A donation to the Delmar Historical and Arts
Society was made this week by Ann Brumbley.
It is a 1917 Delmar High School framed diploma. The diploma belonged to Lewis Heisler Ball
Bacon. It is signed by J. Emory Chipman, Principal, J
Frank Fleetwood, President, and William A. Melson Secretary.
Lewis Heisler Ball Bacon was the son of Albert and
Lizzie L. Bacon. He was born June 10,
1900. He was named after Dr. Lewis
Heisler Ball a Delaware physician and politician of the Republican persuasion
in the early 1900s.
Commencement for the class was held at the Elcora
Theater. His class of 1917 also
included; George Burton German, Ruth Anna Fleetwood, Ida Elizabeth Ellis,
Claude Ellis Phillips, Charles Benjamin Hutchinson, Grace Elliott, and Eugenia
Wicks Browne.
After High School he attended Delaware College
(University of Delaware). In 1924 he graduated from Jefferson Medical
College and did a two year internship at the Pennsylvania Hospital. After his internship he located his medical practice
to Pottsville, Pa. With the exception
of WW2 when he served in the Navy as a Doctor in Philadelphia he stayed in
Pottsville. He was an eye, ear, and
throat Doctor. His brother, Dr Walter Bacon had a practice in
Pottsville and his sisters Emma and Elizabeth also lived in Pottsville.
Dr Bacon died at age 71 in 1972. He had remained single. He left a $25,000 Lewis H B Bacon, M D
Memorial Education Fund with the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide loans
to residents of Schuylkill County to attend medical school.
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