Dickinson Alumnus, February 1927

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • With a model of the proposed Gymnasium on display in the library, alumni were asked for contributions.
  • Rev. Edmund Davison Soper (class of 1898), Dean of the School of Religion and Vice-President at Duke University, featured in an article that detailed his life's achievements.  
  • West Nottingham Academy Headmaster J. Paul Slaybaugh (class of 1921) honored Benjamin Rush with a memorial gateway on their campus in Colora, Maryland.
  • Dr. Frank M. L. Houck (class of 1910) became assistant director of Johns Hopkins Hospital. 
  • Professor Henry Vethake's 1827 catalog was discovered and became the earliest bound catalog in the college's possession. 
  • Former President George Edward Reed published "The College and the "Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching," the final article a series entitled "Reminiscences of Dickinson."
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1927
Year
1927
Volume
4
People
Soper, Edmund Davison
Rush, Benjamin
Houck, Frank M. L.
Morgan, James Henry
Reed, George Edward
Organizations
Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Places
Library
Alumni Gymnasium
Other Topics
Gymnasium
Dickinson History
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, November 1925

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Professor Mervin G. Filler (class of 1893) discussed the college's use of intelligence tests.
  • Joseph M. Burns, the new superintendent of grounds and buildings, ordered for all dorms in Old West to be converted to academic spaces.
  • The Fraternity Alumni Council discussed several proposals, including changing rushing rules and eligibility requirements.
  • Trustee Melville Gambrill bequeathed $150,000, which was the largest gift in the college's history.
  • President James Henry Morgan (class of 1878) reflected on his own experiences as a student athlete in "Athletics in Pennsylvania Colleges: Sketches of Some Evils and a Proposed Remedy."
  • Former President George Edward Reed published "Certain Early Experiences," the fourth in a series entitled "Reminiscences of Dickinson."
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1925
Year
1925
Volume
3
People
Keefer, Frank R.
Filler, Mervin Grant
Gambrill, Melville
Wood, J. Perry
Hillman, Conway Wing
Organizations
Theta Chi
Phi Kappa Psi
Alpha Chi Rho
Fraternity Alumni Council
Committee of the Pennsylvania College Presidents' Association
Places
Old West
Other Topics
Dickinson History
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, December 1932

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dickinson purchased the Mooreland Tract for $50,000, which expanded the campus.
  • The Alumni Council recommended creating a fund to solicit annual donations. 
  • Members of the soccer team received varsity letters for the first time.
  • Wilbur L. Adams (class of 1905) was elected to the House of Representatives. 
  • William D. Thomas (class of 1912), president of Sandvik Steel, Inc., became a Knight of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of his work with the American Association of Fine Steel Importers.
  • Edmund S. Snyder (class of 1929) wrote "A Glimpse of John Dickinson" for the Alumnus.
  • Former Professor Morris W. Prince died at the age of 89.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1932
Year
1932
Volume
10
People
Brown, George Lancaster
Prince, Morris Watson
McAnney, Lucretia Jones
Adams, Wilbur L.
Zimmerman, G. Floyd
Thomas, William D.
Barnitz, Edwin E.
Dickinson, John
Events
Death
Organizations
Varsity Soccer
Alumni Council
Places
Mooreland Park
Other Topics
Election
Knight
Gift
Campus Improvements
Alumni Donations

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1932

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees discussed expanding campus with the purchase of the Mooreland Track.
  • Harry L. Price (class of 1896), president of the Alumni Association, suggested moving John Dickinson's grave from Wilmington, Delaware, to Carlisle.
  • President Karl Waugh's inauguration took place during Commencement in June 1932.
  • The Tome Scientific Building's basement became a special laboratory for physical chemistry.
  • Rev. John J. Snavely (class of 1904) became a district superintendent for the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York. 
  • Kappa Sigma moved out of East College and into a new fraternity house, which was located at the northeast corner of College and Louther Streets. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1932
Year
1932
Volume
10
People
Price, Harry Linwood
Snavely, John J.
Feroe, Robvert A.
Duke, Charles B.
Post, Edwin
Waugh, Karl Tinsley
Dickinson, John
Events
Inauguration
Organizations
Kappa Sigma
Varsity Football
Board of Trustees
Places
Tome
Mooreland Park
East College
Other Topics
John Dickinson
Enrollment
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1931

