A political science graduate of the class of 1967 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Paul Neely served as a sophomore member of the Student Senate, was the president of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and played three years on the lacrosse team.

Neely was drafted in November 1967 and went to Vietnam in 1968 as a sergeant with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. He died in Vietnam on April 27, 1969 from wounds he had suffered a day earlier.

Franklin Mount Pleasant was born on the Tuscarora reservation near Niagara Falls, New York in 1884. He entered the Carlisle Industrial (Indian) School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1904, and during his three full years there he distinguished himself as an outstanding football player and an accomplished pianist. He played quarterback in 1905 and left halfback in 1906 and 1907. With men like Mount Pleasant and the famous Jim Thorpe, it was little surprise that the Carlisle Indians teams of these years were legendary. (The "Pop" Warner coached Indians did not give up any points at home between 1901 and 1908.) While a member of the Carlisle Industrial student body, Mount Pleasant attended classes at the Dickinson Preparatory School and was able to enroll in the College in 1908 as a member of the class of 1910.

Mary Moser was a 1972 graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, majoring in Latin. She won the Mervin Grant Filler Memorial Prize in classical languages and was named Outstanding Senior Woman.

After such diverse positions as assistant director of admissions at Dickinson to administrator of the American Research Institute in Turkey, she went on to graduate school in classical archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in 1982.

She returned to Dickinson's classical studies department in 1982 as an assistant professor teaching Latin and Greek. For fourteen years, she was a teacher both on campus and in study abroad endeavors in Italy and Britain, along the way winning the Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching and the Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching.

On June 27, 1996, Mary Moser died in Carlisle following a long and valiant battle against cancer.

May Morris was born to William Wilkinson and Mary Lutner Collison Morris on June 29, 1886 in Greenwood, Delaware. The Morris family had been occupying an estate there, known as "Morris’ Pleasure," since before the American Revolution. Morris enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1909. She was awarded a degree from the Pratt Institute of Library Science in Brooklyn, New York in 1917. She then began to work in the library at Bryn Mawr College, remaining there for ten years.

Morris then returned to her alma mater to begin her tenure as librarian in 1927. Under her management, the library grew significantly through the years. An intelligent, quiet, and tactful professional, she brought the College Library from rather inadequate resources, both in materials and in space, to a respectable library which well supported the college curriculum of the day. Her concern for preserving the College's past led her to begin to develop a collection of "Dickinsoniana," and these efforts directly influenced the appointment of a curator of the collection, Charles Colman Sellers and the establishment of the Archives and Special Collections department years later. A mark of Morris' success is the fact that the college library doubled its holdings during her tenure, and the annual budget increased more than eight times.

James Henry Morgan was born on a farm near Concord in southern Delaware on January 21, 1857. He prepared at Rugby Academy and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1874 as one of a freshman class of sixteen students. He elected to take the Scientific Course, became a leading debater with the Union Philosophical Society, and sat on the editorial board of the Dickinsonian. He won the Pierson Gold Medal for Oratory as a junior and gave the Latin Salutory at his commencement in 1878.

Following graduation, he taught at the Pennington School and at his old school of Rugby, before being named in 1882 to head the Dickinson Preparatory School. Soon after, he joined the faculty as an adjunct professor of Greek. He was librarian from 1893 to 1900, consolidating the three College collections into Bosler Hall. In 1890 he was promoted to full professor and also married Mary Curran, an alumna of 1888. He received an honorary doctorate from Bucknell in 1892 and entered the Methodist ministry in 1895. Beginning in 1903 he was the dean of the College under Presidents George Reed and Eugene Noble.

