Last Mount Joy High School Graduation Is Tonigh
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FIFTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 48
The Mount Joy
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MOUNT JOY, PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1954
DEDICATED
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
$250 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Thirty-six Seniors To Receive
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Diplomas
The last graduating class of the Mount Joy High School includes from left to right in the front row: Carol Smith, Virginia Brooks, Shirley Wade, Sarah
Garber, Judy Kopp, Patricia Schroll, Joann Brown, Edith Christ, Miriam Tyndall and Norma Nentwig;
Constance Lane, Patricia Frantz, Marilyn Bernhard, Ruth Weidman, Velma Hoff er, Anna Fletcher; third row, Ralph Berrier, Donald Zerphey, Lois Rutt,
Jetty Hostetter, Darlene Schneider and Shirley Smith; back
Walton, Richard Will,
row, Robert
Eby, Henry Klugh, James Hollinger, Charles Mayer and Richard Nissley.
Playground Benefit Shows Planned
Rose Shows Are
Scheduled For June
Three
chrysanthemum show have been
scheduled in the vicinity of Mt.
Joy. The fifth annual Elizabeth-
town Rose show sponsored by
the Elizabethtown Rose Society
an affiliate of the American
Rose Society, will be held in
the David Martin building, 17
W. High Street, Saturday, June
5. This year, 128 ribbons and 32
prizes will be awarded.
The fifth annual rose show of
the Burholme Horticultural So-
ciety will be held at the Second
National Bank of Philadelphia,
Cottman Avenue at Horrocko |
Streets, Philadelphia, Saturday
and Sunday, June 5 and 6, 1:30
to'9:30 p.m. and 10:30 am. to
5:00 p.m.
The Harrisburg Rose Show
will be held June 3 and 4 at the
farm show building, Harrisburg
from 12:00 noon to 9:00 p.m.
The Chrysanthemum show of
the Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society is scheduled for Novem
6 and 7 in the fieldhouse
Swarthmore College,
rose shows and one
ber 5,
of the
Sgt. Reis Speaks
To Lions Club
Sgt. H. A. Reis, from the
state police sub station, Colum-
was the guest speaker at
regular meeting of the Mt.
Lions Club Tuesday
ing at Hostetters. Sgt. Reis dis-
cussed traffic rules and safety
and showed a film of the Lan-
County Safety Patrol
bia,
the
Joy
caster
parade.
The next meeting of the club
Tuesday night, June 15, will
feature the installation of new
officers by the Deputy District
yovernor, Arthur Greiner, Eli-
zabethtown.
nen
STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
“Buy your supper at the
strawberry festival Saturday,
June 12” is the suggestion of-
fered .by the Mount Joy Metho-
dist Church. Supper will be
served on the Methodist church
lawn from 4 to 9 p.m. The menu
will include chicken corn soup,
po'ato salad, sandwiches, coffee,
coft drinks and strawberries in
a'l forms. A special feature will
be a fish pond for the children
for 5 and 10c.
Rev. Hess Celebrates
Ninety-Fifth Birthday
The Rev. Abram Hess, who
with
and Anna Ze: cher,
Mt. Joy,
ninety-fifth
resides his daughters,
Mary Hess
215 Marietta Avenue,
will celebrate his
birthday Friday, June 4.
Although blind, he is enjoy-
ing good health and attends
Sunday School and church reg- |
ularly at the Cross Roads Breth-
ren in Christ Church near Flor-
in. Sunday, May 30, he was a
guest at the Messiah Children’s
Home. The 18 children and Miss
Mazie Seese, matron, sang
happy birthday for him. He still
takes his daily walk and enjoys
listening to the radio.
He has one brother, Noah Z.|
Hess, Lancaster R6, living who |
is 93 years old.
REV. ABRAM HESS
even- |
Three Day Show
To Feature
Juvenile Talent
Seventy three Mount Joy
boys and girls will take part in
talent show next
and Wednes
a three day
Monday, Tuesday
day, June 7, 8, and 9.
The ages range from
years to fourieen years of age
A ticket that is bought for the
show Monday evening may be
used again on Tuesday evening
for the price 25¢ for children
and 50c for adults. Anyone
wishing to see the finals, must
purchase another ticket, but the
prices remain the same. The fi-
nals are Wednesday evening.
Each show will begin at 7:30 p.
m
seven
George Houck, who is direct-
ing this program, will act
master of ceremonies.
This program has
ranged so money can be raised
to help finance the playground.
