wilsey, Tunkhannock; Marie Brehun, North Union.
Typewriting Eleanor Noe, Collingdale; Mary Kauffman,
Juniata Point; Janet Funk, Collingdale.
Thirty-two schools were represented by 117 high school students and teachers. Gold, silver and bronze stars were awarded
to students who ranked first, second and third respectively in
each of the four divisions of the contest.
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^J]HONOR AWARD RECIPIENTS AND THEIR SPONSORS
Front row, left to right: Mrs. Ella Allen Bond, class 1879; Miss
Ida Sitler, class 1905; Mrs. Carrie Clark Myers, class 1905; rear
row, left to right: Dr. E. H. Nelson, class i.911, President of the
Association; Lindley H. Dennis, 1899; Howard Fetterolf, 1910.
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SENIOR BANQUET
The annual ball and banquet of the graduating Seniors of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was held in Hotel Sterling,
Wilkes-Barre, as the concluding feature of Senior Day.
William Tiddy, master of ceremonies, introduced the guests
of the evening: Dr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Rygiel, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
A. Gehrig, Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Wisher and Mr. and Mrs. Ed-

ward

T.

DeVoe.

After addresses by Dr. Andruss and Dr. North, Miss Eleanor McClintock, Nescopeck, sang several soprano solos, accompanied by Dick Wagner.
Group singing followed, under the
leadership of the general chairman of the ball and banquet,
Phillip Joseph.
A1 Anderson and his Orchestra, of Wilkes-Barre, provided
music for dancing and listening pleasure.
The following committees were active in making the affair a success:
Chairman of banquet, Ernest Olson: chairman of ball, Charles Boyer; dance
programs, Pauline Kokolias. Dale Mantz, Vincent Friday; decorations, Richard
Grimes, Joan McDonald, Stewart Becktal, Norman Hawk; host and hostess,
Gladys Kuster, Robert LeVan; invitation, Angelo Albano, Ruth Elder, Edwin
Reiser, Charles Kazmerovicz; orchestra, George Paternoster, Louise Garard;
publicity,, Shirley Henley, Santa Prete; refreshments, Zita Cortright, June
Jacobs, Michael Spanich; tickets, Lois Datesman, Thomas Bowman, Frank
Radice; transportation. James Hantjis, Eloise Noble, Richard Keyser, Gloria
Galow.

The Senior Class

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composed of around 200 members. Class
president; John Purcell, vice
president; Mary Fox, secretary, and Leonard Lipski, treasurer.
Earl A. Gehrig is the class advisor, and Walter S. Rygiel chairofficers are: Alfred

man

of

!

is

Lampman,

commencement

activities.

Miss Christine A. Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Peters, of Berwick R. D. 1, became the bride of Earl H. Blake,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Blake, of East Front street,
Berwick, in a ceremony at ten o’clock Saturday, June 11, at St.
Mary’s Church, of Wanamie. The Rev. V. A. Simkoniss, pastor,
officiated at the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School, class of
1945, and is a senior at Pennsylvania State College. The groom,
a graduate of 1944 at Berwick High School, is a junior at

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When
ball

the 1949 Bloomsburg State Teachers College baseteam wrote an undefeated season into the record books by

blasting out its twelfth straight victory, it equaled the record
of the 1935 Huskies who won twelve and lost one. Most prominent member of that outfit was Danny Litwhiler, who is now
playing with the Cincinnati Reds.
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May Day
Before 2,000 spectators on the Waller Hall terrace. Misses

Midge and Madge Fuller, Berwick seniors, were crowned Queens
of the May to open the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College
Spring festival. Sunny skies smiled down on the merrymakers
in marked contrast to last year’s program which was plagued
by rain and cold weather.
The two queens, elected by popular vote of the student
body, were crowned with daisy wreaths in traditional ceremonies by Thaddeus Swigonski, Nanticoke, College Council president, and Alfred Lampman, Kingston, president of the senior
class. They presided over the colorful festivities from a throne
platform decorated with evergreen.
The program presented in honor of the Queens and their
court was entitled, “Inside Our U.S.A.” and included dances and
games presented by Benjamin Franklin School pupils, accordian
music by Andrew Maceiko, Wilkes-Barre, and concluded with
the traditional winding of the Maypoles by Benjamin Franklin
School pupils and College women.
The May Day ceremonies were directed by Mrs. Robert B.
Redman, who was assisted by the faculty of the Benjamin
Franklin School. Howard F. Fenstemaker directed the Maroon
and Gold Band which provided music for the processional and
a short concert prior to the ceremonies.
Eight attendants of the May Queen’s court, dressed in pastel gowns of pink, yellow, blue and lavender and carrying bouquets of Spring flowers, preceded the queens in the colorful
procession.
Flower girls from the second grade of the Ben
Franklin School dropped petals of Spring flowers along the way.
The queens were dresed in picturesque gowns of white organdy
and carried arm bouquets of varicolored Spring blossoms.
Members of the court were Zita Spangler Cortright, Hummel’s Wharf; Louise Garard, Lewisburg: Doris Giladv. Snringfield; James McCullough, Lewisburg;
Joan McDonald, Ringtown; Mary Helen Morrow, Towanda; Eloise Noble, Milanville,
and Martha Jane Sitler, Bloomsburg.
During the program, flags were pinned to a large map of
the U. S. as each part of the country was depicted in dances.
Kindergarten pupils, taught by Miss Grace Woolworth, opened
the festivities with New England Maypole rhythms. Boys and
girls of the fourth grade, Mrs. Anna G. Scott, teacher, brought
back memories of New York with a spritely dance, “Sidewalks
of New York.”
Third grade pupils, taught by Miss Marcella Stickler, were
dressed in Indian costumes and presented a wild west number as
Andy Maceiko played “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Girls of
the fourth grade in purple ballet costumes and flower hoops
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danced to the number, “Missouri Waltz.”
Pupils of the first grade taught by Mrs. Lucile J. Baker
made a big hit in their amusing blackface costumes as they performed a lively southern number. Fifth graders followed with
a Virginia Reel.

Miss Iva Mae Van Scoyoc’s second graders presented a novdance with skipping ropes in interpreting “School Days.”
During the number, Andy Maceiko played “California Here I
Come.” A cleverly conceived routine was performed by boys
of the sixth grade taught by Miss Edna J. Barnes who gave a
well-enacted pantomime in uniform of “Take Me Out to the Ball
Game.” The concluding number was a waltz by sixth grade
girls to “Beautiful Ohio” which was an old fashioned costume
elty

and colorful umbrellas.

The May fete closed with the colorful winding of the May
poles with grade school pupils and College women participating
The ending of the program was the signal for some fifty to sixty
amateur photographers to surround the May queens and their
court to take hundreds of pictures of the colorful scene.
Mrs. Redman expressed thanks to all those who helped
the production a complete success. Miss Lucy McCammon
had charge of the Queens and their Court. College May poles
and properties were under the direction of Nevin T. Englehart.
Edward D. Sharretts, Mrs. Charles Beeman, and pupils of the
special grade taught by Mrs. Eleanor Mart'n
The costumes were made by mothers of the children participating in the dances and flowers were furnished by Dillon’s
Greenhouses. Accompanists were Miss Marcella Stickler and
Miss Mary Shoemaker. The sound system was supervised by
Joseph Curilla, Shamokin. The Bloomsburg American Legion
furnished the baseball uniforms used by the sixth grade. Coordinator for the Benjamin Franklin School and student teachers assisting in the production was Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education.

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Miss Patricia J. Mercer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
H. Mercer, of West Third street, Bloomsburg, became the bride
of K. Rodney Morgans, son of Mrs. Amanda Morgans, of Williamsport, in a ceremony April 18 in the rectory of St. Columba’s Catholic Church.

The bride, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School with the
class of 1947, is employed in the laboratories of Bloomsburg
The groom is a junior at B.S.T.C., majoring in secMills, Inc.
ondary education. A Marine during World War II, Mr. Morgans served thirty-two months in the South Pacific with a
radar division.
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'Saucered and Blowea
By

E. H.

NELSON,

’ll

May we

take this opportunity to congratulate Bloomsburg
fine spirit manifest everywhere on Alumni Day.
It is heartening to know that graduates are keenly interested
in their Alma Mater and ever ready to boast the old school. As
concrete evidence of your loyalty, you handed over to the cheer
Those who responded
leaders $142.80 for the Husky Fund.
were:
Laura Ermish Adams
Mrs. Boyd Keck

Alumni for the

Albert
Mrs. R. Bruce Albert
H. A. Andruss

C. L.

Mrs. A. N. Keller

Ameta

Kistler

Edna Aurand
Mrs. Benny Baker
Aldona Balranski
Leonard Barlik

Derr Kline
Rachael Evans Kilne
Viola Kline
Mrs. Marion S. Knouer
Kathleen Kurilla

Mrs. R. Beveridge

H

Mary Boath

Alma Noble Leidy

Edith Brace

Elmer Levan
Ruth B. Lindemuth

Eugene Brady
Marion Brennar Bredbenner

Bower
Lulu Appleman
Mary

E.

Brunstetter

Leon Bryant
Mrs. Raymond Buckalew

Dr.
E.

Charnitski

Lillian

H. Lanterman

Frances Lase
Grace McCay

Anthony McDonald
Mary Harrington McHenry
Barbara McNinch
Margaret Mengoes

Henry Coalig

Maud Mensch

Mrs. Arlene F. Covert
Marjorie A. Croat

Robert C. Metz
Ruth D. Moore
Charles J. Morris
Harold Moyer
Dari Ikeler Myers

Rhoda Crouse
Robert Davis

Lena

Diltz

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Dr. Scott Fisher
Mrs. Burton Fortner

Alberta Nichols
Mrs. Annie S. Nuss
Elizabeth H. O’Brien
Caroline E. Petrillo
Rachael Powell
Robert Reimard
Laura B. Rentschler
Kenneth Roberts

Mary Gething

Mrs

Robert Diltz
Mrs. R. C. Dix
Margaret C. Dula
Sarah Dymond
Naeoma Eble
Alice Neely Elston

Ruth Griffith
Joseph Grimes
Irene Guest
Mrs. Clinton N. Gulliat
R. G. Hallisay
Sally Harlen

Grace Hartman
Claire

Hedden

Marie W. Hemming
L. T. Hennin
Wm. Hess
Harry O. Hine
Bess Hinkley
Mrs.

J.

S.

Shuman Hower

Lillian Scott
Mrs. Vernon Seward
Mrs. Charles J. Shaffer

Dr. George Shuman
John J Sircovics

W.

B. Sterling
J. R. Taylor
Rachael P. Thomas
James G. Tierney

Mrs.

Harry G. Trasher
Mrs Fred Walton
Gladys Wenner
Mrs. Lenore K. Williams
Ethel Wilson
Mrs. Lyoll Wilson

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Wm.

B.

James

Swisher
Grace Woolworth

P. R.

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Johns
Marion Thomas Jones
Mrs. Mary E. Jones

Our thanks

to

all

of

Mrs.

you and the

Thomas York
girls

who

collected the

money.
In response to the letter sent out previous to Alumni Day,
asking for contributions to the Husky Fund, the following responded to the amount of $868.00:
C. L. Albert

Emma

Helen G. Andres
Erma Angstadt

Miles L. Killmer
Harriet Kocher
Mr. Kaji

L. R. Appleman
Dr. M. H. Ash
E. P.

Barnard

Mrs. Ada L. Beale
Angeline E. Beavers

Naomi Bender
Mark H. Bennett
E. D.

Bidleman

Sara E. Birth
Mrs. Leslie J. Boone
Oscar Boyer
Marjorie E. Brace
S. M. Bray

Dora Brown
Helene L. Brown
Margaret D. Brunner
Genevieve L. Bubb
B. F. Burns
Sabella S. Campbell
Anna Gayituey Canfield
Harriet Carpenter
Helen Carpenter
Carroll D. Champlin
Class of 1892
Class of 1924

Clyde Confer
J.

G.

Conner

Josephine P. Conner
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cooper
Charles Creasy
Wm.T. Creasy
Allen L. Cromis

Mary

R.

Crumb

Sadie M. Crumb
L. H. Dennis
Nellie M. Dennison

Charles W. Derr
Edward DeVoe

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Diehl
Mrs. Robert C. Dix
Bessie B. Daig
Pauline L. Dauden
Mrs. Lorna Doyle
A. W. Duy, Jr.
Mrs. Alice Dwyer
Aleta B. Englehart
N. T. Englehart

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Kelminski

Frank Koniecko
Irene D. Konrad
Oliver H. R. Krapf
Elmer Levan
Edna M. Lewis
H. J. Lewis
Sara F. Lewis
Luzerne County Branch
John McGrew
A. R.

McHenry

Harry L. Magee
J. M. Malone
Eleanor Beckley Martin
Jack L. Metz
Beatrice Mettler
D. B. Miller
Margaret Price Miller

Ray W. Milnes
Montour County Branch
Harriet Moore
Mrs. Howard Moore
Mrs. Lawrence Moore
K. Morris
Mrs. Josepha Myres

Zigmund Najaka
A. T. Naugle

“No Name” contributions
J. L. Oakes

Mrs.
Mrs.

Mary

L. Paetzell

Emily A. Park
Roy C. Peterman
Marion D. Polk
Mrs. Charles Popky
Pearl Paust
Mrs. William J. Prizer
Flora Ransom

Robert B. Redman
William Reed
Marion J. Reinbold
Bertelle Y. Richards
Eugene K. Richards
Mrs. Maurice V. Ridall
Gertrude Rinker
Emma Roberts
James B. Robinson
Edward Roth

ALUMNI

THE

Clarence A. Ruch

Mrs. John H. Evans
Mrs. T. H. Evans
Ethel R. Farver
Geo. Ferris, Jr.
Ario M. Fetterman
Betty L. Fisher
Scott Fisher
Ward E. Fisk
Gertrude G. Fleischer
Edith T. Fling
Miriam V. Freas
Mrs. Bertha G. Garrison
Harry N. Gasser
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gehrig

Ruth Ruhl

Ryman

L. B.

Anne Sabol
Blair Schaffer
Elizabeth K. Scharf
Rose K. Schieber

Edward Schuyler
W. H. Selden

Emma

Severance

Mrs. Helen Slaughenhaup

Evelyn C. Shuman
John H. Shuman
Peter Sincavage
Ben Singer
Ida Sitler
Clarence S. Slatear
Mr. and Mrss. Wm. E. Smith

Minnie L. German
Janet Gilbody

Eva A. Good
June R. Good
Mary A. Good

Glenmore Snyder
H. E. Snyder
Charlotte H. Stark
Elsie Lebo Stauffer
Mrs. M. V. Stohr

Barbara J. Greenly
Joseph R. Grimes

Dean Harpe
Elmer Haupt
C .M. Hausknecht

W.

B. Sutliff

Clara M. Swank
Catherine V. Symons

Joyce E. Hay

Caudace L. Heiu
Hargaret H. Henry
Clayton H. Hinkel
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Ann

C.

Thompson

Sara E. Tubbs

Mary

Holderman

Mrs. John G. Hopkins

Ada M. Housenick
Mrs. Ellen Houstau
H. V. Hower
Mrs. John S. Hauer
Mrs. R. M. Huber
Mrs. A. Husband
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutchinson

Vera Housenick
Mrs. Mae E. John
Grace M. Johnson
Mrs. James S. Jordan

A. Vollrath

Michael Walaconis
Dora A. Walters
R. C. Welliver
Walter C. Welliver
Ethel Creasy Wright
Mrs. Hazel Wright
Helen May Wright
Adeline C. Yannes
Edward H. Yost
R. E.

Young

Catherine Zealberg
L.

Zimmerman

Ray B. Keeler
Ray Zimmerman
Out of this number there were nine contributions of $50.00
or more, and these names will appear on the bronze plaque, with
one exception. This donor wishes to remain anonymous. The
others are as follows:
Class of 1924. (The first class to be listed on the plaque.)
L. H. Dennis
1899.
Dr. Scott Fisher 1909.
Mrs. Mae E. John
(In memory of her late husband, Dr.
J. S. John.)
Luzerne County Branch Sponsor of Donald Jenkins.
Harry L. Magee Sponsor of James Harman.
Montour County Branch Sponsor of Allen McCracken.
Thursabert Schuyler (In memory of her sister, Mary,
whose name is listed as making the supreme sacrifice.)
Our sincere thanks to every one of the contributors. You

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show your

interest in the school,

and that

WE NOTED
1.

2.

3.

is

what

counts.

THAT:

Harry

O. Hine, ’85, had a wonderful time.
Mrs. Annie S. Nuss, ’88, is always doing her part to
make Alumni Day a success.
Mrs. Bond was attending church and Sunday School
the morning after Alumni Day when we called to in^

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previous had been too fatiguing. What a pleasure to
present that dear lady with an orchid!
Eddie Schuyler did a real job in promoting the 1924 re-

5.

The Class

union.
6.

7.
8.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

of 1894 had a fine group present.
Miss Patterson was back to meet with a class she served as advisor.
Harold Moyer enjoyed having 1909 “down on the farm.”
Dr. Hemingway was with the Class of 1899 on the platform and gave the invocation as he did when the class
was graduated 50 years ago. Match that one! At the
time he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in
Bloomsburg. Our thanks to him for coming up from
Florida two weeks early to be with the class for the

occasion.
The College administration did everything possible to
provide for the comfort and pleasure of the returning
alumni.
Ann Challis Thompson, ’04, works hard to promote the
reunion of her class, and did a fine job.
Bob Redman finished up the baseball season with an
undefeated team. He did the same thing in football.
The Alumni are proud of the teams and the coaches.
Miss Ida Sitler was the first woman to receive the meritorious service award. She was ably presented by Mrs.
Carrie Clark Myers, a classmate.

Nevin Englehart has stopped counting the reunion
days he has worked so hard to make possible, as pleasant occasions. You know he is the genial SuperintendArrangements don’t
ent of Buildings and Grounds.
just happen.

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Editor Fenstemaker says this column is already too
long, but we would like to say more about many of you.
You made it a great day. Sincere thanks again.

Coach Robert B. Redman, who tutored the unbeaten and
untied Bloomsbury State Teachers College gridders during the
1948 season, posted another perfect season during the past
baseball campaign.
His Husky diamond crew won twelve
straight decisions over intercollegiate rivals.
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of the Faculty

Dr. Ernest H. Englehart has been appointed director of
secondary education at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
He will have charge of student teaching in the secondary
schools of Danville, Bloomsburg and Berwick, the direction of
the placement service, and a limited teaching assignment in the
field of secondary education.
The appointment, made by the
board of trustees, was announced by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss.
TV Englehart holds the A. B. and M. A. degrees from Bucknell
Universiity, and the Degree of Doctor of Education from the

University of Pittsburgh.
For the last thirteen years he has been supervising principal of the Muncy public schools, and before that time was a
high school teacher in the same system.
H° i" tVie author of “Objective Tests in Literature,” Oxford Book Company, 1936, and “Workbooks
in
Grammar,”
Williamsport Printing and Binding Company, 1938.
He is a member of Rotary, and has been active in the affairs of the Pennsylvania State Education Association on both
the county and state levels.
Doctor Englehart holds the high school principals, elementary principals, and supervising principals certificate, and also
a letter of eligibility for the superintendent’s commission. He
replaces Harry F. Garner, who has resigned his position to accept a position at Temple.
Dr. Ted J. Satterfield, Bala-Cynwyd, former West Chester
star athlete, has been named to the facultv of the Bloomsburg
wState Teachers College according to announcement
made by
President Harvev A. Andruss. Dr. Satterfield, who has been
teachmg phvsical education and hvgiene in the Lower Merion
Schools, will assist Coach Robert B. Redman with the Bloomsburg football squad and help coach other intercolegiate snorts.
Satterfield, who graduated from West Chester in 1935, received his Master of Science degree from Temnle Universitv in
1P3R This .Tune he was granted the degree of Doctor of Education in Educational Administration and Health and Physical
Education bv Temple University. At that time he was honored
with the Phi Delta Kaona award for research. His dissertation
was a thorough -going study of tort liability in the public
schools.
former star gridder for Coach Glen Killinger at West
Chester State Teachers College, Dr. Satterfield taught at Clifton Heights High School after graduation from college.
At
Clifton Heights he coached football, basketball and track, but
in 1939. he transferred to Lower Merion where he coached football and track. He is a well-known National Board football and

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basketball official.

The new Bloomsburg faculty member

is a veteran of World
having served as a degaussing officer in the United
States Navy from June, 1942, to November, 1945. His work
was based on magnetics and concerned with under-water demol-

War

II,

ition.

Dr. Satterfield will begin his duties with the beginning of
pre-season grid drills Wednesday, August 31.

Harold S. Shellev. director of nhvsical education and athWilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, has been named head basketball coach at the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colege, according to an announcement made by President Harvev
A. Andruss. Mr. Shelley, who coached basketball and track
teams at the Ohio school, will also handle the varsity soccer and
track teams, Dr. Andruss stated.
The new Husky cage mentor replaces Peter R. Wisher, who
coached Bloomsburg basketball teams for the past three sealetics at

sons. Wisher will become a member of the faculty
Rock State Teachers College in September.

at Slippery

Before accepting the Wilmington College position, Mr. Shel-

was head basketball coach at Withrow High School in Cincinnati, where his schoolboy teams compiled brilliant recbrds.
In four years at Withrow his clubs were runners-up for the city
championship two years. Withrow High School is a high school
lev

of 3600 students and

is regarded as the finest school in the city.
Mr. Shelley also coached Milford (Ohio) High School where
he tutored outstanding basketball teams. Milford reached the
district tournament each of the six years he coached there, winning four county titles wiithout losing a single game. His clubs
were runners-up in county competition in the other two years.
Shelley is a graduate of Ohio Northern University where
he starred in football, basketball and track. He received his Master of Arts degree in Physical Education at the University of
Michigan. His experience includes twelve years of public school
teaching and three and a half years of college teaching and

coaching.

