Dickinson Alumnus, December 1950

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President William W. Edel (class of 1915) led the groundbreaking ceremony at Homecoming for the new woman's dormitory, which was the first new building located on the Rush campus.
  • John B. Peters (class of 1922), an orchardist and fruit processing executive, received a Leadership Award from the National Apple Institute.
  • T. Edward Munce Jr. (class of 1939) was admitted to the bar of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was sworn in as an American Foreign Service Staff Officer in Washington.
  • Frances E. Willoughby (class of 1929) became the first woman to hold the rank of Commander in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1950

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Frank R. Maze was appointed head football coach.
  • Dr. J. Clair McCullough (class of 1909) filled in for Dean Russel I. Thopson's while he was ill.
  • Oil portraits of President William W. Edel (class of 1915) and Dr. Montgomery Porter Sellers (class of 1893) were donated to the College.
  • Dr. Guy C. Crist (class of 1920) was named President of the Medical and Surgical Staff of the Harrisburg Hospital. 
  • Dr. J. Roy Strock (class of 1903) and his wife, Elizabeth M. Evans (class of 1909), returned to the United States after four decades as Lutheran missionaries in India.
  • John P. Milligan (class of 1926) was named Superintendent of Atlantic City Schools.
  • Reviewers praised Bulwark of Liberty: Early Years at Dickinson, the first volume of the Boyd Lee Spahr lectures on Americana.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1950

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The College published a collection of historical essays titled Bulwark of Liberty in honor of of Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900).
  • Dr. Whitfield J. Bell Jr. was promoted to the rank of professor and installed as the first occupant of the newly-endowed Boyd Lee Spahr chair of American History.
  • Rev. Dr. Rowland R. Lehman (class of 1923) became assistant to the president of the college.
  • A new chapel opened on the first floor of Old West.
  • Reviewers praised Rev. Kenneth Clinton's (class of 1937) new book, Let's Read the Bible.
  • Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) provided funding for the addition of a cupola on the new South College.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1950

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees selected an architect for the new women's dormitory. 
  • Rev. Dr. John M. Pearson (class 0f 1918) was elected president of Drew Seminary for Young Woman at Carmel, New York.
  • Dr. James Morgan Read (class of 1929) was appointed Director of the Division of Educational and Cultural Relations for the High Commissioner of Germany.
  • Lois Eddy McDonnell (class of 1935) wrote several books, teachers' manuals, and articles on issues related to religious child training programs.
  • Professor William Drum Gould argued in "Bulwarks of Defense" that independent church-related colleges helped counteract forces that would destroy democracy. 
  • John M. Rhey (class of 1883), a trustee and a founder of the Library Guild, died after a brief illness at age 91.
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