Charles William Super was born near Newport, Pennsylvania to Henry and Mary Diener Super on September 12, 1842. He was educated in local common schools and at the Juniata Valley normal school in Millerstown, before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1863. At the College he was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and became a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fratenity. He graduated with his class in 1866. He was the older brother of Ovando Byron Super who later graduated from the College with the class of 1873.

Birth: Hays Creek, Mississippi 

Death:  1865; Atlanta, Georgia

Military Service: CSA, 1861-65

Unit: Company A, 1st Light Artillery Regiment Mississippi 

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1862 non-graduate)

Isaac Sullivan came to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1857 as a student of the Grammar School from Hays’ Creek in Carroll County, Mississippi. After preparing at the school for a year, he entered Dickinson as a freshman in 1858. Sullivan was a member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society as well as the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He did not receive his degree as he retired from the College after the spring semester of 1860.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sullivan joined the Confederate States Army, eventually attaining the rank of major. He was killed at Atlanta in 1865.

Theodore Strouse was born in Harrisburg in 1922 and graduated from John Harris High School in 1940. He then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1944. He was editor-in-chief of the Dickinsonian and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He left his studies during the last semester of his senior year in February 1943 to enlist in the Army Air Force.

Strouse trained as a bombardier/navigator in Texas and New Mexico, earning his commission in February 1944. He was assigned to the China-India theater, where he flew forty-one missions in B-25 bombers with the 10th Air Force, winning a Bronze Star and two Air Medals in the process. While flying to a rest area as a passenger over India, Strouse's transport aircraft crashed on July 11, 1945, killing him.

Mulford Stough was born on May 1, 1888 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania to William W. and Clara V. Bauer Stough. He attended Shippensburg State Teacher College from 1904 to 1907, before receiving his bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University in 1911. He worked at the Old Thrush and Stough Carriage Works in Shippensburg and in his family's fruit orchards in Cumberland County before earning a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1925. Upon graduation Stough came to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as an instructor of history, holding the position for one year until he was made associate professor in 1926. Finally, in September 1950, after almost a quarter century of service to the College, Stough was named as a full professor of history.

Harry Stock was born on September 3, 1871, in Carlisle, growing up on the corner of Bedford and Pomfret Streets. Stock graduated from the Carlisle High School in 1886 and attended the local Dickinson Preparatory School for one year before entering Dickinson College proper with the class of 1891. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and rose to be elected president of the Belles Lettres Literary Society. Using his influence as the editor of the sports section of the Dickinsonian, he was instrumental in introducing tennis to the campus, to the extent that the first ever tennis tournament was held at the College on May 29, 1889. Stock won the tournament.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dickinson in 1891 and taught in the public schools of Carlisle for two years. He then entered Gettysburg Theological Seminary, and earned his B.D. in 1896. He was offered the pastorate of the Second German Lutheran Church located at Bedford and Pomfret streets. Stock served the church for fifty years, during which time it changed its name to St. Paul's Lutheran. Dickinson awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1908.

William Henry Stewart was born on May 8, 1818 to Joseph Fookes and Rachel Linthicum Stewart in Cambridge, Maryland. He attended Dickinson College preparatory grammar school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and went on to enter Dickinson College proper in 1837 with the class of 1841. He graduated four years later with his class, studied law and was admitted to the bar in his hometown of Cambridge in 1843.

In 1844, Stewart moved first to Iowa and then to Texas. He settled in Gonzales, Texas and seems to have adapted well to the new community; just four years after settling in, he was elected as town mayor. After one year as mayor, William Stewart's political career advanced as he was elected to a term in the Texas state legislature in 1849. He was to serve again in this position in 1860, when he voted in favor for the Ordinance of Secession of Texas in February 1861. When the Civil War broke out, Stewart joined the Confederate Army and served with the rank of major in the Quartermaster Corps attached to the Texas units serving with the Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, Stewart returned to Texas and moved from Gonzales to the port of Galveston on the Gulf Coast. Now a prominent Texas figure, he was a representative to the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875 and was elected Judge of the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District of Texas in 1876. He sat on that bench until his death.

John Stevens was a great-great-grandson of Adam Miller, the first Euro-American settler in the Shenandoah Valley. He was born at Harrisonburg, Virginia. Records show that he was in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at the Dickinson Preparatory School, in 1840. Stevens graduated from Dickinson College in 1845; the next year he earned an M.D. from the University of Virginia. In 1848, Dickinson’s Board of Trustees awarded Stevens an M.A. “in curso” for his continuing medical study at the hospital in Philadelphia.

Sometime thereafter, Stevens moved to the hamlet of Vienna in Jackson Parish, Louisiana where he practiced medicine and acquired a plantation with slaves. He was elected to the Louisiana State Legislature, serving in both chambers. At the onset of the Civil War, Stevens enlisted as 1st Surgeon of the Louisiana 2nd Infantry. By war's end, he had been promoted to Medical Director of the Corps of General John B. Gordon, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Henry Matthew Stephens was born in Neosho, Missouri, on January 4, 1868. His family moved to Renovo, Pennsylvania, where he attended high school. He further prepared for his undergraduate studies at the Dickinson-Williamsport Seminary. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1888 with the class of 1892.

An active and studious man, Stephens served in numerous positions of responsibility, including treasurer of the Athletic Association, class president in his freshman year and vice president in his senior year, physics laboratory assistant, business manager for the Microcosm and president of the Union Philosophical Society in his senior year. He also was a member of Phi Delta Theta, a leading member of the Chess Club, and sang first base in the Glee Club.

Stephens was perhaps the leading athlete of his class. He played for six years on the football team as an halfback and end, three as a student and three while he was an instructor. He ran with the track team and won the hundred yard dash at the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Sports meet.

John Steese was born June 27, 1884 in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, the younger son of James and Anna Shaeffer Steese. He prepared at the State Normal School in Millersville and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1904 in September 1900. His older brother James graduated from Dickinson in 1902. He, like his brother, was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity but left the College in 1902 and returned to Mount Holly. There he worked for the Mount Holly Paper Company.

Steese was commissioned and rose to the rank of captain in the Chemical War Service of the United States Army. He died of influenza at Camp Humphreys on October 2, 1918.

James Gordon Steese was born on January 21, 1882 in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, the son of James and Anna Shaeffer Steese. He was a 1902 graduate of nearby Carlisle's Dickinson College, although he had entered with the class of 1903. As a student, he was very active as a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Union Philosophical Society, as well as a number of dramatic and musical organizations. He also served as class historian for the class of 1903 and on the Microcosm board of editors until he was promoted to a higher class year. His three younger brothers John --- who later died in the service during the First World War --- Charles, and George also attended Dickinson but did not graduate.

After graduation, he attended the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Graduating with honors in 1907, he was commissioned in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Steese was stationed in Panama working on the Isthmian Railroad and the Panama Canal Project between 1907 and 1912. Afterwards, he was assigned to various engineering projects in the United States with the Corps of Engineers. Just prior to World War I he was promoted to the rank of colonel. In 1919 he served as Assistant Chief of Engineers and Chief of a General Staff Section during a trip to post-World War I Europe. His service in Europe also gained him several foreign decorations.