Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia
Rae DeMatteis was born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he and his older brother, Michael DeMatteis, Class of 1942, attended Altoona High School. He spent a year and a half at Dickinson College, participating with his brother in varsity soccer before leaving in December, 1942 to train...
Richard Galt was born in February 1924 in Egypt, where his father was dean of the American University in Cairo. His father later moved on to Susquehanna College and it was from Selinsgrove that Galt entered Dickinson with the class of 1945. After two years and with the Second World War well...
James Loenshal was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on August 17, 1923 and graduated from Hollidaysburg High School in 1941. He entered the College in the autumn with the class of 1945. He played on the basketball team and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was slated to join Skull and...
Thomas Rockwell was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania in May 1923 and attended the Carson Long Military Institute. He entered Colgate University and transferred to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania after a year, but withdrew before the end of his first term in the fall of 1941.
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