Dickinsonian, March 9, 1944
Red Cross War Fund Campaign to be held in Carlisle. Pan-Hellenic week scrapped due to war-time restrictions, with the exception of the Pan-Hellenic Dance.
Red Cross War Fund Campaign to be held in Carlisle. Pan-Hellenic week scrapped due to war-time restrictions, with the exception of the Pan-Hellenic Dance.
"A" students honored at banquet. Dickinson students and faculty exceed Red Cross fund-raising goals.
Red Cross War Fund Drive completed at Dickinson. List of doings of Dickinsonians in military service. Metzger Hall provides soldiers with female company. Anecdotes about soldiers at Dickinson.
Dr. Wilbur V. Mallalieli, former Red Cross captain, will speak before the Union Philosophical Society on the society's 150th anniversary. 25 students visit a Bethlehem Steel plant in Steelton, PA as part of Social Survey. A report composed by Dickinson delegates is adopted at the debate convention at Penn State. James W.
Red Cross Bloodmobile to visit campus. Religious Affairs Committee recommends that Student Senate play a larger role in organizing Religion In Life Week. New booths and menu items are added to Snack Bar. Sophomores win women's intramural basketball.
The Campus Chest drive opens with the goal of raising $3,000 to be distributed to six organizations. Seven students, including one woman, are elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. A survey of the African-American community in Carlisle shows as a whole they lack access to adequate housing and amenities and face significant racial discrimination. The Belles Lettres' Hornbook sells out only three hours after going on sale. Nominations for Queen of the Mid-Winter Ball are announced. A Red Cross lifesaving class is offered.
Pre-Law Society reforms into Dickinson Society of Law and Justice. Dickinsonians Advocating Resourcefulness with our Environment (DARE) expands recycling program to include computer paper. Junior Bill Gillet liaisons between Red Cross administration and swimming instructors.
A review of Commencement is given. Dr. Daniel R. Bechtel, chairman of the department of religion, receives the 1970 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Horace E. Rogers , senior member of the College faculty and the Alfred Victor duPont Professor of Analytical Chemistry, is elected president of the Dickinson chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The Red Cross campaigns to assist American POWs.