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Vol. 75 No. 14 - April 9, 1975
Mr. Hallgren in his office
Patrick Kenney, Ir.
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
School superintendants
have a way of migrating
from one part of the coun-
try to another, always in
search of a bigger and high-
er paying job. Often, they
don’t have a very intimate
knowledge of the commun-
ity they are serving.
Donegal School District
is very unusual in having as
its Superintendant, Ragnar
F. Hallgren, Jr., born and
raised in Mount Joy. As a
boy he used to deliver milk
and ice in Maytown and
Marietta for his father. Com-
ing daily into homes with,
his ice tongs through the
kitchen door, he got to
know everyone pretty well.
He has no desire to move
on to a bigger and better
position.
Grandfather came from
Sweden
His grandfather had come
from Sweden, stayed for a
while in Delaware, then
settled down in Mount Joy.
Ragnar Hallgren’s parents
The life story of Patrick
Kenney, Jr., of Marietta has
an old-fashioned moral: a
successful life does not de-
pend on being born with
money and high social status:
a successful life is built on
personal qualities like de-
pendability, honesty, will-
ingness to work, and being
more interested in other
people than -in oneself.
Life centered in Marietta
Although Kenney’s acti-
vities as Executive Director
of the Lancaster City-Coun-
ty Human Relations Com-
mittee take him far and
wide, his life was shaped
and remains centered in
Marietta, Pa.
Pat’s father, the first
Patrick Kenney, had lived
for a while in Columbia,
Pa., then returned to his
old home in Virginia, where
he married Pat’s mother,
moved with his family to
Bethlehem, Pa., and finally
settled down in Marietta.
Pat was nine when his family
came to Marietta. Pat re-
members his first teacher
in the Marietta schools,
Joan Harris, daughter of
the minister at English Pres-
Ragnar F. Hallgren, Jr., indigenous educator
were classmates in the local
high school and graduated
valedictorian and salutator-
ian.
In high school Ragnar
Hallgren was an athlete as
well as scholar. He was
president of his class every
year he was in Mount Joy
High School.
During the war he served
as a pilot in the Navy Air
Corps.
(Continued on page 2)
NOTICE
The Borough Council of
Mount Joy will be holding a
public hearing at their regu-
lar monthly council meeting
on April 14, 1975. The
purpose of the hearing will
be to discuss the changes
made to the proposed zon-
ing ordinance since the pub-
lic hearing held on February
19th. The public is invited
to attend.
Patrick Kenney, Jr., made it the hard way
byterian Church in Marietta.
From his mother Pat
learned qualities of depend-
ability, hard work, and self-
lessness that have stayed
with him. When his mother
would go out to work all
day in other people’s homes
she would give Pat a list of
jobs to be done at their
home while she was away.
Pat still has expert skills
in housekeeping, cooking,
and sewing - although he
doesn’t use them much these
days.
Mother dies
Two years after coming
to Marietta, when he was
eleven years old, Pat’s moth-
er died.
Louise Drain, a good
friend of his mother took
Pat into her home. Louise
continued the lessons in re-
sponsibility begun by Pat’s
mother. She charged Pat $2
a week for board, room,
and laundry - money Pat
had to earn.
It was the late 1930s,
and the Depression was con-
tinuing, but little Pat man-
aged to go to school and
earn some money too.
(Continued on page 2)
SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN
Ten Cents
photo by Jim Gerberich
Kim Lauver as Guenevere
Have you seen Camelot?
Have you seen Camelot
yet?
You haven't?
You have only two more
chances - this Friday and
Saturday evening at 8 p.m.
at Donegal High School.
Camelot is certainly the
most spectacular show ever
put on in Donegal coun-
try. It has a lot of every-
thing.
Beautiful, heart-warming
dancing. At other times,
with the aid of a black
light, eerie and almost su-
pernatural dancing.
Magnificent sets.
Extremely well planned
and organized staging.
Beautiful stirring music
provided by an excellent
full orchestra accompany-
ing the fine voices of the
stars and chorus of Donegal
High School.
Medieval humor with mo-
dern overtones that has the
audience tittering and guf-
fawing.
Romantic, tragic drama,
with hope at the end.
(Continued on page 6)
The big wind blew
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Damaged barn east of Maytown