A donation need only be to pur-
chase a ticket.
Jay Barnhart, Jr., will be the
aceompanist while Morrell
Shields is serving as chairman
of the judging commitiee. John
Lichty and Bonnie Bigler, who
are assisting in the playground
this summer, are assisting Mr.
Houck.
MONDAY EVEN'G PROGRAM
Darla Kulp, Piano Solo; Jan-
ice Berrier, and Carol Detwiler,
vocal duet; Dennis Swartz, ac-
cordion solo; Carol West, vocal
solo, Kitty Buckwalter and Sal-
ly Ann Hollinger, piano duet;
Mary Smith, pantomime; Dar-
ryl Aument, trombone solo;
Cheryll Brown, piano solo; Ro-
maine Goodling, Nancy Pennell,
Esther Rice, Carol Garlin and
Carol Cupper, vocal group;
Ronald Arndt, Yo-Yo demon-
as
been ar-
stration: Marlene Sinegar, clar-|
inet solo: James Harnish, hum-
erous poems.
Judy Frey, baton twirling;
Georgeanne Schneider, vocal
solo: Gene Funk, accordion so-
| lo; Hariett Hawthorne and Jean
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second row; Charles Zelle
Fish, Harold Milligan, Owen Ph
Christmas Lighting
Group To Reorganize
The re-organizational meeting
of the Mount Joy Community
Lights
Wednesday evening,
of the Mt.
Association,
Christmas commitiee
will meet
June 9, in the office
Joy Co-Operative
Ice
the various organizations of the
fo
Avenue. Representatives of
borough are asked meet at
at 8:00 The
group will discuss new features
the office p.m.
for the present Christmas light-
ing system of the town. New
officers will also be chosen.
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ART CLUB
COMPLETES LESSONS
The Mount Joy Art Club fin
ished a series of landscape les-
sons with Charles X. Carlson,
instructor. The group was en-
tertained at Dos Arroyos, Kirk
Mills, the home of Mr. Carlson
Sunday. Some of the members
painted in the morning
“picniced” in the afternoon.
There members from oth
ert clubs present also.
and
were
'r, Dorothy Brooks, Mae Zink,
Janet
illips, Irvin Nauman, William
4-H Clubs To Hold
Training School
The annual leadership train-
ing school for 4-H Club officers
will be held Tuesday, June 8th,
8:00 p.m. in the Milton
School, This
ing is for all club officers where
an instruction period will be
held for each respective office.
Serving as instructors will
the members of the present 4-H
Club County Councils.
Also on the program will be
the election of the new County
Council for the next year. Two
model meetings will also be
held. All 4-H Club officers are
urged to attend this meeting.
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3recht
Lancaster. meet-
be
ANNOUNCES PRIZES FOR
GRAND OPENING
Hess’ Store announces
the following winners of prizes
given away during Grand
Opening celebration: Portable
radio, Mrs. Hilda Caslow; pop
up toaster, Parke Eberly; iron,
Mrs. W. L. Koder; Hallite cop-
per-aluminum Mrs. Jay
Barnhart.
Food
its
set,
Alumni Reservations Have
Reached Six
Mt. Joy
Banquet
at dead-
Reservations to the
High School Alumni
topped the 600 figure
line time this week!
will be
High
held in
School
Openhouse
the new Donegal
and the present Mount Joy Ele- |
mentary School from 4:30 to
5:30 p.m. Oldsters may visit
their “high school” for the last
fime before it to be torn
down and everyone is invited
to take a ‘‘sneak preview” of
the new high school.
Guides will be on hand at the
school to show visitors around
| and Daniel Wolgemuth, Florin,
the chairman of the school au-
thority, will be there ‘to answer
any technical questions.
The present Mount Joy High
| School will open at
is
Hundred
for registration for the affair
and to visit the school before it
Seniors Are
Guests Of
Rotarians
the Mount Joy
[ high graduating class!
| were guests of Rotary club at
their weekly luncheon Tuesday.
| Miss Patricia Schroll,
president, apprecia
| tion to the club entertain-
ing the seniors.
Wilbur I. Beahm, supervising
principal of the high schools in
the Donegal jointure,
speaker of the day.
Mr.
satisfaction a school adminis
trator has when he looks upon
He pointed
Members of
school
class
expressed
for
was
Beahm commented on the
a graduating class.
| out that there is no finer
| of students than in the Mt
| schools. He gave much of the
| credit for the outstanding stu-
| dent body to the interest of the
community in their schools.
| The speaker said that educa-
tion has three main functions:
class
Joy
1. To make better citizens.
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2. To help students to earn a
| living.
