Dickinson College

Tau Delta Pi holds farewell banquet for seniors; Elizabeth Keen, Helen Kretschmar, Edith Ann Lingle, Jane Treyz, and Jo Ann Wilson are initiated into Tau Delta Pi; Elinor Derr and Estelle Mumford become Tau Delta Pi officers. Phi Kappa Sigma and Zeta Tau Alpha hold spring formals. Wheel and Chain taps eight new members: Marion Bender, Edith Ann Lingle, Kathleen Briner, Elinor Derr, Goldie Kunkle, Jane Treyz, Doris Bacastow, and Catherine Stern. Second summer session to be held. President Fred P. Corson speaks at Easter Sunrise Service at Arlington National Cemetery.

Pan Hellenic dance held in the Beta House. Senior girls attempt to raise funds to buy a jeep for the cadets.

College purchases microphone for speech clinic. A Music Room/Speech Clinic is created in Old West. Eleven Dickinson students volunteer as Nurses' Aides at Carlisle Hospital. George Yuda, sophomore, is hospitalized due to chemical burns sustained in a Dickinson lab. Tome basement is cleared and partitioned into four laboratories and classrooms.

American Association of University Women hold a reception for senior girls. Pan-Hellenic Council to hold annual formal dance. The Dickinsonian loses its office and is relegated to the library.

Phi Epsilon Pi and Commons Club move into Theta Chi house to make room for Army cadets. Measles outbreak on campus. A Conference and Appointments Bureau is created to provide dates for Army cadets.

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.

The Dickinsonian resumes publication as a newsletter aimed at conveying the details of life at Dickinson to the Dickinsonians in military service. Army flight cadets attend Dickinson.

Army and Navy to send flight cadets to Dickinson for basic education. Victory Book Drive for the U.S.O. exceeds goal of one book per Dickinson student. Marjorie Barkman takes over as women's physical education instructor.

Theodore Strouse, Kathleen Briner, Nathaniel Yingling, Donald Ketels, Robert Curry, Clarence Nixon, James Tisdel, William Gale, Edith Ann Lingle, Robert Crist, and Charles Pratt, Jr. join Dickinsonian leadership. Dean E. A. Vuilleumier attends War Department's civilian protection school for training in gas protection. Skull and Key tapping ceremony.

Janet Respess is elected Mid-Winter Ball Queen. First January commencement ceremonies in Dickinson history to be held for wartime fast-track students. Stanley Wilson is elected president of Student Senate. Program of partial credit for partial semester completion adopted for those called to military service. Dramatic Club puts on "Campus Capers".