Article outlining the schedule of end-of-term holiday events on campus, including the annual Doll Dance. The Varsity and J-V basketball teams win their first games of the season. Profile on student athlete, Richard Gette.
Article on the Mermaid Players production of "Night Must Fall." Student Senate approved a request for a new club for foreign students. Famous pianist, Alec Templeton to give a performance. Students Lawrence J. Lichtenstein and Moorad G. Mooradian are designated by Dr. Charles B. Kepner as delegates to the Second West Point Student Conference on United States Affairs. Profile on student athlete Carl High.
President Edel approves the plans for the snack bar sponsored by the All-College Social Committee. The Inter-Fraternity Council seeks independence from the Student Senate. Dr. Calvin Stout, headmaster of The American School for Boys in Baghdad, Iraq, speaks in chapel. Article about the acceptance of women into the Theological Society.
The Student Senate censures a number of men for participating in a raid of Gibbs House on October 31. Famous British novelist, Elizabeth Bowen will speak at the College. Kappa Sigma wins the contest for best display during Homecoming. The Dickinson Mermaid is returned to President Edel and the College. Construction of the new women's dormitory is underway. Gettysburg defeats Dickinson in epic Football match. Profiles on student athletes, Gene Oyler and Dick Relick.
President Edel speaks at chapel. Dean of Women, Phoebe G. Follmer takes a leave of absence and Mary Margaret Kellogg is appointed the acting Dean. Article discussing the upcoming Homecoming football match for the Old Mahogany Bucket between Dickinson and Gettysburg College. The Dickinson Mermaid goes missing from atop Old West. The College band is the largest it has been since the war. Dickinson Football defeats Juniata. Footballer Wilbur Gobrecht is tied for receiving a high-scoring honor in Pennsylvania. Profile on student athlete, Ed Ermak.
College confirms plans for campus renovations, including a new women's dormitory. Grant Reynard speaks in chapel about the importance of artistic expression. Students will vote to select a winner for the "Miss Esquire Calendar Girl , 1951" competition. Profile on student athlete, Larry Stevens."
Famous trumpeter, Hank Hoffman will play in the band during Homecoming.The International Relations Club sponsors a U.N. display in the window of the Kronenberg clothing store. Professor Frank Ayres , Jr., announces his publication of a new math book. Dickinson alum General James G. Steese, a member of the Dickinson College Board of Trustees, speaks at chapel about various phases of his life.
Freshman Miss "Ricky" McCoid is selected to represent Dickinson College in the Esquire Calendar Contest. Mrs. Helen Woods speaks at chapel about traditions in the United States. The Social Committee presents plans for a snack bar to President Edel. Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. gives a speech at chapel about Dr. Benjamin Rush. Dickinson Football defeats Ursinus.
Mr. L.E. Tsao speaks in chapel about China's position in the recent war. Mrs. Welthy Honsinger Fisher will give a lecture called "Present Tensions in Asia." Profile on student athlete, William Falen.
Professor John C. Pflaum speaks at the first meeting of the International Relations Club about his trip to Europe over the summer. Senate President Morrad G. Mooradian addresses students at a recent chapel meeting. Profile on student athlete, John "Punky" Lyter.
Dr. A Victor Murray, President of Chesnut College, Cambridge, England, receives an honorary degree. Tom Carey elected as the Editor-in-Chief of the Microcosm. Professor J. Clair McCullough named the new Dean of the College. The total number of credit hours required to graduate is reduced from 128 to 124 hours. Dickinson hires a new football coach, Frank R. Maze. Profile on student athlete, John Mathewson.
Over 1000 students, alumni, and guests are expected to attend the weekend's Commencement exercises, at which Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam is the key speaker. The College announces that it will award 8 honorary degrees, and that an additional 15 seniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor fraternity. Anne Bennethum '25 exhibits 29 original artworks in Bosler Hall. The lacrosse team, popular but still not sanctioned by the college, finishes the season undefeated.
The Class of '51 elects its new officers: James Arnold, President; Paul Strickler, Vice-President; Jane Lehmer, Secretary; and Lawrence Lichtenstein, Treasurer. Student Senate also elects new officers: George Mooradian, President; Robert Hobson, Vice-President; Joyce Ingham, Secretary; and Charles Cook, Treasurer. Dr. William Lonsdale Tayler, chair of the Political Science department, announces a one-year leave from campus. Seven students exhibit original artworks in Bosler Hall, as the College Choir is fitted for robes to replace their suit-and-tie uniforms.
The Dickinson Follies production "Out of the Red" will open the following Thursday, with huge crowds anticipated. The Inter-Fraternity Council adopts a new constitution. Nine junior women are tapped to join the Wheel and Chain Society. Popular pianists Ozan Marsh and Patricia Benkman give a free recital to Dickinson students. The D Club will hold an evening of wrestling and boxing, featuring the "Masked Marvel" the night of publication.
