Fourteen students graduate from Doylestown Township Consolidated School -
Editor's note - Paul W. Kutz Elementary School celebrated its 75th anniversary this school year. It opened in October 1936 as the Doylestown Township Consolidated School with about 200 pupils in first through eighth grades, replacing five one- or two-room schools in the township. The first commencement was held June 8, 1937, 75 years ago this week. In 1966, the school was renamed in honor of its longtime principal, Paul W. Kutz.
Fourteen boys and girls, eighth grade pupils of the Doylestown Township Consolidated School, received their promotion certificates at the commencement exercises held in the gymnasium of the National Farm School [now Delaware Valley College] on Tuesday evening.
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The program opened with a march and invocation. This was followed by: greeting, Gladys Derstine; poem, Martha Wright; instrumental music, Virginia Mason, Carolyn Rufe, Jeanette Mason and William Patsch; essay, Ruth Kirk; class prophecy and awarding of the Harry W. Gross and music prizes; class song written by Helen Snyder and Eleanor Childs; essay, Grace Bergey.
J. Leonard Halderman, supervising principal of the Doylestown Public School, gave the address. The seventh and eighth grade girls' chorus, under the direction of Miss Marie Barton, sang "Country Gardens," "Night Winds" and "The Bagpipe Man." County Superintendent J. H. Hoffman presented the diplomas.
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Members of the class selected as their motto, "Deeds Are Greater than Words," and the red rose as the flower. Class colors are maroon and silver.
Members of the class are: Grace Bergey, Charlotte Bushong, Eleanor Childs, Gladys Derstine, Rebina Easterday, Ruth Kirk, Marjorie Lapp, Ruth Leedom, Grace Miller, Louis Peterman, Margaret Schmaltz, Helen Snyder, Martha Wright and Jean Wrigley.
Hospital fund-raising campaign to get under way -
The annual campaign for funds for the Doylestown Emergency Hospital will get under way next Monday night, following a supper at the Doylestown Country Club that is open to the public. There will be a discussion on the subject of "Does Doylestown Need a New Hospital?"
The supper meeting is sponsored by the Village Improvement Association, an organization of women that this year received first prize in a State-wide survey for being the outstanding women's club in Pennsylvania in welfare work accomplishments.
This year, the canvass goal has been set at $6,500, to be used to maintain the Doylestown Emergency Hospital and the Visiting Nurse Service, two of the outstanding assets of Doylestown and surrounding territory.
During the past year, the hospital expenses amounted to $18,370.99 and the visiting nurse expenses amounted to $3,021.09, making a total of $21,392.08. The hospital income from fees amounted to $13,340.22 over the same period, plus $1,625.28 income from visiting nurse fees, or a total of $14,965.50, leaving a deficit for the year of $6,426.58, which is made up from community subscriptions of last year.
This very necessary and worthwhile institution that is very efficiently managed reported 638 patients admitted during the past year, compared to the previous year's total of 523.
Free patients the past year numbered 75, compared to 62 to the year before. Deliveries numbered 142 the past year, compared to 117 the previous year. There were 213 operations performed during the last 12 months, compared to 175 the previous year.
Likewise, the Visiting Nurse Service is growing. There were 2,897 visits made to 332 patients for 30 physicians during 2,518 hours on duty, with 51 free patients listed during the past year. Thirty deliveries were attended and there were five operations at home.
The work of the visiting nurse includes 55 sessions of the Child Health Clinic with weekly and yearly physical examinations made by the local physicians. There were 31 sessions of the dental clinic, with 404 dental operations and 71 completed during the last 12 months.
"Miss American Legion" pageant to be held in Doylestown -
, will host its beauty pageant for the selection of "Miss American Legion" of Doylestown at the Strand Theatre on two nights, June 23 and 24.
About 50 young ladies from Doylestown and vicinity will appear on the Strand Theatre stage in quest of the much-coveted title. Three judges will be sent here to select the winner.
This affair means much to Doylestown as well as the American Legion, and it is the hope of the Legion officers the public will accord it the deserved support. Harry S. Hobensack, adjutant of the Atkinson Post, is in charge of the arrangements for the local pageant.
The Doylestown winner will compete with about 600 "Beauty Queens" at the State convention of the American Legion, which will be held in the city of York, August 19, 20 and 21.
They will appear in the State-wide finals which will be staged for the purpose of choosing "Miss American Legion" of Pennsylvania. She will be sent to the National convention of the American Legion, which will be held in New York City later in the year.
