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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
February 12, 1975 - Vol. 75 No. 6

MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Jane Youtz awarded
Washington Medal
Jane Youtz, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Youtz
and a junior at Donegal High
School has been selected for
the principal award this year
of the Freedoms Foundation
of Valley Forge, the George
Washington Honor Medal.
This outstanding award
is being presented to Miss
Youtz for a one-act play
she wrote for the Donegal
Dramatics Club in their
1973 Veterans’ Day celebra-
tion. The title of the play,
which Jane wrote in one
evening, is “Keep the Faith.”
Jane had never written a
play before, although she
has always been interested in
dramatics. The Dramatics
Club at Donegal needed a
new playwright; so Jane
undertook the task. “Keep
the Faith,” was the result.
The brief play is centered
on a conversation between
an old man and a youth in
the park, but contains
dramatic flashbacks to
scenes of heroism and trag-
edy in the lives of the old
man, his brother, his sons,
and his grandson - in four
wars. In the fifteen min-
utes it occupied the stage at
Donegal, its successive
scenes hammered home the
worthwhileness of patriotic
Ten Cents
Jane, typewriter & portrait painted in Paris
Commitment,” was the Don-
egal Veterans’ Day play of
1974, a work she thinks was
better written and that con-
tained a wider variety of
emotions than “Keep the
Faith.”
ioned her to write her play,
will travel to Valley Forge,
where the George Washing-
ton Honor -Medal will be
awarded to Jane.
Senator Richard A. Sny-
der of Lancaster and Sgt.
Ronald L. Diehm, USAF, of
sacrifice.
Although Jane never had
written a play before, she
has written two since “Keep
the Faith.” One, “The
An authentic, original Matthew Brady print of one of his photographic portraits of
Lincoln, in the possession of S. M. Simmons, 431 E. Market Street, Marietta. There are
only 134 such original Brady prints of Lincoln photos extant in the world today. Loan-
ed by Mr. Simmons to the Bulletin upon the occasion of the 166th birthday of the pre-
server of the Union,
Lititz, will be receiving hon-
her parents, and Mrs. Mary- or certificates during the
Margaret Peraro, the teacher ceremonies, for a speech
at Donegal who commiss- and a letter, respectively.
On February 17, Jane,
“Don’t underestimate the people,” Pete Foley
Warren H. “Pete” Foley,
president of the borough
council of Mount Joy, is a
public official who has care-
fully thought out his philo-
sophy of government and
who constantly refers to it
in arriving at practical de-
cisions.
His political philosophy
is simple. It is democratic
He never forgets that govern-
ment is of, by, and for the
people. ‘Never underestim-
ate the citizens of a com-
munity,” he states. “It is
the people themselves who
decide the destiny of a com-
munity, the speed with
which it will travel. They
let their needs be felt.”
As an elected represen-
tative of the people he has
constantly tried to keep in
close touch with the people.
A busy executive in the
graphic arts industry, he
has to make efficient use of
his time to keep his finger
on the public pulse of
Mount Joy. For example,
in coming home from work
in Harrisburg he drives a
different route through
Mount Joy each night to get
a perspective on the entire
borough.
Along the same lines, the
entire borough council “rode
the borough” together last
month in a small bus, keep-
ing their eyes open, getting
out often, and looking over
local problems. In this way,
individual council members,
who were elected to repre-
sent particular wards in
Mount Joy, obtained an
over-view of the entire bor-
ough and its problems.
Pete Foley keeps the peo-
ple in mind when he looks
to the future of government
in Mount Joy. He would
like to see increasing parti-
cipation by people in their
government through ad hoc
committees working in close
cooperation with council
committees. A recent ex-
ample of close cooperation
between citizens and govern-
ment in Mount Joy has been
the joint work on parks and
recreation by the Athletic
Association and the Coun-
cil.
Foley would like to see
more women in Mount Joy
participating actively inlocal
government. He says that
he knows some “extremely
capable women” whom he
would like to see in govern-
ment.
Already, younger people
are taking a more active
political role. ““The time of
the younger generation is
here,” Foley says. He points
out that Mayor James Ging-
rich of Mount Joy is the
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Pete Foley
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