1964

Faculty determines year-end awards; Phi Beta Kappa announces awards. Donation drive to Philander-Smith College yields 400 books. Debriefing of IFC weekend as seen from Drayer Hall girls. Publicity promotes college endowment fund. It is announced that 90 graduating seniors plan to continue school. Robert Nilsson and Ernest Giglio ear PhD's. Student Nick Langhart chosen as head of Microcosm. Honorary Degrees to be granted to C.D. Jackson, Newell Snow Booth, Marchette Chute, Whitfield J. Bell, Charles Law McCabe and Leslie Davison. President appoints new faculty members.

The annual spoof issue, The Drinkinsonian, tackles various aspects of college life in a satirical manner.

Inter-fraternity Council writes rules to be enforced next semester. Pi Delta Epsilon initiates 8 members. Three seniors - Virginia Compton, Keith Cohick and Susie Teller - admitted to Peace Corps. Students praise study plan but criticize restricted electives of recent academic revisions. Physics department awarded $20,000 from National Science Foundation for new equipment. Lacrosse team upsets Franklin & Marshall while golf team loses. Baseball team beats University of Pittsburgh to break nine game losing streak.

Eight juniors chosen for outstanding leadership by Omicron Delta Kappa. Project announced for college to raise $22 million by 1973. Endowment Fund receives national attention. Nine professors granted Sabbatical leaves. Baseball team falls to Western Maryland. Tennis team upsets Franklin and Marshall. Sigma Chi defeats Beta 23-4 in IF Softball.

Dean of Women Barbara Wishmeyer announces student counselor positions. Women vote toward establishing dormitory honor code. Dr. John E. Benson announced as chairman of chemistry department. Henry Whitman appointed Associate Dean of Admissions. Student Senate rewrites constitution. Baseball team loses to Lycoming, lacrosse team loses to Cantonsville. Track team beats Juniata.

Dean Samuel Magill explains faculty's adopted academic revisions. Eta Sigma Phi established. "The Mikado" to be performed. New Student Center is discussed. Singleton Sheaffer hired as security officer. WDCV begins FM broadcasting, is admitted to Intercollegiate Broadcasting System; station managers Jim Sharf, Mike Gerow, and Tom Tither spotlighted. Mermaid Players' to perform "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Dickinson College Follies perform. Text of academic study resolutions. Golf team hopes to finish season undefeated. Phi Delt expected to win IF volleyball crown.

Faculty approves "5-5-4-4" curriculum revision. James Brown to perform at Spring Social. Public Affairs Symposium to be held. Students debate U.S.-Vietnam relations. Anthropology and Sociology Club created. Sororities and fraternities focus attention on discrimination. Professors Merle F. Allshouse and George J. Allan advise campus organizations. WDCV plans to open in April. Senior John Taylor awarded Danforth Foundation fellowship. Students recruited for summer Civil Rights work in Mississippi. Lacrosse co-captain Doug McPherson discusses upcoming season.

Annual Priestley Day discussed. Musicians Anton Kuerti and Michael Tree to perform. President Howard Rubendall praises Dickinson Endowment Fund. Speaker H. L. Buurman of the Information Service of South Africa defends apartheid. Henry Steele Commager and William T.R. Fox to speak. Dr. Donald Gordon awarded grant. Louise Broujos begins teaching English at Dickinson. Food service Slater announces innovations for upcoming school year. Students debate Sino-American relations. Dave Waight leads in wrestling championship. Wrestler Joe Icenhower highlighted.

New endowment fund established for teaching humanities and social sciences. Faculty to hold closed meeting to determine whether the college should adopt the 5-5-4-4 system. IFC abandons idea of early rush as a solution to quadrangle housing problem. Al Markizon to run for chairman of the Model National Political Convention for PA. Omicron Delta Kappa taps three new members. Billie Brenn also to take part in the Crossroads Africa program sponsored by Project Africa. Anton Kuerti and Michael Tree to give concert.

Carol Sue Dry and Barry Warren chosen to participate in summer program Crossroad Africa sponsored by Project Africa. Dr. Isador Rabi named thirteenth winner of Priestley Award. "Measure for Measure" to be presented by the Mermaid Players as spring production beginning March 4th. Concern over filling fraternity quad buildings mounts as proposal to house affiliated and non-affiliated students is debated. Artur Lambo discusses situation with Mozambique and Portugal. Changes in academic system discussed. Dr. A. Rustow will participate in Public Affairs Symposium.

91 students named to Scholars' List. Paul Burtner wins student Senate presidency. Members of Carlisle NAACP and Faith and Society meet to discuss issues related to both groups. Discussions on possible cigarette ban to take place. Exchange student Artur Lambo discusses the situation in his home country of Mozambique. Housemother Emma Grubb discusses her career on campus. Professor George Edberg editing a collection Jose Milla's works. Report on hours and benefits of Bonisteel-Yeagley Observatory, which is located on the roof of Althouse. Dr. G.

Student Senate election campaigns under way with Larry Bayley, Paul Burtner and Angelo Romeo running for president. Tighter security introduced in the library as a checkpoint is set up. Bo Didley to perform for Valentine's Day. Lewis Fulton, national field director for Young Americans for Freedom, to appear on campus to discuss the merits of "Operation Abolition" at Public Affairs Symposium. Transfer students comment on transition to life at Dickinson. New sabbatical guidelines for professors to make personal research easier.

