Hats

Black hoods, gown, and caps worn by Boyd Lee Spahr as President of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College, a position he held from 1931 to 1961.

Felt armbands, beret and pin for the Dickinson class of 1926 and a Carlisle High School pennant.  

Red cotton cap with slight brim and "36" in white made in honor of the class of 1936's reunion. 

Red felt "dink" with white button worn by Richard Herb as a freshman in 1957. 

White cotton "dink" with gold button and "18."  Worn by Frank Masland (Class of 1918) as a freshman in 1914.

A red felt "dink" with a white button from around 1965.

Green knit wool cap with yellow pom pom worn by Donald McIntyre as a freshman in 1924.

Red felt "dink" with "71" in white felt on the back.  Attached is a nametag worn by A. Pierce Bounds as a freshman in 1967.

Red felt beanie (also called a "dink") with a white button, worn by Barbara Price Vandegrift in 1959. 

Red wool felt beanie cap with '53 printed in white on the front.

Two black academic hoods and mortorboard cap worn by George Shuman, Jr. as treasurer of Dickinson College.

Red felt “dink” beanie, and a brown cardboard sign worn by Lewis Gobrecht '55 as a freshman at Dickinson College in 1951. The front of the sign reads "Lewis D. Gobrecht" in large red letters and "AXP" penciled in smaller letters, with a list of names on the back written in pencil, likely the names of the other members of the Alpha Chi Rho pledge class.

Cloth hat with “08” stitched to rim. Probably worn by Ray Dum, Dickinson College Class of 1921, Preparatory School Class of 1911.

Raven's Claw cloth hat with insignia, belonging to James Prescott, III, class of 1944. Prescott wore the hat to show his affiliation with the honor society.  Raven's Claw is an honor society consisting of seven senior Dickinson males. 

Two white heavy duty plastic hard hats, one belonging to Richard Krick, used during construction of the Waidner-Spahr Library in 1998.

White flat-top style band cap with wide red band, red cord, and Dickinson embroidered in red. The cap was donated in 2000 by Lewis Gobrecht and is thought to have originally been used in the mid 1950's. 

A red and white mesh baseball cap with white “D.”

A white painter's cap with an image of Old West's doorway pictured in red.  These caps were given to Dickinson Fund volunteers in 1985.  The Archives has two caps.

Raven's Claw cap belonging to George Shuman, Jr. This cap would have been work by Shuman to represent his affiliation with the honor society.  Raven's Claw is made up of seven senior Dickinson males.  

Wheel and Chain hat belonging to Dr. Mary Moser, Class of 1972.  Dr. Moser would wear this hat to symbolize her affiliation with the Wheel and Chain honorary Society.  Wheel and Chain is an honor society that consists of women from Dickinson's senior class. 

A red felt beanie printed with white "D" distributed for the Charter Day celebration on September 16, 2010. This was the first year that Charter Day was celebrated by the college.

This Wheel and Chain hat from 1945 was worn by Christine Myers Crist, class of 1946. The hat was donated by Jane Myers Seller, class of 1955, in 2012. 

This hat belonged to Raven's Claw member John Christian Arndt III, Class of 1931 and was worn to symbolize his affiliation with the honor society. Raven's Claw is an all male senior honor society that admits seven male members of the Dickinson campus.