Dickinson Alumnus, September 1942
Selected Highlights from this Issue
- Men from the US Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve Corps arrived at Dickinson for their eight week training program.
- The 47th Liberty ship from Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard was named in honor of Benjamin Rush.
- Robert Scott Whitman Jr. (class of 1938) and Calvert S. Foote (class of 1944) lost their lives during the war. Whitman was a navy aviator who was shot down during the Battle of Midway.
- Theodore Stevens (class of 1885), thought dead for some time, replied to the Phi Kappa Psi's annual invitation to their commencement banquet.
- Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn (class of 1896) was appointed as chairman of the general board of the US Navy.
- Rev. Gaither P. Warfield (class of 1917), who had been interned in a German concentration camp, returned to the United States.
- A proposal dating from 1858 for the Philadelphia College of Medicine to become the medical department of Dickinson College was discovered among the Board of Trustees papers.
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