The Northfield Summer Conference, which is made up of students from several universities and nationalities planned the World Students' Fellowship Campaign. In the wake of WWI, the purpose of the campaign is to "bind the students of the world in a league of mutual friendship and helpfulness."...

The YMCA and YWCA began their annual Dickinson in China Campaign to raise money to support a medical missionary working at the West China Union University in Chengtu, West China.

The Board of Trustees elected Dr. Karl Tinsley Waugh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of UCLA, to be the next president of Dickinson College. 

Dickinson received sixteen international students and five of them were here for the first time. Jean-Paul Rey was from Burgundy, France and studied economics at Dickinson. Rainer Schult was from Germany and studied literature at Dickinson. Sergio Garcia was from Mexico and had plans to work for...

Sidney D. Kline was elected President of the Board of Trustees unanimously of Dec. 15th. Mr. Kline, a member of of the Class of 1924, was the successor to Mr. Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900).

President Dr. Howard L. Rubendall announced the receipt of a $50,000 check from Research Corp. of New York as the initial payment of an $85,000 science grant that will extend over three years. The grant went towards a program for increasing faculty research, a new faculty member in the...

On January 23, 1967, College President Howard L. Rubendall announced the resignation of Dean of Women Barbara S. Wishmeyer, effective June 30. Dean Wishmeyer explained that she had resigned so that she could "spend more time with my husband and son." In his announcement, President Rubendall...

Barry Taylor was the only Dickinsonian selected to participate in Operations Crossroads Africa during the summer of 1968. The program, which lasted for eight weeks, was located in Malawi.

Dottie Cole ('71), Joanne Harley ('70) and Ray Peters ('71) were chosen out of the nine applicants to participate in Operations Crossroads Africa. They would go on to join over 2000 other students, teachers, physicians, and leaders in a summer long program in several African countries. 

Stephen E. Markwood, former Assistant Dean of Student Life at Waynesburg College, assumed the position of Dean of Men at Dickinson on August 1, 1970.

Major Gareth C. Houghton, a field artillery officer, was appointed to the ROTC staff as assistant professor of military science . In the past, Houghton had served in Vietnam and Thailand, and had received the Army Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Bronze Star.

In 1953 the portrait of James Buchanan, an 1809 graduate of Dickinson, was presented to the college by Mrs. Merle W. Allen. The portrait was painted by famous American portrait artist George Peter Alexander Healy. When the college library moved from Bosler to the newly built Boyd Lee Spahr, the...