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  Milton Hershey School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hershey gave his entire personal fortune ($60 million) to the school in 1918, and continued to be involved in the school's operations until 1945.
While the Milton Hershey School is not officially affiliated with any religious sect, students attend a weekly non-sectarian chapel service, which often feature speakers in the Protestant Christian tradition, and many of the school's administrators, faculty, and alumni identify themselves as Christians.
The recent history of the school, from the late 1990s until this writing in 2005, has been marked by controversy between members of the school's alumni association and the school's administration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Milton_Hershey_School   (1035 words)

  
 Milton S. Hershey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hershey dropped out of school early to work in the confectionery business in his native Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Since Milton and his wife Catherine could not have children, they decided to use their successes to benefit others, opening the Hershey Industrial School in 1909.
In the mid 20th century, the trust planned briefly to divest itself of the chocolate enterprise to concentrate on the school, a decision that was called off after protests from workers and from residents of the thriving town.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Milton_Hershey   (570 words)

  
 MiltonHershey.com Welcome
Milton the Man: In the early 1900s, Milton Hershey made one of the great American fortunes through dogged persistence and the courage to pursue a dream.
Hershey's Chocolate: In early 1894, the Hershey Chocolate Company was born as a subsidiary of his Lancaster caramel business.
MHS the Alumni: The Milton Hershey School Alumni Association was initiated by Mr.
miltonhershey.com   (294 words)

  
 Rezoning permits growth at Milton Hershey School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Milton Hershey School will be able to expand its campus on 400 acres of land in South Hanover Twp., after supervisors signed off on a new zoning classification.
School spokeswoman Connie McNamara said the land will be used for student housing to accompany the renovation and expansion of the 71-year-old Old Senior Hall building on Pat's Hill in Derry Twp.
The zoning change "will allow the Milton Hershey School to achieve their objective of serving more needy children while at the same time ensuring significant open space will be preserved in South Hanover Twp.," Gall said.
www.mhsaa.org /printer_27.cfm   (491 words)

  
 Milton S. Hershey History
In 1909, unable to have children of their own, he and his wife Catherine established a school for orphan boys that today is known as the Milton S. Hershey School.
In 1963, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of The Pennsylvania State University was founded with a $50 million award from the Milton Hershey School Trust Fund for construction and endowment, and $21.3 million from the U.S. Public Health Services.
The school and the Hershey philanthropy are perpetuated through the holdings of the Milton Hershey School Trust, which in turn derives much of its support from the profits of The Hershey Company and Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company.
www.hersheypa.com /town_of_hershey/history   (919 words)

  
 Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In November 1909, Milton and his wife, Catherine, created a trust for "the purpose of founding and endowing in perpetuity" a school where needy and orphaned boys would be clothed, fed, and educated.
Whether it's to escape a high-crime neighborhood or a crumbling local public school, what is common to all Hershey students (who must be between four and fifteen years old on admission) is that someone in their lives-typically a mother or father, but sometimes a grandmother or uncle-desperately wants them to succeed.
As the new century approaches, the Hershey school is in the midst of an extensive self-evaluation that may lead to an expanded program plus the institution's taking a more aggressive national role in support of residential schooling.
www.philanthropyroundtable.org /magazines/1998/september/mckivergan.html   (1065 words)

  
 Milton S. Hershey - HERSHEY'S
In 1918 and with no fanfare, Hershey transferred the bulk of his considerable wealth, including his ownership in the Hershey Chocolate Company and other enterprises, to the Hershey Trust to be held for the Hershey Industrial School.
With the death of Milton Hershey in 1945, the company, town and institutions that bear his name were well positioned to continue and grow.
The Milton Hershey School, along with Hershey’s other philanthropic endeavors, have expanded and prospered, with the school housing and educating hundreds of boys and girls.
www.hersheys.com /discover/milton/milton.asp   (737 words)

  
 Milton Hershey Builds Intranet Reporting System for Cost and Budgeting Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Milton Hershey School is a co-educational residential school located in Hershey, PA, which was established through the generous philanthropy of Milton and Catherine Hershey in 1909.
The mission of the school is to nurture and educate needy children regardless of race, nationality, or religion.
Milton Hershey has recently rolled out the reporting system to 100 house parent couples who care for 1,050 students in their residences.
www.informationbuilders.com /applications/hershey.html   (1415 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Milton Hershey School
In their discussion of creating the school, Kitty was said to have wished to provide a haven for those in need of a good home and a better chance in life.
After her death, Milton donated his entire estate to the Hershey Trust for the benefit of the school, including thousands of acres of land and all his stock in his chocolate company.
Instead, the school has helped thousands of children in its 90 plus year history; and most of the school's alumni would agree that it was, indeed, well worthwhile.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A308954   (985 words)

