Bicycle Safety Program Set for Saturday in Hershey
Hershey Optimist Club will host its second annual Bicycle Safety Program at Hershey High School Playground Plaza on Saturday April 14 starting at 9 A M. Up to 3 000 circulars were distributed to Derry Township and St. Joan of Arc Catholic School pupils. The event offers free registration with a membership card and numbered safety emblem, bicycle safety drill tests, film on bicycle safety, a ventriloquist act by William Fisler, and a prize drawing for a new bicycle. If rain occurs the event will be moved to Saturday April 21.
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Hershey Optimist Club
Hershey High School
Derry Township
St. Joan of Arc Catholic
J. William Abram
William Fisler
Optimist
Essay prizes awarded in Hershey Legion Auxiliary contest
First prize of 5 dollars for the best Americanism essay went to Larry Witmer a tenth grade student at Derry Township High School Mary K Parr won second prize of 3 dollars and Patricia Gilman third prize of 2 dollars all tenth graders Judging was by a committee headed by Mrs Mardell Strimble
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Hershey American Legion Auxiliary
Larry Witmer
Derry Township High School
Mary K. Parr
Patricia Gilman
Mardell Strimble
New Pumper Passes Tests Busy Season Planned For With 22 Members Aboard
Twenty two members of the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company tested a new Oren pumper on Hockersville Road and Sand Hills reaching twenty miles per hour. It passed exhaustive pumping tests at the Rose Garden and was loaded with four thousand dollars worth of hose and equipment. Plans for a busy season include weekly golf lessons by Johnny Weitzel at Hershey Country Club for juvenile members of the Community Club.
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Hershey Volunteer Fire Company
Hockersville Road
Sand Hills
Rose Garden
Johnny Weitzel
Hershey
Ralph L. Hoar
Community Club
Hershey Women’s Club
Eugene Gray
Paul Bear
Paul M. Hetrick
Convent Building Dedication by St. Joan of Arc Parish
The St. Joan of Arc Parish dedicated a new brick convent valued at 135000 dollars. Bishop George L. Leech blessed the two story facility, with Auxiliary Bishop Designate Lawrence F. Schott delivering the sermon. An open house drew hundreds as sisters prepare to move in and use the building for classrooms, chapel and housing.
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M. Rosella
St. Joan of Arc
Dominick A. Mammarella
George L. Leech
Diocese of
Harrisburg
Lawrence F. Schott
Areba Avenue
St. Joan of Arc School
Order of Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy
Junior Anglers Await Fishing Day
Hershey youngsters prepare for the Community Club's third annual Fishing Derby Day set for Saturday May 5 in Spring Creek. Prizes will go to the three largest catches during 8 am to 4 pm, limited to cadet members, with younger children under eight as guests. The record stands at a 22 inch rainbow trout by Larry Geib. Steve Miller won last year and Robert Bucher in 1954.
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Hershey
Spring Creek
Larry Geib
Steve Miller
Robert Bucher
Plan Scrap Drive by Hershey Firemen
Hershey firemen will conduct a paper and scrap metal collection on Monday evening April 16. Residents should place newspapers magazines and scrap on the curb in front of their homes by 5 30 p m.
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Hershey
Student Day program shows student leaders at Derry Township High
Frank Tapparo acted as student principal with Terry King assisting during the annual Student Day at Derry Township High School. Winifred Adams served as dean of girls and Wanda Osler as librarian. Faculty included home economics staff Jean Heagy Pat Koons Louella Lightner Judy Smith and vocational instructors James Wagner Robert Gipe Fred Walters John Gepfer David Keller William Ames William Moore Galen Dunmeyer Donald Emerick Robert Trump. Junior high teachers included Ruth Waybright Mary Ann Daniels Pascal DiMagno JoAnn Johnson William Nixon Ardith Curry Elaine Deets Marie Kieffer John Juran Carolyn Hocker Ronald Upperman Ann Snyder Mary Alice Hocker Mary Ann Haldeman Edith Kreider Ken Hoover Darlene Strickler Kenneth Heaps Faye Eisenhour Annette Robertson Lena Magnellisis Joe DiBlascio. Senior high students teaching academic subjects included Lee Moyer Carl Schiller Cleon Cassel Joan Lollo Lucartha Donges David Tapparo Arthur Whiteman Mary Kosier Eileen Cassel Ronald Seavers JoAnn Bruce Michael Miller Nina Matheny Anita Freet Glenn Weidler Harold Balmer Louis Gruber.
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Frank Tapparo
Robert Trump
Pearl Brinser
Erma Deimler
Shirley Walborn
Grace Rhine
Barbara Day
Betty Miller
Fay Eshleman
Ruth Waybright
Mary Ann Daniels
Pascal DiMagno
JoAnn Johnson
William Nixon
Ardith Curry
Eleaine Deets
Marie Kieffer
John Juran
Carolyn Hocker
Ronald Upperman
Ann Snyder
Mary Alice Hocker
Mary Ann Haldeman
Edith Kreider
Ken Hoover
Darlene Strickler
Kenneth Heaps
Faye Eisenhour
Annetta Robertson
Lena Magnellis
Joe DiBlascio
Lee Moyer
Carl Schiller
Cleon Cassel
Joan Lollo
Lucartha Donges
David Tapparo
Arthur Whiteman
Mary Kosier
Eileen Cassel
Ronald Seavers
JoAnn Bruce
Michael Miller
Nina Matheny
Anita Freet
Glenn Weidler
Harold Balmer
Louis Gruber
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