HERSHEY NEWS Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUNE 9, 1955 No. 23 Judge Harold Medina Points Father's Day •TV Play Tells To Nation's Spiritual Boon Life Story Of M.S. Hershey Hallmark Hall Of Fame Program Speaking here Monday night at Commencement exercises for the Milton Hershey School, the Honorable Harold R. Medina, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, condensed To Present Drama On Sunday the great spiritual force which he said characterizes America and Americans into a Via NBC-TV Network three-word formula: Goodwill, freedom and justice. In his address before the graduates and their relatives and friends who crowded The.Life of Milton S. Hershey, who amassed a fortune the Hershey Community Theatre, the noted trial judge said: from milk chocolate and then devoted his wealth to orphan td boys and to the community he founded, will provide the • • • We Americans have a wonderful heritage of spiritual wealth and it is very largely bound up in three words: Goodwill and freedom and justice. Each and every one Father's Day story for the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama on of these is a spiritual force of tremendous dynamic power." Sunday, June 19, over the NBC-TV network (5 to 5:30 p. m. His address was titled: "By EDT). The program will be carried in this area by Channel Their Fruits Shall Ye Know 8 (WGAL-TV, Lancaster). Them," and he told his audi- The half-hour drama will detail Mr. Hershey's develop- ence, "What I would have you ment of milk chocolate more than fifty years ago, his found- take away with you this eve- ing of the model town of Hershey, Pa. and his endowment ning is the notion that if you of the world-famous school for orphan 'boys. live your lives, every day and The Hall of Fame television every week and every month series, directed and produced and every year, with goodwill, by Albert McCleery and spon- with a love of freedom and a sored by Hallmark Cards, devotion to justice, you will each week enacts a segment be known in the community from the life of an inspiring as an example of what the figure in history "who has greatest of all mankind meant contributed in a substantial when He said:'By their fruits way to making this a better shall ye know them.' world." "And in so doing, you will An impoverished Pennsyl- spread the gospel of Milton vania farm boy, Mr. Hershey Hershey, for those are the failed in the candy business things he, also, stood for. at least three times before he Those are the principles which finally won •success at Lan- are reflected in these monu- caster when he was nearly ments to his generosity." forty years old. In succeeding Crystallization of his think- years he poured his increas- ing on what forms the basis ing wealth from the chocolate of our spiritual wealth came business into building the fine about as the result of popular community which bears his reaction to the 1949 trials of name. the communist leaders, at Here, too, Mr. Hershey and his wife, Catherine, estab- which he presided as a Dis- lished the unique school for orphans. trict Court judge. The trial Childless himself, Mr. Hershey was known throughout proved to be an ordeal for his lifetime for his kindliness to children, an attitude which Judge Medina as the com- undoubtedly led him to establish the school and to make so munists and their sympathiz- many great contributions to public education. ers characteristically reverted to name-calling and tumultous SITTING JUDGE Harold R. Medina autographs a copy demonstrations in an effort to Scot Minister And Rotary of his biography for Milton Hershey School Student distract him from the re- Senate President Jim Hoeschele in the school library sponsible administration of Leader To Visit Hershey during a pause in the famous jurist's stay here. Judge justice. Medina, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals, was "Despite all the pandemon- David Dick, internationally the Milton Hershey School Commencement speaker on ium ... I ruled on every point known Presbyterian minister University of St. Andrews in to Her- Monday evening. The judge Was accompanied of law with scrupulous regard and Scotland. shey by his wife, and the couple were deeply impressed for president-elect of Rotary i the constitutional rights A by the school itself and the community in general. of the defendants," Judge International in Great Britain! Rotarian since 1940, he Medina said, "and in the end and Ireland, will be the guest ,has served Rotary Interna- Sidelight Notes On A Great American the jury found them guilty of the Hershey Rotary Club tional as a district representa- and they went off to jail. here on Sunday, June 12, it tive and, for 1954-55, is serv- genuine, homey Judge and Mrs. A touch was added to "What happened then was was announced by local Ro- ing as vice-president of Ro- Harold R. Medina's Hershey visit on Monday when the boys probably the most significant tary International of the Milton Hershey School's vocational baking class pre- thing that will ever happen to tary President Lewis J. Maur- in Great sented the couple with a decorated cake. Monday happened me. Thousands upon thou- er. The prominent clergyman Britain and Ireland. to be the Medinas' wedding anniversary. sands of letters poured in and Rotary leader will ad- He is chairman of the from all over the Unit ed dress district Rotarians in the Church of Scotland Commit- The judge told a group of press, radio and television States. And it was just as Hershey Community Theatre tee on Education and of the people on Monday afternoon that he was greatly impressed though the word 'America' at 7:30 p. m. at an event to Scottish Joint Committee on by "the little kids" of the Milton Hershey School. In one cot- were written across the face which the general public is Religious Education. He is a tage he noted a little paper cross, hung on the wall at Easter of every one of those letters. also invited. director of the Scottish Insti- time and still there. "These people were not The appearance of Mr. Dick tute of Adult Education, a • "Someone," the judge commented, "has an awful lot of telling me what a great fel- here is another feature of the member of the Commission on good influence around here." low I was. They were tell- Hershey • club's series of Adult Religious Education ing me that they loved salutes to Rotary's Fiftieth and chaplain of the Stirling Among other things, the judge predicted a growing Am er i ca and- that they Anniversary Year. Royal Infirmary. He is also a shortage of cats in the U. S., if the Davy Crockett hat fad loved American justice and Mr. Dick resides in Stirling, director of the Glasgow Pro- continues. were proud of the fact that Scotland, where he is the min- vincial Committee for the American justice had sur- ister of the Parish of St. Nin- Training of Teachers, and of vived this effort on the part ians. He is a graduate of the the Stirling Savings Bank. W. P. Campbell To Receive Doctorate of the communists to break is down. Hershey News ".. . The Pennsylvania State Uni- significance of all this is that I found my- Comm. Bldg. versity has announced that self in the midst of a per- Hershey, Pa. W. Paul Campbell, supervisor fectly t err if ic spiritual of music in the Derry Town- force." ship Schools, will receive his Everyone, Judge Medina Doctor of Education degree in pointed out, can take part in music at the regular gradua- and contribute to this great tion exercises to be held on force in everyday living, with Saturday. goodwill, love of freedom and President of the United devotion to justice in all States Dwight D. Eisenhower things. will deliver the Commence- His address climaxed the ment address and award the twenty-first annual Com- degrees. mence exercises of the Milton Campbell, as school music Hershey School, when 96 supervisor, directs the Her- members of the Class of 1955 shey High School Orchestra received their high school and Senior Chorus, as well as diplomas. many other vocal and instru- The diplomas were awarded ensembles. mental In addi- by P. A. Staples, chairman of 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE leoutlissed elm Page Two1 Weeeisoled ea Part row*