His assignment at Bloomsburg will begin with the opening
of College, September 12.
o

Bloomsburg State Teachers College undefeated football
team, the only perfect-record team in college football last season, was the only grid aggregation in the history of the college
to write a perfect season into the record books.
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Athletics
Varsity athletes of the College, who have earned keys for
outstanding participation in varsity athletics, are now being
awarded lifetime passes by the College for all athletic events.
This courtesy was reported at the alumni meeting. Holders
of the pass are known as members of the Key Club. One side
of the card holds the athletic record of the bearer.
John “Bloody” Sircovics, of Berwick, four years varsity
center in pre-war days, was present to receive his card. Other
recipients will have them mailed out immediately,
with the
Alumni Association to handle this matter.
Others members are Daniel H. Bonham, Sterling Banta, Robert A.
Brown, Frank Koniecko, Frank Golder, Daniel Hausknecht, Kenneth HippenFrederick. L. Hauck, Fred Jaffin, William G. Kerchusky, Leo J. Lehman. Danny Litwhiler, Norma Maza, Robert H. Parker, Irving Ruckle, Malcyn
P. Smethers, Daniel F. Thomas, Frank M. VanDevender, Henry J. Warman,
Walter Withka, Walter W. Yaretski, Adolph Zalonis, William Reed, Samuel
Cohen, Charles Blackburn, Bernard Cobb, Sam Krauss, Joseph Dixon, Ernest
Line, Woodrow Litwhiler, Mervin Mericle, Walter Moleski, Edward Phillips,
Frank Rompalo, Frances Sell, Walter Washeleski.
steel,

Those who have been observing Bloomsburg State Teachhad a host of memories re-

ers College sports through the years
vived when the list was read.

Only one of these men, John (Bloody) Sircovics, a sixty
minute center and a captain in World War II, was on hand to get
his award personally.
“Bloody” carries a much better upholstery job now than he did in his playing days at Berwick High
and the College but he was a durable lad and playing with a
broken nose was something that Sircovics expected. It never
slowed his game. He played in the days when there weren’t
many more fellows in school than were on the undefeated squad
last fall, and the group was so small that the fellows were kept
on the job just about all of the time.
Kenny Hippensteel, a native of Scott and now teaching in
Georgia, is one of the three sport men holding a key. Kenny
was on the cross-country team in ’36 and ’37. He was a member
of some of the greatest track and field teams in Husky history
which George C. Buchheit turned out. Those were in the springs
from 1936 through 1939. He also made his letter in soccer in
1938 and 1939.
Walter Moleski was a Coal Township product and better
known as “Whitey.” He played all four years on the football
team, 1932 through 1936. He played on the varsity basketball
team in 1933-34 and on the baseball team from 1934 through
He later played
1936, being on the undefeated nine of 1935.
with the Bloomsburg club.
Walter Yaretski was a Newport township product. He was
on the football team in 1930 and was three years on the basketball tear? and captain, 1932-33. He played baseball in 1931 and
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1932 and got his fourth varsity letter as track manager

and

in ’32

'33.

^he only man who won varsity letters in all four sports who
on the current list of key holders is Bernard Cobb. While in
school he was known as Bernie Kafchinsky. He was on the
football team of 1930 and the basketball team of 1930-31. He
played baseball in 1931, 1935 and 1936 and won a letter in track
in 1931 and 1934.
Cobb did well in the high brackets of pro
baseball for a number of years, later coached at Shickshinny
and s now in the Wilkes-Barre area.
William K. Kerchusky was a Ringtown contribution to the
Husky cause. He played football in 1939 and 1940, basketball
in ’3o-’39. ’39-’40 and ’40-’41 and was one of the outstanding centers in Bloomsburg history.
In baseball he handled the first
base iob in 1940 and 1941.
Fred Jaffin, of Berwick, played football three years, 1930,
1931 and 1932. He was on the baseball team of ’30 and ’33 and
on the track team of ’32 and ’33.
Before leaving the three snort men we don’t want to overlook Frank VanDevender, present Shamokin High basketball
coach. Now considerably heavier than in college days, Frank
is still the same e-emai individual. He plaved football for the late
.Austie T-afp in ’38.
He was on the basketball team of 1937-38
and 1938-39 and on the track teams from 1936 through 1939,
being an ace sprinter and broad jumper.
Holders of the key for performance in football alone include Joe Dixon, of Hazleton, ’32 through ’35; Mervin “Rip”
Mericle, of town, a bear cat of a center, ’32 through ’36, and
Leo ,T. Lehman, a steady performer, ’38 through ’41.
Tennis isn’t on the varsity sports program now but in the
thirt’ps we had some standouts on the courts.
These included Robert A. Brown, ’30 through ’33 and captain his last year: Adolph Zalonis, ’35 through ’38; Sam Krauss,
a local product, ’32 through '35 and captain the last year.
Walter Withka was on the tennis team in ’36 and ’37 and
on the basketball squad in 1935-36, 1936-37 and 1937-38. Sam
Cohen doubled in track and tennis for a busv spring. He won
track letters in 1932 through ’36 and was on the tennis team in
is

:

’35

and ’36.
Macelyn

ball

P. Smethers, a Berwick boy, played on the basketteams, 1935-36, through 1938-39 and was on the tennis

teams from ’36 through ’39.
Going back to track for a moment, you will find Robert H
Parker, of Kulpmont, was on the cross-country team of ’37 and
’38 and on the track team from 1936 through 1939.
Frederick “Feg” Houck, of Catawissa, was the star first
sacker on the baseball club ’36 through ’39 and soccer captain
in 1938.
Francis Sell, who later developed Penn State’s great
Gerald Carver, was cross-country letter winner in 1931 through
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member of the track team from 1932 through 1935,
mark during that time.
Four of the list won letters in both football and baseball.
One of those was Woody Litwhiler, a brother of Danny, who
was a star end in football, 1932 through 1935, and a pitcher-out1933 and a

setting the 880

on the baseball team, 1934 through 1936.
Another was Don Housknecht, football in 1938 and 1939
and baseball in 1938 through 1940. Frank Koniecko played
football in 1939 and was on the baseball team from 1937 through
1940, the Nanticoke boy doing: a fine job at second base. Frank
Rompalo, of Cumbolo, near Pottsville, who with Woody Litfielder

whiler used to entertain with those accordian-trumpet duets,
played football 1933 through 1935 and was on the baseball
team, 1934 through 1936.
Sterling: Banta, of Luzerne, was on the basketball team and
the baseball team throughout his four years, graduating in
1939.

Frank Golder, builder of champion basketball and baseteams at Bloomsburg High these days, played basketball
from 1928-29 through 1930-31, being one of the top guards in
Husky history, and was a slugging outfielder throughout his
Walter Washaleski, of
collegiate career and captain in 1929.
Simpson, was on the basketball team through years 1932-33
through 1934-36 and on the baseball team in ’34 and ’35. being
ball

an outfielder-first baseman. Charles Blackburn, now in Williamsport and well known as a sports official, played basketball from 1931-32 through 1934-35, hemg cantain the last year,
and was the baseball teams of ’32, ’34 and ’35.
Dan Bonham, of Forty Fort, the field ace on the track
team, played basketball three years and was on the championship track team four years prior to his graduation in 1941. Edward (Edge) Phillips, of the class of ’36, played basketball four
years and so did Irving (Junie) Ruckle, the latter of he class of
1938. Both were from Newport township.
The lifetime passes for the key holders was the idea of
Danny Litwhiler. of Cincinnati Reds, holder of an Alumni Meritorious Award. He was football manager in ’37 and on the baseball team 1935 through 1938.
Ernest Line was on the football
iP n " th”oe
and the track team two. Graduating: in 1935
P'll Reed, now on our Bloomsburg High School faculty, and a
Shamokin product, played basketball four years and football
one, prior to graduating in 1935.
Henry (Hank) Worman, of
Scranton, four years in football and basketball and one year in
track. He joins the three sport groups, Daniel E. (Dinty) Thomas, Edwardsville, was four years in football and four in track,
being captain of track in ’32, the year he graduated. Norman
Maza, of Nanticoke, a star hurler, was on the baseball team four
years, graduating in 1949.
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Graduation days up on College Hill bring back memories
of outstanding feats on the athletic field, basketball court, baseball diamond, and track, especially when a large number of seniors, who receive their degrees are listed in the records in the
athletic office as varsity letter winners. The present graduating
class lists no less than twenty-three persons who
have been
awarded their varsity monograms for participation in the intercollegiate athletic program of the College.
Two other seniors
are amateur boxers who did some fancy work in the ring during
the college days.
Football, as luck would have it, takes the biggest beating.
Fifteen letter winners are slated to get this sheepskins in the
Carver auditorium. One of the fifteen is the senior manager,
A1 Lampman, a Kingston High School grad, and president of
the senior class.
Eight of the remaining fourteen gridders, however, did not

compete with the Huskies last season when the Redman crew
the first in the history of
rolled along to an undefeated season
the College. The list includes Herb Sowers, Williamsport; Eugene Snyder. Danville; Donald Snyder, Milton: James Sampsell,
Pottsville;
Milton; William Miller, Trucksville; Matt Maley,
James Cain, Kingston, and Billy Dugan, Milton.
Sampsell, a former Lenoir Rhyne varsity performer, was
ineligible because he had used up his four years of competition.
Matt Maley, who starred for Lebanon Valley in pre-war days,
was also ineligible, but he assisted Coach Redman with the

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Husky

backs. Billy Dugan ran afoul some scheduling difficulwhile the two Snyders, Sowers, Cain and Miller were involved in practice teaching.
The remaining six seniors, however, saw considerable action with the Redman juggernaut, and two of them earned AllState Teachers College honors with their outstanding play in
an outstanding campaign. Heading the pack of Maroon and
Gold gridders who will depart from the “Friendly College on the
Hill” is Tommy Donan, the greatest tackle ever to wear the Maroon and Gold. An ^.11-Pennsylvania selection and a Little AllAmerican, Donan has already signed a contract to perform for
the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Professional League. In
addition, he expects to do graduate work at the University of
Pittsburgh.
Another potential Steeler star is big Frank Luchnick, the
Mt. Carmel strongboy, who was an All-State Teachers nominee
and All-State honorable mention. Luchnick also hopes to do
graduate work before entering the public teaching ranks. He
was awarded a College service key at the senior assembly recently. He has been very active in the affairs of the Community
Government Association.
Other graduating regulars are Georgie Paternoster, the
flashy pass receiver from Hazleton; Larry Mussoline, the clever
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little guard from Hazleton; Charley Kazmerovicz, burly blocking back from Plains who was handicapped during the greater
part of the 1948 season because of a shoulder separation, and

Angelo Albano, powerful quarterback from McAdoo.
These four gridders won varsity posts in 1946 when the
late “Lefty” Danks laid the foundations for the rebuilding of
Husky grid fortunes, and they all piayed leading roles in the resurgence of the Husky grid machine in 1947 and 1948. Their
places will be tough to fill. All are considering teaching positions in area high schools.
If football suffered the most from
Only
ketball was the least hard hit.
Boyer, the Pottsville ace, departs with
popular curly-haired southpaw has led
chine during the past three years, and
problem for the Huskies next season.

graduation losses, bassharpshooting Charley
the class of 1949. The
the Husky scoring mahis departure creates a
However, a host of re-

turning veterans will make the task a lot easier than Coach
Redman faces in rebuilding the Husky football eleven. Nick
Panzetta, senior cage manager from Hazleton, will also receive
his degree when the diplomas are handed out.
Coach Bob Redman’s undefeated baseball team, the first
perfect-record team in the diamond sport since 1935, loses only
one man by graduation. Bob Thomas, a veteran of three
straight seasons, will not be present next March when the personable Husky mentor issues his call for baseball candidates.
Thomas had sparkled at shortstop for Husky nines in 1947 and
1948 and this season he enjoyed his best year since winning a
varsity position. Thomas, like the other graduating seniors, expects to teach next September.
Two trackmen will receive their degrees with this year’s
graduating class Charles Schiefer, a hurdler from Steelton,
and Tommy Smigel, two-miler from Courtdale. Neither ran this
season for Coach Pete Wisher’s thinclads, but both won varsity
letters for service during the 1948 campaign.
Smigel, a pintsized distance runner, surprised Husky fans with his performance in the two-mile event, while Schiefer was a consistent performer in the high hurdles.
Soccer also loses two standout competitors by graduation.
Buddy Hartman, the stocky Benton veteran, and his fellow
townsman, Royal Conrad, will not be available when the Husky
booters report in September. Hartman lost a season of eligibilitv when he transferred here from Penn State, but Conrad was
a three-year veteran who never failed to turn in a creditable performance. Both will be sorely missed when the 1949 season gets

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under way.
Although the College does not have a boxing team, it does
have two graduating seniors who can throw the leather with
the best of them. Harry Bertsch, a Pottsville slugger, and
Frank Radice, of Wilkes-Barre, are amateur leather pushers
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who

could have represented the Huskies in the squared ring.
in good shape during their college days, and Bertsch
helped the Pottsville Y.M.C.A. ringmen in regular season bouts.
Because of the fact that school boards do not ordinarily
name their new teachers until later in the summer, few of the
graduating athletes have secured definite teaching positions.
However, Jimmy Cain, the Kingston halfback, is reported to
have landed a high school coaching job at Marietta. Other
Husky letter winners can be expected to be found in strategic
positions throughout the state when the school bells ring next

Both kept

fall.

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BASEBALL SCORES
April
April
April

26—BSTC
29— BSTC
30— BSTC

Mav 2— BSTC
3 — BSTC
Mav
May 6— BSTC
7 —BSTC
May
May 10—BSTC
Mav 14.— BSTC
May 17—BSTC
Mav 21— BSTC

13
7
12
5

Kings
Shippensburg

6
4

Millersville

Susquehanna

4
1

Wilkes

5

7

Army

1

Mansfield

2
3
7
2
0

Second

14
13
9
10
16
15

Lock Haven
Mansfield
Wilkes

Kings
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TRACK
21— BSTC
23—BSTC
26— BSTC
May
3—BSTC
April
April
Anril

Scranton 46
Chevney 56
Shippensburg 92
Lock Haven 98

80
75
34
28

o

m

Bifth
Penn Relays, April 30.
Sixth in State Teachers College Meet

May

at

Shippensburg,

7.

Temple University is on both the basketball and baseball
schedules of the Bloomsbury State Teachers College Huskies
next •'"ear
The Owl quintet, which opened athletic relations
w'th the Hu^kie^ durin^ the 1 047-48 baseball season with a
game here, will play in Bloomsburg next winter. The nine will
play in Philadelphia and hopes to add another Philadelphia
school to the list for a two-day trip into the Quaker City area.
University of Scranton is also expected to be on the baseball schedule next spring.
The contract with Susquehanna
cont nues in baseball as the Huskies add more opponents from
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Football drills for the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
will get underway Wednesday, August 31, Coach Robert B. Redman announced. The Huskies, the only unbeaten and
untied college football team in Pennsylvania last season, will
launch their preparations on the campus with two-a-day drills
until the opening of school September 12.
Missing from the powerful Maroon and Gold club that
rocked and socked nine intercollegiate rivals to pile up nine
straight verdicts during the 1948 campaign will be no fewer
than six veteran performers. Toughest assignment faced by
Coach Redman and his staff of assistants will be to fill the shoes
of Tommy Donan, All-State tackle from Columbia, and Frank
Luchnick, Mt. Carmel, who won a guard spot on the 1948 AllTeachers eleven. Both Huskies will be playing for pay this fall
with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Other varsity line vacancies were created when George
Paternoster, the agile Hazleton end, and Larry Mussoline, another former Hazleton schoolby star, departed from the scene
via the diploma route. Major backfield losses included Angelo
burly
jMbano, McAdoo veteran, and Charley Kazmerovicz.
Plains senior. Both received their sheepskins with this year’s

Huskies

graduating class.
The Huskies open their 1949 season at Wilkes-Barre Satuday night, September 17, against the powerful Wilkes College
Colonels, while home fans will get their chance to see the Redman crew in action closer to home Saturday night, September
24, when the Berwick Lions Club will present its annual Sight
Mansfield
Conservation Fund tilt at Crispin TTield. Berwick
Teachers and the Huskies will tangle that night in a game that
should go far in determining the Huskies’ chances to repeat as
Teachers College champs.
Sixteen

members

Bloomsburg State Teachers Colteam have been awarded varsity let-

of the

lege’s undefeated baseball
ters.

The unbeaten Huskies, who were coached by Robert B.
Redman, matched the record of the Husky football team that
compiled the only perfect record in Pennsylvania football last
season. Incuded among the ten victims of the power-laden Huskv diamond crew were the mighty Second Army nine from Fort
George Meade. Susauehanna University, Wilkes College, King’s
College and several State Teachers College rivals.
Those men who received the varsity monogram for their
record-smashing performance were: Robert Mowry, George
Lambrinos, Robert Thomas, Edward Piestrak, Paul Slobozien,
Owen Diehle, Clair Mensinger, William Byham, Richard Hummel, Stanley LeVan, Henry Marek, Michael Evans, Donald Butler, Henry Brunn, John Czerntakowski and John Buynak.
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DR. NORTH NAMED COUNSELOR
Dr. Thomas P. North, dean of instruction, Teachers College, was named counselor for the White Mountain Conference
of the National Education Association held at Durham, New
Hampshire, from June 28 to July 2. This year’s meeting was
based on the theme, “Dynamics of Professional Growth,” and
dealt largely with problems of educating in-service teachers.
Dr. North, who served as counselor for the 1948 conference held at Bowling Green, Ohio, and the 1947 sessions at Oxford, Ohio, advised and consulted with a group which will deal
with the use of resources of institutions of higher learning for
As a result of last year’s conference at
teachers-in-service.

Bowling Green, the Bloomsburg Dean wrote a chapter in the
newly-published NEA handbook, “The Education of Teachers.”
Announcement of Dr. North’s appointment is an honor for
the local College and has also brought it favorable nationwide
Attendance at the 1949 conference is limited to 400
publicity.
selected educators and representatives of ranking, national professional organizations and 25 national lay organizations, including the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the
Associated Women’s Clubs.
At the present time, Dr. North is chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission of Teachers Educational and Professional
Standards.
o

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College will not be able
accommodate students assigned for the freshman year of
the Liberal Arts curriculum by the Pennsylvania State College.
During the past three years, two sections of seventy-five
to

students, who have matricuated at Pennsylvania State College
the field of Liberal Arts, have attended the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College for the first year of instruction. It was
evident by the middle of July that the Pennsylvania State College would meet its quota of students for the local Teachers
College.
Because of this fact, and in view of the increasing
number of prospective teacher-education candidates for admission, the Teachers College officials have canceled their existing
arrangements with the Pennsylvania State College. In place of
the liberal arts students, the Teachers College will accept an additional section of approximately forty students for preparation
for teaching in the high schools.
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Jean Barr (Mrs. Daniel Newhart) is now living at 323 S.
White Oak Street. Kutztovn, Pa. Her husband, the Rev. D. F.
Newhart, recently resigned the pastorate of Christ Lutheran
Church, Conyngham, Pa., and is now pastor of the Maxatawny
Lutheran Parish.
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Board
E.

of Directors

H. Nelson

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

Harriet Carpenter

Edward

Fred W. Diehl

Hervey

B.

F.

Schuyler

Smith

H. F. Fenstemaker

Elizabeth H.

Huber

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Dauphin County Branch
President, E.

Mae Berger;

First Vice President, Mrs. R. A.

MacCachran; Second Vice President, Mrs. C. G. Gilmer; Treasurer, Homer Englehart; Secretary, Mrs. Blanche Miller Grimes.
Wyoming-Susquehanna Branch
President, Norman J. Maza, Harford, Pa.; Vice President,
Mrs. Martha R. Miers, Harford; Vice President, Mrs. Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock; Secretary, Susquehanna
County, Mrs.
Donald Hicks, New Milford; Secretary, Wyoming County, Dean
Harpe, Tunkhannock; Treasurer, Mrs. Olwen Hartley, Lenoxville.

Montour County Branch
President, Mrs. Ruth D. Rudy, 22 Bloom Street, Danville;
Vice President, Mrs. Mary Ellen Kessler, 290 Mill Street, DanChurch Street, Danville;
ville; Secretary, Alice Smull, 312
Treasurer, Susan E. Sidler, 615 Bloom Street, Danville.

Luzerne County Branch
President, Edna Aurand, 162 Washington Street, WilkesBarre: First Vice President, Edison Fischer, Market Street,
Glen Lyon; Second Vice President, Alberta Nichols, 71 Lockhart Street, Wilkes-Barre; Secretary-Treasurer, Ruth S. Griffith,

92 Willow Street, Wilkes-Barre.

Columbia County Alumni
President, Edward T. DeVoe; Secretary,
retts; Treasurer, Paul Brunstetter.
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Edward D. Shar-

Dauphin-Cumberland Branch
the Dauphin-Cumberland
evening, May 10,
County Alumni held a dinner meeting in Harrisburg. Miss Mae
Berger, president, of the organization, presided at the much-en-

On Tuesday

joyed affair.
The speakers were Dr. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and Dr. E. H. Nelson,
President of the Alumni Association. Mrs. Haas, Mrs. Andruss
and Mrs. Edgar A. Shelly, of Washington, D. C., were guests at
the dinner.
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MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
The annual banquet of the Montour County Alumni of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was held May 16 in St. Peter’s Methodist Church, Riverside. Addresses were given by Dr.
E. K. Nelson, president of the College Alumni Association, and
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the college.
Miss Harriet Moore led in group singing with Howard Fenstemaker as pianist. Ralph McCracken, president of the Montour County Group, was in charge of the program.
Brief memorial services were held honoring three of the
group who died during the past year. They were Honora Dennen Barr, Isobel Everhart Kirkner and A. Cameron Bobb.
The group presented a check for $50 to Dr. Nelson to be
used as a memorial scholarship in honor of Allen McCracken,
member of the group, who lost his life in World War II.
Faculty

members presented were H.

Miss Harriet
North. Harry Gasser and

Fenstemaker,

F.

Moore, Earl Gehrig, Miss Edna Hazen, Thomas

P.

Mrs. Lucille Baker.
Attending were Mr .and Mrs. Jack Eble. Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.
Beagle. Stuart L. Hartman. Rebecca Appleman. Sara Pritchard. Alice Guest,
Harriet Fry, Julia M. Warner. Winifred McVey. Alice W. Karosa, Rush Shaffer. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl. Ralph A. McCracken, Ruth E. Lenhart, Helen
J. Pegg. Carrie Bryner. Sara S. Free.
Lois C. Bryner, Carol F .McCloughan, Gertrude S. Miller. Kathryn
Campbell, Susan Sidler, Mildred Ferry, Winifred Evans, Dorothy Dean, Mary
A. Boyer. Marie K. Wright, Ruth M. Rudy, Lois L. Wintersteen, Elizabeth H.
Tovey. Mary R. Creasy. Leona Brunges. Margaret Morrison, Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. Beaver, Mr. and Mrs. Don Kessler, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Funk and Mrs.
Daisy LeVan.

O

WASHINGTON BRANCH
tion
in

The Washington Branch of the B.S.T.C. Alumni Associawas organized last winter, and held a successful banquet

January.