Johnston Moore was born on September 8, 1809 at Mooredale in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania the only survivor of two sons of James and Nancy Johnston Moore. The Moore family was one of the oldest and largest landed proprietors in the county, a forebearer purchasing several thousand acres on the Yellow Breeches Creek from John Penn in 1780. Johnson's parents both died at an early age and he lived with an aunt near Greencastle and then with his guardian, Andrew Carothers, in Carlisle while he attended Dickinson College. He entered in 1825 with the class of 1829 but withdrew in 1827 when eighteen years years old. According to minutes of faculty meetings, however, Moore continued to socialize with his friends on the campus across High Street; in August 1828 he was officially expelled and banned from the campus after abusing College officers and generally causing a nuisance. Eventually, he took control of his family holdings and embarked on a long career of land management in the county. 

John Montgomery was born in 1727 in Ireland and came to America as a teenager, settling in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Among the citizens of Carlisle, Montgomery was well-known as a man of many talents. Over the years he served variously as a storekeeper, farmer, soldier, lawyer, judge, and a politician. He gained respect as an heroic Indian fighter along the western frontier during the French and Indian Wars of the 1750s. Shortly thereafter he was elected sheriff of Cumberland County, the first of many local responsibilities with which he would be entrusted throughout his life.

Although advancing in age, Montgomery did not hesitate to uphold his patriotic duty during the Revolution. Attaining the rank of colonel, he fought with Robert Magaw at the Battle of Long Island and was captured at the surrender of Fort Washington. Within months, Montgomery was released and returned to Carlisle and became involved with the political scene. He was appointed to the Council of Safety and later became a member of both the state legislature and Congress.

John F. Mohler was born on a farm near Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania on October 30, 1864, one five children of Samuel and Elizabeth Williams Mohler. He was educated at the local common schools where he also assisted with teaching in order to help fund his higher education. He entered Dickinson College in nearby Carlisle in December 1883 and graduated with the class of 1887 as its valedictorian. While at the College he became one of the first students elected to the new chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and was active in the Belle Lettres Society.

Following his graduation, Mohler taught mathematics and science for three years at the Wilmington Conference Academy in Dover, Delaware, then, from 1890 to 1894, at the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He then broke from his career to enroll in a Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University, serving also as an assistant in astronomy and a fellow in physics. With his doctorate secured, Mohler returned to Dickinson College in 1896 as professor of physics. There he remained for the rest of his career becoming a respected author in the sciences and a remarkably admired teacher. The Dickinson Scientific Club, founded in 1867, was renamed the Mohler Society in his honor at his retirement and freshmen prizes in physics carry his name to this day.

Montagu Frank Modder, Visiting Professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for the 1957-1958 academic year, was born on November 24, 1891 in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where his father served as a Chief Justice for the British Government. Modder received his undergraduate education from the Royal College in Ceylon and Springfield College in Massachusetts. In the midst of his studies also served with the British armed forces in the First World War. Modder went on to receive advanced degrees from Clark University (M.A.) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.), and pursued additional graduate studies at Yale University and at Cambridge and Oxford in England.

Modder taught for five years as Professor of English at Miami (Ohio) University. He also taught at West Virginia University and the University of Michigan, although the majority of his teaching years were spent at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he was a member of the faculty for twenty-two years (1935-1957).

George W. Mitchell was born in Perry Valley, Perry County, Pennsylvania to William and Alice McBlair Mitchell. He grew up in Juniata Township, attending school there and at the Bloomfield Academy. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1859 and became a member of the Belles Lettres Society, but left Dickinson to study medicine with Dr. Robert C. Brown of Newport, Pennsylvania. Mitchell subsequently graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in March 1860.

Mitchell returned to Newport to practice and then moved farther west in the county to set up in Andersonburg. He enlisted on February 14, 1863 as assistant surgeon in the 119th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, "The Gray Reserves," then heavily involved with the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. As one of two or three trained medical personnel in the regiment, Mitchell saw heavy duty when his regiment fought at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and in the Shenandoah Campaign. He mustered out with the 119th on June 19, 1865 and returned to his practice in Andersonburg. Mitchell worked there as a family physician until 1903, when he joined his family in Alliance, Nebraska where they had settled.