Class of 1940

    Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia

John Owings Cockey, Jr. (1928-1944)

John Cockey was from Glyndon, Maryland and was the 1936 class president of Franklin High School in Reisterstown, Maryland. He entered Dickinson College that autumn. While at the College he was a varsity soccer player and a member of Phi Kappa Sigma, Skull and Key, and Raven's Claw. He graduated...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1940
David Harold Crosby, Jr. (1918-1942)

David Crosby was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey on January 18, 1918. He prepared for college at the Mercersburg Academy and entered Dickinson with the class of 1940. Two years into his time at the College, during which he had become a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, he transferred to...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1940
John Edmund Dale, Jr.

John Dale was born in Philadelphia in 1919 and graduated from high school in Montclair, New Jersey where his father was president of a coal company. He entered the College in September 1936 with the class of 1940 but transferred to Amherst College after his freshman year. He was tapped as a...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1940
Gerald Lawrence Darr

Gerald "Jerry" Darr was born in 1917 in Burnside, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cherry Tree High School and entered the College in the class of 1940. An outstanding athlete who later entered the College Sports Hall of Fame, he excelled on several teams. He was co-captain in football as a...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1940
John William Ell

John Ell spent four years at the College after graduating from high school in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. He worked on the Dickinsonian, and was a photography editor of the Microcosm. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma, pledging with John Cockey, and served as president of the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1940
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