The

officers of the group are Lillian Zimmerman, ’15, PresCharles Kelchner, ’40, Vice-President; Harriet Kocher,
Secretary; Anna Rusk Fitzpatrick. ’16. Treasurer.
Printed below are the names of some of the members and

ident;
’39,

their activities

—

Martha Wright Moe, ’39 Housewife. Assists the District
of Columbia Headquarters for the Girl Scouts at various times.

—

Clark Renninger, ’41 A Management Analyst in the Budget Bureau of the Navy Department.
Studying for Master’s
Degree in Public Administration at the American University.
Catherine Oplinger Renninger, ’41 Housewife.

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—

Dorothy Englehart Zimmerman, ’39 Housewife.
Ray Zimmerman, ’39 Teaching Mathematics and Biology
Studying for
in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Senior High School.
Master’s Degree in Education and Administration at Maryland

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University.

Charles Kelchner, ’40
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with the Office of Bud-

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gets and Reports in the Navy Department.
Willard Kreigh,’38- In the Office of Public Information of
the Chief of Staff Omar Bradley.
Elizabeth Feinour, ’41 Working in the Washington office
of the Bell Telephone Co.

—

—

Lillian
istration

Zimmerman,

.

—
—Connected with Veteran’s Admin-

’15

—

Saida Hartman, ’08 Employment Committee of the USES.
Sadie Crumb, ’15 Working for the Navy Department.
Mary Crumb, ’24 Working for the Navy Department.
Olive Jeannette Simons Burrus, ’16 Housewife in College
Park, Maryland.
Lenora Ash Burke, ’12 Housewife. Retired from Veterans Bureau.
Grace Derrick Boat, ’12 Housewife in the District.
Pauline Lattimore Dowden, ’92 Housewife.
Has opened
her home for boys working for the government.
Clara Oman, ’15— Administration office of the Census Bu-

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reau.

Walter Siesko, ’29
Harriet

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Civil Service Commission.
’16
Housewife.
Harrington, ’08 Director in Radium Division

McAndrew Murphy,

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Ruth Finn
Ionospheric Research— Bureau of Standards.
Anna Rusk Kitzpatrick, ’16 (Treasurer of Washington
Alumni Association) Librarian in School of Nurses’ Education,
Catholic University.

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Emma Cartwright Shelby, 04 In Insurance Section of the
Veteran’s Administration.
Kathryn Richardson Boor, ’14 Housewife and teacher of
music.
Augusta Henkleman, ’01 Retired from government ser-

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vice.

Members

of classes graduated in the eighties and

whose

reunion this year who were in attendance, together with their guests, included Miss Flora Rausom, Kingston; Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss, Miss Mabel Moyer,
B’oomsburg; G. W. Tiffany, Little York, N. J. Mrs. Bertha
Campbell Garrison, Binghamton, N. Y. Mrs. Pauline L. Douden,
Washington, D. C. Ellen Doney, Shamokin; Mrs. Bertha Burrow Martin, Harrisburg; Murl O. Tiffany, Spring City; Mrs.
John T. Jones, Scranton.
classes

were not

in special

;

;

;

1882
of Miss Winifred Evans, eighty-one, retired Danville School teacher, was found in the cellar of her home on

The body

Thursday, June

who

16.
C. D. Jenkins, supervising principal of the borough schools,
is a relative of Miss Evans, happened by her home and no-

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ticed the papers were still on the porch.
He went to the rear of the house and found the door unlocked.
He entered to inquire about her and discovered her
body near the furnace, with indications that death had occurred
some time before.
It seemed probable that she had been placing food for her
cat when she was stricken.
Dr. B. Schneider was called and
stated that death had occurred probably from a heart attack.
She was born in Danville, the daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas A. Evans. She was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School in 1882 and taught for almost half a century.
Since the death of her sister, about five years ago, she had
resided alone in the family homestead and was the last of her
immediate family.
Miss Evans was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church,
Danville Chapter No. 182, Order Eastern Star and the White
Shrine.

W.

S.

Conner

1885
120 Cypress, Madera, California. He
doing some public service as treasurer of

lives at

states that he is still
the Community Chest.

1886

Norman

G. Cool has recently been very ill in the hospital in
Culver City, California. Mr. and Mrs. Cool have been in California for some time. Their address is P. O. Box 225, Culver
City.

Miss Grace Leacock died last April at the home of her sisMrs. Edgar Mininger, in Roanoke, Virginia. Miss Leacock
had spent most of her life in the Wyoming Valley. She taught
for several years, and always retained her interest in Bloomsburg, and was always present at her class reunions.
J. O. Felker lives at 112 East Market Street, Lewistown,
Pennsylvania. In a recent letter, he says that he is in good
health, and send his best wishes to his classmates and former
ter,

friends at Bloomsburg.

Emma J. Witmer (Mrs. H. B. Felty), of Abilene, Kansas,
passed away October 25, 1948.
1894
The following was received from Bridgett Quinn Keough,
who

lives at St. Xavier,
’94:

Montana:

Dear Classmates of

Deeply regret being unable to meet with you for our 55th
God willing, we shall all meet for our 60th. To paraphrase my class poem:
“There’s something in this greeting hour
That thrills an aging heart,
When classmates, teachers, friends of yore
Are fated now to meet once more.
reunion.

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Yet this we know, old Father Time
Has prest it on the mind,
The palm has not by us been gained
• !

Without the dust of labor’s grind.”
1892

The Quarterly has been informed of the deaths
Booth (Mrs. B .F. Wragg) and Miss Nellie O’Hara.

of

Mary

E.

1893
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hart, of 538 Carey Avenue, WilkesBarre, observed their golden wedding anniversary on April 27.
They have lived in Wilkes-Barre most of their married lives and
are charter members of Firwood Methodist Church. The couple
was married in Wapwallopen by the late Rev. Mr. Jarrett. Mrs.
Hart is the former Loveda Craver. Mr. Hart is a retired educator, starting his teaching career in Hollenback Township in
1893. At the time of his retirement in 1940 he was an instructor at Meyers High School. They have four daughters and two
sons: Mrs. Carl N. Brown, Kingston; Mrs. Henry Mingoes, Monroeton; Mrs. Leonore Beers, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Wilson Maury,
Kunkle; Paul K., Philadelphia, and Jay C. York. There also are
seven grandchildren, Paul Beers, Philadelphia; John Mingos,
M^nroeton; Suzanne and Robert Hart, Philadelphia; Linda and
Richard Hart, York; Kathie Maury, Kunkle.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hart are enjoying good health and on
Saturday, April 30, at 3:00 P. M. renewed their vows in Firwood
Methodist Church with Rev. George Savige oficiating. Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Hart, of Berwick, the maid of honor and best man
A reception for
at the wedding 50 years ago, attended them.
relatives and friends followed in the church parlors.
1894
The class of 1894 in fifty-fifth year reunion had a remarkable attendance for a delightful weekend. Present: Mrs. Oscar
C. Kunze, Newark, N. J.; W. K. Beagle, Williamsport; Mrs. Mary
Frymire Keils, Watsontown; Bertha B. Espy, Towanda; Mrs.
Minnie G. Hehl Buck, Bloomsburg; Mrs. B. F. Biale, Duncannon; Dr. George E. Pfahler, Mrs. Hannah Dalton, Margaret W.
Palmer, Mary Espy Stehle, Blanche Davenport, Lulu Appleman
Brunstetter,, Anna Sraw Smith, Florence Warren Daniels, J.
Curtis Yocum, Minnie L. Gernon, John P. Dieffenderfer.
1896
The Rev. Dr. J. F. Knittle, seventy-one, Catawissa native
who focused national attention on a Manheim church’s rent of
“one red rose” a year, died in the town of his birth Monday,

May

30.

Death followed a stroke about midnight while he and his
wife were visiting at the home of his sisters, the Misses Ella
and Clara Knittle.
Pastor emeritus of the Zion Lutheran Church of Manheim,
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he had retired from the active pastorate of that church last
July 1. He remained pastor of the Salem Lutheran Church,
Kissel, Pa., and had often occupied the Catawissa pulpit since
the removal of the former pastor, the Rev. Grant Harvey, to a
pastorate in Nevada.
Death ended a ministerial span of forty-five years. The
Manheim Church which he served since 1911, was his second
charge. He had previously served the Church of the Redeemer
in Williamsport.
He was chaplain in the Senate chamber during the past session of the state legislature.
During his latter pastorate he became an authority on Baron Henry William Stiegel, eighteenth century glass maker and
iron master whose works are regarded without peer.
It was
Stiegel, founder and benefactor of the 189-year-old church, who
exacted in provisions of his will that his heirs receive a rental
fee of “one red rose” in return for a land grant.
The minister was prominently featured when he took exception to the character portrayal of Stiegel in the best seller,
“One Red Rose Forever,” by Mildred Jordan. He challenged
Miss Jordan to prove that Stiegel was an immoral man.
During his pastorate he preached nearly 5,000 sermons,

married about 250 couples, welcomed some 850 persons into
church fellowship, and paid about 14,000 pastoral calls.
The son of the late Joseph and Rebecca Berninger Knittle,
he was graduated from the Catawissa High School in 1895. The
following year he was graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Normal School. In 1900 he was graduated from Gettysburg
College and m 1903. the Gettysburg Theological Seminary.
At the University of Indiana in 1929, he received his Ph.D.
degree. Subject material for his thesis on archeology was derived from a trip through Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1943,
Gettvsburg College conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity
on Dr. Knittle.
1897
Amy B. Thomas lives at 820 N. New St., Bethlehem, Pa.
Daniel John Snyder, seventy-four, died Friday, June 3. at
seven o’clock at his Bradford, Pa., home. Born in Hickory Corners, he was the son of the late Henry M. and Heddy Zartman.
He was the brother of the late Harlan R. Snyder, of Catawissa.
He was graduated by the State Normal School in Bloomsburg in 1897, and taught schol in Hickory Corners, Mifflinville,
Orangeville, the Benton Summer School in 1906-07, the Kinzwa
schools and last the Bradford High School where he taught for
thirty-one years.

Mrs. Dora Huber Ely, retired Hazleton school teacher, died
North Vine Street, Hazleton, at 5:30 o’clock
Sunday morning, May 1.
Mrs. Ely, a member of one of Hazleton’s pioneer families,
was one of the best known and most active teachers in the local
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system for 30 vears. After several years in the elementary
school and in Green Street Junior High School, she organized
and taught the first Opportunity School in the Walnut street
school building. She continued as the teacher when the group
was transferred to the Arthur street school where it operates
today.

Her wholesome influence on the pupils she taught continued after they left school and until her death, through a voluminous correspondence with them and through their visits to
her home to seek advice.
Other school systems contemplating similar classes benef ted from her experience by sending teachers to observe the
work in operation in Mrs. Ely’s classes. She spoke frequently
to teacher groups in other cities.
Although she retired in May, 1944, Mrs. Ely’s interest in
children continued at the Trinity Lutheran Church of which
she was a member. In addition to teaching a Sunday School
class, she had charge of the “Children of the Church’’ Saturday
morning classes, and organized the Daily Vacation Bible School
two years ago and served as its superintendent. Her plans for
the coming summer’s Bible School were already under way. She
was also a member of Ladies’ Aid Society of the church.
1898
Miss Elizabeth Foresman died suddenly October 9, 1948, at
her home in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Miss Foresman had
a continuous record of service as a teacher from the time of her
graduation until she retired in 1937. From 1920 to 1937 she
taught in the upper primary grades in Lewisburg.
Miss Foresman had a fine professional sense, and was
greatly loved by her associates. She was present at the fiftyyear reunion of her class in Bloomsburg in 1948. She is sur'

vived by two sisters and a brother.
Sarah H. Russell lives at 16 East Third Street, Watsontown,
Pa.

CLASS OF

1899

The “Old Normal”

class of 1899 returned to College Hill
after fifteen years to lead three other alumni groups, classes of
1909, 1919 and 1924 in pre-Alumni Day dinner parties.
Members of the oldest returning class were guests of the
Thirty-six atcollege at a luncheon in the college dining hall.
tended the luncheon and a meeting in the college social rooms
which followed. Among those present were Lindley Dennis, executive secretary of the National Vocational Society, Washington, D. C. Dr. G. H. Hemingway, of Daytona Beach, Fla., who
addressed the claas at baccalaureate cewdeee 50 'rpqr a"o
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Severance, who journeyed here from Los
Angeles, California.
Attending were Gertrude E. Morris. New York City: Mae H. Brandon
West Pittston: Elizabeth H. O'Brien. New Haven. Conn.: Elizabeth P. Gregory,
;

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Northumberland; Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dennis, WashEugene K. Richard, Cora J. Richard. Elysburg; Mr. and Mrs.

Pittston; B. F. Burns,

ington

D. C.;

Emory

I. Bowman, Washington. D. C.
Mrs. Jennie Smith Guillot, Bushskill; Harry O. Hine, Washington, D.. C.:
Mrs. Jane Guillot Notz, Lake Mohawk, N. J.; Dr .and Mrs. Elna H. Nelson,
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Redline, L. W. Hart, Rush Shaffer, Lulu Miller Hower,
Burton Fortner, Edna Welliver Fortner, Elsie Hicks, Lillian Hidlay Scott,
Charles W. Creasy.
Mrs. Charles W. Creasy, John Shuman Hower, G. H. Hemingway, Daytona Beach, Fla.; Mrs. C. C. Housenick, Bloomsburg; Gertrude Rinker, Prospect Park; Mabel Moyer, Bessie Creveling, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Burton Severance, B. C .Severance, Los Angeles Calif.

Diplomas that were copies of those awarded upon graduation a half century earlier were presented to members of the
class of 1899 during the general alumni session when the fiftyyear class enjoyed places of honor on the platform in Carver
Hall. E. F. Gager, Allendale, N. J., R. D. 1, made the response
for the class which had opened its reunion with a dinner at the
College on Friday evening as guests of the Alumni Association.
Class members who continued reunion festivities on the campus were
Mrs. Clinton W. Guillot. Bushkill; Mr .and Mrs. John C. Redline, Bloomsburg,
R. D.; Eugene K. Richard. Elysburg; E. P. Gager, Minnie Harrison Gager, Al-

N

New

J.; Gertrude E. Morris; Elizabeth H. O’Brien,
Haven, Conn.;
B. F. Burns, Northumberland; Laura Hughes Lewis, Scranton; Mary E. Smith
Slusser. Nescopeck, R. D. 1; L. W. Hart, Berwick;
Robert Sebance, Los

lendale.

Emma

Angeles, Calif.; Edward Bowman, Washington, D. C.; James A. Dyke, Bloomsburg; Russh Shaffer, Danville; Edna Welliver Fortner, town; Elsie Hicks.
Espy; Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dennis, Washington. D. C.; Bess Creveling, town;

Mae Hankae Brandon, West

Pittston.

CLASS OF

1904

The class of 1904 at its forty-fifth reunion had the largest
and most enjoyable reunion of its existence. The credit for this
is due Ann Challis Thompson, who spent much time and labor
on the preparations. She was assisted by our president, Aaron
Kilmer, and Dr. Nelson.
After the usual get together in the auditorium and luncheon in the college dining room, the class met in room K for an
afternoon of reminiscing.

Many

pictures of

forty-five

years

ago were shown and enjoyed.

Our president, Aaron Kilmer, called the roll from a class
day program.
Emma Berry Matter acted as secretary. Members responded, giving the highlights of their own forty-five
years, and gave information of absent ones.
Those reported deceased since the 40th reunion were Dr. G.
L. Howell, John Boyer and Maud Davies Pentecost. Dr. Howell
being treasurer, and Maud Pentecost secretary, the president
appointed Leona Kester Lawton as secretary-treasurer.
Dr. Harold Cryder and Thomas Carl spoke fittingly of the
useful life and work of Dr. Howell. Dr. and Mrs. Howell and
John Boyer attended all reunions and were greatly missed this
year. Ann Challis Thompson read greetings from Ruth Turner

CLASS OF

1899

GATHERS FOR

ITS 50th

REUNION
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Martin, June White Dreibelbis, Jesse Boyer Howell, Daisy Andres MacBean, Kiriter Knorr, Anna Goyituey Canfield, Guy
Rentschler, Pearl Brandon, Besse Goodale Thielman, Tilly Riley
Tigue.
It is the aim of the class to keep a complete mailing list, so
please send changes of address and news items to the secretary.
Most of the class motored to the Char-Mund for a banquet. We
had a grand time.
Present at one or both events were:
Lucy Baldy Rody, Catawissa. widow, teaching.
Emma Berry Matter flew east from Seattle, Wash., widow,

mother of

fine family.

Matilda Black, teacher in Williamsport, Pa.
Lillian Buckalew, teaching in Ardmore, Pa.
Sara Buddinger, retired, Mt. Carmel, Pa.
^ho^as Carl, started teaching again as G.

I. instructor,
Trucksville, Pa.
Ann Challis Thompson, widow, teaching in New York City.
Will spend vacation in Europe. Bon voyage, Ann.
Irvin Cogswell has lived a busy life near Montrose, Pa. His
wife was a guest.
Dr. Harold Cryder is a dentist in Stroudsburg.
Alverda Davenport, teacher, Plymouth.
Griselda Davis Jacobs, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Bessie Derr Sked, Pennington, N. J. First reunion, active
in club work and civic organizat’ons.
Enjoys her home life at LewisNellie Fetherolf Lesher.
burg, Pa., also traveling.
Minnie Fineran McDonough, widow, teaching, Carbondale,
Pa.
daughter, manager of office of
Hinkley Saylor.

A

Emma

Saylor’s Tamaqua, bakery.
Irene Ikeler Sloan, Muncy, Pa.
ine

World War

II.

Lost her son

Has daughter teaching

in a

submarNe-

at University of

vada.

E^^a

Kaminski, Principal of Garfield School, active in
Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Aaron Kilmer, teaching. Very proud to announce he was
great grandfather. Had picture to prove it. Stroudsburg, Pa.
James Malone, realtor, Miami, Fla, and Shenandoah.
Mabel Mertz Dixon, widow. Reported having made the first
basket in girls’ basketball made at B.S.N.S., Belle Mead, N. J.
Bessie Richart Corse, R.N., widowed in 1946. Has son and
daughter, Paterson, N. J.
Harry Rider, business in Bloomsburg. Wife passed on recently. Married daughter and grandson.
Margaret Seely, retired. Busier than when teaching, Bercivic affairs,

wick, R. D.
Elizabeth Specht, retired.
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ton, Pa.

Harry Trathen, carried mail

in Ashland for
forty years,
Hobbies: flower gardening and writing and collecting
poems. He read some of his favorites.
Effie Womeldorf Bentz, York, Pa., retired from social welfare work, /'mbition- to join N.Y.C. club, “Liife begins at 80.”
Martha Creasy, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Laura Herring, voice teacher in Bloomsburg. Gave highlights of her life in Germany in World War I.
Ray Helwig, Linwood, Calif., retired from service of Milwaukee R.R.
Some of our visitors were: Mrs. Corse’s son, Jean Williams
Cook, Adele Altmiller Burkhart, Elizabeth Mertz Lesher, Marion
Johnson Skeer, Lenore Davis, Mrs. Irvin Cogswell.
Hats off to the two who came from the west coast.
LEONA HESTER LAWTON, Secretary
Ann Challes Thompson lives at 7 Peter Cooper Road, Peter
Cooper Village, New York City 10, N. Y. She is acting chairman of the Heath Education Department in the Washington
Irving High School, 40 Irving Place, New York. She has been
serving for thirty-five years in this school, which has an enrollment of over five thousand girls. Mrs. Thompson assisted
Mrs. Aldinger in the gymnasium at Bloomsburg from 1904 to

retired.

1907.

1907

Wendt

(Mrs. George Harris Webber) has
completed her tenth year as librarian of the Baldwin County,
Georgia, Library. Her address is P. O. Box 376, 311 Green St.,
Mdledgeville, Georgia.
Sadie Rush Moyer (Mrs. John R. MacCulloch) lives at 43
Keasler Avenue, Lodi, N. J.
Lillian Bakeless

CLASS OF

1909

Sixty-one members of the class of 1909 held their fortieth
reunion dinner at the Char-Mund in the Country. Following
dinner the group spent the evening at the Mover farm, Orangeville, R. D., as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Moyer.
Attending from the class of 1909 was Fred W. Diehl, chairman of the committee, presiding at an extemporaneous urogram during wh’ch letters were read from classmates who could
not attend. A delightful social evening was snent
Those in attendance were Dr .and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Prof, and Mrs.
J. Y. Shambach, Mr .and Mrs. Charles Albert, Miss Ida Sitler, Mrs Bruce Albert. Mrs. Gertrude Kyte, Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Dr .and Mrs. George O.
Shuman. Mr .and Mrs. Joseph Pooley, Mrs. John Flanigan, Hannah Flanigan
Collery. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lavins.
Dr. and Mrs. Scott Fisher, Jennie Birth. Mrs. Jessie Fleckenstine Herring. Mr. and Mrs. Clair Conner. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Krum. Mr. and Mrs.
Fred W. Diehl. Mr .and Mrs Harold Moyer. Harold Moyer. Jr., John Moyer.
Nancy Patterson. Mrs. George Heller, Martha Black, Mrs. Irma Abbott, Mrs.

Ethel Creasy Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Barton Savage, Helen M. Wright.
Florence Priest Cook. Mrs. M. W. Cooke. Sr„ Gertrude Meneely, Mr.

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and Mrs. James Morris, Nora Woodring Kenney, Mary Hughes Lake, Marjorie
Reese Penman, Samuel J. Steiner, Harriet Kase Talond, Verna Keller Beyer,
Dr. and Mrs. Leon D. Bryant, Bess Hinckley, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Welliver,
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Follmer, Mr. and Mrs. J E. Klingerman, Mr. and Mrs.
C. E.

Burlingame.

1912
Helen Appleman (Mrs. Herbert B. Keller)

lives at

442 For-

est Place, Culver, Indiana.

Mrs. Florence Gunther Carl lives at 9
Farmingdale, New York.

Prospect

Street,

1914
class of 1914 concluded a busy day with an enjoyed
class supper in the college dining hall on Saturday evening.
Attending: Mrs. Frances Beatty Beveridge, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Roberts,
Mrs. Edith Jamison Zarr. Mary Emanual Brown, Mrs. Olive M. Cook, Louise
Sheard Gossman, Bess Winter Maddy, Ruth Hidlay, Leah Bogart Lawton,
Mary Strange Dreisbach. Paul L. Brunstetter, Pauline Casper, Ethel Ravert
Keck, Catherine H. Boal, Bessie Kimble Young, Besse Lebo Vincent, Margaret Faust Beaver, Mrs. Olwen August Hartley,, Salome Hill Long, Ethel
Ruth Harver, Martha Mras Habeschat, Martha Rosenstock.

