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QUARTERLY

Vol. LVIII

April,

1957

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No.

I

BLOOMSBURG

IN

NINETEEN SEVENTY

COMPREHENSIVE CAMPUS PLAN
expected that the enrollment in September, 1957, will be double that of pre-war
Further increases in light of the pressure of increasing college populations, appro-

It is

1937.

and income from student fees, along with proposed building
programs, requires careful planning for at least the next two decades.
The 1955 Session of the Legislature authorized the General State Authority to issue

priations from the State,

Of the proceeds, $1,350,000, would be used to construct a Men’s Dormiand a Classroom Building, along with a provision for a comprehensive
campus plan to locate all future buildings, accompanied by a survey of existing utility
lines. Additions will have to be made to this sum to provide for equipment and dormitory
additional bonds.

tory, capacity 200,

furniture.

The present estimate

of enrollment for 1970

resident and non-resident students will

is 2,000.

The

division of this

number

into

determine the dormitory capacity, which has

been estimated to be from 1,300 to 1,500.
If additional land is not purchased, it may be necessary to raze certain existing strucIn fact. North Hall is to be demolished when the second New Men’s Dormitory
tures.
is

constructed.

The Architects for the two new buildings already approved are John A. Schell,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, New Classroom Building, and L. P. Kooken and Company,
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, Men’s Dormitory. Mr. Schell is also drawing the Comprehensive Campus Plans and making the Utility Line Survey.

COLLEGE COMMONS
The new dining room will be put into operation after the 1957 Easter vacation. The
main dining room space of 9,800 square feet will seat from 800 to 900. Two cafeteria lines
will serve students at the rate of 20 per minute. The foyer will be used from time to time
to seat parties of 100, and the outside patio running the full length, 140 feet, of the buildThus,
ing, will accommodate a like number when weather permits outdoor food service.
the over-all seating capacity for such events as Alumin Day will be 1,000 or more. Over
$70,000 has been spent on kitchen equipment, refrigeration, and disposal equipment.
All college stores, such as canned food, plumbing, electrical, and building supplies,
will

be centralized in two basement areas in this building.

An underground passage will connect the College Commons with
Hall, so that women students may go from the dormitory to their

the Lobby of Waller
meals without going

outside the connecting buildings.

FUTURE PLANS
As the Comprehensive Campus Plan is developed, announcements will be made to
and Alumni of Bloomsburg of the location of the projected buildings. However,

friends
it is

expected that the Legislature, now in Session, will take such action as is necessary to
possible the approval of the construction of a New Auditorium of sufficient size

make

accommodate the estimated enrollment in 1970.
If interested Alumni wish to help their Alma Mater, they should write to their
Representatives and Senators of the Legislature to the effect that increased appropriations and more buildings are necessary if we are going to have a Bigger and Better

to

Bloomsburg.

President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVIII,

No.

& c-

Mid-Year Commencement, 1957

quarterly by the Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
lege,

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI

A native of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of that com-

ored.

munity’s

schools.

Dr.

Decker

at-

tended Wyoming Seminary before
he enrolled at Wesleyan University.
He received the Bachelor of
Arts degree from Wesleyan in
1932, and since then, has earned
the Master ot Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy degrees at Boston University.
His graduate work includes a year at the University of
Berlin, Germany, as a Beebe Fellow from Boston University.

For more than two decades, Dr.
Decker has devoted his services to
education and religion, holding
pastorates in churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts and teaching at several colleges and univer-

He is currently a member
Wyoming Conference of the
From 1941Methodist Church.

Mrs.

of the

presented the candidates to
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president
of the college, who conferred the
honors and degrees. The program
was concluded with the singing of
the “Alma Mater” by the assembly;
recessional
was “Maestoso
the
Pomposo” by Kinder.
Nelson A. Miller directed the

music and Howard

was

The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education was granted to
the following:

BUSINESS
Jacqueline M., 612 Mahoning Street, Milton.
Erie Elwood C., 511 Stevenson Street,
Sayre.
Fox, Walter G., R .D. 2, Catawissa.
Garrett, Thomas A., 214 South Ninth

Desmond

Lebanon.
Kaminsky, Frank

Road, Vestal, N. Y.
McAfee, Donald

Griffith

Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F. Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

During

that

period, he served as Instructor and
then Assistant Professor in New
Testament and Religious Education; Director of the Division of
Registrar,
Education;
Religious
and Professor of New Testament
Literature.
Dr. Decker spent nine months
as a student in Western and Northwestern Europe during the critical
period immediately preceding the

outbreak of World War II. Much
of this time was spent in residence

Elizabeth H. Hubler

A member
Decker

is

M.,

East

118

E.,

Vestal

1517

15th

Street, Berwick.

Elmer

Robinson,

Shaneman, Robert

L.,

Church

1116

D.,

Street, Upland.
Setar, Edward M., 45
Street, Nesquehoning.

West Rhume
503

North 18th

945

West Pine

Street, Pottsville.

Stamets, Gordon
Street,

A.,

Shamokin.

ELEMENTARY
Bushey, John

I.,

530 Curtin Street,,

Harrisburg.
Harris,
burg.

James

Laurenson,
Mills

E.,

G

R. D.

5,

Blooms-

Mt. Pleasant

.Edgar,

.

Swigonski,

Joseph

361

East

Ridge

Street, Nanticoke.

in Berlin.

Hervey B. Smith

Fenstemaker

F.

at the console.

Wyoming Seminary, Dr. Decker
was a member of the faculty at

Ruth Speary

1957

John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruc-

E. H. Nelson

University.

hon-

tion,

Street,

Boston

in

who were

sented the seniors

1950, prior to his appointment at

SECRETARY

APRIL,

“Who’s

phy” and
England.”

PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT

New

The exercises opened with the
processional, “Pomp and CircumWilliam Postance,” by Elgar.
hutsky, Old Forge, president of the
class of 1957, read the Scripture.
Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy, Professor
of English and class advisor, pre-

sities.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Who

Dr. Ralph YV. Decker, President
Wyoming Seminary, Kingston,
Pennsylvania, was the featured
speaker at the mid-year commencement exercises at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College on Tuesday, January 22, 1957, at 10 a. m.
He spoke on the theme, “Leadership Through Service.”
of

Published

1957

April,

I

of

listed

Torch Club, Dr.
in “World Biogra-

Thomas, Beverly
Street,

R.,

534

West 5th

Hazleton.

(Continued on Page

2)

1

FOR DINING
HALL EQUIPMENT
$30,000

Dean

The State Teachers College has
been advised by the procurement
officer of tiie General State Authority, Harrisburg, the board has
approved requisitions for movable
furniture and. equipment amountapproximately
ing
to
$30,000,
which covers dining room chairs,
tables, banquet tables, lounge furniture, storeroom equipment, including various types of trucks,
shelving and storage units.
The business manager of the
College, Paul C. Martin, has been

informed that this equipment will
be purchased immediately, and as
soon as it has been delivered and
installed the College will be able

make

to

use of the

new

dining hall

facilities.

he taught accounting in schools of
Towanda and Malverne, L. 1., N. Y.

MID-YEAR

COMMENCEMENT

(Continued from Page 1)
L.,
Brooks Building,

Wilson, Jean
Wilkes-Barre.

SECONDARY
Edward

Augustine,

S.,

242

West

Street, Nanticoke.

Bach, George
Mt. Carmel.
Bastress,

400 Chestnut Street,

J.,

Guy

H.,

Northumberland.
Cranmer, Wililam

478
E.,

Duke

Church

Street,
Street,

McEwensville.
Detato, Ramon G., 451 Market Street,
Berwick.
Durkas, Prank P., 60 East Main
Street, Glen Lyon.
Edwards, Raymond F., 528i/2 Delaware Avenue, West Pittston.
Hare, Donald R., 1006 Market Street,
Sunbury.
Hudak, Daniel A., 107 South Hanover
Street, Nanticoke.
Laine, Clarence R., 77 Seneca Street,
Wilkes-Barre.
Maurer, Robert M., 365 West Main
Street, Girardville.

McNelis,

Donald

T.,

416

Schuyler

Avenue, Kingston.
Riskis, John S., 201 Wiconisco Avenue, Tower City.
Wintergrass, Stanley W., 36 West

Main

Street,

Wanamie.

Zeranski, Frank
Street, Forest City.
2

Dean Emeritus William
who was referred to

liff,

Honored;
B. Sutas

the

Teachers
College’s
“Mr.
Bloomsburg,” was honored Sunday
evening, January 20, by the institution to which he has devoted his

local

life.

The occasion was the ninetieth
anniversary of his birth and scores
of members of the College faculty
joined with former members and
other friends of the educator in
paying a glowing tribute

man

to

this

contributions to the
College and to the community.
for

his

The Dean

a

in

charming

re-

sponse observed “the most delightful thing in the world, when you
reach mature age, is to know you

have friends who remember you.

Ralph F. Ande has been appointed general sales manager of B. O.
Daubert, Inc. He started his new
duties on January 15. For the past
three years, Mr. Ande has been
assistant manager of the Bloomsburg store. Before joining Daubert,

Church

Sutliff

J.,

601

Hudson

I

don’t think

deserve

I

fy but 1 enjoy

all this taf-

it.”

Fenstemaker, who
capably presided as master of ceremonies, spoke of the Dean as “Mr.
Bloomsburg’’ and President Harvey A. Andruss, president of the

Howard

F.

introducing

the
guest or honor asserted, “I do not
present the last of the institution's
Old Guard’ but the ‘noblest Roinstitution,

man

of

in

them

William Boyd

all’

Dean Emeritus

Sutliff.

His daughter, Miss Helen SutHarrisburg, was present for
the
occasion
and telegraphed

liff,

greetings were received from his

son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert B. Sutliff, Delray
Beach, Florida.

On

behalf of the faculty of the
dean was presented
with a gift by Mr. Fenstemaker.
Among members of his family attending were Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Vascoe, Waymart.
The invocation was given by
George Stradtman of the faculty.
Participating in the tribute to
Dean Sutliff were Dr. Thomas P.
North, Brookville, who succeeded
Dean Sutliff; Dr. E. H. Nelson, a
former faculty member and alumni
president; Dr. Andruss and Edward F. Schuyler.
Dr. Andruss in his comments
read two of the Dean’s poems concerning the lower on Carver Hall
institution, the

and the olden wooden bridge
which collected Carver and Noetling Halls. These and other poems
were printed some years ago by
the alumni.
The dean observed
that they had been retained for
publication by his secretary of

many

years,

Mrs.

G.

Edward

Horne, Shamokin. Mrs. Horne, the
former Gertrude Andrews, and her
husband, were among those present.

The Dean in his response said
there were three things occurring
in 1867.
One was the purchase
Alaska then referred to as
“Seward’s Folly”; the erection of
of

Institution Hall,

the

now Carver

building on

first

Hall,
the College

campus, and his birth. “Without
the latter,” he commented, “there
would have been on me.”

He was
tion

given a standing ova-

by the group and members

joined
day.”

The

in

singing

following

“Happy

Birth-

comments on the

affair appeared in the

Bloomsburg

“Morning Press”:

knows time flies by
and drags when
there is nothing much to do. Those
four score and ten years of Dean
Sutliff must have gone exceptionEveryone

when you

are busy

fast for he has always been
busy.
And to add further speed
to the period, his activities were
in the field of service to others.

ally

The Dean, who

still

walks with

firm step, places his pinochle bid
in a firm voice and discusses with
equal ability affairs of the present
and events of the past, hasn t
changed much in the twenty years
since his retirement from the faculty at the local Teachers College,
lie’s just been too busy.
There were some splendid tributes paid him at a dinner tendered by the College recently upon
the occasion of his most recent
birthday anniversary. What made
the evening so fine was that the
tributes were most deserved.

The ones we

liked and which
the story of the Dean’s productive life best were those of his
contributions to the College after
tell

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

He’s always been a
retirement.
fellow to go that extra mile.
Howard Fenstemaker put it well
when he asserted the Dean is truly

“Mr. Bloomsburg.”
It would be
impossible to measure the contribution he has made to the progress
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. The reward has been the
results obtained as a result of the
helping hand he extended in the
lives of thousands.
The Dean asks
nothing more.

There were many things which
imprinted the party in memory’s
book in such a manner that it will
not fade.
four men
stitution

were

Once

fas the fact that all

who have
Dean

as

served the
of

in-

Instruction

in attendance.

Dean

was the first to hold
President Harvey A.
Andruss was the second. Dr. Thomas P. North, who with Mrs.
North came from Brookville to
have a part in the festivities, was
the third and the present holder of
the position, John A. Hoch, rounded out the quartet.
The veteran educator’s span of
service covered five administrations and he was associated on the
faculty with the present head of
the

Sutliff

office.

ducted previously
its

The guest

of

honor

in

his

de-

response related some of
the circumstances under which the
lightful

Commonwealth became

interested

acquiring the Literary Institute
and starting a Normal School.
in

The popular educator

busy

in a field of service but also
the fine results of diversified interests.

His love has always been the
College but it has been all phases
of College life.
He was for years
the manager of the athletic teams
and a telegram from his associate
here at the turn of the century, Dr.
A. K. Aldinger, noted that without
the Dean’s wise application of
funds the Normal sports program

would

many

been

have
times.

lost

interest

still

see

And

if

in

difficulties

The Dean has never
in sports.
You can

him
some

at

athletic

contests.

changes have
you puzzled ask the Dean. A man
with a rich past, he still has his
rule

principal interests in the present.

At the banquet he commented
verbal bouquets were “taffy
but I enjoy them.” Well, if that
is so he’ll have to admit he supthe

plied the ingredients for the “taffy”

and they were

of grade

B.S.T.C.

A

quality.

(E.F.S.)

May

25, 1957

RADIUM

W.

E. Umstead to the position of manager
of manufacture has been announced by C. C. Carroll, general manager, Bloomsburg Division of the
United States Radium Corporation.
In his new position Umstead will
report to II. A. Vaughn, assistant
general manager, and will be responsible for the operation of all
of

manufacturing and related service
departments with the exception of
the laboratory.

Umstead

joined

the

staff

of

United States Radium as junior
chemist assigned to the Bloomsburg laboratory in June, 1948.
Since then he has held the positions
of
manager, edge-lighted
panel department and manager,
etching department.
At present a resident of Espy,

Umstead

originally lived in

Wash-

He

graduated from
Danville High School and served
four years in the South Pacific
with the United States Navy Air
Command. He attended B.S.T.C.
and is one of fifteen alumni of the
school now employed by U.S. Radium.
Simultaneously Mr. Carroll announced the promotion of J. A.
Krum from assistant manager,
edge-lighted panel department, to
manager. Mr. Krum joined the
company in 1952 as junior chemist
ingtonville.

assigned to the Bloomsburg laboratory.
He is also a graduate of
B.S.T.C. and is currently doing
graduate work at Bucknell University to apply on a Masters Degree which he will receive in June.
S.

A

Saturday,

U.S.

The promotion

H.

ALUMNI DAY:

GRADUATES

PROMOTED AT

stands not

only as an example of what happens when an individual keeps

Those men were

President Andruss.
The Dean has seen tremendous
advancement in the program of
the College. He was born the year
Carver Hall was built. The then
Literary Institution had been con-

was moved
location it had
it

present ideal
a campus of but three acres. Now
it has
fifty-seven acres and, with
a probability of doubling present
enrollment within ten years if
there are accommodations, more
land is being sought.
to

Dr. Welsh, whom not so many
now on the scene were privileged
to know; Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., who
served two terms as head of “Old
Normal”; Dr. Fisher, Dr. G. C. L.
Riemer, Dr. Francis B. Haas andd

the institution.

another part

in

When

of the town.

FERNSLER HONORED
testimonial

dinner was held

November
Allen

29, 1956, at the
Hotel, Pottsville, to

Howard

S.

cently been

Fernsler,

Necho
honor

who had

re-

named

a Thirty-third
Degree Mason. Mr. Fernsler served for several years as a member
of
the
Board of Trustees of
B.S.T.C.
Dr. A. Nevin Sponseller is now
serving at Professor of Economics
at Westminster College.

APRIL,

1957

3

COLLEGE BUDGET
IS ONE MILLION DOLLARS
The Teachers College not only
has a leading role in the cultural
life of the area but in Bloomsburg
it is big business.

This institution, which has over
1,000 students and demands for admission which makes it appear
likely to be enlarged in the near
future, has an annual budget of
a million dollars.

In addition to operation costs
there is over a half million dollars
a year being put into capital im-

provement and

this is

expected

to

least three more
dre state would decide to enlarge the facilities, as is
anticipated, then it will continue
at a more substantial pace.

continue

years.

for

And

at

if

There are now 1,080 registered
college students and 200 children
in the Benjamin Franklin School.
There is a full time faculty of
fifty-five and a part time faculty
of thirty.

members

Many
of

the

of the latter are

faculty in the
schools. There
non-instructional

Bloomsburg public
are

seventy-live

employes.

At the present there are 200 college students who have rooms and
get their meals off the campus and
it is likely at least a hundred more
will have to obtain such faculties
in the community for the college
year opening next September. The
institution serves 1,400 meals per

day

in its

dining

hall.

The

big question at the present
time is whether the fifty-seven
acre campus is large enough for
a student body of 2,000.

lion population within a radius of

NEW BIOGRAPHY

forty miles.

HOLDS INTEREST

There

being given considerable study at the moment on the
matter of providing graduate work
at each teachers college.

biography

These are periods of change and
advancement and the Bloomsburg

interest here

is

Teachers College appears certain
Certo grow in the year ahead.
tainly from the fact now available
a student body twice the size of
the present one is not only a possibility but a probability within the
next decade.

of Pennsyl-

vania State University has invited
President Harvey A. Andruss, of
the Teachers College, to offer two
courses during the summer session
in the field of Business Education.
1 to

survey is now being made in
area with regard to the purchase of additional land to accommodate a student body to meet
current and future demand.
From Harrisburg there appears
to be a definite trend toward the
development of teachers colleges
in the interior of the Commonwealth.
Bloomsburg is certainly

4

of

those and has a half mil-

Pennsylvania

Week

Dr. Bakeless

is

ceremonies.

husband

the

of

another former Bloomsburg resident, the former Kathryn Little, a

books and has had an
outstanding military career.

He

is

the son of the late Prof,

and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless,
er being a

member

memorial

There

is

courses to be offered are “Methods of Teaching Bookkeeping” and
“Seminar in Business Education.’

Doctor Andruss was the author
of
of the first book for teachers
bookkeeping, and this work has
run through two editions.
The last time that the board of
Andruss
trustees granted Doctor
a leave of absence for a similar
purpose was in 1945, when he was
to teach at the University of Pittsburgh. However, a request from
the War Department intervened
and he went to England to help
organize the First American Army
University at Shrivenham.

his fath-

of the beloved

"Old Guard” of the College. The
Alumni Room at the institution is
also a

10,

also a

the College
the memory

the

to

father.

memorial fund

named
the

of

in

tribute

at
to

author’s par-

ents.

Mr. Bakeless in his career has

done much study in many institutions, libraries and archives.
He
says he tries to conceal the
“atmosphere of research” but always
to include in his books the vivid,
new facts that can be found in no

The author has read
about a hundred volumes of manuscript alone for this new biography
since he feels it is the only way to
get the little, revealing
elements
that make a biography come alive.
other way.

“Background
with the
ces
in

many

to

Glory"

thrilling

filled

is

experien-

which Dr. Bakeless unearthed
There is the hair-

his research.

raising incident of Clark, with less

than two hundred men, capturing

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

this

one

where the author was
many years and
where, a few years ago, he was
presented with state award during
a resident for

and the

August

There is also a proposal to have
junior colleges in the same communities there are teachers colleges or to offer junior college instruction in the same plants.

A

by

session runs

summer

regular

general, George Rogers Clark,
Dr. John Bakeless, is of special

of successful

The graduate school

The

Revolutionary

the

of

War

talented musician.
The author,
who has achieved much success in
many fields, has written a number

INVITED TO
GIVE COURSE
IS

from July

“Background To Glory,” the new

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Magee

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the British post at Kaskaskia, then
using a priest and a doctor to take
over Vincennes, and bluffing the

Indians into peace.

There

is

also

the
the first really full story of
beautiful Spanish girl of St. Louis
whom Clark loved and lost. Dr.

Bakeless has also

established

by

persistent research the present lohas
cation of Clark’s sword, but
been asked not to reveal the owner’s identity.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Twenty-two students o f the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College were
awarded scholarships
and grants Thursday, December 6,
during the regular assembly meeting in Carver

Kimber

Auditorium.

Dr.

Chairman of the
Faculty Committee ou
Scholarships aand Grants, explained
the
nature and source of the funds and

who

President Harvey A. Andruss
presented the President’s Scholarship to Ray Hargreaves, Scranton,
a gift of the Class of 1951 to Stanley Covington,

Langhorne, and a
from a former faculty member
Jane Ann Smith, Wilkes-Barre.

gift

Dr. E.

II.

the College

Nelson, president

Alumni

made

of

Association,
presentations:

the following
the R.
Bruce Albert
Association, made
the

Memorial

following
presentations: the R. Bruce Albert
Memorial Scholarship to Carl janetka, Hatboro; General Alumni Association
Scholarships
to
Mary

and Mary Ann
Wahl, Milton; gifts from the Classes of 1950, 1952,
and 1954 to
Tier,

Hoch, Dean

of

Instruction;

Mrs.

Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;
Miss Mary Macdonald, Dean of
Day Women; Jack W. Yohe, Dean
of

Men.

C. Kuster,

introduced the individuals
made the awards.

to

ted to be
available the second
semester.
In addition to Dr. Kuster,
the
Faculty Committee includes: John

Croydon,

Louise
Campbell,
Lewistown;
Marjorie Morson, Bryn Mawr; Patricia Pollock, Danville and Robert
W. Murray, Liverpool.

Miss Mary A. Allen, who retired
last June after fifteen years as head

Department

Business
Unionville
School, was honored recently at a
The
dinner held at the school.
dinner for Miss Allen, now employed in the office of the County
Superintendent of Schools, was arranged by the faculty and the employes at Unionville.

Education

Her many

of

the

at

and co-work-

friends

toward the establishment of a perpetual endowment fund, to be called “The Allen
Fund,” to be presented each year

ers contributed

who

has excelled in
Miss Allen
Business Education.
herself had given such an award in
to a senior

the past.

Miss Allen was presented with a
on which was engraved

silver tray

Award— October

“The Allen
1956” as a

memento

Ann

thirteen

hundred

dollars

en to the students on

1957

is

The overall budget for all fourteen teacher training institutions
in the state is $31,482,878 of which
around $17,000,000 is direct subsidy from the state and the remainder is made up in college incomes.

The

new Bloomsburg

budget

figure, representing an overall in-

crease of $245,672, amounts to an
increase of $122,836 per year for
the two-year period.

The increase represents an increase of about thirteen per cent
to meet increased costs of operations.

For the first time,
proposed allocations

details of the

to the separate teachers colleges were listed
in the budget,
in the past, only
the lump sum of subsidy required
for all colleges had been listed. Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, president of

the

local

had been a
that studied the

institution,

of a

body

and made

such recom-

Miss Irene Joan Endler, daughMr. and Mrs. Ralph Endler,
Kingston, was married to Franklin Arthur Paul, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Paul, Bethlehem, recently
in
Central
Methodist
Church, Wilkes-Barre. The Rev.
Robert P. Kellerman officiated.
The bride, a graduate of Meyers
High School and B.S.T.C., took
graduate courses at Wilkes College
and is now a teacher in the Allentown school system.
Mr. Paul was graduated from
Moravian College and is a junior
medical student at Hahenmann
Medical College.
ter of

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

giv-

this occasion,

and similar or larger sum
APRIL,

was

$1,534,291.

mendation.

52

Scholarships and
are
grants
awarded to the students twice each
year; the
number and amounts
have grown in quantity as individuals, groups, and the Community
Store have added to
the
funds
available for this purpose. Nearly

$2,034,005 for

of

lege is included in the proposed
biennium budget submitted by
Cov. George M. Leader.
Of this figure, Bloomsburg is anticipated to reecive $896,055 from
student fees, broad and lodging

situation

Yurgis,

Brinser, Harrisburg.

allocation

member

sion.

from the Community
Store were
received
by Adam
James,
Northumberland;
Louis
Marsilia, Hazleton;

11,

of the occa-

Grants

Shenandoah; Charles Loughery,
Glenside; Joseph Stancato, Hazleton; Woodrow Rhoads, Boyertown;
Edward Watts, Jenkintown; Charlotte
Cropf,
Northumberland;
Nancy Ruloff, Middleburg; Charles Riegel, Sunbury; Ruby Roush,
Northumberland and
Margaret

An

Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

charges.
Total allocation in the
current biennium, was $1,788,333
and in the 1953-55 biennium,

FORMER FACULTY
MEMBER HONORED
of the

FOR COLLEGE

$2,034,055

expec-

The Bakeless Fund is a worthwhile project. Support it!
5

..

CHECKS FORWARDED
Checks totaling $549.00 were
forwarded to three Wilkes-Barre
agencies to pay for damage done
to the property of Kings
College,
the Knights of Columbus, and the

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI

ATHLETICS
WRESTLING

1956-1957

The Bloomsburg

wrestlers finish-

Wilkes-Barre City School District
by fourteen students of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
Main Building and the Hafey-Marian Hall, of Kings
College;
the
Knights of Columbus Home on

ed third in the Fourteenth Annual
State Teachers College Wrestling
Tournament held Saturday, February 23, at Lock Haven. James
Garman brought the championship
to B.S.T.C. when he won the decision in the 123-pound division.

Northampton Street, and the Elmer L. Meyers Stadium were
smeared with paint by Bloomsburg
students early Wednesday morn-

The season shows a record of
seven victories and two defeats.
Jan. 9— B.S.T.C. 20
Shippensburg 8

October 24, 1956, on the eye
Kings-Bloomsburg football
game.
ing,

the

of

At the time of the incident, estimates of damage ranged from $1,000 to $10,000, but bills recently
submitted by officials of Kings
College, the Knights of Columbus,
and the Wilkes-Barre School District totaled only $549.
Publicity
given the affair by area newspapers, radio stations
and television
newscasts resulted in widespread

comment.
Prompt action

by

Bloomsburg

State Teachers

College officials
immediately following the incident
resulted in a three-week’s suspension from college of the fourteen
students involved.
All
fourteen
participants have paid their
prorated share of the damage; ten of
the fourteen are attending classes
at the college at the present time.

12—B.S.T.C.
16—B.S.T.C.
19—B.S.T.C.
31—B.S.T.C.

20

.

.

.

.

.

.

Pa. Mil. Col.

11

27

.

Lock Haven

17 ... E. Strouds. 11
18
Indiana 11
13—B.S.T.C. 32 .... Lincoln U. 0
15—B.S.T.C. 14 ... W. Chester 16

BASKETBALL

1956-1957

Dec. 1— B.S.T.C. 81
Dec. 5— B.S.T.C. 58
Dec. 12— B.S.T.C. 97
Jan. 9—B.S.T.C. 102
Jan. 16— B.S.T.C. 76
Jan. 19— B.S.T.C. 83
Jan. 30—B.S.T.C. 88
Feb. 2— B.S.T.C. 90
Feb. 6—B.S.T.C. 114
Feb. 9— B.S.T.C. 68
Feb. 14 B.S.T.C. 107
Feb. 16— B.S.T.C. 72
Feb. 22— B.S.T.C. 66
Feb. 23— B.S.T.C. 92
Feb. 25— B.S.T.C. 64
Mar. 1—B.S.T.C. 73
Won 14; Lost 7.

Shippens.
.

.

.

.

.

.

Kuztown

He was

Buckhorn, he had

.

.

.

79
Millersville 106
Lycoming 88
Shippens. 88
Lycoming 64
59
L. Haven
Kings 82
Millersville 106
Mansfield 79
L. Haven 65
W. Chester 77
.

Age Club

of Williams-

a

member

of St. Luke’s

State

a

graduate

Normal

taught school

in

Bloomsburg
School and had
of

addition to farm-

ing.

The Beagle Townsend Club of
Williamsport of which he was one
of its founders was named after
him.
Ife was also a member of
6

Officers named were Miss Lois
Byrner, president; Edward Lynn,
vice president; Miss Alice Smull,
secretary; Miss Susan Sidler, treasurer.

Entertainment was by the mixed
octet of the College, under the direction of Nelson Miller.
Group
singing was led by Mrs. Betty Morrall, with Mrs. Hannah Rhawn aet
the piano.
Miss Bryner presided. Dr. E. H.
Nelson, president of the general
alumni body, spoke of the worthy
student loan fund of the graduate
body.
He also congratulated the
association on the fact that he has
an objective in providing an annual
scholarship.
Dr. HarJtey A. Anti russ,
president, told of the development program of the colege.

PLAYERS STAGE
ENTERTAINING MYSTERY
B.S.T.C.

Carver Hall, B.S.T.C., was filled
Tuesday evening, February 19, for
the hilarious performance of “The
Shop at Sly Corners,” the mysterycomedy in three acts staged by the
Bloomsburg Players. Boyd Bucking of the college faculty was the
director.

Don

Hazleton, and
Jim Thorpe,
headed an excellent cast. Furnishing comedy relief as the thief was
Bob Stish, Hazleton. Others in the

Schlaugh,

Deanna Morgan,

re-

sided in Bloomsburg before moving to Williamsport where he had
resided the past thirty years.
He

was

95
80
84
61
93

Mansfield

—

the Golden

Kings
Cheyney
Cheyney

118 Seminary Street, Williamsport,
died at his home on Saturday, February 16.
in

3

6—B.S.T.C.
9—B.S.T.C.

Willets K. Beagle, eighty-nine, of

Bom

8

Lycoming 15
Millersville 18

23

Lutheran Church, Williamsport.

Willets K. Beagle, ’94

at Trinity Methodist Church,
Danville, voted to continue their
policy of giving an annual $50.00
scholarship to a Montour county
student at the College.
27,

.

Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.

port.

NECROLOGY

About seventy graduates of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College who reside in Montour County and their guests at their annual
dinner held Wednesday, February

cast

“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

were Ann Tooey, Havertown;

Wayne

ARCUS’
Bloomsburg

of

’41

Raydel
Gavitt, Laporte;
Radzai, Mt. Carmel; Gerald Donmoyer, Pottsville; Maureen Barber,
Plymouth; Joseph Zapaeh, Freeland; Robert Corrigan, Hatboro.
An elaborate stage set was built
for the play. The director was assisted

by Robert Ebner, Muncy,

student director.

Mrs.

as

Mary Jane

Ertel provided organ music for the
intermissions.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

COLLEGE STUDENTS PAY
45 PER CENT OF COST

SPONSORS BLOODMOBILE

Recent news releases from the
Superintendent of Public Instruction raised questions in the minds

faculty

of

many who

are interested in the
future plans of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
Subject to the final approval of
the $31,000,000 recommended by
the Governor, in his huge t for
State Teachers College, when, in
tact,
over $14,(XX),(XX) is raised
from the local fees paid by students, bloomsburg is to be operated on a $2,000,000 budget for
the next two years. Of this amount,
almost $900,000 will be paid by
students.
In other words, students
are paying forty-five per cent of
the cost of operation of the institution.
This is about the average
for the State, since $14,(X)0,000 is
collected from students and $17,(XXFOOO is the State subsidy.
During the past year, Bloomsburg has admitted 460 new and entering students.
This number will

have to be reduced to 400, and
even then will bring the total enlollment up to 1,200, of which only
500 can be accommodated in the
dormitory. About 400 will have to
go back and forth to their homes
each day, and 300 will have to live
town.
ten per cent increase in the
State subsidy from $15,600,000 to
$17,000,000 will do little more than

BUSINESS EDUCATION

Teachers College students and
did an outstanding job

Thursday, February

14,

Red Cross bloodmobile

when

the

unit visited

campus.
There were 162 who reported to
give blood in one of the finest re(lie

sponses

The

in

this

area in

was

slightly

some

time.

under the
167 of a year ago but on that occasion there were many
more
townspeople
participating
than
total

was the case February 14.
George Stradtman of the faculty
was in charge and there was an
excellent student committee headed by Miss Nikki Scheno. Of the
135 who signed up prior to give
all reported but five.
The
donors were scheduled for specific

blood,

times and the program was carried
through without delay. When volunteers did not report as scheduled the committee checked on their
whereabouts and got them to the
Husky lounge, the base of the
day’s operations.

CONTEST WILL BE MAY

4

'Fhe twenty-fourth annual scholeducation contest of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
astic business

College will be held on the College campus Saturday, May 4. The
contest will include competitive
examinations in bookkeeping, business arithmetic, Gregg shorthand,
typewriting, and business law.
Dr. Thomas B. Martin, director
the Department of Business
Education, said recently announcements had been mailed to high
schools in the state, inviting them
to enter contestants.
Last year’s
contest featured more than 210
students from forty-seven schools
in
Eastern Pennsylvania. Team
honors were won by Danville,
Berwick, Bloomsburg and Trevorlon High Schools, but individual
honors were won by contestants
from nine different schools.
In the past years, both contestants and teachers have shown considerable interest in the office machines show and the textbook exhibit in Navy Hall Auditorium.
of

in the

The

mandated salary
and reconunsafe and unsanitary

take care of the
increases.

struction of

The

repair

buildings, chiefly dormitories will
have to be curtailed.

Contributions to the
Bakeless Memorial Loan Fund
Will

Be Appreciated

Since approximately 150 of the
class of 400 to be admitted in September, 1957, have met all requirements up to date, the enrolling of

freshman students, will probably
be closed on or before April 15.
All student fees have been increased during the last two years,
and still further increase may need
to be made if the State Legislature does not provide funds in addition to those contemplated in the
Governor’s budget.

FOR ANY INFORMATION, CONTACT:
DR. E. H. NELSON,

President,

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE,
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

SUPPORT THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
APRIL,

1957

7

ALUMNI

THE

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

PRESIDENT

’46

Benton, Pa.

25

’33

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Hatboro, Pa.

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Henry Morgan

VICE PRESIDENT
Edward Lynn

Avenue

207 Jefferson

SECRETARY
Edward D.

Danville, Pa.

Bristol, Pa.

’41

Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

PRESIDENT

Frank J. Furgele
East Moreland Avenue

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

SECRETARY

TREASURER

TREASURER

Miss Alice Smull,

Paul Martin, ’38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

183

’05

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

Francis B. Galinski

Diane Avenue

Hatboro, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

DAUPIIIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary A. Meehan, T8
2632 Lexington Street

PRESIDENT

Harrisburg, Pa.

William Zeiss
Route No. 2

VICE PRESIDENT

Clarks Summit, Pa.

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, 13
1618 State Street

Margaret

Paul Englehart, 07

1105V2

George Street

4,

Pa.

TREASURER

SECRETARY

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue

L. Baer, ’32

South Union Street

Scranton

Harrisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
W. Homer Englehart,
1821

L. Lewis, ’28

West Locust Street

Scranton

Harrisburg, Pa.

21

HONORARY PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Pearl

PHILADELPHIA AREA

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rodgers Lloyd

Harrisburg, Pa.

2921

4,

Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

1904

ville,

Irwin Cogswell is a machine tool
operator, employed by the Beach

Company,

rose, Pa.

His address

is

MontR3, Mont-

rose.

1906

Margaret H. Bussell (Mrs. It. M.
McMillan) lives at 32% Canaan
Street, Carbondale.
1906
Ethel Titus (Mrs. W. E. Zecher)
lives at 39 Berwyn Park, Lebanon,
Pa.

1907
Lillian

Harris
8

Wendt

Webber)

(Mrs.

lives in

George
Milledge-

Georgia.

(P.

O. Box 376)

732

Hortman

Irish, ’06

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT
Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

’18

SECRETARY
Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693

’23

Arch Street

^TREASURER
Miss Ether E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

’34

Jones, supervising principal of the

elementtary school of the Central

1907

Lu Lesser Burke

Mrs. Lillian

Spring City, Pa.

BE LOYAL TO YOUR
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

’ll

Market Street

Manufacturing

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

(Mrs.

Stanley

105 Renfrew
J. Conner) lives at
Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey. Mr.
and Mrs. Conner were married
December 3, 1954, and the former
passed away Sept. 22, 1956.

1920
Alice Cocklin lives at 116 West
Union Street, Shickshinny, Pa.

1930
Studies are to be made in Pennsylvania on how to increase
the
supply of science and mathematics
students and improve instruction
in these fields.
Assisting in this is
Elfrcd
H.

Columbia County Joint School,
who was named to the post by
Charles H. Boehm, superintendent
of the Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg.

The first meeting was slated for
November or December. Heading
the committee

Dr. Martin WhitLehigh University, and Dr. John C. Warner, preInstitute
of
sident of Carnegie
is

aker, president of

Technology.

The invitation received by Mr.
Jones to participate on the committee cited the shortage of qualified
scientists, engineers and technicalto
ly trained people and pointed

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE

A

L

M

U

NEW YORK AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY
Wilkes-Barre Area

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Francis P. Thomas, '42
1983 Everett Street
Valley Stream, L. I., N. Y.

Thomas

H. Jenkins, ’40
Terrace Drive
Shavertown, Pa.

N
SUSQUEIIANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT
Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison Street

Tunkhannock, Pa.

91

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski, '52

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruble James Thomas,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

’42

New

1983 Everett Street

Jerry Y. Russin,’41
136 Maffet Street
Plains, Pa.

Valley Stream, L.

I.,

Miss Mabel Dexter, T9

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Mehoopany, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, 11
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Agnes Anthony Silvany, ’20
83 North River Street

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, T4

Slocum Avenue
Tunkhannock, Pa.

42

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling,
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

’53

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Kenneth Kirk,

’54

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER
’34

Madison Street

119

Hazleton Area

TREASURER

WASHINGTON AREA
PRESIDENT
Joseph A. Kulick, ’49
1542 North Danville Street

James E. Doty
South Fourth Street
Sunbury, Pa.

Arlington

WEST BRANCH AREA

Hazleton, Pa.

Robert V. Glover,

SECRETARY

Miss Mary R. Crumb,
’03

VICE PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

Jason Schaffer

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
Washington, D. C.

R. D.

1,

Selinsgrove, Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

the need for improving instruction
and mathematics in the
elementary and secondary schools.
The letter also pointed out pupils
of marked ability should
be encouraged in those fields.
in science

dents and improving instruction in

Joseph’s

Pennsylvania schools.

port.

1935

mathematics

basketball official,
this area as a
has been signed to a new two-year
contract as basketball coach of St.

1957

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

High

The

School,

Williams-

was not surprising
Blackburn’s success at
the school. St. Joe has won 78 and
lost but 17 games in the past four
years under his direction for a
percentage of .821. Blackburn sucin

Charlie

Brandywine
Washington

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

Lewisburg, Pa.

education advisory committee will
review the problems
concerned
with increasing the supply of stu-

APRIL,

4215

Helen Crow

Blackburn,
former
Bloomsburg College all around
athlete and widely known through

and

Miss Saida Hartman,

TREASURER

’32

Washington Avenue
West Hazleton, Pa.

127

science

TREASURER

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

’24

U

Mifflinburg, Pa.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, T8
562 North LocustStreet

The

1232

Street, S. E.
Washington, D. C.

Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

Ecker,

SECRETARY

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

McHose

Virginia

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Lucille

1,

Mrs. George Murphy, 16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Harold J. Baum, ’27
20 South Pine Street

147 East

’ll

Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley, T4
New Milford, Pa.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

PRESIDENT
Miss Grace Beck
1014 Chestnut Street
Sunbury, Pa.

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick
1017 East Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

146

Mrs.

Clifford, Pa.

317 Tripp Street
West Wyoming, Pa.

Betty K. Hensley,

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

N. Y.

act

light of

ceeded Rollie Hain in 1952.
The
1955-56 team won 18 and lost but
3,

including a

75-68

decision

to
9

A
Marymount in the Class
ton Diocesion play-off.

B Scran-

1937
Josephine Magee is teaching at
the Porter-Tower Township High
School, Tower City. She received
her Master’s Degree in Latin at
the Pennsylvania State University,
and has been attending summer
sessions at William and Mary College.
Her address is 236 South
29th Street, Penbrook, Harrisburg,
Pa.

1942
In a pretty Christmas eve cere-

mony performed

by

candlelight

before a mantlepiece banked with
and red camellias,
Miss Mary Dent Mills became the
bride of Samuel Frederick Worman, Danville, in the home of the
bride’s mother, Mrs. Frederick Edward Mills, in Evergreen, Ala.
The Rev. J. H. Bollington, pastor
silvered smilax

of First

County Writers’ Club.
She has also been on the school
committee of the Media Friends
School, and is a member of the
Springfield Friends Meeting.
Both Mrs. Smith and her husband are members of the class of
1942.
They have three children.
They reside at Hawthorn Hill,
Springfield Valley Drive, Route

Media.
Mr. Smith is working for Du
Pont at Newark, Delaware, in the
East Central Group.

27,

1943
Katherine Jones (Mrs. Elwood
Wagner) is living in Japan, where
Major Wagner is serving in the

Evergreen High School and received a BS and MA degree in home
economics from Alabama College,
Montavalla, Ala., and Peabody
College for Teachers, Nashville,
Tenn.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Kreider Worman,
Danville. He graduated from Danville High School and received his
BS degree in secondary education
from BSTC and a certificate in the
field of music education from Florida State University,

en

Club,

the

Springfield Junior
the Delaware

Women’s Club, and
10

it

doesn’t

Sickinger was guard on the Roxborough High School’s football
team when he was graduated in
1945.
After two years in the infantry, mostly as a
corporal
on
Leyte in the Philippines, he used
the G.I. Bill to atttend Bloomsburg
State Teachers College,

English and speech.

in

er his course, he joined
stock company.

Hdq. FEAF, Box 408

APO

majoring

To furtha summer

This summer, while working for

925

San Francisco, California
1949
The following appeared in a recent issue of “Today,” Sunday

magazine section

of the

Philadel-

phia Inquirer:
By day Robert Sickinger teaches
social studies to 7th and 8th grades
att Shawmont School in Roxborough. In the evenings he’s general
manager of the Philadelphia Civic
Theatre, a non-profit group which
has taken over a former vaudeville
theatre in Manayunk. At school or
theatre he’s identified by a red
baseball cap.
“The cap makes it easy for my

the Federal Japanese Beetle Control Station, he married a Ballet

Guild dancer, Selma Brecher, and
moved from his parents' Roxbor-

ough home to E. Church lane in
Germantown. His wife will work
with him in the new theatre project.

1950

Chemi-

Barrett Division, Allied
cal

& Dye

Corporation,

has

an-

Graydon C. Wood,
science teacher at the Darby Borough High School, Darby, Pa.,
nounced

that

joined the laboratory staff for the

summer of 1956 at Barrett’s Glenolden laboratory, Glenolden, Pa.
According to Dr. M. H. Bigelow,
director of research and director
of Barrett’s Glenolden laboratory,
summer
the practice of offering
employment to high school science
teachers is in cooperation with the

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT

American Chemical Society’s industry-wide program to provide
the

Springfield, Pa.
For the past several years, Mrs.
Smith has been active in the Gard-

Otherwise

plays.

son, Kurt.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Worman
have taught for several years in
the schools
of
North Carolina,

1942
Mrs. William E. Smith (Dora
Taylor) has been serving this year
as President of the Garden Club at

eyes.

a thing.”

1555778

They have one

Tallahassee,

ida.

mean

Major Elwood M. Wagner

Army.

Their address:

Florida.

Pennsylvania, Alabama and Flor-

my

from

Sickinger had his first
schoolteaching job when he formed the
Abbey Little Theatre.
He then
helped start a professional acting
group, The Circle in
the
City,
where he directed most of the

Methodist Church, Ever-

green, officiated at the double ring
ceremony. The bride is the daughter of the late Fred E. Mills, Evergreen. The bride graduated from

students to locate me at recess
time,” says Sickinger. “And in the
theatre it keeps the spotlight glare

Sunbiiry-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

’42

and

opportunity
financial

who

Wood,

for

educational

advancement.
teaches

biology,

and physics at the
Darby Borough High School, is a
graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He will be working
chemistry

in the organic chemistry synthesis
laboratory on the isolation of new
chemicals and on plastics.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1954
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrews
(Harriett Williams) are both doing
graduate work at the University
of Oklahoma. Their address is 723
Asp. Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma.

1955

Lynda Bogart

(Mrs.

Dean

W.

Maurer) has finished the requirements for the degree of Master of
Arts in Spanish at the University
of Rochester.
Tlu^ degree will be
given in June, 1957.
Mrs. Maurer’s address is ll(K) South Avenue,
Rochester 20, N. Y.

1955
In a lovely

ceremony performed

DecemReformed

at three o’clock

Saturday,

ber 30

John’s

at

St.

Church, Catawissa, Miss Shirley
Mae Yeager, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Yeager, Catawissa, was
united in marriage to Second Lt.
Robert Paul Blyler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Blyler,
Bloomsburg
R. D. 2.
The double-ring ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Frank A. Reigle, pastor, before 150
wedding guests. The bride graduated from Catawissa High School
and was formerly employed as secretary for the Hamlin Insurance
Agency, Catawissa. Mr. Blyler, a
graduate of
Bloomsburg
High
School and BSTC, is now serving
with the U. S. Marines.

1955
Miss Carolyn Yost is teaching
third grade in the Madison Con-

Berwick, and Zane Edwin Smith,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith,
Berwick R. D. 1, were married in

ceremony performed
on Christmas eve in First Christian
The Rev. JosChurch, Berwick.
eph Conklin officiated.
A reception was held in the
The
social rooms of the church.
a candlelight

couple will reside at 238 East Fifth
Both graduated
street, Berwick.
from Berwick High School. Mrs.
Smith graduated from BSTC and
the.
is a teacher of first grade at
Market Street School, Berwick.
Her husband is serving in the U. S.
Navy. He was formerly employed
at Wise Potato Chip Co.
1956

Methodist
Bloomsburg
Church was the setting at three

The

o’clock Saturday, December 22 for
the marriage of Miss Bertha Marie

Knouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Philip A. Knouse, R. D. 2, to Howand
ard Jack Ilealy, son of Mr.

Donald M.

Ilealy, Park Place
Dr.
Berwick. The Rev.
Thomas Hopkins, pastor, performed the double-ring ceremony. Bridal selections were presented by
Howard F. Fenstemaker, organist,

Mrs.

Village,

and C. Diann Jones,

soloist.

A reception followed at the American Legion Home with seventyFor a wedding trip
five attending.
a
to the Poconos, the bride wore
navy blue suit. They will reside
at

336 Mattison avenue.

where Mrs. Healy

is

Ambler,

a teacher in

solidated School, Columbia County.
She taught for one year in the

Neshainy

School

District,

ble-ring

ceremony

MOYER

BROS.

SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

1956
Jean Robison is teaching in MorPa.

1956
Miss Earla Marie Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Myers,

the

seventy-five attending. For a wedtrip to the
Poconos,
the
bride wore a brown ensemble with
matching accessories and an orchid
corsage. They will reside in Wat-

didng

sontown. The bride graduated
from Homer Central School, Homer, N. Y., and Bryn Mawr Hospital
School of Nursing. Her husband,
a graduate of Scott Township High
served two
School and BSTC,
years in the U. S. Air Force and is
now teaching at the Warrior Run

1956
is teaching in the

school newspaper.

1956

Hershey, Pa.

by

High School at Hollywood, Florida, where he the advisor of the

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
Dianne Jones is a teacher of
Special Education in the schools of

assisted

Rev. Guernsey Hackler, pastor of
the church. Greens and white fall
flowers decorated the church.
A reception was held in the
social room of
the church with

John Sandler

Dorothy Diltz is serving as
teacher of English in the eighth,
ninth and tenth grades in the Mill-

1957

1956
Miss Joan Ann Rossell, daughter of Mrs. William R. Rossell, Mt.
Holly, N. J., and the late Rev. William Rossell, was united in marriage to George Edwin Kocher, son
of Dr. and Mrs. Frank T. Kocher,
Espy, in a ceremony at three
o’clock Thanksgiving afternoon at
the
First
Baptist Church,
Mt.
Holly, N. J.
The Rev. Franklin
Perry, Laurel, Md., brother-in-law
of the bride, officiated at the dou-

Lang-

1956

APRIL,

Navy.

Area Schools, Watsontown.

horne, Pa.

risville,

The bride graduated
from
Bloomsburg High
School in 1951 and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College
in
1956.
Her husband, a Berwick High
School graduate of 1952, also received his degree from BSTC last
spring and now serving in the
the high school.

1956
Mary Fern Eshleman,
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Eshleman, Berwick, became the bride of Clement John
West, son of Clement West, Berwick, and the late Mrs. West, in a
ceremony performed Saturday, December 1, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Berwick.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. F. M. Mon11

olic

department
From 1902

Church, Berwick.

A small reception followed at
Bennett’s in Berwick. The couple
left later on a wedding trip to the

post of

Dr. George E. Pfahler, ’94

Poconos.

The

a graduate of BerSchool, is a junior ma-

bride,

wick High

joring in psychology at Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre.
She is a member of the Inter-dormitory Council,

Theta Delta Rho sorority, secretary of the Psychology and Sociology Clubs and a member of the
Wilkes College Glee Club.
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School and B.S.T.C.
where he received a B.S. in business education, is
the U. S. Army,

now

serving with
having recently

returned from service in Germany.

he was a member of Gamma Theta Upsilon Fraternity and the Business Educa-

While

at B.S.T.C.,

Dr. George E. Pfahler, internaknown cancer specialist,
died Wednesday, January 29, in
Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia,
on his eighty-third birthday.
tionally

Dr. Pfahler was given the Distinguished Service Award of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association during
the graduate body
festivities of
during the spring ot 1950.

Always interested in the institution where he got some of his
education, the world-famed radiologist in recent years made
an unsolicited gift of a thousand
dollars to the student loan fund of
earliest

the

Alumni Association.

In accepting the award Dr. Pfahler, a member of the class of 1884,

tion Club.

asserted:

1957

James Harris, a member
mid-year graduating class,
teaching at Berwyn, Pa.

of the
is

now

“The basic truth is that our Alma Mater gave to me the foundation on which my succeeding life
depended and any succcesses that
I have had are primarily due to
the fine instruction and inspiration
given by my teachers at Bloomsburg.”

Through

GIVE TO THE

his

career

and

espe-

cially in the later years of his active life, Dr. Pfahler treated

BAKELESS FUND

from

many

this area.

The son of William PI. and Sara
Stine Pfahler, he was born in Numidia, Columbia County. He was
graduated from the Bloomsburg
Normal School and received
medical degree from the old
in
Medico-Chirurgical
College

State
his

1898.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

12

J.

C. Conner, ’34

where he headed the
from 1899 to 1903.
until 1908 he held the
clinical professor of symp-

eral Hospital

Cath-

gelluzzi, pastor St. Joseph’s

Dr. Pfahler was one of the first
doctors in the United States to take
up the study of medical applica-

tomatology at Medico-Chirurgical
College and served as professor of
radiology at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Pfahler also served as direcof

tor

the

depart-

radiological

ments of Graduate Hospital and of
Misercordia Hospital, Philadelphia.
In addition he served as president

American Roentgen Ray SoAmerican ElectrotherapeuAssociation, American College
Radiology and the American

of the
ciety,
tic

of

Radium

Society.

Last year he was selected president of the Dermatological Society of Philadelphia.

In 1926 he received an honorary
degree from Cambridge University
in England and another from Ursinus in 1942 when the university’s

new

science building was

named

in his honor.

He was

a

member

Association

of

the

board
and the Aid

of the

of directors of Ursinus

Philadelphia

County Medical Society and chairman of the committee on cancer
control of the society.
Dr. Pfahler was awarded Strittnatter Gold Medal of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in
1930 and seven years later received
a gold medal from the American

Roetgen Ray Society.
In 1950 he was named honorary
vice president of the sixth international Congress on Radiology
held in London. He was an honorary member of the Radiological
Society of North America, the Radiological of France, the Radiological Section of the Royal Acaof Medicine in London and
an honorary fellow of the Faculty
of Radiologists of London.

demy

radium and X-ray and was
world renowned for his work in
tion of

George W. Houck,

that field.

’97

He was one of the organizers
and charter members of the Philadelphia division of the American
Cancer Society and at his death
was on that group’s board of di-

of 25 Spring
Shavertown, retired district
principal of Wilkes-Barre schools
in the Parsons-Miners Mills area,
died Tuesday, January 1, at his

rectors.

home.

Dr. Pfahler began his work in
radiology at the Philadelphia Gen-

Street,

George W. Houck,

Street,

Mr. Houck was born on Regent
Wilkes-Barre, and was a
TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

son of Albert C. and Sarah A.
Houck. His elementary education
was begun at the Parrish Street
Schol and in the public schools of
Hanover Township. He received
his higher education at Bloomsbury State Teachers College and
was graduated from Susquehanna
University with a B.A. and later
acquired an M.A. in public school
administration at Columbia Uni-

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Creveling,
Bloomsburg, and was a retired
teacher.
She had taught twelve
years in Pennsylvania and twentyfive years in Irvington, N. J.
She
was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg.
Surviving are a

home;

sister,

Harriet,

Frank II.
Creveling, Cascade, Montana, and
a number of nieces and nephews.
at

a

brother,

versity.

letter

of
of

eligibilty

as

superin-

tendent
schools was granted
him by the State Department of

Education.

A

Spanish-American War Veteran, he served in Cuba with Battery
B, Second Artillery. During World
War I he was a first lieutenant in
Pennsylthe Second Regiment,
vania Reserve Militia.
He was a
member of Shavertown Methodist
Church,
Coalville
F.&A.M.; Shekinah

Lodge

474,

Royal Arch
Veut Commandery, Knight Templar, and Irem
Temple.
Chapter, Dieu

Surviving
,

are

brothers,

Wilmington,

Albert

Del.;

Ashley.

Mead Kendrick, ’04
Adele Mead Kendrick, of
W. 7th Street, Miami, Flor-

Mrs. Adele

Mrs.
2929 S.
ida, died August 12, 1956.
She
was organizer and first Commander of Poinsetta Post No. 113 and

Rose Barrett, 07
Miss Rose Barrett, a retired
Achbald school teacher, died Saturday, January 12, after a brief

ill-

She was married to Val A. Bonney and resided for several years
at Grant’s Pass, Oregon.
She resided with Mr. and Mrs. George
Massic, since October, 1956, returning to this section because of

the Auxiliary Unit, Post 70, Ameri-

can Legion. She

is

survived by her

husband and two brothers.

Born in Archbald, she was a
daughter of the late John and Ellen Burke Barrett. She was a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Church,
Archbald, and its women’s organizations.

Miss Barrett retired several years
ago.

Mrs. Jennie Birth Bonney, 65,
well known educator of this area
for many years, died Thursday,

February

14, at

Berwick Hospital.

A native of Nescopeck, she was
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Birth. She taught schools
in Nescopeck, Martzville, in Florida and Maryland and at Berwick
High. She was biology teacher at
B.H.S. from 1928 to 1953, retiring
a

in that latter year.

She was a graduate of Blooms-

Miss Bessie Creveling, seventyseven, East Third Street, Bloomsburg, died suddenly Monday, February 11, at her home.
She was the daughter of the late
1957

Survivors include her husband,
sister, Mrs. Stephen Knelly, of
Nescopeck; two nieces, Mrs. Clair
Parr and Mrs. George Massic.

W.

Clair

Hower,

’21

W. Clair Hower, fifty-eight,
widely-known Bloomsburg native,
died of a heart attack Friday, December 28, at his home at 822 El-

He had
heart

suffered two previous
in
the past eight
Mr. Hower was discov-

attacks

months.
ered dead

bed by his wife.
in
Bloomsburg
musical talent, he had

in his

Well-known

through his
been music supervisor

of the local
schools until leaving in 1934 to assume a similar post at the Chelten-

ham Township

Junior-Senior High
Elkins Park.
He held
that post at the time of his death
and was also organist and choir
director
at
St.
James Catholic
Church, Elkins Park.

School

Mr.

at

Hower had

director of several

served as choir
town churches

and had produced many home

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771
’05

a member of the Delphian Club, First Baptist Church
and the missionary society of that
congregation.

kins Park, Pa., near Philadelphia.

Jennie Birth Bonney, ’ll

Martha Creasy,
Miss Bessie Creveling,

health.

a

ness.

was Past Commander of the National Yeomen; she served in the
Navy during World War I; she was
also a member of D.A.R. and of

APRIL,

ersity.

She was

le

Frank P.,
Berwick; sisters, Mrs. Evan Moore,
Ashley; Mrs. Arthur Dawe, Sr.,
and Mrs. James McKillen, both of
C.

\

ill

Columbia University awarded
him a diploma as superintendent
of schools and on April 21, 1932,
a

burg Normal School and received
a B.S. degree from Washington
University.
She received a master’s degree from Columbia Uni-

tal-

ent shows and high school operettas here.
Thirty-four years ago
he organized the first Bloomsburg

Boys Band, which developed into
the local high school band, and
served as director of the local Elks

Band.

An alumnus

of Bloomsburg High
he had composed the
words and music of the Alma MaHe had also attended Bloomster.
burg and West Chester State
Teachers Colleges, in addition to

School,

other institutions of higher learn13

He was

ing.

War

a veteran of

World

I.

Surviving are his wife, the forElizabeth Davenport; two
daughters, Mrs. Carl Zimmerman,
near Philadelphia, and Sarah Louise,
at home; several grandchildren; two brothers, Clyde Hower,

Harman,

also formerly of Berwick;
a sister-in-law, Mrs. Fred Kaschinka, of Muncy, and one niece.

He

mer

Bloomsburg, and Leo Hower, Philadelphia.

Lawrence

Lawrence

J.

Kiefer, an associate

J.

professor at Rider College, Trenton, New Jersey, died on December 19 following a long illness.

A

veteran of World War II, he
was a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and the
Wharton School of Finance of the
University of Pennsylvania. He did
graduate work at Penn State Uni-

A native of Frackville, Pa., he is
survived by his wife, Helen P.
Kiefer;

a

son,

Lawrence

a

B.;

daughter, Karen Ann; his mother,
Mrs. Lawrence C. Kiefer; three
sisters, Margaret, Joan and Catherine, and two brothers, Daniel and
Bernard.

He was

a

member

of the

Mor-

Columbus and

a

Board of Trustees of Bethany Presbyterian Church, a member of Trenton Lodge No. 5,
F.&A. M., Crescent Temple of the
Shrine, Tall Cedars of Lebanon,
the Chamber of Comemrce and the
Lumberman’s Credit Association.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by two sons, Stanley J.,
Jr., of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Morof the

Trenton; a daughter, Mrs.
H.
Vail,
of Shaker Heights; a sisJ.
ter, Mrs. George Whitemore, East
Orange, and by three brothers, Dr.
John G. Conner, Trenton; Ray
Conner and Smith Conner, California,

William B. Landis

the

Association

Drive, Arborlea, Morrisville, Pa.

Marie Kashchinka Harman
Marie Kashinka Harman,
former Berwick High School teacher and exceptionally well known
Mrs.

and educational

December

circles,

23, at her

Surviving are her husband, Jack
14

and upon his graduation in
1914 was awarded the degrees of
Master of Arts and Bachelor of

years,

Laws.
In 1908 he was registered as a
law student in the office of Edward Beidelman, Esq., of Harris-

burg, Pa., who was then the Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

He was

admitted

the Court of

to practice in

Common

Pleas, the

Orphans’ Court and the Court of
Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna
County on October 5, 1914, to the
Superior Court of Pennsylvania,
and to the U. S. District Court in
the year 1915, to the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania in 1916 and
in the year 1920 he was admitted
to practice in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Landis was a very able
lawyer. He was a sound counsel-

William B. Landis was born on
March 25, 1886, at Rock Glen, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the
son of David E. Landis and Sarah

thoroughly enjoyed the practice of
law in all of its phases. Until the
time of his serious illness he was a
our various
in
figure
familiar
courts, where he skillfully and

Hospital at ScranPennsylvania, on April 20,
1955, after a long illness.

Bechtel

former

for many years
taught English in a select school
for girls at Cooperstown, N. Y., before her retirement three years ago.
She was past SO years of age.

the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.
Mr. Landis entered Columbia University, New York City, N.
Y., in 1911 and continued his studthree
ies at that institution for

and a talented advocate. He
worked hard at h!s profession and

Hahnemann

Mrs. Harman, a graduate of the
Berwick schools and Bloomsburg

Normal School, had

from which institution he
was graduated in June, 1911, with

lisle, Pa.,

ton,

were

Sandwich, Mass.

1955:

William Bechtel Landis, member
of this Bar for 41 years, died at

She had
been in only fair health since a major operation, performed in New
York, eight months ago.
in

to the
B. Landis, ’07,

tribute

a

as

memory of William
who died April 20,

the

in literary

five grandchildren.

Ac-

home was on North Berkely

died Sunday,

and by

of

.

home

Conner

of Cost

member

National Association
countants

His

J.

J. Conner, President of
the Corner Millwork Company and
husband of Lea Lesser Burke Conner, ’07, died suddenly September
22, 1956, at his home, 105 Renfrew
Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey.

Stanley

The following was read at a
meeting of the Lackawanna Bar

Council 3673, Knights of

risville

Stanley

ton, of

versity.

received his early education
grammar schools of his native Rock Glen, Pa., and then prepared for college at the Bloomsburg State Normal School at
Bloomsburg, Pa. Later he matriculated at Dickinson College, Carin the

Mr. Conner was Vice-President

Kiefer

Samuel B. Landis, of Philadelphia, Pa., and several grandchildren.

Virginia,

Landis,

whose ancestors
and emigrated

of Swiss origin

to the

United States about a cen-

tury and a half ago.
In addition to his
is

,

tenaciously tried the cases of his
clients,

with abundant success.

On

his sick bed, at the hospital, until

overtook
death
before
him, many of his client sought his
counsel and guidance in solving
their problems.
William B. Landis was a horticulturist by avocation, a lawyer by
shortly

widow, the

Parks of Wilkessurvived by two
sons, William B. Landis, Jr., Esq.,
a member of the New York City
Bar, Frank Parks Landis, an engineer, residing in Schenectady, New
York, as well as by two brothers,
David B. Landis of Covington,

Edith

Barre, Pa., he

selor,

profession and a gentleman by in-

During World War I, with
mounting family responsibilities
confronting him and at a time

stinct.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

when he would be

establishing

himself in his profession, he was
commissioned captain in the American Red Cross and served in
that capacity until the war’s end.

Mr. Landis was a Republican in
politics and he was in demand as
a speaker for many years.
He always put the welfare of the community, state and nation before
partisan politics.
In 1933 he was
appointed a deputy Attorney General

for

the

Commonwealth

of

Pennsylvania, and served as counsellor to the area closed banks
with his usual industry, fairness

and

integrity until 1935.

Mr. Landis was accustomed to
work. He worked to pay for his
formal education and in the years
1912 and 1913 when a student in
Columbia University, he was a
salesman for a real estate firm in
New York City, and in the year
1914 he was the Secretary of the
Long Island Real Estate Exchange.
He did not have the advantage of
friends
or business
connections
and acquaintances when he decided to begin the practice of his profession in Scranton, Pa. He had to

make
tice

friends

by

his

and build up

a prac-

own hard work and

in-

This he did, and over the
years gained both in the number

dustry.

and in the number of
cases which he brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
of his clients

Mr. Landis was by nature frank,
and to those who did not know
him, may have seemed to be at
times, somewhat abrupt.
Like all
efficient people he at times may
have been impatient at any slowness of others in grasping an idea.
He was a very kindly and char-

man and was

re-

and honor and upheld the best and

This very human trait caused him much anxiety
and embarrassment over the years,
tor he was a much better lawyer
than he was a businessman.

highest traditions of his profession.
He looked upon his profession as
a sacred trust delivered into his

itable

loath

to

fuse aid to a friend.

He was
fraternal

awanna

member

a member of several
organizations, the LackBar Association, and a
of the Elm Park Method-

Church.

ist

Of the many

virtues exemplified
of William R. Landis,
the traits of courage and tenacity

by the

life

were predominant.
His tenacity
and courage were with him on his
death bed.
He was tenaceous of
life.

While he almost attained the
three score years and

death came much too soon
who enjoyed good health
up until the time that serious sickness overtook him.
He met adversity with such hope, endurance,
bravery and courage that those
who knew him during his affliction
ten, his

bow

dom, intelligence and honor. He
was a good citizen, a devout
churchman, a devoted husband
and father and trusted friend of
all

associated with him.

Therefore, be it resolved that in
the death of William B. Landis, his
wife and his sons have lost a de-

voted and beloved husband and
and that the Bar has lost
one of its most able lawyers, and
that the Community has lost a fine
father,

proverbial
for

charge and at no time until his last
permitted weariness or sickness to interfere with his carrying
out that trust with fidelity, wisillness

one

in respect

our friend of

and

many

in

humility to

years.

William B. Landis was an avid
reader of good books. His leisure
time was spent with his books and
with his family. He was a devoted

husband and father, and this devotion was returned by his family
to him in the days of his affliction,
when his wife was almost constantly at his bedside and lightened
many hours with encouragement
which otherwise might have been
darkened by the gloom of despair.
Throughout his career he was
held in high esteem as an able advocate and a wise counsellor. He
at all times discharged his responsibilities with distinction, fidelity

citizen;

Be

and

further resolved that the
foregoing memorandum be adopted as an expression of the high
esteem in which William B. Landis was held by the fellow members of this Bar Association and
that the same be entered upon the
minutes of the Association, that a
it

copy be sent

to the family, and
that proper entry thereof be made
in
the
record of Lackawanna

County Courts

in the ProthonoOffice to No. 100, November
Term, 1914, where the official records of his admission to the Bar
are filed.
tary’s

Respeetifully

Walter L.

sumbitted
Hill, Jr.

Philip V. Mattes

Hon. Otto

P.

Robinson

Raymond Bialkowski
Walter W. Kohler
Chainnan

Bloomsburg State Teachers College

Alumni Association

NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
APRIL,

1957

15

ALUMNI DAY

Bloomsburg State Teachers College

Saturday,

16

May

T1IE

25

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

and flawed"

" Saucesied
E.

II.

NELSON,

’ll

As the school year draws to a close Alumni interests take on new
The response from the 50-year reunion class has been outstanding.
Reservations are in from Puerto Rico — California — Georgia —
Alabama — Florida — and other areas nearer home. And along with
life.

these reservations over $1100.00 have been forwarded as contributions
to the O. H.

A

and

S.

H. Bakeless Memorial Loan Fund.

report of a survey of the opinions of 13,586 college graduate

employees of the General Electric Company has come
recently.

One paragraph was

"The

ability to get

of

such interest that

along well with others

we
is

to

our notice

repeat

it

here:

also a

factor that respondents feel should be stressed in

the college curriculum.

Those courses that aid the

individual in the better understanding of his or her
associates

come

in

for high praise,

complicated interconnection
In this

same

vein, there

in

because of the

the lives of

all

of us.

was some emphasis upon the

theory that college should develop within the

in-

dividual a burning desire to associate himself with

community, and service drives to
improvement of living conditions for his

religious, social,

aid in the

fellow man.”

That paragraph states well what should result from a liberal eduSpecial knowledges need to be gained, but man does not live

cation.

by special knowledge alone. The personality of the teacher may mean
more to the student than the special knowledge subject he teaches.
Both are important. It is because of this broader phase of training
that those graduates of yesterday are pleased to honor the memory
of teachers who gave beyond the call of duty and inspired in their
pupils the desire to accept the challenge of good living.

Come back Alumni

Day.

A

hearty welcome awaits you.

Gallege

GalendaA-

April 16

Easter Recess Begins

April 23

Easter Recess Ends

May

Senior

22

Ivy

Honor Assembly

Day Ceremonies

May

23

Classes

May

25

Alumni Day

May

26

Baccalaureate Services

End

AND
Commencement
June

3

First

Summer

Exercises

Session Begins

June 24

Second Summer Session Begins

July 15

Third Summer Session Begins

August 5

Fourth

Summer

Session Begins

A

L

U

M N

I

QUARTERLY

Vol. L VIII

July

,

1957

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No. 2

LOCAL SUPPORT OF STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES

IN

PENNSYLVANIA

By Harvey A. Andruss, President
State Teachers College. Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

STATE AND LOCAL SUPPORT
For the first time in thirty years, state teachers colleges face a change in the method
and collecting fees from students.
Budgets have always been balanced by local fees collected from students which have
been levied by the boards of trustees of the several state teachers colleges.
State appropriations have usually provided about half of the total expenditures. This
varies from college to college and depends in a large measure on the dormitory and dining
of fixing

room income.
During the depression in the 1930's, a contingent fee was levied and has grown from
$72 a year to $90 a year and has been increased to $100 for the college year of 1957-58.
This fee is to cover library, student welfare, health, registration and records, and laboratory services. So far as is known, at the present time, the amounts collected have more
than paid for these services and the “contingency” for which they were created has long
since past.
There are few, if any, teachers colleges in the United States collecting more than $100
in fees for services other than housing.
As the enrollments of state teachers colleges have increased from 10,000 to 15,000 the
The present Governor’s
state appropriations have not been increased proportionately.
Budget shows an overall increase of 136% over that of the 1953-55 biennium while local
fees from students have increased 148',. and state support only 128%. From these figures
it will be seen that funds available for a state teachers college are composed of two kinds
of income: appropriations by the state and the amount collected by the college from
students. In the 1951-1956 period, the last three bienniums, the average state support has
been $560 per student per year. Present budget figures divided by the increased enrollment
will reduce the per student support to less than $500 per year unless more revenue sources
are found.

These reduced support figures come at a time when prices for all services (faculty
wages and salaries based on a lorty hour week, utilities) and
almost every item purchased is at the highest point known in history. All indications are

salaries, non-instructional

that costs will continue to increase.
Every fee, with the exception of the $5 diploma fee, of state teachers colleges in Pennsylvania has been increased in the past two years; housing fees by 25%, contingent fee
by 11%, and advanced registration deposits from $10 to $25.

FACULTY SALARIES
It has been generally conceded that salaries paid for teaching services have not kept
pace either with the cost of living or with comparable salaries paid in other professions

requiring the same amount of preparation.
This is as true of faculty salaries in state teachers colleges as with other teaching
salaries.

To remedy this situation by an upward revision of the salary schedule we have two
known as Act 600 and Act 485, passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature and signed
by the Governor. The latter included an amount of $100,000 to take care of the cost of
laws,

the increased salaries, over and above, the amounts included in the budgets. Although
the year for which this appropriation was made is about ended, no part of this $100,000
has been made available to state teachers colleges.
Earlier in the month, the Senate passed a bill increasing each of the salary classifications for state teachers college faculty by $500 and provides larger mandatory increments

and more

of them.
estimated that this Senate Bill 330 will cost $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 over and above
present proposed appropriations.
While a companion bill provided $750,000 and later $825,000 to cover these costs, there
has more recently been passed Senate Bill 694 which will increase contingent or tuition
fees paid by students by 66 2/3%. Students are now paying at least $90 a year which will
be increased to $150 beginning September, 1957.
It is

SENATE BILL

694

Provides that even though residents of Pennsylvania, who meet certain admission requirements which includes a promise to teach for at least two years in Pennsylvania, shall
have their tuition paid by the state that if Boards of Trustees levy any other fees they
must be at least $75 per student per semester. This means that all students must pay
$150 next year as compared with $90 this year.
In effect, it sets a minimum fee which the boards of trustees can levy. This is done
at a time when the state is paying a reduced per capita amount per student in a time of

using prices.
If the fee can be set at $150 minimum this session of the legislature, it can be raised
by following legislatures until larger and larger proportions of the instructional costs
will have to be borne by students intending to be teachers.
All this happens at a time when there are not enough teachers and the demand is
known to be increasing since children already born will have to be housed in school buildings and met as classes even though it is difficult or even impossible to educate them in
larger classes or half-day sessions.
If Pennsylvania wants more teachers for its schools, it is axiomatic that it will have
to spend more money. This burden cannot suddenly be transferred to those who are now
enrolled, or who are about to enroll, in state teachers colleges.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LVIII,

No. 2

July,

Ac-

Published

quarterly

by the Alumni

Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Entered as Sec-

ond-Class Matter, August 8, 1941, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly Subscription, $2.00;

Single Copy, 50 cents.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

ALUMNI MEETING
Plans for increase of the physical
plant of the Bloomsburg Teachers
College to accommodate 2,000 students by 1970 and some proposed
legislation
which,
if
projected
coidd remove the Teachers College
from the class of public education
institutions to the status of private
colleges, were outlined by Dr. Andruss, president of the local institution, to alumni at the annual
meeting of the graduate body.
J. A. E. Rodriguez, a member of
the class of 1907, civic leader and
retired industrialist of Puerto Rico,

was given the Alumni Award of
Merit.
He was presented by a
classmate, William V. Moyer. The
award was to “a brilliant leader in
business and civic affairs and a
man of good will.”

Dean Emeritus William B.
liff, ninety, a member of the

Sut-

class
of 1891, spoke briefly at the close
of the session and was given an

ovation.

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F. Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

JULY,

1957

1957

Reports of Earl A. Gehrig, treasshowed the alumni has assets
in various funds of $22,175.
This
includes $14,936 in the Centennial
student loan fund with $9,025 out
in loans, $6,787 in the Bakeless
Memorial Fund and $704 in the
urer,

reserve fund.
$1,042 in the

There

is

a deficit of

Husky fund. Of the
funds on hand $11,500 are in investments. The general association has
a balance of $1,016.40.
Renamed to three year terms on
the board of directors are Fred W.
Diehl, Danville; Mrs. Charles C.
Housenick and Edward F. Schuyler,

Bloomsburg.

The board

in re-

organizing reelected Dr. E. H. Nelson president.

At the opening

of the session the

class of 1957 attended in a

body,

was elected to membership and received a chek from William Pohtusky for dues for the entire class.
Bishop Wilner gave the invocation.
Howard F. Fenstemaker, editor of

the

Alumni Quarterly

for

thirty-

one years, spoke of the graduate
publication.

Dr. Andruss told the graduates
that the Teachers Colleges are at
a time of decision and he asked the

Alumni

to assert its voice.

has

It

reached a point where the alumni
may not have much of a part in the
affairs of the institutions unless the
present trend is changed.
He spoke of the moving of the
library from the second floor of
Waller Hall to the quarters formerly occupied as a dining hall. There
will be space for 50,000 volumes.
He hopes in a few years to have
a'

new library building.
He referred to a sketch

in the

lobby of Carver Hall which outlined

the

prospectus for the en-

largement of the institution. Under the plan a men’s dormitory
would be erected at the site of the
present college barn and another
where North Hall stands. There
would be a class room building
near the new gymnasium. There
would be an auditorium along
Light Street Road and at the north
end of the road going by Navy
Hall.
Science Hall would be re-

moved

to

make way

for three

men’s
dormitories.
classroom
buildings

wo-

Additional

would

be

in the

Leg-

erected.

One

of the bills

islature

now

would make the board

of

an advisory group with
power concentrated in the president and Superintendent of Public
trustees

Instruction.

Another bill, which is now by the
Senate, would fix the fees at Teachers Colleges at not less than $75.00
per semester. The revenue will go
toward the payment of increases
to the faculty.
Dr. Andruss said the increase in
is needed but he advised
considerable attention be given the
bill by the House for it could lead

salaries

1

and take the

to substantial tuition

Teachers College,

now

in part of

tthe public school system, out of

that class

and

into the class of pri-

vate institutions. He felt it would
be better if the amount to be paid

were

Higher

fixed.

tuition

would

limit the enrollment to families of

middle or higher class income and
reduce the number of students
from homes of low income. If this
legislation became law the alumni
was told “the rights enjoyed when
you were students will not be available.”
He spoke of the circumstance that would arrive with substantial tuition in teacher institutions, especially in light of the fact
that states surrounding Pennsylvania pay higher teacher salaries

than this Commonwealth.

Reports of classes followed and
then the alumni luncheon was held
in the new College Commons.

Those who were in the Carver
Hall auditorium couldn’t tell which
was the happiest when the Alumni
Meritorious Service Award was
presented, the recipient, J. A. E.
Rodriguez, of San Juan, Puerto
Rico, or the one making the presentation, William V.

Moyer, local

businessman.

The two have been friends since
they met at “Old Normal” where
both are members of the class of
1907.
They have kept in touch
time although the last
occasion they were together here,
prior to the recent reunion, was
upon the occasion of the reunion
held a number of years ago.

since that

Bill did a mighty good job in
presenting his friend for the cita-

which was made

tion

to

a

“dis-

tinguished alumnus, brilliant leader in business and civic affairs and
a man of good will.”
Rodriguez
made a delightful response in
which he declared “This institution
laid the cornerstone of my life. All
I did was build on that corner-

gym.

in the

Bill

became doctors. I came
1
became a pharmacist.
Tony became a capitalist.”
closest.

After completing his studies at

Bloomsburg Rodriguez took a
course in modern business and accounting at Alexander Hamilton
Instiute, New York City and be-

came

a certified accountant.

business.

prominent Rotarian for many years, being a member of the San Juan Club and its

In the presentation the local bus-

Rodriguez working
way through Normal with a job

iness
his
2

told

of

a

president in 1939-40.

He regards golf as his “most important” hobby and likes to relate
that he has two holes in one” to his
credit, one on a drive of 185 yards.
Next to golf is swimming. Swimming has been more than a hobby.

He was

dis-

governor of Rotary International district 103 (Puero Rico)
1946-46 and a delegate to Rotary
International Conventions at Cleveland in 1939, Chicago in 1945, Atlantic City in 1946, Rio de Janerio
in 1948 and Atlantic City in 1951.

He was awarded the Presidential
Diplomat of Puerto Rico for uncompensated service in World War
I and a diploma and Congressional
Medal for the same type of services
in

World War

II.

a pastmaster of his Masonic Lodge and a director-at-large
of the National Council of Boy
Scouts and a past president of the

He

been an opportunity for serv-

It’s

He

ice.

is

has saved eight persons

from drowning.

One

of the things

being “the most humane employer
Puerto Rico.”

There have been a number of
graduates who have
been awarded Alumni Distinguished Service Awards since the graduate body decided on the program.

outstanding

so won the hearts of the
gradates as did the member of the
class of 1907 who at the opening
of his brief response observed, “I

None

both flying and crying.
obtained from Bloomsburg
priceless.
This is my home.”
like

What
is

IVY

I

DAY

“The

fact that

E.

the

ceives

Rodriguez,

Alumni

’07,

re-

Award

of

Left to right: Dr. E. H.

Merit.

Neson, Mr. Rodriguez, and William

V.

Moyer,

Mr. Rodriguez.

who

presented

we

ivy at the site of this

ing today (the

are planting
new build-

first class to

do

so)

symbolic of the changes
that have been made and those
which are yet to come,” Dick
Strine, a member of the 1957 grad-

is

itself

uating class at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College told his audience while delivering the annual
Ivy Day Oration. Mr. Strine, one
of the outstanding members of the
class,

mates

had been chosen by

his class-

to deliver the oration.

The Ivy Day

exercises,

one of

the oldest traditions at Bloomsburg,
were held adjacent to the new Col-

Commons. William Pohustkv,

Old Forge,

A.

is

is

in

lege

ON THE COVER

which he

a loving cup presented him by the American Federation of Labor in recognition of his

most proud

trict

his son, Luis,

graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, and by a granddaughter, Lolita.

Puerto Rico Institute of Acountants.

feel

He had been

ac-

a

From

1908 to 1920 he was an accountant
and traveling auditor with the government of Puerto Rico. For the
next five years he was assistant
manager and accountant for a business concern.
Then, in 1925, he organized his
own corporation to manufacture
needlework, mostly women’s wearing apparel, and became president
and general manager. He is now
retired, with his son heading the

J.

companied here by

his

er of us

stone.”

The honored alumnus was

remembered

classmate “was always busy but
always happy.’
He also recalled
both took a number of subjects in
the pre-medical field. “But neith-

class president, presid-

ed during the ceremony. Mr. Pohutsky presented the spade, used
in planting the ivy, to Ray Hargreaves, Scranton, president of the
class of 19.58.

During the program, the
sang the traditional “Halls of
and the Alma Mater. Nelson
ler directed the singing, and

Mary

Jame

Ertel,

class

Ivy"
Mil-

Mrs.
Williamsport,

provided the accompaniment.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

COMMENCEMENT
“He who would teach must never cease to learn,” Dr. Philip Love-

general secretary of Rotary
International from 1942 to 1952,
told 188 members of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
joy,

An audience

which filled the 1,200 bleacher seats and all
of the accommodations on the main
floor of the Centennial Gymnasium was in attendance at the exercises,

to

of 2,000

constitute

the

commencement gathering

largest
in

rather than “What can I get?” He
urged “don’t depend so heavily on
on eternity that you are inadequate
for your present stay on earth.”

important that

we

some honest doubting.

If

"It

We

our mature outlook on
through constant searching.”
rive at

He
a

The degrees were conferred by
Dr. Harvey A. Ambuss, president,
upon the class. The majority have
completed their work and the others will do so during the coming
summer sessions.
This was the second time the
baccalaureate and commencement
exercises were held on the same
day, a Sunday.
It was the first
they were held in the gymnasium
and the attendance was evidence

to

was an advisable one.
“A Christian life helps make the
long journey from the personal pronoun T to the personal pronoun
‘We,’ the Rev.
line, Jr.,

Milton E. Detter-

pastor of

St.

John’s Evan-

Congregational
Church,
Allentown, asserted in the baccalaureate message of the morning,
with 750 attending. His theme was

gelical

"The Ego and I.”
The mixed double quartet of the
College sang “One God’’ and Dr.
Andruss read the Scripture at the
baccalaureate. The Rev. Mr. Detterline gave the invocation and pronounced the benediction.
The minister observed that “all
through our bottle and diaper stage

we

attempt to get attention.

We

are attention getters. Today many
social services are provided by people for the esteem and other re-

wards they may receive. He quoted Dr. Addler that “the seeking
of distinction is an outstanding im-

We

all seek to find some
recognition for ourselves,”
Rev. Detterline said.

pulse.”

sort of

The

class,

themselves,

JULY,

1957

he

should ask
can I give?”

said,

“What

possess
we are

We

the

change from Carver Hall

is

afraid to ask questions of our faith
then our faith is not worth a great
deal.
find in our new, mature
outlook that God is really important and adequate.
must ar-

history of the institution.

that the

STUDENT AWARD GRANTS
AND SCHOLARSHIPS

advised

faith

graduates to teach

all

Sunday School

class, if possible,
the fallacy in the Protestant church today that just any

help

kill

one can teach Sunday School.
Speaking on “Make Way For Tomorrow,” Dr. Lovejoy told the
class they have taken from the institution

education

the

all

wanted to take.
tomorrow and

He reminded
in

the

days

They first
basic things.
built a house, then a church and
then a school. Within this frame
work America has developed. “Our
forefathers made way for our today and in turn we must go out
and make way for those who come
certain

tomorrow.”
the teaching prooften happens that
before we know it we are teaching
more than we, ourselves, know, he
hear so often teachcontinued.
ers need to build a fire under the
of

itself, it

We

The fire
and what

made

the awards.

Mr. Paul Martin, treasurer of the

Columbia County Alumni Association,

presented

scholarships

to

Millville; Duane Belles, Berwick.
Mr. Martin, on behalf of the class
of 1951, also presented a scholarship to Keith Michael, Huntington

Americans became great, Dr.
Lovejoy observed, only because of
hard work and our forefathers,
along with work, put emphasis on

young people.

the

that
that

world of tomorrow and for a
future that is unfathomable.

terms

of

Donald Ker, Elysburg; Dale Bangs,

their

In

students

they

follow all will wish they had taken
more. One of the big tasks of the
teacher is to prepare youth for

fession

Twenty-three

Bloomsburg State Teachers College were awarded scholarships
and grants Thursday, April 4, during the assembly program in Carver Auditorium.
The awards totaled
more than $1100.
This
amount, when added to a similar
amount presented to twenty-two
students in December, 1956, makes
the year’s total of scholarships and
grants more than $2200. Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, Chairman of the
Faculty Committee on Scholarships
and Grants, briefly described the
nature and sources of the funds,
and introduced the individuals who

already
the teachthere, he said,
er must do is be a sort of bellows
by which the fire can be increased
and controlled. There is within
each youngster that which the
teachers wil have the privilege to
is

let out.

One of the big jobs is to challenge the pupil to be intellectually curious for it is in this way we
(Continued on Page 4)

Mills.
David Barnhart, Drums,
was the recipient of the Benjamin

Franklin Parent Teachers Association Scholarship, presented by Mrs.
Harry John, president of the association.

John Chidester,

Jr.,

Lower Mer-

received the Sunday School
Scholarship from the Reverend
James Singer, Pastor of Saint Mation,

thew

Lutheran

Church,

Blooms-

burg.
John J. Ford, president of
the Day Men’s Association at B.S.
T.C., awarded that organization’s
scholarship to Ronald Ferdock,
Centralia. The American Association of University Women Scholarship was presented to Sandra Raker, East Smithfield, by Mrs. Cecil
C. Seronsy, president of the association.

W. Williams, manCollege Community
Store, presented award, represenMr. Horace

ager

of

the

ting profits

following:

from the

store, to the

Boyd Arnold. McClure

R. D. 2; Filomena Crocomo, Allentown; Pamie Fox, Sunbury; Jo Ann
Heston, Wyoming; Eloise Kaminski, South Gibson; Joan Lazo, Free-

land; James McCarthy, Drifton;
Kenneth Miller, Plymouth; Donald

(Continued on Page

4)

3

HONOR ASSEMBLY

cumulated a minimum of twenty
points.

President Harvey A. Andruss and
William Pohutsky, president of the
class, presented keys to Wayne
Boyer, Mifflinburg; James Creasy,
Bloomsburg; Robert Ebner, Muncy;
Evelyn Gilchrist, Pottsville;
Winifred Graff, Springfield; Wil-

liam Kautz, Harrisburg; Harriet
Link, Coopersburg; Carol Nearing,

Bloomsburg;

Suzanne
Osborn,
Springfield; Constance Ozalas, Palmerton; Arlene Rando, Shamokin;
Marilyn Ritter, Forty Fort; Dick
Strine, Milton; Mrs. Barbara Tuckwood Thomas, Springfield; Kenneth Weir,
Hatboro;
Margaret
Yohn, Selinsgrove.
Preceding

made

the presentation of
the highest award
by the college to its students,

Dr.

Andruss

service

Who”

keys,

presented

certificates

to

Shenandoah;

tack,

Sixteen members of the class of
1957 of the Teachers College were
presented service keys Wednesday,
May 22, at the annual Honor Assembly held in Carver auditorium.
The keys are awarded each year
for “outstanding service to the college community’ to the ten percent
of the Senior Class who have ac-

“Who’s

thirteen sen-

Nomination to this group entitles the name and college activities of the students to be printed
in the annual publication “Who's
Who Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities.”
Receiving certificates were Kathryn Crew, Williamsport; James
Creasy, Bloomsburg; John Ford,
Shamokin; Evelyn Gilchrist, Pottsville; William Kautz, Harrisburg;
Barbara Lentz, Williamsport; Suzanne Osborn, Springfield; Marilyn
Bitter, Forty Fort; Miriam Miller,
St. Clair; Dick Strine, Milton; Judith Ulmer, Williamsport; Enola
Van Auken, Mill City, Margaret
Yohn, Selinsgrove.
iors.

Dick

Strine,

Milton; Robert Stroup, Johnstown.
A pass was also given to Jack W.
Yohe, head football coach, who is
leaving the college to accept an administrative position at Upper Merion High School.
Five seniors received awards for
seven semesters of service as members of the Maroon and Gold Band.
Dr. Andruss presented the awards
to Christine Boop, Mifflinburg; Allen Kleinschrodt, Scranton; Marilyn

Mahanoy City; John RobBloomsburg; Walter Rudy,
formerly of Bloomsburg.
Donald

B.S.T.C. seniors held their annual banquet and ball Thursday
evening May 23, at the Irem Temple Country Club.
Lee Vincent
and his orchestra provided music
for dancing.
Red roses and carnations were
used in the table decorations for
the banquet.
Minature caps and
diplomas were favors. The invocation was given by Charles Casper.
Representatives from each curriculum led heir groups in singing.
Class president, William Pohutsky,
spoke briefly and introduced the

Sehlauch, West Hazleton, received

guests

an award from the band in special

Crew,

Miller,
erts,

recognition of his service as

drum

major for the past two years.

A scholarship in recognition of
“outstanding
academic
achievement and service to the college
community” was given to Betta
Hoffner, Clarks Summit. This is the
first of a series of annual awards,
given in recognition of scholarship
by the Class of 1957. Miss Hoffner received the award from President Andruss.
William Pohutsky, Old Forge,
president of the Senior class, participated in the assembly. Howard
Fenstemaker was at the console
during the processional, Alma MaNelson Miller
ter, and recessional.
was director of music.

STUDENT AWARD GRANTS
(Continued from Page

3)

Morgan, Gilberton; Kenneth Paden, Nescopeck; Ronald Senko, Edwardsville; Paul Spahr, Collingdale;
Carl Stanitski, Shamokin;
Ralph Wagner, Dallas; Bernard

Zaborowski, Wanamie.
In addition to Dr. Kuster, the
faculty committee includes John A.
Hoeh, Dean of Instruction; Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;
Jack W. Yohe, Dean of Men, and
Miss Mary Macdonald, Dean of

Day Women.

Lifetime passes to college athletic events given for four years of
sport
weer presented by Dr. E. A. Nelson, president of the Alumni Association, to Charles Casper, Bellefonte; Robert DiPipi, Old Forge;
participation

in

a

varsity

Harry Hughes, Williamsport; Leonard Kozick, Dallas;
4

Edward Sims-

SENIOR BANQUET

and

Cathryn
gave the history of the 1957 graduating class.
Following the alma mater, the
group went to the main lobby were
speakers.

class historian,

individual pictures were taken.
Invited guests were Dr. and Mrs.
Harvey A. Andruss, Dean and Mrs.
John A. Hoch, Mrs. Elizabeth Mil-

Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Yohe,
Dr. and Mrs. Cecil C. Seronsy, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Beeman, Mr. and
Mrs. Nelson A. Miller, Mr. and
Mrs. Boyd F. Buckingham, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward T. DeVoe and
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Rygiel.

ler,

COMMENCEMENT
(Continued from Page

3)

add

to

human knowledge. A major

task

is

to

prove to the students that

the world knows and needs them.
The teacher should realize that setting an example still counts, and
they must ask themselves, in the
days to come, how many of their
students will try to imitate the way

they as teachers

Donald

live.

Alter, Danville, a

mem-

ber of the class, received a commision as an ensign in the U. S.
Naval Reserve with the presentations by Lt. Com. John Naylor,
commander of the Naval Reserve
Training Center, Williamsport.
Dr. Andruss gave the invocation.
The candidates for degrees were
presented to Dean of Instruction

John C. Hoch by the directors of

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

—

'9G

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

the three departments, Dr. Thomas
B. Martin, business education; Miss

Edna Uazen, elementary educaDr. Ernest T. Englehardt,
secondary education. Dean Hoch
presented them to Dr. Andruss who
conferred the degrees.
tion;

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

The Dean of Instruction of the
College, Mr. John I loch, has released the following names of students who have qualified for the
Dean’s List for the first semester,
1956-57.
Their students have a
quality point average of 2.5 or better for the first semester, 1956-57,
and acculative average
2.0 while in
lege.

of at least

attendance at

Name

student,

of

this col-

address

and high school:

FRESHMAN
Andrysick, Dorothy, Maple and Mt.

Alden Station,

Rd.,

Pa.,

Newport Town-

ship.

Bartlow, Linda, P. O. Box 22, New'
Albany, Pa., Wyalusing Valley.
Cordora, Concetta, 25 Washington
St.,

W.

Pittston,

W.

Pittston.
105 Ashbourne

Rd„
DeBrava, Joan,
Elkins Park, Cheltenham.
Eberhart, John, 203 East St., Williamstown, Williamstown.
Francis, Albert, 223 Fairview St.,
Schuylkill, Pottsville.
Galetz, Yvonne, 517 Harding Ave.,
Mifflin Pk., Shillington, Gov. Mifflin.

Lazo, Joan, Butler Terrace, Freeland,
Foster Township.
Panzitta, Dolores, R. D. 1, Pittston,

W.

SUBMIT BIDS ON LIBRARY

Scranton, West Scranton.
Marcinko, Michael, 238 Main
Fern Glen, Black Creek Twp.
St.,

DEAN’S LIST

Pittston.

Plummer, Dolores,

137

St.,

W. Main

Bloomsburg, Sunbury.
Smith, Robert, 221 Duval

St.,

St.,

Ber-

wick, Berwick.

Spentzas, Constantine, 3 Elliott

Towanda, Towanda

St.,

Valley.

SENIORS
Bandes, Jeanne, 503 E. Third St.,
Bloomsburg, Scott Sr. H.S.-Coatesville.
Creasy, James B., 612 W. Third St.,
Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg.
Evans, Fred R., 1441 S. Main St.,
Wilkes-Barre, Hanover Township.
Geisinger, Etta Mae, Route 20, Lebanon, Lebanon.
Winifred,
Graff,
113
Kent Rd.

Hagenbuch, Hortense, 313 E. 4th
Berwick, Hanover Township.

St.,

Kautz,

William, 2512 Jefferson St.,
Harrisburg, William Penn.
Koch, Mary J., 331 Allen St., West
Hazleton, Hazleton Sr.
Mease, Richard, 44 1-2 Mahoning St.,
Milton, Milton.
Miller, Marilyn, Park Place, MaCity,

Mahanoy Township.

Ozalas, Constance, 749 Lafayette Ave.,

Palmerton,

S. S.

Palmer.

Rando, Arlene, 126 N. Marshall
Shamokin, Shamokin.
Marilyn, 25 Crisman
Ritter,
Forty Fort, Forty Fort.
Snyder, Jean, 511 Winter

St.,

St.,

St.,

Old

Parry, Irw'in, 201 Second St., Blakely, Blakely.
Reed, Glenn, R. D. 1, Shamokin,
Trevorton.
Richenderfer, Joseph, 414 Catherine

Forge, Old Forge.
Sutliff, Carolyn, R. D. 1, Shickshinny,
Nanticoke.
Van Auken, Enola, Mill City, Falls

Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg.
Rozelle, Blanche, 1215 Pettebone St.,
Scranton, Scranton Central.
Shaw, Alice, 301 Park St., Elizabeth-

Williams, Annette, 86 Cist St., Buttonwood, Wilkes-Barre, Hanover Twp.
Wynn, George, R. D. 2, Shamokin,

St.,

Elizabethtown.
Shirk, Joyce, Paradise, Pequea Val-

tow’n,

Overfield.

Ralpho Township.

ley.

Wilcox, Gertrude, 16 Chenango
Montrose, Montrose.

St.,

SOPHOMORES
Campbell, Louise, 31 Hudson Ave.,
Lewistown, Lewistown.
Clark, Carol, 542 Wiltshire Rd., Upper
Darby, Upper Darby.
Drumtra, Ellen, 28 N. Pine St., Hazleton, Hazleton.
Fiorenza, John, 366 Vine St., Berwick, Berwick.
Janetka,
Carl,
224
Garden Ave.,
Horsham, Upper Moreland.
Sprout, Elizabeth, 68 Wash. Blvd.,
Williamsport, Williamsport.
Swatt, Kenneth, 13 S. Seventh St.,

Shamokin, Shamokin.
Waltman, Ann, R. D.

1,

Allenwood

Montg.- Clinton.

JUNIORS
Edward, 29 Stanley
Askam, Hanover Township.
Braynock,

Wayne,

Gavitt,

LaPorte,

St.

Sullivan

Highland.
Jessop,

Charles,

405

Peckville, Blakely.
Lezinski, Dorothy,

JULY,

1957

Keystone Ave.

545

N.

Cameron

The projects call for the conversion of the old dining room into a
library and the alteration of the
present library into dormitory quarters for approximately thirty female
students.

Almost
the

Miss Dorothy Mae MeMott,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Harold DeMott, Eyersgrove, and Dale
Howard Reichart, son of Raymond
E. Reichart, Light Street, were united in marriage at two-thirty Saturday, May 20, at the Eyersgrove
Methodist Church.

The double-ring ceremony was

dormitory space on
be assigned to festudents because of heavy
all

campus

male

Springfield, Springfield.

hanoy

Low bids totalling $172,994 on
two related projects at the Teachers College have been submitted at
Harrisburg, it was announced by
the State Property and Supplies
Department.

will

registration,

was reported, and

it

with

the exception

who

will

of

seventy-six

in North
male students will be accommodated by town residents this fall.
It
hoped the dining roomis
library conversion will be sufficiently completed that the main floor
can be used this September, although it is not expected staff quarters, lavatories and library offices
will be ready then.
The new li-

be quartered

Hall,

brary area will provide space for
about 50,000 volumes. A little over
37,000 are shelved in the present
library.

Major factor in the project is the
weight element of the present library.
This has been considered
unsafe.

Fourteen rooms, lavatory and
shower space is to be provided in
the present library and it is hoped
that will be ready for second semester students in late January, 1958.

Low
600,

Inc.,

general

Turner

S. H.
Bloomsburg, $107,-

bids submitted were:

Evert Co.,

Co.,

construction;

Nanticoke,

J.

L.

$11,170,

heating and ventilating; Cropf and
Bloomsburg,
Bennetto,
$14,374,

W. Rowlands,

performed by the pastor, the Rev.
William Kinzie, before the church
altar which was decorated with
bouquets of white gladioli, snapdragons and carnations.
The bride graduated from Millville High School and B.S.T.C. Her

plumbing; Kenneth
Plymouth, $39,850,

husband, a graduate of Scott Township High School, attended B.S.T.
C. and served three years with U.
Both are employS. Coast Guard.

lege — Carl H. Fleckenstine, Orangeville; Leo S. Dennen, Turbotville; Harold L. Paul, Port Carbon;
Bernard J. Kelley, Philadelphia;
Sam M. Jacobs, Danville; and
Frank A. Thornton, Shamokin.

at the Bloomsburg
bia Trust Company.

ed

Bank-Colum-

electrical.

COLLEGE TRUSTEES
The following have been named
the Board of Trustees of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colto

S

SURVEY SHOWS
COLLEGE NEEDS
A recent survey of

A
three of the

Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges, located at Bloomsburg, Millersburg and Shippensburg, by a
feature writer of the Harrisburg
Patrio-News, disclosed the need for
increased State appropriations, particularly in tire construction of new
buildings, and the proper maintenance of old ones.
State

Teachers

Colleges

differ

from one another as do individuAlthough the State supports
als.
them through tax monies, plus student fees, and they have uniform
curriculums and procedures, even

Philo pin was found in the

Faculty Lounge on Alumni Day.

The owner may secure

Box

31, B.S.T.C.

spent on maintenance at Bloomsburg than at most Teachers Col“While our expenditure is
leges.
in the upper 25 percent of tire
teacher training institutions of the
nation, we think it is important to
maintain the plant.”

“The location

of a college

hilltop increases heating cost,

the forty acres of grass

one institution has stressed one
aspect of education, while another

quire care,
ing costs a

may have

er sections.”

dormitory almost a century old,
which could be described as a fire
trap; another has remodeled an old
dormitory which now has stone
foundations which are settling.
Bloomsburg, this fall, will have to
house 300 men in the town, and has
space for only 80 men on the campus.
If

all

scheduled

construction

would be completed by next September, many students would still
have to be turned away, and in
most cases old buildings would still
have to be kept in use.

To slash enrollments, so as to
vacate unsafe housing, would be a
brutal and simple solution to the
problem, which would result in
fewer teachers being graduated for
the public schools of Pennsylvania.
Some critics of Teachers Colleges claim that “they spend all
their money on staff and supplies
and allow their buildings to fall
Upkeep is important.
down.
Bloomsburg deserves an “A.” Between 1940 and 1955 the school

spent about $1,000,000 for new
construction and $750,000 on major
projects.

The campus shows

buildings are
some look as

well

up

to

kept;

date

it;

the

problems tday’s teachers colleges
are facing.”
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, the President, admits that more money is
6'

on a
and

plats re-

all of

which make build-

little

higher than in oth-

Although grandiose plans for fuexpansion have been drawn,
the target dates for completion
have not been set.
ture

The present Legislature is in the
process of considering bills to make
General State Authority money
available for new buildings. However, the general question is —
Does Pennsylvania want

its

State

An

campaign

election

of

more

than a month was climaxed with
the announcement of the winning
candidates for offices in the Community Government Association at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
Heading the winning slate is Luther C. Natter, Spring City, who
will serve as President of C.G.A.
and the College Council. Natter
served during the past years as
vice-president.
The newly elected vice-president
is Irwin Parry, a sophomore, Blakely.
Parry, who transferred here
from Syracuse University, had served as a freshman representative
to ihe student government association at that institution.
Joanne Bechtel, Easton, is the
successful candidate for secretary.
A business student, she has been
active in helping publish the college newspaper and yearbook.
Shamokin is the home of Norman

who was named

Balchunas,
urer.

A

treas-

junior in the business edu-

cation curriculum, he has
vice-president of the
as

Class and

is

served
Junior

well-known on campus

Teachers Colleges to produce more

for his accordian-playing activities.

so,

teachers for its public schools? If
the answer is obvious; more
money will have to be appropri-

burg, Kenneth

ated.

Wod

A sophomore from
tive

in

both

Wood,
football

and

track.

next year as

serve

will

Mechanicshas been acas-

sistant treasurer.

MAY DAY
Miss

Barbara Lentz, Williams-

port, reigned as

nesday,

May

8,

May Queen Wedat the annual May

Day program on the campus of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College at two o’clock.
She was crowned by William
Kautz, president of the student
council in a ceremony which preceded a program presented by children of the Benjamin Franklin La(Continued on Page 7)

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

tire

inside,

as

by

communicating with the Editor,

as casual observer can discover that

stressed an entirely different phase of education.
One college houses students in a

it

HEAD COLLEGE STUDENT
GOVERNMENT NEXT YEAR

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

GIVEN EXAMINATIONS
One hundred
will

eighty seniors,

teaching

profession,

Teacher

Education

in

who

soon be eligible to enter the

May

at

the

were

given

Examinations

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College.

The tests, which are prepared by
the Educational Testing Service at
Princeton, N. Y., were administered during morning and afternoon
sessions by Dr. E. Paul Wagner,
Professor of Psychology at Bloomsburg. During the morning, a professional examination, lasting more
than three hours, covered the HisEducation, Educational
tory of
Psychology, Guidance and Culture
The second phase of the
Areas.
examinations, given during the af(Continued on Page 7)

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
Memorial Day season
to pay tribute to
those who by their contributions
At

the

when we pause

have clone much to establish, perpetuate and extend the principles
of a free America and to spread
that doctrine throughout the world,

we

fitting

is

it

recall

memorial tributes

in

some

of the

own com-

our

munity.

Two

of those are at the TeachOne of recent years
and of which most of the section
is familiar is the lighted dome on
Carver Hall at the Teachers College, a memorial to the sons and
daughters of the Bloomsburg institution of learning who made the
Supreme Sacrifice in World War
ers College.

II.

There
stitution’s

World
if

a

is

memorial

students

W ar

to

who

the in-

died

in

You have noticed it
you have been on the campus
I.

anytime

since shortly after the
that conflict.
It
is
the
small grove of white pine trees located to the left of the entrance
to Carver Hall.
close

of

We

were reminded of

this

me-

morial by

Dean Emeritus William

B. Sutliff,

still

alert at ninety

and

worthy of the title of “Mr.
Bloomsburg’ which was conferred
on him earlier this year when the
College honored him upon the anquite

We asked the Dean to mention
something about that tribute to the
memories of the institution’s World
War heroes and asserted, if you
observe the grove closely “you will
I

note there are seventeen trees
planted to form a five-point star.
Each tree is dedicated to the memory of one of the seventeen former students of the institution who
died in that war of 1917-18.

A huge conglomerate
placed

rock was

tne center of the star.
rock was placed a bronze
piaque bearing the names of the
seventeen students whose memory
was thus honored. This memorial
was conceived and planned by the
late Prof. D. S. Hartline.
By the
central rock, a steel flag pole stands
and each morning the National
Emblem rises eighty feet and

Upon

at

this

proudly floats above the memorial

stitution.

made numerous contributhe College, as teacher,
manager of athletic teams, dean of
institution and loyal booster.
For many years there would
come to light on the campus from
to

the dedication
ceremonies from a distance.
At
that time we lived just off the campus. The entire sudent body par-

time to time a poem which would
bring into focus some phase of College life.
The verse was always
signed “Q.
Through the years
there were a number of these.
Folks though they were good and
they were. But only a few knew

ticipated.

the author.

MAY DAY

three to six

niversary of his birth.
After the reminder we recall that
not long after the close of World

War

I

we attended

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boratory School and college students. The theme was “History of
the Dance.”

The Maroon and Gold Band,

di-

rected by Nelson A. Miller, presented a concert before the program.

The

history of the dance includ-

ed primitive, Grecian, Middle Ages,
Renaissance, the minuet, waltz,
polka and the modem age dances.

The program concluded with the
winding of the Maypole by grades
JULY,

1957

and by colleeg students.

Mrs. Dorothy J. Evans of the
B.S.T.C. faculty was chairman of
the May Day committee.

GWEN EXAMINATIONS
(Continued from Page 6)
ternoon session, tested students in
their specific fields in

mentary

or

secondary

either ele-

education

areas.

The

tests

for scoring,

were sent to Princeton
and when completed,

college officials will receive Hore-

were repeat-

there

of the

alumni and

Bloomsburg regard

this

booklet as one of the finest things
on the printed page to revive memories of

the

lull

happy and fruitful days on
and to keep in focus the

important contributions of the inand those who taught or
studied there.
stitutions

One

of the poems has to do with
World War I memorial. It is

the

“The

entitled

We

Lest

Flag

Pole

Here

Forget.”

it

Speaks
is:

“Each morn they come and deck

my

W

head;

my feet the pines speak
of the dead.

bile at

They

softly

whisper of the gallant

crew,

These youths who walked these
hills like

you.

Hopes high and voices always gay.
They worked and danced through

Pie has

tions

Many

culated.
fiiends of

rock.”

The Dean, one of the most remarkable men in tne history of the
College and the last of the Old
Guard, is a walking encyclopedia
of information concerning the in-

when

! inally

ed demands for copies, some of the
administration overruled a reluctant dean, announced him as the
author and had the poems printed
in a booklet that was widely cir-

their short day.

God

Tray

that

war with horrid

leer

Shall never in your time appear.

For those whose names are

at

my

feet

Shall never

more

meet.
At eve the flag
rides

is

their

comrades

gone, the

moon

overhead

But the pines below keep whispering of the dead.”
E.F.S.
(Reprinted from The Morning Press)

lith

punched cards indicating the
and students will be infor-

results,

med

of their scores.

Test results will indicate the
standing
and
achievement
of
Bloomsburg students in relation to
“norms” which have been constructed on a nation-wide basis.
Two
of the chief purposes of the examinations are to provide a tangible
basis for evaluating student pro-

and to point the
improvements in euiricular
offerings and instruction.
gress in college,

way

for

7

SALES RALLY

TV, a

chuckle-covered
capsules,
W. Carney, retired vice
president of the Coleman Co., and
Charles E. Cullen, of Charles Cullen and Associates, fed a lot of
thoughtful “meat” to a full house
at the eleventh annual Sales Rally
of Bloomsburg State Teachers ColIn

Ralph

lege.

But aside from
interest

those

to

of direct

spiels

the

in

selling

game, Carney sounded a somber
note as he concluded his address
warning of the “deadly disease” of
the “something for nothing” age.
such was the
downfall of France he told how
that nation had the best army, and
Inferring

that

weapons in the first World
War and was able to stave off the

best

attack of a

German Army

He

size.

contrasted

France of World
ling before the
in six

He

War

twice its
with
this

II,

crumb-

at

work weeks,

retirement and pension plans that
take away from the individual his
own responsibility for his future
and of casting the burden for the
support of the retired on the
younger generation. Aside from
religion, Carney credited as the
greatest force in the world from
things stem and from
good is derived as just
plain “work for the sake of the

which
which

all

all

thing itself.”
Charles Henrie, faculty member
who arranged the rally, and Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss extended greetings.
Robert B. Nearing, executive vice president of the First National Bank, Bloomsburg, introduced the speakers.
Carney, the first speaker, spoke
of the “forgotten man of industry—
the man behind the counter” and
largely

blamed employers

for their

“failure to invest with dignity

and

responsibility” in their sales personnel.
To this he attributed the
failure of the salesman to “create

desire of the customer,” the disappearance of “common courtesy,”
and the failure to use the power of

suggestion.
He said few realized the

bet on

“money

salesmen” with advertising budgets of a billion for

8

retail

“All

billion

local

in

an ad can do

is

create the desire of possession on
the part of the customer’ ’and that
was up to the salesman with
it
“pride in profession, knowledge of

product and demonstrative skill to
complete the thousands of sales
half-made” by advertisements. Carney credited the salesman, not
“wrapper clerks” with the economic
status of the nation.

In a “laff-a-minute’ ’routine Cullen called on the use of new wrinkles in selling and advised the incorporation, in addition to standard selling principles, the adoption
of the following:
Don’t drag your attitude — put

good frame of mind.
Use personal audacity, not obnoxious but sincere. Most people

FASHION SHOW
In spite of the snow and slush
outside, Carver Hall auditorium at

had the definite air of
mid-summer Thursday, April 4, as
the eleventh annual fashion show
was staged before large audiences
at both daytime and evening perB. S.T.C.

formances.

Probably the most striking setever designed for a college
fashion show here was this year’s
colorful native market in a typical
Daniel
Caribbean town square.
Kressler, Bloomsburg, with Marting

garet McCern as advisor, created
the outstanding stage background
for the presentation of spring and

summer

only use ten percent of their ability.

Use showmanship.

And employ

Talk

“You-ability.”

Everybody
customer.
hear the sound of his name
and see his picture in the paper.
the

likes to

PLANNING
DISCUSSED

S.T.C.
IS

Representatives of 10 educational and fraternal organizations recently conferred with Public Instruction

officials

on

the

state’s

master plan for development of the
14 state teachers colleges.
Harry Stone, coordinator of architectural services for the department, told the group that total en-

rollment at the 14 institutions will
more than double the present figure by 1970. He estimated the enrollment in that year will be 32,000
and that it will cost a total of 150
million

dollars

isting facilities

to

modernize

and

to

build

ex-

new

ones to meet the future demands.

The department

said that the de(Continued on Page 9)

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT

fashions.

Calypso music and native danc-

yourself in a

about

shorter

and maga-

billion for radio

and over a

newspapers.

German onslaught

weeks.
hit

zines

ing

by

college

Marge

students,

Morson, Dorothy Horning, Robert
Boyle and John Seaman, provided
the proper atmosphere and the inspiration

for

many

the

of

splashed creations for the
months.

color-

summer

Judith Ulmer, Williamsport, as
fashion coordinator, introduced a
group of summer cottons adapted
from the calypso theme with huge
splashy printed skirts billowing out

over crinolines.

The silhouette for summer is
neither bouffant or pencil slim. The
shirtwaist dress appeared in many
versions for the youthful figure
while “sissy” shirts trimmed with
rows of ruffles appeared in every

newest

pastel color.

Lilac, the

or for spring,

was shown

suits

and

col-

in dresses,

also as accessories.

The Italian influence was seen
much of the sportswear.

in

Coeds who modeled styles for
beach and bedtime wear were Joan Rieder, Bobbi
Roadside, Bobbie Creamer, Carol
casual, dress up,

Ely, Bette Gibson,

Mary Heatley,

Joan Dalton, Nancy Herman, Sandy Lewis, Peggy Markovic, Suzanne Young, Lois Carpenter, Sandy
Clarke, Ginny Hardy, Susan Heckman, Sandy Jones, Sally Riefenstahl, Alice Shaw and Carol Thomas.

Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth,

R.

J.

Webb,

’42
’42

a high point in the show
the presentation of children’s
This year’s coordinator
fashions.

Always

is

was Mary Grace, Stroudsburg. Her
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9)

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

TEACHERS COLLEGE BILLS
NEED STUDY
(Harrisburg Patriot News 5-25-57)
of the Pennsylvania Senate
may have missed the significance of
two bills they passed unanimously recently bills affecting the 14 State

Members

—

Teachers Colleges.
One, Senate Bill

330,

would grant

increases to the instructional
staffs of the schools.
The other, Senate Bill 694, would require a student “contingent fee” of $150
a year for Pennsylvania residents. It
specifies that this money shall go for
the operation of the schools “including
payment of teachers’ salaries.”
This means simply that the students
in the teacher training institutions will
pay the salary raises of their professalary

'

sors.

A strong case can be made for raising the money this way rather than by
new taxes. Hitherto decided by the
Board of Presidents of the 14 schools,
contingent fees this year were only $90.
The board has already decided to raise
them to $100 for next year.
Compared to other institutions, the
14,000 students in our teachers colleges
are getting by pretty cheaply.
Their
expenditure for room, board, books and
fees (contingent and other) averages
about $700 a year. Penn State estimates the average cost to its students
at $1,300-$1,400 a year.
This includes
a contingent fee of $280 a year for
Pennsylvanians.
Then why not raise the S.T.C. fee?
The professors certainly need the salary increase.
For one thing, the State, too, gets by
rather cheaply in the operation of the
14 campuses. This biennium the State
appropriation is $15,600,000. Penn State,
with about the same number of students as the S.T.C. system, is getting
a State appropriation of $25,194,000.
More important perhaps, the administrators of the teachers colleges argue
that they are the “poor man’s institution of higher learning”; that they offer students from moderate and low
income families an education at a cut
rate as well as a chance to become
teachers.

Whether the teachers colleges should
continue as “cut-rate” schools is another question.
Under the law, the State is supposed
to pay the tuition of the Pennsylvania
residents in the S.T.C. system. In effect, they are supposed to be tuition
free.
Senate Bill 694 raises the contingent fees to the point that it is debatable whether it would still be a fee
or would

become

PLANNING DISCUSSED
(Continued from Page 8)
velopment of campus plans have
been substantially determined for
these schools: Bloomsburg, Edinboro, East Stroudsburg, Indiana,

Lock Haven, Mansfield, Slippery
Rock and West Chester.
The General State Authority has
already approved the location for
major building at a dozen of the
14 schools.
New dormitories have been ap-

proved for Bloomsburg, Clarion,
Edinboro, East Stroudsburg, Indiana (2), Lock Haven, Mansfield,
Millersville,

Slippery

West Chester

Rock

and

additional
the locations for classroom buildings
have been approved at:
(2).

In

Bloomsburg,
East
Stroudsburg
Indiana (science), Kutztown (art education). West Chester
(music education).
(science),

COLLEGE HAS
BUILDING AREA
“B. S.T.C. will have room for
2,000 students on its nearly 60 acres
if
buildings are placed south of
Second Street and in the grove,”
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president,
told the college faculty at a dinner
held recently at the Women’s Civic

Clubrooms.
All teachers colleges, he said,
have plans for eventual expansion.
Campuses will be divided into living, learning and recreation areas
during the next decade of growth.
Many changes are expected in the
next few years.

New officers for the coming year
are John Serff, president; Donald
A. Maietta, vice president; Beatrice
Mettler, secretary-treasurer.
The
executive board will include Miss
Gwendolyn Reams,
onsy,

8)

models were Ann Diseroad, William Edgar, Sandra Evert, Sharon
Fausey, Thomas Hoffman, Susan
Housenick, Kathy Howard, Sally
Waples, Debbie Hughes, Gary
Miller, Suzie Shive, Eileen Sinclair,

Nin Smith, Carol Walburn, Thomas
Warr, Saundra Zimmerman.
as

Dr. Cecil SerMiller, E.

Elizabeth

Paul Wagner and Ralph H. Herre.
Mrs. Miller is retiring president.

FASHION SHOW
(Continued from Page

Mrs.

Charles H. Henrie again served
producer of the show.
Janet

Plummer, Shamokin, was chairman
who were

of the store coordinators

Mary Cuber, Mary Faith Fawcett,
Nancy Hane, Nancy Hughes, Molly
Mattern, Jean Naughton, Ann Peal,
Stallone, Dolores Stanton,
Barbara Watts. Mary Jane Ertel,
Williamsport, provided organ music for the fashion show.
Cooperating merchants were Arcus Women’s Shop, Deisroth’s, W.
T. Grant, Harry Logan, Jeweler,
Penney, Ruth Corset and LinJ. C.
gerie Shop, Snyder’s Millinery, The
Polrnon.
Sally

Dean John

A. Hoch, toastmaster,

introduced officers and guests including Dean Emeritius William B.
Sutliff, who responsed briefly, and
Miss Grace Woolworth, Mrs. Harry
Scott and C. M. Hausknecht.
In an amusing program, Dr. CeC. Seronsy presented readings
from Ogden Nash; Howard Fenstemaker gave piano selections includding an original composition, “Ode
to the Normal Curve”; Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Schleicher gave a
Pennsylvania Dutch sketch; Nelson
Miller appeared as a hobo violincil

is

assisted

by Boyd Buckingham

and Mrs. Charles Beeman entertained with palm readings.

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

tuition.

That’s the philosophical side of the
issue.

of the teachers
colleges have a practical argument, too.
They say that many otherwise qualified
students would be unable to pay the
extra $50 a year Senate Bill 694 would
1
require.

Before voting on the bill, the House
ought to have more information on ex-

JULY,

1957

what

effect a $150 contingent fee
The House should give the
college presidents a chance to prove
that a fee increase really would rule
out an education for a sizable number

actly

The administrators

would have.

of students.

should not be passed without far more careful study than
the Senate gave it.
Certainly the

bill

ARCUS’
FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

’41

.

COLUMBIA COUNTY BRANCH
Contributions totalling $500 for
scholarships

Teachers

to

Bloomsburg State
students have

College

been made in the past three years
by the Columbia County Branch
of the College Alumni Association,
it was reported at the annual meeting of that group, and over $100
has been received in a mail appeal.
The reports were submitted by
Paul Martin, member of the faculty and branch treasurer.

During the business session of
the body, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the college, told of
the Bakeless Memorial Loan Fund
and proposed that the county
branch lend its support to that project.
A goal of $30,000 has been
set for that fund under which Juniors and Seniors are enabled to boriow, interest-free, up to $200. If
the goal is attained the privilege

would be extended to Sophomores
and the maximum raised to $300.
Indications were that the Branch
would support this project.
At the dinner meeting, held in
the College dining hall, Dr. Andruss spoke of the future of the

and education and told
of the many changes planned on
Howard Fenstemakthe campus.
er extended greetings from the
general alumni association and
Donald Rabb, Benton, retiring

and landscape painter.
Both Mrs. Ancker and Mrs. Neel
have exhibited at Philadelphia galtrait

leries during the past winter. Mrs.
Ancker’s sculpture has been on

permanent exhibition

at

Philadel-

phia Art Alliance, along with Mrs.

A

nominating committee report
was submitted by the chairman,
Mrs. Joanna
Dr. Kimber Kuster.
was
Bloomsburg,
Buckingham,
president and reelected
were Lois Lawson, vice president;
Mrs. Margaret McCern, secretary,
and Paul Martin, treasurer. Follow-

WELL-KNOWN SCULPTOR
Ruth Hutton Ancker, Philadelthe distinguished American

phia,

sculptor formerly of Bloomsburg,
was the house guest of her brother,
Robert Hutton, East Ridge Avenue.
Accompanying Mrs. Ancker, was
Isabelle
10

Neel,

Germantown, por-

.

COACH YOHE RESIGNS
Jack W. Yohe, head football
coach at Bloomsburg State Teach-

informed college officials of
decision not to return to the
college for the 1957-58 college year.

appeared early in May at Vernon
Park, during Germantown Week.

and

Mrs. Ancker, who attended Ben
Franklin training school and was
graduated from B.S.T.C. before a
career of fashion design in Europe
in the late twenties, has been the
of

recipient

many awards both

here and abroad. A recent award
has been a first prize for portraiture at the Paint and Clay Club,
New Haven, Conn., for her portrait of Bishop Benjamin Washburn of Newark Episcopal Diocese,
Newark, N. J.

Another

late prize,

was an award

College for the past five years,

ers

has
his

who has been Dean of Men
Director of Athletics since
January, 1955, has accepted a position as Assistant Principal of the
Upper Nlerion High School at King
of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Yohe,

Coach Yohe came
in

to

Bloomsburg

1952, following the resignation

of Robert B.

Redman, now a high

school principal

New

at

East Orange,

During the past five
Coach Yohe’s gridiron
seasons,
Huskies won 25 games, lost 12, and
Jersey.

tied two.

His 1953 eleven placed

third in the State Teachers College

Conference, while his

1954 club

for her figure, “Ballerina,” from the
Jersey Painter and Sculptor's

was named co-champions with
West Chester and East Strouds-

Society at a show in New York
City. “Ballerina” is exhibited presently at Art Alliance, Philadelphia.

Both eleven compiled seaburg.
sonal records of six wins in eight

New

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI BRANCH
Dauphin - Cumberland
the Bloomsburg Statee
Teachers College met at the

The

Branch

of

Y.W.C.A.

in

Harrisburg on

May

7,

1957. Plans were made for a dinner meeting in the fall, and the
following officers were elected:

elected

ing the meeting, the alumni enjoyed the college production of “Charley’s Aunt” in Carver Hall auditorium.

.

Neel, whose work is also on show
currently at Woodmere Gallery,
Chestnut Hill, and Mt. Airy Show
at Allen’s Lane Art Center.
She is

institution

president, served as toastmaster.

SPORTS

President:

Richard E. Grimes,
1723 Fulton Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

’49

starts.

Perhaps the high spot of his college coaching career was reached
in the 1955 season when the Maron and Gold gridders copped the
championship of the state-wide tutor loop with a 5-2-1 record, clinching the league title with a smashing victory over West Chester on
Mt. Olympus.

Mr. Yohe was also varsity basecoach hi 1953 and 1954, his
diamond crews winning 11 times in
20 outings. He gave up this assignment in 1955 when he was
ball

Athletic Director and Dean
Men.
Coach Yohe is a graduate of the
Lock Haven State Teachers College, where he was an outstanding

named
of

Vice President:
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney, ’32
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Penna.
Secretary:
Miss Pearl L. Baer, ’32
259 Race Street

He holds the degree of
Master of Science in Education
from Temple University, and he
athlete.

has fulfilled

Middletown, Penna.

the

He

Treasurer:

Mr.

W. Homer

Englehart,

1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

all

the requirements

Temple with
exception of the dissertation.

for his doctorate at

'll

coached

at Biglerville

and Up-

per Merion High Schools prior to
accepting a position on the staff of
the West Chester State Teachers

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

College following services as a na-

World War II.
The Husky football program has
been more successful since World
val officer in

War

II

than any other time

in the

the institution.
Even
the “good old days” the
club didn’t go a decade without
a losing season.
But it did after
the sport was put back on the calendar following the close of the
history

back

last

of

in

world

conflict.

Danks died shortly
before the 1946 season was to open
A.

J.

(Lefty)

and John Hoch, now dean of instruction, was named coach and
brought the squad through with a
four wins, three loses and one tie.

Then Bob Redman came here
a highly successful five-year
tenure before moving to New Jersey, first as a high school coach
and now as principal at South
Orange.
During his tenure the
Huskies won the official TC conference crown the first year the
circuit operated.
for

job of athletic director and wrestling coach at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

graduate of Northeast High School,
Philadelphia, where he was an outstanding gridder and baseball cap-

Houck, who announced the resignation along with baseball coach,
Donald Miller, will also act as assistant football coach at Bloomsburg.
He will replace Jack Yohe
as athletic director, and succeeds
Walter Blair as wrestling coach.
Blair was named last month to replace Yohe as head football coach,

tain.
He was named center on the
All-Philadelphia
Public
School
Team in his senior year. After
graduation, he attended Temple
University for a few months before
entering the armed forces in World
War II. Following three years of
military service, he enrolled at
West Chester State Teachers Col-

Yohe having resigned to take a
at Lower Merion High

lege.

position
School.

The Muncy coach, a former
wrestling coach at South Williamsport before coming to Muncy, compiled a remarkable record with the
high school wrestling team. In
three years his grapplers won thirty-seven and lost only six.
Muncy won the District 4 wrestling
championship last season under
Houck and the able mentor coached

one

state

champion,

Larry

four years had an eleven that

tied for state

1954 and

in 1955.

The

team last year had its first losing
campaign since the war, winning
three and losing four.

NEW WRESTLING COACH
Russ

Houck, highly successful
coach at Muncy High

wrestlnig

School for the last three years, has
resigned his position to accept the

cMetp.

won varsity letters in baseball
wrestling.

He coached

One

Neshaminy High

of his stars

one

Watts,

Husky

BLAIR SUCCEEDS YOHE

at

School for one year before accepting an assignment at Jenkintown
where he coached three standout
die

of

ball-toters.

moved

was Ed-

last

season’s

From

Jenkin-

Chambersburg, where he coached one year
before accepting an appointment at
town, Blair

conference honors in

won them

also

and

elevens.

Lauchle.

He was succeeded by Yohe who
in

Under Coach Glen Killinger, he
helped the Rams compile a brilliant
record in football; he and his mates
romped to 32 victories in 37 starts.
Playing in the Ram backfield and
on the line, Blair participated in
four post-season bowl games. He

to

Walter R. Blair, assistant football
coach at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College for the past two
years, has been appointed head
football coach. Mr. Blair, who will
also serve as Acting Dean of Men,
succeeds Jack W. Yohe, who recently accepted an administrative
position at Upper Merion High

Blair also served as the Husky
wrestling coach for the past two
seasons and his 1957 grapplers copped third place in the conference
meet held at Lock Haven recently.
Last year he was awarded the

School.

degree of Master of Science in Ed-

The new Husky

grid

mentor

is

a

Bloomsburg.

ucation by

Temple

University.

the tyollo4**Uta:

BAKELESS FUND

ALBERT FUND
SEE TABLE

PAGE

JULY,

1957

15

11

CLASS REUNIONS
PRIOR TO 1897
Among those in attendance who
graduated prior to 1897 were Henry O. Heim, Washington, D. C.,
1885; Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss,
Bloomsburg, 1888; Dean Emeritus
William B. Sutliff, Bloomsburg,
J891;

Mrs.

Mae

Evans

John,

Bloomsburg, 1895; Charles L. Boyer, Lewisburg, 1896.

CLASS OF

1897

The following members
’97

Class

were

of the
present for their

reunion on Friday eve24, and Saturday, May

sixtieth year

ning,

May

25:

Elizabeth Dailey Curran, Mary
A. Good, Elizabeth James, Blanche
Lowrie, Mabel Moyer, Leona Pettibone, Mary Seely, Isabel Smith
York, Curtis Welliver, Mary Williams Gething.
On Friday evening a delicious
turkey dinner was enjoyed in the
new College dining room, the honor guests being the ’07 class, having their 50-year reunion.
Then our group gathered in the
Main Hall Lounge to reminisce of
days spent in “Old Normal.”
On Saturday at 10:30 the General Business Meeting of the Alumni
Association was held in the auditorium followed by the Alumni

Luncheon.
Tt 2:00 P. M. our group gathered
in Room F, Noetling Hall; our roll
was called and brought up-to-date.
Thirty-six of our class of 126 are

was decided that we have
a “get-together’’ in two years (1959)
at the College.
Bertha Shortz Campbell sent
greetings with a cordial invitation
to call at 122 Rosewood Ave., Pocatello, Idaho.
Phone 884-J. (One
must pass through Pocatello to visit Yellowstone Park or Sun Valley.)
living. It

CLASS OF

CLASS OF 1907
Forty-three members of the class
of 1907 had a busy and delightful
weekend at the College as they observed their golden reunion and
contributed over $1,300 to the
Bakeless Memorial Fund.
Members

honor
and graduates of
earlier years were entertained at a
dinner by the general alumni body
in the College Commons on Friday
evening and then followed with a
full day on Saturday.
The class
was on the platform for the genof the class, the

class in reunion,

eral meeting.

One

its members, J. A. RodSan Juan, Puerto Rico, received
the
Alumni Meritorious
Service Award. Edwin M. Barton

of

riguez,

made

the response for the class.

Included in those back for the
reunion were twin sisters, Lulu E.
Lesser, now Mrs. Stanley J. Conner, Trenton, N. J., and Nellie E.
Lesser, now Mrs. John E. Culp,
Verona, N. J.
Mr. Rodriguez was accompanied
from Puerto Rico by his son and
a granddaughter.
Two members
came from each California and
Ohio, and each from Florida, Alabama and Massachusetts, and a

numbei from

New

1902

and reported a $15 contribution to
the R. Bruce Albert Memorial
Fund. Attending:
Mrs. Blanche Austin Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Grace Bradbury EverStroudsburg;
Marie L. Diem,
ett,

York and

members

still

of

in the pro-

Four were on college facfrom four to thirty-five years.
Although they were
graduated from “Old Normal” at a
time when few teachers had degrees,
twenty-four went on to
fession.

ulties for periods

of

them doctorates.

Dean

Sutliff, Bloomsburg; Mary A.
Good, Wapwallopen, honored guests;

—

class members and guests Mrs. Marne
Barrow Anderson, George Anderson,
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Barton,
Bloomsburg; Morton H. Bray, Ethel L.
Burrows, West Pittston; Mrs. Anna
Chamberlain Howell, Ralph Howell,
Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. Florence Corby,
Sippel, Kingston;
Margaret G.

Dailey, Steelton; Mrs. Alice Dean Weatherby, Archbald; Harry A. Dodson,
Orbisonia, Mrs. Edith Doty Hayman,
Stillwater; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Englehart, Pennbrook; Mrs. Laura Essick
Lowrie, Dr. Robert Lowrie, West Braddock, Pittsburgh.
Elizabeth Gregg, Tenafly N. J.; Mrs.

Hamlin Dymond, Palls; Mrs.
Charlotte Jenkins Locke, Nanticoke;
Louise E. Jolly, Paradise, California;
Mrs. Miriam Jones Whitby, Edwardsville;
Mrs. Arvilla Kitchen Bunson,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Jennie Kline Sitler,
Rose

Bloomsburg; Ruth E. Lamoreaux, Shavertown; Mrs. Lulu E. Lesser Conner,
Trenton, N. J.; Mrs. Nellie E. Lesser
Culp, Verona, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. LeVan, Elysburg; Mrs. Ada Mitchell
Bittenbender, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Helen Moyer Hemingway, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Sadie Moyer MacCullough and
daughter, Lodi, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. William V. Moyer,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Alma Noble Leidy,
Dr. Alfred S. Leidy, Havertown; Mrs.
Margaret O'Brien Henseler, North Bergen, N. J.; Mrs. Irene Reimard Cressler, Wilkes-Barre; J. A. E. Rodriguez,
Luis and Lolita Rodriquez, Puerto Rico;
Mrs. Eva Schwartman Smith, Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Genevieve Todd Brennan, Forty Port;
Mrs. Helen Wardell Eister,
Van Wert, Ohio; Mrs. Mabel Welsh
Breisch, Wakeman, Ohio; Mrs. Florence
Whiteman Lyon, Elmira, N. Y.; Mrs.
Anna Wolfe Magill, Sugarloaf; Mrs.
Minnie Zang Sarver, Howery-in-theHills, Fla.; Harry DeWire, Harrisburg;

Blanche Westbrooke Fetter, Blooming
Grove; Mrs. Gertrude Bross Fleische,
Philadelphia; Miss Bertha Lovering,
Scranton; George Lehman, Brendenville; Mrs. Helen Mauser Roat, Bloomsburg.

CLASS OF

told

had contributed over 1,000 years
teaching, with three

of higher education and
twenty-four received degrees, three

schools

New

Jersey.

The alumni was

The class of 1902 had eighteen
members back for an enjoyed time

12

Scranton; Mrs. Gertrude Dress Jacobs,
Steelton; Mrs. Margaret Edwards Morris, Edwardsville; Harriet E. Pry, Danville; Mrs. Eleanor Gay Northrop, Mehoopany; Mrs. Camilla Hadsall Berkenstock, Forty Port; Mrs. Essene Hollopeter Martin, Kingston; Mrs. Marion
Johnson Skeer, Northumberland; Edith
Kuntz, Allentown; Mrs. Estella Leighow Lewis, Willow Grove; Lourissa
Leighow, Washington, D. C.; Bess Long,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Helen Reice Irvin,
Bloomsburg; Effie Vance, Orangeville;
Mrs. Jennie Williams Cook, Mechanicsburg; Julie Smigelsky, Atlantic City,
N. J.

1912
1912 opened a memorable weekend with a delightful
dinner and program at the Caldwell Consistory Cathedral on Friday evening and continued with a
busy program through Alumni
Day. The Master of Ceremonies at
the Friday evening program was
Laurence D. Savige, who was pres-

The

class of

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ident of the class at the time of
graduation. Mr. Savige is a prominent attorney in Scranton.

The response

in

the auditorium

was made by Alfaretta Stark Wilner, Tunkhannock, a missionary in
the Far East and with her husband
a prisoner of

World War

II.

Dr.

and Mrs. Wilner received the
Service
Meritorious
Alumni
Awards in 1956.

The

class

made

a cash contribu-

tion of seventy dollars to the

Bake-

Loan Fund. It is hoped that,
when the contributions are all in,
the amount will be increased to
less

two hundred

dollars.

The class reported 49 members
back for the delightful affair.
Mrs. Emily Barrow Womer, Pottsville; Mis. Annabelle Hirsch Wade, Tamaqua; Jessie Doran, Moscow; Louise
W. Vetterlein, Paupack; Mrs. Bertha
Harner Bidelman, Bloomsburg; Frances L. Sheffel, Binghamton, N. Y.; Ray
Masteller, Lydia A. Creasy, Bloomsburg;
Ruth Cortright, Shickshinny;
Mrs. Grace Derrick Boat, Washington,
D. C.; Mrs. Edna Klingler, Sunbury;
Marie Derrick Ziegler, Herndon; Mrs.
Anna Reice Trivelpiece, Danville; Mrs.
Martha Selway Schiefer, Steelton.

Mrs. Mebel Derr DeMott, Eyersgrove;
Mrs. Florence Blecher Crouse, Danville;
Mrs. Helen Fetter Ream, Scranton;
Mrs. Anna Harris Henrie, Mrs. Theresa
Dailey Bachinger, E. D. Bidelman,

Howard F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg;
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence D. Savige, Peckville; Mi's. John Spangler, State College; Myra L. Campbell, Thompson;
Clarence E. Barrow, Anna Davis Barrow (1920), Mi-, and Mrs. George M.
Barrow, Nutley, N. J.; William H. Davis, Binghamton, N. Y.;
Emma Hartranft Tyler, Irwin; Alfaretta Stark
Wilmer, Tunkhannock; Grace Wolfe
Arnold, Glenside; Beatrice Foose McBride, Rock Glen; Lena Leitzel Streamer, Collingswood, N. J.; Emilie Nikel
Gledhill, Westmont, N. J.; Mrs. Abbie
Whitebread Leh, Palmerton; Mrs. Elizabeth Qualey Lyden, Carbondale; Leah
Evans, Scranton; Nell McCann, Scranton; Mary M. Watts, Wilkes-Barre;
Ianthe Kitchen Sommers, Trucksville;
Helen S. Walp, Kingstone; Ruth Monahan, Wilkes-Barre.

er,

Bloomsburg;

Mabel Dymond

Bell,

Dallas; Myrtle Bryant Henshall, Reading; Gertrude C. Lecher, Wilkes-Barre;
Hugh E. Boyle, Hazleton; Fred H. Shaffer, Forty Fort; Nellie Sutliff, Amelia

Suwalski Thomas, Nanticoke;
Moss Dobson, Plymouth.

Mary

Mary Kalimy Arnold, Saltsburg; Nora
Berlew Dymond, Dallas; Allen L. Cromis, Kathryn Row McNamee, Bloomsburg; Arthur C. Morgan, Berwick; Elsie Green, Myrtle K. Sheperd, Anna L.
James, Wilkes-Barre; J. Loomis Christian, Harrisburg; Arline Nyhart Kemper, Haddonfield, N. J.; Marie Cromis,
Philadelphia; Anna Tripp Smith, McLean, N. Y.; Harriet E. Sharpless,
Bloomsburg; Russell A. Ramage, Prescott, Arizona.
Mrs. Agnes Maust Diffenbacher, Hester F. Fogle, Bloomsburg R. D. 1; Ruth
Smith, State College; Clara O’Donnell
LeMin, Chester; Agnes Warner Smales,
Lacey ville;
Dorothy Miller Brower,
Weatherly; Grace M. Davis, Mount
Vernon, N. Y.
Mrs. Veda Kester Miller, Rochester,
N. Y.; Stanford Williams, Somerset;
Mrs. Helen Gregory Lippert, Dalton;
Mrs. Russell A. Ramage, Prescott, Arizona; Mr. and Mrs. William Wech,
Mountain Top R. D. 3; Ed A. Zimibel,
Pottsville; Freda E. Jones, Kingston;

Barum

Margaret

Bredbenner, Effie
Benscoter Kinback, Margaret McHugh,
Bertha Broadt, Nan R. Jenkins.

CLASS OF 1922
Thirty-two members of the class
of 1922 returned to the campus for
their 35th reunion.
The members,
in a group, attended the general
alumni meeting and the cafeteria
luncheon.

room

22,

president.
It

garet
jured

was reported that Mrs. MarMurray Lude had been inan automobile accident

in

while on her

way

to the reunion.

Miss Kramer, in behalf of the
College, brought the information
that the 1922 Obiter was missing
from the College files. If one could

Present: Mabel Maust Duck, Sarah
Garrison Miller, Lillian Gensemer Moy-

JULY,

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

ago.

1957

would be

greatly ap-

The

class

enlightening.

way

this

to

roll
It

proved most
was possible in

call

make many connections

Every one preswas alerted to find out changes
addresses and inform the Col-

on the addresses.
ent
of

lege or the officers of tire class.
Plans were discussed for making
the 40th reunion a great occasion.
Officers elected for the no
>ear period were as follows:

l

five-

Edward Yost, president.
Mrs. Anna Naylor Kuschel,

vice

president.

Edna

S. Harter, secrerary
Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert Vincent,

treasurer.

Contributions were received toward the Bakeless Fund, it is to
be added to and presented at the
next reunion, 1962.

The following members

attend-

ed:
Mrs. Adelle

Cryder Raymond, Mrs.
Helen Deitrick Harmon, Mrs. Helen
Ely Weed, Miss Nan Emanuel, Miss
Dorothy Faust, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert
Vincent, Mrs. Marion Hart Smith, Miss
Edna S. Harter, Mrs. Lillie Harter
Cameron, Mrs. Helen Hess Strauch,
Mrs. Mary Lawrence Lawrence Paetzell, Mrs. Margaret Lesser, Mrs. Mattie
Luxton Lynch, Mrs. Ruth Mclntrye
Lenhart, Miss Gertrure S. Miller, Mrs.
Laura Miller Goodman, Mrs. Beryl

Moon

Dice.

Anna Naylor Kuschel, Mrs. HenRhoades Bamage, Mrs. Thelma
Riegel Bond, Miss Evadne M. Ruggles,

rietta

Miss Esther J. Saxe, Mrs. Harriet
Schultz Sweppenheiser, Mrs. Clarissa
Sickler Emmanuel, Mrs. Aldertta Slater
Coke, Miss Lucile M. Snyder, Mr. Edgar B. Sutton, Mrs. Arline Tosh Bohn,
Mrs. Marjorie Walker Johnston, Mrs.
Stella Wheler Kern, Mr. Edward Yost.

Eight visitors were in attendance:
Captain Ralph Bond, Mr. Archibald
Ramage, Miss Mildred Miller, Mrs. Laurence, Miss M. Wright, Mr. Benjamin
Coke, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Rosser.

CLASS OF
Members now

1927

residing in Con-

necticut, New York and Maryland
were among the thirty-five back for

CLASS OF

1917
Class of 1917, with fifty back,
topped a busy day on the campus
with a dinner Saturday evening at
the Hotel Magee. Included in the
group was Russell A. Ramage,
Prescott, Arizona, a standout athlete for “Old Normal” forty years

it

Mrs.

Science Hall, the
class convened for an afteroon session.
Mrs. Anna Naylor Kuschel,
vice president, presided in the absence of Mrs. Lucile Jury Wise, the
In

be located
preciated.

the reunion of the 1927 class.

Attending:
Frethway,
Clarks
Feeney
Green; Margaret R. Finnerty, ScranIrene

Bertine Prosser, Peckville; Florence Williams Thomas, Scranton; Angela Jermyn Schmidt, Amelia Makowski
Koslosky,
Alta
George Harrington,
Nanticoke; Paul C. Foote, Stamford,
Conn.; Margaret Brogan O’Hara, Dunmore; Marion Heverly, Dushore; Orice
ton;

13

WELCOME TO

Dodge, Wyalusing; Mildred Crothamel
McCullough, Scranton; Margaret Caswell,
Newark Valley, N. Y.; Edith
Sweetman Rice, Taylor; Martha Tasker Cook, Shamokin;
Helen Howells
Wagner, Scranton.
Harold J. Baum, Hazleton; Mary A.
Hartman, Stillwater; Jennie E. Dixon,
Havertown;
Adelle
Chapley Zaptiz,
Morrisville;
H.
Evangeline
Deibert,
Danville;
Pauline
Vastine
Sugden,
Pottsville; Elsie M. Lewis, Bloomsburg;
Nola Kline Brown, Catasaqua; Mrs.
Eldora Robbins Young, Berwick R. D.
Mrs. Mildred Adams McCloughan,
2;
Danville;

Md.; Mrs.

CLASS OF

1957

Lena E. VanHorn, Baltimore,
Manto Ruth Steele, Trucks-

ville.

Thelma Carr Lamoreux, Dallas; Mrs.
Oce Williams Austin, Harveys Lake;
Helen Schaefer Jacobs, Milnesville; IsO’Donnell Sweenley, Hazleton;
Rosina Ellery, Nanticoke; Doris Evans
Powell, Collingdale; Alice Brobyn DeRonde, Forty Fort; Beatrice Englehart,
Bloomsburg; 1926 Mrs. Margaret Brogan O’Hora, Dunmore.
abel

—

CLASS OF

1932

The
the

Class of 1932 met in one of
classrooms in Noetling Hall.

Twenty-six members were present.

A

business meeting was
Saul Gutter presided. Com-

brief

held.

mittees were appointed and tentative plans were made for the 30th
year reunion in 1962.
A telegram was received from

Glenn Oman and letters from Mrs.
Blanche Kostenbauder Millington,
Rev. Oliver Krapf and Helen Keller
were read to the group.
Each member then told what
had happened to them during the
past twenty-five years. Dean Kehr
was with us and joined in with the
reminiscing.

Those present were:
Mrs. Kathryn Benner Houser, E. Mae
Berger, Mrs. Mary Bray Smith, Mary
Elizabeth Davis, Mrs. Miriam Dimmick
Hinebaugh, Ezra W. Harris, Mrs. Dorothy J. Jones Berry, Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Jones Davis, Mrs. Irma Lawton
Eyer, Mrs. Lucille McHose Ecker, Mrs.
Helen Piatt Greenly, Helen F. Rekas,
Mrs. Mabel Rinard Turse, Pauline E.
Romberger, Mrs. Alice Rowett Fronduti,
Mrs. Esther Saylor Lundvall,
Mrs. Ruth Smith Johnston, Edith C.
Strickler, Mrs. Virginia Zeigler Latsha,
Pearl L. Baer, Saul Gutter, Mrs. Dorothy Hartman Moore, Mrs. Catherine
Hoff Smith Driver, Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman Smith, Daniel E. Thomas,

Henry

J.

Warman.

CLASS OF

Ebert Darby, Dallas; Ray G. Scrope,
Sundusky, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Earl
A. Gehrig, Bloomsburg; Thelma Moody
Fisher, Maryville R. D. 1; Marie Foust,
Milton; William E. Zeiss, Clark Summit
R. D. 2; Anne Grosek, Plains (1936).

CLASS OF
The

class of 1942

1942

capped

its

union program with a dinner
the

Montour

Hotel

on

reat

1937

Twenty-four

members

Class of 1942 and guests
forty-three

of

the

totaling

were in attendance and
was enjoyed by the

a social hour

gathering before the dinner.
Present:

Edward

Carr,

Viola

Disbrow

Carr,

Forty Fort; Ray Chandler, Bloomsburg;
Richard Matthes, Union, N. J.; Elizabeth Hoagland Dobb, Milton; Dawn
Osman Trevella, Milltown, N. J.; Mrs.
Dora Taylor Smith, Spring Valley; Mrs.
Aleta Stiler Ehrhart, Red Lion R. D.
3; William E. Smith, Media; Mrs. Louise

Saturday

evening.

Back for the reunion of the twenty-year class were:
Mary Grosek Kuc, Kingston; Anne
14

William Pohutsky, President of the Class of 1957. presents membership
check to Dr. Nelson.

Seman Thomas, Hamburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Beaver, William Booth, Danville; Mrs. Carolyn
Barbara
Cole Fritz,
Benton;
Mrs.
Straub Hartman, Riverside; Mrs. Margaret Jones Letterman, Taylor; Mr.
and Mrs. Paul A. Klinger, Jr., Berwick;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minier, Pottstown;
Mr. and Mrs. Peter DeRose, Williams-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

—
port; Mrs. Jeanne Noll Zimmerman,
Ralph Zimmerman, Millersville; Mr.
and Mrs. Prank S. Straub, Berwick;
Ruth James Thomas, Valley
Mrs.
Stream, L. I., N. Y.; Mrs. May Whitby

Mohr, Dallas.

The

was represented by

faculty

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of WoBeatrice
Miss
(Emeritus),
Mettler and Howard F. Fenste-

men

ALUMNI FUND DONATIONS
SINCE LAST “QUARTERLY” REPORT

maker.

CLASS OF
Members back

BAKELESS FUND:

1947
the reunion

for

of the ten year class were:
Mrs. Helen Kright Kula, Factoryville; Mrs. Alberta Naunas Gillespie,
Bloomsburg; John W. Thomas, Harrisburg; Jean Gilbert, Hazleton; Frances
Mylet Kapuschinsky, Hazleton; Evelyn
Vincent F.
Hirt Brosious, Berwick;
Washvilla, Westfield, N. J.; Mrs. Mildred Palumbo Washvilla (1948).

CLASS OF
The “baby”

1952

class

in

reunion,

1952, had these back;
Dale T. Bennett, Hatfield R. D.; Robert P. Burns, John J. Burns, Harrisburg; Joseph J. Pelchar, Keiser; Francis J. Stanitski,

Newark,

Class of 1891

—

Elizabeth D. Smith

Class of 1893

—

Katherine Bowersox

Class of 1895
Class of 1896

— Mae Evans John
— Charles
Boyer

Class of 1897

—

Blanche E. Lowrie and
Class contribution at reunion

Class of 1902

—

Camille Iladsall Berkenstock

Class of 1905

—
—

Ida Sitler

Class of 1907

I.

Mabel Welsh Breisch

Edwin Barton
Eva T. Smith
Harriet Shuman Burr
Genevieve Todd Brennan

Thomas

Del.;

Barbara E.
Harman, Lykens; Ruth Glidden Radicche, Susquehanna;
Ray Kolzowski,
Anthony,

Glenside;

Jr.,

Oxford, N. Y.

Members
for

Margaret G. Dailey
Helen Moyer Hemingway

TO PRESENT

1953

—Russell

Ruth

Hons,

Shavertown;

Thomas, Bloomsburg R. D. 4;
Herbert Kerchner, Lansdowne; 1954
Kenneth G. Kirk, West Wyoming; PaE.

—

Edwards, Kingston; 1955 J. Syl1956 MuKrapf, Hollidaysburg

tricia

via

Class contribution at reunion
The total contributions from this Class
now amount to more than $1350.00

back

of recent classes

reunion were:

1953

;

Minnie Zang Sarver

—

Glass of 1909

—

Florence Priest Cook
Scott R. Fisher, M. D.

Class of 1911

—

A. K. Naugle
Erma Miller Naugle

Neilson,
Glen Moore; Patricia
O’Brien, Bloomsburg; Ensign Curtis R.
English, Lafayette R. D. 1.
riel

Mabel VanReed Layton
Margaret Fraser Johnson
Class of 1912

—

Class contribution at reunion

ALBERT FUND:
Class of 1902

FRANK

S.

Hotel Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

1957

Class contribution at reunion

HUTCHISON, 16

INSURANCE

JULY,

—

HUSKY FUND:
Class of 1911

— Harriet Shuman
— Mabel VanReed

Class of 1956

—

Class of 1907

Bun-

Layton
Margaret Fraser Johnson

James Starr
Laura Stevens Graham

15

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

’46

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mr. Michael Dorak

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Benton, Pa.

Brentwood Lane

9

Levittown, Penna.

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

’33

VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Edward Lynn

Mr. Angelo Albano
14th and Wall Streets

SECRETARY
Edward D.

Burlington, N.

’41

Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Danville, Pa.

J.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Miss Alice Smull,

Paul Martin, ’38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Clarke Brown
43 Strawberry Lane
Levittown, Penna.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

TREASURER
Mr. Wm. Herr
28 Beechtree

PRESIDENT

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

Lane

Levittown, Penna.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

’32

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

SECRETARY
259

Race Street

Homer

Englehart,

Mrs. Lillian

William Zeiss
Route No. 2

732

Margaret
1105V2

Harrisburg, Penna.

West Locust Street

and some television.
She has been spending several
months with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Shambach, in Camp Hill, Pa.
There
are four grandsons and eight great
grandchildren.

1894

16

4,

TREASURER
Miss Ether E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

Pa.

Lulu Appleman Brunstetter

Mrs.

rent semester.

An

A

native of Orangeville,

March

State University.

librarian

with

7.

soft-spoken

woman whose

ap-

pearance belies her 80 years, Mrs.
Brunstetter

campus

in

Colum-

bia County, Mrs. Brunstetter

alumna

A

’34

erica.

the
rank of instructor, Mrs. Brunstetobserved her 80th birthday
ter
assistant

came

to

’23

Spring City, Pa.

Pa.

will retire at the close of the cur-

the

hilltop

1925.

of

Bloomsburg

is

an

State

Teachers College. She also studied
library science at the Pennsylvania

Her husband, the Rev. Frank Ii.
Brunstetter, deceased, at one time
served as pastor of the Fourth
Street Methodist Church, now Calvary Methodist Church, Williams-

For the first five years, she
taught grades one to four and later
sixth grade in what was known as
the Junior School.

stetter taught in

with the
staff of the Junior College where
she taught English to Spanish students from Cuba and Central Am-

Camp Curtin Methodist Church,
substitute
did
she
Harirsburg,

She was

After three decades of service on
the Lycoming College campus,

4,

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue
Scranton

many callers and to receive many
cards and gifts. Her mind is good,
hearing keen and eyesight good
enough for considerable reading

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street

TREASURER

BE LOYAL TO YOUR
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

1887
Beckie Nye (Mrs. J. D. Lowry)
celebrated her 90th birthday on
May 7th at her home in Watsontown, Pa. She was happy to have

SECRETARY

L. Lewis, ’28

Scranton

Irish, ’06

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8
Fairview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY
’ll

Market Street

Hortman

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rodgers Lloyd

TREASURER
1821

HONORARY PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Clarks Summit, Pa.

’32

Middletown, Penna.
Mr. W.

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

Miss Pearl L. Baer,

’05

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

affiliated also

port.

Before her marriage, Mrs. Brun-

Columbia County
and in New Jersey. While her
husband served as pastor of the

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
LUZERNE COUNTY

NEW’

YORK AREA

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

Wilkes-Barre Area

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Francis P. Thomas, ’42
1983 Everett Street
Valley Stream, L. I., N. Y.

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison Street

Thomas H.

Jenkins, ’40

Terrace Drive
Shavertown, Pa.

Tunkhannock, Pa.

91

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski, ’52
New Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruble James Thomas,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

’42

1983 Everett Street

Jerry Y. Russin,’41
136 Maffet Street
Plains, Pa.

Valley Stream, L.

N. Y.

I.,

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Agnes Anthony Silvany, ’20
83 North River Street

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman,

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

’53

Mrs.

PRESIDENT

'54

Mrs.

Betty K. Hensley, ’34
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

New

’36

WASHINGTON AREA
PRESIDENT

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Joseph A. Kulick, ’49
1542 North Danville Street

James E. Doty, ’53
South Fourth Street

Arlington

Harold J. Baum, ’27
South Pine Street

20

WEST BRANCH AREA

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

Robert V. Glover,

Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

Jason Schaffer

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
Washington, D. C.

During that period she worked
part time in the American Univer-

Selinsgrove, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Saida Hartman,
4215

TREASURER

’32

side with her daughter, Mrs. Kenneth B. Hamilton, in Washington.

