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Mary Taintor was born on July 25, 1889 in Rochester, Minnesota. She graduated from Ripon College in 1911 and received a degree from Stanford University in 1918. She was also a student in Italy at the American Classical School in Rome in 1911 and...
Roger Brooke Taney was born March 17, 1777 on the Taney Plantation along the Patuxent River, in Maryland's Calvert County. The Taney family had come to the colony as indentured servants in the mid-seventeenth century but, after serving out their...
A local drama fraternity, Tau Delta Pi was founded at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1922. After a short period of inactivity, the society was revived in 1938 and remained active through 1949, when the national drama fraternity,...
James Taylor was born in 1913 and graduated from high school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in 1932. After four difficult academic years, he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1936. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi...
William Taylor was the son of Rev. W.P. Taylor, class of 1890, and arrived at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from Georgetown, Delaware. He entered with the class of 1918, enrolling in the Latin-Scientific course. He was a member of...
In 1925 the Theta Chi fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased the former Long residence at 270 West High Street, adjacent to the former home of Abram Bosler, class of 1905. Before the fraternity could move in, the...
The Sigma Chapter of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity was established at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1861. It enjoyed a “fairly vigorous life” until 1875, when the active chapter lapsed. Graduate members reinstated Theta Delta...
The Pi Pi Chapter of the Theta Nu Epsilon Society was established at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1887. Theta Nu Epsilon selected its members from among those in fraternities at the college and the law school, and occasionally...
Arthur Thomas grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He had been a student at the Pennington School in New Jersey and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1938. He left the College after his freshman year and served...
Philip Thomas was born the son of a prominent physician in Talbot County, Maryland on September 12, 1810. He attended his home academy in Easton and then went on to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, entering with the class of 1830. He...
Russell Thompson was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on December 29, 1898, the son and grandson of physicians, which may account for his undergraduate nickname, "Doc." He attended Reading High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle,...
On March 28, 1979, the eastern United States faced the threat of a nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power facility in Middletown, Pennsylvania, twenty-five miles southeast of Dickinson College, on the Susquehanna River. The...
Egloff von Tippelskirch was a German exchange student who spent a year at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania under the auspices of the Institute of International Education and received a degree with the class of 1933. The following year...
Glenn E. Todd was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on January 12, 1890 to Robert R. and Phoebe Routzahn Todd. A life-long resident of Carlisle, he attended Carlisle High School, graduating in 1908, and then enrolled at the local Dickinson College...
Lemuel Todd was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on July 29, 1817. He entered the class of 1839 at Dickinson College in his home town, took the classical course, and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. Upon graduation, he studied law in...
In October 2000, the New Science Building, at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was dedicated during homecoming weekend.
The structure is located across Louther Street from the Holland Union Building next to the James Center....
Long the dream of Professor Charles Francis Himes, Tome Scientific Building was Dickinson College’s first building constructed solely for scientific purposes. Situated along Louther Street, on the Carlisle, Pennsylvania campus between Old West...
Jacob Tome was born August 13, 1810 in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. After the early death of his father, Tome was forced to quit his education and make his own way in the world. He worked at various jobs throughout the country, even...
William Trickett was born on June 9, 1840 in the English Midlands town of Leicester. When he was very young his family moved from England to Philadelphia where he lived until he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1866. Two...
John Southgate Tucker was born on May 31, 1838 in Norfolk, Virginia, where his family on both sides had been prominent since before the American Revolution. He attended the Episcopal School in Alexandria, Virginia and entered Dickinson College in...
Ruby Vale was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 19, 1874 the son of of Joseph and Sarah Eyster Vale. His father had been a Civil War cavalry officer. Vale attended the Dickinson Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and entered the...
Richard Vaughan was a member of the Law School class of 1918 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A "long, lanky, and lean" man from Royersford in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he was a member of Delta Chi fraternity and also served...
John Verban, Jr. was born on July 21, 1911, the son of John and Mary Fliszar Verban of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Allentown Preparatory School before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1931 as a member of...
Henry Vethake was born in British Guiana, in what was then the county of Essequibo, on May 26, 1791 to a family of Westphalian educators. His father, Fredrich Albert von Vethake, taught for a time at Vassar College. Henry arrived in Boston in...
