Judson M. Kratzer - 1975     Judson M. Kratzer is an archaeologist, researcher, consultant, educator, and author in historic landscaping archaeology. He has written nearly 100 professional archaeology reports and has published numerous books and journal articles detailing research on landscaping archaeology.   Mr. Kratzer is the son of Betty Lou and Harold Kratzer and is married to the former Beth Hatfield. They currently reside in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated in 1979 with a BA in anthropology from Clarion State University and later earned his master's degree in public history from Georgia Southern University in Savannah.   He also served as a consultant on many historically significant properties in Savannah, Georgia, the British West Indies, the former governor's mansion in New Jersey, and in Bucks County. He has conducted research on the late 19th century slate industry in Wales and its effect upon the development of the slate industry in Bangor.   Mr. Kratzer has been an invited lecturer at several universities and historic preservation programs in the Southeast. In conjunction with the National Parks Service's "Park's as Classrooms" program, he has served as a consultant to its innovative and award winning archaeology education program at Fort Frederica, Georgia, where fourth grade students and teachers use artifacts from previous excavations to learn about their local history. At the "Teaching with Historic Places " workshop held by the National Parks Service at Harvard University he developed an educational lesson plan about Savannah's Colonial Townplan, which is soon to become a website publication. His work has also taken him to London, England where he took part in the Historic Landscape Initiative Workshop.   Mr. Kratzer has served as vice-president of the Georgia National Register Review Board and is a member of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists and teaches archaeology courses at Armstrong Atlantic State University.	Dr. Blaine Shover, Ph.D. - 1960     Dr. Shover, founder and director of the Concord Chamber Singers, has been on the faculty of Shippensburg University since 1971 where, in addition to classroom duties, he conducts the Touring Concert Choir and the Madrigal Singers. He also serves as musical director for the Music Theater. After undergraduate work at Penn State, he served as an apprentice of the Singing City Choir in Philadelphia. He later earned a master's degree in music from Temple University and a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Illinois. Dr. Shover is also the artistic director and conductor of the Shippensburg Summer Music Festival and he has appeared extensively as a guest conductor and clinician in various choral and orchestral festivals.   Dr. Shover's love of music began in his high school days at Bangor, where he participated in the music program and even composed music in those early years.   Dr. Shover is the son of Franklin Shover and the late Ethel Beegle Shover. He has two children and resides in Shippensburg, PA.
Mona Lloyd Strunk - 1922     Mrs. Strunk, along with her late husband, J. Horace Strunk, was co-editor and publisher of the Homefront Magazine, which was published during World War II to enable men and women in the service to keep in touch with their friends and relatives at home. The magazine included news, pictures and letters from the home folks to their men and women in the service. It was a unique way to let the soldiers know that the home folks were strongly behind them and to keep those on the front keenly aware of the little piece of America for which they were fighting. When her husband was in the service, Mrs. Strunk served as the editor of Homefront with only one assistant.   The magazine has received numerous awards and recognition over the years, both for the quality of the publication and for the outstanding service it provided our servicemen. Both Mrs. Strunk and her husband were honored by the legislature and were presented a Pennsylvania Legislative Citation by Governor Thornburg. Many notable people such as Norman Rockwell, President Roosevelt, and Governor James Arthur have given commendations and acknowledgements of their work.   Mrs. Strunk spent her early years working in her father's General Store in Bangor and later working as a shipping clerk at Flory Milling.   In the late 1960's she and her husband left Bangor as her husband pursued a career in public relations. When her husband's work took them to the Lancaster area, she worked as a secretary to the Dean at Franklin and Marshall College. Later when her husband was in charge of Alumni Affairs at Mansfield College, she served as a hostess for many of the students at the college.   Mrs. Strunk celebrated her 97th birthday this month and is currently residing at the Green Home in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.	Dr. Geary Yeisley, M.D. - 1969     Dr. Yeisley is a cardiologist and cardiothoracic surgeon at Lehigh Valley Hospital where he performs over two hundred heart operations a year.   He is an honor graduate of Lehigh University and Hahnemann Medical College. He did his internship at Allentown Hospital and went on to do a surgical fellowship at a Pittsburgh hospital.   In Pittsburgh, Dr. Yeisley met and married his wife, the former Katie Dodd. They moved to the Hummelstown area where he joined the Shaffer practice. He also worked in several Harrisburg hospitals.   Three years later he returned to the Lehigh Valley area and joined the Panebianco, Yip and Yeisley group of surgeons and eventually opened his own practice at Lehigh Valley Hospital.   Dr. Yeisley is the son of Kenneth Yeisley and the late Emiline Black Yeisley. He currently lives in Allentown with his wife and three sons. When there is time in his busy schedule he enjoys swimming, playing basketball, reading, and watching his sons participate in karate and soccer.

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