Dickinson College

Joseph Priestley Chair of Natural Philosophy created by gift of William H. Baker and S. Walter Stauffer. Senior Alan M. Smith receives Andrew Mellon Fellowship from University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Katharine A. Bonney becomes Dean of Women. Campus Chest Drive is most successful yet. Library adopts new system for checking-out books. Gettysburg defeats men's lacrosse.

Student Senate requests its members declare their party affiliations. Dean of Contemporary American Poets Robert Lee Frost receives first Dickinson College Arts Award. Dean of Women Victoria Kathryn Hann resigns. Students extinguish fire in Gibbs House. Howard C. Long becomes physics professor.

Honor Code is not ratified in student election. Tuition is raised. Dickinson joins Institute for American Universities' Junior Year in France Program. Jack Yahraes (Action Party) is elected Student Senate president. Changes in rushing season and girls' hours discussed at Communications Committee meeting. Raphael Hays succeeds his father as tennis coach.

Creation of Honor Code will be put to student vote; proposed Honor Code is released. Action Party announces candidates and platform for 1959 Student Senate elections.

Candidates for Student Senate elections announced. United Party's platform. Dickinson Follies perform "Katy Did", a modern adaptation of "She Stoops to Conquer". Dickinson Aero Club plans to purchase second plane. Wrestling competes in Middle Atlantic States Wrestling Championships. Swimming places fourth at Middle Atlantic championships. Dean Frederic W. Ness speaks about recruiting faculty at meeting of the National Education Association's Association of Higher Education.

Parents Association plans to encourage informal faculty-student relations. Tension between Student Senate and college president and deans. Creation of college radio station considered. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, speaks in chapel. National Science Foundation awards large research grant to Dr. Barbara B. McDonald for study of protozoan nuclei. Mermaid Players plan show of Twelfth Night. Franklin & Marshall defeats men's basketball.

Willard F. Libby receives Priestley Memorial Award. Planetarium completed in Tome Scientific Building. Italian classes are reinstated. Education and Psychology department plans move from Church House to new Reed Hall. Seven memorial plaques dedicated in Durbin Oratory. Fraternities and Sororities announce 1959 pledge class. Phi Epsilon Pi adopts dog, Thumper. Dickinson joins National Defense Student Loan Program, receiving loans to give to students who plan to become science or mathematics teachers.

President William Edel consents to extended term. Admissions plans class of '63 to be smallest in many years. Fire in kitchen of Phi Epsilon Pi house. Student Senate questions faculty changes. Frank A. Miller becomes history instructor; Jacqueline Smith Olin becomes chemistry instructor. Men's swimming defeats Gettysburg. Professor William L. Taylor embarks on lecture tour of Near East and Far East on American way of life for State Department.

Foucault Pendulum constructed in Tome Scientific Building to demonstrate laws of physics. John Curley becomes Dickinsonian editor. Lee Sharpe breaks swim record.