(Courtesy of The Beavertown Historical Society)

Shown from L to R is Jacob Wetzel, Ada Hetrick Thomas, Palmer Dreese, Annie Gilbert (married name unknown - can anyone help on this?) and Max Bingaman, Class of 1918, on a graduation picnic in Goss’s Woods in Beavertown. Later this site became the brick plant and still later, Garrison’s Trucking.

(When was the brick plant built on this site? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Charles M. Kearns Junior who graduated from BVHS at age 15 thereafter worked for Charles Aigler in the orchards until he went to Penn State for a degree in electrical engineering. He started as a mechanic with the Hamilton Standard Propeller Division at $0.60 an hour and secured a patent which improved aviation safety. During WWII he headed the company of 10,000 employees. He also had 16 other patents. He was in Who’s Who and has many other great honors.