Dickinson Alumnus, December 1957

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President William Wilcox Edel (class of 1915) announced that he would retire in March 1959. President Edel was also appointed an Exchange Preacher by the Council of Churches of Christ.
  • Mathews House became a women's dormitory after renovations improved the heating system and the layout of the rooms.
  • Hershel E. Shortlidge Jr. (class of 1934) became the Real Estate Officer and head of the Real Estate Division of the Trust Department of Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank in Philadelphia.
  • Frederick W. Turner (class of 1935) became assistant vice president of the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank in New York City.
  • The Beta Theta Pi fraternity selected Sherwood M. Bonney (class of 1931) as their National President.
  • Fred A. Lumb (class of 1929) wrote a book on Insurance Agency Management called The What's of Agency Management.
  • Mary E. Hoover (class of 1907) and Charles M. Steese (class of 1907) reconnected during their 50th Reunion and were married at the Durbin Oratory in Old West in September 1957.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1957
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1957
Volume
35

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1957

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Helen Douglass Gallagher (class of 1926) became the first women alumni to serve on the Board of Trustees.
  • Dr. Joseph H. Engle (class of 1952) left for the Macha Mission in North Rhodesia, where he was the only medical doctor in the region.
  • James R. Shepley (class of 1939), head of the Time Inc. Washington news bureau, became chief of correspondents for the publishing company's U.S. and Canadian News Service.
  • C. Richard Stover (class of 1936) became the administrative head of the Carlisle Deposit Bank and the Trust Company.
  • Dr. William W. Betts Jr. (class of 1949), "Dickinson's latest TV star," became a full Professor of English at State Teachers College in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1957
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1957
Volume
35

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
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