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Extensive improvements were made to several buildings on campus, including repairs to Metzger Hall and adding new rooms in Denny Hall. 
  •  Judge Edward W. Biddle (class of 1870), former President of the Board of Trustees, died at age 79 and left $4,000 to Dickinson's Library Guild.
  • Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) was elected President of the Board of Trustees. 
  • Harry Linwood Price (class of 1896) was elected President of the General Alumni Association. 
  • Deputy Attorney-General Earle D. Willey (class of 1911) was appointed judge of Kent County in Delaware.
  • Daniel Moore Bates donated a portrait of his grandfather, Daniel Moore Bates (class of 1839), a former Chancellor of Delaware. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1931
Year
1931
Volume
9
People
Biddle, Edward William
Spahr, Boyd Lee
Price, Harry Linwood
Bates, Daniel Moore
Willey, Earle D.
Organizations
Board of Trustees
Library Guild
Places
Metzger Hall
Denny Hall
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity House
Old West
Other Topics
Judicial Appointment
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, November 1930

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Stanley D. Embick (class of 1897), who received a Distinguished Service Medal during World War I, was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the US Army and assigned to command Fortress Monroe in Virginia. 
  • Four Dickinson alumni represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives, including J. Banks Kurtz (class of 1893) and Robert F. Rich (class of 1907). 
  • Photographs showcased the improvements made to the freshmen dorms located in Conway Hall. 
  • Rev. William H. Decker (class of 1902) recalled a "hi-jacking" incident in 1899, which included a Carlisle justice of the peace issuing a search warrant.
  • George Durbin Chenoweth, a member of the class of 1868 and a prominent trustee, died at age 83.
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1930
Year
1930
Volume
8
People
Chenoweth, George Durbin
Rich, Robert F.
Kurtz, J. Banks
Magrady, Fredrick W.
Chase, Mitchel J.
Embick, Stanley D.
Places
Conway Hall
Other Topics
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, November 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Alumni were invited to donate any of their Dickinson material for display in new museum located in Old West.
  • The Alumnus published photographs of the renovated Executive offices in Old West
  • The varsity football team suffered one of its worst seasons, with a total of two wins, two ties, and seven losses.
  • The college purchased land located next to Biddle field, which allowed for "the enlargement of the athletic field at any time." Seven tennis courts were also built behind the new Alumni Gymnasium.
  • Pennsylvania Governor John Fisher appointed History Professor Leon C. Prince, also a State Senator, to represent the state at the National Council of State Legislatures.
  • Dr. Paul R. Burkholder (class of 1924) started a two year cruise around the world with other scientists to study the food pollution in fish production.
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1929
Year
1929
Volume
7
People
Hoffman, Bertha
Malcolm, Gilbert
Black, Sara
Burns, Joseph M.
Filler, Mervin Grant
Sellers, Montgomery Porter
Organizations
Varsity Football
Varsity Track
Alumni Council
Basketball
Places
Biddle Field
Old West
Memorial Hall
Tennis Courts
Other Topics
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, August 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The College revealed plans for extensive improvements, including remodeling Old West, Denny Hall, Biddle Field, and furnishing Conway Hall. 
  • The Board of Trustees recognized former President James H. Morgan (class of 1878) and Professor Bradford O. McIntire for their years of service to the school. Trustees established a Morgan Lectureship Fund and appointed McIntire as Professor Emeritus, the fist in Dickinson's history.
  • Charles K. Zug (class of 1880), a former member of the Alumni Council and Board of Trustees, died in his home.
  • Brothers from the Class of 1870, Philip L. Cannon and trustee Henry P. Cannon, died within two months of each other.
  • Roscoe O. Bonisteel (class of 1912) was elected to the office of most worshipful grand master of the grand lodge of Masons of Michigan.
  • The Alumnus published photographs from the Alumni Parade held in June 1929. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1929
Year
1929
Volume
6
People
Zug, Charles Keller
Cannon, Philip L.
Cannon, Henry Pervis
Morgan, James Henry
Ballard, Ellis Ames
Arters, John Manley
McIntire, Bradford Oliver
Bonisteel, Roscoe O.
Organizations
Board of Trustees
Alumni Council
Places
Denny Hall
Biddle Field
Bosler Hall
Conway Hall
Old West
Other Topics
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees invited alumni to attend Dr. Mervin Grant Filler's (class of 1893) inauguration as the eighteenth president in April 1929.
  • The Alumni Gymnasium opened in early January with a basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania.
  • An infirmary, consisting of four rooms, opened in the rear of Conway Hall. 
  • Administrative offices, including the president's office, moved to the second floor of Old West.
  • P. W. "Red" Griffith was appointed head football coach.
  • James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) was featured in a Spanish language publication, The International Journal of Road Building.
  • William D. Angle (class of 1930) won the 1902 Award, honoring him for being the "best all around Dickinsonian" by judgement of his classmates.
  • Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, delivered a speech on former Smithsonian Secretary and former Dickinson Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird (class of 1840).
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1929
Year
1929
Volume
6
People
Griffith, Percy Wilfred
Valentine, William Alfred
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Angle, William D.
Steese, James Gordon
Events
Wilkes-Barre Dinner
Organizations
Varsity Football
Board of Trustees
Basketball
Places
Alumni Gymnasium
Old West
Conway Hall
Other Topics
Infirmary
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, November 1928

