Dickinson Alumnus, May 1944

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Lieutenant Harry Rees Jones (Class of 1941) was killed when his plane crashed in Alaska.
  • Lieutenant Calvin S. Dopp (class of 1945) received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Lieutenant John E. Dale Jr. (class of 1940) was awarded a Presidential citation posthumously.
  • Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) reviewed the past ten years of President Fred P. Corson's (class of 1917) administration in "A Review of Ten Years (1934-1944)."
  • Alumni who were members of the Delaware Club announced plans to donate a portrait of Delaware Chief Justice Charles B. Lore (class of 1852).
  • The Alumnus published excerpts of letters from several alumni serving overseas, including one from Whitfield J. Bell Jr. (class of 1935).
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1944
Year
1944
Volume
21
People
Jones, Harry Rees
Other Topics
World War II

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1944

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumnus published photographs of the Army aviation students studying in Tome Hall and their barracks in East College and Conway Hall. Campus had changed "as attention was divided between the 32nd College Training Detachment and the liberal arts college."
  • The US Army Air Corps announced that the training of cadets at Dickinson would end by June 1.
  • Reverend Bishop Francis John McConnell delivered three addresses on the subject of "The Ancient Greeks and Their Modern Messages" as part of the James Henry Morgan Lecture series.
  • The body of Lieutenant Robert A. Walsh (class of 1941), who had been reported missing since a flight from India to China in May 1943, was found in Burma. 
  • The Alumnus published excerpts of letters from several alumni serving overseas.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1944
Year
1944
Volume
21
Organizations
32nd College Training Detachment
Other Topics
World War II

Dickinson Alumnus, December 1943

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) conferred degrees upon three Dickinsonians at the Commencement of Franklin and Marshall College.
  • Rev. James E. Skillington (class of 1905) became pastor of the First Methodist Church in York, Pennsylvania.
  • The S.S. John F. Goucher, a Liberty ship, was named for Dr. John Franklin Goucher (class of 1868).
  • Pilots Lieutenant Robert A. Walsh (class of 1941) and Lieutenant Gerald L. Darr (class of 1940) were reported as missing in action.
  • Charles Scott Williams (class of 1926) became a judge in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. 
  • The Alumnus published excerpts of letters from several alumni serving overseas.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1943
Year
1943
Volume
21

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1943

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Lieutenant Richard H. Ellis (class of 1941) and Staff Sergeant Evan L. Howell (class of 1941) received the Air Medal for bravery while serving with the Army air force in the South Pacific.
  • Lieutenant James L. McIntire (class of 1935) described how he helped rescue a group of men who had been adrift on a raft for 83 days.
  • Josephine Brunyate Meredith (class of 1901), Dean of Women and Associate Professor of English, became the first woman elected as a full professor.
  • Edward M. Griffith (class of 1943), who was honorably discharged as a result of wounds received at Guadalcanal, became the first Dickinsonian to return from the war and become a student of the College again.
  • William W. Edel (class of 1915) was promoted to captain, the highest rank provided for in the Navy Chaplin Corps.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1943
Year
1943
Volume
21
People
Griffith, Edward Meredith
Meredith, Josephine Brunyate
Edel, William Wilcox
McIntire, James Lamb
Ellis, Richard H.
Howell, Evan L.