  
 Chocolate Curtain
Hershey and his wife, Catherine, were unable to have children and wanted to make a difference in young people's lives.
Hershey failed three times in establishing his business, and once was completely ruined when a horse-drawn trolley car smashed his factory wagon in downtown Philadelphia.
Hershey liked to visit town, and one day, a group of about 10 boys were playing basketball when Hershey pulled up in his car.
www.taxguru.org /Family/ChocCurtain.htm   (2349 words)

  
 Employer Profile: Milton Hershey School
The mission of Milton Hershey School remains the same as it was in Mr.
Milton Hershey School is committed to preparing students for whatever paths to the future they choose.
The strength of the Milton Hershey School experience is a strong comprehensive standards-based educational program with an emphasis on applied and experiential learning within a caring, family-like residential community.
chronicle.com /jobs/profiles/12257.htm   (477 words)

  
 Joey Green
In 1909, Milton Hershey and his wife founded the Milton Hershey School, a school for orphaned children near the chocolate plant.
In 1918 Hershey donated the entire Hershey's Chocolate Corporation to the Milton Hershey School, and for years the company existed solely to fund the school.
Former Hershey's Food chairman William Dearden (1976-84) was a Hershey School graduate, as are many Hershey employees.
www.wackyuses.com /wf_hershey.html   (356 words)

  
 Hershey Chronicle - News - 08/07/2002 - MHS Board of Managers reaches agreement with Pennsylvania Attorney General's ...
The Milton Hershey School will be making some changes to its admissions policies as a result of the agreement between the board of managers and the Attorney General’s office.
Currently, the school's cut-off is 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($35,297 for the same family) and does not account for a step parent's income.
Gluck said the school is considering raising enrollment beyond the planned 1,500 students it will reach in 2006, but that it will not necessarily do so as a result of the policy changes.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=4978717&BRD=2249&PAG=461&dept_id=450612&rfi=8   (1007 words)

  
 Milton Hershey History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in a farmhouse near the Central Pennsylvania village of Derry Church.
Hershey’s development of a peanut butter flavored ingredient was also another great achievement for their research and development group.
Hershey’s has at their disposal, a line of privately owned trucks, but they also employ public and contract carriers to move their products from manufacturing plants to field warehouses and retailers, where they would eventually reach consumers.
www.csupomona.edu /~msharifzadeh/hersheycase1.htm   (3805 words)

  
 mhsaa.org
The Hershey Museum is preparing a transformation, with a new name and plans to open in a larger downtown building in 2008.
The Hershey Story, The Museum at Chocolatetown Square, is to be a $19 million museum about Milton Hershey, his school and town.
Hershey, who was hired as a relief houseparent at the Milton Hershey School in 1939, went on to become the school's president, holding the post from 1963 to 1981.
www.mhsaa.org   (576 words)

  
 Inventor Milton Hershey Biography
Milton S. Hershey proved himself to be a courageous entrepreneur, a determined builder and a compassionate humanitarian.
In 1963, the Milton Hershey School Trust contributed $50 million and land to the Pennsylvania State University for the establishment of a medical center.
Hershey, PA is the home of the world's largest chocolate and cocoa manufacturing plant.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/hershey.htm   (1678 words)

  
 Hershey Chronicle - News - 10/16/2002 - A Look Back: Some Hershey Trust history
Hershey donated his business and an estimated $60 million in Hershey Chocolate stock to a trust for the school.
The Milton Hershey School is an incorporated entity with the Milton Hershey School Trust.
The Hershey Trust Company also is trustee of the M. Hershey Foundation, which operates the Hershey Theatre, the Hershey Museum, the Hershey Gardens and the Hershey Community Archives.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2249&dept_id=450609&newsid=5723494&PAG=461&rfi=9   (660 words)

  
 CNN.com - Grad returns to right troubled Hershey school - Jan. 12, 2004
The problems, O'Brien said, resulted from the school having "drifted off" the mission set for it when chocolate magnate Milton Hershey and his wife, Catherine, founded it in 1909 to serve poor orphaned white boys.
Hershey left much of his wealth in a school trust that is worth $5 billion and is largely invested in the candy company.
Before he graduated from Milton Hershey in 1961, he was shocked to learn that his father was still alive, but in prison for fatally shooting his mother during an argument in October 1945.
www.cnn.com /2004/EDUCATION/01/12/hershey.school.ap   (976 words)