The

Mrs. Olive Miller Cook, of 150 W. Plumstead Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa., passed away in the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, July 4, where she had been a patient since June 9. A member of the Correspondents Committee for her recent class reunion, she had attended all the activities and will be remembered
leading the singing at the class dinner.
She was born in Danville and graduated from the Danville
High School in the class of 1912. In 1917 she married Roy A.
Cook, of Sunbury, where they resided until 20 years ago when
they moved to Lansdowne, her husband having been transferfered to Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Possessing a beautiful voice, she had been a soloist in the
Presbyterian Churches of Danville, Sunbury and Lansdowne.
Always active in civic and church affairs, she had acted as President of the Missionary Society in both the Sunbury and Lansdowne churches.
She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, a son, Roy, Jr.,
Orlando, Florida, and a sister, Mrs. Frank Linker, of Danville.

1915
Helen V. Mitchell (Mrs. Irwin R. Weaver) is teaching History and Geography in the high school at New Holland, Pa. Her
address is Box 105, New Holland, Pa.
1916
Hilda Clark Fairchild, R. D. 2, Danville, is the successful
writer of a series of children’s stories published by the Westminster Press, Philadelphia. The stories first appeared in a
weekly paper entitled “Stories.” Mrs. Fairchild is also editor
of the column “Minute Musings” appearing in the Danville

Morning News.
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CLASS OF 1919
Wesley Davies, Kingston, presided over the dinner meeting
of the class of 1919 held at Fest’s. Mrs. Davies gave the invocation and Mrs. Leah Rarig, of Numidia, sang two solos accompanied by Miss Ruth Young, of Catawissa. Bill Kuster entertained with feats of magic. Group singing was led by Catherine
Reimard. Lucia Hammond flew here for Alumni Day from her
home

in Rhode Island.
Attending from the class of 1919 were Mrs. Hazel Wayne Shoemaker,
Mrs. Paul G. Niesley. Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Andruss,
Mrs Rowena Patterson Shuman, Mrs .Mary Diemer Myers, Mrs Helen Howell

Penman, Bloomsburg
Mrs. Marcha Birch Cole, Mifflinburg; William M. Turnbach, Hazleton;
Marie Guckavan Turnbach, Hazleton; J. M. Reece, Millville; Catherine Reimard, East Stroudsburg; Marie Colt Reece, Millville; Claire Hedden, Ardmore;
Grace Cleaver Harkman, Elysburg; Mrs. George M. Kunkel, Lewisburg; Florence L. Evans, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Edward C. Crompton, Forty Fort; Mrs.
Marian Keller, Shamokin; Mrs. Meta Warner, Forty Fort; Edwina Evans.
Scranton.

Byron Price and Mrs. Mollie Jeremiah Payne. Shamokin: Wesley E. and
Mrs. Gertrude Gordon Davies. Kingston; Mrs. Falla Linville Shuman, Catawissa: Mrs. Agnes Shuman Eves, Almedia; Mrs. Marion Brennar Bredbenner,
Berwick; Mrs. Dari Ikeler Myers, Benton: Mrs. Margaret Heiss Vastine, Mifflinville; Mrs. Mary Harrington McHenry, Stillwater; Miss Elsiie M. Pfahler,
Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Luciia Hammond Wheeler, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. Ruth
Doyle Mose, Roselle Park, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Moore. Saratoga
Springs, N. Y.; Amy Marjorie Crook. Minersville.

CLASS OF

1924

One hundred seventeen members
ing from four states and the District

of the class of 1924, comof Columbia, attended the
twenty-fifth year class luncheon at the Elks on Saturday afternoon as one of the many features of the weekend.
The attendance was the largest of any class in reunion and
festivities opened Friday evening when around sixty members
and guests were delightfully entertained by Mr, and Mrs. Harold P. Dillon, Light Street Road.
The class, headed by a band of high school boys, paraded
in the auditorium during the general alumni meeting.
Carl D.
Blose, Bethlehem, was the marshal and carried a banner proclaiming “The achievement supreme for ever more, the glorious
class of ’24.”
Louis Lerda, of Cranford, N. J., made the class
response.
At the luncheon, at which Francis H. Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock, presided, the class gave fifty dollars to the Husky
Club, the first class to place its numerals on the roll. In recognition of his work in arranging the weekend event, Harold P.
Dillon, Jr., was elected an honorary member of the class.
Guests at the luncheon were Miss Harriet M. Moore, Mr.
and Mrs. S. L. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Shortess, Miss Mathilda Muyskens, R S. Herre, of the College, and Miss Jessie Patterson, now of the University of Virginia and a former member
of the faculty. Tribute was paid to the memory of twenty-seven who have passed away. Members reported for themselves
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or classmates as the roll was called during a program that held
interest despite the fact that it was four hours in duration. Carnations favors at the luncheon were the gift of Mr. and Mrs.
Dillon.
Attending the luncheon: Gordon Laubach. Fullertown; Ruth Beaver Lindemuth, Numidia; Betsy Anne Lerda, Louis Lerda, Cranford. N. J.; Max E.
Long, Chester; Ruth Terry Conway, Union, N. J.; Adda Lizdas Salsburg,
Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Schuyler, town; James W. Reynolds. Ashley; Peter Sincavage, Sugar Notch; Frank L. Buss, Wilkes-Barre; Editha Ent
Adams, town; Pearl Radel Bickel; Catherine Creasy Huttenstine, Mifflinville;
Margaret Smith Morris, Forty Fort; Emily Linskill Roberts, Westfield, N. J.;
M. T. Adams, Harold P. Dillon, II, town; Mildred Andreas Beagle, Danville;
Tina Gable Jacks, Bethlehem; Arminta H. Jones, West Point, N. Y.; Dorothy
John Dillon, Harold P. Dillon, town; William G. Beagle, Danville.
Alethea Bullock Allan, Russell C. Allan. Shamokin; Alice Williams Keller, Rutter Keller, town; Mildred I. Zerbe, Shamokin, R. D. 2;Mildred Fornwald Amey, Sunbury; Ruth Reynolds Stevenson, Robert Stevenson, Factoryville; Anna Singleman Barnes, West Pittston; Margaret Berlew, Kingston; R.
L. Keller, town; Aldona Beldanski Reklaitis, Wyoming; Mildred Gallagher
Vercusky, Freeland; Edith Brace, Wyoming; Elizabeth Corrigan, Hazleton;
Sarah Dymond Whitlock, Newark. N. J.; Maude Stover Meyer. Rebersburg;
Ruth Morris Miles, Luzerne; Mary Amesbury, Wilkes-Barre; Burdella Paul
Honeywell, Plymouth; Mary Wagner Hoffman. Washingtonville; Sara Smull
Free. Danville; Jeanne Fox Daveler, Catawissa; Lydia A. Pollock, Wyoming,
R. D.; William I. Eberhard, Laura Hile Eberhard, Oceanville, N. J.; Faye
Kline Sommer, Bound Brook, N. J.; Miriam R. Lawson, town.
Helen Barrow, Sunbury; Margaret J. Jones, Scranton; Peg Ferry Sullivan, Mahanoy City; Mary Dowd Deiterich, Bloomsburg; Clara Vanderslice
Thomas, Norton Thomas, Bloomsburg. R. D. 5; Mabel Swartz Gardner, Harrisburg; Teresa Lyons, Wilkes-Barre; Elizabeth Woychik, Wilkes-Barre: Lena
Oman Buckman, Philadelphia; Arlene Johnston Banker, Binghamton, N. Y.;
Sadie H. Crumb, Mary H. Crumb, Washington, D. C.; Lucille Groff, WilkesBarre; Willa Mae Gibson, Beulah Denning Gibson. Uniondale: Ruth Jenkins
Harris, Leonore Hart Berre, Wilkes-Barre; Dorothy Peterson Marsh, Detroit;
Leona E. Mailey, Kingston; Gertrude M. Robetrs. Nanticoke.
Bessie Singer Shaffer, Williamsport; Kathryn Schuyler Gaston, Turbotville; Frances M. Williams, Cynthia Williams. Kingston; Bertelle Yeager
Richards, Connie Fenstermaker Noz. Berwick; Edna D. Williams, Irvington,
N. J.; Margaret Hart Mingus. Monroeton; Hazel Hess Chapin, Nescopeck, R.
D. 1; Mary Frances McHale, Bethlehem; Esther Sitler Seely, Berwick; Helen
Gribbin McHale, Bethlehem; Eva Watters, Mifflinville; Viola Kline Bruch,
Catawissa, R. D. 3; Marie Werkheiser Hemming, Tremont; Mary Brown Eisenhower, Kingston; Katherine King Roat, Kingston; Kathryn Dechant, Renovo;
Mathilda Muyskens, Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Shortess, town; Frances Hahn Blose,
Carl D. Blose, Bethlehem; Miss Harriet M. Moore, R. S. Herre, town: Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph P. Siesko, Nanticoke; Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. H.
R. Miller, town; Mrs. Sarah Jones Jones, Old Forge; Erma Taylor, town; Christine Holmes Taylor, Nutley. N J.; Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock; Mathilda Mensch Waples, town; Mr. and Mrs. William Hess, Winfield: Maud Mensch Ridall, Berwick; Mrs. Lena Klinger Diltz, Stillwater.
Doris Morse, 5 Franklin Avenue, White Plains, N. Y., reports that she had a very enjoyable trip to Hawaii last summer|
She went there by plane and returned by boat.

CLASS OF

1929

Dr. Jessie Patterson, assistant professor of music of the
University of Virginia, Farmville Division, was the guest of
honor of the class of 1929 which had a busy program throughout the day that concluded with a dinner on Saturday evening
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at the Fest restaurant. Dr. Patterson, advisor of the class,
making her first visit to Bloomsburg in fourteen years and

was
was

warmly greeted by a host of graduates who were on the campus, and by members of the faculty.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the general alumni body,
presided as toastmaster.
During the business session of the
p i-pr'ioo” the cla^ named the<?e officers: Mrs. Virginia Dawe
Welker, town, president; Mrs. Eleanor Amos Steiner, town, vice
president; Mrs. Hortense Evans Hagenbuch,
Berwick, secretary Mrs. Lucille Martz DeVoe, town, treasurer; Mrs. Antoniette Carmen Decker, Berwick, historian.
At the dinner: Mrs. Elizabeth M. Miller, Mrs. Marie Leitzel, Mrs. A. J.
Klembara. Mrs. Stephen Charmitski, Mr. and Mrs. Howard T. Greene, Mrs.
Florence Wolfe. Mrs. Esther Harter Bittner, Mrs. Minnie Melick Turner, Miss
Elizabeth Benfield. Miss Laura Benfield. Mrs. Hensley Eckenstein; Mrs. Peg
Bowe Bacon, Syracuse, N. Y.; Robert Davis, Nanticoke; William B. Jones, Marion Thomas Jones, Marian Slack Knauer, Irene Guest, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Sawicki. Endicott. N. Y.; Mrs. Kathryn Benjamin Rees, Gordon: Dorothy Keith Harris. Plymouth; Mrs. Arline Frantz Covert. Dallas; Mrs. Elsie
Lebo Stauffer, Shaft; Sara Lawson Dockeray; Rachel Gething Powell, Youngstown, Ohio; Mrs. Mary W. Gething. Nanticoke; Hilton C. Anthony, Youngstown, Ohio; Sara J. Harlem, Columbia; Rachel Pratt Thomas, Kingston; Caroline E. Perulla. Northumberland.
Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Dr. Jessie Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
T DeVoe. Mr .and Mrs. Paul Bruch. Veronica Hayer, Mrs. Helen Cogolaott
Cavanaugh. Mrs. Anna Jones Todd, Mrs. Rachel Bowen Hughes, Mrs. Grayce
Simmons Butler, Miss Jane B. Evans, Mrs. Alice Veety Smalser, Mrs. Margaret
Wickiizer Watkins, Mrs. Elizabeth Archibald Johns, Mrs. Dorothy Colley
Brewington, Mrs. Beatrice Hartman Harrington; Mrs. Virginia Dawe Walker.
Mrs. Eleanor Amost Steiner, town; Mrs. Antoinette Carmen Decker, Mrs.
Evan Hagenbuch, Berwick.
Alice Rabuck Smith, Portsmouth, N. H.; Margaret Anstett Heltzel, Edward
.Heltzel, Kingston; Margaret C. Dula, Plymouth; Mrs. Lenore Kocher

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Williams, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Lena Serafine Catell, Wyoming; Mrs. Verna
Paul Bennett, Mary Kerstetter, Shamokin; Mr .and Mrs. Fred Harrison,
Shickshinny, R. D. 1; Grace Shade Young, Nescopeck; Pauline Reece Smith.
Nescopeck, R. D.; Thelma Bommer Stackhouse, Drums, R. D. 1; Mary Hays
Harry, Nescopeck; Pearl Schell Carls. Nuremberg; Ethel Moore Harvey, Sara

Ermish Adams, Berwick; Jean Bittenbender Sitler, Dale W. Sitler, Nescopeck;
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Arner, Washingtonville; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Parr, Mifflinville; Elizabeth Hagenbuch Schechterly, Allan Schechterly, Berwick.

CLASS OF 1934
Graduates of the class of 1934 celebrated their fifteenth
anniversary with dinner at Fest’s restaurant. Twenty-four
members and six guests were in attendance. Howard Kreitzer.
class president, of Temple University, was in charge of the
gathering.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, formerly class advisor and now
president of the college, with Mrs. Andruss, were among the
Each class member was introduced and gave a brief
guests.
resume of his activities, and correspondence was read from
many who were unable to attend.
The president appointed a committee comprised of Mrs.
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Sickle, J.

Wesley Knorr and Miss Florence Beishline, to arrange

for the twentieth reunion.
Present were Miss Florence

S. Hartline, Miss Thalia L. Barba, Mrs.
Bette McGolderick Troy, Mrs. Grace Conner, Mrs. Esther Evans McFadden,
Mrs. Blanche Kostenbauder Millington,, Mrs. Irene Giger Millroy, Mrs. Dorothey Semic Forencic, Mrs. Nora Bayliff Markunas, Clyde E. Laubach, Mrs.
Fred Shuman Laubach, Alfred H. Miller, Miss E. Ruth Beers, Mrs. Eleanor
Klingerman Johnson, Miss Gladys Wenner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. VanSickle.
Arthur J. Knerr, John Partridge, Joseph Gribbin, Charles F. Hensley, Mrs.
Sarah Ellen Schurr Mack, Mrs. Margaret Blaine Cooper, Mrs. Lillian Robenolt Coldren, Mrs. Cathryn Wertman Motz, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Knorr, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Kreitzer, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss.

1935
Lauretta Foust (Mrs. Leonard R. Baker) lives at 25 North
Summit Street, Lock Haven, Pa.
One of America’s great plays, “The Late George Apley,”
was presented by the Bloomsburg Players in the Carver Auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Friday evening, April 8, at 8:15 o’clock.
The production, which thrilled
Broadway playgoers for many years, was written by John P.

Marquand and George

Kaufman.
and manners in Boston in the years
immediately preceding World War I, “The Late George Apley”
was capably acted by a talented cast of College Thespians. Miss
Alice Johnston, whose dramatic efforts have always set a high

A

S.

vivid satire on life

standard of excellence, directed the play.
The title role was played by Thomas Anthony, Shamokin,
while Betty J. Anella, Hazleton, portrayed the difficult part of
Catherine Apley. Others in the cast included: Robert SickingHazleton; Mary H. Morrow, Towanda; Kay Chapin, Berwick;
er, Philadelphia; Ruth Finkelstein, Wilkes-Barre; Louis Pecora,
Donald Maietta, Williamsport; Richard Gleockler, Forksville;
Audrey Terrell, Waymat; Nancy Powell, Scranton; Charles Roberts.
Slatington;
Gretchen Trobach, Wilkes-Barre; Jean
Ruckle, Bloomsburg, and Max Kaplan, Port Chester, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1939
The ten-year class had a busy day on the hill and a delightful reunion, topping it off with a dinner on Saturday evening at
the Hotel Kocher, Light Street.
Attending: Mr. and Mrs. Ray O. Zimmerman. Betnesaa, Md.: Margaret
Cheponis, Plymouth; James V. DeRose, Springfield; Anna L. Orner, York; Mrs.
Roy Bower, Millville; Abigail Lonergan, Mrs. J. W. Smethers. Berwick; Mrs.
W. Hope Penman, Miss Sara E. Tubbs .town; Mr .and Mrs. Philip E. Trampane, Columbia, Ga.; Mr .and Mrs. Clifford R. Young, Sinking Springs, R. D.
1; Miss Eva Reichley, Sunbury; Mrs. Samuel R. Frank. Manchester; Mrs. A.
Wayne Smeal, Danville; Sara Ellen Dersham, Mifflinburg; Mrs. Claude W.
Zehner, Letha Hummel, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Lucille Adams Reummler, Dyer,
Ind.; Margaret Deppen, Trevorton; Mary Skeath, Mahanoy City; Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Barlik, Duryea; Mr. and Mrs. Lucas H. Moe, Jr., Silver Springs, Md.;
Harriet Kocher, Espy; Emily McCall, Kingston; Mrs. Dorothy Hudelson, Robert A. Ohl, Berwick.

Glenn L. Rarich, of Allentown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nevin
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Rarich, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 2, received the Master of Arts degree in Education February 6 at commencement exercises at
Lehigh University, Bethlehem. The speaker at the exercises
was David Lilienthal, chairman of the U. S. Atomic Energy
Commission, who also received the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws.

Rarich was graduated from Scott Township High School
1935 and from B.S.T.C. in 1939. He was head of the commercial department at Fountain Hill High School, Bethlehem,
'until 1943 when he entered the armed forces.
He served two
years in the Africian theater. He is now employed as an accountant for Western Electric Co., Allentown.
In a lovely ceremony solemnized on Sunday, June 26, at the
bride’s home, Miss Bobbie Lee Drummond, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Brady E. Drummond, of Rome, Ga., became the bride of
Kenneth J. Hippensteel, of Rome, Ga., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester L. Hippensteel, of Espy.
The Rev. H. Grady Slatton, pastor of the Baptist Church,
of Rome, performed the ceremony.
The bride graduated from Rome Girls’ High School and attended Shorter College in Rome, Ga. The groom was graduated
from Scott Township High School and B.S.T.C. and attended
Duke University. He served four and one-half years in the
Army Air Force during World War n and is at present teaching
commercial subjects at the state hospital, at Rome.
Mr. and Mrs. Hippensteel are now living at their apartment
at 906 Shorter avenue, Rome, Ga.
1910
Dean Harpe is located at 207 Thurston Street, High Point,
in

North Carolina.
1941
Miss Sara E. Birth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amon C.
Birth, of Shickshinny, R. D. 2, and Robert H. Peters, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Solomon Peters, of Troy, R. D. 3, were married at St.
Paul’s Methodist Church, State College, on Tuesday, June 12.
The Rev. Frank Montgomery officiated at the double-ring cere-

mony.
The bride is a graduate of Huntington Mills High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She has been a teacher in the school of Fairmount township, Luzerne county.
The groom, a graduate of Troy High School and Pennsylvania State College, was an agricultural instructor at Mifflinville and Orangeville for two years.
He served two years in the
U. S. Army and is now instructor of veterans at Troy, Pa.
1942

A

daughter, Paula Louise, was born Friday, May 6, to William and Dora Taylor Smith, 301 Barlow Avenue, Merchantville
8,

New

Jersey.

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1943

Leah Wilsey, a student

in the

Tunkhannock High School,

took second place in the Shorthand Contest at the 17th Annual
Commercial Contest held at Bloomsburg in April. The Shorthand Department of the Tunkhannock High School is under
the direction of Jane Rutledge, whose home address is 16 Montgomery Avenue, West Pittston, Pa.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Dix, Jr., are living at 131 Broadway, Milton, Pa. Mrs. Dix was formerly Sally Hottenstein. They
have a son and a daughter.
Miss Mary E. Trump, Danville, and John H. Bruner, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 4, in the First Reformed Church, Sunbury. The pastor, the Rev. C. W. Buffington, performed the ceremony. The couple was unattended.
Mrs. Bruner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Trump, of
Spring street, Danville, is principal of the Fourth Ward elementary school, Sunbury. She is a graduate of B.S.T.C. of 1943
and took graduate work at Temple University, Philadelphia,
teaching in that city for two vears. She has been teaching in
Sunbury for the past two years.
Mr. Bruner is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and
B.S.T.C. and at present is proprietor of the Shikellamy Restaurant in Shamokin Dam
1944
The class of 1944 in five year reunion joined in all of the
activities of the day and members repo .‘ted a memorable time.
.

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"telU Williams Fulton. Farmington. Conn.: Mrs. Marjorie Grant.
Shank McLaughlin, Catawissa; Miss Joanne Spaid, Miflinburg; Mrs. Helen Cromis Warrington, Danville; Mrs. Florence Faust, Mrs.
Millville: Mrs. Janet

Yeany, Ambler; Ella Schargo Zinzarella. Jullian Vinzarella, Coatesville.

Joyce E. Hay lives at 1807 Hay Terrace, Easton, Pa. She
teaching in her Alma Mater, Wilson High School, in Easton.
1945
Mr. .and Mrs. C. W. Epley, Jr. (Jeanne Keller ’45) are the
proud parents of a daughter, Elaine, born April 23, 1949. Mr.
and Mrs. Epley live in Gettysburg, Pa.
1946
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Krum, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 5, announce the marriage of their daughter, Marie Louise, to CharThe vows were solemles G. Young, of Winston-Salem, N. C.
in
nized at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, February 18,
Castleton Hills Moravian Church, Staten Island, N. Y. The
Rev. Carl Helmich, pastor, officiated.
Mrs. Young graduated from Bloomsburg High School in
the class of 1942 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Education from B.S.T.C. in 1946. For the past two and oneh^lf ''ears she has taught primary grades in the New Jersey
school system.
is

The groom graduated from Richard
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School, Winston-Salem, in 1943, and received a B.S. degree in
General Science at Wake Forest College, N .C. While in school
he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Kappa, honorary leadership fraternity; Gamma Nu Iota, honorary pre-medical fraternity, and the Philomathesian Literary Society.
For the past and one-half years, Mr. Young has served
with the U. S. Army department as a clinical laboratory technician.
He will enter Duke University school of Medicine in the
Fall.