1,

1232

SECRETARY

Helen Crow

Washington Avenue
West Hazleton, Pa.

She subsequently returned to Lycoming College in
1945 as acting librarian.

sity library.

About 1938 one

of the

Brandywine
Washington

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

Lewisburg, Pa.

most

re-

warding experiences of her career
a librarian occurred for Mrs.
Brunstetter.
As a result of competition with 450 junior colleges
Dickinson Seminary was given a
$3,000 Carnegie Fund Award, “the

as

’24

U

Mifflinburg, Pa.

127

The only break in her years of
service at Lycoming came in 1943
during World War II when Mrs.
Brunstetter left the campus to re-

’03

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER

teaching in the Harrisburg public
school system.

Miss Mary R. Crumb,
Street, S. E.
Washington, D. C.

R. D.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, 18
562 North LocustStreet
Hazleton, Pa.

1957

Virginia

Mrs. George Murphy, T6
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

PRESIDENT

JULY,

1,

VICE PRESIDENT

Sunbury, Penna.

Hazleton Area

Ecker,

Milford, Pa.

Sunbury, Penna.

109

McHose

Olwen Argust Hartley, T4

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick,
1017 East Market Street

TREASURER

Mrs. Lucille

’ll

TREASURER

Miss Grace Beck, ’23
1014 Chestnut Street
Sunbury, Penna.

317 Tripp Street
West Wyoming, Pa.

147 East

Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Kenneth Kirk,

’14

Slocum Avenue
Tunkhannock, Pa.

42

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Bessmarie Williams Schilling,
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, 11
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

entire amount of which was
pended for books in the span
two years,” says the assistant

ex-

of
li-

brarian.

When Mrs. Brunstetter launched
her teaching career at the Seminary
in 1925, her daughter, Elizabeth,
now Mrs. Edward Collins, entered
the freshman class and was subsequently graduated from the Jun17

ior College.

who

was formerly with the
Journal where she produced and directed radio programs.
She is still engaged in publicity
work. After her graduation from
Dickinson’s Preparatory School and
Junior College she matriculated to
William and Mary College.
Atlanta

Another daughter, Mrs. Kenneth
13.
Hamilton, Springfield, Md.,
teaches law in Roosevelt High
School, Washington. She was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan and
received a master’s degree from
Teachers College, Columbia University.

Two sons of the city college librarian received the degree of doctor of philosophy.
Dr. Max Brunstetter is a professor of education
at Teachers College, Columbia Unwhere he also serves
managing editor of the Bureau

iversity,

as
of

publications.

Another son, Dr. Byron Brunwas killed in a plane crash
in Albany, N. Y., three years ago.
At the time of his death he was
stetter,

executive secretary for the pathology study section, Division of Research Grants, National Institute of
Health, Bethesda, Md.
Mrs. Brunstetter has eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Her sixth great grandchild
was born in San Francisco three
months ago.
After her retirement, Mrs. Brun-

her

will

make her home with

daughter,

Springfield,

Mrs. Hamilton,

in

Md.

1906
Ethel Titus (Mrs. W. E. Zecker)
lives at 39 Berwyn Park, Lebanon,
Pa.

1906
Boust (Mrs. J. C. Showlives at 1619 Derry Street,

Maud
field)

Harrisburg, Pa.

Lillian

1907
Bakelss

1912

1907
in Harvey-in-the-Hills,
Mrs. Zang was born in
Audenried, Pennsylvania, where
she received her elementary education.
After her graduation from
Bloomsburg, she taught for one
year at Rockport, and five years in
Hazleton.
In 1912 she was married to Roy
L. Sarver, of Plattsville, Ohio. For
thirty years he operated a restaurant in Sidney, Ohio. After retirement in 1944, Mr. and Mrs. Sarver
went to Florida, and purchased the
present family home in 1951. Mr.
Sarver passed away August 30,

1956.

Mrs. Sarver has a daughter, Mrs.
of

Wheeling, West

Mrs. Joseph’s husband is
a specialist in diseases of the eye,
ear, nose and throat, and is also a
surgeon. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph have
Virginia.

three children.

Ada D. Harrison, 103 4th AveNewark 4, New Jersey, taught
in Newark for forty-three years,

her total in years of teaching being
forty-eight years. In 1904 she served as an assistant in the Model
School at Bloomsburg. Her father
was valedictorian of his class at
the Normal School, and later 'Ser-

ved as County Superintendent of
Schools in Luzeren County. Miss
Harrison had two sisters who were
graduates of Bloomsburg.

1910
Mr. and Mrs. James Oakes (Bertha Policy), formerly of Union

New

Center,
in

18

York, are

Glenwood,

now

living

Florida.

A.

Harmany, Berwick, has
supervisor of the

mail

retired

as

and

department of the Berwick

file

plant of the ACF after thirty-nine
A native of
years of service.
Bloomsburg, he has resided in East
thirty-five years.

He

a trustee of Berwick First Presbyterian Church and secretary of
the Men’s Brotherhood of that con-

is

lives on
Susquehan-

na County, Pa. Her address is R.
D. 1, Nicholson. She writes that
she has six children. Five of them
are married. Her youngest son has
recently returned after three years
of service in Korea.
1912

Thomas, whose home address is 708 Wyoming Avenue,
West Pittston, Pa. She is teacher
of remedial reading and language
arts of the Sivain Country Day
School, Allentown, Pa.
She retired from public school teaching in
Isabell

1953, after forty-one years of servDuring the last twenty-eight

ice.

years of her service she was principal of the primary grades in the
schools of West Pittston.

1923

The Rev. Raymond H. Edwards,
Bloomsburg

was honored by

native,

Mater, Bucknell University, Monday, June 10„ when he
was given the honorary degree of
his Alina

Doctor of Divinity.
The Rev. Mr. Edwards, pastor
of

the

Ossining,

N.

Y.,

Baptist

Church, delivered the baccalaureate sermon at the university on
Sunday, March 9, and received his
degree at the graduation exercises
(he following day.
The minister is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High
the
School,
Bloomsburg State Normal School,

now

1911

Lee

Berwick for
1906
Margaret II. Russell (Mrs. R. M.
McMillan) lives at 32 1-2 Canaan

a farm near Lenoxville,

lives

Florida.

1902
nue,

the Ber-

Lena Severance Roberts

Wendt

Minnie Zang (Mrs. Roy L. Sar-

Wilda Joseph,

of

wick Lodge F.&A.M, and Acacia
Club, Berwick, Caldwell Consistory Bloomsburg, Irem
Temple
Shrine, Wilkes-Barre, and the Berwick Odd Fellows and Knights of
Malta. He is a graduate of B.S.T.
C. and for many years was the
Berwick reporter for The Morning
Press.

(Mrs.
Ceorge H. Webber), a niece of the
late Prof. O. H. Bakeles, lives in
Milledgevile, Georgia, where she
is Librarian at the Baldwin County
Library.

ver)

member

gregation, a

resides in At-

lanta, Ga.,

stetter

Carbondale, Pa.

Street,

Mrs. Collins,

the Teachers College, in 1923
Bucknell University in 1926 and
the
Colgate-Rochester
Divinity
He was president
Schol in 1929.
,

of his class at the

He was

Normal School.

a student minister dur-

ing his years in theological seminary and after he was ordained
served the Plattsburg, N. Y., Baptist

Church
going

for
to

about

a

Ossining

TIIE

decade before
twenty years

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ago.
He has been exceptionally
active in the civic affairs at Ossining and has been on the recreation board of that community for
a number of years.
Ilis
wife is the former Alice
Shipman, ’23, a former Bloomsburg
resident.

1929

The

featured speaker at the
spring
dinner
meeting of the
Bloomsburg branch of the American Association of University Women, held Tuesday evening, May
21, at the Hotel Magee was Miss
Charlotte Lord, member of the
Wilkes College extension faculty,
who told of her Fulbright year as
exchange teacher in Rome, Italy,
in 1953-54.
Miss Lord is television
coordinator for Wilkes-Barre city
schools.

The speaker attended
where she received her

B.S.T.C.
certificate

intermediate education. She also
holds degrees in English and dramatic art from New York University, Bucknell University and Middlebury College. She was a student at the University of Florence
in

in Italy in 1949-50.

1930

A

recent issue of the Pacific
and Stripes carries a photo-

Stars

graph of Major Samuel Kurtz with
regard to a

band tour and

High

School,

1942

ers

W. Reed, thirty-nine,
member of the class

Bloomsburg State Teachwas killed Sunday,

College,

May

26, in

a two-car crash near

Delta, York county.
Reed’s class
was among those in reunion this
year, but

he was not

listed

among

those attending.

Employed

as chief record clerk

Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.,
Reed was en route there from Sun-

at

bury when his vehicle collided
with a car driven by Austin E.
Martin, York.

1952
Rose Marie Donaliski is teaching
General Science in the Carle Place
JULY,

1957

New

several in

Hackettstown,

New

to receive

the degree of Master of Arts from the
Montclair State Teachers College,
Upper Montclair, New Jersey, and
expects to spend the summer in
Europe. Her address is Old West-

bury Road, Old Westlmry,

New

York.

Gerald Houseknecht, grandson of
Mrs. Arthur Manbeck, Bloomsburg,
and the late Mr. Manbeck, was

graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Fri-

May

The son

24.

as

Miss Florence E. Bachman, 327
Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
Died at her home last October 12,
1957, at 10:30 P. M. after a lingering illness.

assistant pastor

to

Trinity

Church. Hagerstown, Md.

Bachman was

to Wilkes-Barre when a child.
Miss Bachman taught school in
Wilkes-Barre more than forty years

ed

retired in 1940.

Miss Bachman was a

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Starr, of Shamokin, are the parents of a daughter,
Melanie Jeanne.
Mr. Starr
taught in the High School at Trevorton until last year, when he accepted a position as teacher of Latin

in the

member

of

Memorial Presbyterian Church and
a teacher in its Sunday School and
was president of the Who So Ever
Will Missionary Society.
She is survived by the following

Emily and Alma, at home;
two brothers, Robert, Carverton,
Pa., and Harold, Chatham, N. J.

sisters:

Mrs. Martha Hartman, ’02
Mrs. Martha W. Hartman, 78,
1555 Vernon St., Harrisburg,
died Wednesday, February 20. She
was a retired school teacher, having taught in the Danville and

of

Duncannon
1954

the daughter

Lawrence F. and Loretta Fahringer Bachman.
She was
born in Sugar Notch, Pa., and movof the late

of the late

After taking clinical training in
State Hospital, Patton, Calif., during the summer, he will serve this

’98

Kidder

and

Quentin and
Mildred Houseknecht, he graduated from Bloomsburg High School
as an honor student in 1950 and
from B.S.T.C., also with honors in
1954, receiving a degree in secondary education. While at B.S.T.C.
he was president of the Day Men’s
Association, named to “Who’s Who
in American Colleges and Universities” and received the College
Service Key.

fall

Florence E. Bachman,

Miss

1954

day,

N nTttlogR

She

Jersey.

this cap-

"Major Samuel Kutrz, director of the FEAF Band, is also command band supervisor for the Far
East Air Forces.
Kurtz has conducted the band since 1954.”

of ’42 of

Place,

for

was scheduled

tion,

William
Sunbury, a

Carle

She taught

York.

schools.

She was a member of Stevens
Memorial Methodist Church. She
also taught the L. K. Thomas Ladies’ Bible Class of that church for

many

years.

A nephew and

several

nieces

survive.

Shamokin High School.
1956

Mrs. Pearl Anstock Holt, ’07

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Cuber,
Packanack Lake, N. J., have announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Mary Anne Cuber,
to James E. Kashner, 3rd. son of
Mr. and Mrs. James E Kashner,
Jr., Bloomsburg.

Mrs. Pearl Anstock Holt, sixty21 Royal Avenue, Hawthorne, N. J., former Bloomsburg
area resident, died Monday, April
8, at her home following a heart
attack.
She had been in ill health

Miss Cuber is a graduate of Hatboro High School and a junior at
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

employed by

She had been a school teacher
for a number of years and recently
had been doing substitute teaching.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Adrian Blum and Mrs. Francis Crowley, Hawthorne, N. J.; a

Company

half brother,

lege.

Mr. Kashner was graduated from
lege in May and is
the Tidewater Oil
Philadelphia.

in

eight,

for

some

time.

Roy T. Anstock, Phil
adelphia; four grandchildren.
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Mary H.

Colyer, ’07

Mrs. Fred C. Colyer, nee

Hess

Hower,

Mary

school
teacher, died suddenly at 11:30 P.
M. October 21, 1956, at her home,
924 Wood Street, York Pa., of pul70,

retired

monary embolism.
She was a member of Faith Reformed Church and the Ladies’
Guild.
Mrs. Colyer taught for 35
years in and near Espy and Almedia,

and

also Stony

Brook and Mt.

Zion schools near York, retiring a

few years ago. Born near Almedia,
she was the daughter of the late
Francis and Elmira Creasy Hess
and resided there and in Espy until she moved to York.
She graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1907 and would have
attended her 50th reunion

this year.

Surviving, in addition to her husband, are a daughter, Mrs. John
German, Glen Burnie, Md.; two
step-daughters, Mrs. Hazel Men-

chey and Mrs. Arthur Harter, of
York; a brother, Luther Hess, of
Espy, and five grandchildren.

Rose Barrett,

’07

Miss Rose Barrett, a retired
Archbald elementary school teacher, died Saturday, January 12, at
Blakely Convalescent Home following a brief illness.

A

native of Archbald, she was a
daughter of the late John and Ellen Burke Barrett. She was a mem-

ber of St. Thomas Aquinas Church,
Archbald, and its women’s organizations.

Miss Barrett retired several years
ago after being a member of the
Archbald public school teaching
staff for many years.
She prepared for her career at the former
Bloomsburg Normal School.
Surviving

are a brother, John
Barrett, Batavia, N. Y., and several
nieces and nephews.

Frank Titman, T3
Frank Titman, sixty-three, 404
Lippencott Avenue, Riverton, N. J.,
died recently in the Burlington
County Hospital, Mt. Holly, N. J.
Death was due to a kidney condition.

He was
20

born

in

Millville

and

spent his early life there.
the son of the late Walter
nie Dildine Titman.

than

New

Jersey.
I veteran.

twenty-five

He was

a

W. Beckley, Bloomsburg; six
grandchildren; ten great grandchilD.

dren.

Titman taught school

Mr.

more

He was
and Minfor

years

world

in

Sarah E. Wilson

War

Surviving are one brother, Earl
Titman, Bloomsburg R. D. 4, and

Miss Sarah E. Wilson, 409 Pine
Street,

Danville, died February 4

at her residence.

sary of her birth.
a

Miss Martha White, T4

Mis Martha W. White, Center
Street, Bloomsburg, died Friday,
April 5, at Bloomsburg Hospital
following a lengthy

illness.

She was born in Bloomsburg,
October 17, 1894, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. William L.
White.
She was graduated from
the
Bloomsburg State Normal
School and taught for a number
of years in the Moorestown, N. J.,
schools.

She was a member of the

First

Presbyterian Church, Bloomsburg,
and for years was active in the
women’s
organizations
of
the
church. She was also a member of
the Bloomsburg Hospital Auxiliary
and the Book Club.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. William V. Moyer, Bloomsburg, and
two brothers, Charles M. White,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; William LeRoy White, Clifton, N. J., and a

number

of nieces

Her death

oc-

curred on the ninety-first anniver-

several nieces and nephews.

and nephews.

the Danville school system.

She was born in Montour counFebruary 14, 1866, daughter of
the late James D. and Susan A.
Smith Wilson.
ty,

Before her retirement she taught
school in Danville’s Third and
Fourth Wards. In 1938 she retired
from tire teaching profession.
She was the oldest member of
Grove Presbyterian Church and
was a member of the Rebekah
Lodge and the Grange.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Augustus Diener, and a number of
cousins.

John F. Schell
John F. Schell, Milton R. D.,
died in the Williamsport Hospital

March

25, 1957.

He had been

a patient there for
the past four weeks. He was born

February

all his life.

Mrs. Josephine Colley Beckley,
ninety-six, Light Street Road, one
of Bloomsburg’s most esteemed
women, died at the Bloomsburg
Hospital January 11, 1957. Death
resulted from a fall at her home
in which she sustained a fracture
of the hip.

Mrs. Beckley was born in Benton and attended the Bloomsburg
State Normal School, now the

Teachers College. Most of her life
was spent in Bloomsburg. Her
husband, W. D. Beckley, died
twenty-seven years ago.
Mrs. Beckley was a member of
the Methodist Church, Bloomsburg.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Arch C. Lewis, with whom she resided; two sons, Harry C. and Dr.

late

near Milton and
Milton and vicinity
He was the son of the

3, 1886,

had resided
Josephine Colley Beckley

Miss Wilson was

teacher for forty-four years in

in

Fred Schell and Hannah Mc-

Williams Schell.

He was a salesman for the Reid
Tobacco Company for thirty-nine
He
years, retiring nine years ago.
also served on that board of directors.

He attended the Montandon
public schools, Keller’s Business
Bloomsburg State
College and
Teachers College. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church,
Milton, and served on the church
council, was superintendent of the
Sunday School and a teacher of the
Men’s Bible Class. He was a past
master of the Milton Lodge 256 F.
N'A.M., trustee of the Milton Temple Association, a member of the
Williamsport Consistory and of
Jrem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre.
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"SAUCERED AND BLOWED”
E.

H. Nelson, 11

Elsewhere in the columns of this issue you will find reports of
the reunion Classes.
The Classes that did careful planning before
hand had the best reunions. If Minnie knows that Alice will be there
she will write to Sarah to SURELY come, and if Sarah comes of
course Ezra won’t stay away because it was the Class Play in which
he starred that Sarah’s cousin Judy came to see, and visit Sarah, and
fell in love with him at fight sight (he was dressed as a Knight of Old)
and they are married now and will be glad to bring the Slocums with
them as they live in the same town but don’t visit each other as much
as they should as they belong to different churches and different
Of course Will Slocum was almost expelled
P. T. A. groups too.
once for throwing a pitcher of water on one of the Trustees (accidentally), but his wife, Carrie Luhr, was a very good student and got both
a star and a dagger on the Commencement program which indicated
the faculty thought she was an outstanding girl and never could
understand why she took up with that wild Bill Slocum.
Of such elements are Class reunions made, and they are wonderful.

A

came

to our desk a few weeks ago from a student of the
She attended the Normal 80 weeks, was graduated, and
then went to teach in New Jersey. Never had she met her obligation
to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to teach at least two years in
the public schools of the State. Her query to us was as to how much
A study of a catalogue of that period
State Aid she had received.
letter

early 1900’s.

indicated that the State had paid $1.50 per week or a total of $120.00
toward her education.
When this information was sent to her she sent a check promptly
for the $120.00 to be applied to the Bakeless Loan Fund, and an additional $25.00 for the Husky Fund. Also, included, to make the check
an even $150.00, was a three year membership ($5.00) in the Alumni
pass along this information to express our sincere
Association.
thanks, and also to suggest to other “Out of Staters that the idea is
an excellent one and quite worth copying. Through this medium you
“keep the faith” and know that the reimbursement will be used to
assist others who are preparing to teach in Pennsylvania.

We

Plan to come back for Homecoming, Saturday, October 19. A
day on the Campus will do you good. Where the tennis courts were,
the dining room is. And where good fellowship prevails, there you
should be also.

Calendar

FOURTH SUMMER SESSION
Monday, August

Classes Begin
Classes

End

5

Friday, August 23

THE FIRST SEMESTER
Registration,

Freshmen

Registration,

Upper Classmen

Wednesday, September 4
Thursday, September 5

Classes Begin

Friday, September 6

HOMECOMING - SATURDAY, OCTOBER
Football: B.S.T.C. vs. Shippensburg

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ALUMNI

QUARTERLY

Vol. L VIII

October 1957
,

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No. 3

n

SauceA&d asid

/flowed,"

The College has opened for another year; the Bloomsburg Fair is over; and
Homecoming is just around the corner, October 19. One can now leave YValler
Hall through a tunnel and go to the old tennis courts. Yvnen Ire emerges, however, it will not be to play tennis but to try out the catering service. Where once
it was “deuce” and “love all” it is now lob over the bread.

Other changes are

in the air.

Time marches

on.

The

old ice house, turned

Manager, is now
doomed. The barn is to come down, too. Hay and horses gave way to trucks
and power mowers, and now demolition and construction will produce a new
dormitory for men. North Hall is to give up tne ghost entirely, through the
years it has withstood the vicissitudes ot tire, music hall, dormitory for employees, dormitory for faculty, dormitory for women, and dormitory tor men.
it has housed the school laundry, provided a “day room tor commuting students
and an equipment room for athletic teams. Dean Sutiitl will have to get busy
with a poem or two as he did when the bridge went out of existance.
into an infirmary

and

later into a residence tor tne .business

Do

you remember when Mrs. Pickett, the widow of General Pickett of Civil
fame, lectured in the auditorium? The 50 year class will remember. And
the members will remember other things, too, when in reunion next May. The
memory of Philo-Callie debates will be a topic for conversation. And a few
other activities that went beyond the debate stage. The color scheme on the
lamp posts between Noettling Hall and Science flail, for instance. In this era
there were three movie houses in Bloomsburg. You could attend all three shows
in an evening and be back in the dormitory before your 10 o'clock permit expired. Total cost, 15 cents. Of course if you indulged in an ice cream soda that
would cost 5 cents more. No parcel post, but boxes came from home by express.
One was friendly with those who got boxes from home. No food ever
tasted better than a hand out which involved also some secrecy in keeping with
dormitory regulations. But even back there, through Miss Dickerson and Prof.
Dennis, we were trying to cry out via Virgil “O mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter

War

annos!”

Suppose for a change we engage passage on the first rocket trip to the moon.
In this fast moving world it is very possible that “Tuum tibi narro somnium.”
write this Latin well because I have a quotation book at hand. Translation
I
will be forwarded promptly on receipt of dues or donation to the Loan Fund.
Area Alumni meetings are in the air. Northumberland County had a very
September 30th. On October 26th Alumni in the New York
area will gather in the vicinity of the George Washington bridge to watch the
Come back and see us sometime.
traffic go by as they reminisce.
fine get together

E.

II.

NELSON,

'll

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol.

L V III, No. 3

October, 1957

New Members

of the Faculty

In addition to the need for filling vacancies caused by the resignation of several members of the
faculty,

it

add several

has been

necessary to

instructors to the facul-

ty to take care of the increased enrollment, which is more than 1200

students.

Since classroom space is limited,
administration has set up a
class schedule running from 8:00
A. M. to 4:00 P. M., including the
noon hour. The pressure for classroom space will eventually be relieved by the construction of a new
classroom building, which is now
one of the items on the building
the

Published

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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
quarterly

program.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, 12

Edward M. Van Norman
Edward M. Van Norman, State
College, has been appointed as as-

BUSINESS MANAGER
E.

H. Nelson, 11

sistant professor of education.

He

attended the public schools

of Detroit, Mich., and, after grad-

from Northwestern High
School in 1945, spent two years in
the Army Medical Corps, serving
in the United States and Europe.
Shortly after the completion of his
military service, he entered the
Pennsylvania State University, and
in 1951, was awarded the Bachelor
of Science degree in Education.
During the following year, he
worked in the Visual Products Division of the Radio Corporation of
America and learned from firstuation

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

hand observations the practical applications used by industry in the
field of sensory learning.

For the past five years, Mr. Van
has been teaching in State
College High School and doing
graduate work at the Pennsylvania
He has earned
State University.

Norman

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

the Master of Education degree at

Penn

State, and has continued his
graduate work, largely in the field

audio-visual
He
education.
holds membership in the National

of

Education Association, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, and the Centre County Teachers ’Association.

Mr. Van Norman,

his wife and
Edward, Jr., age six, will
move to Bloomsburg in the near

son,

future.

Dr. Gilbert R.

W.

Selders

Dr. Gilbert R. VV. Selders, State
College, has joined the faculty.

A

graduate

of

Altoona

High

School, Dr. Selders began his un-

dergraduate work at Pennsylvania
State
University in
September,
1940, but left two years later to
serve as an officer and pilot in the
15th Air Force in Italy.
Following his separation from the service,

he returned to Penn State and completed the requirements for the
Bachelor of Arts degree.
During
the next three years, Dr. Selders
remained at Penn State as a graduate student, earning the Master
of Education and the Doctor of
Education degrees with emphasis
on language arts and elementary

education.

Since 1950, Dr. Selders has been
member of the faculty at the
Pennsylvania State University, directing a program in reading speed
and comprehension on a campuswide scale, including undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members. He has taught courses in elementary education and extension
a

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

ON THE COVER

F. Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith

Students enjoy the

warm September

afternoons in Fountain Court

near Long Porch.

Elizabeth H. Hubler

OCTOBER,

1957

1

courses for teachers-in-service.
Dr. Selders has been a member
of Phi Delta Kappa, national professional

education fraternity, for

tending B.S.T.C. He was also president of the Benton High School
graduates when that alumni body
inaugurated a scholarship program.

the past eight years.

Donald D. Rabb
Donald D. Rabb, Benton, has
been appointed as assistant professor of survey science.

Mr. Rabb, a 1940 graduate of
Benton Joint High School, has
been teaching and coaching for
the past decade in the public
schools of that community.
For three years prior to World
War If, Mr. Rabb attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
after an equal number of years in
the Armed Forces, he returned to
Bloomsburg to receive the Bachelor of Science degree in Education
in August, 1946. While at Bloomsburg, he majored in science and
mathematics and was a member
of the soccer, baseball, football and
track teams.

In 1953, Mr. Rabb completed
the requirements for the Master of
Science degree in Education at
Bucknell University.
Since that
time,

he has done graduate work

at the University of Colorado and
the Pennsylvania State University,
and with the exception of his dissertation, has completed all the requirements for the Doctor of Education degree.
Mr. Rabb began his teaching career at the Allentown Veterans’
High School in 1946. The follow-

ing year he began his tenure at
Benton.
In addition to teaching,
he has served at various times as
soccer coach, baseball coach, and
athletic director.
For more than
ten years, he has been active in
Boy Scout activities in Columbia

County.

He is married to the former DorThe
othy McHenry, Stillwater.
couple have two children, a nineyear-old daughter and a six-yearold son.

Mr. Rabb served for three years

and two years as vice
president of the Columbia County
Branch of the B.S.T.C. Alumni Association and during his adminisas president

the branch inaugurated a
scholarship fund for students attration

2

Henry

Henry R. George
R. George has been ap-

pointed an

assistant

professor

of

social sciences.

A

native of Swissvale, Pa., and a
graduate of the public schools of
that community, Mr. George has
taught for the past five years in
schools in this country and abroad.
In 1942, following graduation
from high school, Mr. George began his service in the Armed ForShortly after completing his
ces.
military service, he began his studies at the University of Pittsburgh,
receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree in Education with a major in
social science in 1950.
In the fall
of that year, he began his graduate
study at Pittsburgh. A year later
he accepted a position with the

Bureau of Engraving, United States
Steel Company, and later worked
for two years for the Saudi Arabian
government at Jeddah. He returned to the United States in 1954 to
begin

in the Swissvale
years later, he was
the Master of Lettei's dethe University of Pitts-

teaching

schools.

Two

awarded
gree by
burgh, and has begun graduate
work leading to the doctoral degree.

In addition to extensive traveling
the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and the Arctic, the
new faculty member has had close
contacts with large groups of peoin

including lecturing appearances befoi'e social, religious, civic,
education, and business groups.

ple

Miss Eleanor

Wray

Miss Eleanor Wray has been appointed professor of physical education.
Miss Wray has a background of more than a decade of
teaching expeiience in the public
schools of Pennsylvania and in colleges and universities in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa.
She received the Bachelor of
Arts degree from Lake Erie College in 1943, and in the following
year supplemented her undergraduate studies with work in sociology

and education. She was awarded
the Master of Science degree in
Education at Pennsylvania State
University, and has completed a
major position of the work leading
to the Doctor of Education degree
with major areas in health and physical education.

She began her teaching career
Mt. Lebanon. Miss Wray rendered two years of service as club

at

director with the U. S. Army Special Services.
In the fall of 1956,
she joined the faculty of Upper

Iowa University as a member of the
health and physical education staff.
During the summers of the past
twelve years, Miss Wray has servas a waterfront dii'ector in summer camps and has acted as head
counsellor, planning and administering the camping program, and
supervising camp counsellors.

ed

Francis

J.

Radice

Francis J. Radice, a member of
the business education staff of the
Williamsport Pligh School for the
past seven years, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Business
Education.

A native of Wilkes-Barre, Mr.
Radice was graduated from Coughlin High School before he entered
the U.

S.

Navy

for three years of

military service during

World War

Shortly after the termination
of his Navy service, Mr. Radice entei'ed the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where he majored in
Accounting and earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Education in 1949. Prior to beginning his tenure at Williamsport
in 1950, he taught in the business
education department at Reliance
High School, Reliance, Wyoming.
II.

While teaching at Williamsport,
Mr. Radice enrolled in the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State
University and completed the requirement for the Master of Education degree in Business Education
and School Administration. After
additional graduate work, he qualified for certification as a secondary
school principal and as a

super-

vising principal.

Mr. Radice is married to the
former Susanne Duy of Bloomsburg.
The Radices reside at 152
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West Fourth

Street,

Bloomsburg,

with their two children, Eugene,
age five, and Christiane, age two.

Mrs. Grace Clinton Smith

Grace Clinton Smith has
been appointed temporary instrucMrs.

duties at the college in September,

and

serving as advisor to both
the College Players and the Alpha
Omicron chapter of Alpha Psi
Omega, national honorary dramais

Russell

Houk

Mrs. Smith was born in Trafford, Pennsylvania, and attended
the public schools of Pitcairn. Following her graduation from high
school, she began her undergraduate studies at Carnegie Institute
of Technology, choosing English,

Ilouk, a native of Ellwood City, near Pittsburgh, has
been selected to take charge of the
Husky grapplers, replacing Walter
Blair, who has moved to the position of foottball coach with the
resignation of Coach Yohe.
Mr.

French and history as major and
minor areas of study and prepar-

Houk played

ation.

Mrs. Smith was awarded the
bachelor of science degree with
highest honors, and accepted a
teaching position in the Monroeville-Pitcairn joint school system.
She served as circulation assistant
in the Carnegie Tech library where
she taught freshman classes in library science. During this period,
she began her graduate work at
the University of Pittsburgh. Prior
to her appointment at Bloomsburg,
she had Seen teaching in the city
schools of San Diego, California.

Mrs. Smith began her teaching

COACH YOHE RESIGNS
Jack

coach

W.

Y’ohe,

at the

head

football

Teachers College for

the past five years, informed college officials of his decision not to
return to the college for the 1957-

Yohe, who has been
dean of men and director of ath1958 term.

since January, 1955, has accepted a position as assistant principal of the Upper Merion High
letics

School, King of Prussia, Pa.

Mr. Yohe came to Bloomsburg in
1952, following the resignation of
Robert B. Redman, now a high
school principal at East Orange,
N. J. During the past five seasons,
Yohe’s gridiron Huskies won 25
games, lost 12 and tied two. His
1953 eleven placed third in the
State Teachers College Conference,

while his 1954 club was co-champion with West Chester and East
Stroudsburg.
Both elevens compiled seasonal records of six wins
in eight starts.

OCTOBER,

1957

Russell

outstanding football
with a fine team at Lincoln High
School, Ellwood City, during the
two years, prior to his graduation
in 1945.
During World War II he
served with the Merchant Marine
before entering the Army for 15
months service, mostly in the Philippine Ground Forces.
After his discharge from the service,

Mr.

iversity

Houk

attended Duke Unone year.
He then

for

transferred to

Lock Haven

were

est successes

at

Muncy High

School during the past three years,
where his squads won thirty-seven
meets, losing only six. Several of

tics fraternity.

tor of English.

In 1952 he joined the faculty at
South Williamsport High School
and compiled an amazing record
as head wrestling coach. His great-

S.T.C.,

schoolboy wrestlers won dishonors and three of them captured first or second places in the
state meet.
his

trict

Mr. Houk completed the requirements for his Master of Science degree in Education at Bueknell this
summer. At Bloomsburg he will
be head wrestling coach, assistant
football coach,
tor.

He

cation

and

athletic direc-

will teach classes in

Edu-

and Health Education.

Mrs. Althea

S.

Hoke

Mrs. Althea S. Hoke, Meadville,
has been appointed housemother at
B.S.T.C. and will reside at Waller
Hall dormitory, A graduate of the

Housemother’s Training School

at

earning his B.S. degree in 1952. He
had an outstanding record in both
football and wrestling at his Alma
Mater, serving as captain during his

Purdue University, Mrs. Hoke is
the mother of two children and the
widow of Dr. Samuel Hoke, former medical director of Allegheny

senior year.

College.

The high spot of his coaching
career here was reached in 1955
when the Maroon and Gold gridders copped the championship of
the state-wide tutor loop with a
5-2-1 record, clinching the crown
with a smashing victory over West

from Temple University, and he
has fulfilled all the requirements
for his doctorate at Temple with
the exception of the dissertation.

Chester on Mt. Olympus.

Mr. Yohe was also varsity basecoach in 1953 and 1954, his
teams winning 11 of 20. He gave
up this assignment in 1955 when
he was named athletic director and
dean of men.
ball

Mr. Yohe is a graduate of the
Lock Haven State Teachers College, where he was an outstanding

He

athlete.

Master

holds the degree of
Science in Education

of

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

—

96

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

He coached

at Biglerville

and Up-

per Merion High School prior to
accepting a position on the staff of
the West Chester State Teachers
College following service as a naval officer in

CHARLES
Charles

H.

World War

II.

HENRIE RESIGNS

H. Henrie,

member

of

the faculty since 1946, has resigned his position to go into the in-

vestment and security business.
Mr. Henrie taught Sales in the
Business Department, and was promoter of many highly successful
Sales Rallies and Fashion Shows.
For the past several years has
also teaching courses in Audio-Visual Education.
He also served for several years
as the director of the

Maroon and

Gold Band.
3

LOCAL STUDENTS AMONG
B.S.T.C. WINNERS IN U.S.
SHORTHAND CONTEST
For the second consecutive year,
shorthand students at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have

won

a nation-wide
contest sponsored by the Esterbrook Pen Co. Announcement of
the award was received recently by
Prof. Walter S. Rygiel in letters
from Sydney E. Longmaid, President of the Esterbrook Company,
and from Frank K. Middleton,
Gregg Contest Director.
first

prize in

In the Twentieth Annual ConBloomsburg entered a team of
seventeen students. A total of 55,709 students, representing 2,229
teams or schools, competed for the
awards. The Bloomsburg students,
all members of the Shorthand III
class taught by Mr. Rygiel, won
first place in the Collegiate Division, Class A, of the 1956-1957 National
Gregg Shorthand Contest
sponsored by Esterbrook. All tests
were written with pen and ink and
were evaluated by judges appointed by the Gregg Publishing Co.
test,

The work was graded on
shorthand principles and
shorthand penmanship.

Each

correct
quality

of the seventeen students

has received a certificate of merit
and an Esterbrook pen with the
student’s name inscribed on it. Mr.
gold
received
Rygiel
has
a
trophy inscribed with the name of
the contest, the college, the year,
and the words “Awarded to Walter
Rygiel.”
full-page ad in the July issue
of “Today’s Secretary” magazine
will announce the name of Mr.
Rygiel’s class along with other naS.

A

tional winners.

The following

are the

members

of the prize-winning group:

Barbara Brunner, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Brunner,
235 West High Street, Pottstown.
Donald Coffman, son of Mr.
2.
and Mrs. Francis Coffman, 587
East Fourth Street, Mt. Pocono.
Rose Marie Coulter, daugh3.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Coulter, 1118 Cedar Avenue, Croydon.
Charles Fahringer, son of
4.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fahringer, R. D.
2, Sunbury.

5.

ter

of

Mary Faith Fawcett, daughMr. and Mrs. Oliver Faw-

673 Heller Avenue, Williams-

cett,

port.

Jack Hartzell, son of Mr. and
Earl Hartzell, R.
D. 5,

6.

Mrs.

Bloomsburg.
7.
Teresa Julio, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Vincent Julio, 206 R. N.
Ninth Street, Scranton.
Donna Mattocks, daughter of
8.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mattocks,
R. D. 2, Columbia Crossroads.
9.
Marjorie Myers, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Myers, 125
Highland Avenue, Lansdale.
10.
Barbara Nancarrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nancarrow, 209 Knapp Road, Clarks Summit.

Marian Onufrak, daughter

11.

of

Mary Onufrak, 1215 Second

Mrs.

Street, Berwick.
12.
Sandra Raker, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Raker, East

Smithfield.
13.
John Schaefer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Schaefer, No. 1 S.
Delaware Avenue, Berlin, N. J.

BOY SCOUT
ORGANIZATION
Two local men of

IN

the Columbia-

Montour Council have been accepted in the professional service of
the Boy Scouts of America. They
are Robert Rorick, Mill Street, Catawissa, and Isaiah L. McCloskey,
Jr.,

Bloomsburg.

Both

attended

the National Training School of the
Boy Scouts of America at Mend-

ham, N.

J.,

beginning July 30, for

a period of forty-five days.

Rorick has accepted a position
with the Boy Scouts, Pioneer Trails
Council, Butler, Pa. He is an Eagle
Scout, has served as neighborhood
commissioner for Troop 67, Post
67 and Pack 68, Catawissa, and assistant scoutmaster of Troop 67 for
the past three years.
A graduate of Catawissa High
School and the State Teachers College, he is a veteran of seven years’
military service. Rorick is married
and has two children, Robert and
Sharyn.
McCloskey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Isaiah L.

McCloskey,

Sr.,

Blooms-

Betty Stiff, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Stiff, 42 State
Street, East Stroudsburg.
15.
Francis Vottero, husband of
Mrs. Joan Vottero, 319 East 4th

burg, has accepted a position with
the Boy Scouts as district field executive for the Del-Mar-Va Council,
Wilmington, Del.

Bloomsburg.
16.
Norman Wismer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. N. K. Wismer, 224 Wash-

Troop

14.

Street,

ington Street, Royersford.
Donald Yerk, son of Mr. and
17.
Mrs. Elwood Yerk, 317 Sumner
Street, Royersford.

On a recent cruise taken on the
Great Lakes, Dr. and Mrs. J. Almus Russell were delighted to have
as members of the passenger group
Ethel L. Burrows, Class off 1907,
229 Washington Street, West Pittston; and Lydia Stanton, Class of
1921,

West

Pittston, Pa.

1.

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

’42

He was
25,

a

member

of Methodist

Bloomsburg,

for

five

and attained the rank of
Eagle Scout. He graduated from
Bloomsburg High School, class of
1950, served three and one half
years

years in the United States Navy
during the Korean conflict, and
graduated from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, class of 1957. He
married the former Sally Ann Derr,
Bloomsburg, and has two children,
Norbert and Lisa.

Steve Kundrat, of Berwick, has
been appointed to the position of
science teacher in the Nescopeck
Area Joint High School. Mr. Kindi at, former store manager for La
Torre Electric, holds a Master’s degree from New York University.
Mrs. Joyce Stecker, of West
Hazleton, has been elected art
teacher at the Nescopeck Area
Joint High School. She has taught
for one and one-half years at West
Hazleton.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY,

INCREASE IN BASIC FEES
Bloomsburg
State Teachers College have announced that an increase in basic
fees from $45 to $72 per semester
will be paid by each student enrolOfficials

of

the

ling at the college, effective with

the opening of the

new term

in

September.

The increase in fees was recommended by the Board of Presidents
of the fourteen State Teachers Col-

and has received the approval of the Board
of Trustees of the College and the
Superintendent of the Department
leges in Pennsylvania

of Public Instruction in Harrisburg.

Steadily mounting costs, including plant operation and cost of instruction, necessitated the increase

College officials also expressed the possibility that other
student costs, including housing
fees, may be increased without notice during the coming year.
in fees.

Both new students and returning
upperclassmen were notified by
mail that there would be an increase in the basic fee in September; students living in the college

dormitories will continue until furpay the same housing
fee that was in force last year, and
there has been a change in the special fee for students in the Business

ther notice to

Education Department.

B.S.T.C. STUDENTS WITH
HIGHEST AVERAGES FOR
SEMESTER ARE LISTED
B.S.T.C. students

who

qualified

for the Dean’s List for the

second
have been announced by John A. Hoch, Dean of
Instruction.
These students had a
quality point average of 2.5 or better for the semester and an accumulative average of at least 2.0 while
semester,

1956-57,

in college.

Freshmen
Dorothy Andrysick, Alden Station; Linda Bartlow, New Albany;
Carl J. Braun, Sunbury; Soyna E.
Deussen, R. D.
Pottsville;

Albert Francis,
Patricia Glatts, Brook2;

haven; Barbara Grochowski, Glen
Lyon; Jeannette Ide, Sweet Valley
R. D. 1; Joan Lazo, Freeland; June
Locke, Chester; John Longo, Mrs.

Linda

M. Kistler, Bloomsburg;
Nancy Pekala, Fern Glen; Glenn
Reed, Shamokin R. D. 1.
Sophomores
Faye Aumiller, Milroy; John Fiorenza, Berwick; Harold F. Gia-

Columba’s Catholic Church,
Bloomsburg, was the setting Saturday, August 24, for the summer
ceremony uniting in marriage Miss
Dorothy Ann Tsakeres, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tsakeres,
Bloomsburg, to Philip Anthony
Taormina, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Taormina, Bloomsburg.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William J.
Burke VF, officiated at the double
ring ceremony before 100 wedding
guests.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Taormina
giaduated from Bloomsburg High

The bride

employed by
radio Station WHLM.
Her husband served two years in the U.S.
Army and is now a junior at B.S.
T.C.
He is also employed parttime at Sears Roebuck Co.
They will reside at 48 West Main
School.

Street,

Bloomsburg.

OCTOBER,

1957

is

Fredric J. Betz has been named
Director of the Correspondence Division,
International Correspondence Schools, by ICS President,
Lawrence W. Tice. Mr. Betz’s ap-

pointment became effective Monday, August 5.
A native of Reading, Mr. Betz
is
a graduate of Allentown High
School and
Bloomsburg
State
Teachers’ College where lie received his B.S. degree in Education.
He is currently completing requirements for his Master’s degree at
the University of Scranton.
Prior to joining the ICS Service

Department

in October, 1956, Mr.
Betz taught high school in Coopersburg, Pa.
During his association with ICS, Mr. Betz has un-

dergone diversified training in the
various operations of the ICS Service Department.
ICS’s new Correspondence Division Director resides at 302 Main
Avenue, Clarks Summit, with his
wife, the former Nancy Sue Williams, and their seven-month-old
son, Fredric

Owen.

comini,

Scranton;
Carl Janetka
Horsham; Keith W. Michael, Shick-

shinny R. D.

Joseph Richenderfer, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Isobel Rosen, Berwick; Elizabeth Sprout, Williamsport; Dolores Wanat, Wilkes3;

Barre.

St.

NAMED DIRECTOR

Juniors

Wayne

Gavitt, LaPorte; Charles
R. Jessop, Peckville; Mrs. Dolores

Plummer, Bloomsburg; Sandra Raker, East

Smithfield;

Sarah Ridg-

way, Catawissa.
Seniors

James B. Creasy, Margaret Ann
Duck, Bloomsburg; John Ford,
Shamokin; Etta Mae Geisinger,
Lebanon R. D. 20; Mary J. Koch,

West Hazleton; Franklin Mackert,
Sunbury; Richard Mease, Milton;
Suzanne Osborn, Springfield; Constance Ozalas, Palmerton; Arlene
Rando, Shamokin; Dale J. Springer,
Lopez; Jean Stavisky, Old
Forge; Dick Strine, Milton; Carolyn Sutliff, Shickshinny R. D. 1;
Enola Van Auken, Mill City; John

Woyurka, George Wynn, Shamokin
R. D. 2; Margaret Yohn, Selins-

John’s Lutheran Church, Mifwas the setting Saturday,
August 3, for the marriage of Miss
St.

linville,

Jean Mathilda Meier, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. Henry Meier, Mifflinville, to John Robert Emanuel,
Nesquehoning.
The Rev. C. E. Rudy performed
the double-ring ceremony.
After

wedding

a

trip

New

to

England, the couple will reside at
914 Fourth Street, Fullerton.
The bride graduated from B.S.
T.C. and is a first grade teacher at
Allentown. Her husband, a graduate of Allentown Business College,
attended Franklin and Marshall

and

is

now

manager

office

of Air

Engineers, Fullerton.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

grove.
5

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...
.

.

ATHLETICS-1957-1958
For the benefit of Alumni

who

FOOTBALL-1957
VARSITY

are

interested
in
athletics
at
Bloomsburg, the schedule of events
for the coming year is published in
The
this issue of The Quarterly.
following comments recently appeared in the “Fanning” column of
the Bloomsburg Morning Press:

On

the whole it is what was expected, for the Teachers College

beginning to
start operating after having marked time for quite a spell.
Its effect on Bloomsburg athletic

Conference

is

Otherwise we’re going to function
pretty much as we did last term.
The reason the change isn’t too
great in the year ahead is that
Jack Yohe who has stepped out as

and

athletic director,

did some yeoman work in building
up a couple phases of the program
last term, especially track.
were pretty desperate for

We

and in
order to get games we paid no atbetween
alternating
tention
to
home and away games. As a reopponents

football

we

last fall,

with three at
home and ended with four away.
This fall we start on the road
and finish up with four at home.
Only change in opponents is that
Lock Haven is back an we opened
against the Bald Eagles in Lock
Haven Saturday night, September
21
There’s going to be some shift-

sult

started

off

.

ing around in football listings in
the years ahead and we’ll get back
to alternating home and away some
The conference
of these seasons.
does some dictating on this score.
There are some schools that will
be on year after year and some

come on at intervals.
may have some aspects

that will

This

‘Saturday,
Saturday,
Saturday,
‘Saturday,
‘Saturday,
Saturday,
‘Saturday,
‘Saturday,

September 21
September 28
October 5
October 12
October 19
October 26

November
November

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

2
9

.

.

.

aren’t exactly desired

that

but the good

points are sure to override the bad
ones. There will be enough intraTC play to give the conference

Cortland STC
Mansfield STC
Shippensburg STC
King’s College

.

Home
Home
Home

JV
Friday, September 27

Thursday, October 10
Thursday, October 24
Thursday, October 31

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Stevens Trade School

.

Home
Home
Away

BASKETBALL-1957-1958
VARSITY
‘'Wednesday, December 4
‘Saturday, December 7
'Friday,

December

....

JV

Kutztown STC
Shippensburg

Away
Away
Cheyney STC
Home
King’s College
Away
Cheyney STC
Away
Pending
Home
Pending
Home
Away
Lock Haven STC Away
Pending
Home
Lock Haven STC Home
King’s College
Home
Lycoming College Away
Pending
Home
Away
Lycoming College Home
Pending
Home

STC

Cheyney STC

13

Saturday, December 14
‘Thursday, January 9

‘Wednesday, January 15
‘Saturday, January 18
‘Wednesday, January 29
‘Wednesday, February 5
‘Saturday, February 8
‘Wednesday, February 12
Friday, February 14
Saturday, February 15
‘Wednesday, February 19
‘Saturday, February 22
Wednesday, February 26
‘Friday, February 28

Away

.

Lycoming College
Lock Haven STC
Lycoming College

.

King’s College

STC
STC
Lock Haven STC
Shippensburg STC
Lock Haven STC
Millersville

....

STC
STC

.

.

.

King's College
Lycoming College

Mansfield

.

...

Millersville

....

.

.

.

Mansfield

....

.

.

Cheyney STC
Kutztown STC

.

,

Lycoming College
West Chester STC

.

.

.

.

WRESTLING— 1958
Wednesday, January 8
Saturday, January 18
Wednesday, January 29
Wednesday, February 5
Saturday, February 8
Wednesday, February 12
Saturday, February 15
Wednesday, February 19
February
‘Conference

STC
STC
Lock Haven STC
East Stroudsburg STC
Indiana STC
Millersville

Lincoln University

21, 22

—

West Chester STC
Lycoming College
STC Championships Away

the jayvee football schedule.

We

haven’t had one of any kind

number

—

Games

had been announced before. The
one thing that is going to get special attention from Husky fans is

for a

Home
Away
Home
Home
Away
Away
Home
Away

Shippensburg

of years.

And even

when we

Most of the things which turned
up in the 1957-58 athletic program

Now the Huskies have gone out
and put four games on the list.

6

Homecoming

STC
West Chester STC

seasons.

meaning. It should also allow for
couple outside opponents most

.

California

did operate some thing
that resembled a jayvee program
in the years after War II it was
sort of a catch-as-catch-can affairs.

a

Away
Away
Away
Away

.

.

.

Away

Lycoming College
Pre-season scrimmage
Lock Haven STC (N)

.

finally

activities is principally in football.

football coach

Saturday, September 14

There is one game in late September and three in October.
It should prove beneficial to the
football program.
The squads usually are of substantial size and
when all that some of the boys can
look forward to is maybe a minute
or two in a fourth quarter now and
then, there isn't too

much

to

hold

them on the squad all year.
There’s quite a change from high
school to college football.

It

us-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

.

..

ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT-1958
Thursday, February 7
Saturday, March 1
Tuesday, March 4

Wednesday, March

5

March 7
Saturday, March 8
Tuesday, March 11
Thursday, March 13
Saturday, March 15
Friday,

Finals

—

Qualifying Rounds
Qualifying Rounds
Qualifying Rounds
Qualifying Rounds
Qualifying Rounds
Qualifying Rounds
Semi-finals
Semi-finals
“Night of Champions”

BASEBALL— 1958
•Thursday, April 10
"Saturday, April 12

Lock Haven STC
Shippensburg STC
Scranton University
Lock Haven STC

.

Wednesday, April 16
•Friday, April 18 ...
•Saturday, April 19
•Tuesday, April 22
Saturday, April 26
•Wednesday, April 30

•Wednesday, May 14
"Thursday, May 15

Away

STC

Home

Lycoming College
Millersville

Mansfield

.

.

track,

Away

Wednesday, April

.

.

.

Home
Home
Away
Away
Away

Kutztown STC

STC
STC

Shippensburg

16

Tuesday, April 22

....

April 25, 26
Friday, May 2

. . . .

Saturday, May 10
Tuesday, May 13
Saturday, May 17

...
.

.

.

Millersville

Penn Relays
Cheyney STC
State Meet
East Stroudsburg

Away
Home
Away

....

STC

Lock Haven STC

direct

F.

Buckingham

the publicity for

the entire program.

WAGNER RESIGNS
HEAD COACH

Dr. E. Paul Wagner, who coached the Bloomsburg State Teachers
baseball team to one tie and another outright conference championships in his first two years at
the post, has resigned after three
years at the helm of the nine. WalBlair, head football coach at
the College, has been named to
take over as head of the diamond
ter

Games

•Conference

and Boyd
will

AS

TRACK-1958
Saturday, April 12

Blair steps up from assishead football coach and also

takes over in baseball.
He relinquishes his duties as wrestling
coach to Russell E. Houk who
comes here after a successful
coaching career at Muncy High.
Houk succeeds Yohe as athletic
director.
Those who stay put in
the program are Harold Shelly,
who will still coach basetball and

who

STC

East Stroudsburg

Walt
tant to

Away
Away

Home
Home

.

distributed.

Home

STC
STC

Lycoming College
Kutztown STC

.

Away

.

.

STC

East Stroudsburg

"Saturday, May 3
•Tuesday, May 6 ...
Saturday, May 10

Home

Kutztown STC
Mansfield

.

Away
Away
Away

announced, although the retirement of Dr. E. Paul Wagner
as baseball coach didn’t come out
officially until the schedule was
earlier

crew.

couple of years to
win varsity spurs. The jayvee program should do a great deal for
ually

takes

a

Husky football.
There has been

a manifested deon the part of Bloomsburg to
put Lycoming back on its football
schedule. The Williamsport institution has been a little reluctant
to accept.
But now that Bloomsburg has been taking some bumps
on the gridiron and Lycoming is
steadily improving there appears to
be a chance that the schools will be
meeting in varsity football in the

not distant future.
to

be

in

about everything else.
have a jayvee football
for the local

campus

accord on

They even
game listed

October.
They’ve been meeting in basketball
for a number of years and the card
for ’57-58 holds the
usual two
games.
They are going to send
their grappling teams against each
other in Williamsport on February

The

in

teams have a
home and home arrangement. The
19.

OCTOBER,

baseball

1957

sports

in

which they won’t

compete next term are
ball and track.

varsity foot-

successful scholastic
invitation basketball tourney is an
important part of the institution’s
promotional program. And the
general time for the event is always established pretty well in advance.

For the coming spring event,
however, they have come out with
a definite time schedule for the
tourney. There may be a change
or two before it is history but most
of the schedule will be adhered to.
This is important, for the schools
interested in the

games

will early

have the information as to when
they will be engaged in tourney
play, provided they are accepted,
and can make their plans accordingly.

There are nine dates on the list,
with the “Night of Champions” on

March

15.

There are
ministration.

few
Most

a

shifts

of

Mr. Wagner stepped down because of too many other duties at
the local institution.

The highly

sire

They seem

only

in

ad-

them were

He came

to

1950 from Mohawk
College in Donora and took over
as head baseball coach, from Jack

Bloomsburg

Yohe

in

in 1955.

Mr. Wagner proceeded to lead
the Huskies to the co-title with
Lock Haven in 1955 and the undisputed title in 1956. This past season the team finished fourth in the
conference race.
Wagner’s overall record in the three years is 27

win and 11

Two

lost.

of his team’s biggest upsets

were over Bucknell two years ago
and a 2-1 victory over Colgate this
past season on Mt. Olympus.
Mr. Wagner has had the distinction of coaching John Hilda, one
of the most outstanding pitchers to
wear a Bloomsburg uniform. Mr.
Wagner picked Huda up during
the summer after he graduated
from high school and worked the
lefty into one of the conference’s
top hurlers.
7

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

’46

Benton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mr. Michael Dorak

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Brentwood Lane

9

Levittown, Penna.

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

’33

VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Edward Lynn

Mr. Angelo Albano

SECRETARY
Edward D.

14th and Wall Streets
Burlington, N. J.

’41

Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Danville, Pa.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

TREASURER
Paul Martin, ’38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Clarke Brown
43 Strawberry Lane
Levittown, Penna.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

TREASURER
Mr. Wm. Herr
28 Beechtree

PRESIDENT

Miss Alice Smull,

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

Lane

Levittown, Penna.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

VICE PRESIDENT

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

Mrs. Lillian

William Zeiss
Route No. 2

732

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Aixh Street
Spring City, Pa.

TREASURER
BE LOYAL TO YOUR
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

recent letter from William

S.

Conner, Madera, California, contains the following:
“I

was

the class of

in

’85,

and

have seen many changes in the
world since then. I have also enjoyed

many happy

years.

have seen the glaciers in Alaska and the kangaroos hopping
around in Australia. 1 have walked
on that great wall in China, and
stood under the dome of the Taj
Mahal.
“I

“Now my

show

the marks
roar with the
weeks ago my wife
and I attended a Lions’ District
Convention in the Yosemite Valactions

age, but
Lions.
Two
of

ley.”

8

I

still

Miss Ether E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

Pa.

1912

1885

A

4,

News

of

the

tor,

death of Bertha

Iiarner Bidleman, noted elsewhere
in the Quarterly, will come as a
great shock to the members of the
class who were present at the reunion on Alumni Day. Mrs. Bidleman took a very active part in
the work of the committee that
made preparations for the reunion.

The

about $100
Bakeless Loan Fund at the
time of the reunion. It is hoped
that an equal amount can be raised,
the whole to be known as the BerMembers of
tha Bidleman fund.
the class are urged to communicate
with classmates who were not present at the reunion, informing them
class contributed

to the

of this

worthy

tributions

class project.

may be

’23

TREASURER

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue
Scranton

’18

SECRETARY

Margaret L. Lewis, ’28
1105% West Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

’ll

Irish, ’06

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY

Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

Hortman

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rodgers Lloyd

TREASURER
Homer

PRESIDENT
Clarks Summit, Pa.

’32

Race Street

Middletown, Penna.
Mr. W.

HONORARY PRESIDENT

’32

SECRETARY
259

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

Miss Pearl L. Baer,

’05

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

Con-

sent to the Edi-

Box

31, B.S.T.C.,

and

’34

will

be

duly credited.

1923
Jason S. Patterson, son of Mrs.
Jennie M. Patterson and the late
Andrew D. Patterson, East Fourth
Street, Bloomsburg, and a graduate
of B.H.S. and B.S.T.C., has been

named

supervising

principal

of

Williams Township, Northampton
county schools.
Patterson now resides at Easton,
and is teaching in the Easton
Schools. He received his Master’s
Degree in supervision and administration from New York University.
lie has done graduate work
at University of Pennsylvania and

Muhlenberg College.
Patterson
holds
a
secondary
school principal’s certificate, an ele-

THE ALUMNI QUARTEIILY

ALUMNI

T H E

NEW YORK AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

Wilkes-Barre Area

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Francis P. Thomas, ’42
1983 Everett Street
Valley Stream, L. I., N. Y.

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison Street
Tunkhannock, Pa.

Thomas

H. Jenkins, ’40

Terrace Drive
Shavertown, Pa.

91

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski, ’52
New Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Ruble James Thomas,

’42

1983 Everett Street
Valley Stream, L. I., N. Y.

Jerry Y. Russin,’4I
136 Maffet Street
Plains, Pa.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

A. K. Naugle, 11
119 Dalton Street

Agnes Anthony Silvany, ’20
83 North River Street

Roselle Park, N. J.

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter, T9

Mehoopany, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, 14

Slocum Avenue
Tunkhannock, Pa.

42

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling,
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

’53

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Kenneth Kirk,

’54

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Miss Grace Beck, ’23
1014 Chestnut Street
Sunbury, Penna.

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, ’36
1017 East Market Street

146

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Harold J. Baum, ’27
South Pine Street

E. Doty, ’53

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

Robert V. Glover,

Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER
’32

Washington Avenue
West Hazleton, Pa.

127

mentary school principal’s certifiand a supervising principal's

cate

certificate.

has been active in extra cur-

ricular activities in his present position,

visor

serving as student council adof the student

and chairman

committee. He was also
in charge of audio visual aids.
He
has taken an active part in teachers workshop conferences and many
activities

state

and national administrators’

OCTOBER,

1957

1,

Virginia

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY
Miss Mary R. Crumb,

’03

1232

U

’24

Street, S. E.

Mifflinburg, Pa.

Washington, D. C.

VICE PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

Jason Schaffer

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
Washington, D. C.

R. D.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 North Locusts treet
Hazleton, Pa.

He

Arlington

South Fourth Street
Sunbury, Penna.

WEST BRANCH AREA

Hazleton, Pa.

Ecker,

WASHINGTON AREA

Mrs. George Murphy, 16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

20

McHose

Milford, Pa.

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Lucille

New

Joseph A. Kulick, ’49
1542 North Danville Street

James

147 East

Olwen Argust Hartley, 14

SECRETARY-TREASURER
109

Hazleton Area

’ll

TREASURER
Mrs.

Sunbury, Penna.

’34

Madison Street

Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

317 Tripp Street
West Wyoming, Pa.

Betty K. Hensley,

Mrs.

1,

Selinsgrove, Pa.

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER
Miss Saida Hartman,
4215

Helen Crow
Lewisburg, Pa.

conferences.
Mr. Patterson is a member of the
Education
Association
National
and is on the association’s commitHe is
tee for civil defense study.
a member of the Pennsylvania Education Association and the Easton
Teachers Association and is treasurer of the Easton Schoolmen’s
Club.

Mr. Patterson is Civil Defense
medical director for the Plainfield

Brandywine
Washington

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

CD unit. He is an ofEaston Lodge No. 154, Free
and Accepted Masons, Easton Royal Arch Chapter No. 173 and Hugh
de Payens Commandery No. 19
Knight Templar, Easton.
Township

ficer in

Mr. Patterson was born in ColHe is married to
the former Kathryn Kreisher, formerly of Catawissa.
They have
two sons, Jack, twenty, with the
Metropolitan-Edison Co., Easton,

umbia County.

9

and Thomas, eighteen, an engineering student at Lafayette College.

1931
Pennington,
Bloomsburg
J.
educator, has tendered his resignation
to
accept
the
post
of
principal of the Bellevue Elementary Schools.
Bellevue is a resi-

M.

dential suburb of Pittsburgh.
A sixth grade instructor at the

Bloomsburg Memorial Elementary
School, the term just completed
marked his twenty-third year of
service here and a quarter-century
in the profession. He began teaching in the one-room, two-year high
school in Mt. Pleasant township,
instructing there for two years.
He taught at the local Fifth
street school for sixteen years until
it was closed and during World
War II, taught general science in
the high school. He holds numerous teaching and administrative

C. Young) lives at Fowlersville
Corners, R. 2, Berwick. Pa. Mr.
and Mrs. Young have six children,
all of whose names begin with the
letter “E.”
They are Edwin, Jr.,
now serving in the Army; Earl, in
the Air Force; Elizabeth Anne,

Erma

Jeanne, Eckley and Elvin.

Maurice Liptzer, of Pontiac,
Mich., is spending a week in Catawissa with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Liptzer.

The

years

have

been kind

to

He hasn’t changed much.
Anyway his smile hasn t changed
him.

and

his interest in sports hasn’t
lessened. He does have some curves where he used to have angles.
Outside of that he’s the same Mau-

He’s

now

the

owner

of a depart-

ment

A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1931, he also
took post graduate courses for two

dustrialized community about 27
miles from Detroit.
Actually, he
says, he’s a Detroiter.
He com-

summers

mutes

Masters degree from Bucknell

his

University and for the past two
years has studied toward his doctorate at Pennsylvania State University.

A

native of Forest Port, N. Y.,
he has spent most of his life in the
Bloomsburg area and has resided
on R. D. 5.
He was active in the Bloomsburg

Summer Playground program from
1942 to 1952 and was recreation
He
director for about four years.
was also assistant football coach
for the Bloomsburg Panthers for
fourteen years. For the past seven
years, on a part-time basis, he has
served as an announcer for radio
station

WCNIL
1932

Dr. Henry J. Warman, of Clark
University, was among those present at his class reunion in May.
Dr. Warman participated in a

Workshop

in

Geography during

the

He

then flew to South
for seven weeks’ study in
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

summer.
America

1932

Eldora B. Robbins (Mrs.
10

Edwin

project concentrates on the infants born with
handicaps. It has been functioning

only nine months but has been going so well he’s sure it is going to
be brought soon to the attention
of Kiwanians everywhere.

asked about “Tam” Kirker

and Maurice said he has moved to
Los Angeles. “Tam,” a native of
Columbia, Pa., was a former star
athlete at B.S.T.C. where Maurice
is

also a graduate, class of 1933.

“Tam” was

at

one time head of

the Mifflin township schools.
was in Detroit for a number

He
of

years, being with the Detroit Steel

Company. Maurice reports Kirker
had a son who graduated from
high school
ter

who

year and a daughgraduate next spring.

this

will

The

rice.

certificate.

at the local institution.
In 1954 Mr. Pennington received

Hospi-

The

Detroit.

tal,

We

1933
(From the “Passing Throng,” The
Morning Press, August 7, 1957)

Woodward General

at the

store in Pontiac, a highly in-

work.
Maurice, who has been in merchandising most of his adult life,
was managing a chain of stores
when he had the opportunity to
purchase a department store. Apparently he is doing right well,
for at the moment he’s dickering
for a location in the Pontiac Lake
to his

region.

principal recreation seems
be Kiwanis activities. Just recently he and five others of the
Pontiac North Club flew to Pittsburgh for a meeting with a club
there. They have a Kiwanis sponsored softball league that he is ac-

His

to

tive in at Pontiac.

And right now one of Maurice’s
big interests is a project which his
Kiwanis club along with three others in the Detroit area have started

other children in the Liptfamily are all in New York
now. They are Sara, Mrs. Charles
Katz; Norman, Mrs. A1 Lefkowitz
and Robert. Last week Bob flew
out to Detroit and the brothers
zer

came

east together.

was swell chatting with MauThere were a number of
rice.
members of happy times revived
It

during the conversation.
(E.F.S.)

1935
Mildred Hollenbaugh (Mrs. Raymond J. Brenner) lives at 317 Gorsuch Street, Folsom, Pa. Mr. and
Mrs. Brenner were married July 1,
1957,

the

in

United

Trinity

Brethren

Evangelical-

Church, Harris-

burg.

1942
Mrs. Lois Slopey Davis, 1520
Pine Street, Philadelphia, has been
nominated for a Distinguished EmAward awarded
Merit
ployee
June 21 in Rittenhouse Square to
the ten most outstanding employees
of the U. S. Army Signal Supply

Agency.
Mrs. Davis, Assistant Chief, Clas-

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

and Wage Branch at the
agency located at 225 South 18th
Street, was among those honored at the outdoor ceremonies. As
one of the 43 nominees, she may be
selected for the awards given ansification

nually to the top ten of the agency’s
more than 4,000 civilian employees.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Mr. Troutman came

1943

The following letter, written by
Major Elwood Wagner, U. S. Air
Force, has recently come to the
desk of the Editor. Mrs. Wagner
is the former Kay Jones, of Shickshinny. The address given in the
letter is Hq. F.E.A.F., Box 408,

APO

San Francisco, California.
“We will be leaving Japan after
a
wonderful twenty-two months
Headquarters, Far East Air
tour.
Forces is moving to Hawaii and
we ll move with them to complete
We have enour overseas tour.
joyed this beautiful and interesting
country and feel we have learned
more about Japan than the average military person since we’ve had
the opportunity to learn from and
travel with Miss Dorothy Schmidt,
925,

in

to

September

Bloomsof

1952.

He

r eceived his B.S. degree from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1948 and his M.S. degree

Bucknell University in 1952. He
currently working toward his
Doctor’s degree in Education at
Pennsylvania State University.
While at Bloomsburg High he
lias been assistant football coach,
coach of the Junior High football
team, Junior High basketball mentor and has been a well known
at

There are several B.S.T.C. graduates over here teaching in dependent schools. Several months ago
visited Chitose, our nothern-most

of basketball and football
the area.
He was president of
the Tri-County Junior High basketball league and head of the
Bloomsburg Softball League, last
season.

official
in

Troutman

this summer studied
Bucknell
University
under
the National Science Foundation

scholarship awarded

Troutman

is

him recently.
married and has a

daughter, Sandra Kay, fifteen.

Japanese base, and had a pleasant
Dave
chat with Nels Oman, 42.
Nelson, ’42, and I are assigned to
the same office here in FEAF;
however, the Nelsons will be com-

1949
Robert W. Hammers is the new
Superintendent of Esso Standard
Oil Company’s Tuckerton Pipeline
Terminal, Reading, Pennsylvania.

pleting their tour in July and will
could orreturn to the states.
very active “Nihon”
ganize
a
Branch of the Alumni Association

was promoted

We

if

we

weren’t scheduled to

on

sail

21 June.

Had
vvhiler

He

replaces N.

Eugene Keifer who

to Fuel Oil SalesReading area.
Mr.
Keifer had been Terminal Superintendent at Tuckerton for 15

man

in

the

Danny

Lit-

while he was here conduc-

ting a baseball clinic.

I

was

sorry

we couldn’t get together for a dinner date so that we could swap
long stories about our favorite alma mater.
Sincerely,

Elwood M. Wagner

Hammers served three years
the South Pacific during World
War II attaining the rating of First
Sergeant in the 504th Heavy MainMr.

in

tenance Ordnance Company. He
received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in

William M. Troutman, head of

Bloomsburg High School’s Science Department for the past two
the

Mr. Hammers started with Esso
Williamsport in November, 1949.
He was District Clerk for the Wilkes-Barre District in Avoca until
Mr. Hamhis recent promotion.

year, resigned to accept the posi-

of

Principal

of

Williamsport.
The junior high consists of
grades seven and eight and will
be operating with three full grades
next year with an expected total
of 360 students.
The building is

new and was dedicated June
1957

Mussoline, who was successful
as a junior high coach several seasons ago before resigning at Hazleton, was an outstanding lineman at
H.H.S. and at the local college.

He
cella,

joins the staff of

Tony

Scar-

head coach and Red Turse

and Danny Parrell, assistant coaches.
Turse and Parrell are also B.
S.T.C. alumni.

1951
Richard Kressler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Kressler, Bloomsburg
R. D. 1, has been named Advertising and Sales Promotion Manager,
Magee Carpet Company.
Mr. Kressler is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
has been in this type of work for
the last four years in the New York
office of the local firm.

As Advertising and Sales PromoManager, Mr. Kressler will be
responsible for preparation of pubtrade journals, repto the public,
work with the advertising agency
in planning and executing adver-

licity releases to

resent the

Company

programs, handle consumer
and correspondence and
prepare printed material for memtising

inquiries

1952

Henry Charles Hurtt,
ed

his Master’s

the

annual

cises

at

the

Jr.,

receiv-

degree June 13

commencement
University

of

at

exerPitts-

burgh.

Loyalsock

Township Junior High School, near

OCTOBER,

High School.

ton

at

1948

tion

1949
Larry Mussoline, former star
lineman
at
Bloomsburg
State
Teachers College, has been named
assistant football coach at Hazle-

bers of the sales staff.

1949.

Major, U.S.A.F.

Mr. Hammer’s mother, Mrs. Edna G. Hammers, lives at 1315 West
Southern Avenue, West Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

tion

years.

a short chat with

mers lived at Kingston during this
period.

is

at

’29.

l

burg High

4.

ARCUS’
FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

— Berwick

Arcus,

’41

1954
Gerald E. Houseknecht, who
graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, in June,
has accepted a call to become assistant pastor of Trinity Lutheran
Church, Hagerstown.
A graduate of B.S.T.C., Mr.
11

Houseknecht has served as counsellor at Camp Nawaka, Lutheran
summer camp for boys and girls
and as chaplain at Boy Scout
camps. Last summer, he was the
supply pastor of the Lutheran
Church, Goldsboro.
took clinical training at Patton State Hospital, Patton, Califor-

summer and assumed

his

Hagerstown on September
He was ordained in St. Matthew
1.
Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg, and
was formally installed as assistant
to Dr. Wilson P. Aid in Trinity
duties in

1956

Donald Thomas, Shamokin, former Bloomsburg State Teachers
College football star, has been apteacher-coach

at

Exeter

Township High School.
A former Shamokin High

Thomas

star,

history and
coach junior varsity football at the

teach

will

Berks County school. He received
state honorable mention during the
1954 and 1955 seasons at the local
college.

1956
7

St.

Lutheran Church, Millvile, was the setting on Saturday,
May 23, for the marriage of Miss
Dorothy M. Diltz, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Buss Diltz, Muncy R. D.
1, to C. Dale Gardner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. Roy Gardner, Unityville R. D.
The Rev. Eugene Smith performed the double-ring ceremony before an altar decorated with white
gladioli and snapdragons.
Both the bride and groom are

Espy

St. Paul’s

graduates of Hughesville High
The bride
School, class of 1952.
also attended Lycoming College
and was graduated from B.S.T.C.
She is an English teacher at Mill-

High School. The bridegroom operates his father’s farm
near Unity ville where they will re-

ville

side.

1956
In a pretty ceremony performed
in June in the Methodist Church at

Willow Grove, Miss jean Zimmerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Leslie

Zimmerman, Berwick, be-

came the bride of Joseph Beily, son
of Gonrad Beily, Berwick.
Miss Barbara Laubach, Bloomsburg, was maid of honor and Richard Bittner, Southampton, was best

man.
bride graduated from B.S.T.
is a teacher in the Woodlawn Elementary School in Upper

Moreland

Township,

Willow

Grove. The bridegroom, who attended B.S.T.G., is now employed
at the Master Etching Go., Yyn-

John’s

Lutheran Church

Mr. and Mrs. Beily are
12

now

liv-

in

was

the setting Saturday,
June 15, for the ceremony uniting
in marriage of Miss Mollie Jane

Hipppensteel, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Lester Hippensteel, Espy, to
William Copeland Harrell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Harrell, R.

D.

2.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Walter L. Brandau.
Mrs. Harrell, a graduate of Scott
Township High School and B.S.T.
C., is teacher of second grade at
the Central Columbia County Joint
School.
Her husband, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and B.S.
T.C., served four years in the U. S.
Navy with service in the Pacific
He holds memberships
Theater.
in the B.P.O.E., L.O.O.M. and AmHe plans to enter
erican Legion.
Pennsylvania State University in
September to do graduate work.

1957

summer ceremony
performed Saturday, August 10, at
In

a

lovely

Presbyterian
Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Carol
Jean Nearing, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert B. Nearing, was united

four

at

the

First

marriage to Robert Morgan
Maurer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ilarry

in

The

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
J.

bride

C. Angus, pasthe double-ring

graduated

from

Bloomsburg High School and

B.S.

T.C. this spring, receiving the Service Key from the latter institution.
She will teach in the elementary
school at South Lebanon township
this fall.

The bridegroom graduated from
High School, attended

Girardville

Villanova University and graduated in January from B.S.T.C.
He
is a member of Phi Sigma Pi, men’s
educational fraternity.
He will
teach in South Lebanon Township
High School.

1957

The marriage of Miss Kathryn
Ann Crew, daughter of Mr. and
Stanley Crew, WilliamsFrank P. Wolyniec, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wolyniec,
Williamsport, was performed June
30 in First Evangelical United
Brethren Church, Williamsport.
Mrs.

C. Conner,

’34

F.

port, to

Miss Crew is a graduate of B.S.
T.C. and is a member of the faculty at the J. Henry Cochran Elementary School, Williamsport. Her

husband, a graduate of Gettysburg
College,

is

employed by the

J.

C.

Penney Co.
1957

Ensign Howard Jack Healy, of
Berwick, was one of the new Naval
officers who received their commissions at Newport, Rhode Island,
Ensign Healy and Miss
in May.
Bertha Knouse, ’56, of Bloomsburg,
were married last November in
the Methodist Church, Bloomsburg.
1957
Prive James E. Harris, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Harris, R.
D. 5, is receiving eight weeks of
basic combat training with the 1st
Infantry Division at Fort Riley,
He was graduated from
Kansas.
the

Mrs.

cote.

performed
ceremony.

'

The

C. and

Maurer, Girardville.

The Rev. Robert

Church, Hagerstown.
1956

L.

tor,

pointed

He

nia, this

ing at 1865 Eckard Avenue, Abington, Pa.

1952

Bloomsburg High School in
and the Bloomsburg State

Teachers College in 1957. His address is: US52 436 678, Co. A2nd
Battle,
Gp. and Division, Fort
Riley, Kansas.

1957
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, BloomsTIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

burg, lias been appointed teacher
of the intermediate opportunity
class in the Catawissa schools.

1957

M

iss
Mary Margaret Sauers,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Sauers,
Old Berwick Road,
J.
Bloomsburg, became the bride of
James Brittin Creasy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Creasy, Bloomsburg,
in an impressive ceremony at ninethiry Saturday, June 29, at St. Columba’s Catholic Church, Blooms-

burg.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
John J. Sheerin, Y.G., LLD, Morristown, N.

uncle of the bride.

J.,

Following a reception at St. Columba’s Marian Hall, the couple left
on a wedding trip through the
southern states. They will reside
with the bride’s parents at 1248 Old
Berwick Road, Bloomsburg.

The bride graduated from St.
Mary’s High School, Wilkes-Barre,
and College Misericordia, Dallas.
She is employed in the personnel
office of the

Magee Carpet Com-

pany.

The bridegroom is a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School and B.S.

He

served four years in the
U. S. Navy and will teach in Williamsport High School.
T. C.

1957
Friday evening August 23,
Renton Methodist Church,

in the

Miss

Barbara Raski, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Raski, Benton R. D.
2, was united in marriage to George
Gary Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Hess, Benton.

The Rev. John

A. Hoover, min-

performed
ceremony.

ister,

the

double-ring

Mr. and Mrs. Hess both graduated from Benton High School in
1953.
The bride, a graduate of
B.S.T.C. in May, will teach fourth
grade in the Rose Tree School,
Media, this fall.

The bridegroom attended Bucknell University

and

is

a second year

student in the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry, Philadelphia. He is a member of Kap-

pa Sigma social fraternity.

OCTOBER,

1957

Miss

Winifred

Edwards, a
was one of
eight New Jersey educators employed for four weeks by the New
Jersey Bell Telephone Company to

Bloomsburg

E.

native,

take part in the company’s fourth
consecutive summer program of
teacher observation tours of entrance jobs.

Miss Edwards, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank P. Edwards, West
Main Street, Bloomsburg, is a summer resident of Bloomsburg. During the school year she lives at Irvington, N. J., and is the guidance

counselor of high school there.

The summer program

as explain-

ed by Harold L. Ryan, vice president in charge of Jersey Bell’s personnel relations department is designed to give secondary school
teachers and guidance placement
counselors a “firsthand knowledge”
of starting jobs in business and industry which are available to high
school graduates.
Through a study of training programs, common personnel problems, employment practices, working conditions and skill and personality requirements of various
jobs, the educators receive experience invaluable for providing students guidance and caree place-

ment, and a more intelligent and
more secure start in the working
world.
Miss Edward’s first year of
teaching was spent at a rural school
in Pennsylvania where she taught
eight grades, tended the furnace
and performed many other tasks.
She taught in private and public
Bloomsburg
schools,
including
High School, in Pennsylvania before accepting a position at Irvington.
Most of her career has been
spent teaching subjects in business
education and mathematics.
She has been active in the adult
education school for five years, is

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S.

HUTCHISON, T6

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Hotel Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

on the board of the Y.M-Y.W.C.A.
and devotes time to P.T.A. and
Youth Week activities. Her work
with students on school magazines
and newspapers hase won recognition of first place at Columbia University Press Conventions and she
iias taught a clinic on magazine
layouts in connection with these
conventions for the last eight
years

.

Miss Edwards received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from
New York University and has completed the six-year college program
tor certification. She has completed
most of the work required for certification as a school psychologist.

Miss Laura A. Philo, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Philo, of
Bloomsburg, became the bride of
Clayton D. Patterson, Jr., son of
Mrs. Mildred Hess Patterson, Nescopeck, in a pretty ceremony per-

formed Saturday, August 17, at the
Bloomsburg Methodist Church.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.

Thomas
members of

Dr.

J.

the

Hopkins,

before

immediate fam-

ilies.

The bride
graduated
from
Bloomsburg High School and B.S.
T.C. where she was a member of
Alpha Psi Omega. She is commercial teacher at Bloomsburg High
School.

The bridegroom,

a graduate of

Nescopeck High School and

B.S.

work at University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. He teaches at Upper Darby Junior High School and
T.C., took graduate

a first lieutenant in the Air Force
Reserve.

is

H. A. Vaughn, general manager
Radium Corporation, has
announced some recent promotions
of local men.
William Gillespie,
R. D. 2, has been promoted to sales
engineer.
He attended Pennsylvania State University and graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He took advanced degree work at Bucknell University.
He is married to the former Alberta Naunas.
The couple have
of U. S.

two children.
13

Al umni For

Whom We
Kiefer, Margaret R.

Have

No Add resses

(Mrs. Hewitt)

Alumni who know the present
addresses of any of the following
are requested to write to the Presi-

McBride,
Elizabeth
(Mrs.
I.
W.
Banks)
McNiff, Carrie M. (Mrs. J. W. Doug-

dent’s Office, B.S.T.C.:

herty)

Palmer, Sallie

App,

Wm.

Treible,

Class of 1879

Kelly,

Annie W.

Class of 1889
(Mrs.

Charles

L.

Shaw)
Kern, Emily C.
Roxby, Annie E.
Class of 1880
Smith, N. H. (Rev.)
Sterner, Tillie M. (Mrs. Scott Young)

Young, Ernest W.
Class of 1881
Case, Sadie (Mrs. G. L. Jolly)
Fellona, Susan R. (Mrs. Poppert)
Harnett, Minnie C.
Kern, Estella L. (Mrs. H. S. Knight)

Maclay, Robert P.

Morgan, Henry L.
O’Donnell, Kate A.

A. (Mrs.

Class of 1883
Brindle, Elwood R.
Burnette, Nellie T.
Hight, Frank R.
McGuire, Mary A.
Rittenhouse, Eva A. (Mrs. Chas. D.

Dugan
Class of 1884
I.

Charles, Robert
Eckbert, Lottie

D.

(Mrs.

Alex

M.

Lupfer)
Fleisher, Hiram H.
Harter, N. Gertie (Mrs. C. B. Miller)
Higgins, Kate E. (Mrs. Divers)
Hoban, Alice I.

Hunt, M. Louis
Lawlor, Margaret L.
MacCullough, Jean T.

(Mrs.

Dun-

well)

McDonough, Margaret
Margaret Dodson)

Mary

J.

Cummings, Clara E. (Mrs. F. B. Irwin)
Driesen, Minnie (Mrs. Harris)
Dunsmore, Mary A. (Mrs. Robert
Kelley)
Irvin, Florence (Mrs. H. W. Fields)
Lenahan, Theresa A.
McCollum, Mary E.
McVicker, Laura A. (Mrs. J. H. Litchard
Newhouse, Laura B. (Mrs. Henry L.
Irvin)

Ream, Frederick
Robbins, Anna
Sheep, S. Laura (Mrs. Benton Tyer-

McKeown

(Dr.

(Mrs.

Louise

Kee)
Class of 1888
Chrisman, M. Bertha (Mrs. Hoff)

(Mrs.

Chas.

S.

Leyshon, Josephine (Mrs. W. A. Moyer)

Major, C. C.

Mawn, Kate
McAndrews, Anna

L. (Mrs.

John Mc-

Cormick)
Moore, Maggie M.

Penniman, Mabel A. (Mrs. Grauerb)
Reilly, Agatha
Reilly, Anna B. (Mrs. M. F. Shannon)
Ross, Kate R. (Mrs. Geo. Wall
Schrader, Frona J. (Mrs. Bennett)
Smith, Stella (Mrs. Walter Edwards)
Spratt,

Mary

A.

(Mrs. Allen A. Orr)
(Mrs. Edward
J.

Emma

Townsend,

Ward, Eliza

L. (Mrs. P. P. Loughran)
Weil, Belle (Mrs. Gratz)
Wenrich, Ida G. (Mrs. H. T. Bechtel)
Williams, Mary B.

Bidleman, M. Myrtle (Mrs. A. D. Catterson)

Burgess, Ida F. (Mrs. W. H. Davis)
Carrol,
Elizabeth N.
(Mrs. Hugh

O’Hara
Davis, John F.
Duffy, Margaret T.
Gilespie,

Katherine

Gregory, Clementine
Hayman, Eleanor

(Herman)

Mitchell, Margaret E.
Morrison, Hannah B.
Palmer, Jennie (Mrs. M. F. Forbell)
Sears, Irene S. (Mrs. J. W. Barbour)
Taylor, Bessie
Yeager, Minnie (Mrs. Geo. Bradley)

Class of 1891
Black, Mae Virginia
Bogart, Elsie S. (Mrs. Tettimer)
Boone, Daisy M. (Mrs. T. M. McCulloch)
Byrnes, Edward S.
Caranaugh, Elizabeth (Mrs. M. H.
Devott)
Clauser, Anna W. (Mrs. E. J. Wasley)
Ella

T.

man)
Worrall,
Adler)

Miller, Willis

Connelly,

Class of 1892
Carlston, Eleanor E.
(Mrs.
Harry
Crawford, Alice M.
Pierce)
Lannon, Katie A.
Porter, Hattie E. (Mrs. Newlin)
Sherwood, E. May (Mrs. John G. Har-

Tweedle, Lulu
Vincent, Frederick

Jones, Margaret E.
Lenahan, Nellie G.

Cohen, Rosa

Mary M. Mc-

C.

Eyer)

Class of 1890

Brooke)

Mary

Kintner,
Harris)

May

Smith, C. Edgar (Rev.)
Snyder, Wm. H.

Class of 1882
Crippen, Lue M. (Mrs. E. J. Moore)
LaShelle, E. Gert (Mrs. Wm. E. Wagner)
Stiles, N. Burnette
(Mrs. Wm. H.

Bertels, Bird

Brown,

man)

Powell, Gwenny (Mrs. Jones)
Sharpless, Harry F.
Wilson, Emma F. (Mrs. Struthers)

Mansell,

Mary

Kennedy, Julia M.

Cullen, William F.

Dean,

dis)

H. (Dr.)

H.

J.

Mary (Mrs. B. F. Williams)
Durkin, Jennie C.
Evans, James (Dr.)
Hunter, Olive (Mrs. Benj. Cameron)
Junkin, Sara A. (Mrs. Geo. K. LanDavies,

(Mrs.

Grady)
Crobaugh, Clarence D.
Davies, Emily (Mrs. W.

Thomas

(Esq.)
P. Davenport)

Mary

B.

(Mrs.

W.

Scott

Class of 1893

Bowersox, Kate

S.

Connelly, Kate
Coughlin, Maggie (Mrs. T. J. O’Neill)
Davis, Mary Ida
Fahringer, Effie (Mrs. W. N. Dennison)
Gallagher, Celia
Gibbons, Minnie (Mrs. W. F. Hosie)
Gotshall, Mercy
Kurtz, Ella B.
Lewis, Margaret E. (Mrs. Frank Fait)
McLaughlin, Bridget
McNulty, Katie (Mrs. John Hay)
O'Neill, Charles H. (Dr.-Dentist)
Powell, Elizabeth (Mrs. L. R. Whit-

man)
Snively, Myrtle (Mrs. Hosley)
Stroud, Lela M. (Mrs. J. H. VanLoon)
Thomas, Maggie (Mrs. W. T. Beck)

The Bakeless Fund Needs Your Support
14

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HM

•

.

AWI1 MXT*">

mentary school in Scranton. They
had six children, two boys and four
girls.
Her husband died in 1921

Nprrn logii
Mrs. John T. Jones (Mary Elliott
Taylor) was born in Merion Square,
Pennsylvania, November 4, 1868.
When she was twelve years old the
family moved about a mile away
from the village to the old Taylor
Farm of sixty acres, the remainder
the
of
original
quarter-section
bought by her great-grandfather
from Penn’s daughter. Letitia. Here
she lived until she married and
moved to Scranton.
Although life on the farm was
good it was not easy. There was
plenty to do, and besides the work
there

was

a

The

walk

way

mile each

of

to

more than

get

to

a

school.

had no high school beher time, and she waited a
year for the new one to be built.
She graduated in the first class
from the first high school in Lower
Merion Township, first in her class
village

fore

and

class poet.

After graduation she was sent at
the
urging of her teacher to

Bloomsburg, his own Alma Mater.
She passed the examinations and
entered the senior year.
She was
a good student interested in all her
studies, but her special interest was
in the natural sciences and in geography.
In the latter subject she
retained her interest as long as she

She enjoyed debating and
belonged at Bloomsburg to Philo,
one of the two debating societies
lived.

Normal at
husband

of

that time.

Her

fu-

whom

she met here
belonged to the other debating so-

ture

ciety called Callie.

After graduation she taught for
years in Ardmore about five
miles from the old farm, boarding
near her school during the week
and returning to the farm each
week-end. Her summer vacations
ten

were spent at the farm except for
a trip each year.
She visited the
Columbian World’s Fair in Chicago
in 1893 and went west with a group
year that the Christian
Endeavor Convention was held in
in 1897, the
Seattle.

In
Jones,

1899

she

who was

OCTOBER,

1957

married

John

T.

principal of an ele-

Isabelle

Hawk,

’92

the support

and education of their six children,
the oldest boy then in his junior

teacher, having taught in the Junior

leaving to his

Mrs. John T. Jones, ’88

Cady

Miss Cady Isabelle Hawk died
Thursday, May 3, at her home, 156
Willow Street, Plymouth. She was

widow

a retired

Plymouth Borough school

year at the University of Pennsylvania,
the
oldest
girl
at

High School building 53

Bloomsburg. She was given a posigrade in Scran-

was born in Wiconisco,
daughter of the late John and
Anna Kerschner Hawk. She lived
in Plymouth most of her life and
was a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. She was a
member of the Pennsylvania State
Teachers Association. Miss Hawk
was a member of First Presbyterian
Church of Plymouth and served as
secretary of the Sunday School
more than fifty-five years. She seldom missed attending church and

tion in the seventh

ton, and this made it possible for
her to finish the education of her
children, her two sons in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, the four girls in teaching at
Bloomsburg. She taught after her
husband’s death for fourteen years.

She retired in 1935 at the age of
and active, young for her
age in every way. Up to six months
before her death on June 6, she
managed her own home, worked
in her garden, sewed, crocheted,
and read widely. Her interest in
world affairs and geography remained keen and she seldom missed reading her weekly issue of
Time or the monthly Geographic.
She was a faithful member of the
Tiinity
Congregational
Church,
served there as deaconess, and attended church and Sunday School
seldom missing a service. She was
a member of the Scranton Chap66, alert

the D.A.R. acting as chapseveral years resigning
that office in June, 1956.

ter of

plain

for

During these years she traveled
but little, and less and less as the
years passed preferring the quiet
of her own home and the companionship of her children and grandchildren. But she took great pleas-

ure

each

year

in

returning

to

Bloomsburg on Alumni Day where
with her old classmate, Mrs. Annie
Supplee Nuss, she attended reunion
exercises in chapel, after which she
sat and visited with her in the
Alumni Room until late in the afternoon. Here with her old friend
the years seemed to drop from her,
and she became young again. For
this one day her cares and troubles
were laid aside, and she enjoyed
the happiness that was hers, when
with the class of

’88,

she attended

“Old Normal” so many years ago.
(This tribute to Mrs. Jones was
writtten by her daughter, Margaret J. Jones, at the request of
the Editor.)

Miss

Hawk who

years.

retired eleven

years ago,

Pa., a

Sunday School.

Mary Sullivan Gilmer, ’93
Mrs. Mary Ellen Sullivan Gilmer,
83, widow of Charles G. Gilmer,
Mrs.

plumbing and building contractor,
died Monday, July 1, in her home
at 2410 North Second Street, Harrisburg.
.

A

native of Harrisburg, Mrs. Gil-

mer attended

city schools, was an
graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and taught
for many years in the Harrisburg

honor

schools.

She was a former vice president
the Harrisburg branch of the
Bloomsburg Alumni Association,
and past president of the Catholic
Women’s Club. She also was active in the National Council of
Catholic Women at local, state and
national levels, and at one time
served as national committee member. For the latter services, she was
cited by Pope Pius XI. She was a
former member of the Harrisburg
of

Civic Club.
Mrs. Gilmer is surved by a son,
Charles S. Gilmer, of San Francisco; a daughter, Mrs. George H.
Keller III, a member of the faculty
at Rutgers University, Ridgewood,
N. [., and four grandchildren.

Harvey Gelnctt, ’97
Harvey Gelnett passed away
September 7, 1956. He was born
March 8, 1875. After he graduated
from the Bloomsburg State Teach15

was prinand onehe was in

ers College in 1897, he
cipal of schools for ten

half years.
After that
the insurance business

for about
years in Middleburg, Snyder
County. His survivors are his wife,
H. Rebecca Gelnettt; one daughter, Mary Kathryn Gelnett, of New
fifty

York City, and two sons, Clarence
H. Gelnett, of Middleburg, and
Arthur A. Gelnett, of Salisbury,
Md., and one granddaughter, Hazle

Anne

Gelnett, of Salisbury,

Md.

Bertha Harner Bidleman, 12
Mrs. Ercell D. Bidleman, the former Bertha Harner, sixty-five, East
First Street, Bloomsburg, died Friday, June 21, 1957. She had been
in the hospital since June 9 and
death was due to complications.

She was born in Snyder County
at Meiserville and spent most of
her early life in Mt. Carmel. She
taught school in Mt. Carmel until
her marriage in 1917 when she
moved to Sunbury for one year.
She taught school in Kulp and
came to Bloomsburg in 1919 where
she was a substitute teacher for

many

years.

She was a devoted member of
Bloomsburg Presbyterian Church
and sang for many years in the
choir.
She was a member of the
Dr. Waller Bible Glass, Order of
Eastern Star, Bloomsburg, and the
Delta Society.

Warren

K. Harned, 69, widleyknown former professional baseball
player of Shickshinny R. D., succumber recently in Jefferson Hos-

He had been
Philadelphia.
health for some time.
Mr. Harned was a native of Wilkes-Barre and had, after his colorful baseball career been employed
as a stationery engineer for many
years at the Stanton plant of Scranpital,
ill

ton Electric

Company.

He had

re-

turned to the Shickshinny section
upon retirement four years ago.
The area man had been a graduate of B.S.T.C. anr had played
He gained fame in this
baseball.
area as a pitcher in the Old Susin 1907 and 1908
for the WilkesBarre Barons. From there he went

quehanna League,
and later pitched

16

Auber

Robbins

J.

Market
one of Bloomsburg’s most prominent families,
died this past summer.

Auber

Street, a

John

member

Robbins,
of

A native of Shenandoah, he resided in Bloomsburg most of his
life.
He was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School
and the University of Pennsylvania
He was a member of
School.
Lodge
No.
264,
Caldwell Consistory, and

Washington

F&AM,

lrem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre.

He was

a

member

of

First Pres-

byterian Church, Bloomsburg.

Surviving are his wife; three chilM. Paul Smith, Norristown; Mrs. Conway Munro, St.
Louis, Mo., and Robert M. Robseven
Kansas;
Witchita,
bins,
grandchildren; one great grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Walter Brooke,
dren, Mrs.

Mrs. Fietta Guenther Meier
Mrs. Fiettta Maier, fifty-seven,
wife of E. Henry Meier, Mifflinville, died suddenly recently at the
home of her brother, George Guenther, Levittown, where she had

been

visiting.

Mrs. Meier was born in Hazleton,
the daughter of the late
George and Mathlida A. Encke
Guenther. She was graduated from
Hazleton High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
After her marriage she moved to
White Haven where she resided for
thirteen

years.

She had been a

Sugarloaf
township,
teacher
in
West Hazleton, and Center township schools, and had been teaching in the elementary schools at
Mifflinville for the past ten years.

She was

a

member

of St. John’s

Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mif-

and treasurer of the
Ladies’ Bible Class. She was also
a member of the church choir as
well as a teacher in the Sunday
School. She served as treasurer of
the Columbia County P.T.A. for
a number of years.

flinville,

Greenwich, Conn.

He was the son of the late John
Morris and Ella Haasler Robbins.

Anna Connors Collins
Anna Connors (Mrs. Thomas

Col-

1925 Spring Garden Street,
Philadelphia, died Sunday, July 7,
at her residence.
Mrs. Collins had been a member
lins),

A

Helen Sees Kreamer
school
Jersey town

retired

teacher died this past summer in
the Bloomsburg where she and her
husband had been admitted apparently

Warren Harned

in

on to the Pittsburgh Pirates and St.
Louis Cardinals, retiring from proball at the age of thirty-five.
Mr. Harned was affiliated with
the Assembly of God at Sunshine.

suffering

from

psittacosis,

commonly known as “parrot fever.”
An autopsy indicated, the attending physician said, that Mrs. Helen
Sees Kreamer, sixty-two, Bloomsburg R. D. 1, died from the rare
“parrot fever.”

Mrs. Kreamer was the daughter
the late Sherman and Lillian
Williams Sees, and was born near
All of her life was
Jerseytown.
spent in or near Jerseytown.

of

She had been a teacher for fortytwo years until her retirement two
years ago. Forty-one of those years
were spent at Madison township
and the other in Montour county.
Thousands of pupils knew her as

“Miss Helen.” She and Mr. Kreamer were married twelve years ago.

She was a member of the Jerseytown Methodist Church.

High
Her hus-

of the faculty at Larksville

School for

many

years.

band was employed

as

a

printer

Wilkes-Barre Evening
News, and for the past twenty years
worked as a printer with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
with

the

Dr. Richard Ilallisy
Dr. Richard G. Hallisy, Big
Michigan, former head
Rapids,
of the business department at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died of cancer Thursday,
June 13, in the Big Rapids Hospital.

Dr. Hallisy had been head of
commerce department at Ferris
stitute at

Big Rapids since he

the
Inleft

He
Bloomsburg two years ago.
had been ill for some time and was
in the hospital on several occasions
during the past year. Before coming to Bloomsburg he worked in a
federal office in Washington.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

PROSPECTS FOR

1957-1958

ENROLLMENT
The

total enrollment for the first semester of the college year 1957-1958 will be more
Of this number, approximately 500
1,200 students, with a Freshman Class of 330.
are in dormitories, 300 men are living in the Town of Bloomsburg, and about the same

than

number
their

of

home

men

are commuting, while the remainder of about 100 are
and return each day.

women

driving from

to the college

FACULTY
A full-time faculty of 60 and a part-time faculty, chiefly cooperating teachers in
student teaching centers, of 52, while an increased number over the previous year, still
represents a student-teacher ratio which should be lowered as soon as funds are available
for the employment of an increased instructional staff.
In order that the 700 off-campus stuuents may reach their homes as early as possible,
classes are being scheduled for the period from 12:00 to 1:00 o’clock, with a cafeteria
mid-day meal hour running from 11:00 to 1:00. Otherwise, a large number of classes
would have to be scheduled on Saturdays, or the day would have to be lengthened so that
a large number of students would have class at 4:u0 o'clock and have to travel an hour
over roads which would became dangerous in the late winter evenings.
Faculty salaries have increased by granting double increments varying from $400 to
$600 per year to all those members of the instructional staff who were employed last year.
FACILITIES
The College Commons (Dining Room, Kitchen, and Storage Building) is now in full
operation and is feeding more than 600 students ana dining room employees. It is cafeteria service for the breakfast ana luncheon meals, and table service for the evening
meal, under an agreement which has been signed with the M. W. Food Company, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
More than 100 students living in the Town of Bloomsburg are availing themselves of
the opportunity to have their meals on campus.
The contract for the renovation of our dmmg room space, so it will be available for
use as a Library, is progressing, and it is expected that the large part of the old Library
equipment can be moved to this new location during the Christmas Holidays. Stack space
for approximately 50,000 books and bounu magazines will thus be made available.
As soon as the old Library space is vacated, dormitory rooms to accommodate 25
students on the second floor of Waller Hall Annex will be constructed and will be available for use before the end of the college year. Total cost of this project will exceed
$200,000, and represents an expenditure from the regular college budget.

NEW BUILDING PROGRAM
The General State Authority is reviewing plans for (1) A New Men’s Dormitory to
accommodate 200 students, L. P. Kooken Company, New Oxford, Pennsylvania, Architects.
(2) A Classroom Building to house the Department of Business Education and the Science
Department, John A. Schell, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Architect.
The total construction cost of these two buildings, plus furniture and equipment, will
exceed $1,500,000. However, when they are completed, we shall only be able to offer an
opportunity to two-thirds of the men now living in the Town of Bloomsburg to come on
campus. When the dormitory is completed, we shall be able to offer campus rooming
facilities to 700 and dining facilities to not more than 800.
While enrollment of 1,400 was planned for the college year 1953-1959, this will probably
be impossible until such a time as the two buildings presently planned are constructed
for occupancy.

and ready

ADMISSION PROBLEMS
Two times as many students

paid the initial admission fee as could be accepted in
the Freshman Class. Probably an equal number either secured admission blanks and did
not complete them, or requested admission blanks and were told of the overcrowding and
did not follow up their original intention. In other words, there were three applicants for
each student admitted, and this situation will probably continue.
No matter what plans are made for increasing the size of the campus through land
purchases or for building additional buildings, Alumni who are interested in having
students apply for admission to Bloomsburg should advise them to do so as early as possible, with the understanding that all students have to rank reasonably high on a qualifying
examination, pass a physical examination by their family and college physicians, and
have a satisfactory interview with at least two members of the college staff.
Bloomsburg has the same problems as other colleges in Pennsylvania, and your underscanding of the conditions will be appreciated by

President

ALUMNI

QUARTERLY

Vol. LVIII

December, 1957

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No.

4

HOW MANY
As fewer graduates

Armed Forces

of Teachers

TEACH?
Colleges are called into the

or enroll for

advanced degrees, the number entering

the teaching profession has

increased substantially in the last five

years as follows:

the

64%, 75%, 78%, 82%, 83%.

Of the 1957 Class of 219, 200 were available
number available, 91% are teaching, while of

are gainfully employed, 3 are in graduate school, 16 are in the
Services,

Of

for teaching.

the remaining, 12

Armed

and 6 are married.
Survey Date

Graduates

Teaching

Other
Occupations

1940-1945

1946

518

83%

10%

93%

1946-1948

1949

275

89%

97%

1955-1956

1956

176

82%

1956-1957

1957

219

83%

8%
8%
7%

Classes

Total

100%
100%

Beginning Salaries of Bloomsburg Teachers
Average

Year

Out-ofState

Pennsylvania

1954

$3,027

$2,876

$3,304

1955

3,121

3,043

3,352

1956

3,441

3,344

3,721

1957

3,744

3,538

3,976

is

While the average salaries paid 1957 graduates in other States
more than in Pennsylvania, the increase in 1957 over the 1956

salaries in

If

Pennsylvania

is

greater than that outside the State.

Pennsylvania schools will pay salaries approaching those of

other States, the graduates of Pennsylvania Teachers Colleges will
stay in their

home

State.

President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol.

L V III, No. 4

December, 1957

t

OVER 1200 ARE REGISTERED
AT THE LOCAL COLLEGE
The

largest

history

enrollment

in

the

Bloomsburg State
College was realized

of

the

Teaehers

when

registration for the first sem-

ester

of

the 1957-58 college year

was completed in September.
Advanced registrations had passPublished

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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
quarterly

ed the 1200-mark.
The previous
high of 1078 was recorded during
the first semester last year.
Nearly 375 new students, including 340 freshmen, registered Wednesday, September 4, while upperclassmen and former students, returning to college following service in the

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

’12

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

armed

forces,

completed

requirements.
This year’s Freshman Class was
selected from nearly 1000 applicants, each of whom was required
to meet certain academic standards on the basis of a qualifying
examination. This examination was
used by the fourteen Pennsylvania
State Teachers College for the first
time this year as one of the requiretheir registration

Griffith

Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig

men students in homes in
town of Bloomsburg. Local
householders have provided space
for nearly 300 men, double the
number who were housed off-camjority of

the

pus last year. North Hall provided accommodations for seventy-five
men, but Waller Hall is being used
for women students
with 425 women housed there.
Eight new faculty members began their assignments with the start
of the fall semester: Henry R.
George, social studies; Russell E.
Houk, education; Donald D. Rabb,
survey science; Francis J. Radice,
business education; Dr. Gilbert R.
W. Selders, reading specialist; Mrs.
Grace C. Smith, English; Edward
M. Van Norman, audio-visual education, and Miss Eleanor Wray,
women’s physical education.

exclusively

College Replacement Service

An nounces

Favorable Results

Approximately seventy-eight, or
thirty-one per cent of the graduates in the class of 1957 have notified Dr. Engelhardt of their place-

ment

SECRETARY

ments for admission.
In view of the critical shortage
of dormitory space on campus, it
has been necessary to house a ma-

Dr.
teaching positions.
states that this percentage is constantly growing as more
and more seniors are contacting his
in

Engelhardt

office.

Of these seventy-eight placements, only eighteen have taken

positions outside Pennsylvania.

The

remaining sixty will become B.S.T.
C.’s

addition to the teachers of this

state.

The elementary curriculum has
the largest percentage of placements. Of the fifty-six elementary
graduates, thirty-nine, or approximately sixty-nine per cent notified
Dr. Engelhardt of their placement.
Of the seventy business curriculum

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

ON THE COVER

F. Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith

The cover

picture on this issue of the Quarterly shows a partial view

of the interior of the

new dining-room, known

as

“The College Commons.”

Elizabeth H. Hubler

DECEMBER,

1957

1

HIGH RANK FOR COLLEGE
For the fourth consecutive year
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has appeared upon the annual

list

The National Council is a new
organization representing the American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education, Chief State
School Officials, State Directors of
Teacher Education and Certification, and National Commission of
Education Association, as well as
the National School Boards Association.

Of

the 1,700 colleges in the United States, roughly one-third prepare teachers, while only 297 are
accredited by this National agency.

Only eighteen colleges and uniin

Pennsylvania are

ac-

These include the fourteen State Teachers Colleges, Penncredited.

sylvania State University, Temple
University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh.

The Bloomsburg

State Teachers
by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and
the Pennsylvania State Council of

College

is

also accredited

Education.

Continuing accreditment
of excellence

which

is

a sign

necessary to
keep abreast of the challenges of
education in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
is

Eleanor E. Haines
education in
Area Joint Schools.

special

is

teacher of
the Milton

Success,

Is

Despite Chill Day, Flu

of institutions accredited

by the National Council of Accreditation for Teacher Education,
Washington, D. C.

versities

Homecoming

(From “The Morning Press”)

half-time

show and the majorettes

Bloomsburg College alumni are
a hardy breed. Despite the Asian
flu, skies that remained overcast
through most of the morning and
a chill wind that was experienced
throughout the day, there was a
good turn out for the thirtieth
homecoming.
The attendance was an evidence

appeared

in street clothing,

of how great a hold this fall event
has on the graduates and friends
of Bloomsburg.
And those back
were delighted with their reception
and also with the improvements
that have been made to the physical plant or are in prospect.

One of the spectators at the footgame was West Chester’s Dr.

ball

Bonner.
Huskies

He was

scouting the
the Rams

who engaged

November.

in

looked like old times to see
John C. Koch and his wife on the
campus. John, who is now touring
the nation as a promoter of capital
fund drives for various institutions,
He was for years
is looking tops.
It

a

member

of the B.S.T.C. faculty

and long dean of men. Dr. Marguerite Kehr, former dean of women, was also on the campus and
also warmly welcomed by many
friends.

The

flu or some other ailment
but wrecked the Husky band.
There are about sixty musicians but
only twenty-eight were on hand.
Even Director Nelson Miller was
all

directed.

The

local musicians didn’t attempt

any

ill.

Warren Johnson

REPLACEMENT SERVICE ANNOUNCES FAVORABLE RESULTS
graduates, seventeen, or approximately twenty-four per cent have
reported that they have received
placement.
And of the 120 secondary graduates, only twenty-two
or approximately eighteen per cent
have contacted the Placement Office.

The expected

salary

schedules

for the B.S.T.C. graduates

seem

to

be climbing with the rising state
elementary
allotments.
In
the
2

placements, expected salaries range
from $3200 to $4300 per year. The
secondary curriculum placement
salaries range from $3200 to $4500.
The business placement salaries
range slightly higher, from $3200
to $4600 per year.
Copies of the 1957 Bloomsburg
College Placement Brochure have
been sent to interested educational
boards in various areas throughout
the state.

but the
well enough
to be on hand played execellent
music and came through with a
tune almost everytime there was a
time-out on the football field.

musicians

who were

Shippenburg’s Red Raider band,
with only a half dozen or so ill,
made a fine showing and put on
a half time show under the direction of

Dick Winn which won the

plaudits of the fans.

There were 600 at the luncheon
noon Saturday, many of those
being graduates and friends. Atat

tendance at the dance, concluding
feature of the program, was not
as well attended as usual.

The sun was out during the first
game and its
warmth was most welcome. Inasmuch as the game was played on

part of the football

standard time and didn’t close unfour it was pretty chilly
til after
during that last quarter. But the

game was

exciting

enough

that

most folks stayed and few paid
much attention to the chill which
accompanied the fast fall shades
of night.

Evidently the crowd was

much

above the expectations of the group
handling the concessions. It was
reported they ran out of supplies
during the half. They must have
found some replenishments for
there were vendors in the stands
saw one
during the last half.
fellow buy a cold drink just before

We

game was over.
The get-together in Waller Hall
after the game was its usual sucthe

cess.

much

This is the feature that is
enjoyed. It gives the folks a

chance

to

mingle

and

review

friendships of college days.
There are certain things you just
have to feature at homecoming.
One of these is the chrysanthecorsage with the colors of
attached.
school
favorite
your

mum

The Phi Sigma Pi pledges were
given a prominent spot on the program during the intermission of
the grid contest.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

TEACHERS' CONFERENCE
W. M.

1,200 teachers and administrators in
the conference.

crack

down on

them

in

a place

Conference for Teachers and Ad-

The program was in the field of
business, elementary and secondary education and the attendance

Bloomsburg
State Teachers College on Satur-

was well above expectations and
far higher than for any previous

November 16, 1957. Mr. Ostenberg used as his theme, “With
Malice Toward None.”

sessions in the series.

them have not measured
the responsibilities? Are we
against Jews, Catholics or Protestants?

Speaking on “With Malice Toward None,” the Kansas educator

fundamentals

Ostenberg, Superintend-

ent of Schools, Salina, Kansas, was
the featured speaker at the general
session of the Eleventh Annual
ministrators

the

at

day,

A
for

teacher and an administrator
more than two decades in the

public schools of Kansas, Mr. Ostenberg has been active in national
and state education organizations,
has traveled throughout the United
States, Canada, Mexico and Eastern Europe, and has been widely
acclaimed as a speaker by business
men, civic groups, educators, cattlemen and patriotic organizations.

As an undergraduate student, he
attended Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, and later attended
the Colorado State College of Education at Greeley, Colorado, earning the Master of Arts degree.
Since then, he has done graduate

work at Kansas University and at
Columbia University, New York.
The conference got underway at
9:00 A. M. with registration for
business, elementary and secondary
teachers

Navy

at

Hall,

the

Ben-

jamin Franklin Laboratory School,
and the Bloomsburg Junior-Senior

said:

“We give lip service to the
‘good neighbor’ policy as far as
others are concerned but too often
we forget we ought to be good
neighbors to those who live in our
own communities. It is doubtful
there has ever been a time in our
nation

when we have been
we are today.

as in-

the

After the adjournment of the
general session, the group met in
the College Commons for a conference luncheon. The invocation
was given by Howard Fenstemaker
of the college faculty, and music
was provided by the Brahms Trio
of Williamsport.
“Possibly the greatest need in

America today

is

for

real

ance,” Mr. Ostenberg told

DECEMBER,

1957

toler-

around

of

of

“All

these
in

groups represent
our democratic

system.
Business and labor are
the basis of industrial free enterprise without which there can be

no democracy.
tunity

Economic oppor-

the essence of democracy’s
obligation to furnish opportunity to
all

is

men

according to their abilty.

Racial and religious freedom are
as fundamental
as
the Bill of

Washington and it is unusual
any group lobbying for the

ployed at good wages unless the
farmer receives a fair price for his
products and management and
business can operate at a profit.

in

to find

general welfare.
It’s ‘Me, Incorporated and to hell with everybody
else,’ has almost become an Amer-

Too

ican slogan.

terms of

“The

tacle.

we

think in

self only.

result of that in

stances

become

often

collective

name

a public

The

many

in-

bargaining has
calling spec-

fault does not lie en-

disagree with our neighbor without being disagreeable about it.
“In attempting to suggest a solution we must remember that we
have had plenty of evidence during the past twenty-five years that
when men are forced to choose between liberty and bread, they will
take bread or even the promise of

lessons
were presented
from 9:30-10:20 A. M., followed by

wants? Would
because

“The American farmer is the best
customer of the American business-

general session which began
at 11:15 in Carver Auditorium. Preceding the main address, the College Choraleers presented several
vocal selections, and Dr. Harvey
A. Andruss, President of the College, brought greetings to the conference delegates.

Demon-

some
up to

else

politicians

have divided ourselves into
kinds of pressure groups. Some
authorities suggest there are fifteen
thousand pressure groups lobbying

“We

all

stration

respectively.

nobody

abolish

Rights.

tolerant as

tirely with one side.
Both labor
and management are to blame.
“The tragedy is that we cannot

High School,

we

the negroes and put
place which means

their

it.

“It pertinent that we should ask
ourselves these questions: Do we
hate labor unions in general because we know of instances where
labor unions have usurped too

much power?

Do we

distrust business

whose

thoroughly
ethics

and

during the
war years were sometimes subject

practices
to

particularly

suspicion?

Would we

like to

man and the American laboring
man. The worker cannot be em-

“Neither can the farmer receive
products unless
labor is employed at good wages
and there is opportunity for profit
on the part of those who own and
manage business industries and
business.
Isn’t it about time that
we stopped emphasizing the differences between labor, management, business, capital and agriculture and begin thinking deeply
and searchingly about their coma fair price for his

plete interdependence?

“During the constitutional convention Benjamin Franklin suggested that ‘every member of the convention would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest
our unanimity, put his name to this
instrument.’ What an appropriate
statement for us in the United
States in 1957.

“We need
that

it

to

remind ourselves

didn’t take a

wax

to pro-

duce a Hitler in Germany. It took
only a democracy that didn’t work.
To make democracy work we must
end the rule of selfish politicians
and pressure groups. We must re3

NEW DINING ROOM

LAND PURCHASE
AUTHORIZED
Bloomsburg State Teachers College was recently allocated $125,000 to acquire the Bloomsburg
Country Club, the Dillon Homestead and the Harry A. Heiss property.

The allocation was sanctioned by
the General State Authority, meeting in Harrisburg.

No

negotiation for the properties

has been consummated, although
some indicated that visits by appraisers had been expected. Eventual negotiations are the

of the

providence

GSA.

The Country Club

site is

desir-

ed

as a site for future expansion of
junior college division of the insti-

Dr. Andruss stated that the

tution.

board of trustees had gone on record that it would cooperate with
any such program the state desired.

About 100 acres are contained in
Country Club tract which also
includes the club building and
caddy house. The property is located about 1,000 yards from the
the

campus.

The Dillon Homestead, owned
by

Marion

K. Dillon, Chestnut
street extension, consists of about
two acres of residential property
located on Light Street Road and
bounded on three sides by the campus. This site will be used in part
for

the site of a future building.

Additional

athletic

facilities

are

contemplated there.
The Harry A. Heiss property
consists of about one acre and adIt
joins the campus on two sides.
contains a dwelling and shop building.
This will provide parking
space for the athletic area and give
the college an uninterrupted tract
on the north side of the campus.

member that in a land of equal
opportunity there is no room for
class and race hatreds or a ruinous struggle between capital and

We

need to do what a business man in Texas told your speaker recently when he said, ‘There
isn’t
any thing wrong with this

labor.

country that we couldn’t correct if
we could just get the hates and the
suspicions out of our hearts.”
4

POLICY

Beginning this semester, the college dining room will no longer be
under the supervision of dietitian.
A contract has been signed with
the M. W. Wood catering service

Allentown to provide meals for
the college community.
Under the supervision of Mr. Byerly as director and Mr. Robbins as
chef, plans have been made for the
establishment of new menus and
new methods of purchasing, preparing, and distributing food.
The new service began August 5,
during the last session of summer
school. The catering service came
of

to Bloomsburg after being employed successfully at Kutztown State
Teachers College, Lehigh University and Cedar Crest College.
The policy for student employees
and professional help will remain
All employees will be
the same.
hired or dismissed upon recommen-

However,
dation by the college.
employees will receive their salary
from the food service contractor.
Plans are also being made for
several outside events to be held in
the Commons and to be served by
the Wood Service. It will provide
an opportunity for friends and
townspeople to visit our college

STUDENTS
GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS
B.S.T.C.

Miss Olivia Greenaway and Lor-

who

en Bower, both of Berwick,

are pursuing studies in the field of
special education at B.S.T.C.,

have

received scholarships of $150 and
respectively, from the Columbia County Chapter for Retard-

$140,

ed

Children, an agency of the
Greater Berwick United Fund.

The chapter works toward securing better education facilities
for retarded children throughout
the county. The local chapter suppled a scholarship to Miss Harriet
Link, former B.S.T.C. student who
is
now teaching in the Sharon
schools.
In addition to scholarship work,
the chapter plans to furnish in the
near future a sheltered workshop
in the county.
This project would

provide

under qualified
various trades that
handicapped and retarded children
might be better equipped to support themselves in the future. Monies obtained in the United Fund
training

instructors

campaign

in

will

be used toward

this

purpose.

community.

HOW MANY

STUDENTS AT
BLOOMSBURG ARE SONS OR
DAUGHTERS OF B.S.T.C.
GRADUATES?
regular feature of the
Quarterly, the Editor would like
to publish lists of students whose
parents or grandparents, or both,

As

a

were former students

at

Blooms-

Any such information, if
burg.
sent to the Editor, Box 31, B.S.T.C.,
will be greatly appreciated.

Miss Jean M. Beck, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer F. Beck,
Kutztown, became the bride of J.
Richard Wagner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Wagner, Nescopeck,
in

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE

—

’96

INSURANCE

52 West Main Street
Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

recent ceremony

Rev. Carlton L.

at

Trinity

The
Heckman was as-

sisted in the

ceremony by the Rev.

William Arnold, Bethlehem,
merly of Nescopeck.

J.

for-

The bride graduated from Kutztown High School and Gettysburg
College. She trained at the Reading Hospital for the past year and
is

HARRY

a

Lutheran Church, Kutztown.

a registered medical technologist.

The bridegroom is a graduate of
Nescopeck High School and B.S.T.
C. He has taken additional work
at

Pennsylvania

State

University

and Bucknell. He also studied at
Case Institute of Technology at
Cleveland, Ohio, on a DuPont fellowship and now teaches in the
mathematics department at Kutztown High School.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

DR.

ANDRUSS HEADS

SPECIAL GROUP
A special committee

SAFETY CONFERENCE
A demonstration of the
of

five,

headed by President Harvey A.
Andruss, Bloomsburg, will reprethe State Teachers Colleges
before the Governor’s Commission
A report
on Higher Education.
last year will be reviewed by various citizens in addition to determining the effect of the recommendations of the Governor’s Commission on the education of the
children of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
sent

Doctor Andruss is also a member
of a newly constituted personnel
committee of the Board of Presidents which will deal with selection and promotion of faculty, salary schedules, teaching loads, as
well as the general procedures to
be followed with the non-instructional staff, who are also state employees.
At the present time a general
study is being made of all fees paid

by students, both those from Pennsylvania, and those from out-ofState, in order that responsibility of

the state to provide funds for the
education of those who are to teach
be
Pennsylvania’s children will
forthcoming in sufficient amounts
meet increasing enrollments,
to
which will continue to require more
school buildings and more teachers.

The Fees Committee, of which
Doctor Andruss has been chairman and member for more than
be absorbed by the Finance Committee,
whose chairman is Dr. D. L. Biemfifteen years, will eventually

esderfer,

president

of

the

State

Teachers College at Millersville,
Pa.
This committee has in the

been responsible for the poliunder which ten to fifteen millions of dollars have been raised
from student fees to support State
Teachers Colleges.
past
cies

held at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College on Tuesday, November 12.
In addition, a display of the latest
safety education material was made
available by the National Safety
Education Committee of the National
Education Association of
Washington, D. C.

hundred teen-agers and
from sixteen area
high schools were registered.
Registration of delegates began
a

safety instructors

m. in Navy Hall Auditorium.
The main session began
at 10:00 a. m. with greetings from
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President
of the College, followed by a discussion of a “Program for Safety”
by Blomsburg Police Chief, Clair
R. Collins, and a film on traffic
safety.
The Teen-ager session began at eleven o’clock with a discussion and exchange of local safeSafety Education Inty programs.
structors met at the same time, with
George R. McCutcheon of Dallas
Marlene
High School presiding.
Ritchie, Millville High School, and
Sandra Baird, Dallas High School,
at 9:30 a.

conducted the morning session.
Invitations were extended by
Chief Collins to all area high school
principals, to Wyoming Valley and

Columbia-Montour Motor Club
members, and to area law enforcement officers to attend the equipment demonstration, beginning at
Mr. Bus Carlton, na1:30 p. m.
tionally-known AAA representative,
presented the two hour demonstration.
The equipment has received
nation-wide attention, was shown
recently in Kansas, and came directly to

Bloomsburg from

registered delegates:

DECEMBER,

1957

a

Bloomsburg’s

Freshman

annual

fourth

Parents’

Day” was ob-

served on Sunday, September 29,

The over

1957.

ents

who

five

hundred par-

attended found an inter-

esting
and helpful experience,
which enabled them to become better acquainted with the faculty and

school awaiting them.

The actual festivities
Day” began with a

for

“Par-

course
dinner served to the students and
their families in College Commons
at one o’clock.
Following this the
guests enjoyed a tour of the campus and dormitories.

ents

full

At three o’clock both parents and
students were invited to a special
assembly which took place in Carver Auditorium. President Harvey
A. Andruss delivered a brief summary speech and then introduced
a panel discussion moderated by
Dean John Iioch. Other members
of the panel, which discussed such
topics as: “The Health of the College Student,” “Finances,” “Placement Service” and “Guidance” were
Miss Beatrice Mettler, Mr. Paul
Martin, Dr. Ernest Engelhardt and
Miss

Mary MacDonald.

Follow-

ing the discussion an open forum
was held in order that the parents
in the audience might have an opportunity to direct questions pertaining to the college life of the
school in general, to the panel
members. The parents of resident
students were also encouraged to
talk with the Dean of Men and

Dean

of

Women.

“Freshmen Parents’ Day” officially ended at four o’clock with the
completion of the program in Carver Auditorium.

dem-

onstration in Maine.

The following high
Betty Hoover Wolfe, Harrisburg,
received the degree of Master of
Arts May 31, 1957 at the One Hundied Seventieth Commencement
Exercises held at George Peabody
College for Teachers, Nashville
Tennessee.

latest

driver training equipment, provided by the American Automobile
Association, was one of the highlights of the Fourth Annual TeenAge Traffic Safety Conference

Over

ENTERTAINED
ON PARENTS’ DAY

500

schools had
Dallas Area;

Catawissa; Coughlin, Meyers and
G.A.R. (all of Wilkes-Barre); Sunbury; Milton; Newport Township;
Roaring Creek Valley (Southern
Area); Kingston Borough; LehmanJackson-Ross of Lake Noxen; Ralpho Joint of Southern Area; Ber-

Oren Baker, son of Mrs. Robert
C. Baker, Sr., has accepted a graduate assistantship at Lehigh UniHe has enrolled in the
versity.
graduate school to study for a Master’s

Degree

in

wick; Benton;
Hazleton.

mathematics.

Nescopeck,

West

5

WHO’S

WHO AT

Eighteen seniors from B.S.T.C.
have been selected for inclusion in
the 1957-58 edition of “Who’s Who
Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.”
Nomination for membership were made by
a faculty committee on the basis
of scholarship, participation in extracurricular activities, personality
traits,

and professional promise.

The

seniors

selected are

below with some

campus

of

their

listed

major

activities included.

Margaret Brinser, from Harrisburg, is in the Elementary Curriculum. She is president of the “B”
Club and is a member of Sigma
Alpha Eta, S.E.A.P. and SCA.

Mary Galatha

from Cheltenham, was
treasurer of his class and of Col-

cial Studies,

lege Council in his junior year. He
has been active in sports and has
held offices in Phi Sigma, men’s
honorary
educational fraternity.
Paul is currently co-author of “Under-Currents” in the Maroon and
Gold.
Elizabeth Barron, Elementary
and Speech Correction, is from
Ashland. She is at present the executive secretary for Sigma Alpha
Eta, speech and hearing fraternity,
and president of Alpha Psi Omega,
dramatic fraternity. She is active
in Dramatic Club and in the College Chorus.

Roberta Bowen of Sayre is majoring in Elementary and Speech
Education. Bobbie is a member of
Sigma Alpha Eta and is active in

Maroon and Gold Band and

in

the College Chorus.
Robert Boyle, Accounting and
English, Scranton, is well known
for his skill in basketball and base-

of

Hazle Town-

majoring in English and
French. She is historian of Kappa
Delta Pi, honorary educational fraternity, a member of College Council, Editor of the Maroon and Gold
and a member of the Obiter edi-

ship

is

narrator.

Raymond Hargreaves,

Business
Education, is from Scranton. Ray
Senior Class,
is president of the
treasurer of Phi Sigma Pi, vicepresident of Pi Omega Pi and associate editor of the Pilot.

Betta Hoffner, Elementary, from
Clarks Summit, has served on the
Waller Hall Governing Board and
on the Obiter and Maroon and
Gold editorial boards. Betta won
the Fifty Sevens’ award for scholarship in her junior year.

McBride,

Saundra

Elementary,

Williamsport, is associate editor of
the Obiter and freshman class advisor.
She has been cheerleading
captain and has served on various
CCA committees.

years.

Pi,

activities include

Phi

Varsity

IN

MAGAZINE

In

one

of

her

recent

Once again B.S.T.C. was mentioned in Good Housekeeping Mag-

monthly reports she submitted the

azine with reference to freshman
“Sacrifice Night.” The article, “The
Date Line,” written by Jan Landon,
deals with facts and fancies for the

and telegraphed
questions concerning tradition and
asked if it will be held again this

girl in school.

Each month, girls representing
every state submit ideas for the column. The editors choose the articles they think most interesting
and print them. Carol’s article was

Carole Grene, a sophomore member of the Maroon and Gold Editorial Board, has been writing for

Good
6

Housekeeping

for

several

Luther Natter, Spring City, is in
Elementary Education. He is pres-

CGA

ident of
year), a

and

(vice-president last

member

Sigma

of Phi

Pi,

of the Obiter staff.

Sandra Raker, Business, from
East Smithfield, has been historian

Omega Pi and secretary of
SCA. She is also a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Business Education
for Pi

model and

Business, Stroudshas been secretary of her
class for the last two years. She is
a member of Pi Omega Pi, Business
fraternity, and a Fashion Show

MENTIONED

Other

last

and a member of Sigma Alpha Eta.
Annette Williams Roush, Spanish, English and Social Studies, is
from Hanover Township. She is a

Mary Grace,

Club and the
Basketball Tournament.

Sigma

Committee

Recreation

burg,

board.

Deanna Morgan, Elementary,
from Jim Thorpe, is vice-president
of College Chorus, a member of
Alpha Psi Omega, Dramatic Club
and was co-chairman of the Social

ball.

and
year.

Club.
Sarah Ridgeway, Elementary and
Special Education, is from Catawissa.
She was president of the
Day Women’s Association last year

torial

Paul Anderson, English and So-

the

B.S.T.C.

story

of

“Sacrifice Nigjht.”

magazine liked

The

it

year.

representative to College Council,
a member of Kappa Delta Pi and
Annette
has been a cheerleader.
was elected Coed of the Year 1956.
Constantine Spentzas, Business,
Towanda, is vice-president of the
Senior Class, historian for Phi Sigma Pi, business manager of the
Obiter, and a

Delta

member

of

Kappa

Pi.

Nancy Suwalski, Elementary,
from Hanover Township. She

is

member

of

editor of the Obiter, a

Kappa Delta

Pi,

of her class

for

is

and was secretary
two years. Last

Nancy was secretary of CGA.
Frank Vacante, Kelayres, is majoring in Accounting and Social
year

He was

Studies.

vice-president of

both Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Omega
His other activities
Pi last year.
include SEAP and Business Education Club.

chosen for the October

issue,

and

bonus

plus

her

she

received

a

monthly salary.
Quoting her article: “Sacrifice
Night at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Pennsylvania, symbolfreshman into fullically turns
In a solemn
fledged collegians.
public ceremony each new student
must throw into a campus fire a
treasured

token

of

high-school

days.”

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

KUTZTOVVN STUDENTS
STAGE ART PROGRAM

LUZERNE COUNTY BRANCH
A

Twenty-three students from the
Department of Art Education at
Kutztown State Teachers College
presented a student-written and directed play in assembly on Tues-

November

Student directors of the play, Barry Kiroby and
Chris Evans, stated that much hard
work was put forth by the people
from one of our sister colleges.
The story centered around the
Shelton family, who are confronted
with the problem of selecting furday,

5.

niture that will reflect
tectural design of their

the archi-

new home.

Morris chair must go,”
Father, though,
says the family.
has other ideas and it takes strong
convincing on the part of the other
members of the family to change
his mind. However, the family puts
across their point, and modernistic
design becomes the victor.
The constructive setting used
merely symbolized space and time.
The rest was up to the imagination
of the audience. That the Arts are
an essential part of the average
“Father’s

person’s

life

was concluded from

the performance.

Faculty

advisors

for

the

play

were Horace F. Heilman and Harold C. Mantz.

look ahead for the 1957-1958
term.
Plan to be a part of these
events:

December 28— Holiday fun

ering for Alumni and guests, American Legion Home, North River
Street,
Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.
Each
person attending is asked to bring

holiday-wrapped,

a

inexpensive
to the
highest bidder for the Scholarship
“surprise”

Pam

Fox, Sunbury, a sophomore at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was awarded a scholarship by the Sunbury chapter of
Pennsylvania Association for Retarted Children for education in
The
work.
retarded
children’s
scholarship was presented by Rev.
W. P. Shelley, Sunbury. Miss Fox
is a member of the Social-Recreation Committee of the B.S.T.C.
Student Government Association
and was a candidate for last year’s
“Co-ed of the Year.”

MOYER

BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

1957

will

be sold

February— Alumni Party. Details
later.

April—Alumni dinner and

elec-

May— Alumni

meeting at the College on Alumni Day. Meeting place
to be announced.

Reminder — Please pay your
Alumni dues locally to build up
our Scholarship Fund.

Mail

to the

treasurer:

Mrs. Charles F. Hensley
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

The

Association goal for this
a $100.00 scholarship for
some Luzerne County student.
Last year we gave $50.00 to the
Bakeless
Memorial
Scholarship
Fund. If each member of the Association will give just $1.00, we

year

is

more than meet our

goal.

Join today and plan to enjoy the
gatherings scheduled for those who

have happy memories of Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Russell C. Davis,

School No.
recently

The Twelfth Annual

Sales Rally,

held Thursday evening,
7,

in

November

Carver Auditorium

o’clock,

was

at

8:00

a success, the auditori-

um being filled with a capacity
crowd.
This year, through the combined
efforts of Dr. Thomas B. Martin,
Director of Business Education,
and Mr. Frank Radice, Assistant
Professor of Business Education,
the college presented Dr. Kenneth
McFarland, Educational Consultant for General Motors Corporation
and the American Trucking Associ-

tion of officers.

of Central

Jr.,

2, Ellenville,

completed

a

N. Y., has
six-weeks

course of study at the Graduate
Summer School for Teachers at

Wesleyan University.
The program in which Mr. Davis
was enrolled is a unique course of
study allowing teachers and school
administrators an opportunity to
extend their general education. Designed specifically for teachers, the
program calls for a broad area of

study in the liberal arts and sciences rather than the traditional
master’s degree work in a single

ation.

Dr. McFarland gave a lecture
which was interesting and educational, as well as entertaining.

New

and different techniques of selling
were demonstrated and brought to
the attention of the audience.
At the dinner prior to the Rally

Dr. Carl T. Millward, Past District

Governor and Past Director, representing Rotary International. Approximately 150 people attended
the dinner in the college dining

room at 6:30 o’clock. A number of
Service clubs and business organizations attended in groups.
Many
followed the lead of the WilkesBarre-Scranton
Executive
Sales
Club which chartered a bus to
bring a group to the dinner and
rally.
The audience consisted of
people from Sunbury, Danville,
Shamokin, Berwick, and many other surrounding communities.

Members of the Retail Sales
Class helped in selling tickets for
the occasion.
Organ music was presented by
Lucy Zimmerman from 7 until 8.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

subject.

Mr.
N. Y.

DECEMBER,

which

Fund.

will

Miss

gath-

McFarland gives
LECTURE AT SALES RALLY
dr.

Davis

lives

in

Cragsmoor,

7

ALUMNI MEETING HELD, GREATER NEW YORK AREA
The eighth annual meeting

COLLEGE OBSERVES

of

buildings which have been or are

RELIGION-IN-LIFE

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Alumni Association of
Greater New York was held at Tar-

being changed.
Dr. Nelson brought greetings
from the General Alumni Association and spoke briefly on topics of

tion

the

antino’s Restaurant, 1600 Palisades

Avenue, Fort Lee, N. J., on Saturday evening, October 26, 1957, with
President Francis P.

Thomas

pre-

siding.

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss gave the
Invocation. Dinner was served to

30 members and guests. The honored guests, Dr. and Mrs. Andruss
and Dr. and Mrs. Nelson, were introduced by President Thomas, after which he asked each member to
introduce himself or herself and to
say a few words in the tape recorder which has been supplied by

Mr.

Coughlin of Dunellen, N.
interesting notes were revealed as each member responded
—one of which was a chain letter
started 50 years ago by 18 girls of
Class of 1907, two of whom, Mrs.
Blanche Chisholm, of Springfield,
N. J., and Mrs. Albert O’Brien Henseler, of North Bergen, N. J., were
present.
That is perservance and
loyalty to the Nth degree which
many of us might emulate.
Dr. Andruss brought greetings
from the College and spoke on
changes made and being made on
the Campus.
He then passed out
copies of plans of the Campus and
J.

J. J.

Some

pointed

out

various

places

Dr. P. Clive Potts T2, Education
American
the
Consultant with
Foundation for the Blind, gave us a
very interesting talk on the Found-

work

for the blind.
business meeting was
held at which time the following
officers were chosen for 1958:
President — Mrs. J. J. Coughlin,
Dunellen, N. J.
Vice-President — Mrs. Fred Smethers, Elizabeth, N. J.
Secretary-Treasurer — A. K. Naugle, Roselle Park, N. J.
Mr. Thomas then turned the
chair over to the new president,
Mrs. Coughlin, who thanked the
members for the honor conferred
on her, then she appointed the following as a committee to help promote interest and contact graduates to get them to attend the meetation’s

A

short

ings:

Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Robbins T5.
Mr. and Mrs. Saul Gutter ’32.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Bittner III,
’56.

Meeting adjourned about 11 P.
M. with good-byes and good wishes to

all.

and

—A. K. Naugle, Secy.
Miss Nancy Lou Rhoads, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rhoads,
has taken up her position as speech
correctionist in West Chester pub-

West Chester High.
who had been assistant coach for one year was
named to head post by unanimous
vote of the West Chester Joint

lic

coach

Von

at

Stetten,

School Board.

He played on championship
teams at the local high school and
college during the 1940’s. He has
taught history in West Chester JunIn addiior High for three years.
tion to his one year as assistant
football coach he has coached junior high basketball and track.
Mr. Von Stetten is married to the
former Freda Zeigler, Columbia.
They have two daughters, Cynthia,
nine, and Ann, five.
8

Christian Associa-

sponsored the fourth annual
Religion-in-Life Week held November 19 through November 21.

interest.

Glenn
Von Stetten, former
Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
player, has been named head football

The Student

WEEK

schools.

For the past two years she taught
speech correction at Carbon county
schools and previous to that was

employed as a
South Hampton.
She

is

correctionist

at

a graduate of Catawissa

High School and Bloomsburg State
Teachers

College.

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

Sponsored as an effort to stimulate better understanding between

members

of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths, this year’s
program included representatives
of these faiths who spoke at special
assembly sessions held at 10 a. m.
on each of the three days. Each
evening informal discussions based
on the theme, “To Listen—To Learn
—To Serve,” were held in Carver

Auditorium.
Rabbi H. Leonard Poller, representing the Jewish Faith, spoke at
the Tuesday assembly.
In 1947,
Rabbi Poller, a native of Scranton,
was ordained at Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he was also awarded an M.A. deHe
gree in Hebrew Literature.
then served as Rabbi in congregations in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
and East Liverpool, Ohio. He is
at present is an assistant Rabbi at

Temple Oheb Shalom

in Baltimore,

Maryland.

On Wednesday,

the

Reverend

Daniel J. Menniti spoke to the stuFather Menniti, fordent body.
merly of Mt. Carmel, began his
studies for the priesthood at St.
Charles Seminary in Philadelphia

and later studied at the North American College in Rome, Italy, prior
His present cato his ordination.
pacity is that of assistant to the
superintendent of Catholic Schools
in the Harrisburg Diocese, in addition to his pastorate at St. Patrick’s

Church

in Carlisle.

Dr. Charles D. Spotts conducted
Upon comThursday’s assembly.
pletion of his training at Lancaster
Theological Seminary, Dr. Spotts

continued his studies at Catawba
University where he received his
Doctorate of Divinity. In 1931 he
became an assistant professor of
religion at Franklin and Marshall
College and later advanced to the
chairmanship of the Department of
Religion.

The co-chairmen
Religion-in-Life

Moyer and Donald
TIIE

of the 1957-58

Week were Joanne
Nice.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

DEAN'S LIST
The Dean of Instruction of the
College, Mr. John A. I loch, has released the following names of students who have qualified for the
Dean’s List for the second semesThese students have
ter, 1956-57.
a quality point average of 2.5 or
better for the second semester,
1956-57, and an accumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance at this college.
Name of student, address and high
school attended:

Freshman

Pottsville, Pa., Pottsville.

203 Edwards
Brookhaven, Pa., Chester.
Patricia,

Dr.,

9 Apple St„
Newport Twp.
Ide, Jeannette, R. D. 1, Sweet Valley, Pa., Lake-Noxen Jt.

Grochowski,

Glen Lyon,

Barbara,

Pa.,

Lazo, Joan, Butler Terrace. Freeland,
Pa., Foster Twp.
Locke, June, 2411 Upland St., Chester, Pa., Chester.
Longo, John, 74-B N. Iron St.,
Bloomsburg, Hazleton.
Kistler, Mrs. Linda M., 26 W. 8th St.,

Bloomsburg, Pa., Bloomsburg.
Pekala, Nancy, 253 Main St., Fern
Glen, Pa., Black Creek Twp.
Reed, Glenn, R. D. 1, Shamokin, Pa.,
Trevorton.

Sophomore
Aumiller, Faye, N. Main

St.,

Milroy,

Pa., Milroy.

Fiorenza, John, 366 Vine St., Berwick,
Pa., Berwick.
Giacomini, Harold F., 2807 N. Main
Ave., Scranton, Pa., Central.
Janetka, Carl, 224 Garden Ave., Hor-

sham,

Upper Moreland.

Pa.,

Michael, Keith W„ R. D.
shinny, Pa., Shickshinny.

George

Rhoda

3,

Shick-

Workshop

at

attended

the

Miami Univer-

Oxford, Ohio, this summer.
More than 300 elementary, secondary and college teachers, and
Civil Air Patrol senior members
sity,

and cadets obtained academic credit
and received many first-hand
aviation experiences at the seminar.

The Workshop was directed

by Dr.

Mervin K.

DECEMBER,

1957

Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg.
Rosen, Mrs. Isobel, 601-A W. Front
St., Berwick, Pa., Hazleton.
Sprout, Elizabeth,
63
Washington
Blvd., Williamsport, Williamsport.
Wanat, Dolores, 826 Scott St., Wilkes-Barre, Coughlin.
Juniors
Gavitt, Wayne, LaPorte, Pa., Sullivan Highland.
Jessop, Charles R., 405 Keystone
Ave., Peckville, Pa., Blakely.
Plummer, Mrs. Dolores, 137

W. Main

Bloomsburg.
Raker, Sandra, East Smithfield, Pa.,

St.,

Strickler,

Ridgeway, Sarah, 311
awissa. Pa., Catawissa.

Main

Cat-

St.,

Seniors

James

Creasy,

B.,

W. 3rd

612

St.,

Bloomsburg, Pa., Bloomsburg.
Duck, Margaret Ann, 342 West St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa., Bloomsburg.
Ford, John, 79 E. Sunbury St., Sham-

Kulpmont.
Geisinger, Etta Mae, Route 20, Lebanon, Pa., Lebanon.
Koch, Mary J., 121 N. Broad St., W.
Hazleton, Pa„ Hazleton.
Mackert, Franklin, 110 Fairmount

Six students of B.S.T.C. presen-

correction Tuesday, October 8, at
Kutztown State Teachers College.
Boyd Buckingham, faculty member, spoke on speech improvement
and Dr. Donald Maietta was in

charge of the student presentation.

Taking part were Lena Fisher, Sandra Goodhart, George German,
Sunbury; Charles Puckey, Nanticoke;

Sunbury, Pa., Sunbury.
Mease, Richard, 44i/2 Mahoning

St.,

Milton, Pa., Milton.

Ohborn, Suzanne, 17 Fairview Rd.,
Springfield, Springfield.
Ozalas,
Constance,
749
Lafayette
Ave., Palmerton, Palmer
Rando, Arlene, 126 N. Marshall St.,

&

Shamokin, Shamokin.
Springer, Dale

J.

Lopez, Pa., Cherry

Twp.
Stavisky, Jean, 511 Winter St., Old
Forge, Pa., Old Forge.
Strine, Dick, 616 Lincoln St., Milton,
Pa., Milton Area Jt.
Sutliff, Carolyn, R. D.
Pa., Nanticoke.

VanAuken, Enola, Mill

1,

Shickshinny,

Elizabeth

Woyurka, John, 201 Cameron St.,
Shamokin. Pa., Shamokin.
Wynn, George, R. D. 2, Shamokin,
Pa., Ralpho Twp.
Yohn, Margaret, 717 Eighth St., Sel-

Ashland,

the following letter concerning the

program:

My
1

dear Dr. Andruss:
regret that a complication of

commitments made
for

me

to attend the

impossible
very fine as-

it

sembly program which your colon October 8.
I
have nothing but the most enthusiastic reports on the program,
by both faculty and students.
Please convey to Mr. Boyd Buckingham, Dr. Maietta, and the six
lege brought here

student clinicians our deepest appreciation of the well planned and
well organized presentation of the

work which
Bloomsburg

you

are doing
the training

in

at

of

speech therapists.
Best wishes to you.

Cordially yours,

City, Pa., Falls

Overfield.

Barron,

and Robert Warkomski.
President Andruss has received

okin, Pa.,

Ave.,

program on speech

ted an assembly

Q. A. W. Rohrbach
President
Slate Teachers College
Kutztown, Pennsylvania

insgrove, Pa., Selinsgrove.

Fourth National Aviation Education

Richenderfer, Joseph, 414 Catherine
St.,

S.R.U. Joint.

Dorothy, Maple and Mt.
Rd., Alden Sta., Pa., Newpoi-t Twp.
Bartlow, Linda, P. O. Box 22, New
Albany, Pa., Wyalusing Valley.
Braun, Carl J., 525 Reagan St., Sunbury, Pa., Sunbury.
Deussen, Sonya E., R. D. 2, Bloomsburg. Pa., Bloomsburg.
Francis, Albert, 223 Fairview St.,
Andrysick,

Glatts,

STUDENTS GIVE
SPEECH CORRECTION
PROGRAM AT KUTZTOWN
B.S.T.C.

Jr.,

Aviation

Educationist

for

Major

General Walter R. Agee, National

Commander

of Civil Air Patrol.

Participants

came from 38

states,

the District of Columbia, Hawaii,

Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Virgin
Islands

and were trained

to

serve

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury- Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth,

R.

J.

Webb,

’42
’42

as leaders in the effort to meet
America’s need for civil and military personnel in all phases of avi-

ation

—

technical

administrative,

and

scientific,

social.
9

Whom We H aue No

Alumni For

Alumni who are able

to give

Addresses

any information regarding these

graduates will render a great service to the College by

sending information to the office of President.
Class of 1898

Robinson, Jean (Mrs.

Aldinger, Harry E.

G. McLaugh-

J.

lin)

Armstrong, Margaret A. (Mrs.

S.

Silvius,

J.

Mabel

Brittain,

Daniels)
Barley,

Class of 1908

C. (Mrs. Carl Olsen)
Bashore, Charles F.
Brown, Anna A. (Mrs. J. H. Kenney)
Callender, Frances R.

Cunningham, Bridget M. (Mrs.

Forster, Emma Alta (Mrs. Sims)
Frederickson, Elam A.
Gibbons, Agnes
Henry
(Mrs.
Goodman, Theresa

Hill,

Mary

Maue, Gertrude
Millington,

Bessie

A.

W.

(Mrs.

C.

Norton)
Poole, Anna B. (Mrs. E. C. Lowe)
Pursel, Josephine (Mrs. M. E. Conner)

Rabinovitch, Eva R.
Rechel, Lillian Osman

(Mrs. E.

C.

Redeker, Lillian A. (Mrs. Simmonds)
Reed, Clara A. (Mrs. W. H. Webster)
Rorer, Mary Louise
Smith, Stuart Samuel
Steinbach, Mabel B. (Mrs. G. E.

Kennedy)
Stevens, Benjamin M.
Taylor, Edward S.
Whitaker, Mary R.
Wilcox, Howard J.
Williams, Joyce (Mrs. Evans)
Wolf, Edith
Wylie, Arthur L.

Mary

(Mrs.

Chas.

H.

Eves, Mildred
Franey, Ella (Mrs. Gallagher)
Hetherington, Florence
Jordan, Reginald L.

Kemmerer, Arthur E.
Redeker, Laura (Mrs.

10

C.

E. (Mrs. E. P.

Thomas)

W. Dis-

Elliot

Collins,

Marie T.

Engel,

Maude Bogart

L.

J.

Yeager)

(Mrs.

C.

B.

Klingaman, Foster E.
Knedler, John Warren, Jr.
Knoll,
(Mrs.
Gertrude

McKeon, Anna Agnes
McLane, Anna Helena

Girton, Robert L.

Miller,

Mullen,

ton)

Karns, Helen Coreen (Mrs. Knandel)
Keefer, Myrtle May (Mrs. Harry

Brumbach)
Kester, Eura M.

Mae

(Mrs. Clarence

McLaughlin)
Lynch, Anita G.
McHenry, Bertha Luella (Mrs. Fritz)
Mendenhall, Helen John
Miller, Robert H.

Raymond

Raynes)
(Mrs. Lester Steven-

Thomas, Gertrude (Mrs.

A. S.

Leon-

ard)

Throne, Robert H.
Transue, Anna (Mrs. Dickenson)
Wasilewski, Bella
White, Albert Leerea

Thomas

O’Toole)
Laudig, J. Frear
Leach, Bernard M.
Lundahl, Esther Marie

Gruber, Amos B.
Haley, Margaret L. (Mrs. F. C. Fla-

Snyder, Hilda
son)

(Mrs.

Harrison, Eleanor Bertelle
Hower, Charles Maxwell (Dr.)
Hutton, Ruth (Mrs. Aucker)
Jordan, Rema Ethel
Kase, Katharine May (Mrs. Warren

M.

Knaefler, Esther

Roland

J.

Clark, Funston

Hahn, Edith Rebecca

Hillis,
Lena B. (Mrs. Ondree H.
Marsh)
Hughes, Hazel P. (Mrs. James Bar-

J.

J.

Seiders)

Eugene W.

Rhodes, Effie L. (Mrs. Bond)

Doersam)

brow)

Francesco C. L.

Richards, James
Richardson, Catherine R. (Mrs. Laidslow Boor)
Roberts, Helen Parry
Shuman, Carrie (Mrs. L. S. Bowers)
Simpson, Ethel M. (Mrs. Charles G.

C. J.

Davenport,

Mary

O’Donnell,

Class of 1903

Adams,

Morris,

Hartzell, Russel J.
Hetler, Miriam (Mrs. J. H. White)

Ammerman)

Dennis,

Donovan, Anna Cecelia
Sarah B. (Mrs. Sarah Brun-

herty)

Munroe, Edna A.

(Mrs. Ed-

Fritz,
stetter)

Dilcer)

Brown)

Adams

(Mrs.

Follmer)

Ashton, Morville
Bennett, Clayton James
Boughner, Irene (Mrs. Howard Mock)
Bucher, Jessie C.
Close, Daniel James

(Mrs. Nelson Clark)

Jewett, Elizabeth E.
Joyce, William
Klutz, R. Daisy (Mrs. L. H.
Lawrence, B. Grace

F.

Class of 1913

M.

Clark, L. Funston
Cryder, Margaret

Dodson, Edna Bees (Mrs.

Altmiller, Ethel

F.

J.

John

Woods, Margaret

Southeimer)
Graydon, Esther M.
Hardenbergh, J. H.

Hostetiter, J.

E.

Smith, Merrill W.
Turek, Frederick

(Mrs. Fred Bar-

rett)

Fred

(Mrs.

Petrilli,

Piatt,

Dillon, Frances A.

Hilbert,

James

Johnson, Margaret J.
Krum, Carol (Mrs. Frank Buck)
Miller, Harriet

Jos.

Fancourt

ward Reimer)

Handley, Alberta M.

Davies, Hannah E. (Mrs. John M.
Hough)
DeLong, Eudora (Mrs. Forbes)

Evans, Martha D.

(Mrs.

McGowan)

Rooney)

A.

R.

Reagan)

W.

Coxe, George

Anna

Deeths,

Maud

Norma Evelyn

Brotherton, Nelli
Harry O’Greary)

Parsons)

Armstrong, Margaret B. (Mrs. D. R.

Class of 1918
Augenblick, Rebecca Delphia

Clyde A.
Mary Doretta

Pollick, Miles

Rarig, Fanny Isabella
Rommel, Mary Ford
Ryan, Lucille Kathryn
Shannon, Nora Irmina

(Mrs. Decker)

Sites, Carrie Louise

Smith, Zola Arlene
Sweeney, Frances Regis
Terwilliger,

Edyth Luella

Walker, Leonora Nelson (Mrs. L. K.
Simons)
Watrous, Marguerite M.
Welker, Ruth Madeline
Welliver, Miriam Edith (Mrs. Jay Lee

Funk)
Wieland, Edwina Christine (Mrs. E.
F. Teal)

Wilcox, Cora Douglas
Williams, Jane Naomi (Mrs. Charles
Perry)
Wintle, Gretchen Dorcas
Wolfe, Mary M. J.
Class of 1923

Benson, Rachael (Mrs. Benton Mitchal)
Boyle, Sr.,

M. Louis
Brannigan, Joseph
Brennan, Kathryn M.
Brunstetter, Jessie

(Mrs. H.

Caffrey,

Round-

&

tree)

Agnes C.

Campbell, Helen (Mrs. Ted Renand)
Caswell,
Pratt)

Leah

N.

(Mrs.

Leon

C.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Chesnulewicz,

Sr.,

M. Casimer

(Mrs. Edide Howard)
Compers, Verna (Mrs. Stephen OnColley,

Mary

J.

dush)
Crawford, Olive

(Mrs.

Monroe Gir-

ton)

Doherty, Margaret
Edwards, Mildred (Mrs. Howell)

Broome)
Ransom, E. Elizabeth
Riegel, Helen A. (Mrs. Herbert Hart)

A.

erts)

Lenahan, A. Leo
Lowe, Sr„ M. Imelda
Matusavage, Julia
McGrath, Marie
Mainwaring, Margaret (Mrs. Geo.
Schwartz)
Meixell, Genevieve E. (Mrs. Elwood
F. Laneer)
Morgan, Margaret (Mrs. Granville B.
Haines)
(Mrs.

G.

M.

Kathryn (Mrs. Pelak)
Nelson, Beatrice A.
O’Brien, Mary W.
Oplinger, Elsie M.
(Mrs. Francis
Naylis,

Shaughnessy)

Robbins,
Burtin)
Robbins,
Creasy)

Pearl

Ruth

P.

(Mrs.

E.

Alfred

The marriage

of Miss E. June
granddaughter of Mrs. David Bubb, Trout Run, to the Rev.

Stioble,

Russel L. Looker, son of Dr. Fred
Looker, Glen Ridge, N. J., took
place recently at the Park Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield,
N. J. The Rev. George Cox officiated.

The bride was graduated from
Williamsport High School and
Lock Haven State Teachers College.
She did graduate work at
Pennsylvania State University and
was a member of the faculty of the
George Becht School.

J.

The Rev. Mr. Looker was graduated from B.S.T.C. where he
played football. He served as student pastor at the Bloomsburg
Presbyterian Church.
He graduated from Bloomfield Seminary, N.
1957

M. K. Whit-

Harold

(Mrs.

&

Wise)

Beulah

Fairchild,

Rowlands, David T.
Sr.,

Dushanko, Mary
Eastman, Helen Frances (Mrs. Alvin

S.

Lorraine

Mary Gerald

Flowers, Gertrude Jacqueline
Donald Davies)
Gallagher, Bernard

M. Holdegarde
Smith, Esther M.
Sober, Annabelle

Garrison, Geraldine Mildred

Thomas, Elizabeth J .(Mrs. Chilson)
Thomas, Ruth C. (Mrs. James Ja-

Gemmell, Janet C.

cobs)

Troy, Hazel K. (Mrs. George F.
Burns)
Vance, Cordelia K. (Mrs. James Beal)
Voshefski, Lucy

Handlong, Margaret Anna
Hawkins, Ray E.
Hendershot, Lida Margaret
Herr, Mildred Marguerite

Wolf, Robert C.
Yeager, Lester
Zerbe, Helen A. (Mrs. T. D. Jenkins)

Class of 1928
Baker, Martha Louise
Baxter, Ruth Vivian
Benninger, Anna Louise

(Mrs.

(Mrs. Earl

J.

Breisch, Mildred Irene
Brandon, Thelma Martha (Mrs. Lee)
Burdick, Ina C.

