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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
Red and white t-shirt, distributed for Charter Day celebration on September 16, 2010.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00674
Location: Shelf 22
Subject: Charter Day, T-shirt, College Traditions
Format: Clothing
White round commencement buttons and one oval commencement buttons with,“My Name is James A. Strite, ’29.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00476
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round button with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00210
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round buttons with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is E. R. Heckman, ’97.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00213
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round buttons with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is C. B. Stoner, '23.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00214
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round button with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is Robert E. Faddis, ’24.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00212
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round button with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is Dean Hoffman,” a member of the Class of 1949.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00211
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
Boxed pack of 28 cards printed with images and descriptions of Dickinson traditions for the "Our Dickinson" fundraising campaign.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00723
Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00682, AC 00698)
Subject: College Traditions, Donor Relations
Format: Ephemera
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
Red, cotton freshman dink that belonged to Madelaine Batt Grafton, class of 1941.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00821
Location: RR 01 (housed with AC 00052, AC 00053, AC 00460, AC 00461)
Subject: 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
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
