Omicron Delta Kappa

Omicron Delta Kappa to tap new members to the national leadership honor society. Buddhist monk Dr. Lozang Jamspal to deliver the final lecture of his week-long series on Tibetan Buddhism. Article spreading awareness of the increased use of date rape drugs on college campuses. Profile on former college president, Dr. William Wilcox Edel, who recently passed away. FDA approves the "abortion pill" or morning after emergency contraceptive, and the Health Center agrees to carry it. Students attend the Republican Presidential Debate. Men's Soccer defeats Swarthmore.

Tau Delta Pi holds farewell banquet for seniors; Elizabeth Keen, Helen Kretschmar, Edith Ann Lingle, Jane Treyz, and Jo Ann Wilson are initiated into Tau Delta Pi; Elinor Derr and Estelle Mumford become Tau Delta Pi officers. Phi Kappa Sigma and Zeta Tau Alpha hold spring formals. Wheel and Chain taps eight new members: Marion Bender, Edith Ann Lingle, Kathleen Briner, Elinor Derr, Goldie Kunkle, Jane Treyz, Doris Bacastow, and Catherine Stern. Second summer session to be held. President Fred P. Corson speaks at Easter Sunrise Service at Arlington National Cemetery.

Men’s Senate reduces number of class officers. Omicron Delta Kappa sponsors Sub-Freshman Day. President Morgan issues ultimatum to Eastern Pennsylvania Football Conference. Jewish students present their faith to a meeting of the Young People’s Fellowship. Christina B. Meredith receives Pi Beta Phi fellowship.

Omicron Delta Kappa plans Sub-Freshman day for prospective students. William R. Woodward received fellowship from Institute of International Education. Pennsylvania to revise its constitution, to hold Intercollegiate Constitutional Convention, Dickinson to participate. Benjamin R. Epstein, '33, receives Jusserand Fellowship and American German Student Exchagne fellowship. After-dinner inter-fraterntiy religious discussion series proves success. Dickinson Players plan to present "Dover Road". Klein S. Merriman receives Omicron Delta Kappa Outstanding Sophomore Award.

Robert Bartley wins 1902 Class Award. Eddie Steele is elected basketball captain. C. R. Walther Thomas speaks to Union Philosophical Society about the state of Germany and Nazism. Omicron Delta Kappa convention held at Dickinson. Professor Mulford Stough speaks to Young People's Fellowship about the threat of war in the Balkans and Central Europe. Sigma Alpha Epsilon wins intramural basketball tournament. J. Gardner Zerby breaks college backstroke record.

German Club plans to attend Wagnerian opera, invites all students and Carlislians. Omicron Delta Kappa to hold convention at Dickinson. President Morgan dissolves All-College Social committee. Fifty students begin on-campus work under provisions of Civil Works Administration. Union Philosophical society hears speech on Nazism. Basketball wins last game of season. Portraits in Bosler Hall are rearranged.

Dickinson museum displays pieces of Dickinson history in Old West. Omicron Delta Kappa plans to edit a new college song book.

Freshmen destroy Gettysburg banner at football game. Grades are the best in many years. Sophomore Vigilance Committee punishes freshmen. Omicron Delta Kappa plans to publish a Dickinson song book.

Hell Week for fraternity pledges leaves Phi Kappa Psi pledges sweeping walkways for active members, Sigma Chi pledges going back to freshman rules, Phi Delta Thetas conducting mass on Molly Pitcher's grave and Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledges carting actives around like horses. Four students are admitted into Phi Beta Kappa and three more into Omicron Delta Kappa. President Fred Pierce Corson tells all students present in chapel that it is essential to read the bible as a part of a national effort to promote religion in colleges.

Omicron Delta Kappa taps six juniors for membership. Union Philosophical Society, Belles Lettres, Wheel and Chain, and Lambda Sigma Pi (honorary scientific society) elect officers.

Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership fraternity, taps John F. Campbell and W. Richard Eshelman (both '41) for membership, along with Governor Arthur H. James, who joins as an honorary member. Jack D. Hughes visits chapel via the New York Worlds Fair to demonstrate scientific advances and their applications. Campus receives a healthy 14-inch snowfall.

For the first time since its founding in 1886, the full quota of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity keys are to be given to graduating seniors at graduation on Monday. Senior class day exercises, including the induction of the seniors into the Alumni Association, will take place in one day. Belles Lettres decides to continue to not have rushing for new membership in their society as mentioned in an amendment to their constitution. The honorary fraternity Omicron Delta Kappa initiates seven new members.

