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

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1956

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Commencement 1956 marked William W. Edel's (class of 1915) 10th anniversary as President of the College.
  • May Morris (class of 1909) retired after serving as the Librarian since 1927.
  • Dr. John J. Ketterer (class of 1943) was named Dean of Men at Monmouth College in Illinois. 
  • E. Laurence Springer (class of 1924) helped develop the Pingry School as headmaster, including their move to a large campus in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
  • Lt. Col. John A. Norcross (class of 1933) delivered a baby without any medical equipment, using "backwoods obstetrics" on a military plane crossing the Pacific.
  • Rev. Dr. Everett F. Hallock (class of 1933) moved to Dallas, Texas, to become supervisor of the American Leprosy Mission's southwestern area.
  • Scenes from the College campus and the Joseph Priestley collection played "important roles" in a half-hour, made for TV film entitled "The Joyful Lunatic".
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1956
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1956
Volume
33

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1956

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dr. Edgar R. Miller (class of 1920) and Dr. Elizabeth Bucke Miller (class of 1923) left for Nepal to serve as medical missionaries.
  • Dr. John W. McConnell (class of 1929) was named Dean of Cornell University.
  • Henry E. Harner (class of 1929) was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth, the second Dickinsonian in Pennsylvania Governor George Leader's cabinet. 
  • Dr. E. Roger Samuel (class of 1910) was named "General Practitioner of the Year" by the American Medial Association.
  • Donald H. Goodyear (class of 1923) was appointed General Manager of Manufacturing for the G.R. Kinney Shoe Company.
  • Eugenia Learned James (class of 1939) won an acclaim in England as an Heraldic artist. 
  • The Board of Trustees reaffirmed their position on "intoxicants," which included a complete ban on the possession or use in any College property, dormitory, or fraternity house.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1956
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1956
Volume
33