Philip Thomas was born the son of a prominent physician in Talbot County, Maryland on September 12, 1810. He attended his home academy in Easton and then went on to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, entering with the class of 1830. He attended during two of the most chaotic years in the history of the College concerning student discipline. Thomas was involved with the November 24, 1828 incident in which the college janitor was ejected from his apartments in the dead of night and damage was caused to the rooms. In December, Thomas and several others were suspended for a month when the faculty discovered their role in this incident. Thomas served his suspension but then was dismissed for refusing to sign the pledge of good behavior that the faculty was requiring of students, after a late January "riot" caused by the mandatory attendance of daily chapel resulted in the suspension of the entire student body. He returned to Maryland and took to studying the law privately. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1831.

Arthur Thomas grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He had been a student at the Pennington School in New Jersey and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1938. He left the College after his freshman year and served more than four years as an artillery officer during the Second World War.

Thomas lost his life in the crash of a "troop train" on a stretch of railway line near West Lafayette, Ohio on September 11, 1950. In the accident, scores of his fellow members of the 28th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard being transported west were also killed. He was survived by his wife and four infant children.

William Taylor was the son of Rev. W.P. Taylor, class of 1890, and arrived at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from Georgetown, Delaware. He entered with the class of 1918, enrolling in the Latin-Scientific course. He was a member of Belles Lettres Literary Society, of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, and the Y.M.C.A. He was also a companion of Russell Flegal in the Mandolin Club.

Taylor withdrew from his junior year to enlist and entered the aviation service. He trained first at Princeton, New Jersey and then in the Fifth Air Cadet Squadron at Ellington Field outside of Houston, Texas. Taylor died at Ellington of influenza on October 19, 1918.

James Taylor was born in 1913 and graduated from high school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in 1932. After four difficult academic years, he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1936. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. After college, he became a credit analyst with the Pennsylvania Company.

The big, red-headed Philadelphian enlisted in the Marine Corps as a private in June 1942 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant that September. He went to the Pacific in January 1944 and served in the Marshalls and on Saipan. Taylor was leading his platoon on the landings against Tinian on July 23, 1944 when he was hit by a round from a Japanese sniper and died on board a hospital ship the following day. He was recommended for the Navy Cross. He left a wife and four year old son.

Roger Brooke Taney was born March 17, 1777 on the Taney Plantation along the Patuxent River, in Maryland's Calvert County. The Taney family had come to the colony as indentured servants in the mid-seventeenth century but, after serving out their term of servitude, they later established themselves as prosperous tobacco farmers in the rich agrarian economy of southern Maryland. Taney grew up as a Maryland Roman Catholic with rural gentry privilege, was educated privately and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1792.

While at Dickinson, Taney came under the tutelage of Dr. Charles Nisbet, arguably one of the greatest educators of his day. If the correspondence between Nisbet and Taney’s father throughout 1792-1795 are any indication, the Principal became almost a surrogate father to the young and talented student. Taney was a leading member of the Belles Lettres Society and graduated as valedictorian of the twenty-four students in the class of 1795. This honor he always valued since the students themselves at the time were responsible for such selection.

Mary Taintor was born on July 25, 1889 in Rochester, Minnesota. She graduated from Ripon College in 1911 and received a degree from Stanford University in 1918. She was also a student in Italy at the American Classical School in Rome in 1911 and 1912; she also studied at the University of Grenoble in France. Taintor did graduate work at both the University of Chicago (1919) and Columbia University (1926-1928).

Taintor began her teaching career at Milwaukee State Normal School as an instructor of Latin and French from between 1912 and 1917. She also taught Latin and French at Venice High School in California in 1918. In 1919, she returned to Ripon College as a full professor of French.

In 1928, Taintor joined the Dickinson College faculty in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as an associate professor of romance languages in 1928. In 1951 she achieved the rank of full professor, becoming only the third woman to obtain that position at Dickinson College. She later retired in 1959 as professor emerita of romance languages. Mary Taintor died on February 5, 1981, at the age of 90.

George Sweeney was born on November 1, 1796 near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, twenty five miles to the north, and graduated with the class of 1815. Following his graduation, he studied law in Gettysburg and was admitted to the bar there in 1820.

For ten years Sweeney practiced law in Gettysburg and then moved west to Bucyrus in Crawford County, Ohio in 1830. He was named as the prosecutor of Crawford in 1837 and then was elected in the fall of 1838 as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress from his district, the 14th of Ohio. Although Sweeney was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840, he was not a candidate in 1842. He moved for a time to Geneseo, Illinois to practice law in 1853, but returned to Bucyrus in 1856. Sweeney was once again elected as district attorney for Crawford County before he retired.

Sweeney gave up his profession in later years to concentrate on the literary and scientific pursuits that had interested him his whole life. On October 10, 1877, George Sweeney died in Bucyrus, Ohio and was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery there. He was eighty years old.

Editor's note: His surname appears in the Congressional Biography as "George Sweeny" and in the College's 1877 announcement of his death as "George Sweney." Reed's 1905 Alumni Record names him as above.

William H. Sutton was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey on September 11, 1835 to Methodist minister Henry Sutton and his wife, Ann Craig Sutton. He went to local schools, then spent a year at the Dickinson Grammar School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Sutton entered the college proper in 1852 with the class of 1855. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society, but in early 1853 there was an outbreak of smallpox at the college, and Sutton did not return when classes resumed. He instead enrolled at Wesleyan College in Connecticut and graduated there in 1857. Sutton taught for a time at the American Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford and studied law. He entered law school in Albany, New York, but dropped out and finished his legal studies in Philadelphia under William Meredith.

Leonard Supulski was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1920, one of the twelve children of a Lithuanian immigrant. He graduated from Kingston High School and entered nearby Dickinson College in Carlisle with the class of 1942. He attended the College for four years but fell just short of the credits needed to graduate. He participated in the Commons Club, played basketball and ran track, but his most memorable contribution to campus life was his career as a star football receiver, perhaps the best in College history. His skills as an athlete allowed him to play for the Philadelphia Eagles before enlisting in early 1943.

Supulski entered the Army Air Corps as a private and completed flight navigation training at Selman Field in Louisiana, receiving his commission in July 24, 1943. Following further training at Moses Lake, Washington, and after a short leave to visit his wife of a year, June Lutz Supulski, in her native Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, he reported in August to the 582 Bomb Squadron for advanced training in Nebraska. Two weeks later, Leonard Supulski was killed in the crash of a routine flight along with seven others near Kearny, Nebraska on August 31, 1943.

Ovando Super was born March 2, 1848 in Juniata Township, Pennsylvania, to Henry and Mary Diener Super. He attended local schools but largely prepared himself for college. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1871 and graduated near the head of the class in 1873. While a student he had been selected to the Belles Lettres Literary Society.

Following graduation, Super taught modern languages at Delaware College from 1873 to 1876. He then traveled to Leipzig and Paris to study German and French. Upon his return to the United States, Super became instructor in languages at the Dickinson Seminary, now Lycoming College; during this time he was awarded his master's degree from Dickinson College. In 1880 he left for Denver College where he took the position of professor of modern languages. While teaching at Denver, he earned a Ph.D. from Boston University. Super returned to his alma mater in 1884, this time as a professor of modern languages, teaching French, German, and Spanish. He also wrote many textbooks for students of the French and German languages. He also edited the Alumni Record at the College. He remained on the faculty at Dickinson until his retirement in 1913. His brother Dr. C.W. Super, class of 1866, had been president of Ohio University.