Hock)
Colley, Elizabeth S.
Costello, Laura Catherine

and is minister of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church.
The couple will reside at 20 Park
Avenue, Bloomfield.
J.,

Gymnasium was

the
site of the first major dance of the
year, the All-College Reception,
The
held Friday, September 27.
guests were welcomed in a receiving line by Dr. Andruss, Mr. and
Mrs. Hoch, Mrs. Miller, Dr. and
For
Mrs. Herre and Lu Natter.
the freshmen this was the first in-

FRANK

S.

Sands Hite)
Kemper, Marion Ruth
Kershaw, Mary Alma

erick

Naomi Rosalie

Centennial

Hildebrand, Ruthe Mae (Mrs. Kenneth E. Van Buskirk)
Hirsch, Gladys Isabelle
Hook, Dorothy A.
Lewis, Anna Evelyn (Mrs. B. B. Baer)
Ivey, Doyle W.
Johnson, Catherine Bernadette
Johnson, Edith Mary
Kashner, Myrna Harriet (Mrs. Fred-

Ed-

ward T. Bush)

(Mrs.

George, Patrick Paul
Gething, Margaret N. (Mrs. (Rev.)
Albert Stinner)
Greenfield, Mildred (Mrs. H. Stein)
Gresh, Dorothy Humphrey

Whitby, Elizabeth (Mrs. Davis)
Williams, Grace I. (Mrs. Harold W.

Boyer,
Smiley)

(Mrs.

Weldon Mann)

Cobb, Thelma Warren (Mrs. Anthony

Ozelka, Anna D. (Mrs. M. H. Kohler)
Painter, Eliakim (Mr.)
Pliscott, Rose (Mrs. Frank J. Furgela)

DECEMBER,

Dildine, Gladys J. (Mrs.

Keller)

Luring, Esther E. (Mrs. E. L. Stokes)

Mercedes

Marguerite

mire)

Sick, Sr.,

Gavin, Sr., M. Anita
Givens, Sr., M. Augustine
Grady, Joseph
Hallock, Alice (Mrs. Roy Austin)
Hoyt, Emmett M.
Karelus, Helen K. (Mrs. Mosier)
Kasnitz, Anna H.
Kleinfelter, Kathryn (Mrs. Hensler)
Kline, Helen (Mrs. Karl G. Reher)
Knorr, J. Ramona

Morton, Genevieve
Schappert)

Dermondy,
(Mrs. Kelly)

(Mrs. Meetching)
Robbins, Beula A. (Mrs. John Rob-

Sheridan,

Ruth

Davies, Irene Elizabeth
Davies, Martha Roberts
Davies, Ralph
Davis, Ellen Gower
Davis, Mildred Mae

Riel, Ethel B.

Evancho, Michael (Dr.)
Garrah, Rose (Mrs. Finney)
Flanagan, Sr., M. Ruth
Foster, Mrs. Agnes L.
Foulk, Madeline (Mrs. Benton)
Fritz, Emeline (Mrs. John H. Clemson)
Gaines,

Powell, Esther M. (Mrs. Byran)
Pratt, Mary W. (Mrs. Davis)
Pursel,
Anna W.
Harvey
(Mrs.

HUTCHISON, 16

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

•

Kester, Viola Mildred
Kimble, Doris Helen
Klein, Marjorie Viola

LaBar, Marguerite Anna (Mrs. Wilfred Rhodes)
Lavelle, Roland J.
Lawless, Winfred

Agnes

troduction to a semi-formal dance

on campus. For the upperclassmen

was a pleasant occasion
renew old friendships and re-

the dance
to

call similar

dances of the past.

“Autumn Leaves” was

the theme

Decorations of leaves portrayed a fitting scene, while
the music of Chet’s Quartette lent
a finishing touch to the festive ocTables for four, convencasion.
iently located on both sides of the
of the dance.

dance floor, were used by some
who were enjoying cake, cookies
and punch, as well as by those who
paused in their dancing for a few

moments

of conversation.

reports received about the
dance indicate that it was very sucBob Leiss was chairman
cessful.
All

Blanche Rozelle
charge of refreshments.

of the dance, with
in

11

FOOTBALL With

a

a

extent,

new coach and, to a great
new team, the Blooms-

burg Huskies closed the 1957 season with two victories and five defeats.
Some of the defeats, however, were by close margins, and
the games provided plenty of excitement for the spectators.
September 21
Lock Haven 13 - B.S.T.C. 6

downs
downs rushing
downs passing
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
First
First
First

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained passes
Pass intercepts by

Fumbles
Fumbles

B.

L.H.
13
13

205

0
178

1

16

12

4

6
99

1

5

9
2

1

2
2

3
lost

3

Penalties, yards
Kick-offs, yards

Kick-offs

50
2-28

yards

rets.,

10

3-32
26
4-30

61

Punts

1-30

Bloomsburg
_ 0
0 6 0- 6
Lock Haven
7 6 0 0-13
A Bloomsburg Husky combinaation that has as

its

biggest handi-

cap lack of confidence in its own
strength, lost its opener to Lock
Haven Bald Eagles, 13-6, before
fans

2,300

at

season when the
ans ground out a 13
visiting
over
the
from the capitol seat

The Hornets’

was the

first

win

home

After that the
Huskies triumphed eight times in
a row.
field, 20-12.

Haven

Lock

scoring:

downs: Dintiman 2
ing
lert

,

(3

Touch-

yards rush-

2 yards rushing); PAT— EngBloomsburg
(placement).

1

scoring: Watts (10, rushing).

September 29
Delaware State 13 — B.S.T.C. 0
downs
Yards rushings
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted

First

Passes completed
Yards gained passes
Pass intercepts by
Kick-offs
Kick-offs rets., yds.

Punt

rets., yds.

Penalties

Fumbles
Fumbles
12

B.
9
135
24
9
3

24
0

1-35
21

4-52

Punts

lost

victory,

0
10
9
7

D.S.
8
204
27
9
2
2
2

3-46
9
8-34
0
75
2
2

coming

as

did on the heels of special ceremonies dedicating a new playing
field, was somewhat tainted by the
rather inept and spotty play of
Coach Walter Blair’s Huskies. The
small handful of Bloomsburg supporters confidently expected their
favorites to pick up where they
left off at Lock Haven, but only in
spots did the bigger and betterdrilled Maroon and Gold club resemble the crew that battled to
the last second before surrendering
a 13 to 6 decision to the Bald
Eagles.

right in the bat-

second period
and then the host of New York forces began to take their toll.
until late in the

October 12
- Mansfield 6

B.S.T.C. 33
First

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards passing
Passes intercepted
Kick-offs

Punts
Fumbles

Own

recovered

Penalties

B.

M.

16

8
111
12
15

331
39
13
6

146

4
110

1

2

6-48
3-53
2
0
7-85

3-42
3-27

4
1

1-15

A

powerful ground attack coupoff with deadly passing by
quarterback Ozzie Snyder, enabled
the Bloomsburg Huskies to enroll
their first victory of the season October 12 — a 33 to 6 triumph over
Mansfield before a homecoming
crowd of 3,000 at the northern tier
led

school.

October 5
Cortland 42 - B.S.T.C. 12
B.

Lock Ha-

for

Bloomsburg was
tle

local collegi-

it

Lock Haven High

ven over a Bloomsburg eleven since
1946 when the Eagles won on their

they moved knights in moleskins
onto the gridiron in waves to trample the embattled Huskies.

they lost to

to 0 victory
moleskinners
of the neighboring state of Delaware.

field.
It

when

the second time

Delaware State with a score of
13-0.
Oddly enough, the home
margin of victory was the same as
last

12

7

Bloomsburg
0 0 0 0— 0
Delaware State __ 0 0 6 7—13
The Huskies were defeated for

1957

First downs
First downs, rushing
First downs, passing

Yards rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed

Yards gained passing
Passes intercept by
Kick-offs
Kick-offs rets.

Punts

Punt rets., yards
Fumbles
Fumbles lost
Penalties, yards

Bloomsburg

_

Cortland

The Red Dragon

13
8

5
158
25

A

c.

n
9
2

304
6

4

3

122

33
2
8-43
21
4-28
50

0
2-31
124
5-39
34
4

1

1

0

35

55

0 6 0
7 14 14

fired-up Bloomsburg eleven
paydirt in the opening quarter.
The first came on a 3-yard smash
by Ed Watts, terminating a drive
from their own 30 after the opening kickoff. The second was fashioned by a 28-yard pass play from
Snyder to end Morris Schultz. Barney Manko missed the point-after
attempt following the first score,
but booted the second between the
hit

6-12
7-42

gridiron legions

of Cortland, N. Y., State Teachers
College submerged the Bloomsburg
Huskies, 42-12, at Cortland Octo-

uprights.

The Huskies scored two more
touchdowns in the first half, as
Gerry Wood, hard-running fullback, broke loose up the middle
and romped 54 yards to TD land
for the third score of the afternoon

5, on a football day that, judged
from the viewpoint of the hosts,

and then Jonah Goobic crashed
over from the 4, to capitalize on
a Mansfield fumble that had given
the Huskies possession 28 yards

was

from pay

ber

ideal.

fourth game in a
series of football contests between
the institutions, opened the home
season for the Red Dragons and

The combat,

dirt.

The scoring after intermission
came on another line smash by
Goobic
safety

for

a

touchdown and a
Husky fumble

following a

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

on the Mansfield 1-yard

line.

Mansfield’s
tally
came with
about three minutes left in the
game as fullback Larry Biddle galloped 44 yards.
John Frontino’s
try for the extra point was not
good.

though, the fates played no favorIt
was the place-kicking

ites.

which determined the

October 19

First

—

night

B.S.T.C. 19
B.

S.

8

9

160
30

279
35

9
4

9

downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed

4

Yards gained passing
186
Passes intercepted by
2
Punts
3-27
Penalties

Fumbles

game

in

Bloomsburg in five
Monarchs

years, the King’s College

were forced

to

postpone the battle

with Huskies of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College because of
a heavy outbreak of flu among the
Wilkes-Barre team.
listed

4
3

4-30

2-36
2-20

0

4

lost

— King’s (Cancelled)
the eve of the first college

B.S.T.S.

Shippensburg
0 7 7 6—20
Bloomsburg
0 12 0 7—19
Cumberland Valley State Teachers College’s Red Raiders from
Shippensburg rode to victory on
the educated toe of Harold Hopple, a freshman from Lewistown,
20-19 thriller played before a
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Homecoming Day throng that
was 2,000 strong despite the Asian
flu and a brisk, chill wind out of

November 2
B.S.T.C. 26

-

California 12
B.

downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
First

16

14

259

197
41
14

10
16
9
140
4

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards passing
Pass intercepted by

Fumbles

c.

lost

2

69
1

0
3-35

3

6-88

Penalties

in a

the north.

The triumph left the Red and
Blue undefeated and a definite
bidder for the State Teachers College Conference Crown. It buried
any titles hopes that still might
have been nurtured by the Huskies

who

last

ruled

the

TC

roost in

the
Cumberland Valley
were ready and happy to
settle for victory by that one-point
margin. During much of the afternoon they were outplayed and dur-

But

hosts

ing part of the contest they trailed.
In fact they were on the short end
of a 12-7 tally at the intermission.
It was
one of those contests
where just about everything happened and anything was expected.
It was a clash that pitted the
running game of Shippensburg
against the aerial game of the Huskies and those two off-set each oth-

so

well

it

was place-kicking

which decided the contest.

game

so close and so keenly contested, there are at least a
dozen “ifs” on each side which
could have turned the complexion
of the battle.
On the whole,
In a

0

0-12

6

Bloomsburg
7 6 6-26
Bloomsburg Huskies, of a mind
to go just as fast as they needed
waiting until the fourth
to and
quarter to wrap up a victory that
could have been clinched much
defeated the California
Teachers College Huskies,
26-12 before a spare crowd on air
conditioned Mount Olympus.
earlier,

State

The Huskies, who went

to

the

often and with considerable
success, scored in 2:38 of the first
air

1955.

er

6
7

California

DECEMBER,

1957

period and then stayed ahead although hard pressed by the Vulcans, who presented a good sized
club with a fine ground attack, until the middle of the third period.
The gridders from the western
part of the state kept the local fans
well entertained and altogether it
was a pleasant afternoon. Victory

ARCUS’
‘TOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

’41

Maroon and Gold on

to the

one of the most delightful
insofar as temperature and
wind was concerned — the
erman has provided for a

home

October 26

On
Shippensburg 20

issue of the

day.

came

football

game

lack of

weath-

Husky

many

in

—

days

a sea-

son.

November
West Chester 13

-

9
B.S.T.C. 7
B.
W.C.

downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Passes attempted
First

9

13
161
9
2
72
0
3
2

Passes completed
Yards passing
Passes intercepted

Fumbles
Fumbles
Punts

15
188

9
174

lost

Kick-offs
Kicks returned yards

179
17
7
72

0
1
1

6-40
3-39
5-25

6-35
2-45
4-12

Strong gales that ripped across
Mt. Olympus, chilling some 2,000
spectators to the bone, came dangerously close to blowing an undefeated,
untied West Chester
Teachers’ dream clear off the face
of the earth.

However, when the two-hour
had ended, the badly-clawed Rams, fightless and exhausted,
and glad to see it all come to an
end, limped out of town with a
13-7 conquest over the Bloomsburg
conflict

State Teachers Huskies.

This was the battle of wits between the teacher (Coach Killinger-West Chester) and the pupil
(Coach Walt Blair-B.S.T.C.) and it

turned

out with

the

veteran in-

structor getting the points

young

student,

and the

finishing his

first

season in the coaching ranks, in
the glory of a moral victory.

Riding the crest of a 13-game
winning streak (seven this season)
the Rams rolled up 261 points
against 33 for the opponents in
their contests so far in 1957, but
were overjoyed to the fullest to
leave town with such a slim margin.
Experts picked the Rams
over the Huskies by three touchdowns.
Spearheaded by an all-out effort
on the part of the entire aggregation, the gallant band of Huskies
stood up at every point to the powerful

Ram

and

provided

Coach

Blair with a fitting farewell to a

somewhat dismal 1957

season.
13

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb,

’46

Benton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mr. Michael Dorak

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

9

Brentwood Lane

Levittown, Penna.

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

MONTOUR COUNTY

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

’33

VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Edward Lynn

Mr. Angelo Albano
14th and Wall Streets

SECRETARY
Edward

Burlington, N.

’41

D. Sharretts,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Danville, Pa.

J.

SECRETARY
Miss Alice Smull,

SECRETARY

TREASURER
Paul Martin, ’38
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Clarke Brown
43 Strawberry Lane
Levittown, Penna.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

TREASURER
Mr. Wm. Herr
28 Beechtree

PRESIDENT

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

Lane

Levittown, Penna.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

’32

’32

Race Street

TREASURER
Homer

Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

Mrs. Lillian

William Zeiss

732

1910

TREASURER

and long-time leader

in vocational

agriculture in the United States,
retired September 1 from his position as Chief Agricultural Education in the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction.

His retirement, 16 days after his
seventieth birthday, closes almost
a half century of meritorious service to education in Pennsylvania,
including 43 years as the first state
vocational agriculDuring that long career he
ture.
was accorded many state and na-

supervisor

of

culminating after
with the Federal
government’s choice of him as consultant in reorganizing agriculture
tional

honors,

World War

14

II

4,

of

Fetterolf

Mr. Fetterolf was born August 6,
1887, on a farm at Mifflinville, Col-

the following year.

umbia County, and was educated
system to
which he later dedicated his life’s
work. He is a graduate of Mifflinthe

public

schools

High School, Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College, where he
ville

received bachelor of science and
master of science degrees.

His career in agricultural educabegan in 1914, when he organized the first vocational school in
It was
at Elders
Pennsylvania.
Ridge, Indiana County, and offertion

ed three courses: agriculture, home
economics and college preparatory.
Because of the success of his pio-

’34

neering effort at Elders Ridge, Mr.

Germany and Korea.

in

’23

TREASURER
Miss Ether E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

Pa.

education in devastated areas

H. C. Fetterolf, pioneer in agricultural education in Pennsylvania

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street
Spring City, Pa.

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue
Scranton

’18

SECRETARY

Margaret L. Lewis, ’28
1105% West Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

BE LOYAL TO YOUR
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Irish, ’06

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY
’ll

Hortman

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rodgers Lloyd

Middletown, Penna.
Mr. W.

HONORARY PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

SECRETARY
259

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street
Harrisburg, Penna.

Miss Pearl L. Baer,

’05

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

was invited to enter the
Department of Pubilc Instruction
As part of the program of vocaMr. Fetterolf in

tional agriculture,

1929 directed the organization of
Future Farmers of America chapters in Vo-Ag departments of Pennsylvania high schools. He has been
the FFA’s State Adviser ever since.
Today Pennsylvania has 293 FFA
chapter (one at each of the 293
high school Vo-Ag departments)

and

their

combined membership

includes approximately 11,000 of
the 12,000 Vo-Ag pupils enrolled
in Pennsylvania.

Probably one of the most outstanding achievements in vocational education was the successful ad-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
LUZERNE COUNTY

NEW YORK AREA

Wilkes-Barre Area

PRESIDENT

SUSQUEIIANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mrs. J. J. Coughlin
Dunellen, N. J.

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison Street

Thomas

H. Jenkins, '40
Terrace Drive
Shavertown, Pa.

Tunkhannock, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

91

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski, ’52
New Milford, Pa.

Mrs. Fred Smethers
Elizabeth, N. J.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Jerry Y. Russin/41
136 Maffet Street
Plains, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

A. K. Naugle, 11
119 Dalton Street

Miss Mabel Dexter,

’19

Mehoopany, Pa.

Roselle Park, N. J.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Agnes Anthony Silvany, ’20
83 North River Street

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, T4

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling,
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick,
1017 East Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

Mr. Clyde Adams,

317 Tripp Street

Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

Mrs.

TREASURER
Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley,
New Milford, Pa.

’53

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Mrs. Nora Bayliff Markunas,
Island Park, Pa.

TREASURER
’34

PRESIDENT
Joseph A. Kulick, ’49
1542 North Danville Street

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Arlington

WEST BRANCH AREA

Hazleton Area

Robert V. Glover,

Harold J. Baum, ’27
South Pine Street

’03

Mifflinburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Jason Schaffer

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

R. D.

1,

Selinsgrove, Pa.

4215
’32

Washington Avenue
West Hazleton, Pa.

ministration of the “institution on-

farm training” conducted in Pennsylvania under the Veterans’ Training Act. Mr. Fetterolf was instrumental in initiating this program
which resulted in the rehabilitation
and training of approximately 10,000 G.I.’s, who had entered the
occupation of farming.
The pattern set up in Pennsylvania for this
program was adopted in 41 other

1957

TREASURER
Miss Saida Hartman,

127

DECEMBER,

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
Washington, D. C.

Helen Crow

TREASURER

states.

RECORDING SECRETARY

Lewisburg, Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

’24

U

Street, S. E.
Washington, D. C.

TREASURER

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 North LocustStreet

Ecker,

1232

Carolyn Petrullo
Northumberland, Pa.

SECRETARY

McHose

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

SECRETARY

Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

Virginia

Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

20

Hazleton, Pa.

1,

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Lucille

’14

WASHINGTON AREA

’34

Madison Street

147 East

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

Dornsife, Pa.

West Wyoming, Pa.

146

’36

VICE PRESIDENT

’54

Betty K. Hensley,

SECRETARY

PRESIDENT
’53

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Kenneth Kirk,

Slocum Avenue
Tunkhannock, Pa.

42

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

Brandywine
Washington

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

Mr. Fetterolf expects to live at
160-acre farm at Mifflinville

the

which he has owned and managed
for the past

41 years.
1912

Interested in Indian relics?
You’ll be pleasantly surprised

and not a

amazed if you make
museum conducted in

little

a trip to the

Pleasant Valley by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wiant.

No

present

interest

in

Indian

relics?

a safe bet you’ll develop one
museum and a
talk with the Wiants.
It’s

after a visit to the

The museum,

located one and a

half miles north of Patterson

Campground, houses

Grove

a magnificent

conglomeration of objects used by
American Indians who lived in and
wandered through the American
Southeast.
15

Mr. and Mrs. Wiant spent more
than thirty-five years collecting
their unusual display and in that
time developed not only a genuine
liking for Indian relics, but a background of knowledge concerning
Indian tribes which makes them
authorities in that field.

The bulk of displays which jam
the three good-sized rooms which
make up the museum consists of
several thousand arrowheads of
every

size,

shape and description,

tomahawk and axe heads, trading
beads,

wampum, and

pestles

which the Indians used

mortars and
for

grinding grain.
In addition, Mr.
Wiant has mounted more than a
hundred birds — mostly waterfowl,
from the southern states — a beaucollection of moths and many
small animals. Friends, neighbors
tiful

and

have added to the obon view at the museum by
contributing antiques and numervisitors

jects

ous Civil

War

The hobby

make

the mistake of looking for

arrowheads and the like, contain
few relics.
He found lowlands
near creeks, the best places to
search, with slight rises in the land
indicating the spots where the Indians had lived.
In such spots the Wiants found
perhaps ten thousand arrowheads
and the many other items which

they display.

The arrowheads are beautifully
mounted on velvet in wooden
frames with glass covers. The coloring of the arrowheads in each individual display, Mrs. Wiant who
obviously has an artistic bent, has

even arranged some to make pictures. One striking display of heads
makes up a bowl containing a bouquet of flowers.

relics.

The arrowheads are made of various stones such as jasper and white

of collecting Indian

quarz and even shark

started

relics

which the Indians had used when
the land was theirs.
The hills,
where Mr. Wiant says most people

in

1916

when Mr.

scales.

The

as-

jasper heads, plentiful in the south,
are highly colored and were used
by the Chicksaw, Choctaw and

sociated for thirty-four years.
A
good part of that time he was superintendent of hatcheries in four
southern states.

White quarz was
Creek Indians of
Alabama. Shark scales were used,
of course, by the coastal tribes,

Wiant joined the U. S. Bureau
Fisheries with which he was

His

of

job with the bureau
Tupelo, Mississippi, and he
spent most of his days off and
weekends exploring the nearby
countryside. On his walks he oc-

was

first

in

Cherokee

tribes.

a favorite of the

particularly those who lived along
the Gulf of Mexico.

Finding a certain type or make
of

arrowhead

in a particular spot,

casionally

Mr. Wiant says, does not necessarily indicate which tribe might have

over the years

lived

found arrowheads and
developed a real
interest in them and in 1925 he
and his wife took up Indian relic
collecting as a serious hobby, devoting all of their spare time to
expeditions
which
them
took
through all the rural and wooded
areas of the south.

The Wiants,

unlike most Indian
hunters and archeologists,
never excavated for their treasures.
They found all of them on the surface of the land which they covered
meticulously.
relic

At
a hit

Mr. Wiant says, it was
and miss proposition and he

first,

spent several years looking in the

Then by trial and
and Mrs. Wiant came to
know the signs which pointed to
and
burial grounds
campsites
wrong

places.

error he

16

Indians
or camped there.
were great traders and arrowheads,
being their most valued possessions
naturally also their most traded obAll tribes seemed to have a
jects.
plentiful supply of each type head.

Among the thousands of arrowheads in the Wiant collection are
dozens of styles requiring intricate
tedious work and craftsmanship on
the part of the Indians who had
only the crudest tools with which
to fashion the heads.
After thirty-five years of collecting and retirement from his Bureau of Fishieries job, Mr. and Mrs.
Wiant returned in 1949 to Pleasant
Valley, where both were born and
reared.
tion

They found

their collec-

was bigger than their home
Wiants constructed

In 1951, the

a

—

building

home —

in

next door to

which

to

their

their

store

wasn’t long before friends
and neighbors began dropping in
to view the collection and all were
so pleased with what they saw that
each visitor suggested the place be
opened to the general public.
In 1956 the Wiants opened the
museum to visitors with regularly
scheduled hours on Wednesdays
and Saturdays during the spring,

relics. It

summer and fall months. From
now until the weather gets too wintry

will

it

ternoons.
live

be open on Sunday afBut die Wiants, who

show

next door, are glad to

anyone through the museum
time

at

any

they just stop to ask.

if

The hobby

of collecting Indian

much pleasure for
years for Mr. and Mrs. Wiant and now both are deriving simprovided

relics

many

ilar satisfaction

new roles
own museum.

in their

as curators of their

1915
Katherine Little Bakeless has collaborated with her husband, Dr.
John Bakeless on an important new
book for young people twelve to
Just publishLippincott Company,

sixteen years of age.

ed by
it

is

J.

B.

“They Saw America

entitled

Dr. Bakeless is the son of
Professor O. H. Bakeless, formerly
of the faculty of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
First.”

“They Saw America First” is an
absorbing chronicle of the adventures

and discoveries

World’s

first

of the

explorers.

New

Young

readers will follow their journeys,

Columbus

Lewis and
to
and learn of the courage,
cruelty', greed and imagination that
possessed the men who opened up
to Europeans the great continent
on which we live. The volume has
a clear map showing the journeys
of the various explorers, an index,
and is illustrated with old woodcuts and paintings.
from

Clark,

Katherine Little Bakeless is the
daughter of the late Judge Robert
E. Little of the Columbia and Montour County Courts.
After receiving her musical dip-

loma

in

1916,

Katherine Bakeless

studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and had extensive private piano study with such
TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

prominent musicians as Emmanuel
Wad, Heinrich Gebhardt, Bruce
Simonds, Tobias Matthay, Berta
Jahn-Beer, and musical pedagogy
with Wesley Weyman. She has incorporated her vast musical knowledge into several books for young
readers, such as “Story-Lives of
Great Composers’ ’and “Story-Lives
She
American Composers.”
of
taught music at schools in New
York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

John Bakeless has been a reporter,

lecturer, soldier, editor

and

col-

lege professor, and has written such
important adult biographies as
“Background to Glory: The Life of

GeoTge Rogers Clark,” and “Daniel

A cum laude graduate

Boone.”
Williams College, he has an M.A.
and Ph.D. from Harvard Univer-

of

sity, where he was the first man
since Ralph Waldo Emerson to take
the coveted Bowdoin Prize in two

successive years.
Dr. and Mrs.

Great

Hill, in

Bakeless

live

at

Seymour, Conn.

1917
Recently the students of Dickinson College presented a permanent
This
placque
college.
to
the
placque is to be known as the “Dr..

Each
J. Loomis Christian Award.”
year the
outstanding scholastic
student from the Freshmen Class
and from the Upper Classes will be
chosen and their names inscribed
thereon.
This placque was presented by the students in recognition of the many services Dr. Christhem
tian
has
contributed
to
through the years.

ing 28 languages, English Braille

and English Talking Book.
Mr. Henry based his meditation
on Psalm 105:2 “Bless the Lord, O
my soul, and forget not all his benefits.’
He says in part: “God showers upon us a multitude of blessings every day. We can complain,
we can take them for granted, or
we can be thankful for them.” The
meditation is concluded with a
prayer and a thought for the day.
Because of the wide readership
and popularity of The Upper
Room, it is considered a high honor to have a meditation selected
and published m the world’s most
Dr.
out that
each meditation appears not only
in English but each of the other
language editions including: Arabic, Italian, Armenian, Hindi, Thai,
Japanese, Korean, Greek, Spanish,
Swedish, Urdu, Portugese, Taga!og, Ilocano, Telugo, Norwegian,
Persian, Finnish, Russian, Tamil
Turkish, Hungarian, Chinese, Gujarati, Cebuano, French, Burmese,
the editor,

Heller

Marathi and Sinhalese. Chaplains
report that a special pocket size
edition is the item of religious literature most often requested by

men and women
services.

are

ies

Many

made

in

the military

thousands of cop-

available to veterans

hospitals also.

Mr. Henry’s meditation, with the
others in the November-December
issue, is a part of the ministry of
70,000 churches in the United
States and Canada. These churches represent every Protestant de-

1949

principal of
School,
Street
is

the
Cleveland
Orange, New Jersey.

A
ly

David Nelson, has recentbeen born to the Rev. and Mrs.
son,

Robert Yetter, Columbia, Pa.

1932

The Reverend Mr. Thomas L.
Henry of Kokomo, Indiana, is the
author of the meditation being used on Thursday, November 28, by
an estimated eleven million people
around the world who are readers

The Upper Room. The Upper
Room, a devotional guide under

of

Dr. J. Manning
has a world circulation of
more than three million copies. It
is published in 34 editions includthe editorship of
Potts,

DECEMBER,

1957

1952

A

daughter was born to Mr. and
Laurence C. Glass, Hatboro, Pa.,
on September 5, 1957. The baby
has been named Lizabeth Ann. Her
mother is the former Lola Jean
Deibert and she has an older sister, Sandy.
1953

points

nomination.
S.

bers of the class ’50. The Widgers
have a two year old son, Johnny.

widely used devotional guide.

Potts,

1917

Edwin

1950
daughter, Helen Joann, was
born June 29, 1957, to Mr. and Mrs.
George E. Widger, of Catawissa.
Mrs. Widger is the former Jane
Kenvin and both parents are mem-

A

Rev.
Vetter is pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Columbia. Mrs. Yetter
the former Helene Brown, of
is
West Hazleton.

The September

issue

of

“The

Balance Sheet," magazine of business
tains

and economic education, conan article written by Edwin

W. Cunfer, Langhorne, graduate

of

B.S.T.C.

His subject, “Use Bookkeeping To Teach Basic Skills,”
has received favorable comment.
Mr. Cunfer teaches bookkeeping
and shorthand in Neshaminy High
School in Bucks county, a juniorsenior high school on a 212-acre
campus completed in 1955 at a

and one-half

•cost of four

million.

The school school population has
increased from 900 to 6,000 pupils
in the past eight years.
A graduate of B.S.T.C. in 1953,
Mr. Cunfer is at present working
on his Master’s Degree at Temple

He

University.

former
is

teacher

a

is

married to the

Hope Horne, Numidia, who
in

the

Langhorne

schools.

1954
Gerald E. Houseknecht was ordained into the office of the sacred
ministry on Sunday, September 9,
at ten-thirty A.

place in his

M. The service took
church, St. Mat-

home

thew Lutheran, Bloomsburg.
Dr. Dwight F. Putman, President
of the Central Pennsylvania Synod
of the United Lutheran Church in
America, officiated at the service

1950
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Beadle,
of Portsmouth, Ohio, are parents
of a son, Dwight David, bom May
Mrs. Beadle is the for3, 1957.
mer Ruth Shupp, of the Class of
’57.
Mr. and Mrs. Beadle have another son, Mark.

The sermon for the
morning was preached by the Rev.
Arthur W. Lawver, pastor of Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church, Berwick,
of ordination.

who

is

is

President of the Susque-

hanna Conference of the United
Lutheran Chureh. Serving as liturgist for the service was the Rev.
17

James M. Singer, pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
Mr. Houseknecht is a graduate
of Bloomsburg High School and
His theological training

B.S.T.C.

was received at the Lutheran Theoligical Seminary at Gettysburg,
and he received his Bachelor of
Divinity in

May

of

1957.

Upon

completion of his studies, he took a
period of internship at the Patton
State Hospital, Patton, Calif. This
internship gave him special training in the

work

of counseling.

Mr. Houseknecht has taken up
duties as assistant pastor of
Trinity Lutheran Church, Hagershis

town, Md.

1956
H. Jack Healy, an Ensign in the
U. S. Navy, is now stationed in
Boston, Massachusetts, and lives at
1419 Pleasant Street, East Weymouth. Mrs. Healy was formerly
Miss Bertha Canouse ’57.
Ensign Healy, of Berwick, was
one of the 539 new naval officers
who received their commissions
during the past summer at Newport,

Rhode

Island.

1956

Marine First Lt. Robert P. Blyler had his “Wings of Gold’’ as a
Naval Aviator pinned on by his
wife at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. George R. Blyler, Bloomsburg, and husband of the former
Shirley Yeager, Catawissa.
Lieutenant Blyler is now in helicopter
training at Ellyson Field, near Pensacola.

of 26

young men and women who

are beginning in September two
years of home missionary service
under the Methodist Church.

Miss Truscott, daughter of the
Rev. Samuel J. Truscott, superintendent of the Oneonta Methodist
district,
and Mrs. Truscott, is
going to Marcy Center, a community center in Chicago, as a social
group worker.

The young home missionaries,
known as “US-2’s,” represent 18
states.
One August 31 they completed

weeks

specialized
for
Christian
Workers,
Nashville,
Tenn,. in preparation for their
work. They studied fundamentals
of the Christian faith, social group
work, Christian education, and arts
and crafts. The “US-2’s” will work
in mission schools, community censix

training

at

of

Scarritt

ters,

hospitals,

and

Hawaii.

College

Salem, N.

J.

1957
Allen Kessler is teaching business subjects in the high school at

Salem,

New

Jersey.

1957
Miss Margaret Ann Duck has accepted a position as third grade
teacher in the Levittown schools.
1957
Miss
Street,
18

Janice

3
York,

Truscott,

Oneonta,

New

West
is

one

is

a

member

of

Kappa

fraternity.

1957
Miss Patricia Kemp was seriously
injured in an automobile accident
in California in October.
A telephone report to her parents by the doctor in attendance
disclosed Miss Kemp suffered a
fractured vertebrae and listed her
condition as “fair.”
Miss Kemp, a school teacher in
the elementary schools at Whittier,
California, was riding with two

roommates,
their auto

vehicle.

also

teachers,

when

was rammed by another
She was the only one in-

jured.

Miss
Kemp graduated from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in June and left for her California teaching post in August.

1957
Miss Geraldine Dwyer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis C. Dwyer,
Rosemont, and Donald Alter, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alter, Danille,
were united in marriage recently
in the Radnor Methodist Church.
The Rev. Vernon Murray officiated
at the ceremony.
The bride attended Bloomsburg
Her husState Teachers College.
band is a graduate of that College.

They

will reside in Pensacola, Fla.

cation.

While in college, Miss Truscott
was president of the Wesley College Fellowship, a reporter on the
school newspaper, and a member
tion, the Girls’ Athletic

Marilyn Friedman is teaching
French in Salem, New Jersey. Her
address is 261 East Broadway,

He

tistry.

Sigma

will

serve under the Woman’s Division
of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions and one
under the Board’s Division of National Missions.
A native of West Nanticoke, Pa.,
Miss Truscott attended Central
High School, Scranton, Pa., and
and rural areas in the United States
burg
State
Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pa. She was graduated last spring with a bachelor of
science degree in elementary edu-

of the Student Christian

1957

homes

children’s

Twenty-five

second-year student in the UniverPennsylvania School of Den-

sity of

Associa-

Club and

the campus branch of the Future
She is a
Teachers of America.
member of the First Methodist
Church of Oneonta.

1957
Barbara Raski and George Gary
Hess, both of Benton, were married Friday, August 23, in the Benton Methodist Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
John A. Hoover, pastor of the
church.
Mrs. Hess will teach fourth grade
in the Rose Tree School, Media,
The bridegroom attendthis year.
ed Bucknell University and is a

1958
Miss Constance Elizabeth Wirt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Wirt, Sunbury, and William F. Bastian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
E. Bastian, Sunbury, were married
recently at the home of the bride
by the Rev. Grant E. Harrity, pastor of First Evangelical and Reformed Church, Sunbury.

They will reside with the groom’s
parents while the bride completes
Mr.
her senior year at B.S.T.C.
Bastian is a teacher in the Lewisburg High School.

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NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

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NnrrnUuttr
Mary Lowrie Higbee ’95
Mrs. Mary L. Higbee, retired
school teacher and the widow of
J. I. Higbee, died suddenly Monday, October 7, at her home 21
South Main Street, VVatsontown.
She had been

in

ill

health for the

months.

past several

Deceased was born January 1,
1875, in Derry Township, Montour
County, the daughter of the late
James YV. and Priscilla Lowrie. She
had resided in YVats'ontown for the
past forty-six years.
Prior to her marriage, she taught
school in Milton and in several
other communities.
She also was
a member of the faculty at Barber

Memorial Seminary

Anniston,
Ala., following her graduation from
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1895. During her residence
in Watsontown, she displayed an
in

active interest in civic affairs.

A. K. Aldinger ’06
Dr. Albert K. Aldinger, a member of the faculty of the Teachers

College from 1894 to 1906 and one
of the foremost men in the field
of physical education, died October
18 at the home of his son-in-law
and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Doug-

Dunlop,

Mukwonago

R. D. 1,
Illinois, at the age of eighty-four.
Death followed an illness since last
August.

las

Dr. Aldinger was athletic coach
at the local institution when it was
a

Normal School and was the build-

number of outstanding athteams for the Maroon and

er of a
letic

July 4, 1873, at York, Pa., and received his education in the public
schools there.
Without a formal
college education he became a
physical education instructor at the
local school in 1894.
During the

summers

he

played

semi-profes-

sional baseball in the old Tri-State

League.
Securing a leave of absence from
Normal School, Dr. Aldinger
studied medicine at the University
of Vermont, receiving his degree
in 1899.
He then returned to the
local school as coach and director
the

of physical education.
In those
days it was customary for the coach
to play with the school athletes.
While pitching for the baseball
team he injured his arm.

In 1906 he went to New York
City where he served as a physical
education teacher in the school system of the city. He treated injured
athletes as well as giving them instructions in sportsmanship.
Dr. Aldinger advanced rapidly in

the system and became director of
the health education division of die
city schools.
Later he headed the
physical education department at
the

University

When

of

Vermont

three

years.

the

New

York City schools

were unable to fill the position left
vacant by Dr. Aldinger, he was reinstated but
of die New

it

took a special act

York Legislature
about. He continued

to

bring this
as
health division director for fifteen
years and until his retirement eleven years ago.
Survivors in addition to the
daughter are a grandson, Wayne
Dunlop, Mukwonago, and a brother, Harry Aldinger, Miami, Fla.

Emma

Gold.

MacFarlane TO

frequent visitor to
Bloomsburg in recent years, his last
such trip being for the reunion of
Caldwell Consistory, of which he

Miss Emma MacFarlane, 71, of
Hazleton, a retired Hazleton school
teacher, died suddenly Monday,
August 12 at her home. Her death

was a member,

was attributed to a heart attack.
Born in Jeanesville, she was the
daughter of the late David and Al-

He was

a

He

received

Service

Award

in the fall of 1956.

Meritorious
the
of the Alumni As-

sociation of the Teachers College
in

1952.

fath-

a superintendent for the J. C.
Haydon Co., who operated the
Spring Mountain Coal Co., at Jeanesville, directed the rescue of the
er,

For the past six years he had rewith his son-in-law and

sided

daughter.

The educator-physician was born
DECEMBER,

ma Hamer MacFarlane. Her

1957

score of

men who were entombed

Slope,

1

February

4,

1891.

Miss MacFarlane graduated from
Hazleton High School in 1905, and
from Bloomsburg Normal School
in 1910.
She retired in June 1952
after teaching 45 years.
Before
teaching the first grade at the
Hazleton schools she taught three
years at Hazle Township. In 1936
she took advanced studies at Muhlenberg College and received her
degree.

She was a member of St. Paul’s
Methodist Church and the Philathea Bible Class of the church.

Florence May Reynolds T2
Florence May Reynolds, of Nichols, died in October in the Tioga
General Hospital. She was 64 years
old.

The daughter of William and
Mary Moshier May, she was born
in Sugar Run April 20, 1893.
She
was a member of the Lutheran
Church of Rickets, Pa., and a member of the Eastern Star of Nichols.

•

and a half

the No.

at

George

president

Bank

George L. Low
L.
Low, eighty-three,
the

of

First

of Bloomsburg, died

National

Septem-

ber 10 in the Geisinger Hospital,
Danville.
He had been in ill health for
some time, and was hospitalized on

August 23.
Prominent

in the civic affairs and
business of this section, Mr. Low
had been associated with the local

financial house for

He

more than

rose

six-

through

the
ranks of the institution to become
its head.
A native of Lime Ridge, he was
born June 29, 1874, the son of the
late Dr. Elisha W. M. Low and Rety

years.

becca Hill Low.

He

continued his

same home

in

which he was born throughout

his

residence

in

the

lifetime.

Mr. Low attended the public
schools at Lime Ridge and was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School. He had been employed at the Bloomsburg Car Co.,
the predecessor of the
plant

ACF

which was burned out here, while
he attended Normal School.
In addition to the bank, he had
19

been affiliated with the Bloomsburg Brick Co. and the Atlantic
Brick Co.,

New

Jersey.

Prominent in Masonic bodies, he
was a Thirty-third Degree Mason.
Doris Miller Diefenderfer
Mrs. Balph Diefenderfer, the
former Doris Miller, died in a nur-

home
November
sing

long

Allentown Friday,
Death followed a

at
1.

illness.

The daughter

of Mrs.

Harry W.

Miller and the late Harry W. Miller, she was a native of Bloomsburg, a graduate of the Teachers

College and a teacher in county
school for about twenty-five years.
Since her marriage about fifteen
years ago she resided in Allentown.

Miss

Anna Gillespie
Anna Gillespie,

Centralia,

sixty-two,
recently at her
been bedfast for

died

home. She had
two weeks.
She had taught for forty-one
years in Columbia County, retiring last spring after more than thirty years on the staff of Conyngham-Centralia High School.
She received her teachers’ training at Bloomsburg Normal School
and Pennsylvania State College.

George C. Baker
George C. Baker, 75, widelyknown educator and supervising
principal

of

public

schools

in

Moorestown, New Jersey, until
1946, died Thursday, July, in Haddon Hall Nursing Home, Haddonfield.

Mr. Baker had been ill two years.
He served three times as vice
president of the National Education Association.

He had
in

held the supervising post

Moorestown from 1913 and

for

40 years served oo committees of
the New Jersey Education Association, of which he was a past president.

he had held
teaching posts at high schools in

Born

in

Noxen,

Pa.,

and West Chester, Pa.,
and taught administration and suPlainfield

pervision in the

New

County superintendent of schools.
He was a member of the board
of trustees of the New Jersey State

DR. RUSSELL

Teachers

“The

and Annuity
Fund of which he had served as

chairman;

past president of the
a member of the board
of governors of the New Jersey
Schoolmasters Club; treasurer of
the Burlington County Transportation Committee, a member of the
Princeton Survey Commission and
the State School Survey CommisState

PTA;

sion.

Mr. Baker was past president of
the Moorestown Boosters Building

and Loan Association, a director of
the Burlington County Trust Co., a
member of the Moorestown Recreation Commission, the Moorestown
Free Library Board of Trustees,
past president of the Moorestown
Rotary Club.

The George C. Baker Elemennamed in his honor,
is located at Maple Avenue and
Dawson Street, in Moorestown.
tary School,

He was a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
held degrees from Lafayette Col-

“Historical Rifles,” published in

Pennsylvania

Farmer,”

re-

cently has a threefold significance
for Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Dr. J. Almus Russell, member of
English department, is the
author.
Dale Biever, Harrisburg,
B.S.T.C. senior, is the collector and
owner of the rifles described in the
the

article.

In the article, Dr. Russell writes:
“Mr. Biever has secured from his
collection pieces not only from
gifts and purchases but also by discoveries made on Civil War battlefields themselves.
He has acquired considerable local fame for his
resourcefulness in locating many
items lost, discarded, or buried
during the War of the Rebellion.”
Mr. Ketner’s photographs illustrating the piece include those of
the Pennsylvania Long Rifle (1790),
Sharp’s Carbine (1848), the Springfield Rifle (1863), and the Spencer

Carbine

(1862).

lege, Columbia University and the
University of Pennsylvania.

RECEIVE DEGREES
AT BUCKNELL

The engagement has been announced of Miss Jean Emmalee

Three students from the Bloomsburg area have been awarded degrees by Bucknell University.
Representing
Bloomsburg are
Harry G. Gray, East Ninth Street,
and James A. Krum, 3203 Old Berwick Road. Both were awarded

daughter of Mrs. Irvin
West Eighth Street,
Bloomsburg, and the late Mr. Robison, to Herbert A. Schloo, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Schloo, Clinton Place, Hackensack, N. J.
Miss Robison attended Lenoir

Robison,
Robison,

Rhyne College, George Washington University and State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, and has been
teaching in the Morrisville High
School. She is currently employed
in the program department of radio
station

WHLM.

Mr. Schloo, a graduate of BuckUniversity and the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania, is associated with the
Reynolds Metals Company in Louisville, Kentucky.
The wedding took place in October in Bloomsburg.
nell

Training

20

Pension

Jersey State

Teachers,
for
School
Ocean City, before coming to
Moorestown. He once declined post

AT B.S.T.C.
WRITES ARTICLE ON RIFLES

of Burlington

Mary

Mrs.

D.

1,

is

Rarig, Catawissa R.

teaching second grade in

the Catawissa schools.

the degree of master of science in
education.
Also included is Arthur C. Rieg-

Catawissa, who received the
degree of bachelor of science in
gel,

education.

The Intercollegiate Conference
on Government would like to contact former members in order to
determine which ones of them have
followed a governmental or political career.

you are a former member of
you please send a card
or letter to Joseph G. Eidson, Jr.,
Historian, I.C.G., 2448 Lititz Road,
If

I.C.G., will

Lancaster, Pa., telling him your
present address, what you are now
doing, and when you last participated in I.C.G.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"

^auce^ied caiA Hio-me-d"
E. H.

NELSON

’ll

It seems fitting and proper that Northumberland County should
have this page in December. Any branch organization may have the
same privilege. My page is your page.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
1.

Summer

ALUMNI

B.S.T.C.

Picnic

Twenty-seven attended the first family picnic of the Association at
Knoebel's Grove. August 7, 1957. The group was delighted to have
Doctor and Mrs. Nelson share the good food and fun. All present had a
pleasant and enjoyable afternoon and evening.

Be watching
2.

Fall

for date

and place

of our 1958

summer

get-to-gether.

Meeting

The third consecutive annual dinner-business meeting of the Northumberland County Branch of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Alumni Association was held Monday evening, September 30, in the
Sunbury American Legion Builcung with 56 members and guests present.
Miss Grace S. Beck. President, Elementary Supervisor of the Sunbury Area Schools, was in charge of the meeting.
Mrs. Rachel Malick, Vice President, had charge of table decorations.
Baskets of fall flowers of Maroon and Gold, B.S.T.C. colors, gave an
atmosphere of beauty. Miss Christine Diehl and Mrs. Sara Louise
Brown, Sunbury Teachers, had charge of group singing.-

Following a delicious ham dinner, the audience was entertained by
Mr. Boyd Buckingham, College
a mixed octet of B.S.T.C. students.
Faculty member, had charge of the group. The octet sang a number
The Alumni members commented
of both popular and old favorites.
that they had never heard their Alma Mater sung so beautifully.

Miss Edith Zinn, Assistant Dean of Women, brought greetings from
the college.

Mr. James Doty. Secretary-Treasurer, introducted Dr. E. H. Nelson,
President of the B.S.T.C. Alumni Association. He spoke of the Scholarships and loans provided by the Alumni for deserving students.
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, head of the Department of Biology told the
Alumni members of the available college Scholarships and grants, and
the requirements necessary to be awarded them.

Following the messages of the three College guests, Miss Beck conducted a business meeting.

New

Officers for the 1957-58 year were unanimously elected; they

are:

President

— Mrs.

Rachel Beck Malik,

’36,

1017 East

Market

Street, Sunbury, Pa.

Vice Uresident

—Mr.

Cyde Adams,

—

Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Nora
Island Park, Pa.

The Association voted

’53,

Dornsife, Pa.

Bayliff

to give $50.00 to the

Markunas,

’34,

Student Loan Fund.

Following the adjournment of the business meeting, members enjoyed a social hour.
Your-

L

Northumberland County Reporter

College Cal enclar
January

Christinas Recess

6

Ends

Semester Ends

January 21

First

January 27

Second Semester Registration

January 28

Classes Regin

April 1

Easter Recess Regins

April 8

Easter Recess Ends

May

24

ALUMNI DAY

May

25 ’A. M.

Baccalaureate Services

May

25

P.

Commencement

M.

CLASS REUNIONS

ALUMNI DAY
1898

1918

1938

1903

1923

1943

1908

1928

1948

1913

1933

1953

Exercises

ALUMNI

QUARTERLY

VoL LIX

April,

1958

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No.

I

A NEW ALUMNI DIRECTORY
Do we have your address? By this I mean, does the Alumni File have a
card in it with your correct name (particularly it you nave married since you
graduated) with your current address upon it?
Many

meet and greet a graduate or former student, and in the course
don t 1 hear from the college any more?", or “Why
had an announcement ot Homecoming or Alumni Day in the last few
times

I

of conversation he says ‘"Why

haven’t

1

years?”

The reason is that even though you may have been on campus or have attended an Alumni Meeting, you did not give your name and address to someone
who could make the proper change on the Alumni File.
Each year we mail 15,000 to 16,000 postal cards. Every graduate of tire
Some of them have
past fifteen years has had a questionnaire sent to him.
never answered a single communication from the college since graduation.

We are no compiling names and addresses for a new Alumni Directory. For
some months we have been running in the Alumni Quarterly a list of persons for
whom mail has been returned. In some cases our mail has not been returned,
but has been accepted by some member ot your family, and we assume that it
has reached the addressee.

Some years ago, we found that an Alumnus had been dead for seventeen
years and his son had been accepting mail for him over that period of time without advising the college. Only a telephone call, based on the assumption that
the advanced years ot the Alumnus was setting some sort of record, brought
forth this information.
In publishing the list of Alumni addresses in the back of “Bloomsburg
Through the Years,” our first attempt at a history of the institution, we did not
include the names of those for whom we did not have a current address. Even
though a notation was made that the address was missing, or that the person
was deceased, did not avoid the feeling of annoyance on the part of the Alumni
whose names were omitted.

We

are planning in the new Alumni Directory to list the names of all gradWill you
uates, with or without addresses, by classes, and also alphabetically.
please scrutinize your issues of the Alumni Quarterly for the past year and send
us any information which you mave have for people named in the list included
therein? While we realize we will always have some missing addresses, we

would

like to

reduce them to the smallest number possible.

Your cooperation

in this

matter will be appreciated by

Harvey A. Andruss,
P. S.

President.

An arrangement is being worked out with the Alumni Association whereby those who take out membership for a certain number of years will
receive a copy of the new Directory.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No.

Vol. LIX,

April,

I

t

MID-YEAR COMMENCEMENT
Forty-nine

Bloomsburg

students
of
State Teachers

the
Col-

lege received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education at the
mid-year commencement exercises
held in Carver Auditorium on

Monday, January 20, 1958, at 10:00
A. M. Those receiving the degree
are eligible to teach in the public
schools of the Commonwealth.
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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

Donald V. Hock, Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, delivered
the mid-year commencement address.

A

H. P. Fenstemaker, T2

’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H. Nelson, ’ll
146 Market Street

War

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Ruth Speary

Griffith, ’18
56 Lockhart Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street

TREASURER

Fred W. Diehl,
627

Bloom

Edward

i

’09

H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

Bloomsburg Pa.

Hervey B. Smith, ’22
725 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Elizabeth H. Hubler,

APRIL, 1958

Street,

his

law

completed

his

first

four-

Lutheran Church
in Allentown.
On January 1, 1956,
he was inaugurated for a second
term as Allentown’s chief execuSt.

Paul’s

The commencement address was

F. Schuyler, ’24

West Biddle

in

tive.

236 Ridge Avenue. Bloomsburg, Pa.

14

career

j

Street, Danville, Pa.

242 Central Road,

II,

Class at

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

a

year term as mayor in 1952, lectured throughout the United States
since 1946, served as State President of the Exchange Clubs of
Pennsylvania, and is currently coteacher of a large Men’s Bible

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Hock began

while an undergraduate at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. He
completed the requirements for the
Bachelor of Arts degree at Muhlenber,
and later received the
Bachelor of Law degree from the
University of Pennsylvania Law
School in Philadelphia.
In addition to practicing law
since 1936, Mayor Hock served in
the Armed Forces during World

BUSINESS MANAGER
H. Nelson,

graduate of Catasauqua High

School, Mayor
preparation for

EDITOR

E.

1958

’31

Gordon, Pa.

Mr. Hock’s second appearance as
featured speaker on the Bloomsburg campus. He appeared here
previously at the Spring Conference on Education in April, 1951.
The exercises opened with the
“Festive March” by
Raymond Hargreaves,
Becker.
Scranton, president of the Class of
19.58, read the Scripture.
Following Mayor Hock’s address,
processional,

Dr. John Serif, class advisor, presented the seniors who were to be

honored.

John A. Iloch, Dean of Instrucpresented the candidates to
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President
of the College, who conferred the
degrees.
The program was contion,

cluded

with

the

singing

of

the

“Alma Mater” by the Assembly;
the recessional was “Festal Posthide” by Rockwell.
Nelson A. Miller directed the
music, and Howard F. Fenstemaker was at the console.

“The most important office in
our land today is that of being a
citizen,” Mr. Hock asserted in his
address.

Mr. Hock, referring to the preceding quotation taken from an
•opinion handed down in 1951 by
Associate Supreme Court Justice
Frankfurter, went on to list
the responsibilities of citizens in

Felix

to what the future holds
each of the graduates, the nation, and the world.
Mayor Hock used a number of
quotations to illustrate some of the
guiding
principles
which have
helped our nation and our people

relation
for

to

overcome

difficulties

the crises of depression

and meet
and war.

He challenged the graduates to
consider with him the important
question “In what direction do you
think you are going?”
He reminded the group, that
even in the dark and dismal days
of 1932, we had time and freedom
on our

side,

and we used both to
up by the bootstraps

pull oureslves

and go on

to greater achievements.
In facing the problems before us
in 1958, he urged the graduates to
remember that attitudes are more

important than

facts,

even though

the latter have a definite and important place in our life and work.
Speaking of the role of the citizen, Mr. Hock said that growth is
1

MID-YEAR

COMMENCEMENT

ihe direct result of assuming obligations and responsibilities, and
that
less

we cannot have happiness
we go out of our way to

sume

unas-

We

both.
need to remember
always that there is no such thing
as a free lunch; someone always
pays. Looking ahead, Mayor Hock

“The future will belong to
those who dare to have great expectations, and with guidance and
wisdom, we will transform those
expectations
into
reality.’’
He
urged the group to have and to
keep a positive faith, for if and
when a positive faith dies out, a
negative faith always takes its
place.
said,

The following are the forty-nine
members of the senior class of the
State Teachers College who received Bachelor of Science in Education Degrees:

Michael Bias, McAdoo; Charles

Abraham Brassington, Frackville; Barbara BrunBilder, Mt. Carmel;

Pottstown; George Cotterall,
Shamokin; James Cuff, Pottsville;
ner,

Max

Danilowicz, Nanticoke; Joseph Dekutoski, Glen Lyon; Joseph
DeRose,
Franklin
Bloomsburg;

Duncan, Montgomery.
Fred Evans, Wilkes-Barre; CharFahringer,
les
Sunbury; James
Foltz,
Sunbury; William Freed,
Pottsville; Wilbur Helt, Berwick;
Peckville;
James
John
Jessop,
Johnson, Rock Glen; Daniel Kressler, Bloomsburg; Foster Leonhardt,
State College; Ernest Lundy, Catawissa.

Sarah Ellen Mack, Pottsgrove;
Joseph Malt, Hazleton; Michael
Marcinko, Fern Glen; William
Hand, Shamokin; Joseph Hazeski,
Phoenixville; John McGraw, Freeland;
Samuel Mitchell, Bloomsburg; Marjorie Myers, Lansdale;
Patrick Neary, Shamokin; George
Parsed, Orangeville.
John Plevyak, Beach

Haven;
George Renn, Sunbury; Theodore
Reznick, Hazleton Robert Ridgway, Catawissa; Joseph Ruane,
Shamokin; Lamar Sausser, Ashland; Ray Seitz, Lewisburg; William Shellenberger, Bloomsburg;
Sterling Smith,

Berwick; Clarence

Swade, Frackville.
Fred Templin, Dallas;
2

Joseph

DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL
EDUCATION ORGANIZED
As an outgrowth of the increased
for teachers and for spe-

demand

cial services in the

and

Commonwealth,

a result of the increased
student enrollment in special education at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, President announced the appointment of Dr.
as

Donald

Maietta as Director of
Special Education.
The appointF.

ment was made

also

to

improve

B.S.T.C.

GRADUATE PRESIDES

AT WASHINGTON EVENT
More than

a score of represen-

Teachers College, including Miss Harriet L. Kocher, the
tatives of the

president and presiding officer, attended the tenth anniversary citation luncheon of the All Pennsylvania College Alumni Association

Washington, D. C., which was
held there on Saturday, February
of

1

.

Miss Kocher, who is the daughDr. and Mrs. Frank T. Kocher, of Espy, made the presentation

the coordination of teacher education and special services in approved areas suggested by Gover-

of the organization’s

nor Leader and implemented by

tion to Dr.

legislative action in 1955.

The

now

has an outpatient clinic and a coordinated program with the Geisinger Hospital,
the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory
college

School, the Bloomsburg Memorial
Elementary School, and Williamsport City Schools which enables
college students in Speech Correction, Hearing Education, and other
areas of Special Education to receive clinical experience and to do
student teaching in a public school

environment.
Dr. Maietta, Professor of Speech
Correction at the College for the
past two and a half years, assumed
the duties of Director at the beginning of the second semester.
During his tenure at the college,
Dr. Maietta has acted as Consulting Audiologist and Speech Therapist at the Geisinger Hospital with
whom the college has a unique
working agreement for students to
observe post-operative techniques.
Dr. Maietta is a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and earned the Master of
Science and Doctor of Philosophy
degrees at the University of Pittsburgh.
Prior to beginning his

work

at

Bloomsburg, he completed

a graduate fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, worked as

ter of

Award

of .Cita-

Robert L. Johnson, pres-

sident of Temple University.
Dr.
Francis B. Haas, former president
of B.S.T.C. and long head of the
State Department of Public In-

was the recipient in 1952.
There were around 300 in attendance and this was regarded as exceptional in light of the heavy
snowstorm in the city.
struction,

Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of
the B.S.T.C. Alumni Association

and Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, and Mrs. Andruss went from Bloomsburg for
the affair.
Dr. Nelson has been
in attendance at each of the luncheons since the program started.

Miss Kocher
ministrative

motel

in

Among

now on

is

the ad-

an exclusive

of

staff

the Washington area.
the B.S.T.C. graduates in

attendance

was

ninety-three, a
of 1885.
For
the executive

Harry O.

Hine,

member of the class
many years he was

Washington, D.

secretary
C.,

of

the

board of edu-

cation.

speech pathologist for the Crippled
Society

Children’s

in

Washington

County, taught as a part-time
structor in Speech Correction
West Liberty State College

in-

at
in

Frank Vacante,

West Virginia, and was a hearing
and speech therapist for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction.
During the past five

Kelayres; Donald Wallace, WilkesBarre; Norman Wismer, Royersford; John Williams, West Pittston;
Thomas Zelinske, Shamokin; Ed-

he has completed original
research in stuttering and audiology, has presented papers to the
American Speech and Hearing As-

mund

sociation,

Thiroway, Atlas;

Zajaczkowski,

Nanticoke;

George Wynn, Shamokin.

years,

and has written several

articles for

education journals.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

COLLEGE HAS ECONOMIC
TIES WITH COMMUNITY

Board ol Trustees was such that a
campaign was successfully con-

Academy,
Literary
Institute,
State Normal School, and State
Teachers College — such has been
the development of the present
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg.
In 1839, while economic unrest
prevailed in most of our young nation, enterprising citizens of the
Town of Bloomsburg made a bold
move to provide further education
youth
of
town.
for
the
the
They persuaded Charles P. Waller,
brother of the Rev. David J. Waller,
Sr.,
to found
an academy,
which was established at Third and
Mr. Waller reJefferson Streets.

mained two

and when

years,

he

the institution was in a flourishing condition.
Public school
teachers assisted in developing the
classroom work of the academy.
left,

mounting political
and tension of the period, the
growth of the Academy was such
that, in 1856, a charter was written
by the Rev. Mr. Waller, and a corporation was legally formed to sell
stock, and to open and manage an
In spite of the

strife

Academy

to

known

be

Bloomsburg Literary

as

the

Institute.

The

the corporation was to
promote education, both in ordinary and higher branches of English, Literature, and Science, and
in the Ancient and Modern Lanobject of

guages.

During the same year, James P.
Wickersham, State Superintendent

Common Schools, addressed a
meeting of citizens in Bloomsburg,
and expressed the opinion that the
Institute would be an ideal loca-

of

tion for a State

Normal School

in

the Sixth District.

The cornerstone of a new dormiwas laid in June, 1868, and

tory

early in February, 1869, the trustees requested that a committee be
appointed to consider the chartering of a State Normal School. Approval was given on February 19,
1869.

On May

22, 1916, the

Common-

wealth purchased the school, and

Institute

through

the

struggled

critical

days

of

the

of the

war

increased

en-

War, but the end

brought expansion,

along

Dr. Francis B. Haas and Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss have served as
President of the College during the
past thirty years — a period when
progress and changes have occur-

sometimes rapidly to meet
emergencies such as those caused
red,

by World War II.
During World War

II, the coloffered educational services
in various phases of aviation, in
Engineering Science, in Management War Training Courses, and

lege

in

Nursing Education.

Plant improvements continued
the post-war period to include
the cafeteria; renovation of North
Hall and Waller Hall dormitories;
remodeling of Noetling Hall to provide lounging facilities and classrooms; remodeling of Waller Hall
in

it

was known as the State Normal
Bloomsburg until May
13, 1927, when it was changed to

Gym

as a

combined Lounge, Snack

Bar,

and

Store; renovation of Sci-

State Teachers College.

ing plant;

The College continued
in

to

grow

terms of land, buildings, and en-

rollment. By 1906. a Model School,
additional dormitory rooms, a gymnasium, and Science Hall were
built.

Major campus improvements

in

the last three decades have included the addition of eighteen acres
of land, the construction of a

new

Laboratory School, the Centennial

ence Hall; improvements
College

Commons.

and in a recent speech,
President Andruss outlined plans
for a college of 2,000 students by
students,

As

1962.

develops,

added
ber

new

to the

of

of

buildings

growth
be

will

the numnon-instruc-

campus and

instructional,

and student employees will
be increased.
The college has strong economic
ties with Bloomsburg and the area,
tional,

employment

educator of established reputation
to

of

1958

program

this

of

APRIL,

of the

Student enrollments have grown
since 1947 from 750 to nearly 1200

ed

Mr. Carver had been impressed
by the beauty of the environment
during a visit in the area, and he
was persuaded to stay and head
the school. The determination and
enthusiasm of Mr. Carver and the

heat-

in

and construction

for in addition to supplies purchas-

and progress. The Board
Trustees began a search for an

York.'

some

and

Building

structures.

rollments,

head the Institute, the charter
which was revived on May 2,
1866.
Shortly afterwards, amid
rumors of the impending impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, a new principal was elected —
Henry Carver of Binghamton, New

a Junior High School
Hall),
a Shop and

School at

Laundry Building, an Elementary

The
Civil

cluded to raise nearly $15,000 for
the building of Institute Hall, now
Carver flail, to accommodate 300
students.
The building was dedicated on April 4, 1867.

Gymnasium,
(now Navy
Maintenance

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, 16

INSURANCE
Hotel

Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

college provides
60 faculty members, 77 non-instructional employees, 53 cooperating teachers in several area elememtary and secondary schools, 117 students at the
college, 15 employees in the College Commons, and 20 full or parttime employees in
the
Husky
the

locally,

for

Lounge.
For nearly
college

has

role

the

in

six

score years,

played

the

an important

educational, cultural,
life of the area.
The
of the institution will

and economic
personnel
strive

to

continue

this

tion during the year to

fine

tradi-

come.
3

New

Trustees, Bloomsburg State Teachers College

In order that the Alumni may
know the names and faces of the
members of the present Board of
Trustees, we are presenting a picture taken at one of the recent
meetings, along with biographical
sketches of each Trustee.

BERNINGER, Howard

—

KRE1SHER,

C. William
Columbia and

Lawyer,

Montour
County Courts; Pennsylvania Supreme
of

Elected
U. S. District Court.
District Attorney of Columbia County,
1939; elected Judge in 1941, at age 33
years, on Republican ticket in district
which has 6,000 majority registered
Democrats; re-elected Judge without
opposition in 1951. Born June 27, 1908,
Catawissa, Pa. Son of C. E. and Minnie I. (Stewart; Kreisher.
Education:

Court;

Catawissa
High School; Allentown
Preparatory School; Muhlenberg College; Temple Law School. Played baseball in college; Delta Theta fraternity;
Ph.B. and LL.B. degrees. Clubs: Chairman, Catawissa Branch of American
Red Cross; Rotary Club; F. & A. M.
No. 349, Catawissa; Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg; Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre; Shrine, Dallas; B. P. O. E.
436, Bloomsburg; F. O. E., Catawissa;
L. O. O. M., Bloomsburg; member of
St. John’s Lutheran Church and President of the Church Council; Board of
Directors, First National Bank, Catawissa;
Friendship
Fire
Company,
Bloomsburg; Catawissa Fire Company;
Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee,
Columbia-Montour County Boy Scout
Council;
President, Catawissa Community Park Association; Pennsylvania
Bar Association; V. F. W., Catawissa
Post No. 8306; Berwick Country Club;
Milton Country Club; Fountain Springs
Country Club; National Association of
County Officials; Pennsylvania Council
Juvenile Court Judges;
Split
Rock
Lodge;
Grand
Imperial
Council;
Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine; Orient Conclave No. 2; Crusade
Commandery No. 12; Knights Templar;
Columbia County Rod and Gun Club;
Ashland County Gun Club; Married
former Lillian W. Jones; three children,
Kathryn Elizabeth, William Stewart,
and Marianne.
Mill
Address:
445

—Attorney

District Attorney for Columbia
County;
Director,
Catawissa- Valley
National Bank; Director, Berwick Hos-

Education: Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, 1933; Bucknell University, Master Science, 1940; Dickinson Law School, LLB., 1948. Knapp
pital.

Lodge
sistory;

member

R.

and

&

A. M.; Caldwell Con462, F.
B. P. O. Elks 436; Mifflinville

Lions Club; Berwick Golf Club.

FLECKENSTINE,
(retired

Carl

after

—

H.
eight

U.

JACOBS, Sam M. —Insurance Agent;
Secretary, Montour Mutual Insurance
Co. Education: Grade schools and high
school,
Danville,
Pa.;
Pennsylvania
State University, 1916.
Clubs: Danville Kiwanis Club; Chamber of Commerce; Businessmen’s Association; F.
A. M.; Elks; L. O. O. Moose; Eagles.

&

Democrat.

Address:
9
East Front
Street, Danville, Pa.
Single; one brother living and numerous nieces and

nephews.

Education: Orangeville High School;
Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Member of Evangelical Reformed Church, Bloomsburg.
Clubs:
I. O. O. F., Orangeville; Masonic, Orangeville; Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg; B. P. O. E., Bloomsburg.
Married Dora Leidy Fleckenstine. Son, N.
L.
Fleckenstine,
Regional
Manager
of the New York Division, Pennsylvania Railroad.
Daughter, R. Jean
Bresseu, M. D., Allentown, Pa. Address:
R. D.
4

2,

Orangeville, Pa.

Leo

—Farmer

and spe-

registered

Hereford

S.

raising

and farm appraiser for
Danville National Bank; farm appraiser for various Montour County Attorneys. Education: High School; Bloomsburg State Normal School, two years.
Clubs: Order of Elks, Danville; North
Montour Sportsmen Club; Washingtonville Fire Company;
Turbotville Fire
Company. Democratic Party.
Son,
Jerome; four grandchildren, J. Thomas,
Joan, Roger, Mark. Address: R. D. 1,
cattle; Director

Turbotville, Pa.

—

KELLEY, Bernard J. Register of
Wills, Philadelphia County; Attorney
at Law, 12 South 12th Street, PhiladelEducation: Bloomsburg State
Teachers College; U. S. Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Md.; Law School, University
of Pennsylvania; Degrees: B. S. and
LL.B. Captain U. S. N. R., Commanding Officer, BU-Ships Unit 4-3; U. S.
Naval Reserve. American, Pennsylvania
phia.

and Philadelphia Bar Association; Pen
and Pencil Club; Catholic Philopatrian
Literary Institute; Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick;

Philadelphia Democratic City

Committee.

PAUL, Harold

L.

—Attorney-at-Law;

admitted to practice of law in 1924;
United States Referee in Bankruptcy,
1924-37; Judge of Court of Common
Pleas of Schuylkill County, 1937-47;
Superintendent of Evangelical United
Brethren Sunday School of Port Car-

bon

Married Agnes B. Kelley.

Children: John P.; Regina D.; Bernard
J.,

Jr.;

19,

Kathleen and Thomas. AdVernon Road, Philadelphia

610

dress:

Pa.

—

THORNTON, Frank A. Vice-President, Baum’s Sporting Goods, Sunbury,
Pa. Education: A. B. in education, and

for past 31 years; past President
of Pottsville Kiwanis Club; member of
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
Masons; Vice-President of Good Samaritan Hospital of Pottsville. Activities: hunting and fishing.
Education:
Port Carbon High School, 1916 (three
years); Pottsville High School, 1917;
University of Pennsylvania, 1921; A. B.;
Law, 1924, LL. B.
Married Marion L.
(Jones) Paul, graduate of Kutztown
State Teachers College, deceased No-

post graduate work toward Master's
Degree in Education, Susquehanna University.
Clubs: College Coaches Football
Association;
President,
Eastern
Pennsylvania Interscholastic Football
Conference; Member, Shamokin Lodge,
Married Allice B.
355, B. P. O. E.
Thornton; three daughters, Mary Ann,

vember 14, 1951. Son, David G. Paul,
junior at Bucknell University. Address:
201 Pike Street, Port Carbon, Schuylkill County, Pa.

H. Real estate and
insurance agent.
Education:
Main Township grade schools and high
school, 1912; Bloomsburg State Normal
School, 1915; Palmer School, 1917; ex-

S.

years).

in

;

Street, Catawissa, Pa.

Marshal

Ma-

Infantry, World War II; five years
military service.
Married Helen Roberts; son, Howard R. Berninger, Jr.,
(five years)
daughter, Nancy B. Berninger (eight years). Address: Mifflinville, Pa.
jor,

DENNEN,
cialist

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

’42

Sandra Hope and Frances. Address:
Arch Street, Shamokin, Pa.

103 East

SHUMAN, John

—

general

tension work at Columbia University.
Clubs: Past President, Tri-State Mutual
Agents Association; Past Director, National Association Mutual Insurance
Agents; National Association Insurance
Agents; past secretary, Columbia-Montour Real Estate Agents Association;
Secretary,
Columbia-Montour Motor
Club; Secretary, Hillside Cemetery Association, Inc.; Past President, Pennsylvania Blind Association; Past President, American Legion; Past President,

Kiwanis;

Veterans of Foreign

Wars;

O. O. F.; B. P. O. E.; Bloomsburg
Evangelical
and Reformed Church.
Married Mrs. Hazel H. Shuman. Children: Mrs. Robert S. Middleton, Des
Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Nancy S. Hock,
I.

Bloomsburg, Pa.; John

York

S.

Shuman, New

City.

Tin:

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

MEMBERS

C)E

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
B.S.T.C. NOW AT BLOOMSBURG
Marilyn Keefer, now a Junior at
is the daughter of Minnie
Rowe Keefer, ’30, R. D. 4, Mountain Top, Pa.
Miss Keefer’s father,
Samuel, took summer courses at
B.S.T.C. and holds the B.S. degree
from Susquehanna University and
received his M.A. from N.Y.U. in
B.S.T.C.,

He

is a member of the facthe Hanover Township
High School. Mrs. Keefer is teaching in the schools of Central Luzerne Jointure.

1946.
ulty

of

Sally Sands, a Senior,

the

third

generation

graduates.
William C.

of

one of
B.S.T.C.

is

Her grandmother, Mrs.

Wenner (Leona Seewas graduated in 1900. Her
mother, Mrs. Delmar Sands (Gertrude Wenner), was graduated in
sholtz)

—

Seated Mr. John H. Shuman, Bloomsburg, Pa.; lion. Carl II. Fleckenstine, Vice-President, Orangeville, Pa.; Hr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Howard R. Berninger, Esq., Secretary-Treasurer, Mifflinville, Pa.; Standing Mr. Sam M. Jacobs, Danville,
Pa.; Bernard J. Kelly, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. Frank L. Thornton,
Shamokin, Pa. Members not present at the time this photograph was
taken are Hon. C. William Kreisher, President, Catawissa, Pa.; Hon. Harold L. Paul, Pottsville, Pa.; Mr. Leo S. Dennen, Turbot ville, Pa.

—

BLOOMSBURG ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
LUZERNE COUNTY BRANCH

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A LOOK AHEAD FOR THE 1958 TERM - PLAN TO BE A
PART OF THESE EVENTS
APRIL — Alumni Dinner Meeting and Election of Officers
MAY — Alumni Meeting at the College on Alumni Day — Meeting
Place to Be

Announced

REMINDER
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PLEASE pay

your Alumni dues locally to build up our Scholarship

ENROLLMENT AT B.S.T.C.
Enrollment

Mail to the treasurer:
Mrs. Charles F. Hensley
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

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The Association
Luzerne County

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goal for this year is a $100.00 scholarship for some
student. Last year we gave $50.00 to the Bakeless
Memorial Scholarship Fund. If each member of the Association
will give just $1.00, we will more than meet our goal.

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JOIN TODAY AND PLAN TO ENJOY THE GATHERINGS SCHEDULED

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FOR THOSE WHO HAVE HAPPY MEMORIES OF BLOOMSBURG
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

APRIL, 1958

the

Bloomsburg

in the history of the institution.

The

semester enrollment of 1189
set an all time high for the college.
Forty-nine students received degrees at the mid-year commencement, 18 students withdrew to
transfer to other institutions, and
36 withdrew or were dropped because of academic difficulties.
A group of 41 freshmen began
their college studies for the first
time with the opening of classes on
28th.
This
Tuesday,
January
first

larger
z

at

State Teachers College for the second semester of the current term
.exceeds 1160 students, and is the
largest second semester enrollment

group was selected from a much

Fund

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1928.

the 41,

number of applicants. Of
some have transferred to

Bloomsburg from other institutions,
and 15 former students have returned to the campus after completing military service in the arm-

ed

forces.

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

5

What Colleges Expect Of High School Graduates
By JOHN A.
No problem today is

HOCH

geeting so much
attention from so many families as
that of getting sons and daughters to
college.
Dean John A. Hoch of the
Teachers College spoke recently to the
County School Directors Association on
what colleges expect of the high school
graduate. It’s a fine presentation. If
the problem is one you face we think
you can find considerable information
in this address:

“A young mother was carefully
examining a toy in the toy store.

Somewhat puzzled she

asked, ‘Isn’t
rather complicated for a small
child?’
The clerk replied, “It’s an
educational toy, madam, designed
to adjust the child to live in the
this

world today— any way he puts

it

wrong.’
“Factors involved in college success are somewhat like the story—
any way you put them together
together,

it’s

they’re likely to

be wrong, but two

things are certain: getting into college is no longer a matter of dropping the registrar a line or presenting a high school diploma, or
scraping together the necessary tuition fees.
And staying in college
increasingly a calculated risk.
is
Like everything else in life, there
is

no certainty about it.
“In order to understand the prob-

blem— in order

more

to look

objectively at the confusing picture of

higher education today— suppose
we take a closer look at the situation as

it

now

exists.

“To begin with, the American
dream, as old as America itself, is
to

provide formal educational op-

portunities for every

child

the limits of his talents

and

up

to

his ca-

pacities to use them.

This philosophy has been the guiding principle behind the development of our
public educational system and our
program of higher education.
“Today, we enroll in our nearly
2,000 colleges and universities more
than three million young men and

women. An average
more than three out of

of

slightly

ten of our

youth of college age are jamming
our classrooms and laboratories to
the doors, and college enrollments
are expected to double by 1967.
“Latest figures prepared by the
United States Office of Education
indicate that only about half of the
6

top quarter in ability among our
secondary school youth go on to
college. Many lack money. Others
lack encouragement. Regardless of
the reason, precious talent is going
to waste— and at a time in our nation’s history when we cannot afford to waste it.

“But there is another horn to our
educational dilemma— and it’s just
as sharp. Our colleges and universities, already handicapped by inadequate faculties and operating
funds, cannot be expected to meet
the increasing demand for enrollment-let alone provide additional
facilities for a larger percentage
of our talented young people. The

problem

aggravated by the fact
is putting a diminishing amount of percentage of the
is

that the public

national income into education.

“Edwin Beachler,

a staff writer

for the Pittsburgh Press, has aptly

named

the problem, ‘Higher Education’s Battle of the Bulge,’ and
it will take more than General McAuliffe’s scornful expression, ‘Nuts,
to avert unconditional surrender or

They can afford to use
more than two or three devices to

selective.

screen candidates for admission.
“It is no longer a question of
whether a student can meet the
academic standards— or all the
standards, whatever they may be—
but which ones of the many applicants who meet the standards will
be chosen and how the selection is
to be made.

therefore,

“Basically,

lem
to

of

how

whom

to

the

prob-

admit shakes down

to admit.

“There

is

no

sure-fire

method

of

selecting students for college, but

anyone ever gets around to handing out medals or Purple Hearts
for service in higher education’s
Battle of the Bulge, college admission officers will qualify to the
man. Backed up against their ivycovered or state-aided walls, what

if

is happening to them today should
not happen to a buck private. They
bear the brunt of the bombardment of student applications, the

harassment of parents, friends, and

tion.

alumni, and the constant sniping
of policitians and foes of the inHere is the 1957 Solostitution.

“President Eisenhower, himself,
has warned that ‘colleges are in no
shape to meet the challenge.’ Parents, too, have discovered that they,
too, are caught in the vortex ol
rising costs and tuition and the

mon, Job and Superman all rolled
up into one.
“What do these officials say —
what do they expect? Some of the
answers, not all of them, can be
found in a recent survey made of

collapse in this Bastogne of educa-

swirl

of

admission

requirements

opinions

of

forty

representative

and so-called standards.
“What, you ask, does all this
have to do with the question we

deans of admission of private and
public institutions from coast to

What does the
are considering?
college expect of the high school
graduate? The answer is obvious:

“The deans all admit that a combination of objective and subjective information is more important
than any single factor in predicting
In other words,
college success.
there is no single factor that can
indicate college potentiality, but in
analyzing the objective date available, the deans all agreed that the
two best indicators are still (a) high

more than ever before; much more
than ever before.

“Back
the

in

the

depression

welcome mat was out

years,
for al-

most anyone with a high school
Classrooms and dormi-

diploma.
tories

went begging.

The

typical

asked the typical question, ‘How much of your tuition
fee can you pay in advance?’ Ilow
With more
times have changed!
applications than they can possibly
accept, all schools have tightened
their entrance requirements. They
can afford to be more and more
registrar

coast.

school marks, (b) scores on scholaptitude tests, particularly
astic
general intelligence tests and socalled ‘English’ tests.
“I realize that high school teachers

can do

little

or nothing about

the I.Q. of college-bound students.
1
even suspect that there is little

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

or nothing yon can do about their
high school marks, but each of you

can do something about

problem of
communication
ring

this recur-

‘English,’

—

skills

and

writing, speaking,

the
reading,
or

listening.

“Colleges expect that those who
now literally beating down
their doors be adequately prepared
for college work, especially in the
area of verbal aptitude. Low comprehension of general vocabulary
are

and a low faculty for communicacontribute
their
share to
breaking the academic camel’s

tion

back.’

“Perhaps the biggest single reason for low verbal aptitude is that
the principal vocabulary builderreading— is neglected between the
ages of 10 and 16.
During these
important years, sports, radio, TV,
movies and so-called peripheral

from

detract

activities

There are few who

reading.
will dispute the

that these activities in our
schools have largely replaced aca-

fact

demic interests and pursuits, and
the schoolman who advocates a return

rough

Dean

the

to

classroom

sailing,

is

in

for

administratively.

Hartzell, of Bucknell, hit the

nail on the head when
he said recently, ‘We as parents
get the kind of schools we deserve.’
“Moreover, if academic progress
and achievement are adequately
measured by high school grades, a
so-called ‘poor’ student will likely
become a college casualty within
High
the first or second year.
school marks and ranks in class are

academic

inter-related factors,

and whether

we

agree with it or not, those students whose grades place them in
the upper half of their graduating
class are more likely to be admitted to college since admission officers consider them better ‘aca-

demic risks.’
“The 40 deans concluded,
student’s grades place

him

‘If

the

in the

upper half of a graduating class
that numbers at least 50 or 60, and
if his
grades in English, mathematics,

history,

and the sciences

have been creditable, he probably
can do— not will do— college work.
“Objective data, as
are not infallible.

we

well know,

Officials of the

Educational Testing Service, authors of the College Boards, are the

APRIL, 1958

to concede that the tests are
good predictors in only one out of
every two cases. Even when combined with high school marks and
first

rank in class, a perfect prediction
is impossible; it must be admitted
that high school teaching and programs vary so widely that accurate
estimates cannot be made with certainty.
This kind of information,
as we have pointed out before,
merely reveals that a student can
do or may be able to do college
work. That he will do it may be
a horse of another color for there
is much evidence to support the belief that there are many students
who can do who are either unable
or unwilling to achieve in college.
“Students’ study habits are also
important. It is a well known fact
that good study habits enable a
student of his own volition to prepare adequately for each class assignment. Parents who are hoping
that

cess

John or Judy
of

will

make

a suc-

college

experience
should recall whether or not John
their

or Judy willingly completed homework assignments despite interruptions. Was help sought for difficult
assignments or were the tasks worked out essentially without parental
help or the kind of prodding or

nagging

that usually passes for
help?
Was John or Judy really
curious to know?
‘The largest single reason for
failure in college (or college dropouts) is academic failure, regardless of reasons given by students.
One-third of every Freshman class
falls
by the academic wayside,
while the national average of those
graduating is slightly more than 50
per cent of those entering. Academic difficulties account for three
of
every four casualties, even
though the record might indicate
such face-saving reasons as ‘not interested’ or ‘getting married’ or
‘joining the armed forces.’
“Allied with sound study habits
are such factors as ability to concentrate, intellectual curiosity, high
standards of achievement, and willingness to use such study aids,
helpers, and guides as the dictionary or encyclopedia or reference
books.
“Here is where the secondary
school teacher can do an effective

job.

tailed

Times does not permit a destatement of what can be

done, but the interested classroom
teacher can do much to help college-bound youngsters develop the
kind of study habits necessary for
college success.
“Finally, colleges expect high
school graduates to have those personality
traits
or characteristics

which

maturity— psychoand social. That
have important predic-

indicate

logical, emotional,

these traits

value is indicated by the fact
that two-thirds of 607 colleges and
tive

universities recently surveyed place

greater

now

weight

on

these

criteria

for admission then they did ten

years ago.
Dean Hartzell, Bucknell,
says flatly, ‘Some college
freshmen are not yet weaned psychologically; their immaturity ac-

counts for

many

failures.’

“Certainly, adaptability is important— the presence or absence of

and
independence
means the difference between success and failure.
Many a high

immaturity

school

valedictorian has learned
are not assurance of
college laurels.
A college freshinan lives in a strange, new worldthat ‘brains’

one

filled

with

new problems,

new people and

often vexing.

“Character, too, is mighty imporDefined as ‘what we do when
no one’s watching,’ character is a
prize possession for there are many
hours in a freshman’s life when
f
here is no one watching.
“Concluded our 40 deans, ‘If a
high school graduate is able to
tant.

adapt to a new situation with poise,
independence, and mturity, and if
he has no serious emotional conflicts, you may chalk up another
“X” in his favor.’
“One would be fool-hardy indeed
to conclude that college success,
therefore, rests on a three-legged
foundation— a sound academic preparation with ability to do college
work— good study habits— personality traits that

make

for maturity,

judgment, and character.
Some college deans would advise
sincerity of purpose, good health,
sound financial backing, careful

good

selection of the college, intelligent

counselling and guidance, and so
on— long into the night. And they
are right, for success in college is
7

TWO-ACT DRAMA

INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH

“Summer and Smoke,” a two-act
drama by Tennessee Williams, was
presented by the Players of tire
Bloomsburg State Teachers College

Mrs. Charlotte A. McKechnie,
Berwick, has joined the faculty of
the Bloomsburg
State Teachers
College, at the start of the second

in Carver Auditorium on Friday,
January 31, and Saturday, Febru-

semester, as instructor of English.
A native of Hazleton and a graduate of the public schools there,
Mrs. McKechnie earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary
Education at Bloomsmburg State
Teachers College before she began
her teaching caree in the Calvert
System Private School in Hazleton.
For the past twelve years, she has
been a member of the English and
Foreign Language staff at the Berwick High School, and has been active in education and civic organ-

ary 1, 1958.
Cast in the leading roles were
Deanna Morgan, a senior from Jim
Thorpe, and Wayne Gavitt, a senior
from Laporte. Miss Morgan, who
did an outstanding job last year in
“The Shop at Sly Corner,” played
the part of Alma Winimiller.
Mr.
Gavitt played the part of a young
navy doctor last year, and protrayed the part of the young Dr. Buch-

anan in “Summer and Smoke.”
Mrs. Winemiller— Catherine Neos,
Bethlehem; Rev. Winemiller— Ger-

Donmoyer, Pottsville; Donmoymoyer has had leading roles in
ald

Players productions for the past
four years, the last as the villainous

Archie Fellowes in “The Shop at
Sly Corner.” Roza Gonzales, Kathryn Schutt, Bloomsburg; Mr. Gonzales— Rober Stish, Hazleton; Stish
provided some outstanding comedy
relief last year as Corder Morris,
a nervous but sure-footed burglar;
Nellie Ewell— Mary Frances Downey, Shenandoah;

Roger Doremus

— David

Loughlin,
Benton; Dr.
John Buchanan, Sr.— Albert Weber,
Mrs.
Bassett— Lucy
Levittown;
Zimmerman, Mifflinburg; Vernon—
Joseph Zapach, Freeland; Rosemary— Margaret Wilkinson, Mount
Carmel; Archie Kramer— Donald
Harsch, Linden (Williamsport).
The play was directed by Mrs.

Grace C. Smith

of the college fac-

ulty.

WHAT COLLEGES EXPECT
much like the vegetable soup
Grandma used to make— it took a
lot of fixin’s to make it right. Most

izations in that

SUPPORT HIE ALUMNI

4— B.S.T.C.,

77,

Kutztown

Dec. 6— B.S.T.C.
burg 95.
Dec. 12— B.S.T.C.

83,

Shippens-

Dec.
SO.

Jan.

is

District Superintendent of the Berwick Area
The couple has
School System.
one son, a sophomore at Gettysburg College.

employed by Thompson

Products,

Inc., Danville.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
Trevorton High School, is a senior
at B.S.T.C. where he is majoring in
speech correction.
Mr. and Mrs. Kidron will reside
at 4 Cross Keys Place, Danville.

18— B.S.T.C.

Jan.

Mansfield

84,

Jan.

29— B.S.T.C.

71, Millersville

95.

5— B.S.T.C.

Feb.

81,

Lock Haven

75.

8— B.S.T.C.

Feb.

burg

Shippens-

90,

75.

Feb. 12— B.S.T.C. 81. Lock Haven
69.

Feb. 14— B.S.T.C. 82, Kings 72.
Feb. 15— B.S.T.C. 67, Lycoming
79.

Feb.

23— B.S.T.C.

75,

Mansfield

26— B.S.T.C.

79,

Lycoming

67.

Feb.
71.

28— B.S.T.C.

81,

West Ches-

ter 92.

Mar. 1— B.S.T.C. 98, Cheyney 92.
Mar. 3— B.S.T.C. 79, Millersville
96.

The

final

conference standings

are:

Millersville

Indiana
West Chester
Clarion

Bloomsburg
Mansfield

Shippensburg
E. Stroudsburg __

W.

L.

Pet.

11
11

1

237
231
225
167
162
150
146
140
108
100
97
95
89
63

0

7

1

8
8
4
7

4
5
3

California
Slippery Rock

5
3
3
3
2
2

Chevney

1

Kutztown
Edinboro
Lock Haven

_

7
5
9
6
12
8
7
7

WRESTLING
Jan.

8— B.S.T.C.

27,

Shippensburg

13.

Jan.

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE

—

’96

INSURANCE

29— B.S.T.C.

11,

Lock Haven

16.

Feb.

burg

5— B.S.T.C.

24, E.

Strouds-

7.

Feb. 8— B.S.T.C. 16, Indiana 11.
Feb. 12— B.S.T.C. 31, Lincoln Un-

52 West Main Street
Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

iversity 3.

Feb. 19— B.S.T.C. 21, Lycoming
11

8

64,

83.

Feb.

Miss Joan T. Cecco, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cecco, Elysburg R. D. 1, became the bride of
Charles A. Kidron, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Kidron, Trevorton, in
the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church, Elysburg.
The Rev. B. A. Stankiewicz, pastor, officiated at the nuptial mass
and the double-ring ceremony.
The bride graduated from Ralpho Township High School and
Central Pennsylvania Business ColShe has been
lege, Harrisburg.

Kings 92.

83,

Cheyney 62.
15— B.S.T.C. 77, Kutztown

Jan.

the wife of

Elmer McKechnie,

8— B.S.T.C.

63.

community.

Mrs. McKechnie

of the time, Grandpa said it was
Sometimes it was the best
swell.
Grandma ever made, but then there

were those days when even Grandpa wasn’t satisfied, but neither was
Grandma. She just didn’t have
what it takes.”

BASKETBALL

.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Alumni For

Whom We

Alumni who are able

to give

Have No Addresses

any information regarding these

graduates will render a great service to the College by

sending information
('lass of 1928

(Continued from last issue)
Leininger, Helen Mae (Mrs. John
Br :okhoff
Lloyd, Esther (Mrs. Clifford Bound*
McGuire, Helen Elizabeth
Mitchell, Lois Pauline
Mittelman, Sara
>

Mordan, Viola May

Anna

Morris,

Ellen

Moyer. Olive Margaret
Mulfcrd, Mary Alice (Mrs. Charles
A. Witkins*
Murphy. Mildred M.
ixagorski, Elizabeth Martha

Neyhard. Grace Leona
Osinchuk. Winifred C. (Mrs.

S. J.

the office of President.

to

Halkowicz, Pearl L.
Hauze, Mary A.
Kafka, Albert J.
Letterman, William
Lewis,

Katerman, Beatrice M. (Mrs.

Raymond

Frances A.
O'Brien, Hazle R. (Mrs. Joseph Dabis)
Oplinger, June
Perry, Raymond Benjamin

E.

John

Newman,

Phyllis (Mrs.

W.

F.

Pufnak, Bernard

Albertini)

Parker, Robert
Partridge, Marguereta
Potson, Andrew
Shanno, Alice (Mrs. Edwin Glenn*
Van Horn, Marion (Mrs. A. C. Fray)
Wagner, Emily D. (Mrs. Zeisloft)
Wenner, Kathryn E. (Mrs. Thatcher*
Williams, Edward R.
Williams, Sarah Arline
Ziegler, Mrs. Margaret Hauze (Mrs.

John Kunklet

Zvchal*

*

Rutter, Elizabeth Grieves
Schlier, Ellen Alberta (Mrs. Earl A.
Schaeffer)

Sechak. Mildred
Shepherd. Margaret Eleanor
Sheridan. Jane Mary
Sherwood. Ina Mae (Mrs. Francis)
Snyder, Florence Katherine
Stiver, Florence Anne (Mrs. B. L.

Camp*
Stockoska, Victoria Maria
Stokes, Blake
Strackbein, Louise Anna

Thomas, Mary Eleanore
Traub, Dorothy Lindner (Mrs. Miles
Winegarden)
Turri, Anna Magdalene
Weber, Ruth Albright (Mrs. Linn B.
Sherwood)
Yeager, Lucille Ellen Marie (Mrs.
Isadore Heickler)
Young, Harriet Ellen

Beaver, Byron L.
Breitenbach, Virginia (Mrs. Blaine

J.

Saltzer)

Bronson, Bernice
Casari, George R.
Davison, Thomas A.
Dreese, Martha B.
Graybill)
Fekula, Olga H.

Andrew

(Mrs. William N.

L.

Freas, Iris R. (Mrs. Harold Veley)
Gearhart, Grace I. (Mrs. Stanley

Webb)
Gonshor, Michael L.

Graham, Margaret G.
Hamer, Mary E.
Havalicka, Elmer B.
Heckenluber, Robert T.

Henry, Norman C.
James, Charles P.
Jones, Dorothy Jean
Knapp, R. Irene
Kotsch, Jacob, Jr.
Kovaleski, John E.

Kupstas, Alex
Laubach, Vance

S.

Maczuga, John Joseph
Mensinger, Dorothy A.
Pelak, William Theodore
Price, Robert
Sidler, Dorothy Eleanor
Slaven,

John

F.

Snook, Florence (Mrs. W. R. Wallace)
Walukiewicz, Regina A. (Mrs. Kelly)
Weintraub, Charles H.
Williams, Edward

Class of 1933

Artman.

Wm.

Astleford,
Bixler.

Burns,

Edgar
Bertha E. (Mrs. Probert)

Homer S.
Mary E.

Davis, Joseph P.
Early, John A.

Evans, Frances L. (Mrs. Robert
Brittain Parker)

Evans, Thelma
Williams*

APRIL, 1958

F. (Mrs.

Thomas

Class of 1948

Ansbach, Mrs. Rose Poncheri
Baker, Paul Newton, Jr.
Barth, Rosalyn Lillian

Anne Baldy
Clemens, Harold Owen
Gilbody, Janet Eleanor (Mrs. James

Apichell, Eleanor J. B.

Fetterolf,

Simpson, Rita E.
Sluman, Ruth Edna
Spontak, George
Zehner, Martha Louise

Boyer, Mrs.

Class of 1938

Helen
Pennington, Alice
Phillips, Grace Mary
Phillips. Mary Josephine (Mrs. Dole)
Reimensnvder, Anna Helena
Rhoads, Elizabeth Mary (Mrs. Russell
Tripp
Richards. Dorothy Rozella
Roberts, Elizabeth Jane
Robinson, Hilda Mae
Rohland. Walter J.
Rosenbluth. Mildred Natalie (Mrs.
M. E. Eile)
Rcushey, Edna Mary
Parris,

Sedlak, Catherine A.

Bollinger, Edward Leslie
Beers, Mrs. Leonore Hart

Ottaviani. Lillian M. (Mrs. Mineo*

Ouslander, Ruth
Owens, Helen Frances

A. Algatt)

Linskill,

Class of 1943

Bartha, Elizabeth Julia (Mrs.
Dominick J. Nunziato)
Bomboy, Charles H.
Bramble, June Helen (Mrs. Claude

Blackman)
Collins, Loren
Hoagland, June (Mrs. Robert Norris)
Hubiak, John (Dr.)
Jones, David Morley

Murray)
Greenly, Barbara Jean (Mrs. Strawn)
Haines, Eleanor Elizabeth
Lehet, Elizabeth (Mrs. James Mills)
Mitten, Dorothy Jean (Mrs. Furman)
Monaghan, Anna Elizabeth

Regan, Michael
Reinert, Harold Williams
Reitz, Harry Elwood, Jr.
Rickmers, Albert Donald
Rodgers, Bernard Francis
Schramm, Robert Francis
Sharpless, Louise Carolyn (Mrs.
Robert Erlssine III)
Stasko, George
Class of 1953
Ayre, Marjorie H.
Baer, Elizabeth A.
Brooks, Harry P.

Donald J.
Carmody, Shirley M.
Butler,

Ciavaglia, Salvadore J.
Coursen, Ila Mae
Edwards, Mrs. Joann Fornwald
Gibbons, Ellen A.
Guilk, Barbara A. (Mrs. Richard
Davis)
Herchel, Regina M.
Hileman, Mrs. Winnie
Hvasta, Susan D.

Kline, Rachel Evans

Knause, Richard C.
Koharski, Alex P.
Krause, John L.

Krunkosky, Joseph
Krunkosky, Mary Lou
Kubik, Alex W.
Linkchorst, David
Linn, Edward
Linn, William B.

Long, Mildred J.
MacGill, Leonora M.
Megargel, Myrtle

Newbury, David
Neyhard. Miriam
(Continued on Page

20)

9

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA ACOUNTY
PRESIDENT
Mrs. Boyd Buckingham,
Light Street Road
Bloomsburg, Pa.

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre Area

’43

Mr. Angelo Albano, ’49
14th and Wall Streets
Burlington, N.

VICE PRESIDENT
Lois Lawson,

PRESIDENT
Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street

J.

VICE PRESIDENT

’33

Alton Schmidt,

Apartment 29A

SECRETARY

Clover Hill Gardens
Mount Holly, N. J.

Mrs. Margaret McCern,’40
Benton, Pa.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

’55

Bloomsburg, Pa.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Peter Podwika,
565

Wyoming, Pa.

SECRETARY

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Clark Brown, ’57
64 Manor Lane, S.
Yardley, Pa.

TREASURER
Paul Martin, ’38
710 East 3rd Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mr. Harold Trethaway,

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling, 53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA
Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

’32

L. Baer,

Scranton

’32

Margaret

Race Street

Pa.

Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

Hazleton Area

L. Lewis, ’28

Locust Street
Scranton 4, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street

TREASURER

Hazleton, Pa.

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue

’ll

Scranton

4,

’34

LUZERNE COUNTY

HO 51/2 West

TREASURER
Homer

4,

SECRETARY

Middletown, Pa.

Mr. W.

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, ’16
611 N. Summer Avenue

SECRETARY
259

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa.

PRESIDENT

Harrisburg, Pa.

Miss Pearl

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

’42

1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

TREASURER
Mr. Wm. Herr, ’52
28 Beechtree Lane
Levittown, Pa.

PRESIDENT

’42

Monument Avenue

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

Pa.

147 Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams, T8
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille
785

McHose

Ecker,

'32

Grant Street

Hazleton, Pa.

1891
(From the “Passing Throng” column
of The Morning Press)

There was a birthday anniversary observed recently in our town
that just cannot go without notice
ior it involves one of our foremost
residents and one of the finest men
we have ever had the privilege of
knowing.
Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff, East Main Street, quietly observed the ninety-first anniversary

10

It’s
been
of his birth recently.
rather rough, weatherwise, and the
popular dean hasn’t been about
much to receive the congratulations
of his legion of friends.
It was a year ago that the Teachers College faculty, upon his ninetieth anniversary, tendered him a

had been inaugurated earlier in the
day for his second term as the nation’s chief executive.

At that party the Dean was referred to as “Mr. Bloomsburg” and
when you are speaking of him in
regard to his association with the
Teachers College that is a most appropriate name.
The Dean doesn’t

the College dining hall.
is as keen of mind
as ever, observed upon that occasion that he was certainly in good

any more but he does considerable
walking when the weather as favor-

company

able.

party

in

The Dean, who

as President

Eisenhower

Upon such
TIIF.

drive a

car

occasions, through

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
MONTOUR COUNTY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Lois C. Bryner, '44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, ’36
1017 East Market Street

Joseph A. Kulick, ’49
1542 North Danville Street

Mr. Clyde Adams,
Dornsife, Pa.

Mrs. Nora Bayliff Markunas,
Island Park, Pa.

'05

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

’30

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
3603-C Bowers Avenue
Baltimore 7, Md.

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

J.

Miss Saida Hartman,

’18

4215

Brandywine
Washington

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Fred Smethers,
742 Floral Avenue
Elizabeth, N. J.

Irish, ’06

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.

’23

New Market Road
Dunellen, N.

Hortman

Mrs. Lillian

PRESIDENT
273

’24

U

PHILADELPHIA AREA

732

Coughlin,

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

HONORARY PRESIDENT

NEW YORK AREA
J. J.

RECORDING SECRETARY
Street, S. E.
Washington, D. C.

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

Mrs.

’34

1232

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

Va.

Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

’34

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECRETARY

1,

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

'53

R. D. 1
Danville, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,

Arlington

Sunbury, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Edward Linn,

WASHINGTON AREA

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,

’23

693

’23

Arch Street

WEST BRANCH AREA

Spring City, Pa.

PRESIDENT

TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Miss Esther E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

Jason Schaffer,

’34

’54

R. D. 1
Selinsgrove, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,
Lewisburg, Pa.

’56

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

769

’29

King Street

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue

E.

Brown, TO

Lewisburg, Pa.

you can see him walking
and from the Caldwell Consistory and while he is at the Cathe-

the week,
to

dral

he

is

generally active

in

a

pinochle game.

Upon

of Caldwell Consistory you
can always find him on duty as
tiler.
Upon such occasions he is
ions

busy for many

of the

Consistory members are former
students on the hill and among the
Dean’s “boys.”

thousands of

The

last

Guard,”

lie

also

of
still

other

functions

which

is

just off

“College Old
goes to a number

the

and
from his home
the campus.

There are many things about the

Dean that are remarkable. Now at
four score years and eleven he still
does not use glasses although all
of his life he has used his eyes extensively.

any subject

has been a real inspiration.

Dean

He’s

And

he’s

the present.

learn

that

viewpoint that

others, too.

We’ve been privileged to know
the Dean through most of our lifetime and upon many occasions he

APRIL, 1958

to

a fellow

who

You can

lives

talk

in

about

and you’ll find the
pretty well versed and you’ll

he has a modern
valuable because

is

it is couched in the experience of
almost a century of rich living.

of collegiate athletic contests

the occasion of the reun-

particularly

been an inspiration

is

Another Alumni Day on the hill
only some four months away and

when

the directors of the Alumni
Association met recently to further
plans for the gathering mention
was made of the fine contribution
always made by the Dean. It just
wouldn’t be a real occasion without
this last of the “Old Guard” being
on hand to make the returning
graduates feel right at home.

He was

the

first

tion at B.S.T.C.

dean

of instruc-

He was

also for
11

many

years the faculty manager of
A keen lover of sports
in his days of activity, he has never
lost his love of athletic competition.
The veteran educator is a man of
many talents. Every once in a
while, through his years of service
on the College faculty there would
come out a mighty fine piece of
verse that was simply signed “Q.”
There were increasing demands
on the part of students and graduates for copies of this work but it
was years before the Dean could
be persuaded to publicly accept
authorship.
A number of years ago the institution published these works and
tnere has never been a more popular publication on the hill.

1911

Kay M.

Cole,

Columbia County

Superintendent of Schools since
October, 19398, is retiring at the
end of the current school year, the

Monday of July, and the
school directors of tiie county, plus
those in districts outside the coun-

first

but in Columbia jointures, will
meet here at ten o’clock Tuesday
morning, April 8, to elect his sucty

cessor.

Superintendent Cole has had an
outstanding career as an educator.
A native ot the Orangeville section,
he is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Normal School (now the
Teachers College) in 1911, the
Pennsylvania State University in
1920 and received his Master’s Degree from the latter institution in
1927.

He began

his

teaching career in

one-room Ebenezer school in
1911, and then taught for two years
in Warren county before joining
the

the faculty of the Orangeville High
School for the years of 1915 and

1916.
After

from Penn
graduating
State he taught for a year in the
vocational agriculture department
of the Norwin High School, Irwin,
Pa., the first jointure in the state.
He became vocational supervisor
of the Columbia county schools on
July 1, 1921, and remained in that
post until named to the superin-

tendency in October, 1938, filling
a vacancy created by the death of
William W. Evans who had held
12

from 1902.

the position

athletics.

Mr. Cole has been exceptionally
active in civic affairs.

mer president

He

is

a for-

the Bloomsburg
Kiwanis Club and of the Bloomsburg Chapter of Red Cross. He
holds the Silver Beaver of the Boy
Scout organization for outstanding
contributions to boyhood.
In 1923
he orgainzed the successful Columbia County High School Athletic
Association and earlier this month
received the Bloomsburg Athletic
Booster’s
Association Award of
of

in the

New

York Herald-Tribune Sunday, January
12, 1958, in the column “Men to Watch”
over the by-line of Bert Quint:

Clinton B. F. Brill, a balding sixfootoer with an easy grin and a
military manner, is a man with a
vague title and a big job.

he

Officially,

man

of

Commission.
of

it.

He

is

is

New

the

known

500 a year.
For most of his life, Mr. Brill
has been a soldier and an engineer.
A native of Mount Union, Pa., he
was educated at Bloomsburg, Pa.,
State Teachers
College, Trinity
College and Massachusetts Institute ot Technology. During World
War I, he rose from enlisted man
to first lieutenant in the field artillery.

During World

Merit for that achievement.

1912
The following appeared

of for the engineering firm he
heads, DeLiew, Gather and Brill.
For his dual state job, he gets $ji3,-

as chair-

York Thruway

But that’s only half
charged with trim-

also

ming waste out of state building
projects and at the same time making sure the projects are adequate.
There’s no name for that job.
Gov. Plarriman, who appointed
Mr. Brill December 2 to head the

Thruway Commission and

to work
Budget Director
Clark D. Ahlberg and John W.

closely with State

War

II

he was

re-

sponsible for the design and construction of the 1,000-bed general
hospital at Banning and Cherry

Later he was

Y'alley, Calif.

assist-

ant engineering officer with headquarters of the 9th Army.

As far as politics is concerned,
Mr. Brill says he hasn’t any— at
leost not to the extent of being enrolled in

any party.

He and

his

wife, the former Elizabeth Krapp,

210 East 73rd Street, New
York City, and have a home in Tal-

live at

lahassee, Florida.

He

has two step-

children.

1913
John Bakeless has been commended by two of America’s top literary men. In an article for the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Harry Hansen said, “A scholar whose military
experience

makes

writings

Johnson, State Superintendent of
Public Works, says Mr. Brill isn’t
exactly a building czar, or a co-ordinator, or a state-level counterpart

doubly valuable is author, ertswhile
Colonel, John Bakeless, who is rep-

Sherman Adams, the President’s
chief assistant. The title might be

by ‘Background to Glory,’ a biography of George Roger Clark."

all

the Governor’s special assistant on
construction, including
state

ing,

buildings for state institutions as
well as highways.
It’s no great change of pace for
former
sixty-four-year-old
the
Army colonel. He’s spent most of

this experience no
doubt helped him in writing lives
of Daniel Boone and Lewis and
Clark, and possibly also in ferreting

of

building things.
He had
a hand in the construction of IdleTri-borough
the
wild
Airport,
Bridge, bridges in Hartford, Conn.,
the New York World’s Fair, twenty miles of the New York Thruway,
fifteen miles of the Garden State
Parkway in New Jersey and sechis

life

resented in the book

his

lists this

year

In referring to Bakeless’ upbringand his military career, Han-

sen said, “All

out hitherto unknown information
about Christopher Marlowe’s career in college.”

work of a
Hansen continues,
“but Bakeless has added a career in
“This would seem the

lifetime or two,”

literary scholarship, getting his doctorate when forty, serving on the

tions of the

Columbia and Harvard,
an editing Living Age, Forum, Lit-

road-biulding for the state instead

erary Digest; writing, in 1926, The
Origin of the Next War’; contributing to encyclopedias and complet-

Taconic State Parkway
and the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Now he’ll be doing his New York

faculties of

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ALUMNI QUARTERLY

number

of other

books that

combine authority with

readability,

ing a

for Colonel

Highet,

is

Bakeless, like Gilbert

reational areas.

a master of craftsman-

We’ve made

and knows
however remote,

ship

no subject,
need ever be

that

dull.”

A recent article in the New York
Times Book Review by Eric Larrabee, revealed that “Eyes of Discovery,” by John Bakeless is one
of 350 books selected by the Carnegie Corporation to act as Amer-

Ambassadors Abroad. “Eyes
of Discovery,” an adult book which
was published by Lippincott in
ican

1950, is
juvenile

also

new

the basis of a

by Dr. Bakeless and

wife Katherine

Bakeless,

his

entitled,

“They Saw America First.” The
husabnd-and-wife
team rewrote
and simplified the original adult
book so that young readers could
enjoy and benefit from the same
wealth of information which conrtibuted to the vast
“Eyes of Discovery.”

success

of

1933

Dorothy Gilmore Lovell

lives at

The

Dalles,

820 East 16th Place,
Oregon.
Classmates
reading the following
ly

will

enjoy

letter recentreceived by the Editor:
820 East 16th Place

The

When my

Dalles,

Oregon

January 17, 1958
“Alumni Quarterly”

rived yesterday

I

felt

a bit disap-

and often get a bit “homesick” for
news of friends.
There has never been anything
monotonous in my life since returning to Oregon in 1948.
Jim
and I honeymooned by driving
cross-country, we have two husky
sons of 8 and 5, and we have helped make history in the development of Northwest power.
Jim was present at the time power was generated from McNary
Dam, Chief Joseph Dam, and The
Dalles’ Dam, all Corps of Engineers’ dams on the Columbia River.
Jim is one of five senior powerhouse operators at The Dalles Dam.
literally divides eastern

and western Oregon, is 82 miles
east of Portland, is near Mt. Hood
APRIL,

1958

tending the reunion.

we purchased

a

Last month

15-foot

Crown

house trailer, wihch we initiated
in heavy rain and wind on December 25 and 26. We work alternating

of 10 “on”— 4 “off” (I
days,
swing,
graveyard
so spend our summers tak

shifts,

mean
shifts),

1941

ing trips on our days off. We also
accumulate annual leave which
makes possible long trips.
Frequently
I’m
reminded of
B.S.T.C.
Recently
shopped in
Portland and ran into Arlene (Michaels) MacCreary of 8903 E.E.
Taylor, Portland, Oregon.
While
at Chief Joseph Dam I learned to
know C. B. Lamoreux and Lulu
I

Diehl) are spending six
months in Caracas, Venezuela,
where Mr. Conrad has been sent
by the Creole Petroleum Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad have a son,

Lamoreux of Box 795,
Bridgeport, Wash. They attended
B.S.N.S. about 1903-1906, and C.B.
is an orchardist and J.P. there.
I

who is three-year-old. Their
address in Caracas is Quinta 4,
Calle 7A, Los Palos Grandes, Ven-

Scott,

ezuela, S. A.

A

heard from Mildred (Busch) Linse
33 at Christmas and she’s moved
to 1114 Davitt, Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan, where Lcdr. Linse is the
Commanding Officer of the Coast
Guard Base. 1 also heard from
Dawn (Eshleman) McCord of 2204
Ivy Road, Kingston, N. C., and enjoyed seeing 15-month-old Betsy’s
picture.
I correspond with many

manage to keep “out of
chief.
With a Cub Scout
I

son,

housewife duties, a 5-year-old at
my church solo work,
etc., I find life busy and interes-

ting.

1936
Miss Irene L. Ent, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles B.
Ent. Bloomsburg, and James S. Ritter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R.
Ritter, were married Thursday, De26, at four o’clock in the

Church.

Rev.
pastor of the
church and one-time pastor of the
Mahoning Presbyterian Church, ofG.

to

Mr. and

F rederick Worman

in the
Hospital, Pensacola, Fla.,
recently.
The paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Worman, Danville.
Mr. Worman is
S.

Baptist

bandmaster

in

the

Ubley Schools,

Michigan.

1946
St.

Paul’s Episcopal

Church was

the setting Sunday, November 24,
for the lovely ceremony uniting in

marriage Miss Athamantia D. Comuntzis, daughter of Mrs. D. J. Comuntzis, Bloomsburg, to Thomas Eli
Bowman, son of Mrs. Hester Bowman, also of Bloomsburg.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Dionysios
Papadatos before 300 wedding
.

guests.

Bowman

will re-

side at 350 Center Street,

Blooms-

Mr. and Mrs.
burg.

mis-

home, and

Bristol Presbyterian

1942
daughter was born

Mrs.

(Wlhtesell)

cember

and Mrs. William Conrad

Mr.
(Irene

a start towards at-

friends.
ar-

pointed that 1933 news was scarce.
At this distance I’m “dreaming” of
attending my 25th reunion in May,

The Dalles

and Mt. Adams, and is surrounded
by fishing, hunting, and many rec-

Edward Yeomans,

ficiated.

Both the bride and groom graduated
from
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
Mrs. Bowman
is a partner in The Texas and The
Mr. Bowman is an acPolmon.
countant at the Geisinger Hospital.
1949

ceremony which took place
Saturday, February 15, in Old WilIn a

liams Lutheran Church, Hellertown, Miss Julia Pichel, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Benny Pichel, Hellertown R. D. 1, became the bride
of Warren Sterling, son of the late

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sterling,
Catawissa.
The Rev. Emory Kilburn officiated and a reception followed in
the Candlelight Room of the Hotel

of
an
alumnus
Mr.
Ritter,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Temple University, is a
teacher in Delhaas High School,
Bristol Township. The newlyweds

The bride graduated from B.S.
T.C. and Temple University Graduate School.
She taught nine

will reside in Bristol.

years.

Bethlehem.

Mr. Sterling was graduated
13

—
from B.S.T.C. and attended TemUniversity Graduate School.
He served two tours of duty with
the U. S. Navy and is now teaching

ple

in Plainfield, N.

J.,

High School.

1950
Miss Arlene Mae Pope, Sunbury
D. 1, graduate of B.S.T.C., was
united in marriage to Piobert J.
Walters, Easton, in a ceremony
performed recently in Klinesgrove
Methodist
Church.
The Rev.
If.

Amandus Hunsinger officiated.
The bride is a teacher in Williamsport. Her husband, a graduate of
port,
elers,

Lycoming College, Williamsemployed by Morris JewEaston, where the couple will
is

reside.

1953
Miss Nancy Lou Rhoads, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy G.
Rhoads,
Catawissa,
and
John
George O’Brien, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Erank O’Brien, Philadelphia,
were united in marriage at two
o’clock Saturday, December 14,
in St. John’s Lutheran Church,
Catawissa.
The Rev. Paul Trump performed
the double-ring ceremony before
the altar which was decorated with
white chysanthemums, carnations
and snapdragons.
The bride graduated from Catawissa High School and B.S.T.C.
and has taken additional work at
Temple University. She is speech
correctionist for Chester county.
The bridegroom graduated from
John Barton High School, Philadelphia and Temple University. He
served two years in the U. S. Army
and is now a draftsman for J. J.
Henry, Philadelphia, naval architect.

1954
Albert J. McManus is employed
by the American Museum of Atomic Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

On August

30, he completed a
training course at the Oak Ridge

Nuclear Science, the
educational contact agency for
Atomic Energy Commission. He is
now employed by the Exhibits DiThis division of the Institute.
Institute

of

presents the “Atoms for
Peace” Exhibits in towns and cities
across the United States for the

vision

14

Atomic Energy Commission. The
main purpose of the Exhibits program is to inform the American
public of the many peaceful uses
of nuclear energy.
His first assignment was with
the “Atoms for Peace” Mobile Unit

Connecticut and

in the

New

York

area during the months of September and October.
In November,
he was assigned to one of the six
high school units touring the country.
The high school unit consists
of the presentation of an assembly
program entitled, “This Atomic
World” and the visiting of the high
school science classes during the
day.
The high school program
stresses the uses of the atom and
the present and future needs for

many more

scientists.

Adams

has

recently

been promoted to mathematician
in the General Electric Company,
Philadelphia.
Upon graduation
from college she accepted a position with them in their Missile and

Ordnance Systems Department as
an engineering technician. She is
presently working on a Master’s
degree in mathematics at Temple
University.

1957

The marriage

of Miss Lila

Mae

Deitrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Deitrick, Mt. Carmel, to Albert H. Deitz, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert H. Deitz, Sr., Mt. Carmel, was solemnized recently at
St. Paul’s E.U.B. Church, Mt. Carmel.
The bride graduated from Harrisburg Hospital School of Nursing,
class

1957.

of

Her husband,

a

graduate of B.S.T.C. in 1957, is
teaching in the Norwood-Norfolk
Central High School, Norwood, N.
Y.

1957
In a follow-up study of the members of the Class of 1957, a questionnaire sent out by the Placement
Office of the College produced the
address
T teaching address or business address
BUSINESS CURRICULUM— In Teaching Positions

—

Bane, Burton M.

T

51/2

D.

W. Third

St.,

Bloomsburg

Springbrook Lane, Hatboro

Bradley, Edward F.
714 Ridge St., Freeland

H—

Burggraf, Harry
H 565 Seybert St., Hazleton
153 S. Fifth St., Lindenhurst, N. Y.
Burggraf, John
H 565 Seybert, St., Hazleton

—

T—

—

T—Fleetwood

School, Fleetwood

Jt.

Creasy, James B.
612 W. Third St., Bloomsburg
T 1418 Country Club Lane, Wmspt.

H—

—
Margaret
H—Campbell, N.

Croft,

Y.
Campbell, N. Y.
Desmond, Jacqueline M.
H-612 Mahoning St., Milton
T 319 King St., Pottstown
Dodson, Doyle G.
H R. D. 2, Orangeville
T Hughesville H. S., Hughesville
Dropeskey, Edward M.
H 524 E. Second St., Mt. Carmel
810 Warren St., Hudson, N. Y.
Dupkanick, William
H 716 Warren St., Berwick

T— R.

D.

2,

—

—
—
—

—

T— 37

Erie,

S.

Main

Elwood

H —522

St.,

Montrose

C.

Stevenson

St.,

Sayre

T—405 Court St., Penn Yan, N. Y.
Edwell, Ulysses G.
H—R. D. Trevorton, Shamokin
1,

T— 339 Delaware

Fawcett,

Mary

Circle,

Newark,

Del.

F.

H—673 Heller St., Williamsport
T— R. D.
Montgomery
1,

Ford,

John

J.

H — 79 E. Sunbury St., Shamokin
T —696 S. Sixth St., Lindenhurst,

N.Y.

Fox, Walter G.
H R. D. 2, Catawissa
T Kresgeville
Geary, Anne

—
—
Cressona
H —28 Carpenter
Gibson, Bette A.
H — 184 Schuylkill, Shenandoah Hts.
Gilchrist, Evelyn
Pottsville
H —256 Pierce
T— Zuni 133, Hokona Hall, University
St.,

St.,

of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
Horning, Dorothy L.
H R. D. 2, Schuylkill Haven

N.M

—

T—Main

St.,

Honey Brook

Hutchinson, Donald H.
H 411 Chestnut St., Berwick
T 1005 Cumberland Ave., Cooper-

—

—

Village,

Woodbury, N.

Hyde, Nancy J.
746 Centre

H—

T— 160
Johnson,
H—216

St.,

W. Main

J.

Bloomsburg
Troy

St.,

Ella L.

South St., Athens
Green St., Woodbridge, N.
Kapochus, Leonard W.
H 65 Barney St., Larksville

T—73

J.

—

T —Harrisville,

N. Y.
Kessler, Allen
36 Ash St., Danville
260 Grant St., Salem, N. J.
Kilpatrick, Evelyn M.
H R. D. 3, Nazareth
T 482 E. Lawn Road, Nazareth

H—

following:

H—'home

H —R.

H— 26

T—420

T—

1956
Elisabeth

Biemesderfer, Robert

1,

Stillwater

Simms Road, Dryden,

N. Y.

T—

—

—

Kleinschrodt, Alan P.
2123 Shawnee St., Scranton
533 Boulevard St., Westfield, N.

H—
T—

TIIE

J.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Mackert, M. Franklin

Lane, Robert F.

H —297

T—

Mill St., Danville
P. O. Box 264, Windsor, N. Y.

Leffelaar, Annabelle
428 Shook Ave., Stroudsburg
T 116 S. Market St., Muncy

H—

—
—
—

Marsilio, Nataile A.
H 509 E. Diamond St., Hazleton
T Apt. B-3, 24 High, St., Woodbury,

N.

J.

McAfee, Donald E.

H — 118

E. 15th St.,

H — 1269i/2

Highland St., Sunbury
T 27341 Tremaine Drive, Apt 3,
Cleveland 32, Ohio
Marenick, Robert J.
H—421 W. Fifth St., Mt. Carmel
T 332 Richfield Road, Upper Darby
McCloskey, Isaiah L.
H 359 Iron St., Bloomsburg
T 217 11th St., Pocomoke City, Md.

—

—
—
—
McDevitt, Thomas A.
H — 1250 W. Pine

Questionnaire not returned

Argali (Miller), Miriam
43 N. Front St., St. Clair
T 301 Manor Ave., Downingtown

King (Pearce), Nancy

Monagham, James

Va.
Rorick, Robert

H—

—

J.

H— 523

Walnut St., Ashland
Naughton, Jean M.

—
—

T—

—
—
Roadside, Bobbi
H — 7724 Loretta Ave., Philadelphia 11
Romanczyk, Anne M.
H —814 Delaware
Forest Ctity
T—37 N. Chenango
Greene, N. Y.
Rudy, Walter N.
Bloomsburg
H —20 Nottingham
St.,

St.,

St.,

T 8 Boston Ivy Road, Levittown
Vivacqua (Seiler), Shirley

H — Box

T— Box
Setar,

248, Auburn
286, Millville

Edward M.

H —45 W. Rhume St., Nesquehoning
T— 260 Main St., New Milford
Edward G.
W. Coal St., Shenandoah

Shustack,

H—837

T—366

Westfield Ave., Clark, N.
Snyder, Willard A.
H R. D. 2, Lehighton
Ave.,

J.

Palmerton

Stallone, Sally A.
35 S. Tenth St., Reading
271 Altamont Place, Somerville,

H—

T—

N. J.
Stamets, Gordon A.
H 142 E. Lincoln

—
T—315 Seventh
Stubbs, Donald
H—White Haven

Shamokin
Renovo

St.,

St.,

Falls Church,

H—

T— 30

Emporium
BUSINESS CURRICULUM— In Armed
Fourth

E.

Reading
Graeber, Joanne L.
H 228 S. Bishop

—

T—25

St.,

Services
Boyer, Wayne M.
R. D. 2, Mifflinburg

James

—

—
—

Green, Nancy
514 W. 8th

H—

H—431

May

St.,

—
—
—

Hazleton
Woodbridge, N.
Hagenbuch, Hortense E.
313 E. 4th St., Berwick
St.,

St.,

Ave.,

Shamokin

Mayfield

J.

BUSINESS CURRICULUM—
Shaneman, Robert
N. 18th

Pottsville

St..

H—

Hax’ris,

James

H —R.

D. 5, Bloomsburg
Hetherington, Carol J.
H-110 N. Broad St., Selinsgrove
T 633 S. Milton Ave., Apt. C.

James H.
H 599 W. Main St., Bloomsburg
T Rose Tree School, Media

—
—

Kemp,

Patricia L.

H — 542

T— 774

Green St., Berwick
Gladys Ave., Long Beach,

Calif.

Holly (Kostenbauder), Marlene
H 39 Hoyt St., Courtdale
T 1201/2 Park St., Dallas
Link, Harriet
H 507 Fairview St., Coopersburg
Questionnaire not returned
.
Michael, Victor A.
245 N. Front St., Milton
T 600 Ann St., Towanda, Pa.
Maurer (Nearing), Carol
H 203 W. Fifth St., Bloomsburg
T 28 S. 8th St., Lebanon
Osborn, Suzanne
H 17 Fairview Rd., Springfield

—
—
—

H—

ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM— In

—
—
—
—
Plummer, Janet
H —Box 225A, R. D. Shamokin
T— 7910 Castor Ave., Apt.

Teaching Positions
Arbogast, Harry R.

Philadelphia 11
Pohutsky, William J.

BUSINESS CURRICULUM—Married
Cole,

Samina Rishton

H —423

Centre

Mary

Ertel,

H — 603
T —36

J.

Whittier, Calif.

H 95 High St., Lost Creek
Robinson, Elmer D.
H 1116 Church St., Upland, Chester
Thomas, Charles A.
H 237 Chestnut St., Mifflinburg

H— 503

State

Joy,

Vestal Road, Vestal, N. Y.

Kaplafka, John

1,

—

J.

H 664 Bear Valley
Kaminsky, Frank M.
T— 1517

Springfield

Hall (Graff), Winifred
H 113 Kent St., Springfield
T 315 W. Beaver Ave., Apt.
College

H—

Fiebig,

St.,

Reiffton,

Nicklehill Lane, Levittown

T— 73 Green

W.

(Mrs.)

Bloomsburg

St.,

Miller (Mrs.)

Central

St.,

Cheltenham

Richard Wagnerlann, The
Hague, Holland

H—85

St.,

St.,

St.,

St.,

St.,

CURRICULUM— In

W. Union
Donna D.
E.

Third

St.,
St.,

Canton
Bloomsburg

N. Fifth St., Emmaus
Boop, Christine E.
H 409 Thompson St., Mifflinburg
T 73 Green St., Woodbridge, N. J.
Brokenshire, James O.

—

—
T—W. Main
Elkland
Witmer, Glen C.
H — 1087 Reagon
Sunbury
T—31^ S. Eleventh
Sunbury
Yori, Robert P.
H —704 Walnut
Freeland
T— 212 N. Third
Lehighton
Other

Employment
Follmer, Rodney
H 416 E. Anthony St., Bloomsburg
T Crestmont Drive, Honesdale
Garrett, Thomas A.
H 214 S. Ninth St., Lebanon
Kratzer, Richard J.
H 1148 E. Chestnut St., Sunbury
T 154 N. Sixth St., Sunbury

APRIL, 1958

Dunmore

Swartz, Edmund J.
326 W. Olive St., Mt. Carmel

T—328

—
—

—
—
—

T—

St.,

Mill St., Catawissa
I6OV2 Jefferson Ave., Vandergrift

H— 121

T—

—

T— 500 Greenwich

Auten,

116 S. Sixth St., Perkasie
Biesecker (Thornton), Mary Lou
H 2239 Prospect St., Scranton
T R. D. Star Route, Waverly
Vottero, Francis T.
H 247 Coal St., Trevorton

—

Blakley

—

—
H —Route 20, Lebanon
T— 3304 Perkiomen Ave.,

1,

St.,

BUSINESS

S.

Questionnaire not returned

—

T—827 Delaware

H — 123

H — 450

H 905 Sheridan St., Williamsport
Ozalas, Connie
H 749 Lafayette St., Palmerton
Apt. B-3, High St., Woodbury, N.J.
Repice, Domenic L.
H 1819 Hoffman St., Philadelphia
T 2502 Jackson St., Apt. 1-B, Phila.

—

Shamokin

St.,

Berwick

Firmstone, Lynda L.
H 636 Park St., Honesdale
T 25 Nicklehill Lane, Levittown
Geisinger, Etta M.

—

H— 178

T—347

S.

Sprague

St.,

Kingston

Liberty St., West Pittston
Brown, Doris A.
H 107A- Rowe St., Tamaqua
T 456 St. David’s Ave., Wayne

—

—
—

Bushey, John I.
H 530 Curtin

Harrisburg
108 N. Elmer Ave., Sayre
Casper, Charles D.

T—

St.,

H—Fleming
T—454

Sharon
Wolyniec (Crew), Kathryn
H 1327 Walnut St., Williamsport
Duck, Margaret A.
H 342 West St., Bloomsburg

—
—
T— 27

Silver St.,

Circle Road, Levittown
Fegley, Alice M.
531 Mill St., Catawissa

H—

8,

H— 112

William

T—867

St.,

N. J.
Rainey, Robert
H 625 Fronheiser

—

T—27

Old Forge

Westfield Rd., Scotch Plains,

S.

Johnstown
Canton

St.,

Minnequa

Ave.,

Raski, Barbara
H R. D. 2, Benton

—

T—52

Edison Ave., Erlton, N.
Richards, Dreher L.

H — 304

E.

Tenth

T—540 Walnut

St.,

St.,

Rieder, Joan
H 2633 Olyphant

—

T— 50

S.

Munn

J.

Berwick

Lemoyne
St.,

Scranton

Ave., Apt. 104, East

Orange, N. J.
Rozelle (Ritter), Marilyn

H—25

T — 625

Crisman

St.,

Pugh

St.,

S.

Forty Fort
State College

Eck (Shoemaker), Margaret
H 531 Catherine St., Bloomsburg
Snyder, Jean F.
H R. D. 1, Jermyn
Specht, Joanne A.

—
—
H—R. D. Lewisburg
T— 1418 East
Honesdale
1,

St.,

15

Behers, Ronald B.
H-622 East Burnside
Pa.

Allen (Stackhouse), Edith
H Unityville

—
T— 126 Charles
Towanda
Stanton, Dolores D.
H — 1221 Faxon Pky., Williamsport
St.,

T-110 South Fourth

E.

Main

T— 73 Green

Mahanoy Plane
Woodbridge, N. J.

Stewart, Harley S.
1333 Liberty
Stroup, Robert

H—

St.,

T—

—

H 361 E. Ridge St., Nanticoke
Thomas, Beverly R.
T—Manheim

Hazleton
Twp., Lancaster

Ulmer, Judith A.

Van Auken, Enola
H—Box 93, Mill City
T Box 180, Dalton R. D.

—

11

2

Derr,

S. Wyoming St., Hazleton
TJ25 Nicklehill Lane, Levittown
Wilson, Jean Heine (Mrs.)
H 50 Pine St., Bloomsburg

DeTato, Ramon G.
H-351 Market St., Berwick, Pa.

—
T — 537 Monument Ave., Wyoming
Keller (Yohn), Margaret
H — 717 Eigth
Selinsgrove
T— Port Trevorton
Zeisloft, Maxine Y.
H —R. D. Bloomsburg
St.,

1,

ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM— In
Other Employment
Laurenson, G. Edgar
H-Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pa.
T-2 East Pine St., Enola, Pa.
Shirley,

John

L.

H-70 Catherine St., Lewistown, Pa.
T-R. D. 1, Somerville, N. J.
Truscott, Janice

H-3 West St., Oneonta, N. Y.
T-1539 South Springfield Ave., Chicago

23,

T-New

West Raymond

T-Box

Married
(Crocker) Jeanne

H-Spring Garden St., Trucksville, Pa.
T-508 West Elm St., Urbana, 111.
Cole (Eyer) Alice
H-Lightstreet, Pa.
T-19 Schonfeld Strasse, Schonbrunn
Bavaria, Germany
Thompson (Hughes) Coralie
H-31 Hughes St., Luzerne, Pa.
T-261 “G” Ave., Coronado, Calif.
Schultz (Lentz) Barbara
H-1515 Sheridan St., Williamsport,

St.,

Coolidge,

130, Factoryville, Pa.

H-211 Oak St., Old Forge, Pa.
Questionnaire not returned
DiSimoni, Carmen
H-206 Oak St.t, Old Forge, Pa.
T-189 Summit Drive, Danville, N.
Doraski, Regina

J.

T-1109 Fifth St., Lorain, Ohio
Durkas, Frank P.
H-60 East Main St., Glen Lyon, Pa.
T-114 Grove Ave., Woodbridge, N. J.
Ebner, Robert L.

T-Box

1,

244,

Muncy, Pa.

St.,

West

Pitts-

Tunkhannock,

St.,

Pa.

Friedman, Marilyn
H-310 Center Stt., Clarks

Summit,

Pa.

T-261 East
N.

Broadway

St.,

Salem,

J.

St.,

Gass, Clyde S.
H-Orangeville, Pa.
T-Marion, N. Y.

Teaching Positions
Augustine, Edward S.
H-277 East Green St., Nanticoke, Pa.
T-259 East Broad St., Nanticoke, Pa.

Bach, George J.
H-400 North Chestnut

St.,

mel, Pa.
Bastress, Guy H.
H-R. D. 5, Danville, Pa.
T-R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.
16

Mt. Car-

T-260 Orchard
Jones, Jcseph

Krothe, Jay A.
H-132 Susquehanna

BROS.
1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

St.,

Shickshinny,

T-13 Atherton Road, Lutherville, Md.
Litwin, Robert
St.,

Keiser, Pa.

L.

H-Lumberville, Pa.
T-Geigertown, Pa.
Malczyk, Joseph P.
H-238 Robert St., Nanticoke, Pa.
T-Box 194, Savannah, N. Y.
Maurer, Robert M.
H-365 West Main St., Girardville, Pa.
T-25 South Eighth St., Lebanon, Pa.
McBride, Thomas J.

H-238 South First St., Shamokin, Pa.
T-900 South Rodney St., Wilmington,

H-105 Arthur St., Johnstown, Pa.
T-Elkhart Apts.. 9C O’Daniel Ave.,
Newark, Del.
McMonigle, Peter
H-72 Main St., Harleigh, Pa.
McNelis, Donald T.
H-416 Schuyler St., Kingston, Pa.
T-1814 29t9h St., S. E. Washington,
20,

D. C.

Pa.
Miles, Albert

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

J.

Pa.

H-R. D.

MOYER

Elizabeth, N.

St.,

J.

H-44 1-2 Mahoning St., Milton, Pa.
T-810 South Allen St„ State College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

SECONDARY CURRICULUM— In

Nanticoke,

Mease. Richard P.

Pa.

T-450 Spruce

St.,

Pa.

McMeans, Kermit M.

ton, Pa.

T-21 1-2 Second

H-107 South Hanover

Pa.

Del.

Avondale, Pa.

Edwards, Raymond
H-528 1-2 Delaware

Kulpmont,

St.,

H-134 Clermont
MacLean, Donald

Catawissa, Pa.

1,

McClure, Pa.

184,

Horne, Marlin
H-1407 Poplar
Hudak. Daniel

Pa.

Robert

H-R. D.

Box

Berwick,

St.,

Pa.

Arizona
DeWolfe, Robert O.
H-233 East First St., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dipipi,

J.

H-332 East Eleventh

Koch, Mary J.
H-331 Allen St., West Hazleton, Pa.
T-7 South Railroad Stt., Walnutport,

Enterprise, Pa.

7-654

J.

H-343 East Field St., Nanticoke, Pa.
Kautz, William D.
K-2512 Jefferson St., Harrisburg, Pa.
T-697 Knowles Ave., Southampton,

Kenneth F.
H-R. D. 3, Muncy, Pa.

H-R. D.

111.

ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM—
O’Neill

Apt.,

Cranmer, William
H-McEwensville, Pa.
Questionnaire not returned
Davenport, George R.
H-14 Ransom St., Plymouth, Pa.
T-415 Main Stt., Plymouth, Pa.

Wagner, Shirley

H— 195

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Hendrickson, Roberta
H-Highland, Elkland, Pa.
T-50 A Oakwood Manor Apts, Wood-

Pa.
T-P. O.

Willow Grove, Pa.
Coakley, Joanne Tressler (Mrs.)
H-200 Jackson St., Port Carbon, Pa.
T-The Grier School, Tyrone, Pa.

St.,

T — 334 Jerome St., Williamsport
T — 7910 Castor Ave., Philadelphia

Northumberland,

H-145 Broad St., St. Clair, Pa.
T-Welsh Road, Care Leary’s

Swigonski, Joseph

Sunbury, Pa.

2,

bury, N.
St.,

St.,

304,

Hettinger, Virgil

Questionnaire not returned
Long (Christian) Catherine

Village St., Johnstown
803 Beaver Rd., Johnstown

W. Fifth

J.

James
H-696 Hanover

Carter,

Allentown

H-R. D.

T-Box

Pa.

H — 115

H— 534

N.

St.,

St.,

Lewisburg,

St.,

Brunn, James H.
H-265 Spring St., Nanticoke, Pa.
Brunswick,
T-30 Mill Lane, North

H—

H-1006 Market

Harrell, William C.

Pa.

Mori (Stavisky), Jean
511 Winter St., Old Forge
Stec, Helene M.

H — 123

Hare, Donald R.
Bellefonte,

St.,

’09,

’07,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

Box

84,

Hunlock Creek,

Pa.

H-Park

Place,

Mahanoy

City, Pa.

Moyer, Betty Lou

H-R. D.
President

1,

Questionnaire not returned
Miller, Marilyn M.

1,

Montgomery, Pa.

T-727 West Third

St.,

Williamsport,

Pa.

Myers, Cameron S.
H-R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.
Ohl, Thomas L.
H-R. D. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.
T-308 Main Stt., Middleburg, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Okuniewski, Stanley L.
H-13 Frederick St., Ashley, Pa.
T-979 Warren St., Apt. A, Pottstown,

Riskis,

Pa.

Michael
H-847 West Chestnut

Patrilak,

St.,

Shamokin,

Pa.

T-Apt.

32.

Weiss Bldg., State College,

Pa.
Price,

Moss, John
H-255 Main St., New Milford, Pa.
T-210 East St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

John

H-18 Butler St., Shickshinny, Pa.
T-48 Bartholdi Ave., Butler, N. J.
Quinn, William
H-334 South Market St., Shamokin,
Pa.

Questionnaire not returned

Rando, Arlene H.
H-126 North Marshall

St.,

Armed

Services

Donald E.
H-314 Mill St., Danville, Pa.
Hughes, Harry
H-630 Walnut St., Williamsport, Pa.

Apt. 50-A,

Wood-

Reimensnyder, Thomas J.
H-225 Market St., Mifflinburg, Pa.
T-35 Conifer Road, Levittown, Pa.
Sarkas, William
H-237 West Broad St., Hazleton, Pa.
Schlauch, Donald H.
H-104 North Broad St., Hazleton,
Pa.

T-18 Oak Lane. Havertown, Pa.
Sherwood, Thomas
H-209 Honeymoon St., Danville, Pa.
Shuda, Lester J.
H-25 North Tamaqua St., McAdoo,
Pa.

T-Tyburn Road,

Fairless Hills, Pa.

Smerconish, Walter
H-106 North Broad

St.,

Questionnaire not returned
Kozick, Leonard
H-R. D. 3, Dallas, Pa.
O'Brien, Edward

H — 1501

bury, N. J.

Centre St., Ashland
Questionnaire not returned

Phillips,

John R.

Roberts,

John

H — 2310

—
—
—

Boulevard

T-501 Main

St.,

Springer, Dale
H-Lopez, Pa.

St.,

Scranton

L.

T-112 Tooker Ave., Springfield, N.

J.

Dick C.
H-616 Lincoln St., Miltton, Pa.
T-640 Ninth St., West Babylon,

I.,

Strine,

L.

N. Y.
Trego, Shirley

H- McClure, Pa.
T-Lykens Hotel, Lykens, Pa.
Warner, Joseph
H-704 Pine St., Kulpmont, Pa.
Wascavage, Joseph
H-508 Maple St., Old Forge, Pa.
T-713 East Front

St., Plainfield,

N.

—
—
H — Millville, P. O. Box 177
Thomas, Barbara Tuckwood (Mrs.)
H — 26 Greenhill
Springfield
T—Box 1165, Camp Knox Trailor
Park,

Camp

Lejeune, N. C.

Frank J.
H-601 Hudson St., Forest City, Pa.
T-101 North Church St., Moscow, Pa.

Zeranski,

Irene

Other Employment

Hand

officiated.

1958
of Miss Jane Ludaughter of Mrs.
Mary Traugh, Berwick, to Wilbur
Dane Helt, son of Earl Helt, Berwick, was solemnized recently in
cille

H-36 West Main Stt., Wanamie, Pa.
Woyurka, John
H-201 Cameron St., Shamokin, Pa.
Questionnaire not returned

SECONDARY CURRICULUM— In

L.

The marriage

Wintergrass, Stanley

H-527 Donnelly St., Duryea, Pa.
T-209 79th St., North Bergen, N.

1958
Miss Elizabeth Ann Barran, senior at B.S.T.C., daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Willis F. Barron, Ashland,
was married to Robertt W. Hagerty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Hagerty, Shamokin, in a ceremony
performed recently at Zion Lutheran Church, Ashland.
The Rev.

J.

H-Route 1, Milan, Pa.
T-Lykens Hotel, Lykens, Pa.

J.

St.

Trau gh,

Paul’s Evangelical

Unieed Bre-

She served many

Mary Edith Colvin, ’97
Mrs. Mary Edith Colvin, 80, widow of Abram E. Colvin, who reMrs.

sided at 820 North Front street,
Milton, died December 24 at Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville.
She had been ill for three and a
half years.

Mrs. Colvin was born

November

Northumberland. A
daughter of the late Martin L. and
Mary E. Batchelor Savidge.
She
spent her entire married life in
Milton. A graduate of Bloomsburg
24,

band, a graduate of Berwick High
School in 1950, served in the U. S.

Normal School in 1897, she taught
school at Bloomsburg and also in
Milton before her marriage.
She
was a member of Christ Episcopal
Church of Milton and the Episcopal Guild. She was active in vari-

Navy

Garcia, Joseph C.
H-728 Scott St.,
H-728 Scott St.,

Mr. and Mrs. Helt are living at
725C West Front Street, Berwick.

APRIL, 1958

fifty years.

years as secretary.
Her greatest interest was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
to which she devoted much time.
For several years, she was president of the Columbia County unit.
Following the death of her father, she resided with a sister, Emma,
in
Millville.
After her sister’s
death in 1942, she moved to the
home of a .nephew, T. Alva Potts,
Quakertown R. D. 1.
She had
been a guest at the convalescent
home for the past two years.
She was a member of the Society
of Friends of Millville.

thren Church by the Rev. Clair
E. Keafer.
The bride attended Berwick
High School and is employed at
Berwick Shirt Company. Her hus-

Forgach, John M.
H-30 Engle St., Glen Lyon, Pa.

Kulpmont, Pa.
Kulpmont, Pa.

Bloomsburg Normal School, class
of 1884, and successfully followed

over

Married
Bandes, Jeanne Glenner (Mrs.)
H 503 E. Third St., Bloomsburg
T 29-J Bucknell Village, Lewisburg
Purvis, Vanice Buck (Mrs.)

Lawrence

Donna

Miss Sarah Ella Young, ninetyQuakertown R. D. 1, died
Sunday, January 19, at the Mary
Ellen Convalescent Home, Hellertown, near Bethlehem, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
She was the daughter of the late
Phillip and Rachel Wilson Young,
Millville.
She graduated from
three,

SECONDARY CURRICULUM—

—

Lykens, Pa.

J.

’84

her profession of teaching in Columbia and Chester counties for the
next eighteen years.
She took an active part in civic
affairs and was a member of The
Valley Grange No. 52, Millville, for

St.,

West Hazle-

Sarah Ella Young,

H 127 E. Twelfth St., Bloomsburg
Smith, Kenneth (Pvt.)
H 1500 Pine St., Berwick
T Batalion B, 269th F.A. Bn.,
Fort Carson, Colorado
Weir, Kenneth L.
H Rustling Maples, Hatboro

ton, Pa.

Zielinski,

Tower City, Pa.
Pottsville, Pa.

SECONDARY CURRICULUM— In

Shamokin,

Pa.

T-Oakwood Manor

Wilcox,

St.,
St.,

Alter,

James

Ngrrologif

S.

H-201 Wiconisco
T-170 Anderson

for four years

veteran.

He

is

and

is

a

Korean

a senior at B.S.T.C.

1877,

at

17

ous organizations of the church.
Surviving are her son, Martin L.
Colvin, Milton; a daughter, Mrs.
William Nail, Milton, and two sisters, Mrs. Edward Stroh, Sunbury,
and Mrs. Ruth Harris, Milton.
Keller B. Albert, 01
Keller B. Albert, seventy-live, of

Wyomissing, died Sunday, December 1, 1957, at the Reading Hospital.

He was

born

in

Frederick were married 54 years.
Surviving are her husband, one
son, John L. Frederick, Milton R.
D. 1; two grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.

James M. Malone, ’04
James M. Malone passed away
October 13, 1957. His death was
reported to The Quarterly by his
sister, Mary A.
Malone, 04, .33
North Jardin Street, Shenandoah.

Catawissa, son

the late Charles H. and Anna
Bell Albert.
He was an insurance
agent forty years. His father was
a member of the faculty “Old
Guard” of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
of

Mr. Albert graduated from B.S.
T.C. in 1901. He taught for several years in the
Berwick schools.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Carrie M. Rauch; a brother, Charles L., Dallas; a sister, Ruth, wife
of Rev. D. C. Baer, Norwood.
He was a member of the Reading Consistory, Scottish Rite Mas-

Temple, Order of MysF & AM Lodge No. 549;
West Reading-Wyomissing Rotary
Club and Mountain Sprins Associons; Rajah
tic

Shrine;

ation.

Following an illness of more than
nine weeks, Mrs. Helen Frederick,
80, wife of David P. Frederick,
Pottsgrove, died December 17, at
Geisinger Memorial Hospital where
she was a patient for seven weeks.
She suffered a stroke a few days
before her death.

A daughter of the late Robert
and Sarah Vandling Lesher, the
deceased was born October 23,
1877, at Blue Hill, near the UnionSnyder County line. She lived in
She was
Pottsgrove for 31 years.
a member of St. John’s Lutheran
Church at Pottsgrove and of the
Missionary Society of the church.
to the Ladies’ Auxil-

Pottsgrove Fire Company.
Mrs. Frederick taught school at
Rushtown and in East Chillisquaque Township. She was a teacher
She was gradufor three years.
ated in 1901 from Bloomsburg
Normal School. Mr. and Mrs.

iary of the

18

’04

Mrs. Leona Aletha Lawton, seventy-two, wife of J. R. Lawton,
Iola, Millville R. D. 1, died Wednesday, October 9, 1957, at her
home. The cause of death was
carcinoma.
She had been in failing health
for three years and became critically

ill

She had been

in April, 1957.

bedfast since that time.
She was the daughter of the late
Samuel and Quet Ikeler Kester and
was born in Millville. All of her
life was spent in and near Millville.
She attended the Bloomsburg
State Normal School graduating

She
in 1904.
years in Green-

from that institution
taught for three

wood Township.

Mrs. Helen Lesher Frederick, 01

She belonged

Mrs. Leona Kester Lawton,

For the past thirty-six years, she
and Mr. Lawton resided in Iola
where her husband operated the
Iola Mill. They observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary on lime
11. 1957.

Mrs. Lawton was a

member

of

Church and
the C.W.F. of the church. She was
also a member o fthe W.C.T.U. and
the Millville Garden Club.
the Millville Christian

Surviving are her husband; three
children, Ryland K. Lawton, Millville R.

D.

1;

Mrs.

Mans

N. Eyer,

Millville,

and Major Elva

J.

Law-

ANC,
Forge Army

stationed at Valley
Hospital, Phoenixville;
six grandchildren; one brother, Ryland Kester, Sunbury; two sisters,
Mrs. John Bastian and Miss Hazel
Kester, Millville.
ton,

Bruce Sneidman,

’08

Bruce Sneidman, aged seventyfive, Scott township, widely known
area business man and for many
years an official of the Bloomsburg
Fair, died Monday, January 13, at
the

Geisinger

Hospital,

Danville,

from complications.
A native of Almedia, he was the
son of the late Eli and Clara Mowery Sneidman.
He was a lifelong
resident of Almedia and in his
life was a teacher at the
Bloomsburg Normal School, now
the Teachers College, and at Pen-

early

nington, N.
In

with

J.

1916 he became associated
his brother Charles in the

river coal business at Almedia and
he was also a partner with his
brother Frank in the jewelry busi-

ness in Bloomsmburg.
In his long tenure on the board
of directors of the Fair Association
he was the first superintendent of

present grandstand and for
years superintendent of the poultry
the

show.

He was interested in sports and
headed the committee which staged
first
Scott Township (now
the
Central) High School booster dinner.

He was a member of the Bloomsburg Lodge or Elks and Friendship
Fire Company, Bloomsburg, and
Berwick Lodge No. 681, I.O.O.F.,
and Supreme Encampment, 215,
Espy.

Dr. Scott R. Fisher, '09
Dr. Scott R. Fisher, sixty-seven,

Daytona

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

Beach,

Fla.,

died

Fri-

day, December 26, in the Halifax
Hospital, Daytona Beach. He was
a native of Mainville and a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal
Following his graduation
School.

Bloomsburg, he

taught

for

several years in Berwick.
He had been in ill health

for

from

several years.

complications.

Death was due to
He was a doctor

THE ALUMNI QUARTER!. Y

Syracuse, N. Y., for many years
his retirement several years
He was the son of the late
ago.
in

until

Mary and Boyd

Fisher.

Pauline Knies Williams, 16

W. Horace

Mrs.

Williams, the

former Pauline Knies, died Saturday, December 21, at her home,
40 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg.
The prominent town woman, a
member of the Bloomsburg Public
Library staff and former Bloomsburg school teacher, was a victim
of a coronary occlusion.
heart attack was atexcitement caused by
fire which
destroyed the Pursel
barn near the Williams’ property.

Her

fatal

tributed

to

had been

She

hyper-tension

from

suffering

condition

for

a

some

Being a Reserve Office he
entered World War II as a Lieutenant Colonel and was awarded a
Medal for Services on the European
Front. He also served in the Korean War but I do not know what
rank he held at that time.
I got
the impression he devoted his full
time to military activities during

East Main Street, Bloomsburg, died
suddenly Thursday, February 20,

and

and

1935.

after the

Korean War.”

Minnie Wright Kershner,

Mrs. C. B. Kershner, fifty-five,
120 West Front Street, Berwick,
died in the Berwick Hospital Sunday, December 22, following a
nine-months illness.
Mrs. Kershner, the former Minnie Wright, had been a hospital patient for three weeks.
Her death
broke a marital span of thirty-three

Her husband

time.

years.

Death occurred almost instantly
while she was preparing coffee in
the kitchen.
Death occurred before medical aid could be given.

known Berwick

of
native
Williams,
a
Bloomsburg, spent all her life here.
She was a graduate of Bloomsburg
High School and the Bloomsburg
She taught
State Normal School.
school for several years at the
Third Street building, and had
been a member of the library staff

Mrs.

’22

is

well-

a

dentist.

bom

Mrs. Kershner was

in Ber-

wick on May 13, 1902, and was the
daughter of the late Mr .and Mrs.
John M. Wright.

She was

a

member

of the First

Presbyterian Church, Berwick, and
C of the Church. She
was a charter member of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Mrs. Kershner was graduated
from Berwick High School, class

Mrs. Williams was a

member

of

the

Ann Holt Law Missionary

tary schools.

Berwick elemen-

Church and Daughters
the American Colonists.

In 1926 she moved to
Wilkes-Barre to work with Dr.
Kershner. and the couple moved to

husband, at
home, and one son, John W. Williams, Haddonfield, N. J.

Berwick in 1927.
She served as a capable assistant
to her husband and was an excel-

Surviving

are

her

lent anaesthetist for
J.

Frear Laudig,

T8
Robert G.

In reply to the request for infor-

mation concerning missing alumni,
the following was received from F.
Ralph Dreibelbis, 19, 1255 Denman Avenue, Coshocton, Ohio:
“Frear passed away several years
ago (I believe it was in 1955). At
the time of his death he was assigned to duty at the Pentagon. He
got a B.S. degree in Agricultural
Biochemistry at the Pennsylvania
State University in 1923 after which
he was employed as a chemist for
the H. J. Heinz Company until
World War II. He also got an M.S.
degree from C une^’V Tech around

APRIL, 1958

estate business there.

was

lie

Bloomsburg
he was
from the Bloomsburg

a native of

here

resided

graduated
Teachers

College

State

He had

until

1931.

in

a legion of friends in the

area and his sudden death comes
as a profound shock.

He began his teaching career as
principal of the high school at Harvey’s Lake, now part of the LakeNoxen Jointure and later taught
Baldwin, L.

at

I.

He was

a veteran of World War
serving three years and four
months in the U. S. Army. Most
of the time he was based at Drew
II,

Field,

Tampa,

For a
a

Florida.

total of ten years

personnel

he was

the
federal government, serving in that
post both before and after his milinvestigator

for

tennis player

eral years in the

of

from
community.
He also operated a
motel in Delray and was in the real

1920, and Bloomsburg State
Normal School. She taught for sev-

Bloomsburg Methodist Church,
So-

stricken just as he returned
his teaching duties in that

itary service.
Later he went to
Florida and made his home in Delray where he was engaged in numerous activities.

the

ciety of the

a heart attack.

He was

also Circle

of

since 1947.

home from

his

at

Robert G.
son

of

thirty years.

Sutliff, ’31

Sutliff,

lege team during his years at B.S.
T.C. He retained an active interest in the sport.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and of Washington
Lodge, No. 264, F.&A.M., and of
Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Vera
Wallace Sutliff; his father, and two
sisters,
Miss Helen, Harrisburg,
and Mrs. Harold Herr, Palmyra.

Delray, Fla.,

Dean William

B.

eight,

FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

—Berwick

Arcus,

North Fourth

Street,

Sun-

burv, widely-known sporting goods
store operator, died at the Sunbury
Community Hospital on Tuesday,

ARCUS’

Max

Edward Baum
Edward Baum, forty-

Charles

Sutliff,

Charles

Bloomsburg

was an excellent
and was on the Col-

In his youth he

’41

December 31.
Mr. Baum, head
ing Goods,
plies athletic

of Baum’s SportSunbury, which sup-

equipment

for

many

regional schools and teams, had
been suffering from a heart condition for some time.
He was admitted to the hospital the day be19

fore Christmas. Death was caused
by a coronary occlusion.