John J. Hmelnicky is head football and basketball coach at
the high school in Blountstown, Florida. He states that there
are fine opportunities for those interested in teaching, and that
anvone who is thinking of going to Florida should get in touch
with him. His address is Box 975, Bloutstown, Florida.
1947
Joyce Louise Smith (Mrs. Henry A. George) lives in Sugarloaf, Pa. She and Mr. George were married November 20, 1948,
in Christ Reformed Church, Conyngham.
1948
Elizabeth Lehet (Mrs. James Mills) lives at 2 Dickinson
Street, Binghamton, N. Y.
In a pretty ceremony at eight o’clock Friday, April 15, in
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Catawissa, Miss Louise Sharpless, of Steelton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sharpless, of
Catawissa, became the bride of Gomer Hawk, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Hawk ,of Catawissa.
Mrs. Hawk was graduated from B. S. T. C. and has been
teaching in Steelton. The groom, an industrial engineer, recently was graduated from the Bliss Electrical School in Washington, D. C. During World War II, he served three years in Panama and three years in Burma.
In a lovely ceremony at two-thirty Saturday, June 18, at
the First Baptist Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Rosanna Broadt.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Drew H. Broadt, of Light Street, became the bride of C. Wayne Creasy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cherl
B. Creasy, of Light Street Road.
The double-ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Malcolm Hunsicker, of Upper Darby, former pastor of the church.
Mrs. Creasy is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School,
Both graduated
class of 1944; the bridegroom, class of 1943.
from Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Creasy served
with the Fourteenth Air Force in China during World War II
and is at present teaching in the Pine Grove Junior-Senior High

Anne Wright, of Bloomsburg, a member of the mid-year
graduating class, taught in Nevada during the second semester.
Miss Gladys E. Kuster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E.
Kuster, of North street, Bloomsburg, and Robert S. LeVan, son
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of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley LeVan, of Bloomsburg, were married on
May 31 at the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Liverpool. The Rev. M. O. Mickey, pastor, performed the ceremony.
Both are graduates of Bloomsburg High School and 'the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1949. The groom

served with the Merchant Marine during World War II.
Miss Betty Crouse has accepted a teaching position
Wellsboro, Tioga County.

in

Miss Beth E. Hartman, of Elysburg, was married to Jack
Gardner, Wyoming, on Wednesday, June 1, in St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Paxinos, with the Rev. Charles Staub, pastor, performing the ceremony.
Mrs. Gardner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hartman,
of Elysburg, was graduated
from Ralpho Township High
School in 1945. She was graduated from B.S.T.C. this year.
The groom, a son of Mrs. Ethel Gardner, Wyoming, was
graduated from Wyoming High School and is a senior at the
State Teachers College. He is a veteran of World War II, having served nearly four years with the U. S. Navy in the Pacific
theater.
In a lovely candlelight

ceremony at seven o’clock Saturday,
Methodist Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Anita Dawn
Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Webb, Bloomsburg, became the bride of John Griffin Lee. Wvalusing, son of Harry C.
Lee. of Hingham, Mass. The Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay Myers, pastor,
performed the ceremony.
They now reside in their new apartment in Wyalusing
whee Mr. Lee is emploved by the National Bank of Wyalusing.
The bride is a member of this year’s graduating class at
B. S. T. C. The groom attended B.S.T.C. and served with the
U. S Navy for three years during World War n
A pretty double-ring ceremony performed Saturday, May
28, at 2 o’clock in the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick, Marjorie Ann Scott, daughter of Mrs. Albert Strausser, of E. Fifth
street, Berwick, and Robert L. Brennan, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Brennan, of Wapwallopen, were united in marriage.
The Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley, pastor, officiated at the
ceremony before an altar decorated with white garden flowers,
palms and lighted candles.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School, and graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The groom
spent three years with the Army during the recent war in the
European theatre. He is attending Penn State Extension School
at Benton.
Miss Ruth G. Trimpev, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harrv E.
Trimpey, of Gettysburg, R. D. 3, and L. Lee Whitenight, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Whitenight, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 1, were
married at two o’clock Sunday, June 4, in St. James Lutheran
Church, Gettysburg. The Rev. Ralph R .Gesh performed the

May

28, in the

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double-ring ceremony in a candlelight setting of

palms

and

white flowers.

The bride is a graduate of Manchester High School, class
of 1945, and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1949.
The bridegroom is a graduate of the Madison Township School,
and served in the U. S. Army, one year of which was spent overseas. At present he is associated in business with his father.
Miss Marjorie Grace Fuller, daughter of Mrs. C. Clark FulMulberry street, Berwick, and Charles Herbert Sowers, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Emerison Sowers, of Memorial Avenue
Williamsport, were united in marriage Friday, June 24, at two
o’clock in a beautiful double-ring ceremony at the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick.
The Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley officiler,

ated.

The bride

is

a graduate of Berwick High School with the

clas of 1945 and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College with the
The groom is a graduate of
class that graduated this spring.

South Williamsport High School and served with the Marine
Corps for three years during the recent war. He will graduate
from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in August.
In a ceremony Saturday, May 21, at St. Columba’s Catholic
Church, town. Miss Martha Jane Sitler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Merril Sitler, Sterner avenue, town, and Patrick J. FlaherFlaherty,
Railroad Street,
ty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
town, were united in marriage. The Very Rev. William J. Burke,
pastor of the Church, officiated.

Miss Marv Ruth Tvson. Catawissa, has been elected to a
teaching position in the English department of the West Beaver senior high school, at McClure, Pa. She will also be director
of the girls’ counseling program.
Miss Tyson is a member of this year’s graduating class
at B.S.T.C. where she has been active in many campus organizations including the Bloomsburg Players, Day Women’s Association, Future Teachers of America and the
national honorary
fraternity, Kappa Delta Pi.
Others of classes back for the day were Philip R. Yeany, Philadelphia:
Robert Warrington, Danville; Dorothy Homberger, Elysburg; Matilda Patrick.
Dupont; Peggy Ann Lewis, Lancaster; George Stasko, Wilkes-Barre; Earl
Gehrig, town; William Hummel, Espy; Mrs. James Hantjis
Fred DeBell,
Bloomsburg; Ralph Selzer, South Whitehall; Merrill W. Troutman. Northumberland; George Remetz, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Reitz, Mechanicsburg; John
W. Thomas, Kathleen A. Hess, James G. Tierney, Quakertown, R. D. 1; Betty
L. Fisher, Janet E. Gilbody, town; Kathleen Kurilla, Mrs. Martha J. Schappell; Barbara J. Greenly, Helen Wright, town; Marion E. Edison, Mrs. Floyd
Wilson, Catherine Bell Hicks, Kathryn A. Hess; Isabel Miller, Catawissa R.
D. 1; Lois Lawson, Thursabert Schuyler, town; Elsie Flail. Schuylkill Haven:
Mildred Djuris, Langhorne; Rose Mare Schlieber. Hatsboro; Edith T. Fling.
Egg Harbor City. N. J.
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The following students have a quality point average of 2.5
or better for the first semester, 1948-49, and a cumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance at this college:
FRESHMEN
Name

of Student

Anthony, Thomas
Doody, Ruth
Finkelstein,

Ruth

Funk, Geraldine M.
Glidden, Ruth

Harman, Barbara
Hollis, Richard W.
Pulver, Lois
Stewart, Maryann

Wanich, Carol

Address

W. Walnut

1407

St.,

Shamokin

Canadensis
105 N. Grant St., Wilkes-Barre
R. D. 1, Lebanon
408 Erie Ave., Susquehanna
R. D. 1, Lykens
322 Popular St., Columbia
77 Sullivan St., Wilkes-Barre
1110 Biltmore Ave., Dormont
233 Fair St., Bloomsburg

High School
Coal Twp., Shamokin
Barrett, Cresco
G.A.R., W.-B.

Lebanon Twp.
Susquehanna

S.

Wiconisco

Columbia
Meyers, W-Barre

Dormont
Bloomsburg

SOPHOMORES

Roberts, Charles
Scheetz, Genevieve

Mifflinburg
600 Green St., Mifflinburg
Dalton
1631 Capouse Ave., Scranton
Shillington
1328 Lancaster Ave., Reading
Shamokin
1019 E. Webster St., Shamokin
Sunbury
117 Arch St., Sunbury
Hellertown
R. D. 1, Hellertown
Slatington
542 Franklin St., Slatington
276 W. Wilkes-Barre St., EastonEaston

Welker, Daniel

Lavelle

Baylor, Robert
Cerchiaro, Frances
Chapin, Katherine

215 Ferry

St.,

W. Coal

St..

Frederick, A. Barbara
Keiser, Norman

Marks, Muriel
Mattis, Marie
Moyer, Lois
Pichel,

Dorothy

Butler Twp.,
Fountain Springs

JUNIORS

Kenvin, Jane
Lohr, Louise
Messa, Edward
Middleswarth, Nerine
Palencar, Andrew
Rarig,

Emory

Ridall, Elizabeth
Teel, Martha

Danville

Nesquehoning
229 E. Fifth St., Berwick
649 Peace St., Hazleton
331 E. Second St., Berwick
1505 Lehigh St., Easton
2

Troxelville
906 Weston Place, Bethlehem
R. D. 1, Catawissa

Town
240

Hill

W. Fourth

St.,

Bloomsburg

Danville

Nesquehoning
Berwick
Hazleton

Berwick
Easton

Beaver Springs
Liberty, Bethlehem

Locust Twp., Numdia
Huntington Twp.

Bloomsburg

SENIORS
Brace, Helen
Elder,

Ruth

Fox, Herbert
Funk, G. Alberta
Gera, George
Henley, Shirley
Kessler, Donald
Maietta, Donald
Nester, Wilmer
Prete, Santo
Purcell, John
Riegel, Arthur
Roth, Luther

Harter, W. N.
600 E. Third St., Berwick
Berwick
408 Pine St., Danville
Danville
Danville
R. D. 2. Danville
Foster Twp.
94 Main St.. Eckley
2031 Luzerne St., Scranton
Taylor
290 Mill St., Danville
Slatington
946 W. Third St., Williamsport Williamsport
1442 Shimerville Road, EmmausEmmaus
568 Garfield St. Hazleton
Hazleton

Hunlock Creek

18 E.

St.,

Shenandoah

Murphy St.. Carbondale
Wyoming St., Hazleton

Sopko, Joseph

19

Von Bergen, Ruth

551 N.

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Lloyd

324 Pine St., Catawissa
487 S. Grant St., Wilkes-Barre

Shenandoah
Catawissa
G.A.R..W.-B.
Fell Twp., Simpson
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Campus Gossip
ELEMENTARY CONFERENCE
The largest group of area educators ever to assemble on
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College campus for a conference on elementary education met May 4 in morning and afternoon sessions to distribute, review and discuss the new elementary course of study. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss extended greetings from the college.
Miss Edna J. Hazen, of the college faculty, the local chairman in charge, said that by unofficial estimate there were over
three hundred in attendance.
The meeting was under the direction of Dr. Laversia L.
Powers, chief, elementary education, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg.
The session was one of sixteen similar
?re a meePn^ Vem-r held throughout the Commonwealth
Dr.
Powers launched this project in 1946 and has steered it to its
successful completion this year.
The building of the course of study was a cooperative effort
and the plan will be continued through a five-year period devoted to a further development of the program.
Assisting Dr. Powers in the morning sessions were six experts from the Department of Public Instruction, Orren Wagner, advisor, elementary education; Lester N. Myers, chief, special education; Mis Gladys Fish, advisor, special education; and
George T. Miller, chief, art education; Claude Rosenbery, chief,
music education and Dr. Frederick L. Pond, advisor, secondary
curriculum.
Luncheon was served in the College dining hall. Nearly 200
were in attendance. The afternoon meeting was given over to
group conferences in each of the elementary subject fields.
o

SUMMER SESSION
With an enrollment of 560, the
equalled the high enrollment of the
This is considered excellent in
reporting enrollment decreases of

1949 summer session almost
1948 session.
view that most colleges are
from to ten to fifteen per

cent.

Summer session convened Tuesday, June 28.
248 were veterans while 299 were non-veterans.
the college dormitories were 108 men and ninety-

Classes of the

Of the

total,
Quartered in

four women.

Many in-service teachers were among those enrolled in the
That course was based on
large elementary workshop class.
the new Pennsylvania elementary school curriculum recently released by the department of public instruction.
Also on the campus was the driver-training school of the
Atlantic Refining Company. Several dual control cars and inPage Forty-nine

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teresting test equipment were used.
The summer session concluded on

August

5.

o

Ralph William Sands, Maple Avenue, Hawley, treasurer of
the Hawley Oil Co. and active in civic and religious endeavors in
Wayne County, died in Wayne Memorial Hospital, where he had
been admitted for treatment.
A native of Winterdale, Wayne County, Mr. Sands was
graduated at Hawley High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Haverford College. He taught school in Philadelphia and returned to Hawley in 1920.
Mr. Sands was secretary of the Hawley School Board 19
years, was a member of Hawley Chamber of Commerce and
trustee <?f Hawley Methodist Church
.

o
A brilliant concert by two of America’s youngest soloists,
Jacqueline Bazinet and Edgar Viens, featured the regular weekly assembly of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held July
28 in the Carver Auditorium. The young artists, whose recent
concerts in Boston and New York have been hailed by music
lovers, displayed all the artistry and musicianship that have
won for them the unanimous acclaim of metropolitan music
critics.

As a part of their program, the two young singers presented “The Telephone” by Menotti, a short opera written especially for television and radio. Both Miss Bazinet and Mr. Viens
displayed rare talent for comedy drama in the sketch which told
the story of how bothersome and helpful a telephone can be in
the serious matter of making love. Accompanying the two artists at the piano was Mrs. Anna G. Fiore.
o

The marriage of Mrs. Maudemae Edwards Danks, widow of
P. EdJ. Danks, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank

Alden

wards, of Bloomsburg, to Howard Franklin Eldrige, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. Franklin Eldrige. of South Main Street, Highstown,
N. J., took place Friday, June 17, in the First Presbyterian
Church at Princeton, N. J.

The ceremony was performed by Dr. Frank S. Niles. A
was given at the Nassau Tavern.
The bride was graduated from State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, and attended the University of Colorado. She was
a member of the faculty at Princeton High School.
Mr. Eldridge is a graduate of The Peddie School and
Princeton University. He is a member of Dial Lodge and Sigma XI, honorary scientific society. He is a veteran of World
reception

W

r>y IT h°v'ng °erved in the ^rmy Air Corps as a pilot attached to the First Air Command Group in the China, Burma, India

theatre.

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Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has returned to Bloomsburg after an extended tour of the West. Dr. Andruss delivered a series of six lectures in the Graduate School of Oklahoma A. and M. College,
Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he had previously lectured on two

previous occasions.

While in Oklahoma, President Andruss represented the
Twenty-five Year Class at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Alumni Association of the University of Oklahoma at Norman,
Oklahoma. During his stay there, he broadcast for the Class of
1924 over Station WNAD, University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Andruss also interviewed prospective candidates for
teaching positions in St. Louis, Indianapolis and Oklahoma City.
He was accompanied on the trip by his son, Harvey A. Andruss, Jr.
o

Miss Charlotte Romaine Reichart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray C. Reichart, of Light Street, became the bride of Richard
Baldv Sharnless. son of District Attorney and Mrs. Warren S.
Sharnless, of Catawissa, in an impressive ceremony performed
at the Light Street Lutheran Church at 7:30 o’clock on Saturday, June 25, 1949.
The Rev. D. L. Bomboy, pastor of the church, officiated at
the impressive double ring ceremony in the presence of a hundred guests. The bride was given in marriage by her father.
The bride is a graduate of the Scott Township High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The bridegroom is
a graduate of Lehigh University and served for two years in
the Air Corps. He is an electrical engineer and employed by
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh.
o

Miss Mary M. Fahringer, daughter of Mrs. Ana Fahringer,
of Elysburg, and Harry Fahringer, of Canton, Ohio, were united
m marriage with Ralph N. Wintersteen, of Catawissa, R. D. 2,
son of Mrs. Anna Wintersteen, of Bloomsburg, in a double ring
ceremony performed by Rev. LaRue G. Bender Friday, July 1,
in the Methodist Church at Elysburg.
Mrs. Wintersteen is a graduate of Raloho Township high
school and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and a teacher
in the pubic schools of Sunbury.
Mr. Wintersteen is employed
by the Magee Carpet Company.
C. Seymour Stere, teacher at the Millville High School, was
a candidate for the degree of Master of Science in Education at
Bucknell University’s ninety-ninth annual Commencement exercises Sunday afternoon, June 5.
Stere, who holds a Bachelor
of
Science
degree from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was one of thirty-two candidates for advanced degrees at Bucknell.

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A PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF POLICY GOVERNING

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING ACTIVITIES
(

1949 - 1950 )

Coordinator of Guidance and Counseling, Activities
of the guidance and counseling activities
in a Teachers College is of such character that the responsibility
should be delegated to one person. The purpose of such an arrangement is not necessarily to develop new activities, but to relate existing activities so as to make everyone in the college community aware of what is being done so that living and learning
at Bloomsburg will consist of meaningful and developmental opportunities for growth.
These experiences may be divided, for descriptive purposes,

The coordination

into three groups, as follows:

Admission experiences.
Progress experiences.
Graduate, Placement, and Alumni experiences.

1.

2.

3.

All of these are part of a public relations program wherein
public relations as good private relations public-

we define good
ly

understood and acknowledged.

The responsibility for the coordination of the gu'dance and
counseling program in the college is the part-time responsibility
of the Assistant Dean of Dormitory Women.
Administrative Council
In order that the administrative relationships may be reviewed from time to time, an administrative council, composed
of the Dean of Instruction, the Dean of Women, the Dean of
Men, Coordinator of Guidance and Counseling, and the Directors of Business, Elementary, and Secondary Education, will
meet monthly

to:

—Outline the areas to be studied and coordinated.
— Review the study of these areas as progresses.
— Evaluate the progress made from time to time.
probation
d — Study cases of students on

a
b

it

c

strict

.

During the year 1949-1950 the Administrative Council will
be charged with the responsibility for developing general policies leading to a visit from the Evaluating Committee
of the
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December, 1949

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

FENSTEMAKER, T2

E. H.

NELSON,

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BUSINESS

MANAGER

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
of the Guidance Coordinator to the Administrative Council is provided through the membership of the As-

The relationship

Dean

sistant

of Dormitory

Women.

Admission Policy

From our admission

experiences,

we

campus recruitment program, under the

shall continue the offdirection of the Direc-

tor of Public Relations, while the on-campus interviews and relations contacts will be the responsibility of the Guidance Coordinator, with interviewing of prospective athletes handled by
the Coach of the respective sport and those men on the campus
interested in intercollegiate athletics.

Progress Policy
Progress experiences are those which usually occur during
the four years of a student’s contact with the college. During
the first semester it is hoped that the Guidance Director can interview each new student in the light of the material collected in
the personnel blanks in the office of the Dean of Instruction.
This cannot proceed until the placement results are made available by the Chairman of the Testing Committee. The Guidance
Director will consider the information on the entrance blanks,
and any other data which may have been accumulated. This
probably means that new students will be interviewed only
where difficulty arises during the first nine weeks. At the end
of the first reporting period new students’
grades should be
carefully studied, and those in
difficulty
interviewed,
after
which routine interviews for each ney student may proceed.
If additional information seems to be necessary for guidance purposes, the coordinator may develop a form for faculty
members to report briefly about the strong and weak points of
all new students.
This may cover such points as reading ability, spelling, use of Engish, penmanship, posture
in
walking,
voice and laugh, dress and grooming, manners, sportsmanship,
attitude toward study, cultural interest, character traits, emotional difficulties, etc.

During the second semester, attention should be centered
upon students who need further interviewing and follow-up so
that at the end of the year recommendations may be made to
the administration for a change of course, probationary status,
or dropping from college, on the basis of both personal and class-

room

abilities.

Graduation, Placement, and Alumni Policy
The meeting of the graduation requirements is a responsiThe Guidance Coordinator
bility of the Dean of Instruction.
The responsibility for placewill act in an advisory capacity.
ment is in the hands of the Director of Secondary Education

who

will,

studies
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with the aid of the Guidance Coordinator, make such
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from time to time as

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changes and developments

in

the relations of graduates with

Alma Mater.
Due to the unusual opportunity which the Guidance Coordinator has to know students as individuals from time to time
their

it

will

tain

be the responsibility of the Coordinator to address cer-

Alumni Groups as part of our public
Social Guidance

—Project

relations program.

for 1949-195U

Certain general problems of social guidance are to be given
specific attention by everyone in the college on the assumption
that living is as important as learning in a college community.
This means that table service, leading to a knowledge of proper
ettiquette; dress on the campus, in the dormitory, in the dining
room; thoughtfulness; general politeness and demeanor; are to
receive an increasing amount of attention. It shall be the responsibility of the Guidance Coordinator and the Deans of Men
and Dean of Women to select the points of attack, and then we
shall enlist the aid of all college classroom instructors and employees to the end that social adaptability as an important facet
of personality can be encouraged to a degree never heretofore
attained at our college.
Recognition should be gven to all present efforts being successfully used to develop poise and social graces, such as the
training of models for the Annual Fashion Show, and dramatic
productions which serve to develop social graces and self-confidence.

We shall attempt to build upon what we have so that by
amplifying and supplementing our present efforts we may improve our ability to live together. Inauguration of table service on a limited basis has progressed to an extnet that we can
say that some progress has been made while this statement was
in the process of being prepared and reviewed by various administrative officers.
o

As a result of an ever-increasing effort to widen the scope
of its services to in-service teachers, the
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College is now offering an extensive program of Saturday morning classes on the campus.
At the present time the College is offering Saturday morning classes to teacher-in-service in the following courses: Ethics,
Evolution of the American Public School, Visual Education, Educational Measurements, American Government, and School
Law. The classes are being taught by regular members of the
College faculty, including Ted J. Satterfield, Miss Harriet M.
Moore, Dr. H. Harrison Russell, John J. Fisher, Dr. Nell Maupin
and William B. Sterling.
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FOOTBALL SEASON

(From the Maroon and Gold)
The 1949 Bloomsburg State Teachers College football season, if not the most successful in the school’s history, was surely the most colorful and thrilling.
Wmning eight and losing
only one, the opener, the power-laden Huskies combined a newly-established aerial assault with an already institutional ground
attack.
The Maroon and Gold had to come from behind in four contests this season, but nevertheless ended the year with a second
consecutive claim to the Teachers College crown. The defense,
although not as effective as in ’48, held opponents to a scant 90
points, while the offense rolled up one of the State’s highest totals, 229.
In the season’s opener at Plymouth, the Husky forces lost
their first football contest since the Shippensburg fray during
the 1947 season. The Wilkes gridders, taking advantage of

Husky miscues, were outscored
the scoring column, 20-7.

in statistics,

but triumphed

in

An

intercepted pass set up the first
Wilkes tally, and another interception was run the distance to
put the winners out in front 14-0. Kriss ended a sustained march
by reversing for the only Bloomsburg score, and Tavalsky kicked the extra point to make the score stand 14-7. Wilkes clinched the upset by scoring at the end of the contest on a 60 yard

pass play.
An aroused and improved Husky machine pushed Mansfield
all over Berwick’s Crispin Field as the Bloomsburgers hit winning ways once again with a decisive 26-0 win. Reedy sneaked
across the line for the initial score, followed by Lichty’s plunge
for a tally, and Kriss’ famed reverse. The last TD was added
on a pass between reserves Stefanik and Dietz. Tavalsky con-

verted twice.