The basketball team ends its season, perhaps its best in school history. Sophomore Milton Davidson is awarded the sophomore cup for exemplary character and achievement by Omicron Delta Kappa. The winners of the 1932 Microcosm beauty contest are decided and include both fraternity and non-fraternity girls. Student Senate makes plans for a D Club on campus which will ensure that deserving athletic teams are adequately awarded. The Interfraternity Council revises rules for rushing. A distinguished alumnus is lost with the death of Dr. Clyde Bowman Furst.

A new German professor is hired. Skull and Key taps members for next year. The Men’s Glee Club sings at Carlisle High School. The Dickinson band elects new officers for next year. A column relates the German Nazis Party’s failings to change the colors of mail boxes and postal vehicles. The College Orchestra plays at Carlisle High School. The college begins to transition to the O.D.K. proposal for a new student government.

Klein S. Merriman received the Class of 1902 Award for being the all-around Dickinsonian of the Junior class. The Greek Club initiates seven new members. W3YC, Dickinson’s amateur radio station, enters an international radio contest. Sigma Alpha Epsilon celebrates the 79th anniversary of its founding. The Women’s Glee Club plans a new program. The Dickinsonian conducts a student poll on national politics. The Debate Team ties with State College. Omicron Delta Kappa revises their newly proposed student plan and awaits student approval.

The basketball team wins in a game against Gettysburg. A German exchange student states his opinions of the college. Dr. Phillips Packer Elliott is to lead the Dickinson Week of Prayer. Five members of the faculty play in a basketball game. Omicron Delta Kappa presents a plan to form a new central Student Senate to take on the duties of the current senate. The Women’s Glee club will perform for the American Association of University Women. The Dickinson P.A.C.S. cabinet reports its student appointees, and supports a petition for student absentee voting in Pennsylvania elections.

The Omicron Delta Kappa national honorary fraternity is officially installed at Dickinson College. Only three track men will go to the Middle Atlantic Championships at Schenectady on Saturday as a result of the Athletic Association's refusal to appropriate the funds necessary to take more. Details of the Founders Day event activities. Robert Knupp receives the Miller prize offered for first place in the Freshman oratorical contest, and Miss Marion Morf receives the Walkley Prize for second place.

Work on the new gymnasium starts on the grounds of Old South College. President Morgan's wife dies unexpectedly of a heart attack and is buried in Carlisle. Omicron Delta Kappa, a national honorary fraternity, has granted a charter to Dickinson College. Raymond R. Brewer, Dickinson's representative at West China Union University, is on a leave of absence and expected to visit the College campus very soon.

Richard Wolfrom receives outstanding Sophomore award from Omicron Delta Kappa. Intercollegiate Disarmament Council distributes petition around campus concerning Sino-Japanese affair. German club sponsors Max Montor to present Goethe's poetic works. Class deans explain demerit system in response to student agitation; students are further agitated by the knowledge. President Karl T. Waugh creates faculty committee to propose new demerit system. College shortwave broadcasting system W3YC makes contact with foreign radio stations. E.

The annual Commencement issue honors the class of 1936. Honorary degrees are presented to Vice-Admiral Arthur Jay Hepburn, Judge W.A. Valentine, Rev. Roy N. Keiser, and Rev. George Henry Ketterer. Twenty-eight students, including one woman, receive Bachelor of Law degrees. The Dickinsonian enters the Associated Collegiate Press Spring Contest and receives an all-American rating. Eight men are inducted into the national honorary fraternity Omicron Delta Kappa. The Dramatic Club's presentation of Torch-bearers opens in Bosler Hall.

Omicron Delta Kappa sponsors the publication of the first Dickinson Songbook since 1910. The Dickinson chapter of Tau Kappa Alpha prepares to hold the district convention of Tau Kappa Alpha colleges in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn '96 is appointed commander-in-chief of the United States fleet. 

Alumni Day is planned.  Tau Kappa Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa add members from graduating class.  Four alumni trustees are elected: Merkel Landis, Robert Y. Stuart, Lewis M. Bacon Jr., and S. Walter Stauffer.  Dr. Francis A. Waterhouse and Professor C. W.

La Verne Casner elected as most outstanding member of junior class.  Men's Student Senate passes a bill, at the suggestion of Omicron Delta Kappa, creating a committee to audit the books of student organizations not financially supported by the college.  Interfraternity Council drafts new rushing regulations.

Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside to speak at fourth annual ODK Leadership Dinner. Debate team ties for fourth place in State Tournament. DePauw University Choir and Juilliard String Quartet to present concerts on campus. Mary Dickinson Day to feature President Sarah Gibson Blanding of Vassar College as the guest of honor. Dean Ness interviewed, answers questions submitted to the Dickinsonian.

Professor Whitfield J. Bell resigns. Omicron Delta Kappa and Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary leadership fraternities, tap new members. Aquatic Club performs annual show. Adult Education Program to be extended into the spring. Dickinson resigns from the Eastern College Athletic Conference, efforts underway to make the College a member of the NCAA.