Redeker Simmons

state

geles, California.

brought about the construction of

the daughter of Dr. S. W. Redeker,
who lived on East Street in Blooms-

all her early life.
She was
daughter of the late George
and Elizabeth Nolton Lemon. She
attended the Bloomsburg Normal
School and taught school in Mt.
Pleasant township for seven years

burg, Pennsylvania.

prior to her marriage.

He was

prominent

in the Inter-

League activities in Sunbury
and was among the principals who
Sunbury Memorial Field.
also the donor of the Alvin J. Danks Memorial Trophy to
the Susquehanna Scholastic Footthe

Lillian

spent

Mrs. Lillian Redeker Simmons
died November 1, 1955, in Los An-

Age

73.

She was

the

He was

Conference.
His business activities also included a sports equipment manufacturing firm in Northumberland.
ball

He had conducted

his

sporting

goods store in Sunbury for nearly
twenty years.
In addition to his sports interests,
Baum was known locally as a former student of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and as the husband of the former Catherine Hays,
former Briar Creek resident, who
survives him.

Mrs. Fannie

I.

Beidleman

Beidleman, ninety-one, widow of the late Daniel
C. Beidleman, died recently in the
Berwick Hospital.
Mrs. Beidleman was the daughter of the late Henry S. and Louisa
Robbins Fairchild, Nanticoke. The
deceased was born in Nanticoke,
August 7, 1866. She was educated
in the Nanticoke Public Schools
and attended Bloomsburg State
Normal School. She studied music
as a child and was elected organist of the First Presbyterian Church,
Nanticoke, at the age of eleven
Mrs. Fannie

years.

Henry
Henry

F.

Rhoads

Rhoads, sixty-nine
widely-known former resident of
Locust Township, and a brother of
Mrs. Mostyn Davis, Danville, died
Wednesday, January 1, at the home

Mr. Rhoads was a former teacher in the elementary schools at Lo-

Township and was

steward

of

the

a retired
Norrisville State

Hospital.

Beatrice

ary

Beatrice

14,

at

the

F.

Bloomsburg Hos-

pital as the result of a streptococic

infection.

She had been

ill

for six

weeks

but continued teaching third grade
in the Madison School until the
Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Greenly was born in Millville, daughter of Mrs. Clara Ludwig, Millville, and the late Frank

Ludwig. She was a graduate of
High School and B.S.T.C.
and had taught in the public
Union
Strawbridge,
at
schools
county; Millville and for the past
ten years at Madison School.
B.

Millville

20

December

Charles F. Schoffstall, 61, a commercial teacher at Liberty High
School, Bethlehem, died recently
at his home, 322 East Locust Street,
Bethlehem. He had been ill several weeks.

had been a teacher
He
Bethlehem for 25 years.
also was an instructor at Bethlehem
Business College and Moravian
Schoffstall

in

Preparatory School.

Before coming to Bethlehem, he
was a teacher and principal at Slatington High School in the 1920’s.
He also had taught school in Pottsville and Shamokin.
He received degrees at Muhlenberg College, Lehigh University,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Rochester Institute and Bowling Green University.

30.

Mrs. Lenhart was bom in Cortland, N. Y., and resided in Bloomsburg most of her life. A graduate
of Bloomsburg High School and
the Normal School, she had taught
in the Danville Elementary School
for the past ten years.

Ludwig Greenly

Greenly, nee
Ludwig, thirty-nine, wife of Grant
W. Greeny, Jerseytown, Bloomsburg R. D. 1, died Tuesday, JanuMrs.

Mrs. Ruth E. Lenhart, fifty-five,
nee McIntyre, Old Berwick Road,
Bloomsburg, died Tuesday, February 20, at Bloomsburg Hospital. Ill
since September, she had been in
the hospital since

Fort Myers, Fla.

cust

Ruth McIntyre Lenhart

F.

of his daughter, Mrs. Russell Hild,

Charles F. Schoffstall

I.

Blanche A. Knorr
Miss Blanche A. Knorr, aged 69,
of 602 West Front street, Berwick,
died in her sleep Tuesday, January
Her death is attributed to a
8.

She had been in ill
heart attack.
health since she was struck by a
car three years ago.

Mrs. Pauline Vastine Sugden,
Hazleton, a native of Danville, died
Friday, February 14, of a heart at-

Knorr was born October
She was
a graduate of Bloomsburg Normal
School and had been a public

tack.

school

She was graduated from the
Danville schools and from Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
then taught in Danville.

years.

Mrs. Pauline Vastine Sugden

Mrs. Cora Jane Eycr
Mrs. Cora Jane Eyer, nee Lemon,
eighty-two, wife of Charles W.
Eyer, of Eyers Grove, died recently at the home of her son and
Mr. and Mrs.
daughter-in-law,
Mans N. Eyer, Millville. Her son
is a well-known Millville mortician.
She was born October 1, 1875, in
Mt. Pleasant township where she

Miss

11, 188S, in Fowlersville.

teacher for more than 35
Her last teaching post had
been in Pennington, N. J. She had
retired from that position about
three years ago.

NO ADDRESSES OF ALUMNI
(Continued from Page
Robert I.
Raabe, Raymond
Reisenweaver, Shirley

9)

Price,

Stiner, Martha
Stonik, Mrs. Anne Kelley
Taylor, Charles

Tilmont, John
Verhousky, Russ
Wasiakowski, Joseph
Zahora, Joseph J.

J.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"SAUCERED AND SLOWED
E. H.

NELSON,

'll

We are happy to use this excellent report from the Montour
County Branch as the material tor this page. It is an inspiration
to visit these tine groups and see Alumni in Action.”
The Montour County branch or tne moomsburg State Teachers College
Alumni Association held its annual uinner-business meeting in the Trinity M. E.
Church in Danville on hUrsday evening, January 3U, idoS. Sixty-nine members
and their friends were in attendance.
1

Head table guests included: College President Dr. Harvey A. Andruss and
Mrs. Andruss; Alumni Association President Dr. E. H. Nelson, 11; Mr. Rush
Shatter, a member ot the Class ot 1099; Montour County Superintendent of
Schools tied W. & Diehl, 09, and Mrs. Pearl bitcn Diehl, 11; and local branch
officers, Lois C. Bryner, 44, President; Alice Smull, 05, Secretary, and Susan
Sidler,

30, Treasurer.

The tables were appropriately decorated in College
committee headed by Ann Pappas nowbridge, 46.

colors, the

work

of a

Following a roast turkey dinner, President Andruss brought greetings from
the College, and presented prans tor ns ruture expansion. Dr, Andruss also gave
a very interesting report ot the Governor s Donlerenee on Education, held during
the preceding week, to which he was a delegate.
Dr. Nelson congratulated tne group upon its interest and work in support
Alumni Association, and college, special mention and commendation
was expressed because ot the continued etrorts ot the group to present an annual
$50.00 scholarship to a deserving Montour County College student.
of the

John W. Betz, 42, chairman of the local cholarship committee reported that
funds were available for the 1958 scholarship. Susan Sidler reported that the
recent membership drive resulted in a total ot 2z new members and renewals
in addition to

one

life

membership.

Lois Bryner introduced four College seniors, residents of Montour County
the local association’s guests at the meeting.

who were

A

hour of splendid entertainment was provided by a double octet and
The accompanist was Mrs.
all from the College student body.
Charles Evans of the College Faculty. The group was in charge of Dr. Boyd
Buckingham, ’43.
half

accordionist,

Group singing during
Williams Kessler,

the dinner was directed by Mrs. Mary Ellen Mcthe piano by Mrs. Elizabeth Miller Morrall, '29.

’41, assisted at

During the business session all current officers were re-elected.
ing closed with the singing of the Alma Mater.

The meet-

College Calendar

April 1

Easter Recess Begins

April 8

Easter Recess Ends

May

24

ALUMNI DAY

May

25 A. M.

Baccalaureate Services

May

25 P. M.

Commencement

CLASS REUNIONS

ALUMNI DAY
1898

1918

1938

1903

1923

1943

1908

1928

1948

1913

1933

1953

Exercises

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

THE BLOOMSBURG STC PLAN
[2000 STUDENTS IN lHS]

AREA

RECREATIONAL

AND

ATHLETIC

The
morrow

illustration above represents the college of toat Bloomsburg, and is expected to accommodate 2,000 students. While all proposed buildings are
which
shown on this plan, a portion of the
will be used for the Football Field, Baseball Diamond,

camps

Running Track, and Recreation Area, covering more
than fifteen acres, is not shown at the right of this
illustration.

The general plan provides for a Living Area in
which all dormitories, dining rooms, heating plant,
maintenance buildings, laundry, and administration
building will be located.

The Learning Area includes the two Laboratory
Schools, Auditorium, five Classroom Buildings, Library, and the present Gymnasium, while at the extreme right, bounded by Chestnut Street, a Field
House will be erected in the area devoted to Athletic
and Recreational

Activities.

Several buildings will be demolished in order to
provide sites for new buildings. Among these will be
the old barn and the caretaker’s cottage, to provide a
site for a Men’s Dormitory, which is expected to be
ready for occupancy in September, 1959. North Hall is
to be razed to provide a site for a second Men’s
Dormitory, located adjacent to the present College
Commons. One wing of Waller Hall will be preserved,
and Noetling Hall will be demolished so as to provide
an E-shaped dormitory for women facing East Second
Street. In time the women’s dormitories will be located around the site of the present Science Hall.
Carver Hall will continue to be used as an Administration Building, while a new Auditorium will be
constructed at the end of Spruce Street, with its back
to Light Street Road.
A Library will be located on the Mount Olympus
Athletic Field on the approximate area of the present
baseball diamond.
Other buildings which will need to be constructed
in the more distant future are an additional Maintenance Building, a President’s Residence, and additions
to the Power Plant and Laundry Buildings.
A student capacity of 2,000 assumes that dormitories will accommodate 1,300 or 1,400 students, while
off-campus students living in the Town of Bloomsburg

and those commuting to the campus each day
vary from 300 to 400 in each of these two groups.

will

Since our new College Commons seats 800 students
for dining purposes, a second dining room needs
to be constructed, either as a separate building or
food prepared in the present College Commons may
be made available by underground passage to the
Men’s Dormitory, until such time as a second dining

room

needed.
proposals which have been suggested from
time to time may cause this plan to be changed.
Among these suggestions are the chartering of a Junior College to be developed as a division of the present
State Teachers College and located on property now
owned by the Bloomsburg Country Club. Another
possibility is the change in the functions of State
Teachers Colleges to include curriculum offerings to
college students other than those who are preparing
to be teachers.
The pressure of enrollments, the amount of tax
monies available, and the additional support which
the citizens of Pennsylvania may wish to give to the
development of institutions supported by the Commonwealth will determine whether or not the Bloomsburg State Teachers College will become in time "The
Bloomsburg State College.”
In the instance of the Junior College idea, this
means the offering of two years of college work of a
general character to all students, while the State College idea would increase these offerings to four years,
leading to the Bachelor’s Degree.
In any event, the college has twice as many students as in the period before World War II, and as
rapidly as buildings and facilities are available this
number will be increased to the 2,000 maximum.
Out of 700 applications for admission received,
only 440 can be admitted for the semester beginning
September, 1958.
is

Some

Harvey A. Andruss, President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 2

Vol. LIX,

July,

COMMENCEMENT,

A?-

be an
perhaps an even
greater challenge to be a teacher
of Americans.”

187 receive Bachelor of Science

He spoke of some dedicated
Hungarians using mud to clog the
muzzles of Russian weapons dur-

in

Education Degrees and heard the
Rev. Imre Kovacs, New York City,
tell
the graduates “teach Americans to live a worthy and more
noble manner.”

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

’12

BUSINESS MANAGER
H. Nelson,

E.

’ll

The

exercises

were moved

to the

Centennial Gymnasium a year ago
to provide more accommodations.
While they are more than double
those of Carver Hall, many had to
stand during the impressive ceremonies concluding another college

E. H. Nelson, ’ll
146 Market Street

is wonderful our graduates can
begin their commencement by
bowing their heads and communing with God.

them

told

“it

should be inter-

esting to the graduates to ponder
how many people they will inspire

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith,
56 Lockhart Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

T8

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER

in

their

lifetime.”

Rev.

Kovacs

appealed to them also to refrain
from allowing a commercial society to stamp its seal of insignificance on them. He asked the
graduates to measure themselves
in terms of how much they give

whom they teach.
In a reference to the Hungarian
Revolution of 1956 and the progress made in Hungary in the last
100 years, the Rev. Mr. Kovacs exto those

Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

a challenge to

is

it

is

ing the ill-fated revolution. When
the soldiers fired them for the purpose of cutting down the natives
the mud destroyed the guns and
the tanks and killed many of the

Red

soldiers.

He

said he gave this as an illus-

tration

of

how devoted

block the cannons of evil ideas
and forces of the present and fu-

read the

roll.

Frank Prusch, Duryea, a member of the class, received a commission as a second lieutenant in
the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve.
Doctor Andruss in his closing remarks to the class challenged it to
equal an alumnus of the class of
1901 — Dr. Frank G. Laubach,
missionary educator whose picture
appears on the cover of a recent
issue of the Saturday Review of

He commended the
graduates of 1958 for the respect
“you have for the worth of things.”
Baccalaureate
Candidates
for
Literature.

Degree:
Abenmoha, Charles

plained that

Acor, Helen
Anderson, Paul
Angradi, Marianne
Arnold, Patricia
Atkinson, Joanne
Balchunas, Norman

H. F. Fenstemaker, 12
242 Central Road, Bloomsburg Pa.

that country.

Barbarette, Marlene
Barber, Gloria
Barros, Joseph
Bastian, Constance Wirt

Hervey B. Smith, ’22
725 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

sibility of

Fred W. Diehl,
627

Bloom
Edward

236 Ridge

’09

Street, Danville, Pa.
F. Schuyler, ’24

Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Elizabeth H. Hubler,
14

West Biddle

JULY,

1958

Street,

’31

Gordon, Pa.

teachers

may

The degrees were conferred by
Doctor Andruss who presented a
diploma to each of the class as
Dean of Instruction John A. Hoch

He

Bloomsburg, Pa.

it

ture.

Teachers dedicated to God and
believing in America can go out to
mold a new and better America.

PRESIDENT

if

American

The speaker asserted that in this
day when too many people are beit

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

but

year.

ing taught to “follow the leader”

THE ALUMNI

1958

More than two thousand perthe largest number ever to
attend a commencement at the
Teachers College, saw a class of
sons,

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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

1958

much of what happened was the result of the dedicated work of American teachers in

“We

cannot escape the respon-

men

and
Lincoln to whom freedom was so
sweet. It is a great thing to be an
American and reside in a free land
like Jefferson

Belles,

Duane

Berger, Patricia
Biever, Dale
Bluges, Jacob

Boden, Douglas
Bowen, Roberta
1

Bower, William
Boyle, Robert
Braynock, Edward
Brinser, Margaret
Campbell, Betty Lou
Campbell, George
Campbell, Shirley
Coffman, Donald
Connolley, Richard
Coulter, Rose Marie
Creamer, Barbara
Cuber, Mary
Donmoyer, Gerald
Ely, Carol
Faux, Alice

Troutman, Paul
Trump, Raymond

Vaxmonsky, Thomas
Vowler, James,
W’atts,

Wilkinson, Margaret
Will,

Yesalavage, Michael

Yohn. Joan
Yurechko, Louis
Zaborowski. Bernard
Zegarski, Walter

Candidates

John

Petuskey, Lawrence
Plummer, Dolores
Poller,

Mary
Gavitt, Wayne
Grace, Mary

Prusch, Frank, Jr.
Puckey, Charles

Galatha,

Gustave, James
Hagerty, Elizabeth Barron
Hargreaves, Raymond

Mary

Ridall,

Heller, Albert

Bills,

Joseph

Chaump, George
Cooper, Dorothy

Nancy

Rosinski,

Hoffner, Betta

Roush, Annette Williams
Samois, Dianne
Sands, Sarah

Teresa
Kaminski, Eloise
Keefer,

LeVan, Gary
Belle

Loughery, Charles
Lynch, Gary
Lynch, Margaret
McBride, Andrew
McBride, Saundra

Stiff,

Mattocks,

Donna

Salata,

SONS AND DAUGHTERS
AT BLOOMSBURG
Mrs. Joanne Tressler Coakley,
a teacher at the Grier School,
Tyrone, Pa., is the daughter of

John

Shiffer, Ellen
Shuttlesworth, Robert
Smith, Robert
Snyder, Erma
Swoyer, Ethel

Tibbs, Augustus
Trettle, Joanne
Trivelpiece, William

Vivacqua, George

Betty

Stubits,

Paul

Klotz, Nancy
Lewis, Ray
Mosteller, Joanne
Nice, Donald
O’Brien, Bernard
O’Connell, George

Scheuren, Ronald
Sheehan, Thomas

Weldon, William

Stoudt, Dorothy
Stuart, Stephen

Martini, Jane

Irzinski,

Orner, Charles

Shafer, Carol
Shepperson, Louise
Sheridan, William
Shively, Carl
Shultz, Bernard
Snavely, Frances
Snavely, Rachel
Snyder, James
Souder, Janice
Spentzas, Constantine
Steinhart, Donald

Krzywicki, Rita
Lesher, Arthur

Mary

Raymond

Scott, Lynda
Sergott, Leonora

Edna

Keller, Catherine
Kerl, Catherine
Kerstetter, Helen
Kressler, Richard

Lontz,

Goobic, Jonah
Goss, Fern
Howell, Winifred

Saraka, John
Schaefer, John
Schraeder, Connie

Julio,

J.

Danko, John
DeFebo, Carl
Denoy, Patrick
Evans, Beth
Getz, Nancy Hackenberg

Hoffman, Susan

Jessop, Charles, Jr.

J.

Calderwood, William

Hilscher, Carl, Jr.

Hughes, Nancy
Hughes, William
Hutz, Walter

Freda,

Blessing, Robert

Ridgway, Sarah
Ridgway, Shirley
Rindgen, Patricia
Robb, Mary Ellen
Romig, Mae

Hemler, Donald
Herman, George
Herman, John, Jr.

sessions:

Beilharz, Barry

Raker, Lynne
Raker, Sandra
Redbord, Arnold
Richards, Donald

John

Baccalaureate

Arbogast, Randall
Arner, Alda C.
Bangs, Dale

Robert

Purcell,

for

Degree during summer

Paden, Kenneth

Mary K.

Marie

Wood, Gerald

Myers, Frances
Natter, Luther
Nuss, Allen
Onufrak. Marian
Oswald, Kenneth
Oustrich,

Jr.

Edward

Welliver, William

Mosier, Philip
Myers, Philip

Gabriel, Robert

Hartzel,
Heatley,

Valania, John, Jr.

Morgan, Deanna

Fowler, Norman
Fox, Dale
Franklin, Lona
Fritz,

Suwalski.

Miller, Bruce
Miller, Eunice
Miller, George
Miller, M. Donald
Molitoris, Joseph
Moore, Julia

Wilmot

Fellows,

Nancy

Maylock, Lawrence
Miller, Alfred, Jr.

West, Daniel
Zegley, Robert

Edward

Griffiths,

To.

member

of the

of the General

Mrs. Griffiths is a
Board of Directors

Alumni Association.

is the daughter of Margaret
Keefer Brumbach, ’24, and a niece
of Harry D. Keefer, ’00.

1959,

’57,

Nlrs.

Dorothy McCollum

Tressler,

Street, Port Carbon,
Mrs. Tressler is a substitute
teacher in the Port Carbon School.

of Banof the class of

Audrey E. Brumbach,
gor, Pa., a

member

200 Jackson
Pa.

pastor
George Griffiths,
Church of Christ, Allentown,
the son of Mrs. Ruth Speary
’42,

the
is

2

of

ARCUS’
FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

— Berwick

Arcus,

’41

Keith W. Michael, of ShickshinR. D. 3, a member of the class
of 1959, is the son of Arthur L.
Michael, ’30, and Phyllis CallenMr. Michael’s
der Michael, ’28.
grandfather attended the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and
several of his aunts and cousins are
graduates.

ny

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

TRIBUTE PAID
A

portrait in oil of Dr.

DR.
Kimber

C. Kuster, an exceptional B.S.T.C.
educator, was presented to the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Alumni Day by students
of Dr. Kuster from 1949 through
1958, some members of the faculty
and the Science Club. The portrait is the work of Helen Lesher

Gangwere.
presentation was made in
Science Hall as a feature of the
reunion of Dr. Kuster’s class of
1913. Classmates, former students
and friends filled the room for the
impressive ceremony.
The moving spirit in the tribute
was J. Alfred Chiscon, member of

The

the class of 1954
structor

Purdue

and now an

in-

biological science at
University.
His schedule
in

prevented him from attending and
Dr. Edward T. DeVoe of the College faculty capably presided at
the ceremonies which opened with
greetings by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the college.

Dr. Ambuss in paying tribute to
Dr. Kuster said the honored faculty
member has joined the list of great
teachers of the college.
This distinguished list includes Sutliff, Albert,
Cope, Bakeless, Brill and
Hartline among others. He accepted the portrait on behalf of the
College and the trustees.
Dr. Kuster in his response traced

HEADS DEPARTMENT
Joseph Q. Gribbin, son of Mrs.
Frank J. Gribbin, 1924 Green
Ridge Street, Dunmore, recently
was appointed head of the commercial
department of Liberty
High School, Bethlehem.

graduate of
Dunmore High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
New York University, where he
received a master of arts degree in
Mr.

Gribbin

business

is

BACCALAUREATE SERMON

KUSTER
background and

preparation
for his early experiences in teaching and also discussed some of the
things which he believes a teacher
should do.
He referred to the
type of students he has taught during his career.
Mrs.
Gangwere, Wilmington,
Del., and formerly of Berwick,
graphically explained what she endeavored to bring out in the painting and asserted “The portrait had
to be a tribute to Dr. Kuster and
also a microcosm of all great teachers.”
She said she found Dr. Kuster to be a philosopher and a humanitarian, a man who is close to
nature.
Mrs. Gangwere pointed
out the semi-Gothic arch, which is
the background, symbolizes the
reaching upward of the spirit.
Other parts of the background
were designed to lead the observShe
er’s eye to Dr. Kuster’s face.
observed the edcator has a spirit
within him that radiates sufficiently to inspire former students to pay
a tribute to him while he still is
active in the teaching profession.
Miss Gertrude Grimes, Catawissa, a former teacher of Dr. Kuster,
referred to him as a model student
and praised the type of work that
he has done during the past four
decades.
The program concluded with the
Alma Mater.
the

Gribbin have four children.
Mr. Gribbin was honored

by the faculty
High School on

erty

ment.

He

is

a

his

member

appoint-

of the class

Four

years

Columbia

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

University.

W.

E. Booth, ’42

He is a member of Alpha Psi
Omega Fraternity and Kappa Delta Pi National Honor Fraternity.
He is married to the former Miss

R.

J.

Dorothy Buechler.
JULY,

1958

Mr. and Mrs.

make

living.

“And now I show to you
more excellent way,” was the
sage of Scripture on which he
ed

the
pas-

bas-

message.

his

Speaking of a study of essays
written by Princeton University
students, Dean Winters said he
was disturbed the fact that they
gave themselves “too much moral
elbow room.” His interpretation
indicated these students were too
nonchalant and too independent of
all the things around them.

He

said his examination of these

essays

made him realize the need
his own basic philoso-

examine

to

phy.

The

minister said some people
trying to sell us a number of
things such as emotional security,
reassurance of our worth, ego gratification, a sense of roofs, creative
outlets and a sense of immortality.

.are

to

Dean Winters observed it seems
him that many of these things

are superficial. Referring to Paul’s
of
Corinth, the minister
pointed out the letter expresses
Christian principles that are pro-

letter

The things which Paul
mentioned should be sought after
by us in our life to service. Paul
reduced the things that count to
faith, hope and love.
Millard

ago he fulfilled requirements for
a school principalship at

worth

of 1934.

a

education.

children something that will
their lives

found.

re-

of the Lib-

cently

Dean Richard W. Winters,
Franklin and Marshall College, in
his baccalaureate sermon to members of the B.S.T.C. graduating
class at the Centennial Gymnasium
appealed to the graduates to consider themselves as being responsible for many lives and to teach

Webb.

’42

Ludwig was

the surpris-

ed subject of a “This Is Your Life”
program at a meeting of the Woman’s Civic Club in Millville to
which he had gone to supposedly
participate in a panel discussion on
education.

Seymour

Stere, moderator of the
interrupted his beginning
remarks on education to announce
that the program was a surprise
testimonial to honor Mr. Ludwig
who has contributed much to the
school and community life of the

panel,

Quaker borough.
3

ALUMNI MEETING
Mrs. Katherine Bakeless Nason,
Cleveland, Ohio, a member of the

mencement

class of 1918,

and daughter of the
and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless,
and William D. Watkins, Wheel-

memorial was that of 1892 which

late Prof,

provided a curtain for the stage in
the auditorium. The class of 1893
as its memorial gave $148 to start
the student welfare fund.
At this
commencement season he received
from a member of that class, Mrs.
Edna Santee Huntzinger, Philadelphia, a check for $150 to add to
the fund. She was presented with
a corsage, the presentation being
made by Mr. Hargraves as a representative of the youngest class in

W.

ing,

Va., a

member

of the class

were presented with the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Meritorious Service
Awards by the graduate body in
connection with its interesting and
busy session in Carver Hall.
Mrs. Nason, who was accompanied by her husband, Alex, was presented a citation as a modest and
unassuming
individual
who
through the years has “carried on
the projects and ideals of her parents” and thus carried on the great
heritage of Bloomsburg.
of

1908,

attained much
success in the publishing field although crippled many years ago by
polio, was presented a citation

Mr. Watkins,

who

which described him as one who
has risen “above physical handicaps with vastless courage.” Both
were given life memberships in the

Each made a brief response. Mr.
Watkins spoke of the great conthe

David

institution

and referred

his life

J.

Waller,

Jr.,

made

to

to the late Dr.

long head of

most divine
man I ever met and one who shall
never cease to be in my mind.”
He was presented by Thomas
Francis, Scranton, former superintendent of the Lackawanna county
schools and also a former president
the

of

school,

“as

Alumni

the

the

Association.

The

two men are both members of the

The

presentations
were made on behalf of the Alumni Association by Dr. E. PI. Nelson,
the president of the graduate body,
and corsages were presented to
Mrs. Nason and Mrs. Watkins.
The invocation was given by the

class

Rev.
ter,

of

J.

1908.

E.

Klingerman, Winches-

member of the class of
Raymond Hargraves, Scran-

Va., a

1900.

ton, president of the class of 1958,
presented a check to cover dues in
the association for those who graduated in January and those who
were awarded degrees at the com4

first

class

amounts during the 1958-59 term.
He mentioned that during the
term now closing, the money loaned students was the most during
any term he could remember. Dr.
Andruss mentioned that the cost
to a boarding student at the close
of World War II was $400 per
term, and that it has now gone to
$800, and is higher than that charged at teachers colleges in other
states.

The educator pointed out the
teachers colleges are included in
the public schools of the state.

the association.

Much

Earl A. Gehrig, alumni treasurer,
reported a loan fund in the total
amount of $23,737. Of this $14,964
is in the alumni student loan fund
and $8,596 in the Bakeless Memorial Fund.
There is now $10,475
out in loans. During the past year
there were thirty-one loans made
to students and twenty-five earlier
loans were paid in full and closed.
Fred W. Diehl, Danville; Mrs.

that

Ruth

Speery
Griffith,
Wilkesand Mr. Gehrig were renamed to the board of directors for
three year terms. At an organization luncheon held later, officers
were re-elected with Dr. Nelson
Barre,

association.

tribution

exercises.

Dr. Nelson said the

named

president; Mrs. Griffith,
vice president; Mrs. C. C. Housenick, Bloomsburg, secretary, and

Mr. Gehrig, treasurer.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, College
president, extended welcome and
exhibited a scale model of the colThe
lege campus of the future.

program

of

development is one exbe completed around

pected to
1970 and includes land that is not
yet acquired by the institution.
He spoke of the fact the last
Legislature increased the expenses
of operation but not the revenue.

A bill for the board of trustees to
charge students two-thirds of the
cost of tuition did not pass but
inasmuch as there was not sufficient revenue to meet expenses the
teachers college had to increase
charges. He said that in the coming term, and for the first time
since the schools became colleges
in 1927, some will charge different

complaint has come, he said,
graduates go to other states
to teach, but he said he believes
that the state has broken its agree-

ment to the students. This, he said,
was to require two years of teaching in the Commonwealth in return for free tuition.
The latter
factor no longer exists.
He believed that by this the contract
with the students has been breached by the Commonwealth.
In speaking of the projected
plant development, he said there
will be a men’s dormitory and a
class room building erected in the
near future.
A previous Legislature approved the construction of
a new auditorium but did not provide funds. Dr. Andruss said that
was just as well for the auditorium
would have seated only 1,200 and
one with accommodations for 2,000
is needed.
Building plans for the
future also include a library build-,

more dormitory space and

a field

house.

There may be some delay in the
of the library owing to

starting

required grading in other areas but
if that is the case the building of a
second men’s dormitory can be advanced.
He said there is great

need

for this.

Even

in light of in-

dormitory space on the
campus, he said lie could not envision the time when some students
will not reside in the town.
In speaking of the alumni loan
fund, lie said there is need for a
He spoke of the
total of $30,000.
fact the college community gave
$2,500 toward the Bakeless fund
creased

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ALUMNI MEETING

IVY DAY

and students

Paul 11. Anderson, son of
and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson,
Myrtle Avenue, Cheltenham,
delivered the annual ivy Day

the present are
providing $2,000 a year in student
aid from the profits of the college

hook

at

store.

Harry O. Hine, Washington, D.
C., and for many years secretary
ot the board of education in the
District ot Columbia, a member ot
the class ot 1885,

was among those

on tiie campus.
Mrs. Annie S.
Nuss, HloomsOurg, represented the
class ot 1888.

Dean Emeritus William
one ot tne "Old Guard

iitt,

and

institution

B. Sut-

of the

presented

as

nioomsburg greatest asset of the
present, was given an ovation and
closed tne session with the expressed Hope "we can all meet Here
again next year.
Miss Minnie
leinnan, Bloomsburg, and Mrs.

Edna Santee Hunsinger

represented tne class ot 1593 and Mrs. J. 8.
John the class ot 1895.
CHarles Albert, Dallas, made the
response tor the class ot 1908.
Replicas ot diplomas presented
titty years ago were presented to
tne members of the class of 1908
whicli had the position ot honor
on the platform.
Reports ot all the reunion classes concluded the auditorium program and the group then went to
the general luncheon in the College Commons or to other places
where reunion classes had arranged tor special features.

ation on

Wednesday, May

Mr.
323
Pa.,

Ora-

21, fol-

lowing the Senior Honor Assembly at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

During the past four years, he
has completed state certification
requirements lor the teaching of
English and Social Studies, and received tne Bachelor of Science degree in secondary Education at

commencement

tne

exercises

on

May

25 in Centennial Gymnasium,
September, 1958, he plans to
enter Drew Theological Seminary
in

preparation lor a career in the

in

ministry.

A 1954 graduate of Cheltenham
High School, Anderson has earned
an enviable record ot achievement
in academic, athletic and other activities at the college.
He has par-

and baselected during his
junior year to serve as treasurer of
the Community Government Association and tne College Council,
was class treasurer during his
ticipated in varsity track

ketball,

was

sophomore

year, and served also
College crier. He is a member of Phi Sigma Pi fraternity and
as a

the

Maroon and Gold newspaper

Anderson was one of a select group of seniors chosen recently by a faculty committee for

staff.

inclusion in the annual edition of

The

Lime Ridge Methodist
Church was the lovely Easter setmarriage of Miss Shirof Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert G. Edwards,
Lime Ridge, to Robert Gulton
Ridgway, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert F. Ridgway, Catawissa.
ting for the

ley

Mae Edwards, daughter

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Foster
Pannebaker, pastor.
The bride, a graduate of Bloonisburg High School, received her degree at B.S.T.C. this spring.
Her
husband, a graduate of Catawissa

High School and B.S.T.C., is employed at Merck and Co., Dan-

“Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges.”
“As the leaves of the ivy multiply and grow, and, in turn, protect the walls of our Alma Mater,
let us, the Class of 1958, with the
ability given each one of us, create a life of growth and protection
in our field of service, that we,
with God’s help, may play a part in
the growth and protection of freedom throughout the world.”

ing

at

224V2

Bloomsburg.
JULY, 1958

Jefferson

Street,

president of the College, has announced. Mr. Edwards, principal
of the Ridgway High School for
the past five years, began his duties at the college on June 23.

A

native

of

Edwardsville,

Mr.

Edwards completed his undergraduate work in secondary education
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
After several years of
leaching in private schools in Florida and Maryland, he accepted a
position as teacher and basketball
coach at Kane High School. A former varsity player for the Bloomsburg Huskies, he developed outstanding teams in Class B play,
winning the state championship in
1949.
He left Kane after seven
years to become assistant high
school principal at Coatesville, and
later
joined
the
administrative
at

staff at

Ridgway.

He

has been awarded the Master
of Education degree at Pennsylvania State University, and has
done additional graduate work at
Northwestern University and Penn
State.

During his five years at Ridgway, he assumed an active role in
church and community affairs. He
is a member of the Pennsylvania
State Education Association, the
National
Education Association,
and the Pennsylvania Branch of
the
National Secondary School
Principals

Association,

and

has

member

served for five years as a

Committee.
married to the former Eda

of the P.I.I.A. District

He

is

Bessie Beilharz,

wards

is

Muncy.

Mrs. Ed-

also a graduate of

Blooms-

burg.

ercises,

at

of Nelson Miller.

mons.

Raymond
liv-

C. Stuart Edwards, ’41, has been
appointed director of admissions
and placement at the Teachers
College, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,

spade, which he used in planting
the ivy, to Donald Ker, Catawissa,
president of the Class of 1959.
During the program, the class
sang the traditional “Halls of Ivy”
and the Alma Mater. The HillTones, a mixed octet from the college, presented two vocal selections. Group singing was in charge

these words, he concluded
annual Ivy Day Oration given before a large audience at the entrance to the new College Com-

With

ville.

Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway are

STUART EDWARDS NAMED
TO COLLEGE STAFF

Hargreaves, Scranton,

class president, presided at the ex-

one of the oldest traditions
Bloomsburg. He presented the

5

SENIORS ARE
members

.Nineteen

of

the Class

1958 of B.S.T.G. were presented Service Keys at an Honor Assembly held in Carver Auditorium.
of

The

keys,

made by

tiie

the hignest award
college to its students,

are presented each year for “outstanding service to the college
community to the ten per cent of
’

the Senior Class who have accumulated a minimum of twenty key
points.
Dr. John Serff presented the

group

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
the College, who
of
the awards to the following:
to

President

made

Paul Anderson, Cheltenham; Norman Balchunas, Shamokin; Bose
Coulter, Croydon;
Gerald Donmoyer, Schuylkill Haven; Mary
Galatha, Hazleton; Mary Grace,
Stroudsburg; Raymond Hargreaves, Scranton; Betta Hoffner, Clarks
Summit; Walter Plutz, WilkesBarre; Teresa Julio, Scranton; Eloise Kaminski, South Gibson; Catherine Kerl, Simpson; Deanna Morgan, Jim Thorpe; Luther Natter,
Spring City; Sarah Ridgway, Catawissa;
Mrs.
Annette
Williams
Roush, Buttonwood, Wilkes-Barre;
William Sheridan, Kennet Square;
Constantine Spentzas, Towanda;

and Nancy Suwalski, Wilkes-Barre.
Preceding the presentation of
service keys Dr. Andruss presented “Who’s Who” certificates to
seventeen seniors. These students
had been previously designated by
college officials as outstanding students whose names were to be included in the annual publication
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universities.”

Receiving certificates were Paul
Anderson, Cheltenham; Mrs. Elizabeth
Barron Hagerty, Ashland;
Roberta Bowen, Sayre; Robert
Boyle, Scranton; Margaret BrinHarrisburg; Mary Galatha,
Hazleton; Mary Grace, Stroudsburg; Raymond Hargreaves, Scranton; Betta Hoffner, Clarks Summit;
Williamsport;
Sandra
McBride,
Deanna Morgan, Jim Thorpe; Luther Natter, Spring City; Sandra
Sarah
Smithfield;
East
Baker,
Ridgway, Gatawissa; Mrs. Annette

ser,

6

SENIORS

HONORED

HOLD

BANQUET AND BALL

Williams
Roush,
Wilkes-Barre;
Constantine Spentzas, Towanda,
and Nancy Suwalski, Wilkes-Barre.
Lifetime passes

to all college
events, given for four
years of participation in a varsity

athletic

The

senior class of

Bloomsburg

Teachers College held the
annual banquet and ball Thursday
evening May 22, at the Irem TemState

ple Country Club at Dallas.

Those attending included mem-

druss to Paul Anderson, Chelten-

bers of the faculty and their guests
and members of the Class of 1958

ham,

and

were presented by Dr. An-

sport,

(basketball);

Febo

Boyle

Robert

Carl De
Berwick; James

Scranton;

(basketball),

(football),

Gustave (basketball), Plains; Charles Loughery (track), Horsham; Edward Watts (football and track),
jenkintown; James Snyder (basketball), Hershey; and Gerald Wood
(track), Mechanicsburg.
Seven seniors received awards
for seven semesters of service as
regular

members

of

the

Maroon

and Gold Band. Dr. Andruss presented the awards to: Dale Biever,
Harrisburg; Roberta Bowen, Sayre;
Mary Belle Lontz, Milton; Eunice
Miller,
Selinsgrove;
Dorothy
Stoudt, Sinking Springs; and James
Vowler,
Upper Darby.
Susan
Hoffman received an award from
the band in special recognition of
her service as head majorette and
a member of the group for three
years.

Raymond

Hargreaves, president

of the class,

announced the

class

memorial, a check for $600, to be
used for the purchase of books for
the college library which was recently moved to newer and larger
quarters.

Dr.

Andruss

accepted

the check on behalf of the college
and thanked the class for the ma-

they showed in the selectheir memorial.
In brief
comments to the graduates and
their families, Dr. Andruss stated

their guests.

The invocation was presented by
Dr. John Serff of the college faculty.
The tables were gainly decorated with favors for the ladies.
These were in the form of “fraternity paddles” with the college seal,
occasion, and the date imprinted
on them.
Ray Hargreaves, the
senior class president, welcomed
the group and a period of group
singing followed.

The

guests of the class were in-

troduced and Dr. Harvey A. Andruss spoke briefly to those atten-

The

ding.

presented

class history

Ed

by

was then

Braynock,

the

class historian.

Gifts

were presented

to the fol-

lowing faculty members: Dr. John
Serff, Howard Fenstemaker, Walter Rygiel and Boyd Buckingham.
The guest list included Dr. and
Mrs. Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. Serif,
Dean and Mrs. Walter Blair, Dean
Elizabeth Miller, Mr. and Mrs.
Rygiel, Mr. and Mrs. Fenstemaker,
Buckingham, and
rs.
Mr. and

M

Donald Ker, president

of the class

of 1959.

Dancing was held following the
Music was provided by
Lee Vincent and his orchestra.

dinner.

turity

tion

there

of

is

a great need for a

com-

petitive spirit in education just as

Walter

Rygiel, also of the fac
charge of organizing
the processional and recessional of
the faculty and the seniors.

ulty,

S.

was

in

there is a need for competition
elsewhere in our nation. lie emphasized the necessity of providing

more learning opportunities to
young people who have outstanding ability, so that they in turn may
make proper contributions to our
culture.

Howard Fenstemaker was
console

during

at the

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE

—

’96

INSURANCE

52 West Main Street
Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

the processional,
recessional; Neldirector of music.

Alma Mater and
son Miller was

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

RONALD KEELER HONORED

SHORTHAND CLASS

WON THIRD PLACE

A

Walter S. Rygiel, of
Bloomsburg State Teachers

Professor
the

College faculty, recently received

announcement that his shorthand class team won third place
in the International Order of Gregg
the

publication of the Minnesota
Bible College, Minneapolis, recently carried the news that Prof. Roland F. Keeler was being honored
by that institution for twenty years
of service.

B.S.T.C.

FACULTY

ASSOCIATION MEETS
Members
tion

of the Faculty AssociaBloomsburg State
the

of

Teachers College met Wednesday
evening, April 9, in the College
Commons to honor two retiring

The Minnesota Bible College
News, devoted to the forty-fifth

members

of

Artists

and two

retiring

ate

commencement season

itendents

Shorthand Contest, CollegiDivision, sponsored by the

Gregg Publishing Company.
There were approximately
000 contestants

many

British Isles, Asia,

20,-

The

competing.

of the

is-

and North and South Amerare only a few of the many

lands,
ica

areas represented
tional Contest.

in

the

Interna-

The Third Prize is an engraved
gold wall-plaque awarded to Mr.

He

Rygiel as teacher of the team.
also received a personal gift

desk pad,

—

a

“My Week.”

The following students comprised the team: Ellen Drumtra, Hazleton; Janice Kunes, Johnsonburg;
Barbara Batzel, Sinking Springs;

Dorothy Lezinski, Scranton; Ann
Beeson, Glenside; Joanne Betchtel,
Easton; Joy Dreisbach, Lehighton;
Mary Anne Majikas, Girardville;
Linda Ruggieri, Kennett Square;
Audrey Brumbach, Bangor Lois

Louise CampJoan Stablum,
Minersville; Bernice Dietz, Kling-

Miller, Mifflinville;
bell,

Lewistown;

erstown; Janice Bittle, Cressona;
Gerald Eltringham, Shamokin; Jay
Bangs, Millville; Joseph Butz, Glen
Lyon; Aristdie Adlizzi, Brookline;
Larry Fisher, Trevorton; Kenenth
Swatt, Shamokin.

Gold pins were warded to the
following students for superior
merit in shorthand penmanship:

Mary Majikas, Bernice Dietz, Linda Ruggiere, Joanne Bechtel, Janice Bittle, Joy Dreisbach, Barbara
Batzel,
Aristide
Adelizzi,
Jay

Kenneth Swatt,
Kunes and Lois Miller.
Bangs,

Janice

Miss Barbara Batzel, of Sinking
Springs,

team
being

a

member

the local
distinction of
of

won the added
named to Fourth

Place in
the International Student Division
for submitting a meritorious specimen of shorthand notes. She received as a prize a desk pad, “My

Week.”
For two years
JULY,

1958

tivities

photograph of Prof. Keeler on its
cover page and gave him the main

The following

is

quoted from

“Professor
Keeler
is
Ronald
completing twenty years of service
as an instructor and professor of
Minnesota Bible Colege. In honor
of this service the graduating class
has chosen Professor Keeler to be
their Baccalaureate speaker May
25, at 8:00 P.

M.

“Professor Keeler is a graduate
the State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, (B.S.),
Minnesota Bible College (B.S.), and
the University of Minnesota (M.S.).
He has taught in the college English department since 1938, being
promoted to the rank of professor
in 1942.
English
“Besides
courses
in
grammar, Prof. Keeler teaches
Christian Journalism, Bible Geography, Recreational Leadership,
Youth Work in the Church, and
He puts these
kindred subjects.
courses to practical use in his ministry and in his avocation as a free
lance writer. He has sold some 70
of

over 200 articles and five

Three of

books.

his

succession

—

books have

published: Suggestions for
Schools, Bible Game Book and
Recreation Time.
“Professor Keeler was instrumental in organizing the Twin Cities
Christian Writers Fellowship to
encourage writers who are interested in the publication of the ChrisHe has served also
tian message.
Sevas chairman of the group.
eral of his students have sold art-

been

1956

and

and 1957, Professor Rygiel
his

shorthand students took
Shorthand

Contests.

faculty,

County Super-

are alumni of

the

The two

retiring faculty

mem-

Miss Edna Hazen, Director
Elementary Education, and

bers,
of

Professor

McCammon,
of

Physical

have a combined

the article:

stories,

who

college

college.

Miss Lucy

headline.

First Prize in National
in

of that in-

where the graduation feswere May 25-28, carried a

stitution,

the

Assistant

Education,

total

of

more

than sixty years of service at the
institution.
Mr. Howard
Fenstemaker, for many years a colleague of the retiring faculty members, presented them with a gift
and an oral tribute on behalf of the

local

Association.

Attending the dinner as guests
President Harvey A. Andruss
were Dr. Charles Boehm, State
Superintendent of Pubilc Instruction; Mr. Warren Wringler of the
of

Department of Public Instruction;
Ray Cole, Bloomsburg Alum
mis and retiring Columbia County
Superintendent; Mr. Fred Diehl,
Bloomsburg Alumnus and retiring
Montour County Superintendent.

•Mr.

Newly elected officers of the
Association were introduced to the
members and their guests. They
are Dr. Edward DeVoe, President;
Mrs. Margaret McCern, Vice President; and Miss Gwendolyn Reams,
Secretary-Treasurer.

The Rev. Thomas L. Henry,
pastor of a church in Indiana, was
a contributor to a recent issue of
“The Upper Room.”
icles

and

stories.

“On September 5,
wedded to Donna
Memphis, Missouri.

now have

1942, he

Chappel

was
of

The Keelers

four children, Guy HenMalana 4 and Rob-

ry 11, Rachel 7,
ert

Roy

2.

“The Keelers are

in their 12th
year of ministry to the church at
Nevis, some 200 miles removed
from the college. He has traveled
a distance equal to seven times
around the earth in serving this
congregation.
7

MAY DAY

book themes. College
appeared in dances based on
“Last of the Mohicans,” “Peter
Pan,’” “Treasure Island” and “Robin Hood.”
ous

The quaint and colorful characters of Story Book Land joined in
a festival honoring the May Queen
Tuesday, May 13, on the bright
green terrace of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.

The

program, presented
by
pupils ot the Benjamin Franklin
Laboratory School and college women, was enjoyed by hundreds of
parents and friends who filled the
bleachers and lined the performing area.

story

The

Barbara Creamer,
senior from Langhorne, reigned
She
over the May day program.
was crowned by Luther Natter,
student council president, to open
the festivities.

The queen’s

always the highlight of the annual
event, was performed by college
students and pupils of the laboratory school.

The weather was

May
a

days

for

chill

junior

attendants

sociation

first

Preceding

the
Maroon and Gold Band, under the
leadership of Nelson A. Miller, presented an entertaining concert.

coronation,

the

Kindergarten pupils enacted sev-

Mother Goose rhymes including "Old King Cole, his Fiddlers
Three” and a clever version of
“four and twenty blackbirds baked
First graders enacted
in a pie.”
a scene from “Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs” and grade two portrayed Cinderella and her little
eral

friends.

dance by the Swiss children in “Heidi” was presented by
third grade pupils after which the
fourth grade enacted a scene from
“Hansel and Gretel” in which Gretel shows Hansel how to dance.
lively

those

who

in the shade.

strong breeze tossed the can-can
skirts ot the square dancers and
tugged at the securely anchored
Maypole streamers. It was quite
a contrast to the rainy weather
which made it necessary to postpone the spring event nearly a

and Nancy Suwalski.

A

typical of past

sunny and bright with

A

week.

mice

—

hint of a

grade pupils. Her senior
attendants, dressed in lovely pastel
gowns, were college students, Rose
Coulter, Mary Grace, Betta Hoffner, Nancy Hughes, Donna Mattocks, Jane Martini, Annette Roush

were

Maypole winding,

colorful

found a vantage point

May Queen

portrayed

tures of Buffalo

“The

Bill.”

Plans to increase the scholarships

provided by the Columbia County
Branch of the B.S.T.C. Alumni As-

were discussed Wednesday evening. May 14, at a dinner
meeting of the branch held at the

Commons.

College

Buckingham,

Mrs.

retiring

Boyd

president,

presided.
Officers elected were Frank TayBerwick, president; Harold H.
Hidlay, Bloomsburg vice president;
lor,

Miss Eleanor Kennedy, Espy, secretary, and Paul Martin, Bloomsburg, treasurer.

The members of the group were
entertained by a dramatic reading
by Miss Maureen Barber, College
Sophomore from Plymouth, and by
musical selections rendered by an
instrumental group of College students.

Kampus

days of Mark Twain’s “HuckleThe Kampus Kids
berry Finn.”

were making

their first

May Day

appearance.

A

group of college students, the
sang
Harmonettes,
beautifully
“Over the Rainbow” and “Thurnbelina” to introduce two other fam8

at least a

modified version of the sack line

Twenties

the

of

thoroughly

—

become

has

the
spring and summer fashions, it was
revealed Thursday, May 20, at the
twelfth annual fashion show presented at B.S.T.C.
established

in

Mary Grace, Stroudsburg,

serv-

ed as fashion coordinator, introducing the show with flashbacks
to the Gibson girl era of the 90’s
the short-skirted flapper style of
the 20’s and the padded-shoulder
fashions of the wartime 40’s.

The tri-colors— red, white and
blue— were the standby colors for
spring with navy predominant.
White in some of the off shades is
popular this year and red is being
in

many unusual ways.

New
mer

colors for spring and sumare the citrus colors— willow

green, orange ice and yellow. All
in the many new fabrics
made possible by modern science.
For the first time this year, hose
carry a hint of color to match the

appear

costumes.

The new

spring

featured

hats

the cloche of the 20’s and reach
further back in history to the large

flower-frosted hats of the turn of
the century.

O

special interest

was

a match-

ing raincoat and umbrella covered
with a splashy rose print in orange
and yellow. A walking suit, in grey
with a three-quarter length coat in
the new straight line, attracted

much

attention.

Bloomsburg area youngsters appeared in the new spring styles for
the younger set. Miss Sally Reifen-

Twenty-one college coeds modeled the newest styles from Arcus

sixth

Kids, square
dance group, relived the boyhood

grade and the

FASHION SHOW

stahl acted as coordinator.

Adven-

The

1958

The chemise style— or

used

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI

Fifth graders, dressed in western
regalia,

THE

girls

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Women’s Shop, Deisroth’s, W. T.
Grant, Harry Logan, jeweler, J. C.
Penney, Ruth Corset and Lingerie
Shop, Snyder’s Millinery and The
Polmon.

The
Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner. ’34

stage setting, illustrating the

theme, “Guided Missile,” created
by Mrs. Olive Beeman and Robert
Uulmer.
Mrs. Margaret E. Mc-

Cern was chairman of the fashion
show committee. Eiderson Dean

was

organist.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI LOAN FUND
(From the "Passing Throng’’

You’ve all heard and probably
used upon a number of occasions
that line about “great oaks from
little acorns grow.”

We

had something come

to light

the Teachers College Alumni
Association session to which that
axiom, observation or what have
you can be applied.
During the sessions Earl A. Gehrig, the treasurer, reported a total
in the various loan funds of $23,737. Of this $10,475 is out on loans.
Officials of both the graduate
body and the college mentioned
the increased costs of attending
the institution and of the growing
at

demand

for loans.

There were

thir-

ty-one such requests granted during the past college year.
Dr. Andruss in his address outlining the future plans of the institution, told of what the students,
through the profits of the college

book store, are doing to aid. He
observed the grade body needs
a loan fund of at least $30,000.
Through the years the most constructive thing the graduates have
done has been to handle the loan
fund and it all started back in 93

also

$148

to get the

And one
na

Santee

of

fund

The Morning

started.

of that class, Mrs.

Huntzinger,

Ed-

Philadel-

phia, celebrated the reunion of her
calss with a gift of $150 to the

fund.

The alumni presented her

with a corsage and the presentation was by Raymond Hargreaves,
Scranton, president of the class of
’58.

That gift of $148 back in ’93 was
unquestionably considered one of
lkit we doubt whether the
believed it would start the
most constructive thing the graduate body lias ever done for its Alma Mater. But that is what was
accomplished.

size,

class

The fund
ly.

It

grow too

didn’t

rapid-

did add up some through

There would be individual gifts and classes would leave
memorials to add to it. We recall
the class of 24 gave $500 that was
about the largest single contribution the fund had received up to
the years.

Press)

There was some progress made
building it up further but the
progress after that was unspectacular until an anonymous gift of
in

$1,500 started the Bakeless Memorial Fund.
This is a tribute to the
memories of Prof. Oliver H. Bakeless an dhis wife.
Prof. Bakeless
was one of the “Old Guard” and
his wife for some years was also a
member of the faculty and through
practically all of her life, a leading
booster of Bloomsburg.
The fund caught the attention of
the college community, which gave
Ac$2,500, and of the graduates.
cording to the reports submitted at
the general session it has now over
$8,500 and seems headed for much

more.
In fact

it

got a push at the ses-

from inand from classes.
And it was certainly appropriate
on the year when the loan fund is
with contributions

sion

dividuals

greater than ever before that the
body could recognize a

that time.

alumni

the class of that year, the
in the institution’s history to give a memorial, presented

It was around $3,000 when the
centennial year of ’39 came around
and the late R. Bruce Albert, then
head of the association, scurried
among the graduates and in the resulting impouring of gifts the fund
jumped to around $13,000.

member of the class of ’93 which
started it all.
And it was also a
shot in the arm to all of the graduates to know that after 65 years
’93 is still interested in its project

BUSINESS EDUCATION

Department

when

second class

CONTEST HELD AT
Two hundred

B.S.T.C.

eleven

students,

representing 48 high schools in 21
counties in the Commonwealth,
participated in the Twenty-fifth

Annual Business Education Contest Saturday, May 3, at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The

number

of students

and the num-

ber of high schools participating
shattered all existing records for
past twenty-five years, and contest officials said that testing facilities had been utilized to the utmost degree. Teams and individual contestants were
accompanied
by 61 high school teachers and a
large
number of parents and
friends.
Approximately 125 students of the Business Education

JULY, 1958

College assisted
in various capacities during the
morning and afternoon so that tests
could be given most effectively
and contest results could be quickly determined.
Contest officials, headed by Dr.
Thomas B. Martin, Director of
Business Education, completed an
at the

analysis of test results late in the
afternoon, and announced the following individual and team winners:

Individual winners:
Edward Slatky,
Bookkeeping first
Duryea High School; second, Darlis
Lynn, Danville High School; third:
Martha Eppley, Susquehanna Town-

—

:

ship (Progress), Harrisburg.
Linda
Arithmetic first
Business
Lehman, Danville High School; second: Sophie Barski, Newport Conyng-

—

ham, Wanamie:

third:

:

Dyanne Kuns-

and

still

adding

the loan fund

to

total.

man, Muhlenberg
dale.

Township,

Laurel-

—

Business Law first: Robert Garrett,
Berwick Area; second: Robert Duigan,
Milton Hershey High School, Hershey;
third: Joy Fulton, Bloomsburg.
Shorthand
first:
Kay Williams,
Warrior Run Area, Watsontown; second: Linda Reed, Trevorton; third:
Barbara Pallay, Phoenixville Area.
Typewriting first: Frances Moyer,
Lewisburg Joint; second: Irma Meteer,
Wyalusing Valley Joint; third: Jane

—

—

Harsanyi, Phoenixville Area.

Team honors:
Bloomsburg High School first.
Parkland-Union, Orefield second.
Berwick Area Joint tie, third.
North Penn, Lansdale tie, third.
Danville High School fifth.
Duryea High School sixth.
Upper Dauphin, Elizabethville sev-

—
—

—

—
—
—

—

enth.

Northumberland
eighth.
Cocalico Union,

High

—

School

—

Denver ninth.
Conrad Weiser, Wernersville tenth.

—

9

EXPECT 1350 ENROLLMENT
AT COLLEGE NEXT TERM
An approved campus
viding tor an
ot

plan, pro-

optimum enrollment

200U students by 1962,

released by Dr.

lias

been

Harvey A. Andruss,

president ot the Teachers College,
t he college will move another step
closer to the projected optimum

number with a tentative enrollment ot nearly 1350 students tor

courts near the Centennial

divides the campus into three areas, the first area
beginning at Penn Street and ending at Spruse Street, bounded on
the two other sides by Light Street

Road

and

which

will contain

East

Second

Street,

administration
building, heating plant, men’s dormitories, women's dormitories, dining hall, maintenance building, and
laundry. This is the living area.

The second area, Spruce to
Chestnut Street, bounded on the
other two sides by Light Street
Road and East Second Street, will
contain the classrooms, library and
auditorium, as well as the Centennial Gymnasium. This is the learning area.

The

and recreational
area is bounded by Light Street
Road and Chestnut Street, and at
athletic

present time is now largely
farm land near the President’s
house. In this area, a field house
the

C.G.A.

Ronald Romig, son of Mrs. MinRomig, Boyerstown, has been
elected president of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Community Government Association

and a library to house
1UU,U00 volumes to be located on
tne site ox the present baseball diamond lacing downtown Bloomsburg.
street Road,

At the present time, the old dinroom space has been renova-

ing

ted to provide library facilities una new iiorary building is built.

til

Hook

racks to accommodate nearuu,Uu0 volumes are located in
tne old Kitchen and storage areas,
and tne second floor space in Wal-

ly

formerly used tor library,
is being rebuilt to provide dormitory capacity tor 25 or 39 students.
1’lus area whl be avanabie tor use
by September, 1958.
t he over-alt plan, subject to the
provision ot funds by future Legislatures, provides tor two womens
dormitories in addition to the present womens dormitory, a second
men’s dormitory, a maintenance
building, two additional classroom
buildings and a field house.

The local board of trustees has
passed a resolution favoring the
purchase of land bounded by or
adjacent to the present campus
before other land acquisitions are
made.

track.

APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE

to

One

building, the College Commons (dining room, kitchen and
storage building) has been constructed, and funds have been allocated for two other buildings. A

men’s dormitory will be constructd in 1958 on the sites now occupied by the old barn and the caretaker’s cottage,

which

will

be de-

molished. This building will cost
$1,000,000 when fully equipped.

A new classroom building will
contain six science laboratories on
the first floor and eight classrooms
for the Department of Business
Education on the second floor,
costing more than $500,000 and
will be constructed in 1958 on a
site of three of the present tennis
10

Clayton H. Hinkel, Associate
Professor of Business Education,
has been appointed to the State
Student Services Committee of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
of Pennsylvania.

The appointment was made by

Remund A. Sandmann, Y’MC, ExeThe
cutive for Campus Services.
chairman of the committee is Dr.
Frederic K. Miller, President of
Lebanon Valley College, Annville.
Mr. Hinkel has been faculty
sponsor of the Student Christian
coming
to
Association
since
Bloomsburg 11 years ago. He has
also served as faculty sponsor of
the Lutheran Student Association
for nine years.

PRESIDENT

nie

for the 1958-59 term.

Other officers chosen were Joseph Zapach, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Zapach, Freeland, vice
president;
Miss
Nikki
Scheno,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Scheno, Berwick, secretary; Jack
Eberhart, son of the Rev. and Mrs.
E. Leroy Eberhart, Williamstown,
treasurer; Miss Constance Terzopolos, daughter of Mrs. Olga Terzopolos,
Shenandoah,
assistant
treasurer.

ler Hail,

be built so as to be accessible
parking areas, football field,
baseball
diamond and running
will

RONALD ROMIG NEW

in order of construction, the next
buildings are an auditorium to accommodate ^000 students, located
at ttie end ot Spruce btreet, with
tne back ot the building to Light

the JL9c>8-59 college year.

The new plan

Gym-

nasium.

Romig

is

a graduate of Boyer-

town High School, class of 1955,
where he served as vice president
of his class during his junior and
seniors years.
He has completed
his junior year at Bloomsburg, and
receive the Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Educa-

will

May, 1959.
During his
at
three
years
Bloomsburg he has been active in
tion in

many

college activities including
the Science Club, College Choraleers, junior varsity football and in-

tramural softball, and has served
chairman of important committees for many of these activities.
During the past year he was
vice president of the Men’s Resident Council, a representative of
the junior class in the College
Council, a member of the election
board committee, and a member
of Phi Sigma Pit Fraternity. This
year he served as chairman for the
annual “Battle of the Classes”
contest which was presented beas

community.
As president of the association
and the council, Romig will preside
at meetingss of both groups and
will represent the college community as the occasion demands.
fore the college

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

'04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

LIST

HONORS AT COLLEGE

B.S.T.C. students who have qualified for the Dean’s List for the

semester have been announced
by Dean of Instruction John A.
Hoch. The students have a quality point average of 2.5 or better
for the semester and an accumulative average of at least 2.0 while

first

at

the school.

ward Braynock, Askam; Margaret
A. Brinser, Eagles Mere; Barbara

men

Jessop, Peckville; Helen Kerstetter,
Mt. Carmel; Saundra McBride,

classroom building which will cost

Williamsport; Dorothy Marcy, Dalton R. D. 1; Mrs. Dolores Plummer,
Bloomsburg; Lynne Raker, Numidia; Sandra Raker, East Smithfield;
Mrs. Annette W. Rousch, WilkesBarre; Sara Sands, Orangeville;
Constantine Spantzas, Towanda;
Frank Vaeante, Kelayres; Dolores
Wanat, Wilkes-Barre;
Margaret
Wilkinsop,
Mt.
Carmel,
and
George Wynn, Shamokin R. D. 2.

Sophomore — Jeanette Andrews,
Osceola; Dorothy Andrysick. Alden
Station; Ilene Armitage, Scranton;
Richard Ball, Bloomsburg R. D. 5;
Linda Bartlow, New Albany; Carl
Braun, Sunbury; Connie Carson.
Light Street; Norman Ehrenfried,
Weatherly; Albert Francis, Pottsville; Yvonne Galetz, Shillington;
June Cocke, Chester; Dolores Pan-

$848,000

—

bids extended at Harrisburg by the
General State Authority for an es-

Curry, Philadelphia; Charles E.
Fahringer,
Sunbury R. D. 2;
Wayne Gavitt, Laporte; Mary
Grace,
Stroudsburg;
Raymond
Hargreaves, Scranton; Betta Hoffner, Clarks Summit; Charles R.
J.

Joan Bugel, Atlas;
Rose Fatzinger, Bethlehem; Patricia A. Fetterolf, Catawissa; Dale
Gardner, Flickville; Almeda
YV.
Gorsline, Athens; Sue Greenland,
Pittston R. D. 1; Edna Kern, Beavertown; Edwin Kuser. Bechtelsville;
Joann Little, Bloomsburg;
James Moretta, Westfield, N. J.;
Walter Patynski, Shamokin; Frances Scott, Cressona; William Stevenson, Glen Alden.

Freshman

should result from invitation for

DORMITORY

The new dormitory
accommodate 200,

ment,

when

pleted

at

B.S.T.C.

will

the building

and readied

at

The

project

Overall, an estimated $1,658,000
being expended or will be expended in the near future at the
local college.

Part of the contract for the dormitory building calls for the demolition of the old barn and the
caretaker’s cottage on the campus.
The cottage dates back to the early
of
the Normal School.
Originally, a two-story structure, it

for

is

com-

use,

will

served as an ice house with the
cakes cut from the river. The class
of 1916, as a memorial, provided
for the removal of the second floor
and its conversion to an isolation
hospital. It subsequently was used
for storage and other purposes, and

The new
the campus

Conrad Stanitski, ShamoDonald Straub, Frackville; Joanne DeBrava, Elkins Park.
Junior— Carol M. Clark, Upper

erected as a men’s dormitory, will
include, in addition to student
rooms, the following areas: Dean
of Men’s apartment, administrative offices, recreation room, lobby,
snack bar, post office and boxes,
student
laundry,
storage
area,
counselor’s
rooms, study rooms
and lounges.

1;

Nancy

Fern Glen; William Roberts,
Shavertown; Marie Stanell,
Fern Glen; William Roberts, Shavertown; Marie Stanell, Shenandoah;

kin;

Darby; Elaine DiAugustine,

Ber-

wick; Lena C. Fisher, Sunbury R.
D. 2; Carl Janetka, Horsham; Donald Ker, Catawissa R. D. 2; Mrs.

Linda

Kistler,

Lazo,

Freeland;

Bloomsburg; Joan
Rita
Lechner,
Danville;
John Longo, Bloomsburg; Frank Reed, Mahanoy City;
Glenn Reed, Shamokin R. D. 1;
Joseph Richenderfer, Bloomsburg;
Jane Ann Smith, Wilkes-Barre;
Elizabeth
Sprout,
Williamsport;
Kenneth Swatt, Shamokin; Stanley
Swider, Chester; Carl Unger, Hulmeville; Denise

Wenkenbach.

Phil-

adelphia.

Senior— Patricia Antonio, Atlas;
Faye
Aumiller,
Dale
Milroy;
Bangs, Orangeville R. D. 1; Constance Wirt Bastian, Sunbury; EdJULY,

1958

building, the first on
to

be designed

and

The dormitory

will be located
North Hall, which is
currently being used to house 73
male students. Before ground can
be broken for construction, three
small outmoded structures must be
removed. The need for additional
dormitory facilities has been evident for a number of years. For
the past two years, the college has
found it necessary to house approximately 300 male students in
just north of

private homes in the town of
Bloomsburg in addition to an equal

number
college

of

when who

each

day

drive to the

from

nearby

areas.

A

boost to

addition to a

in

is

Pikala,

D.

is

quarter million dollars.

more recently

R.

State

around half a million dollars, a
utilities center of around $60,000
and library changes of about a

Superintendent
Grounds.

Pittston

Bloomsburg

the

for

Teachers College.

approximate a million dollars.

zitta,

dormitory

$848,000

history

have a
brick exterior, and will be similar
to the architectural patterns of existing buildings on the campus.
The cost of construction and equipwill

timated

this section’s

economy

as quarters for the
of

Buildings

The new dormitory

and

will provide

quarters for 200 male students, but
will not meet the college’s demand.
About 300 are now quartered in
town and around seventy in North
Hall.

To be constructed of brick, with
stone trim, the dormitory building
will
feature
aluminum-framed
windows. It will have three stories
on the sloping terrain with student
quarters on the top two floors. On
the first floor will be a lobby, entrance area, recreation room, office for the dean of men and his
apartment, along with various storage and laundry rooms.
The classroom

building, a twofeature six
science rooms with laboratories on
the first floor and eight classrooms
for the business education department on the second floor.
The library renovation was made
possible through the previous construction of the College Commons
dining hall building.
story

structure,

will

11

STUDENTS AWARDED
SCHOLARSHIPS
Elizabeth Sprout’s excellent record of academic achievement won
her the Class of 1957 Scholarship

Award

at the Blloomsburg State
Teachers College recently when
twenty-seven students were awarded scholarships and grants during
Her
a weekly assembly program.

record of 2.93 for five consecutive
semesters exceeded the scholarship
requirement of 2.5 and was very
close to the perfect 3.0 mark. Miss
Sprout, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Sprout, 825 Rural Avenue,
Williamsport, received the award

from John A. Hoch, Dean

The awards,

struction.

of In-

totalling

$1,655.00, represent one of the
largest amounts ever distributed to
the students, and, when added to
similar

awards

cember,

of $1,400.00 in

1957,

brings

more than

the

De-

year’s

Dr.
Kimber C. Kuster, chairman of the
Eaculty Committee on Scholarships
and Grants, described the nature
and source of the funds and introduced the individuals who made
the awards.
total

to

$3,000.

Dr. Harvey A. Anruss, President
of the College, presented the following: Class of 1951 Scholarship
Steinruck,
Award
Robert
to
Bloomsburg; awards from an an-

Kenneth Wood,
Mechanicsburg, and Daniel Fritz,

onymous donor

to

Oscela Mills; Community Store
Grants to Ronald Senko, Edwardsville; Matthew Menseh, Catawissa;
Sue Bogle, Milton; Albert Weber,
South
Blair,
Levittown; James
Williamsport; Carl Sweet, Athens;

Donald Morgan, Gilberton; Mae
Reiner, Pitman; Boyd Arnold, McClure; Joseph Pendal, Beaver Meadows; Janelle Bailey, Eldred; John
Robert
Philadelphia;
Chidester,
Rohm, Muncy; Earl Levengood,
Pottstown;

David Gerber, Quak-

ake; Richard Rimple, Forty Fort;

and Joseph Zapach, Freeland. Dr.
Andruss explained that, in a sense,
all members of the college community had contributed to the
Community Store Grants, because
the funds came from the profits of
the

Community

Store.

Janet Fry, Berwick, received the
College Faculty Association Schol12

REPRESENTATIVES

arship from Dr. John Serff, President of the Association.
This is
given annually to a student whose
academic achievement and personality tend to predict success in her

S.G.A.

teaciiing career.

Twentieth Annual Conference of
the Student Government Associa-

Linda Bartlow, New Albany, and
Jones, Northampton, were
the recipients of scholarships from
the classes of 1950 and 1954 presented by Dr. E. H. Nelson, Presi-

Janice

dent of the general College Alumni
Association.

Dorothy Marcy, Dalton, was presented a scholarship by MEs Edna
Hazen on behalf of the American
Association of University Women.

Columbia County Alumni Scholwere presented to Gordon
Trumbower, Hunlock Creek; Donald Ker, Catawissa; and Robert
Beaver, Kulpmont, by Mrs. Margaret McCern, county alumni secarships

retary.

In addition

to

Dr. Kuster, the

Faculty Committee includes: John
Hoch, Dean of Instruction; Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;
Miss Mary Macdonald, Guidance
Coordinator; and Walter Blair,

Dean

of

Men.

MEET AT
Ninety

B.S.T.C.

and

students

members

registered

faculty

when

the

tions of the State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania began at the

Bloomsburg State Teachers Col10, at one o’clock.
The general theme for this year’s
conference was “Student Apathy.”
Dr. Charles Boehm, State SuperThursday, April

intendent

of

Public

Instruction,

gave the key address

in

Carver

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president
of
B.S.T.C.,
brought
greetings to the delegates and introduced Dr. Boehm.
Luther C.
Natter, Spring City, president of
Hall.

the Bloomsburg Community Government Association presided.

The conference is a gathering of
students and faculty advisors who
direct student government on the
campuses of the thirteen colleges
in addition to Bloomsburg.
Their
discussions dealt with the most
constructive methods of combating
the various types of apathy — toward

discipline being

handled by

DELAWARE VALLEY ALUMNI

student governments; toward cul-

The annual meeting of the Delaware Valley Alumni of Bloomsburg
State Teachers Colege was held

tural

Saturday evening,

May

16, at the

Langhorne
and attended by fifty graduates
and their wives and husbands.
Dr. E. Paul Wagner and Dean
of Instruction John A. Hoch rep-

Fiesta Restaurant, near

resented the college.

Dr.

Wagner

and

social activities;

toward

college spirit; toward college com-

munity relationships, and toward
campus parking regulations.

Although

rather

a

rigorous

schedule was prepared for the
three-day period provisions were

made

for a social

program which
to relax and

allowed the students

become

better

acquainted.

spoke briefly of the athletic program and reviewed the records of
the varsity teams of the past year,

Panel discussion groups began
their deliberation on Friday morning at 9:15 o’clock. On Saturday

ture trends of the institution.

morning at 9:00 o’clock delegates
met at a general assembly to hear
summaries of the eight panel dis-

Angelo Albano, Burlington, N. J.,
retiring president, was in charge.
Newly-elected officers for 1958-59
were Alton Schmidt, Burlington;
John Dietz, vice president, Southampton, Pa.; Mrs. Mary Albano,
and Walter Withka,
secretary,
treasurer, both of Burlington. During the business session, the group
decided to hold its annual meeting
during the first week of May, 1959,
at

the

Buck Hotel,

Feasterville.

Following the dinner, the members
enjoyed dancing and a social hour.

Following a short recess,
the delegates continued their general assembly at 10:30 o’clock for

cussions.

the

Annual Business Meeting and

the selection of a location for next

An informal reception was held from 2:00 to 4:00
p. m. in the College Commons and
following the banquet Saturday
night the gdoup heard an address
by John A. Hoch, Bloomsburg’s
year’s conference.

Dean

of Instruction.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FRED W. DIEHL
Over 250 of his friends, neighand associates met Monday

bors

May

evening,

26, in Danville at a

testimonial dinner honoring him.

The dinner was held

in the rec-

reation hall of the Shiloh Reform-

ed United Church of Christ, with
ladies of the

A

church serving.

feature of the occasion

was

a

on the TV program,
Your Life,” with Ivan

based

skit

“This

Is

Boxell serving as master of ceremonies.

Charles Forney, present Riverschool director and former
pupil of Mr. Diehl, spoke of his
Stewlong association with him.
art Hartman, for forty-two years a
member of a rural school board,
told of the many phases of school
development he was privileged to
work out with Mr. Diehl.
side

H. C. Fetterolf, Mifflinville,

re-

chief of the agriculture division of the State Department of
tired

HOMAGE

PAID

IS

Education, told of the beginning
ol
agriculture education in the
county in 1922 and the key post
taken by Mr. Diehl in that development.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, told of the valuable services to the college by Mr. Diehl in
his long term as trustee.
Michael Kipco, Sunbury, district
governor of Rotary International,
told of Mr. Diehl’s service to that
organization.
Dr. E. II. Nelson,
executive secretary of Caldwell
Consistory, spoke of the elevation
of Mr. Diehl to the honorary thirty-third degree in Masonry.

Morrow, Towanda, superof
Bradford
County

A. A.

.

.

His participation
tivities,

libary,

in

.

.

Danville ac-

Boy Scouts, YMCA, the
and dozens of other com-

munity activities, finished the parade of This Is Your Life.”
Mr. Diehl, in addressing the
group, was visibly moved. He
ended his remarks with the observation "life without friends would
not be worth living.”
Mr. and Mrs. Diehl received a
number of gilts, among which was
a portrait done by Mrs. John Trowbridge,
head of the Danville
schools’ art department.

Two

retiring Danville teachers,
Harriet Toland and Miss
Helen Pegg, were presented with
gifts by their fellow members of

Mrs.

intendent

the Pennsylvania

Schools, spoke of his long association with Mr. Diehl in the school
programs of the state. Rev. Alton
Barley, pastor of Shiloh Church,
paid tribute to the long and distinguished service Diehl has rendered his church and the Synod.

Association.

Harry
elect

of

S.

State Education

Ruhl, superintendent-

Montour

schools,

was

in

charge of the meeting. Music was
furnished by a choral group from
the high school, under the direction of Mrs. Helen Johnson.

FORTY-ONE YEARS OF TEACHING
The following has been clipped
from a recent issue of the “Centre
Daily Times,” State

College and

Bellefonte:

A

teacher in the College Area

School,

who

retired

after

almost

other building in the area

was the

Frazier Street School.

“We

thought the high school was
plenty big enough then,” she told
The Times, “and 7th and 8th graders

were moved

into

the

extra

41 years of teaching, had an unusual effect on the entire school

classrooms just as some of the ele-

system the day she said goodbye.

fall

It

could have been just a coin-

cidence, but, the schools in

all six

closed their doors the day
Miss Ruth Smith, high school
mathematics teacher, retired, and
they remained closed the rest of
districts

the week.

Miss Smith, a native of Centre
Hall, came to State College in 1921
when the original high school
building was just about five years
of age. She watched the development of the building, now the Junior High School, as it grew piece
by piece, just like “Topsy.”

There were no more than 300
pupils from 7th through 12th grade
at that time,

JULY,

1958

she said, and the only

mentary pupils were moved
into

the

new

Senior

last

High

opinions than they did back in the
1920’s and 30’s.
The early theory
was “being seen and not heard,”
she pointed out, but “the pendulum has swung the other way and
youngsters seem to learn about
more things more quickly.”

who

Miss Smith,

plans

to

just

School.”

take

As far as teaching today compares to teaching close to 40 years
ago, the veteran teacher said it is
much more practical today. In
mathematics, particularly, she said
we used actual bank and stock reports as well as tax duplicates and
other practical problems so that
boys and girls could obtain real
life experiences.

house on South Burrowes Street,
to catch up with
her reading and handwork and

“We

‘bought’ stocks in the

fall

and watched the market through
the year and then sold them in the
spring as one of our practical
problems,” she explained.

She stated that youngsters

more

free today to give their

feel

own

it

easy

in

her

seven-room

says she hopes

“just enjoy her car

and

life in

gen-

eral.”

A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and the UniverMiss Smith taught in the
sity,
Boalsburg High School and at
Spring Mills before coming to State
College. During the war years she
was active in helping to direct activities of the Junior Red Cross in
the State College High School and
was head of the Victory Corps
which did all kinds of jobs to^help
the war effort.
13

AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP

STUDENT-TEACHING

Miss Sara M. Berger, teacher of
biology and general science in Collegeville-Trappe High School, has
been awarded a scholarship appointment to the General Science

FACILITIES

be conducted at AnYellow Springs,
Ohio, June 23-August 15.
Miss Berger is the daughter of
Mrs. J. D. Berger, Bloomsburg R.

Institute

D.

to

College,

tioch

2.

The eight-week summer
which

scholar-

sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is planned for science teachers who have
experience and exceptional ability.
Miss Berger was one of a limited
group chosen from 335 applicaship

is

tions.

Miss Berger was graduated from
B.S.T.C. in 1937 and taught in Littlestown High School. She taught
air navigation as an officer with the
United States Naval Reserve before
going to Collegeville-Trappe in
1947.

She has taken additional sum-

mer post graduate work
ing

Montgomery

at

Active

University.

County

Wyomthe
in
Science

Teachers Group, the Perkiomen
Joint Education Association and
the

Montgomery County Teachers’

Association, she now serves the latter organization of over 1400 teachers as its vice president.

The enrollment

figures

show

that

356 students were in attendance at
of the four summer sesThe three-week session began Monday, June 2, and closed

the

first

sions.

Friday, June 20.

As a

EXPANDED

result of a steady increase

enrollment at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College during the
past five years, college officials
Lave recently completed arrangein

HUTCHISON,

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

14

16

The newly appointed personnel
director of the U. S. Customs Service lives in the Federal Corner.

five public school disprovide additional accommodations for seniors who do practice teaching in public schools in

He

tricts to

ore Lane, who formerly was deputy chief, Overseas and Field Affairs Division, U. S. Air Force

the area.

Headquarters.

College enrollment has increased
by nearly five hundred students

In the latter position he was responsible for the personnel evaluation program of the Air Force.

since 1953, and is
the much greater

now

reflected in
of seniors who will be eligible for practice teaching and tor graduation
next year.

number

In the Business Education Department, the number of seniors
has jumped from 70 in 1957-58 to
105 in 1^58-59. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College, has

announced Bloomsburg

seniors will

begin practice teaching for the first
time in September, 1958, in high
schools at Montoursville, South
Williamsport, Milton, Lewisburg,
and Berwick Junior High.

For many years the college has
had the cooperation of high schools
in Bloomsburg, Danville, Stevens
Junior High (Williamsport), Williamsport Senior High, and BerPhis makes a
wick Senior High.
total of 10 schools and 26 public
school teachers who are cooperating in the practice teaching program in Business Education. Dr.
Thomas B. Martin, director of the
Business Education Department,
will coordinate the program with
the assistance of two supervisors,
William C. Forney and Mrs. Margaret McCern, both members of
the Business Education faculty.
similar increase has been effected in the Department of Secondary Education. The number of

S.

The following appeared in The
Alexandria Gazette,
Alexandria,
Va., Monday, January 20, 1958:

ments with

A

FRANK

PERSONNEL DIRECTOR

seniors will increase from 91 this
year to 124 in September, 1958.

Dr. Ernest T. Engelhardt, Department Director, said 31 high school
teachers will act in a cooperative
capacity in the following schools:
Central
Berwick Senior High,
Columbia Joint Junior-Senior High,
Bloomsburg Junior-Senior High,
Danville Senior High, Milton Junior High, and Milton Senior High.

Edward H. Bacon, 602 Len-

is

His

past

experience

includes

service as departmental personnel
officer at Air Force headquarters

and varied assignments in personnel and management work in the
Army, Veterans Administration,
and in industry.
Mr. Bacon is a veteran of World

War

II,

seas

combat area

He

having served in an overfor three years.

enlisted as a private

discharged as a major.

and was

He

receiv-

ed several decorations, including
the Bronze Star Medal.

A graduate of
State College, Mr.

Pennsylvania

Bacon also attended George Washington Uni-

versity.

connection with personnel
he has inspected programs in most parts of the United
States and in Europe, the Far East,
Western Asia and North Africa.
In

activities,

Last month he received the
Meritorius Civilian Award presented by Gen. Thomas D. White,
chief of staff of the Air Force. This
is the highest civilian award given
by the Air Force chief staff.

Milton were used for
during the current
year as part of a long range plan
Facilities at

the first time

by college officials to expend the
Dr. George Fike, proprogram.
fessor of education, will assist Dr.
Engelhardt in supervising the pro-

gram.
Negotiations are now underway
with county and local school dismore practice
tricts
to provide
teaching facilities for an in increasing number of students in the
speech education and special education curriculums.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ATHLETIC RECORDS FOR 1957-58 SEASON
WRESTLING

BASEBALL

Overall record
wins, 2 defeats.

Third

in S.T.C.

season:

for

5

Conference.

Records of outstanding Huskies
during the season:

Jim Garman: Undefeated— seven
wins. First place in S.T.C. tourney.

Robert Ralnn: Undefeated— seven wins.
Richard Rimple: Undefeatedseven wins.
Walter Fake: Three wins; two
draws; two losses.
Robert Asby: Four wins; one
draw; two losses.
Opponent

Bl.

27

—

Shippensburg 13

Won

11

—

Millersville 15

Loss

— Lock Haven 16
— E. Stroudsburg

11
2-1

—

16

Indiana 11

— Lincoln 3
— Lycoming

31

21

11

Loss

April 10— BSTC
April 16— BSTC
April 18— BSTC
April 20— BSTC
April 20— BSTC
April 24 BSTC
April 24 BSTC
April 27 BSTC
April 30— BSTC

—

13—Lock Haven

.

5— Scranton
7— Lock Haven
5— Kutztown

6
7

11— Mansfield
7

—
—

6

9

2

4

.

11— E. Stroudsburg

Shippensburg
its

2

—Shippensburg
—Lycoming

May 11— BSTC 2— Lycoming
May 14— BSTC 10—Kutztown
registered

7

— Shippensburg
.

State

5
8

3
.

3
6

Teachers

third State Teachers

College Conferene title when the
Red Raiders were crowned champs
oi the baseball conference, nosing
cut the Huskies of Bloomsburg
and defending champion, East
Stroudsburg.
During the 1957-58 school term,
Shippensburg equaled the S.T.C.
record held by West Chester as
the Raiders won three champion-

Shippensburg

ships.

and

Lock

Haven

16

_

Loss

Won
Won
Won

hurdles.
Other pointmakers for
the Huskies were Stan Huttenian,

second

in the javelin; Stan Elinsky,
fourth in the pole vault, and Johnny Johnson, tied for fourth in the
high jump. Carl Sweet was fifth
in the shot put.
B. S.T.C. Fifth At Relays
The Bloomsburg State Teachers
College relay team finished fifth in
the
State
Teachers Conference
one-mile event at the Penn Relays.
The team of Ed Watts, Charlie
Loughery, Ken Swatt and Earl
Levengood, finished behind West
Chester,
Shippensburg,
East

Stroudsburg and Cheyney
order.

Nearly eighteen hundreds fans
players packed Centennial
Gym on Saturday night, March 15,

and

shared the football title
and the Raiders this spring won
the track and field title as well as
the baseball crown. Shippensburg

Thirty-first

had won its first S.T.C. pennant
by taking the baseball title in 1954.

lege.

TRACK

Overall

record

for

season:

10

Huskies Sixth In Conference

The

wins, 7 losses.

Conference play: 8 wins, 5 losses.
Non-Conference: 2 wins, 2 losses.
Final rank in Teachers College
Conference: 5th place. Millersville
the crown.
Bl.
Opponent
77 — Kutztown 80
Loss
83 — Shippensburg 95
Loss
83 — King’s College 92
Loss
64 — Cheyney 62
Won
77 — Kutztown 63
Won
84 — Mansfield 83
Won
71 —
Millersville 95
Loss
81 — Lock Haven 75
Won
90 — Shippensburg 75
Won
— Lock Haven 69
81
Won
82 — King’s College 72 _ Won
67 — Lycoming 79
Loss
79 —
Millersville 96
Loss
75 — Mansfield 67
Won
79 — Lycoming 71
Won
— West Chester 92
81
Loss
98 — Cheyney 92
Won

won

JULY, 1958

thinclads

of

Bloomsburg

Teachers College finished
sixth in the Teachers Conference
championships
at
Shippensburg
with the host Red Raiders walking
off with their first title.
Shippensburg was first with 54 V2
points followed by Slippery Rock,
46*2; Cheyney 34; East Stroudsburg, 27; Lock Haven, 23; Bloomsburg, 22 V2 and Millersville, 17 x/4.
Taking first for the Huskies were
State

,

Hugo

that

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

witness the final play-offs in the
Annual High School
Basketball
Tournament at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colto

The

audience shatterattendance records.
Tourney officials had expected
1500, because of the large and
steady attendance of fans during
the preceding two weeks of tourney play, but extraordinary measures had to be taken to accommodate the overflow.
The excitement of the evening
was accentuated by the fact that

ed

BASKETBALL

in

Millersville took sixth.

size of the

previous

two of the victors had

to

overcome

a first half deficit to win the crown
in their division, and for a time, it
seemed that an overtime period

would be necessary

to

decide the

outcome.

the pole vault and
who finished first
in the two mile event. Hugo vaulted 11 feet, nine inches to finish
ahead of Stayer, Lock Haven, and
Esser, Slippery Rock, who tied for
Engleman ran the twosecond.
mile in 10:16.5 but finished fourth

Final results are as follows:
Class A— Westmoreland 48, Wilson High 38.
Class B— Northwest Jt. 56, TriValley Jt. 50.
Class C— Ringtown
West
61,

the mile.
Charlie Loughery, B.S.T.C.’s ace
hurdler, failed to qualify in the
highs and took fourth in the low

Class
Danville.
Class B— Central Columbia Co.
Class C— Smithfield - RidgeburyUlster Jt. High.

Stan

in

Terry Engleman

in

Reading 57.
Cheerleading Trophies:

A—

15

FOOTBALL
A

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,

B.S.T.C.

Huskies List Eight Games

Inc.

Report of the Treasurer

41-game schedule for the 1958

Teachers College Football
Conference has been released by
Conference
conference officials.
members have scheduled thirtyfive non-conference contests for

May

May

20, 1957, to

20, 1958

State

the season.

Action starts September 20 with
three conference games and four
non-conference games scheduled.
The campaign ends for conference
play November 15 with two loop
games and the season winds up
November 21 with one non-con-

game listed.
Lock Haven and Shippensburg
will be defending champions when
ference

Both
the conference gets rolling.
clubs finished in a deadlock for the
title last season.

The Bloomsburg Huskies will be
playing an eight game schedule
next fall with six conference games
and two non-conference contests
The non-conference games
listed.
are against King’s College and
Cortland State Teachers while the
Huskies meet Shippensburg, MansMillersville, East Stroudsfield,
burg, West Chester and Lock Haven in conference action.
The Bloomsburg schedule
follows:

is

as

September

20, ShippensKing’s; October 4,

burg; 27, at
Cortland;
Mansfield;
25,
11,
Millersburg; November 1, at East
Stroudsburg; 8, at West Chester;

The Huskies will
15, Lock Haven.
have an open date on the weekend of October 18.

Checking Account Balance, F.N.B.,

BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

’07,

Dues Collections
Bakeless Fund, Husky and Other Items
transfer to Loan Fund
Miscellaneous Income

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

689.22

$2,022.00

for
469.45
89.09
2,580.54

Total Available

$3,269.75

Expenditures:

Transfer to Loan Fund (per above)
Printing of Quarterly
Clerical

469.45
741.09
551.02
220.00
265.74
142.50
409.94

Work and Alumni Meetings

Office and Editing Expenses
Office, Mailing Supplies and Stationery

Alumni Day Dinners
Alumni Room Draperies and

Slip Covers

Flowers
Insurance
Advertising

15.45
42.53
123.50

Total Expenditures
Balance,

May

2,981.22

20, 1958

Savings Account No. 11654, First N.B.,
Interest Credited 57-58
Balance, Savings Account,

May

May

20, 1957

$

288.54

3

327.40
6.57

20, 1958

$

EARL

A.

GEHRIG,

333.97

Treasurer

Records for the year ended May 20, 1958, and the report covering that period
have been reviewed and have been found correct to the best of my knowledge

and

belief.

WILLIAM

I.

REED, Auditor

HONORED AT DINNER
Mrs. Leona H. Savage, a teach-

Greenwood

schools of the
Millville Area Jointure and who
will retire at the end of this term
after a career of forty-five years as
a public school teacher, was honored recently at a delightful dinner
and program at Bennett’s Restau-

which was tendered
by the faculty and other personnel

rant, Berwick,

Greenwood

Mrs.

Savage

school.

received
from the

beautiful gifts
other employees and
pupils of the school.

several
faculty,

from

the

George B. Fought, principal,
capably handled the role of toastmaster.

Members

sponded briefly.
a humorous poem
16

$

Total Receipts

of the
President

20, 1957

Receipts:

er in the

MOYER

May

of the staff rehighlight was
in honor of Mrs.

A

Savage that was written and read
by Mrs. John Black, one of the
T. A. Williamee,
supervising superintendent of the
Millville Area Joint School System,
paid a fine tribute to Mrs. Savage,
and to her many years of work as
cafeteria cooks.

a teacher.

The

highlight of the entire eve-

ning was a highly humorous and
nostalgic talk by Mrs. Savage concerning her experiences in teaching school work. In an entertaining manner she related her memories of early school life when she
attended the little one-room country school known as The Fritz
Hill School, then the Grassmere
High School and finally summer
school at Benton. She started her
TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HONORED AT DINNER
teaching career in 1913 at the Diltz
School in Sugarloaf Township. She
later attended many summer sesIn addition
sions at the R.S.T.C.
to teaching in Sugarloaf, she has
also taught in Jackson, Briar Creek,
Mt. Pleasant, Pine and Greenwood.
Mrs. Savage served for four
years on the staff in the Department of Public Instruction in Harrisburg as Child Accounting AdvisShe
or under Dr. Lester K. Ade.
was listed in “Who’s Who In The
East” for several years and also
in “Who’s Who In Pennsylvania.”
At one time she served as a school
director in Jackson township. She
was one of the first women drawn
to sene on the jury in Columbia
County and the first Democrat
woman in Jackson
committee

township.
She served on the county committee for many years and for some
time was vice chairman of the com-

B.S.T.C.

Annual Report Covering the Period

May

20, 1957, to

May

20,

1957

and the NEA, and for a long time
has been an active and highly interested member of the Columbia
County Historical Society.

Balance,

May

Bloomsburg.

$14,964.89

S. H. Bakeless
20, 1957

Memorial
6,787.04
1,809.45

Plus Contributions
Balance,

May

20,

1958

8,596.49

Balance of Reserve Fund, May 20, 1957
Receipts: Interest on Government Bonds
...
Interest on Consistory Loan
Interest on Past Due Student Loans
.

704.55

$229.37
85.00
163.94

Total Receipts

Total

478.31

Available

1,182.86

Less Expenditures:
Scholarships Awarded
Earl A. Gehrig, Fee
William I. Reed, Auditor
Postage and Supplies

Balance,

May

170.00
100.00
10.00
27.52

Miller School, Levittown.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
Benton High School and Pennsylvania State University in 1956, is
a
research engineer for Philco
Corp., Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Follmer are now
living at 6350 Lawndale Street,
Philadelphia
1958

1.

307.52

875.34

20, 1958

Balance of Husky Fund,

May

20, 1957

.

.

(1,042.18)
17.00

.

Plus Contributions

(1,025.18)

Expenditures:

Care of Husky

Husky Food

—Danville

Wholesale Co.

Printing

154.20
78.96
29.56

Total Expenditures

May

262.72

20, 1958

(1,287.90)

Balance, Class of 1950 Fund, May 20, 1957
Less 1957-58 Scholarship Grants
Balance,

May

Balance,

May

488.75
100.00

20, 1958

Balance, Class of 1954 Fund, May
Less 1957-58 Scholarship Grant
20,

388.75

20, 1957

300.00
100.00

.

1958

200.00

Total to be accounted for

The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School in 1953
and B.S.T.C. in 1957. She is an
elementary teacher at the Walter

20, 1958

20, 1958

Balance of O. H. and
Loan Fund, May

Balance,

1957
Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church, Bloomsburg, was the
setting Saturday, March 29, for the
marriage of Miss Margaret Ann
Duck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William D. Duck, Bloomsburg, to
William Calvin Follmer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Follmer,

May

$14,936.89
28.00

Plus Contributions

Total Expenditures

She also served as a member of
the State Democratic Committee
She is a memfor several years.
ber of the Grassmere Garden Club,
Waller WSCS, the Waller Memorial Hall Association, the PSEA

JULY,

of

FUND CREDITS
Balance of Centennial Loan Fund,

mittee.

also of

ALUMNI LOAN FUND

$23,737.57

ASSETS
U. S. Government Securities
Balance, Checking Account, F.N.B
Outstanding Loans to Students (Schedule

2)

$12,301.56
960.03
10,475.98

...

Total Assets

$23,737.57

EARL

A.

GEHRIG,

Treasurer

Records for the year ended May 20, 1958, and the report covering that period
have been reviewed and have been found correct to the best of my knowledge

and

belief.

WILLIAM

I.

REED, Auditor
17

CLASS REUNIONS
Without many hours
ing,

is

it

of check-

impossible to publish

complete and accurate

lists

of

Alumni who were present

at

their class reunions.

The editor will be glad to receive corrections and additions,
which will be published in the
next number of the Quarterly.

the platform for the general alumni
meeting and one of their number,

William D. Watkins, Wheeling, W.
Va., was one of the recipients of

hannock; Elizabeth Sturges, Pittsburgh; Ray V. Watkins, State College; Ethel Altmiller, Hazleton;
Marie Snyder Pomeroy, Pittston;

the Alumni Meritorious Service
Award. Dr. K. H. Grimes, Clear-

Irene Boughner Mack, Conyngham; Martha Cortright Shoemaker,

water, Florida, traveled the longest dinstance of any who came to
the reunion.

Shickshinny;
Estella
Callender
Wright, Kingston; Geraldine Yost
Hess,
Scranton; Lillian
Fischer
Moore, Forty Fort; Edna Runyan
Cherrie, Nanticoke; Mildred Stempies Lindsey, Binghamton, N. Y.;
Elizabeth K. Scharf, Selinsgrove;
Nelle Seidel, Harrisburg; Elizabeth
Sturges, Pittsburgh; Flora Snyder
Shock,
Dallas;
Ruth Altmiller
Jones, Hazelton; Helen Jones Lister, Trenton, N. J.; Katherine M.
Williams, Ashley; Kimber C. Kus-

Among

those

attending

were:

Adda Rhodes Johnson, Hazleton;
The oldest class represented at
the Alumni Day festivities at the
Teachers College was 1885 and its
was Harry O. Hine,
Washington, D. C.

representative

Among

other representatives of

graduated more than a
half century ago were: 1888— Mrs.
Annie Nuss, Bloomsburg; 1898Miss Elsie Hicks, Laura Brady
Mabel
Schaffer,
Bloomsburg;
Hawke Anthony, Nanticoke; Clara
Swank, Wapwallopen; Edith Eves
Biddle, Millville; Katherine Coleman Anwyll, Flora Bentzel, Harrisburg; Stewart B. Smith, Plymout Meeting; Henry F. Broodbent,
Washington, D. C.; Elmer Levan,
Catawissa R. D.; Charles H. Weavclasses

er,

Wilkes-Barre.

1903— C. L. Albert, Dallas R. D.;
Frank Berkenstock, Renovo; William DeLong, Berwick; Mary A.
Good, Wapwallopen; Robert V.
Glover, Mitflinburg; Grace Housel
Mildred
Bloomsburg;
Krum Barndt, Upper Darby; Beatrice Larobe Albertson, Peekskill,
N. Y.; 1905— Camille Hadsell, Berkenstock, Renovo; Minerva May
Matthews, Johnson City, N. Y.;
1906— James A. Kennedy, Bethlehem.

Sara E. Faust, Rutherford, N.

J.;

Laura E. Boone, Hazleton; Flora
M. Miller Anderson, Elkton, N. J.;
Marion Smith Moore, Freeport, N.
Miss Ella M. Billings, Nicholson R. D.; Mabel L. Tucker, Deposit, N. Y.; William Rarich, Philadelphia;
Anna Shaffer Peters,
Pittston; Agne Burke Kinney, Bethlehem; Mabel Clark Pollock, Wyoming; Saida L. Hartman, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. B. A. McCadden, Plains; Dr. J. H. Grimes,
Clearwater, Florida; Louise Slocum Williams, Old Forge; Helen
Wardan Garbutt, Dallas; Mae Callender Wilson, Drum,; Rhea Williams Bassell, Factoryville; Miss
Rebecca Appleman, Danville; Laura Benscoter Dodson, Shavertown;
Y.;

Hazel
Heberling
Jones,
Creasy Rowe, Bloomsburg; Thomas Frances, Scranton; William D.
Watkins, Wheeling, W. Va.; L.

class of

a dinner at the College
when the members of

were guests

Commons
the

of the general

class

alumni

Twenty-five, assemorganization.
bling from throughout Pennsylvania and various other states, parThey
ticipated in the program.
were given the honored places on
18

of 1918 in fortieth
year reunion had an exceptionally
class

busy time.

They opened

their de-

with an

lightful reunion festivities

Thurman

open house Friday evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Snyder and then had a breakfast at
St. Paul’s Episcopal parish house

Krumm,

Montclair, N.

1907,

Upper

J.

Class of 1913
Thirty members of the class of
1913 came from many parts of
Pennsylvania as well as from
Maryland, New York, New Jersey,
Virginia and the District of Columbia.
They had a get-together
Friday evening at Waller Hall and

program Saturday mornwhich former students and
members of the faculty honored a
classmate, Dr. Kimber C. Kuster,
by presenting to the college an
a special

1908, the honored
class in reunion, had a busy and
enjoyed weekend that opened with

The

Class of 1918

The

Pearl

Church,

Class of 1908

Bloomsburg; Ruth Sterner,
Dewart; Nellie M. Denison, Washington, D. C.; Jacob F. Wetzel,
Centre Hall; Edith Keeler Tailman, Vienna, Va.; Leah Bogart
Lawton, Berwick (1914); Homer
W. Fetterolf, Spring Mills.
ter,

ing at

excellent portrait of the educator.
Among those back for the fortyfifth year reunion were: Robert L.

Williamsport; OrChestertown,
Bennett,
Md.; Ralph Kuster, Bloomsburg;
Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunk-

South

Cirton,
ville

B.

before going to the campus to participate in the general festivities.
Among those back were: Helen
Lord Powell, Kingston; Griddie
Edwards Berninger, Pittston; EsthCorety
Bell,
er
Wilkes-Barre;
Musgrave, Scranton;
James T.

Marion

Phillips

Martha

Stitler,

O’Brien Pursel, Bloomsburg; Harold J. Pegg, Altoona; Bruce Shearer, Willow Hill; Rachel A. Miles
Porter, Shavertown; Dorothy Pollock

Woodring,

Mary

Gillespie,

Hazleton; Dr. Ralph L. Hart, Yeadon; Gretchen D. Wintle, Ruth
Speary Griffith, Edna Aurand, Wilkes-Barre;

J.

Claire

Patterson,

Mary A. Meehan,
Harrisburg; Mary Powell Wiant,
Scotch Plains, N. J.; Edwina WieBloomsburg;

land

Teal,

Norristown;

Good White, DeLand,

Zareta

Fla.; Kath-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ryn M. Spencer, Norristown; CharR. Wolfe, Gettysburg; Carrie
Keen Fischer, Glen Lyon; Dorothy
Harris LaBare, Hunlock Creek R.
1).; Edna Davenport Old, Bloomsburg; Leslie E. Brace, Westfield,
N. J.; Elizabeth Probert Williams,
les

Muriel Jones Peffer,
Louise Adams Trescott, Philadelphia; Ida Wilson Snyder, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Katherine
Bakeless Nason, Cleveland.

Danville R. D.; Helen Ilower Mac-

Naught, Warwick R. D.
E. Craig, Catawissa R.

ryn

Campbell,

1;

Emily

D.; Kath-

Danville

R.

D.;

Elizabeth Benfield, Bethlehem; Josephine Aberant Morgan, Tunk-

Hazleton;

hannock

Audenried;

Kingston;

Margaret Jones,

D.;

R.

Isabel

Chim'leski,

L.

Hazleton; Ruth McNertney Smith,
Harleigii;

Ruth Barton Budinger,

Jersey Shore.

Class of 1923

Largest reunion was held by the
class of 1923.
a

a

Members came from

and following
number
busy day on the campus enjoyed
of states

Light Street Methodist Church on Friday evening.
a dinner at the

Dr. Raymond Edwards, Ossining,
N. Y., president of the class, made
the response for 1923 at the genOver a hundred
eral meeting.
participated.
The class gave fifty
dollars to the student loan fund.

Among

those attending were:
Leroy A. Richard, Shamokin; May
Benefield Watts, Bethlehem; Emery Miller, Bloomsburg; Albert K.
Koster, Agnes L. Foster, York; Dr.
Raymond H. Edwards, Ossining,
N. Y.; Florence Breisch Drake,
Light Street; Alice Albee Lutz,
Ashley; Helen Eike West, Wilkes-

Matilda Kostenbauder Tilley, Lewisburg; Anna Price Snyder,
Milton; Grace Seeley Smethers,
Elizabeth, N. J.; Gladys Bruntzman
Snell, Scranton; Henrietta Reeder
Souleret,
Turbotville;
Elizabeth
Perry Brown, Duryea; Ann Miller
Frevermuth, Easton; Thelma Jeremiah Geise, Sunburv; Alice Shipman Edwards, Ossining, N. Y.;
Ruth Keen, Glen Lvon; Margaret
Hughes, Wilkes-Barre.
Barre;

Mary Howell Dean,
Edith E.
Hampton,

St.

Clair;

Frackville;
Betty Kessler Kashner, Bloomsburg; Arline Hart Brown, Kingston;

Anne

A. Lerda,

Stephen
Hempstead, Md.; Lucy

Jarrett, Taylor;

Weikel Coughlin, Dunellen, N. J.;
Adelia Jones Pendleton, Warren
Center; Eunice Jayne Sick, Dushore; Rachel Evans Kline, Orangeville; Rachel Benson Mitchell,
Springfield; Cecelia
ticoke;

Geraldine

Philadelphia;

JULY, 1958

Furman, NanHall

Oplinger

Elsie

Krauser,

Ruth Geary Beagle,

Shaughnessey,

Dawson
Beatrice
Jones, Tannersville; Robina Batey
Pierce,
Plains;
Keeler,
Frances
Tunkhannock;

Kingston; Margaret Butler Minner. Prospect Park; Norma Agnew

Upper

Darby; Helen
Klime Reber, Pennsauken, N. J.;
Elizabeth Robinson Roland, Plarrisburg; Myrtle Epler Mertz, Northumberland R. LX; Helen Sutliff,
Harrisburg; Frances Furman Harrell,
Bloomsburg; Ruth Lenhart
Crawford, Wilmington, Del.; Grace
II. Brandon, Chambersburg; Mary
Stauffer,

Kline,

Millville

R.

D.;

Leona W.

Moore, Simsbury, Conn.; Annie
Bronson Seely, Drums R. D.; Anna
Dolores OzelKa Kohler, Clifton, N.
Ruth Morris Miles, Luzerne;
J.;
Jean Wilde, East Northport, L. I.,
N. Y.; Helen Jones Reese, Scranton;

Mary McNinch

Davis, Vera

Parker Shultz, Lola Kocher Seward, Berwick; Edith Hill Dawson,
Sayre; Kathryn Woolverton Myers,
Dayton, Ohio; Winifred E. Edwards, Irvington, N. J.; Minnie
Melick Turner, Bloomsburg; Helen
Arthur Gulley, Thompson.
Miss Emily E. Craig, Mrs. Arline
Hart Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Bower, Miss Margaret Hughes,
Mr. and Mrs. Renzy D. Johnson,

Derr Kline, John Kline,
Ruth Kleen, Mr. and Mrs. John N.
Roberts, Mrs. Fred Smethers, Mrs.
Josephine Vanderslice, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Wilde, Dr. and Mrs.
Harvey Andruss, Miss Elsie Bower,
Mr. Coughlin, Mr. Budinger, Renford Gulley, Miss Verna Hampton,
Lillian

Mr. Kohler, Mrs. Stephen A. LerHarold Mertz, Alfred Roland,
Karl Reber, Walter Stauffer, Leslie
Seely, Dean William B. Sutliff,
Fred Snell, Francis Shaughnessy,
Charles E. Snyder, Lynn Illey,
Ellis Turner.

da,

Class of 1928

The

1928 opened its feswith a buffet supper at the
Elks on Friday evening that was
attended by forty-eight and others
class of

tivities

joined the group for a busy day
on the campus.
Francis Gerrity
gave the response for the class at
the general meeting.
Among those attending were:
Anna L. Benninger, Dimock; Hilda
Zeisloft,
Philadelphia;
Mary K.

Heintzelman, Sunbury; Esther M.
Hanlon, Tamaqua; Rachel Long
Sauers, State College;
Caroline
Spotts Criswell, Lewisburg R. D.;
Grace Sayler, Watsontown; Margaret E. Hill, Scranton;
Edna

Roushey Long, Orangeville R. D.;
Mildred Hess Cyphers, Bartonsville; Mary Yountz Stewart, Lancaster; Rhea Davis Strausser, Taylor;

N.

Myrtle Price Jones, Bloomfield,
J.

Margaret Gething Stinner, HarGeraldine Diehl Cross,

risburg;

Hummelstown; Ethel Roberts
ford,

Staf-

Ruth E. Guest, Mae Berg-

houser Miller, Peckville;
M. Hoffman, Newark, N.

Karleen
J.;

Alice

Evans Zorskas, Scranton; Atilla
Schoen Lewis, Clarks Summit; Lois
L.

Watkins, Morrisville;

A.

Kililan Cragle,

Beatrice

Hunlock Creek

R.

Dorette Faatz Rhodes, Carbondale; Mary Walsh Zebrowski,
D.;

Forest
Mildred
City;
Sechak
Weiss, Nanticoke.
Mrs. Harold Davis, Hackettstown, N. J.; Mrs. Carl Reihl, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Ray Gunton, Noxen; Mrs. J. Stuart Weiss, Kingston;
Mrs. James Dockeray, Shenandoah;
Mrs. Emery Miller, Bloomsburg;
Hester L. Bowman, Mifflinville;
Mrs. Fav Dendler, Berwick; James
H. Williams, Baldwin, L. I, N. Y.;
Leona Reichenbach Epler, Lewisburg; Margaret McCombs RohrBell
bach,
Lewisburg;
Pauline
Watkins, Kingston.
Class of 1933

The

1933 climaxed a dereunion with an enjoyed
dinner at the Elks on Saturday
evening after a busy day on the
campus. Aldwin D. Jones, Scranton, made the class response in the
general meeting. Among those attending were:
Amelia Wray Higgins, Mildred
class of

lightful

19

Bixler

Allen

Sharp,

King,

Shamokin;

Bethia

Harvey’s Lake; Jack

Lewis, Nutley, N. J.; Aldwiu D.
Jones, Scranton; Harold M. Danowsky, Lewisburg R. D.; Arthur
Snyder, Danville; J. George BruecKmann, Paoli; Charles F. Hensley, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Betterly
Maiers, Silver Springs Md.; Fran
ces
Austin
Reynolds, Luzerne;
Raymond
Stryjols,
Nanticoke;
Grace Radel Hartman, Sunbury;
Martha Berriman Frye, Muncy;
La ure Gass Herre, Paxinos; Helen
Furman Bence, Creda Plouser VanBlargan, Sheppton; Glaire Porter,
Llynor G. Burke, Pittston; Doro-

Shamokin; Edward M.
Matthews, Hazleton; Margaret YV.
Smith Dickey, Starrucca; Elizabeth
J. Gilligan, Paterson, N. J.; Marion
Elmore, Dunmore; Andrew L.

A.

Philadelphia; Paul G.
Bloomsburg; Sylvia Conway Maynard, Montrose; Joycelyn
Andrews Summers, Catawissa R.

rington,

Zalewski,

Fetterolf,

Martin,

D.; Audree Reed Robins, Columbus, Ohio; Charles H. Henrie, Mr.
and Mrs. Neil Ritchie, Carrie Liv-

sey Deily, G. Edward Deily, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Baker, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert R. Williams, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barroll,
Miftlinville.

thy Schild Francis, Pittsburgh.

Ruth M. Lesser, Freeland; Gertrude Strein Howells, Taylor; Homer Bixler, Norristown; Evelyn
Smith Hooven, Weatherly; Betty
Boyle Ghureh, Locust Gap; Mary
Ahearn Reilly, Wayne; Martina
Neiss Moran, Ashland; Nance McGinley Maloney, Centralia; Dorothy Griswell Johnson, Lewisburg;
Ruth Jackson Richards, Vestal, N.
Y.; Lois Lawson, Bloomsburg.

Louise Shipman Evans, Violet
Snyder Hoftman, Mary Jenkins
Zook, Matilda Clash, Josephine E.
Pack, Brest; Edna Creveling Whipple, Hughesville; Bernice Cuthbert
Eiiert, Danville; Irene Naus Munson,
Mifflinburg; Laura Kelley
Bollinger,

Northumberland; Sarah

Fisher Schrey, Selinsgrove R. D. 2;
Irene Hirsch Heister, IiummelsCharlotte Osborne Stein, Ghurchville, N. Y.; William L. James, Mt.

Penn;

Adelaide

Hausch

Kline,

Kingston; Iva Jenkins Newton,
Port Allegheny; Margaret Sandbrook Bristol, Akron, Ohio; Robert

Morgan, Plymouth; Marion DeFrain Danowski, Lewisburg R. D.;
Laubach Webster, Hope
Lois
Webster, Milton.
Class of 1938

The twenty year

Dorothy Edgar Cronover, SherVillage, Bloomsburg; Aerio
M. Fetterman, Catawissa; William
Thomas, Arlington, Va.; Joseph E.
20

The

fifteen year class in reunion

dinner in the College Commons on Saturday evening. Among

held

its

those back for the day were:

Lynch,
Kathryn
Campbell
Bloomsburg; Sara Jean Eastman
Ortt, Jr., Allentown; Louise Seanman Thomas, John W. Thomas,
Hamburg; Barbara Rick Salina,
Philadelphia; William Selden, Berwick; Ruth Ebright Winters, Reading; Jean Kuster von Blohn, Henry

Von Blohn, Gamp

Hill.

Marion Wallace Carley, Lora M.
Snyder, Danville R. D.; Loren L.
East Plymouth Valley,
Collins,
Norristown; William H. Barton,
Bloomsburg R. D.; Edwin M. VasFice
Danville;
Joanna
tine,
Buckingham, Boyd Buckingham,
Lehengood
Betty
Bloomsburg;
Vonderheid, Herman Vonderheid,
Plymouth Meeting.
Irving T. Gottlieb, Washington;
Reba Henrie Fellman, Emmanus;
Marjorie Coombs Deets, Bristol;
Mary Middleton Smith, Steelton;
Joseph W. Kozlowski, Mt. Carmel;
Faust
Florence
Yeany,
Philip
Yeany, Ambler; George W. Piarote,
Mountain Top; George Piarote,
Wilkes-Barre;
Philadelphia.

Andrew

Magill,

class, 1938, at-

tended all of the general activities
and then ended a delightful day
with a reunion dinner at the Legion Home on Saturday evening.
Among those attending were:

wood

Class of 1943

Class of 1948

The youngest

class in reunion to
organized program was
The ten year class
that of 1948.
held a dinner in the College Commons on Saturday evening. Among
those participating were:
Mr. and Mrs. Harry John, Jr.,
Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Louis

hold

an

Kohn, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley

Krzywicki,

Nanticoke;

Theodore Laskowski, Trucksville;
Mr. and Mrs. John F. McGill,
Blaine; Mrs. Harry J. Dill, HarDel.;
Mrs. Sal Bones,
Hughesville; Mrs. Richard Sharpless, Sewickley.

Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Remley,
Tunkhannock; Mr. and Mrs. James
E. Smith, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs.
George Stasko, Luzerne; Bertha
Mae Sturman, Tunkhannock; Mr.
and Mrs. James Tierney, Carteret,
N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F.
Rogers, Dunellen, N. J.; Mrs. Billie
Starkey, Danville; Mr. and Mrs.
Donald N. Rishe, Bloomsburg;
Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Miller,
Danville; Jack Gillung, TunkhanMarian
nock;
Wilson Balliet,

Drums.
Following the dinner meeting
Saturday evening at College Commons, the class of ’48 held a brief
and informal meeting at which
time the following information was
gathered from those present:

John— Assistant

Harry
Farmers

Cashier,

Blooms-

Bank,

National

burg, Pa.

Lewis

Cohn— Assistant

Principal,

High School, Kingston,

Kingston
Pa.

Stanley Krzywicki — Manager,
Furniture Store, Nanticoke,

Gem
Pa.

John Magill— Supervising PrinciBlaine Union School District,
Perry County.
Gloria Maniero Dill—Taught one
year in Delaware; served as speech

pal,

therapist for six years.

June
over

Novak— Taught

(Pa.)

West-

in

High School four

years.

Vince Washvilla — Director of
Guidance, Westfield (N.J.) High
School.

Clayton
the

Upper

Patterson—Teacher

Darby

in

High

(Pa.)

School.

Reg Remley— Assistant Principal,
Tunkhannock High School.
Charlotte

Reichart

Sharpless—

the Ridgeville
(Pa.) High School; will soon take
up permanent residence in Mil-

Formerly taught

in

waukee.

Mary Rush — Teacher
Lackawanna Trail High

the
School,

at

Factoryville, Pa.

THE ALl'MNI QUARTERLY

>i

Whom We

Al umni For

Alumni who are able

to give

Have

any information regarding these

graduates will render a great service

sending information
Class of 1894
Acherly,

Mae

Coyle, Philip

Brunstetter)
George H.
Buckwalter, William
Coffman. Nellie (Mrs. C. H.
Corrigan, Essie G. (Mrs. Edward
Barrett)
Crobaugh, C. D.
Darlington, W. Ramsay
Dieffenderfer, J. P. (Rev.)
Ernest, Sara R. (Mrs. G. B. Snyder
Poster, Marcia

Haggerty, Mary (Mrs. James Tigue)
Hardcastle, Kate T. (Mrs. William
Albertson)
Harris, Bertha (Mrs. W. H. Butts)
B.

Hubera, Bertha (Mrs. A. W. Cooper)
Hess, Floyd L.
John, Ben M. (Rev.)
Keiser,

Rose (Mrs. R.

A.

Evans)

Ward)

Lynch, Bessie G. (Mrs. John
Redington)
Mahon, Josephine (Mrs. T. L.

McGraw)
Martz, Elizabeth M. (Mrs. C.
Dieffenderfer)
Malick, M. Elmer
McLaughlin, Anna (Mrs. M. J.

Fowler, Lottie Frederickson, Elam A.
Fry, E. Bdanche (Mrs. W. S. Keiter)
Gates, Marilla (Mrs. Lewis C. Emory)
Gill, D. Eleanor
Gold, Guy D.
Grier, Lenora
Griffith, Essie
Hidlay, Lillian (Mrs. Herbert

Higgins, Belinda (Mrs. M.
Hines, Lillian

Jackson, John

J.

Morton, William

Burgim

Mulliner, Beulah A.
Mitchel, Mary A. (Mrs. Charles

Moore, Arthur J.
Munroe, Euphemia
Nesbit, Edith M.

Quick, William J.
Rhoads, Ray (Mrs. Thomas
Flanagan)

Frank

Roberts,

Ruggles, Lea B. (Mrs. G. S. Connell
Schappert, Carrie (Mrs. Peter Forvei
Smythe, Emma (Mrs. Theodore

Kreuger)

W. Tiffany)

Formerly

View

now

High

teaching

Tunkhannock, Pa.
James Smith — Teaching in the
Berwick (Pa.) High School.
George
Stasko — Accountant,
Scranton Spring Brook Water Co.,
at

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Martha

J.

Hathaway

—

Formerly

taught in the Carlisle (Pa.) High
School; lived in England for three

JULY, 1958

J. F.

Newman)
Black, Matilda (Mrs.

J.

O. Matter)

Fletcher, Esther R. (Mrs.

Fred

DeCoursey)

with husband who is an
Captain; she now resides in
Danville, Pa.
Donald F\ishe— Principal, Central Columbia High School, Espy,

years

Army

Henrie, H. Clare
Hess, Palmer E.
Kely, N. C.
Kelly, Martin

Krommas, Lulu M.

Rodgers— Teacher and
Bernie
coach at Dunellen, N. J.; also operates an Aluminum and Siding Construction Co.
Correspondence was received

(Mrs. H. G. Lesser)

Messersmith, Palace E.
Miller, Gertrude M.
Moses, William E.
Moss, Claude L.
O’Donnell, Daniel L.
(Mrs. M. B. Tigue)
Rooke, William J.
Rosenthal, Libbie (Mrs. Lewis Marks)
Sterner, Mary E. (Mrs. H. S. Williams)
Vieth, Lewis
Riley, Tillie

Martha (Mrs. James

R. Beers)

Class of 1809
Cintron, Francisco H.
Fagan, Elizabeth
Krepps, Ethel F. (Mrs. A. C. Brown)

Major, Cora
O'Neill, Frances H. (Mrs. Donovan)
Parks, Edith B. (Mrs. William B.
Landis)
Regan, May C. (Mrs. Louis F. Bume)
Steiner,

Samuel

J.

White, Agnes (Mrs. Almon)

from the following members:
Hank Kriss — Armstrong Cork
Co., Pensacola, Florida.
Mike Regan— Felton, Del.

Louise Beers— Kingston, Pa.

Ludwig— Millville, Pa.
Dormer— Enroute to the Un-

Millard

Pa.

Harold Miller — Teacher in the
Bloomsburg High School; also has
a Farm Program over radio station

John

Armitage)

Jim

iversity of

Michigan

structor in the

WHLM.

James Tierney— Cost Accountant,
Carteret, N.

Scull,
Seely,

(Mrs. B. C. Severance)
J. G. Hake)

Stackhouse, Bertha (Mrs. Charles L.
Lewis)
Stewart, Bertha (Mrs. William S.

—

Sturman

Bertha

Emma

J.

Anna (Mrs.
Mary N.

Sandoe,

H. Hess)
Aldinger, Harry E.
Baildwin, Maude E. (Mrs.

Wilson,

Vermorel)
Oler, A. Esther

taught in the Mt.
School, Harford, Pa.;

W. Scott)
Murphy)

S.

Monaghan, Mary

Stroup, D. D.
Williams, Ethel
Williams, Lizzie (Mrs. E.

Class of 1904
Albertson, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Harvey

Clair, Margaret V.
Eister, Allen B.

Jones, Margery
Lewis, Rosanna
Linderman, Philip C.
Mason, Marvin G.
Miller, Gertrude (Mrs. Golenclay)
Milsom, Mabel (Mrs. Joseph S.
Stillman)
Morris, Gertrude
Morton, Jennie E. (Mrs. Harry
Wildrick)

McLaughlin, George

Paul, J.

Williams, Mabel A.
Williams, Sarah D.

Wright)

McDermott)

Aaron

Wallace, Margaret
Waltz, Pierce
Williams, Irene (Mrs. William A.

Davis, Arthur
Deitrick, Edna
Ellsworth, Emma J. (Mrs. D. C. Smith)
Fowler, Lillian (Mrs. George W.

P. H.

Bell,

Hess,

the College by

Class of 1899

Ansart, Louis L.

Appleman. Lulu (Mrs.

to

to the office of President.

Mary

Connole,

(Mrs. Alexander)

No Add resses

ROTC

be an
program.

to

in-

Elroy Dalberg— Oak Park, 111.
Ralph Seltzer— Allentown, Pa.
Barbara Greenley— Syracuse, N.
Y.

Ruth

Kramm

Mosier

— Watson-

town, Pa.
21

Class of 1914

Muir (Mrs. Aurand)
Sweetwood, Ida J.
Walton, Helen Gould (Mrs.
Mainwaring)
Warner, Meta V. (Mrs. William

Steele, Elizabeth

Conyngham, William J.
Corrigan, Mary J. (Mrs. William
O’Brien)
Evans, Margaret Hill
Fagan, Adelia Dolores (Mrs. James
H. Golder)
Gleason, Lillian Claire
Harpel, Frances (Mrs. Howard

Councilman)
Hendershott, Charles N.
Hendrickson, Mary Edna (Mrs. David

Kistler)

White, Marion C.
Wigfall, Elizabeth (Mrs. Walter
Root)
Williams, Gertrude Louise

S.

Williams, Mary E. (Mrs. Byron
Breisch)

Martha lone
Woodring, Dorothy Elizabeth

(Mrs. Ray M. Evans)
Hyde, Pauline (Mrs. O. D. Decker)
Keller, Russell
Kimble, Bessie Wagner (Mrs. Charles

Young)
Laub, Henry Rupert

Zelinski,

Agnes

E.

Class of 1924

Casey, Sr., M. Beatrice
Cooley, Ethel
Courtney, Beatrice H. (Mrs.

Mann, Alma

C. (Mrs. Sharp)
Mensch, Harriet O.
Ryman, Lawrence Brown
Smith, Charles Karl
Wardlaw, Edith May

W.

F.

Rader)

Dowd, Mary R. (Mrs. Harry

F.

Deiterick)

Dymond, Sarah

B. (Mrs. V. E.

Whitlock)
Baker, Paul N.
Breisch, Ina M.
Breisch, Laura I. (Mrs. Rentschlen

Brown, Claude

C.

Brudick, Mildred H. (Mrs.

Norman

Wood)

Miller, Phyllis E. (Mrs. Dr. C.

Dougherty, Katherine Marie
Durkin, Mary Rosalia
Erwin, Mae E.
Farnsworth, Lois L.
Ferguson, Eva H. (Mrs. Edward

Bowder)
Smith)

Mary H.
Mariam W.

(Mrs. Campbell)
Gordon, M. Gertrude (Mrs. Wesley
Davies)
Hancock, Mary (Mrs. H. S. Boyer)
Hanner, M. Elizabeth (Mrs. H. S.
Gilbert,

DeLong)
Harter, Roland

Heimbach, Ruth Elizabeth
Heiss, K. Margaret (Mrs. Chester
Vastine)
Hess, Veda Lois (Mrs. Lewis)

Helen Catherine
Johnson, Marion F.
Hill,

Kahler, Ruth H. (Mrs. Charles Purnell)
Kolcoyne, Marion Catherine
Knedler, J. Warren, Jr.
Manley, Ursula Mary
Marks, Gerald Ellsworth
McDonnell, Sadie Marie (Mrs.

Thompson)
McDyer, Grace Marie
Meenan, Gertrude (Mrs. Harold
Wright)
Menges, T. Amelia (Mrs. Stuart
Snyder)
Papania, Elvira M.
Renner, Grace Vincent
Roberts, Anna H.
Rosell, Victor Julio
Schools, Helen Everett (Mrs. Adolph
T. Knapp)
Seely, Catherine A. (Mrs. Hershberger)

Shuman, Sarah Clementine
Smith, Mary Anges (Mrs. Clair
Monroe)
22

M.

Dumbold)
Rodgers, Sue C.
Rose, Freda A. (Mrs. Baisden)
Schultz, M. Roselda

Sodon, Clara
Stapin,

Martha

A.

Welsko, Veronica
Werkheiser, Mane K. (Rev. F.

Hemmig)
Yoder, Kathryn
Zadra, Eva M.

Amos, Eleanor Grittina (Mrs. Albert
G. Steiner)
Ash, Helen Arlene

Grace Paulette (Mrs.
Gerald McCarthy)

Baskerville,

Beehler, Agna Rhoda
Benfield, Margaret Alice
Blackwell, Helen Louise
Blud, Edith May (Mrs. D. H. Saoni)
Byerly, Marie Katie (Mrs. Marie
Leitzet)

Caldwalader, Clara Labar
Carpenter, Althadell Beatrice
Cobb, Mabel Lillyn
Connelly, Amelia M.
Connolly, Mary Celia
Cornwell, Jessie Edna (Mrs. W. B.
Patterson)
Cotterman, Agnes Pearl (Mrs. William

Bonham)
Davies, Ralph
Davis, Dorothy May
Davis, Marjorie Vivian
Davis, Ruth Adelaide
Decker, A. Edna (Mrs. Wilson)
Devine, Lester Roderick
Dougherty, Bessie Marie

Mary Catherine

Edwards, Betty Margaret
Eley, Marjorie Alice

Ford, Lawrence William
Fortner, Jack
Frank, Cora Etta (Mrs. Wilbur Brooks)
Galganovicz, Mary Magdalene
Gallagher, Bernard
Gardner, Ruth (Mrs. Daniels)
Garvey, Margaret Kathryn (Mrs.

Hibian, Emma
Higgins, Margaret
Highfield, Mabel Evelyn (Mrs. Frank

Koehler)
Fanny Etta (Mrs. Howard

Hill,

DeMott)

Kenneth Michael)
Kiethline, Marguerite Baldwin
Krum, Agnes (Mrs. Elmer R. Evelandi
Lapinski, Eleanor Magdalen (Mrs.

George Bodner)
Laubach, Elizabeth M.
Linskill, Fannie Adele
Lord, Dorothy Alverna
Lubinski, Viola

McHale, Margaret Jane
Meixell, Genevieve E. (Mrs. Elwood
F. Laneer)
Miller, Anna E. (Mrs.

Class of 1929

Dry,

Mary Genevieve
Anna Katheryn

Catterall)
Jones, Muriel Parry
Kaszewski, Sophie Christine
Kelechaw, Julia (Mrs. Nestor Shlanta)
Ketcham, Margaret White (Mrs.

Kellagher, Florence
Lauver, Mary E.
Lyons, Theresa

Marshall, Margaret P.

Cummings, Anna A.
Dice, Claire Kathryn

Flynn,

(Mrs.

McGovern, Vera

Connor, Catherine Jane

Fiester, Zella Pearl (Mrs. D. E.

Fultz, James W.
Colightly, Hnnah D.
Kane, Anna V.

Fetch,

Hyssong, Estella Mae
James, Alice Elizabeth (Mrs. John D.
Taylor)
Johns, Irene Helen (Mrs. John

Elligette, Claire

Class of 1919

Ferry,

Martin McDonald, Jr.)
Goodwin, Elva I. (Mrs. Albert Davis)
Harrison, Captain Ami
Harrison, Frederick Ralph
Hartzel, Thelma Anna (Mrs. William
Burns)
Hewitt, Louise Frances

Willeta,

Diehl)

Hummel, Daisy

Evans, Mildred Eleanor
Eves, Elizabeth Evelyn

(Mrs. Teeford)

Mead Keane)

Moore, Audrey Hughes (Mrs. Jacob L.
Cohen)
Morgan, Dorothy Marie
Morton, Kathryn Eva
Moss, Myron D.
O'Connell, Dorothea Rose
Oliver, Evelyn Jeannette (Mrs. Avery)
Peifer, Margaret Catherine (Mrs.
Wilbur Hower)
Penman, Mabel Gertrude
Pennington, Alice
Pratt, Rachel Winter (Mrs. George

Thomas)
Readier, Lloyd Melvin
Reece, Pauline Helen
Reynolds, Edna Mae (Mrs. Arthur
Akers)

W.

Rhodda, Robert
Riley, Margaret Agnes
Ross,

Mary

Alice

Ruck, Mildred Irene
Scanlon, Ruth Agnes
Scheuer, Pansy Carolyn
Seely, Sarah Helen
Siesko, Walter Michael

Simmons, Grace Louise
Sinconis, Catherine
Spangler, Sara Elizabeth (Mrs. Robert

Walters)
Stoddard, Harold James
Storosko, Mary Kathryn
Stunger, Stella Antoinette

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

)

Derr, Helen M. (Mrs. Robert Price)

Surfield, Charles

Taby,

Anna Josephine

Taylor, Muriel

Ferguson, Frank M.

Ruth

Ferrari, Victor

Thomas, Lenore Arlenta (Mrs. Don
Savidge)

Thomas, Margaret

J.

(Mrs. M.

Beidlemant
Unbewust, Margaret Louise
Valence, Verna Elizabeth
Vital,

Theodore

Martha Mathilda
MacDonald, Edward J.

Lingertot,

E.

Walsh, Mary Gertrude (Mrs.
Morrissey)

Warmouth, Meltha Elizabeth
Williams, Dorothy Emily (Mrs. Alan
S.

Major)

Williams, Jane
Williams, Myfanwy Gertrude

iMrs.

Keith Graham)
Wolfe, Mary Helen (Mrs. Nelson
Davis)
Wruble, Esther

Kay

I.

Anne M.

Artman, C. Homer

Benjamin

J.

Stamer, Joseph M.
Stinson, Wanda Marie (Mrs. Arthur
Davis)

J.

Creasy, William T.
Davis, Albert R.
Dixon, Rose A.
Doyle, Edward F.

Dunkelberger, Madalyn S. (Mrs. Harry
W. Stephens)
Edwards, Maude Mae (Mrs. Howard

Tewksbury, Jennie E. (Mrs. James E.
Agder)
Traupane, Philip E.
Troy, Dale H.
Wright, Martha C. (Mrs. Lucas II.
Moe, Jr.)
Yarworth, William J.

Eldridge)

Eltringham, Edith J.
Enterline, Charles D.
Eroh, Miriam G. (Mrs. Roger Hatch)
Gillaspy, Anna M. (Mrs. Raker)
Harris, Gertrude M. (Mrs. G. Walters)
Hauze, Laura M.

Class of 1944
Aberant, Leona J.
Adams, Louise Elaine (Mrs. H.

Hornung, Alice A.

Dent, Frederick Grant
Gaugler, Sara E.
Hollenback, Catherine B. (Mrs.)
Johnson, Eleanor (Mrs. John Tilmont)
Latsha, Margaret Elvena (Mrs. Walter
Smiley)

Johnson, Anna E.
Knerr, Arthur J.
Larish, Joseph L.

Layaou, Adeline M.
Malone, Daniel J.

Dean, Margaret Douglas (Mrs.
Margaret D. Brunner)

Mark

Leon

Mary Edna (Mrs. Harry
Heckman)
Trapani, Samuel Joseph
Williams, Stella Mae (Mrs. James

Snyder,

Conrad, Royal William
Cramer, Robert Noel
Dodson, Harold Eugene
Dudzinski, Frank Walter
Dugan, Billy Neal
Fox, Herbert Harris
Fox, Mary Louise (Mrs. Joseph
Albano)
Funk, Grace Alberta (Mrs. Henry E.
Crawford)
Gearhart, Luther Elton
Gera, George
Gilbert, Eleanor Frutchey (Mrs.)
Gilbert, Vincent Jay
Hantz, Francis Anthony
Hawk, Richard Alexander
Hess, Richard Charles
Joseph, Philip James
Lampman, Alfred M.
Lopata, Paul
Lutz, Alvin Eugene

Magera, John Jacob
McDonald, Joan Ann (Mrs. Broda)
Mooney, William Barrett
Moore, Charles Kirtland
Nuss, Eugene Miller
Olson, Ernest Conrad, Jr.
Putera, Joseph John
Robbins, Carl Herbert

Shoemaker, Mary Catherine (Mrs.
Richard W. Hawk)

Lipnik)
Mudrick, Paul
Peifer,

J.

Messmer

Menapace, Richard S.
Moran, Margaret T.
Moss, Dorothy H. (Mrs. Davis A.

(Mrs.

Class of 1949
Anella, Betty Jane
Baird, Ralph W.
Becktel, Stewart G.
Cain, James Michael

Rhodes, Margaret E.

Stadt,

McPhilomy)

Gene

Grant)

Zinzarella. Julian Albert

Peel, Wilhelmina E.
Potter, Winfield R.
Price, Charles T.

Rarich, Glenn

Zinzarella)
Sharretts, Marjorie

Fulton)

J.

Smith, Donnabelle F. (Mrs. James F.
Smith)

Class of 1934

Baron, Eleanor

Marshalek, Michael
McCall, Emily A.
Nolan, Richard J.

Seesholtz,

Acker, Priscilla T. (Mrs.

J.

Carol Betty (Mrs. Tyree)
Johnson, Lois C. (Mrs. Richard
Kitchen)
Johnson, Mary Margaret
Keibler, W. Alfred
Lewis, Thomas O.
Fritz,

Lorah, Louneta
Parangosky, Helen Jane
Schargo, Ellen Rebecca (Mrs.

Thomas
Nancy McHenry (Mrs.)
Thomas, Dorothy Anna (Mrs. Franklin
Smigel,
Snyder,

E.

HELP US TO

Pregmon, Olga
Reed, Pierce M.
Reese, Jeanette M. (Mrs. Hartig)

Ryan, Anna M. (Sister Mary

Whitenight)
Troback, Gretch Dorcas (Mrs. Colin

Sebastian)
Spotts, Harriet K. (Mrs. Leitzell)
Sterling, Wilson B.
Taylor, John D.
Taylor, Mary E. (Mrs. Lawrence W.

LOCATE

Seeley)

Thomas, Richard

E. Patschke)

Thomson, Rose Ann
Trimpey, Ruth Gaye (Mrs. Lee
V. McLain)
Tugend, Florence Clara

Tyson, Mary Ruth (Mrs. Lauck)
Von Bergen, Ruth Catherine (Mrs.
Rosenstock)

J.

Vandling, Alfred L.
Welliver, Ruth K. (Mrs. Robert M.
Seely)
Williams, William C.
Wolfe, Dorothy I.
Yeager, Elsie L. (Mrs. Charles Rhodes)
Zadra, Frank J.

THESE

Class of 1954
Colone, Joseph F.
Czerwinski, Antoinette M.

Evans, Jeananne
Gallo,

Frank

B.

Gunton, Nancy Luella (Mrs. Kenneth
D.

Denmon)

Joseph D., Jr.
Marr, Howard Joseph
Masanovich, George
McLaren, Phyllis E.
Noz, Nancy L. (Mrs. Hendricks)
lies,

Class of 1939

Amerman, Sarah

Alice (Mrs.

Donald

Fry)
Barklie,

Lucy D.

ALUMNI

Bomboy, Isaiah D.

Shuman, Carol Vought

Burke, Virginia R. (Mrs. Philip

Walter, Marjorie A. (Mrs. Alex P.

Trapane)
Davies, Willard J.

JULY,

1958

(Mrs.)

Koharski)
Wolfe, Betty M. (Mrs.)
23

'

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA ACOUNTY
PRESIDENT

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre Area

Prank Taylor

Alton Schmidt

Berwick, Pa.

Burlington, N.

PRESIDENT

J.

Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Harold H. Hidlay
Bloomsburg, Pa.

John Dietz

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Southampton, Pa.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Eleanor Kennedy

Mrs. Mary Albano
Burlington, N. J.

Espy, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Paul Martin, ’38
710 East 3rd Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Walter Withka
Burlington, N.

Mr. Peter Podwika,
565

’42

Monument Avenue
Wyoming, Pa.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Harold Trethaway,

’42

1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

J.

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling, 53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPIIIN -CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

259

’32

Scranton

Margaret

4,

LUZERNE COUNTY

TREASURER
Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

Hazleton Area

’28

Locust Street

Scranton

4,

PRESIDENT

Pa.

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street

TREASURER
Martha

’ll

632 North

Hazleton, Pa.

Y. Jones, ’22

Main Avenue

Scranton

4,

’34

Pa.

L. Lewis,

HO 51/2 West

Race Street

Homer

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY
’32

Middletown, Pa.

Mr. W.

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, ’16
611 N. Summer Avenue

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

Pa.

147

Chestnut Street
Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams,
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

’18

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille
785

McHose

Ecker,

’32

Grant Street

Hazleton, Pa.

1885

The oldest graduate present at
the Alumni Meeting on Alumni
Day was Harry O. Hine, of Washington, D. C.

The Editor has just received the
following clipping from the Washington Post, dated June 4, 1958:
Harry O. Hine, the oldest
old timer there is, took
over spryly and reminiscently at
32nd annual reunion of the Old
Timers at the Central YMCA, 1736

YMCA

24

G

Street,

NW,

last night.

former secretary of
the Board of Education, is 93 and
closing fast on 94, which he will
pass next month.
Mr. Hine, who retired in 1934,
after 27 years as secretary of the
Board of Education, said he doesn’t
do much now.
“I loaf,” he said, “but I write a
live
I
lot.
Yes, 1 miss my work.
in a home now, and it’s not very
stimulating.
I write mostly verse
Mr. Hine,

and some other
of

it

some,
you a

if

you

like.

none
send you
In fact, I’ll send

things, but

gets printed.

I’ll

raft of stuff.”

1909

Fred W. Diehl, superintendent
of Montour County schools since
May 1, 1918, retired at the end of
school year, July 6.
native of Mahoning township,
Mr. Diehl is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg Normal School, now

this

A

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
MONTOUR COUNTY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, '36
1017 East Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Edward Linn,
R. D. 1

Mr. Clyde Adams,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

'34

SECRETARY-TREASURER
’05

Church Street

Mrs. Nora Bayliff Markunas,
Island Park, Pa.

’34

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mrs.

J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
3603-C Bowers Avenue
Baltimore 7, Md.

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

PHILADELPHIA AREA

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian
732

NEW YORK AREA
273

J. J.

Coughlin,

Irish, ’06

TREASURER
Miss Saida Hartman,
4215

Brandywine
Washington

'08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.

’23

New Market Road
Dunellen, N. J.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Fred Smethers,
742 Floral Avenue
Elizabeth, N. J.

Hortman

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Mrs.

’24

V

Street S.E.
Washington, D. C.
1232

Dornsife, Pa.

SECRETARY
312

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary R. Crumb,

VICE PRESIDENT

’53

Danville, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,

WASHINGTON AREA

’23

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street
Spring City, Pa.

'23

WEST BRANCH AREA
PRESIDENT

TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Miss Esther E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street

Roselle Park, N. J.

Jason Schaffer,
R. D.

’34

’54

1

Selinsgrove, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,
Lewisburg, Pa.

’56

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,
769

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

’29

King Street

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue

E.

Brown, TO

Lewisburg, Pa.

Bloomsburg

State Teachers Colreceived his Bachelor
and Master degrees from Bucknell
lege.

He

University.

Mr. Diehl, with forty years in the
office, holds the distinction of having the longest period of service
of any of the present incumbents,
and with one exception, of all who
have ever held the office in the
state.

Mr. Diehl was a pioneer in the
improvement of rural schools. In
1927
the
Valley Consolidated
School was built, the second consolidation in this part of the state.
Five additional buildings
have

JULY, 1958

been built

in the
these forty years.

county during

visor for the seventeen years be-

fore that,

knows he

is

held in high

In 1951 Montour County adopted the County Unit Plan, the first
in the state to be approved by the
State Council of Education.

esteem by

the county unit was
changed to a joint plant, resulting
in the formation of the Danville
Area Jointure and the erection of
the new senior high school building, now under construction.

Pennsylvania State Education As-

In

1953

1911

Ray M.

Cole, retiring head of
the Columbia county schools for
twenty years and vocational super-

his colleagues.

He was the guest of honor at
the annual spring banquet of the
Columbia County Branch

of

the

sociation.

That he was to be the guest of
honor was kept from him until the
program had started.
Then the
superintendent held the spotlight
as a “This Is Your Life” program
was presented in which members
of his family, friends

and associates

participated.

He was

presented by the teach25

with a portable ice chest with
the information that he should use
it on fishing trips “for it will make
any sized fish look large”; with
a handsome three piece luggage
set the donors hope he will use for
the travels he is planning, and a
ers

Bausch and Lomb slide projector
with remote control which he may
use in the showing of the hundreds of slides he has accumulated
through the years.
Mrs. Cole received a charm
bracelet, containing the

names

of

children and grandchildren,
from the teachers and a beautiful
arm bouquet of roses from the Col-

her

umbia County Future HomemakAmerica.

ers of

classmate of Mr. Cole at B.S.T.C.;

Mr. Diehl, soon to

retire as super-

intendent of Montour county; L.

Ray Appleman,

retired head of
Benton schools; Mrs. Weldon Roberts, former secretary of Cole; Paul

N. Brunstetter, long Cole’s

assist-

ant and to be his successor; Harry
A. Everett, vocational supervisor;

Kenneth

Montour

director of special educa-

Mrs. Ruth Cunningham, Mr.
Cole’s present secretary; Carl M.
Davis, Berwick teacher; Miss Avalyn Kisner, Williamsport, home
economics supervisor in the area;
tion;

Elmer McKechnie, head of the
Berwick schools; S. H. Evert, presMr. and Mrs. Howard Dildine,
Orangeville; Mrs. Koons Thomas,
State College; Dr. Clifford Jenkcounty teacher and
ins, former
county school pyschologist and

Roberts, principal of
Pleasant school, president,
extended greetings to the more
than 300 assembled and then opened the program for which he was
narrator. Elfid Jones, Central Supervisor of elementary education,
was the announcer; Gerald Hartman, supervising principal at Catawissa, organist; Harry A. Everett,
Columbia and Montour counties
vocational supervisor, projectionist,
and Donald Rishe, principal of
Central High School, stage man-

superintendent of Northumberland county schools; Mrs. Chester Dodson, Benton; Mrs. Ernest
Robbins and Mrs. Floyd Gauss,
Oiangeville, cousins; Dr. and Mrs.
Keium Bonebreak, Martinsburg,
with Mrs. Bonebreak the former
Irma Diehl, at one time home econimics supervisors in the area;

ager.

Glenn Milroy, Millville, represen-

the program
Participating in
were Mrs. Cole; Mr. and Mrs. David Cole, son and daughter-in-law
and their son, Bradley, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Honer Webb,
son-in-law and daughter and their
sons, David and Raymand, Henderson, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Orval
Cole, brother and sister-in-law,
East Stroudsburg; Mr. and Mrs.
Merle Fox, brother-in-law and sisGeorge
ter-in-law,
Greensburg;
Derr, former county teacher and
now in the Department of Public

ting Ray M. Cole Chapter FFA,
and Miss Sidney Riale, Espy, rep-

Harrisburg; Howard
at
former
teacher
Orangeville and now a vocational
education supervisor with headquarters at Clarks Summit.
Instruction,

Newcomer,

Wesley Eyer, Light

Street; Alvin

Sutliff, Benton dairy farmer and
former vocational instructor at
Benton; Howard Fetterolf, Mifflinville,

recently

retired

after

forty

years as head of the department of
vocational education in the state;
Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Danville, a
2fi

RCV; Donald Rishe, CenDonald Smethers, head of
Evans
Memorial
Elmenetary
School,
and Kenneth Roberts,
Rarig,
tral;

Mount

Raymond Treon, Columbia and

ident of the county school board.

Mount

Catawissa; Paul L. Brunstetter,
Catawissa;
Harry
A.
Everett,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Fred Hummel,
Elfid Jones, Central; Mrs. Charles
ert,

now

resenting the county FHA; Mr.
and Mrs. Earle Cole, brother and
Stroudsburg;
sister-in-law,
East

MeConnel,
Lycoming
Clarence
county superintendent of schools,
and John Megargell, Orangeville,
uncle of Mr. Cole.

Pleasant.

1910
Miss Julia Gregg

Brill, who has
Pennsylvania
serving
the
State University in various ways
since her graduation in 1921, has
been named the Penn State- Woman of the Year for 1958.

been

She is the first woman to receive
award, established by the
Board of Trustees of the Universi-

the

presentation “to
personal life, professional achievements, and community service exemplify the objectives of her Alma Mater.”
a

year,

last

ty

for

woman whose

The medal that accompanies the
honor was presented to Miss Brill
as a part of the Alumni Institute
program, June 13-14.

Before her appointment

to the
1924, she
taught in the public schools of Lu-

Penn

faculty

State

in

Town Hill and
Huntington Mills, and then taught
history and Latin at Bloomsburg
High School and European history
in Allentown High School.
zerne county, at

She retired in 1954 as professor
emerita of English composition at
Penn State and during her 30 years
of teaching at her almo mater served as friend as well as teacher to

hundreds

students,

of

especially

The invocation was by Carmen
Shelhamer, Mifflinville. The group

women students.
When the Penn

sang a tribute to Mr. Cole with
the words by Mrs. Charles Rarig.
An ode to retired teachers was by
Mrs. Elfid Jones. Mrs. Rarig conducted the group singing with
Gerald Hartman at the organ. Mr.
Foberts conducted the business
meeting.

sociation

The hospitality committee was
composed of Mrs. John D. Hughes,
RCV; Mrs. Joseph Riale, Central;

and Mrs. William Brill
and resided in Bloomsburg for a
number of years and has many

Mrs. William Steinhart, Bloomsburg. The program committee was
composed of Mrs. Newell Davis,
Bloomsburg, and teacher in the
Central system; Miss Loie Bick-

friends

State Alumni Aswas reorganized in 1930,

she was named to its first executive board. She served for 20 years
on the board, then retired briefly,
and again is serving on the board.
She has served as vice president
of the association for several terms.

Miss

Brill

is

the daughter of the

late Prof,

in

this

area.

Her

father

taught history at the Teachers College for many years and was one
the beloved “Old
“Old Normal.”
of

TIIE

Guard”

of

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1913

Ray

V. Watkins, scheduling officer
at the Pennsylvania State
University, retired July 1, marking the completion of nearly 34
years of service to the University.

A

Watwas graduated with honors
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and from 1913 to 1915
native of Nanticoke, Mr.

kins

taught in the elementary schools
of Nanticoke.
He then enrolled at
Syracuse University until 1917 at
which time he entered the Army,
serving until 1918.

He

taught for a year at Carson
New Bloomfield
before coming to State College in
1920 as principal of the State Col-

Long

Institute at

lege elementary schools.

he was named instrucEnglish composition at the
University and in 1930 became assistant professor of English composition.
He was appointed University scheduling officer in 1935.
Mr. Watkins has been active in
In 1924,

tor

in

many community
cently

affairs.

was elected

to

He

his

re-

He

has served for four years on
committee of the
State School Directors Association.
legislative

For 20 years he has been a member of the State College Recreation
Board.
Mr. Watkins has been active in
the Masonic lodge as a 32nd degree Mason. He is affiliated with
the Masonic chapter at Bellefonte,

commandery

at Bellefonte,

and

the Council at State College.

He

is

a charter

member

of the

American Legion, Nittany Post 245,
State College, and of the 40 and 8,
and for more than 25 years has
been a member of the Alpha Fire
Co., of State College.
Last year
he was co-chairman of the Alphas

4th of July celebration and he will
serve again this summer in that
capacity.

JULY, 1958

Miss Annabel Sober, Bloomsburg, received the Doctor of Education degree from New York Uni-versity, School of Education, Department of Higher Education, re-

cently.

Miss Sober has been teaching
the

Social

School

of

in

Department,
Education, New York
Studies

University, where she was a University supervisor of student teach-

ing on the secondary level, and a
teacher of the content areas.
For three summers she was an
assistant to Dr. Alonzo F. Myers,

Chairman, Department of Higher
Education, in the Graduate Workshops in Teachers Education, two
of which were on the New York
University campus at Washington
Square, New York City, and one
on the campus of Sarah Lawrence
College, Bronxville,

New

standing Wrestler" of Wyoming
Valley and winner of the fourth
presentation of the George Hooper
Memorial Wrestling Trophy.
Stauffer, a senior at Kingston,
has been district champion for the
last two seasons and this year won

tne big

title

the state

as

titlist

Not counting post-season comStauffer
has won 30
matches, got a draw in two and
scored 21 of his victories on falls.
He amassed 148 points.
In 1956 Stauffer was defeated
petition,

as a 95-pounder in the regional
competition.
The following year
he lost out as a 103-pounder in the

semi-finals of the state tournament.
Stauffer, in winning the George

Hooper Memorial Trophy, became
the first one to win it twice.
He
was voted the “Outstanding Wrestler
last season and received the
'

troptiy.

The

Stauffer family live at 95
Street, Kingston.

West Union

1930

York.

1923
the

first

woman

professor in

Department of Education at
Brooklyn College. She began her
new duties January 1, 1958.
the

1928

Thelma

Roy HunWest Third

Miller (Mrs.

lives

at

109

Nescopeck. She has been
leaching in the Nescopeck schools
since graduation.
She completed
work for the B.S. degree at BloomsStreet,

burg

elec-

ted vice president of Consolidated

Margaret Bittner Parke has be-

come

at

University Park.

Bernard E. Gallagher was

singer)

earlier this year.

the

1923

fourth

term of six-years as a school director in the Borough of State College and for many years he has
served as secretary of both the
State College board and the College Area Joint Board.
He was
named as one of the original 100
appointees to attend the Education
Conference held in Harrisburg

the

As to future plans, Mr. Watkins
says he probably will accept a position as a teacher of English, possibly in a Southern college.

in 1943.

Edison of New York at a meeting
of the company’s Board of Trustees
Tuesday, May 27, 1958.
Mr. Gallagher, 30 West Woods
Road, Lake Success, Long Island,
New York, joined the Edison system in 1930.
A graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College he did meter and test work
for Con Edison while attending
Columbia graduate school at night
from which he received his M.A.
degree in 1934. In 1935 he transferred to the utility’s personnel de-

1928
Gladys Hirsch Lyon, 704 West
34th Street, Wilmington, Delaware,
attended her class reunion on
Alumni Day. She was accompanied
by her sisters, Annabelle
Wade,
Hirsch
and Irene
12,
Hirsch Heister, ’33. Mrs. Lyon has
attended Summer Schools and Columbia University and has a B.S.
degree in Elementary Education.

later became
wage coordinator for Con Edison.
From 1940 to 1950, Mr. Gallagher worked in various executive

partment where he

under the company’s
development
proDuring this period he had

capacities

management
gram.

responsibilities

in

construction,

production and accounting operations.

He

returned to his specialty of

1929

industrial relations in 1951, first as
staff assistant and, in 1954, as as-

Dick Stauffer, son of Elsie Lebo
Kingston’s
Stauffer,
112-pound
Pennsylvania State wrestling champion, has been named the “Out-

sistant to the president.
He was
elected assistant vice president in
charge of industrial relations in
1956.
27

Mr. Gallagher has been active in
community’s affairs and has
served as a trutee of Lake Success

asm and

his

Sampsell.

tor the past tour years.

of his superior performance.

leadership of Mr.
Mr. Sampsell received

tireless

an award of $150.00 in recognition

1933

1956

Dorothy Gilmore Lovell is now
living at z422 Wright Street, The

McGraw is a member
of
Gompany A, Headquarters
Group, U. S. Army Armor Center,
Fort Knox, Kentucky. He expects
to be discharged from the Army

Dalles, Oregon.

1939
Harriet kocher has been electea President ot the All-Pennsylvania Alumni, an organization ot
all graduates ot Pennsylvania colleges and universities living in the

time to begin teaching

in

Washington, D. G., area.
The
groups holds an annual dinner in
vvasnington.

High

School,

Bristol,

this fall.

sponsor-

Co. in
Miss
Delhaas

of

won

first

prize.

The October

31,

1957, issue of

Washington Post and Times
Herald carried a picture and artconcerning the presentation ot
a sterling silver bowl to Mrs. Robert Anderson, wite ot the Secretary

icle

The presentation

was made by Margaret Steininger,
president ot the Washington Chapter ot the National Home Fashion
League. Miss Steininger is operating a successful
business in

Washington.
1949

James

F. Sampsell has

won

rec-

ognition in the Bureau under the
Employee’s
incentive

Federal

services

to

develop

them

paths of their own choosing and
to transfer leadership to village
in

The
the logical time.
members of the Alaska Rural Development Board attribute the
success of the rehabilitation program in the village to the enthusileaders at

28

Mr. Chrostwaite was named superintendent of Hanover public
schools in 1899 shortly after being graduated from Harvard" University.

He headed
ation since

the boroughs’ associ-

its

organization in 1909

he retired

last year.

Miss O’Brien, who is the daughMr. and Mrs. David O Brien,
Catherine Street, Bloomsburg, was
graduated from B.S.T.G. in 1956
and before going to Delhaas was
secretary to Robert Williams at

Edith Harden Coon, ’93
The Quarterly has been infor-

ter of

WHLM.

med

They

Shamokin.

appeared in the WilkesBarre Times-Leader at the time of
her death:

editorial

two

have

Mae and

1958

Ann

Ely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Ely, Ilughesville, to John
P. Herman, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Herman, Harrisburg, took
place Saturday, June 14, in the
Church
Ilughesville
Methodist
with the Rev. Marcus W. Randall
officiating.

Both Miss Ely and Mr. Herman
received degree at commencement

system

in

They

elementary school

Harrisburg.

Marcy

Kingston at 82
marks the passing of a remarkable
of

woman who

actually had three caone as a wife and mother,
another as a teacher and business
woman and a third as a civic and
reers

—

welfare leader. In all these roles,
she excelled, testifying to her ability

and

versatility.