Passing for ninety yards with less than two minutes remaining, and with the score standing at 14-13 in favor of Lock
Haven, George Lambrinos set up the winning tally and then
watched a plunge bring victory to home plate. A 60 yard pass
to Kriss was the outstanding plav in the desperation drive. Kriss
had earlier scored on a 59 yard jaunt to a touchdown. The winning 6-pointer was scored with the clock reading one minute,
ten seconds remaining, and the score 20-14. Ten seconds later
Lambrions made the score 26-14 with an intercepted pass resulting in a Husky touchdown.
Doing everything the way it should be done, the Huskies
added win number four against a supposedly-strong Millersville
cub. The issue was never in doubt as Bob Lang led the Huskies
Lang galloped 83
to a 22 first-down splurge and 32-7 decision.
yards to paydirt for one tally, and scored a second time on a line
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plunge.
Jake Lichty and Danny Farrell scored on line bucks,
while Maturani returned a pass interception for a Bloomsburg
6-counter. The Marauders scored on a series of passes.
14-13 victory over the Shippensburg Red Raiders was logged in the Husky record book on Homecoming Day as Ed Tavalsky converted successfully following Jim Reedy’s tying quarterback sneak in the final period. Kriss’ pass interception set up
the winning tally while the first local touchdown came on a
Lambrinos-to-Kriss pass that was good for 27 yards.
65 yard
runback of a Bloomsburg punt gave Shippensburg its first tally
Ed Gerlock made it 13-0 with a 2’ yard off-tackle scamper in the
second period, only to have the Huskies come from behind for
their fifth straight win.
Previously undefeated Kutztown was toppled by a determined Bloomsburg football team at the Berks County school to
the satisfying tune of 27-14. Rolling up 19 first downs to nine,
the Huskies were in command during the entire ctntest. With
Kriss going around end, Parrell through the middle, Bob Lang
legging a reverse, and DePaul cashing in on a lateral, the Maroon and Goldsters swept to an easy win. Tavalsy converted
three times.
The Huskies, tuning up for the finale against East Stroudsburg, drubbed Lycoming College, at Williamsport, for their seventh straight victory and 48 more points on the record. Lycoming failed to chalk up a tally.
The climax of the season came in the game with East
Stroudsburg when, by a score of 28-22, the Huskies won their
twentieth victory out of the twenty-one games. For the fourth
time this season, B.S.T.C. was forced to come from behind to
win.
In a game marked by rough, hard play, twelve seniors
played their last college game.
The Redman aggregation was effective on the ground,

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up 264 yards by this method, compared to 66 yards thus
gained by East Stroudsburg. East Stroudsburg advanced 183
by air, while the Huskies passed to gain 90 yards. Bloomsburg
had nineteen first downs, while East Stroudsburg gained eleven.
The 1949 season thus takes its place with that of 1948, to
occupy a permanent place in athletic history at Bloomsburg.
rolling

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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College presented Litia Namoura, exotic solo dancer, and Alfred Patten, young American
pianist, as the featured artists in the first number of the 194950 Artists Course series Monday evening, September 19, in the
Carver Auditorium. Namoura, in her first Central Pennsylvania appearance, brought an authentic background to
the
dance creations which are featured on her program.

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SQUAD LOSES TWELVE SENIORS
Like the undefeated 1948 Husky football eleven, the 1949
B.S.T.C. football team is now history.
Twelve seniors, all of
whom have made Bloomsburg football power what it is, played
their last game for the Maroon and Gold cause.
The deeds of these Husky gridders are almost legendary.
Missing from next year’s gridiron warfare will be Steve Kriss,
Jim Reedy, Bob Leshinski, Joe Apichella, Paul Slobozien, John
Maturani, Berni DePaul, Lou Gabriel, Willis Swales, Dick Wilford, Rodney Morgans and Ed Jones. All told, four backs, three
centers, three guards, one tackle and one end have played their
last for Bloomsburg.
Steve Kriss, a Berwick product, is one of the finest backs
ever to play for the Huskies.
former Marine, Steve performed at wingback, specializing on wide reverses. He took his turn
at passing and receiving tosses.
Steve played a consistent
game every time he took the field, and this year has made his
bid for conference honors.
Jim Reedy followed Left Danks from Miton in 1946 and has
been a Husky standout ever since.
fullback for his first three
years in college ranks, Jim switched to blocking back and signal
caller this year when Coach Redman was short on quarterbacks.
The Huskv offense really rolled when Jim called signals.
Apichella, a tailback from Hazleton, was hampered this season with a pair of sore legs, but saw limited action as safety
man on the defense. His worth was shown in his brilliant performances last year as a scatback and passer.
Leshinski transferred from Mansfield State where he performed for Ted Casey. Leshinski was the regular safety man
in Coach Redman’s defense.
His punt returns have aided the
Husky cause all season. Bob was injured in the final game
with Stroudsburg and had been hampered by leg injuries all seaHe is a Plains product.
son.
Paul Slobozien is one of the finest all-around athletes ever
to attend Bloomsburg. Also a basketball and baseball stalwart,
Paul played center, backing up the line on the defense. The four-

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man is from Johnstown
John Maturani was the second half of the Bloomsburg pivot
punch. John shared offense duties with Slobozien and DePaul,
and was one of the most terrific line backers ever to play football for B.S.T.C. John also came from Milton in 1946.
Bernie DePaul rounded out the center staff for the past
year

.

four years. Despite his small size, Bernie has played outstanding football, particularly on the offense, as was evidenced by the
first touchdown of his college career at Kutztown during the;
past season. A Berwick product. Bernie was the lightest Husky

i

lineman

Lou
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in 1949.

Gabriel, Hazleton guard,

came

into his

own

as an of-

T

fensive guard this year

when he played a
Lou weighed in at

Redman’s forward

wall.

and rolled over

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vital role in

Coach

a hefty 235 pounds

Gone also will be Willis Swales, South Williamsport guard,
who made up for lack of weight in good Husky fight and spirit.
One of the fastest guards on the squad, “Bill” started many a
game for the Maroon and Gold, and this year was used extensively in the “kicking off” platoon because of his speed.

Dick Wolford, another slight but rugged guard, played his
The Milton stalwart is also one
of Lefty Danks’ boys. Dick shared the kicking-off duties durlast

game against Stroudsburg.

ing the nast season.

Rod Morgans has been rated as one

of the smartest defen-

sive tackles in S.T.C. football.
It is almost impossible to take
him completely out of a play.
big, rugged ball player, Rod
hails from South Williamsport.
Rod weighs 213 and has been

A

a starter for the past three campaigns.

Ed

Jones, another Milton boy, has performed for the Huskfour years also, coming with the other Danks’ players.
The towering terminal saw only limited action in 1949 because
of an ankle injury but has won his share of varsity letters. Ed
is also a basketball performer.
Three additional Huskies, not yet seniors have played their
last game for Bloomsburg.
Because of eligibility reasons, Elmer Kreiser, Henry Marek and Dick Jarman will be missed when
the 1950 grid season rolls around.
Kreiser, tall Columbia end, has been a standout performer
for the past three years, earning All-Conference honors in 1948.
has played a vital role as reserve end for the past three
seasons.
He is from Dupont. Jarman played at B. S.T.C. for
two seasons, gaining a starting role during the past season. A
transfer student, the Plymouth footballer had played at Dickinson College.
ies for

o

Charles H. Henrie, retail selling instructor at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, is the author of an
article
entitled,
“Some Techniques for Staging the Retail Fashion Show” in the
October, 1949, issue of the “Business Education World.”
Mr. Henrie annually presents a fashion show each Spring
at the College in connection with the Business Education Contest and with the cooperation of the local merchants. Mr. Henrie has also staged fashion shows in Lancaster and York.
The
article presents the technique of staging the show in the school
and includes instructions for stage settings, merchandise protection, selecting and training the models, and show production.
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NELSON,

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pleasure to write this column today.

First of

our active membership list is 300 above that of last year.
Thank you all. Then again our football team was tops. Did
you see the boys in action this season? What a squad and how
proud we are of the whole group, from coaching staff to water
boy! The record is published elsewhere in this issue.
It has been some years now since we have had a real live
mascot on tne campus. Eddie Schuyler, ’24, and one or two
others say something will be done about it, so our next Alumni
Day you will have the opportunity to become acquainted with
a beautiful Husky Dog, wearing the colors of the grand old
all,

school.
to the Husky
could be finer than to walk in the old gymnasium
some day and see your name in bronze along with other loyal
supporters of their Alma Mater? One graduate told me he was
as proud to see his name there as he was to receive his diploma.
Come to think of it, what have we really done in a material way
to say “thank you” for what that diploma has meant to us
through the years? That diploma may be in a trunk, it may be
in a frame in the attic, it may be rolled up in a cupboard, but
its worth is evidenced by the position we occupy today.
Let's
do something more than say “its a grand old school.” Sentiment never aids progress when used in pure form. Its chief
value is that of a catalyst, with a “river winding” in the background.
Glad to note that Florence Hess Price, ’18, has been elected
to the Presidency of the New Jersey Education Association for
a term of two years.
Before
Congratulations to Florence and to New Jersey.
next Alumni Day there will be a Bloomsburg get-together in the
Greater New York area. Plenty of loyal graduates living in
them thar woods.
Dave Moses, TO, writes in from Oregon that the memory of
the Normal excursion trip to Washington, D. C., is of real worth.
Serves as a sort of analgesic to joints that begin to creak.
Our Editor, H. F. Fenstemaker, T2, was honored at the November Reunion of Caldwell Consistory when he was presented
with the Meritorius Service Award for faithful service through
the many years he has served as organist for the Scottish Rite.
A well deserved recognition to a hard worker in church in
And the
school and all phases of community betterment.
“Quarterly” will be as good as you help him make it.

About 6 or 8 more names are being added

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Underway

Basketball Season

With the end of the football season, the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College cagers began formal drills under the direction
of Coach Harold Shelly. More than thirty hopefuls reported for
initial workouts in the Centennial Gymnasium.
The Huskies face a tough nineteen-gome schedule, including twelve tilts with State Teachers College rivals. Standout
home attraction was a contest here Wednesday night, December
14, when Coach Josh Cody brought his powerful Temple Owls
to Bloomsburg for the second time in a three-year period.
Coach Shelly came to Bloomsburg this year from Wilmington College in Ohio where his teams were uniformly successful.
Prior to his stay at the small Ohio college, he produced outstanding basketball clubs at Wetherill High School in Cincinnati, O.
The Huskies’ comple schedule follows:

December 10
December 14
December 16
December 17
January 4
January 11

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Kutztown STC
Millersville

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Wilkes College
Millersville

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Lycoming College
Krng’s College

Lock Haven STC

STC

Shippensburg

STC
Kutztown STC
Indiana STC
Mansfield

Shippensburg STC
Lock Haven STC

Lycoming College
Mansfield STC
Wilkes College

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Miss Edna J. Hazen, director, Elementary Education, and
Miss Honora Noyes, of the Department of Business Education,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, recently participated in a
series of workshops for teachers in Allentown. Miss Hazen acted as consultant for Elementary Teachers while Miss Noyes
served as a consultant for the Commercial Department of the
The workshops are an annual activity
of the in-service education program of the Allentown Public

Allentown High School.
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1949 Graduates

The annual survey letter has been sent to 225 graduates of
the Class of 1949 of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College to
determine the numbers in teaching, graduate work, business and
other gainful occupations.
The Placement Service has already accumulated information on 187 of the 225 graduates.
Of the number reporting to
date, 79 per cent are engaged in teaching, 10 per cent are in
graduate schools ,and slightly over 10 per cent are gainfully
employed in business. It is expected that when the remaining
32 students are reached the ratio of 8 out of every 10 graduates
placed in teaching positions may be affected.
In the light of previous studies made by President Harvey
A. Andruss and members of the staff, this rate of placement is
very encouraging considering the large number if graduates and
the general shortage of elementary teachers and an over-supply
of secondary school teachers of English and Social Studies.
Business teachers who are able to teach Shorthand and
Typewriting are still in demand. However, the positions for
teaching, 35 of 69 secondary school graduates are teaching.
Of the 52 graduates in the elementary curriculum, 50 are
teaching! 35 of 69 secondary school graduates are teaching,
while 55 of the 104 business graduates are teaching, and 21 are
engaged in business. Business placement to date is about 70
per cent.
Viewed in the light of the over-all surveys made of over a
thousand graduates for the ten years prior to 1940. which showed 77 per cent placement in teaching, and a five-year survey of
over 500 graduates in the period between 1941 and 1945, which
showed an 80 per cent placement, and a three-year survey of
slightly less than 300 students made late in 1948, which showed
an 83 per cent placement, it would seem that the very favorable
placement record of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
the past is being maintained. However, the figures quoted were
based upon surveys made after much longer periods of time had
lapsed, therefore, it is expected that three years from now, or
five years from now, or ten years from now, the record of employment would grow and become increasingly favorable.
o

Three hundred thirty-four students were enrolled for the
three-week summer school post session at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, according to figures released by college authVeterans numbering 155, again accounted for nearly
orities.
half of the total enrollment. There were 179 non-veterans enrolled and about a hundred were occupying dormitory quarters
on the campus.
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Washington Alumni Have Picnic
The Washington Branch of the Bloomsburg Alumni met in
Rock Creek Park on the afternoon of August 6. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the get-together which began with a softball and
quoit pitching and was followed by a picnic supper served buffet
style.
’40, the Vice President of the group prealumnus present introduce themselves and
The Picnic Committee Martha Wright Moe, ’39,

Charles Kelchner,
sided and had each
their friends.

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Dorothy and Ray Zimmerman, ’39, Emma Cartwright Shelly,
’05, and Clara Oman, ’35
did a wonderful job and were respon-

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a highly successful picnic.
Those present were:
Harriet Kocher, ’39, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelchner, ’40, and daughter, Washington; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert
Hill, ’41, (Stella Johnson) and daughter, Falls Church, Va.; Lillian Yeager, ’40, and Ray Sanger and daughter, Arlington ,Va.;
Mrs. Emma Shelly, ’05, and daughter, Dorothy, Washington;
Mildred Sidler, ’16, Washington; Clara Oman, ’15, and guest,
Washington; Mrs. Dowden, ’92, and guest, Washington; Mr.
Broadbent, ’98, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lavins,
(Nora Clancy, ’09), Washington; Peg Steininger, ’39, Washington; Marie and Tom Davison, ’38, (Marie Davis, ’37), and son,
Arlington, Va. Cathleen Oplinger, ’41, and Clark Renninger,
Arlington, Va. Mrs. Mattie Lynch, ’22, and four guests, Laurel,
Md.; Mr. and Mrs. William Forsyth. ’40, and three children,
Green Belt, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zimmerman. ’40. Silver
Springs, Md.; Martha Wright, ’39, and
Lucas Moe, Silver
Springs. Md. Dorothy Englehart, ’39, and Ray Zimmerman,
’39, and two daughters, Bethesda, Md.; Mr.
and Mrs. Albert
Bonan, ’29, (Esther Delekosia, ’29), and four children, Silver
Springs, Md.
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In a double-ring ceremony performed at three o’clock Saturday, August 27, in Our Lady of Mercy Church, Roaring Creek,
Miss Marie Ann Zinda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Zinda, of Catawissa, and Albert C. Eremich, son of Mrs. Eva Eremich, of Mt. Carmel, were united in marriage.
The nuptials were conducted by the Rev. Vincent Brozy’s,
pastor of the church.
The bride is a graduate of Catawissa High School in 1947.
The groom, a graduate of Mt. Carmel High School in 1943, served three years in the U. S. Navy with overseas service in the
E.T.O. and Asiatic Pacific treaters. He is a sophomore at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
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Board
Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick ....
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
Edward
E.

of Directors

H.

Hervey

B.

President
Vice-President

Secretary
Treasurer
F.

Schuylerr

Smith

H. F. Fenstemaker

Elizabeth H.

Huber

1876

The death

of Miss

Martha E.

Schlicker. one of the oldest
residents in Beaver township, occurred Tuesday, September 13,
at her home.
Infirmities contributed to her death at the age of ninetyfive.

Miss Schlicker was born

in

Beaver township and spent most

Until 1919 she taught school in
of her life in that township.
Beaver township and was a member of the Reformed Church of
Mountain Grove. She was also active in the Democratic party,
having been a committeewoman for many years. She was always ready to offer counsel to residents of the area.

1881

Mrs. May Wells Creasy, eighty-four, widow of the late S. C.
Creasy, died Monday, October 3, about one-twelve o’clock at her
home on Fifth street, Bloomsburg. Death was attributed to
complications.
She was born in Muncy, Feruarby 5. 1865, and lived in Corry before moving to Bloomsbui’g, where she spent most of her
lifetime.
She was an honor student in the class of 1881.
Bloomsburg State Normal School, and was married at the school
where her father, the late Edward Clark Wells, was bursar.
T
ells Lumber
Her husband was the founder of Creasy and
Company and the first president of the Pennsylvania Lumberman’s Association.
Mrs. Creasy had been an active member of the Methodist
Church, was president of the Foreign Missionary Society and
the Ladies Aid and was a member of the Home Missionary Society of the church. She was Past Regent and a charter member of the Fort McClure Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. Mrs. Creasy was also a charter member of the Century Club and president of the board of management of the
Bloomsburg Public Library, an institution she served for a number of years. She was also a member of the Hospital Auxiliary.
Surviving are five daughters: Mrs. Earl F. John; Martha
S. Creasy; Mrs. Dennis D. Wright, and Jean Creasy, of Bloomsburg; Mrs. Luther P. Creasy, of Catawissa R. D.. Six grand-

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ch ldren and two great grandchildren, also survive. A son, EdC. Creasy, formerly of Bloomsburg, died in 1936. Mrs. Jo-

ward

seph G. Wells, of Mauch Chunk, and formerly of Bloomsburg,

is

a sister-in-law.

1886
Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes Raser, wife of George Raser, died at
her home in Orangeville Wednesday, November 2.
Born in Philadelphia, Mrs. Raser was the daughter of the
late Dr. and Mrs. Mason Beoch Hughes. Her girlhood was spent
in Shickshinny.
After finishing high school she entered the
Bloomsburg State Normal School from which institution she
graduated with honors. She later was called back to become a
member of the faculty, a position she held until Dr. D. J. Waller,
Jr., was appointed State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Mrs. Raser later entered Vassar College and was a member
of the Pittsburgh Branch of the Associate Alumni of Vassar.
Later she was principal of the Shickshinny public schools for a
number of years, after which she taught in the Pittsburgh pubschools for eight years.
On November 9, 1911, she was married to George B. Raser
and for 25 years they lived in Pittsburgh. She was a member of
the Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, giving herself
wholeheartedly to the cause of missions. She served for many
years as president of the Home and Foreign Missionary Society
of the Third Presbyterian Church. For eight years she served
as president of the Home Missionary Society of the Presbytery
of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church.
She also served as a
Synodical officer.
The deceased since 1940 made her home in Orangeville,
where she was a member of the Orangeville Presbyterian
lic

Church.
1889

Martha Berninger (Mrs. Thomas W. Kydd), of Bloomsubrg, served a number of years as a teacher in a mission school
at Yokahoma, Japan.
1890
Miss Adda Hayman, eighty-two, well-known

resident
of
Turbotville, died Wednesday, September 1, at the Evangelical
Hospital, Lewisburg, where she had been a patient since sustaining a fall several weeks previous.
She was born September 16, 1867, in Catawissa, the daughter of Randolph andc Mary Hayman. She lived most of her life
in the Turbotville vicinity.
She was a member of St. James Lutheran Church, Turbotville, for fifty-one years and was also a
member of the missionary society of that church. She was active in the W.C.T.U.

She was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School in
1890 and received a bachelor of science degree in 1920 from
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Bucknell University. She was a teacher in a number of Pennsylvania high schools, including Danville and Pottsgrove,
during her thirty years of teaching.

1892
Mrs. Mable Huff, 79, died suddenly at her Town Hill home
Monday, August 20. Death followed an illness of ony a few
days.

Born July 16, 1870, at White Haven, Mrs. Huff was the
daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth Pettebone Westover.
She attended school at White Haven and the New Columbus
Academy. She was a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal
School, class of 1892.

Mrs. Huff taught school at Town Hill and Southdale and
and Vineland, New Jersey, High Schools.
She was a member of the Town Hill Methodist Church and
the WSCS of the church. Her husband, T. Ralph Huff, preceded
her in death in 1941.
also at the Nanticoke

Sue Creveling (Mrs. George W. Miller, Jr.) lives at 315 Second Street, Weatherly. Her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Miller
Brower, of the class of 1917, is living with her mother and is
teaching in the schools of Weatherly.
1893
On Friday, September 23, 1949, at the First Presbyterian
Church of Bloomsburg, there was held a service to honor the
memory of Miss Martha Powell. The service included the dedication of memorial communion vessels presented by Mr. Emerson F. Davis, a nephew of Miss Powell. The printed program
of the service contains the following biographical note:
Martha Powell was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1863, the daughter of John D. Powell and Jane Davies
Powell.
Her parents were born in Wales. They came to the
United States as children, and lived in Bloomsburg mdst of their
lives, until their deaths at advanced ages.
Miss Powell was one
of six children who attained maturity, five of whom lived in

Bloomsburg many years.
Miss Powell attended the public schools in Bloomsburg and
graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School (now
Bloomsburg State Teachers College) in 1893. Early in her
adult years she had ambitions to be a foreign missionary, but
abandoned the idea. Prepared to teach, she nevertheless immeEmdiately after graduation entered upon a business career.
ployed in a secretarial capacity by Mr. Hiester V. White, then
and for many years a lawyer and business man in Bloomsburg,
she continued in business association with Mr. White most of
her life. In 1900 she became Secretary of The White Milling
Co., a flour milling enterprise in Bloomsburg of which Mr. White
was President, and retired in 1939, when the mill was destroyed
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and the business discontinued.

