Dickinson College

James Arnold, Robert Crow, Richard Eisenhour, Larry Lichtenstein, and John Shumaker are tapped to join Omicron Delta Kappa, nationla leadership honorary society; meanwhile, nine sophomores are chosen to join the Skull and Key Society. Asa W. Climenhaga is hired to replace Raymond P.G. Bowman as College Resistrar, so that the latter, also a psychology professor, can teach full-time. Dr. Rowland R. Lehman is hired to the newly-created post of Assistant to the President for Duties in Connection with Alumni.

The annual spoof issue, The Drinkinsonian, tackles various aspects of college life in a satirical manner.

Head Football Coach Ralph Ricker resigns his position to take a job at Lebanon Valley College. The Mermaid Players' third production of the season, The Tempest, opens at Metzger Hall. Jane Lehmer, member of the Debate Team, is named "Gavel Girl of Pennsylvania" at the annual all-state debate competition. The weather vane stolen from South College is returned.

The 1950 Chest Drive, sponsored by the Interfaith Council and aimed to support six charities, kicks off. Students are asked to pledge $3.00 apiece, the ultimate goal being $3,000 in donations. A group of pranksters steals the hand-made weather vane from South College's under-construction cupola. Mauricio Nabuco, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, invites a group of Dickinson students to visit the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC. Aplha Chi Ro wins the Interfraternity Weekend Trophy for best skit and singing performance the previous weekend.

The Red Devils basketball team ends its highly successful season with an 80-68 victory over Bucknell. A fire breaks out at the Phi Kappa Psi house, requiring the Fire Department to visit twice but ultimately damaging little beyond the stove it started in. Professors Ernest A. Vuilleumier and William L. Taylor earn entries in the new book "Who Knows and What," a listing of experts and their subjects.

Plans for the D Club Dance, to be held the night after this publication, and for Interfraternity Weekend, to be held a week later, are made. Dr. Milton E. Flower opens a new art exhibit in Bosler Hall, titled "Is Picasso Mad?" President WIlliam W. Edel gives a talk on the early history of the college, while Professor Daniel A. Zarat is invited to speak at a conference on teaching foreign languages at the University of Kentucky.

In a surprise upset, the Red Devils basketball team defeats a top-notch Gettysburg squad 66-51. Dean Amos B. Horlacher, after attending a conference to discuss low grades among fraternity members, returns to campus to address dismal performance in the previous week's campus-wide fire drills. Elizabeth A. Low donates a large monetary sum as well as a picket from the white fence that once surrounded campus; most of the other pickets were used for an 1891 Halloween bonfire that turned riotous after the Carlisle Fire Department hosed students instead of the flames.

Richard A. Campbell, Warren F. Coolidge, Janet C. Elder, Arthur C. Flandreau, William I. Mudd, Jr., Bruce R. Rehr, and Eleanor L. Uhland (all '50) are elected to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary scholastic fraternity. Dean Russell I. Thompson announces the names of the students on the Dean's List; thirteen seniors, six juniors, seven sophomores, and five freshman attained the highest honor, with a GPA of 3.75 or above. Lois Price, Frank Fry, John Laudermilch, Ralph Masten, and Alvin Rojohn are selected to participate in the 1950 Pennsylvania All-State College Band festival.

Harriet Lane '53 is elected Mid-Winter Ball Queen; Mary Ellen Dykstra '52 is elected Maid of Honor. Religion In Life week is set to open on Sunday, February 12 with an address from key-note speaker Rev. Miles DePagter. The Mermaid Players announce the commencement of production for a performance of Shakespeare's Tempest.

Reverends Miles DePagter and Alson J. Smith, as well as Professors Earl H. Furgeson and William R. Barnhart, are announced as the primary speakers during Religion in Life Week, scheduled for February 12 through the 16th. Bob Barron and his orchestra, "America's Favorite College Band," are hired to perform at the Mid-Winter Ball, scheduled for the following weekend. Gordon Baum, Richard Hicks, and Mary Ann Spence, members of the College Glee Club, are selected to represent Dickinson in the first post-war concert and forum of the Intercollegiate Choir of Pennsylvania.