Dickinson Alumnus, May 1958

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The cornerstone laying ceremony for Althouse Hall was held during the Priestley Day Celebration, in which Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky received the Priestley Award
  • Rev. Robert J. Thomas (class of 1940), pastor of the Rockefeller Memorial Methodist Church in Syracuse, New York, was selected to spend six weeks in Ireland as the exchange pastor of the Donegall Square Methodist Church.
  • Gilbert Malcolm (class of 1915) wrote a biography of Bishop Robert Nelson Spencer (class of 1903) titled Seed for a Song.
  • Miss Sophia M. Steese and Colonel Charles M. Steese (class of 1907) donated a collection of General James G. Steese's (class of 1902) papers to the College.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1958
Year
1958
Volume
35

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1958

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The dedication of the new Allison Methodist Church was scheduled for April 1958.
  • Dickinson appointed Dr. Henry L. Yeagley as head of the department of physics.
  • Attorney Katherine Smith Carpenter (class of 1925) became the first woman elected as President of the Lycoming County Law Association.
  • Dr. John H. Harris Jr. (class of 1948) invented an artificial chest for X-ray experimentation.
  • Dr. Ellsworth R. Browneller (class of 1945) became medical director of the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia.
  • Lewis F. Gayner (class of 1931) became manager of manufacturing of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Division of Continental Can Co., Inc.
  • Professor Charles C. Sellers reviewed Robert L. D. Davidson's (class of 1931) new book, War Comes to Quaker Pennsylvania.
  • Jane Lehmer Alexander (class of 1951) became the first women elected as President of the Borough Council of Dillsburg, PA.
  • General James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) died while on a trip to French Equatorial Africa. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1958
Year
1958
Volume
35

Dickinson Alumnus, December 1957

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President William Wilcox Edel (class of 1915) announced that he would retire in March 1959. President Edel was also appointed an Exchange Preacher by the Council of Churches of Christ.
  • Mathews House became a women's dormitory after renovations improved the heating system and the layout of the rooms.
  • Hershel E. Shortlidge Jr. (class of 1934) became the Real Estate Officer and head of the Real Estate Division of the Trust Department of Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank in Philadelphia.
  • Frederick W. Turner (class of 1935) became assistant vice president of the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank in New York City.
  • The Beta Theta Pi fraternity selected Sherwood M. Bonney (class of 1931) as their National President.
  • Fred A. Lumb (class of 1929) wrote a book on Insurance Agency Management called The What's of Agency Management.
  • Mary E. Hoover (class of 1907) and Charles M. Steese (class of 1907) reconnected during their 50th Reunion and were married at the Durbin Oratory in Old West in September 1957.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1957
Year
1957
Volume
35

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1957

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Helen Douglass Gallagher (class of 1926) became the first women alumni to serve on the Board of Trustees.
  • Dr. Joseph H. Engle (class of 1952) left for the Macha Mission in North Rhodesia, where he was the only medical doctor in the region.
  • James R. Shepley (class of 1939), head of the Time Inc. Washington news bureau, became chief of correspondents for the publishing company's U.S. and Canadian News Service.
  • C. Richard Stover (class of 1936) became the administrative head of the Carlisle Deposit Bank and the Trust Company.
  • Dr. William W. Betts Jr. (class of 1949), "Dickinson's latest TV star," became a full Professor of English at State Teachers College in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1957
Year
1957
Volume
35