Chuck Libby named new editor-in-chief of Dickinsonian. Professor Joseph Schiffman chosen to be director of first American Studies Research Center in India. Committee formed by members of Board of Trustees, Alumni Council, faculty and students to discuss campus issues. R.J. Salomon, exchange French student from El Salvador, and Ismail Noaman, from the Aden protectorate, discuss their views on American society and Dickinson. Jewish Council to host special discussion series on J. A. Heschel's "A God in Search of Man." First Public Affairs Symposium to be held.

Students Committee for Better Architecture discuss new library with builders. Trustees to vote on voluntary worship program. Harmonic groups prepare Christmas performances. CORE silently pickets barber shop for equality. Dissatisfaction with Althouse architecture. John Lennon novel review. Dr. James Robinson criticizes on Afro-American relations negligence, Delta Phi Alpha initiates 13 new members. 1964-1965 art exhibits planned. Fraternities and sororities begin pledging. Dr. Sellers appraises Sansom Collection. Jarvis portrait of John Mason obtained. Dean invokes memorandum.

Conway Hall independents create social privileges dorm council. New Biology building to be built on old Kappa Sigma house site. Phi Beta Kappa plan faculty forums. IFC establishes individual house libraries. Physicist Walter C. Michels to receive Glover Medal. Plaque honoring "Uncle" Noah Pinkney.Faculty present "Faculty Frantics". Freshmen pledge Honor Code. Prof. Tuttle discusses Dickinson Changes. Prof. Flaherty extends study leave. Eighty-one freshmen try out for Freshman Plays. Jean-Pierre Grosclaude compares U.S. to Geneva. Fraternity and Sorority rush.

John Ciardi to visit and give lecture on poetry. Establishment of International Studies Center in Italy under direction of Prof. K. Robert Nilsson approved. Seven members of faculty tapped by Alpha Psi Omega. Faculty Arthur Murray themed talent show planned. Dickinson College Chorale presents "Renaissance to Broadway". Senate Constitution Revision Committee discuss purpose of student government. Presidential Election results discussed. Mermaid Players present "Our Town." Class of 1968 discuss Academic Honor System. Prof. Difford establishes Boy Scout Oceanography Merit Badge. Dr.

Mermaid Players present Thornton Wilder's "Our Town". Female students collect donations in fraternities and male dorms for the Dickinson Endowment Fund for the Teaching of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Four juniors will study in Washington D.C. for spring semester in conjunction with American University. The newly-founded Outing Club is profiled. Two million out of six million already raised in fundraising drive for Dickinson. Three students and one staff member are tapped by Pi Delta Epsilon for outstanding journalism.

This edition reports that the Military Ball and Parents' Day have been scheduled. The Military Ball will have an international theme. The Mermaid Players production of "Our Town" is reviewed. In the Mock Election, Johnson scored 66% of the vote to Goldwater's 34%. IFC pledges $150 to the Humanities Fund Drive. Professor Ferdinando Maurino continues his series on Spain. A new fitness program is announced. A display of Italian etchings opens in Bosler Hall. Indian student Romir Chatterjee is profiled. Dr.

James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, will speak October 29th. Events of homecoming are reported. Betty Kay Griesemer crowned Homecoming Queen.In preparation for the upcoming presidential election, a mock election will be held October 29th in the Student Union. Professor Allan I. Ludwig receives a grant for a new book about New England Puritan stone sculpture. The American Chemical Society has formed a chapter at Dickinson. Thirty-six seniors are currently working in an honors degree program. Professor Mac E. Barrick joins the Modern Language department.

Homecoming plans are announced, including a jazz concert. A public affairs symposium is planned for the spring, with the forum topic of "The Urbanization of the Country." A jazz mass is planned in the union's theater. The Mermaid Players will present "Our Town." Dr. Vytautas Kavolis is appointed to chair department of sociology and anthropology. A Classical Hebrew class is announced. Twelve transfer students are interviewed and have found happiness at Dickinson. Mr.

Twenty foreign students are welcomed and interviewed in this issue. Food service problems are discussed; a Dining Room Committee is formed. Award winning Russian film "A Summer to Remember" is screened at Bosler Hall. Professor Ferdinanco Maurino to give a series of lectures on Spain. Young Democrats and Young Republicans debate issues of the current U.S. presidential election. Local candidates for congress debate at the Social Hall. A new Independent Study curriculum is introduced. National Teacher exams to be held at Gettysburg College.

In this issue, changes in Student Union rules are announced. Three students-Billie Brenn, Barry Warren, and Carol Sue Dry spent eight weeks this past summer as part of Project Africa. IFC holds weekend workshop. Cultural Affairs program to begin season with a chamber music program. Students hold panel discussions on foreign study. Live programs are being transmitted to the Carlisle Theatre via "Electronovision." An article reports the history of Denny Hall. Bosler Hall to exhibit woodcuts by Dan Miller of Philadelphia. Compulsory chapel and assembly programs are debated.

College President Howard L. Rubendall opens 1964-1965 academic year at 192nd opening convocation. The complete text of his address is included in this issue. New student center opens. Students are "amazed" despite incomplete facilities. Rush regulations are reviewed. The freshman class is the largest in the history of the school with 452 freshman from 23 states and 6 foreign countries. An article gives advice to incoming freshman. A series of chapels is announced with the theme "Reflections on Freedom." The issue contains two pages of photos documenting recent changes in the campus.