Swimming

Editor of Newsweek and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Jon Meacham to speak at Commencement. The Arts Haüs is suspended. The Public Affairs Symposium Committee makes speaker changes. Students plan a benefit concert for Haiti. Students mourn the death of recent Dickinson graduate Alex Brown. Profile on student athlete Jessica Hassinger. Article on new Men's Basketball coach, Alan Seretti. Swimming performs well, placing them high in the Centennial Conference. Men's Basketball wins against Gettysburg.

Alleged sexual assault on campus under investigation. Patricia Russell-McCloud, President of Russell-McCloud and Associates in Atlanta, delivers the keynote address to begin Multicultural Affair Week. Article discusses the consequences of the recent assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The U.S. Senate passes a bill that is viewed as a victory for students using financial aid. Dickinson Football defeats Johns Hopkins and ties with Gettysburg. Both Men's and Women's Swimming win against Marymount University. Men's Soccer defeats their rivals, Franklin & Marshall.

Daughter of late General Joseph Warren Stilwell, Nancy Stilwell Easterbrook speaks about China. Dean Leonard S. Goldberg reacts to multiple student assaults on campus. Coalition of Private University Students (COPUS) strives to improve the student finance gap. Professors Lonna Malmsheimer, Julius and Melissa Kassovic, and Dan Bechtel visit Three Mile Island and analyze the nuclear accident. Professor Richard Pfau gives a lecture on the current Iran Crisis. Fresh ideas and hard work strengthen Dickinson's theater program. Men's Basketball defeats Muhlenberg.

As fraternity rush season takes off, Kappa Sigma fraternity considers reapplying for recognition on campus after being suspended in 2004. The TV ad-hoc committee established recently by Student Senate releases a poll of potential cable channels to be added to Dickinson's repertoire. MOB and Delta Sigma Phi fraternity hold a CD release party for a local student band. A former technician in the biology department is charged with stealing $146,000 from the school by charging personal purchases to a department credit card and submitting false receipts for reimbursement.

The owners of Casa Mani, a popular local coffee shop, express plans to build a coffee cart in the library for Dickinson students. Juniors, especially those studying abroad, express their distaste for the current application process for living off campus. Fourteen students and four faculty members commit their winter breaks to a service trip to Jamaica. The Dance Theatre Group prepares for its fall concert "Possible Landscapes" featuring four faculty-choreographed pieces. The Women's Cross Country Team become NCAA National Champions. Both the men's and women's swim teams are undefeated.

Committee reports on final exams, proposes changes. Journal of Chemical Education publishes paper by Prof. Horace E. Rogers. Table Tennis tournament to be added to intramural competition. Swim team to incorporate the butterfly and an augmented backstroke to program.

Plans for a Pan-Hellenic Week continue, and it is said that if successful, it will become a Dickinson tradition. The Belles Lettres Society discusses three modern novelists, Undst, Lewis, and Mann. Gettysburg beats Dickinson at a swim meet. The Debate Team wins against Ursinus and Ashland in the debate over the minimum wage question. Guest Day, the day where prospective students and their families come to visit the school, is scheduled. Wheel and Chain requests that alumnae donate books to the College Library.

The Debate Team loses the first debate of the season. A date for the premiere of the Dramatic Club’s play The Royal Family is set. An article is found explaining that Dickinson was the beneficiary of the lottery in 1790. The All-College Social Committee plans a Pan-Hellenic week. An article relates the truth about American patriotism. A local entomologist discusses the harmful insects in the region. The Theological Society has converted the old commuter’s room in the basement of Old West into a religious center.

William Pearson Tolley, President of Allegheny College, gave a talk warning about the abandonment of land and a regression to wilderness, in contrast to the establishment of civilization. Clarence B. Hendrickson was given the award as All-Around Dickinsonian. The first baseball practice of the season will be held Monday. The Junior Prom included several Irish traditions, including a Blarney Stone and shamrock ceiling. The college announces a new award for good scholarship that will be awarded to multiple students.

Student reviews of the play, "Anne of the Thousand Days." Bishop John Wesley Lord, Dickinson alumnus, to speak in an upcoming chapel meeting. Dickinsonians file a petition to retain Professor Hugh Mercer, who was rumored to have been dropped from the College faculty. Details on the upcoming annual Priestley Award Dinner. Judge Florence Allen will be the Women's Day speaker. Profile on athletic coach, Lee Ann Wagner. Recent tragic death of student Eugene Beck - Detailed profile on him written by Professor John Steckbeck.

