James Loenshal was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on August 17, 1923 and graduated from Hollidaysburg High School in 1941. He entered the College in the autumn with the class of 1945. He played on the basketball team and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was slated to join Skull and Key at the end of his sophomore year but by then he had already withdrawn to enlist in the Army Air Force, in February 1943.

Training as a pilot, Loenshal received his commission in Oklahoma in June 1944 and was posted to Italy and a B-24 squadron soon after. On a mission to bomb the Korneuburg oil refinery near Vienna, on February 7, 1945, the Liberator that Loenshal was co-piloting received a direct hit from enemy anti-aircraft artillery over Austria. Though initial reports from the squadron suggested that parachutes had been seen, official communications later confirmed that the aircraft had been seen to disintegrate in mid-air, changing his status from "missing in action" to "presumed dead." He was twenty-one years old.

Francis (Frank) Sutton Livingston was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 3, 1838. His father was William Townsend Livingston, an American merchant who arrived in the port city in that decade and settled into business as a shipper, wool factor, and merchant on Calle Victoria. Francis Livingston's mother was Elizabeth Louisa Lord Evans, the widow of English merchant John Evans. Livingston entered Dickinson College with the class of 1861. While at the College, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and was elected to the Belles Lettres Society. Livingston did not complete his program and left to study law in Albany, New York, his father's home city.

Joshua A. Lippincott was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on January 31, 1835 to Crispin and Elizabeth Garwood Lippincott. He prepared for college at the Pennington Seminary and enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1855, along with his older half-brother, Benjamin Crispin Lippincott. While at the college, Joshua Lippincott was elected to the Belles Lettres Society. He graduated with his class and his brother in the early summer of 1858.

Lippincott immediately took up a post at his old school and remained at Pennington Seminary teaching mathematics and German until 1862. At that time, he became a high school principal and superintendent of schools in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Lippincott then moved on to Trenton, New Jersey in 1865 to become principal of the boy's section of the New Jersey State Model School there. He moved again in 1869 to teach school in Baltimore, Maryland for three years.

Benjamin Lippincott was born the elder son of Crispin Lippincott and his first wife, Mary Ann Wilkins Lippincott, in Haddonfield, New Jersey on July 22, 1827. He prepared for college at the nearby Methodist-affiliated Pennington School. In 1855, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania along with his half-brother Joshua Allan Lippincott. Benjamin was elected as a member of the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with his class in 1858. He then studied to become a Methodist clergyman.

Soon after graduation, Lippincott served as the principal of the Cumberland Institute in nearby Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He then moved to the West, where in 1860 he became head of the growing Puget Sound Wesleyan Institute in Olympia, Washington. Founded by local Methodists, the school was well-supported and was on the verge of being funded as a university when the Civil War halted proceedings. The territorial legislature instead elected Lippincott the superintendent of public schools for the entire territory. His later career is largely undocumented by available records. It is known that Lippincott returned to New Jersey by the end of his life. He also served on the Dickinson College board of trustees, once again along with his brother, for more than a decade beginning in 1891.

Mary Line Todd was born on June 15, 1897 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She attended the Peabody Conservatory, where she joined Chi Omega, and later became a teacher in the Carlisle School District. On June 6, 1950, she married Glenn E. Todd, a prominent Carlisle businessman as well as a graduate and trustee of Dickinson College, where she was employed in the College Bookstore. She worked as head of the College Bookstore, which was then located in the basement of the Alumni Gymnasium, from 1948 until 1954. She was also a life member of the General Alumni Association at Dickinson.

The Todds were prominent in the Carlisle community. In addition to her husband's many and varied activities, Mary Todd attended the First United Church of Christ and became a member of the Mary Dickinson Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Carlisle Hospital Auxiliary. In 1972, she and her husband donated $100,000 towards a total pledge of $400,000 in order to endow the Glenn E. and Mary L. Todd Chair. On July 4 of the following year, her husband passed away, and less than three months later, on September 23, 1973, Mary Todd died at Carlisle Hospital.

Donald Liggitt was from York, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from William Penn High School. He entered the College in 1941 but enlisted in the Army Air Corps in the autumn of 1942.

He attended officer candidate school in Florida and after service in North Carolina, he served in Europe during the march on Berlin. He returned to the United States in October 1945 and was stationed at Randolph Field in Texas as an assistant judge advocate.

On May 7, 1946, Captain Liggitt was among five men killed in the crash of a bomber in Louisiana.

John H. Lease was born in Newport, Pennsylvania to John and Christina Lease on July 5, 1832. He prepared for college at the Pennington School in New Jersey, then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, just thirty miles from his home. Lease graduated with his class in the early summer of 1858 and took up studies in the Methodist faith.

Lease also taught, in addition to studying religion. In 1862, he was professor and principal of a small college called Union Seminary in New Berlin, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1856, the school later became Central Pennsylvania College and merged with Albright College in 1902. Lease moved on in 1864 to become a professor at the new Pennsylvania Agricultural College in Centre County, later Pennsylvania State University. He worked there briefly before teaching for five years at North Western College in Illinois between 1865 and 1870. Lease then turned his attentions to preaching. In 1872 he joined the St. Louis Conference of the Methodist Church and moved on to the Cincinnati Conference in 1875. Lease served for some years as the pastor of a church in Wilmington, Ohio and another in Bethany. He remained in the state for the remainder of his days. In 1884, Lease received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Bucknell University.

Marion Dexter Learned was born on July 10, 1857, near Dover, Delaware, the son of Hervey and Mary Learned. Learned's family was of early English and Welsh colonial background. He prepared for college at the Wilmington Conference Academy, and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1880. While studying languages at the College, he was a member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society.

Benjamin Latrobe was born in Fulneck, England on May 1, 1764. His father, also named Benjamin, was a Moravian and ran a school in Fulneck that attracted pupils from as far away as the American Colonies. The elder Benjamin married one of his pupils, Anna Margaret Antes from Germantown, Pennsylvania. The couple's third child, Benjamin Henry, studied in England and later in Germany, where family legend holds that he served in the Prussian cavalry. He returned to England in 1786 and began his study of architecture under Samuel Pepys Cockerel - then championing the Greek revival - and engineering under John Smeaton. Latrobe began his own practice soon after and made impressive professional headway with his appointment as surveyor of the police office in London. He married Lydia Sellon in 1790 and the couple had two children, Henry and Lydia. His wife's death during childbirth in 1793 caused Latrobe to suffer a breakdown that ultimately led him to emigrate to Virginia.

William Carr Lane was born on a farm in Fayette County, Pennsylvania on December 1, 1789. He attended Jefferson College and then went on to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1812. He left to study medicine in Kentucky, at Louisville.

He served in the War of 1812 as a surgeon's mate and then went to the University of Pennsylvania for further studies in medicine. He served again in the army, as post surgeon at Fort Harrison, under General Zachary Taylor, and then in a similar post at Fort Bellefontaine in Missouri in 1818. He resigned the following year to take up a medical partnership in St. Louis. On April 5, 1823, Lane was elected as the first mayor of the newly incorporated city of 4000 people. He handled the laying out of the city's infrastructure particularly well, and the citizenry re-elected him seven times in two tenures, 1823-1829 and 1837-1840. He served as a Democrat for a session in the state legislature in 1826, although he failed in his bid to represent Missouri in the U.S. Congress.