Dickinson Alumnus, December 1947

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees adopted a new Faculty salary schedule. 
  • The Alumnus highlighted the Baird Biology Building and the accomplishments of the science faculty.
  • Four Dickinsonians were elected as judges and district attorneys in Pennsylvania.
  • The Trustees selected "South College" as the name for the new recreation and class room building under construction behind the Alumni Gymnasium.
  • Colonel William A. Ganoe (class of 1902) was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by King George VI for his work with the British-American Liaison Board during the Second World War.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1947
Year
1947
Volume
25

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1947

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Bishop Fred Pierce Corson (class of 1917), former President of Dickinson, was appointed by the Secretary of War to a clergy commission charged with inspecting the United States' occupation activities in Europe.
  • Morris E. Swartz (class of 1923) described how a popular Methodist Hymn (No. 245) was composed in Carlisle.
  • Benjamin D. James (class of 1934) was appointed Dean of the freshmen class and Director of Admissions. 
  • The College planned to build a new recreation and class room building located behind the Alumni Gymnasium.
  • Rev. Howell O. Wilkins (class of 1944) attended the Second World Conference of Christian Youth in Norway and the first Youth Department of the World Council of Churches in Sweden.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1947
Year
1947
Volume
25

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1947

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Hundreds of books and manuscripts collected by Professor Charles Francis Himes (Class of 1855) were donated to the College.
  • Dr. Russell I. Thompson (class of 1920) became Dean of College.
  • The College campus was formally named the "John Dickinson Campus." 
  • The Alumnus published Professor Alpheus T. Mason's (class of 1920) address on Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.  
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1947
Year
1947
Volume
24

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1947

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Gilbert Malcolm (class of 1915) was appointed Vice-President of Dickinson College. 
  • Renovations to lecture rooms and laboratories in the Tome Scientific Building were completed. 
  • Edwin W. Thompkins (class of 1925) was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. 
  • George S. Williams (class of 1900) was appointed to the Senate Civil Service Committee.
  • The College established a new Russian Studies program. 
  • The Carlisle Gazette published a poem about President Charles Nisbet's health in March 1786.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1947
Year
1947
Volume
24
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