Dickinson Alumnus, December 1944

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Trustees appointed Professor Cornelius William Prettyman (class of 1891) as the 21st President.
  • Fighter pilot Capt. Samuel F. Hepford (class of 1940) returned home to Pennsylvania on leave after 150 mission against Japan.
  • Several alumni were killed in action, including Major John Owing Cockey Jr. (class of 1940), Lt. Norman C. Watkins Jr. (class of 1944), and First Lieutenant John W. Ell (class of 1940).
  • Clayton G. Going (class of 1937) published Dogs at War, which described the activities of "America's first war dog army. "
  • Thelma M. Smith (class of 1935), a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, published "Feminism in Philadelphia, 1790-1850" in the July issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1944
Year
1944
Volume
22
People
Prettyman, Cornelius William
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World War II

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1944

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Trustees appointed Professor Cornelius William Prettyman (class of 1891) as Acting President after President Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) resigned following his election as a Bishop of the Methodist Church.
  • The College rented the new Phi Delta Theta fraternity house for use as an additional dormitory for women.
  • Corporal Walter H. Marshal (class of 1943) died after the USS Hamilton, a transport ship, was sunk by enemy action in the Mediterranean. Lt. Jack Bright Spangenburg (class of 1939) was killed in action in Italy.
  • Staff sergeant Charles Walter Benner (class of 1944), who had been reported as missing in action, was actually a prisoner of war in Germany.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Richard H. Ellis (class of 1941) honored after completing 150 combat missions in the South Pacific. The Alumnus reprinted an article from Cosmopolitan that focused on Lt. Col. Ellis ("No Peace in These Skies" by Lee Van Atta).
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1944
Year
1944
Volume
22
People
Prettyman, Cornelius William
Corson, Fred Pierce
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World War II

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1944

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Lieutenant Harry Rees Jones (Class of 1941) was killed when his plane crashed in Alaska.
  • Lieutenant Calvin S. Dopp (class of 1945) received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Lieutenant John E. Dale Jr. (class of 1940) was awarded a Presidential citation posthumously.
  • Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) reviewed the past ten years of President Fred P. Corson's (class of 1917) administration in "A Review of Ten Years (1934-1944)."
  • Alumni who were members of the Delaware Club announced plans to donate a portrait of Delaware Chief Justice Charles B. Lore (class of 1852).
  • The Alumnus published excerpts of letters from several alumni serving overseas, including one from Whitfield J. Bell Jr. (class of 1935).
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1944
Year
1944
Volume
21
People
Jones, Harry Rees
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World War II

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1944

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumnus published photographs of the Army aviation students studying in Tome Hall and their barracks in East College and Conway Hall. Campus had changed "as attention was divided between the 32nd College Training Detachment and the liberal arts college."
  • The US Army Air Corps announced that the training of cadets at Dickinson would end by June 1.
  • Reverend Bishop Francis John McConnell delivered three addresses on the subject of "The Ancient Greeks and Their Modern Messages" as part of the James Henry Morgan Lecture series.
  • The body of Lieutenant Robert A. Walsh (class of 1941), who had been reported missing since a flight from India to China in May 1943, was found in Burma. 
  • The Alumnus published excerpts of letters from several alumni serving overseas.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1944
Year
1944
Volume
21
Organizations
32nd College Training Detachment
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World War II