Coach Dave Kirk of the Physical Education Department announces that he will resign his post at the end of the year in order to take a job at Friend's Central School in Philadelphia. The Spring Formal, scheduled for the night of publication, will feature two bands and follow a Spring Garden Party theme. In a special Founders' Day convocation ceremony, the College will award honorary degrees to Nora May Mohler and Judge Dorothy Kenyon. The Hornbook, The Belles Lettres Society's literary publication, will go on sale the following week.
James Arnold, Robert Crow, Richard Eisenhour, Larry Lichtenstein, and John Shumaker are tapped to join Omicron Delta Kappa, nationla leadership honorary society; meanwhile, nine sophomores are chosen to join the Skull and Key Society. Asa W. Climenhaga is hired to replace Raymond P.G. Bowman as College Resistrar, so that the latter, also a psychology professor, can teach full-time. Dr. Rowland R. Lehman is hired to the newly-created post of Assistant to the President for Duties in Connection with Alumni.
The annual spoof issue, The Drinkinsonian, tackles various aspects of college life in a satirical manner.
Head Football Coach Ralph Ricker resigns his position to take a job at Lebanon Valley College. The Mermaid Players' third production of the season, The Tempest, opens at Metzger Hall. Jane Lehmer, member of the Debate Team, is named "Gavel Girl of Pennsylvania" at the annual all-state debate competition. The weather vane stolen from South College is returned.
The 1950 Chest Drive, sponsored by the Interfaith Council and aimed to support six charities, kicks off. Students are asked to pledge $3.00 apiece, the ultimate goal being $3,000 in donations. A group of pranksters steals the hand-made weather vane from South College's under-construction cupola. Mauricio Nabuco, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, invites a group of Dickinson students to visit the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC. Aplha Chi Ro wins the Interfraternity Weekend Trophy for best skit and singing performance the previous weekend.
The Red Devils basketball team ends its highly successful season with an 80-68 victory over Bucknell. A fire breaks out at the Phi Kappa Psi house, requiring the Fire Department to visit twice but ultimately damaging little beyond the stove it started in. Professors Ernest A. Vuilleumier and William L. Taylor earn entries in the new book "Who Knows and What," a listing of experts and their subjects.
Plans for the D Club Dance, to be held the night after this publication, and for Interfraternity Weekend, to be held a week later, are made. Dr. Milton E. Flower opens a new art exhibit in Bosler Hall, titled "Is Picasso Mad?" President WIlliam W. Edel gives a talk on the early history of the college, while Professor Daniel A. Zarat is invited to speak at a conference on teaching foreign languages at the University of Kentucky.
In a surprise upset, the Red Devils basketball team defeats a top-notch Gettysburg squad 66-51. Dean Amos B. Horlacher, after attending a conference to discuss low grades among fraternity members, returns to campus to address dismal performance in the previous week's campus-wide fire drills. Elizabeth A. Low donates a large monetary sum as well as a picket from the white fence that once surrounded campus; most of the other pickets were used for an 1891 Halloween bonfire that turned riotous after the Carlisle Fire Department hosed students instead of the flames.
Richard A. Campbell, Warren F. Coolidge, Janet C. Elder, Arthur C. Flandreau, William I. Mudd, Jr., Bruce R. Rehr, and Eleanor L. Uhland (all '50) are elected to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary scholastic fraternity. Dean Russell I. Thompson announces the names of the students on the Dean's List; thirteen seniors, six juniors, seven sophomores, and five freshman attained the highest honor, with a GPA of 3.75 or above. Lois Price, Frank Fry, John Laudermilch, Ralph Masten, and Alvin Rojohn are selected to participate in the 1950 Pennsylvania All-State College Band festival.
Harriet Lane '53 is elected Mid-Winter Ball Queen; Mary Ellen Dykstra '52 is elected Maid of Honor. Religion In Life week is set to open on Sunday, February 12 with an address from key-note speaker Rev. Miles DePagter. The Mermaid Players announce the commencement of production for a performance of Shakespeare's Tempest.
Reverends Miles DePagter and Alson J. Smith, as well as Professors Earl H. Furgeson and William R. Barnhart, are announced as the primary speakers during Religion in Life Week, scheduled for February 12 through the 16th. Bob Barron and his orchestra, "America's Favorite College Band," are hired to perform at the Mid-Winter Ball, scheduled for the following weekend. Gordon Baum, Richard Hicks, and Mary Ann Spence, members of the College Glee Club, are selected to represent Dickinson in the first post-war concert and forum of the Intercollegiate Choir of Pennsylvania.