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Milton Hershey School Dedicates Family Center in Honor of Gertrude Gurt

Last winter, the Milton Hershey School Family Relations team opened a Family Engagement Center to provide a place on campus for parents/sponsors to call home. Since February 2021, this building...

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Milton Hershey School Alumni Come Together for Homecoming Weekend

Last weekend, Milton Hershey School welcomed hundreds of alumni back to Hershey, Pennsylvania—even a few who graduated from MHS in the 1940s—for Homecoming Weekend 2022. For many MHS alumni, this...

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Milton Hershey School Houseparent Shares the Joy of Coming Home

By Sheldon Green ’88, MHS Houseparent I enrolled at Milton Hershey School on Jan. 3, 1981. Exactly 28 years later, I came home and started a new career with my...

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Rasheeda McLean ‘11

“Milton Hershey School is my foundation,” shared MHS alumna, Rasheeda McLean ’11. “The people who supported me at the school became my backbone. I’m already standing on solid ground because...

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Milton Hershey School Kicks Off Day 1 of the 2022-23 School Year

On Monday, Aug. 15, the Milton Hershey School community gathered in Giant Center to celebrate the start of the 2022-23 school year with an Opening of School Assembly. The assembly,...

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Milton Hershey School Names 2022 Alumna of the Year

Jocelyn Bioh ’01 is recognized for her accomplishments in the Visual and Performing Arts. Milton Hershey School has named Jocelyn Bioh ’01 as the 2022 Alumna of the Year in...

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2022 Alumna of the Year: Jocelyn Bioh ’01

Jocelyn Bioh ’01 has always loved performing and knew from her time at Milton Hershey School that she belonged in the arts. She was recently recognized as the MHS 2022...

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A Lifetime of Memories from Milton Hershey School

Born in 1922, Lee E. Owen ’40 enrolled at Hershey Industrial School—before it became Milton Hershey School—in 1934 when he was 12 years old. He graduated in 1940—one of the...

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Why I Came Back to Milton Hershey School as a Houseparent

By Joel Smith ’02, MHS Houseparent Developing my style of houseparenting came from my houseparents. They helped me so much and led me to become a more responsible person. They...

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Milton Hershey School Houseparents Turned the Light Back on in My Life

By Myron McCurdy ’82, MHS Elementary Division Home Life Administrator My siblings and I lost our father and our mother, so when I first came to Milton Hershey School, I...

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