The Home for Homeless Women, the West Side Woman’s Club,
the Visiting Nurse Association, the

New

Century Club and the Daughthe American Revolution,

of

well as Kingston Methodist
Church, profited by her member-

as

of Miss Carol

exercises at B.S.T.G. recently.

of Mrs. Edith

Harden Coon

ters

will teach in the

of the death of Mrs. Edith

The death

William.
Mr. Lundy is teaching senior high
English and French at Blain Union
School District. He is a member
of educational fraternity, Kappa
Delta Pi.

The marriage

survived by his wife.

is

Harden Coon, which occured November 4, 1957. The following

1957
Ernest Eugene Lundy, Catawissa, served four years in the U. S.
Navy and three years in the U. S.
Army, having been discharged as
a master sergeant in 1953.
He is
married to the former Joyce Krox-

Mr. Sampsell taught at Chanega
from 1949 to 1953 and then transierred to the day school at Beaver
where he is now serving as the
Principal Teacher.
Mr. Sampsell
has conducted an excellent school
program as evidenced in good or-

their self-sufficiency, to lead

He was

He

children, Evelyn

ganization and planning. In addition Mr. Sampsell has given unstintingly of his time and talents
to provide a creative community
program, not only to meet the
needs of the people, but also to

Hospital.

Pa.,

prize was $500 and Miss
O’Brien received $100 for having
been the teacher.

ell,

their

Hanover,
85.

until

Awards Program.

utilize

native and former president of the
Pennsylvania State Association of
Boroughs, died Friday, May 9, at

The

the

ot the 1 reasury.

Thomas Chrostwaite, ’92
Thomas F. Chrostwaite, Ashley

John L.

1956
In a shorthand contest
ed by Atlantic Refining
Philadelphia, a student
Patricia O’Brien of the

1939

Nrrrnlngij

ship

and leadership.

Mrs. Coons earned a well deserved reputation for enthusiasm and
perseverance. When she assumed
an obligation, associates knew the
assignment would be completed.
She possessed staying qualities that
invariably brought results.
Kind and thoughtful, she wore
well with colleagues. Her consideration for others was a distinguishing characteristic. Her counsel
was sought widely, such was the
Till:

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commanded.

respect she

District

Mrs. Coon was one of those rare
individuals who never grow old.
For six decades, she was active on
the local scene, establishing an exceptional record for community
service that will stand as a lasting

date

memorial.

Josephine

Mary Cummings,

’00

Miss Josephine Mary Cummings,
SI, descendant of families prominent in Colonial and Revolutionary
War days, died Tuesday, February
27 in a nursing home near Harrisburg.

Cummings, who formerly

Miss

lived at 3652 Brisban Street, Paxtang,

was

a daughter of the late

Homer Hamilton and Sarah Cowden Cummings, and a granddaughter of the late John Wallace Cow-

One

ancestors was
Joseph Barnett, a signer of the
“Hanover Resolves,” which declared independence from Great Britain on June 4, 1774.
den.

of

her

For 40 years. Miss Cummings

was

a teacher in the public schools

of Harrisburg, retiring in 1942.

Sara Harris

Chapman, 00

Sarah

hospital.

She moved away from
Bloomsburg area shortly after
graduating from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. She is survived
by her husband, Albert; one sister,
Mrs. Merlin Gulliver, Wilkes-Barre
and one brother, Bret Harris,

Bloomsburg.

Warren S. Sharpless, 01
Warren Shuman Sharpless,

sev-

a practicing attorney for

over a half a century, died at his
home on South Street, Catawissa,
Friday, March 14. Death was due
to complications.
Mr. Sharpless resided alone and

body was found about noon.
While he had been in ill health for
the past six years his death came

his

as a shock.

JULY, 1958

judge

1927

in

against

Law School.
He was admitted to

sylvania

practice in
the several courts immediately after his graduation.
He was the moving spirit in the
organization of the Valley National

Bank, Numidia, now consolidated
with the Catawissa National Bank
as Catawissa Valley National, and

many years was its president.
He was long prominent in the

for

P.
a

O.

S.

of A. ot this area

member

Ieori, Pa.,

of the F.

and

St.

&

and was

A. M., Char-

John’s

Reformed

(United Church of Christ), Cata-

Helen Lesher Frederick, ’01
Mrs. Helen G. Frederick,

80,

Pottsgrove, died Tuesday, December 17, 1957, in the Geisinger Hospital.

She had been

week and
the

enty-six,

for

judge Charles C. Evans.
A native of Numidia, he was
born June 29, 1882, the son of the
late Agnes Mann and Dr. B. F.
Sharpless.
He was a graduate of
the Catawissa High School, and of
the
Bloomsburg State Normal
School and the University of Penn-

wissa.

Harris Chapman,
seventy-six, Seaford, Del., formerly of Buckhorn, died in March after a lengthy illness, in a Seaford
Mrs.

attorney of the county

two terms, he was for years a
leader in the Democratic party in
the county and for some time its
chairman. He also was a member
of the Democratic State Committee.
He was the Democratic canfor

ill

about nine

a hospital patient seven

weeks.
Mrs. Frederick, a former school
teacher, was born October 28,
1877, on Blue Hill near the Union-

Snyder county line. She was the
daughter of Robert and Sarah
Vandling Lesher and lived in this
area her entire lifetime.
Mrs. Frederick was a member of
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Pottsgrove, the Missionary Society, the
Sunday School class taught by Mrs.
Charles Rishe and of the Ladies’
Auxiliary of Pottsgrove Fire Company.

A graduate of Bloomsburg Normal School with the class of 1901
Mrs. Frederick taught school two
years at Rushtown and a year at
Franklin school in East Chillisqua-

que Township.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick celebra-

ted their 54th wedding anniversary
April 12, 1957.

Surviving are her husband, David P. Frederick, Pottsgrove; one
son! John L. Frederick, Milton R.
D.;

two

two

and

grandchildren

She was the
great-grandchildren.
last surviving member of a family
of 17.

Nell McCann, T2
The Quarterly has been informed of the death of Nell McCann,
which occured December 13, 1957.
Members of the class will recall
that she was present at the class
reunion in May, 1957.

Mrs. Carrie Noetling,
Mrs. Carrie
ty-six,

Ann

a former

T3

Noetling, eigh-

Columbia county

May

resident, died Saturday,

10, in

Hollie Peace Home for Convalescents, Selinsgrove R. D. 2. She had
been a guest there for nineteen

months.
Mrs. Noetling, who lived in Sel'insgrove until she entered the nursing home, was born in Beaver Valley, September 13, 1871, the daughter of the late Charles and Mary

Koenig Shuman.
She was married
Noetling,

who

died

to

Charles

1929.

in

She

attended Columbia county public
schools and was a graduate of the

Bloomsburg State Normal School.
She moved to Selinsgrove in 1920
and resided in the Noetling building for thirty-eight years. She was
a member of Trinity Lutheran
Church, Selinsgrove, and its associated organizations.

Maxwell R. Noack, T6
Maxwell R. Noack, a singing
teacher and church choir director,
died Monday, December 9, 1957,
in

studio at 124 South 18th
Philadelphia.
He was 64.
Mr. Noack, who lived at 5002
his

Street,

North Marvine

Street,

was musical

director of the Chapel of the Four
Chaplains at the Baptist Temple,

Broad and Berks Streets, and formerly the Temple’s minister of
music.

He was

a

Mason and

a

member
29

of the

American Legion. Surviving

are his mother, Mrs. Katherine C.,
and a sister.

proposed to dedicate a new playground to her memory and name
it the “Helen A. Hart Playground.”
Certainly no greater tribute could
be paid to one so devoted to her

Gensemer Moyer,

17

prominent

ly

and

physician,

traveler

lecturer, died Saturday,

March

home, 2031 Locust
Philadelphia. He was 77.

Street,

29, at his

profession.
Lillian

Dr. George Earle Raiguel
Dr. George Earle Raiguel, social-

Mrs. Lillian G. Moyer, sixty, nee
Gensemer, 20 West Eighth Street,
Bloomsburg, died at Bloomsburg
Hospital Thursday, May 15, of

She was survived, at the time of
her death, by her husband, Herbert
H. Hart; two daughters, Elaine
and Dawn, and three grandchildren.
Other survivors were her

complications following survery.
Mrs. Moyer was born in Mt.

father, since deceased, her mother,
a sister, Thelma, and a brother,

national and international affairs and, in furtherance
of that interest, took special cour-

Carmel, daughter of the late John
and Mary Elizabeth Smith Gensemer. Most of her life was spent
in
Bloomsburg.
Her husband,
Ralph G. Moyer, died twenty-five

James.

ses of study

She was a devout member of St.
Matthew Lutheran Church where
she taught a Sunday School class.
She was president of the Golden
Age Club of the Lutheran Church
and a member of the Belle Straub
Missionary Society of the church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Carl Hilscher, Jr., Bloomsburg;
four sisters, Mrs. Mary G. Larned,
Mrs. Max Lemon, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Howard G. Keylor, Berwick;
Mrs. John B. Kennedy, Kingston;
one brother, Lester Gensemer,

Bloomsburg.

Helen Riegel Hart, ’23
Helen A. Riegel (Mrs. Herbert
Hart) died in the Germantown, Pa.,
Hospital, February 28, 1956, after
an

months. A naNescopeck, Pa., she was

illness of three

tive

of

born March
uated from

1904, and was gradBloomsburg Normal
School, class of 1923. She taught
in the Nescopeck school system un2,

her marriage to Herbert II. Hart
in 1927, when she moved to Philadelphia where she lived until her
death.
During 1945 the accepted a third
grade teaching assignment in the
Philadelphia school system where
she taught in the same district until the day before she was admitted

The
30

P.T.A.

of

her district has

Raiguel became

in-

in

both here and

in

Eu-

He

During

Mrs. Anna E. Williams, ’27

mer

Anna Ellen Williams,

resident

of

Danville

died recently at the
daughter,

Mrs.

Gerald

for-

R.

home

D.,

of

a

Blochner,

attributed to complications.

Mrs. Williams was a former
teacher in grade schools near Rushtown and Washingtonville. She
and her husband, Daniel, who died
twelve years ago, were residents
of Danville area until nearly sixteen years ago.
Mrs. Williams was the daughter
Edward Gerringer, Danville,
who survives, and the late Eva
Derr Gerringer. She was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and a member of the
York Springs Church of God.
of

Other survivors include

a

daugh-

Mrs. Stanley Reinecker, York
Springs R. D. 2; two sons, Daniel,
Anderson College, Anderson,
Jr.,
Indiana, and George, York Springs
R. D. 2; one sister, Mrs. LeRoy
ter,

Fiegles,

Bloom Road, Danville, and

two grandchildren.

Charles Rovenolt, ’33
Charles Rovenolt, Watsontown,
former resident of Espy, died
Thursday, March 21, at Geisinger
Hospital. He had been in ill health

two

He

formerly taught
Mr.
Rovenolt later took his degree in

for
at

years.

the high school at Espy.

Industrial Arts at Millersville,

many

ed

Gardner R. D. 1, Adams County,
at the age of fifty-two.
Death was

til

to the hospital.

a

Hahnemann Medical

traveled extensively, particularly in Russia.

Mrs.

area schools, retiring last year.

terested

and

Philadelphian

native

rope.

years ago.

She was graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School and taught for
thirty-nine years in the Bloomsburg

A

graduate of
College, Dr.

and

taught in Mount Joy High School
from 1943 to 1955.

his travels

he interview-

of the world’s outstanding

personalities,

among them Hinden-

Mussolini and Stalin.
He
was co-author of a book called
“This Is Russia.”
burg,

Dr. Raiguel visited Bloomsburg
times in the decade prior to

many

World War

II.

Mrs. Sara Smull Free
Sara Smull Free, wellDanville
resident,
and
teacher in the Danville Schools for
the past nineteen years, died recently in the Geisinger Memorial
Hospital at the age of fifty-two.
Mrs.

known

Mrs. Free had been ill for the
past six months and was a patient
at the hospital on several occasions.

She was born in 1905, in Danthe daughter of Mrs. Christine Smull and the late Charles H.

ville,

Smull.

Her husband, Eugene Free, former assistant superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co.
plant at Hawley, Pa., died in 1932.

Mrs. Free was a graduate of the
Danville High School, Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and Bucknell University.
For the past fourteen years she was head of the
English department at Danville
High School.
Mrs. Free was an active

member

of the Trinity Methodist Church.
She directed the annual senior

High School
and was serving

class play at Danville

for

many

years,

as coach of the school’s senior
cheerleading squad when she be-

came

ill.

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Elizabeth Kreisher Keifer

M

Charles Keifer, the former
Elizabeth G. Kreisher, seventyeight, died Sunday, May 25, at 3:30
o’clock at her son’s home in Espy.
She had been in ill health for the
past year and death was due to
complications.
She was born in
Catawissa and spent most of her
life
that borough.
in
She was
graduated from the Bloomsburg
Normal School and taught in the
Catawissa rural schools for eight
She was a member of the
years.
Reformed Church of Catawissa.
rs.

Survivors include her husband,
Charles; two sons, Max, North Miami, Fla.; and Eugene, with whom

she resided in Espy; one daughter,
Mrs. John Hoppes, Endwell, N. Y.;
seven grandchildren and five great
grandchildren and one brother,

State Teachers College, then the
Normal School, and was a representative of the Prudential Insurance Company at Danville for a

and

After that
quarter of a century.
he was ten years an employe of
He
the Danville State Hospital.
retired ten years ago.
He was a
member of the Danville Elks.

Richard Kreisher, Herndon,
several nieces and nephews.

John E. Pfahler
John E. Pfahler, seventy-six, a
guest at the Ipher Nursing Home,
Orangeville, for the past two and a
half years, died Saturday,
at the

nursing

home from

May

31,

compli-

cations.

A native of Numidia, he spent
most of his life in Danville. As a
youth he attended the Bloomsburg

His

wife,

preceded him

Elizabeth Pritchard,
in death thirty-five

years ago.

Surviving are a daughter,

Mrs.

John Wilt, Wililamsport; a grandson, Donald M. Wilt, Bloomsburg;
a great grandson; a brother, Frank
Pfahler, Orangeville; several nieces

and nephews.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College

HOME-COMING DAY:
Saturday, October 4th
Football: Mansfield State

JULY, 1958

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June 2
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September 9
September 10
October 4

HOME-COMING DAY

November 25
December 2
December 18

Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Thanksgiving Recess Ends
Christmas Recess Begins

Christmas Recess Ends

January

Semester Ends

5

January 20

THE SECOND SEMESTER -

1958-1959

Registration

January_26
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Classes Begin

March 21
March 31

Easter Recess Begins
Easter Recess Ends

ALUMNI DAY

May
May
May

Baccalaureate

Commencement

1958

September 20
September 27
October 4 _

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October 11
October 18

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Homecoming

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FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

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— Millersville

October 25

November
November
November

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August 22

September

Classes Begin

I irst

to

1958-1959

Freshmen
Upper Classmen

Registration of
Registration of

June 20

to July 11

July 14 to August

August 4

THE FIRST SEMESTER -

to

Home
Away
Away
Home

M.

"SawceAed and feltuued"
Another Alumni Day is history. The Class of 1908 did itself proud as the
For example, William D. Watkins didn’t let physical handicaps interfere with his class spirit which has been outstanding through all of
these 50 years. And Jay Grimes, M.D., was here from Florida to show his continued Class loyalty. Of such stuff is a vigorous Alumni Association made. Nor
1958 honor group.

must we forget that Edna Santee Huntzinger
Class contribution of $144.38,

made 65

$150.00, her personal contribution.

It

of the

1893 Class decided that the

years ago, should be

more than

the initial contribution to the loan funds that today total

We may

ask of our Association

augmented by

should be noted that the ’93 Class

— “What

is

its

made

$25,000.00.

destination, or the purpose

mind that one of its justifications
for being is found in its organized effort to assist worthy students in attaining
educational opportunities that they may in turn become the benefactors of
mankind. The basic relationship of an Alumni Association to its members and
and the continuation of its history rest upon a foundation of appreciation to its
Alma Mater and a desire that her influence may be an inspiration for honorable
of

its

immediately there comes

existence?”

achievement

in this

Wherever

I

to

changing world.

have had the privilege of

visitation with

branch organizations

have been most cordially received and noted with pleasure that, without exception, some project was in operation to promote the influence of Bloomsburg
and her graduates. “Onward Bloomsburg goes.
1

I

would be remiss

Directors

who

if

State Teachers College of
its

I

did not mention the loyal support of the Board of

give of their time and talent that the

Bloomsburg may be worthy

Alumni Association of the
of its calling and proud of

heritage.

In conclusion,

when
It is a

may

I

quote the entire address of Katherine Bakeless Nason

she received the Meritorious Service

gem

of oral English; in fact, a

O. H. Bakeless, whose
address:

memory

is

Award from

the

Alumni Association.

quote from her beloved father, Professor

revered by thousands.

Here

is

the unabridged

“TO BE IMMORTAL ONE NEED NOT BE ETERNAL.”
I

close on that

happy

note.

ELNA

H.

NELSON, 11

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QUARTERLY

WILLIAM BOYD SUTLIFF HALL

Vol. L IX

October 1958
,

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No. 3

WILLIAM BOYD SUTLIFF HALL
The first classroom building for college students erected on the
campus since 1906 will be named for Dean Emeritus William Boyd
Sutliff, the first Dean of Instruction of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, serving from 1898 to 1937, beloved, respected, and admired
by thousands

of Alumni.

This recogntion of his contribution to the College

who

as an administrator, scholar, poet, teacher,

man, has occupied a preeminent position
Guard” for many years.

as a

made

is

and Christian

member

to

one

gentle-

of the “Old

While Navy Hall has been used since World War II as a college
classroom building, it was originally constructed to house Junior
High School students. The basement auditorium area of this building
will be renovated at a cost of some $60,000 to house clinics for
remedial reading, psychological testing, speech and hearing testing

and therapy.
which

Sutliff Hall,

will cost

approximately a half million dollars,

on the first floor and eight classDepartment of Business Education on the second floor.
Faculty offices will be adjacent to the Science Laboratories but will
be located in clusters at each end of the building on the second floor,
where a common waiting room will be provided for each group of
will provide six Science Laboratories

rooms

for the

four offices.

Colonial brick, with liberal amount of glass and aluminum, will

make

Sutliff Hall

one of the more modern buildings on the campus,

with stairway entrances at the end of each building, facing toward

Mount Olympus.
while students are

Closet space and areas for hanging outer clothing
in class will

be provided inside the rooms instead

of in the hall corridors.

The Board
that the
Hall,”

New

of Trustees resolved at

its

November,

1957, meeting

Classroom Building be named “William Boyd

upon the recommendation

Sutliff

of

President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
October, 1958

No. 3

Vol. LIX,

NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY
Dr. Barbara

J.

L. Shockley

a
J. L. Shockley is
of the Social Studies

Dr. Barbara

new member

Forces; one son is a Lieutenant in
the Navy, and the other is a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps.

faculty.

A native of Grand Forks, North
Dakota, she attended the public
schools of Grand Forks and Minto,
North Dakota, and was graduated
from Lees Summit High School,
At the University of Oklahoma, she specialized in Economics and History while earning
the Bachelor of Arts degree.
She
was awarded the Master of Science
degree by the University of Utah
and the Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition, she has done
undergraduate work at the College
of
Charleston,
South Carolina;
Jacksonville University; and the
University of Florida. She has taken graduate work at the University
of Oklahoma and Johns Hopkins
University.
At the University of
Missouri.

quarterly by the Alumni
Association of the State Teachers ColEntered as Seclege. Bloomsburg, Pa.
ond-Class Matter, August 8. 1941, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly Subscription, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

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PRESIDENT
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Hervey B. Smith, '22
Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

West Biddle

OCTOBER,

1958

Street,

partment of Social Studies at West
Chester State Teachers College.

ternity); Pi

Elizabeth H. Hubler,
14

Club.
Dr. Shockley has held teaching
positions with the Department of
Naval
Government,
Education,
Guam; the Pennsylvania State University at the Ogontz Center; the
School of Business Administration,
Temple University; and the De-

pha (honorary

Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.

H. F.
242 Central

co-

as

professional affiliations include membership in Pi Sigma Al-

Street, Danville, Pa.

Edward

served

Her

Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Fred W. Diehl,

she

chairman and secretary-treasurer
of the Graduate Political Science

’31

Gordon, Pa.

Poltical Science fra-

Gamma Mu

(honorary

Am-

Social Science fraternity); the
erican Academy of Political

and

Social Science; the American Political Science Association; the National Education Association; the

Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Dr. Shockley’s husband
tired

Navy

currently

serving

is

a reare

Her sons

officer.

in

the

Armed

Royce O. Johnson
Boyce O. Johnson has been named Director and Associate Professor of Elementary Education. For
the past twenty-seven years, Mr.
Johnson has served in teaching administrative positions in the public schools of Pennsylvania, and
recently completed a four year
tenure as Director of Elementary
Education for the Cumberland
Valley Joint School System in Me-

chanicsburg.

Mr. Johnson was born in Port
Allegany, McKean County; he attended the public schools in Port
Allegany, and later graduated from
the

Lock Haven

State

Teachers

He

taught for five years
in Annin Township before accepting an appointment as teacher
and principal at the M. J. Ryan
Consolidated School in Lafayette
Township. In 1950, he became supervising principal of the Lawrence Township Schools in Clearfield County, and left there to go
College.

to

Mechanicsburg

in 1954.

In addition to his undergraduate

work at Lock Haven, Mr. Johnson
earned the Master of Education
Degree from the Pennsylvania

He holds membership in Phi Delta Kappa, national honorary education fraternity, and has been a member of
the Clearfield Kiwanis Club and
the Lafayette Grange.
State University.

Mrs. Johnson is the former Evelyn Anderson of DuBois and a
graduate of Indiana State TeachThe Johnsons have
ers College.
three children: a son, Royce II who
will be in sixth grade; a daughter,
Jule Elaine who will be a sophomore; and a daughter, Kristin who
will receive her Bachelor of Sci1

ence degree at Millersville State
Teachers College this summer.
Dr. Glenn

S.

lish.

Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania,
Dr. Weight attended Juniata ColAmerican University, and
received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Pennsylvania State
University in 1942.
Following
three and one-half years of military
service in World War II, he served,
from 1946-1949, as Instructor in
English Literature at the Altoona
lege, the

Center

of

Penn-

sylvania State University.
He received the Master of Arts degree
from Penn State in 1948 and spent

1949-1950 in graduate study there.
year, he received
the Master of Science degree in
Library Science from the Carnegie
Institute of Technology. After two
years in the reference division of
the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh,
he became a member of the faculty of the Valley Forge Military
Academy. He served briefly as
Extension Librarian at Penn State,
leaving there to teach English at
the Altoona Senior High School
and, at the same time, complete the
requirements for the Doctor of
Philosophy degree.

The following

Dr. Weight’s teaching experience also includes previous appointments as instructor of English
at

Penn

State

and Assistant Pro-

fessor of English Literature at Austin

State College in Nacagdoches,

Texas. For nearly a decade, while
teaching or completing requirements for graduate degrees, his
duties included supervision or production of student literary publications, radio and
protelevision
grams, editorial and newspaper
writing, and library research. Since
April, 1957, he has written a number of articles which have been
published in daily periodicals and
professional bulletins.
Dr. Weight currently holds the
grade of Technical Sergeant in the
Air Force Reserve, and serves as
2

Shuman

Dr. John R.

Weight

Dr. Glenn S. Weight, Assistant
Director of the Extension Division
of the Pennsylvania State Library
since September, 1957, has been
named Associate Professor of Eng-

Undergraduate

Personnel Chief Clerk, Headquarters, 13th Army Air Force.

Dr. John R. Shuman, a native of
Montgomery, and a former resident of Bloomsburg, has been ap-

pointed Associate
Mathematics.

Professor

honorary
ing

ment

of Genetics, working in conjunction with the hybrid corn program. He continued his studies at
the University until 1938, earning
both the Master of Philosophy and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
During the summer of 1936, he
served as assistant to Dr. A. B.
Stout at the New York Botanical

He returned to this county in
1944 to complete a year’s work analyzing statistical data obtained in
his research.

Since then, he has been a member of the faculty at the Arkansas
Polytechnic College, Russelville,
Arkansas; Arkansas College, Batesville,
Arkansas; College of Emporia, Kansas; and the State ColDurlege, Platteville, Wisconsin.
ing the summers of 1954, 1955,
1956, he began a graduate program

mathematical statistics
Michigan, and
spent the past year at Michigan,
completing that work.

of studies in

at the University of

Shuman

Thoenen was bom in SistersWest Virginia, and was grad-

Dr.
ville,

uated
there.

High

from

public schools
attended Episcopal
School in Alexandria, Virthe

He

ginia, for

one year, and was en-

three years of undergraduate work at Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
He continued his studies in political science, economics, and history
rolled for

at West Virginia
University at
Morgantown, where he earned the

Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts,
and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
While completing the requirements for his doctorate, he held a
teaching fellowship at West Virginia.

During the past three

ine.

Dr.

Eugene D. Thoenen
Eugene D. Thoenen has

sor of Social Studies.

Gardens.
In 1939, Dr. Shuman joined the
faculty of Purdue University, leaving in 1941 for an assignment at
the University of Georgia to initiate
the hybrid corn program
there.
A year later he went to
Guatemala to work with a chemical firm in the development of Latin American production of quin-

is

a

member

of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Genetics
Society of America; and Sigma Xi,

in

been appointed Associate Profes-

in

Bachelor of Science degree. During the following year, lie received
a graduate fellowship at Penn
State to do graduate work in Botany. In September, 1935, he went
to the University of Wisocnsin as
a graduate assistant in the Depart-

Dur-

residence

Dr.
Dr.

Bloomsburg’s public schools before entering Pennsylvania State
University where he earned the

previous

Bloomsburg, he was active in the
Boy Scout program in the area,
and has continued his interest in
camping and photography.

of

Dr. Shuman completed his elementary and secondary education

scientific fraternity.

his

has been a

member

Waynesburg

at

years,

he

of the faculty

College.

Prior to

he taught international relations at Lehigh University for two
that,

years.

A

veteran of 56 months of serv-

ice in the

Army

during World

War

Dr. Thoenen served in both the
infantry and the Counter Intelligence Corps in the Pacific Theater.
He holds the rank of Major
in the Army Military Intelligence
Reserve Corps.
II,

The Thoencns have two
dren, a son, age 12,

age

and

chil-

a daughter,

10.

Donald B. Heilman
Donald B. Heilman, Head Football Coach for the past five years
at the Dupont High School in Wilmington, Delaware, has been designated Assistant Professor of SoIn addition to his
cial Studies.
teaching duties at the college, he
will serve as back field coach and
assistant to Head Football Coach

Walter Blair.
Mr. Heilman

West Chester
TIIK

is
a graduate of
State Teachers Col-

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

where he and Coach Blair
members of some of the

co-director of class dramatic presentations.
From 1943-1946, she

teams in recent yetrs.
Before beginning his work at West
Chester, Mr. Heilman was graduated from the public schools of
York, Pennsylvania. He holds the
Bachelor ol Science degree in Secondary Education from West Chester, and earned the Master of Education degree at Temple Univer-

taught at Bradford Junior High
School, was director of school assemblies, and served two years as
secretary of the Bradford City
Teachers Association.

lege,

were

est gridiron

sity.

During World

War

If,

he

served for 34 months with the
United States Navy in both the At-

and Pacific combat areas
and earned 5 campaign stars.
While serving as coach at the
Wilmington High School, Mr.
Heilman turned out some outstandlantic

During the past twelve

years,

Duck

has taught in a number
of communities where her husband, Paul, was serving in the
State Forestry Service.
She has
been a member of the National Education Association, Pennsylvania

Mrs.

State Education Association, American Association of University Women, and the Order of the Eastern
Star.

Before
high school squads.
going to Delaware, he had taught
ing

and coached for three years in the
public schools
at
Downington,
Pennsylvania. Although he is active in several sports activities, one
of his chief hobbies is reading and

He

studying military history.

member

of the

is

a

Delaware State Ed-

ucation Association,

tire

National

Education Association, and the
Delaware Football Coaches Association,

and

is

a qualified basketball

according to Pennsylvania

official,

Interscholastic Athletic Association
eligibility

requirements.

Mr. Heilman is married to the
former Nancy Fresco of Bridgeport,

three children:
4;

They

Pennsylvania.

and Jayne,

Donna,

5;

have
Donald,

3.

Miss Mary E. Homrighous
Miss

Mary

Homrighous, a
member of the Radford College
(Virginia) faculty for the past three
years, has

ant

Mrs. Virginia

Duck

has been ap-

A

Pennsylvania State
Mrs. Duck has been
teaching in tire public schools of
Pennsylvania for the past eighteen
years, and has done graduate work

graduate

of

University,

at

Duke

University.

(Adams County),
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Duck was graduated from Biglerville High School
before enrolling at Penn State
Born

in Idaville

where she earned the Bachelor of
Arts degree in Education.

In 1940,
she joined the faculty of Coudersport High School; in addition to
her teaching duties, she was in
charge of the library and served as

OCTOBER,

1958

of

Assist-

Speech.

Miss

Homrighous wil lalso act as coach
and advisor for the College Players and Alpha Psi Omega, national

of the faculty of the Mt. Pleasant

Township School in Columbia
County for the past 24 years, has
been appointed Assistant Professor
of

Elementary Education, Grade

Five.

Born

in

Fort William Seward,

Haines, Alaska, Mr. Roberts received his elementary education in
United States Army hchools at For t
Dix, New Jersey, and Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York.
Following his graduation from
high sehool at YViconisco, Pennsylvania, Mr. Roberts enrolled at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, earning the Bachelor of Sci-

ence degree in Elementary Education. Upon the completion of graduate work at Bucknell University,
he was awarded the Master of Science degree in Education along
with certificates qualifying him to
serve as supervising principal and
elementary school principal.

During most
reer,

of his teaching ca-

Mr. Roberts has been active

honorary dramatic fraternity.

in the professional activities of the

During the past six years, Miss
Homrighous has held teaching pos-

Pennsylvania State Education As-

itions at the University of Illinois

vention district, and state levels.
In addition to serving in various
offices of the local and county
branches, he has been a delegate
for six years to the state convention

(Urbana),

De

Paul University (Chi-

and Radford College. She
began her education in the public
schools of Oak Park, Illinois, and
completed her secondary school
work at the Oak Park-River Forest
cago),

High

School

in

Oak

Park.

Duck

pointed Instructor in English.

been appointed

Professor

Township
Mrs. Virginia

E.

Kenneth A. Roberts
Kenneth A. Roberts, a member

Miss Homrighous began her college studies in speech and dramatics at the University of Illinois,
earning both the Bachelor of Arts
and Master of Arts degrees. Her
graduate work also includes study
at Stanford University and Northwestern University.
Her interest

and

activities in

speech and drama

are indicated by her membership
in Alpha Psi Omega, the National
Collegiate Players, the Speech Association of America, and the American Educational Theatre Association.
She is also a member of
the American Association of University Women, and claims the theatre, books, music as her primary
hobbies.

sociation at the local, county, con-

in Harrisburg, and attended the
National
Education Association
Convention as a state delegate in
1957. He has been a life member
of the latter organization since
1954. He is a member of the P. S.
E. A. State Public Relations Committee and the Executive Council
of the Northeastern Convention
District, serving as co-chairman of
the Public Relations Committee.

Prior to his tenure at Mt. Pleasant Township, he taught in the
public schools of Sullivan County.

Mr. Roberts is married to the
former
Betty
Vanderslice
of
Bloomsburg. A son, Jack, is stationed with the U. S. Marines at
Arlington, Virginia; a daughter,
Barbara, is married to W. Ray
Crawford of Bloomsburg; and another son, Terry, lives with his parents.
3

Dr. Martin A. Satz
Dr. Martin A. Satz, Director of
Student Personnel at Southwestern
State College, Weatherford, Oklahoma, for the past six years, has
been appointed Associate Professor of Psychology.

Dr. Satz was born in MinneapMinnesota, and attended the
public schools of that community
before enrolling at the University
of Minnesota where he earned the
Bachelor of Science and Master of
Arts degree.
After completing
four and one-half years of World
War II service in the Army Air
Force, during which he attained
the rank of captain, Dr. Satz accepolis,

ted an appointment as Counseling
Psychologist at the Veterans Administration Guidance Center in
Hibbing, Minnesota. In 1948, he
joined the staff of the State College at Pullman, Washington, as
Head Resident Counselor, leaving
there a year later to go to the Uni-

Washington at Seattle as
and graduate
He was awarded the
student.
Doctor of Philosophy degree by
the University of Washington in
1953, and one year after he joined
versity of

a teaching assistant

the faculty at Southwestern State
College.
Included among his professional
affiliations are memberships in Phi

Delta Kappa, honorary education
fraternity; Psi Chi, honorary psychology fraternity; the American
College Personnel Association; the
Oklahoma Psychologcial Association; the Oklahoma Deans of Men
Association; the American Person-

nel and Guidance Association. At
Weatherford, he has been a member of the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Custer
County Mental Health Association.

Eastern Business Teachers AssociIn 1956, the Journal of Business Education published an article which she had written dealing
with, “Abbreviated Longhand.”
ation.

Dr. and Mrs. Satz are the partwo sons and a daughter
whose ages are seven, five, and
Mrs. Satz is also a graduthree.
ate of the University of Minnesota.
ents of

Tobias F. Scarpino
the

of

faculty

High School
Miss M. Patricia Houtz, a native
of Sunbury and formerly a member of the business education staff
at Hanover Park Regional High
School, Hanover, New Jersey, has
been appointed Assistant Professor
of Business Education.
She teachers secretarial subjects.
A graduate of the public schools of
Sunbury, Miss Houtz earned the
Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education at Susquehanna
University in 1950, and received
the Master of Science degree in
Business Education from Pennsylvania State University in 1957. She
began her teaching career in Ottumwa, Iowa, left there to accept
a teaching position at Northumberland High School, and completed five years of teaching at
Sunbury High School before going to New Jersey.
Miss Houtz is a member of Delta Pi Epsilon, a national fraternity

graduate students in business
education, the National Education
Association, the New Jersey State
Education Association, the Business Teachers Association, and the
for

at

for the past fourteen

been appointed

years, has

Miss M. Patricia Houtz

member
Newmanstown

Tobias F. Scarpino, a

Assist-

ant Professor of Science.

A

native of Shenandoah, PennMr. Scarpino was graduated from high school in 1936,
enrolled at Kutztown State Teach-

sylvania,

College in September of that
and was granted the Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1940.
In June, 1941, he accepted a position with the Glenn
L. Martin Aircraft Company of
Baltimore, Md., leaving in 1944 to
take a year of advanced work in
plastics at Johns Hopkins Univerers

year,

sity.

During his tenure at Newmanstown, Mr. Scarpino completed the
requirements for the Master of
Science degree in Education at
Bucknell University, served as athletic coach for eight years, was
president of the Science Teachers

Lebanon County

in 1955 and
National Science
Foundation Scholarship to study
physics at Pennsylvania State Un-

of

1956,

won

a

summer

iversity in the

of 1955,

and

did research work in Chemistry at
Lebanon Valley College in the

summer

of 1956.

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday,
4

May

23,

1959
TIIF,

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

NINETY PER CENT

B.S.T.C.

GRADUATES TEACH
A

survey of the placement of
graduates of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers Colege for a fifteen-year
period from 1941 to 1955, inclusive, has been completed by Dr.
Ernest H. Englehardt, and shows
that more than 90 per cent of those
available for employment have
been employed in the teaching
profession.

Of

the total of 2,165, forty-six
not available for employment, being either enrolled in
graduate schools, members of the

were

armed

services, or

who have never

women

married

taught.

at the

time of the survey,

and only two persons could not be
reached.
of

the
cur-

graduates in the elementary
In fact,
riculum have taught.
only five graduates out of a group
of 752 failed to enter the teaching
profession.

The secondary graduates show a
teaching percentage of 86, while
about 80 per cent of the business
graduates entered the teaching

The

placement

fifteen-year

a part of the general fol-

low-up policy of the college, the
first study being made by Mr. Earl
N. Rhodes, then Director of Placement, for the ten-year period from
1931 to 1940, inclusive, covering
1,$25 graduates, which showed
that 77 per cent of the gradutes
of this decade entered the teaching

Supplemental studies
were made by Mr. Joseph R. Bailer for a five-year period, showing

profession.

number of graduates
had increased to 80 per
A three-year study made by

the
teaching
that

cent.

Glenn Oman, President, International Correspondence Schools,
Canadian, Limited, was elected a

Harvey
President
showed an increase

A.

OCTOBER,

1958

Harvey Andruss, President
Bloomsburg State Teachers
that
announced
College,
has
that Bloomsburg will cooperate
with the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education,
Dr.

of the

the National Broadcasting Company, and 250 other American
Colleges and Universities in of-

college

fering

credit

for

the

International

Company,
Scranton,
Pennsylvania, by the firm’s Board

A recent issue of the “TV
Guide,’ prepared for distribution

Vice

President

of

Textbook

meeting on April

21.

International
Textbook Comis the parent firm of I.C.S.,

pany

Canadian,

Haddon Craftsmen,

A

native

Mr.

Oman

Limited,

and

Inc.

Bloomsburg, Pa.,
graduate of
a
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and an alumnus of New York
University. His career with I.T.C.
began in 1937 as an I.C.S. techniIn 1939, he became Ascal editor.
sistant

vision

of

is

Manager of the Traffic Diand was named Manager of

Appointed a Staff Assistant in
Department in 1949,
he became Director of the Coopthe Personnel

in
Training
Division
March, 1951. In August, 1952, he
was named General Manager of
I.C.S. Canadian, Ltd., a whollyowned subsidiary of I.T.C. with
Elecheadquarters in Montreal.
ted Vice President of I. C. S.’s Canadian Unit in September, 1953, he
became its President in December,

erative

1955,
all

assuming responsibility

I.C.S. activities in the

for

Domin-

ion.

Andruss
83 per

in

this

area,

Bloomsburg

lists

as

one of the cooperating institutions.
The lessons will be telecast Monday through Friday from 6:30-7:00
a. m. (in each time zone) over the
nationwide
NBC-TV
network.
RE-TV 7 Channel 28, Wilkes-

WB

,

Barre,

is

the

NBC

affiliate in this

area.

The purposes

of the course are
demonstrate techniques essential to effective teaching of basic
principles of physics, and provide
students— primarily
high
school
teachers— with up-to-date information concerning recent developments in physics.
to

Presentations during the first
semester will be devoted to those
aspects of physics necessary for an
understanding of atomic and nuclear physics. The second semester
will deal exclusively with atomic
and nuclear physics.

The national teacher is Dr. Harvey E. White, professor and vice
chairman of the Department of
Physics at the University of California at Berkeley.
A carefully
selected group of physicists are
serving as consultants.

Demonstrations and experiments
be an integral part of the

to the

cent mark.
The fifteen-year study completed by Doctor Engelhardt includes
the groups in the Bailer and Andruss surveys.
Of the 250 in the group of 2,165
who graduated from the college in
the last fifteen years, who have not
followed the profession of teaching, it is likely that subsequent

COLLEGE COOPERATING
WITH N.B.C. PROGRAM

Atomic Age Physics course, to be
presented by NBC-TV, beginning
Monday, October 6, 1958, and
continuing through June 5, 1959.

that unit a year later.

profession.
is

ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT

I.C.S.

More than 99 per cent

study

year
twenty-five
surveys of graduates made by any
college in the United States, in an
attempt to find out how successful
their graduates are in following
the profession for which they have
been educated.

comprehensive

of Directors at their reorganization

Only two persons were unein’
ployed

studies will indicate that at least
half of this group will have taught.
These studies represent the most

will

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury-SelinsgTOve Highway

course.

The

TV

presentations are

supplemented by reading assignments, problem solving, seminars,
and/or laboratory experiences. Examinations are given periodically

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

’42

by members

of

the

Bloomsburg

science faculty.

SUPPORT THE ALUMNI
5

PARENTS VISIT COLLEGE
At a successful Freshman-Parents Day about 700 parents and
students attended a dinner in the
College Commons and nearly 800
were present in Carver auditorium
for a panel discussion moderated
by John A. Hoch, dean of instruction.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the institution, attending an educational conference
in Texas, was unable to be present.

Paul Martin, business manager,
stated that although the expenses
of maintaining the College had
doubled, the last student fee increase was from forty-five to seventy-two dollars. He advises parents and students thut there might
be increases in the future and that
the budget for the next biennium,
beginning June, 1959, will likely
be increased by about a million.

Miss Beatrice Mettler, school
nurse,
spoke
of
the
college’s
health program including infirmary services for all students and of
the insurance program which the
college offers.

Mary Macdonald,

Miss
ator

of

coordin-

guidance services, urged

parents to aid students by praising

them

for

their

accomplishments

rather than destructive criticism
and she warned the parents they

HOMECOMING DAY

B.S.T.C. COEDS WIN
BEAUTY CONTESTS

summer

This past

coeds
Bloomsbeauty contests in Penn-

burg

in

and

sylvania

three

represented

successfully

New

Jersey.

August 25, Virginia Hardy was
chosen “Miss Wildwood Beach Patrol” in a contest sponsored by the
lifeguards at Wildwood, New Jersey.
She was presented with a
trophy and other prizes. Ginny, a
junior in elementary education, is
a model in the Annual Fashion
Show.
Earlier

summer, Ginny

the

in

represented Wyoming Valley in
the “Miss Pennsylvania” contest.
Appearing with twenty-three girls

swim

gown, talent and perGinny was
one of five finalists. She received
a $250 scholarship and a trophy
for winning the swim suit division

in

sonailty

suit,

competition,

of the contest.

Another finalist in the “Miss
Pennsylvania” contest, Susie Spyker, “Miss Greater Reading,” is
now a freshman at B.S.T.C. Susie
received a $250 scholarship at the
contest which was held in West
Chester from June 19 to June 21.
Another model in the Bloornsburg Annual Fashion Show, Sally
Riefenstahl,

a

junior

in

business

could expect changes due to higher academic standards.
Few high
school “A students remain at that
level in college.
Students need to
acquire a sense of motivation, she
said, and the chief function of her
department is to aid students to
get a better look at their own academic, social, extra curricular and

education, was chosen “Prettiest
Sally
Waitress in Atlantic City.”
represented the Colton Manor in
the fifth annual Hotel and Restau-

personal needs.

an excellent set of personal records of value to both the individual and public school officials.

B.S.T.C. graduates, on the average, are earning above the state
minimum salaries, said C. Stuart
Edwards, director of admissions

and placement. A survey showed
the average of 1957 graduate received $3,744 and a current survey indicates this has been upped
over die $4,000 mark.
Edwards
predicted that by 1962, the state’s
minimum would be increased to
$4,200 or $4,300.

Mr. Edwards said the College
took a personal interest in the
placing of its graduates in the
teaching profession and maintains
6

rant

Skills

competitions.

Her

prizes

were

a gold bracelet

and an

engraved trophy.

Alumni and friends of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College returned to the campus on
Saturday, October 4, for the Thirty-first Annual Homecoming and
a full day of recreation, entertainment and the renewing of old
friendships. Committees had completed arrangements to guarantee
a festive occasion for all.

For nearly a decade, as alumni
have visited their Alma Mater in
ever-increasing
numbers,
these
have been a series of changes and
additions to the hill-top campus,
and this year was no exception.
The new library, additional rooms
for women in Waller Hall Dormitory, and the beginning of a new
classroom building and a men’s
dormitory represent the largest
and most obvious changes on camBut the traditionally friendpus.
ly greeting of students, faculty and
alumni remained the same.
Just before the game the students participated in a fine parade which passed through the business section of the town and ended at Mt. Olympus field. The par"
ade included many cleverly designed floats prepared by various
campus organizations.

A

was served
College Commons, and the contest with the
Mountaineers of Mansfield State
Teachers College got underway at
2:00

MOYER

BROS.

SINCE

18G8

William V. Moyer,

’07,

President

One

M.

P.

crowds

in

32-6

of

the history

nnual event were

the largest
of this a-

made happy by

of the Huskies
The
over the Mansfield eleven.
bands of both institutions furnished excellent exhibitions at half

the

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS

cafeteria luncheon

to the visitors in the

victory

time.

Following the game, refreshments were served in the Waller
Hall Lobby and Corridor. Dinner
was served at 5:30 p. m. with the
day’s activities climaxed by an informal dance in Centennial Gymnasium from 8:30-11:30, featuring
the music of Gerry Kehler and his
orchestra.

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

Dr.

man

Kimber Kustcr was
of

the

Homecoming

chair-

Day

Committee, which deserves much
credit for making the day a memorable one for alumni.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

STUDENTS TO TAKE PART
IN SPEECH PROGRAMS

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

For the first time in history the
Board of Trustees ot the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has
signed an agreement with the
County Boards ol School Directors of Schuylkill and Lycoming

of Philadelphia held their twentysixth annual dinner meeting on

Counties

for

programs

of

the opportunity of
college students to participate in
the speech and hearing therapy

these counties.

This means college seniors will
be assigned to the offices of county superintendents in Williamsport
and Pottsville, will be transported
to public schools of the counties
designated by the Superintendent,
and will be supervised by some
member of the staff of the county
superintendents.

While
program

at McAllister’s in Phil-

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, 18, if
Norristown, is president. Performing the duties of toastmaster was
Mr. Robert J. Rowland, ’32. All
present responded with fitting remarks and classes from 1897
through to more recent years were
represented.
A number of messages and greetings from absent
members were read by Miss Esther Dagnell, ’34, treasurer.

A gift of money to the Student
Scholarship Fund from the group
was reported and plans for the
next dinner meeting were discus-

this

The organization holds monthly
luncheon meetings on the second
Saturday of each month at 12:30
P. M. in Gimbel’s Club Women’s
Center from October to May with
a Christmas Tea in December. All

it is

and

on a county-wide

involves

individual

speech and/or hearing diagnosis
and therapy rather than classroom
instruction in groups.
These contracts have been fully

approved by Dr. Charles
H.
Boehm, Superintendent of Public
Instruction; Arthur H. Henninger,
superintendent of Schuykili County Schools; C. H. M. Connel, superintendent of Lycoming CountySchools; the president and secretaries of the board of trustees of
the College and the county- boards
of School Directors.
The period of participation of
students in this program will be
approximately nine weeks, or onehalf of each semester, and will
necessitate their leaving the college campus with the provision
that the remainder of the semester
will be spent in classroom student
teaching.

The plan has been developed
will be supervised by Dr.

and
cial

Alumni

is

ique in that

Donald

April 26th
adelphia.

of the B.S.T.C.

sed.

cooperative training
similar to the cooperative training program now in effect with school districts, it is unbasis,

Members

F. Maietta, director of spe-

Alumni are welcome

B.S.T.C.
attend.

Those

attending

the

banquet

Miss Kathryn Spencer, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert J. Rowland, Mrs. Lillian Hartman Irish, Miss Irene Hortman, Mrs.
Louella Sinquett, Mrs. Emily Gledhill,
Miss Marie Cromis, Mrs. Ruth Garney
Saunders, Mrs. Rachael Buckman, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Minner (Margaret
Butler), Mr. and Mrs. John Linner,
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Palsgrove, Mrs.
Grace F. Frantz, Mrs. Peggy Hardin,
Miss Margaret Cain, Mr. Owen Cain,
(Claire
Mr', and Mrs. Frank Taylor
Hedden), Miss Helen Applegate, Miss
Esther Dagnell, Mrs. Charlotte F.
Coulston, Miss Betty Burnham, Mr.
William Watkins, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph
Hart, Miss Mary Comerford and sister, Mrs. Meloy, Mrs. Mary A. Ruddy.

of the deans
the
instruction
of
fourteen
Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges and the directors of student
teaching of the Commonwealth’s

teacher-education institutions was
held on the campus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
Monday and Tuesday, October 6

and

7.

Serving as general chairman of
this year s meeting was Dr. Forrest Free, dean of instruction from
West Chester State Teachers College.
Bloomsburg’s dean, John
A. Hoch, was chairman of the arrangement comimttee. The agenda included a number of committee reports.

One

of the highlights

was a special report on “The Improvement of Instruction” presented by Dr. Ralph W. Cordier, Indiana State Teachers College.
The directors of student teaching
discussed the problems incident to
community laboratory experiences
practice teaching, relationships
and supervisor,
and changes that might be effected
in improving the programs of student teaching.
Presiding at the
sessions was Archie Dodds, Slippery Rock; Dr. Ernest T. Engelliardt, director of secondary education; Dr. Thomas B. Martin, director
of business education,
and
Royce O. Johnson, director of elein

mentary education

at

Bloomsburg

served as local hosts. Dr. Engelhardt coordinated local arrangements with Dean Hoch.
The meetings of deans and di-

was recommended recentby the Board of Presidents and
was approved by the Department

rectors
ly

Public Instruction.
Previous
meetings have been held at State
Teachers Colleges at Lock Haven,
Indiana and Slippery Rock.
of

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education.

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ANDRUSS ATTENDS

DR.

SPACE AGE CONFERENCE
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss attended
the National Conference for State
Educational Leaders in Dallas,
Texas, sponsored by the Space Age
Foundation, from September 2527.

This is a new organization and
was meeting for the first /time.
Chie State School Officials were

send four

invited

to

tives.

Twelve

States

representaaccepted,

they were: California, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas and Ok-

lahoma.

A

permanent organization was
formed to provide an educational
division of the Army Air Force
Association, whose next meeting
will be held April 12-19, 1959, at
the

World Congress

of Flight to

be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Pennsylvania was represented
by State Superintendent of Public
Instruction,
Dr.
Charles
H.

Boehm; Dr. O. II. English, Superintendent of Schools of Abington
Township; and Doctor Andruss.

The

early

interest

the

of

Harvey A. Andruss, President of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has announced
Dr.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College in Aviation, dating back almost two decades, will probably
receive a re-emphasis in the near
future with the appointment of a
Member of the Supervisory Staff
of the Department of Public Instruction in Harrisburg.
The provision of courses in Space and
Earth Science on the college level,
and the revival and interest on the
part of teachers in the secondary
schools, particularly in the field of
Mathematics and Science, in relation to the Space Age, will be matters to receive attention.

that the Educational Testing Serv-

New jersey, has
selected the College as a center for
administering the National Teachers
Examinations. Dr. E. Paul
Wagner, Professor of Psychology
at the College, will have charge of
the testing.

ice of Princeton,

Garduates,

teachers-in-service,

and other individuals, interested

in

taking the examinations, should
contact H. L. Crane, Jr., Director
of Test Administration, Education"
al Testing Service, Princeton, New
Jersey.

The next test will be given on
Saturday, February 7, 1959.

Zion Evangelical and Reformed
Church, Orangeville R. D. 2, was
the setting for the wedding Sunday, July 6, of Mrs. Emma Harrison Myers, Orangeville R. D. 2,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Rush Harrison,

and Russel

Lee

Burrus, College Park, Md., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alma L. Burrus,
Stroudsburg.
The Rev. Henry C. Meiss, Jr.,
pastor, performed the ceremony
before immediate members of the

Harold O. Bahlke, professor of
English and social studies at the
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, has been appointed assistant
professor of humanities at Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan.
Dr. Bahlke, son of Otto E.
Bahlke, 307 Babcock Street, Eau
Claire,
Wisconsin, received the
Ph.D. degree at the University of
Minnesota

in 1956.

He earned the M.A. (1947) degree at the University of Minnesota; and the B.Ed. (1937) degree
from Wisconsin State College in
Eau Claire. Dr. Bahlke has been
an instructor of humanities and
communication at University of
Minnesota as well as an instructor
of English at Wayne University in
Detroit.

Dr. Bahlke

is

a

member

of the

Modern Language Association and
the

American Studies Association.

In a double-ring ceremony perrecently, Miss Elva L.
Knelly, R.N., of Sugarloaf, and
James E. Johnson, of Rock Glen,
exchanged nuptial vows at the

formed

Christ Lutheran Church, Conyngham. Rev. Lawrence P. Delp, officiated.

family.

Burrus
graduated from
B.S.T.C., Rutgers University, and
received her Master’s degree from
She is a
the University of Iowa.
consultant for the Zaner-Bloser
Publishing Company, Bridgeton,
N. J. The bridegroom graduated
from Pennsylvania State University, University of Maryland, Boston University where he received
a master’s degree, and Lowell
Mrs.

Institute.
He is a wool
marketing specialist for the U. S.

Textile

Department

BAHLKE GOES TO
MICHIGAN STATE

of

Agriculture

The bride

is

a graduate of Black

Creek Township High School and
Hospital
State
Hazleton
the
School of Nursing. At present she
is on the staff of the Berwick Hospital.

The bridegroom was graduated
from Black Creek Township High
School and the Bloomsburg State
He has comTeachers College.
pleted teaching at Boyertown, and
will enter Lancaster Theological
Seminary this Fall.

in

Washington, D. C.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

’16

They will reside at 4601 Harvard Road, College Park, Md.

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“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
1950
Joseph E. Kurey, of Jeffersonville, N. Y., recently received the
degree of Master of Arts in Education at Washington
St. Louis, Missouri.

R

ARCUS’
Bloomsburg

Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

’41

University,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

GROUNDWORK BEGINS
ON NEW STRUCTURES
connection

In

with

the

state’s

new education improvement

plan,

begun on

two

ground-work has

new

buildings at Bloomsburg State
A new men’s
Teachers College.
dormitory was started on July 14
Later, on August 4,
of this year.
ground was broken for a new
classroom building between Cen*

Gymnasium and Benjamin

tennial

Franklin Training School.

H. Evert is general contracElectrical
tor for both buildings.
The
contractor is H. B. Foley.
new dormitory heating facilities
will be under contract by Cropf
and Bennetto; plumbing will be
under the supervision of John
S.

Heat and plumbing for the
new classroom building will be
handled by Miles and Corrigan reMiles.

spectively.

The ground

floor

of

the

new

dormitory will contain an apart-

ment

for the

Dean

Men, admin-

of

rooms, a laundry room, a
lounge, and a recreation room.
The dormitory will house 200 men
Extra
students in 100 bedrooms.
rooms will be available for study.
Special features of the dormitory
will be a patio, and lavatories
which will be enclosed within the
corridors affording more convenience and quieter operation. The
istration

bedrooms

will

have

two

The classroom building will
have thirteen classrooms plus ofThe

fices.

first floor will

be

chief'

with
classrooms,
class
laboratories for chemistry,
physics, botany, zoology, and basic
ly

geography

T

biolog>

and physical

science.

The

second floor will be for business
education classes.
The buildings are expected to
be in use September of 1960.

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

JOHN O’DONNELL

DR.

IN

AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

An $S, 000, 000 improvement and
expansion program at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is included in state planning to increase the facilities of the state’s
teacher training institutions, Gov.

George

M.

Leader

disclosed

at

Harrisburg recently.

The
state's

overall

program

fourteen colleges

is

the
estima-

at

ted at $122,352,000.
It is hoped
have the construction completed by 1970.

to

The Bloomsburg project will
commodate an
enrollment

ac-

of

around 2,000, nearly double the
present size.

New

buildings need-

ed according

to the

announcement,

are three classrooms, six dormitories, auditorium, field house, maintenance building.
Similar projects at the state’s
other institutions are estimated at:
California,
Cheyney,
$6,125,000;
$5,410,000;

Clarion,

$6,135,000;

East Stroudsburg, $3,99,000; Edinboro, $13,290; Indiana, $16,550,000; Kutztown, $13,950,000; Lock
Haven, $4,265,000; Mansfield, $4,060,000;
Millersville,
$8,900,000;
Slippery Rock, $6,800,000; Shippensburg, $11,100,000; West Chester, $13,777,000.

single

beds, a bureau, study table, two
lounge chairs, and a built-in closet.

EXPANSION IS
PLANNING FOR B.S.T.C.

$8,000,000

at

In a pretty ceremony performed
three o’clock Saturday after-

noon, September 27, in Catawissa
Methodist Church, Miss Alice Mae
Fegley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Fegley, Catawissa, became the bride of Ronald Clair
Linn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Linn, Catawissa.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
John A. Herritt, before members
of the immediate families.
The bride graduated from Catawissa High School and B.S.T.C.,
and is now teaching fifth grade at
Memorial
Elementary
School,

Bloomsburg.
The bridegroom, a Catawissa
High School graduate, served four
years in the U. S. Air Force and
is

Dr.

John

wood

R.

Village,

O’Donnell, SherBloomsburg, form-

erly an assistant professor at

B.S.

has been appointed an assistant professor in the School of
Education at Rutgers University.
A 1951 graduate of Pennsylvania
State University, Dr. O’Donnell also received his Master’s and Doctor’s degrees from that institution.
From 1950 to 1955, Dr. O’Donnell
was first elementary teacher and
then elementary principal at State
College, Pennsylvania.
He joined
T.C.,

Bloomsburg

the

staff in 1955.

naval veteran of World War
II, Dr. O'Donnell is a member of
Phi Delta Kappa.
He attended
secondary schools in Altoona.

A

First
Methodist
Church of
Shickshinny was the setting recently for the marriage of Miss
Margaret Louise Bonham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Van
Horn Bonham, Shickshinny, to
James J. Hower, son of Mrs. C.
Percy Hower, Bloomsburg, and
the late Mr. Hower.
The Rev. Carl C. Helt, pastor,
performed the double-ring cere-

mony.
graduated from
The
bride
Shickshinny High School and Geisinger Hospital School of Nursing,
Danville. She is now on the nurHer
sing staff at the Geisinger.
husband, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and B.S.T.C.,

served

two

Army.

He

years

in

the

employed

is

at

U.
U.

S.
S.

Radium Corporation.

Hower are living
Fifth Street, Blooms-

Mr. and Mrs.
at 226V2

West

burg.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

now employed by Bachman

Plumbing and Heating, Catawissa.

The couple
Bloomsburg.
OCTOBER.

1958

will

reside

in

9

THE ALUM

N

I

COLUMBIA ACOUNTY
PRESIDENT

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre Area

Frank Taylor

Alton Schmidt

Berwick, Pa.

Burlington, N.

PRESIDENT

J.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Harold H. Hidlay
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Southampton, Pa.

Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

John Dietz

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Eleanor Kennedy
Espy, Pa.

Mrs. Mary Albano
Burlington, N. J.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Paul Martin, ’38
710 East 3rd Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Walter Withka
Burlington, N.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Peter Podwika,

’42

Monument Avenue

565

Wyoming, Pa.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Harold Trethaway,

’42

1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

J.

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling, 53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA- WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

259

’32

Scranton

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

4,

Margaret L. Lewis,

’32

Race Street

11051/2

LUZERNE COUNTY

Englehart, 11
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

4,

PRESIDENT

Pa.

TREASURER

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER
Homer

Hazleton Area

’28

West Locust Street

Scranton

Scranton

4,

’34

Pa.

SECRETARY

Middletown, Pa.

Mr. W.

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, 16
611 N. Summer Avenue

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Hazleton, Pa.

Pa.

Hug'h E. Boyle, T7
147

Chestnut Street
Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams, T8
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille
785

McHose

Ecker,

’32

Grant Street

Hazleton, Pa.

stepped to the speaker’s table

1903
Charles L. Albert, secretary of
the Wilkes-Barre alumni group of

Lafayette College for 40 years, received this year’s Alumni Distinguished Service Award.

Mr. Albert, of Dallas, Luzerne
County, was honored at the annual
Lafayette Alumni Luncheon in
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium. He
received a standing ovation from
the
10

700

persons

present

as

he

to

award from Thomas E.
Waters, ’23, chairman of the Alum-

receive the

ni Council.

1900

The

close of the past school year

marks the retirement of Mrs.
Grace Fenstermaker Frantz, who
has served as teacher and principal in the Camden City schools for
47 years. Before that she taught
for seven years in Berwick and

Beach Haven, Pa.
For the past 22 years, Mrs.
Frantz, a native of Beach Haven,
has been principal of the
Pa.,
Broadway School and previously
served

capacity at the Beischools after
having taught at Sewell, Parkside,
Bonsall and Garfield schools.
With her husband, the late Harry A. Frantz, a former Pennsauken
Township Commissioner, she first
in that

deman and Dudley

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
MONTOUR COUNTY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, ’36
1017 East Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Edward Linn,
R. D. 1

Mr. Clyde Adams,

1232

VICE PRESIDENT

’34

Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Dornsife, Pa.

Mrs. Nora Bayliff Markunas,
Island Park, Pa.

’05

Church Street

’34

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

732

NEW YORK AREA
PRESIDENT
273

TREASURER

Irish, ’06

Miss Saida Hartman,

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

4215

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

PRESIDENT

New Market Road
J.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Fred Smethers,
742 Floral Avenue
Elizabeth, N. J.

Brandywine
Washington

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.

’23

Coughlin,

Dunellen, N.

Hortman

Bowers Avenue
7, Md.

Baltimore

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian

J. J.

3603- C

PHILADELPHIA AREA

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

Mrs.

’24

V

Street S.E.
Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECRETARY
312

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary R. Crumb,

VICE PRESIDENT

’53

Danville, Pa.

Miss Alice Smull,

WASHINGTON AREA

’23

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street
Spring City, Pa.

’23

WEST BRANCH AREA
PRESIDENT

TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Jason Schaffer,

Miss Esther E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

’54

R. D. 1
Selinsgrove, Pa.

’34

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,
Lewisburg, Pa.

’56

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,

SUPPORT TIIE BAKELESS FUND

769

’29

King Street

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue

E.

Brown,

’10

Lewisburg, Pa.

made her home

in

Pennsauken

She was
20 years ago.
graduated from the Berwick, Pa.,

1920

Marion

The Rev. Dr. Donald

nearly

graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, has been
a

High School and the Bloomsburg
(Pa.) State Teachers College where

installed as pastor of the

she recently attended her 50th
year class reunion.
She also ma-

Charge

of

Christ

in

Temple and Pennsyl-

triculated at

vania Universities.
Mrs. Frantz has been honored
by the Camden Education Association, the Broadway PTA and the

Camden

Principal’s Association, of

which she

is

a

so a

member

and

national

She

is

al

of the county, state

education

associa-

1958

Ringtown
the United Church of
Emmanuel’s
United
Christ, Nuremberg.

Church of
The parish includes
Church,

St.

Paul’s

Ringtown;

Emmanuel’s,
Nuremberg; St. Peter’s, Shumans,
and St. John’s of Girard Manor.
Dr. Kehler was born and reared
in Locust Dale, and has resided in
Fountain Springs, Ashland, for the
last

26 years.
married
is

He

tions.

OCTOBER,

member.

E. Kehler,

to

the

former

They

daughter,
is

Mount Carmel.

Helwig,
are

the

parents

Wanda,

at

of

three

home, who

a commercial teacher in Butler

Township High School, Ashland;
Joan, wife of Capt. A. T. Smith,
Jr., located at Fort Dix, N. J., and
Carol, widow of Jay Ferguson,
Narbeth, and one son, Ronald, a
student at Lycoming College, Williamsport.

1936

Andrew

Thornton, Springhas received the Master
of Arts degree at New York UniJ.

ville, Pa.,

versity.
11

1943
Miss Martha L. Zehner, Wilmiington, Del., daughter of Mrs.
Freas Zehner and the late Freas
Zehner, Sugarloaf, became the
bride of

Lee C. Brown, Chester,

son of Leroy C. Chester, Washington, D. C., June 28, in the Black
The
Creek Methodist Church.
Bev. W. Kay Deming, pastor of
the church, performed the cere-

mony.

The

a

bride,

graduate

of

Bloomsburg State Teachers College,

is

a teacher for exceptional

children in Kose-Hill Minquadale

Delaware. The
District,
bridegroom is a graduate of
Brooklyn College and Pratt Insti-

School

tute and has attended Columbia
and Rutgers Universities. He is
an associate professor and librarian of the Pennsylvania Military

College, Chester.

1949
Ignatius Church, Kingston,
was the recent setting for the marriage of Miss Anne Elizabeth FerKingston, to George Daniel
ris,
Paternoster, Hazleton, a graduate
St.

been employed
fice

in the business of-

Her husband, a
Shamokin High School

B.S.T.C.

at

graduate of

and B.S.T.C., has done graduate
work at Pennsylvania State Uni-

He

versity.

the U.

S.

served three years in

Marine Corps.
1951

Army

Reservist Specialist 3rd
Class Rudolph V. Holtzman, a
member of the 335th Replacement
Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col.

M. Woolcock, WilliamsPennsylvania, was recently
named honor graduate at the special graduation exercises of the
United States Army Infantry Officers Candidate School held at
Fort Benning, Ga.
The school was composed of
members of the U. S. Army Reserve and the National Guard. An

Gerald
port,

honor gaduate was named from
each component. The members of
the school were selected from
most of the forty-eight states.
Originally 154 men were enrolled

Of these, eightythe school.
nine men were graduated of which

in

a member of the faculty and
football coach at Pitman High

Holtzman was first. He
was presented his diploma by Major General Paladino, a member
of the Army Reserve General Staff.
Immediately after the graduation exercises, a special luncheon
was held in the private dining

School.

room

The groom is an alumnus of
Hazleton High School and B.S.T.

Specialist

of B.S.T.C.

Mr. and Mrs. Pasternoster are
Pitman avenue, Pitman, N. J. where the bridegroom

living at 221

is

where he starred

C.

He completed
ter’s

Degree

in football.

studied for his MasRutger’s Univer-

at

sity.

1950
Marie Conner,
Molly
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Clair
Conner, Orangeville, and Joseph
Curilla, Jr., Benton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Curilla, Sr., Shamokin,
were married Sunday, August 31.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Gilbert L.
Bennett, pastor of St. Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, Harrisburg.

Specialist

Main Officers Club.
Holtzman was an honored guest of Major General Paladino and Major General Freeman, Post Commandant.
Specialist Holtzman was graduated from Clarks Summit High
School in 1951 and from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
of the

He joined the Army Reserves in August, 1955. At the present time, he is a member of the
1955.

faculty of the Warrior Run Area
Schools, where lie is a teacher of
foreign languages.
It is anticipated that Specialist
Holtzman will be commisisoned a
Second Lieutenant as a result of
the completion of this course.

Mr. and Mrs. Curilla are living
in

a

Benton where the bridegroom is
teacher in the Benton Area Joint

School District.
The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School and has
12

Berwick, Miss

The Rev. Fr. Karl Stofko officiated and traditional wedding music was provided by the church organist, Mrs. Valentino.
The bride, who was graduated
from Berwick High School and
B.S.T.C., is an elementary teacher in the Newark, Del., school district.
Her husband, a graduate of
Berwick High School, served with
the U. S. Army for two year's and
was stationed with Army Ordnance in Germany. He is at present a store manager.
1956
In a pretty ceremony performed

June at Bloomsburg Methodist
Church, Miss Nancy Jean Geistwite, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack L. Geistwite, Bloomsburg, became the bride of Jack Lewis Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norton
D. 5.
J. Thomas, R.
Dr. Thomas J. Hopkins, minis-

in

the church, was assisted by
the Rev. Franklin Patschke, York,
performing the double-ring
in
ter of

ceremony.

from
graduated
The bride
Bloomsburg High School and has
ben employed at Geistwite Studio.
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School and B.S.T.C.,
served

three

BVM

Church,

Mary Ann DePaul,

years

the

in

U.

S.

Army during the Korean War and
is now employed by the U. S. Government

in

Washington.

1956
Miss Elisabeth M. Adams, class
of 1956, is currently working on
many of America’s most advanced
outer space projects. Elisabeth is
employed as a Technical Computer-Gas Dynamics Operation at
Aerosciences
Electric’s
General
Laboratory where she is engaged
in

advanced research projects

as-

outer space conditions and space flight undertaken
by the Company’s Missile and

sociated with

Ordnance

1954

ceremony performed Saturday, July 19, in the Immaculate
In a

Conception of the

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander DePaul, Berwick, became the
bride of William Joseph Duggan,
Newark, Del., son of Mrs. John
Duggan, Fort Benning, Ga.

Systems

Department.

research at the Aerosciences
Laboratory has recently been directed towards design and development of a nose cone for the Air
Initial

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Force’s

ATLAS and l'HOR

ballis-

attending
While
she was a member

Omega

Sororiety,

Bloomsburg
of Alpha Psi
the

Women’s

Chorus, Dramatic Club, Athenaeum Club, Women’s Dorm Association,

Women’s Day

vania.

The

development of ballistic
satellites and space ve-

hicles requires a vast research effort to investigate

the

and
control systems, and nuclear
arming and fusing systems for
many of America’s advanced de-

applicants to the six colleges participating in the program.

signed ballistic missiles.

John E. Shaffer, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Shatter, Sr., of 861
Rairdoad Street, Bloomsburg, a

phenomena

ching

and understand

of space flight, re-

To coorentry and hypersonics.
dinate this basic and applied research in modern weapons, the
Missile
and Ordnance Systems
Department organized the Aerosciences Laboratory two years ago
in Philadelphia.
Based on theoretical studies and
long range planning, over 100 scientists and engineers are presently
simulating conditions of hypersonic flight or flow velocities above
ten times the speed of sound withThe
in this modern space lab.
duration of these experiments is of
only ten millionths of a second and
frequently
exceed
temperatures
known limits. To record research
data, these scientists have built
some of this country’s most unique
research and test facilities, including the 6” shock tunnel capable of
simulating velocities 14 times the
speed of sound; and the stabilized
arc which has created the hottest
temperatures ever achieved on a
continuous basis in the United
temperature, apStates.
(This
over
proximately
26,000°F.,
is
twice as hot as the surface of the

guidance

equipment,

lire

Association,

Association,
College
Christian
Obiter Staff and Sigma Alpha Eta.
She now resides at 3324 Rhaun
Street, Philadelphia 36, Pennsyl-

missiles,

General Electric summer fellowship.
The selection is made from

sile

missiles.

tic

missystems; and nose cones, laun-

homing tropedoes; complete

1956

Grace Methodist Church, Warren, was the setting for a beautiful
summer wedding when Miss EuFredericka Price, daughter
of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leslie
Babbitt, Russell R. D. I, became
the bride of Paul Irvin Volkman,
Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Volkman, Old Berwick Road,
genia

Bloomsburg.
Two hundred guests were in attendance as the impressive double
ring ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Ralph S. Findley, assisted
by the Rev. C. H. Baldwin.
fne bride is a graduate of the
Clarion State Teachers College
and attended Northwestern UniShe is a
versity, Evanston, 111.
teacher in the Warren borough
schools.
The bridegroom is a
graduate ol the Bloomsburg SlateTeachers College and is speech
and hearing therapist in the Warren Area Joint Schools.
1956
Mrs. Glenna Gebhart Lynn, a
graduate
of
Bloomsburg
1956
State Teachers College, was awarded a mathematics fellowship by
the

General Electric Educational

and Charitable Fund.
Mrs. Lynn is one of 300 teachers

through the country selected

this

year for science or mathemafellowships provided by the

tics

Fund.
As an

award

recipient,

Mrs.

sun.)

Lynn received an expense free six
weeks study course this summer at

In addition to the Aerosciences
Laboratory, the Missile and Ord"
nance Systems Department occu-

Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute,
The fellowship inTroy, N. Y.
cludes traveling expenses, board,

pies eight plants

with special

test

ranges and field operations in six
states, and
other selected areas
concerned with missile and ordnance system activity for the military services both in the U. S. and
overseas.
The department has
been instrumental in the development of gunfire control systems;

OCTOBER,

1958

lodging, tuition and fees.
Selection of the teachers for the
fellowship awards is based on
their

demonstrated

interest

and

abality in science or mathematics.
They must be experienced junior

or senior high school teachers

who

who

continue teaching and
have not held a previous

expect to

1956

graduate of B.S.T.C., class of 1956,
recently received his Master’s degree in Education from Bucknell
University and is currently entered
at Penn State University working
toward a Doctor’s degree in Education, with special emphasis in
educational administration and supervision.

During the summer Mr. Shaffer
worked in the psychology department of the Selinsgrove State
he administered
School where
to the incoming paThis fulfilled the requirements necessary for the public
examiner’s
psychological
school
certificate which he received from
the Department of Public Instruction in Harrisburg.

mental

tests

tients.

He is employed by the Union
County Board of Education and is
teaching special education in the

Lewisburg High School for the
second year. He is married to the
Broadt,
Eleanor
former
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
They reBroadt, Bloomsburg.
cently moved into their new home,
Lewisburg R. D. 3.
1958
of Miss Mary Ann
Cuber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert J. Cuber, Easton, to James
Emery Kashner 3rd, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James E. Kashner, Jr.,
Bloomsburg, took place Saturday,

The marriage

September 27, at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Easton.
The Rev. William C. Harvey
performed the ceremony at noon.
Bridal attendants were Miss Lee
G. Cuber, sister of thhee bride,
Hidlay,
C.
and William
Jr.,
Bloomsburg.

The bride was graduated from
High School and from

Hatboro
B.S.T.C.

with the class of

1958.

The bridegroom, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School, graduated from B.S.T.C. in 1956 and is
teaching commercial subjects

now

13

|

in

Upper

Darby

Senior

High

died on Tuesday, June 24, 1958, at
East Meadows, Long Island. She
was 84 years of age and for the
past three years had been living
with her older son in Rockville
Center, N. Y.

School.

Mr. and Mrs. Kashner are residWest Providence Road,

Nrrrolpgti

ing at 100
Aldan.

Lizzie Crago Pethick, ’84

1958
Miss
Carol
Sandra
Adams,
daughter of David L. Adams,
Elysburg R. D. 1, became die
bride of Gary Dean LeVan, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George W. LeVan,
Numidia, in a ceremony Saturday,
August 16, in St. Peters United
Ghurcli of Christ.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. George
Moyer before 150 wedding guests.
The bride graduated from Roaring Creek Valley High School in
1957 and from the Ken-Delle
School of Beauty Culture, Harris-

Mrs. Lizzie C. Pethick, 94, 824
Street, Scranton, died
recently after a long illness.
Her
husband, John T. Pethick, died in

Delaware

1933.

Born

November

19,

1863,

in

Wayne County,

she resided in Carbondale until 1909
when she moved to Scranton. She
was a daughter of the late William and Alice Hoffman Crago, of
Carbondale.
She was a graduate of Carbon"
dale High School and Bloomsburg
Seelyville,

State

Normal School,

class of 1884.

burg.

She was a member of Elm Park
Methodist Church for 50 years.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
R.C.V. High School in 1954 and

J.

employed by the
is
Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust
Company.
B.S.T.C.,

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
C. R. Schoeppler, Scranton; a
son, Ford C. Pethick, Cranford, N.
J.; two grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.

1958

Ida Bernhard,

The Evangelical and Reformed
Church, Orangeville, was the setting Saturday, June 21, for the
lovely ceremony uniting in marriage
Miss
Sarah Ann Sands,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Delmar Sands, Orangeville, and William F. Swisher, son of Mrs.
Grace Swisher and William F.
Swisher, of Bloomsburg.

The double-ring ceremony was
in candlelight by the
pastor, the Rev. Henry C. Meiss,
100 wedding guests.
Jr., before
The bride is a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School and reperformed

ceived her degree from B.S.T.C.
this year.

She

pa Delta

Pi,

a member of Kaphonorary education

is

fraternity.

Her husband,

also a graduate of

Bloomsburg High School, will be
He
a senior at B.S.T.C. this fall.
is also employed at Ritter’s Office
Supply.
years in

The groom served two
Alaska

with

the

U.

S.

’86

Private funeral services for Ida
Bernhard, 91, who died Wednesday, July 3, at the Kyle Nursing
Home, Millville, were held from
the Donald M. Wilt Funeral Home
with the Rev. Elmer A. Keiser, St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, officiating.

A guest
Home for

at the Millville Nursing
the past fifteen months,

she was born in Bloomsburg and
resided with her niece. Miss Laura
T. Voris, Bloomsburg, before going to the home.
She was the
daughter of the late Lewis and
Ann Townsend Bernhard.
She graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School, taught in the
Bloomsburg area and had a private school at her home years ago.
She and her brother were owners
of a jewelry store in Bloomsburg
lor

many

She was a mem-

years.

Episcopal Church
and of the Ivy Club, Bloomsburg.
ber of

St. Paul’s

Army.
at

Mr. and Mrs. Swisher are living
544 Iron Street, Bloomsburg.

Mrs. E. C. McDonnell, ’93
Mrs.

widow

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14

Elizabeth

C.

McDonnell,

of the late Dr. Joseph

McDonnell,

of

Jenkintown,

F.
Pa.,

McDonnell was born in
and educated in the
local schools there. She was graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1893 and laMrs.

Centralia, Pa.,

ter received her Master’s degree in
Education. After teaching in the
schools of Columbia County, she
moved to Philadelphia where she
headed the accounting department
of the Lelaney Company, victualers, and then held a similar post

the John Wanamaker store.
In 1904, she married Dr. McDonnell, who had been at Bloomsburg with her before entering the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
and Science, and she was treasurer
of the McDonnell Pharmacy in
Jenkintown, Pa., until retirement
In 1942 she moved to
in 1941.
West Philadelphia to the Fairfax
Apartments, where she lived until
1955.
in

Mrs. McDonnell was an active
of the Woman’s Organization of the National Association
of Retail Druggists and of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and
Science Women’s Club. A member and one-time treasurer of the

member

Montgomery County Democratic
Women’s Club, during 1917-18
and World War I, she was active
in the

Eastern Pennsylvania Chap-

Emergency Aid and NaAmerican Red Cross.
Mrs. McDonnell was greatly interested in young people’s education and was personally responsible for directing and assisting
many young men and women from
Montgomery County toward colter of the

tional

lege educations at Bloomsburg,
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
and Science, Temple, Drexel and
other institutions.

Mrs. McDonnell was buried on
Friday, June 27, from Oliver H.
Bair Co. with requiem mass at St.
James Catholic Church, 38th and
Church Streets, Philadelphia, and

interment
etery,

in

Holy Sepulchre Cem-

Wyndmoor,

She leaves two

Pa.
sister,

Miss Nan

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Moran, of Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Cornwells
of
McAlinn,
John
Heights, Pa.; two sons, Dr. John
N. McDonnell, of Meadowbrook,
Pa., and Joseph F. McDonnell, Jr.,
Rockville Center, L. I., N. Y.; and
two grandchildren, Joseph F. McDonnell III, and Mary Elizabeth
McDonnell.

Leighow Lewis, 02
Leighow Lewis, class

Estella
Estella

of

1902, died of heart attack on April
22, 1958, while visiting her daugh-

Louise, in Vallejo, California.
She was preceded in death by her
ter,

husband on January 14, 1958.
She is survived by four children,
Lewis, Philadelphia; Mrs. Louise Ramsey, ValMrs. Elizabeth
California;
lejo,
Linggo, Cheltenham; and Joseph
F. Lewis, Wilmont Park; also sisters, Louissa V. Leighow, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. C. M. Roust,
Sunbury; and brothers, John V.
Leighow, Aravada, Colorado, and
Paul H. Leighow, Altoona.
Funeral services were held and
interment made in Willow Grove
on April 28, 1958.
Miss

Estella

L.

the secondary division of Temple
University and dean emeritus of
the Rutgers College of South Jersey, died Friday, July 3, at his
home, Collingswood, N. J. lie was
i

1

.

Born in Cleveland Township,
Mr. Maurer was a son of the late
John and Hannah (Stine) Maurer.
He was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College and

weeks

after the death of her hus-

band, Dr. William Rogers Levering.

Levering was born in
the daughter of Isaac
and Minerva Jane Matthews

Mrs.

Forksville,
R.

Fleming.
She attended the public school
in Picture Rocks; Coombs Conservatory of Music, Philadelphia, and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

She

taught

music

in

public

schools in Warwick, N. Y., until
her marriage in 1910.
Mrs. Levering was active in
civic affairs in

Temple

ing.

Dr. Charles L. Maurer,

08

OCTOBER,

1958

’25

Mrs. Margaret Eyerly Aul,

Mrs. Margaret Eyerly Aul, 53,
executive director of the Colum-

University.

bia County Unit, American Cancer Society, died suddenly Satur-

tury.

day, October 4, in Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville, the victim of a cerebral hemorrhage.

While living in Fisherdale, Dr.
Maurer was principal of schools
Cleveland Township, and later
()l*

A resident of 2371 Old Berwick
Road (Espy), Bloomsburg, Mrs.
Aul had attended a regional can-

served as principal of schools in

Roaring Creek Township.

From 1912
pervising

to

company

Camden

in

of

1927 and dean emeri-

Additionally, from 1915 to 1946
he was vocational guidance counsellor

at

Camden High

School.

He was the author of numerous articles for educational journals and was a consultant on vocational guidance and psychological testing to secondary schools
throughout New Jersey. He was
founder and director of the old
Psychological Testing Bureau in
Camden.
He was regional

the New Jersey Guidance and
Personnel Association and belonged to many educational and guidance organizations. He was an elder in the Collingswood Presbyterian Church and superintendent
of the Sunday School there.
of

Diehl,

T4

Mrs. David H. Diehl, Danville
High School and B.S.T.C. gradu-

died recently in Pittsburg, Cal.
Mrs. Diehl, the former Edna
Hendrickson, taught in New Jersey schools before moving to California.

in

the

Mrs. Hilda James, director of

of
•

Montour unit, and went about
two blocks when she was stricken.
She halted her car and called for
the

help.

Mrs. Aul was a native and lifelong resident of Scott Township.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal School, Mrs. Aul had
taught for several years.
She was an active member of
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Espy,

where she had been organist and
pianist for 39 years.
She was also a member of the

Chapter

of

Eastern

the
Bloomsburg Hospital
Auxiliary, and an honorary, life
member of the Columbia County
PTA. She had been director of
the county cancer unit since its
reorganization four years ago.

Star,

Frances
Mrs.

Edna Hendrickson

Pottsville

of a Danville party,

Bloomsburg
vice president

at

and
stopped in the downriver community to pick up her car.
She drove away from the home

Conway

Hall, a private schools in
Carlisle, Pa.
He became dean of
the College of South Jersey in

meeting

cer

1912 he was su-

principal of Plymouth
schools and for the next

Township
two years was vice headmaster

ate,

Dr. Charles L. Maurer, co-ordinator of veterans’ education in

liam Corbett, Fort Myers, Fla.

Dr. Maurer’s career as an educator spanned almost half a cen-

Monroe County.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
S. Kirby Ayers, of New York City,
and a brother. Dr. Bruce L. Flem-

and Lloyd, Richmond, Cal.; two
daughters, Mrs. Wililam Monsen
and Mrs. Robert Seaman, Hayward, Cal.; two brothers, Jesse
and
Danville,
Hendrickson,
George Hendrickson, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and a sister, Mrs. Wil-

Ursinus College, Collegeville. He
received additional degrees at the
University of Pennsylvania and

tus in 1946.

Ora Fleming Levering, 03
Mrs. Ora F. Levering, Stroudsdied Tuesday afternoon,
burg,
May 6, 1958, at her home—just two

Surviving are her husband, David B. Diehl, Kirkland, Wash.; two
sons, William H., Hayward, Cal.;

Risliel

Francis

Casey, ’30

M. Casey,

forty-

Bloomsburg, died Saturday,
August 16, at the Bloomsburg
Hospital where she had been a
patient for four weeks.
She had
been in ill health for the past
eight,

year.

Mrs. Casey was born in Danville
April 19, 1910, the daughter of Mr.
15

and Mrs. Roy Rishel. She graduated from Danville High School
with the class of 1928 and attended B.S.T.C.
She had been a
teacher at Danville Junior High
School.
Mrs. Casey was a mem-

Following graduation he had
taught school for several years in
Nescopeck and in Millville, N. J.

He had more

Bloomsburg; three
Jr.,

brothers,

Camden, N.

J.;

em-

ployed as sales manager by the
Jersey Silica, Sand and Gra-

He was

vel Co.

a

member

of the

Reformed Church.
E. Jones, of Centralia;
his mother, Mrs. Clara Jones, of

Roy

Nescopeck; two

Wash.; Fred RishAtlantic City; two sisters, Mrs.
Halford Earle, Dallas, Texas; Mrs.
A. Mader, and her parents,
J.
Danville.

sisters,

J.

Edward C. Miller
Dr. Edward C. Miller, D.D.S., of
2115 West Fourth Street, Wililamsport, died at the home of his
son, W. Kermit Miller, Catawissa
1,

Sunday, July

6.

Death was due to complications.
He was seventy-eight years old.
Dr. Miller was a member of St.

Bridgeton Pike, Milville, N.
and formerly of Nescopeck,
J.,
Death
died Friday, August 15.
occurred in the Cermantown Hos43, of

Matthew’s
Trinity
Church, Williamsport.
Born in Catawissa

pital.

Decembear

Mr. Jones, a native of Nescopeck and son of the late Burgess
Daniel Jones of that borough, had

13,

son of the late

Lutheran

Fraternally, he
the Williamsport

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Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Christmas Recess Begins

Dr. William H. Treible died recently at his home in St. PetersHe had moved
burg, Florida.
there 13 years ago from New York.
Dr. Treible retired in 1945 after
He was a
50 years of practice.
of
Bloomsburg State
graduate

Teachers College and the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia. He
interned in New York City, practiced in Perth Amboy, N. J., and
ently.

and
Dr.

Treible was a

member

of

Andrew’s Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife, Camilla, and a brother, George, Lattimer Mines, Pa.

November 25
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December 18
January

5

January 20

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1958-1959

January 26

Classes Begin

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Easter Recess Begins

January 27
March 21

March 31

.

ALUMNI DAY

1G

resident physician
roentgenologist at the York

St.

Registration

Commencement

perman-

He was

hospital.

Semester Ends

Baccalaureate

of
the

United Commercial Travelers.

Christmas Recess Ends

Easter Recess Ends

member

1958-1959

Thanksgiving Recess Ends

TIIE

a

Moose and

1958-1959

Go-lleye QaienAcL't

First

was

later located in York, Pa.,

Township,
1879, he was the
Henry and Harriet

Yetter Miller.
He was a graduate of Bloomsburg Normal School, and had
taught for one year at the Hartman school, Catawissa Township,

He
resided in Milville 15 years.
was a graduate of Nescopeck High
School, B.S.T.C. and New York
University.

in

Dr. William H. Treible

Dr.

R. D.

prac-

His wife, the former Margaret

ther.

Jones, ’36

He

and a bro-

el,

After having been in ill health
for several weeks, Daniel J. Jones,

1906.

Maybel Hartman, preceded him

Surviving are his wife, the for-

John

in

ticed dentistry in Williamsport for
fifty years.

death in 1955.

mer Verna

Rishel, Seatlle,

Daniel

from Temple

New

ber of the Mahoning Presbyterian
Church.
Surviving are her husband, Fancis; one daughter, Mrs. Ann Beck,
Rishel,

recently been

before attending Temple University, Philadelphia.
He graduated

May
May
May

23

24 A. M.
24 A. M.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

and

"
Over 50 years ago
State

Some

boy enrolled

a certain

Normal School and Literary

practical joke

may have been one

felacu&d"

His enjoyment of a

Institute.

reason

why

Bloomsburg

the

at

he was never graduated.

years ago he told this story to me:

“One my Aunt

spending money, and

LEFT me

had
days

I

a rather generous

amount

amount

a very large

and classmates.

money. For a few

of

paying for

in

The

of

my Aunt

spread the report that

was very liberal

I

friends

me

sent

for

treats

word

Principal got

of

my
my

supposed legacy, called a faculty meeting, and invited

me

He

in.

explained to

been the recipient

how

I

of

my

me how

it

would be

through

was
in

my new

my

possession,
I

I

that

day on.”

suppose

I

donation.

Then

I

had

to

was marked

admit there

money

which by now amounted

teller of this story

how

community might be bene-

was excused; the library got on

and

have

to

wealth; and

a bit of misunderstanding about the

$5.00.

The

my

was

to give a portion to the school

library that the entire School
fited

I

Aunt’s generosity and kindness;

should be careful of

commendable

fortunate

as best

as a school

I

to less
it

had
than

could;

menace from

gave a chuckle as he finished; said he

looked back with a great deal of pleasure on the days he spent at
the Normal School and hoped
died.

some day

to

prove

it.

Recently he

His will records “$2000.00 to the Student Loan Fund.”

Principal’s request has

become

a reality.

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

A

.

ATHLETICS 1958-1959
FOOTBALL
'Saturday, September 20
Saturday, September 27

—Shippensburg
—Kings College

— Mansfield
—Cortland
— Open

Home
Away
Homecoming

Saturday, October 4
Saturday, October 11
Saturday, October 18

Home

—Millersville
—
—

Home

Saturday, October 25

Away
Away

November 7 West Chester
November 7 West Chester
Saturday, November 15 — Lock Haven
Friday,
Friday,

Home

BASKETBALL

—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—

Home
Home
Home
Away
Home
Away
Away
Home
Away

Wednesday, Decembre 3 Kutztown
Saturday, December 13 Cheyney
Tuesday, December 16 Kings
_
•Thursday, January 8 Kutztown
Saturday, January 20 Cheyney
Thursday, January 15 Shippensburg
Saturday, January 17 Mansiefld
'Wednesday, January 28 Millersville
Thursday, February 5 Kings
.

.

.

—
—
—
—
—
—
—

Away
Home
Home

Lycoming
Wednesday, February 11 Lock Haven
Friday, February 13 Lycoming
-Wednesday, February 18 Millersville
Saturday, February 21 Mansfield
Wednesday, February 25 Shippensburg
'Friday, February 27 West Cnester
Wednesday, March 4 Lock Haven
Saturday, February 7

;

Away
.

.

Home
Home
Away

.

—

'

Away

WRESTLING
Saturday, December 6

— Cortland

Away

—

Monday-Tuesday, December 29-30 Wilkes
Tournament
Wilkes College
Away
Saturday, January 10 Shippensburg
Home
Wednesaay, January 14 Lycoming
Home
Saturday, January 17 Millersville
Home
Thursday, January 29 Lock Haven
Wednesaay, February 4 East Stroudsburg .... Away
Away
Saturday, February 7 Indiana

—
—
—
—
—
—

— Lincoln U.
Home
Home
—West Chester
Saturday, February 28 — Waynesburg
Away
Friday-Saturday, March 6-7 —State Teachers
College Tournament
Home
Friday-Saturday, March 13-14— Four “I”
Tournament
Case Institute of Tech.
Friday-Saturday, March 20-21 — National Collegiate
Thursday, February 12

Friday, February 20

Wrestling Tournament

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Thursday, February 26
Friday, February 27
Saturday, February 28
Tuesday, March 3
Wednesday, March 4

.

Rounds
Rounds
Rounds
Rounds
Rounds

Qualifying
Qualifying
Qualifying
Qualifying
Qualifying

.

.
.

Qualifying Rounds
Semi-finals
Semi-finals
Finals

BASBALL
Home
Saturday, May 2 — Millersville
Home
-Tuesday, May 5— Mansfield
Home
Friday, May 8 — East Stroudsburg
Home
Monday, May 11 —Lycoming
Away
Wednesday, May 13 —Kutztown
Away
Saturday, May 16— Lycoming
Away

—Lock Haven
Saturday, April 11 — Shippensburg
Saturday, April 18— Kutztown
Wednesday, April 22 —Mansfield
Friday, April 24 — Lock Haven
Wednesday, April 29 — East Stroudsburg
‘Friday, May — West Chester
Thursday, April

Thursday, March 5
Tuesday, March 10
Wednesday, March 11
Saturday, March 14

19

..

1

Away
Away
.

Home
Home

.

.

.

.

Away
Away

TRACK

—
—
—

Friday, April 10 Kutztown
Wednesday, April 25 Shippensburg
Tuesday, April 21 Millersville
Friday-Saturday, April 24-25 Penn Relays

Conference

—

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Home
Away
Home
Away

Tuesday, April 28

— Lock

Games

—
—
—
—
—

Haven

May 1 — Cheyney
Saturday, May 9 — State Meet
Wednesday, May 13 —East Stroudsburg

Friday,

Football Coach Walter R. Blair
Basketball and Track Coach Harold S. Shelly
Wrestling Coach Russell E. Houk
Baseball Coach Walter R. Blair
Athletic Director Russell E. Houk
Publicity Director Boyd F. Buckingham

—

Home
Home
Away
Away

ALUMNI

QUARTERLY

NEW NORTH

HALL

Men’s Dormitory

Vol. L IX

December 1958
,

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No.

4

NEW NORTH HALL
The

first

dormitory for

men

to be erected

on the Bloomsburg campus

is

now

in the

process of construction.

North

Hall, originally constructed as a dormitory for non-instructional employees,
used for music studios on the upper floors and a laundry in the basement, will
eventually be razed.
later

Accommodating 200 men on two rooming floors, with a capacity of two persons per
room, this building will also provide lobby and recreational area space on the ground
floor, along with the Dean’s Apartment and storage rooms, to the extent of about onehalf of the two upper floors.

A Counselor’s Room is provided for each wing of the dormitory, and a four-room
apartment for the Dean of Men will be so located as to have outside entrance without
going through the main part of the building.
Originally estimated to cost $800,000, this structure will cost approximately $600,000,

which

is

probably one of the lowest per capita construction costs

among

the dormitories

being built in the State Teachers Colleges during the present biennium.
Since there are more than 300
time,

When

it

is

men

living in the

expected that the increased enrollment

the over-all enrollment

is

Town

will

of

increased from 1,350 to

1,500,

be scheduled on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and more
of

Bloomsburg at the present

outrun the dormitory construction.

more

men

have

classes will

will

room

in the

to

Town

Bloomsburg.

Some

consideration

Lquidating basis, that

is

is

being given to

the

construction of dormitories

on a

self-

to say, that students will, over a thirty or forty year period, help

pay a portion of the construction cost of the dormitories which they will occupy.
make this plan effective in Pennsylvania for State Teachers Colleges. However, many other States are using the self-liquidating plan in order to
house the students who must live away from home while attending college.

to

Legislation will be necessary to

At the present time the Waller Hall Dormitory

is

A new

occupied only by women.

wing, formerly used as Library space, provides space for thirty Senior

women

for the first

time this year.

New North

Hall will probably not be ready for occupany with the opening of the next

ccllege year in September, 1959, but
of the college year,

When

which begins

the original North Hall

is

expected to be ready for use for the second semester

late in January, 1960.

is

demolished, a second dormitory to be

Hall will be constructed near the College

known

as

Commons.

President

South

..

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 4

Vol. LI X,

December, 1958

FOOTBALL -

1958

Entering a season the outcome

which was rather uncertain, the
Huskies began their campaign

of

with a victory over Shippensburg.
This was followed by a series of
victories over Mansfield, Cortland,
Millersville

and

By

King’s.

was “Win

time, the slogan

all

this

eight

in ’58.”

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, $2.00; Single Copy. 50 cents.

EDITOR

with a

score

tie

in

’ll

horde of students and faculty accompanied the team and the band

West

games won, one game tied,
and two games lost, with B.S.T.C.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

occupying fifth place in the Teachers College Conference.

PRESIDENT

September 20

H. Nelson, ’ll
146 Market Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Bloomsburg 20

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith,

T8

56 Lockhart Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

627

Bloom

236

F. Schuyler, ’24

Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Hervey B. Smith, ’22
Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

West Biddle

DECEMBER,

1958

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Pass intercepts by
Kick-offs
Kick-offs ret. yds.

Fumbles
Fumbles

’09

Elizabeth H. Hubler,
14

downs
downs rush
downs pass
downs penalty

Penalties

H. F. Fenstemaker, T2
242 Central Road, Bloomsburg Pa.

725

Shippensburg 19

Punts
Punt ret. yds

Street, Danville, Pa.

Edward

First
First
First
First

—

Yards rush net

SECRETARY

Fred W. Diehl,

September 27

—

Bloomsburg 16

’31

Street, Gordon, Pa.

.

.

Bl.

Sh.

17
9

16
14

7

1

.

1

200

268

18
10

6

127

23

1

1

3

4-50

32
3-33

2-43

.

.

.

.

lost

69

3

0

2-12
2

2-17

.

Bloomsburg Huskies heralded

up

downs
Fumbles
First

Own

.

recovered

.

.

.

.

Punts
Kickoffs

Returns

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

112
68
129
11-22

2

2

11

6

4

2

2

1

2-39

3-30
3-46
5-10
2-10

.3-36
.5-20

3-25

After falling behind in the count
tune of 12 to 9, the Bloomsburg Huskies roared to a 16 to 12
victory over a scrappy King’s College eleven at the Kingston H. S.
to the

The battle was played on a rainsoaked gridiron and the field was
a sea of mud throughout the conWater in the end zones was
test.
almost ankle deep from the heavy
Saturday rains. The soggy underfooting was a handicap to both
clubs throughout the game.

October 4

in

advance
billing in the season’s opener on
Mt. Olympus and inflicted a 20-19
on
Shippensburg’s
Red
defeat
Raid Raiders who came here with

Bloomsburg 32

—

Mansfield 6

to

a string of 12 grid contests

defatt

9-15

.

King’s

3
2

1

pre-season reports as possessing an
aerial circus, lived

.

.

119
18
60

Stadium.

1

4-40.5

.

King’s 12
Bl.

Yds. rushing
Yds. lost rushing
Yds. passing
Passes completed
Passes intercepted

Penalties

E.

champions.

good-sized opening day crowd
that saw the tides of gridiron warfare surge back and forth was left
about as exhausted as the combatants at the close of the pastiming.
The score, by the way, was the
same as when these two clubs battled here a year ago, although on
that occasion Shippensburg had
that important deciding point.

the

five

THE ALUMNI

TC

defending

A

game with East Stroudsburg.
Then came the West Chester
game at West Chester. A great

to

BUSINESS MANAGER
H. Nelson,

satisfied

Chester, only to see the
Huskies meet a disastrous defeat.
The season closed with the loss of
the game to Lock Haven.
The record of the season shows

H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

E.

However, this slogan was discarded when the Huskies had to be

art the

without

and who, with Lock Haven,

First
First
First
First

downs
downs pass
downs penalty
downs rushing

Yards rush
Yards lost rush
Net gain rushing

.

.

4

.

0
7

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Bl.
11

220
9

.

211

Ma.
10
2
1

7
167
46
121

1

.

..
.

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Pass intercepts by
Yards gain pass
Kick-offs
Kick-off rets. yds.
.

Punts

.

18
12

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Punt ret. yds
Fumbles
Fumbles lost
Penalties

2
227
7-49
25
2-33
39

12

6
1

54
1-53
118
6-23

3

9
2

2

1

5-65

1-15

quarterback midway

The

on the option

picked
up some beautfiul blocking that
carried him back to mid-field, and
raced 68 yards for the tally. This
time it was Walter Fake who bulldozed his way over for the extra

in enrolling their

third victory of

recorded the achievement by the widest margin yet
fashioned this fall — 32 to 6.
the season

his

to

.

First

.

57
12
2

15
3

2

1

8
.3-42
.6-39

12
1-47
7-33
4-17

.

.

.

.

.

212
6

.

.

.

.

.

.

downs

Punts
Kick returns
Fumbles
recovered
Penalties

.

.

.

Kick-offs

Own

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

4-13
.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

3

7

1

4
6-50

.5-35

Bloomsburg Huskies continued
their unbeaten-untied ways as they
scored a decisive 16 to 0 win over
strong Cortland State Teachers
College.
This was Bloomsburg’s
fourth straight victory.
All of the scorcing in the game
came in the opening period. The
first Husky tally, coming on a 7yard pass play from Ozzie Snyder
to Xlorry Schultz, terminated a
fifty-two yard drive, following the
a

opening

kick-off.

Bobby

Rohm

carried for the two extra points on
an off-tackle play.
was scored at the
The final

TD

close of the first quarter
tion

from
2

play

on an op-

by Rohm, who moved

his regular

halfback spot to

—

West Chester 56

8

Bloomsburg 0

Millersville 0

17

Mil.
6

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Passes intercepted

October 25

—

Bloomsburg 12

Bl.

First
First
First
First

downs
downs passing
downs rushing
downs penalty

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net gain rushing
Passes attempted
.

Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Pass intercepts by
Kick-offs

Punts
Punt returns
Fumbles

.

.

.

.

.

3
3

1

0
100

231

.

.

.

4
12

38
62
14

14
.

.

217

.

.

19
5

.

7

48

55
1

0

3-52
5-35
22

1-55
9-31

3

4

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

yds.
.

0

2

1

4-20

2-20

lost

swept Mt. Olympus to keep its record unmarred and tumble visiting

Maurad§rs

Millersville

from

the

ranks of the undefeated.
.ii' - i

November

*

r

1

Bloomsburg 12— E. Stroudsburg 12
Bl.

Yds. rush
Yds. lost rush
Yds. passing
Passes attempted

.

.

.

.

...
.

Completed

.

Intercepted by
First

.

.

downs

.

.

.

Returns

.

.

Kick-offs

.

.

.

.

.

Fumbles

Own recovered
Penalties

.

.

89
52
201
15
5
2
7

E.S.
75

to
to

W.C.

9

20
368

46
63
-17
89
30

Fumbles
Fumbles

.

8
4
5

.

.

.

.

Punts
Kick return yds.

.

10
1

3

5
2

4-50
2-38
9-47
6-20

8-70
9-48
2-49
9-21

lost

Penalties
Kick-offs

13

355
177
20

The Rams of West Chester College moved to an overwhelming
56-0 victory over the Huskies of
Bloomsburg State Teachers before
an estimated 6,000 at Wayne Field
in West Chester and rubbed - out
all hopes of an unbeaten Husky
season.
Not once in the contest did the
local Huskies of Coach Walt Blair
reach a scoring position as they
were stopped at the West Chester
36, their deepest penetration of the
evening.
The Husky passing attack and the running of the 1-B.S.
T.C. pony backs were stopped cold
by the powerful, raging Rams who
made up in a large measure for
their too close for comfort, 19-7
victory on Mt. Olympus last year.

29
81
19

November

15

8
1

Bloomsburg 6

— Lock Haven

12

6

6-6
3-33

7-8
3-49

0
0

1

0

6-50

6-50

The Bloomsburg Huskies were
forced
order

Bl.

downs
.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College recorded a 12-0 win on wind-

Cort.
142
22
65

Bl.

Yds. rush
Yds. lost rush
Yds. passing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Intercepted by

November

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net rushing
Yards passing

October 11
Cortland 0

AND THEN -

First

Fumbles

—

season.

left,

Penalties

Bloomsburg 16

hopes of a completely unmarred

points.

Mansfield Mountaineers pushed
the Bloomsburg Huskies around
with abandon in the third period

and laid the groundwork for a
touchdown that was supposed to
put them in the ball game. What
it actually did was wake up the
slumbering Huskies who immediately launched a devasting aerial
bombardment that all but swept
the visiting Red and Black off Mt.
Olympus and delighted a partisan
corwd of some 3,000. The Huskies

in the period.
speedster moved

shifty little

from behind in
turn what might have
battle

been one of the biggest upsets in
the state into a 12 to 12 deadlock
with an East Stroudsburg S.T.C.
aggregation, in a contest played on
East Stroudsburg’s “Normal Hill”
Although still classed as one
turf.
of the state’s unbeatens, the Huskies had to say goodbye to any

L.1I.

Bl.

....
downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rush
Yards passing
Passes attempted
....
Complete
Intercepted by
Fumbles
First

.

Own recovered
Kick-offs

.

.

.

.

Punts
Returns
Penalties

.

7

17

Ill
8
35
13

202
9

0
6
0

5

0

3
2

2
1

1

1-10
4-40
4-23
4-40

4-49
50
2 11
2- 8

The Bald Eagles of Lock Haven
Teachers College dumped the
Bloomsburg Huskies 12 to 6 on a
rain-soaked Mt. Olympus.

A

large

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

of fans braved the downwatch the Huskies windup

number
pour

to

gridiron

their

with

season

5-2-1

record.

Lock Haven scored its first
touchdown late in the second quarter as Bob Mumford crashed into
the end zone from the 1, capitalizing on a Husky fumble at the 11.
The game-winning tally came
mid-way in the third period with

In 1867, Carver Hall was built
on a tlnee-acre plot. In the south

corner among the brush, a small
sturdy pine tree was spared when
the lot

was cleared.

1934, Dean William
wrote the folowing:

In
liff

Sut-

B.

Mumford

again totting the leather,
time from two yards out. The
drive got underway following Bob

The Old Pine Tree

this

interception of
pass on the Husky 33.

Snyder

a

Sealy’s

Pat

fourth

the

in

TD

came late
quarter as Bobby

Rohm rammed

Has,

by.

apace,

Ever the changing tide you face.
Of youth and age which comes and

over from a yard

goes,

A

their own 10 yard line. Ozzie Snyder s pass for the extra point fell
incomplete.

The

The drive

started back

like a

Kept watch while years go on

on

away.

dark form against the sky
guard been standing

tall

Mon-

doek missed on both extra point
placement attempts.

The Huskies’ only

Your

ceaseless stream that ever
flows.
secret of enduring youth

is

Thine
Oh, glorious, ever lovely Pine.

Mrs. Iva Mae Beckley and Miss
Beatrice Englehart, Assistant Pro-

Elementary Education at
Bloomsburg State Teachers

fessors of

the

College,

participated

in

the

Ly-

Today,

stands alone— a “LoveAs Dean Sutliff, now
Dean Emeritus was looking at the
tree this fall from his home across
the street, he was moved to add
it

Pine.”

ly

Program
held in the Muncy High School
and new Elementary School on

the following:

Friday, October 17, 1958.

Have I not seen the moving Tide,
Of those who come and those

coming County

Mrs. Beckley,

Grade

Two

Institute

who

in the

is

teacher of

Benjamin Frank-

Laboratory School, served

lin

as

and discussion leader in
of Elementary English.
Her topic was “Language Learn-

a teacher

area

the

Primary Grades.” The
hour was devoted to a demonstration with children and the second hour was spent discussing the
demonstration and general problems of language learnings in the
primary grades.
kindergarten
Miss
Englehart,
teacher at the campus Laboratory
ings in the
tirst

School, acted as discussion leader
and resource person with kindergarten - nursery
teachers
school
from Lycoming County. Her subject was “Activities for the Five-

Year-Old-Child.”

Donald E. Smith recently

Soliloquy of the Old Pine Tree

who go?
None from my lofty top can hide,
The far flung hills and sunset
glow.
Buildings of brick and lofty tower
Are not as fair as green hills are.
Sunshine and wind and lovely
flower,

Bring

me

a

message from

afar.

Pleasant it is for me to hear,
The shouts of children on their

way.

The laughter

of the youth

who

fear

No

chill of

December, no

rain of

May.

my

own,
and green.
Counting the birds that have
nested and flown,
Can you think of the changes
So

I

live in a

On

world of

a corner that’s fair

I’ve

seen?

receiv-

ed the degree of Master of Science
at

Ohio State University, Colum-

bus, Ohio.

DECEMBER,

1958

3

TWELFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The Twelfth Annual Conference
Teachers and Administrators
was held on the campus of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Saturday, November 8,
1958, and there was an even larger
group than the record-breaking
number which attended sessions

for

Dr. Ira De A. Reid,
the Department of

year.

last

Chairman

of

Sociology

and

Anthropology

at

Haverword College, addressed the
General Session at 11:15
“Culture for Moderns.’
Prior

to

a.

m. on

the faculty

joining

at

Haverford College, Professor Reid
served as Professor of Sociology on
the faculties of Atlanta University,

New

York University, and the

New

Work at ColHe also served

York School of Social

umbia University.

Visiting Professor of Sociology
at Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, and the
University of Michigan.
In addias

tion to his intense interest in teach-

ing and in problems and principles
of sociology, Professor Reid has us-

ed

his

talents as a Consultant

on

Minorities for the War Manpower
as President of the
Eastern Sociology Society, and as
Vice President of the American SoAt the present
ciological Society.
time, he is a member of the Gov-

Commission,

Commission on Higher Education in Pennsylvania, and the
Philadelphia Commission on Highernor’s

er

affiliated

with

Cancer Society

as a

Education; he

the American
Director, and

Urban League
Included

is

the National
as a Trustee.

with

among

the

many

books and

articles

he has written

“The Negro Immigrant”; “In
Minor Key”; “Sharecroppers All.”

are:
a

He

is

the

Review

a former editor of “Phylon,
of

Race and Culture.”

Reid

Professor

received
the
Arts degree from
Morehouse College, the Master of
Arts degree from the University of
Pittsburgh, the Doctor of Philoso-

Bachelor

of

phy degree from Columbia Uniand the Doctor of Laws
degree from Morehouse College,
and has done graduate work at the
London School of Economics. He
is listed in “American Men of Sci-

versity,

ence,” the “Dictionary of American Scholars,” and “Who’s
in
the East.”

Who

The conference again featured
demonstration lessons and discussions in each department, and, this
year, all activities took place in the
classrooms and buildings on the
campus.
In the department of Elementary Education, lessons, taught by
members

of

the

college

faculty,

were presented with “ReadinessFoundation for Learning” as the
main theme. Those attending had
an opportunity to participate in
group discussions; discussion leadMrs. Richard Devore,
ers were
Lewisburg; Mrs. William Beagle,
Danville;
Eleanor Wray,
Miss
Bloomsburg State Teachers College; Mrs. Marcella Hyde, Canton;
Ward L. Myers, Muncy; Guy A.
Gray,
Long,
Danville;
Harry
Bloomsburg.
The program in Secondary Education began at 9:00 a. m. with

Navy

registration in

Mem-

Hall.

bers of the college faculty presented lessons in modern language,
mathematics, socical studies, geography, English and science; discussion leaders were Leon Maneval and Harold Miller of the High
School faculty and John R. Shu-

man, Eugene D. Thoenen, Glenn
S. Weight and Donald Rabb of the
college faculty.

Business Education teachers regNavy Hall. During the
lecture and discussion period in
Navy Hall Auditorium, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, spoke to the group on “Reistered in

membering

or

Relearning

—

Re-

search in Business Education.”

communication,

Oral

sound

discrimination,
social
adequacy,
the teaching of reading, and performance testing of intelligence
were the topics around which lessons and discussions were centered
in the area of Special Education.
The general session in Carver
Auditorium followed the group
meetings. A conference luncheon
was held at one o’clock in the College Commons with music provided by the Brahms Trio of Williamsport.

Plans

for

the

conference

gram were developed by

pro-

directors

of the following departments: Dr.
B. Martin, Business Education; Dr. Ernest T. Engelhardt,

Thomas

Secondary Education; Mr. Royce
Johnson, Elementary Educa-

O.

tion; Dr.
cial

Donald

F. Maietta, Spe-

Education.

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday,
4

May

23,

1959
Till:

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

RE-EVALUATION AND
ACCREDITATION MEETING
Dr. F. Taylor Jones, Executive

Secretary of the Middle States Asof Colleges and Secondary Schools, met with members of
the faculty and administrative staff
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College on Monday, October 27,
195S, to discuss the re-evaluation
and accreditation of the College by
the Middle States Association.
sociation

The evening meeting began with
a

buffet

Commons

supper in the College
followed by a general

discussion,

including

the

role

which the faculty will play in preparing for the re-evaluation which
will take place in February, 1960.

Bloomsburg is already fully accredited by regional and national
agencies
including
the
Middle
States Association, the National
for
Council
Accreditation
of
Teacher Education, and the Pennsylvania State Council of Education.
In addition, the College
holds membership in the following professional associations: the
American Council on Education,
the National Association of Busi-

ness Teacher Training Institutions
and the National Office Management Association.

The most important phase

of the

re-evaluation of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College will be the

Colleges own look at itself. The
study is made every ten years. A
committee of five to ten members,
each of high stature in their respective fields, will be assigned to
inspect

the institution in 1960.
Their only interest in the physical
plant will be its effect on teaching.

THE 1958 SALES RALLY
porated, shared the spotlight as
one of two featured speakers.
One of Mr. Whitney’s qualifi-

November

cations

1958, at 8:00

6,

p

.in.

titudes of others.

He

makes

its

visitation

After its visit, the team will
write a report on the college for
the institution rather than the commission.

DECEMBER,

1958

has held executive

Promotion

Director

Hill Publishing

McGraw-

of

Company, and Di-

rector of the Encyclopedia Britan-

nica Press. For ten
as President of
Executives, and just
ganized the firm of

years,

he serv-

improve other points that influence their personal, socical and

agnose and analyze marketing op-

business

After a number of years in the
educational and public relations
fields,
Mr. Drake did graduate
work in business psychology and
furthered his study in the attitudes

by becoming a director
This brought him

of people

in the theatre.
to

the

attention

Ziegfeld

schools

establish
training.

School

of

the

Flo

late

who encouraged him

He founded
at

Osceola,

to

personality

in

his

Summer

New

York,

where he works with business and
professional people.

He

is

a

member

of

the

sales

training staff of

Mohawk

Carpet

faculty

member

of

Mills,

a

the

turer at the University of Illinois,

the School of
cago.

Many

Management

of

in Chi-

National Sales
a year ago, or-

Marketing Au-

Institute, Incorporated, to di-

dits

erations of corporations.
In World War II, he

life.

and a regular faculty member

it

He

ed

work. The whole program is aimed at establishing the institution’s
objectives and how well the objectives are being met.
A written
description of the college will also
be prepared to present to the com-

when

niea Press.

ested in demonstrating and teaching people how to better their telephone personality, how to develop
public speaking ability, and how to

Bankers Public Relation School at
Syracuse University, a guest lec-

here.

a distinguished personal

positions as Director of Advertising for the Corning Glass Works,

also inter-

is

is

background of salesmanship, ad\ ertising,
sales management and
marketing. It was said of him recently that he has done everything
from selling supermarkets to heading up the Encyclopedia Britan-

Drake, who is one of the nationally noted authorities on sales
training and personality development, has a new and different approach to the art of selling. His
presentation was designed to help
his listeners improve in those “little things’ that are so important in
influencing people favorably —
things like meeting and talking
with people, conquering “stage
fright,” and understanding the at-

In the intervening period, members of the staff will prepare questions to find out about their own

mittee

and many others.
Robert A. Whitney, President of
Marketing Audits Institute, Incor-

Glenn Drake, President of Glenn
Drake Associates, was one of the
two featured speakers at the Thirteenth Annual Sales Rally presented
at
the
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College on Thursday,

to
_

Washington

was called
serve with the

to

War Production Board, and later
served as Special Consultant to the
the Office of War Mobilization
and War Assets Administration. At
present, he serves on advisory
councils to the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Foreign Operations
Administration.
In furthering the concept of Better Standards of Living for Everyone Through Better Selling, Mr.
Whitney has traveled over 80,000
miles a year. He is especially concerned now with the solution of
marketing and sales problems by
the proper use of sales management methods and marketing techniques, and the effective use of integration and coordination as a
means of developing more markets

and increasing

profits.

of our leading industries

MOYER

avail themselves of his services to
train their sales personnel;

among

his clients are the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, the Coca Cola
Company, Remington Rand, the
New York Life Insurance Company, the York-Hoover Company,
Ford Motors, the Vendo Company,

s

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

’09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

ALUMNI DAY

B.S.T.C.
A

Alumni Day,
in The
was written by

short time before

appeared

following

the

Morning

Edward

Press.

It

F. Schuyler, editor of the

Mr. Schuyler

publication.

a loyof the

is

alumnus and member
Board of Directors of the Alumni

al

Association.
The article contains
material that, in the opinion of
your editor, well deserves reprinting.

time we need to
look back over the road that we

From time

to

have traveled, and this is what Eddie has done in the article that follows:

A

few days from now hundreds

former students of the Teachers
College will assemble on the cam-

of

pus and take a

stroll

down mem-

ory’s lane.

Saturday

is

Alumni Day

at the

and
mighty enjoyable program is in
the making.
It is hoped there will be a thousand back and there should be.
a

More conservative estimates place
the number at 500 and certainly
this should be achieved if the reunion classes have done any work
at all on plans for these always

memorable

occasions

that

are

spaced five years apart.

Alumni Association as it
is a memorial to the
Bruce Albert and a testi-

stands today
late R.

monial to its present head, Dr. E.
H. Nelson.
It isn’t as active as it should be
and certainly it has not been accorded the support of the graduate
body that it merits, but it is the
strongest it has ever been and is
in a position to go out and do some
additional things that will be of
considerable importance to the institution.

case.

There were a couple of projects
body going. One was
the Alumni Room, a tribute to the
late Prof. O. Id. Bakeless. It’s been
located on the first floor of Waller
Hall for some years now and was
once much in use as a gathering
spot.
The draperies needed refurbishing and an order for this
was placed during the spring.
that got the

“friendly College on the hill”

The

Prior to the time Albert took
over as head of the graduate body
the Alumni Association was
a
mighty loosely knit organization.
Its functions, insofar as we could
observe, was meeting in Carver
Hall once each year to name officers,
hear reports of reunion
classes and then adjourn until the
folowing year when the same procedure would be followed again.
These functions are still part of
Alumni Day but they certainly can
no longer be classed as the only
activities of the body.
Now they
are relegated to their proper position and don't represent the entire
year’s program as was once the

Some

that perhaps the room
important any more and
they may be right. But for the older grads it still is a rather hallowed spot. And one thing that can’t
be taken from it is that it got the
Alumni doing something besides
meeting and eating and then ad-

isn’t

feel

so

journing.

When

the College

tennial in 1939

it

had

its

There were some
splendid programs and the attendance was good. But the most concrete thing of the whole affair was
the work of the graduates, under
celebration.

They raised some $10,000
add to the student loan fund.
Now by present standards $10,000
Albert.
to

Do You Know About The
6

cen-

put on quite a

isn’t

much

likely

to

cash but still no one
turn his or her back

such a sum

is

And

offered.

is
if

at the

time it was the biggest thing the
grads had done for their alma
mater.

That campaign renewed interest
the loan fund for it made it
large enough to aid a substantial
number. It has continued to grow
in

since.

Through the boom period
war years much of it

of the post

was not in circulation but the reserve was working.
It was on interest and the returns were presented in scholarships. In the recent period the demand for loans
has come up to a marked degree
but the fund has been adequate
thus far.
Since World War II the Husky
Club was started and has accomplished consideralbe good.
Right
now, though, it needs to be revitalized.
There have been a couple
of broad appeals on its behalf and
another is due.
More recently the Bakeless Fund
was started. It has been growing
steadily. For some time the branch
unit has worked rather well to
keep up alumni interest throughout the year. Most counties within
the service area are organized and
most of them are contributing
There are also Philscholarships.
adelphia and New York branches.
We wouldn’t be surprised if the
matter scholarships got top atttention this

some

weekend.

fine

things

We
but

have done

we can do

more. Fact is at the present the
student body, through its book
store earnings, is putting more in
the scholarship pot than the graduates. That ought to be an incentive to the

alumni

to get

busy and

produce.

Bakeless Fund?

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

TV COURSE AT
of

Dr. Harvey Andruss, president
the Teachers College, has an-

Bloomsburg cooperating
with the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education,
nounced

the National Broadcasting Company, and 250 other American Colleges

and Universities

in

offering

college credit for the atomic age
physics coure presented by NBC-

TY

beginning Monday, October
and continuing through June

6,
5,

1959.

The current issue of the “TV
Guide," prepared for distribution
this

in

area,

lists

Bloomsburg

one of the cooperating

as

institutions.

are telecast Monday
through Friday at 6:30-7 a. m. in
each time zone over the nation-

The

lessons

wide NBC-TV network. WBRETV, Channel 2S, Wilkes-Barre, is
the

NBC

affiliate in this area.

Bloomsburg

is
offering
the
course for teachers-in-service who
may earn three credits each sem-

ester.

The purposes

STUDENTS HAVE
PERFECT GRADES FOR TERM
SIX B.S.T.C.

B.S.T.C.

of the course are

demonstrate techniques essento effective teaching of basic
principles of physics, and provide
students — primarily high school
teachers— with up-to-date information
concerning recent developments in physics.
Presentations during the first
semester are devoted to those aspects of physics necessary for an
understanding of atomic and nuclear physics.
The second semeswill
deal exclusively with
ter
atomic and nuclear physics.
The national teacher is Dr. Harvey E. White, professor and vice
chairman of the Department of
to

tial

Six students at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College achieved a
perfect academic record during
the second semester of the 1957-58
college year by recording straight
“A’s.”
John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction, has announced that the

three

men and

head the Dean’s

three

women

List.

The

dents who led their classmates in
the race for academic honors include:
Dorothy Andrysick, completed
sophomore year in Elementary Education; daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Andrysick, Alden Station.

completed
junior year in Elemenetary Education; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ar-

Faye

Lee

Aufiller,

thur Aumiller, Melroy.
Dale Bangs, received the Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary
Education on May 25; son of Mr.

and Mrs. Guv Bangs, Orangeville
R. D.

1.

Bernard O’Brien, received the
Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education on May 25; son
Marie O’Brien. Locust
of Mrs.
Gap.
Joseph Richenderfer, completed
junior year in Secondary Education; son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Richenderfer, Bloomsburg.
Dolores Wanat, completed junior year in Elementary Education;
daughter of Mrs. J. Buchola,
Kingston.

Physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Demonstrations and experiments
are an integral part of the course.

The TV presentations are supplemented by reading assignments,
problem solving, seminars and-or
Examinalaboratory experiences.
tions wil lbe

members

of

ence faculty

given periodically by
the Bloomsburg sci-

7
.

There will be 80 TV lessons each
semester— a total of 160 during the
year. There will be a brief recess
at each of the major holidays.

DECEMBER,

1958

will

six stu-

TOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

PRIZE

For the third consecutive year,
shorthand students at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have
won first prize in the nationwide
shorthand contest sponsored by the
Esterbrook Pen Company. It is the
first

test
first

the history of the concollege has won the
prize three years in succession.

time

in

that

a

There were between fifty-five
and sixty thousand contestants,
representing over 2,000 teams, participating.

The Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College entered a team
of

sixteen

students,

all

members

Shorthand III Class, taught
by Professor Walter Rygiel, and
of the

won

first place in the Collegiate
Division, Class A, of the 1957-58

Gregg Shorthand Contests were written with
pen and ink and were evaluated by
judges appointed by the Gregg
Publishing Company. The test was
National
test.

All

graded on correct shorthand prinand quality shorthand penmanship.

ciples

Each of the sixteen students received a certificate of merit and an
Esterbrook pen with the student’s
name inscribed with the name of
the contest, the College, the year,
and the words, “Awarded to Walter S. Rygiel.”

Miss Marie F. Cecco, R.N.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Cecco, Elysburg R. D. 1, became
the bride of Jacob P. Bluges, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bluges, Shamokin, in a recent ceremony in
St. Peter’s Church, Mount Carmel.
The Rev. Francis Dinkel officiated at the double-ring ceremony.
The bride graduated from Ralpho Township High School and
Geisinger
Memorial
Hospital
School of Nursing. She is employed in the pediatrics department at

ARCUS’
Bloomsburg

WON FIRST

’41

the Geisinger.

The bridegroom was graduated
from Shamokin High School and
B.S.T.C.
I.
John Krepich has recently
been appointed Dean of the Orange County Community College,
Middletown, New York. Mr. Krepick lives at 115 South Street in
Middletown.

7

MEANS MUCH TO ECONOMY OF BLOOMSBURG

B.S.T.C.

"A friendly college

in a friendly

town’ is an expression often made
by students and visitors at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, but the relationships between
the college and the town have a

much deeper

When

a group

of

enterprising

September, 1959, to handle
adequately the growing enrollment

and additional buildings.

employees who are
Bloomsburg.
If an
educational institution can be clas“industry,”
then
sified
as
an
Bloomsburg has an industry which

of a classical education,

of

of

Pennsylvania

and

As the enrollment and physical
plant continue a steady expansion
in keeping with a projected plan

campus expansion to accommotwo thousand students by
1970, the impact upon the Bloomsburg area can be examined in the

of

date

these broad areas: economic, social, cultural, athletic and

light of

One

service.

of the

most direct and most

obvious economic aspects of the
deals
relationship
college-town
with the college budget which is
planned to cover a two-year period. At the Freshman Parent’s Day
meeting at the college on Sunday,
September 28, Paul C. Martin, bus-

manager, announced that if
currently proposed legislation is
enacted, the college budget for the
period from June 1, 1959, to May
31, 1961, will be increased more
than one million dollars, making a
total of $3,295,000 for the two-year
Budgets have increased
period.
steadily from $1,563,600 during the
iness

1951-1953 period to $2,174,175 for
1957-1959, but the proposed million dollar increase for the next
two years represents the most dramatic increase for any one period.

At the present time, the college
employs sixty-seven faculty members and seventy-nine non-instruc8

piovides some job diversification,
adds beauty to the community, and
relatively free from noise and
is

smoke.
But payrolls do not

tell

the en-

While college employees
buy or rent homes and purchase
tire story.

the town.

community

set aside for sal-

is

and wages, and in terms of
dollars and cents, this means, at
present, a payroll of more than
six hundred thousand dollars each
aries

the

monwealth

sixty per cent of the

present budget

residents

ble but rather unlikely that they
could have foreseen the size of the
present enrollment, the extent of
the buildings and grounds which
constitute the college today, or the
increased importance of the institution to the people of the Com-

as

25, in

year for

possi-

146

many

increased by as

tunity to secure the fundamentals
it is

of

may be

More than

Bloomsburg took steps
nearly a hundred twenty years ago,
to provide the young people of
their community with an oppor-

total

number,

significance.

citizens of

—a

employees

tional

full-time employees. This

food,

home

clothing,

furnishings,

and services, there is another large
group which the college attracts to
each year— stuthe community
dents, parents and other visitors.
the 1378 students who enrolled in September, 1958, there are
441 women housed in Waller Hall,

Of

men housed in North Hall, 185
women who come to classes from

74

homes in Bloomsburg or
their
nearby communities, and 676 men
who live in town or commute daily
from communities within a forty
mile radius.

328

vate

homes

vatively,

the latter numare housed in priConserin the town.
has been carefully es-

Of

men

ber,

it

timated that these 328 men spend
$220,000 each year for food, clothing, housing, and a multitude of
miscellaneous items such as dry
cleaning, laundry, tooth paste, tobacco, movie tickets and entertainment, and gas, oil and repairs for
The 512 men and
automobiles.
women in the dormitories add another $75,000 each year outside of

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

any room, board, or

Each

who

fees.

year, thousands of people,

the college, spend money
the community.
Prospective
students and their parents account
for nearly 800 visitors, graduates
and friends returning for Homevisit

in

coming and Alumni Days add 1200
more, 900 attend the annual sales
450 teachers-in-service attend the annual education conference, 500 out-of-town high school
rally,

students, teachers and guests- come
to see the fashion show, and 1,000
or more parents spend a day or

more in Bloomsburg, during Commencement weekend. Add to this
list of 230 or more students and
teachers

who

participate

in

the

High School Business Education
Contest, and you come up with a
total of 5,080 visitors to the college

each year. This does not include
artists and lecturers, who present
programs at the college, nor does
it measure the number of book and
equipment salesmen, or educators
and administrators who meet on

the

campus

in

small

conference

groups.

Nearly ten per cent of the total
budget, or $100,000 yearly, is spent
repairs, and
and labor is
secured locally. During the present
year $238,773 was spent to relocate
the new library and to construct
fourteen new rooms for women
for

maintenance and

much

of the material

dormitory students in the area previously occupied by the old library.

Some

of the profits derived from
College store and snack bar
are used for student scholarships
and grants, but some of the money
is used for college contributions to

the

community

projects

and

services,

such as the $1,(X)0 which was given
the
of
the
purchase
toward
Bloomsburg community ambulance.

Long lists of facts and figures
may tend to confuse us, but of almost every amount
ly,

the

money

listed previous-

represents

funds

earned elsewhere and brought into
the

community

as part of the total

operation of the college.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

DEAN’S

SPEECH AND HEARING
THERAPY PROGRAMS

LIST
John Longo, Bloomsburg, HazleS.; Glenn Reed, Shamokin,
R. D. 1, Trevorton II. S.; Joseph
Richenderfer, Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg H. S.; Sara Schilling, Ashland
Ashland II. S.; Jane A. Smith, Wilkes-Barre, E. L. Meyers II. S.; Eliz-

For the first time in history the
Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teacher College has
signed an agreement with the
County Board of School Directors
of Schuylkill and Lycoming Counstudents

an accumulative average of at least
2.0 while in attendance at this col-

abeth Sprout, Williamsport, Williamsport II. S.; Mary A. Wahl,
Milton, Milton Joint H. S. Denise

lege.

A.

Freshmen: Connie Aumillcr, McClure R. D. 2, West Snyder II. S.;
James Brosius, Frackville, West
Mahanoy Township; Joan Bugel,
Atlas, Mt. Carmel II. 8.; Elaine
Burns, Philadelphia, Frankford II.

Cheltenhan H.

The Dean of Instruction of the
College, John A. Hoch, has released the following names of students
who have qualified for the Dean’s
List for the second semester, 1957These students hav a quality
point average of 2.5 or better for
the second semester 1957-58, and
58.

Catawissa,
Golka,
Kingsley, Moutain View; Judith
Goss, Glenside, Abington.
Patricia

S.;

Fetterolf,

H.

Catawissa

S.;

Patricia

Henninger, Summit
Hill H. S.; Elaine
Kline, McClure, West Snyder, Bea-

Margaret

Hill,

Summit

ver Springs;

Edwin Kuser, Becht-

Boyertown II. S.; Joanne
Little, Bloomsburg, Bloomsbnrg II.
S.; Carol Mazza, Indiana, Indiana
Jt. H. S.; Sandra Moore, Hazleton,
Hazleton II. S.; Roland Stettler,

elsville,

Danville, Danville II. S.; Eileen
Wolcheskv, West Hazleton, West
Hazleton H. S.
Sophomores: Jeanette Andrews,
Osceola, Elkland II. S.; Dorothy

Andrysick, Alden Station, Newport
Township; Boyd Arnold, McClure
R. D. 2, Lewis town H. S.; Linda
Bartlow, New Albany, Wyalusing
Valley; Sue Bogle, Milton, Milton
H. S.; Connie Carson, Light Street,
Scott Township H. S.; Concetta
Cordora, West Pittston, West Pittston H. S.; Joanne DeBrava, Elkins
Park, Cheltenham H. S.; Albert
Francis, Pottsville, Pottsville H.

S.;

Marie Stanell, Shenandoah, J. W.
Cooper H. S.; June Locke Trudnak, Chester, Chester H. S.
Juniors: Clarence Barnhart, Riverside, Danville H. S.; Carl Braun,
Sunbury, Sunbury H. S.; Elaine
Berwick
DiAugustine,
Berwick,
H. S.; Donald Ker, Catawissa R.
D. 2, Danville H. S.; Linda Kistler,
Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg H. S.;
Rita Lechner, Danville, St. Cyril

Academy;
Scranton,

Dorothy

Lezinski,

West Scranton H.

DECEMBER,

1958

S.

ton H.

lies

for the opportunity of college
to

participate

in

the

Speech and Hearing Therapy Programs of these counties.

;

Wenkenbach,

Philadelphia,

Seniors: Patricia Antonio, Atlas,
Mt. Carmel Catholic; Faye AumilIcr,
Milroy, Milxoy II. S.; Dale
Bangs, Orangeville R. D. 1, Millville H. S.; Robert Beaver, Kulpmont, Kulpmont H. S.; Mrs. Constance Bastian, Sunbury, Sunbury
II. S.; Roberta Bowen, Sayre, Athens H. S.; Edward Braynock, Askam, Hanover Township H. S.; Paul
Burger, Catawissa, Catawissa H. S.

Barbara

Curry,

Philadelphia,

Cheltenham II. S.; William Delbaugh, Northumberland, Sunbury
II. S.; Norman L. Fowler, Middletown, Middletown
Gavitt,

land;

La

Raymond

II.

S.;

Wayne-

HighHargreaves, Scran-

Porte,

Sullivan

Scranton Central; George T.
Herman, Sunbury, Sunbury H. S.;
Susan Hoffman, Hatboro, Hatboro
Horsham H. S.
ton,

Betta Hoffner, Clarks Summit,
Clarks
Summit-Abington; Eloise
Kaminski, South Gibson, Harford
H.
Dolores
M. Plummer,
S.;
Bloomsburg, Sunbury H. S.; Lynne
Raker, Numidia, Roaringcreek ValMae Rcmig, Middlecreek,
ley;
Beaver
West
Township; Sara
Sands, Orangeville, Bloomsburg H.
Frances Snavelv, Hershev, M.
S.
S. Hershev H. S.; Rachel Snavely,
Hershev, M. S. Hershey H. S.; Dolores Wanat, Kingston, Coughlin
H. S„ Wilkes-Barre.
;

JOSEPH

C.

This means that college Seniors
be assigned to the offices of
County Superintendents in Williamsport and Pottsville, will be
transported to public schools of the
counties designated by the County
Superintendent, and will be superwill

S.

CONNER

by some member of the staff
County Superintendent.
While this cooperative training
program is similar to the cooperative training program now in efvised

of the

with school districts, it is unique in that it is on a county-wide
basis,
and involves
individual
Speech and-or Hearing Diagnosis
and Therapy rather than classroom
instruction in groups.
fect

These contracts have been finapproved by Dr. Charles II.

ally

Boehm, Superintendent

of Public
Mr. Arthur II. Henninger, Superintendent of Schuylkill County Schools; Mr. C. H. M.
Connel, Superintendent of Lycom-

Instruction;

County Schools; the Presidents
and Secretaries of the Board of
Trustees of the College and the
County Board of School Directors.
ing

The period
by students

of

in this

participation

program

will

of

be

approximately nine weeks, or onehalf of each semester, and will
necessitate their leaving the college campus with the provision
that the remainder of the semester
will

be spent

in

classroom student

teaching.

The plan has been developed
and will be supervised by Dr.
Donald F. Maietta, Director of
Special Education.

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Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

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Lucia Hammond (Mrs. RobertL.
Wheeler) lives at 269 Washington
Avenue, Providence 5, Rhode IsMrs. Wheeler has four chilland.
dren.
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CENTRAL SUB-REGIONAL
DISTRICT MEETING HELD
Thirty students, representing the

secondary and elementary education departments at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, attended the Central Sub-Rebusiness,

gional

District

Meeting

of

the

Pennsylvania Association for Student Teaching at Bucknell Univeron Saturday, November 1,
sity
1958.

was

Accompanying the students

a delegation of fifteen faculty

members from

the Teachers College and cooperating teachers from
the Bloomsburg Public Schools.

The meeting was designed

to ac-

the college students with
the services offered by the Association for Student Teaching and
to provide an opportunity for the

quaint

students to meet and talk with
teachers from other colleges and
public schools who have a common
interest in helping young, prospective teachers.

Twenty-three

members

of

the

and faculty staffs
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
administrative

College, Bucknell University, Juniata College, Pennsylvania State
University, Susquehanna University, and other cooperating schools
served as chairmen and resource
people for the group meetings.

TESTING CENTER

GOVERNOR LEADER

Bloomsburg State Teachers College will serve as one of 250 testing
centers
throughout the United
State where college students and
teachers-in-service will be able to
take the National Teacher Examinations on Saturday, February 7,
1959.
The examinations are pre-

VISITS B.S.T.C.

pared and administered annually
by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton,

New

At the one-day

Jersey.
testing session,

take the Common
Examinations, which include tests
in Professional Information, General Culture, English Expression,
a candidate

may

and

Non-verbal Reasoning, and
one or two of eleven
Optional Examinations designed to
demonstrate mastery of subject
matter to be taught. The college
which a candidate is attending, or
the school system in which he is
seeking employment, will advise
him whether he should take the
National Teachers Examinations
and which of the Optional Exam-

may

also take

inations to select.
A Bulletin of

Governor

George

M.

Leader

paid a visit to the B.S.T.C. campus
last August.
He was the first
chief executive of the state to visit Bloomsburg State Teachers College here since Gov. Arthur James

The Governor said he was
impressed with the program of the

in 1942.

local institution in training teachers in the field

of special educa-

tion.

He termed

gram

in that field in

it

the best pro-

any Teachers
College in the state.
At the College he was welcomed
by the president, Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss, and by Carl H. Fleckenstine of the

board

He was much

of trustees.

interested

in

a

brochure which the College has
just published on its program of
training teachers in special educaHe was impressed with the
tion.
results of the survey of graduates
of the last fifteen years that shows
the vast majority have taught and
many are still teaching in Pennsylvania schools.

Information

which an application

is

(in

inserted),

The Governor visited the sites
where a men’s dormitory building
and a classroom building are be-

Serving on this group from
Bloomsburg were Dr. Harvey A.

describing registration procedure
and containing sample test quesmay be obtained directly
tions,
from the National Teacher Examinations, Educational Testing Service, 200 Nassau Street, Princeton,
New Jersey. Completed applica-

Andruss, President of the College;
Mrs. Deborah Griffith, Assistant

accompanied by proper examination fees, will be accepted by

Professor of Elementary Education; Mrs. Margaret McCern, Associate Professor of Business Edu-

the E.T.S. office during November
and December, and early in January so long as they are received

speech, hearing and reading clinic
to be established in the basement
of Navy Hall and wanted to know
when this could start operation.
There is no date for the comple-

cation.

before January 9, 1959.
Dr. E. Paul Wagner, Professor

tion

of

The

floor plan has

Miss Beatrice Englehart, Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Bloomsburg, was Program Chairman for the Central
Sub-Regional District of the Association for Student Teaching.

Edward

DeVoe, Professor
of English at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, was one of the
speakers at the Eighty-eigth Annual Education Meeting of the Luzerne County Teachers in WilkesDr.

T.

Barre, Thursday, October 24.

Dr.

DeVoe spoke on “The Challenge
of

Meeting Requirements”

at

the

English sectional meeting of Wil10

tions,

of Psychology at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College will serve in this

area as the local representative of
the Educational Testing Service to
administer the examinations.

kes-Barre

and

Luzerne

County

teachers.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

ing constructed.
He asked when
the completion date was and when
“1
told it was April, 1960, replied,
hope these buildings will be ready
in

September,

He was

this

1959.’

also

interested

in

the

remodeling program.
just been ap-

proved.

Anthony Ciampi, of Shickshinny,
has been granted a Masters degree
in Education by Bucknell University. He passed his examinations in
Supervision
and Administration
after his second summer of study
on the Bucknell Campus.
The area teacher has been teaching English and Geography in the
Northumberland Schools for the
past several years and returned to
He is a
that post in September.
graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

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Usually public school teachers
spent the summer months at college attempting to improve their
minds or else obtain a short-time
job to supplement their income.
Such is not the case for about 15
teachers who are officer candidates
at Fort Benning's U. S. Army Infantry School.

Thre typical members of this
group are OC’s Kenneth II. Paden,
of Berwick, Pa.; Arthur A. Paulus,
of Pine Buff, Ark., and Salvatore

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West and South but they also represent a trend for the teaching profession to take pare actively in the

program by attending
schools
in
the
summer.
Ideally, these men have the entire

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TEACHERS COLLEGE HEADS

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, Dean of
Women, and Miss Mary Macdon-

MEET

ald,

Co-ordinator of Guidance SerState

vices,

Teachers

College,

Bloomsburg, attended the 38th Animal

Convention of the Pennsyl-

Women

Deans
and Counselors, October 31 and
November 1, 195S, at the Bellevuevania Association of

Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia.

The theme for the convention
was “An Evaluation of Counseling
Prelude to the Future.”
the outstanding speakers
were Dr. Helen C. Bailey, Associate Superintendent,
Philadelphia
Public Schools; Dr. Harry D. Gideonese, President, Brooklyn College; Dr. Ruth F. Smalley, Dean of
the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Work.
Services:

Among

Dr. Gertrude Peabody, Dean of
Women at Temple University, acted as chairman at the Friday afternoon session. “Criteria for Success in Counseling” was the topic
a this meeting.
For purposes of
discussion, the large group divided
into smaller groups according to
different areas of counseling: the
large university, the college, the
large metropolitan high school and
the smaller community high school.

DECEMBER,

1958

IN

BLOOMSBURG

The Board

of Presidents of the

Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges met for the first time on the

campus

Bloomsburg State
Teachers College on Wednesday
and Thursday, September 17 and
of

the

18.

The

Presidents of the fourteen

colleges, along with the State Su-

perintendent and two Deputy Superintendents had a series of committee meetings followed by a dinner in the College Commons and
a tea at Buekalew Place following
the evening meeting.
Thursday morning the regular
board meeting was held and tour
of the Bloomsburg campu followed
the luncheon.
For many years these meetings
have been held in the Education
Building in Harrisburg, but with
the beginning of the administration
of Dr. Charles H. Boehm, State Superintendent, it was thought that
the scheduling of die meetings at
the various colleges would give the
State Superintendent an opportunity to see the various institutions
and also an opportunity for the
presidents to inspect other campuses, with a view to adapting those
innovations which might seem to
apply to their home campuses.

free in

which

to

improve

themselves militarily.
Although the youngest of the
trio, Paden has the distinction of
being the only married member.
His wife, Leah, is a school secretary at Nescopeck, Pa., a short dis-

tance from where Paden will teach
this fall at Schaefferstown.

Mr. Paden was graduated from
Bloomsburg State Teachers, where
he majored in science and mathematics.

He

has a 27-acre farm, but clasas only a “big back yard”
for any practical purposes.
His
home unit is Company M. 109th
Infantry Regiment, at Berwick.
sifies

it

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PRESIDENT

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre Area

Frank Taylor

Alton Schmidt

Berwick, Pa.

Burlington, N.

PRESIDENT

J.

Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Harold H. Hidlay
Bloomsburg, Pa.

John Dietz

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Southampton, Pa.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Peter Podwika,

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Eleanor Kennedy

Mrs. Mary Albano
Burlington, N. J.

Espy, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Paul Martin, '38
710 East 3rd Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Walter Withka
Burlington, N.

565

’42

Monument Avenue
Wyoming, Pa.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Harold Trethaway,

’42

.

1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

J.

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling, 53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

’32

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, ’16
611 N. Summer Avenue
Scranton

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer,
259

Margaret

Race Street

11051/2

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

L. Lewis,
4,

LUZERNE COUNTY
Hazleton Area

’28

PRESIDENT

Pa.

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street

TREASURER
’ll

Hazleton, Pa.

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue
Scranton

’34

Pa.

West Locust Street

Scranton

TREASURER
Homer

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa.

SECRETARY
’32

Middletown, Pa.

Mr. W.

4,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

4,

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

Pa.

147

Chestnut Street
Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams,
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

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TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille
785

McHose

Ecker,

’32

Grant Street

Hazleton, Pa.

1901
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Benton
native and world-famed missionary
and educator, is on another overseas tour in the interest of teaching the illiterate to read and write.
Dr. Laubach left New York’s Idlewild Airport on September 15 on a
15-week tour that will take him to
portions of three continents.
His first stop was in Paris,
France, where he discussed plans
for the use of television in teach12

ing the world’s illiterates by UNESCO. The success of the project

on station

WKNO-TV

in

Memphis,

Tenn., with Dr. Laubach’s Streamlined English lessons has convinced some of this country’s leading
educators that TV can provide the

added power needed
veloped countries.
From Paris he

in

underde-

in a discussion of how literacy can
be a part of that organization’s
coming, “Year of War on Hunger.”
Following the meetings in Rome,

Dr. Laubach will start a tour of
the explosive Arabic countries. Dr.
Laubach has worked previously in
country
every
Mohammedan

where

went to
where the Food and
then

Borne, Italy,
Agriculture Organizations again of
the United Nations met with him

his

have made

many Moslem
it

friends

him to
help fight Com-

possible for

arrange to try to
munist influence in these countries
where 90 per cent and more of the

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Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

’53

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

Dornsife, Pa.

Mr.

VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas E. Sanders,

1

Street S.E.
Washington, D. C.
’55

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. George Murphy, T6
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

SECRETARY

Miss Eva Reichley,

Miss Alice Smull, 05

’39

614 Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

Church Street
Danville, Pa.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mrs.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian
732

NEW YORK AREA
PRESIDENT
Mrs.
273

Coughlin,

J. J.

Miss Saida Hartman,

Brandywine
Washington

4215

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

PRESIDENT
’18

Norristown, Pa.

J.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Fred Smethers,
742 Floral Avenue
Elizabeth, N. J.

II, ’51

TREASURER

Irish, ’06

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
9 Prospect Avenue

’23

New Market Road
Dunellen, N.

Hortman

Chevalier

J.

nee Nancy Wesenyiak
3603-C Bowers Avenue
Baltimore 7, Md.

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

’24

V

1232

1412 State Street
Shamokin, Pa.

Danville, Pa.

312

PRESIDENT

Mr. Clyde Adams,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Edward Linn, ’53
R. D.

WASHINGTON AREA

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street
Spring City, Pa.

’23

’23

WEST BRANCH AREA
PRESIDENT

TREASURER

SECRETARY -TREASURER

Jason Schaffer,

Miss Esther E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street

Roselle Park, N. J.

’54

R. D. 1
Selinsgrove, Pa.

’34

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,

’56

Lewisburg, Pa.

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

’29

King Street

769

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue

E.

Brown,

’10

Lewisburg, Pa.

population are

He
his

will

ods

illiterate.

make

a trip to Tunis in

next step of the trip and there

teach

will

illiterates

organized

Fair

by

at

the

a

Trade
United

Government.

Half of the
people who attend that fair will be
unable to read or write even their
own name. Here he plans also to
make some motion picture lessons
in the Arabic language.
Passing through Egypt and SuStates

dan,

where he

will inspect results

literacy programs,
he will continue into the Kenya
Colony where Miss Betty Mooney,
an expert in Dr. Laubach’s methof

established

DECEMBER,

1958

who helped

phis project

is

Government with teaching
guages used

Mem-

launch the

helping the British
in lan-

in the province.

Dr. Laubach will then visit four
countries where neither he nor any
other Christian missionaries have

worked.

and

The peoples

of

British

have never
yet written their language and only
a handful know English, French or
Italian.
These are probably the
most illiterate countries in the
world, although in the other two
countries, Yemen and Saudi AraItalian Somaililand

bia, the

perfect

percentage runs near the

mark

also.

The

tour

will

ment

of Iraq

when he
new govern-

close

goes to talk with the

where one very

in-

man

has suggested that
television could help their thousands of illiterates. Iraq is a wealthy country due to its royalties on
oil but the riches of the nation are
enjoyed by a minute group of the
population.
This part of the trip
will be undertaken only if conditions within the country are such
that the journey and entry can be
iluential

made.

Laubach hopes to return to
country early in January.
Dr. Laubach is now completely
Dr.

this

13

on

own

his

in his frantic efforts to

help the world’s billion inhabitants
who live in ignorance, filth and
poverty because of their inability
to read and write.
He formed the
Laubach Literary and Mission
bund several months ago and has
toured the United States and Canada over the pastt two years speaking to raise funds to support the
work is organization is doing.
In order that almost a hundred
percent of all funds contributed at
iiis
speaking engagements and
donated regularly by a host of
friends throughout the world may
be used effectively the Laubach
family acts in just about every capacity possible.

Mrs. Laubach is kept busy at the
Fund headquarters at 235 East

22nd

Street

tion and keeping in close touch
with
workers
in
many areas
throughout the world.
Robert Laubach, the son and
formerly a companion with his
father on trips to the world’s backward areas, teaches courses in the
journalism department of Syracuse
University
that
trains
students

of

them

from

nations

throughout the world where illiterates form much of the population)
to write material for use in teaching these uneducated peoples. He,
in collaboration with his father,
has written a textbook on the subject

and aids

his students in pre-

paring pamphlets and materials of
help to their countrymen in learning better ways of farming, cleanliness

and

Robert

much

crafts.

and

his

wife

prepare

of the printed material used

in

promotion and other segments

of

the

He

is

of the

torate

of his

Laubach Fund

operation.

at present in the last stages

work necessary for his docand also is writing a book
experiences and the work of

teaching the world’s billions.

1906

Fenstcrmacher
Grace
Mrs.
Frantz, a native of Beach Haven
who has been attending school, as
a
student and teacher, since she
was six, recently retired as school
14

Camden, N.

the

J.,

She has taught for

fifty-four years.

Before going to Camden fortyseven years ago, she taught for seven years in Berwick and Beach Haven where her sister, Elizabeth,
also taught.
She is a graduate of
Berwick High School and B.S.T.C.
where she recently attended her
fiftieth year class reunion.

For the past twenty-two years,
she

served

as

principal

of

the

ted out that in each instance Khrushchev and Nasser work hand in
hand,
and America invariably
winds up on the short end of the
stick.

The reason for Khrushchev’s
success, Professor Demaree said, is
that he simply takes the Arab position on all issues.
This is an important point, as is the Dartmouth
teacher’s statement that both Nasser and Khrushchev want to see
the Arab-Jewish problem go unsol-

Broadway School in Camden and
prior to that was principal at the
Beideman and Dudley Schools and

ved.

teacher in other schools of the

sist

city.

She took post graduate work at
Temple University and University of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Far too many college professors,
walled up in their ivory towers, in-

on fighting issues

that

have

long ago been decided and, because of Western blundering, provide excellent sore points to be irby Red propagandists. It
is
absolutely senseless to debate
the merit or lack of merit of the
Balfour Declaration. The repeated
betrayals of the Arabs by the West
are also facts. No amount of debating by learned Middle Eastern
experts can erase history.
Many
of these same professors reason
from the premise that Nasser is
concerned with solutions to these
problems.
As Professor Demaree
pointed out, nothing could be further from the truth.
As Professor Demaree, also observed, Americans are thoroughly
despised by most Arabs. But this
sentiment, we feel, does not stem
only from our alliance with the colonial powers and the effectivenss
of propaganda from the Kremlin,
the most sinister colonizer of them
ritated

York City
mission
worker

with a
friend in keeping accounts, mailing out news letters and informa-

in

City Schools.

New

in

along

(many

principal

An

1913
address of Prof. Albert L.

Demaree, head

of the history de-

partment of Darthmouth College,
Hanover, N. H., won so much attention that it was the subject for
the lead editorial in the Manchester
tio

Union Leader under the capHear Some Facts!”

of "Teachers

The educator is a former resident of Bloomsburg and a graduate of the Teachers College when
it

was Normal School.

He

still vis-

its

his friends here frequently.

is

a veteran of both

1

and

II.

New
teachers

He

World Wars

The editorial follows:
Hampshire social studies

who heard

the address of

Demaree, chairman
of the history department of Dartmouth College, at the 104th annual
convention of the New Hampshire
Education Association, must have
been impressed by the logic of
Professor Demaree’s remarks on
That rethe Middle East crisis.
Prof. Albert L.

action is easily understood, for history has already proven the Dartmouth professor right.
Outlining the entire sordid history of cooperation between Khruschev and Nasser, Demaree warned: "It is later, very much later,
He then
than most of us think.

outlined the four basic disrupting
factors working against the Free
World’s position: Continuing Jewish-Arab friction, exploited by the
Kremlin; nationalism; foreign domination;

unrest.

and economic and
Professor

political

Demaree

poin-

also because
all, but
have not attempted to

we
sell

simply
Ameri-

lcanism to the Arab population.
The American theory of the
God-given rights of man is readymade for a people hungry for
something to believe in. But we
have not sold that theory. Instead,
through our foreign aid, we’ve sold
only a doctrine of materialism.

We heard mucht talk of “power
vacuums.” The Communists in the
Middle East are simply capitalizing on a “mental vacuum.”
1919
Priscilla
lives at

A.

Young MacDonald

169-16 110 Road, Jamaica

Mrs. McDonald has re33, N. Y.
tired after teaching thirty-six years

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

the schools of New York City.
in the elementary and
junior high schools.
iii

She taught

with a Bachelor of Education degree and did graduate work at

Temple
I

1934

Barba Snyder has been
appointed to teach English in one
Thalia

of the Scranton high schools.

appointment comes

as

Her

1942

Major and Mrs. Nelson Oman
and four children were recent
guests of the Air Force officer’s
mother, Mrs. E. M. Oman, Market
Street, Bloomsburg.
They were
enroute from Maxwell Aii Force
Base, Montgomery, Ala., to the
Air Force missile base, Cooke
Air Force Base, Santa Barbara,
California.
The major, a veteran
first

World War

II, in

l

1950

W.

Karas, field Scout
executive of the Columbia-Montour Council, Boy Scouts, has resigned this position effective December 15, to accept the position
of assistance district Scout executive of the Baltimore Area Council, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mr. Karas began his work in
Scouting in Bloomsburg in July, 1955. He has served
professional

executive of the Monand also serviced part
of the Fishing Creek District.
He
also served as camp director and
camp business manager, helped to
plan and organize the council’s
contingent to the Valley Forge
as

district

tour district

Jamboree, and Philmont Scout
Ranch, New Mexico, and helped
plan Philmont expeditions.
He was born in Shenandoah,
and attended the public schools
there.
He is a veteran of World
War II, having served in the European Theatre of Operations. He
was graduated from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 1950,

DECEMBER,

1958

to the

NnrnliiBH

former Car-

olyn Yost, Orangeville, and is the
father of two boys, Marshall and

Mrs.

Mary

C. Crimian, ’91

Mary Crowl Crimian, 85,
215 North Street, Harrisburg,
died Friday, October 31, in a HarMrs.

