Class of 1937

    Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia

Milton Baron Asbell

Milton Baron Asbell was born on August 23, 1913 in Camden, New Jersey and attended his local city schools, graduating from Camden High School in 1931. He enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1933 in the class of 1937. After a freshman year in which he attained the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1937
John F. Hart (1916-1945)

John Hart was born in Syracuse, New York, on October 20, 1916. He entered Dickinson in 1934, but did not complete his degree. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.

He enlisted in the peacetime Naval Reserve in early 1941 and trained as an aviator in Jacksonville, Florida, earning...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
David E. Hepford (1915-1943)

A native of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area, David Hepford graduated from Lower Paxton High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1937 in the fall of 1933. He participated in a variety of activities ranging from golf to singing third tenor...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
Charles Casper Nickel (1916-1944)

Charles Casper Nickel was born in Loysville, Pennsylvania in 1916 and was a graduate of Duncannon High School. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1933 but left after one year of study in the scientific course. During his time at the College he was a member of Theta Chi...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
John T. Och (1914-1944)

John Och was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in November 1914. He graduated from Harrisburg Catholic and entered Dickinson College in nearby Carlisle with the class of 1937. He pursued a scientific degree, competed on the track team, and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Following his...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
John T. Och (1914-1944)

Jurgen Von Oertzen was a German student who attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1933-1934 and earned a bachelor's degree with the class of 1934 on June 11, 1934. From Mecklenburg in northern Germany, he was a student at the University of Rostock and was participating in the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
William P. Reckeweg (1916-1945)

William Reckeweg was born in Audubon, New Jersey in September 1916. He attended high school there, graduating in 1933; he then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1937. While at Dickinson he was an active student: a football, soccer, and baseball player, and a...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
Paul V. Woodward (1915-1944)

Paul Woodward was born in London on August 2, 1915, where his father, Franklin Woodward, class of 1901, was the European patent attorney for an American company. A fourth generation Dickinsonian, Paul attended high school on Long Island and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
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