Sylvester Sadler was born in Carlisle on September 29, 1876, and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania before transferring to Yale like his older brother, Lewis. Unlike Lewis, however, Sylvester completed his studies at Yale with a batchelor's degree and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale, he was classmates with Clarence Day, Jr., later famous for Life With Father.

After leaving Yale in 1896, Sadler returned to Carlisle and entered the Dickinson School of Law. His father, County Judge Wilbur Fiske Sadler, had in 1890 revived the law school, dormant since the death of Judge John Reed. Wilbur Sadler served as president of the law school, while his old friend and former client, William Trickett, served as dean. Sylvester Sadler thrived under the pedantic bachelor Trickett, and upon earning his law degree, Sylvester Sadler joined the faculty of the school.

Birth:  April 14, 1834; Washington,Warren County, New Jersey

Death:  April 1, 1918 (age 83); Trenton, New Jersey

Military Service: USA, 1861-67

Unit: 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Division of III Corps, Volunteer Army, 3rd Corps Quartermaster

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1854)

James Fowler Rusling was the fifth of the seven children born to Geishom and Eliza Hankinson Rusling. He was prepared at the Pennington School and entered Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1852, joining the class of 1854. While there he studied the natural sciences and was a member of the Union Philosophical Society. He graduated with his class and immediately took up a teaching post at the Dickinson Williamsport Seminary, where he taught until 1857. He was admitted that year to the Pennsylvania bar and to the New Jersey bar in 1859 when he set up practice in Trenton.

Benjamin Rush was born to John and Susanna Harvey Rush on December 24, 1745. The family, which included seven children, lived on a plantation in Byberry, near Philadelphia. When Benjamin was five his father died, leaving his mother to care for the large family. At age eight the young boy was sent to live with an aunt and uncle so as to receive a proper education; he went on to study at the University of New Jersey (now Princeton) and received his bachelor's degree from that institution in 1760. Upon returning to Philadelphia, Rush studied medicine under Dr. John Redman from 1761 until 1766, at which time he departed for Scotland to finish his studies at the University of Edinburgh. Receiving his medical degree in June 1768, Rush traveled on to London to further his training at St. Thomas's Hospital; it was in London that Rush first encountered Benjamin Franklin.

Rush returned to Philadelphia in 1769 and started practicing medicine while also serving as the professor of chemistry at the College of Philadelphia. He wrote treatises on medical procedure, politics, and abolition, helping to found the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. His writings on the crisis brewing between the colonies and Britain brought him into associations with such leaders as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine. At the outbreak of war, Rush joined the continental army as a surgeon and physician.

David Rupp was born in Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Dickinson College Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and then spent two years at Lafayette College before returning to enroll at Dickinson College. He completed the Classical course in 1916 and went on to the Dickinson Law School. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

Rupp enlisted in 1917 and took his officer training course at Fort Niagara, New York. He was then assigned to Company C of the 313th Infantry, 79th Division, joining it at Fort Meade, Maryland. His unit left for France on January 13, 1918 and Second Lieutenant Rupp was killed in action on September 26, 1918.

Howard Rubendall was born on May 14, 1910 in Williamstown, Pennsylvania to Charles W. and Lottie Row Rubendall. He grew up in the small ferry town of Millersburg near Harrisburg and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1931. While at Dickinson he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity as well as the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society.

Following graduation Rubendall spent three years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1935, he resumed his studies at the Union Theological Seminary, from which he received his B.D. in 1937. He then began to work in the position of chaplain and chairman of the department of religion at the Hill School until 1941 when he became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York. In 1944, he served as the president of the Northfield Schools, which included the dual positions as the headmaster of Mount Hermon School for Boys and president of Northfield School for Girls in Northfield, Massachusetts. He served in this capacity for seventeen years.

