Austin Armitstead elected Junior class president. Panhellenic Council places four-month ban on social activities on Chi Omega sorority for breaking rushing rules. Dickinson defeats Allegheny in last football game of season.
Robert Crist is elected senior class president, James Yingling vice-president, Barbara Macy secretary, and David Berner treasurer. Robert G. Crist is also elected president of Union Philosophical Society. President Edel returns responsibility for drawing up the student budget to the senate's finance committee. Joseph Nagy elected president of Athletic Association. Dickinson defeats Western Maryland in Homecoming game.
Dickinson raises over $700 for the Community Chest Drive, falling short of $1,000 goal. Homecoming is planned.
Faculty vote to require all students to receive influenza vaccinations. German Club opens membership to German students of all levels. First Homecoming since 1941 is planned.
William W. Edel is inaugurated college president. Athletic Board of Control continues in its policy not to play against Gettysburg. Earl Hee-Edward Seiber is elected president of German Club.
Students to participate in a march in honor of Edel's Inauguration. Student Senate plans Homecoming weekend. Half of student body are present due to the G.I. Bill of Rights.
Inauguration of President William Wilcox Edel is planned. Former president C. William Prettyman dies from cardiovascular disease. Helen B. Norcross becomes dean of women. The Commons in the old gymnasium and the chemistry laboratory in the Tome Scientific Building are remodeled. Warren Spencer is elected Student Senate president. Sara Andrews becomes Student Senate secretary. John Alder Myers is elected Student Senate treasurer.
Mary Dickinson Club adopts long-range plan to establish music department at Dickinson. Dickinson Christian Service project begins, is trip to give worship and recreational programs Grace Methodist Church in Altoona. Amendment to Student Senate constitution concerning delegates is to be put to student vote. Trustee Frank E. Masland, Jr., donates mace to college.
The Little Theater to present Othello. Thieves steal historic rug from Alpha Chi Rho house then return it.
Warren J. Gates, Rose Bartsch, Thayer Addison, and Marian R. Memory join faculty. Charles H. B. "Chick" Kennedy, head of physical education department and director of athletics, dies. Class of 1955 is largest ever admitted at 256 students; their home states and countries are listed. E. A. Vuilleumier becomes chairman of Southeastern Pennsylvania section of American Chemical Society. John Hopper, '48, is new basketball coach. History Professor John Pflaum encourages students to visit Europe.