For the 100th time, students will assemble today for the first day of classes at an institution whose prom
otional literature boasts, "There is no other place like Milton Hershey School." And it's true. Indeed, there is no other place on Earth quite like it. It is the world's wealthiest, largest residential school for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, school officials say. It sprawls over 10,000 acres of rolling green hills and is centered on a domed, marble building. All of it was first built on the five-cent Hershey bar. It was established in 1909 by Milton S. Hershey and his wife, Catherine, for the "maintenance, support and education" of "poor, healthy, white, male orphans between the ages of 8 through 18 years of age." The first class of 10 boys convened in 1910 at the farmhouse where the chocolate magnate was born. They were trained to be farmers or tradesmen. Hershey, visionary though he was, probably would be astounded, though not dismayed, by the group that is gathering tomorrow. There will be some 1,800 of them. Slightly more than half are girls, nearly one half are non-white, and very few of them are orphans. Their common denominator is that they are poor. The school will provide them with everything - food, housing, clothing, medical and dental care, recreation, and, of course, an education.
otional literature boasts, "There is no other place like Milton Hershey School." And it's true. Indeed, there is no other place on Earth quite like it. It is the world's wealthiest, largest residential school for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, school officials say. It sprawls over 10,000 acres of rolling green hills and is centered on a domed, marble building. All of it was first built on the five-cent Hershey bar. It was established in 1909 by Milton S. Hershey and his wife, Catherine, for the "maintenance, support and education" of "poor, healthy, white, male orphans between the ages of 8 through 18 years of age." The first class of 10 boys convened in 1910 at the farmhouse where the chocolate magnate was born. They were trained to be farmers or tradesmen. Hershey, visionary though he was, probably would be astounded, though not dismayed, by the group that is gathering tomorrow. There will be some 1,800 of them. Slightly more than half are girls, nearly one half are non-white, and very few of them are orphans. Their common denominator is that they are poor. The school will provide them with everything - food, housing, clothing, medical and dental care, recreation, and, of course, an education. For further detailes visit as : http://www.philly.com/inquirer/education/20090817_Milton_Hershey_School_begins_its_100th_year.html
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