Birth: 1822/23; Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Death:  1864

Military Service: USA, 1861-64

Unit: 26th Pennsylvania Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1845 non-graduate)

Albert Rowland came from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He prepared at the Dickinson Grammar School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1838 to 1839, but then took two years off before becoming a freshman in the College proper in the fall of 1841. Rowland’s student days did not last long as he retired from Dickinson in the spring of 1843; he had in that time become a member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society and had roomed in East College.

Rowland enlisted in the United States Army in 1861 and was killed sometime around 1864.

Birth: April 23, 1842; Newton County, Georgia

Death:  June 27, 1862 (age 20); Richmond, Virginia

Military Service: CSA, 1861-62

Unit: Company B of the First (Orr's) Rifles

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1863 non-graduate)

William C. Round was born on April 23, 1842 to Methodist minister George Hopkins Round and his wife Mary Louisa McCants Round in Newton County, Georgia where his father was serving. He grew up in Cokesburg, South Carolina. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1863 in the fall of 1860. There, he joined his brother George Fiske Round of the class of 1861. Like so many other young men of the time, he withdrew from Dickinson, returned home, and enlisted at Abbeville, South Carolina into Company B of the First (Orr's) Rifles in the service of the Confederate States Army in June 1861.

He served in the CSA until his death at the Battle of Gaine's Mill in Virginia on June 27, 1862. He is buried under the Confederate Monument in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. He was twenty years old.

Birth: January 5, 1840; Franklin, Newton County, Georgia

Death:  May 2, 1928 (age 88); Canyon City, Oregon

Military Service: CSA, 1861-65

Unit: 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; 208th Pennsylvania Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860 non-graduate); Wofford College

George F. Round was born on January 5, 1840 in Newton County, Georgia. He was the eldest son of Methodist minister George Hopkins Round and his wife, Mary Louisa McCants Round. Round grew up in Cokesburg, South Carolina. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1861. His brother, William Capers Round, joined him in the class of 1863. While at the College, George Round was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He did not finish his degree, however, for he withdrew from Dickinson and returned home when the war began.

Round enlisted in Company K (Spartan Rifles) of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteer Infantry in Spartanburg, South Carolina. How much fighting he saw personally is unclear, but the Fifth South Carolina was in action in some of the fiercest fighting of the war. They were in A.P. Hill's Division, then in Longstreet's, and at Gettysburg served as a part of Pickett's Division. The Fifth South Carolina ended the war at Appomattox Court House as a part of Bratton's Division.

Round's brother William did not survive the conflict.

A graduate of River Dell Regional High School near her home in Oradell, New Jersey, Marie Rossi entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1976 and graduated with her class of 1980 as a psychology major. While at the College she was an outstanding R.O.T.C. cadet.

Major Marie Rossi died at age thirty-two on March 1, 1991, when the Chinook helicopter she was piloting flew into an unlighted microwave tower in bad weather at night. The crash, which also claimed the lives of three others in her crew, took place near her base in northern Saudia Arabia the day after the Operation Desert Storm ceasefire had come into effect.

The unit Rossi commanded, Company B of the 159th Aviation Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, had been among the very first American units to cross into enemy-held territory and spent the pivotal days of the operation flying fuel and ammunition to the rapidly advancing 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. The United States Army remembered her sacrifice when it named in 1992 the new small-arms development and testing facility at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey the "Major Marie T. Rossi-Cayton Building Armament Technology Facility."

Major Rossi, the only Dickinsonian to perish in the first Gulf War, is buried in Arlington Cemetery, the only female casualty of the war so honored. Her simple epitaph there commemorates her pioneering sacrifice and reads "First Female Combat Commander To Fly into Battle."

 James Ross was born on May 18, 1743 in Oxford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Ross, a Scottish-Irish immigrant. He attended Princeton College, although there is no record of him graduating. He received a master’s degree from the College of Philadelphia in 1775, while serving as a tutor there, and later received an A.M. (au eundem) in 1818 from Princeton College.  In 1776 he was commissioned a captain in the Continental Army, a position he held until resigning in 1778. He also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Law from Allegheny College in 1823.