Dickinson Alumnus, May 1957

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dr. Edward Teller, a distinguished nuclear physicist, received the annual Joseph Priestley Award.
  • Frances Lois Willoughby (class of 1927) became the first woman promoted to the rank of Captain in the United States Medical Corps.
  • Alice M. Folsom (class of 1931) received a meritorious scroll for exceptional service from the New Mexico chapter of the American Association of Social Workers.
  • Louis Eddy McDonnell (class of 1935) published Hana's New Home, a reading book on Japan for primary children.
  • Rev. Dr. Lowell M. Atkinson (class of 1932) was sent to a Methodist Church in Durban, South Africa as part of a pulpit exchange program.
  • Dean M. Hoffman (class of 1902) described how William S. Stephens (class of 1926) was selected as commander of District 23, United States Power Squadron.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1957
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1957
Volume
34

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1957

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Albert Walker, assistant to President Edel (class of 1915), explained the College's finances and discussed where the money comes from and what it was spent on.
  • Professor Benjamin D. James (class of 1934) was appointed to Richard V. C. Watkins Chair of Education and Psychology.
  • Dr. Alpheus T. Mason (class of 1920) wrote a "notable" biography of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.
  • Rev. Dr. John M. Pearson (class of 1918) became District Superintendent of the Newburgh District of the New York Methodist Conference.
  • Rev. Dr. W. Lynn Crowding (class of 1925) filled a pulpit in England as part of an exchange with the British Methodist church.
  • Jouko J. Voutilainen, "Joe Finland", (class of 1948) was appointed as the Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.
  • Robert M. Sigler (class of 1938) became the Regional Truck Manager of the Chevrolet Motor Division.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1957
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1957
Volume
34

Dickinson Alumnus, December 1956

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Trustee C. Scott Althouse donated $300,00 for the construction of a new chemistry building.
  • Dr. Norman N. Weisenfluh (class of 1924) became the president of the State Teachers College in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.
  • The Maryland School of Medicine appointed Dr. Martin Helrich (class of 1946) as Head of the Department of Anesthesiology.
  • Dr. Raymond Shettel (class of 1933) became president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania.
  • President William W. Edel (class of 1915), along with other college officials, laid the cornerstone of the new Allison Methodist Church.
  • Randall Leopold (class of 1924) became the District Governor of the Rotary International.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1956
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1956
Volume
34

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1956

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Trustee Frank E. Masland Jr. (class of 1918) was appointed as a member of the United States Advisory Board on National Parks, Historical Sites, Buildings, and Monuments.
  • Professor Charles C. Sellers reviewed Edwin E. Willoughby's (class of 1922) essay on the creation of the King James Bible.
  • Herbert A. Heerwagen (class of 1932) was elected president of the Manhattan Big Brother Movement.
  • Eleven Dickinsonians graduated from Philadelphia area medical schools in 1956.
  • Dr. John F. Vittrup (class of 1953) was the first medical school graduate to be commissioned into the newly created United States Army Medical Corps.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1956
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1956
Volume
34