3. To help students to appre-
the world in which
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Bircman Will
Again Parade
Afier an absence of approxi
| mately eight years, the Mt
Friendship Fire Company, No. 1
will march in parade at
annual County Fire-
| men’s Convention to be held in
Columbia, Saturday,
Jetween forty and fifty
| will march the traditional
maroon, gold and blue uniforms
to the of the Hershey
| Drum Corp.
Parade time
The committee
there are still a few
available for men
like to parade with the
A contact by Saturday
will be appreciated.
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Cpl. Fitzpatrick
Is In Celebration
Cpl.
ciate
| live.
a
Lancaster
June
men
in
beat
is
2:30 p.
announced
m.
that
uniforms
who would
group.
morning
Camp Fuji, Japan
Hugh J
Doris, lives at
Mount Joy, Pa.,
the 6th Tank Battalion
recently celebrated its
niversary at Camp Fugi,
Part of the 24th Infantry
the battalion traces
ancestry to units of World War
I. Left in Japan when the divi-
10 W. Main St.,
is serving with
which
36th an-
Japan.
Di
vision, its
Korea before
is training
sion returned to
the cease-fire, it in-
tensively on the slopes of Fugi
yama.
Corporal
Mr. and
rick, Elizabethtown
scout
of
Fitzpatrick, son
R3, is a
reconnaissance platoon
member of the Headquarters
anr Service Company. He enter-
ed the Army in July 1952 and
arrived overseas five months la-
ter.
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REUNION IS SCHEDULED
A reunion of the 103rd Am-
munition train of World War 1
will be held Sunday, June 13,
1954, 10:00 a. m. Mystic
Chain Park, Vera Penna.
The park is from
Allentown and three miles from
| Emmaus. The registration fee is
$2.00 per family. The commit-
tee is striving to get veterans
who did not usually attend the
{ affair to come this year.
at
Cruz,
seven miles
becomes an elementary school. |
The banquet will be served
served at 6:30 p.m. and will
NOT be preceded by the busi-
ness meeting as in former years.
Since 600 people must register
before 6:30, the committee sug-
gests that members and guests
come early.
Of the principals who will be
present at the affair, it was dis-
covered that there are only 12
living, not 13. Word was receiv-
ed over the weekend that
Ira Scott, 1908-1910,
Dr. |
passed a- |
way in 1951. Nine are expected
to be present for the affair.
W. Harkness was contacted but
a previous commitment
J. |
will |
5:30 p. m.! prevent him from attending. MR. AND MRS. E. W
they |
| through
\
|
Joy
the |
5th.
Fitzpatrick, whose wife |
[
Mrs. Hugh S. Fitzpat-|
| the
Baccalaureate Sermon
Given Sunday Night
“An Heart”
was the topic selected the
Rev. Paul D
tor of the St. Luke's
Church, for the
sermon Sunday night in the Mt
High School auditorium.
George Broske, organist of
Understanding
by
Emenheiser, pas
Episcopal
baccalaureate
Joy
Mrs
the Church of God,
and assisting
were Dr. Ezra H. Ranck, the
Rev. Q. A. Deck, the Rev. H. C
Durfee, the Rev C. F. Helwig
the Rev. W Harner and the
Rev. W. LL
was the or
ganist pastors
I
Koder.
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Pair Of Deer
Visit Town
‘The
day
invaded!” Tues
the Rotarians
were being served their weekly
dinner meal in the Hostetter
Pavilion, a three-point buck and
enemy
roon while
| a doe descended upon the park-
the
over
ed automobiles parked by
building. The doe jumped
the hood of an unidentified Pon-
tiac and scratched the
and than ran into a Plymouth
owned Ray Wiley, a club
member. the rear
right window and left a trail of
her brown fur on the car.
She and
the neighbor's
the
were
fender
by
She smashed
her mate escaped
garden
Little
not
and headed toward
Chiques creek and
seen again that day.
Student Gives
“Found” Money
When Mount
its “welcome
borough
staged cel
ebration for the Mount Joy high
school basketball team in March,
Brown, son of Mr. and
New Haven
dollars in
Joy
home”
Jeffrey
Mis
Street,
cash around the high school.
