The Evening Sun from Hanover, Pennsylvania • 13

SECTION SATURDAyTM AY.281 99 1 I May I have this dance? Dionne Quintuplets Today is the 60th birthday of the Dionne Quintuplets: Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette. Bom May 28, 1934, they were the first quints to survive for more than a few hours after birth. Festival of Fountains Longwood Gardens annual Festival of Fountains begins today and runs through Sept. 29. Theyre ba-ack! Today, an age-old natural event takes place, and bare feet aie not advisable.

Each year on this day, there is a mass exodus from Capistrano. The slugs, which have winteied in Capistrano, suddenly take their leave. That means they will be returning to their various summer residences. Look out. The dance floor at St.

Johns Episcopal night. Church in Larchmont, N.Y., is crowded as students practice their steps on a Friday Ballroom dancing for kids white gloves and AP Photo Twisting and twirling, students of the Helen Adams School of Dancing learn the art of ballroom dancing and its manners, too. AP Photo Sixth graders dutifully dance under the watchful eye of their teacher, Patricia Healy Bainton (right). ice cream AP Photo dance to Baintons 1-2-3, 1-2-3, because, as Mark says, Our moms make us. And because afterwards everyone goes to the nearby Baskin-Robbins on Palmer Avenue for ice cream and boy-girl talk unrestrained by ballroom etiquette.

Off go the white gloves. Drip goes the ice cream. We go wild! yells Sam Edelson over the din of excited 10-and 11-year-old voices, as he waved his cone of Jamoca ice cream. Says Kristina Isidori, waiting in line at the counter, This is the only reason you go to ballroom. grow up cream.

A shiny tin ladle hung from a nail in the wall, and when we weie hot we were allowed to go in the spring house to dip ourselves a dunk. One of my best memories is the taste of spring water gulped from a tin cup. While they may not seem like much in this age of forty-thousand-dollar automobiles and virtual reality, those days of spring houses, big old cars and penny candy peopled by the Georgevitches, Aunt Verna and a princess named Jackie were my footing. They prepaied me for life with the unwavering assurance that people cared about one another and wanted to make the world a better place. The good guys generally won out over the bad guys, and photos, like our lives, were recorded in black and white.

It was an easier time, a hope-filled time. I wish with all my heart I could bring some of it to this piesent world of gray. (Eileen Graham is a contributing columnist from Adams County.) By CATHERINE CROCKER Associated Press Writer Sixty gills in white gloves, black patent leather shoes and patty diesses sit in folding chans on one side of the large room. Ankles crossed, hands on laps, backs straight. Very proper.

But, oh, the giggles and whispers! Sarah Arnoff, 1 1, and a gioup of her friends are in a fit of laughter over a teacher. What had this adult done to inspire such pre-teen glee? Something gross, they giggle. Across the room aie 60 boys. Blue blazers, gray flannels, beige khakis and loafers (as well as one pair of duck boots and one beaded lock of hair). No hands in pockets.

Very proper. But Grant Wilson and Dan Horowitz, both 11, and their lriends laugh loudly about a song inspired by the movie Jurasic Park that Dan made up at school that day. I sure hope he dont harm me. Because he suie dont act like Barney, Dan croons, smiling broadly. Moments later, Sarah, Grant and Dan and the other young ladies and gentlemen dutifully dance the merengue, polka and waltz under the watchful eye of their teacher, Patricia Healy Bainton, Welcome to the Helen Adams School of Dancing in Larchmont, N.Y., a New York City subuib, wheie fifth and sixth graders are instructed in the ait of balhoom Tidal Force opens Hersheyparks newest ride, Tidal Force, opens today.

The water ride featuies four 20-person boats that will lift riders 100 feet into the air before a drop into a clear pool, soaking guests with over 200,000 gallons of water. An added bonus of Tidal Force is an observation deck for guests who do not wish to experience the actual ride, but do want to experience the water. About 1,600 guests per hour will be able to experience the Tidal Force. The addition to the 90-acre Hersheypark cost $4 million. Staff Report is i Bible school roundup Any church wishing to announce its vacation Bible school piogram should submit information to The Evening Sun by June 1.

The following information should be included: church name and addiess, dates, times, age requiiement, program, activities, registiation infoimation and a phone number to call for more information. The roundup will appear on the SunStyle page during the first week of June. Good quality photos, black and white or color, will be accepted for possible publication with the roundup. Submit photos and information to: Maria Mauro, The Evening Sun, 135 Baltimore Street, Hanover PA 17331. Ice cream book Buyers of a new book about ice cream makers Ben and Jerry will be treated to a cool bonus free ice cream.