Phillip.

of

1955

Miss Joan A. Boyle, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Boyle, Mt.
Carmel, and Lt. (jg) Philip W. Gergen, USNR, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Leo E. Gergen, Mt. Carmel, were
married recently in The Ghurch of

Our Lady, that city.
The bridegroom graduated from
B.S.T.C. in 1955 and Officers’ Candidate School, Newport, R. I., in
1956.
He is now stationed at the
Naval Security Station, Washington, D. C.
They are residing at

risburg Hospital.

She

is survived by two daughMrs. Russell P. Heuer, Bryn
Mawr, and Mrs. Raymond H. Mayhue, New York City; two grandchildren and one great-grandson.

ters,

Mass of requiem was celebrated
in St. Patrick’s

Miss

Gloria

Mazzatesta,
Northumberland, became the bride
of James A. Carter, Sunbury, in a

Frederick D. Vincent,

the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Carter, Sunbury. He
is a graduate of Northumberland
High School and Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Prior to entering the service he was a problems
of democracy teacher in the Coatesville schools.
He is stationed at
Fort Dix, New Jersey, with the U.

Mr. Carter

S.

is

Army.

Mrs. Carter is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mazzetesta,

and graduated from Northumberland High School in 1958. She is
employed at the Danville Manufacturing Company.
She will reside at her parents’

home

for the

present.

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

’92

Attorney Frederick D. Vincent,

West River

Street,

Wil-

kes-Barre, prominent retired

law-

R.

double ring service performed recently in St. Thomas More Church,
Northumberland, by Rev. Anthony
J. McGinley, pastor.

as cele-

brant.

88, of 130

1957

Cathedral, with the

Very Rev. John E. Metz

4201 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington 25, D. C.

which he saw

considerable action, was brought
from Japan nine months ago to
take a special course at Maxwell.
He graduated there June 13 and
has been assigned to the office of
he inspector general at Cooke. He
expects to be there three years.

Vincent

married

is

a result of

her high standing in the National
Teachers’ Examination. Mrs. Snyder lives at 1515 Marion Street,
Scranton 9, Pa.

of

le

University.

yer,

died recently at the

home

of

Attorney F. Dale Vincent,
Ipswich, Mass., following an ex-

his son,
in

tended

Born

illness.

Mt.

in

Township,

Zion,

Franklin

August

19,
1870, he
was a son of the late William W.
and Mary Whipp Vincent.
He
was employed as an accountant in

the business offices of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey in Ashley
several years, and after resigning
that position, he enrolled in the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where he received his degree
in education.
Shortly after, he entered Yale University and upon
graduation received his degree in

law.

Mr. Vincent was a resident of
Wilkes-Barre more than 50 years
and maintained law offices in central city.
Previous to his retirement, he took an active part in
community affairs. His wife, the
former Elinor Gibson, died in 1952.
Mrs. Vincent was a teacher in Wilkes-Barre public schools for many
years.

He was

a

First Presbyterian

Barre,

member

of the

Church, Wilkes-

Luzerne

County and the
and was afwith various local Masonic

State Bar Associations
filiated

organizations.
15

R. Curtis YVelliver, ’97

Seventy-nine year-old R. Curtis
Weliiver, 624 East Third Street,
Berwick, died Saturday, October
25, from a heart attack while hunting in Benton township. His body

was found in an open field by a
group of searchers.
Mr. Weliiver was born in Rupert, December 7, 1878, and was
the son of the late John E. and
Lydia Rauch Weliiver. He attended the Blooms burg schools, graduating from the Bloomsburg High
School and then from the Bloomsburg Normal, class of 1897. He
was employed for many years as
inspector in the Freight Car Department, ACF industries, until his
retirement several years ago.
Mr. Weliiver has lived in Berwick since 1917. His death breaks
a marital span of 55 years. He was

devoted member of the First
Fresbyterian Church, having served on the offcial board as trustee;
Landmark No. 655, F. and A. M.,
Wilkes-Barre; Caldwell Consistory
and Royal Arcadum. Mr. Weliiver has always been interested in
youth activities and had served as
an assistant scoutmaster and troop
committeeman. He also taught a
class in the junior department of
Presbyterian Sunday School for
a

many

years.

Emma Townsend Eyer, ’02
Mrs. Emma Townsend Eyer,

widow of the late Edward A. Eyer,
formerly of Bloomsburg, died recently at the Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia where she had
been a resident for several years.
She was born in Bloomsburg in
1873, the daughter of the late John
R. and Elizabeth D. Townsend.
Following her graduation from the
then Bloomsburg Normal School,
she taught in the public schools of
Bloomsburg. She was married in
St.
Paul’s
Episcopal
Church,
in

sister of the late

1903.

She was a

Joseph L. Town-

send and Harry W. Townsend,
Bloomsburg, and Louis J .Townsend, Berwick.
Surviving are two daughters,
Vlrs. William S. Patterson, Prospect Park, and Mrs. Arch L. Campin

a

years in Briar Creek Township.
From the end of World War I to
her retirement in 1943, she was
employed by the Veterans Administration in

Washington.

member

of the United
Christ in that city.

a

Dora Leidy Fleckenstine,

Mrs. Carl H. Fleckenstine, the
former Dora Leidy, aged seventytwo, Orangeville R. D. 2, one of
the area’s most esteemed women,
died in November at her home.
Death was due to carcinoma. Mrs.
Fleckenstine had been in ill health
the past five years.
A native of Summerville,

Mo.,

she was the daughter of the late
Dallas and Sadie Hartman Leidy.
Most of her life was spent in
Bloomsburg and the Orangeville
area.
Death severs a marital union of forty-nine years.
Mrs. Fleckenstine was a graduate

the

of

Bloomsburg

Normal

School and taught in the public
schools of the county for a number
of years.

She was a member of the

Trinity

Evangelical

Reformed

Church, (United Church of Christ)
Bloomsburg and was active and
generous supporter of all of the
programs of the church.
Surviving are her husband, Carl
H. Fleckenstine, a member of the
of Trustees of B.S.T.C.; a
daughter, Dr. R. Jean Bressen, Allentown; a son, Nathan, Cranford,
N. J.; two grandchildren, Carl
Vance and Mary Jane Fleckenstine; a brother, North L. Leidy,
Light Street, and two sisters, Miss
Agnes Leidy and Mrs. Isabelle

Conner,

New

York City.

Leonora Ash Burke,
Mrs.

38

Edward

Columbia

J.

’12

Burke, seventy,

Avenue,

Drumm, ’17
Drumm, sixty-three,

Clayton G.

Clayton G.
Fowlers ville Corners, stricken
suddenly ill at his home, died Sunday morning, October 19, in the
Berwick Hospital.
of

Born May 30, 1895, in Bloomsburg, he was the son of John E.
and the late Ida Girton Drumm.

Drumm was a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg Normal School. In
1917, he moved to Berwick and
later to Berwick R. D. 2.
Mr.

the
the

His death severs a marital span
Lutheran Church, Berwick, the

ity

Men’s Brotherhood of the Church;
Knapp Lodge, F. and A. M., No.
462; Caldwell Consistory; the Col-

umbia County Shrine Club, the
Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre;
the Briar Creek Grange; and the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics.

Mrs. Cleota Steiner Eckroth

The death of Mrs. Cleota F.
Eckroth 51, of Bloomsburg R. D. 5,
occurred recently at her home
where she had been confined to
Mrs. Eckroth had been
her bed.
in ill health for about a year and
had been bedfast for two weeks.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal School, she taught in
Orange and Centre Townships a
number

of years ago.

Tacoma

Park, Md., the former Leonora
Ash, Briar Creek, died suddenly

Monday, October 6, at Walter
Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C.
She had only recently

She was
Church of

’05

Board

Mrs.

Bloomsburg,

Lansdale; two grandchildren;
nephew, Charles Eyer, Hartleton, and two nieces, Mrs. William
A. Conner and Mrs. Hobart A.
Hawley, Philadelphia.
bell,

visited

in

this area.

She was born in Briar Creek,
daughter of the late William and
Mary Ash, pioneer settlers of that
area. She graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School in 1912 and
taught school for a number of

Mrs. Sara Foresman Hartman

were held in
Sara F. Hartman,
seventy-eight, Pennington, N. J..
former Montour County school
Funeral

[line

for

services

Mrs.

teacher.

She attended Bloomsburg State
Normal School, now B.S.T.C., after
which she was engaged in teaching.
She was a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"SAUCERED AND BLOWED”
E. H.

At long

an organization

last

of the

Teachers College has been effected.

and

officers elected.

At the
ance.

first

By-Laws are

NELSON,

’ll

Alumni Associations

of the Pennsylvania State

Three meetings have been

held, objectives outlined,

in the process of being formulated for adaption.

organization meeting Presidents of four of the Colleges were in attend-

At another meeting a month later officers and members of the Trustees’ Associa-

tion of the Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania were invited to join the

and representatives

The procedures under way

for organizational purposes

from which should develop a unity

The

prestige in Pennsylvania.

1.

of effort in

Alumni

officers

under way.

relative to getting worthwhile organization

have given a good background

promoting Teacher College worth and

objectives adopted are as follows:

To support high

and student development

quality of academic instruction

throughout the State Teachers Colleges.

2.

To promote more
privately

effective liason

endowed and

among

the State Teachers Colleges and

state supported Colleges

and Secondary Schools of

the State.

3.

To provide

a clearing house

where State Teachers College information may

be received and desseminated.

4.

Through organized informational
of

5.

common problems and

To provide

a unified

service secure

a

better publicize accomplishments.

approach

to the

needs and problems of the State

Teachers Colleges in general rather than as separate

6.

To exchange

understanding

better

entities.

suggestions and ideas about the operations of

ations in the State Teachers Colleges.

Alumni Associ-

COLLEGE CALENDAR
1958-1959

THE FIRST SEMESTER -

1958-1959

Christmas Recess Ends
First Semester

Ends

THE SECOND SEMESTER -

January

5

January 20

1958-1959

Registration

January 26

Classes Begin

January 27

Easter Recess Begins

March 21

Easter Recess Ends

March 31

ALUMNI DAY

May

23

Baccalaureate

May

24 A. M.

Commencement

May

24 A. M.

A

L

U

M N

I

QUART! ERLY

Vol.

LX

March, 1959

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No.

I

PAST,

PRESENT

and

PROPHECY

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves, or
lose our- ventures.

Teachers Colleges are now in somewhat the same situation as Shakespeare
here describes.

The Board
Alumni a letter

of Directors of the Alumni Association has mailed to each
soliciting support for The Council of Alumni Associations of

the Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges in order that a public relations

may be opened in Harrisburg to present the needs of our colleges to
the public and to the General Assembly.

office

In times past, tuition of students
paid by appropriations. However, in
all students has been increased from
likely this will be further increased to

in State Teachers Colleges has been
recent years the general fee paid by
$90.00 to $144.00 per year, and it is
$200 per year.

The present budget proposed by the Governor appropriates nineteen
million dollars to State Teacners colleges for a two-year period, June 1, 1959,
to May 31, 1961, during which period students are expected to pay twenty-one
million dollars for basic and housing fees. This is the first time the students
have been expected to pay more than the State. The income from student
fees and State appropriations must cover the costs of instructional personnel
and plant, exclusive of housing (board, room and laundry).
Are we now charging tuition to attend a public school? State Teachers
Colleges are a part oi the puonc school system in Pennsylvania, according to
the School Laws. To continue this trend will mean that many young people
who have the ability to aesire to become puonc school teachers will be unable
to finance this type of college education.

The State Teachers

Colleges have more than eighteen thousand students
and if they are to increase their capacities to twenty thousand
studnts more money will have to appropriated or the quality of education
at present,
will

not be maintained at

its

present

level.

If State Teachers Colleges are to grow and develop as institutions of
higher education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, their performance
and problems, along with the needs lor expansion, require a full-time public
relations representative in Harrisburg.
It is urgent.
It is more urgent than loans,
employment lor students. In some measure, the
National Defense Education Act and the Community Store Scholarships have
made more money available for student aid. Therefore, all Alumni are urged
to respond to the appeal for a contribution to support this new public rela-

This need

is

paramount.

grants, scholarships,

or

tions service.

Greater state appropriations will keep college costs down, and if they are
not forthcoming, no amount of student aid in the form of loans, scholarships,
grants, or employment will be able to close the gap between increasing college costs and student funds available for meeting college expenses.
If you wish to show your appreciation for the educational advantages
which you have enjoyed at Bloomsburg, please send your check to Mr. Earl A.
Gehrig, Treasurer of the Alumni Association, Main and Leonard Streets,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and accept the thanks of

President

A

k

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LX,

No.

March, 1959

I

r

Mid-Year Commencement, 1959
“Greatness,

in

times

like

ours,

means much more than the accomplishment of the spectacular, and
those

who

do so

in a quiet, routine

achieve greatness often
way,” said
Ivan “Cy” Peterman during the
mid-year commencement address

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
Mr. Peterman discussed
the critical need for solving world
problems with results similar to
those secured by Dr. Jonas Salk,
at the

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, $2.00
Single Copy, 50 cents.
;

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
E. H. Nelson, ’ll
146 Market Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Griffith,

T8

Lockhart Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

56

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER

Fred W. Diehl,

Bloom

Edward
236

’09

F. Schuyler, ’24

Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Hervey B. Smith, ’22
725 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Elizabeth H. Hubler,

MARCH.

1959

Street,

in other parts

making them

’31

Gordon, Pa.

participate,

at

any

level,

in

public affairs — religious, political,
civic, and educational; teach the
great traditions of the
United
States;

go

to

the church of your

choice.

The speaker concluded his remarks with a reference to something said by President Theodore
Koosevelt in 1902 — that our country calls not for a life of ease, but
rather for the willingness to continually work hard, to be prepared
to make sacrifices, including the
supreme sacrifice of life itself.

Dr. Cecil Seronsy, class advisor,
Bernice Dietz, Robert

presented

Gower and Mary

Pileski,

who were

given cerificates by President Harvey A. Andruss, in recognition for
being named to “Who’s Who in
American Universities and Colleges.
Dr. Andruss also presented to Robert Bottorf a liftime
pass to all athletic events at the
the award who made in
recognition of four years of var-

college;

We

now possesses trepotential for war and for

While reviewing certain
weapons which have a large capacity for destruction, Mr. Peterman
sounded an optimistic note with
the statement, ‘‘I see no prospect
for a tremendous nuclear or atomic
peace.

Street, Danville, Pa.

West Biddle

people

‘‘We live in an unprecedented
era of production
and growth.
When your class returns to campus
for its twenty-fifth reunion, the
population of our nation will have
increased to three hundred million or more.
will have tremendous human resources to draw
upon, but some of our problems
will have changed, and we must
be prepared to change with them.”
According to the speaker, the

mendous

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
242 Central Road, Bloomsburg Pa.

14

to help

United States

Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

627

how

of the world without
dislike us.”

PRESIDENT

Ruth Speary

the polio vaccine.
present
policies are in direct contrast to
things we have done in the past,
but changing world conditions

‘‘Many of our nation’s

have made it necessary to review
and modify our course of action.”
Mr. Peterman also mentioned the
inadequancy of spending money
to solve world problems.
He said,
“We have the problem of knowing

BUSINESS MANAGER

Mrs.

who developed

ing;

sity

competition in football.

John A. Hoch, Dean of Instrucpresented the 51 candidates
Dr. Andruss who conferred on
them the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education.
tion,
to

First
Lieutenant Howard
L.
Snyder,
United
States
Marine
Corps, presented the commission
of second lieutenant to Larry Fisher, Trevorton, a member of the
graduating class.

The

commencement

exercises

were

concluded with the Alma
Mater.
Nelson A. Miller and
Howard Fenstemaker, both of the

faculty, served respectively as director of music and organist.

war.”

Peterman outlined several suggestions in answer to the question
“What can I do as an individual?”
His answer was: keep yourself
well informed; do your

own

think-

1891
Mrs. Olive Hunter Cameron is
living at the Williamsport Home
for the Aged, 904 Campbell Street,
Williamsport.
1

“GRADUATES™

ENDOWMENT FUND
The inauguration ot an Endowment Fund, with a nucleus which
amounts to more than $5,700, has
been announced by Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss, President of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
Fund will be used to give students
an opportunity to see and hear, on
the campus, some of the nation’s
best lecturers, scholars and artists.
Alumni of the institution will have

an opportunity

read the messages of these guest lecturers and
to

scholars.

The
by

initial gift of $1,500,

Mrs.

New

Verna

Jones,

made

Millville,

memory of her husDan Jones, has been

Jersey, in

band, the late

augmented by the College
Student Council which has allocated for this purpose the amount
of $4,209.
While the Jones gift is
to remain intact, and only the infurther

terest is to be used to supplement
amounts available from the College and Community Activities
Budget, any part of the College
Council amount, either interest or
principal, may be used for paying
a part of the honorariums to visiting lecturers, scholars and artists.

Fifty seniors received the Bache-

degree in Education
mid-year commencement

lor of Science

the

at

exercises.

wick.

addition to receiving diplomas, the seniors also completed
the requirements for certification
in

which

make them

will

eligible to

teach in the public schools of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Bachelor of Science Degree in
Elementary Education
Fay Aumiller, North Main Street,
Milroy.
Gail Blew, Second Street, Millville.
Rush Canouse, 405 East Eighth
Street, Berwick.

Robert Gower,

Liberty

Street,

Downing

Street,

1237

Allentown.
32

Wilkes-Barre.
Charles Kidron, R. D. 1, Elysburg.
Edward Novak, 128 Welles Street,
Joseph Pendal, 103 Berwick Street,

Beaver Meadows.
Herbert Scheuren, Lavelle.
William Staronka, 126 Riley Street,
Nanticoke.
Dolores Wanat,
Kingston.

James

295

Street,

Robert Warkomski, 109 South Market Street, Nanticoke.
Gilberta Wilkinson, R. D. 1, Milton.
Carol Yost, 1109 Tween Avenue,

Publications, Class Dues and
Recreation, as well as cultural pro-

grams.

Atlas.

Activities

Fees,

paid by students, must cover Athletics,

The Board

of Trustees has given

consideration to the disposal of income from estates left to the college, so tha it may become a part
of the Endowed Lecture income.
It is estimated that a fund of $50,-

000 should produce enough income
to pay the honorariums for invited
lecturers and also have the lecture
printed for distribution to Alumni
and friends of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
The Senior Class of the Teachers College has gone on record as
favoring the Endowed Lecture

Fund
In

memorial.
past years, these memorials
as

their class

have been additions to the Alumni
Loan
scholarships
and
Fund,
grants, cash prizes, library books,
drinking fountains or academic
robes.
The 1959 Class gave con-

sideration to the purchase of paintings, prints, art projects, scholarships,
2

and additional

library books,

Robert Babetski, Main Road, Lee.
Mary Bonenberger, 7 West Ogden
Street, Girardville.
Robert Bottorf, 5008

Locust

Lane,

Loren Bower, 534 East Eighth

Street,

Harrisburg.

James

Wyoming.

L. Jones,

1114y2 West Locust

Street, Scranton.

Edward Kapsak,

224 Martzville Road,

Berwick.

McCormick,

Gilbert

405

Walnut

Street, Sunbury.

Keith Michael, R. D. 3, Shickshinny.
Edgar Morgan, 36 East Main Street,
Bloomsburg.
Mary Pileski, 591 West Third Street,
Bloomsburg.
Matthew Sasso, R. D. 4, Muncy.
Stephen Starkey, 919 West Centre

Mahanoy

City.

Bachelor of Science Degree in
Business Education
Thomas Concavage, 226 South Poplar
Street, Mt. Carmel.
Delbaugh,
499
Orange
William
Street, Northumberland.
Bernice Dietz, Klingerstown.
Otto Donar, Box 138, Sheppton.
Vincent Doyle, 41 Main Street, Locust
Gap.
Joy Dreisbach, R. D. 3, Lehighton.
Larry Fisher, 919 Shamokin Street,
Trevorton.

Robert Harris, 481 West Main Street,
Bloomsburg.
Duane Hunter, R. D. 2, Hunlock
Creek.

Milton Lutsey,
Shavertown.

John

16

Summit

Street,

Street,

Locust

Main

Noble,

Gap.
Jack Powell, 2217 North Main Avenue, Scranton.

Woodrow Rhoads, Orwigsburg.
Larry Schell, Hereford.
Taormina, 140 East Main
Street, Bloomsburg.
Shamokin
Tressler,
210
George
Philip

Street, Trevorton.

Berwick.

Robert Corrigan, 703 Pennpack Circle,

Hatboro.

but

filially

voted for a class

memo-

an amount of approximately
$1,900 to be used as an addition to
A
the Endowed Lecture Fund.
scholarship plan was listed as the
second choice of the seniors.
rial,

Up

Joseph Fosko, 874 Shoemaker Avenue, West

Street,

Ruth Helgemo,

Allentown.
Willard Ziegler, 120 West Seventh
Street, Hazleton.
Bachelor of Science Degree in
Secondary Education
Patricia Antonio, 145 Girard Street,

The Community

Joseph Costa, 11 South Bridge Street,
Shenandoah.
Sally Dunnick, New Freedom.
John Fiorenza, 366 Vine Street, Ber-

to the present time, the ori-

ginal gift of $1,500

Jones, Millville, N.

by Mrs. Verna
J.,

in

memory

her husband, the late Dan
Janes, formerly of Nescopeck, was
of

supplemented by an allocation

ALUMNI DAY:
SATURDAY, MAY

23

of

Donald Yerk,
Royersford.

317

Summer

Street,

the College Student Council in the

amount
itial

of $4,204, bringing the in-

total

up

to

more than

$5,700.

This amount, along with the senior class memorial, brings the tentative total up to almost $7,000.
These amounts will be invested
either in government bonds, time
deposits, or saving accounts in
banks, and the income, along with
the

monies

Community

available
Activities

from

Fund

the

of the

college budget, will be sufficient
the endowed lectures
to begin
some time during the college year
beginning September, 1959.

THE AMTMNI QUARTERLY

Commencement Speaker
(Prom “The Passing Throng”
The Morning Press)

A

of

into

The widely read

journalist

was

the mid-winter
commencement at B.S.T.C. and
shortly thereafter he wrote this:

speaker

the

Education,

at

as

our

population

the sidewalks
are inadequate to pedestrial traffic, is becoming big business.
American indusIf you think
trial plant is expanding, have a
look at the school building programs.
have in the last few
day, had an inside glimpse of the
state teachers college programs.
There was a mid-year commencement at Bloomsburg, Pa.
dizzily until

spirals

We

were being graduated, and
surprise was that 36 were
men. Most people, including yours
Fifty

the

first

truly,

think eastern state teachers
are crammed with girls.

colleges

Not

so.

happens that Bloomsburg, up
Susquehanna and over the
mountains from Wilkes-Barre, Tamaqua, and the coal country, is
about as pretty a campus and conIt

the

the prospective student would wish.
Sitting
on the hill, overlooking a quiet

genial

institution

as

prosperous carpet-weaving town,
Carver Hall centers the campus
view and with its famed Georgian
bell towner, has something that
sets the school apart in a state that
has 14 teachers colleges.
The strange part is that all of
them need constant enlarging as
the demand for education — and
teachers to provide it — increases.
Camden and Philadelphia are well

aware of the troubles in getting
and keeping public school instructors.
Faced with increased enrollment, bulky classes, juvenile
problems and parental indifference,

die

big

city

teaching

job

more and more like a man’s.
Better pay is also attracting more
young men.
looks

MARCH,

1959

But the colleges are having trouaccommodating so many. Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, president of
Bloomsburg, told us about his
planning project and how it had
ble

the future educational demands of the nation, a
sense of the charm and efficiency
of the smaller institution and a
great deal about Bloomsburg State
Teachers College are included in
a recent column by Cy Peterman.

look

Bloomsburg is one of the
modern teachers colleges

gone.

most

we’ve seen.
It

may come

as

a

shock,

as

seemed the case with the 50 graduates, to be told that by their 25th
reunion in 1984, the population of
the U. S. will verge on 300,000,000.

Doctor Andruss immediately decided that instead of planning for
student enrollment of 2,000,
a
Bloomsburg should look toward
3,000 or 4,000 by 1970, the present
building program’s target. At present nearly 1,400 are being instructed, and teachers colleges in the
east handle from 1,000 to 1,500.
Sometimes it becomes congested.

Completion of the new dining

commons and

dormitory, renovation of Noetling Hall, construction of a new men’s dormitory
girls

and the William Boyd Sutliff instruction and laboratory building
with space for the Business Education courses put Bloomsburg out
front in the expansion program
launched
by Dr.
Charles
H.

Boehm,
public

state

To B.S.T.C.

Pays Tribute

superintendent

One

instruction.

of

of

the
the

finest student rallying points is
high-ceilinged, wood-paneled Husky lounge, where the snack bar,
college bookstore, dance hall and
recreation room, with an elevated
loge for television viewers, make it
unnecessary to leave the campus
for a date.
So well patronized is this newly
completed student center that it
does $10,000 a year in student business, from which about $6,000 pro-

lit

is

converted into scholarships.

About

students
go
16,000
through the fourteen state teachers colleges in Pennsylvania this
year.
It costs approximately $33
million

pay the

to

year’s

cost

of

but the state puts
up only about half the sum. The
families of students pay the rest.
this instruction,

about $750 a year to
through Bloomsburg,”
said Dean of Women, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, one of the most conscientious we’ve met.
“Among the worries in an upstate college, is looking in an up“It

costs

send a

girl

state college,

is

looking after the

student’s welfare. Traffic in snowy,

mountainous roads, and frequent
trips home keep me worried until
they’re back.
Then, there’s romance. More and more of it, as the
numbers increase and the dating
habits become more a part of the
college routine. Happily, our girls

on campus and beautifully
have been here six
years, and I must say it’s an interare

all

behaved.

I

esting, lovely spot.”

The State Teachers College is
branching into the specialty field.
Doctor Andruss indicated. Bloomsburg has recently put in courses
for instructing the handicapped
youngster, such as the cerebral
palsy cases.
A faculty of sixty needs to be
increased as the student enrollment
rises, of course.
Classes have been
scheduled through the noon hour,
so that 400 commuting students
won’t have to drive after sundown

over icy roads.
at 4:00 p.

room

in

m.

The class day ends
About 300 students

the town, the rest living

in the dormitories.
Is this state

college preservation

campus, personalized
education not a good thing? One
of the small

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer,

Harold

L.

Moyer,

'09,

’07,

President

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-4388

gets the feeling that fourteen state
teachers colleges seem superfluous,
until the completeness, the charm
and efficiency of a Bloomsburg is
seen in action. Then the big university with its overloaded courses
and classrooms has to be seriously
weighed, as the alternative in today’s population pressurized education.
3

New Members

of the Faculty

Dr. Annabel Sober
Dr. Annabel Sober,

who

ing career includes experience at
levels

all

from

kindergarten

through

graduate school, joined
the faculty of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College as a parttime instructor in social studies at
the beginning of the second semester.

A

native of Danville, Dr. Sober

was graduated from Bloomsburg
High School, did undergraduate
work at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Columbia University
and the University of Pittsburgh,
earning the Bachelor of Science
degree in Education at the Pennsylvania State University.
She
did graduate work at Penn State
and earned both the Master of
Arts and Doctor of Education degrees at the School of Education,
New York University.

Dr. Sober has taught in the elementary schools of Pittsburgh, in
the
secondary schools of East
Stroudsburg as a critic teacher of
studies and English in cooperation with the Teachers College there, and in the Stanley Elementary Laboratory School as a
training teacher at the Teachers
College in New Britain, Conn. She
also served at the latter college as

social

registrar

and

social studies.

an instructor in
Later, at New York

as

School of Education,
accepted an appointment as instructor in education
and supervisor of student teaching in the Departments of Secondary
School
Education,
Social
Studies and Coordination.
For
University’s

Dr.

James R. C. Leitzel
James R. C. Leitzel is one

teach-

Sober

three summers, she was invited to
the State Teachers College at Edinboro, as a laboratory school critic
teacher and instructor in education.

Dr. Sober has been affiliated
with the National Education Association, the National Council for

five

additional faculty members who
joined the staff of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College at the beginning of the second semester. A

graduate

Pennsylvania State
Mr. Leitzel will serve
an instructor in mathematics.
of

University,
as

He was born in Shenandoah, attended the public schools of that
community, and was graduated
from

the

J.

W.

High

Cooper

School.
He earned the Bachelor
of Arts degree in Mathematics at
Penn State in January, 1958, was
awarded a teaching fellowship,
and began working for the Master
of Arts degree in Mathematics.
During the past year, he has completed most of the requirements
lor tire degree, doing most of his
graduate study in algebra and analysis.

His membership in honor societies includes
Phi Beta Kappa,
Phi Kappa Phi, and the honorary
mathematics fraternity, Pi Mu
Epsilon.
Included in his hobbies
are coin
singing.

collecting

and

choral

at the Jacksonville Naval
Station and in the Mediterranean Area.
Shortly after the
completion of his military service

served
Air

1957, he joined the faculty at
the Bristol Township School Dis-

in

and taught there

until the
the first semester of the
current school year.
His professional affiliations include membership in the National Education
Association, the Pennsylvania State
Education Association, and the
Bristol Township Teachers Assotrict,

end

of

ciation.

Mr.

Scrimgeour

married

is

the former Jeananne Evans,

over Township,

who was

to

Han-

gradua-

ted from the college in May, 1954,

with a Bachelor of Science degree
in Elementary Education.

John

F.

John F. Cope
Cope has been named

an associate professor of English

and speech.

A

native of Kansas City, Mo.,
is a graduate of Central
High School, Oklahoma City,
earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in Drama at the University
of Oklahoma, the Master of Arts

Mr. Cope

Speech at Columbia Unand is currently completing work toward the Doctor of

degree

in

iversity

John

S.

Scrimgeour,

Philosophy

Jr.

Scrimgeour,

has
John
Jr.,
been named to the faculty of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Coland began his duties at the opening of the second semester.
Educated in the public schools
S.

of

West

Pittston,

Mr. Scrimgeour

enrolled at Wilkes College in 1949,
from
following
his
graduation
West Pittston High School. A year
later, he transferred to Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, and completed the requirements for the
Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education in 1953. During his college career, he was a
member of the varsity track squad,
was a member of Phi Sigma Pi and

degree

at

the

State

University of Iowa. He has done
additional graduate work at the
Chouinard School of Art in Los
Angeles, Colorado College at Colorado Springs, and at Biarritz
American University of France.

Mr. Cope began
reer at Central

his teaching ca-

High School, went
program director in

on to serve as
commercial radio, completed four
years of military service as a classiand special services entertainment director with
the United States Seventh Army in
Germany, and had several years’s
experience as a vocational adviser
fication specialist

for the Veterans Administration in

the

New

York Regional Office.
1948, he began a nine year

the Social Studies, and the Associ-

Kappa Delta Pi fraternities, and
was named to “Who’s Who in Am-

tenure

She
Student Teaching.
holds membership in Delta Kappa Gamma and Kappa Delta Pi,
national honorary education fra-

erican Universities and Colleges.’’
In October, 1953, lie was named
a Naval Aviation Cadet, and was
commissioned and designated a

Speech and Drama and Technical
Director of the Theatre at the Oklahoma College for Women, ChickIn September,
asha, Oklahoma.

ternities.

naval aviator in June, 1955.

ation

4

for

lie

In

as

Assistant

Professor

(Continued on Page

of

5)

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

PLAN THREE

$75

GRANTS

College was approved during a recent meeting of the officers of the

Columbia County Branch
Alumni Association.

of

the

PARTICIPATED IN PROGRAM

STUDENTS TO

B.S.T.C.

The awarding of three $75 scholarships to students at the Teachers

DISTRICT MEETING FOR

secondary

and elemen-

tary education departments at the

Bloomsburg State Teachers

The funds

are to be raised during the annual scholarship drive
and will be given to the faculty
committee on scholarships and
grants so that they may make the
presentations to the students during the current semester.
During
the meeting the group also discussed plans for the annual Columbia County Alumni Association
dinner.

Frank

Taylor, Berwick, president of the branch, announced the
date has tentatively been set for
Wednesday, April 8, and the event
will be held in the College Commons. During the discussion, plans
were suggested for the expansion
This
of the county organization.
matter will be presented to the full
membership April 8.

Colattended the Central SubRegional District Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Association for Student Teaching at Bucknell Unilege,

versity

Accompanying

recently.

the students were delegates of fifteen faculty members from the

Teachers College and cooperating
Bloomsburg
teachers
from
the
Public Schools.

The meeting was designed to
acquaint the college students with
by the AssociTeaching and to

the services offered

ation for Student

provide an opportunity for the students to meet and talk with teachers from other colleges and public

schools

who have

a

common

interest in helping young, prospective teachers.

Twenty-three

members

of

the

In addition to Taylor, the officers of the assieation include: Vice

and faculty staff
from Bloomsburg State Teachers

president, Harold Hidlay, Blooms-

College,

burg; secretary, Eleanor Kennedy,
Bloomsburg; treasurer, Paul G.
Martin, Bloomsburg; past president, Mrs. Boyd F. Buckingham,

versity,

Bloomsburg.

NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY
(Continued from Page 4)
1957, Mr. Cope accepted a position
as Associate Professor of Speech

and Drama

Centenary College
working with Joseph
B. Gifford, under whose tutelage
he began his theatrical career.
While doing graduate work at
the University of Iowa, he appeared in and directed parts of the
television series. Ford’s Foundation’s
“Footprints to Freedom.”
at

of Louisiana,

He

also

wrote,

directed,

some

in

various

of the largest

capacities

in

and best known

of the Eastern stock companies.

He

has also appeared in Broadway
musicals, earning praise as a dancer and actor.

MARCH,

1959

Pennsylvania State

Uni-

Susquehanna University,
and other cooperating schools served as chairmen and resource people for the group meetings.
Serving on this group from
Bloomsburg were Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss, President of the College;
Mrs. Deborah Griffith, assistant

Elementary Education; Mrs. Margaret McCern, associate professor of Business Eduprofessor

of

cation.

Miss Beatrice Englehart, assistant professor of elementary education at Bloomsburg was program chairman for the Central
Sub-Regional District of the Association for Student Teaching.

edited,

and narrated a film on modem
dance entitled, “Shall We Dance.”
Since 1936, he has spent his summers in professional stock work,
serving

administrative

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
Hotel Magee

B. Martin, Director

Department

of the

Thirty students, representing the
business(

Thomas

Dr.

STUDENT TEACHERS

of Business

Ed-

ucation, participated last November in an intensive three-day program sponsored by the United
States Navy.
Each month, the

Navy

selects a group of prominent
and representative citizens from a
specific and different section of the
nation, and endeavors to present
to them a comprehensive picture
of Naval Air Training as well as a
brief look at the Naval Air Reserve
Training Program. From their ob-

members

servations,

group can

of this citizen-

form

then

their

own

opinions as to the overall efficiency
and economy of the Navy’s Training Program.
The group boarded Navy planes
at Willow Grove Naval Air Station
to fly to Forrest Sherman Field at
Pensacola, Florida.
During their
one-day stay there, they observed
Air-Training facilities including the
pre-flight school, speed reading,
celestial navigation, the planetari-

um,

strafing

a

demonstration by

jet planes, fire-fighting, a live air-

sea rescue by helicopter, an underwater escape from a capsized aircraft, survival exhibits, and other
points of interest at the “Annapolis
of the Air.”

The group spent a day aboard
the aircraft carrier Antietam. In
addition to a complete tour of the
vessel,

the

they observed activities in

pilots’

“Ready

Rooms,”

and

witnessed flight operations, takeoffs, landings, and catapault shots.
The program featured a talk by
the admiral in charge of the tour,
responses by the guests, and a vocal presentation by the Naval Aviation

Cadet Choir.

A

son was born January 3, 1959,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hummel,
R. D. 1, Ronks, Pa. Mrs. Hummel
was the former Eleanor Johnson,
Kane, Pa. Both parents are graduates of B.S.T.C.
Mr. Hummel is
Guidance Counselor in the Edward
Hand Junior High School, Lancasto

ter,

Pa.

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

1926
Isabel

Hummel)

D.

Ward

lives

at

(Mrs.

Russel

360 Fair Street,

Bloomsburg.
5

BLOOD DONORS

STUDENT LOAN FUND
The Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has been notified that a
capital contribution for the establishment of a Student Loan Fund,
in the amount of $7,847, has been
approved by the United States Department of Health, Education and
Welfare. The money was granted
to the college from funds made
available through the National Defense Education Act of 1958. When
supplemented by funds raised by
the institution through outside or
non-state sources, at the rate of
$1.00 of local funds for each $9.00
of Federal funds, there will be a
total of $8,719 available to students
for the period ending June 30,
1959.
Special consideration will be
given to the application of students
with
superior
academic backgrounds who express a desire to
teach in elementary or secondary
schools, or those who indicate superior capacity or preparation in
Science, Mathematics, Engineering
or Modern Foreign Languages.

Since Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges are not legally auth-

orized to borrow money and create
an obligation of the Commonwealth without Legislative enactment, it will be necessary for the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College to raise approximately $1,000
before the fund can be inaugurated.
These gifts will have to come
from Alumni or those interested in
the college from the General Alum-

ni Association or

its

branches, or

from student funds.
While the maximum amount
loaned to any one student in any
one year is $1,000, consideration is
being given to lowering this maxi-

mum

and

a definite

announcement

be made after the
contribution has been depos-

of policy will
local

along with the Federal allocation, in a local bank.
These loans are repayable over
a ten-year period, beginning with
the second year after the gradua-

ited,

6

tion of the

student from college,

and

is

interest

charged

of 3 per cent per

at the rate

annum.

If graduates of State Teachers
Colleges
teach
in
the
public
schools, the loan will be reduced
at the rate of 10 per cent a year
for a period of not more than five
years. In other words, one-half of
the loan need not be repaid if a
student teaches five years during
the first eleven years following
graduation, and pays interest at
the rate of 3 per cent.

Consideration is also being givto the possibility of granting
loans to Freshmen, only after they
have been in attendance for at
least nine weeks, or after the first
Applications of
grading period.
upperclassmen could be processed,
at the beginning of a college year,
en

on the basis of demonstrated academic achievement and financial
need.

The

Faculty

Committee

on

Scholarships, of which Dr. Kimber
C. Kuster is the Chairman, will develop the local policy for the college, and will review and revise
the forms used to collect informaregarding the student’s need
and his ability to pursue college

tion

work successfully.
Loans from these funds

will

be

an addition to the scholarships and
grants which have been provided
for students at the college for more
than a decade. Gifts from Alumni,
from service and campus organizations, and from profits of the College Store, will reach nearly $5,000
this year.

Red

of the

Doing another outstanding job,
members of the college community recently had 184 blood
the

who

donors report

contributed 166
This was sufficient
to put the chapter back on schedule for the current year and also
pints of blood.

back in priority one.
Those in charge said the goal of
200 pints would probably have
been exceeded but for the fact
many who intended to give but
are not twenty-one neglected to
get parental consent slips signed.

Company,

Blaw-Knox

Pitts-

burgh, has announced the election
of

Roy

Carman

S.

as

assistant

treasurer.

Mr. Garman joined Blaw-Knox
1952 and has been serving in the
Finance Department.
Mr. Garman has a background in
financial and cost accounting work.
His prior experience includes service with Continental Can Co., an
aircraft engine manufacturer, three
in

years in consulting service, and
several years as an instructor in
business education. A graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Mr. Garman did graduate
work at Lehigh University.
Mr. Garman is a member of the
National Association of Accountants and the American Management Association.

David L. Heckman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William K. Heckman,
Bloomsburg, has been awarded a
place

to $500, since this figure will

cover the approximate cost of fees,
books and housing at the State
Teachers College.
Plans are still in the formative
stage,

Bloomsburg Chapter

Cross is back in priority one in the
Northeastern Pennsylvania blood
bank program, thanks to the efforts
of the members of the student
body of the Teachers College.

in

the

National

Science

Foundation Summer Institute

ARCUS’
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

’41

for

High School teachers of science
and mathematics, lie will study
advanced inorganic chemistry at
University of Pennsylvania.
teachers chemistry and physics
at Haverford High School, Haverford.
He is a graduate of Bloomsburg High and B.S.T.G. and earnthe

He

ed his M.S. degree at Penn State,
doing graduate work in physics at

Temple

University.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SPEAKS AT

DEDICATION EXERCISES
C. Stuart Edwards, Director of
Admissions and Placement at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was the principal speaker at
the dedication exercises of the new
Kane Area Junior High School on
Sunday, February 22, 1959.

Edwards was a member of the
faculty at Kane High School for
eight years, and during his tenure
there,

earned the respect of stu-

dents, parents,

and

residents of the

outstanding work
the classroom, and in other

community

attended
building
which can accommodate 650 junior
high pupils.
In his address, Edwards pointed to the continuing
need for Education for Citizenship
and Education for Change. He referred to the transition which has
occurred in our world in the last
15 years, during which we have
progressed from the Age of Technology to the Atomic Age, and
thence to the Space Age. While
emphasizing the definite need for
capacity

audience

the dedication of the

new

better scientific training, he stressed that there is an equal need for

education for citizenship so that
we can accept and adjust to changes which
ence.

may be wrought by

sci-

In a candlelight ceremony at
seven o’clock Saturday evening,
December 27, 1958, in Orangeville
Methodist Church, Miss Laura
Jane Unger, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall W. Unger, Orangeville, became the bride of George
Donald Parsed, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John R. Parsed, Orangeville.

The bride graduated from Coatesville Hospital

and

will

School of Nursing

be employed

at the

Cou-

dersport Hospital.
Her husband,
a graduate of B.S.T.C., is teacher
of social studies in the Northern
Potter Joint Junior High School,
Ulysses.

MARCH,

1959

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has been invited,
for the second time in less than a
year, to be a member of the party
of the Pennsylvania State Superintendent of Public Instruction to
attend the World Congress of
Flight and Aerospace Education at
Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 14
to April 19, 1959.

for

both in
school activities. As head basketball coach, his teams won their
conference crown each of the eight
seasons, battled their way to 7 district and 2 regional crowns, and
copped the State “Class B” championship on one occasion.

A

TO ATTEND WORLD
CONGRESS OF FLIGHT AND
AEROSPACE EDUCATION

In September,

1958, four Pennthe State Superinten-

sylvanians —
dent, the President of a State
Teachers College, a district Superintendent of Schools, and a retired
General, representing the Aviation
Committee of
the
Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce — attended a similar meeting sponsored by
the United States Air Force Association at Dallas, Texas.
During
the session, the educators witnessed the unveiling of the Atlas missile, and received a briefing on the
X-15 plane before that experimen-.
tal aircraft was tested.
A carefully
planned program included presentations and discussions of “The

Oklahoma

Experiment

in

Space

Education,” “Careers in Areospace
Science” and “Technology: “Today’s Challenge.”
Transportation, for delegates attending the Las Vegas meeting,
will be furnished by the United
States Air Force.
Educators from
all states are invited, through State
Offices of Education, to learn of
new developments in space travel,
weightlessness (anti - gravitational
pull)
medical problems resulting
from the rapid acceleration and
speed of human beings in flight,
and the development of new metals to withstand the tremendous
stress and temperatures of aircraft
used for space flights.
Forward-looking educators are
faced with the problem and the opportunity of developing, for pub-

problems

changes create

tific

human conduct and

ethics

—

in

prob-

lems that are especially critical in
this age of potential mass destruction.

The

early interest of the BloomsGollege, in

burg State Teachers

the area of aviation education, is
collegiate
being
recognized
in

The current curriculum

circles.

at Bloomsburg will remost recent developments
space travel, astronomy and mis-

levisions
flect the
in

siles.

Bloomsburg was one of a small
group of colleges and universities
in the nation who pioneered in civilian and military pilot training in
cooperation with the United States
Government prior to, and during
World War II. The program started with a small group of trainees
under the Civilian Pilot Training
project, and continued with a training program for Army and Navy
flight instructors and V-5 cadets.
During the closing days of

World War

II, a curriculum for
the training of teachers was devised.
It
was accredited by the

Aeronautics

Administration
kind in the
country. To test out the new curriculum, opportunities were made
available in the summers of 1944
and 1945 for high school stndents,
above the age of fourteen, and
high school teachers to take aviation
courses together, including
Civil

and was the

first of its

instruction.
This,
again,
the first opportunity of its
kind available in the United States,
and the program reecived national
recognition in metropolitan newspapers and national publications.
flight

was

,

lic

schools,

new

and astronomical physics,

along with the social consequences of each. Historians and educa-

among others, are aware of
the fact that material and scien-

tors,

February 27.
She was crowned by Miss Nikki
Scheno, Berwick,

honor

who

received the

last year.

areas of instruc-

tion involving earth science, space

science,

Miss Molly Mattern, business education senior from Forty Fort,
was crowned “Coed of the Year”
at the annual Freshman Hop held
at Centennial gym, Friday evening,

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

7

Awarded

and Scholarships

$ 2,000 In Grants

Twenty-seven upperclassmen at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College were awarded more than
$2,000 in scholarships and grants
during

the first semester.
This
represents the largest amount ever

groups, and the College Store have

added
this

to

the fund savailable for

purpose.

All

College

Grants were increased

this

Store

year to

keep pace with the mounting costs
of attending college.

presented to students in a single
semester at the college.
Ot the
total amount, according to President Harvey A. Andruss, $2,000
was given from the profits of the
College Store. President Andruss
also
indicated
that
a
similar

In addition to Doctor Kuster, the
Faculty Committee includes: John
A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction; Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;
Miss Mary Macdonald, Coordina-

amount

ter R. Blair,

worthy students
Dr.

man

Chair-

Guidance Services; and WalDean of Men.
Six members of the Freshman
Class at the Bloomsburg State

Committee on

Teachers College received nearly

would be

Kimber

available for
next semester.

C.

of the Faculty

Kuster,

Scholarships and Grants, explained
the criteria used by the committee
in determining who should receive
the scholarships and grants. Doctor Kuster also introduced Doctor
Andruss, who presented the President’s Scholarship to Jeanette Andrews, Osceola; a scholarship from
an anonymous friend to Jayne
O’Neill, Weatherly; and College
Store Grants to Isabelle Gladstone,
Philadelphia; Joan Kotch, Beaver
Meadows; Barbara Smyth, Levittown; Stanley Elinsky, Kingston;
Henry Orband, Jessup; Barbara
Seifert,
Easton; Joseph Zapach,
Huttenstine,
Marion
Freeland;

Wapwallopen; Sandra Moore, HazBoland Stetler, Danville;
leton;
James Davies, Portsmouth, Vir-

tor of

hundred

five

for the first semester to $2,500, the
largest sum ever awarded to stu-

dents in one semester.
presentation of awards was

The

prefaced by comments made by
John A. Hoch, Dean of InstrucDean Hoch introduced Dr.
tion.
Harvey A. Andruss, President of
the College, who explained the
possibility of receiving, as the result of

an Act of Congress, funds

from the national government for
loans to worthy students. According to Doctor Andruss, the national
government will, under certain

Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of
the Alumni Association, made the
following awards: The R. Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship to Frances Scott, Cressona; General Alumni Scholarship to Roger Ellis, Turbotville; the Scholarship of the

will

The number and amounts

of

have
grants
and
Scholarships
in quantity as individuals,

grown
8

scholar-

to the

conditions,

Class of 1950 to Cretchen Letterman, Bloomsburg; and the Scholarship of the Class of 1954 to Jeannette Ide, Harvey’s Lake.

in

awards made to upperclassmen, brought the total amount

ded

William Roberts, Shavertown; Ronald Senko, Edwardsville;
Jack Chid ester, Lower Merion; Edna Kern, Beavertown; Janice Reed,
Shamokin; Boyd Arnold, McClure;
James McCarthy, Drifton; Joan
Schuyler, Doylestown; and Conrad
Stanitski, Shamokin.
ginia;

dollars

ships and grants during the first
semester. This amount, when ad-

make

available nine
dollars for every dollar raised by
the college. Bloomsburg can raise
funds for this purpose through the
contributions of alumni or friends

from the College
totals, from
(he college and the government,

as well as profits

Under the proposed budget, subby Governor David L.
Lawrence to the Legislature the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College will receive during the committed

ing biennium a total of $3,113,560.

This
which,

include
$1,658,560
estimated, the institution will receive from student fees,
board and lodging.
will
is

it

During the biennium now coming to a close the local institution
received $2,226,410 and of this, the
budget stated, $1,088,460 is being
received from student fees, board
and lodging.
For the fourteen Teachers Colleges in the state the Governor’s
budget lists a total of $40,278,783.
Of this the state will provide $19,050,000 which is just $2,016,000
more than it is currently providing.
More than half of the $40 millions
is to be paid in by the students.
For the current biennium the
total was $34,039,000 of which the
students provided just about half
or $17,005,000. In the current budget they will provide more than
half or $21,228,783 of the $40,278,783.

The

proposals

other

the

for

Teachers Colleges, with the total
including both student payments
and state aid are: Shippensburg,
California,

$2,646,000;

$3,282,000;

Cheyney, $1,415,000; Clarion, $2East

018,000;

Stroudsburg,

$2,-

519,000; Edinboro, $2,370,000; Indiana, $5,861,000; Kutztown, $2,593,000; Lock Haven, $1,943,000:

Mansfield, $1,959,000; Millersville,
$3,307,000; Slippery Rock, $2,664,000; West Chester, $4,575,000.

The combined

Store.

than

PROPOSED BUDGET

provide
is

now

larger sum
available for loans to
a

much

students.

Grants from the College Store
were made by Doctor Andruss to
the following students: Myles Anof Melvyn Anderson,
Marilyn Craft, daughter
of Kenneth Craft, R. D. 2, Montrose; Lowery McHenry, 201 East
Eighth Street, Berwick; Emily
of William
daughter
Schultz,
Schultz, 929 Mason Avenue, Drexel
Hill; Kay Williams, daughter of

derson, son

Dresher;

Hall

Williams,

112

Pennsylvania

Avenue, Watsontown.
A scholarship from the General
Alumni Association was presented
to Frank Heller, son of Louise
Heller,

15S

Muncy,

by

West Water

Howard
member of

F.

Street,

Fenste.

the Alumni
Board of Directors and Editor of
the “Alumni Quarterly.”

maker, a

ALUMNI DAY:
SATURDAY, MAY
TIIF.

23

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

WHO’ AT COLLEGE

‘WHO’S

Nineteen

seniors

from

the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College have been selected for inclusion

the

in

1958-1959

edition

of

“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and Colleges.
Nominations for membership were made by a faculty committee on the basis of scholarship,
participation

in
extra curricular
personality traits, and
professional promise as a teacher.

activities,

The

1958-1959

selections,

nounced by John A. Hoch, Dean

anof

Instruction, include:

Joanne Bechtel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bechtel, 112
East Nesquehoning Street, Easton
— Business Education; Elaine DiAugustine, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Massimo DiAugustine, 318
LaSalle Street, Berwick — Elementary
Education;
Bernice Dietz,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Dietz,
Klingerstown — Business
Education; Lena Fisher, daughter
of Mrs. Ida Fisher, R. D. 2, Sunbury — Secondary Education; Robert Gower, son of Mrs. Arlene
Gower, 1237 Liberty Street, Allentown — Elementary Education; Joann Heston, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Heston, .388 Monument Avenue, Wyoming — Secondary Education; Donald Ker, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Ker, R.
D. 2, Catawissa — Secondary Elementary Education; Janice Kunes,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Kunes, 525 Market Street, Johnsonburg — Business Education; John
Longo, son of Mrs. Bridget Longo,
Kelayres — Business Education;
Dorothy Marcy, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Giles Marcy, R. D. 1,
Dalton — Elementary Education;
Marjorie Morson, daughter of Mrs.
Eva Morson, 711 Brook Street,
Bryn Mawr — Elementary Education; Kay Nearing, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Nearing, 203 West
Fifth

Street,

Bloomsburg

—

Busi-

Education;
Mary Pileski,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Pileski,
591 West Third Street,

Mrs. Minnie
Romig, 310 East
Fourth Street, Boyertown — Secondary Education; Sara Schilling
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Schilling, 108 Center Street, Ashland — Secondary Education; Moritz Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Schultz, 336 Warren Avenue, Kingston — Secondary Education; Betli Sprout, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Sprout, 825 Rural
Avenue, Williamsport — Elementary Education; Mary Ann Thornton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Thornton, 103 Arch Street,
Shamokin — Secondary Education.
Three of the group — Bernice
Dietz, Mary Pileski and Robert
Gower — received their Bachelor
of Science degrees at commence-

ment

exercises in January, 1959;
the remaining 16 students will be

graduated in May, 1959.
This group of 19 students represents eleven counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

—

Northampton. Columbia, Schuylkill, Northumberland, Lehigh, Luzerne, Elk, Berks, Lackawanna,
Delaware and Lycoming.
Friends
of
Anne
Northrup
Greene,
3011
Rodman Street,
Northwest, Washington 8, D. C.,
received letters at Christmas time,
in which Mrs. Greene relates their
experiences during the year. The
principal item was their trip to
Australia by way of the South Sea

Islands.

They

left

Los

Angeles

October 24, 1957, on the S. S. Monterey, and after a week arrived at
Tahiti, where they stopped for two
days.
After a short stay in New Zealand, they went on to Australia

where they stayed
Their

back

return

for seven weeks.

trip

brought

them

New

Zealand, and then
to Fiji, Samoa, Hawaii, and San
Francisco, where they landed January 22, 1958. They were away
from home fourteen weeks, and
traveled 30,000 miles.
to

ness

Bloomsburg — Secondary Education; Frank Reed, son of Mrs. Linda Ambrosia, 138 East Mahanoy
Avenue, Mahanoy City — Business
Education; Ronald Romig, son of

MARCH,

1959

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy.

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

VISITED WASHINGTON
Twenty-nine
senior
students
from the Bloomsburg State TeachCollege, who are doing their
practice teaching under the supervision of Dr. George Fike, Professor of Education, went to Washington, D. C., on Thursday, Noers

vember

13,

1958.

nation’s capitol, the

While
group

at

the

visited

the United States Office of EducaDepartment of Health,
Education, and Welfare Building,
and also toured the headquarters
of the National Education Assocition in the

ation.

In the

Education Office, the

stu-

dents convened at the Public Inquiry Unit.
They examined and
secured some of the many instructional materials now published by
the office for teachers, and made
arrangements to receive future
publications when they are actively engaged in teaching.
After an
extensive tour of the facilities of
the office, the students assembled
in the auditorium where the Deputy Commissioner of Education
explained the program and future
plans of the federal government
related to its part in public education in the entire nation.
He also
discussed the effects which the

Federal Defense Act will have upon science, mathematics and language programs.
Dr. Fike’s classes began making
the trips to Washington three years
ago; the experiences of the stu-

dents were deemed so valuable
that the trip has become a regular
part of the activities of the professional practicum classes.

At the headquarters of the NaEducation Association, it has
become the custom for the editor
tional

to discuss

the need, nature, content

and standards of material submitted

by teachers

for

publication.

Following this, the students visited
the Defense Commission and the
Public Relations Departments of
the N.E.A.
The practice teachers
then divided into smaller groups to
visit the departments in which they
have specialized in college. Here
again,

which

and materials,
them in their inprogram, were distrib-

techniques
will help

structional

uated.
9

GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. William Herbert Gray,
Pastor of the Bright

Church,
president

Hope

Philadelphia,

and

vice-

Council of Churches in 1955, was
the guest speaker for the National Brotherhood Week Program presented by the by the Student Chris-

Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. Dr. Cray
tian Association at the

addressed an assembly meeting of
students and faculty at 10:00 a. m.
on Thursday, February 12, 1959, in
Carver Auditorium. The speaker
earned degrees at the Bluefield
State College,
University of

West

Virginia,

Pennsylvania,

the

and

was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of
Pennsylvania in 1942. He has completed
graduate study at the
Schol of Theology, Temple University, and received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida.
He began his professional career as a Professor of
Education at Louisiana’s Southern
University, served as President of
the Florida Normal and Industrial
College, and in 1949 was appointed
President of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, in Tallahassee, Florida.

From 1949

of

sion,

including
Citation,

Four Chaplains

in

lege plate for his work as secretary-treasurer of the group for
which he expressed his appreciation

and thanked

The following

her.

classes

were rep-

resented by one or more members:
Class of 1890 Mr. Ira S. Brown.

—
—
—

Class of 1906 Mrs. E. J. Mittledorf.
Class of 1907 Mrs. Blanche Chis-

holm, Mrs. Stanley J. Conner and twin
Mrs. Nellie Lesser Culp, and Mrs.

sister,

Margaret O'Brien.

— Mi-. Lloyd T. Krumm.
—Dr. E. H. Nelson and
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Naugle.
Clas sof 1919 — Mrs. John W. Moore.
Class of 1922 — Mrs. Clyde Kern.
Coughlin,
Class of 1923 — Mrs.
Class of 1909
Class of 1911

J.

J.

President, and Mrs. Fred Smethers,
Vice President for 1958.
Class of 1925 Mrs. Neal Carmody.
Class of 1935 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Conte, President for 1953.
Class of 1937 Mrs. Robert Walton.
Class of 1942 Mr-, and Mrs. Francis
P. Thomas, President and Vice Presi-

—
—
—
—

Nellie Lesser Culp.
Other prizes were

Mrs. Coughlin thanked all who
had worked with her for their cooperation and all those present for
attending, then turned the chair
over to the new president, Miss
Cerchiaro, who thanked the group
for the honor and said she would
do all sthe could to make our as-

of Penn-

awarded

as

follows:

Oldest

class

represented:

Mr.

work and
a

Life

Chapel of

Philadelphia.

Pointing to Dr. Gray’s distinguished record in education, religion
aid civic endeavors, Mr. Clayton
in

Mrs. Coughlin then presented
Mr. Naugle with a decorated col-

Vice President — Mr. Dale J.
Springer ’57, 136 West 3rd Avenue,

cutive committees. Since 1957, he
has received six awards and cita-

Membership

map

the site of various buildings
completed or in the process of
completion.
He also showed us
an architect’s drawing of the new
a

Shortest distance traveled: Mrs.
J. Mittledorf.

nue, Elizabeth,

and chairman of exe-

contributions,

Doctor Andruss gave the invocation.
A delicious luncheon was
enjoyed by thirty members and
guests, after which Doctor Andruss
spoke on improvement being made
on the campus and pointed out on

E.

Doctor Nelson spoke briefly on
Alumni matters. After luncheon,
names were drawn by Mrs. Andruss for door prizes with men’s
prize going to Mr. Fred Smethers
and woman’s prize going to Mrs.

has been associated
with more than a dozen local, state
and national organizations as a
consultant, a member of the Board

tions for his outstanding

J. J.

Greatest distance traveled: Mrs.
Stanley J. Conner.

ations.

He

of Directors,

Coughlin,
presided and welcomed the
members and guests, after which
she introduced the honored guests,
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the College, and Dr.
and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, president
of the General Alumni Association.
President, Mrs.

’50.

Greatest number years teaching:
Mrs. J. J. Coughlin.

the In-

Race Relations CommisDepartment of Labor and

Commonwealth

The

Y’oungest class represented: Miss

Frances Cerchiaro

to serve

dustrial

Industry,
sylvania.

ous people at last year’s meeting.
Many were surprised to hear their
voices coming from the corner of
the room.

’90.

Class of 1950 Miss Frances A. Cerchiaro, President-elect.

Daily News. At the same time he
his tenure as pastor at the
Bright Hope Church from 1952 to

Cray was invited

While the guests were arriving
and greeting each other, Mr.
Coughlin played back a tape recording of remarks made by vari-

Brown

dent for 1957.

began

Executive Director

Elizabeth, New Jersey, on
Saturday, October 25, 1958.

Street,

Ira S.

Doctor Andruss also explained
the revision of curriculum which
Colleges
Pennsylvania Teachers
are now undergoing and pointed
out that different colleges have
differences in certification and tuAll have entrance examinition.

to

for the Philadelphia Afro-American
Newspaper and the Philadelphia

1955, Dr.

of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association of Greater
New York was held at the Hotel
Winfield Scott, 323 North Broad

men’s dormitory.

1955, he turned
his talents to journalism, working

as

NEW YORK ALUMNI

The ninth annual meeting

Baptist

Pennsylvania

the

of

GREATER
Jr.,

Hinkle, faculty advisor, said that
the Student Christian Association
felt it was extremely fortunate to
be able to secure the services of
such an outstanding citizen of the

Commonwealth.

—

A short business meeting was
held and the following were chosen as officers for 1959:
President

Cerchiaro

Roselle,

—

’50,

New

Frances A.
Miss
638 Wyoming Ave-

New

Jersey.

Jersey.

Secretary-Treasurer—A. K. Naugle ’ll, 119 Dalton Street, Roselle
Park,

New

Jersey.

sociation a success.

Respectfully submitted,
A. K. Naugle, secretary

THE AI.UMNI QUARTERLY

ATH
HUSKIES DOMINATE

5-4

WRESTLING TOURNAMENT
The Huskies of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College dominated
the 17th Annual State Teachers
Wrestling
Tournament
Bloomsburg’s Centennial
Gymnasium Friday and Saturday,
March 6 and 7, and broke the long
reign of the Bald Eagles of Lock
Haven.
Bloomsburg sent eight
men into the finals on Saturday
College

held

in

night,

ond

and won 4
and

places,

places, 4 secfourth place in

first
1

individual contests.

The Huskies

up 89 points
team championship; Lock Haven, coached by
the old master, Hubert Jack, took
second place with 51 points, and
to

win the

piled

first-place

Shippensburg, with 40 points, beat
West Chester and Millersville who
had scored 39 and 38 points, respectively.
Fate played a hand in
the proceedings, for Coach Houk

Bloomsburg had been one of
Coach Jack's star pupils before
Houk graduated from Lock Haven
of

S.T.C. in 1952.

Outstanding contestants from the
schools

lived

up

to

their

pre-

tourney ratings, and the two-day
event was judged to be one of the
most exciting and highly competitive in recent years. A large crowd
was on hand in Centennial Gym on
Friday night and Saturday afternoon, but a packed house witnessed the final matches and the presentation of beautiful trophies, to
the first three teams, and indivi-

dual medals to the first, second,
and third place winners in each
weight division.
John A. Hoch,
Bloomsburg’s Dean of Instruction,
presented the awards.

Garman, Bloomsburg, won
pound crown for the third
consecutive year — was runner-up
Jim

LE

decision in

TICS

the finals.

Price

was the 167 pound champ in 1957
and the 177 pounds in 1958.
Two champions were dethroned:
Gallueci of Lock Haven, who won
the 130 pound crown last year lost
out to Dellapina of Clarion in the
quarter final round; Shaw of Lock
Haven, who won the 157 pound
title in 1958, lost to Farley of Millersville iu the quarter finals. Three
freshman won championships. Eli-

Simons of Lock Haven who
from Norfolk, Virginia, took
the 115 pound crown; Marano of
Shippensburg who graduated from
Clearfield High School, annexed
liot

hails

the 130 pound title; Gary Allen of
Bloomsburg, a graduate of Muncy

High School, won the unlimited
crown.

one

Simons,

the

of

smoothest

wrestlers in State Teachers College competition in some time, defeated another classy contender,
Aungst of Bloomsburg in a 6-3 de-

Simons defeated Blessing
Shippensburg
while
(7-2),
Aungst downed Sinnott of Edinboro (11-3).
Sinnott is the 115
pound champ in Four “I” compecision.

of

tition.

(115

pound

class.)

—

Bloomsburg’s Jim
123 pounds
Garman, a graduate of Sunbury
High, won his third 123 pound
title bv defeating Gribble of Ship-

pensburg

5-2.

Garman

downed

Jackson of Lock Haven in the semi,
finals 8-2; Jackson was the 1958
runner-up.
Gribble had defeated
McCreary of Indiana in a hotly
contested bout, 3-2, in the semifinals.

130 pounds — Marano of Shippensburg, a freshman, defeated
Sullivan of Bloomsburg, 7-6.
Sullivan won a 5-1 decision over Char-

the 123

in his freshman year; Ralph Clark,
Lock Haven, won the 147 pound
crown for the second straight year
— Clark was runner-up in the 157
pound division in his freshman
year; Walter Price,
Millersville,
lost the 177 pound championship
to Dawson of West Chester by a

MARCH,

1959

West Chester

in the semiCharles, a senior, had won
the 123 pound crown three years
igo. Marano in his semi-final bout,
pinned Lacey of California in 25
seconds of the second period.
les

of

finals.

— One of the most exmatches in the finals featured an overtime period, and Rimple
8won a ballot cast by the three officials.
Rimple had taken fourth
place in the 130 bracket last year.
Dellapina scored an upset of the
9defending champ, Gallueci of Lock
Haven in Friday’s round, (5-4) and
went on to beat Kalokerinos of
Shippensburg in the semi-finals
0.
Kalokerinos was the runnerup at 133 pounds in the State High
School Championships in 1958.
Rimple defeated Gerstemeir of
West Chester in the semi-finals,
137 pound

citing

4.

147 pounds — Ralph Clark of
Lock Haven became a three-time
winner by downing Lenker of East
Stroudsburg 8-0. Clark had little
trouble

in

previous

bouts in the

two day affair. Lenker, a freshman, gave the fans a real show
when he beat Micio of Millersville in the semi-final round 3-0.
Micio was the champ three years
ago, and was runner-up in 1957
and 1958.
157 pound — Robert Rohm of
Bloomsburg pinned Farley of Millersville midway in the second peFarley, in the semi-finals,
staged another tourney upset by
defeating Henry Shaw of Lock
Haven, the defending champ, 9-8.
riod.

Rohm

also had a tough match in
the semi-finals, when he downed
Hart of Shippensburg 3-2.

167 pounds — Kuharik of West
Chester
defeated
Bloomsburg’s

Bob Asby

in the finals 3-0.

Kuhar-

beat Robertson of Shippensburg
7-3 in the semi-finals while Asby
defeated Talbott of Millersville
ik

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

11-7.

177 pound — Walter Price, Miltwo-time winner, lost a

lersville, a

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

5-4 decision to “Hambone” Dawson of West Chester. Price pinned

Don

Poust. Bloomsburg freshman,
(Continued on Page 12)
11

WRESTLING
The

Houk

Russ

1958-1959

Coach

wrestling charges of
closed

tire

season with

a brilliant nine win, one loss record and entered the annual State

Teachers
Wrestling

College

Tournament

Conference
held on

campus

as top contenders.
The
only blemish in the near-perfect
slate was the 12-20 Lock Haven
meet, which saw six of ten Hus-

go down in defeat.

kies

The

home matches

five

for

tire

season were heavily attended. A
percentage of the student
body witnessed the programs; and
for the Lock Haven match, over
large

one thousand crowded into Cen-

Gymnasium, filling all the
the aisles, and most of the
floor space.
tennial

seats,

Individually, the B.S.T.C. squad
have impressive records. Jim Gar-

man, 130 pound

senior;

Bob Bohm,

157 pound junior, and Gary Allen,
freshman in the 177 and unlimited
classes,
all
emerged undefeated.

Garman, state champion two years
running, decisioned weight opponents and pinned one, Hannon of
Cortland.
Rohm, a three sport
competitor, gained eight wixrs by
decision and one by pinning Tom
Braclrbill of

Lycoming; and Allen,

unlimited division, Stan Elinski left
a five win, two loss total for the
year.

Making scattered appearances
during the scheduled matches were
Tom Gorant and Walt Fake. Gorant, a promising freshman from
Shamokin, in the East Stroudsburg,
Indiana and Lincoln contests at
Fake scored
130, had three pins.
one pin, one decision, and one loss
on the varsity mats.
Coach Russ Houk is pleased by
both the seasons results and by the
interest

Cortland and East
Stroudsburg scraps, decisioned six,

and

in

the

tied Charlie

Dawson

of

West

Chester.

Beginning

at 115 in early

season

a point point advantage.
last

appearance

at

In this
B.S.T.C., 167

pound Bob Asby secured one pin,
received four decisions, was defeated twice, and tied once.
In the

u

and

—
—

count of conference games was six
wins and seven losses, and the total
of all season play was nine wins,
eight losses.
It is

notable that five of the sev-

en conference losses occurred on
unfriendly courts.
The B.S.T.C.
basketeers seemed to have trouble
adjusting to unfamiliar hardwoods.
Perhaps the best example of this
was the 74-57 drumming at the

hands of Mansfield on
age stamp court.

A

wrap-up

of these games were the only
ones lost on the home floor. The
seesaw battle with Kutztown in

(Continued from Page

11)

an overtime period in the semifinals.
In the same round, Dawson
defeated J. Kreamer of Lock Havin

en, 5-0.

191 pounds

—

Manning, Edin-

boro, pinned Bloomsburg’s Stan
Elinsky, in 2:03 of the first period

had him on

his

a pinning combination.

back

Man-

showed a great deal of
and knowledge in his
tourney bouts, and was judged one

ning

strength

of the better wrestlers from Western Pennsylvania.
He defeated
Roselle of Lock Haven in the semifinals, 1-0. In the semi-finals, Elinsky defeated Baker of Millersville
who had been the runner-up in
1957-1958.

—

Gary

that:

The Maroon and Gold claimed
wins over Cheyney, but
double defeat by both
Shippensburg
and
Millersville.
suffered

Two

been

the runner-up in the 154
pound division in the high school
Pennsylvania,
championships of
outpointed Petroff of California in
Allen showed a
a 4-3 decision.
great deal of courage in wrestling
a very strong Petroff who out-

weighed him about 70 pounds. The
match was a fitting climax for an
evening.

and

third

season gave the

games

of

the

hard-fought
victory to Bloomsburg by a onepoint margin, and the second to
Kutztown by a twelve tally separation.
After drubbing the visiting
Huskies 74-57, the Mansfield squad
was narrowly edged 80-78 by the
Shelleymen at Centennial Gymnasium.
In their single 1958 season
encounter with Bloomsburg, West
Chester triumphed 81-51 in a contest in which only Norm Shutovich
hit
in
double figures for
Bloomsburg. To end the season,
the Huskies handed Lock Haven
75-62
defeat.
“Flip” Houser
a
dunked in 29 of the 75 points.
first

In non-conference play, the Husthree-one
faired better. A
record resulted from the defeat of
(Continued on Page 13)

kies

Allen, a fresh-

man from Bloomsburg, who had

exciting

schedule

29—Lincoln U 3
23—West Chester 2
15—Waynesburg 11

shows

the first

Unlimited

the

double

3

WRESTLING TOURNAMENT

after Elinsky

of

their post-

— Cortland
— Shippensburg 2
—Lycoming 3
15—Millersville 11
12 —Lock Haven 20
24 — E. Stroudsburg 6
25 — Indiana 2
33
28
25

—

1958-1959

B.S.T.C. cagers of Coach Harold
Shelley completed the 1958-59 basketball season with the record
slightly over the 500 mark.
The

tion.

Dec. 6 BSTC
Jan. 10 BSTC
Jan. 14— BSTC
Jan. 17— BSTC
Jan. 29 BSTC
Feb. 4— BSTC
Feb. 7— BSTC
Feb. 12— BSTC
Feb. 20— BSTC
Feb. 28— BSTC

in

and later moving into the 123 class,
Maynard “Luke” Aungst, a quickmoving freshman from Lock Haven, has two pins, five decisions,
and one tie to his credit. He was
battered only once, when Lock
Haven’s Gary Simons racked up
his winning points in the last seconds of the clash. With seven
wins and two losses, Dick Rimple,
137 pound Forty Fort junior can
be expected to see further action
next season. Sophomore Dale Sullivan collected six wins and three
losses, two of which, Lycoming and
East Stroudsburg, were decided by

wrestling

students,

he looks forward to an equally successful year in 1959-60 competi-

a popular crowd-pleaser, registered

pins

collegiate

in

shown by B.S.T.C.

BASKETBALL

Allen,

who

weighs about 185, defeated WalWest Chester, another 250
pounder, with a pin in 27 seconds

bert of

the first period.
Petroff defeated Lawhead of Shippensburg
in the semi-finals, 4-0, and Petroff
of

was

a

newcomer, he showed

a

great deal of agility for a big man,
and will be a heavyweight to con-

tend with in future State Teachers
College Tournaments.
TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

BASKETBALL

1958- 1 959

(Continued from Page

Lycoming

by the
downing of

twice, both times

score of 76-68, and the

The second game

King’s at home.

of the King’s series, at. St Joseph’s

Hazleton, saw H.S.T.C. end up
on the losing side of the ledger, 81-

in

63.

For the year, including non-conference bouts, Bill Swisher is high
scorer for B.S.T.C. with 277 points
to his credit.

He

hit his

a freshman from Upper
Darby seeing action on the college

spring, Shelley can expect a large

time this year,
won third honors by chalking 222
markers.
Percentage-wise, Lloyd
is one of the best Husky shooters

also anticipates several

from the field. Filling fourth, tilth
and sixth spots in the scoring
round-up are Jack Mascioli with
147, Bay Burger with 79, and Al

varsity squad.
son provided

Lloyd,
12)

peak

in

the first Lycoming match at Williamsport when he bucketed 34
points, twelve field goals and a

perfect ten for ten foul shot recSecond in scoring, trailing
ord.
Swisher by two points with 275,

for the first

level

Francis with 74.

By dropping

in

294 free throws

459 attempted, B.S.T.C.'. lioopcan boast of a neat 65 per
cent fonl shot made record. This
foul shooting proficiency provided
for

sters

victory in several contests.

On De-

cember 13 Cheyney had 34

field

re-

goals ot Bloomsburg’s 25, yet remarkable foul shooting, 33 for 44,
saved the day, and led to a thin

bounder and consistent shot, Shutovich showed in double rigures in
every contest except the last. Dick

83-81 victory.
Since Swisher and Burger are
the only starters graduating this

is

Norm

Shutovich.

A

steady

TWENTY-SIXTH BUSINESS

test

EDUCATION CONFERENCE

high

Individual and team contestants
are expected

to

reach

mum number when

the

the

maxi-

Twenth-

Education Conference gets underway at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on
Saturday, May 2, 1959. Dr. Thosixtli

Business

mas

B. Martin, Director of the
Business
Education Department
at the College, said that letters
have been mailed to high schools

Pennsylvania informing them of
contest date and regulations
and extending an invitation to
them to apply for participation.
in

the

began

in

1931 with thirteen

Last
schools represented.
year’s contestants were accompanied to the campus by 61 high
school teachers along with a large

counting heavily on the entering
freshmen this fall to bolster the
All in

some

all,

the sea-

thrilling wins,

several close losses, and a hope for
a more brilliant 59- 60 campaign.
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.

3— BSTC 72—Kutztown 71
13— BSTC 83— Cheyney 81
16— BSTC 93—Kings 85
8— BSTC 77—Kutztown 89
15— BSTC 68 Shippensburg
17— BSTC 57— Mansfield 74
20— BSTC 77— Cheyney 71
28— BSTC 65— Millersville 73

—

81

5— BSTC 63—Kings 81
7—BSTC 76— Lycoming 68
11— BSTC 75 —Lock Haven 67
13— BSTC 76— Lycoming 68
18— BSTC 63— Millersville 75
21— BSTC 80— Mansfield 78
25— BSTC 69— Shippensburg 72
27— BSTC 51—West Chester 81
Mar. 4— BSTC 75 —Lock Haven 62

John E. Shaffer, Jr., who is director of special education in the

Lewisburg Joint High School, has
initiated an occupational job exploratory program in conjunction

Community Hos-

students assisted in various capaduring the morning and afternoon so that tests could be given most effectively and contest

Two high school students are at
present spending a portion of each
day at the hospital as nurses’ aides,
seeking thereby to determine for
themselves whether they are fitted
for future employment in a similar
capacity and whether the field appeals to them as a life work.

cities

quickly determined.

results

As part of the contest, the Business Education Department has
sponsored, for more than a decade,
an Office Machines Show and
Textbook Exhibit in Navy Hall
The Show and ExAuditorium.

commodate the largest possible
number of contestants. Last year,
the large number of applications
made it necessary for the college
to rule that not more than fifty

modern
commonly used

hibit will

displays of business education textbooks and demonstrations of num-

machines
and
offices

business

erous

in

schools.

schools could enter.
When the
contest was completed, a careful
analysis revealed that two hundred

1959

up from the

movements
jayvee ranks, and is

with Evangelical

be open to teachers, students,
and visitors during the
morning of May 2, and will include

MARCH,

He

of returning players.

number of parents and friends.
Approximately 125 college business

Although the annual event will
not be staged for several weeks.
Dr. Martin emphasized the need
for early planning in order to ac-

eleven students, representing fortyeight high schools in twenty-one
counties in the Commonwealth,
had participated in the five competitive examinations. This reflected a steady growth since the con-

number

ALUMNI DAY:
SATURDAY, MAY

23

pital.

The program, similar to that carmuch larger commun-

ried out in

is being watched with interby many educators. The work
is aided by the vocational guidance
committee of the Lewisburg Ki-

ities,

est

wanis Club.
Mr.
Shaffer

graduated

from

B.S.T.C. and received his Master’s
degree at Bucknell. At present, he
is engaged in work for his doctorate at Pennsylvania State UniverHe hopes to extend the pressity.
ent program to other fields in addition to the hospital.
The job is
of invaluable aid to the student
seeking practical information on
possible careers.
Mr. Shaffer and his wife, the
former Eleanor Broadt, Bloomsburg, have one son.
13

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA ACOUNTY
PRESIDENT

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre Area

Frank Taylor

Alton Schmidt
Burlington, N. J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street

Harold H. Hidlay
Bloomsburg, Pa.

John Dietz

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Southampton, Pa.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Berwick, Pa.

Mr. Peter Podwika,

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Eleanor Kennedy
Espy, Pa.

Mrs. Mary Albano
Burlington, N. J.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Paul Martin, ’38
710 East 3rd Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Walter Withka
Burlington, N.

565

’42

Monument Avenue
Wyoming, Pa.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Harold Trethaway,

'42

1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

J.

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling,
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

Scranton

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer,
259

4,

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

LUZERNE COUNTY

Scranton

TREASURER
Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

Hazleton Area

’28

West Locust Street

1105y2

4,

PRESIDENT

Pa.

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street

TREASURER

Hazleton, Pa.

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue

’ll

Scranton

4,

'34

Pa.

Margaret L. Lewis,

’32

Race Street

Homer

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa.

SECRETARY

Middletown, Pa.

Mr. W.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, T6
611 N. Summer Avenue

’32

53

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

Pa.

147

Chestnut Street
Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams, T8
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille McHose Ecker,
785 Grant Street
Hazleton, Pa.

1913

ted register of wills in Philadelphia

Luzerne eounJ.
ty native who graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1913 and has been a member of the board of trustees of the
Bernard

Kelley,

November
men nom20, 1955, is
inated by Governor David L. Lawlocal

since
one of two

institution

rence at Harrisburg as judge of the
Pleas Court of Philadel-

Common
phia.
14

The

local

alumnus was

elec-

in

1957 and

still

years to serve.

has nearly three

He was on

the

’32

graduate of the Naval Academy

at

Annapolis.

He

list

is

also a graduate of

Blooms-

burg State Teachers College and

appointees approved
by the Philadelphia Bar Associa-

of the University of Pennsylvania

tion.

Law

of potential

Mr. Kelley has held

many im-

portant jobs.
He is a retired admiral in the Navy, having served as
a captain in charge of the industrial relations division at the Navy
Yard during the war.
He is a

ty

School.

He

is

a former depu-

managing director

for the city,

former deputy insurance commissioner, former local manager of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He lives at 610 Vernon Road,
Philadelphia.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mr.

Miss Eva Reichley,
614

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

TREASURER
Miss Susan Sidler,

’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

'39

Market Street

Sunbury, Pa.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

PHILADELPHIA AREA

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
3603-C Bowers Avenue
Baltimore 7, Md.

Church Street
Danville, Pa.

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian
732

NEW YORK AREA

Hortman

TREASURER

Irish, ’06

Washington Street
Camden, N. J.

Miss Saida Hartman,

Miss Prances A. Cerchiaro,

Brandywine
Washington

4215

’08

W.

Street, N.
16, D. C.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.

’50

638 Wyoming Avenue
Elizabeth, New Jersey

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Dale

’55

SECRETARY-TREASURER
'05

’24

V

Street S.E.
Washington, D. C.
1232

1412 State Street
Shamokin, Pa.

Danville, Pa.

Mrs. Charlotte Fetter Coulston,
693 Arch Street

Springer, ’57
136 West 3rd Avenue
Roselle, New Jersey

Mi-.

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas E. Sanders,

’53

SECRETARY
312

’53

Dornsife, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Alice Smull,

PRESIDENT

Mr. Clyde Adams,

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Mr. Edward Linn,
R. D. 1

WASHINGTON AREA

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

MONTOUR COUNTY

J.

’23

WEST BRANCH AREA

Spring City, Pa.

PRESIDENT
Jason Schaffer,

TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Miss Esther E. Dagnell,
215 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

’54

R. D. I
Selinsgrove, Pa.

’34

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,
Lewisburg, Pa.

’56

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,
769

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

’29

King Street

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue

E.

Brown,

’10

Lewisburg, Pa.

1913

The following
the

bearing

heading “Teachers Hear Some

Facts!” has

cent issue
ion

editorial,

been clipped from a reof the “Manchester Un-

Leader,”

Manchester,

New

Hampshire:

New

Hampshire

teachers

who heard

social

studies

the address of

Demaree, chairman
department of Dartmouth College, at the 104th annual
Prof. Albert L.
of the history

already proven the Dartmouth pro-

winds up on the short end of the

fessor right.

stick.

Outlining the entire sordid his-

between Krushchev and Nasser, Demaree warntory of cooperation

“It is later, very much later,
than most of us think.” He then
outlined the four basic disrupting

ed:

ition

on

all issues.

portant

mouth

point,

teacher’s

as

is

is

an im-

the

Dart-

This
is

said,

Arab pos-

statement

that

Kremlin; nationalism; foreign dom-

Far too many college professors,
walled up in their ivory towers, insist on fighting issues that have
long ago been decided and, because of Western blundering, pro-

Demaree’s remarks on the
Middle East crisis. That reaction is

chev and Nasser work hand in
hand,
and America invariably

1959

Demaree

that he simply takes the

both Nasser and Krushchev want
to see the Arab- Jewish problem go

ination;

MARCH,

for Krushchev’s suc-

Professor

cess,

working against the Free
world’s position: Continuing Jewish-Arab friction, exploited by the
factors

convention of the New Hampshire
Education Association, must have
been impressed by the logic of Professor

The reason

and economic and

unrest. Professor

political

Demaree pointed

out that in each instance Krush-

unsolved.

side excellent sore points to be

ir-

15

by Red propagandists. It
absolutely senseless to debate
the merit or lack of merit of the
Balfour Declaration. The Balfour
Declaration is a FACT.
The repeated betrayals of the Arabs by
the West are also FACTS.
No

coach of the football and

ritated

assistant

is

basketball squads.

amount

debating by learned
Middle Eastern experts can erase
of

Many of these same proreason from the premise
that Nasser is concerned with solutions to these problems. As Professor Demaree pointed out, nothing could be further from the truth.

history.

fessors

As Professor Demaree also observed, Americans are thoroughly
despised by most Arabs. But this
sentiment, we feel, does not stem
only from our alliance with the
colonial powers and the effectiveness of propaganda from the Kremlin, the most sinister colonizer of
them all, but also because we simply have not attempted to sell Americanism to the Arab population.
The American theory of the
Cod-given rights of man is readymade for a people hungry for
something to believe in. But we
have not sold that theory. Instead,
through out foreign aid, we’ve sold
only a doctrine of materialism.

We

hear

vacuums.’’

much

talk of

“power

The Communists

in the

Middle East are simply capitalizing on a “mental vacuum.”

Alex then moved on to Columbia
High School, Pennsylvania, where
he taught Physics and Chemistry
from 1941 to 1942 and was the assistant basketball coach.

In 1942 Alex taught Chemistry at
the Penn State Extension course.
He was professor of Social Studies
at Dewey University, Manila, in

From 1945

1945.

to 1946,

Professor

Assistant

of

he was

Physics

Gettysburg College and

at

coached

the tennis squad.

The teaching profession lost his
valued services when he matriculated at Temple University School of
Dentistry in 1946. Upon his graduation in 1950, he was appointed
Secretary to the Faculty and AssisCrown and
Professor
of
tant
He served faithfully in
Bridge.
this capacity until 1953 when he
resigned to enter private practice
at

Camp

Hill, Pa.

Alex served three years in the

Navy

in

World War

and Sonar
als’

He

Staffs.

Radar
on Admir-

II as a

Staff Officer

served

eighteen

months sea duty in the Atlantic on
convoy duty and twelve months
duty in the Pacific during which
time he saw action at Eniwetok,
Ultihi and Samar and Manila in the

He

held the rank of
Lt. Senior Grade and served with

Philippines.
distinction.

1939

McKechnie, Jr., has recently been elected president of
the Temple Dental Alumni, TemAlex

J.

The “News

Letter” of this organization recently
published the following biagraphy
of Dr. McKechnie:

ple

University.

Our president was born in Berwick, Pa., and graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColHe relege in 1939 with a B.S.
ceived a M.S. in 1941 from BuckHe did other
nell
University.
graduate work at Penn State and
graduated from
Temple University School of Den-

Gettysburg

and

is

u;

cipalship.

Mrs. Butt, the former “Chris”
Garland, also attended B.S.T.C.,
and is now an active Bethlehem
insurance agent.

1958
Martini,
Cecilia
Miss
Jane
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Martini, Shamokin, became the bride
of Voris Baskin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Baskin, Trevorton, in
a

recent ceremony in

St.

Joseph’s

Church, Shamokin, with the Rev.
Wallace Sawdy officiating.
The bride, a graduate of B.S.T.C.
last spring, is a teacher at Ralpho

Township High School. Her husband is a telephone technician at
Andrews Air Force Base, WashingD. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Baskin

wedding
They are

trip

to

New

left

York

on

a

City.

living in a newly-furnish-

ed apartment

in

Elysburg.

dentistry.

Alex’s

family

consists

of

SUSQUEHANNA
RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth, ’42

R.

J.

Webb,

'42

1959

his

charming wife, Elizabeth, and four
children — James 13, Jeffry 9, Joan
6, and Jon 4.

tistry in 1950.

Alex had an illustrious teaching
career that extended from 1939 to
1946. lie taught Science and Geography at Shickshinny High School
from 1939 to 1941. He was also

Now working toward both Supervising and Elementary Principal Certificates, Mr. Butt is currently seeking a high school prin-

ton,

a member of OKU, Delta
Sigma Delta, Kiwanis, an Elder in
the Presbyterian Church and a
Mason. Alex’s hobbies are golf and

Alex

1949
Luther S. Butt, 2201 Linden
Street,
Bethlehem, Pa., has recently extended his secondary certificate to include elementary, and
is now teaching fifth grade in Nazareth.
After completing B.S.T.C.,
Mr. Butt taught high school social
studies in Chester and Berks Counties, and also in the City of Bethlehem Schools. In 1954 he received
an M.A. in Secondary Administration at Lehigh University, earning
a Secondary Principal Certificate.

United
St.
Brethren Church, Hummel’s Wharf
was the setting Saturday, December 20, at three for the ceremony
uniting Miss Nancy M. Hane,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Hane, Selinsgrove R. D. 2, and
Matthew Mensch, Jr., son of Mr.
Paul’s

Evangelical

Mrs. Matthew Mensch, Sr.,
Catawissa.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.

and

Donald Austin.
After a short wedding trip, Mr.
and Mrs. Mensch established their
residence at 36 East Main Street,
Bloomsburg. They are both sen-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

at B.S.T.C., Mrs.
the elementary and Mr.
the secondary field.

iors

Mensch
Mensch

in

in

The bride graduated from Selinsgrove High School in 1955 and her
husband is a 1953 graduate of Catavvissa

High School.
1958

A

questionnaire sent out from
the office of President Andruss
gave the following information
concerning the members of the
Class of 1958:

H-Home

address

In Teaching Positions
Business Curriculum

Norman

J.

H-1274 Pulaski, Shamokin
T-1635 Koffel Road, Lansdale
Beilharz, Barry R.
4, Muncy
T-Main Street, Herndon
Belles, Duane

H-R. D.

H-R. D. 2, Berwick
T-Lehighton
Berger, Patricia

H-305 Iron Street, Bloomsburg
T-Altoona
Blessing, Robert
H-589 West Main Street, Bloomsburg
T-Crescent Avenue, Rocky Hill, N. J.
Bower, William
H-R. D. 1, Berwick
T-306A East 6th Street, Berwick
Boyle, Robert
H-2005 Sanderson, Scranton
T-Somerville, New Jersy
Campbell, Shirley
H-R. D. 1, Millerstown
T-443 Market Street, Millerstown

Coffman, Donald
H-Mt. Pocono
T-ll James Court, Rockaway, N. J.
Coulter, Rose Marie
H-1118 Cedar, Croydon
T- Bristol Township
Creamer, Bobbie
H-129 Dui-ham, Penndel
T-Allentown
Daub, iBrunner) Barbara
H-235 West Hight Street, Pottstown
T-25 West State Street, Media
Donmoyer, Gerald
H-R. D. 3, Schuylkill Haven
T-215 Congress Avenue, Lansdowne

H-Laporte

Mary

Raymond

H-615 South Webster, Scranton
T-87 Miami Trail, Rockaway, N.

MARCH,

Keefer,

1959

Vowler, James H.

H-7751 Parkview Road, Upper Darby
T-Palmyra, New Jersey
Welliver, William

Edna M.

H-R. D.

H-Pottsgrove
T-19 Prospect, Port Jervis, N. Y.
Kressler, Daniel R.

Krzywicki, Rita

H-32 West Main Street, Ylymouth
T-422 High Street, Williamsport
Laise, (Stiff*, Betty L.
H-42 State, East Stroudsburg
T-122 West Broad, East Stroudsburg
Lynch, Margaret
H-507 Desmon, Athena
T-South Williamsport
Malt, Joseph
H-570 Harrison, Hazleton
T-322 East Front, Plainfield, N. J.
Mattocks, Donna
H-R. D. 2, Columbia Cross Roads
T-North Main, East Greenville
Maylock, Lawrence J.
H-395 East Poplar, West Nanticoke
T- Great Bend
McBride, Andrew
H-102 South First Street, Shamokin

T-no indication
McGraw, John

T-Dimock

Shamokin

T-Reading
Yesalavage, Michael
H-343 North 2nd, Girardville
T-no indication

Business Curriculum
In Graduate School
Goss, Fern A.
H-R. D. 2, McClure
T-Theo. Sem., Gettysburg

Donald
H-8 Division, Nanticoke
T-Seminary, Gettsburgh
Vacante, Frank J.

Nice,

H-lli^ Center, Kelayres
T-Indiana, Univ., Bloomington, Ind.
Business Curriculum
In Other Employment

H-405 4th, Palmerton
T-155 West Columbus, Nesquehoning
Levan, Gary D.

H-Numidia

Myers, Marjorie

T-204 East 5th Street, Bloomsburg

H-125 Highland Avenue, Lansdale

Miller, Alfred

T-Phoenixville
Nowakoski, Leon
H-130 Garfield Street, Nanticoke

H-2028 Washington, Northampton
T-2247 Main, Northampton
Renn, George
H-856 South River, Sunbury
T-1189 High, Williamsport

T-Sharon Spring, N. Y.
Onufrak, Marian
H-1215 Second Street, Berwick
T-203 Marne Road, Brooklawn, N.
Oswald, Kenneth
H-710 Walnut Street, Berwick
T-Easton Road, Plumsteadville

1,

T-915 Paxtang, Harrisburg
West, Daniel
II -25 West Independence, Shamokin
T-Trevorton
Wismer, Norman
H-224 Washington, Royersford

Barros, Joseph

H-444 Washington Street, Freeland

Rosinski,
J.

Raymond

H-218 South Hickory, Mt. Carmel
T-Mt. Carmel
Business Curriculum

Unemployed

Petuskey, Lawrence

Marie E.
H-213 Cherry Road, Quakertown

Will,

H-Route

2, Catawissa
T-41 Nicholas Street, Wellsboro
Raker, Sandra Lee
H-East Smithfield

Business Curriculum
Not Available

Married

T-Dimock

H-27 Myrick

H-406 Bryant, Stroudsburg
T-Allentown
Hand, William E.
H-719 Center, Shamokin
T-6 Westfall Avenue, Susquehanna
Hargreaves,

Hanover

—

Arnold, Patricia Dorsey

H-708 Berwick Road, Bloomsburg

Mary Anne
H-Wayne, New Jersey

Cuber,

Saraka, John L.

E.

T-215 Congress Avenue, Lansdowne
Grace,

4,

T-316 Montgomery, Rockledge
Julio, Teresa E.
H-206 Ninth, Scranton
T-532 Main, Johnson City, N.Y.

H-Elysburg
T- Green Street, Mifflinburg

T-Watsontown

Wayne

H-R. D.

J.

Richards, Donald G.

Fahringer, Charles
H-R. D. 2, Sunbury
Gavitt,

T-Warren County, Asbury, N.
Hemler, Donald F.

H-60 Penn Avenue, Sinking Springs
T-West Reading
Stuart, Stephen L.
H-1009 East Front Street, Berwick
T-17 Kready Avenue, Millersville
Swade, Clarence
H-48 South Lehigh, Frackville
T-Plymouth Meeting

H-R. D. 1, Bloomsburg
T-no indication

T-Teaching address or business address

Balehinas,

Stoudt, Dorothy

John E.
H-R. D. 5, Espy
T-Bethlehem
Helt, Wilbur D.
H-235 East 8th Street, Berwick

Hartzel,

Street, Edwardsville

T-Factoryville
Schaefer, John J.

H-l Delaware Avenue, Berlin, N.
T-Clementon, New Jersey
Snyder, James F.
H-39 Apple Hurst, Hershey
T-R. D. 2, Newton, New Jersey
Spentzas, Constantine
H-3Elliott Street, Towanda

J.

T-Fleetwood

J.

Business Curriculum
In Armed Services
Abenmoha, Charles D.
H-128 Fort, Forty Forty
Coast Guard
Brassington, Abram A.

H-32 South

Balliet, Frackville

Army
Ridgway, Robert F.
H-311 Main Street, Catawissa

Army
17

Elementary Curriculum
In Teaching Positions
Angradi, Marianne M.
H-68 Coal, Glen Lyon
T-Hershey
Arbogast, Randall W.
H-620 North, Northumberland
T-Milton
Atkinson, Joanne
H-Box 37, Rushland

T-New

Sergott, Leonora

H-352 Main St., Simpson
T-Endwell, New York
Leonhardt, Foster
H-561 E. Fifth, Bloomsburg

H-212 Grand, Danville
T-Danville
Boden, (Miller) Eunice, Mrs.
H-102 E. Pine, Selnisgrove
T-231 Hanover Street, Gettysburg

T-Bethlehem
Lesher, Arthur B.

H-401 E. 6th, Berwick
T-33 Washington, Pleasantville, N.
Lewis,

New

River,

Jersey

Brinser, Margaret

H-201 S. Madison, Harrisburg
T- Harrisburg
Calderwood, William
H-127 S. Barnard, State College
T-34 Manchester, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Campbell, Betty Lou
H-ll Center, Canton
T-Cornwall

Lontz,

Mary

H-608 Broadway, Milton
T-Penn’s Creek
Loughery, Charles
H-405 Washington, Horsham
McBride, Saundra
H-2705 Newberry, Williamsport
T-Williamsport

M. Donald
H-16 W. Shawnee, Plymouth
T-Sayre

Miller,

Moore, Julia

H-R. D. 2, Athens
T-Allentown
Morgan, Deanna
H-68 Broadway, Jim Thorpe
T-Lower Paxton Township

Max

J.

Mosier, Philip

H-38 W.

Field,

Nanticoke

T-Ludlowville,
Defebo, Carl

New York

H-19 Main Street, Shavertown
T-Allentown
Mosteller, Joanne (Mrs.)

H-1120 First, Berwick
T-435 N. 6th, Allentown
Dekutoski, Joseph
H-122 Newport, Glen Lyon
Ely, Carol A.
H-124 N. 3rd, Hughesville

T-Lower Paxton Township
Franklin, Lona A.
H-459 Belmont, Waymart

New York

Mary

H-1003 Catherine, Bloomsburg
T-36 S. Jefferson, Allentown
Gabriel, Robert J.

Nancy

(Mrs.)

H-8 E. Market, Middleburg
T-Middleburg
Haggerty, (Barron) Elizabeth
H-2300 Center, Ashland
T-732 Brady, Davenport, Iowa
Heatley,

Mary

Myer, Frances (Mrs.
H-Nicholson

Hoffner, Betta
H-408 Parker, Clarks

Summit

T-Abington
Hughes, Nancy
H-120 S. Second, Bangor
T-Abington
Kaminski, Eloise
H- South Gibson
T-Boyertown
Keller, Catherine

H-Light Street Road, Bloomsburg
T-36 S. Jefferson St., Allentown

Gummoe)

121, Factoryville

Natter, Luther C.

H-249 Broad Street, Spring City
T-Allentown
O'Brien, Bernard
H-Railroad Street, Locust Gap
T-Allentown
Plummer, Dolores (Mrs.)
H-137 W. Main Street, Bloomsburg
T-Seott Township
Raker, Lynne L.
54,

Numidia

T-1038 Linden Street, Allentown
Redbord, Arnold
H-East Orange, New Jersey

T-Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Reznick, Theodore F.
H-149 Berner, Hazleton
T-102 Bristol Road, Chalfont
Ridall,

H-32 S. First, Shamokin
T-Dalmatia
Herman, John P.
H-3011 Walnut, Harrisburg
T-Lower Paxton Township
Hoffman, Susan A.
H-101 Harding Avenue, Hatboro
T-Abington

IK

Street, Millville
T- Millville

H-Box

H-R. D. 1, Shamokin
T-Athens
Getz,

H-Main

T-Box

T-Pennsbury

Nancy

H-R. D. 2, Shickshinny
T-Old York Road, Abington
Ridgway, Sarah
H-311 Main, Catawissa
T-1038 Linden, Allentown
Rindgen, Patricia
H-29 Elm, West Pittston
T-Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Robb, Mary Ellen
H-R. D. 3, Danville
T-Turbotville
Samois, Dianne
H-216 i/2 Maclay, Harrisburg

T-New Cumberland
Schraeder, Connie

H-7 W. Kirmar

Ave.,

Alden Station

T-Allentown
Scott,

Lynda

T-The Greystone, R. D. 5, Lebanon
Shepperson, Louise (Mrs.)
H-705 E. Front Street, Danville
T-Danville
Shultz, (Souder) Janice
H-333 W. Main St., Bloomsburg
T-720 Front, Berwick
Snavely, Rachel A.

Danilowicz,

Fritz,

J.

Ray W.

T-no indication

Bowen, Roberta
H-R. D. 2, Sayre

T-Youngsville,

H-156 Sharpe, Alden Station

H-213 E. Shirley, Mount Union
T-413 W. Brigantine, Brigantine, N.

Britain
Barber, Gloria

T-Toms

Kerl, Catherine A.

L.

H-322 N. Webster, Scranton
T-Scranton

J.

H-10 Java Avenue, Hershey
T-Hershey
Suwalski, Nancy L.
H-529 Fellows Avenue, Wilkes-Barre
Abington
Tibbs, Augustus
H-512 Division St., Jenkintown
T-Ambler
Trettel, Joanne
H-543 Garfield, Hazleton
T-Hazleton
Valania, John
H-80 Laurel, Alden Station
T-Allentown
Vaxmonsky, Thomas J.
H-1315 Main, Pittston
T-LeRaysville
Vivacqua, George N.
H-374 W. Mahanoy, Girardville
T-Bristol Township
Watts, Edward R.

H-504 Division, Jenkintown
T-41 S. Clinton, Bay Shore, N. Y.
Wilkinson, Margaret A.
H-5 N. Walnut, Mt. Carmel

Main Street, Manheim
John
H-310 York Avenue, W. Pittston

T-471

S.

Williams,

T-Allentown
Yohn, Joan
H-717 8th, Selinsgrove
T-Old York Road, Abington
Zaborowski, Bernard
H-I21 Railroad, Wanamie
T-629 Bloom, Danville
Zegarski, Walter
H-70 Abbott, Plains
T-1027 Rural, Williamsport

Elementary Curriculum
In Other Employment
Sausser,

Lamar

H.

H-104 Hoffman Blvd., Ashland
T-Frackville
Shafer, Carol

H-145 W. 9th, Bloomsburg

T-New York

Miller,

City

Elementary Curriculum
In Graduate School
George J.

H-R. D.

2,

Northampton

T-Lancaster Theological Seminary
Lancaster

Elementary Curriculum
Married
Bastian, Constance (Mrs.)
H-247 Ridge, Sunbury
T-Box 58, Weikert
Walters, (Snavely) Frances
H-10 Java, Hershey
T-Baltimore, Maryland
Ridgway, Edwards Shirley (teaching'
H-Route 5, Bloomsburg
T-Danville
(

TIIE

»

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Secondary Curriculum
In Teaching Positions

H-R. D. 2, Wilkes-Barre
T-Fleetwood

Acor, Allen

H-224 W. Anthony, Bloomsburg
T-Ringtown

Jessop, Charles

Jr.

F.

H-405 Keystone, Peckville

T-Ridgway

Barbarette, Marlene
H-630 Carson, Hazleton

Johnson, James E.

T-Lemoyne
Michael
H-112 W. Grant, McAdoo
T- Luzerne County
Bilder, Charles
H-225 S. Chestnut, Mt. Carmel
T-335 S. 3rd St., Hammonton, N.
Braynock, Edward J.
H-39 Stanley, Wilkes-Barre

H-Rock Glen
T-Boyertown

Bias,

T-Scotcli Plains,

New

Jersey

Campbell, George

Berwick

T-Lemoyne
Chaump, George
H-R. D. 1, West

Pittston

T-3397 N. 4th, Harrisburg
Collins, Walter R.
H-285 Monument Ave., Wyoming
T-Forty Fort
Connolley, Richard L.
H-301 W. Mahoning St., Danville
T- Guilford, New York
Cotterall, George F.
H-417 Shamokin, Trevorton
T- Danville
Cuff,

John

Jessop,

T-Millville

2,

R„

H-405 Keystone, Peckville
T-Lower Moreland, Bethayres

Bangs, Dale
H-R. D. 1, Orangeville

H-R. D.

Romig, Mae

Hutz, Walter

James

H-336 N. 12th, Pottsville
T-2314 Blueridge, Wheaton, Md.
Danko, John

H-W. Pine, Sheppton
T-Towanda
Denoy, Patrick
H-116 Italy St., Mocanaqua

T-Northumberland
DeRose, Joseph

H-R. D. 3, Bloomsburg
T-Lycoming County
Evans, Fred
H-74 St. Mary's, Wilkes-Barre

T-Lemoyne
Foltz, James

Kerstetter, Helen (Mrs.)
H-351 S. Vine, Mt. Carmel

T-3 Easter Lane, Levittown
Klotz,
J.

Nancy

H-633 Itaska, Bethlehem
T-Greene, New York
Kressler, Richard P.
H-Allentown
T-Allentown
Lundy, Ernest E.
H-300 N. 2nd St., Catawissa
T-R. D. 1, Loysville
Lynch, Gary P.
H-507 Desmond, Athens
T-1242 S.W. 12th Ave., Miami, Fla.
Marcinko, Michael
H-238 Main, Fern Glen
T-Flemington, New Jersey
Martini, Jane
H-608 W. Chestnut, Shamokin
T-Elysburg
Mazeski, Joseph
H-318 Walnut, Phoenixville
T-Clayton, New Jersey
Miller, Bruce
H-108 E. Penn St., Muncy

T-Muncy
Mitchell, Samuel
H-61 Pine, Bloomsburg
T- 13637 Placid Drive, Whittier, Calif.
Molitoris, Joseph

H-53 Italy, Mocanaqua
T-114 Orange, Selinsgrove
Neary, Patrick
H-1452 W. Chestnut, Shamokin
T-Dunellen, New Jersey
Nuss, Allen U.
H-1212 Howard, Pottsville

T-Bloomsburg

H-906 SC. Front

St.,

Sunbury

T-Selinsgrove State School
Selinsgrove
Fowlei Norman
-

,

H-30

E. Main, Middletown
T-404 Oliver St., Fairfax, Va.
Freed, William
H-605 E. Market, Pottsville

T-Mechanlcsburg
Galatha, Mary E.
H-R. D. 1, Hazleton
T-Vestal, New York
Gustave, James M.

H-57 Hudson Road, Plains
T-Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Heller, Albert L.

O'Connell, George
1214 Old Lane, Drexel Hill
T-Dover, New Jersey
Orner, Charles
H-Gowen City

T-Newville
Oustrich,

John

H-507 Union St., Taylor
T-Upper Merion
Paden, Kenneth
H-R. D. 1, Nescopeck
T-Schaefferstown
Parsell, George
H-Pine St., Orangeville
T-Ulysses
Plevyak,

John

T-Catasauqua
Herman, George T.
H-605 Reagan St., Sunbury
T-Juniata County

H-226 Beach Haven
T-T-Central Islip, Long Island, N. Y.
Poller, Robert
H-620 Harrison, Scranton
T-Fawn Grove

Hilscher, Carl V.

Puckey, Charles

H-1519 Liberty

St.,

Allentown

H-20 W. Eighth, Bloomsburg
T-Milton
Hughes, William
H-336 N. Broad, West Hazleton
T-180 Church St., Edwardsville

MARCH.

1959

H-Nuangola,
T-Snyder County
Joseph
H-534 Locust, Centralia
T-no return of form

Purcell,

H-Box

206, McClure
T- Beaver Springs
Ruane, Joseph
H-1016 W. Willow, Shamokin

T-Bristol-Delhaas
Salata,

John

H-301 Main St., Lattimer Mines
T-Lansford
Scheuren, Ronald E.
H-Lavelle
T-Narrowsburg, New York
Seitz,

Ray

H-R. D.

T-New

3,

Lewisburg

Castle

Sheehan, Thomas, Jr.
H-414 Percy, S. Williamsport
T-145 Hillcrest Ave., Edison, N. J.
Shellenberger, William
H-R. D. 1, Bloomsburg
T-Berwick
Sheridan, William
H-420 Center, Kenneth Square
T-109 Tompkins, S. Plainfield, N.

J.

Shively, Carl

H-112 Fail-mount Ave., Sunbury
T-Central Jt., Espy
Shultz, Bernard
H-240 Penn, Bloomsbur-g
T-720 W. Front St., Berwick
Shuttlesworth, Robert
H-807 Market St., Ashland

T-no indication
Smith, Robert
H-221 Duval, Berwick
T-Calicoon, New York

Edward

Stubits,

H-1382 Newport, Northampton
T-Oakland Academy, Oakland, N.
Swisher, (Sands) Sarah

J.

H-Main, Orangeville
T-544 Iron St., Bloomsburg
Templin, Fred M.
H-31 Woodlawn, Dallas
T-Belvidere,

New

Jersey

Thiroway, Joseph A.
H-231 Saylor, Atlas

T-Hickman’s Motel, Millsboro, Del.
Trivelpiece, William E.
H-540 W. Third, Berwick
T-Hancock, R. D., Hancock
Trump, Raymond
H-lll E. 5th, Bloomsburg
T-50 N. College St., Carlisle

Edmund W.

Wallace,

H-22 Lee Park, Wilkes-Barre
T-Luzerne County
Word, Gerald B.
H-Mt. Road, Mechanicsburg
T-Big Spring
Wynn, G. Richard
H-R. D. 2, Shamokin
T-329 Market St., Mifflinburg
Yurechko, Louis A.
H-Fourth, Kelayres
T-Freeland
Zelinske,

Thomas

P.

H-108 S. Diamond, Shamokin
T-P. O. Box 194, Woolrich

Secondary Curriculum
In Other Employment
Bluges, Jacob P.

H-110

S. Pearl,

Shamokin

T-Danville
Duncan, Franklin

H-R. D.

1,

Montgomery

T-Pennsylvania Railroad
19

Zegley, Robert
H-903 E. Pine, Mahanoy City
T-Momoe Calculating Co.

Secondary Curriculum
In Graduate School
Anderson, Paul H.
H-323 Myrtle, Cheltenham
T-Drew Theo. Sem., Madison, N. J.
Boden, Douglas Y.
H-912 Front, Northumberland
T-Gettysburg Theo. Sem., Gettysburg
Irzinski, Paul V.
H-l Crystal, Wilkes-Barre
T-Penna. State University

1215,

Camp Knox

Lejeune, North Carolina

Wilmot

H-146 SC. Spencer, Frackville

Army
Fox, Dale R.

H-134 Spruce St., Sunbury
Navy Commission
Goobic, Jonah
St.,

He was

81.

and

five

great-

Elizabeth Dailey Curran ’97
Mrs. George J. Curran, eightyone, Plymouth, sister of Mrs. Frank
Bachinger, Blooinsburg, died November 28, 1958, at the family
home at 60 Gaylord Avenue, Plymouth, after a long illness.

Army

H-31 Center

died October 23, 1958, at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Clifford C.
Werst, 738 Maple Street, Bethle-

grandchildren,
grandchildren.

Secondary Curriculum
In Service
Biever, Dale E.
H-150 Linglestown, Harrisburg
Fellows,

The Rev. Arthur C. Ohl ’97
The Rev. Arthur C. Ohl, retired
minister of the Reformed Church,
now the United Church of Christ,

Mr. Ohl retired in 1953 after being pastor of
St. Luke’s United Church of Christ,
Trappe, Pa., for 29 years. He was
ordained in 1904. He also is survived by another daughter, Mrs.
James C. Puff; two sons, Arthur R.,
and Meredith B.; a brother; five

Green, (Faux; Alice J.
H-R. D. 1, Falls
T-531 E. 9th St., Chester
Roush, (Williams) Annette
H-86 Cist, Wilkes-Barre

Camp

N iTrnliigi;

hem, Pa.

Secondary Curriculum
Married

T-Box

A native of Avondale, she was
the daughter of the late William J.

Hudson

Army

same care and

Prusch, Frank R., Jr.
H-535 Green, Duryea

Marines

their

(Lt.)

Steinhart, Donald I.
H-1700 W. Spruce,

Weldon, William J.
H-210 Chestnut, Kulpmont

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TEEN-AGE TRAFFIC SAFETY
CONFERENCE AT COLLEGE
One hundred students and
high
teachers
from
nineteen
schools in the area attended the
Fifth Annual Teen-Age Traffic
Safety Conference at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Tuesday, November 18, 1958.
In his
remarks at the opening of the conference, the Reverend James M.
Singer, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church of Blooinsburg, said
“Drivers must maintain profession-

We

ex-

pect pharmacists and doctors to
use the utmost care and skill in

performing their duties.
By the
same token, we should expect automobile drivers to exercise the
20

insurance broker.
Surviving are a daughter, Agnes, member of the faculty of
Plymouth High School; five sisters,
Mrs. J. Frank Lee and Miss Mary
B. Daley, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Frank
Quille, Linden, N. J.; Mrs. Bachinger, Blooinsburg, and Mrs. Frank
J.

Meenahan,

Frackville.

Gertrude Rinker ’98
Miss Gertrude Rinker, seventytwo, former Blooinsburg school
teacher, died December 28, 1958,
the Blooinsburg Hospital of
in
complications.

Miss Rinker had been a teacher
about fifty years, and retired
She taught for
several years ago.
several years in Blooinsburg, and
at the time of her retirement, she
was teaching in Prospect Park, Pa.
for

Northeastern Pennsylvania be organized and affiliate itself with the
state organization in order to standardize and improve driver-train-

Active in civic affairs,
College.
she served as the first Worthy
Matron of the Blooinsburg Order

Following the opening session,
the

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in

delegates divided into three
groups. Mr. Wayne Horne, driver
from Southern
training teacher
Area Schools, presided at the Instructor’s meeting, and Sergeant
Victor Vandling of the Pennsylat
Police
detail
State
vania
Blooinsburg, acted as an advisor
and discussion leader for the
The teachers attending
group.
suggested that an Association of
in
Instructors
Driver-Training

ple.”

Shamokin

conduct and courtesty.

essence,

class.
She taught
Plymouth for several years.
Her husband, former Plymouth
borough controller and tax collector, died in 1948.
He was also an

reunion of her

Mrs. Pearl Harder Evans
Mrs. Charles H. Evans, seventytwo, 108 North Market Street,
Blooinsburg, died Monday, January 19, 1959, at Blooinsburg Hospital where she had been a patient
for two weeks.
The prominent Blooinsburg woman was the former Pearl Harder,
daughter of the late Thomas E.
and Clara Hamlin Harder, and was
Most of her
born in Catawissa.
life was spent in Blooinsburg.
Mrs. Evans attended Blooinsburg
Normal School and the Frederick

lives

Troutman, Paul F.
H-1709 W. Pine, Shamokin

al

skill, for, in

performance can affect the
and destinies of other peo-

and Honora Connole Dailey. She
was a graduate of B.S.T.C. and
two years ago attended the 60th

ing instruction
wealth.

in

the

Common-

A committee of students met to
draw up a “Code of Ethics for
Highway Users.” Barbara Owens,
G.A.R. High School, Wilkes-Barre,
served as chairman, and George
McCutcheon, Westmoreland, and
John Cardone,

Millville,

faculty advisors.

served as

College

for

Women, now Hood

She was a memof Eastern Star.
ber of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,

Club and the Blooinsburg
Hospital Auxiliary.
Her husband, Charles M. Evans,

of Delta

died in 1945.
Surviving are two sons, Charles
M., Jr., and Thomas J., both of
Blooinsburg; two grandsons and
one granddaughter.

THE AI.UMNI QUARTERLY

COUNCIL ORGANIZED BY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS OF
PENNSYLVANIA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
A

statewide Council of the Alumni Association has been organ-

ized to present the services
basis to the public

and needs

and the members

on a unified

of the colleges

of the General Assembly.

Thir-

teen of the fourteen colleges have associated themselves with the

new

Council.

The
and
est

is

President, James H. Rowland,

now

The Vice President

practicing law in Harrisburg.

W. Johnson from

retary-Treasurer

Clarion,

is

now

in

is

on the

trustees

Director of

Cheyney

CARE,

is

and the SecShip-

charge of elementary education in the
II.

officers

Comly French,

Dr. Paul

State Teachers College

Nelson of

The

of California.

form an Executive Committee.

a trustee of the

Ern-

is

who was graduated from

Bloomsburg and Miss Bertha McDonough
and

staff there,

Trustees are Dr. Elna

School District.

Hill

who

Miss Sara E. Drake

is

pensburg and who

Camp

was graduated from Cheyney

and former Executive

serving as Public Relations Advisor.

The Council adopted

a

budget of $15,000 for the

first

year based

on the hope that each college alumni could contribute $1200.

It

was

generally recognized that the budget was low for the functions the

Council hoped

to

perform but

it

was

felt

that this

that could be raised during the first year.

was the maximum

Contributions have been

reecived from nine of the college associations so far and
that funds will

be available from the other associations

it is

expected

as their pro-

grams mature.

The Council has had

the support of the Board of Presidents of

the colleges and the endorsement of Dr. Charles H.

Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Boehm,

State

TENTATIVE CALENDAR

1959-1960

ALUMNI DAY

Saturday,

Baccalaureate

Sunday,
Sunday,

...

Commencement

First

Summer

Session

— Three

End

Second

Summer

Session

— Three

End

Summer

Session

— Three

26

Monday, June

29

8

Weeks

Classes Begin

End

Fourth

Summer

Session

— Three

End

FIRST SEMESTER

.

Registration of Upperclassmen
...

Thanksgiving Recess Begins at Close of Classes
Thanksgiving Recess Ends at 8:00 A. M.
Christmas Recess Begins at Close of Classes
Christmas Recess Ends at 8:00 A. M
First Semester Ends at Close of Classes

SECOND SEMESTER
Registration
Classes Begin

Easer Recess Begins at Close of Classes
Easter Recess Ends at 8:00 A.
Second Semester Ends at Close of Classes

M

Alumni Day

Commencement and Baccalaureate

20
7

Monday, August
Friday, August

28

10

1959-1960

Registration and Orientation of Freshmen
Classes Begin with First Period

Monday, July
Friday, August

Weeks

Classes Begin
Classes

Monday, June
Friday, June

Friday, July 17

Third

Classes

24 P.

23

M.
M.

Weeks

Classes Begin
Classes

May

24 A.

Weeks

Classes Begin
Classes

May
May

.

Tuesday, September
Wednesday, September
Thursday, September
.

15
16

17

Tuesday, November 24

Monday, November 30
Wednesday, December 16
Monday, January 4
Saturday, January 30

1959-1960

Wednesday, February 3
Thursday, February 4
Wednesday, April 13
Monday, April 18
Thursday, May 26
Saturday,

Sunday,

May
May

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29

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Vol.

LX

July,

1959

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

No. 2

TUITION IN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
Two

years ago, in July, 1957, the problem of increasing fees in State Teachers Colleges
called to the attention of the Alumni. Now we are in a position of a prophet who is
disquieted to see his prophecy come true.
The last paragraph of the President’s page of the Alumni Quarterly of July, 1957,
issue, is still true “If Pennsylvania wants more teachers for its schools, it will have to
spend more money. This burden cannot be transferred to those who are now enrolled or
who are about to enroll in State Teachers Colleges.”

was

THE GOVERNOR’S PROPOSED BUDGET
For the first time in history the State intends to appropriate $19,800,000 to the State
Teachers Colleges and collect $21,228,000 from students. This is the first time that students have paid more in fees for board, lodging, launary and instruction than the State
has appropriated, yet the School Code provides that the State Teachers Colleges are part
of the public school system, and that tne tuition of all students who meet certain conditions shall be paid by the Commonwealth.
Accordingly, under the guise of a contingent fee of $72.00 a year, later increased to
$90.00 a year, and later superseded by a basic fee of $154.00 a year, we now face a further
increase to $200.00 a year. Whether this is called a contingent fee or a basic fee does not
matter, since it is a fee paid by students for the proper operation of the institution and,
therefore, becomes a partial tuition fee, which is contrary to the provisions of the School
Code providing that tuition shall be paid by the State by making sufficient appropriations.

PENNSYLVANIA’S PLIGHT
The Illinois State Chamber of Commerce released in January, 1959, a study of 268
State Colleges and Universities, of which 96 were Teachers Colleges. The figures were for
the college year 1957-1958 and show that the average cost for educating one student for
one year in a Teachers College in the United States is $823.00, whereas Pennsylvania spent
only $638.00, of which the State appropriated $494.00 and the student paid $144.00. The
average tuition and fees charged students in leachers colleges is $148.65, whereas Pennsylvania was $144.00, but since the total cost of education was less in Pennsylvania, the
students paid 23% as compared with the national average of 18%.
Non-resident students pay on the average of $331.25 to attend State Teachers ColIt is quite clear that Pennsylvania is approleges, whereas Pennsylvania charges $480.00.
priating less per student, is charging students more in the form of fees, and has one of
the highest non-resident tuition rates in the State Teachers Colleges of the Nation. Room
and Board costs in Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges amount to $504.00 as compared
to $512.00.
is to have a total budget of $3,113,560, of which students will provide
In other words, out of every dollar spent at Bloomsburg the student is pro-

Bloomsburg
$1,657,560.

viding 53 cents.
While the State appropriations are increasing in amount, they are not increasing in
proportion to the increase in enrollment. Therefore, the per capita appropriation is becoming less each year and more and more the burden is falling upon students.
If students pledge themselves to teach for two years in the public schools of Pennsylvania, following graduation, on the assurance that their tuition will be paid by the
Commonwealth, it is questionable whether after the Commonwealth has broken its covenant that students can be expected to carry out their part of the obligation.

PENNSYLVANIA’S PROBLEM
Pennsylvania must decide whether it wants to put its tax monies in more public
higher education, or more public roads, more hospitals, more prisons, more asylums, or
more sewer systems.
If the State Teachers Colleges, as the only State owned and State operated institutions
are not supported to a greater degree by the Commonwealth, they cannot expand to meet
the needs for teachers for the public schools of Pennsylvania or for any of the functions
which may become necessary through the continued pressure for the admission of high
school graduates to college.
Pennsylvania’s youth will not be able to attend colleges where the tuition rates alone,
without considering living costs, are $1,000 or more a year.
To the extent that an educated electorate is the assurance of the continuance of both
political and economic democracy, Pennsylvania stands at the crossroads and must make
a decision.

the

The Alumni of
wisdom of this

all colleges,

and particularly State Teachers
must be made.

Colleges,

have a stake in

decision which

Harvey

A. Andruss, President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 2

Vol. LX,

July,

1959

CORNER STONES LAID
The corner stones were formally
placed Tuesday, May 12, for Sutliff
Hall, a classroom building
named in honor of William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus, and New North
Hall, a men’s dormitory, at the
Teachers College.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, termed it a
step in the growth of the physical
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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

EDITOR
H. P. Fenstemaker,

’12

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT

the institution.
A. J. Caruso, executive director
of the Pennsylvania General State
Authority, expressed the belief that
within a comparatively short span
of years there will be an adequate
physical plant for the local institution.

State

Market Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith, ’18
56 Lockhart Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Fred W. Diehl,
627

Bloom

Edward
236

Senator Jo

Mr. Caruso, but asserted
Pennsylvania must build to meet
its educational needs and he said
as

the place to build

is

at the estab-

lished state institutons.

Dean Sutliff was given an ovawhen he was presented by Dr.
Andruss.
The Centennial gymnasium, in which the program was
held, was well filled with most of
those in attendance being students
at the College.

At the cornerstone laying ceremonies, held at the buildings now
under construction, a glowing tribute was paid to Dean Sutliff by
Judge C. W. Kreisher and the
value of education was emphasized by District Attorney Howard
R. Berninger.
Judge Kreisher is
president and Berninger secretary

were

numerous

made stronger by more
ing the field.

Hays, Center

and Clearfield counties, in the address of the day was not as optim-

tion

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

146

There

guests

presented by Dr. Andruss during
the program in Centennial gymThe ceremonies opened
nasium.
with the National Anthem and the
Rev. Walter L. Brandau, president
of Bloomsburg Ministerium, gave
the invocation. The College Coraleers, Nelson A. Miller directing,
pleased with a selection.
Senator Hays, who has had a
prominent role in the education
program of the state, asserted the
heart of any school is the teacher
and one of the most important auxHe said,
iliaries is the classroom.
the profession of teaching is being

facilities of

istic

THE ALUMNI

of the trustees of the College.

’

There

was

some

men

enter-

background

given of the state’s progress in preparing teachers and he said high
ideals must always be maintained.
While Pennsylvania is among the
three richest states it does not rate
near the top in education, being
from fourteenth to seventeenth in
various important categories, the
speaker asserted. He said the state
should have more scholarships for
“the future rests on the minds of
the people.”
In Pennsylvania, he
said the average state tax for each
man, woman and child is $112
while the national average is $139.
Dean of Instruction John A.
Hoch presided at the cornerstone
laying ceremonies. In his tribute
to Dean Sutliff, Judge Kreisher
said: “Dean Sutliff’s entire life has
been charactered by modesty abil7

,

’09

Street, Danville, Pa.

F. Schuyler, ’24

Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
242 Central Road, Bloomsburg Pa.

Charles H. Henrie,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

’38

ON THE COVER
Dean Emeritus William Boyd Sutliff applies the mortar to the corner
stone of William Boyd Sutliff Hall at the Corner Stone Laying Ceremonies
held Tuesday, May 12, 1959. Looking on are, from left to right: Senator
Jo Hays, speaker at the ceremonies held in Centennial Gymnasium; Dr.
E. H. Nelson, President of the Alumni Association; Judge C. W. Kreisher,
member of the Board of Trustees; Dean Sutliff; Judge Bernard Kelly,
member of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. H. A. Andruss, President of the
College.

Elizabeth H. Hubler, ’31
14 West Biddle Street, Gordon, Pa.

JULY,

1959

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1

good judgment and apt advisement without the least attempt at
ity,

His

display.

pleasant,

cheerful

and courteous manner displays

his

excellent social qualities that so endeared him to his friends and students.
His speech is pleasant and
his style clear and direct without

any attempt
there

at

in his

is

embellishment, but

manner and langu-

age an expression of frankness, sinand earnestness that always

cerity

secures respectful attention.”
District

Attorney Beminger

as-

serted: “What we do here today is
not for us. Our activities are mere-

way of
who

expressing our faith
are to come after us.
It falls upon us to provide facilities for the education of future
generations and what steps we
take
will
directly
affect
the
achievements of our children. This
building will reflect our part in
a

ly

in those

such

activities.

has been said that the school
not the end, but the beginning
of an education, just as this cornerstone is the beginning of this
building.
May those who dwell
herein bring honor and distinction
“It

is

to

walls.”

its

Senator Hays has a long and distinguished career in education. He

began

academic training in
York County, was graduated from
the North York High School, and
was granted a diploma by Shippensburg State Normal School. He
holds the Bachelor of Arts degree
from the Pennsylvania State University and the Master of Education degree from Harvard Univerhis

sity.

During

his long tenure in educaSenator Hays taught in four

tion,

counties of the Commonwealth,
serving as a high school social
studies teacher and athletic coach,
as an elementary school principal,
as a high school principal, and as
supervising principal of the State
College Area Schools from 1927 to
1956.
His teaching duties also included membership on the staff of
the Pennsylvania State University

from 1935

to 1955.
In 1954, Mr. Hays was elected to
the Pennsylvania State Senate, and
was re-elected for another fouryear term in 1958. He has been a
member of the Senate Committee

on

Education

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2

since

1955,

served

as a

member

of the

White House

Conference on Education

in 1955,

as a member of the Governor’s Education Conference in 1956.

President Harvey A. Andruss during the exercises held in Centennial Gymnasium prior to the cornerstone laying.

During the formal program Dr.
Andruss took occasion to mention

The “Passing Throng” column of
The Morning Press had the following comment on the honor paid
to Dean Sutliff:

between the
Bloomsburg
and Indiana, that being prompted
by the presence at the ceremonies
of two representatives of Indiana.
the close relationship

Teachers
“Mr. Bloomsburg” took

it

all

in

stride.

That is the appropriate title
which was conferred on Dean Emeritus William Boyd Sutliff of the
Teachers College by Howard Fenstemaker of the College faculty

when the College tendered
Dean on a birthday party on

the

Janthe ninetieth

uary 20, 1957, upon
anniversary of his birth.
appropriate.

The occasion

in

It is

most

which he took

things in stride was the recent cornerstone laying for William Boyd
Sutliff Hall, a classroom building,
and the new men’s dormitory.

There was a fine program and
orators were at their best.
Everything had been well planned
and was well executed.
But if
things hadn’t operated so smoothly few would have noticed.
The
beloved educator was the one
the

figure in the spotlight.
He didn’t
will it so but he accepted it as the
gentleman and scholar he is.

Surrounded by his family and
his friends he received a number
of bouquets, verbal and otherwise,
and all deserved. And as Judge
Kreisher pointed out in his tribute
it was so fine the dean was present to hear those plaudits.

The

Dean,

born

January

20,

1867, near Shickshinny, is a graduate of the Teachers College, class
of 1891.
From the time lie enrolled at the local institution his
only interruption
in
connection
with school was when he matriculated at Lafayette College from

College

of

Then the local educator brought
up the name of Dr. D. J. Waller,
Jr.,

who

for almost forty years ser-

ved

as

president of Bloomsburg
two successful adminis-

(through

and
That

trations)

School.

at

Indiana

Normal

a record without
equal in the state, Dr. Andruss
said. Added to that was the mention that Dr. Waller also served
as superintendent of the State Department of Public Instruction four
is

years.

The Dean was a close friend of
Dr. Waller and we know he was
happy Dr. Waller’s name was mentioned at the ceremonies.
The
mention brought to mind the valiant battle the Dean has waged
through the years to remove unjust
criticism which came to the Waller
family on the part of some as a result of the College being started at
its present location.
you have resided in town for
of years you probably
have heard some one utter that the
College is located where it is because the Waller family wanted to
shut off community growth in that
direction so that it would sell lots
along the river where the Wallers
had extensive holdings.
That is not true, the Dean will
If

a

number

tell you.
He took the trouble to
search the records of the local institution of learning and found that
the Waller vote went against placing the college where it stands.

We

re sorry the Wallers took a
slap they didn’t deserve but we’re

which he was graduated in 1898.
As Howard stated at that birthday dinner he is “Mr. Bloomsburg” and certainly that is recognized by all.
We have heard a

happy the College is located where
There are many beautiful
it
is.
campuses around the country but
we haven’t found any finer than

number

that of Bloomsburg.

of
ovations tendered
through the years but none was
more sincere and genuine than
that given by the assembled guests

building.

and members of the student body
when the dean was presented by

and

And

in

this

age of expansion the present location hasn’t been any great bar to
It

was

day for the dean
deserved recognition.

a great

a highly

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE
Two hundred

1959
sixty-one, the larg-

degree
of Bachelor of Science in Education from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, were graduated
at exercises held in Centennial
Gymnasium and attended by an
overflow audience estimated at 2,est class ever to receive the

300.

Considering the fifty who were
graduated at the end of the first
semester in January, the class numbers 311 and is by far the largest
to be graduated since the institution became a College in 1927.
“It should be the policy of our
nation and every individual to be

and to be strong,” Richard
Thomas, foreign
correspondent,
alert

told

ment

the class in the commenceaddress
“Into
on
This

World.”

COMMENCEMENT
the Associated Press and the New
York Herald Tribune. In 1938, he
returned to the United States to
broadcast in both the French and

English
languages over NBC’s
shortwave network.
The Army’s
Psychological Warfare Branch called him to join in the D-Day Invasion of North Africa and, a short
time later, he set up radio programs at Oran, Rabat, Algiers, and
Tunis, before going to the Pacific
in 1945 on a secret mission for the
Air Force Intelligence under General MacArthur.
For more than a decade he has
been traveling extensively, lectur-

need

for us to

be afraid

The speaker declared we must
counteract what they do with a
positive, affirmative course of action for ourselves.
“In less than a
year America has been challenged
in each of the four branches of our
military service in flare-ups in the
world.” He mentioned the Marines
going into Lebanon, the Navy in
action in the Formosa straits, the

Army remaining

in Berlin and the
Air Force flying in the Berlin corridor at altitudes higher than the
Russians said it would permit. “We
met each one of those challenges

ing at home and abroad, and reporting to the American people
through the mediums of radio and

and in so doing prevented
from arising.”

television.

ther

alertness, Mr. Thomcan anticipate and prevent difficulties and with strength
we can overcome difficiulties
which we cannot prevent.

son, Raymond, Catawissa.
One of
the members of the class was Mar-

Regarding

A Harvard

there is no
of them.

we

crises

Included

and

in the class were a fason, Paul Burger and his

graduate, Mr. Thomas has earned degrees from Harvard Business School and University of Paris, France.
He is a linguist, has taught school both here
and in Europe, has attended classrooms throughout the world, and
has made a thorough study of educational problems on three conti-

dition to being alert

and strong the
American people have, in the back
of their minds, a third and very
powerful thing which is a deep and

member

nents.

abiding religious

institution’s scoring record for a
collegiate career, became a father
just prior to the graduation exer-

An

analyst of business conditions, he is familiar with American
and foreign standards of productions, recently took an industrial
tour throughout the Sovet Union,
and has lectured widely on taxation and Federal budget matters.
In all, he has lived and traveled
in more than one hundred foreign
countries and important overseas
possessions. He has come to know
the men of the world, and has interviewed thousands of natives in
Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific,
and the three Americas. His escain Siberia, Mongolia, and
Communist China nearly brought

pades

his brilliant career to a

suddne end,

but gave him invaluable material
for

some

of

his

most

exciting

speeches.

Mr. Thomas began his career as
free-lance writer, and visited
more than 20 countries in Western
and Central Europe before starting
a

a four year

JULY,

1959

assignment in Paris for

as said

“We must remember

that in ad-

faith.”

The speaker observed

the “Rus-

are a stubborn, determined
people and we shall be with them
a long time.
They are willing to
take a substantial period to undo
Many people in our country
us.
are tired of hearing about Russia
but the Russians are thinking
about us all the time — morning,
sians

noon and
“I want

night.

economic

field

to predict that while the
Russians are out to beat and defeat us they seek to do it in the

adverse to war.

and are definitely
There will be no

war unless there is an uncontrolled
outburst which could ignite a
world holocaust.
“To prevent this from occurring

we must be

alert

and strong,

for

Russians understand power and
strength and they understand it
quite well.” Mr. Thomas said it
would be a fallacy for us to underestimate the strength and determination of the Russian people but

tin DeRose, the fourth brother to
get a degree at Bloomsburg in the
past quarter century.

William Swisher, Bloomsburg, a
of the College basketball
team four years and holder of the

cises.

At

least nine of the girls in the

class

were

college

married
but

careers

during

their

remained

to

complete their work for degrees.
Participating in the conferring of
degrees were the four division
heads, Dr. Thomas B. Martin, business education; Royce O. Johnson,
elementary education; Dr. Ernest
H. Engelhardt, secondary education; Dr. Donald F. Maietta, special education; Dean of Instruction, John A. Hoch, and Dr. Andruss, College president.
In conferring the degrees the
head of the institution said “We
can't always measure education in
terms of money but on the average
of the State paying $2,000 and the
individual paying $5,000 during
the four years there is represented
in this class an investment in education of over $2 million dollars.”

The

Class of 1959:
Education Jay R.

Business

—

Bangs,

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3

son of

Mr.

E. Guy
S. Fisher,

Bangs, Orangeson of Mr. and
Fisher, 143 Columbia Avenue, Bloomsburg; Sandra L. Lewis,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thorwald
Lewis, Shickshinny R. D. 3; Lois M.
Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Miller, Third Street, Millfinville;
Betty L. Moser, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris W. Moser, 256 Leonard
Street, Bloomsburg; Martha K. Nearing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert

Gary
Mrs. W. S.
ville;

203 West Fifth Street,
Leonard D. Perotti, 324
Iron Street, Bloomsburg; Rodman R.
Ralston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Ralston, Jr., Bloomsburg R. D. 5;
Norman F. Watts, son of John H.
B.

Nearing,

Bloomsburg;

Watts, State Street, Millville; Charles
Dye, Turbotville; Janet Fry, Berwick;
Jay Long, Sweet Valley; Calvin Ryan, Riverside.

—

Elementary

Education
Janet M.
Bittenbender, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Heister Bittenbender, 275 East
Sixth Street, Bloomsburg; Ruth A.
Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myron C. Davis, Light Street; Alice A.
Haney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Haney, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Sherwyn
D. Kostenbauder, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph F. Kostenbauder, 625 Bloom
Street, Danville; William F. Swisher,
son of Mrs. Grace Swisher, 504 East
Fourth Street, and husband of Sarah
Swisher, 544 Iron Street, Bloomsburg;
Barbara J .Yeager, daughter of Mrs.
Max Fenstermacher, Catawissa R. D.
1; Judith Burrows, Danville; Elaine DiAugustine, Ruth Mittleman, Berwick;
Rita -Lechner, Patricia Pollock, Danville.

—

Secondary Education
Paul Burger,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burger, 222

Main

Street, Catawissa, and husband
Kathleen Burger, Catawissa; Raymond T. Burger, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul S. Burger, 222 Main Street, Catawissa; Jean Concannon, daughter of
IVLrs.
Ann Concannon, 348 Jefferson
Street, Bloomsburg; Paul A. Franklin,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Franklin, 539
West Main Street, and husband of Barof

bara Franklin, 541 West Main Street,
Bloomsburg; Robert A. Hollingshead,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hollingshead, 342
Pine Street, Catawissa; George W.
Ketner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren
L. Ketner, Benton; Matthew I. Mensch,
son of Mrs. Matthew Mensch, Sr., 149
South Second Street, Catawissa; Joseph L. Richenderfer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Richenderfer, 414 Catherine
Street, and husband of Geraldine Richenderfer, 60 East Main Street, Bloomsburg; Eugene P. Sandel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Sandel, Bloomsburg R.
D. 4; Glenn A. Spaid, son of Mrs. Arthur E. Spaid, 1345 Old Berwick Road,
Bloomsburg; James D. Troy, Carroll
Park, Bloomsburg, and husband of
Joan Troy; Clarence Barnhart, Riverside; Joan Dalton, N. Jackson Reed,
Lydia Thomas, Danville; Michael Ferdock, Centralia; Donald Ker, Catawissa; Paul Ternosky, Berwick.
Special Education C. Thomas Fenstermacher, son of T. T. Fenstermach-

—

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4

er,

and husband

of Shirley B. Fenster-

macher, Light Street; Ruby R. Tyler,
daughter of Paul Roush, 618 Water
Street, Northumberland, and wife of
Richard Tyler, 70-A North Iron Street,
Bloomsburg.
To Graduate This Summer
Business Education
Connie J. Girton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
M. Girton, 425 East Street, Bloomsburg; Susan J .Hayhurst, daughter of
M. Hayhurst, 1908 Old Berwick
Q.
Road, Bloomsburg; John R. Longo,
son of Mrs. Bridget Longo, Fourth

—

and husband of HelNorth Iron Street,
Bloomsburg;
Nancy J. Warburton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Warburton,
Light Street;
Barbara M.
Watts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
P. Watts, 372 East First Street, BloomsStreet, Kelayres,
en Longo, 74

burg.

—

Special Education
Martin W. DeRose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin DeRose, Bloomsburg R. D. 3; Mary Marvin, Shickshinny.

—

Secondary Education
Marjorie
Kreischer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Kreischer, Numidia; June Locke,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Locke,
2411 Upland Street, Chester, and wife
of Raymond Trudnak, 25 West Anthony Avenue, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Ruthann M. Beckley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Musselman, Stillwater
R. D.

1,

wife of

Kenneth Beckley,

Still-

water R. D. 1; Connie H. Carson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Carson, Light Street; Thomas Fleck, Danville.

Others in the class are:
Business Education
Lorraine Basso, Bangor;
Barbara
Batzel, Sinking Springs; Joanne Bechtel, Easton; Walter Bednar, Wyoming;
Ann Beeson, Glenside; Eugene Berg,
Allentown; Janice Bittle, Cressona;
Willard

Boyer,

Muncy

Valley;

Carl

Sunbury; Edward Brower,
Feasterville; Audrey Brumbach, Bangor; Joseph Butz, Glen Lyon; Louise
A. Campbell, Lewistown; Carol Clark,
Upper Darby; Margaret Davies, Peckville;
Ellen Drumtra, Hazleton; John
Braun,

Jr.,

Fenner, Wyoming.

James Fred, Pottsville; James Garman, Sunbury; Harold Gaughan, Girardville;
Edward Gwasdacus, Frackville; Carl Janetka, Horsham; Joseph
Johnson, York; Hettie Jones, Cresco;
Sophia Kish, Catasaqua; Emma KovaLeonard Kruk,
levich, Wilkes-Barre;
Scranton; Janice Kunes, Johnsonburg;
Mary Labyack, Nazareth.
Earl Levengood, Pottstown; Dorothy
Lezinski, Scranton; Mary Anne Majikas, Girardville; Louis Marsilio, Hazleton; William Matechak, Jermyn; Mary
Mattern, Forty Fort; Sandra Mourey,
Shenandoah; William Norton, WilkesBarre.

Charles Perry, Aldan; Sandra PfisEaston; Rolland Quick, Montrose;
Blanche Rozell, Scranton; Linda Ruggieri,
Kennett Square; Paul Spahr,
Joan Stablum, MinersCollingdale;
ville; Kenneth Swatt, Shamokin; StanGerald Treon,
ley Swider, Chester;
ter,

Sunbury;

Frank

Shamokin;
Margaret Walker, Thompson; Robert Winn, Duryea.
Elementary Education
Jill
Baylor, Margaret Beers, Sunbury;
Sonja Bendinsky, Gilberton;
Ronald Davis, Blandon; Patricia Desmond, Milton; Orville Fine, Glen Lyon;
Sue Greenland, Pittston; Patty Hawke,
Scranton; Bernadine Heck, Lewistown;
Barbara
Hockenberry,
Pittsburgh;
Donna Hutchinson, Montgomery; W.
Reese Litchel, Shamokin.
Valeria Marcavage, St. Clair; Nancy
Mensch, Selinsgrove; Anne Metzger,
Lewistown;
Marjorie Morson, Bryn
Muir, Williamsport; Lois Myers, PeckTroxell,

Carl Unger, Penndel;

ville; Lela Neff, Jersey Shore; Patricia
Paralis, Levittown; Mary Pomes,- Wil-

kes-Barre; Wendy Rundel, Pittsburgh;
Elizabeth Sprout, Williamsport; Renee
Terzopolos, Shenandoah; Janet Turner,
Noxen;
Shirley
Ulshafer,
WilkesBarre; Elizabeth Waltman, Allenwood;
Eleanor Williams, Moscow; Ann Yur-

Shenandoah.
Secondary Education
Edward Adams, Tamaqua; Helen
Amberlavage, Connerton; Joseph Andrysick, Alden Station; Craig Beach,
Forty Fort; Robert Beaver, Kulpmont;
Dahle Bingaman, Laurelton; Betty
Boop, Mifflinburg; John Braubitz, Tregis,

James

vorton;

Brosius,

Frackville;

Francis Buck, Strarrucca; Joseph Cawthern,

Shamokin.

Carol Coons, Athens;

Stanley CovLanghorne;
James Crider,
Scranton; Filomena Crocomo, Allentown; Joseph Cummings, St. Clair; Eiderston Dean, Milton; Gary Egli, West
ington,

Milton; Mary Ann Wahl Fleck, Milton;
John Fletcher, Jr., Kingston; Wilbur
Frable, Weatherly; Daniel Fritz, Osceola Mills; Fred Gennerella, Pottsville;
Nancy Herman, Williamsport.
Howard Herman, Nanticoke; Joan
Lazo, Freeland; Stanley Leskie, Weatherly; Robert Lesko, Morea; Walter Lu-

Shamokin; Kenneth Miller, Jr.,
Plymouth; Leo Mulhall, Shenandoah;
Robert Murray, Liverpool; Irwin Parry,
Blakely; Nancy Pekala, Fern Glen;
Pauline Polovitch, Nicholson; Glenn
Delores
Regan,
Reed,
Shamokin;

berecki,

Scranton.

David Ritzman, Jr., Mifflintown;
Ronald Romig, Boyertown; Sara Schilling, Ashland; William Schilling, Ashland; Ray Schloyer, Dushore; John
Smaltz, Pittston; Jane Smith, WilkesBarre; Oscar Snyder, Sunbury; Robert
Stish, Hazleton; Donald Straub, Frackville: Frank Sunthiemer, III, Hatboro;
Mary Ann Thornton, Shamokin; Peter
Valania,
Nanticoke;
Anita Vottero,
Trevorton; Mary Walsh, Old Forge;
Ralph Wetzel, Forty Fort; Kenneth

Wood, Mechanicsburg.
Special Education
Asby, Wililamsport; Wesley
Barnhart,
David
Darby;
Atkins,
Drums; Lois Crossan, Bethlehem; Barbara Curry, Jenkintown; Sandra Goodhart, Northumberland; Thomas Kisatasky, Harleigh; Dorothy Marcy, Dalton; Rose Pavlick, Dallas; Alton Pellman, Sunbury; Moritz Schultz, Forty

Robert

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Fort; Lena Shaffer, Sunbury; Lorraine
Taylor, Dushore; Mary Tier, Shamokin; Vincent Gregitis, New Philadelphia; David Hauck, New Berlin; Jo

Wyoming;
Marilyn
Heston,
Keefer, Wilkes-Barre; Joseph Kessler,
John Masters, Bangor;
Girardville;
Bruce Mordan, Frackville; John Nagle,
Allentown; Robert Niver, HammondsCarmine Pennella, Nanticoke;
port;
Carol Sweet, Athens; John Carcoe,

Ann

Waymart;
berland;

Joseph

Yocum, Northum-

Frank Zajaczkowski, Nanti-

coke.

Special Education
George Baurys, Wilkes-Barre; Glen

Henninger, Philadelphia; Charles McDonald, Williamsport; Robert Mescan,
Treschow; Eleanor Myers, Croydon;
Dolores Waugh, Shamokin.
To Graduate This Summer
Business Education
Earl Boehmer, Rock Glen; Myrtle
Fowler, Nanticoke; Lamar Freeland,
Newport; John Galinski, Forest City;
Charles Hoyt, Claymont, Delaware;
John Kasper, Mahanoy City; Ruth
Lundahl, Herndon; Eugene Malarkey,
Girardville: Alice Menkewicz, Shenandoah: Frank Reed, Mahanoy City;
Shuletsky,
Hazleton;
Sally
Mary
Smith, Troy; William Swoyer, Sunbury; Robert Thear, Nesquehoning;
Donald Thomas, Shamokin;
Craig
Yeanish, Slatington.
Elementary Education
Dorothy Andrysick, Alden Station;
Ann Breslin, Shenandoah; Michael
Farina, Susquehanna; Paulette Biddle
Furman, Sunbury; Barbara GrochowGlen Lyon; Margaret Markovic,
ski,
Palmerton; Ruth Moser, Lewisburg;
Sylvester Schicatano, Shamokin; Myron T. Smith, Hughesville; Raymond
Sugalski, Glen Lyon; Eleanor Troutman, Shamokin; Mrs. Harriett Wagner, Lewisburg; Clair Walsh, Mahanoy
Plane;
doah.

Mary Jane Whalen, Shenan-

Secondary Education
Alexander,
Mechanisburg;
Matthew Bach, Atlas; Ross Bartleson,
Trucksville; John Corrigan, Weatherly;
John Glennon, Croydon; Denise
Wenkenbach, Erdenheim.
Irwin

The

three dimensions of life are
vision of God, the Ultimate, vision
of one’s self and vision of vocation,
the members of the graduating
class of 1959 were told by the Rev.
Dr. Elmer George Ilomrighausen,
dean
of
Princeton Theological

Seminary, at baccalaureate services
held in the Centennial Gymnasium
and attended by around 1,400.

buted $1,416.00. A list of contributors will be published in the next
issue of the Quarterly.

time, he told the
of all come to
God.
with the ultimate
people today are anxious

a

In

critical

one must

class,

first

—

grips

Many

about human life because they
have never seen the ultimate.

Speaking of self awareness, the
clergyman said we use all sort of
devices to evade the truth about
ourselves “Only when we stand
in the presence of our Creator and
learn about him do we begin to
know and understand ourselves”
he said.
After one has truly seen God
and himself, the speaker continued, then he begins to see what
life was meant to be.
When you
understand God and yourself ancl
enter a life of service you never
retire from God’s work, Dr. Homrighausen said.

Speaking of society and its problems, he said God has a way of
saving a remnant even when the
“Don’t
total situation looks bad.
lose hope when things look dark
because hope is the oxygen of the

may be cut down
sometimes and it may
look hopeless but the kingdom of
“Civilization

like a tree

will give

it

The people

new and renewed

God, with these
dimensions, form the remnant which is the saving substance
life.

of

three

of society.”

H. F. Fenstemaker was at the
console. The Harmonettes, a College girls’ ensemble, sang, “Lord
Bide With Us.” The Scripture was
read by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
Nelson
president of the College.

Bloomsburg

Max

JULY,

1959

—Berwick

Arcus,

’41

tentative schedule of classes
to be offered this summer at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been reelased by John A.
Hoch, Dean of Instruction.

The 1959 Summer

Sesisons of
State Teachers
College will offer a broad program
of instruction — cultural, academic,
and professional. Courses necessary
lor certification for the baccalaureate degree and for general profesthe

Bloomsburg

sional

improvements

will

be

offer-

ed.

The 1959

offerings in both proeducation and academic
fields have been planned with the
idea of meeting the needs of the

fessional

number
of
students.
the special features are a
“Workshop on Problems in Special
Education,” a “Workshop in Elegreatest

Among

mentary Education,” and “DevelReading
for
Public

opment

Schools.” The latter course is designed particularly to help teachers
in the secondary schools meet the
present requirements set forth recently by the State Council of Education for the introduction of developmental reading in the seventh
and eighth grades. Special offerings in the field of Special Education include courses for teachers of
classes for the mentally retarded
and courses in speech correction.

Four
each

sessions of three
are
offered.
The

weeks
first

began Monday, June 8,
and ended Friday, June 26; the second session begins Monday, June
29, and ends Friday, July 17; the
third session begins on Monday,
July 20, and ends on Friday, August 7; the fourth session begins
on Monday, August 10, and will
be concluded on Friday, August
28.

1959
Miss Patricia Louise Pollock,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo

A. Miller directed the music.

and David Edward Krum, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Krum, Danville R. D. 4,

Major James J. Dormer, 29759
Spring River Drive, Birmingham,
Michigan, is Assistant Professor of
Air Science, and Training Officer
for the Air Force R.O.T.C. Detachment at the University of Detroit.

in marriage recently
the Trinity Methodist Church,
Danville.
The bride graduated from Danville High School.
Her husband is
serving with the U. S. Air Force.

ARCUS’
‘TOR A PRETTIER YOU”

SESSIONS

A

session

soul.”

God
response to the appeal for
funds to support a Public Relations service for the Pennsylvania
State Teachers Colleges at Harrisburg, B.S.T.C. Alumni have contriIn

SUMMER

BACCALAUREATE

Pollock, Danville,

were united

at

Page

5

John R. Longo, son of Mrs.
Bridget Longo, Fourth Street, Kelayres, and husband of Mrs. Helen
Longo, formerly of McAdoo, was
selected by members of the class
of 1959 to deliver the annual Ivy
Day Oration on Wednesday, May
26, following the Senior Honor Assembly at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Five years ago,
in May, 1954, the Ivy Day Oration
was given by Edmund Longo, an
older brother of John who is now
a teacher in General Business Education at the Cooper High School
in Shenandoah.
John has currently completed the requirements for
certification in General Business
Education in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
He has accepted
a teaching position in the Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School at
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania,
and will join the faculty in September, 1959.

A

1946

graduate

of

Hazleton

High

School, John worked for
Thompson Products, Inc., in Harrisburg for eight years before entering the Army Adjutant General
Corps in June, 1954. He completed his military service in March,
1956, and enrolled at Bloomsburg
in September, 1956. He completed
his college career in three years by
attending summer sessions.

An

outstanding

student,

John

has been named to the Dean’s List
four different semesters, was one
of twenty seniors named to “Who’s
Who in American Universities and
Colleges” and recently received an
award as outstanding Business Education Student of 1959 at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He
was selected for the latter award
by the Business Education faculty
of the college; the award was
made by Dr. Thomas B. Martin,
director of the department, on behalf of the United Business Education Association of the National
Education Association. This honor
entitles

Longo

to

membership

in

the U.B.F.A. and carries with it a
subscription to the several professional journals published by that
association.

Mr. Longo is currently a member of Kappa Delta Pi (the honorI’aRO G

FASHION SHOW AT

DAY AT THE COLLEGE

IVY

ary scholastic education fraternity),
the
Athenaeum Club, Science
Club, Business Education Club,
and has completed a one year term
as president of Pi Omega Pi (honorary business education fraternity).
He served as chairman of
the Senior Memorial Committee,
as a member of the Hospitality
and Election Committees of the
Community Government Association, is Advertising Manager of
the Maroon and Gold (college

newspaper), and

is

assistant busi-

ness manager of the Obiter (college yearbook).

“The immediate concern

in

our

race to maintain respectable status
on this planet and in outer space
must not obscure our long-range
concern that we maintain a steady

flow of educated citizens to cope
more effectively with the increasingly complex problems of our nation and world." This was the challenge directed to the 261 members
of the class of 1959 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College by
Mr. Longo.
In his message, he
pointed out that, “Except for the
inquiring, logical, and courageous
minds of educated people, freedom
has no permanent defense against
totalitarianism.
We cannot long
endure as a democratic, free, and
responsible people without adequate
systems
of
public
free

As teachers, we must
comprehend the magnitude

schools.
fully

because

of our mission,
tion

alone

lies

in

B.S.T.C.

An outdoor

educa-

the one hope that
of
attaining
the

setting representing
a symbolic combination of part of
the college campus and the Town
of Bloomsburg provided the scenic
background for the newest costumes for milady’s wardrobe when
the Thirteenth Annual Fashion

Show was presented Thursday afternoon and evening, March 12, at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. The theme was “Spring
in

Bloom.”