All local pageants as well as the finals at York will be presented in evening dresses instead of bathing suits. This plan was conceived for the purpose of lending color and interest to the convention and affording a very enjoyable trip to the young ladies who are fortunate enough to be selected.
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New bridges to eliminate road hazard at Edison -
With the countryside resembling a battle-scarred patch of some Hollywood movie lot, Bucks county's biggest little construction job, involving the building of three bridges costing about $161,000, is being hurried to completion.
About 100 men are employed on the project, which will be about one mile long and will make a thing of the past the old double-curve Edison bridge [over Neshaminy Creek].
Considered one of the worst menaces to the motoring public on the famed Lackawanna Trail [Route 611], the old bridge will soon be a memory and not a hazard to be on the lookout for while driving when the roadway is slippery or icy and the night heavy with fog.
The three bridges, which will be of three-lane width, are being constructed by Hempt Brothers of Camp Hill, contractors. J.S. Anderson is the superintendent of construction.
The first bridge will be 195 feet long, with a 12-foot clearance and a span of 16 feet. The second bridge will include three 60-foot spans, an 18-foot clearance, and will be 200 feet long. This bridge will be the main one over the Neshaminy and will have stone abutments of rubble masonry and piers.
The third bridge will be 101 feet long with an 8-foot span and a clearance of 4-1/2 feet. The bridges are all of the dual type, with three lanes of concrete and a black middle surface.
To rush the bridges and fill-in stretches to completion, two mechanical shovels, 15 buckets and two transit concrete mixers are being utilized. According to the contract, which called for 85 working days, the bridge should be completed in September.
Michener to receive Master's degree -
Editor's note - After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1929, James A. Michener spent several years as a secondary school English teacher before joining the faculty of the Colorado State College of Education in 1936. He earned his master's degree there in 1937 and taught as an associate professor until 1941. Following his death in 1997, Michener's papers were donated to the school, now called the University of Northern Colorado.
James Albert Michener, formerly of Doylestown, the son of Mrs. M.H. Michener, will receive added laurels on Friday, when the Master of Arts degree will be conferred on him at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, Colorado.
For the past year, Mr. Michener has been a member of the faculty of the school in Greeley, teaching social sciences in the secondary school in the laboratory plant of the college. He is highly regarded among his colleagues.
Mr. Michener has taken graduate work in a number of institutions and has traveled abroad before locating in Greeley. For a time he was an instructor at George School, Newtown.
While doing his teaching, he spent time attending classes and working on his Master's degree.
Formal graduation exercises for the class of which Mr. Michener is a member will be held Friday morning under the trees. These exercises will be for a class of 480.
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Doylestown Town Notes -
The annual gypsy breakfast conducted by the Junior Nature Club will be held Saturday morning. Members will meet at the schoolhouse at 6:30 a.m. and then leave for the "Little Stone House" at Fonthill, where breakfast will be served. Members are asked to bring bacon, eggs and rolls.
Miss Sarah E. Atkinson, daughter of Mrs. E.K. Atkinson of Shewell avenue and a former Doylestown High School honor graduate, heaped more academic glory on herself when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude at Ursinus College on Monday.
About $35 was cleared at a strawberry festival held by the Young People's Club on the lawn of on Wednesday evening, for the benefit of the painting fund.
Mrs. Newell Bisbing entertained her bridge club at her home on North Church street on Monday evening, when all her guests received favors including smart, attractive handmade individual tally cards.
Paul Overholt, of North street, on Monday underwent an operation for appendicitis in Grand View Hospital, Sellersville.
Miss Ellen R. Keenan, daughter of Mrs. Hannah Keenan of East Court street, became the bride of John M. Rufe, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Rufe of East Ashland street, at a ceremony in the on Saturday morning.
A flower show, which will be open to the public, will be held in the rooms of under the direction of the little gardens committee of the Doylestown Nature Club on Friday from 2:30 until 9 p.m.
Mrs. William Edgar Geil and Miss Constance Geil have returned from Claremont, California to their home, "The Barrens," in Doylestown township. Miss Geil is a student at Scripps College in Claremont.
Nearly a hundred dancers Saturday night attended the dance given by the at the club house.
John H. Lester, Jr., of Doylestown township, won high honors recently at the commencement of Haverford College. He was among the seven seniors and four juniors elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Henry A. James, of North Main street, is undergoing treatment at the Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia.
Miss Dorothy M. Histand, Mrs. John H. Bright, Miss Grace Chandler and W. Lester Trauch on Monday evening attended a performance of George Bernard Shaw's play, "Misalliance," at the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley [Delaware County].
From the Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, Week of June 4-10, 1937