Professors Flaherty and Mercer to address the International Relations Club. Phi Delta Theta wins the Display Contest at Homecoming. Charles Tharp is the new cataloging librarian. World famous blind pianist, Alec Templeton to play recital in December. Colonel Rachal praises the new ROTC program. The Dickinsonian celebrates its eightieth anniversary. Profile on Swim Coach John Steckbeck. Kappa Sigma wins the Inter-Fraternity Football League.

Over one hundred delegates from the member papers of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association gather at Dickinson for the Spring Convention of the organization, recognizing its 20th Anniversary.  500 attend concert by Dickinson College Symphony Orchestra.  Dr. Wilbur V.

Professor Wellman J. Warner is appointed to permanent position as sociology professor at Dickinson.  Leon M. Robinson, Bernard Kotulak, and Paul Gorsuch will go to the Ta Kappa Alpha district convention as delegates.  Dr.

Rev. Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, leader in the world movement for peace and Christian unity , speaks on "Germany's New Religion" at a meeting of the Young People's Fellowship.  Bill Nickels speaks about the trips taken by the Social Survey Committee.  Fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi hold a dance entitled the "Miami Triad," with music from Don Peepbles.  Donations from James W.

Alpha Sigma Gamma, the journalism fraternity, elects seven new members.  Professor of American History Hiram Herr Shenk speaks before Young People's Fellowship.  Dr.

The Upsilon Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa chose five new members to its regular meeting, and elected Christian V. Graf and Leon M. Robinson as the delegate and alternate delegate, respectively, to the national convention of the fraternity.  Dickinson alumn Governor Arthur H.

College Social Committee brings Claude Hopkins and his orchestra to campus for a concert.  Greek Club holds a meeting devoted to "Idylls of Theocritus," its last meeting of the semester.  William Nicklets writes a piece bemoaning the female gender's attachment to the need for male chivalrous attention even as it demands equal legal and political rights.  Dickinson Glee Club holds first rehearsal of 1939.  Co-chairmen of the Inter-collegiate Newspaper Association's semi-annual convention at Dickinson College, George S. McGill and Christian V.

Henry C. Hill, warden of the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, gives speech on "The Problem of the Criminal" before the Young People's Fellowship at the Allison Memorial Methodist Church.  Johnny Bruner organizes a jazz band on campus composed of seven undergraduates.  The Dramatic Club continues to rehearse for "the Bat," set to perform the play on November 10.  Professor Horace E.

The American Association of University Professors censures the administration of Dickinson College. Construction work on the Allison Methodist Church and C. Scott Althouse Hall of Science continue on schedule. The Student Center Committee to submit student survey results to the trustees. Hon. Arthur Langlie to speak at tomorrow's Commencement ceremony. Article discusses the inadequacies and discomfort of the Mermaid Players' facilities. The Track Team completes its best season since 1915. Phi Kap's named Inter-Fraternity Champions. Dickinson Swimming wins its 17th consecutive meet.

Fire in the Pi Mu sorority house. Details regarding the Annual Scholarship Dinner. James Stewart Leslie to discuss the Danforth Experiment in chapel. The Student's Party presents their political platform. The Cultural Affairs Committee presented a lecture by Hanson Baldwin, Military Editor of the New York Times. Dr. Carl Chambers gives a talk on education in chapel. Article on James Buchanan. Dickinson Swimming sets three new records. Profile on student athlete Robert Brasler.

Further discussion of holiday concerts. Students carol in chapel. Article on students studying abroad in Europe this summer. President Edel to choose two students to fill the vacant spots on the Cultural Affairs Committee. College faculty announces changes in the 1958-59 curriculum. The Dickinson Swimming and Wresting teams to debut their seasons. Profile on student athlete Bobby Kline. The Dickinson ROTC Riflemen defeat Pennsylvania State University in a match.

Thre Dickinson freshmen were killed and a fourth critically injured in an automobile accident in Carlisle. Author Dr. Karlis Leyasmeyer to come to Dickinson to speak about Russia. Newly developed Junior-Year-in-New-York Program offered through New York University. News regarding the building of the new Chemistry building. Upcoming annual Follies performance titled, "Shades of Hades." Don O'Neill elected captain of Dickinson Swimming Team. The Women's Basketball and Volleyball Teams win at Susquehanna's Sports Day.

The New Art Wind Quintet to perform at the next Cultural Affairs event. Dr. Bunderman of Harrisburg to speak on "Inspiring the Student" at the next meeting of the Future Teachers of America. Physicist Dr. Edward Teller to receive the Priestley Award. Dickinson Swimming ranks fourth in the Middle Atlantic Conference. Article outlining trip options for students to travel and study abroad during the summer. Political Indepedent Students' group formed.