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PennLive Opinion: Catherine Hershey’s beautiful life has touched thousands of children through the schools she helped to found

In a recent opinion piece featured in PennLive, Milton Hershey School Manager of School History and Heritage Center Alicia Schlossberg details the extraordinary life of our namesake Catherine Hershey, who forged her own path during a time when opportunities for women outside the home were few and far between.

“This month, Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning (CHS) will celebrate the grand opening of its Harrisburg location—a life-changing event for scores of children and their loved ones. CHS Hershey is already in operation and several other CHS Centers are scheduled to open in Dauphin and Lancaster counties over the next few years. No one would be prouder of the trailblazing path of CHS than the woman whose name adorns these beautiful buildings—Catherine Hershey herself.”

Read the full piece here.

Catherine Hershey Schools

Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning are subsidiaries of Milton Hershey School and will be staffed and operated independently of the Milton Hershey School core model.

Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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