Dickinson Alumnus, February 1924

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumni Association framed new bylaws that involve the nomination and election of new members of the Alumni Council. 
  • Dickinson College asked alumni for donations to support the library, which was located in Bosler Hall.
  • The Dickinson faculty adopted seven new rules of eligibility for athletes.
  • Philip S. Moyer (class of 1906) was appointed Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
  • William S. Snyder (class of 1894) was elected Right Worshipful Grand Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masonry in Pennsylvania- a distinguished position. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1924
Year
1924
Volume
1
People
Moyer, Philip S.
McAndrews, Richard H.
Lighter, Joseph K.
Prince, Leon Cushing
Snyder William S.
Davis, Thomas W.
Murphy, B. Russell
Steese, James Gordon
Organizations
General Alumni Association
Pi Beta Kappa
Places
Bosler Hall
Library
Other Topics
Athletics
Alumni Donations
Greek Life

Dickinson Alumnus, August 1923

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Various classes returned to the college for reunions during the recent commencement weekend, and the Class of 1903 presented a plan for various campus improvements, such as planting a variety of trees and bushes, as a gift to the college. 
  • James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) became the first president of the Alaska Road Commission.
  • Noah Pinkney, a local food vendor who was a Dickinson fixture for generations of students, passed away at the age of 77.
  • Dean Mervin G. Filler (class of 1893) discussed changes in the curriculum and student class schedules over the past decade.
  • A "lost" portrait of John Dickinson by Charles Willson Peale was located in the possession of a descendant, and a copy was made by artist Horace T. Carpenter to hang in Memorial Hall in Old West. 
  • Theodore M. Johnson described the 1863 Confederate bombardment of Carlisle and Dickinson College during the Civil War. Johnson lived with his father, Dickinson's President Herman M. Johnson, in East College in the 1860s.
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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1923
Year
1923
Volume
1
People
Hull, George Ross
Murdock, William C.
Steese, James Gordon
Peale, Charles William
Carpenter, Horace T.
Dickinson, John
Prince, Leon Cushing
Pinkney, Noah
Johnson, Theodore M.
Murphy, B. Russell
Events
Shelling of Carlisle
Places
Class of 1902 Gateway
Other Topics
Civil War at Dickinson
Student Fees
Campus Improvements
Curriculum Changes
Dickinson History

Dickinson Alumnus, November 1923

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumni Association of Dickinson College reorganized and adopted a new constitution.
  • The College Band performed wearing new Dickinson uniforms for the first time at Island Park in Harrisburg in the game against Gettysburg.
  • Conway W. Hillman (class of 1873) shared his recollections of the Confederate bombardment of Carlisle and Dickinson College during the Civil War in 1863. 
  • J. Banks Kurtz (class of 1893) was elected to the House of Congress Representatives.
  • Joseph K. Lightner became the head Football coach after Athletic director B. Russell Murphy resigned.
  • The old College Chapel in Old West became Memorial Hall, which honored those Dickinsonians who served in World War I. 
  • Professor Franklin T. Baker (class of 1885) celebrated his thirty first year teaching English at the Teachers College at Columbia University.
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1923
Year
1923
Volume
1
People
Lightner, Joseph K.
Murphy, B. Russell
Kurtz, Jacob Banks
Baker, Franklin T.
Harper, Ellahue Ansile
Phelps, Andrew H.
Hillman, Conway Wing
Meredith, Josephine Brunyate
Hillman, Samuel Dickinson
Pinkney, Noah
Redo, Claude T.
Meyers, John
Stine, Henry M.
Hoover, George V.
Moyer, Philip S.
Spahr, Boyd Lee
Schecter, Ralph N.
Events
Shelling of Carlisle
Organizations
General Alumni Association
College Band
American Association of University Women
Delta Theta Pi
Places
Old West
Memorial Hall
Delta Theta Pi House
Other Topics
Civil War at Dickinson
Fraternity Houses
Dickinson History

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1923

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Athletics Committee appointed B. Russell Murphy as football coach and physical director.
  • Robert Y. Stuart (class of 1903) was named State Forestry Commissioner of Pennsylvania.
  • Chemistry Professor Ernest Vuilleumier invented a device to measure the alcoholic content of any liquid, which he named the Dickinson Alchometer.
  • Dickinson launched the Endowment Campaign to help answer the school's debt.
  • History Professor Leon C. Prince (class of 1898) discussed key moments in Dickinson College's history.
  • Trickett Hall, the home of the Dickinson School of Law, opened in 1917 after years of planning and construction.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1923
Year
1923
Volume
1
People
Vuilleumier, Ernest Albert
Stuart, Robert Y.
Morgan, James Henry
Trickett, William
Craver, Forrest E.
King, Horace B.
Prince, Leon Cushing
Murphy, B. Russell
Organizations
Phi Kappa Sigma
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Athletics Committee
Student Senate
Places
Phi Kappa Sigma house
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house
Trickett Hall
Other Topics
Endowment Campaign
Fraternity Houses
Athletics
Summer School
Greek Life
Dickinson History