The stage set was designed by
Elmer Mowery, a sophomore student from Mifflinville, under the
supervision of Robert Ulmer and
Mrs. Olive P. Beeman of the college faculty. Although pastel colors were used for most of the set,
darker colors had also been used
to emphasive familiar landmarks
and aspects of the town and the

campus.
Special lighting and the conventional

runway were arranged

to

give the audience sufficient opportunity to view the costumes.
Twenty college co-eds served as
models, and sixteen boys and girls
from the Bloomsburg area added
their touch of color, style, and
comedy when they modeled the
very latest fashions for “small fry”
children, and pre-teens.
The Fashion Show was presented by the Business Education Department of the College with the

cooperation

of

the

following

Arcus,
merchants:
Bloomsburg
Deisroth’s Department Store, The
Polmon, The Ruth Corset and
Lingerie Shop, the W. T. Grant
Company, Snyder’s Millinery, and

mankind has
dream of world peace and under-

Logan’s Jewelry.

standing.”

have gone before us. What we can
do, we ought to do, and I know we
shall do it with the help of Almighty God.”

we

uphold the trust
given us, then our republic, as
others
before
must perish
it,
through a want of intelligence and
virtue in the masses of the people.
If we do not prepare children to
become good citizens — if we do
not enrich their minds with knowledge, imbue their hears with love
of truth and duty and a reverence
for all things holy — we shall have
betrayed our sacred trust.”
Mr. Longo concluded his remarks with this brief reminder,
“We must avail ourselves of the
strength and wisdom of those who
“If

fail

to

Donald

Ker, Catawissa, class
presided at the traditional exercises.
He presented the
spade, used in planting the ivy, to
James Peck, Boyertown, president
president,

of the class of 1960.
Special music was presented by
the Hilltones, a vocal octet from
The class joined in
the College.
singing “Halls of Ivy,” and concluded the program with the Alma Mater, under the direction of

Nelson Miller of College faculty.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

DIRECT 2 IMPROVEMENTS
AT BUILDINGS AT COLLEGE

Father and Son Graduate
When

The

the President of the col-

and

the program.

The metal

stairs on North Hall
open to the weather and are
for emergency use only and the
State wants them enclosed.
There is no money in the budget
for the biennium now closing for
the work and none in the proposed
budget to have this done.
The institution has no wooden

are

stairwells

JULY, 1959

in

the

buildings,

Presi-

dent Andruss said. John A. Schell,
Bloomsburg, has been employed as
the architect to draw plans for the

The

September, 1957, accelerated his progress by attending summer sessions, and so far has qualified three times for the Dean’s List
and for admission to Kappa Delta

Labor

now used as a men’s
dormitory, and to cover the basement ceilings in Waller, Noetling
and Carver Halls with a tire resisThe College lias
tent material.
asked a ninety day extension on

fried

in

of

of North Hall,

Sunday, May 24, the name of Burger appeared twice on the list of
those being graduated in Secondary Education. The Burgers are
a father-son combination.
While
this may not be unusual in today’s
complex society, the fact, that the
father has already completed one
career of 22 years of service in the
Armed Forces of the United States,
has completed a four-year college
education, and is prepared to start
a second career at the same time
his son is beginning his first, is a
bit unusual.
Both father and son
are well-known and are well-liked
on campus.

burg

Department

has directed the
State Teachers College to enclose
a steel staircase on the north side

lege, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, awarded the Bachelor of Science degree
to members of the class of 1959 on

elder of the two, Paul SiegBurger, was born 45 years
ago in Catawissa, Pennsylvania,
was graduated from high school
there, and in January, 1935, began
his freshman year at Bloomsburg.
After one semester, he entered the
Armed Forces on July 1, 1935.
During the next 22 years he rose
in rank from private to lieutenant
colonel, the rank which he currently holds as a retired officer in the
United States Army. During this
time he served in various parts of
the United States, in various parts
of Germany, including the Nuremburg trials, two tours in Hawaii, a
hitch in Korea, and another in Japan.
During his military career he
served as asistant profesor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of San Francisco (1949-52);
he was also graduated from the
Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
and taught in the Anti-Aircraft
Artillery School at Camp Davis,
North Carolina, and at the Coast
Artillery School at Fort Monroe,
Virginia. When his military career
was completed, Colonel Burger decided to return to Bloomsburg,
“because he had always wanted to
be a teacher.” He entered Blooms-

State

Industry

improvements directed.

New

In a

Year’s

Eve ceremony

Miss Martha Rider, daughter of
Mrs. A. L. Bower, Berwick, becamethe bride of Dr. C. B. Kershner, Berwick dentist.
The Rev.
Willard Edmunds, Wilkes-Barre,
performed the ceremony before
the fireplace in the den of the cou-

Honorary National Education
Fraternity. Paul majored in mathematics and physical science in the
Secondary Education Curriculum.
The younger member of this

ple’s

combination,
Baymond
Taylor
Burger, 21 years old, describes
himself as a typical “army brat.”
He attended five high schools in

mony.

Pi,

four

years

as

his

father

moved

from one army post to another, and
completed his secondary school education at the American High
School (Narimasu), Tokyo, Japan.

Bay was

a

member

of the varsity

squad at Bloomsburg,
and majored in social studies and
basketball

mathematics. He is a member of
Phi Sigma Pi Fraternity, and is a
member of the College Council.

Both father and son have accepteaching positions, and are

recently

remodeled

home

along Huntington Creek, Pleasant
Valley, Shickshinny R. D. 2.
Attending the couple were Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Kersteen. A
wedding dinner followed the cere-

The bride, a graduate of Berwick High School and B.S.T.C., attended West Chester State Teach-

Duke University, ColUniversity and Bucknell.
She is a teacher in the Fourteenth
Street School, Berwick.
Dr. Kershner, a graduate of Berwick High School, received his degree from Temple University Dental School.
Following the present school
term, the couple plan a wedding
trip to Arizona, Mexico and Caliers College,

umbia

fornia.

ted

of the family.

Roanoke, Virginia, and daughKathleen, age 10, is a staunch
supporter of both her dad and her

is

brother.

likely to receive plenty of encour-

agement from the female members
Mrs. Paul Burger
the former Kathleen Richardson

of

ter,

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7

ELECT MRS. McCERN
PRESIDENT OF FACULTY

SenioAA Qet Atua/idU

At the annual faculty banquet
held

the

in

Commons

College

Nineteen members of the

class of

Wednesday, April 22, Mrs. Margaret McCern was elected presi-

1959 at the Teachers College received the highest award made by
the College to its students, the ser-

dent of the Faculty Association of
B.S.T.C. Others named were Bruce

vice key.

Adams,
Reams,

vice president; Gwendolyn
secretary-treasurer;
Bea-

trice Englehart, Claude
and Edward VanNorman,

Dr.
to

gifts

Bordner
directors.

Kimber Kuster presented
the two retiring members

of the faculty, Mrs. Olive P. Beeman, who has taught ten years at

Bloomsburg, and Dr. Nelle Maupin, a

member

of the faculty

more

than thirty years.

Harvey A. Andruss,

Dr.

dent, paid tribute
faculty members.

Retired

presi-

the retiring

to

These awards were presented at
Honor Assembly
in Carver Auditorium. Dr. Harvey
the annual Senior

A. Andruss, president of the College, Dr. Cecil Seronsy, senior class

advisor, and Donald Ker, Catawissa, president of the class of

1959,

members

of

the

staff

keys are given, each
outstanding service to
the college community to ten per
cent of the class who have accumulated a minimum of 20 service
key points.
“for

’

horn,

St.

mony

Clair, in

in

St.

a recent cere-

Peter’s

Methodist

Church, Riverside.
Mrs. Bodenhorn is a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and attended Penn State. She
is presently employed as a teacher
in Ilershey.

The groom

a

the seniors
previously by
college officials as outstanding students
whose names were to be included in the
annual publication “Who’s Who Among
Students in American Colleges and UnJoanne Bechtel, Easton;
iversities”:
Lena
Elaine DiAugustine, Berwick;
“Pat” Fisher, Sunbury; Joann Heston,

A
live

to

Wyoming; Donald Ker, Catawissa;
John
Johnsonburg;
Kunes,
Janice
Longo, Kelayres; Dorothy Marcy, Dalton; Marjorie Morson, Bryn Mawr;
Kay Nearing, Bloomsburg; Frank Reed,
Mahanoy City; Ronald Romig, Boyertown; Sara Schilling, Ashland; Moritz
Schultz, Kingston; Beth Sprout, Wiland Mary Ann Thornton,

Shamokin.
Lifetime passes to all college athletic
events, given for four years of consecutive

participation

a varsity sport,
Dr. E. H. Nelson,

in

were presented by
president of the General Alumni Association, to: Moritz Schultz, Kingston,
football; Oscar Snyder, Sunbury, foot-

Kenneth Wood, Mechanicsburg,

football; Robert Asby, South Williamsport, wrestling; James Garman, Sun-

alumnus who remains a
part of his college is one who
loyal

remains interested

in

his

and one who contributes

when she needs
Page

certificates

who had been designed

ball;

shey.

Robert

:

Sara Schilling, Ashland; Jane Ann
Smith, Wilkes-Barre; Paul Spahr, Collingdale; Beth Sprout, Williamsport;
Mary Ann Thornton, Scranton; Peter
Valania, Alden Station.
Dr. Andruss and Dr. Seronsy also

liamsport,

graduate of
Kutztown Teachers College and is
now studying for his master’s degree in administration at Franklin
and Marshall College in Lancaster.
The couple will reside in their
newly-furnished apartment in Ileris

were

Asby,
Williamsport; Joanne Bechtel, Easton;
Willard Boyer, Muncy Valley; Joseph
Butz, Glen Lyon; Mrs. Mary Wahl
Fleck, Milton; Janet Fry, Berwick;
Nancy Herman, Williamsport; Barbara
Hockenberry, Pittsburgh; Carl Janetka,
Horsham; Janice Kunes, Johnsonburg;
Kay Nearing, Bloomsburg; Irwin Parry, Blakely; Ronald Romig, Boyertown;
recipients

presented

Miss Jeanette L. Deibert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earle M. Deibert, Danville R. D. 2, became the
bride of Alfred Bodenhorn, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ellwood S. Boden-

the awards.

Service

year,

The

were introduced. They included
Dean William Sutliff, Miss Grace
Woolworth, Mrs. Anna Scott, Miss
Margaret Waldron, Miss Lucy McCammon and C. M. Hausknecht.
Letters were read from Miss Alice
Johnston, Dr. Thomas North, John
Fisher, Ethel Shaw, Dr. E. H. Nelson and Dr. Marguerite Kehr.
Mrs. Deborah Griffth was chairman of the banquet committee.

made

8

help.

college
to

her

Swisher,
William
wrestling;
Bloomsburg, basketball; Daniel Fritz,
Osceloa Mills, baseball.

bury,

President Andruss and Nelson Miller,
director of music, presented awards, for
participation in the Maroon and Gold

At

College

Band Gold Key

— Dorothy

for

eight

semesters

Marcy, Dalton; Eugene Sandel, Bloomsburg; Denise Wenkenbach,
Erdenheim, Philadelphia; James Troy,
Bloomsburg; keys for 7 semesters David Barnhart, Drums; Barbara Batzel,
Sinking Springs; Francis Buck, Starrucca; Carol Coons, Athens; Janet Fry,
Berwick; Connie Girton, Bloomsburg;
Herman Howard, Nanticoke; Mrs.
Nancy Hane Mensch, Selinsgrove; Jay
Long, Shamokin; blazer for 5 semesters Pauline
Polovitch,
Nicholson;
sweater for 5 semesters Robert W.
Murray, Liverpool; Donald Ker, Cata-

—

—

—

wissa; four years service as majorette,
also head head majorette for one year,
blazer Mary Mattern, Forty Fort.

—

Don

Ker, class president, presented the Class Memorial to Dr. Andruss.

The

amount

in excess of

class of

1959 gave an
$900 to be us-

to supplement the endowed
lecture fund. Dr. Andruss had previously referred to the desirability
of leaving something of a non-ma-

ed

terial

—

nature

teriorate but

that

would

would not delast as

long as

students are attending this college.
He commended the class for their
wise choice.
Howard Fenstemaker was at the
console during the processional,
Alma Mater and recessional; Nelson Miller was director of music.
Walter S. Rygiel, also of the faculty, was in charge of organizing
the processional and recession of
the faculty and the seniors.

Mrs. Robert Sutliff was added to

Department of PhyEducation during the second
semester. She served as a substitute in that department two years

the staff of the
sical

ago.
is a graduate of the
Teachers College at East
Stroudsburg. She also attended
Mary Washington College of the

Mrs. Sutliff

State

University

of

some work

at B.S.T.C.

Virginia

and

did

She plans

to continue graduate work this
summer.
Her husband is a graduate of
Ithaca College and served for some
time as a music teacher. He is now

Mr.
business with his father.
rs. Sutliff are the parents of
an d

in

M

two

little girls.

SUPPORT THE B.S.T.C.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THREE ALUMNI HONORED
Dr. William C. LeVan, Elysburg,
an outstanding educator; Miss Nan R. Jenkins, Nesquehoning, for twenty-three years
superintendent of the
assistant
schools of Carbon county and a
leader in work for underprivileged
children, and Dr. Henry John Warman, class of 1932, a recognized
authority in the field of geography
and professor and secretary of the
Graduate School of Geography,
Worchester,
Clark
University,
Mass., were honored by the graduates of Bloomsburg State Teachers College when they were presented with the Alumni Award of
Merit during the festivities on the
class of 1904,

hill.

LeVan was

Dr.

presented by

Fred W. Diehl, Danville, a member of the alumni board of directors and for a long period a trustee

The following is his
“He pioneered in a well

of the college.
citation:

rounded sports program for
Mater and continued

Alma

his
this

interest during his forty
years of science teaching in high
school and college. Active in service club programs for community
betterment, unselfish living has
been a mark of his brilliant career.”
Howard C. Fetterolf, Mifflinville, presented Miss Jenkins.
Her
citation
states
that
she was
“active in all phases of child welfare as a teacher and administrator.
Travel and education directed toward better understanding of

healthy

MONTOUR

B.S.T.C.

SET UP

SCHOLARSHIP

A

$50

fifty-dollar

ALUMNI
was

scholarship

Alumni Association

at

meeting held at the Trinity
Methodist Church, Danville, January 29, 1959.

its

Two members
Rush shafer and
honored by gifts

W.

Diehl,

were
and

for their long

Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of
the B.S.T.C. Alumni Association,
and Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, were the
speakers.
Officers elected for the
1959

state.”

Warman’s

Dr.

that he

is

citation set forth

“recognized at

home and

abroad as a leader in the field of
geography. Editor of note in journal and textbook, he is in constant
demand to loan geography education workshops. He is an outstanding representative of his class, a

gentleman and a scholar.” Edward
F.

Schuyler

presented

Dr.

War-

a vice president of the Children’s
Association and a director of the
state board for crippled children;
a member of the executive committee of Carbon county and a
state director of the Pennsylvania
Tuberculosis and Health Society,
and active in work for the blind.
She received a Bachelor of Science
in
Education Degree from the
Pennsylvania State University and
a Master’s Degree from New York
University where she majored in
administration and supervision. She
lias traveled extensively in a life
devoted to education and aid to

man.

handicapped.

Dr. E. H. Nelson presented the
citations and also presented for the
alumni, corsages to Mrs. LeVan,
Miss Jenkins and Mrs. Warman.
Dr. LeVan is a graduate of DePauw in 1910. He taught in high
schools and at the University of
Michigan until 1925 and then for
three years was a member of the
Cedar Crest College faculty, Allentown. In 1929 he received the

Dr. Warman, who in his days at
Bloomsburg, was a varsity football

degree of Doctor of Philosophy at

player and active in the musical
and other campus organizations, is
a native of Scranton where he
graduated from Central High. He
received a Master’s Degree in geography and education in 1938 and
a Doctor of Philosophy Degree
from Clark University in 1944. He
is a leader in the geography societies of the nation and has been

and
from then until his retirement in
1950 was a member of the faculty
in the pre-medical department at

other organizations
Before
education.
becoming affiliated with Clark University in 1943 he was a teacher,

Finley College, Finley, Ohio.
Miss Jenkins has been active in
many fields but especially in those
activities
associated with handiShe has been
capped children.
vice president of the Pennsylvania
Association for Retarded Children,

athletic

1959 term were Miss Lois Bryner,

Roadarmel, Bloomsburg R. D. 4.
The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High
School
and
B.S.T.C. and is now a teacher at
Altoona School of Commerce and

the University of Pennsylvania

Edward

Lynn,

vice

president; Miss Susan Sidler, treasurer; Miss Alice Smull, secretary.

The
1960,

last Thursday of January,
was selected for the next an-

active in

many

aligned

with

tor

coach and athletic direcNorristown from 1932 to

at

1942.

He

nationally recognized auon geography and has published a number of works in that
is

thority

field.

Zeth School,

Inc.,

Altoona.

nual meeting date.

The bridegroom graduated from
Bloomsburg High School and served three years with the U. S. Ma-

The First Methodist Church,
Bloomsburg, was the spring setting
Saturday, March 28, for the marriage of Miss Patricia Allene Berger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Charles Berger, Blooms,
burg, to Harry A. Roadarmel, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A.

rines as a staff sergeant.

of the association,
F.

faithful service.

JULY,

and

president;

voted by the Montour Branch of
the B.S.T.C.

underprivileged children, especially the physical handicapped.
Parental cooperation has been emphasized by her in promoting public school effectiveness in county

He

grad-

uated from the Pennsylvania State
Police Training Schol at Hershey

and

is

now

a state

policeman

at

Hollidaysburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Roadarmel are living at 1400 Spruce Street, Hollidaysburg.
Page

9

MYTHICAL WORLD TRIP IS
I HEME OF B.S.T.C. MAY DAY
the

In

countries

costumes

colorful

throughout

the

of

world,

Ben Franklin pupils and college
students presented an outstanding

May Day program Wednesday,
May 6, on the B.S.T.C. campus.
“Around the World in Sixty-Minutes” was the theme.
The bright sun was a welcome
change from the past few years
when chilly weather, wind or rain
caused postponement or interrupprogram.

tions in the

Miss Lorraine Basso, dark-haired
senior from Bangor, was crowned
May Queen in an impressive cere-

mony conducted by Ronald Romig,
Boyertown, president of the Community Government Association

were Miss Sandra Lewis, Shickshinny; Miss Nancy Pekala, Fern Glen; Barbara
chiffons,

Nancy HerJoanne Heston, Wyoming; Mary Pomes, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. June Locke Trudnak, Chester, and Claire Walsh,
Jenkintown;

Gurry,

man,

Williamsport;

Mahanoy

danced

Always the highlight of the May
winding of the Maypoles,
was performed by pupils of grades
three and six and by college women.
Mrs. Dorothy J. Evans headed
the May Day committee which in-

cluded members of the faculty of
the College. Teachers of the Benjamin Franklin school also had an
important role in preparations for
the annual May Day program.

Plane.

SCHOLARSHIPS

TO BE OFFERED
Three scholarships, each of seventy-five dollars, will be awarded
this year by the B.S.T.C. Alumni
Association to local college students.
Next year, however, instead
scholarships

be used

to

who will work for alumni
associations of the fourteen teachers colleges in the state.

risburg,

While the crowd of more than
2,000 gathered for the annual May
Day festivities, the B.S.T.C. Maroon and Gold Band, under the direction of Nelson A. Miller, presented an entertaining program.

the Legislature

Fourth graders opened the program with a colorful Mexican
dance to the tune of “La Cucaracha.” Dances of Hawaii were per-

by

Dressed

in

kindergarten pupils.
kimonos, college girls presented a Japanese
ceremonial dance with fans. A rollicking Russian folk dance was presented by grade five after which
college girls did the “Tickle Tickle
colorful

Polka.”

include Rita
Botteon, Eleanor Bowen, Lois CarEvelyn
Collins,
penter, Janice
Drendall, Bonnie Ellis, Irene Hastie,

Mary Ann
Redman, Betty

Margaret Henry,

Jiessling,

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will work with
and the public to

The consultant

favorable
to State Teachers Colleges so they
can provide better education for
future state teachers.
Among the problems presently
facing the institutions are the need
for getting more and more money
from students and securing funds
The confor buildings and such.
sultant’s function will be to show
both the legislature and public the
needs of the colleges, and to acquire the support of the public.

help

secure

legislation

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.

The Harmonettes

Mary

of

the money
help maintain a
public relations consultant in Har-

granting

will

Senior women served as the honor court while children of grade
one at the Ben Franklin school
were the junior attendants.

formed

to the Scot-

six

fete, the

3

The queen’s attendants, dressed
in bouffant gowns of pastel organand

grade

presented a lively
heel-toe
tilt
from Ireland and
grade two and English folk tune
“Gathering Peascods.” South American rhythms were represented
by college girls with “Corazon.”
tische;

at

the college.

dies

VanTuyle and Lor-

Tarr, Noreen
raine Yeager.
Grade three

J.

A group of B.S.T.C. seniors, currently student teaching in area
high schools, were on a field trip
to education centers in Harrisburg
and Washington recently to investigate means for improving instruction through the utilization
of state and federal educational
Arand agencies.
rangements for the trip were made
by student committees under the
direction of Dr. George Fike, Supervisor of Student Teaching in
Secondary Education at the Colassociations

.

lege.

The
comed

B.S.T.C. seniors were welat the Education Building
of the Department of Public Instruction in Harrisburg by Warren
Ringler and Mrs. Camilla L. Carey.
Dr. Charles Boehm, Superintendent of Public Instruction, spoke to
the group.
His topic was “What’s

New

in Education?”
Following his address, “Talk-aRounds” were held relating to cer-

curriculum, library, loan
of the Department of Public Instruction.
The day’s activities terminated at
the Pennsylvania State Education
building where Harvey Gayman,
executive secretary, and Miss Lucy
Valero, assistant executive secretary, spoke to the group on legislation, place and purpose of protification,

services,

fessional

and functions

organizations,

’34

and

pro-

fessional ethics.

The student teachers then visited the United States Office of
Health, Education and Welfare in
Washington, where Deputy Commissioner Oliver Caldwell, who recently returned from Russia, compared education in that country
to education in the United States.
Collaborating with Mr. Caldwell
were Dr. John Whitelaw, Director
Wayne Lykes, law
of Education.
specialist, talked on recent federal
legislation affecting education.
At the National Education Association Headquarters, Dr. Mildred
Fenner, eidtor of the N.E.A. jour-

previewed

be pubWhile at the

articles to

lished in the future.

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

SENIORS IN

STUDENT TEACHING ON
TRIP TO WASHINGTON

nal,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

C. Conner.

B.S.T.C.

headquarters, the student
teachers visited departments relative to their respective fields of

N.E.A.

specialization.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

RANKS TWENTIETH

Qenesial

Alumni Meeting

Bloomsburg State Teachers College expects an enrollment of 1,500

and has accepted 1,600,
Harvey A. Andruss, president,
the alumni at its general meet

in the fall

Dr.
told
ing.

He

said

that

a

hundred more

than can be accommodated have
been accepted because there is always a number who seek to enter
college who apply to several institutions choose one and then do not
notify the others of their decision.
Thus there is room for some additional students at the start of a
term unless provision is made.

Graduates were told that

now

the Legislature

in

is

if

a bill

enacted

law the reunion classes returning five years hence will find a
into

new name
it

be

will

for the institution.
just

Then

what we want

we must

in this state,

decide

wheth-

education, sewage plants or
good roads. He added that there
it is

patronage

in

educa-

isn’t

political

tion

and the alumni must busy

themselves politically to see that
the

state

is fairly well providthe next biennium but
there are some of the teachers col
leges that will have larger enrollments but are listed to receive less
state support than in the two years
now closing. He told of the public relations work which the teachers college of the state have started
and of the need to support the pro-

gram.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of
the Alumni Asociation, and Miss
Elizabeth Huber, Gordon, were reelected to three-year terms. Charles II. Henrie, class of 1938, was
He sucalso named to the board.
ceeds Hervey B. Smith who was
not a candidate for re-election. Mr.
Smith was given a vote of thanks
for his services.

Reports

institutions

get

what

of

the eighty-eight colleges
in the Common-

universities

the
College ranks twentieth in enrollment,
according to a survey completed
recently by the State Department
of Public Instruction. Bloomsburg
holds the same rank among the 125
institutions of higher education in
including theological
state,
the
seminaries, law schools, medical
colleges, junior colleges, and mis-

wealth
said the lo-

in

activities

Dr. Andruss said

He

cal institution

ed for

Bloomsburg State

College.

er

they should have.

Among
and

Pennsylvania,

of

Bloomsburg State Teachers

cellaneous institutions.
Statistics in the survey also reveal a steady growth in enrollment during the past three years

when Bloomsburg
among the fourteen

ranked

fifth

State Teachers

Colleges in Pennsylvania, with 1,078 students in 1956, 1,187 in 1957,
and 1,368 in 1958. This increase

made

was

possible

by

careful

scheduling and optimum usage of
In the face of
the
pressures from
great number of students who
wished to enter college during
this period, administrative officers
Bloomsburg kept a careful
at
check in order to maintain a sound
existing classrooms.

the

various

were made and

alumni
it

was

noted the requests for aid from the
Alumni Student Loan Fund has increased greatly in the past year. A
roll call of reunion classes concluded the program. The alumni lum
cheon followed and then there
were various class reunions on the

campus.

tremendous

program

of instruction.

It

was

of

concern to the President, Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, that Bloomsburg not become a mere collection
vital

students,

of

faculty,

classrooms,

and buildings.

NORTHUMBERLAND
COUNTY ALUMNI
The

fourth

annual meeting of

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Alumni of Northumberland County was held at the Sunbury Social Club, Island Park,
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, on Octothe

ber

13," 1958.

Following the dinner, the 43
members and guests present were
entertained by two Sunbury Area
High School Band members.
Group singing was led by Miss
Grace Beck, accompanied by Miss
Virginia Cruikshank.
Mrs. Rachel Malick, President,
introduced our guest speaker, Mr.
C. Stuart Edwards, Director of Admissions and Placement at B.S.T.C.
and Mrs. Edwards. Both are alumni of B.S.T.C.
Mr. Edwards talked about improvements at the col-

JULY,

1959

Increases in

enrollment,

in

the

lege and the increased enrollment.
Following the speaker, the president conducted a short business
The new officers were
meeting.
elected for the coming year.
President — Mr. Clyde Adams.
Vice President — Mr. Thomas
Sanders.
Secretary-Treasurer — Miss Eva
Reichley.
The association made a donation
to the B.S.T.C. Alumni Loan Fund.

contains
six science laboratories and eight
classrooms, and the latter will
house 200 male resident students.
But even these buildings will not
overcome the very pressing need
for additional dormitories, for an
auditorium with a seating capacity

A moment of silence was observed
memory of Mrs. Kathryn Ho-

of 2,000, for a library with increased study and shelf space which

berg.

could also meet the needs of students working for a master’s degree, and for a field house designed to meet the needs of a well-integrated program of varsity and
intramural sports and recreation.

in

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

future, will be determined
largely by the completion of Wil-

ner

liam

Boyd

North Hall.

Sutliff

Hall

and

New

The former

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

SUPPORT THE PUBLIC RELATIONS
SERVICE FOR PENNSYLVANIA
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES

Page

11

NEW DEPARTMENT HEADS

DOCTOR MAIETTA WAS SPEAKER AT CONVENTION

The growth of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College has made
appointment of
the
necessary
Chairmen of Academic DepartAt the present time, the
ments.
Dean of Instruction and the Directors of Business, Elementary,
Secondary and Special Education
are responsible for the academic
program. This form of organization existed when the college had
600 or 700 students, and since this
number has been doubled and is to
be further increased in the next
college year, the following chairmen have been appointed by the

Board of Trustees:
Department of Communications
(English, Speech and Foreign Languages), Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy.

Department of Mathematics and
Kimber C. Kuster.
Department of Social Studies
(including Geography), Dr. John J.
Science, Dr.

Serff.

Department

of Music, Mr. Nel-

son A. Miller.

Dr. Donald F. Maietta discussed
The Chief Phonetic Weaknesses

of Art, Mr.

Robert

Ulmer.

Department

Education

of

Elementary
School Children” during the annual convention of the Pennsylvania
State
Education Association in

hardt.

The academic administrative organization for the college year beginning September, 1959, also includes:
Dean of Instruction, Mr. John A.
Hoch.

Harrisburg. His presentation was
part of a round table discussion at
the Speech and Hearing Center at
Kline Village. Appearing with him

panel member was William
Supervisor
Speech
Horean,
of

as

a

Therapy

Director of Business Education,
Dr. Thomas B. Martin.
Directory of Elementary Educa-

Mr. Royce O. Johnson.
Director of Secondary Education, Dr. George J. Fike.
Director of Special Education,
Dr. Donald F. Maietta.
Other members of the adminis-

tion,

trative staff includes:

Women,

in

Lycoming County and

supervisor of Bloomsburg seniors
who are doing practice teaching in

speech therapy
ty. Mr. Korean

in

Lycoming Coun-

topic was “Speech
in Public Schools.”

Therapy

s

In addition to heading the Department of Special Education at
the College, Dr. Maietta serves as
Director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic. At the last meeting of
the Pennsylvania Speech Association in Greensburg, the Division of
Clinical Speech and Hearing elec-

Mrs. Elizabeth

Blair.

Assistant

Ralph

S.

Dean

of

Men,

Dr.

of

Men,

Mr.

Herre.

Assistant

Dean

Director of Public Relations, Mr.

Boyd

F.

Buckingham.

Director
I’apo 12

of

Admissions

and

Lehigh, Northampton,
Carbon,
Luzerne,
Lackawanna
and Monroe Counties recently se-

Schuylkill,

lected him to serve as consultant
to
the
Northeastern
Counties

Speech

Correction
Association.
Their organization is primarily interested in enlightening personnel
from various counties about individual county programs, developing
evaluative criteria for research in
public school speech and hearing
therapy programs, and providing
leadership that will be of value to
state and national speech and hearing programs.

Doctor Maietta also attended the
Thirty-fourth Annual Convention
of the American Speech and Hearing Association in New York City,

November

Two

17, 1958.

thousand members attend-

Placement, Mr. C. Stuart Edwards.
Director of Athletics, Mr. Rus-

Proceedings at the conference
included: executive council meet-

to

E. Houk.
As the enrollment

increases

the

the association’s total

of the College

administrative

staff

must be increased proportionately,
and the general plan of organizasubject to review at the
end of each three-year period.
All of these administrators, except the Dean of Instruction, have
a reduced teaching load and receive salary supplements in the
form of an administrative fee for
is

responsibilities which
be over and above those of

would

the

a

mem-

ber of the full-time instructional
staff, according to President Harvey A. Andruss.

programs concerning theories
and therapies related to stuttering,
aphasia,

auditory disorders, cleft
palsy and langu-

palate, cerebral

age disorders; discussions of public school therapy and experimen-

and field research.
During the business meeting, it
was announced that $750,000, in
research grants, was given this
year by the national government
to A.S.H.A. approved institutions,
to be used for the study of speech
pathology and hearing problems.
It was also announced that teachers and therapists in the nation’s
tal

public schools account for thirtyfive per cent of the association’s
membership while the retotal

mainder are employed

FRANK

S.

membership

49 states, Canada, Puerto Rico
and Hawaii.

in

ings;

sell

HUTCHISON,

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Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

George G. Stradtman.

Committee of the Association’s
Speech and Hearing, Division.
Speech ancf hearing therapists from

ed, representing forty per cent of

him

Miller.

Assistant Dean of Women, Miss
Mary E. Macdonald.
Dean of Men, Mr. Walter R.

Standards and Clinical Certfication

serve as Program Chairman for 1959. He was recently
re-appointed to the Professional

tion

of

of

and

Psychology, Dr. Ernest H. Engel-

Dean

Speech

the

in

ted

Department
P.

‘

universities,

in colleges,

hospitals,

medical

crippled children’s agencies and private practice.
Accompanying Dr. Maietta were
Harold Giacomini and Mrs. Elsie
Fetterolf, college students enrolled
in the Department of Special Educenters,

cation.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Ask Student Costs Be Limited To 25 Per Cent *
President Harvey A. Andruss of
the Teachers College was one of
four representatives appearing before the Senate Study Committee
of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in Harrisburg recently.

Doctor Andruss presented recommendations relative to appropriations, student fees, and expenditures as they relate to the fourteen
teachers colleges.
The attention of the Senate

Committee was invited

to the

need

for appropriating

$800 per year for
the education of each student, exclusive of housing, capital expenditure or debt retirement. Of this
amount, students should not have
to pay more than 25 per cent,
which would mean $200 per year,
leaving the state to provide $600
per year. These figures are in line
with the national average for state
teachers colleges, which is $823 in
the college year of 1957-58, accorto a survey made by the Illinoise Chamber of Commerce covering 268 state colleges and uniOf
versities in the United States.
this number, 96 were teachers colleges, 41
being located in the
northeastern region composed of
New York, Pennsylvania and the

ding

New England
If

the state

States.
is

not going to

make

sufficient appropriation, as requir-

ed by law, to pay the tuition of
students attending state teachers
colleges, the pledges to teach two
years in the schools of Pennsyl-

PARKING AREA DOUBLED
The parking

area of the Blooms-

burg State Teachers College will
be doubled this summer and provision will be made to drain surface water to Light Street Road,
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president,
confirmed recently.
The State Department of Property and Supplies forwarded a

$22,690 contract for the project to
Middlecreek Paving, in Winfield,

Union County.
At the present time, there is
space for about a hundred cars at
the Centnnial gymnasium parking
lot which will be extended toward
the Dillon property.

JULY,

1959

The

increased

vania,

made

by

students,

the

should be repealed,

it

was

asser-

college Board
proposed a complete
the concept of the 14

of Presidents,

ted.

Unallocated or

unspent appro-

consisting of half state
subsidy and half student fees,
should be credited at the beginning of each new biennium to the
colleges to the extent of one-half
of the amount lapsed.
Fifty cents
of each dollar lapsed has been paid
by state teachers college students
into the state treasury for instruction or housing, and should be applied to this purpose.
In accordance with Section 1311
of the School Code, all priority lists
for buildings to be built by the
General State Authority on State
priations,

Colleges
Teachers
campuses
should be reviewed by the presidents of the several colleges and
the boards of trustees, before being submitted by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to
the Governor and/or the General
State Authority.
The Senate Study Committee,
before whom Doctor Andruss tesis composed of
George N..
Wade, Chairman, Camp Hill;
Thomas A. Ehrgod, Lebanon; Hen-

tified,

Propert, Bethayres; Jo Hays,
State College, and Harry E. Seylor, York.
Some members of the Senate
Study Committee indicated a willingness to sponsor legislation to
give legal effect to the proposal
ry

Change In Concept
The state teachers
change

and use

of the College’s
recent years has severely taxed the institution’s parking
space.
The addition will double
the present space and there is adeactivity

facilities in

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

represents.

which restrict operations of
the colleges to educating future
teachers and drop the word "teachers” from the names.
The board’s proposition made by
tions

Dr. Q. A. W. Rohrbach, Kutztown
president, was among several rec-

ommendations to a five-member
Senate committee which is investigating the Public Instruction Department.
Dr. Rohrbach said the program
expansion was needed “to meet the
impending crisis” expected from
increasing enrollments over the
Pennsylvania now
next 10 years.
has a total of 120,000 college students, he said, and the estimated
number in 1969 is 180,000.
The Kutztown president also reported that the board favored the
proposed establishment of public
and private junior colleges to help
meet the need for higher education.

Dr.
ville

Luke Biemsderfer,
president,

Commonwealth

asked

Millersthe

that

increase appropri-

ations to teachers colleges to actually provide free education or stop

requiring the students
pledges that they will
Pennsylvania.

to

sign

teach

in

quate area for future development.
Included in the project is the installation of a storm sewer which
will drain the new and the present
parking area to Light Street Road
and away from the present course
toward Second Street. This has
been a major source of complaint
to

HARRY

it

The board recommended that
the Commonwealth change regula-

J.

made by Doctor Andruss.

in

state-owned colleges

Bloomsburg Council.

The sewer

installations

will

re-

quire a considerable “cut” in the
terrain which drops off precipitously from the College property to
the road.

The

water from the
go into Snyder’s
Run where surface water from the
hospital area is now run off.

parking

surface
lot

will

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FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN
GRANT TO B.S.T.C. $7,847
The Bloomsburg

BUSINESS EDUCATION CONTEST

State Teachers

College has been notified that a
capital contribution of $7,849 for
the establishment of a student loan
fund has been approved by the
United
States
Department
of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The money was granted to the college from funds made available
through the National Defense Education Act of 1958.
When supplemented by funds raised by the
institution through outside or nonstate sources, at the rate of $1.00
of local funds for each $9.00 of

Federal funds, there will be a

to-

of $8,719 available to students

tal

ending June

period

the
1959.

for

30,

consideration will be
the applications of stuwith
superior academic
backgrounds who express a desire
to teach in elementary or secondary schools, or those who indicate
superior capacity or preparation in
science, mathematics, engineering,
or modern foreign languages.
Special

given
dents

to

Since Pennsylvania State TeachColeges are not legally authororized to borrow money and create
an obligation of the Commonwealth without legislative enactment, it will be necessary for the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College to raise approximately $1,000
before the fund can be inaugurers

These gifts will have to come
from alumni or those interested in
the
college,
from the General
ated.

Alumni Association or its branches,
or from student funds.
While the maximum amount
loaned to any one student in any
one year is $1,000, consideration is
being given to lowering this maxi-

mum

to $500, since this figure will

cover the approximate cost of fees,
books, and housing at the State
Teachers College.
Plans are

and

stage,

ment

in the formative
definite announce-

still

a

of policy will be

made

after

the local contribution has been deposited, along with the Federal allocation, in a local bank.

These loans are repayable over
a ten-year period,

beginning with

the second year after the graduation of the student from college,

Pape

14

Two hundred

forty nine students

from 58 high schools in 28 counties in Pennsylvania competed for
individual and team honors Saturday, May 2, during the Twentysixth Annual Business Education
Contest sponsored by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
number of students and high
schools far surpassed the recordbreaking number of entries in last
year’s event.
Although contest officials had planned for a maximum
of fifty schools, requests for participation

were

so

great

that the

number was finally increased to
sixty.
The College was unable to
accommodate more than 20 addiand

interest

is

charged

at the rate

of 3 per cent per annum.
If graduates of State

which expressed an

tional schools

interest in the contest.

Nearly 150

students of the Business Education
Department at the College assisted
in various capacities during the
morning and afternoon so that tests
could be given most effectively
and results determined quickly.
Faculty members of the Department of Business Education, headed by Dr. Thomas B. Martin, Di-

completed an analysis of
early and announced
the following individual and team

rector,
test

results

winners:
Individual Winners:

Bookkeeping— first, Robert DerNorthampton High School;
second, Laura Brown, Berwick
High School; third, Gene Smith,
Northampton High School.

kits,

Teachers

Business Arithmetic—first, Carol

teach
in
public
the
schools, the loan will be reduced
at the rate of 10 per cent a year
for a period of not more than five
years.
In other words, one-half of
the loan need not be repaid if a
student teaches five years during
the first eleven years following
graduation, and pays interest at
the rate of 3 per cent.
Consideration is also being given to the possibility of granting
loans to freshmen, only after they
have been in attendance for at
least nine weeks, or after the the
first grading period.
Applications
of upperclassmen could be processed, at the beginning of a college

Nisula, Abington High School; second, Barbara Clauser, Muhlenberg
Township, Laureldale; third, Pa-

Colleges

year, on the basis of demonstrated
academic achievement and finan-

need.
The faculty committee of scholarships, of which Dr. Kimber C.
cial

is

chairman, will develop

the

local

and

will

policy for the College,
review and revise the

Kuster

forms used to collect information
regarding the student’s need and
his ability to pursue college work
successfully.

Loans from these funds will be
an addition to the scholarships and
grants which have been provided
for students at the college for more
than a decade. Gifts from alumni,
from service and campus organizations, and from profits of the college store, will reach nearly $5,000
this year.

tricia
Maopoliski, Duryea High
School.
Business Law— first, Mary Strauser, Bloomsburg High School; second, Betty Zablocky, Bloomsburg
High School; third, Robert Baseki,
Edwardsville High School.
Fulton,
Shorthand—first,
Joy
Bloomsburg High School; second,

Joan Brower, Porter-Tower High
Reinterton; third, Donna
Canton High School.
Typewriting — first, Joan Lyle,
North Penn High School, Lansdale; second, Helen Frick, CentralBucks High School, Doylestown;
School,

Hatherill,

third,

Joanne

High School,

Kristofits,

Parkland

Orefield.

Team Honors:
Berwick High School, first.
Bloomsburg High School,

sec-

ond.

Parkland High School, Orefield,
third.

Trevorton High School, fourth.
Abington High School, fifth.
North Penn High School, Lansdale, sixth.

Muehlenberg

Township

High

School, Laureldale, seventh.
Danville High School, eighth.
Upper Dauphin High School,
Elizabethville, ninth.
Canton High School, tie— tenth.
Conrad Weiser High School,
Wernersville, tie— tenth.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

$2,000 IN

SCHOLARSHIPS

Twenty-five

students
the
at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College received nearly two thousand
dollars in scholarships and awards
during a combined student-faculty
convocation. During the presentations,
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
President of the College, pointed
out that more than twenty-one

thousand dollars had been awarded to Bloomsburg students this
year in the form of loans, scholarships

and

grants.

Of

this

total,

nearly $4,500 was distributed as
scholarships and grants to 55 students, loans of more than $8,000
were made to 50 students from the

General Alumni Loan Fund, and
approximately 40 students received in excess of $8,500 in Federal
Education Defense Loans at the
Dr. Andruss stated that
College.
it is hoped the latter amount can
be expanded to approximately
$32,000 for next year, pending the
passage of legislation by Congress.

Community

Store Grants were
presented to the following students
by Dr. Andruss: Nanette Evans,
Pottstown; D. Jean McNeil, Montrose; Joanne Sipe, Mt. Wolf; Shirley Smeltz, Lvkens; Barbara Wes-

Shamokin; Harvey Baney,
New Cumberland; Roger Fitzsimmons, Eldred; Barbara Monroe,
Drums; Gerald Treon, Sunbury;
losky,

William Morris, Duryea, by William Thomas, Forty Fort, President
of the Council.

Dr.

Kuster,

class of 1913,

a

member

of

the

presented a scholar-

ship from his class to Joanne DeBrava, Elkins Park, for her out-

Guidance Services; Walter
of Men; John A. Hoch,

Bloomsburg.

Little,

The

faculty committee on Scholarships and Grants includes: Dr.
Kimber Kuster, chairman; Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller, Dean of Women;

Blair,

Dean

manuscripts, letters, news articles,
and interviews with old town resi-

Dean

of Instruction.

dents.

tor

of

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
Dr.

J.

Almus

Russell,

Professor

Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, joined a group
of English at the

Washington, D. C., in support
measure to have the grave of
“Uncle Sam” Wilson in Oakwood
of a

Cemetery

in

Troy, N.

Y.,

declared,

national shrine,” because Sam
Wilson was the progenitor of the
nation’s symbol of “Uncle Sam.”

“a

ed.

Joyce Welker, Sunbury; Robert

Albert Francis, Schuylkill, in recognition of high scholastic achievement. Ilene Armitage received the
American Association of University
Women scholarship from Dr. Louise Seronsy, a past president, in
recognition of Ilene’s scholarship
and professional promise. Alton
Pellman, Sunbury, President of

Sigma Alpha Eta

fraternity, prescholarship to Sandra
Moore, Hazleton, outstanding stu-

sented

a

dent in speech and hearing work.
On behalf of the Men’s Resident
Council, awards were presented to
Albert Francis, Schuylkill,
and

JULY,

1959

erans, industrial and fraternal life
in the Troy area,
York, attended the Congressional hearing.

New

1959
In a double-ring

in

land.

to

Approximately 40 persons representing a cross-section of civic, vet-

of approximately ten persons who
testified at a Congressional hearing

Nikki Scheno, Berwick; George
Nace, Sunbury; Mae Reiner, Pitman; Adam James, Northumber-

Rohm, Muncy, and Adam James,
Northumberland.
The
class of
1957 Scholarship was awarded to

He testified to the historic authenticity of the claim made that
Samuel Wilson is the prototype of

Mary Macdonald, Coordina-

Columbia County Alumni Scholarships were awarded by President
Andruss to Kay Kerlish, Berwick;
Erma Miller, Benton, and Joanne

The hearing was held before the
Subcommittee on Public Lands, of
the House Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs. Congresswoman Gracie Pfost of Idaho presid-

Dr. Kimber C. Kuster presented
scholarships from the Class of 1954

quet of “Uncle Sam.”

Dr. Russell was
“Uncle Sam.”
born and spent his pre-college
years in the town of Mason, New
Hampshire. This village was also
Samuel Wilson’s residence from
1780 to 1789 before he settled permanently in Troy, N. Y. Consequently, Dr. Russell has had an
unsurpassed opportunity to collect
both unpublished and little-known
source materials based upon old

standing academic work.

Miss

ered an authority on the life of
Samuel Wilson, the man from
whom our nation took the sobri-

formed

Saturday,

ceremony perMarch 21, in

First
Baptist Church,
Sunbury,
Miss Betty Louise Moser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Moser,
Became the bride of Forrest LaNlarr Gass, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Gass, Sunbury.
The Rev. D. L. Bomboy officiated at the service. Ronald Miller
sang bridal selections accompanied by Mrs. Lucy Bardo.
The bride, a graduate of Blooms-

tion 106, introduced by Representative Dean P. Taylor of Troy, N.

burg High School, is a senior at
B.S.T.C.
Her husband graduated
from Sunbury High School and the

and by Representative Leo W.
O’Brien of Albany, N. Y., has already won support from the United States Flag Committee and

New York. He
student at Eastern Baptist
Seminary, Philadelphia, and a minister
at
the Stonington Baptist

other patriotic organizations.
The concurrent resolution reads:
“Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring)
that it is the sense of Congress that
the grave of Samuel Wilson, progenitor of the symbol “Uncle Sam,”
marked by a bronze tablet in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York,
be and is so recognized a national

Church.

The concurrent House Resolu-

Y.,

shrine.”

Professor Russell, who is the author of more than 250 published
articles in the fields of American
Literature and History, is consid-

Houghton College,
is

a

1954
January 31, 1959, Ann Kornfeld, Croydon, Pa., was married to
Mr. Ralph Groff, Pennsauken, N.
J., at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
in Croydon.
Miss Kornfeld was a graduate of
Bloomsburg S.T.C. in 1954 and
was teaching in Levittown, Pa. Mr.
Groff is a draftsman at a corruga-

On

company in Camden.
The couple honeymooned in the

ted container

Poconos and is now residing
Pennsauken, N. J.
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in

15

ATHLETICS:

1959-1960
(From the “Fanning Column”
of The Morning Press)

when

bright

individual

plishments are

accom-

listed.

line
light

was light, the backfield was
and the reserve strength was

Each sport had its outstanding
performers.
In wrestling there

light.

year at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College — sportswise — has been one of ups and

were Jimmy Garman, Gary Allen,
Dick Rimple and Bobby Bohm, all
of whom emerged champs in their

little

downs.

respective classes during the wrestling tournament here.

They hit their high spot of the
year with a 16-0 victory over a
highly-regarded Cortland S.T.C.
club, but later, following a tie, they
were completely overwhelmed by
an as usual superb West Chester
S.T.C. aggregation, bowing to the
Golden Bams 56-0 in a disastrous
road clash.

By DAVE DOUBLESTEIN

The

past

Two

Olympus athletic
teams — the football and wrestling
squads — wound up with enviable
of the Mt.

records.

The

gridders

Blair surprised

Coach

of

Walt

everybody by com-

ing up with a 5-2-1 record after
pre-season predictors saw little
hope for the Maroon and Gold
boys.

Coach Buss Houk’s grapplers established themselves as one of the
most powerful small college mat
aggregations in the state.
They
dropped only one match — that to
perennial champs, Lock Haven
but came swooping back to capture the S.T.C. wrestling confer-

—

ence championship.

On the other side of the ledger
are the records of the baseball,
basketball and track and field
teams.
The diamond dandies, also mentored by Walt Blair, finished the
campaign with an

8-10.

Early in

the year they weren’t hitting, but
their pitching was par excellence.
Then later in the campaign the
boys finally began to get their eyes
on the horsehide only to see the

pitching staff collapse.
The basketball team, headed by
Coach Harold Shelly, started off
the year with three-straight last
second victories, then from that
point on played a so-so brand of
ball with the darkest point of the
year coming off at West Chester,
when the Huskies were stomped
into the hardwoods by some 30
points.

Track and

known

field,

to flourish

which
in

this

not
is
general

area, started off on the right foot.

The Huskies romped

an easy
opening win over Kutztown before
the road started to get bumpy.
One detriment in the program at
B. S.T.C. is the facilities on which
the thinclads both practice and
They are exhold dual meets.
tremely less than adequate.
But be that as it may, the overall
sports picture can be considered
Page

1G

to

Allen, a freshman, if not the
most polished performer, was certainly
the most colorful.
The

stumpy Muncy lad, who tipped the
scales at around 177, performed
mostly in the unlimited class, and

way he

the

tossed those heavier

around never failed to
bring grasps and plaudits from the
inatmen
crowd.

Jimmy Garman, Sunbury lad,
wound up a sparkling four-year
career

the

in

conference

when he captured

finals

his third straight

or own.

slender-redheaded local boy
at

new

four-year scoring

B. S.T.C.,

who
mark

and sophomore Norm
a rebounding wizard

Shutovich,
from Hazleton.
Swisher, despite the fact he did
not show the form which he displayed during his junior year, managed to score more than 1,000
points for his tenure at B. S.T.C. He
played little as a freshman, amassing only 76 of his points his first
year there.
Shutovich, who ran neck and
neck with Swisher in the scoring
sparkled under the
race,
also
boards, grabbing off many important rebounds.
Despite the presence of these
two, the team failed to find a winning combination and went on to a
lackluster sort of year.
One of the pleasant surprises of
the court game was a jumping jack

from Upper Darby, freshman Dick
Lloyd. Time and time again, the
Philadelphia area youth swiped the
ball off the boards and out of the
hands of much taller opponents.
Lloyd tipped he measuring stick at
just

barely

On

It would be hard to pick out any
one, two or three individuals on
this club who were more outstanding than the rest, but Paul Spahr
and Moritz Schultz, who mjde
many “all” teams, provided the
fans with some crackerjack grid-

duggery.

In basketball, the big stories in
Centennial gymnasium were the
performances of Billy Swisher,
set a

But, be that as it may, there is
doubt that this team went a
long, long way on little more than
desire and a love of the sport.

six feet.

the football field things turned out better than anticipated
for a while, at least.
The Huskies fielded a squad
which featurer “lightness.” The

—

The

lack of hitting early in the

and the lack of pitching later
in the campaign, spelled disaster
for the baseball team at Mt. Olymyear,

pus.

When
Coach

the

season

was

Blair

first

began.

some

getting

mighty sharp chucking from the
likes of Dale Franklin, Gus Tibbs
and Pete Perialis, but the bats of
Carl

Derr,

Bobby Rhom,

et

al,

were strangely and uncomfortably
quiet.

Then,

as the season

wore on and

Maroon and Gold stickmen

the

found their batting eye, the pitching collapsed and on top of this
the defense, which had held up so
well previously, wilted in the late
spring sun. The result was a handful of early and late defeats, balanced only by a happy mid-season
showing.
Which all led to their
8-10 record.

HONOR HUSKY ATHLETES
AT

B. S.T.C.

“All of life

SPORTS FETE
is

a spectacle

some time we each give

and at
com-

a

mand performance in the arena of
Rev. Raymand Shaheen, pas-

life,”

tor of St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Silver Spring, Md., not.
ed Thursday evening, May 7, during the annual dinner honoring

B. S.T.C. athletes.

The

affairs, at-

tended by more than 200, was held

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

the College Commons.
Rev. Shaheen noted “the first
call we must hear from the Great
Starter is ‘on Your Mark’,” and stated we then see ourselves as perin

CLASS REUNIONS

formers.

off

“When we

‘Get Set’,” Rev. Shaheen continued, “we cannot go
back and get ready all over again,
tor this is the time when you have
As for “Go," Rev.
to produce. ”

Shaheen remarked, we must decide
in what direction we are headed
and what we hope to achieve once

we

reach that destination.

Opening remarks were made by
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president
of R.S.T.C.,

and John Hoch, dean

of instruction, acted as toastmaster.
Each coach
Harold Shelly,

—

and

basketball;
Russell
Honk, wrestling and Walter Blair,
football and baseball — congratulated members of the teams and all
who helped in anyway to make the
season a success.
Eleanor Wray, “B” Club advisor,
called on Molly Mattern, outgoing
president of the organization, who
installed
four new officers for
1959-60.
Mr. Honk was presented with a
watch by Dr. Andruss, inscribed,
"To Russell E. Houk, coach of the
S.T.C.
wrestling champions for
1959.” Awards were made to intrack

The

class of 1909, which started
the reunion festivities at B.S.
T.C. at a fast pace on Friday evening, May 22, continued to set the

pace on Saturday when hundreds
of graduates and friends returned
to the school for one of the largest
graduation
programs
in
many
years.

The

fifty

year class reported at

the meeting that it had raised $800
for college functions and plans to
make that at least $1,000 by the
end of the year. Harold L. Moyer
is chairman of the campaign.

Many
tions

to

classes

made

contribuof the
support of

numerous funds

alumni association in
college programs.
The weather was delightful and
much time was spent touring the
campus and viewing the recent additions and also the two new buildings under construction.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, long the mainspring in the graduate organization, termed the festivities as a
whole among the finest in ths history of the institution.

Charles Boyer

Lewisburg,
Catawissa R.

’96, of

Sickle.

and Elmer Levan ’98,
D. 3, were the sole representatives
of their classes on Alumni Day.
Oldest class in reunion was 1899
which reported ten back, most of
them starting the festivities by at-

Gold keys— signifying four years
any
varsity participation in
Bill
Swisher,
sport— went
to

mons on Friday evening when the
general alumni body was host to

Robert
Bloomsburg,
basketball;
Asby, South Williamsport, and
James Garman, Sunbury, wrestling,
and Robert Bottorf, Harrisburg;
Moritz Shultz, Plains; Oscar Snyder, Sunbury, and Kenneth Wood.
Mechanicsburg, football. Awards

graduates who received diplomas
more than a half century ago.
There were some representatives
present who had been out of
school even longer than ’99 included Charles Roys, Lewisburg, back
for his sixty-fifth year reunion.

dividual players following the fete.
Invocation was by Rev. Shaheen
and group singing conducted by
Philip Underkoffler

and Susan Van

of

to

members

ball

of the track

and base-

teams will be made following

the season.

1905
Eleanor Whitman (Mrs. J. M.
Reily) is now living at Farnsworth
Road, Waterville, Ohio. Her son,
the Rev.
of the

W. W.

ville.

JULY,

Reily,

is

Methodist Church

1959

the pastor
in

Water-

tending a dinner at College

Com-

Attending:
John C. Redline, Bloomsburg R. D.
5; Carrie Flick Redline, Bloomsburg R.
D. 5; Edna Welliver Fortner, Bloomsburg; Eugene K. Richard, Elysburg; B.
F. Burns, Northumberland; Rush ShafDanville; Lloyd Hart, Berwick;
Cunia Hollopeter Persing, Philadelphia.

fer,

reunion.

The

were

members

following

present:

Aaron Killmer, President, retired
teacher, Stroudsburg, Pa.
Sara Buddinger, retired teacher, Mt.
Carmel, Pa.
Pearl E. Brandon, retired teacher,
Pottsville, Pa.
Dentist,
Cryder,
Harold
C.
Dr.
Stroudsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Mabel Mertz Dixon, retired
teacher, Belle Mead, N. J.
Mrs. Jessie Boyer Howell, wife of
Dr. G. L. Howell, deceased, also of
1904, Trucksville, Pa.
Mrs. Nellie Fetherolf Lesher, Lewisburg, Pa.
Kelminski, retired teacher,
Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Mrs. Lillian Buckalew Rider, wife of
Harry E. Rider, deceased, also of 1904,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Irene Ikeler Sloan, Muncy R.
D„ Pa.
Margaret Seely, retired teacher, Berwick R. D., Pa.
Hinckley Saylor, TamaMrs.
qua, Pa.

Emma

Emma

Our

guests were:

Mrs. Blanche M. Grimes, class of
1905, Harrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mertz Lesher, class of
Pa.
1905, Northumberland R. D.
,

Mr. John

P. Saylor,

Tamaqua, Pa.

The time at our afternoon meeting was spent in visiting, reminiscing and looking at photographs
brought
All
ni

in

banquet

mons

by different members.
the alum-

members attended
in

Com-

the College

M.

This was a
most delightful occasion for everybody.
at 6:30

P.

Saturday at 10:30 A. M. we attended the Alumni meeting in Carver Hall. It was gratifying to note
the large attendance.

The Alumni luncheon at 12:30
M. was a most enjoyable occasion for the many members who
P.

were present.
It was very interesting to see
the renovations and changes that
have been made.
President Killmer announced a
meeting for Saturday at 2 P. M.
in

Room
Twelve

E. Noetling Hall.
letters that had

been
from absent members
were read. For those who were
present, it was a most delightful
received

1904

The

class of

1904 met in the Fac-

ulty

Lounge, Noetling Hall,

day,

May

22,

Fri-

1959, for their 55th

meeting.

mates

we

To

our absent classextend greetings and
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best wishes to everyone.

The meeting was ended

at

3 P.

P. Saylor offering

M. by Mr. John
a closing prayer.

Respectfully submitted
by Pearl E. Brandon
Class of 1904.

1909
Fiftieth

Reunion

Friday evening, May 22, the
general alumni body was host to
39 members of the class of 1909
and some wives and husbands and
other guests at the dinner in the
College Commons. Dr. and Mrs.
Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Dean Sutliff, Mrs. Foote, Miss
Mary Good and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Shambach honored us with their

On

presence.

The Morning
‘The

class of

as the B.S.T.C.

graduates

Press said of us:

1909 stole the show

(we were B.S.N.S.)

moved

into take over the

annual one-day

campus

for the
stand. The turnout of ’09 was the
largest of any 50-year class in the
They had
history of the college.
as much pep as ’59 and just wouldn’t

stay in one spot.”

It was our day to sit on the platform and there were 44 of us there.

President

The

Dan Mahoney

presided.

class in appreciation of

what

Bloomsburg meant

to us contributed $1,000 to the Centennial Scholarship Fund. Class members present were:
Robert F. Wilmer, Florence Priest
Cook, Harold L. Moyer, Sadie Kintner
Breyfogle, Martha H. Black, Ethel
Kingsbury Mann, Irma Heller Abbott,
Bess Hinckley, Reinee Potts Jacob, Helen Wilsey Rutledge, Kathleen Major
Brown, Geraldine Hess Follmer, Kate
Seesholtz Morris, Eva Marcy Pace, Estella Marcy Brown, Enola G. Fairchild,
H. Gladstone Hemingway, Harriet Kase
Toland, Bertha Welsh Conner, Marian
Parker Fall, Leon D. Bryant, A. L.
Rummer, Daniel J. Mahoney, George
F. Williams, Nora Woodring Kenney,
Margery Rese Penman, Mary Hughes

Lake, L.

Thurman Krumm,

W.
Anna

Freid

John E. Klingerman,
Kuschkle Verna Keller Beyer, Walter
C. Welliver, Ethel Creasy Wright, Gertrude M. Meneeley, Edward R. Eisenhauer, Frederick E. Houck, Mary Edwards Shuman, Mary Gillgallon RockeLydia Williams Lewis, Bessie
feller,
Betts Mitchell, Mary Thompson Reichley, Elizabeth Fagan, Jessie Flecken-

Diehl,

stine Herring.

1914
class had a
good turnout and a busy day on

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forty-five year

Those in the group
the campus.
included:
Florence Walters Hassbet, Clifton,
N .J.; Kathryn Merle Erdman, Adah
Weyhenmeyer, Bess Winter Maddy,
Leah Bogart Lawton, Berwick; Ethel
Ravert Keck, Berwick; Paul L. BrunCatharine Glass
Catawissa;
stetter,
Koehler, Hazleton; Hester Eisenhauer Kerst, Lancaster; Salome Hill Long,
Glen Rock, N. J.; Osborn Dodson, Chagrin Falls, Ohio; Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunkhannock; Pearl Hughes,
Mrs. Howard Gunther, Bloomsburg;
Catharine H. Bone, Forty Fort; Olwen
Argust Hartley, Lenoxville; Edith Jameson Parr, Ridley Park.
1919

The

class

of

Bloomsburg for
union on May

members

1919 returned to
its 40th year re23.
Forty-three

of the class

were present,

attended the Alumni meeting at
10:30 A. M., lunched together in
the College Commons, and con-

vened

in

the

Men’s

Lounge

of

Noetling Hall for their meeting.
The class voted to contribute
$25.00 to the painting of Professor William B. Sutliff, and $75.00
to the William B. Sutliff Scholarship Fund.

The

officers

were re-elected

for

the next five years:
Wesley E. Davies, President.
Gertrude G. Davies, Secretary.
Miss Catherine Reimard was ap-

pointed chairman of the Friday
evening party preceding the 45th
reunion in 1964.
Mrs. Martha
Knorr Niesley, Mrs. Falla Linville
Sherman and Mrs. Hazel Wayne
Shoemaker were appointed members of the committee.
Miss Good, former Chemistry
teacher of the class, was a guest at
the meeting.
Already plans are in the making
for a gala 45th reunion.
The following attended the 40th
reunion of the 1919 class:
Wesley E. Davies, president; Mrs.
Gertrude Gordon Davies, secretary;
Miss Margaret Reynolds, Mrs. Martha

Knorr Niesley, Mrs. Falla Linville Shuman, Mrs. Grace Cleaver Hartman,
Ettringham,
Fessler
Elizabeth
Mrs.
Mrs. Marquerite Zierdt Itter, Mrs. Lillian Fisher Long, Miss Sadie McDonnell,
Mrs. Hazel Wayne Shoemaker,
Mrs. Meta Warner Kistler, Mrs. Marie
Gackavan Turnbach, Mrs. Helen Egge
Kunkel, Miss Grace McCoy, Miss A.
Marjorie Crook, Mrs. Grace Kishbaugh
Miller, Miss Margaret Dyer, Miss Anna
Conboy, Miss Mabel Decker, Miss Frances Kinner, Mrs. Anna Roberts Williams, Miss Catherine Reimard, Mrs.

Elsie Perkins Powell, Mrs. Lucia Hammond Wheeler, Miss Elsie Phafler, Mrs.

Esther Reichart Schaffer, Miss Claire
Dice, Mrs. Margaret Sutton Snyder,
Mrs. Laura Breisch Rentschler, Miss
Edna Maurer, Mrs. Catherine Fagley
Marion Troutman
Mrs.
Wilkinson,
Keller, Miss Viola Fisher, Miss Mary
Belefski, Mrs. Martha Birch Cole, Mrs.
Ruth Doyle Moore, Mrs. Claire Hedden
Taylor, Miss Mary Hess.

1924
Largest turnout was that of the
class of 1924 which opened its festivities on Friday evening with a
get-together and buffet supper at
the Legion, staged a parade during
the general meeting on Saturday
morning, followed this with a tour
of the campus to view the improvements and expansions of the
past thirty-five years and then con.
eluded the program with a luncheon in the College Commons in
mid-afternoon.
Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff was the honorary marshal for
the campus parade and the guard

honor was Marion T. Adams,
Bloomsburg, and Frank Buss, Wilkes-Barre. Max E. Long, Chester,
of

was the marshal.

Music was by

twenty musicians of the Central
High Band in charge of Roy Troy.
F. H. Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock,

made

the class response.

There were sixty-eight at the
get-together and seventy-eight at
Members came from
the dinner.
throughout Pennsylvania and from
Michigan, New York and New JerRichard Morlock, Hillsdale,
Michigan, and Mrs. Morlock came

sey.

the longest distance.
Prof. S. I. Shortess

and

Mrs.

Shortess, Bloomsburg, and Miss
Jessie Patterson, FarmviUe, Va.,
were guests of the class throughS. L. Wilson,
out the festivities.

Bloomsburg,

the

class

advisor

and Mrs. Wilson
were among the honored guests at

when

in College,

the luncfieon.
Miss Patterson, a teacher in the
oldest girls’ college in the nation,
has been recognized by the State
of

Virginia

for

her

accomplish-

ments in education and given

a

certificate pennitting her to teach

long as she wishes.
Miss Helen Barrow, Sunbury,
was recently recognized by the
Freedom Foundation for her work
as

in education.

James W. Reynolds, Ashley, pre-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

sided at the luncheon and Dean
Sutliff, who was given a standing
ovation, gave the invocation. Miss
Anne Nordstrom, Wilkes-Barre,
called the class roll. All the honor-

ed guests responded briefly.
The class contributed $153.45 to
the

college

Dean

as

Sutliff.

a

testimonial

to

Shaughnessy ma de

the appeal.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Dillon
provided roses for all the class.
Novelty hats and class insignia
were provided for the busy contingent.

Attending:
Bertelle Yeager Richards. Berwick;
Catherine Creasy Huttenstine, MifflinConsuelo Fenstermaker Noz, BerMargaret Keefer Brumbach,
wick;
Eva Watters, Mifflinville;
Bangor;
ville:

Mary

Crumb, Washington, D. C.;
Johnston Banker, Binghamton, N. Y.; Beulah Deming Gibson,
Uniondale; Max E. Long, Chester;
Margaret Berlew, Kingston; Ruth E.
Factoryville;
Stevenson,
Reynolds
Christine Holmes Taylor, Alton Taylor,
Nutley, N. J.; Anne Nordstrom, Wilkes-Barre; Frances Hahn Rose, Carl
D. Blose, Bethlehem; Charlotte Parson
Haven; Leonore
Armstrong, White
Hart Beers, Kingston; Ruth Jenkins
R.

Arlene

Harris, Wilkes-Barre.

Harold R. Miller, Bloomsburg; Maude
Stover Meyer, Rebersburg; Mary Riley,
Wilkes-Barre; Alice Mulherin Davis,
Patterson,
Jessie
A.
Philadephia;
Farmville, Va.; Editha Ent Adams,
Bloomsburg; Hazel Hess Chapin, Nescopeck; Esther Sitler Seeley, Berwick;
Getha Wapues Shafer, Bessie Singer
Shaffer, Williamsport.
Viola Kline Bruch, Catawissa R. D.;
Maude Mensch Ridall, Berwick; Dora
Wilson Risley, Mr. Risley, Woodbury,
N. J.; Helen Barrow, Sunbury; Marion
Andrews Laise, Little Neck, N. Y.; Ruth
Shelbert Osburn, Springfield; Burdella
Paul Honeywell, Mr. Honeywell, PlymGaston,
outh;
Kathryn Schuyler
Eva Schuyler DeWald, Turbotville;
Edith Morris Rowlands. Jack Rowlands, Coudersport; Bertha Sonneburg
Thomas, Forty Fort; Marion T. Adams, Bloomsburg; Miriam R. Lawson,
Bloomsburg; Ruth Morris Miles, Luzerne; Mary Amesbury, Wilkes-Barre;
Eva Thomas McGuire, Trucksville V.
Mrs. Herbert
J. McGuire, Truckville;
Kinney, Nescopeck; Lena Oman Breckman, Philadelphia; F. H. Shaughnessy,
;

Tunkhannock.

Edna

Ebenezer
Gertrude
Nanticoke;
Leona Mailey
Pierce, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Wilson, Dorothy John Dillon, Harold
P. Dillon, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Jacks, Fleetwood; Emily Linskill Roberts, Westfield, N. J.; Dorothy
Peterson Marsh, Kew Gardens, N. Y.;
Lawrence R. Honeywell, Plymouth;
Edith Brace, Wyoming; Anna SingleWilliams

Williams,
Roberts,

JULY,

Williams,
Irvington, N. J.;

1959

man

Barnes,

West

Pittston;

Laura

Kahler Wendel, Forty Fort.

Frank
J.

L. Buss, Wilkes-Barre; Peter
Sincavage, Sugar Notch; W. H. Par-

tridge, Bethlehem;
olds, Ashley; Dean

James W. Reyn-

Emeritus William
Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Morlock, Hillsdale, Michigan;
Elizabeth Corrigan, Hazleton; Marie
Werkheiser Hemming, Rev. Hemming,
Tremont; Ruth Beaver Lindenmuth,
Mr. Lindenmuth, Numidia; Sam Harris,
Wilkes-Barre; Mildred Gallagher
Vercuskey, Freeland; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Siesko, Nanticoke; Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Benninger, St. Johns; Grace
Bayler Auten, H. L. Auten, West Milton; Eleanor Derr Gilbert, Bloomsburg
R. D. 5; Mildred Fornwald Amy, Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Shortess, Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Schuyler, Miss Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg.
B. Sutliff,

had one of the largest representaThere were forty-eight at
tions.
the buffet supper at the Elks on
Friday evening and a full program
on the hill followed on Saturday.
Guests of the class were Dr.

Harvey
dent

A. Andruss, College presi-

who was

class advisor to ’34,

and Mrs. Andruss, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard F. Fenstemaker, of the
Kehr,
Marguerite
Dr.
faculty;
Washington, D. C., long time dean
of women, and another retired faculty member, Edwin A. Reams,
Whittier, California.

Robert VanSickle was the master
ceremonies at the luncheon and
toward Kreitzer, now dean of instruction at Lebanon Valley Colof
i

1929
The class of 1929 held a luncheon at the Elks at noon Saturday

one of the highlights of

as

its

thir-

year reunion. Dr. Nell Maupin and Miss Edna Barnes of the
faculty were honored guests. Mrs.
Virginia
Dawe Welker, acting
president, presided and reports
were submitted by Mrs. Iiortense
tieth

Evans Hagenbuch, secretary, and
Mrs. Lucille Martz DeVoe, treasurer.
There was a moment of silence in tribute to the memory of
deceased
members.
Tentative
plans were made for the thirty-fifth
reunion.
Sixty
members
and
guests were present and all of the
class

attending responded

briefly

to the roll call.

Among

those attending were:
Mr. and Mrs. William Hester, Mrs.
Alda Cotner Arner, Donna and Ronald Arner, Marion E. Young, Mrs. Marian Hoegg Carter, Mrs. Myrtle Hoegg
Hayes, Mrs. Georgiena Wiedner, Ethel
Moore Harvey, Doris Johnson Stewart,
Oliver Williams, Myron D. Moss, Esther
Harter Bittner, Paul H. Bittner, Mrs.
Stephen Charnitski, Elsie Lebo Stauf-

Mrs. James Dackeray, Mrs. Walter
Kocher Williams, Alberta Williams Green.
Howard, Douglas and Wayne Green,
Ida Hensley Wallace, Donald Wallace,
Margaret Bower Bacon, Franklin Bacon, Florence Drummond Wolfe, Harvey Wolfe, Charlotte Mears Davis, Rachael Gething Anthony, Martha Laird,
Mary Laird, Antoinnette Carmen Decker, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Creasy,
Lester Levine, Sara Adams Ermish, Lufer,

Covert, Lenore

Martz DeVoe, Virginia Dawe WelMargaret Kleback, Mrs. Susan K.
Procik. Mrs. Hortense Evans Hagenbuch, Claire Brandon.
cille

ker,

sponded.
All the class officers were in
attendance: Howard Kreitzer, president; Katherine Yale Graham, vice
president; Jeon Phillips Plowright,
secretary, and Rachel Beck Malick,

treasurer.

At the program in Noetling Hall
on Saturday afternoon motion pictures were shown on commencement, May Day, athletic events
and of other happenings during the
college days of the class.
Scrap
books containing newspaper accounts of class activities were circulated.

The

reunion
committee was
of Esther Evans McFadFlorence Hartline, Kathryn

composed

den,
Yale Graham, Dorothy Phillips
Richards,
Rachel Beck Malick,
Mary Dewald Elder, Grace Foote
Conner, Robert VanSickle, Alfred
Miller,
Howard
Kreitzer
and
Woodrow Aten.

Attending were:
Frank Chudzinski, Utica, N. Y.;
Ralph McCracken, Riverside; Ruth
Williams Young, William H. Young,
Wilkes-Barre;
John W. Partridge,
Pennsauken, N. J.; Daniel J. Malone,
Wilmington, Del.; Betty McGoldrick
Troy, Scranton; Howard M. Kreitzer,
Annville; Mrs. Grace Swartwood, Arnold Embleton, West Pittston; Florence
S. Hartline, Bloomsburg; Lillian Robenholt, York; Mrs. Sarah James Dymond, Pittston; Mrs. Florence Pieri
Drucis, Mt. Carmel; Harriet Spotts,
South
Williamsport;
Peg
O’Hara
Coyne, Dunmore; Thalia Barba Snyder, Danville; Althine Marshman Adey,
Allentown.

1934

The twenty-five year

and president of 34, introduced the guests. All members relege

class

one of the busiest on the

hill

was
and

Roberta Conrad Fisher, NorthumberJean Phillips Plowright, Scranton; Esther Evans McFadden, Blooms-

land;

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;

burg; Mrs. Dorothy Moss Lipnick, Baltimore; Gladys Mae Wenner, Berwick;
Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, Sunbury;
Esther E. Dagnell, Spring City; Alfred
H. Miller, Bloomsburg R. D. 3; Edward
F. Doyle, Springfield; Mrs. Harriet Sutliff Herr, Palmyra; Grace Foote Conner, Bloomsburg.

Mary Langan

Spence, Jessup; EdDoyle, Springfield; Woodrow
W. Aten, Bloomsburg R. D. 3; Paul
Mudrick, Neptune, N. J.; Dorothy
Phillips
Richards, Joseph Richards,
Bloomsburg; Roman D. Koropchak,
Atlas; Carmer P. Shelhamer, Mifflin-

ward

F.

Roberta Conrad, Northumberland; Robert VanSickle, Catawissa;
Nora Bayliff Markunas, Northumberland; Anna Gillaspy, Sunbury; Kathryn
Yale
Graham, Carroll Park,
Bloomsburg; Helen Sutliff, Harrisburg;
Arthur J. Knerr, Farmingdale, N. Y.;
ville;

Harriet Spotts

Leitzell,

Williamsport;

Arden

Clain, Woodbine; Michael P.
Sopchak, Johnson City, N. Y.; Ernest
Valente,
Hazleton; Esther Dagnell,
Spring City; Ruth Williams Young,
William H. Young, Wilkes-Barre.

1939

The

1939 had a busy and
delightful time over the weekend,
highlight being a luncheon at noon
class of

the

at

Elks.

Among

session of reminiscing.
Our Secretary, Mary

ley

Fox

Al-

bano, reported she had mailed out
members with known
addresses.
There are a considerable number of names of alumni
letters to the

whom we have no addresses.
you are able to give any information regarding these graduates

for
If

Alumni Associ-

please mail to the
ation.

members

Several

sent

word they

were unable to attend. It was suggested and approved, by those attending, to have a dinner at our
15th reunion.
P.

The meeting adjourned at
M. to meet in 1964.
Members attending were:
Angelo

Albano,

Burlington,

Mary Fox Albano, Burlington, N.

Thomas, Bethesda,

five year class

J.;

J.;

W.

Kenneth Wire, Harrisburg; Shir-

had a number

back for an enjoyed weekend,

in-

cluding:

Nancy Tovey

Phillips, Danville;

Mae

Neugard, Milton; William E. Ottaviani,
Mildred; John R. Cherrington, Bloomsburg; Shirley Ev eland Henger, Berwick;
Bittner
Harshbarger,
Ferae
Yeagertown; Jeananne Evans ScrimBloomsburg;
Ann Koenfeld
geour,
Groff, Pennsauken, N. J.; Feme Soberick Krothe, Berwick R. D. 1; William J. Jacobs, Lansdale; William Edgar Nunn, Atglen;
Chester.

Edna Keim, West

1958

The

N.

Md.;

1954

The

3:30

Eldon Berry, Berwick; Richard E.
Grimes, Harrisburg; Ruth Dombroski
Krajnik, Washington, D. C.; Barbara
McNinch Hummel, Bloomsburg; Eleanor McClintock Maietta, Bloomsburg;
Frank
Radice,
Bloomsburg;
Ruth
Trimpey
Whitenight,
Dallastown;
Shirley Walters Stephens, Alexandria,
Va.;

Henley

Mary Helen Morrow Waverka, Hershey.

class

of 1958, youngest in
several on the camp-

reunion, had
us who had received diplomas just
They included:
a year ago.
James Foltz, Sunbury; Michael Bias,
Donald
Wallace, WilkesMcAdoo;
Barre; William Hughes, Edwardsville
Joseph Barros, Nesquehoning; Harold
Giacomini, Scranton; Frances Myers
Gummae, Factory ville; Randall Arbogast, Northumberland; Luther Natter,
Spring City.

those back

were:
Sara Ellen Dersham Laubach, Watsontown; Willard A. Christian, Williamsport; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P.
Koch, Bethlehem; Alex McKechnie,
Camp Hill; John P. Chowanes, Shenandoah; Leonard E. Barlih, Duryea;
Margaret Deppen, Trevorton; F. Donnabelle Smith, Bethlehem; Sara E.
Tubbs, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Engelhart
Zimmerman, Bethesda, Md.; Ruth
Kramm Moser, McEwensville; Miss
Eva Reichley, Sunbury.
Anna Orner Gutendorf, Foxridge;
Ruth Kleffman Ensminger, York; Miriam Utt Frank, York; Jean Shuman
Zehner, Bloomsburg R. D. 3; Rufh Dugan Smeal, Bloomsburg; Glenn L. Rarich, Emmaus; A1 Lipfert, Columbus,
Ohio;
Katharen Leedom Bokmum,
Whitmarsh; Fred Houck, Secane; Roy
and Dorothy Zimmerman, Bethesda,

Md.

1944

The

fifteen year class, 1944,

had

good time although no formal
program had been arranged.
a

1949
Thirteen members and guests of
the class of 1949 returned to the
campus for their 10th reunion. The
members attended the general

alumni meeting and the cafeteria
luncheon.
In
class

Room

31,

convened

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Science Hall, the
for an afternoon

.

.

.

Nerrolngg

Edward R. Herbert
Edward R. (Ned) Herbert,

burg Hospital Sunday, April 19.,
He had been a patient in the inin ill health two
stitution and
months. Death was due to complications.

A native of Eberdale, Pa., he
was the son of the late Edward
and Jane White Herbert and as a
young man attended the Bloomsburg Normal School.
In 1915 he purchased and modernized the plant of the Bloomsburg Ice and Coal Storage Company.

Bloomsburg
Methodist Church, he was also affiliated with Washington Lodge,
of

.

.

Mrs. Martha Berninger
sev-

enty-four, 216 East Seventh Street,
Bloomsburg, died at the Blooms-

A member

.

the

&

A. M., Caldwell
No. 265, F.
Consistory, Elks, Moose and Rescue Fire Company.
Surviving are a brother, Dr. W.
L. He rbert, and a sister, Miss

Maude, at home; two nieces, Mrs.
Clyde May, Bloomsburg, and Mrs.
John Kessler, Espy, and a nephew,
Robert Herbert, Bloomsburg.

Kydd

Mrs. Martha Kydd, Bloomsburg,

died

Monday, April

20,

at

the

C'har-Mund Nursing Home, Orangeville, where she has been a
guest since October 8, 1958.
She was born in Catawassa,
daughter of the late Tobias D. and
Margaret Bowdoin Berninger. She
was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas W. Kydd, approximately twenty-two years ago.
She was a graduate of Catawissa
High School and of the Bloomsburg Normal School. For many
years she served as a missionary in
China and Japan and was active in

Y.M.C.A. work in Chicago,
Minneapolis, Minn.

111.,

and

For many years she made her
in Seattle, Wash., coming to

home

Bloomsburg

in

1945.

are
two brothers,
Surviving
Aaron, Reading; Tobias B., Catawissa; two nieces, Miss Caroline
Berninger and Mrs. Harry Leiby,
both of Catawissa; two nephews,
Robert Berninger, Harding, Pa.,
and Bowdoin Berninger, Alden, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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ALUMNI NEWS
1898
Louise Lamoureux Richards lives
at 440 Main Avenue, Weston, West
Virginia. Mrs. Richards taught two
years before her marriage, after
which she went to West Virginia,

where her husband was engaged in
the lumber business. Mr. Richards
passed away in 1928.
Mr. and Mrs. Richards had five
children.
Their three sons were
graduated from Dartmouth College, and then were students at
Harvard. One daughter has a Masters Degree from Columbia University and is teaching Home Economics in her home town. The
other daughter is married and lives
in Phoenix, Arizona.
1905

Mary

Mitchell Vermorel is living
at 1000 Polk Avenue, Hollywood,
Florida.

1905

May Wolf Klegman lives at 3226
Woodvine Avenue, Los Angeles
64, California.

1910

Harold C. Box

lives at R. 3,

Lake

Ariel, Pa.

the district office staff of the Pennsylvania State Employment Service, was the speaker on “Personnel
This is a
Selection Technique.”
patterns and
discussion
of job
worker-trait profiles developed for
the broadcasting industry.
Miss Fleming is in charge of the
testing and industrial services programs which are administered by
the local PSES offices in the Scran,

She also
ton- Wilkes-Barre
area.
conducts test development studies

and gives technical assistance
employers

work.
Miss Fleming is a graduate of
Columbia University where she received her Master of Arts degree,
and has pursued numerous post
graduate courses on the subjects of
Human Behavior and Labor Problems.
A member of Tri-County
Personnel Association, she is also a
past officer and board member of
the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Greater Pittston.
Edward F. Smith, Jr., presided.
1932

1910

Grace Gillner Zane is teacher of
Special Education at the South
Canaan, Pa., Consolidated School.
1910
Sara F. Lewis lives at 26 East
Petteborne Street, Forty Fort. She
retired from teaching two years
ago.

1920
Grace E. Gotschall (Mrs. Foster
L. Pennebaker) is living in Mifflinville, Pa., where her husband is
pastor of the Methodist Church.

The Methodist Annual ConferJune changed the adMargaret Hendrickson
Krouse to 11th and Dorey Streets,
Clearfield, Pa. Her husband Ralph
Krouse was appointed to serve the
Emmanuel Methodist Church.
Mrs. Krouse is teaching sixth
grade in the Clearfield Area School
ence of

dress

Isabel

D.

They have one daughter, Edith
Jeanne, a student in the eighth
grade of Junior High in Clearfield.
1933

One

Ward

lives

at

(Mrs. Russel
360 Fair Street,

Bloomsburg.
1930

The Tri-County Personnel Association met recently at Hotel Sterling.

Miss

employment
JULY,

1959

Fleming,

Loretta

A.

security

specialist

of

last

of

District.

1926

Hummel)

to

the use of various
employment techniques. Prior to
her employment with the PSES
which began in 1938, she spent
several years in the field of social
in

of the fifty teachers recent-

awarded grants

to attend the
1959 Summer Institute for Mathematic Teachers (co-sponsored by
the University of Rochester and
the National Science Foundation)
is Charlotte Osborne Stein, class of
1933 of Bloomsburg State Teachly

ers College.

She

is

a

mathematics teacher

in

Church-

the Senior

High School

ville-Chili

Central School.

of

Mem-

bers of this group are drawn from
schools in many sections of the

United States.
1934
of Miss Mary Helen Coda, daughter of Mrs. John
Coda, Mayfield, and the late Mr.
Coda, to Robert Morris Hutton,
Bloomsburg, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. William Huton, was solemnized recently in Sacred Heart

The marriage

of Jesus

Church, Peckville, by the

Rev. Dr. Joseph G. Gilbride.
The bride is a graduate of Marywood College. Her husband received his bachelor of science degree at B.S.T.C. and his master’s

New

degree from

He

is

York University.

a teacher in the

Bloomsburg

High School.
1934

At their 25th reunion, the
bers

with

mem-

were supplied
mimeographed sheets con-

of

the

class

taining up-to-date information concerning one hundred members of
the class. The preparation of these
items was no small task, and required a lot of work on the part of
the officers and the committee.
The publication of the information
in the Quarterly will be continued
throughout the year.
Priscilla Acker McPhilomy
Husband, Charles 2160 S.
21
Way, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; two

—

W

.

“Sorry
Give my

boys, three girls; housewife.

can not attend reunion.
regards to

all.”

Elbert Ashworth
Wife, Hazel 4924 Cleveland Ave., N.
W., Canton, Ohio; one girl; division
manager, M. O. O'Neil Co., Canton,
Ohio; B. S. degree, B.S.T.C.

—

Woodrow W. Aten
Wife, Leoda

—R.

D.

3,

Bloomsburg,

Pa.; one girl; caseworker, Columbia
County, Board of Assistance; Commanding Officer of 814th Ord. Co.
(Reserve), located in Bloomsburg,
Pa. “U. S. Army Service 1941-1946,
U. S. Army Reserve 1946 present,

—

marriage,

new home nearly com-

pleted.”

Thalia Barba Snyder
Husband, Alfred (deceased)
1515
Marion Street, Scranton, Pa.; University of Scranton Night School,
Penn State Extension; Inspector
Naval Material.
“Acquiring whole

—

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——
—— ——

— —— —

new field of knowledge and skills
demanded by present position (no
claim to fame at all).”
Nora Bayliff Markunas
Island Park,
Husband, Anthony

—

Northumberland, Pa.; one boy, two
taught at Forest City, Pa., for
years; at present homemaker,
substitute teaching at Sunbury and
Northumberland. “Rearing a famgirls;

six

ily.”

Rachel D. Beck Malick
Husband, Kenneth 1017 E. Market
St., Sunbury, Pa.; taught 17 years
in Sunbury as sixth grade teacher
and building principal. For the past
3 years have been teaching one ses“Housewife,
sion of kindergarten.
summer gardner, Past Matron of
Eastern Star. At present member of
Northumberland
Cancer
County

—

and Secretary of Sunbury
Business and Professional Woman’s
Board

Club.”

B. S. degree, B.S.T.C.

Arden H. Blain

—

Wife, Frances
Woodbine, Pa.; M.
Ed. Temple University also work at
Penn
Principal
Lower
State;
Chanceford High School, Coordina-

Chanceford-Lower Chanceford
Elementary Schools. “Completed M.
Ed.
requirements— 18 hours adtor

Penn

ditional

chairman

State,
served
as
for Welfare Drives, Hos-

—

from teacher

pital Drives
advanced
to present position.”

Ann Breya Rinko
Husband, Michael

—R.

D.

2,

Seneca

Tpk., Syracuse 7, N. Y.; one girl and
one boy; teacher 7th and 8th grades,

Wyoming, Pa.

Presently housewire.
Irene Buranich Esposito
Husband, Joseph— 165 Drakes Lane,
Old Forge, Pa.; one girl, one boy;
elementary teaching, presently unemployed as far as teaching is concerned housewife. “Unable to get a
teaching position. Very anxious to
go back to teaching. I enjoyed it
very much.”

Walter

S.

Chesney

—

Wife, Mildred 130 West Avenue,
Mt. Carmel, Pa.; one boy, two girls;
M. S. New York University; class-

room
(since

(Mt.

teacher,
1946)

Carmel

department

head

Penn State Extension

—Adm’r)

Committee—Middle

,

Atlantic

Anna — 11 Shaw

York;

Street, Utica,
boys, two girls;
stock record clerk, Pa. Liquor Control
Board, 5 years, purchasing
agent; U. S. Air Force, 19 years.
Presently
supervisin g purchasing
agent, Rome Air Material Area,
Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, N. Y.
“Finding a career I really enjoy and
‘You should see my family’.”

two

Roberta Conrad Fisher
Husband, Charles Box 68, Elliot
Drive, Northumberland, Pa.; 2 year
certificate, Bloomsburg; teacher for
20 years in Northumberland, Pa.;
“Past Worthy Matron in Northumberland of Priestley Chapter Order
of Eastern Star and Former Dis-

—

Paso 22

William T. Creasy
Wife, Winifred F.— 108 West Highland Ave., Langhorne, Pa.; one boy
and one girl; M. E. Rutgers UniverScience teacher, FallsingHigh School; Science
teacher, Red Bank, N. J., High
School; School Psychologist, Trenton, N. J., where I began teaching
in the Science Dept, of Trenton
High School in 1949. I have continued graduate work at Temple University in Psychology, and am now
certified as School Psychologist in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Also
I am on the staff part-time at the
Psychology Clinic and Research
Center of the Woods School, Langhorne, Pa.
Ella Crispell Cobleigh
sity 1948;
ton,
Pa.,

—

Husband, Edward 223 Floral Ave.,
Binghamton, N. Y.; one boy; teacher Lake Twp. H. S. grades 2 and 3,
1936-36; married June 6, 1936. Substitute rural school, grades 1-6, 1954Johnson City, N. Y.
Supply
55,
1956-57, Directed Release Time Religious Instruction, grades 1-9, spon-

sored by four church denominations,
Sun200 pupils attended, 1957-58.
day School and Release Time Religious Instruction teacher.

Letha Crispell Schenck
Husband, Francis Noxen, Pa.; 3
boys;
Primary teacher for five

—

years in Monroe Township Schools;
houeswife. “I have been kept very
busy with an 8-room house, three
sons, ages 8, 15, 17. Our oldest son
belongs to the ‘National Honor Society,’ hopes to enter college this
fall for civil engineering.
I also do
a great deal of church and community work.”
Bernice Curwood Keithline
Husband, Willard 57 N. Main St.,
Shickshinny, Pa.; one boy, B. S.,
two
years
in
B.S.T.C.;
taught
Shickshinny schools, worked as teller in First National Bank 5 years,
bookkeeper and secretary at Mc“I think
Clure’s Hardware Store.
my chief accomplishment, or at
least my chief aim has been to be a

—

good mother and home maker.”

Ass’n

Frank Chudzinski
Wife,

trict 13

Evaluating

of Sec’y Schools.

New

Deputy Grand Matron of DisOrder of Eastern Star.”

trict

1936
Janice Nichols Clemens is teaching French in the Elizabethtown
High School.

1942

Dawn Osman

(Mrs. Robert Tre-

wella) lives at 138 Booreatn Avenue, Milltown, New Jersey.

1942
Katherine Ruck, 767 Park Avenue, Bound Brook, N. J., is teaching in Somerville, N. J.
1943
Mrs.
class

Marion

of ’43,

who

Wallace

Carley,
lives in Oressa,

New

York, has returned from a
two- weeks cruise of the West Indies and Panama Canal Zone. She
was accompanied by her sister.
While in Curacao, Netherlands
West Indies, they were guests of
Mr. Henry Da Costa Gomez, past
consultant to the Queen.
Their

Homeric, was the
Havana, Cuba, after the revolution.
While aboard,
Mrs. Carley won the Skeet and
Trap Shooting Championship for
which a trophy and certificate of
merit was awarded.

ship, the S. S.
first to dock in

1947
In a lovely spring ceremony per-

formed Sunday,

May

10, at fourthirty o’clock in St. Paul’s Episco-

Church, Bloomsburg, Miss
Poletime D. Comuntzis, daughter
of Mrs. D. J. Comuntzis, Light
Street Road, Bloomsburg, was united in marriage to Carl Demetrikopoulos, son of Mrs. Demetrius
Demetrikopoulous,
New Hyde
Park, L. I., N. Y.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Stanley
Koutroulithes before 300 wedding
pal

guests.

The

bride graduated from B.S.
and is part owner of The Polmon and The Texas. Her husband

T. C.

attended the
Brooklyn, N.
U. S. Navy.

In

mony

St.

Y.,

John’s University,
in the

and served

1955
double-ring cereperformed Saturday, Janu-

a

pretty

ary 31, at two-thiry in the Sixth
Street E.U.B. Church, Harrisburg,
Miss Patricia Kay Pennington,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
C. Pennington, Glen Campbell, became the bride of Donald D. Levan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling

Levan, Catawissa R. D. 1.
The Rev. E. M. Rhoad, pastor,
performed the double-ring cere-

mony.

The bride graduated from Purchase Line High School and Glen
Campbell and attended Slippery
Rock State Teachers College. Her
husband, a graduate of Catawissa
High School, received his degree
from B.S.T.C. in 1955. He also attended Pennsylvania State University.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Levan are
employed in the Governor’s office

THE

AI.ITMNI

QUARTERLY

Harrisburg.

in

2 Ross

Avenue,

They

are living at

New

Cumberland.

Leo Mullen, of Philadelphia;
eral nieces and nephews.

Ngmtlngtj

1958

Ray

Hargreaves, of Scranton,
Leffelaar,
of
Annabelle
and
were
married in
Stroudsburg,
Stroudsburg on June 21, 1958, in
the Methodist Church. Among the
several
party
were
wedding

Bloomsburg graduates.

Margaret
Walters ’54, Catawissa, was one of
the bridesmaids, and Walter IIuz
and Gus Spentzas, both from the
class of ’58, were ushers.
They have been teaching during
the past year year at Morris Hills
Regional High School, Rockaway,

New

Jersey.

Mrs. Susan R. Miller

Susan

Mrs.

R.

Clara Montgomery Bittner T9

’92

Miller,

eighty-

seven, Weatherly, died recently at

her home. She was born in Bloomsburg, July 27, 1872, a daughter of

Harvey and Anna Conner
Creveling. She resided in Weaththe late

On New

Year’s Eve, Miss Mary
Robb, daughter of Mr. and

Ellen
Mrs. Willard T. Robb, Danville R.
D. 3, became the bride of Charles
E. Dye, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Fullmore Dye, Turbotville R. D. 1.
The Rev. R. G. Hoffman and the
Rev. Russell A. Flower officiated
at the double-ring service in the

Bethany Evangelical United Lutheran Church, Turbotville.
The bride was graduated from
High
School and
North-Mont
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She is an elementary teacher in the Warrior Run School DisMr.

Dye was graduated from

North-Mont High School and is a
senior at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

1959
Millville

Methodist Church was

the setting Saturday, April 18, for
lovely candlelight ceremony

the

uniting in marriage Miss Gail Louise Blew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

the

last

forty-two

Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Dorothy Brower, a teacher in
the Weatherly school district; a
son, Conner G. Miller, Weatherly;
three grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren.

Mrs. Bertha Hacker Schnerr 17
Mrs. Bertha Hacker Seherr, 60,
413 Keystone Avenue, Peckville,

died
ness.

May

25, 1958, after a long illin Peckville, she was a

Born

lifelong resident of the

communi-

She received her training at
ty.
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and taught at Peckville and
She

is

survived by two

step-daughters and a

JULY,

1959

James and

for fourteen years in Hazleton.

She was known in this area for
writing, having published a
book of poems, “Along Old Fishing
She was preparCreek,’’ in 1951.
ing a religious book entitled “Not
My Will But Thine” at the time of
her

her death.

She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Orangeville.
’33

(Cockles)
Aldwin
D.
Jones,
head basketball coach at Technical
High School, Scranton, since 1940,

died early this year at West Side
Hospital, Scranton.

Mr. Jones, also assistant football
coach at Tech, was stricken ill last
Summer and had been hospitalized
four times since then.
tered the hospital on

and had been

sister.

in

He

last en-

February 9

poor condition for

several days.

Mary Mullen Carroll 18
Mrs. Mary F. Carroll, 37 South
Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., died on Sunday, July 15, 1956,
after an illness. Born in Honesdale,
she was the daughter of the late
James and Mary Maloney Mullen.
Her husband, John F. Carroll, died

ville.

ness.

Orangeville,

in

late

Aldwyn D. Jones

was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
was a teacher in the Poughkeepsie

Danville.
Her husband, former
student at the Pennsylvania State
University, is in the insurance busi-

of years.

was graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1919 and taught

erly

Mrs. Carroll received her
early education in Honesdale and

The bride and groom both graduated from Millville High School.
Mrs. Gordner reecived her B. S.
degree in special education at B.S.
T. C. and now is employed at the
Third Ward elementary school,

number

She was born
daughter of the

graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1892, she was
a member of the First Presbyterian
Church, Weatherly, and the HazleHer huston Chapter 248 O.E.S.
band preceded her in death in

Robert

Blew, Sr., Millville, to
Glenn T. Gordner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Gordner, also of Mill-

for a

Jennie Sharpless Montgomery. She

Fleetville.

trict.

Mrs. J. Charles Bittner, sixty,
nee Clara Montgomery, Orangeville, died Friday, March 27, at the
Bloomsburg Hospital of complications.
She had been in ill health

A

years.

1940.

1958

sev-

in 1940.

public schools, but retired about 10
She
years ago because of illness.

was a member of
Church and its Altar

St.

Peter’s

Society, also
the State Retirement Teachers Association. Surviving are a stepson,
John F. Carrol, Poughkeepsie, N.
Y.; one sister, Mrs. Alice Crowley,
Ridgewood, N. J.; two brothers,
William Mullen, of Honesdale, and

Popular with the young athletes
he trained, Mr. Jones was coach of

Lackawanna

Tech’s only two
ketball

League

Bas-

championship,

The honors were
1946 and 1950.

teams.

won

in

He was president of the Lackawanna Basketball League and
twice coached
the

in

annual

the league’s
basketball

entry

dream

game.
Mr. Jones was named Technical
basketball coach on November 26,
1940, and became the first alumnus in the history of the

Avenue School

to

Adams

be named ath-

letic coach after a Pennsylvania
Interscholastic Athletic Association
ruling calling for coaches to be faculty members. He succeeded Nor-

man W. Morgan.
Prior to assuming coaching dutMr. Jones had served four

ies,

Page 23

years at Tech as a history instructor.
Previously, he had served as
an assistant to the head football
and basketball coach at Central
High School.

He gained distinction as an outstanding athlete as a youth and
was a star football player at Technical while a student there. Later
Mr. Jones starred in basketball,
football and baseball at Bloomsburg State Teachers College where
he was graduated

in 1933.

Mr. Jones attended Penn State
University and received his master’s degree from Bucknell University.
In addition to his coaching
duties, he served as a guidance instructor at Tech.
Mr. Jones was a member of the
Tech Letterman’s Club and Scranton
Board,
P.I.A.A.
Basketball

and Football

officials.

A

native of the city, he was a
son of the late Thomas W. and
Rhoda Davis Jones. He was a
member of the Elm Park Methodist Church and the Men of Elm
Park.

Surviving are his wife, the formMiss Jessie Davis, and two
daughters, Rhoann, a student at
West Chester State Teachers College, and Bonnie, a student at Cen-

er

tral

High School.
Rev. George

George
minister

J.

of

Griffith ’42

Griffith,

the

First

thirty-eight,

Church

of

Christ, of Allentown, died suddenin his sleep Monday, March 9.
Death was due to a heart condition.
He had not been ill prior to
Sunday evening, having conducted
both morning and evening services
ly

in the

Mr. Griffith had resigned his
pastorate in Allentown effective
July 1, to accept the position of
editor of the adult publication of
the Standard Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
He had written

many

religious articles.

Surviving

in
addition to his
wife, the former Virginia Kitchen,
of East Orange, N. J., formerly of

Berwick, are a son, George, Jr.,
and a daughter, Valerie, his parents and maternal grandmother of
Wilkes-Barre; a brother of Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Louis Eglody
and Mrs. Bud Stout, of Berwick,
are sisters-in-law.

Mr. Griffith was born in Wilkesand was a graduate of Meyers High School.
He graduated
from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Eastern Christian Institute, Orange, N. J.
Mr. Griffith served in the U. S.
Infantry and received the Purple
Heart for wounds received during

Normandy

invasion.
a trustee of the Eastern
Christian College, Bel Air Maryland, and of the Christian Service
Camp, at Stillwater. He did substitute teaching in the schools in
Allentown and was teaching in a

He was

Paijc 24

Township, and Edward,
Newark, N. J.
He was a member of the faculty
of
the
Wilkes-Barre Township
schools and son of the late John
B.
“Bucky”
Freeman,
widely
known major league baseball star
and Annie Kane Freeman.
He
was a member of St. Joseph’s
Church and the Holy Name SoBarre

ciety.

Thomas E. Foust, Jr.
Thomas E. Foust, Jr., a senior
was

at

an automobile accident near Shamokin SunB.S.T.C.,

day,

killed in

December

27, 1958.

Mr. Foust was

bom

October

1937, in Danville, son of

13,

Thomas

W. and Mary Catherine Hickley
Mrs. Arvilla Kitchen Eunson

Foust.

Mrs. Arvilla Eunson, seventytwo, 398 Market Street, Bloomsburg, died recently at the Bloomsburg Hospital, where she had been
a patient for eleven weeks.
She

entire

been ill about two years.
Born in Greenwood township,
she spent most of her life in
Bloomsburg. She was a graduate
of Bloomsburg High School and
the Bloomsburg Normal School,
class of 1907.
She formerly taught
school in

New

He

resided in Danville his

life.

Mr. Foust was a graduate of
Danville High School and a senior
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
He was scheduled for graduation this spring.
Surviving are

his

parents,

Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Foust, Sr.; two
sisters, Jane and Deborah, both at
home, and his paternal grandfather, Walter O. Foust, Danville.

Jersey.

Mrs. Margaret Love Brower

Mrs. Eunson was a member of
Dr. Waller’s Bible Class of the
Presbyterian Church.

W. H. Brower, the former
Margaret Love, well-known resident of 337 College Hill, Blooms-

She was the widow of Robert
Eunson. Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Norman Cool, Culver
City, Cal.; two sons, Robert, Salem, Va., and Richard, Shelburne,
Vt.; eight grandchildren; and one
brother, Guy R. Kitchen, Middle-

burg, died Wednesday, April 8, at
the Bloomsburg Hospital where
she had been a patient for the past
ten weeks.

sex,

N.

J.

church.

Barre,

the

school for mentally retarded persons.

Harold J. Freeman
Freeman, 51, 624 NorJ.
thampton
Street,
Wilkes-Barre,
died Saturday, March 21, in GenPI.

Hospital, Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. Freeman was a graduate of
St.
Mary’s High School, Wyom-

eral

ing
Seminary and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and for
many years taught school in Wilkes-Barre Township.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Sara Lyons, Bloomsburg; a
daughter, Sally Ann; three brothers,
Joseph and John, Wilkes-

Mrs.

Mrs. Brower had been a patient
January 26
when she was injured in a fall at
her home.
She was eighty-three
years old.
at the institution since

Mrs. Brower was a graduate of
Bloomsburg Normal School.

the

She was a member of the
Bloomsburg Presbyterian Church.
She was also a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, the

Women’s

Auxiliary of

the Presbyterian Homes of Central
Pennsylvania, the Columbia County Historical Society, and the Ivy

Club.

Her husband preceded her in
Surviving is one
death in 1940.
daughter, Miss Mary E. Brower, at
home.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"SAUCERED AND BLOWED'’
E. H.

NELSON

’ll

IMPROVED DINING ROOM SERVICE
A new plan of serving meals has been in effect in the Normal dining
for several weeks and in consequence teachers and students now enjoy
privileges which are not usually found outside of hotels.

room

many

No set time is fixed for meals as formerly, but an hour and a half is set apart
for each meal, and each person entering during the first hour is served separately on coming into the room. This extension of time for meals permits a greater variety to be served than was possible under the old arrangement and a regular bill of fare

he

is

offered at each meal from which each person

is

may

select

what

desires.

Three different selections are possible at every meal and a delicate appetite
able to receive consideration impossible under the former plan of serving the

same meal

to all alike.

Thanks

to the careful arrangements of our efficient steward all the details
service were so carefully worked out beforehand that the new scheme
went successfully into effect from the very start and is now one of the regular
institutions of the school.

of the

new

A number

of

coming vacation

improvements which

be made in the kitchen during the
working of the new plan and render

will

will greatly facilitate the

possible the serving of an even greater variety.

The Bloomsburg Normal School has long been noted for its excellent and
wholesome table board. The management is firmly of the opinion that to make
the best progress in their studies students must be well nourished, and the new
is directly in line with the settled policy of the school to provide
students with the best obtainable in everything.

arrangement

its

not difficult, therefore, to explain the unusual popularity of the school
students and friends, and the new departure will only place the school
further in advance of other schools.
It is

among
still

its

The

bills of fare

served Saturday, March 9th, are given below:
Breakfast

Cracked Wheat

Ham
Beefsteak
Fried Eggs
Milk Toast
Boiled Potatoes
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Milk
Dinner
Roast Beef

Roast

Lamb

Milk Toast
String Beans

Potatoes

Corn Starch Pudding
Supper

Baked Beans

Cold Meat

Dry Toast
Crackers

Pickles

Preserves

Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Milk
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TENTATIVE CALENDAR
First

Summer

Session

1959-1960

— Three

Weeks

Classes Begin
Classes

End

Second

Summer

Session

— Three

End

Third

Summer

Session

— Three

29

Weeks

End

Fourth

Summer

Session

— Three

Monday, July

20

Friday, August

7

Weeks

Classes Begin

Classes

Monday, June

8

Friday, July 17

Classes Begin

Classes

26

Weeks

Classes Begin

Classes

Monday, June
Friday, June

Monday, August 10
Friday, August 28

End

FIRST SEMESTER
Registration and Orientation of

1959-1960

Freshmen

Tuesday, September
Wednesday, September
Thursday, September

Registration of Upperclassmen
Classes Begin with First Period

Thanksgiving Recess Begins at Close of Classes
Thanksgiving Recess Ends at 8:00 A.
Christmas Recess Begins at Closes of Classes
Christmas Recess Ends at 8:00 A.
First Semester Ends at Close of Classes

SECOND SEMESTER
Classes Begin

Easter Recess Ends at 8:00 A.

M

Second Semester Ends at Close of Classes
Alumni Day
Commencement and Baccalaureate

.

.

17

.

.

Monday, November 30
Wednesday, December 16
Monday, January 4
Saturday, January 30

1959-1960

Registration

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QUARTERLY

Vol.

LX

October 1959
,

No. 3

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
O

MAN
Mankind has

THE SPACE AGE

IN

lived through

many

We

have studied in history
the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the

ages.
of

Age

Steam, the Age of Elec-

of

tricity,

been

and the present time has
called

the

Air

Age,

the

Atomic Age, or the Nuclear Age.
Now since the Russian Rocket has
landed on the moon we are in
the Space Age.

Some people still think of
the Age of the Automobile.

this as

State

and Federal Governments are still
spending great sums of money in
hightranscontinental
building
ways. if, in time, the automobile
becomes as archaic as the horse,
these highways will be the most
expensive roller skating rinks ever
constructed by man. In fact, even
the airfields that we have at the
present time will become out of
date as we solve the problem of
vertical flight. Autogiros and helicopters are now capable of this
type of take-off.

Romans thought

that their char-

would continue for a thousand
years. Never did they envision the
time when the only place you
iot

could see or learn about the chariot would be in dusty museums or
in the pages of history books.

When

was a boy in the West,
every village, town, and even cities,
had livery stables and wagon yards.
There, horses could be taken and
left to

I

be cared for over night, or

Where are livwagon yards now?

for longer periods.

barns or
The only place you can see a horse
ery
is

at the zoo, riding

academy, or

in

hunt club. This is truly “a new
heaven and a new earth,” and we
must be willing to look at even the
a

present as past history if we are to
into the Space Age and meet
its challenges.

move

Outer space is not only plentiful,
never gets used up. Probes to
pass, reach, or orbit Venus and
Mars will now be launched, since
the Moon has been hit. A race for
it

and the second trial run of the
X-15 Rocket Plane which has been
in orbit around the earth and has
returned safely with its human
freight.

Rocketing into space

now

is

a

newspaper story, the facts of which
could have been found in any encyclopedia for the last fifty years,
it people had taken the trouble to
look.
For instance, our National
Anthem with its words we sing that
‘The rockets red glare and bombs
bursting in air give proof through
the night that our flag was still
there,” tells of a situation that ex-

Baltimore Harbor during
of 1812 when the British
warships were firing on Fort McHenry. I doubt that many Amer-

isted

the

in

war

know that these rockets were
not signals but instruments of destruction which set fires at the
point of their landing, and scared
the people almost to death. They
had a definite psychological value.
icans

The

modern

rocket

principles

were developed by a Professor of
Clark University, who, using small
amounts of money furnished by the
Institute
and the
Smithsonian

Guggenheim

Foundation,

finally

finished

experiments.

They

his

purpose of determining
atmospheric conditions rather than
for the purpose of war. Final rocket shots of Doctor Robert Goddard were held at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in Maryland, and
financial support failing, he
his
filed his papers with the Smith-

were

for

sonian Institute until they gathered dust only to be disturbed when
German Scientists began the Roc-

among them
Wernher Von Braun, now in Amer-

ket Institute in Berlin,
ica at the

Redstone Arsenal.

Using

the principles developed by Goddard, Von Braun and others, developed the V-2 rocket, which

wrought havoc on London

in latter

(.liter

days of World War II. Originally
used as a form of fire-works and
display for the amusement of people, rockets became an instrument

the

of

space is very evident with
Russian rocket hitting the
Moon, the launching of the last
Vanguard Missle at Gape Canaver-

This Space

al,

war and now

transportation
space.

are a means of
interplanetary
to

discovery.

Age

is

also an age of

Just as the parents

and

Columbus had no idea
what he was to do in 1492, so parents and teachers of modern youth

teachers of

generally

fail

to

grasp the nature

world in 1992. It is generally agreed that space travel will
he with us five hundred years after
the famous expedition of Columbus and his crew. But what are
parents and teachers doing to prepare the child of 1959 for the world
of 1992? Far too often the movies,
4 .V., comics and picture books give
a conglomeration of fantasy, halftruth, and truth. Isn’t it about time
that teachers begin to help children sift the facts from the fiction
about space travel? What are we
trying to do to help teachers, busy
as they are, to keep up with students in their knowledge of this
Space Age? Even the small fry
are familiar with the current developments of rockets, satellites,
of the

moon

missiles,

and plans

for space

exploration.

ago, on October
1957, the Space Age began, and
we were greatly frightened by the
first satellite.
Has Sputnik sputtered out?
got into a great dith-

About two years

4,

We

and examined our educational
system, and finally decided that it
was too expensive to make changes.
We would rather spend money on
er

wider roads for bigger
cigarettes, hospitals

cars, liquor,

and sewer

sys-

tems rather than on schools. Now,
with the visit of Krushchev and
his plan for total disarmament, are
we going to lapse into lethargy and
think that the Space Age developments for purposes of peace will
not entail changes in our school
system?

Pennsylvania Department
Public Instruction has given
some thought to the development
of an area of study for those preparing to become high school
teachers in the field of Earth and

The

of

Space Sciences. Some schools, a
few, have moved General Science
from the ninth grade to the eighth
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LX,

October, 1959

No. 3
t

New Members
In preparing for the largest enrollment in the history of the
Teachers College, the Hoard of
Trustees authorized President Harvey A. Andruss to add to the in-

structional staff.

Many
and

graduate schools, colleges,

are represented.
the colleges and universities are: Cornell University, Columbia University, Washington and
Jefferson College, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania State University,
Indiana University, Syracuse
New
University
of
University,
Mexico, Bowling Green State Unisersity, Oklahoma State University, Iowa State College, University
of Pittsburgh, Indiana State Teachers College, Terra Haute, and Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa., and Villa Maria Coluniversities

Among
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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

’12

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

lege, Erie, Pa.

Of

THE ALUMNI

this

group, nine are associate

professors, five are assistant professors,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

and two are

instructors.

This

the total College staff of
full-time faculty members to eighty-two, while it is expected at least
an equal number of part-time cooperating teachers in the high
schools of the surrounding area
will be used for student teaching.
The student-teaching centers this
high
will
include
year
three
schools in Williamsport, and high
Danville,
in
Berwick,
schools
brings

PRESIDENT
E. H. Nelson, ’ll
146 Market Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith,

T8

56 Lockhart Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig, ’37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Fred W. Diehl,
627

Bloom

Lewisburg,
MonMilton, with the
prospect of additions during the
second semester if the enrollment

Bloomsburg,

toursville

and

requires.
In addition,

’09

Street, Danville, Pa.

special education
students in the field of speech correction will be assigned to the of-

of the Faculty
fices

the

of

dents

County Superinten-

Pottsville

in

for

Schuylkill

Williamsport for Lycoming County, and possibly in
Bloomsburg for Columbia County.
Other students who are doing student teaching in the field of special education for the mentally retarded will be assigned to the State
Mental Hospital at Selinsgrove, Pa.
These students will be housed in
the institution and will remain
there on a full-time assignment for

County,

in

one semester.
Cooperation with the Geisinger
Hospital in the matter of speech
therapy, following oral and nasal
surgery, will be continued as in
former years.

David J. Mullen
David J. Mullen, a teacher in
public and private schools in Pennsylvania and New York for seven
years, has joined the faculty of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers

Col-

lege as Associate Professor of Education and/or Psychology. During
the past year, he was awarded a

$3,000 scholarship from Teachers
College, Columbia University to
continue his graduate work.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. Mullen was graduated
from the South Hills High School
in that city in 1944, and served
for the next two years as an aerial
gunner with the U. S. Army Air
Force in the South Pacific Theater.
He enrolled at Indiana State
Teachers College shortly after
World War II, and was graduated
with a Bachelor of Science degree
in Secondary Education.
During
the next four year, he taught class-

Edward F. Schuyler, ’24
236 Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.
H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
242 Central Road, Bloomsburg Pa.

Charles H. Henrie,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Elizabeth H. Hubler,
14

West Biddle

OCTOBER,

1959

Street,

’38

’31

ON THE COVER
New members

left to right: John A.
E. Gibbons, Evelyn Gilleft to right: Henry R.
George, J. Calvin Holsinger, Allen B. Lee, Charles R. Strong, Calvin Israel,
Matthew H. Hohn, Carl T. Kendall, Rex E. Selk, Charles H. Carlson.

of the College faculty.

Front row,

Enman, Myrrl H. Krieger, Susan Rusinko, Helen
Second row,
christ Sachs, Frank E. Peterson.

Gordon, Pa.

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and coached football, basketand baseball at Shady Side
Academy, Pittsburgh. While at
Shady Side, he began a program
es

3,

ball,

5.

graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh, and earned the
Master of Education degree in
ol

In September of that year,

1955.

Mr. Mullen accepted a position as
Reading Specialist and Science
Consultant in the Public School

System of Scarsdale, New York.
During his three years at Scarsdale, he attended Columbia University

part-time,

work there with

culminating his
full-time study

last year.

Mrs. Mullen

is die former Roseof Pittsburgh.
The
Mullens have a four-year-old son
and twin daughters, two-years-old.

mary Eckles,

Dr. Matthew H.

Hohn

Matthew H. Hohn, Associate
Curator of Limnology since 1956
at the Philadelphia Academy of
Dr.

Natural Science, has been appointed to the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College as As-

sociate Professor of Biological Science.

Prior to entering military service
in 1943, Dr.
Hohn earned the
Bachelor of Science degree at Indiana
State
Teachers
College.
After three years in the air corps
and infantry, he accepted a teaching position at the New Bethlehem
High School. In 1947, he began

graduate work at Cornell University, served as a teaching assistant,
and earned the Master of Science
degree in 1949. During the next
two years, he completed the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Cornell and was
an instructor in Botany. He began
his tenure at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1952 as Assistant

and two daughters, aged 6 and

Mrs. Myrrl H. Krieger
of Mrs. Myrrl
H. Krieger as Associate Professor
of Art at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College was approved re'
cently by the Board of Trustees.
xYIrs.
Krieger has
taught at
Pennsylvania
State
University,
Lock Haven State Teachers College, and in the public schools of
Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born in
Cincinnati, and attended elemnetary and secondary schools there
before entering the University of

The appointment

Cincinnati. At die latter intitution,

she earned the Bachelor of Science
degree in Applied Arts, die Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education, and the Master of Education
degree.
During the past summer
she attended Pennsylvania State
University, completing the requirements for the doctor’s degree. Her
dissertation is concerned with the

exchange of children’s drawings
between foreign countries.
During the

summer

of 1958, she visited the schools in Germany which

participated in her study, and
spent an additional three months
touring fifteen nations in Europe.
Her experiments in encaustic
painting have been the subject of
several newspaper articles.
Encaustic painting and fused glass
pictures are both rated as profes"
sional hobbies by Mrs. Krieger.
She hopes to introduce this exploration of materials to her art classes at

Bloomsburg.

Stanton, Penn-

married to
the former Eleanor Freas of Clarion, also a
graduate of Indiana
College.
The
Teachers
State
Holms have two sons, aged 8 and

two
years, he has been working toward
the Doctor of Education degree at
Columbia University.
After two years of military serv-

Hohn

Dr.

is

a

member

of the

American Society of Limnology
and Oceanology, the Society of
Sigma Xi, the Atlantic Estaurine
Research Society, and Phi Sigma
Pi fraternity.

A

native of
Dr.

sylvania,

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2

New
Hohn

is

with the U.

and

Charles H. Carlson
Charles H. Carlson, a native of
California and a former teacher in
the jiublic schools there, has been
appointed Associate Professor of
Music.
Mr. Carlson was educated in the
elementary and secondary schools
of his home town of Kingsburg,
California.
He was granted the
Bachelor of Arts degree by San
College (California),
Jose State
and received the Master of Arts
degree at Teachers College, Col-

Curator.

ice

umbia University,

for the past

S.

Army

in

Japan

Korea from

1951-1953, Mr.
Carlson accepted a teaching position in the elementary and secondary schools of Fort Jones, California; he left tiiere to accept a
position in the Union High School,
California, and remained
there until he began his graduate

Sutter,

program

at

Columbia University.

His professional affiliations include membership in Phi Mu Al-

pha Sinfonia,
Kappa Delta

music fraternity;
and Phi Delta

Pi,

Kappa. Mr. Carlson lists photography and travel as his hobbies.
Charles R. Strong
Charles R. Strong, a native of
Oklahoma and a graduate of Oklahoma State University, has been
appointed Temporary Instructor in
Business Education at tire Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Strong attended the elementary
and secondary schools of

Duncan, Oklahoma, won

his Bachelor of Science degree in January,

and has completed all the
course requirements for the Master
of Science degree at Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. During both his undergraduate and graduate work, he
has majored in accounting.
Be1959,

fore beginning his undergraduate
studies at Oklahoma, Mr. Strong
completed a year of military service with the United States Army.
The Strongs have one child, a
Mrs. Strong,
son, age one year.
the former Patricia McGuire, of

Woodward, Oklahoma, was awarded the Master of Science degree
in Business Education from Okla-

home

State University in 1958.

Dr. Allen B. Lee
Dr. Allen B. Lee, a former member of the faculty of Washington
end Jefferson College, has been
appointed Associate Professor of
Social Studies.
A native of

New Kensington,
Pennsylvania, Dr. Lee attended
the Mt. Vernon elementary school,
the Parnassus Junior High School
and was graduated from

New

Ken-

sington High School before entering the University of Pittsburgh in
1948.
He interrupted his college
career to serve for three years in
the United States
TIIF,

Army

Infantry;

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

his military service he atthe rank of sergeant, and
taught in the Army Information
School.
He returned to the University of
Pittsburgh, completed the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree, and, a year later, in 1956, was
awarded the Master of Arts degree. From 1955 to 1958, he taught
as a graduate assistant and continued working on the master and
doctor’s degrees. While serving on
the faculty of Washington and Jefferson College during the past
year, he
finished his graduate
study at Pittsburgh and received
the Doctor of Philosophy degree
in June, 1959.
Dr. Lee is a member of the American Association of University
Professors, the American Political
Science Association, the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science, Phi Sigma Alpha (honorary political science fraternity),
Phi Kappa Delta (honorary forensic fraternity), and the Pennsylvania Political Science and Public

during
tained

Administration Association.
Dr. and Mrs. Lee are residing at
244 Penn Street, Bloomsburg.

degrees from Indiana State Teachers College, Teerre Taute, Indiana,
and received an honorary Doctor
Golden
of Science dgree from
State University (Denver, Colorado) in 1958. Pie holds professionthe American
and
Association
the Society of American Bacterio-

memberships

al

in

Pharmaceutical

During World

War

II, he
with the
Fleet Marine Force in the South
Pacific Area.
The Kendalls have two children,
a son, 13, and a daughter, 12. Mrs.
Kendall is the former Florence
Dusznski, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

logists.

served

for

four

years

was employed

as senior bacteriol-

ogist, responsible for the testing of

Mead Johnson and

products, with

Company

in

Evansville,

Indiana.

During the following two years, he
worked for the Continental Pharmacal Company of Cleveland,
Ohio, in the capacity of Technical
Director, responsible for new products, including one now being
tested for reversing the aging process of senility.
While teaching
at Indiana State Teachers College
last year, Mr. Kendall served as an
Industrial Personnel Consultant in
the Electronics
dustry.

and Chemical

In-

Mr. Kendall holds the Associate
Science degree from Vincennes
University (Indiana), the Bachelor
of Science and Master of Science
in

OCTOBER,

1959

Israel are the par-

two daughters, Susannah

of

and Archer.
John A. Enman
John A. Enman, a member of
the faculty of Washington and Jefferson College for the past eleven
years, has been appointed Associ-

Professor

ate

of

Geography and

Earth and Space Science at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColIege

‘

A
setts,

native of Newton, Massachu-

Mr.

Enman

tary school in

attended elemen-

New

York City, and

professor of
English was approved recently by
the Board of Trustees.
He is a
former member of the faculty at
both Lehigh University and the
Pennsylvania State University, Al-

attended York High School (York,
Maine) and DeWitt Clinton High
School in New York City. He was
awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology by the University
of Maine in 1943, and received the
Master of Arts degree in Geography from Harvard University in
1948. A candidate for the Doctor
of Philosophy degree at the Uni-

toona Campus.

versity of Pittsburgh,

Calvin Israel

The
Israel

appointment
as

of

Calvin

assistant

A

native of New York City, Mr.
Israel
received the Bachelor of
Arts degree (cum laude) from the
College of the City of New York.

During his undergraduate years,
was a Melville scholar and the
lecipient of the Ralph Weinberg
Memorial Poetry Prize. While at
Lehigh University, he taught as a
lie

Carl T. Kendall
Carl T. Kendall, a former member of the faculty of Indiana State
Teachers College and an industrial
bacteriologist, has been appointed
Assistant Professor of Biological
Science at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
From 1953-1957, Mr. Kendall

Mr. and Mrs.
ents

member

of the English staff, edited Lehigh’s literary magazine,
‘Quintain,”
and completed his
work for the Master of Arts degree
in English and American Literature.
The topic of his thesis was
“A
Critical
Study of Melville’s
‘Benito Cereno’.”
At the present
time, he is continuing his graduate
study at the Pennsylvania State
University, and is currently writing
a novel.
He has published poems
in magazines and several of his

dealing with Samuel Johnbeen published.
Frm 1941 to 1945, Mr. Israel
served as a civilian technician to
the Office of Strategic Services.
From 1946 to 1951, he was an international representative for the
Congress of Industrial OrganizaFollowing his graduation
tions.
from New York’s City College, he
began his two-year stay at Lehigh
University and was a member of
the Penn State faculty during the
articles,

son, has

past college year.

ly finishing

he is currenta thesis on “The Effect

of Coal Mining and Coke Making
on the Settlement Pattern of the

Connellsville

(Pennsylvania)

Bas-

During World War II, Mr.
Enman served from 1943-1946 in
in.”

the United States

Army

as a topo-

graphic draftsman attached to the
Air Force.
He spent two years
overseas, mostly in India, and was
discharged with the rank of sergeant.

Mr.

Enman

is

professionally af-

with the American Association of American Geographers,
the Pennsylvania Council of Geography Teachers, and served from
1947-1957, in executive and advisory capacities with the Washfiliated

ington

County Geography Study

Group.

His vocational interests
include water-color painting, photography, sailing and hiking.
Mrs. Enman is the former Betty
Ann Buckels of Houston, Pennsylvania.

Henry R. George
Henry

R. George, former assist-

ant Professior of Social Science at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, has rejoined the faculty
after a year’s leave of absence for

graduate study at Syracuse University.
His appointment as Associate Professor of Social Sciences
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3

and/or Social Studies was approved recently by the Board of Trus-

and the Columbia University
Speech Clinic.

tal,

A

tees.

A

native of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, Mr. George taught for five
years in schools in this country and
abroad before coming to Bloomsburg in September, 1957.
In 1942, following graduation
from high school, he entered the
Armed Forces. Following his discharge, he enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh, and was awarded, in 1950, the Bachelor of Arts

degree in Education. His program
of study was interrupted in 1951
when he accepted a position with
of Engraving of the
United States Steel Company. A
year later, Mr. George went to tire
Near East to work two years for
Saudi Arabian government at Jeddah. In 1954, he returned to the
United States to join the faculty of

the Bureau

He conSwissvale High School.
tinued his graduate study at the
University of Pittsburgh, and earned the Master of Letters degree in
1956. While teaching at Swissvale
and later at Bloomsburg, he began a program of study leading to
the dootoral degree.
Mr. George has traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and the Artie,
and has had many contacts with
large groups of people, including
lecture appearances before social,
religious, civic, education and business groups.
Frank E. Peterson

The appointment of Frank E.
Peterson as Assistant Professor of
Special Education has been ap-

proved by the Board of Trustees.
For the past three years, Mr.
Peterson has been working in
Clearfield County Schools as a
representative of the Bureau of
PennsylSpecial Pupil Service,
vania Department of Public Instruction.
Prior to that, he taught
two years in the Bucks County
Public School Service Center and
served for a year in the Westchester County Schools of Scarsdale,
Hartsdale and Tucahoe, New York.
He has also done clinical work at
the Presbyterian Medical Center,
the New York School for the Hard
of Hearing, the Lexington School
for the Deaf, St. Barnabus HospiTape

4

graduate of the public schools

Warren, Pennsylvania, Mr. Pet"
erson holds the Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the
State Teachers College at Edinbero, Pennsylvania, and the Master of Arts degree from Teachers
College, Columbia University; he
has done additional graduate work
at Columbia, and is curentlv comof

pleting his studies for a doctor’s
degree at the Pennsylvania State
University.

During World War

he served
and 9th
Air Forces in the European Theater, attaining the rank of master
II,

for 2V2 years with the 8th

sergeant.

Mr. Peterson is a member of the
American Speech Association, the
Pennsylvania Speech Association,
the American Speech and Hearing
Association, the Lions International; he is an Institutional representative of the Boy Scouts of America.

Mr. and Mrs. Peterson are the
parents of two sons: Mark, age 10,
and Wayne, age 6. Mrs. Peterson
is
the former Elizabeth Helen
Leech, of Roxboro, Pennsylvania.

Miss Helen E. Gibbons
Miss Helen E. Gibbons, a teacher for the past seven years in high
schools and colleges in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana, has
been appointed Associate Professor of Business Education and Supervisor of business student teachers at the Bloomsburg State TeachIn addition to her
ers College.
teaching experience, Miss Gibbons
has done secretarial work for private business firms, and, while an
undergraduate student at Villa
Maria College in Erie, Pennsylvania, served for four years as student secretary to the Dean of the
College.
A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of its public
schools, Miss Gibbons won several
honors as a student at Villa Maria
College, while earning the Bache-

Science degree with a major
area of study in business education
lor of

From
in English.
1951-1954, she taught business education at the East Lawrence High
School (Volant, Pennsylvania), beand a minor

gan and completed graduate work
leading to the Master of Education
degree at the University' of Pittsburgh, and taught business subjects for a year each in evening
classes at

New

School and the

High
Casde Busi-

Castle Senior

New

ness College.
From 1954-1956, Miss Gibbons
was a member of the faculty of
Hood College, but left to accept a

two-year graduate assitantsliip at
Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana).
During the past year,
she was granted a fellowship by
the University’s School of Education so that she could remain there
to finish her doctoral dissertation.
She has approached her topic
“Factors That Influence the Excellence of Supervising Teachers in
Business Education” through an intensive study of selected supervising teachers who are currently employed by Indiana University, Ball
State Teachers College, and Indiana State Teachers College.
Miss Gibbons is a member of the
following professional and honary
organizations:
National Business
Teachers
Association,
Indiana
State Teachers Association, American Associationo f University Professors, Delta Pi Epsilon, Pi Lamba
Theta, Kappa Gamma Pi, and the
Association of Student Teaching.
While at Villa Maria, she was
named to “Who’s
Among Students in American Universities and
Colleges.”

Who

J. Calvin Holsinger
Calvin Holsinger, a cooperating teacher at Bowling Green
State University (Ohio) for the past
three years, has been appointed
Assistant Professor of Social StuState
the Bloomsburg
dies
at
Teachers College.
A native of Western Pennsylvania, Mr. Holsinger received both
the Bachelor of Arts and Master
of Arts degrees from the UniverJ.

sity of Pittsburgh,

and

is

currently

doing graduate work in history

Temple University

to

meet the

at
re-

quirements for a doctor’s degree.
For the past three years, both
Mr. and Mrs. Holsinger have
taught in the Bowling Green, Ohio,
Mrs. Holsinger
school system.
Holsinger
Mr.
taught Spanish;
taught in the History and English

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Largest Enrollment At College
The enrollment of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College as of
September 15, 1959, was 1599. Of
this number 488 live in the town of
Bloomsburg, 515 are housed in the
College dormitories, and 596 commute to Bloomsburg daily from
their homes.
the largest enrollment in
the history of the college to date.
Theer are 849 men students and
750 women students, which is a
ratio of fifty-three per cent of men
students to the total enrollment.
It is expected, according to President Harvey A. Andruss, that the
relative number of men will increase as soon as the new men’s
dormitory is ready for occupancy.
At one time, following World War
II, there was a ratio of two men
for each woman, but this situation
is not likely to be repeated.
The total enrollment for the
fourteen Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges is now available.
It
evident that Bloomsburg has
is
out-stripped Millersville in total
enrollment for the first time in
many years, and is the fourth larg-

This

est

is

Teachers College in Pennsyl-

Departments, and served concurrently as cooperating teacher in
the student teaching program at
Bowling Green State University.
Prior to this tenure at Bowling
Green, he was Professor of History
for six years at the Central Bible
Institute College in Springfield,
Missouri.
Mr. Holsinger’s interest in college life has not been limited to
classroom teaching. While a student at the University of Pitts-

burgh, he helped organize an interdenominational
group
study
known as the Pitt Christian Fellowship and was active in various
campus service groups.
From
1956-56, he served as a member of
the executive committee and as
magazine editor of the national

Chi Alpha university organization.
For his contribution to this program, he was listed in the Midwest
Section of “Who’s Who In America.’’
He has also been honored
by Burton College with a Doctor

OCTOBER,

1959

vania, with larger enrollments only
at Indiana,

West Chester, and Cal-

ifornia.

Located near the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, respectively,
Indiana, with 2,901 students, and West Chester, with 2,California,
121, lead the group.

which

is

within

commuting

dis-

ADVANCED DEGREES
The following BSTC graduates
received advanced degrees at the
193rd Anniversary Commencement
at Rutgers University, Wednesday,
June 3, 1959:
William L. Bitner
Lane, Fanwood, N.

J.

19 Estelle
(BS 1956)

Ed.M.
Russell C. Davis, Jr., Cragsmoor,
N. Y. (BS 1951) E.M.

tance of suburban Pittsburgh, has
1,827 students.

III,

205 Talmadge
Brunswick, N. J. (BS

Larry R.

Fiber,

New

Street,

Teachers College enrollments, in
Pennsylvania, have increased almost one-third in four years, while
Bloomsburg has increased fortythree per cent in the same period.

Violet B. Hassell (Mrs.), 1700
Yardley Road, Morrisville, Pa. (BS
1936) M.L.S.

The Senate has approved Gov.

Leonard A. Jasczak, 35 Furber
Avenue, Linden, N. J. (BS 1950)

Lawrence’s appointments of two
Pennsylvanians
the
to
board of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

Ed.M.

central

Confirmed as members of the
college board of trustees were Sam
M. Jacobs, Danville, Montour
County, and Leo S. Dennen, Turbotville, Northumberland County.
1910
Elizabeth Reeder Fisher
near Milford, New Jersey

is

living

The

Hollsingers have a sevenmonth-old daughter, Coradella.

J.

Gilchrist

The appointment

of Evelyn J.
instructor in education and assistant dean of women
at the Teachers College, was approved recently by the board of
trustees.
Her duties at the college
include teaching classes in professional
orientation,
interviewing
freshmen students, and supervising
senior women students who are
living in the town.
Gilchrist,

Lawrence

R. Ksanznak, 9 MadiHamilton, N. Y. (BS

son Street,
1953)

Ed.M.

Edward

P.

Main

Palushock, 154

Fern Glen, Pa. (BS 1955)

Street,

Ed.M.
Robert I. Price, 5 Wilshire Road,
Metuchen, N. J. (BS 1953) Ed.M.
Willis Swales, Jr., 422 Jensen
Avenue, Rahway, N. J. (BS 1950)
Ed.M.

gan her graduate study that

of Literature degree.

Evelyn

Ed.M.

1956)

as

at the University of

New

fall

Mexico,

Albuquerque.
During her two years of graduate study, she served as a counselor at the university and at the
Albuquerque Child Guidance Center, as an employee of the Saudia
Corporation, and as a counselor at
the New Mexico Speech Clinic in
Albuquerque.

In the spring of 1959, Miss Gilcompleted a research problem on “Personality Patterns and
College Backgrounds of a Group
christ

of Engineers at

Albuquerque,

New

native of Trevorton, Pa., Miss
Gilchrist attended Garfield Elementary School and Patterson Jun-

Mexico.”
She was awarded the
Master of Arts degree in Counseling and Guidance at the University

High School in Pottsville, and
was graduated from the Pottsville
High School. She completed the

of

A

ior

requirements for the Bachelor of
Science degree in Business Education

at

the

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College in 1957, and be-

New
Her

Mexico

in June, 1959.

with professional
organizations include membership
in the American personnel and
Guidance Association and the New
Mexico Association for Deans of
affiliations

Women.
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5

1958-1959

Addresses Student Body
In a recent address to the BSTC
student body, the Honorable Joseph S. Clark, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, said that
the United States must make a far
greater investment in education if
it is to win “the battle of brains’’
with the Soviet Union.

“And
central

the battle of brains is the
battle of the whole cold

war between freedom and communism,” he said.
Speaking to the students and
faculty of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, the Senator
reviewed the nation’s need for expanding the educational facilities.
“I hope the Bussian moon-shot
will shake the American people
once more into realizing that the
Communists are ahead in some
fields of knewledge and education
and are rapidly gaining on us in

many

Senator Clark said.
is putting ten
to fifteen per cent of its national
resources into education. We are
devoting five per cent to that purothers,

“The Soviet Union

pose.

If this

disparity continues,

obvious which side
come out on top.”
is

is

it

going to

He said these figures were taken
from a report by a party of leading educators

who

visited the So-

Union, headed by President
Eisenhower’s Commission of Education, Lawrence G. Derthick.
The Pennsylvania Senator cited
an estimate by the White House
Conference on Education made
four years ago that the total expenditures on education must be
doubled to take care of a greatly
increased school populaion and
viet

overcome existing deficiences.
“That means raising total expenditures from about $20 billion
to about $40 billion.
But money
cn that scale simply cannot be obtained entirely from state sales
taxes and local property taxes.
It
will not be raised without making
use of the Federal Government’s
greater fiscal resources,” he asser-

probably be adopted
early next year.

He

in the

Senate

said he

had

an amendment, co-sponsored
by twenty-one other Senators, to
add a provision for $125 million in

filed

long-term, low-interest loans for
construction of college and university facilities.
This provision was
sponsored this year by Senator
Clark as an amendment to the

Housing

Bill

and was approved

twice by both Houses of Congress.
After President Eisenhower vetoed

both housing bills, partly because
of the Clark amendment to which
he objected, the provision was
dropped from the third housing
bill

which was passed.
said these measures could be

He

educational legislapending, Senator Clark
said that a bill providing one billion dollars in grants to the states

for

Page

school
6

construction

would

this number, 278 were from Luzerne County, 259 from Columbia
County and 257 from Northumberland County.

An

increase in the relative

num-

ber of students from southeastern
Pennsylvania is also noted in the
report.
During the 1958-1959 college year, there were seventeen
students from Philadelphia Coun-

from Delaware Counfrom Bucks County, and
thirty-three
from
Montgomery
County.
Schuylkill County, for
the first time, exceeded thelOO
ty, thirty-six
ty, thirty

mark with 113 students. Fortyseven of the sixty-seven counties
of Pennsylvania were represented
in the student body.
Fifteen stu-

These priorities, which will depend
on future action taken by Congress
and the President, are: adequate
salaries and working conditions for
teachers; adequate facilities for
teaching; scholarships and loans

students enrolled in the Division of
Business Education and four hundred thirty-three in the Division of
Elementary Education; the Division of Secondary Education topped the other two with a total of
five hundred eighty-nine students.
Over seven thousand students were
in the classrooms of schools in
which Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Seniors did student-teach-

for students. In terms of the needs

education he listed the
need for funds to build classrooms
and then dormitories.
for higher

The marriage

Holy Trinity Lutheran
at
Church, Berwick, by the Rev. A.
W. Lawver.
The bride graduated from the
High
School and
Bloomsburg

29,

BSTC and
tary.

from

is employed as a secreHer husband was graduated
Berwick High School and

Stevens Trade School, Lancaster.

He

is

room

came from areas outside the
Keystone State.
There were four hundred fifty
dents

ing.

Miss Barbara
Watts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Watts, Bloomsburg, to
Tom Huntington, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William C. Huntington, Berwick, was solemnized Friday, May
of

employed in the composing
The Berwick Enterprise.

of

Reviewing

new

report for the
college year ending May 31, 1959,
shows that the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College had a total enrollment of 1,489, of which seventeen were part-time students.
Of

paid for without raising taxes or
incurring a deficit by a drive on
tax evasion and by closing unfair
loopholes in the tax laws.
Senator Clark enumerated three
priorities which are badly needed
to improve our education process.

ted.
tion

ENROLLMENT

The enrollment

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your class in this issue of The
Quarterly? Please help the Editor
by sending in news.

This is the largest enrollment in
the history of the College, and is
more than double the average enrollment prior to World War II.

A

$25 Conservation scholoraship

was awarded

to Russell Schleicher,

East First Street, Bloomsburg, by
the

Directors

County

of

the

Columbia

Conservation District.
The scholarship paid part of tire tu
ition cost for the three-week teacher’s course in conservation education given each summer at PennMr.
sylvania State
University.
Schleicher, a professor at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has
long been interested in the conSoil

servation field.
The course, recently completed by him, will provide additional background material for his use.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ON TOUR OF MOROCCO

To Share In Borrowing
In Central Pennsylvania, twelve
colleges and universities have been
granted $412,798 in Federally-Aid-

ed Student Loans.
This means,
that for every $9.00 contained in
the Federal Allotment or Grant,
the college, through its Alumni Association, or its students, or out of
its own budget, will have to raise
$1.00 to supplement the $9.00 furnished by the Federal Government.
Thus the 32,000 students
enrolled in the twelve colleges will
nav an opportunity to share in the
borrowing of approximately $450,000 in the college year 1959-1960.

The maximum

allocation

which

may be

received by any college is
In the Central Pennsyl$250,000.
vania area, Pennsylvania State University received a grant of $229,164.

Among

the
other
colleges
received
$26,412,
Bucknell $24,147, Franklin and
Marshall $19,421, Elizabethtown
$17,318, Dickinson $17,090, and
Shippensburg $11,652; other colleges in this area received amounts
of less than $10,000.

Bloomsburg

A student can take up to ten
years to repay the loan at 3 per
cent interest, beginning the year
after graduation. Those who teach
will be forgiven up to 50 per cent
of the debt, or 10 per cent for each
year they teach, up to five years.
The Federal Government

will

pay

for the written off portions of those
teachers debts. Colleges have the
expense of administering these
loans.

In addition to the National Defense Student Loans, there are also
loans available to juniors and seniors
at
the
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, amounts varying from $200 to $300, which can
be borrowed from the Alumni
Loan Fund. These loans are payable directly after graduation by
small installments and do not require the payment of interest.
While the colleges can lend up
to $1,000 a year for tuition, living
expenses, books, and equipment,
there is a ceiling of $5,000 as a

maximum

to

be loaned

to

any one

student; from the National Defense
Loan Fund; the demand is so great

OCTOBER,

1959

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College that the local institution
at the

has developed a policy which provides that not more than $500 may
be loaned to any one student. This
will

be continued

as the great
this

until

demand

such time

for loans of

character has been met.

An announcement by

the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges
and Universities indicates that tuition in the State has increased on

an average of $35.00, whereas in
the State Teachers Colleges, the
basic fee has been increased from
$144 to $200 per year. This means
an increase of $56.00, this amount
is
greater than the average increase.

In addition to student loans
available from the National Defense Education Act and also from
the Alumni Loan Fund at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, there are also scholarships; in
the past, these have been paid
from the profits of the Retail Book
Store and the Husky Lounge. The
program is administered by a committee whose chairman for a number of years has been Dr. Kimber
C. Kuster; the other members of
the committee are the Dean of Instruction, John A. Hoch; Dean of
Women, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller;
and the Dean of Men, Walter R.
Blair.
It is expected, that at the beginning of the second semester, the
volume of work having to do with
the lending of money to students,
the assignments for employment
purposes, both on campus and offcampus, and other personnel problems in an institution which is now
nearly 1,600, will require the appointment of a new administrative
officer to coordinate all these activities. This officer is to be known

the Dean of Students; he will
coordinate the activities of the
Dean of Men and the Dean of
Women, with their various assisas

tants, both on campus and offcampus, and the Freshman Orientation Program, as well as the
counselling services which students need in the early social development as well as in academic

adjustment.

Dr. Barbara J. L. Shockley of
the Department of Social Studies
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College left July 28 on the Helvig
Torm (Danish) for Casablanca,

Moocco. Dr. Shockley was accompanied by her husband, Commander Lawrence R. Shockley, U. S.
Navy (retired). They met their
older son, Lieutenant Lawrence R.
Shockley, Jr., U. S. Navy, who took
leave to accompany his parents on
a tour of Morocco and southern
Europe in Lt. Shockley’s car.
Dr. Shocley visited the Council
Europe at Strasbourg, France.
Dr. Shocley, who is listed in Current Research on Central and Eastern Europe of the Mid-European
Studies Center as one of the outstanding scholars and teachers engaged in research and studies of
the European area, is the author
of “Conventions of the Council of
Europe with Special Reference to
the Concepts of Nationality and
Status: A Documentary History,”
(1958). To date, two other persons
have written studies on the Coun-

of

Europe, Sir Winston Church“European Movement and the
Council of Europe” (1949) and A.
H. Robertson’s ‘The Council of
Europe” (1956).
While she was in the area, Dr.
Shockley examined some sixteenth
and seventeenth century Spanish
documents to complete a research
study upon which she has been
working since 1948. As Dr. Shockof

cil

ill’s

ley

explains

it,

reading

sixteenth

and seventeenth century Spanish

—

with her Pacific Island dialect —
is like trying to read Chaucerian
English.
This study was started
when Dr. Shockley was working
with the Department of Education,
United States Department of the
Navy, in Guam and Far Eastern
areas.
Frist
Lieutenant
Gordon E.
Shockley, U. S. Marine Corps, visited his parents in Bloomsburg
prior to leaving for duty with the

Homme

U.S.S. Bonne
Richard (in
the Pacafic area) as Executive Officer of the Marine Detachment of
the U.S. Bonne
Richard

Homme

Marine Honor Guard.

Have you made a
Fund?

contribution to

the Bakeless

Page

7

Buildings Constructed
Two new

buildings, constructed

and equipped at a cost of nearly
one and one quarter million dollars, will become a part of the attractive campus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
January, i960. William Boyd Sutlitt Hail, a classroom building, and
and New North Hall, a dormitory
for male students, are being added to the college plant in keeping
with a comprehensive and longrange campus plan developed by
Ur. Harvey A. Andruss, President
of tire College.

meeting of the Bloomsburg
Club nearly two years ago,
Ur. Andruss described plans for
campus expansion necessary to ac-

At a
liotary

commodate
of students

the increasing number
who apply for admis-

sion to the “Friendly College” each
Ur. Andruss predicted, at
year.
rhat time, an enrollment of 2,000
students by 1970; it now seems
quite likely that the number of students will exceed 2,000 well before
the year 1970.
Sutliff Hall will house fourteen
classrooms along with offices for
faculty members, and will cost
more than $550,000.00 when completed in January, 1960. Six modem classroom-laboratories will be
located on the first floor, including
a physics laboratory with a darkroom for photographic arts; a
chemistry laboratory; a botany and
/.oology laboratory; a geography
and earth science laboratory with
a ceiling planetarium; a basic
physical science laboratory; a basic
biological science laboratory with
a step-in refrigeration space for
the preservation of specimens used

in instruction.

The

eight classrooms and six facon the second floor will
be used largely by the Division of
Two of the
Business Education.

ulty offices

rooms
be equipped for typing
classes, two for classes in accounting,
two for general classroom
use, one with office machines, and
one as a business education labwill

oratory. Faculty offices, with

mod-

ern furniture and equipment, will
also serve as models for students
in clerical and stenographic office

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8

At

practice courses.
The new building will help to
alleviate
somewhat the critical
need for instruction areas to keep
pace with a rapidly growing enrollment. In September, 1958, the
college enrolled 1378 students; advanced registrations currently incate an enrollment of nearly 1600
students in September, 1959, with
at least fifteen more members being added to the college faculty.
A recent survey of classroom assignments, for the first semester of
the 1959-1960 college year, showed that overall classroom use ex-

ceeds seventy per cent; this is more
than twice the figure of 35 per cent
which was revealed recently as the
average optimum use of classroom
space by colleges throughout the
nation.

New

North Hall
male students and

house 200
will have cost
approximately $650,000.00 by the
time it is ready for use when the
second semester begins. This will
provide new and modem living
quarters for more than 70 men who
will be housed in Old North Hall
during the first semester, as well
as rooms for freshmen who will
enter college during the second
semester.
Dormitory space will
also be avaible to some students
who now have to commute daily
from their homes outside the
Town of Bloomsburg. With the
increase in enrollments during the
first and second semester, and the
prospect of evne greater enrollment in the years immediately
ahead, it seems likely diat the need
for rooms in private homes, in the
Town of Bloomsburg, will continue near the present level.
The new dormitory will include
will

special
lobbies,
well-furnished
study rooms, an expanded recreation area, student laundry, post office boxes, an apartment and office
for the Dean of Men, storage space
and a receiving station.

Both buildings,, designed to
blend with the general architect-

B. S. T.

dows
room

C.

and

in the dormitory

class-

buildings are designed to
utilize the maximum amounts of
natural light and ventilation. Landscape plans will be in keeping with
the patterns which have evoked
admiration from students, towns-

people and

visitors alike.

INCREASE IN BASIC FEES
An

increase in basic fees from

$72 to $100 per semester will be
paid by each student enrolled in
the Teachers
College, effective
with the opening of the new term
in September, 1959, Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss, president, announced.

The increase in fees was approved by the Board of Presidents
of the fourteen State Teachers
Colleges in Pennsylvania, and has
received the approval of the College Board of Trustees and the
Superintendent of the Department
of Public Instruction in Harrisburg.
Steadily mounting costs
during the past two years, including increased plant operations and
costs of instruction, necessitated
the increase in fees.
Both new students and returning

upperclassmen

were

notified

by

mail that there would be an increase in the basic fee in September. In line with the increase, the
fees paid by out-of-state students,
who attend Pennsylvania State

Teachers Colleges, will be increased from $240 to $268 per semester.
There has been no change in the
special fee paid

by students

in eith-

er the business education of special

education curriculums.

ARCUS’
FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

—Berwick

Arcus,

’41

styles
of
existing campus
buildings, are constructed of brick
anti modern fire-proof and fireModern winresistant materials.

ural

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

$2,500

Philadelphia Alumni
The 28th annual spring dinner
meeting oi the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Alumni Association ol Philadelphia was held at
MoAllister's, 18ll Spring Garden
Street, Philadelphia, on Saturday,

J., could not atMrs. Irish sent greetings and
said this on only the second dinner
meeting she has missed through
the years.
She is honorary president of the Philadelphia Associa-

April 25, 1959.

tion.

Guests
President,

and

Vice
Saunders.

were

greeted

by

the

Miss Kathryn Spencer,
President,

Mrs

.

Ruth

Mr. Robert Rowland was introduced as master ot ceremonies and
welcomed Uie members and guests,
atter which he introduced Ur. and
iVlrs. Is. ii.

.Nelson, president ot the

Ceneral Alumni Association.
Mrs. Uallas Raer gave the invocation.
A delicious dinner was
enjoyed by thirty-live members

and guests. Alter dinner, Ur. iN elsou spoice on matters concerning
uoilege and Alumni Association. A
rum snowing activities at the College on

iiome-Commg Uay

in the

lan ol 19oS was also snown.
special mention was made to the
man representing the oldest class,
Mr. William Watkins, 1900, Philadelphia.
The lady representing
the oldest class, Mrs. Edgar A.
sneliy, luOo.
loungest class represented, man, Mr. uuther C. Natter, 19 o 8; lady, he tty mirnham Rassel, 1040. Greatest number ol years
teaching, man, Ur. is. ±i. Nelson,
J91JL;
lady,
Mary Southwood,
1908.

the

iollowing

members

Camden, N.

Irish,

tend.

A short business meeting was
held with a report being given by
the treasurer.
The group presented a gift of money to the Student
Fund.

The

president thanked

all

who

worked with her for their cooperation and all those present for for
attending. The meeting closed with
the singing of the “Alma Mater.”

ana Mrs.

Graham

’2b,

is.

The first Placement Follow-Up
Study of bloomsburg Graduates
was completed in 1942 by Mr.
Rhodes, who was able to contact
over 1,000 graduates from the ten
year period beginning 1931 and
ending 1940. These Follow-Up
Studies have been continued to the

Landsdowne,

present day.
After six years as Principal of
the Old Model School in Noetling
Hall, Mr. Rhodes was also the first
Principal of the Benjamin Franklin
Laboratory School, which was
opened to children in 1930.
For some years after his retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes spent
their winters in Florida and California; having sold their home on
Light Street Road they made their
permanent home in St. Petersburg,

Pa.

Secretary —
Mrs. Charlotte F. Coulston ’23

693 Arch Street
Spring City, Pa.
Treasurer —
Miss Esther Dagnell
217 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

’34

and

Florida.

The

Betty

n. jNelson, Laura S.

Burnham

Kosell

Burdick Sinquett 10,
Leitzel
btreamer 12, Emilie
Gladhill 12, Edwinna Wieland
18, Ralph S. Hart 18 and Mrs.
Marjorie R. Penman ’09, Jean M.
Louella

4o,

Messages were read from several

members who could not be present
due to illness, Mrs. Lillie Hortman
1959

Fund

provides

sum of $2,500 is exhausThis Fund will be administered by a committee composed of
the President of the College, the
President of the Alumni Association, and the Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Loans.
until the

Nikel
Teal
Hart,

Linner.

Scholarship

that $200 shall be awarded annually to students, preferably male,

Lena

Penman, Mary Southwood ’08, Ruth Albert Baer 15, Elmira S. Linner, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert J. Rowland ’36, Ruth
Garney Sauders ’20, Luther C. Natter
’58, Esther
Dagnell ’34, Kathryn M.
Spencer 18, M. Ruth Hardie ’20, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Baatman, Mrs. Edgar
A. Shelly ’05, Mr. and Mrs. Max Long
’24, Lena Oman Buckman
’24, Margaret Butler Minner ’23, Charlotte Fetter Coulston ’23, Mr. and Mrs. George
E. Kenney, William Watkins ’00, John

OCTOBER,

Training.
Prolessor Earl N. Rhodes joined
the College faculty in 1923, and
had charge of the general supervision of all student teachers for
twenty-one years. For four years,
prior to coming to bloomsburg, he
was Director of the Training
School at the State Teachers College in Salem, Massachusetts.

Officers for 1959:

President —
Miss Kathryn M. Spencer T8
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.
Vice President —
Mrs. Ruth Garney Saunders ’20
234 East Greenwood Avenue

guests attended:
or.

FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Mrs. Louise Rhodes, who recently passed away in St. Petersburg,
Florida, has given in her will a
sum oi $2,500 for scholarships to
be awarded to students at the
bloomsburg State Teachers College in memory of her husband,
Uie late Earl N. Rhodes, who was
lor many years the Director of

ted.

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

1924

Maud Mensch

Ridall

and hus-

band, Maurue, 1625 Lincoln Avenue, Berwick, Pa., became grandparents to two boys, Douglas Jay

and Dennis Ray, born August 10,
1959, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Horsefield, of

Berwick.

The

other grand-

child, Michael, entered first

grade

this year.

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9

DEAN'S

LIST

- SECOND SEMESTER -

The Dean of Instruction of the
College, Mr. John A. Hoch, has released the following names of students who have qualified for the
Dean’s List for the second semester
1958-59.
These students have a
quality point average of 3.5 or better for the second semester 1958-59
and an accumulative average

of at

least 3.0 while in attendance at this
college.

FRESHMAN
Joseph, 588 Monego Street,
Street, Hazleton, Pa., Hazleton Senior

Beltrami,
H.S.

Bingaman, Janet, 363 Priestley Avenue,
Northumberland, Pa., Northumberland Area H.S.
Bingaman, Janis, 363 Priestley Avenue,
Northumberland, Pa., Northumberland Area H.S.
Brooker, Elizabeth, 338 Maple Avenue,
Drexel Hill, Pa., Upper Darby Joint
1,

Tunkhannock,

Tunkhannock H.S.

