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Montgomery Porter Sellers, c.1940

Montgomery Porter Sellers was born on August 26, 1873 to Francis Benjamin and Martha Porter Sellers. He grew up in Carlisle and graduated from Carlisle High School. Sellers entered the local Dickinson College in 1889. While a student at Dickinson...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty
Year: Class of 1893
Rufus Edmonds Shapley, 1860

Rufus Edmonds Shapley was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on August 4, 1840, the son of Rufus and Susan Shapley and the older brother of William Wallace Shapley. He was educated locally and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle with the class of...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1860

William Wallace Shapley was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1843, the son of Rufus and Susan Shapley and the younger brother of Rufus Shapley. He was educated locally and entered Carlisle's Dickinson College with the class of 1863. He was a...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1863
Frank Oliver Shauck (?-1918)

A member of the class of 1919 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, studying the Latin-Scientific course, Frank Shauck was from New Freedom, Pennsylvania. He was a member of Belles Lettres Literary Society and was active in the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1919
Val Dysert Sheafer, Jr. (1922-1945)

Val Sheafer was born March 4, 1922 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and entered the local Dickinson College with the class of 1943 in September 1939. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a senior mathematics major when he left Dickinson in April 1943 to...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1943
James Lester Shipley, 1860

J. Lester Shipley was born in Baltimore, Maryland on June 21, 1838, the eldest son of Charles and Mary George Shipley. He was educated at a private classical school for boys in the city and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1860
Sigma Alpha Epsilon House (c.1900-c.1917)

Around 1900 the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased a three story building located just off of the northeast corner of West and Louther Streets (170 W. Louther). Red brick with white trim, their...

Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, c.1925

After having lost their first house for military use during the First World War, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania had moved into East College. In 1922, however, the fraternity purchased the former...

Sigma Alpha Epsilon House (1946-1964)

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania had lost both its first house and second house to the outbreak of two world wars. But the fraternity regrouped and purchased yet another home in 1946. After some...

Sigma Alpha Mu

A chapter of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity was founded at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1919, though the official chapter designation is unknown.

The founders of Sigma Alpha Mu, who were students at the City College of New...

Organization Type: Greek Life
Sigma Chi House, 1915

In 1900, the Sigma Chi fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased a lot on West High Street adjacent to South College, and upon the site was constructed a house designed by Ray Zug, class of 1897 and a member of the...

Sigma Chi house, 1947

Having outgrown their former residence, the members of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased the former residence of Charles Berg at 41 South College Street for $32,000. This price included the cost of...

Sigma Delta Pi

Sigma Delta Pi is a national honorary society recognizing scholarship in Spanish language and culture. A chapter of Sigma Delta Pi was established at Dickinson College in 1962.

Organization Type: Honor Societies
Wallace Kingsley Siner (1935-1966)

Born in Philadelphia on November 15, 1935, Wallace Siner entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1957 in September 1953. While at Dickinson, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity but transferred at...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1957
Skitch-A-Genee

A local sophomore honorary for men, Skitch-A-Genee was established in 1908. It was last mentioned in the 1924 Microcosm.

Organization Type: Honor Societies
Skull and Key (1908-1983)

Skull and Key, a local honorary society for junior men, was established at Dickinson College in 1908. Starting in 1935, these “Black Hats” annually presented a silver loving cup to the freshman man judged to be the outstanding member of his class...

Organization Type: Special Interest Groups

Duke Slavens was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on August 5, 1840. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1859. As a student, Slavens became a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and was elected to the Union...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1859
John Radcliffe Smead (1830-1862)

Birth: November 4, 1830; Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Death: August 30, 1862 (age 32); Second Battle of Bull Run

Military Service: USA, 1861-62

Unit: 1st Company, PA Volunteers, 5th Artillery

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1849
Abraham Herr Smith (1815-1894)

Abraham Herr Smith was born in Manor Township near Millersville, Pennsylvania on March 7, 1815 the son of Jacob Smith, a millwright, and Elizabeth Herr. His parents died when he was eight years old and he and his sister spent the remainder of...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1840

E. J. Smithers was born on July 14, 1828 in Dover, Delaware to Joseph and Sarah Ann Joyce Smithers. He was the brother-in-law of his half-cousin Nathaniel B. Smithers. With wealthy parents, Enoch was educated first at home and then entered...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1849
Nathaniel Barratt Smithers (1818-1896)

Nathaniel Smithers was born in Dover, Delaware on October 8, 1818 the son of county prothonotary Nathaniel and Susan Fisher Barratt Smithers. He was educated at Ezra Scovell's school in Dover and then at the West Nottingham Academy under Rev....

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1840
Adam Clarke Snyder (1834-1896)

Adam C. Snyder was born in Crab Bottom in Highland County, Virginia on March 26, 1834 to John and Elizabeth Halderman Snyder. He prepared for undergraduate studies at the Tuscarora Academy in Juniata County, Pennsylvania and entered Dickinson...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1859
Sophomore Band, 1901

During the early twentieth century, hazing became a prominent issue on American college campuses. At Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hazing seemed to develop in response to class rivalries, especially between the freshman and...

Organization Type: Special Interest Groups

Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased the former site of the German Reformed Church on January 7, 1835, at a cost of $2,050. This building, located opposite West College across High Street, was given the name South College, and...

South College, c.1890

Built to replace its predecessor at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania which was destroyed by fire in 1836, the second South College was completed on January 1, 1838. It was built to the design of Peter B. Smith, and was constructed at a...

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