Brown,
found several
He turned the money over to
school authorities to hold in
case the would claim it.
the end of May, no one had
and the
owner
By
claimed the money au
thorities informed Jeffrey that
the money was his
the
and his mother wrote a letter
School Home Asso-
ciation stating that the
will be turned over to the group
After accepting money,
he
to the and
money
toward the purchasing of play-
ground equipment
a
E. W. Garbers’
Celebrate Golden
Anniversary
Mr Mrs W. Gar
ber, Mount Joy Street, celebrat-
and Elmer
ed their fif.ieth wedding anni
versary, Wednesday, June 2
at
home of Garber’s par-
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron B.
Cling, Donegal and Market Sts
The bride was the former
Grace Cling. The groom's par
ents were the late Mr. and Mrs
of Donegal
were married by
Sheetz,
Church
The couple was married
Mrs
ents,
Benjamin L. Garber
Sprirgs. They
the Rev
of the Methodist
Mr. Garber, who was a drug
in Mount Joy for
who
years certificate from the School
Philadelphia
is engaged in
George pastor
gist many
years and received his 50
of Pharmacy,
1951,
work at the Elizabethtown Crip
pled Children's Hospital.
nn
professional
The couple has one daughter,
Esther, wife Ervin Starr,
Rohrerstown: grandchildren
and at-grandchild.
of
one gre
. GARBER
nual Class Day
I hievement
Awards Are
Presented At
Class Day
Mount Joy High School's last
tonight in
annual Com-
when 36
seniors will receive diplomas.
Dr. L. C. T. Miller will give the
featured address on “What Are
You to Do with Life?”
and the salutar-
ian and third honor students,
Constance A. Lane, Robert Fish
Patricia Schroll will give
addresses on the “History of the
class will graduate
the seventieth
mencement Exercises
Going
valedictorian,
and
Mount Joy Schools”.
daughter of
Lane,
Mount
Joy, was the recipient of seven
Constance Lane,
Mr. and Mrs.
Donegal Springs Road,
Edward
outstanding awards at the an-
held
in the high school Tuesday nite.
Exercises
Constance, named valedictorian
of her class, received the Clyde
E. Gerberich English Composi-
tion award, the Dr. O. G. Lon-
genecker Memorial Gold Cross
award; the G. Walter Sloan
Science award; an Adam Greer
Band award; a Chamber of
Commerce award; The wvaledic-
medal; and Reader's
award to the valedictor-
torian’s
Digest
ian.
Other winners were Pa'ricia
Schro!l, first place in the Hen-
ry G. Carpenter Commercial a-
ward; Adam Greer Band award;
honor student award and V. F.
W. Citizenship award. Carol
Ann Smith received the Frank
R. Tyndall Courtesy award;
Rotary Club vocational home
economics award; and honor
student. Sarah Garber received
second place in the Henry G.
Carpenter commercial award
and the Mount Joy High School
girls’ athletic award.
Charles Mayer received the
V.F.W. Citizenship award, hon-
student award and band a-
Darlene Schneider
received the John E. Schroll
journalism award and first prize
in the Chamber of Commerce a-
wards. Robert Fish was award-
ed the Rensselaer Alumni med-
al, a band award and the Salu-
tatorian’'s medal; Mae Zink re-
ceived the Lion's Club award
and a band award; Lois Rutt re-
ceived third place in the Cham-
ber of Commerce awards and a
band award; and Ralph Berrier
the Robert Germer
award presented by
1941 and a band a-
or
ward and
received
Memorial
the Class of
ward.
Henry Klugh was awarded
the Eli B. Hostetter Athletic a-
ward; Anna Fletcher, the Mount
Joy High School Home Econo-
mics award; Richard Will, the
Rotary Club vocational indust-
rial arts award; Donald Zerphey
the Mount Joy High School in-
dustrial arts award; Owen Phil-
lips, the Frank B. Tyndall cour-
award and Dorothy Brooks,
Irvin Nauman, Shirley Smith,
Miriam Tyndall, Shirley Wade,
Cha les Zeller, the other
band awards
tesy
and
Fach member of the gradua-
tion class received awards from
the Union National Mount Joy
Bank, the First National Bank
and Trust Company of Mount
Joy, and the Mount Joy Sports-
man’s Association
I QI rn
Mount Joy Girl
Wins Handbook
Nancy C. Swanson, 226 Mari-
etta Street, won The Handbook
Mathematical Tables, an ac-
award for the most
freshman work in
of
oustanding
mathematics
Miss Swanson received The
Handbook of Chemistry and
Physics at the close of the first
semester. Both awards are do-
nated by The Chemical Rubber
Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
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