She was a successful
the years when women less frequently than
now engaged in such a career.
Miss Powell’s interest in the First Presbyterian Church of
Bloomsburg and its various organizations developed very clearly
in her life.
At a very early age she began attendance at Sunday
School, and in 1893 she was received into the Church. Continuously thereafter, until her death, she was active in the Church
and the work of its organizations. In these religious associations she was much like Mr. White, who was a lifelong member,
officer and leader of the Church and many of its organizations.
Miss Powell was a devoted teacher in the Sunday School as
early as 1895 and continued as such until 1943. She was almost
perfect in attendance at Sunday School for a period of fifty
years, and by reason thereof received unusual recognition from
the Sunday School in 1943, shortly before her death.
She became Financial Secretary of the Church in 1897, and
held that office until her death. For many years she was interested and active in the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, the Columbia County Sabbath School Union, and the
Mary Neal Auxiliary. Regular in attendance upon all Church services and organization meetings, she gave most of her free time
to the furtherance of the worship and activities of the Church
and its affiliated and sponsored organizations.
Her pleasure was in Christian service, and her activity was
terminated only by death on June 16, 1943, after a short illness.
The Church never had a more devoted servant. She found her
joy in the Lord’s work.
The memorial to Miss Powell this day dedicated to the
Church is a recognition that her supreme interest in the Church
should not be considered as terminated, even though she is no
longer with us.
Among the many words of tribute printed in the program
were the following:
Martha Powell was a life-long member of the First Presbyterian Church in Bloomsburg. Her active participation in every
church project or work could be counted upon in advance.
If faithful effort and unfailing attendance to duty has its
rewards in the hearts and memory of a long list of friends, the
life and work of Martha Powell in this church wil remain as her
most precious memorial.
William B. Sutliff
by

fire

business

woman

in

From the time I was a little girl, I remember Miss Martha
Powell as a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. No matter when the church was open, she
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ary Meeting, one could always be sure “Miss Martha” would be
there. No doubt she is the only member of the church who was
an honorary member of both the Girl and Boy Scouts of our
church troops. So for her steadfast faithfulness and tireless
work for her church she was a powerful example for all of us
who called her “friend.”
Vera H. Housenick

1894

The Rev. Benjamin Hurley John, D.
minisiter, died Tuesday,

Y.

He was

October

25, at his

D., retired 'Methodist

home

in Unadilla,

N.

72.

Services were held at the First Methodist Church, Oneonta.
where he was pastor from 1916 to 1922.
Dr. Johns was born in Shickshinny, Pa., and was educated
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Wyoming Seminary, Lehigh University and Wesleyan College. He received a doctor
of theology degree from Dickinson College.
He served pastorates at Haysville. Lehman, Factoryville
and Pymouth, Pa., and for 25 years until his retirement in 1948
was pastor of Grace Methodist Church, Wilmington, Del.

1895

The Quarterly recently received a memorial booklet conlife of
George Edward
Hoke, whose death occurred June 30, 1944.
Mr. Hoke was born October 28, 1879, at Dalmatia, Pa. His
father died when George was six years old. The family moved
to Herndon, where the boy reecived his elementary education.
He was graduated from Sunbury High School at the age of sixteen, and from Bloomsburg in 1895. He then took a position as
timekeeper with the Phoenixville Bridge Company. He entered
Dartmouth College in 1898 and was graduated in 1903.
He then went to Minneapolis, where he was employed in
the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company. During part of the
time, he studied law at the St. Paul College of Law, and then
entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated
in 1907.
He returned to St. Paul and began the practice of law.
In 1912, he married Miss Carolyn Peabody, of St. Paul. He continued his law practice until he retired in 1942.

taining a biographical sketch of the

He was a member of the American Bar Association, the U.
Chamber of Commerce, the Minneapolis Civic Council, the
Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest, the Minnesota
S.

the Minneapolis
St. Paul and the Lafayette Club and
Club.
In recognition of Mr. Hoke’s long and distinguished career
as a lawyer, the biographical sketch was “read, accepted, and
ordered spread upon the records of the court at a special term
of the Full Bench of the District Court for Hennepen County,
Minnesota, held at Minneapolis on February 24, 1945.”

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1896
Mrs. Minnie T. Young, widow of Robert D. Young, and for
many years, prior to her marriage, a teacher in the Bloomsburg
school, died in the Bloomsburg Hospital Saturday, August 6. She
was aged seventy-two years.
Born and reared in Light Street, she had spent all of her
life in Bloomsburg and vicinity except thirty years in Philadelphia. She had been a patient in the Bloomsburg Hospital since
December 28, 1946, being admitted to the institution after suffering a fracture of the hip in a fall.
Her husband died five
years ago. Following his death she came to Bloomsburg to reside with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Reber
Terwilliger, of Center street.
Mrs. Young was a member of the Calvary Methodist
Church, of Philadelphia. Surviving are one brother, Mr. Terwilliger; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Terwilliger and Mrs. J. Lynn
Dodge, Audubon, N. J., two nieces and a nephew.

A

1898
widely-known Benton woman, Mrs. Marvin E. Conner,

aged sixty-nine, died Saturday, August 20, at her home following a heat attack. Mrs. Conner’s maiden name was Josephine
Pursel.

Mrs. Conner, a former teacher in Bloomsburg and Berwick
was active in church and civic affairs. She was born
in Beach Haven. November 27, 1879, the daughter of the late
Jonathan and Mary E. Pursel. Mrs. Conner spent the early
years of her life in Bloomsburg and vicinity and was graduated
from Bloomsburg Normal in 1898 after which she taught for
twelve years in Bloomsburg and Berwick schools.
She spent her entire married life in Benton, was a member
of the Presbyterian Church of Benton and active in church and
civic affairs.
She was the first Republican committeewoman in
Benton borough and was long the Red Cross chairman for the
schools,

Northern

District.

Mrs. Conner helped organize and was president of the Benton Garden Club. She headed the Women’s Service Circle of the
Presbyterian Church and was a past president of the WCTU in

Columbia county.
1899
Dr.

Warren W. Preston, who had been

practicing medicine

Montrose for forty-two years, died last spring at his home,
following an illness of several weeks. Dr. Preston had served
as Chief Burgess and school director, and had taken a very active part in the affairs of the community.
in

Veronica Conlan (Mrs. George Halliday) lives at 3217 Garner Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Anna

Ditzler Brundick

is

in

Kyoto, Japan.

Gertrude Rowe, 22 Sheldon Street, Wilkes-Barre, retired in
June after forty-four years of teaching. She served as prinFranklin Street School for twenty-six years.
1907
Piittston relatives received the sad news on Saturday afternoon, October 15, of the death of Mrs. Mary Weaver Evans, aged
62 years, wife of D. Franklin Evans. 315 Providence Road,
Media, Pa., member of an old Scranton family. Mr. and Mrs.
Evans left their home in Media by automobile on Saturday
morning to attend the Home Coming ceremonies at Pennsylvania
State College. Mr. Evans and several of his children are graduates of that college.
Mrs. Evans, an experienced driver, was at the wheel of the
car. At a point seven miles east of Lebanon the car skidded on
a wet pavement and overturned, crushing Mrs. Evans to death.
Mr. Evans escaped with a scalp wound.
Mrs. Evans was the former Mary Weaver, of Scranton and
Duryea, and she was very well known in the Scranton and Pittston districts. She was a graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and w as a teacher in the Scranton schools previoius to
her marriage. Her husband is a retired official of the DuPont
Co., and had served that company at Hopewell, Va., Buffalo, N.
Y., and Waynesboro. Va., previous to his retirement a few years
ago when he established his home at Media.
1908
We are informed by Miss Adda M. Westfield, 1224 Potter
Street, Chester, Pa., that the class of 1908 is planning a reunion
in 1950, instead of waiting the customary five years.
cipal of the

r

Joseph A. Shovlin died at his home, 718 Centre Street, AshTuesday morning, July 26. following a long illness. He
had been an instructor and superintendent of the Conyngham
Township school, and for thirty years, superintendent of the
land.

Kulpmont

public school system.

1911
Dr. James A. Corrigan has been elected Chief Obstetrician
and Chief of Staff at the St. Joseph Hospital. Hazleton, which
was scheduled to open November 1. The capacity of the hospital is 250 to SCO beds, and the plant includes a complete general
hospital and training school for nurses.

Edna Lewis (Mrs. F. J. Robinson) lives at Robincrest Jersey Farm, South Burlington, Vermont.
1912
Lena G. Leitzel Streamer, 570 Hadden Avenue, Collingswood, New Jersey, is mourning the death of her husband, who
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illness.

Mary Eckert (Mrs. Earl Andrews) lives at 184 Hillside
Road, Apt. A, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Mrs. Andrews say that
they have been living in “the Atomic City” for the past 2 years.
She would be glad to hear from any of her friends.
1914
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Griffiths live at 207 Sacra Via, MariMrs. Griffiths will be remembered by her classetta, Ohio.
mates as Ada Conner. Both she and her husband are members of the class of 1914.

1919

Young McDonald

lives at 169-16 110 Road, Jamaica 5, New York.
She is a teacher in the New York City
schools. She has a daughter who was graduated from Howard
University, Washington, D. C., last March, and a son who is in
his junior year at the same university.

Priscilla

1921

Maree E. Pensyl,
Bloomsburg High School, was

social studies teacher of the
in
York Thursday, November 3, participating in one of a series of consultations at Teachers College, Columbia University, in a study on a citizenship edu-

Miss

New

cation planning project.
Miss Pensyl was invited to this conference by William S.
Vincent, executive officer of the project. L. P. Gilmore, supervising principal, in reporting the invitation, stated that this is
one of the most outstanding recognitions to come to the local
school in many years.
In a letter to Miss Pensyl, Vincent states: “The citizenship
education planning project has been established by Teachers
College and Columbia University to develop during the year at
least one plan for citizenship education which can be tried out
and tested in one or more of the school systems which are cooperating with Columbia Uniiversity.
“As a part of this plan we are searching as widely as possible throughout the nation for all resources which have a bearing upon citizenship education and have organized a series of
small consultation meetings, numbering not more than eight or
ten persons, to which we have invited people from different parts
of the country who have been recommended to the college as
having a great deal to contribute on the subject.”

1934

The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Ruth Beers, of Bloomsburg,
to Alfred Henry Miller, of Catawissa R. D. 1, took place Saturday, August 13, in the Reformed Church, Bloomsburg. The Rev.
M. Edward Schnorr performed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Bucknell University and University of Pennsylvania.
She was the county librarian for several
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years and last year was the librarian at the Bloomsburg High
School.

Columbia University and the Univera social worker with the Department
of Public Assistance. During the war he served three years
with the Intelligence in the South Pacific. The couple are reMr. Miller attended
sity of Pennsylvania and

is

siding in Philadelphia.

1935
Mrs. Dawn Townsend Harvey, of Bloomsburg, is teaching
at the DeLong School at Washingtonville.
She is home room
teacher in grades two and three and teaches music in all grades.
1936
The marriage of Miss Margaret I. Crouse, daughter of
Bruce H. Crouse, of Berwick, and the late Mrs. Crouse, to
George W. Derrick, Jr., son of Mrs. Alice Derrick, of Everett,
and the late Senator G. W. Derrick, was solemnized August 23
in Grace Lutheran Church, Berwick.
Mrs. Derrick is a gaduate of Berwick High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and attended Susquehanna Universiity.
She is a teacher in fifth grade of Berwick Public Schools.
Mr. Derrick is a graduate of Everett High School and Penn
Pie is with the Department of Revenue in HarState College.
risburg.

1937
Francis D. Sell
R. D. 2, Pa.

is in

the real estate business at Boyertown

1938
Robert H. Hill lives at Route 21, Box 143, Alexandria, Virginia.
Mr. Hill is a supervisor in the Aeronautical Chart Service, U. S. Air Corps.
Mrs. Hill was formerly Stella Johnson,
of the class of 1940. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two daughters.
1940
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bacon, Kimberton, Pa., announce
the birth of a daughter, Barbara Ann, born October 4, 1949.
Mr. Bacon is Director of Civilian Personnel at the Valley Forge
General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pa. Mrs. Bacon wil be remembered as Ann J. Evans, of the class of 1939. She has been
teaching in the elementary schools at Kimberton.

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jones, Pottstown, Pa., announce the
birth of a daughter, born July 27, 1949. Mr. Jones is educational director at the Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville,
Pa. Mrs. Jones (Helen Brady) has been teaching in the elementary schools at Pottstown.

Miss Alice M. McCann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McCann, of Janesville, was married to Edward M. Matthews, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews, of Hazleton, on Saturday,
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July 31, at St. Gabriel’s Church by Monsignor D. J. Kane.
The bride was graduated from Hazle Township High
School, and is employed at the Publix Shirt Co. The bridegroom
is a graduate of St. Gabriel’s High School and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. He is a teacher in the Hazleton High
School. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews are now living at 338 Samuels
Avenue, Hazleton.

1941
daughter, Veronica Elizabeth, was born July 7, 1949, to
Mr. and Mrs. George Horvath, of 327 Grant Street, Berwick.
Mrs. Horvath, remembered by her classmates as Isabella Olah,
taught before her marriage in the Orange Street Junior High
School, Berwick, and also in the Houston School, Philadelphia.

A

1942
Mr. and Mrs. Nevin I. Ehrhart are living in York, Pa., and
their mailing address is R. D. 2, Red Lion, Pa. Mrs. Ehrhart is
the former Aleta Stiles. Her husband is employed by the York
Corporation, manufacturers of air-conditioning systems. They
have one daughter, Beth Elaine, two years old.

Raymond Chandler
Wharton School

is

now

a

member

of the faculty of the

and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chandler returned recently from Beirut,
Syria,
where he taught for three years in the American University.
While teaching, Mr. Chandler will do graduate work in business
of Finance

administration.

1943
Carl E. Diltz, an instructor at Clarkson College’s Malone
Branch, has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor
of business administration.
Mr. Diltz joined the Clarkson faculty on October 1, 1947,
after earning his master’s degree at Columbia University.
A
native of Benton, Pa., he received his bachelor’s degree in 1943

from Bloomsburg.

He is a member of the National Association of Cost Accountants and Phi Sigma Pi, professional education fraternity.
From 1943 to 1947, while completing his graduate work at Columbia University, he served on the faculty of Columbia, Pa.,
High School.
At Clarkson he

is also a faculty adviser
to
the student
chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management. He
has been employed by the J. G. White Engineering Corp. as a
labor coordinator and has done public accounting work.

Carl E. Diltz, of Benton, who for the past two years has
been instructor in accounting and economics in the Malone College for Freshmen, has been promoted to the rank of assistant
professor of business administration, it has been announced at
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He attended

B.S.T.C. and was graduated in 1943 with the
degree of bachelor of science. While teaching business subjects at Columbia, Pa., High School, he served as vice president
and then president of the local branch of the Pennsylvania State
Education Association. He received his master’s degree at
Teachers College, Columbia University, in June, 1947.
Lt. and Mrs. Elwood M. Wagner are located at the Lackland Air Force Base Hospiital, San Antonio, Texas. Lt. Wagner is Assistant Director of Statistical Services in the Headquarters of the Twelfth Air Force, Brooks AFR, San Antonio.
Mrs. Wagner, the former Kay Jones, also of the class of ’43,
was on the campus on Homecoming Day. Lt. and Mrs. Jones
have a son, born June 28, 1949. Mail address: 202 Benita St.,
San Antonio, Texas.

George E. Miller is principal of the Junior High School in
North Little Rock, Arkansas. The school has an enrollment of
1100 students. After completing his work for the Master’s Degree, Mr. Miller taught for two years in Wilkes-Barre, and as-

sumed

his present position in the

autumn

of 1948.

On Saturday, July 24, at the Mifflinville Methodist Church,
Miss June Elizabeth Hoagland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott
T. Hoagland, became the bride of Robert Wallace Norris, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Norris, of Forty Fort.
The Rev. C. M. Hammond, pastor of the church, performed
the double ring ceremony before one hundred fifty wedding
guests.

The bride, a graduate of Mifflin Township High School and
B.S.T.C., has been teaching in the Midway Manor School, Allentown. Mr. Norris graduated from Forty Fort High School and
attended the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II
he served with the U. S. Navy. At present, he is an accountant
with the Americus Hotel, Allentown.

1944
“I

had three wonderful years, but

I

am

really glad to be

back home in the United States,” says Harold J. Miller, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller, of Church street, Catawissa, who

home only recently after a three-year teaching assignment at Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey.
The English teacher is a graduate of Catawissa High School
and B.S.T.C. and taught two years at Phillipsburg, Pa., before
returned

leaving for his foreign assignment. He considers the years in
the East as three very interesting and educational years.
Robert College has an enrollment of 900 student with very
few English students. The faculty included thirty-five American teachers and a large number of teachers from many foreign
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countries, he said.

The students enter the school at twelve years of age. They
are given two years of English instruction and the next three
years of their study correspond to high school work in this
country. It prepares them for the college course. All students
enrolled pay tuition.
There were no music classes in the school as musical instruments are very hard to secure in that part of the world. Soccer
which they call “football,” is the main sport of the boys. Basketball has recently been introduced at Robert College.
Miller had much to say about the country in which he lived.
Native meals are planned around rice, mutton, oil and fruit. Turkey “plumbing” is still in the primitive form. Deep ditches are
dug in each side of the street and water pumped in once a day.
This is used for bathing or household needs. Housewives are
allowed to wash clothes only once a week. Water is also pumped into homes into wells in the basement.
As for drinking water, that is bought from push carts which
travel the streets daily.
The temperature of Turkey is approximately that of New
York City, Miller says, for during the three years he was in that

country, temperatures never went higher than 90 degrees and
there were only two frosts. The country has much rainfall
especially during the winter months.
During his vacations, Miller visited France, Italy, England,
Switzerland, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. He
left India traveling east on a Dutch freighter for the trip home
in order to see that part of the world in a leisurely fashion. The
freighter stopped at Singapore, the Malay States, Manila and
other points of interest in the Philippines. The trip from India
to California took fifty days.
His sightseeing did not stop at
the west coast, for he made the cross country trip by bus stopping off at many points along the way.

Anne T. Sabol, who has been teaching at Hood College,
Frederick, Maryland, is now teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and taking graduate courses there.
Frank Taylor, Mifflinville, has been elected by the Berwick
school board to a position in the High School commercial department.
Mr. Taylor, who has been a teacher in the Mifflin Township
Consolidated School, resigned that position to take the new post.
A graduate of Berwick High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, Mr. Taylor received his master’s degree at
Bucknell this year.
Mrs. Lillian H. Scott, of Bloomsburg, announces the engageof her daughter, Mary Louise, of Whittier, Calif., to Rob-

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and Mrs. Clifford A. Bayless, of Norwalk, Calif. The wedding will take place in December.
Miss
Scott is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. She attended the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles, and is at present a teacher at
Los Nietos, Calif., and also teaches evening classes in adult education at Whittier High School. Mr. Bayless is a graduate of
hittier College and is attending the University of Southern
California. He served in the Navy during World War II and has
also been teaching in Los Nietos.

ert C. Bayless, son of Mr.

W

T

1945

The marriage

of Miss Rita A. Fabian, daughter
of Mrs.
Veronica B. Fabian, of Nanticoke, to Mark C. Wanich, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. Collins Wanich, of Light Street, was solemnized at eleven o’clock on Saturday, August 20, in St. Stanislaus

Catholic Church, Nanticoke.
The bride is a graduate of Nanticoke High School and Pennsylvania State College. She has been employed as a personnel
interviewer with a New York City firm.
Mr. Wanich is a graduate of Scott Township High School
and B.S.T.C. He has completed work for his master’s degree
from Columbia University. He has taught for two years at the
Cairo School for American Children and one year at the Bentley
school in New York City.
The newly-weds will reside at 155 Brookside Court, Copigue,
L. I., N. Y., where Mr. Wanich is teaching in the Amityville High
School.

Miss Anna Pappas, of Danville, was elected teacher of art

and spelling in the Danville Junior High School. She is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has been teaching for the past three years in

New

Jersey.

Eudora Berlew (Mrs. Borge Lyhne) lives at 914 South
Quaker Lane, Elmwood, Connecticut. She is teaching sixth
grade

in

the

Elmwood

schools.

Lynn

Sailer Jackson has been living at 89-96 216th Street.
Village, New York. Her husband, Douglas Jackson, was,
him, a student at
if the Editor’s memory does not deceive
Bloomsburg in the V-12 program. He is employed by the engineering firm of Ford, Bacon and Davis in New York City. Mr.
and Mrs. Jackson have two children.

Queens

Enso R. Frosini, West Wyoming, has been awarded a grant
under the Fulbright Act to study in Italy. Mr. Frosini recently
was informed of the decision of the State Department. He
planned to leave New York for a year’s study on November 14,
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American Export Line.

Betty Zehner Dietrich is teaching in the schools of ChalHer present mailing address is 4738 Ella Street, Phil-

font, Pa.

adelphia.

1946
Ralph Tremato, formerly of Easton, and Miss Carmen Rendon, of Bogota, Colombia, were married Saturday, July 16, in
Bogota. Mr. Tremato is employed by the Texas Oil Company
in

Bogota.

Jeanne Keller (Mrs. C. W. Epley, Jr.) who lives at 257
Highland Avenue, Gettysburg, has informed the Quarterly of
the birth of a daughter, Elaine, born April 23, 1949.
1947
Robert L. Bunge has been elected teacher in the Catawissa
High School. He is teaching science and social studies.
Mr. Bunge is a graduate of Catawissa High School and the
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg. He was graduated in June
1947, with a major in science and social studies. He w^s listed
in “Who’s Who in American Universities and College in 1947.”
He taught one year in the Millville Joint School District, and
during the past year has been studying at Bucknell University.
He was graduated from that institution August 20 with a master’s degree in. education and a major in guidance.
Mr. Bunge
served in the Armed Forces, is married and has one child

Donald M. Karnes is teaching in the High School at Lamar, Colorado, in the Department of Science. He attended the
summer session at Syracuse University last summer, working
on his Master’s Degree in Biological Science. Mr. and Mrs.
Karnes have a daughter, seventeen months old.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Raymond Reichard, of Bloomsburg R. D. 4,
announce the marriage of their daughter, Ruth Lucille, to J.
Blaine Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carl Miller, of Orangeville
R. D.

1.

The vows were exchanged on August 4 at the Reformed
parsonage in Boalsburg. The Rev. Thomas G. Jones, former
pastor of the Dutch Hill Reformed Church, officiated at the
double ring ceremony. The couple was unattended.
The bride is a graduate of B.H.S. and B.S.T.C. and has been
teaching third and fourth grades in the North Center Township
Consolidated School for the past two years.
The groom is a graduate of Scott Township High School and
is employed at Masteller’s Service Station in Millville.
William Horvath

and

is

is

teaching in the Slatington High School

also serving as assistant coach of the football team.

