Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Dickinson Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Ralph Schecter, performed a program of six pieces for their spring concert at 8:15pm in the Old Gymnasium. The musicians played Gluck's "Overture ('Iphigenia in Aulis')", Schubert's "Symphony No. 8 ('Unfinished')", Dvorak's "Slavonic Dance...
The Dramatic Club performed You Can't Take it With You in the Carlisle High School auditorium on Friday, December 6, 1940. The play was directed by Dickinson Law School's Harold Bernstein.
The Dickinson Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Ralph Schecter, performed a program of five pieces for their winter concert at 8:30pm in the Old Gymnasium. They began their program with Mozart's "Overture ('Impressario')", then playing Schubert's "Symphony No. 5", Shostakovich's "...
The Dramatic Club gave its first performance of Vivacious Lady in the Old Gymnasium on Monday, December 15. This was the first play held in the Old Gymnasium; the Dramatic Club built a stage and created a curtain for the performance.
A film entitled This Amazing America, sponsored by Greyhound bus lines, was shown in chapel on Thursday, February 26, 1942. It featured scenes from noteworthy places in North America.
Tau Delta Pi, honorary dramatic fraternity, performed a variety show in the Dickinson Little Theater to benefit the Red Cross.
The Dickinson College Religious Association sponsored a concert by two blind musicians, Luigi Boccelli and Harry J. Ditzler, in the college chapel on December 9, 1942. The people of Carlisle were invited to attend the concert. Boccelli, a tenor, sang a variety of classical pieces. Ditzler, a...
The Dramatic Club performed a variety show entitled "Campus Capers" in the Dickinson College Little Theater on January 9, 1943. The show, which was almost entirely written by students, featured a melodrama, a duet, a dance routine, the Rockey Rocketts, and a quiz program.
Four Dickinson students performed a skit entitled "Only 10%" at a war bond rally held at the Carlisle Courthouse on April 12, 1943. Mr. John C. Hepler and Winfield Peterson directed the skit, in which Jo Ann Wilson, Estelle Mumford, Christine Myers, and Edith Ann Lingle performed. The rally...
Earle Spicer, a ballad singer, gave an concert in Bosler Hall on November 9th. The program included "Barabar Allen", "Tit Willow", and "When I was a Lad".
The College Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Robert Schecter, played during a chapel service on October 11. They played the prelude and postlude of the service.
Two Christmas plays were presented on December 13 and 14 by the Little Theater group. The first play was "Solitare" directed by Joy Cameron and the second play was "Guest at the Inn" directed by Helen Meals.
The Little Theater of Dickinson College, under the direction of John C. Helper, performed three one-act plays at 8:00pm in Denny Hall. Performed May 16-18, the featured plays were The Dear Departed, If Men Played Cards as Women do, and Caravan.
The Dickinson College Little Theater and the Dickinson College Combined Choirs presented The Coventry Nativity Play, a medieval production, at 8:00pm in the Alumni Gymnasium. This was the first public performance by the Little Theater after the Second World War.
Baritone singer Nelson Magill performed at 10:30am in Bosler Hall. Magill was accompanied by Ruth Bailey on the piano for his four-part program.
Osan Marsh performed a piano recital during Chapel Hour at 10:30am in Bosler Hall. Marsh played an assortment of pieces by Chopin and Liszt.
The college music clubs combined to perform in a concert at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall. The combined choirs opened the show, singing Stainer's "God So Loved the World" and Sibelius' "Onward Ye Peoples". Wayne Wolford then sang Handel's "Honor and Amen" and Bury's "There is a Ladye". The "Varsity...
Paul Robeson performed in Dickinson Chapel on Tuesday May 5, 1947. Robeson's featured a number of songs, including "Water Boy," "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," and "Ol' Man River." After singing, Robeson performed the closing soliloquy from "Othello."
Pianist Ozan Marsh performed a program of five pieces at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.
The American Primitive Art Exhibit featured paintings from the mid-nineteenth century by American amateur artists and schoolgirls. It also featured three "wooden Indians." The exhibit ran from November 20th to December 6th, 1947.
The College Choir, under the direction of John Steckbeck, performed a carol service during Chapel Hour. They sang a program of thirteen songs: Bortiansky's "Cherubim No. 7", Leontovich's "Carol of the Bells", "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "Joy to the World",...
As a part of their 1948 tour, the College Choir performed at 8:15pm in the First Methodist Church in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. They sang "In Autumn" from Woodland Sketches, MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose", Sibelius' "Onward Ye People", Waring's "Onward Christian Soldiers", Wilhousky's "Were...
Lee Cronican gave a piano concert of eight pieces at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall. The first half of the performance featured pieces by classical composers while the pieces after intermission were written by contemporary composers.
The College Choir, accompanied by pianist Jean Eshbach, performed for its spring concert at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall. They sang a program of eighteen songs: Sibelius' "Onward Ye People", Waring's "Onward Christian Soldiers", De Falla's "El Pano Moruno", Speaks' "Morning", Bortiansky's "Cherubim...
Jacqueline Marcault gave a piano recital at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall. Presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee, Marcault performed a program of five pieces.