Harry,
100 Leonard Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa., Bloomsburg H.S.
Jones, Carol Lee, 141 West Shawnee
Avenue, Plymouth, Pa., Plymouth
H.S.
Jones,

Thomas, 510 Ash Street, Ridgway, Pa., Ridgway Area Joint H.S.
Karlovich,
Raymond,
401
Market
Street, Trevorton, Pa., Mt. Carmel
H.S.
Kerlish Kathryn, 331 Grant Street,
Berwick, Pa., Berwick H.S.
Lagunas, Patrick, 523 Warren Street,
Scranton, Pa., Scranton Center
,

McWililams, Nancy,
Street,

Rose,

227

Fetterolf, Patricia, 328 Church Street,
Catawissa, Pa., Catawissa H.S.
Foust, Wayne, 100 River Street, Forty
Fort, Pa., Forty Fort HS.
Fritz, Joan, R. D. 4, Benton, Pa., Ben-

ton Joint H.S.
Goss, Edith, 352 Cliveden, Glenside, Pa.,
Abington H.S.
Henry, Margaret, 329 East White Street,
Summit Hill, Pa., Summit Hill H.S.
Houseknecht, Robert, 359 East Water
Street, Hughesville, Pa., Hughesville
H.S.
Johnstone, Robert, 497 West Main
Street,

Bloomsburg, Pa., Bloomsburg

H.S.

Edna,

Beavertown,

Pa.,

West

Snyder H.S.
Kline, Elaine, McClure, Pa., West Snyder H.S.
Keiser, Edwin, Chestnut Street, Bechtelsville, Pa., Boyertown Area H.S.
McHenry, Lowery, 201 East Eighth
Street, Berwick, Pa., Berwick H.S.
Schaefer, Barbara, 587 Lincoln Street,
Hazleton, Pa., Hazleton H.S.
David,
Stout,
West Street,
317y2
Bloomsburg, Pa., Newport Twp. H.S.
Wassel, Marion, 614 South Street, Freeland, Pa., Freeland H.S.
Wolchesky, Eileen, 419 West Green
Street, Hazleton, Pa.,

West Hazleton

Reiger, Cevenia, 67
Cressona, Pa., Blue

Shultz, Carimar, 336

JUNIOR
Andrews, Jeanette,
land H.S.

Thomas

Bartlow, Linda, New Albany, Pa., Wyalusing Valley H.S.
DeBrava, Joanne, 105 Ashburne Road,
Elkins Park, Pa., Chattenham H.S.
Ehrenfried, Norman, 51 Spring Street,
Weatherly, Pa., Weatherly H.S.
Francis, Albert, 223 Fairview Street,
Schuylkill Haven, Pottsville H.S.
Galetz, Yvonne, 517 Tarding Avenue,
Shillington, Pa., Gov. Mifflin Joint
H.S.
Heddings, Patricia, P.O. Box 87, Montandon, Pa., W. Chillisquaque H.S.

Street,

East 8th Street,
Berwick, Pa., Berwick H.S.
Smeltz, Shirley, R. D., Lykens, Pa., Upper Dauphin H.S.
Smith, Sterling, 31 North Maple Street,
Mt. Carmel, Pa., Mt. Carmel Joint.
Tankalavage, Frank, 36 North Lehigh
Avenue, Frackville, Pa., Butler Twp.
Treon, Jerry, 335 Linden Street, Sunbury, Pa., Sunbury H.S.
Weslosky, Barbara, 1708 Maple Avenue,
Shamokin, Pa., Coal Twp. H.S.
Whaite, Judith, Hop Bottom, Pa., Hop
Bottom, H.S.

Main

Street,

Twp. H.S.

Patynski, Walter, 415 Harrison Avenue,
Shamokin, Pa., Shamokin H.S.
Stanell, Marie, 13 North Jardin Street,
Shenandoah, Pa., J. W. Cooper H.S.

Baylor,

Jill,

R. D.

1,

Sunbury, Pa., Sun-

bury H.S.
Bittenbender,
Street,

Janet,

Bloomsburg,

275
Pa.,

East

6 th

Bloomsburg

H,S.
Brosius, James, 1036 East Oak Street,
Frackville, Pa., West Mahanoy Twp.
H.S.
Carson, Connie, Light Street, Pa., Scott
H.S.
Fine, Orville, 23 Spring Street, Glen
Lyon, Pa., Newport Twp. H.S.
Fleck, Mary Wahl, 205 Park Avenue,
Milton, Pa., Milton Area Joint H.S.
Greenland, Sue, R. D. 1, Pittston, Pa.,
West Pittston H.S.
Henninger, Glenn, R. D. 1, Paxinos, Pa.,
Shamokin H.S.
Janetka, Carl, 224 Garden Avenue,
Horsham, Pa., Upper Moreland H.S.
Lazo, Joan, Butler Terrace, Freeland,
Pa., Foster Twp. H.S.
Lechner, Rita, 26 Vine Street, Danville,
Pa., St. Cyril Academy.
I.esher, Stanley, 661 Garfield Street,
Hazleton, Pa., Weatherly H.S.
Longo, John, 74B North Iron Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa., Hazleton H.S.
Malarkey, Eugene, 148 West Main
Street, Girardville, Pa., St. Joseph
H.S.

Marcy, Dorothy, R. D.

1,

Dalton, Pa.,

Benton Twp. H.S.
Reed, Frank, 437 East Center Street,
City,

Pa.,

Mahanoy

City

H.S.

Bloomsburg, Pa.,

Mountain Joint.
Rinehimer, Marilyn, R. D. 1, Wapwallopen, Pa., Newport Twp. H.S.

112 East

Mifflinville, Pa., Mifflin

Mahanoy

H.S.

1

2,

Bloomsburg H.S.

Pa.,

SENIOR

East Raspberry
Street, Bethlehem, Pa., Liberty H.S.

Upper Mudberry
Danville, Pa., Shamokin H.S.

Ranee, Carol, R. D.
Central H.S.

Bloomsburg,

Mowery, Elmer,

SOPHOMORE
Patzinger,

Kern,

H.S.

Brown, Harriet, R. D.
Pa.,
Cole,

Williams, Janet, R. D., Catawissa, Pa.,
Roaring Creek Valley
Williams, Kay, 112 Pennsylvania Avenue, Watsontown, Pa., Watsontown
H.S.
Yocum, Nancy, 1020 West Walnut
Street, Shamokin, Pa., Coal Twp. H.S.

1958-1959

Osecola, Pa., Elk-

Patricia, 203 Edwards Drive,
Brookhaven, Pa., Chester H.S.
Ide, Jeannette, R. D. 1, Sweet Valley,
Pa., Lake-Noxen Joint H.S.
Little,
Jo Ann, 447 Market Street,

Glatts,

Reed, Glenn, R. D. 1, Shamokin, Pa.,
Trevorton H.S.
Romig, Ronald, 310 East 4th Street,
Boyertown, Pa., Boyertown H.S.
Schilling, Sara ,708 Center Street, Ashland, Pa., Ashland H.S.
Shaffer, Lena, R. D. 2, Sunbury Pa.,
Sunbury Area Joint H.S.
Smith, Jane, 204 McLean Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., E. L. Meyers H.S.
Sprout, Elizabeth, 63 Washington Boulevard, Williamsport, Pa., Williamsport H.S.
Swider, Stanley, 721 Wilson Street,
Chester, Pa., Chester H.S.

Thornton, Mary Ann, 103 Arch Street,

Shamokin, Pa., St. Edward H.S.
Trudnak, June, 2411 Upland Street,
Chester, Pa., Chester H.S.
Turner, Janet, Noxen, Pa., Lake-Noxen
H.S.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ACQUIRED LAND

MAN

IN

THE SPACE AGE
(Continued from Inside Front Cover)

grade so that Earth and Space Science studies can follow the General
Science based on Chemistry,
Physics, Botany

and Zoology.

Bloomsburg State Teachers Colis planning to offer an area of
at least eight courses in Earth and
lege

Space Science.

This will include
materials formerly taught in certain phases of Geology, Astronomy,
Meteorology, Climatology, Spherical Trigonometry, and Navigation.
This is not the whole story. Pupils beginning with Grade 1 must
learn to read about those things
that they talk about out of school.
The whole vocabulary of our language is being increased by the addition of certain terms that follow
the general thinking of this generation.

Parents and teachers must

show

their interests in the Space Age by
insisting that schools and teachers

and administrators give youngsters
an opportunity to read and learn
about those facts which appear
daily in our newspapers, radio procrams, T.V. programs, and comic
books. This will mean that teachers coming into the field each year
and those teachers now teaching
will require additional preparation.

This will cost money!
to

complete

no longer

just

er countries
will

need

in

a

If

we

world which

are
is

one planet, with oththis planet,

we

more time and

at-

now on

to give

tention to problems of the earth in
this

Space Age.

Blessed are the educated for they
shall inherit the earth — if they
meet this challenge.

Another step toward the expansion of the physical assets of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been noted with the acquiring of a tract of land, 160 feet
along Light Street Road and 145
feet in depth, from Harry A. Heiss
by the General State Authority.
The property is on the Light
Street side of the home of the College president and now gives the
institution practically all of
the land in that area up to Chest-

local

nut

street.

Under
tion,

the plans of the institulooking forward to a plant

large

enough

to

accommodate

2,-

000 pupils by 1970, the property
purchased from Mr. Heiss at a cost
of $23,500 will someday be part
of the College athletic field.
It
is shown on plans that were released sometime ago that the site now
occupied by the home of the president is to be put to other use and
probably will also be part of the
athletic field.

On the tract purchased by the
State Authority is a two and a half
30x60 concrete building
which the former owner used as an
automobile body repair shop, a six
room dwelling and a two-car gar-

story,

PRESIDENT

age.

The concrete building will provide for the present a storage place
for six automotive vehicles of the
college and for which there has
been no garage since the old barn
was torn down to make room for
one of two buildings now under
construction.
The house will give
the institution another residence on
campus. The uses of these buildings, however, will be only temporary for in the overall plans the
site is designed for other use.

DOES YOUR CLASS HAVE A REUNION ON

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.

ALUMNI DAY?

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Telephone STerling 4-1677

START

OCTOBER,

1959

NOW TO PLAN FOR IT!

Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

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11

ALUMNI

THE

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre Area

Prank Taylor

Alton Schmidt

COLUMBIA ACOUNTY
Berwick, Pa.

Burlington, N.

PRESIDENT

J.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street

Harold H. Hidlay
Bloomsburg, Pa.

John Dietz

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Southampton, Pa.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Eleanor Kennedy

Mrs. Mary Albano
Burlington, N. J.

Espy, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER

Paul Martin, ’38
710 East 3rd Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Walter Withka
Burlington, N.

Mr. Peter Podwika,
565

’42

Monument Avenue
Wyoming, Pa.

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Harold Trethaway,
1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

J.

’42

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling, 53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPIIIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,

’32

Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

1903

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, ’16
611 N. Summer Avenue
Scranton

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer,
259

Margaret L. Lewis,

Race Street

11051/2

TREASURER
Mr. W.

LUZERNE COUNTY

Homer

Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

’28

West Locust Street

Scranton

Middletown, Pa.

Pa.

4,

TREASURER
’ll

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue
Scranton

’34

Pa.

4,

SECRETARY
’32

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

4,

Pa.

Hazleton Area

PRESIDENT
Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street
Hazleton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7
147 Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams,
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

’18

TREASURER
McHose Ecker,
785 Grant Street
Hazleton, Pa.

Mrs. Lucille

1901

Margaret E. Funk (Mrs. Harry
Grant) is now living at 204 North
Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
1910
Blanche Mertz Bergen
from teaching this year.

retired

1923
The President and Board of Directors of Staley College, Massachusetts, voted in February to confer upon Margaret Bittner Parke,
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12

Professor
Brooklyn College,
at
their highest award — Doctor of
Art of Oratory, Honoris Causa —
because of outstanding achievement as an Educator and Author.
This degree was awarded on May
22, 1959.

’32

dish dinner was served to the following:
Helen Hower MacNaught, Warwick,
R. I.; Annie Bronson Seeley, Drums R.
D., Pa.; Mary Kline Johnson, Millville
R. D., Pa.; Rachael Evans Kline,

of the Class of

Orangeville, Pa.; Ruth Geary Beagle,
Danville R. D. 5, Pa.; Elma Major, Dallas R. D., Pa.; Emily E. Craig, Catawissa R. D. 3, Pa; Sarah Levan Leighow,
Catawissa R. D. 3, Pa.

1923 enjoyed a very pleasant day
at the home of Sarah Levan Lei—
how, Catawissa R. D. 3, Pa., on
June 20, 1959. A delicious covered

Those belonging to the group
but not present were:
Lillian Derr Kline, Orangeville
R. D. 1, Pa.

1923

The Rural Group

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ALUMNI

THE
MONTOUR COUNTY
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Mr. Edward Linn,
R. D. 1

’53

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

Dornsife, Pa.

Mr.

’53

VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas E. Sanders,

Danville, Pa.

’55

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Miss Eva Reichley,

Miss Alice Smull,

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

PHILADELPHIA AREA

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
3603-C Bowers Avenue
Baltimore 7, Md.

312 Church Street
Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

’39

PRESIDENT
Miss Kathryn M. Spencer T8
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.

NEW YORK AREA

TREASURER
Miss Saida Hartman,
4215

Brandywine
Washington

’08

W.

Street, N.
16, D. C.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Miss Fiances A. Cerchiaro,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. George Murphy, ’16
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

614 Market Street
Sunbury, Pa.

’05

Miss Susan Sidler,

’24

V

Street S.E.
Washington, D. C.
1232

1412 State Street
Shamokin, Pa.

SECRETARY

Ruth Garney Saunders ’20
234 East Greenwood Avenue

Mrs.

’50

638 Wyoming Avenue
Elizabeth, New Jersey

Landsdowne, Pa.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Charlotte F. Coulston
693 Arch Street

Springer, ’57
136 West 3rd Avenue
Roselle, New Jersey
J.

’23

WEST BRANCH AREA

Spring City, Pa.

PRESIDENT

TREASURER

SECRETARY -TREASURER
J.

’54

Jason Schaffer,

Miss Esther Dagnell
217 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street

Roselle Park, N.

PRESIDENT

Mr. Clyde Adams,

VICE PRESIDENT

Mr. Dale

WASHINGTON AREA

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

R. D. 1
Selinsgrove, Pa.

’34

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,
Lewisburg, Pa.

’56

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,
769

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

’29

King Street

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue

E.

Brown,

’10

Lewisburg, Pa.

Leona Williams Moore, Simsbury R. D. 1, Conn. Leona talked
to each one present by telephone.
Rachel Benson Mitchell, Springdale R. D. 1, Pa. Rachel and her

husband

spent

the

summer

in

Alaska.

1929

Mildred Ann Goodwin is living
in the San Diego area, California.
She taught in Nanticoke from 1929
to 1944, and later taught in San
Francisco. Her husband is an officer in the U. S. Navy.
1939
Thirty-one

OCTOBER,

1959

of

the

members

of the Class of 1939 were
able to take time to come back to
their 20th Reunion.
Some came

some came late; but all were
high gear at the close of the

early;
in

evening.

We had our own meeting in Science Hall in the afternoon, followed by Open House at Ruth Dugan
Smeal’s, and concluded our day
with dinner at the Elks, where Dr.
and Mrs. Andruss were our guests.
Dr. Andruss outlined for us the future plans for B.S.T.C.
The following were in attendance: Jane Oswald Bleiler, A1 Lipfert,

113

living

Margaret

Barlik,

Eva

Deppen, Leonard

Reichley,

Sara Ellen

Dersham, Alex McKechnie, Letha

Hummel

Kinley,
Jean Shuman
Zehner, Alfred and Lois Farmer
Koch, Miriam Utt Frank, Ruth
Kleffman Ensminger, Fred Houck,
Donnabelle Smith Smith,
Sara
Tubbs, Ray and Dorothy Englehart

Zimmerman, Terza Coppes Pesto,
Anna Orner Guttendorg, Harriet
Kocher,

Chowanes,

James
Clair

DeRose,

John

Joseph
Baraniak, Willard Christian, Edith
Mae Eade, Ethel McManiman,
Ruth Dugan Smeal, Glenn Rarach
and Kathryn Ledom Bokum. Fourteen
spouses
were courageous
Miller,

enough to accompany
eds on the trip.

their belov-

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We also had letters from Lois
John Kitchen (Vermont) and Evelyn Freehafer Young (Texas).
Could someone give us an assist
in locating the following twelve
folk? If you can, please send their
addresses on to Mrs. Roland R.
Guttendorf
(Anna Orner),
444
Dernier Drive, Pittsburgh 37, Pa.:
Sarah Alice Amerman (Mrs. Dona,d Fry); Virginia Burke Traupane
and Philip Traupane; Helen M.
Derr (Mrs. Robert Price); Major
Victor J. Ferrari; C. Betty Fritz
(Mrs. Ross Tyree); Thomas O. Lew-

Nolan; Wilhelmina
E. Peel; Leonard E. Philo; Joseph
M. Stamer; and Jennis E. Tewksbury (Mrs. James P. Ogden).

is;

Richard

J.

1942

George W. Smith, Millersburg,
graduate of Shamokin High
School in 1942 and BSTC in 1947,
has been named principal of die
Loyalsock Township Junior High
School by the township school
board.
He will succeed William
M. Troutman, who resigned to aca

cept a job in Delaware.
Smith’s salary will be $7,500.

Mr.

1946

The degree of Doctor Education
has been conferred on Donald D.
Rabb, assistant professor of biology
Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, by the Pennsylvania State

at die

University.

He completed

the requirements
degree during the summer
with a dissertation on “The Selec-

for the

Regarded by
Persons Involved in Teaching and
Learning
as
Fundamental for
lenth Grade General Biology.”
tion

of

Principles

The

dissertation concerns the determination of the important principles and broad topic areas to be

given major emphasis in constructing a course of study for tenth
grade general biology.
Shortly after his graduation from
Benton Joint High School in 1940,
Dr. Rabb enrolled at the Bloomsburf State Teachers College.
His
college education was interrupted
by three years of military service

during World War II, but he returned to the campus to win his
Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education in 1946. In SepTaffc 14

tember of that year, he accepted a
teaching position at the Allentown
Veteran’s High School. In September, 1947, he joined the faculty of
the Benton Join High School and
taught there until he was appointed to the college faculty in 1957.
In 1949, he received the Master of
Science degree in Education at
Bucknell University and during
the the summer of 1952, he did additional graduate work at Colorado
Colorado.

Boulder,

University,

he attended summer sessions at the
Pennsylvania State University to
complete the requirements for the
Doctor of Education degree.

During the past

Dr.

Rabb

is

six

a

years,

member

the

of

Pennsylvania State Education Association, the National Education,
the Pennsylvania Science Teachers
Association and the National Biology Teachers Association. Dr.
and Mrs. Rabb, their two sons and
daughter, reside in Benton.
1947
(Prom the “Fanning Column”
The Morning Press)

We

of

know

that it was inMatt Kashuba’s athletic activities seem to have been
with what he will do
line
in
through most of his life. He’s still

don’t

tentional, but

devoting his energies to heights.
As a schoolboy and collegian the
lanky and amicable Matt was one
of the best high jumpers. He could
get to 6 feet, 4 inches above the
ground and in the day when he
was performing there weren’t many
who could do better. Now Boston’s John Thomas and some Russian are recorded at 7 feet or better but Matt was doing his jumping back before the space age

made

the science fiction writ-

all

ers look like the best predictors in

the land.

Matt

isn’t

more but

he’s

high

more

jumping any
active

than

with regard to activties in
atomic and interplanetary age.
He has been chosen as one of twenty to go around the country giving
lectures and demonstrations to give
the teaching of science a shot in
We know Matt will do
the arm.
a good job for he isn’t one to do
ever
this

by halves.
Matt graduated from

things

’47 after his studies

BSTC

had been

terrupted while he served the U.

in
inS.

Army
It

as a meterological operator.

was much

earlier in his collegi-

ate career that

he carried the Ma-

roon and Gold into battle in the
leading indoor meets in the country.
Matt didn’t win in this high
class competition but he always
gave a good account of himself.
We haven’t had any one on the
since who
the sport, but

had done so well in
we may have one
grooming now for the mile and
two miles.
Matt, who at one time was a
hill

member on

the faculty at Berwick,
married to the former Peggy
Kearhuff, Raven Creek, and so
keeps his area ties. The Kashubas
reside in North Plainfield, N. J.,
with two daughters, Jessie Ann,
four, and Peggie Patricia, two.
Mr. Kashuba is assistant principal of the Roosevelt Junior High
School at Westfield, N. J., and
teaches science. Recently he and
his wife spent several days in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, where he was
one of forty science teachers from
all over the nation invited for trial
is

teaching and interviews.

Matt was one

of twenty picked

to travel in various section of the

country helping science departments in the public schools to better prepare students interested in
the sciences for advanced work in
this

great field.

1950

Two

Berwick teachers are are
graduates of BSTC recently were
awarded the degree of Master of
Science in Education at Bucknell
University.

They are: Earl II. Blake, Jr., 1205
East Front Street, and Mrs. Nancy
Crumb Eves, 1600 Fairview Avenue.

They were among 77 students
upon whom degrees were conferred at the close of the summer
Mr. Blake and Mrs. Eves received their Bachelor of Science
degrees from BSTC in 1950.

term.

1952
Russel C. Brachman is now livUpon
ing in Danville, Virginia.
leaving Bloomsburg he taught for
live and one-half years in the public schools of Maryland.
He was
married in 1954 and in 1956 a
daughter Rachel was born. He
completed his graduation work in

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

August,
sity,

195S,

DeLand,

at Stetson UniverFlorida, and receiv-

ed a Master of Science degree with
a major in biology. At the present
time he is employed at Averett
College teaching general biology,
microbiology, and human anatomy
and physiology.

served six months active duty in
the U. S. Army Reserve and has
been teaching history and social
studies at Susquenita Township
Junior-Senior High School, Perry
County.
Mr. and Mrs. Biever will reside
in Mt. Holly, N. J., where both
teaching positions for the this year.

Thomas

Higgins
Jr., completed the ten-week officer basic course August 24 at the
Armor School, Fort Knox, Ky.
Designed for newly-commissioned officers, the course instructed
Lieutenant Higgins in tank gunLt.

J.

nery, combat tactics, field engineering, communications, automotive

maintenance,

map

reading

and military leadership.
Lieutenant Higgins, son of Mrs.
Mildred P. Umstead, 527 South
River Avenue, Sunbury, is a 1952
graduate of Sunbury High School
and a 1956 graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He
was employed by Miliersburg
School District before entering the

Army.
1956

Peggy

Bartjes

(Mrs.

James

A.

1803 Tower Road,
Glen Burnie, Maryland. Mr. and
Mrs. Lechner were married in
1956, and have a family of two

Lechner)

lives at

sons.

1958

The

Presbyterian Church,
Bloomsburg, was the setting recently for the lovely ceremony uniting in marriage Miss Catherine S.
Keller,
er,

First

daughter of George

J.

Kell-

Cornel, Calif., and Mrs. Eleanor

E. Keller, Bloomsburg, to Dale Eugene Biever, son of Sir. and Mrs.
Charles Eugene Biever, Jr., Harrisburg.
The Rev. Robert C. Angus, pasperformed the double-ring
tor,
ceremony before members of the
families and a few friends. White
gladioli, roses and stock were used
in the altar decorations.
The bride graduated from the

Bloomsburg High School in 1954
and BSTC in 1958.
She taught
during the past year at the Lehigh
Parkway School in Allentowm.

The bridegroom, a graduate of
William Penn High School, Harrisburg, 1954, and BSTC in 1958,
OCTOBER,

1959

sess an unusual amount of ability.
During Miss Pileski’s first eighteen
weeks she studied with the Intelligence Division of the Naval College.

Miss Pileski was graduated from
She did
in January, 1959.
her student teaching at Berwick
High School. Previous to entering
the WAVES she was a clerk in
Ritter’s Office Supply.

BSTC

1956

Army 2nd

these Annette ranked in the top
To be selected
part of the class.
ior this training, a girl must pos-

1959

The 1959 Graduating

Class of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, consisting of 310 Graduates, has found employment in
large numbers.
Replies have been received from
ninety-five per cent of the class,
according to C. Stuart Edwards,
Director of Admissions and Placement. Of this number eighty-four
per cent are teaching, and eleven
per cent are either married women
not available for teaching, in the
Armed Forces, or Graduate School,
or have accepted employment in
other occupations than teaching.
Sixteen members, or 5 per cent
of the class, have not reported their
present occupational status.
A large proportion of 1959 graduates going into teaching are from
the Elementary Curriculum, which
shows a ninety per cent placement
in teaching, and an over-all placement of ninety-five per cent. However, ninety-six per cent of the
business graduates are employed,
with only seventy-eight per cent
going into teaching.
The secondary teachers of academic subjects show an over-all placement of
ninety-two per cent, with eightyone per cent going into teaching
while the Special Education Curriculum shows an almost perfect
placement record of a hundred per
cent with ninety-seven per cent in
teaching and three per cent in oth
er occupations.
The over-all total of 310 gradu-

the largest class that was
granted degrees by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
will only be surpassed by the 1960

ates

is

graduating

class.

1959
of Miss Jane Anne
Smith, BSTC graduate, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson P. Smith,
Wilkes-Barre, to Charles C. James,
son of Mrs. Hannah C. James, Dallas, and the late Prof. Charles A.
James, was solemnized on Satur-

The marriage

day afternoon, August 22.
She was married in the Parrish
Street Methodist Church by the
Pev. David R. Morgan of Mountaintop, uncle of the bridegrom, as-

by Rev. Randall Woodall,

sisted

pastor.

The

bride, a

1955 graduate of

Meyers High School, was graduBloomsburg
ated
from
State
Teachers College in May. She is
a member of Kappa Delta Pi and
Gamma Theta Upsilon, professional associations.
She will teacher in
\ork High School, Yorktown, Va.,
this fall.

Mr. James is a 1954 graduate
Westmoreland High School,

of
at-

tended Mansfield State Teachers
College and was a teacher at Pennberton, N. J.
He is at present an
instructor at the Transportation
School at Fort Eustis, Va., where
he is serving with the Army.
1959
Miss
D.

1,

E. Baylor, Sunbury R.
Lamar L. Freeland, New-

Jill

and

port R. D. 1, were married Sunday, August 31, in Zion Lutheran
Church, Sunbury. Both are 1959
graduates of BSTC and will teach
in the Carlisle School District this
fall.

1959
Miss Mary Annette Pileski who
has enrolled in officer training in
the
the
WAVES,
attended
U. S. Naval College in Newport,
She was one of thirty-five
R. I.
selected for this training.

Out

of

1959
In a lovely candlelight ceremony
performed this past summer in St.
John’s Lutheran Church,
Espy,
Miss Susie Karns, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Karnes, Espy, be-

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15

came

the bride of Glen Spaid, son
of Mrs. Arthur Spaid, Bloomsburg,

and the

Mr. Spaid.
the Rev. Walter
Brandau, perfonned the ceremony

The

late

pastor,

before a hundred wedding guests.
The bride is a graduate of Scott
Township High School and attendMr. Spaid graduated
ed BSTC.
from Scott Township High School
and BSTC and is a member of the
faculty of Central Columbia County Joint Schools.

Mr. and Mrs. Spaid are living at
705 Berwick Road, Bloomsburg.
1959
Miss Janet Mae Bittenbender,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heister
Bitenbender, Sr., Bloomsburg, and
brank Jay Fritz, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Fritz, Sr., Bloomsburg,
were married in June in the chapel
of St. Matthew Lutheran Church,
Bloomsburg.
The Rev. James M. Singer, pastor,
performed the double-ring
ceremony.
from
The
bride
graduated
Bloomsburg High School in 1955

BSTC

Her
spring.
husband, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School, also in 1955,
served three and one-half years in
and from

the

U.

ployed

this

Navy and

S.

is

now em-

as laboratory technician at

Merck and

Co., Inc.

1959
In a lovely summer ceremony
performed Saturday, July 26, at the
Light Street Methodist Church,
Nancy
Miss
Jane Warburton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E.
Warburton, Light Street, was united in marriage to John Edward
Hartzel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
R. Hartzel, Bloomsburg R. D. 5.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Robert L. Cobb.
The couple will reside at 1122
Linden Street, Bethlehem.
Both the bride and groom graduated from Scott Township High
School and BSTC with degrees in

The
member

education.

business

groom,

who

is

a

brideof Phi

Sigma Pi, honorary fraternity, has
been teaching at Liberty High
Bethlehem. Mrs. HartFountain Hill
School, Bethlehem, this fall.

School

in

zel will teach in the

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1959
Miss Nancy L. Herman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh E. Herman, Williamsport, was married to
John Edward Nagle, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer S. Nagle, Allentown, in a ceremony Saturday,
August 22, at Calvary Methodist
Church, Williamsport.
Both are graduates of BSTC and
are teaching in the Allentown
schools.

The Rev. A. Lawrence Miller,
D.D., and the Rev. David L. Long
officiated at the ceremony.
1959
Miss Mary Ruth Shoop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair E. Shoop,
Orangeville R. D. 2, and Jay E.
Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Long, Sweet Valley, were united in marriage recently at Sweet
Valley Christian Church.
The Rev. Ralph Lenz officiated
at the double-ring ceremony assisted by the Rev. Kirby Jones.
The bride graduated from Benton High School and completed
evangelical teacher training course
from Philadelphia College of Bible.
She took further work in Christian
education at Central Penn Christian Training Institute. She is employed at Selinsgrove Mfg. Co.
Her husband, a graduate of Lake
Lehman High School and BSTC,
is employed as teacher of business
Area
education at
Selinsgrove

High School.

Mr

.and Mrs. Long are living at
214 East Pine Street, Selinsgrove.

1959

BSTC graduate,
recently to join the faculty at

Gary
left

S.

Fisher,

commercial teacher at the Senior High
school.
He has been chosen senior class advisor and is in co-charge
of audio-visual education and the
Jasper, N. Y.,

where he

is

The bride graduated from Berwick High School in 1955 and from
BSTC this spring. She teaches at
Orchard Street School, Berwick.
The bridegroom is a graduate of
Northeast Catholic High School,
Philadelphia, in 1953 and served
two years in the U. S. Navy. He
is a senior in business education at
BSTC.
Mr. and Mrs. Ego’s address
318 LaSalle Street, Berwick.

is

1960
Miss Nancy Jane Eroh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eroh,
Wapwallopen R. D. 2, and Steven
Anthony Fraind, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Fraind, Berwick, were
united in marriage recently at
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,

Wapwallopen.

The Rev. Arthur

Kleintop, pas-

performed the double-ring
ceremony.
The bride graduated from Nescopeck High School and from the

tor,

Geisinger Hospital School of Nursing in 1959. She is on the nursing
staff of the

Berwick Hospital.

The bridegroom,

a graduate of
is a senior at
BSTC enrolled in the business education curriculum.
Mr. and Mrs. Fraind are living

Berwick High School,

at

1409 Third Avenue, Berwick.

1960
Miss Nikki Scheno, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Scheno, Berwick, and a junior at BSTC, was
chosen as Laurel Princess to reign
over the Laurel Blossom Festival
at Stroudsburg.
Among the festivities was a ball
on June 6 at Pocono Manor and a
special outdoor

show by Fred War-

ing and his Pennsylvanians in the
Pocono Mountains Amphitheater.

yearbook.

1959
Miss Elaine DiAugustine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Massimo DiAugustine, Berwick, and Peter David Ego, son of Mrs. Margaret Ego,
Philadelphia, and the late Peter A.
Ego, were married recently in St.
Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church,
Berwick, by the Rev. Father Francis Mongelluzzi and Brother Robert

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

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Lawn.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

School in 1909 and later attended
Business School, Phila-

Schlisser’s

Npmilnyg
’93

Moyer Bray
Sara Moyer (Mrs. William Bray)
passed away in April, 1958, at the
Sara

home

of her daughter, Mrs. A. L.
Parrish, Hellertown, Pa.

Both Mr .and Mrs. Bray took
post graduate work with the Class
ot 1898, but Mrs. Bray was a member of the Class of Class of 1893.
Mr. Bray is also deceased.

Mary Ebner Groff 01
Mary C. Ebner (Mrs. C.

C.
Groff), 2255 Fifth Street, Harrisburg, passed away May 2, 1959.

Cora M. Major 09
Cora M. Major died Saturday,
August 29, in Chatham, N. J.
Miss Major was a teacher of penmanship for many years in the high
school at Camden, N. J. She later
taught other subjects in the commercial department.
After her retirement, she bought
a home in St. Petersburg, Florida.
After she became ill she came to
her brother’s home in Chatham.
She spent some time in the hospital
and in a nursing home before her
death.
She is survived by two sisters,
Miss Olive A. Major and Mrs. John

D. O’Meara, both of Lyons, N. Y.;
two brothers, Ralph B. Major, New
Milford, Pa., and Russell C. Major,
Chatham, N. J.
Neil S. Harrison 09
Neil S. Harrison, sixty-five, prominent county merchant, died at
his

home

at

Forks Sunday, Febru-

Mr.
ary 15, from a heart attack.
Harrison was carrying in wood for
his fireplace

when he was
had

stricken.

a
heart attack in 1940 and for the
past thirteen years had been in failing health.
He was a patient in
Geisinger Hospital for eight weeks

Mr.

Harrison

suffered

last fall.

Born July 28, 1891, in Fishingcreek Township, he was the son of
the late Rush and Hannah Stokes
Harrison.
He was reared in the
Fishingcreek area and attended
He was graduschool at Forks.
ated from the Bloomsburg Normal

OCTOBER,

1959

delhia.

In 1914 he was married
Crouse who survives. On

Edna

to

May

20

of this year, the couple would have
observed the fiftieth anniversary of
his graduation from the Normal
School, an event Mr. Harrison had

been looking forward

to.

He worked a short time in Philadelphia and Danville and went in
business with this father, when the
In 1935 he
latter's health failed.
started a store in Benton. The enterprises bear his name as a corFor many years he was
International Harvester
farm machinery. Since 1940 he had
been a distributor for Pyro-Fax
poration.

ciealer for

bottle gas.

He had been postmaster at
many years, and had been rail-

lor

agent

road

at

Forks

for

the

Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad
until the

company disbanded.

He

v/as a

former president and direc-

of

the old Orangeville Tele-

tor

phone Company.
Mr. Harrison was

Rebecca

Stroll

Williams 09

Mrs. Rebecca E. Williams, of
Pole 126, Alderson section of Harvey’s Lake, passed away Friday,
July 24, in Mercy Hospital after a
short illness. She had been a patient two weks.
A former school teacher, Mrs.
Williams continued the operation
ot Harvey’s Lake Bottling Works
after the death of her husband in
1951, in partnership with her sons,

Richard E. and Myron J. She
years ago due to

re-

tired several

ill

health.

She attended Bloomsburg State
Normal School and received her

She
teaching certificate in 1909.
attended the 50th class reunion in
May. Mrs. Williams taught school
jn the Bloomsburg area 10 years
and in 1917 married Lyman E.
Williams of Harvey’s Lake. After
World War I, the couple moved to
the Alderson Section of Harvey’s
Lake.

She was a daughter of the late
and Jennie Harman Stroh, of
bloomsburg. She was a member
of Our Lady of Victory Chapel,
A. H.

a member of
the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church at Forks, a member of
the Church board and superintendent of the Sunday School for
many years. He was a member of
Oriental Lodge, F. and A. M.,

Harvey’s Lake, the Altar and Rosary Society and Daniel C. Roberts

Orangeville, I.O.O.F. and Grange.

ed of he death of Anna Monahan
Corrigan, 330 West Broad Street,
Hazleton. Death occurred March
She is survived by her
1959.
husband, Dr. James A. Corrigan,

Gertrude Hobbes Pooley

’09

Mrs. Gertrude Hobbes Pooley,
fonnerly of Madison, N. J., died recently in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital of a heart ailment.

Mrs. Pooley and her husband,
Joseph E. Pooley, went to Madison hi 1917. They operated Madison Academy, a private school,
from then until 1947, when they
sold it to Carteret School and re-

They moved to Kingston,
community of their childhood,

tired.

the

in 1953.

Mrs. Pooley was born in Sweet
Pa., and was graduated
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
She did further work at
College.
New York and Columbia UniversiShe was a member of the
ties.
Thursday Morning Club of Madison. Mr. Pooley was a member of
the Borough Council there for

Valley,

many

years.

Fire

Company

Auxiliary.

Anna L. Monahan TO
(Mrs. James A. Corrigan)
Announcement has been receiv-

of the Class of 1911.

Mary E. Heacock 13
Miss Mary E. Heacock, 69, a
former resident of Turbotville,
died Saturday, June 20, 1959, at
her home in Memphis, Tenn. She
had been in ill health since March.
Miss Heacock was bom in Lewis
Township, Northumberland County, the daughter of the late Amos
and Annie Heacock. She graduated from Turbotville High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
She formerly taught
school at McEwensville, Milton
and Pueblo, Colo., before accepting a teaching position at

Mem-

phis.

Surviving are a brother. Dr.
Charles Heacock, of Menphis; a

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17

niece, Mrs. Robert Kulp, of Richmond, Va., and three cousins, Mrs.
Arthur Reimsynder, of Milton R.
D. 2; Russel Gaston, of Turbotville,
and Grant Gatson, of Turbotville

R. D.

Pauline Hyde Decker T5
Mrs. Pauline Hyde Decker, Pittsburgh, died in July following a
long illness. She was a former resident of Bloomsburg, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hyde.
Surviving her are three daughters and five grandchildren.

She moved to Lansdowne following her marriage in 1919 and
later

went

to Pittsburgh to reside.

Mary E. Jones
Miss Mary Ellen Jones, eighty,
formerly of East Orange, N. J.,
died Wednesday, July 1, at the
Char-Mund Nursing Home, Orangeville, where she had been a
guest. She spent several weeks in
a New Jersey Hospital before coming to the nursing home.
She was the daughter of the late
James E. Jones and Hannah M.
Andrews Jones and spent most of
her life in Fishingcreek township
where she was born. She was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, Dickinson Seminary and Columbia University. For
forty-four years she taught school
and was principal of the Girls’ Vocational School, Newark, N. J., forSince
ty years, retiring in 1944.

made her home

than she

in East

She was a member
J.
American Association of

Orange, N.

the
University Women.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hartman, Stillwater R. D.;
of

Mildred Gookin,
Mary Hartman,
Stillwater R. D.; a nephew, Leon,

two

nieces, Mrs.

Phoenix,

Ariz.;

Norfolk, Va.

Mrs. Earl N. Rhodes
services
for Louise
Funeral
Bronson Rhodes, widow of Earl N.
Rhodes, former resident of Bloomsburg, were held Monday, August
Petersburg, Florida.
Mrs. Rhodes died at St. Peters-

17, at St.

burg Thursday, August
Surviving

Howard

are

two

13.

brothers,

L. Bronson, Bridgeport,
Mich.; Fred W. Bronson, Mound
Minn.; a nephew, Henry Bronson,

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18

Saginaw, Mich, and a niece, Mrs.
Helen Nickleson, Ann Arbor, Mich.

James W. Pace
James W. Pace, retired Hanover
township educator and a graduate
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Archie Marshall,
Brandford, Conn., Thursday, August 27, 1959.

Aldwin Jones
Aldwin

(Cockles) Jones, head
basketball and football line coach
at Scranton Technical High Scool,
died Sunday, February 15, after a

1927

to

1946 and dean of

men

for

much

of that period, died early in
September at the Polyclinic Hospital,

Harrisburg.

He had

entered the hospital for
major chest survey on July 21 and
while the surgery was successful
complications developed.

During

his score of years of serv-

with the local institution of
learning he took an active part in
both College and community activities and gained a larger number of
friends throughout the area.
Since 1946 he was affiliated with
ice

Ward, Dreshman and Reinhardt,
Inc., a fund-raising firm, and was

long illness.
Mr. Jones,

serving as a

guidance instructor.

the time of his death.
He resided in Harrisburg, but
traveled throughout the country in
connection with his duties although he confined most of his activities to that part of the nation
east of the Mississippi.
Surviving are his wife and one
son, John C., Jr., Summit, N. J.

a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College who also attended Penn State
and Bucknell, joined the school
faculty in 1930.
He was also a

John G. Conner
John G. Conner, prominent former Berwick resident, died at his

member of the board
of directors of the organization at

home

in Trenton, N. J., recently at
the age of 95 years. He was a native of Briar Greek Township and
later lived at Willow Grove for
many years.
For the past many years Mr.
Conner had spent his winters in

Florida and his

summers

in

Tren-

He had been

a graduate of
the Bloomsburg Normal School and
taught in New Jersey.
Mr. Conner had been a trustee
of Lafayette College since 1923;
ruling eider of the Prospect Street
Presbyterian Church of Trenton;
director of the Trenton Trust Co.;
director of the Trenton YMCA; former president of the George Washington Council of the Boy Scouts
and had been active in the Masons,
Kiwanis, American Historical Society and Sons of the American Revolution of the Old Guard Society.
The county notive’s wife, Mrs.
Frances Dickey Conner, died a few
Surviving him are his
years ago.
Mrs. Grace Whittemore,
sister,
East Orange, N. J., and his brother,
ton.

Ray Conner, Reading,

Calif.

Mrs. Anna T. Klinetob
Mrs. Anna T. Klinetob, Berwick,
died recently in the Berwick Hospital.
Although she had been in
failing health for several months,
her death came as a shock to her
family and friends.

A graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal School, she taught for a
number of years in the Beaver
Meadows schools, before moving
Her husband, Nathto Berwick.
preceded her in
death in 1936.
Mrs. Klinetob had been a faithful member of tire First Methodist
Church, Berwick.
Surviving are a son, Gwynn
Klinetob, at home; a sister, Miss
Elizabeth Trevaskis; one brother,
Dr. R. W. Trevaskis, Sr., Cumberland, Md.; and several nieces and
nephews.
aniel C. Klinetob,

HARRY

S.

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
John C. Koch
John G. Koch, fifty-seven, 2310
Green Street, Plarrisburg, a member of the faculty of the Bloomsurg State Teachers College from

52

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Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

BSTC ALUMNI LOAN FUND
Annual Report Covering the Period

May

of

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
May

20, 1958, to

20,

1959

Contributions received in response to appeal for funds to support public relations service:

FUND CREDITS
Balance of Centennial Loan Fund,
Plus Contributions, General
James A. Dyke, Legacy
.

Balance,

May

May

20, 1958

$14,964.89
72.00
2,000.00

.

20, 1959

$17,036.89

Balance of O. H. and S. H. Bakless Memorial Loan
Fund, May 20, 1958

8,596.49
664.00

Plus Contributions
Balance,

May

20,

1959

Balance of Reserve Fund,

May 20, 1959
May 20, 1958
.

.

.

4.00
24.00

348.00

Total Available
Less Expenditures:
Scholarships Awarded
Earl A. Gehrig, Fee
William I. Reed, Auditor
Postage and Supplies
Transfer to BSTC Alumni Assn., Inc

Paid

1,223.34

220.00
100.00
10.00
9.28
500.00
53.06

May

Boyd Buckingham

May

May

20, 1958

(1,287.90)

30.00
'

20, 1959

(1,257.90)

Balance of Class of 1950 Fund, May
Less 1958-59 Scholarship Grants
Balance,

May

20,

20,

1958

388.75
50.00

1959

338.75

Balance of Class of 1954 Fund,

May

20, 1958

.

200.00
200.00

.

Less 1958-59 Scholarship Grant
Balance,

May

20, 1959

Philadelphia Alumni Scholarship Gift
Balance,

May

20, 1959

50.00
2,000.00
1,000.00

Total to be accounted for

$29,759.23

ASSETS
U. S. Government Securities
Participating Certificate, Natl. Socy. of Prof.
Balance, Checking Account, F.N.BG

Outstanding Loans

to

$11,801.56
100.00
711.69
17,145.98

Eng

Students

Total Assets
A.

GEHRIG,

OCTOBER,

1959

E.

Dreisbach

Virginia O. Duck
C. Stuart Edwards

Vida

E.

Edwards

Beatrice M. Englehart
Ernest H. Englehardt
Curtis R. English

Enola Fairchild

Treasurer

REED, Auditor

56 new loans, totaling $9,105, were made during the 1958-59 school year.
Total amount of loans outstanding increased $6,670 during the 1958-59 school
year.

Martha

Evans
J. Evans
Leah D. Evans

belief.
I.

Harry A. Dodson
James J. Dormer

Dorothy

Records for the year ended May 20, 1959, and the report covering that period
have been reviewed and have been found correct to the best of my knowledge

WILLIAM
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Charlotte Fetter Coulston

Emily E. Craig
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cunfer
Joseph Curilla
Margaret G. Dailey
James B. Davis
Nellie M. Denison
Leo S. Dennen
Margaret C. Derrick
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Deihl

Alice L.

$29,759.23

EARL

Freda S. Cook
William Cope
Esther W. Copp
Bessie Coughlin

Edward DeVoe

50.00

Temporary Note Payable, First N.B., Bloomsburg
Temporary Note Payable, Individual

and

Albert Clauser
John G. Conner

331.00

Plus Contributions

Balance,

Donald W. Carey
Anthony Carroll

892.34

20, 1959

Balance of Husky Fund,

Allen

Mrs. Ella Buffington
Anna C. Canfield
Rachel Cappello

Total Expenditures
Balance,

S.

J. Barnes
Harold J. Baum
Iva M. Beckley
Olive Beernan
Michael F. Bell
Mark H. Bennett
Criddie E. Berninger
Howard R. Berninger
Walter H. Blair
Mildred Bonin
Claude L. Bordner
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Boyle
L. E. Brace
Margaret S. Brock
Genevieve Bubb

$320.00

Total Receipts

Anna

Adams

Edna

1,000.00

.

Adams

Arcus
Marjorie Austin
Florence E. Baker

875.34

Receipts: Interest on Government Bonds
Eng. Certificate
Interest on Past Due Student Loans

E.

Max

1,000.00

Balance of Watkins Fund,

Bruce

Harvey A. Andruss
9,260.49

William D. Watkins, Gift

Interest

$1,816.00
Mrs. C. F. Abbott
Mary E. Albertson

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George J. Fike
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W.

C.

Forney

A
A
A

Friend
Friend
Friend
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L.

Paul

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VanCampen

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J.

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Wagner

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Williard

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Kenneth
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E.

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Wray

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HOME-COMING DAY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER

31

FOOTBALL

BLOOMSBURG
VS.

EAST STROUDSBURG

R. Seitz
Gilbert R. W. Selders
John J. Serff
Cecil C. Seronsy

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"SAUCERED AND BLOWED"
E. H.

NELSON

'll

was handed

Just recently a check for $885.62

the

to

Alumni

Treasurer, Earl Gehrig, representing a contribution to the Alumni

Loan Funds from

show

the class of 1909.

their loyalty

In

no better way can graduates

through the years than by making

others to enjoy attendance at their

Alma Mater.

first visit for

the

files

No

many

\

“address unknown.

But such Alumni are few

Alumna

so long ago an

no publicity concerning

was

spirit that

is

it.

The O.

it

we have

in

and Sara Bakeless Loan Fund

all

wanting

making the

some small way

Some

We

years ago

when

Dean

Sutliff

strong.

the worth of the college

what

is

keep healthy the

One

gift.

who

this

is

of publicity

of the richest

blind, with a note

would contribute some-

much worth

the Shakespeare-Bacon

to her.

controversy was

calmly remarked, “What’s the difference?

have the plays anyway.

ness to receive whatever

to

any measure

to take

thing to the school’s program that had been of so

waxing

be

to

—

received was $1.00 from a lady

saying that she hoped

check for

were accepted there was

II.

Bloomsburg but refusing

that might appear as a reason for
gifts

if

in

number.

in

living in Florida sent a

Good people

started that way.

the

is

Often too that individual’s name appears

ears.

$1000. 00 with the adminition that

Representing the Alumni,
in

may

your hearts

to place in

our busi-

it’s

our hands that

continue to grow and expand.

That

is

counts.

Speaking of Dean

Sutliff,

older

you think

this

me know and we
be a spectator.
Begin planning

Alumni

will

remember

his classes

At present he uses that analytical mind quite

mathematics.

quently to show some of his friends
If

come and

Students

Occasionally some one returns to the campus saying this

go.

in

possible for

it

is

idle talk,

how

fre-

pinochle should be played.

when you visit Bloomsburg next time let
game in which you may participate or

will arrange a

Do hope to see you at Homecoming on October
now to be here Alumni Day, May 28th.

31st.

COLLEGE CALENDAR -

1959-1960

—1959Homecoming Day —Football: BSTC

October 31

vs.

East Stroudsburg

November

7

Football:

BSTC

vs.

November

14

Football:

BSTC

vs.

November

24

Thanksgiving Recess begins at close of classes

November

30

Thanksgiving Recess ends at8

December

16

Christmas Recess begins at close of classes

West Chester (Home Game)
Lock Haven (night game at Lock Haven)

:00 A.

M.

1960

January

Christmas Recess ends at 8:00 A. M.

4

January 28

January Commencement

January 30

First semester ends at close of classes

February

3

Registration for second semester

February

4

Second semester classes begin, 8:00 A. M.

March

Annual Fashion Show

31

Easter Recess begins at close of classes

April 13
April 18

.

Easter Recess ends, 8:00 A. M.

May

25

Honor Assembly

May

26

Second semester ends at

May

28

.ALUMNI DAY

May

29

Baccalaureate (A. M.)

June

6

June

27

.

summer

session begins

Third summer session begins
8

— Senior

Commencement

Second summer session begins

July 18

August

First

—

close of classes

Fourth summer session begins

(P.

M.)

Ball

ALUMNI

Vol.

LX

December 1959

No. 4

,

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
9

A LETTER TO PRESENT

MEMBERS OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The

attention of the

Board

of

Directors of the

Alumni Association

is

herewith invited, along with the Memoers of the Association, to a general
reconsideration of our present and future policies.

Not long ago a member of the Class of 1937 wrote me a letter and said,
“I believe the College should get in touch with its graduates from time to
time, even though they are not members of the Alumni Association."
This brought to mind the idea which prevails in many colleges of declarall graduates members of its Alumni Association, and sending to them a
varying number of publications and announcements in order to keep up the
ing

ties

and revive the memories

of the past.

Since we would like to reach more of our Alumni, it was suggested that
the general idea of financing the Association through the collection of dues
be supplemented by giving all members of the graduating groups and for that
matters others who felt so inclined, an opportunity to give a sum annually
to cover the budget of the Alumni Association and any other projects which
the College may consider to be desirable.

Other suggestions which have been made from time to time have to do
with the scheduling of a reunion for the five most recently graduated Classes
This would mean that the Class that graduated in June
at Homecoming.
would have a reunion in October or November and four other Classes would
meet on campus that day at points designated by the College. The arrangements would include the planning for the five-year reunion for the Class that
would expect to come to Bloomsburg at the time the Spring Alumni Meeting.

Another suggestion that seems to be worthy of consideration is the changing of the date of Alumni Day from the month of May to April. Many teachers have said that “We are not able to come to Alumni Day because it is the
busiest time that we have in the year.” It is quite likely that May is the
busiest month in the school year for school teachers, and certainly the latter
part of May is the busiest part of that month. What would you think of
having Alumni Day in April?
All these matters are being considered, both by the Board of Trustees on
recommendation of the President, and by the Board of Directors of the
Alumni Association.

the

Any comments which you may have regarding

these suggestions will be

welcomed by

PRESIDENT
P. S.

The College stands ready

to relieve the Director of Public Relations of
his teaching load so that he may become in effect a Director of Alumni
and Public Relations, and also will make available the services of a
newly-organized duplicating, mailing and filing unit so that mechan-

ized methods of addressing and mailing can speed up the distribution
of some six communications each year to be sent to all Alumni.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 4

Vol. LX,

December, 1959

r

THE 1959 FOOTBALL SEASON
The Bloomsburg Huskies
I

three

one

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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.

Published

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

’12

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

closed

heir 1959 season with a record of

four defeats, and
of the eight games,

victories,

Two

tie.

Kings and Cortland, were nonconference games, and are not
counted in the Conference ratings.
The Conference record is 2-4-0.
The scores were close, as no game
was won or lost with a margin of
more than one touchdown.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E.
146

H. Nelson,

’ll

Market Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Ruth Speary

Griffith, ’18

Lockhart Street

56

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER
Earl A. Gehrig, '37
224 Leonard Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Fred W. Diehl,
627

Bloom

’09

Street, Danville, Pa.

Edward F. Schuyler, ’24
236 Ridge Avenue, Bloomsburg, Pa.
H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
242 Central Road, Bloomsburg Pa.

Charles H. Henrie,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

’38

Elizabeth H. Hubler, ’31
14 West Biddle Street, Gordon, Pa.

DECEMBER,

1959

Shippensburg
downs— Wells (1 run); Freeland (4
PAT— Hoople.
pass from Cribble.

September 26

BSTC 6-Kings
First
First

downs
downs

ly

met

Intercepts by
Kick-offs
Kick-offs ret. yds.

The BSTC fans were particularhappy over the game with West
Chester, in which West Chester
defeat since the first
game of the 1958 season. The glamor of this victory was diminshed,
however, by the defeat at the
its

first

hands of Lock Haven.
Summaries and statistics of the
games played are as follows:

BSTC SSTC
downs
downs rushing
downs passing
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing

First
First
First

Passes completed
Passes completed
Intercepts by
Yards passing
Kick-offs
Kick-off ret. yds.

Punts
Punt ret.

yds.

Penalties

Mrs. C. C. Housenick, ’05
364 East Main Street
Bloomsburg, Pa.

pass from ConDixon (placement).
Touchscoring:

(29

PAT— E.

rad).

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted

September 19
Shippensburg 13— BSTC 7

THE ALUMNI

down— Hugo

11

87

6

5
2

5

189
60
6
6

215
4
5
5

1

1

125
2-47
42
6-26
38
5-45

56
3-49
62
5-32
69
4-40

Fumbles
2
3
Fumbles recovered
1
1
The Huskies of BSTC held a
slight edge during the first half
of the

opening game of the season,

but were unable to score. In the
second half, the Red Raiders, playing on their home field, began to
move, and scored two touchdowns
in the third quarter.
The Huskies
came back with a touchdown in
the last quarter, but had to be satisfied with that, as Shippensburg
retained possession of the ball until

the final whistle.

Bloomsburg
Shippensburg

Bloomsburg

0
0

0 0
0 13

scoring:

7—7
0—13

Punts
Punts

0

BSTC

Kings

11

8

11

238

8
129

16
16
2

14
14
0

2-45
24
6-38

1-50
21

9

8-29
30

7-6

7-81

ret. yds.

Penalties

Fumbles
Fumbles

lost

2

4

1

2

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Huskies, with Joe Rishkofski,
the junior from Hanover as the
sparkplug, moved 57 yards in the
closing minutes of the first half
for a touchdown and a 6-0 win
over the King’s College Monarchs
from Wilkes-Barre as the Huskies
opened their 1959 home grid season on Mt. Olympus before only a
fair crowd despite the mild weather of the day.
Playing with only upperclassmen on the field, inasmuch as
King’s observed the one-year freshmen rule and Bloomsburg has

more than 700 men on its enrollment records, the Huskies was
never able to muster a sustained
drive except for the pay-off offensive.

Kings
F.loomsburg

0
0

Bloomsburg

down— Rishkofski

0
6

scoring:
(1,

0—0
0—6

0
0

Touch-

run).

ON THE COVER
Air view of the changing

campus.
(Photo by Dobyns)

TouchPage

1

October 3
6

BSTC MSTC
downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards passing
First

Intercepts by
Kick-offs

Kick-off

Punts
Punts

ret.

12

130

Penalties
lost

First

1

Mansfield

0

0
0

6
6

6—12

0—

6

TouchBloomsburg
scoring:
downs— Johnson (23, run); Rohm
(3, run). Mansfield scoring: Touch-

down— Dewey

(1,

plunge).

Passes completed
Yards passing
Pass intercepts by
Intercepts ret.
Kick-offs
Kick-off ret. yds.

Passes completed
Yards passing
Interceptions by
Kick-offs
Kick-off ret. yds.

Punts
Penalties

Fumbles
Fumbles lost
Football is a
seconds.
If

the

11
193
10
183

12
194

22
6

16
6

74

67

1

1

2-37

2-35

15

13

4-34
3-15

3-31
1-5

3

7
4

56
138

of inches

and

Bloomsburg Huskies did

not realize that before the 6-6
stalemate against Cortland, N. Y.,
Teachers in the Empire State
community, they do now.
They came back in the last quarto
score a touchdown and
ter
deadlock their hosts who were appearing before the home folks for
the first time this year and also
marking the dedication of a new
field.
Then, in the absence of a
place kicker who can convert with
frequency, they decided to run for

Pape

2

203
50
16

5
30
0

0 0 0 0—0
East Stroudsburg
0 7 0 0—7
East Stroudsburg scoring—Race
(2, plunge); PAT— Rogers (kick).

outbreak of World

War
7

Millersville

3

3

1

Kick-offs
Kick-off returns
Penalties

2-40

4-42

14
2-20

41
13-85
4
3

2

5-35

won,

football

over

II.

October 31

First downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted

Passes completed

Yards gained passing
Intercepted by

7— BSTC
E.STIil).
8
134

2

0

0

44
0

Kick-offs
Kick-off return yds.

3-40

Punts
Punt return

6-44
20
4-20

Penalties

Fumbles
Fumbles

lost

yds.

0

BSTC
12
109
38
24
14
160
0
0
2-32
7-31
3
4-20
2

17
7
3

0

11

155
22

4-35
132

0 0 07—14
7 13 0 0-20

East Stroudsburg

17
166

4-36
254

Millersville

Bloomsburg

1

17
106
32
74

Punts
Yards passings
Punts returns yards

Marauders
first

7

1

67
7-24
36

come from behind

was the

9

9

1

contest at Millersville to ruin their

for

7

27

Huskies fumbled
the ball away on their own 10 in
the second play of the game to get
in a hole and then
fumbled it
away again on the Millersville 14
in the second to last play of the

The

BSTC WCSTC

downs
downs pass
downs penalty
Total first downs
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing

First
First
First

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Passes intercepts by

Bloomsburg

only hope of a

7

Chester 10

0
2-43

2

Bloomsburg since well before the

3

game

13

36
4-45
28
8-34
8
3
4-50

Penalties

It

quar-

in the third

BSTC 13— West

28

Punts
Punts ret. yards
Fumbles lost

victory

BSTC CSTC
Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Passes attempted

6-6
6-6

0
0

6
107
30
10
2

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted

20-14.

downs

0
0

downs

victory.

October 10
Cortland 6— BSTC 6
First

stand

Bloomsburg
0
0

MSTC BSTC

benefit back in 1947.

0

a goal-line
ter.

November

Bloomsburg College Huskies,
defeating Mansfield gridders for
the twelfth consecutive time, had
to work hard all the way to triumph, 12-6, before a good sized
Parents’ Day crowd at Mansfield.
This was the keenest gridiron
battle waged between the two institutions since Mansfield eked out
a 7-6 win over the Huskier at
Kingston stadium in a Lions Club
Bloomsburg

the lead for

evened the score but was held on

October 24
Millersville 20- BSTC 14

1

0

more than six— to gain

Cortland
Cortland scoring: Touchdown—
(27, pass from Rohm )•

0
5-45

7-65
2

Mun-

inches— not

failed

senior,

the Huskies.

69
0
2-48
20
5-30

10
5-37
19

the

by

cy

Bloomsburg

12
11
4

3-25

ret. yds.

Fumbles
Fumbles

9

163
9
6
4
49
1

yds.

Bobby Rohm,

2 points.

BSTC 12— Mansfield

Bloomsburg Huskies disappointed a homecoming crowd which
braved inclement weather with
lain and lost, 7-0, to East Stroudsburg State Teachers College.
The visitors, with less than two
minutes to go in the second half,
pushed over their only tally and
made good the extra point.
Bloomsburg could have at least

Fumbles
Fumbles

The

1

0

lost

trumpet

•

13

section

11

of

the

Bloomsburg College Band stood in
the bleachers on windswept Mt.
Olympus and sent into the gathering dusk solemn notes of “Taps.”

moments before, the footgame had ended with the

Just
ball

score 13-10 in favor of Bloomsburg,
and buried on the damp and cleat
marked field was West Chester’s

hopes of a bowl bid.

was the West
Glen
Killinger’s Rams had last lost to
Villanova in the opening game of

Ended

at fifteen

winning

Chester

streak.

season.
They upset the
Wildcats this year and moved
through the schedule methodically
until this game.
They had won eighteen straight
conference games when they arrived in town. The last time they
lost to a Teachers College foe had
been on the same field to another
Husky aggregation on another November day back in 1955. That

the

’58

Ram

score

was

17-7.

it was the conference
upset of the year and probably the
biggest upset in the Commonwealth this season of gridiron
pageantry.
West Chester was stunned by
the turn of events, its following
Bloomsburg’s continspeechless.
gent was just as much surprised.
The merry makers with maroon
and gold ribbons on their coats

All in all

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

joyously
and looked
shouted
around to see if other Bloomsburg-

were acting

ers

similarly,

trying

convince themselves that what

to

they were celebrating had really

happened.
in the merry melee
146-pound Richard Rohrer,
Mechanicsburg,
the
frosh from
whose pitching arm had accomplished what most folks said was

Somewhere

was

impossible.
victory was real enough and
was earned. The Huskies came
back from a 10-0 deficit in the
first half to march SI yards on two
aerial minutes in the last minute
of the third period and then wrap
up the game with a 74-yard 8play maneuver that ended in a

The

it

score at 9:55 of the last period.
After that there was no time to
enjoy the luxury of being ahead.
The Rams came fighting back and
moved to 4 first downs, the last
on the Husky 19. Then Jimmy
Pribula, a sophomore half back
from West Chester, was sent over
his own right guard and in the
process he and ball parted company. Bob Christina, a frosh from
West Hazleton and a real ball
hawk, recovered and the Huskies
kept possession for the balance of
the game.
0 10 0 0—10
West Chester
0 0 7 6—13
Bloomsburg
West Chester scoring; Touchdown— Campbell (5, passing from

PAT— Shockley

Kowal;
ment);

(place-

goal— Shockley

Field

(6,

Bloomsburg scoring: Geryards).
ber (45, pass from Rohrer); Rohrer

(1,

run);

PAT— Dixon

(place-

ment).

November

tumbled from that pinnacle in the
and mud of Lock Haven
High stadium, losing to the Bald
Eagles
of
Lock Haven State
Teachers College, 14-6.
A crowd which included a number from Bloomsburg saw the
Huskies start in high gear and pull
away to a 6-0 lead by the end of
the first period, in which they
dominated play. After that, they
had few moments of glory as Lock
rain

Haven diove 70 yards

for a touchthe second period, and
then made victory sure with an
80-yard march that started in the
third period and ended in the
opening minutes of the fourth

down

in

quarter.

Bloomsburg
Lock Haven
Bloomsburg

0
7

6
0

0
0

0—

2

(5, 2,

— Kahler

(pass

Mondoch

(placement).

PAT

Sophomore Comprehensive

Examinations, to be given to all
sophomores in Pennsylvania State
Teachers College during the second semester of the 1959-60 school
year, according to an announcement made by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College.
These tests are devised to determine eligibility for junior standing

The

tests

be administered at the State
Teachers College by Dr. E. Paul
Wagner, Professor of Psychology.
will

14

BSTC LHSTC
downs

Yards rushing
Yards lost rushing
Net yards rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained passing
Interceptions by
Kick-offs
Kick-off return yds.

Punts
Punt returns
Penalties

Fumbles
Fumbles lost
The Huskies
heights in the

DECEMBER,

138
17
121
16
4
50
0

2

2-35

2-28

Hotel Magee

12

33
3-36

Bloomsburg STerling 4-5550

5-27
yds.

9
193

gave an outstanding performanee
of “As You Like It,” and a large
audience of students, faculty and
townspeople thundered their appreciation during repeated curtain
calls.

Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Evelyn
Joan Gilchrist, Bloomsburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. GilPottsville, was united in
marriage to Harold Ray Sachs,
Bloomsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs.
christ,

D.

Ray Sachs, Nuremberg.
The Rev. James Singer perform-

ed the double-ring ceremony.

A

reception

followed

in

the

church social rooms. After a wedding to Williamsburg, Va., the
couple is residing at 11 West Fifth
Street, Bloomsburg.
The bride is a graduate of Pottsville High School, BSTC and University of New Mexico.
She is an
instructor and assistant dean of

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

’16

INSURANCE

is

a graduate of

School, BSTC
and Bucknell University. He is a
sixth grade teacher at Bloomsburg
Memorial Elementary School.

Two BSTC
E. Persing

graduates,

and Marvin

Thomas

R. Wolford,

4

7-25

5-55

2

2
2

received the degree of Master of
Arts in Education from Lehigh
University
at
ceremonies
held
during the 81st Founder’s Day Ex-

the

ercises

rose

to

West Chester game

1959

is

that

0

1

who

the third time in as many
The Players have appeared at College. Last year they

This

at BSTC.
The bridegroom
Nuremberg High

15

202

4
58

the

at

women

12

11

‘The Taming of the Shrew”
Bloomsburg State Teachers
College on Saturday evening, November 7, in Carver Auditorium.
Arrangements for the appearance of the Players were made by
the College Assembly and Evening
Entertainment Committee with the
Elwood Emerick Management ol
New York City.
peare’s

In a pretty ceremony performed
recently in St. Matthew Lutheran

The Bloomsburg State Teachers
College will participate in the Na-

at the teachers colleges.

limited,

FACULTY MEMBER WEDS

TESTS TO BE GIVEN

tional

Players,

Toronto, Canada, one of the
most highly acclaimed professional touring groups in North Amerpresented William Shakesica,

Mondoch);

Lock Haven 14-BSTC 6
First

6

7—14
Touch-

runs).

from

The Canadian
of

years

scoring:
down— Rishkofski (21, pass from
Rohrer).
Lock Haven scoring: Touch-

downs— Kahler

CANADIAN PLAYERS STAGE
TAMING OF THE SHREW’

on

Sunday,

October

11,

1959.

Page 3

ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Seven hundred teachers and administrators from schools in Pennsylvania attended the Annual Conference for teachers and adminison Saturday, October 24,
the Bloomsburg State Teachers

trators
at

College.

Members

of

the

Benjamin

Franklin Laboratory School faculty preesnted demonstration lessons
m elementary education based on
the theme, “Learning All Around
Us." Lessons in the various grades included “The World of Sound,
Creative Dramatics,” “We Study
Space,” and ‘An Arm For Free-

the Learning Process.”

son

is

also

of several

Dr. Erick-

ticularly easy time to predict the

author and co-author

outcome for mankind.
She did venture four predictions:
Astronomy will advance rapidly;
the emphasis on exploration means
that we must accelerate the development of electronic devices; in
terms of power conversion we
must go from cellular to nuclear
energy and we must develop inter-

books dealing with

in-

struction in typewriting.

A number
were prepared
ucators.

special exhibits
for the visiting ed-

of

College classes

in

ele-

mentary art and science, taught by
Mr. Robert Ulmer and Mr. RusSchleicher, displayed a co-operative exhibit of elementary art
and science materials near the entrance to the Faculty Lounge in
Waller Hall.
Senior students in

sell

'

dom.”
Six faculty

members

of the Di-

Education presented demonstration lessons in
Noetling Flail with emphasis on
of

vision

Special

the following topics: “Counselling
Parents of Retarded Children,”
“Teaching the Science of Sounds
to Children in Elementary Classrooms,” “Teaching Health and Science to the Mentally Retarded,”
“Teaching Creative Reading to the
Gifted,” “Teaching Creative Art to

the Gifted,”

and “A Graduate

Who

Is Blind Expresses His Attitudes in
a Counselling Situation.”

Classes in English, Foreign Language, Geography, Mathematics,
Mathematics, Science, and Social
Studies were taught by faculty
members of the Division of Sec-

ondary Education in Navy Hall,
built around the theme, “Unit Development in Subject Areas.”

The

Division of Business

cation, celebrating

its

Edu-

thirtieth an-

niversary at Bloomsburg, secured
two of the nation’s top business educators to present demonstration
lessons and lectures in Navy Hall.
Dr. Dean R. Malsbary, who directs
business teacher-training at the
University of Connecticut, described and demonstrated the process

“Using Student Experiences to
Enrich Classroom Instruction in
Dr. Malsbary
Business Subjects.”
is also editor of the journal “AmerDr.
ican
Business Education.”
of

Lawrence W. Erickson, Professor
Education at the UniLos Angeles,
used the topic, “Typewriting and
of Business

versity of California,

Page

4

secondary education have arranged attractive exhibits on the built tin boards in Navy Hall.

The conference closed with a
luncheon in the College Commons.
“We will not change man’s physiology (in this space age) but will
send certain parts of his natural
environment with him as he journeys into space,” Dr. Dorothy Simon,

technical assistant to the
president of Avco Corporation,
told more than 700 teachers administrators in the keynote address.

The attendance was one of the
best in the history of the conference and drew a total of more
than a thousand from throughout
this section.

In speaking of the space
Dr. Simon said that in it we
attempting to perpetrate a
continuity in man's evolution

age,
are
dis-

and

observed that to send all of the
required equipment with man into
space we will have to develop better means of propulsion because
man will have to carry with him
materials to maintain life for several years.

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College and one of the
educators most active in development of the program for the space
age, in his remarks made in presuiting Dr. Simon, observed that
citizens must be made to understand the problems of the space if
[hey are going to be expected to
pay taxes and support the development.
Dr. Simon said

know what

this

we do
age

is,

not really
for

it

is

a

time of exploration and not a par-

planetary propulsion devices.
In addition

man

is

it

her belief that

on .moon
by 1970. The speaker pointed out
the world has been a two dimenwill fly near or land

surface restricted by a thin
layer of air.
are now proposing to add the third dimension.

sion

We

The new space age

will continue
involve citizens of tomorrow,
she continued, and pointed out
that certain more subtle problems
must be solved if we as a nation
are to survive in the space era. Solutions will oft times have to come
to

from teachers.
The most important thing, she
said, is the hope people everywhere whether scientists or not,

come to share the excitement
new discovery and will work toward a common goal— space ex-

will

of

ploration.
In a specific reference to problems as related to the citizen of

tomororw she emphasized the
need for citizens to understand
science and its methods. Every citizen should experience the pursuit
of scientific knowledge, she believes, and pointed out the child

must be allowed

to

discover cer-

tain facts for himself.

In this pursuit for such knowledge emotion involvement will be
a problem. Dr. Simon said we will
have to separate what we want our
experiments to be from what the
experiment actually is, thereby

mankind to discover
allowing
things other than those included
in

the primary objective.

The

citizen,

derstand

the

States in

world

she said, must unof the United

role

affairs.

The

lack

understanding, in Dr. Simon’s opinion, has been as damaging to our nation as the shortContinued on Page 5)

of

this

(

THF. AI.UMNI

QUARTERLY

i

EVALUATING COMMITTEE
TO VISIT CAMPUS

TWENTY SENIORS SELECTED

Dr. Harry Porter, President of
the State University of New York,
State Teachers College at Fredonia,

New

York, spent

Monday,

1959, visiting the camBloomsburg State
pus of the
Teachers College. Dr. Porter will
serve as chairman of a committee,
appointed by the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Sec-

October

5,

ondary Schools, which
the

Bloomsburg campus

will
in

visit

Febru-

was the

ary, 1960. Dr. Porter’s visit

and prelimnary step in the
process of re-evaluation and continuing accreditation of Bloomsburg by the Middle State Associ-

first

ation.

Dr. Porter spent most of the day
familiarizing himself with many
aspects related to the general operation of the College, lie met with

President Harvy A. Andruss, Dean
of Instruction John A. Hoch, and
the Directors of the four Curricular Divisions during a luncheon in
the College Commons. A tea was
served by the Faculty Association
at 3:30 P. M., followed by a general faculty meeting in the College
Commons. Dr. Porter addressed
the faculty, and answered questions relevant to the visit of the
evaluating committee.

Bloomsburg is already fully accredited by regional and national
Middle
including the
agencies,
States Association, the National
of
Accreditation
for
Council
Teacher Education, and the Pennsylvania State Council of Education. In addition, the College holds
membership in the following proassociations: the American Council on Education, the Na-

fessional
tional

Association

Teacher Training
the National
Association.

HARRY

Office

S.

Business

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1668

DECEMBER,

1959

and

Management

BARTON,

REAL ESTATE
52

of

Institutions,

Twenty seniors from Bloomsburg State Teachers College have
been selected for inclusion in the
1959-60 edition of “Who’s Who
Among Students in American UniNominaand Colleges.
membership were made
faculty committee on the

versities

tions for

by

a

scholarship, participation
in extra curricular activities, perand professional
sonality
traits,
promise as a teacher.
basis

of

The 1959-60 selections, announced by John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction, include:

Jeanette Andrews, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Andrews, Oscela— Business Education; Linda
Bartlow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. R. Bartlow, New Albany— Business Education; John Chidester,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Chidester, Sr., R. D. 1, Telford— Secondary Education; Ann Czepukaitis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Czepukaitis, 19 South Beech
Street,
Mt.
Carmel— Elementary
Education; John Eberhart, son of
Rev. and Mrs. Leroy Eberhart, 203
East Street, Williamstown— Secondary Education; Robin Folmsbee,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
Folmsbee, R. D. 2, Berwick— Secondary Education; Albert Francis,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Francis, 223 Fairview Street, Pottsville
—Secondary Education; Patricia
Clatts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Glatts, 203 Edwards Drive,

Brookhaven
tion;

—

Elementary Educa-

Almeda

Gorsline, daughter of
Dorothy Gorsline, 204 East

Mrs.
Frederick Street, Athens— Business
Education; Carol Greene, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Greene,
633 Fifth Avenue, WilliamsportElementary Education; Elizabeth
LaPoint, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur LaPoint, R. D. 3, Mountain
Top— Business Education; Lorraine
Morlock, daughter of Mrs. Sophia
Morlock, 911 Ashton Road, Cornwells Heights— Elementary Education; Dolores Panzitta, daughter of
Mr. D. Panzitta, R. D. 1, Pittston—

Education;
James
Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Peck, 346 Montgomery Avenue,
Boyertown — Business Education;
Robert Rohm, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Elementary

Earl Rohm, Muncy — Secondary
Education; Nikki Scheno, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Scheno, 217
Iron Street, Berwick— Business Education; Robert Steinruck, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steinruck,
155 West 8th Street, Bloomsburg—

Barbara
Education;
Secondary
Wainwright, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Wainwright, 226 East
Street,
Berwick— Secondary
11th
Yeager,
Lorraine
Education;
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
\ eager, 2419 Birch Street, EastonElementary Education; Joseph Zapaeh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Zapach, 240 Ridge Street, Freeland— Business Education.
Four of the group — Carol
Greene, Lorraine Morlock, Dolores
Panzitta, and Lorraine Yeager —
will receive their Bachelor of Science degrees at commencement
exercises in January, 1960; the remaining 16 students will be graduated in May, 1960.
This group of twenty students
represents twelve counties in the

Commonwealth
Tioga,

of

Pennsylvania—

Bradford,

Montgomery,

Dauphin, Northumberland, Delaware, Schuylkill, Lycoming, Luzerne, Bucks, Berks, and Northampton.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE
(Continued from Page 4)
age of trained scientists.
A survey of high school students
brought the information that a
third saw nothing wrong with using the third degree method of
questioning or of limiting freedom
of speech.
She pointed out this is
a direct result of lack of understanding which must be corrected
in order to preserve the fundamentals of

a free nation.

“The aim of our technological
and scientific race with Russia is
to give democracy strength,” she
said in conclusion.

Almost 350 attended the luncheon.

gram

In connection with the proof the day a number of work-

shops were conducted.

ALUMNI DAY:
SATURDAY, MAY 28,

1960

Page 5

WILL SERVE AS CENTER

SUCCESSFUL SALES RALLY
A

guffawing audience of around
600 were fed chucklecoated capsules filled with enthusiasm for

Thursday evening, Novem-

living

ber

in

5,

fourteenth

the

sales rally of the

annual

Bloomsburg State

7 eachers College.

Ralph D. Myrick, sales
the importance

stressed

analyst,
in

the

being “problem-cen-

sales field of

tered” instead of product-centered,

while G. Herbert True, creativity
consultant, urged
ment of your own

manship and

in

the establishgoals in sales-

life.

Dr. Thomas B. Martin, director
of business education department
introduced the
the
college,
at
speakers.
Myrick cited that twenty-five
per cent of the nation’s sales people sold seventy-five per cent of
the national product. He said the

immutable law of salesmanship
was “as you think, so will it be.”
There is no room for repetitious
actions and trite phases— “there is
room for ideas.”
Myrick intimated that every
customer has a problem.

It is

the

job to find out what
and aid in its solution. “If

salesman’s
it

is

there’s
sale,”

no problem, there’s no
he declared. He cited the

habits affecting American
business were “the late start, the
early lunch, and the early quit.”
In a talk accentuated with pop-

emphasized the need

The Bloomsburg

educa-

for

the

He

ticked off the names of
many of today’s great men who
never received a formal education
and called for institutions of higher learning to examine themsel.es.
Myrick cited that today industry
was leading in the field of experimentation rather than so-called
seats of learning.
The speaker also warned against
being discouraged by qualified experts who say something cannot
be done, telling of a young farmer
who developed the hybrid corn
giving the greatest yield and two
musicians who succeeded in the
Eastman color process which experts declared was impossible.
Much has been accomplished, he
said by people “who don’t know—
and don’t know that they don’t
tion.

State Teachers

College will serve as a center in

wide program

nation

ad-

of

National
1960
Teachers Examinations. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the
ministering

the

announced recently

College,

that

examinations would be given
on the College Campus on Saturtlie

Room

day, February 13, 1960, in

The examinations may be taken
by prospective teachers and by apF.

plicants for teaching positions.

Dr. E. Paul Wagner, Professor

Bloomsburg, will
be in charge of administering the
examinations. Those who wish to
take the examination must submit
applications during November and
December, 1959, and early JanuApplications must be
ary, 1960.
received at the Educational Testof Psychology at

ing Service, Princeton,

by January

know.”

BSTC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,

New

Jersey,

15, 1960.

Inc.

Report of the Treasurer

May

May

20, 1958, to

20, 1959

Receipts:

Checking Account Balance, F.N.B.,

May

20, 1958

288.54

$

Dues Collections
Transfer from Loan Fund Reserve Account
Bakeless Fund, Husky and Other Items for transfer

$2,169.38
500.00

to loan fund
Miscellaneous Income

1,781.00

65.75

worst

eggs
sprayed “cold
water” on the first few rows of

wands,

ping

and

hose

a

confetti-filled

that

the audience, True hit strongly at
American trends that find foreign

imports underselling U. S. goods
and the waste of time fixing the

blame on

The

Total Receipts
Total Available

1960’s
in a

4,804.67

Expenditures:
Transfer to Loan Fund (per above)
Printing of Quarterly
Clerical Work and Alumni Meetings
Office and Editing Expenses
Office, Mailing Supplies and Stationery
.

1,781.00
1,039.00

.

604.97
220.00
208.85
113.75
143.50

Alumni Day Dinners
Advertising

Flowers

others.
will

4,516.13

find

salesmen

world of ideas, competition they have never known
before and emphasis on service.
He noted that forty-four per cent

18.54

Total Expenditures

4,130.41

...

plunged

the “big” company presidents
came from the ranks of salesmen.

Balance,

May

20, 1959

Saving Account No.

674.25

$

_

11654, F.N.B.,

May

20, 1958

.

$

.

Interest Credit 59-59

.

.

-

.

333.97
6.70

of

Balance, Savings Account,

May

20, 1959

$

340.67
=

Myrick said there was “greatness” in everyone in the audience
as he urged them to aspire to the
heights and to ignore those who
He hit at
say it can’t be done.
the need for a college diploma, but
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0

EARL

A.

GEHRIG,

Treasurer

Records for the year ended May 20, 1959, and the report covering that period
have been reviewed and have been found correct to the best of my knowledge

and

belief.

WILLIAM

I.

REED, Auditor

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FOR
FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS
BSTC GETS

BSTC

$20,412

with

$26,417

among

is

twelve Central Pennsylvania Coland universities granted
leges
$412,798 in federally-aided student
loans. This means, that for every
$9 contained in the federal allotment or grant, the college, through

Alumni Association,

its

dents,
will

the

or out of

its

or

own

its

stu-

budget,

to raise $1 to supplement
$9 furnished by the Federal

have

BSTC alumni will
Government.
have no difficulty meeting this reThus the 32,000 stuquirement.
dents enrolled in the twelve colleges will have an opportunity to
share in the borrowing of approximately $450,000 in the college year
1959-1960.

The maximum allocation which
may be received by any college
In the Central Pennis $250,000.
sylvania area, Pennsylvania State
University received a grant of
$229,164.'

A student can take up to ten
years to repay the loan at three
per cent interest, beginning the
year after graduation. Those who
teach will be forgiven up to fifty
per cent of the debt, or ten per
cent for each year they teach, up
years.

five

to

ernment

will

The Federal Govpay for the written

teachers
those
of
Colleges have the expense
of administering these loans.

off

portions

debts.

In addition to the National Defense student loans, there are also
loans available to juniors and senBlooinsburg State
the
iors
at
Teachers College, amounts varying from $200 to $300, which can
be borrowed from the Alumni
Loan fund. These loans are payable directly after graduation by
small installments and do not require the payment of interest.

While the colleges can lend up
$1,000 a year for tuition, living
expenses, books, and equipment,
theer is a ceiling of $5,000 maxito

mum to be loaned to any one student from the National Defense
Loan Fund. The demand is so
great

at

the

Teachers

Bloomsburg

State

College that the local
institution has developed a policy
which provides that not more than
$500 may be loaned to any one

DECEMBER,

1959

This will be continued
such time as the great de-

student.
until

mand

for

loans

of

this

character

has been met.

An announcement by the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges
and Universities indicated that
tuition in the State has increased
on an everage of $35 whereas in
the State Teachers Colleges, the
basic fee has been increased from
$144 to $200 pe ryear. This means
an increase of $56, an amount
greater than the average increase.
student loans
In addition
to
available from National Defense
Education Act and also from the

Alumni Loan Fund

at the

Blooms-

burg State Teachers College, there
are also scholarships. In the past,
these have been paid from the profits of the retail book store and
The program
the Husky lounge.
administered by a committee
i«
whose chairman for a number of
years has been Dr. Kimber C.
Luster, the other members are the
Dean of Instruction, John A. Hooh;
Dean of Women, Mrs. Elizabeth
Miller, and Dean of Men, Walter
R. Blair.
expected, that at the be-,
ginning of the second semester,
It

the

is

volume

of

work having

to

do

with the lending of money to. students, the assignments for employment purposes, both on campus
and off-campus, and other personnel
problems in an institution
w hich is now nearly 1,600, will require the appointment of a new
administrative officers to coordinThis ofate all these activities.
ficer

is

to

be known

as

the dean

students.
He will coordinate
the activities of the dean of men
and the dean of women, with their

of

various assistants, both on campus
and off-campus, and the freshman
orientation program, as well as the
counselling services
which students need in the early social de\ elopment as well
as in academic
adjustment.

REX

E.

SELL JOINS FACULTY

Selk, a veteran of nearly
ten years of service with the U. S.
Army Chemical Corps and a former member of the faculty of Wayeesburg College, joined the facul-

Rex E.

ty at

BSTC

as Assistant Professor

at the beginning of
He recently
semester.
completed a summer institute at
Ohio University for college teachers of freshman chemistry.

Chemistry

of

the

first

A native of Galesburg, Illinois,
Mr. Selk completed his elementary
and secondary education at the
Weston School and the Lombard
He
Junior-Senior High School.
enrolled at Knox College in Galesburg and earned the Bachelor of
Arts degree shortly before entering
the Army Chemical Warfare Service in July, 1940, with the rank of
Second Lieutenant. He served in
Panama and the China-BurmaIndia Theater during World War
the
II, and was separated from
Army after six years with the rank
of Major.
In 1948, he completed
the requirements for the Master of
Science degree in organic chemistry at the State University of Iowa.
He was

recalled to military duty
October, 1953, and was stationed in Korea for nearly sixteen
He also served as Chief
months.
of the Agents Branch of the Toxic
Chemicals Division in the Research and Engineering Command.
At the present time, he holds the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the
Chemical Corps of the U. S. Army
Reserve. Following his separation
in

from the service
the

faculty

of

in 1957,

he joined

Waynesburg Col-

lege.

Mr. Selk

is

a

member

of

the

American Chemical Society. He
and Mrs. Selk are the parents ol
two children, a daughter aged ten,
and a son aged seven.

ATTEND CONFERENCE
Eleven members of Sigma Alpha
and hearing fraternity
at BSTC, attended the Pennsylvania Speech Association’s twentieth annual convention at the SherEta, speech

CREASY & WELLS
BUILDING MATERIALS
Martha Creasy,

’04,

Vice President

Bloomsburg STerling 4-1771

aton Hotel, Philadelphia.
Dr. Donald F.
Maietta and
Frank Peterson, members of the
special education department faculty, accompanied the group.

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7

PLAN PERMANENT HONOR
FOR H. C. FETTEROLF
H. C. Fetterolf who, until his retirement in September, 1957, was
supervisor of vocational agriculture in Pennsylvania for 43 years,
to
be honored permanently

is

through a revolving award to be
presented annually to some Pennsylvania member of the Future
Farmers of America, whose State
adviser Fetterolf had been for 28
years.

Sponsor of the award will be the
Pennsylvania Jersey Cattle Club,
Inc., which each year will present
"the H. C. Fetterolf cup” to a vocational agriculture student in recognition of the boy’s “outstanding
achievement with Jersey cattle” in
his FFA farming program.

The cup

will

be retained by the

winner for one year, at the end of
which it will be awarded to the
FFA boy selected as having the
outstanding

Jersey

A

in that year.

compete

project

cattle

winner

is

not

eligi-

the Fetterolf
cup for a second year, but will receive a miniature cup, properly inscribed, as a permanent possession.
The presentation will be made at
the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Jersey Cattle Club.
ble

to

for

The arrangements

to

as a pioneer in

terolf

honor Fetagricultural

Pennsylvania were
made by Kenneth Lusk, R. D. 1,
Eighty-Four, a director of the Jersey Cattle Club, and James C.
education

in

Fink, Fetterolf’s successor as State
FFA adviser and supervisor of agi ’cultural
education in the State
Department of Public Instruction.

Since

his

retirement

in

1957,

has been living on his
160-acre farm at Mifflinville, Columbia County, near the one-room
school where he first became a
teacher half a century earlier. Lafetterolf

neering effort he was invited to enter theDepartment of Public Instruction the following year to become the State’s first supervisor of
vocational agriculture and to organize a statewide system of agricultural education. As part of that
program, he directed the organizaof Future

tion

Farmers of Amer-

Vo-Ag departments
Pennsylvania High Schools in

ica chapters in

of

1939 and acted as the FFA State
Adviser from then until his retirement.

War

Following World

Government

Federal

him

II,

the

borrowed
Korea in

assignments in
Germany in 1949 as consultant in reorganizing agricultural education in devastated areas of
the occupied countries.
for

1948 and

MEMORIAL TO
EARL N. RHODES
Mrs. Louise Rhodes, who recently passed away in St. Petersburg, Florida, has bequeathed $2,500 for scholarships to be awarded
students at the Bloomsburg
to
State Teachers College in memory
of her husband, the late Earl N.
Rhodes, who was for many years
the director of teacher training.
Professor Rhodes joined the college faculty in 1923, and had
charge of the general supervision
ci all student teachers for twentyone years.
For four years, prior
to

coming

Bloomsburg State Teachers

at the

College on Monday,
1959.

November

23,

Armstrong was accompanied

by

his “All Stars” including such
great names in jazz as Velma Middleton, vocalist; Trummy Young,
trombone; “Peanuts” Hucko on the
clarinet; Billy Kyle on the piano;
Danny Barcelona on the drums;
Mort Herbert on the bass.

The concert took place in CenGymnasium. This was the
first public appearance made by
The
the “Satchmo” in this area.
two-hour concert provided Armtennial

strong plenty of opportunities

show

his

versatility

as

to

an enter-

first

placement

follow-up

Bloomsburg graduates
was completed in 1942 by Mr.
Rhodes, who was able to contact
over 1,000 graduates from the ten
year period beginning 1931 and
ending 1940. These follow-up studies have been continued to the

study

Armstrong,
“Satchmo”
Louis
“America’s Ambassador of Jazz,”
presented a two-hour jazz concert

Bloomsburg, he was

em, Mass.

The

CONCERT

JAZZ

to

director of the training school at
ihe State Teachers College in Sal-

of

present day.
After six years as principal of
the Old Model School in Noetlii g
Hall, Mr. Rhodes was also the first
principal of the Benjamin Franklin
School,
which was
opened to children in 1930.
For some years after his retirement Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes spent
their winters in Florida and California.
Having sold their home on
Turkey Hill, Light Street Road,
they made their permanent home

Laboratory

Petersburg, Florida.
scholarship fund provides
chat $200 shall be awarded annually to students, preferably male, until the sum of $2,500 is exhausted.
This fund will be administered by
a committee composed of the President of the College, the President
of the Alumni Association, and the
faculty committee on loans.
in

St.

The

tainer.

Armstrong’s appearance on the
msburg campus culminates an

Pice

effort of

many

years of the Social

nd Recreation Committee of the
Community Government Association.

he became assistant principal of
alma mater, Mifflinville High
School and for three years (1911ter

his

was principal of Port Alleghany High School in McKean
14)

County.
His career
tion

began

when

in agricultural

in

the

fall

of

educa1914,

organized the first vocational school in Pennsylvania— at
Elders Ridge, Indiana County. Because of his success in that pioI\i B e K

lie

ARCUS’
FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Bloomsburg

Max

— Berwick

Arcus,

’41

Russell Davis was awarded the
degree of Master of Education
from Rutgers University at the
held
exercises
commencement
Mr. Davis is
there June 9, 1959.
the high school science department head of the Tri-Valley Central
Schools, Grahamsville, New
Mr. Davis lives in CragsYork.
more, New York.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

TWO DAY

FIELD TRIP

A

group of 71 Bloomsburg State
Teachers College seniors, who are
doing practice teaching in area
high schools, left the campus on
Thursday morning, October 1, for
a two day field trip to education
centers in Harrisburg and Washington, D. C. The purpose of the
trip

was

to

investigate

means

for

improving instruction through the
utilization of state and federal educational associations and agenArrangements for the trip
cies.
were made by student committees
under the direction of Dr. George
Director of the Division of
Secondary Education.
1

ike,

The Bloomsburg

State Teachers
iij the Elec-

College was welcomed
tionics

Room

of

the

Education

Building at the Department of
Public Instruction by Mrs. Camella 1. Carey, Education Program
Director for Leadership Services.
Mr. Warren Wringler, Director of
explained
Services,
Leadership
briefly the “Philosophy and Structure of the Pennsylvania DepartAt
ment of Public Lnsrtuction.
10:30 A. M., on Thursday, Dr.
Charles Boehm, Superintendent ot
Instruction,
discussed
Public
“Challenges to Education in the
U.S.A."
During the afternoon
“Talk-a-rounds” were held in the
science,
mathematics,
areas
of
English, school library, and guidance with individual counseling
from Or. Albert F. Eiss, Carl E.
Heilman, Dr. Sheldon Madeira,
Warren E. Wringler and Arthur R.
Glenn.
Preceding the luncheon, Mrs.
Garey took the group on a tour of
the Libraries and the Forum. During the afternoon, a demonstration
of

room

facilities

was preesnted by

Lyle Weissenfluh, a specialist in
the field. Dr. L. Logan presented
a demonstration lesson in Modern
Foreign Languages and the Extension Library arranged a Science
Reference Book Exhibit.
Headquarters officials of the
Pennsylvania State Education Association met the group to describe
and discuss the purposes and services of the organization.

The

students journeyed to Washington Thursday night to be ready
for an early Friday morning visit
to the Department of Health, Edu-

DECEMBER,

1959

DEAN

SUTLIFF

The plaque wihch

m

Sutliff

Boyd

will be placed
honoring William
was fittingly unveiled

Hall

Sutliff

program held in the
Centennial gymnasium.
Attending in tribute were perhaps a hundred friends, alumni
and former faculty members.
The plaque will be placed in
Sutliff Hall with a portrait being
painted of the Dean.
Dr. E. H.
Nelson, president of the Alumni
recently in a

Association, stated the latter will
be unveiled as part of Alumni Day
in 1960.
Dr. Harvey Andruss paid tribute
to Dean Sutliff as an educator,
scholar, poet, and Christian gentleman.
He touched upon Dean
Sutliff’s long period of service at
the college and spoke of the assis-

HONORED

Andruss observed that no
weer encountered in
choosing a proper name for the
pew building, stating that even before the plans had been approved
the name Sutliff Hall had been
Dr.

difficulties

selected.

The Dean then expressed his
appreciation for the honor conferred upon him, observing it was a
great tribute to be placed beside
such college leaders of the past as
Waller, Noetling and Carver.
The enthusiasm demonstrated
by the alumni in the appeal for
funds to provide the painting and
establish

a

scholarship in Dean
outlined by Dr.

name was

Sutliff’s

Edward

T. DeVoe, chairman
the Sutliff portrait committee.

A Maroon and Gold Band

of

con-

tance rendered him when he first
came to the college in 1930 to establish the department of business
Recognized also was
education.
the help rendered by Dean Sutliff
when he assumed the duties of
dean.

cert

and Welfare
They heard a discusison

Building.

573 IN

of “Fed-

For the semester beginning September 15, 1959, the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College enrolled
573 new students of whom 520 are
beginning Freshmen and 53 are
transfers from other colleges and
universities.
These students represent 142 different high schools
located in 40 counties of Pennsylvania as well as the Canal Zone,
Delaware, New Jersey and New

cation,

Legislation Affecting Educaby Wayne Lykes, a law specialist, and Oliver Caldwell, deputy commissioner of education. A
discussion of the core program of
given by Mrs.
instruction was
Katherine Grimes, supervisor of
the core program in the junior
high schools of Prince Georges
eral

tion”

County, by Mr. David Mullen of
the

Bloomsburg

faculty,

and by

a

teacher or principal from
the
Prince Georges County Schools.
A discussion of professional
ethics and a visit to Classroom Departments completed the trip.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

preceded the program after
which the invocation was given by
the Rev. Robert Angus, president

Bloomsburg

the

of

The

Ministerium.

concluded with the
singing of the Alma Mater and
activities

benediction.

FRESHMAN CLASS

York.

Columbia
County
Freshman registration

leads

in

with 113
students, closely followed by Luzerne (96) and Northumberland
These counties, along with
(74).
Montour (21), comprise Bloomsburg’s service area.
This total of
304 students from this service area
accounts for 59 percent of the new
students.

The remaining 47 per cent of
new students come from Dela-

the

Telephone STerling 4-1677
Mrs.

J.

C. Conner, ’34

ware County in the southeast (13)
to Allegheny in the southwest (2),
and from Wayne County in the
northeast (2) to McKean County
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10)

Page

9

SHORTHAND CLASS WINS

Boyd Arnold, Roger Ellis, Marie
Dorothy Delbo, Elizabeth

FIFTH PLACE IN CONTEST

Stanell,

Walter S. Rygiel, of
Bloomsburg State Teachers

Derr, Raydel Radzai, Joseph Zapach, Jeanette Andrews, Nancy

College Faculty, recently received

Warburton, Sally Rifenstahl, Robert Thear, Esther McMichael, Ruth
Lundahl, Mary Ellen Dushanko,
Linda Bartlow, Mary Weiser, Carole Ruckle and Marjorie Hand.
For three years in succession1956, 1957, 1958— Professor Rygiel
and his shorthand students took

Professor
the

the announcement that his shorthand class team won fifth place in
the International Order of Gregg

Shorthand Contest, Collegisponsored by the

Artists

ate

Division,

Gregg Publishing Company.
There were approximately 2500
teams competing in the contest.
Canada, Hawaii, Thailand, Republic
of Panama,
Malaya, Japan,
British Guiana, London (England),
Republic of China, and Cuba are
only a few of the many area represented in the world-wide contest.
Quebec, Canada, won the first

The

a banner awarBloomsburg State

fifth prize

to

the

is

Teachers College shorthand team.
Mr. Rygiel received a personal
gift.

The following students comprised the teams: Patricia Oswald,
Fleetwood,
Pa.;
Nikki
Scheno,
Berwick,
Pa.;
Elizabeth Derr,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; Janet Gross, Wyoming, Pa.; Marjorie Betz, Camp
Hill, Pa.; Joyce Shirk, Paradise,
Pa.; Carole Ruckle, Bloomsburg,
Pa.;

Marie

Stanell,

Shenandoah,

Ann Page, Susquehanna,
Mary Weiser, Boyertown, Pa.;

Pa.;

Riefenstahl, Forty Fort,
Yvonne Galetz, Shillington,

Pa.;

Pa.;
ly

SalPa.;

Raydel Radzai, Mt. Carmel, Pa.;
Jeannette Andrews, Osceola, Pa.;
Lorelei Reed, Reading, Pa.; Linda
Bartlow, New Albany, Pa.; Dorothy Delbo, Danville, Pa.; Jean
Matchulat,
Moscow, Pa.; Mary
Ellen Dushanko, Hazleton, Pa.;

Boyd Arnold, McClure,

Pa.;

Jo-

seph Zapach, Freeland, Pa.; Bernard Soika, Hazleton, Pa.; James
Williams, Shamokin, Pa.; Roger
Ellis,
Danville,
Pa.;
Marjorie
Hand, Scranton, Pa.; Esther MeMichael,
Stillwater,
Pa.;
Joan
Matchulat,
Moscow, Pa.; Ruth
Lundahl, Herndon, Pa.: Robert
Thear, Nesquehoning, Pa.; Nancy
Warburton, Light Street, Pa.; Marlene Staude, Souderton, Pa.
Jean
and Joan Matehula are twins.

Gold pins were awarded
following
merit in

Page

10

students

shorthand

for

to the
superior

penmanship:

More than 750 parents of
man students attended the

Sixth

Day

Freshman Parents
the
Bloomsburg

Annual
held

fresh-

at

State

Teachers College on Sunday, October

4,

1959.

This is the largest group of parents ever to visit the campus on a
particular day, and its speaks well
for their interest in the 520 or more

members of the Freshman
The meeting of parents,

Class.

Fresstudents, faculty, and administration was started six years ago

man

an effort to improve communiand general understandings

in

cation

FRESHMAN CLASS

573 IN

(Continued from Page

9)

northwest (4). Other counwith large representations are

in the

prize.

ded

prize in the National Shorthand Contests. This is the first
time in the history of the contest
that a college has won first place
three years consecutively.
first

PARENTS’ DAY

ties

Schuylkill

(37),

Montgomery

(22),

Lycoming
Dauphin

(28),
(17),

studies, 68
per cent or 390 students were
graduated in the upper two-fifths
The
of their high school classes.
qualifying
examination
median

score of Bloomsburg Freshmen appears to be slightly above average
compared to college freshmen
Twenty-seven
across the nation.
(27) per cent fall in the category

above average or superiwhile 59 per cent are in the inembracing
the
average
terval
American college freshman. Test
scores for the remaining 14 per
cent fall slightly below the latter
classified
or,

the judgment of
these students
have academic and personal charbut, in

admissions

acteristics

were invited to attend
church of their choice in
Bloomsburg on Sunday morning,
and the Bloomsburg Ministerium
planned to give recognition to the
visitors during the services.
Both
freshmen and their parents were
guests of the college at dinner in
the College Commons at 1:00 P.
M. The general convocation was
held in Carver Auditorium at 3:00
M. For the discussion period,
I‘.
college officials arranged the following panel of faculty and adParents

the

and Bucks (12).
Of the 573 students

interval,

among the various groups. The
enthusiastic response to past sessions has earned the event a permanent date on the college calendar.

officials,

which make them good

candidates for the teaching profes-

members: Dr. Harvey

ministrative

A. Andruss, President of the College;

Miss

Evelyn

Gilchrist,

Co-

ordinator of Guidance Services;
Miss Beatrice Mettler, Coordinator
of Health Services; Mr. C. Stuart
Edwards, Director of Placement;
Mr. Paul Martin, Business Manager; Mr. John A. Hoch, Dean of
Instruction,

sion.

who

served as

mod-

erator.

Kenneth

Wood, Mechanisburg,

1958 graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has been appointed new head football and
track

coach

School,

Ed

at

Northwest

High

Gayeski, athletic direc-

has announced.
Mr. Wood lettered in football
four years both in college and high
tor,

school, and at BSTC was a member of the varsity club, treasurer
of the Community Government
and senior class chairman. At

Northwest he
matics.

will

teach

mathe-

Following the discussion period,
Deans and Assistant Deans of

the

Men and Women and members

of

held informal conferences with parents and students.
Parents also visited rooms in the
Waller Hall Dormitory.
the faculty

Paul Keener is a teacher of
grade six in the Ellenville Central'
School District, Ellenville, New
He taught an experimental
York.
group of gifted sixth grade children last year. His address is 134
South Main Street, Ellenv ille, N. Y.
TIIF.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HONOR MARKS
CAREER KEFFER HARTLINE

SCIENTIFIC

experiment was not underestimated.

(Reprinted from “The Lafayette

Alumnus”)
Dr. Reverly

W.

Kunkel, profes-

emeritus of biology, provides

sor

another stimulating article for the
Alumnus in this study of the
achievements of 11. Keffer Ilartline

whose

’23,

work

revolves

around vision.
Only two graduates of Lafayette
College have ever been elected to
the National Aeademy of Sciences, which is without doubt the most coveted honor
conferred by an organization in
this country on a scientist.
James
McKeen Cattell, the psychologist
of Columbia University and son of
President William Cattell of Lafayette College, was the first to become a fellow. Today, H. Keffer
Hartline of the class of 1923 is the
only alumnus of the college in
that august body.

fellowship

in

Hartline entered Lafayette with
the

some advanced credits from
Bloomsburg Normal School
which

his

father,

in

Daniel S. Hart1897 was for

iine of the class of

many
al

years the professor of natur-

history,

and was graduated

in

The influence of his
highly significant for
throughout his college career he
was indefatigable in the laboratory and in nature study in the
three years.

home was

field.

He showed marked

as a student of science

ability

and before

he was graduated he had carried
on a piece of research which was
published within a year of his
graduation.

From Lafayette he went

to the

Johns Hopkins
but never with

Medical School,
the intention of
becoming a practicing physician.
His interest in physiology, specially in the behavior of sense organs
and nerves, was such that on one
occasion he excused a failure to
keep an appointment with a professor for an oral examination because of its interference with an
experiment which was in progress.

Whether the examination was
eventually

passed

or

not

never

became known to me, but the scispirit which pervaded the
medical faculty at the time was

entific

such that the value of a working

DECEMBER,

1959

On graduation from the Medical
School, Hartline was awarded fellowships which allowed him to extend his mathematical knowledge
which was necessary for the solution of some of the physical problems of the physiology of the
nerves. In 1931 he joined the staff
of the Eldredge Johnson Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania and continued his study of
vision until 1949 when the director of the laboratory. Dr. Detley
Bronk, became president of the
HartJohns Hopkins University.
accompanied him to Baltimore and became professor of biophysics at that university and remained there until Bronk was
line

made

the Rockelefler Institute in New York.
Ilartline accompanied him again, became a member of the Institute
and occupies a suite of laboratories
there with investigators who are
continuing the study of the eye.

president of

Hartline’s

work

in vision

and the

changes which come over nerves
when stimulated is recognized all
over the world. The listing of the
titles

of the score or

more

of papers’

which describe his work have little
meaning to the layman. His work
is
recognized by physiologists as
of the first rank and fundamental
lor the proper understanding of
these organs.
Perhaps the most important contributions to our knowledge of vision which Hartline has made are

connected
isolation

with

his

very

skillful

the
optic nerve and determining the
variations in the electrical potential of the nerve which are set up
when the retina is exposed to light.
Another of his important contributions is his discovery that by virtue of the intimate cross-connections of fibers in the optic nerve,
the stimulation of one interferes
with the action of neighboring
ones. This explains several optical
illusions which are produced when
areas of different intensities of illumination are seen side by side.
ot

single

fibers

of

The relations of the retinal cells
and the optic nerve fibers in the
familiar animals are so complex
that the changes in single nerve
fibers could not be analyzed in

In consequence, for some
years the study of the eye of the
horse-shoe crab has occupied the
energies of Hartline’s laboratory.

them.

Probably no other laboratory in
country is better suited for the
studies which Hartline is conducting.
The room in which he is
measuring the electrical changes
in the stimulated nerve is a complex of wires, switches, knobs and
indicators of various sorts which
appear to be of the order of magthis

nitude of the instrument panel of
an airplane. An eye of a horse-shoe
crab with a short piece of the optic nerve is removed from the animal and fastened to a container
and bathed with sea water and
crab food to keep it moist.

The nerve
some single

teased
are

out until
separated
from the rest and one of these is
connected with an oscilloscope
and a carefully regulated spot of
light is directed on the eye.
In
die dark the oscilloscope shows no
change but when the nerve as a
whole is stimulated the instrument
shows a most intricate pattern of
is

fibers

movements of a beam of
which can ot profitably be

irregular
light

studied.
When, however, a single fiber or two are stimulated the
movements of the beam of light
take the form of regular spikes
whose frequency and length are
determined by the nature of the
stimulus. The records of these experiments are in the form of strips
of photgiaphic film marked with
these sharp changes in the waving

up and down
corresponding

of the

beam

pulses which are set up
lation of the retinal cell.
I

of light

to the electrical im-

by stimu-

have no doubt that many read-

they hold out to this
How can any
one be content with this kind of
work?” All I can say is that there
ers will say,

point:

if

“What

of it?

tremendous satisfaction in learnsomething which has never
been known before, perhaps even
more satisfying than lowering one’s
score in a golf game, or beating; a
sprinter by a few inches. It is abis

ing

solutely impossible to predict how
such experiments as are here very
inadequately described may affect
the world.
The discovery of the right-hand(

Continued on Page

20)

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11

ALUMNI

THE
COLUMBIA ACOUNTY
PRESIDENT

DELAWARE VALLEY AREA

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Harold H. Hidlay

Wilkes-Barre Area

Alton Schmidt
Burlington, N. J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Agnes Anthony Silvany,’20
83 North River Street

Penn Street

242

Bloomsburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

John Dietz

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Wallace E. Derr
R. D. 1, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Southampton, Pa.

SECRETARY

Mrs. Mary Albano
Burlington, N. J.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Peter Podwika,

SECRETARY

Miss Eleanor Kennedy

565

Wyoming, Pa.

Espy, Pa.

Mr. Harold Trethaway,

Walter Withka

Clayton H. Hinkel
332

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER

TREASURER

Burlington, N.

Glen Avenue

’42

Monument Avenue

’42

1034 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

J.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

RECORDING SECRETARY
Bessmarie Williams Schilling, 53
51 West Pettebone Street
Forty Fort, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Richard E. Grimes, ’49
1723 Fulton Street

Mr. William Zeiss, ’37
Route No. 2
Clarks Summit, Pa.

Harrisburg, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lois M. McKinney,
1903 Manada Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

259

’32

611 N.

TREASURER
Mrs. Betty K. Hensley,
146 Madison Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Summer Avenue

Scranton

4,

LUZERNE COUNTY

Scranton

TREASURER
Homer

Englehart,
1821 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa.

Hazleton Area

Margaret L. Lewis, ’28
1105y2 West Locust Street

’32

Race Street

4,

PRESIDENT

Pa.

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine Street

TREASURER

Hazleton, Pa.

Martha Y. Jones, ’22
632 North Main Avenue

’ll

Scranton

4,

’34

Pa.

SECRETARY

Middletown, Pa.

Mr. W.

Miss Ruth Gillman, ’55
Old Hazleton Highway
Mountain Top, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anne Rogers Lloyd, T6

SECRETARY
Miss Pearl L. Baer,

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, ’17

Pa.

147 Chestnut Street

Hazleton, Pa.

SECRETARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Mrs. Elizabeth Probert Williams,
562 North Locust Street
Hazleton, Pa.

'18

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille McHose Ecker,
785 Grant Street
Hazleton, Pa.

1895

M.

L.

Laubach

lives

at

104

South 21st Street, Terre Haute, Indiana. For many years he has been
a

member

of

the

faculty

of

the

State Teachers College at Terre
Haute, which last year had an en-

teaching staff in the Wilkes-Barre

business session on Saturday after-

High School. He moved to Terre
Haute in 1905, where he became
head of the Department of Indus-

noon.

trial Arts.

I’agc 12

From Jack Nelson, President of
our General Alumni Association:
congratulate you on your fine
reunion.
Wonderful spirit,
w onderful attendance and wonderful generosity in Loan Fund contributions.
I
beg your forgiveness
for keeping the souvenir diplomas
in my desk when I thought that I
“I

1909

class

Danville, Penna.

rollment of 4,000.

Mr. Laubach taught at Bloomsburg from 1896 to 1900.
From
Bloomsburg he went to Columbia
University
for
one year, after
which he became a member of the

’32

June 23, 1959

Dear Classmaes:

The enclosed minutes

of our re-

cent class reunion, so well prepared by Gertrude Meneeley, are sent
to you as per action taken in our

was having them prepared

for dis-

tribution.”

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ALUMNI

THE
MONTOUR COUNTY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash Street
Danville, Pa.

Mr. Clyde Adams,

Mr.

’53

312

Miss Mary R. Crumb,

VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas E. Sanders,

’55

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. George Murphy, T6
nee Harriet McAndrew
6000 Nevada Avenue, N. W.

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Miss Eva Reichley,
’05

614

Washington, D.

’39

Market Street

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

PHILADELPHIA AREA

Mrs. J. Chevalier II, ’51
nee Nancy Wesenyiak
3603-C Bowers Avenue
Baltimore 7, Md.

TREASURER
’30

615 Bloom Street
Danville, Pa.

PRESIDENT
4215

Brandywine
Washington

’08

Street, N.
16, D. C.

W.

Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Advisor

Ruth Garney Saunders ’20
234 East Greenwood Avenue

’50

Mi-s.

638 Wyoming Avenue
Elizabeth, New Jersey

Landsdowne, Pa.

SECRETARY

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Dale

Miss Saida Hartman,

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Miss Frances A. Cerchiaro,

TREASURER

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer T8
9 Prospect Avenue
Norristown, Pa.

NEW YORK AREA

C.

Sunbury, Pa.

Church Street
Danville, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler,

’24

V

Street S.E.
Washington, D. C.
1232

1412 State Street
Shamokin, Pa.

SECRETARY
Miss Alice Smull,

PRESIDENT
’53

Dornsife, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Edward Linn,
R. D. 1
Danville, Pa.

WASHINGTON AREA

Mrs. Charlotte F. Coulston
693 Arch Street
Spring City, Pa.

Springer, ’57
136 West 3rd Avenue
Roselle, New Jersey
J.

’23

WEST BRANCH AREA
PRESIDENT

TREASURER

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Jason Schaffer,

Miss Esther Dagnell
217 Yost Avenue
Spring City, Pa.

A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton Street
Roselle Park, N. J.

’54

R. D. 1
Selinsgrove, Pa.

’34

VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Lake Hartman,
Lewisburg, Pa.

’56

SECRETARY
Carolyn Petrullo,

’29

King street

SUPPORT THE BAKELESS FUND

Northumberland, Pa.

TREASURER
La Rue
..

-

From Harold Moyer, Chairman
Memorial Loan Fund”

of the “1909

Committee:

“We

are pleased to report that a
total of $882.00 has been received

from 37 members of our class. We
trust that you all will help us atour goal of $1,000.00 as a
Year Memorial’ from the
Class of 1909 to this Loan Fund.

tain

‘Fifty

ter C. Welliver, Treasurer, 251 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg, Penna.
Please do it now while you think

of

it.”

A final “thank you” to all who
helped to make our “Golden Reunion” a slendid success.
Forty-four present, out of a possible eighty-one, established an all
t' me
record for Fifty Year Reun:

ion classes.

“For many of us ‘Old Normal’
gave the opportunity to attain an
education not otherwise possible.
This Loan Fund will be used over

appreciate the presence of
you who came, and the letters and
messages received from many of

and over again, and thus afford

you who were unable

a

opportunity
for many
young people in the year ahead.
“Send your contribution to Wal-

similar

DECEMBER,

1959

have

We

to

be with

regret that we could not
had similar messagse from

others.

Brown, TO

And now

a little prayer in clos-

ing:

Great God, from whose almighty
hand,
The ages fall like grains of sand;
We thank Thee for the years
now done,

And

trust

Thee

for those yet to

come.

With every good wish.
Sincerely,

We

us.

E.

Lewisburg, Pa.

-

Fred W. Diehl,
Reunion Chairman
Minutes of the Fiftieth Anniversary — Golden Reunion — of the
Class of 1909.

With apologies

to

Oliver

Wen-

Page 13

Holmes,

dell

me

let

begin with

this

verse:

“Come, dear old classmates, you
and I
Will steal an hour from days

gone by,

The shining days when
new

And all was
dew
The

was

life

bright with morning

heard of some others. A letter of
regret for inability to attend was

lusty days of years long

past

And memories

that last

cerning our contribution to the
Scholarship Fund was heard. Letters were read from the following
who were unable to be with us:
Rebecca Stroh Williams, Julia
Simpler Aurand, Jessie Ruhl Reber, Sue Bennett Leathers, Emma
Eaton Perrego, Madeline Bishop
Charlesrarrd, Samuel
Steiner.
}.
Through classmates present, we

and

last.”

On Friday evening, May 22, the
general alumni body was host to
39 members of our Class of 1909,
and some wives, and some husbands, and some other guests — a
goodly crowd — at a dinner in Col-

We

received from Miss Mabel Moyer.
It was regularly moved and seconded that letters of thanks be
sent to the following for their assistance to the committee who
gave us so much information and
did so much to make a successful
reunion: Superintendent of Schools

Bloomsburg, Mr. Clair PatterMrs. Knight for
song sheets, addressing of envelopes, etc. We also thank Dr. Andruss of the College and Dr. Nel-

lege Commons.
posed for our
picture for the paper and then
moved into the beautiful new dining room.
were greatly pleased to have with us: Dr. and Mrs.
Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. Nelson,
Dean Sutliff Mrs. Foote, Miss
Mary Good, and Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Shambach.

of

Following the dinner, we moved on to our designated reunion

Saturday.

We

son, for printing;

son of the Alumni for the dinner
and for everything else that was

,

room and what

a buzz!

Everyone

talked at once.
It was so easy to
recognize one another because
some thoughtful person had presented us with name cards. Having read the card, we could easily
identify the face and the name.
The Morning Press said of us —
and I quote — “The Class of 1909
the show as the BSTC (we
were BSNS) graduates moved in
to take over the campus for the
stole

annual one-day stand.

The

turn-

out of ’09 was the largest of any
fifty-year class in the history of the
institution.

They had
and

as

much pep

wouldn’t stay
in one spot long enough for anything, including the securing of
as the 59ers

just

identification for the class picture.”
In that picture there

Finally,

much

being

talking,

we

were 39 of us.
from so

hoarse
settled

down

to a

President
Mabusiness.
Explanations
honey took over.
were given concerning the plans
for this reunion, and a vote of
thanks was given to the committee, headed by Fred Diehl, for the
time spent and the work done to
make our getting together a happy one. A tentative report conlittle

Pitjre 11

done

for us.

We

adjourned until 10:00 A. M.

fiom

note, read

another of her

poems.

Answering the roll call on Friday evening or Saturday morning
were 13 boys and 31 girls. They
were:

Robert F. Wilmer
Florence Priest Cook
Harold L. Moyer
Sadie Kintner Breyfogle
Martha H. Black
Ethel Kingsbury Mann
Irma Heller Abbott
Bess Hinckley
Reinee Potts Jacob
Helen Wilsey Rutledge
Kathleen Major Brown
Geraldine Hess Follmer
Kate Seasholtz Morris
Eva Marcy Pace
Estella

Marcy Brown

Enola G. Fairchild
H. Gladstone Hemingway
Harriet Kase Toland
Bertha Welsh Conner
Marion Parker Fall
Leon D. Bryant
A. L.

We

The precious hour

Bess Plinckley, our poet-

us.

of

ess

Rummer

Daniel

Mahoney

arrived!
held the place of honor on the auditorium platform — a very dignified group
and now there were
44 of us.
The reunion program

George F. Williams
Nora Woodring Kenny
Margery Reese Penman
Mary Hughes Lake

proceeded as usual

L.

—

arrived.

until our turn

President Daniel
for the Class of

Ma-

song to

the

honey spoke

We

sang

our class

’09.

Mary
by Harold Moy-

tune of Juanita, written by
Gillgallon

and led

Maybe

our voices were shaky
we’d had no practice for 50
years, and we were so choked up
with memories.
There was one
er.

—

disappointment: we didn’t receive
our new diplomas.
However, it

was promised that we’d have
them in time to report for duty in
September.
The meeting ended,
and we moved on to the dining
room for luncheon.
At about two o’clock, we met
again in our assigned room. The
regular
meeting
opened with
President Mahoney presiding and
welcoming us all again. The minutes of 1954 were read and approvEthel Creasy Wright deserves
ed.
our thanks for her years as secretary.

Bishop Robert Wilner led us in
lor those who had gone

prayer

J.

Thurman Krumm

Fred W. Diehl
John E. Klingerman
Anna Kuschke
Verna Keller Beyer
Walter C. Welliver
Ethel Creasy Wright
Edward R. Eisenhauer
Frederick E. Horick

Mary Edwards Shuman
Mary Gillgallon Rockefeller
Lydia Williams Lewis
Bessie Betts Mitchell

Mary Thompson Reichley
Elizabeth Fagan
Jessie Fleckenstine Herring
Gertrude M. Meneeley
you were there and your
name is not here, you failed to
(If

sign the book.)

The committee who served for
our Fiftieth Reunion was asked to
Let’s make a
continue in office.
big effort to come back in ’64. For
us who were here, it was truly a
glad time. There was a touch of
remembering those
sadness
in

who had

left

us and sorrow and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

sympathy

for

who

those

are not

were brought by us

to the annual
the Agricultural
and Technical Institute in Alfred,
New York. The festival (five days
of continuous drama) was a constant source of inspiration, challenge, and pleasure.
But the offering of the youngest participants
was of greatest interest to the dramatics co-ordinator of
IN-

drama

well.

As we began with a thought
from Holmes, let’s close with another of

his:

"Then

here’s to our school days,
the gold and the gray,

The
of

stars of the winter, the
its

dews

May.

And when we have done with

festival

at

THE

STRUCTOR.

our life-lasting toys,

formation included were: geographical data animals and flowers,
food, history, places of interest,
things to do, Hawaiian holidays

and festivals.
Scene 2 featured a luau and
again the entire group appeared
According to cuson the stage.
tom, the “feast” was arranged on
large leaves spread on the ground.

To accommodate

Dear Father, take care of us
girls and us boys!”
Gertrude M. Meneeley,

Dorothy Kroh,
whose trip to Hawaii and enthusiasm for dramatics were largely re-

Secretary Pro Tern.

sponsible for the Bolivar, New
York, entry, to share the development of this curriculum-integrated

the large group,
several luau “tables” were laid side
by side on the stage-area floor.
Those attending the feast sat on
the floor on both sides of each table.
A good drawing of a luau is
in Armitage’s “A Brief History of

production with our readers.

Hawaii.”

1914

The Moosic Teachers

Associa-

and the Moosic School Board
gave a retirement banquet to Miss
Blodwin Evans at Schuster’s reMiss Evans was the recently.
cipient of a purse, clock radio and
tion

45 roses, representing the number
of years she taught school.
1923
Dr. Margaret Bittner Parke, Professor

of

Education

Brooklyn

at

College, has been selected by the
ExInternational
Educational
change Service as the recipient of
a United States Government Grant
under the Fulbright Act to lecture
in the University of Sydney, Australia, in curriculum construction
and theory during the college year

1960.

1924
Elsie Perkins Powell

is

director

of the vocal department of WyomShe
ing Seminary, Kingston, Pa.
taught vocal music for seventeen
years at Mansfield, and has been
at Wyoming Seminary since 1943.

1930

Dorothy Wilson Kroh
er of grade three
School at Bolivar,

resides at
Bolivar.

126^

is a teachthe Central
New York. She
Plum Street in

in

A recent issue of the Instructor
carried the following comment by
Ruth Birdsall, dramatics co-ordinator of the magazine:
I’ll never be the same again! All
because I had a lei placed around
my neck and a kiss on my cheek
by an eight-year-old fairy in a
grass skirt!

happened

in the spring of
Bolivar Central School
third-graders (about 70 children)
It

1958

when

DECEMBER,

1959

So

A

I

invited

M iss Kroh’s article follows:
TOUCH OF OLD HAWAII
The

Bolivar program was divid-

ed into two parts. The first was
an outdoor school situation. The
children were seated informally on
bleachers (so all could be seen), on
There
chairs, and on the floor.
was a map of the islands on an
easel and a chart with Hawaiian
words.
Before the curtains opened on
the scene, Hula Dancers and boys
in aloha shirts carrying ukuleles
held the letters of Aloha Hawaii
while the rest of the children, on
stage but not seen, gave an original

welcome and

introuction chor-

While the guests were

1934

Margaret Mary O’Hara (Mrs.
Joseph Coyne) was among those
present at the reunion of her class
Alumni Day. Mrs. Coyne
taught for five years in the schools

ally.

last

Then the curtains opened and
the audience was made acquainted

of

with many of the facts about Hawaii which the children had learned. A pupil teacher kept the ball

Each

rolling.

child

who

to say

wide range of abilities, each individiual made his or her contribution distinctly and with evidence
that what he had to say had meaning for him.
Interesting facts
about the language were brought
out and the audience was invited
to

pronounce Hawaiian words with

the children as a pupil pointed to
them on a chart.
To everyone’s delight, the group
sang “Jingle Bells” and “Silent

Night” in the Hawaiian language.
They sang from memory, but each
child had been given a copy of the
songs for study in advance.

Some

Metuchen,

ter,

Dunmore.
ael,

New

Jersey,

and

la-

at intervals, in the schools of

aged

She has one son, Michfive.

had

stood by his seat
Though it was apparent
to say it.
that these children represented a

something

feasting,

master of ceremonies introduced
entertainers who presented a variety program.
One boy pretended
to sing a Hawaiian song which was
played on a recording machine
back stage. A group of boys, accompanying themselves on homemade tom-toms, chanted “May
Day Is Lei Day in Hawaii.” The
Hula Dancers danced “The Huki
Lau.”
The scene was concluded
with a choral-speaking farewell.
a

of the types of factual in-

1934
(The following are extracts from letters received from the members of the
class on Alumni Day, 1959:)

Esther E. Dagnell
217 Yost Avenue, Spring City, Pa.;
B.S., BSTC; teacher, teaching math
in Spring-Ford Junior High School;
“taught for 24 years. Traveled extensively in Europe, Canada, Carribean and United States.”

Mercedes Deane McDermott

—

Husband, deceased 932 Serrill Avenue, Yeadon, Pa.; one boy and one
B.S.L.S., Drexel Institute Library School; County Librarian, Albemarle, N. C., County Librarian,
West Chester, Pa. Presently Librarian Yeadon High School, Yeadon,
Pa. “Publication of several articles

girl;

in librarians’ professional journals.
I’m sorry I can’t attend due to senior activities here.
Send me the

news.”

Page

15

Mary DeWald Elder

—Konkle

Husband, Robert

Road, R.
D. 2, Montoursville, Pa.; one boy
and one girl; B.S., BSTC, Penn
State; teacher for five years in elegrades at Muncy, Pa.;
presently homemaker. “PTA activNeighborhood chairman in
ities,
Girl Scout work, active in fund
raising community projects such as

mentary

United Fund, Heart Fund, Retarded Children, etc.”

Edward

F.

Doyle

—

Marie 910 Westdale Place,
Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.; four boys and
one girl; correspondent, Pa. Dept,
of Revenue, U. S. Army Officer, Insurance Broker presently. “PersuWife,

ading

my

wife to marry me.”

Madalyn Dunkelberger Stephen
Harry—Union Deposit,
Husband,
M.A., Columbia UniPa.; two
versity; Junior High teacher, Berwick, Pa., for six years, presently
housewife.
girls;

Lawrence C. Evangelista
Wife, June— 121 West Third

Street,

Hazleton, Pa.; one boy and one girl;
B.S. and M.A., New York University and Penn State; math teacher,
high school, assistant principal high
Presently assistant high
school.
school principal.

Esther Evans

—

teacher at Anville, Pa., Catawissa,
and at present teacher at
Pa.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. “Managed to stay
healthy and fairly well out of debt.”

Berwick, Pa.;
one girl; housewife.
and mother.”

Street,

East

8th

“Homemaker

Grace Foote Conner

—

Husband, Joseph 102 West Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa.; three boys and
one girl; B.S., BSTC; Hop Bottom
High School, Latin, French, EngSubstitute—
lish, extra-curriculars.
Catawissa High School, Scott High
School, Bloomsburg High School.
homemaker, wife and
Presently

accomplishment—
Chief
mother.
“To have kept this same job for
nearly 22 years.”

1935
Dr. Harold J. O'Brien, associate
professor of speech at the Pennsylvania State University, has been
named assistant to the dean of the
College of the Liberal Arts.
Dr. O'Brien is responsible for
activities

the College and he will continue on a part-time basis as associate professor of speech.
Dr. O’Brien, a native of Locust
Cap, is a graduate of Mt. Carmel

of

Pape

Ifi

State Teachers College.
His master of arts and doctor of philoso-

les

phy degrees
Penn State.

were conferred

by

He

has served on the Penn State
since
1947 and earlier
taught in Clearfield High School.
At Penn State he was assistant debate coach from 1948 to 1957 and
for the past two years has been
head coach of men’s debate.

faculty

Dr. O’Brien

is

the son of Mrs.

Marie O’Brien, of Locust Gap, and
his wife is the former Harriet Shymanski, formerly of 242 South
Beach Street, Mt. Carmel.
1935
Rostand Dick Kelly, Bloomsburg
native, has been appointed curator
of the Laguna Beach, California,
Art Gallery.

The son
ley,

of the late

Rupert Kel-

from

BSTC and
He assumes

graduated

Columbia University.

new

position

with

a

back-

ground well-suited for the curator
post, having taught art at the Allen-Stevenson School and at Hunter College for the gifted, New
York City. He has also served as
an associate professor of Fine Arts

at Rollins College.

one boy and

Commonwealth Campus

est tradition of

his

McFadden

(deceased) 304
Husband, Joseph
West Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
one boy and one girl, B.S., BSTC;

Jean Eyer Bredbenner
Husband, William— 232

Township High School at Locust
Gap and received his bachelor of
science degree from Bloomsburg

Mr. Kelly, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, has had
liis art teaching career interrupted
twice by war. However, he says,
‘serving as an administration officer, public relations officer and
as an aide to Admiral Frank Monioe has given me excellent training in many areas applicable to

my new job.”
A world-traveler,

he

returned

three years ago from a tour of art
centers in Japan, India and the
As a
countries of the Near East.
student, Mr. Kelly visited the fam-

ed galleries of Europe.

our free nation.”

The medal, along with a citation scroll, was presented by CahrStiles,

controller of Freedoms
Collegevilleat the

Foundation,

Annual
Trappe
High
School
Awards Day ceremonies.
Miss Berger was one of 11 teachers from the Montgomery County
area to be honored by the Foundation.

Dr. Kenneth D. Wells, President
of

Freedoms Foundation,

in noti-

Miss Berger of the award
said: “Your exceptional classroom
work in behalf of responsible patrifying

otic citizenship

Way

and the American
been singled out

of Life has

as an important professional conrtbution to maintaining our American Constitutional Republic.”

A jury, composed of State Supreme Court judges and elected
representatives of national patriotic, service anr veterans organizations, selected the awards recipents from among the records of
teachers from every corner of the

country whose names had been
submitted by citizens interested in
continued high levels of citizenAmerican
education
in
ship
schools.

1937

Ruth Hutton Aucker, native of
of
graduate
Bloomsburg
and
Bloomsburg Normal School, had a
showing of her work in sculpture
from May 4 to May 16 at the Ward
Eggleston Galleries, 969 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
The pieces on exhibition were
bronze;
“Robert,”
“Curance,”
bronze; “Zelda,” fiberglass; ‘Man
of
God,” plaster; Hon. Joseph
Robbins,” terra cotta; ‘Mary G.,’
terra cotta; “Tomko Miho,” cast
stone; “Contemplation, limestone;

“Night
fiberglass;
“Ballerina,”
Flight,” alabaster; “Fallen Angel,”
coral rock; “Enchantment of Past

and Future.”
1937
Miss Sara M. Berger, a teacher

High
Collegeville - Trappe
at
School, Collegeville, received the
Valley Forge Classroom Teachers’
medal for her outstanding work to
create a better understanding of
Our American Way of Life and
her “patriotic contribution to notable youth leadership in the high-

of

“Curnace,” “Ballerina and “Man
God” have reecived special

awards

in exhibitions in

Washing-

D. C., New Jersey and Connecticut shows.
The sculptor, who is Mrs. W.
Mason Aucker, Detroit, Mich., is
the daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. William Hutton, Bloomsburg.
Her brother, Robert, is a teacher
ton,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Bloomsbury High School.
Mrs. Aucker attended art schools
in Philadelphia and New York and
received her B.S. degree at Columbia University. She took further study in New Mexico and at
Cincinnati Art Academy and studied sculpture in Oronzio, Maldarelli, New York, and Ferenc Varat

ga, Detroit.

Mrs. Aucker spent several years
in Paris doing fashion illustration.
She taught art at Cooper Union,
New York; University of Alabama
and University of Cincinnati.
1942

1947.

Mr. Shlanta is married and has
two children. He and his family
in

Pleasantville,

New

1945

For the first time in the history
of the Bloomsbury State Teachers
College a father-daughter combination is serving on the faculty

same time.
Mrs. Mary Lou John

at the

is

the third

of her family to be
graduated from the college. Her
grandmother was graduated in
1888 and both her mother and fa-

generation

ther, (Professor

Howard

F. Fenste-

maker) were graduated in 1912.
Mrs. John received her degree in
1945.
Her husband, Harry John,

was awarded the bachelor’s
at Bloomsburg in
1948,

Jr.,

degree

three years in the
armed forces. Mrs. John completed her elementary education in the
campus laboratory school, and her
son, Edward, is now in fourth
grade at the laboratory school.
after

a

of

1947

is on the faculty at Sullivan Highland School, Sonestown.

Theodore E.
son

Road,

Professor Fenstemaker has been
member of the college faculty

and director
die Maroon and Gold College
pianist,

organist,

Rand.
Mrs. John will teach professional
orientation

DECEMBER,

and history
1959

Jurasik, of 86 Jack-

Stream,

Valley

New

Mnk, has been appointed district
sales manager in The Reuben II.
Donnelley Corp.’s Directory Pub-

of civiliza-

1953
Miss Ruth E. Thomas, daughter
of Mr .and Mrs. Arthur Thomas,
R. D. 4, Bloomsburg, and math

High School,

lications Division.

teacher at

Mr. Jurasik joined the advertising and publishing firm in 1956 as
a salesman in the Manhattan area.
He will perform his new duties in

been awarded a grant for the
National Science Foundation InHigh
of
Teachers
stitute
for
School Mathematics. She will attend Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. A graduate of Bloomsburg High and BSTC, she has tak-

the

Manhattan-Queens

sales office.

organization is
the sole authorized Directory Adthe
vertising Representative tor

New

York Telephone Co., which

publishes the “Yellow Pages.”
He lives at the Valley Stream
address with his wife and their
four children: Theodore 13, Martha 10, Peter 9, and Ann 5.

1950
Richard E. Jarman, of 20 Metlars
Lane, Durham Road, New
Brunswick, was one of 60 teachers
from 20 states who attended Clark
University’s 1959 Summer Institute
for mathematics.
The program, designed for'
teachers of mathematics in high
schools and junior colleges, is operated by Clark University under
a $69,000 grant from the National
Directed by
Science Foundation.
Dr. Charles T. Burner, the sixweek course of study is designed
to broaden the mathematical background and professional competence of selected teachers.
Mr. Jarman is a teacher of mathematics at Junior High School,
Millburn, N. J.

1952

serving

for thirty-three years, teaching foreign languages and social studies
and acting for much of that time
as

husband had received his master’s
degree at Bucknell and is studying
for his doctorate at Penn State. He

The Donnelley

John A. Shlanta has become a
partner in the law firm of Berle,
Berle, and Brunner, located at 70
Pine Street, New York City. He
has been associated with the firm
since his graduation from the New
York University School of Law in

are living
York.

tion, a course which her father ha
taught at the college for nearly two
decades.

In a

May ceremony performed

Joseph’s Catholic Church,
Danville, Miss Connie M. Stanko,
in

St.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Stanko, Danville, became the
bride of Harry J. Gobara, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Gobra,
The Rev. Msgr.
Sr.,
Elysburg.
Francis L. Conrad officiated.
The bride is a graduate of St.
Cyril Academy and the groom of
Danville High School. Both gradued from BSTC. Mrs. Gobora is
on the faculty of Warminster eleF.

mentary

school,

Hatboro.

Her

Millville

lias

en graduate work

at

Boston Uni-

versity.

1953
Miss Phyllis Yvonne Morgan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ottis S.
Morgan, Danville R. D. 4, became
the bride of Albert S. Harper, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harper, Sr., Levittown, in a ceremony
performed Saturday, August 15, in
l’rinity
Lutheran Church, Danville. The Rev. C. Elwood Huegel,
pastor, performed the double-ring
ceremony.
The bride graduated from the
and
Bloomsburg High School
BSTC and is a teacher in the

Pennsbury

Elementary

Schools,

Levittown.
The bridegroom, a graduate of
Bristol High School and Shippens-

burg State Teachers College, is a
graduate student at New York University.
He teaches at the Pennsbury High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Harper are now
living at 2 Quiet Road, Levittown.
1954

James K. Luchs, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde R. Luchs, Bloomsburg,
a chemistry teacher at Upper Darby senior high school, will attend
the University of Pennsylvania this
through the National Science

fall

Foundation Academic Year
tute.

The award provides

Insti-

for tui-

and a stipend along with a
program of studies leading to an
tion

M.S. degree.
A former graduate
the Bloomsburg High School
and the Teachers College, Mr.
Luchs, his wife and two-year-old
son reside at 416 Benson Avenue,
Glenolden, Pa.
of

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17

BSTC and

1955

With the

nation’s ever

growing

school population, it is not uncommon for your educators to rely upon their resourcefulness to meet
the challenge of a growing community’s educational needs.

One such case occurred when
the Navy constructed a $700,000
school building on Midway Islands
dependents of the Department
of Defense. LTJG Edward J. Connolley, USNR, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the dependent school officer,
for

Midway

was called upon

Islands,

to establish a junior-senior high
school program. Everything from
curricula organization to ordering
texts,
equipment and out fitting
the science laboratories had to be
accomplished.
This was in May,

Today, a well functioning school
system of a caliber to be found
only in the better stateside school
system, is in operation on Midway.
The school program, which has
received excellent grades during
regular inspections,, was ready for
accreditation in September, 1959.

LTJG Connolley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James P. Connolley, 301 West
Mahoning Street, Danville, is married to the former Miss Joan Christie, of Allentown.
Mrs. Connolley
is

also a graduate of

the

Bloomsburg

member of the faculty
new Midway School.
a

Mr.
Connolley
from active duty

He was

year.

was
in

of

reelased

June of

this

assistant administra-

the Naval Station
Charge of the Armed Forces Radio and Television
tive

ofifeer

and Officer

of

in

outlet in addition to his duties as

dependent school

officer.

1956
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Shaffer,
former residents of BloomsJr.,
hurg, have moved from their home
in
Lewisburg
to
Doylestown,
where Mr. Shaffer has been appointed supervisor of mentally retarded classes in Buck County.
At present time Bucks County
has 36 special education classes.
Mr. Shaffer will work with the
teachers of these classes, helping

them with any problems
arise

that

may

.

Mr.
Page

received his

Education

18

Shaffer

is

a

graduate

of

Master’s

Bucknell
University. He is now working on
his
Doctorate at Pennsylvania
State University in elementary education with emphasis in special
in

at

education.
He has been special education
instructor in the Lewisburg High
School for the past two years.
There he was instrumental in developding a work program for the

young

folks of that area.

He has recently completed the
requirements for the school psychologist certificate and he has
been working on a revision of a

Catholic Church,
BloomsThe Rev. Vincent J. Topper
performed the nuptial mass.
The couple now reside at 95
Washington Street, Morristown,
N. ]., where Mr. Pribula is employed as an announcer at WMTR.
ba’s

burg.

The bride was graduated from
Bloomsburg High School and

the

BSTC where she was a member of
Pi Omega Pi and Kappa Delta Pi.
was formerly employed at
and just completed teaching at Delhas High School, Bristol.

She

WI1LM
in

Mr. Pribula served three years
the United States Army, serving

Japan and Korea and the Army
Center on Long Island.
He was formerly associated with

in

manual for the menretarded under the direction

Pictorial

of Miss Margaret Neuber, professor of special education at Penn

WHLM.

social skills
tally

State.

the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Shaffer, and Mrs. Shaffer is the former Miss Eleanor
Broadt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Broadt. They have a young

Mr. Shaffer

1958.

and

Degree

is

son, Kelly Lee,

aged seven months.

1956
Miss Cynthia Dian Jones, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry C.
Jones, Catawissa R. D. 2, was united in marriage to Dr. John C.
Irene
Bauersfield, son of Mrs.
Bauersfield, Chevy Chase, Md.,
and the late Emil G. Bauersfield,
in a ceremony Saturday, June 20,
at St. Paul’s Evangelical United
Brethren Church.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Glenn Hur-

wick, and the late Harold Laubach, became the bride of Vincent
Dalto, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J
Guido Dalto, Berwick, on Saturday, August 8, in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church. The Rev.
Fr. Francis Mongelluzzi officiated.

The new Mrs. Dalto was gradufrom Berwick High School
State
Bloomsburg
and
from
Teachers College. She is a member
of the faculty of the Berwick Junated

Her husband,
graduate of Berwick High
School, served in the U. S. Air
Force for three years. He is employed in the Accounting Depart-

ior

High School.

also a

ment

atiak, pastor.

The bride graduated from Catawissa High School and BSTC and
has been an elementary teacher in
the Ilershey public schools.
Her husband, a graduate of Gettysburg College and University of
Pennsylvania School of Veterinary
Medicine, entered the U. S. Army
He
Veterinary Corps on July 1.
is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon
and Alpha

1956
Miss Barbara Laubach, daughter of Mrs. Harold Laubach, Ber-

Psi fraternities.

at the

ACF

The couple

friends in their
at

Industries, Inc.
home to their

are at

newly

built

home

911 Roslyn Drive, Berwick.

1956
Miss Marlene Louise McCoy,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy F.
McCoy, of 137 East North Street,
Carlisle, and James E. Starr, of Lemoyne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Starr, of Williamsport, were
Z.
married on June 7 at 3 in the after-

Church

God,

1956
Miss
Patricia
Ruth O’Brien,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David
Street,
O’Brien,
Catherine
J.

noon

Bloomsburg, and Edward Thomas
Pribula, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Pribula, Harland Street,
Exeter, were united in marriage

pensburg State Teachers College.
Her husband was graduated from
Williamsport High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColBoth are teaching in the
lege.

Saturday, July 11,

in

St.

Colum-

in the First

of

Carlisle.

The bride was graduated from
High School and Ship-

Carlisle

TI1E

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

West Shore Joint School System,
Lemoyne.
They are residing at 622 Hummel Avenue, Lemoyne.
1958
Miss
Elaine
Martz,
Eunice
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
11. Martz, Bloomsburg R. D. 1, and
jon Lawrence Rider, son of Mrs.

Martha Rider, Millville, and the
late Lawrence Rider, were united
in marriage in a ceremony performed recently in Buckhorn Lutheran Church.

The

bride,

a

graduate

Bloomsburg High School,

is

of

em-

ployed at Bloomsburg Hospital.
Her husband, a graduate of Millville High School and BSTC, is
proprietor of Jon's Esso Service

1958
In

a

summer ceremony

lovely

performed Saturday, August 22, at
St.
Columba’s Roman Catholic
Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Shirley
Anne Kahler, daughter of Mrs. C.
Donald Kahler, Bloomsburg, was
united in marriage to Orville Harmon Fine, son ol Mr. and Mrs. OrA. Fine, Glen Lyon.

ville

Father Vincent Topper officiated at the double-ring ceremony
attended by 175 wedding guests.

The bride
graduated
from
Bloomsburg High School in 1957
and has been employed at the
First National Bank ot Bloomsburg.

Her husband, a graduate of
Newport High School, Wanamie,
received

where
Sigma

degree from BSTC
was a member of Phi

his

lie

Pi.

He

is

now

a teacher

Niedig
Elementary
School, Quakertown.
Mr. and Mrs. Fine are living at
526 West Broad Street, Quakertown.
at

Joseph

1959

Navy Wave Ensign

Mary

A.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Pileski, Bloomsburg, was
graduated October 21 from the
eight-week training program for
women naval officers at Newport,
R. I. A graduate of BSTC, she has
been stationed in Washington
where she will be assigned to the
Pileski,

Bureau

of Ships.

DECEMBER,

1959

The

tenth annual reunion of the

-

Class of 1909

man Krum, Upper

Mrs. L. ThurMontclair, N. J.

—

Mr. and Mrs.
Class of 1911
A. K. Naugle, Roselle Park, N. J.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association of Greater New York was held on Saturday
afternoon, October 31, 1959, at the

Class of 1923 — Mrs.
Smethers, Elizabeth, N. J.

Winfield

lin,

Scott

Elizabeth,
New Jersey, with Miss Frances A.
Cerchiaro, presiding.
Hotel,

Mr. Francis R. Thomas gave the
invocation after which eighteen
members and guests sat down to
a delicious luncheon.

We

were

very

much

disappointed that the college was not
represented, although we realized
that it was impossible for Dr. Andruss and Dr. Nelson to attend because of “Home Coming” at the
all

College.

Highway.

Millville

BSTC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF GREATER NEW YORK

After much discussion as to the
best time to hold our reunion because of the apparent lack of interest on the part of the Alumni in
this area,

it

and carried

was moved, seconded,
that

we

try

the last

Saturday in April to hold our next
meeting, and that a questionnaire
be sent to all Alumni in the area,
asking the type of program desired, the time of meeting — a luncheon, dinner or tea, and if interested, would they be willing to
contribute a small amount to help
defray the expenses of the association?

A short business meeting was
held and a call was made for the
nomination of a slate of officers for
next year.
Mrs. Fred Smethers
moved that the present officers
serve for another year. The motion
was seconded by Mr. Michael Prokopchak and unanimously approved.

The

officers are:

President — Miss Frances A.
Cerchiaro ’50.
Vice President — Mr. Dale J.
Springer ’57.
Secretary-Treasurer — Mr. Alfred K. Naugle ’ll.

The following classes were represented:
Class of 1904 — Mrs. Charles J.
Thielman, Tenafly, N. J.
Class of 1907 — Mrs. Stanley J.
Connor, Trenton, N. J.
Class of 1907 — Mrs. John Culp,
Verona, N. J.
Class of 1907 — Mrs. Margaret
O’B. Hensler, North Bergen, N. J.

Class of 1923

—

Dunellen, N.

Mrs.

J. J.

Fred

Cough-

J.

Class of 1935 — Mr. Michael
Prokopchak, Bloomfield, N. J.
Class of 1942

—

Mr. Francis

Thomas, Valley Stream, Long

P.
Is-

land, N. Y.
Class of 1950

— Miss Frances A.
Cerchiaro, Elizabeth, N. J.
Class of 1957 — Mr. Dale J.
Springer, Roselle, N. J.
Guests included:
Mrs. K. Thurman Krumm, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Mrs. Arthur Twogood, Turbortville,

N.

Mr.
N.

Elizabeth,

Coughlin,

Dunellen,

J.

Mr.
N.

J.

Fred Smethers,
J.

J.

J.

Prizes were awarded. as follows:
Youngest class represented —
Dale J. Springer ’57.

Oldest class represented — Mrs.
Charles J. Thielman ’04.
Greatest number years teaching
— Mrs. Margaret O’B. Hensler ’07.
Greatest distance traveled —
Mrs. Arthur F. Twogood 05.
Each one was asked to give a
short account of his or her experiences after graduation which proved very interesting. It was learned
that several are

still

teaching.

After a period of friendly talk
and the singing of the Alma Mater,
the meeting was adjourned at 3:30
P.

M.
Respectfully submitted,
A. K. Naugle, Secretary.

1960
Miss Alice Marie Ker, Catawissa
R. D. 2, and Donald Morgan, Gilberton, were married recently in
the
Toms
River Presbyterian
Church, Ocean County, N. J.
Mrs.
Morgan was graduated
from Danville High School and is
a student at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. The bridegroom
was graduated from Gilberton
High School and is a senior student at Bloomsburf State Teachers
College.

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two grandchildren and two brothers, Leland, Wilton, Conn., and
Walter, Clarks Summit.

Nprrnlngti
Beatrice Burke Jeffrey ’15
Mrs. Beatrice
Burke Jeffrey,
1625 Penn Avenue, Scranton, a
teacher in the Scranton public
schools 42 years, died recently.
Mrs. Jeffrey taught untli her illness. She spent her entire teaching

E. Grace Lamiing
Mrs. E. Grace Lanning, seventy-seven, 31 Pine Street, Bloomsburg, died Monday, October 19, at
eight o’clock at the Pleasant View
Convalescent Home, Northumberland R. D.

career at Longfellow school.
A native of Dunmore, she was a
daughter of the late Hugh and
Adeline Warner Burke and resided
in Scranton most of her life.
Mrs.
Jeffrey was graduated from Cen-

A former school teacher, she had
taught at Elk Grove and had at-

tral

High School and Bloomsburg

State Teachers College.
Mrs. Jeffrey was a member of
Immanuel Baptist Church and the

Bloomsburg Alumni Association.
Charles D. Enterline ’34
Charles D. Enterline, forty-seven, 5087 Dunlap Street, Oxen Run,
Washington, D. C., died suddenly
at his

home

Friday, October

9, of

a heart attack.

The son of the late William and
Alta Enterline, Turbotville, he was
a graduate of the Milton High
School
and
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, class of 1934. He
also did graduate work at Bucknell

and Duke

Universities.

He

taught for a number of years
at Turbotville and Danville High
Schools and the Whitehill Industrial

Home

for

Boys and

in

Wash-

ington.

Charles B. Gorham
Charles
B.
Gorham, Gravel
Panel Road, R. D. 2, Clarks Summit, retired Bell Telephone Co.
chief clerk, died recently at his
home after a long illness.
Mr. Gorham worked for the
telephone company 35 years prior
to his retirement in 1945.
A native of Scotia, N. Y., he lived in the Clark’s Green area since
1905 with the exception of a 13year period when he worked for
the telephone company in Harrisburg.
Baptist

He was

a

member

of First

Church, Clarks Summit,
and Waverly Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
Surviving are his wife, the former Vera Colvin T5; a daughter,
Mrs. Eldon Petty, Clarks Summit;
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Bloomsburg

tended

Normal

School.

She was a member of

St. Peter’s

Methodist Church, Riverside, and
the
Bloomsburg Lodge of Rebekahs.

Edwin C. Shuman
Edwin C. Shuman, sixty-one,
1417 Beach Drive, NE, Petersburg,
a
former resident of
Bloomsburg, died reecntly at his
residence from a heart condition
with which he had suffered twelve

Florida,

years.

__He was

the son of the late Lloyd
and Margaret Louisa Adams
Shuman. A graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal School, he had
resided in Detroit, Mich., where
he was automobile and machinery
salesman.
For the past six years
he had lived in retirement in Flor-

O.

ida.

Mary Thomas Cleaver

Word

has been received of the
recent death of Mrs. Mary Thomas
Cleaver, eighty-six, widow of Dr.
Lewis Cleaver, former Catawissa
icsident, at Denver, Colo.
Mrs. Cleaver was the daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Thomas. She was a graduate of

Catawissa High School and BSTC
and taught in the Catawissa High
School. Before moving to Denver,
she lived in Johnstown.

Byron J. Grimes
Byron J. Grimes, eighty-three,
Hagerstown, Md., died Thursday,
October 1, in Hagertown Hospital
of a cerebral hemorrhage.
He was born and reared in Light
Street and graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School and later
from Dickinson College, Carlisle.

SCIENTIFIC HONOR MARKS
CAREER KEEFER HARTLINE
(Continued from Page

today and certainly that harmless
looking formula of Einstein when
he first devised it had little prom-

He was a veteran of World War
and a member of the Highland
Park No. 468 F. and A. M., Detioit,
Mich., and the Consistory
and Methodist Church in that city.
Death severs a marital relation-

there

ship of thirty-nine years.

that

1

B. Isabel Bertels

Isabel Bertels, 93, who
as a WilkesBarre school teacher, passed away

Miss

retired

B.

30 years ago

1 uesday,

October

6,

in

Myron

Stratton Home, Colorado Springs,
Colo., after a lengthy illness.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Miss Bertels resided in the city most of her
life and had been a guest at the
Myron Stratton Home the last 25
years.
She has been a member of
the
faculty
of
Wilkes-Barre
Schools many years and during her
career she taught for the most part
at
the
old Washington
Street
Building.

11)

ed and left-handed crystals of tartaric acid by Pasteur led to the discovery of the relation of certain
germs to fermentation and to infectious diseases; Michael Faraday’s experiments
with magnets
and batteries and coils of wire
gave no indication of the vast electric industry of the western world

ise
of
atomic energy and the
atomic bomb.
The scientist has
consummate faith in the value of

scientific

knowledge
well

a

is

faith

as

in

itself

and

known aphorism

insignificant

as

a

grain of mustard seed can remove
mountains. Perhaps the horse-shoe
crab’s eye and the wanderings of
the beam of light on the photographic film will help the blind to see
and the seeing to understand better

what

is

going on

in

his

own

eyes.

CORRECTION
In the October issue of the “Quarterly”

appeared this statement under

“Contributions Received”:
“Contributions received in response
to appeal for funds to support public
relations service $1816.00.”

This statement should have read:
For public relations service
$1470.00
346.00
For Loan Funds

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

"SAUCERED AND BLOWED"
E. H.

In his
livin’ in a

a “heap

NELSON

’ll

homespun style Edgar Guest, wrote “It takes a heap o’
to make a home.
Those of us who have experienced

house

a’ livin’

”

at the college in

talgia in our reflective

present day activities.

days past, experience a bit of nosof her

moments, or when we hear or read
We make plans to back and visit.

When Silas Marner visited his habitat of early days he exclaimed
We are bound to get something of that feel“Lantern Yard’s gone.
ing too, but we must remember that these are days of change. There
We welcome every
is no such thing as a static condition in progress.
effort to keep Bloomsburg abreast of the times, even tho the fire
escape we used for unobstructive entrance to the dormitory at a late
hour isn't there any more.
go on and and on. The associations and happimade our Alma Mater a pleasant memory
should continue to make it so. We are remiss if we neglect any op-

The

“liven'

will

ness which have always

portunity to

make

the most of what we were privileged to enjoy.
in our present day living.

It

should be a big factor

Often a returning Alumnus is heard to remark, “There seems to
This is the very time to make yourbe hardly anyone here 1 know.
self known. You will be surprised how gracious will be your welcome
if you give the present student body a chance to make your visit
pleasant.
Their enthusiasm and joy of living will make you feel
young again. I know; I have tried it.
Start planning now to come back for Alumni Day next May 28,
wander once more over the beautiful campus and view with pride
the school that has had your interest and devotion through the years.

to

COLLEGE CALENDAR
January

4

Christmas Recess ends, 8:00 A. M.

.

January 28

January

January 30

.

Commencement

First semester ends at close of classes

February 3

Registration for second semester

February 4

Second semester

March 31

_

classes begin, 8:00 A.

Annual Fashion Show

April 13

Easter Recess begins at close of classes

April 18

Easter Recess ends, 8:00 A.

May

25

Honor Assembly

May

26

May

28

May

29

June

6

June 27

July 18

August 8

_

.

M,

Second semester ends

VI.

at close of classes

—

— Commencement

(P.

Senior Ball

ALUMNI DAY
Baccalaureate (A. M.)

.

First

.

.

summer

M.)

session begins

Second summer session begins
Third summer session begins

Fourth summer session begins

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