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumni Gymnasium was expected to open to the public in early January 1929.
  • Dr. Edmund D. Soper (class of 1898) was elected President of Ohio Wesleyan University.
  • Several Dickinson graduates won November elections, including three to Congress, seven to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and one to the New York legislature.
  • Statues of President James Buchanan (class of 1809) were erected in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in Washington DC. 
  • William M. Beard (class of 1912) was elected as president of the Westfield Trust Company
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1928
Year
1928
Volume
6
People
Nunemaker, Leroy M.
Buchanan, James
Beard, William M.
Soper, Edmund D.
Places
Alumni Gymnasium
Other Topics
Alumni Constitution
Campus Improvements
Athletics

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1927

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees authorized razing South College in order to make way for the construction of the new gymnasium. 
  • Trustee Lemuel T. Appold (class of 1882) retired as President of the General Alumni Association. 
  • Mary Curran Morgan (class of 1888), President James Henry Morgan's wife, passed away unexpectedly while traveling.
  • The Carnegie Corporation of New York donated a valuable art collection to the college.
  • Dr. Virgil Prettyman (class of 1892), a businessman and former headmaster of the Horace Mann School, featured in an article that highlights his achievements.
  • Professor Leon C. Prince (class of 1898) reviewed The English of the Pulpit, a "notable" book by Lewis H. Chrisman (class of 1908).
  • Rev. Raymond R. Brewer (class of 1916), the head of the Dickinson-in-China program, discussed how China views the United States.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1927
Year
1927
Volume
4
People
Chrisman, Lewis H.
Morgan, Mary Curran
Pettyman, Virgil
Brewer, Raymond R.
Appold, Lemuel Towers
Events
Wilkes-Barre Dinner
Organizations
Phi Kappa Beta
Basketball
Places
South College
China
Alumni Gymnasium
Other Topics
Campus Improvements

Dickinson Alumnus, August 1923

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Various classes returned to the college for reunions during the recent commencement weekend, and the Class of 1903 presented a plan for various campus improvements, such as planting a variety of trees and bushes, as a gift to the college. 
  • James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) became the first president of the Alaska Road Commission.
  • Noah Pinkney, a local food vendor who was a Dickinson fixture for generations of students, passed away at the age of 77.
  • Dean Mervin G. Filler (class of 1893) discussed changes in the curriculum and student class schedules over the past decade.
  • A "lost" portrait of John Dickinson by Charles Willson Peale was located in the possession of a descendant, and a copy was made by artist Horace T. Carpenter to hang in Memorial Hall in Old West. 
  • Theodore M. Johnson described the 1863 Confederate bombardment of Carlisle and Dickinson College during the Civil War. Johnson lived with his father, Dickinson's President Herman M. Johnson, in East College in the 1860s.
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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1923
Year
1923
Volume
1
People
Hull, George Ross
Murdock, William C.
Steese, James Gordon
Peale, Charles William
Carpenter, Horace T.
Dickinson, John
Prince, Leon Cushing
Pinkney, Noah
Johnson, Theodore M.
Murphy, B. Russell
Events
Shelling of Carlisle
Places
Class of 1902 Gateway
Other Topics
Civil War at Dickinson
Student Fees
Campus Improvements
Curriculum Changes
Dickinson History

Dickinson Alumnus, November 1924

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dickinsonians formed an Inter-Fraternity Alumni Council to co-operate with the student Inter-Fraternity Council. 
  • Architect William W. Emmert revealed plans for a new gymnasium.
  • Lemuel Towers Appold (class of 1882), President of the General Alumni Association, started remodeling the northeast corner room in the basement of Old West.
  • East College  reopened after renovations improved the entrances and interior spaces.
  • Four out of seven members of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania either graduated or received honorary degrees from Dickinson.
  • President James H. Morgan (class of 1878) appealed to alumni to donate documentation of the College's early history in order to preserve it.
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1924
Year
1924
Volume
2
People
Appold, Lemuel Towers
Lightner, Joseph B.
Kurtz, J. Banks
Swartz, Joshua W.
Hering, George C.
Ganoe, William Adderman
Morgan, James Henry
Organizations
Inter-Fraternity Council
General Alumni Association
Zeta Eta Phi
Basketball
Places
Alumni Gymnasium
Old West
East College
Other Topics
Elections
Campus Improvements
Dickinson History