Dickinson Alumnus, May 1947

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Hundreds of books and manuscripts collected by Professor Charles Francis Himes (Class of 1855) were donated to the College.
  • Dr. Russell I. Thompson (class of 1920) became Dean of College.
  • The College campus was formally named the "John Dickinson Campus." 
  • The Alumnus published Professor Alpheus T. Mason's (class of 1920) address on Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.  
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1947

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Gilbert Malcolm (class of 1915) was appointed Vice-President of Dickinson College. 
  • Renovations to lecture rooms and laboratories in the Tome Scientific Building were completed. 
  • Edwin W. Thompkins (class of 1925) was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. 
  • George S. Williams (class of 1900) was appointed to the Senate Civil Service Committee.
  • The College established a new Russian Studies program. 
  • The Carlisle Gazette published a poem about President Charles Nisbet's health in March 1786.
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Places

Dickinson Alumnus, December 1946

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • William Wilcox Edel (class of 1915) officially became the 22nd President of Dickinson College.
  • Helen Burns Norcross (class of 1912) was appointed Dean of Women by President Edel.
  • Alpheus T. Mason (class of 1920), a professor at Princeton University, published a new book, Brandeis: A Free Man's Life.
  • The Alumnus published Rev. George Chenoweth's account of the Confederate invasion of Carlisle during the Civil War in 1863.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1946

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President Cornelius W. Prettyman (class of 1891) died after 47 years of service. Former President Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) delivered an eulogy at Dr. Prettyman's funeral, which the Alumnus published. 
  • The Board of Trustees elected William Wilcox Edel (class of 1915) as the 22nd president of Dickinson College.
  • Portrait of John Rhey (class of 1883) and Robert McClelland (class of 1829) were presented to the College.
  • 22 new faculty members started teaching at Dickinson in fall 1946.
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