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1948
Harold L. Miller, Danville, has been elected teacher in the
Commercial Department of the Bloomsburg High School.
Mr. Miller is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and has taught at Penn Argyl High School.

Miss Nancy Evancho, of Eckley, and Ralph F. Seltzer, of
Espy, were married August 11 in St. Mary’s Greek Catholic
Church, Freeland. The bride had been employed as secretary
with the Department of State, Washington, D. C. Mr. Seltzer
is a teacher at the Parkland High School, Allentown.
He recently completed a summer session at the graduate school of the
University of Maryland.
Ruth Bath is teaching in the elementary grades of the
schools of Newington, Connecticut.
1949
Miss June Hontz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hontz, of
South Main street, Shickshinny, became the bride of John Guy,
son of Mrs. Michael Guy, of Nesquehoning, in a pretty singlering ceremony Wednesday, September 1 in
the
Shickshinny
A
Methodist Church. The Rev. Thomas M. Stone officiated.
graduate of Shickshinny High, class of 1945, and of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College with this year’s class, the bride has accepted a position in the Marathon Schools, of New York. The
groom is a graduate of Nesquehoning High School, class of 1938.
He served with the Army overseas for five years. He is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1948 and
has accepted a position in the McGraw School.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy are living at 17 Academy Street, Marathon, New York.
setting at
St. Matthew Lutheran Church, town, was the
four o’clock Saturday, August 27, for the wedding ceremony uniting Miss Meryl R. Girton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gleason
Girton, of Iron street, town, and William James Tiddy, Jr., son
of William J. Tiddy, Sr., of Shamokin.
The Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of the church, performed
the double ring ceremony before 150 friends of the couple.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
class of 1945, and the groom graduated from Shamokin High
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1949. He served seventeen months in the Army Air Corps.
Mr. and Mrs. Tiddy are living in Leonardtown, Md., where
Mr. Tiddy is teaching.

In a ceremony which took place Saturday, August 6, in TrinLutheran Church, Danville, Miss Betty Mae Kile, granddaughter of Mrs. Sue E. Daubert. of Hagerstown, Md., and the
late Rev. R. S. Daubert, was united in marriage to George F.
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Gehrig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gehrig, of Danville. The Rev.
W. Krapf, pastor, officiated using the double ring ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of the Danville High School and the Geisinger School of Nursing. Mr. Gehrig is a graduate or Danville
High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He is
teaching in the Danville schools. The bridegroom is a veteran of
World War II having served two years, seven months of which
were in the European theatre.
B.

Clarence C. Rowlands, of Plymouth, has been elected as a
substitute teacher at the Third Street School in Bloomsburg. Mr.
Rowlands is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. Prior
to the war he received a two-year teaching certificate from the
local institution, and has taught for more than two years.
He
served with the Air Force during the war and spent considerable
time on overseas assignment. With his discharge, he returned
to college to complete the four-year course last Spring.
Rowlands is a qualified PIAA official in football, basketball and baseball.

Miss Amelia Denke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Denke, of Drums, and Larry Mussoline, son of Rosario Mussoline, of Hazleton, were united in marriage recently
in
the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Drums. The Rev. Joseph Luksic,
pastor, performed the ceremony. The bride and groom are both
graduates of Hazleton High School and the groom was a member of this year’s graduating class at B.S.T.C.

Ralph Baird is teaching in the Williamsport High School.
His address is 429 Hastings Street, Williamsport, Pa.
1950
In a ceremony Thursday, July 28, in St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church, Milton, Miss Rose Marie Maturani, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Tony Maturani, Milton, was united in marriage to James
Reedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Reedy, also of Milton. The
Rev. Frank Pohl, pastor, officiated, using the double ring service.

Both are graduates of Milton High School. The bride has
been employed in the office of the Milton Steel and Supply Company. Her husband is attending Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, where he is a member of the senior class.
o

Dr. Harry Garner, a former member of the faculty, is now
Assistant Professor in Secondary Education at Temple University.
Dr. Garner received his B. A. at the University of Pittsburgh, where he later received the degree of Master of Education.
He holds the degree of Doctor of Education from Columbia University.
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Campus Notes
HOMECOMING DAY
Alumni and friends of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College returning for the Twenty-Second Annual Homecoming Day
celebration Saturday, October 22, received a warm welcome.
Plans had been completed to make this year’s Homecoming a
“Happy Homecoming,’’ and students and faculty spared nothing to make the day’s program full of interesting things.
President Harvey A. Andruss served as host for the gala
occasion and welcomed home a large crowd of alumn. Since
Homecoming is the high spot of the calendar year, the Board
of Trustees, the faculty, and the student body made every effort
to offer the visitors every opportunity to enjoy a memorable
day at the “Friendly College.’’
The activities unofficially got under way Thursday morning, October 20, in the Centenniial Gymnasium when a pep rally
was staged. The Maroon and Gold Band, under the direction of
Charles H. Henrie, and the cheerleaders planned an unusually
interesting series of pep features.
Ben Burness, Havertown,
served as master of ceremonies, Coach Bob Redman introduced
the members of the varsity football squad, and Coach Harold
Shelly spoke for the soccer team.
Curtain raiser for the official Homecoming Day program
was the annual Homecoming Day assembly in the Carver Auditorium on Saturday morning at which a group of students presented a talent program. Those taking part were Ben Burness,
Bebe Reese, Lila Savage, Richard Wagner, Emory Rarig, Char-

Edwards and Jack Wintersteen.
A cafeteria luncheon was served alumni and visitors in the
College dining room at 11:30 o’cock. Miss Della M. Thayer, Colles

lege dietician, planned and executed colorful and unusual decorations for the dining room, which has recenty been redecorated.
Of course, the annual Homecoming Day football game was
the foca point of sports interest at two o’clock when the oncebeaten eleven of Coach Bob Redman tangled with the Shippensburg football team on Mt. Olympus. The Maroon and Gold gridders were seeking their fifth straight victory of the season at
the expense of the Red Raiders who had yet to win their first

game.
Following the football game, a Get-Together was held in
the Waller Hall Lounge and Recreation Room. Refreshments
were served, and visitors had an opportunity to renew old
acquaintances and relive memories of their college days.
Climax of the day’s activities was the annual Homecoming
Day dance in the Centennial Gymnasium. Dancing was enjoyed
from nine o’clock until midnight to the music of Arnie Day and
his orchestra, of Wilkes-Barre.
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CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
In the year just past the Bloomsburg State Teachers College improved its plant and purchased equipment and machinery
to the amount of $102,997.
A major renovation of Noetling
Hall to transform a sixty-year model school into a modern classroom building was one of the major contracts completed. The
other major contract is in the process under the direction of the
William F. Schimmel Company, of Nanticoke. This involves the
replacement of the well-known “long porch” by a new brick and
tile structure, repairs to the roofs and rain gutters on Waller
and North Halls and repairs to the President’s residence. This
contract, let in May, 1949, represents an expenditure of approximately $35,000.
Library equipment, books, microscopes, classroom equipment, furnture and fixtures have been purchased to the amount
of $17,000. This amount does not include war surplus materials
assigned to the College or books and equipment distributed from
the area college centers.
At no time in the last decade has such progress been made
in plant and equipment.
It has only been equalled by the three
war years of 1943, 1944 and 1945, when over $100,000 were expended on the plant.
While the Board of Trustees has authorized plans to make
other important changes in the form of renovation, repairs and
improvements during the college year of 1949-50, a contract for
the replacement of existing sidewalks and curbs was awarded to
Harry W. Sterner on Wednesday, July 27, for the sum of $3,675.
This is the first step in a series of small projects which when
completed will “lift the face” of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College plant.
o

—

Recent class elections at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College have named two Shamokin young men as class presidents.
Donald Butcofsky was chosen president of the senior
class, and Thomas Anthony was chosen sophomore class presiMr. Butcofsky fills a vacancy that has existed since the
dent.
spring semester when an unusual development in the regular
senior class election forced College officials to declare the office
in the 1949-50
term.
Mr. Anthony was elected to fill the vacancy created by the
withdrawal of Richard Hollis, Columbia, who was elected head
of the sophomore class last spring.
The new president of the senior class has been very active
At the present
in college publications for the past three years.
time he is serving as a member of the editorial board of the Maroon and Gold. He is also associate editor of the 1950 Obiter.
He is also an outstanding student, having been on every Dean’s

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Honor

List since entering Bloomsburg.
Mr. Anthony, also an honor student, is active in dramatics,
having played the lead role in “The Late George Appley” presented last spring by the Bloomsburg Players. He is also one
of the student managers of the Bloomsburg Huskies football
team.

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Mr. Richard Chase, eminent folklorist, author, and editor
entertained about 125 children of the third, fourth, fifth and
sixth grades of the Benjamin Franklin School in the demonstration room recently. These grades are taught by Miss Marcella Stickler, Mrs. Anna Scott, Mr. Harry Gasser and Miss Edna
J. Barnes.
Mr. Chase used stories, songs, musical instruments (the
harmonica and obsolete recorder) riddles, and games to transmit traditional American folklore. The program, done in the
distinctive Richard Chase Style, greatly amused the pupil audience.
They joined with him in repetitive choruses in the folk
songs and games, and in the story of “Jack and the Robbers,’’
an edited folktale in Mr. Chase’s book, “The Jack Tales.’’ Other
books written by him are “The Grandfather Tales” and “Hullabaloo,” a book of folk games. Mr. Chase explained that he collects his folk material by listening to stories far into the night in
the mountainous regions of Virginia.
During his two-day stay on the campus, Mr. Chase taught
a number of college classes the traditional American folk dances and songs. He was also guest speaker during an all-college
,

assembly program.
o
Dr. Ted J. Satterfield, a member of the faculty of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, received the 1948-49 Phi
Deta Kappa award for educational research at Temple University Thursday, October 6. The award, consisting of a gold medal and a certificate, is given annually by the national honorary

education fraternity to the graduate student who completes the
finest piece of educational research that year.
Dr. Satterfield recently completed a research problem in
tort liability in public schools. The work, legal in nature, covers
the situation as it exists today in the whole of the United States,
the District of Columbia, and the territories of Alaska and
Hawaii. The entire study is based on constitutional and statuatory provisions and judicial decisions.
Phi Delta Kappa, a nation wide organization for graduate students, sponsors educational research. It has Pennsylvania chapters at University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, University of

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An unusual exhibit of children’s books was held at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Thursday and Friday,
October 20 and 21. This exhibit was staged in the Navy Hall
Auditorium under the direction of Mrs. Ruth Tooze, children’s
book consultant and director of The Children’s Bookshelf, Michigan City, Indiana.
Mrs. Tooze displayed a carefully selected collection of about
800 children’s books, ranging from pre-school through junior
high. The books were chosen by Mrs. Tooze in consultation with
the children’s editors who produce the books, and the teachers,
parents and children who use the boks. No text books were
included. The books came from approximately forty publishers
of children’s books and represented the best authors who are
writing for children at the present time.
Classes from both the Benjamin Franklin and the Bloomsburg schools visited the Book Exhibit during the two days, and
Mrs. Tooze held story telling periods for the groups.
o
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College is again offering
extension courses to teachers-in-service in its service area. Continuing a successful program of in-service education launched
several years ago, the local college is this year maintaining extension centers in Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton.
An elementary workshop program has attracted considerable attention at the Hazleton center held in the Green Street
School where courses in Physical Science I and II and the Curriculum in Elementary Science are now being offered. The
workshop is under the direction of George A. Shanno, vice
principal of Hazleton Senior High School. Dr. Ernest H. Englehardt, director, Secondary Education, said that a course may
be offered in Mental Hygiene if the enrollment justifies the offering.

In Wilkes-Barre, a social studies workshop is being offered
every Tuesday evening at 4:30 o’clock in the James M. Coughlin
Senior High School. Courses in United States History and the
History of Pennsylvania feature the workshop program. The
instructor, Elfred Jones, principal of the Dodson Elementary
School.

o

The Annual Elementary Education Conference was held at
the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Saturday, December 3,
1949.

The theme “The School is For the Children” was uppermost
the thoughts of teachers throughout the day.
At 9:30 o’clock members of the teaching staff of the Benjamin Franklin laboratory school taught lessons directly related to the theme.
They represented wide areas of the new
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areas as Language Arts, Social Living, Health and Classroom
Living.
There was a brief period for discussion of these lessons and materials following the teaching period.
At 11 o’clock in Carver Hall Auditorium Mrs. Gertrude
Speed Stokes, Temple University, addressed the teacners on the
subject of the conference theme, “The School is for the Children.”
Following the address those in attendance at the conference
were invited to Waller Hall Dining Room for luncheon. There
was an informal social time, during which the group was entertained with special musical selections, and a brief greeting from
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the State Teachers College.

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Public school teachers of Northeastern Pennsylvania were
told always to present themselves in their “best professional
light” if they want their gains of the past few years “to be consolidated and secure.”
Dr. Thomas P. North, dean of instruction, Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, gave this advice to more than one hundred teachers and supervisors from eleven counties who attended the Northeastern Pennsylvania teacher training session of
the Pennsylvania State Education Association held in October in
West Scranton High Schol. Dr. North, who is chairman of the
PSEA commission on teacher education and professional standards, explained the part Pennsylvania is playing in the improvement of teachers on a state and country-wide basis. He also
pointed out the strides being made by his commission to improve
standards of in-service and pre-service leaders.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President, Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, attended the sessions and participated in a
group conference concerned with the problem of “Responsibilities of the Teaching Profession in Adequately Supplying Competent Candidates.”
o
Dr. Thomas P. North represented the Commission on
Teacher Education and Professional Standards at the Mid-Western Convention District meeting of the Pennsylvania State EdDean
ucation Association at New Castle Friday, October 7.
North, who is the chairman of the state-wide commission, served as consultant to the group discussing the problem of raising
the standards for entrance into the teaching profession.
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Enrollment at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College now
stands at 829 as of September 16, according to an announcement made by College officials. Although this figure is slightly
below last year’s total, the number of teach-education students
is higher than in 1948 because the local college this year did not
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accept freshmen liberal arts students assigned to Penn State.
Men out-number women in the registration figures by a ratio
of more than two to one.
There are 560 men who have completed their registration requirements, while 269 women are
now enrolled. Included in the present enrollment figures
are 302 veterans of World War II but the G.I.’s are outnumbered
by the non-veteran students.
Dormitory residents total 376, and for the first time there
are more men than women residing in the College dormitories.
Figures show that there are 201 men housed in the Waller Hall
annex and North Hall, while 175 women are living in Waller
Hall.

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Adele Neff, personable young dramatist, appeared at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in the first assembly program of the new college year, Thursday morning, September 22.
Her inimitable program “Ladies, Women and Females,” is one
of the outstanding presentations in the field of one-woman theHer experience over the past fifteen years, coupled with
atre.
her gift of artistic writing, have produced a program which is
full of depth and beauty, and which veers from pathos and drama to broad comedy.
Miss Neff is a New Englander, and some of her sketches
others portray
reflect the women of that part of the country

—

the

more sophisticated women

of

New York and

California.

In addition to her extensive appearances over the country
several stagt
in her own show, Miss Neff has found time for
shows, one under the direction of Max Reinhardt. She has done
many shows for radio, one of which— “House Party”- was on
the air for a year. She wrote the scripts which the Yankee Network used for six consecutive years, dramatizing business situLately, teleations, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau.
vision has discovered her talents and last year she appeared on
several programs, particularly on “The Wren’s Nest.”

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In a candlelight ceremony performed in the Zion Lutheran
Church on Wednesday evening, August 17, Miss Jacqueline
Alice Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul I. Miller, of Turbotville, became the bride of James M. Hulsizer, Turbotville R. D.
The Rev. R. A. Flower performed the double ring ceremony.
The bride was graduated from Turbotville-Lewis High
School in 1948 and has been employed as secretary by the ACF
in Milton.
Mr. Hulsizer is a graduate of the same school with
the class of 1946. He served two years with the U. S. Marines.
He was a student at B.S.T.C. for one year and plans to enter
Texas Christian University at Fort Worth, Texas., as a sophomore in the Fall.
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The Bloomsburg Players acted as hosts to delegates from
twenty-three colleges in Eastern Pennsylvania when they met
on the campus Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16. This
was the second annual meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania
College Theatre and Radio Conference. The E.P.C.T.R.C. proposes to reawaken public love of the theatre and thereby fulfill
the cultural needs of our communities; to provide means of experimentation in the theatre; and to foster the exchange of
ideas, consequently aiding members in all possible ways.
Registration began at 10 o’clock, followed by a short business meeting in the morning. The main purpose of this conference was to adopt the constitution which was drawn up by the
former chairman, Marvin Walters, of Wilkes College. Another
highlight of the conference was a social gathering scheduled for
late Saturday afternoon or evening, depending on the length of
the business meeting. The final business meeting was held on
Sunday morning.
Temporary chairman of the conference was Robert Sickinger, Philadelphia.
Mr. Sickinger also served as a delegate of
the western district in the Eastern Region, on the planning committee which met at Bloomsburg earlier this fall. The planning
committee studied the proposed constitution, and made some
changes before presenting it to the annual conference.
Although this conference was chiefly concerned with the
business of adopting the constitution, the dramatic directors of
some of the clubs have been asked to speak to the group. Three
discussion groups were formed, to discuss various phases of the
These were led by Professor Axel R. Kleinsorg, Sustheatre.
quehanna University; Professor Alfred Groh, Wilkes College,
and Professor H. Barret Davis, Lehigh University.
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Three BSTC football stars of recent vintage have accepted
teaching and coaching positions. Charles Kazmerovicz, a blocking back with last season’s unbeaten team until he had to quit
because of a shoulder injury, is at West Pottsgrove Township
High School in Montgomery county. Another is Don Snyder,
a back, here in 1946 and 1947, who is teaching social studies and
assisting with the football team at Matawan, N. J. High. Kazmerovicz is from Plains, while Snyder played at Milton High under the late Alden J. “Lefty” Danks.
The third new coach is popular Frank Luchnick, the Mt.
Carmel powerhouse who played guard for the Huskies last year.
Luchnik, after flirting with the professional game, has accepted
a job at Elizabethtown
.

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Special award jackets were presented to eighteen members
of the undefeated baseball team of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in appropriate ceremonies held recently in the Carver
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Auditorium. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College,
presided over the exercises, and Coach Robert B. Redman presented the awards to seventeen letter winners and the student
manager.
The Huskies turned back all twelve opponents during the
1949 baseball season to record the first unbeaten campaign since
the halcyon days of Danny Litwhiler. Included in the Huskies’
victorious sweep were victories over Lock Haven, Shippensburg,
Millersville, Mansfield, Susquehanna University and the powerAn exhibition
ful Second Army nine from Fort George Meade.
game with the highly-regarded Danville State Hospital nine
brought the Huskies their thirteenth win of an abbreviated season.

The jackets, made of maroon wool with gold trim, were
presented to Henry Brunn, Nanticoke; Donald Butler, WilkesBarre; John Buynak, Wilkes-Barre; William Byham,
Kane;
John Czerniakowski, Plains; Owen Diehle, Philadelphia; Richard Hummel, Northumberland; George Lambrinos, Endicott, N.
Y. Stanley Levan, Bloomsburg; Clair Mensinger, Mifflinville
Henry Marek, Dupont; Paul Mowry, Meshoppen; Edward Pies;

trak, Danville; Paul Slobozien, Johnstown;
Robert Thomas,
Danville; Donald Kearns, Lewistown, and Henry Murray, Shen-

andoah.

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The six-weeks’ Junior-Senior High School Summer Session
Township Consolidated School came to a close Fri-

at the Scott
day, August

5.

Forty-two students were enrolled and incuded residents
from Columbia, Luzerne and Montour counties and Washington,
D. C., all of whom were either taking advanced courses or com-

work from the previous school year.
The experienced teachers were Mrs. Leah M. Rarig, of the
Locust Township faculty; Elbert L. Stamm, of the Danville High
School faculty; Miss Bertha Graff, of the Kulpmont faculty,

pleting

and Robert J. Luckenbill, of the Freeland faculty.
These teachers were supplied by the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College through the office of Harry Garner who was in
charge of secondary teacher training at the local college.
They have been enrolled during the past Summer session at the
College.

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For the past three years, there have been, each year, about
In order that more room
seventy-five Penn State freshmen.
might be made for future teachers, the Penn State program has
been greatly reduced. There are now only eight Penn State
freshmen on the campus. In spite of this reduction, the total
enrollment of the College

is

almost as large as

it

was

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Miss Mary E. Macdonald has been appointed as Assistant
of Women and Coordinator of Guidance and I ersonnel
Service of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Miss Macdonald, a resident of Berwick, is a graduate of the
University of Michigan with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with
majors in Latin and French, and Columbia University, with the
degree of Master of Arts, with a major in Personnel Adminis-

Dean

tration.

Her experience includes the teaching of languages in the
Harter High School at West Nanticoke, Pa., and Berwick, Pa.;
head of McLaurin Hall, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C., and
president elect of the South Carolina State Association of the
American Association of University Women; assistant to head
of Hartley Hall, Columbia University, New York City; member
of the first training class for Wave officers at the United States
Naval Training Station, Northampton, Mass.; Naval service in
Waves as assistant to the officer in charge of publications stock
section, Pearl Hai'bor, T. H. officer in charge of mess and club,
Terminal Island, California; battalion commander, U. S. Naval
Training School, Stillwater, Oklahoma; and since her naval service has been director of Residence Halls, Barnard College, Col;

umbia University,

New York

City.

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“Long

landmark at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
the process of a construction “face-lifting”
that is part of several projects now underway at the institution.
In addition to the porch project, the William F. Schmill
firm, Nanticoke construction company, is also engaged in roofing repair work on the laundry building and North, Waller, Carver and Navy Halls.
When completed, the porch will have fifteen brick archways. The walk, which will be roofed, will be of tile. Glass will
be inserted on the inner court side of the structure. The front
will have a wrought iron railing.
Provisions also indue" exits from the building-enclosed fire
towers, in such a manner that outside steps will be fewer.
College,

is

porch,’’

now

in

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In a ceremony Saturday morning, July 23 at the rectory of
Columba’s Catholic Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Jean Frances
Fetterman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fetterman, of Pine
street, Catawissa, became the bride of Francis Raymond Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Johnson, of town. The bride
is employed as secretary in the office of Russel Achy, of Bloomsburg. She is a graduate of Catawissa High School. The bridegroom is a student at B.S.T.C.. A veteran of World War II, he is
an announcer for radio station WCNR.
St.

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