Dickinson Alumnus, December 1959

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Architect Eero Saarinen received Dickinson's Arts Award during a ceremony held in Bosler Hall.
  • The Raleigh News and Observer declared Alexander R. Burkot (class of 1930) the "embodiment of an American legend" in a personality sketch called "Tar Heel of the Week."
  • Armour & Company in Chicago appointed John M. Hoerner (class of 1931) as vice president.
  • George F. Myers (class of 1942) took over from his father, John E. Myers (class of 1912), as president of the Lemoyne Trust Company.
  • Dr. Whitfield J. Bell Jr. (class of 1935) published the first volume of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. 
  • Professor Herbert F. Thomson discussed Dickinson's collection of lecture notes from students in Dr. Charles Nisbet's classes between 1787 and 1793.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1959
Year
1959
Volume
37

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1959

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees selected Gilbert Malcolm (class of 1915) as the 23rd President.
  • Charles F. Irwin Jr. (class of 1927) was elected president of the General Alumni Association.
  • Dr. Lewis H. Rohrbaugh (class of 1930) became Vice President of Boston University. 
  • Dr. Charles Law McCabe (class of 1943) became head of the department of metallurgical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh.
  • Dr. Robert W. Saunderson Jr. (class of 1942) was appointed Medical Director of the State Hospital for Crippled Children in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1959
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1959
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1959

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The College unveiled a new bookplate to mark items purchased with funds from the Library Guild. 
  • Professor Max R. Brunstetter (class of 1922) was appointed Provost of Teachers College at Columbia University.
  • Dr. Frederick A. Klemm (class of 1933) became the chairman of the Department of Modern Language at Union College in New York.
  • Dr. John J. Ketterer (class of 1943) became head of the Biology Department at Monmouth College in Illinois.
  • The Chicago Sun-Times mentioned trustee Samuel W. Witwer Jr. (class of 1930) as possible Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois.
  • Norman Twain (class of 1952) reached success as a Broadway Play Producer.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1959
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1959
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1959

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Rev. Dr. Alpheus S. Mowbray (class of 1885) preached a sermon at a church in New Jersey on his 100th birthday. 
  • The Board of Trustees asked President William W. Edel (class of 1915) to serve until the end of June 1959. 
  • Benard C. Brominski (class of 1947) was named Judge of the Common Pleas Court in Luzerne County.
  • Dr. Paul Bunting Irwin (class of 1930) won a fellowship for Theological Studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1959
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1959
Volume
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