Dickinson Alumnus, May 1954

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Plans were made for the first outdoor Commencement, which would be held on the Benjamin Rush Campus with the Baird Biology Building in the background.
  • Marian Anderson, a famous African-American contralto, received an honorary degree during a special convocation.
  • Dr. Lewis H. Rohrbaugh (class of 1930) was appointed as Provost of the University of Arkansas.
  • Andy Kerr (class of 1900), "one of America's greatest football coaches," received the Hamilton Rotary Club's"Rose for the Living" award in Hamilton, New York.
  • Theodore F. Bowes (class of 1927) was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
  • The prayer room located in Old West became the John Price Durbin Oratory.
  • John B. Fowler Jr. (class of 1934) was elected as President of the Brown-Allen Chemicals company.
  • Physicist Kart T. Compton received the annual Joseph Priestley Award.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1954

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Trustees approved plans to build three new buildings: a student activities building, a new chemistry building, and a new dormitory for men.
  • Allison Memorial Methodist Church, located next to the President's house, was completely destroyed during a "disastrous fire" caused by faulty wiring.
  • History Professor Whitfield J. Bell (class of 1935) was appointed Assistant Editor of the "monumental" project to collect and publish all of Benjamin Franklin's papers.
  • Dr. Carl C. Chambers (class of 1929) became Vice-President of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • William H. Rogers (class of 1905) was appointed General Council of the Gulf Insurance Co.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1953

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Several female students presented President William W. Edel (class of 1915) with the first donation for a proposed student activities building.
  • Mark E. Garber (class of 1919) was appointed as a judge in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
  • Mrs. Merle W. Allen donated a portrait of President James Buchanan (class of 1809), which was painted in 1859.
  • Rev. Dr. Asbury Smith (class of 1923) was appointed superintendent of the Washington West District of the Methodist Church.
  • Dr. John P. Milligan (class of 1926) was named as assistant New Jersey state education commissioner in charge of the Division Against Discrimination.
  • Professor Harold A. Weigel reviewed Dr. Erwin Wickert's new book, Dramatic Days in Hitler's Reich. Wickert was a German exchange student in 1935-1936.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1953

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Rev. Dr. F. LaMont Henninger (class of 1924) and Rev. D. Frederick Wertz (class of 1937) were appointed district superintendents of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference.
  • The Republic of Korea made trustee Frank E. Masland Jr. (class of 1918) an honorary citizen.
  • Dr. Francis R. Manlove (class of 1934) was appointed director of the University of Colorado Medical Center, in Denver, Colorado.
  • Leonard G. Hagner (class of 1915) was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Delaware by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • Clarence G. Warfield (class of 1915) was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
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