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".
Robert T. Wheeler is elected president of Beta Theta Pi. Twenty-one students sworn into Navy. Dickinson receives fifty-thousand dollars from Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers' will. Doll Dance is planned.
Doll Dance is planned with patriotic theme. Dr. Montgomery Porter Sellers, oldest Dickinson faculty member, dies. Colonel Alexander A. Sharp, '83, donor, dies. Phi Epsilon Pi wins intramural volleyball tournament.
Honors Work program is reorganized. Dickinson Defense Council prepares for blackout drills. An Interfraternity Council is formed for the second time.
Dr. Gaither P. Warfield, '17, gives talks on his experiences of German concentration camps. Austin Grugan, Martin Helrich, Harold Gould, and William Rudy join Lambda Sigma Pi, science honor society. Jean Lentz is first female member of college band. Kay Price is first Dickinson drum majorette. Homecoming and Parent's Day.
John J. Ketterer is elected vice president of senior class. Metzger Council is reorganized into three councils, headed by Mary Mackie: the Senior House Council, the Metzger Hall Council, and the Freshman Annex Council. Campus Chest Drive exceeds expected revenue.
The Freshman Annex (formerly the Parker House) on S Hanover St opens to house twelve female students. Colonel Henry E. Smith, John C. Hepler, Dr. Bernice K. Grubb, Charles H. B. Kennedy, and Jane L. Evans join faculty. Dr. Elmer C. Herber publishes two papers on parasitology. Professor Horace E. Rogers leads Community Chest drive; changes to the way the drive is performed. Robert S. Whitman, Jr., '38, dies at Battle of Midway; Calvert S. Foote, '44, is MIA. Football team is largest in Dickinson history. The Navy V-1 Plan is established at Dickinson.
Class Day is planned. Commencement is planned. Rising Sophomore John Burnite is selected to spend summer at German student labor camp. YMCA and YWCA are replaced with Dickinson College Religious Association. Interfraternity Council denies Phi Epsilon Pi and Sigma Tau Phi's requests to join. Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society unite to form Union Literary Society. Dramatic Club presents "The Fugitive". Summary of men's basketball, men's cross-country and men's tennis seasons.
Men's Senate holds elections and revises freshman rules. Track places second in Central Pennsylvania Conference Class A track and field meet.