Alumni

Several early Phi Kappa Sigma members pose for a photo on the steps of West College during a reunion around 1895.

Horatio Collins King ('58) is sitting on the front step. Other alumni include Professor Charles Francis Himes ('55), John Tucker ('55), and James Watters ('56).

Professor of Ancient Languages Henry Martyn Harman (Class of 1848) in December 1895.

Mervin Grant Filler is a member of the Class of 1893.

Horatio Collins King is a member of the Class of 1858.

Professor William Lambert Gooding is a member of the Class of 1874.

Edward Weidenhamer, a member of the Class of 1896, on January 16, 1899.

Trustee Edward William Biddle is a member of the Class of 1870.

John Marvin Colaw is a member of the Class of 1882.

A group of 22 male Dickinson students and faculty, possibly either the Belles Lettres Society or Beta Theta Pi, around 1900.

Front Row: [unknown] ; Rev. James Harper Black ('73) ; Professor Cornelius Prettyman ('91) ; Professor Ovando Super ('73) ; [unknown] ; Professor William Gooding ('74) ; [unknown]

Col. Frank R. Keefer is a member of the Class of 1885.

View as Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) sits with her husband Amos Straw and daughter Enid at York Beach in 1900. 

View of Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) after the birth of her daughter Enid Straw in 1900. 

View of Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) with her husband Amos Gale Straw and her parents William Longsdorff (Class of 1856) and Lydia Longsdorff.

View as Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) holds her daughter Enid Straw in a nursery in 1900.

Zatae Longsdorff Straw is a member of the Class of 1887. She was the first female graduate of the College.

View as Mary M. Himes ('89) and Anna M. Himes ('1900) stand outside the Tome Scientific Building around 1900.

Current and past members of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity around 1900:

1. Prof Edgar R. Heckman ‘97

2. Raymond Newman Hockenberry ‘99

3. Thomas Leonard Hoover ‘00

4. Bertrand L. Chapman ‘02

5. James Garfield Steese ‘02

6. Duncan Mervyn Graham ‘73

7. "Bottomley"

8. Dr. Charles Francis Himes ‘55

9. Harry J. Sondheim ‘99

10. Dorsey Newton Miller ‘01

11. Herman Bosler Biddle ‘03

12. Thomas “Dick” Moorehead Whiteman ‘99

13. George Willis Mitchell ‘95

14. “Little” Thomas Jones, ‘01

15. Dr. Ovando Byron Super ’73, Professor of Romance Languages

16. Eugene Foster Heller ‘04

17. Boyd Lee Spahr ’00

18. James Edward Belt ‘03

19. Myron Beshler Hockenberry ‘02

20. “Capt.” Forrest Eugene Craver ’99, Greek and Latin instructor Dickinson Preparatory

21. Paul T. Collins ‘03

22. John Ellsworth Beard ‘01

Members of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and their friends around 1900.

Top Row, Left to Right: Mary Hepburn, Virg McIntire, Rose McKeehan, Clurie McKeehan, Toots Haddock

Bottom Row: [unknown], Herman Bosler Biddle '03, Eugene Foster Heller '04, William "Billy" Wooster '00, Edgar R. Heckman '97

Though unlabeled, this photo may be a scene from May 28, 1900, when Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855; standing behind the gentleman wearing a hat and operating the larger camera), travelled with his wife Mary, and his two daughters, Mary and Anna, to Virginia Beach to observe a solar eclipse. The man operating the camera might be Dr. Kennelly of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering, who travelled with them.

Men from the Class of 1885 enjoy wearing top hats at their reunion c.1900.

View of John Franklin Goucher (Class of 1868) in fall 1901.

The Belles Lettres Society outside of Denny Hall in 1902.

Professor Charles F. Himes ('55) is sitting with other members of the faculty in the front row. 

Members of the Belles Lettres Society pose for a group photograph with Dick the Dog in 1902.

Professor Charles F. Himes ('55) is sitting with other members of the faculty in the front row. 

View as eight men sit on a porch at the Class of 1878 Reunion in 1903.

Formal portrait of Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) and her daughter Enid in 1904.