George Tankard Garrison was born the son of James R. Garrison and Susan P. Tankard Garrison in Accomac County on Virginia's "eastern shore" on January 14, 1835. He enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1854. A popular student, he was a member of the notorious Zeta Psi fraternity forced to disband in 1853. He walked with a limp since childhood and used a cane. He graduated with his class and entered the University of Virginia Law School and graduated there in 1857.

He opened a practice in his home county but on the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate armed forces as a private, despite his disability. His main service to his home state during the war came as a legislator, though, since he was elected to the house of delegates and served there between 1861 and 1863. He then was a member of the state senate from 1863 to the end of the war. Just after the war, from May 1865, he briefly represented Captain Richard B. Winder, accused and imprisoned for war crimes at Andersonville Prison. In the elevated atmosphere following Lincoln's murder and the revelations over the treatment of Union prisoners in Confederate hands, Garrison himself was in fact arrested and imprisoned for a short time as he represented Winder.

Francis Dunlap Gamewell was born in Camden, South Carolina on August 31, 1857 to John and Sarah Gamewell. The family moved to New Jersey during the Civil War, and young Gamewell was prepared for college at the academy in Hackensack. He then attended college at both Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University before choosing Dickinson College for its Methodist affiliation. He entered in 1877 and earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1881. As a student he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity as well as the Union Philosophical Society.

Birth: March, 1841; Moorefield, West Virginia

Death: October 29, 1864 (age 23); Beverly, West Virginia

Military Service: CSA, 1861-64

Unit: 62nd Mounted Infantry Regiment Virginia

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1861 non-graduate)

Henry R. Gamble was from Moorefield in West Virginia and a member of prominent slave-owning family in the town. He entered Dickinson College in the fall of 1857 as part of the class of 1861. He was a member of the Union Philosophical Society, but withdrew from the College before graduation to enlist in the service of the Confederate States at the outbreak of the Civil War on September 9, 1862 at the age of 21. He served in the Company B, 62nd Mounted Infantry Regiment Virginia. Gamble died at Beverly, West Virginia in 1864.

Richard Galt was born in February 1924 in Egypt, where his father was dean of the American University in Cairo. His father later moved on to Susquehanna College and it was from Selinsgrove that Galt entered Dickinson with the class of 1945. After two years and with the Second World War well under way, he became one of three members of the campus chapter of Phi Delta Theta to transfer to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Galt graduated in 1946 and immediately volunteered for military aviation. He trained as a specialist in jets and served in Japan and Korea. He advanced to become a military test pilot and was killed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida on October 13, 1953 during the secret testing of the latest version of the F84F jet fighter/bomber. He is buried at West Point.

Milton Fussell was born on April 20, 1923 and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Swarthmore High School he entered Dickinson in the fall of 1941, and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Then he enlisted in the Marines and was assigned, along with fellow Dickinsonian James Dieffenderfer, to the V-12 unit at Franklin and Marshall, where he graduated with a Dickinson degree in March 1944.

Fussell trained at Parris Island, South Carolina and at Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina; both he and Dieffenderfer were commissioned on October 1, 1944. The two men were assigned to Guadalcanal in late December. Fussell participated in the attack on Okinawa and was killed in action on May 27, 1945. Dieffenderfer had been killed twenty-five days earlier.

Birth: July 13, 1834; Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania

Death: March 24, 1864 (age 30); Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania

Military Service: USA, 1861-63

Unit: U.S. Volunteers

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1854 non-graduate); University of Pennsylvania (Class of 1856)

John Frow was born on July 13, 1834 to James and Jane Ann Frow. He entered Dickinson as a sophomore in 1850 but retired in 1852. As a student he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society as well as the Zeta Psi fraternity. Frow received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1856 and became a physician in Mifflintown.

Frow enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a surgeon with the U.S. Volunteers from 1861 until 1863. He died on March 24, 1864 at Mifflintown.

A. Lee Fritschler was born on May 5, 1937 in Schenectady, New York. He graduated in 1959 from Union College with degrees in economics and political science. Following his graduation, he studied at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, receiving an M.P.A. in 1960 and a Ph.D. in public administration and political science five years later. Following the award of his doctorate, Fritschler became a professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and remained there for fifteen years. While at American, he was the director of the public administration program from 1971 until 1972, the dean of the School of Governmental and Public Administration from 1973 to 1977, and finally the dean of the College of Public and International Affairs. In July 1979, President Carter appointed Fritschler to the chair of the United States Postal Rate Commission. In September 1981, he became the head director at the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Policy Education.

John Fox was from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and probably commuted from his home there while taking the Latin-Scientific course in the class of 1918. He left at the end of his junior year and by late 1917 he had graduated from the Officer Training School at Fort Niagara, New York.

Fox was assigned to the 316th Infantry of the 79th Division and was promoted to first lieutenant in January 1918. He was killed in action in France on September 26, 1918, the same day as his fellow Dickinsonian in the 79th, David Rupp, class of 1916.

Nehemiah Fountain was born in Denton, in Caroline County, Maryland in December 1834, one of the five children and the only son of Nehemiah and Lydia Fountain. His father was a shoemaker and a prominent citizen of the small town. The son was educated locally and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1854. Good looking and elegant in dress, he was an excellent and popular student. He was a member of Zeta Psi and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and graduated near the top of his class. Following graduation, he studied law, passed the Maryland bar, and opened a practice in his home town.

Just before the outbreak of the Civil War, he had moved to Woodstock, Virginia to continue his profession. At the outbreak of war, he enlisted as a second lieutenant in Company F of the 10th Virginia Infantry. His unit fought at the first battle of Manassas (Bull Run), in the Shenandoah Valley campaigns of 1862 near his home, and then in the fighting around Richmond later that year. He was elected captain of his company during the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. On July 2, 1863, he was captured early in the Battle of Gettysburg and remained a prisoner of war in Maryland, Delaware, and Ohio for almost two years before being exchanged in February 1865.

Mary Sharp Foucht was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1896 to her father, Alexander A. Sharp, an 1883 graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and her mother, M. Jennie Beyard. She left Philadelphia for schooling at the Episcopal Girl's school of the College of Sisters of Bethany, in Topeka, Kansas, and continued her studies in that state, at Washburn College in Topeka.

She remained in Kansas after her graduation and rose in the field of education to become the Assistant Secretary for the Kansas State Board of Education. After completing her work on the Board of Education, she became a partner in the John G Laforge Company, an investment securities concern in Chicago, Illinois. For the remainder of her life she lived in Chicago, Illinois, where she raised a family with her husband, Proctor Dutton Foucht.

Mary Sharp Foucht holds the distinction of being the first woman elected to the Dickinson College Board of Trustees. She was named in 1954 under the presidency of William Edel. In this, she received substantial support and encouragement of the women of the Mary Dickinson Club, who valued her financial contributions to the College. In memory of her father, Dr. Alexander A. Sharp, class of 1883, she had made possible the creation of the Sharp Room in the Spahr Library, and also the Sharp Memorial Lounge located in Drayer Hall. She also started the Foucht Fund, which helped the College Library purchase books.