The dust jacket of Ben Jerrys: The Inside Scoop (Crown) by Fred "Chico Lager features a coupon redeemable at retail stores for one pint of Ben Jerrys ice cream or frozen yogurt. In the book, Lager, former executive with the firm, tells how founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield began the company 16 years ago with a $12,000 investment and turned it into a business with annual sales of more than $100 million. Associated Press Reduce osteoporosis risk Stationary cycling may be just as helpfql as weight-bearing exercise in reversing bone loss and reducing the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, according to a recent study. Weight-bearing exercise, which physicians have long recommended for those at risk of osteoporosis exerts pressure on the bones and includes such activities as running and aerobics. In the study, Rebecca Jackson, associate professor of internal medicine and physical medicine at Ohio State University, and colleagues found that bone mineral density the spines of stationary cyclists increased by 3.6 percent, while decreasing by 2.4 percent in a control group that didnt exercise.

Associated Press. Advertise in CLASSIFIEDS Musical Items the Evening (717) 637-3736 I-8CO-877-3786 The 50s weren't such a Students wait to choose their partner. dancing and its manners, too Friday nights at St. Johns Episcopal Church. The school was founded 70 years ago by its namesake, a direct descendant of John Adams, the piesident, says Bainton, who was bequeathed the school in 1977.

She sends handwiitten invitations to children asking them to attend her classes. I love the fact they can enjoy themselves in a restrained atmosphere, Bainton says. They ate really responding to me in having good manneis. Look at them sitting like ladies. Her hand waves around the loom to the was sick on those r.ue occasions when you got out of the house without him.

When Mr. Geoigcvitch wasnt in the stoic, Mrs. Geoigcvitch waited on you and told you all about her sons. The Geoigcvitches sold penny candy, too. Remember penny candy? For live cents, you could make momentous decisions, there in fiont of the glass case wheie you pointed: I'll have one of these, and one of Tootsie Roll, a Mary Jane, a couple of those loot beers banels, and give me a licorice stick.

If you chose, you could get a huge Claik bar for your nickel. Russell, the cop, stood on the street corner near the five and dime. If you had lots of packages, hed stop tiaffic for you to gel across the sticet. 1 thought of Russell ns my fiiend and figuied his sole job was to look after me. We went for Sunday diives in the countty then in big old hulking steel cars with vent windows.

Vent windows disappeared when air conditioning came in for modern vehicles, but 1 think they weie a great invention. When it got hot, I twisted the chrome latch, turned the vent girls, sitting (with ankles crossed, of couise) next to their dance partners and sipping Cokes the boys had just brought them. When they move across the dance floor to the music of an electric piano and drums Edelweiss, Over the Rainbow there were few missteps, and even some grace Is this fun, spending Friday nights preparing for future proms and weddings? Id rather be home watching TV basketball, says Mark Hannigan, 10. But still he and the others come and bad time to window completely mound in my direction, and let the air whistle through my hair as my mother tnquiied about my 4-H pioject and my bi other talked about the book he was leading. Life was simpler then.

When we got to be teenagers, we found that those big old hulking cats had back seats big enough to make out in. One of the top movies then was Breakfast at Tiffany's." Lace mantillas became fashionable after Jackie Kennedy started wcanng one to chinch. When I got marned, I wore a lace mantilla instead of a bridal veil. I was lucky enough in those days to have an aunt who lived on a faim wheie I spent at least two weeks of my summer vacation. There weie two ways on the lai in: Aunt Vernas way and the wrong way.

If you chose the wrong way, you had a good chance of meeting Aunt Verna with the willow switch. I did lots of mischievous things then, like sliding down the hay hole in the bam, but I dont remember ever getting switched. Eventually, I worked my way fiom playing and berry picking to hay making and milking, but my best memories of Aunt Vernas farm weie of the spring house. Built into the bank at the rear of the old two-story frame house, the spring house had a stone foundation matked by compaitments of various sizes wheie watei melons lay in ice cold running water next to crocks of hand-churned butler and carthcnwaie pitcheis of thick golden If you felt sad about Jackie Kennedys death, you weie in good company. It moved me in a way which I found difficult to explain.

More than the realization that if she, whod been the ideal to us growing up in the fifties, could die, then so could we it was the sense of loss for a time which, despite tragedy, offered the naive hope that the world would somehow improve and that we could help to make that happen. Despite all the jokes about June and Waid Cleaver, the fifties werent such a bad time to be growing up. They were filled with'wondeiful people and things which biidged our past and gave us solid ground from which to look toward our future. Like the public figures of our times, they are gone but not forgotten. I grew up on Filth Avenue in New Kensington, just acioss the street from Georgevitches Store.

Mr. Geoigcvitch sold things which entranced me. Pop, for one thing. (We never called it You opened the bi-fold lid of the big metal pop cooler, hung over the side to dangle your ftngeis in the crystal clear ice water, and pondered your choice: Nesbits Change, Coca Cola, Dads Old Fashioned Root Beer, Venter's Ginger Ale or Mission Cream Soda. You flipped off the cap with the cap remover built into the side of the cooler (I always liked the tidy way the cap landed in the built-in cap catcher beneath.) You put your money in Mr.

Georgevitchs hand, and he thanked you and asked you how your mother was or wanted to know if your little brother I I.