  
 Milton Hershey School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The boys lived at The Homestead, the farmhouse where Milton Hershey was born.
Hershey had strong personal beliefs in how the school should be run.
Hershey was in the wholesomeness of farm life.
www.hersheyhomes.com /Schools/MiltonHersheySchool.htm   (233 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Milton Hershey and his wife were childless and in lieu of children they opened up the Milton Hershey School for orhpan children throughout the state.
Recently the school has been consolidating all the housing south of route 322%2C most believe this is to free up room for Hershey Amusement Park %28 part of HERCO%29 %0D%0A%0D%0AMilton Hershey School is a non-profit organization that moved money to and from many profit making businesses it owned.
Right now Hershey Foods would make a killing on the open market and would set that school up permamently.%0D%0A%0D%0ABut yeah%2C I will admit%2C in the back of my head I do worry that maybe there is something going on with HERCO stock and the possibility that it might crash in the next quarter or 2.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/Data/26591.txt   (830 words)

  
 Faculty Member Nick Nissley: Grateful for a Chance at a Better Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Milton and Catherine Hershey, who were not able to have children of their own, founded the school in 1909 in Hershey, Pa., for orphans.
When he attended the Milton Hershey School in the early 1980s, he lived with 15 other boys in a house with Sue and Paul Shaffer as the housemother and housefather.
Although almost 1,000 miles away and several years older, Nissley is loyal to the school that supported and guided him during his adolescence and to the memory of Milton Hershey.
www.stthomas.edu /magazine/showarticle.cfm?ArticleID=724851075   (702 words)

  
 Hershey Community Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Milton Hershey had concern for the youth of Derry Township.
The activities of the Hershey Recreation Center assumed by the Derry Township Board of Supervisors when Cocoa Plaza was given to the Township in 1979.
Motivated by similar goals, the Hershey Community Archives was established in 1984 as a cooperative project of the Foundation and the Hershey enterprises.
www.hersheyarchives.com /Default.aspx?Page=Foundation   (483 words)

  
 Milton Hershey School - Student Review
The Milton Hershey School is a boarding school that caters to children ages 5-18 that are from a needy or single parent family.
The School was founded by the infamous Milton Snavely Hershey, the inventor of Hershey's Chocolate.
The town of Hershey is very small and mostly centered around the school and the Hershey's chocolate factory.
www.boardingschoolreview.com /student_rev/stid/299   (991 words)

  
 Milton S. Hershey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Upon its incorporation, your petitioner took over the control and management of the school and has since and is now conducting the same as contemplated by, and under the conditions and limitations contained in, the deed of trust.
Inasmuch as Milton S. Hershey signed the 1933 Petition as “The Hershey Industrial School, by Milton S. Hershey, Chairman of the Managers” and added his 1933 M.S. Hershey Declaration and Joinder, the 1933 language must be the correct or authoritative language on this subject.
The School, as authorized in the Deed of Trust, is a non-profit corporation under Pennsylvania law which is financed through the net income of the Trust.
www.miltonshershey.com /index.asp?page=library   (3050 words)

  
 Milton Hershey: America's Chocolatier - MODERN THOUGHT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Responsible for the support of the Milton Hershey School, the trust feared that dependence on a single source of income was not a sound business practice.
In the aftermath, half of the board was replaced and the president of Hershey School resigned.
Hershey Foods, the Milton Hershey School, and the Hershey Trust have more in common than their name; the relationship is intimate and intentional.
www.worldandihomeschool.com /public_articles/2003/may/wis23061.asp   (369 words)

  
 Hershey Community Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The materials that have survived relating to Milton Hershey's personal life are incomplete and scattered.
Wallace, professor of history at Lebanon Valley College, was hired by the Milton Hershey School in 1953 to research and write a biography of Milton Hershey.
Wallace's contract with the School stipulated that all his research files would become the property of Milton Hershey School upon completion of the manuscript.
www.hersheyarchives.org /Default.aspx?Page=ArchivalResources   (491 words)

  
 Swatara Greenway Status: Manada Conservancy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Milton Hershey School Trust recently announced, at a conference sponsored by themselves, The Manada Conservancy, the Dauphin Co. Park and Recreation Department, the Conservation Fund and the Milton Hershey School, that they are committed to the permanent protection of their Swatara Creek frontage.
The Milton Hershey School, the beneficiary of the Milton Hershey School Trust, expressed enthusiasm at the conference for the educational opportunities that this project will provide for them.
The Conservation Fund, for the Milton Hershey School Trust, is presently conducting field studies of the Swatara corridor, in an area which includes the Milton Hershey School Trust lands, but extends beyond those lands.
www.manada.org /swatara/swg-stat.htm   (1258 words)

  
 Milton Hershey
Years later, the firm would use that distinction in its tag line, “the great American chocolate bar.” But Hershey was more than a chocolatier; his efforts to attract and maintain talented workers led him to create an eponymous “company town,” complete with stores, schools, and its own amusement park.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Fisher Reaches Agreement with Milton Hershey School to Restructure its Operations and Admittance Policies.
Hershey Foods Purchases Common Stock From Milton Hershey School Trust and Increases Dividends.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0771934.html   (332 words)

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