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Freshman Beanies
A red felt beanie printed with white "D" distributed for the Charter Day celebration on September 16, 2010. This was the first year that Charter Day was celebrated by the college.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00675
Location: RR 01 (housed with AC 00601, AC 00606, AC 00708)
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink, Charter Day, College Traditions
Format: Hats
A red and white stripped beanie hat with a red rim. On the rim is "Cholly" embroidered in white. This item belonged to Charles Seller, class of 1955.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00803
Location: Shelf 10 (housed with AC 00804-00810)
Subject: Freshman Beanies
Format: Hats
The dink is made out of red felt with a white button on top. The button is made out of metal which has "Dickinson College Freshman", along with the old college seal and on a piece of paper in the middle "Jim Pritchard" is written.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00858
Location: Reading Room 1 (housed with AC 00851, AC 00859, and AC 00860)
Subject: Student Life, Freshman Beanies, Dink, Nametag
Format: Clothing, Hats, Pins/Buttons, Textiles
Green knit wool cap with yellow pom pom worn by Donald McIntyre as a freshman in 1924.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00049
Location: Shelf 9 (housed with 00046-00048)
Subject: Freshman Beanies
Format: Hats
White cotton "dink" with gold button and "18." Worn by Frank Masland (Class of 1918) as a freshman in 1914.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00046
Location: Shelf 9 (housed with AC 00046-00048)
Subject: Freshman Beanies
Format: Hats
Red felt beanie (also called a "dink") with a white button, worn by Barbara Price Vandegrift in 1959.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00556
Location: Shelf 9
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink, College Traditions
Format: Hats
A red felt "dink" with a white button from around 1965.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00048
Location: Shelf 9 (housed with AC 00046-00049)
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink, College Traditions
Format: Hats
William Freeman's (Class of 1960) dink from his freshman year in 1956. Wool, with a few holes around the seams, size 7.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00921
Location: Reading Room 7
Subject: Student Life, Dink, Freshman Beanies, College Traditions
Format: Hats
An all red, cotton dink belonging to Marilyn Detweiler (Class of 1964).
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00938
Location: Reading Room Shelf 1 (housed with AC 00925, AC 00936-7)
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink
Format: Hats
All red, cotton dink.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00825
Location: Shelf 20 (housed with AC 00825)
Subject: Dink, Student Life, Freshman Beanies
Format: Hats
Red felt “dink” beanie, and a brown cardboard sign worn by Lewis Gobrecht '55 as a freshman at Dickinson College in 1951. The front of the sign reads "Lewis D. Gobrecht" in large red letters and "AXP" penciled in smaller letters, with a list of names on the back written in pencil, likely the names of the other members of the Alpha Chi Rho pledge class.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00436
Location: Shelf 2 (housed with AC 00432-00436, AC 00443, AC 00459, AC 00470)
Subject: Greek Life, Freshman Beanies, Dink, Student Life
Format: Hats
Red felt "dink" with "71" in white felt on the back. Attached is a nametag worn by A. Pierce Bounds as a freshman in 1967.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00051
Location: Shelf 9 (housed with AC 00046-00048)
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink, Nametag
Format: Hats
A red, felt beanie with “’53” in white felt on the front. Donor describes this hat as a replacement for one that he received as a Freshman. On the tag inside the hat "J. P." is written in black marker.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00769
Location: RR 04 (housed with AC 00768, 00781-85, 00788-89, 00791)
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink, College Traditions
Format: Hats
A red felt dink with no class year on it. It was worn by Paul M. Showalter (class of 1964) in the fall of 1960 of his Freshman year.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00789
Location: Reading Room Shelf 4 (housed with AC 00768-69, AC 00781-85, AC 00788, AC 00791)
Subject: Dink, Freshman Beanies, College Traditions, Student Life
Format: Hats
Red felt "dink" with white button worn by Richard Herb as a freshman in 1957.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00047
Location: Shelf 9 (housed with 00046-00048)
Subject: Freshman Beanies, Dink
Format: Hats