Dickinson Alumnus, August 1928

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President James Henry Morgan (class of 1878) retired as President in August 1928.
  • The Board of Trustees elected Professor Marvin Grant Filler (class of 1893) as the eighteenth president. 
  • Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers (class of 1893) was appointed Dean of Faculty. 
  • Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900), head of the Alumni Association, spoke at the Alumni Gymnasium's corner-stone laying exercise held on Alumni Day in June 1928. 
  • William G. Thomas (class of 1898) was appointed Judge of Carbon County, Pennsylvania. 
  • Arthur J. Hepburn (class of 1896) was one of five captains promoted to the rank of Admiral. 
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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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