Dickinson Alumnus, December 1953

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Several female students presented President William W. Edel (class of 1915) with the first donation for a proposed student activities building.
  • Mark E. Garber (class of 1919) was appointed as a judge in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
  • Mrs. Merle W. Allen donated a portrait of President James Buchanan (class of 1809), which was painted in 1859.
  • Rev. Dr. Asbury Smith (class of 1923) was appointed superintendent of the Washington West District of the Methodist Church.
  • Dr. John P. Milligan (class of 1926) was named as assistant New Jersey state education commissioner in charge of the Division Against Discrimination.
  • Professor Harold A. Weigel reviewed Dr. Erwin Wickert's new book, Dramatic Days in Hitler's Reich. Wickert was a German exchange student in 1935-1936.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1953
Year
1953
Volume
31

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1953

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Rev. Dr. F. LaMont Henninger (class of 1924) and Rev. D. Frederick Wertz (class of 1937) were appointed district superintendents of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference.
  • The Republic of Korea made trustee Frank E. Masland Jr. (class of 1918) an honorary citizen.
  • Dr. Francis R. Manlove (class of 1934) was appointed director of the University of Colorado Medical Center, in Denver, Colorado.
  • Leonard G. Hagner (class of 1915) was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Delaware by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • Clarence G. Warfield (class of 1915) was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1953
Year
1953
Volume
31

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1953

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumni Council recommended that the Board of Trustees allow women to serve as Trustees.
  • Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) compiled a list of Dickinsonians who served as judges in Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1953.
  • Joseph G. Hildenberger (class of 1933) was appointed as United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  • Dr. Paul R. Burkholder (class of 1924) received the Joseph Priestley Award for the discovery of chloromycetin.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1953
Year
1953
Volume
30

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1953

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Elvin R. Simmill (class of 1927) became Speaker of the House Assembly of New Jersey while Walter V. Edwards Jr. (class of 1938) was elected to the State Legislature of Arizona.
  • Dr. William E. Kerstetter (class of 1936) was appointed President of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
  • Judson L. Smith (class of 1939) became head of the Baltimore Agency of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S.
  • Lois Horn Silver  (class of 1927) enjoyed an "interesting and varied" business career after graduating from Dickinson. 
  • Trustee Boy Lee Spahr (class of 1900) donated letters from Presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison to the manuscript collection.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1953
Year
1953
Volume
30