William Hicks

William Little Hicks, was the last commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard here before it moved to Ft. Indiantown Gap.

William Hicks.Born here in 1922, she returns every summer "to renew my spirit" and to see old friends."I guess what surprises me most," she says, "is that Mt. Gretna is still much the same."

As a young girl, she once roller-skated to Colebrook, but her true love seems to have been the Playhouse."We knew all the players because they came back every year," she says."Margaret Mansfield never seemed any older, year after year.They belonged, and were always magical to me." She later studied theater arts at Bryn Mawr before marrying Edward, whose family owned a summer cottage on Brown Avenue.They had three children.

She now lives by the sea in Carlsbad, Calif. where, fully attuned to the computer age, she receives this newsletter, which appears to revive fond memories.She recalls winters here, with snow falling on a cannon on the lawn outside her father's office."Everything is gone now.The house.Daddy's office.The canteen.The cannon.My father was the best man I ever knew," she says.

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