All-College Champions Intramural Plaque, 1965-1976

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00650
Location
Shelf 17 (housed with AC 00651)

A plaque for the Dickinson College All-College Champions Intramurals featuring golden name plates with the names of the winning teams from the year 1965-1976. "Dickinson College Intramurals All-College Champions" engraved in the middle name plate. 

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Class of 1963 t-shirt

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00558
Location
Shelf 22

White and red raglan t-shirt distributed to the Class of 1963. A list of the members of the Class of 1963, including Barbara Price Vandegrift, was printed on the back.

Format

Bathing Suit, c.1960

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00597
Location
Shelf 22

Women’s green bathing suit worn by Marjorie Lawn Gazzola, a member of the Class of 1961, for her mandatory swim classes at Dickinson.

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Format

Plate, 1963

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00251
Location
Shelf 26

Silver plate with ornate borders and inscription "Dr. Prinz/A Dedicated Man/Respectfully Economics 74/Dickinson 7-26-63." Dr. Arthur Max Prinz was a Professor of Economics from 1948 to 1966.

Format

Kappa Sigma Paddle, 1963

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00758
Location
RR 01 (housed with AC 000248, AC 00249, AC 00412, AC 00598)

Dark brown, 3.5 foot long, wooden Kappa Sigma fraternity paddle. On the front a Dickinson flag, Dickinson Seal, and Devil sitting on a "D" can be found. "What M[image of a hat]E worry?" can be seen across the top. On the back "Al 1963, "KΣ", and "Joe 1964" are shown around the fraternity seal. This paddle was given to Joe Icenhower when he pledged Kappa Sigma.

Format

Frances Williams’ ID card, 1966

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00609
Location
Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00226 - AC 00229)

Dickinson ID badge used by Frances Williams, a member of the Class of 1970, with her picture on the reverse.

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U. S. Navy Identification Tags, c.1965

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00220
Location
Shelf 25

Silver metal dog tag inscribed with identification information for Herbert Orenstein from his time as a member of the U. S. Navy, on a chord with a wooden bead carved in a tiki-face shape.

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Tennis Varsity Letter, Jacket and Button, c.1960

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00512
Location
RR 02 ( housed with AC 00492, AC 00511-00152)

Red “D” varsity tennis letter with white boarder and white tennis racket embroidered on the bottom; white zip-up athletic jacket with pockets and red and white striped trim along the collar, cuffs and bottom; modern round plastic button with black and white picture print. Letter and jacket worn by Jeffrey Gorham (class of 1963), whose picture appears on the attached button.

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James Buchanan Bronze Commemorative Medal, c.1960

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00060
Location
Shelf 3 (housed with 00058-00088, 00507, 00590, 00607, 00735)

Large bronze medal featuring James Buchanan's profile and “1857” on obverse, issued by the U. S. Mint. The reverse side of the medal features a farmer leaning on a plow, talking with a Native American Chief while an American flag flies in the background. Gift of Dan Bechtel, class of 1975.

John Glover Award Medal, 1962

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00069
Location
Shelf 3 (housed with 00058-00088, 00507)

Gold medal featuring inscriptions and laurels, produced for the John Glover Award by the Royal Mint, 1959. This medal presented to Edward Uhler Condon in 1962. It was returned to the college by the American Philosophical Society in 1974 after Edward Condon's death. The Glover Memorial Lectures are usually presented in alternate years. This lectureship in science was established in 1958 in memory of John Glover of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the inventor of the Glover Tower, and in memory of his son and grandson, Henry and Lester Glover, by the late Dr. John D. Yeagley and Mrs. Yeagley of York, Pennsylvania.