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Mary Buckley Taintor, 1959

Mary Taintor was born on July 25, 1889 in Rochester, Minnesota. She graduated from Ripon College in 1911 and received a degree from Stanford University in 1918. She was also a student in Italy at the American Classical School in Rome in 1911 and...

College Relationship: Faculty
Carte de visite of Roger Brooke Taney

Roger Brooke Taney was born March 17, 1777 on the Taney Plantation along the Patuxent River, in Maryland's Calvert County. The Taney family had come to the colony as indentured servants in the mid-seventeenth century but, after serving out their...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1795
Tau Delta Pi

A local drama fraternity, Tau Delta Pi was founded at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1922. After a short period of inactivity, the society was revived in 1938 and remained active through 1949, when the national drama fraternity,...

Organization Type: Greek Life
James E. Taylor  (1913-1944)

James Taylor was born in 1913 and graduated from high school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in 1932. After four difficult academic years, he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1936. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1936
William Prettyman Taylor, Jr. ( ?-1918)

William Taylor was the son of Rev. W.P. Taylor, class of 1890, and arrived at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from Georgetown, Delaware. He entered with the class of 1918, enrolling in the Latin-Scientific course. He was a member of...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1918
Theta Chi house, 1947

In 1925 the Theta Chi fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased the former Long residence at 270 West High Street, adjacent to the former home of Abram Bosler, class of 1905. Before the fraternity could move in, the...

Theta Delta Chi

The Sigma Chapter of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity was established at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1861. It enjoyed a “fairly vigorous life” until 1875, when the active chapter lapsed. Graduate members reinstated Theta Delta...

Organization Type: Greek Life
Theta Nu Epsilon

The Pi Pi Chapter of the Theta Nu Epsilon Society was established at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1887. Theta Nu Epsilon selected its members from among those in fraternities at the college and the law school, and occasionally...

Organization Type: Greek Life
Arthur J. Thomas, Jr. (c.1918 - 1950)

Arthur Thomas grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He had been a student at the Pennington School in New Jersey and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1938. He left the College after his freshman year and served...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1938
Philip Francis Thomas (1810-1890)

Philip Thomas was born the son of a prominent physician in Talbot County, Maryland on September 12, 1810. He attended his home academy in Easton and then went on to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, entering with the class of 1830. He...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1830
Russell Irvin Thompson  (1898-1957)

Russell Thompson was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on December 29, 1898, the son and grandson of physicians, which may account for his undergraduate nickname, "Doc." He attended Reading High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle,...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty
Year: Class of 1920
Three Mile Island (1979)

On March 28, 1979, the eastern United States faced the threat of a nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power facility in Middletown, Pennsylvania, twenty-five miles southeast of Dickinson College, on the Susquehanna River. The...

Egloff von Tippelskirch (1913-1946)

Egloff von Tippelskirch was a German exchange student who spent a year at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania under the auspices of the Institute of International Education and received a degree with the class of 1933. The following year...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1933

Glenn E. Todd was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on January 12, 1890 to Robert R. and Phoebe Routzahn Todd. A life-long resident of Carlisle, he attended Carlisle High School, graduating in 1908, and then enrolled at the local Dickinson College...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1912

Lemuel Todd was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on July 29, 1817. He entered the class of 1839 at Dickinson College in his home town, took the classical course, and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. Upon graduation, he studied law in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1839
Tome Hall, 2003

In October 2000, the New Science Building, at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was dedicated during homecoming weekend.

The structure is located across Louther Street from the Holland Union Building next to the James Center....

Tome Scientific Building, c.1955

Long the dream of Professor Charles Francis Himes, Tome Scientific Building was Dickinson College’s first building constructed solely for scientific purposes. Situated along Louther Street, on the Carlisle, Pennsylvania campus between Old West...

Jacob Tome (1810-1898)

Jacob Tome was born August 13, 1810 in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. After the early death of his father, Tome was forced to quit his education and make his own way in the world. He worked at various jobs throughout the country, even...

College Relationship: Trustee
William Trickett (1840-1928)

William Trickett was born on June 9, 1840 in the English Midlands town of Leicester. When he was very young his family moved from England to Philadelphia where he lived until he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1866. Two...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1868
John Southgate Tucker, c.1855

John Southgate Tucker was born on May 31, 1838 in Norfolk, Virginia, where his family on both sides had been prominent since before the American Revolution. He attended the Episcopal School in Alexandria, Virginia and entered Dickinson College in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1855
Ruby R. Vale, 1896

Ruby Vale was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 19, 1874 the son of of Joseph and Sarah Eyster Vale. His father had been a Civil War cavalry officer. Vale attended the Dickinson Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and entered the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1896
Richard H. Vaughan (-1918)

Richard Vaughan was a member of the Law School class of 1918 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A "long, lanky, and lean" man from Royersford in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he was a member of Delta Chi fraternity and also served...

John Verban, Jr. (1911-1944)

John Verban, Jr. was born on July 21, 1911, the son of John and Mary Fliszar Verban of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Allentown Preparatory School before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1931 as a member of...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1935
Henry Vethake (1791-1866)

Henry Vethake was born in British Guiana, in what was then the county of Essequibo, on May 26, 1791 to a family of Westphalian educators. His father, Fredrich Albert von Vethake, taught for a time at Vassar College. Henry arrived in Boston in...

College Relationship: Faculty
Ernest A. Vuilleumier, c.1945

Ernest Vuilleumier was born on March 1, 1894 in New York City, New York. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1914 and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Berne, Switzerland through a 1916 Rosengarten traveling fellowship....

College Relationship: Faculty, President

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